skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't believe they hype. Startups come from all over. You need to demonstrate a sound understanding of your product and your pathway. You need to have other people on board and believing in you. You probably do not need to hire two programmers at market rates and rent GPUs. You need partners. And don't be afraid to cut others in on the deal.

A lot of great stuff is coming from Poland and Czech Republic - hard workers, smart people and low cost of living. You will have to sacrifice something in the early days.
Kotlin became the language of Android, not because it was new, but because multiple company's studied it and devs were more productive in the language after a relatively short on ramping period, many cases a weekend to get familiar and less than a month to be more productive.

Java was stagnating on Android as well and Kotlin was able to introduce a lot of modern features far more quickly. The only argument to keep with Java is that Java actually seems to be chasing after some of the gains Kotlin made.
The same question I asked (that was me after using Zoom for 3+ years).
Without a deeper analysis, that’s an argument to scuttle our missile subs, too.

I mean, it’s an argument to be had, but the advantages of a dominant multi-modal nuclear arsenal go beyond binary assurance of mutual destruction in total war—today.

You’re the Chinese premiere in 2030 or 2040 choosing whether to try to match US strategic capability. How many chips that requires in the pot for a call makes a difference in that calculation.
True in Elixir too
I once heard Pat Hanrahan (who among other things was involved in some of the early realistic hair rendering work) claim that L'Oréal funded some of that work, exactly because they were interested in what the models said about the (control of) appearance of real hair.
Impressive numbers at a glance but that boils down to ~140qps which is between one and two orders of magnitude below what you'd expect a normal MySQL node typically would serve. Obviously average execution time is mostly a function of the complexity of the query but based on Uber's business I can't really see what sort of non-normative queries they'd run at volume (e.g. for their customer facing apps). Uber's infra runs on Amazon AWS afaik and even taking some level of volume discount into account they're burning many millions of USD on some combination of overcapacity or suboptimal querying/caching strategies.
Which crypto Bill Ackman is trying to dump on retail?
The challenge with A/B experiments is how you design them to have sufficient power and draw a meaningful conclusion out of them. So, you either need a big % difference between the test and the control, or you need a big number of samples. LLM apps usually don’t meet either of those two criteria. Have you ran into this with your users?
Merriam-Webster says:

> as in lunatic
a person who lacks good sense or judgment

Not marked as rude or profane.
Perhaps.

Or perhaps it was meant to specify that they, themselves, might have been presumed to be an outlier who would think it was a good idea, but who has in fact come to think that is a bad idea.

Examples of this kind of counter-presumptive use of the word "even":

1: On animals and the weather: "It was so cold that even polar bears were suffering from frostbite and frozen digits."

2: On politics, where one's general stance is well-known and who who might be rationally presumed to be a supporter of a particular thing: "Even I think that this issue is a total non-starter."

Even if they may have meant something else, that doesn't mean that they didn't intend for the words to be taken non-literally.
Other poster pointed out that the base foam glass tech was invented in the 1930s

So actually it would be more like

"""
...and in 2096, the team shipped a frontend using an all-new JavaScript framework called Foo, first used in Norway in the late 2050s..."""
In Buddhism this is linked to the central concept of Dependent Origination: things arise in dependence on other things, everything is conditioned by something else.

This includes movements of attention: attention is drawn to a sound perception because a frog makes a sound, then conditioned on interest being high interest dwindles, conditioned on that plus nerves shooting in the back a sensation catches the attention, it goes to a thought of planning that appears conditioned on you having a deadline tomorrow...

Even the arising of intention to move the hand arises at that moment conditioned on other things (that include you playing around with your perception a moment ago, pre-existing view around how decision work and wanting to prove it, having a hand...)

Looking for conditionality in everything we might identify with - thoughts, perceptions, intention... - is a central practice in numerous schools of Early Buddhism, and can lead to a deep, deep sense of letting go, inhabiting a flow of things "just unfolding", and classical insights around what our sense of self actually is.
Didn't realize they had people living on the Tiangong already, seems for quite a while now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBhrq6TuSa0
It seems that gifted people with zero trainig are just as good in this activity as people with years of formal training on average who self-selected to undergo that training. I'm not sure if that's true of any other activity.
True, but in most cases, the owner started as a successful, lone plumber.
I would say they are there. Sure, they're having some burn through on the flaps, but they managed to hit their virtual landing spot anyways, and if they caught a slightly damaged ship they could study that damage better, repair it, and refurbish the ship.

But I imagine that by IFT6 they'll have nailed the flap burn through problem.
You may be right, but tell it to the Strategic Air Command:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_USAF_Bomb_Wings_and_Wi...
This seems like those bums who run out and smear up your windshield at stop lights who then want to be paid.

