skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vue is good. jQuery sucks.
I don’t believe it. I refuse to believe that someone can become proficient in a technology which forbids runtime errors and doesn’t bitrot, and then think “you know what, I wish my programs would error more at runtime and also refuse to compile because dependencies changed.”

To want more failure is to be insane. I think rather a lot of programmers think they’ve tried alternatives, but in reality have experimented with syntax swaps of what is essentially the same language.
I can sight read tab to a pretty high level, e.g. I was able to sight read my way through most of Capricho Árabe at first glance if that means anything to anyone. I just started teaching myself classical guitar in August and I've completely fallen in love, it's all I listen to and I practise hours per day.

But I am now teaching myself standard notation because I am running up against the limit of tab. I keep having to go back and forth between someone actually playing the piece and the tab so I can get the rhythm, and sometimes I'll find I internalise a rhythm incorrectly and then one day when I'm listening to the piece played by a pro it clicks and I realise I've been playing it wrong this whole time.

There are sites like https://www.classtab.org/ which try to add this rhythmic information to tab, but I don't think it works all that well.

Honestly at this point I wish I'd started with standard notation, or at least learnt both at the same time.
Ask HN: What’s a good present targeting gifted babies 3 plus?
> They're right about the power struggle, but only because to them everything is a power struggle and we all just happen to be in one caused by this discorporeality from tech.

I don't know if I believe that. The problem with the post-modernistic lens of power struggle is that it has a tendency to discount totally the evolutionary basis of how we perceive things and how the preservation and/or pursuit of power is geared toward spreading ones genes. Most postmodernist just go and say that it is societal construction that originate and persist power structures without a component of biology. Humans have the possibility to transcend ones biology but only when we have the resources to do so, which is not known to most postmodernists what I've seen.
That’s true of quantum attacks on symmetric systems, but I’m not aware of any work that hints toward such a possible future for elliptic curves.

If you know of something I’d love to hear it.
A couple of months of weekly piano instruction is simply not enough exposure for most young students to even have "one jazz tune" under their belt.
It's likely that the jam session invitation was predicated upon some minimum skill level with the instrument--something that 6 years of even begrudging practice provided.
* Not in love with it, but do use it.

** It's simple.

** If you can drive Emacs and tables it's easy to understand.

*** It's really easy to use with just basic Emacs commands.

** There are _lots_ of translators (pandoc) to make printable output. Or convert to/from markdown

** It's possible (easy even) to edit org mode in another editor "raw" (I do this in vi all the time for various reasons)

* It's not perfect.

** It has some confusing behaviours

** you have to work a bit to make it eg represent nested structures more prettily

* what do I do with it?

** time tracking

*** (but not using its clock)

** annual tax reconciliation

** note taking for meetings

* what have I done with it?

** tried doing task management TODO/done style

** gave up and use org mode tables to mark stuff as a daily diary and forward planner
Not exactly what you asked, but you might find this interesting nonetheless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc

(Or https://flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf if you don't want to sit through a video.)
Julian Shapiro put together a really solid guide on this exact topic that I highly recommend reading. We followed this pretty closely at my last co and it performed well (devtools product).

https://www.julian.com/guide/startup/landing-pages
There's a tendency to overestimate things, but not so sure about the underestimate part. Unless I missed something I don't think there are many people running NoSQL databases on Itanium processors with GNU Hurd powering their XSLT/Xforms website.

(NoSQL is still useful, but it didn't "replace SQL" as promised, and the others have completely failed in spite of promising much).

It's always hard to predict the future; often the first iteration of something new isn't very good or even downright bad, and it's not easy to predict if it will ever be any good. I remember trying Rust somewhere in the early 2010s "before it was cool" and I hit some bug in the installation (would eat up all my memory). Then I tried the new version that fixed it and I ran in to problems actually compiling programs due to another bug. This doesn't reflect the status of Rust today at all, but back then it was essentially impossible for me to tell if it would always remain the buggy mess it was then, or if it would be able to put itself together and become stable. There's been plenty of buggy things that never became stable (Itanium, Hurd).
The difficulty in building something is primarily the availability of hardware. If the hardware is not available nobody will buy it.

Most ARM server vendors quit before they even had a product on the market.
I didn't believe it either... it seems to be mentioned in a bunch of keto literature online, like this one [1]. Some folks say it stimulates insulin, and some say it upregulates gluconeogenesis. I haven't found anything authoritative, so I remain skeptical.

[1] https://www.verywellfit.com/gluconeogenesis-2242007
Maybe because kids don't really know what they wanted.

If he didn't play the first 6years, he won't be able to enjoy "jamming" with friends
That's assuming the downturn is 100% explained by employees underperforming. It's more likely that market forces outside of these employees control caused the downturn.
I don’t think anyone claims that obesity is only achievable with modern processed food. At the end of the day it’s calories in, calories out.

