skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure about the "learn it as a first language" bit.

I think this is very subjective. Our minds have been "poisoned" - or rather trained over years - into a very specific way of thinking about expressions like in the example.

A first programming language, however, assumes that the learner hasn't been preconditioned in any way into a certain paradigm. So just keeping the two rules in mind that 1) evaluation is strictly from left to right and 2) an expression evaluates to a sequence of zero or more values immediately makes sense of the example.

Unfortunately it's incredibly hard to "reset" your mind into a state that doesn't know about variable assignments and thinking of variables as singular slots as is the case in Haskell and most other programming languages.

That's why "intuition" is a very subjective thing - your intuition changes with knowledge and experience and both are hard to suppress.
You gotta google a bit more my friend
I know. But it's still space travel at the whim of a BS'er.

Hence, the need for a back up or private competitor. Ideally as efficient. If not, then at almost any cost is the only alternative (NASA).
There are tools specifically made to staple plastics together. The end user has to decide whether spending $20 on a tool to repair a $4 bin that costs $12 to replace is worth it or not.
Huh? The system libraries of Android are not especially obfuscated
Hey nice writeup. I saw you linked to Mapillary on there, have you used this and the API? The CV side can really add to mapping functionality.
… why have the operator sit in the cab? If truly teleoperated, then wouldn’t it be safer for the operator to be in a room far enough from the robot so that if there is some accident that crushes the cab or sends electricity through it, there is no damage to the operator?
Often the new strategies top level players test on anonymised accounts are subtle tweaks in lines deep into / slightly beyond opening theory. Often these lines are slightly inferior to mainline but come with an edge due to the "surprise factor" making it harder for opponents to prepare. Each of these subtle tweaks will only arise in a small proportion of games (as only some of the time your opponent will play the line you want to test), so I imagine fingerprinting based on play style will still work relatively well.
I use pihole running on our household synology nas. Kids devices are in a group, there’s a rule that blocks all DNS lookups. Kids are trained to set timers, and I set one too, and when the timer goes off, I pull out my phone and click the single button that turns off their DNS. There are exceptions for Kahn Academy, Wikipedia, Prodigy Software; maybe will add more as kids age. Been very happy with this setup. And I’ll be so proud when they learn to bypass it.
> This will become transparent

No it won't.
Cogent's IPv6 peering has been broken forever, as immortalized in the HE "please peer with us" cake[1].

[1]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mpetach/4031195041
By "stopping spam" in a manner that defines all[1] email not originating at Google or MS as spam, while at the same time allowing thousands of spam messages to be send via their infrastructure with limited ways for others to block it....

[1] yes I am aware not all, but unless you are a big player good luck getting gmail or ms to accept your mail
I made an `npx` command to add this awesome tool to codebases:

`npx add-gpt-summarizer@latest`

The CLI will walk you through all the setup steps.
source code: https://github.com/soof-golan/add-gpt-summarizer
People with money and power respect you more and are more likely to drop their guard in some ways. This applies to in-group signaling generally. In this case the in-group is the rich and powerful.
Oh I get it, but they're aiming for first-mover's advantage with the goal of being in control of something, not about implementing a lovely open ecosystem.
That's a wise move from Epic.

If we somehow happen to have a few competing metaverses, the one with the biggest developer mind share will likely come out ahead.

Just reading the PDF energized me about the possibilities.
A lot of rocket/spaceship control systems and related components were designed and produced in Electrophibor in Kharkiv, East Ukraine.

Yangel OKB, designers of the frankly speaking ridiculously overpowered R-36 ICBM series was in Ukraine (including work for turning R-36 into Tsyklon and Dnepr satellite launchers), as well as teams responsible for Zenit carrier rocket (also used as boosters on Energia).

There was also other R&D and manufacturing works scattered across Ukraine, but outside of those and already mentioned Antonov they were mostly related to areas that weren't my hobby so I can't recite them from memory. Lots of heavy industry related to tanks and related vehicles near Kharkiv, at least.

