skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that there's room for a language that runs on the BEAM and also compiles to JS. Gleam looks great, and it's one of the up and coming languages that I'm rooting for. In addition to having a Javascript compile target, it's statically typed which is a prerequisite for me when it comes to productivity and correctness.

There was actually a developer working on a subset of Elixir that compiles to JS called Elixirscript[1], but development seems to have stalled. Another functional statically typed compile-to-js language which targets the BEAM vm is Purescript through the Purerl project [2].

If you're going to compile to JS though, there's an argument to be made that you might not want to target the BEAM at all. You could potentially run your entire backend on something like Cloudflare Workers, which has over 200 points of presence around the world, so latency is about as low as possible. The other CDNs have their own competing worker runtimes as well (e.g. Cloudfront functions, Netlify functions, etc.). These edge worker runtimes also have the benefit of not charging for each individual region in which you operate. You can also run any language which compiles to WASM like Rust, Assemblyscript, or Grain [3] on these edge runtimes. The only missing piece for me is a distributed database, but it looks like Cloudflare at least is working on that [4].

[1] https://github.com/elixirscript/elixirscript

[2] https://github.com/purerl/purerl

[3] https://grain-lang.org/docs/

[4] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-d1/
Then fine them. Imagine if financial companies (like banks) could just conveniently not chose to store records.
As of today, I have an employee, so definitely not a one person agency anymore.

And it's very rare that I'm engaged to write a complete system, because I'm quite expensive.

However, from the way I approached the answer you can easily tell I'm a software person and not an MBA/salesman by birth.

Usually I work with startup CTOs (which I was myself until half a year ago) to solve very complex business or technology problems or support the design and development of a complex project. For example, you might engage me to perform design reviews with your team, or to dive into the code of a system written in a language nobody in the company knows and add a complex feature that sends ripples across the codebase, or to design a critical system and then write the most complex module myself and stay involved enough in the development of the rest that I can ensure what the team delivers is what the organization actually needs. I really am a consultant, just a software consultant, not a "management consultant", like McKinsey or Deloitte.

"Sell before you build" means before you waste resources building something, have expectant customers waiting for them to exist, with money already committed to buying it once it exists. There are many ways to structure this commercially. Of course you should sell one-to-many, not just one-to-one.

Many times the first thing I tell a potential customer on a sales call is "wait, you want to build this before you have paying customers? Why take all this risk? Go out and sell it (or market it, if it's a B2C product) and then build it without the product-market-fit risk!" I then go into the many strategies that exist for selling things before they are built, as they apply to their specific industry and business. This can save my customers millions of dollars or years of their lives if they're at the first stages of a startup. This kind of thing is a major reason I can charge consulting rates and not freelancing rates, and is essential business advice that every serious entrepreneur either learned the easy way or the hard way.
> On busy nights staff might be okay with the lower pay thanks to tips

You have absolutely no idea about this topic you're commenting on, do you?
I really like the kittens game:

https://kittensgame.com/ui/
It is directly democratic. Two senators are elected by the voters of each state. (The Founders preferred that the two senators be elected by the legislatures of each state, but a constitutional amendment changed that.)

We are not one big representative democracy. We are a federation of states. It was not intended that the federal government run everything - it was concerned primarily with defense and relations with other countries. Originally.
Yeah being purely positive or negative isn't any good. Although BTC shouldn't be benchmarked with Airbnb but with USD/EUR...

Bitcoin itself isn't a scam, in fact it has (or had) really ambitious goals. But the dynamics in the last years are quite scammy because not many things are bought with BTC. Maybe PoS will bring something new
I wonder what a version of this article that's backed by any data at all would look like. The failure rate of venture funded startups has always been around 3 out of 4 -- or if you include walking dead companies as failures, maybe 9 out of 10. It's hard to even find firm figures for the 50 or so years the SV venture model has been around, but is there some evidence that it has been worse lately?

It has always been the case that quite a large number of the companies that support this whole failure-heavy model looked, to most people, like insane cash burning scams. That's basically why venture exists: to let a small number of people who somehow have a slightly higher hit rate of distinguishing good ideas from insanity, splash around money. It's really just slightly higher, and a lot of money gets wasted, and a lot of people deploy arguments like this article.

Or maybe the argument here is that we've been in a year 2000 style of bubble more recently, but are there any hard stats to actually justify that view?
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People in the Bay Area of California all started saying it too
This is normal, management just got the news that there is no more money.
I hate crypto with passion, from the beginning, but intellectually I am still on the fence.

