skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a MacBook from 2015 and an iPhone 7 that I've been avoiding upgrading because I wasn't sure if I wanted to remain in Apple's walled garden. This issue was a huge sticking point for me, and it's an incredible relief they're closing the loop. Guess I'll be giving them a bunch more money in the near future!
Author is writing many things with the clear implication that he felt that he was owed much more that what he received. Everybody here understands that he feels that way, and vehemently disagrees with him.

The common critique is not that the author made mistakes, it's that he's self-centered, a diva, etc for feeling like he deserves a huge chunk of the worth of minecraft for writing the end-poem on a contract. He thinks he should get more, people disagree because $20k is much more that you would have expected for such a thing anyways.
You know what also causes myocarditis at a far higher rate than the mRNA vaccine?

COVID.

I haven't seen anything suggesting miscarriages caused by mRNA vaccines, do you have any sources?
Language-level guarantees of memory safety are not critical to all low-level programmers, and sometimes this is fine!

Developers of games, compilers, digital audio workstations, video editors, and live performance software (such as openFrameworks) likely don't rank memory safety as their top concern.

Zig is already an attractive choice for those domains because it offers:

- Great compile times compared to C++/Rust, and future plans to implement hot reloading as a core part of the tooling: https://www.jakubkonka.com/2022/03/16/hcs-zig.html

- The ability to reason about where data exists in memory: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Where-are-the-byte...

- Good readability and learnability, especially if you have a C/C++ background.

- Comptime that enables clean generics, compile-time reflection and general metaprogramming as a happy side-effect: https://kristoff.it/blog/what-is-zig-comptime/

- Better tooling than C/C++. The ability to cross-compile Zig and C/C++ from one machine lets you set up much more stable and reproducible build environments already. You can clone zig-gamedev and have the demos working with just three commands on Windows/macOS/Linux, for example, and two of those three are cloning the repo and changing to the directory: https://github.com/michal-z/zig-gamedev (to build the examples you will need the latest copy of Zig from the 'master' section for your platform at https://ziglang.org/download/ )

We should all be careful about insinuating that memory unsafe languages should not exist. I see “friends don't let friends use memory-unsafe languages” on social media and feel sick. It's much healthier to embrace the melting pot of Zig, Odin, D, Beef, Vale, Hare, V, Lobster, Jai, C3, Val, Roc and all the rest and see what new ideas and trade-offs they bring.

Also worth noting that new languages tend to take time to develop their own philosophies to memory safety (Vale's approach is only just now emerging, for example: https://verdagon.dev/blog/making-regions-part-1-human-factor ). Others take years to gradually improve and develop techniques for better memory safety (like D). Zig's story might not be as good as Rust's ( https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/ ), but then it's not Zig's priority at the moment, and Zig's full story is not yet written. Even if Zig's safety features don't improve further between now and 1.0, it already has great value as a language.
Uptake of the boosters in the US is low.

The one released this fall is targeted more closely at post-Omicron strains (dominant in most of 2022). Something like 15% of the country has gotten it, and only ~1/3 of the more vulnerable older folks. There's studies coming out regularly demonstrating that it is more protective against currently circulating virus than the initial vaccine.

Covid deaths are still in the hundreds per day. Deaths continue to be concentrated in high risks groups and the risk of dying once infected continues to be higher among the unvaccinated.
Is America Stealing TSMC?
Why do they need pressure to combine two teams that work on extremely similar apps?
It varies from region to region. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronom_Eisenbahngesellschaft does 160kph between Bremen and Hamburg.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Bahn_Mitteldeutschland with the https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_Talent_2 should do it, too, in parts.

But haven't used the latter, so can't vouch for lack of personal experience.

Anyways, 160kph==100mph, so even the slowish stuff is really 'highballing' it :-)
What term would you prefer for something that just looks ignorant and no other explanation is given for why the person does it even after information has been shared with them?
Same exact boat as you. FF Focus on Android and I can't read anything on that post. If you long click the image you see some url parameters, but when I tried to play with them they only made the image smaller and lower quality lol. What ever happened to imgur linking directly to the full size image?
Yup, I'm honestly confused about the weird strain of conservatism in some Linux circles.

I've been an user of Linux since quite early on. Back then I recall a lot of enthusiasm for the desktop and attempts to make the user's life easier. Things like YAST were a selling point, there was the framebuffer console for a prettier boot, and Enlightenment if you wanted all the gratuitous eye candy your CPU could handle. There seemed a lot of interest in making things better and look cooler. It was a world full of possibilities, back when the Windows users rarely got more than changing the UI font to something weird.

