skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no killer app, as in a reason to add it to your tech stack.

The closest I've come across was trying to maintain an ejabberd cluster and add some custom extensions.

Between mnesia and the learning curve of the language itself, it was not fun.

There are also no popular syntax-alikes. There is no massive corporation pushing Erlang either directly or indirectly through success. Supposedly Erlang breeds success but it's referred to as a "secret" weapon because no one big is pushing it.

Erlang seems neat but it feels like you need to take a leap of faith and businesses are risk averse.
That's a fair point. Akka did go pretty far, this is pretty neat: https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka-core/current/typed/intera...
> Germans enjoy comprehensive public transportation infrastructure, universal healthcare without administrative bloat

Tell me you have never lived in Germany without telling me...
It sucks and especially the abruptness, but I find it hard to muster sympathy. Google employees receive some of the highest renumeration in the industry. Combined with the prestige of Google on his resume he'll land back on his feet in no time.
> sizecoding as an artform

See you at Revision next week? :)
Features in the software world do sell, and they're cheap up to a point. But then complexity and technical debt lead to the hockey stick explosion of cost.
Microsoft is shutting down Skype, trapping money without refunds
Well done. That was tricky and fun.
Ok, but if we want to repeal it there's a defined process for that. The president doesn't just get to declare people's citizenship invalid, that's Nazi shit. That's why I call Trump and everyone who tacitly or explicitly supports him a Nazi. He's trying to rule by executive fiat to enforce white nationalism.
And the 2nd amendment was for an armed milita to protect the country.
> Right, but "distaste" isn't grounds for trying to ban something

I disagree. There are many laws on the books codifying social distastes. They keep your local vice squad busy.
The whole idea behind right to forget is that people don't live their entire lives under condemnation for something they stopped doing. You can debate whether or not permanent ostracism is effective as a deterrent, but let's not ban the removal of gang tattoos.
Talk about a bad faith response. No counter data presented. Just deny and distract.

Here's collaborating trends for the same calendar year:

https://www.feedingamerica.org/research/charitable-food-assi...

Feeding America estimates more than 50 million people received charitable food assistance sometime in 2023

I'm guessing you'll respond that charities that feed people have a vested interest and are not to be trusted... (yes, I'm aware of cases of charities committing fraud; no there is no evidence that is the norm). Probably again without presenting data to support your assertion that there are no Americans who go hungry.

I'm curious what actually obtainable data you would accept as a counterfactual to your statement/belief?
The median 65 year old has 200k in retirement savings. That's 8k per year at a 4% safe withdrawal rate. Hardly worth 40 years of work.

> A meager retirement is not appealing to most 18 year olds.

The option of shacking up with some buds and playing videophones all day will be utterly irresistible for many (if not most) male high school grads. Basically the college experience, for free, forever.
Websockets work great, don't worry too much about it.
Most salt is precipitated from natural brine. Virtually all salt is “sea salt” including mined salt, the main difference is how much time has passed since it was precipitated from a sea of some sort. That brine contains small quantities of many metals and minerals that were in solution when the brine evaporated. Several heavy metals have significant solubility in naturally occurring brines so it isn’t surprising to find them there, but the quantity depends on the local geology and geochemistry. They won’t be evenly distributed even within a single formation due to different minerals having different thresholds for precipitation.

Natural salt is therefore not particularly pure. I believe it is typically on the order of 95-98% pure. The majority of contaminants are harmless things like potassium, magnesium, calcium, etc but there will also be traces of heavy metals, arsenic, etc.

Salt is literally one of the very cheapest bulk materials on Earth. Any non-trivial processing is going to be really expensive compared to the raw materials so people don’t do it unless they can’t avoid it (e.g. anti-caking agent for some food salt applications). As a consequence, I would expect most bulk food salt to have limited opportunity for industrial contamination.
No, I think they meant "naturalized and birthright citizens".
It assumes that money is a motivation, which is generally true.