EDIT: Also, post USSR breakup Ukraine ended up having to run a nuclear "weapons" program despite disavowing nuclear weapons - because they had full chain nuclear weapons industry from raw materials to final warhead assembly, and it was considered good idea to keep those people employed lest they be hired out by more militant places.
Ask HN: What are some active longevity focused communities?
Hi HN. I’ve been interested in longevity for about a decade but after Undoing Aging Berlin in 2018 I stepped aside to focus on other stuff. But now I want to reach out to more folks who are active in the longevity community: either focused on practical longevity, rejuvenation therapies or any other angle. Always with the feet on the ground, of course. So, what are the most active communities around longevity?
>...accurate to within 10 seconds per day

That is hilarious to me. A quick search is showing one can expect a POS Casio to be +/- 15 seconds per month.
I think the exodus thing doesn't work the way you think. Sane people leave, and the staff is left with people who want to be there and to be pulling all these stunts, spinning them as success.
Depends on the orbit you want, I believe. Is your goal to launch in the direction of Earth's rotation or not? Something like that.
Something else that came to mind while I was reading the comments: you do want phonetics/pronunciation classes when you're C2+. Do learn IPA and learn the sounds, it's crucial not just for your accent but for understanding others. I found [1] very useful, but only combined with a great tutor.

Something I didn't appreciate enough is that we don't actually hear sounds when we hear people speaking. We hear phonemes, which are clusters of physical sounds that make semantic difference in the language. The clusters themselves aren't fixed either, they are very loose and mostly defined through what they are not — i.e., the difference that we perceive in "lip" and "leap" is not absolute, the actual sounds might easily overlap between speakers, but we adjust to the particular accent/speaker using the fact that they probably still have two separate phonemes there.

It works very well until one starts to learn a second language that might have not just different "clusters", but a different number of them. My first language is Russian, and in Russian there are just fewer semantically meaningful vowels; I honestly thought that the word "milk", молоко, has three roughly equivalent sounds, whereas in English that'd probably be heard as two or three distinct vowels ([məɫɐˈko]). Similarly, Russian "soft" sounds like м in мята are widely heard as having "j" in them, "m-ya-ta", while native speakers just don't hear that.

Phonetics training helps to start actually hearing all those sounds, to adjust our inbuilt clustering and start perceiving things that natives do. You suddenly start understanding native accents much better, and gain a new appreciation for the language and its beauty.

It's just as much about perception as it is about accent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_pair
Good comment. Andrew did remove zstd compression on the wasm artifact in this commit [0] for the reasons you mention [1].

[0] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/commit/c51288f1f6be20be9f162c...

[1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/13821#issuecomment-13448...
>>If people could be trusted to manage

Nice proving the OP orginal opening statement, well done ....
I'm guessing impact to most users will be minimal because vast majority of them don't even come close to current limit...

I'm thinking he'll probably charge extra for this feature though.
It works but my example seems to generate somewhat obvious deductions. (Rather subjective to judge this, I know). Still very impressive! Here it is:

Dream:

I was dreaming of being in an old rich friends' mansion in the mountains, visiting someone I've not seen in years. The dream went on and on, I recall meeting his son and thinking it was his other son named Nate, but Nate never showed up.

Response:

"Your dream is trying to tell you something about your relationship with your old friend and his family.

It seems that you are feeling a sense of nostalgia for the past, as your old friend is not as close to you as he used to be. The fact that his son was in the dream, and that you thought it was another son named Nate, could be a sign that you are missing the connection you once had with the family. The absence of Nate could be a sign that you are feeling a sense of emptiness or loss in your relationship with your old friend. This dream could also be a sign of longing for a time when things were simpler and there was a closer bond between you and your old friend."
Parts of Alaska (eg Fairbanks, Juneau) are not as cold as the Canadian prairies, where it frequently gets well below -20C in the depths of winter. In Winnipeg the average low in January is -21C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_and_climate_of_Winni...
They don't love systemd because they only interact with it when they're debugging Asok the intern's broken services.
Ask HN: Who is using Crossplane today in their infrastructure?
We have had incidents where I work of developers or folks new with terraform on the team making manual changes to resources they should not have made, resulting in downtime. I did my own little PoC at https://github.com/autotune/bank-of-anthos/tree/main/aws that implements Crossplane on an EKS cluster, which then builds out its own EKS cluster and resources to support that, and installs a demo provided by Google via helm. What are the cons of this setup? So far I have identified the lack of ability to do a terraform plan beforehand and and the fact that Crossplane is basically brand new on the scene as possible set backs, but the features it offers in exchange for that just seem incredible. What are your experiences or thoughts on it?
Ugh. I wish it were that simple. The wiring in my home won’t take more than a single space heater before blowing a fuse (every plug in the house is on the same circuit) and I wouldn’t trust a $15 space heater with my life.
> There is literally no valid reason to not support dual-boot on iPad.

