skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our modern language runtimes want to be small and portable across platforms, so all the features someone might want in an accessible BASIC-prompt-like environment (drawing to the screen or playing a sound) are delegated to libraries. Libraries make the user engage in dependency management, so they have to create a project, learn Cargo or 'go dep' or npm, find out which packages to install that give them the APIs they need, learn those APIs through varying qualities of documentation, and finally figure out how to import and call those APIs in their program.

The best system for an all-inclusive programming environment like this, that one might feasibly already have on their system, is Emacs; this is because they've accumulated this stuff and made it available on every platform, so you truly can write a couple of lines of Emacs Lisp to draw an image or play a sound without getting into the arcaneries of dependency management. But even with Emacs you need to know the right incantation to get to a REPL or execute code from the *scratch* buffer, and your PC is never going to ship with a bootloader that jumps straight into Emacs.
Amazon is more profitable than ever after a year of mass layoffs
I would hope we can post and discuss topics we disagree with or think are wrong.
To each his own. As a motorcyclist, I feel a motorcycle is better than a Twizy, but in Paris a Twizy is a lot better than a small car for navigating traffic and parking.
> I really don't understand why you aren't eager to explain the differences and what problems are being solved.

Sorry, everybody has different background of knowledge. Hard to understand where the question comes from. I think https://www.usenix.org/system/files/fast21-pan.pdf may be helpful here.
I wish habitability metrics would be more holistic, taking into account the star and orbit characteristics, how sun+earthlike they really are
Volatile organic compounds are a very specific type of pollutant (not CO2), and much less important than CO2 and a more localized problem in the grand scheme of things.
I find anyone bragging about their intelligence to be intolerably obnoxious.

100% of the smart people I know oppose Nazism. It seems there are too many politicians around who are objectively intelligent but are a bit comfortable with at least some of the Nazi Party’s ideas.
I found one write-up investigating this a few months ago:

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electric-vehicles-...

Trying to summarize: EVs still seem to be a net gain, but non-exhaust emissions are still a significant problem. We don't know how bad that problem really is because there's not enough research yet.
I’m not sure that’s what MAE measures. What’s the median of a time series? What does that even mean?
> There is a reason why each week a different item goes on sale. That loss leader leads to more purchases

Except that I, the person who already buys that product, buys nothing, or buys it from another store, because it's no longer in stock when I make my purchases in the evening. (I've since changed to shopping in the morning or early afternoon, so run into sales pricing outages much less frequently, but the general point stands.)
My anecdotal evidence is the opposite. One couple I know, the male does a lot of the botting for his partner. One of my aging model friends switched from having an OF to running other girls. 3rd model friend use to employ their friend to run around 60% of their operation but the quality suffered a bit and the lost a whale. I recently did a little demo for a friend on how ChatGPT could be used to create Twitter copy for various market types to push OF.
In reference to (per duration) values "requests per second" is ambiguous, what is a request?

Instructions per seconds exists but is only useful for comparing tasks on the same hardware and architecture. We saw the abuse of MIPS for comparing machines in the past just as we see it with FLOPS in GPUs today.

MIPS benchmarks like whetstone differ even on the same CPU depend on the language used, compiler used, and the options at compile time. TPC, SPEC and other synthetic benchmarks just succumbed to game theory and usually don't apply to real world loads.

The field you want to look into is "Queuing Theory"

If you are lucky enough that you can assume your system is Markovian you get simple formula like:

mean service time == 1/(mean service rate)

To show just how old it is here is a good paper about M/M/1 queues from 1958 that is still useful today.

https://msp.org/pjm/1958/8-1/pjm-v8-n1-p08-s.pdf
What range of weight is that fourth power rule valid for?
It's the lesser of evils. EVs must be heavier by fact of volumetric/mass energy density alone (all else being equivalent).
What "begins"?

Ethiopia, barely a country, torn by civil war, without a shred of functional infrastructure anywhere in sight... is banning internal combustion cars... and this is supposed to indicate newsworthy progress?

This is a land where large parts of the population are living in extreme poverty, living on the brink of starvation, with extremely limited access to food or water or basic infrastructure.

They should be the last country to ban internal combustion cars...
Plus "underpowered". Like, what? You can't revv your engine that well at the red light or what are we talking about?
Understanding how that could possibly have worked is one of the goals of my long-lived side quest of learning CFD.
A lot of modern SUVs are actually pretty similar in specs to minivans:

Mazda CX9: weight: 4,409lbs, 199″ L x 78″ W x 68″ H

Honda Odyssey: 4,482lbs, 205″ L x 79″ W x 70″ H

For us, it mostly boiled down to us needing to periodically drive in snowy conditions. Obviously an SUV is not a magical vehicle for wintry conditions, but 4wd is big advantage.
> That's a lot of books.

