skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone was claiming Express and Koa were carbon copies of one another, only that Koa's benefits over Express are minor and Express is much more relevant.

Your claim that "you have to catch your errors or your app can crash" can be addressed trivially. My Express is rusty and I didn't use exact types, but something like this would do:

type ExpressMiddlewareNextOptional = (req: Record<any, any>, res: Record<any, any>, next?: (error: any) => void) => any;
type ExpressMiddleware = (req: Record<any, any>, res: Record<any, any>, next: (error: any) => void) => any;

const mid = (middleware: ExpressMiddlewareNextOptional): ExpressMiddleware => {
return (req, res, next) => {
const result = middleware(req, res, next);
if (result instanceof Promise) {
result.catch((err) => next(err));
}
}
}

// example usage:
app.get('somepath', mid(async (req, res) => {
throw new Error('Oopsie!')
}))

I used Koa a long time ago before JS had promises and async/await, and it was a relief then, but since Promises the ergonomics of Express have been better (compared to Koa of 8-9 years ago, it's possible Koa is on par or better now). When I started a new project 4 years ago I saw that express had >100X the active usage of Koa, and many, many more packages and pre-built middleware. That's why I say Koa is largely not relevant.

They're both very lightweight libraries, but the ecosystem for Express is much larger, and as mentioned, I've seen maybe 1 company using Koa in the last 5 years. I'm not saying not to use it, and I'm not saying it's not good, but OP was asking for a comparison to "competitors", and I think the ecosystem around a web framework is one of the most important considerations in choosing one. There are thousands of Node.js frameworks, and I'm sure there are many novel ideas among many excellent frameworks I've never even heard of, but the only ones I'd call "competitors" to Express are the ones operating in or near the same weight class. OP mentioned Fastify which is no more than 1 order magnitude away from express in market share, and Koa, which is at least 2 orders of magnitude below Express in active market share. My response was just pointing out that Koa is largely irrelevant when considering Node.js frameworks as "competition to Express".

If they had asked about "alternatives" instead I probably wouldn't have mentioned it "not being a thing", but just pointed out that Express/Koa are spiritually very similar (as two ultra-minimalist frameworks created by TJ Hollowaychuk), but Express's ecosystem is so much larger that someone who isn't already familiar with Koa would very likely be better off choosing Express for anything serious.
'oil priests'?
I'be heard that a long standing issue with the test releases is still present in the release and can result in a unbootable system if you try to upgrade.

Be warned that the do-release-upgrade -d might well make your system unbootable.

More info at:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/dont-upgrade-to-ubuntu-2...

Or at least be prepared with a backup and a reinstall from scratch, or just switch to debian.
> I never said…

No, but your posts did seem to strongly imply you were carefully not saying some things.

> Why do you accuse me of not being calm?

Because short essays that amount to “as long as I don't have to see it” are, in my experience, not associated with a calm demeanour. I may have made an unfair assumption there.

Even if I have, the rest of that line is still relevant: “have fun being you, and let others have their fun being them”.
It's probably a counterpoint to all the previous "transitory inflation" comments.
I'm not sure how qualified the CEO of McDonald's is to opine on low-income consumers...
I don't understand the latest turn in the MVNO business model.

The big carriers operate their gigantic networks and sell spare capacity to smaller players to make extra money.

These small operators sell service to customers who want lower costs and don't mind the fewer features and congestion. So everyone is happy and making/saving money.

Then in the last ~10 years the big carriers all go "nah" and start acquiring these MVNOs (MetroPCS by T-Mobile, Cricket by AT&T, TracFone/Straight Talk/Total by Verizon, Visible by Verizon, now Mint by T-Mobile).

So...what was the point of the whole thing? The carriers just spent billions of dollars for each of these acquisitions to gain back the customers that they gave away in the first place?
The FTC findings show that the high prices were (and are) because of excessive profiteering by the grocery stores. It's not a mystery or a debate anymore. And it is not "inflation", sticky or otherwise. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/03/...

> Grocery retailer profits rose & remain elevated: Food and beverage retailer revenues increased to more than 6% over total costs in 2021, higher than their most recent peak in 2015 of 5.6%. In the first three-quarters of 2023, retailer profits rose even more, with revenue reaching 7% over total costs, casting doubt on the assertions of some companies that rising prices at the grocery store are the result of retailers’ own rising costs.

