skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that "growth mindset" represents a personal philosophy, not a testable hypothesis, so it would be irrelevant here.

It was entirely reasonable to be skeptical of stereotype thread when the concept was new, a priori, An "unsurprising" result is not necessarily one that someone confidently believed. If I flip a coin, I'm not "surprised" when the result is heads, nor when the result is tails.
> Thus is perpetuates misconceptions about concurrent programming ... it assumes sequential consistency and actually confuses people by reinforcing incorrect assumptions.

That's not quite true. The article explicitly mentions problems with interleaving of instructions between two processes (aka threads) which is the fundamental problem of concurrency. If you consider only a single thread in isolation its program order is always maintained even though compiler optimizations and hardware OOO execution actually execute the instructions in data order.

Consistency Model - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency_model
>it's a seasoned professional

Professional in what? I'm also a professional. Is my opinion not just as valid? Is MKBHD also a professional in this sense?

>who uses both operating systems regularly

I think many people on the planet, including children, can use two or more operating systems regularly and provide opinions on them, it's not a rare skill or something that requires academic degrees. Is their opinion not just as valid?

>while being held to journalistic standards

A lot of events proved that "journalistic standards" mean very little, especially in the modern era of online publications being dependent on click ad-revenue. For example look at the disconnect between critics ratings of movies and audience ratings, or between car reviewers and car owners. Similarly, Microsoft and Apple make OSs for users, not for professional critics or journalists.

It's still just someone's subjective opinion on an OS, not something numerically and logically quantifiable as being the right opinion. It's not like it's a debate with Linus Torvalds on the correct implementation of mutexes.

> I have been absolutely slathered in bile from Apple-haters.

What does this have to do with me? What's with this victimization attitude on people lately? Should I feel guilty or sorry about something some other random people said something mean to you in connection to this topic? It's a conversation between you and me, I don't care about what others did.
The way that my friends have described it.

Neither of them are actively looking, going to events, on apps, etc.

But if an opportunity presents itself with a friend or whatever they have already established that it’s fine.

It’s still open, but it seems the difference is seeking it out vs it just happening.
Do you feel like those two options would cover all possible scenarios for "the state of the field"?
Absolutely agree! I only brought it up because it seems like, in our quest for efficiency, we are rapidly heading for a world where we try to delegate trust to outside entities (like tech companies, megabanks, or far-off government departments in Washington, D.C.) but, fundamentally, what makes financial transactions work (with anything other than physical currency), is actual real trust between parties. This is how the great banking houses of Europe began, it's how remittance networks still work in much of the global south, and its how the Jimmy Stewart-style small town bank once functioned. National banks with lots of local branches are an approximation of this, but the "branches" keep getting less and less bank-like: there is no "president" at the BoA branch inside Kroger, just somebody with a pulse who can technically pass a background check far enough to get bonded. Finally, many of the big banks are just closing these far-flung branches altogether. Bank of America &co. may get many advantages from their enormous scale, but they may be undermining their own foundations in the name of cost savings by trying to cheap out on "customer service" as if banking were just another kind of retailing and trust wasn't central to their entire business.

They probably know this and don't care because it won't happen this quarter or likely even this fiscal year, so it doesn't matter to anyone in charge. But it does matter to ordinary people trying to conduct their lives without being irreversibly de-personed by a flakey customer service bot.
> It was in this context that the city decided to demolish the neighborhood known as Scollay Square and build in its place what would come to be called Government Center.

It’s interesting (and sad) to imagine what Boston could have been like without the damage of urban renewal. These neighborhoods could have easily become the quaint North Ends people love today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End,_Boston

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scollay_Square

It’s also eye opening to realize the extent of their plans that didn’t get done:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_695_(Massachusett...
I guess anything could be a $0 version if you just happen to have all the parts already.
If you're looking for personal value out of attending funerals, there's good evidence for psychological benefits to doing so. Grieving is hard. Humans are evolved to process negative emotions through complex rituals. Funerals are one of the most important rituals because death is extraordinarily traumatic and universal to all humans.

Funerals aren't about saying goodbye to corpses. They're collective, complex rituals that aid the grieving process.
> it’s basically an industry scam to put them into products.

This assertion cannot possibly be correct, regardless of the study
There used to be a neighborhood around it that had architecture similar to what the neighboring North End still has, which is very distinct among the entirety of the Americas. The lack of imagination that existed back then that led to it all being razed to build this and the rest of the garbage of the current West End is stunning.
I'll play along. It's like ordering a beer flight at a bar and they start out with craft beers and 3-4 beers in they start slipping in Natty Lights and Busches.
If a company is going to make bad decisions on installing and applying an LLM, they are also going to make bad decisions on aligning an LLM.

Even if Anthropic learns how to perfectly align their LLM, what will force the lawnmower company to use their perfectly aligned LLM?

