skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? Maybe if people can be fooled so easily they ought not be voting in consequential elections.

But, no the Govt should not be getting into regulating speech. Platforms should adopt things like community notes ala X to counter hoaxes and other nonsense on platforms, but not the gov. lest we slide into the situations they've got in Turkey and Russia, Egypt, etc, for example where everything is ostensibly to counter misinformation but in actuality results in control of political speech by the party in power.
I'm a beginner myself and have been trying my best to keep things simple. But I do agree that the complexity creep is quite tempting with Nix. Not sure why though..
My biggest question that I don’t think has any plausible answer is the same as his first question: why is the trash system connected to the (presumably unobstructed) in-station ventilation? There is no feasible explanation.
"Major open source projects, particularly the Linux kernel, are done entirely over email to great success."

This is a good model of how to collaborate, but it's also a bit self selecting don't you think? Unfortunately the reality at most day jobs is that a lot of people you work with are simply trying to get by.
You’re right there, we have different ones but same principles of milk and sugar beverages (ratio strongly matters in operation / performance)
Related:

What's worked in Computer Science (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15796515 - Nov 2017 (62 comments)

What's Worked in Computer Science - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10623600 - Nov 2015 (63 comments)
Is the cabal only comprised of so-called "tech" companies. Is 237 the number of so-called "tech" companies in the Fortune 500.

How many of the Fortune 500 have had "tech layoffs". 237 or some other number.
Public service is awful. I was a Leo/paramedic before switching to intelligence/SDE work.
Was being paid less than a quarter of what I make now.
Tailors resumes to job descriptions, maintaining ATS-friendliness and originality.
At least the offshore wind farms aren’t super far from population centers. There is a permitting issue for new long distance transmission.
Reddit's Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation
Sabine is great, and has made powerful enemies by calling out BS

Certainly, her value and contributions to society have been infinitely greater than a string theorist.
Because it's on the detention level. It's part of the punishment, clearly.
I loved for years on the coast with wind farms in the distance, I quite liked it. Like living in a solar punk town.
All the problems arised from very poor credentials management.
>Zig is practically alone in that if you write the next() method and and don't pass an allocator to any method in the next() body, nothing in that next() method will allocate.

It's not quite as simple as that. This can allocate just fine:

fn next(self: *Self) {
self.array_list.append(5);
}

... where `array_list` is of type `std.ArrayList(u32)`. `std.ArrayList(T)` takes an allocator at construction time (`array_list = std.ArrayList(u32).init(allocator);`) and stores it as a field, so its methods don't need to take an allocator parameter.

(And yes, there is a version of `std.ArrayList(T)` called `std.ArrayListUnmanaged(T)` that does *not* take an allocator in its constructor and does take an allocator in all its methods that need to allocate.)
Nope. It's not at all fixed because nobody can ever agree on what a "String" is and what performance guarantees the underlying data structure should provide.

Let's just assume a String is UTF-8 to make things "simple".

Is a String mutable or not? Should mutable and immutable Strings have the same underlying structure? If mutable, is a String extensible or not? Can a String be sliced into another String? Can those slices be shared? Should you walk across codepoints or characters (which could be multiple codepoints due to combining)? If you want to insert a codepoint in the middle of a String, what are the performance guarantees?

I can go on and on ...

"String" really has to be a library as there are simply far too many permutations once you step away from "Shove ASCII to tty".
Apple Device Fingerprinting: Describing use of required reason API
https://archive.ph/Kq5dE
True, but you can isolate side effects.

Knowing that a small collection of functions is not referentially transparent is better than having to deal with any part of the program potentially changing your state.
Remote work is great. Async work is generally slow and terrible, at least for the pace that you need to achieve to succeed. Many people equate remote work with async, when that isn't the case. Talking to people achieves results faster. Async work is ponderous and is the lowest common denominator when you can't do anything synchronous. Async can help synchronous work somewhat, and is an important component, but not the primary component.
Standard incandescent bulb life was around 1000h. Do you use these LED bulbs only an hour a day?

