skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just objectively false. The type system is weaker, the syntax more verbose. No good functional programming libraries in Java. Pattern matching, syntax sugar. The list goes on. I had to go back to Java from Scala and it's very much behind.
It is weird to me that as of the 2010s every major programming language (Python, Javascript, Java, C# and C/C++ has settled in to a regular release cadence of ... I think C++ is the conservative representative at one new version released per 3 years.

It'd be fascinating to know if this is helping or hindering programmer productivity. None of these new capabilities seem to be step changes (all the oomph for programmer productivity that I've seen have been IDE tooling, LLMs and GPUs). I'd be impressed if they even managed to be incremental changes - in this case a vector API sounds nice enough gor example but the projects that need this must be on the margins.

These changes come with costs - tutorials obsoleted, version fragmentation introduced, huge new surface areas for bugs and security problems. Most of these languages became popular without fast release cadences (or in spite of them, Python 3 looking at you). It is quite amazing that none of them have decided to leave well enough alone. Is it the classic of programmers not being able to defend that position against people with ants in their pants, or is there a genuine community will to keep revising this stuff?

Surely there has to be some popular language where the custodian would think it is good enough to set in stone bar hardware-forced updates.
Being one in six java developers isn't worthy of a congratulations I think, but thanks anyways. But it does show how wrong your statement was about Kotlin only being an Android thing.
The thing I’m most shocked about is how many ex Mozilla employees are on Mastodon.
Maybe I should use them on my easy Astro blog creator[0]. How much “easy” can we stack!

[0] https://github.com/easy-astro-blog-creator/easy-astro-blog-c...
What AS/400 is to Banking, nonrenormalizable.
Depends on whether you measure workloads as "jobs" or "flops". If "flops", I would hazard that the bulk of computing on the planet right now is happening on GPUs.
The word “democracy” has a colloquial meaning that is used in common speech. In the U.S. we have a “democracy” as that term is used by most people. You sound like the people who say communism has never been tried.

Talk about straw man!
Flying with Dogs or Cats? These Are Airlines' Pet Policies
Check out GraalPy! It’s like Jython but it’s on Python 3 and supported by Oracle. My company is still using Jython, but we’re finally tearing out our Jython implementation and replacing it with GraalPy since it’s much more performant and it’s going to stay up to date with Python development.
I can't help thinking that you must have the decimal point in the wrong place...
It's gotta be both because if you don't know who to brutalize you can have all the brutalizers in the world but not know how to use em. Look at how the Stasi operated, intel is crucial for maintaining control of a state.
These are for-profit companies. Using OSM might not be an option for various reasons (both legitimate and purely greed-driven)
https://archive.ph/4h7Ko
> Part of the problem is the scale of the higher education system in the US, where hundreds of nonprofit colleges are competing for enrollment and talent, and a large proportion of upper- and middle-class parents are willing to pay top dollar — or even go into debt themselves — to give their kids the best education possible.

This seems like something that's entirely unsurprising. If your STEM-oriented kid could attend <insert top 5 engineering school here> or your more Ivy-oriented kid could attend an Ivy League school and you could help them make that happen, why wouldn't you?

Not in the literal sense of "make the best rational argument against it" but in the metaphorical sense of "yeah, an enormous number of families will make exactly that choice, even if some opt out".
Well, that article didn’t say anything at all really, now did it?
They got civilised now, from caves to bathrooms.
Is Eigen still alive? There's been no release in 3 years, and no news about it: https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen/-/issues/2699
Yep, you have pretty clearly outlined that Mozilla in the late 2010s when it’s underperforming and the CEO is blowing up a donor relationship is very different to upstart Google in 2001 blowing up relationships with advertisers.
Reaganomics are more likely to have been a consequence (of US' peak oil) than a cause of prosperity starting to dive back to the normal.
While java has evolved a lot, I still find it hard to go back. The stream syntax and similar things will never match how easy it is to do proper functional programming in Kotlin. I do miss real pattern matching, though.
I really hate how modern developers try to reinvent forms. They always, always get it worse than the basic OS/HTML forms we've had for decades. Those dead stupid, simple forms were highly accessible, very performant, and easy to understand.

