skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have multiple incentives: (ignoring the main "not being shitty people" incentive)

- if they get investigated in the future in connection with some crime, they can't claim they weren't aware people use their service explicitly to protect illegal behaviour

- they likely don't get as much money from KF as they lose in both other customers leaving and bad PR

- many tech people will actively advertise against using them and will never consider working for them

- by protecting KF, they invite more sites like that - and you really don't want to be known as "that service provider where you can go when nobody else wants anything to do with you"

- the backlash is pretty established now, you really don't want comments on your feature announcements to start with "have you got a feature to turn off the murders yet?"
It was renamed from Occidental because some weird group (communist I think) calling themselves something similar and that was being associating with the language Occidentalists.

As for the name change, I think it has a very general meaning, like amongst-language with the e ending being typical for Occidental nouns and the a ending for Interlingua nouns (maybe). Weirdly enough, the name push was by a guy called Ric Berger who was a Occidentalist who moved to Interlingua and probably played a part in naming both languages. BTW, both languages are very similar in vocabulary roots with Interlingua drawing inspiration from Occidental during its development (if I understood correctly).
I don’t know about utility, but sooner or later you learn to recognize the futility in raging against the machine.

Unless I’m speaking to the executive control behind a multi billion dollar organization, your caring is pretty much meaningless beyond the cubic foot of brain matter that sweats it.
So ignore nasa, ignore the international panel on climate change… you got this one figured out better than our best scientists? Sorry that sounds just as bad as the most extreme climate deniers.
It also specified the layout (little endian) and disallowed reordering / padding / etc.
Have added a new "Discover" section on the landing page based on your feedback :)
That's how I feel about cryptocurrency
The closest thing I can think of to what you're asking for is https://tallstack.dev/. You have everything you might need there and you will have to take zero decisions tech stack related.

There are also those "no code" tools, but I've never used them and I'm pretty skeptical about it.
Admittedly I didn't know C had bit fields like that, so I didn't cover them. I've never seen them used in practice and I've used quite a lot of C libraries. I wonder why that is?

One major difference appears to be that C bitfields memory layout is compiler-dependant. The other major difference is Zig's arbitrary-bit-width integer types just leading to less footguns I would speculate
And of course they do not collaborate. /s
if (mask & (WGPUColorWriteMask_Alpha|WGPUColorWriteMask_Blue)) {
// alpha and blue are set..
}

Doesn't this give you if alpha OR blue is set?

Errors like this are another reason syntactical sugar for readability is important.
A "plurality" is the term for that.
Why Japanese brands have letter-based logos
I mean, PIA has been court tested. Lying under oath, especially when dealing with 3 letter agencies will get you in deep deep shit.
This, unfortunately, is right on the money.
Ordered a librem-14 in July of 2021. Never showed up. Filed for a refund in January 2022. Still waiting on that return. Can't dispute it with the cc company because it's over 120 days. I am going to have to take them to small claims court to get a refund.
Let me just say, Django was designed to be a monolith.

Also, people who put code that reaches out to external systems in __init__.py are the devil, but the people who decided "sure, let's execute code when we import a module or package, even if we're just importing it to use a class, that sounds reasonable" are the super-devil.
Plurality [1].

[1]: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/americ...
I'm still astounded that Enchanted (the 2007 film) prominently features a scene of the chipmunk sidekick pooping on screen.
> these days I don't even say goodbye before hanging up on my wife

This is art. Kudos to the creator.
That might be their feel good belief, but its not based on reality. If you raise the price of Energy, the people at the bottom will suffer the most. There is real risk of relatively affluent Europeans going cold and hungry this winter, due to misguided beliefs that solar will provide their energy needs, in cold and overcast places like Germany.

The cost of energy even affects how much fertilizer cost to produce. And that is even more impactful of the risk of people going hungry all over the world.
Not when it's Django, sadly.
I am developer and this is my exact work setup
It would be nice to be able to vote for policies and not parties.
Yes. Normalize caring.

Reading comments across the internet, I get the distinct impression that people would prefer to see the world completely collapse vs. accept that the next couple hundred years will be tough but survivable (as a species), requiring collective sacrifice. I suppose the former outcome is aesthetically "cleaner" or is somehow pleasingly poetic. Perhaps it's just fashionable to care even less than your friends.

No. Our past collective actions will cost the lives of millions, perhaps billions of people in the coming centuries. But this isn't justification for giving up. Get involved. Do not go silently.

Here's a possibly encouraging data point. When I announced I'd be leaving my 9-year tenure as a dev at a (non-climate-related) software company to go back to school so I will more effectively contribute to the climate effort, I got universal encouragement. From within the company as well as from outside. People _do_ care.
No, looks like a really cool company. Their hyperspectral imaging sensors will definitely enable a lot cool science. Limited to optical frequencies though so not as useful for the type of micro or nano scale imaging semiconductors require.
What is the ideal tool for managing children’s access to the internet?

