skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is great to hear, thank you for posting a current overview
Full self driving will take a long series of gradual, boring steps like this.
Yeah, it's not like meta has any other social media platforms to have gathered experience from...
Handheld Terahertz Device to “X-Ray” Things Without Harmful Radiation
https://wojteksychut.com/

Tech stuff from an opinionated infra engineer; more slowly growing drafts than already published posts, but I'll get there :)
Why Does Coke at McDonald's Taste Different? [video]
I notice a lot of people using desktop in the office an having a personal laptop.

But also there has been a shift to cloud instances that provide the flexibility you say at the price of renouncing ownership of the machine. Especially for GPU-based computations.
All I am asking for is for you to do even one single solitary ounce of effort in validating your assertions. Just like, the minimal, basest, most barebones effort beyond consulting your feelings. The barest of effort is not red tape. If anything, your argument style is doing great to reinforce the status quo, because it will convince exactly 0 people to change their ways.

I provided to you just the kind of evidence that would be necessary to convince people, and I have used to convince many people of exactly what you're trying to push here. Published work by experts in the field who have thought deeply about the subject, published works on the subject, and even designed and tested new curricula in a scientific manner. That is what you need to show people, not just glib statements about how what you're saying is "obvious" and how the people who are doing differently are "insane".

But I didn't go about it calling people "insane" in their actions, because that's the fastest way to get an immediate stonewall. These people are not insane, they are in fact as sane as you think you are, and a huge chunk of them (could even be a majority, certainly every teacher in my department) actually agree with you. But your whole approach of disparaging the very people trying to make a difference, trying to implement the change you want to see. You are calling this system rotten and you literally have no understanding of it, as you've shown here in your posts to me.

I'm open to being convinced that you know what you're talking about, but you keep telling me that you don't want to convince me, so I'll take you at your word that you know nothing about this topic you feel so passionately about. Definitely worthy of a bookmark for the best example of "Big Important Feelings" I've found in the wild so far. Cheers.
Kubernetes gets a lot of shit on HN but for all of its challenges it has proven to be a fantastic method to abstract many of the idiosyncrasies of hosting on-prem vs various cloud providers. I've worked for two companies now with 8 figure monthly cloud spend and hundreds/thousands of applications operating in one or more of the main cloud providers and k8s has been essential in making that happen. Teams can migrate to an on-premise hosted option if they want, then transition to cloud if/when it makes sense, or just stay where they are.
I’m not sure this is true. Facebook makes a lot more money from me if my ads are converting, and I continue to spend money day after day. If they just burn my money and I’m not seeing enough conversions out of it, then I kill my ads and start trying my luck with Twitter or Pinterest ads..
Millennials and Zoomers.
To denigrate so much of modern web technologies in the name of performance, and then use Typescript, over which you have no fine grained control of the performance of the transpiled code, is absolutely laughable.
There's a great talk by David Beazley (I don't remember which one) that he basically explains that removing the GIL isn't difficult at all. After all, it's just one lock.

The issue is all the libraries and packages that were built around it. It's now been YEARS of building on top of the GIL.

So anyways, PEP 703 is a a nice effort, but I doubt we (everyday mortals) can enjoy it. Meta, and big companies with a specialized team might be able to exploit it by making sure their entire stack is GIL-free.

EDIT: My bad, the talk is from Larry Hastings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3AyI_u66Bw
The hard part is the freezing. You need to prevent water crystals from forming (which will rupture cells), and the freeze has to happen really quickly. This is why some insects can tolerate being frozen, they are small enough to freeze quickly.

Reanimation is the easy part (relatively speaking), even though we have no clue as to how to do it.

We don't have the technology to do this to humans yet, so chances are high that none of them are viable.
also, I fall in love easily with the entities I fabricate, I don't want someone else to have the option to take them away... don't worry, I have real friends too...
It's more likely that the mattress company couldn't be bothered creating a separate segment from their purchase order completion page and then excluding that from ads, because 95% of people who come to the page don't buy a mattress, and 95% of people who have bought a mattress don't click on ads when you show them, and the cost for AdRoll retargeting is per click not per impression.
Some people are just so confident.

All the companies, from startups to giants, across different countries and cultures, must be wrong.

Only few (and they all write blogs) can see through the vile of disguise and tell the readers how online advertising doesn't work.
Python tried that (version 2 to 3) and both the community and dev team were traumatized by the effects enough they've publicly said it'll never happen again.

Some things really are too big to change.
As soon as you're charging for a thing, it's a product.
I’d love the power of a desktop but I can’t leave my house with it
First, the actual points are 100% Horatio Alger pap. "Work hard." "Focus." "Be willful."

Second, with only the slightest hint of jaundice, just add "Boy is it easy when you're born rich and well connected to...." in front of these points.

