skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of this twitter thread from Jose yesterday:

> I keep reading the false dichotomy that languages/frameworks either evolve (and therefore break code) or stagnate (and are stable) while there is plenty of evidence in both old (C#, Erlang, etc) and new (Rust, Go, Elixir, etc) that you can evolve without breaking code. [1/4]

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1560552538004389890
Don't forget the linker script:

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/ape/ape.lds

It has a longform explanation in the comment at the top.
Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures (USV), a New York-based early stage VC firm focused on investing in disruptive networks...Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo.

Honestly Albert, I'd like to see you working on bringing del.icio.us back.
Before further coding, I am asking for your thoughts on the idea
> Yeah, let's not do that, I agree fully on this point. If we are concerned a thing will be evil and/or coercive, let's not give it weapons or other means by which to enact coercion.

The problem is that we can't know if the AGI is behaving maliciously or not far into the future, because it has potantial to be far more intelligent than us.

As for coercion, let's think of it as a manipulation. If a super intelligent agent has malicious goals, it can be very manipulative and be subtle in the process as to not spook humans. Companionship of intelligence with evilness is scary.

Of course we can (if we won't have distributed machines running AGI, because things like this may complicate things) "unplug" it. But the real problem arises from the fact that us humans can be easily manipulated. That's how I look at the problem.
You mean if they have a plan ? Or you mean any golf course architect can create a landscape that touches the soul ? because obviously golf landscapes don't provoke emotions
> But the people who clutch their pearls when you pair a dry red with your grilled salmon

I feel there are far more people complaining about wine snobbery than there are actual wine snobs
Ask HN: Where to Start with Discworld?
In every thread about books, Pratchett novels always come up.

With 41 books, the discussion about "Reading order" is of course often held.

Notably, I already looked at L-Space's and Discworld Emporium's.

But what does HN think about this?
In the context of the thread you're in, are you trying to argue that men have no emotional attachment to family or childhood, or that they have no impact on the people around them?
> The final boss in Ethereum centralisation is, of course, the Ethereum Foundation. The behaviour of the blockchain is the behaviour of the code.

Which this was subsequently tested in 2016 when...

> The Ethereum Foundation and a majority of mining power decided to violate the immutability of the blockchain and wind back The DAO — because immutability lasts precisely and only until the big boys lose enough money.

So not only immutability was a complete lie in 2016 with the nonsense of 'Code is law' now with the Merge happening to proof-of-stake, unsurprisingly, centralization and big money ultimately wins.

So expect forks of the Ethereum PoW post DAO to just 'fail' like Ethereum Classic has done over the DAO fork.

Further along Gerard's article about Ethereum becoming a security, I think it looks more clearer that it is going to be the case as soon as 'Staking as a service' proliferates towards many retail investors.

As regulations are being much clearer, coins like Ethereum are going to be treading on a very thin line with the SEC and other regulators and if they are not careful it will land them in trouble like what is happening with Ripple with their XRP coin.
Prime example that mechanics, not graphics make the game.
They would have made a good pair on Wall Street with all their supposed “knowledge” of statistics.
Please, Lego, let this engineer bring your computer brick to life
According to the link I provided Vancouver has ~1/10th the homeless per 10,000 vs. SF; 9 vs. 92.

That's substantially moving the needle.
Hello!
S-ARKADE creator here, I didn't expect our pre-launch landing page to be on HN now, anyway thank you!

We've been building a simplified projection-mapping system to create an arcade game level (vertical or horizontal walls and surfaces) using existing structures as platforms: windows, shelves, frames..
That is quite crazy and fun to play together, party-game style, especially on large surfaces like house fronts.
We'll be deploying games inspired to the 80s arcade mechanics, as well as other kind of experiences, fully configurable.

Any comment, idea, suggestion is really appreciated, we are going live on Kickstarter end of September.

https://launch.s-arkade.com
Here's an analogy that I've been using lately that talks about why I love elixir.

When I wrote apps in other languages in the past, I felt like I was building a big skyscraper. Everything was sorta connected and it was difficult to add new doors into the project. I was sometimes limited to building something I wanted because the runtime just wouldn't allow it.

When I'm writing Elixir, it's like I'm building a city. Everything works in concert, but I could build a small building next to a skyscraper next to another building.

This is because of the runtime, not the language. It's easy to build self contained "apps" that are deployed with everything else but isolated. It let's me build the app I want rather than forcing me into a very specific way of building.

And just to be clear I'm not talking microservice, that would be like building multiple cities connected only by little roads.

I'm work shopping this analogy since it's not as clear and concise as I'd like :)

PS. I'm pretty active in the community and other private communities and didn't know about the survey. I would have a hard time imagining large scale survey orchestration given that.
Great books are still great
Ask HN: What are the best illustrations in a technical book you've seen?
Any book, not necessarily in computing... any work with outstanding use of diagrams or illustrations to convey an idea. What illustrations impressed you most?
Almost agreed. There are passthrough dongles that will report whatever EDID you want.

