skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of the article is not surprise that this is happening (obviously language changes in this way), but curiosity about how it is happening.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For the reaction to be so strong I wonder if there was more than just broken French. Always easy to go with the super nice tourist/mean for no reason autoctone.

Anyway, sorry you had this experience.
The most prominent example of VLIW processors was the Itanic, er, Itanium.

It, er, didn't work out well.

Hence Itanic.

Their premise was that the compiler could figure out dependencies sufficiently statically so that they could put multiple sequential and some divergent execution paths in the same instruction. It turned out the compilers couldn't actually do this, so processors figure out dependencies and parallelizable instructions dynamically from a sequential instruction stream.

Which is a lot of work, a lot of chip resources and a lot of energy. And only works up to a point, after which you hit diminishing returns. Which is where we appear to be these days.
... but they're in suits! (nah joking burn them in hell, they are all bunch of power hungry sociopaths, normal folks wouldn't survive a day among such C-suites due to being decent human beings).

But realize that list for whatever action would be done would be... very long. Monsanto, bunch of Wall street guys (if you trace actions to real consequences), this and probably many more. I think life sentence in maximum security prison in US would be actually worse.

Also, you soon hit grey area, say defense industry and its bribing of government to start wars that killed millions... where do you draw the line? One's man patriot is another's murderer
Does “ad” not count as a UI element?
The anti-science political movement was in effect long before Carter. He tried to switch to the metric system and was opposed on cultural grounds as one example. But look back to Darwin and Galileo and you’ll see a long standing pattern. Sadly, at this point it looks like it will doom us.
https://www.jcchouinard.com/google-omnibox/
That’s a very good point. At the least, the stock price should go to zero. I guess your point is that they are artificially keeping the company out of bankruptcy/receivership.
I'm kidding, but sometimes it feels like that. Javascript is never just Javascript.

It depends on whether you use Typescript (with tsc or tsx or esrun?).

It depends whether you use V8 or Node or Deno or Bun.

It depends whether you're using AWS Lambda or the Serverless framework or a Cloudflare Worker or a Vercel or Fastly edge function.

It depends whether you use vanilla or HTMX or React or Next or Vue or Nuxt or Svelte or Astro or Remix or Angular or or or.

Then if you go native, it depends whether you use React Native and Expo and Electron and Tauri and and and.

Somehow we went from a universal language that can run in all web browsers to a hundred mutants that each only work in some niche...

I've never seen two Javascript codebases that looked the same :/ Every one is like a new archeological dig. Sure, you can still find some identifiable generic pottery fragments and such, but somehow they managed to build an entire civilization in a totally different way from the one next to them, using technologies that no longer exist just a few years later.
Tldr

> Table’s features and capabilities are now integrated into AppSheet, our no-code platform.

> We’ll continue to maintain Tables but will not be adding new features to the product.
> in which manual labor is getting harder, lower paid, and lowered value

I think the trades are paid more than ever, and they're scarcer than ever. I'm not sure this will change anytime soon.

AI is likely to make a respectable dent in knowledge work.
> It makes this the worst and most dangerous job possible

I’m sure the Wichita Lineman would disagree.
> A surviving pilot may not be blamed for a plane crash and associated deaths for merely being at fault.

> In the years 1999–2015 the study found 65 cases of pilot suicide (compared to 195 pilot errors) and six cases of passengers who jumped from aircraft. There were 18 cases of homicide-suicide, totaling 732 deaths; of these events, 13 were perpetrated by pilots.

Pragmatically, I don't see a difference. I couldn't give a shit about the perpetrators: they have lost the right to factor into my moral calculus. I care about the children not dying.
Stated assumptions are fine.
In West Africa and the western part of North Africa, sure. But outside of there, English is gonna be more useful. Even in Europe. Hell, even in some multilingual Francophone countries - https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/english-as-a-common-lan...
Posix just states ed, but a pure Unix doesn't have a "default" editor.

But vi/nvi it's useful because you can use commands to replace text inline, or pipe text parts to commands.
So if I want to legally murder people I can do it if I create corporation and create a plausible deniable way of killing them? Cool.

Certainly a good system. If the hardest punishment is a fine, it becomes a fee for rich people.
Depends on the audience and the scale
What? Typescript solves an entirely different problem than most frameworks (you mean frontend frameworks?).

