skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You took just one example. And, although there weren't many cases of proprietary languages or almost-proprietary languages dying in recent years, there are, of course, examples of them dying. You just picked one where this didn't happen...

So, ActionScript would be one example. Dylan would be another. There are probably many more of lesser known proprietary languages that died never making the news.

And, looping back to the original subject: parent believes there's no danger in using an almost-proprietary language, where the evidence is that owners of proprietary languages do kill them every now and then. Do they do it all the time? -- well, no, but I didn't claim anything like that...

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As to your observation about Python 2.X -- you didn't understand in what context the argument was made. C, or any other language with a standard is warranted the lifetime that's as long as humanity is able to read and understand the standard as well as implementing it. So, 20 years will be essentially insignificant compared to the longevity of a language with a published standard.

Please don't confuse this to me advocating for every language needing a standard. Writing one severely restricts what a language can offer, while at the same time, immortalizing potentially harmful features. Going back to see, we wish today that all the str* stuff would be gone, or stuff like atoi()... but that's not an option anymore, because this stuff made it into the standard. Languages w/o one can shed their skin and remove bad decisions. But, this same feature makes them less viable for long-term projects.
It's everyones responsibility here. I think part of the problem here is words like "manager", "executive" and "leader". That creates weird ideas of hierarchy when a better mental image is just that people have different roles. Then it's much easier to ask good questions and avoid stuff like this.
> What you should be "delighted" by is when you find a new way to explain something that resonates with most of the class

You are right, and I am! I don't think that's incompatible with also being delighted when someone shows interest or aptitude. In fact, the synergy is the best part, when someone shows interest or aptitude because they are willing to put in the work to follow the pathway that I have tried to open up for them.
I'm working on gptscatalog.com, a comprehensive catalog of custom GPT models.

It's all about exploring the potential of GPTs!
Nah, I checked with the local fire department before buying. They’ll apply directed force and fracture the ring to remove it in an emergency. A friend is an electrical lineman, so digit safety is top of mind.

Example: https://youtu.be/eKxUYvKR-jw
I remember the day I got my AMD 287 co-processor for my old Samsung 286. IIRC I ordered it from an ad I saw in Compute! magazine. At the time I had this book about writing fractals in C and I went back and recompiled all my code to use the co-processor instead of the emulation library that came with Turbo C, what a revelation. These days I only buy CPU's with math coprocessors.
Sure. I'm wondering what people would respond to blanket asking what is the second prime factor of 12, because I would say 2, not 3. So 37 being the median here was a bit jarring specially since "non-repeating" wasn't even mentioned in the article.
> That's very optimistic. P&A (print and advertising, but since movies are now released in digital copies, the print part has become negligible) usually is between half and 100% of the production budget.

I was assuming they would do the absolute bare minimum in advertising tbh, that was mostly print costs and just the basics like providing poster art and standees etc. As you say, if you wanted any effective marketing at all you'd be looking at five to ten times that.
Unrelated but reminded me of the time in SF when we had the big water conservation push and you had to ask to get a glass of water refilled and signs were printed inside of restaurants about it. I am ok changing ways and behind conserving water but it was amusing because in my head I thought surely the delta of doing this is not even measurable.
The library Canva use for drawing lines may be of interest: https://github.com/steveruizok/perfect-freehand
> Imprecise asks from managers and leaders cause a disproportionate amount of turmoil and wheel-spinning.

This isn't just for managers, that applies to everyone. I'm currently working through a backlog of tasks, some of which are years overdue (or no longer relevant). The primary issue as I see it, is that the vast majority of these tasks are minor issue, not worth allocation someone to full time, they are also so poorly worded and lacking in description that nobody is going to be able to look through the backlog and pick something to work on for a few hours.

Tasks and bug reports linger when you don't provide enough context for someone to easily get a sense of what you're asking. You could spend weeks working on something only to find out that it's either not relevant or that you're going in the wrong direction.

Clarity is hard.
Below median, not average
I don't enjoy having a camera with facial recognition pointed at my face when purchasing groceries. I also don't enjoy 10:1 ratio of card vs cash registers.
Obligatory mention: "Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?" (1982) [0]

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...
Random anecdote: Yesterday I accidentally stole two different things from self-checkouts. At the grocery store I stole 2 flats of Coke Zero because I forgot the stuff under the cart. At Home Depot I tried to buy 2 packs of leaf bags but somehow ended up with 3. I noticed the Coke problem after I had left the store but in time to go back pay for them, but not the leaf bags.

If the store had noticed the problem would they have treated me like a criminal? I'm the type of guy who goes back to pay for something even after a successful accidental theft, which I suspect puts me in the minority, but I don't think it's uncommon either.
Am I misreading something or is this just a way to stay stuck in perpetual internet flamewars?