It might be as bad, shallow and devoid of value as any other Ponzi scheme of Tulip Mania, and this is sentiment I have about it, but this is not proof.

What if the haters are too biased to see the real value of the so-called "blockchain"?

Only History will tell.
Well, those of us who work on problems that need solutions and products that solve those real problems, we don’t need to worry. We’re just enjoying our popcorn watching the show.

I have however reliably found that the HN crowd has rarely been emotional in arguments regarding crypto. For some reason, the anti-crypto arguments being thrown around here have been very convincing, and the pro-crypto arguments less so. But no one here has “silenced” anyone, it’s a public forum.

However, if I were in crypto, I would be extremely worried that one of the biggest tech communities, with “hacker” in the name isn’t really on board with crypto.
Drug smuggling: Underwater drones seized by Spanish police
This is really exciting to see. Browser diversity is sorely needed, and is good for the web (assuming every browser can follow the spec correctly).
Orange or yellow filters.

They bring up brightness in skin tones, and add contrast to blue skies and green vegetation.

Orange and yellow filters are available at many secondhand stores for a few bucks each, in common lens diameters.

You can also just do the same effect in post-production if you shoot in colour digitally. I sincerely advise you to just shoot b&w film for b&w photos, but these days there are good software conversions - "film simulations", available in lots of different apps if you prefer to shoot digitally. It's a mature technology already, there aren't really any "bad options" you need to avoid.
Worst solutions I've heard in a while, no offense...
What is Ethereum, chopped liver?

Those that disagreed with the small block Bitcoin plutocrats moved to other projects, mainly Ethereum.
It was technically usable, but very slow. I ran it on a 486 DX2-66 with 4MB of RAM before upgrading to 8MB of RAM. That made a drastic difference.
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This is exactly why I quit drinking and have been sober for almost 2 years. I kept finding that one or two beers and I would feel like crap or get headaches the next day. I know about the drink water trick and it didn’t help. So finally gave up drinking and don’t miss it. Also other reasons to quit as other commenters mentioned is the price. Going out for a drink costs a lot of money. Just food and a non alcoholic drink cost me over $20. A couple alcoholic drinks would cost me 1/3 days pay. I would much rather not.
Except for that silence speaks loudly in some circumstances.
DxO is good shit, the only raw editor that ticked all the intuitive UI/UX boxes for me. Must have been through 10+ trials. The open source options in particular could do with some UI love

Out of curiosity what stops you from using dxo for everything?
Personally, the whole covid situ, and working from home just taught me to go over to friends places and drink at home rather than some shitty pub with expensive drinks that I don't like.
The report doesn't say which fields are exempt or the criteria for finding exemptions to this "right" - which is absolutely necessary, I mean, how is a construction worker going to work from home?
I'm far too cheap to order more than a drink or 2 at bars, but it tends to mean I keep a bottle of something at home which makes it dangerously easy to go too fast/hard
Am i the only one that feels we shouldn't need this law at all?

I call a company, inform them I want to cancell, and they keep taking money off my card, they should be prosecuted for theft.

I don't get to demand that all companies must use my custom online form when they need payment from me, so why should they get to make such demands?

Why did our legal system enable this behaviour all.
Skeleton watches are among my favourite style. I have one from Swatch.

I don't like that its lens is plastic, so it scratches much too easily. But it looks really nice otherwise.
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This was already posted 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31932250

A Go library moving to SourceHut was also discussed 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31961402

It seems a bit soon to be reposting it. Has there been further developments? The page is still very light on resource (use CodeBerg, sign up for SourceHut, or self-host; with no more than links to each option's repo), the mailing-list has had very little traffic (5 threads). At least the duplicate URL https://giveupgithub.org/ has been turned into a redirection.
> Write a few lines of test code that fail

OK, write the test…

> write a few lines of production code to make it pass

…before the feature.

I recognize the color you’re trying to add (it’s more
like TFTFTF than TTTFFF), but it remains Test-Driven Development.
I'm not certain the Suffragettes and their peers put their feelings about trans women on record, but with that generation being entirely dead now I'm not sure they're relevant.
Scaling like that always feels like applying band-aid on top of band-aid. Honestly I think that once you need to change your code to scale, you should take the opportunity to use another database right away.
Are you in France? https://www.cerascreen.fr would be an option. I've only used the UK site but assume it will be the same.
Its worth subscribing to (yes Paying!) a local newspaper or two if you can find any that are decent. Especially local politicians really need some journalists to investigate and report on what they're up to.
This sounds more like people going to pubs to get hammered instead of going there to be social. The beer gardens around here are full of people enjoying a cold one. No one goes there to get drunk. Same with the pubs (mostly). Tons of young people there. Maybe we just have a different pub culture on the continent?
For the first 6-9 months:

1. Get ready to survive sleepless nights and days and forget about your comfort. It’ll be like a full time job 24x7.

2. Get ready to reach unimaginable before zen master levels of acceptance, patience and emotional stability towards your baby and your wife (she’d better do the same).

