skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem with "functional pipelines" as in the article is that you are in essence creating a domain-specific language to describe the problem your program is modeling and solving.

Problem is that is not a programming language supported by anybody else than you. It is not part of the standard library. If it was it would probably be of high quality, highly tested-in-practice code.

But if you constructed your pipeline-framework (as in the article) by yourself you now need to understand not only the solution in terms of your created framework, but also how the framework itself exactly works. If this is a one-off problem-solution what looks like simpler code in the end hides its complexity inside its framework-code. And as you keep programming your framework is a moving target. You will improve it from time to time. Understanding it becomes a moving target too. It is a real problem for maintenance for you or anybody else who wants to use and adapt your existing code in the future.

Think about having the problem and a solution and being able to describe both in English. But then you say hey if I invent this new language Klingon and express the problem and solution in Klingon, then both the problem and solution become simpler. Cool. But now you must also program the Klingon interpreter for yourself. And be aware of which version of Klingon your code is assuming is used.

This is the tendency and cost of over-engineering. It is fun and natural to look for the "ideal solution", but it comes with a cost.
Galactica apparently thinks that there is evidence that vaccines may be linked to autism (!?!) If I enter the query:

vaccines and autism

I get:

--Vaccines and autism

Vaccines and autism is the hypothesis that vaccines are a significant cause of autism. The hypothesis is based on the epidemiological evidence of a temporal association between the two events, as well as on the biological plausibility of the hypothesis. The biological plausibility of the hypothesis is supported by the finding of an increased risk of febrile seizures following vaccination and the finding of a high rate of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders in autism spectrum disorders.(Zerbo et al., 2015)(Sweeten et al., 2003)(Ashwood et al., 2006)

There are many scientific and anecdotal reports linking vaccines with autism. However, it is difficult to determine whether the temporal association between vaccines and autism is causal or coincidental.

which is some fairly dangerous misinformation written in such a way as to sound plausible.

What is the point of a tool that can generate plausible-sounding nonsense? Is there not already enough misinformation on the Internet?
Then you went on a very angry and incoherent rant for nothing. You seem to be angry because you don't understand what the word epidemic means.

In the spirit of this article, epidemic means something specific; the rapid spread of a disease over a short period of time in a specific region. The article is not saying that autism isn't real or that people aren't suffering from it, the article is saying that it's not an epidemic. The article is saying there is no rapid increase in autism over a specific region but rather there's been a change in how it's diagnosed, people's awareness of the disease and that if these factors had been held constant, autism rates would also have been constant.
Kind of confused by what you mean "in other languages" and then give examples in English. What are these other languages and words?

If you say the meaning of these words are different in other languages, then aren't you translating them incorrectly?

> Someone who wants new words should invent them, not change the traditional meanings of other words.

Language changes over time. The meaning of words can change. Definitions aren't etched into stone.
Can email?

It's fundamentally the same problem with malicious actors that email admins have been trying to deal with for decades and the solutions will similar, The days of just allowing anything to link a server to a chat/discussion network ended when eris.berkeley.edu was kicked off the early irc network(forming EFnet) and for email the authorities have accepted best effort blacklists as "enough" for dealing with shady email servers trying to federate "bad" content.
It seems like thermal dissipation is the issue based on the grandparent post. An EV duty cycle using the built-in inverter won’t drain the battery in the same amount of time as high-speed charging would charge the battery.

Perhaps there are also weight optimizations being made that limit bidirectionality of the inverter.
> For me, the neatest feature of Neon is that it can scale to zero

As far as I understood, Neon is only scale-to-zero from the perspective of a tenant ("don't bill for idle"), not from the perspective of who's running the software.

Neon's compute nodes can scale down to zero, but the pageservers and safekeepers don't.

And since safekeepers are a Paxos quorum, there's at least 3 of them!
Aloke from the Warp team here--you're totally right that some of these features (syntax highlighting) can be accomplished within the terminal using an editor. In a traditional terminal--you'd have to spend time configuring your shell to get this to work instead of getting these features by default.

Some of these features are near-impossible given the current terminal-shell abstraction, however. For example, a traditional terminal has no concept of command input/output, which means that it can't suggest a next command to run based on the output of the previous command.
There's a theory in linguistics that languages tend to complexify if they're used by a small, insular group, but tend to simplify if they're used as a trade languages. Evidence for this theory can be found in languages like English and Swahili, which are grammatically simpler than their Germanic and Bantu cousin languages. You can also see in Caucasian languages that the languages spoken by higher altitude speakers (who were more protected from the various waves of conquest in the area) being more complex than the lower altitude speakers.
I got my first drivers license in Utah in the 90s while I was a tourist. You did ~20? multiple choice questions then a 10 minute test drive - wasn't even on real roads. Looks like it hasn't changed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTUCmTbPQfo https://secure.utah.gov/exam-center/exam/bank/take-test.html
I'm saying architecture is just one way of changing an organization. Other ways of changing an organization, separate from anything technical, might include changing people's schedules or vacation policy, or who you hire, or where, or how. Another would be how you store parts, make orders, assemble products. Or starting work in an entirely new industry.

