skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building a game with my dad when I was ~9-10 is a fond memory of mine, and how I got an interest in coding. I was really into my N64 but wanted to make my own game for it around the hit British TV show "Robot Wars". Of course we didn't actually make an N64 game or even anything close to resembling what my childhood imagination had cooked up in my mind, but I learnt most of the basics of functional coding and had lots of fun with my dad, and was really proud of the insanely simple games we made.
> Sadly, there isn't any great alternative for making performant HTML templates in Rust from what I've seen, a lot of the other HTML templating libs aren't that great comparatively.

Which others have you tried, and why do you think they're not great?
Is it just one avenue? While I'm not a particle physicist, my layman understanding of LHC is that it can be used to test many theories that would otherwise go unsolved. Should we only research things that are cheap to test and eventually mass producible?
I can't understand why people like those tiny wireless keyboards and mice they have to recharge and pair. When you're at a workstation just plug in one dongle and hook up all of it. It's so easy.
I doubt the RP2040 is automotive grade. Cars are pretty harsh environments for electronics, they have to operate in all kinds of climates, hot, cold, humid, dry, with condensation, vibration, large voltage spikes while the car is getting cranked, etc. I don't think any manufacturer would sign off on such a replacement, only to have to recall the cars later on due to the replacement chip failing.
Haha, that was the weirdest thing, when I first realized that a calculator is missing
Why is it that as an abstract concept a monad is so hard to explain in simple English.

I didn't understand it for years then realized I had seen it all over the place.

Now that I think I know what it is I can explain to someone that doesn't already know what it is.
Tongue slightly in cheek, these data point to the answer - get Musk to pay for this thing. It'd consume a big chunk of his wealth but it's probably at least pitchable given his interest set.
Aren't Hossenfelder and Smolin basically paying their bills by being contrarians though?
Even if this was true, you don't have to play the vast majority. Your goal is, and always has been, to play the best.
3 times the risk of death by traffic? This is the scariest thing I've ever read in my life; it is a staggering level of violence.
I would take hybrid-time over a shorter work week ...

I'm honestly unsure why we're not keeping things flexible as each worker is different, their role and preferences are different, etc.

I'll take a 4 day week and I could make it work - but why give up the flexibility we've learned over the last couple of years?

I don't get it ... people talk a good game when it comes to Capitalism and capital allocation, but when it comes down it, pfft ... why not leave the capital allocation of time and location to the employee (with obvious guard rails and results expectation from the manager/boss).

This feels like it all boils down to one thing ... very few people know what actual management is.
The "medium" model could be one way around this.

The first 10% or so of the article is visible, after that you need to sign in. Or in this case, pay.
> When was the last time you gave something extra life instead of throwing it away?

Maybe this is uncommon, but I don’t know of anyone throwing old laptops or computers away! They’re still valuable!

Here are a number of things I’ve done with old laptops and phones:

- sold or given it to a family member

- traded it back through a program which likely resells, refurbishes, or recycles it

- turned it into a server

- sold it to someone on Facebook marketplace or Reddit hardwareswap

- sold to a friend who wanted a gaming PC when I was looking for a laptop

In each case, these computers have gotten a second life while I get a sometimes used and sometimes new device. Using a device forever, while perhaps admirable, isn’t the only way to give a computer a new life :)

Indeed, I may very well upgrade to M2, selling my current MacBook to a family member who will use it for their freelance work.
> I don’t need interfaces in Python because I can just write or extend a class.

Which is strictly less powerful than creating a subtype...
> That kid is also the one who will figure out why your rocket is malfunctioning, how your car will drive itself, how to fix carbon dioxide, and every other problem that we call a technical problem.

That kid is also the one who will enter academia and spend the rest of their life taking part in intradepartmental warfare as they desperately strive for tenure.

Equally possible, right?
This transition is way slower than PPC to Intel. They had the entire lineup changed by the end of 2006 starting the same year. By 2009 PPC models seemed particularly ancient.

Meanwhile with the current transition Apple has yet to introduce a Mac Pro replacement over a year and a half in.
Military research has produced a lot of secondary inventions, sure. But look at its funding as well. There's a reason why so many companies work in that sector: the amount of money in there is just huge. So of course that sector will produce more byproducts in absolute terms.
Why bother doing science at all if it's not practical applicable right? Such a nonsense argument I wonder how you think any scientific progress is made.
I'm absolutely loving the idea of deepfake-detection security SASS developing an easy to use live deepfake system. Crassus tradition is truly immortal.
> So "Unreal does it" doesn't necessarily mean it's the right choice for great code [...] "But dude, YAGNI! Don't try to predict the future" you say, missing the point.

Actually i'd say the opposite, "Unreal does it" indeed doesn't mean it's the right choice, but that "Unreal does it" proves that in practice that stuff doesn't matter - Unreal is a codebase going back decades and yet it is as popular among developers as it ever was (some developers even throw away their own engines to switch to it).

