skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been developing a desktop app in Flutter and so far my experience has been quite positive. It uses a fraction of the disk space and memory that a comparable electron app would and it's overall a much nicer UI toolkit than html.
Made this mistake before. I was downloading mods for a game where all the mods were from angelfire sites that are now dead. People often didn't even credit themselves in the readme.txt because the game community was very small, and a lot of the people playing it were old and are deceased now, relying on other dead link sites to work. I wish I had done a better job tracking where I got all my files so I could share them and keep those people's legacy alive. Several of the sites were archived on archive.org wayback machine, but unfortunately all the zip files linked on there download as empty files. It's probably my biggest computer-related regret.
Don't know which of you or the sibling is right. But even assuming you are, maybe display a warning or something, but let me disable the tabs. They're an absolute PITA. I would gladly buy more RAM to accommodate that.

For Firefox, I've found an extension that moves tabs to a new window. It mostly works, but there are rough edges. I apparently have enough resources for all my browser windows in my shaggy laptop for it to never swap. The overhead doesn't seem huge enough to warrant the removal of the possibility of disabling tabs.
If P99 Latency Is BS, What’s the Alternative?
i would love a citation related to the polyblend tshirt. I absolutely love them but if its poisoning me more significantly than microwaving food in plastic containers, i will gladly return to hemp
The problem is, you may be the last generation who knows enough to verify the output of said "AI".
Throwing out the way we currently do water rights

Good luck with that one. Southern California has defeated basically every attempt to reform water rights.
Not everybody has or wants a dedicated device for ebooks. Mostly I use my iPad, but also my laptop.
> plastic containers at room temperature

Part of the issue, though. They often take food that’s above room temperature, bowls might get scratched by utensils, containers might be used in the microwave.
If I had said 1/4th the effort would that have invalidated my argument? I pulled that figure out of my arse from experience. YMMV.

You'll note I'm not selling anything here, and no one is paying me a commission.

A junior that got "swindled" by my claims and spends a weekend learning Elixir becomes a better programmer and earns another feather on their cap. How tragic.

Junior devs, if you want to become a senior greybeard like me, learn anything that tickles your fancy, and ignore anyone that says it isn't worth your time. Even learning COBOL will make you a better programmer. I can only promise that Elixir is more fun than COBOL.
> Its the 15m daily everyday, then a retro and a planning once per sprint. I understand it is too much for a one-week sprint (as stated in the post) but how is that too much otherwise?

One place I worked at had two week sprints. The entirety of one day every sprint was spent on demo, retro, planning, commitment. But because the scrum master had to "build" a sprint and couldn't do that without knowing the size of tickets, there were two morning meetings every week to "analyse" tickets.

So you had: Week 1, 1 full day Scrum day, 2 half days. Week 2: 2 half days. So 3 days out of the 10 day sprint, so 30% time spent on Scrum.

Plus standups, so the hour before the standup nobody did anything (as judged by the number of PRs and comments and Slack activity) so that's an hour plus the time for standup every single day.

Maybe that's insanity, I mean I certainly thought so, but these things do happen.
Went ahead and played around some with it. Pretty smooth, handled the 600 or so tabs I had like a champ. The myriad of filtering options are great, surprised I had so many duplicate tabs. Combination of tags and colors is an interesting approach but I found it a bit lacking in ergonomics and I really can't see it being better than Sideberry's tab panels/groups approach (the killer feature for tab hoarders imo). Good extension though, will be keeping an eye on it.
They wrote it from scratch with the benefit of all the knowledge they had gathered after running the old system for years. A 2X improvement would not be surprising to me, even if they had rewritten it in the same language. .

According to others in this discussion they also made architecture changes (DB, Kafka etc.). Do we know if that improved the performance?

There is no objective way we can tell if Elixir had any performance impact. It could have been due to the rewrite, the architecture change or a combination of both.
America is selling Saudi Arabia its groundwater like there's no Tomorrow.
One guy I worked with started a glider club. Turns out they needed a runway. So they made one out of an old farmers field. No real runway just an empty field cut low and a small shack at the end of the run way to fix things. "I am going to name it an international something, not sure what". Few years later I asked him if they gave him his international name. They had! So this little random field is an 'international' airport.
Good thing you’re not a mouse.
I'm getting shot in the foot by this right now as our team embarks on tackling some long-term tech debt.

The approach we've found that works is health checks and manually looking into cases when we think we've fixed a bug, as it will often point us to a piece of duplicated code we missed that we can wrap into the fold.
OLED would burn in, I doubt you could find that.

