skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I actually took dopamine reducing drugs for more than 20 years and I do know from personal experience how these drugs mess up people's lives.

I mean — and I don't mean to be harsh here — if you have ADHD and Depression, of course dopamine-reducing drugs messed up your life. The issue with ADHD is (generally) insufficient dopamine with unusual dopamine release that leads to peaks and troughs in the dopamine response. Even a cursory amount of knowledge here makes it easy to conclude that dopamine reducing drugs will obviously make things worse.
Fair, but it also reinforces the stereotype that the pro-SQL types are obstinate relics yelling at the youngsters to "Get off my lawn!"

There's a pattern of "We can't change X, so we'll write Y that transpiles down to X". It happens often with closed source tools and others that can't or won't implement new languages. Verilog, SQL, Javascript, all fit that bill.

E.g. Why is Javascript the only first class language for the browser? For the longest time JS was the only game in town.
Every time you write documentation, consider if it would be less time and energy to fix the problem you're describing instead of apologizing for it.

Philosophical differences between your code and a library you're using are a good example of when you explain rather than fix. But if it's just two chunks of your own code it might just be faster in the long run to make the problem go away instead of having to explain repeatedly why it's there at random intervals. People underestimate the cost of interruptions, and load up their future with self-imposed interruptions.
I think meta and facebook before it have always valued a very high standard of engineering, and have also been generally pretty good about open sourcing a lot of that work in a way that allows a lot of people to work with their tools. This doesn’t seem all that out of character.
What about 1 developer developing something for commercial use ?
Amusing, given that the Internet Archive and the Wordpress Foundation are both major non-profits whose mission has been jeopardized by executives picking fights.
Probably not until after PRC troops land in Taiwan.
Yes, you can put Zig code in a separate file.
HTTP/2 in-depth server design
Thanks! I upvoted you but forgot to reply. Those are as interesting as I thought they'd be.
>No you just need your residence card...

>no appointment bullshit, no proof of residency asked)

Your residence card IS your proof of residency in Japan, hence the name. It even has your most up-to-date residence printed on the back.
How open should Stripe be?
Only big companies can handle these changes because of economies of scale. (Small companies can’t compete on cost).

If you can figure out how to bring automation to small restaurants, they can compete. Until then, these changes just slowly close small restaurants over many years that are less efficient.
Off topic question: I'm wondering why you shared this link when the article is on a website that doesn't have a paywall and is big enough that it's not at risk of HN traffic being an effective ddos the way smaller websites can be affected. Just being helpful in case someone in the future finds this thread and the original link is dead?
It's Elixir's[1] equivalent of a Foreign Function Interface.

1. More accurately, NIFs sre BEAM's take on FFI functions, and Elixir is a BEAM language.
I used to play this in high school. Great work you did. And I hope things turn out well for you.
I feel dumber for having read that.
My brain has sufficient glucose otherwise I literally couldn't function and there would be other problems caused by the cell's inability to access the large amount of glucose.

In fact, we have a term of that exact disease — diabetes. You're talking about a book that misdescribes diabetes as ADHD, and then purports to cure ADHD with diabetes cures!
Please reply to this then :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41940213

Genuine question. I want to use Docker for local dev loop but speed puts me off. I typically use it for "ready to push" tests.
I don’t think there’s need to have such strict requirements. No need to invent a whole new paradigm, you can go with the usual ones as long as it works well. More often than not the domain is not that complex or flexible to require a language, it may only requires a few algorithms (libraries) ie even if you do invent a language, few programs will be built with it. You may as well tweak an existing language for a nicer DX
Beggar's belief that you're being downvoted here when this is entirely medically correct information about ADHD. Cripes.
This is called "greasing the groove" by some OG fitness gurus. It's the only way to break plateaus I know of.
Ask HN: Who is hacking Internet Archive?
apparently a "pro-Palestinian" group SN_BlackMeta claimed responsibility for the attack. SN_BlackMeta has previously been linked to an attack against a Middle Eastern financial institution earlier this year, and a security firm has linked it to a pro-Palestinian hacktivist movement. but what does this have to do with the Internet Archive? and even if it's not SN_BlackMeta, what's the angle? i can't imagine any citizen being opposed to one of the only sources of truth on the internet.

