skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Can I make a standalone Excel competitor and then claim Microsoft is anti-competitive for "bundling" Excel?"

That's not a fair comparison.

Imagine that there is no Excel, instead one awesome company making a standalone work sheet product that is widely popular.

Next, Microsoft lags behind, comes up with a clone of it and bundles it for free as part of Office.

That's anti-competitive.
Also check out our clever lean development model NBD
This will be accepted only before a major crash.
Something like Vitess / PlanetScale?
I like the slashes. I think they're fun and help differentiate from Os.

Can we get slashed 7s too? Maybe even slashed Zs.
this happens only before a major crash
> It's about ease of editing and maintainability.

What if ligatures makes it easier to edit and maintain?

I assume you only use light mode and the system fixed font for your programming?
> Did the DOM even exist in 1995?

While the limited facilities provided in the first generation of JavaScript and JScript for detecting events and manipulating HTML elements eventually came to be known as "DOM Level 0", it wasn't until 1998 that the first DOM specification was published. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model
Monotype announces deal to acquire Japanese Type Foundry Fontworks
The OS I work on currently supports a maximum of 254 logical cpus. If we ran on the 9754 and had to ignore two entire threads, we'd be giving up a maximum of 0.78% performance. I remember being excited about the first dual core systems not that long ago... Makes me wonder how long this trend of just packing more cores into the chip can continue, and where it will go after that. There seemed to be a fundamental shift between the Pentium 4 era and multi-core. Then between 8 core and many core. Big/Little also working its way in there. What's the next major innovation that's going to drive this ever-increasing performance limit? Or is there a theoretical maximum a single chip can do?
Eh, maybe. well, nice talking. I'm going to go back to writing CFML. My boss bought a bunch of licenses with our last funding round, so I have to use it. I don't think it's going to make it any easier to write our reverse auction site for pet food discount coupons (don't tell anybody - we're still in stealth,) but whatever.
“Machine Learning in Elixir” (Beta Book)
I played in racquetball leagues in the late '80s and early '90s. Same thing happened.
> in some cases actually sped up their death with use of ventilators

The ventilator argument is brought up a lot so I wanted to share an article going over the related evidence:

"Based on the evidence at hand, we can reasonably say that there probably wasn’t a large impact either way from early intubation treatment paradigms."[1]

[1] https://archive.li/RNzwh#selection-1077.0-1077.148
Interesting stuff. Perhaps I can use this to learn retro game programming with Pascal.
So the 1st question: how to build the compiler?

I'm still navigating the github repo and didn't find any specific readme/makefile.
Perhaps I missed something...
> In fact I find it hard to think of positive use cases

Firstly - forcing people to think of positive use-cases up front is a terrible way to think about science. Most discoveries would have failed this test.

Secondly - can you really not? Off the top-of my head:

a) Research tools for psychology and other disciplines

b) Assistive devices for the severely disabled

c) An entirely new form of human-computer interface with many possible areas of application
My favorites misstep from GPT-4 was when my friend asked it about the difference between vet bulb temperatures and dry bulb. You see that typo correctly (he was dictating):

> The main difference is in what they're measuring. Temperature measurement at a vet is usually taken to determine an animal's body temperature, often done rectally or via the ear. It is direct and generally provides an absolute temperature value.

> A dry bulb temperature, on the other hand, is a meteorological term that refers to the temperature of the air as measured by a standard thermometer exposed to the air but shielded from radiation and moisture. It does not take into account the effects of humidity or other factors and it is used for weather forecasting and climate studies.

Ridiculous. Like the first version of Google would have realized it’s likely a typo.. I ain’t fearing for my job anytime soon.
No, not really. As far as "it would be nice" for politics to be free market of ideas, having to deal with scale is simply an inherent part of the world we live in.

Like What system would You propose where campaigning funds don't matter? What, public fund where every candidate gets a fair share and they are prohibited to, for example, printing flyers on their own?
In the land of free, nonetheless?
Ofcourse it costs a lot to campaign for high positions in country as big as the US.
Actually, in any country.
This the first I'm hearing of this, you should respond more substantially than repeating the assertion that's specifically being questioned.
The other side of that coin is that Nimbus (if it's installed) will happily insert itself as an alternative to Arial and/or Helvetica (cannot remember), even though it's a trash typeface with a broken baseline.

I think just going with sans-serif is the better choice.
Well, it's not an absolute right (and it's obviously constrained by the limits of what it is even in our power to control). But then neither is the right not to be detained, or really any other right. All rights run into limits when they come into conflict with other rights.
> Clearly, those companies must price for their home (and much larger) market.

I don't think that's true. They can be expected to price to maximise revenue and that can mean pricing differently in different markets. With software licensing that's relatively easy to do since the marginal cost is near zero and arbitrage across markets can be blocked. Just make geographical restriction a term in the license agreement.

