skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Scale" has multiple meanings, and here I'm not talking about speed.

This interpreter is built around matching specific Regex patterns and then immediately executing hard-coded behaviors with a few slots for parameters. It's missing a whole lot of the skeletal structure that would be necessary to "scale" it up to support a generally useful subset of JS, much less the entire language. Without the necessary structure, it would be a buggy mess that's impossible to maintain, and you can't just take the existing code and structure it better: it's built on the wrong foundation. That's what I mean when I say it won't scale.

That's not a judgement against the team that wrote it! It meets their needs fine, and choosing a minimal solution is great engineering that takes a lot of guts in the current software culture. I like what they've done here. Just don't take it and try to scale it up into a full JS runtime.
I'm not fully following the situation in the US, so I don't know if it's a fair comparison or not. But I have seen some issues north of the border here in Canada over my lifetime.

I think there are reports of bad water fairly often in First Nations communities, but I haven't followed the topic too closely. Some recent information: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/first-nations-water-drink...

And another one I sort of remember more than 20 years ago was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_E._coli_outbreak

But these seem to pale in comparison to the limited stories I've heard out of the US. The Flint water crisis, and some of the poorer communities in the US. I do believe water systems are incredibly expensive infrastructure, even for those of us living next to the great lakes.
Did he do it by waggling? Maybe he watched Futurama first?
There are actually a lot of people who think it increases overall efficiency for some farms - mainly in areas with more sun / hotter temps / less water. If you have a less dense amount of photovoltaics then you still get quite a bit of sun and they end up reducing the amount of water evaporated by quite a bit which is very important for growing crops in areas like California. We could end up with much higher overall land use efficiency.
> "Group A says “violence is never ok”."

Setting aside that using violence as the example of harm done is prejudicial, this flaw in this analogy is the "never ok", which is a hidden assumption of the mythical "free speech absolutism" that nearly no one subscribes to. As I have remarked elsewhere in this thread, believing that interfering with speech in some situations is wrong does not logically imply a belief that interfering with speech in all situations is wrong. So there is, at least in my opinion, still no hypocrisy.
You could trivially cash out thousands of dollars in ATMs of many banks, both foreign and domestic, in a certain "world's enemy No.1" country before Feb 24.
It doesn't, in my experience. In the previous incarnation of the perf review system(which just slightly changed recently), there were effectively 3 buckets:

Needs improvement, meets expectations, and exceeds expectations.

The first one is "I'm going to get fired ASAP if I don't improve".

The second one is still viewed as a failure even though you're meeting every aspect of your current role.

The third one is "okay good, maybe i can go for promo if I string together 4 of these performance reviews as exceeds expectations"
Lithium is nearly twice as abundant as lead in the earth’s crust. I don’t hear anyone saying we’re running out of lead.
> For example, Texan's don't tend to put up with homeless issues like they exist and the city really needs to figure that out or this could be a wasted opportunity. These are all new "luxury apartments" and those folks aren't going to tolerate the homeless issues but even that's hard to say since we've gotten such an influx of more liberal minded folks that are more compassionate on those issues.

This observation is pretzeled enough that I do not understand what you are trying to say. But I take exception at the suggestion that there is some political group that is more compassionate when dealing with homeless people - everyone of every stripe has compassion for homeless people. Charity is a near universal value. The political debate is 100% about:

- What is effective.

- What help should be compelled, and from whom (there are issues of fairness here).

- What is the root cause of any given case of homelessness.

And besides, in this case I note relaxed regulation that lets offices convert to apartments (without tripping up some zoning permit problem) is more effective at getting people into homes than compassion.
Sports celebrities pimping themselves out selling it probably is a big factor.
I agree with the parent but I also think Ratatouille stated it best,

“Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere”

Give me some ingredients and I can make something edible. But no one would confuse me with a chef.

https://www.ranker.com/list/best-ratatouille-quotes/movie-an...
From the article:

> Photography Liberated Art

Well, yes and no. But (IMHO) mostly no. Certainly it impacted art to the point where art was obliged to redefine its very function, but I am not sure I would call this a liberation.

My first introduction to this was as a student walking through an exhibition of portraits at the National Gallery London. It had been arranged chronologically, room by room.

The room which featured post-photography painting presented as a punch in the stomach to art. It seemed to lose its confidence, its swagger, it verve. Replacing this was the impression that artists were now huddling in corners, drinking absinth, having deep conversations about art. The paintings were smaller, more self-aware, more experimental (experiments which seemed to work for a while, but which aged very quickly).

Was this a good thing? Some years ago I had one of my eyes removed due to an accident. It changed the way I walk, think and look. I like what I have done with myself since then, how I have developed as an artist, but I wish I still had two eyes.
> What's next? Finding a needle in a haystack?

