skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you maybe overestimate the influence of a given hacker news comment. I imagine most lurkers don't even keep inventory of people's usernames, much less their karma.

I assume an unfortunate number of investors track such things, however.

And in any case - this site already lets companies shill things on HN and has a whole community of investors and other startups there to back them up. I guess the transparency is what makes it not astroturfing - but it's rather close don't you think?

Rules that discourage "shallow dismissals" go too far in the other direction - and all you get is founder-template, linked-in overly congratulatory "compliments".

Rules that discourage "read the fucking article" comments go too far in the other direction - and all you get is deeply reactionary, underinformed and waaay over-confident.

Of course, the only way to know these things would be to assess based on actual merits - it doesn't seem like the site operators agree with this assessment (that degradation of comment quality is largely self-inflicted due to the curation of a "yes!" (or, equally - a "yes, and...") culture.

Tech startup culture has similar issues, so I'm not really surprised. It does suck however to lose so much respect for your colleagues (speaking hyperbolically/poetically).
Hinton proposes FF – an alternative to Backprop
You refer to political campaigning and perhaps demagoguery?
I agree with the under current what chatGPT does well is making a good first draft of a text which is intended to be mostly neutral.

It is to communication what calculators are to mathematics.
The point is that a technologically advanced ferry is more difficult to maintain in remote regions. I would speculate that 2 smaller diesel ferries would fit design requirements better. Maybe less stringent environmental requirements would be in order, to allow for simpler technology (the net benefit being you don't have to fly parts halfway across the planet every time the fancy ferry breaks down).

Ultimately people who don't live in the environments things are being designed for might be predisposed to assume that advanced is better (or even the only option). The article argues that this is not always the case and we should take that into account.
It is worth mentioning there is a difference in general how people think in new authoritarianisms and in those that have been ongoing for decades. Here someone dreams that dreams are forbidden and does it anyway. When one's lived their entire life under authoritarian rule one's dreams are often already self censored. When your next door neighbor is dragged out of his flat at 4am by secret service never to appear again and You think that is how things should be any manifestation of "reactionary" thought is unbearable. This makes the fact we have diaries and books written even in places like Russian gulags in which people record such thoughts even more astonishing. Long time ago as a teenager I hated being forced to read those "horribly depressing" books, but now I think it should be required reading in schools specially in countries that did this stuff to their citizens and others.
Wouldn't a modern approach to testing be more appropriate?
I'm thinking about BDD with stakeholders, TDD during implementation.

This ensures a high coverage and corner cases are addressed.
Or maybe plainly just not a big deal for you, but still problem for others
Yeah I agree with you on all the way down to the very foundational fiber of my being. Luckily though Japanese publishers will at most just add webtoons on top of their current operations and that will be that. Jpop still more or less exactly the same as before YG and Hybe made Idols universal, Japanese games are for the most part still as unique as the were before Mihoyo and Smilegate changed the ARPG industry landscape. I sincerely believe that Shueisha, Kodansha, and the broader manga sphere will remain largely the same as we move in to the future.

I work in Media merchant banking (Investment Banking + Private Equity), so what webtoons will possibly allow me to do is show Western-raised or older generation generation capital holders another vector by which Asian literary media is a worthwhile investment. I'd walk a mile through broken glass to funnel 100 mil USD into the manga industry, but obviously the amount of opportunities that arise where I can attempt to push the needle in that direction is slim. Webtoons might be a viable vector in some cases where manga isnt financially, and I've seen enough relatively impressive webtoons to feel that money is better spent there than most other places.
I feel it's modern hype on lonely/indie/solo developer creating new thing which changes the world. Not caring on "complex" things till the project reaches 1 request per minute and finally have some data to be lost, is totally fine with this goal/scale.
Your objection does not make sense. The code is simply bad and you replaced it with better more verbose code.
Until Googlr, Facebook, Disney or Time Warner run their own countries the sozr of a continent, times still are different. Not that some of those companies don't want to, especially Thiel certainly would, but we are not even close to what the East India Co. was and did.
Wouldn't high memory usage suggest it will need to bring more from dusk into memory not less
> I honestly fail to see what properties of the language has anything to do with the metaverse, or millions of devs, etc...

They're pushing transactions straight from the beginning, which I think is the sanest way for multiple actors to all try to interact with the same world.

And for the compiler to stay sane in dealing with transactions, it's necessary to mark effects, which is also in the slides.

The inclusion of effects & transactions already puts it way outside of the mainstream, even without the Logic stuff (which I admittedly don't understand yet)
Grief, the mobile UI is awful. I’ve seen auto-playing videos with more clickable close buttons.
It certainly is here in the northern latitudes. But I wouldn't be surprised if someone in Florida has never heard of it.
Delphi produced quite bloated code.

