skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amateur artist here. I rely on imagining images with lots of detail. Then drawing/painting it out is almost a matter of tracing the mental projection onto the canvas. Often the image in my mind is more clear to me than whatever is physically in front of me. It is a lot like intentional dreaming.
There’s always FIX. </snark>

FIX is, at its core, a message queue, and it’s a free financial industry standard. And, for any serious use in which the message queueing ability is important, FIX is wildly unfit for purpose.

Seriously, a deliver-once [0] message queue between two parties is very simple, and it’s truly remarkable how severely it can be screwed up. I’ve never used IBM’s solution, but I assume it actually works.

[0] Yes, deliver-once is impossible. But arranging for a failure to result in all messages up to a point being delivered, subsequent messages not being delivered, and the fact that a failure occurred being obvious to both parties is straightforward.
No, why would they do that?
> But it is true that there is cost to non-English speakers. Maybe we can lower the standard a little bit? I don't mean broken Engrish but if the sentences make sense and the grammar is correct, maybe that is good enough?

We can't demand things like that. If a paper reads like amateur English, reviewers are pretty much guaranteed to turn it down with higher probability, even if the factual quality is somewhat better than of a well-written paper. This is just how the mind works. Like wine from a cheap looking bottle tasting worse than the same wine from an expensive looking bottle.
Squeezing the entire bag was the selling point. It's not negotiable. The important question is how much money they could have saved without changing that aspect.
I’m pretty sure Anders, Steve Lucco, and Daniel Rosenwasser worked on this. So inventors + current lead PM of typescript.

Should lend some credibility to the project.
The only good code is no code. All lines of code will decay, teams will move on, assumptions will change, refactoring efforts will be non-exhaustive, dominant skill sets and experience in the industry will shift.

This is fairly tired conversation and while superficially interesting, there is simply no way to define good code except through local consensus of the people writing and reading the code. But that's as far as it will go, and time will will take what's owed to it.
Yes but you understand that the JDK was running in the browser, right?

The browser has been an app platform since Netscape developed plugins. That is my whole point.
personally I find online docs too bothersome. Over the years I've made an entire folder of cheatsheet org-mode files and when I work I can just hit a hotkey and grep them. Also writing and updating them actually helps memorize things
Cryptographers often tell software engineers that they shouldn't roll their own crypto. I think lawyers would tell software engineers that they shouldn't roll their own license. If you really intend or want other people to be able to use the software you wrote, for the love of god please pick a sane, well-known license so that people can use your software with full knowledge of the legal implications.
Manuscripts from non-native speakers place a considerable burden upon unpaid peer reviewers. Going through 10,000 barely comprehensible words is not fun.
"Russell Conjugation" gives an age old process a solid and easy to google name.

Doubletalk is more about deliberately avoiding certain words or terms, trying to limit the thoughts that can be expressed. You wouldn't want to do ungood things would you? That would be double+ ungood.

>It's a play on the definitions of words.

It's more of a play of the emotional meanings of words. We in the US talk about the founding fathers, patriots, freedom fighters.... those same people were regarded as traitors, terrorists, and insurrectionists by the British Empire. The same acts of war, but from a different emotional vantage.
GPL violations are constant and everywhere, this definitely isn't new. I've even seen BSD license violations before. My DSL modem/router violates the licenses of micro_httpd (BSD), samba/Linux/busybox (GPL) and probably more. Basically, you have to go out and look for violations and prosecute them. If the Software Freedom Conservancy prevails in their lawsuit against Vizio, then it will make it possible for any recipient of GPLed binaries to sue for GPL compliance. That means that lawsuits for compliance don't need to involve the copyright holder and projects can outsource compliance efforts to the userbase of open source copylefted projects. That doesn't necessarily help your project though, since it sounds like most users of your project will be on the proprietary/commercial version?

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
I mean if you want to do it perfectly with no chance of error, let a computer do it, or just find the reference image. This is communal mathematics, and the errors are a part of the experience.

Saying the mistakes make this worse is like saying "I'd really enjoy spaghetti, I think, but all the noodles are ruining it."
Typesetting Rare Chinese Characters in LATEX (2003) [pdf]
the complex chains of armed and explosive weapons parts are supposed to be completely under control but a simple thermometer is somehow out of control and (mildly) harming everyone in the room <- obvious contradiction to "every mechanical weapon is always under control"
I’d think that it wouldn’t make for a very restrictive license. Since there’s no agreement on what “evil” means whatsoever, it doesn’t seem that different from putting “You can not use this code to hooplebop shanglefronks”

Edit: I guess there’s that TV show “Evil”. It would be funny if IBM had that production company as a client.
Ok, I take it back because I found at least one counterexample, the Patriot Act didn't use children as an excuse.
Code isn't a book.

