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41,791,700 | comment | ryandrake | 2024-10-09T19:26:41 | null | > I don't know that I've seen a lot of details, but I didn't realize the rates were supposed to be less than benchmark rates.<p>I know someone who got a mortgage rate way, WAY below prevailing rates (like around 1%, gotten back when normies like us got rates around ~3%), because 1. he is a very high net worth individual and 2. he owns a business that does a lot of business with the bank. So, he gets extra special treatment because he's rich and the bank appreciates his business and expects the relationship to lead to even more business.<p>It's not a huge stretch to imagine that Jeff Bezos's bank would happily loan him money at some token 0.01% interest rate or some similar sweet deal. | null | null | 41,789,638 | 41,780,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,701 | comment | bee_rider | 2024-10-09T19:26:48 | null | Are there cases where float could return a NaN or infinity, where you instead prefer the integer result? That seems a little odd to me. | null | null | 41,791,652 | 41,784,591 | null | [
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41,791,702 | story | crossroadsguy | 2024-10-09T19:26:50 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,791,702 | null | null | null | true |
41,791,703 | comment | nchmy | 2024-10-09T19:26:50 | null | So what you're saying is that you "fervently" think your boss should shut up because he is giving his legal opponent fuel for their case against his extortion and other charges? And that he's making you write things that you don't understand or particularly agree with?<p>I promise you, your integrity (or at least your license to practice law) are worth more than Matt's sinking ship. I hope you can move on to do something meaningful with you practice | null | null | 41,789,765 | 41,781,008 | null | [
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41,791,704 | comment | marcosdumay | 2024-10-09T19:26:51 | null | > If I give the lambdas really good names<p>That's a really funny way to say it. | null | null | 41,789,519 | 41,758,371 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,705 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T19:27:08 | null | null | null | null | 41,786,547 | 41,786,101 | null | null | true | null |
41,791,706 | story | sharpshadow | 2024-10-09T19:27:22 | Represent the UK Cyber Team – Nationwide Search for Elite Cyber Talent | null | https://ukcyberteam.sans.org/ | 8 | null | 41,791,706 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,791,707 | comment | Sohcahtoa82 | 2024-10-09T19:27:28 | null | > A more accurate statement is that English is a language where spelling often reflects history and etymology, rather than phonetics.<p>I hate that the past tense of "stay" is "stayed", but "say" is "said" and "pay" is "paid", which is often misspelled as "payed", which IS a word, but is unrelated to transferring money from one person to another.<p>Then you got all the ways "-ough" is pronounced. Thorough, enough, cough, through, thought, dough, drought..."-ough" is now looking like a completely nonsense letter sequence. | null | null | 41,790,379 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,708 | story | yu3zhou4 | 2024-10-09T19:27:31 | Command Line Tools I Like (2022) | null | https://rwblickhan.org/newsletters/command-line-tools-i-like-2022/ | 139 | null | 41,791,708 | 65 | [
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41,791,709 | comment | kllrnohj | 2024-10-09T19:27:37 | null | You're over-crediting Carmack and under-crediting current game devs. 3-5 frames might be current end-to-end latency, but that's not what Carmack is talking about. He's just talking about the game loop latency. Even at ~4 frames of end-to-end latency, he'd be talking about an easily avoided 20% regression. That's still huge. | null | null | 41,787,785 | 41,758,371 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,710 | comment | jheriko | 2024-10-09T19:28:01 | null | even then the edges do not suddenly curve. its just all round a bad analogy. | null | null | 41,790,891 | 41,789,242 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,711 | comment | xnx | 2024-10-09T19:28:04 | null | > I was creating inconsistencies that younger developers nitpick<p>Obligatory:
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"<p>Continued because I'd never read the full passage:
"... adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series | null | null | 41,785,113 | 41,758,371 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,712 | comment | zelphirkalt | 2024-10-09T19:28:04 | null | This can be done in a good way and in bad ways. With most code you will be calling builtin procedures/functions. You also don't look under the hood for those usually. But for the code of your coworker it seems to irritate you. This could mean many things. Just to name a few: (1) The names are not giving a good idea what those functions do. (2) The level of abstraction is not the same inside the calling function, so that you feel the need to check the implementation detail of those small functions. (3) You don't trust the implementation of those smaller functions. (4) The separated out functions could be not worth separating out and being given names, because what the code in them does is clear enough without them being separated out. (n) or some other reason.<p>The issue does not have to be that those things are split out into separate small functions. The issue might be something else. | null | null | 41,787,915 | 41,758,371 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,713 | comment | 01100011 | 2024-10-09T19:28:07 | null | I don't know, but it seems like, as a language grows, the type of people working on improvements changes. In the beginning, the contributions come from people trying to solve application problems. In the end, the committees and contributors seem to be less connected to reality and more internal and isolated. They make changes that seem conceptually sound but aren't grounded in what the users of the language actually care about. | null | null | 41,788,338 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,714 | comment | w10-1 | 2024-10-09T19:28:08 | null | Poison pills are much more effective at fending off takeovers. I think the public benefit form mainly helps with workforce and customer alignment to dampen disruptions from transformative and invasive applications.