skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're rewriting history there. Intel has tried, tried, TRIED! to compete against ARM since it's been clear all the market growth was happening there around 2010.

Their most credible strategy was to produce modems to steal Qualcomm's insane margins on those chips and break the forced mariage of their modems with their not-so-good processors. It was such a resounding failure that Apple bought the whole division for scraps.

I don't see how Intel suddenly gets its shit together now that the ARM chips are in computers. The fact that the chips ended up in computers is a direct consequence of their decade of failure. I expect Apple to stay ahead of Intel and AMD in terms of power per watt for a decade at least.
I love Jet Pens. I actually found my way into it from the pen side, rather than the pencil side, getting very into Japanese made inks and fountain pens (and nib replacements for non-Japanese fountain pens). My first entry into this world was a quaint little stationary store in Kansas City where I found and bought a pen specifically designed to fit in the spine of a checkbook (this dates me, I'm sure). After that I began to realize the world of pens was larger than cheap bics and the occasional logoed click pen given away for free at a conference.

Since that experience I've become a devoted fan of Zebra's line of pens, and I always carry an F-301 or F-402 in my pocket, have huge stacks of them in my pen drawer, and discovered the entire world of Japanese stationary. I now buy almost all of my stationary products from Japanese companies, except ironically mechanical pencils. My favorite mechanical pencil is the Rotring 800, which is made by a German company. For a fit of double-irony, they no longer manufacturer them in Germany and they are instead made in Japan under license by Holbein (who also makes amazing pencils for art use).

Between Jet Pens and Goulet Pens, I've spent a small fortune on stationary products over the years, but it creates a visceral experience that can't be replicated electronically (I've tried). My writing has improved, I take more notes, I write with more eloquence, and I've found using good stationary and writing well is so rare now that it becomes a nice symbolic touch that gets remembered.
+1 for Acorn.
Yes, and the most important part is .. you need a sufficiently high-margin business that you can scale up, otherwise you'll never be big enough to "control your inputs".

I mean sure, you can always work on decreasing risk (from directly hedging financially ... forward contracts, swaps, basically counterparty insurance), to keeping a shitton of inventory, using standardized components, etc..

But of course the accumulation of capital allowed Apple to do this, which is simply [quantity] x [unit economics].

Again "obviously", it's not independent of Steve's (and Apple's as a whole) philosophy. Repositioning themselves into a high-end market immediately helped with the unit economics, even if they sold last year's technology with a simplified (but polished!) UI/UX.
latent difussion models (see: https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion).

we also use our own open-source library https://github.com/thegeniverse/geniverse
You are incredibly privileged.
An an engineer who worked in refineries in the US its pretty obvious to me that you haven't spent any time at all in a refinery or you'd know that the vast majority of people in a refinery are not engineers. They are pipe fitters, operators, electricians, welders, machinists, general laborers, managers, admin people, etc. Engineers are a small minority.
ARM ISA has probably little to do with the efficiency, although:

* the memory model is slightly more relaxed

* instruction decoding is obviously simpler, and while the impact of x86 decoding was not that major at a point, I suspect it has increased with time

What matters is mostly the microarchitecture of Apple, and, yes, the 5nm.

IIRC at the beginning of the Zen projet, AMD wanted to do 2 versions: 1 with an x86 frontend, and one with an ARM one. They would probably have had very similar performance profiles, and I suspect at most a dozen percent of diff for energy consumption. Intel is currently very far from that to reach a core perf similar to the one of the M1.
From a nationalist standpoint. A country sets the playground right for this kind of development to happen though funding, freedom, support, whatever. I imagine that the people putting in this effort want to harvest the benefits within their own economy, and not just gift it away. Some roadblocks might be associated with this.
Conspiracies and conspiracy theories are different. People actually conspire to do all sorts of things, all over the world.

Conspiracy theories are different, though because they start with a “what if” and move to belief instead of starting from evidence and moving to belief.

