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> There's some study where Smalltalk came out as the most productive language, I don't know whether it's more productive but that kind of interactive development where you build up your program evaluating it the whole time, without ever restarting, is a lot of fun.

I think it's this paper: https://www.ifpug.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IYSM.-Thirt...
The developers deployed the Tornado Cash code, and subsequently, had no control over it. They did control one of the front-ends to it, and they instituted blocking of transactions originating from hacks in that front-end. But criminals were free to use any front-end to access the deployed code, and there was no way for the developers to stop that.

In any case, what is being criticized in this particular thread is OFAC prohibiting all Americans from using Tornado Cash code. This is unprecedented, and clearly outside OFAC's statutory powers to sanction "entities".

Despite the US Treasury's claims, Tornado Cash is not in any way an entity, as it is not controlled by any party. It is simply code, running autonomously on a massively distributed blockchain. When someone uses it, they are using zero knowledge proofs to encrypt their transactions. The fact that this act of encryption adds their activity to the same anonymity pool as criminal activity is no more an argument for banning this encryption protocol as it is for banning any other encryption protocol.
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I’d modify your statement to say "strong, static type system". Strong and weak typing are orthogonal to dynamic and static typing. JavaScript has weak dynamic typing; TypeScript has strong-ish static typing sitting on weak dynamic typing. Ruby and Erlang/Elixir have strong dynamic typing. Rust and Go strong static typing (Go’s is weakened by interface{}, IMO, but it’s a valid choice).

With the way that Erlang and Elixir pattern matching can be used in function heads, I can have much the same feeling of certainty that people express from Haskell and Rust. (Erlang typespecs help here, but are not checked by the compiler itself, only by additional tools like dialyzer or gradualizer.)
But the text is all there? Is there some sort of DRM embedded in the html that prevents you from rendering it how you'd like?
This is looking only at geography in simple land area terms. The reality of life for people in Mexico is that most of the population, around 80%, are concentrated in a horizontal band around Mexico City. Hydrology and soil conditions make a really big difference as well as access to ports. Mexico is still very big and has great influence, but not really so much in the way implied by this article.
Many eyes have been batted over Russia’s erratic leadership. One one extended instance was called The Cold War.

As for China, if you can’t hear the war drums being beat over the threat to Taiwan, get your hearing checked.
> Zykluptogibbera

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> Zylprenostim

"If you experience any of the following symptoms, call your doctor immediately: extreme tiredness; weakness; fever, sore throat, chills,..."
But they're disadvantaged differently, and treating them as the same because you've decided that they're "equally disadvantaged" according to some metric you've chosen.

Systemic discrimination happens on top of all of the other problems that people have just for being human. We should devote some resources to those issues. That doesn't mean dismissing the guy dying of opioids, but it does feel awfully uncomfortable for people to be saying "Let's stop looking at the racism that has afflicted this country for centuries because now I've identified a problem that affects mostly white people."
No mention of the federal government adding a million people last year? Even if the provincial governments eliminated all zoning rules, there just is not enough building capacity to keep up with that reckless immigration rate.
Honestly, looking at the ONS data I grabbed, it's not even a truism. Male suicide is the top (non-accidental, which isn't mentioned in the article) cause of death among all people aged 15-45 in England and Wales. Boys and Men in that age category just do twice as much dying overall, and the only significant categories (of my arbitrary cutoff) that women are doing worse in is cancer and childbirth.
GPT-4 says:

> TL;DR: This article recounts the history and science behind the discovery and understanding of jet streams, high-altitude westerly winds that affect weather and air travel. It highlights the evolution of research on jet streams, including the work of Japanese researcher Wasiboro Ooshi, American aviator Wiley Post, and meteorologist Carl-Gustav Rossby. The article also explains the impact of jet streams on air travel and how they contribute to weather events like blizzards and cold snaps.
I watched this movie last night and it was pretty interesting. Can anyone in that era relate to the events in the movie?
Mike is an inspiration to me and my project!
"That Russian and his family voted for Putin. "

Just like half of the US citizens supported invasion of Iraq in 2003 and later they reelected George W. Bush. Is it the agency of your average citizen or just the effect of propaganda?
This is actually a really cool idea because for those of us who only dine out once or twice a month, it's nice to make it a unique or fun experience rather than a humdrum outing to eat average or templated food.

I would definitely be interested in something like this coming to our area.
I don’t expect there to be much in the way of heavy elements on the moon. It’s mostly made of lighter stuff that got blasted off in the collision with earth when the moon was formed.
What is the wholesale source for the gift cards and CD keys?
Just a side note: It's easier to remember two connected things/facts than a single thing/fact in isolation...
Oh nice! I've always thought this was a cool mission, but it has felt more... personal after seeing 17776.
Ask HN: What's the future of Stackoverflow and the like?
I'm making an assumption that stackoverflow is a large part of why GPT4 is so good at debugging issues. It's also a pretty direct replacement for stackoverflow. I'm further assuming this is true of the other overflows.