If you want to get paid for software development, start a business and sell to customers, or get a job. The number of "developer in residence" positions is approximately zero. If you want to get paid for scratching whatever itch you have, good luck.
There are plenty of "newer" technologies that closely mimic more "boring" tech too. For example, Svelte feels a lot like writing vanilla HTML and JS, Supabase is all built entirely on PostGRES instead of a shiny, noSQL database.
Looks interesting, thanks for sharing!

The abstract for the curious:

> Permacomputing is a nascent concept and a community of prac-
tice centred around design principles that embrace limits and con-
straints as a positive thing in computational culture, and on creativ-
ity with scarce computational resources. As a result, permacomput-
ing aims to provide a countervoice to digital practices that promote
maximisation, hyper-consumption and waste. It seeks to encourage
practices as an applied critique of contemporary computer tech-
nology that privileges maximalist aesthetics where more pixels,
more frame rate, more computation and more power equals more
potential at any cost and without any consequences. We believe
that such a critical practice can be relevant to artists, designers and
cultural practitioners working with computer and network tech-
nology who are interested in engaging with environmental issues.
This is particularly relevant given the tendency in art, design and
cultural production to rely on tools and techniques designed to
maximise productivity and mass consumption.
In this paper, we argue for the potential of permacomputing as a
rich framework for exploring creative design constraints building
on a long history of applying constraints in art, design and cultural
practices. Because of the need to reconfigure the modes of produc-
tion and organisation within computational practices, this calls for
a different understanding of aesthetics, one that goes beyond the
formal evaluation of how things look, but addresses how aesthetics
can also be systems of relations, sensing and making sense that
are already present in the process of making. We will also discuss
the challenges faced by permacomputing practitioners, such as the
complicated link with retro-computing, post-digital culture and
nostalgia, as well as the problem of constraints in relation to the
aesthetisation of poverty, and more generally what it means to
work with self-imposed limits in a more privileged socioeconomic
context.
Hot take, but ime, a lot of developers who are hyper-luddites tend to not be good developers or developers who didn't/don't want to try to upskill.

This doesn't mean that you always need to use the newest and flashiest tool (eg. Bash+Awk preprocessing can still be faster than using multiple different packages), but you should still be aware and understand how to make those tradeoffs.

You choose your stack based on your problem statement, and as a business that requires taking both Engineering and Business considerations into account.
So cannabis taxes are so high the illegal marijuana market is destroying the legal one?
One of Advaita’s (nonduality) pointers is to observe one’s choices and find this independent/free will we believe we have.

I’ve watched my choices for about a decade now and have not been able to find anything like independent choice.

Everything I observe is dependent on something else (genetics, conditioning, environment, external or internal event), or a manifestation of a preference, currently active desire, emotion, thought or need.

Once I noticed that these are all spontaneous or predetermined I can no longer see the concept of “free will” as anything but an unpacked box containing a bunch of phenomena.

Another pointer of Advaita is that our brains tend to hold a view of a free will universe, or a pre-determined universe - which is a limit of the mind not the universe itself :)
Hmm, is there OCaml equivalent of Haskell's `succ`[1], which is inplemented for all sum types deriving `Enum`?

It would simplify these two functions to just `succ` and `pred`

[1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.20.0.1/docs/GHC-E...
Anything more to these allegations than there was last time?

Or is this yet another chapter of someone's envy resorting to character assassination instead of finding contentment in their own work?

If these people succeeded in their apparent goal of making RMS less popular, do they think the world will love them for it? Why aint they signing their name?
Yes. There are many Jewish lending organizations designed around the principle that loaning money to establish a new business is the highest form of charity (see Maimonides 8 levels of giving). For example, there is a 127-year-old organization based in San Francisco that offers loans up to $50,000. The expectation is once someone establishes themselves they will contribute back to the lending organization. The workaround to halachic rules of interest that is applied in Israeli banking is equity co-ownership where the lender is paid back for their ownership shares at an established interest rate; the term for this is called “heter iska.”
Their entire setup seems somewhat suspect. I can't think of any technical justification for needing 21k instances for their type of business.
Brookhaven's Computing Center Reaches 300 Petabytes of Stored Data
How would that technically work? A film editor clearly wants to edit their recordings in Premiere or Final Cut or perform color operations. You can't do that on DRM encrypted movies. This comment makes no sense as it implies that movies are recorded in one take and then the output is a DRM encrypted container that is submitted to Apple.
My preferred solution for that would be a VNC server (so that it shares the whole screen) installed in a VM.
Having the capacity to hold & deliver live warheads doesn’t mean it’s exercising that capability today.

Anyway this is all incredibly speculative. Nobody knows the real strategic purposes of this thing.
>Is it still allowed to build your own house in the US?

