skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) What words persist or become mainstream has little to do with how old they are. Tree shaking is evocative and is probably more appealing/approachable to say than "dead code elimination", so it became the more popular term.

2) I was curious about which term actually came first.

The first use of "dead-code elimination" I could find was this 1973 dissertation: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handl...

I couldn't find any use of the term "tree shaking" or "tree shaker" in the realm of computing on Google Scholar (it was all citrus tree or other arboreal topics, weird). The earliest discussion I could find with the word is this on comp.lang.lisp: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/pspFr...
Recently Jon Stewart talked about the burden we struggle with having to deal with an obviously corrupt government:

In order to make this world one where I would consider living...

It is a day in, day out, lunch pail type job. Thousands of people banging on doors, until they get something done.

And then, keeping it done takes thousands more doing the same thing

DAY IN, DAY OUT, FOREVER.

Truth!

People ask, "How many times?"

Now they have their answer. We either give a shit and act, or we fund others who can act

, or

Our lives are going to be enshittified.

The lure of creating near infinite artificial value means Net Neutrality is a constant fight, ever present for the remainder of our lives.
Honestly if the word AGI experiences some term inflation that wouldn’t be the worst thing.
The unwind tables are in an allocated section and cannot really be removed after the final link (it would change file offsets in places that had their relocations relaxed, without a trace). These unwind tables are separate from the debugging information.
"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society". I doubt tuberculosis is the holy grail you want it to be.
Not continuing through the NTVDM era?
Huh, are the image vector embeddings implicitly doing OCR as well? Because it seems like the meme search is pulling from the text as well as images, though it's not entirely clear.
Is it because of their last names and great books?
Or, or, hear me out. The companies that need such high speed networks, should pay the infrastructure companies and get their own communication lines built, instead of buying QoS access on publicly funded projects.
I’m constantly having buffering videos across many websites and paying significantly more for this shitty service than nearly anywhere else in the world pays for something significantly better.
Free tools work only when it doesn’t rely on SEO. It works better when it’s something people would recommend to their friends. Then it also becomes the go-to tool people link to…

Then eventually you start to convert those free tool leads to actual customers of your paid tool
Yup, all clear, thanks!
"We could see offerings like this"

At least get a new trick.
Not by me.
Yes I can explain and it's not big deal:

Morals are tenets of right and wrong. (Grace)

Ethics is conduct judged under moral principle. (Law)

Morals are truisms of the human disposition towards goodness.

Ethics guide conduct towards just ends where situations may be morally uncertain or ambiguous.

Morals are what we instinctively know about goodness, while ethics are the rules by which we collectively govern conduct to goodness.

—
Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0104756/

Augusto Odone: When we first went to the Comoros, what did we do? We got to know the country, right?

Michaela Odone: Yes

Augusto Odone: We studied, we got to know the language, resources, its law. We studied, right? We should threat Lorenzo's illness like another country.

Michaela Odone: I don't quite see the analogy.

Augusto Odone: All right, all right. ALD has many dimensions, right?

Michaela Odone: Yes

Augusto Odone: So, in order to understand it, we need to command genetics, biochemistry, microbiology, neurology, ology-ology.

Michaela Odone: Augusto, we don't have time to go to medical school.

Augusto Odone: Michaela, the doctors are in the dark. They're groping in the dark. The've got Lorenzo on a turvy-topsy diet. And that bloody immunosuppression is brutal and useless. Michaela, we should not have consigned him blindly into their hands. He should not suffer by our ignorance. We take responsibility. So... we read a little. And we go out and inform ourselves.

Michaela Odone: But... to miss time with him while he can still speak to us...

Augusto Odone: Yes, I know, I know. But he expects it of us.
It would be a language genocide
The real kicker is labor cost per ton. Bigger ships don’t have a proportionately bigger crew. And sailboats were quite labor intensive.
Ha! I can see a kid's commercial for a juice box with pirates sipping on a juice box while sword fighting a Kraken attacking their ship. "While sailing the high seas, we no longer have to worry about scurvy thanks to Hi-C's vitamin C fortified juice boxes. We do still have to fight the Kraken though!" narrator voice kicks in
I don't really understand how the yearly tonnage per person is relevant here
The problem I am finding is that I put a lot of energy into well written comms and trying to enforce async, but the less tech savvy peers of mine cannot seem to make the efficiencies work. Too much time is spent finding that file or assigning tasks to "we" instead of calling out or asking individuals to do their actual jobs. A lot of "email passing" happens which eventually leads me to booking a Zoom meeting to sort things out. It is very frustrating to watch.
Are you lost on your way to Reddit? Hardly a productive comment.

While mine was a bit tongue-in-cheek and apparently stung several people, it also has facts behind it. Working on many super-parallel tasks like, you know, good old web apps and APIs, have shown me that using regular threads does not scale.