“People will just make bad decisions anyway” is not a useful point of view, it’s just an excuse to stop thinking.

If we accept that people and companies can be influenced, then we can talk about what they should or should not do. And clearly the answer here is that companies should understand the shortcomings of LLMs when engineering with them. And not put them in lawnmowers.
Tldraw computer – how does it work? [video]
Steve from tldraw gives a tour of how tldraw.computer handles AI generation on the canvas, including a peek at prompts and models.
The way I wanted to implement this in my turn-based game engine:

If you implement the deterministic update pattern to handle state synchronisation you can add "event" inside the logic that handles updates that pause the processing allowing your animations to be played. In JS, for example:

async function handleUpdate(update) {
if (update.type == "sell-items") {
this.player.inventory[update.itemId] -= 1;

await emitEvent("itemSold");

this.player.money += 10;

await emitEvent("moneyGain");
}
}

Server-side, "emitEvents" would be a no-op. Everything would resolve synchronously.

Client-side, the UI can listen to those events to pause the updating of the game state to see the intermediary state of the game and play animations. When the animation is done, it can resolve the promise, resuming the game updating logic.

If an update arrives while an update is being handled, it can be queued so it can be played after the current update finishes.
Not sure what parent meant, but the right way should be an opml file with the feeds, which the feed reader then can import. But maybe you are offering that already?
I hurt my right wrist on a bike fall, it's long term injury. I found that my left hand is much more compliant with touchpads than mice so I found an old Logitech T650 in second hands.

With solaar on Linux, the thing work flawlessly. On Windowsthe device is not supported by the official firmware so no gesture or click. It's a shame !
You do realize that many, many movies have been edited in various versions of Final Cut Pro on Macs right? Including several Academy Award winners.

Movies like _Parasite_, _The Social Network_, and _300_, to name just a few.

If that's a toy, I'd love to hear what is industrial strength.
> The author argues against untyped code, and for using typescript instead of javascript to get types.

Considering how much of the article was about typing and not specific to JS itself, "Just Say No to Dynamic Typing" would've probably been a better title for readers. It would likely get less clicks, though. :')
Agreed, and even "setting us back" any amount of time is still insanely far from the complete collapse and loss of society and language and it's all totally unrecoverable and we have to start over .... are people really this pessimistic that this just seems like a thing that could happen anytime?
If you don't mind me asking, how many are you starting with now?

Because three is a lot. And if you're starting from 0 or 1 today, I can't imagine you actually want six.
So what you are saying is, they are working for exposure?
See my comment above.

Although colleagues have earnestly described why they like GNOME, and demonstrated it, all I see is people who don't know how to use the existing, 35+ year old keyboard UI of Windows, or the simpler and only a few years younger one of NeXTstep/macOS.

I can't stand GNOME myself. It doesn't get out of my way. It wastes a tonne of precious vertical space on its wasted panel. Its app-switcher is poor. Its window management is atrocious, but then, I've met with and interviewed the dev team, and they don't manage windows. They switch between full-screen sessions instead. I'm looking at twin 27" screens right now, and I want to see 5 or 6 apps at once. GNOME obstructs that massively.

But it's trivial to configure macOS to be as minimal as GNOME. Dock to autohide, cmd+space for the app launcher, trackpad gestures to hop between full-screen apps. It's not how I work or want to, but it's easily achieved.
Either you misread something or I communicated poorly.
I'm sure this attitude has absolutely nothing to do with how poorly these interactions go. There is a certain irony in your generalizations...
I always think of the building (and brutalist architecture in general) as absurdist architecture, and I find City Hall to be quite humorous in that light.

The general shape lifts up and is trying to appear as if it's floating, in contrast to the material selection. Think of an Elephant ballerina, or Douglas Adams "It hung in the air in exactly the way bricks don't".

Another example is the Holman government building a few blocks away - with these ridiculous stairways through a massive open space underneath an imposing bridge of offices.

Pure absurdist humor.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/KUFh9jFkERjhp7MK9
Eating McDonalds is just too high a price in the first place. Adding a penny? Even worse.
I didn't take it in college. Never needed it in my swe career. I am the norm.
I'm very disappointed in people flagging everyone that disagrees with me. What is the point of even coming on here if you won't have a discussion with people you disagree with, but want to censor their ability to participate? Echo chambers are useless for everyone.
Canada's retaliation for Trump tariffs is biggest concern, says Japan's Komatsu
The modern gay lifestyle harkens directly back to Jewish communities at the time of Christ, almost completely unchanged. Yet Jesus never condemned them.
I think the iPad is the current outlier of that strategy. There's the iPad, iPad Mini, iPad Air, and iPad Pro, with overlapping sizes. It's too much differentiation I think.
> I’m not hearing any silence or indifference.

not really listening, then
It wasn't a hot wallet, he had taken a photo of his seed and then left it in Google photos.

