skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you commingle development and customer resources? A k8s cluster is just a control plane, that specifically controls where things are running, and if you specify they can’t share resources, that’s the end of that.

If you say they share the same control plane is commingling… then what do you think a cloud console is? And if you are using different accounts there… then I hope you are using dedicated resources for absolutely everything in prod (can’t imagine what you’d pay for dedicated s3, sqs) because god forbid those two accounts end up on the same machine. Heh, you are probably violating compliance and didn’t even know it!

Sigh. I digress.
> What is it about implicit code that makes you feel it's more readable?

It's more readable when I don't care about the implicit parts at the moment. It's less readable when I do. The key thing is, whether or not I care changes from task to task, or even within the task, possibly many times per day.

The problem with our current paradigm is that we want to work on a shared plaintext artifact (codebase), and we want it to simultaneously:

1) Express everything there is about the program;

2) Be easy to read and understand and modify by humans;

3) Be the same for everyone at all times - a shared single source of truth.

"Success path" logic, error handling, logging, async/await, authentication, etc. are all cross-cutting concerns. Now, 1) means we're forced to include all of them in code simultaneously, but this goes against 2). Like, when I'm trying to understand the overall logic of some business process, then error handling and async/await are irrelevant. They're pure noise. Yet 1) forces me to look and think about them at all times.

So the issue is, 2) is best achieved when you can "filter out" concerns you don't care about at a given moment, and operate on such simplified view of code. But 1) and 3) requires us to spell the all out, everywhere, at all times. The way this is mitigated today, is through ever more complex syntax and advanced mathematical trickery. Like your async/await keywords, or the IO monad. They're ways of compressing some concerns (or classes of concerns) into terse notation, but that comes at the cost of increased complexity and mental demand, too (I mean, explain to me what a monad is, again? :)). I believe that at this point, all modern languages are hitting the Pareto frontier of readability, so whether you use $whatever-routines instead of async, or result types instead of exceptions, it's all just making some cases more readable, at the expense of other cases.

In the same category of problems is also another "holy war": lots of small functions, vs. fewer big ones. There is no right answer here, because it depends on what your goal as a reader is at the moment - e.g. understanding the idea expressed by some logic may benefit from small functions, but debugging it often benefits from the opposite. This is, again, a faux problem, created by our tooling and insistence on the "shared plaintext single source of truth" paradigm.

Compare with code folding in IDEs. It's a view feature that lets you hide blocks of code - like loop bodies, classes, or function definitions - that you don't care about at the moment. Now imagine a similar feature existed, that would let you "fold away" error handling entirely. Or "fold away" the try/catch blocks, or all the mess of dealing with Result types. Or fold away logging. Or async/await. This is the solution we need - the ability to view the shared code through various lenses. Sacrificing 3) lets us get both 1) and 2) at the same time.

It's way better than what we do now, which is precommitting to relative importance of various cross-cutting concerns, by encoding them in how easy or hard they're to write in a given language.
I don't live in malaria country, but yes, absolutely. While we are at it, something just like this for Lyme disease and TBE would be the icing on the cake.
you think there's ... less risk with genetically modifying a species to die out?
Well it's either solidify revenue stream or likely go out of business. And what's a reputation if there's no business to attach it to?
More explicitly: Chebyshev polynomials are what you get when you take trigonometric polynomials for a periodic interval or Laurent polynomials on the unit complex circle and project onto a diameter of the circle.
It’s like the trolley problem but one side of the track is clear. But the concept is now so deeply engrained that some people still object to the idea of pulling the lever.
> Nothing in the challenge says anything about doing universal compression

Because it’s out of context. It also makes the winner seem more sympathetic, which is why it’s not accident it’s not provided. It’s the Missing, Missing Reason.
I believe it’s mostly aesthetic as gamers don’t want to sit in a regular office chair. Even Herman Miller makes gamer chairs now.
Maybe. The 7-8 workplaces I've been to have been remarkably homogeneous with very few people sticking out in any way. All-male teams or teams where most people were the same age. If one goes by what they do rather than what they say then being average is a very desirable trait. And I think people hide their peculiarities.
That's true with a separate work phone too right? And once I turn off the AWP for the day, all of that stops.
Generate video sprites using just FFmpeg
I like the way it's phrased in an old quote:

"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."
Niche Languages
Found this article with examples of before and after: https://pramodkumbhar.com/2024/01/c-reduce-systematically-ta...

