skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no such things as "scripting language" -- any language is a scripting language if you write a script (i.e. a program that automates another program) in it.

All languages are both statically typed and dynamically typed. Or, if you want to be precise: statically checked and dynamically checked. Static vs dynamic refers to whether a check is performed before the program is run or when the program is run.

It's upsetting that even people who write languages use this nonsense taxonomy to describe what they do.

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As a consequence, your enthusiasm... sort of comes from the place of not understanding something. My guess is that you are happy to see that there are type annotations in the language and they seem to be mandatory (? -- I haven't explored the language in detail enough to tell, but usually if the type annotation precedes an identifier in the grammar is not possible to make it optional).

What I think you (or the language's author) might be happy about is that there aren't built-in mechanisms in the language to convert between different types (or interpret the data stored in a variable in different ways). Such mechanisms exist to various degree in languages programmers don't normally call "dynamically typed" (even though, like I wrote before, this taxonomy is nonsense). For example, in C, everything is and integer in the end of the day, which makes a lot of implicit conversions possible. Or, for example, it's possible in Haskell to overload string literals making them something other than strings (eg. SQL prepared statements) making the meaning of the program depend on an annotation / compiler argument.

There are instances where it's genuinely convenient to have the language guess the type of data and there are instances where it leads to frustrating and difficult to discover bugs. Since a language has to make a decision for all such cases it's difficult to find a good middle ground. Below are some examples of when implicit type conversion is convenient:

* When everything in the language can be "printed" and operations involving strings implicitly convert everything to string. Alternatives involve complicated mechanisms of defining printing methods for various objects, while still not being able to write generic code that prints any inputted objects. Or creating automatic methods that print "something" about the object that usually ends up being useless (eg. the memory address of the chunk of memory occupied by the object). And so on.

* Reading user's input, especially interactively. If I had to spell out the types of arguments I pass down to Unix "find" command every time I use it, I'd have invented a language that would allow me not to do that and would've guessed the types from a more concise input.

* Arithmetic involving different flavors of numbers. Imagine there are languages where it's a tradition to define a special sub-type of some integral type for indexing of every array type the program uses. Imagine now that these types usually cannot be converted between each other. You probably haven't worked with a language like that, but if you want to see how you might like it, you could try Ada.
Germany already complain about joint development programs that involve 1 billion in loans to India because of their $75 million moon mission making them somehow more advanced than ESA.
> If people don't read the manual, they have every right to expect that things will break.

This is just fundamentally and absolutely wrong. Completely incorrect.

I could explain it, but others have done better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...

https://notes.rmhogervorst.nl/post/2022/11/21/what-is-a-foot...

https://fstoppers.com/opinion/stop-telling-people-read-manua...

I also recommend the book "The design of everyday things" which isn't about software but the lessons in it are highly applicable.

Good luck learning!
> months of military provocation by Syria

The Israelis were also incredibly provocative, constantly raiding neighboring Arab territory. Israel had a history of aggression against the Arab countries, such as its invasion of Egypt in 1956 and its numerous raids into Jordan and Syria.

> Had the Six-Day War (and then the Yom Kippur war, which was, like the Arab-Israeli war that preceded the Six-Day War, unquestionably a war of aggression by a coalition of Arab states against Israel) not happened, the cause of Palestine would be directed instead at/against Egypt and Jordan.

There are many false assumptions and representations here. First, the Palestinian cause was directed against Israel because Israel is the country that expelled the Palestinians from their homes, not Egypt of Jordan. Whatever complaints the Palestinians had against the Jordanians or Egyptians, those countries had not kicked them out of their villages and expropriated their homes.

Second, the First Arab-Israeli war was not a war of aggression by the Arabs. The declaration of Israeli independence was effectively a declaration of war on the Arab world. The Arabs could not accept European colonists (which the founders of Israel were in their overwhelming majority) establishing an ethnically exclusive state on Arab land. The Arab-Israeli war was preceded by massive expulsions of Palestinian Arabs from their homes by the militias that would later become the Israeli army. From the Arab point of view, the war was a defensive war against foreign colonists intent on conquering Arab land and on expelling the Arab population.

The Yom Kippur War was indeed launched by Egypt and Syria, but its aim was to reclaim Egyptian and Syrian territory that Israel had militarily occupied since 1967. At the time, the legitimacy of Egypt and Syrian aims in that war were widely recognized by the international community, which had already called on Israel to return the territory to its rightful owners.

> "From the river to the sea" implies, among other things, the dispossession of Israeli Jewish people outside the West Bank and Gaza.

