skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only a very few people possess the level of discernment needed to know how bad your local concert hall's piano is, and precisely how it is bad. If their art dies out, maybe nobody will know how bad all the pianos are. And then we'll all have slightly worse pianos than we would otherwise have. And I mean if that's the way things are going to go, then let's just steer the Earth into the Sun, because what's the point of any of this.

The problem with this line of thinking -- "If X happens then we'll all be cooked!" -- is that it ignores the fact that X already has been happening and yet life is just fine.

There's an infinite number of pursuits in which expert practitioners could theoretically possess a level of discernment so sublime that nobody else can understand it, let alone appreciate it.

A huge number of these arts will either never be practiced, or were practiced in the past but have already decline. And yet there's no mass ennui or clamoring to steer the Earth into the sun.

The pinnacle of human attention cannot be directed at everything, everywhere, all at once. We have to focus our attention on a limited subset of arts and pursuits, where discernment will always be high, and settle everywhere else.
It's an age of demagoguery. Distrust of the press has been curated and weaponized. People have been trained to exercise distrust as a relfex rather than skepticism as a tool. There's always people in these threads virtue signaling distrust and cynicism.
running GPU models and maximizing utilization is pretty opaque to me as a layman coming into the scene.

take this example: https://gist.github.com/sergiotapia/efc9b3f7163ba803a260b481... - running a fairly simple model that takes only 70ms per image pair, but because I have 300 images it becomes a big time sink.

by using ThreadPoolExecutor, I cut that down to about 16 seconds. i wonder if there is a fairly obvious way to truly utlize my beefy L40S GPU! is it MPS? I haven't been successful at even running the MPS daemon on my linux server yet. very opaque for sure!
Nanoparticles-Delivered Circular RNA Strategy as a Novel Antitumor Approach
Oh, I hear you, every fall in Ontario (and now Wisconsin) the sound of gas leaf blowers and that high-pitch whine drives me crazy. I have an electric one to basically clear off the front porch but I feel like even that is noise pollution (much worse than a riding mower to my ears) and so I rake an acre of mixed hardwood next to the house by hand spring and fall and trailer the leaves a half mile up the road to compost.

I'm sure it was hard work, but a farm in the Swiss mountains for a period of time sounds like a life experience!
ha totally forgot about that! what a crazy feature. i wonder if anyone uses it in the wild?
You already are - space is where the Earth is. You are in a very nice and very inhabitable part of it, BTW.
Re. performance - Electric v2 is already faster than alternatives for many kinds of apps (not all). We expect v3 to be so fast that it can express apps that are outright impossible with alternatives. The robotics observability IDE in the talk, for example, as well as Hyperfiddle itself.

Re. server caching – Electric (being reactive) auto memoizes all scopes, even on the server. (The essence of reactive programming is a time/space tradeoff - cache more things to minimize recomputation later.) For example, in the virtual scroll demo from the talk, the database query runs once and is retained in memory, so that scrolling simply indexes over the memoized collection:

(defn window [xs offset limit]
(subvec (vec xs) ; fast cast
(Math/max offset 0)
(Math/min (+ offset limit) (count xs))))

(e/defn Window [query! offset limit]
(e/server
(let [xs ($ e/Offload #(query!))] ; retain and reuse xs as offset changes
[(count xs) (e/diff-by identity (window xs offset limit))])))

Regarding client caching - it's basically the same. Hoist the value you want to save to be above the conditional that is disposing it. If that doesn't work, use an atom.
Not a promising trend unfortunately https://www.google.com/finance/quote/GPRO:NASDAQ?window=MAX
There will always be tension between social safety nets and expansive views of freedom.

If the government provides my healthcare, then it’s in their interest to make sure I don’t smoke and eat right.

If the government provides financial assistance to the poor, then it’s in their interest to make sure it’s not gambled away or spent on drugs and alcohol.