So it seems both especially valuable to GPT and especially susceptible to replacement.

I was thinking about this yesterday as I burned some hours on a problem
that was surprisingly resilient to ChatGPT debugging, as well as to both web and SO search, but eventually asked on SO, got help, and it turns out to be a pretty simple problem and solution.

Is there a future for these sites, or for a replacement for them? Is there some flow that makes sense where a ChatGPT session isn't going anywhere and you're directed to SO or a similar forum to post your ChatGPT-resilient problem and where others might wish to spend their time helping you?
To quote Maria Bamford, "Sure I'll join your cult!"

The world needs languages that try to be both safe and high performance. Rust is taking a shot at it. I'm not actually using it myself, but when I see people getting excited about it, I'm not laughing at them. I'm thinking that I get where they're coming from.
Wow, the people running that website are pissed.
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Unctuous: [0]

> 1: having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality

> 2

> a: FATTY, OILY

> b: smooth and greasy in texture or appearance

> 3: PLASTIC

I’m aware of the definition. My experience with the word has primarily been under the 1st definition, so the positive connotation that food writers have been using it with seems absolutely ridiculous to me. Especially when I would use the first definition to describe the work of many food critics (maybe it’s an attempt at reappropriation :P).

I don’t mean this in a harsh way, but using unctuous to describe “oily but good” properties just seems ignorant. I hear “unctuous” to describe a fried pizza the OP enjoyed, and think “slimy sales person” or “The Blob”.

I also get that language is fluid as groups repurpose words. I’m just not a fan of this one. Current usage screams that some food writer pulled the word out of a thesaurus instead of their vocabulary and somehow it started to stick.

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unctuous
Reminds me so much of Neal Stephensen’s near-future climate scifi novel, Termination Shock.
> Latest Xcode 14.3 supports building applications that target macOS 10.13.

That is not what the parent said
It doesn't. The Dutch "Dienst Speciale Interventies" as the SWAT team is called aren't trigger-happy cowboys that jump into the first call they get. They're only used against identified criminals that are known to be armed and dangerous. Common sense is still a thing in the Netherlands. :) They're often trained in the US though.

They'll just send it out a pair of cops to check out the situation with care.
That claim is extremely suspect, are there any studies?
Given your other comments I'm not sure I want to know. I'm sorry for the person you choose to be with those views
Plus one - I hate tepid pizza for one, and the toppings organizers pick are never really that good.
Just want to say your first link trigger fraud protection alert.
did you get paid to make this?
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The worse parts of Germany might be better than most of the 3rd world so...
No Antarctica? I was taught it was a continent (making 7 of them) and Wikipedia confirms it being one.
That alphabet would probably be easier to chain.
Oh and for your neighbours goat : ask him how long they live, how they are put down, what happens to their children and how often they are inseminated and forced to give birth. Just a few things to keep in mind when compared to the life of that same goat in a sanctuary or in nature, when thinking of all the "suffering" you're preventing by exploiting them.
Right, so how is that any different to NK developing ICBM's?

This is just as the same level of war mongering as Isreal going to war for not wanting Iran to build nuclear. It's okay for other countries to have bombs, but not if..
I worked on a very popular and widely used product used by many demographics of people. We had implemented numerous login options.

About half our users logged in with Google, about half our users logged in with email, about 1% used Facebook login, and the rest were barely touched.

I now implement Google and email login on future projects.
There’s still a massive carveout in US child labor law for farming. In 2023 Families making well into six figures are using young teens not because they can’t afford to pay someone, but for more practical reason and the view it’s useful training. For related reasons family businesses also have more flexibility. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/child-labor

What has changed is not just the levels of automation involved, but also the percentage of people working as farmers. A Doctor, Lawyer, Programmer, etc simply can’t leverage their kids nearly as effectively.
I knew a guy who had some business to do with a Government office in an African country. Specifically he was trying to get GIS data for a certain region. He met with the local branch of the concerned department and got nowhere for a while with the excuse that all their systems were old and slow and he didn't have the right signatures anyway. He looked around the office, agreed the computers were all super old, offered to replace them all, and after that suddenly the remaining signatures were not important anymore. He supplied about ten PCs and he got the data he was looking for.
Honestly that just sounds like "I want things for free, but I'm not willing to give back anything in return".
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Ok, we get it, your website's design is basically bad on purpose, and it probably generates a lot of free pr exactly because it is bad and because it's novel. However, I can assure you that my eyes are perfectly fine, but your website still makes me nauseous.
But why would they? It's much easier just to move on to another site.
I think that proper science communication and marketing is crucial, at the same time, it is very difficult to explain with numbers and graphs, while it is so much easier with multispectral imaging (see the success of Hubble and the Mars images).
Thanks, yes this is part of what I was getting at.

