skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it conveys a sense of dedication to his work that is at odds with the ever-looming desire to pontificate than it does aloofness toward others.

I’m not familiar with him or his work beyond the cursory glance at his Wikipedia page that I made after recognizing the homepage from marginalia.nu binges, but I associated the statement with a certain level of exhaustion, or disinclination rather, from the desire to publicly comment on whatever bleeding edge or attention-grabbing topic a man of his profession and experience may encounter. I have no clue what this guy does with certainty, it sounds sort of Alan Kay-like? But based off this post it sounds like there’s a lot of ground he intends to cover with whatever he’s got going on that requires a lot of thought. Thought that he is reluctant to share at a toot’s notice.
Hmm if Google would announce tomorrow a server oriented Android variant, would you jump on it or wonder when they will cancel it?

If you remove the UI from an Android app, what's left that's android specific?
Hardly any different from going with C and C++, which could have been wrapped via CGO.
Freeload?
I still enjoy Geany. It is lacking certain features I could do with, but it's joyful to use something that light: https://www.geany.org/
I can second this. I have no need for Wayland at the moment and am still happy with XFCE but every time I read a comment praising KDE I give it a go again to see what I am missing out on. But it always feels, 'off'. I cannot quite put my finger on it. It feels convoluted, a bit sluggish. There are some animations/transitions which get in the way for me. I really do want to like it and honestly wonder if I am doing something wrong.
Depends if people are appointing themselves as experts or if people are claiming people are experts for changing their interests. Right now, its impossible to know which. I've seen people getting excited about LLMs and their potential and there's nothing wrong with that.
That's why you can't just "move fast and break things" when dealing with rockets. SpaceX is not allowed to launch a rocket that they don't have confidence will not explode on the pad. If one ever does, they will surely have to dismantle the site and move somewhere that is not a protected wildlife reservation.

In fact, they were also not really supposed to launch a rocket they didn't have confidence they could detonate if it veered off course - which they did (remember, the FTS failed to detonate the rocket on demand, and we were lucky that it was far enough away from anything after the attempt that it didn't put anyone in danger before structural forces destroyed it). The FAA investigation will determine whether they did their due diligence and simply made a mistake, or whether they acted irresponsibly on that front as well.
I will never understand why Mongo and Elastic get so much hate when all the did was to try to protect themselves from AWS parasites.

I guess having yourself exploited and ultimately destroyed by monopolist overlords is the moral choice or something? Or do boots just taste good?
The reasons for the gradual layout are not purely legal. But also technical, social and even psychological. Most bot farms are outside US and UK, but US and UK are the majority of popular users, and English-speaking audience, which is a key demographic for any social media, because most communication on social media is still in English and culture is biased heavily towards US/UK culture online.

So starting the app there provides "anchoring" for the culture on the app.

Also the app may have issues with complex mixed order writing systems and localization for all those additional countries, so following Paretto is great here, you get 80% of the target with 20% of the effort.

Also scaling a new platform from 0 to 100 in an instant is just a rookie thing to do, and Meta ain't rookies.
it has one page of indicators in the back, yes. it would defo be too many sources to fit in print, but clearly digital makes this possible as a little clickable footnote at the bottom or similar. part of the issue is that one can't help but feel that you are competing with "attention apps", and so there's this deep incentive not to link out. my own view is that you can't succumb to this, and have to trust the reader with their own attention, but it is hard, still to push readers out of the site/app in any way
What is so hard about the concept of a worldwide average?
Copilot seems to have anomalous results that are exploited by the grey industry?
more important

Even if climate change gets way worse and we contaminate our environment way more then we do now and additionally to all that have some additional nuclear escalations: It still would be WAY easier for humanity to continue to survive on earth then it is to do so on mars.