The quote you call into question is semi-famous and I believe the idea is that it's relatively difficult to jump into one code unit of a larger system and get back up-to-speed because one must fill the data cache of their brain with all the considerations for why the author may have done things in a certain way. The algorithm choices and edge cases and exceptional logic paths were clearer to the one writing the original at the time.
I could not agree more. When I read this my immediate thought was — all that money, and none spent on product marketing or copywriting. Oof.
For those not aware, DoE is literally responsible for the design, testing, and manufacture of US nuclear weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_En...
While I would not categorize good code as being "a love letter", I would say that it behooves software engineers to remember that the solution they encode is read many more times than it is altered.

Like, 1000x more.
Interesting - do you mean because of the "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed" clause? I wonder.
Although, i have never used them, you can explore railway.app. it is the closest to fly.io and never heard any bad things.

I personally at the moment use digitalocean without any issues, but there's always the maintenance overhead of managing a server yourself.
Since the cost per token of a forward/backward pass is so high on the models, the relative cost of a training set is small, and bandwidth (not talking about interconnect bandwidth) is even cheaper relatively.
At least as valuable as my actual CS classes.
I live in Phoenix and we have a lot of handball courts, but now that I’m thinking about it I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one in use.
Do I have it right that they ship their own hypervisor (that's based on maybe Solaris, not KVM) as firmware? Let's assume a very small team can compete on a technical level, it still seems like it could cut out a lot of the potential market.

I can't imagine that large cloud / "web scale" companies would want that. Most want a fair bit of control of their own hypervisor and management stacks based around KVM. And "enterprise" type companies are going to have issues with certification I would have thought -- will RedHat, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, etc certify their supported products on top of this hypervisor? Seems like a difficult and expensive process.

So what's left? Companies that support their own virtual machine software but don't support their own hypervisor and don't like what's available from vmware or Microsoft or RedHat. A small niche. Or are my assumptions wrong?
Treadmills are boring. Try strength training. Can do it at any gym, low barrier to entry, good for health and provide more neurostimulation.
Yes, this. It's tough when you've already played your "we messed up but we're making it right" card, and then you continue to not have it right.
I don’t think this is as true as you make out. For the vast majority of people (who are born, live and die all in the same country/language community) should it really be their #1 priority to learn English? For example, a street food vendor in Chengdu, a phone salesman in Belo Horizonte, or a roofing contractor in Avignon. Or even a professor at a small university in Kagoshima. Learning English would probably open up some new opportunities for all these people. But to the extent they should dedicate years of study time to it? I’m not sure.
How do cars fare in crash tests they're not specifically optimized for?
For people who are interested, I highly recommend reading the bill. It's actually fairly straightforward, so I won't regurgitate the specific text, as you can easily read it on Page 6, lines 10 through 20. [0]

The main situation that the state is trying to prevent is conflicting laws.

Let me give you an example - let's say you are building a road, which happens to travel through multiple jurisdictions. Now in one jurisdiction, there may be a rule that requires one set of employee benefits and different benefits in other jurisdictions.

Now, which one should the contractor follow? What happens when they conflict? And it's easy to be in two jurisdictions at once, which really causes a problem. Now clearly this example doesn't hold because the government builds roads, not private entities, so this activity is excluded from the law. But it is as simple illustration.

One side note - a friend of mine has a house that sits on a county and city border, and is taxed in 2 different cities and 2 different counties here on the outskirts of Houston. He gets multiple tax bills per year, and doing anything to his house is a nightmare because of the different codes (yes, he has multiple building codes in different parts of his house). This is what the state is trying to reduce.

Finally, from reading the article, it looks like the employer is guilty of negligence, and probably gross negligence at that. Any rational human being in Texas gives people breaks, and if this article is at all accurate, someone needs to go to jail for a really long time...preferably without air conditioning.

[0] - https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/pdf/HB02127F....
Originally at <https://web.archive.org/web/20110418031915/http://dev.hasenj...> (archive)

Discussed at the time: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866> (56 comments).
> Just because it is an immutable value doesn’t mean it needs to live on the stack.

Right. But the context of the example made me imagine it probably was -- since I would likely reject out-of-hand any new language that always allocated variables on the heap.
Both Oppenheimer and Teller made numerous visits to Israel. Oppenheimer admitted he helped them make fast breeder reactors to produce plutonium for fission bombs and Teller admitted he helped them make fusion/hydrogen bombs.

