skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can very much relate to how you feel about the flow of fixing bugs. Have you considered finding bugs? There's already a thriving freelance ecosystem around that. Hacker one / bug crowd etc. Once you report them you may be able to suggest ways for companies to fix the bugs and possibly get hired as a contractor to that end.
> Blind appeals to authority are not appropriate here.

True! Duly upvoted. Although I feel his arguments are closely reasoned and don’t agree with your point. And the person I responded to brought nothing you to the table.

Where is it that Walter is obviously wrong, by the way? Not trying to be argumentative. I just did not see the holes in his argument that you do.
Ask HN: Practice Projects
I am looking for practice projects that have a skeleton repo and issues/tickets to implement so I can practice adding features, refactoring, passing a CI, TDD etc.

Does something like this exist?
I don't see any ad when I search for "gimp". Maybe it's only targeting Windows users?

edit: nevermind. I was being saved by ublock origin. Searching with it disabled shows the malicious ad.
For those of us who are not biochemists, he's talking about Roundup (glyphosate).
Scott Forstall was fired from Apple 10 years ago today
That’s what I call out-of-the-box thinking
My favorite line from the book "Wake up, check phone, let's see what fresh horrors the fresh horrors device has for us today"
Leech, by Hiron Ennes. Gothic SF/horror story, set in a cold northern town built around a crumbling chateau. A doctor from the Institute is sent to find out how the previous doctor died, because the Institute has always known immediately when one of their own dies, until now. Memorable characters inhabit an unsettling world.

Afterparty, by Daryl Gregory. SF yarn in which a startup created a drug that makes you know that God is real and loves you. The protagonist is one of its creators who had too much of it, and is now followed around by an archangel in a lab coat that only she can see. The drug was never released because of side-effects like this, but now it’s been spotted in the wild and she wants it eradicated. This one is tons of fun.
I somewhat agree... The story and sci fi elements are brilliant, some of those where ground breaking extremities for me - those I really enjoyed. The characters are mostly shallow shells to narrative the happenings without any development and often lacking reason and common sense which I really hated.
Well that’s a derivative joke
The inability for seemingly intelligent people to grasp why this argument is wrong really frustrates me.

Yes, the earth has had countless cycles of heating and cooling which preceded and had nothing to do with humans. That does not preclude the possibility that the current changes we are observing are anthropogenic.

That’s like saying “the wind has blown my screen door open in the past. Therefore if I hear it open today, it is impossible that it’s because a person entered”.

The most grating part is how smugly this ridiculous argument is put forth, as though the debate has just been decisively settled.
For every React there are 1000 other open source projects run entirely by volunteers.

I am curious if there is actual data on the number of man-hours that are spent on open source per year, and how many of those are funded by corporations. My guess is that it is less than 1%.
> Interesting distinction, but once the object is replaced by scalars, those scalars are placed on the stack.

No, they become data flow edges, so could be in a register, or part of an addressing operation, or value-numbered, or nothing at all if they’re never used, so only on the stack as a worst-case fallback.

> Do I understand it correctly that you are saying real stack allocation would involve allocating the whole object, including the header, on the stack

Yes, which is useful in some cases, but generally a lot weaker than full scalar replacement.
TDANNs reproduce the hallmarks of primate face processing network
Exactly. Regardless of how horrible war videos are, they are still directly true history, and their loss is seriously concerning. I knew people who, despite knowing very little of the war, were cheering on FSA attacks against civilians, because of "Assad support".

When a video of them throwing a teenage boy into the back of a pickup truck and sawing his head off started making the rounds, their opinion changed completely. Even if they were full of crackpots, these sites documented objectively just how terrible and extremely brutal these wars are.
>Dinner is bribery?

it very well could be.

I know plenty of people that could be persuaded to do things by the mere chance to meet someone that they adore.

'Dinner' is often just code for "let me introduce you to X business associate", which has definite real-world persuasive power for people that need to make those connections.

