skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree this is an important problem, I don't think there is a satisfactory answer. Programming language evolution is more or less a complexity management, while you also have to balance requirements from various stakeholders. Almost all governance drama came from one group of stakeholders complaining about requirements essential for other group of stakeholders, and you can't always satisfy both. (Rust `async` for example is known to be such case, explaining a functioning but generally unsatisfactory design.) Go is a rare exception where the core team had no reason to honor all stakeholders and enough resource and willpower to do so, and yet some drama did happen.
Yeah...this sounds great but, maybe, like before declaring "Lupus Trigger Discovered", we should have a sample size of more than 1.
You still haven't read the comment properly. All this was stated explicitly.
There's a big thread about this on the D forums: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/beykokfitddfdsjyqjjy@forum.dl...
Rust was a language that I firmly embraced for my own projects for about 2 years, then I eventually came to the conclusion that the benefits it gave me weren't really that useful for the things I was working on, and I switched away to other languages that I personally enjoy using more.
Not someone else, but many others. I value projects governed by multiple people because one person cannot be an expert in every field, even though that person is smarter than most people.
I'm pretty sure tor is not anonymous. I read a while back that the US gov controls most of the exit nodes (or something like that) + can do some decrypting monkeybusiness
To overcome something as entrenched as C++ it has to be 10x better. Even rust isn't there. Most of it's community isn't ex C and C++ experts, it's people getting into low-level programming for the first time, either from scripting language or pure functional.
It appears to be written in D. It uses SQLite.

https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/master/dub.sdl
The paper shows that a worse implementation is possible, sure. It's not obvious that it shows that a better implementation is impossible. Logic tells us that these are very different things, and the latter is vastly harder than the former.

I did notice the paper hinging on a lot of implementation details. For one, they only propose using voltage dropping resistors, but no discussion of having three power rails (eg +1, 0, -1), or some hybrid approach. Maybe some part of power regulation belongs outside the chip, folks!

They also implement a ternary adder by.... converting it back and forth to binary! They justify this by saying this is the only way to implement an "arbitrary" truth table. Okay. You don't need an arbitrary table, just one! The truth table, of course, depends on the choice of balanced vs. unbalanced. This seems like an unforced error.

The paper's result (if confirmed) might indeed hold for balanced ternary, but it's not immediately clear that this is a trivial extension of the existing paper.
In the US the only one was Kareem Serageldin.
Probably not. Kennedy made his speech in 1963, but a lot had been accomplished before that. 1963 was 18 years after WW2, and 10 years after the Korean War. There were tons of mid- and late-career engineers, and multiple aerospace companies. The 1950s were amazing in terms of number of airplanes, missiles and rockets developed. Those engineers had lots of experience.

I don't think the US can replicate that level of Human resources right now, certainly not in terms of experience. The US hasn't had that many new aircraft or rockets or missiles since the Apollo program.
That's a good one.

We might take it one step further and ask the user if they want to add a rule that certain rooms have a certain level of light.

Although light level would tie it to a specific sensor. A smart enough system might also be able to infer this from the position of the sun + weather (ie cloudy) + direction of the windows in the room + curtains open/closed.
The question is then how many person life years are lost due to poverty, and how many person life years are spent suffering from depression, and how bad those are in comparison. Would you rather have a shorter, happier life, or a longer, depressed one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=_fjTdiTLWjMGvdQb&v=84dYijIp...

further evidence refuting your claims
> It was obvious that everything you can do in C++ can be done in D in so much easier way that it could have replaced C++ in a near future if done right.

Do you have an opinion on how the GC schism within D affected it competitively with regards to C/C++?
Reminds me of the children’s book “Mommy, why is there a server in the house?”
The title says he objects to diversity, but the article states that "it isn’t diversity to which he objects".

The professor isn't consistent either. Yes, DEI is a sort of agreement between you and your current society. And yes, you will be punished (or forced out) if you don't agree to it. That doesn't mean the society is selecting conformists, who would sign anything giving them profits. It means the society wants people who agree with its established principles, that's all.

If a society ends up with people who would sell those principles for nothing - then it's the problem of the society and its principles. USSR collapsed for a reason. And yes, you may say it's because it was run by conformists who didn't believe in the principles they signed. But "the routine affirmation" (of communism) is not what caused this situation.
It's a bit more nuanced. Before, a lot of people on a one-to-one told me how BS most of DEI is. But now, folks feel a bit more free to speak; complain against DEI even in public places or in front of others.

It feels like Soviet Union in the 60s vs in '89 where you knew the wall was falling sooner rather than later.
I just rewatched the new Dune, and disagree with my previous assessment. I enjoyed the movie a lot more the second time around.

