skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When reading an article like this I’m distracted by the overwhelming number of possible causes. Could be life today, life 10 years ago, or expectations for the future. We don’t have sufficient data to really disentangle so many possible variables. As a youngish adult myself I’m not sure my peers know what’s going on either as they experience mental health problems. Everything is shrouded in such complicated stories about azburgers, food intolerances (gut health), economic inequality, wholeness, pandemic, inflation, social media, consumerism, climate anxiety, etc.

It makes me wonder about more general solutions to the more general problems. I’m most persuaded by Adam Curtis’s documentaries that what we’re really experiencing is the failures of individualism being pushed too far.

The story is compelling. Life has always been hard, and the way humanity copes and intervenes is through social institutions ahd the grand stories that bring us together to collectively act and solve them. It’s family, local communities, churches, etc. that provide direct emotional and physical support at scale.

These institutions have messed up in the past, bringing with them a legacy of bad decisions and structured inequality, but I increasingly agree with Adam Curtis that deprioritising them in favor of radical individualism just isn’t working.

As Curtis says - we need a new grand story for what society is all about and social institutions to organise around that story.

And until then my peers and I will wander in the dark wondering why we feel so afraid, alone, and purposeless. We got rid of the leadership hierarchies we hated, and tech in particular helped us do it by creating markets for everything. You can live in your bubble with remote anything and delivery everything. But we failed to create a new reason for living. It’s all just open markets, infinite choice, and no need to depend on others or for them to depend on you.

Among other things, people want to feel like someone needs them.
It's an hypothesis that's worth exploring because of the apparent effect you point out, which is I think is fact. Based on this discussion, I suspect nobody here knows any evidence.

The very sad and dangerous issue is, they don't seem to care or grasp the fallibility of their subjective judgment. Some even turn to ridicule as an argument, which of course is irrelevant and obstructs the search for truth.

Without truth, we are doomed. We only spin our wheels, sometimes excitedly, sometimes frantically, sometimes confidently - but it's all a waste of time and labor. We go nowhere; we gain nothing; we are in the same place tomorrow as today (or we may go backward). We don't even know what problems there are or how to solve them.

(The claim that existing members benefit also needs evidence: Existing members express feeling very overworked, which doesn't corroborate the claim, and most analyses I see say the the money is going to the insurance companies and the hospital owners and managment.)
Okay, I don't see why that's comparable.

If you don't like driving a car, go by bus.
Yes -- we are building a sql compiler to the dataframe API. It currently passes half of TPC-H, but is not really ready. It will be open-sourced soon.

The SQL optimizations like predicate pushdown and early projection are all there already in the dataframe API, similar to Polars.
that's certainly one way to look at it
All charges eventually dropped, a £20,000 fine and promise not to do it again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Dwyer

Seems he now runs a software biz.
I'm not the original poster and not complaining about it. I once worked at a shop that ran mypy checks as a precommit hook and never really found it terribly useful, but to each their own.
The HN audience started out with fans of essays like http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html, and now a language arose that seems to intentionally embrace the blub paradox.
Honestly without proper editor support from a company like intelli-j, I just can't see myself picking it up. Hard to give up on the niceties it provides, especially when working on a non-static language
I did try the third-party intelli-j plug-in but never got it to work
If it had that... look out!
Isn't Scons abandon-ware? I remember it being part of the build setup at work at some point and it caused quite a bit of frustrations because it broke every now and then. I believe it was mainly failing on Windows.

Conan's recent development is promising and it gives you the full power of Python. It can also be used declaratively but with limitations. If I remember correctly, there are discussions in the C++ world about a declarative exchange format for dependencies and build information, but it's in the early stages. It's not trivial because there are also C++ modules now.
Disagree with your definition of importance. Go interview 1000 modern English speakers and ask them what the most important book is to them - I doubt if anything by Shakespeare would make it in to the top ten. Go ask 1000 literature professors and maybe something by Shakespeare will crop up.

Was Shakespeare a great writer? In my opinion, yes. Is he still influential? To a lot of people yes, but to a growing amount of people probably not, in the same way that Beethoven and Mozart are only really important to classical music fans who no longer represent the majority of music listeners. Your average clubber probably doesn’t give a fuck. You could argue that the professors could get extra weighting for having dedicated their lives to studying literature but who’s to say that social factors aren’t at play and that people who become professors of literature become professors of literature because they conform well to the standard viewpoints and social norms circulating in those circles? Birds of a feather flock together.

