skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if you could call this an example of Jevons' Paradox. Ebikes get you more distance per calorie, so you spend more calories, because more destinations are within reach.

(Refresher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_Paradox )
I think in any moderately large business you'll have both.

1. Is usually implementing business logic for the product
2. Is generally working on things #1 uses to work productively

I'm not sure about the composition on HN, but I see a lot of #2 in "DevOps"/SRE roles. Usually these roles are skipped for small startups but at some point they get big enough they need dedicated people to take them on
Show her some Scratch programming.

Kids I have taught, love that they can record and play back the sounds with programming blocks.
But bikes are not rocket science. They can be advanced and high tech, but they can also just be ordinary, well built bikes if using good parts. If the parts are good then the bike is good, the brand matters less for a bike than say for a car.
Congrats Varun :) Great to see my ex-roommate's post on HN front page.

Fun fact- Varun is a super smart engineer, he even won a car in a competition:

https://www.oneindia.com/2006/06/29/microsoft-security-shoot...

I would highly encourage HNers to try out his github action.
I tried to learn how to drive a 200cc gas scooter so I could save money versus buying a new car, with disastrous effect (broke my leg and arm). So now, what I really want is something in tricycle form, but at a $3k price point. Maybe an electric trike that can go on a town road lane (maybe with a top speed of 40-50mph), and has a roof attachment to protect the driver from rain, etc. Getting the exercise from pedaling would be an added benefit.
What could a third party add to a primary-source's press release other than speculation? Sure in some cases there could be some "sources say..." or "when reached for comment Apple clarified that..." but in general I think its going to be a rehashing and speculation in general.
Most people don't want to have their hands on the wheel if they are paying big money for a system like this. It's definitely nowhere close to good enough for having the hands off the wheel. I would argue that FSD requires more attention than normal driving because the software can do something rash unexpectedly.
No. Animations are usually performed by the GPU under the control of a separate process.

"This system framework renders animations out-of-process with GPU hardware acceleration. Animation playback is managed by a separate system process called the “render server”. "

This was actually a really cool trick that was in-place from day 1 and the main reason iOS animations were smooth on fairly anaemic hardware. And smoother than Android, even when the Android system had beefier hardware and a faster graphics stack.
I don’t quite understand what you mean by the distinction between resume and restart here. CL condition handlers allow code that signals a condition (sort of equivalent to “throws an exception) to continue on as if the condition was never signaled. You just need a handler-bind somewhere in the stack that doesn’t perform an exit. You can use this to do things like catch a type error and convert the input value to the expected type on the fly.
In a world with roblox, I can't see how metavers hopes to be a thing to teens.

I suppose for those teens with a pile of disposable income. You know something kids are known for, having piles of cash.

I really hope the boss who approved this gets fired.
I feel that might be overstating things. Otherwise we would all be speaking in a transatlantic accent.
When it suits them. See: https://www.newsweek.com/world-cup-worker-threatened-100-las...
Yeah, I'm surprised on a forum like this people are using it as an opportunity to be like "ugh kids these days in $current_year seeking attention" and not "holy shit this is fascinating." Social media turned "picking up an accent" up to 11 in a way that actually manifests in tangible problems.
You're right. Cleaning toilets is at least a laborious task.

Your standard CRUD applications and web services are largely just a rigamarole of reciting the right incantation and duct taping bits together. It's immensely non-stimulating work when done properly.

This isn't an insult by any means. It's a testament to the triumphs of decades of engineering efforts to turn the process of orchestrating extremely complex electronic systems spanning continents into a largely trivial task for most projects.
Back when I was about to graduate college, I applied to the NSA.

They sent back letter written by what looked like a typewriter saying I would have to schedule an onsite interview.
I would definitely question who is doing the inventing here.

However, I had an experience with chatGPT yesterday that definitely felt like it actually inventing. Problem is, I didn’t ask it to.

I was seeing how much it knew about HyperTalk, the scripting language used in HyperCard. And it was surprisingly well informed. But it also told me that one of the interesting things about HyperTalk was its ‘message stack’ system.

On digging into this topic, chatGPT hallucinated an entire language feature, with original (but HyperTalk-consistent) syntax and semantics, and was able to generate me sample programs (which it claimed showed how this feature was ‘actually used’) and explain how control flow worked within them. when I asked if the feature worked across scripts (for message passing from button scripts to background scripts perhaps) it readily agreed, and produced sample code showing exactly how to use this nonexistent language feature to do just that.

Its delusion was remarkably complete and honestly actually plausibly useful.

Worth bearing in mind if you ever decide to ask chatGPT to teach you a programming language though.

