skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to these benchmarks, nearly all known full fledged web frameworks for interpreted languages are inefficient and probably expensive.

https://web-frameworks-benchmark.netlify.app/result
Personally I think they are delusional. But that’s fine. Autocomplete isn’t gonna nuke us.
Hmm... but the whole internet is also indexed by Google and they make a lot of money out of the content.

Should they pay too?

If this was enforced would there be search engines?
How do you reconcile money being anonymous with the fact that financial institutions and the government both keep records?
Be careful, financial advise is a bit like medical advice - legal issues it can create may not be pleasant.
It's so strange to read this, as I had an almost completely opposite experience growing up in the Netherlands.

Even though my family is ostensibly Catholic, and the church sort of pushes traditional values, they're no match for the public schooling telling all kids that girls are just as good as boys at everything. Sure, preferences exist, but jobs are not girl or boy specific. University is just as accessible to either, and after marriage you're both expected to share the load.

I just didn't know any better. I thought it was the same everywhere. In hindsight it was strange, because my aunts and mother were all stay at home moms. I just never had that expectation for my future wife. Sure, due to the cost of childcare I expected either me or her to stay at home, because it just made more financial sense, but I like to think I'd have been perfectly happy with either.

Then I moved to Japan, and things couldn't be more different. Traditional roles are heavily emphasized here, even if it's not motivated by religion. I'll go to some event with my child, and I'll just be the sole dad surrounded by mothers (on a Sunday!). Like, I dunno what all the fathers here are supposed to be doing.

My wife doesn't really like her job, and fantasizes about quitting and just becoming stay at home, but every time I ask her if she'd actually be happier sitting around all day playing with our son she very quickly reconsiders. I think it's both good for him to play with lots of different kids in kindergarden, and for mom to have some time to do adult things during work. Since kindergarden is free here it's also pure extra money.
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Thanks, let me correct myself:

The only "problem" with sagemath is that it is based on Python. The rationale is that Python is easy to start using and widely known. This is the usual "make it easy for newcomers" trap.

For the mathematical constructs we care about in symbolic programming, I have found Python's syntax and Sage's menagerie of objects awful to use. Initially you feel comfortable, but when you want to do some real work, it gets horribly in the way. The Wolfram language, not a LISP variant, is less familiar and harder for a newbie to learn but it is vastly superior for actual work.
This is the EU. Like most governments, if they thought they could get away with it they would not just outlaw Tech Giants, they would outlaw the internet itself, along with any source of information that they cannot easily sue out of existence. Hell, they would outlaw people talking to each other without permission.

It was worst with Jose Manuel Barroso at the head of the EU commission, who needed to hide ... well, why don't I just say it. He spent a big part of his youth being a violent communist protestor (he wasn't even a now-fashionable Marxist, he was a Maoist. He protested IN FAVOR OF the "cultural revolution" in China, in favor of the killing of between 80 and 300 million people. He was explicitly anti-Marx, though I don't understand why), and has more than a few convictions and arrests for destruction of property, beating up people, assault, ...

Frankly, he is THE stereotype of what is wrong with leftists. Turns out, surprise! It's not about communism, or rights, or ... At least, it isn't for him. He was offered power through what, though people don't often think of them this way, is one of THE most capitalist institutions on this planet, the EU commission (used to be named "The European Union of Coal and Steel producers", and hasn't forgotten). He of course, immediately and totally forgot his "conviction" and took the power (of course there were many steps in his rise to power, but ...). For Barroso leftism was, and presumably is, nothing but a way to amass power, to maximize what he accidentally got thrown into at university.

But the worst of it is, he is a suspect in an unsolved murder. Now that isn't QUITE as bad as that sentence makes it sound, but close. At one of the protests where he was, someone was murdered, and the police knows he was in the group where the death occurred. Hence, he is a suspect. Along with ~20 others. The murder was "never solved".

There's even more than a few reasons this information is hidden. First is that he's involved (as well as another famous Portugese politician). Second is that the police essentially let the murder go, and "that this might lead to copycat ...". Frankly, that second part is a genuine concern.
> I've literally never had a conversation with a "normal person" about privacy, especially in the US, where it wasn't an extreme priority for them.

We must've been talking to different groups of people, since the most common response I've received when discussing this topic is "I have nothing to hide". And this is after first having to explain that these services aren't gratis, and that they're paying for them with their data and attention. The second most common response, coming from even tech-savvy people who understood this, was "I only use it infrequently". I don't remember talking to someone who understood the risks, and cared enough about their privacy to want to make a change in their habits.

> You say it's not a tech problem, it's an education problem.

