skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With respect to your first point:

Wide spread usage is a relative term. Like, if the a program just happens to be 99% FFT code, then you'll have "wide spread usage" of incomprehensible FFT code in the code base. This is a question of scope of the project. So I don't think that an argument becomes strawman just because most projects will probably be bigger than their specialized component.

With respect to your second point:

Hard agree. I think languages should have much more constrained focus that largely disallows an impedance mismatch between what you're trying to do and how you go about doing it.

[Worth noting is that I largely agree with the points against this type of FP in javascript. However, I'm opposed to the line of reasoning that's being used against it. Something not being readily understood is not a good argument for rejection. Because anything worth doing that hasn't already been done is likely to be incomprehensible until you've spent some time with it.]
Vimium + bookmarks
It's because it does not talk about employee bloat, but rather product bloat.

There are a lot of teams working on either useless or _duplicate_ products.

Amazon is a place where it is frequent to discover that another team is doing pretty much exactly the same thing as you, despite both teams existing for years.

My previous team found out that multiple of our products had equivalents built by other people (even one was just an excel sheet made by some random guy :|) and my current team has a table comparing our product with the other 15 equivalent products made by other teams...

And then there are a lot of teams working on products that do not and will never bring revenue, such as a big part of Alexa.
How the media created the myth of Sam Bankman-Fried
Ask HN: Use Cases for LoRa
Anyone as used LoRaWAN in production? In what use cases? What kind of legal permit was necessary to obtain?
No, you tap the button on the end if the indicator stalk. This gives you a wipe, and a wiper speed menu will appear on the screen if you want to override the auto wiper speed.

Saying that, the auto wipers can be dreadful. They mostly work OK, but occasionally will randomly turn on when it's dry, or not come on when it's pissing down. It's down to the fact that rather than use a simple infra-red based rain sensor (that the rest of the industry has used for decades) Tesla think they can do just as good a job using the front-facing AutoPilot camera and save a dollar or two on a dedicated sensor.
Ask HN: Are there any good SD Dreambooth APIs that don’t cost a fortune?
My friends and I are experimenting with generating personalized outfit ideas with Dreambooth. We want to launch a site to test the idea, but building out all the infra for model training seems like an overkill. We’ve looked at https://www.astria.ai/ that @levelsio is using but their API is ridiculously expensive: $10 for a model. Plus, the quality of generations from a model trained with Astria is mediocre (e.g., many images of humans lack crucial features like hands), it takes one hour to train one model, and privacy & security info is missing; I have no idea what they do with my images.

Are there any other APIs we should consider?

Thanks!
Kinda like going from Twitter to Mastodon, isn't it?
Due to the second law of thermodynamics, all work is neverending wack-a-mole. That in of itself doesn't mean that the work is useless.
The key word here was "mandatory usage".

BTW: Haskell uses its IO wrapper also only for a very narrow set of effects.

One of my favorite examples: `head []` will result in a crash at runtime. IO won't safe you. (Besides that the whole "effect wrapping" story in Haskell is anyway shallow at best. There is nothing like "none observable effects" at all as every computation needs to happen in space-time, leaving observable traces therein; you can't define away "side channels" and call the result "pure"; that's mocking reality).
I'm terrified at the thought of all this hollow, low-on-details content that's about to hit the internet. Interestingly, if this degrades Google's search result quality, it could be an opportunity for someone else to create a new search engine.
And Xserve? I'm not holding my breath.
Im not sure why they expect sympathy.

All the Employees knew they were investing in a fly-by-night scam. Everyone told them they were investing in a scam. They are largely not old/technologically illiterate people who were unable to distinguish a scam.

I need a new business selling tiny violins.
Only if you kept the down payment in cash. All other asset prices are crashing as well, so if your savings are in stocks, bonds, crypto, etc your down payment has probably shrunk by more than home prices.
I remember having the hardcopy when I was a child (got an old ZX Spectrum in the beginning 90s)... probably one of the first programming books I've ever had and read myself.
Yeah, agreed, I would say it's much easier to "rewrite" than to write.

Even if the AI is writing nonsense, you still benefit by virtue of Cunningham's Law.
Only 20% is a very rosy estimate.
I think it's actually normal for teams to have duplicate functionality. The requirements are usually never actually identical and when you try to merge them it results in services with complicated configuration that have N^2 edge cases which leads to more bugs or more complicated code. I suspect what you're describing is somewhat unavoidable, and not even a bad thing.

