skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having lots of features != being of high quality. If Eclipse was "slower than molasses", then VS was a brick - as many a poor computer of mine from back then can attest, fans a-spinning at speeds that made hurricanes feel like gentle breezes all because I'd double-click on some random file that VS decided "hey I can open this therefore I should be the default" (and thanks to all that feeping creaturism, that was a lot of files).

Meanwhile, Emacs worked fine. Netbeans worked fine. Eclipse worked okay. Qt Creator existed (though I can't attest to how well it worked then). There were definitely options, and while sure, they lacked a lot of those fancy bells and whistles, at the end of the day were those really worth turning computers into passenger jets?

> But I had a better developer experience using Visual Studio and C# a dozen years ago (!!!) than I have with Node JS now.

That bar is so low that even ants have to duck to get under it.
> Where it gets murky for me is how it interacts with databases. There's mnesia which... I don't understand. Is it embedded?

Mnesia is a application that in my experience runs on some of your Erlang nodes; it provides APIs and also a supervision tree that owns the data. Mnesia is a layer on top of key/value stores; there's some out of the box stores it can use, or there's bindings for LevelDB and Roc0ksDB I guess. When you do a Mnesia read/write/etc, that becomes (more or less) a message sent to an mnesia process, so I'd imagine the LevelDB and RocksDB APIs are only called by a specific mnesia process and there should be no attempt to use the same database by multiple Erlang processes, so you're good from a concurrency point of view.

You can use Mnesia from remote Erlang nodes, it's just sending messages, so easy peasy. However, in my use, we would typically put state management services up on the same nodes storing the data in Mnesia, so we'd send an application message to a process running on the node, which would turn that into mnesia reads/writes as appropriate, and send back a response if appropriate.

If you wanted to use an external database like some sort of SQL, you'd need to find a client and then you could interface with that like in any other language. You'd almost certainly want to put some sort of intermediate connection pool together though, cause most databases aren't thrilled with tons of connections (although there was an article today about going to 1M, so maybe). Our needs fit well with key/value though, so I never looked into that.

> Also how do you test the whole thing? You could test individual processes I guess, but testing the interaction between them all seems fairly impossible.

Everybody has a test environment; some people even have a test environment that isn't production. :)

Testing distributed systems isn't simple. You can test the individual processes, but the interaction between all of them can give rise to emergent behavior which is difficult to test. However an important thing to consider is the importance of testing is related to the cost of failures; if you lower the cost of failures enough, comprehensive testing is much less important. Isolation of processes means that in many cases the rest of the system goes on when one piece fails; of course, if that once piece is in the critical path, that's not true. Hot loading means you can update code without losing established state, which can significantly reduce the update cycle time compared to a system where you need to drain users and restart servers or even longer cycles like in mobile development or even lengthier cycles of traditional boxed software. If you were writing Erlang for boxed software, you'd need to spend a lot more time on testing than in a messaging server.
Maybe it’s my ADHD but i spent a few mins on the site and had little interest in reading the conversations. Feels like you need to do some curating like HN does to elevate the most interesting comments. The chat UI while aesthetically pleasing, it’s more difficult to follow than threaded conversation.
This is almost exactly how noncompetes work in practice in the finance industry, where most employment contracts are governed by New York law or something similar, which will generally require the payment of "consideration" during the noncompete for it to be enforceable. The amount of consideration is part of what you negotiate when you join, generally always at least your most recent base salary at resignation, but possibly much more, i.e. some fraction of your total comp.

Usually the way it works is that when you resign, the employer has a fixed amount of time (specified in your contract) within which to decide whether to exercise the noncompete, and for how long (i.e. they could elect a subset of the maximum term in your contract), and once exercised, they can't change their mind. If you violate the noncompete, they'll of course stop the payments, possibly claw back payments, keep your deferred comp (which they are holding over your head during the noncompete), possibly reset the noncompete clock (so you have to start waiting all over again), and possibly sue you. Details will vary, but broadly that's my experience.

Some consider it one of the major perks of the industry, assuming you become important enough to have it exercised on you, and would be sad to see them banned. Firms consider it money well spent, which makes sense when you consider that investment strategies have no real protection as intellectual property... copyright is only narrowly useful, patenting would mean disclosing, and so at the end of the day they are just trade secrets, which can really only be protected by nondisclosure and noncompete agreements.
Or those takes where it’s argued that because his companies have many hundreds of employees, it’s literally impossible for Elon to have contributed anything of value whatsoever.

Or even more hilariously, that Elon is some kind of marketing genius. Seriously, the guy is the opposite of a smooth communicator, and leans heavily into his autistic sense of humour. Yet apparently the only reason anyone ever bought a Tesla is because they were suckered in by a slick sales pitch.
>templated extensions FUD

You might have missed the recent news on Profiles[0].