At least, this is the way I define the terms.
The New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments
See also GitHub's post about this: https://github.blog/2022-04-15-security-alert-stolen-oauth-u...

Travis-CI was also compromised here and that may actually affect more people than the Heroku side of this.
Deep Science: AI cuts, flows, and goes green
I’m kind of amazed that you can still do massive scans like this and not face some bad consequences like getting blocked somewhere, or having your hosting provider get very annoyed at you.
The link is just to the landing page. When I build the final product it will be open source!
The Pandemic Was Supposed to Push All Shopping Online. It Didn’t
Oh, you mean the matrix came up with rule to ban people talking about lab leak? but matrix can't figure out simple crypto bots and need humans to report and manually ban them?
Seems like security theater
I think you’re trying to recreate the semantics of Promise.all without using Promise.all.

You’re effectively saying that Promises are a better async programming paradigm than async/await…which is also what the author is saying in the article.
I meant a real example of someone refusing to accept any of he/she/they as an acceptable choice of pronoun. So much of this debate is based on trans people being truculent in someone’s imagination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_weapons_of_mass_des...

"The nation possesses approximately 6,000 nuclear warheads as of 2022—the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world."

Guess where they are directed at.
> C++ audio plugins are notoriously unstable, rust makes it much easier to write reliable code

as the author of a C++ DAW (host), I would say that the biggest issues with plugins generally have little to do with the language they are written in, but their interactions with the host via the often ambiguous nature of the plugin API(s) semantics.

As an aside, other than (obviously) the first item you list, all of those "pro" things are available for a C++ plugin developer (not necessarily via the compiler; we use valgrind for example to do data race detection).

And as another aside, while a new developer may make some new developer errors when starting out with audio programming, reading Ross Bencina's paper (linked in TFA) will clear that stuff up fairly quickly. What it won't do is let you know that, for example random() in the C standard library may take a lock.
Discussion about GitHub's post is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31046791
Okay, so we're treating LLVM intermediate language or javascript as if "assembly" in the bare metal days. Makes sense.
Maybe laser guidance for weapons uses some detectable carrier wave and not just an always-on laser? That way an enemy couldn't jam laser guidance easily with fake laser dots.
Was it really that risky? If anything this seemed like a pretty sure-fire bet by bringing in various operations in-house when partnerships would prove to go sour. I think Apple knew these limitations back with Jobs too. At least that's what I understood from reading various biographies on the many Apple characters & partnerships.

Now that Apple has paved the way, you'll likely see this with other big computer companies like Microsoft for their mainline products & development. I think Steve Jobs would regularly quote Alan Kay on this idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAfTXYa36f4

I think that given Intel has recently changed leadership (for the better ridding the culture of MBAs), we may even see unique partnerships as well that may act as this "in-house" hardware providers.
I always feel strange seeing these walls of pseudo-scientific marketroid babble.
Their fundamental purpose is to make some fraction of people choose Crest over Colgate, or vice versa, but they've fallen so far down the rabbit-hole of this mundane task that they can come up with competing "models" and multi-thousand-word articles promoting and explaining them.

From an ordinary human's perspective, it's like shopping for groceries and getting side-tracked into a discussion of the natures of free will and the fundamental building blocks of matter. I just want to buy some decent-tasting apples, not grasp the neural correlates of my apparent "choice," or the string-theoretic basis of their multicolored skins.

That's not to say there aren't useful nuggets to be gleaned. For example, the fact that "third-party consumer data" and "customer matching" are the highest form of marketing surveillance tells me they're buying data from credit card companies and shady "data brokers," and correlating that using whatever identifiers they can. So I should probably keep entering fake phone numbers, zip codes, and email addresses when I can.
Brian cox turned boy band keyboards into success as a particle physicist and bbc presenter of note. Another Brian took the breakup of his band in stride, finished his degree and kept on playing. Now, with the degree, he can get into fun, interesting places he was denied as a musician. What is it about Brian’s? Quite a life it seems.
It really isn't, most native/standard APIs do not return Promises. Lots of things use callbacks. Being comfortable creating Promises from a callback-based API is definitely something any competent JS dev ought to be able to do.
I don't see how the shell could know whether you released the Ctrl key?
I think you have the right definition here.

