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Harvard architecture is pretty common in MCU and ASIC space, and especially in tiny little low-powered processors that might have a tiny bit of flash that instructions are read out of and an even smaller amount of SRAM for data. The ARM9 architecture is effectively Harvard for example.
Well bigger in the sense that’s it’s easy to have the feeling of awe when looking at a black bird. If in awe it’s probably a raven.
fwiw I agree with you too. It read like a kitchen recipe article that has the whole history of apples and grandma's cooking before the recipe steps.

the author's regular readers might be interested in this though. to me, a reader sources from HN I wanted to get to the factual history of the event, than the author's background as well
The article makes it seem like this is their end goal at some point, and that they are pushing towards having open APIs
I don't see why the persons age should be relevant. But given the cost of college tuition, even instate public college tuition, means he should probably make at least that much.
There is quite a big difference, but I'll highlight some of the main points here. Note I'm the author of Postgres.js so I'm obviously biased.

Slonik is a wrapper around another node driver (pg), so it's performance is the same as that, where Postgres.js is significantly faster (2-5x)[1].

Postgres.js is also a zero dependency module, whereas Slonik has quite the dependency graph meaning - compare https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=slonik with https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=postgres. That makes it more difficult to audit the code and preventing chain attacks etc.

Slonik also doesn't have the same lean straight forward developer experience as Postgres.js - again I'm biased saying that ;)

Postgres.js also does things that will make your queries perform better out of the box by implicitly creating prepared statements and using pipelining.

I suppose you could build Slonik on top of Postgres.js instead of pg as well, but that would probably only make sense if migrating to Postgres.js.

[1] http://github.com/porsager/postgres-benchmarks#results
Hilton Head is the same way. Especially the plantation. One thing I'll never understand is spending 10s of millions on a house with a 20 minute long drive from the community entrance before you see any houses and then all of the houses are right on top of each other and every one of your neighbors is the nastiest, most entitled person you've ever met.

I would rather blow my brains out than spend any more time there.
I'll preface this by saying that my time working with it was while I was working at IBM, so feel free to take this with a grain of salt. In my time since I've worked in a few Data/ML and Security positions, so I do have a basis for comparison with other systems.

From what I saw, the actual language-processing part of it was top-tier. It's just it's a hard problem to come up with a demo for that people will actually respond positively to, hence the Jeopardy stint. It has limited real applications. It's really good at what it does but what it does isn't really widely useful.

Nobody wants to see "We're going to replace all our online help / support chat stuff with Watson" because people find those systems frustrating already, even if it would make things vastly better than some of the alternatives.

So you end up with weird stuff like Chef Watson, Doctor Watson, and so on -- things in areas where an ML model isn't going to replace a human anytime soon.

Then Marketing gets involved and suddenly anything that uses any kind of ML needs to have Watson slapped on it, even if it's not doing any language processing.
> The negativity here just seems like sour grapes or weird goal posts.

Indeed. Every negative comment I have seen here has been a shallow dismissal by someone who clearly hasn't engaged with the tool. I'm not sure why people here are so primed to shit all over anything potentially innovative, seemingly even without background knowledge. Like, is there something inherently offensive to coders about a model that threatens to do their job? Or is it just years and years of people getting burned by previous "AI" projects without knowing that this one is actually rather impressive and comes from good research?

Keep shallow dismissals to yourselves people. It's in the site's rules.
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I've spoken with at least half the people they thanked for input, and several of the people cited.
Wait, there's a standard for ribbon menus??? I thought that was just a horrible failed experiment that drove a huge number of people away from the MS suite towards Google Docs and was abandoned...
> cows eat grass, what reason do they have for deep intelligence and thoughts

This line of argument doesn't make much sense given that pigs are very intelligent and you'd probably say "pigs roll in the mud, what reason do they have for deep intelligence and thoughts"

> other animals do dumb things - like videos of ducks walking over drains and the ducklings fall down the drain, or creature stuck in plastic sheet until it dies. Or creature does nothing while humans approach, kill, and eat it. It's hard to see examples like that and think "deep intelligence".

I could say the same about most humans

> But examples of planning ahead, cooperation, tool using, they're so rare they make headlines like this article when observed.

This is true, but the way you go about making a case for it ain't it.
Are you the same Penwielder who made Penwielders Scrapbook (a Neverball level)? I seem to have an uncanny memory of usernames from the old Neverball forum. Anyway, your name inspired me to find that level and add it to the in-game downloads.
Like I anwered to a sibling comment of yours, I'm not making a point about whether Firefox fits the bill; I'm trying to say that focusing on exec pay, rather than on whether it does fit the bill, is probably focusing on the wrong things.
Absolutely, it's sadly a compromise. Although there's one thing that's much harder to forget and won't be prone to distortion: how we felt!

