skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We do webgl rendering of big graphs as part of Graphistry, and before the 20M nodes break the system, the ~10X more edges will ;+)

But more seriously, a careful webgl implementation gets you maybe halfway there, and most I've seen break well before then. It gets tricky with browser js memory limits and raw perf. We are looking into hitting more 100M level with interactive speeds... But takes creativity & opts I wouldn't expect for a diagramming tool :) and, if your kind of thing, we are hiring :)
It goes in cycles. We go to extremes and then swing back and sometimes in unison across continents. We will go back to some centrists although whether it takes 10 years or 50 is hard to say.
Metaphors considered harmful.
donut is to torus as ball is to sphere, is that what you mean?
It will make Venmo/Zelle obsolete as banks will offer fast transfers natively. So no need for another app just for transferring money.

However Venmo does have a nicer UX so customers will likely stick around since its “fun”.
For sure, I was just commenting that it seems like sometimes generations get skipped. Pre-fall russians reminisce about the good times, people who skipped it entirely might see the better post soviet times, someone who got smacked in the early money making part of their career... less so.
Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, Fred Meyer (Kroger), and Winco (also grocery store) still do not have tap to pay, even though their terminals are capable and have the tap to pay symbol. Infuriating. Every other place I have been to has tap to pay.
Monkeypox spread appears to be slowing in major U.S. cities
The thing is, the job of the digital artist of the future will include Stable Diffusion or whatever comes next. The apprentices of tomorrow will be apprentices not at creating this kind of work by hand but at using these technologies to make art. The problem is there aren't any masters at this, yet.

As an aside, I'm not sure I'd use the term "apprentice" -- I'd maybe say "junior" as in "junior developer" or "junior designer". They're learning how to make good work, but they're still a professional in the field.
That would be amazing, but we are faced with the reality that when a lot of people need to be hired, the bar can't be that high, or there is literally a barrier in how many people you can hire.

If you are in a smaller company, totally agree. Get way stronger foundational developers.
Python (out of the box) will only complain about missing variables or methods at runtime.
I was really hoping for a video of what this actually looks like when the turbine is moving.
That's really cool, but isn't that equivalent to having an Architect team, just without a name?
Well Im no android fan boy, but this title is misleading? Google play store wont allow it, nothing on device/os even stops you from running your next genocide on it.
As long as you are okay with side loading.
And to be play the devils advocate, if companies knew they would be making more money and not be sued by left and right, they might not even have a single problem allowing them.
You do realize the entire world doesn’t live in Ontario right?
Tell them you're going on vacation and won't have phone coverage. Then switch your phone off.
I can't blame them if I had a service I would do the same.
Just don't bother with this 'social network'. How about that?

Funny how the 'truth' is blocked outside the US. All I am getting is:
"At the moment, Truth Social is available for U.S. users only, but rest assured, we are working hard to make it available in your country. When Truth Social becomes available for you, we'll make an announcement. Stay tuned!
Access denied
You cannot access truthsocial.com. Refresh the page or contact the site owner to request access."

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/03/05/truth-soci...
Good questions! From what I've read, it sure seems like Kellogg's did just reverse-engineer the whole thing. It doesn't look like Post had patented their process, surprisingly--someone really messed up!
So do they frequently collide with trees in nature or...?
> Have we reached the place in which empathy must be conditional? I can feel bad for people who are put in an uncomfortable situation regardless of their level of success.

Empathy…is that what that was? See I took it as someone calling Joe Rogan a bully and belittling two successful intelligent adults as being effectively too simple and stupid to realize they were being bullied. Frankly, that’s far from empathy…that’s elitism.
The thing about streaming services is that they are incentivized to not stream content to you, but to have you pay the subscription fee every month.

They are incentivized to maximize 1) paying subscribers who 2) actually watch as little as possible.
I remember in high school our teacher showing us enthusiastically a documentary about Gorbachev.

