skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calm. With this Windows 12 your laptop will fly!
> “There are at least 14 military vehicles/armor and explosives inside the engine hall of the NPP, very close to the reactor,” Pareniuk wrote. “More than 100 [NPP] personnel were kidnapped and tortured, five are still missing. If it explodes, it can cause severe damage to the reactor and might cause a leak of radioactivity.”
And the individual lemmas could have author and chronology metadata attached, then you could plot the DAG as a roadmap/tech tree of sorts with an axis corresponding to time.

You'd be able to at a glance see the year a result entered public domain, who authored it, etc

One can dream
Oh yeah, this is primarily a problem for Google. They're sort of stuck being chased by the shadow they cast.

I've had very little problems cutting through the SEO spam running an independent search engine, but then I don't shape traffic like they do.
reader mode works brilliantly
All these assume flat terrain. As soon as you start adding hills things look completely different. That's the one reason why I think e-trucks make sense, the ease of regeneration rather than burning off the momentum as heat.
A couple years ago I bought my parents a digital voice recorder and 128gig SD card. I asked them to spend a little time each week just talking about whatever parts of their life they wanted, and what they remember of my grandparents and great-grandparents. I don’t think they’ve done it at all. :’(
Didn't this paper exactly prod a model's weak point until they eventually determined the model was consistent with the observed universe? Isn't that exactly what you're asking for?
Wow you must still really be in shock. From healthy to passed in just a few months sound very traumatic for you and your family. Sorry you had to go through that.

My father had prostate cancer that became metastatic & while I had a couple years with him before he passed, I didn't get it together to record his stories. I did record a few, but I really wish I had more. I think it's great what you did & you will always be able to look back at those & share them with your future kids.

Be well.
The colors of the Ukrainian flag have blended together in our minds and they are taking over everything.
I know it's unlikely, but has anyone ever tried using protobuf + HTTP/1/2/3 with `Content-Type`? It's an experiment I've been wanting to run forever but haven't found time to.

I wonder if all the speed gains people are seeing would work just fine with reasonable `Content-Type` and maybe an extra header for intended schema.
What is undefined about a large VLA? It shouldn't be undefined.

According to wikipedia "C11 does not explicitly name a size-limit for VLAs"
That sounds almost like the same thing as asking do holes move, or do electrons move? Yes, to both. The movement of one is made apparent by the other.

Of course, I'm almost certainly wrong on both accounts.
Go discussion: standard iterator interface
Agree. It's always a safe prediction that the status quo is what the future looks like but thinking like that only serves to stifle innovation.

I for one am very interested in alternatives, and here to support anyone helping to dig us out of where we've found ourselves.
Then say market power instead of monopoly and no one will ever dispute that. Of course Apple can and does set the price of its products above their marginal cost. Doesn't have quite the ring to it as "monopoly" though.
I realized that I have some voicemail records lying around and listening to them I must say they're a not insignificant part of my recent interactions with him. It crossed my mind that emailing them to myself at random could mimic him but I'm afraid that it could be counterproductive with mourning.
Yes, once you do what you need to do to trust yourself once again, you will feel positive things, and think positively.

You're currently feeling negatively ("miserable") and thinking negatively ("I am no longer young"). That is fine. [Do that, it's a healthy experience!]

You'll probably want to simultaneously take care of your body and mind, while you are feeling negative. That way your physical experience of Life can be positive.

If you are having unsatisfactory difficulties recovering, get a Licensed counselor to ask you self-reflective questions. That can un-stuck you.

Congratulations on having a start-up of your own, sincerely.
CRAP is sufficient
I've done quite a few video interviews (>120 hours). Notably, I interviewed someone else's dad (a friend's wife) who is dying now.

He had a fascinating life being sent out for re-education in Communist China but winding up in a then remote tropical paradise on the Burmese border. The locals were friendly and already effectively organized their villages on a communal basis so he said there was basically little work to do because the land was so fertile and few rules except that local girls were off-limits. Days were spent enjoying the natural environment, eating tropical fruit and BBQ fish and forest meats.