Did I miss typings in vanilla Ecma, or...?
It is similar to andalusian people.
Yes, I'm French and I often have a hard time understanding French even correct, with a strong accent I'm not used to. I remember, when I was ~15 I met a guy from RDC (Congo) and it was very awkward for me as he was speaking French with a Belgian and African accent which even with all the best intent I could not understand, while he understood me just fine. We ended up speaking in English (it was in London so I pretended wanting to improve my English :))
Considering there is no such traffic seen: No. :P
Gems in Russian rap? As a native speaker I’m genuinely surprised
My point, which you seem to have missed, is that N people can claim to be great "if only X wasn't in my way". In reality, an infinitesimally small number of people will be judged as great by history, and half of those will be largely by accident, many will not realize it, and some will only achieve it post-mortem.

Therefore, logically, if someone claims to be great, they are mostly likely riding high on hubris and ego. It's statistically the most likely outcome for anyone claiming greatness.
I honestly don't understand how your point is relevant.

Most of the real world does not require identity, so how does "The real world doesn’t allow that" make any sense?

Yes, some parts of the real world require you to identify yourself, and the same for some places on the internet.

Is that really the point? That if you have to use your real identify to log into your bank's web site that you don't have "unconstrained anonymity"?

Because I don't think even the cryptopunks of the 1990s required that sort of anonymity.

> and if someone started sending thousands of people per second

So, 100/second is okay but 1,000/second not okay?

I ask because it looks like 100 people per second enter Manhattan during the peak morning commute time, and I don't see massive calls to make it harder for commuters to enter the borough. (Go to http://manpopex.us/ , go to statistics, "Estimated Pop. for Wednesday, 9 AM: 2,888,116", for "10 AM: 3,284,591" gives 110 people per second.)

And these people aren't all required to identify themselves.

Question for you: does the internet currently have more anonymity than the real world?

Question #2: how much fraud is done on the internet vs. fraud in the real world, measured by dollars?
> In China, there was a case of baby formula execs knowingly selling product that was harmful and led to tens of thousands of hospitalizations and a handful of deaths. They were executed.

To be sure, a dairy farmer (Zhang Yujun) and milk salesman (Geng Jinping) were executed[1]. At the highest corporate levels, Sanlu general manager (Tian Wenhua) initially got life in prison...except she'll be released next year after 15 years.

No executives were executed in this scandal.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/24/china-executes...
Me too - strangely, one of the reasons I stay on Windows is Everything (https://www.voidtools.com/) - it is just so useful.
Alignment refers to the process of aligning AI with human values. I don't see why a superhuman AI would require different prompting than is in use today.
everything in my post was capatalistic in nature.

google's investment to stop ublock/invidious/etc > money lost = no blocking
google's investment to stop ublock/invidious/etc < money lost = blocking

The community assumed the first one, google calculated the second option so are proceeding with it.
I think this take is really hyperbolic, there have been movies in the last decade that ambiguously portray hitler in different contexts. Are there even any examples of movies that have failed to release because of 'internet rage mobs'
> Apparently, they're angry about that!

I think this is a gross generalization.
What is it noise-to-signal ratio? Sorry I don't know much about the field but that sounds like something can shutdown ideas like "we can put eeg into transformer and it will work". So may I ask what reference papers that I need to know on this?
At least it wasn’t an article about logging.
Uncontrolled breeding of humans is a problem orders-of-magnitude worse for the natural environment. Shall we start a cull of those too?

(This is obviously satire)
> make a kick-ass browser that people love, strive for even 0.5-1% of browser market share, and then sell your default search preference.

Well this seems like the hard part. I think it is actually not easy to get 1% market share, because if you are good enough to hit 1% you are likely to overshoot 1% by a lot, and if you aren’t good enough to make it past 1% you probably won’t make it to 1%. And obviously creating a browser that is good enough to overshoot 1% by a lot is very difficult.

The companies who actually have 1% of a market (for a sustained period of time) are like really weird edge cases.
That doesn't mean that every bird or squirrel killed by a cat was unable to reproduce and raise healthy offspring.

Given that we are already facing falling population and widespread extinction of just about every category of animal, and native ecosystems the world over are under threat from invasives of some kind, maybe we shouldn't be adding pressure to that.

I'm sympathetic, I grew up with outdoor cats and they clearly enjoy roaming free, but is that worth it?
Ah yes I love it when I check into a hotel and the receptionist is banging out 30 pushups behind the counter
The TBW of the disk shown in the specifications is the estimated write limit of each cell multiplied by the number of cells. They don't take into account that in order to read the data of each cell, the adjacent cells will be written and will consume little by little these estimated write limits.

Therefore, if you fill the disk and only read data, it will sooner or later go into protection mode or lose data because of it.

They could only guarantee the TBW if more memory were added for to cover the writes consumption by the reads usage of the current 3D NAND design. I no longer know how to explain that it is programmed obsolescence, self-destructing disks by read data.