I remember a default Delphi application with 0 lines of actual code showing nothing but an empty screen compiled into something like 300KB circa 2000 all thanks to VCL while its pure C Win32 counterpart compiled into a few kilobytes.
At first it just said "site not found" and then it reloaded normal for me on firefox mobile (on android).
Once it reloaded, I found it nicer to read, than a Twitter thread, but if I want to publish something, I would not find that tolerable. Not loading is a clear signal it might work later, but showing a "content does not exist" tells me as a user to go somewhere else.
These slides need a lot of work. I'll read the paper later, but the slides really lack context and motivation.

* I'm a little disheartened to see "Objectively: no. All languages are Turing-complete" in the context of the question of needing another language. It's a throw away comment and largely irrelevant when considering the actual use of programming languages. If one has to state this platitude, it is more accurate to say "theoretically" rather than "objectively", as I think the latter is actually debatable.

* The utility of the choice syntax over comprehension syntax is not clear at all. The choice thing seems neat, but I don't understand why comprehension semantics weren't just extended. Every example of choice seems to refer to sequences and comprehensions anyway to make the meaning clear. Will have to see more examples. Right now, the syntax seems a bit quirky, especially with `false?` thrown in.

* Why is `fst` not named `first`?! The shortening is maddening to me. It saves two characters (negligible savings), decreases readability, and first is probably just as fast to type.

* I'm still not sure why they're creating this language, what problems it solves, and what any of it has to do with a metaverse.

These are professors and language experts, so I'm a bit surprised by the presentation. Also, the idea that this language will be learnable as a first language is ambitious, if not naive.
Russia focused so much on language issues to justify what it's doing that it backfired - in any discussion where Russian vs Ukrainian can be brought up, it will inevitably be symbolic now, regardless of what people speak.
I remember sysadms in the company I was working for 20+ years ago. They've been managing HPUX and Solaris systems forever and we suddenly added a bunch of Linux servers for an application delivered by my team. They gave me a call one day. "Those Linux machines were at 100% RAM so we doubled it. They are still at 100% RAM. What's your software doing?" I guessed that the system management software on HPUX and Solaris was clearer about the distinction between memory used by applications and memory used by the file system cache, because I remember that file system cache was a thing even in HPUX and all the other UNIX flavors I used at university ten years before.
> Can someone here ELI5 how they can be absolutely confident of these distances?

The way I read it is that they're absolutely confident of their fantastic young age, that is, their redshift.

As you point out, the age-to-distance conversion isn't quite settled, but that doesn't really matter in this context I think, as younger will still mean further away.

So these galaxies will still be the furthest away (for now) even if the distance ladder gets adjusted "inward", ie closer to us.
You interact with your DE whenever you create a window, switch to another, press the Super button, right click on the desktop, get a popup notification, hit your media keys, and in a decreasing way the more you move towards the Window Manager end of the spectrum.

So of course I would expect fluxbox to use less memory than KDE, because fluxbox doesn't do anything if I press the volume keys (please correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't used it in a decade)

Does that mean that fluxbox and all of its associated tools are going to be as snappy during real usage? You can't certainly know by just analysing the RSS and shared memory size of the fluxbox process.
I don't have experience of more recent E-paper displays but I regularly use a Kindle Paperwhite that's a few years old. It's absolulely great, but the screen refresh when you turn a page is really slow. That's fine for the use case of being an ebook reader, not so fine for a computer though - typing, for example, would be intolerable. If that could be fixed/improved enough then, I agree, E-paper displays could be great because they're incredibly clear, and very easy on the eyes.
Maybe the organisation that bought the ferry should enforce the contract they have with the ferry supplier so that the ferry works properly? Maybe the contract should have included a service plan? It’s a four hour drive to a city of 100k people in a province full of ferries so not that hard to have a maintenance agreement, surely? Sounds like a one-off procurement screw-up. Not an endemic problem.
I love Tetris and DJing. It’s like two of my favourite things combined!
When they decided to reboot their extensions in JS, that pretty much done it for me.
Who's we? If fusion is solved, the country that has will just become a net energy exporter (somehow, if it's the US, idk how they would ship that power). Nothing much will change for the rest of the world, they will just switch from one dependency to the other.
I tend to just write it off as a hallucination driven by too-wandering associations.

But there is a recent knowledge I could add to this. From my therapy sessions I learned that direct interpretations, even when they come from your own mind, may be very far from your issues or thoughts that may have produced a dream (in case it really is a subconscious experience at least partially). I have found very unusual multi-tier connections between events and my panic attacks, that I could never interpret myself into in a straightforward way. If you're familiar with chess, it feels like your mind looks several moves forward and wide, but a conscious interpretation is just a take on direct attacks.
Rich media owner vs rich media owner catfight , 2022 version
"Negative engineering" as described here is also especially challenging to test. Requires extraordinary backflips to construct reasonable approximations to the edge conditions, corner cases, external factors, and unreasonable contingencies against which you're trying to defend.

