skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of a follow-up to an earlier question I posted here, "What's the best 'higher level Rust' these days" [0]? Following that discussion, I figured it would be fun to dabble in several of the languages mentioned. I hope to get to still more in the future, but I'm nearing the end of my vacation, so I figured I'd wrap it up where I'm at for now.

A tl;dr of the languages:

* C# - Wow! The real highlight of the experience for me. I was surprised and impressed with how well it performed (dotnet apparently works very well even on my Mac!). The language was "fine", but maybe I should try out F#.

* Deno - I love TypeScript, though on the backend it seems to be only so-so, at this point. The single-threaded performance was good, though. I look forward to where this goes in the future. The docs could use some love, and I think the stdlib will eventually move into the binary once it has settled down a bit.

* Elixir - My darling. I love Elixir for a lot of things, but I was kind of sad to see how poorly it performed compared to all the others. But if performance isn't the most important thing for your use case, the language itself, OTP, and the developer experience can't be beat! And LiveView is so cool and pretty unique.

* Go - I went in kind of looking down on Go, but was surprised with how solid of an experience it is. I found I didn't mind its rudimentary type system as much as I expected, and the performance was good, if not mind-bending like dotnet and rust.

* Rust - A real star. I imagine someone more skilled than me can make it beat dotnet, since I did ample string cloning and other stuff to treat rust more like a high-level language. I was pretty surprised with how easy it was to get going. I'd used rust before a tiny bit, but was still a little scared of it going in.

* Scala - I learned... I don't like it! I enjoyed the experience for every other language, but Scala is too disjointed and in too much flux for me right now. Apparently there's a bit 2 to 3 thing going on, and a lot of the ecosystem that I had heard of (primarily the Play web framework, for this exercise) is still on 2. Beyond that, there seems to be a fractured ecosystem of haskell-style type astronauts and other "better Java" types. I've played with Haskell and Yesod for a webapp before and decided that style of programming is not to my liking.

What should I try next? I'm in progress on Swift, and would like to see just vanilla Java. I'm also curious about Nim, OCaml, Kotlin, and D. And I'm a GitHub sponsor of Zig, so I should probably give that a whirl eventually.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32984776
If people are bad a structuring an argument and conveying their intent in writing, what makes you think they are better with those things when speaking? or any other form of communication.
Call auction, continuous trading and closing price formation [pdf]
Sounds like you're offering to do the work.
> I've pondered on this a lot. Houses have been treated as "nest-eggs"

There is a nasty policy trap here, in that reducing the investment value of houses can mean (as a federal government) you are expecting pain down the road caring for people with insufficient retirement savings.
This already happens in the US with ADA laws, and it will happen with California's new privacy and wage transparency laws. Unfortunately every time you create a new law with a private right of action, lawyers will monetize it at industrial scale.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/magazine/americans-with-d...
I agree with your overall point but

> even though we've been in a bubble for the past 20 years

what is a "bubble", to you? the last 20 years includes one of the greatest housing crashes of all time, and a period of some of the cheapest housing costs we've ever seen.
Are you certain about this? Why on earth would Blink-182 (or their people / record label / etc) agree to this deal?

Are you saying these big A++ acts are signing deals with TicketMaster saying "yea sell em for whatever you want, we just need $X / ticket?"
All properties assess below market value, even new construction. A 1.2m house will generally assess for around 800k.
There needs to be a system where accessibility issues can be raised and addressed without allowing attorneys to profiteer from the system.
Were your airbnbs at the same price point as a hotel? There can be a big difference between a 60$ and 120$ Airbnb.
Ah yes I'm sure this is the reason:

One of the reasons for the increase, Pfizer said, is that it will provide vaccines in a single-dose vial as opposed to the current multi-dose vials. This change is because of “consumer preference,” Lukin said.

Not this:

it could add $2.5 billion to $3 billion in annual revenue for the company
This is not at all what the poster is saying.
That all depends on how long you stay and inflation rates.
I don't know the specifics of this law, but in other cases, automatically-generated captions have been found to not be good enough.

https://www.nationaldeafcenter.org/news/significance-harvard...
In the past I was using SoapUI. I liked it. Just because you guys were mentioning Postman alternatives :).
They kinda do....unless they want to pay the entire costs of the tour out-of-pocket and up front. Otherwise, they'll go where their label tells them to.

That's the whole point. They could play at tiny clubs that only hold 100-300 people, but even if they did so, they probably wouldn't make enough money to break even, let alone profit what the label requires they profit.
Sci-fi plot concept answer: because one galaxy is populated by sentient life, and the other isn’t.
'Synthetic origin of SARS-COV2' disputed; biosignatures exist in nature
There are a variety of services out there. Many are quite inexpensive and produce extremely good results (as in translating idioms & slang from one language to another in an effective manner). We do this at work all the time because we serve an audience that speak a relatively large number of languages.

