skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if I just make a robot to go to public library and book store and then OCR everything, would it make a difference?

Again there is no "compression of information" in deep learning.
Because people are nervous about their jobs....
The 300 hours I spent completing Space Exploration were a lot of fun, but it definitely feels very stretched out and grindy. One of the hardest things to do in game design is to make cuts & simplify, but the end result is usually much better.
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Cans are lined with plastic on the inside, otherwise aluminium would react with acidic soda. There is no practical difference in that regard between a plastic bottle and an aluminium can lined with plastic
If you think about it, selling "unlimited" anything is really false advertising.

If it has value that people are willing to pay for, the available supply is limited by real world factors. It's only a matter of time until some limits are introduced --- one way or another.

"Unlimited" data and storage is a fictitious marketing construct that can never really be met --- and certainly not for a nominal monthly fee. DropBox has simply been forced to admit the obvious. I smell a potential class action lawsuit.
So what do you use real arrays for? For 80% of programming lists are just fine. Are you doing cpu-bound numerical calculations?
Of course, but with random selection you will also get people who aren't latent psychos.

Politics, and the our modern. electoral processes in particular, selects for psychopathy since, all else being equal, the charming psycho candidate is more likely to win and level up (to a more prominent election contest).

If there are five election levels (school board -> state house -> house -> senate/governor/president) each with a small bias, by the time a candidate reaches the top he's been fairly well selected for total PoS.
I find these web desktop idea interesting but a solution looking for a problem. Part of me wants to post the Batman slapping Robin meme with Robin saying "Maybe I should develop a web desktop that runs in the browser"
You mean OpenAI and ChatGPT cant do it already?
Integrating with a coin would defeat the propose, since getting coins for PoW would make the ddos financially rewarding. Allowing the attacker to outcompete normal user who just want to access the site.
I "just" (160+ hours in) started a play through of space exploration at the recommendation of an HN comment. Super excited to see an official expansion that adds this kind of thing! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36561847

My ideas list for interesting Factorio challenges (apropos of nothing):

- Products with a shelf life (must be consumed within 15 minutes or it turns into a "waste" product)

- Products with "refrigeration" (e.g. an item which must not exist outside of a temperature-controlled chest for more than 5 minutes at a time)

- Catalyst ingredients with a chance of being consumed (presently emulated with probabilistic outputs, native support could be interesting, the catalyst would just sit in the machine until it was consumed)

- Mining ships (an entire factory moves to a location and extracts resources). The screenshot seems to imply that some kind of spaceship will exist, perhaps this is coming.
No, its a tool of a corrupt power elite trying to quash dissent.
Text editors need fairly complete parsers to match braces anyway. E.g. consider even something as simple as { "}" }. Or {"\"}. The former is reasonably unambiguous, but the latter requires knowing if the escape style of double quoted strings in the given language escapes the second '"' or not. Now try proc {"#{"}"}"} (valid Ruby) vs proc {"{\#{"}"}"} (invalid)
That's the same curiosity that led me here: how much of higher-order functional programming could be implemented as zero-overhead abstractions over a C-like language, and what restrictions on language semantics would be the tradeoff?
I fail to see how this is useful at all. arxiv is free to publish.

Using NFTs is quite pointless. The problem of immutable research paper does not exist. The authors' names will be on the paper. It does not matter if the PDF is immutable or some id on the blockchain pointing to a PDF is immutable.

>new users can claim 100 free SCI tokens

Most certainly not a utility token but an unregistered security.
We could do day-to-day Rust/C++/any compiled language related development with an interpreter/JIT and then compile the code once a PR is ready and the code hits CI/CD or gets deployed. The "instant" runtime doesn't even need to have the exact same behavior -- it can be 99% accurate and still be very useful.
> Well that's probably because the requisite crystal ball we need to see into the future hasn't been invented yet either.

I think your reasoning is pretty sound for the existing waste (and maybe that's all you're talking about). But for new waste it's a different game. We could simply not generate it. I'm not even asserting that we shouldn't use nuclear power, just that this argument should not be over-extended.

Another thing to consider with the "well it might be useful later so lets not dump it" argument is that we probably don't need the waste we already created. We can just make more.
Reddit is a company that seems to be chasing trends not understanding what they are.

I fully expect their site to become the same mess as their previous React re-write. I mean, it already is. There are people arguing that 2 seconds to load text and images is fast, actually: https://twitter.com/addyosmani/status/1678117107597471745 ("Engineering Leader, Google Chrome"). And they already load 109 JS files to display it.
I'm pretty sure erlangs :array is just a skin over tuple, so it's ~O(1) but not contiguous. might be O(log n) for dynamic arrays. The only truly array datatype in Erlang is :atomics
Yes, your interpretation is correct. I think the killer app here is mathematical proof. You often need intuition and creativity to come up with a proof, and I expect AI to become really good at that. Checking the proof then is completely reliable, and can be done by machine as well.