However, I think the original complaint is still valid. No highly-technical one-off solution solves the fundamental issue of general usability.
> positivist tilt

This seems more apt to describe your comment rejecting any purely phenomenological value of the work.

Maybe you meant a different word?
This phenomenon is called “spatial discipline.” In much of the world, things are smaller and more carefully designed to fit in smaller spaces, or to do more with less space.

The US is a vast, open country, mostly plains. Even where people are concentrated, our cities are mostly post-car suburban sprawl. When you have a lot of money, land is abundant, and car transportation is assumed, there’s basically no reason to care about wasting lots of horizontal space with careless design.

Thus the US has less spatial discipline than anywhere else in the world. Nearly everything here is the architectural equivalent of an electron app burning through gigs of ram to display text, because no one cares.

This is “normal” and what people here are used to, which means a lot of people genuinely like it. I think it has a significant influence on culture; among other things, it makes us less sensitive to waste in general, and more prone to think of things as single-use and disposable.
Bingo. One way memes propagate is for one faction to claim that the other faction is saying crazy things. People love getting outraged.
Yes, but having threading is important if you can then run that code on a super computer to get the benefits - I’m talking about yesteryear when you’re own computer might have a single core Pentium II or something, but you could then run it on an SGI or other with a lot of parallelism.
Yeah, I really wish I could get excited about this but you just know this is going to be another ecological disaster and/or privacy scandal waiting too happen.

Something I'm much more hopeful about is the possibility of growing organs in laboratories, which will have massive implications for health aswell as industrial production of food.

Though, putting aside pessism I can see these technologies being synergistic, potentially benefitting all of humanity. One can dream
No Sun, No Wind, Now What? Renewable Energy Storage
Very sorry for your loss.
It is fixed, but it requires Qt application developers to update their application to Qt6 or as a workaround they can disable bearer management in Qt5.
Found a quite good article about differences on the helmets (and some other firefighting techniques like fognails) in https://www.firehouse.com/safety-health/ppe/helmets/article/...

This fognail video was quite interesting also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe_V7aLyzM8
Thanks for mentioning Strogatz! I'm watching the first few lectures of his nonlinear dynamics course[1] and love how clear and approachable he makes the subject.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycJEoqmQvwg&list=PLbN57C5Zdl...
D4 looks like it might be okay
> having better debug tooling

What debug tooling are you referring to? It seems like people just use lldb to debug zig programs?

I'm honestly interested, and searching doesn't turn up good tools as far as I can tell.
Civil/Environmental engineer here.

No. And... I can't even imagine a way to bring hope or scale to the process. I appreciate the question, but it made me laugh.

...The best thing we could do would be to lobby to get regulators to:

- increase the number and type of CEQA exemptions.

- Add mandatory automatic approvals on things if there's no response after x number of days. CDFW does this sort of thing for Lake and Streambed Alteration Notifications. If they don't get back to you within 90 days, you get automatic approval. It's a beautiful thing. In practice, it keeps the agency running with much improved efficiency. They still try to stall occasionally by declaring your application "incomplete" for bullshit reasons, but that only resets the clock another 90 days, and if you respond with all requested information, they can't do shit.

But... the political climate in CA is relatively unfavorable to such things. Lots of NIMBY's and environmental groups will oppose it.
Mymind – A private place for everything you care about
The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell: https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/machinery-of-life/
in india where bank deposits are casually treated as "sales receipts', this is something that can be done in books only as opposed to physically moving funds from one bank to another....

why not have a single bank account and allocate "sub banks" as debtors/creditors as needed and make/receive payments from them so that you know how much each account "holds", a sum of which should come to the total of funds in your bank?
how do you handle business loans that work on maintaining transactions in a bank?

what happens when you take a loan, you use that to pay off a creditor or buy new inventory so will you skim off that amount too? will you first send money to the "creditors bank account", then take money out of it and then pay the creditor? that sounds awful in terms of maintaining bank accounts, not to talk about reconciliations. with 1 bank, your reconciliation is always there if you make all the entries so why not do it in the easier way?
The whole point of science is to eliminate unconscious bias.

Eliminating unconscious wrong beliefs about the world is literally why science is a thing.
surely the problem goes beyond crypto.

Most definitely. Did anyone say otherwise? But the fact that other problems exist doesn't change the fact that crypto adds to them.

Meanwhile, I really hope countries print bills in an ethical manner.

Are you sure you really want to compare the cost of printing to mining?
How about 'not just no, but heck-no'? ;)

Yea I figured the article would devolve to censorship just by headline.
I don't know of any.