<p>Peter Gassner converted Veeva (pharmaceuticals software) to public benefit a few years ago. Veeva is probably 10X smaller and mostly captured by big pharma customers who don't want to compete on software infrastructure and want one place to stay in (FDA) compliance. So in that case the stakeholders have a pretty clear and distinct voice and mission.<p>In the absence of dominant stakeholders, it's unclear who would govern OpenAI as a public benefit corporation. At a minimum, it's a moral hazard and an invitation to bureaucracy and politics.<p>I'd be interested in OpenAI developing super clear and transparent customer feedback channels. That could improve AI, give incentive for people to participate in model improvement (instead of reflexively protecting their data), and be a forcing function against governance gaming. Amazon/Bezos has strong experience in managing by metrics, so it's a shame OpenAI has committed itself to Azure/Microsoft.<p>Another alternative is the M-form, where subsidiaries are coordinated but live or die based on their own performance rather than cross-subsidies (recently in Google becoming Alphabet). But the history there isn't particularly good for innovation, and even profit lags except in industries with stable markets (Berkshire-style). | null | null | 41,790,026 | 41,790,026 | null | [
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41,791,715 | comment | dhruvrajvanshi | 2024-10-09T19:28:13 | null | Yes, I did mention that the UX of the type errors could be improved and probably should, but once you start getting into conditional types, and nested types (which may not be fully expanded when you see the error), it gets hairy. | null | null | 41,790,931 | 41,764,163 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,716 | comment | ilovefood | 2024-10-09T19:28:16 | null | Looks pretty cool, congrats so far! Do you allow downloading the fine tuned model for local inference? | null | null | 41,789,176 | 41,789,176 | null | [
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41,791,717 | comment | mmastrac | 2024-10-09T19:28:24 | null | The classic No True Punksman fallacy. | null | null | 41,791,240 | 41,790,295 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,718 | comment | tananaev | 2024-10-09T19:28:46 | null | The definition is good because currently many call their open model weights as open "source". But I suspect most companies will still call their models open source even when they're not. | null | null | 41,791,426 | 41,791,426 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,719 | comment | j7ake | 2024-10-09T19:28:48 | null | Computational thinking is more important than software per se.<p>Computational thinking is the mathematical thinking. | null | null | 41,789,583 | 41,758,371 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,720 | comment | akira2501 | 2024-10-09T19:28:50 | null | > Scale's great<p>Is it? As consumers you may be noticing the impact now but as a developer I've felt the impact of Google's "scale" for years and it has not been pleasant. | null | null | 41,790,904 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,791,721 | comment | int_19h | 2024-10-09T19:28:54 | null | It's not the character set that's the problem so much so as the set of phonemes. English just doesn't have the ʂ/ɕ distinction, and no amount of creative spelling choices can fix that. Other things are much more straightforward, tones aside. | null | null | 41,790,478 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,722 | comment | zahlman | 2024-10-09T19:29:06 | null | FWIW I've been semi-actively designing a language of that sort, which I call Fawlty, since about February of this year. I was planning to start writing about it in July but then all the PSF drama stuff happened and I didn't want people to assume incorrectly that the idea was motivated by my disappointment with the community.<p>In fact, I'd been thinking about doing it since probably November of the previous year - and it's motivated by long-held beliefs that<p>Python's design falls short of the Zen;<p>several of the most common beginner pitfalls could and should be avoided by syntax changes and by a different approach to parsing the code; and<p>the standard library is full of ancient APIs that look terrible because they're motivated by C and Java designs that used to be the best we had but seem highly unidiomatic now.<p>It was somewhere in November or December last year that I first wrote those thoughts down more concretely (with details about what those pitfalls are etc.).<p>Given that pace of progress, however, I've more or less given up on ever expecting myself to publish something usable - by myself, at least. I've decided for now that it will be more practical to add blog posts about my ideas to the queue, and possibly see about my own implementation later. | null | null | 41,789,972 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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41,791,723 | comment | mgsouth | 2024-10-09T19:29:09 | null | Excellent points, violently agree, my question was poorly worded. The <i>purpose</i> of units tests is to verify the contracted API is actually being provided <i>by the implementation details</i>. A clearer question might have been "what are unit tests for if not to exercise the implementation details, verifying they adhere to the API?" Unit tests validate implementation details, integration tests validate APIs.<p>To me, a good unit test beats the stuffing out of the unit. It's as much a part of the unit as the public functions, so should take full advantage of internal details (keeping test fragility in mind); of course that implies the unit test needs ongoing maintenance just as much as the public functions. If you're passing a small set of inputs and checking the outputs, well that's a smoke test, not a unit test.<p>To answer your last question, I want the alarm bells to ring whenever the implementation details don't hold up. That's whether the function code changed, a code or state dependency changed, or the testing process itself changed. If at all feasible all the unit tests run every time the the complete suite is run, in full meat-grinder mode. "Complete suite" is hand-wavy; e.g. it might be the suite for a major library, but not the end-to-end application. | null | null | 41,790,241 | 41,758,371 | null | [