One day a troupe of city communists arrived for some reason or other, and he met a lovely girl. When he got the chance he moved back to the city and sought her out, they were married and he was assigned a job as an economic agent, being posted to remote factories around the country to negotiate trading deals to bolster the domestic economy under socialism. In those days few people could travel and he was lucky, despite having to spend most of his time on the road, to be able to travel the whole country and see its character before its modern destruction.

I asked him about how the travel was organized, he said every day there was a telex waiting for him at his assigned hotel which would tell him where he was going next. "Catch the #12 bus to West Station, then obtain a fare to Little Black Village, walk east to Factory #12". He said a lot of the travel was by donkey cart and other sort of ad-hoc methods. He was thus surprised every day and could only observe.

He seemed genuinely flattered by my interest in his life and included other information in the video. In the end it's always good to have some catch-all open questions like: "Is there anything else you'd like to say to future generations about the changes you have witnessed in your lifetime?"

I suppose I should upload it after he dies. Currently I have a copy and the family has a copy.

There's a great TV program in Australia where the host interviews randoms literally on the street: https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/front-up
I'd have a hard time following Carmack's train of thought at 1.5x. It is impressive how dense and fast-paced his conversations are.
Hey yeah! Imagine like two small guys in a garage could like make a indexer for the web and call it a search engine and just make it work the best, and gain market dominance and become a little bit slower to innovate than authors “back in 2006” nostalgia…
I think most of us are pretty new to it since they just opened the beta to a ton of people. I haven't tried to do anything like that with it though. All I can say is it tends to take a lot of experimentation to get what you want. And you'll probably have to do some work to the images to get them to tile seamlessly. If you can't get the pixelated look quite how you want it, you might try using it to generate a base image and then use a separate tool to pixelate it. Some people are using it as part of a larger pipeline.

The discord is full of people sharing their experiments and approaches though. Maybe try asking in the prompt-craft channel to see if someone else has attempted something similar.

Good luck!
I really like Google Meet. Never had trouble with it, doesn't seem to make my computer want to turn itself off, audio quality is excellent and so is the video.
30% of the time when there is a meeting on other platform, there is a point when someone says "shall we switch to Google?" and everyone replies with relief "yes, let's do this, see you in 5.".

Seems like Google has amazing engineers, but the management is something else in a negative sense.

One thing is good though - the inevitable fall of Google, hopefully will bring some breath of fresh air.
Chinese Mac apps found abusing App Store
I highly recommend "A Philosophy of Software Design", the book teaches me a lot about how to manage complexity in programming.
Ok, comparing, here are the equivalent apps on my phone (A Pixel 6 from Google) Messages, Gmail (admittedly not "Mail", despite working with non Gmail email addresses), Calendar, Wallet, Home. That's a total of 1 character in difference.

These have longer names, clarifying e.g. "Google Wallet" if you go look at them on play store or something, but the actually displayed names that you actually see when using your phone are pretty much identical to iOS.

Other non-branded names include Calculator, Camera, Clock, Contacts, Docs, Files, Fit, Maps, News, Photos, Safety, Settings, Translate.

Branded names that I believe came with include Chrome, Google, Google One, Google TV, Play Store, and YouTube. Frankly I think it's pretty appropriate that all of those come with branding.
I suppose that must be true in as much as technology and culture influence each other, but while the term “meme” is fairly new, the phenomenon is quite universal. Like, what’s funny about Kilroy Was Here [0] or drawing that constructivist S-shape in elementary school [1]?