Maybe some of you downvoters can provide some research studies that support your perception instead of just trying to bury the only hard evidence in this thread.
This is the worst comment I have ever read on hackernews.
Any article that argues for a particular cause of inflation that doesn't highlight the actual inflation of the money supply by politicians and bureaucrats on both sides of the aisle is disingenuous at best, and purposefully deceitful at worst.
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Ok, I'm curious, so I'll ask the dumb question. If I were to buy one of these homes, how much of a bureaucratic nightmare would it be?

For the record I don't live in Japan and have no viable immigration basis. Nor do I have a clue if they have a "no foreign property ownership" law like the one Canada just got. I do speak rudimentary Japanese and could probably bumble my way through the paperwork.
Interesting. Can they run their navy and air force during a war on fuel synthesized from coal?
Yet Another REST Client?
HN is proprietary and closed source. I am looking at it with Safari which a fair chunk of it is closed source on my Mac which is mostly closed source. It's routed over a bunch of commercial routers, which are closed source and infrastructure which is closed source.

YMMV.

But that isn't the point. The point is that the open source desktops do not even touch Windows in usability, quality, reliability and consistency. At best everything is fragmented at 80% complete. Show me an open source O365 and you might have something fit for an SME or government.
That is accurate to what they do. I think others need to imagine this as well. Far too many nontechnical people seem to treat them as some kind of Oracle.
We use Roblox for family game night. It might not be as bad as you think.

I think its a cool platform for burgeoning game developers. Anyone can publish a game, we put together a little obby just for the fun of it. We're back to the days where a couple of creative, motivated people can make a fun game, share it with people, and possibly make a pile of money.
Cloudflare Tunnels only open HTTP/S to the internet, you'll need their client to reach the other protocols. More likely that this is Cloudflare Spectrum.
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So he's learned nothing from Unity and Mir.
AI-fobic
Provided a constant temperature of 1.0, you can train the model on prompts with probablistic requests, with loss determined by KL divergence.

Expectation: 80% left, 20% right

Model sampling probability: 99% left, 1% right

>>> 0.80 * math.log(0.99 / 0.80) + 0.20 * math.log(0.01 / 0.20)

-0.42867188234223175

Model sampling probability: 90% left, 10% right

>>> 0.80 * math.log(0.9 / 0.80) + 0.20 * math.log(0.1 / 0.20)

-0.04440300758688229

Of course, if you change the temperature this will break any probablistic expectations from training in this manner.
"I like money"
I use Google Fi + Visible in one phone and switch between the two as needed.

Fi: free international roaming in most countries, good tether speeds in urban areas in the US, 4 additional data SIMs at no cost for robots and other hardware projects that just use data from your main plan

Visible: better rural US coverage and fills in a lot of Fi's coverage gaps
hilarious. I wish you well on your journey and will discourage anyone I know/respect from applying
Thanks! Will look it up. I was worried as it seems a lot of those ultra low cost carriers are heavily throttled. Never saw that with Mint.
The "bottom numerals" don't mean much; they just indicate which note duration value is used for notating one beat.

Unsual time signature means other than 2, 3 or 4 beats in a fundamental repeating block (usually correspondign to "measure").
Parmigiano-Reggiano Adopts Edible Microchips to Combat Counterfeiters
It's actually the successor to the "inflation is solved" narrative. "Transitory" was before that.
Nah, channel factories solve that problem.

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/67158/what-are-c...
So you want to tax tires separately to whole cars? You don't think your scheme will induce perverse incentives as regards tread patterns, grip in different weather scenarios, etc.?