When teaching yourself you need multiple sources as a stand in for things being explained different ways by a teacher or through discussions.

A fair metric is about 3 books where you'd otherwise use 1 in class.
I’m trying to decide whether you’re describing a rocket or a space elevator. If you build a tower that extends to somewhere near geostationary orbit, you can pretend it’s a rocket stage delivering a delta V of zero, and you can “hot stage” a tiny little stage off the top, and voila, you’re in orbit.

Of course, once you’ve managed to build this, the rockets are basically optional. :)
Is there an equivalent to the Drake equation that includes a factor that describes planets small enough to escape?

Very depressing to me to think about how vanishingly rare smart, spacefaring life might be. But on the flipside of that, there may be a little corner of the universe where multiple spacefarers contemporaneously live within a few light years of each other. That might be cool from a space opera point of view but it'd probably end up being dominated by a space fascist enslaving everyone.
"Logical states for fault-tolerant quantum computation with propagating light" (2024)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adk7560

"Qubits without qubits" (2024)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adm9946
Still using SVN here along with git. Not for coding, but storing CAD/EDA data. Large file support is the key here. Git LFS unfortunately is not very good and as soon as your repos grow into tens of gigabytes, git is not very fast anymore.
When you get to decide what claims are valid and profit from deciding they're not, the incentives just don't stack up to actually covering people adequately, and by this same property as well as the obfuscated nature of the internal judgments that lead to these conclusions and the infrequent occurrence of incidents built into... why risk-pooling makes sense for anyone, buyers don't have good enough information in advance to drive any selection pressures on acting against these incentives

There is no honest insurance company because the mechanism design implications of making it possible to be one would effectively destroy or nationalize the sector. Thus, it's a business that can't not be a scam
Sigh. People don't even know what bikeshed means any more.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding

If you think the differences between C++ and Rust are "unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues" then you may not know enough about either/both to contribute to the discussion.

We're talking about differences so impactful and well-recognized that everyone from Google[1] to the NSA[2] is advocating for using Rust to reduce the unsafety compared to C++. Are you saying all of them are bogged down in bikeshedding?

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-language...

[2] https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Artic...
> But it doesn’t relate to success of a company.

I am wondering what you mean by "success" of a company here? Is that
purely financial success? Or rate of growth or something like that?
I bought the wife a "thermomix" because she was ranting/raving about how great it is. Its a glorified blender with a heating element that cost (at the time) well over a grand.

Its only after I bought it (and the free trial expired) that I discovered that an additional subscription is required to use the integrated "cooking recipe" service that guides you through cooking various dishes - insanely cheeky given how much it cost!

To top it off, I'm constantly nagged to connect the thing to WiFi so it can update god-knows-what. Never. Again.
> It should be emphasized that activity measures the source disintegration rate, which is not synonymous with the emission rate of radiation produced in it's decay. Frequently, a given radiation will be emitted in only a fraction of all the decays, so a knowledge of the decay scheme of the particular isotope is necessary to infer a radiation emission rate from its activity.[1]

It's a metric for a source - not a receiver. So if we're going to use Becquerels, then we're really talking about needing to characterize the sources making the requests, not the servers receiving them. Which is great information to characterize, but still leaves us needing a metric for counting the requests seen vs those that are started but never reach the server.

If we're still excited about doing things like people measuring radiation, then we could use counts per time unit. Like, counts per second, for example.

BUT - not all requests are equal. Next up, we measure how many resources are consumed in serving each request. I expect my next system dashboard to have a metric for RES (Röntgen Equivalent Server).

[1] Knoll, 'Radiation Detection and Measurement' (3rd Ed) p2.
To the extent that a real MBA credential is important for a job as it was when I was initially hired out of B-school, no? To the degree that an MBA from certain elite institutions can create connections, no? To the degree that you are familiar with various concepts that may be relevant for your job, possibly? Especially later in career. Absolutely no one cares what degrees I have at that point.
There are two types of people with chronic pain though:

1) People with a known condition like specific cancers where chronic pain can be a well understood aspect of the condition. Taking the meds doesn't hide anything you and the doctor aren't already aware of.

2) People lumped into a bucket diagnosis (IBS, Fibromyalgia, etc) because the docs don't actually know what's wrong. Taking pain meds is the equivalent of dismissing alerts without investigating. Prior to the opioid crisis even well meaning docs were eager to prescribe because it made patients feel better without addressing any underlying cause.
I feel like you’re giving rust a pass here.

It would be a red flag if you were interviewing for react and decided to bring up vue or svelte or angular or whatever else as well.