It would be unsurprising for an oil-tycoon to try to purchase a plate at a dinner with lots of oil-state-politicians. This isn't for the sake of good company, it's to further business interests.
We can! It’s a lot of work because you don’t have the whole JS ecosystem to fall back on, but to some that’s a feature not a bug.

My favorite example of this is https://makepad.dev
"He made every Twitter engineer print out the code they wrote in the past 60 days for review before his lawyers warned him that was a bad idea lol"

Where is the popcorn while I am enjoying this show - code reviews by Musk.
Or even your local library
I can agree that it's foolish to expect payment for labor done without agreement of compensation, but your likening of volunteering at a soup kitchen to Amazon profiting from FOSS contributions doesn't quite land for me.
As somebody said above, there is a difference between performance choices made by platform providers vs application writers ( or game studios ).

Getting acceptable performance in my game despite my focus on playability and time to market is one of the benefits of platform choice. I want to focus on my game, not overcoming platform limitations.

I am not saying a single 1% makes a difference but the idea that performance in the platform does not matter is wrong.
Original author here. Didn’t expect my little hobby project to land on the front page of Hacker News. In the midst of a complete rewrite of the language which I unfortunately only get to nibble at here and there; will hopefully publish it soon.
Show HN: Rewriting SparkSQL in Python
Last year around this time I was joking with people if you can hack together something like SparkSQL with all the best Python open-source: Polars/Arrow/Ray/SQLGlot.

So here it is.

Definitely NOT production ready -- but should work for most advertised use cases.

Only has a dataframe/datastream API right now, working on full SQL support. Hard because of all the weird SQL people write :-P
Yes, I tried rotating and it "kinda" works, but lots is still clipped.

I'll try the arrow thing :)

p.s. did you see Decker yesterday?

https://beyondloom.com/decker/index.html

It's a port of Hypercard to the browser, slightly similar to this project.
This is a horrible language hack perpetrated and perpetuated by people who think a form like "a/one two-hundredth" is some kind of fancy-pants pointy-haired intellectual nonsense that will lose their target audience of the mathematically and grammatically illiterate. Oh well.
It is not who you know, it is who knows you! Seems like a small nuance but realizing this changes how you think about building relationships.
Terms is just a document Google uses to absolve itself of all responsibility. Look! On this document nobody really reads it says we don't allow this. See? Not our fault that our advertising platform linked you to malware or to scam websites.

The proper response is of course to ignore their excuses and block all advertising unconditionally.
You are right about public transport, as a cyclist I like the Dutch solution.

I don't believe you have been to China recently. There is no need to offload your assumptions about what Chinese people have for breakfast or how they put their socks on. This thread was all about self driving cars and they have a different approach to you.
I made a guestbook for my website using GitHub Gist and Netlify Functions
Goddamn it I thought it wouldn't go higher than that and now it +120% lol. A lot of crazy speculation given Musk hasn't even announced anything regarding Doge being used on Twitter.
That training is given to general employees, not to the lobbying firms that the company hires.
Fifth Head of Cerberus was a huge shock for me when I read it.

Couldn't believe I spent so much time reading SF without having heard of this.
I guess D doesn't fits my use cases.

I mostly write native mobiles apps (hello Kotlin), but ocasionally deal with backend codes in... Go.

If I need "C++ replacement" for system programming, then the choice would be umm... Rust?
What is it derivative of?
> Does anybody else have thoughts to share about this?

Yes, a couple.

1. Put your software into a foundation before you take VC money. This will force you to adopt a business model that does not depend on establishing what amounts to a proprietary monopoly on the software. It may also reduce your valuation in the eyes of many VCs.

2. Use a different funding model. Revenue-based financing [0] is a good alternative for any business that has ARR. It works well for rapidly growing SaaS businesses. You will pay credit card levels of interest but you keep control of the company which means that you can do what you want.