People in Europe seem fine with giving up a bit of freedom in exchange for more social programs. But in America there seems to be a desire to have it all.
> we'd be witnessing mass illness events already

We ARE, it's just that nobody cares (or can figure out why)

50% of men will get cancer. Autoimmune diseases become more prolific over time. Fertility has been spiraling for decades. Mental health issues are on the rise.
You don't need to store the whole QR code, just code to convert an URL into a QR code. Or a good, short URL that can easily be typed, e.g. "microsoft.com/errors/1234"
I thought writing things down, even in a chat, helps a lot with both points?

All this time I've been writing wrong...
> - the two different coin sounds are played when the JIT produced a new chunk of machine code.

... as a thing for a human to listen to, it sounds like a lot is going on. But as an indicator of what's happening inside a VM in 2024, is this surprisingly slow? Especially at the intro, if you were paying close attention, you could manually count these events.
This is super-interesting!

You might be able to get even more information with a stereo signal, use the pan field for something.
I've revised the article to make this clearer. Thanks for pointing out the problem.
There are several query languages that use a pipe syntax. Microsoft’s KQL might be the most well known, having inspired multiple derivatives. I think at least one of those is a SQL extension.
I have seen recommendations to not dual boot with non-obsolete Windows, because its updates would have a high risk of screwing up grub, but instead give that Windows it's own hard drive, and boot it 'manually', by selecting the boot drive at startup in the 'BIOS'. Sounds like that was good advice ?
This looks fantastic and is relevant to some game modding ideas I've had. I love your blog series about decompiling Tenchu too. Thank you for releasing this stuff!
It also appears to ignore the fact that pianos had to be invented. The “best” had to be discovered and learned, and can be learned again in the future, even if the present chain of knowledge dies out. Or, not beholden to the past, future generations might determine/discover a new “best”.
> aren’t those actually bishop-neighbors, not rook-neighbors?

There are 2 grids, so it depends on your frame of reference. The node connections are oriented 90 degrees to the shape of the node in the picture, which means rook neighbors is accurate relative to the nodes. The background is off by 45 degrees, so node connections relative to the background grid are diagonal, or bishop, moves.
> Most of the channels I watch insert ads directly

Those are third party sponsorships done by channel owners, not ads inserted by YT.

> That still means the ads are paying for YouTube to host the videos

Your assertion was related to the channels themselves existing, not YT as a platform. I can agree that the platform probably wouldn't exist without some sort of funding source but that doesn't necessarily need to come from ads.
The core problem, as I see it, is copyright.

Content must be hosted, and hosting costs money. So how is money going to interact with this system?

Copyright answered that question in the worst possible way. Copyright says that the content itself is the object with monetary value. To support that claim, copyright wraps every piece of content in a box, and says, "Whoever made this shall monopolize its value." In reality, only the box itself can actually behave as a discrete commodity, and no one truly creates content alone: all art is derivative, especially written media. Regardless of reality, copyright demands that we all participate in this delusional game.

So now everyone who hosts content is holding commodities. It's naturally advantageous to exploit the value of your commodities (you can reinvest your profit into actual value), so any business that does that will be more successful than the rest. Anyone who refuses to play the game will simply lose (or be prosecuted). So how do you sell forum posts and memes?

You don't. That doesn't make any sense, remember? You don't actually sell the content: you sell the box. You sell the warehouse. You sell the marketplace. This entire game is predicated on monopoly, so what's the most natural implementation? Vertical integration! Facebook and Twitter don't sell social networks: they sell social walls. What are those walls made of? Incompatibility. The best part is: if anyone tries to build a door into your wall, you get to sue them out of existence! It doesn't matter how broken or exploitative your business model is: if it is based on copyright, then it is guaranteed by law to succeed!

So now you own everyone and everything. How do you make money? By selling them to each other. In other words: advertising.