But also, potentially a fruitful line to explore would be having chatGPT collaborate on designing new programming language ideas.
the main hold-up on this is actually libtorrent not releasing WT support in a full release yet, from my talks with qBit devs, there's a lot of people waiting for them to simply include it in a release as it seems stable, and there are quite a few people using it on rasterbar, see https://tracker.btorrent.xyz/stats
> If your secure hardware doesn’t have a display, how do you know what you’re signing?

I might be missing what you mean, but with a normal security module I control the inputs and outputs: the device only signs what I tell it to sign, and I can test it for honesty by verifying that any signature(s) I get back are actually signatures over the inputs I put in. That still requires me to trust that my interface to the hardware is the only interface, but that's the point of the parsimony (no bluetooth to worry about!).

HSMs have plenty of problems (and I've encountered a good share of them from designing trust ceremonies), but I don't think adding a screen addresses any of them. If I was an attacker, the pins on an e-ink display would probably be much easier to tamper with than the secure hardware itself.
The key is probably that you can't be doing at 40 what you're doing at 20. Whether that means better technical skills, better management skills, better communication skills, just better able to navigate a company and the industry...

It probably does mean that, if someone just wants to code, they probably have a higher bar than people interested in doing a more diverse set of things.
I've read this theory before, that the removal of ephedrine from the market has led to starting with different precursors and a more dangerous end product. It's unclear to me whether there is actually anything to this theory though.
>I can ask it questions and it tends to give really good answers. And of course, I try to verify that it isn't teaching me something that's wrong.

Thanks for answering. I've found that to be a surprisingly productive loop, too. Since we know it isn't going to be 'offended' as we challenge, inquire, and challenge again, we can get straight to the point.

I've found myself being continuously floored the entire past weekend. Feels good to be excited about tech again, honestly.
I don't get it either, I tried to have a conversation where it needed to remember something rather simple, but it didn't seem to get it:

> Let's pretend you are Danish

[Ok]

> What's the name of the highest point in your country, in the local language?

Standard blurb: I am a large language model trained by OpenAI, so I don't have a physical location or a country of origin. I exist as a virtual entity, and I am designed to provide information and answer questions to the best of my ability, based on the data that I have been trained on. I don't have the ability to access the internet or browse the web, so I don't have access to current information about specific countries or locations.

But other times it seemed to get it. How does it work?
How are they going to enforce it?

Selectively.

And as a tool to limit voices in their own political space.

You'll see the average person suffer, but it will be regional and class based.

Religion is great for this stuff. (not to be confused with faith)
Depending on who his dad is, losing tens of millions over a decade on the son could be worth it. A lot of bribery works by giving money to family members. The gravy train might only end when his dad is no longer in a position to repay people with favors.
Would putting the bluetooth stack on a dedicated IC be an adequate securiry measure?
(This comment was originally a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33878419. Hence the "your conclusion".)
Money is literally an IOU.
No...chips are made on Silicon. What is required to make them into semiconductors requires a lot of special metals, gases and other chemicals. They source those things from around the globe...including Ukraine for things like noble gases.
Thanks for that explanation. Is that why the price point ranges overlap - does the increment you select tell Apple how much they should round by when converting currency?

For example, on the surface it seems redundant to have overlapping prices bands

$0.29-$9.99 in $0.10 increments
$0.49-$49.99 in $0.50 increments

Since 10 cent increments include 50 cent increments, so why not say:

$0.29-$9.99 in $0.10 increments
$9.99-$49.99 in $0.50 increments
I agree that building systems that can keep track of large-scale programs seems very difficult, and the current LLMs don’t seem up to the task. However, I wonder whether we can leverage the ability of LLMs to understand short code snippets to inform higher-level static analysis. I think we may be able to generate high-level models of codebases using the intuition of LLMs, that we could then use to run higher-level simulations to detect possible bugs.

It seems like it could be possible, but soon? I agree, probably not.
That was a great read, plus a good highlight for just how much of a problem dust is for Moon (and Mars and beyond) missions. Thanks for linking it!
Riiiiiiight...

I'll agree that overloading << to do output is a WTF moment. But at least I can hire programmers off the street who know what output is. In contrast, that last paragraph of yours looks like you were carrying around a bowl full of random jargon, tripped, and spilled it all over your keyboard.

For your C++ example, I have to know the type of v and i (and that in C++, it's possible to overload operators). For your example, I have to know what an "optic" is, what a "Getter" is, what Haskell thinks a "subfield" is (and that means that 'x' can't be any type, but has to be the kind of type that contains a subfield), and I suspect several other background things that I don't even know what they are.

C++ makes you know a bit more about the types (though even in Haskell, you had to know that x had subfields). Haskell makes you know much more concept-level context.
I think there are still enough other contenders (most of the Gulf states for example, Afghanistan, and non-Muslim examples such as North Korea...).

But it's sad to see that a country which used to be one of the poster children of a fairly liberal nation with a Muslim majority is regressing so badly.