It’s not like it’s only this C++/Rust type deal that is being picked on. Although I would suggest that rust fans tend to be particularly ardent and loud at the current moment, so interviewers may be far more turned off of you as a person just for bringing it up. Interviewers probably felt this way about people bringing up Python 20 years ago (Python devs of yore were WAY WAY worse about their “HAVE YOU HEARD THE WORD?!” Than rust devs are today), blockchain 7 years ago, etc.

Anyway. As an interviewee, I’d probably try to avoid being the one to bring up alternative technologies.
I would rather see the law stop being so anal about it.
Eg:

- trying to explain things to others, without knowing simpler things related to it

- when given a feature on his own, I practically did all the more difficult time-consuming things ( eg. Doing the logic of product variants to the db, when the Post is done)

- when they get a feature, instead of discussing how it's going to be done before he starts and if it's a good approach. Finding out when they are halfway in and his pr's are getting blocked because of "wtf"

- Starting to spread asking things to people less aware of certain behavior, so it wouldn't be obvious how much time he spend getting something out ( this is a guess behind of the why fyi)

- only claiming that they gave doubts about certain variable names, while an implementation is 4 levels deep of "if/else" ( or similar bad code

- sometimes, I took the entire afternoon to explain things. The day after, it was just like nothing was discussed and the same mistakes that were talked about to avoid, were in the PR. Tried to talk about it again, but started to ignore it more from then on, since it was time consuming
If only this were the problem here...I temporarily live in a small town in the American South and the mega-pickup truck thing is the most childish thing I have ever seen.
My kitchen stove is touch screen. Totally non-functional when it gets wet. Brilliant UX.
It’s easier to build a space elevator for a low gravity planet as well. So if some day we find a species living on a heavy earth, even throwing them a rope may be difficult.

Though I don’t suppose we’ll be visiting any aliens with chemical rockets regardless. We don’t have that kind of patience.
It solves exactly the sort of problem you are describing, yes! I think the discussions here focus too much on the language bindings, but maybe I’m missing that point as well.
Seen this way, The Glass Bead Game (1943) explores the difference between status and power.

(what about counter-signalling? Does sprezzatura, besides having the playful component of status-building, also imply that one already has enough power to not swot?)
Dude those cargo bikes are cool. I would love to ride one someday.
Now researchers…have identified a molecule that reduces hypersensitivity in trials in mice by binding to a protein they have shown is involved in neuropathic pain.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243992
Does your use case fall outside of the scope of checkinstall? If you have a build system that has or generates an install target and doesn't require anything fancy, I've found that that saved me from learning that much about Debian packaging.
Yes ! I worked on the Mobilize Duo (the Twizy successor, will be available soon) and it's revolutionary. I think it may be too much for French people, It's about establishing a new way of thinking.

The car can't be purchased, only rented. It's very light and ONLY designed for urban trip.
There is also a version for light local service !
The paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02739-0

And a non-paywalled article from the university:

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/gamified-home-exerc...

The result:

> The rate of falls reported monthly over 12 months—the primary outcome of the trial—was significantly reduced in the exergame training group compared with the control group (incidence rate ratio = 0.74, 95% confidence interval = 0.56–0.98)
What a low quality work. Of course the publicly open Q&A site would have some low-quality questions and answers. Of course most of questions of general interest will be asked early, and of course some of the newer questions would regard current events, and some of the answers - oh horror! oh depravity! - will feature opinions that differ from the one the author of the article holds. Of course there would be trolls and fakes - have you been on the internet anytime lately?

I don't know if Quora is doing well or not. Maybe it is dying. Maybe it is flourishing. What I am sure of it that this article didn't help me any in understanding which of those is true, despite the length of the piece.
In the US people can and do choose to live many, many miles from the nearest infrastructure in remote areas, especially in the western US. I used to have a place in the mountains of Nevada originally occupied since the 19th century that was 15 miles from the nearest utility service. Many of the remaining off-the-grid places are like this and would require creating a new right-of-way across private and government lands as there are no formal roads to many of these places. The taxpayer cost would be astronomical relative to the benefit. (The established "roads" everyone uses are informal common law trails which don't exist as far as the government is concerned.)
In reference to V=IR, ‘current’ is ambiguous. Current over what?

Depends what system you’re analysing. But the dimensional validity of that statement is applicable in numerous circumstances.
This is why AT&T keeps looking for the next big thing that will net them double digit margins in perpetuity with minimal effort.

They have bought and damaged the following assets in pursuit of this goal: DirecTV, HBO, CNN, Cartoon Network, Warner Bros and more.

AT&T has terribly mismanaged and damaged these assets, from destroying their carriage agreements with Dish and other cable companies for HBO, reducing their revenue by hundereds of millions a year, to, to more than halving the value if DirecTV by destroying its value proposition and failing to retain the customer base.
A photonic quantum computer!