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But wait, there's more! Copyright answered even more questions: How do you stop people from misrepresenting someone else's work as their own? How do you stop people from sharing your secrets? How do you censor abusive material? The answer is to prosecute fraud and abuse, because those are already illegal. Right? Right? No. That would make too much sense. The real answer is copyright.
Why go for a quick 5 min call when an email thread that will need you to context switch 10 times will do? That being said there is a lot of meeting which should be replaced by a email and vice-versa. Also, When there is something you don’t understand properly, coming up with the right question or meeting agenda can be very hard. Finding a common ground is better served by face 2 face communication rather than an email. When a slack thread is getting too long, a quick 5-10min VC often do wonders.
Apple splits App Store team in two, introduces new leadership
Or perhaps a piano tuner, as in the article?

This comment reads as a counterpoint to the title, while it's actually repeating the point of the article.
Cute commit message...
Well, that's a great point: let's concede that you have no control over this. What, exactly, would you have the rest of us do, other than panic?

This kind of "terror" is usually little more than a backdoor way for someone to advance their low-evidence "science" agenda:

"I'm scared of X, therefore all of you must worry about it too, and that means stop doing/using X, and/or do exactly what I say to minimize the impact of X."
> Spend the money, get them home safe, cut off Boeing

Fine them. And then take that fine and your savings from cutting them and use it to help scale a true SpaceX competitor. Every dollar going to Boeing cements SpaceX’s dominance.
Yeah, 100mb has been insufficient for some windows updates for me in the past. New windows installs create a 500mb EFI, but Windows 7/8 created a 100mb EFI and kept it if updated to Windows 10. Unfortunately resizing it is a pain, as the EFI partition is normally before your Windows partition.
> We're left with the consequences of this overestimate mostly in the form of gridlocked renegotiation conversations as the agreement is reworked for the modern resource scenario.

Colorado (the state) is building many new reservoirs to impound water outside of the Colorado River Compact's purview. They're done hoping that California and Arizona will act responsibly, and are now going to be selfish.
Same here. Lots of stress and work for a career that causes me stress only to retire and die.
Cool. I have bought FS, never really played it because I had problems with my joystick (and got sucked back into Civ 5), and I‘m living really close to one of the sights in the trailer.

I think it‘s time to give the tutorial another try!
'It was a bit like a physicist asking, “What if gravity is a bad idea?”' Didn't that just happen in physics this week?
You could say the whole point of art, and mastery in it, is to seek something beyond a "pretty good". The pianist could tell the difference and so could the person tuning the piano. Similar to how you can print a copy of a photograph taken of a master's painting, there is a difference between a "pretty good" and "the best".
I know it's fashionable to use flatpak, Docker, etc. but I'd still rather not have 30 instances of Gtk running for every GUI app I decide to run. Consider that we still run on Raspberry Pi, etc.

> aren’t these shared libraries a supply chain attack vector

Not any more than the apps themselves. If you're downloading a static binary you don't know what's in it. I don't know why anyone trusts half the Docker images that we all download and use. But we do it anyway.
I hate stuff like this.

It's so incredibly brilliant that it spoils me for mainstream tech, but it's never actually "done enough" for mgmt to feel comfortable adopting it in any capacity. (See also: Unison https://www.unison-lang.org/)

Or, you can get them to adopt, but then you hit hiring limitations.

I say this as someone who built a large team of Clojure developers in a Fortune 100 company, and lived to regret it.
I don't know why this is always in the news. %4.45 is still very small.
Linux came out 34 years ago. That's an ion in computer years.
Linux desktop is in too many flavors. MacOS is one MacOS. whatever the latest. Windows 11 is Windows 11. Not many flavors of it.

I feel like Linux people are cheering for a tiny number. They'll take whatever desktop market share they can. 10 years from now maybe it will be 6%. Well... big f*king hurray! Open the champagne bottles!

This is all silly.
A similar story is often told about really old violins.
And to add to the confusion, there is actually "hypoxic water" which is water containing no oxygen and is harmful to marine life.
idk man, maybe people in general happen to like similar things and share them around
The bends are caused by accumulated nitrogen dissolving in tissue\blood. No breathing, means no added nitrogen, so no build up. Also it is a somewhat slow process, no breathing means they aren't under long enough for it to develop even if they had extra nitrogen.