Why is this information not included in modern coverage of Oppenheimer and Teller? Why were they given a slap on the wrist when other "Atomic spies" were fried in the electric chair for sharing nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union?
Vantem constructs modular, factory-built homes using ceramics
Ah you're right and I'm not new to HN formatting. Was just late and I forgot.
There is now a response to the support thread from Fly[1]:

> Hi Folks,

> Just wanted to provide some more details on what happened here, both with the thread and the host issue.

> The radio silence in this thread wasn’t intentional, and I’m sorry if it seemed that way. While we check the forum regularly, sometimes topics get missed. Unfortunately this thread one slipped by us until today, when someone saw it and flagged it internally. If we’d seen it earlier, we’d have offered more details the.

> More on what happened: We had a single host in the syd region go down, hard, with multiple issues. In short, the host required a restart, then refused to come back online cleanly. Once back online, it refused to connect with our service discovery system. Ultimately it required a significant amount of manual work to recover.

> Apps running multiple instances would have seen the instance on this host go unreachable, but other instances would have remained up and new instances could be added. Single instance apps on this host were unreachable for the duration of the outage. We strongly recommend running multiple instances to mitigate the impact of single-host failures like this.

> The main status page (status.fly.io) is used for global and regional outages. For single host issues like this one we post alerts on the status tab in the dashboard (the emergency maintenance message @south-paw posted). This was an abnormally long single-host failure and we’re reassessing how these longer-lasting single-host outages are communicated.

> It sucks to feel ignored when you’re having issues, even when it’s not intentional. Sorry we didn’t catch this thread sooner.

[1] https://community.fly.io/t/service-interruption-cant-destroy...
You can take a look at chinchilla or Llama scaling laws. It depends on what you want to optimize. If you're interested in inference optimal, go with llama, if it's compute optimal, go with chinchilla. GPT-4 technical paper also has good scaling laws for how benchmarks will behave given extrapolating from a small training set.
I appreciate the honest feedback. We could have done better communicating about the problem. We've been marking single host failures in the dashboard for affected users and using our status page to reflect things like platform and regional issues, but there's clearly a spot in the middle where the status we're communicating and actual user experience don't line up.

We've been adding a ton more hardware lately to stay ahead of capacity issues and as you would expect this means the volume of hardware-shaped failures has increased even though the overall failure probability has decreased. There's more we can do to help users avoid these issues, there's more we can do to speed up recovery, and there's more we can do to let you know when you're impacted.

All this feedback matters. We hear it even when we drop the ball communicating.
> Perhaps aspirationally, but empirically, the Apollo program did not transcend race. It's not racist to call out racism

You are wrong. I'm unwilling to debate this fact with you, or even discuss the matter any further frankly, I have made my position clear. Your interpretation of the poem shows a clear lack of understanding on the historical context surrounding it.
If this cat may look at that king, I have ambivalent feelings about Dyson. But, taken as a whole, I think he is aware of what his own hubris and what it cost him to think the way he did at the time. He is wistful about not talking with Weyl, Einstein, or other Institute Faculty - "A great opportunity lost." Dyson does speak very fondly of many. Feynman, Bethe, Peierls, Besicovich, Morette, Margulis, Max, Singer, and a raft of others. Gell-Mann just seemed angry from start to finish all but accusing Schwinger of improper behavior and ripping Feynman for "collecting anecdotes about himself". Web of Stories talked to (among others) Dyson, Bethe, Knuth, Wheeler, and Gell-Mann and the latter is an outlier in his manner.
Same reason that laypeople are not the target audience of AWS. It’s a building block you use to build a product, not a product.
Mountain biking is generally not extreme but can be super joyful (in retrospective maybe only the downhill segments are joyful).
Does it use cryptography to digitally sign its messages?
100% reader supported, which is why it pulls no punches against the imperial core.

https://orinocotribune.com/support-us-donation-options/

Edit: much of the volunteers/editors are not native English speakers.
Only law abiding people follow the law too, what's the point of them?
Interesting. Here in the US, plans that don't include unlimited talk+text are hard to find, even among the budget MVNOs, and that's been the case for at least a decade.
> Is this normal?

This is Texas. Other states have different rules. For comparison, at a heat index of 100F, Oregon requires 30 minute breaks every 1 hour. Here is more detail (PDF): https://osha.oregon.gov/OSHAPubs/factsheets/fs90.pdf
> If the seemingly arbitrary and unique assignment of pronunciations to common combinations of Kanji frustrates you—[...]—and leave you wondering why anyone would do such a thing, concluding that Japanese has the worst writing system ever, rest assured that they don't have the worst ever. They just have the worst writing system since the Hittites.
I read the book decades ago.

He describes the moment Leo Szilard is crossing a street in the rain and suddenly envisions the nuclear chain reaction. Reading it I felt like the entire Earth must have shuddered at that moment and in that instant the destruction of the human race was suddenly laid out for Szilard.

