skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one thing I remember from this is dimensional analysis. An awesome tool.

You can use the units of the inputs to make sure that the output makes sense (e.g. if there's seconds in the numerator, and seconds*2 in the denominator, the result should have a unit of seconds).

You can also use it to help remember a formula that you forgot part of.
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This is what I wanted to convey with my original comment. It seems people think having millions of enslaved cows living in horrible conditions is an advantage for cows compared with "less successful species". I imagine the cows see it very differently.
Connotations aside, using a well worn slogan 8 years later is uninspired. This makes it very ironic.
In a team where the backend devs can't work with the HTML templates for whatever reason, the frontend devs would be directly managing those.

I definitely wouldn't ask my frontend dev to write a spec and hand it to me to make their template, the spec spec would effectively have to be the template source code anyway. Just get in there and work with the HTML templates themselves.
Have a system. I like STASM (mid-XX): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38212528

> "If you agree with it, it's truth. If you don't agree, it's propaganda. Pretend that it is all propaganda. See what happens on your analysis reports."

PS. It is not true that Linebarger was some furry rando.
HN falsified my title.

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NPM and NodeJS should do more to make ES Modules easy to use
JavaScript solved that by using a new string delimiter for interpolated strings (`). C# solved it by preceding interpolated strings with a $ prefix.
I am really fed up of governments constantly trying to pass stuff like this that is clearly a breach of the fundamental principles of human rights. Its also become almost impossible to get governments to adopt sensible positions that don't target certain sub groups to harm them.
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> ultimately I don’t have the right to keep everything forever

You meant to write "ultimately I don’t have the right to keep _renting a time limited access_ to everything forever"

If the music is in your hard drive, you have the ability to keep it forever.
Yep, same thing in most countries. Their exists a legal method to do it if they can get a warrant.... Or a FISA court order.....or a National Security Letter....or they can get around the need for this via just paying some data company or the company to access your data....
It took 8 years for generics to be released, after they couldn’t decide how to in the initial release. So yeah, they’ll just wait until people run to other language/platforms.
The DeepMind AlphaTensor new matrix multiplication algorithms
Still way better than Go will ever be.
But it is in a political context.
Is there older data somewhere too? Would be interesting to see from 1950s upwards!
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Ah, thank you! Glad to see the site is still available.
How does it differ from just concatenating?
That wouldn't help anyway because most important things happen between national governments and the people they nominate. The EU institutions would work very differently if they were directly formed and managed by the European parliament. Alas the national governments know very well why they won't ever allow that.
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Because Kotlin is a guest language, designed to sell InteliJ.

Like C (alongside C++) and UNIX, JavaScript and Web, CLR and C#, JVM and Java are designed together, and have first class tooling in all Java IDEs.
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Actually, Trump getting back to the White House might delay the pandemic, as he's not a fan of WHO (to say the least), and he'll most likely just reject the UN pandemic treaty. So basically, by voting for Biden you're voting for the pandemic.
there is no market for a 1500$ raspberry pi camera
> Works that document joint migrations with very different species are rare. “This is because the small insects that migrate are usually invisible in an extensive landscape, requiring specialized equipment such as entomological radars or nets supported by balloons for their detection,” explains Hawkes.

Hold up, there is a radar that detects bugs? Where can I get me one of those and why doesn’t every IDE come with one?
Really curious what "fast" is in this context. Milliseconds, seconds, minutes?
The Commission is formed by commissioners, each of which has been nominated by a different nation's government. The Council consists of actual members of the national governments.

The third party that can't propose legislation but has to approve it (and which strongly opposed this) is the Parliament, which is directly elected.
Well said, it's crazy how much better C#'s become recently while Java is stuck in 1990 (and believe me I hate Microsoft as much as anyone else)
for those with I M P E / R I A L finger tats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9MShtCg4fk
Thanks, I'll check out Neon first
What physics are you talking about? Limits on power? Display? Sensor size? I ask because I’ve had similar feelings about things like high speed mobile Internet or mobile device screen size (over a couple of decades) and lived to see all my intuition blown away, so I really don’t believe in limits that don’t have explicit physical constraints behind them.
I know, I was joking.

I however have some PSTD from University times..
Re: Kotlin, will Kotlin die the Google death? Go?
VC predicts the industry is heading for a massive and enduring contraction
It’s under maintenance now. Kind of ironic.
> Also ditch they eye tracking, I dont want google and other spying compaines watching my eyes.