If anything I feel that the stereotypical “terminally online” person might try to get offended a bit less.

(That person used to be me, I’m not pointing at some outgroup)
Co oznacza słowo "sram" w języku polskim? DeepL nie daje mi żadnych trafień
Same thing happens all the in my relationship with my partner:

I text "oh hey if you haven't left yet could you bring my umbrella?"

She arrives 20 minutes late and $20 down, having received message after she left and taken a detour to buy me an umbrella.

Communicating stakes and priorities is hard! I think I've been explicit but she doesn't read messages as literally as me. I should have said "if you have already left then please don't worry as I have a coat on".
Fundamentally, without sufficient rigor there can be no proofs; "maybe" and "someone says so" aren't good theoretical building blocks.
True, nodejs really doesn't have _the_ framework. Python had flask, php is WordPress and RoR.

Why is that? Especially since most of the new frameworks copy the ideas of existing frameworks.

P.S. Perhaps because a JS framework based off the ideas of rails would be called jails! /s
I think you have the perspective of somehow who's succeeded in Physics. In your typical introductory physics class less than half the students will walk away with a very solid understanding of classical mechanics.

To my mind, if the textbook was actually excellent then that would be 80%+. We're nowhere near there. I think there is LOT of room for improvement

But sure.. Thermodynamics.. things could be worse :)

Sometimes things are just hard because they're complicated and you need to buckle down and learn your multiplication tables. But at least in my own life experience, the vast majority of the time things are a problem because their poorly explained - often by people that poorly understand it themselves.

Once you truly understand something inside and out - and look back on it - it all generally looks relatively simple. But it takes a special talent to be able to go back and reexplain it from the naiive perspective
It's bizarre to me that as a society we can be aware of these kinds of destructive, wasteful practices but we still seem to have our hands tied with regard to putting an end to them.

I don't know how we explain our inaction on all manner of things like this to future generations.
I don't know why you're catching downvotes, I think you're completely right. In my engineering curriculum in some cases the teachers were openly hostile to students that had a hard time understanding the material.

Professors of undergraduates don't seem to think from the undergraduate perspective. Most undergrads have only ever known school, and are just following directions while fumbling their way to their first interview. From that perspective it doesn't make any sense why some classes have to be immensely difficult and high-stakes, and others can be a little easier. From the graduated perspective, you can see "the big well-intentioned lie"--in truth, no field can be condensed into 16 weeks, even if you're studying it and nothing else 14 hours per day. The more difficult a class is, the closer it is to the truth that the class itself is a carefully structured playground, and the real field is more dizzyingly wide and complex than any student can imagine. However, I don't see why this lesson has to be so painful to students.
If you put them next to each other anyone can tell they are different. Anyone who has seen a few diamonds up and close will see that the moissanite looks different.
These are good suggestions.

I would add that D&D is extremely hit or miss, and don't be afraid to leave a group you aren't clicking with and find another one.
Guidance on implementing cryptography as a developer
It's a Linux distro but not a GNU/Linux distro
Oh... you mean "take it off". I thought you meant it was locked in a safe or something.
Specifically her novel "The Bulgari Connection"
Nvidia's AI Success
It's not hard to find that SpaceX has an average injury rate
Related site on Slack/messaging etiquette: https://nohello.net/
Whirlpool SlimTech makes refrigerator doors 60% thinner
Can’t we ban growing of these high water crops in areas where there is water shortage? One can happily live without eating pistachios their entire life, no?
Ha, I live in northern England right near one of their stores.

You need to remember Booths are probably the 'poshest' supermarket in the UK. They don't compete on price, they compete on service - I remember the first time I bought a box of eggs and the cashier checked each individually for damage.

Personally I like this - assuming they have plenty of staff on the tills.
*While many Balkans are migrating to western Europe and elsewhere for a better pay.
> No need to get the govt involved.

Well, states are already involved in the EU due to the GDPR, e-privacy directive, and other things. But the case is interesting from a legal perspective. Note that the complainant refers to Irish criminal law, but there is also Directive 2013/40/EU, which contains rather similar mandates.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=celex%3A...
We're having similar problem with Nitrite salts in Ham, not as deadly though. It shows how we're willing to make things look better just to sell more and at the detriment of health.
I’ve tried going back to the Mac OS X days of not updating till at least X.x.2, but only for iOS this time.

Unfortunately that’s not how iOS development seems to work and minor releases seem as buggy as the major releases, sometimes bringing completely new bugs altogether.

It’s been a while since I’ve used a Mac in my day to day so I can’t really comment on that side of things, but my wife who had all the passion of a recent convert for the Mac over the past 2 years has completely soured on it due to bugs since the last release.