Putting up a few human on a mini base on Mars, that's the _easy_ part. Even keeping that base alive for a few years is very easy compared to making the mars a viable/relevant option for humans future survival, and AFIKT that is still years, maybe decades away.
No matter what OS underlies it the problems are not simple. No matter how simple the easy case is made, the complex case will stay garbage. When faced with a choice, a sysadmin that might be woken up at 5AM will pick something a bit harder to set up that's at least still recognisable and debuggable at 5AM. So we have linux, something infinitely more accessible and introspective than android.
I am truly happy for them, but I would like to see that this is placed in the appropriate context for this public forum. From an international viewpoint, this is the exception, not the norm. "Ranting" about a rather exceptional life path seems misplaced, without providing additional context.
Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in The Netherlands
> Haven't done too much async Rust yet but I don't think it solved this issue from what I've seen.

In Rust an async function is really just a const fn that synchronously only constructs and returns a state machine struct that implements the Future trait.

So

async fn foo(x: i32) { }

essentially desugars to

const fn foo(x: i32) -> FooFuture {
FooFuture { x }
}

struct FooFuture {
x: i32
} // technically it's an enum modelling the state machine

impl Future for FooFuture { ... }

You have to explicitly spawn that onto a runtime or await it (i.e. combine it into the state machine that your code is already in). So that's actually really cool about how Rust handles async; that an async fn really isn't doing any magic, it just constructs a state machine and never interacts (or spawns) with a runtime at all, so it never starts running in the background, you are always in full control. And by throwing the future away, you are essentially cancelling it, there's no need to interact with any runtime either.
That was exactly part of the point I was trying to make with the article. The other, that I left unsaid but should probably add explicitly, is that Slack et al. run on a server with a kernel, but choose to ignore the access control capabilities of said kernel and instead chose to reimplement them. I think it is a shame, and more software should strive to be security agnostic instead of reimplementing access control for the umpteenth time.
Yes, a huge portion of the money was down the drain because of the significant waste. It enabled bloated, inefficient companies to stay alive supporting this one massive project.

SLS could have been done differently. Instead it was loaded with political favors demanding specific parts/suppliers.
> drivers might step on the accelerator for too long, increasing the risk of a crash

Wow, ok. So there's no actual issue with the accelerator pedal, it's just that people are too stupid to not correctly operate a vehicle and the need to be guarded from making mistakes by adding a warning to the software.

There's a lot of stuff objectively wrong in Teslas (see phantom braking, for example), but this isn't one of those things.
- https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1167410460125097990

- https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-cali...

- https://time.com/6203815/elon-musk-flaws-billionaire-visions...
> VW uses poor

Seen or reported in the whole family from Audi to Skoda. Audi, the "I achieved" brand, nowadays have animated turn signals, a set of bulbs with fancy patterns like Pacman eating the pills (but falling short of the mindful creativity and elegant design awareness of the demoscene): that is not exactly a sign of maturity.
Sourcegraph would still be able to relicense tbe contributions made by their employees.
The parent comment mentions green threads. While there is some performance hit to using them, I don’t think it is way less performant. I mean, go was built for being a web backend, and is based on green threads.

For rust specifically, though, green threads/coroutines were discarded because they are not zero-cost.
A closed source backend means it shouldn't be used. I would say there is more than enough history in the software world that explains to you why this is the case, even if it is just kind of convenient right in this instant.
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This is at least slightly interesting, compared to the outrage porn that is currently doing the rounds.
Didn’t read the article.
Dead weight.
I think there's a much more firm reason you're right - life expectancy isn't increasing how most think it is. There was an interesting study [1] that examined the life expectancy of all known individuals from Ancient Greece, excluding those with violent deaths (assassination, forced suicide, etc) and found the average male born before 100BC lived to 72 years old on average. In America in 2019 (to avoid COVID biases), the life expectancy for a male was 76.3 years.

The knee-jerk response is to imagine there was a literal survivorship bias. Yet these individuals all made their names long before their deaths. Had Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, or whomever else (in general) died at 50 - their names would still have gone down in the annals of history. However, you certainly wouldn't have heard of them had they died at 10. And that's what's really changed.

