skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your description it doesn't seem like TikTok gave you "far better" results. What an I missing?

Fwiw I tried it myself. Went to TikTok.com and a video of a girl eating corn started playing (with sound). Tapped the search button at the bottom, which took me to the "discover" page, and there is no search input to be found.

Tried the desktop site and it only lets me search accounts, not videos.
Not in my experience! Though it was a few years ago, I'll have to re-evaluate. In the past, when doing numeric/scientific programming -- lots of dataflow, it was much easier to "coax" clang to generate the right (performant) assembly than GCC. I guess my use is less typical -- the internet agrees with you. :)

Hurrah for competition!

(of course, neither GCC or clang could _ever_ beat ICC at some of my tests.. grumble)
Looks like someone is doing some unauthorized time travelling.
I cannot reply to your comment from "proof?" for gcc is better than clang at generating binaries.

But here I found some benchmarks (did not inspect though): https://www.phoronix.com/review/11900k-gcc11-clang12/2
They would be consistent, but some fraction would be still be setup time. RAM behaves more like a serial device than a truly random one.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56086993/what-does-strea...

http://thebeardsage.com/dram-commands/
> That’s more of a training / staffing issue than a tech stack issue.

I mean sure, but the same could be said for distributed systems. What breeds reliability is qualified personnel working on a system that they understand. Slapping an IBM logo on the front doesn't make something more reliable, and stacking proprietary technology that "transparently" moves subsystems between datacenters only increases the training burden.

Mainframes became a victim of their own moat. While proprietary .magic. can hold people in, those very same technologies also keep new people out.
Interesting points. Thanks for the tips. Worth implementing them.
I just read the screenshots of an actual article at the top. I mean, why isn't that article what was linked to?

Ugh. I hate Twitter.
When somebody you love to hate points out that your ship is only seaworthy in fair weather...denial isn't just a river in Egypt, is it?
I think interviews and code challenges have to be be decentralized and unscientific. Assessing likelihood of success in a software engineering role is genuinely difficult; any single well-known credentialing program is going to generate experiences of its graduates being incompetent in the wild. And then no one will trust it anymore.

People's own interviewing styles aren't any more valid, of course, but they operate at small enough scale to escape the kind of scrutiny that a standardized test would attract. People also don't like to admit they're wrong, and might be applying a kind of halo effect to colleagues who have passed their personal interview questions. Whereas people love to dunk on prestige, and will eagerly seize on anything they can count against someone with a prestigious credential.
For context, I know this is a display issue and not a storage issue and you can get your originals out via Takeout.

That being said my photos are the only digital files I really care about not losing. My photos and videos from my phone get backed up to iCloud, Google Photos, OneDrive and Amazon’s photo storage that comes with Prime.

My videos get backed up to all of the above except Amazon’s storage.
Just a reminder that both Fortune and Forbes is now almost entirely made up of sponsored articles that often don't mention who the sponsor is even if the sponsor is a foreign government. The most blatant example of this is the Pakistani government sponsoring an article in Forbes calling Pakistan the best place for solo female travelers.
The US has provided close to $18 billion to Ukraine since 2014 to help it maintain its sovereignty.
That ECC isn’t entirely standard is shameful.
This is a serious forum for the intellectual elite of Silicone Valley. We do not use words like "copium". Please desist in future comment submissions.
Seems like the back to the future theory of time travel. Photos start fading.
My cultural prejudice for readable code? Yes I guess it is.

As far as I can tell the main reasons for APL being written like it is are 1. it's ancient, from the world of teletype where character count was way more critical, and 2. some programmers love code-golf write-only syntax.

It reminds me a lot of regex. You could say "there are good reasons regex is so terse" and "people successfully use regex all the time" but that doesn't change the fact that it is a very write-only syntax and would be much better if it was more verbose. There are actually a lot of recent efforts to do that.

The jsource repo you linked seems to have had only 4 contributors ever, which suggests to me that it is not a popular style and not easy to read.

As far as I can tell APL had some interesting ideas in terms of data manipulation, but there's no reason those ideas have to be expressed all on one line with no comments or spaces.
Expose localhost to internet
I was trying to answer the question of why the lisp config might be difficult to read so I deliberately tried to not rely on my own intuition about how lisps work. In particular, I think it is possible to design a format for s-expression package definitions that is more approachable to people who don’t know lisp.

I continue to find it slightly odd that the package definition is not some serialisation of a package object but rather a full program that outputs a package object, and I think this is the root of a bunch of the confusing things about the definition. Consider that the commenter at the top of this thread thought yaml might be preferable. I think that means they didn’t realise they were looking at a program outputting the package definition but rather that they thought they were just looking at the definition itself.

