skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, this article is wrong right off the bat.

“React isn't great at anything except being popular.”

When the rubber hits the road, React is good. There’s a hundred thousand tiny little facets of its design that all contribute its effectiveness in getting functional (as in operationally successful) results. I’m no React fanatic. I hate the bundle sizes, the weird quirks with hooks, the footguns with performance, etc etc. But it works, and the results speak for themselves. I recently hacked for two weeks on React, Node and React Native to produce a CRUD app for Chrome and Android. It’s no FAANG app, being hosted locally for the site that needed, no localisation, ugly code, barely optimized… but it works! It has served its purpose well with minimal bugs for months, saving potentially thousands of hours of tedious labour. With React, I can prototype and get results fast. I’ve tried Vue, Angular, Vanilla, Blaze/Meteor, EmberJS, and even tried my own custom framework based on MobX. None were as good for getting results. For a bunch of little reasons, React is just… really effective.
I am trying to have this make sense in my head, but I agree with the other commenter that "money is debt" doesn't feel right.

I think more fundamentally, money is simply the capacity for goods and services to be exchanged between humans. Anything that facilitates a trade can be considered money. Just like how in physics, the best general definition we have of "energy" is simply the innate capacity for change in the universe.

If I stumble upon a gold bar in the forest, that's not a debt. It does, however, have the potential to get me what I want. I could, in theory, turn it into a debt, or I could just spend it immediately on a bunch of cows.
I'm curious to see how the huge price increase in Europe will affect their sales.
Svelte/Solid JS and reactivity are great; Reactivity definitely is a better philosophy than Virtual DOM diffing.

However, I'd like to add one more reason to the "arguments adopting svelte" and that is native development.

Svelte Native doesn't even come close to touching React Native in maturity, and I'm willing to bet it never will.

For a startup to consider a frontend technology, React is easily the better choice in terms of capital because there is no way you're going to build a production ready native app in Svelte Native.

If you were to build your web client in Svelte, then you would have to spend capital on another team to build Native (God forbid in React Native), in which you would split teams on ios and android.

Or you could you use just one team for React + RN altogether and save you possibly millions in capital.

Also I'd like to mention that the NYT article that was linked to showcase Svelete actually showcases more of D3 instead.

Mike Bostock also used to work for NYT and NYT absolutely loves using D3.
Photos has a billion users and was released in 2015.
What about receiving an automated SMS or phone call when an incident is created? That's anyway how I usually do it even though I'm using a smartphone.
I think "breaking" is really part of Svelte’s life. I used Svelte since v1 five tears ago and basically I had to rewrite those small projects every time I touched them.
The problem is mostly about model training and architecture. I was doing TTS like 2.5/3 years ago and most models were train on fixed (+/- 5-10s) clips with like avg of 80 words or so, there were few attempts for fixing that and if I remember correctly few RNN-based models were good at ignoring input length and generate "good" audio but new flow-based and diffusion based models are out of my domain as I'm in CV for past few years and only read some new cool paper once in a while :)

You can also search for postags (and token ids for them) that are especially placed for "pause" audio as they often fix problem with weird transition when you split the sentences.

This repo -> https://github.com/TensorSpeech/TensorFlowTTS was very good few years back.
Pip can use range requests to fetch just a part of the wheel, and lift the metadata out of that. So it can sometimes avoid downloading the entire wheel just to get the deps. Some package servers don't support this though.

Also, there's a difference between a pep being adopted and that pep being implemented (usually a bunch of elbow grease). That said there are a couple exciting steps towards 658 being implemented:
https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/11111 (just approved yesterday, not yet merged)
https://github.com/pypi/warehouse/issues/8254 (been open for forever, but there has been incremental progress made. Warehouse seems to not attract the same amount of contribution as pip)
https://archive.ph/reicq
The Services iPhone
I could be wrong about this but I think they only post guest reviews of the property once the host has also reviewed the guest. So if the guest leaves a review the host doesn't like then they simply won't post a review for the guest.

The only times I have not received a guest review from a host on AirBnB is when I have left a 4 star review (instead of 5.)

The net result of this is that more properties have more 5 star reviews and so do more guests.
Not at all — I was a backer a year or two ago (but not quite early enough to get a black unit) and just received mine a month or two ago.
Svelte is used in production by several high profile companies. NYT in primis, since its creator Rich Harris worked there, but also Spotify, Ikea, Reuters, Brave...we can debate if it's not as mature as other frameworks, but definitely is not experimental.
The Christian dilemma, almost a paradox really, is that the more you love humanity the harder it is to love humans.
AirBnB has created a prisoner's dilemma review process. If you have a fairly bad host, but don't leave a bad review and they do, you are penalized by not having any appeal.

I wonder if the dilemma is on both sides (I think it is), meaning hosts are actually incentivised to leave bad reviews on their patrons _if they are a bad host_ as a means of defense.