If we immerse and let our feelings of wonder and awe prevail, it will be difficult to forget such feelings even if the visual memories change over time.
What was sxsw like this year? Haven’t been for a while, but am curious after the break and current covid context.
> If "time to ship" is actually important, than why do most companies go to the work of making three separate codebases for their applications - Android, iOS, and web?

Because if you develop for the web and handle the REST/other APIs well, it can be trivial to work on the mobile frontends that connect the interfaces (whether on Android or iOS). It becomes more a matter of plugging the right pipes.

Whereas the backend for desktop apps across systems may be completely different; you may create more work to handle the idiosyncracies of different OSes.
Hey - that's pretty nice :) Didn't think of trying that - curious if it includes the cjs and esm version in the sum, since that's double of almost identical code.
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I hope this doesn't come off as bragging or rude, but knowing nothing about you and a quite a bit about svelte..

Im going to guess, you could get to a very useable level with svelte in an afternoon or good weekend. LogRocket also has decent tutorials on Svelte.

It's an extremely simple framework, relative to other js-frameworks like react or angular (not saying they better or worse).

Reminds me a bit of Golang, you can get up and running in a day !

Bottom line: Definitely dive into svelte, i cant image doing js any other way these days.

EDIT: Definitely start with svelte instead of sveltekit (different animal)

YMMV :)
The only thing missing from this announce is the promise that all proceeds go to MDN and nowhere else, like subsidizing a failing product or paying C-suite bonuses.
Jeez, everyone here at level X are a bunch of clowns winging it. It's not like this for level X+1, of course. They have their shit together. :-)

Then at some point it dawns that it's just clowns from bottom to top.
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WebSocket, Shrek, and AsyncAPI
I actually replaced WTFPL with Unlicense since someone at google couldn't use it, so I would think it's ok?
> We're all focusing on the weaknesses of co-pilot (the comments can be longer than the code produced; you need to understand code to know when to elaborate your comment, etc).

See, this tells me you may not have even used copilot. Because while tutorials such as this (and the OpenAI codex tools) have you use comments explicitly to code, the reality is that you're not hammering out plain english requirements for copilot to work. You just code - and sometimes it finishes your thought, sometimes it doesn't. You hit tab to accept autocomplete, just like you would for any other autocomplete. So you are generally reading and evaluating what copilot thinks is a good output and choosing whether it goes in the program or not with the TAB key.
Interesting. None of our builds have failed due to CircleCI during that time period, or ever, that I can remember. We do maybe 5-10 builds a day during PST working hours. Not a huge volume but still would think it would have hit our radar. CircleCI's status page, which they are usually pretty good at updating, indicates two outages over the last two months, though one of them was a long one (9 hours?) but apparently only affected remote docker and machine runners. Neither of those were in the last week though.
Why? Isn't there any moderation for double submissions?
Yes but as I pointed out, if you study mass production, the benefits of standardization and mass production are proportional to amount you produce.

Going from producing 1 of something to 4 of something, the benefits are not actually that large.

There is a far, far bigger effect going from PWR to a Molten Salt because that results in a factor 10 or more in difference in size of plant for the same output.
That's an action link, not a button. In a UI context it would be rendered in a different color and underlined, to highlight it being an active element rather than a simple label.
> But, if that’s true, why would men demote themselves to womanhood? For reasons of sexual fetishism, says Jeffreys

i just looked up some stats on trans death. it was hard to get a good international life expectancy source; most seem to peg it at about 32-40, or half the general population's. i did definitively find that 2 in 5 living american trans people self-report attempted suicide. must be quite the fetish, Sheila.

the paradox of tolerance: tolerating bigotry replaces your alienated userbase with bigots until it stops couching itself in virtuous newyorker articles.
Around that time freebase was still a thing, and dbpedia/wikipedia could also be used to sample relationships.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30761070#30796020

I put that article three days ago here, isn't there any moderation for double submissions?
On first glance there are features in Postico 2 that I'd find useful - having SQL queries organised in the UI rather than on the filesystem for one. I'm a daily TablePlus user and very happy with it so I'd need to find real added value.

Oddly, I'd never heard of Postico before although I have used Postgresql.app briefly in the past. I will try Postico 2 out on a test server at some point and track it's progress post beta.
Remember the start of the pandemic? Some prof published that we should withold steroids and intubate ASAP on the basis of preliminary evidence, throwing basically everything we knew about ARDS out of the window. Most reasonable ICU guys were skeptical on the basis of their own practical experience, but had no choice because who would dare contradict science, right?? We very likely killed many people that way.