there's also, as always, some chatter about Big Tech or Big Govt. the question remains open. who is hacking Internet Archive, and what do they want?
On mobile Chrome in portrait mode at least, you can't hide the toolbar and have the teleprompter play at the same time. Pressing play hides the option to hide the toolbar, and if you hide the toolbar there is no way to hit play. But hiding the toolbar would make the playing teleprompter much more visible
I'm worried the need for growth will start to hurt what's otherwise still a good place. On the "Discover" feed there's an occasional carousel of accounts you're suggested to follow and being unable to turn that off is the first thing that's started to make it feel like the bad parts of the Twitter user experience.
No the price would not have been bid up. The state enacted a price floor, distinctly overruling the market clearing wage.

When two employers pay differently, the better workers leave the lower paying one. The higher paying one has their choice of workers. The lower paying one ends up either lower quality workers.

Compare Costco to Walmart worker quality in the same area. They have the same labor pool. Costco gets better quality workers by paying for them.
This seems to be written by someone who has no idea of what they are talking about. Propagation of significant digits over algebraic operations is a solved problem. Adding more digits than the minimum necessary significant digits does not get you anything extra. Literally the first class in Physics 101 courses teaches this.
> Naming or visual code structure was never a problem in my career so far.

Either you're the high verbal skill person on the project and you haven't noticed yet that everyone keeps coming to you to name things, you're in a pocket of devs with high verbal skills so you don't see problems, or you're in an echo chamber where everyone is equally bad and you don't know what 'good' looks like.

There's literally a programmer joke about how hard naming things is. If you don't understand a programmer joke you should probably pull on that thread real hard to figure out why.
My issue with that is that absolutely NOTHING will ever convince me that returning error codes is a better idea than throwing exceptions. And that you seem to be using 'expected' in some weird cargo-culty sense of the word. An invalid user name is an error, not an expected case.
> Suing someone into oblivion for an error that has never manifested as a serious failure and that is exceedingly unlikely to manifest is a little excessive.

I appreciate your point of view. The air travel industry is undeniably safe, moreso than any transportation system ever. By a large margin. On the other hand, it is possible to make software systems that do not have the defects described in the article. So how do we get to the place where we choose to build systems that behave correctly? I don't think we get there without severe penalties for failure.
Thanks - this is exactly what I need especially the widget which displays nearby upcoming trains and buses on the home screen.
Not really: the difference is that "lower standard" housing of the same age simply doesn't exist in the US. You want a small, 20-30 year old apartment in a decent building with small elevators and everything is maintained well and isn't broken, and you don't want roommates, and at an affordable price for you on your non-tech job paycheck? You can't have that in a decent American city; it doesn't exist. It's either some very expensive "luxury" apartment (where stuff is still broken, but hey, it has granite countertops and new appliances that'll break down in a year!) where you'll need roommates, or some nasty shithole (where you'll probably still need a rooomate).
It is. Modern high-efficiency single stage air-source heat pumps will only have a COP of between 2-2.2 in -20°c/-4°F, so your 500W heat pump would output 1000W-1200W of heat.

However at 0°C/32°F this bumps to 3.5-3.8, so you'd be getting much closer to the quoted 2000W.

If you're operating in -20°C or below for much of the year a heat pump might not be the best option, but even in Yellowknife that's only three months of the year and it's still twice the heat per kW.