But can you get 120hz? Or VRR? Low latency? Any other good feature?

I doubt it. I suspect (as it seems you do) that if you want anything past a bog-standard tv you’re out of luck.
Things like the microwave lowered the friction point for making food and snacks so I'm sure it is part of it. I honestly think people forget how much more friction was involved to have a bite to eat even just 20 years ago, and even more so 40 years ago.

Plastic food packaging is crazy to me, but also lowers the cost of food because of transportation. I would love to see a situation where you buy food in glass bottles and take thise cleaned glass bottles back to the store for resuse, for example. On plastic, on strategy for healthy eating is to be as strict as you can about buying food packaged in plastic. This is getting harder, but it forces you to get the majority of your food from the produce and butcher. Of course, one lived in places (like DC) where such a strategy might seem less possible.
Other people, in the same situation as you, channel that frustration re-doing stuff, reinventing wheels and creating busywork for poor souls like you and me.
Anything pushed to the extreme will result in its opposite.

There's an interesting Wikipedia page about a concept from philosophy called "Unity of opposites": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_of_opposites

Worth a read IMHO.
The problem is that there's an impetus to continue working on top of established facilities, because it's usually incrementally less work than reworking a piece of code into something else. Plus it's difficult to recognize ahead of time when something is about to become a problem, rather than fix something that's already a problem.
I resent how much we've trained developers to value concision over everything else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people use DRY as a justification to alias stuff that's already heavily abstracted by the framework that they use, ending up with less useful interfaces. Either that, or they'll explode the cognitive load by building crazy type hierarchies and inserting opaque anti-patterns like factories and decorators and whatnot.

These are "the wrong abstractions" in the sense that they're not actually crappy code full of conditionals and are actually well-redacted and not all that hard to decipher. They're "the wrong abstractions" in the sense that there's either a way to do it that is simpler and makes fewer assumptions, or in the sense that they are worse than "no abstraction" which is to say sticking to the abstractions that have already been invented for you by people whose jobs it is to do that exact work for millions of engineers and are therefore probably way better equipped.
Alongside fruits and vegetables
So TL;DR: Using SIMD and multithreading is faster than doing no optimization in python. The only real comparison here is when not doing any optimization is:

> The above code produced a 90x speedup over Python and a 15x speedup over NumPy as shown in the figure below:

Am I missing something?
A little bit of code duplication tends to be much less toxic than a lot of discussions on proper coding techniques.
This looks interesting to me, but the cheapest tier is $99/month. Why is it so expensive? Isn't this just building an Electron app for you?
Ask HN: What are you excited about?
America doesn't believe in a tomorrow beyond the next quarter.
I don't understand why we aren't building nuclear-powered desalinization plants? I am sure the upfront investment is costly, but they seem like an ideal solution if you can get over the "Nuclear scary" aspect for the general public.
Maybe they are trying to use it up before fracking contaminates it all anyway.
> the marginal cost of letting the poor view it is basically nothing.

That’s why all kinds of products today with nearly zero marginal cost are free?
Better than usable, it's a game-changer - which is why I recommended it. 4k resolution really only makes sense on monitors 40" and larger, imho.
> It should be the goal of every human to eliminate as many jobs as possible.

I mean this is exactly what Drew is disputing.

The capital class will remove the jobs, capture the value of whatever labor is saved, and the workers who lose their jobs will be left with fewer resources and no realistic path to replace their lost income. They won't glide towards some utopian vision where everybody ends up working one day a week on their passion projects.

In some kind of abstract way these ML techniques provide potentially useful tools, but workers will not be the ones to see the benefits of more "productivity" that these tools enable.

The US can't even agree that, despite its vast wealth, health care is something everybody should receive regardless of employment. This country lacks the imagination to handle this situation in a way that improves lives for workers.
Yeah given that they don't describe any sort of innovation on the sensing side of thing, I'm guessing they just trained a neural net with nebulous inputs and expect everybody to believe in the output.
Or maybe it's a bug in 80% of the cases and not in the other 20%.
> Why is the cable in the box also in a small plastic bag?

The charger I bought this weekend was in a cardboard box. Inside that cardboard box was a plastic shimmy bracket, keeping things in place. The charger had a plastic film adhered to it, but not the whole thing, just like the on the sides kind of. The cable was tied together with a velcro band (plastic from the futor!). On the plugs of the cable were little plastic protector caps. The box itself was wrapped in plastic of course. There was a booklet, not plastic.