With low pay, you’ll get true believers and people who are bad at their work.

With high pay, you’ll get true believers, people who are bad at their work, and people who are good at their work. You can fill more positions without taking the bad ones.

As for what this says about society, I think all it says is that money can be exchanged for goods and services. If I’m selling ~50% of my waking hours, you’d damn well better believe I’m going to try to get a good price for it.
I don’t see how it isn’t word play? If watch features weren’t called complications then I’d agree with you.
> encourages a developer to think of programs as an AST

can you imagine saying something like

> The fradlis language encourages your average reader to think of essays as syntax [instead of content].

and thinking it reflects well on the language................
What was specifically ugly about it? It seems ugly like any other layoff except maybe he liked his job more than most.
Casio F-91W: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636954
Genuine question because I agree that there are a lot of over complicated systems. I often see people say all you need is SQLite. Do you implement replication yourself? Or you are just accepting that if something happens to your server your data is just gone? I always default to managed Postgres and that seems to be the simplest most boring solution.
Reminds me of Rich Hickey's talk about Simple VS Easy.
Along these lines, I suggest throwing the letters in random order on the word boundaries for the player instead of forcing us to do it.

Dragging the letters to the word spots was the first thing I did to start visualizing, which was busy work I found no value in doing.

Otherwise, interesting and challenging!
so far the best models are controlled by fewer than a dozen labs. access is limited, full of restrictions and guardrails, and most are expensive, especially video models. also, open weight models deliver far inferior results, and hoping they'll catch up is, for now, just hope.

what kind of breakthrough are you expecting here?
If you want your dev tool to sell, just sell a cloud service along with it.

What I've found motivates this phenomenon is the fact that many companies have a strong aversion to adding any technology of any kind to their tech stack, regardless of how simple. Better to pay an external provider to run it for you, the thinking goes.

So naturally there is a gigantic market for cloud hosting of all kinds of software, even software that is very rudimentary to self-host.
Skype shutdown discussion (751 points, 1 month ago, 662 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202052
https://www.timesticking.com/steve-wozniaks-nixie-watch/
More importantly, these newsrooms are run by people who get their money from the same places.

How much are they going to tolerate narratives that go against their financial interests?
> Isn't writing barely 10,000 years old or so?

No, absolutely not. It's barely 5,000 years old.
Izr revieves almost 50% of the worlds startup funding for cyber security in any given year. Think about what they do with this.
Key takeaways:

>> Fructose does not directly fuel tumors. The authors note that the cancer cells themselves were unable to use fructose readily as a nutrient because they did not express ketohexokinase-C (KHK-C). However, the liver converts fructose into usable nutrients for cancer cells. Primary hepatocytes did express KHK-C, they write, “resulting in fructolysis and the excretion of a variety of lipid species, including lysophosphatidylcholines (LPCs).”

>> “The idea that you can tackle cancer with diet is intriguing,” said Patti. “When we think about tumors, we tend to focus on what dietary components they consume directly. You put something in your body, and then you imagine that the tumor takes it up. But humans are complex. What you put in your body can be consumed by healthy tissue and then converted into something else that tumors use.”

You cannot stop cancer with diet alone. I've argued with others on HN about this, then they find "research" that claims such a thing, but most those papers even state in the summary that "there's no hard evidence" of any such feat.

The other notable analysis I refer back to is from Derek Lowe on curcumin:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/curcumin-will-wast...
Microsoft stopped being the innovator. Now they duplicate or appropriate the innovations of others.
Hopefully steep tariffs on Switzerland will bring watchmaking and watchmakers back to America.
I bought it from my college computer store for like $5 for the CD and an endlessly reusable license key. Truly the good old days.
Indeed, and I agree that Adobe is in the wrong here. For an agreement between Adobe and an artist to be truly permissive, the artist should have the ability to not give their consent. Ethically, I think Adobe is in the same position as the other AI companies – if the artist doesn't directly (EULAs are not direct, in my opinion) agree to the terms, and if they don't have the option to decline, then it isn't an agreement, it is an method of coercion. If an artist, like you said, doesn't want to be paid micropennies, they shouldn't have to agree.

