skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But whilst any idiot can cherry pick many many examples of economists (or physicists or biologists or computer scientists or meteorologists or basically any other field) predicting things with great confidence which turned out to be incorrect or using a model which didn't work very well, you can't cherry pick examples from astrology in which someone predicted a relationship between variables which turned out to be so robust even their greatest rivals consisted it was correct.
If they are more likely to succeed again, it’s because they either already have money or have easy access to capital. It’s somewhat common knowledge that investors will invest in the same people again, sometimes even after failures.
Very nice. I have just read the first two chapters and I liked them a lot. I think it would be great (and maybe it comes up in the next two chapters I havent read yet) if you could also explain the basics of electricity, like what makes the energy flow in a certain direction in the first place. Thanks for all your awesome work!
https://youtu.be/XanjZw5hPvE?t=130
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That is amazing... what I need now is a tool that suggests synonyms or phrases from the ten hundred words to help me filter down my vocabulary.

[after some work*5]

That is amazing... what I need now is a means of finding words from the ten hundred words close to my beautiful but not easy to recognize words.

[later]

We are a group of people who carefully write very tall sets of words for a living, we should be used to using middle men to change our words into fixed sets of numbers.
Ferret: A functional, lazy language for realtime embedded control systems
Bravo on the restraint with the title.
Going back to the simplicity statement from the video: you can model the universe as the product of your imagination but it seems surprisingly consistent if it is. It’s clear that the universe continues existing even when you’re not paying attention to it. For this to be true either:

* Your brain is storing and processing the entire universe all the time
* Your brain is constantly rewriting its own memory on a mass scale to pretend the universe is consistent

Both of these seem way more complicated than just “the universe exists and you’re a part of it.”

(Yes, I know our brains rewrite history but not on the scale required to make all of reality seem consistent in this way)
I'm very happy with my Acer Aspire Nitro. The look is gamer-ish and case looks like cheap plastic, but my last on worked well for 5 years. Good AMD CPU + 3080 for <$1000.
Similar but different: I have a 200m Ethernet run (PoE repeater midway), outdoors, FTP, going to a mast atop a hill.

There’s lightning protection etc. on the circuit.

It’s worked fine for several years.

Last week, we had a huge electrical storm - and every time lightning flashed within 8km, the switch at the cabin would reboot. Unplugged, stuck a scope on the Ethernet cable - and lo and behold, 30V+ flashes every time lightning struck anywhere even remotely nearby. The cable is acting like a great big antenna.
> If you ever find yourself about to say that Nixon did something that a non-evil person would do, you’d better triple check your facts.

Well naturally. He's a right-wing politician. See also Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Benito Mussolini, and any of the rest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85#/media/File:Pois_pakkor...
> Like on backend you will have a choice of database, choice of language, and the design of the Schema/API, most of which are easy to detach and replace at some point.

This is absolutely not my experience. Every company I've worked at has had some long running back end tech debt, trying to swap out old tech.

Every problem you listed for the FE has a BE analog. Is it just that there are a lot of choices for FE tech? IMO that's a strength and not a weakness. There's also a clear leader in the tech for each part of the stack to choose to get something running quickly.

> Or you can skip those above and use pure HTML+CSS+Javascript, but those usually end up as very spaguettified and idiosyncratic projects, I rarely see anyone even considering it unless it's a personal project.

This is like saying you're seeing BE devs consider writing all their DB queries in raw SQL in a production system rather than use an ORM. Sure, it's done sometimes but most of the time it makes sense to use an abstraction layer.

Again, it's mostly whether or not engineers have the time to plan ahead and also update old code.
Hyperion is absolutely wonderful, I enjoyed all four but the first two are definitely worth reading.

The first one is the best SF Pilgrims Progress update ever.
Gunung padang claimed older than giza and mayan pyramid by some archeologist. If this true, java culture by times are much more advanced than the middle east or latin area. Including music.

[0] https://historyofyesterday.com/gunung-padang-the-oldest-pyra...
Is RegExp Readable?
I was mostly supplying an example rather than taking a side in the philosophical argument, to be clear. I’d call that idiomatic Clojure, but I’m a heathen that very much appreciates Clojure being on top of the JVM and offering Java interop.

Another big Clojure UI/graphics framework is Quil, which is based on Processing and does an even worse job of hiding it’s imperative/stateful core.
>That affects people directly, the upsdie-down flags and slogans on fields along the roadside don't

Those also don't achieve anything. The only form of protesting that the population at large accepts are either illegal or useless
Same here. Many popular and needlessly complex tools, especially around devops... used only because they are popular.

Even worse, people don't even bother to look at other options even if it's just to learn from them.

Compare the new hip thing with a different one and people get defensive.
> in fact why not replace your game's renderer with it?