Apple doesn’t expose where you are looking to apps/websites. Thats a big point they made with their headset.
> Maybe we need a good fascism scare to remind everyone why personal freedoms should be fought for instead of being taken for granted.

Ironically since fascist (in the broader sense) parties and the likes don't seem to support Chat control (yet, I guess) the other parties have a harder time passing it to not lose votes to them.

It is strange how such an anti-democratic law is pushed so hard but there is still tip toeing around actually passing it.
> At least if the "PUM" is in private context.

Surely it would available, at an absolute minimum, to anyone within the org who is going to communicate with you, otherwise what's the point?
you might be. but if so, please delete so many of your daily apps and devices.
The first part is true for ‘normal’ string literals, but there's suffixed string literals since I think C++17: "foo"sv is a std::string_view if you have operator""sv from std::string_view_literals visible.
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You can work it out from the principles of the engines (electric motor can produce their maximum torque at zero speed, combustion engines generally produce very little torque at zero speed, especially when modulated through a clutch or torque converter which you need in practice. And that's before looking at turbo-lag), but it's also something you can feel fairly viscerally: jerk is how quickly the feeling of acceleration changes. In a fast accelerating ICE car you might find yourself sinking more into the back of the seat as the car picks up speed. In an EV you basically just go from still to pressed all the way back, and then you start to pick up speed (and in fact the feeling of acceleration slackens off as the EV reaches a certain speed, though this will also happen with an ICE once they reach their peak acceleration point).
Seriously question. What makes curl so special? Couldn't the same be said e.g. for wget?
> They are taking over the EU presidency in a few weeks, and have already said this is on the agenda for them. Considering the current political climate there I would assume they are more likely to bring it to a vote, but hopefully that vote is less likely to succeed.

Even if it does succeed, that would mean the Commission and the Council are in favour, but they'll still have to reach an agreement with Parliament as well. Parliament has already come out strongly against the proposal, but we just voted in a new, more conservative, Parliament, so I'm a bit anxious to see whether it'll stick to that stance.
https://archive.ph/bi4DI
History is also replete with droughts that killed millions of people

We are in 2025. We have plastics.

Anyway thats nit my question. My question was simple: how is is that continued, ongoing drone expense -into perpetutity- was cheaper than a one-time investment in irrigation system which can be used for water, pesticide, and even fertilizer?
Sounds to me more like boiling the frog.
* Docker containers can be modified at runtime, it is just more involved to do so. Hot-reloading inside Docker works best if you mount a host directory.

It drives the container philosophy to an ad absurdum. When I serve paying customers then I refrain from what is possible. I try to stick to what appears to be the simplest thing.

* I haven't encountered a corrupted Nginx binary, so far. I think that it is very unlikely to happen. I consider my Nginx binary "almost immutable" even without Docker. Since I am the only one working on my VPS I also know who to blame if that's not the case :D

I see Docker as an amazing fit for isolating business applications. They tend to have many dependencies (often less stable than evergreen libraries like libc), get continuously update and deployed.
does this invalidate the idea? i get the core idea, there _are_ some libraries that nobody has ever heard of but for example used in just a few places, one of them being lets say jquery and that creates a misleading example of being some super popular library.

curl is not one of these examples, it is very, very, widespread.
While not taking advantage of all its features, because Android/ART.
> Or do you believe that a child of any age should have access to completely confidential communication outside of a medical setting?

Confidential from governments/corporations/people that aren't their parents? Yes, absolutely.
I remember Ilya's interview about teaching AI to love. Super intelligence on the other hand could become an almight entity in a short time. In that case, we are basically creating God, an entity that is almighty and loves human, preferrably unconditionally.
> The EU Council did not make a decision on chat control today, as the agenda item was removed due to the lack of a majority, confirmed by Council and member state spokespersons

Wait so does it mean they will only propose when they have chance to pass? Is it just me or here is something really wrong with this? It has no chance to be rejected and gone for good?
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I get it. I am really excited about the current state of open source FPGA tooling, along with newly inexpensive and capable FPGAs as well as new low cost foundry shuttle services. Also the massive productivity boost LLMs provide. Feels like I have the world's most capable army of software development interns for $20/mo.

Projects like MiSTer are very inspiring. Risc-V as well. Sam Zeloof's garage chip fab work too. And we even have reasonable platforms for developing open source phone stacks like Pinephone - I remember the bad old days of OpenMoko.