I'm not saying that either of these options is easy. Both oblige you to figure out how to operate profitably or close to it from the start. That's hard to impossible for capital-intensive businesses. But it is far easier to be virtuous with respect to licenses if you are making money.

My company currently uses revenue-based financing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue-based_financing
Reported to Google, for whatever that's worth. Currently (12:42 Eastern, 29 October) the ad is #1 hit and links to www...giimp...org which further links to some very sketchy looking downloads off the discord CDN.

I've been using Bing for a year now. Not perfect, but 1) never seen something like this on it and 2) if Google feels less like an invincible monopolist, perhaps they'll have some incentive to provide an acceptable service.
Could this be used in fuel cells also?

Whatever happened with fuel cells anyway? Did we give up on them?
Your skepticism is warranted. Of course the negative affects of these chemicals is down played by those who sell them. Many leech into ecosystems, our homes, and our bodies causing obvious and latent issues. I personally love insects and plants considered weeds as they are critical to our biosphere. I have learned to live with and around them managing a balance both in my house and in my garden. Chemical warfare should be a last resort.
Fists fights are great. Quick resolution of said problem and emotions. One of my best friends over the last few decades was a person I hated till we physically fought each other in our 20s.

Another example is American parents. Since you can’t spank your kids you have to resort to hurting their feelings with words to discipline them. No wonder teens in this country hate their parents.
In this meta-analysis, the regret rate of GAS was found to be 1%.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099405/#:~:tex...).

Compare this to:

Prostrate surgery: https://www.europeanurology.com/article/S0302-2838(08)00764-... (19%)

Knee surgery: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6961288/#:~:tex... (6-30%)

Mastectomy for breast cancer: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/964824 (8% -- and this is presented as very low!)

The satisfaction rate for gender-affirming surgery is in a completely different league from the rest of medicine. (And I have a lot of sympathy for the few people that do regret them -- I'm good friends with one such person.)
I doubt it. Sam Bankman-Fried sank 11 million into getting a biosecurity expert elected in a Democratic Primary, and got less than 20% of the votes.
(article from August)
Tchaikovsky has a lot of good stuff out there already, and shows no signs of slowing. If you liked Elder Race, you’ll probably also like the novella The Expert System’s Brother and its sequel, The Expert System’s Champion.
I love my Chromebook: Reason 1, it's a Linux desktop
She may be getting off relatively easy. If she happened to be in an embassy, it might have cost her an arm and a leg, and another arm and another leg...
“Little is known about her other than that she criticised Saudi leaders.”

Just wow
Ask me anything :-)
It was mentioned on reddit August 18, 2022. How this person came to this conclusion is unknown. There is no source. Notably, this is more than a month before her death. Strange.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/ws3kk1/kat...
It's probably helpful context that this repo is a startup who wants to act as a middleman for OSS monetization payments.

- "PayDevs is "Monetization as a Service" for open source libraries. At paydevs.com, we provide closed registries for OSS maintainers to publish their compiled software libraries (or built packages). We restrict access to these registries and collect a contribution from private and corporate users to fill a money pool that is distributed each month based on the number of users a library has."
Had not. I'll look it right now. My project is not about painting itself, it's more about running custom filters on images and custom equations to blend them.

The paint option came when I needed a way to mask part of the image.
The developer made tons of money on a forward looking basis from the market expectation that you would mow your lawn.

And everyone who sold their home for a profit did.

And everyone who is now making their home available as a traditional rental is.

And everyone who provides their home as a short-term (vrbo, airbnb, etc) rental is.
Does zero mean no backlight or lowest?

It doesn't matter, what matters is how windows worked with the drivers. And the issue remains: the hardware companies and device driver authors won't sufficiently help Linux with compatibility.