If the whole thing were just data instead of data that’s actually code whose evaluation produces data, I think things would be more obvious. For example, some symbols are just syntax (e.g. in the alist syntax for constructing the package definition) whereas others are references to values of which some are other packages, some are just scheme functions, and some are guix-specific functions. And symbols have other meanings in the build-steps reader macro.

Building package definitions in this way can also make errors harder to pinpoint as the author can write any program they like rather than being restricted to a more limited configuration language. Needing to evaluate programs to get packages can also, I think, make the collection of all packages as a whole pretty opaque and hard to reason about compared to e.g. being able to have a database that contains all the package definitions.

I don’t think the ‘unfamiliar with lisp’ argument is good. I’m pretty familiar with lisp (though not so much guile/scheme) and I’ve been writing it for over ten years and I think this way of specifying packages is not great in the average case, though perhaps there are some complexities that cannot be handled without this general mechanism.
in the end, failure to mitigate climate change may be the primary factor behind the 'Great Filter' explanation for Fermi's Paradox - sentient species unable to overcome evolved competitive behaviour, and see the big picture in time to cooperate. I hope we can beat the odds
The Swatch home page still shows beats (upper left)

https://www.swatch.com/en-us/homepage

I implemented it in Javascript for this page https://gerikson.com/cgi-bin/eternal.cgi [1], but it's off from the official page by 1

[1] https://github.com/gustafe/EternalTime/blob/master/templates...
Thanks for the advice. I go the extra mile since I am passionate.
Mailisk – Virtual SMTP Support
Where is the container running? If it’s on a remote server you can do it with Linux user level permissions. Basically just make sure their user accounts are not sudoers, make sure they’re not in the docker user group, and make sure docker daemon is not allowing all user groups to access it. (This is the default configuration btw so I’m guessing your users are running as root on the host?)
Just wrote a wall of text about it in another comment, but I used to flip burgers at a place that offered both black-bean veggie burgers and Impossible burgers. The veggie burgers sold better, by more than 2:1. I suspect it was because of the price, not the flavor.
I skimmed the images, and the initial images were woodcut-style, and not very obviously fake. Only the last one was styled like an engraving, and was much more obvious.
I apologize. Let me rephrase:

>The amount of denial in the /r/europe thread on the article is OVER 9000.
He was the only major politician pushing for the one thing that would have hurt Russia the most - European energy independence. I’m not sure how people can see how he consistently pushed for real containment of Russia then ignore it to believe he was BFF’s with Putin.
> If we could torch the environment and solve those 3 then the sane thing to do is torch the environment.

You do say "if" though. We can't do it that way. The climate crisis will cause forced migration of many people once they can't be fed. That will stimulate both armed conflicts and issues related to overpopulation. It's not helping with energy security either if we need more development or living spaces than we planned for. It's all connected.
> We've already established that countries with large amounts of cheap energy are going to be fine with climate change.

Are they? I don't think a climate feedback loop cares about human borders and their ability to source cheap energy.
> The elephant in the room is that you can't downvote submissions, only upvote. Which means there are posts that don't deserve to be on the front page that can't be removed from the front page, taking away spots from other posts.

I don’t think this is entirely true. Posts can be flagged as an indication of downvoting (though there could be other reasons for flagging as well). When more people flag posts, they do go down in ranking. That’s my understanding and I do use flagging as a mechanism to push posts that I’d rather not have featured.
Cost, and your vCPU is an actual core instead of a hyperthread.
With electricity

What a silly comment. The switch over to an electric cars is a multi year process that will take at least until 2030 just for new cars. The current problems won't last nearlt that long
The article doesn't say anything about the sort of sensing technology that would be required to look at the Earth, for example claiming that 'Earth would clearly show itself as a living, inhabited world' to an observer 55m light years away at Messier 87.

Yeah right.
Are you saying that it's somehow self-evident that Pakistan is not the safest place for solo female travelers? Have you looked at the facts?
Ah, good to know that, thanks a lot!
Pandemic suffered from the orchestrator effect for us, where the best player just ended up telling everyone what to do.
Covid still kills in California – but the Demographics of Victims are shifting
"RISC-like" is a good term. The way the 6502 used Page 0 RAM effectively gave it 256 extra "registers". Not as fast as the real on-CPU registers, of course, but definitely faster than accessing a random byte of memory. Accessing arbitrary memory required a two byte address, but some instructions had a "page 0" form that let you access those addresses with only a one byte address, with page 0 assumed.
I think there are 2 problems; user side and HN/algorithm side.

On the HN side, i have watched with dismay as several submissions of mine have gathered a lot of interest, making it quickly to the front page, only for it to inexplicably plummet down the rankings to the second page and then to the unknown regions of the third and fourth pages.

