skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The heroin comparison is terrible. Heroin is actually good for something.
Never read an article inside the App Store. That's a first.
> The only way to make money is to grow

Can someone explain this to me like I'm 5? This feels like some religious dogma more than a real thing.
I work somewhere that specialises in secondhand enterprise equipment and storage. The answer to your first question is "yes, but they really shouldn't". We're burning more hours than we can spare dealing with drive failures. Sure, we have RAID arrays capable of withstanding multiple failures, but we still find ourselves scrambling to replace drives faster than they're failing, even when they were tested before they were put in the spare pile.

Also, fuck Chia. It was supposed to be a low-power "proof of storage", but it's really "proof of prior work" and burns even more energy than proof of work since you need to constantly power the cryptographic calculations AND storage.
Honestly, I'd rather be stuck again with the restrictions IE put on us than the social destruction Google is waging on the internet.
I think the benefit is that when you start getting inlined code you can have multiple copies of it, so it can multiply out, and ideally you always want your code to be as small as possible so that you can have fewer instruction cache misses. So it's unlikely to matter if you're calling a single function in a loop whether the code is 632 bytes or 5KB (well, instruction decoding throughput aside I suppose), but when you're looking more broadly it might matter.
Does online-purchase-bad => the-rise-of-malls?

Personally, malls are still the last brick and mortar place I would go to shop.
I would certainly prefer that plus a culture of tipping only for extraordinary service over what we have now.
I haven’t willingly gone to a mall in 20 years. Who goes there? Mall walkers? Are there still arcades?

Faster, please.
A few the Open AI api opens up new opportunities for existing software and new projects.

I think there are lots of low hanging fruit SaaS apps that could be built right now leveraging ChatGPT.

The competition will grow and grow of course.
Of all the drives you would expect long, long life from - you would figure the RED series would be it. I just realized my box of Theseus is still rocking 15 year old velociraptors as part of a 6 year old threadripper. Oh how they have fallen.
>Rural living gets constantly gassed up as this incredibly serene, peaceful place to live

It is indeed peaceful. It is just a lot of physical work and being in the sun. At least half the year or so.

Lots of people are leaving the cities. Many of the major cities in the US fit the definition of a failed state. Including SF.

"A failed state is a state that has lost its effective ability to govern its populace. A failed state maintains legal sovereignty but experiences a breakdown in political power, law enforcement, and civil society, leading to a state of near-anarchy." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failed_state
Please work on the area for setting up bio and picture. I've paid $2 - I believe in you and want this to work! :) Thank you for all that you're doing!!
https://archive.is/wRT1U
The reason for the scarcity of talent/ doctors is due to a regulation change in 1983/1996 that wasn't adjusted until last year that was restricting the number of residency spots for doctors in the US.

See a vox piece from 2022 on this topic: https://www.vox.com/22989930/residency-match-day-physician-d...

*Also note this has been slightly fixed with an increase of residency spots, but still puts the US in position to have fewer doctors per person than almost all other developed countries.

** Also see this piece published in medical economics for further reading on the subject of physician shortage: https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/match-day-2023-a-remin...
Yeah, but NYC came back and so will SF. Detroit likely didn’t make a return because of its undesirable climate, but I’m hard-pressed to see a future where SF isn’t relevant in 50 years.
This is a bad choice, I wouldn't understand that it needs to be read backwards. Why not use process's executable name instead?
Ursala Le Guin may have borrowed the idea from someone or somewhere but she - in the 1960's I think - is where I trace my first blush with this idea to. Finding the graves of people who had bones healed was the first mark of civilization. When people cared for the severely injured, I nursed them back to health: that caring, as the earliest indicator of socialization.
I think you have a point but part of this was self-inflicted. Instead of knowledgeable salespersons who could help with the purchase, the stores tried to cut costs and replace them with lower cost people who did not know/care as much. If they reverse this trend I think the malls can come back.
Doctors Are Using ChatGPT to Be More Human and Empathetic with Patients
https://archive.is/AbnO1
> The market will take care of it on its own as long as regulations allow it.

Unless there is more profits to be made by colluding, monopolizing, and scheming. In which case market will reward those who monopolizes the hardest.
What passes the bar for "elegant enough"? Why would laws of nature care about such human principles? And, most of all, why treat elegance as a guiding principle when all it has done is produce models incapable of being accurate outside a narrow range?
It's possible that people have moved to cities for jobs more than anything. I spent over a decade living in Chicago, and it grows tiresome. Now that remote work is prevalent in our profession, I'll never live in a city again. Access to high quality medical services is a concern though.
Kaleidoscope is my go-to merge tool kinda surprised I didn’t see it mentioned yet. http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/
We certainly see workflows where defining everything as code can be powerful. As we've been chatting about this internally today, we have ideas of how you could define all your features / audiences / variables as code and only deploy changes using a Terraform interface.