I’m working on a jigsaw puzzle and hit a bit of a dry spell and was hoping there might be an app that could help find the pieces in a pile and where they go. Nothing exists yet that I could see. I imagine with a completed picture and a view of a piece it would be possible to show where in the picture the piece goes to reduce the burden. Extra pints if you can give it a view of the current progress and it could show you where the pieces should go.
Disruption ahead.
Citing the guidelines is against the guidelines, if not by the letter, in spirit. It's boring and it lacks curiosity. It assumes too much about the sharer. "Can we stop this trend" is a dog whistle for the "HN is getting worse" complaint.

Instead we could be considering if we're meant to read the Twitter conversation as well, or sharing a laugh about the link in the tweet author's bio. Or maybe the sharer didn't feel comfortable enough seeming like they made the claim but still wanted to share it because it's kind of cool.

AFAIK there's no junior HN mod of the year award.
There were only a dozen or so of those, it was pretty niche.
I've been writing a literate multi-file program in Go and Copilot has been partially compensating for the lack of tooling support, especially since Copilot can infer from prose.

I intend to make a post about my experience.
There's a similar interesting solution here:

https://forum.moddevices.com/t/ai-research-at-mod/8368
It gets worse. There isn't enough of a lot of different metals to build the renewable energy capacity to replace fossil fuels: https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/08/23/is-there-enough-meta...
Whenever someone says money doesn't matter, ask them to take them up on their offer. They always refuse. These high minded principles sound great in theory, but don't work in practice or just words. Even if existence is small and fleeting, having stuff, status, and wealth still feels good.
Way off the original topic, but anyway: In the Australian context Dick Smith is an interesting case study:

https://foragerfunds.com/news/dick-smith-is-the-greatest-pri...
My car broken, so I had to take a long intercity bus trip, for the first time in 15 years. After a short stop in a station, the driver ignited the bus again, but he forgot to turn the internal lights system on - so I couldn't read. I waited a few minutes, but he didn't turn it on, so I had to get up to ask him in the cabin. Coming back, that's when I realized mine was the one and only light on: none of the other 100 passengers had it, so they couldn't possibly be reading, unless electronically. 15 years before, I did remember, it would be at least 3 lights on most of the times, tops 5, but being the only one made me feel lonely.
It still feels unusual to me, but google lens is basically a life hack. It's good at a bunch of things that still make it feel magical. I'm still sleeping on its uses, honestly.

I use site:news.ycombinator.com sometimes for tech-related product recommendations. I bought an office chair based on a thread here. I think a laptop, too.

I have an ATM, and I built a script to watch its balance and notify me when it needs a refill. I have a couple more similar scripts related to my brick & mortar business.
Of course I am interested in connecting. Got a link to your company?
That is just design evolution not 'lack of personality'.

I prefer 'modern' except for the fact that there's a lack of borders and groupings, and designers try to get too smart.
Mentioning political parties can lead one to believe that there is a difference in the US, so I mentioned the dem guy likes the plub guy, which is relevant to the topic at hand. Thanks for the downvotes.
I feel like you may have some good intention behind your post but it comes off as really condescending, as if all Mr. Bellard accomplished is some sexy compression algorithm.
I'm in stitches that my other comment was flagged at 0 min. Don't ever change, you guys ;-)
Lego are very protective of their brand as they have every right to be.

There's a store near me that sells Lego-like sets of their own distinctive building and the box states "Quality Blocks - Compatible with other brands"

Other trading websites for Lego sets and parts use the words "bricks" or "blocks" in their names instead.
> fixed toothless non-smiles

The painted smile was an unconvincing thing (with the exception of some of Franz Hal's paintings). It was photography which (eventually) showed us what they really looked like.
> The age of the "American" film has already peaked.

I kinda sorta agree with this sentiment. I am a huge film buff, and most of the movies I remember fondly are from the 90s (can't blame this on nostalgia since I wasn't even alive then)
Embedding V8 can work quite well: https://github.com/sqreen/PyMiniRacer

You probably have to emulate some of the DOM, but you can interact directly with whatever obfuscated/packed scripts in a more lightweight and secure way than driving an entire browser.
We are not running out. The article states current electrification goals are not feasible based on existing raw material production (mining). Bear in mind the overwhelming majority of global industrial infrastructure needs to be replaced.

Recycling is also not clear cut for many of the metals and minerals needed. It’s a big gap to meet and few want to mine.
Wow, that UI is basically the endstate of tile UI. All you get is a pastel color and two letters? What do they call that cult? Material Design?

That is SCREAMING for iPhone 1.0 style icons. There was just an HN post on how crappy modern icons are, I think it was the "there is no personality in 2020". This would be Exhibit A.
Check out the microconf scene:
https://microconf.com/

US and EU conferences. Very cool vibe and you’ll quickly start making great connections and picking up tips.
Off the top of my head ATMs in Cambodia, El Salvador, Ecuador, Panama all give out USD.
Some degree of childish-ness is to be expected from a language that's young. I'll snicker at the "coomer" comment when I get home from the office, but it doesn't change the fact that I won't be using Zig at work anytime soon. Not for anything serious, at least.