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41,791,724 | comment | someluccc | 2024-10-09T19:29:10 | null | This illustrates why breaking up google is a good idea given their egregious charges (free) for things people used to/still spend money on, such as:<p>- An office software suite<p>- Global maps and GPS, City Guides<p>- Video entertainment<p>- Mobile and Desktop OS<p>- Web Browsers<p>Also, pay no mind to their competitors in all of those markets AND in their core business of search, being feeble multi-trillion and multi-billion global corporations | null | null | 41,791,090 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,791,725 | comment | jamil7 | 2024-10-09T19:29:29 | null | > Or until you decide to say "screw it" and live in a shack on a mountain near a stream until society smartens up.<p>Gotta be pretty rich to do that these days. | null | null | 41,790,135 | 41,790,085 | null | [
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41,791,726 | comment | evanelias | 2024-10-09T19:29:31 | null | For critical security-related code, I'd argue that's <i>not</i> a good property at all for module namespacing! Quite the opposite. Even with a human in the loop.<p>(and I was a professional Perl programmer for the first 5 years of my career, so I'm not asserting this out of lack of familiarity with CPAN!)<p>That all said: I don't even think what you're saying about CPAN is terribly similar to the situation being discussed here, since Go's x/crypto/ssh (and all other x/ packages) are officially part of the Go Project and are maintained by the Go core maintainers. See <a href="https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x" rel="nofollow">https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x</a>. Third-party Go developers cannot add new packages to this namespace at all. | null | null | 41,791,216 | 41,785,511 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,727 | comment | datascientist | 2024-10-09T19:29:39 | null | also see <a href="https://gradientflow.com/open-source-principles-in-foundation-models/" rel="nofollow">https://gradientflow.com/open-source-principles-in-foundatio...</a> | null | null | 41,791,426 | 41,791,426 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,728 | story | samizdis | 2024-10-09T19:29:42 | The Merchants of Venice – In Code | null | https://daily.jstor.org/the-merchants-of-venice-in-code/ | 2 | null | 41,791,728 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,791,729 | comment | namanyayg | 2024-10-09T19:30:01 | null | What benefits does this bring me vs just using OpenAI's official tools? | null | null | 41,789,486 | 41,789,176 | null | [
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41,791,730 | comment | DebtDeflation | 2024-10-09T19:30:07 | null | What does it even mean to fend off hostile takeovers when Microsoft owns 49% of the company and the remaining 51% is split between a small number of investors (Musk, Thiel, Infosys, AWS, and a half dozen VC funds). All it would take would be one of those other early investors to join up with Microsoft and they would have a majority ownership stake. | null | null | 41,790,400 | 41,790,026 | null | [
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41,791,731 | comment | jhd3 | 2024-10-09T19:30:08 | null | And there is also the sequel by Michael Stonebraker and Andrew Pavlo - <a href="https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2024/whatgoesaround-sigmodrec2024.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2024/whatgoesaround-sigmodrec20...</a> | null | null | 41,791,312 | 41,764,465 | null | [
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41,791,732 | comment | theamk | 2024-10-09T19:30:18 | null | It will change exception class if logging function will fail... I wouldn't call this "good chance", those kinds of things are pretty unlikely in my experience. | null | null | 41,791,623 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,733 | comment | vm | 2024-10-09T19:30:21 | null | Very limited editions, with sone items having just one edition. This won’t make much money.<p>Looks like a cool art project. | null | null | 41,791,664 | 41,790,295 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,734 | comment | colechristensen | 2024-10-09T19:30:27 | null | Words "creeping into English" is like what the entire language is all about.<p>If you take away the words brought in by immigrants and invaders there is very little recognizable left.<p>>I'm not exactly worrying about "Haus" creeping into English to replace "House"<p>It's literally already the same word, we just spell it "wrong", likely out of French/Norman influence. | null | null | 41,790,566 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,791,735 | comment | williamsmj | 2024-10-09T19:30:31 | null | 1. That python 3 statement was not drawn up by "the Python maintainers". It was drawn up by downstream library owners.<p>2. To the extent you object to changes in the core language, the python maintainers do have a backwards compatibility statement and prominent timelines for deprecation. You may disagree with these, but they are public.<p>3. At the time it was written, the python 3 statement proposed dropping support for a version of python with known security problems and no plans for security updates. It seems like your argument is with the python 2 to python 3 transition, which feels like a conversation we've had here before. | null | null | 41,791,516 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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41,791,736 | comment | CatWChainsaw | 2024-10-09T19:30:33 | null | Read Moneyland, get mad. | null | null | 41,780,569 | 41,780,569 | null | [
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41,791,737 | comment | crucialfelix | 2024-10-09T19:30:40 | null | Cutlery (fr), silverware (de)<p>I was taught that this is because the Normans pushed the Germanics out and up north. French dominated the royal court. | null | null | 41,790,804 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,738 | comment | phtrivier | 2024-10-09T19:30:40 | null | Feeling a bit down today, so just asking: when can we realistically expect to see the (positive) effects of this Nobel in daily life, and what would they be ? (I understand it's helping biotech a lot, but helping them do... what exactly ?) | null | null | 41,786,101 | 41,786,101 | null | [