It was unbelievable how he managed to end the iron curtain and come closer to the west at a time at which it was thought to be impossible.

Trurely commendable. It is sad to see how Putin nullifies all of his effort and that he had to witness it now shortly before his death.

May he rest in peace.
Just go build your own duopoly of app stores next?
Although there's a paywall towards the bottom (is it 25%, 60%, 90% through the article, who can tell?), the above-the-fold resonates and is a reasonable narrative about HashiCorp's success. Certainly HashiCorp shines in the UX department.

That said, I think there's a another angle: HashiCorp is provider agnostic. HashiCorp tooling naturally lends itself to a multi-cloud strategy because they aren't owned by a cloud provider. Current requirements aside, coupling your business to the whims of Amazon, Google or Microsoft is always a risk. Even Kubernetes, the closest thing to an orchestration standard at scale makes me nervous because Google's needs are not the needs of most businesses, and what happens when they decide to throw their weight around?

As long as HashiCorp remains independent, I think it will attract a lot engineering-focused businesses that want to control their own destiny. I hope they can resist the urge to chase the enterprise money dragon to its logical conclusion. We are all better off for having some smaller-scale competition to the cloud behemoths who will only care about developer experience as long as they have to.
well yeah, and water is wet, I mean this is not the olympics, the specialization these gents have signed up for is particularly nasty, brutish, and unfair in a nasty, brutish, and unfair industry.
I assume they're working on it? Lambda has supported ARM for a while and Elastic Beanstalk got support recently.

No wait ECS does support it already: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/userguide/ecs-a...
A. 3x the work

B. I imagine part of the benefit is from alternating colors which makes the blades more visible as they spin.
There will be a lot of iterations and improvements to your approach and the methodology.

Despite that, it is high time that low impact chronic conditions are treated in a personalized manner - by noting patient specific conditions and using the variations caused by lifestyle changes - for improvements.

Kudos to the team. Absolutely the step in the right direction
Depends who you’re asking: the FTC, or Apple/Google?
Exactly. The problem currently is proprietary components (and interfaces between them), and tight integration. When almost anything breaks, you need a proprietary part, or even an entire subsystem, which is very often more expensive than junking the entire appliance and buying a new one, and often parts are not even available.

We need modularity, more like a desktop PC or 3d printers, standard parts and interfaces. You don't have to throw that away (including screen, keyboard) when a stick of RAM breaks, for example.
They need a feature that for a given generation, shows the nearest image in the training set. It is clearly doing more than “memorizing”, but for some “normal” queries, how do you know the output isn’t very similar to some training image? That could have legal implications.
> I looked back into the science-fiction literature to try to find the earliest example of a story featuring a nonhuman industrial civilization on Earth. The earliest I could find was in a Doctor Who episode.“

> That 1970 episode of the classic TV series involves the present-day discovery of “Silurians” [...]

That can't possibly be the first example of that concept in sci-fi, can it? Nothing against Doctor Who, just seems unlikely. Trying to think through the early sci-fi I've heard of or read though and I'm not coming up with anything with that concept.
Anybody know if there's corresponding action expected in Canada? They tend to move in lockstep with the Americans on stuff like this.
An architect who codes and builds products is what we would call a senior or staff engineer. We don't have any room on or teams for people who are solely devs/coders; even new grads are expected to grow into small scale design and architecture over time.
Bettrriges (sp) law of headlines.

But this is a very interesting related article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/arroganc...

The anthropocene is a joke (2019)
Be careful using DALLE-2 and Midjourney images for marketing
Even Cambodia has instant bank transfers already figured out. I can basically walk around with just my keys and phone and pay for anything I need from groceries to taxis to bar tabs to school fees. Even the local market sellers use it.
Don't forget there are other paradigms out there!

https://www.solidjs.com/guides/reactivity
You think that's sick?