It is partly a tech problem, but my point is that tech alone won't solve it. People first need to understand the implications of using these services, and then decide for themselves whether they accept those terms. The unfortunate thing is that most people (judging from my conversations) are perfectly fine with that transaction, as long as they get to use a service without paying. The idea that the general public will somehow choose to pay for an equivalent—and in reality, more often than not, inferior—service just to safeguard their privacy is wrong. This is only the case for tech enthusiasts and a minority of people who are willing to sacrifice the experience, and who value their privacy more than the experience.

> I say it's neither, it's a political problem.

I think your concerns of governments using this information for "evil" are overblown. Yes, that is a risk, but in reality people are more likely to be targeted for advertising purposes than for persecution because of their beliefs and actions. Of course, governments will always want access to this data, and there's arguably a legitimate interest I think most people would agree is good (e.g. stopping actual terrorism and national security threats), but people getting persecuted because of their beliefs is low on the list of possibilities in most countries, even though this has happened before in history.

I do agree that this is partly a political problem, but from a different perspective. Governments need to be involved to improve regulation of tech companies, and to better educate themselves about technology in general. Laws need to be passed to not only limit the reach of tech companies, but also to provide tech education to the general public early on in children's lives. Parents are struggling with controling access to technology to their kids, and it's unreasonable to expect them to protect their kids from billion-dollar corporations that build services designed to be as addicting as possible. Kids are growing up with an increased reliance on technology that they believe is benevolent, and it's making future generations complacent with side effects that are yet to become apparent.
Shameful. You would expect rich assholes to gradually move away from the least sustainable form of sport, but nope, it’s actually ramping up with explicit backing from politicians. Time to build a Westworld for these rich assholes.
They are a financial product that banks sell to institutional investors

*Originators.
Better superconductors means better magnets, which means cheaper fusion.

Some modest improvements in high temperature superconductors from MIT is allowing Commonwealth Fusion Systems to scale down ITER from being a 65 billion dollar five story behemoth, to something slightly taller than the average human.

With a few more iterations, it becomes very feasible to imagine fusion reactors the size of a rice maker to power homes and vehicles, or even smaller to just have personal, wearable fusion reactors that can provide near infinite power to any gadgets we want to carry with us.

Also I really enjoy the idea of reducing giant MRI machines down to the form factor of a hula hoop. If anyone could get highly detailed MRI scans whenever they wanted, a huge amount of disease could be prevented.
Ahh, the “we need more data before we can discuss the self-evident” feint.

That article isn’t merely one personal anecdote, it includes numerous personal anecdotes from other women within the same religious group — not ethnoreligious, Mormonism is not an ethnicity — as well as direct quotes from that religion’s “prophet” that expressly directs his female followers to forgo careers in favor of baby-making.

When the members of the religion, the leaders of that religion, and the doctrine of that religion all agree on the goal being to override your hunch and create an effect, your hunch can be discarded until you gather data that shows no such effect. We can certainly discuss the effect the religion publicly desires and advocates for (and has done since its founding) without stereotyping anyone.
Nothing particularly glorious about sapience trapped in a permanent bag of flesh especially one with a rather fixed view about the world about it. Never mind dictators; how about:

'The President of Global Enterprises Inc. is today 150 years old and currently holds the record for the longest serving president in the Company's history'.

A cause for celebration?
Im not going to claim capitalism doesnt have problems. Clearly you are right that it leads to inequality with freeloaders. Its just that every single economic system has this same problem, and the non capitalism ones also suppress innovation and growth. You know the ruling class in every communist system has lived in luxury, right?
I will never know if I could have actually invented it or not.

The website doesn't load and I don't know what we're talking about.
I don't think OpenAI needs to worry about superalignment before they can even properly define or test for AGI.
RSS-Librarian is a read-it-later service for RSS purists
It's funny that you think you are different from flat earthers when most people would put you in the same category.

Neither has any proof. Both have flimsy evidence and only conjectures (Opinion or judgment based on inconclusive or incomplete evidence; guesswork). Both are anti science and anti establishment and believe them to be hiding or stopping the truth from coming out to protect their sweet academic/science jobs. And both are pushed by people that make money from it, ie grifters.
A microwave looked funny at my mom once.

Seriously, though - I think microwaves are pretty much a solved problem now. Even the full-blown combos that include a convection oven are reasonably priced now. As long as you don't buy a shoebox and there's not some commercial regulation, where it's made probably isn't that important.
really nice Tool! I will use it in the Future
> What if tragedy strikes, it's not that uncommon - an accident during commute is enough to render someone unable to work?

