skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks very much for posting this - I forgot JAX defaults to float32 - I'll fix that soon.

As for the other part about the leading comparison - I was trying to highlight just how much faster JAX could be in the best-case scenario. Beyond the accelerator and JIT, the function itself lends to being expedited significantly when JITted. I posted benchmarks with a comparison of JAX vs NumPy both on CPU, and then with JAX on TPU further down to control more variables. (reposted from reddit)
I honestly thought you meant waiting for the next iteration doubling of ML model performance/training…

which I thought was brilliant, ha!
Valid points are raised by others regarding business knowledge.

But I would argue that the primary reason here is because the skills needed to be a successful indie developer have never been formally defined. They are more art than science.

You can't really teach *artistic* talent. There is no one correct way to do art --- or launch a business.

You can learn accounting, finance and marketing --- but it won't teach you the core skills needed to be successful. Lots of *successful* entrepreneurs simply hire these skills as needed.

Picasso didn't have a degree in art and Gates didn't have a degree in indie dev.
I think the left-arrow of the directional pad on my Roku remote performs the "skip back 10 seconds" function...
Well if it does smell that way, certainly that wasn't my intention. If all you consumed was Fox News, I can understand why you might think certain ways. But keep in mind from the very beginning it's been about us versus them in terms of MAGA -- you're not hearing this from other political arenas in the same way. So it's not like they're being cast into a bubble by the left as you described. It's self-selection as asked for by their thought leaders.

What I was trying to not be passive at all about was my disregard for the Trump/Carlson universe that is actively trying to create a variety of ways to split people at the societal level and funnel them into their own worlds. They're not the only ones to do so, but they're enjoying great success at achieving this by the millions. There is no force that's doing this in terms of actively dividing people... the only other equivalent might be 'cancel culture' that's trying to do it with thoughts, but at least that's aimed at the individual issues rather than who you vote for. A huge component of Fox News is telling you that the 'mainstream media' is lying to you so don't bother listening to them (never mind they're actually the biggest mainstream media source by audience size). Trump will tell you everyone that isn't for him is lying and creating hoaxes so don't listen to them either. Now they're trying to create their own Twitter, dating apps, etc. It's slowly partitioning the world by ideology conformance down to literally who you date from the start. People already self-select enough (homophily is a strong force) -- to lubricate that for political gain will only lead to destruction.
> In these third world countries, the lives of affluent expats and the natives who serve them pretty much don’t intersect at all except through the service relationship.

How is this any different from in the US (or anywhere else, really)? Most well-off (or even just "comfortable") people don't mix much with low-income folks, outside of service relationships.
What fun. I was an Atari guy but I could get into something like the Apple II firmware running on something from the era with more interesting graphics and sound hardware.
I’m not sure how come you don’t see this internally. Before we moved off EFS we simply where never able to back up our drive - it would timeout after 7 days for an incremental backup, and we reported this several times in tickets.

I think we had about 300tb in that drive. Which is a lot, sure, but never being able to take a backup made us pretty sad.
anime has been a part of hacker culture since a while now
You'd be surprised. Google makes more than that from showing ads to an average US user. Same for Facebook iirc.
Translation: lots of cheap 2nd hand Chromebooks/boxes to unlock and flash with an open OS.

https://mrchromebox.tech/
You have a lot more faith in a government that has proven plenty of times that they can’t be trusted with information than you probably should.
You can buy about 1100 calories of candy for $1 at Dollar General. Taxes aren’t gonna do it.
Yes, the weak typing in JS allows for this comparison of a language and a human.
There is no magic, nor room for it for any person that believes in the scientific method. There are a sufficient number of real mysteries and wonders not to waste time with pseudoscience. The brain is not a consciousness antennae, and there are no good reasons to think so.