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41,791,739 | comment | krzyk | 2024-10-09T19:30:45 | null | I was afraid that this is something similar to infamous PEP 572 (also known as make-python-c), but it actually is a great change - it will remove errors and will make code more readable (contrary what PEP 572 did). | null | null | 41,788,026 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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41,791,740 | comment | ryandvm | 2024-10-09T19:30:51 | null | Meh. Window sitting at places like this until they evaporate is doing the Lord's work. | null | null | 41,789,588 | 41,786,818 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,741 | comment | vzaliva | 2024-10-09T19:31:00 | null | Looks good! I will try when you add email parsing feature :) It is a pain to input details manually but I like having all my information in once place when I travel: confirmation numbers, hotel addresses, phone numbers, etc.<p>On plus side, as someone suggested LLMs like ChatGPT should be a very good fit for email parsing and easy to integrate (e.g. ChatGPT API asking to output JSON). | null | null | 41,791,141 | 41,788,246 | null | [
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41,791,742 | comment | antisthenes | 2024-10-09T19:31:03 | null | Yes, because the size of the average assets of a person relative to the size of the market is negligible.<p>This amount of assets cannot meaningfully move the market equilibrium, so the person will realistically sell all of it for 100% of what it's worth, with say a 2% margin of error.<p>The higher up you go in wealth, the less it is the case. But it's not black and white, just a scale. | null | null | 41,790,287 | 41,789,751 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,743 | comment | williamdclt | 2024-10-09T19:31:04 | null | You’re right that there’s regularly cases where the problem really objectively is “not my job” and a cold redirect is more efficient.<p>However, personally I found that it is incredibly useful to use these sort of things as opportunities. The main opportunity is learning: I’ll learn something about BSOD, and about our specific IT setup, maybe some troubleshooting or windows stuff, and all this knowledge builds into strong mental models and often comes in useful even if it’s years from now.<p>It’s also an opportunity to build relationship (with the asker, with the IT person). It’s a tiny interaction but it makes a difference, you are now seen as “helpful” (and if you didn’t know the person at all, you got from 0 to 1 which is huge).<p>It’s also an opportunity to help (sometimes): as a SWE I have a breadth of knowledge, maybe I can help the IT person to have a better config to avoid BSODs, maybe I can help the asker with their specific setup that the IT person is confused about…<p>There’s no question that a warm handoff can be a waste, absolutely. But do it a hundred times and you get so much back | null | null | 41,791,422 | 41,765,127 | null | [
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41,791,744 | comment | 331c8c71 | 2024-10-09T19:31:12 | null | DeepMind, not Google organically. | null | null | 41,789,089 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,791,745 | comment | Wytwwww | 2024-10-09T19:31:17 | null | > favoring the dialect predominantly spoken in Prussia<p>Was it though? Historically Low German was spoken in Brandenburg (and the rest of pre 1800s Kingdom of Prussia). Standard German is a High German language closely related to the dialects in Saxony/Thuringia etc. (thanks to Luther) and predates Prussia's status as a major German power by a few centuries or so.<p>Paradoxically in the 1600s and 1700s Prussia invested a lot of effort into replacing in replacing its local dialects with Standard German (which by modern standards was effectively an entirely foreign language to most people living there. I think technically even Dutch/Flemish might be closer to Standard German than Eastern Low German was).<p>Austrians, Bavarians etc. didn't really need to do the same since it was already much easier for them to 'learn' Standard German if they needed to (and of course its association with Protestantism played a role initially)<p>It's a bit like if Scotland replaced Scots with Shakespearean English, then proceeded to takeover the rest of Britain and moved its capital to Edinburgh. | null | null | 41,789,589 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,746 | comment | oftenwrong | 2024-10-09T19:31:18 | null | The JSR 354 API can provide access to exchange rate services via the ExchangeRateProvider interface. The reference implementation (Moneta) includes a few implementations of ExchangeRateProviders that connect to online services to look up exchange rates. | null | null | 41,779,825 | 41,776,878 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,747 | comment | nly | 2024-10-09T19:31:22 | null | Still loads of Python 2 scripts floating around at my employer and my prior 2 employers (6 years total) | null | null | 41,790,141 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,748 | comment | williamsmj | 2024-10-09T19:31:26 | null | Again, python does not use semantic versioning. 3.12 and 3.13 are different major versions. The deprecation policy is documented and public. <a href="https://peps.python.org/pep-0387/" rel="nofollow">https://peps.python.org/pep-0387/</a>. | null | null | 41,790,856 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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41,791,749 | comment | smartmic | 2024-10-09T19:31:30 | null | … also commented here on HN: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846883">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846883</a> | null | null | 41,791,731 | 41,764,465 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,750 | comment | 2OEH8eoCRo0 | 2024-10-09T19:31:42 | null | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET</a><p>TCP/IP? | null | null | 41,790,736 | 41,784,287 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,751 | comment | varenc | 2024-10-09T19:31:45 | null | > “...it decided to deselect these dissertations, so that <i>3.2 km</i> could be freed up for new acquisitions”<p>Am I reading this correctly and they have 3.2 kilometers of dissertations? What an interesting unit of paper archive size, though it makes sense. | null | null | 41,789,815 | 41,789,815 | null | [