So your conclusion is sound but your premise is invalid.
My understanding is that they had a programmable card. This might have been just before chips became widespread in America. Or, maybe there's still a way to withdraw with only the information visible on the card.
You can downvote it.

Many hackernews readers have pretty diverse interests though, and want to hear about both tech and general social issues.
Any time I bring this up to people it's immediately shot down with "but it goes against the spirit of the license, and/or the developer's wishes, or is somehow otherwise unethical."

And at that point you basically can't disagree without looking like a ghoul.
If you read on the news that a sealed cave with ancient symbols of death and destruction had been discovered in the New Mexico desert, what's the first thing you'd expect us to do?

There is no defense against human curiosity :)
That would be a great submission on its own!
It's a game of complexity management, in the end there were two strategies
- C# -> Absorb the creativity of chip designers in bytecode.
- C++ -> Absorb the creativity of chip designers in template code.
Some of these are "costs" which reduce costs elsewhere.

Smart meters for example, though rollout has hit snags and they've become targets for weird conspiracy theories, they are basically designed to give better real time info on electricity demand which helps with managing the grid.

This in theory should save money elsewhere.

Similarly for CfD. Yes the government may on net be paying a subsidy to get wind power built but what was the next best option? If that costs more than the CfD then that's a win.
Customer feedback chaos: how to please everyone?
If the plutonium core was removed, as indicated in the blog, why was the impact crater radioactive?
I've never been too sure how closely he's reading those papers he refers to in his informational vids; if he actually discovered a flaw himself from reading one that is highly indicative he's doing a good job!
There are no conditions where the war would end tomorrow.
That's a great achievement, but could be stated in a more clear way.

Not 'As of lunchtime' but 'At precisely lunch time'. An hour later it wasn't 50% anymore, and it won't be 50% except at noon for a long time yet. As of the moment I am posting this, solar is 0% and coal is 80%. If Australia cares about global warming they should build nuclear plants and stop generating 70% of their overall power from coal.

It's still remarkable how much solar is growing and I hope it's 100% 24/7 soon!
I've been using Authy for around ten years now, so I lost the game a decade ago and the consequences have been nothing and the benefits have been something. Not a bad loss IMHO.
Ah, sorry, that makes perfect sense. Not yet, but I plan to implement this soon.
> The era of 4-digit Mac names was such a mess...

Same goes for a lot of other products. For example CPUs, GPUs, TVs and fridges.

Sometimes appliance names are nearly impenetrable.
Spotify doesn't decide what I listen to at all but I use it almost daily. Listen to albums and audiobooks.

How does Spotify decide what you listen to? Does Amazon _decide_ what you buy on their website too?
29p / kWh doesn't hold a candle to PG&E costs in the San Francisco Bay Area.

It's ironic that it's quite a bit cheaper to use natural gas here, since we're supposed to convert to electricity to save the planet.
No, I know our legal system quite well. You are wrong.

The reason for this is so that if you buy a bicycle at, say, a bicycle fair and for a reasonable price, you shouldn’t have to worry about it being yoinked from under you later on.

Lawmakers have clarified this is choosing between two evils, there is no winning proposition here.

So, in conclusion: the original owner needs to file the claim, not the third party.
Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting Covid, flu and mpox shots
It's also not new. You've been able to get low cost filler music for literally decades. I used to have a bunch of CD's of "filler" synth music and cheap covers I picked up as a broke teenager back in the 80's...
I had the same issue in AGoT:BG and I solved it by representing the state of the game as a tree. At any point of the game, the current game state is a leaf of the tree.

You'd represent this kind of choice as a child node. When the user has made their choice, the code can return to the parent node with the choice being made so it can continue with the next "step" of the game.
These results are meaningless, Waymo only drives in controlled, good weather, urban streets, while the human control group does not. This is not science, this is PR. We need independent investigations.

And remember that currently, self-driving cars in California are exempt from traffic tickets : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/04/self-driv...

We learned that the hard way with Boeing, you cannot trust a company to self-regulate their safety standards. But with Musk in power, the legislation might encourage them to do so.
I would say it's tragic, not ironic.
Considering "Customer aquisition" as a cost is really funny (and that seems to be the "soft cost" discussed).

In Minnesota the "deal" for solar if you cannot DIY / off-grid is just meh.

They do not allow use of battery backups or cutover, they cut out when the power goes out, and they "credit" you to reduce your overall bill. You can make money if you produce more power in sunny warm times than you use year around (at least while you are the only one!), but the dream of energy independence at a local scale just isn't there yet.

What I want is something that offsets my grid use (potentially to zero but not negative), so that I can use grid or solar to charge my EV and a whole-home battery bank with three days reserve. I don't care about becoming part of the overall grid solution, but in city limits, it appears I must, and that necessitates extra equipment and rules out my backup use case.