Therefore, I don't think that any need to price for their home market should affect the UK market. If prices are high, it's because their costs are higher or it's because the competitive force isn't strong enough.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Mozilla's argument isn't that you'll be tracked or fingerprinted. It's that you're too stupid to be permitted control over whether or not you want to allow access to devices you've connected to your machine. Rather than work to mitigate those risks, they've decided to hobble the utility of their browser.

Personally, it would make flashing ESPHome devices much more convenient. Not having to switch browser for a start. The ability to plug a board into whatever PC on my LAN and just flash it, without having to install and maintain the entire toolchain is nice as well.

More broadly, there are web based IDEs for microcontrollers. Arduino has one: https://docs.arduino.cc/learn/starting-guide/the-arduino-web...

A few of these are aimed at the education sector, removing a some of the significant barriers faced by educators that would otherwise have trouble getting the software installed and keeping it updated.

In one of the discussions, someone was using it to help dental offices retrieve data from some specialised hardware. Browser support dealt with similar concerns of how to distribute the software to non-technical clients and keep it up to date. It was also something their clients understood, rather than something new.
I can't be the only one with a burgeoning appetite for an experience that is solely focused on the individual. I don't care about being social in this domain and that opinion often feels like a contrarian one. I want to track my books, my thoughts on those books, and my upcoming queue. There's a handful of services that provide a wonderful curation of books to read (mostly human-curated) and as such, my queue is never empty.

It seems as if every new service is trying to incorporate algorithmic recommendations, social elements, and other useless frills. Let's get back to the basics. Give me a rock solid digital library.
Agda embraces Unicode. PureScript & Haskell (with the UnicodeSyntax extension) both behave pretty well with a lot of Unicode operators (but rely on bicameral scripts as the leading character for deciding if something like a value or a Constructor/Type). Not sure of its status, but ocaml-m17n is a way to get some Unicode support in OCaml which otherwise can’t deal with any of it.
I have been using it for 3 years or so without issues.
Thank you for the comment! I truly wish you all the best, I've been a customer since you started. But not a VPN customer anymore.

You might suggest your support team repeat what you said rather than an endless loop of submitting logs with no timeline for a fix or obvious intent to release one at all. In lieu of any other information or even meaningful acknowledgement of the problem, I gave up and switched to mullvad. I waited three years for this to work right and your comment is the first I've heard that there is even a Linux team working on it.

I'm using the most recent Ubuntu LTS version recently reinstalled with no other customization to the network configuration. This shouldn't be a hard target to make work. And to be clear, this is two different Ubuntu desktops with different CPU vendors manufactured seven years apart. Maybe it's just me but when I get the same issues over clean reinstalls of the OS over multiple years and multiple computers using one of the most popular distributions...

I dunno, but releasing (at least three!) new offerings while I'm sitting here for years sending bug reports sends a message about priorities.

They didn't even feel it was worth mentioning that there is an alpha to test! So bad!
> but were any so timely in the necessity of their accomplishments

The physicists of the UK MAUD committee and Tube Alloys who worked for several years to convince the US that a bomb was theoretically possible and economically feasible (just) and that the Germans and Japanese were taking the challenge seriously?

It took multiple approaches to convince the US nuclear scientists of the time.
One assumption this skips over is that it's okay to put athletes on the field with ligaments 6 times stronger than human baseline.

Of course this is a phenomenal treatment assuming it works as planned, but isn't there a performance enhancement angle that needs to be considered for it's inclusion in professional sports?
Completely agreed, I had to reverse engineer and communicate with an undocumented telnet interface last year at work. It was a brutal pain until I decided to do it in elixir, where it was merely annoying.

The nomenclature around binary/bitstream/charlist/iolist is fairly messy though. But to be fair I think most or maybe all of that shit is just straight from erlang. OTP is a rock solid standard lib but we used to joke that they just took turns naming modules and functions. "Everyone gets to do one!" There's no consistency.
I also feel like I'm getting dumber over time, not smarter, so perhaps GPT-4 is humanlike in that regard.
MacOS only
I think both pathfinder games were better than divinity tbh.
> Why do you think that would be the case?

Because taking care to do something right has value too and that takes time. Not everybody is wired the same way and by prioritizing speed over correctness you may end up with sub-optimal solutions.

> So long as there is value to be had from delivering a result faster, I would expect a correct solution delivered faster to be better than the same correct solution delivered more slowly.

Correct is not a binary proposition, and by making it the same solution you are making my words say something that I did not imply: a solution can keep you moving but a good solution may save more work than just implementing any solution and may well be more future proof. Depending on the context it may in fact be the only solution that is really valid.

> It's like the classic "pick two" triangle of cheap, quick, or high quality. Of course we assign more weight to solutions that don't make us choose.