The best services use a combination of automation and a human fluent in both languages. There are quite a lot of the latter who work from home in various countries and hence don't charge American-level rates.
Developing a new app centered around music review, discussion, and community while giving an individualized user experience. Beta is releasing in the next few weeks. More information is found in on the website. Thanks!
As much as I want to love pulumi, their ssh story seems missing. It feels like pulumi is dedicated towards managing cloud instances through cloud apis, while I'd want to manage bare metal instances through ssh (or a local daemon). I'd love correction on this.
> the issue is that the extra profits generated by dynamic pricing are going to ticketmaster rather than to artists.

the article doesn't say anything about this

> If artists took home the extra profits

Do you have any evidence to show that they do not? they definitely weren't under the previous model, because it was the secondary market where prices were getting set "dynamically". But now that it's happening in the primary market, aren't the artists paid out on a % basis?
Why, so the arbitrators of that system can profit instead? And so the people who appoint them can profit from having such a lucrative power?
There are "wells" to tap the components into. You just add successive layers in a very smart way.
I sometimes worry that we don’t have a culture of science, but a culture of scientists. Very different things in terms of aggregate output.
Nah it's the Buffy TV show fans ignoring the movie
I've been working remotely for years. My wife and I have family scattered all across the US. Once or twice a year we'll take an extended road trip. You can make it from one region (west, southwest, pnw, etc) to the next in one weekend.

I drive on the weekend. Make it to a hotel, family members house, or pitch a tent if it's summer time. My wife and kids visit and vacation while I grind it out in a hotel room or coffee shop.

Before I hit the road I always stack up as much offline work and documentation as I can in case cell reception is poor and I let whoever I'm working with know I'm traveling just in case the car breaks down on one of those weekend hauls.

It's a lot of work, but it's much cheaper, much more laid back, and much less stressful than dealing with airports. It's really nice to not have to worry about flight times. Not to mention, you meet _way_ more interesting people when you're laid up in some off-the-beaten-path town. Wandering the country with no particular timeline feels like a little slice of Americana.

Honestly, traveling like that has restored my faith in humanity. We've had car problems, illnesses, storms, and other fiascos over the years. The number of decent, caring people from all walks of life that come out of the woodwork to help a stranger is heartwarming. It makes you realize that most people are mostly good.
NJ and NY both have some pretty wide ranges of property taxes from town to town, county to county, not just because the percentages might be a bit different, but because their valuation systems are wildly confusing and inconsistent.
The problem isn't that attorneys can profiteer. The problem is that if you spend a bunch of time and money to make available a public resource that you're not making any money off of, you shouldn't be forced to choose between spending way more money on it or taking it away from everyone.
I noticed when Rammstein announced their European tour recently, there was one show listed in Denmark. On the day tickets went on sale, there was a second date at the same stadium.

I assume that's a response to uncertain demand.
>So rather than simply pondering (and suggesting) the question of whether "benefits outweighed the cost" we need to also consider the alternative-cost. How many more would have, or could have, died without the vaccines?

Agreed. But you are not actually speaking to my point. My point is that you cannot assert the vaccines were net-positive at this time.
The random Chinese consumer drones, sure. You could also just block wifi to knock out most of them too.

Current block military drones being imported from Iran are not vulnerable to GPS manipulation because they have backup inertial navigation systems.

After Iran steered an American drone using false GPS signals, the US also implemented inertial and celestial navigation systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...
> almost all of society knew that if they united for a great purpose, they could achieve great things.

What purpose do we share?
> scalpers might sign up for artist clubs?

Yes, which is why selling tickets for more than face value can get you kicked out of the club.
Also why are they even encouraging password sharing? Spotify family plan model makes much more sense, each member of the family plan has their own account with separate login. No more risks of oversharing the password or wondering who changed something.
Sure checks out for my whereabouts in Eastern Europe... And it’s not just USSR legacy. It was there for a looong time since feudal era.
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Not that surprising. AI learning seems to do best with fairly predictable systems, and when it comes to individual outcomes in medicine, there's a lot of mystery involved. A group of people with similar genetic makeup and exposure history to carcinogens or pathogens won't all respond identically - some get persistent cancers, some get nasty infections, and some don't.

For example, training an AI on historical tidal data would likely lead to very good future tide timing and height predictions, without any explicit mechanistic model needed. Tides have high predictability and relatively low variability (things like unusual wind patterns accounting for most of that).