Consciousness is an emergent phenomenon entirely dependent on and contained within the brain.
The Beanie Baby Bubble of '99
For a moment, I thought the birds are geofenced at height and thus fell down, like Icarus flying too close to the sun.
> You see, the first time I tried Wordle was on my tablet. But suddenly, I wanted to give Wordle a shot on my phone... and I realized those treasured statistics wouldn't be there.

I want to take it seriously but it's hard.
Easter egg or bug?
I believe this comes from an ongoing lawsuit[1] that SCOTUS recently agreed to hear.

> The plaintiffs revealed that Harvard admissions officers consistently rated Asian-American applicants as a group lower than others on traits like positive personality, likability, courage, kindness and being widely respected. Asian-Americans scored higher than applicants of any other racial or ethnic group on other admissions measures like test scores, grades and extracurricular activities, but the students' personal ratings significantly dragged down their admissions chances. The plaintiffs also claimed that alumni interviewers (who, unlike admissions officers within Harvard, did actually meet with individual applicants) gave Asian-Americans personal ratings comparable to white applicants.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v...
Is the news still full of videos of Ukrainians saying that they "aren't worried" about Russia?
>I
can’t believe it hasn’t been beaten yet.

The ipod was too good at it's own game. It's functionally obsolete now. Also, a shuffle has 2gb and no screen or bluetooth.
Yes. Mutual TLS. But that involves certificates, potentially CAs, dealing with certificate expirations and other PKI formalities. Any user can generate an Ed25519 key pair, base64 encode the public part of the key and register that with websites. It's more informal than TLS certificates and totally user controlled.

I do use TLS client certificates (with several APIs) but I don't consider them as password replacements (which is the goal of ed25519-login).
"Found the guy who can get five years experience in a system that's one year old. No wonder he has 6 jobs."

Best comment.
One of the big issues with this approach is that you have to effectively kill the person's immune system with very high dose chemo before introducing the resistant bone marrow cells. While BM transplantation is routinely performed, there are instances where the transplant is not successful (for reasons other than HLA match, etc), with the failure of bone marrow engraftment being typically fatal. Given this, and that the current anti-retroviral drugs generally work pretty well (i.e. those taking the medication enjoy a reduced risk of mortality), this curative treatment might not be pursued.
Where is Starman going to be in the future?
I wonder how this will help get drivers mainlined.

And if OEMs will start offering Chrome OS Flex devices off the shelf.
I don't know how things work in the US, but what you describe would be legally considered "indirect discrimination" in Canada, and it would be treated exactly the same way as "direct discrimination". In fact many scholars argue that indirect discrimination can be just as problematic, if not more, than direct discrimination. [1]

[1] https://www.canlii.org/en/commentary/doc/2019CanLIIDocs1747
re: leading comparison, that makes sense. I recommend labeling it a bit better: JAX on TPU vs NumPy on CPU
I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a feature^Weaster egg
https://standardebooks.org/

Another great source of well formatted, public domain books.
I believe he could have used Cookies instead of LocalStorage. The data he's keeping seems simple enough. It has the same issues the author is talking about, but it should work.
We should avoid discussing the fact that the search engine is now hijacking my search to show me things it would prefer I have searched for?

You know what - I'd much rather just see the spam sites.

The spam sites are useful feedback that my search is either too generic, or there aren't many good hits.

Further, some of them aren't actually spam sites - I'm not afraid to click through 5 or even 6 pages of results, and I can usually visually distinguish obvious spam from content very quickly.

I can't do that if Google has removed my ability to actually filter the results to the relevant search terms, and just keeps showing me the freaking link to npm over and over again.
AKA bullshit time
Or, similarly, X. A few years ago, I had a OnePlus X and a Sony Xperia X. The iPhone X had just released, as had the Xbox One X, etc.
Elon Musk Donates $5.7B of Tesla Shares to Charity
There's probably fancy terms for this, but I currently see Google at this phase:

"We cannot meet shareholder expectations by selling milk alone. We need to slaughter some cows and sell some beef."