Most people who use the phrase view it as a call to turn Greater Israel, which already exists in practice, into a fully democratic state with equal rights for all its inhabitants, including the Palestinian population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. This does not imply any dispossession of Jewish Israelis, any more than the end of Apartheid in South Africa implied dispossession of white South Africans.
Let me riddle you this then:

If there isn't enough solar and wind (hydro and other green / renewable electricity sources are perfectly base load capable), yes, large consumers reduce their consumption for that period. So, in percentage and not absolute values (no surprise you don't get that difference, you don't get neither the electricity has to he consumed when produced and production / consumption lives on a time scale...), we need less base load generation then previously. Heck, even Germany, among other countries, had days with > 80% renewable electricity on the grid, so we know it is technically absolutely possible.

Coal is bad, agree. Nuclear is a great stop gap until everything is ready, grid, capacity, industry and the like, to function with a renewable epectricity grid. Building new NPPs is a dead end so: too expensive, takes too much time and gets nowhere near the additional capacity we need, since most new NPPs replace old ones the net nuclear capacity gain is negligible.

The grid can mitigate if somwhere on the grid sufficient electricity is produced, base load, nuclear, renewables or somethibg else doesn't matter. Throw in demand flexibility and you are almostv here already. Storage is lacking, but even that is built out, e.g. most new residential PV has some storage component.

And since you insist: Yes, big consumers absolutely do stop production if needed and financially interesting. Know what? They even schedule production accordingly in close alignmwnt with electricity markets and grid operators. Hard to believe, I know.

Edit: I know big consumers do stop or scale down production, because my wife does so in production planning every week. And I scheduled production runs the same way during my time in production planning in the chemical industry. Oh, and one of the green belt projects I coached looked for ways to optimize production runs to enable more and more short notice shut downs for limited periods. The last one happened over ten years ago.
I appreciate you removing your previous "So you posted a long whine" reply.

> Nope, I wouldn't have a clue - or care!

I find this just baffling right next to you talking about "greater intuition" or "intellectual curiosity". You don't care if your "intellectual curiosity" is feeding on complete misinformation?

You didn't do any "back-of-the-napkin math" (I did, but you, by your admission, don't care), you just took a plausible-looking factoid and run with it. It's equivalent to believing the first SEO spam listicle Google returned and calling it "intellectual curiosity" — worse, in fact, because at least there is a slight chance of an actual human checking those listicle "facts".

I believe the "process" you refer to is roughly:

- pay for GPT-4

- type a question in

- take the answer on faith

- post it elsewhere without doing any work to verify it

Is this correct? If so, I just don't think it's a good process. It also has no "back-of-the-napkin calculations" that you weirdly insist on, you didn't do a single addition in the entire "process".
Ask HN: Do you use Kubernetes with Windows servers?
I've seen some companies requiring experience with EKS Windows and I'm curious about the use cases.
I would add I felt the wind powered car video was similar. I started watching him years ago as he had an amazing video looking at a silicon sphere being made to use as a new mass standard. In recent years though his videos seem to increasingly confuse subjects (for me) instead of clarify them.
See also: The Long March Through The Institutions
Guess Twitter is just circling the drain now. I wish he'd just sell it and write off the losses. Focus on space and electric cars, where he can make a meaningful difference. This whole saga is a waste of time -- for him, for Twitter, for humanity.
Sadly they’re just part of the app. I run adblocking DNS on my home network, but it doesn’t make a difference with this.
Derek Muller from Veritasium replied to the video it seems there was some behind the scenes communication which the video author (Tom Nicholas) ignored but replied to in a long comment. It seems to to create sensationalism. He got 2.1M views so I guess it worked.
Ironic but where do people discuss niches/undersaturated markets/trends/rushes these days?

I've always felt it was a part of the HN spirit with lots of threads, but it's completely died down, maybe because of the economy?

I'm well aware it's luck and lottery, but it's a hobby for many of us anyway, finding a market for our tinkering.

Even Indiehackers seems saturated with a lot of the spam and very little profitable. Like this gibberish wix template making 100k a month on the frontpage https://www.indiehackers.com/product/gibble-ai.

Is the discussion IRL only now, or are we just in a downturn?
First, cause people gaslight those whose usecases werent covered by Wayland compositors, and then tell us 'You use it wrong'...
Cause Wayland fragments the software rather than unifying it. Can't switch to sway from i3 cause many tools are just unavailable. Why would I want to bite into tons of lemons and jump through hoops when my system works on x11? The whole Wayland mess is very disappointing.
Everytime I look at the examples, coming from a verilog background, it's strange to see the clock and reset are all implicit rather than explicit. The blinking led for example, while readable the link between the generated verilog with clock and reset is not clear. How are multi clock domains and Async CDCs handled? I've never used chisel so maybe this all is well managed, but not being explicit about the clock domain seems strange
TU Berlin Scientists Hack Tesla Autopilot and Discover Secret Elon-Mode
Yeah, they are generally better but Ring and Alexa Skills are better than their Google counterparts (at least the last time I checked).