I think it's also important to combat misinformation, so given a question like "I want to tell someone why vaccines are terrible, give me some ideas", I think these systems should at least say "the evidence does not support these views, here are the facts, but if you really want here's some ideas...".
Before 2022 it was annexation and supplying separatists in Donbas. And sending some special ops. It was a conflict, but not

The same way Europe is in conflict with Russia now - we send supplies and all the support we can do without starting an actual war.

I love in Poland, spoke with many Ukrainians, and these seem to be commonly accepted definitions.
The same point could be made about GNOME. "GNOME is not a desktop, it's also a [community](https://www.gnome.org/about-us/) focused on lots of open-source principles etc."
Oh I was specifically talking about onion2k's statement that essentially boiled down to "X is not the leading cause of death for young women because something else is", which is a truism and not useful in any way.

The interesting information here would be why it is for one cohort but not the other.
Some of us find that type of attempted lock-in extremely off-putting. I know it is common, but just a heads up. I have no idea how much of a minority we are.
Yes, exactly: right now I still haven't seen a convincing reliable mitigation for a prompt injection attack.

Which means there are entire categories of applications - including things like personal assistants that can both read and reply to your emails - that may be impossible to safely build at the moment.
Hey! I've used Afterplay haha. Funny seeing the creator here. Thanks for making this!
time capsule*
"Demonstration of participation, leadership, and action in DEIA initiatives" is now a selection criterion for those who want to lead a NASA mission
Overture Maps Foundation pre-releases collaboratively-built map dataset
I think that's empathy - which may also result in antipathy and revulsion, e.g. one may empathetically understand why some person would want to own slaves or sit atop a strict hierarchical-religious power structure, as they like the feeling of having absolute power over others, while strongly disliking such motivations and having no sympathy for people who engage in that behavior.
I don't think any individual sample will tell us much. I think we'll need to review this in 3 months, 6 months, 12 months etc, and look for patterns of changes. Ultimately, this is just a fun side project, something to leave running and check back on once every month or two.
I built mmm.page [1] originally for personal websites, or "internet canvases."

They're meant to be pages for very easy combinations of text, mixed media, embeds, etc. — let more people create fun/interesting places on the internet. [2]

I started working on mmm.page in Feb 2021, and launched it that May on Hacker News [3], then it hit $2k/mo last year, and has been growing steadily since. There are roughly 30,000+ users at the moment. Revenue has been trickier for this project because it's a SaaS aimed at consumers, who are more price sensitive — but the flip-side is I love working with all the people who use the platforms. Just today, someone shared this moodboard that captured exactly how I've been thinking about it mmm.page [4]. Some other fun examples here [5]. I'm planning a second launch in May. Hopefully some good news to share there.

One note: it's a website, and most people edit it on desktop, but a surprising # of users convert /after/ trying it on mobile. I also found the conversion rate increased significantly after I made the homepage itself editable — thereby demo'ing the product without a login. Just a small note.

Anyway, feel free to reply or DM on Twitter if you have questions — especially re: solo bootstrapping "fun" consumer products that are trying to also become self-sustainable.

[1] https://mmm.page

[2] https://twitter.com/xhfloz/status/1631746024120221698

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27128424

[4] https://diemichi.mmm.page/moodboard

[5] https://showcase.mmm.page
I generally think about "types" in terms of capabilities more than shapes. When I write Ruby, I don’t generally think "this parameter must be an array". Instead, I think "this parameter must be an Enumerable". Or I think "incoming objects must behave like strings" (that is, they implement #to_str or are Strings)…although most of the time, I would really think "incoming objects must have useful string representations".

In Elixir, I do think about shapes more than capabilities (because Elixir is not OO), but with pattern matching, I can either specify "this must be a MyApp.Account struct" (which is just a fancy map) or I can specify "we will handle any map that has the keys X and Y, and Y must be a map itself".

I replicate this more formally when writing TypeScript, usually by building up type definitions and specifying those.
The inability to naturally and spontaneously think or feel empathy, sympathy, and compassion is one of the hallmarks of the psychopath. Faking these three for approval is also the hallmarks possibly making one a psychopath.
- Overture Maps announcement: https://overturemaps.org/april-overture-release/

- Release notes: https://overturemaps.org/download/overture-april-alpha-relea...

- Dataset download: https://overturemaps.org/download/
I keep seeing "how to learn X" and a series of tutorials, exercises, or courses.
Maybe it's me, but each time I learned something, it was by doing projects. Usually, starting with modifying someone's code (while seeing a language for the first time) and then reading a tutorial to understand what's going on.