That being said, Google for comparison does have good code re-use for certain core resources, like spanner, cloud, tensorflow, borg, etc. If you're talking about bedrock infrastructure like that, it's quite a different picture.
Eh, AWS or Azure are by all accounts not aerosols consisting of a visible mass of miniature liquid droplets, yet we call them Cloud.
working somewhere, briefly. not too much of a red flag

working somewhere a while and thriving in that environment? But I get it, ethics can easily fly out the window when you choose, especially when there's alot of money in play to bribe your feelings.
more is never enough in the capitalist system
Looking at some content there, „abusive“ is relative to say the least.
Consequentialism says that the ends justify the means. They do not.
Winklevosses’ Gemini Delays Withdrawals on Lending Program
Exactly. I've publicly face-to-face buttheaded with the CEO of a very large tech company (that you have 100% heard of) at a very large townhall meeting. I did it because it's an internal event so my chance of getting fired is significantly lower (but still not zero!)

But doing it in public, sharing internal data, and with the tone the guy used on a brand new owner? I don't know what he expected. Getting fired is the expected outcome.
The second part is the aim here.

This is more of a code watcher than a test watcher specifically.
Sadly it seems to fail bad on things that aren't new articles.

Try for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming/ as an input to smmry - you don't get the idea
Bikeshedding needs to go on the HN list of terms to avoid
There are various algorithms around the front page of HN.

For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16020089 where dang has a "overheated discussion detector" to try to give things a chance to cool off.

Too much material on a single topic likely also gets down rated (similar to how posts about politics get less visibility).
Who downvoted this? Reveal yourself! A small business owner no doubt who the truth hurt.
A funny myth about Basque:

“ An old myth says that since there weren't any Basques going to hell, the devil decided to learn Basque, so he could talk to them, lead them to the wrong path and send them to hell. But he was to be disappointed, as after several years, the devil still couldn’t understand what the Basques were saying! Myths are just myths, but a study conducted by the British Foreign Office did conclude that Basque is the hardest language to learn in the world. As an isolated language, it has no syntactic parallels in English, Spanish or French and its grammar is exceedingly complex. ” (https://omniglot.com/language/articles/whylearnbasque.htm)

In Linguistics the notion that a language is more difficult/complex than another is not accepted. However, Basque grammar does have some less common characteristics such as the ergative case (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergative–absolutive_alignmen...).

Here’s an interesting study on how Basque speaker brains process the language (https://phys.org/news/2006-05-basque-grammar-brain.amp), biggest takeaway is the confirmation of SOV processing order.
From the article supplement:

In typical electrolyzer stacks, it is difficult to trigger light-induced COM due to the limited penetration of light. Recently, Zhang et. al. developed a redox decoupled water splitting device which can facilitate the COM mechanism in electrolyzer stacks. It enables the decoupling of HER and OER from the electrodes to spatially separated catalyst bed reactions via a pair of redox mediators. Oxygen evolution for this redox decoupled water splitting device occurs at the oxygen evolution tank, which can be made of transparent material. This option of choosing transparent material for the construction of the oxygen evolution tank implies the possibility of actualizing our proposed COM in this redox decoupled water splitting device. Furthermore, the electrocatalyst powders can be directly dispersed in the electrolyte without the need to coat on a substrate. This can then enable the effective utilization of light by the catalyst, and the photon can then be used to effectively trigger COM. Thus, based on these considerations, the proposed COM can be actualized in this redox coupled water-splitting technology.
Perhaps it wasn't an exact byte match, but close enough to only 1 print job size within a reasonable time frame.
One major difference leap day is not inserted by adjusting clocks by 24*60*60 seconds into monotonic clocks. But leap seconds are handled this way in many time sources.

I think the concept itself is fine, but software developers screwed up implementing it when designing unix and NTP time, or how operating systems handle hardware clocks.

Now there are unix and NTP timestamps that don't refer to a unique time point due to leap seconds, as they were rewound by a second at the time point when the leap second occurred. Somehow nobody thought that it would be a good idea for unix and NTP times to be rewound by a whole day after a leap day occurs.
AI is a massive force multiplier.
Of course they do, they just don't have the same throughput as a bot network.
At long last, Evernote takes an Incredible Journey to be broken down for parts by its new owner. Can't get any more fucked up than it already has been, it went from being an important part of my daily workflow to a place of pain. The rewrite is part of why my last graphic novel ground to a halt, I was using EN to collaborate on scripts with my partner and it is just agony to use any more. I cancelled my subscription a few years back and really have not found anything to fill that hole. Every theoretical replacement is either a shitty sluggish web view, owned by a megacorporation I don't want to get involved with, or both.

Personally I think the best thing the new owners could do would be to dig up the pre-EN10 codebase, get it compiling again, and make that available. I would resubscribe in a heartbeat.
At least this way you can see it coming. Usually employees are the last to find out if they get fired.
So every car that does more than 32500 comes out ahead, which is basically all of them.