It seems like forgotten information, but all of these computer interfaces that were invented in the 80s and 90s were built by doctorate level professionals who spent years thinking about these things. Why do all these bozos who took a six month code boot camp (or at best, finished a four year degree with a 2.9 GPA) think the ten minutes they spent thinking about it lead to some brilliant insight?
>The plan was that Eich make an announcement, apologizing for his "mistake" and making some public-benefit commitment about inclusivity, importance of diversity, etc.

I disagree with Eich's vote but the idea that they were going to force him to make this kind of statement is shocking and reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution. I would have told the Board to pound sand.

Sadly this also explains Mozilla's shift to progressive activism from a focus on software, and it explains why they don't matter anymore.

I still use Firefox, because the alternative is Chrome, but this is what happens when ideological uniformity irrelevant to the mission of an organization is enforced on it.

It's the opposite of diversity. You will create a culture of yes-men and drive yourselves into obscurity with short-sighted goals that do not further the mission of the organization, which is exactly what has happened to Mozilla.

DEI types beware.
I'm liberal, and in 2016 NPR failed to even say the name Bernie Sanders in any of it's election coverage during the week following his victory in the Iowa Caucuses. I rapidly lost trust in NPR. Any of the subsequent visits haven't shown any signs of reform.

I miss the good old NPR, the narrative machine that's replaced it needs to go away.
Is selling something knowing that it can never deliver on the promise a scam? I think so. P.T. Barnum hawked shows outside the tent that couldn't deliver inside. Theranos could never deliver. Nor Magic Leap. Nor Elon on his crazy promises!

They're all scammers.
I mean, it says quite clearly that no one has built an up-to-date version of Amarok for Windows since 2013, but the bug is fixed in the source code and has been for a long time. That no one has stepped up to package Amarok for Windows in that time isn't a bug.
Why put a negative spin on it? It's a perfectly normal desire to socialize that way...
People under 35 in the US own homes at only marginally lower rates than boomers. (something like 55% to 60%), meanwhile home size has tripled. When boomers were kids half of all homes didn't have washing mashines or vacuums. Homes built with air conditioning in 1975: 20%, today 90%.

You really think a millenial or gen z woman today in her 20s/30s with a degree and a job would want to trade that for being locked in a house without a job, any modern appliance and less space than she has in her flat?
Hyprscroller: Scrolling Hyprland layout plugin like PaperWM
All really helpful points. Sincerely appreciate the candid feedback!
If the market survives but plateaus at its current level (~15% of car sales Worldwide) then we're still stuck with ICE cars everywhere…
Astronomers unravel the mystery of the 'Dragon's Egg' nebula
There are many sites with alpine.js components if that is better.
Who dies for want of basic medicines?
Though this is an artificial constraint imposed by the platform holders (i.e. Apple and Google).

Once they figured out how their new AI assistant needs to look like their own rules for 3rd party apps won’t matter anymore.
Yes, but the claim is about "unlimited context length." I doubt attention over each segment can be as good at recall as attention over the full input context.
Real title: PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum
Check out flowbite

https://flowbite.com/docs/getting-started/introduction/
Microwave-Assisted, One-Pot Synthesis of Doxycycline Under Rh Catalysis in Water
He says that explicitly in the text.
Eh, partly.

But it's also inherent in running an organisation with 24 official languages.

Let's say you had really strong opinions on this, and you wanted to rally voters for a letter-writing campaign. Good luck coordinating the Spanish-speakers, the German-speakers and the Polish-speakers and so on. All of whom also have different TV networks, different newspapers, different radio, presumably different social media and so on.

And politicians have the same problem - maybe you're an amazing public speaker. Maybe you've got the farming subsidy policy equivalent of the Gettysburg Address. Clear, succinct, witty, persuasive, honest, passionate - everyone who hears it will be fired up to support your vision. But if you can only deliver that speech in Portuguese? Good luck with that.