3. Get ready to constantly have not enough hours each day to handle all the planned matters, and not enough time for yourself.

4. Get prepared to go to sleep early and to wake up much earlier.

5. Learn how to “train” a baby to follow regular sleep patterns and rituals. This will save you a lot of time and nerves.

6. Buy a good and big enough playpen to afford some relatively free time during the day and not worry about baby safety each second.

7. In doubts, follow your instincts as long as you come from love and good intentions for the baby (you probably are if you ask the question). Rather than some books, gurus, your parents or even HN :)

Parents (especially mother) have unique sophisticated connection with their newborn on many levels. Nobody in the world can know better what exactly your baby in each moment needs. Tune yourself to it.

After ~ 9 months you’ll feel some relief and should become an expert in your baby, so no more advice needed.
It’s amazing to hear these stats and then drive around England and be astonished how many pubs there are. On high streets, town centers, neighborhoods, etc. Just think how many there were!

I love pub culture and always look forward to a bitter when traveling to the UK.
> But OP's implication that MGT's district lacks a "culture" is exactly the sort of rhetoric that got her elected. That sort of talk makes people mad and justifiably so.

The notion that the people in that district did not have it in them to elect a right-wing conspiracy theorist prior to some sort of recent national culture war / media phenomenon is entirely mistaken.

edit: that's not to trivialize some of the other stuff that's going on nationally... I suspect the national culture warriors actually do explain why MGT's campaigns are funded as well as they are.
Yes, Sanofi licensed from Kymab. There are a few groups targeting ICOS/ICOSL to modulate immune response to tumor (either alone or in combo with PD-1, CTLA-4, etc approaches previously mentioned on HN). Here's one reasonably recent backgrounder on rationale: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7003380/

Still not clear that KY1044 really is the "experimental drug" mentioned in the linked BBC article, since as others have noted the article is pretty thin on detail.
If you want to save resources (and that what talking about 2GB machines is) you just don't keep 60+ tabs open. You cannot eat the cake and keep it at the same time. I cannot see how anyone can jump around between 60 tabs every day. If I have more than 10-20 tabs open after a working day I know that the day went in a very unorganized way and I have probably more open tasks than in the morning when I started. It happens because I have plenty of unused RAM on my work machine, but it's nothing I'd defend. Maybe a smaller machine would just force me to organize my work better.

Bookmarks are there for organizing stuff one will need at some time later. Keeping tabs open does not seem to serve any special purpose. Unless you want to save cycles to render it again, but I don't remember many pages I would like to use frequently that even a very old PC does not bring up in decent time. The local weather forecast loads rather slowly, but that I want to reload every time I visit it anyway.
Understand (a little) about TCP (2015)
It kind of is though. We have dead code elimination. Bloated stuff is popular and therefore probably optimized. Half of the "Bloat" is probably for a useful purpose, like being able to decode some non compliant file format that doesn't exist but very much does and will continue to.

Plus, if you're not just building with Legos, you might have stuff only 10xers or at least 2xers can do.

I'm not convinced the current software based society is possible with much less bloat than we have, unless incentives change and we free up resources by dropping some projects. The world only has so many excellent developers.
If you know you're gonna do layoffs, say that it's being considered, and then do the layoffs.

If it's possible you'll do layoffs, says it's possible that you'll do layoffs, figure out what you wanna do, then do that.

If you know you're not gonna do layoffs, say you know you're not gonna do layoffs, and then don't do layoffs.

If people will leave because you say there will be layoffs, they would leave even faster if you didn't say you'll do layoffs but then do it anyway.
I wonder if one could get oneself a piece of land far enough from cities and raise chickens or a cow or a couple of goats. A garden or similar helps.

In other words, back to good old days!

Is it practical?
I was talking in generalities. As I said in another comment, I'm in a more dense region where level non-gated crossings tend to be branches for factories and the like. So I've seen plenty of roads that are decorated with some train tracks (with a toss up as to whether they're even active), but still carry the nonsensical presumption that every passing vehicle should somehow have to yield to nonexistent trains going at unknown speeds.

