skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> empirically measured that completing a task... is twice as fast in [Rust] than in [C++]

I have not read up on which tasks you're referring to that are empirically measured, apologies. The reason I'm curious on what the tasks are, is that depending on the task, navigability may not matter.

For example, if the task is "build a tool that does X", then navigability of the code does not matter. Once built, the tool does X, and there's no reason to revisit the code, and thus no reason to navigate the code.

But if the task is "Given a tool that already does W, X, Y, make the tool also do X', Y', and Z", then navigability of the code matters. This is because the coder must understand what the tool already does, and where the changes need to be made.

Most of my professional life, (and I'm willing to bet, most other coders here as well) I more often find myself in the second task than the first.

But, I'm not interested in Rust vs C++. I'd be more interested in the results of "given a version that makes high use of type inference vs not, how quickly can someone new to the project add X', Y', and Z." That would be a more appropriate test for what the author describes here. And I'd imagine that probably, those that are using sufficiently advanced IDEs would beat out those without, regardless of if type inference used or not, and would probably be slightly faster when given the highly type-inferenced version.
Tabelog has its share of crazies who dish out one-star ratings for the stupidest things ("the cashier's smile didn't seem sincere"), and the top listings are usually paid ads. But at least the ads are marked, and if there's enough reviews the outliers get averaged out.
HN commenters defending Apple have stated many times that iOS installations do not comprise a majority share of the "smartphone" market.

Can we assume that if Microsoft paid Apple to be the default search engine in iOS instead of Google then Microsoft would have market share, or some other source of monopoly power, sufficient to allow the DoJ and state AGs to bring essentially the same antitrust case against Microsoft.

There is this ridiculous "argument" from HN commenters I see sometimes, too often, when "developers" or so-called "tech" companies they work for are caught doing something wrong. It goes something like, "If we didn't do it, then someone else would have so don't blame us."
Show HN: The Sourdough Framework (open source bread book)
We still have an old printing machine. It came as part of an acquisition and took a truck to move. We rent a small unit in an industrial complex to house it.

Nobody knows how old it is. It predated the folk who came with it (all of whom were close to retirement.)

It's still running (looked after by one of the retirees on a part time basis.) He does print runs a couple times a week. To seem him with an oil can in his hands is to step back in time.

It's more or less neutral profit-wise, but pays his wage and keeps some old customers happy. When he gives up the machine goes too (likely for scrap I guess).
> If you see lots of people in a place and it’s crowded it’s probably good.

McDonalds? it's even called a "restaurant"...
as a non-US resident, the dropdown menu isn't accessible. when i type the letter "j", i expect the dropdown to auto select the first country that starts with "j" like Japan.

also, if you could add Rotten Tomatoes metrics, this would def be an upgrade from JustWatch.
Python, not that it really matters.

We had to develop something internally regarding genlock and a ring buffer that Python wasn't going to work, so an engineer at our company picked up C++. Mind you, he's never written a line of C++ in his life and has close to no experience with C-style languages at all.

Within 2 days he had completed the prototype to synchronize multiple latency sensitive gear with leading/falling edge methods in C++. (On top of his other work.)

3 days prior to it he'd written no C++.

When asked how he did it, he said: "Claude is the best translator out there."

As for subtle mistakes, you still need to know how to code. Compilers make plenty of subtle inaccuracies and we still use them for most applications, don't we?
> They simply have a better product

They had a good product, but have screwed it up. Have you tried Kagi?

I dipped my toes and have never looked back, not once.
It’s quick, it’s good, I have some neat customisation. The less-geeky family have joined me. The downside? It’s paid. But it’s worth it.
Cogent Core (Go GUI) – Initial Release
What about Tox?
> You wrote:

>> if you created 10 magnetised needles using the wrong process and getting the wrong result, then all 10 would agree with each other and your test passes

You snipped out the qualifier to the paragraph. The qualifier is important. Here's the full quote with the qualifier:

> Using this analogy, if you created 10 magnetised needles using the wrong process and getting the wrong result, then all 10 would agree with each other and your test passes, but your needle is still broken.