Yes, but you're at the mercy of the discretion of and have to pay rent (metaphorically) to potentially a ton more parties than you would have 100yr ago. You're gonna need several (local, but perhaps 1-2 state depending on situation) government inspections all of which may involve having to track down some licensed professional and then pay them a fee for inspecting your work.

I think in a "normal" case you can expect to shell out for electrical, plumbing, sewer/septic, HVAC, plans/engineering, environmental BS depending on distance to regulated stuff (wetlands usually) inspections and sign offs. There's probably one or two things I'm forgetting and perhaps one or two can be omitted on a case by case basis. A bunch of municipalities are gonna add their own BS on top of "the usual" stuff, like permits for tree cutting, permits for a construction dumpster and whatnot.

And keep in mind, some of these parties are likely to go out of their way to try and f you one way or another and/or give you the runaround until you go away because they don't want to deal with homeowners, they want to deal with businesses.

Also worth nothing that some municipalities expect strict goose stepping compliance. Some really DGAF what individuals engaged in noncommercial development (i.e. building your own house with the intent to live in it) and so long as you're not building rickety garbage they would rather you just not call them until it's done (though obviously they can't say that).
I stayed at this B&B in Idaho. Owner said it was a Sears home.

https://imgur.com/a/Njdxacs
https://go.dev/tour/methods/16
use mariadb instead of mysql.
Walkcast – An Infinite Podcast
If you have one big company with 10 bad drivers, you'll get a much worse impression of it than 100 companies each with one bad driver.
> hot water tanks should be purged yearly (to get rid of the debris collecting on the bottom)

Note that this is only the case if you have been doing this already from when it was new. It isn't necessarily a great idea to try to purge on an older water tank since the valve can start to leak if you open it and it hasn't been used in a long time.
Thanks for confirming this. With your reply in mind I think there is no reasonable way to make BFS the default for a logic language, and the programmer will just have to choose between BFS and DFS.

In other words, the answer to TFA's title question is, I think, "no" as to backtracking/DFS.
I'm not really sure how you expected the mantra of use mature technologies that are stable, mostly unchanging, and have staying power could have turned out any other way. React Hooks which required a partial rewrite for every code base happened in React 16-17 which was in 2020. This is neither a boring or stable technology to build a business on. This doesn't mean it's bad but it doesn't survive the "I can pick the code up after a few years and get it up to date with minimal effort" test.

Write boring code is about going down paths that are well troddened enough that they paved a sidewalk which isn't going anywhere any time soon. Most of the frontend world can't even conceive of an LTS release right now.

I genuinely don't understand the author, choosing boring technology is about making choices so that that platform on which you stand is rock-solid. It's easier to exercise fun, creativity, and new ideas on such a platform because there aren't any sharp edges and you can start pushing a technology. The examples with introducing Kotlin or Python/PL seemingly aren't motivated by anything other than "they're new." What problem are they solving and do you have that problem?
Indeed, and all of the good startups are incorporated in the US. I work in this area (PL, SK, CZ, HU). Definitely don't incorporate here if you can avoid it, it's so much trouble that can be avoided by simply going elsewhere.
This is truly an amazing feat! Congratulations to the SpaceX team.

Can someone explain to me exactly WHY it's such a big deal though? Like subjectively I can see it's incredible but while watching the video there were enormous applauses at points I knew were a big deal but I lacked the understanding of physics to truly appreciate.
Casio made a furry robot designed to cuddle and calm you down
Well of course producing your own wood would be cheaper than paying market rate. Lumber growers are a business too, they grow where it’s cheap and ship to market that pays best. A local guy not getting it for a discount isn’t incestuous, it’s capitalism working as intended.
First they leaked your data, now they trying to calm you down. It's almooost like a toxic relationship.
Thanks, for some reason I never stumbled upon this. Very valuable, I am bookmarking it.
Perhaps a dumb question, but wouldn't we expect the rise in ocean temperatures to be cause nature to be doing this selective breeding right now?
It may also be that the video feed is delayed (e.g. due to compression) relative to the telemetry.
Yes, I'd go with the zero hope option too.

> Nation states are also well aware of the power of software and won’t ignore it like they did before.

In 2020, DARPA instituted the CyberSocial project. One of its goals was to find ways to identify code introduced maliciously (for lulz, patriotism, or profit) to OSS projects where the intention of that code is to create or exploit vulnerabilities.

There's a decent, accessible discussion of the issues at

https://www.ifri.org/en/studies/software-power-economic-and-...
I'd love to see this idea expanded into various branches of math and science and various other languages.