To be clear, the comment changes nothing about Zig's nonexistent viability in a professional space. As a career C programmer, I believe that Zig has always been every luddite's backhanded answer to Rust made manifest.
> What a company.

I didn't get this, Google is very profitable cash cow, so decision makers are doing their job better than competition.
It would cost a shitload. Morgan City would have to be build up tremendously, since that is likely where the bulk of the flow would end up, through the Atchafalaya river, basin, and delta.

New Orleans and Baton Rouge would see one of the most dramatic economic implosions seen in the modern world. Akin to, and possibly worse, than the hollowing out of many formerly prosperous rust belt cities.

There would also most likely be a lot of people displaced by allowing the Mississippi/Atchafalaya to meander at will, since the channels to handle that amount of water if left to its own devices are simply not there. You'd end up with an absolutely enormous floodplain between the current paths of those two rivers. My family is from the bayous between that area. The highest place in town was an artificial hill in a park 20-30 feet high.

All in all, it's probably better ecologically to simply let the rivers meander as they will, but economically it is in the city, state, and region's best interests to maintain the status quo.
Few reduced, even fewer re-used, and recycling is great for aluminum and only a bit useful for plastics. Acting on others' insights doesn't happen without leadership and influencers.
I just wrote about this in my blog. I'm lazy so I'll copypaste it here.

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Linguists already understood a long, long time ago that redundancy is not a bug, it's a feature; it's what allows you to decode a message even if you don't get it fully.

I feel like interface designers should’ve understood the same already. Sleep-deprived, with poor sight, not tech-savvy enough to get it right, using a non-native language because the native one is not supported, interacting with the program while taking care of a kid, there are a thousand (no, a million) ways that users can miss small tidbits of info conveyed by the design, so that redundancy is essential.

Yet they didn’t. On the opposite, the current design trends boil down to redundant → removable → should be removed. Also known as “minimalism”.

You end with icons that look the same, not quite sure if something is clickable or not, those ugly switches that assume (why is there always some assumer behind poor decisions?) that you're aware of the "right = on, left = off" (or that on/off makes sense in that context), so goes on.

And it’s kind of funny. If you actually point this out, plenty designers (or other laymen, like me, except that they agree with the design decisions being pointed out) will be quick to spit the same fallacy: “it’s new so it’s better, as an assumer I assume that you live in the past”… yeah, nah.

This may or may not be related to the fact that I still use MATE, instead of GNOME 3 or similar.

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[Non-copypasted] Someone mentioned HN’s interface. It's the exception that proves the rule because, when you actually analyse it, it has all tidbits of redundancy here and there; such as the "next", "upvote", "collapse" and "reply" buttons appearing for all comments. A minimalist designer would've removed them all, and made the content of the comments clickable.
In that case, universe doesn’t behave according to “the laws of physics”. Because the laws we’ve determined is the map.
There's vastly more land than is needed for any reasonable mix of solar in a post-carbon world. There's just also lots of speculative and unreasonable scenarios one can dream up if they want to argue otherwise.
This is a common misconception about Buddhism - that non-attachment leads to Nihilism.

Here's a good overview of how the concepts of "acceptance" and "non-attachment" can be compatible with leading a meaningful and fulfilling life: https://zenstudiespodcast.com/zenacceptance/
A click-bait headline?

From about 1917 in Arabia in the classic movie Lawrence of Arabia, a newsman talking to the prince:

"You want your story told, and I desperately want a story to tell."

Gee, there may not be enough plastic for everyone to have their own Hula Hoop.
Ask HN: Is MD5 still resistant to second-preimage attacks?
MD5 and SHA1 have been considered "broken", but as far as I can tell, all people have been able to do is create some pairs that hash to the same value. However, is MD5 still "irreversible", in the sense that, given an image, it's not computationally feasible to find a preimage? Or with rainbow tables, we can now do it for some significant class of images?

In case someone is wondering, I'm using MD5 to hash email addresses to a primary key field. I understand that hashing phone numbers can be reversible since the domain is too small. I also understand that people who know the email can find out the user it corresponds to. But those who don't know the email, can't reverse the hash unless they try a bunch of emails.
I would have loved to read that code!
> I don’t hear anyone saying we’re running out of lead.

Don't know much about materials science but is demand for lead expected to equal demand for lithium?
Can you point to the source of truth of your statement?