Youd need to commit to keeping the car for over a decade while only doing 3000 miles per year, then blowing it up out of spite to fail that.
> The Fed printed money to prop up the price of derivatives, not the price of house.

I'm not sure your point here. Derivatives absolutely are a driver on the price of the underlying assets. Derivatives are what inflated the housing bubble prior to 2008.

I generally agree with you that homes have an intrinsic value, and that currencies do not necessarily have that. But that intrinsic value of homes was probably around the bottom of the 2008 housing market, not the top. On either side of that, home values exceeded the fundamental value due do manipulation or excessive leverage. In my mental model, fundamental value merely establishes a price "floor" of a market, but beyond this price floor every market is subject to mania and bubbles. For housing, the fundamental floor is non zero, for crypto, you could argue that it is zero.

> The only reason it's price would go up is people speculating that someone else will want to speculate on it in the future, and will pay a premium to do so.

This is true for housing also. Having a intrinsic value does not mean that housing prices should be expected to go up forever. As a clear counter example, deflationary goods like computers have a clear intrinsic value, but are not a good investment as they will almost certainly lose value.
I don't get that argument. Refinancing exists. If you can swing it, buying at peak interest rates is a great idea. All of those Boomers who whine about 18% rates from 1981—rates which by the way persisted for only 2 months—got the deal of a lifetime.
Linux user since 2000 or so. Mandrake, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo, all heavily, with a little use of some other distros (Void, Arch, probably some others I'm forgetting about).

All around, Brew's my favorite package manager I've used. And yes, I started with Macports, so I've used that too.
> I don't understand... why is this a dichotomy?

Those are the options for EA-type organizations, aren't they? You accept the money and use it to further your EA goals, or you refuse to accept the money and accept that you're passing up the opportunity to help a lot of people.

It's admittedly blurred because a proportion of EA donation goes towards "growing the movement" or controversial "long-termist" causes (as with most or all of SBF's donations aiui), but most (I think 68% last time I looked) goes towards effective global health initiatives.

So sure, I get that by refusing to accept the billionaire money you'd send some sort of anticapitalist message. You could tweet about it and probably get a lot of likes. I see why people would like that part, in isolation. But, is that really worth hundreds of thousands of lives? I find it really odd (and frankly horrifying) that anybody would even have to think about that question for longer than a millisecond.

250k is admittedly on the high side of how many lives you could save for $1bn. It's in the ballpark though.
Most tankies are just LARPing as romanticized version of revolutionistas of the 50s and the 60s. They need a morally simple world view. Completely agree with you.
My wife went to this indian alternative education school, a boarding school called Rishi Valley. They've opened many branches now, though I can't speak for the ones I don't know, all based on the philosophy of Jiddu Krishnamurti; you can read more about them here: https://jkrishnamurti.org/schools

Rishi Valley's teachning style is, honestly, what I wish my education had been. I remember being a kid and asking my teacher for "more", questions about what happens _beyond_ what we had just learned, and them saying "don't worry about it, you'll learn next year".
Rishi Valley's approach is "why don't you come later and I'll show you? is anyone else interested?". They really try to emphasize learning for the sake of learning, and kids can choose from multiple subjects.

The teachers are often PhDs who have decided that they care a lot about education. Since it's a not for profit school, they're not paid a lot, but they live on campus, and get to interact with kids all day everyday. Most of the money the school gets is put back into rural education.

Now, the transition back to the "standard" system when the kids have to go to college is not smooth. Most of the ones I've talked to mention that they were extremely overwhelmed with the "rat-race" and the fact that everyone was so competitive, where they had been focusing on learning for the sake of learning. Everyone I've met from this school is very good at critical-thinking, and they don't accept a conclusion just because "someone said so", they will fact-check, do their own research, debate, ... Which I think should be the goal of education.

My anecdotal experience is that they overperform their non-weird-school peers though. But is that due to the teaching itself? Or is it maybe because the kind of parents who would put their kids in this school already did some sort of ground-work? I'm not sure!
Another way to be "bloated" is to have a lot of teams working very hard on systems/projects that don't add value to the overall business. Those teams will still manage out their low-performers and run a ruthless environment, but the folks that remain continue to work hard without providing value. Add new systems/projects underneath because people want more scope and responsibility, repeat through a few cycles, and you arrive at the quoted line.
I quite prefer the original, albeit little more than a container.

Mostly because the newer version forces you into Hyper-V, and I'd rather not be committed to that hypervisor

If I'm on Windows I'm much more likely to want good old VMWare Workstation. Enabling WSL2/Hyper-V precludes this

I haven't had nearly as good of an interactive (UI capable) guest experience with anything else (beyond KVM with QXL/Spice)

Edit: At risk of arguing their merits, video game anti-cheat clients will often categorically refuse to run if Hyper-V is enabled, too.
> Finding proofs is the really hard part (NP-hard), and the part which most stands to benefit from "AI" techniques – checking their validity is a lot easier (polynomial time).

