skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not be surprised if other constrained interpreter environments could be created like this one. From the descriptions I believe a Hypercard, Logo, python or (forgive me from saying this) Basic scripting could be created.

We could turn lots of older phones into portable toy dev platforms for the next gen of programmers.

10 minutes searching:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.krazeapps....

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=and.bas&gl=US
Deno excludes Bun from new SQLite benchmark, calling Bun a “demo”
That's cool, but most HN readers should not try that. We want this place to stay well operational, and the entrance fee is not exorbitant.
Stability.ai and probably others too already working on video and audio models too and also I think I heard a service to train / finetune the model with your own dataset.
Not even sure how to comment on it. Sounds like it's from 1944.
Literal Rome I don't think so, but there are places you can go skiing just a couple of hours from the city.
My wife (20 years) and myself just share it all. I mostly made (a lot) more; we both don’t really care about stuff or vacations. Since we met eachother, we started doing this after 2 months. I have always done this in previous relations and if there are jackpots to divide (there have been) then it shall be so.
That might be the reason why the JPL coding standard says:

"All loops shall have a statically determinable upper-bound on the
maximum number of loop iterations. It shall be possible for a static
compliance checking tool to affirm the existence of the bound. An
exception is allowed for the use of a single non-terminating loop per task
or thread where requests are received and processed. Such a server loop
shall be annotated with the C comment: /* @non-terminating@ */."
Or you can run those two with Brave and not use Brave's built-in shields as much.
google flappy bird sprites

There are tons of sites with all type of sprites, opengameart.org, for example.
I used to love manual transmissions - almost all cars I owed had one, but only until I first experienced driving a Tesla. Now that I had been driving EVs I like the user experience and feel of control of the car more.
NL has both.

* Electric Cars are exempt from both IIRC.

* Diesel is mostly front loaded in the yearly road tax. With a very low tax on fuel. So if you drive a lot it is worth getting a Diesel for this reason alone.

* Petrol has a lighter yearly tax. There is a formula someplace and it has to do with engine size, weight, age and some other things assuming I understood correctly. The yearly tax is cheaper on average than the diesel. Then there is a large tax on petrol. About €0.17 a liter or €0.642 a gallon.
You might want to look at window managers in X.
These kinds of arguments are torturous. It's not "censorship" when your local coffee store tells you to leave the premises after the third time you've threatened to kill the waitstaff.
It was a very limited study and Amazon have sent C&Ds to other large companies to tell them to stop using that quote
It's always ugly when the court of public opinion starts trying to supplant the role of an actual court.
Good prompt for a beautiful matcher with better complexity. Have a favorite?

https://www.oilshell.org/archive/Thompson-1968.pdf is longer and doesn't quite fix the problem (see third-to-last paragraph) but it is interesting and very tight.
Well… midjourney used stable diffusion (with an additional guidance model I believe, not just prompt engineering) for their beta model which they already closed down again… it’s back to their old far inferior model.
"Fork it" means a whole lot of additional problems: backport fixes from new upstream versions, build packages for your distro, maintain your repos etc.
I’ve read a great sci-fi short story regarding how far this could go. There is this device that alters your image to fit the “dominant culture” or the “appropriate etiquette”. You can crank it up to the point where you practically become someone else. It also feedbacks and directs your body language etc. I wish I could recall the stories name.
in the case of imagen, I suppose the cost is at least two orders of magnitude over 500k.
Thanks! I have a g-doc where I've been documenting settings and progress here[0] although I just now realized I might not have been using my diffusion model correctly for most of my tests. Iteration 509 of my model I seem to have finally nailed it though! :) I partially "blame" Visions of Chaos since the amazing dev (or devs?) drops updates almost every day with new Machine Learning features, model training was only added recently. I must have reset something on accident.

Also I realize there's a lot of image prep work required, not to mention I have a less than ideal amount of VRAM (3060 Ti w/8GB but no monitors attached i.e. 8GB free) so I have to lower some settings. The source images have to be in 1:1 format (which none of my photos are) so I'm using a script to batch call ImageMagick's 'convert' to add white borders to the top/bottom, which results in my renders also having white borders.

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CnC5SaqpeJiQS-TlDS4trzJR...
> It seems that even with maximum security settings, Apple will always know where I am, who is nearby, what mobile networks I use, and what computer networks I use.

I don’t see how you could have a mobile phone, that also uses wifi, without those things being true. (One correction: I don’t think Apple knows who is near you unless they’re also on an Apple device or uses an Apple app on said device)

Genuinely curious how you think a company can route your traffic effectively and efficiently without knowing those things…
Yeah, it's just waiting on the server for most of that time in the first screenshot. Static (or cached) sites are going to be a lot faster than sites that have to re-render things every time.
Social media boycott of Goya did not harm sales
Well that is interesting, as Raphael has Hebrew origin but it's actually an English name with that spelling. In Spanish it's Rafael and in Italian Raffaello, so not sure why if he went by Raphael he would be perceived to be non-white.