If not, kindly delete your comment.
Certainly agree that calling a generic agency would be a miss. You need in house expertise. It is certainly possible for a small slice of the business (I cant imagine that Satya or Sundar or Jeff spend hours on Concur or Expedia, say), but scaling that to cover the whole thing would be very valuable (and quite difficult).
> Even down to the fact this event had a codename pre-planned in advance. "London Bridge has fallen".. just, why? This isn't James Bond.

Theoretically, it's to avoid jumping the gun. It's embarrassing if someone hears "the Queen is dead" and rushes to trigger the various announcements. There's a lot of queens in the world and in fiction -- this might be an unlikely mixup, but it's probably still better avoided.

That said, picking a phrase that's part of a well-known nursery rhyme probably didn't really help avoid that confusion.
Um, the causal factors being decades of republican control that is hostile to public education?

You are generally correct on why and to whom the money goes to in these states, but the fact remains that money goes to these states and not a lot of progress happens. You can say it's the usual intractability of poverty, but at some point you take "Republican State/Local Government" + "Federal Funds" and see they get squandered.

And thus, black water from faucets.

There are lots of federal funds (thanks to congress) that isn't directly dispensed to citizens. Instead it gets granted to the states for their oversight and control, I believe Medicaid works like this, or it did at some point. I leave it as an exercise to the reader as to what happens to state-allocated federal funds in a deeply racist state with gerrymandering specifically designed to maintain white control of government.
The people I have met that were the best at networking (by far) made it look easy and seamless. They never (or rarely) specifically tried or did things just to network for network sake - they were just constantly naturally doing it. They made friends everywhere and took initiative constantly to organize groups of people meeting up or dinners with individuals or couples or attending events and things like that. Most people are terrible at making and even more so maintaining friends - you would be surprised how amenable people are to an occasional phone call or suggesting something like doing out to dinner - all it takes is a little bit of initial initiate from you. And like everything in life practice practice practice
Do you have a link about the grandfathered plans? I added my card on file few weeks back when Google was incessantly mailing about shutting my account if I didn't upgrade to paid plan. Would like to know if it was unnecessary
King Charles to take control of royal estate estimated to be worth US$27B
Using Unicode symbols wisely in mathematical code is a godsend. I regularly use Julia, which favors this style, and find that this feature improves the readability of code enormously.
The text you quoted, which is the same I originally referenced, is about classroom instruction. You are inventing an outcome that is not found in the actual text of the law, maybe because it fits a perception you have or a narrative about Florida. No one is contesting that it's normal for people to mention their private lives at work - though the context in which you do it is important, and proselytizing in any direction generally makes people uncomfortable - and the law does not forbid this.
The science based counter-argument to all this is the understanding that time is eternalistic, so even though we die our lives never disappear out of existence. I choose to go the complete opposite route of the author here, and try to live each day as if it matters gravely.
And the worst part was that a lot of the action in the Gray Man was incomprehensible nonsense.
bennesman says>" but on the ground it’s all more or less boils down to “eat the poor”."<

If only it were that easy! sigh
> But Tesla co-founder Elon Musk might not have been when he tweeted about the scandal on Thursday morning: “You can almost hear that snap of the rubber glove before chess match cavity searches,” he wrote.

Ja Rule could not be reached for comment.
I guess you're talking about laws being designed to serve the interests of certain groups (e.g. teachers' unions) at the expense of everyone else.

If so, is that problem unique to California? If the problem is worse in California than elsewhere in the US, then what about the design of the system could be changed to improve the situation?
Cool Worlds did a great piece on this a few weeks ago. It's worth watching if you have an interest in this subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHgAcbpsujI
I think Apple went overboard on the iPhone 14 Pro always-on display
> Email providers must not reject valid messages. They can put them in a spam folder if they like, but they can't reject them.

This is not feasible. Imagine that a single IP is sending a continuous flood of messages which are clearly spam, as fast as possible, to a large mail provider. Requiring that mail provider to store every single one of those messages, and to not take any steps to mitigate an instance of obvious abuse, would be
completely unreasonable.
If you ask me, it is not about being remembered. It is about actual effect one has on the world. Some actions have tendencies to influence the world in certain ways, which we can often recognize. To do ones best to improve things does not mean to do only things others might remember. It is a far greater set of actions than that.
VM's do not actually add that much overhead (depending on the workload - GPU's are notoroiously hard to share). And what most people do not realize is that something like VMware or another hypervisor is also very good at managing things like RAM across many VM's. In many cases you can overprovision (meaning you can have VM's that are technically "assigned" a total amount of RAM or CPU that is more than you even have physically) and still have great performance. The key is always to install the hypervisor on bare metal (dont run VMware on top of Windows or try to host a server where the "base" os is OSX or something).
Uber's post is actually two years older than the Google one.
The small town that saved its only grocery store – by buying it
Are we currently trying to cover the world in a thin layer of lead like we are for lithium?
Tesla gave us tech on wheels, but forgot to include the service centres?
What about Terraform instead?