When large countries (China has sort of woken up to this) realize that Linux is a fundamental national security defense, and properly legitimizes and funds it (IMO EU should be funding Linux development on the order of 2-10 billion per year, since it is a practical economic/cultural weapon against US/Apple/Windows/Google OS supremacy as well as a defense by having your own OS infrastructure to securely operate),

Anyway, if that happened, so much good stuff on linux desktop would happen, but alas, .... no.
>the fact that stock value is as real as cash. It's not "paper value" where gains and losses are somehow imaginary or don't count.

Sure, but what is also real is that nominal equity prices can go up or down at anytime, whereas the nominal amounts of cash should not.

When VOO price goes down, I think of that as a very different loss than if my checking/savings account balance were to have gone down without me withdrawing from it.

One should not expect nominal equity prices to be a certain number, or a certain minimum number, especially single stocks. It is paper value, as far as I am concerned.
Checking this book out, thanks.
>> GDC/LDC are great because that allows D to be highly portable, even if they are slower to compile than DMD

So you'd use DMD for development because it compiles fast, and once debugging/testing/etc are completed, you build the "production release" using LDC/GDC?
And yet Countries who decry this still support that regime by buying Oil from them. Too bad the West does not have any backbone. Really it is time to stop Oil Subsidies and put all that money into alternative, including nuclear.
I like authoritarian governments that enforce my outlook on life. This isn’t a throwaway comment, please try and think about what I said before you downvote it, you probably feel the same.
> what are you doing to drive awareness of the problem to the rest of us?

I'm not specifically a specialist of herbicides (I know much more about biomedical stuff), but my experience during the pandemic has completely put me off trying to educate others. I've become extremely cynical and de-energized: the people who need help don't want it.
Don't wait for permission.
I think the problem is that the behaviour that is called "lobbying" is better described as "bribery" when you look at the mechanics of what is actually happening. The words of course mean different things, but what is happening in the US is actually bribery.
People don’t work “On Call” any more? That’s news to me.
Wireguard doesn’t use openssl.
Good that we have sanctions against a country that invades a neighbor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian%E2%80%93led_inte...), kills journalists and imprisons people for social media posts.
I mean, it kind of did. I don't know if you were there, but if it didn't have an impact, we wouldn't be talking about it today.
I mean, Unix/Linux was top to bottom C for a long time. It still kind of is. Higher level languages aren't needed per se, but they do make life easier.
>Are you serious? Why would I ever use that app?

Because it would be incredibly convenient. Link a restaurent to your friends in a chat, talk about going there, all of them have the location and you can split the bill, all in the same app.

It might not have the best business index, or the best chat, or the best map, or the best payment manager, but it would be far, far superior to trying to coordinate all of those services through different apps.

And it's not that you need to want all of this, it's that if people around you use it you have enormous pressure to use it as well, because in the previous scenario if you are the guy who doesn't use such app then you have to be catered to specifically through and through, which is annoying for everyone.
Journaling works for me. I just need to get the thoughts out of my head and then I can get on with my day.
This is a godsend considering I'm just starting an FFMPEG project right now. Do you have any other resources you recommend to fully grasp FFMPEG and even what it's capable of? This website is awesome btw!
Neato, image processing can be pretty dope ;)
Is this a thing? I don't like 960, but with crazyhouse it could be fun.
Correct, and any Companies, including Large Companies can "contribute" any amount they want because they are considered "people".
With its expansionist policy, would you really want a Russian-made nuclear plant on your grid? People were panicked about Huawei's networking gear snooping their traffic; a backdoored power plant is a nightmare.
If you were as confused as I was where "run" is defined and how "output" gets set, and what the heck the bats extension is:

(1) https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core/blob/ca5a2dce94/lib/b...

(2) https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core/blob/ca5a2dce94/lib/b...

(3) bash automatic testing system.
No. But there are people with ambitions to create robots that will take over my job and yours and everyone's.

Sure hope so. Then I can move even closer to self-actualization than I am now.

