skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He’s signaling, I’m friendly, competent, and dumb.

Maybe that's what he thinks he's signaling, but the signal I always get is "I'm untrustworthy, probably a scam artist, and would sell my own mother".
It's actually the opposite. MPAs are pure overhead. In theory SPAs are faster because they only require a minimum of 1 user blocking network request, while MPAs need at least 1 for each page. Everything else is up to the implementation. So if you are doing heavy performance optimizations, SPAs will always end up faster. However that's not the full picture, and in practice there is a lot of nuance, but SPAs definitely have a higher performance ceiling.
100%.

Comments are a critical way to more quickly re-grok the mental model of what's going on for your future self as well.

I think there was a post in the past few weeks about a single developer who maintained hundreds of his own tools, and for him it came down to process and documentation first so it was easy to come back to months or years later.
Some of those more-obscure operating systems simply felt like magic. Refresh a webpage on Windows or Linux, mp3 you're playing pops and skips about half the time. Mouse just seemingly-randomly becomes unresponsive. BeOS on the same machine? Hard to load the system enough that playback isn't smooth, and input was only rarely anything other than instant-feeling. Closest I've seen to that recently is iOS, but it cheats by suspending or evicting backgrounded programs.

... but, point is, a chat app ought to be able to run smoothly using perhaps 10% of a single efficiency-core on an M1, when actively being used, and about 0% when inactive. These programs acting like they're mining Bitcoin just to let you chat, which we used to do on hardware far weaker than many modern thermostats have (hell, maybe even some lightbulbs), are absolute jokes.
Socialize in person. I don’t even remember the last time I went somewhere with the intention of socializing but without any knowledge or plan about who would be there (e.g. in my small town, there was a specific place teenagers used to just go to hang out without specific plans to do so, meeting with whoever happened to also show up).
"Never dip your fountain pen in company ink."

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It does appear this study is just rote memorization, which alas is what modern education is measured as a basis for funding / performance, but is the least interesting form of "intelligence".

I guess education has traditionally been about exposure to topics, a "learned" person was someone who knew "lots of things". But in the age of wikipedia on your mobile, creative and insightful intelligence is even more valuable than rote memorization.

The implication is that this study is novel in its ability to measure rote memorization performance, and if that's true that the overall field of study struggles in core metrics of even that "rote" ability, hoo boy they'll never make progress in actual novel/powerful intelligence.

With that said, we all know high-IQ people (which presumably aren't measured necessarily on rote knowledge) that are imbeciles in real life, and even if most hacker news people are "smart", we each know how we are imbeciles in some aspect or manner.

In the end this will probably feed the "memorize and test" educational lobby, which is not a good thing.
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Expecting an interviewee to pick up on that and manage the conversation is completely unrealistic, and it’s unfair to put that on them—if you’re not interested in the direction they took the question, have the guts to say so and redirect them.
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I wish Raspberry Pi 4 were in stock at msrp prices...
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> I think we can all agree that artistic depictions of Mohammad, even if they fall squarely under free speech, are something that are of poor taste because they trigger the sensibilities of a large chunk of people that abide to certain customs and norms.

Nope. Fuck their customs and norms. Out here in the non-psychotic world, we also have "customs and norms". Those include not cutting facts out of our accounts of history, and not telling other people what they can say in general.

By the way, those exact same "customs and norms" also say that, although they can keep me from drawing some guy because it's offensive to them, I can't criticize a book that's full of literal, direct exhortations to kill a shit-ton of people, including me personally-- exhortations that have been and still are being acted upon throughout the book's history-- because questioning that book is also offensive to them. In addition to glorifying violence, that book also goes on for page after page denigrating other religions, by the way.

When you're prepared to systematically shun (at least) all Abrahamic scriptures and everybody who spreads them, along with all the other "false and illegitimate claims", and along with anything else that conflicts with anybody's "customs and norms", then you'll be in a self-consistent position. You'll still be wrong, but you'll at least be consistent. Ready to go there?