But still having trouble understanding how it knows WHAT to remove when trying each iteration. There must be some tokenization going on, but then I don't know how that would work across programming languages
ShowUI: One Vision-Language-Action Model for GUI Visual Agent
In that case, not sure what books but I can suggest going to look at the architecture centres of the major clouds, they’ll have patterns for specific problems or workload types. That should help you with what good looks like
This sounds like a good case for an allowlist for certain applications - Camera, Spotify, Notes, etc.
Yeah, “bugs are so painful that I suppress the memory” is not someone I want to hire. I want people who get excited when you bring them a weird bug, and who have a depth of experience to bring in when debugging gets hard.
Maybe not mosquitos, but the US maintains a screwworm wall that keeps them from eating anyone anything north of Panama.
Do you know the extent of injecting modified parasites on the human population?

And yes, many places have eradicated mosquitos with no shift in the ecosystem.

It's pretty much the one creature that all animals would love to have eradicated or at the very least mitigated.
Leaving it at work goes one step further than my flow. I have AWP configured to automatically turn off at the end of the workday, so I become unavailable after that. There's always the possibility I can turn it back on after hours, but that extra step works well enough as a deterrent for me :)
If "keeping up with the Joneses" aka "getting ahead of the Vasquezes" is what makes us happy, we're just an unfortunate species. It's not going to be easy to say how much is nature and how much is nurture.

> The paradox is also that within a country, happiness tends to increase as individuals become wealthier relative to others.

Does this describe the current state of the world? We don't seem very happy.
Privacy Is Not Just About You
> I finally realized the author was talking about people. Apparently it was a thing to send long computations to a room/building full of people and get the answer back.

s/people/women/g

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/history-human-...
Hey Claude, help me analyze Bluesky data
This is the full, unedited transcript of our conversation with Claude, whose context-awareness is provided by a v0 Tinybird MCP Server.
It seems to me the people here think it's a good idea because they know they won't be dropped on them, they'll be dropped in other countries.

The countries they live in are malaria free because they eradicated the disease-carrying mosquitos and developed their healthcare system.

Developing the healthcare system of a country helps with more diseases and keeps consent. It also doesn't open you up for a potential biological weapon if some entity decided to misuse it (Russia, CIA, etc.)
You Have Built an Erlang
They _don't_ trust you to do that stuff. Not unilaterally at least. In a healthy system you generally aren't able to change anything without sign off from multiple other people.
It generates textures yes.... but some of these outputs you might as well be showing the user a magenta-and-black placeholder texture
Meanwhile in the Tesla factory, workers are controlling its self-assembling cars.
I glanced at the code. It seems to have multiple possible "passes" which reduce the code in various ways, and the passes here not tagged with "C"=>1 are used in the not-c mode recommended in the post.

https://github.com/csmith-project/creduce/blob/31e855e290970...

You can see the pass implementation in files on the left.
It's the same story over and over again. Nobody gets fired for choosing AWS or Azure. Clueless managers and resume driven developers, a terrible combination.
The good thing is that this leaves a lot of room for improvement for small companies, who can out compete larger ones by just not making those dumb choices.
I don't think "selective" is really the right way to think about it. The people who wrote Tornado Cash remain in federal custody for money laundering, which I'm pretty confident they'll be convicted of. And anyone who uses the service to do money laundering would presumably be prosecuted as well, if the government can find them. Coinbase has just identified a regulatory loophole to prevent the service from being shut down.

(Is it possible to use Tornado Cash just for privacy? Sure, I guess, but I'm skeptical that many people do. The pooling mechanism makes it inconvenient to use for ordinary purposes with the pretty explicit purpose of helping money launderers.)
That is a solution, but not an ideal one for many (most?). One of the great innovations of the smartphone is that I have all 3 devices in one small form factor, so I don't need to carry/travel with the bulk of many.
As someone else said, if the reward was a million dollars then this becomes a game theory problem.

If you have $100 in disposable income it might be worth the lark if the officiant is uncareful with their chosen text. Though odds are good he pulled it from random.org. That’s where we used to send people.
Needing Google occasionally is understandable but keeping it to a minimum and as disconnected as possible from core business functionality, and as replaceable as possible if things go sideways with its brainless algorithms, is absolutely doable.

Please, enough justification for why almost anyone generally "needs" Google.

For example:

>B2B and go to a conference? Where are you putting your video demo reels/talks? YouTube

Really? Simply no alternatives exist? I guess Vimeo is just a curious internet legend.

>Your B2B client wants you to provide your SaaS via a private endpoint on GCP? What else are you going to do than use GCP?

So explain to the client why you prefer not to use Google, but if they insist, then keep it specific to them and avoid it for anything generally essential to your business. You state this as if nearly a dozen alternatives to Google Cloud don't exist.

>Then once you are on it on company computers, it's a short walk to Google Docs and then Google Workspace, etc.

Don't take that short walk then, take another one instead.