Today there's this weird attachment not only to the days before that, but to the things that sucked. Like there's some people that are nostalgic for FTP for some reason I can't quite understand. FTP is an awful protocol, and which resulted in countless corrupted packages transferred in ASCII mode.
This looks really cool, congrats on the launch! Do you have any plans to monetise it? If so, how?
Two - make a +, everyone knows
1) There is no AI yet. It's all just complex if statements. No need to worry at all.

2) I'm far more concerned by the dangerous stupidity of humans.
Conquest by Hugh Thomas, probably the best book on Cortes' conquest of the Mexica people (Aztecs) and my gold standard for non-fiction - it's got almost 200 pages of notes and sources, for example, and most of them are available via Project Gutenberg.

This book really drove home the effects of European imperialism without all the "woke" rhetoric found in contemporary discourse. The Mexica performed human sacrifices at a horrifying scale but they were otherwise as close to a utopian society as I've ever read about, built on completely different cultural mores including a religion that almost deified the emperor far beyond Europe's "divine right of kings." Since their entire war machine was built around capturing prisoners for these sacrifices with obsidian weapons meant to wound rather than kill, they were completely unprepared for the armor and horses.

It's hard not to see Montezuma as a tragic figure whose indecisiveness led to the conquest of all of Central America. Cortes' expedition was an unmitigated disaster from day one but once the New Spain beachhead was established, the writing was on the wall, even though some tribes like the Mayans held out for a few hundred more years. I often wonder how different the world would look today if Cortes and his conquistadors were slaughtered by the Mexica before they even reached Tlaxcala. Instead Cortes walked right in the front door and decapitated an entire civilization.
I don’t think this is a complex trade-off at all, precisely for the reasons in your second paragraph. The whole issue boils down to whether we should allow the powers that be a framework to criminalize being an unadulterated human. That path may be less salient in the short-term (particularly in the face of manufactured panic), but it’s far, far more terrifying in the long run.
Are there any comprehensive benchmarks of WASM runtimes?

I've been using V8 to benchmark WASM code because its convenient, and because WASM in V8 is the obvious comparison to make when benchmarking against Javascript code. But if one of the other WASM runtimes does a better job optimizing, it might be interesting to see that.
The DearMoon Crew
You could substitute almost any definition of happiness in my comment and the argument would still work.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents will not be teaching Stanford Law School next year
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/youre-waiting-herd-immunity-co...

> If you’re still waiting for herd immunity for COVID-19, it's time to move on: Experts

> As scientists learn more about the virus, they say herd immunity won't work.
Taiwan Government Looks to Protect TSMC Tech from US
Lots of people in close proximity seemed to be the trigger for my terrible experience with this last week (talking several hundred sitting in desks next to each other)
I like Go as a language in the abstract sense, but the experience of writing Go code is so tedious to me. Refusing to compile if there's an unused variable or unused import is too harsh - at least give me the option to make these things warnings.
You can reject Cantor, but ultimately, it doesn't matter. The question is which problems does it solve if you do. If rejection of the diagonal argument leads you to a massive discovery, science will follow, this is the scientific method. But so far, nobody was able to do anything impressive by going this way.
Do you mean that the chapter on priming has been debunked (as I believe Kahneman acknowledges) or is there more wrong than that?
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Ok... and what replaces that if we just decide not subsidize soy anymore? Under the current conditions, it seems consumption will only drop slightly and people will simply pay more. Just as we saw in the pandemic with China sourcing its soy.
> Many suburbs are not sustainable, and are degrading.

If the suburbs aren't sustainable, then what about rural? What about seaside? Where everything is super spread. It sounds to me that the "because roads" is an argument constantly made by those who levy taxes and by those who wants ever more taxes to be levied on others.

I live in a super-spread out rural/seaside area where I drive across vineyards to drive my kid to school. Businesses here aren't making a lot of money and yet there are roads. I somehow don't buy that very hard that sell that the suburbs aren't sustainable "because roads".

Do I really need to pay huge income taxes (France BTW) then 21% value added tax on everything I buy then 30% on any profit I'd make in the stock market, placing there money that's already been taxed? And paying four different (yup, four) taxes on real estate (land tax, "living tax", yearly tax on real estate wealth and now, the new, to me, one: "real estate tax for micro entrepreneurs")?

The tax never stops. And then, in addition to that, I've got to listen telling me that my area is too spread out "because roads and sewers" and I should pack my stuff and go live in a city?

Just FUCK THAT.
The stock is down over 30% YTD. One of the biggest investor is asking for cutting costs. I understand how this is hard for an employee, but I do not see what's wrong here. If it was your company or you were one of the biggest investor in the company, would be asking to cut costs and focus on efficiency, specially with the last 12 months of hiring and a likely recession to look forward to next year?
> For Dart in particular, it sounds like there was a serious discussion about the choice

Yes, we debated it for years.

