skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scala has lost its hype status, and hype chasers will more likely use Go or Rust. Kotlin has encroached on the "better Java" category (and of course Java is now better). One of the great Scala success stories was Twitter, which has been eviscerated by an impulsive man-child, and their commitment to Scala is in doubt.

The community is a bit worried over these developments, and there has been some sniping over the disruption caused by Scala 3 (mainly to projects that relied on macros, even though macros were marked as an experimental feature).

IMO Scala is still the best language on the JVM, and last I checked there were plenty of jobs for experienced Scala devs. The foot guns weren't that severe, or at least I am used to them (in my opinion, Java coding has more foot guns due to nulls and mutable state everywhere, YMMV).

Scala 3 was more incremental, than radical, and was massively less disruptive than you see with other attempts to clean up a language (Python 3, Perl 6, anything involving PHP) due to good design, careful planning and backwards compatibility options.
I run one of the bigger Tor relay families [0] with around 3.5% of the exit bandwidth [1]. Hosting high bw stuff is actually pretty cheap if you stay away from the cloud. I don't pay five figures per month for all these relays it's less than 1k$.
For the actual question there was a big attacker uncovered in 2021 [2] and removed from the network. I'm pretty sure there are still malicious relays on the network the hard part is to know which.

[0] https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/family:C466C9A...

[1] https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/#exit-families (tuxli.org)

[2] https://nusenu.medium.com/is-kax17-performing-de-anonymizati...
Randomly clicked on to a greek located site, and wondered what they were talking about so I sent a bit of the audio to openai whisper api just to find it was mostly radio etiquette and souvlaki recipes.
It’s a barrier for me, I often think I should “outsource” something to ChatGPT and then I realise I’ve been lied to before.

Apparently ChatGPT 4 is better but I’m not paying for it after my crappy experiences with 3.
The problem is a lot of X apps are just built assuming they have these permissions. They have no mechanism to deal with needing to wait for the user to grant this permission. So when you try to do these things in xwayland, you run into undefined behavior.
WMATA sucks. a car is extremely useful in the dmv.

too many service interruptions, doesn't work late night, underfunded, homeless, getting robbed by youth
Any chance of integrating with Vatsim ATC & therefore X-plane?
> I used to think EA was some kooky AI safety Cult but if so many EA folks donate their kidney, my opinion of them has improved far more. They at least have balls!

They are both a kooky AI safety Cult and they do things like donate kidneys and fund malaria nets.

They are a kooky AI safety cult because there is a reasonable argument to make that AGI is the most plausible, preventable human extinction event[1] in the near future. If you believe that argument, then starting (or joining) a kooky AI safety cult seems like a really good idea.

1: It's not clear that an asteroid large enough to wipe out all humans could be prevented with technology we can develop in the next 100 years or so. Global warming is bad and all, but it might kill a couple billion people, not wipe us all out. Total global nuclear war probably won't even kill 100% of the population of all of the countries involved, and large parts of Africa are unlikely to get bombed at all.
I think this is a tendency of all internationals mega corporations. Law is not homogenous around the world, and since you are consequently anyway in violation, you learn how to use that in your favor and ignore it for quite a while. And then, once its start to be annoying, you can finance an army of lawyers to delay or even change the law.

For one part it is quite reasonable to work like that, on the other side it is really unethically and bad for the society as a whole.
Thank you! It is. The ranking article is literally a chapter from the book.
Not quite.

I don’t think low level languages mean you need a small standard library and high level means you need a large one. You’re pattern matching between Python, Java, Go (all large, older) and now Rust (small and newer).

Rust wants to be high level as well, allowing people to solve all kinds of problems of varying complexity in different domains. And to some extent, Rust has succeeded in empowering folks to do this. Rust has found its way into “systems” like browsers (Chromium, Firefox) and Operating Systems (Windows, Linux) but also web software, infrastructure (firecracker), developer tools (ruff, turbopack) and other domains.

Like I said, the request for a larger standard library is a reasonable one. But I don’t think it’s going to happen, because Rust seems to be gaining traction in multiple domains without it. By the numbers it looks like it’s growing 10x every 3 years (https://lib.rs/stats). In such an environment, the folks at the wheel would double down on their approach rather than fundamentally rethinking it.
Is it ass-up?
I don't get people who request for software and websites to become nagware by asking for consent.
A proper bed desk helps my back and neck
Well if you don’t have to go to school in US as a kid and become a citizen outside of school shooting age thats great
Be Anything You Want, but Not a Programmer
It depends on the QoL improvement factor you assign to self-satisfaction I suppose? Just multiply that by the expected number of years left in their life.
Chi and chakras are very well understood to not be science, so "pseudoscience" is a very accurate description.
This reads like utterly history-blind fantasy.

You need to explain why all the other times and ways we have tried what you propose did not work, and what will be different this time.