High quality may in the long term be cheaper and even faster, but you'll never know.
Alternatively, have you considered that the guy organized and ran the development of the atomic bomb and that those specific podcasters might not be particularly objective in their analysis?
Congratulations Jim!
Researchers help develop 3D printed concrete wall for National Highways project
If government is the best way to get a lucrative job then why are only the incompetent people applying?

I suspect government is actually not nearly as lucrative as non-government and that's why people who "don't have the skills" are in government.
Not quite. Corruption is the side-effect of interpersonal relationships. Once the cluster of the organization's/society's leaders are random, and with a sufficiently aggressive random culling function, there is no ground anymore for fostering interpersonal relationships. Take it one step further and replace judges, prosecutors, lawyers in the same manner with a random retribution function. Now you have a third level of metastable phase control just through randomness.

The current bar is so low, so artificially kept low (just on one dimension, around 800 millions of people are starving [1] while around 1 billion are obese [2]), almost anything would be an improvement, especially dispersing power through randomness.

[1] https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/the-hunger-crisis/world-...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/obesity
Tixy tutorial – Match visual patterns with JavaScript
I love tixy.land, but as a school teacher of maths and computer science I think it may be a bit beyond most of my students. So with permission from Martin Kleppe, I created this guided tutorial to get to grips with the power of this simple 'creative code golfing'.

Note: the whole page is one <9kB request... I take pride in keeping bloat out of the web.
Shouln't that be easy to spot if the items are never returned and inventory doesn't match up? You'd think any abandoned transactions would require signoff by someone else that the items were actually returned (or trashed if perished).
when you pre-pay for something it doesn't necessarily exist yet so it can't be yours yet.
Last time this came up I really got value out of https://www.codingfont.com/ to compare fonts in a tournament style until I found a font I liked. Years later I'm still happy with my font selection. I consider this passing it forward.

Edit: There is annoying popup, but click away from it and you can do the thing.
The question is, do cities have an obligation to meet all supply if their residents don’t want to? People want all kinds of things that often contradict.

Now NYC is introducing congestion charging on all vehicle trips in Manhattan to try and restore traffic.
I don't know who said it first, and there are plenty of cartoons of it, but they should have to deck themselves out with the logos of campaign contributors and entities in which they hold shares, like NASCAR cars/drivers.
That's a hurdle to moving clients from dual-stack to IPv6-only, but it's not a hurdle to moving clients from IPv4-only to dual-stack, which a lot of ISPs still haven't done yet.
> They might specify, for example, that the news is from “Twitter •mundo_china” without actually tagging the @mundo_China, an account affiliated with the Chinese state broadcaster.

> “When you do not mention Twitter accounts with the proper “@” format, tools that collect from Twitter to do analysis don’t pick up on that,” says Quincoses. As a result, these accounts can fly under the radar of social network analysis tools, making it hard for researchers to associate them with accounts that are clearly related to the Chinese government.

Clearly the researchers managed to identify the accounts in question anyway, but it makes me wonder how easy it might be to evade detection with only slightly more sophisticated techniques.
Elixir is an increasingly interesting platform for ML (see Nx, Axon, and more recently BumbleBee https://github.com/elixir-nx/bumblebee). I'm pretty happy to see this book released in beta.
its like Flowers for Algernon except where the scientists gaslight everyone about the dumbing down not happening
And I have code still in production written in the "Perl Object Environment", one of several async frameworks for Perl, written before Node even existed. Also before Node existed, I had written code in the Twisted framework for Python.

Node did not invent async by any means and I know it in the strongest possible sense, having used it before Node existed. But those libraries, in use for over a decade, did not make everyone using them exclaim in joy "Yes! This is what all concurrent programming should be!" A few, sure, but far from everyone. They're kind of a bear, even after years of polish.

Not only did those libraries already know about callback hell, they had already implemented some of the (partial) solutions to it. Watching the Node propaganda was almost surreal to me because I could and more-or-less did predict how it would go, years in advance, as it recreated the experience already had by other languages. Experience that did not leave the impression that this was the paradigm for the future. These libraries typically languished within their ecosystems, kept around only because they were the only practical way to, say, keep your Python but also get concurrency. The fact they were the only way to proceed kept them alive, but they never really flourished despite being right there, readily available.

Node is the reason people are running around today claiming async is the bee's knees. Node is the reason why people come on to /r/golang asking how Go can possibly be used for network programming when it lacks the Magic of Async. Contradicting the Node propaganda is why people are nervous about saying "uhmm, hey, I'm using async in a big program and it's not exactly sunshine and rainbows". Prior to Node that would have just been the common understanding; these libraries were often viewed as powerful within their target language because there was no other way to do what they did, but tricky and complex to work with. It was well understood they easily degraded into a mess and were often difficult to onboard a new developer because of the difficulty of following the control flow.