IOW, using this analogy for software development, all the products created with the wrong algorithm and/or process would all agree with each other. It's why I say you are missing the point.

You're not creating a binary product that either exists or doesn't exist, like magnetism, so repeating the process as some sort of "test" is a broken way to test.

It's also the most popular way to write tests: the tests are effectively moot because a pass does not indicate that the result is correct.
It's about the same impact that a 0.04% width of steel has on the flight of a bullet through 5,000 metres of atmosphere.

The vast bulk of the atmosphere is transparent to infrared radiation, it has no insulation properties at all to speak of.

The only reason our planet isn't a freezing ball is the actual insulation we do have .. and that's the 0.04% you're so flippantly and ignorantly dismissive of.

When that insulation doubles or halves it's a big deal indeed .. and yet still a tiny percentage of the atmosphere.

Try swallowing 0.04% by your body weight of a toxin and tell us how that goes .. by your "logic" that should be trivial to shrug off.
You're right. But I was talking about videos like "turn vim into VS code with this one simple trick!!!" - I don't like those.

And I think the people who watch these would be better off using a regular IDE. The only reason someone would watch that is so they can haphazardly configure vim to mimic their existing workflow. I don't know. Maybe I'm being too judgemental.
Hello. Thank you for engaging in good faith and friendliness..

I'm not sure what is this "scenario" that you think I'm proposing ;)

You seem to like spending time on HN, as do I :)

Are you a resident of Trieste, by any chance? rOtfl

Let me stress, anarcho-primitivism isn't the label I would like to have thoughtful people put on my "scenario", haha!

I will outline my "scenario" more carefully, promise! I realize what I have written here so far is still ripe to be misunderstood. Sorry!

But I also have a job (,i.e. something equally crucial to the delicate art of time management) and that takes a lot of quality time as well ;)

(Did you notice that rearchitecting finance is the top priority in my "scenario"? money=time=money?)

Thank you for taking time out to formulate these important questions.
This is nice! Something we could hack into a Github Action workflow in combination with our internal LLMs we use for code analysis.
Could zipping the file with a password work as an encryption?
I only deploy open source reproducibly built operating systems with high accountability.

No one acting alone can deploy a change to mission critical systems I design.

This is just basic supply chain integrity.
Useless, no one’s buying AI from dell.
For those curious about helping native pollinators, it should be noted that there are dozens in not hundreds of different types of bees that should be found around any given area. Many of them need certain plants to complete their life cycle, as well as need certain types of habitat.

Sadly, this is a woefully understudied area, and it's exceptionally rare to find easy "plant this mix to maximize resources for your local bees across the year". There's a lot of mental overhead to get through when you start getting into it.

In many of the hazelnut orchards in sandy areas, it turns out that having compacted bare soil is a huge win for the sand bees, it's exactly what they need and there can be dozen of holes made by them per square yard in some places.

If there's not natural water sources nearby, a water feature is a good thing to look into for both birds and bees.

Also note that beetles and moths are also a hugely important part of the ecosystem as well and are big pollinators, you just typically won't see them near as much as bees and butterflies. Healthy beetle populations can reduce slugs. We don't have them here, but fireflies and glowworms also heavily feed on slugs.
Congrats Nikita. What about the regulations from the government for private aviation? What kind of hurdles are you seeing in getting approvals for this project?
You have to stay off ‘Popular’. It is toxic

There are niche subreddits that are very good and responsive without all the drama
option-left arrow twice, delete 2 times, type 'ar' and cmd-right arrow to get where you are.