Oh, and there's already some designs[1] announced that are RVA22 +V compliant.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33347653

1. https://www.sifive.com/press/sifives-new-high-performance-pr...
HN is pretty pro-Copilot in most threads I've seen. Honestly I think I have seen this comment -- "you programmers sure like generative models when it impacts other industries but you get awfully defensive when it comes to your own!" -- much more often than I have seen anyone actually push back against Copilot.

Frankly I think it's projection from non-SWEs who don't understand that automating your work away is the core mission of software development. There are good reasons to worry about how Copilot might impact the quality of software, especially if it's being used by someone who doesn't understand the generated code, but "what about my job safety??" is nowhere on the list.
Which is a fine point of view. But it’s not the one that many (most?) detractors actually hold.

It would imply that you cannot offend open source licenses by doing something as simple as recreating a codebase in another language, thus eliminating the exact matches.
By that logic, scramjets are the simplest of all!

But really, there’s an order of magnitude more engineering that goes into so many facets of rockets and rocket engines. On paper they’re similar, but the stresses and constraints are much, much higher.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63083634

The article indicated a 20% rise in cancer rates in populutions around these oil sites from 2015 to 2018.

We can only wonder how many decades this has been occuring in oil-rich countries with poor recordkeeping.
Stealing stuff so you can get rich selling it is worse than stealing for private use.

Stealing from idealist volunteers is worse than stealing from a random person.
> I believe it was kind but the tone does not get across the textification.

I don't know that it is kind to say to someone that they're "full of shit".
To all complainers, please continue complaining, but it will cost $8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_of_Nineteen_Eighty-...

The Ministry of Truth (Newspeak: Minitrue) is the ministry of propaganda. As with the other ministries in the novel, the name Ministry of Truth is a misnomer because in reality it serves the opposite: it is responsible for any necessary falsification of historical events. However, like the other ministries, the name is also apt because it decides what "truth" is in Oceania.

It is not about truth, it is about rewriting truth so it is propaganda.
> Not if the switching cost is high and/or slow.

This seems to be one of the key goals of Jack Dorsey's bluesky over Mastadon. Mastadon apparently has a lot of friction when trying to switch servers, even though it's a federated protocol. Bluesky claims to want make it much more trivial to take your identity to any provider on the federated network.
This was actually in the Mastodon client app that I was using.
There is still room yet for more twists, turns, ducks, and jabs. Only time will reveal The Real Plan.
I think you're mistaking political problems for being implementation details that are easily fixed.

Versus the reality in which they are the hardest problems that exist for humanity at the current moment.

Russian gas is literally not replaceable by liquid natural gas, or any other energy source, as imports for most of Europe this winter.

It's theoretically fungible on an infinite time frame. We do not live in a theoretical universe.
> Every study that comes through here somebody invariably trots out the old "correlation does not equal causation" argument.

Well, it's still true, and still applicable.

> You're not wrong, but you know, sometimes it is causation.

No, I don't know, and neither do you. That's... kind of the problem.
I like the way you werk it
See January 6th for examples of recent political violence
I'd assume the previous 10,000 or so years wherein humans created civilization up to about 1980.
>So really no I wouldn't hear of him

I guess if you never step foot into a library, bookstore, movie theatre, etc. Sure.

King does not sell books because of his presence on a social network. He sold 350 million copies of his books before Twitter was even invented.

"die hard fans" the only ones to hear of King? Big lol.
To put this in perspective, the 18300kg per hour from the Permian site is equivalent (over a 100 time horizon global warming potential) to a 500 Megawatt coal power plant's CO2 emissions (~1kg of CO2 per kWh of electricity) burning 24/7. Or, to put it another way, it accounts for the same emissions as about 0.3% of the entire US electricity grid.
This is cool, but Facebook already leaked my phone number in 2021, forcing me to stop accepting calls from unknown numbers. It’s too late for deletion now.
And my crazy neighbors insist on burning leaves instead of just mulching/composting. It's atrocious outside, and its all so pointless.
There's also the possibility that cheapboozeforstudents and statestudentaid.gov are colluding - either directly or because of corrupt employees - against the ID holder. We have seen examples where banks issued loans in user's name against fake IDs/applications.
My place in an extremely desirable area in Setagaya ku (56m2, 5 mins from Shimokita by foot) is 25man, same size in a equally centrally located part of Suginami ku (Koenji) would be around 15man, bump it out to Mitaka and you’re looking even cheaper, go 10-15 mins from the station instead of 5 and it’s dirt cheap.
From the linked article:

> Statebox is blending an ACT approach to Petri nets together with blockchain technology to develop a technology stack based on a visual programming language. In addition, they have built a software engine for compositional game-theoretic modeling, a finite state machine oracle.