In nearby Esquimalt I used to hear kids say 'FIRST YOU GONNA GET VIRKED... THEN YOU GONNA GET DUNAHEED'
"capable"

Thanks to grammar, we are literally incapable of understanding "sex" in this context to mean anything other than biological sex. I can't believe I'm having to explain this multiple times.

The only argument people are making is that they lack the reading comprehension to understand the sentence correctly.
The problem with Zelle is that you can only link it with one bank account. So if I need someone to Zelle my Last Coastal Credit Union account, I have to unassociate Zelle from Landfill Bank. Not ideal.

I’m hoping the Fed solution fixes this.
Should we hold back the progress of the world, including something that's literally lifesaving in remote areas, because you don't have enough discipline to use a power button?

I am very, very, sick of this purely self aggrandizing "tragedy."
It's not just SSB. There are entire classes of games that aren't playable even at novice levels on modern LEDs like Guitar Hero style rhythm games.

LEDs often have much higher latency than necessary. Many have ALLM modes which disable certain features to decrease latency. We already have changed LED technology for this reason -- higher end computer monitors specifically focus on latency now. It's a really big deal.
Microsoft faced antitrust legislation for bundling a free browser with their OS, but Google and Apple are allowed to dictate content moderation policies for apps on their OS?

This is disgusting.
powered by Chinese technology for sure
I'm starting to feel more hopeful about the US's digital infrastructure.

If this goes well instant payments will be available with no ACH 2 day withdrawal delay.

The IRS is exploring a system for people to file taxes online.

The State Department is building a system to renew your passport totally online.

I think the last two items are a result of the Inflation Reduction Act. I hope this momentum continues and we can continue making as many government services available digitally. While some will complain how bad these systems will be - I'd rather at least have them than not and allow them to improve.

The sooner the better.
> Computation should be free (or nearly free) if there's idle capacity

HN used to be a place for interesting discussions. Now it's a grievance forum for entitled freeloaders.
Also Brazil's Pix payment system. A huge success.
A guide for launching successful MVPs quickly
I love Miyazaki's work but sorry, it's a no from me. His point makes zero sense and he clearly can't understand the greatness behind this. Totally destroyed the other man's excitement with an invalid argument and for no reason at all. I feel sorry for the developer, sadly he showed this to the wrong person.
Why can't they make a web app?

I think what google is doing is in a sense an unfair application of market power and is anticompetitive, but on the other hand, I don't really see what specifically Truth Social would miss out on if they just deployed as a web app and circumvented any tech company gatekeeping
Why would I want to replace my credit cards with this?
Quite a bit. It directly affects the amount of lift the props are able to produce. I would imagine they probably used props with more aggressive pitch than the stock ones.
I doubt it. High standards are rare in journalism, most will go along with high profile figures if it serves their own interests. If you want to bring Nazis into this then how about all of the practically fawning interviews that US media had with Adolph Hitler right up until he invaded France?
I assume that they would have used up the easily accessible fossil fuels - that stuff was ancient even to the dinosaurs. They could have left something on the moon if they wanted a more lasting monument to their existence though.
This is probably a controversial opinion, but it feels like Apple is trying to lock developers in to a single path of constantly upgrading hardware and getting more and more specialized in the skills required in the Apple ecosystem.

Not just developers who try to do it for a living, but the demographic that used to be called power users (and before that: hackers): the enthusiasts that install things and dig deeper and make tools for themselves and maybe make tools for others or even transition to being career developers.

It’s the developers who build the moat around the walled gardens of mobile, and enthusiasts who bring in the people in their lives. I think Apple knows this and intentionally builds new APIs (while depreciating old ones) just so they can force devs to upgrade their OS’ which in turn forces them to upgrade to the next generation of restrictive hardware and lead them further down the garden path.

I have no insight in to the workings of Apple. I only see what they show to the public. I’m comfortable being wrong about this, but I don’t think I am.
Isn't Interac equivalent?
I disagree. We already have this to some extent.