I suspect most people simply forget how often highly-used incandescent bulbs had to be replaced.
Michael Stonebraker is very smart. I remember using his VoltDB back in 2012 (from memory) when NoSQL is all the rage. I wonder if VoltDB is the core of DBOS?
I like to draw cartoons and build websites
I like to draw cartoons and build websites. So I made a website featuring my comic art as eCards. Is a million dollar business that will revolutionize the world? Haha ... no. Is it a fun project to build and maintain? Yes. Yes, it is. It reminds me of those old internet websites that were up just for the sake of it. Hacking, breaking, trying new things. Hope you enjoy! Happy to answer any questions.
When we moved to the US with two babies last year it was very important for us to buy non-toxic furniture. We ended up buying a sofa and chairs from Medley. Their products are made in LA out of wood and are free of formaldehyde, flame retardants, and PFAS. It's been only a year but it looks like the furniture is going to last.
> bad abstractions (here: a number system) can be made to work, but they still suck

The only really bad thing about Roman numerals is non-positionality, and it kinda follows naturally from them being merely transcriptions of the states of the 5+2-beads abacus that was popular back then. If only the norm back then were the 10-beads abacus... alas, the history is what it is.
By that logic, neither did New Yorkers. New York was largely Loyalist during the American Revolution.
Generally I prefer Richard Wolff’s approach, which is to educate people about cooperatives and promote their development. In the same way that our current government provides all kinds of support for capitalist firms (in this use of the term, this means top down owned and managed), we should provide similar encouragement and support for the growth of cooperatives.

There are side quests like abolishing or curtailing intellectual property restrictions, which concentrate wealth in the hands of the few and make the rest of us dependent on them. (I have a whole philosophy about this but the takeaway is, no intellectual property restrictions don’t do what you think they do, and the economy and investment would work fine and actually much better without them.)

For discussion of the need for cooperatives, see any of many talks or books by Richard Wolff. This is a fine place to start:

https://youtu.be/a1WUKahMm1s
Right but if it's as legal as garden tomatoes, how does lead to an environment of black market crime? If Walmart was selling weed and big ag was growing it, and Visa/Mastercard allowed weed transactions...where would the crime come from?

AFAICT - If Walmart isn't selling marijuana products, then it's not actually legalized yet. And that's where the crime comes from.
This is one of the ways you can tell if an INTERCAL implementation is worth its salt.
https://archive.ph/L94G0
Interesting but ultimately not that important. I don't think anyone is surprised that the world's second best funded military have well developed digital infiltration techniques.

Although given the inefficiencies in US production chains and the likelihood the Chinese aren't honest about their spending, this is a questionable "second" these days.
Perfect recreation? Then according to my philosophical beliefs, my loved one is not actually dead and we can share a laugh about a month spent doing neural pattern scans at the hospital after a little accident before I was able to talk to them again.

Basic information retrieval system for my archive of photos / videos / e-mails, like Copilot is an information retrieval system for the web? Would not replace being with the person of course, but certainly helpful to reminisce about good times and clarify details relevant to the living.

Something in between? If both ends of the spectrum are good, why would the middle necessarily be bad? ML can leverage knowledge of myself contained in the archives to give me better life advice than a friend or therapist without such extensive knowledge would be able to.

There is of course abuse and malpractice potential for companion AI, but obvious potential good far outweighs the risks.
That’s six letters. The full set I through XII uses 26 letters (if you use IV) or 28 (if IIII), so there will be some wastage.
There’s a lot of bad blood in the artistic community (on all fronts, production, distribution and consumption) to anything crypto due to the whole NFT thing… I don’t think you’re going to see anyone trying to do something that’s art + crypto for quite some time.
>Now what if you're a poetic mathematician (or mathematical poet), what's that mind map look like?

Well look at the drawings I posted below: mathematical notions mixed with ad-hoc diagrammatic distinctive elements such as colors and marks. With maybe a theorem that posits that every mixed representation like theses matches a colorless, unannotated, rigorous mathematical object ?

In fact I come from a structural linguistics background, and when I pictured how one could extrude a semiotic square into another one, I felt like I understood the vague intuition behind homotopy type theory: the metaphor goes like this – the extrusion volume must be water tight for the squares to make sense.

Suppose you read Dostoyevsky's short story "Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed." In that case, you might notice that the protagonist's vertical position, as he eavesdrops on what he believes to be his wife through the wall of another man's apartment while standing alone in a corridor, mirrors the horizontal position he later assumes when hiding under the bed of his wife's presumed lover. This physical positioning reflects his moral descent, particularly as he is not alone this time. Beneath the bed with him is another man, clandestinely involved with yet another man's wife. This leads to help us picture that our protagonist is just as disconnected from his wife as the man lying next to him under the bed or the husband unknowingly sleeping above them—if not more so.

Granted I don't have the detailed vision of this semiotic diagram, but coming up with the skeletal structure is exactly what the job of a semiotician consists in (which I'm not). What matters is that all these equivalence classes the writer lays down, just like in mathematics, allows meaning to flow. His vertical loneliness must match his horizontal promiscuity for the story to operate this crescendo. Clog theses connections, and the inner structure of the object they tie together disappear too. Digging into Saussure and Voeivodsy one can realize they shared a common obsession about identity, for it is precisely when physical objects become indistinguishable that they can be referred to with the same terms and that conceptuality arises (Aerts, 2010s and onward).

