skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
with a thick gold plating ? They must have ways to get really cheap gold.
Yeah, because all the "jank" is sent down the pipe to employees. Busted alerts, busted training automations, busted integrations with insurance providers, rounds of incorrect W2s. Maybe it's good for a 50-person company, but it sucks here at 500+.
Sorry, yeah, we’re in agreement here, my comment was poorly worded — I meant the death rate and global economic damage would have been beyond catastrophic had it become more virulent as it became more transmissible. Yes, it was bad, really bad (my healthy 40y/o friend was on death bed at start), and to hear someone say it’s “not that bad” or “no worse than a bad cold” is beyond the pale. I think my lotto comment was more in line of, “do you know how fucked we would be had it become more virulent while you all played along with games of politicizing masks and vaccines?” Sigh.
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IMO these two examples might just be cases they were not optimizing for, and didn't want to invest engineering time (and future support) into something seldomly used.
This is technically mostly true, yet incredibly misleading. We can certainly argue about Linux's usability, but using Linux will put you WAY ahead of others in the crapware race.
You're comparing a startup to a large corporation. My assumption here is that Google is terrified of the legal issues of raw interactions with an LLM and it saying something wrong or hateful. In terms of search it has a lot to lose if they mess up and start saying wrong things. Bing on the other hand is not the core of Microsoft and can be more tolerant of risk.

That being said I've seen plenty of instances of Bing supposedly being hateful, wrong or gaslighting folks. IE: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/15/23599072/microsoft-ai-bin...
It's very nice to hear and I agree that languages have to move slowly, considering each move. On the other hand, when the user base is still slim you have much more freedom to be a bit more adventurous, add and deprecate things more freely. Some of the features can also be optional and available for those not afraid to try unstable things.

It's a bit interesting that I initially stumbled on Oberon+ while searching for something typed which compiles to straight Lua and was surprised seeing the scope of the project.

In any case, I wish you all the best in the development of the language!
I realize HN is largely US-based, but sometimes still do a double-take when I see people say "all" and mean US-only. As one of the all pro-WFH people, I very much remain pro-WFH whether it pertains to working for a US or local company (and pretty sure I would even if I were in the US).
If you have a symmetric system, you can use group theory to make predictions about it. Similarly, if you have a compositional system, you can use category theory to make predictions about it. As for whether those predictions are useful, or non-obvious, or worth it, etc, tends to very a lot depending on the application, and the other techniques available- it's not a matter of being smart enough to get it. FWIW, I think category theory is certainly indispensable in denotational programming language semantics.
This. I've been actively trying nix-based tooling on and off for my projects because it is legitimately solve the problem around sandboxing, versioning, reproducibility, consistency, etc. Recently, I'm trying to use asdf (and its faster alternative, rtx) and I keep telling myself "huh, nix could solve this problem better". But, damn it is infuriating to learn. Like other commenter said, it is the escape hatch that I'm missing so much. I really really want to convince myself to learn nix The Right Way. But, it feels like you will have another learning curve when using a nix-wrapper tooling.

I still have a high hope for the future of nix. And I believe the time nix will rise in popularity is when they have sorted the UX-related issues.
The Polyphase Mixer (2022)
> JSON is a text format and interning it into proper data structures is likely going to take _less_ space, not more.

~~Yeah but parsing it can require ~2x the RAM available and push you into swap / make it not possible.~~

> Or write a custom little program that streams data from the JSON file without buffering it all in memory. JSON parsing libraries are plentiful so this should not take a lot of code in your favorite language.

What is the state of SAX JSON parsing? I used yajl a long time ago but not sure if that’s still the state of the art (and it’s C interface was not the easiest to work with).

EDIT: Actually, I think the reason is that you typically will have pointers (8 bytes) in place of 2 byte demarcations in the text version (eg “”, {}, [] become pointers). It’s very hard to avoid that (maybe impossible? Not sure) and no surprise that Python has a problem with this.
> But I am surprised anyone bought it in the first place.

Possibilities:

* the company had nobody competent enough internally to evaluate it because nobody competent will work for them (either due to money or working conditions) so the company operates in a self-reinforcing feedback loop of mediocrity

* the objective of introducing the system is not true security (because that would be hard/costly/raising uncomfortable questions) but to mislead the users into a false sense of security, scoring PR points among the clueless while avoiding the costly "true security" work

* some people internally will benefit from this system being introduced regardless of the actual value it provides, so any concerns will be ignored - by the time those problems come to light, whoever benefited would've moved on or even been promoted and is out of reach of the consequences

These are not mutually-exclusive.
I can remember a decade ago having to clean my car’s windshield each time I filled up at the gas station. Now-a-days in both the US and Germany I find it a rarity - my wipers can generally get the one or two splats. You’ll notice a bit more on the country roads vs interstate/autobahn but such an alarming difference overall.
> inability (unwillingness?) to compromise.