So while these topics can be amusing to read, in reality they are bikeshedding of little more importance than using spaces vs tabs or where to put curly braces and how that affects diff tools.
Hang on, I don't see where that said that you can't assert copyright over a ML generated picture. I think the decision says that the ML algorithm itself cannot assert copyright?
The (2020) is a bit misleading. The latest update is actually current, and discusses deprecation of the app and service for iOS.

I am looking forward to the new WeatherKit API, but, like many of yesterday’s announcements, we’ll need to learn more. I’ve become quite cautious, when it comes to “exciting new APIs,” from Apple.
Why are the import taxes so high?
Elon Musk was willing to put up upwards of $40bn to buy out Twitter. If a private individual can leverage that kind of money, $100bn seems like peanuts for an international scientific endeavour.

Heck, Germany just greenlit a €100bn special budget for expanding its military capabilities.

It's not that world governments don't have that kind of money to spend on the Climate crisis, it's that they aren't interested and motivated to do it. Germany's special budget was justified with Russia being an existential threat but the Climate crisis has been recognized as an existential threat for decades, yet almost all countries have been dragging their feet.

NATO recommends member nations put 2% of their annual budget into defense. Imagine its members (let alone most countries) would have done the same for combatting Climate change.
Ownership is a nebulous concept with many interpretations. I'm guessing your referring to private property (from a capitalist interpretation) as "the traditional sense", in which case domain names are fairly similar: once you acquire the domain, it's reserved for you as long as you pay your dues (just like property taxes for land). If you don't, it will be put back on the market for other people to enjoy.

To be clear, i'm not saying it's a good thing. I don't think we should be able to publish anything (read: pedonazi propaganda) and have it uncensorable, but i certainly believe DNS is not the layer where you want to apply regulation/censorship, as it's not hosting any content and disrupting a domain name can result in many other domains (from other, potentially legit users) becoming unavailable. That's why we have legal responsibility for hosts and you contact the host to get content taken down.

I'd be curious what a DNS coop would look like. I was excited about the .org coop being setup due to the sellout scandal, unfortunately the nefarious deal was canceled so the coop was buried alive. It would be great to cut the middlepersons for commercial names, as well as mutualize domains to share free delegations from such as afraid.org, eu.org, or netlib.re is doing.
> CAT scanners have an X-ray source, and a linear detector array mounted opposite each other on a ring that spins continuously as you are moved through the scanner.

Just a nit-picky detail; in human CT scanners it's usually a (linear) array of 2D detectors, not a line-detector.
>Bryan makes a pretty good point in my opinion. And not even just about math, but education in general. For all of our technological advances, we seem woefully short of figuring out the best way to educate a human being, identifying their talents, and making the experience useful and enlightening.

If that was his central point, I would agree.

>Some people argue that it teaches you the meta-skill of learning how to learn, but if that was true, you could literally just teach the meta-skill itself, instead of teaching it indirectly.

I think it is. And I sucked at math in school. I think it is a meta-skill every bit as much as reading is and nearly as important. But so are some of the other soft skills that we are not teaching kids.
PAIP was my favourite, I recall not really liking Land of Lisp as I felt like the quality of the example code wasn't great, but I did enjoy the Dice of Doom implementation.
I'm all for frugality, but with a newer car you're getting vastly improved crash safety. Over the years crash safety ratings have gotten tougher and tougher. You can browse the IIHS crash rating history for the Camry (or any other car) and you can often observe that when the IIHS introduces a new test, cars often perform poorly on it (high likelihood of injury) initially, but get better later on. https://www.iihs.org/ratings/vehicle/Toyota/camry-4-door-sed.... This is it's own piece of mind.
As a former experimental particle physicist, I don't think string theory or supersymmetry is going to be a description of nature. I say that despite spending a couple of years searching for SUSY. But I still think the cost of building a LHC++ (that is, the FCC or the SPPC) is justified. The current theoretical "dead end" or maybe swamp fundamental physics is in is precisely due to a lack of data.

Of course, there are a lot of smaller experiments that one could do, also in particle physics, that have great value. One example was the Muon g-2 measurement, another is anything neutrino physics. We can get a lot of interesting input and test our theories without going to the "energy frontier". Physicists understand this very well. But there are a bunch of questions that you can only really answer if you go to those higer energies.

As for the costs, 100 billion is a lot, but not when you compare it to other large infrastructure projects, or especially military spending (and note the Chinese proposal SPPC would be a lot cheaper!). I think if we could shave off 100 billion of military expenses and put it into basic research, it would be a great win for society. That's not realistic you say, with all the threats out there? Great, I agree, but now we have a nice project! Lets put as a common goal that we want to be able to do this kind of research, and then improve our societies nationally and globally so that we can reduce our military spending and do this kind of research.