Hell, look at this very discussion: I know first-hand about the complex relationship between the EU with the British parliament, press and electorate. But I have no idea what the equivalent situation is in the Czech Republic.
OP written by someone well-employed, so anything done outside steady paid work ought to be done for enjoyment. Nice luxury, that many don't enjoy.
What's the best way/resource to get an honest/pragmatic view of where things stand with the "robots market" in general and how much and fast things are really progressing?

I remember seeing prototypes from Toshiba when I was 10 (20 years ago), and every few months, there is a company releasing an "amazing video." its mother company then spins it off like there's no adequate progress, and so on.
It doesn't seem to be inaccurate, tho?
If anyone is wondering where 2.08 comes from like me. First we consider the case with no GST, where the gross-up multiplier is x1.8868 ($1887). This is the pre-tax earnings at 47% required to get a post-tax benefit of $1000. i.e. $1887 x (1-47%) = $1000. With some algebra and setting the top marginal tax rate to R, and the Gross-up to G: G=1/(1-R). The idea is the Government gets its cut either way, there is no tax benefit (for employees in the highest bracket, and actually a net loss for employees not in that bracket).

If the employer can claim back GST (currently 10%) on the original purchase, the formula for G becomes G=1/(1-R)+(1/11)/R. To account for the extra 10%/110% that the employer can claim back.
I have also had great success with this method ever since first being told about it. Didn't believe it could be that easy until I was shown for the first time, and sure'nuff it seems to work pretty nearly perfect every single time.
Is there a follow-up on Plan 9 OS?
That alternative seems better on the whole. We're far from the margin where more competition in governance is inefficient.
I live in a democracy, but my country was totalitarian less than 30 years ago.

There is a big difference.
I wonder if this article would shed some light on the difference between your response and others: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/systems-explain-stem-vs-cul...

(I'm not judging or trying to persuade, but wish to increase understanding between people with very different viewpoints.)
"The trite explanation is misleading, for a good explanation .... buy my book"
Are you able to access Claude 3 via AWS Bedrock or GCP Vertex AI? I haven't used Vertex AI, but I know that several US regions have Claude 3 access through Bedrock.
Google workers need to be reminded they work for a company who's mission is to make investors money.
Palatability of Doxycycline Tablets Ground and Mixed in Food or Drinks
As an old Slashdot user with a low user ID, I disagree. Not RTFA was definitely scorned as it was on the Usenet. But you had limited ability to vote people down, so perhaps it appeared more socially acceptable.
While I can empathize here as someone with no degree and a job at FAANG, it's hard for me to have a lot of sympathy. I put the blame squarely on these institutions and our government for this situation.

The institutions should be held liable for this debt, not the tax payer, and our government should not guarantee or subsidize these loans. Higher education is important in our society, but the situation we're in now is a complete disaster.

18-year olds taking on huge debt for useless degrees that can't be bankrupted, what could possibly go wrong?
you mean a few hundred Groq accelerators ;-)
(they have 230MB SRAM per accelerator)
Americans w/diabetes is one group.
This is all very fixable for Google: stop streaming video for free to clients that don’t have subscriptions.

Otherwise, if you send the content to my device for free, it is my right decide which parts to watch and which parts to skip.
Show HN: Octarine: Private Markdown stored notes on macOS
Hey folks! Been working on this for a year now, and shipped a bunch of features over the last few months, since the app has come off the closed beta to available for all on Mac!

Comparisons with Obsidian are unavoidable, but the app has few distinctions like:

- A pure WYSIWYG editor that doesn't jerk when writing rich text.

- Stored completely in markdown

- Does not weigh in at 300mb, but rather just 7mb (Thanks Rust and Tauri)

- Opinionated in some workflows, and makes things easier for day-to-day workflows.

- Keyboard shortcuts for almost everything, and a super powerful Cmd + K bar.