On the user side, most submissions stay on the new page for about 30min. In that time, all it needs is two or three upvotes to get onto the second page of HN which does get visited. I'm sorry to say this but i think users here are too lazy when it comes to looking for and upvoting new submissions. A post from arstechnica.com is sure to make it to the front page, even if it doesn't deserve it, while others are ignored. I think HN'ers should be spending more time on the new page and less time lazily upvoting posts from once- good websites that have lost their lustre by now.
I personally found a corrupted file stored in online storage only, though it wasn't with Google, but with Microsoft's OneDrive.

I tried to open a Word document that I hadn't viewed for several years, but got an error that the file was damaged. It looks like this happens sometimes, after searching for the error online. Luckily I was able to recover an earlier version of the file (via version history), but it was alarming that it happened in the first place (also I'm not sure if important edits were made in the latest corrupted version).

It's unfortunate how many cloud services default to storing on the cloud only instead of also keeping a local copy, and don't even provide the option to opt out. Even if you choose the "keep offline" option for several services, for unknown reasons, this doesn't seem reliable (Maybe I'm 'using it wrong'? But in practice, I've found myself having to download files that I was sure I set to keep offline.)
Thanks for the advice. Makes sense. Since I am the subject market expert in some areas, it helps to some extent.
As an european here it is almost my obligation to remind every european of why we talk about the energy crisis (which is a fact, of course) and we never talk about the causes and who decided that we should support one side or the other.

I am against all this 4-bureaucrats-decide whether we enter a war or not, with the devastating consequences for energy and the nuclear risk at which they could potentially involve us in.

The opinions about who is bad or good in this war, I do not care. I do not support wars or war involvement. Diplomacy. When you cannot with diplomacy and it is not really your duty, just stay away.
Similar to whois.geektools.com, then?
Meh.... While the article could be right it is also not presenting anything new.

Let's see, only time will tell.
Outside of the timezone-agnostic advantages, .beats are about what I'd expect single notable tasks to resolve to and seem to be a great notation for that purpose. Retrieving an item I know the rough location of might take 1 .beat, disinfecting a kitchen countertop might take 2 .beats, resolving a P1 service outage I know the cause of might take 4 .beats to correct, verify and push into production. That ease is what makes it a viable replacement for me.

So after widespread adoption it could be used effectively as second nature and improve communication without the wasted thought cycles it takes to consider seconds/minutes, just to end up supplying poor ETAs. For example, from, "just a second," really meaning anywhere between 5 and 300 seconds, to a moment being hopefully less than 15 minutes, instead we hear, "need to grab something from the garage, back in... 2 beats," to mean around 3 minutes and parallelise our own movements appropriately.

With that edge, I'm optimistic that .beats wouldn't become arbitrary language after a few decades, that its use would be more thoughtful, but I'm ignorant to the psychology.

If decimal time of any description were to catch on, all systems should be updated, right down to the instruments requiring microsecond accuracy. Similarly, while we propose reformed timekeeping, can we decimalise the calendar year? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_reform
I've always thought it would be a cool science fiction (or maybe reality one day), where someone figured out how to observe the light coming from Earth from 2000 years ago. They would be able to actually view what happened, in even better detail than we can with satellites today. The implications are what makes this interesting. We could prove whether Jesus existed, how certain events went down, all kinds of stuff that would shake current society to the core. Like I said, science fiction.
What makes you think he was a fan of Putin?
Any advice on what to consider and how to tailor content for HN users? I've seen some advice before, but I just couldn't square these with the content I'm interested in, ie. following that advice would make the content into something I'm less interested in. Even if that worked, what would be the point?
Do you mean it's a minefield* :P

Not sure it's as much of a problem as you're making it seem though.. likely there can be enough iteration that it would not be distinguishable.

Also lots of mainstream artists ignore copyright anyway (Kanye West etc). Plus you could just use training data that is from public domain stuff if it was really such an issue, there is decades worth of music that are outside of copyright law.
Here is what Switzerland is doing at the moment to prevent the worst case which would be rolling black outs.

They are planning for the worst case so they don't get caught with their pants down. This includes:

- Currently trying to fill as many reservoirs as possible

- Securing gas in foreign reservoirs.

- Plan for emergency gas plants that can be operational by January/February, the time Switzerland has the least electricity available.

- Legal framework to deal with energy shortage such as deciding which industry is considered essential and what kind of compensation would be provided for those that get shut off if it gets to this.

- The SBB is calculating how much electricity they can save by reducing trains and also piping power into homes instead of trains. From what I heard, current calculations show reducing service by 30% only saves around 10% electricity.

They also put out a plan which starts with asking people to use less electricity to worst case which would be planned 4 hour rolling blackouts.

Peoples' homes not getting electricity will be the last resort and unlikely as large industries will be asked first to stop producing and take the government money.