Do you enjoy going through all of the dialogs and what not to run an application today? Consider all of the switches and opt-outs going on on a smart phone today.

"X wants to do X, Y, Z, Q, E, D, A, B, C on your device. Is that ok?"

Do you think users are going to say no? They want to run the software. The software is an all or nothing affair. "Use our software, we only ask for 'X, Y, Z, Q, E, D, A, B', unlike those other guys". Think that happens much? I don't think the companies are competing at that level, because the more they DON'T do, the less services they can provide.

The litany of dialogs and options and managing all that sends the cognitive load of using the device on an exponential spiral.

Most folks habitually click through those alerts. "Yes, I agree to the 1000 word, 4pt font, unread license. Yes, you can track my location, YES! You can have my contacts, Gee wilickers I just want to PRINT A PHOTO!!11!".

It is exhausting!

It's a false sense of control. "Well, sure you can turn all of that off...but then what? Guess you didn't want those tickets to that concert then, did you?"

The action, unfortunately, has to be regulatory, and I don't see how that can be practical either without vast loophole as we've seen with the cookie banner hell we live with today.
Almost all hurricanes weaken significantly before making landfall. Maybe the wording was confusing but Katrina was the 4th most intense atlantic storm on record at the time of landfall. The Hurricane Severity Index which combines size and intensity has Katrina tied for 3rd at the time of landfall.

I agree the human toll was primarily a systems failure, but the destructive power of Katrina was a major contributing factor. A less intense storm with milder storm surge likely wouldn't have breached all the levees that were breached.
good riddance. he was an uneducated idiot, who is indirectly responsible for the millions that were killed in Afghanistan, in 1992.

In 1989, when he pulled the red army out of Afghanistan--he also cut all aid to the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. the then-president of DRA went to Moscow to persuade Garbageoff to not to do so, predicting that the terrorist zealots would overrun his government leading to chaos in the region.

Garbageoff dismissed him, and did not even go to the airport to receive him. In the ensuing two years, the DRA fought the terrorists to the last bullet, until food became scarce and defenses crumbled. The terrorists entered Kabul and began fighting each other (they were self-labeling themselves "Mujahedeen" then).

In the carnage that followed, Kabul was destroyed, millions died and became refugees. I was an 11-yo boy who witnessed my neighbors getting torn to pieces by the rockets fired by the terrorists. I barely survived the rockets myself, and we fled and became refugees in Pakistan.

May Garbageoff rot in hell.
I’m just super curious to read what people discuss on there. Even Twitter can be browsed without signing in. Gab similarly.
Software updates, for one.
What are these magical studies you speak of?

Because in my first hand experience in ad tech and running an ad-monitized site, the net effect is that CPMs on Safari and Firefox (no 3rd party cookies) are about 60-80% lower than that of Chrome and Edge.
Anyone have an idea of how many orders of magnitude advancement we are away from this? Like, it takes a high end GPU a non-trivial amount of time to make one low resolution image. A modern film is at least 30 of those a second, at far higher pixel density. It seems like you get a 10x improvement in GPU perf every 6-8 years[1], and it might take more than a couple of those.

Plus you need to encode the ideas of plots/characters/scenes, and have through-lines that go multiple hours. It seems like with the current kit it’s hard to even make a consistent looking children’s book with hand picked illustrations.

My gut is we are more than a few years off, but maybe I’m underestimating the low hanging fruit?

1: https://epochai.org/blog/trends-in-gpu-price-performance
https://www.stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english/who-owns-the-fed...

The Federal Reserve Banks are not a part of the federal government, but they exist because of an act of Congress. Their purpose is to serve the public. So is the Fed private or public?

