skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how most web frontend and backend development was done for a couple decades, with PHP which (conceptually) starts a new interpreter instance for each request, and discards all state afterwards (and before PHP there was PERL and other cgi-bin scripts that actually started a new process each time), and HTML pages that lose all state on every page transition. If anything, the currently popular state of having very little request isolation inside nodejs servers and long-running SPAs is the anomaly. And at least on the server side this didn't come about from a desire to have more state, it's just an accidental side effect.
By lossless they mean “losslessly compressed from source” (FLAC, or likely in Apple’s case ALAC) as opposed to “lossy compressed” like MP3 or AAC streaming services usually use.

Wether or not the original recording was done/mastered in 24/192 or higher/lower is a whole other question. In the grand scheme of things all ADC involves “compression” in the form of quantization.
Ask a lawyer...
That makes me sad. Just flying for the sake of keeping a few small green pieces of paper. I guess the airlines are mostly to blame here for this bad method of pricing, but I'd really hope people would not do things like this.
I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one
I don’t really understand how any file system designed in the last 20 years could be lacking data checksums. Data integrity is job #1, and yet.
> Quite the spectacle to watch the crypto space go

The crypto exchange space. Exchanges are really just unregulated banks in disguise: all the drawbacks and none of the benefits. They're the very same centralized banking intitutions cryptocurrencies were supposed to put an end to.
It's been killed by big tech, for once traditional big corps are kind of innocent.
I have the opposite take... there's a program I use (and ties me to Windows) called WikidPad[1], it's a personal Wiki, written in Python. The win32 version works great, and because it's compiled (back in 2018), the binary should do so forever. The Linux distribution is source based, and broke when WxWidgets changed the name/nature of some key parameters to its calls.

I'm a Pascal programmer, not a Python programmer... but I'm hoping that I can leverage CoPilot to help me navigate the nitty gritty boilerplate that would otherwise take days to sort through, and get to the heart of the refactoring/patching necessary to get WikidPad up to date and fix the breakage.

I see GPT4 and kin as tools to allow more freedom of action, and less worry about the stuff I always hated anyway, the minutiae of coding.

--

>years of domain knowledge

Usually the term "domain knowledge" applies to real world non-programming knowledge such as chemistry, manufacturing, etc. This is the first time I've seen it applied to programming. Programming is just a means to an end. I've never considered programming to be an industry. We produce a product with zero marginal cost.

I suspect you are in the same emotional place that accountants were, the first time they saw spreadsheets in use. It must have seemed like the end of the world to them, but it wasn't.

>all these students going into CS are in for a rude awakening

As long as they know that computers are a tool, not the end result, they'll be fine

[1] https://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/
I get almost no music or dance based content on TikTok. It's algorithm almost exclusively returns videos on topics I'm interested in. Usually a mix of politics, science, cooking, crafts, cat, and couples content.

The simple explanation as to why content popularity varies across countries seems to be that there are cultural differences at play. Frankly, it feels like a lot of people are simply uncomfortable with seeing their cultural values reflected back at them.
> I suspect that purchasing music files to own will seem increasingly strange and inconvenient to younger people, though.

It'll be interesting to see what happens.

As a fan of blues, I've noticed that there are a lot of grey songs in my Spotify playlists. There's just no practical way to be able to listen to the music I want to hear besides owning it (Youtube is hit-or-miss as well).

For people who want to listen to pop, they're probably fine. But anything that's even a little niche is trouble. Or that's my experience, anyhow.
How on earth is their tax liability determined if they don't take payment in USD?
As some of the comments in the reddit thread indicate, this is a common sight and these displays are only there to show ads. The urinal itself is as dumb as it can be.
It is sad to watch MS (Windows as a whole; they seem to have forgotten they should be an OS) and Google (Chrome in particular*) compete for title of "most widely deployed spyware".

But IE6 was not spyware, it was a browser that was maddening to use, and purposely anti standards. That title, currently, is theirs alone.

* It is really no contest - Chrome is king. But even Google's little things - G-Fonts loads JS to track users on websites, and Android SDK installs an updater that also spawns nameless DLLs that run in the background and regularly send info home, would be impressive for any other spyware app...
Paypal Europe have a banking license.

The problem is regulation, or at least the interaction between strict KYC/AML regulations and a business model that allows basically anyone to accept electronic payments. Banks and money transmitters are substantially deputised to enforce a raft of laws regarding the conduct of their customers. Either you're choosy in who you accept as a customer, or you're liberal in who you accept as a customer but have a hair-trigger response to any transaction that looks even vaguely suspect. Any alternative strategy will eventually lead to jail time.
Lmao, classical and jazz are the two simplest forms of music. Without any lyrics to generate its basically just generating some simple patterns in basic instruments.

