skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With things like this, you realize how short life is, and sometimes how brittle it can be. I often forget that the people that built the foundation of what we use every day are still with us, and we have a short time to be able to show them appreciation before we say thank you to someone who has gone, if you know of someone that has dedicated time to something that you use, show your appreciation this week. It might be the last time that you have the opportunity to make that human contact.

Thank you, sir. <3 vim
Exactly. The cumulative emissions of the United States dwarf the rest of the countries in the world[1].

The powerhouse that is the United States was built on the externality of carbon emissions. Now that the West has built their economies of this externality, they're trying to prevent developing nations from catching up by utilizing the same externality.

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/The-2...
IMHO the premise of Star Trek economy is that all needs of an ordinary person can be fulfilled so cheaply it doesn't make sense to meter. The replicator uses a relatively minimal amount of energy. They still need to allocate resources - and even trade them among themselves and with others - but there's no need for an internal currency, they can power entire planets with their antimatter reactors using just a very small amount of fuel. Even the starships that are bending spacetime itself all the time are refueled only very occasionally, synthesizing some food and houses is nothing compared to that.

The only time when their economy breaks is when they're in an active warzone - and frankly, currency as we know it breaks down in a warzone too, you better have some cigarettes, food or weapons if you want to trade.
Come on. Grusch's mom says he's a nice boy so obviously aliens are real.
everything good in development makes it eventually(!) into the "Elementals" HTML+JS+CSS.

BUT still PUG > HTML any day of the week.
that and KYC
You're missing the important point that in OP's hypothesis, it doesn't matter how old the language is, but how long it's been popular.

Python and Dart, for example, have been much more popular recently than in the past, so it's reasonable to assume that the percentage of newer code bases in those languages is higher than in, say, Java. Python may have been popular already 10 years ago, but it feels like back then it was mostly used for small websites and scripting, things you don't normally need to maintain for a long time.

> So quite trivially it's not that the languages are too new to have old crusty codebase ...

Considering the year a language was created is missing the point the author tried to make, unfortunately, so I would say your argument is based on a flawed premise (trivially shown by reading the article and understanding it).

I think JS is the only language that goes against this, but that's quite easy to explain: it's a language used mostly for web development, where it's practically, your only choice (notice that "loved" actually means having intent to continue using it in the future).
Star Trek is science fantasy with technobabble. It’s kind of like Rick and Morty really. The writers yell “science!” from time, but nothing that can actually be confused for it appears.

Incidentally when Star Wars started inserting technobabble explanations for fantasy elements like the Force (“midi-chlorians”) it was jarring. Nevertheless we can’t really say there is a difference in kind anymore and maybe never really was.
I'm responding to the bit about steam.
For anyone looking to learn Vim, this is an educational game that's actually pretty fun:

https://vim-adventures.com/
Has the Pope condemned the use of air conditioning? https://catholicherald.co.uk/has-the-pope-condemned-the-use-...
Warp drive that somehow doesn't shatter causality is fantasy.
Yes, but that doesn't answer the question ...
How the world’s best marketer got it wrong, but eventually got it right
millitant snobbery reminds me of a student colleague who had been studying math. she had small bells tied into her hair, and she told us that the bells were to remind her that there are other things in life besides math.
Google wouldn't comply before first lobbying heavily against it both in government and among their users. The proposed laws would quickly become a major topic of public discourse.
The Power of ‘*’ in Linux: A Cautionary Tale of Rm -RF
Pittsburgh laments The Incline’s descent
It's not exactly fair for industrialized nations to have taken advantage of the externality of their historic carbon emissions, but then prevent developing nations from doing the same.

The ethical solution would be for industrialized nations to subsidize the development and decarbonization of developing nations.
But what is the impact on cognition. Are tau proteins part of the defense or part of the problem?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37012248
Dang, this deserves the black bar.
I use vim every day - RIP to a legend!
>I don’t think a field medalist would waste his time with an untalented youth.

Ugh. Do you think a Fields medalist would "waste" his time cleaning his bedroom? Folding his clothes?

1. The world is much more menial than you think it is.

2. Fields medalists are, unsurprisingly, human beings, and keep doing human stuff like making new friends just for fun.

3. Not everyone is living under the weird delusion/obsession where all outcomes have to be maximally favorable for "life to be worth it". Not all companies have to be billion dollar companies. Not all students have to go and win Fields medals.

4. The "untalented youth" is much more interesting than what you give them credit for.
This is not that surprising. Sensory enrichment stimulates hippocampal growth and staves off cognitive decline. Long term sensory deprivation has the opposite effect. Getting poor hearing at old age for example results in a large increase in the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
> So your hypothesis is that the Great Depression was caused by a sudden 25% increase in productivity?

No, that isn't the hypothesis nor is it relevant to the point I am making.