Boy is it easy when you're born rich and well connected to compound yourself!

Boy is it easy when you're born rich and well connected to make it hard to compete with you!

Boy is it easy when you're born rich and well connected to build a network!

Pass.
> Users with glasses must provide the company with prescription data

Not other users though, right? The headline made me think they required a list of your prescribed medications.
Then show the app? Not the screenshot of the app. The app itself.
This is a really great point, and it’s awesome when a team strikes the right balance. In my experience these engineers tend to be rarer than the group I talk about in this post, but when you find them they’re worth their weight in gold!
I get where you’re coming from, but I think there’s a much bigger risk the other way.

All of this focus on “perfect” form makes the gym incredibly intimidating.

I’m not accusing you of saying this, but often we give people the impression that if they try to deadlift and their back rounds a bit or they squat and their knees cave in that their discs are going to go shooting out of their spine and their knees will be forever ruined. Then people don’t lift…

Injury rates for lifting are incredibly low. Much lower than any other sport. And the long term health effects are huge!
We’ve had that in France a few months (years?) ago too. Never went mainstream. I tested it, I did not like it.
As someone who got out of the web dev game before reaact, I feel like everyone using react has led to most of the web sites (and mobile apps) feeling slow. My judgy view is that when you see apps that appear to be single page but take noticeable time to load their content - that's react. And as someone who built a spreadsheet app in.. say 2006, you have to go native to get good performance. But I base my observations on no real data :)
Depends on the project and the person I guess. The trust of your manager is tremendously important. N=1 here, but at my current client it took me several hours of staring at a huge SQL query before I understood why it wasn't fast but the client was trusting enough that it was time well spent. I've also has PMs who could barely understand the concept of refactoring at all.
Most anime dubs and videogames all sound extremely samey, at least with digital voices engine we can retune them easily without the gatekeeping of the dubbing industry which is extremely toxic.
That would be like saying he used "yup" to sign contracts in the past except this time he used "yeah" (if you accept that yup, yeah, and thumbs up emoji are all linguistically equivalent).
Yeah, but a green checkmark emoji is something different than the "message was read" icon the GP was talking about.

I don't think any average user would confuse the two and neither would a judge.
From the many people who asks for things, only a tinny percentage are actually willing to pay for it. Take Microsoft, I had one of their employee asking me to support their azure stuff: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/issues/180. When I found out the dude was actually employed by Microsoft, I somehow though he could give a hand, but no he was just there to make some feature request ...
I started onto Threads.

I really tried to make Mastodon work for me, but the lack of discoverability killed it.

As somebody with trans people in my family, getting away from Musk's Twitter is a priority. But Twitter is where I get a lot of news and entertainment.

I would rather have seen Mastodon win, but their product just isn't good enough.
That is a pretty simplistic way of looking at it. If it worked the same then why do I have to duplicate all layers of the stack to make it work? And even if I did, I still have to maintain the ipv4 stuff functionally forever. That's why they should have gradually expanded the existing header and we would be done by now instead of making a competing standard.
> Not just the PM. The entire company.

Ideally, yes. In practice, and especially in larger shops, it’s the PM’s job to own this relationship and to make sure the important players have this understanding.

> But a relationship should be consensual, not forced.

Absolutely agree here.
It also might discourage reporting.
But why would you mute Aldi UK??
> Python is a single-threaded language. That’s part of its DNA.

If the changes proposed in this PEP go through, that will no longer be the case. So library authors pretty much will have to either update, or see their modules wither the same way they would if they weren't updated as new Python 3.x versions come along.

> rather the people who want that should be forced to rewrite their code in a language that is more suitable for the problem they want to solve

The vast majority of the Python developer community WANT Python to support true multithreading and being able to solve these problems. We expend inordinate amounts of time and skill trying to make Python work around the GIL, eg. by utilizing multiprocessing.

We want Python to stay relevant long-term. In an age of abundant multi-core platforms, and workloads that can utilize them, the GIL is a major obstacle to that desire.
This behaviour must be the result of some sort of internal policy; but it really highlights just how low the quality of corporate[0] journalism is. They're doing not much useful except polluting a search for the case details with links to their poorly articulated take. It'd be so easy to include the link or a copy of the PDF in the article. But they just aren't in a headspace where people might want facts, context or otherwise have an interest in the details of the story.

The professionalism of these services is poor. We don't even have the name of the person stirring up clickbait.

[0] The ABC is government funded, but still follows the same basic model as all the rest and it looks like they lifted this off Reuters.
> Life is misery by default, as a natural consequence of life itself. The never ending tyranny of the need to eat and avoid being eaten is the normal state of affairs.

> Honestly, if a person isn’t up for it, we need to stop trying to convince them to stay around and be miserable. Elective suicide should be a basic right, and drugs are one way out. We only create misery by “helping” people that don’t want hep.