We had a similar experience to this article where the host left a fabricated negative review.
You have solved a different problem. The OP benchmarks grep and wc as motivating examples; how does your library (and the Erlang design in general) help in such cases?
If it makes you feel any better (it probably won't), it drives the internal people bonkers too. Five years ago Google's shitty product strategy was a fun weird thing that we could laugh at. Now we can only cry.
Check out https://sveltejobs.com/

And also the #jobs channel on the Svelte Discord https://svelte.dev/chat

There are jobs being posted every day. And btw, we're one of those looking for Svelte engineers.
Residential exposure to petroleum refining and stroke in the southern US
At first glance, the multiple bracket groups in the function signatures look really weird to me.

Does anyone know what the motivation for those is?

Example (function definition):

function writeTicksToDisplay (ticks: int32) (display: Display) [...] end

Function use:

writeTicksToDisplay(totalTime)(display)
How do central banks clear things with each other?

Say "Bank of USA" emits physical and electronic dollars, then those dollars flow to Japan for some goods. Can the central bank look at every way those dollars went to Japan (some small part in physical way, much bigger part by moving through multiple clearing houses).

How does the central bank then trust the other central bank? "We received 1 billion in paper dollars and 100 billion in electronic transactions".

Also, how can "Bank A" from say Germany, trust "Bank B" from say some less reputable country that those underlying "electronic" dollars even exist?
The settlement company supposedly checks this somehow, but how?

If "Bank B" moves 100 million to "Bank A", then were is that 100 million in a physical way, if all of that is just electronic money created via lending.

How can you know that the "Bank B" didnt just print 200M and use it to pay for something in Bank A.
Among the same country, there is some central institution that looks on that (e.g. all banks in EU are audited by EU). But what about cross border transactions. How can you know that those 100M dollars paid to you are actual 100M dollars and not just some fake line?
Does your bank have "anything" apart from a line in a database that said that you received 100M from the other bank? And also what is the incentive for the other bank to not "create" a bit money "on the side" to import stuff to your country.

Every time I try to search about any clearing houses I just land up on the "Clearstream scandal" wikipedia page. Same for the recent "naked short" theory, where you basically land on the articles about DTCC, but without any information "how the sausage is made".
> The easy way out is to say that invariants are “observable” properties and nothing can observe the broken invariant in the middle of the method call.

Unless you are invoking user-defined functions in the middle that can observe it. This can be tricky for example in C++. The user-defined functions can be explicit callback arguments, but as simple as copy/move-constructors or conversion operators can trip you up.

For C++ standard library containers the public member functions are not guaranteed to be reentrant for example (the wording for this is not great though).

https://godbolt.org/z/xKMoxrr3E

This might be a contrived example. But I actually had something like this happen when I wrote a generic memoization class that used an unordered map under the hood, and then I tried to memoize a recursive function. It ended up calling the same map's `try_emplace` function recursively, which blew up spectacularly with abseil's implementation of unordered_map.
That is different from any Aussie accent I've heard. I do hear this specific accent (affectation?) in a lot of music recently, and was hoping to find a name for it.
I have at least one example of Airbnb ignoring a bad review. I had a pretty bad experience in Washington DC once and left a review to warn future guests. To my surprise such review never came online. I checked for several weeks after and saw new reviews popping up on the same property but my review was nowhere. I still use Airbnb but just lower my expectations by a huge amount because according to them everyone is having a fantastic experience. Just like Instagram... Thanks internet!
In the current form ads are cancer to the world.
Forging political alliances through supply chains
What would you suggest he read instead? Sheep entrails?
Haha, I've had this reaction vs other technologies.

But in hindsight your comment (which could have been mine a few years back!), is really funny. Basically, are you staying with Vue because it's the monster you know, or why don't you fear Vue becoming a monster? :)
> No one would blame you for choosing React for a major project / new startup

Oh, I know people who would. Especially if that choice was made mechanically, without proper assessment of project requirements and framework strengths/weaknesses.
Twisty device explores alternative path to fusion
Hint 1: nobody is working on fusion as it happens in the sun.

Hint 2: the sun already works. Solar panels already work, and are cheap and getting cheaper.

Hint 3: ITER is not a power plant. It is not even planned to ever produce so much as one kWh of electrical energy. It will burn GWh, if ever finished.

Hint 4: a working fusion power plant would necessarily cost many times as much to operate as a fission plant of the same capacity.
Coming at this from the other side, it is incredibly frustrating and uneconomical as a customer support representative to have to deal with users who don't respond promptly on chat, of which there are a HUGE percentage.

As a result, most organisations have either automatically or manually implemented procedures to cancel a chat after a set period of inactivity.

This may just be a gentle nudge to try to avoid that.
Great article.