The material world we've surrounded ourselves with really is made of plastic, disposable trash.
This seems really expensive to just wrap in electron. I do not see anything about app store insertion either. Am i missing something?
Are you talking about the thing Chrome does with it's tabs where you can put them together in sections and give them a colour and name?
True, and they also claim that the filter is good for at least 100,000 gallons. That may be correct and I'm just doing something wrong, but my experience with it is more in line with what most reviewers claim: about 1,000 gallons before I can no longer restore reasonable flow.

As you say, they're inexpensive, so I don't sweat this too much.
Prior to releasing the chat history "feature" there was an opt-out form that could be submitted, which did not have any impact on the webapp's functionality. I'm not current enough to know if that form 1) ever had any effect, and 2) if a form-submitted opt-out is still valid given they now have the aforementioned in-app feature.
That's insane.

Although last time I was in the US I was told by stores that they didn't support contactless payments. I tapped anyway and it went through, after they tried to grab my card out of my hand to swipe it.

Yeah, that's not going to work. Swiping is disabled except on a case by case basis, and grabbing my card out of my hard isn't going to get my custom.
How do we hold a government accountable in any reasonable time frame, mass scale protests ? Election cycles are too slow now.
I miss the 90's. There was much more diversity: VAX/VMS systems were quite common on the Internet. On the consumer side, I knew plenty of people with Amigas and Ataris at home. By the late 90's, that was all gone.
You can't do anything about it. Personally, I think it's probably being a bit overblown. It's definitely not good but some of these articles make it sound like you'll drop dead in a few days.

Plastics have enabled us to keep food fresh and have done a lot of things to keep humans living longer and healthier than they ever could in the past. Our modern food preservation couldn't exist without them.

So, yeah we need to be better but I think people should be looking at the overall picture. I don't see an alternative for plastic right now.
The main cost of juniors is the time it takes other people to get them going. Good onboarding and mentoring of juniors takes a ton of time creating structure and training material, then working with them once they’re on. If any of that’s messed up or gets derailed by execs pushing for MORE PRODUCTIVITY RIGHT NOW, and taking away time folks were using to train juniors, your onboarding will suck and more juniors will founder. Either way, we’re talking a few months, not weeks, and the junior’s salary isn’t the cost companies with any amount of sense are worried about.
I know I am going to sound stupid, but I failed to find where the settings for this extension are. Neither the toolbar icon, nor the sidebar, nor the Firefox's extensions management page seem exposing any.
I stopped working in big ‘tech’ and trying to find my flame back with ‘simple tech’. I operate a small application build for a local baker and hacking around with computers once in a while. But making my money somewhere else.
Check out the episode of Gene Kim's podcast with Elisabeth Hendrickson, it does such a great job exploring the myths and realities around software testing.

https://itrevolution.com/podcast/the-idealcast-episode-3/
Trying to think about the forces on the ends of the cables; when the wind is blowing and the big weight they support is bucking and the resonances of all these waves are interacting among all those cables... I kinda suspect there were instantaneous loads at times that were several multiples of the static weight. kinda expect that would count for more. Not that I know anything about it :)

It stood for as long as it did, and had more weight added than the original design called for: thats a pretty good win for the original design, i think.
They'll be food justice camps run by Nestle. You know the company that employs child slaves.
Tbh I would like to see a movie about superheroes or aliens from a non-Hollywood director as well. They could put their own unique spin to it.
Bird is unaffected, so I assume their response is satisfaction for a job well done. FRR, on the other hand, appears to be less responsive to concerns -- which does actually concern me since I use FRR, though not presently for eBGP. Disclosure seems to have done the job thankfully, as there appears to have been a little scramble over at FRRouting/frr about an hour ago.
EU court rules that minorities in Bosnia are ‘akin to second-class citizens’
Not OP, but yes for sure.

Most importantly, it lets you collapse/expand groups with just a click. Makes for a fluid built-in no-frills "putting project A tabs aside to work on project B while keeping tabs ordering and grouping, without the extra friction of bookmarks or profiles" workflow.
Steve: Elixir saved Pinterest over $2 million per year in server costs.

Jose: Can we have some of that money?

Steve: No.
Painter or Photographer; Which Has It Easier?
Ticket closed, case closed.

And I am only half-joking about that. I don't think that effort is that visible and often goes unrewarded. I feel like a lot of managers don't directly, but indirectly use number of tickets closed as a sign of productivity which affects promotions and compensation.

