skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've said it before, but why do social media sites try to monetize through methods which provide no tangible benefits? A blue checkmark, some shitty NFT avatars, being able to badge someone's comment or post - I don't care about those things, definitely not enough to pay for them.

If Reddit wanted to monetize me, give me something tangible. I'd pay $5/mo for a 'pro' tier or something if it had unlimited third-party app access on top of some other real benefits. Instead, Reddit is making everything worse (like their new, awful, web view, or their official, awful, app) and then getting mad that people don't like the shit sandwich they're being fed.

Charge people for pro tiers, charge subreddits for 'pro' moderation tools (and actually build the moderation tools you say you're going to), introduce some kind of subscription service (YouTube Premium, Discord Nitro, that kind of thing) that actually benefits both users and subreddit moderators. Let subreddits provide perks to community members who are willing to contribute, or be able to make them subscription-only (or posts and comments only by subscribers) and the money will roll in.

Generally just make the site better and people will appreciate that. Don't isolate us from the apps we like and then tell us "we're doing it because we care", because no one believes that.
Is it common for professional designers to bash a design before even looking at it? Maybe this is why FOSS projects aren't very interested in your feedback.
The people who were effectively experts in subjects that used to run websites on their areas of expertise moved to youtube.
Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It
Discord is probably the worst of all. I'm not a gamer and I hate it so much that a lot of tech content is now locked behind private Discord channels. Even Facebook is more discoverable than that
These also store a lot of energy and can burn your house down. If you know what you're doing sure, but your home owners insurance might have something to say if it is the cause of a fire.
Cricket beats that, I think. https://sport360.com/article/cricket/england/286617/three-cr... mentions 3 venues that have a tree inside the playing area, at least two of which have hosted international matches.

The now fallen tree aim Canterbury is on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Lawrence_Lime
Woah, this is a really good point. That brings up an interesting question: can Reddit stipulate in its TOS that a search engine can crawl the site for the sake of engine indexing, but not train its models on it? I don't see why they can't add such language.
I figured if the author was going to make such a egregious mistake in the opening paragraph that he was too lazy to write anything that I could trust afterwards, and so I stopped reading.
Tbh, games with the most problems usually run home-grown engines that try to do too much.
Google risks forced breakup of ad business as EU alleges shocking misconduct
> Not true. "anything" is too strong of a word.

technically correct is the best kind of correct.
Corroborating the first point with an example.

"There is a story that Buddha once, at the climax of a philosophical discussion, broke into gesture-language as an Oxford philosopher may break into Greek: he took a flower in his hand, and looked at it; one of his disciples smiled, and the master said to him, ‘You have understood me.’
113M for ~50% of zero product and a vauge plan.

Seems fair enough to me, if they had a barely trained prototype it probably would have been 113M for 15%.
Even using python for almost a decade sometimes I feel the entire debacle around packaging and development environment it’s too sophisticated for a user base that grows every day with more beginners.
Propofol is specifically used to suppress memory of lighter surgery and procedures. Patients are conscious enough to answer questions and respond to requests, but they won't remember any of what happened.

I don't know enough about it to guess whether it actually eliminates psychological trauma or simply suppresses it so it's not conscious.

Alzheimers had a similar effect. There's a shortening window of memory which starts off normal and then gradually contracts. In mid-stage victims can't remember the start of a sentence by the time you get to the end of it.

Eventually all that's left are autonomic functions and perhaps a few very deeply engrained emotional memories.
I think Scala is a far more productive language than Java or Kotlin, but it has a higher learning curve. This means you have to spend some time learning it and if there are more people than you, then the same is true for them too.

Also, Scala is usually a bit slower than Java (let's say factor 1.5x) which will be a problem if you need raw performance/latency, e.g. if you want to write a high frequency trading app. You will not be happy doing that with Scala.

As to why I believe Scala is more productive - just look for example at Typescript and how much it improved developer experience by supporting union-types. Scala allows to do the same.
Or think of Rust and its traits that make it really easy for library interoperability - Scala has the same (in an even better form).
Last but not least, Scala is currently the language with one of the best effect systems in my opinion (https://zio.dev/). Kotlin for example has copied the approach with https://arrow-kt.io/ which I think is great actually. But when comparing Scala and Kotlin here, Scala wins by a large margin, it is a completely different world. It's like building a highly concurrent system in Erlang vs C.

Of course, if you don't want to learn things like union types, traits/typeclasses and effects (similar to async/await but more powerful) you will be annoyed by Scala. But once you learned them, you can never go back.
Looks like the crypto grifting moved on the generative AI.
Same, Discord to me is like a more confusingly implemented and laid out Slack.

Now Discourse https://www.discourse.org/ would be a much better choice.
I don't even fast forward through ads that aren't obnoxious. When it starts with three solid minutes of ads, then has a block of ads in the middle, then more at the end for a half-hour show, I'm either skipping or not listening.