"Different names to the same thing" and the "same name to different things": the two directions on the homotopical ladder.

Note: I'm 100% in postmodern mode here, this goes way above my head of course.
No, because you need a 5th V for IV. Adding a V is more overhead than adding a I, and will give you 3 V's you have no use for.
As much as the IIII has bothered me over the years, actually seeing IV on a clock face makes me think IIII is the right choice.

That said, I always go with Arabic numerals, so it's a moot point for me, practically speaking.
Yes and no. In this case it won't make a difference.
> Try answering the common beginner question: “How is &String different from &str?”

This has nothing to do with strings though - how is &Vec<T> different from &[T] or &Box<[T]>? You need to understand ownership, references, and unsized types.
There’s still a lot of money to be made in the illicit cross-state weed trade. As long as weed isn’t federally legal, organised crime will use legal states as a springboard for their illicit operations in other states
To clarify, those are 9 + 6 and 9 + 7; the forms to be avoided would be 10 + 5 and 10 + 6.
Apple TV+ is my favorite service for originals at this point, hands down. They have so much great stuff.

Maybe Netflix has more, I don’t know, but there is very little “noise” on TV+ compared to Netflix’s firehouse of possibly watchable content.

Side note: all their originals (except the few animated ones) are 4K HDR, all for $10/mo. Everyone else wants to gouge you just to get rid of ads and show a few things in HDR.

And every once in a while they put up some quality/famous Hollywood movies for a month or so as an extra benefit.

Hulu is my #1 overall because of the huge network catalog including classic series. But there is no competition for price to quality ratio.
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This honestly sounds pretty chill to me. Having residential neighborhoods that are quieter, but still close to downtown and accessible on public transit, seems like a great situation for me. Not everyone wants to live in the hustle and bustle of downtown.
There aren't any planes that can fly easily into hurricanes.
A lot of information is collected automatically as part of normal operation often called ‘diagnostics’ or ‘telemetry’ and once that data is sent to a foreign country where the manufacturer is based there is absolutely no conceivable way to tell if that country’s government has made a copy for itself or not.
This is a modern notion. In the past doctors and lawyers were quite impoverished. People did not acquire wealth via education they acquired it via inheritance.
Musk has on separate occasions explicitly said that Taiwan is an integral part of China, and that it should be managed like Hong Kong. Taiwan would to trust someone that against their national security
I think it will first be a kit to convert your average forklift into autonomous by retrofitting some sensors, motors for pulling cables or changing pressure on hydraulic lines electronically, and a laptop. The humanoid thing will be killer when it's out but it will be a century long boundary pushing dream to be chased.
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=4350993939384&w=AhmXJ-SVjA...
If cargo did literally any garbage collection then it wouldn't be a problem. Most of the nonsense in a target/ directory are stale incremental build artifacts.
What a bunch of bs.

Deadly morel but nobody died. Sounds like 50 people got food poisoning. Sounds like non-news to me. First: morels can make you sick if not cooked properly, Second: lookup how many people get food poisoning each year.

And all this speculation about the mushrooms coming from China. Assume they came from China. So what?
Depending on the costs of office supplies, manager wages, and worker wages, it could be an accounting focused culture that inhibits good accounting. Talk about penny wise pound foolish.
very interesting... i am literally in the middle of building my own canvas rendering engine so this article really made me excited

it saddens me a bit that the author doesn't talk about the performance of their implementation... one of the great benefits of using canvas to render ui is that you are able to render far more elements than using the dom with a much smaller memory footprint

im curious to know more about their rendering strategy... does it just redraw everything at 60hz or do they have a smarter way to trigger redraws? do they always redraw the entire canvas or do they somehow only redraw updated regions?
The problem is that a typical built-in standard library can't change or remove any APIs, even the ones that turned out to be mistakes or became obsolete, without breaking users. Eventually all the fancy standard parts of it get easier, faster, cleaner 3rd party replacements, and everyone is saddled with a dilemma of using the meh stdlib or a 3rd party dependency anyway.

OTOH functionality shipped as external libraries can be versioned, upgraded, and replaced by users individually, on their own schedule. The obsolete cruft can be pulled in by old projects that still need it, without burdening new projects with the same old APIs (but they still can interoperate, because multiple versions of the same library can coexist!)

For very long-lived languages (which Rust has ambition to be) a one-size-fits-all built-in big standard library is a big risk. The bigger it is, the less obvious and less timeless the APIs are. A basic Vec is easy to get right on the first try, but networking is a moving target, fashions for file formats come and go, threads/green threads/callbacks/promises/await come and go, parsers can be designed in many differently-bad ways, and OSes change — we don't have non-binary files any more, but ossified languages do! WASM/WASI has upturned even Rust's barebones standard library, and Fuchsia would even more.