Literature is not like science - there are no hard and fast rules where you can be outed as a bad literature professor the way a bad scientist can be identified after publishing papers which can be later demonstrably disproved by experiments. Judging a book is a personal evaluation of a piece of art.

Importance is subjective depending on the individual and the group and it is also temporal and fleeting in nature.

To quote Shelley:

I met a traveller from an antique land,

Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

A very important man that Ozymandias, in his time. Not anymore.
There are many possible reasons. Do you want to seriously explore them?
Another one for the 10x30 version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTwj-eLTPOE
Yeah it's just that the UDFs I see people need require Python packages like sklearn and PyTorch that really don't have good alternatives in other libraries.
> As a Digital Vegan...

I can now cross "involuntary shoot cappuccino out of my nostrils" off of my bucket list. I don't think that I've ever read a more loaded sentence opener.
Starship and Superheavy ("can and kicker") will not realistically cost any less than $20M per launch, plus whatever what you are launching costs to make, stow, and deploy. If it takes 100 tons to orbit, that is $200/kg minimum.

Getting a can to the lunar surface takes launching a bunch of fuel runs, so that much several times over, say $1000+/kg all told.

Bringing cans back from the moon would be counterproductive, except as needed to bring crew home. Maybe you unmount used vacuum engines, cut their bells off, and bring home the fiddly bits. Somebody should find a use for the cast-off cans, eventually, and the cut-off bells. Maybe swing the cans on the ends of a wire for artificial gravity so your bones don't dissolve; though getting in and out would be tricky. You could store energy in their kinetic motion, resolving the nighttime power problem at the expense of variable artificial gravity inside.
Since this is a flake, there’s basically no reason to upstream other than discoverability. Thats one of the benefits of the flake model vs non-flake.
By definition you must murder to be a serial killer, so in that regard they are incomparable to pedophiles, who only require an attraction without acting on it. Interestingly a significant part of sexual abuse of children appears to be committed by people (mostly men) as a crime of opportunity, without them being primarily or exclusively attracted to children.
It’s crashing on Safari on my iPhone 13.

“ Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).”
That kind of ML model is pretty general. Pretraining a big model has been extended to multi-modal environments. People are training them with RL to take actions. People are applying other generative techniques to them, and all sorts of other stuff. If you just look at it as 'predict the next word token,' then it's pretty limiting, but people have already gone way beyond that. TFA talks about some interesting directions people are taking them.

A more general form of your question is whether we can get to AGI with just incremental steps from where we are today, rather than step-change way-out-of-left-field kinds of ideas. People are split on that. Personally, I think that incremental changes from today's methods are sufficient with better hardware and data, but Big New Ideas could certainly speed up progress.
U.S. defamation law does make a distinction between individuals and groups in this area.

It's not defamation to say "All surgeons are butchers" but is defamation to say "Doctor (insert doctor's name) is a butcher." (that is, assuming that the doctor isn't actually a butcher... truth is a defense against defamation).
Updated the title now to be more precise
I've also had a mixed experience with mypy. Take a look at using pyright for static type checking instead, it's worked quite well for me.

But do write type hints. I recently got thrown into a large-ish project where neither types nor docs where used. Trying to figure out wth a parameter was supposed to be wasn't a pleasant experience for a newcomer. In addition to improving DX, I also believe it's alot more effective in the long run.

I saw how these guys were developing: write code, run code, deal with the runtime crashes they encounter, then run code some more and deal with other unexpected runtime crashes. It would have been a lot faster and more stable if they'd just used type hints and static type checking, as their IDE could've easily found many of these bugs for them immediately.
Got it, ha ha all good
Federal government employees get paid with tax money. Are you suggesting digital creators get paid with taxes?

I’ve argued for nothing more than you to produce an argument. And yet you still haven’t.
> by reducing credit
JetBrains All Product pack - these are the best IDEs on the market. Using great tools when coding will help prevent bugs and saves a lot of time.

LeetCode Premium - every big company is using leetcode-style questions when interviewing candidates. If he wants to get a well-paid job, he needs to master LeetCode.
Kagi's made the internet pleasant again for me - the very low amount of noise in the search results, and removing the pervasive sensation that I was constantly getting tricked into garbage results, that's been a very positive shift.
For 10$, it's been totally worth it - search remains an invaluable daily door into the internet, and good quality pay-for-search
promises positive compounding effects: low noise-to-signal ratio, a potential shift in business incentives away from advertising, better access to information, a reduction of bias, etc.
That’s in a physical store, which aren’t obligated to accept returns in Europe either (though they often do). Accepting returns is only mandatory for online sales, because there the buyer can’t physically evaluate the product like they can in a physical store.
No, I mean this literally. Children don't have any income and can't access the content as the artist intends. What they do have is lots of free time, which can be used to learn how to run piracy software. They also have not yet developed empathy, so they have no problem stealing from artists.