I see React as today's PHP... same terrible community, similar issues and also extremely messy code, yet if you dabble with it, you'll find a job where people just don't know any better.
Why would they limit an IP range rather than a single IP? Do you live in a country that is an internet pest for these sort of things?
I’m glad you are willing to invest in other forms of clean energy.

That argument is not a straw man. I know very few want to go back to the stone age (some radicals do), that’s not my argument. A lot of people vastly overestimate the ease of transitioning and are making laws and goals and plans that are wildly optimistic and out of touch that will in effect lead to unstable grids and more people without power. No one sane wants that, but that’s already happening because a lot of places that have been aggressive about transitioning have done it poorly and without proper backup power generation options.

If COVID hasn’t convinced you rushed and panicked centralized interventions make things worse, and you’re willing to engage in even more of the kind of massive disruptions that we’ve only begun to see the full effects of because of a heatwave, you’re likely to kill more people with rushed intervention: https://nypost.com/2017/07/10/heat-death-hysteria-the-wrong-...

I meet a lot of people that are dogmatic about wind and solar and think it’ll work by itself and that the whole world needs to transition to that alone right now. In combination with other sources, in the US and rich countries we can afford to build all the clean energy we need, if all options are actually on the table. But doing that globally and doing it too fast will kill people.
As an economist, I welcome this turn of events! This will free up my work time to focus on better margins than the n'th iteration of a linear regression,
Purring is a love language no human can speak
I like NextJS for the frontend and django-ninja for the backend. django-ninja has all those things you mention and way more, and has a very rich backend ecosystem thanks to being in the django world. https://django-ninja.rest-framework.com/

FastAPI is also great but a little more involved. It's good if you don't want to be in the Django world.
"Nobody ever got fired for X" is a rhetorical device which means "in most situations, you generally won't be faulted going with the most main-stream option on the market".
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41EdCXjotmo

It's clearly two-way.
I don't really understand why one would make it a line? If the objective is walkability, wouldn't it make more sense to arrange apartments in a square or - if you want to go 3D - a cube to minimize distance between occupants and shops etc?
I mean this from the perspective of a newly founded startup.

You're right that this doesn't hold true in a large corporation where they may already have a ton of code and preferred frameworks.
nice thought!
Source? This is absurd from a Christian perspective. Not a MAGA perspective but an orthodox Christian perspective. Or Islam, or Jewish, or Buddhist, etc
Your comment captures in a nutshell why new frameworks face an uphill climb.
This. If you rum SIMH to emulate a Vax (and some other Unix), most Unix programs requiring X can be perfectly forwarded to use the host's X server. Or some Xephyr server.
Zotero simplified a lot of my note taking / "information retaining" from stuff I bookmark / read. Much better than Obsidian etc.

> Add thing to Zotero, 99% of the time the metadata comes with it and is searchable already.

> To mark it as read, make a note for it (usually consists of main idea, good / bad ideas in the article, few sentences).

> Zotero entries without note are assumed unread.

for my diary / misc notes I use vscode with some markdown plugins, foam has like daily note functionality which is nice, add a new diary entry and add some tags ezpz
wildlife in general with the exception of insects has flourished over the past 20 years here in upstate New York ( Norwich area ) probably due to massive depopulation ( globalization forced shutdown of most local factories ) and fewer hunters ... beavers, turkeys, black bear, bobcat etc used to be extremely rare now are making a come back

cities get bigger yet towns get smaller seems to be the trend not just locally but across the globe
German for English Speakers
The amount of aid Ukraine is receiving from the west, simply for being a victim is flabbergasting. If India rejects liberal international relations for realist ones, if India supports perpetrators, India can't expect help from the west when China comes knocking. How can a western government sell to their voters, assistance for a country that supported the unmerited killing of Ukrainian civilians?

Liberal international relations work on the same game theoretical principles as any group interaction with a prisoner's dilemma-type payoff matrix. The optimal strategy for any individual is to betray, to not do work on the group project and still receive good grades, to fake your credentials on your CV and still get the job, to subsidize the murder of Ukrainians and still receive economic benefits and international sympathy.

Of course, if everyone refuses to work on the group project, you receive a failing grade. If everyone fakes their credentials, the company fails due to lack of expertise, if every country prioritizes their own interests over avoiding conflict, the world goes back to the pre-WWII era of rampant warfare, colonialism and exploitation. The optimal strategy for groups is to zealously persecute defectors.

This is the reason why this decision is much more relevant to India's future than you think. It's the reason why the West seems like a vindictive in-group that doesn't tolerate dissent. It's the same old mechanism that instructed the first multicellular organism to destroy cancerous cells. The mechanism that makes guppies instinctively reject their own conspecifics if they don't participate in the dangerous inspection of predators. The mechanism that drives our conceptions of justice, vengeance and shame.
The safe space that became a viral nightmare
I would say the value is in the users, not necessarily the data. Win over the users, and you have the data as well. So basically network effects.