What astrange idea, surely it would never work? /winkwink
Will this be the first country bankrupted by crypto?
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> Reamde (not the most technical, but one of his best paced and a good thriller)

Best paced? It could've easily been twice as short if Neal got rid of all the MMORPG stuff.

I know, I know, that's the part Neal wanted to write about and used the transcontinental thriller plot as a framing story, but that just didn't work out.
140k EUR for a dev role? Normally I'd say you're delusional, but since you say you actually know people who consider that normal, may I ask which country(ies) you're talking about (since it's apparently not Switzerland or Norway, where I might have believed it)?

I still have a strong suspicion that either your friends gave you wildly inflated numbers, or you happen to know some serious outliers. Check this out for a reality check - the highest-paying Eurozone country is Germany, with an average dev salary of about 60k, and 76k for seniors: https://blog.helloastra.com/2021/10/18/the-average-software-...
Especially if the "any" country is US.
Imagine having a competitor receiving billions to take over the market, no oversight. They can afford to operate at a loss long after all competitors are bankrupt.

Competing against them would be foolish.

To get an idea of long term damage, imagine Uber and Lyft went bankrupt as they're running at a loss, what would you then use for transportation?, or imagine they 5-10 the price, not like you have alternatives. Sure, the taxis were crappy as alternative, but that was mostly due to limited number coming from regulation, they had no need to compete either.
> but they don't want take the required steps to get that attentions

Yes, that's definitely right. As long as there is not something extremely unfair, I am very polite and don't want to offend anyone. I personally feel offended by let's call it "usual marketing techniques". They try to blend, discredit other's and so on. That's not me. In the current example with the GH app, it's also more complaining about the Reddit algorithm, but that one is also logically, like said, that someone with higher reputation get's more attention and back on: I don't want to post useless stuff. I only write, when I have something to say. Good example is a German news portal: There is a limit of 50 comments you need to write before you are allowed to post links. It's not about, if that is a good idea or not, my point is: It took me 9 years for this. Because I only wrote a comment, when I thought this has really value for others. So again, my reputation on this board is from an algorithm perspective really bad. Same may go for Reddit.
I constantly do those things, any downvote consequences have yet materialize.
He is probably referring to x1 extreme. I have a 3rd gen and it’s like a jet engine and space heather had a baby. Even after undervolting in bios, limiting cpu frequency in windows and only using it for very light jobs it’s super noisy. Not to mention the max 5 hour battery life…
This chassis with an AMD cpu and no dedicated GPU would be perfect, but I’ve had enough and a M2 MacBook Air is on its way from Apple.
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"Decline and Fall" has been an inspiration for maybe the first book. Being that it started the series, it set the pieces for the worldbuilding, but not the narrative of the whole saga. The later books are way more exploratory in how a society can / should be reconstructed.

That being said, it's still 1950's science fiction. Good writing, but nowhere near the complexity of Stephenson's worldbuilding or G.R.R.Martin's politics / narrative threads.
But you triple checked it, that's the point. Default evil.
Could you elaborate about your experience more? I'm looking for a new laptop in the next few months and I'm basically debating between the Librem 14 and Framework. My criteria would be

- Repairability/longevity

- Privacy and security

- Usability
What advantage does pg_repack have when you only rebuild an index? Or do you mean it has advantage when pg_repack is run on the entire table?
On the forked repo with the webui (https://github.com/hlky/stable-diffusion) it seems that the same inputs result in the same output, so maybe it has been resolved there?
last year I got maxed out Tuxedo Pulse 14, which I'm using as a daily driver. so far no complains and it does the job

for business option I got Dell Precision 5470 this summer, and it looks pretty solid so far

Both laptops are running Linux and look like they could last 5 years without any issues, which is usually fairly enough.
Still, hobby projects are not a portfolio.
It gives you a new lens through which to view your work. Not strictly necessary, but your understanding of the world will grow. Not unlike poetry.
If they didn’t have me a new one within a few weeks I’d be calling the bank or the consumer protection contact of the government to have a refund.
This, so much. Stephenson is a great worldbuilder, but please don't let that guy describe any human emotion other than curiosity / passion for discovery.

Following his stories has always been for me a mix of "oh, this is a cool world / tech / mechanics!" and facepalms over how and why the half of his characters do what they do.
If your facebook page (fanpage, not profiles) has more than 1k followers you are required to use Geolocation data and send a copy of your ID, so they definitely have "files" on you.
Honestly that's why I swapped from front-end at the beginning of my career. Back end and infra moves much slower, jobs tend to be more secure and specialized, and pay seems higher overall. Learning Java back in the 00s was one of my best career moves.
The Pinecone
Rent seeking is their goal, but that's irrelevant to whether they also create positive surplus value through the mechanisms I outlined.

The economy vs. people distinction is a false dichotomy. Consumers (who are also people) can benefit from more efficient service provision and higher quality service.