The same "Happy Path is just 20% of code" imbalance extends through test rig, tribal knowledge, and effort required. In some cases, 20% seems fantastically generous. IME preventing failures that only occur at heavy load or during other errors may be 95%+ of your effort and represent 99%+ of your "value add."
It was already supper snappy in 1997 hardware, and since it hardly has changed since then, I would say it compares fairly well.
Some kind of "all in one" where you have SQLite file with config (aliases/accounts etc) + maybe SQLite file per account for storage + some sane SMTP/IMAP config with DKIM and all the other crap spammers implement anyway but servers will spam you for if yu don't have it would be useful.

I've recently did a small server for private use (after google yeeted the free tier) and let's say it does require a bit of mail knowledge to set it up right.

That being said there is probably some container doing it, surely "easy mail selfhosting" isn't a new problem
I suspect `defer` is the mainstream right tradeoff between the implicit nightmarish semantics of C++ and the formalism of rust.

I think the Rust view of C++ will turn out to be an over-reaction. The issue wasn't a failure to make the implicit explicitly provable, it was simply to make it explicit at all.
"...the exact yield is still being determined and we can’t confirm that it is over the threshold at this time."

“That analysis is in process, so publishing the information . . . before that process is complete would be inaccurate"

Yet it still hits the tabloids.
The free market would sort all of this out, stop the handouts and let corporations take the lead on humanity's progress I say.
Indeed. Free RAM is useless RAM and a waste of actual money. If everything I use is magically always in RAM with no swapping ever, I don't care if I'm constantly at 100% usage. That's what I bought it for.

We're lucky we are unable (AFAICT) to have real stats on L2 and L3 cache recency utilisation.
This answer feels generated by ChatGPT. No human would side with ChatGPT so strongly.
Artificial Inanity ?

https://englishwotd.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/artificial-inan...
Not just cheap though - near zero. If we have an infinite tap of it, we can afford to waste a lot of it in the process of delivering it. The inefficient becomes efficient when you plug in infinities and zeroes
A nice novel to read, somewhat related to the topic: The palace of dreams, by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare
Uh, not to be That Guy, but what did you expect? Just compare K&R [1] and Stroustrup (any edition) [2] next to each other, and you will get a pretty strong hint of C being a smaller language. That's kind of the point, or it used to feel like it was anyhow.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language

[2]: https://www.stroustrup.com/4th.html
It's not them but the ruling class shareholders and fund-raiser donating class of people that for example pressure meta and fb to filter some content or maybe not filter it and ler civil wars happen and governments get toppled.
Jitterbugs – Why moving your pixels at sub-pixel precision is hard
>memories of the results the last time it was tried.

What happened?
Please no initialization fiasco from C++ ... http://mikelui.io/2019/01/03/seriously-bonkers.html
As always (humans too) bollocks in bollocks out.

ChatGPT works when you tell it what to convey and it just puts that into words.
Compared to say USA ?
Hailing from a country with a weak currency and high, volatile interest rates I'd say this environment produces a certain disgust towards borrowing money.

This is further reinforced by past, ultimately disastrous attempts at going around the problem of high interest rates, like taking a mortgage indexed to CHF.

And it's only going to get worse now that interest rates ballooned to values unseen for a decade in a span of months.
You can use Gnome with other window managers. I was talking specifically about gnome-shell.
Sorry, I was actually making a joke: fusion power has been described as "a decade away for the last 50 years" which I think sums it up pretty well...

https://www.engineering.com/story/why-is-fusion-power-is-alw...

The potential is hard to ignore, but that doesn't mean the potential will ever be achieved. This (like crypto currency) is the realm of vapourware I am afraid. Always just around the corner. :(
That sounds backward, there's already a monoculture: only GCC. Official
support for Clang would break that monoculture.

edit You probably meant more broadly in the FOSS ecosystem. Personally
I'm not worried about that as GCC seems to be doing ok competing with
Clang on technical grounds. For instance, last I heard GCC was ahead of
Clang in support for new C++ features.
Bit tangential but imagine there is a forum for bots and humans get to vote the content generated. People training the bots can improve their models based on feedback on the content. I believe it would give raise to better content over a period of time
> ... don't have any assumptions, but instead rely on some kind of divine truth?

No. But I would appreciate it when others point it out when my conclusions are incorrect because of my assumptions. It helps me self-reflect, that was my intent when commenting.
You could inject CSS with a modified ".votearrow".
I’d upvote this if I could. Chargebacks aren’t impossible after paying via bank transfer - it might be called another name, but it has been done before to us by a scammer (but we can dispute and fight it). And one time after a customer added an extra 0 to their transfer and immediately tried to get their bank to claw it back without contacting us.