Also, you say that with a non-american accent he would be perceived as non-white... so what if he went with Raphael which is actually also a German name, and he had a German accent? or a French accent? Or an italian accent? Would he also be non-white?
"I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin is too small to contain"
> If you don't believe the wind and solar costs, then obviously you'd come to other conclusions, but you'd be wrong.

If I'm wrong and you're right, then I have no problem with that, although from what I've seen, the various green movements in Europe have attacked nuclear almost exclusively for ideological reasons, not economic ones.

I still believe that if we give nuclear an equal playing field to other energy forms when it comes to safety standards, other environmental regulations and allow them to be built efficiently by private companies without unnecessary red tape, prices will come down enough for them to be competitive.

Likewise, it seems to me that efforts to fully cover the grid with wind power (particularly in climates where solar is still expensive) has met with problems that have been partly covered up by proponents, and that this has contributed to increased prices, at least in Europe.

But if honest analysis proves me wrong, then I see no problem with that, just as long as it is really the economical side, not ideological ideas that the true reason for future prioritizations.
I had to install the "Don't F** With Paste" browser extension for when I'm interacting with US banks. They like to make you manually re-type things in hope that you'll make a mistake and it will lead to them assessing one of their $40 fees against you. For that reason you'll never see these codes used in the US. There is big money in human error.
Have you used Caddy for reverse proxying compared to nginx? It's infinitely easier. Two lines per site, https built in, dynamic upstreams are handled by default, HTTP 2 enabled (maybe nginx does HTTP 2 by default,; not sure).
That's right.

I've lived in Portugal pretty much my whole life and don't want to leave, working in software development for almost 10 years now. If I had left before 2019 and decided to return now, I would pay IRS taxes on 50% of my income for 5 years, and get access to an exclusive credit line.

If I was a foreign citizen and had never been to Portugal and I had a "profession of high cultural and economic worth", I could purchase a house here, register fiscally as a non-habitual resident, and also get a bunch of discounts on foreign income, national income, rent income, capital gains among other things.

This strikes me as quite unfair, not only for giving people who are in a better financial state all these benefits, but also by putting more pressure on the already inflationed housing market. The Golden Visa programme also "helped", along with many other things. Some of these benefits were or are in the process of being reduced, but many still remain.

I understand this grows our economy, in principle, but mostly seeing negative consequences on the lives of my mostly non-tech friends and family is hard to ignore...
What would very quickly mean? Do you have some data perhaps on the breakpoints regarding this? I'm not dismissive of your statement, just want to see some data.
Home prices fell, first time in 3 years last month – biggest decline since 2011
Ok sure but did you read the actual source?

All they did was read the privacy policies of all these companies and make these pretty charts comparing what they can and can't collect on you. Then they added up the points. It's extremely transparent about its methodology. And something you can easily check yourself (i.e. open up the privacy policies yourself and double check that Apple in fact can NOT collect your metadata on your stored photos)
Sadly in the US were taxed no matter where we live. We have agreements with a lot (most?) countries though so we get "credit" for taxes paid to the country we are living in.

The cost of living definitely balances things out. I just wish The Netherlands would change their stance on dual citizenship.
I find Madurodam to be far less impressive. It's nice, and many of the models are quite impressive, but overall it's a fraction of the complexity of Miniatur Wunderland. I think also the way the sections are broken up with concrete paths between makes it feel less engaging.
Ignoring other aspects, this is likely a financially viable option for recruitment marketing.

I’m guessing this stance will be popular among engineers who will hear about the company and apply for jobs.
Yes, that situation is strange to me. Mozilla makes hundreds of millions (or more?) annually. In what tangible way is it different from a for-profit company?
Most CDNs etc. use packet pacing to feed the packets out in a continual stream without overwhelming the network
Killing people due to negligence seems pretty harsh as an action
Will it be concentrated west and mid or east-coast prices will drop too eventually?
How to exit vim, brutal version:

Ctrl+Z
kill -9 %%
Gifypet: A GIF-based pet for the indie web
> to prove that statement?

Cynically speaking, I am not sure that there is an audit you're going to be able to do that won't cost a ton of money that the people in this thread would trust as definitive "proof" of anything[0].

I think a big part of what I'm personally getting at with the comment above is that I'm not looking for perfect proof of anything; independent audits are great and I love to see them and I absolutely encourage them, but remember that the point of comparison here is Google/Bing. Take it with a grain of salt, and purely opinion me, but I think its fine for private search engines to offer the best proof of their claims that they can and to otherwise ignore people who demand perfection or nothing.