I guess it's a concern if you live in Norilsk?
you're probably right that the country would collapse. people could hardly handle masking in public for a year, it's hard to believe they could last more than a couple months with world war two rations.

we lack the ability to make sacrifices for the communal good.
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Things will get much more stupid in a few years when we have to maintain all this LLM-generated garbage code.
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/docs/documents/1117/cop_h...
Voice, image generation and that's about it.

Anthropic is a million times better overall, IMO.
Those are "grills". If you want to bake stuff, you can get real ovens, but they're fairly small, and not built into the apartment, and usually combined with a microwave oven. Any decent appliance store sells them for around 30,000 yen. You're not going to cook a turkey in it, but if you want to bake a small cake it's perfect.
> Short-circuit evaluation allows us to simplify conditional statements by using logical operators.

Simple is not the same thing as understandable.

They lost me entirely here.
Which is why I prefer only being able to opt-in to late-binding where it makes sense: implementations that are late-bound in have to at least satisfy the type checker. Also, depending on environment, some sort of metadata may indicate to future readers/maintainers that late-binding is happening.
I guarantee you they have created "unrecaptured expenses" making it shitty.
Username does not check out.

Jokes aside... I'm certainly part of the intended audience: point me at an interesting rabbit hole, and there I gooo.
When I put a hack in place as a workaround for a bug in a dependency, I always link the ticket for the dependency in the PR and the commit comment. If the code looks like someone held a gun to my head or I was on drugs when I wrote it, I'll also put it inline in a comment above the workaround.

Not only to explain why this stupid code is here, but to give the next person permission to delete it if the bug has been fixed upstream and we have pulled the new version down.
After reading this, I was interested to see how Intel is doing with their 2nm process. It turns out that they've shelved 2nm and moving ahead with 1.8nm (18 Angstroms, hence the "18A" name). This would be really great for Intel and the US.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-18a-pa...
Probably CSGuard/HLGuard. It had a popular wallhack-block feature that was using a lot of CPU.
> rip people off

I pay 99 cents/month for a well integrated system that has never lost my data.

What alternatives provide that convenient service?

Yes, I could buy a giant HD. No I do not want to run a backup service.
What's Igalia business model like? They're not an outsourcing company, are they?
I quit social media, but the problem is that in the modern dating world a lot of people care whether you have an Instagram and that sort of thing. I truly hate social media, but I find myself considering remaking it just to improve my dating life. It's kind of a depressing situation, to be honest.
https://github.com/acbits/reftrack-plugin

I wrote a compiler extension just for this issue since there wasn't any.
I don’t know about your particular use case, but it is never a bad idea to learn Prolog.

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog

The Power of Prolog is an extremely in depth, comprehensive introduction that starts right from fundamentals, and goes into some pretty advanced topics. It’s a really great resource, with well-produced accompanying videos, and leans into properly grokking the language and the “Prolog way” of problem solving.

I’d make a meta point that learning Prolog and forcing yourself to solve problems the “prolog way” serves as a great exercise in understanding the importance of using the right tool for the job, and working with, rather than in spite of , your tools.
I do feel a bit bad for them. Putting so much work into a project only to have it cloned a week or two after they released it to much bigger fanfare (I'd never even heard of Threes up until this point but everyone I knew was goofing around on 2048 when it came out) has got to be soul crushing.

But at the same time, this should really be a learning lesson to everyone- if your game or idea is simple enough to clone that someone can "rip it off" with a week of effort, you'd better damn well make sure your original excels in something that can't be cloned quite so quickly. Or not spend so much time working on it. Having only played 2048 and seeing how relatively polished and pleasing the presentation of it was for a so-called week of effort, I find it a bit baffling that it took the Threes team a year of work.
The progressing is the information density we can carry across a medium.

Pretty much all of them have followed the same pattern:

Text, images, audio, video, and maybe hologram as the end goal.

We are getting the same with AI today.
Truly the GOAT. Love the username, love cyphers ;) So glad you liked the Ubik Studio!
The same customers who might now have jobs instead of seeing them shipped offshore?