Still loads to do to catch up, and reach where it needs to go, but would be happy if you give it a try!

Download - https://octarine.app/releases

Changelog - https://octarine.app/changelog

Windows/Linux versions are on the way, and are currently being tested and fixed for some issues.

There's also a discord if you want to hop in for discussion.
Python NumPy to Elixir-Nx
Link is broken.

But would like to watch.
Visual Studio is not open source and neither is .NET tooling for VS Code.

https://isdotnetopen.com/ explains a lot of this and has made me avoid .NET as well. Competing languages are pretty good these days and a lot more open.
You could use the threadreaderapp:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1779885123363635572.html
Seems like they just posted a video about the new Atlas
https://youtu.be/29ECwExc-_M
Intelligence Evolved [video]
The cover already screams AI crap...
If you got nothing to hide it means you don't have anything worth protecting or competing for, and you 100% trust the system not to do wrong with your information, no matter who gets the political power. You also don't ever need to protest or demand change against ingrained power.
And yet they do interfere and are actively engaged in sowing dissent, discord, and wacky ideas by utilizing the power of social media. Your comment is at odds with reality. The rise of people being against something as obviously beneficial as the polio vaccine is an indication of just how powerful disinformation campaigns can be.
STEM-kids aren't struggling to pay off their college debts. Liberal art degree holders, however.
I see this problem on bank account forms all the time, where they need you to type and confirm your bank account number for things like direct deposit or ACH payments.

I'm more likely to get it wrong twice than I am if I just copy and paste it from my actual bank account website once.
This blows my mind because it reminds me of how we find dinosaurs!

I love time team, and I know it's not even close to neanderthals. But I've grown accustomed to them finding human remains in soil. But this is in sedimentary rock! It's like a fossilized human, sort of.
A refundable credit would provide the credit regardless of burden (i.e. it will create a refund for every dollar it credits you beyond your burden).
An electric new era for Atlas
Funny that you mention "accessible"... Because most of these components are anything but.

Modern HTML and CSS are awesome tools on their own, and are able to do so much without needing to rely on massive JavaScript bundles, but you still end up with component libraries that are <div><div><div><div> all the way down.
Or else they are European and use . as the thousands separator.
The interesting idea here is that you can have a great contract, but if it's impossible to enforce, it's useless to you.

In this case the enforcement issue is that the other party can drag out the fight long enough to make the contract worthless.

The "war stories" section from this website are a great read.
No, the feature set is not finalized. This is just a random blog post, nothing more. Like who says "New Features Are Officially Announced"? Which source? They make it look like Java 23 is done, but it's not.

If you want see what's coming in Java 23 you have to check https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/23/ - the only source of truth. If you look at the Schedule of that page you will see at least before Rampdown Phase One there still is time to add new JEPs. And there will more JEPs be added for sure, that's how it was done in the past.
Since always on recording is also seemingly what kept meta and snapchat glasses from succeeding (and god thanks), that's a huge bet. Tis feature is the only thing that don't make it a subpar (and gadget - a cool one) smartwatch.
I am about 24 hours into using ghostText after losing a significant amount of effort to a distracted `C-w`. Browser tab gone; much swearing ensued. I was tempted to start logging my own keystrokes after this… but that's not a good idea.

With this extension (+1), I'm happy that `C-w` does as God, readline, and Emacs intended.
I'm afraid I do not know, but the Wikipedia page is pretty good:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_market
Blink cameras are another Amazon product with unique hardware (low energy cameras) and software with room for improvement.
I am going through the Monkey Island games the last week and I can confirm that in the second game there are several puzzles that I would never have deduced without looking up solutions. It's a sequel that explores what is possible in a way that considerably deviates from the glow of the original.

That said, it executes at times considerably better and you can see the seeds of what would become some of the legendary Lucasarts games to follow.