Another thing to consider apart from cultural differences and translations is that a lot can go wrong betwen a hit joke being told and a scribe getting around to immortalising it. It’s obviously a game of telephone. Comedy is a craft and written comedy is different from stage comedy. I can imagine a joke absolutely killing at the end of a stand-up set, but falling flat when told in isolation, because it was a call-back or otherwise profited from a primed audience. It’s quite likely that someone might naively retell only the bit that got the laughs and only then realise their mistake. Or the shared experience of the audience might elevate a bit to an in-joke that is only funny to them because they know the rest. Decades later, only the devolved memes that obliquely reference this shared knowledge survive in writing and future generations are left wondering what was wrong with their ancestors’ odd humour.

Here’s hoping future generations will be aware of Douglas Adams’ work, but it seems entirely possible that in a thousand years, people will speculate why our we found towels or the number 42 so funny.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_S
> then Google of 15 years ago would have found it and put it on the first page.

I don't think Google of 15 years ago will do a good job on the current age of internet. The size of web has increased a lot like 100x where most of the increment comes from unstructured formats like video or image and its signal to noise ratio deteriorated considerably. SEO has become much more sophisticated ever. A large fraction of useful information is now locked in the unindexed walled garden.
What do you mean by this? What am I "recording" as the bottom of the data set?

My point was that it is very hard to have a dynamic number of rows feed a proportionate dynamic number of rows. Scripting makes it much simpler, but at least with Google Sheet's scripting, the API seemed pretty lacking for that processing (in the very least, it's very slow, since it's running as a very constrained shared resource).
> like it consists of ten big sites

Optimistic. Which are those?
Sorry for your loss. During covid, I was lucky enough to be afforded the ability to buy a condo about 100 feet from my dads house. I see him almost every day now. We both know that he is getting on in his old age/health and this is the last time that I'll have a chance to spend time with him. Definitely appreciate it.
> Though I do wonder why there can't be a form of malloc that allocates in a stack like fashion in real time

I think that's basically what the LLVM SafeStack pass does -- stack variables that might be written out of bounds are moved to a separate stack so they can't smash the return address.
I don't know, why did Dali paint melted clocks?
Great Star Trek reference, that’s exactly what I mean
I saw it is as they both had a good intuition about each other, so they were both free to talk without the need for some "translation" barrier, which appear when two people are constantly struggling to translate things in a frame of reference that they think the other requires.
Feels like they'd be much more liable to get in trouble for anti-competitive behavior today than they were in 2011, given that they are in a very different position now compared to then.
I read a modest amount of popular "AI safety" text (lesswrong basically) and this is the first time I've heard of Dall-E being crippled for safety reasons.

Your argument overall seems to take "you skeptics keep moving the bar, give me a benchmark I can pass and I'll show you", which seems reasonable on it's face but I don't think actually works.

The problem is that while algorithm may be defined by theory and tested by benchmark, the only "definition" we have for general intelligence except "what we can see people doing". If I or anyone had a clear, accepted benchmark for general intelligence, we'd be quite a bit further towards creating it but we're not there.

That said, I think one thing that current AIs lack is an understanding of it's own processing and an understanding of the limits of that processing. And there are many levels of this. But I won't promise that if this problem is corrected, I won't look at other things. IDK, achieving AGI isn't like just passing some test, no reason it should be like that.
Veritasium's recent video [0] on Haber is worth a watch in this context

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvknN89JoWo
This has to invoke Betteridges law of headlines.

As one who had the great fortune to be part of networking in the UK in the 70s and 80s, including a stint in UCL-CS working at the end of the SATNET/ARPANET years (UCL was the uk end of the ARPAnet of the day, with an IMP, and then a BBN butterfly, and a large tranche of addresses held I believe in conjunction with the UK signals directorate of the Ministry of Defence) -I can tell you its a bit from box A and a bit from box B.

It worked better than a lot of us (X.25!) thought.

It worked a lot better than the code a lot of us were working on (the OSI/GOSIP model)

USENET was both worse and better than online communities.

The 1984 RAND report on the social behaviours in EMail remain true to this day, discussing flaming and trolling behaviours.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-irtf-hrpc-associ... is an indication of how important the questions have become.