Switzerland produces more electricity per year than it needs. The issue is that the amounts don't line up so they export excess and import when they don't have enough.
Most of today's AI approaches will never lead to true intelligence
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32952814
Birds of prey are exposing a toxic time bomb
I use hckrnews as the main entry point for browsing HN, it I’ve noticed that hckrnews isn’t adequate because it relies again on the voting patterns of HN users. And most HN users would be voting for the ones already trending on the first and second pages. It’s the small (my guess) user base that browses through New almost all the time and upvotes or flags posts that’s doing the bulk of the work in surfacing things for others.
Thanks. You are right.
Sure. Hopefully it was helpful and answered any questions.
Well they aren’t laughing now, are they?
11th I think. I got mine February.

Most things work. I didn't setup mic and audio, because being Deaf I couldn't be bothered. Suspend is very nice. There's hibernate, too and hybrid suspend/hibernate (first suspend and if battery is too low, hibernate). With sway you setup media keys yourself. I didn't bother. I only configured screen brightness and screenshots. Trackpad is okay. Don't expect Apple's smoothness. First it was very jerky till I found out that Firefox fell back to X11.

The good: very configurable and mostly working

The bad: it takes a lot of time to configure everything

The ugly: kinetic scrolling is per application so all applications do this differently
US is certainly a democracy, which is understood in common usage as a system of government with universal suffrage, where the population votes for political representatives who then go on the make the laws of the land.
It seems like they clearly mark it as having been published by a "contributor"[0]. Not sure if they added that after the public backlash though.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/breannawilson/2019/10/11/this-p...
Linux Driver for Apple Silicon GPU Rendering a Spinning Cube
The default Mail app
p5.js is amazing and made just for this purpose. That coding train guy made countless tutorials on generating visuals with js.
Web 2.0 has made it so fractured that massive communities exist on /r/EmuDev, Emulator 101 is a well known source for new learners, nesdev.org is the reference for NES stuff, a shitton of the data we have is from the Web 1.0 days and is just as fractured, and we even have repos like https://github.com/marethyu/awesome-emu-resources that collect a shitload of useful stuff (including the test ROMs that other commenters have mentioned, that will only work if you perfectly emulate the target system).

As well as that, many people are decapping entire chips and games, just for exact emulation. So, no, you're talking out your ass, sorry.
A bad bit might have no visible effect at all (e.g. Affecting part of EXIF metadata, or a totally black pixel turning again very close to total black) or can corrupt the whole image (flipping a bit in the file header or cosine quantization table).

It totally depends.
I don't remember the German government laughing, but they were certainly crossing their fingers (or holding their thumbs) that nothing would go wrong on their watch.

The lack of contingency planning is down to a mix of corruption, incompetence, and yes some naivete.
The ban is diplomacy.
I wish more people would do that. Reddit used to have that stupid 6 month limit on threads making it difficult to reply to someone saying something 4 years ago. They also need better tools to keep track of replies to older comments.
In the old days (up to ~2018) you could always contact people on the internet. Now you cannot contact people. That's bad. It's like the switch from knowing and being able to talk your neighbors to not knowing and not talking to your neighbors. Like the switch from a small town to a megacity.

And you're completely wrong about GDPR. It is the primary, if not exclusive, reason most registrars in most regions have removed WHOIS information. ref: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-registration-data... https://circleid.com/posts/20210119-whois-record-redaction-a...
This trips my implausibility detector. Aside from the results themselves, one red flag is that they describe the subjects only as "living in a metropolitan area located in the southeastern region of the United States". What possible legitimate reason could there be for not identifying the specific metropolitan area where the subjects lived?
If you got cheap energy, you can defend from many many climate issues
This is an open forum for anyone of any intellect and of any place. There are standards, but please don't gatekeep.
Unfortunately yes. The nonfree channel linked in this thread does/has microcode updates but mainline guix doesn't.
That’s a joke right?
I didn't mean that. Two things. 1. That actually rules out some of my peers playing politics. 2. There is something happening across the board. Thats what I meant.
> A disadvantage of the RISC design was that since programs required more instructions, they took up more space in memory. Back in the late 1970s, when the first generation of CPUs were being designed, 1 megabyte of memory cost about $5,000. So any way to reduce the memory size of programs (and having a complex instruction set would help do that) was valuable. This is why chips like the Intel 8080, 8088, and 80286 had so many instructions.

> But memory prices were dropping rapidly. By 1994, that 1 megabyte would be under $6. So the extra memory required for a RISC CPU was going to be much less of a problem in the future.

I think this is still a problem? Not memory size, but the speed of the memory bus.
Once a year I select about 100 of my favourite pictures from my phone and have them printed and bound to a book. I suspect this is likely to be the only way my descendants will be able to see them.