That said, there’s more to the story. For instance, type 2 diabetes in children did NOT EXIST before ~1980, even though there was plenty of abundance and environmental contaminants. This suggest that there is a major issue with the food itself. If you look at where there is the most obesity, within the US or in the world, you also find a strong correlation with processed food. For instance, the Pacific Islanders who suffered obesity epidemics which coincided with processed food replacing their traditional diets.
This is why there's an advantage to putting the fridge in the garage. If its 40* in the garage, the compressor won't turn on.
You are simply breathing out CO2 that is already in the air, what you might want to point at instead is people farting.
My source was another comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34251674

"cause the body to create lots of new adipocyte (fat cells). Increasing the number of adipocytes is very unusual after puberty. As long as you are taking the GLP-1 inhibitor drugs you will lose or maintain weight, but as soon as you stop you will gain a lot of weight back."

But the source seems to be a bit tainted, so I am not sure if any of this is really true.
abort() exists for a reason.
I can only assume that even less progress would be made without conjugal life.
> I think they did an effective job completely Turning public opinion against twitter employees. Painting them as dead weight and woke stooges for the FBI.

I disagree. From what I've seen, the only people holding anything against Twitter employees are those with a political bent that makes them inclined toward belief in a grand conspiracy to suppress conservative views. Like everything else political, it's a Rorschach test where people on the right-leaning fringe say "yeah, fuck those lazy/woke/entitled/whatever employees" and everyone else is left shaking their heads about how Elon is running the company and the brand (of Twitter, himself, and his other businesses) into the ground.

Even conservative financial media like the Wall Street Journal have been critical or at least skeptical of his moves, so I don't think it's accurate to say everyone is in agreement that the employees were the problem. Twitter was doing fine before Elon. They were not blowing anyone's socks off with financial performance, but they were relatively stable for the long term and could have got through the recession with a much more modest layoff similar to what you're seeing in other companies. Elon is solely responsible for tipping the company into an aggressive nosedive by saddling the company with massive debt and single-handedly tanking revenue by scaring away advertisers with his $8 blue check impersonation crisis and many other erratic policy changes.
Folks underestimate the important role Java had in saving open systems and Unix, and then enabling Linux on the server side. Around 1996, Windows already was the platform of choice for most new projects on the server side, after totally dominating the client side (desktop).
Adobe Lightroom uses photos for AI training by default
It really depends what you're doing, and with how many people you're doing it.
And in my day, if I recall correctly, it took a good dozen or so XML files to describe and configure a single EJB.

Thanks, JOnAS. I still have hate in my heart.

And now ORM in Java (with JPA) is a simple @Entity. Ahh, the warm, cozy feeling of abstraction.
If the binary is linked against a old enough version of glibc, it should run on most non exotic Linux distributions, shouldn't it?

At least I feel I'm regularly installing things from people that are not in the Linux Distributor business and are not huge go binaries either (though admittedly, those seems to be trendy as well :) )
All of my Java backend applications can run seamlessly on Windows and Linux. My small desktop apps also run on Linux and Windows just the same. (with small exceptions)

I can reuse my Java code on Android, but since approach to UX on mobile is completely different, the UI front needs to be separate anyway. But I once wrote a game with LibGDX that essentially had the same core codebase.
Winter is still a problem for EV. My city (non US) tried to change all busses from diesel to electric. Diesel busses had an efficiency of about 98% (2% time spend in maintenance) while EV busses had about 94%. This ultimately resulted in transport companies to go diesel again in recent years. I think putting some public funds here would be very worth the gain.

Of course electric busses are vastly more convenient. They are almost silent compared to the heavy noise a diesel bus makes on acceleration. Their routes are predictable, so charging can be accounted for. Although a bus can also mount very large batteries to begin with.

But apart from the slight difference in maintenance quota, there also was a problem in winter. When it was cold outside many busses refused to work. They would need to stay within a depot in winter which increases costs again. Still electric busses seem to be an efficient way to curb in-city emissions and noise pollution to a large degree. And I think the problem with temperature can surely be solved somehow.

I do think perfect became the enemy of good here. But there are still valid economic reasons for the private companies that provide these vehicles. Ultimately they don't get paid for their vehicles to be more economical and less noisy.