We're now able to keep infants, even those who are unhealthy, alive at a much higher rate. Something like 40% of children in Ancient Greece did not make it to their 10th birthday. But for those that did, there was a chance pretty comparable to modern times that they'd see many more decades yet. By contrast today, even for unhealthy children, mortality before age 10 is approaching 0.

Life expectancy is increasing, but longevity isn't really changing much at all. Even in a world of mortality obsessed billionaires using every technological method known to try to increase their life expectancy, they're not really getting much further than the average man. What little longevity they do gain can probably be more accurately explained from simple things like better exercise habits and lower levels of obesity, than esoteric young blood plasma treatments and the like.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1294277/pdf/jrs...
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A Chatbot for Microsoft Guidance
I built a chatbot for Microsoft Guidance to learn what the Github repository was all about. For this, I parsed the Jupyter Notebooks and indexed them using a sliding window and then hosted the chatbot on my company's server. Posting it here if people find it interesting. There are 2 versions - a simple question-answering bot (Gpt 3.5-turbo) and then a copilot version (which uses GPT-4) under the hood.

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Hope this helps people navigate the (somewhat) difficult docs of Microsoft Guidance.

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>Debian+KDE is great for non-technical end users, who mostly are used to and want win95 on steroids.

I'd agree, but Debian is just not packaged in a convenient way. Even I had trouble figuring it out, and I consider myself a Linux enthusiast. For this reason, my recommendation would rather be Zorin, which literally aims to be "windows-like" to ease the transition from it. And frankly, to me, as someone who knows their way around Linux, is also attractive. It's a neat bundle of capable software that's tuned for out of the box experience.
The F9 uses the flame diverter trench because the pad it launches from already has it. Not because spacex built it.

They don’t need to test with a spent F9. They already did with raptor engines blasting a steel plate in mcgregor.
It seems to be the standard for internet discussions: if there's the slightest caveat to something that someone wrote, even if the meaning should be obvious to a reader from the context, someone else will take the time to point out that caveat.

(As someone who doesn't require absolute precision in all things) I find myself often wondering why. To feel smart? Argumentitiveness? A deep psychological need for precision?
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I think it's inevitable that at some point some legislation like the OSB will pass in most western countries.

It's going to drive the people who have the know how underground, and anyone engaging in protecting their privacy will be considered a criminal. We're already creeping toward that IMO.
I think it's an overall productivity boost and it scales pretty well (have been using it since 2017). I think this is more of a limitation of Vercel/their Next config/adapter (the name escapes me atm).

For most of my small/medium projects now I use SvelteKit. I used to think it was a bit too magical because of the new syntax, but I tend to write more vanilla JS/TS with it than I expected. Productivity- and dev experience wise it's quite impressive. My workflow is prototyping/spikes, many wip commits then -> rewrite/sometimes TDD for critical parts.

( More info here: https://sonnet.io/posts/wip/ and https://sonnet.io/posts/code-sober-debug-drunk/ )

For large apps I'd still stick with Next, although the refresh times in dev mode are a bit annoying and I don't share th3o's optimism re Vercel having so much control over React.
Exactly my experience as well. When I went back to playing and dropped to silver, you could frequently hear me go "what the fuck is he doing over there?!", Surprised that an enemy who lacks mechanics would not act like a reasonable opponent would, and surprise me.
It's wonderful!!!
I'm not sure how "bad" it was if it also had the noise suppression system (read: a crapload amount of water being pumped into it) and a flame deflection system maybe
Your [1] is pure hearsay, no different from gossip, and it's coming from one side. It's unlikely to be true, and even if true, unlikely to have resulted in pressure on the employer.