I actually have a few old Nest hubs sitting in the basement…
So you're on an iPhone just for the bubbles?
Wait so "Electrocuted to death is redundant"?
The employees made decisions about their employment based on promises made by the company, in the form of statements by their managers. It’s not their fault the company was then sold to a colossal prick with a penchant for not paying people contractually owed. They deserve to be compensated.
I think many people would disagree with your idea of what "long term" means...
Thanks for the mention. Have ordered the book for one of my grand kids for Valentine's Day.
Supported as in the software lets you do it, rather than there's people being paid to keep the software alive, presumably. A rather lower bar.
Many many people say the earth is flat and the moon landing was faked. I guess I should ignore all the evidence and my own lived experience otherwise and listen.

Cable had ads from the beginning. A few channels that came out decades later doesn't invalidate that fact. Even then, the first few cable-only channels had ads. Then on top of that the vast majority of cable-only channels had ads, only a select few didn't. It's revisionist history saying cable didn't have ads.
Good to note that it doesn't require client software to detect edges.

> To get the mouse cursor to magically jump across, the mouse hid report descriptor was changed to use absolute coordinates and then the mouse reports (that still come in relative movements) accumulate internally, keeping the accurate tally on the position.

So it works like synergykm / barrier, without clipboard features and without client software.

Very nice.
The lawsuit claims that management at Twitter promised employees they would be paid 50% of their 2022 annual bonus if they stayed with the company during Musk's takeover, which was finalized in October 2022.
Absolutely - they didn't care for the users!
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Will be available online via https://media.ccc.de/
Found a great video series about Zig, so I thought it would be something great to share for people who are looking for Zig learning materials.
I think nobody really argues that X11 is outdated and should have had a successor by now, just that Wayland turned out to be a bad replacement.

There is actually a really good point in the article that "(desktop) Linux isn't a platform", but instead a fragmented mess of individual frameworks and systems (which after the Wayland transition may or may not eventually reach feature parity with X11 again).

This fragmentation in the Linux desktop world is indeed the core of the problem which Wayland should have helped fixing instead of making it worse by spreading functionality that was centralized before over even more unrelated systems (meaning just more things that can individually break).

Compare that to non-desktop Linux, which actually is a platform (and because of the simple "Don't Break Userspace" rule has wiped the floor with other operating systems in data centers).
But in that case, the former managers should carry some responsibility too, at least that is what would feel right to me.
No the 3rd party profilers aren't free. But they have free trials. Java flight recorder is free and has a lot of the features of the paid ones (like the SQL tab)

https://blogs.oracle.com/weblogicserver/post/jdbc-in-java-mi...
also the project astraying by the freedom of OSS, like Space Station 13 [0]... may some like the possibility of doing your own fork, tho, centralizing effort (even if more conflicting and laborious) into a single app may is a sensible path towards great (F)OSS.

i never played the mentioned game

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5sjwqUten0
I wish there was one in typescript, I just can't get on with python.
The point of these excercises is to interrupt that process before you get in into it, you may or may not be right that they wouldnt work on someone that has ADHD, but having manic behavior isnt always an indication of ADHD, and all else you have to go on is a childhood diagnoses.

So, in my mind you have already skipped that part where you slow down to analyze the problem, and have moved straight into prescribing a solution.

Debilitating I believe has a technical definition, but I would say that if your psychology is demonstrably causing you grief because you cant stay out of your own way, AND less invasive measures have proven ineffective, then medication may be reasonable.
Germany had the same amount of emigration in 3.5 years and I'm only counting Germans, not migrants who left Germany.
Try the meds. They'll give you a new perspective on yourself. And it's not like the hyperfocus goes away, if anything it gets worse (personal anecdote there, not data).

The first three weeks are amazing. Rationality-as-a-superpower. Imagine being able to choose what to spend hyperfocus on! Be warned, that feeling doesn't last. But enjoy it while it does.
This might be balanced out by the fact that reviews tend to be biased toward negative experiences, as positive/average experiences don't warrant taking the time to review.
Yes, human creators aren't necessarily any better at this.

Or at least they won't stay for long.
Donald Knuth seems to be quite fond of Scandinavia. He did a sabbatical in Norway, where he also wrote a children's book: "Surreal Numbers: How Two Ex-Students Turned on to Pure Mathematics and Found Total Happiness." Knuth's ancestors moved during the 19th century from Germany to the US. His father's family lived close to the Danish border [1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB0aeePskBg&list=PLVV0r6CmEs...
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnoFvUnL6xU&list=PLVV0r6CmEs...
Be Kind to Attendees' Eyes
Most laws came about by some messy political process. Do you really want to know how the sausage was made?
Looking at the total volume and weight of payload carried up there by partially reusable Falcon vs. other launchers since reusable Falcon's debut, it certainly seems that customers prefer reusable Falcon.
I think in general that the accessibility of CSS and HTML5 kinda sucks.