All I'm really saying here is, the community opinion was correct before Node and we should just go back to that opinion, founded on decades of experience.
> Inefficient action...

For actions which are not free (and getting any bill through Congress sure as h*ell isn't), one can write a very simple "break even" formula - relating the cost of action A, the efficiency of action A, and the value of the benefits that a 100%-efficient action would provide.

For actions falling short of break-even, it's generally considered wiser to spend the resources on something else.

You can spend money re-roofing your house with cotton candy - because shingles were too expensive, or unavailable, or whatever. Yeah, that does scratch the itchy need to "do something!". But longer-term...
I think that goes to the parent's point: making the individual cars more efficient is not going to make a difference in the big picture. For one, the increase in efficiency has really already been met by an increase in power and performance - even the humble Prius has made an effort at faster 0-60, not to mention the sub-3-second super-SUVs.

But if driving a car is cheaper (and more fun) then we are doomed to dedicate more land to asphalt, and all the hidden costs thereof.
Wait, why? Do you doubt that Mastadon has that feature, or doubt the validity of the CSV?
Also it's not the same disease.

I assume experts look at a large number of factors to assess whether it should or should not happen and measure the disease by a variety of metrics.

Also I'd assume the urbanization, science, and ability to execute a lockdown changes over 62 years. Also the nature of work is different. Nobody was doing home computer video conferencing in 1958.

If anyone really wanted to compare it, they'd probably need to have some technical expertise in both diseases and also be some kind of specialized historian.
Where's CUDA on FreeBSD, Nvidia?!
How’s life in Japan?
> "bicycle+internet-of-shit"

I'm quite interested in an e-bike, but it seems like most/all of them have or require a smartphone app. That is an instant no-sale for me. I'm not interested in anything that will break when (not if) your company goes out of business or gets bored hosting servers or updating its app for new mobile OSes. So I haven't bought one yet.

I wish we could get companies to understand that connecting a Thing to the Internet is an enormous strike in the Con column.

Anyone know of a good e-bike brand that doesn't have the capability to connect to the Internet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_warfare

Also note that since 2012, it is now legal for US IC to use propaganda on US citizens https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mhastings/congressmen-s...
As soon as it is implemented, there goes any shred of sanity in our real estate laws. Something has to be done, but no matter what, it is going to be a bumpy ride.
> * I don't see how ligatures make sense for code. For beautiful typography, sure, but not for text you edit with a cursor, etc.*

Ligatures are just presentational so they don’t impair editing. If you ever try them again and use VSCode, you might like the Disable Ligatures that dynamically disables them for the selected line or cursor position.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Coenraad...
Dear future kids, here was a wonderful and poetic place. Daddy and friends needed those rocks slot to support the level of comfort they accustomed to. Here’s a 4D .metavers file so you can enjoy it too as I did! Kiss, your loving grandpa.
Solving an IQ test is also not useful by itself, but it is a good benchmark of intelligence.
> Interesting that NANC is doing so much better than KRUZ. Any ideas why?

Presumably because they're on different committees. Or have different friends.

Just like existing law, pending legislation is too vast for any one person to know it all.
> The concept of a cube is a mathematical construct that does not exist in reality, and any attempts to manipulate or rotate it would be impossible.

This is hilarious. Did someone accidentally add "cube" as a synonym for "race" in the neutering algorithm?
>What about marketing and Sales? Won't that cost a lot? Sure, that would cost a lot if you are looking for hypergrowth. Then you need to spend money on ads. We are looking for sustainable growth without spending any money on ads. It means slower growth, but it also means fewer expenses for us. This makes us more sustainable.

Companies aren't looking for hypergrowth until they are. And that's when prices rise.

I think it's venerable to address the elephant in the room but then, in a room full of VC-funded startups, neeto _is_ the elephant in that it's intentionally straying from the public-company-or-bust path laid out in front of most tech startups.
Congrats framework team. This is a huge step up in product mix. Price is not too bad. This is a workhorse of a machine.
I would like to read on this. Do you have any sauce?
Typescript is the language I am most familiar with (and Javascript before that, going back to the early Netscape days), being the language I use like 90% of the time in the work I do, but it unquestionably won't be the quickest way to the desired outcome for me. I'm way more productive in certain other languages, even when I only use them infrequently. The Typescript/Javascript tooling is just not there to support efficient, bug free, and maintainable development.

The Javascript hate is absolutely warranted.
The mixture of experts approach was found to be inferior than a straightforward transformer. However, researchers discovered that MoE models give substantially better results when guided by fine-tuning. My guess is that GPT-4 was an experiment to prove out that theory at huge scale and I also suspect that its performance astonished OpenAI as much as everyone else.