There’s no way you’d be able to tell.
well I for one am looking forward to the "you don't need state for this shopping cart" article.
The threat is the CCP using TikTok for algorithm-directed propaganda, extortion based on video history, and anything else you can imagine.

A one-time fine doesn't fix that, and you can't get the oversight to make sure consumer data is protected because you're dealing with a state actor. But maybe you're thinking of some sort of recurring fine, like a "Sell Americans As A Service?" SAAAS? Innovations like that could help with the national deficit.
Windows market share in US drops to historic low of 57 percent
I have enabled notifications for only 2 things: outlook webmail and Microsoft Teams on my professional laptop (Linux user). I don't need those to be applications (teams app is a website anyway).

I am glad the option exist and I am also happy I can choose to ignore that option for 99.99% of the websites I visit.

Bottom line: choice is good as long as it is opt-in and not opt-out.
Hi, looks like it's not working on IPv6
I think it's safe to say GP has an opinion of what a "tin foil hat nutter" is, which is reasonable with regards to documented reality. However, there are a number of people who poison the well with absurd claims such as "NSA can break all encryption with quantum computers, so you might as well use unencrypted chats on Whatsapp using Windows". So of course such claims are bogus; documents show that what they do is find ways around the encryption, through bugs or architectural gaps.
What most people don't realize about this covid-related inflation is that it was a different beast... it wasn't due to excess demand, it was due to restricted supply. The fed using interest rates to beat inflation down could make sense when unemployment is at 2% in a normal economy, but when we're still experiencing global supply chain issues, you don't raise the rates. That's not the right way to beat inflation. Suppliers need loans to keep their doors open and expand capacity again. Raising the interest rates restricts access to these loans, and the shortages just stick around longer. Of course the people running the show know that, but they're using the excuse to raise rates to consolidate their share of the economy even though they know what will happen.

The other thing that was driving the inflation was rich people using the PPP loans to speculate. If the goal was really just to control inflation, the fed rate isn't the only way. They could also have made the tax rate more progressive like it was in the 50s and 60s. But of course they haven't gone there in a long time.
Why Won't You Recycle My Batteries?
Compatibility with a few decades of data and with other systems.
I enable them for chat apps.
Idiot-proof online media downloader
> Secondly, a better solution is a multi-billion dollar fine for TikTok's egregious invasion of privacy and the like, worse than the other tech companies and they also got massive fines.

Where is the evidence that TikTok has been much worse than their peers in this regard?
So is CSS Turing complete yet?
China is an existential threat for western block. She is buying almost all mines of raw materials needed for batteries and green economy, generally speaking, she's going to buy russian gas at great discount, she's undermining western established institutions.
Maybe it's a good thing for the world to be more balanced towards a so big autocracy, it seems majority of people don't care about democracy. But I'm egoist, I live in the west and I care about the future of my country.
Reminds me of when I was locked out of my Venmo account for paying a family member back for a meal at a Cuban restaurant.

I put “Cuban food” in the description field and it didn’t like that.
Binance provided illegal services to US citizens living in the US. In the non-crypto world, providing services in a country usually requires setting up a legal entity in said country. Not doing so doesn't change the fact of providing services in said country, quite the opposite, it might even amount to tax fraud.
Whether I have a relationship with a business or not, if they send me emails that I didn't ask for and don't want, they're unsolicited.

That's, like, the definition of "unsolicited". In the dictionary and everything.

Doesn't matter if there's an unsubscribe link either. It's still fucking spam.
The IRS Makes a Strange House Call on Matt Taibbi
So, just to be clear, when migrating from git to a hypothetical new VCS, you're saying that it will be beneficial to have exclusion rules for some files in the repository, and for others locally on every developer's machine, hopefully?

The "myriad of alternate practices" that you mention are a strawman: We're still talking about ignoring some file manager metadata file. Developers put a line into their .gitignore and be done with it. If that breaks your new VCS, maybe migrating to it isn't such a good idea?
It seems to be a "popular baby name" of Egyptian origin, according to this: https://adoption.com/baby-names/origin/egyptian (second page).
The Jobs Most Exposed to ChatGPT
In practice safari blocks all ads I can see, youtube ads might be an exception but it's one of the few services that is 100% worth paying for, considering how crucial they are, how much time most of us spend watching content there, and how fair their premium offering is.
Rings a bell. IE 6 and IE 8. Still nightmarish after all these years. ;)
But on iOS I can use keychain from apps to find login information that is stored from Safari?
Date.now() should obviously be replaced by performance.now(), that would solve the clock problem.