People aren't rational. They are rationalizers.

Rational thinking is when you use facts and draw a conclusion.

Rationalizing is when you have a conclusion, and you work backwards to justify it with rational-sounding arguments.

Conspiracy theories start with some ridiculous conclusion, and work backwards to make it sound intelligent. It's not intelligent, but it SOUNDS intelligent.
Andrew how will the self hosted compiler maintain a known trust back to assembly?

i.e how can someone look at a self hosted zig compiler and build it themself from source, never needing to download blobs from the internet?

Otherwise you lose the ability to trust anything you build.
Your priors have expired.

It’s impossible to have zero Covid unless you vaccinate all mammals in the world.
Many spend it all before they leave the job
he prompts his massive following to jump...he is Pavlovian in a way with his cult
Wasn’t the whole point of that fork just to change the name/branding because some people thought the acronym “GIMP” was offensive?

Not surprised that it’s dead now.
If there is a "secret formula" (exploit) then that is a flaw in the system that should be addressed, it will be discovered by the sufficiently motivated attackers, as it already is regularly. This is equivalent to security through obscurity, and it clearly is not working as you point out.

You assert that more eyes on the flaws would make the issue worse rather than better, but i disagree.
I don't think you have much if any firsthand experience with how these orgs actually do work.

It's especially funny because I am knowledgable on this subject, sympathetic to your concerns, had time and energy this morning to go into depth on the details and problems of AA and how I have chosen to engage with them over the years, and why so many of us continue to.

If you had wanted to learn anything about the day to day fights against addiction as they are experienced, contradictions and all, this was a great opportunity. But you just couldn't get over this specific hangup of yours, and pissed it away. Good luck out there man I hope you never need us but we'll be here if you do.
You inspired me to download KiCad, modify a shared board on OSH Park, and place my first order for 3 custom PCBs for $1.95 total with free shipping. Thanks for your inspiration!
Additionally, as far as I know, after 1.12, the development of minecraft paced up and a lot of internals of minecraft changed. This turns the update of mods past 1.12 into a complete rewrite most of the times, which has burned out quite a few authors.
It could, but depending on how you use it, you're changing scoping.
It would be fun to use something like this with tapes for music boxes.
For now. It sounds like the process to manufacture it could scale pretty well though. This could be just the beginning of a new class of material
Then that would give them a reason to investigate.

They cannot ask you what you're pleading the 5th for, but they can go investigate it, and nail you when and if they find proof of illegal activity.
Here's the target list I use in Xordle, inherited from hello-wordl: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/6zs/xordle/main/src/fives_...

And here's the dictionary: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/6zs/xordle/main/src/fives_...

The targets list is the one you want, it's the valid answers. The dictionary is the valid guesses.

In the targets list, some words are starred out, just ignore them, those are words that got removed. The list is ordered and you can pick a spot in the list and ignore everything below it; for Xordle (and again inherited from hello-wordl) "mulch" is the last word used in the list.
This reminds me of this post titled "Netflix is a truly great company": https://www.teamblind.com/post/netflix-is-a-truly-great-comp.... BTW, their compensation system is the most fair in the industry.
Obviously there is not some simple set of rules that will help you to navigate every difficult question relating to personal identity. But now you are talking about hypotheticals, not real problems that occur in choosing a suitable pronoun for someone in a realistic situation.

I’m highly skeptical that there are people who go through life getting angry with every person who won’t call them ‘kitten’. But if you know of any actual examples of this, feel free to provide them.