I don't think it is worth to replace heavy machinery yet. There are just too few vehicles that the investment doesn't seem too reasonable yet as long as there are that many more efficient things to replace.
Aa someone who came here over 18yrs ago and never relied on welfare pay and (knock on wood) never used NHS for anything else other than get a prescription for Stronger paracetamol I can say I fully understand the guy. As someone who invested a lot of money and time here and doing fairly OKish I can say that what we're seeing here was easily preventable but that's another story. NHS was always overinflated machine with 20% of the jobs in it being pointless, lack of actual specialists is terrifying especially when you're getting older, think about that. Lack of dental care is terrible, most of dental practices looks more like your local corner shop. Each to their own I guess, if you come from a third world country and have nothing, then living here might look like a dream but for any western person this place will look like a shithole after you look past what the tourists are shown.Xenophobia is also runnibg rampant but in most cases quite well hidden out of plain sight.
I am sort of surprised that FAANG / MAanG companies are laying off … didn’t they hire the best with multiple rounds of interviews… how did they go so wrong …. Yet they permeat this paradigm of interview similar to the feudal days when a jester out of a thousand applicants gets the court appointment as they were no other jobs in the land . Would someone be brave to share if folks built systems without knowledge of data structures and algo that delivered value but after hiring experts the companies were shedding market share … eh!
>This isn't NIH syndrome, it's basic protocol for keeping your builds reliable and dependency management simple.

Why should I, an end user, ever need to build WikidPad? I don't need to do so on Windows, why doesn't Linux support the same thing, shipping an executable?

When you go to the store, you're not presented with a set of tools for making a saw, you're given a complete, ready to go tool. Perhaps the very idea of users having to build things in Linux is the problem?

It is very similar to the problems with Windows, always pushing updates/upgrades that aren't necessary, and often break things. Windows machines are far less reliable on Wednesday than they are on Monday, because of Microsoft's idea of pushing patches on Tuesdays.
This reminds me of a paper [1] where they find that... "In the redshift range 100<(1+z)<137, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) had a temperature of 273-373K (0-100 degrees Celsius), allowing early rocky planets (if any existed) to have liquid water chemistry on their surface and be habitable, irrespective of their distance from a star."

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0613
C is not cross-platform; you need to compile for each target platform. Java compiles to byte-code which runs on a Java VM, of which there is an implementation on different platforms; you only compile your program once and it will run anywhere there is a JVM. For console/server/webapps applications, this is pretty easy, but for GUI applications it's a bit trickier as each OS has a different look, which is more difficult to abstract. So some applications might have the core running in Java, and a native UI wrapper that provides a native look and feel. But they can be completely Java based (and it's gotten a lot better at dealing with multiple GUI system over time).

While they run on a different VM (Dalvik), Android programs are (mostly) written in Java, and provide a cross-platform function - namely different CPUs (Android can come in ARM, ARM64, x86, x64, MIPS), and all run the same binary (except if there's native extensions... which negates all of that)
Yes, they were a really big deal at the time, before security concerns came along and sunk them.
> which Java engine you wanted your browser to use and Microsoft Java (or whatever it was called)

It was called JScript. It was released after JavaScript.

I am a peaceful man; never been in a fight with anybody, and oppose the death penalty. The exception is that I think all the people responsible for this clusterfuck of names should be shot.
Visual Studio Became Unusable to Me
I hate how "metaverse" became such a mainstream word in the last couple of years but 99% of the population has never even heard of Snow Crash, which originated the term.
> There’s a big difference between maintaining constant vigilance against desire and having none.

This is exactly the case I make for fasting to those who ask why I like it. Nothing to count. It's super effective, much easier than people assume, and very quick. Also gives you a ton of energy and focus.

Glad you found something that works!
If you're really smart, enough to make disruptive scientific discoveries, why bother doing that when you could learn programming and work at a FAANG for $400k, or work in the finance sector and make possibly more? If you stay in science, you'll earn peanuts and not even have any career stability since the academic track is so bad these days.
Sure, every supernatural claim from a religious text is “outside the purview of science” in the same way as that same exact claim appended with “and then a clown riding a unicorn flew overhead” is outside the purview of science.
> Why the doubt?

Because their are biased. They are normally people that started using recreational drugs and decided to study it. So for sure they will always just find positive aspects, without for example considering all the other possible negative social aspects.

i.e from their about page (https://maps.org/about-maps/):

"Our founder, Rick Doblin, Ph.D., has his first experience with LSD, giving him a glimpse of the profound connection between heart and mind made possible by psychedelics. From that moment on, Rick dedicated his life to becoming a legal psychedelic therapist, envisioning a healthier, more sustainable and loving world."

Then you can check the team https://maps.org/about-maps/our-team/ and you will see, there are more business people than researcher in the team.. Money is their goal, not research.
This does not bode well for Taiwanese national security. I’m surprised Taiwan allowed it. Considering that dependence on Taiwan for chip production has got to be one important reason why the US would defend Taiwan in case of an attack by China.
How do you guys currently manage and secure your website? Are you testing website security or relying solely on third-party software, such as WordPress/Joomla?