Obviously YMMV, but teams that care about their code quality to such an extent are less likely than places that act as ticket factories.
My reason is super simple, no CarPlay at the time. Been a Toyota driver my whole life before the last car. There was a zero percent change that the wife and I would live another decade with some BS automaker ui. Toyota has seen the light and my mothers recent Camry purchase has CarPlay.
I wonder how well (or if it's even possible?) to pair this with hosted WASM runners (like CloudFlare Workers, or Fastly Runners, etc.).

It looks like there is also (limited?) support for tracing functions and allocations in WASM binaries you didn't compile. I'm looking forward to trying this out!
Big thing you would expect if it’s due to general plastic/pollution prevalence is obesity in pets/wild animals.
I agree.

Do you feel that Elixir is being needlessly hyped?
This is probably mostly the right answer to the obesity problem. Most condiments and packaged "food" is garbage food. If argue that a majority of products in a typical grocery store don't need to be there.
The wrong abstraction can completely destroy a startup. I've never seen duplicate code with that ability to cause damage.

Or consider the centuries humans spent trying to make geocentric astronomical models work.
Have you seen the current #1 article on HN ?

> New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37306427
I assume dysgenics (which you’d assume is happening if family size is inversely correlated with education and or income).

AFAIK there are some studies that show that dysgenics are at least not the only effect in play (e.g. this study https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1718793115). But I am far from an expert on the topic.
Do not forget that what Sweden took action was accommodated to the general behaviour of the Swedes. They keep a reasonable distance at all. If any restriction is only a recommendation and not a strict rule, they comply anyway. They generally have better state of health than many - even European - country.

Did Sweden act much better than other countries, and got much better outcome? Yes.

Could the same work in other countries? Most likely not, except other Nordic states.
The fact this is not done by members of the dev team is pretty impressive both from the fact that they share this much information freely (on their youtube dev vlog?) and that someone was able to recreate the architecture semi-faithfully with that same info, including over-time.
Ooh, I like this game.

F Bezos
M Musk
K Zuckerberg.

Eh, seriously though. To me, they all feel like conmen that engage in bad behavior to some extent.

I have to say that I admire Zuckerberg the least of this group because the bad behavior of Facebook feels so much more personal. I think you can almost get away with that stuff if you're charismatic like Steve Jobs and have good taste, but that's IMO not him at all.

As far as Musk goes, I think it's impossible for him to have a fair shake these days because of his disputes with the media in taking away their checkmarks and disagreeing with many of them politically. I can write out a long list of stuff I disagree with Elon Musk on, but I think most people aren't going to weigh everything fairly right now because he's having his 2 minutes of hate in the press.

With Bezos, it feels like he'd be willing to do anything to succeed, no matter how crooked. That's admirable in terms of succeeding in business, but maybe not so much as a person.

Of all of these people, IMO Musk is the only one that has a realistic chance at a super positive legacy. 40 years from now, Amazon and Facebook might still be some boring megacorporations or not. That's great for their descendants' wallets, but who cares about them otherwise? With Musk, you're probably not going to remember specific details of his shitposting on X that angered you, but the Earth might be a better place from some technology he was heavily involved in.
I concur. It's such a pain to go back and requote random words in my query on every search because Google decided it knew what I wanted better than I do.
Yep. Has bitten me in the bottom before.
> My question: what should I answer to that e-mail in order to force WhatsApp to collect as few metadata as possible coming from my activity?

Simple answer – you aren't going to be able to. Do you think they are going to release a new version of the app just for you? Their current policy has undoubtedly been approved by legal teams in the EU and across the world and unless you can find better lawyers than theirs or sympathetic government officials to back your cause you aren't really moving the needle.
Google: We're shutting down Google domains cause we need to focus.

Also Google: Here's the pollen API you guys have been asking for for ages.
why not just

SUPPORTED_INFERENCE_MODELS = {
"groundingdino": registry.grounding_dino_base,
"yolov8": registry.yolov8_bas,
...
}
I presume it's the Gingery series.

1. Foundry: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Charcoal-Foundry-Build-Metal-Workin...

2. Lathe: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Metal-Lathe-Build-Working-Scrap/dp/...

There are a few examples on YouTube of people who have successfully made this lathe, here's an example timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBuUOO3qn30

It's a cool project, but in the end you get an aluminium lathe made of home castings. If you just want a lathe, I'd suggest starting with a secondhand mini lathe instead and modding it to your taste, they're not very expensive. It's a lot less work than making a Gingery lathe, and not all that much more expensive. But the Gingery lathe is still a cool project!
The Reusability Paradox (2002)
Using hydroponic systems that recycle the same water is an approach I don’t hear enough about. If the climate keeps changing and agriculture is eroding topsoil, plants will need to be moved indoors eventually anyways.