skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quick search yields 59 microseconds per day, right? That doesn’t seem significant at all for people to people interactions (21ms per year).

For automated systems that’s of course a different challenge and I think rather than clocks it may be useful to think about causality signatures if you’re comparing across the moon and earth. But even for automated systems, the time delay between earth and the moon is going to swamp 59 microseconds except for a minority of use cases that need ultra precise clocks that work across vastly different inertial frames.

Now for local operations on the moon? You probably don’t want UTC but that’s probably better established by sending scientists and engineers to the moon and letting them figure out what would make sense. Until then UTC is fine I think
Same in Canada
Russia bans foreign messaging apps
Yeah, same. I could never use a service that will just arbitary ban any legal and legit project type, just because of the owners bias.
TPU - Tensor Processing Unit. They're essentially Google GPU's.
Yes! We have set up a Postgres template database[1] with our demo data sets. When a user logs in, we create a new database based on the template database and associate the database with the session key set up for that login. So every session is associated with a different database and we have some Django middleware that routes you to the URL associated with your session's database. If you log out and log back in (thus ending your session), you'll be routed to a brand new database.

However, all databases are accessible to the demo user, so if you send a link to someone else, they will see your database (since the URL includes the database identifier).

You can see our code for it here: https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar/tree/develop/demo

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/manage-ag-templatedb...
An interesting meta observation is that google searches and machine learning can find a lot of stuff, but I couldn't find a path between the drive to rationalize and the drive toward cognition although the two are obviously in some way closely linked.
Straw man argument. If you and your wife feel like you're both contributing equally to your partnership, well, that's not what I'm talking about.

But there are absolutely cases out there where the women work as much as the men they're with, bring in as much money and shelter, and then are expected to do the housework, child-rearing, emotional labour, etc as well. I have heard from them and I have known them. And I absolutely believe them.
"Spanish is being obliterated by white people."

Spanish is being obliterated by a very small minority of politically biased and likely neo-marxist-propaganda-influenced young people.
That is very time-and-place-and-worker-dependent, but yes, for a young person with no significant attachments, a cheap or free place to live, and a car, it's often still very easy. Many of those jobs don't come with Starbucks-level benefits, or pay, but some do.

Of course, if you have a kid, or rent is due, or other entanglements, things are more complicated.
> it got added post-COVID

I remember being confused about paying both a service charge and a tip around 2002 or so in Maryland.
Yes -- I like it enough that I still use my personal 10 user license at home for work that I do outside of working hours.
"Being on TV" != "being an expert"

Especially in the world of finance, I don't think you can possibly go on TV, in good faith, and make any recommendation other than "hire and expert" or "invest long term." It's fundamentally too late of someone is telling you about it on TV; could be a great company to invest in but not short term.
Store tons of sensitive things at a random company? No thanks, I'll pass.
Debit offers most of these benefits though, at much lower expense.

I use credit because with the rebates it’s rational for me. If retailers offered a sufficient cash discount to wipe out the 1% rebate, I would move most of my volume to debit or even to direct debit.

An example is my cell phone bill. Verizon offers such a huge discount for direct debit that I do it. Otherwise I would certainly use credit.
> As GitLab’s first price increase in more than five years

This seems... wrong. I swear that we were forced into a more expensive plan in the past couple of years; did they discontinue some middle plan that "Technically" means that this isn't a price increase?

Pretty shitty gaslighting, if (if!) that is the case.
There seems to have been some kind of ISP level ban already on some of these apps but now it's official that they are being banned.
It seems to be somewhat abandoned or unmaintained, does it?
Millions of developers also use functional programming, for decades now. Even bigger order of magnitude of developers use relational languages to build systems of various scale. Indirectly, even more millions of developers use constraint programming of various sorts (compilers, databases and user interfaces).

Given that, the definition of yours does not provide much to discern between paradigms.

But we can compare complexity of logic of different systems and I provided two examples of that. We can even discuss some ordering between different systems.

For example, contemporary type system that is powerful enough (not even dependently typed) can model class hierarchy, it is a no big deal [1] from, at least, 2005. So classes are, in some sense, less general than System F that is used above. They also more specific, whether it is good or not.

[1] https://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/150FP/archive/oleg-kiselyov/ov...

But in System F in [1] you can have several parallel class hierarchies, without requiring anything else from the system.

The same goes to other things like "escape hatches".

System with dynamic types cannot prevent (runtime) errors that can be prevented by a system with static types. It is just not possible to have reasonable description of a system without certain kinds of (runtime) errors without reimplementing many things from system with static type checking. On the other side, in system with static types it is quite possible to have over-encompassing type that represents all dynamic values one needs.