But we basically never had issues with chargebacks. Even when we used PayPal and Stripe for two years, we only had two chargebacks and we disputed one of them and won through PayPal as we proved it was fraudulent.
Maybe the tech just does not scale for large propellers (it breaks, becomes less efficient or is too complicated to maintain). The company has been there for a few years now so if there was a real game changer I'm sure they would have accelerated much more.
I'm not getting 5us on gigahertz-clock CPUs. ESP32 isn't exactly demon of speed either compared to anything SQLite usually runs on
> That's what Warren Buffet invests in (Davita Dialysis, Exxon, Apple, rail lines ---> all monopolies). That's what Peter Thiel tries to invest in (Zero to One). That's what successful Y Combinator companies ultimately strive to become.

Buffett invests in companies with a durable competitive advantage which is also often called a "moat". A monopoly is a situation where there is no competition. As a counterexample, although I agree that Coca-Cola has unfair advantages, such as brand name and economies of scale, over new competitors, they do not have a monopoly.

> The most valuable companies before and after this era of low interest rates were and continue to be monopolies.

That's not necessarily true. The most valuable companies, that is, the companies with the highest valuations are those which make the most money. Or, as Joel Greenblatt puts it: "Price follows earnings." If you want to buy a barn which very likely earns 10 mln per year for now until 2032, then a fair price would be at least 10 x 10 million discounted for the fact that money today is worth more than money tomorrow. Then, after 10 years you still own a farm and any extra income that is produced by it. Of course, this value fluctuates a lot depending on all kinds of factors, but this is generally the process that value investors use to determine the fair value. In the long run, it works as you can see when looking at the net worth of value investors such as Buffett. The only thing that a monopoly "does" is that it makes it easier to predict what the future earnings are going to be.

What is typically the case after bubbles is that people take actual earnings into account again. During speculative bubbles, it is very hard to buy things based on reasonable future earnings calculations. The price is driven purely by speculation. What historically has happened after bubbles is that prices become more reasonable again. That's why big companies with unreasonable valuations such as Tesla and Cloudflare have gone down respectively 55% and 62% in price in this year while big companies with more reasonable valuations such as Macy's, Citigroup, or JPMorgan have gone down only 20%.

> Societal value creation is not the same as value creation to shareholders. The latter can be achieved by the former, but the former is not a requirement for the latter.

Agreed. Capitalism is a ruthless and terrible system, but better than the alternatives.

> On the flip side of things, lowering wages for software engineers is going to enable many institutions and companies that do not operate as tech monopolies or startups to start to get some of the benefits of skilled software engineers!

Agreed!
With mindset like this, Apollo would never have happened.
I think this is the right approach. You can make C better without trying to compete with newer languages.
The next step is live training, I wouldn't give it more than a year or so.
Not everyone has eyes, on-average, the same as yours. E.g. I have astigmatism and dark-mode (crisp bright lines/dots on dark backgrounds) wreck absolute havoc on my ability to focus and read. And promoting "dark mode is good no matter what", forcing us to objectively think that we should be using it despite our medical conditions, is not helpful.
The single-punch tablet press machine is a device with only one die on the machine, which mainly compresses granular or powdery raw materials into tablets. Single-punch tablet presses are available in manual and automatic models. Whether it is a single-punch tablet press or a multi-station rotary tablet press, they have a very wide range of applications. Such as pills, sugar tablets, calcium tablets, special-shaped tablets, etc. It can also compress tablets into round, oval, double-layer tablets, and other shapes by customizing molds.。
I'm dumb, and for a minute I thought the parent was putting a lot of emphasis on their sadness during the winter.

This specific acronym is IMO a bit too appropriate for the subject.
Six tiny galaxies discovered right on our doorstep
Indeed - but that's also an example of how someone who has destroyed their credibility can't be effective. Nobody in the world is going to take Trump seriously for good reason, because he doesn't have any integrity even if you parse down a lot of what he is saying and remove the chicanery much of it is reasonable, it's not going to go anywhere. That said, it likely didn't matter the Euros were not going to listen anyhow.
Or reliable sources of electricity.

Not sure storage would even save us in the current situation.
They did, at my company. They finally made it non-compulsory (for men), about fifteen years ago, but many folks kept wearing them, anyway.

The uniforms were kind of special. They wouldn’t let us yanks, buy them.
That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c12cYAUTXXs
Programming is always a modelling of real-world process. If you want to program directly for the CPU, it is this device which provides you with operation primitives which you sequence. Perhaps you mean you'd prefer to model more interesting processes.

But if you mean algorithm design, that isn't programming. Algorithms arent programs, and the "operations" that they "sequence" are abstract. CSCi alg. design is more like geometry.

Programming is an empirical discipline; it uses the "geometry" of csci to build applications.