And yet, I get constant calls and fliers about it - all "soft costs" - no matter how much I say no.
Now you're sounding all pie in the sky. The cold hard reality is that hedge funds and billionaires control most power utilities and lobby governments to keep the cash flowing.

We know for certain that pricing is going to get really bad in CA due to a 2022 law that permits PG&E and other utilities to charge large connection fees based on your income (will probably hit in 2026).

I would gladly be the counterparty to any wager that 20 years from now electricity is going to be cheaper.
I'd love a "Code" component where you could enter arbitrary code. After following the tutorials I asked myself "What would I like to make?" And I imagined a tweet-bot - grab headlines from Wiki news (or somewhere), combine with an instruction to generate text and another couple instructions to generate an image, post to twitter (or bluesky).

This seems easy enough if I have a code component that could execute arbitrary code. I could just write a couple small component (take API key, text, post to twitter/search wikinews) and add them to the workflow. If the components I needed were generalizable I could share them on some kind of community repository - so the next person who needed a "Post to twitter" component wouldn't even need to rewrite it.
You might not be as autonomous as you think. Behavior in this area is mostly driven by instinct and emotion. People just rationalize their actions later.
Those highly-constrained environments are actually the ones that scare me most. There are people and everywhere -- crossing the street, coming out of parking spaces, changing lanes, stopping suddenly. There are signs everywhere, and I'm terrified of missing one, especially since I'm having to keep an eye on all of those other things.

Highways are so much easier. Everybody just wants to go straight. They do change lanes, but they usually know it's coming well before.
If you don't mind me asking, is there any particular reason you're not using Bun to bundle it?
They just don't understand the arrogance they exude.

"We are on the path to ruin. I have foreseen it. You are all blind sheep."

Bitch, humanity is fine. Get over yourself.
Thank you very much! :-)

It is very much a thing of modern times to be lectured on, for instance, desktop design, when I am fairly confident I've used more different desktop environments than the person accusing me is even aware exists.

(I would estimate I've used 35-40 different desktops across over a dozen or more GUI OSes. The first I owned myself was an Acorn Archimedes with RISC OS 2, an environment far weirder than any hardcore Linux advocate could even imagine… a default editor with two separate independently-navigable cursors (source and destination), three mouse buttons all heavily used, and no permanently on-screen menus of any kind (only context menus).

Ah well. So it goes.
HN hug of death - “Internal Server Error”
I think it depends on what we consider "meaningless".

Is it "meaningless" that I hang out with friends on a Friday night? We didn't really accomplish anything except for possibly growing our relationships.

I think when myself and many people say we have "meaningless" sex it just means that beyond that particular moment, it doesn't have any other purpose. (beyond maybe its with a friend and it does the same as going out for drinks and just grows a relationship).

It was fun in the moment, but thats it. It is the same as going out for drinks, playing a game, or any other activity that I engage with friends with. Of course it's not truly "meaningless" or we wouldn't be doing it since we wouldn't be enjoying it. But it doesn't have to go deeper than that.
They've done some testing in Buffalo NY, which gets more snow than pretty much anywhere in Canada.

The hard part about self-driving is dealing with / predicting the behaviour of humans. That's something that humans are good at and robots are bad at. And SF has more weird human behaviour than anywhere in Canada.

Predicting the behaviour of vehicles in snow is something computers are much better at than humans. Solving the sensor problem for driving in rain/snow also seems like a standard tech problem where vehicles can quickly become much better at than humans who are limited to mark 1 eyeball.
Similar, in the US "knowingly" receiving stolen property is a crime.
He can't play pretend wordpress.org is run by a group of volunteers, given how he has demonstrated ultimate decision power over it.
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson "proved" an application of this theory back in ~2009 [1]. He was a the time promoting Full Tilt and commited to turn $1 dollar bankroll to $10000 by applying a basic strategy of never using more than a low % of his bankroll into one tournament or cash game session.

So, if one's skill would turn your session probability to +EV, by limiting your losses and using the fact that in poker the strongest hands or better tourney positions would give you a huge ROI, it would be just a matter of time and discipline to get to a good bankroll.

Just remember that for the better part of this challenge he was averaging US$ 0.14/hour, and it took more than 9 months.

[1] https://www.thehendonmob.com/poker_tips/starting_from_zero_b...
The cost of bailing out owners of burnt down homes in Paradise, CA worth $0 for $700k is rolled into every San Francisco PG&E bill.
Someone in a TV show that you're watching?
Why AI language models choke on too much text
I've had customers tell me that they cannot use email verification to meet a 2FA compliance requirement because it's not a second factor, but somehow SMS is. I always push back with "why not just good old TOTP" and the answer is that it's too easy for a customer to lose because it is only on their device. Like yeah... that's what makes it a real second factor.