It is a problem caused by Scuba, and the fact that Scuba does what it is supposed to, extend the time you can spend underwater, is what causes the bends.
They did their calculations with a charged scalar field essentially because this stuff is really difficult, and you want to make life as simple as you possibly can. I think there are no obvious obstructions to it working with the electron field, it's just that it would be much more involved to actually calculate everything.

Probably someday someone will do it, but I don't think it's an incredibly interesting thing to do.
Emacs (even on the TTY), can do a decent job of rendering markup using it's built in EWW browser. Works pretty well, at least for most of the content I'm looking for.

Using it with Notmuch or mu4e is not the easiest thing to do, but it works pretty solidly.
Kaplan got into the restaurant business and is currently US ambassador to Singapore.
>I hope your opinion about C#'s task system has improved since the last time[0], given what Gleam (and, in many ways, Elixir) does looks practically identical :)

Well no, not really I'm afraid. My reservation has always been with the codebase birfircation per my previous post. Gleam/BEAM languages, Go, and now Java, don't have async and sync functions. They have one kind of function which can be called either synchronously or asynchronously. The difference is in who decides: the function caller or function implementer. That a sync function can't call an async one amplifies the problem.

I know you dislike the "coloured function" metaphor [0] but for me it's a significant issue. I look at lots of C# and Python code, and see libraries now encumbered with both sync and async function variants (e.g. [1] [2]). That, to me, is a significant downside to async/await as implemented in those languages.

The Gleam example has all the convenience and readability of its C#/Python counterpart - but without the downsides.

I don't doubt you'll disagree :).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39497110

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.strin...

[2] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/async/
The historical 2-tier banking regulation system gap that gift cards fall into
It is indeed possible to reorder the regular folders as well. It's just not a favorites specific feature.
I see.

https://jsfiddle.net/Lah5g3vb/

Changes:

- each col is now 1fr (3 cols, 33% each)

- the child elements align inside the col using `justify-self: start | center | end`
For the right kind of people, it's tremendously satisfying for themselves to rethink and independently rediscover the best solutions. If you hire an industry expert that already knows everything, asking them to design the same things and write the same code again is not satisfying at all.
And if those people stopped for a nanosecond and considered other people, they might come to realization that an IM is not the same as meatspace, and maybe there needs to be some adjustment to an async model.

Also, giving context is good, regardless of medium.
No, their integration of the api in their custom UI is. None of these extensions match the seamlessness.
Exactly. It's kind of amazing, actually. Imagine writing music where you lifted riffs from The Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix, and a dozen other famous rock bands, but just changed the key. You'd get sued into oblivion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_(song)#Lawsuit).

This might also explain why, when more than a generation removed from his target audience, his work started to suffer.
I don't understand why talking about it is treated as panic. I'm certainly not panicing, but it seems to me you're freaking out a bit about this.

I'm not saying you have to do anything. I'm saying that microplastics are prolific, and we don't understand the effects. That's just reality.

Personally, I believe on a political scale we should be reducing our plastic consumption. Because it creates far too much waste.
This is basically a pipe dream. But as long as the subsides are going to Big Green scammers, we will have numerically ignorant journalists peddling this bullshit.
I don’t think this will ever happen. Software Engineering is fairly unique in that our tools are effectively the same thing we create (code).

If carpenters could build saws out of wood, they would probably make their own tools (and many do, for tools that can be made of wood like hand saws).

You generally have to sell goods to people who can’t make them themselves. How often do carpenters buy shelves instead of making them? How often do constructions workers hire someone else to build a shed for them?

I don’t care for closed source editors in general. My editor and its configuration are one of the most important tools I have, and I don’t want to hand someone the ability to remotely disable it. I would rather go back to using plugin-less vim, because I can at least depend on the tool.