I wish I understood better what's behind this surge in religious extremism (prominently, but not exclusively, in the Muslim world) in the last 10-20 years.
you can always have your car painted or wrapped. No reason the car has to come from the factory in a more interesting style

https://www.google.com/search?q=amazing+car+wraps&source=lnm...

Also, I suspect it won't be long before you can get an LCD wrap or an e-ink wrap. Have already seen backpacks with animated displays.

https://pix.style/

https://cdn.shopify.com/videos/c/vp/d80e3679bac8476b9ee137ce...
A cars' bumper is still there, it's still steel (save for a few exceptions), and still intended to take the impact from another vehicle. The fragile container for sensors is technically the bumper cover.
The guy who originally set up Apple’s SAP integration in the 80s(?) used to run Caffe Frascati, a popular café/music venue in downtown San Jose.
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Ahh, that page says Burke was a conservative, and nothing about him reads to me as classical liberal.

Indeed,

> Classical liberalism is a political tradition and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market and laissez-faire economics; civil liberties under the rule of law with especial emphasis on individual autonomy, limited government [0]

While your link says,

> Burke was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners in society and of the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state.

While not entirely orthogonal, these political positions are also not fully compatible. In particular, religion almost always impinges on individual liberties - especially bodily autonomy. And Burke clearly supported a state that classical liberals would have wanted to tear down.

Anyway I think that’s enough responding to non-sequiturs for today.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
How many of relocated workers are really against Putin and war on Ukraine? Jetbrains true hero who only save his assets before sanctions hit hard entire shitty Russian economy. Good job!
It really is a great offering, especially when rolled into a family plan. Lots of high quality games on apple TV as well. Only problem is the OS limitation so I can't use a lot of older iPads I have lying around.
I see your reasoning but I disagree. HN articles don’t need to be unbiased. The reason being, if you want a more neutral take, just take a look at the HN comments.

HN submissions are usually primary sources, and the HN comments are where you have the discussion. Sometimes even the top voted comment is just a summary of the actual submission, but rephrased to be less biased or more clear. If HN can’t point out the buried lede or explanation and get it upvoted then there’s a larger problem, but in practice I don’t find this to be the case (though maybe I’m wrong).

Does the article provide anything which the HN comment section wouldn’t?
The reason you cannot "just" purchase "chunks" of the English coastline is because most of our coastline belongs to either local authorities or the crown estate. There is no sane business case for owning an acre of beach because a local authority will never grant planning permission to build anything worthwhile on it, so you would "own" a chunk of beach for no reason other than to inherit the burden of managing a piece of land (and who knows what that entails when councils often have very expensive shoreline protection projects to fund!). There is no financial sense in local authorities carving up beaches into chunks and selling them to Londoners for a few grand, it's a patently absurd suggestion. The reason this is a rare opportunity is the same reason it sold for so little: it's pointless, for both buyer and seller. It's not much different from owning a piece of the moon, or a square of land in Scotland so you can pretend to be a "Lord".
The amount of people dying of it Canada’s New Euthanasia Laws Carry Upsetting Nazi-Era Echoes, Warns Expert

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gusalexiou/2022/08/15/canadas-n...

Canadian man claims assisted suicide is being pushed on him by hospital

https://nypost.com/2022/11/08/canadian-man-assisted-suicide-...
"Has tons of water"? LOL
It is 5 years from rationing. Vegas solved their problem 20 years ago, things in AZ have gotten 10x worse.
things like this violate the design principles values by novice and power users. novice users that use something once a week or month may enjoy additional visual cues and animations to be friendly and welcoming. low information density to not overwhelm.

power users that use something every day or many times a day prefer things that are static, fast, and higher information density.

this is from designing the user interface, 1995
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That makes a lot of sense. Any resources you would recommend? I am getting tired of making C "wrappers" to work with C++ SDKs. Will probably need to bite the bullet on this.
For debugging you can actually use gdb in assembly tui mode and step through the instructions! You can even get it hooked up in vs code and remote debug an embedded target using the full IDE. Full register view, watch registers for changes, breakpoints, step instruction to instruction.

Pipelining and optimisations can make the intrinsics a bit fucky though, have to make sure it’s -O0 and a proper debug compilation.

I have line by line debugged raw assembly many times. It’s just a pain to initially set up. Honestly not very different from c/c++ debugging once running.
Yeah, my friend's mom drove an old Lark convertible when I was a teen, and it had a cadet green paint job that looked like this. I always thought it looked particularly classy, especially compared to the glittery cherry red Studebaker she'd previously owned. More saturated hues with this finish feel "retro" and less saturated hues make it feel "futuristic". I'm personally a fan, even though I'm really down on the gray neutral trend in design in general.
Personally, I think it's pretty hard to make that kind of comparison accurately without having professional experience in both fields. One could also argue that it's as intellectually stimulating as being doctor, but how do we actually know that?

