skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a longstanding fascination with K and other "modern" APL derivatives.

There are a few intersecting truisms about coding that I believe: one is that people's working memory varies: some have an immense amount, some less. Humans definitely process spatially better than in time series (e.g. comparing side by side rather than turning over a page.)

This implies you should prefer succinct code and languages because they are less memory load for engineers working on them.

At the same time, a corollary is that a smaller standard library / language is generally better, in that less needs to be learned by an engineer for full coverage of the language.

Another truism is that some people's processing speed is higher than others, and in general I think of the combination of working memory + speed as roughly equivalent to "g", general intelligence.

K occupies this weirdo place though, because it's absolutely succinct, a very small language as counted by number of atoms supported by the interpreter, and also incredibly hard to scan.

One of the K intros I read mentioned that the language is designed to be something that takes down your thinking; essentially the idea is that the workflow is "drink coffee with fellow PhDs, annotate on the chalkboard, and then when ready, capture it directly." This seems about right to me with my own K/J/Q experiences -- the bulk of the time is spent thinking about structuring a problem solution.

I compare this to go, a language I love for its long-term readability and maintainability, where I spend a lot of time writing boilerplate and dealing with errors in-situ.

At any rate, somehow there's a sort of event horizon of terse solution making where you come out the other side and need a 170 IQ to feel comfortable, and Mr. Whitney lives where he lives, and I live where I live. :)

People complaining about how ugly the C code is here are definitely missing the point: he has bent C's preprocessor to his will in order to encapsulate how he thinks about coding: essentially functional, vectorized. It's using C to write a DSL for solving programming problems interesting to Arthur Whitney.

I think it's fascinating on those terms. In a world where you have to read 10,000 lines of code from 100 developers, the C is terrible, and hard to parse. In a world where you will mostly write code to a style you've honed over 40+ years, it's super expressive, minimal, pared down to what matters, and probably fits his brain perfectly.
I had a quick glance through the unusually formatted resume, and saw big glaring gaps in employment. Also, seems like you just graduated from University a couple of years ago ?

Those 2 things would just make me close out the tab and onto the next resume tab.

Looking again, I see the gaps are "filled" in other random spots on that resume, like initially, it looked like before 2015-2016, you worked only in 2008-2010 - thats a big 5 year unemployed gap ! Then, I found the missing parts on the left side, in arbitrary order.
It sounds like he’s talking more about individual values, including the culture you subscribe to, although I still see many potential issues with that.
According to this article, the states with the highest divorce rates are: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/states-with...

Do any of those strike you as anything but predominantly conservative?

Arkansas 10.70%
Oklahoma 10.40%
Nevada 10.20%
New Mexico 10.20%
Kentucky 10.10%
Wyoming 10%
Delaware 9.40%
Utah 9.40%
Kansas 9.20%
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Solving this problem, along with nurturing a more empathetic culture in general, would really move our species forward IMO
Hm, basically just a slight modification of the gesture/process of selecting something for Lens/Image search, since the screen is basically an image of whatever. Not much to get excited about here.

Most of my searches aren't for something I'm looking at but something I think of.
Yes. Now you - a generic person without any specific skills - just have to search for someone who is willing to sew knockoff clothing to your specification, ship them the item, and wait for them to get back to you - a month or longer, probably, as they are likely based in China and shipping things by boat - while hoping that your cursory search led you to an honest knockoff manufacturer, who won't just take your money and disappear.

I'd say that it still qualifies as a "truly astonishing amount of effort" when compared to the right-clicking and pressing save method of copying digital art.
Preheating is not an absolute necessity for charging. It is done because it helps the charge go faster.
If I don't mistaken he is also the original author of GLFW.
Google got slapped in their case with Epic because they offered inconsistent terms, and promoted the idea of alternative app stores while taking business measures on the back-end to prevent them.

Apple gives much more consistent terms.

The speculation is that the 15%-after-first-year subscription change was something they had actually negotiated with Netflix in an attempt to keep in-app subscriptions, which they then rolled out to everyone rather than keep as a Netflix-only deal.

I'm sure Apple is not sad Epic is off their platform, because they are a bad partner. But they would still let them back under the same terms as everyone else, if they agreed to actually abide them this time.
Nuclear power plants have a dramatically higher upfront cost than personal computers. You can't really ignore the capital cost and call the energy free.

A better example is solar power, which is slowly but surely whittling away at fossil fuels.
If blood oxygen is disabled in a software update, will there be any recourse for Apple Watch owners?