A very good insurance policy? We pay a lot of extra money on our house loan to ensure it's immediately void should something happen to me (or gets cut in half if one of us becomes seriously ill).
Deloitte – genz/millennial survey 2024 [pdf]
It depends on whether you are depending on specific MATLAB toolboxes or integrations.

If you don't, Julia will feel good and be a more than adequate replacement. It has a somewhat similar syntax and many of the Array niceties of MATLAB. Additionally it has a good type system and a much better handling of "general purpose" programming, e.g. it isn't weird about where functions are.

I can only recommend you to try it out.
Don’t know about this specific program but there is an often overlooked disadvantaged category - immigrants (and I’m talking about legal immigrants). A typical catch-22 - to open a bank account you need an utility are a tax bill and to rent a place to live (and a month later get the first bill) you need a bank account. And good luck getting a proof of address if you are using short term rental where bills are paid by a landlord.
Can't open the PDF, is arXiv bugged?
Six hours and only two comments. Perhaps the RISC vs CISC debate is over :)
> For starters, they're leaking this information to Google.

How are they leaking the information to google? Our, if you’re unwilling to share the details, how much is revealed?
The electronic flow meter analogy is killing me
I agree on the class-ist vibes of a perfect lawn, it seems ugly and pointless. If you're going to put in the work, why not a beautiful native plants garden?
I wonder why graphics cards didn't jump from PCI directly to PCI express and used AGP between.
DIY 256-Core RISC-V super computer [video]
"Myst" coming out on a CD at the time struck me as a very risky move as so few people had optical drives on their PCs. What I failed to appreciate (and why I must suck at marketing) is that everyone with a CD-ROM drive bought the game. You almost had to either to justify the device or perhaps to lord it over those who did not have one.
What trend? Only ones I can think of from the top of my head aren’t recent and are named after real people: Angie’s list and MariaDB.
The entire point of running it on lower power is to avoid any uneven heating and manual intervention. Some really delicate foods I've put on low with plenty of success
Actually, for smart kids, I have an answer: give the desktop, FLOSS, teach them how to use their own environment. They'll find mobile incredibly crappy, limited and limiting they do not develop much interest for it.

Oh, yes, this assume there is money, space, knowledge etc to give a real desktop per child.
Somewhat related: I printed some "Pencil Puzzles" [1][2][3] for my MIL, and she loved them. Any suggestions on how to create more of these, possibly using AI? So far, my idea is to find a good set of icons and just pixelate them, but it will obviously not be as good as properly drawn black-and-white pixel art.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20120409104318/http://www.tipstr...

[2]: https://www.retromags.com/forums/topic/11207-tips-tricks-pen...

[3]: https://www.worksheetworks.com/puzzles/pixel-pictures.html

edit: just figured out the keyword I was looking for is: 1-bit pixel art.
The greatest thing that helped the thriving of PCs was standardization first driven by IBM and after that by Intel.
By all means, I like nature. I think it is important to preserve it.

But I also see it as an uncaring force. A swarm of wasps makes no moral judgment if they attack me. A feral wolf is not giving it much philosophical thought if it decides I am dinner. A water parasite is just following the cycle of life when it lodges itself in my body.

I live in the countryside because I prefer living somewhat closer to nature than in concrete hellscapes. But I still treat it as a potential danger. With respect and at distance.

And I definitely would not live in a mud hut, unless it was my last resort.
Judging from all the undisclosed Amazon affiliate links, this seems like another generic content farm that's more about profit than politics.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/a-teache...
Can landlords add a glowing review of themselves? And later post some generic one star reviews about competition in the area?
The main thing is that i do not see practical efforts by the workforce (us, as yes, i worked for an american company before going jobless) to sabotage these efforts. Everyone is happy getting their bucks and doing the dream of their lives in amazing projects while other people with enough talent who could at least contribute but were born outside of the spectrum watch with even their life being on the line due to having acquired the skills in the wrong place.
> For all we know, it might be that consciousness is not fully contained in the physical structure of the brain. It might as well be something that partially exists on another layer of reality we have no idea about yet.

Yes, but not another layer. Just the environment around us - physical and social. Every sensation comes from the environment, our perceptions are trained on this data stream, every value is dependent on environment, our emotions reflect it, language and society are part of the environment, we base our thoughts on language and our actions on other people. Our brain is made from environment signals, just like GPT-4 is made from its language corpus.

The unsung hero of consciousness is actually the environment with its reach data stream and feedback. Consciousness, language, genes, internet, LLMs and the evolution of intelligence are all social processes. They don't make sense individually, only as part of an evolutionary population. They can only evolve if there are many agents.