"Miniaturized technique to generate precise wavelengths of visible laser light"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38497506

"Progress on chip-based spontaneous four-wave mixing quantum light sources" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39244182

"Attoscience unveils light-matter hybrid phase in graphite like superconductivity" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38650723
Yeah, there's another thing that is bugging me a bit about all this...

8-bit basically means ASCII when you deal with text (doesn't it ?) - how do you teach middle-schoolers that don't use a latin-based alphabet in their native tongue ??
I don't think there should be one. I also think that everyone that has come up with their idea is misguided, and all that tried to implemented one was/is a authoritarian psychopath who should be stripped of any power as soon as their nature got revealed.
This is one of the reasons free web hosting mostly died out. You'd spend more time and effort helping people that weren't interested in paying (and often didn't want to learn how anything worked) than you'd make through ads or upsells.
I doubt it; edn seemed like _that_ rebranding effort. It looked json-like enough, but clearly didn't have the draw. People who complain that json has no comments obviously have a secret list of other gripes.

The general tooling wasn't there, apart from clojure. I tried one of the edn libs for python/node and it always felt second class. The full power was just never there outside of clojure projects.

It's like how everybody still uses QWERTY (including me) and are happy to buy better keyboards, but they must still be in QWERTY
It’s not ambiguous when the Amazon bill arrives.
> If the state is unhappy with certain distributions they can try to change the economics, like giving vouchers.

That voucher is still being paid out of our tax. Either way, somebody's got to pay.

The government saying "You can provide service at any rate, but you have to give the same rate to this whole area" sounds like a much more market-friendly solution to me. Providers can still compete and try to bring the cost down, they just can't do it in a way that leaves poorer part of the city unconnected.

If you're against regulations because you don't trust government, consider what happens when the government gets to decide who receives vouchers, how much they are worth, and what services they are good for.
Josh Kaufman did a lot of work in this area for years, maybe still does -- Personal MBA. https://personalmba.com
I hope this leads to NVRAM one day.
IntelliJ 2024.1: Language injections in Java string templates
I wish Germany would follow, but well... There are a few cities in Germany that are rather progressive in that regard, but I wouldn't hold my breath for this in East Germany. :)
> Nothing is a lie here, but clearly the headlines convey certain ideals ... These are clearly aimed to be shared on social media and generate particular sentiment to those that only read headlines.

My statement is really about sentiment
Could Apple Acquire Peloton in 2024?
It's me, I'm the worst user. I subscribe&save at every opportunity, then cancel all of them before the next shipment. I get several new credit cards a year just qualify for the $500 sign up bonus, then never use them again. I have 20+ gmail accounts to use new customer promos over and over. You do not want me as a customer.
Do Birkenstocks get credit for this? Cork makes such comfortable and durable shoes.
It’s really easy to spot effective vs. ineffective/“empty calorie” growth channels when you look at them through the lens of a single word - intent.

Ads appearing alongside search results are among the highest intent, which is why they perform well and are thus so expensive.

Referral programs and coupons are people looking for generic deals. You might form habits among a few of them, but the likelihood is low. Free trials are probably more dependent on the context.
It is using mDNS/Bonjour for the same benefit.

mDNS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS

Bonjour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software)
It's equally difficult to try and hire a team of folks who know rust. There is also a lot of legacy code which doesn't cleanly interop with rust (cxx and the like are not sufficiently easy to bridge the gap). It would be much easier to convince your existing team to start using rust where it makes sense than it would be to switch jobs in search of one which primarily uses that. Over time both of these problems will diminish, but that'll likely take another decade.
> Since then, the number of severe crashes has climbed. It is hard to say exactly why.

The article mentions some of the reasons but the one I find personally annoying the most are white LED headlights. What in the absolute seven hells is wrong with every manufacturers these days? White light may give you extra vision but it blinds everyone else. Eventually, everyone starts using it and then no one will be able to see properly at night anymore. Truly, a tragedy of the commons. A swift intervention at the Federal level seems like a must.
This is an interesting read but I can’t help to wonder…

We can hardly take care of this planet. Why are we bothering with finding another planet that is habitable if we are only going to destroy it as well?
Deep Nutrition is a great book on this and other topics.
They’re not “your engineers”. This is an interview for a position listing the job requirements.

You go ahead an interview however you like, but generally, giving your interviewer a feeling that you plan to shake up their tech stack because you feel like it isn’t going to go well.
Thank you, that was very informative. I appreciate your succinct, information dense writing style, and appreciate it in the documentation, too, after reviewing that.
Lots of HN commenters are younger generation folks, and lots of them have poor fundamentals. They will certainly deny the need for wider scope of knowledge, as they do not have it themselves.