I think proprietary chips and boards are about to go the way of proprietary *nix. It'll take a decade or more, and lots of work. But the future's never looked brighter for open systems.
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I solved it by avoiding Google products and services, whenever possible.
> The advantages of a language that is memory safe in practice and also heavily favors correctness in general boosts productivity tenfold in the long term

As someone who has some large projects in C++ and co tribute to OSS C++ projects I find this isn't true. The big "productivity" boost I saw when using rust for some projects was that there were good rust wrappers for common libraries or they were rewritten in rust.

In C++ using the C API directly is "good enough" but because there is no nice wrapper development is slower than it should be and writing the wrapper would be significantly slower unless you expect it to be a decades long project.

When I'm not needing to build my own abstractions above a C library in C++ I find it just as productive as rust and the moment I need to touch a C library in Rust I feel even less productive than C++.

There is definitely an argument to be made about correctness in large teams being beneficial in the long run but clearly very large projects are able to keep some sanity around keeping developers in check but this is the one metric where rust has a leg up on C++ and big backers of C++ agree that it's the place C++ is sorely lacking. Every other metric isn't worth discussing unless this is fixed.
> They want $10 a month just to check who will be attending.

Looks like this has been rolled out only recently. That's frustrating to say the least, you want to know who is active and the age/profile of attendees before you'd attend certain events. Or maybe there is someone you want to avoid.

Also yet another app looking a $10 per month subscription for basic features. Outrageous.
If you're interested, there's actually several other team members who made talks about different parts of the project in the "railway and open transport" track

Bending geographic maps for enhanced railway space-time diagrams: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/railways-and-open-tra...

MARECO algorithm: how to drive a train using the least amount of energy: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2650-mare...

Railway signaling: detecting conflicts in a complex world: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2665-rail...

And last year:

Automated short-term train planning in OSRD: https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/rot_osrd/

OpenStreetMap, one geographic database to rule them all?: https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/rot_osm/
I'm generally in favor of taxing things you want less of, and not taxing things you want more of. In this case, I'd prefer carbon taxes and refunding the collected amount to all tax payers.
Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show
Focusing on "safety" as the main goal is not promising. Current models still lack capability without any safety added to them.
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> crying about the direction for 13 years, but still want to use it.

Part it is the frustation of seeing it come so close to being a viable replacement for Windows back in the mid-2000s, only to jump the shark and become something we wouldn't use ourselves, let alone recommend to a would-be Windows refugee. (To be clear, I'm not saying it's unusable now - but I was shocked by just how slow and unresponsive the first version of Gnome 3 was.)

Unfortunately Gnome doesn't exist in a vacuum, and decisions made there do impact the rest of us - thanks to Gtk it's getting harder and harder to avoid the ingress of hamburger menus into desktop-oriented software - even developer / technical focussed stuff like a text editor VCD waveform viewer.
This doesn't really fall across conservative / progressive lines, and those lines are already pretty blurred in the EP

We'll see how it goes but it's hard to say what the result will be purely based on the elections results.
More people should know about this so there's even more push back when it comes to a vote
> does it mean they will only propose when they have chance to pass?

This is typically how legislative bodies work--it's why vote counting is an essential component of whipping. (Sorry, American political terminology.)

> It has no chance to be rejected and gone for good?

I have never seen a way to do this proposed that doesn't have horrific side effects. (One, who decides which issues are too similar to previously-mooted ones. Two, how do you avoid one side deliberately "spoiling" an issue to prevent the other from taking action on it in the future.)

The best you can do is require a total process re-start each time. That doesn't prevent reintroduction, but it adds significant cost and delay.
At work I use Kotlin. At home I often use Java.

My main reason for using it for my personal hobby projects is because I prefer another IDE.

And Kotlin is only supported by IntelliJ, which I admit is a really good ide, but not my favorite.
We don't get a lot of insight, but we do get some. For example, when it does come up for a vote in the Council, we'll know which countries voted in favour (something you can take into account in your next national elections).

Then the Parliament will have to agree as well, and we can see which parties there voted in favour, which you can take into account in the next European elections.

The Commission is toughest to hold accountable. The Commissioner pushing it (Ylva Johansson in this case) was nominated by a country's (Sweden, in this case) government, so Swedish voters could hold the parties in that government accountable in their next national election, I suppose, but that's a very weak signal.
Is it? I believe the commercial application for drones with thermal cameras is fairly well establish at this point. You can spot a lot of things in buildings, transmission lines, etc.
> This approach remains human-centric ... the computer handles the tedious and error-prone aspects of proof verification

So, outsource the error-prone part of verification to a machine...

