skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm salty because the feel-in-hand of Crystal is best in class, but the DX is worst in class and I get the impression that that's not going to change.

What is the difference between feel-in-hand and DX ? I know that DX means developer experience.
That concepts sounds like fantasy, cells are shaped like cells because 'itty-bitty robots', and most other configurations, don't work thermodynamically or physically or chemically at such small scales.
New York State Department of Labor Warn Filing – April 1 Google Layoff [pdf]
Looks like 225 will be affected starting in April? Or has this already occurred?
All I claimed was that, if you let postgres run against network mounted storage it works the same as if you used it with local storage.

Do you see what I meant?
This thing which definitely doesn't exist now and may never exist may never have some particular property - so says science.

Just like how science says that the purple elephant that doesn't live in my back yard may never learn to rollerskate or play a Bach solo violin partita.

Existence is not an attribute. Existence is a predicate which, if untrue, means something has no attributes. Isn't that what Kant showed when he disproved Aquinas' ontological argument?

AGI has to exist to have or not have alignment. Yes we can reasonably discuss what alignment with human needs/values etc even means, but it has to exist first.
Seems less about saving labor and more about proving technology.

You could take this concept a step further and 3d-scan the subject body with a laser, then 3d print a model, and the clothing draped on the model and heat-shrunk (rather than using a software to decide where to heat shrink and how much)
Makes me wonder what exactly they were using and whether they may have just been using it wrong - even plain old p25 has otar: https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_xa/products/two-way-rad...
Kademlia (distributed hash table) explained [video]
This is a noble effort, but I think it's time we consider video games to be "events" or "experiences" rather than something you can keep forever. The rightsholders to these games do not intend for them to be around forever, and you cannot preserve them without violating copyright.
Yes, for network related activity. Peep.

https://github.com/the-real-neil/peep

Previously discussed on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33017337
Is it wrong for desperate patients to spend all their savings on ayahuasca-carrot juice? I don't think it's very ethical of the juice seller to exploit patients by selling them hope, but it doesn't feel like it should be illegal, since the patient does get some value out of the purchase, even if it's just (false) hope
No, but Asciiflow is very good.

https://asciiflow.com/
On iOS shortcuts you don’t need user interaction if you disable “show when run” on the shortcut.
It’s shrink-to-fit denim, with a 3d pattern. Instead of wearing your dress in the bathtub, you hang it up and a robotic arm blow dries it
>Because of how the type inference works, the compiler cannot (effectively) compile incrementally, which means that any change causes a full compilation. This includes dependencies.

Is this an issue of type inference in general (and therefore exists in all languages that do type inference), or is it related of Crystal's implementation of type inference?
Postman story:

Layoff happened, and we didn't yet have our postman software in our list of services to remove employees from. This is not Postman's fault.

One person had "deleted" all his collections and workspaces after the layoff to clear his laptop of all things related to our company. After we got an email from Postman saying our workspaces were deleted, I removed the laid off users. Since I removed the laid off user, the "trash bin" associated with them was also deleted. Postman support restored all the collections but the "environment" was gone. Which was all of our QA test keys, etc...

Our Postman collections are still in shambles after that, and we don't have any employees to manage it anymore. While I totally don't hold Postman accountable - there is definitely a reason why "no-cloud" is a good way to go with these kinds of tools.
Isn't that already enough to know that it is some form chaos that underlies many of the current phenomena?

For any explanation X there will always be the question, "now what explains X"?
Thank you. As soon as Postman asked for a login I uninstalled it and have been curling from text files ever since. My younger coworkers won't drop Postman though. Maybe this will help them switch.
Scortched Earth maybe? Also Worms vibe.
11th-century astrolabe discovery reveals Islamic–Jewish scientific exchange
It's not as easy to convince Americans to throw their bodies into the meatgrinder to slaughter brown people for the sake of Raytheon and the almight petrodollar as it was to convince their grandparents to fight the Nazis. People are aware that war is a racket and the American military industrial complex aids and abets terror, suffering and genocide around the world, and it isn't worth having that blood on your hands and risking your life and mental health just to help with school loans.

So now we drone strike weddings for the sake of Raytheon and the almighty petrodollar and everyone is happy. Except the students who still have to pay their loans. And the brown people. But I guess you can't please everyone.
"Kasler" is colloquially refering to smelly feet, at least in austrian german
The article being from 2011 is perhaps why it can be as long as it is without mentioning "Coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays", or CGRAs, which, at least as of 2019 when I learned about them, seemed to occupy a good middle ground between conventional CPUs and FPGAs.

The idea is that, instead of being a bunch of gates like an FPGA, the components of the CGRA are at the scale of an ALU, or maybe an on-silicon network switch, with a single CGRA having different parts that are optimized for e.g. numerics, IO, encryption, caching, etc., which you can knit together into the processor you need.