I believe it is completely reasonable for an artist to want to share their work publicly on the Internet without fear of it being appropriated, and I wish there was a pragmatic way they could achieve this.
We have done this move at Caido despite being a rust shop for the reason you mentionned. The webviews on OS are garbage in 25-35% of the time and will cause 90%+ of your bug report.

Switched to electron and moved on. Almost nobody cares about the memory footprint and the binary size. But they will care then app is half broken on their 9 years out of date webview...
I do think substantially increasing Congress’s pay would result in better politicians. Dishonest people who are only in it for the money can find plenty of ways to profit from the office. As it stands, $174k is not a whole lot of money for a job that requires a ton of travel to the extent of basically requiring you to own two houses. This low pay means that non-wealthy members of Congress have a hard time of it. Non-wealthy people who would be good in Congress but don’t want to have that much hardship will bow out, or work around it with corruption. Low pay selects for rich and corrupt politicians. Someone who just wants to be in Congress to make a sweet $10 million in honest pay would be infinitely better than most of the people there right now.
I posted an excerpt in a different comment, but a decent source for this is section 5.2 of the document:

https://lfe.io/papers/%5B2007%5D%20Armstrong%20-%20HOPL%20II...
With consumer video cards:
https://github.com/martinopiaggi/Single-GPU-Passthrough-for-...

I don't believe you have to VBIOS patch anymore
Also, even if it had run out of readers, how is it the story's fault? That's what happens to most long-running series. Not every story has to be among the legends to be considered good.
So instead of 1000 programs and 1000 libraries, you’d rather 1000 programs and 1,000,000 libraries?
> Proposing syntax as noisy as […] is just another sign the designers don't get it.

Are you objecting to the use of `\(…)` here instead of `{…}`? Because of the extra character or because of the need to nest parentheses?
I haven't played this, but I played Obra Dinn, which the review mentions, and I really don't think digital notes would have been nearly as good as pencil and paper. I really needed to draw arrows between things, sketch out a timeline, put question marks around ideas, etc. Pencil and paper is just so much more expressive.
Israel has an extensive defense industry, in some sense it has absorbed most of that country's economy. The role of the US is as a guarantor against the rest of the world.
> Good article. Funnily enough the throw away line "I don't see parentheses anymore". Is my greatest deterrent with lisp. It's not the parens persay, it's the fact that I'm used to reading up to down and left to right.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
- Benjamin Lee Whorf[0]

From the comments in the post:

Ask a C programmer to write factorial and you will likely
get something like this (excuse the underbars, they are
there because blogger doesn't format code in comments):

int factorial (int x) {
if (x == 0)
return 1;
else
return x * factorial (x - 1);
}

And the Lisp programmer will give you:

(defun factorial (x)
(if (zerop x)
1
(* x (factorial (- x 1)))))

Let's see how we can get from the LISP version to something akin to the C version.

First, let's "modernize" the LISP version by replacing parentheses with "curly braces" and add some commas and newlines just for fun:

{
defun factorial { x },
{
if { zerop x },
1 {
*,
x {
factorial {
- { x, 1 }
}
}
}
}
}

This kinda looks like a JSON object. Let's make it into one and add some assumed labels while we're at it.

{
"defun" : {
"factorial" : { "argument" : "x" },
"body" : {
"if" : { "zerop" : "x" },
"then" : "1",
"else" : {
"*" : {
"lhs" : "x",
"rhs" : {
"factorial" : {
"-" : {
"lhs" : "x",
"rhs" : "1"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}

Now, if we replace "defun" with the return type, replace some of the curlies with parentheses, get rid of the labels we added, use infix operator notation, and not worry about it being a valid JSON object, we get:

int
factorial ( x )
{
if ( zerop ( x ) )
1
else
x * factorial ( x - 1 )
}

Reformat this a bit, add some C keywords and statement delimiters, and Bob's your uncle.