By the way, trying frame your position as something that every reasonable person obviously must already accept is a really pitiful rhetorical tactic.
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What about a fireplace? How much infrared does a fire in a fireplace produce? And is that a healthy amount? Over the winter, I’ve been sitting in front of the fireplace a lot doing my work. I use about 3-4 logs an hour.
Agreed. I wish someone had introduced me to computing at this age. I didn’t get a computer of any sort till I was in late elementary, early middle. Thanks for the thoughts!
Abstinence is a form of penance. Frankly if the office doesn't bend over backwards for your self-flagellation every week I'm OK with it. Are you demanding that the entire office fast with you if they can't find a pescatarian option?
GitHub specifically invented the idea of "forking" as a social action on a forge site that allows you to create your own associated copy of a repository. This is related to but different from the broader meaning of "fork". "Fork" doesn't mean anything at the git level.
That seems mildly insulting. At that point you might just say "attention to all fairy things"
> † The author acknowledges the recent trend of "cold showers" and considers them (a) a trend, (b) undignified, (c) a waste of some life-sustaining solidary time.

Hear, hear!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQN4hId5psg

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If you only consume mainstream media then you may personally live in a society which lacks a counterculture.

You strike up a conversation with the girl picking mushrooms in the middle of nowhere or you go to an underground death metal concert or spend a bit of time on 4chan and you'll find countercultures alive and well that you're just not part of.

If you think a sense of sameness pervades the creative world then you must be looking at a woefully tiny portion of the creative world. It has never been easier to be weird nor easier to find weirdness.
They do, and try to... just most people don't take advantage of that.

Look up the equivalent of the Department of Workforce Development for your state and find the employment and training section.

For example: https://dwd.wisconsin.gov/det/ and https://dwd.wisconsin.gov/dislocatedworker/
I kind of think we have a fragmentary counterculture going against prevailing culture in certain aspects only. Just as hippie counterculture was obviously mostly in american college-educated middle class students and black panthers were obviously primarily black.

We have traditional catholics in america who are going against the pope's relatively progressive positions on gay people.

We have aggressive de-institutionalize-the-cops people.

We have had (for a while now!) anti-prison people (this is far longer than "defund the police" and has roots in anti-racism) and I think they're pretty countercultural. (This is not "we should make better prisons" people, I mean "we should have no prisons".)

We have had monarchists, people who believe we should do away with democracy and go back to monarchist rule. IDK about them but I know they exist.

I think all counterculture is going against some aspect of a culture, not all aspects of all culture. But since we're aware of so much more cultures than before, the relative counter movements all seem small in comparison individually. I'm sure hippies were never that big, nor punks.
Which sounds ridiculous to you and me, but if you're James ‘Whitey’ Bulger living in Santa Monica, that's not so crazy.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/top-ten-fugitive-james-whit...
Thanks for the clarification. I took your comment as a personal assault from the phrasing, accusing me of being a hypocrite because I happen to draw a paycheque these days. Thank you for explaining that wasn't the intention.
Sure, you can. It might not be a good idea in the long term.
So? Nobody thinks Betty Crocker is a real person.
> One word about this: VRML. In the first VR hype-wave, a breathtaking amount of money from "major companies" was plowed into a dead-end technology

VRML has little to do with VR in distinct hardware terms, specifically, but declarative interactive 3D, which is why the XML based successor language was called X3D.

For various reasons, open declarative interactive 3d hasn't been as successful as VRML/X3D advocates hoped, but that's largely a separate issue from VR.
WebAssembly integration to allow writing client side code with semantically sound languages?

No? Not interested
I can use uBlock on the web, I can't do that on iOS. I'm fairly confident that it gives me more privacy than what I can get on iOS. It's much easier for me to get a vague idea what a webapp is tracking and what it's doing. You can see all the network requests, you can disable javascript, disable access to certain APIs etc.