That's maybe where this idea went?

Here's a more recent link covering similar ground:

https://semiengineering.com/specialization-vs-generalization...
First hit on google [0] - no idea if it's true but seems plausible... (half a year ago sama said 100m)

[0] https://explodingtopics.com/blog/chatgpt-users
I'm tired of Postman freezing when sending JSONs over a MB in size. I had to purge it from the system a couple times because the tab wouldn't even load on start up making the whole thing unresponsive.

I hope Bruno works better in that regard.
If nothing else, by being chemically distinct from LSD, it remains a crime to have LSD, but not the salt prescription form.
Nylon is thermoplastic so in theory it could be reshaped but the filament would lose a lot of strength and durability in the process
AI - is there any bogeyman role it can't fill?
Definitely limit the more disk heavy features, or spend more time (and money) on infastructure. I was running the whole site on an 8vCPU 24GB RAM VM, and it almost immediately crashed due to the high disk reads.

This is likely due to the fact that the database is huge, and providing that data on demand is very resource intensive- especially when there are forty different people sending many requests a second.

If you don't want to compromise on data though, look into spending a little bit more time/money on infrastructure. I wish I had deployed the project on Kubernetes, instead of what I ended up doing.
Looks great!

Postman dug its own grave after selling out itself for VC money. The “File over app” philosophy is a direction that we should be supporting after the Post-ZIRP VC money world.

1: https://stephango.com/file-over-app
Golden Edition in the pricing page is listed twice, it looks like the middle column should read "Individual plan"
Second vote for Paw. I also was not happy about the buyout. It has some quirks, but pretty awesome overall.
> Rather than addressing the clear premise of how you'd respond to sweeping, arrogant, and unsupported criticism by arrogant laypeople

Except I did address that in the next sentence[1]. Maybe you should read my comments before you write all this and accuse me of not reading yours.

> Thought so.

> The default state of UI design is not adding anything unless it adds something specific and justifiable and doesn't kill any other sort of accessibility

I did actually explain why it is not appropriate (that it communicates something specific which is contradictory to the way I often see it used). I'll add that it feels much worse than the native form widgets in websites where I often see it used, and it can degrade usability by being a non-standard input method. I also should point out that the null hypothesis doesn't need explaining. You've said yourself that the default state is not adding something, i.e. assume it is not appropriate until there is evidence to the contrary. The burden of proof is on you, and that is why I didn't deem that sentence worthy of specific reply.

> In this comment section, literally zero of the very critical people, you included, has responded with anything aside from some combination of personal preference

I don't control the actions of other people. That said, I did as you asked yesterday and looked it up, and the only study I could find said users didn't like toggles[2][3]. Wherever toggles are compared to binary non-toggle options, the other options are preferred though there is a degree of subjectivity to it. The only reason I didn't post it is because I assumed you were already familiar with the literature on the matter.

> Your refusal to acknowledge all of this doesn't oblige me to gather empirical evidence to defend it.

If it is as easy as you claim, it would be a lot less effort than writing all this and it would actually convince me you are correct (which I assume is your objective but it may not be). That seems like a much better option than calling me egotistical and stupid.

[1] "If the people making these claims were incorrect about something, I would simply explain why that is rather than saying "I have a bunch of experience that you don't have and there are some studies that prove your silly little feelings wrong. Your opinions are worthless compared to mine."" - James K (2024)

[2] Plaisant, C., & Wallace, D. (1990). Touchscreen toggle switches: Push or slide? Design issues and usability study (CS-TR-2557, CAR-TR-521). University of Maryland.

[3] Alyaa Al-Jasim and Pietro Murano. 2023. Designing User Interface Toggles for Usability. J. User Exper. 18, 4 (August 2023), 175–199.
Google wants that to be true. It doesn't mean they're right. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897975
Building Phomo, Part 1: The Calendar
He actually developed a new language and a compiler to develop these command block scripts, which essentially are just minecraft commands… thats insane
It looks like the pricing page has lifetime licenses only.
> On the other hand, it would be very cool to also be able to avoid companies like DJI forcing sideloading of their heavily obfuscated app [0], as is currently the deal on Android.

> Is there a way to accomplish both?

I think so, but this sounds like a different problem. The problem here is a app that is required to operate a device bought by a EU consumer. EU can have additional regulations on such apps that are required for using all the capabilities of a purchased device that focuses on security and data governance.
Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)
This is a problem with all these languages (zig, nim, crystal, D, vlang, etc). They are all neat but the DX is so bad that Java with a good IDE is faster to code in.