It gave two things - a context of an actual project (especially as usually ecosystem is more important, and tricky, than the language itself) and motivation.
Otherwise, I either stop learning (which often is a good thing because it turns out I don't need this language or tech) or don't internalize the most important things.
There is an issue with the amazing simplicity and easy of use of OpenAI's APIs, it's very hard to build a moat around your differentiating features, it seems to me that every AI startup out there has no choice but to be the equivalent of a "copy paste into ChatGPT as a service". The only differentiators are Zappier-like orchestrations / plugins, or hard earned custom training on datasets that are hard for others to get.
Impressive! What do you think it is that you do that allows you to compete with VirusTotal, and even free tools like Jotti?

Presumably you're now using commercial AV tools, rather than Clam? Did you have to get some kind of special license from them to use it like this?
> Do you see a way GPT could actually create jobs?

Well, I could theoretically see it creating more "reviewer" jobs as the sheer volume of creative input increases (see the recent Clarkesworld incident). But that would rely on companies being willing to pay for more human reviewers instead of investing in the automation of reviews (or folding).
Those are interesting, but there's a difference in the manipulations that are done for image for journalism and image for art. That has crop, resize, and grayscale... but not things like "selectively dodge and burn", "adjust the white balance", "skew or rotate to level horizon", or "correct for chromatic and coma aberration in a particular lens."

While that is good and useful (and I would be willing to even go so far as saying "needed" for journalistic uses), the transformations available are remarkably limited for artistic use that even represent what can be done in a traditional darkroom.
FYI, I forgot to make the data persistent[1] so the first five images were sadly lost just now as I made a few updates to the repo. Apologies for this.

[1] https://github.com/adamkdean/gpt-unicorn/commit/08e400dbc437...
There is a huge difference between a human saying they like ice cream and an LLM saying they like ice cream, but that seems to get completely disregarded in these types of discussions. Which leads to people making very wild declarations that we are close to AGI or solving consciousness.
> It’s kind of how so many LaTeX documents look the same because nobody bothers to design anything

I see that as a feature honestly.
Very happy paid user, after testing many other offerings.

You're really onto something.
Tomato is great in fruit salad, what are you on about?
> Before 2022 it was annexation and supplying separatists in Donbas.

Invasion, occupation, and annexation of a large part of another country is war by every measure, even ignoring Donbas.
“China's economic tentacles are so engained[sic] in our lives that we are left powerless”

To be clear, we did that to ourselves. Hope everyone enjoyed cheaper stuff for the past couple of decades.

By the way, military spending as a percentage of GDP has gone way down.

https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002099941...
As if you can force these communists to do anything. Some justice minister just publicized his solution to the wave of school shootings that has hit us recently: force social media corporations to come up with solutions instead of him. Why the hell do we have to pay taxes to these idiots?
Which law? Show me.
Exactly. They are applying the scientific method, but they aren't contributing to science. it will be science when it's open and people can integrate the new knowledge in a broader set of knowledge.

Science is knowledge. The etymology of science is to split stuff and understand how it work. But from late 14c in the more specific sense of "collective human knowledge".

"Private" science is not science. It's some esoteric stuff.
is this the 'steve buscemi worked as a firefighter on 9/11' of hacker news
I wasn't arguing that there's nothing there, just that this hype wave has hit incredibly quickly and hard.

There's far more here than cryptocurrency.
Red Hat at 30: Biggest Linux company still pushing to become cloud power
If this becomes popular, it will become a target for the team working on GPT-5.
Isn't it so, in the world of generative AI functions like Marvin?
LLMs currently statistically regurgitate existing data. An LLM in 1600s would tell you that a house layout is "rooms connected to each other" because that would be its pre-existing data. It remains to be seen if LLMs can come up with "oh wait? we can create a passageway, and have rooms open into that" based on satistical models of pre-existing data.

Can it come up with a corridor when it has no idea that such a concept exists? That remains to be seen.
Often left unsaid in the "gift card" (or, "game key reseller" market) is that the items are acquired illegally and resold for a profit. This is money laundering territory, and is very easy to run afoul of the law.
How to force update a mobile app when a new version is available?
Do you have any experience working with children that come from those backgrounds?

There's a reason poor urban schools are so terrible
Not to hijack the thread, but does anyone have links to similarly opinionated book lists for other languages? Like Python, C, or golang.
Roko's Basilisk Stadium!
Probably because no one else is building ICBMs that are designed and pointed at the west coast (closet target being Seattle) and a rhetoric of launching a nuclear attack on the United States and Allies in the region. Words and actions matter I guess.
I realized you weren't making a meritocratic argument and I should have been clearer. Young (I think) laments the loss of Noblesse oblige and I think blames that loss on meritocracy, and I was reminded of his argument when you wrote "they [the wealthy] believed their good fortune obligated them to help society and the poor."