Perhaps I had preconceived notions the first time (I did watch Lynch's version immediately prior). Perhaps also as others have mentioned I didn't catch all the dialogue as it is quieter than the score in many sections, this time I had the subtitles on.

The cinematography is great, there are way more wide context shots than I remembered. I also felt the magic was there and there is a dreamlike quality during Paul's spice vision scenes. I'm honestly not sure why I didn't enjoy it the first time.

If you are like I was and ambivalent about the sequel, maybe give this movie another go. I've changed my mind and now looking forward to seeing part 2.
I don't believe this. The author is probably trying to start a trend.
Our level of consumption, whatever the source of energy, is killing so much life on Earth. There are better ways to coexist. Arguing about the source is a diversion from making steps towards significant decreases in per capita energy consumption.
Don't we consider a C/C++ replacement "successful" when it was able to capture enough share of prior C/C++ uses, not the entire share? I never thought C or C++ could be completely gone out of sight, even COBOL is technically alive today (on life support). To be clear, I meant that D could have been in the position of Rust today if done right.
100% we have problems with simpler gadgets I cannot imagine the UX and security issues something like this could have. Not pointing fingers to this company specifically but there are a lot of gadgets being offered that have a lot of issue.

For example, a few years ago I bought the Muse headset, you need to buy a subscription to receive the raw information about the sensors! (there is a third-party paid app for this). Not only that, it is not clear what it measures. I have experimented with few things beyond the standard use. For example, I tried to use the band while I was performing a relaxing physical activity and the app said that I was less relaxed that at work ;-)
Funny enough, none of my first author works have been "published" but since they are on arxiv I have a competitive citation count and h-index (most cites are from my first author works). Only group upset at me is my grad school. It's extremely frustrating because I have all indications of doing good work and clearly the community agrees. I think the funniest part of it all is that I've offered to show them my reviews and so we can discuss if I am doing something wrong or "just having bad luck." But no one wants to even entertain the idea that the system is dysfunctional.

I will never understand why in CS we use a conference system as our indicator of merit. It is an antagonistic zero sum game. There is no recourse for giving a bad faith review and you are incentivized to reject works. It's easier to reject and thus less time consuming -- every paper has flaws and limitations, just point at them and ignore context--, you marginally increase the chance of your own paper getting in, and venues use acceptance rates as the main measure to indicate their level of prestige (if I cared enough I'd just get LLMs to spam papers to abuse this). Every part of the system that does something good and beneficial to the scientific community relies entirely on people acting in good faith and against other incentives they have, favoring the purity of science. That clearly doesn't scale and clearly sets a stage for bad actors to overwhelm. I think we only continue this because they've successfully convinced good faith actors that there is no other way and that it isn't as bad as it is. I just wonder how much money and time is lost due to all of this (before we even account for the ridiculousness of charging for what arxiv does for free. The paper is given to them for free as well as the reviewing is done for free, and much of the organizing committee and all that is also free labor. Something this important shouldn't have so many similarities to a scam that seeks to extract money from the government and universities).
I'm not sure then. The first two "after" examples were blank for me. I tried again now and the first loaded, but second did not. After another few refreshes, it did load, though as you said the "copy and paste" link was blank.

I tried it in Firefox and got an XML parsing error[1] instead. Again refreshed and it loaded fine. So it seems intermittent at best.

[1] Error follows:

XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </link>.
Location: https://www.feed.style/example.xml?feedurl=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Fshowrss
Line Number 6, Column 3:
What's Going on with China's Stagnation?
Probably relevant as an example of the thinking, but it's worth noting that this is for evaluating applications to faculty positions, and not applicants trying to enter a PhD program.
.. or you just have some good old fashioned code for such a blocking rule?

(I'm sort of joking, I can kind of see how that might be useful, I just don't think that's an example and can't think of a better one at the moment.)
I cannot speak to data science / statistics but can say that Wolfram Mathematica is vastly, vastly superior to other options in non-statistical arenas of applied math and physics.

I'd definitely encourage giving it a quick try just because you are working in a closely related field and so might occasionally run into cases where Wolfram is actually a better tool for the job.

There are some very respected people that the company employs doing good work pushing the limits of different equation solvers and that sort of thing. Whatever one thinks of the man Wolfram himself, I think its an impressive company and probably a good example of a piece of software that is on the cutting edge and also wouldn't be viable as an open source project (too many PhDs required to support it for that tbh, and definitely not very accessible to contribute to).

And yes, it is expensive, but not prohibitively so for interested hobbyists. I pay for a personal edition, but my work pays quite a bit more than that. If you are affiliated with a school, see if they have deals or computers with it they can make available. Most schools with big physics or engineering or applied math programs are going to have it licensed.
That gets you the full functionality without needing React?
Did they enable reading of content that you couldn't already access with just a web browser?