Zig and Nim with VSCode kind of work. Nim integration is very easy to break, Zig LSP auto complete does weird stuff. Nim's LSP seems to parse whole project from disk on each auto complete so it's slow.
It has everything to do with the Tesla because in the Model X you can't open the door without electric power. You have to disassemble the door and pull a cable behind the speaker.
I have nothing against this app or the other graphical HTTP tools like Postman, Insomnia, etc., as people clearly get value out of them, but personally, I've moved everything over to Hurl --> hurl.dev

- Open source

- Text files all the way down

- Easily understood DSL

- Easily distributed

- Easily versioned

- Fast

Download the executable, copy the two lines below into "first-test.hurl" and you're up and running.

GET http://localhost:3000
HTTP 200

I realize I'm fanboying a bit here, but Hurl really has been so helpful for our particular use case at wafris.org where we're trying to support a large number of different HTTP clients. We can just give an integration partner access to our hurl suite and they're good.
Great article and given the context of the code this is a brilliant solution, but note that this assumes that the data is well-formed. Much of the value in an effective, battled-worn parser is efficient error checking and recovery.
Edit/tldr: my original comment concerned the foundation of or the seed of the historic belief of hepatocentrism rather than the reasoning or knowledge held by those whose writings were influenced by or regarding hepatocentrism once it was already established.

———

I don’t particularly disagree with your response, but I think you’ve really read into what I was saying and so misrepresent my points. That’s probably my fault since I wrote it quickly.

To hopefully help clarify (but again quickly, since I’m only here to procrastinate and my low-level feelings of fear are growing unpleasant.):

In regard to their distractions and knowledge, I’m simply pointing out that they did not have today’s specific knowledge of human physiology and functioning. This would allow them to speculate further in other directions beyond the interests and areas of focus we have today that have been deemed logical and correct. And they did not have as many ready sources of information to distract them or to assure them that there was nothing more to learn. Sure, perhaps they were blind to this as we are, and so the relative effect would be much the same. But, there was still a quantitative difference in information and sources. And there were certainly branches of the knowledge or paths of specualtion that had not yet been cut off as some are today.

By “ancients”, I include prehistoric man, whose feeling and thoughts would serve as the foundation for historical man’s own ideas and writings. I don’t mean to suggest that they were dumb or anything like that; only that they, without written word, would be more sense-oriented rather than concept-oriented.

And in regard to “low-level feelings of fear”, I do not mean this to be inferior to overt conscious thought and reasoning. In fact, I think we fail all too often to attend to these feelings today and it harms us. These low-level feelings, fear or otherwise, still guide us today. We just don’t notice it as much and prefer to believe we move forward with logical plans rather than intuitive drives.
bruno seems really easy and good, but then.. it doesn't support cookies..
This is a good question. Is a paperwork oriented regulatory regime supportive of formation of mega corps?
> It’s not about the wisdom we glean. It’s about what wisdom we grow.

I think the author does a good job of actually testing the original point—questioning if all but a handful of books are a worthless distraction. I think the entire piece has almost nothing to do with prayer. The monks are used as a thought experiment around the value of thought for the sake of thought.
The irony that I switched to Insomnia after Postman started demanding a login... and now I've been actively looking for alternatives (Bruno being on the list) now that Insomnia has done the same thing.
Where can I find more details about this?
I mean, it was the same for books for a long time, but we kept them around whenever possible, so I have to disagree
Exactly, do that and they're then free to set whatever rules they want on their App Store.
Honestly it would have been better if they never launched it
The Orange Pi Zero 3
I wonder if the plastic we deposit into the environment will form oil/coal deposit layers in a few million years? Or will microbes develop means to digest all those energy rich hydrogen carbon bonds those polymers are composed of. Much like our coal/oil deposits date back to before evolution a means to metabolize cellulose.
People generally get acclimated to the situation they are in.

If you have anxiety over money, for instance, you'd probably still have it, regardless of whether you had $15,000 in your bank account, or $15,000,000.
"Oh, you have Generalized Anxiety Disorder? Just take a casual walk down Haight street and try to purchase one specific drug from the random 'vendors' there."

Thanks, Doctor!
A more pleasant sound (not replicating a literal Geiger counter) would be more useful imo.
On pure pragmatic grounds, it's really difficult to justify any of these new languages when you compare the tooling and support of those that have either been around longer or have company/institutional support.
I can’t wait to have to install 30 different app stores to keep installed the apps I currently have
QuePaxa: Escaping the Tyranny of Timeouts in Consensus
I think the important detail here is that, to anyone paying attention to the results of the clinical trials, this drug never showed promise in the first place.