YouTube ads are getting worse. Google results are getting worse. They're cannibalizing long term value for short term gains.
This is so dumb, the moon contractors have decades of experience, whereas starship hasn't even got into orbit once.

oh

the contractors haven't even got off the ground once?

huh
It's true for cash, but not for cards. If a merchant incorrectly gets my $1000, and I charge him back, I will get my money, even if he spent $1000 on coke and hookers.
I admit focusing on Wordle here may be a popularity hack for this article[1] (though it is also what brought writing it to mind), as obviously Josh Wardle wasn't expecting the results he got. Though I do really hope the New York Times integrates cross-device play at some point... they already have an account system, after all.

I think small audiences also benefit from a server-side component, although ideally one that is also relatively small: With the example of high scores or seeing friends' progress, I wouldn't want to see the entire world's, but maybe share amongst a small group of friends or family. (This is what sharing to Twitter or Facebook largely emulates, in a very indirect way.)

[1] Aside: I briefly wondered if I should figure a way to shoehorn "Wordle" into the title if I was actually hoping to get some traction with this article, but I really think it would've moved away from the point then.
IMHO Neal Stephenson predicted this in his 2008 book 'Anathem' where he talked about the ITA and their Reticulum.
Ironic that the web is being eaten by a glorified Usenet, leaving then, as the main use case for the web, the sort of remote commerce that was once handled by Sears catalogs and food delivery phone numbers.
More like "try to use as many moving parts and layers and fragmentation as possible to accomplish a single task, turn the Linux desktop into a distributed system with messaging back and forth, and distributed state that can go wrong".
The Government is not a monolith. The rates are driven by the Fed decisions, and the Fed is subject to a congressional Act that establishes a dual mandate (inflation and unemployment). The Fed does not care about the budget deficit, or at least not in a direct way, as they care about the inflation indicators (like CPI). The US Treasury does not care about the deficit either. They simply have to enact what the Congress says. If the Congress is ok with a $5 trillion deficit per year, the US Treasury will raise the required debt at whatever prevailing rates are out there. The Congress does not pass the budget bill in a vacuum, they start with a proposal coming from the Executive.

So you have 4 actors, the Fed, the US Treasury, the Congress, and the President. Only the first one can manipulate the rates, and that one has only an indirect interest in how the long term debt of the Government looks like.
> There's nothing particularly special about human level of intelligence.

Big claim since nothing in the known universe has human level intelligence besides humans. It's like holding the original declaration of independence and saying that there is nothing particularly special about this piece of paper.
> The idea of using LSD as a treatment has floated around the Internet for decades. There are rumors — totally unconfirmed — that an astronomical dose of LSD — "a quarter of a vial," or 25 hits — woke up an unresponsive dude and, after a few days, he was able to speak. It's entirely possible those stories are true.

“Unresponsive dude” lol. Interesting descriptor.

It doesn’t sound like anyone has tried it yet.
Like the Web-of-Trust or similar?
Show HN: Interactive Loop Optimization
and nobody seems to have mentioned Webbkoll in the comments anywhere yet: seems like a nice service, though i got 403 and 503 errors for a couple pages that i tried. Luckily it looks like DuckDuckGo and Startpage really do have zero cookies. I haven't heard of HERE WeGo before; looks like they use Amplitude analytic(never heard of them).

I'm kind of put off at the suggestion to use BAT to regain privacy(like blockchain is a cure-all for everything cyber) but then again, was this written in 2017?

Overall i agree with much of the essay, though i have a few nitpicks, like i'm not sure i feel quite so optimistic about the state of open-source browsers Chromium and Firefox(i am using Firfox).