My perception was that if it was behind even a basic login, you wouldn't be able to use Tachiyomi to view it unless you had an actual login yourself.
Things have not gotten better. The 1960s-80s model of writing standards was so much better and restricted the politicking to a brief period.
Could you explain the expression to us?
Are you sure the comment was not edited in the middle of the discussion?
Spend $4800 vs Download free app... I know which one I would choose...
idk man, humor is subjective. Sometimes the most random stuff can get a laugh.
It's a TLS termination proxy that decrypt and re-encrypt your TLS packet. Technically Cloudflare can read anything unless you add your own crypt layer on top of TLS.
What the heck is a “technology lens”?
Something that didn't even occur to me until now: Assuming this is really going to be standard SMS texting, the experience on of messaging between two iPhones is going to be pretty broken due to iMessage. The same might be true for Android phones using RCS.

Ironically, the best experience would be messaging between an iOS and an Android device.
E, F, G, and H are already taken.

It's hard to say whether I is available, or un-googleable.

J through W are also taken.

X++ is taken, but X seems to be available.

Y and Z are taken.

A would be an excellent choice were it not completely un-googleable.

Finally, B is a famous precursor to C.
This is a very thoughtful and sensible reply, but it's going to get lost in the storm and that is a shame.

Personally I've always thought that a lot of these issues boil down to intentional misreading or lack of understanding of things unsaid. As an example, a whole bunch of people, for some reason, took "Black Lives Matter" to mean "Only Black Lives Matter", as if that was said or as if that was the point.

In your example with Einstein, to me it would be perfectly valid for Gould to have said "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. We should seek to find and develop those people." But of course I would worry that those same people who took umbrage with the example of BLM would assume that it would be done at the expense of others, or that it would be done to exclusively benefit in a zero-sum way the unheralded, unfound geniuses in Gould's example.

I run a small startup, fifteen people, and yes, I believe in diversity in hiring and team composition. If all things are equal, then I will hire the person that brings a diverse perspective to my team, not on basis of identity but on basis of opinion, basis of experience, and basis of perspective. I will not pursue that diversity at the expense of hiring the best candidate, and I suspect my perspective is shared a lot more than people think, solely because the "If all things are equal" part is unsaid and it is simply too easy for the cynic or bad-faith arguer to assume otherwise.
The yogabook is very well made, very apple-like in fit and finish. Rounded-off corners everywhere, very sturdy, great daily driver.

IMHO the Asus looks plasticky and flimsy in the videos I've seen so far, And when used in side-by-side mode it looks extremely asymmetric and goofy.

(Disclosure: The included yogabook keyboard is a bit flimsy, not as nicely designed as the main laptop, not up to the same standards)
which just means a different person is guiding the project
I keep saying this and having the exact same argument with everyone every single time I mention it (and I'm sure here we'll go again), but D's fundamental problem was its GC. Its mere presence colors the code that uses it, and once your dependencies use the GC, you have no recourse. It's impossible to abstract away. I fail to see how such a language could ever substitute for C++.
The Community Notes feature is working great. It's better than the moderation on any other social networks that I use.
We might be able say that a given assessment of governance will work out well for our needs. But it's a lot easier to identify showstoppers early on.

For example, if a language designer and implementor says upfront that they want to run it as Benevolent Dictator For Life, and also that they don't want to see feature PRs from people, because they prefer to work through all the details themself... That's their right, and great information to have upfront. That governance might tentatively work for some adopters, and others will decide it's a showstopper without needing to explore further.
Collaboration would be the most obvious answer to me for that.
rest, to ensure the rest stay on track.

It really can be this "simple"!
Sure, but this is pointing to a new vertical for smart objects. The price will be fixed.

Many more tools will become smart, as the phones became smartphones.
Agreed, though having two identical panels with similar lighting and zero fiddling or cables has advantages.
Since it’s not obvious on mobile and your have to scroll forever, just watch this gif

https://7vk6rcnylug0u6hg.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/Scre...
Do you need to have the validation from others that your art exists for you to want to create it? If I read every book by only jumping to the final chapter, am I interpretating the work incorrectly or am I not interpretating it how you specifically look for it to be validated?

I keep photographs of moments as memories, eventually I'll collage them together, maybe I'll do this a few times to develop a style that I enjoy. For the argument, say that it looks horrendous but in a consistent way that I like. This collection and its output have significance to me and to others I'd share it with because of the attachment to the reflection of my identity, not because it was something I created "correctly". If AI art was generated of every moment of my life and done in the same style, it wouldn't have value not because it was made incorrectly, it wouldn't have value because it has no personal meaning to anyone.