But you raise a good point that the author is storing the previous state in CSS. I guess the author's counter argument would be that they can still avoid storing the current direction.
Developers Are Your Best UI/UX People
Not having children is not a sacrifice
The Netherland Case is specifically what I am referring to with the need for huge automatization. It's a very high tech solution, a very good one but can it be effectivly replicated world-wide without a concentrated effort?
I would be enthustiacly supporting a big push toward this direction and if this result in less need for meat product, it's very welcome. But in the absence of a big Investment push what will problably happen in reality is that Brazil,Argentina etc will not push for this kind of agriculture because it is cheaper and faster to just cut some hectars of the Amazon Forest and use traditional agriculture.
That is what I am afraid of, unintended consenguences that come naturally from simple raccomandation like "use a plant-based diet" withough going through the steps of making it actually sustainable.
https://archive.ph/ZTo6p
If utilitarian means "I enjoy listening to it", I proudly am one.
Many types of music have additional requirements, at least for discovery. For example, how about cover songs? It would be nice to find every available version of All Along the Watchtower. This is not unique to classical so why not fix in the parent app?
Yes but it hasn't traveled all that well for whatever reason while Western Classical music (WCM) has been adopted on a massive scale by China, Korea and other countries in Asia, to such an extent that considering the numerous cutbacks for orchestras and classical music generally in the West, WCM itself is being kept alive by these communities. Some argue that Lang Lang lit a fuse.

"Today China is experiencing piano frenzy with an estimated 40m children now learning to play. The instrument is increasingly in vogue among China’s burgeoning middle classes, who have the money to splurge on steep lessons and expensive fixtures. Spurring them on is the phenomenal success of the Chinese superstar concert pianists Lang Lang and Li Yundi"

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20131022-piano-mania-gri...
https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2019/08/13/feature-the-pi...

"With direct government involvement, the Chinese strategy to conquer the world of classical music includes a coherent strategy that operates from the ground up, including building the infrastructure for their booming classical musical sector. There are stunning new concert halls in Shanghai, Beijing, and Harbin to showcase classical music."

Perhaps no need to say that I am here referring only to the relative extent of the universal appeal of very different musical genres not to their intrinsic aesthetic rewards for fans.
I'm not a fan of the Telegraph, but it's actually the only remaining major broadsheet newspaper in the UK.
Oh yeah, I know about the two tabs — I wrote my own Chrome plugin to change the 'force for you' behaviour to 'force following'. I didn't realise that was what you meant by 'curate your timeline', though.
We shouldn’t conflate money with payment systems. Like 90% of my daily expenses are through a credit card. The unit of account for these transactions is my local currency (happens to be JPY) but yen is not being exchanged. What happens is that I give an IOU to the bank and the bank gives an IOU to the merchant. These IOUs are settled on a recurring basis, at which point actual money might be involved.

In the strict sense only physical banknotes, coins, and reserves at the Fed are money. Everything else involves a counterparty and some level of trusted intermediation. If there is ever a significant amount of economic activity that is priced and settled in Bitcoin, we can be sure that most of it will be through trusted intermediaries just like every other currency.
It's not needed.

There's a lot of extra fluff like examples and such beyond the basics of C++ initialization.

Also seems to have relatively little text per page in the Amazon preview [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BW38DDBK?asin=B0BW38DDBK&revisio...
Ask HN: What makes you think that there exist non-computable phenomenon?
Even though you are already familiar with computer science and formal logic, also turing machine?
Most powerful rockets in history are speeding up a new race to the Moon
Exactly the same arguments against TikTok can be made for basically any social media, "dumbing down the population". Only difference is what country's laws the company is regulated under, which hardly makes one better than the other.
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> Secondly, they can literally print money.

That's a great solution for everything as long as one doesn't care about inflation.
> zero if cache is hot (but 20 cache queries)

Rails lets you fetch_multi which means it would be 1 cache query if you used this feature.

> It is only a win if DB is the bottleneck

View rendering is pretty slow in Rails, rendering a view ends up being a real bottleneck. That's partly why caching that at the view layer is beneficial.

If Rails were able to cache templates as well as other frameworks then I would agree that in a lot of cases you wouldn't need to worry about it and could preload most things.
I'd say that usually holds us back more than anything else.

Pretty much 99.99% of crime is related to our evolutionary process, imo. The edge cases of mentally ill people etc are low, but otherwise racist/homophobic/theft crimes are all just tribalism/being afraid of the other/resource contention at the end of the day; society and its rules are just a patch on top of millennia of forming small groups and marching over to hit other neighbouring small groups with rocks.

Sentient life would be both impressive & scary in that it can theoretically optimise itself far, far beyond what we can. Then again it could go the other way too: aggressive nanobots that start disassembling humans getting into tribal-like wars with other groups of nanobots to fight over resources aka humans to melt down.
Great, right when this stopped being a commercial goal because we explained to the execs that we couldn't do it .

What a wonderful feature.