What an absolutely miserable outlook on life.

All life is precious and fleeting. We should respect it.
Meanwhile, in some subreddits, your competitors are doing some combination of:

* participating in the subs in good faith, with full disclosure;

* astroturfing the posts&comments;

* rigging upvotes/downvotes;

* building relationships with (maybe bribing) the mods; and/or

* entirely running the sub already.
Do you know any specific cases in which typescript generates badly performing code as part of transpiring to JS? Any cases that aren't due to targeting older JD versions for browser compatibility?
> Be sure to review the 9 Tenets of the Randonauts

Not listed in the link, but here:

https://www.randonautica.com/
To my point though, if you took away cheep coffee, everything is fine. Take away cheap meth, everything is not fine.
> plant based sweetener

Sounds like stevia?
Not a great article. The big thing is JSX; it's so much more pleasant than building UIs with the document/element api.
All the more reason to let them crash.
Sam Gross has worked vs numpy and other modules to make it work well in practice
A huge amount of NodeJS is written in native code. JS is single threaded. Async work doesn’t work without native code. JS doesn’t need a GIL because it only has one thread.
Here's a great parody of Jam by Adam and Joe. I enjoyed Jam but when it misfired this was exactly how ridiculous it came across - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0Ocau-CUg
You need to define your own niche
brilliantly put!
How has this article landed on the frontpage? There is 0 substance - are people even reading it before upvoting?
Sounds like a trip to the Tenderloin in SF. Dealers are everywhere.
If the Moon could be used for it that it would be probably the closest to an ideal place. In some craters you would not even need energy for refrigeration. Just ambient temperature would be enough. I wonder how many years saving freezer electricity bills would be necessary to offset launch and descent fuel costs.
This is a really good addition, and something I wish I’d thought to cover. I’ve added a link back to this HN thread to the post so that people who find it from other sources can benefit from your perspective!
I assume this was meant in reply to me. I'm not trying to tell users what to do, rather I'm trying to explain the type of usage that Proton was designed in mind with.
I use a desktop that I can remotely access. So I can do development on my fast computer from anywhere. It’s always on so it’s easy to run long jobs.

Since my laptop is basically just a thin client used for ssh, vnc, and a web browser, it’s super easily replaced.
I come from a developing country, and I agree. very often, the people consuming drugs come from a stable socioeconomic background from middle to upper class. When my family and I lived in a poor neighborhood, we didn’t notice anyone with an addiction problem, Perhaps one well-known case, at most. Once we started to move into wealthier, neighborhoods, however, it became far more visible.
I don't know about you, but I'm way more afraid of falling homeless and into that spiral of despair than any possible person with a gun.
No byline, and incredibly eccentric style, I'm pretty sure this was written by AI. It also doesn't really say anything.
Someone's in a pickle if they need support. The older the contract, the more it's probably worth.
There’s one thing that advertisers agree on: ads work in the aggregate.

You can tell by turning them all off. Ask Kraft Heinz.

Beyond that it gets fuzzy. Is it inefficient? Yes. Does anyone agree on the actual mechanics? No. Is the data wildly inaccurate? Sure. Is there grift? Totally.
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Author here. JSX makes it easy to do easy things.

Building DOM is not a hard problem at all. Yes, it's more tedius with Vanilla DOM. But that's not a hard problem.

Hard problem is making it fast, reliable and predictable.
https://coconauts.net/blog

Where me and my partner write up our pet projects and experiments. Mostly arduino and gamedev but there's a bit of everything. One of them made it to the HN front page once: https://coconauts.net/blog/2016/08/01/retrophies/

However, it's been pretty much on hiatus since we've had kids and all of our free time is now consumed by them :)
Think your right … almost 45 here :). Thought the same thing the other day on a thread about old sierra adventure games …
Yes, your position is more nuanced than I first surmised, not "never, ever."
Future ECMAScript iterations will include types and then hopefully TypeScript can take advantage of that to implement reflection and other cool things
Biased much? Lording acceptance/rejection over any candidate seems like a trip

But to stay on topic, I generally agree with the consensus of this thread and your comment. The inputs and outputs here probably aren’t linked to the schooling itself.
A lot of people don't know how to use react. The author is one of them.
Personally I am interested in the comparisons to TikTok that is a subject people don’t really understand.

One of the worst problems of many recommendation systems is that they don’t get definite feedback about what you hate, only about what you like. They have to guess about negative examples but it’s just a guess. Systems like YouTube that show you a large number of links that might attract you look smarter in the short term because they can ride on your ability to choose something, but they can draw very little conclusion about the links you didn’t click on.

People forgot that StumbleUpon was a recommender for web sites that had an interface very similar to TikTok, my YOShInOn smart RSS reader also works like TikTok but it is a pure content-based recommender.