Also, don't use YouBoob.

have i forgotten anything?
bug egg? it's also an instant answer from the community (the little info icon on the right hand side) so perhaps just presented that way due to how it was delivered by that specific community member.
Pretty soon the question would shift from 'how do we do this' to 'how do we do this cheaply'
Sure you won't be able to see all of your friend's stats in one nice looking UI, but I doubt that has bothered anyone tremendously. If anything, what you perceive to be crutch actually encourages people to share their result 1-1 with their friends in whatever chat apps they please. That to me, is a feature, not a bug.
doesn’t matter if it’s airborne. What matters is that people goes to bars and restaurants to hook up. Seems super dangerous and deadly to not make sure everyone at the club is HIV-! Especially when it would be so easy to expand Covid passes to other diseases and health screens! Almost all HIV is transmitted by people who don’t know their status so this seems super obvious to me. Excuse me now while I inject this 9th Covid booster into my eyeball.
NHR is also available to Portuguese citizens, provided they haven't been a resident for the last X years.
I have to reduce size/resolution of my canvas for iPad as mobile safari gets really slow with html canvases around 10k x 10k size. It's tricky because mobile safari has exactly the same UA as normal safari.
There’s definitely a strong correlation among certain segments of hacker culture.

There’s a lot of furries too.

Might be confirmation bias, we see the people that stick out, but to say there isn’t a large cohort that strongly identifies with anime is just wrong.
What about the age structure? I would expect that anti-gay conservatives are, on average, older and less likely to even consider using a dating app.
Yup of course, what's your point though? I don't think this conflicts with what I'm saying.
The Mysteries of Firefly Synchrony
For me personally, when I use the term "free will", I mean something stronger than "deterministic, but not provably so". That's more of a "free will of the gaps" - claiming that free will is hiding somewhere in the holes in our knowledge.
Yeah, reddit also has issues with bots. But it's generally MUCH easier on reddit to gauge the quality of the content you're seeing than some top result on a google search.

When looking up "the best <product>" on Google, the results are utterly useless. It's always some site with a financial incentive to buy their particular product. Increasingly, that's low quality Chinese clones of products (and you'll find the same effect is true on amazon).

At least with reddit you can click on a user's post history and spot if something is obviously suspicious. On more popular threads you also get way more signal about whether something is sketchy.
>If people think they are buying a drug from a manufacturer they are wrong.

No one is saying that (at least on this thread).

All I'm saying laypeople assume the mfg is the bad guy when it comes to high drug prices. Time and time again on the news we are told that X drug costs $$$$$ in the US and the exact same drug costs orders of magnitude less in some other country. Everyone points the finger at the drug mfgs.

What I'm saying is that it's good that the secret is getting out that the mfgs are not necessarily the bad guys, and there's all these other companies involved in the drug price crisis.
Business startup visas as well which work pretty well. But it takes effort to get everything organised.
I don't understand the argument against "playing god." Frankly, almost everything we do is playing god in some way, shape, or form. There is no way the planet could feed this many humans, without humans actively shaping and altering almost every facet of the ecosystem. Humans have already played god and will continue to do so in ways that were unthinkable in years past.
Netlify is a platform for static site hosting on CDNs, with the CI/CD to build those sites, and serverless/auth functions for serveside logic, plus local dev to emulate them. They coined the "Jamstack" architecture/movement which has helped frontend devs and agencies be more productive.
Show HN: Practice Wordle with No Limits
A little word guessing game called LingoLingoLingo that I made over the Christmas period after watching TV episodes of Lingo and being introduced to Wordle. I didn't have the patience to wait for the new Wordle word each day and wasn't enjoying the barrage of adverts in the official Lingo mobile apps so I thought I'd make something of my own. Started as just a quick demo in the browser console but spurred on by family members I made it into an actual website.

I've made a few improvements (particularly around making the word list more friendly - nothing worse than trying to guess a totally obscure or archaic word) and the site has been shared around friends/family/colleagues over the past month or so. It seems to be averaging 300+ visits per day now which honestly is surpassing my incredibly low expectations for the site.

Tech stack was just sticking to what I know: React / Redux / Styled Components, and hosted on Cloudflare pages.

Would love to hear any feedback / suggestions!

