skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microbenchmarks are only valid for the one function under test, and only on the current machine; they're all right for optimizing on particular hardware, but not so much to go out into the world and go "X is faster than Y"

That said, I did like this website where you could set up JS benchmarks, they would run on your own machine and you could compare how it ran on other people's systems. It wasn't perfect, but it gave a decent indication if X was faster than Y. Of course, it's a snapshot in time, JS engines have gone through tons of optimizations over the years.
TypeBox: High Performance Runtime Type Checking for TypeScript
What is your HN key fingerprint? I’d like to compare it to know if our messaging is secure.
Should we applaud the government for finding lackeys to help them avoid the letter of the law but not the spirit?
You already know the answer to that.
I too thought for a moment that this was real-time until I noticed the absolutely frighting speed at which these trains would be passing through the tubes.

People waiting at a station would be sucked onto the tracks by the vortex created in the wake of a passing train. The front of the trains would probably be red hot with friction, while the passengers would be screaming until their train reached the end of the line, where it would pass out of existence, presumably into another dimension.

That is, until god slowed reality back down to 1x speed.
And yet those overpopulated nations are responsible for a tiny fraction of the cumulative GHG in the atmosphere. Whereas countries like the UK and US are responsible for the vast majority.

It’s almost like it’s got nothing to do with population.
maybe burried by the messages directly after that one? at least for me after the poll there are two messages about animated emoji
“Emperor Xi” needs to win elections to keep ruling, and destroying country’s economy isn’t particularly good way of achieving that. Embargo is a given; US is just waiting for opportunity. Sure, it wouldn’t be a total embargo, but it would be crippling anyway. Look at how China dropped their strategic cooperation with Russia, including areas that aren’t explicitly sanctioned. I don’t think Russia can survive their current war, and that serves as a nice example to others.

Russia is very different from China. Comparing a superpower to “Nigeria with nukes” is a bit pointless, but one of the crucial differences is that Russians know they can’t expect anything good from their mafia state. Chinese - quite the opposite, they expect sustained rapid growth, like the past five decades. Another difference is that Chinese don’t seem very enthusiastic about wars, compared to Russians - or Americans.

And no, they don’t have occupation of Taiwan in their doctrine. China has been repeatedly explaining they seek peaceful unification. And they seem fine playing the long game, ready to wait a couple of generations for it to happen.
Title seems wrong. I think this was intended to be "12 Kb executable runs natively on 7 operating systems". The HN suggestion of copying the article title would be: "How Fat Does a Fat Binary Need To Be?"
The „funny“ thing is that they discuss anti-democratic topics in public, open groups and channels. They are for the vast majority completely technologically illiterate and somehow associate Telegram with secrecy. But they are in fact publicly broadcasting their wishes to reverse authorities. Any investigators can just join a group and see almost everything they are planning out loud.
You think a penetration tester should find bugs in code? They're looking for security weaknesses only, and almost never by looking at the code. Your method may be the most expensive possible.
UX of Signal is terrible. Part of that is a direct result of security-usability trade-offs.

> The app doesn’t solve any privacy problem, default chats are unencrypted, keeps personal info.

I am using it for public chats.

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EDIT: this is inacurate, see replies

For example I get repeated "insert PIN password here to remember it".

I have a password manager. There is no way to get rid of it, even via deeply hidden settings. For example, what about disabling it for password with length over 40? Or something?
ITYM "provocative"
MBA 16gb / 256ssd

- It has pretty much ruined other PCs for me - it runs rings around my work provided Dell XPS / I7/ 32gb - and it has completely replaced my tablet (the instant on feature / battery life and size rendering the tablet obsolete)

- I wish I'd got the 512gb model

- I only use docker for postgres but I've had no problems

- I usually run Webstorm, Figma, countless Chrome tabs Spotify hooked up to a Samsung Ultrawide 5120 x 1440 and it doesn't skip a bit.
I don't think you need to be at peak cognitive power for your contributions to be measurable and worth doing in society. No one would care about the age of the person who finds treatment for an autoimmune or teleportation.