People say that “engagement=outrage”, something that is only about 80% true (my predictive model believes that HN participants like to talk about cars.). In a network like Twitter or Mastodon where people share posts the classic social feed very much amplifies outrage.

If I can actually bear to look at 5000 angry toots I might try training an anti-outrage model. This could be used several ways: (1) at the input of a reader (I just personally don’t want to see it), (2) at the output of the write (I know, and I get the feedback, that YOShInOn is a nicer “person” than I am) or (3) at the heart of a network to suppress the cycle of anger amplification. You don’t even need to get all of it, you just have to reduce the coefficient of transmission as you would for a virus to improve the tone of a a space.

(3) would by far be the most effective but boy would it get pushback from people, whereas I can apply (1) and (2) to myself and nobody knows.

Look closely at an “angry” person and you will find they are “angry about politics” or “gay and angry” or “conservative and angry” and a model like that really will suppress “politics” and “gay” and “conservative” (the conditional probability distribution says to do so) and more so will be accused of doing so.

The argument that almost moves me is that networks like that have the potential to enable organizing for change and that suppressing the visibility of outrage would squelch that but we are already seeing outrage-driven politics reach a point where people choose their values to fit their tribe instead of choosing a tribe that fits their values. More and more people will only vote for one party ever which leads to a “doom loop” in politics because there is no competition for “effective”, “not corrupt”, “get what you pay for with your taxes” which are in (almost) everyone’s interest. Trouble is that is the road to Lebanon, at best you have corrupt politicians stealing everything and a government that has no legitimacy because it can’t get anything done. At worst people will tear it all down.
t(-_-t)
"I hate writing. I love having written"

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/57688-i-hate-writing-i-love...
Liberal capitalism prohibits that. Value of human life is equal to infinity, except when in war. Utilitarian or «wild» capitalism did lot of harm to peoples and environment. For example, selling of addictive drugs is very profitable business, which kills or disables people.
There is virtually nothing in this article.

I can only assume we’ve adopted the Reddit pattern of upvoting sentiment at this point.
Wait, are we supposed to care for some reason?
I thought JSX was independent of react, but react built on and popularized it.
Adaptive cruise control is automatic speed adjustment, with you doing the steering. This adds automatic steering and removes the need to keep your hands on the wheel. Hands-free is the big differentiator from existing lane-keeping systems.
I felt like I had just finished the introduction and the article was over. I wish this had gone a lot further into depth.
It's not a danger, it's the dream for a huge number of creatives blocked by voice actor gatekeeping.
The indie game development community is adopting AI voices extremely fast, because voice actors blew budgets or were difficult to work with. Many voice actors feel too good for videogames.

I'm not surprised the gaming community is going hard and fast on AI voices, especially voice engines for the huge amount of text in lots of older games which would cost a fortune and a half to voice.
Very little typescript changes your code in a way that would be meaningful for performance. I think enums are one case. It's not like it changes your loops or adds object copies or anything like that
Maybe he's still hoping to use it to implement his "wish": http://web.archive.org/web/20011107164802/www.ai.mit.edu/peo...

"Wish List: a knowledge-based operating system running on a MIMD parallel machine. The system should exceed the productivity of the Lisp Machine by several orders of magnitude and integrate seamlessly with a global knowledge base and with a global computational environment."

Looks like he recently registered a new company: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_nh/872107
> not much more true than it is that you could in principle reconstruct a burned letter from the ashes, with enough information about the burning process.

Recovering text from charred fragments of paper is sometimes possible, but anything reduced to ash is lost forever. The information required to reconstruct it ends up dispersed across the whole state of the Earth, and from there leaks out into space at the speed of light: it can never be recovered, even in principle.

The same is true vis a vis corpsicles and corpses. Whether cryopreservation preserves enough structure to make resurrection possible is an open question, but once your synapses are gone they're gone for good.
I love vanilla TS (with some micro libraries).
However, this article is crap. It's just statements without any examples. How did using vanilla JS improve your app? Is it just performance? What does the project structure look like? Which tips/tricks do you have for vanilla JS?
I haven't learned anything new from this article, why does it get upvoted?
I'm surprised how many negative responses this essay has received. If you read it as prescriptive, "Do these steps and you will achieve greatness," then yeah obviously he is skimping on the "why" of it all. But as he says at the very top, this essay is actually descriptive. This is an analysis of how great work comes about, based on looking at many cases of "it." Your own mileage may vary.

For my part, I found it perfectly thought provoking; not a strict roadmap to follow, but a set of observations against which to measure my own experiences and ideas, and see if I can't improve on what works for me. I appreciate anyone who is trying to dig deeper into how human beings can better themselves and create meaning in our indifferent universe.
I’m very curious what events she is seeing that exclude people over 30.
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