In contrast, there are some current efforts to forecast earthquakes by training an AI on historical seismograph data, but whether or not these will be of much use is similarly questionable.

https://sciencetrends.com/ai-algorithms-being-used-to-improv...
I'm not saying you should be convicted by a single fingerprint.
Exactly, or maybe she simply saw a red apple in her dream. You can think if people as robots and the eyes are sensors that tickle the brain with the red signal. It can happen without actually seeing red. We know this because we have dreams and they are all sorts of sensory experiences that are completely made up by our computer brains.
Wouldn't it be wiser to organize for reform of the law (in concert with disability advocates) than to throw the baby out with the bathwater?
The Misremembered History of the Internet's Funniest Buzzer-Beater
Kinoite is like a KDE-version of Silveblue.

> Also, is silverblue supposed to be fedora + flatpak and flatseal?

Basically. There's a couple other ideas packed in there, but the basic idea is Fedora + Flatpak for all user applications. Putting it lightly, their vision for the future of software distribution is... highly optimistic.

> Is this supposed to be a Nix-like thing?

Kinda? Nix and Flatpak take hugely different approaches to solving largely the same problems. Both projects look similar on the surface, but Flatpak is more about creating comprehensive containerized & sandboxed runtimes for individual programs, whereas Nix focuses on creating a content-addressable dependency store that can be dynamically linked to create complex ephemeral runtimes. Nix runtimes are laser-focused on correctness and their 'composable' nature. Flatpak runtimes are more of a 'kitchen-sink' container, lugging along a lot superfluous dependencies.
Looking at the sites on wayback[1], and it appears that they are all Hebrew language tutorials, so I suspect the '.il' TLD is an important signal to potential victors in this regard. And since this means the audience is almost entirely Israeli, it doesn't make much sense from a web performance perspective to host elsewhere. Just my $0.02.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220513045030/http://www.python...
Like Napoleon was said to have said in his exile (why in English and in a palindrome is never explained in the story) "Able was I ere I saw Elba".
What, "the education system, etc...?" Give me a break.
one thing i love about twitter is the brevity. https://twitter.com/riverguardian/status/1556381516564922376
Well, a lot of corporate compliance in the US is, by design, set up to be private action instigated. Unless you're running directly afoul of the EPA or some other government organization then the enforcement instigation is meant to be triggered by harm to an individual that seeks redress.

This is one of many choices around enforcement that's available - and it seems to be much more generally palatable to Americans than increased government enforcement resources (like the government employing accessibility agents to review websites for compliance).

If you're small and everybody likes you this system often lets you get away with lots of violations - but when you grow in size or if someone is purposefully targeting you it does mean that they can shine an "unfair" amount of light on the particulars of your practice to make sure you're compliant. At the end of the day the good news is that judges have a very central role in mediating these disputes and if complaints are clearly irrational and made in bad faith they'll usually be thrown out - the bad news is that it takes a fair amount of money to get the gears on this process turning and there's no guarantee you'll ever get any of it back.
Yeah, they had 99 problems and a bad tech stack wasn't one of them.

On a more serious note, Elixir is very good but suffers from a problem shared with Erlang. If you do not have experience to grok the OTP way of doing things you'll likely create worse software than if you used something else, or you'll take twice as long. OTOH, if you do grok how to design things using OTP, then the software you create has a decent chance of being fast and fault tolerant.

Erlang in particular is awesome, but I've seen people have trouble finding Erlang devs to hire.
> You end up in all of them.

Except that I've only ever experienced ending up in one of them, so exactly how did the "I" that is typing this right now wind up here, and not in some other branch?

There's an unexplained bifurcation of consciousness implied by MWI which it cannot explain (although I think it suggests the appeal of MWI since it gives enough wiggle room that people think that their free will could control which universe they wind up in, which appeals to everyone's inner Malcolm Gladwell).
"The MWI" is not one thing. There are many-people saying many-things about those many-worls.
The blog post doesn't mention DeepMind. I assume that's because they exclusively use JAX?

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/using-jax-to-accelerate-our-re...
A culture of deprecation certainly helped; you couldn't iMac without it (everyone raged about it not having a floppy drive).

And even so they support carbon or cocoa or whatever it was for longer than people expected.
People with disabilities often struggle to find content they can consume because it's not a11y friendly. Unfortunately in this case lawyers are capitalizing on this law that was made to help people with disabilities to go after websites that are not a11y friendly.

Maybe before shutting down you should consider making your content a11y friendly by adding captions to your videos. It is extra work but consider you may be helping a portion of the population that is often underserved.
>And I simply meant that I don't think that this company wouldn't have been able to do it without. They simply chose not to do it without. And if they so choose it seems reasonable to want to protect those secrets.

You can always choose to share company secrets in an interview

But if a company doesn't understand they don't have to to interview successfully, I seriously doubt their ability to understand how to do pretty much anything else successfully

An interview is advanced marketing - you don't sign and NDA to read a billboard or press release. There's no reason to need to sign one to interview :)
'thisisunsafe' to answer the actual question
Great work on vantage.sh and ec2instances.info!