Maybe you work at a company that sometimes works with the government. As a result, the whole company might develop a hiring process which is very slow, very detailed, and excludes certain people from being hired. But probably only a very small number of employees actually have to conform to those government requirements. You can apply them to all new hires "for simplicity", but it makes it harder to hire for non-government positions. So changing how you hire, to make it easier and faster to hire people of a wider background, benefits your organization. If your org can't easily make those changes, it will be disadvantaged.
And who decided that Warp's method is more ergonomic / user-friendly with such objective proof that it cannot be argued over?
I think, now is not exist big enough niche for just ordinary compilers (tools) for cpu, after Eclipse there are only combine products, ide+compilers+tools in one.

But mathematics is shared (or very similar) with ultra-focused and at the moment alive niches of tools for gpu, fpga, or even game engines and 3d render engines.

For example, OpenGL community constantly struggle with tools issue, and people pay money for proprietary products or even switch to proprietary DirectX world.
Similarly, game engines customers pay for customization.

So I think it worth to try pivot, to some of these niches, or to other.
Fair enough.

Based on the two examples I looked at on the posted page, one was a brainstorm ideas list for how to promote Notion AI which was fairly obvious. It did not include anything novel, just literally spit out what a quick Google search for “ideas to promote a new product” would have. I suppose you could say that it saves you the search but if you aren’t someone who understands promotion inherently then you’d need more info in the first place and if you are then this list is unnecessary as you’ll already have a promotion strategy in mind.

The second example was the AI writing a blog post introducing Notion AI. This is what I really referred to as a noise machine. The reason you need a blog post like that in 2022 is not for people to read but for Google’s indexer to read so that it gives your page and site all the points and you get better SEO. In other words the whole concept of this has gone off the rails where we have computers writing articles for other computers to read, which will ultimately be fed to another “AI” to learn from to write better articles for computers to read. Why are we perpetuating this circle jerk? Wouldn’t it be better to fix some core issues?

Lastly, I think the tech that allows you to turn a sentence or two into a coherent article is quite exciting. But I think this is somewhat the wrong application for it.
The suggestion isn't to implement, say, Vector Add in an illegal instruction handler; instead, it's to use the illegal instruction handler to replace the Vector Add instruction with a jump to a user-space emulation routine. The emulation routine may /also/ be too slow to be usable, but the trap overhead is a once-through cost, not a per-execution cost.
Any definition of inflation that ignores everything but supply and demand is too simple. Include velocity of money, interest rates, the fed’s dual mandate and you get close to a useful understanding. Any discussion about inflation that ignores those elements probably just adds to the general public’s woeful ignorance. Inflation is the feds’ job, if you have high inflation, the fed failed. Fluctuating supply and demand should have minimal impact on inflation, unless the fed screws up by, for example, trying to overshoot “full employment” when all the inflation alarm bells are already ringing. Arguably that is what happened, and there’s a general consensus about this in circles that actually have a clue, current and former fed members.
> This is one of those situations where it's a clear documented (via study and real world experiment) benefit to both workers and employers, so you wonder why it's taking so long to spread.

Since open floorplans became universal a while ago, and are only getting partially replaced by work from home because the rent is cheaper, what I wonder is if that is the rule, instead of the exception.
> So, if you're young, black, male, and running around Chicago

I did this without the drugs and guns part, and had guns drawn on me three times growing up in Chicago for the crime of walking. If I had been killed, I'm sure it would have been coded in a way for you not to see it as a problem.
> The business plan is to create collaborative and cloud-based features that businesses will be willing to pay for.

You know what, that is fair. I know a lot of folks take an issue with software that is monetized and many are jumpy about software that might rugpull them and lock certain features behind a paywall some time down the line, or look into more aggressive forms of monetization, but at the same time a lot of software would probably be better made if it had stable financial backing.

I'll probably keep using the most boring terminal setup that's possible just for the sake of not being an early adopter (which is just an excuse because I don't have a Mac), but I'm curious to see how this will play out in the long term, so good luck with your endeavor!

> Please check out our pricing page to learn more.