I see issues with her laptop that I never saw during the 15 years or so a Mac was my only computer, including a completely frozen desktop that I’d never seen despite the fact that I owned a Mac at a time where I had several KEXTs installed.
Study of Solar Air-Source Heat Pump Heating System Based on Phase-Change Storage
Whatever I think about Google, I have a softspot for youtube. Youtube is an amazing resource for society, the amount of knowledge that humanity has stored on their servers is mind boggling. You can learn anything there from DIY Flooring installation to programming to Japanese. I've started entire years long side projects based on being inspired by something I've seen on youtube.

I'm alright watching adds to see that resource remain free.
I'm even alright with them not showing me videos if they detect I have my ad blocker on. That seems fair to me.

I use firefox and have ublock origin turned on everywhere else on the web.

I do think though that they should be separated from Google.
I ride a motorcycle and still can't quite figure this idea out. Interesting subject.
I can't see a URL.
I continue to block ads on YouTube and have had no adverse warnings but I anticipate them eventually. Relevancy of the ads is an issue but I am more frustrated by the quality, repetitiveness, and many times the obnoxiousness of the ads. I will never, ever, purchase liberty insurance. I am sick and tired of the ostrich man. A company that blasts its obnoxious advertising holds the same place in my hatred as loud, used car dealers.
> Part of the rumour for some Celeron chips

Not a rumor. Starting with Coppermine, Celerons were Binned P3s. Same die size and all.

Interestingly, AMD did not typically do the same for the Duron (with one or two exceptions). My understanding at the time was their dies had extra cache to handle defects without full binning.
I couldn't help but read your comment as "two poor artists protest two extremely wealthy people posing as artists."
Lowest performance per watt has been the domain of x86 for a while now ;-)

Where they shone has always been highest single-thread performance per capex dollar (not necessarily per opex, which is highly influenced by power consumption).

When you add everything, the CPU is a relatively minor part of the server - a lot of energy is going to storage, memory, networking and other non-application activities, as well as memory and vector pipelines in GPUs (often a lot more than whatever goes into the CPU).

Being less burdened by compatibility, ARM is in a much better place WRT performance per watt. I expect RISC-V to be in a similar position soon.
Show HN: Easily Visualize Your SQLAlchemy Data Models in a Nice SVG Diagram
> In my engineering curriculum in some cases the teachers were openly hostile to students that had a hard time understanding the material.

While there's no excuse for it, I think faculty see so much apathy on such a regular basis that sometimes it's easy to mistake sincere struggle for a lack of desire to engage. For precisely that reason, I try very hard to recognize and reward my students who are willing to take the time to work with me, whatever their existing comfort or proficiency level with the subject is, but I know that there are times (probably many more than I'd like to imagine) when I don't rise to that ideal.

> Professors of undergraduates don't seem to think from the undergraduate perspective. … However, I don't see why this … has to be so painful to students.

I think you might underestimate how painful it is to faculty, too! Most of us are in this for the love of our subject, and many are even in it for the love of teaching, and it's painful to have something that's so beautiful and beloved for us be the cause of suffering in others.

Anyway—while I completely agree that it would be better if the learning experience could be the joy it should be, and free of the pain that it often carries, I do wonder if some of this might be intrinsic. There are certain topics that are just difficult, and on their first encounter with which most learners will find themselves lost and confused. But those topics have to be, or are believed to have to be, understood to be successful in the field, so that loss and confusion will have to be felt some time. Isn't it better if that's in the classroom rather than on the job?

> The more difficult a class is, the closer it is to the truth that the class itself is a carefully structured playground, and the real field is more dizzyingly wide and complex than any student can imagine.

This is a beautiful description. I know as a teacher that I try to communicate this to my students, but also that I surely fail much more often than I succeed.
It's a desert tree that rots when it gets too much rain. You could hardly find a much more suitable crop.
"It is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism."
Fortunately the 20th-century has seen deeply unprecedented cultural dynamics over and over, so these kinds of doomsaying trendlines aren't much use anymore.
You don’t need a loss to occur for there to be a crime “the trump defense”

If I break into your house, eat your food, but leave money on the counter for the same value, you didn’t make a loss, but I’m sure you would want me to be arrested
And they were right.
Google Translate to the rescue: https://translate.google.com/?sl=pl&tl=en&text=sram&op=trans...
I suppose that so much water is necessary when a great production is desired.

It is likely that in its native desert conditions much less nuts are produced.
I can't speak to the quality of them, as I'm still on a phone with a headphone jack, but there are plenty of Usb C DACs that split the usb c for charging too.
The article is casting them in a needlessly antagonistic light. The "more water then..." claim is sourced from this (far superior) article [1], which makes clear that for one, it's saying more water than the houses in LA, not the city (residential use seems to be approx 2x commercial use), and for two this is for every farm these people own in CA, not just the pistachios. So that includes POM Pomegranate juice, Wonderful Pistachios, Cuties Clementines, and some almonds. Indeed, the owner of the second largest produce company in America might be expected to use water on the same level as the residents of the second largest city in America.