Once we have AI's running around with the creativity of artists, and the precision of logicians, ... Well, time to read some Iain M. Banks novels.
Russian is commonly used in a few countries where email privacy is literally a life-saver. It is also our native. The team is originally from Belarus. We know these things by experience.

With time we’re going to add more languages.

The beauty of trustless network is that nobody has to trust anybody. The codebase is open on Github https://github.com/Eppie-io and we are conducting independent security audit at launch.
What is the landscaping around single family homes like then? Or do you just have urban & rural without an in-between?
That’s the hope anyway - even if the cryptography is perfect against all future attacks (remember they’ve already had at least one flaw in earlier versions) there are still things like timing attacks:

https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/

Nation states are some of hardest attackers since they can do things like monitoring network traffic to correlate with chain activity or compel some fraction of the participants to surrender data. I know some smart people work on Zcash but there’s no safety net when all of the transactions are public and immutable.
Better in some sense, but it would be even more expensive than the burner reactors we have now. That's why breeder reactors haven't caught on.
No. Even Evangelion it's a satire on the Japanese nerd obsessed with making women sexual objects.

On Dragon Ball Vegeta (an obvious depiction of the old fart Japanese nationalist, Saiyans are like a samurais/ronin in space, same armor as the samurais et all) always loses against the open-minded and naive "ninja mountain-born singleton hick" Goku from Osaka/Kansai, which is the "progressive", "cheerful/open minded" and careless city/region from Japan.

Technology and modernisation from the US saved Japan and that's symbolized by Bulma.
Hope it isn't similar flop as "Lilygo TTgo T-Watch" which it's barely usable but not due to meager hardware specs. It's the software with hardwired long boot sequence so you either live with the ESP draining battery out in few hours or waiting some second every time you wake the clock up. The manufacturer just assumed you want it to be always on and connected and counting steps and whatever, battery life be damned.

I would be fine if it wakes only once in 5 minutes to get online or on pushing the physical button. The hardware is there. But the manufacturer just don't care.

https://github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/TTGO_TWatch_Library/issues...
> I don't really care for self repairing

Self repair is a tiny part of the market. But if I can’t self repair because I can’t get hold of parts, then you probably can’t find an independent repair shop to fix something because they can’t get parts either. That is their goal.

> Apple is probably not the right brand

How do you imagine that other brands are not doing the exact same thing? If Apple is allowed to do it, everyone will do it. Not just on phones, on cars, on dishwashers, everything.

https://www.cdccellularrepair.com/post/samsung-parts-seriali...
It is unlikely any future high voltage DC system would be sufficiently safe without tracking leakage current as I outlined. Partly because it is almost impossible to stop someone cutting through the insulation, however thick (eg. with a kitchen knife, lawnmower, fire, etc).

3000 volts DC is a "definitely dead" voltage, as opposed to current 110 volt AC systems which are "you'll probably survive" if you use a kitchen knife to cut through the insulation.

Given that you need the protection systems in place anyway, there isn't much point in thicker insulation, unless you like your cord being more cumbersome, heavier and more expensive.
If I understand the requirements correctly, this approach appears way over complicated.

If the Downloads page only changes when there is a release, I would auto-generate a static html site as part of the CI/CD release process, then upload and serve it via s3. Then to optimise the s3 costs have either CloudFront or Cloudflare to reverse proxy the static html.

How is the approach documented better than that?
Not sure if you've noticed but all those things have happened (self checkout, ordering kiosks) while wages haven't grown to meet inflation.
https://thequantuminsider.com/2023/08/22/tqi-exclusive-bob-c...
Not just YouTube videos. Yahoo has been running such stories for a week or so.

I suspect that "almost all foreign companies leaving" is very much an exaggeration. Some may be leaving, though.

I suspect there is some fire behind the smoke. I suspect there is some exaggeration, and maybe even propaganda, in the stories. (And some bandwagon-jumping - wouldn't want to be the one who didn't report on such a hot story.)

But I'm just some random dude in the US who has never been to China, so what do I know?
Wrong layer. Privacy pass is for HTTP
You are describing the right symptoms but pointing to the wrong cause.

There is nothing abnormal in EE profits _if_compared with any other physical widget manufacturer.

What is abnormal is the zero copy cost of Software, as a product, and the scalability of Software services in an online world with a _world_ of customers.