The cause of the 25% unemployment rate in the Great Depression is actually completely insignificant to why I mentioned it. The point being made with that is to highlight that 1 in 4 people no longer being in a position to make a steady living was enough to cause an economic situation so bad that nearly 100 years later in the USA it's still treated as the common example of how bad things can get when things are Really Really Bad.

The oncoming rush of automation across virtually every aspect of the "knowledge worker" economy easily has the ability to create a situation in which the percentage of people made redundant is an order of magnitude more than that benchmark 1 in 4, and since it is likely to cut across so much of the economy very fast all at once there is likely to be no time for the economy to reasonably deal with.

The go-to advice for people who are automated out of jobs is "retrain and find another one", how do you do that when the disruption is "everything everywhere all at once" and your competition for the new jobs is likewise coming from everywhere all at once and the job contraction impacts nearly every company?

How scary this all sounds is probably colored to some degree by where you live and all of my concern is admittedly biased towards the USA where our current social safety net systems are woefully inadequate for dealing with this sort of disruption (even in the short term) and still constantly under attack.
Author here. This is an error in original article.

The list is actually a stack rank, so the middle overlaps. But I missed that.

Consider those 5 ( Haskell, Scala, HTML, Shell, and SQL ) the murky middle, perhaps?

I should have done top 8 of something back when I wrote this.

I think the point still holds though. Obviously PL improvements happen, and tooling improvements happen as well.

But also people hate old code bases.
Grusch is likely just an asset being manipulated. This guy might be involved in pushing the psyop:

https://www.christophermellon.net/
Ah yes, now I can justify spending $4000 on an espresso machine
So is 320lb to be completely honest.
There's also the fact that the most powerful laptops on the market are made by Apple.
Social media truly is the opioid of today's society.

While browsing /r/all, I ran across a post from a very popular sub which had an airport worker stripping in the airport, flailing on the floor, etc. No one knows why, could have been drugs, could have been a mental defect.

Yet many of the thousands of responses were laughing because they could see the man's flaccid penis.

While we don't know what caused the man to do this, imagine your next mental breakdown being posted to an insanely popular sub for everyone to gawk and laugh at.

Oh, and of course Reddit found that the post didn't violate the "no non-consentual nudity" which according to the guidelines does cover non-consentual public nudity.

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/36004351341...
That's because on (most) modern systems, main RAM is combined (shared memory space) and external from CPU, connected through fat but high-latency pipe.

A solution is to include RAM with each CPU core on-die. Afaik this is uncommon approach because semiconductor fabrication processes for RAM vs. CPU don't match well? But it's not impossible - IC's like this exist, and eg. SoC's with integrated RAM, CPU caches etc are a thing.

So imagine a 'compute module' consisting of 6502 class CPU core + a few (dozen?) KB of RAM directly attached + some peripheral I/O to talk to neighbouring CPU's.

Now imagine a matrix of 1000s of such compute modules, integrated on a single silicon die, all concurrently operating @ GHz clock speeds. Sounds like a GPU, with main RAM distributed across its compute units. :-)

Examples:

GreenArrays GA144
Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine

(not sure about nature of the 'CPU' cores on the latter. General purpose or minimalist, AI/neural network processing specialized?)

Afaik the 'problem' is more how to program such systems easily / securely, how to arrange common peripherals like USB, storage, video output etc. in a practical manner as to utilize the immense compute power + memory bandwidth in such a system.
Another black bar +1. If anyone deserves it, it’s got to be the author of a critical part of my daily workflow for over 10 years.
I've always suspected that like airbags are mainly designed to try to save people who don't wear seatbelts properly, that ergo keyboards (split, etc) are mainly designed to try to save people without proper typing posture.
That's if any of them are still alive! This was so long ago that a good proportion may no longer be with us.
Probably better to talk with the moderators about the problem. Even if things don't change, you will probably get an explanation. Using the |Contact| link at the bottom of this page, is probably the best way.
> I'm the minority suggesting the cli as a good way to use git.

I'm someone who used to train newbie staff using the git CLI. As the other commenter pointed out, the CLI often doesn't feel very intuitive. However, I personally felt that it's hard to convey what's happening behind the scenes unless you're on the CLI. And in git, it's very important to know the underlying data format and operations - unlike in case of Mercurial, for example.
They said t was a boat fuel. So how do you avoid it? Just don’t eat seafood??
Not necessarily true, espresso extracts more compounds from the coffee than other brewing methods.
Seems dubious. Got a model to look up?
There's no hard boundary between the two categories, since nearly every sci-fi is going to have fantastical elements to them. For example The Expanse authors have paid careful attention to the physics of space-flight, which they then use create their vision of "realistic" space battles. But they also have interdimensional stargates that instantly transport you across the universe. So hard sci-fi or fantasy? People can argue endlessly about which category a book belongs in.