2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8 keystrokes. It also works in every single text input on macOS

Your solution is 1+3+1+1+2+1+1 = 10 keystrokes and only works inside vim.
Figma's pricing structure seems to be becoming increasingly complex and costly. The recent changes to the organization plan are particularly disappointing. It feels like a step backward in terms of accessibility and affordability for design teams.
> there's uncertainity about the future of the AMOC

In the long view, there is no uncertainty, we know that the AMOC will fluctuate and likely fail completely at some point, we just don't know exactly when. Just as the Sahara will likely bloom again, and the locations of all current coastal cities will some day be underwater, we just don't know when.

This is not an argument for accelerating these changes, and continuing to emit CO2, sulfur, and other poisonous pollutants into the atmosphere, however. It is an argument for realizing that the planet is and will always be in climate flux, whether affected by human activity or not, and that our long term strategy needs to be adaptation and cooperation, not to engineer the climate to stay as it was in 1700 and selfishly laying claim to temporarily blessed locations.
Twitter also had a ton of fluff labor. He was right to let a ton of them go
does beli not have a website? wild choice if so.

I know I'm a minority, but I refuse to do research on a 3.5"x6" screen.
Lesser known is that SO content is generally under a CC-BY-SA license, which means not only attribution, but also "share-alike", which generally means releasing derivative work under the same license...

There is significant legal risk if your juniors are pasting non-trivial code from SO into your codebase verbatim...
It isn’t even that complicated. Humans just like destroying things.

I sit here, listening to a bulldozer demolishing woodland just outside the perimeter of our land in order to turn it into bare earth. Not to plant. Not to use. Just to clear, because that’s tidier, and there are wild animals in the forest.

Such is man. Our road will wash away this winter because of what they’re doing today, and while they destroy, we plant.

Like fighting the tide with a teaspoon.

People tell me there are no bees here any more - the apiculturists who put their hives in their olive groves that they spray several times a year to deter hornets (not asiatic hornets, just boring, gentle, European hornets) are puzzled by their decline. Meanwhile, I throw hives into random spots in the forest, and they are all full of bees who chose them as home.

Butterflies and moths abound - we have Europe’s largest moth, and the world’s smallest butterfly, and meadow fritillaries coat the riverbanks like a gently breathing carpet, scattering in clouds as you approach.

All we do is we let nature be, work with existing systems, cut some dead brash here to make a path, scatter some seeds and saplings there to grow the patch of scrubby trees.

Even the custodians of nature have completely lost their connection, as when one owns a tractor, one must use it.

So on I go with the teaspoon.
My dad was also lung cancer, we got some more time (almost a year between diagnosis and his death).

Sadly, I'm already the 4th person in my friend group to lose their dad even though we're less than 30 years old. It also means I had other people that understood and that I could talk to. I hope you're talking to friends or professionals.

I know it'll get better.
How many 10+ year veterans of the software industry are actually only limited by their typing speed and need to maximise it with vim?

I do kinda get the feeling you get when you can transfer your thoughts to screen as efficiently as possible.

But really, if your typing speed is the only thing holding you back when coding, it's a bit suspicious to me.
rqlite creator here.

One notable production user is Replicated: https://www.philipotoole.com/replicated-postgres-to-rqlite/
He is describing stock exchanges: nothing specific to crypto.
But presumably you're talking about a modern automatic car?

What about a manual car, where you need more understanding of the mechanics, and will stall or roll back on a hill if you don't? Or a manual car without synchromesh, where you have to double de-clutch to match the input and output shaft RPMs? Or a car without antilock brakes? Or without tire pressure sensors? Or automatic headlights? Or automatic wipers? Or lane assist? Or auto braking? Or cruise control? Or indicator blinkers that auto cancel? Or auto dimming headlights? Or warning messages that tell you about everything from seat belts to service warnings or blown bulbs?

All these are driver safety and convenience innovations that people take for granted so it is as simple as "press pedal car go vroom"...

Also, think about drones and model planes. With computer aided support they now have full autopilot, return to base, auto land etc. and can be operated by a kid! Why can't some of these types of support, safety and convenience make it over to light aircraft?
Does it covers all the markets or specific to a country.
Sure, Putin doesn't own it out right (that we know of - who knows whose LLCs have financed Musk or anyone else, really.) If he did, he'd be asked to divest a-la ByteDance.

