skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of people with a lot of money who look for ventures to invest into; some build schools or affordable housing, some buy artwork, some set up charities for tax dodging reasons, and others will invest in a company like this which will get customers calling them nonstop if they find the plane.

I mean the article mentioned this company spent "millions" on the search. There's people that earn millions per day by doing nothing or sending a tweet. There's tons of money out there, it's just allocated poorly.
I don't feel qualified to fire anyone. I'm just stating how public corporations work.
For jazz it's also the composer. People like Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Billy Strayhorn, Thelonious Monk, etc - all incredible composers
Things I Hate about Rust...

It makes steel brittle.
> More interesting would be the conditions of those without a cell phone

The largest demographic without a cell phone is the 65+ age group. Only 61% of the people in that group have a smart phone.

My guess for the condition of those people? Elderly people living in nursing homes, possibly not mentally able to learn enough to use a smartphone, or possibly happy to just use a tablet for apps and games, and a dumb phone for calls.

Honestly, if you're so old that you only rarely leave the house, then an iPad and a landline already is almost as good as a cell phone is, since you'll always be close enough to your wireless phone in your small nursing home or house, and the iPad covers all the actual uses of smart phones just fine (tiktok, whatsapp, playing candy crush, checking email... which I think is 100% of the usage of smartphones, right?)
They work pretty well in Python. If anything, I’d expect them to work even better with types.
The arms race between generators and detectors has just begun.
Why is web app a bad thing though? Most of the apps do not require much performance and the web version can also be pretty fast, at least sufficient for users. I think the same author writing that crappy web app will produce worse native apps if forced to do so.

Web apps is better than native as they are automatically running the latest version, platform independent (windows, mac, linux, android, ios), in some sense more secure. Instead of asking people to write more native apps, I think we should rather ask them to write more quality web apps if they don't need native capabilities.
How would that apply to SaaS, where everyone seems to be heading?
In France it is virtually impossible to function of you do not speak good French.

In a company you will miss all the important things that are usually conveyed in casual French (this includes subtleties that change the meaning of a sentence).

Yes, people will speak English with you, usually fluently (and with plenty of errors), but this is not the language of choice for the off the record conversations.

Outside of work you will get by in supermarkets, but for more complicated shops your will have problems.

For the administration it is clear: without being fluent in French there is no way to do anything. Even if you are a native speaker you understand just half of it and hope for the best.

People in the street speak English [citation needed] but they will get tired after some time and then the English becomes unbearable.

Source: native French married to a foreigner who struggles to understand everything (not to mention the subtleties) after 15 years of active use of the language.
> A lot of speedrunning tricks are found by kids with a lot of time to just goof off and do seemingly pointless stuff in games.

Most of those seemingly pointless stuff is done very intentionally.. one of the oldest tricks is to go "too fast" through a thin "wall", so you skip over it... and trying to squeeze between two polygons.

The rest is mostly seeing weird bugs and trying to recreate them in a way that helps the played... with the spread of streaming (by getting noticed and can be recrated after), this has gotten easier in years (and it's not just "i have no idea what I did, but i swear I went over that wall, and I didn't have a camera to take a literal screen shot").
Why would it depend solely on the duration? Some species stabilize and don't change much over millions of years (like crocodiles), others change rapidly in a comparatively short period of time (like humans).
> Just the four letters D U N E, which are exactly the same shape but rotated 90 degrees.

This is what they went with for the movie posters too: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/Dune_%282021_... ...although, they cheated a bit with the E.

EDIT: Here is a better resolution: https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/2sxSn0jjjQoIIZfZjC6j5GZk... :)
Statistics show women read enormous amounts of crime and murder stories. Fascination for death has always existed in a way or another.
What is rather new is the fact that we can identify to suffuring more quickly. We can "identify to it" more easily, and I do believe it is for the good.
They had a “DSLR” which was about 4x higher resolution than the original device.
At this point, it's a penny stock.

If it uses AI to create content, it'll go bankrupt pretty fast.

Why? Because Buzzfeed has no proprietary AI content creation tech that others can't easily replicate.
How do you define small side projects? One potent server is enough to serve multiple thousand of requests per second…
The sample is "1,502 U.S. adults from Jan. 25 to Feb. 8, 2021, by cellphone and landline phone" if this is the same survey as linked in this article

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/01/13/share-of-th...

it links to this methodology document in the "How we did this" dropdown:

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Tech-...