Quick, small fix: This instance is shown as having 0 GBs of memory, but in fact it has 0.5 GB. https://instances.vantage.sh/aws/ec2/t4g.nano
Just fyi tickets still get scalped.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ticketmaster-resellers-las-...
I don’t understand your response. Are you saying all those other people in other countries are duped by GOP propaganda as well?
What you’re describing is the result of decades of copying other peoples messaging.

B2B marketers pride themselves on “doing it just like the other company BUT BETTER!”

This has led to an endless supply of meaningless corporate jargon.
aka Supply & Demand
What a wonderful idea! I've sent him a tweet offering to help and get access to the videos in order to transcribe them.
There's no way of knowing from the information provided if this is really "I can't do that" or "I just don't want to do that." What effort did he make? What cost was he facing? This is just a little foot-stomping rant. It might feel good, but provides little illumination.
What if you used excerpts from Shakespeare for subtitles, regardless of the video's actual content?
Do you get upset when people say "evolution does X"?

It's the same thing, it doesn't really matter if the process is clean or tumultuous, it's a reasonable heuristic to understand the status quo.
Let's just say that scalpers still manage to represent a significant portion of artist clubs.
Well, it’s simple. Did Facebook announce any ill effects during it quarterly results caused by GDPR? No.

Did they announce a decline in revenue caused by Apple’s ad tracking transparency - yes by the tune of billions and they called that out as the reason,
https://www.youtube.com/AsahiLina
Yet.

One thing media consistently gets wrong is the rate of innovation that is happening. Media also doesn't have access to state-of-the-art models, only from the trigger-happy startups too eager to release half-baked version.

It's akin to downloading Image Generation tools from the App Store and concluding that's state of the art
Not everyone is "fit" for living in dense cities with shared walls, noisy streets and crowded environs. There's a psychological component to being embedded with many people 24/7 that is under-appreciated here, when people fantasize about the ideal society of walkable cities, proportionally-sized dwellings, and density. The latter is for the single, the young and the adventurous. The old cranks like me grow out of it and long for a few thousand feet without noisy student neighbors playing music in the middle of the night or having parties.

Not to mention waiting in lines everywhere to go, and being forced to rub shoulders with lunatics when you need to commute for work or shopping.

At this stage of the game I'm ready for the 2500 sf house.
This is the best accordion I've seen in my life! Such a cool and geeky project. Just what we need more of.
Most importantly, plaintiffs do not need to prove damages in these accessibility lawsuits in israel, which is an awful desig,. So, these lawyers are likely not even impacted by the websites they are suing.
That seems pretty obvious. I don't know why anyone would think differently.
> Any theory involving wave function collapse is adding something extra to quantum physics that can't be demonstrated experimentally.

Title article is literally about trying to test those theories experimentally.
Bioinformatics, the "gift" that keeps on "giving".
Java has long been crippled beyond the regular GC limitations by lack of value types, but that’s finally, finally going away.
It's bad news if:

- we stop building more houses. That's what happened in 2008, and is one of the major causes of the current crisis

- it discourages turnover. IOW, people who should move for work/personal reasons don't because they're underwater or because selling would mean they lose the really nice rate they're currently locked in to. And without turnover, it becomes hard / expensive for people to buy.

The latter issue is a stupid technical reason. The second issue could be solved by transferrable mortgages.
It is a layering violation though. Not all HTTP usage is through a browser, and not all routes go over the plaintext Internet. Browsers or clients can still require HTTPS at the application layer, but it shouldn't be part of the protocol spec.

Suppose I have an app within an intranet that's secured with, say, Wireguard or an application-layer tunnel (eg, SSH or Openziti).

Bringing HTTP/3 into the picture means dealing with CAs and certs on top of the provisioning I've already done for my lower layers, possibly leaking information via Certificate Transparency logs. Then the cost of double-encryption, etc.
Depends on your personality and skill set. When I rented I watched the property management company do a shitty job on all of the work they did. They would treat the renters (not their customer but their customer's customer) with pure contempt. One place would not let me see the lease terms until I paid a non refundable deposit up front (I walked). Another presented a lease renewal with open ended charge backs and used pretty words to tell me how fair they were but refused to modify the lease (I moved).

On the other hand I watched my wife tell a male owner that she would not accept a rent increase and he backed down.

Overall if you only have one property, have the right skill set and personality I would say you are better off doing it yourself. If you cannot say no to a young woman then you had better let someone else take care of it for you.
A friend refurbishes residential buildings in France. They had to seal off the basement because it wasn't wheelchair accessible.
US weighs security reviews for Musk deals including Twitter buy