skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where did I say that FP was obviously beneficial? You're reading too much into my question. I was questioning the GP's epistemology.

> talking like engineers rather than sales people.

They do talk like this - go to any Haskell conference and it's 90% engineering papers - much better than e.g. a JS conference. It's just that most people don't even know what PL engineering even looks like, let alone how to interpret it.
HP Reverb has been described as better than the Index and Quest 2

Unlikely - unless strictly on hardware specs - the Quest 2 is almost universally regarded (Google will confirm) as the best current headset, simply on bang for buck.
If VR is successful, can WiFi 7 handle a family of four playing their games in the evening, with neighbors who require the same bandwidth?
Hard work is necessary, but not sufficient. One also needs the audacity to do things everyone else says are impossible - like making a new car company from scratch, or reusable rockets - something NASA has failed at for 60 years.

(The space shuttle had to be essentially rebuilt after every mission, the boosters were thrown away, the concept was a dead-end from the start.)
Is Gwern [1] actually Stephen Wolfram's alter ego? Two sides of the same coin

[1] https://www.gwern.net/
> Knowing where to switch between freeways and surface streets, and what route to take in what conditions, can cut half off the driving time.

Yes - I remember as a kid learning how to read maps and noticing my dad's face when I was like "These cities are only 10 miles apart. Why does it take an hour to get to grandfather's?".

The surface streets are an especially interesting blindspot a lot of drivers have. There was a period around the turn of the century where I was commuting between Santa Ana and Garden Grove and freeway traffic was generally manageable early in the morning but on the trip home it was often better to cruise down the surface streets where the lights were timed around 20mph than to sit in stop-and-go traffic on 405 or 55/5.
SQRL Secure Quick Reliable Login
People push misinformation under their real name all the time. Why anyone would expect this to change that, I don't know.

Meanwhile, plenty of people will farm out verification of accounts for purposes where paying the verification fee for an illusion of authority will be worth it for a lot of uses.
It's totally happening. We've seen packages targeting a lot of the big exchanges. Most of the packages are targeting developers directly though; attempting to exfil the users wallets/keys.
I feel like all these articles about magical self-transformation through psychedelics are misleading and somewhat inaccurate. I would have liked to see more about the actual psychedelic experience itself rather than the aftermath. As an occasional "field researcher" of psychedelics, I'm skeptical of these magical claims like "curing" depression with mushrooms or discovering love after taking LSD without saying much about what actually changed in their thought processes or how that happened. Maybe I've yet to have that trip that will make me understand the magic, but I haven't read many accounts of the actual psychedelic experience that have been particularly compelling.

Psychedelics do seem to break down lifelong mental models and thus increase your level of self-awareness but I've personally never been able to integrate these trip experiences to anything meaningful in my daily life. The insights I've gained from psychedelics have had little to no impact on my overall mental health, emotional regulation, interpersonal relationships, etc. There seems to be a large gap between the psychedelic state of mind and the "ego" mind that we must embrace in daily life. Sure, I've had interesting trips that made me question the nature of consciousness and reality. I've alos had trips where I broke down all my mental models and experienced pure randomness/chaos, which I believe is just somewhat incompatible with my Earthly existence, which makes integration difficult.

This "self-awareness" is a common theme I've experienced in trips is just the pure randomness of reality/existence. There is no "reason" why anything happens. There's no reason you are you, and there's no reason to be anything different. I think if you truly explore self-awareness, you will reach this point. You are a configuration that has no inherent "reason" to be that particular configuration. You can hope to transform into a different configuration, but there's no compelling reason to be anything else because at the core, everything is arbitrary. The best you come out with is a sense of disillusionment or depersonalization. Maybe you can overcome this point in the journey and reach "enlightenment". I've yet to experience what's past this, but maybe someone else can shed some light on that.

Actually, I wonder if more self-awareness can be a bad thing for some people, and if that's what it comes down to. Often times when I feel the most self aware, I'm the most lost in my own head and disconnected from reality and other people. This isn't objectively a bad thing, but I don't see how it leads to realizations about love and connectedness, which I think are the real antidotes to things like depression and emptiness.
Using AI to solve math problems so you don’t have to! How good is GPT-3 at solving math and programming problems? Specifically, how good is GPT-3 at solving problems from Project Euler? Prompt engineering can yield good results
He got his career started in software but my overall impression from Ashlee Vance's book, news reports about Tesla, etc is that Elon just doesn't have the same good judgement in software that he does in engineering. I mean, he's smart and hard working and could iterate features fast but that's different from sustainable software engineering. And Twitter isn't really about software at his level, it's more organization where I also don't think he has an unusual talent. He is a heavy user of the platform, though, unlike the people who had been running it and it's possible that will give him better judgement over which features matter.
Haskell Revitalisation
There’s a whole meme in blind about aerospace engineers earning peanuts. Not sure if there are too many wanna be astronauts or just the nature of finances when primary customer is the gov. Even SpaceX is supposed to pay only soso!
Honesty, I believe this because of the maturity of powershell and not any inability in nushell. Having literally the number of commandlets and having entire .net framework available makes powershell have more options.