If there had ever been a single inflection point in history where Luddism was the right answer in the long run, I'd be more sympathetic to the pessimistic point of view. As things stand, though, doesn't their argument amount to a special pleading fallacy? "It's different this time!" No... no, it's not.
Ask HN: What mindset change made the biggest positive change for you?
Always curious about these things, because I think too much about how to think, what to think, how best to be etc... it can be in any domain, no matter how small, if it made a difference to you, i'm curious, how/why.
Awesome I hope it works out for you!
I bought at .05 USD and I just sold at .13 USD, but I'm buying in again at .14. Not missing this bubble. I missed BTC big time and been kicking myself ever since. In Musk I believe, let's go Doge!
That's hyperbole. The requirement would probably be something like document it and don't block it.
Yes, it's amazing. Now we just need a Clion plugin that uses nimsuggest so I can actually use an IDE... :)
Today not. Heck, today even 20 years olds are not emotionally and intellectually mature enough for most things (including marriage and love).

Back in the day perhaps was different, as people aged faster. Now, for example, the common person marries somewhere around 30 (and many even later). Back then you could very commonly be married with the first kid on the way (or ready) at 18-20, and that's for both men and women.
Yes, let's mention that chess.com is still very ok-ish service, haven't had any problem with them, nor with paid version, nor with free version.
Lex Fridman: Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI
Because there's been lots of research on how much advertising affects election outcomes and it's minimal.( At the federal/state level, in smaller races where voters lack information about either candidate it can be slightly more influential)

I can't imagine a Russian internet trolls with much a smaller reach and lower budget are going to be that much effective than best political ad minds of America at changing our opinions. (For Russian governmental organizational competency see Ukraine)

And then anecdotally I could have predicted every person's i knows vote a year before based on how they felt about woke culture and their party identification.
No no, we have access to both the registrar and DNS provider, and have already updated DNS as instructed by Google. (We're doing the DNS in Google Cloud) They don't seem to care that we control the domain...
It'll be down to $10, the metaverse "innovation" sucks the FCF, which should investor's divident. And their innovation lacks of revenues
This isn't a comparison... this is a series of lists.
Michelle Obama is fairly tall (5'11") and has a masculine jawline. I'm black and I LOL'd the first time I saw her called a Wookie (probably in the dumpster fire comments section of ZeroHedge). I mean, take a look: https://starsunfolded.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Michell...

Alicia Keys or Keri Hilson she ain't....

If she were an absentee First Lady and less proactive, I could totally see someone calling her "Sasquatch" (a big mythical ape-creature rarely captured on camera) as a criticism and I'd be ok with that.

Babylon Bee attacked a high-profile trans public servant in a way meant to (IMO) provide commentary on society's approach to trans issues and the implications for biological females? I'm ok with that too. I think some comedian, maybe Bill Burr or Andrew Schulz, had a similar bit: "Men are so awesome we're even better at being women than actual women. That's why a Man[Bruce Jenner] is Woman of the Year[Caitlyn Jenner], in his first year as a woman." or something to that effect.
Rust and Haskell present a very different programming experience, and so does an untyped language like JavaScript. Just because you can program in Rust for web development doesn't mean developers will want that type of experience. The C++ comparison makes more sense since Rust presents that style of programming done better.
This is why I’ve gotten tired of him. He’s yet another thermometer just reading the temperature to figure out how to profit. No surprise that reading changes everywhere he goes.

He’s a politician/actor for business, and people love it. Everybody claims to hate politics, but it’s become yet another reality tv drama to which we’ve become addicted. Elon is a great actor and he’s paid very well for it. He knows the game he’s playing, and has no moral compass to hold him back.

Unfortunately, it’s the most real form of reality tv yet, where we all eventually bear the consequences. Personally, I have never and will never use or read Twitter. My concern for most social media platforms is whether or not they’re going to damage society.

It’s not like we have a choice anyway. So take a good look at your surroundings, and a year or two from now, ask yourself if we’re better or worse off than now.
Anyone else moving away from the cloud? From AWS to the utility room server :)