I'm asking this because I've been working on a cybersecurity platform for a while now, trying to make it as simple as possible, especially for SMBs who don't have time to focus on web app security and don't really understand the landscape.

I built a foundation on top of the OWASP Top10 that every website on the web should follow and simplified its checks for everyone - you can get results with a few clicks. As an added bonus, it is possible to check the online reputation and implement analytics similar to Google analytics.

Any feedback is appreciated :)
Interesting to see John conclude like me after reading Patterson that RISC vs CISC was always about a philosophical difference in how you approach chip design.

This is what I argue in this article as well but I reach a different conclusion from him and I think that is in large part because the rise of RISC-V has made the RISC and CISC distinction more relevant again.

https://itnext.io/risc-vs-cisc-microprocessor-philosophy-in-...

When John wrote that article RISC processors had gotten very complex. Then it was a lot about complex address modes. But the last decades complexity stems more from lots of SIMD instructions.

RISC-V has aimed to reverse that trend and create å significantly smaller ISA. The RISC counter-trend to complexity is thus still alive and kicking.
JDK has always been free, microsoft would have charged a hefty license fee for the equivalent
Paleography is a different animal than handwriting analysis.
Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33477119

Part 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33518751
Still no line on TikTok
The question is whether an omnidominant platform like Microsoft's would have arisen in the first place. While the current Android/Apple situation isn't ideal, it's certainly better than only one of the two. I don't think it's a forgone conclusion that a "Microsoft-esque" monopoly would have happened.
Now he is losing sleep over toilets. I'd call that progress.
You make a sound argument, but it doesn't explain, why in one country 1% of the people are in this situation, and in another country 30%.
I asked it about the strong nuclear force and it said the force gets weaker with distance—quite fundamentally wrong (color confinement).
> Your comment is the first time I heard about these glasses.

They had a huge media blitz recently on YouTube. They got a bunch of YouTubers to talk about how great they were paired with the Steam Deck. Apparently they extend the battery life too because the built-in screen uses more energy than the glasses.

I don’t do much gaming where specs matter (mostly co-op of casual games), and I’ve never used them for gaming. I imagine I wouldn’t mind them too much depending on the game. I bet a game like factorio would struggle since there’s a lot of UI elements that are small and it’d be hard to distinguish with the glasses instead of a big high-res monitor. Other games would probably be fine though (again except for frame rate).
When I was a kid in Sweden back then I didn't know it was a Singapore company. Now that I have also live in Singapore, I learned quickly that it was local, as it's very well regarded here.
From my training as a computer scientist, I am used to the idea that some problems are easy and some are plainly intractable. Perhaps that's also true in science and technology, and we are starting to exhaust all the easy directions.

Still, many less techy problems remain, at least climate change and wealth inequality come to mind. Perhaps we'll see the biggest innovations in solving those in the future.
If it's a professional event and the attendees are only there because the companies they work for use a specific software, that makes a lot of sense.

That's more like facilitating community building and not comparable to a meetup in my eyes. Even though I might have some professional interest in using the software, it's purely based on my company's using it. What would be important in this context for me is that actual users share how they use it, what tricks they use, best practices and so on.
It’s another form of art that is more accessible. It requires less work and perhaps less skills to get a descent result but you have more skilled people.

I find this event similar than the photography. Oil painters did less portraits but you still have oil painters today. And many people did art using photography.
I've actually been having all sorts of weird issues with LittleSnitch after upgrading to Ventura.

For instance it was blocking requests from Python started by Sublime Text without prompting me about it (and there was no reject/drop rule in place that matched, it just didn't prompt), really annoying.

Anyone experienced similar problems using LS on Ventura?
Hotpatching on Windows (2021)
> The popular narrative is that these are just a bunch of bloated tech companies laying off surplus employees that don't do anything useful.

Wrong. not only surplus employees but surplus elites.

in recent years, big tech paid bloated compensations to people producing little or no economic value. saw first hand professional managers dont understand tech get hired by friends and collectively engage in empire building and building head count. easy promotion game.

engineers create complexity for smallest problem and launch new services. get promoted. then they get hell out and move to new team. managers willingly accept tech debt to justify more head count hire more managers and engineers under them.

you tell us what innovation come out of amazon fire alexa kindle. same thing they sold 5 years ago same hardware maybe little bit better speaker. why pay for increasing army of engineers? and me just discussing amazon devices.

how many engineers you need to run website? has shopping gotten better in 5 years? No! it way worse, too many ads.

this a massive grift. Most value amazon gets is these people don’t start their own company and threat amazon with competition.

big tech took advantage of cheap or free money from US Fed and created class of elites. Now the game ending for now anyway
Steam Deck with M.2 SSD