Note that this is true only for boolean logic and equivalents. Anything stronger has either much higher complexity or is simply undecidable (but proof checking is fast, which is the main point).
My wife wanted a photo printer. At first I told her it was a ridiculously primitive and pointless idea, but I went along with it since I had a bonus burning a hole in my pocket

I have to admit, it turned out to be pretty cool. I hadn't used a printer in years for anything personal, and it turns out you can print professional-looking glossy photos for like 15 cents each between ink and glossy photo paper. Now we have a ton of nice family photos all over the walls, and I printed out a selfie from my WoW character when our guild killed some raid boss together and mixed it in with the other pics
The gazillion of lines of imperative C/C++ code out there that every OS runs on, are probably written by less than intelligent people.
yup, you remember it right. It looked like they wanted to have an iPhone-like numbering scheme with iPad 2 and then.. changed their minds I guess?
Oh man, the nostalgia! This was my first programming book. I started learning both programming and English from it.
Similarly I got an Aeropress I use all the time. Makes great coffee.
In this case, it sounds like the airlines are paying the fine AND the refunds.

> The department’s intervention contributed to the airlines’ issuing more than $600 million in refunds, it said.

> ...

> [United States Secretary of Transportation] Mr. Buttigieg said that, while the department was more focused on ensuring that refunds were paid than on collecting fines, he had nonetheless asked staff to look into whether the penalties were sufficient to prevent such behavior in the future.

> “This really shouldn’t be happening in the first place,” he said. “And we’ll continue ratcheting up the penalty side until we’re seeing less of this kind of behavior to begin with.”
Any insight on the reaching out to business owners part?

Not getting anywhere with cold emails
I wonder, if it can be generated by an AI, maybe it shouldn't be written down. Current AI can only generate what most people already know, and the purpose of writing is to express something new.
How China Got Our Kids Hooked on ‘Digital Fentanyl’
I don't know a lot of them, there are quite many. I believe at least Frans Timmermans, Mohammed Chahim,Diederik Samsom and Bas Eickhout are very capable and have a high opinion of EU politicians.
Toda ;)
Spaniard here. Save from lots of medieval jargon and lots of footnotes, Don Quixote is not rocket science.

Also, you know, we have dictionaries.
I had a great workflow going on with Evernote and my ScanSnap. I'd scan mail and paperwork right away, and it'd be full text searchable in Evernote. Maybe once a week or so I'd go through the latest uploads and tag them or put them in folders.

It took me a while to figure out an alternative for this because so many of the note tools I had seen were focused on just written notes and not the PDF file use case.

I tried self-hosting Paperless, but that seemed like a lot of work too. When we're talking about my document archive here it's a lot of important files and I don't want to be my own SRE just to save myself $100 or so a year.

The best I have now is I upgraded my scanner to a new Fujitsu that OCRs and pushes the files into Dropbox, and paid Dropbox plans have full text search.
Yeah it helps if the owner codes- so they know what they are talking about at least in principle when it comes to building stuff.
I think that ... certain nations ... are quite good at playing "the long game," and often have their plants hired by companies; sometimes at fairly senior/sensitive levels. They may not even start phoning home, until they have had a few promotions.
It's pretty new, released late September. They still have their own init system. If you are using a systemd enabled distro then their init will become a child process of systemd, allowing systemd to have PID 1.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/systemd-support-i...
Haskell's syntax isn't anything to imitate. It's hostile to IDE features, at least.

Can you elaborate on this? I haven't used Haskell in years but I recall enjoying some of its really cool IDE-friendly features, such as typed holes and the ability to press a key and have whatever is under my editor's cursor show me its type and another key to insert that inferred type into the document.

I have heard that more recent versions support nice record syntax using the '.' operator (but without whitespace, to differentiate it from composition). That's also very IDE friendly since type inference in the editor should be able to resolve the members of a data type that's been defined with record syntax.
You don't perform a scientific experiment because you know what the result will be. You perform the experiment to find out what the result is. That's how science works.
Sorry, I was commenting on the "not to have on a server" part. People have far more sensitive stuff on servers. Surely, CRM info of a big contract has way more at stake that notes about our mother in law. In fact, we have centralized all this sensitive customer data of so many big companies of the world in another company.
From another comment:

> $1M home at 3% interest(30year) = ~$4200 monthly payment. $800k home at 6% interest = $4800 monthly payment.

Over a 30 year term, your interest rate has much more impact on affordability than the purchase price does. 20% down is a drop in the bucket when your rate necessitates paying 1.5-2x the purchase price in interest because it's spread out over 30 years, especially at higher price points and at the edges of people's budgets.