The specific busyness of these tracks is all the more reason all crossings should be lighted/gated. And while we're at it, there should be sensors/cameras to check for stuck vehicles and communicate that to the train a few miles away - if a train going at 90mph takes 3 miles to stop, that actually means the gates only need to come down two minutes before the train gets to the crossing. But there's no impetus to proactively address such problems until the incentives are reformed.

> I believe it is this circumstance which places the onus on MODOT to defend the users of their later-arriving road from hazards associated with rail traffic on the preexisting BNSF line

Sure, but understanding the legal justification doesn't change what I said. This is an instance where the common law first-come first-serve system completely fails. See also: water "rights". It would be a different story if the tracks were also a public way and open for use by everyone, but in general private control over the commons should be rejected.
I don't think it's a fair comparison. monero (and almost every other modern cryptocurrency) has reasonable fees due to its dynamic blocksize.

Additionally, the tokenomics of monero are somewhat inflationary as of last month, they've activated a constant block reward.

The development of BTC as a payment system are very complicated. There was a long period from 2017 where you've had two competing mechanisms for low-fee payments: BCH (Bitcoin Cash, fork to increase blocksize), and BTC-LN (Bitcoin Lightning network, gossip network of multisig accounts). This really fragmented the userbase and slowed down BTC's adoption as a payment system.

I'm not saying comparisons to BTC are meaningless, I'm just saying that BTC is a bad example of a "typical cryptocurrency".
That looks like a parody account. This is the real one: https://twitter.com/TheLunduke
Doctors are very dismissive of chronic pain patients and regularly make you doubt you have anything, generally with language very similar to Sarno's, in my case I had to fight a lot until they found I had a variation of Parkinson's disease, it was very distressing and a huge part of my unhappiness.
You can take your identity elsewhere when using Nostr clients (like Damus) but, very disappointingly, not your content...
Only 6.8% of adults have optimal cardiometabolic health
You can do this with a smart contract if you're willing to be exposed to wbtc and a stablecoin of your choice.

I wouldn't take the other side of this bet though, I'm long-term bearish BTC, but I don't think it will drop below $10,000 this month
A lot happened in those three weeks. Bitcoin dropped by a third and at least a few coins collapsed.
> UK pub culture doesn't tend to be that intentional about meeting particular people but rather hanging out where others may or may not show up.

Interesting, other than 'the locals' propping up the bar, that's not my experience at all.

I think going to each other's homes (on a smaller scale and in a less organised way than 'a party') is more common now. For whatever reason, I wouldn't like to say, could be fashion, could be the other side of 'the pub is too expensive', or something else.
The former is probably uncontroversial but I'd love to see some examples of the latter since my understanding was that monads are essentially the generalization of sequentiality.
Ideally Corporation X would buy you out and you would be the one adding it as a feature to their app.
No indeed. However the UI does emit changes to the model as the user interacts with it. These can be modeled as a series of values over time, aka a stream.
Dupe. This was posted ~4 days ago, 599pts, 562 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31932250

The article it links to, links the the page this new post links to.
Do you still have the video?
I went only there once, but I remember walking several kilometres because check-in was on one side, and my flight the opposite end.
Tips for New Software Engineers
Deriving Transducers from First Principles (2015)
This essay was Mitt's entry in the annual 4th of July platitude contest.

He is a consummate politician who is afraid to offer any concrete suggestions to deal with the problems he mentions.

It might have been interesting to hear his ideas about gun control, abortion rights, etc. - If he has any.

But, the 4th of July is just another day in America, "Home of the Brave":

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/shooting-reported-july-4th-...

.
> fetch an entire cacheline of instructions at once

And how many instructions fit into it? Are you going to feed an 8-wide decoder with a single 64B cacheline? Especially with no promises that any instruction starts or ends on that boundary?

> It's actually hard to come up with x86 instructions that are 15 bytes long.

Something as simple and trivial as loading a 64-bit immediate into a register is a 10-byte instruction in x86...
So for you to feed an 8-wide decoder even with such simple things as that, you're already at TWO cache lines ingested per cycle (80 bytes)... good luck with that...

I hear intel is hiring. Their current top of the line decoder is IIRC 5-wide. I am sure they’d like to hear your ideas as to how easy it is to decode x86 8-way
It depends. If you are in a office environment with access to all the materials needed then yes.

But if not then in the worst case you have to find somewhere to print the letter, sign it, then find or buy an envelope and postage stamps, and finally drop the letter off.