So, systems with static type checking are, in some sense, more general than systems with dynamic type systems. And, of course, systems with dynamic types are more specific, whether it is good or not.
In short: I don’t know where, but I do know that it’s in there.

My logic is that I’ve used tools that viz what you’re talking about. They actually have much prettier versions of the (admittedly very nice, thank you) drawing you made. Bitbucket has one. These viz would be impossible to make without the info.

I read the git manual a couple of years ago. (All except the plumbing chapters.) There are commands that unveil deeper and deeper into whatever you’re querying, and it was in there somewhere. Give it a look. It’s a very nice manual. I read the whole thing (minus the plumbing) in less than 4 hours.

If I had to guess, I would say git reflog is involved.
Could it be an issue of experience perhaps? (As in, different experience bases, not overall quantity of experience).

Do you have much background in procedural or data-driven programming?
Better than directions in New Jersey: "turn right at the Wawa, turn left at the next Wawa, then make a right at the next Wawa".
I don't see how this prevents deep fakes. It only verifies the sender of information, not that the information itself is not fake.
Why would a side-loaded Android app get a hold of a binary blob owned by another app, without the user granting such access explicitly?
My first time driving in Atlanta, I got lost. I went into a convenience store and asked the woman working there where "Peachtree" was and she just laughed and laughed and laughed.

https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/the-so...
Your hypothetical would make sense if iPhones didn't support regular phone calls, SMS, and every other messaging app out there. All people without iPhones can't do is send blue bubble messages to iPhone users. That's literally it.
Yeah, sorry, they are franchises where I'm from (Turkey). I guess it's different here.
> The closest comparison outside of the browser would be to the container ecosystem

And as someone who has worked on both, I can tell you that the container ecosystem is way better and way more deterministic. `Dockerfile` from 10 years back would work today as well. Any non-trivial package.json written even a few years ago would have half the packages deprecated in non-backward compatible way!

There is another similar ecosystem of mobile apps. That's also way superior in terms of the developer experience.

> Other languages don't need to dynamically load code via http requests, they generally run under the assumption that all of the code is available before execution.

And that's not what I am objecting to.
My concern is that the core JS specification is so barebones that it fragments right from the start.

1. There isn't a standard project format
2. There isn't a single framework that's backward compatible for 5+ years.
3. There isn't even an agreeement on the right build tools (npm vs yarn vs pnpm...)
4. There isn't an agreement on how to do multi-threaded async work

You make different choices and soon every single JS project looks drastically different from every other project.

Compare this to Java (older than JS!) or Go (newer than JS but highly opinionated). People writing code in Java or Go, don't expect there builds to fail ~1-5% of the times. Nor are the frameworks changed in a backward-compatible way every few years.
Applications for open source Common Lisp 3D system?
As we continue development of our Kons-9 Common Lisp 3D system, I would be interested in hearing from anyone who may have an application domain or specific use in mind for such a thing.

To date I have been developing features which are of interest to me, as the project began as a playground for my interests. Some feedback could help us concentrate our efforts in a specific direction.

Regards,

Kaveh

Repo: https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9

Cheesy trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0CwhEDAXB0
Getting some serious Unix Wars[0] vibes from this. I'm not a huge fan of flatpak but the anti-Snap/Ubuntu movement appears to be gathering pace and I think that is a good thing.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars
I'd suggest thinking about this a little deeper... What department would you complain to.

'Human Resources'...

Trying to not sound like I shout at clouds, but we do live in an age where a job (which is a social collective of people that all strive for a common goal) is still using viewpoints where the people that make up a organisation are a literal commodity, treated as such with processes and guarding around doing the best thing for the organisation with the person held second.
It's 'just how it is'. I would say it's getting better, however it's not Starfleet.

Given that, this is an unfortunate series of events. The 'business' won't 'care', yeah sure the people who made the decision here may not feel great about this timing, but the business won't care, and at best will likely be utterly unaffected by it.

:) do remember though that the 'business' is a collective deliberate hallucination, and the excuses that people give for these things are only excused when people within that shared environment allow it, and clearly where you are this is allowed so poke the bear with caution.
Either swallow it, get out or actively try and show how this could have been done differently.
Show HN: Compare new OpenAI model vs. old on HN Summaries
The new OpenAI "gpt-3.5-turbo" model is cheap but how does it perform? Check out its summarization style compared to the 10x more expensive "text-davinci-003" model on summaries of Hacker News stories.
Another big one is clothing. Order two sizes and send the one back that doesn't fit.
should work again, sorry
That's not the theory of change at play here. You're rejecting a straw man.