Just in the metaphorical sense, which seems to work better too. He has perfected a system of crony tycoons.
Anyone has used hey.com?
No smoke alarms is an obvious issue in my experience.
I waiting for someone to reinvent Yahoo! (aka human groomed site lists). In my mind I can see a browser plugin (or something similar) that users can Up/Down vote specific sites. You can then follow users and see what they think is cool/useful.
I use node every day

I think it is a not very good idea to develop finance software in node
With short selling you only need greed.
We hosted Ziming Liu at the London Machine Learning Meetup a few weeks ago. He gave a great talk on this fascinating work.

Here's the recording https://youtu.be/FYYZZVV5vlY?si=ReoygVJMgY9oje3p
For example, the following function has obviously no UB:

unsigned int mul(unsigned int x, unsigned int y)
{
return x * y;
}

Or there are many high level function structures as, which also has no UB (with some assumption on the called functions):

void bar()
{
struct foo *p = foo_alloc();
foo_do1(p);
foo_do2(p);
foo_delete(p);
}

Such code can be easily screened and also this can be done automatically. There is a lack of open-source which can do this, but I have an experimental GCC branch which starts to do this and looks promising.
> It would be the default on Apple devices and not used much outside of that.

Would that bother Apple?
Their platform is the most valuable to advertise on. They’ll make money. The question is, will it make as much as Google was paying?
I read the climategate emails myself - instead of reading Snopes and co. "factchecking" - and you can too. There is no proof of a "big lie" in it, but plenty of malpractice and lack of scientific integrity.
I think something is off with those guys. Their ascension seems off to me, they aren't that good, there are plenty of better bands playing at the Windmill but for some reason these guy are the chosen ones.

I might be being overly cynical but thing just don't add up.

:EDIT:

I just looked up the credits of their first album, it's produced by my current fav producer James Ford and mixed by the legend Alan Moulder, they even got a full orchestra. This is pretty much unheard of for a debut album. They don't even have a drummer!

Someone at Island records must really really really like them. It's all a bit bonkers, I'd love to see what their record deal is because the budget for that album must have been huge!

Damn, it was also record at The Church Studios.
This is inspiring. Whats the channel that works consistently well for your traffic?
Wikimedia is often criticized for asking for donations, while having millions in the bank, but this is exactly why. Mozilla should have taken all the money they could from Google and others, focused on Firefox and MDN (and perhaps Thunderbird) and just continuously saved and invested whatever was left. If/when donation dry up, Wikimedia will hopefully have saved up enough to fund Wikipedia for decades. Once Mozillas income is gone, there's no backup.

Mozilla spend all the money they could each fiscal year (I don't actually know, I didn't check their budgets), trying to build products that would fund the project into the future. It's just that none of those projects made much sense, nor where they ever going to bring the the amount of money required, which really seems obvious from the outside. I can see the VPN maybe bringing in a bit of money, but no where near enough.
I took a brief look into Windows public API, even with a tight coupling between compiler/toolchain & OS they don't offer a way to increase the region for a stack after a thread has been created.
I am willing to bet that yes, even the giants of today, will be memories of tomorrow.
rqlite creator here.

That's correct, there is a write-performance hit for the reasons you say. All Raft systems will take the same hit, and SQLite is intrinsically single-writer -- nothing about rqlite changes that[2]. That said, there are approaches to increasing write-performance substantially. See [1] for much more information.

Write-performance is not the only thing to consider though (assuming one has sufficient performance in that dimension). Ease of deployment and operation are also important, and that's an area in which rqlite excels[3] (at least I think so, but I'm biased).

[1] https://rqlite.io/docs/guides/performance/

[2] https://rqlite.io/docs/faq/#rqlite-is-distributed-does-that-...