0 - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/573737-language-shapes-the-...
Certainly not, and you should be ashamed to shove such falsities in my mouth.

The studies I saw focused on the negative sentiments toward Clinton:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/why-does-sand...

and section 3 of https://sbp-brims.org/2016/proceedings/PO_139.pdf

Would you like to revise your comments now that you understand your assumptions are misplaced? I suggest you do a lot more reading into the sentiments depicted by mainstream news sources on each candidate before replying.
_This_ specific article is about balanced trade, not income tax.

Before the WTO, there were bilateral agreements between countries. After the WTO ground to a halt over the past decade, due to India and others, there were again bilateral agreements, then attempts at regional agreements like the TPP, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership and a parallel agreement among other Asian countries.

Setting aside short-term posturing, the best case going forward is trade agreements among groups of countries, to avoid the N-way combinatorial explosion of bilateral agreements among 100+ countries. That could be trading blocs anchored by US, China or other groups with complementary trade objectives.
Ah, then clearly I misinterpreted your comment. Apologies, I thought you were saying that it can be considered low-quality in the same vein as the Twilight series books.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/3073/
Every single graphics professional I've worked with (many) have owned their own copy of Creative Suite (or subscribed). It's akin to their "IDE", and they really get to know it inside-and-out. It would be difficult to become skilled in the various Creative Suite products if one didn't spend a lot of time (their own and employers) in it.

The point I was raising here specifically was the people who are feigning outrage to Adobe's benign Bluesky post are unlikely to be Adobe customers, and unlikely even creative professionals at all.

Outrage and hate is a sport to these people.
The recent Acquired episode on Rolex is a great peak into the world of luxury Swiss watches:
https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/rolex

What I love about it all is that whatever arguments are made for or against these sorts of things, I think people are just into it because it’s fun.
Recall going back into Windows
You will notice at Grand Slam tennis matches the first thing the winner does — even before walking out for the interview — is put on the watch made by their sponsor.
My submissions on this issue have been routinely flagged, even when it is objective technology x this current crisis
Wow, "villanous"! Hyperbolic much?

In any case, I didn't say anything about art in my comment immediately above. I was disagreeing with your worldview.

I also didn't say anything about arts being less deserving of compensation.

Could you try addressing what other people actually say?
Maybe you would need to explicate your definition of "immigrant" before continuing. All visas are "temporary" so that is a meaningless qualification in this context.
Do you come here often? I haven't seen you here before! I LIKE YOUR SHOES!
I think you're seeing an organized effort in a situation where its far more likely to be just a bunch of individuals who all thought Trump shouldn't be in power, which is IMO a very reasonable position.
Maybe they can start selling Capacitor as a file format for storing LLMs metadata or something
The client doesn't want to eat the whole file, so it uses a range request for just the beginning of the file, and then the next part as needed.
I will second using “the 36 questions that lead to love” to create close connections quickly.

Combine this with MDMA to supercharge the intensity and speed of connection. This can also be done with a group of 3 to create a tight group that instantly has each other’s backs.
No, it doesn’t imply that. There are plenty of more popular languages that don’t though.
Show HN: TeleGraphite – Telegram Scraper and JSON Exporter (Python CLI Tool)
Features
Fetch posts from multiple Telegram channels
Save posts as JSON files (with contact exports: emails, phone numbers, links)
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Run once or continuously with a specified interval
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? Not really. You can reword it and say that just because google can build it means you shouldn’t try to sell it to them. And google can build pretty much anything at this point if they wanted to.