I agree with your point. Do they account for the number of Americans that don't have a phone at all somehow or should the real headline be "97% of American adults that can be called by cellphone or landline own a cellphone or smartphone"?
There's also the National Videogame Museum in Frisco, TX.
Writing 'o' and 'oo' to differentiate the two words was a workaround for not being able to write the letter 'z' in script, because it was easily mistaken for the letter 'ȝ'.
Author, if you're reading, a really cool thing would be to create a small array of these cameras (4 of them) side by side.

The very wide baseline should allow you to enhance/deepen the refocusing effect and create a wide format image. I've always wanted to do this.
Conflict, violence, and warfare among early farmers in Northwestern Europe
Well duh, law and justice are culturally biased by definition, that's why they are different in different jurisdictions.
Well if they can get sub 10nm at scale going they should be fine for western semi conductor companies. Its their only way if amazon, microsoft and other cloud providers charting their own semi conductor future with ARM and RISCV.

Im sure with the US killing the Taiwans semi industry, by moving its semi fabs to Arizona intel will have no problems recruiting some of the talent.
"Nationalized in plain sight" -> Wow that's so horrible!! How can they nationalize a company, and even do it in 'plain sight'!!!

...

If you are an American, that is... Because in the rest of the world, neither publicly owned companies nor nationalization is a 'bad thing'...
Hm. My shallow retort of "97% of americans allow themselves to be monitored by government" might not be correct.
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At -30°C many cars won't start. This is an extreme situation.

But it does seem like the Mirai should be able to start: https://insideevs.com/reviews/460274/2021-toyota-mirai-test-...
and open source instructions set is an advantage to China as well, perhaps some pressure from "up-there" after the chip act was signed and offered lots of money to private companies?
yes, fits perfect for those kind of games
About 0.5% are incarcerated and thus shouldn't posess a cellphone (though they can still own one that's unreachable to them, what does this study exactly mean by "own").

A lot of the rest is probably older people who only use a landline, people in nursing homes, etc.
Backpacker territory has a certain kind of trust.

Being that close to nature long enough does things to a person. It's outside of something easily described with any human words.
> Killer feature of this new technology was the ability to refocus the image after it was taken! (...), the camera was trying to solve a problem that didn’t exist

A related camera technology, but which I've found great to use, is 360 cameras. The ability to re-frame (not focus) the image as I want in post is so great. No longer do I have to spend many attempts positioning a camera perfect, just shoot and later "point" the camera correctly. For instance when filming ski videos, it could take multiple attempts getting the angle correct to get exactly the person+jump in view. Now it just works.
How does that fit to https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-pro-p550 which is/will be produced in 'Intel 4' (approx 7nm, EUV)?
Possibly just anecdotal evidence, but it seems like the pool of good music composers is much much smaller than the pool of good visual artists. Maybe that is an indicator of how "hard" each field is.
I have seen teams using languages traditionally considered "easy-to-understand" assuming that the language being readable is sufficient to replace communication and proper documentation.

I have also seen teams using languages traditionally considered "easy-to-understand" use various forms of meta-programming to customize the code and make it even more easy to understand... eventually reaching the point where nobody except the experts of this specific sublanguage could understand it.

I have seen teams using languages considered hard-to-understand being obsessed with documentation and communication – and others who don't care at all.

I've come to the conclusion that it's a teams thing, much more than a language thing.
Michael Liebriech could easily have a vested interest to BS. In fact he probably does since he has made similar statements in the past.

Ammonia is an option too. But this does not preclude other ideas.
They both have 5 letters... I think you're on to something!
we are already seeing plagiarising scams, where scammers copy paywalled human written content, paste into ChatGPT for a tonal rewrite, before republishing the freshly laundered material into your own Substack, in order to grow an audience, which the scammer will no doubt drop his own paywall onto a some point. Free money to be had, hard to see how it can be policed
Exactly right. Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there.
> or get called out on the lie

Get "called out" how, exactly?

With the distribution channels centralized, how do you call out a lie by a "major news org", if the gvt (Google, Youtube, FB, Twitter…) decide to play along and suppress your message?

The EU Commissar of Truth, Vera Jourova, announced that "the era of the Wild West for free speech is over". She also cited "gentlemen's agreement" with the "big boy" platforms where legislation is lacking for now. Chilling.

To the degree that the censorship machine fails, it fails for technical reasons, not for a lack of appetite.

A resigned shrug and "ultimately what do I care" is increasingly common. It might be a self-correcting problem, on the evolutionary scale.

> If someone posted a video of the president eating a live baby I'd probably be more skeptical of my sources.

Isn't that because you've lived a life grounded (mostly) in physical reality? With free access to (mostly) uncensored information?