If you don't want ads pay for it.

I do. Funny enough a lot of creators seem to be too lazy to edit all the ads out of their "ad-free" feeds. In one instance a creator I backed had more ads in their ad-free premium feed than I had in my original downloads of the show from when they got started. Screw that.
> legally requiring this of the company would be tantamount to legally requiring Google to shut down

What a leap in logic. Care to elaborate? That assertion is insane and the rest of the comment hinges on that.
Im so fed up with this click garnering nonsense. I've had two teslas, and driven probably 200k miles on them since 2018, the majority of freeway miles on autopilot. How many times has autopilot created a dangerous situation? Zero. Zero times. Do I play with my phone and fall asleep while using it? No of course not. But it removes the cognitive load of making micro adjustments to the course of the vehicle. Has it done odd stuff? Yeah for a while it would brake for bridge shadows. Did this cause a ten car pile-up? No of course not, it was rectified by a tap on the accelerator. For me the issue is clear. Bad drivers are bad drivers, given any tool, they will remain idiots.
Anesthesia, black out drunk, and what about: before birth (and I mean eternally before, not just 9 months)? Perhaps our consciousness existed in some spiritual way, but no memories got translated to our biology.
Will these be qualified for the IRA subsidies? I guess it depends where the batteries are made.
"Sure, lots of people have very rigorous training in critical thinking, research skills, and other important aspects of analysis as part of their scientific, medical, or academic background, but we programmers are the specialest boys who are uniquely able to understand absolutely everything better than anyone else."

C'mon; I'm a programmer too, but this is just rank arrogance.
>Last I heard it was still promising too much, under delivering and not handling the feedback too well.

This is an odd statement, as if pushing along an artificially generated negative narrative. It comes across as not using or having never used what one is talking about. Therefore using hearsay and rumor ("last I heard"), which easily can come from competitors and trolls, as the basis of information versus facts.

Constructive feedback would be going to their GitHub and making suggestions, filing useful bug reports, or helping to implement some feature (for those who are really as technically skilled as they claim elsewhere).

> Has vlang managed to get past its controversies and actually deliver on its promises?

The V project is constantly delivering. This can be seen by their near weekly updates, projects on VPM, projects on Awesome V, etc...

The so-called "controversies", have much to do with competitors and trolls, as with anything else.
Yikes!

FWIW, I think best practice here is to hardcode all feature flags to off in the integration test suite, unless explicitly overwritten in a test. Otherwise you risk exactly these sorts of heisenbugs.

At a BigCo that’s probably going to require coordinating with an internal tools team, but worth getting it on their backlog. All tests should be as deterministic as possible, and this goes double for integration tests that can flake for reasons outside of the code.
I don’t think the power companies like it when you feed power into a system like that (basing off their balcony solution). Definitely curious how their solution ends up costing though.
Full disclosure: I work at Courier.

Courier Inbox comes with web and mobile SDKs that are highly customizable, and we wanted to push the limits and see what we could build using them. We landed on the idea of Puppygram, an Instagram clone that displays nothing but pictures of cute puppies. We built the server using Next.js, Random.dog and Inngest.

We wrote-up a technical tear-down blog post [1] and have posted all source code [2] [3] on Github.

Happy hacking!

[1] https://www.courier.com/blog/introducing-puppygram-powered-b...

[2] https://github.com/trycourier/courier-nextjs-puppygram

[3] https://github.com/trycourier/puppygram-ios
i don't know why the method works so well. maybe something to do with Coinbase sales from Slk Road asset forfeiture https://www.fxstreet.com/amp/cryptocurrencies/news/silk-road...

it makes logical sense for the govt. to liquidate during market hours
Windows XP looked "childish", too. That was the style for the time, it seems.
So you're simply partaking in whataboutism? What does this bring to the discussion?
Will these “guerilla solar” units that plug into a receptacle to back-feed get approved for use?

Like, I understand we have the technology to monitor if grid disappears and self-disable, and a lot of hard-wired rooftop solar does that, but unsure if any soft-wired units have been approved.

My fridge is inverter drive and likely operates off DC at its core. Hopefully Samsung or somebody in the future will put a 48VDC port and anyone can plug in a solar panel and it will soak up whatever juice comes off that and use grid for the rest. That avoids batteries (because the fridge does thermal banking), electricians (because 48V is usually excluded), and inverter drive fridges tend to be continuous drive, so running slower when the sun is marginal or full-speed when full works nicely.

And it puts some juice into the thing I really depend on if the power goes out (even if only during the day).

And consumers can cheaply add some phase change materials for a boost in thermal banking (like really salty water bottles).

Put a couple USB charging ports and 12V ports on it too that switch between solar & grid. My router and modem sit on the top of my fridge and use 12V

And then we do away with the increasingly unnecessary DC->AC->DC conversion cycles.