I think the basic story of the late Republic is one of a political-economy which needed to change but which could not. Romes successes had rewritten the fundamental realities of its means and relations of production but the political system gave an effective veto power to people who refused to see this and instead wished to blame cultural changes and a decline in traditional virtue for the troubles.

This delusion was a borderline mental illness. These people loved Rome's martial history and wanted to keep armies in the field as much as anyone, yet opposed opening the cavalry to non-yeomen despite the deleterious impacts it had on the rural upper class and the decreasing ability of the Romans to field these kind of patriotic cavalry.

These people benefited in multitude ways from the influx of slave labor. But they resisted any effort to enfranchise now underemployed Romans, settling instead to doll them grain. Even as this destroyed the

These people leveraged their neighbor Italians to win profitable war after profitable war and resisted giving them the privileges of citizenship until forced at the point of a spear.

And all the while, any type of reform which had the aesthetic of appearing against traditional Roman virtue was resisted entirely by the traditional aristocrats. Until of course Marius, many of whose reforms were so practical that not even a nostalgia trip like Sulla could bring himself to turn them all back.

I think the moral of the fall of Rome is not about a lack of compromise but about what happens when your political system ceases to be able to address the fundamental issues that are undermining it. The end of the Poland-Lithuania is another such example.
GitHub sponsors has been out of beta for a long time, they take 10% of the donations if the code is under an organization which is very common for OSS projects. Of course one of the ways to get around it is to sponsor the lead developer, which is sometimes available as an option. Or just sponsor the developer some other way which doesn't go through Microsoft such as Liberapay or Opencollective.
I followed your route. Got the machine, hated it, didn't accept it.

I ended up getting a "boil-and-bite" mouthguard thing that kept my lower jaw from slipping backwards when I sleep.

That helped for about 6 months, but eventually I would wake up throwing up in my mouth. What happens is that you fall asleep, your throat collapses, you go to take a breath and since you can't bring in air through your mouth, instead you try to bring the stomach acid from your stomach up into your lungs.

eventually went through the hassle of getting a machine, found the nasal pillows mask was *much* better than the default mask, and have been good.
> JSON is a text format and interning it into proper data structures is likely going to take _less_ space, not more.

If you're parsing to structs, yes. Otherwise, no. Each object key is going to be a short string, which is going to have some amount of overhead. You're probably storing the objects as hash tables, which will necessarily be larger than the two bytes needed to represent them as text (and probably far more than you expect, so they have enough free space for there to be sufficiently few hash collisions).

JSON numbers are also 64-bit floats, which will almost universally take up more bytes per number than their serialized format for most JSON data.
Yes, it’s all kind of pudding. Which is cool.

To see real “hallucinations”, head deep into Oaxaca, magic ‘schroom communities. Be prepared to eat a lot of dirt too.

You will find what you seek. :-)
If there's one thing the entirety of Roman history tells us, it's that managing succession is incredibly difficult. It was by no means the rule that someone 'winning' meant things were about to get peaceful (or at least, not until they'd killed off all their rivals, siblings, or whoever else they chose to proscribe).
I would say that what this article says is at least true in broad strokes for a fair bit of east Asia. I'd add that it's not just web design. Look at signage for events and so forth and many of the same things discussed in the article apply; to a Westerner they look incredibly amateurish.

In general, Japan has this very weird mix of sedate traditional design and extremely kitschy pop culture which permeates a lot of things.
Compared to pricing of non-cloud providers, I'm sure AWS also takes their margin on compute. It might be a magnitude less than for bandwidth, but it's still there.
That’s So SiC: China Aims to Master an EV Chip You Haven’t Heard Of
Most countries I know of don't have a strong tipping culture either. It's the US who is one of the outliers.
That's way off. The US spends 12% on the military.[0]

[0] https://www.thebalancemoney.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown...
What they (and others) should be doing is looking at nationwide same day primaries to remove the bias, not just shift it around.
I find there's a sweet spot for Anki when the daily review of already-existing cards takes 20 minutes. If the daily review takes more than 25 minutes, I try not to add any cards that day.
Sure, but a 40 GB SQLite database on a machine with 16 GB of RAM is not gonna be happy
Level of dilution is crucial here. It may be less radioactive than a banana.
To do Whisper transcription for free locally you can use AirCaption (www.aircaption.com). It's an electron desktop app running Whisper.cpp (https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp). Just released a few days ago.
Do you give money to charities/non-profits?
Hi. Was wondering what is the people's stance towards giving money to charities across the globe.