Hmm.

More seriously:

> Structured cospans of Petri nets were implemented
in the software package Julia to develop an SIR model that
is compositional in the sense that various cities can each
have their own model that can be connected together to
form a composite SIR model

SIR is the most common way of modelling infectious diseases. Having said that though - there are plenty of SIR models that don't require category theory.
Right - that's the "drinker's permit" concept I'm talking about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33430005
Except things didn’t really switch West for many years and a lot of other factors were in play.
There a huge demand for animation, that is currently being unsatisfied.
Youtube used to have a large genre of short-animations. They all died out, because their production costs are way higher than what weekly-ad-revenues can sustain, compared to the incredibly cheap costs of talking heads, which can update daily.
Not everyone will like animation, but there'll probably at least 50x animation on youtube in 2 years than today.

There's also the quality issue. Animation scales very linearly with budget. With low budget, the best you can do is flash animation, which limits the formats of story you can tell very heavily (99+% comedy)
With AI, individuals can match the quality of professional animation teams, which drastically expands the range of ideas they can explore. So that eliminates a lot of the boredom.

Note this wouldn't displace existing animation studios, it'll just allow them to push their production values way way higher. For hand-drawn animation, even top-budget films, still have moments where they cheap out. In the future, the standard is going to get pushed insanely high, where every frame will be screenshot worthy, because they are literally AI illustrations.
Aka, instead of one Mona-Lisa, expect 1000 Mona Lisa paintings, formed into an animation of Mona-Lisa going through her day in renaissance Italy.

The actual threatened jobs, aren't in animation, but in live action. Because its far harder to make perfect photo-realistic images than stylized images. This gives animation an advantage that live action doesn't have.
For example, the recent Rings of Power cost 1 billion, but an AI animation would both look better, and cost far far less. Sci-Fi and fantasy shows are especially vulnerable to competition from animation.
The TOTP URIs can be exported - I use this to export them into Bitwarden:
https://gist.github.com/gboudreau/94bb0c11a6209c82418d01a59d...
His profile reads:

> Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator

> Twitter NY

Is he no longer residing at SF HQ as Chief Twit?
>...all the pictures in the article actually show that...

This simply is no longer as true as it once was. And has been for at least a decade. More than three decades ago my forward thinking cobol programmer friend stated, drunk, that in the future someone called a wedding photographer will be able to walk into an event with a digital camera, wave it around, then select images for publication without having to sit people, set tripods, or wait for that one-off unique special moment. They were right.
I love the idea, and the roadmap sounds nice, but I would really like to see a 5 min tutorial or short documenting exactly how I could use it day to day.
You got this very wrong. Read up Art of War written before Jesus. Espionage is a very important chapter. Americans are rather weak academic these days. You go to any American university and see how many "Asians" there. You will find a lot of Chinese. It is common for Americans not able to speak English well or just English. It is very uncommon not to find Chinese that can read and write Chinese AND English. There are about 4x more Chinese than Americans population. You do the math, one society has more people and higher ratio of hardworking people and very educated vs Americans that twerks more on TikTok (which is an app by China....and possibly Chinese Military). Heck even westerner GoT series are written based on Chinese history. Look up war of seven princes and Cersei equivalent during Jin dynasty. Americans themselves stoled Nazi Germany tech too. USA days are very numbered (this is foretold in many Eastern prophecies even those in Russia). The great west superpower will get destroyed very similar to Atlantis (perhaps explosion of Yellowstone volcabic activities) mentioned in many of these prophecies.
The output is transformative. But in order to use it as an input to a training set, you're effectively making a copy that may or may not be authorized, not to mention at some level the intermediate representation might well present a copyright issue. "Style" isn't the issue.

I think on an ethical level we're just going to need the expectation of separate agreements / legal conceptions for having ones work go into a training set. It's novel territory, providing not only work-for-hire but meta-work-for-hire. Might even be that there's no true compensation without equity.
I discovered Evan Miller at the same time I started using Erlang, around 2009/2010. I used Chicago boss, his Erlang framework, in three projects.

The third project was a complete rewrite of a really badly created dating website written in PHP that would crash at least once a day and would be unbereablly slow, built by 5 people for a full year.
We rewrote everything in 3 months, with two developers, while adding features that were impossible to do otherwise.
One lighting bulb moment is when we realize we could use ejabberd and the xmpp protocol for way more than messages and chats, but also to handle our news feed.
Once we launched the rewrite, the website became extremely fast and stable.
Since then, the BEAM has always been my go-to platform, even if now I use elixir.

There is no platform/language that makes me feel more productive and confident about the code I write.
The fact I can introspect the code (the repl is way more than a repl), the crazy stability of the runtime, and the simplicity of the language makes it a no brainer.