That's not to say they're free from ridicule: one particularly damning tidbit in the article linked below outlines a plan by which they bought water from the state for pennies on the dollar then sold it back to the taxpayers at a massive profit. Anyone paying water bills or taxes in CA could find just cause to be upset about that.

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/lynda-stewar...
Cathode-Retro: A collection of shaders to emulate the display of an NTSC signal
I made this last week for fun, but I think it could be useful for people. If your application has pretty complicated SQLalchemy data models (and the app I'm working on now has gotten super complicated, with dozens of models with complex interconnections), then this very easily generates an attractive SVG that you can open in the browser showing all your tables and how they are connected. You can be up and running with this in less than a minute— just open it in Google Colab, replace the sample data models with your own, and run the notebook, and you should see the SVG displayed almost immediately at the bottom.

I attempted to also generate an HTML file containing the embedded SVG as well as some JS to enable nice interactive hover-on effects (I wanted to highlight the border of the table you hover over and then change all the outgoing connections to other tables to be red, and all incoming connections to that table to be green), but it wasn't working and started turning into a slog after an hour. If anyone knows how to do this, please submit a PR!
It's not hard to find an injury rate for the actual industry as opposed to the one in the article that doesn't cover what SpaceX is doing
> > If you're pigheaded and clever enough to get through the masochistic torture is that their undergrad textbooks then you're probably pretty clever and so the prestige of the degrees is maintained.

> I have a PhD in particle physics, and I've been a researcher at CERN with colleagues from multiple countries. And I cannot understand what you are saying there.

Hrm.
That was more an issue of political will and priorities than technological limits, though.
This is nothing like crypto, which is still a bad solution to a problem I didn’t know I had.

OpenAI is the dominant player in the hottest area and has a significant and valuable product.

No idea who will achieve Strong AGI but ChatGPT is the real deal.
The classic sign of weak management is asking for reports or assigning tasks they do not understand the full implications of.

The classic sign of weak engineering is saying yes to the former.

When asked by weak management to do a task that is outside the scope of what can be trivially done, it is the responsibility of the worker to do one of three things (depending on technical and social context):

A) Ask, "how should that be done?"
This works if the manager is also technical, and is using vague tasking as a way to compensate for their own technical incompetence, push that shit right back to them. Asking this question forces them to come to grips with the realities of the scope and mechanisms of what they are asking.

B) Inform them, "That will take X resources, what are your expectations?" (Where X is an immense amount of man-hours, money, old-school RuneScape GP, whatever). This is for non-technical managers and serves a similar role as (a), making them come to grips with the fact what they are asking is a major request that needs to go through the normal procedural mechanisms for such a thing, not something they can authorize off the cuff.

C) Say "No". This is not possible in every organization or every social context, but organizations that want to be high-performing will make this possible. In high-performance engineering contexts, engineering will has a strong veto power over dumb bullshit that can only be overridden high up in the C-suite. Understanding how and when to exercise this veto is an important skill for engineering to develop.
At what point does something become part of a tradition or culture? Why does "it started as an ad campaign" preclude something from becoming part of culture?
Touch typing you usually end up basically 'sending the commands' to your fingers before you put much though into it. So if you are off by 1 char or forget which mode you are in you can really destroy yourself. Most touch typing is also taught without you even looking at the paper/screen. The idea is your imagine what you want expressed and your fingers just 'do it'. I have done both of those things hundreds of times. I will do them again. As typing is just something I do not put much thought into until something is very wrong. At 90WPM you can get a lot of chars in before you figure out you have reallllly messed up.
https://cooljugator.com/pl/sra%C4%87
Not having a good C compiler is pretty much a blocker for any general purpose processor being successfully released.

If you can't run actual software faster than your competition, your theoretical benefits remain just that.
You don't even have to wear rings.
'We can't carry on': the godfather of microplastics on how to stop them
I think that this largely comes down to company culture and how comfortable people are pushing back at senior leaders (the onus being on senior leaders to make it comfortable for people under them to push back). The best leaders, in my experience, show humbleness and a willingness to listen.

That said, sometimes working on bullshit is just part of the gig. If there’s too much of it, by all means look for another job, but don’t be the guy who is always second guessing management.
This makes me wonder how they pulled off something similar in Macromedia Flash (RIP) well over 20 years ago. I vividly remember being amazed by how it smoothed out curves when drawing freehand, with such limited processing power compared to today's CPUs.
Unveiling success through platform engineering
Pistachio is a low water crop.
Doesn't look like Canva is a sponsor...