> It's not a "homeowner lobby" pushing for cars.

It's the homeowner lobby pushing for sprawl, which indirectly leads to cars because public transport can't be properly provisioned across spawl without huge cost. Once you have sprawl enforced by law, everything else follows as a guaranteed consequence: networks of roads to connect that sprawl, and therefore cars.
> Really astonished that it takes GP about the same time using just a CPU.

GP talks about generating a single image while you talk about generating 4.
I never knew they did laptops too. A bit surprising (to me) that their prices don't seem to be any lower than the established competitors.
Not sure if this falls in line with your workstyle but...

I'm using a few XCP-NG vm's for anything dev related(including test environment). I keep a few main images depending on what I'm working on and just add/remove resources if/when needed. A lot more effective (for me) than being tied to a specific machine.

I carry with me a cheap 13" laptop and my phone, both with VPN's set up to dial in into my home network. I can use either. When I'm travelling somewhere I don't even take the laptop. I only have a foldable keyboard, mouse, small pocket projector.

For remote connectivity without my VPN I use Splashtop business (very very rare). It happened to me a few times that the VPN was not working over 4G (still don't have a cliue why)
Flow-based programming is very old. Often in combination with visual programming languages, it has been used for a very long time in automation systems, data and signal processing systems, audio, etc.

The problem with visual programming languages (the focus of the articles seems to be on them) is that they don't scale in size and complexity. For large projects, you end up with visualizations like the LabView one in the article. For complex projects, you try to tame the complexity by offering a textual language to program complex components, with the consequence that you are constantly switching between the two representations.
With a 3090 it's about 10s to generate a 512x512 image from another, maybe less.
When I was joining my current team, founder shared with me what is their runaway and then added some details to back this up - how much money did they have in their bank account at the time, how much money do they burn each month, how much money do they earn each month. This was not the first startup I was working with so from business perspective I was not that much interested with other info he provided (like, that they have deep relationship with AWS, which they indeed have and it indeed helps a lot, not only from cloud services perspective but also from marketplace perspective).

I'd say it's good to keep balance, show people what risk are they taking by joining you and share whatever information you have to back this up.
Thank you so much! I was looking for something like this.
>The focus seems more on individual parts than on the vision of the complete project.

Quite the opposite - they think about architecture as opposed to a crappy unmaintainable hodgepodge that the vast majority of web applications are.

Inferiority of web-based apps doesn’t come from nowhere.
Millennials and Zoomers are very accustomed to renting and subscribing everything. Your dev environment is just the next step.
However, it looks like the model wasn't trained on NSFW keywords anyway, which means it is permanently impaired in that regard.
A wikipedia for food recipes? That is an awesome idea. Everyone has their own version of a dish and trying to find the original version can be challenging. A database listing canonical recipes for well known food items will be useful, if only from a preservation standpoint.

It would be great to record the source for the recipes as well, since encyclopedia is not the original source.
I've got a Mac for home, and a ThinkPad for work. Both are great.

ThinkPad's are incredibly boring, and great because they are incredibly boring. They aren't trying to be exciting in their design, and because of that can include things like ports(!) and sufficient cooling(!). We bought 10 at work, and we haven't had a significant problem with any of them over the last two years.
Matte displays are just glossy displays with a coating that disperses light. You can achieve the same effect by adding a layer. Something like this: https://viascreens.com/screen-protectors/framework/

However turning a matte display into a glossy one isn't possible.

FYI, https://community.frame.work/t/matte-screen-please/577/114.
As if astronauts on the Moon have any real value but propaganda (social media influencing nowadays).
I feel obligated to point out that the comment you replied to never said anything about brightness control being built into any OS. They only found it humorous that someone would pay extra for it (presumably because it's free). Then... you went ahead and supported their argument by pointing out that it is indeed free; while also chastising them.

I guess my point is that your reply didn't really contribute anything to the conversation other than hurling an insult at the commenter for their past comments. Maybe they really just wanted to make a joke? On some level it would be silly to pay for something that's free, right?

Given that you're the original author, could it be that you may have replied as a defense mechanism? At least to some degree? If so, is that proper?

Honestly, I don't have a "dog in this fight". I just thought it was an interesting situation.
Assuming you treat your creative job also as a hobby, while nt doing so is also perfectly ok, doesn't mean your work has to be public, right?
Switching to Linux is a move that must be extremely carefully considered, due to compatibility. I'm positive about this because I've been working 10+ years exclusively on it, and compatibility is "not great".

In the past, Linux compatibility was not great because the desktop userbase was considerably smaller. Today, compatiblity is not great because hardware got considerably more complex.