Seems like the lowest hanging fruit to inexpensive mass (mild) solarization.

I always question why we choose between 0kW solar installs OR multi-kW residential installs when we could do massive 250w solar rollouts at low cost with very high efficiency.
How dare they get away with!! Noooo.

The economy can bear higher interest rates. Nothing bad has happened so far. I now think it is an acceptable choice but I still don't like the idea that the central bank is setting the interest rates. In my opinion the central bank should set a low rate but it shouldn't offer banks the ability to borrow at this rate and banks should be trying to get the highest rate possible through competition, not some subsidy by the central bank.
This is why you should apply the Dumb&Fast approach for a first ~MVP version, plan to throw it away, then apply the smart & careful approach for the more durable versions. The first version should get out there quickly and validate, adjust, and/or destroy your assumptions about your customers, systems, usage & load patterns, etc., then that deeper knowledge and more careful approach goes into the next 'real' version. Prevents premature scaling & optimization, and you never have to pay the tech debt from the 1st version.

Source: been there, done that, works great.
> Aren't there also some limitations with tree shaking when using ES Modules as well?

You can still `await import(someVariable)` and your tree-shaking will be limited at that point without a lot more manual configuration. But import syntax makes that an edge case, not the base case.

> You still need a build step to get value out of tree shaking, no?

ESM was also designed so that browsers can tree-shake at runtime. (Whether they will or not is an implementation detail based on whatever optimizations the browser's engine decides to make, of course.) Imports to modules that are never referenced by URL are never loaded, for one obvious part, that's the most basic form of tree-shaking in general, the browser never has a full view of your file system tree.

Beyond that, the module objects that `await import()` most directly returns (but are used to back all imports and are also represented as `something` in `import * as something from 'module'`) are designed to be "immutable" proxies that the Browsers can store as weak-references until needed and can in turn store the exports of that module themselves as weak-references. If the reference is never dereferenced it stands possible to be garbage collected like anything else. The browser might not have parsed anything beyond the top-level of a module and the name of the export, delaying paying any attention at all to the definition itself of that export until dereferenced. (It delays even parsing in some optimization cases; any JIT compilation is obviously delayed further until after parsing.) An export that was never parsed/compiled and eventually garbage collected away as the app ran is a very close equivalent to tree-shaking from an optimization standpoint (of nearly all but raw bandwidth/memory usage). The garbage collection churn isn't nearly as optimized as build-time treeshaking can be, but most engines have heavily optimized garbage collectors and there are worse garbage collection churn in the average application than that.

Relying on the browser to do most of your tree-shaking for you at runtime is maybe not the best idea, but ESM was certainly designed that browsers could optimize it as much as possible. There are still runtime benefits/optimizations to expect from ESM that CommonJS was never designed to support.
"Ceci n'est pas un fil de discussion"
SERV – open-source Tiny SErial RISC-V CPU
The proposed type system for Elixir doesn't run into Girard's paradox because it doesn't allow for impredicative polymorphism, which is where the paradox arises. The type system is based on set-theoretic types and includes a top type (the term() type), but it doesn't allow for types to be quantified over all types. As for adding features like dependent types or higher-order polymorphism, these would increase the type system's complexity and could potentially lead to issues like Girard's paradox. The authors don't discuss adding such features, so it's unclear how difficult it would be.
yeah, the GP really reads like it was regurgitating someone's notes that attended an internal Googs meeting on why they are ranking new higher as their mantra
And how exactly would satellite imagery (no matter which wavelength range) help you texture the ocean floor in your globe?
no one is talking about it because hardly anyone knows about it
It is big enough that it makes sense to run some kind of small RTOS on it, especially given the dual core nature of the thing.
I'm pretty much 100% sure that's the reason, and a good one at that. Mailing lists are the lifeblood of a lot of big open source projects.
And Google itself is the primary instigator, with Google AdSense.

Google AdSense is a program run by Google through which website publishers in the Google Network of content sites serve text, images, video, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to the site content and audience. These advertisements are administered, sorted, and maintained by Google.

I'm not crying for them.
I used to think I was amazing at performance tuning and debugging but after working with a few hundred different people it turns out I’m just really fucking stubborn. I am not going to shrug at this bug again. You are going down. I do have a better way of processing concurrency information in my head, but the rest is just elbow grease.

I had a friend in college who was dumb as a post but could study like nobody’s business. Some of us skated through, some of us earned our degree, but he really earned his. We became friends over computer games and for a long time I wondered if games and fiction were the only things we had in common. Turns out there’s maybe more to that story than I thought at the time.
Interesting, what is the bulk of the cost? Programmer labor? Data center time?
Doesn’t this illuminate an opportunity for Reddit?