There is tech out there that solves these problems and many C# and Java devs come off as grumpy curmudgeons instead of being proper techies and engaging arguments on their merit. And you seem to be another example.

Do better. The metrics and numbers are out there on the internet clearly showing that M:N parallel runtimes beat the classic threading model. That you might have chosen not to look for them is not a rebuttal by itself.
It can be faster and more effective to fallback to a smaller model (gpt3.5 or haiku), the weakness of the prompt will be more obvious on a smaller model and your iteration time will be faster
> Unlike other supply chain attacks we have seen in Node.js, PyPI, FDroid, and the Linux Kernel that mostly consisted of atomic malicious patches, fake packages and typosquatted package names, this incident was a multi-stage operation that almost succeeded in compromising SSH servers on a global scale.

I think this sentence actually understates what happened.

What I find more frightening than the technical aspects of the backdoor is the amount and degree of "social engineering" involved: The backdoor was the final product, but inserting it was only possible because at that point the entire xz project had long been taken over by malicious actors ("Jia Tan" and friends) - after a yearlong psychological operation against the maintainer. All that without the maintainer or anyone else noticing anything.

That's spy novel stuff - and if something like this is possible, it makes me wonder what else might be going on in other projects right now.

(You can see the same mentality reflected in the backdoor code itself - I find it remarkable how much of the code is devoted to active misdirection. It's not just trying to look harmless, the code actively tries to build a "narrative" through commit messages, comments, variable names, choice of commands, etc, of what it's ostensibly doing while really doing something completely different - leading anyone who'd inspect the code first to doubt themselves and their understanding of the code, then suspect a bug and then, maybe, suspect malicious intent)
I was writing SPAs with jQuery in 2008. By then they were already well-established. We used UI component libraries (mostly custom) on frontend and AJAX for server updates in XML/JSON format. They were hard to build compared to today, but "less than 10 years" of SPA development is simply incorrect.
Any chance you could share the details of the build you'd go for. I need a server for our lab, but am kinda out of my depth with all the options/
Yes. WASM has proper integer and floating-point types.
The way Emscripten does it, IIRC, doesn't require any special browser support. The toolchain generates glue code in JavaScript to support calls between dynamically linked Wasm modules.
Just because something appears immediately obvious doesn’t imply we shouldn’t study it. Plenty of “common sense” thing are wrong, and even when “common sense” is right, it can be useful to figure out the “why” or to what extent.

Yes, attractive people generally have an easier time in life, we all know that, this is surprising to nobody, but at the same time, it probably doesn’t affect every field equally. Being attractive probably matters an awful lot in the modeling industry, but probably matters less in the tech support industry. This doesn’t mean that it matters 100% in modeling or 0% in tech support.

Also, I mean, how much money is spent on truly useless stuff? I spent multiple years working for the marketing tech team of a company. Wall Street traders contribute a lot less to the world than medical researchers but get paid an order of magnitude more. It’s hardly like this is the low hanging fruit in fund-reallocation.
That's the whole point of the store reviews, it's a PR game of shifting blame.

Rest assured that none of their apps follows this process.
He had a standby ticket that couldn't be used on this flight, but expected to find an empty seat when it was in the air?
That's an age-old fantasy technology.

Today you'd do it with electric buses(/trucks) that run on dedicated highways, or at least on dedicated lanes that are not only electrified (bus operates from a pair of pantigraphs except for that "last mile" part of the trip in regular roads or when there is some maintenance situation), but also exclusively run computer controlled in paceline formations. No physical connection (or perhaps physical connection for power crossfeed, to share pantograph wear, but no physical connection for push/pull), just a low latency, ack-heavy data link so that they would all accelerate and brake perfectly synchronized. Those buses (or trucks) would benefit from slipstream just like train cars do, but still be able to independently branch away or join at any exit. Of course the power bill would have to be shared by the whole formation, no need to rotate the lead (like a bicycle paceline would do) except perhaps in an unelectrified segment or during a power outage.

This would offer point to point connections, have all the efficiency benefits of trains except for the energy cost of rubber-on-tarmac relative to steel-on-steel, and would also offer greatly increased throughout compared to trains because a formation like that would retain almost all of the emergency breaking capability of trucks (and realistically speaking, have better capability than a queue of human-operated trucks that keep almost but not quite enough safety distance for human reaction). The only reason I see why this is not the obvious future is that it requires enormous critical mass to pick up. It probably needs electric trucks first, then electric trucks with pantograph on some main lines, and only then pantograph electric trucks joining into robotic pacelines at some even later point.