I bet iOS electron based apps are tracking significantly more than FF + uBlock. It's also why I strongly dislike Electron. It's basically Chrome without uBlock.
It's able to share one instance of the browser engine across multiple apps (the way that Chrome is able to share one instance across multiple web pages). It'll help some, but won't make up for whatever the hell react is doing all the time.
Obviously total speculation, but it's the right size to be a flying speed-of-light weapon platform. USAF have been interested in such tech for a long time. Some fun links:

- Directed Energy Directorate home page during the years 1999–2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060831035044/http://www.de.afr...

- Directed Energy Directorate home page during the years 2009–2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20160428181404/http://www.kirtla...

- LASER Effects Test Facility fact sheet from 2002 showing a 50-kilowatt CO² LASER setting a test target on fire: https://web.archive.org/web/20070315131556/http://www.de.afr...
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Fun-ish story (for me, at least): I worked with a fellow who was incredibly privacy conscious. Now, that means many things to many people. I've worked in academia where people had time to do things like dynamically tunnel connections to their home VPN concentrator only to be piped out through their handrolled nameserver. That was old hat compared to this gentleman. During one engagement, he and I were holding a seminar on location about secure coding practices. He insisted on using HDMI cables without ethernet connections, piped to his own projector of his choosing, and spent about 10 or so minutes finagling device drivers to get the projector to work with his librebooted OS. After that we spent 10 or so minutes trying to setup a cellspot router to extend his phone signal so that he could phone home to a concentrator setup like I mentioned earlier in order for him to pull the handout pdfs from his home server (also librebooted btw, thanks for asking). Every bathroom break, and there were only 2 over 8h, he would disassemble his getup and take it with him into the stall of the bathroom.

I don't know where this person is today, but I can only assume that the extent of his privacy consciousness has only continued to sink its roots deeper into his life. It struck me as a sort of paranoia that likely started off proper and good but grew malignant and degenerative over the years.
By choosing an SPA. You must choose a dedicated static site hosting which is separate from your web application. You may already have this but you may not. In most cases you must choose a framework for routing. Also a framework for state management. You also dedicate to duplicating validation and security trimming logic both on the client side and the server side. More often than not you will find yourself including hundreds of NPM packages as dependencies which you must continually update and maintain. Also the requirement for unit testing on the front end is common. Which brings in the need for things like jest and enzyme. This complexity inevitably trickles into your build and deploy processes. Perhaps in larger teams this is a burden you can absorb. In smaller teams however you start to see division of responsibilities. One person only knows front end but not back end and vice versa. Common knowledge of the application as a whole can become fragmented. Perhaps the day comes where you want to take a partial of a user interface posted in a peripheral application and place it inside your web page. Because you have a virtual DOM this is now a security risk. You must build a component which duplicates the user interface which already exists. If the user interface needs to be shared among many applications you must build a commons code base to host your components. You start shouldering the burden of maintaining component libraries instead of just HTML and CSS. Again this is all very general and hypothetical but it feels worth pointing out some of the common implications that simply choosing an SPA can have in the longer run.

Plus this is not an all or nothing sort of choice. For decades we have used Ajax to perform partial updates on a web page. Consider alternatives like HTMX as a comparison.
This must be what having schizophrenia is like
That's not really self experience though.

The same way, I can read about historical events but I probably haven't experienced these events.

So the AI might not be able to realize/derive new causations, mostly able to find out correlations at best.
That's what may make it "hallucinate".
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This is typical bad financial journalism. Spitznagel is not "predicting" this.

Jennifer Sor either has no clue what Spitznagel is doing or knows no one will click on a headline about tail hedging unpredictable events.
Hi Thom - Yes Clickhouse is definitely there on our roadmap. We already have multiple customers asking for it.
It's not just overwork, it's also about how society treats your lifework. The science is a collective effort of millions of people, of many generations. But here we have a situation where dickheads like Musk, who don't even have science degree, come and claim all the credits, suck enormous amount of attention and resources, like a black hole, and use them for pleasuring their own ego (while shitting on everyone else). It's nonsense.
Well, if you can precalculate it, zero reasons not to. You could possibly also do it to somewhat destructible map, just recompute the area where destruction might happen and swap that part when destruction happens in game
So, the social norms are that men are supposed to approach women to form relationships.