As to the rest of it: "Officer, arrest that man" is a series of incantations that affect the material world.
The obvious question is why didn't these laid off salesforce employees go get a job at the company that never fires people instead?
Rather than client side scanning, I'm surprised they have not implemented Meta's solution [1] ´ₛ

[1] - https://www.diyphotography.net/meta-wants-teens-nudes-to-sto...
The doctor? The government, atleast where I'm from. I may actually go see him tomorrow
I love you preface an actual legitimate bug with "pedantic quibble." What do you do when you see an actual pedantic quibble like about whitespace? Tip? =)
> netflix delivers data to you

No, it doesn't. You pay your ISP to deliver Netflix data to you.
Not being snarky, but Lisp and Forth should have interactive experiences that the other languages do not have. The Pascal related languages are renowned for being designed to be compiled at high speed.

This is a wonderful book, "The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity"

https://tkurtbond.github.io/posts/2022/07/04/the-school-of-n...

Esp this chapter on the Wirthian way of designing compilers https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221350529_Compiler_...

See also the widely read (on hn), https://prog21.dadgum.com/47.html
I can't help but admire Richard Dawkins' unwavering commitment to science, even if it means he can come off as a bit dogmatic. It's like he's a member of a cult that's dedicated to some holy pursuit of truth, but instead of chanting mantras and sacrificing goats, they cosplay as academics and debate each other on Reddit.
I believe a sibling comment said it best:

> In practice, [switching vendors] is an extremely weak signal, is swamped out by market changes, assumes zero cost of switching, ignores network effects, etc. One of many reasons why I distrust economist’s assertion of fairness.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999021

I'd also pedantically point out that this isn't really a negotiation tactic - negotiation generally involves communication.

"to confer with another so as to arrive at the settlement of some matter"
I'm just going to keep saying YOO-luh-tuhr, thank you very much.
The curse of Babel.
I'd like to see webshare and iproyal.
It's not that I'd choose a product specifically because it doesn't have references/used-by, but it's more that I get annoyed at vague allusions to usage by larger companies. If the company in question actually uses your product, great! Tell me about it! But there's no legal guarantee that a "used by" statement is true - it's like saying "9/10 doctors trust this medicine I'm selling you". It just rubs me the wrong way.

In your example, it's actually worse than annoying. If you're basing SOC2 compliant requirements on a "used by" signal, then the misdirection is potentially catastrophic.
> knowing when the sun is up will always have some value

Some, but it's terribly inaccurate - it varies by latitude and even midday can be off by 3 hours depending which part of country or autonomous zone you are in.
The SEC prosecutes people for this type of thing. Much safer approach is to let your buddies buy first, then pump one of them. Lot's of plausible deniability. "Hey, every major fund has some XYZ, I just like the stock right now."
Interesting, but you'd think that even these OCR fallout cases could be automated by neural net (I'd expect super-human performance on a task like this), especially since they have the training data right there.

It's cool how well integrated this is with the sorting centers where each mail piece actually is, so that the cases they handle essentially flow thru (with a retry attempt) as normal.

I've got to wonder why my piece with missing city but 100% legible otherwise-complete address including ZIP was still returned to sender. Seems it may have been policy for a certain class of mail (this was international registered, with a tracking number printed on it). In this case, to make matters worse, despite having themselves returned it to overseas sender, they then kept on sending me updates on their failure to locate it when I asked them to track it!
I find it interesting that several companies are enacting policies to extract more revenue from customers in this economy via price increases or policy changes.

I feel that this may force customers who are looking to reduce cost leave respective platforms resulting in a negative impact on the revenue.

Isn’t the best strategy in an economic situation such as this to hold pricing and give one less reason for customers to drop off?

At least that is what I’d do.
I started using type annotations heavily in my Python code recently, and coupled with IDEs like VSCode and PyCharm that leverage the typing, and the underlying tools like pyright/pylance, it's a game changer.

I wouldn't try and write a decent-sized Python project without typing now.
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can we drop the charade and just direct-ship me a monthly sampler of adhd and anxiety drugs? thanks.
Ask HN: A good project for getting into Language Modelling?
Hi HN,
I am looking for a career change and have a week long vacation planned soon. My experience is in software engineering, what do you think would be a good project to do over the week to get into Language Modelling? Some ideas I had was:

1. Build a repo of Transformers and all it's variants and try to benchmark the efficiency of each variant.

2. Train a small transformer on a small dataset that I can extract from the internet.

3. Try to reproduce a small scale version of RLHF (maybe not realistic at even a small scale)

I'm biased towards projects that people find useful beyond me just learning more about the field and assume I have access to like a few hundred dollars of AWS GPU compute.
Thanks a lot for your help
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X is pronounces EK-EES in Spanish.