The answer is both. While the Board of Governors is an independent government agency, the Federal Reserve Banks are set up like private corporations. Member banks hold stock in the Federal Reserve Banks and earn dividends. Holding this stock does not carry with it the control and financial interest given to holders of common stock in for-profit organizations. The stock may not be sold or pledged as collateral for loans. Member banks also elect six of the nine members of each Bank's board of directors.
It is interesting that there are at least a few images in the dataset that were generated by previous diffusion methods:

https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/im...

(Surely there are many more that don't have this specific label).
Those are with separate legal entities like subsidiaries and franchises.
Perhaps another corporate tax cut will show them the error of their ways.
Extremely sad we need to give the IRS $80 billion to accomplish something they should have provided decades ago.
Japan's enduring love affair with Hawaii
Layoffs "will affect certain departments including hardware and developer products."

This is a fun reminder to me that Snap still has a hardware department that is on its fourth iteration of glasses, this time with a display and AR capabilities.

Apparently the AR is used to do...something? I dunno, the examples shown on the marketing pages don't show much of a value proposition to me.

I'm amused that perpetually unprofitable tech companies like Snap throw away money on products like this where "moonshot" would be giving them too much credit.

https://www.spectacles.com/creators/

https://www.spectacles.com/new-spectacles/
Birdemic might give you what you crave.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH1SNmY_1XY
Yes, please do! Warning: F# will ruin other languages for you. I find it rather painful to work in basically anything else after using F#, with gradients of pain for different languages. Haha.

And that's a good question. I have basically every book written on F#, but I can't say I have ever used them for anything more than reference.

The official docs/guide/reference are actually really good, and I refer to them a lot when using some feature I'm not familiar with: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/what-is-fshar...

F# For Fun and Profit is well-known, but I can't say I use it a lot: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/

The same author's (Scott Wlaschin) book is very good: https://pragprog.com/titles/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-func...

As for books, I have always liked:

* Functional Programming Using F# by Hansen and Rischel (might be too simple if you are already comfortable with functional programming and is out of date every now and then with changes to F# that's happened)

* Expert F# 4.0 by Don Syme and others (contains a lot of nice things by the designer of F#

One of the latest books is Stylish F# 6: Crafting Elegant Functional Code for .NET 6 by Kit Eason. I have the first edition but haven't read it.

My personal recommendation is to take the approach of type/domain driven design. That is, I start off every F# module the same:

1. Define my types with discriminated unions, records, type aliases (such as for tuples) or single case discriminated unions. Use classes when necessary but try to prefer the more functional types.

2. Start writing functions against these.

And that's basically it. One thing to recognize with F# is that it mixes OOP rather nicely. Even discriminated unions and records, which are immutable, can have members defined on them, including operator overloading (something F# is pretty good about). They can even implement interfaces and be defined with generic types, which is also nice and powerful.

I have some projects that might of interest, since they're simple enough and illustrate the above process.

https://github.com/bmitc/the-ray-tracer-challenge-fsharp

https://github.com/bmitc/nand2tetris

Lastly, I'd suggest just starting up some projects. You could also take the Programming Languages course on Coursera by Dan Grossman. Part A uses SML, and you could port the examples and homework solutions to F# (I did so when I took the course). I also take books written for other languages and port the code to F#, usually taking a more idiomatic functional style. .NET Interactive notebooks (https://github.com/dotnet/interactive) are a great way to get started. You just need to install the .NET 6 SDK (which gets you F#) and then install the .NET Interactive Notebook extension in VS Code. That's it. There is also the book The Little MLer which gets people comfortable with discriminated unions (sum types), and I used the book and ported the examples to F#. I need to go back and finish that annotation project (https://github.com/bmitc/the-little-fsharper). I'll probably convert the script files to .NET Interactive notebooks if I do.
Yeah! Let's work together....ooh! Shiny Apple M2! What was I saying?
Another Day Gone
Be prepared for your interest to taper. I expect the anti- or counter- drone technology is a little more expensive, but it exists, a lot, so drone warfare has technically been stalemated already. I think this is a good thing, leaving most of the interesting bits in earnest ethical discussion.