JetBrains is probably the only one I would even consider, and I still don’t care for it (and really hate having a separate editor per-language if I don’t have to).
Space travelers for the next several thousand years will yearn for the comforts of Earth (until we create habitats which are as nice)… it’s going to be a rough and tumble frontier for ages
Would this hold up in court as actually "knowing" your customer if you let an AI handle it?
This. By definition, you can't outgrow your customers and yet we continue to see exporting countries try to outgrow their consumer counterparts simply by doubling down on exports rather than transitioning to consumer economies (or worse - trying to supplement exports with bad investments).
Kaplan started The Melt and is now ambassador to Singapore where he has been accused of misconduct. Flip got shut down by Cisco
It's probably type 2 fun. Both of them have families, with one having kids:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_E._Wilmore#Personal_life

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunita_Williams#Personal_life
It can sustain some life.

It can't sustain 40 million people who all want a pool, a grass lawn, freshly-grown fruits/nuts/vegetables, air conditioning, large-scale manufacturing, golf courses, etc.
My kids still use and love my Flip camera
Pretty sure that's by design. You filter them out, they filter you out.
If I may, I meant the synergy of one mathematical mind such as Wolfram's talking about another.-

And, yes, the amount of self-promotion in anything Wolfram related does get in the way somewhat ...
This is very interesting. It calls to mind some advice I heard someone associated with YC (maybe PG?) offer a while ago: (approximately) the best ideas right now are the ones that will become more useful rather than less as AI gets better.

I say that because although it's been about ten years since I worked at a financial institute, this task seems like it must be still barely too complex for AI alone in its present state to match human performance but perhaps within reach if we can soon expect further slight advances in consistency and attention across longer context. Does your experience line up with those suppositions? Or with the high structure/formalization you've mentioned, do you see this as an alternative to all those KYB analysts today?
Not the person you are replying to, but it's not up to me to determine what the best business model is for a company. My "job" with respect to info providers here is to consume what I like on an open protocol. If I find a website that interests me enough, by itself, to subscribe to it then maybe I would. But none of them have, not even any of the big ones. If someone provided a system where I could tip a website for an article or other piece of media I like, I'd do that. But nobody seems to know how to make micro-transactions work that I can see.

So if advertising is unwanted, and subscriptions to individual websites on the internet isn't working either, then maybe they should get more creative.

I had a lot of fun on old forums before this mess started, so if we revert to that so be it.
Changes to the browser choice screen, default apps and app deletion for EU users
> didn't bother

There's no need for this. With a written article this long I wouldn't have expected the video to contain information that wasn't also written out.
This essay resonated with me, speaking about the "mediocrity" of our future relationship with computer assistants.

I loved the paragraph about feeling "scammed" though I would've called it being "faked". The AI doctor can never use the stethoscope around her neck. She is hijacking totems of professionalism to appear more comforting, without the capabilities to back them up. The fake veterinarian can suggest a diagnosis but can't actually treat anyone. The real-estate chatbot cannot try to help a domestic violence victim.

Maybe that's why I interact with AI assistants the same way I interact with psycopaths. I'm comfortable interacting with them in jobs where the law will incentivize them to behave well. But for things like teaching, or medicine, or personal matters, I prefer someone with empathy.
> Or, you can get them to adopt, but then you hit hiring limitations.

Depends on how flexible your "hiring principles" are. You mention you did this at a Fortune 100 company, so obviously you didn't have any flexibility at all. But for the (good) places that allow people to learn on the job, you just need to find a sufficiently smart person who likes to learn, and they'll get up to speed with Clojure relatively quickly, as long as their first reaction when seeing parenthesis isn't "eww".
Postman’s success seems almost inevitable in hindsight. Look at how many tutorials involve curl at some point, and Postman was “curl with a GUI”.
Don’t require a login for a demo and make sure you have a demo. Maddie pricing explicit.

Worry about the look and feel second, but also worry about it