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41,791,752 | comment | pseingatl | 2024-10-09T19:31:45 | null | An apostrophe almost landed me in jail.<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mu7ami_how-an-apostrophe-almost-landed-me-in-jail-activity-7212914933854842880-zNK_&ved=2ahUKEwjbiYXXhIKJAxWUQvEDHcu9JuUQFnoECBEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3O9_NNGeAJLkc-h8SJP9_5" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mu7ami_how-an-apostrophe-almo...</a> | null | null | 41,787,647 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,753 | comment | kllrnohj | 2024-10-09T19:31:48 | null | Not that bad?<p><pre><code> int main() {
int a = -1;
[&] {
a = 42;
printf("I'm an uncallable inline block");
}();
printf(" ");
[&] {
printf("of code\n");
}();
[&] {
printf("Passing state: %d\n", a);
}();
return 0;
}</code></pre> | null | null | 41,786,010 | 41,758,371 | null | [
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41,791,754 | comment | throwaway14356 | 2024-10-09T19:32:00 | null | how insects and flowers found their interaction suggests biology eats impossibly hard puzzles for breakfast.<p>the most compact way to store data is to merely point to where it is stored.<p>The description of the location can combine any number of clues and still be tiny.<p>if there is some place where infinite semi random data is stored and biology can access it it can find places that somewhat mirror data found irl. the dataset could be the shape of our head or a crystalline structure on the other end of the universe.<p>if biology can also somewhat manipulate the stored data the sky is the limit, or error correction is.<p>there is a stupefying amount of evidence that people are able to obtain data they should have no access to.<p>If small children can remember a previous life in great detail then those are the facts. That you don't like it is irrelevant, it is objectively unworthy of consideration.<p>Thar we have people unable to overcome this cultural indoctrination is fascinating! They apparently don't have write access!<p>People are apparently trying to map reality onto some preexisting dataset. | null | null | 41,733,390 | 41,733,390 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,755 | comment | jltsiren | 2024-10-09T19:32:03 | null | > It also proved that deep learning models are a valid approach to bioinformatics<p>A lot of bioinformatics tools using deep learning appeared around 2017-2018. But rather than being big breakthroughs like AlphaFold, most of them were just incremental improvements to various technical tasks in the middle of a pipeline. | null | null | 41,790,707 | 41,786,101 | null | [
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41,791,756 | comment | gnabgib | 2024-10-09T19:32:09 | null | Page title: <i>Professor Index</i> | null | null | 41,791,634 | 41,791,634 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,757 | comment | BenoitP | 2024-10-09T19:32:12 | null | And thus custom validation goes to json, completing a what is old is new again cycle. After XML/XSD, after CORBA. | null | null | 41,764,163 | 41,764,163 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,758 | comment | int_19h | 2024-10-09T19:32:17 | null | Nation-states generally tend to be hostile towards dialects historically because they are seen as disruptive to "national unity", and in more extreme cases, as latent separatism. And it feels like, because larger nation-states usually have more history of separatism (having forcibly assimilated more distinct local cultures), they also tend to be more touchy about that. | null | null | 41,790,534 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,791,759 | comment | loumaciel | 2024-10-09T19:32:21 | null | Online advertising has leveled the playing field, allowing smaller brands to compete with big names. Platforms like Google make it easy to capture attention, which is why even giants like Nike are losing market share to newer players. This shift spans all non-regulated industries. Without online ads, launching a nationwide brand would require enormous budgets, leaving us stuck with the same old monopolies. | null | null | 41,791,592 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,791,760 | comment | ryandrake | 2024-10-09T19:32:31 | null | This actually seems like a very reasonable solution. Although it would lead to perpetual liens on properties that simply get passed down dozens of generations, never getting sold. At some point, the music has to stop, or the rich will exploit it. | null | null | 41,784,020 | 41,780,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,761 | story | kamaraju | 2024-10-09T19:32:32 | Ratan Tata, who put India's Tata Group on the global map, dies at 86 | null | https://www.reuters.com/world/india/ratan-tata-indias-tata-conglomerate-dies-age-86-2024-10-09/ | 9 | null | 41,791,761 | 2 | [
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41,791,762 | comment | demarq | 2024-10-09T19:32:33 | null | That’s because they had access to the founder and threatened him imprisonment.<p>And why does everyone who replies to me leave behind the main point on the article?<p>It’s not “just” people said something’s here. It’s that in response to a very real crime , the authorities were denied assistance by the platform.<p>It’s like saying that telegram was in trouble because people said some stuff. Nope, telegram in trouble for not cooperating with the government. | null | null | 41,789,365 | 41,785,553 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,763 | comment | ACow_Adonis | 2024-10-09T19:32:40 | null | The Australian English thing to do is to drop the apostrophe, use an optional creative contraction to make the phrase even shorter, and thereby turn the entire thing into a noun :)<p>I.e. Maccas vs McDonald's<p>Of course, the official website <a href="https://mcdonalds.com.au/about-maccas/maccas-story" rel="nofollow">https://mcdonalds.com.au/about-maccas/maccas-story</a> uses an apostrophe which is now making me have the same reaction as the Germans :( and makes me think it was run through some international filter :p outrageous! | null | null | 41,791,399 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,764 | story | null | 2024-10-09T19:32:54 | null | null | null | null | null | 41,791,764 | null | null | true | null |