The purpose of an economy is not to increase shareholder value when the majority of the shares are held by .1% of the population.
> There is no historical record of when or how the lion arrived in Venice, but it was already installed atop the column in St. Mark’s Square by the time Marco Polo returned from China in 1295.

Venice had trade agreements with the Mongol empire for decades prior to that. It’s not hard to imagine that the Mongols took it from China and traded it to Venetian merchants.
Tesla got $300million for battery swapping and $1 billion for a Buffalo solar plant. Many other billions total with federal and Nevada, Texas. And various state incentive programs.

Their partner Panasonic is a keiretsu and I think has gotten billions in EV battery related subsidies overall.

BYD I think is similar order of magnitude to the two partners combined.
Something not said, but China often lets others do the expensive R&D
If you have to keep making new accounts to spread your transphobia, at what point do you reconsider your positions?
James Cameron on AI, robotics, and ethics [video]
Tap anywhere to play pause
Interesting! Although it'd (presumably) only be useful for the 787, short of heavy modification to existing aircraft. Even the Airbus A350, an aircraft from the same era, uses a traditional bleed system. If planes continue down the bleedless route I can see it happening.
I've heard that the stairs in castles all spiral the same direction so the disadvantage from being higher up on the steps is counterbalanced by having more space to swing your sword arm without blunting it on walls or the steps. Or at least if you're right-handed.
oooh that was your creation. it makes (barely, I'm stupid) sense now
My wife switched to remote during covid times and never went back. I recently calculated she freed around 800 hours a year. Some of it went back into working longer though. And removed the need for dry laundry, and for buying new clothing and accessories on a regular basis. Meals cooked at home and time for regular exercise are also a healthy bonus. All of her colleagues and meetings are remote so doesn’t affect performance. We still don’t plan to have children though.
Well, moderation is very hard. I guess in an ideal world people would be able to upvote/downvote based solely on the quality of the comment, and flag for moderation when they genuinely think a comment is unacceptable. In such a world, your polite "nah it sucks" would still be downvoted (because it's neither insightful nor pleasant for Lichess supporters, let's be honest) but it would not disappear; it would just appear at the bottom of the list and you wouldn't know how many people disagreed with you. But that's not how it is, so your comment looks like it got moderated when actually I genuinely believe it just got downvoted by many people.

Now I would not compare this to Nazism or call it "true evil". Try to pick someone randomly in the street, go talk to them and politely explain why you find them unattractive (e.g. "I just would like to say that anyone finding you attractive would have pretty low standards"). Would you call it Nazism if they asked you to leave them alone?
Visual book notes: Atomic Habits
Hard agree. Nearly nothing outside your real personal life is so important it can't be learnt about tomorrow, or next week.

There are exceptions; if you have a flight booked that day and didn't learn about the Crowdstrike thing till you got there, that'll be a problem, but it would've been a problem regardless of your immediate knowledge of it.
The title is deliberately provocative but if I'm reading this article right it seems to push an argument that I've made for ages in the context of my own business, and which I think - as the article itself suggests - actually represents the best practice from before the age of ChatGPT, to wit: have lots of ML models, each of which does some very specific thing well, and wire them up, wherever it makes sense to do so, piping the results from one into the input of another. The article is a fan of doing this with language models specifically - and, of course, in natural language-heavy contexts these ML models will most or all be language models - but the same basic premise applies to ML more generally and, as far as I am aware, this is how it used to be done in commercial applications before everyone started blindly trying to make ChatGPT do everything.

I recently discovered BERTopic, a Python library that bundles a five-step pipeline of now pretty old (relatively) NLP approaches in a way that is very similar to how we were already doing it, now wrapped in a nice handy one-liner. I think it's a great exemplar of the approach that will probably emerge from the hype storm on top.