Both [2] and [3] aren't about this story at all.
I'm seriously considering trying something like this just to see if it works. TCP would kill it though (maybe?). But maybe UDP plus some clever ffmpeg invocation...
Maybe because most companies use it. Also, it is quite new for it to be considered illegal, GDPR only came into effect a few years ago. It would only seem "nothing new" if you're extraordinarily young and inexperienced.
I hated this too, until I discovered Start+Left Right click drag Moves / Resizes windows. Since then, the Windows way of hunting the edge is the more annoying one.
What if your stock was worthless or close to worthless and your broker/custodian was charging you a hefty fee to hold it for you? Then it could be rational for you to pay someone to take it off your hands.

While stocks have limited liability, there can still be costs associated with holding them which could theoretically drive their prices negative.
We're all outliers by still being around.
From what I understand they couldn't have built a better pad because of the location. They did the test anyway and gathered valuable data, namely that you need a good pad or alternatives.
I mean intentional negligence re-framed in retrospective as a scientific test is always a good reason to complain, and if that wouldn't but a dent on the trust into a company acting responsible then people would have to be quite blind tbh.

But yes the floor of the launch pad is really not something to worry about, I mean we know how to build safe launch pads since decades, we just have to do so.
Except the difference is, you know, risk to life.
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>It is essentially a single-process OS, only the running app gets all the resources it needs.

Does the vast majority of people do more than one thing on their computer at a time?

As far as I'm concerned, Android not taking the desktop by storm (and ushering in the Year of the Linux Desktop) is because Google seemingly just isn't interested.

Windows is at its most vulnerable state in its entire history, and it's steadily losing ground to MacOS as things stand. Google and Android could absolutely wipe the desktop market if they could be convinced.
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Look at this program:

val another_path = await readFile(path);
val data = await readFile(another_path);
console.log(data.length);

How would you do that using threads?
It comes from a book, as is stated in this article (https://time.com/6203815/elon-musk-flaws-billionaire-visions...) :

> As I’ve written in my book, Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it.
Employability isn't the only factor, there's insurance, health, debt, rising cost of living, visa status, and so on that can make it such that, while you can _technically_ leave at any time, it may be disastrous to do so.

Which has knock-on effects like "people with disabilities are pressured to not speak out on social media for fear of losing the job that is covering life-saving treatments" without better protections.
Accusing someone of having blood on their hands is generally an attack to mean that the accused has caused unjustifiable death. To contrast, if person A saves person B from a mass shooter by killing said shooter, it'd be odd for person B to say to A "You have blood on your hands!" (unless it's literally true).

"You have committed unjustifiable harm." is clearly an attack. People who commit unjustifiable harm are generally supposed to be shunned, penalized, or killed according to how human societies have operated across the world (various things can get in the way of this, but this is the baseline).

So now we're at "My employer's client is someone who should be shunned, penalized, or killed. (and I'm going to post it publicly in a way to make it possible for said client to be able to see it!)".

Finally, a lot of business runs on vibes. Having employees that attack your clients in public sends bad vibes. Even if it's just a 'rude comment', why endanger your business for someone who so deeply fails the vibe check?
I don't think crypto will become the only thing (which I assume is what you mean by the thing), just as bank cards and NFC isn't the only thing. Cash still exists. In the same way that we still have traditional centralised banking alongside decentralised crypto etc.

> How would cryptocurrency improve any normal persons day to day?

I see your point, but I can think of at least a few situations:

1. Global transactions with lower fees

2. Remittance, if you're working abroad etc, no more WesternUnion fees

3. Alternative to cash for previously cash transactions (less chance of being mugged etc)

There are definitely arguments for it, but anything you can do with it you can do without it, so it doesn't invent new use cases really, but I find the arguments against it are never based on pragmatism and logic, but on emotion and bias.
Very intentionally. Those posts stand out to me as a brilliant level of technical writing that I want to reach some day.
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I think it's inevitable that at some point some legislation like the OSB will pass in most western countries.

It's going to be no different at all from the current situation.
They are not mine, they are the article's. I have acknowledged they are not court-admissible evidence, I am simply establishing that the narrative is not without (claimed) basis. It is up to the reader to determine whether or not they have any merit.
What pad? There was nothing left of it after one launch.
it depends whether you re rounding up or down