We might be surprised what's considered "extraordinary" with respect to a "sceptical threshold" in the future, especially once the pre-internet generation dies out. And digital information with digital influencers (AI or not!) beholden to a few centralized platforms shaping the consensus reality.
Twitter’s font changed in a way that makes it easier to spot fake accounts
Is that useless? Or has it just not been released yet?
Are there places that treat single person homes or even single men without shame?
No! This is bad from a security perspective based on entropy.

Passwords generated here still have the exact same entropy as the input secret. In fact, you might even decrease entropy based on the length selected.

Entering a website, username and length doesn't increase the actual entropy, because you should consider these as known.

If users go about and use the same (basic) secret, which I imagine is a common practice, all their hashed generated passwords can be considered the same.

Users must ideally choose a different secret for every account, in which case a tool like this becomes obsolete.

Doing a large number of hash rounds has zero effect on actual security here.

What to do then? Generate a true random password for each instance. You can store those in a proper password manager.
That's not quite right. I'd say about 80% of products I find on amazon.de are delivered to Switzerland. If Amazon is handling the logistics, then they normally deliver. They don't need to charge German VAT and Swiss VAT is a lot lower.

Duty is more relevant to food products. Meat is the big one. If you like meat, it's very profitable to take your whole family on a trip to a German supermarket across the border, since prices are ridiculous in CH and the meat is low quality - particularly the beef, which is from "dual purpose" cows, where "dual purpose" is like 95% milk cows.
I wonder if Graham writes from the perspective of a startup founder, i.e., he observed other founders who used Python in 2004 and got a positive impression.

I do not have this impression in 2023. No website written in Python is as polished as GitHub (has Ruby influenced the elegance?).

The scientific ecosystem is chaotic, new and half-finished tools are released daily, packaging is a mess. Of course some of the scientists are smart in their domain, but not always in programming.

Core development is pedestrian and run by unproductive, dominant bureaucrats who want to remain in power. From a CS point of view, Python is of zero interest and has few exciting areas.

Python has maximalist specifications with many bugs in the resulting case explosions. Python has too much churn and a horrible package manager.

I don't see smart people who are attracted to Python (like maybe in 2004). They sometimes use it, grudgingly.
An intriguing read that summarises the findings of multiple sources. Makes one ponder the true effectiveness of other supplements on the market, and whether the $100B+ industry is built on hearsay and deception.
You see how Division Algorithm is capitalized in my comment?

Missed that. But this just shows that Euclidean division is a bad choice if you are dealing with dividing signed quantities, that sign changes cause magnitude changes makes no sense in that case.

This is just false. Modular arithmetic doesn't represent each equivalence class with a canonical member. You either work with raw numbers ("1"), or you represent the equivalence classes directly ("[-2]").

I don't really understand what you mean. If you say [13] - [24] = [-11] mod 3 that is certainly true, but what's the point then? Wouldn't you at least want [13] - [24] = [1] mod 3 even if you skip reducing [13] - [24] to [1] - [0] explicitly?
I do not want to start a flamewar, but most of the things you mentioned Next.js, Remix, Astro, fly.io etc are not even 6 years old. Django is running production ready code since about 2006 and has more shelf life. I was not downvoting JS but in terms of longevity and robustness, Django has that going for it.
The US maintains the largest military in the world, despite the mainland being virtually unassailable by virtue of geography, and has overthrown numerous democratically elected governments while leaving brutal and regressive regimes intact. American financial interests are a much better predictor of foreign policy than "spreading democracy". As for nobody being above the law, that isn't even true in the US itself, never mind its satellite states.

Politicians love to assert as you do, but I'm afraid actions speak louder than words.
> I feel a lot if new ideas in the web development space are first available as "micro" packages, so that's just what you use when you want to stay on the edge

I'm not talking about staying on the edge though, I'm talking about connecting to databases and logging - stuff that would be considered basic when working with other languages.

You're right though... If there existed a fully-fledged framework for the backend (with dev tools) which had been around for a few years and fairly stable, I'd consider it. Frontend JS frameworks like Next.js are pretty great. They still feel a bit immature and prone to large changes, but they're on the right track and get a lot of things right.

Also, yes, I would probably still use PHP even without Laravel. I have PHP projects which are over a decade old which use a very minimalist framework I created for simple projects. It still works fine and I haven't changed the framework in over a decade. You're right that you can just pick some stable packages, but what happens when you're running Node 12 and you want to upgrade to 14 or 16? Do you upgrade and risk breaking packages or just continue running an out-dated unsupported version of Node? I've had this specific issue several times now.