so its "LA-TEEN-EK-EES" if we are respecting the Spanish language.

but in reality such silly butchering of a language isnt respecting the Spanish language in the first place. its merely more communism attempts to disrupt tradition & reform societies towards some immature high school wanna-be communist ends by people who've never lived in communist society.
Why the negativity towards and when did painters become the bottom rung of construction trade? (Thought those were earth workers but I’m just kidding - question still remains)
Essentially, think of all the amazing grassroots OSRS clients we'd have that wouldn't have been C&D'd over the years if it was illegal to punish users for writing interoperable software...
The standard doesn't allow it, that is my point.

A baseline of USB2 connectivity is required for both cables and ports. A baseline of 5V@1.5A is required. Compliant (USB) devices are required to come up and enumerate even if they can't get the power contract they want or the speed that they want.

It is on the software to convey to the user that something the device needs is missing, the USB spec can't really speak to that, but there is not any situation allowed in the spec where you connect a USB device to a USB host and there is no working data&power interface at the end.

> BTW., as an update - I just received "USB 3.1 Gen 2" cable. It doesn't work.

It sounds like one of your devices is broken.
Ok, so the boomerang isn’t quite like a hunting drone, or unscrewed aerial vehicle, but the didgeridoo makes quite a drone nonetheless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didgeridoo
My point is there is a need for both systems. One for natives to derive the location from first principals and one for strangers.
Agreed.

I will point out that it's frequently useful with knowledge-based questions where it's hard to generate a correct answer, but easy to verify whether an answer is correct.
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Sam doing a 180 on non-profit to for-profit was egregious, IMHO. Having said that, plenty of extremely profitable organizations masquerade (literally and figuratively) as non-profits.

Also: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626516035863212034
Better: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
I don’t know, C++ has Make, CMake, Buck, Pants, Ninja, GYP, Bazel.
> 151 x 35 x 0.1875 = 985.3125

It's actually 990.9375. Curious how it botched the multiplication but still got an almost-right answer (to that multiplication, not to the actual question.)
Abolish them entirely. Your second link is silly and is not a serious counterargument.
That makes sense, because that would be discrimination. But I wonder how Hooters can get away with only hiring "models" whatever that means? But I think the term "attractive" is a lot more liquid than being "blind" which is rigid and legally defined. Thank you for your comment, really helpful.
This is a strange article. It's got the talking point about Python that we were hearing about 10 years ago - "tired of those pesky curly brackets in Java, try this new language you might not have heard of: Python!". Who reading the GitHub blog has not heard of Python?

Also, that snippet used in the "What is Python commonly used for" section is strange:

import antigravity

def main():
antigravity.fly()

if __name__ == '__main__':
main()

It's overly verbosely written (especially given the example just above about how you don't need main function in Python) and refers just to an insider joke/Easter egg. I can't see that it's going to convince anyone to try Python, only make them feel that they're on the outside of a joke.

It then ends with what seems like it might have been the point of the article, an advert for Copilot. It seems the way to get started writing Python is to write a short comment and then spam <TAB> and let the AI auto-complete your project.

(Also, and perhaps less importantly, looking at the author's GitHub profile I can't see a single instance of Python there. Though I'm not doing a deep-dive as that feel overly picky and there's plenty of private contributions that could well be Python.)
Book tip: Zoodiac by Neal Stephenson from the time when the environmentalist fight was just beginning. Sad to see how similar things are, you always need media attention to get these things sorted out.

EDIT: Looking at the publication history of Ohio star they have been writing about this multiple times the last weeks. Impressive. Nice to see that environmental agencies are setting up shop, too late in the game though.
Might simply be the death throes of desktop applications themselves. What else does anybody (other than developers) install any more other than Chrome?
>Latine and LatinX both originate in (different geographical parts of) the spanish-first-language

I doubt it. Having lived in Latin America, Latin American social norms are influenced by Catholicism and their societies are more conservative & traditionalist than the US and Europe.

The vast majority of people in Latin American countries (outside of Costa Rica & Chile) struggle with academic achievement (including literacy levels), adequate n utrition, enviornmental pollution.

To claim that they would put neo-marxist language changes before actual human needs (literacy, nutrition, environment) is a paltry claim and demonstrates a lack of experience with such societies.
I'm of the opinion that officials who declare a site is "safe for habitation" or whatever it was termed originally should personally guarentee this by habitating onsite for at least 3 months thereafter, drinking and bathing in the local water, visiting the outdoors locations, and so forth.
Very interesting article and fun to read, great job.