What do we do now? The exact opposite, and much closer to usual ARDS practices. You can argue that wasn't a mistake because it followed the process of scientific discovery, but it's nevertheless a tragic example of experience trumping the advice of the scientific community.
Haha, I love the “My IDE is so sluggish, it must be doing important stuff”.
It really isn’t. IntelliJ is just horribly laggish. VSCode, an electron (!) app with 100 plugins isn’t even that slow.
Undoubtedly related to this: it's been reported that the 'West Antarctic ice sheet hides nearly one hundred volcanoes in what appears to be the largest volcanic region on the planet'.

https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/worlds-largest-volcan...

https://volcanofoundation.org/world-largest-volcanic-region-...
Good thought. Maybe people should learn to put some signage on the damn thing.

“Beware of the bull”
I have mentioned this a few times here already, but I will mention it again, even if I risk looking like a spammer, as it seems this point hans't been made strongly enough in this thread: This discovery is not new.

A different company published almost an identical product more than 3 years ago (see https://web.archive.org/web/20190119032121/http://br.craftwo... as well as my top-level comment).

So I am absolutely against patenting something that is 1) not new 2) that has a very simple implementation and could thus easily be disseminated widely if patents weren't "protecting" it. Reminds me strongly of the various patent wars regarding scrolling on the smartphone and other simple user interface gestures; in the end everyone looses out.
Great. All we need now is engineering for cooks. :)
Me too, I enjoyed the style. Bill Bryson esque
I absolutely love dumbphones and stopped use smartphones since they began to require SIM to be cut, possibly for partly imcompatibility with dumbphones.
Yeah, I think it could make sense for performance reasons to make a version for Knex, but since I try to stay away from ORMs as much as possible I'm probably not the right one to make it ;)

I also wouldn't put it in the core library anyway, so it should be straight forward for someone else to make a knex-postgres package that does this?
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So, let me get this straight.

- These are "just function calls"

- Except they are "iterators"

- Except if you have them in a conditional, you must provide an `else` branch so that `next` is called the same number of times

None of this is in the semantics of the language where I don't have to provide an else branch to an iterator, and function calls are not iterators ;)
> But, take a natively designed application from Windows 2000, and it's extremely easy to understand and use! And, dare I say it, more pleasing to the eye than flashy, animated graphics of today.

Coming from that era, I strongly disagree. While I agree with the article, that some elements are harder to spot as interactable, I would still say that they are way more coherent than programs from W2K era and that one just got used to the broken design of the UIs of that era/platform.

While usually understanding the UI even in W2K, I don't think that the dumbing down of UI (and reducing palette/layers adds to that) for the dumb users is necessarily a bad thing. At the end of the day I am also a dumb user.

Actually using GTK3 for a while now and moving to GTK4 however might also trick me to not notice a downgrade in discoverability, so in that particular instance I might get tricked by getting used to a certain design language even if they simplify it to the point of actually decreasing UX for users that are unfamiliar with GTK compared to GTK3.
No idea why you're giving examples in Python code when we're talking about Javascript and React.

On "it's iterators actually", I have a response to a sibling comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30799543
I wonder if Hitler really killed himself or if managed to escape to Argentina.
Puppeteer-core can already fit in a lambda around 60mb and can be used for web scraping, taking screenshots, or performance testing.
You "came up" with the idea for intelligent autocomplete? And are you aware that this project actually required big innovations in language modeling and a supercomputer? Because I would say that is far more central to the concept behind the tech than the interface.
GTK4 looks like iOS's UIKit

On macOS Desktop, checkboxes, buttons and everything else are still designed for mouse/kb

On gnome things are designed for vertical and touch screens, so you forced to endlessly scroll, windows is doing something similar, wich is an indication that they target mobile users, they are so out of touch

Only Apple knows what they are doing when it comes to UI/UX for desktop, and they make sure they don't mix desktop/mobile UX
This is a bit reductionist, no? Any and all embers of hope at eliminating wealth inequality are dashed as soon as they are much more than that, all at the behest of shareholders and lobbyists whose money conveniently slips into both blue and red pockets. At this point if you think voting is going to turn this around, man do I have a bridge to sell you. The only thing that will incite material change will be riot, miracle, meteor, or—hey, even more relevantly with another imperialist world war on the horizon—maybe a couple hundred nuclear-tipped warheads! We probably won’t get to vote on that one, ya think?
You're absolutely correct about the dark side, and I would never want to minimize the complexity or sheer effort required to self-manage a music project. Like any startup, it is not easy and you are wholly responsible for everything that happens -- including any mistakes, of which they will likely be many. This is far too daunting for some people, and understandably so, particularly when they just want to "make some rad music with my friends, man."