41,791,765 | comment | infecto | 2024-10-09T19:33:02 | null | Is it possible that you are off by a few decades? I believe The Goal is 1984 and her book was 2014? | null | null | 41,787,683 | 41,764,692 | null | [
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41,791,766 | comment | kccqzy | 2024-10-09T19:33:06 | null | Code can always be called outside of that scope just by returning function pointers or closures. The point is not to restrict calling that code, but to restrict the ability to refer to that piece of code by name.<p>As mentioned by others, C++ has lambdas. Even if you don't use lambdas, people used to achieve the same effect by using plenty of private functions inside classes, even though the class might have zero variables and simply holds functions. In even older C code, people are used to making one separate .c file for each public function and then define plenty of static functions within each file. | null | null | 41,788,847 | 41,758,371 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,767 | comment | bobim | 2024-10-09T19:33:15 | null | Not sure 3 did anything to the number of circular permutations of encode and decode one need to fiddle with until that damn csv is pulled in correctly. | null | null | 41,790,829 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,768 | comment | pcreux | 2024-10-09T19:33:16 | null | Hey Martin,<p>All our services are built using Ruby, so it's the obvious choice. It scales and it's robust. We might just spend a little bit more on Heroku than if we'd use another language such as go - but it's definitely not worth introducing a new language to our stack.<p>Thanks for the comment! | null | null | 41,786,327 | 41,776,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,769 | comment | sundarurfriend | 2024-10-09T19:33:18 | null | "the evil twin of PEP 758: Allow `except` and `except*` expressions without parentheses"<p>They're using "evil twin" in the sense of "it's closely related to 758, but goes in the opposite direction to it". | null | null | 41,788,583 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,770 | comment | hiatus | 2024-10-09T19:33:51 | null | Wow, those comments from the founder on GDPR are not unlike "we just chatgpted the license lol". I'm reconsidering my sub. | null | null | 41,790,582 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,791,771 | comment | wahern | 2024-10-09T19:34:04 | null | OpenBSD dropped nullfs a long time ago. See <a href="https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20050527155028" rel="nofollow">https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20050527155028</a> But it looks like DragonflyBSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD have retained it. | null | null | 41,791,617 | 41,785,595 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,772 | comment | toomuchtodo | 2024-10-09T19:34:06 | null | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratan_Tata" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratan_Tata</a> | null | null | 41,791,761 | 41,791,761 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,773 | story | rc00 | 2024-10-09T19:34:12 | My negative views on Rust (2023) | null | https://chrisdone.com/posts/rust/ | 184 | null | 41,791,773 | 275 | [
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41,791,774 | comment | dokyun | 2024-10-09T19:34:18 | null | > If a commercial company wants to ship a product without reinventing all the wheels, they are going to use code with permissive licenses, and skip projects with GPL license or similar in a heartbeat.<p>Did you know that there's no rule against commercializing or selling free software? The only reason that companies skip projects with copyleft licenses that's relevant in this discussion is because they intend to incorporate them into proprietary software, and this is because they are, by some deeply corporatistic scruple, incapable of conceiving of the idea of delivering free software (even if 90% of the heavy lifting in their services is done by free programs).<p>> You could even argue quite the contrary -- when you make your project GPL/AGPL etc, and if it is big/impactful enough, people will inevitably create alternative projects with permissive licenses that tried to match the feature set, and it is you that is the cause of all this "waste of time". Not necessarily a good argument, but there is some truth there.<p>Yes, it's not a good argument. The truth there is that if I develop a free program or library under (L)GPL or similar then I have made that thing free. If people want to write an alternative for technical reasons, then that's neither here nor there, but if people want to write an alternative because they don't like the license, then that's their own time they are wasting, because they would have no other reason to do it other than wanting to incorporate it into nonfree software. | null | null | 41,786,068 | 41,784,387 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,775 | comment | lencastre | 2024-10-09T19:34:28 | null | I’m not even pretending I understood Carmack’s email/mailing list post but if more intelligent/experienced programmers than me care to help me out, what exactly is meant by this he wrote in 2007:<p>_If a function is called from multiple places, see if it is possible to arrange for the work to be done in a single place, perhaps with flags, and inline that._<p>Thanks, | null | null | 41,758,371 | 41,758,371 | null | [