It’s sad that debates about issues that affect real trans people so often get sidetracked into these irrelevant hypotheticals. This isn’t an academic debate. We don’t have to solve all the edge cases before we can start doing the right thing in the common case.
> ... Quantum thermodynamics, fluids, and chaotic divergence

FWIW, does [quantum] thermodynamics predict emergent behaviors amongst self-organizing systems apparently at least temporarily contradicting a tendency to entropic decay?

My understanding is that no: fluid dynamics, quantum fluid dynamics, and quantum chemistry are not sufficient to describe and thus cannot predict emergent behaviors in complex nonlinear - possibly emergently adaptive - complex systems.

Emergence occurs in/of/by/within/betwixt/between systems; in application emergent programs require human-level intelligence ethical filters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

Perhaps before describing physical systems with current best known descriptions as multi-field (QFT,QQ,) wave-particle[-fluid] interactions with convergent and divergent e.g convection, it's appropriate to compare the difference between Classical and Quantum Wave Interference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_interference#Quantum_inte...

> some of the differences between classical wave interference and quantum interference: (a) In classical interference, two different waves interfere; In quantum interference, the wavefunction interferes with itself. (b) Classical interference is obtained simply by adding the displacements from equilibrium (or amplitudes) of the two waves; In quantum interference, the effect occurs for the probability function associated with the wavefunction and therefore the absolute value of the wavefunction squared. (c) The interference involves different types of mathematical functions: A classical wave is a real function representing the displacement from an equilibrium position; a quantum wavefunction is a complex function. A classical wave at any point can be positive or negative; the quantum probability function is non-negative.

Thus our best descriptions of emergent behavior in fluids (and chemicals and fields) must presumably be composed at least in part from quantum wave functions that e.g. Navier-Stokes also fit for; with a fitness function.
Some mods are also forever stuck at a given version as the source isn’t open and the mod author doesn’t want to port, is missing, or has died.

Thaumcraft 4 is a big example.
And is nylon able to form rigid 3 dimensional structures?
Lots of good points here about how opening up the algorithm itself won't illuminate much and is technically extremely difficult without potentially devaluing the company since you would also have to open the data system behind the algorithm.

However, open sourcing any and all manual interventions over the algorithm + the guidelines used for evaluation and/or labeling (if any is done), would help to build a little bit of trust.

Not that much though, but it would be a start.
> the type of fetch() can't be inferred by static analysis

That is preposterous.
There are two arrays in the Wordle JavaScript. One is a list of valid answers, the other is a list of other words you can guess but aren't valid answers. You can view source and pull them both out. My code does this for you and allows you to use regular expressions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30653322

There are also lists of Scrabble words; I use one called enable.
I would have expected that they would have used a known human rather than look like someone with unauthorised access was doing so.

I see he now has access to three travis-ci organisations on GitHub.
So, then it doesn't matter... Rich people do what rich people do, with musk+twitter combo, there's atleast a chance you'll get more of a voice, with some other combo (eg. disney buying twitter), you already know there's zero chance for that.
An evidence free statement by Paul Graham - why should we consider him an expert, other than his wealth?
I like how you have your own books on the desk :) ultimate flex!
Surely that's the joke. There must be two or three of these "scientists make material stronger and lighter than steel" headlines every year for decades (probably for as long as steel has existed, lmao.) The headline never specifies what they actually mean by "stronger than steel", but the naive reader would walk away with the impression that steel is now an obsolete material, which never pans out.
Hi -- yes this is on the free plan for clarification of the original comment. Good to know. I was testing out the free plans until I upgraded. https://render.com/docs/build-limits I don't see this mentioned anywhere. https://render.com/pricing should maybe show a row/column on the build speed for the different tiers.

Additionally, spinning up the postgres instance was on a paid tier. I contacted support but it self-resolved eventually after I blew away the instance and rebuilt. However, it was queued up for like 8+ hours on the first pass.
Long rant is long, so I’ll leave a tl;dr: regardless of how you feel about the syntactic sugar aspect, async/await has a runtime advantage of suspending the stack rather than exiting early, which is (IMO) of greater benefit than the syntactic improvement.