I wonder if the German gap in unconscious bias between female executives and female entrepreneurs holds true in the US.
I feel like VHS was never even remotely as bad quality as people make out when they reproduce the effect today.
There's worry about a regulatory apocalypse when the government decides that existing laws apply to the crypto scams as well as the more traditional sorts. I wonder tho if the domino will fall the other way: the Fed declares some CBDC and the regulators explicitly allow the crypto derivitive kind of scams linked to it, in hopes of reigniting that fire to their more direct profit / reinflating an economic bubble.

"finance as code" thinking, given access to the traditional financial scams, should be able to re-implement horrors undreamt of in the markets since the last dozen times they were tried and outlawed. But this time they'll have websites and new slang to describe their operation.
What Modi is up to us basic electoral arithmetic - what admixture of Hindu grievance, painting of a rosy future, and sound bites/empty gestures can he use to win the next election?

I don’t think india is descending into Fascism though I would agree that it is no longer behaving like a Republic and more like a majoritarian democracy.

For one, the BJP isn’t (yet) saying there’s a “prototypical” Indian and that some Indian citizens are not prototypical. From what little I know of fascism, this is important.

Second, don’t be taken in by the headlines. People do speak up against majoritarianism. BJP/NDA does not have universal support.

Third, give electoral politics a chance to formulate a response to the BJP/NDA. Democracy is and will hold in india. E.g., the recently ousted chief minister of Maharashtra (home to Mumbai) spoke up against the tricolor campaign.

Painting the current state of affairs as fascism is foolish.
I liked Small Gods, I didn't feel like I was missing anything by reading that first. I haven't read most of them.
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Yes. Gzip used to be a decent middle ground when you needed neither super fast compression/decompression nor super high compression ratio, but zstd beats it by a good margin over the whole range from gzip -1 to gzip -9, while offering you a wider range of compression ratios to choose from. And at settings that provide compression ratios comparable to gzip it's blazingly fast.

gzip will stay with us because of ubiquity, just as we mostly use image formats from the dot-com era. But if you control both sides, zstd is a big upgrade.
> Case in point: the new self-hosted compiler is 1.5x faster than the C++ implementation and uses 3x less peak RAM.

I am not sure it is comparable: the self-hosted compiler uses a different architecture [1].

[1] https://vimeo.com/649009599/7f1fda43ff
What is your experience with refactoring, especially a big project? This is where static typing helps a lot ihmo. Especially if you are in a startup like environment where things tend to change quickly.
I used to live across the street from Golden Gate Park. I saw a homeless guy walk out of the park proceed to pee in the bushes next to our front door. In a moment of weakness I ran outside and yelled at him that he should be peeing in the GIANT PARK RIGHT THERE <gestures with hand>. I got a blank stare which is what I deserved....
few people take eth seriously so i hardly think centralization and big money wins. ethereum doesnt even exist anymore if we say that there is something yet to win. so, eth lost a long time ago. we have needed a better solution since 2016.
Maybe the OP hadn't in mind the actual process of incorporating a company per se, but the process of "starting" a company as in getting it off the ground in terms of money coming in/revenues. And, imo, it's more difficult now to do that compared to 10, 20 years ago, and not only because of increased competition.
That looks nice. I wrote a Swift book last year and I had originally intended on including a server side example but didn’t get to it. Hopefully I will add an example in the next edition.

I have preferred Lisp languages for the last 40 years, but there is something about Swift I like, probably the availability of great libraries like CoreML and good REPL support.
From your own link, literally the first sentence of the article.

> Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist

I'm not sure why you're trying to be pedantic here, she is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of computer science.
> I don't like this work

Have you been out to Nevada to see this work?
The Nazis were also anti-smoking. It stands to reason the problem with the Nazis is related to the war and crimes against humanity and not every stance they took on every issue.
The issue is not the fact that proof of work is more centralized, the issue is the fact that proof of stake is truly breakable by taking out a small loan
Well, not really. They do make traps for different types of hornets. That can help, especially if you place them in April to catch the queens. You might be able to try "bee lining", but I'm not sure how well that will work for hornets as it's traditionally done with honey bees.
Keeping the Bitcoin maximalist ideas aside, I feel the core of the article still holds true.

Like you can have the exact same text and replace BTC with XMR and it is equally valid, if not more.
A glance suggests that Saccharine and Sucralose may be problematic. The others may be “complicated” but the effect also looks close to noise. They should have included some non-sweetener molecules of a similar nature as controls.

Sucralose was an instant no to me when I saw the molecule. “Here let’s hang a chlorine off this here sugar.” Nope. I recall seeing similar sentiments in a thread over at Reddit where a biochemist remarked that it looked like a pesticide.