It's great to see more search engines in the space with a focus on privacy, and if you're able to pull off building your own indexes, that's also a pretty big win. I wish there was a more obvious path forward for your company to make money (I get nervous when companies say, "we'll figure out funding later", to me that comes across as a little bit of a time bomb). But in general, always good to see more private options for people available.

If I was in your position and I was looking for audits, I'd honestly be looking at the same sources that DuckDuckGo's founder talks about further up-thread, because that would at least allow me to say, "the same sources that claim DuckDuckGo is private have also said that we are private." But it's not my area of expertise, so maybe that's bad advice.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32586726
> So is the difference here that one endeavor is done for profit and the other isn’t? If an open source project becomes profitable for the maintainers, do they now have a obligation to fix and support their software?

Yes, doesn't that seems reasonable? Presumably Gitlab became as popular as it did only because they offered free-tier repos, and generated revenue another way. YouTube only became popular because they offered free content and generated revenue another way, and so on.

Suppose you managed to start a company with a couple of loyal customers, and then as you grow bigger you ignore those loyal customers' needs in deference to newer customers that pay more. Maybe it's "good business" to pursue more profit, but kind of shitty to spit in your original customers' faces no?
I was in process with a few us companies but they just refuse to give 6-8 payed vacation weeks :/
... no it definitely wasn't. that's $50m. read the paper, they tell you how long it took on a v4-256, which you know the public rental price for.
As someone in Western Europe working for a US company, the Timezone thing is the biggest issue for me. My company is actually really good with it, but I still often finish work at 7-8pm local time, sometimes with little notice. Everything else can be worked around, or smoothed out, but this is the biggest intractable pain.
someone told me bloody mary was banned from dalle
I think that was a_t48's point. smugma was suggesting Facebook (C) was better than Amazon (B-) and a_t48 was pointing out that that was wrong...
I like the income based share of expenses. If you make 75% of the total income, then pay 75% of the bills. Mortgage could probably be split 50/50. That's what a friend of mine does and they're both very happy.

Unfortunately, I can't convince my wife to contribute this way. I pay all the bills other than her car payment (when she has one), car maintenance, and gas. I also pay about $6k-8k of her self-employment tax. On top of that, for years she spent more on her hobby than I did on the mortgage. This has created some stress for me. Not only is she not contributing to bills, but I have to cover her taxes, and she's spending in a way that I never would.

So the risk becomes that if we do divorce, I'm totally screwed.it feels like the only way to control her spending is to keep the money separate. If you're not making enough to spend thousands a month on hobbies, then it becomes obvious that you can't do those.
As long as actual ISPs remain neutral the Internet is an open platform, if you have a controversial position you may just have to do your own hosting as you are not entitled to demand others do so for you.
The saga pattern, or use something like Temporal.
From personal experience, the new automatics are better than manuals.

I found going from a 5 speed to a 6 speed annoying -- it added a lot more shifts. After 26 years of driving a manual, my car got totaled and I pretty much had to get one with an automatic.

The new car has hill descent mode, which is pretty similar to what a manual does, and it has some more sophisticated limited slip traction control modes, which eliminates the only other real advantage of a manual.

The only remaining advantage of a manual now is cost, which matters far more in developing countries than in the USA.
The Mazda MX-5 bonnet system:

https://owners-manual.mazda.com/gen/en/mx-5/mx-5_8fl9ee16j/c...

They wanted to keep the profile of the car low which didn't allow for the space normally needed, so they provide it 'on demand' in case of impact. Unfortunately for a friend of mine who is an owner, that turned a fairly minor collision with an object into a several thousand pound repair as the system shears the bonnet mounts and deforms the bonnet.
Data Lake / Lakehouse Guide: Data Lake Table Formats (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi)
I created a small guide with the most important topics on a Data Lake and Lakehouse containing the following chapters.

- What is a Data Lake & Why do you need one?
- Differences between Lakehouse & Warehouse
- Components of Data Lake
- Storage Layer (AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage)
- File Format (Apache Parquet, Avro, ORC)
- Table Format (Delta Lake, Apache Hudi, and Iceberg)
- Trends in the Market
- How to turn it into a Lakehouse

I hope that's interesting to one or the other. Curious to hear your thoughts and opinions. What's your Data Lake Table Format of choice, and why?
That's because IBM is in the business of selling complex stuff and promising to make it simple with support contracts.
Q: How do I do X?
A: What have you tried?

Is perfectly reasonable conversation.
3d printing is amazing but it is not extremely precise. At the end of the day you are extruding plastic from a stepper motor controlled head not much different than extruding glue from a glue gun (I know about other mechanisms but this was done with an extrusion printer) . You have many factors at play such as the acceleration rate of the heads, the extrusion rate and how it ramps off at the end, how true your axis are, mechanical play... it is endless how much you can tweak.