100 billion ($/€) is the amount that Germany is spending as a special budget in response to Russia's aggression, in order to become the nation with the 3rd highest military spending on the planet. If it weren't for the war in Ukraine, we could put it all into such a project.

If we had averted COVID in it's early stages - like we did with SARS-1 and MERS - imagine all the resources we could have put into research instead.
To quote Matt Levine[1], who I think was making the same point more eloquently:

> Elon Musk does not like remote work, which, you know, fine, but this strikes me as being less about remote work and more about a general culture of being ostentatiously intense

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-01/crypto... | https://archive.ph/bouPL
> Python is flexible enough that multiple dispatch can be done as a library without being a language feature.

So using a library to add multiple dispatch to Python is fair game but using one of the various Traits library in Julia to enforce interfaces isn't ? Why ?
Maybe new drug development and investments world move to outside the US, where salaries are lower,

And development would continue there.

I'm guessing that'd be the best for everyone except for the profit maximizing pharma companies in the US
> Americans may find that inconvenient, more radical tongues call it a sign of US imperialism that .com is often associated with the home for US companies.

I'm not sure why you felt the need to try and make some point about US imperialism in a discussion about a TLD with an extra dot when plenty of countries have a TLD that is customarily used without an extra dot: .de, .ch, .nl, .es, .ie, etc. It's simply a matter of convention (and sometimes local legislation) that .co.uk, .com.uk, .co.in, and others became the norm for commercial entities in these countries while .com similarly became a norm for US companies by convention. There's nothing stopping a non-US company from using a .com domain, as I'm sure you're aware.
> An advantage to buying better hardware in the first place: it will still be worth enough for someone else to buy it from me.

Yep, a great source of inspiration for this line of thinking: https://forum.thinkpads.com/
Meh I worked at a mobile bank startup and I learned a lot and grew a lot. Was a great point in my career.
Right, the article doesn't argue for fusion funding.

But elsewhere the author has advocated it with "fusion power is a goal worth spending billions on". And in his "Why Particle Colliders Will Go Extinct" article, he supports the billions spent on fusion.

The author's other writings include:

- Gun Ownership Neither Increases Nor Decreases the Crime Rate

- Fleeing Paris Accords Makes Scientific Sense

- NSF Should Stop Funding Social 'Science'
Ahahah what a hilarious way to say it :D
I find that very interesting, I have the opposite reaction to JSX. Not wanting to use it has been one of the biggest reasons I have moved into using ClojureScript/Hiccup for front-end applications.

I find JSX extremely hard to read and work with and reason about.
The registration would show the name of the real owner. I don't think this is a good example.
There's another way which you could see this, which is that the cost of maintaining backward compatibility for every prior piece of hardware only increases the surface area for vulnerabilities to emerge.

Also, if security is your #1 priority you should pay the cost of the upgrade. Monterey is compatible with Macs as old as 2015. That means that Apple will sunset security support for it in 2024. That's nine years of supported life for your computer – not bad.
I didn't do much common lisp yet, but I tried alive with vscode. It was a bit clunky but looked like what I should have expected to get if I had used emacs so, pretty cool.
> The Sega CD had a few megabytes of dedicated RAM (which is at least an order of magnitude more than you claimed)

It added 6 megabits of RAM. The order of magnitude is forgetting to divide by 8.

And the SNES-CD that they were talking about only added a 256KB ram bank onto a main memory of 128KB.

Playstation had 2 megabytes of main memory, and >1.5 in other chunks.
I've tried handlebars and liquid. They're okayish, but both slow and don't have any compiletime help or typing when I tried them.

Horroshow, ructe, typed-html and yarte were okay but inheritance was underdocumented (or generally not as well documented), which is a big no for me. And a few only give minor-quality help at compile time.

Maud on the other hand has decent compiletime help and doesn't require a lot of documentation as normal rust code is doing the heavy lifting.
For sheer beauty, study math.

But economically, I think it's much like any advanced level STEM course. In such courses you come across a huge range of things, but the main benefit is that you now know that X is a thing that people have investigated. If you know that X is a field of some depth, that completely changes your own course of action.

The thing is I'm not sure the actual meat is necessary. Yes it sounds criminal, but what you just indexed everything and came back to learn it properly when needed? When I look at HN type people that seems to be the actual way things happen, rather than learn X -> apply X. It's more like people kinda sorta remember there was something that sounded like it might be useful in this other area, then they circled back, read up on the details, and applied it.
> Properly normalized data isn't just faster, it's also easier to work with for the end user.

Extracting and reusing data, yes. Getting it into the tool in the first place, no way. Tools that won't even allow you to save your data and make it persistent until you conform to every single integrity requirement are a nightmare for end users.
Maybe moving the research to lower living cost countries?