Also see https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/monotonous-web/index.... which is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32348519
I was curious about this too and wondered if it could then relate to my description of a giraffe so put in "legs of a yellow mammal with a long neck and spots" and it still nailed it.
And buying an iPhone doesn't mean you can't also buy an Android phone. The analogy you're looking for is that Costco does not indiscriminately allow all sellers to sell products at a Costco warehouse.
Yah-- I get you.

My counterpoint is that even without people being aligned, we're far outperforming the past and what people hundreds of years ago thought we might do with increased privilege. Indeed, we even have less strife overall, even if we have many more axes of disagreement and fewer shared values.
PredictIt is shutting down after CFTC withdraws no-action letter
Totally agree. Though I must say, i believe any joke today that gets printed on something, is almost certainly an objectively bad joke.
I dunno. I'd like to see some comparisons. HTTP is so broad. Observability tools do good with it. But I think it's deceitful & disingenuous to blow this topic off like this.

Streams use features like HTTP2+ Push, & there's all manner of semantic meaning implicit in headers & schemas that regular http wont see that these tools pick up on. I want to be sold that the complex multi-directional multi-stream works fine, are fully observable, but I suspect seriously we're overreducing, not being honest, by discarding the difficulties of tuning observability to specific protocols here & saying general http support will buy us everything.
The whole point is it isn’t doing so coherently if similar images were absent from the training data. The monkey wasn’t touching the iguana.
Surely that's what lots of non-developer white collar workers use Excel for? I imagine there's orders of magnitude more people using Excel for data processing rather than Python or R. I'm well aware it's not the best tool for the job, but yet people are using it for purposes such as that. I wanted to learn more about that experience.
I think the normal pattern is a stack probe every page or so when there's a sufficiently large allocation. There's no need to check the stack pointer all the time.

But that's not my point. If the compiler/runtime knows it will blow up if you have an allocation over 4KB or so, then it needs to do something to mitigate or reject allocations like that.
Because to avoid trolling and arguments HN filters out controversy and most politics.

Yea, it's more monotonous, but it's far less hate filled than most forums and keeps on target far more often.
The brand name bidding war is a race to the bottom. It’s really pathetic because you CAN actually get Google to remove the competitor ads if you own a trademark to your name. This is not the case for most startups.
Is it different than video game consoles going to great lengths to prevent their hardware from running unauthorized software?
Hi all, GitLab employee here.

Wanted to make sure you saw this: https://twitter.com/gitlab/status/1555325376687226883
LocalStack is cool, but don't forget that you always have an alternative to build mock infrastructure in front of your AWS deps. Don't call S3 deps directly - implement a higher abstraction using only the APIs you actually call and back it with your local filesystem (for example).

It's not a _lot_ of work, and making your dev/prod differences more explicit can make debugging much easier.
I'm just gonna say it, but does this really need to be monetised?

Look, I don't know you, and I mean no disrespect, but this is one of the reasons why the Internet sucks now, it's filled with built-in-30-minutes-with-the-du-jour-framework websites covered in "buy me a coffee" and "made with heart emoji" sites.

Don't get me wrong, building something and putting it out there is scary and great, so congrats on that.
> and very good posts (often criticisms) effectively getting censored

I browse new occasionally and I encounter a lot of lowbrow substack spam to be honest. Rants against big tech make you a contrarian, problem is you have to be contrarian and right to be interesting.

I don't think HN has a big tech bias, most criticism of big tech is just plain awful. If anything in today's discourse there is a stupendous anti big-anything bias (for context, I'm not paid by big tech, I work for a small German company on the other side of the pond and find much of SV culture annoying personally)
Awesome. Looks like a great way to save redundant dev hours creating internal tools
Whataboutism at its best. Why do you think id was not ethical, and are you seriously trying to argue that Facebook is as unethical as id software?
I recorded a late night conversation with my dad a couple months before he died of dementia and cancer. It was moreso him ruminating on his life's regrets. It was a lot of word salad but there was a genuine feeling there that he had squandered a lot of his time. He kept saying that he "fell off" somewhere along the way.
Frans de Waal has done great work.