Customers aren’t the ones who violated a patent, and yet they’re the ones who might get screwed. The burden should be on Apple to figure this out for their customers.
Anyone else think about the connection between OSX, Jobs, Pixar, etc....seems like the elite of the tech revolution all were neighbours as usual with industry control
> To add, I'm not sure what legal basis there is for "you're charging too much"

Anti-price-gauging laws have already been ruled as constitutional, so there is case law for "You're charging too much"
So there were several scare tactics used, some half-truths, and some blatant lies to cover up adverse side effects.

I eventually made a spreadsheet wherein I drew up a matrix of side effects from each medication I was currently prescribed (about 5 total) and it very clearly demonstrated that these drugs were working together to enhance and magnify those adverse effects. There's no term for that, of course: they're not "interacting"; it's more like a malevolent synergy.

So I quit all the meds and I rely on a few authoritative sources for which supplements to take. I do inform all my physicians about what I take; I keep them up-to-date, and in turn they do nothing to monitor or test, because allopathy doesn't/can't do that. They typically just solemnly inform me that it's not regulated and I should probably have some professional guidance on it. Yeah, I'm working on that.

In terms of forced drugging, I've been incarcerated in hospitals and they basically expect you to take the drugs they present, or else. "Or else" usually starts with a petition to the court to order the forced drugging. I noticed in my records that someone had written "beware of cheeking" -- it turns out that "cheeking" is a way that inmates pretend to take pills but put 'em in their cheeks like a squirrel instead.

Typically, if I was incarcerated, I'd just go along with the drugging regimen and pretend that it helps, because that avenue meets much less resistance than the others. Last October I simply refused, and they weren't too fussed about that, because I was voluntary anyway, so all the treatments were my choice, my right. And I've been 100% voluntary treatment for over 20 years: nobody can say that I haven't relentlessly pursued every possible treatment at every opportunity. I merely disagree with the proposition that drugs make it better or easier.
Edit: I found it!

On any(?) database there is now an “Open in Calendar” button on the top right of the database

However, it doesn’t filter to just the ones assigned to you. The full database goes into your calendar. And the calendar app doesn’t show properties besides the title and datetime.
> studying the masters to make something original

original or "original"? maybe AI companies need to hire people to make "original" content for AI.
I find the act of writing down a note to be more useful than the note itself. It helps me commit something to memory. I use mini yellow legal pads for jotting down interesting ideas I come across. Maybe once a month I'll pick up a pad that I've filled with notes and skim through.
This is basically what I tried to do using the spaced repetition plugin for Obsidian but it's just not very good yet. I just checked and the author asked for a co-maintainer yesterday. I really hope they can find someone to put a bit of time in because it's a great idea and a great foundation.

https://github.com/st3v3nmw/obsidian-spaced-repetition/
run headless chrome to render your web page to pdf
Kind of Boeing’s own fault about that though, isn’t it? Presumably they attached MAX to the existing 737 line for several reasons, one of which probably was its history of reliability being a good selling point.
That last sentence is truly one of the most deranged things I’ve heard all year.

You’re literally talking to an audience of largely web developers and trying to claim with a straight face something that they all know full well not to be true because they spent the last decade having to deal with Safari’s bullshit and lack of interoperability.
I'm not accusing you personally of hypocrisy, but I do find it amusing the patents are almost never ok on HN except when they're being violated by Apple.
> Bluetooth can be pretty reliable - in RF-quiet environments

Like somewhere deep in the Swedish forests, just me and my chainsaw and a bluetooth headset which doubles as ear protectors.

...which still randomly starts stuttering or drops the connection.

Nah, Bluetooth is just unreliable. It works when the sun and moon and stars are in the correct alignment and/or a black cockerel of sufficient pedigree has been sacrificed in the correct way, otherwise it plays its tricks on you.
I believe that all one letter names for a language are already taken... Even Ć
I too know of such folks (including myself) but I think we say that only after making the bank!!!
biggest difference is probably that it works on Windows, which is something that I really appreciate about most of the Rust clones. Almost all of them are pretty platform agnostic.
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(1) I was responding to the actual thing OP said (70% code completion in Rust).

(2) It literally is autocompleting - it draws each pixel because it statistically determines that <some color value> is the best fit given the prompt and the prior pixels it drew. It's a more advanced robot, but it's still a robot.
I have followed this case fairly carefully (IAAL) and have not seen any indication that Apple will remove the feature from any already-sold Apple Watches. The only way you may be impacted is that if you require a post-warranty repair, Apple may not be able to provide you the same device. This would only apply if Apple loses its ITC appeal.

There are also district court cases ongoing, but those will take longer and there are not yet any rumblings about whether they could affect existing devices. My guess is they would just require Apple to pay for the past infringement, not to remove the feature from already-sold devices.
I find it revealing that some decades ago when teenagers were copying mp3s in their rooms for their own enjoyment it was piracy, crime, reprehensible, police, prisons, etc. When corporations are doing mass copyright infringement, we are talking about death of IP or changing the copyright laws to accommodate them.
There are certainly things you can try to mitigate ADHD, including of course Adderall. There’s a subreddit called ADHDProgramming I think… they seem to have a lot of good advice and anecdotes.