I confess I did not know who Szilard was at that time.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-all-top-e-commerce-apps-i...

> already added in-app voice assistants to their apps - Amazon, Flipkart, Big Basket, Udaan, P&G, and JioMart

> Voice technology has finally caught up and can now understand Indian dialects and language reasonably well

https://www.trinityaudio.ai/the-audio-and-voice-revolution-i...

> India is the second quickest nation to adopt voice-activated technology, just behind the US. More than three-quarters (76%) of the users are familiar with the speech and voice recognition technology. As a result, Hindi is the second-most commonly used language on Google Assistant, behind the English language.

> Voice assistants can understand accents and vocabulary not just in Hindi but also in other regional languages,

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/marketing-bra...

> Voice is enabling access even for users in India who cannot afford a smartphone. Voice technology works even on a simple Jio feature phone running KaiOS. Priced between Rs 700 to Rs 1400 price range, these phones are used by 100 million people. While these entry level phones don't have the fancy capabilities of touch, they still come equipped with technology that is helping ordinary Indians in far-flung villages and towns use voice as their primary interface to navigate their phone and access a ..
Japanese statistics show 6 US citizen deaths in June 2021 https://cache.treehouse.systems/media_attachments/files/110/...

The state department is just missing data.
Octo.jl – A SQL Query DSL in Julia
Sounds like hypnogogic hallucinations and/or the hypnogogic stare. Thomas Edison and Salvador Dali (an)used this state for creativity supposedly.
FWIW, our aws enterprise support reps are available 24/7 and usually respond within a few minutes.

But again, you get what you pay for.
> Examples, please?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-inventions...

> And none of them have resulted in any actual science.

Not true. Many researchers around the globe have been involved in paranormal research. Remote viewing for example was studied at Stanford Research Institute as part of a government project (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project) and while the conclusions reached as a result of the research performed for that project and other similar efforts didn't confirm the existence or usefulness of psychic abilities, that doesn't mean that "actual science" wasn't done. Science is about getting us closer to the truth, and even a null result is a valuable contribution to that effort.

> Yes, because there was neither evidence that continents could move nor a known mechanism at the time for how continents could move. That's normal science.

It's also an example of someone from the peanut gallery having an idea worth looking into.

I don't think the expectation is that "Listening to screwball ideas from the public" means some rando will come up with extensive evidence or proofs that confirm a novel idea. I think it means that anyone with the curiosity and passion to think about a subject in depth can look at something and come up with a good idea even if they're not an expert in that area.

We can reject and ignore the ideas of non-experts and shame curious minds into silence, or we can embrace them and maybe even explore them or be inspired by them because if we do, we could discover something sooner than we might have otherwise.
To answer my own question a couple of days later, I suppose that if they secretly shadow the mutated var name with a new longer value (in this case) on the stack -- perhaps that is what is meant by "a projection". In that case, no new allocation would occur, since the stack is already allocated. I'm not a language or compiler expert, so maybe this terminology is well know in those circles.
There are takebacks on Venmo. Someone recently paid me and then asked Venmo Support to reverse it. Venmo pulled the money out of my account without even checking with me. I'd have happily reversed the transaction if the sender had just asked me. If you're selling something to a stranger, nothing beats cash.
That's incorrect. A bank can't give out more dollars than they receive from depositors. It can give out all kinds of paper that is _valued_ in dollars, but not the digital representation of banknotes with the pictures of dead presidents on the front.

In contrast, the Fed can create actual dollars. It can just buy an asset and pay for it with money that it has just created.
English has some niceness to it that modern Latin derivatives lack. Specifically, the ability to verbificate anything, the lack of having to learn everything’s made-up gender, and the lack of a centralized authority which allows slang to propagate quickly and usefully.
On the contrary, I think the psychological manipulation of a product Association is fair game because it's inherent in The World At Large and every product and person.

On the other hand, undisclosed sponsored reviews gravitate towards false advertising or deceit.

The point isn't to cut down on psychological influence. The point is to cut down on deceit AKA false advertising

James Bond using a Sony doesn't deceive anyone. James Bond doesn't exist and doesn't have opinions.
I mean if he didn't charge IBM (and for such a broad license) he's surely not charging anyone else. I guess he opens a line of communication with them in some sense, but it's with some random staffer in the legal department rather than anyone who's going to be hiring contractors, and surely there would be friendlier ways if that was the goal (hell, just asking people to say hi would be starting you off on better terms).
English is hard to pronounce and speak correctly. But it's pretty easy to obtain basic proficiency in English - and given how widespread it is, no language beats it in value per time invested.
TSMC delays US chip fab opening, says US talent is insufficient