Sure, you'll be delivering slower than what you would if you were 25 but slower is better than not delivering whatever unique you have to offer at all.
Hi guys and gals, thx for the confidence. Just wanted to let you know the product is open source, so there are no "walled gardens" here :)

As to my use of "imply", I'll change my language :D

English is my second language, and I should probably install Grammarly or something on my machine ;)
Nice, only thing is it's not currently accurate. The U1 and U2 have temporarily combined into the U12.
You could just simply choose to avoid those things for yourself and live that perfect harmonious happy life you envision, but maybe you could just leave me and other people alone and let us watch whatever we want to watch?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#History
I believe parent was sarcastic and agrees with you.
The pandemic provided a perfect filtering mechanism for those who thrive in isolation.
Millionaires don’t matter except for marketing; median matters.
Technically no one prevents using Core/Ryzen series on datacenter.
Cool! I program for around 7 months in Pharo now at Yesplan [0]. We're hiring a devops engineer and a software engineer. While the Pharo website [1] avoids mentioning it, it's a Smalltalk descendant.

What I like about Pharo:

1. Programming in the debugger makes things feel much quicker

2. Evaluating expressions inside your code editor makes programming feel much quicker

3. The ability to quickly browse classes and methods makes programming feel much quicker (e.g. I type Date somewhere, select it, press CMD+B and now I browse the Date class).

Don't get me wrong, Pharo has downsides, especially when it comes to using it in production (IMO). With that said, the language feels fun to use! I definitely like it now as my first language for side projects as it is more graphical, more playful, and feels quicker for iterative development (e.g. when consuming APIs). It's why I wanted to learn it in the first place, it has shown me a different philosophy on how programmers interact with a programming language and IDE.

[0] https://yesplan.be/en/vacancies

[1] https://pharo.org
MV2 extensions have a lot of API power and it was a common malware vector in the browser since the APIs let you sidestep a ton of regular web security. If you run a popular extension you will get offers to buy the extension which is a nice payday. The buyers would then stuff it full of malware to infect the existing users.

Google makes no money off the Chrome Web Store and their initial attempts to restrict MV2 failed. The goal was for automated approval to suffice. Still, there was certain APIs that required human review.

Google could have continued restricting MV2 until they didn't need human review but they must have got the idea for MV3 at that point. They could also hamstring ad blockers and get some promo packet material.
I agree with everything you said. I included lazy loading because I hate having bad network connection while on a train and having to wait 5 mins for a page to load for silly images and fonts, which arent even on the screen.
Preventing an AI-Related Catastrophe
> If the government was so committed to “suppressing”

There's no need for quotes around suppressing as it was suppressed, objectively.

> they were awfully bad at it

It was done to sway an election, which went the way was desired, and without any legal blowback. That is not being "awfully bad at it".

> as anyone who ever wanted to learn about them certainly won’t shut up about it.

But at the time and when it was most important people were shut up regardless of whether they wanted to be.
Also, the climate doesn’t even have to become worse for climate change to be a problem (although it will, and rising sea water levels bring their own problems).

The mere change in weather patterns means that assumptions underlying human civilizations for millennia are not true anymore. You will (we already are) see vast migrations with people resisting the migrators leading to more war and strife. Cities built on the assumption of the presence of clean water will no longer have that clean water anymore leading to the destruction of the city, it’s economy and the lives of the people in it.

The rapid change in climate is a huge problem even if theoretically the climate was somehow becoming more suitable for humans.
I used to work in manufacturing as a process engineer (now a dev) and this is fascinating to learn about. Do you have any articles on your work or any use cases where I can learn more?
But also, a whole lot of other things I didn't ask for that are hard to entirely opt out of.
Probably the dog that was mentioned.
At Yesplan [1] we use GemStone in production, we use Pharo for development. The languages are quite alike, but we do need to have a compatibility layer between the two. For example, GemStone doesn't have dynamic arrays (arrays that evaluate expressions of each element).