I feel like, ultimately, this overly limits the reach of feature flags within an organization; it makes it more difficult for most engineers who are not comfortable with Terraform to deploy their features; it limits the ability of product / marketing / project managers / QA from; scheduling releases, configuring experiments, testing features, modifying audiences, etc.

Modifying configurations certainly can cause production issues, which is why we have built tools like our variable schemas and strong typings for our variables to limit the value changes to only known values. With our CI / CLI / IDE integrations, we make it known what values variables can be set to, when variables are added and removed, and when variables enabled in production are modified by PRs. This is all in addition to existing permissions / change logs / rollback functionality we are improving on. One of our core responsibilities is to make changing Feature Flag values as safe as possible. We know that flags can quickly become tech debt, so we also preach that feature flags should be as easy to remove from your code as they are to add to your code.

A fully featured feature management platform should be with you from your IDE / CLI, Code Review / CI, Deployment Pipelines / Alerting and Monitoring, and integrated with your Project Management and Product Analytics. It should be visible to your team throughout their workflows what features are enabled across all your environments.
Or a single 2 core server, double it up if you want HA…
Intel Is in Talks to Be an Anchor Investor in Chip Designer Arm’s IPO
> Conmen don’t get given a pat list of what is and isn’t allowed; no one wants to play the “but you saaaaaaid!” game that results.

Yes, they do. Civil courts are full of almost nothing besides "but you said" games. You're just describing the status quo of how law works.
Why? Unchecked capitalism.
They are but it's currently owned by Westfield and in theory subject to the same management strategies as SF mall.
local breweries are like the least competitive businesses out there; they seem to be really tight with each other since making money on beer is super hard these days
BBEdit was an essential component of not having to deal with the terrible editor & even worse runtime stability of CodeWarrior for a spell in a past life of mine.

Thank you, BBEdit.

Also, you’re low-key responsible for my lifelong unrealized quest to give my Linux workstation sane keyboard shortcuts.
I've installed vs code by downloading a .Deb, not an apt repo. Does that count as "software Frankenstein"? Follow up question, what's the worse that can happen? Vscode will break, or might the os get corrupted?
Malls in suburbs are extremely busy.

I'm about as pro urban as you get. I live two miles from downtown Portland. But I have noticed that a lot of urbanites pretend that malls are doomed. This is a lie. Suburban malls are clearly doing great while urban malls, including those in dense walkable areas are faltering. In fact, all downtown areas are faltering at least on the west coast .
BBEdit was my first editor when I was learning to program for the web on my Power PC bubble mac. It's crazy to think it was considered old when I was using it and that it's still around now!
They're mods. They're authorized. Taking their subs private -temporarily, intermittently, permanently- is within the scope of the authority delegated to them by Reddit. A prosecution on the basis of CFAA would be ridiculous -- though, of course, that wouldn't mean it couldn't happen.
It doesn’t send your search’s to Google if you don’t use Google search. It also won’t send your browsing history, although the web site itself will probably try.
That particular mall is also probably the nicest one around the area. Actually decent dining options (not just food court food), some public space to hangout / people watch etc and a good selection of high end and lower end brands.

I'm not a big mall person, and I hate shopping for clothing, but I do find malls in many Asian countries pretty interesting. Bangkok comes to mind, with food stalls, indoor "markets", floors of dining options available.
Also you do need to calculate that hash key, which isn't free either. I generally found that lookups in lists are faster than hashmaps for sizes smaller than about 10 or so, but details may vary on the exact implementation etc.
It’s a great place to pick up a new LV purse then wait 3 hours for some udon and top it off with a $70 pizza
Where can I buy this information? I'd like to track some politicians.
The article states reasons for its recommendations in addition to not being effective for long-term weight loss:

"WHO also noted that “potential undesirable effects from long-term use” of NSS, such as an increased risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The results of the review also suggest that there may be other dangerous consequences such as the increased risk of premature death among adults."
With respect to moderation and censorship, I would suggest the authors look at Aether (https://getaether.net/docs/faq/voting_and_elections/). That project sadly didn't go anywhere, but their overall approach to moderation, I think, is the one that comes closest to reconciling the need to curate with decentralization and differing points of view.
Thank the fishes for GrapheneOS, for its sensor permission.
You also cultured them into not respecting you:

Since you didn’t expect respect or decency before, their management culture doesn’t value that, and accordingly doesn’t treat you with it now.