It's an unworkable idea so that's a good reason.

Most people have never dual-booted a system before and would find it confusing for example that their applications, documents etc don't appear in both systems.
Having astigmatism, I definitely feel like text in dark mode is harder to read than dark text on light background.

In regards to eye strain with light mode, what I found important is to match screen brightness to „environmental brightness“ (don’t know the proper term).

As a rule of thumb, when I put a white paper in front of a white screen, the screen shouldn’t illuminate the paper more than the other lights in the room.
Sometimes dreams are obvious.

Other times you need nightcap.guru.
> It's an interesting book. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250145031/

They also made a movie of it [0], I lived in Italy during the financial crisis and it had become commonplace to see large migrating Chinese coming from the North (likely illegal migrants in Milan's clothing factories) come to the central part of Italy looking for work on farms and restaurants. It was hard times as this was taking place as the large migration from N. Africa was happening and they were living in the parks and making the locals irate.

It all came to light when our resident cheese maker, who used to work in the fashion Industry, had to tell them in broken Mandarin that we were fully staffed and couldn't accommodate them, but to try elsewhere further South--a typical way to brush-off a problem as is the running theme with Gomorrah.

I soon realized how dirty the Fashion Industry was as the Zara scandal was ettin into full swing and the workers were taking to writing messages about not being paid for the garments they made [1] as the factories were in sweatshops in Xinjiang or Brazil.

I wouldn't all it interesting so much as it is sobering and eye opening to the perils of offshore manufacturing practices and Italy's fashion Industry was just one of many of these horrors; Foxxcon's electronic manufacturing reliant on African rare earth mine exploitation make all of this pale in comparison.

> That's Italy!

It's anywhere you want to see where manufacturing costs get pushed to be the smallest possible line-item/expense in a value chain; the US is notorious for using forced labour in prisons for these kind of things, too. It's sad because it is a common practice in the worst labour camps/prisons in Russia (Siberia). It's where Britney Griner was going to serve her sentence, which incidentally is also where the Nadya of Pussy Riot spent several years in and was very candid about what was awaiting for her there.

0: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929425/

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdNvPSD8H1k
While you might know these particular ones, the list of possible symbol/currency pairs is long.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_symbol#List_of_curren...
If you have a Google Router, you can set up "family wifi" and schedule when your son should be doing his homework instead of being online. https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7535858#schedul...
So laser turntable needs a leading 'dust plow' ?
I’m new to this stuff, but as I understand it, the “Attention is all you need” paper stated that training the positional encoding weights didn’t improve results for language models specifically, but other papers found that vision transformers performed better with trainable weights.
Okay let me continue...

I write software at work and on my free time. I also game a little bit. Yet, I somehow manage to do these for 1/10 cost compared to some people.

Maybe i am too cheap? But my gear works just fine. And I have noted that I'm much more productive than most guys who refuse to work unless they are given at least three 4K monitors and a genuine gaming chair...
I have no experience with game programming. Why would you not want booleans when developing games?
> 90% of C++'s useless standard library,

The Python library is even larger and doesn't seem to be a barrier. If you know `std::vector`, `<<`, and `std::sort` it seems you're set to contribute to most code bases.

> C++ would also not have been deprecated by Rust.

That's an overstatement, to say the least.
Online gambling promoters are the best communicators. They hustle and you feel as if you are in control and there is the investment ad with fine print after the aster saying, "You do not own..".
The assumption that Pro == Programmer is on-brand for HackerNews but is otherwise a pretty narrow view.

iPad Pros are exceptional tools for engineering/architecture plan reviews, on-site walkthroughs, fashion sketching, etc. All of these are pro tasks and as primarily pen-driven tasks that can use the CPU and RAM, are better suited to the iPad Pro than a laptop.
In addition to the other issues (eg. it can only explain the what) I'm low-key disappointed that the repository isn't using itself. It would undoubtedly have lead to an increase in commit message quality here.
The paper also stops before going into these. These were the bits that actually interested me, but alas, guess we'll have to wait for that.
Yes! This is the core problem due to the historical trajectory (browser invented for static documents, now being used to build applications) -- one that's no longer possible to sidestep at this point.