- - -

I’m in the process of gradually moving several decade-old JS projects from explicit Promise APIs to async/await. The reason for this is not the syntactic sugar (although that’s quite a benefit, and I disagree wholeheartedly with the article on that point). The reason is that, at least with native Promises, the actual runtime behavior of async/await is considerably better. Because await suspends the stack, where .then/.catch enter a new stack frame.

I do see this has been discussed some in another thread, but I feel like it deserves more direct attention. It’s true that you can use libraries like Bluebird or whatever to get more accurate stack traces. But this is done by tracking Promise chains in user space. This is fine but it comes with a cost. Even if the library is quite fast (as Bluebird is), you still incur the cost of downloading and parsing it. Especially on HN where JS bloat is a daily topic, I’d hope this can be appreciated.

In my case, this cost wouldn’t be worth it even if the Promise API were clearly better. These projects need to run efficiently on low power mobile devices with limited connectivity. And we need to be able to diagnose runtime errors to address outstanding bugs. A library is a non-starter, and native Promise APIs actively hinder progress. The behavior of async/await is clearly superior.

Suspending the stack, either with async/await or generators, affords significantly better debugging capabilities. It allows Error stacks and console.trace to take better advantage of source maps.

It‘s also a much better optimization target for browsers. This isn’t just academic: even if async/await is semantically equivalent to Promise, it’s not a guarantee that the underlying .then/.catch will even be called if there’s no explicit Promise in the code. I’ve seen cases where they’re not, which was baffling until I understood (and this is how I came to understand) the difference in runtime behavior.
Is $899 for the M1 Air overpriced?
There's always FNA.
Research or merely reading?
If disney bought twitter, I knew I wouldn't get any... with Musk, I can atleast hope.

Either way, with billions involved, i have no say in whatever happens (because I don't have billions), but musk gives me higher hope than disney.

Basically, I have nothing to lose, only to gain.
20 years ago I almost did a PhD in game theory. Simulating/modeling power dynamics and incentives in groups of agents. Mechanism design.

I didn't do it but see echoes of that work in the web3 world now. DAO governance and tokenomics are 100% game theory.

There are also links to social media influence modeling.
Self hosted Searx[0].

Or another approach: use multiple search engines + an anonymous proxy. Spread your searches among Qwant, Mojeek, Ecosia, Yacy, Swisscows, etc

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx
Ask HN: Inflation and the Magic 99
Having a SaaS where most of our customers sign up for the $99/month.

Even though we have good margins I wonder what happens regarding inflation. Anyone tried raising their prices above $99?
flint: SPARQL DSL Library for Clojure(Script)
And even with regeneration what’s the price paid in telomere shortening? Granted I’d rather regenerate and live healthy at the cost of a few years of extra life with barely usable lungs.
What? I replied to a comment saying:

>it wasn't an issue of enforceability

I’m not backtracking on anything. Are you ok? If it wasn’t an issue of enforceability, I think we can reasonably assume that the noncompete was not enforceable. Unenforceability was the premise of this conversation, and that wasn’t introduced by me.
I mean, there are a lot of things that fall under the "conspiracy theory" umbrella that just straight up happened. For example, the CIA experimenting on people with LSD trying for mind control (MKUltra), the FBI assassinating prominent figures on the left like Fred Hampton, Snowden, etc. And a host of pretty reasonable ones - like the fact that there were probably multiplier shooters in the JFK assassination (the Caro bio of LBJ does a pretty good job explaining how/why the warren report needed to be rushed and needed to be simple so that the US wouldn't go to war with cuba or the USSR), the FBI assassinating MLK.
Save America’s Patent System
>even if the things they're saying are true".

You added that part in yourself. You seem to be ignoring the concepts of disinformation, trolling, and bad faith actors.