That said, all of those professional services are directly hirable by any musician, without the need for a label middleman. The best move a band can make, is hire someone to handle the thing they least want to do. As you mentioned, posting on social media is the most hated of all tasks for a lot of folks, and in that situation your first hire should be a publicist (aka social media manager). It gets the largest monkey off your back, and frees up that time for all of the other business stuff that still needs to get done.

That said, you could also hire a publicist for a day, and they could assemble a social media schedule for you, and provide a bunch of templates to use, and take all of the mystery out of what to post and when and how and why. And now instead of paying a retainer or sharing gross, you're paying someone in the band to do it, and all of the money stays with the group.

As for your prediction, you're correct about that, as well, because it's already starting to happen. Many people, like myself, offer a sort of label/manager on-demand service, where for a very small consultation fee, the band gets a monthly analysis of where they're at and what steps they need to be taking, along with all of the granular instructions on how to accomplish those tasks. If I had to guess, there are currently about 1,000 people doing this around the world, but that number is growing rapidly. There are also a lot of tools springing up to help simplify those tasks.
The Flat Design fashion is coming to full rage. Everything looks like a bad web page now. Make users waste their time guessing how the interface works instead of getting things done.
"Almost no features" is a bit extreme. The paid version adds [0] encrypted file sending, more 2FA methods, a TOTP generator, password health and emergency access but the core password manager functionality is there in the free version.

[0]: https://bitwarden.com/pricing/
I think the opposite is true. Patents are hampering further progress that would built upon the innovation or make use of it to increase productivity. but said progress often is not happening, if the costs of obtaining a license is high, or if first tedious communication has to happen with the author to obtain green light to use his invention. Rapid innovation looks different.

If you innovate without filing a patent, you get a head start. The time the you have until other catch on - that is how you can monetize your invention.
Very interesting project!
The source is inspiring, it seems the author has made an explicit choice to minimize dependencies.

Even transpilation from ES modules into commonjs is done by the author himself:

https://github.com/porsager/postgres/blob/master/transpile.c...

I’m not sure if I’d made the same choice, but it’s fun the see it can work out great :)
> While a lot of people now instinctively hunt for labels that have hover effects, for a lot of people who are just not represented in online computer communities because they're just using the computer as a tool this is completely weird.

This. This! You see people on Apple devices constantly scrolling up and down just a tiny bit while browsing the web. What a weird tic I thought, when I saw different people do that. Turns out scroll bars are always hidden on Safari for elements that have overflow with scroll behavior. So you never know if you're reading some important stuff that actually has another paragraph you don't see because it's otherwise not obvious you're looking at some <div> with limited height. And it seems others are busy imitating this, I feel this happens with Firefox in Android now too.

Then these new navigation gestures on mobile. Gone are the three mighty buttons of Android. When the iPhone released, it was praised for cutting ties with anything that was established in the old computing world, all the implicit knowledge you had to have about how to use a classic desktop os. You could give the iPhone to any tech illiterate person and they could figure it out. Everything was discoverable, a fresh start with a clean and consistent UI language.

But today, not so much. Now phones went through the same iterations as the desktop os, and it's ok that you now need to learn a gesture to return to the home screen, or go back one step. There is no way someone who never used a phone before will somehow think "I might have to swipe into the screen from the left!" So now, just as the desktop os, we just assume you already know how to use a phone, and add "optimizations" on top of that that someone needs to tell you about.
Just stop taking photos, you’re bad at it :)
To be honest, I think that’s thinking small. I think we should define minimum wage as being tied to how much one needs to afford a single space colony. Two space colonies would be too much, but one per American seems reasonable.
I can't speak for 1995, but a bit later Java run equally bad on every platform and Qt run almost almost natively pretty much everywhere and with great tools to assemble UIs.
You can still export? Go to the vault list, click on a vault, and there you can export all the data?
I like how biased rendering is starting to look like unbiased rendering because the estimations are getting better and smarter.

As far as I understood the article the method works like this:

- per pixel estimate which lights contribute

- from those lights pick a random one and store how much it contributes

- give priority to lights that contribute the most

- the next frame uses the data of the previous frame

- neighboring pixels are used to remove noise

I wonder how useful this is for fast moving games. Wouldn't this be very noisy?
It shocks me how many low-quality, misinformed comments are allowed to stay in this thread. It’s not hard to understand the difference of gender vs. sex. People think it’s fine to publicly harass and harm someone because their existence confuses them. Language like this is why I have friends who can’t step out the house to do something as simple as grocery shopping without something humiliating happening to them. It wasn’t nearly this bad before, and it’s getting worse as this topic becomes more heated. There is a terrible war happening right now, but people are instead obsessed with making others feel as ashamed as possible for their existence.