skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many words have similar meaning, yet of subtle shades of meaning, or nuances that are lost when “dumbed down”

So you’re literally communicating less effectively when using a smaller vocabulary.

The best answer is to have the reader learn the difficult word, but that isn’t always possible.

A difficult needle to thread for sure.
Very cool!

https://playtune.app/play/FdC119_bm1k
A company built to operate as a 100 billion dollar behemoth can rarely transition to a 1 billion dollar success without lots of pain.

To make this transition, your going to need to crush a lot of dreams and projects. Why would the result not be a hollowed out hulk of a company?
I prefer all my media to be watched offline and avoid streaming as it complicates things. For example if I want to watch some Netflix show I torrent a copy of it, then upload it into VLC Player via iTunes, and watch it on my iPad Pro. This also saves some power since the wifi doesn't have to be very active during the duration of watching. Downloading it for offline viewing uses some amount of power, but not as much as streaming.
Rust is fine and useful and has plenty of traction. You can build stuff with it that's more annoying with c and reach groups of devs that don't use c much.

Just learning other languages makes it much better to learn others making you a lot more flexible and faster to spin up. There's a certain amount of brain bending that happens as you encounter new paradigms in different languages which honestly is the hardest thing to learn. After that languages are relatively easy.
Yeah, I'm old and on a mobile phone but goddamn that is some tiny, awful colored, hard to read font.
I don't think Apple Shortcuts are talked about enough.

Recently I made one that 1. Puts my do-not-disturb switch on, 2. switches WIFI off 3. switches BlueTooth off.

And linked this to a shortcut. So now when I need to work and really want no distractions, I just press the shortcut and dive in.

It's little things like these that make it very useful.
You think you are joking.
"Remains silent" = "We don't have any story since the last time this came up, but please click anyway"

(Yes, I read the article, and that's what it amounted to)
The amount of people confused and incredulous in this thread should demonstrate that simple words doesn't make something more understandable.
Interesting take for sure, not sure if trolling though. But why don't you double down then?

Why don't web browsers discourage languages that not everyone will know?

Given the international nature of the web, wouldn't it make sense for web browsers to discourage you from using any language other than English? If you can write in English that most and more people would understand then why would you write in Punjabi, Mandarin, Xhosa, or Russian?
The replacement of the I35 Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis was also fast tracked pretty well after it collapsed.

But, I imagine it’s much easier to fast track an infrastructure repair or replacement project than it is for a brand new infrastructure project.
I've had my fair share of failures that's for sure. I'm do not expecting to actually succeed every single time, but I am putting in the best effort to at least try to succeed instead of just trying to coast along or shrug it off being like "meh, just wasn't in the cards". I also don't expect massive celebrations when I actually do succeed - success is what is expected. If I'm supposed to make the big sale, I don't get a party after I just move on to the next big sale. It's what is expected, not exceptional.
Wow, that sounds awful for me. Being a boss means making hard decision, he just dumped that on the three of you. Glad it worked out for you, but I can't imagine this working in most situations.
Are there any benchmarks between Bun and GraalJS?
America is „irrelevant to us“ if Europe is doomed, said someone in the 16th century.
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvPaEsuz-tY
But who says the computer running the simulation must be exact?

We are using a lot of low precision computations in graphics, neural networks, ....

Pi also can't be calculated exactly to infinite precision, yet that doesn't stop us to compute circles and so on.
It will be good to be able to se the link to original post at HN.
California’s Nuclear Energy Dilemma
Maybe via a threshold that you can specify in your browser settings?
I think that if you are obsolete (and that's a big if), it's not because of languages you don't know, but because of jobs you can't/won't do.
For me personally, that was writing (web) UIs. Learning JS/TS + React was the best thing that ever happened to me. The best decision I ever made. It basically enabled me to crush all such thoughts (about being obsolete) that I had. I no more have to rely on someone else in order to "talk to the world" (express my ideas with software/UI). Now I can market my ideas on a whole different level, even when they are backend/systems ideas. And I was astonished by how much "real programming" there is on the frontend.
C++ lambdas behave exactly like functions in any other functional language.

In OCaml, for example, you can't do recursion for the same reason without the special "let rec" construct.
I work 9-5 and have 6 weeks of vacations on top of government mandated holidays, I do pretty good :)
oil is bad for your arteries even if it isn't burned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4WD8Bm7s_I
If results are not reproducible, how does one know that the results are correct?
That is not for web browsers to decide. If the creator of the website/page intends a wider multilingual audience, nothing stops them from providing translations of the same content into different languages.