I believe there is a phrase "path dependence" to describe such situations.
Show HN: On-demand, 100% AI-generated holiday cards (free e-card option)
Hi HN, I'm working on generative AI and hypercustomization - I hope greetings cards will be the first of a huge range of on-demand products we can enable consumers to tailor to their exact tastes using AI!

This site lets you choose one of over 40 holiday card themes, generate image ideas and messages with GPT-3, and then create your own images one of 25 art styles. No prompt engineering needed!

You can mail or order cards on-demand, or send an e-card for free.

Happy holidays, please let me know what you think!
Francis
Not to be a sage here, but "every research is an average taken in the past on other people".

What works for the average is likely a good starting point. It is not necessarily the best for you and a given case (almost for sure different from the experimental ones).
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/02/eureka-funny/
As Carvana crashes, used car dealers, not buyers, stand to win big
This is the classic Comcast "why does netflix get a free ride" Pr spin for a few years ago where they are battling net neutrality and trying to convince the public that Netflix, and Google were "free riding" and "not paying their fair share" for the network which is "just like water"
There are these cash machines in Denmark, with both American and British labels.

https://travelswithsheila.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/air...

(Copenhagen Airport, although I don't recognize the exact location. Probably the place cruise ship buses meet passengers or something like that.)
This reads like it was generated via ChatGPT lol.
iOS being what it is with the whole walled garden ecosystem (which I do like from a security point of view) will significantly reduce the types of applications you will be able to run. For example I use ad blockers prominently on every platform and browser where I can. The ads on the internet and you tube etc are obnoxious. You’ll never have ad blockers on iOS, well not as long as the walled garden stays up. Imho. And that’s why I can’t get behind iOS/iPadOS as a daily driver.
Because US congress is made up of elected representatives, and each representative is incentivized to do so by the desire for re-election.
> But instead they have eccentric "hobbies" requiring $10ks of of equipment, inclusive of "needing" $10k viking stove/range, and $10k subzero fridge/freezer in your kitchen because you are a "foodie" and doing a $500k home Reno because you have good architectural taste and style.

Or maybe they just like to cook and enjoy having good hardware?

Not everything is for signaling purposes. It's really cynical to start viewing everyone's personal expenditures as some sort of socially manipulative tactic. This is especially true when it comes to people's hobbies, where many of us are just trying to enjoy ourselves and appreciate having good hardware around.
You have too much faith in PG&E and SDGE. They have, through politics, gained long term contracts, increased prices, plenty of profit yet maintenance is still poor and flex alerts are frequent. And are squeezing the benefit of solar to customers that bear to cost to benefit themselves.
TIL that the falus was a Moroccan copper/bronze currency [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falus
Vanadium flow batteries provide grid storage
My guess would be that it's the usual case of trying to solve a non-technical issue by throwing new technology at it.

I honestly cannot wrap my head around how a programming language of all things should solve the "millions of programmers working on a thing"-issue.
As a third world resident, I don’t see any solutions to this problem. You can’t give discounts, as that will enable arbitrage.
And then what? Searching the ~4 apartments that are close enough to be potential locations?
> it’s a vessel for transporting toasty warm clothes approximately 50 feet

This is odd - surely a laundry basket is a vessel for heavy, damp and lukewarm clothes

edit: downvoted for forgetting about tumbledryers, the shame :)
> By creating a platform that emulates Windows, otherwise no one would bother to target their device natively.

this is a stopgap measure to bootstrap demand for the platform

because these days the target platform isn't Windows

it's the game development kits sold as a service, like Unity and Unreal Engine

both of which are now supported natively

> Meaning those game studios will keep giving Microsoft money

now you've lost me

(it's also bizarre that you pop up in every single "Windows bad" post right on cue to defend Microsoft's honour)

(edit: ah, found your linkedin, so you're an MS employee, I guess that explains it then)
Colossus: The Forbin Project : https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0064177

War Games: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0086567
I like it. I am guessing it could find interesting connections in much longer dream descriptions. What is the limit on input length?