I think some people here think I'm saying Node is unusably bad, but I'm not. I'm just saying I don't get why people / projects who would have used PHP a few years back are now moving to Node when Node is still so immature and PHP has improved so much. I guess I'm not sure why my view of PHP has improved so much, while the industry as a whole seems to be dismissing it for the JS ecosystem which in my opinion has a lot of problems.
This is the right take ! The pandemic hiring overall was all mostly ‘E-commerce’ driven.
It was never announced so not comparable to other's dropping projects once they're in the open, and if all we're relying on are rumours and industry analysts, then those still say they're continuing the work on Titan, with a view towards a 2025-2028 launch.
That's quite a harsh critique that doesn't seem warranted. There are quite a lot of different examples with varying quality. Granted, it's likely that these are to some extent cherry picked, but it's unlikely that these are rare and that most output sounds like incoherent noise, as you seem to insinuate.
> [...] comment captured a common sentiment: “I’m not interested in my paid subscription subsidizing AI. I signed up to pay humans their worth for doing real work. I don’t want to give AI the eyeball hours or oxygen on a subscription platform.”

We let robots do so much already. The level of Luddite resurgence is through the roof.

I'd absolutely use AI to enhance my work. That doesn't make it any less meaningful.
Actually worse because while both do jack shit, with "thoughts and prayers" there is usually at least a sincere motivation behind it.
I built a SaaS MVP in 2 months (nights and weekends) using Roda + HTMX + Alpine.js + Missing CSS + Postgres. I was quite happy with how moldable Roda is.

I tried rails in conjunction with roda in the first 2 weeks, but I felt far more productive with roda for my use case and stuck with it.
The display also supports partial updates, so you can just upload a few sub rectangles of what has changed onscreen. AKA "dirty rectangles".
You can get over 60fps depending on how much is changing, and since these games are on a static background, that's not much.
Is it possible to generate a language that just uses reserve words. I like how Python uses "and" and "or" instead of && and ||
They are too big to be fast and as a public company they need to implement AI in a way that increases revenue, which makes it harder I think.
>why waste your time dodging shots when you can fight but if you were playing in an arcade

A kid pushed his last coin into the slot, 30 minutes until his parents come to collect him; he will prolong this game for as long as he can.
> Now, if you deviate... to one of the new “esoteric” languages, you have to... reinvent the wheel in a lot of areas that you’d otherwise be getting for free.

I think this is the key concern. The #1 priority is how quickly Engineering can respond to business demands. Maybe the #1 priority instead ought to be culture, and that can be a great approach for Mittelstand-style/small-forever/bootstrapped businesses. But for venture-backed growth-at-all-costs businesses? Porting functionality to an esoteric language does not drive business value. Complain that you have difficulty hiring because you can't find engineers who know the esoteric language, and you're likely to get pressure from your investors to make boring technology choices instead.
It may be empowering, but it is not yet clear that the result will be appealing. Not trying to be an AI-skeptic, but I find art to still be mostly about communication; when I listen to some music I enjoy I feel like I have some shared experience with the author which they are able to communicate via music. I have yet to see this effect in AI-produced stuff, but even if the effect would be fully imitated, it is still not clear that it would have the same appeal.

An analogy: chess AI's are clearly superior to human chess by any reasonable measure. I still enjoy playing with other people (even online, even anonymously) infinitely more than playing with an AI, no matter how well calibrated/tuned to my level.
But language is part of the environment : the communication in the environment and understanding of the environment is mediated through language !
Try running eg. Libre Office and gdocs on a 10+ year old laptop. The difference is night and day. And that is a web app which should not be particularly demanding (essentially text entry).

E2A: Also, try running Figma on an older device. It's basically unusable. No native version, and a native version would be much better.
> Nice syntax

Is it though? From the post:

RUN <<EOF

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade -y

apt-get install -y ...

EOF

It may be due to my ninja level abilities to dodge learning more advanced shell mastery for decades, but to me it looks haphazard and error prone. Are the line breaks semantic, or is it all a multiline string? Is EOF a special end-of-file token, or a variable, if so what’s it’s type? Where is it documented? Is the first EOF sent to stdin, if so why is that needed? What is the second EOF doing? I can usually pick up a new imperative language quickly, but I still feel like an idiot when looking at shell.
> Most of these "disorders" are simply describing normal variations in personality found

What you call normal variations are obviously not very normal. This is almost a definition of disease: Something that deviates significantly from what is normal _and_ causes suffering for those affected (or perhaps for others).
Bad news for everyone
Generally someone with a strong C++ background and understanding of some portion of the browser stack (DOM/compilers/networking/security/…)
Ask HN: Do you archive stuff on Internet Archive, Commons, etc.?
Here is a good visual introduction to the Paris Catacombs .
https://youtu.be/la4roWgqriA

As for me as a Parisian I'll probably meet you there in a few decade. Ah ah !