Our CTO knows companies that use Pharo in production. I'm sure there are also people using VisualWorks in production. All of these languages are Smalltalk descendants.

[1] http://yesplan.be
Does Brave have the memory / slowdown issues attributed to Chrome on Apple silicone MacBooks?
Extremely slow for some reason in Firefox on Mac OS for me
Signal bugs on ios really are a pain point for people that I have convinced to switch. Even basic things, the ios app does not seem to use the correct camera API which makes using the internal camera lower quality which also makes video calls blurry.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/5294
> (one of a kind in Europe, very strict)

This is wrong. The German COVID policy is not strict at all. There is a 5 day isolation if you test positive, and you usually have to wear a mask on public transport. That's literally it.
It’s unlikely a Russian vpn provider would respond to a demand from a US government
Every bug is a weakness at some level.
The most efficient way in bug bounties currently to make money is by reviewing open-source code. Manually testing takes huge amount of time.
You can also automate code review for low hanging fruits with tools like semgrep or GitHub's code scanning.

Of course programmers should test their code themselves and minimise the bugs, but their work it not to look for them.
I haven't bought M1 nor M2. My last Apple computer was a 2017 MBP and I'm not risking it anymore.

I've had MBAs, MBPs, iMacs and the only working Apple computer I possess is a pre-Cook design: MBA 2012.

Everything from Cook era went to shit or was shitty from day one. I've had iMac which caught dirt under the screen, went for repairs (was accepted as iMac with dirt under a screen with no additional issues) and Apple refused to repair it saying that it came with broken screen (and they gave me my iMac with replacement disk and screen cracked from how they apparently opened it). I literally had papers saying that the computer is accepted for repairs with no visible damage and papers stating that they refuse to repair it due to cracked screen. After they have replaced a Seagate disk under some replacement program.

I've had MBP 2017 which went for repairs shortly after being bought due to barely usable keyboard. They replaced the whole case and keyboard for the same unusable trash. It's a mobile computer you can't write on which nobody wants to buy. It used to be easy to re-sell Apple laptops.

Jony Ive and Tim Cook cured me of any fanboyism I might have had from the Jobs era.

I'm happy for all the satisfied users of current Apple's computers and I can only wish you that the "upgrade" won't be shitty and your current hardware won't became the next "2012 MBP" or "2015 MBP".
https://syften.com/ searches for comments, but you have to supply a search term (not URL).
I don't have an ad blocker.

It's fine. Really, it is.
On the surface you are correct, this is especially the painted picture by the mass media and at least partially by the government (who also sought banning Telegram entirely in Germany).
If you go deeper, you get to see that also a lot of human rights activists and NGOs are using it.
Have been using Telegram since 2015, and in the meantime, most of my IT buddies use it and/or Signal.
>my guess is it would be more comfortable to remain there than to lock down alone in your apartment;

Actually sounds like a good premise for a movie :)
While I don’t think the general scientific consensus agrees with you that every plant and fungus is sentient, we can pick a different word if you prefer. The ability to suffer is the important aspect, after all.

As for the part of your comment that claims using the word “sentient” is pseudo religious and used to wield power over others… I think you’re reading far, far too much into it. I don’t think anyone is using sentience as a tool to justify punishment over anyone else. In fact, it tends to be the people that deny sentience that end up punishing others, for merely belonging to different species!

TL;DR Let’s not commercialize anyone that can suffer. Historically it hasn’t gone well.
This piece is from 2022. I'm talking about the time when Twitter and Facebook banned publication of the original NY Post publication, which would have affected elections. We now know the FBI demanded this of Facebook.
Thanks, I knew there was something like that already, but it's hard to keep all the Don Hopkins posts memorized ;)

(Speaking of whom: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/index.html )
Yeah, I went to use my Mom's phone and I was appalled with all the ads and notifications. We can disable notifications, block intrusive ads or at least figure out which app is sending them to uninstall it, but for regular users the whole thing is an awful experience. I don't refrain from calling it "evil" anymore, because that's what it is. No wonder we're collectively going insane.
> How about not storing any information at all? Nothing to give, problem solved. Just like Signal.