Additionally, pretty much every Windows Server feature is commandable with powershell. Some (much?)_ of the UI stuff in windows is just using powershell under the hood.

That said. I am _very much_ looking forward to using nushell when I use linux or wsl. And I wish your team great success. Linux needs it.
I've had similar problems contributing to bazel (Google's open source build tool) for the past few years. I've found contributing only goes smoothly if there is a single Googler working in your area who cares about open source. Otherwise everything is very Google centric and the open source community is definitely a secondary concern (which is of course their right!)
I provided a link.
> The question is whether there's anything of value to be gleaned from his novella-length blog posts. If you think not, then just downvote or flag article submission.

Flagging, I've always felt, is sort of heavy-handed for "I disagree with". I use it for spam and the like.

There is no "downvote" feature, for article submissions. Which is why it is disappointing when low quality reads like this makes it to the front page.
> ... borrowing... borrowed...

Borrowed money is rarely spent on food and gas.

You can be stupid and talk about buying food and gas on credit cards. Very few people in this country will stop buying food and gas to prevent default. People need food and gas to survive. So it's not really the borrowed money that is spent on food and gas.
Indian ?
That's more like it!

Indeed, markup languages are built around text whereas in JSON/S-expressions/syntaxes designed for expressing data, text is secondary.

The syntax I created is uniquely flexible in that it can be used for both data and markup.

The first variant of the two in my original comment is more data-like, but minimal enough that it works sufficiently well as markup too. Text is a little harder to mark up in this variant than in HTML, as individual text nodes have to be wrapped in []. However this gives precise control over the content of the text nodes and separates indentation and other whitespace of the document tree from whitespace which is intended as actual content:

[paragraph with a ]
a [
href=[...]
[link]
]

The second variant is very much like HTML: text here is primary and interleaved with markup in []:

paragraph with a [href[...] a][link]

This variant also separates the attributes and tag from the children, much like HTML. However the attributes are technically not restricted to being flat strings. If we weren't translating to HTML, we could have attributes with tree structure.

So we have something simpler and more flexible than both HTML and S-expressions. This is the beauty and value of it.

I hope I can succeed in communicating this to potential users, so they can benefit from it.
I absolutely hate how with Typescript and ES Modules, if you have a file

utils/foo.ts

you have to import it as

import Foo from "utils/foo.js"

Even though there is no .js file on disk, and you might be running ts-node or whatever that doesn't build a .js file.

Importing a file that "doesn't exist" is so counterintuitive.

In addition all code breaks because you have to change all your imports, and /index.ts or /index.js won't work either.
'sometimes we check it into sourcesafe' in 2018...
"The US is pushing Europe into complete destitution"

How so?
Discord is great as command and control server because the malware author doesn't need to expose their ip address or implement a complex web of proxy to secure their C&C server.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_coding

> Hard coding (also hard-coding or hardcoding) is the software development practice of embedding data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object, as opposed to obtaining the data from external sources or generating it at runtime.
Well, try understanding the Haskell docs around Applicative, Functor or Monad without understanding at least basic category theory - not to mention the heavy use of notation/operators in place of traditional programming idioms (named functions).

Here [0] is an example:

> This module describes a structure intermediate between a functor and a monad (technically, a strong lax monoidal functor). Compared with monads, this interface lacks the full power of the binding operation >>= [...]

[0] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.17.0.0/docs/Contr...
High quality luxury assets with can be a rewarding hedge against the inevitable tide of inflation that has started to rock the global economy.
If you go through Metro by T-Mobile, you can get an unlimited plan for $40/month. (four lines for $25 each).
Robert Frost's Two Tramps in Mud Time[1] is required reading for all supposed poets lacking in knowledge of avocation.

1- http://holyjoe.org/poetry/frost4.htm
I would definitely agree in a typed language, and I see how identifying this "smell" early could be nice in Ruby. However you can do that with validations too and get basically the same results. If your validations are overflowing the page, maybe you're doing too much.

For something like Ruby types feel bolted on and for the trouble I'm not sure the payoff is worth it personally.

But this is all just my opinion, clearly a lot of smart folks a Shopify disagree.
> Higher unemployment means some people won't be able to afford food and gas lowering the demand for food and gas.