If the highly paid adult readers of Hacker News are pirating artists' creative works, and take offense to me pointing out that piracy is for developing brains who can't afford things, then it's a conversation they need to have with themselves, not me.
Do you have a good example of a pre-digital private everyday transaction where people would use "buy" to refer to entering in some complex licensing arrangement which did not grant any transferable rights?

What you write is true and I see where you are coming from. But my contention is that what you refer to as the "specialized meaning of buy" was pretty much the only meaning an average person would have used it in. And that such a person's reasonable and natural assumption when first confronted with a "buy" button for an ebook would be that it pressing it would confer analogous rights of transfer as buying the physical copy. And furthermore that courts and regulators allowing this assumption to be violated was a major oversight. If for no other reason than that it is foolish to the extreme to bring about a system where a single dominant entity having a bad day could in a blink wipe out a large fraction of accessible books.
You question a claim about performance

But you don't question a claim about the amount of LOC

You chose what please you as truth, and what doesn't as troll?
I’m currently doing two startups: one with rapid consulting-esque development and one more long term B2B one. I would 100% be using Phoenix for the the majority of the projects in the former if it had static typing. Have been a fan since release but, for me, it’s a hard requirement for anything that isn’t a personal project
How is that different from Charles Manson claiming that The Beatles were sending him coded messages telling him to start a race war, or David Berkowitz claiming that his neighbor's dog was telling him to kill people?

Do we get to blame Karl Marx for the tens of millions who have been murdered by his followers?
Generally, people don't give up their meat freely. There was a weird case in germany where a guy was dying and gave his body to a cannibal. They still arrested and charged him

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes
> It’s pretty obvious why ...

That's never evidence and a well-labeled gateway to our own fallacy. There's a reason serious examination of an issue requires factual evidence in any field, from medicine to law to science, etc.

IME, in areas I lack expertise, the truth is usually intuitive but an unexpected intuition. The only solution, the only source of truth, is evidence.

Do I need to say this on HN? Sadly, it seems like it.
Procrastinate Better
On the long run, it all depends on syntax stability which is tightly coupled with its complexity.

The "benchmark" to run to evaluate syntax complexity toxicity, for a compiled language, is how long an alternative compiler written by a small teams of averagely skilled devs, or even one individual averagely skilled dev, can stay a "real life" "working" alternative.

Mid-term/long-term planned obsolescence of computer language syntax is really...

Oh, and in my previous post: for compile time constants we can use static consts, my bad.
As strange as it might sound, the success of Rust seems to have reopened some doors for Ada. People in both communities are aware of this and already collaborating on various projects to mutual benefit.
Lol. It's super easy to judge all that when you're not using his shoes. Anyway, his achievements won't overcome his failures and vice-versa, just as any human in this planet.
Realizing now that the author went to Yale.

Are there any notable figures in the space that didn’t go or get into top schools? Feels like it’s becoming an elite echo chamber.
https://archive.vn/t9k4x
After 10 years of nonstop use, I have stopped using Python almost completely. The main reason is that working with Go makes my life much easier when it comes to building distributed stuff on AWS, which is my main focus at work. I miss Python's development speed and how easy it makes it to test things, and I still consider it the king of modern monolithic apps.
for being the first comment on this post, that got deep real fast...
Slow-Scan Television (SSTV)
> Give it another generation or so and we'll be in no worse a position than Canada or the UK is today.

On the other hand, give it another generation and the UK will be in a worse position than the US’ today…
My strategy (when I did not have a dishwasher) is to only have the bare minimum of the dishes required outside. eg: 2 plates, two bowls, two spoons, forks etc for a family of two. This will mean that you will re-use your dishes over and over again, and washing becomes just a thing to do before you eat etc. Also sink will never get filled with dishes again.

Now, I have a dishwasher, and I just put dishes in the dishwasher as soon as I use it.
> to deploy it required more memory (two gigabytes I think... mēh

That sounds like frontend was written in something requiring a webpack or similar Node tooling, or you also ran a database on the same server.

In my experience, small Django setup with PostgreSQL can run fine on droplets with 512mb of ram, provided the traffic is not too heavy.