Start, perhaps, with "The Tyranny of Structurelessness".
The us spends a ton on defense, the money is there. im not a defense expert but im sure we can squint enough and figure out how to make good use of that money instead of spending it on wars
It's not about what we value today inasmuch as what we will value tomorrow.

We're doing a good job at digitizing the past. The next thing we have to do is analog the future. Books can be forgotten for 750 years and still work. I'm not so sure about hard drives.
Tried Dwarf Fortress?
Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang dead at 68: state media
plv8 can let your run JavaScript
Burst Wave Lithotripsy (2014) [video]
What did the watchface exploit actually do?
The issue with society or one of them, is thinking its acceptable for a corporation breaking law to feel spite, the guy was not talking to a person, was talking to a shitty corp breaking law
>That the rack is quiet wasn’t really deliberate (and we are frankly much more interested in the often hidden power draw that blaring fan noise represents).

They optimized for power. That roar of fan noise doesn't necessarily mean they're doing a better job cooling.
There are numerous conflicting studies, and studies are by nature limited in their scope. Current research methods into THC are like cave men performing research on the use of modern tools.

People will use them for the wrong things and get hurt. Others use them for the intended purpose and are better for it. Some get stuck in it because modern capitalist society is designed to put people into indentured servitude.

There's not many holes in climate change or COVID research. Both of those are well studied, with the treatments effective. Neither are a tool like THC is.
Their death knell was in 2016? That's a heck of a long time to find out for a startup burning billions.
SV - Silicon Valley.
> 12 and a half, one. So, I eat all my food. I eat these wonderful souvlaki. There's a table next to it. I sit down. So, once again, once again. The best souvlaki in Greece. What can I tell you? That's it. Every Saturday. And outside Athens. I'm not in Athens. Somewhere outside. So, we'll talk about it. So, Dimitris. So... Yes, yes. So, yes. Ok. I'll give the microphone to Papa My Golf. Ok. And he'll give 20 more. This time. So, I'll let Victor speak. I'm listening to you, Papa My Golf. Next time you should have more signals, Papa My Golf. We're probably talking less today. So, I'm listening to you. Ready. Good, good. There's a gap. Very good. The company doesn't help to do many things on its own. Whatever it does now. I think we should go to the next recipe. Thank you, Dimitris. I have a break. I'll give the microphone to him. Good morning. Papa My Golf here. Good morning. Papa My Golf here. Good morning. I think I'll give the microphone to him. I'll give it to him. Next time. Ok.

> ![[websdr_recording_2023-10-27T05 51 46Z_7197.0kHz.wav]]
I would like to wish you a very good morning, thank you very much for your years, and you too, if you have a celebration or you are celebrating, to enjoy them, to be well. Well, I have listened to Danasis, I have listened to Christos, I have listened to my friend Petros, I have listened to my friend Giorgos, all the company here. Well, I don't know, now I will listen to you here, if there are other guys, my good morning. But I won't take it, because I have to go. Just for a good morning, I stepped here at 797 and I know bread, and I will go to my friend Danasis, my friend here. It's me, your friend, come. Come, come, good morning, good morning Dimitris, good morning. What's up, what are we doing? I'm glad to hear you, my happy years, of course, I sent you my happy years yesterday, and I saw that you received it, so since yesterday it has been a while, but even today, it doesn't hurt, and the more wishes we give, the greater is the possibility that these wishes will come true. Well, I see. Don't tell me, let's talk for a while, Dimitris, before we move on to the next one. In any case, are you ready?
I understand! That's what I suspected, but wasn't sure. I tried understanding it for a minute then thought I'll just ask you! :) haha

Also, thank you for the links. I'll read this because I'm interested in knowing more about thinking behind this. My instinct is in this direction regarding salaries, but I want to develop more clarity. :)
It's definitely the true params! https://ibb.co/jJPm7Bq
Bananas could go extinct due to fungus outbreak, scientists say
Whitespace semantic indentations and {} at the language level so that you can have a clean pythonic view without the risk of looks differing from the meaning and dense one-liners if you like? What an awesome design feature!!! Whish it were more widespread
> I run one of the bigger Tor relay families [0] with around 3.5% of the exit bandwidth

> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/bauruine

> 1113 bauruine@mail.ru 0.01

You're off by a factor of 350.
Have you ever considered that it isn't them, it's just your own perspective and boundaries?
> They've been caught using "typosquatting" domains like microsft.com for telemetry, because security-conscious admins block microsoft.com wholesale.

This seems interesting. Do you have any references for this? I would assume that the main use of such typo-squatting domains is a simple redirect, a la [0][1].

[0]: https://gogle.com
[1]: https://gooogle.com
Evil never sleeps.
I never tested it, I was just happy to get it working.

If I were to do it over, I'd likely want to optimize things quite a bit to get the sensitivity up.