The point is that alternative solutions do usually exist and even where Google becomes unavoidable, it absolutely shouldn't mean having to fully embrace its services.
I wonder how much of this padding is for the next flight and due to all the other services needing to get a plane going like luggage, food services, fueling, deicing etc. The past two years have been a mess, but it doesn't always seem to be the flight crew or the plane itself. I've been on dirty planes, stuck at the gate due to no one to clear us from the gate. So much more outside of the airlines direct control is a mess too.
Yes, we've been doing it for awhile in the US.

Thailand has also done it with great success.
In this case, I use a script to spin up another production cluster, perform my changes, and send some traffic to it. If everything looks good, we shift over all traffic to the new cluster and shutdown the old one. Easy peasy. Have you turned your pets into cattle only to create a pet ranch?
Those professing unpopular beliefs and belonging to unpopular religions were the very first 'protected class' listed in the constitution.

Not really a 'class' though, since the protection applies to everybody.
I like the htmy method that an object can render itself, neat idea. But the extra classes for rows etc seems too bureaucratic.
Myths and Urban Legends About Dual-Socket Servers
Istio is not a k8s orchestration layer though
you can find a balance here by setting on bedtime mode in Android where after sunset, your screen glows black and white and they added the ability to pause for 30 minutes.
Creduce is awesome.

I used a test script that spent hours using CSmith to generate random test programs when developing an esoteric llvm target. When they crashed it automatically Creduced and left them for inspection. Invaluable!
And in particular, I'm always curious -- how much of what we know of cuneiform is just because using clay tablets made examples more likely to survive to the present day? You can kind of imagine there being a soft temporal horizon for different kinds materials and artifacts -- far enough in the past, there are some kinds of things we should expect probably can't be discovered. If the people at Gobleki Tepe (or any other really old site) were writing by making marks on leaves or tree bark, we probably never know right?
The Plastic Industry's Battle to Win over Hearts and Minds
Thanks for giving it a test drive!

I'm thinking also about adding an option to have like 50% chance of a popup or a 75% chance, so it's less predictable. I first made it as every 2nd, 3d and so on, but maybe adding a randomness to it will be better? WDYT?
> The extent and magnitude of health disparities in the USA are truly alarming. In a country with the wealth and resources of the USA, it is intolerable that so many are living in conditions and with health outcomes akin to those of an entirely different country.

This is what happens when the prevailing attitude of adults in the country is still one that believes bootstrapping is an option available to everyone here, combined with a federal government that behaves otherwise and absolutely prioritizes capitalist strength over the wellbeing of the overall populace.
https://archive.is/yErkR
Better solution: add in increasing delay before opening a time waster, increasing 1 second between each open over the course of the day. Openning Reddit for the 15th time today? 15 second wait (or longer).
Is that not the same thing as being a true believer? I am a true believer (although the title is reductive to the point that you might as well just say cryptobro, it has the same connotations) partly because crypto enables transactions that governments need not approve of. A belief that a permissionless financial system is a positive thing is a big part of what makes someone a crypto 'true believer' I would think.
if you ask hacker news about the impacts lets say, technology on children plenty of hear hear.

But when you ask hacker news, if the quadrivalent nasal virus mist engineered to only replicate in colder environments, who, for some reason, de-attenuate when mingling with wild type strains .. and you simply point out there’s no control group because there’s only one planet and viruses are global. The down vote is the common response.

But regarding this article, will the quadrivalent flu mist vaccine will be trivalent next year?
after the whole Stable Diffusion 1.4 fiasco I think most genAI trainers removed artist names from their datasets
2016 Macbook Pro - was a total lemon with 3 keyboards, 2 screens and a logic board needing replacement. All handled under Apple Care but I was without the machine for a total of about 2 months across all those repairs. Even after repair, the keyboard was an abomination to type on.
Seems like HN is having fun with it, not sure I want a 4-year-old coloring any of these:

- https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/multiple-africa...

- https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/a-penis-cm406l5...

- https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/beutiful-girl-i...

- https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/bloody-inhumane...

- https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/the-body-of-a-b...

- https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/the-torso-of-a-...
I did not say the hadith have the same purity as the Quran, that being an argument with nebulous and undefined terms, we don't know what "purity" means here.

Rather I said it has similar methods of transmission, that being oral transmission. The same groups of people who transmitted ahadith also transmitted the Quran. Doubting their transmission in one instance puts doubt on the other. Yes hadith have been forged but there is a whole science developed and employed to grade their veracity, the veracity of which if rejected, especially in the case of mass transmission also rejects the veracity of Quranic transmission which is a tawatur (mass) transmission.

> although the interpretations of the Quran do not have any guarantees either.

Then that applies to your own interpretations as well. Quran 49:13 contradicts your broad understanding of the meaning of sects as does the concept of 'ummah' which appears 6 times in the Quran. Distinctions among human beings is ordained from above and thus distinctions alone cannot constitute error which is what I am reading from your understanding of what sects mean.