> If they could raise the prices they would have already.

Good point
Bom dia, tude bem, andrecarini! :)

Currently I also live in Brazil but I came from another country.

I also realized that in Brazil custom fee + taxes for abroad equipments are too high, a custom fee is 60% (yes, sixty percents!), the reader can look prices for Apple devices in their site for Brazil. When I compare prices between US and Brazil Apple sites, I found that difference is about 100%!

But, you known, there is some options. I asked my Brazilian friends and they said that you can go to Paraguay (especially a city near waterfalls) and buy goods there. It is seems Paraguay don't have a custom fee only taxes. You can use https://www.comprasparaguai.com.br/ to compare prices. Brazilian citizens do not need a visa.

Also, I found that sellers on local Amazon and Mercado Livre also sell goods which are much cheaper, then in officials stores. For some goods prices are about like in US Amazon.

Other options are to travel to other countries, like US, Costa Rica, Ecuador or ask you friends or family members from abroad to buy and to bring to you.
I wanted to moan about how the best coders have GitHub repos but keep most of them or atleast the best private so they can perhaps build a side business out of them , thus making them less likely to get selected as a solid spare time coder.

I’m kind of retired now so I’m now less perturbed by it and more empathic towards business owners who must find it nearly impossible to sort the wheat from the chaff especially if the interviewee like me refused to do technical tests.

At the end of the day I realise now I was competing against dishonest candidates and I never stood a good chance I’m lucky I’m sought after now but that’s only because of my experience.
How they can be “integrated”, I don’t know, as Dark Sky and Apple weather give totally different forecasts for where I live, both usually inaccurate. If it’s the same data, it’s being processed differently - but the forecasts are so different, I don’t see how it can be.

Maybe they just mean in the US, and international customers will have to make do with an approximation?
> If you create something, make it freely accessible and easy to use, then I think you are partly responsible for its misuse.

I don't agree, but people will never reach consensus on this moral topic. So please don't call the other side "at best naive".
Thanks for awesome channel!
Well, the same way that String Theorists are paying their bills from the taxpayers, mostly by pushing that theory as Physics.
I started writing this before, the above question was posted.
I have heard about it. Still in my TBR list. Will take a look into it.
The Testing Pyramid
This is besides the point you're making, but I personally feel that being a parent is mostly a ghost job. You need to figure out how to put the children in positions where they'll find things to play with themselves, and then let them do it.

For me, I just bring a package of crackers, some water, then go out in the streets with my kids, visiting nearby playgrounds or lots with trees. They'll then start playing, perhaps needing a little help getting started, and my involvement is mostly coming up with a plan for where to go next, and watching out for signs of exhaustion. So most of the time, I'm actually not active.

I also enjoy having limited help with say cooking or cleaning, but yeah, that's exhausting, because you need to multitask and both do the job and monitor their state and the job they are doing.
It's interesting that they'll continue to offer API with the new WeatherKit API.

I have an impression that Dark Sky API was very popular with developers and have been wondering what stood out for them among many other weather APIs on the market.
Bacterial cellulose in kombucha enables microbial life under Martian conditions
People literally throw old hardware in the bin where I'm from
Now that I read about them, focus modes do seem like they're usable, but I'm not 100% sure, without spending a half hour looking into it.

Some say you can whitelist the messages app and let all contacts message you, some say that doesn't work? There's a lot more discussion and confusion than I'd hope to see about it.

It just seems a little less smooth than I'd expected, like as if "No affect on any other notifications, just make this Aliexpress app stop spamming" isn't really a core use case.
For those (like me) being stuck on "skeuomorphic" in the second sentence:

> A skeuomorph is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs are typically used to make something new feel familiar in an effort to speed understanding and acclimation. They employ elements that, while essential to the original object, serve no pragmatic purpose in the new system. Examples include pottery embellished with imitation rivets reminiscent of similar pots made of metal and a software calendar that imitates the appearance of binding on a paper desk calendar.

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph)
From the site "The main goal of EU.org is to provide free subdomain registration to users or non-profit organizations who cannot afford the fees demanded by some NICs." They don't claim to be issuing domain names at all.
Dell's also doing it. I really liked the one exec's comments, that opening up opportunities to people who are no longer interested in working until "they drop" or have other obligations means they get better technical skills from candidates.

And that she acknowlegdes you can't just keep squeezing the lemon of your existing workers: "Working harder won't pay off, because the pond is empty..." "https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/11/4day_workweek/
Not really. With property taxes, you lease the title to “your” land from the government.
I agree wholeheartedly, but I still want more: let us create actually todos(ie Reminders) from messages with a gesture. That todo record has a deep link to back to the message, and the message has a todo status icon. Magic.

I hope I don’t have to wait 15 years for that, but I will keep talking about it until it does come.