We stopped seeing 10 years guaranties when 3D NAND was introduced, so they know well what they are doing.
Apparently the astro science world is recurrently toxic:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05668-y

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/11/contractors-accuse-eur...
Learn after work. Do not stress yourself during the work to avoid feeling exhausted after it.
I think then VR headsets will become medical devices soon enough
Link from article on what purdy talks about bioaccumulation, but not at toxic levels, with some concerns that it could biomagnify in the food chain. The article blows this up and claims they knew all the harms then. Just bullshit. https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Cases/3M/docs/PTX/PTX1533....
> I’d argue that GR literally provides no prediction for what happens at the singularity

That's false; GR does make a definite prediction: that curvature invariants increase without bound as the singularity is approached, but that they are finite everywhere in the actual spacetime (see further comments below). (Actually it's more nuanced than that; there are cases where there are incomplete geodesics, which is how "singularity" is actually defined in GR, but not unbounded invariants. But those are edge cases that aren't relevant to what we're discussing here.)

The Stack Exchange thread's claim about geodesic incompleteness is misleading. The actual singularity--heuristically, the "point where things become infinite"--is not included in the spacetime manifold. It is an abstract "boundary point" that is not part of spacetime. What is actually included in the manifold is perfectly well-defined, with nothing infinite anywhere, and is a perfectly self-consistent mathematical model that makes perfectly valid predictions for everything in it.

The Stack Exchange commenter basically doesn't like the fact that GR says "sorry, your model ends here, you can't extend it any further", which is fine, but it's not the same as saying GR must be wrong when it says that. It's just something many physicists are uncomfortable with and so they are looking for a model that doesn't have that property, like quantum gravity. But that's no guarantee that they will find one, nor is it a guarantee that GR must end up being overridden in this regime. It's just a best guess of many physicists at our current state of knowledge. Nor does it mean that GR doesn't make definite predictions; it just means GR's predictions are ones that most physicists would not like having to be stuck with if that's how it turns out. But nature doesn't care what humans like or don't like.
Volunteer for the night shifts? Even on busier nights you're likely to get quiet periods.
> People who have an innate drive to make music or art are vulnerable to be exploited, but place the blame where it belongs: on those who would exploit them.

I don’t understand this.

Why are only people who make music or art special in this regard?

If I am someone who enjoys Software Engineering, am I also ripe to be exploited? If not, please explain.
It's not like Americans are uniformly opposed to outdoor cats either. It's a relatively new thing for people here to know and care about the ecological impact.
I certainly I didn’t mean to!

It is a doubly-interesting speech because he was giving a counterpoint to the idea that men should sell out their hearts and become cruel machines when it was still up in the air, whether or not that Faustian bargain would pay dividends (it didn’t work out so great for them).
Interestingly, I could not help but notice that, being neighbors and all, both the English and the French are by far the worst offenders in terms of how broken one's pronunciation of the language of the other usually is.
I don't think your company is worse off if you get rid of those people by giving them a taste of the real world.
Live Rough and Know the Real World
it is, and if we ever get a software engineer union this is one of the first things we should target.
> Compute has been outpacing memory for decades. Like CPUs, GPUs have countered this with increasingly sophisticated caching strategies.

I'd say it's rather the contrary. Unlike CPUs, GPUs don't attempt to directly counter this. By accepting higher latencies, they have let themselves parallelize much more widely (or wildly) relative to CPUs - and the high number of parallel pseudo-threads provides a "latency hiding" effect.

This effect is illustrated for example, in this presentation on optimizing GPU code:

https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/03-CUDA...

(lame) animation on slide 11 and onwards.
The issue is that RDNA and CDNA are different so when an enthusiast makes a fast RDNA code it doesn't mean it would work well on CDNA and vice-versa. Not sure why AMD had to go this route, only high-end pros will write software for CDNA and they won't get any mindshare.
Controlled by age?
Announcing Niva, a radically simple yet capable quantization algorithm.

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He felt 'creatively dead', then harnessed the power of boredom
nice to see the maker culture is alive and well. I need to get back to building some hardware projects in spare time.
You do realize that "franca" here has nothing to do with French or France ? Neither today nor originally
Hot rocks can glow brighter than the sun
The OP stated that Elon is courageous for "allowing as much free speech as possible". However, Elon's actions contradict this sentiment because he is unilaterally censoring speech he personally dislikes.

> Probably at least some would make the case that he's courageous in general when it comes to free speech on Twitter and that he's also a flawed human being.

It seems to me, at best, one could argue he is courageous for not letting the opinions of his critics guide his actions, however, the way he is behaving clearly contradicts the sentiment of "free speech".