Now, I know this doesn't sound as sexy as quantum consciousness, but it is a more parsimonious and better grounded position. It accounts for the data engine that actually creates consciousness. Don't be looking for consciousness inside the brain or in exotic physics when the magical ingredient is outside.
Whatever you do it will be wrong first time. Make sure your solution is flexible.
The US certainly has issues with even accepting the government being able to do good things. A small but highly vocal part of the populace has all but ensured the well is poisoned. I think we could, if we wanted, create an institution like the USPS for financial services. That would be able to issue a mortgage. It's not going to happen for the simple fact they're doing their best to privatize the USPS and beloved programs like Social Security.
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> I still remember swapping out those CDs...

You reminded me that when the CD drive kicked out the disc for the first time and asked for the next, you knew that you had broken through and that some new shit was about to land.
One enormous difference is that MATLAB is paid, which, ironically, makes it much much easier to use in a corporate context.

For MATLAB it isn't just toolboxes, but also integrations with other tools. So it depends on what you are trying to do, but if your problem is taking in data, computing, putting out data, Julia can absolutely compete with MATLAB, even on the most practical "I really just want this to just work and look at the results", level.
I mean, I'm 36. Motivating myself to learn new shit at this point is getting harder and harder. Extensions of what I already know? Sure, but entirely new things?
That's not even my point.

Websites should still support accessability, I would even go as far to say it's a must. I just don't want people to mix up web-applications with websites. I've seen some people create a simple "websites" with Flutter which is totally pointless because it could just been created with html + css.

There is also a section in the Flutter docs that talks about accessability and how you can create accessable apps but I don't know how well it translates to Flutter web.

https://docs.flutter.dev/ui/accessibility-and-internationali...
Hence why that context needs to be added here, in the comments below the original headline.

Within the reading context of that site any mention of the elephant in the room is, obviously, redundant, but this is a very different room with very different elephants.
At first glance, sure, but without further context or supporting data I'm suspicious:

1. Why just the Daily Mail? Is that the only paper that matters in Britain, or just the one that happens to correlate?
2. I would expect public opinion to lag coverage in the paper if there were a causal relationship. This graph is over too great a period to really see that, but if the creator wants to convince me, they'd show that.
3. I might expect the lag to differ when coverage is increasing vs. decreasing. Again, if I'm to believe this graph, more context would help.
4. No consideration of other factors that might lead to changes in public concern?
5. No consideration of factors that might lead to *both* an increase in coverage *and* an increase in concern?

I'm sure I could come up with 5 more reasons to doubt this graph if I thought for another 60 seconds...
Will be nice to have option to search at own bookmarks only
You're talking about it right now in the physical world, though.
I think that was implied? The only reason stuff like this happens is because the surroundings make it so.
I would rather call this, which "Will Wipeout the Citicorp building". We dont know what happened with the emergency repairs then, but it is certainly not possible to fix the quarter wind problem enterily. I remember being taught about this particular Citicorp problem in my structural engineering class 30 years ago.
Why not compost the mowings? Or use it as mulch to help reduce water evaporation?
you don't know which calls are going to be those trivial ones upfront.

that said, support is being replaced by nothing in a lot of places. (oh, sometimes there's an annoying chatbot.)
Experimentally speaking the nobility, workers, and freeloaders seem to be independent of the system. Even the attempts at communism ended up like that (although horribly organised).

Capitalism has a plan for how to cope with that dynamic and make sure that the powerful don't break the capital that modern society depends on. Non-capitalist systems don't seem to have a mechanism to do that.
> I must say that this "billion dollar mistake" about nulls really baffles me. What's the mistake?

The mistake is that Nothing isn't a kind of thing. It's a categorical mistake, enshrined in many programming languages because it was easy and they didn't realise it was a bad idea, that's what Tony's talk is about - he's the one who made the mistake originally.

> I mean, when you start with a pointer, it's uninitialized

You're talking about a language implementation detail. Indeed I'd say plainly, a language defect, particularly notable in C (and so C++) where it continues to cause problems.

> We have Java, suffering the same problem

That's correct, all non-primitive Java objects can be null instead.

> Golang suffering the same problem

That's correct, Go chooses "make representable states legal" rather than "make illegal states unrepresentable" and so every type must have a legal "zero" state.

> and Rust, where you have the same problem if you call unwrap,

Nope. Try it. Call "unwrap" on a Vec, or a HashMap, or a File. You can't, there is no such method, it's a method on Option.

> Seems to me this is an inherent problem of using an uninitialized value... so, what is the mistake?

Goodness no. An actual uninitialized value by default would be a design mistake. They're currently trying to fix this mistake for C++ 26. If for performance reasons you need to delay initialization you need a trick like Rust's MaybeUninit<T> wrapper. You certainly can't paper over it with null.