The amazing thing is, though the RTL-SDR dongles are only 8 bit devices, when you're down-sampling 2Mhz of them to audio frequencies, you gain quite a few bits of resolution. I routinely pick up signals below the quantization threshold.

I wonder what the lower bandwidth limit truly is, assuming a stable reference clock.
OnePlus is still reliable and boasts decent build quality and (relatively) non-intrusive software. It has abandoned its "budget phone" shtick though.
With enough subsidies you can sell Ferarris like hotcakes to common folk.
Among the telemetry data:

> MacAddressHash - Used to identify a user of VS Code. This is hashed once on the client side and then hashed again on the pipeline side to make it impossible to identify a given user. On VS Code for the Web, a UUID is generated for this case.

A hash of a hash is about as expansive as a hash and it still uniquely identifies a machine, tying telemetry events to a specific user's machine. Microsoft's own telemetry description generator calls the field "EndUserPseudonymizedInformation". Pseudonymisation is inherently not anonymisation.

This bullshit is why I keep my PiHole on for my dev environment.
People have even gone all the way back and started writing inline styles again. (Tailwind)
Ask HN: How to do learn machine learning?
what's a good practical approach of doing it? the internet is filled with all the theoretical/vids approach. need some practical advice in which one can learn hy doing? from starting
Motorola has notoriously unreliable hardware though. I have only had bad experiences with the brand.
This helps explain to me why, when there is a thread about a woman being mistreated in the workplace, there’s just loads and loads of comments dismissing the concerns and saying she’s overreacting. Quite unfortunately that’s exactly the reaction that leads to those problems persisting.
this is why o&o shutup is invaluable
I love this idea for an interview. This would give you a good idea of what the company is actually working on the quality of the code base and who you would be working with. Interviewing should always be a two-way street.
Someone should tell the investors!

I imagine they are aware that this isn't a solution for many customers. A John Deere tractor makes a poor minivan. This isn't for you. That's fine. It's not for me either. That's ok. I don't need to poo-poo their efforts and sit and moan about how it's not for me.
Microsoft’s own telemetry solutions (AppInsights/LogAnalytics) seem perfectly capable of handing async/buffering/backoff etc.

I agree there should be a single place, at least in Windows to control Microsoft telemetry on a per app basis. It should be very easy to accomplish. On other platforms less so.

In a desktop product I do for work we had the dilemma of opt in/out and showing the query clearly and hiding it in settings. We ended up with the middle ground of showing it but having the checkbox checked (so uncheck to opt out). We were still worried this would leave too few opting in but it meant over 95% did.

For command line I’d be 100% happy with a note on first use describing that telemetry is enabled and how it is disabled. Leaving it disabled by default and requiring user action to enable is not realistic in such a situation.
Here is a concrete need for the flexibility: you can have clean pythonic view by default, but then improve readability with a denser design if you want

if (n < 2) { return n
else { return fibR(n - 1) + fibR(n - 2)}
Allegedly, dogs too. Unclear how but they align north-south when pooping if they get the chance.
Looking at the description, what I can't understand is why they adopted the weird (param_name label) construct for named parameters. IIRC the same is Objective-C and Swift.
You can improve your antialiasing, assuming you're willing to use the well-supported OES_standard_derivatives extension (or WebGL 2). Instead of doing smoothstep(0.0f, 0.01f, dist); with the constants picks sort of at random, instead do smoothstep(fwidth(dist), -fwidth(dist), dist);
> 0.6-0.8 * Petawatts * of extra energy circulating

What is that as a percentage of total energy circulating? The number by itself is meaningless - the Earth is large, it has a lot of energy, that's not news.
Not sure what this article is about. A country with the name of Yugoslavia continued to exist all throughout the 90s. The article argues it was some kind of an imperialistic claim, but ... whatever? It still existed and it was called like this. They took part in the FIFA world cup 1998 under the name? I find it strange that the article pretends this doesn't matter and matter of factly deals with the "curious" case of a country not existing, but its domain existing.

If they wanted to deal with this case, they had the .su domain of the Soviet Union, which still exists.
> True, last year it wasn’t but this year it was

This year isn't over. The story is about Q1, not the year.
I meant the "cloud" components, which typically represent a quasi distributed OS (because real distributed OSes don't exist) and thus are complex to create and maintain. But that's, uh, concerning, that they're also using Illumos. On the one hand, they're guaranteed to understand the system well, because they're probably the only people on the planet who do... On the other hand, makes it harder to hire for, port software to, or later sell the company due to the risk of maintaining such a one-off stack. But Joyent was able to pull off a big exit after almost a decade, so maybe these folks can too.
Not really. This was expected. The commision tends to align with big business friendly proposals. The parliament tends to align with inhabitants, but has less power. Proposals go back and forth.