(the absolute end game state of course would be dedicated rights of way with a rail option useable to dual mode vehicles that could quickly drop on their road wheels not only for exiting formation but also for braking - note that breaking should not even exist in a formation like that, outside emergencies.
> Unless you're proposing that universities abolish all departments except medical research

Doesn’t follow, and I’m sure you’re not proposing that funds/time/attention spent in one place can be double spent in another. It’s reasonable to criticize a waste of resources since there’s always a real opportunity cost
Huh?

> "Mobile carriers like T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon that have been degrading video quality for mobile users will have to stop."

This is literally what the article is about. It's happening now, it's been happening, it will continue to happen unless the laws get restored.
The cost of scrapping a massive cargo to reuse its materials is going to produce an enormous amount of CO2.

Though, there are already sail technologies you can add to existing shipping. I’m amazed more haven’t been retrofitted, quite frankly.
Twitch? Facebook? Youtube? Good luck.
A key difference is that most tech workers have the freedom to insert physical exercise/hobbies into their work day, work flexible hours, walk on a treadmill at a standing desk, etc. and someone in a physically laborious job makes no such choices. Not all tech workers avail themselves of this flexibility as much as they should, but that's on the individual.
I think the author is incorrect to look at the cycle of market bubbles and should instead be looking at the Gartner Hype Cycle. We are currently at or just past the peak and moving into the trough of disillusionment (to wit: this article). Eventually the companies that are actually building useful technology will emerge and win out in the long run, the others will fail. Just the same as any other new hyped technology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
> pretty slow or very challenging to implement in pure HTML/CSS

That's the heart of it, isn't it? It's challenging.

At the core of modern web development is the attitude that developer convenience trumps all.

The software is free after all. (The thousands you pay in bandwidth and hardware upgrade costs to keep running their bloatware doesn't count because none of that goes to the web developer, and is therefore irrelevant in their it's-all-about-me worldview.)
How are you using Generative UI?
“He” comes from the description in the original posting on the rare books site selling these: https://web.archive.org/web/20221205191022/https://bostonrar... - possibly they knew exactly who it was from?

That said, I got a femme vibe off the handwriting too. And the inclusion of cartouches around the lunar phase drawings plus a lovingly illustrated entry for Samhain suggests the artist is a neopagan of some kind, which could be a slight tell for femininity. Maybe. Depends on the coven really. Which they were apparently a part of, the full sales post includes an image with a little pile of coven newsletters, some of which are in “paste-up form” which suggests they were participating in the time honored tradition of using the office copier on the sly.
My philosophy is to work hard at optimizing my javascript with algorithms and design simplifications for size/performance to make room (in bundle size and CPU) for parts of my code that require brute force compute to solve.

In my ClubCompy project, I use WASM to implement a FAT filesystem atop local storage, which has proven to be very computationally expensive. And, I plan to use WASM for pixel-perfect sprite collision detection when I reintroduce that feature later this year.

My first implementation of collision detection was in plain javascript. With 256 sprites on the screen all colliding with one another, the framerate dropped to below 1fps. I believe I can get that done on a worker thread basically for free and have no performance impacts.
I just love the idea that in our system of justice you're more likely to be determined "correct" if you're attractive.

It's perfectly dystopian.

Justice is blind? LOL!
50 bucks says thread doesn't survive the hour
It is really small compared to the iron-hulled sailing cargo ships of the beginning of the last century. I can't find any information on the construction, but it seems like a converted pleasure vessel. Seems like a smart fit for their products. But feels more like good marketing than any kind of shipping innovation.
> Mobile carriers like T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon that have been degrading video quality for mobile users will have to stop.

"Not with a bang but a whimper."
not OP but i could see this being normal traffic shaping

netflix users are going to complain and change providers if their tv show buffers at all, so it makes sense to prioritize that traffic - not for netflix's benefit but to avoid angry customers
Thanks! Well, if you folks are interested in formal methods and learning, then you might be interested in Inductive Logic Programming. Here's a link to my work:

https://github.com/stassa/louise

The referenced papers include some examples on learning a simple CFG for a small set of Magic: the Gathering examples. More recent work looks at solving mazes and taking names (under review).

One of our PhDs is working to implement all this in Rust btw.

Sorry for advertising my work on your post :)
> missed the part where the person describes that they have a very large development team which justified a non-monolithic architecture.

I am not agreeing with the author, but they said it here:

> the number of pull requests produced daily by a few hundred developers was so large
What’s the project? There are people here willing and open to helping but not disclosing what you’re working on is preventing them from doing so
OP uses GPT4 mostly. Another poster here observed that "the opposite is required for 3.5" -- so i think your experience makes sense.
This should be the only reason, imho.

OTOH ruby programmers have usually many ways to achieve something. I think thats inerhited from perl. Its good and bad.
>"Liking What You See: A Documentary" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Ted Chiang, published in the 2002 collection "Stories of Your Life and Others."