(Disclaimer: I am not an AI expert and will defer to real data/stats nerds on this.)
U.S. Consumer Watchdog Cautions Businesses on Surveillance of Workers
It's always champing at the bit
What's changed, though, really? I quit[0] social media near the end of 2019, and it greatly improved my mental health and life. While I haven't tried some of the newer options, I've kept up with new developments in the space. Nothing about the "new" social media platforms makes them at all attractive for me to take a second look and join back up.

If anything, things are worse. It's even more "algorithmic" and engagement-focused, continuing to promote outrage culture. Platforms like TikTok have turned addictive endless scrolling into a science. I know a few people who spend a significant number of hours of their days on TikTok and Twitter (ahem, sorry, "X"), and it just kinda makes me sad. (And I probably spend more time than is healthy on HN.)

[0] I still have my Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts, but I don't post to them anymore, and I'm signed out of them on all my devices (and I've deleted the mobile apps). I don't allow myself to ever sign in on mobile. Once every 6 months or so I'll sign into Facebook for some specific purpose (like looking up someone's contact information when it's for some reason not stored in any of my usual places). Out of curiosity I'll scroll down the feed, and it's just kinda crap. Stuff from people I don't actually follow, stuff from people I do follow but is kinda boring, and interestingly the feed is dominated by the same 15 or so people (even though I'd amassed a little over 1k "friends" before I quit). I limit myself to no more than five minutes, and I don't post, comment, or even like anything.

The last time I signed into Instagram (probably two or three years ago), the experience was awful. I remember when it was just a reverse-chronological feed of the people I follow (and only the people I follow). But now (well, 2-3 years ago) the majority of items in my feed are either ads or promoted/reshared posts from people I don't follow at all. Stuff from people I follow is maybe one out of every five or six items. And it's all out of order, so I'd see something that someone posted a week ago, followed by, 20 items later, something that they posted a couple days ago. It's a shame; 2012 Instagram was such a beautiful platform.

So while yes, this article is now 8 years old, I don't think anything has changed for the better. The fundamental problems are still there, and have only gotten worse.
Very nice. I didn't even know we (New Zealand) had that many quakes over that time, I thought it was closer to 10,000.
> What kind of American exceptionalism is that?

This is emotional manipulation and not an argument.

> There are countries significantly more democratic and happy than USA.

Red herring. None of those countries are near the size of the USA. Policies and governance systems are not scale-invariant, and there are many naive ideas that sound good on paper (and may work for small groups of people and/or short timescales) but do not stablely scale to 100 million+ people.
> Cave paintings came before writing. Woodcuts came before the printing press.

Toddlers also learn to recognize drawing and to be able to do simple drawing themselves way before they learn to read or to write.

Image definitely predates text.
And still quite a useful tool, particularly when exploring undocumented instructions.
I always prefer having loadBooks than “select * from books” everywhere. I prefer my code to be just the language version of how I would write an explanation if you ask me one specific question. Not for DRY, but for quick scanning and only diving into details when needed
There are no middle class to upper middle class condominiums in the urban areas of any US city?

Families settling down in a decent 3 or 4 bedroom condo is rarer in the US than Canada, but it can’t possibly be zero.
Wait till you find out where the mossad HQ is located!
No, Vision in this case is a brute force way for the AI to interact with our current world because we designed the interface for human vision. In the future, AI creates the UI and their control will be low level most likely at the model level as even business logic+UI will be generated live.
If you're a Jetbrains user, they have their AppCode IDE.
How We Built the Prettiest Auto-Generated Transit Maps (2016)
Would that be an improvement, though? Do you really want a relationship with someone who cares if you have an active Instagram account? Feels like a great filter (heh) to weed out the chaff.

(If you're just casually dating around / looking for hookups, then sure, do what you think you need to do.)
Section 6 seems to propose adding essentially every Rust feature to C++? Am I reading that right? Why would someone use this new proposed C++-with-Rust-annotations in place of just Rust?
AFAIK it's hard enough to develop the cheats that you need to pay for subscriptions to use them