It's possible that some hardware is very compatible. That's great! But one has to be very careful. For example the alleged Dell XPS compatibility with Linux is a half-scam (I've worked on such laptop), or brands like Lenovo, which used to be very compatible in the past, now are not necessarily so (e.g. Ryzen 6000 laptops are a dumpster fire on Linux).
> Even if rhythm and pitch were available it would still be a creative interpretation.

The important difference here I think is that with a well-defined and understood notation there is a shared frame of reference for interpretation. I can take take two interpretations of works from BWV where the performers can liberally indulge in artistic license where the notation leaves something up to the performer, and I can reflect on the differences and similarities without ever mistaking them for different compositions.

Here, it is not just the interpretation of the notation by the performer that requires creative license, but the interpretation by who ever "transcribed" it to modern notation. The video in the article plays two different such interpretations that for obvious reasons then sound entirely different and are not recognizable as the same piece of music, because they really are not.

If you take away the pitch and rhythm information from BWV and add a long forgotten system of tablature for some long forgotten instrument that we've only ever seen represented as crude carvings and ask people to transcribe and play it, you'd get similar results.
8) To search for oil.
This is a personal anecdote from my college days in India (~early 90s). Our college had a mini computer/timesharing system and a separate PC network in our Computer Engineering lab. Those days we could enter the lab only after removing our shoes outside the lab (socks ok), presumably to avoid the dust from the shoes.
The author skips the (standard) construction of numbers in lambda calculus,
the so-called Church numerals C0,C1,C2,... which iterate a given function a certain number of times on a given argument. So

C0 f x => x
C1 f x => f x
C2 f x => f (f x)

Curiously, for these numbers, you can define the factorial function without any use of recursion, instead using their built-in iterative behaviour.
Written in the standard notation for lambda calculus, it is

factorial = λn.λf.n(λf.λn.n(f(λf.λx.n f(f x))))(λx.f)(λx.x)
Could be. I really liked Fall except for its opening moves, but Termination shock was... in terms of inventiveness, mystery, and thrill... not on the same level as his older books.
EV charging rates (like many other aspects of EVs) have been rising steadily from lots of micro-innovations.

https://youtu.be/Hu6KrTfUv6c
I usually listen to Wolfram's Science and Technology for Kids and Others. Steven explains all sorts of difficult concepts from first principles. There are hunders of hours as Podcasts and on youtube. Be aware though, some episodes can have an opposite effect and keep me up for hours instead of having me fall asleep :)
Already posted 21 days ago. Old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32379012
I would be in camp #2 as well, was it not that we are discovering tests showing evidence of Long COVID. See for example this blog from a long hauler: https://mylongcoviddiaries.medium.com/i-finally-have-a-diagn...

There seems to be evidence that tiny blood clots are causing the wide variety of symptoms. https://worldfreedomalliance.org/au/news/could-tiny-blood-cl...
Except the cool new thing is still React, and we're all still here.

Folks are building products with great UX -> Clients use these products, want the same thing in their products -> Demand for frontend increases, repeat.
Memory is cheap.
Please excuse the long-winded answer...

I have also given up on Apple, but mostly because I can't see the value in it anymore, otherwise my experience with them has been satisfactory (Intel CPU models).

For the past few years I used a Microsoft Surface Pro because it seemed to have good build quality and high screen resolution, but despite this I have had to replace it as part of a recall due to a graphics hardware issue, so it was not without its flaws. On a side note, I found the Windows OS to be OK for non-dev work, but would always "work" on the Linux subsystem... so even though Windows supports it quite well, I would just suggest 100% Linux.

For 2022 I decided to buy a "gaming" laptop and switch to 100% Linux. The build quality is a little lower than Apple, and the screen resolution is not as good as Apple or Surface Pro, but it is still good, and when using my external monitor there is no difference.

The benefits are clear, however, for less than 50% of the cost I am getting superior performance, discrete GPU, excellent cooling, and NO LOCK-IN. There is also the added benefit of being able to play the occasional video game with great performance.

So far I don't regret it.
Just want to mention, that I got this attention now, because a moderator here put my post to the second chance pool. In the end, this is exactly what I wish would happen everywhere: someone discovers something good and do the marketing. Very unlikely to happen, but I wish it happens more. They will be more people like me, doing stuff and don't want to or cannot invest more time in marketing etc.
That site seems to exclude Ireland entirely, which would I think would come in ahead of Germany for salaries and is both a European and Eurozone country.
I can generate many violent prompts right now, and the model knows the face of hundreds of celebrities (you would think they would garble those to prevent PR disasters). It knows what the 9/11 attack was, it knows about nuclear bombs, horror, gore. Yet somehow it doesn't know what a blowjob is. This is 100% about narrow-minded, prudish conservative values. And yes, most of them come from the US right now, because these models are not being trained in Africa, India or China.

Your argument is entirely descriptive. We know why they do this. What should be argued here is how stupid and sad it is to block progress due to nothing more than religious or moral values.