But they can't even offer women free tutoring lessons... because other women feel bad about it? Wat?

Or women are offended, supposedly rightfully, solely because of the presence of these men (because person who asked the question said clearly they have done nothing wrong)? What the...?

"Being distracted with insecurities" - men, on the other hand, have no such problems, yes? They willingly went to classes that are useless to them, in order to try to impress women.

We live in a society, I guess...
Quote:

Redis and Intel teamed up to find out whether applying more aggressive optimization options would improve overall Redis baseline performance. Our conclusion: Yes! By changing the compiler behavior, we measured a 5.13% boost overall and more in some cases.
On one end of the spectrum you have the people who don't give privacy any thought - they've downloaded and logged into every app under the sun and generally don't care that they're being surveilled. They mindlessly consume hours of curated TikTok videos and go about their day getting a barrage of targeted ads.

And on the other end, you have… this. Buying burner phones and wearing facepaint to avoid facial recognition at a theme park. Imposing that on your _family_.

As an academic exercise I guess it's interesting, but living this way must be truly exhausting. Me? I'll continue to be somewhere in the middle of these two polar opposites. I participate in society, but I don't willingly or knowingly give away more information than is required. I obscure or block what I can, but still sign up for and use accounts that can be tied back to me. I consider success as making it difficult to tie my data together - either such that I don't fit the majority pipelines and need extra attention, or I break hamfisted techniques altogether.
You could strike, or rather join the existing strikes. Generations of Thatcherite policies have wiped a lot of institutional memory and trained society to think of itself as being made up of investors, consumers, and drones.
He's also a famous scientologist and OG email spammer.

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2004/05/17/once-a-spammer-a...

https://www.google.com/search?q=scientologist+sjouwerman

~20 years ago, he wrote me a threatening email when I replied to his spam email to complain.

I'm not surprised to see him and Mitnick in business together.
I'm saying that GitHub consistently does not allow you to control access to a private fork. The original owners retain control.
I keep arguing with you because I feel ignored and invalidated by each of your responses.

> None of them will become less emotionally stunted by gamifying their social skills.

Who said anything about gamifying social skill?

I'm talking about:

* Learning to talk to people
For example, perspective-taking or learning about the 5 levels of conversation [1].

* Learn to understand your own emotions
For example, Why you don't feel anything [2]

* Learn to trust other people
For example, Why authenticity/vulnerability is vital for connecting with others [3]

I'm sad that your only experiences with people attempting to improve their social skills were cliched or in the PUA community, but there ARE real resources out there that will help.

I'm happy for you, and I'm glad you're trying to share what you've learned, but again "get lucky by being in close proximity to someone who knows this stuff" is not a repeatable strategy.

[1] https://www.habitsforwellbeing.com/five-levels-communication...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pQBdZ3RdfA
[3] https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability
Ask HN: Can LLVM “compile” back to programming language?
I just had a funny idea to create a "super language" that can be "compiled" to other high level languages from the same code; e.g. write a module once and create versions of it in different languages from the same "source of truth", pun intended.

then I thought that this actually already exists - LLVM!
I wonder how easily would it be to create various frontends, but instead of x64, arm, etc. you would have targets like js, py, etc.

would LLVM be suitable for something like this? now imagine instead of writing code in one "super language", you could compile e.g. JS to LLVM and LLVM to Python. wouldn't it be awesome?
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Sounds like something that could self-perpetuate, and probably not worthwhile fighting against? Like blue is for boys (although used to be for girls: 1918: “the generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls.”).
Related:

Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27675371 - June 2021 (289 comments)

Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19950253 - May 2019 (332 comments)
You are probably posting form California or Europe. Summer in much of the US has a humid continental climate. Which means there are about 3 weeks in spring and fall when the sitting outside is as pleasant as conditioned air.

Otherwise you have humidity, rain, bugs, etc for your meal, and you will be perspiring quite a bit.
Is there any discussion in webdev community whether using typesetting engine from 80s is even a good idea for modern performant UI apps? Or it's just taken for granted and never questioned?