Yeah, give S̶i̶g̶n̶a̶l̶ Twilio your phone number instead. Problem solved.

> I seriously don’t understand why people use Telegram instead of Signal. Any reason! The app doesn’t solve any privacy problem, default chats are unencrypted, keeps personal info. App should be dead already or turned into a dating app because it’s clearly not seriously privacy fucused.

They don't care and Signal offers less that what Telegram has despite Telegram being less secure. Signal is bad at selling itself.

Maybe Signal needs to offer a better user experience, backup chats across all devices and offer more useful features; not less than their competitors rather than pushing a private cryptocurrency scam project useful for criminals, scammers and money launderers.
The article says proactive, too. It may have primed you to make the same error.
Parts of Italy and Spain. Landscapes like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Al...

Solar requires surprisingly little space. The city where I live now generates about 90% as much renewable electricity as its total average use, and it doesn't really show. Visitors don't say "wow, there really are a lot of solar panels here!" or anything like that. You don't have to look far to find some solar panels, and there a few geothermal facilities, but it's not immediately noticeable. It's been retrofitted to a densely populated city and doesn't really show.
Show HN: Get email notifications for semantically-matching content in RSS feeds
Yeah ok. I'd consider that just a thing you gotta know. Like how for certain floating point values (a / b) * (c / d) can be fine while (a * c) / (b * d) gives you +/- infinity.

It's a separate operator after all, one I also miss a lot...
Speaking of computational cost, I wonder how much electricity all this is using.
Hey y’all, sharing something I threw together over the weekend. I’m really into engineering blogs (i.e. Netflix, Cloudflare, apenwarr.ca, etc.) and wanted a tool that would help me monitor these blogs for specific topics or ideas that I’m interested in (without me having to constantly check them for updates every few days). Did the whole thing semantically, i.e. using semantic similarity + matching thresholds as opposed to a traditional full-text / keyword-matching approach, which seems to perform better (since you don’t need to use the ‘right’ wording to get good results).

Thanks for checking it out, look forward to discussing in comments!

edit: typo
Toptal.com. Pain in the ass evaluation process, but it's worthwhile to get through.
Pachyderm Is Hiring Go Distributed Systems and Testing Engineers
It's basically impossible to sue the government. In theory you could but I've never heard of anyone succeeding.
Very solid. I've experienced all of these as well.

> 1.. you don't relate to the problem

Yeah, it's like being blind. "Why do people buy that thing?" is a question I barely get answer confidently

> 2.. because developers don’t pay for shit

It's getting worse. These folks always demand open source alternatives, self-host. Sometimes, the moral of story is "I want your free labor no matter how your family is doing"

> 3.. Don’t pick something that needs a pretty UI:

Super related here. When I realized my product value is literally UX/UI, it's like the end of the word because there's no many HCI solutions at all. It's always hard to use for any target, techie, non-techie, it's hard still.

> 4.. Learn how to market instead.

Developers try to do marketing is like trying to do self-surgery, ones just can't

> 5.. You don’t want to be going around talking to actual humans

I ended up shitting on a customer because he thought he knew problems (my app trying to solve) more than I do, but I'm confident he didn't know shit.

> 6.. Try writing

Yeah, this is part of content marketing. It kinda sucks to me though, lots of content marking is just for sake of marketing, doesn't bring much knowledge.

> 7.. Keep it real.

The most real sad thing is going back to working for corp.
But then they will make it illegal to provide these services and jail the telegram team instead.
Which add-ons are you missing from Firefox for Android?
I've lived there and in the US (and other countries.)