Evolution is a strange phenomenon. I invite us to marvel at the transformation of terrestrial quadrupeds into majestic aquatic creatures, over eons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_cetaceans

Evolutionary speaking, cetaceans "share" the front limbs with quadrupeds. And yet there is a qualitatively distinct functional difference. Consider that moral consciousness, as present in humans, is functionally not quite the same as its biological precursor, the moral sense present in dogs or gorillas. And, of course, there are gradual changes along the evolutionary way.

Edit: "Organ", more precise "sensory organ", as in "the visual organ". Perhaps there is a better word here than "organ" here, before we get lost in the medical distinction between eye / retina / optic nerve / cortex / etc.
I wonder which way the association runs. It seems lie 90-95% of the time it's a confound

I wouldn't be surprised if early stages of cognitive dysfunction or health issues make it harder to keep/see friends.
Have you heard about the concept antitrust regulation? This is the real thing.
Doesn’t look like a thingy to me
Having spent about 200$ on credits… yes, it glues together your words through transformers into images… of snippets of the identified corpus of images it has… with some specific prompt phrasings having cool weighting for making really nicely looking glued together results… it’s a model: classical computing - everything is turtles and duct tape and rivets and glue, all the way down…
eBPF and Sidecars
I'm glad he does. Apparently I'm less familiar, than you, with the details of the ridiculously wide range of topics he discusses. I enjoy not having to prepare to listen to a podcast, or go through the whole thing confused, with a list of topics I need to read about to understand what I just heard.
If these teams start at 7am, they should be executed/shot without legal reprecussions if they start at 7am in most areas with gas bullshit.

You've specified an 11 hour work window. If, between two people, they spend 50% of that day working with full-throttle leaf blowing, I'm very impressed with their efficiency. Getting around & blowing being that dominant a factor in the day is impressive. That's still 9 batteries tops & they should accept that easily given the very very very very low total cost of ownership, given that they dont need to figure out how to lug a bulk of batteries around & can just carry 1 at a time (the backpack hardware allows for two).
I think it would cause a lot of harm. Part of the grieving process is accepting that they are gone. The pain is terrible but I'm not sure that makes it a bad thing. The perspective you gain is powerful.
It’s especially awful because protobufs will incorrectly parse non-matching messages-filling in blank and mismatched fields, instead of just failing out.

Had that happen more than once, and it made for an extremely confusing situation.
Cycloidal Rotor Drone: The Cyclocopter [video]
> * dickpanel n. : a modal panel or popover a website or app presents, deliberately obscuring its own content, to frustrate the user with a marketing message; e.g. asking the user to install the website’s app, subscribe to a newsletter, or disable privacy controls and accept tracking cookies. See dickbar.

I call those panels "pies" since getting one feels like having a pie thrown in your face. It is intended to be more of a SFW term, like when talking to front end devs: could the site please not throw so many pies? I can usually block them with adblock but doing so can be complicated, since you also have to block the CSS change that grays out the main text.
Women do wear men's clothing or women's version of it (eg boyfriend jeans) and it is seen as acceptable. Whereas men wearing dresses or skirts is still quite fringe, unless you live in the punk scene in Berlin.
Gitlab: We reached a decision to move unused repos to object storage
Above 7.5t on the Autobahn 80km/h, outside cities 60km/h. Fines start at 10km/h over, so they're usually going 89 and 69 though...
Private angel investors watch from above all of the “clouds”
Sigh, sorry, it should read “more reliable”, or “less prone to failure”; somehow failed to notice this in my previous comment.
yeah, but it's really not ergonomic relative to the default Excel-with-formulas experience
Why doesn't CTRL+Backspace delete a word when editing a cell?