I always wondered whether local logging is an option. Everything little Johnny does in his iPhone gets recorded and sent to dad’s MacBook Pro for processing every night. A local process looks for anomalous content while also producing a report of all sites visited and apps used. Taking a screenshot every 5s is going to be ~1GB per day but maybe Johnny doesn’t get to use his phone until yesterday’s log has been processed?

Perversely, to configure such a system you would have to actively prove you were doing so for a minor. You wouldn’t want to enable adults monitoring other adults.

If I worked at Apple this is something I would actively want to build, if it wasn’t there already. Anything to undercut these thin-end-of-the-wedge big brother bills and take the wind out of the “think of the children!” content authoritarians.
I love my lemur, however there is something wrong with their batteries. I've had two fail in less than a year each. They're not covered by warranty. Other than that, I love it.
You can still participate in activism and vote (provided you live in a democracy naturally), you aren't completely impotent and your efforts aren't futile.
If the people participating don't know each other yet, setup a team matching / speed-dating-style activity where people can introduce themselves, and brainstorm and share ideas.

Invite a few guest speakers and possibly organize some events (eg: yoga, snack time, improv exercises, video game break) to break up the monotony of everyone just staring at their screens.

Setup a support staff / helpdesk queue with mentors (either more senior students or staff, or possibly volunteers from industry) to help out teams that get stuck.

And make it easy to share contact info (eg: QR code badges which you can use to share email or chat information) for networking purposes.
We can absolutely stop it. But it requires a geo-engineering approach that still is too much of a taboo. Solar radiation management gives us a “pause” button that buys us time to get our shot together. Iron fertilization is another approach. Geo-engineering does not take trillions of dollars. It’s well within reach of a single billionaire for the case solar irradiation and of a dedicated group of millionaires for iron fertilization.
What does mess up incentives or demotivating here mean?

I don't get it.
Beacuse they're charging more and using war as an excuse, pocketing the profits.

BP, Shell, etc all making record profits this year.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/bp-records-highest-p...

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/shell-reports-record...
Yup. It's not our fault that Pakistan hasn't prioritized building proper infrastructure. It's far from the only wet place around.
Aha.. like an engineer who's never supported the product they shipped. Lotta talk.

I agree in spirit with everything he wrote. Except that it's just not real life, even when I've worked for businesses FLUSH with cash to "do the right thing". Even after saying almost his exact words to an otherwise intelligent boss, quantifying my point, and being proven right when I predicted his optimistic plan didn't work. Reality is messy when you peel back the first layer.
The pointless power struggles will continue as they always have. Of course, this does not absolve us of the responsibility to help find a solution or at the very least support those who do so.
They are doing policing though, just the other way. Cloudflare successfully blocked taking the harassers to trial. Their lawyers blocked engagement of law enforcement against the right person in the first place.
I don't think that logical and critical thinking protects against being fine with living in an authoritarian state, or even being in favor of authoritarianism.
> For me it runs at about 3.5 seconds per iteration per picture at 512x512.

Wow that's impressively fast, I have a relatively recent Nvidia GPU that still takes 10 seconds. And the GPU is already almost as big as the entire macbook
Yup, innovation has been overrated for thousands of years. Writing destroys people's memories. Chimneyed fireplaces allow people to stay inside for longer, making them soft and weak. Better crop rotation and better ploughs make peasants lazy. Spinning wheels allow even poor people to own two shirts! Etc., etc.
Ask HN: What platforms do you use to validate your ideas?
I have been thinking about what business to start next, and validating the idea has proven to be the right first step for me. I have been doing emails and reddit for a while now, and I was wondering what do others do?

It is extremely slow. Still worth doing it in my opinion. What do you guys use?
I'm in almost the exact same situation -- stepping from mostly IC into a CTO / Tech Lead role at a small startup, trying to create the type of culture that I'd want to work in, etc.

I unfortunately don't have a solution, other than I've noticed the exact same pattern -- most of my reports are awesome and work hard... there are a couple that I wonder if they are legitimately working, and my attempts to establish more transparency into what their day looks like have so far not gone over super well.
> often living in less-censored societies

I think people a lot of us started to get out of the common path because of the limitations (which censorship is at the basic level) we hit. My hypothesis would be that simply “curious” people get pushed into the “hacker” bucket by getting refused something that seems reachable with some creativity.