Do you give money to charities? If so, to which ones, how often and how much? Any particular reason why you chose that one?

If not, I'd still be glad to hear your answer to why not.

It'd be great if you could also share the country where you're based, so as to get a better picture across geography.
Fellow German here. I go out for mountain biking and gravel rides a lot. Every time I pass agriculture fields in summer, there is no "noise" anymore, it's totally quiet. No birds, no insects, nothing, it almost seems dead. As soon as I come to places where nature can be itself, there is an abundance of sounds, nature is thriving. Unfortunately the former prevails the latter several times.

I guess I don't need any studies of WHAT is killing these insects...
I really want a tungsten gold plated bar now. I wonder how much they cost. I doubt it’s actually cheap enough for me to buy it just for fun but my god would it be satisfying.
It's a general scaffolding that can be shared between branches of math.
I've found the sweet spot.for Anki is the things that I need only occasionally but not never.

Things I use frequently I already pick up through repeated use, things that I never use eventually falls out.

But things that are somewhat relevant about that I find myself googling more than twice is a good candidate to Anki.
In Electron apps you still have the boundary between frontend and backend, that means it's in its core a distributed app. If you don't like GUI builder, that's a fair opinion, but I do and don't want to waste my time on textual descriptions of what is essentially visual, and don't want a Figma subscription to get some half-baked version of that either. Avoiding React equals to avoiding 95% frontend/fullstack jobs these days so it's only theoretical.
This is not unusual for HN. I noticed that the bashing and praising Unix come in similar proportions.

If the publication criticises Unix, it's comment section lokks like Unix fans have the loudest voice. The other day, commenting on other publication, virtues of Unix have been forgotten, and the comment thread praises some alternative.
Interesting, I had not considered these points outside of file size! Do you think it is possible they will be overcome or is the chance 0?
It still surprises me how many have the intuition that loading the data will take more space than the file.

Even more annoying when it is. (Compressed or binary formats not withstanding.)
Poor argument.

Coffee commercials aren't scamming people out of millions.

The FTC didn't fine Clooney for coffee commercials but it did fine Kim, Paris Hilton, Jimmy Fallon and many other celebrities for peddling bullshit NFTs.
Thx I'll check it out!
Whatever. The system is working well.

The amounts of tritium measured in a test well to initiate repair of leaky pipes and cleanup is well below any potential risk.

Every issue was responsibly reported to regulators and acted upon.
I don’t think anyone wants their plot of land to be without natural life. Maybe without mosquitos though.
Is there a way to block all the Microsoft news/spam and telemetry at the router and still get just Windows Update?

I am willing to sacrifice Bing.
"solvent trap"
Related:

Category Theory Illustrated – Functors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35173632 - March 2023 (3 comments)

Category Theory Illustrated – Logic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28660157 - Sept 2021 (112 comments)

Category Theory: Orders - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26658111 - April 2021 (52 comments)
Personally, as an intermediate Japanese learner, I have been careful to choose the right input just as Krashen advocates, but I also find Anki indispensable. I found to my surprise that I have been improving about equally quickly using Anki+Animebook+Yomichan for 1-2 hours a day while living the US as I did during an earlier period when I was living in Japan (but without access to computerized methods beyond a basic pocket e-dict).

As a beginner, appropriate input was enough to care of "spaced repetition" on its own, since children's media constantly rotates over the same small set of vocabulary. But after I improved past the ~2000 most common words or so, it happened more and more that a word I recently learned didn't appear again in my input until it had already been flushed. The probability that I would actually learn a new word for good progressively decreased as I picked the lower-hanging fruit, which is the cause of the dreaded "intermediate plateau".

I gather Anki pushes out the plateau much further: I have heard that it starts to feel Sisyphean to learn new words with it around the 15000-20000 word mark instead.
Ecept for all the times it does. Not advocating it but repression in fact works. Romam reactionaries maintianed their wealth and influence for several hundred years by stabbing anyone who challenged it.
I get triggered by JSDoc and I really wish I didn’t. To me it’s clearly just more verbose Typescript with less features. I can’t understand the appeal, and most arguments I’ve heard for it can be summed up to “typescript is spooky and I don’t want to learn it so I’ll use this inferior thing instead”, which for my personality, is as hard for me to accept as it would be to suffocate myself by holding my breath.

The only other argument being “no compile step” which is a non-argument in the age of modern bundlers.
As if only admins should have the privilege of turning off obnoxious stuff on their desktop?
I hope so! But I also hope that I will be also able to monetise some of this movent. GoReplay dual licensed under AGPL and Commercial license. I also sell special appliance licenses.