And these people seriously think the results can be taken on trust???

Please let the law require every such product contain the warning "Checked only by the tech that recommends you eat one rock per day".
I'd say it depends on what your other options are. I don't think the technology will replace me soon, even at the rate I see it improving. At this point it's still a tool we can use to deliver faster, if we use it wisely.

Especially about ChatGPT et al. - I use it daily, but having the proper foundation to discern and verify its output shows me that it's still very far from being a competent programmer for any but the 'easy' tasks which have been solved hundreds of times over.

Like I hinted, I also view all of this hype sceptically. I dislike the 'we need AI in our org now!' types and am not planning on taking on projects if I don't see their viability. But there's obviously still a lot of demand and people offering services like those in TFA who're just looking to cash in, and that seems to work.

If you can find projects you believe you can make a difference in with your background, why not give it a shot?
Looks nice, though in 2024 I don't have much files / photos / etc on my local computer anymore. My photos are now 100% taken with my phone, and they are searched / stored / synced through e.g. Google photo
That's how EU politics works. There is no sense of officially voting on something if it is clear from previous negotiations that it will not pass. With only 27 members, the counting usually is done well in advance and the final vote is showing that agreement has been reached. If someone votes against, it is for pr purposes, because if they are really against it, they have a veto right.
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Specifically this is being pushed by Ylva Johansson [1] from Sweden, who has (reportedly) financial connections to the organisation Thorn which is hoping to sell this chat monitoring software.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ylva_Johansson
Comac expects to deliver single-digit numbers of C919s this year after four in 2023, with nearly a thousand in their backlog. The C929 is delayed to 2030.

They're not making up the slack any time soon.
I’m yet to forgive them for type erasure. And optionals. But I stopped using Java about 5 years ago, after 20 years of being increasingly frustrated with it, and I couldn’t be happier.
Solar power is not base load.
> it depends on what the subject is and who the person is

bingo.

> because years later some new joiners would read it and think something I wrote in 15mins in a workshop 6 years ago still represented who I was at the present time.

As with any other documentation, you need to spend time keeping it up to date. If you'd upgraded some libraries and added new ones, but still had docs you gave to new team members referencing the outdated libraries... how productive could they possibly be?
> does not make me very hopeful

Belgium proposed the damn thing.
Curl ships as a library; wget is only available as a command-line tool, I believe.
This has been an issue since gnome shell was released, I don't believe it will get any better from now on.
Yep. Just like Clojure, Scala and others, depending on the flavor. Just language-wise there is little reason for Java. But tooling and ecosystem are of course also relevant.
> There is no "superintelligence" or "AGI"

There is intelligence. The LLM current state-of-the-art technology produces output analog to natural intelligences.

This things are already intelligent.

Saying that LLMs aren't producing "intelligence" is like saying planes actually don't fly because they are not flapping their wings like birds.

If you run fast enough, you'll end flying at some point.

Maybe "intelligence" is just enough statistics and pattern prediction, till the point you just say "this thing is intelligent".
Thanks for pointing out. Even easier then.
> I really don't understand how you can arrive at them considering themselves one of the people who hasn't written libraries.

There seems to be a comprehension issue on one side or the other. Can someone point me to where he says his competition has never written a single library? I only see that he says they haven't written a library "in C in a cave with scraps". Where does he say he's written libraries in C? I don't see that either. Maybe the words "scraps" and "scratch" are too close together? If a subset of readers are inclined to dismiss him out of hand for this perceived slight, nothing I write will convince them otherwise, but that doesn't make their uncharitable interpretation of his words the correct one.
> well worn slogan 8 years later is uninspired

Ironic considering that "Let's Make America Great Again" was Ronald Reagan's campaign slogan in 1980.
It was a rhetorical question my friend.
Just bloody shootin for bronze… lookin for a Steven Bradbury.
Its not really governments, its specifically Ylva Johansson, the commissioner from Sweden who keeps pushing this, every time she does the rest of the EU apparatus slaps her down because it fundamentally won't work.
> [...] individual who feels they are sacrificing for the good of society [...] is the stereotype for a person who can be turned.

Turned towards... something that sounds consistent with the values for which they're sacrificing?

Or is the theory about more of an "f-word these ingrates; I might as well get paid" reaction? Or towards a role that makes them feel important or appreciated?

Would this theory distinguish people doing open source mainly because it's technically interesting to them, from those who are in it more for the community, from those who are strongly motivated by principles?