With respect to "free speech" it would appear he is the opposite of courageous since he frequently uses his authority to violate that stated principle (or he's not being truthful about his principles with respect to free speech)
The Heirloom Project – standard Unix utilities supporting UTF-8
Apple changed it back in 2013. Not sure who invented it though.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130607000755/http://apple.com/...
i could be wrong, but i’m reasonably confident that this is UB for even trivial types? someone more knowledgeable with the language lawyering would need to opine one way or the other.

regardless of that outcome, i think i’d prefer to require a value preserving the lifetime of the reader/view. in the cases that it may not be necessary, i'd prefer to lean on the optimiser to take care of it..!
It’s also like saying, “This is kind of an amusing joke for those that enjoy amusing jokes”.
The debt problem is enormous, and the system for fixing it is broken
Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments? (2021)
I too like their transparency, but for the opposite reason: I find review bombings are the only time reviews are actually useful.

Reviews are a dime a dozen, positive or negative; they normally aren't useful for judging whether a product is worth buying.

Review bombings on the other hand only happen when something happened to trigger the internet's sweaty wrath, and that is very useful as a unit of measure. Any particular review in the bombing is worthless like any other review, but the collective act of review bombing is very valuable information.
I don’t think it’s advocating including “dumb and unskilled” people in your team, but rather speaking to the external dynamics that recognized leaders in a given field tend to carry with them—ie, an eagerness to showcase their prior successes while claiming to have been largely/solely responsible for them, while suppressing the roles played by the contributions of others.

There exists a cohort of otherwise very capable individuals (my intuition would be that it is comprised of a much larger and varied population that would be difficult to identify and select for) who are maybe not so driven by glory or personal ambition, or who tend to share credit for their accomplishments with the people and circumstances that meaningfully shaped the outcome, rather than taking victory laps and draw the attention to themselves.

There are certainly distinct traits of “leaders” that can be critically valuable to a team, whether it’s charisma and the ability to sell an idea, or organizational skills that facilitate the efficient application of resources. The point this article seems to be making is that an ideal team will be comprised of a relative few “leaders” with most of the members being more in line with the aforementioned cohort.

It’s essentially just an academic exploration of the old “too many cooks in the kitchen” idiom.
It simply seems like supply and demand to me.

There many, many people trying to be successful in arts and entertainment.

Why would someone overpay for something that may be seen as a commodity because of the overwhelming supply?
Seems like a testable hypothesis. Neighborhoods with more outdoor pet cats should have fewer rodent problems in homes.
That's not even necessary. Selectable compression was available at least 30 years ago on stock car radios. Mid-'90s Ford CD players had a button on them labeled "Compress," and I'm sure they weren't the only ones.

Today, a selectable compression level would be trivial to offer on every playback device. There was never a reason to destroy the music, which makes the crime of doing so even more despicable. You can't get dynamic range back once the master is destroyed, but you can always get rid of it on demand during playback.

Apple and Spotify should have used their market power to demand properly-mastered recordings (a la the early '90s, which is when many believe mastering quality peaked). Instead we get asinine Atmos bastardizations and "lossless" delivery of ruined songs.
This might be a stretch (and also is 100% speculative), but maybe it’s a tax write-off thing. They put money into something, decided they wanted the tax breaks more than to sell the product, and there’s your loss.
When we first started playing with this we produced memory and reference leaks left and right, mostly through undisciplined access to reference counts or failures to reference count at all. The basic problems the GIL solves don't go away, you need to have a principled approach to managing reference counts for both the Balm'd objects and the underlying data.

A good rule of thumb we came up with is "reference counts are only allowed to be manipulated when holding the GIL." So if you create 500 string views that all reference some underlying data, the reference count for that underlying data should only be incremented by 500 once you acquire the GIL again to introduce the data to Python.

If you try to do granular per-refcount locking, you'll run into the problem in the multi-threading benchmark. You start to incur a lot of lock contention on certain workloads, or even in the best case you have a little overhead for zero gain. Making the reference counts atomic was a catastrophic performance hit.

Related: It's common to choose to free the underlying resources of the balm'd object even though the Python interpreter might have stashed a reference to it somewhere. For example in a webserver, after the request has been served free'ing/re-using the associated header buffers.

We call these "degenerate" applications, because it is not reasonable to hold onto such a reference. Sometimes the best thing is to document you don't support that use-case in the name of performance. Sometimes you might want to be nice and throw a description Python exception.
Uhm, if it wasn’t for New Zealand, this scandal may have never even come to light. It was being buried before sanlu’s NZ JV partner heard about it and was horrified. Also they found two people to execute, and I wouldn’t be very confident that they actually had much to do with it, Chinese justice will find and convict sacrificial pawns as needed.
And the converse makes me feel like the statements are conveying emotion and aesthetics and reinforce the idea that politics are sport for the professional management class.
rg or fd?