Literally the day we launched, a user filed an issue requesting support for null safety: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/22

For most of Dart's history, that was the #1 upvoted issue on the issue tracker.

Back in 2011 before I worked directly the language, I proposed null safety:

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/10/29/a-proposal-for-...

I'm immensely glad we finally did it, even though the migration has been a ton of work.
21 years or 31 years. Which is it. C'mon. This mistake is so glaring it is not even funny. How can anyone miss that, especially in an article about journalism.
This doesn't answer the concern, it just downplays it.
I think that AGI will change the world, because when it's here, and automations/robots/whatever are doing a lot of the work: I agree with your dread. We're going to see a lot of people with no ability to get work/income, and a lot of people mopping up all the available money, and then...

Then I can't make predictions anymore. But society has to adjust. We can't have a huge number of people that have no way to support themselves and just keep on our merry way. Fundamental shifts will have to occur. UBI maybe, or something like it. Robots that provide for the needs of everyone. I have no idea, just a couple thoughts.

Anyway, I think the transition will be rough, and possibly slow. People don't like change.

In 1000 years, if we maintain control of the AGI, I think we will be living a really nice life. But the next 50 years are going to be painful to navigate, I think.

I'm personally planning to duck my head down, stay up here in the middle of nowhere, and keep learning. Good luck, us.
You never implemented a quick polish notation calculator that uses this data structure? [1,2, '+']
Lights? Where we're going we don't need lights...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_out_(manufacturing)
They also broke SC2 into three $60 boxes products, segmenting the multiplayer each time, right at the dawn of the free to play MOBA era on PC. My entire SC2 friend group ditched Heart of the Swarm for League of Legends and never looked back.

Wings of Liberty was a great time, though.
If you're willing to set things up yourself, Alpine is already a pretty good desktop OS. Not that I'd object to also getting preconfigured desktop flavors, granted.
I appreciate the exchange

The genesis here was me keying off of related phrases within the WSJ piece:

"...Amid Pressure to Cut Costs"

"...faces pressure to streamline operations and cut costs"

Ok, great. So, my question is where is this pressure coming from?

"The activist hedge fund TCI Fund Management called on Alphabet to aggressively cut costs last month, writing in a letter to management that it thought the company’s head count was too high"

This is the WSJ suggesting that there is a link (granted they do not give confidence intervals) between these things. You could argue that perhaps WSJ is just poorly suggesting that there is a general "background radiation" of "pressure" related to Google.

So it's not like I'm just fabricating this link :)

But since you asked, the larger point and the particular axe I have to grind (that is permanently attached to my hand) is that investors have more power than the collective google employees do, do not have employee interests in mind at all, and Google management and the board will always align with investors NOT employees.
> wanted Google to become 20% more productive

... so, 16.33% headcount reductions?
This is an issue of semantics. They "prevent" in the sense that they "reduce the risk", not in the sense that they "preclude entirely".

Put another way: they prevent some transmission. They do not prevent all transmission.

It's not unusual to be sloppy with the definition here. Typically you would say that birth control prevents pregnancy, even though it is not 100% efficacious.
It's a real shame that a lot of these labor improvements, or workplace experiments, are coming right before a recession that many assume is happening. One would expect work conditions will tighten up once that happens, hence HN gloominess about the reversal of WFH.

Pretty impressive that the U.K. is the one trying this out, what with the current situation of their economy.
Can you please not break the site guidelines like this? You may not feel you owe an author better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not unheard of to have unions and a couple of if isinstance.

In fact it's why in python they even have the | operator between types nowadays.
Minor but interesting.

> "When using a weighted blanket, the 1 hour increase of salivary melatonin from baseline (i.e., 22:00) to lights off (i.e., 23:00) was about 32% higher (p = 0.011). No other significant differences were found between the blanket conditions, including subjective sleepiness and total sleep duration."

The authors are also aware of the limited scope of their inquiry:

> "Future studies should investigate whether the stimulatory effect on melatonin secretion is observed on a nightly basis when frequently using a weighted blanket over weeks to months. It remains to be determined whether the observed increase in melatonin may be therapeutically relevant for the previously described effects of the weighted blanket on insomnia and anxiety."
UK banking rules face biggest shake-up in more than 30 years
> Today, in Silicon Valley, work life balance has become sacrificing Work for Life - not a balance.

(Not in Silicon Valley, but...) I have never regretted sacrificing work for life.
> claiming that 10% of those that purchased the 9€ ticket did without at least one of their daily car journeys. [...] But for a start, I think it is not so bad.