As far as finding a job goes, I think grinding leetcode is your best bet to stand out. While ChatGPT makes it easy to cheat on leetcode, now more than ever employers seem to be relying on it as a means of filtering out candidates- what with all the layoffs in the last couple of years, this makes sense. Also consider that devs leaving Google and Amazon and the like- they all did the leetcode grind to land those jobs, so that’s who you’re up against. The only way to compete is “leet”.

HackerRank, Cracking the Coding Interview, AlgoExpert, Leetcode of course… all good resources. Pick one and stick with it. Probably takes weeks or a couple of months to get “decent enough” to pass most leetcode style interviews.

It’s ass, and I hate it, but sometimes you have to play the game.
Yeah screw the big guy! He's always trying to... checks notes... let us read our blood oxygen levels...
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Wow, what absolute horseshit. The march continues to acquire marketing signals at any cost.
I care more about patent abuse, not about which giant corporation wins. The only people who actually lose here are consumers.
Apple could always pay to use the patented IP.

I could barely type that with a straight face. They'll never do that after being sued.
A shame for who? Boeing had the option of not destroying their reputation and chose to do so in exchange for a few good quarters.
most people are not disabled, and yet somehow catering to the disabled is written into law.

this is not an argument for why we should be ignoring EV's in lieu of transportation, which is what I originally responded to.
The current ITC action would not result in this. The ITC only affects importation into the US.
With averages of >10 arrests per ~3 hr event at some of these venues, I'd think it is obvious that someone with arrest powers would need to be there.

Either way, what you are suggesting has been done, and was the standard before many of these requirements were in place. The problems in police staffing that resulted were the reason these requirements originated.
The attack is the idea that everybody needs to have the same priorities that Rust has and so everybody else is wrong. With regard to memory safety, this even something I could partially agree with, but then there is another problem: In contrast to Cyclone, which was a safe version of C, Rust changes a lot more than simply adding memory safety features. It is not at all like C but has completely different syntax, different conventions, and complexity similar to C++. So in many ways, I find it inferior to C (although I agree that memory safety is good), but Rust people think it is superior in every way and behave like this.
How is an has been okay all this time for example Trello in the app store?
Users subsribe to it's paid-tiers only from their website
> Copyright is not a real thing.

> - I think you're sowing the seeds to undermine your own arguments

> licensing fee...

It took them exactly one reply. New record
Sharing deepfake porn could lead to lengthy prison time under proposed law
Yup.

I think many countries (japan already has) will allow IP for training data.

They just need to buy time until then.
What really annoys me lately is websites which require me to verify my login by email, but which also allow me to change my password by email without knowing the old password. It seems to be an attempt at "2FA" but it ends up being 1FA, and even less secure than if they'd just accept my password on its own.

A friend of mine recently got caught in a loop where he wanted to interact with an account that he hadn't used in a long time, which was registered under an email he hadn't used in a long time, which had a recovery email set which he also hadn't used in a long time. He had the passwords written down for all three, but account A refused to let him in without an email verification (but would let him in without a password, if only he could access the email), and email A wouldn't let him in without proving he had access to email B, which wouldn't let him in without proving he had access to email A. A person who wandered into a logged-in computer with access to email B could theoretically have done anything they wanted to all 3 accounts, password or not, but the rightful owner was forbidden from using any of them, despite knowing all the passwords.

I miss the days of, "You have a password, and we'll assume anyone with that password is you. Don't get phished." It's actually pretty easy not to get phished, and sometimes downright impossible to go through the hoops that all of these new anti-phishing measures require.

A service I stumbled into recently which I think does it right is Mullvad. They've taken it a step further and done away with usernames, too. They just give you a long numerical code and tell you that if you lose it, you're screwed. It feels much more respectful to the user.
I can buy valerian root tea at multinational grocery store. The problem with supplements isn't that they're disenfranchised, and it's not even that they strictly don't work. It's that the huge businesses that make tons of money off of them have so aggressively resisted regulation based on effectiveness, or even contents, that you can't count on what you're buying not poisoning you, let alone helping.

And I'd love to see a natural replacement for insulin that doesn't kill people, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist. So maybe pharmaceutical technology does a few things that natural remedies can't?
Soon to be #1 for “toasters made in USA”.
Ha! The guy who wrote this is the same guy who invented ~~APL~~ a number of APL inspired languages (Edit: He did not invent APL. Thanks for the corrections!), so I suspect he may just be built different.

https://www.jsoftware.com/ioj/iojATW.htm

Have you seen anything written in K itself? Here's a program to calculate primes:

2_&{&/x!/:2_!x}'!R
This is an import ban, it should have no effect on already imported watches.
I'll throw you an up-vote, perhaps somewhat in irony.