Google’s budget for software and services I’m sure is in the hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars. So again, obviously false.
By stopping at "advocating" rather than doing the dirty political work to actually implement things like good health care. We are told what we want is impossible due to some rule or another only to watch the GOP ignore or work around the same rule in service of their cruel agenda.
Wow, thank you for this! At some point I really want to get my own Mac SE/30. I have a Mac Classic (inherited from my uncle) I still need to work on. This video is really exciting for anyone who wants to fix one of these vintage machines but ends up with a motherboard PCB that's been severely damaged by battery leakage.
An Interactive Explanation of GPS (2022)
Insofar as the "intention" is to expose yourself to multiple varied communities where you might find commonalities, sure. Other approaches carry a heavy whiff of manipulative behavior and should be treated with the appropriate amount of skepticism.
Its. It's is a contraction of it+is
Yes, the elephant in the room is Bluesky itself. In my experience, it's way more toxic than Twitter/X.
Baffled how you got there, but not interested.
I just read it here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ghuntley/noyaml/refs/heads...
Quick and fun and well polished. The audio and visual fx are satisfying. Nice!
I've never seen anyone make the complaint about image classifiers or image segmentation. It's only for generative models and only once they got good enough to be useful.
> Public opinion is a strategic asset. Imagine if the electorate of their arms dealer turned against them.

I'm not saying there aren't other possible motivations. Indeed, i'm sure Israel would love all its PR problems to go away.

My point is, that if we assume for the sake of argument that Israel isn't doing anything sketchy, i would still expect the stuff in the article to be true. Therefor it is very bad evidence of Israel doing sketchy stuff, since the article contents would probably be true either way. My argument is not that Israel is pure of heart or anything, only that we should judge based on publicly available evidence, and the evidence in this article is extremely weak.
Exactly. This same point was mentioned on Accidental Tech Podcast last week during a section primarily about “vibe coding”. (May have been the paid-only segment)

If the LLM gets something wrong, you have to be more exact to get it to make the program do the thing you want. And when that isn’t perfect, you have to tell it exactly what you want to to do in THAT situation. And the next one. And the next one.

At that point you’re programming. It may not be the same as coding in a traditional language, but isn’t it effectively the same process? You’re having to lay out all the exact steps to take when different things happen.

So in the end have you replaced programmers or decreased the amount of programming needed? Or have you just changed the shape of the activity so it doesn’t look like what we’re used to calling programming today?

John Siracusa (one of the hosts) compared it to the idea of a fourth generation language.

From Wikipedia:

“The concept of 4GL was developed from the 1970s through the 1990s, overlapping most of the development of 3GL, with 4GLs identified as ‘non-procedural’ or ‘program-generating’ languages”.

Program generating language sounds an awful lot like what people are trying to use AI for. And these claims that we don’t need programmers anymore also sound a lot like the claims from when people were trying to make flowchart based languages. Or COBOL.

“You don’t need programmers! The managers can write their own reports”.

In fact “the term 4GL was first used formally by James Martin in his 1981 book Application Development Without Programmers” (Wikipedia again).

They keep trying. But it all ends up still being programming.
Thank you for doing this. Is it possible to follow the work somewhere?
> I am generally pro-union, but a side effect of unions, at least in my experience, is that you will have a proportion of incompetent people who can not complete anything and you can not effectively get rid of them.

I am so tired of people who have "experience" repeating this talking point.

1) If an employee is union and being a freerider a manager has to document their failing before being able to fire them. And, yes, the union is going to defend them and make you do your job and put those documents in writing. The problem is that most managers don't want to put things in writing because, lo and behold, most of the time you wind up with written documentation that the manager is the problem instead of the union employee.

2) Union employees often hate freeriders more than managers do. Someone freeriding is making your own job far more miserable and if you can get rid of them, your own life is going to improve.

3) I can count the number of the freeriders I have encountered in union positions on one hand. I have lost count of the number of those people in non-union positions.
These are career long projects, it's not like a cancellation can just be undone, and a team put back together.

What a waste.