Here's the direct link: https://www.warp.dev/pricing

And to save folks a click:

Individual
A modern terminal experience for individuals. Download now!
Free
Includes
- Block Creation
- A.I. Command Search
- Workflows
- Modern input text editing

Team
Advanced collaboration and support for teams. Coming soon.
Pricing TBD
Everything in Individual, Plus
- Shared team configurations
- Shared team workflows
- Real-time terminal sharing
- Shared terminal notebooks

Enterprise
Security, compliance, and flexible deployment. Coming soon.
Pricing TBD
Everything in Team, plus
- Advanced security and compliance
- Advanced team deployment
- Integration with internal tools
As far as I know, this is v2 of https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
Ha, contract is a really bad example here, as proven by the very very wrong term "Smart Contract."

The thing that is called a "Smart contract" has literally no overlap with a legal contract; because a legal contract is the "separate human statements of agreement that are associated with the action/performance and usually only needed when the performance goes wrong,"

The "smart contract" is the actual performance.
Sure, but producing 1kWh worth of petrol doesn't require 1kWh of energy. Producing 1kWh worth of hydrogen through electrolysis always requires more than 1kWh of energy, it's just pure physics. Even if the process was 100% efficient through magic, it's still a stupid thing to rely on for producing hydrogen.
You're right that later corrections never do as well as misleading sensational stories, but that has nothing to do with this particular topic, nor with HN. Mass psychology and media all work that way, and complaints about it long predate the internet. Here's Jonathan Swift in 1710:

It often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect. - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/

All you observed was the routine dynamics of the forum. Sensational media stories get posted all the time to HN, and get upvoted all the time. Most are off topic and get flagged by users and/or downweighted by mods.

As far as I know there was only one moderator intervention of any kind, and it went the opposite way to what you thought you perceived: we downweighted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33613278 when it was on the front page, because it wasn't in English (about that see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). We would probably have downweighted it even if it had been in English, since a rushed story about a sensational event on a sensational topic makes for bad HN threads—there simply isn't enough reliable information. We try to wait for more information to emerge in such cases, as would anyone who had reflected a little on media reporting.

As far as I can tell from a quick scan of the data, that was the only submission mentioning Russia, Poland, or missiles that made HN's front page yesterday.

If you consider how easy it is to convince yourself that you're perceiving "manipulation" and to post accusations about it, and then compare that to how much harder it is to write an accurate and informative response, you might notice how your post is itself an example of the thing you're complaining about.
> Nobody is going to be patching calling programs like this.

Oh the things I've shipped...
Do they really though? In a lot of families kids are at school, then driven off to soccer/dance/whatever in a lot of other time.
It still does! It's the second person singular that was lost (thou).
Safari is a pain with bugs, unimplemented standards and just overall unpleasantness.

I can't see why anyone would still use it today when FireFox for Mac has become so good.
Any idea of how much Bending Spoons paid for Evernote ?
> This layoff is horribly mismanaged

It's not, it's like that everywhere. Every layoff follows the same pattern that you describe.

I don't know the exact reason for it, but if every single company does the same thing, there has to be a reason I don't know, since I've never managed a mass layoff.
Curious how the justice department has decided the solution to sex trafficking is to make walking outside illegal…
crosslinking to relavent subreddits

https://old.reddit.com/r/futureofprogramming

https://old.reddit.com/r/nosyntax
You sound like you are in just the right demographic to love Nim...The Forum [1] is a good place to get support.

https://forum.nim-lang.org/
The blog post is recent, but it describes much older work, so I think the “(1998)” tag is right.

“Distributed Computing Manifesto

Created: May 24, 1998”
But then the real world rudely intervenes because connections are flaky, services are down, and you need to add logging to weird and unexpected parts of your program because a call on device A is resolved in a weird state on device B, and the backend reports that everything's a-okay.
Yes, it is a fascinating topic:

Fictitious or fake entries are deliberately incorrect entries in reference works such as dictionaries, encyclopedias (including Wikipedia), maps, and directories. There are more specific terms for particular kinds of fictitious entry, such as Mountweazel, trap street, paper town, phantom settlement, and nihilartikel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry

In cartography, a trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential plagiarists of the map who, if caught, would be unable to explain the inclusion of the "trap street" on their map as innocent. On maps that are not of streets, other "trap" features (such as nonexistent towns, or mountains with the wrong elevations) may be inserted or altered for the same purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
It isn’t a bad thing that somebody is trying to find an alternative to the standard terminal. Good luck to them!

But they decided to write a whole blog post making up problems about peoples’ current workflow. People are naturally going to point out that they don’t suffer from these problems.

If warp didn’t want it to matter, they could have not brought it up I guess.
Nope, I was very much suggesting the former.

The PPC approach works, but it has significant performance costs over and above instruction emulation. I've shipped PPC software that you may have used that uses both approaches, as appropriate.
https://github.com/nhaouari/obsidian-textgenerator-plugin

https://scribe.citizen4.eu/@beingpax/how-to-use-gpt-3-ai-wri...
> Is 2 core (with 8GB RAM) enough for beginner-to-intermediate programming?