The system we have is slow because it's thorough. Sometimes we have to move faster, and that's what EUAs are for. The worst versions of "right to try" policy would open the floodgates to all kinds of quack drugs with astronomical price tags. The resulting system would extract money from the desperate, and do very little to cure the ill.
Why speculate when Android had been using this model all along? It haven't been an issue. Of course there are multiple alternate marketplaces, but it's not like every company has their own.
Can someone explain what Postman or Bruno is for? I know it's something for interacting with apis but why would i use it. I interact with apis a lot with curl or wrapper in my languages but never really needed something else?
all a company would be doing by acting like this would be restricting the size of their user base
Hmm, the "With Expression" diagram on line 656 looks fine in emacs, but in chrome at that actual link, everything on the right is mangled. (The characters look fine, it looks like github's font choices do poorly with the "load bearing whitespace" for the extended bits...)
Looks awesome! Having version controlled api collections is a good enough idea that it makes all other ideas seem a little crazy.

Any idea if the CLI app is available as a standalone? Looks like its a "desktop app + cli” or nothing deal from what I can find.
How about we fix that with this?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/190...

Give patients access and do the right science. Make sure it is safe and allow people the right to try.
It makes no sense in the first place for such a tool to even need a login functionality and cloud saves...
What's really needed to store information about a few http requests? Maybe a few kilobytes. I never understood it and I particularly don't understand how any company could fall for that. If they instead invested in teaching their engineers how to use curl even that would have paid off more.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/190...
It is mentioned. Quoting directly from this piece...

> Or stopped being covered by insurance? Trikafta’s sticker price is more than $300,000 a year. Insurance typically covers most of that cost—minus what can be significant co-pays and deductibles—and Vertex offers co-pay assistance. But patients’ lives ultimately depend on decisions made by nameless bureaucrats in rooms far away: Insurance plans can suddenly change what they cover, and in 2022, Vertex announced that it would substantially reduce its financial assistance.
Cells are shaped like cells (which is to say ugly bags of mostly water) because they are self-perpetuating chemical reactions in solution. We usually conduct our chemical reactions in vessels that are round along at least one axis, maybe almost two for our round-bottomed flasks. This is natural because we're enclosing a maximum volume of our solution with a minimal surface (cell membrane or borosilicate glass).

On a macro scale, life tends to be bilaterally or radially symmetrical, but our robots are not necessarily like that, just considering even factory robots which are often an arm and little else. So, at the micro scale, I don't think they have to resemble "life" there, either. I'm hardly suggesting some kind of tinkertoy with one atom here and another atom there and the strut being, instead of wood, a covalent bond. No, I think we would need more atoms than that.

Frankly, we haven't much tried to scale down our robotics. Oh, you'll find someone who will produce the flagellar motor (a mere forty-five nanometers, compared to the ten thousand nanometers of a human cell) but not much else. I wouldn't worry about the thermodynamics and quantum effects until we're down to that motor level.
Yes, it's the same principle. When it's in "quote mode" then it only allows tokens that continue or end a known quote.
Android app stores failed because there's actually not much of a need for middlemen: you can just get an APK from the source, like you would on Windows.

As far as I can tell, Apple doesn't plan to let this happen.
If by activating their response process they mean: delaying disclosure and pressuring reporters to delay publicity of it, sure
This is also mentioned in the article:

> Recently, Make-A-Wish announced that children with CF would no longer automatically be eligible for the program, because “life-changing advances” had radically improved the outlook for them.

I know this is a long piece, but half the comments in this thread seem like people didn't even bother to read it before commenting...
The regulatory regime for Boeing has not changed; Boeing has.
How do you set options for chrome on iPhone and android?

Sorry for the naive question, I never figured this out.
Yeah that’s what I meant. Most tents in the $300 range would look like that
They made a lot of efforts to make this useless. Requiring $1M to start a marketplace, making it hard for the customers to use it, trying to comply with the law but in very bad faith.
A civilized person sometimes leaves the home.
I'm still digesting this interesting paper but the Figure 3 chart is particularly informative as it puts the whole aspect of electronic and optical computing into perspective.

I cannot recall ever having seen Power Dissipation versus Compute Performance together with Total global power generation, Total global data center electricity consumption, Electronic thermal noise limit and the Landauer Limit all graphed together before. Presenting the data in this fashion provides a stark and very clear overview of what's actually possible together with the theoretical limits. Graphing the Landauer Limit is a masterstroke because we can instantly see computation vs power efficiency for any given tech.

I think the visual impact of this chart is important enough to see it expanded further and the authors and/or others should think about doing so. It would make an excellent poster-sized lab wall chart if the graticule lines were subdivided from 10³ to 10 (leaving 10³ lines bold) to provide finer granularly and allow more detail of the tech together with the dates of their introduction and phase out, etc.
I use debugger only in reverse engineering. There’s almost no need for the debugger in projects you own.
The benefit of using postman is that you can open the app, see your (shared) collections, easily change the params and hit send. Can curl be used like that?
If you click on the “X hours ago” header, you get the text in black.