The dumb example is people will get creative and jumping through hoops to get foreign porn. Growing non-authorized plants is another example, where people have to learn so much by themselves to make it happen. Even getting pirated non-censored versons comes to require more and more technical proficiency I think, and looking at industry’s reaction it seems there’s a decent number of people sailing the seven seas.
Nuclear was apparently confirmed on the list, but I have recently used it to generate cool things around nuclear power. So suppose it is like you say.
Can you use `hugo server` (much like `jekyll/zola serve`) and a local Git repo to polish up the content locally, explore various permutations, before pushing to a cloud-based host?
France still controls the currency of several African countries, and extracts segniorage.
> Son Masayoshi is of Korean ancestry for instance.

Korea is East Asian. Southeast Asia consists of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
You appear to have taken my intent wrongly. I meant that eventually this tech may come for us super special developers, too, in some aspect. I could imagine one good developer doing the work of several once code models are perfected. The commenter I replied to had zero respect for the effects this tech might have on real humans.
No DVD carts, but NAS is somewhat popular. Xunlei or BaiduPan is insanely popular.
I actually think it’s more likely that geo-engineering will be started by wealthy individuals. Think about it: it’s the ultimate form of philantrophy! The ultimate ego boost for those who have it all.
The kids are using it.

I dislike the discord UI as well FWIW. But it might be a feature and not a big. I think it’s designed for chaotic ephemeral informal impermanent communication.

Someone else here mentioned it’s a power use interface. This makes sense too - you’re not supposed to feel at home immediately…
The paradox of tolerance isn’t really a paradox, it’s a proof by contradiction that the naive notion of tolerance is not sound.

Homosexuality is a natural observable phenomenon in the human species across time and cultures. It is an aspect of people as fundamental as height or skin tone. Not accepting them for any reason is intolerance and does not have to be tolerated. It is also intolerance to not accept Muslims, but you do not have to tolerate any intolerance that manifests from their beliefs.

People are not tolerant or intolerant, specific views held by and actions done by people are.

You don’t need values to reason about tolerance.
Respectfully, coming along and saying "nuh-uh, go find what I said somewhere else" isn't in any way compelling.

The evidence is easy to look up, and you didn't give me any.
Smiling Dogs? Horses Made of Clouds? Captcha Has Gone Too Far
>cook up a baseline kWh usage for a household

>charge for every kWh above that.

This is a little bit how it was in Texas in the 1970's and early '80's, when the utilities were still a tightly regulated monopoly.

There was no free energy, but prices could only be changed by a lengthy bureaucratic process. However HL&P had become familiar and had the upper hand in negotiations, but at least the Public Utility Commission still represented the public back then.

In order to be allowed an exorbitant overall increase, they "agreed" to much lower residential rates than business rates, and then deeply discounted the first few hundred kWh for residential customers. They could negotiate the number of baseline kWh as well as the (multiple) rates themselves.

That way once the rate increase went into effect, the largest number of the least financially capable customers would have the most tolerable increases, but the overall monthly cost really shot up quick once you started to cool the whole house with A/C.

This scheme lasted until deregulation and even beyond. There was no requirement to give up your previous monopolistic provider after they migrated to the "free" market, so if you stuck with the traditional HL&P "plan" you still got the baseline kWh way cheaper than anyone else would ever offer, but the remainder kWh over that amount was what was becoming competitively priced.

Even though no other electricity provider had the cheap first kWh's to offer, they were still taking customers away all the time. Regardless, most people had never paid any attention to how cheap it was for the first week or two of every month, and those affordable kWh's were strongly de-emphasized as HL&P came up with all kinds of tempting alternative plans to get you away from the lingering one where the core of everyone's personal energy usage was truly subsidized by those who could most afford it, by one of the last beneficial moves of the PUC.
This is known as the greengrocer's apostrophe. Most sources will say it's wrong, but it's quite common if you look for it. I think it's fine, particularly when talking about code when the actual name of the symbol matters.
Cool story.

Anyway, the filters you're thinking about don't exist and you can download the code and use it today.

Thanks for speculating.
"What is the ideal tool for managing children’s access to the internet?"

A parent.
Van Gogh was influenced by myriad artists before him.

The Impressionists were influenced by myriad artists before them.

Of course an AI could eventually be trained to develop a whole new art style.

Someone already said it earlier... there's nothing new under the Sun. It's just re-interpretations of what already exists. The value in art of any kind - song, writing, visual - isn't in creating something dramatically new and novel for the sake of creating something dramatically new and novel, it's an iterative, generative process that retells the same theme in a somewhat new way.

These models are extensions of that process.
It boils down to how much $$$ the copyright owner makes per performance on average.
The Coursera AI course videos were good a few years ago. You could audit to see those for free. Don't know if that is still the case. It is probably a good idea to go through all the courses since that reinforces learning. Good introduction to back prop, ReLu, batch norm, attention, GANs, etc...
Does a specific example come to mind? I've generally been a big fan of the opinions he writes, but I'd be interested to see what some of his weaker opinions are.
> China doesn't have a blue water Navy, and there are the ring of islands around it that can limit its access to the rest of the world.