People need food and gas to survive. They're not going to stop buying food and gas, unless they are dead.
It is a pun into multiple directions at once, and super nerdy (and "correct") at the same time. What do you want more? Loved it..
This is all speculation about what they could announce -- even most of the items in (1). You could always re-evaluate if these things come to pass. Once this initial plan rolls out, whether the check itself continues to hold value once it's open to anybody with $$$ depends on how users in the network use it. That's why I prefer to think in terms of the specific reach/advertising question.

But we'll see! My own speculation is that they lean more into trying to convince ordinary users (or content creators like you) to get more into the advertising game to replace some brands that may leave. Think of dating apps and features like Super Likes, Boosts, etc. Tinder and others figured out how to get money out of regular folks without a traditional ads interface. If I were them, I'd hire folks from Match Group.

Frankly, I'd rather see an ad for a random content creator than for some of the weird brands that advertise to me. Right now the top "Who to follow" for me is Lamps Plus, "the nation's largest lighting retailer." As you could imagine, I'm not interested. Instead, they could give everyone a free 30-min account boost and give their premium Blue members four or five more a month.
> Musk's contributions can pretty much be summed up by "already had a lot of money" and "hired smart people".

He almost went bankrupt getting their first small rocket to space. He wasn't exactly poor at the time thanks to paypal, but he didn't have anything close to unlimited funds. He is a billionaire now because he succeeded, not the other way around.

> [..] which the founders were the actual people creating their first products from scratch.

If your claim is that Elon was not involved in creating the products, this is misinformed. https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden... is the link I have handy.

> which in turn rested on him being from an already wealthy family.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1005593651219582977, "I arrived in North America at 17 w $2000, a backpack & a suitcase full of books. Paid my own way thru college. Dropped out of Stanford Eng/Phys grad school w $110k in college debt."

> Thai cave rescue

The "pedo"-thing was stupid and deserve criticism, but he was actually asked to continue working on the submarine: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1016684366083190785
If GP wrote a significant part of the code that is being modified it seems like it would be a good idea to involve them in the review. It is a chance to share their expertise and catch bugs early. I don't think it shuold be required or blocking but automatically CCing a few people who have recently changed the code seems like a smart idea.

I don't think "managing the web of contributions" seems too impractical. If for example you CC the top 3 contributors who authored the lines that were changed or modified (excluding large automate or "tree-wide" changes) then for any line you write you are getting notified at most once. In practice it will be much less than that since multiple lines will be changed at a time and you won't always be in the top 2 or 3. Plus consider that many of these people are qualified to review the code and would need to be in that discussion anyways. What I'm trying to say is that the data is there and available automatically and the cost of reviewing follow-ups is bounded.
> Elon regularly punches down, not up.

I mean, is there any direction besides down that it is possible for Elon to punch?
> From my original comment: "coercing mostly low-risk people into submitting to experimental, liability-free vaccines that don't prevent spread and so do nothing to protect genuinely high-risk people"

The "and so do nothing to protect genuinely high-risk people" is still a lie.
What you didn't say is "coercing mostly low-risk people into submitting to experimental, liability-free vaccines that don't prevent spread and so do nothing to protect genuinely high-risk people from ever getting infected"

which would still be a lie, but much much closer to the truth. Instead you misleadingly stated what you said in such a way that it made the vaccines sound like they weren't protecting genuinely high-risk people at all which is, again, a lie.

The vaccines do protect genuinely high-risk people. It also helps prevent the spread of the virus, but at this point only a little. Against early strains of the virus the vaccines were very effective at preventing infection, but we've allowed the virus to evolve so now that's no longer the case. This wasn't a government conspiracy, it was a complex and changing situation and the CDC was very quick to inform the public once the data showed that the vaccines were not protecting against infection as well as they used to, and were also very clear about the fact that the vaccines are still (so far) highly effective at keeping people from dying and getting seriously ill.
Not really. Our substrate today is silicon (really n-type silicon). We build a city on top of that substrate. Modern semiconductors have become way more heterogenous in recent years. Our gate insulators are not silicon dioxides anymore but high-k dielectrics such as hafnium oxide. And even interconnects now have different compositions, such as cobalt and copper.

But the substrate is still holding us back, and one reason for that is creating high-quality single crystal wafers for silicon that are way more manageable.

The solution for a long time has been to use direct bandgap semiconductors such as GaN, AlN, and so on. Silicon is an indirect bandgap semiconductor, meaning its conduction and valence bands are not aligned in momentum space. As a result, electrons hopping between these bands pay a thermal penalty. GaN and AlN don't have that problem, and we now have a plethora of crystals (especially complex oxides) that are all direct, and we have an entire library of bandgaps to choose from.