Personally I think the most useful metric is "would my non-science geek fans like this?". Or to put it another way, is one of the primary appeals of this novel the extrapolation of realistic science. An appreciation that may be lost on someone who isn't as interested in that subject. My fantasy loving friend has been an interesting barometer in this way.

Didn't like The Martian therefore, it's Hard SciFi.

Dune: sci-fantasy

Star Wars Sci-fantasy

Three Body Problem: Hard sci-fi

The Expanse Book 1: Hard sci-fi

The Expanse Season 1: Sci Fantasy
> The sort of people that actively engage with internet programming forums are also the sort of people that actively engage with new programming languages.

That's a pretty bold claim... even though I think it may look like this is the case, I very much doubt you would be found correct if a proper study was ever made to find out.
Forgive me, I know little about these things, but what’s the relationship between this phenomenon and the quantum locking seen in other super conducting magnets, this looks as described as “pinned”, what would allow it to behave like the famous video of the magnets levitating around that circular track: https://youtu.be/Ws6AAhTw7RA
Sad. I didn't interact with Bram much, but I did have an email exchange with him early in my software developer journey. I submitted a few patches to Vim and he helped me work through them to get them approved/merged. He was very patient and kind even though I was a complete newbie.
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My respects.
I use vim daily.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
I took one of my older relatives to an audiologist recently, and the physician told us that the memory issues are often because your working memory is working overtime to decipher every input and you don't get to commit as much to long-term memory.
Wi-Fi Boosts New, Ultrafast Li-Fi Standards
> TFA didn't mention if that was a factor here, I don't think Texas had it that bad humidity-wise in the recent heat waves, did they?

It’s pretty bad. Harris county is humid. If you’ve ever been in Houston in spring/summer, you know it’s like living in someone’s armpit. Air conditioners are the only reason it’s even livable at this population level in the south.
> BTW if you think Disney doesn't do horny, think again. I mean, look at the "love story" in any classic animated picture.

Disney used to make classic animated pictures decades ago; Disney today is not the same.
I highly doubt most who claim to be "Power Users" on the internet would be classified as such in the truest sense of the word; they simply enjoy complaining about trends in technology, & engage in posturing & outrage when a feature or design is gradually phased out over time. Most who extol the supposed "customizability" of android phones are highly unlikely to use any feature they mention on a day-to-day basis. Android's most useful feature, in my opinion is to side load apps. However, it seems this isn't something most android foresee the average user utilizing on a daily basis, and possibly as a vulnerability; from my understanding, modern android phones require you to enter a password to enable the side loading of apps. It's cell phone, I really dont' understand these advantages outside of say price point (apple cannot compete with android when it comes to budget), and the flexibility of side loading software in extenuating circumstances(say the app store complying with a government's request restrict access to e2ee messaging apps).

> Power users know better - they use whatever tool is best for the job.

I completely agree, actual power users simply use the device that is the best fit for an application, rather than crusading in the replies of threads across various sites, spreading the word of how greedy & terrible the design decisions <insert company here> makes.

The same self proclaimed "power users" will often imply that individuals who choose to use certain products possess lesser tech literacy. I don't really understand the logic behind that sentiment; obviously if a company markets their products as "just working", it will attract the average person. That's not an indication of tech illiteracy or laziness, it makes sense. Why wouldn't I want my cell phone to simply "just work?" on demand, with as little friction as possible (i.e software updates, particularly security updates are pushed out in a timely manner, overall software stability)? I know plenty of extremely tech literate people (PhDs in Computer Engineering & Computer Science) who choose to use an iPhone year after year. If you're expending most of your mental energy in your research & work with technology, why would you want the communication device you use on a daily basis to be something you have to tinker with, and configure in a non-standard way? That sounds like something I would do with say a raspberry pi, a piece of technology that I like employ my above average understanding of tech on, to customize it or achieve some really neat end goal.

Also to add, I agree, non standard hardware design is anti user and annoying, but apple doing so is not news, (in other news, the sky is blue type thing). If we want to prevent this, we need to push for regulations that force apple to comply.
In other mind boggling movie lore, an RTX 4090 has 2x the TFLOPS computing power than the killer AI Skynet used in Terminator 3[1].

That isn't really mind boggling since you are quoting fiction.
Only interaction with him was via mailing list but liked and respected him. Been using VIM for ~20 years now. Upset at his death. Its too early to pass away at just 62.
There is no solution. The industrialized nations used the externality of carbon emissions to build their current status. These nations are unwilling to subsidize and compensate developing nations so that they can develop while using clean energy.