IIRC, they're getting close to having a blue water navy.

Also that ring of islands may not be as impregnable as you assume: "According to a 2018 United States Department of Defense report to Congress, the People's Liberation Army's Anti Access/Area Denial military capabilities aimed at the first island chain are its most robust" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_island_chain).

> They are very dependent on energy imports, and seem to be mismanaging their food supply in a way that is going to result in tragedy if they are ever subject to trade sanctions.

Crippling trade sanctions against China are about as likely as crippling trade sanctions against the US.

> Like Russia, they have a credible nuclear threat, but no other means of projecting power around the world.

Yet.
I don't know why you haven't come across them but personally I've used bitfields a lot over my career as a video game programmer at different companies. You can have arbitrary bit width integers as well. It's not really very different to zig.
Ask HN: Best GitHub (and others) repo home pages
What repo pages do you think make their product look most attractive to you?
I don't share the confusion, but I generally don't like the real time format.

In an office setting (whether remote or not) , I think something like Discord or Slack is useful. I'm on the clock, and I know others are, too. I'm there for several hours of my day and I always have the chat window up.

Outside of that type of environment, chat room style discussion don't fit well with my life. I'm busy and I value asynchronous discussion, so I want to spend 15 minutes catching up on whatever happened, say whatever I need to say, and then not be present until the next day. Trying to make that work in Discord is fatiguing if the community is active. If I'm feeling overwhelmed by life, I start trimming things that send me notifications on my phone, and Discord is always the first to be culled. Currently my Discord app sends me 0 notifications, which is the way I need it, but it's not what people tend to expect. It's hard for me to participate.

I get that Discord/Slack are not at all analogous to forums, I just wish more communities gravitated to forums instead Discord. Discord obviously has its place.
In the tech engineering manager role, the busy comes from constant re-evaluation of the next important things from "the business", aka, the non-tech managers that don't care to understand nor keep the current priorities nor work with a software development process. The explanation/deep dive of that reevaluation with non-tech people take a LOT of time.
>MCU has even less sex than you'd expect from a superhero movie

That's just self censorship for the global market. Why leave it to the censors when you can make a better product that works within the constraints.
I loved reading this. I'm someone who actually enjoys going in to office and working with really smart folks on technically challenging problems, but once I come back home, I used to always end up bringing the "baggage" of work back home with me (Anyone who enjoys the world of tech would relate I'm sure).

Until, that is, I started making tea as a buffer between work and the rest of my life. Making tea is something that's nearly mechanical process for me now, but gives me that much needed 20-30 mins where I'm physically doing something, but my mind is allowed to just wander around a bit, settle down, "suspend all the work-related tabs" in my brain, and refresh information for the rest of the day.

An added bonus is that I always start my evenings with brownie points, earlier with my roommates, and now with my wife, since they know that me getting home means in a few mins, a nice hot cup of tea will be served to them ;)
Indeed, you would need to check that the mask ends up being exactly alpha and blue, otherwise it's just an automatic boolean conversion from integer to boolean, which many languages are doing away with due to all the bugs it produces.
Republicans are increasingly sharing misinformation, research finds
Ask HN: Why do some major apps still not support advanced search queries?
This might be a silly question, but why don’t all major apps support advanced search functions using Boolean expressions? Seems like table stakes to me, especially in this day and age.

For example, Slack still doesn’t support Boolean keyword searches. That blows my mind... or am I just missing something?

Is there a reason they’re not supporting it, or is implementing robust advanced search capabilities more difficult than one may think?
Writing is a third order exercise.

> But to tell you the story I have to imagine you reading these words, or more commonly almost imagine myself telling you these words. As I do the writing I imagine the telling, imagine you, recruit in that imagined picture of you all the same social understanding I need in face-to-face telling, but without you here to constantly remind me of who you are and what you know and care about.

> And yet at the same time, just as in my face-to-face telling I need to hold that picture of the Tower itself, my feelings, the heat of the day, the small stall where I bought the can of drink ... maybe conflating several visits (were the cables there on my first visit or just the scaffolding?), but whether real or imagined calling that experience into my mind as I also imagine the telling of it. The visit itself is third order - the imagination in my imagined conversation and I have to hold all three experiences in my mind at once: my hands staccato playing over the computer keys, you my reader, and Pisa in its glory.

https://alandix.com/academic/papers/writing-third-order-2006...
Can anyone recommend a good practical learning resource on adding vector optimisations to C code?

We could use some further optimisation in the emulated screen rendering code in VICE, particularly on ARM.
The world won't end. It's just gonna get a lot more difficult.