In this day and age when we have access to multilingual online dictionaries, thesauri and even translators like Google Translate, discouraging unfamiliar words sounds extreme.
your oven remains usable after being used once.
I created a simple little Boardgame News site. It pulls all the stuff I'm interested in into one place which is now a fixed tab on my main browser.

https://dragonc.droppages.com

Never marketed because I hate ads as much as the next person, and also because I kept getting messages such as "use a news feed reader." I just wanted everything together in a readable timeline.
Wasn't the TikTok ban only effective because ByteDance didn't try to evade it?
Musings about Automation
I guess it's just a little fun site, would've been nice however to have a voting system in random scrolling to provide some highlights (while keeping predictions unvotable in the ranking to avoid typical crowding).

>I predict that the ready supply of instant gratification will be as or more harmful than fast food and the obesity epidemic.

Yet to be widely acknowledged and acted on, but sure seems lsd5you was ahead of the curve on this in 2010.
The "tragic flaw" is an imprecise translation from the Greek word, which can also mean a "tragic error". Oedipus tragic error is of course that he unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother. It is not a character flaw as such.
Choose what fits your field. If you're doing ML you probably want Python. If you're doing web you probably want JavaScript. If you want fast native apps then Go, Rust, C++, C, and the rest based on what libraries you think you'll need and what you enjoy the structure of most.

I personally have had a career in Python for over 10 years at this point. What made me choose Python as my go to language was my friends and peers making fun of me using PHP for server side web development. Ruby and Python (Rails and Django) were the cool kids. So peer pressure could also help you with your decision as it did mine!

At this point in my career I care less about my language and more about what libraries are available as those determine how fast I can have an MVP. I'd determine what you are trying to build and come up with a list of requirements and see what libraries are already available for you to build off of.

Open source pet projects are a great starting point for learning. Come up with an idea, even if it's been done before, and build it.
I think you mean highly specific slang that only a select few know about and is contained to one area. I have a huge vocabulary of slang that is only known in my local area, but I don't use it on The Internet. It confuses people.
It is unfortunate that people lost their jobs, but is anyone else not upset that a "buy now, pay later" company is struggling? They are exacerbating consumer's reliance on credit and causing some reckless spending, I personally believe they do more harm than good.
The data analysis done to try to salvage results from this mission were nothing short of heroic.

See [1] for more detailed discussion of how the Gravity B team pushed on with analysis in the face of systematic errors much larger than the effect they were trying to measure, to come out in the end with a believable measurement of the incredibly subtle effect of gravitational frame dragging.

[1] https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/tesis/2016/hdl_10803_400663/chev1de1...
> If you browse through the pages and read the examples you'll see many

Respectfully, I browsed all the examples I could find on the site (Highlights, Examples, and Quick Start) and I'm not really sure what you expect to be recognized as novel ("Has features not found in any other language"). You may have a combination of features that is unique, but nothing individually stood out as something never seen before. Perhaps you just need to highlight these things better.
I'm 38 years old and have lived in the US my entire life. I have lived in 5 states and visited 17. While the frequency does vary quite a bit from place to place, I have never been to a city where no one hugs; especially close family members.
Thanks for reading! Including examples is a great point, because otherwise the article can be kind of abstract, especially because each person has a different mental model of data. I'll add some later on.

Maybe thermodynamics is a hammer that makes all things seem like nails, but the connections pop up all over the place. Entropy is another highly applicable concept to data systems.
> At the same time, I was doing finance module at the university. One assignment was to analyse a company's financial reports and come up with a conclusion. So I analysed the company I worked for and the outcome was that I need to get out.

That's interesting. My OH is almost half way through her MBA and for one recent module, she chose to analyse her current employer's financial reports and come up with a conclusion. Her conclusion is also that she needs to get out.

I wonder how many tech employees can actually read a financial report, though?
You must have been doing some marketing earlier on though , right? How did it get to be popular in the first place?
This art style is called "Alegria" or "Corporate Memphis".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis
I believe the gp is correct, the closer you get to the speed of light the slower time passes. If a particle travels at the speed of light, no time passes for it.
Has anybody done the calculation (I'm tempted to, now), if you were to take the text, create QR codes, how much text could you reasonably have on a page? The QRs do have a certain amount of redundancy, which is good. If this is calculated, then how many pages you need is easy.
Start Trek uses matter-antimatter reaction as power source. Provided we ever find out how to do that, if this reactor stores any substantial amount of anti-matter - which appears to be the case in Star Trek, with the confinement being achieved by usage of dilithium crystals - the failure mode would be loss of confinement, with the result of antimatter coming into contact with regular matter. This will lead to all anti-matter instantly converted to energy (taking the equivalent mass of matter with it) resulting in enormous explosion probably converting any matter in the vicinity into a superheated plasma cloud and enormous burst of high-energy radiation. Star Trek reactors are not very safe, as it looks from the descriptions.
What you're talking about is using other people to leverage the value of your judgement, right? This is similar to what a manager does when they manage a team - they make sure that things flow well in the team or the whole project fails. In that case, at the end of the project, is it fair for the manager to get up and say, "I personally created all of this value because without me it wouldn't exist"? No, of course not. Because without literally everyone on the team who made a contribution it wouldn't exist.