And at the end of all of that you are not going to make anything that has micron or even thousandths level precision. For something like a lens, machined metal and at a minimum injection moulding is needed. It would be as if I said I could produce a gauge block to measure 10mm for a fraction of the cost. But for that cost savings my precision will be unusable when my block is not flat and is 9.956 mm which in 3d printing would be very close but in machinist land is off by a mile. Lens casings and aliignment need similar precision.
Not a joke, i honestly dont know why people have been referencing NZ farm land....

> an American Internet forum dedicated to the discussion of online figures and communities it deems "lolcows" (people who can be "milked for laughs"). The targets of threads are often subject to doxing and other forms of organized group trolling, harassment, and stalking, including real-life harassment by users.

You know, funnily enough, not exactly in my regular browsing habits so im extremely sorry for not knowing.
endtimes.dev is on netlify I believe and a static site, correct ?
Ask HN: Any tips for staying focused on side projects?
In last 8 years i have started 10s of side projects. I have only completed 2-3 which were really small like a week or 2s work.

Developers who keep complete big projects, how you stay motivated?
Assuming you have a background in Math, System Administration (wget), Automation (python), Software (HTML, JS, REST), Linux (there's good resources for all of these)

Truth is, this track you'll set up a search engine in about 20 minutes:

Document Store/NoSQL:
https://elastic.co
https://solr.apache.org

Classical AI:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63gFHB6xb-kVBiQ...

Stat ML:
https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rMiGQp3WXShtMGg...

Frontiers: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?query=Search
The component model [1] with interface types will enable nicer tooling for things like linking and combining different languages, but it's been very slow moving and is still in flux.

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model
Photography didn't replace drawing and painting.

Also if you are doing something interesting with digital photography it is definitely not just pressing a button.
Yes it is very useful. Although it's a bit limited for getting an zoomed out view. It would be nice to have a flow chart.

Perhaps I'm colored by playing Factorio like games. It feels like managing a message queue is quite similar to managing an abstract factory line. Would be nice if I could have a similar visualization.
I think you're kinda overreacting

The simplest and the best way to get xp is to get hands dirty
"Best programmer ever" =/= Success, the key word being "best".

You can no doubt be extremely successful without being the best at something, or particularly intelligent.

But becoming "one of the best programmers ever" would require an extremely high level of computer science knowledge and understanding (at least in my eyes), which boils down to many different disciplines of mathematics. This would obviously correlate with high intelligence.

I'm of course using a generous interpretation of the word "programmer" - someone who can analyze problems, design, and implement efficient solutions to any number of problems in computing.
Orcas are breaking rudders off boats in Europe
Am I missing something about modern backend development, or does this article assume that all backends are built using a microservice architecture (and this implies some form of inter-service communication, for which message queues are a good fit)?

To put it in another way: if I were to build an (fairly simple, monolithic) API, would I automatically benefit from using a queue? If yes, how exactly would a queue be used, and in what way would it bring a benefit?
Godot’s visual scripting was very much an afterthought anyway. It was an alternative syntax for GDScript really, rather than something designed with a use case in mind. Visual scripting can be great, if it’s specifically designed to tackle certain tasks (eg why visual shaders tend to work great, or high level visual scripting). As an alternative to textual syntax, it’s not very good.
Pops straight up if you know what to search for....
does that really change anything? other than ya people were doing this in lisp way back when
> it is also not mentioning that "academic excellence" in high school has moved from straight As to 6-8 AP exams in a single year, i shit you not.

Same in India.

There is 0.1 to 0.6% chance of getting into any prestigious university depending on the demographic factors of student. This is after extensive filtering in high school.

99% of students spend 6-8 hours in coaching daily for years to get rejected since we follow stack ranking with limited seats.

What's sobering is government tried to increase elite universities but people don't perceive them as such even if they have better infrastructure, faculty, and education without the same low acceptance rate.
Fermyon has a nice chart of language support: https://www.fermyon.com/wasm-languages/webassembly-language-... There are some GC'd languages with green checks on there.

I think I've heard of people using Go wasm in production but not 100% sure.
It's common enough that states have statutes regarding the use of deadly force when someone is believed to pose a threat, whether or not they are a threat in that moment. "Fleeing Felon" statutes for instance.
I'm not exaggerating when I say this is the first time in my life I've heard anyone say manuals are better than automatics in stop-and-go traffic.
Maybe it's because the sum of my salary and the one of my wife is lower than the salary of OP 12 years ago. But we don't really care how to split the money, because usually there's none left after paying mortgage, bills and groceries.

We do have a big disparity in money, and if we split the mortgage 50/50 she would not have enough money to pay her share, so we split based on what each of us can pay: I pay the mortgage and the groceries, and she pays the bills
To be clear, we didn't leave individual predators on the site. We did whatever we could to remove them and helped the police catch them if there was enough evidence.

It's the reputation we let stand.
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