I was thinking more at the level of the economy. How can we fix this nasty bug in the free market so the best service wins, not the one with the most users?
true, homepage doesn't clarify that it generates a dedicated page with your own cv to share
> It makes sense because you can build and compile a small component without having to bundle the entire react runtime in.

Fixed.
> I see React as today's PHP...

I see it as today's jQuery.
I also seem to remember that the story went on to say that Crowley at one point had been praised for his work in the Spanish Inquisition. That was the first he'd actually heard of it--humans had come up with it on their own--so he went and had a look, and then went and got blind drunk, because there are some things even demons would rather not think about.

That kind of abrupt tonal slam, from comedy to horror, leaving the reader feeling something like they just had a bucket of cold water unexpectedly poured over them, is classic Sir Pterry too. I read the Discworld series start-to-finish earlier this year as a minor bucket-list project, and I wish he was still around. He had a commendable simmering rage against the powerful and callous that boiled over often, and that's something we could use more of today.

I also did not expect to write a comment today using the word "bucket" in two unrelated idioms, but here we are.
They forked them. Also this is not that person. And there's more instances of this than I think you realize.
yup, fatfinger in HN mobile happens to me too, and already forgot that here are downvotes, I just don't see them because have not enough upvotes
The sentence immediately after the one you quoted was: "Don’t get me wrong: React is good". So dismissing the article on the grounds that 'React is good' doesn't get you very far.
Just copy paste a positive review from a bot. It's a win-win, the platform (Airbnb here) and service provider (owner) can't hate you because it's positive, won't harass you for not leaving a review and the other customers aren't fooled if they actually read it because it's obviously fake. Reviewing someone's work is not my job, I'm the customer here.

And by increasing the number of dishonest reviews, you are warning customers that you can't trust user reviews and there's no actual way of having actually verified reviews (e.g. Amazon brushing).

Be a bot. Become one with the dead internet. I don't even know if this comment was written by my hand or by GPT-3. Who am I?
Artificial sweeteners and risk of cardiovascular diseases
Conclusions The findings from this large scale prospective cohort study suggest a potential direct association between higher artificial sweetener consumption (especially aspartame, acesulfame potassium, and sucralose) and increased cardiovascular disease risk. Artificial sweeteners are present in thousands of food and beverage brands worldwide, however they remain a controversial topic and are currently being re-evaluated by the European Food Safety Authority, the World Health Organization, and other health agencies.
A hacker bought a voting machine on eBay. Michigan officials are investigating
> The prices of your shit meal were lower because of this

Can one really claim that when, in the same breath, one also claims tips are near-mandatory?

What this situation actually means is that the business entices you in with a low price in the menu, but that price is only tangentially related to the amount I end up paying when it comes time to pay. The thing that is "lower" is not the amount of money that leaves my wallet at the end of the meal, and I am never told up front what that total will be. This is actually true of most transactions in the US, because taxes also work in a similar fashion.

Elsewhere, the norms are different. In some places, when, as a customer, you see a price for goods and services, that is exactly the amount of money you pay; it is the responsibility of whoever is setting the price to set it at an appropriate level so they can appropriately compensate whatever third parties they need to compensate. In other places, the norm might be to haggle; but even there you know what the agreed total will be before you receive the goods or services.

That said, the US approach is actually not entirely an unfamiliar experience to Europeans: budget airlines operate on the same principle of "quote low price up front then the customer pays way more at the end for things that are technically but not really optional" here - and we hate those just as much.
Prince Charles has travelled to Balmoral.

The Duchess of Cornwall has also travelled there and the Duke of Cambridge is on his way.

This isn't a normal "senior royal is unwell" announcement, especially considering her age and fragility.
X works seamlessly, it's a client/server arch.
Even if you run emulators, by exporting $DISPLAY to your host (and by running xhost +$EMULATOR_IP) you can run, for example, tools for older Unixen.

Except for SGI, but I am not that sure.
Glad I'm not the only one mentioning Snider/Eurodollar University and that people are noticing his work. Everyone "noticing" the Eurodollar market may bring about the biggest shift in modern economics.
Good point, and also Mull on F-droid.
> Sunscreens are really valuable technology

But is there anything functionally wrong with zinc oxide sunscreen? If not, why is it not available as the default option with chemical sunscreens available for those who want to go out of their way to not look pale?
At least this commentary is somewhat skeptical:

> Unveiled in July, the project is the latest heady fantasy to emerge from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s marketing machine, garnering breathless headlines and torrents of clicks (its videos have 400m views and counting).

which I expect from a respectable (to me) news site like The Guardian, but it seems like there are a lot of news sites and blogs that just report things like this so they get clicks. And of course here a commentator can muse about it and also gain page views (does The Guardian run ads, I'm behind an ad-blocker).