The weird complicated molecules in Stevia and Monk Fruit seem safe precisely because they look like something the body is going to hack apart right away and look like all the other complicated molecules found in plants that the body is used to dealing with. Things like blueberries and onions are just loaded with random baroque carbon sculptures like this.
Not that it changes the math much, but:

$15/TB is hard enough for a home buyer to reach for hard drives, excluding server cost. Where did you get $10?
Thank you for the link. I suppose my whole point was that one should take the solution at face value when applying it in a real world scenario. Applying context aware critical thinking is mandatory to avoid applying the wrong solution to a problem?
Why Training Is the Boss’s Job
Note that this guy's profile pic is of a Soviet flag in front of a Russian Federation flag. You may want to verify whatever they're saying before accepting it as fact.
I've heard from Sri Lankan families in Canada that they are doing the same.
Social Media is Orthographic Projection (2020)
That's how I felt about the Rothko color wash paintings.

Not gonna say the prestige around them (aka, the dollar valuations that contribute to the hype surrounding those works) didn't influence me. I'm sure it does on some level (but other hyped-up works of art don't really do it for me, like stuff that Koons & Damien Hirst make).

But seeing Rothko's paintings in a huge room, as a series, is very imposing, ominous, and for lack of better word, cool. Felt like a sensory immersion experience that taps into other parts of you that you didn't expect, not unlike looking at a vast beautiful landscape.

If you only see it as a jpeg/ png that's like, 4-6" on your monitor, or as a 8" x 11" print in a coffee table book, it'll pale in comparison. Even if the discrepancy sounds utterly obvious, the in-situ experience is so vastly different, that even if it doesn't hit you like it does for others (i.e., me), it's still worth it to go see it as is, just to see how you'll respond to it or not.
The article isn't about fast cars or buying houses though. It's about people sitting alone at home on their computer because they're anxious about social interaction.

They could go to the park for free with their friends. They could have friends over to their home. They could go to group events/clubs/activities at their university. They could play a board game in person.

America before 1950 was poor but social. Most of the world for all of human history has been poor but social.

This looks like the USA is heading where Japan already is. Hyper competitive academic culture leads to stressed out, isolated youth obsessed with grades and reputation. The financial aspect is part of it, it's why people care so much about coming out on top, but it's only part of the picture.
Nothing could be further from the truth, and I would even say your opinion can come across as offensive, and easily said by someone who spends a lot of time on HN instead of building things.

A poorly-engineered system has a longer iteration cycle and shorter technical shelf life. Being able to rapidly address customer feedback IS the gold standard of a good product. Yeesh.
It’s both.

In theory TDD drives the interface by ensuring the units under test do what they’re intended (implementation), and that each and every unit is “testable” (interface).

TDD doesn’t really care about “clean” interfaces, only that units of work (functions, methods) are “testable”.

I’d argue this actually creates friction for designing clean interfaces, because in order to satisfy the “testability” requirement one is often forced to make poor (in terms of readability, maintainability, and efficiency) design choices.
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I’m sick of pretending I don’t “get” art: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ppvwby/im-sick-of-pretending...

I get this art, and I STILL don’t like it.

I thjnk there is a sort of societal sickness where we’ve stopped making things that are beautiful and glorify humanity and instead make things which are bland and ugly and depressing.

And sure some post modernist can say “ha that’s what the artist is saying!” Yeah I know. I just think he’s saying it in a boring, ugly way.

The reality of this type of art is that it’s really easy to make. Most of the “skill” required to do stuff like this is the networking required to find somebody who will pay for it.
Perhaps I’m just too much of a physicist, but I’m not sure what there is not to get. Granted, I’m an experimentalist, so that doesn’t help with my rigour. Still, I will encounter students who will have the same concerns, so I’d love to have my blind spot corrected. From my perspective, it’s just two steps: multiply both sides by the same value, then integrate both sides. However, you seem like a smart individual, so it’s probably something more foundational.
Microsoft and Apple, the duopoly who control nearly 100% of the consumer desktop OS market, were both founded in the 1970s.

In comparison, Google was a relative "newcomer" in the late 1990s. Google and Apple control nearly 100% of the consumer mobile OS market.

There are no challengers. 3 companies own all of personal computing.

Oh yeah, these companies also collectively control the web browsers: Chrome, Safari, Edge. And they control the search engines: Google, Bing. (Google leveraged its search monopoly to achieve a mobile monopoly, which is how it crowded into Microsoft and Apple's world.)
I think 'open-ended' would be selling it short. A Halo 'combat arena' is open-ended. The Sims is absolutely an open-world game.

The simulated (game-)world is open to the player -- they are free to interact with it as much or as little as they like, in a manner of their choosing. Importantly, the simulation will proceed (in meaningful ways) with or without action by the player.
I also recommend starting with Small Gods.
We're agreed in how and why to spell it that way. But the bastardized phonetic spelling "sike" is fairly common too.
I guess my brand new cast iron pans weren’t then
Because we want to encourage people to take the train and discourage them using cars.