If anyone in this thread wants to build a product based on GoReplay technology (capture network traffic directly, via AWS Traffic Mirroring or k8s), sent me message :)
I'm fine with Nim for my limited set of problems, but it's its own thing and not exactly in the family. Ideally, it would be something supported by the FPC compiler.
Most people don’t understand the technology and maths at play in these systems. That’s normal, as is using familiar words that make that feel less awful. If you have a genuine interest in understanding how and why errant generated content emerges, it will take some study. There isn’t (in my opinion) a quick helpful answer.
Don't change the goalposts. The thesis was "Apartments are associated with low-income ghettos."

None of those shows fit that "low-income ghetto" description.

Further, 4 of the 12 do not fit your description at all.

In "The Jeffersons", they have an adult child, Lionel Jefferson. They moved to the deluxe apartment from a house in working-class Queens after George Jefferson became wealthy from his dry cleaning chain.

In "Diff'rent Strokes", the father's daughter is around 14 when the show started (it started November 3, 1978, the actress was born November 7, 1964). His housekeeper died and he decided to take in her two sons.

In "The Bob Newhart Show" show, the actor was born September 5, 1929 and the show started September 16, 1972 making him 43 years old. They have no kids.

In "Frasier", Frasier is divorced, and his ex-wife has custody of their son. Frasier's father has moved in with him due to mobility issues. Kelsey Grammer (who portrayed Frasier) was born February 21, 1955 and show started September 16, 1993 making him 38 years old. In-universe we know the marriage and child occurred when he lived in Boston, because that was in Cheers.
"Presidential elections in the US start and end for many candidates in one state."

Eh, this isn't the biggest issue. If it was, we would have had bills for this that were vetoed. There has to also be support for banning this in the legislature, which depends on many other states.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30523955 - March 2022 (106 comments)

Why Japanese web design is so different (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25148942 - Nov 2020 (207 comments)

Why Japanese web design is so different (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16254569 - Jan 2018 (153 comments)

Why Japanese web design is so different - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8975735 - Jan 2015 (6 comments)

Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6718067 - Nov 2013 (129 comments)
From a google search:

Most Japanese don't perceive the rules a restricting them. They "follow the rule, think afterwards" mentality is deeply ingrained into Japanese.
I am advocating for the fact that Rippling was not transparent in their communication and was too complacent to have a Plan B in place despite having 300 million in play. It is not the single incident is the exposure of poor practices and dishonesty during their disaster recovery.

To put it another way, I have been paid via direct deposit for over 30 years and multiple fiscal crises. There is only one company that ever failed to get full payroll out on time
This is only true of the websites made by big established companies.

A lot of startups follow the general trend of using large fonts and empty spaces.

Examples:

https://tunagate.com/

https://paypay.ne.jp/

https://aw-anotherworks.com/

https://findy-code.io/
Planck length.
You can take your lasagna and have it.
The lies, myths, and secrets of Japanese UI design
There's always BTI, which so far is specific just to mosquitoes (biological, not chemical).
Thanks.

> when the user base is still slim you have much more freedom to be a bit more adventurous, add and deprecate things more freely

When designing a language, it's hard to get rid of the initial sins, so if in doubt, leave a feature out, so you don't regret it later; once enough people are involved with the language and writing code with it, any change that isn't backwards compatible is an imposition on everyone involved.
No closed eye visuals?
I just tried for myself, and that was the keyboard's auto-complete, not the OS's spell-check, a subtle but IMO important difference. I think it's reasonable to expect the keyboard to catch that kind of typo, given it inherently has to do that kind of fuzzy logic to determine words anyway.

When I entered that same string into iOS Safari in a text box replying to your comment, deliberately bypassing the keyboard's auto-complete, it had no suggestions.
Rippling processes payroll for many companies, so they often have substantial amounts of money (which came from those companies) sitting in the bank, about to be paid out to employees.
Most payroll process have relations with multiple banks. They have emergency credit revolvers in place. They are resilient to single point of failure. Rippling has shown it not.
That’s very true.
Yes. By refusing to come to an entirely reasonable settlement which allowed Caesar to return from Gaul peacefully and without being prosecuted. By working tirelessly to put a wedge between Pompey and Caesar.
Yes, I meant the latter, the actual execution. Kevlin Henney puts it well in his talks (paraphrase):

"Functional programming is great! You don't need to worry about the outside environment, it just works! Why, even if you unplug the computer, it just works—no, wait. These are all abstractions."

The execution environment is the invariant the webpage starts out with. The programming environment, and its relation to state, can be changed.
They're arguing that the IA's library isn't even a library.