Nothing in the physical world (other than maybe Financial Products) compares to the margins and scale that you can achieve in Software. This means that for golden geese like AdWords paying 500k to a SWE is just a rounding error.

We all see the problem but that doesn't change the fact that a lot of Engineers from other fields won't rightfully jump on that opportunity and profit from the current imbalance in terms arbitrage of Engineering time.
What’s the World’s Oldest Language?
Kicking a country out of SWIFT and making it much harder to do business by imposing sanctions because of an invasion you disapprove of is not some moral crusade?
From Benjamin Franklin to Georgiana Shipley
This reminds me of a less-refined version of Moment.dev [1].

[1]: https://www.moment.dev/
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The symbolic differentiation appears to be embedded in the algorithm, based on reading the article and skimming the algebraic expression trees.
Straws mechanically help drinking in many situations.

I'd argue you shouldn't be driving in those many situations (say, daily commute). But I'd rather a person's morning coffee be sucked than sipped behind the wheel.
It doesn't seem far fetched.

Creating a narrative of the bad guy people helps try to unify people.

They have no reason to go after Taiwan unless they need to absorb their economy and try to look strong in the eyes of their people.

Definitely has dictator trying to look strong vibes as things aren't going well internally.
Hence Ruby or Oberon style of "end". Personally I have no intention of ever seriously using a language with significant indentation levels. It's not worth suffering the visual clutter.
> The material would be flying on a rocket that has proven itself over many flights

How old are reusable rockets? 5 years? And up until that point they were considered worse because they weren't new. I think you're overstating how safe it is to put nuclear waste onto a maybe bomb.
Factorio inspired a lot of factory games you're seeing: Mindustry, Shapez.io, Satisfactory, Techtonica, Dyson Sphere Program, etc.

One of the devs have stated that they were inspired to create Factorio by the IndustrialCraft and BuildCraft mods for Minecraft, and I suspect that things like Infinifactory were also inspirations.
“Oh man the guy who made the Space Exploration mod is gonna be pissed they’re copying him”

“Oh wait it’s the same guy”
Click bait headline: "If a student uses the college search tool on CB.org, the student can add a GPA and SAT score range to the search filters. Those values are passed in the pixel".
There go the next few years of my life. Easily the game that has had the biggest impact on me as a person, maybe even my career.
It's about purchasing power; not just real wages.

>despite some ups and downs over the past several decades, today’s real average wage (that is, the wage after accounting for inflation) has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago. And what wage gains there have been have mostly flowed to the highest-paid tier of workers.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-...
Don't worry, Sun will consume these rods at right time in the future, with rest of our planet. We don't need to store this waste indefinitely. We need to keep it safe just for few billions years.
> They're certainly safe enough that the primary risk is not of them exploding.

The primary risk does not need to be explosion for explosion to be too risky.
> there will be a solution before things get too dire

There is. It’s called money. If you have enough of it, things will not get dire for you in your lifetime. And enough of it will keep your kids’ kids from feeling the effects too seriously.

Money is both the solution and the problem. Until the people who can insulate themselves from climate change through wealth. are willing to significantly reduce their current quality of life, there’s no chance to avoid dire-ness for those without money.

And honestly in terms of direness for many, the money has been spent and now it’s just about waiting for the bill to come due.
It would be nice to make it clear that you're not actually quoting someone when you use quotation marks to paraphrase them. My concern is that it can come across as a bit of straw-manning otherwise.
Yes. Many people say that Kotlin is only for Android but that's totally untrue.
Rewriting does not need to be an all-or-nothing endeavor.

If you design your app as a collection of subsystems, it's sometimes faster to destroy and rebuild one of them than it is to refactor.
Thank you for everyone who responded! I’m overwhelmed by your responses and reading through each one. Getting this amount of comments means a lot for me, because I usually get something like 4 to 5 comments. Thank you.
Also leads to some interesting possibilities - given that this occured in November in Minneapolis, there seems like there would be opportunities to manipulate the infrared camera. Off the top of my head - extra hot point heat sources could "blow out" the image, or insulated umbrellas/barriers could obfuscate where or how many protesters are present.

Could anyone with infrared camera experience weigh in?
You realize that you just reiterated the same point I made in the OP, right?
Peacably implies not on a highway and not shining lasers this way and that.
The best one is kettling by the police without any exit, while appealing through the megaphone to the entrapped crowd to disperse.
While I can't argue about Python's design decisions impacting the ability to optimise it (not my area of expertise), I'd like to defend these decisions.

Subclassing numbers (or other primitive types) is one way to achieve the goal of having type-safe enumerations. In Python, I can do:

class Weekday(int): pass
Monday = Weekday(1)
...