After all, if you tolerated poor treatment before, why wouldn’t you now?
I gave a talk about this at a game development conference (drawing on the parallels with the games industry) a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6EBBhPwYrI
I would guess because people don't like paying taxes even when the taxes are there to account for the externalities.
I am far from an expert. But from the article, it seems to me to be more likely that it casts doubt on the approximations they're using to do the calculations.
> CodeWarrior

Oh heck, you've just dredged up some absolutely horrific repressed memories of that pile of junk. It was impressive how unstable it was.

It's funny too, these days I'm in embedded development again, and it's a markedly different experience to those days, though still amusingly unstable at times too.
Fixed headers and popups that are not a problem per se but it's bad implementations that cause the problems. It's possible to use a print stylesheet to hide certain elements and set the background to white.
If you fix that by immigration, you'll destroy some other countries' healthcare.
4chan is a village in the same way Somalia is a country.
Did you even open the link?

Human readability was not a goal, in fact quite the opposite.
Detroit and NYC have similar climates. Detroit is a little drier and a little colder. But they both have freezing winters, hot summers... The climate has nothing to do with their lack of a comeback.
I nuked my Ubuntu Mate laptop and installed Qubes, just to get a feel for it. It's significantly more maintenance than a vanilla distro, because of all the separated environments, but if I ever wanted to return to Linux on the desktop as my main OS, I'd absolutely use it. It's the only BYOD/WFH solution I've found that feels even close to secure enough if you don't want to run physically separate PCs.
Insight Partners cuts size of $20B fund and warns of ‘great reset in tech’
https://archive.is/qrIqQ
Historically, haven't the more "elegant" models been shown to be correct? The various explanations for planetary motion come to mind as an example.
Show HN: We built an anonymous Reddit-replacement for healthcare providers
We have been working on the Charting Chaos podcast (currently only available on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@chartingchaos?_t=8d7RtZh51Rq&_r=1) and encountered some traction.

We have been building the Charting Chaos forum to give a place for healthcare providers to connect with each other in a private, verified way.

The idea is that your license number is required when creating an account so we can verify asynchronously that users are genuine, healthcare workers.

Let us know what you think!
StandardML is a counter-example. It has sound types but keeps them utilitarian and simple enough so people can’t easily overdo the typing. I’ve become very sick of the “type palaces” people construct (they remind me of “enterprise java” where people do stupidly complex stuff because they can).
How can you take seriously a guy who didn’t allow comments in JSON?

As smart as he is - he obviously doesn’t give a single f* about real life problems and challenges of real life programmers.
Was recently in Bangkok where they have enormous 6 or even 9 story malls completely full of stores. Step outside and walk a block and there's another one. It was mind blowing.

What I noticed was just how useful these malls were, they had multiple bank branches, a grocery store, electronic stores, tons of food options and sometimes even a fitness center. I could certainly see why someone may want to go multiple times per week. Contrast that with the average US mall where you might have half a dozen or more jewelry stores and a ton of clothing stores. My old home mall had a handful of places to eat and couldn't even keep a coffee shop for multiple years (also a Westfield property). A rather useless place. Seems our mall owners just optimized for $ per square foot and called it a day.
Australia all but copied mall culture, Westfield are the most popular malls here as well and they follow the same pattern as the US malls.

They have never been busier as best I can tell, and during the pandemic they ended up packed as people became more comfortable with the rules and risks, I think for the reason you mentioned, social interaction and just getting out.

That said, you need a strong middle-class to afford the mall, and I think on top of some malls just being too ambitiously placed in the middle of nowhere, a lack of customers who can afford to shop likely drove people away and into eCommerce.
People voted for junk food and facebook, doesn't mean obesity and depression is good for them.
> DeepMind basically built an artificial intelligence that fiddles around with assembly code and deletes stuff at random to see if it breaks.

When it's not done by "artificial intelligence," we just call this "mutation testing": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing

> The above algorithm shows what the new and improved libcxx is doing. It's basically quicksort except it switches to the sorting kernels and insertion sort when recursing into smaller slices.

This is a pretty standard technique, isn't it? You can eliminate hella recursive calls just by cutting off the bottom level of the call tree. For instance, take the following (Emacs lisp) functions:

(defun fib1 (n)
(if (or (= n 1) (= n 0))
1
(+ (fib1 (- n 1)) (fib1 (- n 2)))))

(defun fib2 (n)
(if (or (= n 1) (= n 0))
1
(if (= n 2)
2
(+ (fib2 (- n 1)) (fib2 (- n 2))))))

Using the first function to calculate (fib 5) makes 29 recursive calls before finally terminating, while the second only 17.

With libcxx I think they even took the added step of schlepping in heapsort, which is kind of slow, but prevents adversaries from smashing your stack.
Why does it need investment? Any reasonable explanation I can think of is a rephrasing of "fraud".
> Straight up doesn't allow it.

Right—so making the most-commonly-desired behavior (await-like behavior) default would have been a pretty big win, then, and not harmed that quality at all. Meanwhile it's only with the addition (and liberal sprinkling across most active JS codebases) of async/await that the default behavior doesn't result in ugly, awful code—wrestling with that defect is basically the story of the evolution of JS during and since the '00s. The number of person-hours lost to unwanted async-by-default semantics, writing competing libraries to work around it and make it less painful, learning those libraries, contorting code to use them just so you can (more often than not) cancel out the (perceived) effects of async behavior, learning the next set of libraries after that set's defunct, et c., must have been enormous—so incredibly large that I don't think there's any saving that decision from the "mistake" pile.

Now, it's merely funny and a little unsightly, seeing "await" rivaling, on a usage-count basis, keywords like "const" in so many JS codebases.
> And someone from one of those groups, knowing that, is going to experience those jokes differently.

This is the absolutely critical point that people are either too privileged to have ever thought of, or too disingenuous to admit.

Yeah, I'm a relatively wealthy (by global standards) white guy of European descent. You can joke about genociding me and I'll laugh because it's a ridiculous thought.

People who grew up genuinely at risk of genocide, or who had recent ancestors killed, don't see that same joke that same way. Worse, the people making those jokes about populations that are currently being exterminated are just doing the old "hey I'm a nazi, ha ha just kidding, can't you take a joke" thing. Which, great, free speech. But at some point if you're goose stepping in jest on a daily basis, that's just who you are.

Kurt Vonnegut said it: we are what we pretend to be.
BBEdit was my first text editor ~15 years ago! Back when I was really obsessive over the small stuff because I wanted to be like the cool kids. I then got into Text Wrangler, vim, emacs, nvim, etc. over the years. I was really into customizing my environment.

Now I just use IntelliJ and VSCode. Don't really have to think about it, plugin system has grown enormously, and I rarely need to spend time futzing with my configs because excellent themes are free and plentiful. Progress!
>We've come a long way since Jefferson, Adams, and Madison opined that cities were "the natural enemies of virtue and happiness." While I don't want to go back to a world where more than 50% of the population is solely bound to food production, I do feel like we're losing something. The real tension in the US, rural vs urban (not red vs blue), just continues to grow worse. I don't know what the solution is, but I do know that robust systems usually avoid centralization, favoring variety and redundancy instead.

One of the big issues (at least AFAICT) is the lack of good paying jobs in reasonable proximity to rural areas.

Why is that? Among other things, one issue seems to be a lack of specific kinds of infrastructure in rural areas: High-speed rail and high-speed internet connectivity.

High-speed rail with hubs in urban (or urban-adjacent) areas can provide reasonable access for folks to commute to where the jobs are.

High-speed internet connectivity would allow for (some) businesses to start and thrive in rural areas.

Improving such infrastructure in rural areas would encourage (at least for a while), urban/suburban dwellers to move to more rural areas without compromising their earnings ability.

And if such a migration is made possible/desirable, other businesses supporting those new residents (apartment buildings, bars/restaurants, cultural activities and a raft of other opportunities will present themselves for other, local, businesses.

Would moving stuff like this be easy? No. There are a whole bunch of issues that block creating such infrastructure and the business environment that would depend upon such infrastructure.

That said, urban/suburban folks moving to a functional (in terms of access and services) rural areas will increase the incentives for other businesses (hospitals, anyone?) to come to, remain and/or expand in rural areas.

This would reduce some of the pressure on housing prices in urban/suburban areas and revitalize the economies of rural areas.

I don't expect to see such movement in the near to medium term, and more's the pity. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't advocate for such things.

Edit: Fixed typo.
Portland would have a great downtown if they got the unhoused population under control. The complete inaction of Portland's government to do anything substantial to actually fix this problem is what made Portland go from a very happening and up & coming city to a nightmare.

As an Oregonian living now just outside of Portland (near Nike FWIW) I'm hoping for the day Multnomah and Portland get their act together. Such a great area to live otherwise.

Kinda not surprised why Bend blew up in population though, once I realized what was going on
CGI and Brandon Lee (1993)
I am not a physicist but if I were to take a stab at simplifying things I’d assume that a neutron is probably just a proton and an electron… isn’t that what a neutron decays to once it has been ejected from a nucleus anyways?
I'm not a huge fan of app stores in general, but I have to give Apple credit for these articles they do. Never too long, high quality and interesting ones like this come along semi-regularly especially the design-centric ones. I've actually found a few good apps through these over the years, partly because of design showcases that looked cool and partly because the developer seemed like a nice person and I wanted to check their app out.
Well, one local example relevant to TFA and that I know of is the Bay Area.

Anchor, Drake's, 21st Ammendment, Lagunitas, Das Brew, Altamont, and Fieldwork all make better tasting beer than Heineken.