Add containers or anything node-related to the mix, and it'll be 2G+.
Novell also had a similar sense of humour with the original codename for DSfW.
I only found out about Apple's backtapping yesterday, which I've mapped to the window switcher and camera. It's basically worthless; won't work reliably if even a smidgeon of your skin is in contact with the screen, which is hard to avoid given the lack of bezels. Also impossible to pull off one handed. Found myself wishing for a squeeze action exactly like this, without realizing it's already a thing. Even one extra mappable button would be amazing, but it's Apple we're talking about here.
We once had an interviewer poke a candidate about PostScript basics, and it quickly emerged that he had put his uses of “print to file” on his résumé and had no idea it was a Forth-like language.
> It could be that some pedophiles refrain from molesting children because some internal moral standard tells them it would hurt the child, but it seems more likely that they only refrain when and where they could get into trouble for it.

By that logic, the majority of heterosexual men only refrain from rape because they could get in trouble for it?
Thank you for sharing those! It took more effort to make this than it looks, including finding latitude/longitude coordinates for every US zip code, finding the api url for each one (it is not built into the weather.gov api), and programming everything in a static page with no dependencies. You could literally save this page as a file to your desktop, add the query variable to your local path, and as long as you have internet, the page will fetch a weather forecast for your zip code. This is arguably the most private weather lookup you can do!
PostgreSQL 14 Internals [pdf]
Sorry if it’s a bit much. I’m finishing a PhD sortof on the topic and I’m really passionate about it.
It doesn't mean anything. Fidelity is required to tell people that have money in the fund what they think the asset is worth, but they own such a small stake that they aren't going to have particularly different information than anyone else.
It's reflective of their assessment of the business as a whole. That number is basically "what we think Twitter as a whole is worth * the percent we own". They think Twitter as a whole is worth half as much, so they're marking down the value of their shares.
It’s absolutely incredible. It literally feels magical, like you’ve stepped through a portal into another realm. We walked around and deliberately got lost just to see where we ended up. One moment you’re on some bustling tourist street with throngs of people, the next you’re on some quiet passageway where all you can hear is the water, turn another corner and all of a sudden you’re in a courtyard and there are couples ballroom dancing in the moonlight. It really is an amazing place.
before the pandemic, on a holiday with my partner our kids, we had hired a campervan that was infested with bedbugs - they got in everything, bit us everywhere.
After cleaning and obsessively toasting everything in the bryon bay laundromat tumble dryers, my partner went with the kids and I drove the van back to the rental place and walked to Brisbane airport with a clean set of clothes sealed in a plastic bag. When I explained to the gate staff that I might have bedbugs on me and wanted to shower and change before I boarded the plane home, they gave me the key to the pilot's bathroom.

It's a dark tiled room, and at the far end of the room is the entrance to a magnificent shower, you step through a rounded rectangle portal into stainless steel balloon, perhaps pressed steel, perhaps, hydroformed, a glorious squircle cube (sphube?), with enough space for a pilot, a co pilot and all the cabin staff to purify and rejuvenate under the monsoons of hot water that torrent from an enormous shower rose at the apex.

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

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/04/04/higher-dimensional...
If you're having trouble getting your money back from customer support, why not give ChatGPT[0] a try?
Give it a goal of getting your money back at all costs. It just might help you out!

[0] https://chat.openai.com
> Chentsova Dutton said America has an international reputation for prizing autonomy, but her study opened her eyes to a more complicated picture. American parents tend to be overprotective when children are young, acting as if kids are going to live at home for a long time, like parents do in Italy. Yet they also expect children to live away from home fairly early for college, like families do in Germany. The result is that American kids end up with drastically fewer years navigating real life than they do in other countries that start much earlier.

A really interesting point.
What's the best way to get started with Phoenix 1.7, for someone with no Elixir experience?

Should I learn some Elixir before diving into the Phoenix docs?
The utterly extreme zero-trust proof-of-work crypto algorithms that have been significantly contributing to climate change over the last decade are not necessary to achieve privacy, and most of the time not even used to achieve it either.
Since the trie is static it could be pregenerated and held in small static array that might fit in a cache line ... I think. I don't really know this stuff.

But still probably would be slower especially if there aren't many misses that could be quickly rejected by the trie.
It could also be that he has to consciously keep his mouth closed, and when he’s deep in a match he stops concentrating on it.
In a situation where you hit the scaling limitations of the BEAM, you’re going to have the budget to address it.