If I were a tire manufacturer I'd love this because I would:

* make tires that have not very much tread to wear through

* make the outer tread extremely hard so it wears (testably) much more slowly

* blame consumers for driving the tires wrong rather than make safe tires because we can hide behind T&Cs and our army of lawyers when accident rates inevitably increase

* put our fingers in all the tire installation and body shop pies to prpfit off of the new economic conditions that were created as a result of this tax
Great idea... could even be generated "on-demand" only when the user requests high fidelity for a specific area!
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I think it's safe to assume a company as large as mcdonalds does research on consumers in one of their largest target markets. The CEO may not have personal experience, but I'm sure they have (or have access to) way more data about the matter than actual low-income consumers.
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/s = joking. Also, the planet was also originally named Dune.
Tello has been great for me so far, I'm on the 5GB plan for under $20/mo.
And one day you boot into the single mode and can't execute a file because you you can't connect to systemd D-BUS error 0xDEADBEAF contact your systemd admnistrator
"Snake 3d" would be more analogous here. Sure snake means something outside of computing, but it's also a famous piece of computing history (like Dune II) for which "3d" also makes sense as a suffix.
It's not even Russian talking points. The version of Russia that American right-wingers love doesn't exist in real-life nor in Russian propaganda.

Putin's speeches call Ukraine a fake nation that shouldn't exist. The bullshit excuses about NATO enlargement and biolabs were entirely made up by American right-wingers and only later picked up by Russian propaganda.

Russia's own propaganda is more honest about Russia than the way American right-wingers like David Sacks portay Russia.
Then subsequent requests that hit the cache shouldn’t be charged by that logic.
I was scrolling on mobile and happen to grab the star and chuck it, feature or a bug? lol I liked it.
I think they use Wish in Go: https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish
The company making this, charm.sh, has a whole bunch of cool cli frameworks
Tend to agree ... with the added reflection that to a stylesheet, the DOM is the only worldview. Attributes - and the currently limited set of pseudo classes - afford its agency.

If pseudos were extended to include all property state, DOM serialised or not, then we'd be onto something.
Please do not take this criticism personally, but it also fails as a survey. Two issues that immediately stand out are that responses were filtered out entirely for not being the most popular and then the remainder were cherry picked based on unclear criteria. You seem to have an interest in surveys and many of the skills needed to conduct them, so it would benefit you to study the topic more scientifically. Wish you the best.
I went through all the comments here and I'm still not seeing anyone address this:

If I am reading this person correctly... they prompted the model with the prompt directly 1000 times... but only for the first time. They did not allow the model to actually run a context for chat. Simply, output the first in a list of 'left' and 'right' and favor 'left' 80% of the time... but then the author only asked for the first output.

This person doesn't understand how LLMs and their output sampling works. Or they do and they still just decided to go with their method here because of course it works this way.

The model takes the prompt. The first following output token it chooses, for this specfic model, happens to be 'Left'. They shut down the prompt and prompt again. Of course the next output will be 'Left'. They aren't letting it run in context and continue. The temperature of the model is low enough that the sampler is going to always pick the 'Left' token, or at least 999/1000 in this case. It cannot start to do an 80/20 split of Left/Right if you never give it a chance to start counting in context. Continuously stopping the prompt and re-promting will, of course, just run the same thing again.

I can't tell if the author understands this and is pontificating on purpose or if the author doesn't understand this and is trying to make some profound statement on what LLMs can't do when... anyone who knows how the model inference runs could have told you this.
I'd argue this is a bit different than your typical suburban HOA restrictions.

Cities are shared spaces, and design consistency is pleasing to humans. Beautiful architecture and good city planning are obviously subjective, but aesthetically, design consistency creates a sense of harmony, unity, and comfort compared to a disjointed hodgepodge without a cohesive architectural through line. Functionally, it can also promote things like walkability and sustainability, making it a nicer place to live and work and visit.

The 99% Invisible podcast recently had an episode about Sante Fe, NM. The city has strict guidelines for architecture and design which have ultimately been a big factor in the city's success as a tourist destination. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/roman-mars-describes-...
all residential property in the US is administered at the county level AFAIK.. Louisiana has parish law and New England has some township structures that may be a bit different. information welcome
Which is why we need [stronger] unions and protections.
McDonalds has gotten so expensive. a mcdouble that was literally $1.50-$2 2-3 years ago is at least $4 now. Unless you game coupons you’re spending a similar amount to dine in restaurants in my experience.
Modeling Dynamic (De)Allocations of Local Memory for Translation Validation
McDonald's used to be fast & cheap. But it's become slow and expensive. My local McD has switched to ordering kiosks with shitty touch screens, which are hell of a lot slower than in person ordering used to be. The UX is awful. Each item you add requires multiple taps, often a good 50cm away from the previous tap, and they try to trick you into adding shit you don't need at every possible opportunity. Then there's a 50% chance that the payment terminal won't work.