Imagine Jeff Bezos trying to create Amazon literally _on his own_. It just doesn't math; it can't. The good judgement required to grow a company is definitely worth something, but it isn't worth like twenty thousand times more than everyone else involved.
I was mostly inserting tags at the start and end of paragraphs of with `I` and `A` and other repetitive markup where I might have to `I` and the down arrow three times and then something else. I'd also do a lot of `:` ex based search and replace.

The way the university dial up pool worked, and when I worked for an ISP for 6 weeks in 96, there would be a room full of phone lines and modems where the dial in would happen. Sometime you would get one bad line, and sometimes you would get one bad modem, and probably sometimes you would get a bad line going to a bad modem. To keep users from paying local tolls, you would have to have several locations for the modem pools. In the case of the ISP, Bill Blue rented garages around the county and had T1s or something run out the the garages.

I didn't say it was common to connect at 300 baud, or that the vi story had anything to do with 300 baud. I know I did connect at 300 baud more than once in the early 90s, and I that is when I found out that I could read usenet news at 300 baud w/o using a pager.
I don’t understand why companies do these scale up things. Hoard your cash and wait it out a stint before making major moves. Don’t hire fast hire smart.

If you are in a money problem environment maybe start with transparency and freezing of things like hiring? There just seems to be 100 better ways to approach this
No mention of marriage or kids. Try juggling that on top of the 9 to 5.
C++ is a swiss army knife that can do everything, it's designed so that you don't need any specialized language at all.

If you do, you can just make an embedded domain specific language, since it supports that too.
> I ended up volunteering

You are a good person.
Yes but I've already been banned twice for calling pg a charlatan, so this time I'll leave that for you.
With such a vague statement, you could easily swing it either way. To me, it looks basically identical. What's different for you?
> In another comment I mentioned that listing features tends to be ignored.

I can see where you're coming from, it might be different from person to person. I personally would've been happy to read through a short feature list highlighting the most interesting ideas that the language introduces. For example, you mention automatic memory management without reference counting and garbage collection, which sounded interesting but wasn't specific enough for me to figure out what's unique. In another comment I saw that you expanded on it and mentioned it tracks lifetimes across scopes, which then sounds super interesting. But I didn't find where to learn more about it.

> Do you want short side by sides or real code examples?

I think short examples can do the trick, if they are not toy examples but can work as part of a bigger program, if that makes sense. Coming to think of it, ideally it would be best to have an actual program written in the language. That's what I usually do to feel out a new programming language---seek out a codebase written in it and read through. So if you have something like that, maybe you could showcase features using small snippets from the program itself, maybe side-by-side with equivalents in a well-known language.
Will AI BaaS work for the system or the bureaucracy itself as human systems do?
>Any suggestions? (Let's not diverge on how there are alternate better solutions like archival disks etc)

Don't try to do this, not a good idea.
Without reproducing the result it can be extremely difficult to prove something wasn’t a measurement error of some kind.
I worked on government projects at Azure for years. Their US Government cloud is a second-class citizen. Getting the average engineer to care about problems with their their offerings in government clouds relative to the commercial cloud is like pulling teeth.
Fwiw there is a more normalized practice that resembles this and is, afaik, not a massive hr risk: openly offering a voluntary severance with defined benefits.

Obviously it's not a great signal to those who don't take it about the health of the company, and you might lose a bunch of people you'd rather not, but I think allowing some level of self-selection is good when it's possible.
Afaik in Belgium, and in most of th EU, there is a credit registry, managed by the governement. If you have too much debt, you get on a blacklist and won't get off until enough is paid back.

While far from perfect, it seems a lot better than the USA system. But it requires a functioning ID system and some trust in the governement.
Sure it's easy to crack windows too. They still put too much behind Pro like disk encryption, something that should be default.
Sick Codes has jailbroken a John Deere
> Those people can look at a dictionnary when they don't understand said word.