The problem is that we cannot easily make wafers from these direct bandgap systems. At least yet to be on any commercial scale. Honestly, rather than flushing billions of dollars down the toilet for Zuck's vanity projects - we should have spent money to scale up Czochralski's growth[1] for a ton of crystal families. But, as we are reaching the limits for reticule sizes and we move to chiplet architectures, maybe smaller wafers will work too?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czochralski_method
There are just as many written-in-Rust posts as ever, although the practice of appending "in Rust" to the title has fallen off (there's literally one of these at #3 on the front page right now). Meanwhile, an article from IEEE evangelizing Haskell was literally on the front page this morning with 256 votes.
There is no "current" Oculus, as the newer "Quest Pro" does not replace the older "Quest 2" but both are available being sold in parallel at different price brackets, like iPhone 14 Pro Max and iPhone SE.

And the Quest 2 alone is superior to the PSVR since it has the "gaming console" built in, while being far cheaper than the PSVR whiteout even accounting for the extra cost of the PS5 in the equation.

Pricing aside, Meta had a decent product with the Quest 2, as they went all-in and it was designed form the start as a stand alone cordless platform and focused and polished the entre VR gaming experience around that from the ground up even buying dedicated VR game dev studios, while for Sony, the PSVR is just a corded accessory to the stationary PS5, but not the main product and so it's not their main focus for PS5 gaming, and we'll see this reflected in the amount and quality of VR titles they'll put out.

The PSVR does win in the graphics department thanks to the processing power of the PS5 but that comes at the cost of reduce mobility thanks to the stupid cable keeping your head tied to the PS5 and ruining your immersion. In fact, I'm calling it right now: the cable tether will make it a fail for most users. I expect the return rates to be high followed by low retail sales and people dumping them on ebay after a few months of gathering dust, same like with the last PSVR they made. It will flop as hard as the Quest Pro.

For people wanting to dip their toes in VR and play Beat Sabre and Pistol Whip, 450 Euros is far easier to stomach than invest 1300+ Euros in a PlayStation VR setup and then hate it because you'll always have to take care of not tangling yourself or tripping on the cable. We saw the same with Valve's VR gear. People just didn't want to put up with the hassle of having an expensive and corded setup just to play Half-Life Alyx.

Meta/Oculus moved the goalposts so far with their cordless self-contained devices, that any new VR gear still needing cables and a separate PC/console to function is an instant fail. I expect Apple's VR gear will also be cordless, powered by their excellent mobile Mx chips.
Hint: it _is_ error handling (as well). Forces me to be half-human, half-compiler and reinvents the convenience of Java's checked exceptions, but without stack traces. It might sound bitter, which I don't intent to be, I just cannot fathom why a significant fraction of users seem to be blind to this, or become blind after a while. Must be some kind of Helsinki syndrome.

I use Go for the deployment story, but I think (and I know that I'm not alone in this) that error handling in Go desparately needs a runtime-exception-kind-of awakening.
Russia obviously blew up Nord Stream 2. They are the only country that wouldn't care if they got caught. For anyone else the risk is just too great.
> If the language spec is such that operator -> can’t have a sensible signature, (...)

The language spec has zero to do with this. You're commenting on a discussion on static code analyzers. The specific gotcha you're commenting on mentions that the overloaded operator -> from smart pointers returns a raw pointer to the object being managed, which apparently causes static code analyzers to lose context (it's a raw pointer). The gotcha just mentions a way to help out static code analyzers to not lose context. There's nothing wrong with the spec. At most there's a tip to help out current static code analyzers keep track of semantics.

The worst part of people criticizing C++ is that 9 times out of 10 they base their criticism on ignorance or misconceptions.
Very interesting, having used Grafana in the backend. I had plans for exploring the space for non-intrusive privacy-friendly observability libraries for the Frontend. Are there some other notable tools?
It's going to be quite amusing to watch how this thing plays out. So many egos.
Not to mention some of the alloys used in the Raptor2 engine were invented at SpaceX and exist nowhere else. They have to make the metal before even getting started on the part. I would imagine, start to finish, a Raptor2 takes a while.
Then I add an exception for ______. If they cannot tell you their number (happens with some companies), then they can:

- arrange a call, which is great because then I am guaranteed to have the time to deal with the topic, I do that sometimes with my bank;

- leave a voice mail, which is not great but then I am not responsible for their phone number policy (nobody leaves voice mail anymore);

- send an email (or a SMS, a WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Skype, whatever, I am not picky), possibly to arrange a phone call, also great because I can answer written messages on my own terms and not when they feel like calling me;

- (most of the time these days) have a chat over whatever IM platform they integrated into their website.

My time is not theirs to use however they want. If they want me to be on call, that’s fine, but with compensation.
For ES6 modules, the exports object is frozen (made read-only) so the JIT can make some extra assumptions and optimizations. With bundles, unless the bundler inserts `Object.freeze` around `module.exports`, they have to be treated as dynamic objects.
Their non-abusive license forces everyone else in the space to use OSM. :)