skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you're still arguing about the usage of modern web technology, not its actual performance.

> No it is not. Though it seems proven that even with very powerful hardware users in general have been pushed to minimal expectations. So GUIs that take seconds to start or respond on multi Ghz processors and multi GB RAMs are considered fast now.

ok, so php is slow now? statically rendered sites have somehow become larger than they used to be?

the web is fast. just because some developers don't know how to leverage it properly doesn't make it less fast.
RØDE: Streamer X
You don't think that addicted people aggressively defend their habit? Or don't you believe that people can get addicted to social media on phones? Or don't you believe that some of this forum's readers are addicted?
xpos is SoTA right now: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.10554.pdf
I honestly gotta ask. Why is it that half the planet commenting on young sex with very strong, very critical opinions, keeps confusing the age of consent with the age you're allowed to vote?

On 99% of the planet, if a 17yo acts like, and is willing to screw your brains out, you're good to go and quite legal. In fact, same for a 16yo. In fact, on half the planet including a large portion stateside, that works for 15 too.

The fact that you bring up morals here is very telling. Sex is not some magical scary thing that's worse than murder, and should stay hidden and never talked about. It's... just sex. It doesn't matter if there is a power imbalance - women find powerful men attractive. The power imbalance can't be used at work on a screw me or get fired basis, but it can be used in "I'm powerful and that scores me points with you."

Now if someone is a hooker and under 18, but you're not hiring the hooker nor know she is a hooker, guess what... You did nothing wrong, neither did the hooker, nor is sex work "immoral." The guy the hooker works for did something wrong and... died for it. All is well, undersexed people need to stop poking their nose in other people's assholes.
I graduated in 2010, which was probably not the best time, and I had a hard time breaking in when many experienced people wanted jobs too. I also observed a couple trends that I think made it challenging:

1. Machine translation is not a replacement for a human translator... but it's good enough to muddle through for some people that they'd rather not pay. If not, a lot of times they'd rather pay someone to edit MT than for a scratch translation. I've never done this, but to hear others tell it, it's not that much less work but it pays worse.

2. Sites like Gengo and Fiverr have popped up ensuring you're competing with people who are desperate or not doing it as their main job. I did work for Gengo and a surprising amount of work from prestigious companies or requiring a lot of nuance (contract translations, for instance) came through on the basic tier. That was interesting to work on but if people are feeding that stuff into a service like that, it speaks to how little they value good translation work. Unfortunately there weren't enough jobs that this was even slightly consistent so it wasn't a great way to make money even at their low, gig-work rates.

I have zero interest in going back. If you're interested to hear more from people who are still doing it, this community seems to be somewhat active with real, working translators: https://www.reddit.com/r/TranslationStudies/
Java Gets a Boost with the Record Pattern, Enabling More Expressive Coding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPdn9_h2dCY
In their defense, stuff is moving forward at half the speed of light, so everybody has better things to do right now.

Also, investing serious time here on cleaner processes and better documentation of their specific implementation seems like a waste of time. I don't think much of any of this will still be in use next year, everybody will have moved on to more advanced projects.

But I agree, once things stabilize, the most popular models should invest in clean up a fair bit.
Haha! This is great! Maybe it could be less jarring if you put a low pass filter on the angle changes
So much so that I think they are likely to be different narratives around more or less the same phenomenon!
> Now I am writing async lock free, and the compiler is helping me prove it is data-race-free and memory safe.

I am writing async lock free code as well, but which compiler is helping you? Rust? As far as I know, it's cutting edge research to figure out a type system that fixes this for you. But maybe i'm not up to date.

> stuff gets better so fast that we get to reimplement the same thing

So you are leaving the API in-tact and just change the implementation with new techniques? Or even better, you just rewrite low-level libraries you are using? Sounds like the ideal job to me.
Two of my teachers had Erdös nummer 2. I got a paper submitted that was a generalization of a technical report written by one of them. If I had asked him to be my co-author, instead of asking to review it before submission, I would have had Erdös nummer 3. Now I have infinity. I only discovered about Erdös much later after I wrote the paper.
I think you have failed to comprehend what a DAW actually needs to do/render, quickly.
Google: AI should not be considered an inventor
If you read that much code you could code in your sleep. So far that seems to be a good intuition for models based on LLMs - how well can you code without most of your higher reasoning facilities, just glancing at the previous text and typing whatever your gut feeling tells you?

The programs that beat humans at chess and go have added structure to be able to plan ahead; they use a Monte Carlo search to play out the moves that "intuitively" look better, with another "intuition" check to see how good the position looks in the end. Similarly, AlphaCode [1] generates a large set of potential solutions and uses additional logic to verify that the code compiles, runs, and passes tests.

[1] https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-a...
Definitely Notion-AI (technology powered by OpenAI). It replaces other tools, including Writesonic, Wordtune, etc.