>Plot summary

The novelette examines the cultural effects of a noninvasive medical procedure that induces a visual agnosia toward physical beauty. The story is told as a series of interviews about a reversible procedure called calliagnosia, which eliminates a person's ability to perceive physical beauty. The story's central character is Tamera Lyons, a first-year student who grew up with calliagnosia but wants to experience life without it.

Story:
https://waldyrious.neocities.org/ted_chiang/liking-what-you-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liking_What_You_See:_A_Documen....
Wow, this brought back memories. I could swear I wrote a blog post about this years ago but couldn't find it.

A quick search on the local file system revealed `vnccrawl/crawler.py` from 2016 [1] using what looks like a Shodan data dump and calling out to `vncviewer.exe`. I remember randomly logging into some instances and also seeing a lot of cool random systems, including a lot of them controlling industrial systems. Guess I never ended up writing that post.

One would think that on today's Internet it would take only a couple of seconds for those to get compromised, but obfuscation as security, perhaps?

[1]: A random tip from that file: Using a password of 12345678 gives access to way more 'weakly secure' instances.
It’s not quite a content farm but it doesn’t seem to be the highest quality science journalism site. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/lcd9xa/whats_... has some somewhat interesting discussion.
> Cocoa and coffee obviously doesn't grow in France, so it already came for somewhere else very far away.

From the article:

> After the ship leaves New York City on April 15, 2024, Grain de Sail ll will return to France, loaded with various goods. This is the first load of many for the Grain de Sail ll. In total, this vessel plans to sail the seas five times a year, trekking from France to New York and then down through the Caribbean, where the sailboat will dispatch humanitarian aid, working alongside local NGOs. The sailboat will also restock its coffee and cacao supply on its journey through the Caribbean. That supply is then brought back across the sea to France, where the coffee is roasted, and fine chocolates are produced.

You can find more details on their site: https://graindesail-overseas.com/q-a
faux pas from a time traveler
There are some places in that where it sounds to me like there is someone singing a repeated three syllable word with one syllable on each hit of the 3 notes on the left end of the top row and sung at the tone of that note.

Anyone else hearing illusionary singing in there?

The place I first got that illusion was around 3:24, and I was listening with my eyes closed which I think might make it more likely to hear issusions.
Same here: I’m subscribed to all three top dogs in LLM space, and routinely issue the same prompts to all three. It’s very one sided in favor of GPT4 which is stunning since it’s now a year old, although of course it received a couple of updates in that time. Also at least with my usage patterns hallucinations are rare, too. In comparison Claude will quite readily hallucinate plausible looking APIs that don’t exist when writing code, etc. GPT4 is also more stubborn / less agreeable when it knows it’s right. Very little of this is captured in metrics, so you can only see it from personal experience.
It's not about marrying more attractive spouses for breeding better looking offspring, but what a lot of these studies miss is that wealthy people who are genetically disadvantaged have the funds the invest in their appearance to become better looking: best timely medical care, fixing teeth, becoming taller, correcting posture, hair implants, plastic surgery and skin care, hiring professional trainers and nutritionists, living in nice, quiet, green areas to reduce stress and sleep better, and other potential quackery rich people have access too like blood transfusions.

Just look at Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk before and after they became wealthy, they're better looking despite being 10-20 years older.

Basically, higher IQ can help you build wealth, and higher wealth can help you become better looking, but high IQ is not directly responsible for better looks.
The product's website says:

Free to receive

It is always free to receive the passwords and notes which you send, so that the process has no barriers for your recipients.

You can send three passwords for free. After that there is a one-time fee of $1 to continue sending.

OK, there is no mention of this on the Apple App Store, and if this is verbatim true, it's the first time I have seen a one-time fee (unlimited use?) for an app. But it does put it in the "free" category.

The app store web page for it says "iphone only" but lists iphone, ipod touch and vision (No Ipad?)

It is available on the app store viewed on an ipad, and not on the mac app store at all.

Developer is being done a disservice by Apple because a search for crosspass on the app store substitutes crosspath, showing up to 32 dating apps, and making your click on "crosspass" as if you really meant crosspath.
I am into the other Fate games and anime related culture (got Tamamo JK and Archer figurines) I’ve had the damndest time getting FGO to play on anything other than a high end smartphone. With most mobile games you can play on a tablet or side load into a NVIDIA shield or play on an emulator that runs a PC but not that. I have a box full of various bottom tier Android phones (often Android Go) but these don’t have sufficient memory.

I remember getting it to run on one of my devices once for a while but I was shocked at how bad the english translation was, worse than the average live action Chinese TV series.

To be fair Fate games are all about developing a strong emotional connection to the characters so I can definitely see somebody rolling a huge number of times if they want a character that they moe really hard for.
>Justice Isn’t Blind: Attorney Attractiveness and Success in US Federal Court

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-and-c...