I left uni in 1992 and went to work for a company -using- a tool pretty much exactly as you describe. I've spent 31 years now solving problems, building software and training others in the tool. We're a tiny team, our closest competitor spends upwards of 50 mil a year on development. We outsell them in our space with 2 people developing.

So the tool you describe exists, and there are low-thousands of very small companies (or one-man operations) dominating their industries.

So tiny front end developer teams, check. Superior output, check. Lower cost of maintainence check. How much are employers willing to pay? Next to nothing.

I've heard every excuse under the sun. Some are more material than others. But ultimately it boils down to risk. Stepping outside Microsoft/Apple/mainstream tools has existential risk at managerial level.

Programmers don't like it cause the focus is on results, not coding fun. It very much favours people who are making a product to sell, not writing code by the hour.

The makers have never spent a dime on marketing. Their Web site is terrible. Their users tend not talk too loudly about it because the competitive advantage is material.

So employers don't want it.
Programers dont want it. Self-employed folk love it.
> just like the speed of matter and energy is limited to c.

Which is notoriously "not that much faster than a human?"
> Where do you get this number for Stripe ?

That's Stripe's US fee. CC processing fees are much higher in the US so that card issuers can run all of those "cashback" programs.
Stocks have fundamentals and pay out dividends to shareholders.

Crypto has no fundamentals, do not pay out dividends and only resemble ponzi and pyramid schemes.
I think if you read what he says on Twitter it demonstrates that he's gone so far beyond norms that it's not unreasonable to expect that people are going to target his family (non-violently).
There is still a huge market for personal note-taking apps. Obsidian, Joplin, Bear, Logseq, just to name a few. Plume will support sharing notes, and maybe some form of non-real-time collaboration (think git-like) in the future.
Or just get a job nearer where you live, even if it’s worse, lol. No amount of money any job would be willing to pay me could make regular hotel-hopping worth it.
What you wrote is not meaningfully relevant to "this" post anymore than any other cop related post. It doesn't add any meaningful discussion.
I wanted this so bad I wrote up a quick personal app that pulls from a couple of subscribed Google calendars and does almost exactly like what you are asking for. I don't know how anyone plans multi-day events without it. Huge for family meetings where we are planning out the year.
> it's still pretty striking how far away the structure of it is from the usual idea of automated reasoning/intelligence.

How so? Reasoning is fundamentally a search problem.

The process you described is exactly the process humans use: i.e. make a guess about what's useful, try to work out details mechanically. If get stuck, make another guess, etc. So the process is like searching through a tree.

People figured out this process back in 1955 (and made a working prototype which can prove theorems): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Theorist but it all hinges on using good 'heuristics'. Neural networks are relevant here as they can extract heuristics from data.

What do you think is "the usual idea of automated reasoning"? Some magic device which can solve any problem using a single linear pass?
So impressive!

Btw. I remember preferring low resolution games and now when I think about it, I think my brain was "upscaling" them filling in the missing details in sort of subconscious and pleasant way. Once games around that era no longer supported low resolution in wake of early GPUs I kind of lost interest. The games looked sterile and boring.
> IIRC on a Tesla the car screen displays that it's warming the battery, but the app on the phone doesn't. The phone screen just says that it's charging with 0 amps.

This isn't quite accurate. The Tesla app on iOS at least shows the battery preconditioning.
What if someone actually wants to deliver food? Maybe you like driving, you like being alone in your car and listening to music or podcasts, shuttling food orders around the town. Maybe it's fun for you.
> It is not for vocational training.

And yet most of the companies require CS degree when hiring
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oh yeah, that's why saddle's weren't invented.
Definitely, microbenchmarks are what’s most striking especially because they seem immediately approachable, as opposed to a full fledged app with a variety of integrations. In that case the quality of the dependencies is much more important to me than any benchmark runs. Great point, totally agreed.

I personally am often quite astonished by the amazing performance Go apps squeeze out of the box, with many efficiency tweaks and tricks we way too often take for granted, which you need to be aware of to come by in C++, Rust, or even Java. But I do also often get disappointed by the sudden inconsistency of that performance in Go after a while, the variance is a bit high, with C++, Rust, and Java runtime behavior being very consistent in general.
Well, they give different results for different users at different times. For me performing it just now on mobile, of the first 10 results, only 4 were usb 3.2. Most of the less relevant results were the sponsored results amazon inserts all over the place these days.
Garmin watches don't use the blood oxygen sensor for estimating VO2 Max.