Side note: I originally hosted this with Netlify but wasn't keen on paying for analytics that were very clearly padded out with bots/hackers trying to find wordpress admin pages. Interested to see if anyone has had similar experience? Using the Cloudflare JS-based analytics seems to be giving much more realistic figures and I think it's a nice balance between purely server-log-driven analytics and the more sinister tracking-everything-you-do that you get with Google Analytics. Interestingly a lot of traffic (around one-third of all visits) is via the Bing search engine.
It's hilarious because the mental image it gives me is like when a toddler helps with the groceries by carrying one small item into the house while I tackle all the rest of the bags.

It's the big prestige NASA capsule and it's like a toy besides a Starship.
I wish JAX worked with windows natively (without using wsl). I teach a very high level intro to numpy and would _love_ to have my students try jax. These students are relatively new to programming and the idea of using a linux shell or having to compile anything themselves just wouldn't work.
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Not too interested in any of these mods but will give Rockbox and FreshOS a look. Thanks for posting this.

Fwiw, can anyone answer is it difficult to revert Rockbox back to original OS?
> It's like a Considered Harmful but it actually tells you what to do instead!

Or "Falsehoods programmers believe about streaming apps"
I would have gotten so excited about something like that 20 years ago, I would have yelled “Yahoo!” from the top of my lungs.
It is essentially what it boils down to for everyone I have chatted with about it. Your mileage may vary.
Okay, fair, in which case you could probably run your own analysis from the reddit API and do your own work. AFAIK there's no one doing this (please chime in if you know!).

Or you could take the approach here [1] and run your own experiment. I would love to know the result. Make sure you run it in some of the bigger subs: r/all, r/funny, r/politics, etc. providing multiple. even contradictory comments and posts just to see what happens.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30352125
It's such a nebulous thing, eh? I'd say `Awk` (like curl, sed, grep, etc.) is part of the Bash toolkit. But then why isn't Python?

I guess the idea is that Bash is about piping together these small programs that typically take stdio and produce stdout. I think these have a name.. like GNU-style programs or something.
I have noticed the low effort posting. This may extend beyond just Reddit though. Everyone wants the biggest reward for the least amount of effort.
I haven't used puppeteer because I'd rather avoid the node.js ecosystem. I haven't used weasyprint because I can't install it on windows. The old way of doing it was using reportlab+xhtmltopdf (as described here: https://spapas.github.io/2015/11/27/pdf-in-django/)

About wkhtmltopdf I am using it for some years in an internal (elixir) project and it works flawlessly, never had any complaint...
I don't think it's due to popularity. It's due to the exchange rate against the Baht and inflation of energy costs.
My dad picked one (edit: a Chromebook, that is) up a couple years ago, which I thought was great because most of their market is kids and old people (isn't it?) so it'd surely have great accessibility features, and as you note Windows has been getting more and more hostile since at least Win10 (which tricked one of my uncles into paying for OneDrive without even knowing what it was ["something I need to use the computer, I think?"], leaving him confused about where files were going).

Nope. Dunno if ChromeOS is subpar, or if Apple's just so far ahead that it's spoiled me, but Chrome OS' accessibility settings seemed pretty poor, and some of what they did have didn't work very well.
I like their advice about taking screenshots for posterity though.

https://i.imgur.com/upevafi.png
Finding the Freedom in Free Will
I know 1-man-band software companies that sell plenty of software to the US military.
What the heck happened to Reality Sandwich?
100% #1 integration i want to see them have with Netlify Graph is Fauna or Supabase
One small thought — having the search engine be configurable, so that the user can specify which sources to give priority to (e.g., Reddit, NYT Wirecutter, Wikipedia, etc.), would be an incremental improvement.
The "do one thing and do it well" philosophy can be taken to bad extremes, but the tools you list mostly fit the philosophy as it was intended. Vim is a text editor, it does that one thing and does it well. Firefox is a web browser, it does that one thing and does it well, notwithstanding attempts to cram everything into web browsing.