Politicians can't tell their constituents the truth -- that their lifestyles are destroying the planet and are unsustainable. They'll be replaced be politicians that tell voters what they want to hear or scapegoat others.
One of silent heroes of the open-source world - making life of so many people easier and more enjoyable every day. RIP.
I came across this browser by accident. Seems like a Brave Browser fork that is closed-source.
Strict genre taxonomy is an unsolvable problem in my opinion. Take this business about being scientific as an example: sorry gang, but a functioning FTL drive is not one bit less magical than a wizard casting a fireball out of a magic wand while riding on a dragon. Even if you use the language of science to talk about it. Both are violations of the laws of physics, and I do not believe it's helpful to say that one impossible thing is less impossible than another impossible thing.

When it gets down to it, science fiction, and fantasy, and science fantasy, and urban fantasy, and every other genre is defined by this: where in the store can we put the book so that customers buy it? What tropes should we tell the artist to paint on the cover, so the customers who like that stuff know they should buy it? Stuff like that. In other words, think of genres only as artificial marketing concepts, it's the only thing that makes sense.
"Cooking the frog"

"To cook the frog one need to slowly increase the temperature so the frog will not feel stress but relaxation, and when the temperature exceeds some point, the frog will not have strength to jump out"

As apparently this cruel recipe probably even does not work in case of this amphibian, it is really great metaphor and it really works in case of people. People can get accustomed to every inconvenience one can imagine, as long as it is accompanied by additional "convenience" attached to it. No cash - you don't need to take money with you. No cable printing - you can print without cables. Ink subscription - you can always have any amount of ink you want (as long as it does not exceed certain amount of pages)
Or China.
https://youtu.be/hhMAt3BluAU
I'm surprised you could even fall asleep. Smells keep me awake, and I keep anything scented in my bedroom in a tupperware to keep it from waking me up.
Space Companies Struggle to Meet Lofty Goals
My apologies. I know the pandemic was particularly hard on young people. This is the problem with old, comfortable and scared people making all the decisions.
More than 500 daily high temperature records were set across the U.S. this week
You're just stating the "obvious hypothesis" which the author is challenging, and showing evidence against.
Well, you can't let a cheap espresso machine touch your $25 bag of single-origin coffee beans...
It's not cynism. The disagreement about authorship apparently was motivated by someone in the original team being pushed aside to open a slot for the well connected "10k citations" guy. It's a old problem academia still fails to address. See:

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-colonial_science
If that was the limit, the global South would be able to live in 2003 global North standards, because patents only last 20 years.

It seems so incredibly reductive to attribute global South issues to patents.
Inspired by prisons, funded by capitalism.
You could say in a sense, people who care about whether the recipient of a text has imessage do care about UX, I just wish the avg person understands that most if not all of the features and consistency imessage provides can be achieved with signal or whatsapp.
> So long as Pytorch only practically works with Nvidia GPUs, everything else is little more than a rounding error.

This is changing.

https://github.com/merrymercy/awesome-tensor-compilers

There are more and better projects that can compile an existing PyTorch codebase into a more optimized format for a range of devices. Triton (which is part of PyTorch) TVM and the MLIR based efforts (like torch-MLIR or IREE) are big ones, but there are smaller fish like GGML and Tinygrad, or more narrowly focused projects like Meta's AITemplate (which works on AMD datacenter GPUs).

Hardware is in a strange place now... It feels like everyone but Cerebras and AMD/Intel was squeezed out, but with all the money pouring in, I think this is temporary.
Journalists can make a controversy out of anything, and find a clique of accounts with any given opinion on anything, and therefore portray Public Opinion in any way that the editorial board directs. The accounts don't need blue checks, they don't need to be notable, they don't need to be human, to find the next Antoine Dodson ranting with a memorable sound bite.
I agree that dev tooling improvement has been a huge theme of the past decade, but the premise that it’s exclusive to new languages is flawed. I’m a a C++ developer and it has fantastic tooling these days: clang-format, the static analyzer, VSCode & VisualStudio, gdb & lldb, conan, godbolt, etc.

Being stuck in an old legacy codebase may be hell, and may not be — that seems independent of language, though. But writing C++ with new standards, libraries, and tools is a joy.
Meme Stocks Are a Thing – Again
The people selling pyramid scheme essential oils are never gonna let this one go.
> So that fear and guilt change sides.

I'm having trouble making sense of this objective.

Why would anyone seek fear on either side?

Is it suggested that men being afraid would help women be unafraid?

Or even that men must be afraid for women to be unafraid?

And then the guilt.

The premise is that the guilt currently lies only on the men's side. By the above statement, the signatories - all women - are seeking to move it to thier own side.

I guess this statement's use of the words /fear/ and /guilt/ are in some specialist alternate meaning unknown to me.

The statement would perhaps make more sense if it provided those definitions.
First thing came to my mind me and my so should have the best memory after all the dutch ovens I force us into
Yeah, that’s how I viewed it too. I figured it was just an assumption on their part, rather than an accurate statistical statement.