I've cleaned toilets professionally, and I'll say once and for all: writing software, no matter how monotonous or boring, is nothing like cleaning toilets. And I'd be willing to bet that someone trying to make such comparisons has ever had to do that kind of work.
hey, I'm one of the few remaining active WebTorrent devs and I've seen this issue myself, to the point where it's simply easier to use NWjs or Electron with node integration and use chromiums wrtc implementation instead of the wrtc package, if you ever manage to find a better replacement for wrtc for node tell me, and I'll make sure it's implemented ;p
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I believe they're suggesting that Oswald did not act alone and there is a cover-up conspiracy.
Because utilitarianism?
Just a thought.
Wiki says "Genetic factors account for about 70–90% of the risk of developing bipolar disorder." https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/resources-support/bipol... says 80%, and says "If one parent has bipolar disorder, there’s a 10% chance that their child will develop the illness. / If both parents have bipolar disorder, the likelihood of their child developing bipolar disorder rises to 40%."

One of the cited papers is "Family, twin, and adoption studies of bipolar disorder". Link that gives only the abstract: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14601036/

I haven't dug into the paper yet, but there's a starting point.

Edit: The paper says "More recent (and rigorous) studies that have compared concordance rates specifically of bipolar disorder among MZ [monozygotic] and DZ [dizygotic] twin pairs are summarized in table 2." The table shows four studies that gave concordances of 0.00-0.08 for dizygotic twins, and 0.36-0.75 for monozygotic twins.
You should understand why there’s a lot of demand for programmers and how they demand might be impacted by ChatGPT
And it's share of water was already insufficient a decade ago, which is why the water table has run dry in many rural areas, forcing people to truck in bottled water or pack up and leave.
I was friends with a nurse who told a story about a gay man who went into surgery. He had a heavy, stereotypical gay accent. But when he initially woke up after the surgery it was gone, and as the anesthesia faded, the accent slowly came back.

I'm sure it varies for each individual, but for at least some gay men, some portion of their accent might be an affectation (even if it's largely subconscious).
This is what my wife and I do, it’s pretty flawless. YouTube + Mic & mixer to a separate speaker. It’s the only way, and YouTube has the best karaoke.

Routing the mic through your AV setup _will_ result in a delay which’ll make for a horrible experience. So don’t bother. Get a cheap mixer and a decentish Shure mic, a single active studio monitor and you’re away.
I almost peed.
Ideally a healthy blend of both. Wheels where it relates to your companies core competences or there's a gap in the market. Glue for everything else (you don't need to invent an infrastructure provisioning solution unless you're and infrastructure provisioning companies--there's plenty of mature solutions). Other places like application libraries--it might make sense.
I'm in my late 50s. When I hear about the salaries that much younger folks are pulling down in the FAANG companies I'm generally pretty shocked - I've never made anything close to that and don't have any expectations to. My expenses are way lower than most of the younger folks in tech because my house is paid off (will be in about a month), we drive 20 year old cars and we're quite frugal. For most of the past decade I've worked in startups where the pay hasn't been great but the work has been very interesting (in some cases, fun, even) so I'm willing to make that tradeoff. To summarize: I'd be willing to work for $90K/year if it was working on something I found interesting in an early stage startup (You get more control the earlier you get in). Are my compensation expectations high?
Sounds about as "radical" as regularly checking your kid's diaper, and doing a diaper change if it's wet or soiled.
You cant say the contrary either. Theres not enough evidence either way due to the sands of time.
I agree with all that. However you said "You lost me at call for moderators and volunteers".

I do not agree that just calling for moderators and volunteers means a business is unsustainable.

Perhaps it does in this case - I don't know enough about Hachyderm to know for sure. But it's possible that the roles of moderators and volunteers at Hachyderm might not be (or could be made not to be) so terrible, in which case relying on free labour is a proven and sustainable business model (for some businesses anyway).

Also worth noting that a "highly controversial history of how it spends the funds they collect" at Wikipedia is not directly correlated to Wikipedia's sustainability at all - the history shows otherwise.
I asked it "Which is better: ethics or morality?" and got an error lol
Well, I use cash - I buy good food, for example. But just knowing that I can just say bye to any job, if it gets to the point is quite a value to me.
Eh, USD is not just the dollar, it is an entire set of systems that include regulations that prevent fraud schemes. The USD without these systems would be the broken joke BTC is currently.
On the other hand, humanity is spending several pounds of food per day on a generic programmer and all they have to show for it is some numbers shuffling around inside of a computer.

Turning less tasty food into tastier food at a 2:1 ratio honestly does not seem all that terrible in the big picture.