In fact, the browser can and does facilitate this very well. You can already just double click then right click and search on any word to get a definition, and I'm pretty sure there are dictionary extensions that make it even easier than having to go out to a search engine.
> Every day I feel like I live the Homer Simpson quote, "I don't know how the economy works".

This was my attempt to explain this phenomenon.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32453161
The "blub" thesis assumes that languages can be linearly graded on some, unspecified objective quality, which is a joke.
https://rapidstash.io

JSON document store that allowed you to access any part of the the JSON document by URL (object.nested.value becomes object/nested/value).

Had fun making it and the website above, but was not really interested in the promotion hustle.
https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=3550

> I predict that touch interfaces in cars like this is a fad that will pass and people will look back on it as an embarrassment

Hilarous.
With dma, apple allowing unapproved apps will probably come true.
I will say thats one thing that I do absolutely none of. A lot of movement in that space, but clearly a lack of support on the level of C/C++.
> The stock and exuberance are the product.

I've worked at places where the slide decks were always full of exuberance. At one of them they were exuberant right up until the moment the staff found themselves locked out of the offices after being told that a liquidator was in charge.

It's not pretty.
Inability to focus when reading is often a symptom of untreated ADHD.
Title should be more like, artists concerned about Stable Diffusion AI model that makes images look human-made.
1-3% of the transaction volume.
That percentage is the 1.4 billion Klarna takes as revenue. The margins of that can be very high.
I feel sorry for you that your father never got you that gift for graduating high school. My father got me an HP calculator and it's still one of my treasured possessions. It has had no negative impact on my success.
It might be interesting to have something like "statistical logging", which saves the intermediate image files 1% of the time and discards them after 30 days.
A central purpose for the executive branch is to enforce the laws.
We have enjoyed 70 years of peace in this corner of the world, but I wouldn't say we've solved the government problem. Give it a couple centuries first, but seeing how the post-war enthusiast has turned into unrest and widening inequality even in this side of the world, I think this peace is "just a phase".

It's hard to see it (and admit it to oneself) because of recency bias and thinking this time it'll be different, that we're smarter than our ancestors but history tends to repeat itself.
When the apps in question are being sideloaded, Google shouldn't be doing anything about it. The government should instead, by freezing the accounts that the scammers want the loan repayments to be sent to (or if the accounts are with foreign banks, ban domestic banks and payment processors from sending any money to them).
Stories like that are what make the internet so fascinating!
Something that covers calculus of variations, Euler-Legrange equation, etc. I first covered this in Classical Mechanics but don't remember the textbook. The Feynman Lectures of Physics [2] probably covers it, but I don't know for certain.

Indeed it does:

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_19.html

The original lecture recording is also available:

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/flptapes.html
> Death to shared libraries. The headaches they cause are just not worth the benefit.

Completely disagree. Even though one size does not fit all, anyone who makes sweeping statements about static libraries is just stating to the world how they are completely oblivious regarding basic software maintenance problems such as tracking which software package is updated, specially those who are not kept up to date on a daily basis.
I was having problems with my hands from muscle exhaustion due to typing. My doctor recommended I should use an alarm clock, to remind me to not type for more than a few minutes at a time. Instead, I thought, I could do better. So I made the following program:

It is a program that has a countdown, lets say, 100 key presses, and every time you press a key, it goes down by one, and every, lets say second, it recovers 1 key. When it reached like 20 keys, I got a notification, and when it reached 0, I got a typing timeout (I disabled my keyboard). This forced me to, type more efficiently, to use more efficient shortcuts and to think about code before I wrote it more. In the end, this actually helped a lot for my hands, and I was still able to work on stuff.

I ended up never releasing it, because I was too lazy to put in the work to get it to a usable state for other people on other computers.
"The Establishment" is obviously not what I'm referring to, and doesn't really exist as such.

The supposed examples of grassroots level action are being organized/directed and inspired by people already in positions of influence in traditional establishments. That's not too surprising I suppose.

There's an unspoken implication here that'd I'll make explicit: the supposed goals of these movements are not the true motivations of the people most responsible for driving them. They serve the hidden interests of the groups pushing them first and foremost.
My bot that finds and tweets about the best-reviewed new games on Steam, constructing miniature 6 second trailers for each: https://twitter.com/playfullyauto

This was an extension of a bot I made years back, that constructed a 6s trailer for every single game on Steam as it's launched (https://twitter.com/microtrailers), which later became part of a thing I did officially at Valve (https://store.steampowered.com/labs).

The @playfullyauto one was my most recent (post Steam Labs) thing, and it's my favorite, because it unearths a bunch of games people like. But I never really spread the word about it.
Thank you. I really wish C2 reverted their modern web functionality change