I don't understand what the point of making that argument is, putting the Sunnis and Shiis at odds with each other and then invoking the term Sufi. Your assessment doesn't add up, with all due respect, unless your claim is that your Sufism is the one true Islam. That just goes back to reinforcing sects.

Moreover, Sufism historically developed within the framework of Sunni Islam, with most major turuq operating within Sunni legal schools and their founders being prominent Sunni scholars. So invoking Sufism as somehow transcending or negating these divisions misunderstands its historical development and position within Islamic tradition.

And for the record, I am initiated with a Sufi tariqa.
> But an across-the-board price increase hardly seems fair. Those abiding by Walmart’s rules are being asked to make up for a shortfall that is entirely the fault of suit-stealing rule breakers. Honest shoppers who don’t generally like to use invisible suits will be particularly furious — and who can blame them? They are being asked to pay more for the goods they hold dear in order to support the use of a single product they never cared for much anyway.

The generic form of this argument is that you put a tax on stealing in general. But we already have that; it's the laws against stealing (or tax evasion).

Obviously you can still be caught for tax evasion even if you're using cash. The counterparty can report you and the IRS pays rewards for that sort of thing. Law enforcement can notice that you're living in a mansion and have six cars while reporting no income and investigate how you're paying for it. Moreover, that puts the cost on the people actually evading taxes, instead of on all the innocent people using the anonymous payment method. And isn't the point here supposed to be to not impose costs on innocent people, and to deter tax evasion rather than deterring privacy?

Also notice that even the proposed system already exists. If you have digital money in a bank you get interest (CD rates currently ~5% APY), if you have cash in a mattress you don't. But people using cash to evade taxes don't have to stick it in a mattress anyway; they can just spend it immediately, which is what they already do because of the existing incentives.
Alright, now go ask all of your neighbors if they want a genetically modified parasite injected into them. If everyone is okay with it, then proceed.
I'm at a very explosive part of Akira in my life. Feels right.
Is it the pay or the organization of the work?

Can you pay people enough for the hassle of not sleeping in your own bed most weeks? Or can you organize a system where trucks are driven in shifts but face delays changing drivers?
This… sounds remarkably like the problems kubernetes solves.
Sony Confirms the Playstation 2 Has Sold over 160M Consoles Worldwide
Presumably useful in a multicomputer environment with a printer shared across the network, such as an office?
Pushing the Boundaries of Streamlit
using pre-commit with a hook to prevent secrets from being committed provides a bit more help preventing this mistake. Nor full-proof because you could always commit say a base64 encoded .env file.
Spacevim? Emacs bindings in vim? Heresy!

Spacemacs defaults to vim bindings and it's easily my favorite editor, while saving you from (some of) the endless config tweaking.
Healthy 80 year olds need FIT tests
I always built PCs with the largest diameter fans possible - not sure why so many things come with tiny fans. Loads more airflow with less noise and even if they do spin up fast the noise they make is much more pleasant.
When "quickly" means downloading 242mb of runtime, running it slower than native, on top of the document you want to preview...
> Google Docs' Writer (or whatever they call it) is a terrible child's toy, just like Word of Office 365

I'd believe the vast majority of the user base has never noticed anything off with these applications. I have noticed one or two things missing in the in-browser PowerPoint and that's about it. If you want to do precise publication layout, Word (and Writer) are not the appropriate tools - you'll need something like InDesign.
> daily use for over 30 years

However that doesn't imply TVs were that reliable.

Before the 90s TV repairman was a regular job, and TVs often needed occasional expensive servicing. I remember a local TV repair place in the 90s which serviced "old" TVs.
> The frustrating thing is that it's so close to the functional features that Rust embraced (mainly that everything is an expression),

Dart has had a challenging history. Most of the original designers of the language have moved on to other things. They had a very conservative vision for the language, basically a 50/50 blend of Java/JavaScript. Pretty close to TypeScript but with a much simpler type system and less nice JS interop.

That's not really what the world seems to want today, so the current language team is trying to evolve the language into something more modern. But doing that while being sensitive to minimizing user breakage and migration cost is a really hard problem.

We've been able to make a lot of progress: sound type system, non-nullable types, pattern matching, etc. But some stuff is a lot harder. I think most of us on the language team would prefer type annotations on the right like "var x: int", but that's a huge migration cost for relatively little value. Likewise, having everything be an expression would be really nice but is also a really difficult change to make.
I'd count the environmental reviews and community approval measures that are used by NIMBYs to torpedo projects broadly in with planning. One of the reasons that this guy advocates for buses (in addition to being cheap and effective), is that they aren't vulnerable to the same types of legal attacks that big construction projects are.
Hi, this is great feedback, thank you so much! I love your idea with showing which way the position will shift, will definitely consider adding it to the tool.
As for the scales, any suggestions which ones I should add next?