Close the doors and invest in Reddit search monetized with ad placement like google has?
The Hilton is absolutely run down. It's a very old building with some expensive decor inside. Walking in through an archaic vestibule and you see how dated it is. Look at the room photos in that link. The bathrooms have "granite" vanities but the floors and wall covering are so dated.

Even before COVID, other Bay Area cities have been building up convention space to compete with SF. SF hotels kept raising their prices and wonder where the customers are...
Rob Pike has a discussion on the distinctions between parallelism and concurrency. Concurrency is closely related to co-routines which are a distinct invention from threads/processes which are more related to parallelism.
I think curated indexes, with associated search, will come back. Yahoo! was before its time. Now we need a human-curated search engine/index that only has verified human generated content. I guess everything goes in cycles.
With the amount of effort that got put into this article we're lucky it didn't get attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Google Is Weaving Generative AI into Online Shopping Features
so, observablehq. i like it. what's the pricing, and can you save private docs?
Yeah, all the publicly available reddit data is freely available and the cat has been out of the bag for a while.

Reddit has a lot of other private information though. The entire corpus of moderated / censored comments is the internet's best alignment dataset. The real upvote/downvote numbers make for perfect RLHF.

Hell, Reddit could remove ads and replace them with paid RLHFing bots. Charge OpenAI money to selectively deploy AI bots to certain QA subreddits. All AI generated comments get deleted within a week. That way it doesn't lead to comment spam, but the bot still gets amazing upvote/downvote feedback and a ton of direct comment-reply feedback. 3rd party apps can't 'ad block' it either, since only Reddit knows which comments are fake.

(psst, reddit, if you're gonna steal my idea, I want to be paid for it)
I would love to contribute. I don't know much about federated ecosystems, though. If you do, could you point me to the right direction? (Google is shit as you know.)

I installed Matrix and Synapse to my local server, but the installation process is not good, and the usability is bad. Clients are super buggy. Unusable, basically, as information got lost all the time.

I'm a game designer and a low-level game engine programmer, grumpy about slow hard-to-use software, so maybe there's a higher chance of doing more good than harm, lol.
When I first started browsing reddit many years ago, I remember the comments and user contributed information to be of decent quality. Now there are many topics with page after page of irreverent half-assed humor. I am not really sure where the blame lies for this (mods, user culture, bots, etc...) but the quality of content on the site dropped dramatically over the years to where most of it is just garbage or noise. I really don't think that can ever be fixed.
Using batteries which don't fail in a self-perpetuating fire (like lead-acid) is a good first step towards a safe DIY battery solution.
"Someone who has gone through years of medical school to get a degree is more likely to be correct on matters concerning medicine than someone who has not" is not an appeal to authority.
And in those 48 hours, where have you gone for information?

I have been testing this using uBlock Origin with -> Preferences -> My Filters

# Block Reddit Experiment
||redd.it^
||redditblog.com^
||reddit.com^
||redditinc.com^
||redditmail.com^
||redditmedia.com^
||redditstatic.com^
||redditstatus.com^

Thus far I have only ran into one search result that was blocked though perhaps I may not be in the primary audience or use-case of search engines.
I noticed this too when I was trying to search for local opinions like affordable clothing in netherlands and for general recommendations like cloud storage with execellent file management.

Without reddit, outdated generic blogs with affliate links show up. They are just advertisement in disguise and not the genuine opinions which I'm looking for.

In a way this shows the value of Reddit. Even with their awful UI and app, their users seems to provide the most value to search queries.
Many years ago, one of the search options on Google, alongside Images, News, etc., was "Discussions." It would explicitly show results from web forums. I defaulted to this when I was looking for, e.g., product reviews -- because it would bypass the endless SEO spam where someone found some highly-rated products on Amazon and published an article "reviewing" them.

Unfortunately, Google killed that search type. There are some browser extensions and bookmarklets that help, mostly by creating a very complicated search query that looks for specific things in the URL, but the discussion search is something I still mourn.

For what it's worth, my technique these days is to find a forum which has a large amount of discussion, then add a site filter to my Google query and only search that site. For something like product reviews, I can usually find the lesser-known products that don't show up on the SEO lists, at which point I now have a good keyword to find other enthusiast discussions online, which begins to open a lot of doors.

Unfortunately, I haven't quite refined the method for anything other than product reviews. At this point, I've started just using ChatGPT for factual questions before trying Google. :(
> Within the liberal tradition, a doctrine that discernibly initiated the process of decline in male/female relations is the view that men and women are essentially the same.

Is this less preferable to a system where women are a few steps above chattel? I think the increased freedom and self-determination the sexual revolution has afforded women is well worth the ills found in modern dating.

If marriage and child-rearing is something you would like to see more, make the material conditions more suitable for that and it will happen.
Magnum: A Scala 3 Database Client