[3] https://rqlite.io/docs/faq/#why-would-i-use-this-versus-some...
RT is already available in the JW mobile app, will come to web soon.

Source: I work there.
Early brake discs were often maintenance nightmares. Discs built into the hub (so you need to disassemble wheel bearings to take the discs off) or even worse, Jaguar's inboard rear discs (reduced unsprung mass, but you needed to remove the driveshafts and they were buried in the middle of the car). Lots of premature optimization went on.
Don't forget burning. Lighting residues on fire after harvest, or running across fields with propane flamers was thing. Propane flaming is still rarely done in our few remaining mint fields. It helps control both diseases, weeds, and spider mites (though that latter we finally have somewhat economic options for predatory beneficial applications)
Founder life is difficult and grinding, make sure you have an outlet - sport, hobbies, family etc.

Also, hire and empower people to take off some of your work and responsibilities. For many years I didn’t have a proper vacation as I was trying to be always available and this is not the healthy way.

If you can, consider hiring a CEO/COO or get a cofounder.
But how do you allocate more capital to more successful people so that you drive effort towards what people need / enjoy the most ? If there's no incentive to do popular music, then we could all do shitty music ?
> For phones you either pay a premium to enter the Apple walled garden or you prostitute your digital life and get spied on by Google

There is also a GNU/Linux option here. Sent from my Librem 5.

> I use Linux, but that's not for the broad masses currently

Unless "broad massses" require some unique MS Office or Photoshop functionality, they can easily switch to Linux. My relatives did and are happy.
Yeah; I believe Yelp is more north America centric. I've heard trip advisor is common in Europe for restaurant reviews.
> And a majority didn't care.

It's a bit hard to gauge the opinion of the masses, but jingoism was prevalent and a popular political stance to have, so I doubt the majority didn't care.

In any case, I didn't say those views were universal - just that they were normal and acceptable to have.
Nonsense, British and French colonialism explicitly had "bringing civilisation to the savages" aspects to it.
they let you do it to get rid of the asshole foreigner who doesn't know the local customs.

waiting your turn, period, is part of Japanese culture.

I get it can be frustrating. especially if your from the USA where increasingly no one waits their turn. Every day I see cars driving down the center lane to pass a few cars and then cutting back in.
Just because the argument is "common" or "uninspired" doesn't make it wrong.

Certainly different "NIMBY" complaints can have differing levels consequences based on whether we're talking about sweeping changes to the skill level of most GA pilots vs. do we build this new apartment building here or not.
Please reconsider..

gvicino has important points regarding the fine structure of collaboration regulation.. he says it's a "belief", which means it could still be open to discussion!

(Imagine, OTOH, if he started with "reason tells me.." :)
But can Bing the default for Edge after this suit? I believe even Edge needs to ask which search engine to be used in the beginning. If that happens, possibly even more non techie's may use Google.
Cybersecurity Expert Finds Another Flaw in Georgia's Voter Portal
Two rights dont make a wrong
In our little IT bubble where 3+ interviews are the norm, it's fine to envy the straightforward hiring in food-service.

Ofc we still got the better deal overall and should only complain in hush tones
Are you familiar with the Pivotal Aero?

https://pivotal.aero/

This unusual aircraft seems to be a move in the right direction, apropos making flight simpler - because its flight dynamics are designed, inherently, to be forgiving to non-trained pilots.. Its landing mode is a function of its wing pitch and air speed, so it will 'automatically' transition from flight to landing modes based on air speed - there is no need on the part of the pilot to get heavily involved in the approach to landing, and so on, beyond the usual 'is it safe to go down there' decision-making process.

I'm curious what you think of the Pivotal Aero Opener concept, and how long you think it might be until similar designs arrive on the scene. It seems to me that the Opener is a bit of a leapfrog ahead of traditional plane design decisions, intended for non-pilot use .. from your perspective, what are the pros'/cons' of the Opener, as a design, and would you consider similar concepts in the future of Airhart Aeronautics?