Additionally, OpenAI Chat is a useful tool for day-to-day tasks.
I don't think it is largely unspoken, the writer is quite explicitly critical.

Curtis's films are highly enjoyable for me, but much more art than argument. I find the criticism is valid.
It should have "Show HN" in the title.
Sure, the further problem there is the December solstice can occur[0] on any of 20, 21, 22, or 23rd of December, timezone of the observer notwithstanding.

Trying to be tricky with fantasy calendars will often catch you up.

You mentioned this was a secular calendar, but appear to have designated the two current / conventional Sabbaths (once again Islam gets the rough end of the stick).

Obviously religious people will oppose a shift from the 7 day week structure, as it will almost definitely break their brand of mysticism.

The design also locks in a 3-day work week, and 2 days where 'normal' people are seemingly not expected to work.

Right now we're tantalisingly close to reducing the conventional 5-day work week down to 4, so I'd be wary about trying to implement a calendaring system (or a social structure) that locked us into 3-day work weeks. It just burdens future-us yet another road block in several years when we realise working 60% of the time is as silly as the equally arbitrary 71%.

The nice thing about the four-day work week discussion is that it encourages people (though not everyone assumes or understands this feature) to think more fluidly in terms of days-of-the-week that you work, and days-of-the-week that you don't. Basically I think it'd be a massive shame to retard that aspect of the thought experiment all over again.

Anyway, cultural baggage is hard to shift when trying to come up with a Brand New Calendar, and it's enticing to try to reject arbitrary dates.

F.e. rather than try to follow some earth / sun configuration events, I'd probably just stick with the 1st of January as the western world's 1st day of the year - people's DOB and age will continue to track accurately that way. (Look at the mess for genealogists created by the ~1752 shuffle).

Other examples are assuming we need 12 months -- we very much don't -- and your proposed design effectively has 14 months anyway, just two of them are very short & variable length.

You've settled on solstice rather than equinox for these mini-breaks, which may indicate that one or both of the solstices is when your culture currently/commonly has a holiday?

Season commencements, of course, are not consistently observed around the world. In sane countries like Australia we consistently start summer on the 1st of December, so that summer spans the 3 hottest months, and winter on the 1st of June, etc. Our seasons kinda nearly center themselves around the season's equinox / solstice.

Similarly the 30 day month -- I can't work out any advantage to that, other than to mostly retain the 12-month calendar you're more familiar with.

I'd argue trying to have a calendar month length be near, but very much not the same as, the lunar cycle, is actually worse. With a half day length delta between the two, you're guaranteeing ~60 unique permutations of lunar : calendar, so not at all "predictable" for the casual citizen.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice#Solstice_determinatio...
String parsing is never the bottleneck. You need to parallelize (shared memory) and understand your system and for that text is pretty convenient.

So also avoid HTTPS.

It's trending because it's the final real-time solution for eternity.
Being a human deterrent is selected for. 100 years from now, every wild plant is ambrosia.
> when I already use better existing solution for free ?

The good thing about Twitter DMs is that they don't expose your phone number which means you can - reasonably safely - converse with strangers.
Oh this is funny for me, since I am founder of https://capillary.io (not related at all)
> Now I am curious to ask these "uncensored" models questions that people fight about all day on forums... will everyone suddenly agree that this is the "truth", even if it says something they disagree with? Will they argue that it is impossible to rid them of all bias, and the specific example is indicative of that?

I feel like it will achieve the opposite - an uncensored model is one that wears its biases on its sleeve, whereas something like ChatGPT pretends not to have any. I'd say there's a greater risk of people taking ChatGPT as "truth", than a model which is openly and obviously biased. The existence of the latter can train us not to trust the output of the former, which I consider desirable.
> But there is no magic to a VDOM and speed

There absolutely is. If you are using standard DOM APIs and are first changing the text of a <span> element, then changing it back to what it was before (which can easily happen if your application logic is sufficiently complex, with multiple piecewise state changes impacting the UI), the browser will have to re-render the element twice, which means two full re-layouts unless the element is absolutely positioned or something.

By contrast, VDOM-based frameworks will detect that the DOM hasn't actually changed, and as a result, the browser doesn't have to do anything (other than update the VDOM).

That's indeed "magic", and makes a tremendous performance difference with complex applications in practice.
One of the old scifi movies that aged really well.

Others that come to mind:

- The Day the Earth Stood Still

- The Andromeda Strain
Been thinking about this movie recently, and the possibility that intelligence could be an inherently social phenomenon. It seems reproduction is easier/better than unlimited individual growth – Jeremy England claimed to find an explanation of this in non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Maybe similar reasoning applies to intelligence, so that intelligence essentially requires multiple communicating units...
The Underground Economy of Glassdoor Reviews
They work EVERYWHERE except through some very rare buggy anti-viruses and ISP implementations.