LiveView is a game changer. We built our entire e-commerce stack on it, it runs flawlessly.

My only issue with the Elixir/Erlang ecosystem is its lack of business oriented libraries and solutions:
- not many payment gateway integrations
- no CMS / E-commerce platforms
- quite no ready to use open source apps

Yes it's not as fast in pure performance as many other programming languages, but in practice, it's fast as hell due to concurrency and performance doesn't degrade with load.

And so many exciting things are being developed, from LiveView based native apps to ML and IOTs.
Using AI to create more powerful AI
Looks like Taylor Swift's new release on CD is $14 at Target right now and $12 for digital download.

They're not paying $10, they're paying more.
Revenue or profit? I don't know how much profit they make but their revenue is significantly more than Twitter
Could go for a bike ride and grab ice cream with Biden.
Same thought here. If I see “contact us” for pricing, it means you’re gonna try and screw me over somehow. I usually avoid those even when I have a large budget.

…hell, if I have to speak to a human when I don’t think it’s necessary, then we probably won’t do business.
> X is faster than python for Y

I feel that this statement is true for most values of X and Y. I've yet to find a mainstream language that's slower than python, or a task at which python is truly the most performant.
Generative AI is CGI. But I think it's going to be a much more profound shift than was CGI. I don't think anyone really yet knows what it'll mean. I'll also claim that it won't really mean anything until it's combined with 3D ray tracing. So what's going to be "generated"? A 3D model, right? All the current AI CGI stuff that I've seen is 2D.
Don’t ever use a service that only offers “contact us” pricing.
Done.
It did come down in Western Australia though, the remote local council sent the US government a ~$100 fine for littering. Pretty sure they paid it.

Edit: They never paid it, and it was $400

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70708/nasas-unpaid-400-l...
"Pricing as Code" would be a better tagline I guess?
If they didn't have it before, they sure as hell have it now after you just put into that form ;)
Federation and acceptance are key.

My country of citizenship has been issuing PIV(?)-based smartcards for more than a decade now, yet almost nobody could (and still can) verify them within the country, let alone abroad.

On the other hand, the EU digital Covid certificate project managed to get pretty widespread adoption in a short timeframe – with a vastly simpler technology stack backing it.

I'm really hoping the eIDAS project or a similar private initiative manages to use that momentum and bring (hopefully private) ID verification to the web. Whenever I "verify my identity" for a request to my bank by attaching a photo of my driver's license to an email, something in me dies...
I absolutely love you for this comment. I totally understand and have been there lately myself. Hang in there my friend.
I can think of few would like to be rich more than the poor.
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> I got into Twitter six months ago for work and it took me a lot of time and patience and looking around to grok.

As I already said, the problem isn't that I don't "grok" Mastodon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33429036

It didn't take me that long to grok Twitter.

> It reads as the dismissal of someone who doesn't like new things and just wished it was like their old thing.

I've used many different social networks over the years: Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, IRC, App Dot Net (I paid for ADN!), Micro.blog, now Mastodon, and others I can't remember the names of anymore. I even used dial-up BBSes back in the day! I think I'm reasonably experienced and can make an educated evaluation of a new one.
My guess is that most of their ad business relations are managed out of their New York offices, and ads being the overwhelming majority of Twitter revenue, that's where he is now.
I don't think it's criminal, I just think it's wrong.
I’ve seen both but agree that BuildZoom posts a lot.
I'm trying to understand. The impact reported by the study seems to compound with higher amounts (I would imagine as liver and kidney throughput is exceeded and the poison hits you more directly).

Standard Control:

GMV WMV

0–1 AU −0.030 −0.020

1–2 AU −0.127 −0.074

2–3 AU −0.223 −0.129

So cumulatively, 0-3 drinks is is GMV: -0.380, WMV: -0.223

What I don't know and can't seem to find with a quick search is the conversion method for IDP standard deviations in brain matter relate to absolute percentages of brain matter (which I assume is not linear?). If your comment is correct, then these numbers correlate to an absolute reduction of 2% of brain matter?

I also see that the third drink seems to do about 50% more standard deviation movement than the former 2 put together.

EDIT: Never mind it's been a while since I took statistics, I remembered that standard deviations _are_ a linear amount. I'd been thinking of percentile placement on a normal distribution.
I’m an advertiser and I think you understate how ad platforms incentivize quality content (via quality scores that affect price) and overstate how this twitter blue proposal would do so.

Also you greatly simplify how current advertising works. It’s not anywhere as simple as you describe.
Good suggestion! That's what we've been using on https://www.tier.run
even with every disease cured and without aging, you still will die by some random event unless you hide away in a bunker - in which case the bunker will eventually collapse and you will still die