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41,791,776 | comment | Eric_WVGG | 2024-10-09T19:34:29 | null | Is Valibot's error handling any good? Zod's is… like punishment for a crime I wasn't aware that I had committed. | null | null | 41,790,169 | 41,764,163 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,777 | comment | vzaliva | 2024-10-09T19:34:54 | null | After registering it attepts to open <a href="https://stippl.io" rel="nofollow">https://stippl.io</a> via external URL handler which gives me a popup in my Firefox. | null | null | 41,791,141 | 41,788,246 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,778 | story | azhenley | 2024-10-09T19:34:56 | Follow-Up Attention: A Study of Developer and Neural Model Code Exploration | null | https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05506 | 1 | null | 41,791,778 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,791,779 | comment | matheusmoreira | 2024-10-09T19:35:18 | null | The breakout board is the reason I haven't bought and hacked one of these robots yet. I have to source the PCB and then solder the components myself. I've never done this before and learning this is taking up significant amounts of my free time. Personally I would rather get a manufactured PCB that would no doubt be better built.<p>I respect their "learn to solder" stance but it's a fact that a lot more people would be involved in the project if it wasn't required. | null | null | 41,784,674 | 41,735,871 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,780 | comment | dhruvrajvanshi | 2024-10-09T19:35:48 | null | Right. I'm aware. My point was that even though the type system is powerful, somehow, I'm able to represent everything I need to in Kotlin's type system just fine and it feels a lot more type safe because it will throw a type error at runtime in the right place if I do a bad cast.<p>Typescript `as Foo` will not do anything at runtime, and it will just keep on going, then throw a type error somewhere else later (possibly across an async boundary).<p>You can, in theory use very strong lint rules (disallow `as` operator in favour of Zod, disallow postfix ! operator), but no actual codebase that I've worked on has these checks. Even the ones with the strictest checks enabled have gaps.<p>Not to mention, there's intentional unsoundness in the type system, so even if you wanted, you couldn't really create a save subset of TS.<p>Then there's the issue of reading the library types of some generic heavy code. When I "go to definition" in my fastify codebase, I see stuff like this<p><pre><code> RouteHandlerMethod<RawServer, RawRequest, RawReply, RouteGeneric, ContextConfig, SchemaCompiler, TypeProvider, Logger>
</code></pre>
Which expands to this<p><pre><code> export type RouteHandlerMethod<
RawServer extends RawServerBase = RawServerDefault,
RawRequest extends RawRequestDefaultExpression<RawServer> = RawRequestDefaultExpression<RawServer>,
RawReply extends RawReplyDefaultExpression<RawServer> = RawReplyDefaultExpression<RawServer>,
RouteGeneric extends RouteGenericInterface = RouteGenericInterface,
ContextConfig = ContextConfigDefault,
SchemaCompiler extends FastifySchema = FastifySchema,
TypeProvider extends FastifyTypeProvider = FastifyTypeProviderDefault,
Logger extends FastifyBaseLogger = FastifyBaseLogger</code></pre>
> = (
this: FastifyInstance<RawServer, RawRequest, RawReply, Logger, TypeProvider>,
request: FastifyRequest<RouteGeneric, RawServer, RawRequest, SchemaCompiler, TypeProvider, ContextConfig, Logger>,
reply: FastifyReply<RouteGeneric, RawServer, RawRequest, RawReply, ContextConfig, SchemaCompiler, TypeProvider>
// This return type used to be a generic type argument. Due to TypeScript's inference of return types, this rendered returns unchecked.
) => ResolveFastifyReplyReturnType<TypeProvider, SchemaCompiler, RouteGeneric><p>Other languages somehow don't need types this complicated and they're still safer at runtime :shrug: | null | null | 41,790,930 | 41,764,163 | null | [
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41,791,781 | comment | objektif | 2024-10-09T19:35:56 | null | This is how beautiful languages are ffed up. Can you leave the core syntax alone and let people write elegant code if they want to? Why do we try to force a certain type of coding down the throat of people. Ease of use made python popular and we should leave it that way. | null | null | 41,788,026 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,782 | comment | int_19h | 2024-10-09T19:36:01 | null | I just find it annoying that English is almost entirely gender neutral except for pronouns. It feels like a weird and unnecessary special case (I really don't need to be telling everyone what I believe their gender to be every time I address them!), so getting rid of that makes the language more consistent and uniform overall.<p>I just wish it didn't conflate singular and plural. But the convenience of broadening an existing pattern rather than inventing a completely new one still wins in the end. | null | null | 41,791,485 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,791,783 | story | sship | 2024-10-09T19:36:13 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,791,783 | null | null | null | true |
41,791,784 | story | R41 | 2024-10-09T19:36:19 | Ratan Naval Tata (1937 – 2024) | null | https://www.tata.com/about-us/tata-group-our-heritage/tata-titans/ratan-naval-tata | 3 | null | 41,791,784 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,791,785 | comment | infamia | 2024-10-09T19:36:19 | null | > We may never see a 4.0 because of the scar tissue, but the language continues to evolve.<p>They should do the opposite really. If it hurts, do it more often and get better at it. A perfect time would be when Python gets some nice JIT performance improvements which everyone will probably like. | null | null | 41,788,374 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,786 | comment | stonethrowaway | 2024-10-09T19:36:25 | null | This is what clickbait-by-design looks like. The headline is, minor omission aside that Ilya was Hinton’s student, the entire article.<p>I am sure folks here can find a better use of their time than to dogpile on sama. We have enough of those threads to go around that this one is incredibly below the belt.<p>So please help keep HN relatively drama/snide free, and flag this article.<p>Special thanks to TechCrunch for keeping the quality of their articles high. We couldn’t have done it without you. | null | null | 41,791,692 | 41,791,692 | null | [