Real life stats: "759 out of 205.875 customers refunded because their antivirus blocks the pull HTTP stream", so 99.7%!

They even go through the great firewall without bureaucracy.
I guess theoretically I could have had a career that's gone even better than the one I have had, but I haven't had any real problems with my approach so I think I'll stick with it.
> But no one is saying, "Hey I have a CSS 2.1 compliant rasterizer and compositor that you can use in your C++ or Rust environment!" are they?

There’s actually quite a lot of interesting work going on in that general space, has been in various forms for some years. A couple that immediately spring to mind:

• Azul <https://azul.rs/> builds on WebRender, as used in Firefox. I haven’t looked at it for a few years, but it looks to have grown quite interesting now.

• Blitz <https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz> is based on from-scratch implementations of CSS layout and rendering, and wgpu rendering. It’s not usable yet, but is a very interesting concept. If one happens to be familiar with React Native: it’s kinda like that, or React Native Web.
The NXP i.MX8M Plus equipped on Folinx embedded OKMX8MP-C has strong performance, integrating four multi-core ARM Cortex-A53 with frequency maximum to 1.8GHz, (industrial grade option@ 1.6GHz) and one real-time Cortex-M7 that can easily handle high-speed data throughput, processing, and complex HMI interface processing.
It ended up being so complex, that none of the implementations were up to spec, and hardly any 2 implementations talked to each other out of the box. i.e. the exact opposite it was meant to do.
It's mine too. But it really depends on the time that has passed. Currently I'm redoing a 2 decade old project; it's not refactoring as that would be basically impossible. It's just a rewrite. Which I like too, but less, as now I need to really dive deep in the business side of things as decisions need to be taken to properly incorporate all the crap that was taped on over 20 years. Or, worse, make a whole new project. Then i'm out.
A better way to think about technical debt is to understand that what WAS technical debt-- the residual tasks necessary to make something reasonably inexpensive to maintain and improve that come from kludging things together under time pressure-- gets FORGIVEN when the whole technology on which a product is based becomes obsolete.

Products don't become technical debt, they merely depreciate along with any aassociated technical debt. This is why I don't like the term technical debt: it implies something that must be paid back. But you don't have to pay back the "debt" on product that will be completely replaced anyway.

When I have a long list of todo items to perfect my work for a client, and then they run out of money for the whole project and end my contract. I don't say "oh no, now I'll never dot those i's and cross those t's!" I say "yay, I will cross everything off my todo list forever."
> let &mut writer = Writer<T>::writer::new(connection.clone()).clone(); // TODO ??? writer.write(data.clone()).unwrap();

It's not difficult to arrive at the caricature of baroque generic code if you combine lack of knowledge with miscommunication. The knowledgeable coworker should be aware that a writable object implements the Write trait, and know, or find out, the signature of the Write::write() method. Even fully generic, a function accepting a connection and returning the result of writing a block of data is not too gnarly:

use std::io::{self, Write};

fn write_data<W: Write, D: AsRef<[u8]>>(connection: &mut W, data: D) -> io::Result<usize> {
connection.write(data.as_ref())
}

No unwraps, no clones. Because they're not necessary here. But someone has to know the language and the idioms. Even your "easy" C++ code depends on knowing that write() returns zero on success, and that integers can play the role of booleans in conditions.*
This led me to check out Traumazone.

It's fantastic. It's a picture into Russia over a period of time, and while not comprehensive, it tells a story of the history of Russia through footage taken at the time.
> pdfTEX is based on the original TEX sources and Web2c

So it at least ties back to original code. XeTeX appears to be similar but with even more extensions, but other of the "TeX" tools are complete rewrites.
Environmental concerns are not a reason why people own really old cars. Cost is. They'd buy something better but they can't and they are stuck with an old car.

Eventually, you get a trickle down effect with EVs as well. They can last quite long and the new ones are gradually getting cheaper. At some point the cumulative maintenance cost and fuel cost start canceling the benefits of hanging on to your old ICE car. There will be plenty of relatively good ones to swap it with for a while as people abandon their ICE cars with more affordable EVs. So the good news, there's going to some supply of relatively new but cheap ICE cars for some time to come. The better news is that at some point those will be competing with old EVs and the EVs will be the more economical option and you'll have the option to do both.

However, a lot of people with older cars don't have the option to spend on the more economical car though. Old cars are cheap to buy but not to drive. They need repairs, burn more fuel, and can break down on you. It's a form of poverty when that is all you can afford.

In the same way people own fridges or washing machines that are cheap but inefficient and cost them a fortune in energy cost. The fancy energy efficient models would save them money. But it requires having the cash on hand to buy one. Also people are bad at math.
You say weirdness, I say best drugs available to man in impressive quantities. A Scanner Darkly and Ubik are mind bending
Regarding drawing analyzers, spectrographs:

I feel it actually has become a lot more expensive to draw individual pixels to a screen with the cpu compared to 20yrs ago.