I'm gonna just quit and tell the boss to have GPT write the fuckin code for this. I'm sure that'll work.
They would be arrested upon setting foot in a country that is part of the ICC. Similar to how interpol issues arrest warrants. However, since these are high ranking officials that will just not travel to these destinations it's a pointless exercise. It does however hinder these people from going on speaking tour after they have left office which many do.

How exactly this would play out if a country tries to arrest a head of state which travels with security is unclear. I highly doubt any leader or nation would attempt to travel to a country where there is that risk of such a confrontation.
Seeing this would make me doubt the ability of the management. Although I suppose gas stations are just locally minmaxing for any extra nickel.

It seems odd that the minimal ad revenue would pay for the electricity. Maybe it’s a situation where the power cost is externalized to the decision so they see “$4 extra per month” without being able to itemize and track the extra $5 in power.
I treat a single word, Xanadu, as a “meme” and follow it from a 17th century book, to a 19th century poem (Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"), into the 20th century where it was picked up by a classic movie ("Citizen Kane"), an ongoing software development project (Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu), and another movie and hit song, Olivia Newton-John’s Xanadu. The aggregate result can be seen when you google the word, you get 6 million hits. What is interesting about those hits is that, while some of them are directly related to Coleridge's poem, more seem to be related to Nelson's software project, Olivia Newton-John’s film and song, and (indirectly) to Welles' movie. Thus one cluster of Xanadu sites is high tech while another is about luxury and excess (and then there's the Manchester Swingers Club Xanadu).
Is that a red herring?

The contention here is that one country does not allow the other to do business in their territory, yet complains when their product is threatened with a ban.

The contention is _not_ that double standards are being applied to TikTok vis-a-vis FB/Twitter.
Because I have better things to do than writing pages on political debate, rich with links and sources, only to have them shadow-hidden and not seen by anyone. Happens regularly on this forum... I would go on, but discussions on moderation are punished the same way.
Did you add that? And if so, how?
J. S. Bach ceased existing in 1750.
Like the discussion in this Reddit post, many argue that there exist non-computable finite phenomenon without any valid reasoning.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/10s52md/i_final...
On top of that, maybe we shouldn't put tolerance itself as a goal? It's a tool. And a tool that can be greatly abused. But nowadays it seems to be a goal by itself. Which both opens up a lot of abuse and seems a wee meaningless as a goal by itself.
This is quite interesting actually. I wonder if Google has been burnt by a zero-day allowing audio / video extraction in the past.
Batteries are not really considered at realistic option for airplanes, AFAIK. The best hope is that they can use synthetic fuel, at a cost of, say, x7 the current price. Regulation could definitely help make that happen -- and those who fly a lot should have to pay for the real price of their transport.
I wanted to learn about state machines so I searched for reading material here in hackernews. Found out about statecharts and used it immediately to rewrite a frontend app. What a fantastic development experience. It feels like I finally graduated from spaghetti coding to disciplined programming.
Microsoft Teams Redesigned
If an email address is provided for not-marketing purposes, and is used for sending marketing emails, that’s spam.

For example, I went to a mechanic, and provided my email address as a way to contact me. I started getting marketing emails from Sirius XM, despite never having interacted with them. Therefore, marked as spam. If Sirius doesn’t want their emails to be marked as spam, they shouldn’t be sending out spam.

Edit: Or, in the case of Walgreens, their "Unsubscribe" link reported that there was no subscription at the email address to which they had just sent an email. For that one, I did give a reply to let them know of the issue, and got no response. When the next one arrived from Walgreens a week later, that was reported as spam.
> Because I'm not trying to shill my project

Sure, you just say ("disclaimer, I write divestOS (link)") and then start spitting on the project ("I told them, but they haven't updated their default PDF app in at least 2 months!!!! That's absolutely ridiculous, look at my list of complaints (link)! Note that it's a huuuuge list because I keep all the complaints and just mark them as [FIXED] when they are not relevant anymore").

> But this is just wrong, GrapheneOS has superior compatibility compared to systems shipping microG.

Can you install, say, WhatsApp through the store on GrapheneOS? Can I install my public transport app (hint: it's not on F-droid) or my banking app?

And can I use GrapheneOS with my Samsung phone?

It's great if GrapheneOS fits your needs. But think that other people may have other needs. Which may involve compromising on security/privacy for the sake of convenience.

> they really just want to sell insecure devices

It's not black and white, is it? There is no such thing as a "secure device" (what would that mean? "Cannot be hacked and will not leak any data ever"?). Devices can be more or less secure, that's a gradient.

Maybe you want a more secure device (at some cost, e.g. you don't install a third-party keyboard and you only use a Pixel phone), but others want a more convenient device.

The whole point of projects like /e/ OS (which you don't seem to begin to grasp) is to provide more privacy while keeping as much convenience as possible. For "normal" people, not for people who like spending their free time writing lists about when the default PDF app was last updated. Because normal people don't care as much.