If you view art without meaning to others being less financially valuable as an attack on all creative work, I don't think you view art much better.
Believe me you can find them present in popular sites you use everyday ;-) I caught one of them and reported it.
> Discrimination is not solved by discriminating harder.

Except it absolutely has been. The civil rights movement was full of it. Look at the history that lead to forced busing. The efforts to correct schooling disparity had become such a quagmire that an even worse solution was enforced. How can we expect things to get better, when just ending discrimination led to the worst possible outcome that was attacked from both sides. They knew the problem, and all reverting to no discrimination did was let segregationists and concerned parties kick the can down the road for 17 years after Brown vs Board of Education.

Reverse discrimination certainly has its cons, but to call it just "discriminating harder" isn't realistic. Making systemic changes hurts and feels unfair, but it's far from the racism that motivated discrimination in our past.

> Blaming the peoples of today for sins committed by the peoples of yesterday only breed resentment.

Where does this idea come from? I can recognize the disparities of the present. I can make actions to undo those. This isn't some fault I need to feel guilt for, it's just a reasonable outcome of understanding the past that lead to the current present, and a desire to change that present. Just like it is not my fault that some people are blind to the past, and feel resentful. Lots of people have resent though, some of it comes from those sins in the past. Sitting on our thumbs continues to breed resent. I don't see a major problem with shifting resent around between traditionally favored and unfavored groups, particularly if net resent goes down.

I say this with understanding that efforts can go to far, but also that oscillating between 0 mph and 100 mph to achieve an average speed of 50 is a stupid way to travel at 50 mph. Current efforts deserve to be moderated, not destroyed.
It's applicable because:

* If you're asking a local model to summarize some document or e.g. emails, it would help if the documents themselves can't easily change that instruction without your knowledge.

* Some businesses self-host LLMs commercially, and so they're going to choose the most capable model at a given price point to let their users interact with, and Mixtral is a candidate model for that.
That’s not really any different from how Airbus works (and explicitly so).
But I learned that Boeing literally outsourced the fuselage and that makes you wonder if they are really fit to build airplanes…
Verging away from the topic, but while it might be possible to imitate someone's consciousness after they've died, perhaps extremely convincingly, something tells me we'll each still find out the hard way, individually, that we've always been mortal.
People's names, roles in the company, and voices were revealed. If you Google "rosie cloudflare hr", the top result is a LinkedIn profile for Rosemary J. Fantozzi, who works in GTM HR. That profile is now hidden or deleted, and it's not hard to figure out why.

I have no regard at all for corporate rules, but I do for privacy and privacy laws. Brittany may have broken the law by making the recording (Georgia is a one-party state, but she couldn't know where the other people in the meeting were -- New York is also one-party, but California for example is all-party), but either way it was poor judgment to release it without at least redacting names and roles.
Note: that was inaccurately reported in the TomsHardware article

The fact that it shows up as using iMessage is the part that I said may be inaccurately reported.

Even now, I am still seeing some suspicious data usage. I’ve started wiresharking it yesterday to track it down.
Yes, by that criteria C++ was successful over C. And C was successful over fortran. There are small communities that prefer the older stuff, but they were better enough to move the entire industry.

D isn't, and neither is Rust.

> I meant that D could have been in the position of Rust today if done right.

My point was Rust is just a completely different audience. I suppose D could have sold itself as a better JavaScript.

(Sorry for several rewrites.)
I'll support your theory when I hear, even one time, a DEI leader mention poor white people. I grew up in a home with a mother who was an alcoholic and drug addict, and who had a parade of abusive boyfriends. There were times we didn't have electricity or water because it was turned off. We never had a telephone in the house or a working car.

I studied Math in college. Literally every single other math major I knew had parents who were in the top 10% (or higher) in wealth. Every single one. About 1/4 of the majors went to the same magnet high school in the richest county in the state. Several of them had parents that were university professors. There was NOBODY remotely like me. I had to join the Army Reserve to even be able to afford to live and go to school since I had no family help whatsoever. DEI aggressively works against people like me, because I'm a heterosexual white male. I grew up eating government peanut butter and free school lunch and waiting for the day the foodstamps would come because then there might be some food in our house instead of none, but I'm told that I'm "part of the problem". They would very happily push candidates that come from wealthy backgrounds and have parents that are rich or professors so long as they aren't white or asian or jewish. There are many programs to back-door people that are black or hispanic into PHD programs (google pre-phd programs for under-represented), but when I tried to talk to and advisor about such a program they literally laughed at me - again because I'm white and a male which means I'm "part of the problem".