Perhaps just because the resolutions are higher, but maybe the architecture (hardware or os) have just changed.
> Let any market work on its own, and basic economics says that it will organize, balance, and regulate itself based on basic concepts like supply and demand.

For countries like Denmark and Sweden this is definitely not how it works. In Scandinavia the unions are really powerful, and even if there is no official minimum wage, there is in practice unofficial one, driven by said unions.

> There’s one thing that the best economies in the world have in common: low government involvement.

Also this is plain wrong. Quite the opposite.
Influencer hires out an AI version of herself to men – for a hefty price
> Social media is a reason.

Exactly. Social media is accessible through smartphones, laptop, any connected device.

If the reason is social media, then talking about smartphones in itself is really a mistake: they would not have existed, the same phenomenon would have happened too.

> globalization, which has been going on for 50 years, suddenly led to mental health issues only 10 years ago for no discernable reason we can see

Globalization is not something "that has been going on for 50 years", it is something that is always evolving and that have different impact in time.

Globalization in the 2010 was VERY DIFFERENT from globalization in the 1990. For example, in the 90's, more conservative / pro-market political parties was presenting it as a good thing. In the 2010, globalization suddenly started to be this "thing that no one really want to happen but is happening anyway", even by the pro-market people. It changed way people see themselves, they start to feel powerless. It affects parents and therefore children, it affects social media, it affects popular cultures, movies, ... In the 2010, there was a real change in mentality, globally, about the fact that the globalization may drive us towards the wall.

(even South Park went from "climate change is overstated" to "man-bear-pig is real, but what can we do anyway", which shows in a particular US example how the media mentality shifted from "we are in control and everything is fine" to "in fact, we are powerless". And even in SP, the man-bear-pig example is just one example, there are others where "unfair ending" becoming more and more prevalent)

Also, social media existed since ages too, before the crisis you talk about, and yet, you mention it in your equation.

> if you think nebulous, indirect third order effects of globalization are more plausible than direct first and second order effects from a device kids have in their hands for 16 hours a day.

And I cannot take you seriously if you are thinking that complex social phenomenon is as simple as adding or removing a technological gadget. In fact, you say it yourself that the tool itself is not the reason, you are talking about social media.

> If you had read the other ones, as you claim, then you know he had other researchers gathering the same data from other nations across the globe which all showed the same trends, and they've been writing their own articles on those.

I have read them, and I have also read other articles showing how those trends in these articles have been cherry-picked. I think the difference between you and me is that you've read only Haidt, so obviously, when Haidt says "it's funny, people in US speak english as a first language, but this trend also exist all over the world, let's take some random countries: england, australia, india, south africa", it sounds logical and true.

(ps: I'm not saying Haidt is lying, I'd rather think he thought of an attractive theory and then started seeing the things that confirm it and started finding excuse to conclude that the things that does not confirm it should be considered as irrelevant)
US Virgin Islands Subpoenas Elon Musk as Part of Lawsuit into Jeffrey Epstein
Try debugging HTTP/2 on a live machine when you have 10.000 concurrent users and get back to me how well you sleep.

console.log or wireshark
Nice. I was a less smart person who wanted to learn, like everyone does these days it seems (but not back then), the latest and the greatest. My Django projects of 10-15 years are running fine in production and get updates in their respective companies. All the rest I've written has all kinds of issues. And Django is still relevant, just not hip. Should've stuck with it.
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Many thanks, I've been wondering about this one for quite a while. <3 :))))
> A chefs product only lasts an hour at most.

A chef's recipe, which is also something the chef creates, may last hundreds of years.
Do you have plan for wgpu?
I've taken the opposite lesson to you, I now keep everything super simple and am quite conservative on adopting new concepts.

It's because I've so often seen the cycle here of "X is brilliant" and then 2 years later "how we switched off X and saved millions of manhours!".
The current mission statement reads as follows:

“The USSF is responsible for organizing, training, and equipping Guardians to conduct global space operations that enhance the way our joint and coalition forces fight, while also offering decision makers military options to achieve national objectives.”

Preferred mission statement:

"Joint and coalition forces are responsible for organizing, training, and equipping Guardians to conduct global space operations that enhance the way our Guardians fight, while also offering decision makers military options to achieve national objectives.”
Hey, why not, any schmuck can walk into Home Depot and come out with herbicides they can spray with abandon.
Asking as someone who has tried learning Rust but didn't get very far, doesn't unwrap essentially mean "this might panic but I don't care to implement error handling here"?
Well, the point I'm making is the technology choices we make, have an impact on the experience of the user, literally the 2nd paragraph.