I remember the moment I learned that phi and theta were used by both mathematicians and physicists for rotational components of a spherical coordinates system, but that their roles are switched:

math: theta=polar phi=azimuthal
physics: phi=polar theta=azimuthal

It felt like there should be a place for that kind of knowledge. I'm all for violating convention with purpose, but so often we violate convention because we don't know any better. That's just needless complexity.
I would argue that using JSON in embedded, especially on ESP32, is another no-go. I'd wage that using a binary format and later on, after you're out of ESP32, convert it to JSON would be a bigger performance gain than the evangelic tone of this article vis-a-vis of Rust.
This may be a small complaint overall but these kits are all ugly as sin, especially compared to the timeless Sears houses.
Nice, I hadn't seen the gadgetbridge support PR before, will be good for a lot of people I think
But it seems that progress requires innovation, and some innovations will fail while others will succeed, driving the "evolution" of technology a la survival of the fittest. Ideally anyways, as just with real evolution "fittest" doesn't always line up with our human perception of "best".
I can save you a bit of market research and tell you that’s unfortunately not the case yet in the market today. There are a few reasons for it - the main one in my opinion being that it’s hard to measure the value vs cost of switching to an open LLM, so it’s generally perceived as same/lower value, higher cost (not in terms of inference, but in terms of overhead). What is considered however are cost saving options around the foundational models: going for the mini models, prompt caching, batch inference etc. Some tooling in that area might be interesting.
That's kind solves, isn't it? Create interfaces for the components (DBs, Queues, etc) and let the users decide.
12 kHz AM on a good receiver sounds absolutely fantastic.

I have a Royal 51/810 (one of each) that I use as a travel/bathroom radio, ironically, both have fantastic AM performance, and.. lacking FM - the IF/Audio bandwidth appears twice as wide on AM, and FM just sounds like crunchy - probably needs caps in the audio section, but its so tightly packed, and has a PCB with the heaviest plating I've ever seen - which means it needs work I cannot easily do.
Thats like your opinion man. I personally don't want to pay for gluttony via my tax dollars. I don't care about smokers, junkies, or gambling addicts. If people want to donate to some ozempic fund, by all means.

And, motorcycles require special insurance, as does high-risk recreational sports like climbing. If you drive/commute to work, thats factored into your premiums. If you get hit by a car jaywalking, that is usually on you. Those examples have nothing to do with the prospect of tax-funded anti-fat pills.
We do this. We deploy on commit to main and use the commit SHA for versioning. So squash merges makes it easier to know which commit caused a bug or bisect. This work well for our PR based workflows. If required the PR can be used as reference for un-squashed commits.
AFAIK the 8.0 release is one where Oracle breaks compatibility. So anyone considering MariaDB needs to switch before going to 8.0, otherwise switching will be much more painful.
I've read most of the report and it's got a lot more than "last time". Speaking as someone who has done a lot of my own research on Stallman's bullshit, the depth of this report is astonishing. The allegations it makes regarding the conduct of the rest of the FSF is particularly alarming.

I think you should at least skim it before you comment.
This article is the very first link on his homepage, under "well, i have some thoughts"
Didn’t some version of an Apple operating system have CR as a line ending?
> good exists on both sides of the coin

No, not really. Some sides of the coin are just bad.

I get very frustrated at this "tribal thinking" notion that I hear a lot these days. It's not bad to have values and then at least try to stick to those values.

If someone doesn't like something they shouldn't be forced to endure it. I see this with so-called "cancel culture" too. It's not a cancel culture if you say something offensive and people stop listening. They're not trying to hurt you, that's not their intention. They just didn't like it so instead they go listen/watch something they DO like. That's predictable.

I mean, what's the end goal here? I use a product I don't even like just for the fun of it? Really? But I don't even like it...

After Chick-fil-a openly and vehemently opposed gay marriage in 2015 (and after!), I stopped eating there. And guess what? I don't miss it. I'm not worse off, at all. If anything, I'm better off, because the food is unhealthy anyway. Boom, it's that easy.
We have 100000s tables per database (1000s of those) (think sensor/iot data with some magic sauce that 0 of our competitors offer) that are heavy on the changes. And yes, maybe it's the wrong tool (is it though if it works without hickups?) for the job (but migrating would be severe so we would only attempt that if we are 100% sure it will work and if the endresult would be cheaper; remember; we are talking decades here, not a startup), but mysql has been taking this without any issues for decades with us (including the rapid growth of the past decade) now while far smaller setups with postgres have been really painful and all because of vacuum. We were postgres in 1999 when we ran many millions of records through it, but that was when we could do a full vacuum at night without anyone noticing. The internet grew a little bit, so that's not possible anymore. Vacuum improved too like everyone says here, and i'm not spreading the gospel or whatever; just fans (... what other word is there) blindly stating it can do loads 'now' they never considered is, well weird.