I am not even sure I can finish it due to some timing sensitive buggy quirks towards the end, It would be rage inducing but it's not, just awww. It's obvious the game is reveling in its own unraveling. In a really special way.
Unless you are working on numerical relativity or cosmology.
Doom Eternal is also very very enjoyable too, if you haven't played it yet. DLCs start to get a bit annoying, so consider them optional
> where the custodian would think it is good enough to set in stone

While it's nice to be able to have a "complete" language, a language that receives no updates or changes is a dead language. When people use the language, are interested in making it "better" (in their mind at least), they are building community, holding discussions and overall generating interest and keeping the language alive and useful.

If you don't allow people to make any changes, then these people will lose interest and abandon the project, and slowly over time it will die.

There are some exceptions, like C that are so embedded in everything that it doesn't matter (it still gets updates sometimes), but languages like python or java or ruby where there is no clear "best" have to be competing with one another for people to choose that language
Few stations and $200 to fill up: Life on California's 'hydrogen highway'
Here's a twitter thread that documents the protest directly from the protestors, culminating in their arrest:

https://twitter.com/NoTechApartheid/status/17804222178780817...
I'd go further and say the more power you have the less privacy you should have.
I suspect this was posted under such a weird link to get around the dupe checker for the actual source:

Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract with Israel's Government 16 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40056994

I further suspect that that story didn't get very much attention in the last submission because there isn't much of a story here:

> Just over a dozen people gathered outside Google’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale on Tuesday. Among those in New York was Google cloud software engineer Eddie Hatfield, who was fired days after disrupting Google Israel’s managing director at March’s Mind The Tech, a company-sponsored conference focused on the Israeli tech industry, in early March.
It's just like how we can tell "Epstein didn't kill himself" joke online.

Because what we discussion doesn't really matter.
I’m really enjoyed this article. I’ve been bothered with these “Phibs” myself lately, as they often give precisely the wrong intuitions.

I also enjoyed the writing style; ordered the book. Curious to see how technical the explanations are there :)
Dubai's Floods Weren't Caused by Cloud Seeding
The paper is linked at the bottom: https://ginerlukas.com/publications/papers/WebGPUAttacks.pdf

It looks like it targets AES and keystrokes if they're processed on the GPU. They detect which parts of AES lookup tables (T-Tables) are getting added to the cache, which gives information about the key (section 6).
It has to be said that thanks to the Internet, it's now perfectly possible for the most niche audience to connect with the author.
I don't often see websites blocking paste on OTP code fields. What I do see often is websites breaking up the OTP field into n separate input fields, and having some code that auto-switches between the input fields as you type them. However, the auto-switching code doesn't handle pastes, so if you try to paste the entire code only the first digit gets entered. ‘Don’t f* with paste’ doesn't help with that.
You noticed wrong.
"Legendary"? Definitely a cool novelty/tech-demo/research-platform, but nothing about it seems "legendary".
Most venues in NYC seem to use an app called dice for ticket distribution. You can only resell on the app and only at or below the original price. Not foolproof, but seems to work pretty well in nyc, but in a less populated area might be hard if people cant sell the tickets and start complaining.
I think a lot of the more experienced combat pilots will turn off flight assist so that the ship's nose doesn't have to be oriented with your momentum.
Reminds me of the Orange Juice test from Jerry Weinberg - https://www.intercom.com/blog/the-orange-juice-test/ - asking if a conference hotel can deal with 700 people who have to have freshly squeezed juice at 7am
Wow, imagine if governments correctly checked if children were actually psychologically safe and healthy, even once a year. That must be totally different from ChatControl, and a it could be a hard problem, with lots of last mile problems. Doing this for all humans would be nice. I'm reminded of instructions postal delivery people had to check on elderly after it turned out an elderly person was found dead, months after dying if I recall correctly. Maybe it's a human network connectivity mapping problem with a lot of tricky user experience / delivery/ last mile problems. I dream of this being solved. Is anything like this being done in the EU, or elsewhere on a reproducible scale? That and reliability predicting and relieving suffering seem like important projects to me.
That's how it's done in Europe. . not ,
Huh, I thought ChatControl plans were dead, have they just rebranded and restarted?