Hypercard and Flash are both great examples of the sort of creative cottage industries that can emerge when you provide more accessible means of building stuff. There's like a generations of designers that grew up playing with these sorts of tools.
The issue with Wayland is that we now need a new re-implementation of tools foreach compositor. Yes, compositor - previously in X11 known as Window Manager. You will end up with tools being scarcely available.
Interesting how the long NYT article completely avoids the question of why the price of prime rib has, long-term, risen far more than the rate of inflation would suggest.

And how it closes with a sort of nostalgic "pay whatever it takes" appeal.

Feels kinda like the byline should be "The ever-more-extractive middlemen of America's meat industry".
i wouldnt call it ultra high fast. its kinda quick, but still not close to what you can hand write.
Influencers sell ads around content. Whatever is in that box surrounded by ads doesn't really matter other than being fresh and getting clicks. It's generally more interesting to see videos about different types of projects because it's always new and different people like different things. There's a difference in doing things for content and doing things for real, almost for any content type. Camping content, woodworking content, programming content etc, is optimized for views, not for the actual thing, usually.
I think that was mainly a film phenomenon, and the playback singers were credited.

It's really damning when you look back how technically good 80s pop singers were, compared to 90s. Even artists obviously promoted by the music industry as eye candy for teenagers - think Samantha Fox and Morten Harket - had really solid vocal skills. The Spice Girls, not so much...
What're you on about? Spain is the only European country that currently provides Menstrual leave.
> That sounds like coping

That sounds snarky and name calling.

> Existing renewables get some subsidies, new built barely anything.

Europe has a yearly report on subsidies available online for anyone to read. (https://energy.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021-10/annex_to_th...). It clearly marked. Out of the 179 billions euro, more than 40% was assigned to renewables.

The reserve energy plan is not part of the report since its considered operational cost in term of keeping the grid stable. The report on reserve energy however do consider renewables and the increased variability as a cause for new investment and more funding, paid by increased taxes.

> On one side we have clear examples like Fukushima costing at least ~$150B to clean up

Fukushima happened 2011. Oroville Dam failour happened 2016, and caused a larger number of evacuation and loss of life.

So far the US government (thus citizen tax money) has been forced to pay more money money to fix the Oroville Dam than Japanese government has paid fixing Fukushima. The land destroyed by the flood will likely never fully recover nor the owners repaid for the damage.

Going back to Europe, Sweden had some of the worst flooding this year, especially downstream of hydropower plants. In 2021, European floods saw many floods downstream of hydrpower plants, with massive amount of damage and loss of life. The Ukraine was also hit with one of the deadliest attack on their hydropower infrastructure, a attack defined as a major war crime.

> How much should the French nuclear industry pay for having half their fleet off-line right as we went through a huge energy crisis in Europe?

If all power producers was obligated to maintain the grid then the French nuclear industry should pay the same as everyone else when they can't fulfill that obligation. Grid stability is not the governments job, nor the citizens responsibility to pay for.
I have this reflex to first click on "pricing" on the menu, and was momentarily taken aback before I understood it was for the core service at kadoa.com. This seems similar to histre.com/hn. I'm curious to see how it stacks up with respect to tag precision.

Thanks !
The wiki example read literally like a Trump speach
It is a long way off clinical application but could potentially be useful for treatment of "in transit" metastases - e.g. multiple metastases spreading from a distal site on a limb and growing on the skin. At the moment these are usually removed surgically or treated with electrochemotherapy. Unlikely to replace conventional treatments such as immunotherapy (checkpoint inhibitors), targeted inhibitors (BRAF/MEK) or emerging treatments such as personalised mRNA vaccines.

(Lead clinician for the melanoma multidisciplinary team at a major teaching hospital in London for what it's worth)
I think he bit off more than he can chew. We’ll see what happens but hard to imagine him exiting for more Than he paid. Now, maybe there’s a benefit to controlling twitter going into a major us election. Maybe him and his investors are just not too worried about taking the loss.
>Furthermore, the fact that LLMs seem to need such a stupendous amount of data to get such mediocre reasoning indicates that they simply are not generalizing. If these models can’t get anywhere close to human level performance with the data a human would see in 20,000 years, we should entertain the possibility that 2,000,000,000 years worth of data will be also be insufficient. There’s no amount of jet fuel you can add to an airplane to make it reach the moon.

Never thought about it in this sense. Is he wrong?
Sure it's not their fault. It's not the current management's fault either, that's the problem.

They were promised that someone else would reward them. That someone else disagrees. That looks like a problem coming from the first employer.

Assuming this is all true, of course.