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41,791,787 | comment | loumaciel | 2024-10-09T19:36:26 | null | You don't rely on Google to handle everything, it's self-service. Whether you use Google or another platform depends entirely on where your audience is. For example, my father runs a small construction company, and 90% of his leads come from Google search. That’s where people are looking for services like his. | null | null | 41,791,681 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,791,788 | comment | Clubber | 2024-10-09T19:36:32 | null | >>The US government has been working solely for their donors for the last 40+ years. Any benefit the voters get from lawmaking is coincidental.<p>>That thought may be comforting, but no.<p>Why would that be comforting? | null | null | 41,791,033 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,791,789 | comment | naming_the_user | 2024-10-09T19:36:38 | null | This post feels like a complete mathematical failure.<p>Ignoring inflation, taxes, etc, and assuming a return of 5%:<p>If you have 2 mil and you spend 100k a year then you will never go below approx 1.5M (the value of the capital will fluctuate a bit, in the perfect case you'd never really go below 2M) and can do that indefinitely.<p>If instead you "didn't have" that 1.5M and had 500K, then you can only spend 100k a year for approx. 6 years and then you have nothing left. | null | null | 41,786,211 | 41,786,211 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,790 | comment | _heimdall | 2024-10-09T19:36:54 | null | That's actually why I included a note on removing or severely limiting headers sent like user-agent strings. There are occasional uses for those when there are actually client-specific differences, but those are few and far between outside the embedded space.<p>Add it to the list of obvious examples where browser vendors are disingenuous. Saying they care about privacy while sending a long list of identifiable information is disingenuous at best. | null | null | 41,789,067 | 41,786,012 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,791 | comment | jghn | 2024-10-09T19:37:03 | null | > See some of their shows in the 90s and 00s<p>I think this is part of the tension.<p>By the mid-90s, "punk" had evolved from something that was a small band of weirdos into something larger. For instance normal, run of the mill high school kids were shopping the aesthetic at Hot Topic. I'm not suggesting this was good nor bad. But there was a huge culture shift happening. At a minimum, the punk aesthetic had shifted into the mainstream and poppier acts like Green Day helped to make that happen.<p>So folks who had been used to getting made fun of and beat up for being punks in the 80s weren't always super happy to see this shift. Again, not suggesting they had the right to feel this way or not. But it happened.<p>In general countercultures built around nonconformity have these tensions. Participants preach the nonconformity, but then reject people who don't fit a certain aesthetic. Participants preach openness, but then get upset when too many people join. It's just how it goes. | null | null | 41,791,556 | 41,790,295 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,792 | comment | loumaciel | 2024-10-09T19:37:07 | null | What alternative promotional strategies? | null | null | 41,791,666 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,791,793 | comment | felix089 | 2024-10-09T19:37:14 | null | Thank you, and yes that is possible. Which model are you looking to fine-tune? | null | null | 41,791,716 | 41,789,176 | null | [
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41,791,794 | comment | galdor | 2024-10-09T19:37:20 | null | This space may be well established, but it still does not fullfill all needs. For my own:<p>- NGINX does not support ACME, and I'm fed up with dealing with Lego and other external ACME clients. Also the interactions between locations has never been clear to me.<p>- Caddy plugins mean I have to download xcaddy and rebuild the server. I <i>really</i> do not want to rebuild services on my servers just because I need a simple layer 4 reverse proxy (e.g. so that I can terminate TLS connections in front of my IRC server).<p>So I'm building my own server/reverse proxy (<a href="https://github.com/galdor/boulevard">https://github.com/galdor/boulevard</a>). Competition is good for everyone! | null | null | 41,791,673 | 41,790,619 | null | [
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41,791,795 | comment | bonoboTP | 2024-10-09T19:37:21 | null | That may be more true in a super crowded and hot area, like AI now where reputable profs get dozens of PhD applicants per position, who all have already published relevant works in the field at top venues during their masters.<p>In more chill fields where the waters are relatively calm, this may be less of an issue.<p>But let's also consider the fact that Hassabis did his undergrad at the University of Cambridge, likely with excellent results. He wasn't just some random programmer. | null | null | 41,789,779 | 41,786,101 | null | [
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41,791,796 | comment | lfmunoz4 | 2024-10-09T19:37:23 | null | No idea why you would roll your own, easiest thing is run nginx in docker. No way writing your own is the first thing you should do. | null | null | 41,791,371 | 41,790,619 | null | [
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41,791,797 | comment | naasking | 2024-10-09T19:37:26 | null | Well it's hard to say because the OP didn't actually specify what state he's storing with JSON. Given we're talking about HTMX, all durable state should be server-side and client-side state should be generated by the server to round-trip back to the server, so it's not really clear why JSON should should be used here. Typically in this context, state is stored server-side, or client-side in input fields or in the URL as parameters (HATEOAS). | null | null | 41,790,989 | 41,781,457 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,798 | comment | commandlinefan | 2024-10-09T19:37:34 | null | > Some of favorite coworkers have been from India<p>Mine, too. Some of my least favorite coworkers have been from India as well. Mostly because almost all of my coworkers have been from India since about 1997. | null | null | 41,787,107 | 41,785,265 | null | null | null | null |
41,791,799 | comment | int_19h | 2024-10-09T19:37:48 | null | I do know what sex my boss is, but why should I be forced to restate it every time I reference them in a conversation? It feels rather less polite to the <i>speaker</i> to impose that need on them. | null | null | 41,790,254 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
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