The value x=1 will not pass the test of isinstance(x, Weekday); mypy won't let you accidentally pass April as a Weekday; etc. There definitely are many ways to make this prettier, or easier for an optimising compiler, but I would like to echo DJB's talk referenced by the original article:

> Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed
of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered.

Likewise, the ability to inspect the stack enables creation of useful tools, that would be difficult or impossible otherwise. When working with pytest, I can write "assert my_array == [1, 2, 3]"; when my_array contains an extra element at the end, my test fails with a pretty-printed diff of the two sides.

You don't need to perform aggressive whole-program optimisation passes when running a test suite, and you shouldn't need to inspect the stack at runtime while executing performance-critical sections in production. I save time and energy by not having to add "print(my_array)", re-running the tests, and copy-pasting the pretty-printed values for diffing. I save time and energy when my program has less bugs, because I had the tools to make it more correct.
I do drugs as well, but I don't typically drink alcohol. Maybe I am not qualified to speak on this, but in the US most of the cheap vodkas have been coming in plastic bottles for around 15 years now at least.
Burying the stuff now is a waste of money. It's cheaper to stuff the spent fuel into dry shielded casks and wait to decide what to do with it. This forecloses no future options and allows the relatively expensive burial process to be delayed, reducing the NPV of that cost.

Waiting also reduces the difficulty of dealing with waste, since the fission products decay relatively rapidly. Aside from seven very long-lived fission products, they will be gone in 300-500 years (depending on your definition of "gone"). Indeed, the problem then becomes that the gamma emission of the spent fuel elements is so low they are no longer self-protecting against "amateur" diversion of the plutonium. (Note that this is fission products, not actinides, that decay relatively quickly.)

Personally, I suspect spent fuel will be dealt with by launching it beyond Earth. Think how cheap and reliable distant descendants of today's rockets will be several centuries hence.
Whoa there Satan
How much could you even transport? Seems like it would be crazy expensive.
I understand the appeal and get myself pulled into it from time to time, but most people probably don't need social media. I'm typing this in the hope that I'll remember it myself too. The social media sites show people with millions of followers which appears appealing because they usually don't do much work for those followers. Basically free sales right? They just type a bit from their toilet. However, it's a power law. Getting to the number 1 inside some niche is extremely hard and requires hard work and some luck.
Suprisingly, Arnie looks pretty good in the posters for Terminator, Commando and Conan. The rest bear no resemblance to the originals.
It's not impossible, just more work. V8 would be something like 100 man years of work, and that's with a language that is somewhat easier to optimize.
Many or most so-called "free" services, e.g., Twitter, Facebook, etc., are a front for another money-making scheme. If you're not the customer, you're the product.

Hacker News is an advertisement for Y Combinator.

Let's not pretend that this is a charity.

It's also worth noting that the operators of such "free" services don't publicly take the haughty attitude of "if you don't like the service, you can have a refund of $0". You'll never hear that rhetoric from dang. They want people to use their services. Only unaffiliated outside defenders use that rhetoric.
A lot of those protests wouldnt happen if democracy, law, diet and the media didnt divide people.

Apathy is a powerful tool.
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Same with "lifetime", especially when it's a service.

It never ends well when there isn't a stable income to offset the cost of lifetime subscribers.
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Hey HN,

I started building this tool for myself for several reasons:
1. My 2020 M1 MBP with 16Gb of RAM started to become frustratingly slow when I had to run the local development stack
2. Sometimes I needed to switch between my Linux desktop and MBP, and continue the work from where I left it
3. At some point I was traveling and tried to work from a train, where the mobile internet was very unstable and things like `docker compose up` and `npm install` would take a lot of time and retries before successfully finishing

First, I researched various options. Most of them felt too cumbersome, and pretty much all of them were requiring a single GitHub repo to start with.

Gitpod seemed the most convenient out of all of them, but I quickly started to struggle with its limitations. At least some docker images weren’t starting at all. And after ditching the idea of using JetBrains Gateway for writing code, I couldn’t make my Gitpod instance to not start it every time I needed to do some coding. Got frustrated and unsatisfied, so as an engineer, I decided to just build it myself.

I already had something of my own running on digital ocean, and I experimented with automating it via their api, so I went with building something that I could use from my terminal, where I already spend the most of my time, and something that didn’t require a server hosted and running 24/7.

Eventually, I traveled to Greece for a month of workation, and this tool has been a life saver for me. I built features, fixed bugs, improved performance of the app I’m working on. All this would’ve been much more difficult and much less productive without this tool.

Would love to hear your feedback and thoughts.
50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity