skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> WASM fills in a use case where you need to run highly performant code on a browser.

That's not exactly correct. It's possible to write equally performant code in just Javascript, by being careful to avoid certain features of the language (e.g. garbage collection, expando objects, dynamic types for variables, etc). Writing code in a stricter language like rust or c++ might make hitting those targets a little easier, but also using TypeScript can make it easier, too.

With the exception of loading, parsing and some JIT profiling, as WASM can potentially be smaller, and it can skip the majority of parsing and early profiling.

So WASM shouldn't be thought of as a tool for achieving speed. It should more be thought of as a means for running cross-platform code, for languages other than Javascript.
Is Polygon a side chain or a commit chain: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7F67ZP9fsE&feature=youtu.be
I'd be more interested to see a list of users who have commented the most on the same articles as me. Seems like a better way to measure interests, even if it's indirect. Of course, this wouldn't distinguish between doppelgangers and evil twins >:)
> MPs: Octopuses feel pain and need legal protection

Right. Most animals feel pain...

> When you think of an octopus or lobster, what comes to mind? Seafood or intelligent marine life?

Many animals we eat in industrial quantities are intelligent life...

Honestly, WTF is wrong with this article. The level of argument is as if they've just found out to their shock that meat doesn't grow on trees.
McMansion to the McMansion'th power!
The author excludes a third possibility - that many NFT transactions are simply money laundering.
Yes, basically that. I set up mail servers for a company in 2001-2008 and then it was way easier. I tried to do it again five years ago, for my personal server and quickly found the landscape changed a lot. But it is doable.
As a developer, you don't have this choice. You have to support the devices that people already have. Which, for iOS, means inevitably playing by Apple's stupid rules.
This is categorically wrong. I have been able to successfully do this for multiple games, the most recent being KSP when an update broke all my add-ons so I downgraded until they all caught up.
Exactly the same, yeah.
Ask HN: Do software engineers have leverage?
The web (including this site) is full of discussions/articles about how the job market for software engineers is hot, and getting hotter after the pandemic. People say it's a seller's market.

Some other people say it's actually a sucker shortage, meaning that employers do not compete on salary.

Then Triplebyte wrote (1): "Engineers are almost completely unique as a labor force. There is far more demand for engineers than there is supply, and that makes engineers powerful in a way other professions are not."

A handful of software engineers produce software used by millions, and therefore generate an immense amount of value.

Open source contributors give away a lot of value, since if everyone had to re-create their work (including its dependencies, its dependencies' dependencies, and so on), there would be 1,000,000 times the demand for software engineers than there is today and innovation progress would be much much slower.

Do software engineers really have leverage?

How could we increase our leverage?

Why don't we choose to use our rare skills for our own profit (as everyone else does), and instead many of us give away immense value (and power/leverage) by open sourcing our work?

[1]: https://triplebyte.com/blog/rethinking-triplebyte
Sounds a bit similar to lftp[1]. While I don't think it supports partial updates or updates of compressed files like zsync, it doesn't rely on a meta-file and also supports a range of other protocols. You can essentially just point it at a website, directory index, ftp server, torrent etc. and it will let you browse the files, create mirrors or update local files.

[1] https://lftp.yar.ru
I don't see how that follows.

If you're making a slippery slope argument - the answer is that there is a difference between a private school with administration, dedicated real estate and staff teaching 100s of kids, and people keeping their kids home to teach them themselves.

If it's a semantic argument, that homeschooling is a form of non-public and therefore private education, by private schools I specifically mean the large institutions. I doubt homeschooled people would say that they went to private school.

If it's a legal argument - a blanket ban on private schools would have impact on homeschooling in California - that's likely true, but I'm not suggesting how a law would be written, just the result of the law.
The most significant gain for animal rights will be the day, when we can produce inexpensive lab-grown meat (including fish) that is indistinguishable from livestock based products.

We could also really use a framework for recognizing and categorizing consciousness in other lifeforms. And translate that into a law that automatically applies tiered protection to all other lifeforms. We probably need to figure out consciousness in ourselves first, though.
Imagine the possibility that this story is being pushed to build opposition support for stronger financial surveillance laws.
I really don’t like the idea of the government dictating what a company does with it’s software, so the idea of forced side loading or other app stores doesn’t sit well with me.

However as far as installing your own OS on the hardware, that seems like something we could require without a downside. I don’t think the companies should be forced to provide anything, other than the specifications of the hardware, they just shouldn’t be allowed to stop it. If someone wants to write drivers and get an OS running on an iPad then they should be able to.

If it’s a security issue then the preloaded OS could disable sensitive thing, perhaps Apple Pay and stuff stops working, but your in your own OS anyway so why would it matter.

I think it should go for any hardware. You could do it in a tesla, the insurance companies could decide not to cover cars that have custom software on them, but someone racing them could run their own OS if they wanted.

I think allowing something like this could go a long way to stop the people that seem to want the government intervening with everything these days.
Is it still not self evident that pain is a key mechanism in almost all animals?
Note, however, that a form of third-party insurance is included in the vehicle registration fees: https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/registration/registration-fe.... For a regular car, the TAC charge and its 10% insurance duty are somewhat more than the registration fee (my most recent annual renewal had a $302.40 registration fee and a $413.60 TAC charge + insurance duty, as one garaged in a low-risk zone; that increases to $532.40 if you’re in a high-risk zone, which looks to be not far off “metropolitan Melbourne”).

The TAC charge being a form of third-party insurance and mandatory commonly misleads people into thinking that what’s normally called “third-party insurance” is mandatory, but as you say, it’s not.
Lisp: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1999)
I hate cloud clients so much. Every company seems to be using a different one and I haven't seen a single one with good UX.
We were pretty advanced 150 years ago, relatively speaking
The techniques used to make CPUs fast have possible vulnureable areas (not all of it is due to Out-Of-Order Execution, some was due to optimizations made on top).

The mitigations introduced stalls into those mechanism, clearing some of the state, resulting in slowdowns.

However, the mitigations are not as big slowdowns as not having the speculative execution mechanism at all.
The changes you would need to make for HTTP to support a rsync style pull protocol are pretty minimal. Two of them, really.

1) A checksum header in the HEAD response

2) Altering the HEAD method to optionally accept the same range request headers that a GET does, and have the checksum header return the checksum for that range.

I'm mildly surprised it hasn't happened. Pretty sure you could do it with vanilla php or the nginx lua module.
I recently started using pandas to do groupby and aggregation. It’s nice to have, but the whole time I kept wishing it would just let me run an SQL query without adding another dependency. Having learned SQL long ago, I find it to be much more intuitive and expressive. I guess it’s all just what you know.
0% should be wasted on the incorrigible. And yes, they exist.
> Does this solve real people's actual problems?

I have seen a IIAB device used in a school in a remote area (one IIAB for several clients on the WLAN, old PCs with wired network, phones, and tablets).

The IIAB scripts, https://github.com/iiab/iiab/tree/master/roles , make setting up such servers very easy (including best FOSS apps, wifi hot spot, networking, and web admin interface). You just need to bring one beefy hard disk and you suddenly have access to all of Khan Academy, wikipedia in dozens of languages, and all kinds of other collections of educational and reference materials.

Of course nothing prevents you for copying content over to individual mobile phones and tablets (like takeout), but centralized setup of a "learning resources hotspot" that people can connect to is very efficient first start.

Related: see related info about installing Kolibri and Kiwix in this comment (these are two of the apps that are available via the IIAB install scripts) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26137100
This is interesting but it's not the kind of thing that a post should be flagged for.
I wonder what would happen if Microsoft required drivers to be redistributable at least by Microsoft and hosted them on a server for download by independent researchers, similar to how fwupd is doing it. Then the researchers could find ways to identify malware and point it out to Microsoft. As a bonus it might make the life of fwupd easier too.
From the looks of it, the upstream author didn't ask nicely too, honest questions from NixOS maintainers were immediately met with mockery.
Yeah fuck this shit. I don't give a fuck if an octopus can perform differential calculus; I'm still going to eat it.
It is good practice to be cynical about politics. Are they serious or are they trying to sneak something through under cover of a distraction?
Disagree. The whole premise of fundamental analysis is to justify the stock price by its corporate earnings, which is at least expressing an interest in corporate earnings. Forecasts of such earnings may sometimes be wildly wrong, sure, but this is still qualitatively different than "GME to the moon" which never pretended to bother about the earnings to begin with.
So? Just use data augmentation.
Why do school boards need to be elected at all?

Like electing judges and sheriffs, this seems to be a peculiarly American thing. Most other countries appoint professionals to manage their education systems, and for good reason.
I have 2 accounts at over 1k karma. I generally start a new one when I make major moves (across multiple state lines or between countries).

My accounts did not correlate, probably because they have been inactive at staggered intervals.

> We took usernames and respective comment histories from the past three years

However, putting the names in the Doppelganger search yielded very similar results and the comments of the users are from like-minded people. Well done.
If you have a poor background and reduce your world to only people with a similar background, your relative success compared to those you interact with rises.
It's still a lot harder (abstraction layers add complexity) to get close to metal as opposed to say, DOS.
Comments are often reply to someone else's point on things which may not be related to the original post.
En-ROADS: climate simulation tool for understanding how to achieve climate goals
I'm not an expert on this. What's the extent of private APIs this can use that something on the App Store cannot? As I understand it, it's for things that could technically go on the app store, but don't because of apple policies. I would imagine emulators, bittorrent clients, a Sci-Hub reader... stuff like that.

Apps cannot even use private entitlements like CarPlay or Zoom's split screen video permission, can they?
I do not suspect this is a complete analysis of the risk.
"Croatian admins are probably patriots who want to protect our country from the past Communist ideology and defend our War of Independence."

Exactly, they're not interested in the truth, but to push their own political views. Sharing those political views doesn't make them true.
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/SmutOnRails.html

>...there was a Ruby conference in San Francisco called GoGaRuCo (Golden Gate Ruby Conference). This conference has grabbed attention due to a talk at which the presenter illustrated a discussion of CouchDB by using sexually suggestive pictures of women
The complaints about the name for a free product, created by a charity, that aims to help the deeply poor and remote because it "conflicts" with an inside joke from a cult BBC comedy that wrapped up 8 years ago are, at best, a bit silly.
As you mention, this would cost magnitudes more. Why not just send at least 20 RPis instead?
Financial services.
They are all victims. Nonetheless, the unfortunate reality is that the state persists precisely because this idiocy broadly holds.
Yes, but as I understand it existing animal welfare legislation in the UK only applies to vertebrates.
Whatever you say, bro. Whatever you say.
That’s black box AI systems for you. Works in some cases, doesn’t work in others, fails hilariously occasionally; and people will make false accusations based on them.
> I was just matching the patronizing, brusque tone in your original post.

My original post simply asked: "what is it good for". If you insist to see this as a rhetorical sarcastic question, that's your problem. I asked it as a question.

> I do, actually. Your question (ending in a period) came across as extremely condescending and dismissive

So, the fact I asked a question and didn't end it with a question mark resulted in this emotional outburst and interpreting it as "extremely condescending and dismissive". Think about that. It's illogical and outright hysterical.

I wasn't thinking about "BCI tech" in general at all. I was curious about this device. You're completely, utterly off the mark.

> If your question were "So what are the device's current capabilities?" or something similar, then I would've responded differently.

I don't want to know what are its current capabilities because I understood that from the article. But I don't know what its current capabilities are good for in practical use for their potential customers. You may want me to ask the questions you want me to ask, that's cute, but it's not how asking questions works. People ask what they want to ask, and you answer if you can and want to answer. You don't go around insulting people and inferring ill intent in their questions for not asking the questions YOU want them to ask.

You see, when you sell $50k device, you believe you're providing $50k of value. It's not an internal research device anymore. That implies they see some uses for it, and I was wondering what those are, without listening to an entire podcast.

And you clearly don't know. And that isn't my fault.
It doesn't sound to me like the GP is dismissing skill, just pointing out that people rather than facts drive the market.
Very small data sizes. Each database is ephemeral and only scoped to a specific user's session of work.

We didn't even bother with any indexing, because there are very few tables where we would exceed 100 rows.
No one is forcing you to be an app developer. Why not consider a nice career in mainframe software development?
Another signal for matching could be user's 'Favorite'.
I heard the earth was flat only a few months ago too—it does not make either claim any more likely to be true.

And FWIW, I have seen many ivermectin articles on HN (check my past comments), and all seem to say roughly the same thing, so they get rather annoying in my feed at this point.
Fails to associate any of my alts.
gmta.
> So they were a kind of fake.

They were not. Not even "kind of". For them to be fake they'd need to be made out as something they are not[1]. The companies who acquired those certificates just weren't aware that certificates from that particular branch weren't permissible under SK rules - likely not even authorities in SK were aware until they had a closer look.

As an analogy, a driver's license from one country may not allow you to drive a car in another, but that doesn't mean it's a fake license.

[1] Edit: Some outlets claim there were fabricated test records, if that is true and not just journalists writing whatever, then they would be indeed fake.
IIAB is just scripts for automating installing other software, so it doesn't include content — you download the content separately based on the app you need.

For StackOverflow content, the best way to get it offline is through the Kiwix ZIM files (compressed archive suitable for web content).

IIAB will install kiwix-serve by default, then you need to download the relevant ZIM files from here: https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages (search for the ones with stackexchange.com )
If you have no dependency on a specific distro, what distro would you choose for your servers? I’m leaning towards Debian at this point.

On my laptop and desktop, I run Fedora and Arch, though, so keeping that consistent with my servers might be nice.

For that reason, I’ve been thinking of kicking the tires on Debian testing / sid for the laptop.
This is probably my worst error as well, one that I've kept repeating for over 20 years. Making the effort to maintain professional relationships over time, especially when inconvenient, is the number one piece of advice I'd pass on to anyone new to any field. Sending a "how's it going" e-mail every so often cost nothing. It's the one thing I've emphasized to my own kids repeatedly. Hopefully they'll do better at it than I did.
To be fair, every single Acer device I've ever had contact with other than my display was conspicuously unreliable, and their support/service has not been that great, either.

I have good experience with Asus laptops, though, I still have an EeePC from 2008, and it's still working fine. Slow as a snail, of course, but still working. ThinkPads, too, although they can be a bit pricey.

There's the software side, of course, macOS is much more pleasant to use than Windows. But I found after using a Mac Mini for about three years that I actually prefer GNU/Linux on my desktop.
Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?
There are therapists who specialize in substance abuse outside the AA model. You should call around to some local therapists and see if anyone feels like they might be a fit. They can also help you to understand what if any problem does exist for you.
You are going to have a very hard time to re-conciliate eating food without causing pain (and yes, trees/plants probably also feel some kind of pain, while not the same as in the animal realm).

Animals in the wild don't give a s** about the pain they cause to other species when they eat themselves alive, and eating a prey alive is the normal standard in nature.

This being said, I'm all for minimizing suffering of anything involved in the food chain as much as possible. I consider that avoiding wasting food is just as important as reducing the pain we cause to animals.
This "newly found belief system" you mention is over 60 years old...
What are the apps on these kinds of platforms that make the effort worthwhile?
Game set match! Wow
I also thought of this. What’s the max life of a device like raspberry pi? 5? 10 years? What could be the causes of their failure?
You flagged it as what? I need to know so to understand if flagging a post is Lindy or not! :)
How do you build a community like HN or similar?
Got the same email, and a day later an apology that it was sent in error. Since this blog post is over a month old I'd be interested in whether or not this was resolved.
> Python can also be compiled to native code, if its developers decide to go that way

With Lisp this is usually done. The first compiler has been written early 60s. Since then zillions have been implemented and used.

> It's more about being "closer to the machine".

If one looks at a single CPU Lisp can compile itself to fast code, even in the range of 50% slower than C - compared to standard Python which can be much slower, unless computation stays in the Python libs which are written in C.

Where Lisp loses is the whole infrastructure to more advanced parts of the hardware and the systems. Linux for example is largely defined with C level interfaces. Lisp uses them, as foreign code and data - it can't use its GC managed memory.

> Native code is a very big market

Still Lisp compiles to native code, usually. There must be other reasons than native code.
Systemd Timers for Scheduling Tasks – Fedora Magazine
I see you are a man of refinement who buys the best books to navigate these trying times
I believe teaching is a somewhat specialized profession, or at least a very separate skill from knowing the subject. I am just getting into teaching now, at a college level, and finding it is a completely different beast than everything else, even though I know the subject very well. I mean, we've all had teachers that sucked, or professors who cared more about research than teaching; it's not something that people can 'just do'.

> none of them had any special skills

Great teachers make it look easy. What you don't see is the preparation and the previous iterations of their ideas. It's like acting - good actors make it look like an easy profession. But try "acting naturally" in front of a camera sometime. For most people, even walking becomes awkward.

Or programming. Behind most great programmers is a trail of terrible code that they have written over the years.

>They were just passionate. It doesn't help that when you delve into it, all this 'specialized knowledge' about how to learn turns out to be junk science: cf. 'learning styles' or 'three cueing', which destroyed the ability of millions of kids to actually read.

There are quite a few people who can read, even at a high level. But how do you teach it, and teach it in a scalable way? It's not as easy as you think.

Also, what field doesn't have fashion and missteps? Doesn't HN regularly complain about how various programming paradigms and languages were terrible ideas? What makes you think that anyone can do something complex by going from zero to the best implementation in one iteration?
Any idea how I can even go about acquiring this many IPs?
No. What is weird about this is that octopuses are already included in animal rights legislation and have the same protection as vertebrates. It's like these MPs haven't even bothered to check...
Edit: I should have read TFA. It's actually about commercial fishing more than labs. I have some sympathy with the octopus bit. But I have a hard time getting too protective of lobsters.
> The whole premise of fundamental analysis is to justify the stock price by its corporate earnings

Isn't this an example of the GP's point?

There's no intrinsic reason for earnings to be directly related to stock price.

Like you said, it's a justification not reasoning.
Both these posts make sense, but I’d be curious if this will slow the market for fake bags, making it more difficult to source a quality bag.

Probably not - in reality, are people going to say “nice bag - let me see your NFT”. I’d think it equivalent to asking for a receipt from the birken store…
The original Space Jam movie website from 1996 is still alive and well. Definitely a classic!

https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
Predicting crypto is mostly worthless and about memecoins seems easier than the big short though
$500K? Lets billionize that = $500,000,000,000 - make 'em sweat...