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We don't know exactly what Google's leadership was thinking, nor how the AI race will shape up in the coming months and years. Calling it a "failure" seems presumptuous and prematu…

The money contributed to the Rust Foundation by large corporate members supports initiatives[0] that benefit all users of Rust, and I am happy for it. The slow and deliberative app…

You're incorrect. The letter ו (vav) is pronounced /v/ in modern Hebrew but /w/ in Biblical Hebrew and other ancient Semitic languages, which is why the letter is referred to as Wa…

Excellent write-up!

Is the magic a property of the broader language-family (and could be experienced with Janet, Racket, whatever), or Common Lisp specifically? When people praise the core execution e…

What exactly would you have done differently? Cargo made its debut in 2014, a year before the infamous left-pad incident, and three years before the first large-scale malicious typ…

Please share this with someone who doesn't know the story yet. Ingenuity alone can't save our species. We also need the will to do good. We are living through a moment of deep cyni…

Having worked with both kinds, I have generally preferred three-dimensional human beings to cut-outs from a compliance training manual. Being fundamentally kind and collaborative i…

Flame graphs have an official web site, maintained by Brendan Gregg, who invented them: https://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html . It's a useful starting point.

My hunch is that the same is true of Wikipedia's choice of Lua for template scripting, made back in 2012. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists...

> you might not understand what the problem is for working and middle class people quickly finding themselves surrounded by a sea of people with dramatically different cultures, va…

I am interested in this topic, but this textbook is too daunting for me. What I'd love is a crash course on Bayesian methods for the working systems performance engineer. If you, d…

It has access to the current page, so you can ask Gemini questions about its content.

Your content is great, and the participation of non-native English speakers in this community makes it better and richer.

The level of intellectual engagement with Chomsky's ideas in the comments here is shockingly low. Surely, we are capable of holding these two thoughts: one, that the facility of LL…

OK, I will be the useful idiot. I don't fully understand your anecdote. Could you explain what is exactly it that you perceived and that the other engineer failed to see?

For someone new to time series analysis, how did you choose these particular algorithms? Are they standard in the field, or more of a personal selection?

What is it about Zed that you find superior to VS Code?

I am starting to understand why these luminaries warn us about a future that is dominated by a solitary superintelligence, self-obsessed and uninterested in humanity.

POCSAG is an ideal for broadcasting low-sensitivity push notifications, like "report to your local commanding officer by 15:00 today". These messages don't need encryption, just a …

Armin advocates for 'uv' to dominate the space, but acknowledges it could be rug-pulled due to its VC backing. His solution to this potential issue is that it's "very forkable." Bu…

This brings to mind Chernoff faces[1], a type of visualization where facial features are mapped to data points. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face

When using Jpegli as a drop-in replacement for for libjpeg-turbo (i.e., with the same input bit-map and quality setting), will the output produced by Jpegli be smaller, more beauti…

Wonderful piece. Dennett knows how to write. And he captures the pleasure and privilege of Hacker News with this felicitous phrase: > Distributed understanding is a real phenomenon…