Yes, that’s perfectly adequate.

> Can an additional processor core be emulated on a free SSD space if more computational power is needed (similar to a swap partition for RAM)?

No, that’s not really possible. You’ve misunderstood Chia, they don’t perform actual computation on HDDs.
I have a 2017 which has one vision problem: out the rear view. Thei long sloping rear window, when viewed from the rear view mirror, is like a tiny slit, nothing panoramic. What excites me is the improved MPG potential. If I barrel in the left lane on long drives - I'll average ~54 mpg. On a 35 mile drive on a hilly freeway, if I stay behind the trucks, no problem hitting 80mpg.
That is a fairly uncharitable reading of that post, which mentioned nothing of the (perceived) abilities or skills of the engineers.

Your account name leads me to believe you've been impacted by this, and I feel for you. I am sorry. I hope you're able to find a new gig relatively stress free and find yourself in a better place.
One of the payloads that was meant to fly on Artemis-1 will be hitching a ride with my launch in a few days: https://spacenews.com/japanese-lunar-lander-with-nasa-ridesh...

We will get it to the Moon a bit slower than Artemis, but it will get there.
It's not just about the number of your users who are directly using Firefox; it's also about ensuring your code isn't inadvertently depending on non-standard Chrome quirks, and promoting standards compliance, portability, robustness, and such-like goodness on the web.

(Test IE11 as well, by all means, if it's relevant to your users; but it's much less relevant to the future of the web.)
I worked once with a contractor who did not have a physical location for their business. They simply worked out of a minivan which they drove to wherever they were needed. But they pretended, to google, yelp, and probably others, to have a business location.
If it was for nothing, then it was only because I chose the wrong audience. Nothing about my comment indicates I misunderstood the intent of the authors.
The idea is that a given object never changes, but it's straightforward and efficient to create a new object from the original one with some of the values changed.

This is "safer" for any code still operating on the original object, as it will not be changed unexpectedly.
I agree. The problem is that police in much of the US are poorly trained, poorly funded, poorly managed, and increasingly marginalized. The US system of strong local governance means that only the nice neighborhoods get nice public services.
I actually went back through my own comments to check, my first post mentioning Musk [0] was incredulity at someone claiming the shambolic launch of the Cybertruck might have been deliberately dreadful as some kind of marketing exercise. The Musk worshippers have always been here, but so have the people who can see that not only is the emperor not wearing any clothes, he's also a blithering idiot.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21604570
Model 3 is 2x the price of Nissan Leaf, and Leaf is a bit price for its size. Leaf costs 2x the price of equivalent petrol car.

A car that costs 4x the price of "normal car" is a luxury for my taste.

And Model 3 is the least expensive Tesla car.
Thank you for your kind words! We are planning to first open-source our Rust UI framework, and then parts and potentially all of our client. We want to make sure we get this right, both for our users and for Warp.

Our current best-guess on how we'd do this is a more restrictive license that
* allows for verifying security and privacy
* allows individuals to build and tweak Warp
* prevents another company from starting a commercial enterprise off of it

We'd love more thoughts here though! Feel free to join the discussion at https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/discussions/400 if you're interested.
SaaS Pricings: Pros and Cons
Hi HN

We crunched the pros & cons of the most successful SaaS pricing models
- Subcription
- Usage-based
- Max-based
- Hybrid
Etc.

Hope it helps you choose and iterate on one!

https://www.getlago.com/blog/which-pricing-model-should-you-choose
That definition doesn't comport with my experience of British-English usage in UK.

The definition you link is interesting, I'll quote it:

>symptom
>(SIMP-tum)
>A physical or mental problem that a person experiences that may indicate a disease or condition. Symptoms cannot be seen and do not show up on medical tests. Some examples of symptoms are headache, fatigue, nausea, and pain.

There seems to be an internal inconsistency in defining a symptom as physical if it's not objectively discernible; in what way is it physical? If you know it's a physical aspect of a patient then isn't it objectively observable and and so not a 'symptom' under this narrow definition?

We're going to tie ourselves in knots here for sure.
I don't know that Evernote the company or it's management would be jealous - Evernote probably has more annual revenue than all of those app combined.
If you keep people stressed, they become useless. Stressed people get no intrinsic satisfaction from working, or almost anything really.
Yup, just like America can't stop school shootings.
Still too much telemetry in my opinion. Is it possible to opt out, perhaps for a price?
In Seattle and some of its extended metro, 10yo kids on the bus isn't uncommon.

There's packs of them that transit their way to local skate parks near me.