This risk of maintaining mistakes forever eventually makes maintainers of the standard library overly cautious, and design very defensive opaque non-committal APIs.

IMHO languages should not have any single built-in unversioned library at all. Pull in what you use, in a version that makes sense this year, without the baggage that every API has to remain unchanged forever, and still be sensible and efficient half a century later, even on an OS that doesn't exist yet on hardware that hasn't been invented yet.
People who want an Apple VR headset may not know, and certainly don't care, that Facebook also sells one.
There is a scene in the book where, IIRC, a program is run periodically that counts the number of dinosaurs in each paddock based on some sort of dino-scanner.

The program was written in such a way that it expected a certain number of dinosaurs in a paddock and returned a successful result when it reached that number. However, once it reached the threshold, it did not count more dinosaurs. Once modified, the program outputted the correct total, thus identifying that the dinosaurs were producing offspring in a single sex environment.
As a first order approximation, power scales as the square of the radius.

Of course, problems can scale faster the quadratically, transportation is one of them.
Interesting. I wonder if this is related to how Germans count/pronounce numbers. 21 in your example is "einundzwanzig" in German (or "ein-und-zwanzig", "one-and-twenty")
According to The Internet, this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201115002205/https://www.washi...
You can't be too early or too late
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Anything is a weapon if its going fast enough
Never seen one for C#, either.
James Webb Space Telescope complicates expanding universe paradox
There's also Odin[0] too. I experimented them all and Odin is pretty nice. Nim is also good too but a lot more features.

But - I concluded that language matters a lot less compared to APIs. Yes, the language should have enough good features to let the programmers express themselves, but overall well designed APIs matter a lot more than language. For example -tossing most of the C stdlib and following a consistent coding style (similar to one described here -[1]), with using Arenas for memory allocation, I can be just as productive in C.

[0] - https://odin-lang.org
[1] - https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/10/08/
semi literate populace did not have watches though...
Please don't break the site guidelines, no matter how wrong another comment is or you feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's the same root cause: display density.
Article conveniently leaves out Severance, Invasion, Foundation, Ted Lasso and others because they don’t fit the “Dad shows” narrative. Really seems like the author just wanted to complain about the popularity of Masters of the Air? But their thesis just isn’t really grounded in reality.
> People have been making jokes about node_modules for a decade now, but this problem is just as bad in Rust codebases I've seen.

Just w.r.t the issue of size (not of scale) - cargo caches sources in ~/.cargo so they're not shared by every project on the system. Additionally, rustc uses dead code elimination by design so there's not nearly as bad an issue as in JS where it's not possible to tree shake out every unused class or method.

Most of the bloat of target directories are stale incremental build artifacts, because cargo does not do any automatic cleanup.
Dang that just hit me. They were around for 1 THOUSAND years. I'm an Indian-American, and the country I was born in has only been around since 1947 and America since 1776.

In terms of "empires" that were founded, its crazy how young our modern societies are compared to Rome.
> You can do that by making a smart contract that the payee can only pull X amount from on certain block intervals, and the payer can deposit and withdraw from a often as they like. It would essentially be a checking account.

This is super interesting. Has anyone done this?
Deeply suspicious
Building a prototype of this would be very straightforward. The difficulty would be ensuring high-quality results.

1. You'd only have to know basic web dev. Enough to get input from the user, send it to an API (e.g. https://openai.com/blog/openai-api), and display results. There are many tutorials online showing how to do this.

2. You'd then design a prompt ("prompt engineering") that tells the GPT it's read the book, asking it to converse in a friendly manner as an expert literary critic, etc. Place this prompt and the prior conversation before the user's new question. Then send it to the API. (It's likely the GPT at least knows something about most popular books.)

3. You can now try to improve the results. A popular method: If you have the full text for the book, you can do a text search for the user's query. Then just include relevant parts of the book in the prompt.
I think it is pessimistic to say that number precision is a problem fundamental to computing. The bitter lesson gives me hope that someday no one will have to care about non-arbitrary-precision math. Programming could get that simplified by a great platform.
The risk is that a D would be very concerned with a D-related hoax, but not at all concerned with an R-related hoax or vice versa. By selectively notifying social media companies they could then influence elections.

Given the numerous other options already available to the government through its official powers, I also don’t see that as being at all necessary to resolve the problem.

So, on that question, no. It seems to be all risk and no reward.
I think in this case it’s because Hebrew is read right to left, so unrelated.
Did anyone calculate the expected gravity of the death star, based on it's estimated mass?
Sure, the more complex language features, which those basic benchmarks aren’t really looking at.