Every time I end up at McD's, I wonder why the hell I bothered.

I also have a sneaking suspicion that the BigMac has gotten smaller of late. But maybe I've just gotten fatter.
This is a very valuable observation ("builders" vs "maintainers") along with the comments below this.
Seems like they are trying hard to be the Boeing of tech.
If writers don't want people to think their content is AI generated, maybe they shouldn't put ugly AI generated images on top of everything they write.
> it's about open source quality, which quite frankly isn't there. It's like living in a rickety shed at the best of times on the desktop

First, we're not talking about the desktop here, we're talking about services. Open source provides much better quality for services. It is frankly appalling to me to see the government relying on Microsoft services given the quality and reliability and security of open source alternatives--not to mention the lower cost.

Second, the biggest obstacle to a standardized Linux desktop that everyone can use and rely on is the lack of a big player in the market willing to invest in one. Imagine if the government took even a fraction of the money it spends on Windows desktops, and spent it on developing a standardized Linux desktop instead. Isn't that exactly the sort of coordination problem that governments are supposed to solve?
Yes I did, I even read other sources about the paradox to make sure everything was clear in my mind.

The whole argument relies on the fact that "being good at programming contests" is a factor that was considered on interviews (and even given too much weight in the decision). There is absolutely no hint of that at all, and having been on the hiring side in FAANGs I can safely say this is not the case.

There is no paradox here because the study is not done on a pool of candidates that are pre-filtered based on this specific parameter, only on what it correlates (being good at LeetCode, which makes you pass the interviews).

It is funny that in the second article you linked the author says "My point here is that you can tweak these variables and end up seeing correlations with pretty much any value.", because this is exactly what he does. He manipulates the problem until it turns into a Berkson's paradox.
> I would really like to see a bigger example

This. I don't think toy examples are useful for modern ML techniques. If you tested big ideas in ML (transformers, LSTM's, ADAM) on a training dataset of 50 numbers trying to fit a y=sin(x) curve, I think you'd wrongly throw these ideas out.
> One of the biggest improvement for me was improved multi monitor and multi-DPI/PPI support. Being able to just put two different monitors next to each other and moving windows between them works. They just adopt their rendering on the fly to the screens DPI setting and it works with most current software.

This was a significant fix from W10 to W11 as it was truly awful with W10.
“Do you trust this program?” No, and why is this a yes/no question?
I love the idea of solvespace but it shits the bed on even simple geometries. Let alone no fillets. I will try this out and check if it's any good.
I literally covered the "driving with traffic" issue in the comment you are responding to. Driving at higher speeds isn't inherently safer, it is conditionally safer.

If the speed limit is 60MPH, and everyone is driving 80MPH, it is safer to drive 80MPH than to drive the speed limit and get hit from behind by someone going 20MPH faster than you.

Of course, every single person driving 80MPH in this scenario is breaking the law (in most states this is reckless driving), and making the road less safe for everyone, especially motorist obeying the law. The status quo isn't great if we just accept that everyone has to drive recklessly because the people around them are. That's a problem in need of a solution - a solution that can include mandatory speed governors and geo-fencing.

If you require governors and geo-fencing, the condition of "everyone is driving 20MPH over the limit" doesn't exist, because everyone's cars will be capped at the legal speed limit. Driving with traffic will only entail speeds up to the speed limit, not up to the fastest speed that drivers around you feel like driving.

Thus why I said that regulators would have to go all-in on this technology, rather than allowing slow roll-out, because a transition period would make the roads more dangerous allowing older vehicles to drive recklessly fast while not allowing newer vehicles to safely drive according to road conditions (created by reckless drivers).
Sometimes good, sometimes bad, and sometimes you can't tell until much later.

One of the most noteworthy instances of student activism in the history of the university I went to was recruiting people to fight for the enemy in WW1. Those people then formed the core of the army that won the subsequent civil war. Things were bad for a while, but the country turned out to be mostly fine 15-20 years later.
Thanks for this, appreciate the answer given the limited info at hand
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