I would say it is best to be poor in Canada, best to be rich in the US. So if you are middle class in Canada, there is a good chance you are living hand to mouth and if you are poor in Canada, you have the luxury of time. From first (well technically second) hand experience, a family of 6 can be on the dole in Canada until the children are grown up after which the parents can go on disability until retirement kicks in.

It's not necessarily a bad way to go, the children of the aforementioned family utilized the free education and healthcare to get a leg up and most of them became middle class. At which point they will see the other side of the coin.
This is my first look at anything “DALL-E”.

DALL-E doesn’t need to be better. It just needs to lower the bar that consumers can’t tell or don’t care about the differences.

“So to all the people talking about the end of illustration and animation, or even art, be aware that art cannot die.“

Still could eat your lunch.

Beware the Ides of March.
Bit fields are portable since ages, since C89. Just pack it, use the smallest base type and don't leave holes. We were using them in perl5 forever, and this compiles on more platforms with more compilers then you know. Just use -mms-bitfields on mingw and use unsigned short instead of just unsigned.

E.g. https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/02/m... for tricks.
I have the MBP 14” M1 Pro and typically you can’t hear the fan or it gets hot but during the recent heatwave here in Europe the MacBook got really hot and couldn’t comfortably use it while sitting on the couch. So it can get pretty hot but not as bad as the Intel 2019 MBP 16”.

Performance wise really happy with it; works well
I despise anything that has touched cryptocurrency, which is why I don't like Brave.
It would be worth taking a look at https://backstage.io/

Git based dev portal, lots of interesting modules:
- service discovery
- swagger / avro rendering
- k8s integration (urls, cost est,)

Something like the tech radar in a large org is worth the price of admission IMHO
1. Excellent. I'm on an air, and it's quiet and cool, but performance is great. Given the good performance, the battery life is quite amazing.

2. This is my first non linux laptop in around a decade, and it took a lot of getting used to. Different shortcut keys to get around, move text about, and a different command-line experience. Homebrew has been good to resolve a lot of that, but I mostly embraced the differences and just went with it. A lot of the MacOS design decisions are very ergonomic and it's worth giving them a shot.

3. Docker has been fine for me, although the architecture on the m1 means things I took for granted on a full x86 dev/target stack can be more complicated or slower.

4. I have the 16GB model and have been very impressed with it's memory usage, and haven't suffered at all. I have not done any video editing, but have done work with Blender and some large-ish textures, without trouble. Plus the usual oodles of tabs, many apps, etc.

Extra thoughts: I bought this laptop because in 2021 three other new laptops broke for me. Two had USB-C charging or power circuitry issues, and one had an NVME (or SSD or whatever) storage failure, all within 1-3 months of purchase. This machine has been solid.
> I think the main issue here is the computational cost, as - if I understand correctly - you basically have to do training for each concept you want to learn. Are pretrained embeddings available anywhere for common words?

The basic SD model should have all the common words covered, this model's goal is to find a new concept that doesn't exist visually or textually in the dataset, like for example your own face, or a character you designed yourself. Note that this might not be possible to do, the corpus of data or the size of the model might not have held enough information that it can represent certain concepts, or at least represent them in detail. I.e. if you give it pictures of your dog, it might not look quite your dog during generation, even though those details existed in the pictures you gave the model.

If you want personalization that is also highly detailed, you'll have to fine tune the model itself with your own concepts, google has detailed how they did their own fine tuning and called it dreambooth[1].

[1] https://dreambooth.github.io/
The probability of completely automated teaching (1962) [pdf]
They don't have to. I think gorhill recognises it's simply unfeasible to produce an effective content blocker on MV3, and I hope he puts his foot down and doesn't take on the maintenance burden of an additional nerfed browser extension.

If web devs want to make web experiences worse in Firefox by issuing warnings everywhere, then Firefox can even the score by having a useable ad-free experience.
I think it's very useful in such situations to hear other people's points of view, similar experiences, and so on.
I always wondered, how do you deploy it? Are you able to use git or other VCS? Are there other developers working on the same image?