What makes this story special is how blatantly bribable the commission must be to make them spit out this proposal.
Hah, looking forward to our 2039 light rail presence in Ballard.
You didn't even get MSRP for 2023 right. Try to learn google or bing or something.
Mixing C# and Rust – Interop
Those two sentences feel in contradiction of one another. You don’t need worry to about where the bits go, you just need to know to call a method to move the bits?

Swift makes every type implicitly copyable on the stack, including object pointers (through ARC), so you don’t have to clone. You can even pass functions as variables without any hoops.

I love lots of things about Rust, though, and will continue to use it for lots of things. Cross-platform things, for one!
Also note that password managers generally won’t let you export a copy of your passkeys for offline backup.

Until this is fixed, no thank you.

Give me a secure way to make backups on my own infrastructure without the need to forgo my data sovereignty and disaster recovery dependencies to the likes of Google, Apple, etc.
ISO 3166 has a a lot of legacy countries (edit: countries code ! not countries), not the ICANN fault. Like Guadeloupe, that is a French region, not a independent island (and doesn't want to be).
I should study why these code exists since there aren't UN members. Seems a lot political for me.
Interesting that I managed to bypass the first filter but then the Dall-E backend refused to comply: https://i.imgur.com/a/qikzBkP.jpg
I know a few people who have donated kidneys (both to friends and strangers), and I find it admirable (and supererogatory).

At the same time, I think this post demonstrates a kind of selective unawareness that I’ve seen members of the EA community demonstrate. A significantly less charitable summary of Scott’s situation is “our prospective kidney donor is newly-married high-stress professional with a history of SSRI usage who has recently experienced significant negative public attention and belongs to an actively-imploding community/cult.” This is almost certainly what the UCSF administrators perceived, and his latent hostility to them almost certainly didn’t help.

This doesn’t necessarily justify their decision (maybe they are just bureaucrats), but it’s a framing that’s roughly as plausible as the bucolic EA one that’s presented. A community that has a self-stated mission in rationality should be able to see that.
I was curious about this from the purely monetary perspective - building good public transit is unfortunately very expensive here in the US and probably even more so in California, but how expensive is it relative to self driving cars?

Supposedly Google has spent $1.1bn between 2009 and 2015 [0], and Waymo has raised $5.5bn in outside funding, supposedly last valuing it at around $30bn. Cruise is apparently on track to burn ~$2bn/yr. Getting reliable figures on actual dollars invested to date on projects is much harder unfortunately. However, it seems like overall it's in the range of billions and likely less than $10bn for any individual project. [1]

As a few benchmarks, I was curious about the cost of the California HSR, Caltrain electrification, and the recent SFMTA Central Subway project.

The SFMTA Central Subway project was a 1.7 mile extension of an existing T line, and cost $1.95bn.

The California HSR's initial 171 mile segment is estimated to cost $35 billion with the final system estimated to be well north of $100bn.

The Caltrain electrification electrified 51 miles of the Caltrain network and introduces new EMU trains at the cost of $2.44bn.

From a bay area resident/layman perspective, the R&D cost for any self driving car project doesn't seem to be out of proportion compared to public transit. Even if we took the information's estimate of the whole industry burning $16bn so far, that'd only buy you half of the initial segment of the Cailfornia HSR, which doesn't make it seem like self-driving car research is that outlandish. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if full autonomous vehicles land before the HSR fulfills its full mission of LA <> SF in under 3 hours.

Bloated local projects like the central subway make self driving car investments a steal, with 1.7 miles of subway in SF costing the same ballpark as a semi-mature self driving car program.

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/google-has-spent-over-11-billion-o...
[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/money-pit-self-drivi...
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DOGE’s recent price spikes have raised questions about its sustainability, with prominent analyst Rekt Capital calling it a “moment of truth.”
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>You don't need to lug groceries around - just get them delivered.

And pay markup + delivery fee + service fee + tip? No thanks
Ups forgot that that there is this one relay that I don't run that is also called bauruine. I've updated the link to MyFamily. nusenu shows the authenticated domain which is tuxli.org for my relays.
You are being negative though. You could have phrased that as "they are still new, but I hope they can catch up", which doesn't imply they messed up by being late to the game.

Disruptors never have feature parity to established players in their first offering.
In China, a lot of EVs are being sold, something like 50% of all cars. The vast majority of them are very small, similar to the Japanese kei cars.

They are used in "3rd tier" cities, not the cities you might have heard of such as Beijing and Wuhan.

Crucially, these cars are affordable. Well under USD 10k. Not street legal in Western countries, of course.

Back in the West, it appears that the pool of wealthy people who wish to virtue-signal by buying a car for $70K or more is finite.

I haven't yet seen any stories about the experiences of rental car companies with electric cars, and why they are not snapping them up. Those stories would be very interesting. So would the stories of companies that operate their own fleets.