I don't know – I suppose you could say any car journey avoided is an improvement, but given the quite radical reduction of fares a figure of only 10 % avoided car journeys stills seems rather disappointing and to my mind rather confirms what was already known beforehand – while ticket prices should be reasonable and not outrageously expensive, the actual key to significantly reducing daily car usage (instead of mostly having people just make additional journeys using public transport) is by improving actual service quality and not by merely making tickets cheaper.

E.g. locally there was project where after a significant improvement in services (up to three departures per hour instead of only roughly hourly at best, plus direct connections into the city centre instead of having to change partway), 40 % of the passengers on that line were former car users!

That's what I'd call an actual success story, but unfortunately it seems that everybody has succumbed to some sort of "cheap, cheap, cheap" mania, and of course for politics slashing fares is an easier win instead of actually improving the infrastructure and somehow dealing with the evolving staff shortage [1] or the increasing planning bureaucracy [2].

[1] Not just drivers, even though that might be the most immediately visible to the general public – e.g. the local state government still doesn't seem to feel any sort of urgency in finally getting the now vacant chair of the railway department at my former university filled again, even though the former professor has been pensioned off already quite a few years ago and it's not as if we didn't also have a shortage of engineers for planning and construction, too.

[2] Instead of actual improvements, we only got a "Planning Speedup Law" ("Planungsbeschleunigungsgesetz") which in practice has hardly sped up anything at all, and sometimes possibly even made things worse (e.g. by having centralised the handling of planning enquiries at the Federal Railway Agency – but without actually correspondingly increasing staffing levels there). The only bright spot from the point of view of public transport in general and the railways in particular (though on the other hand it doesn't paint that good a picture for Germany as a whole) is that the transition of maintenance and planning of motorways from the states to the new federal "Autobahn GmbH" has been similarly botched up, and apparently the new Autobahn GmbH has quite rapidly managed to make itself rather unpopular, both as an employer for individual engineers, as well as as a contracting entity for the various individual construction and engineering companies that handle most of the actual serious work.
For a robot that's not necessarily a problem, the bigger issue is that it's just terribly slow.
Zwift doesn't stimulate wind. It does simulate drafting, so you can save energy by sitting on another player's wheel, then try to sprint past them at the finish line.

https://support.zwift.com/en_us/drafting-in-zwift-B1ZB6Nxr
well list[int|str] is as well
I forget where, but there was a video I was watching that claimed the US was so far ahead in tech that instead of letting others know our capabilities we play with other countries by "accidentally" leaving things open to satellites which makes other countries trying to copy us go nuts trying to reverse engineer nonsense.

That comment was after mentioning how the "super sonic" plane built for the latest Top Gun was probably left out, on purpose, so it'd confuse adversaries on what the US is actually working on.
Interesting - I had a similar experience trying to have it craft and edit a fiction story. Asking it to avoid common or generic scenery and instead use specific unique details, to make characters show their qualities rather than just declare them, etc.

Was too high-level, never got past a sort of generic story with a pollyanna feel (the "GPT voice").

Still mind-boggling how far language models have come.
Ouch - attacking others like this will get you banned on HN. Please don't do it again!

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Don’t worry, the reassessment which happened to Russell will undoubtedly befell Wittgenstein when the time has come. Both worked on the fairly uninteresting part of philosophy anyway.
> every one of them wants Python. I haven’t seen a single one where they’re looking for R or even C++; Python rules this roost.

Tried putting R into production recently? It’s a frustrating and brittle experience. Don’t get me wrong, R is fantastic at what it does - analysis, research, statistics, and arguably the API’s on the R data frame packages are a lot saner than Pandas.

C++ is out for different reasons I suspect. As this touches on, “modellers” (and data scientists/engineers) ought to be decent developers, but a lot of them are not, and in my experience actively refuse to learn any of these skills, the comfort zone is “jupyter notebooks” and that’s it. Getting them to write C++ (disregarding language debates), a language that is unequivocally more difficult and fraught with complexity than Python is basically a non-starter.

Do I wish it was different? Yep. Do I wish there was some more variety in the “language ecosystem” so it’s more than just the “lowest common denominator Python” dominance? Absolutely.
I've been in a couple "lights out" datacenters and there always seem to be electrical/cooling/backups engineers in and around running regular checks. Which is great! Also services for cleaning public spaces.
Absolutely. But the reasons are vague at best. The key reason seems to boil down to limited crawl budget simply because we don't have reputation. In which case, we need to rethink if our business has the ability to generate shareable content. It might not.
I think the state of the art has progressed past that? A non-trivial reversal of a perceptual hash would mean that every cloud provider maintaining a CSAM scan list violates CSAM laws - if they could reverse the hash to get too close to the original image, the hash is just a lossy storage format.
Because city planners would start blocking off side streets if a huge product like google maps was directing people through them.