skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's also not possible to "fix" things by optimizing for the cases where the x87 unit's precision is set to the same as fp32 or fp64, as the precision flags don't impact the exponent range.

I've been meaning to look into this. Certainly you can't blindly optimise all x87 code sequences to fp32 or fp64. But some sequences are safe.

For example, adding two numbers and saving back to memory is safe to optimise (at least for the infinity case, I haven't double-checked the subnormal behaviour). It's only when you need to add three or more numbers that you run into issues (though you can go further, if all N numbers have the same sign, you will get the correct result, you just might have saturated at infinity a few operations earlier than native x87)

Same goes for multiplication of two numbers (and N numbers that all provably >= 1.0)

The question is if such code sequences are common enough to bother trying to identify at compile time and optimise.
Unfortunately, yes; there's a lot of companies - "enterprise" - that will hire a contractor which intends to make as much money as they can. They'll send a couple decent engineers, impress the client, they will ask for more, and they'll start filtering in more and more mediocre or outright bad developers, whose lacking skill is compensated for by the good ones.

But I'm 99% sure the enterprises are aware of this. They want the good developers, but realize they have to deal with bad ones too, and are willing to pay the cost and accept the risk it brings.

I mean outside of that it's fairly normal that a team will have a healthy mix of seniors (who do the meetings) and juniors (who do the work), but you'd still expect a baseline of quality and a technical interview there.
Maybe you could use little clicks and pops with your mouth to signify different characters. The computer could learn which one is which. That way instead of typing

"if (int i = 0; i < count; i++)"

you could say something like

"if beep int i click zero boop i bop count boop i pop pop zing"

This would achieve the same thing, but much faster and with less effort than typing.
https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1328744086849925120 : "Back when Vine was a thing, all the top Vine creators, a significant amount of them young and black, went to Twitter asking for a larger percentage of ad revenue since they were working so hard to generate content.

So Twitter shut down Vine."

(also cites https://www.mic.com/articles/157977/inside-the-secret-meetin... )

Like all union-busting actions, the purpose of this was not simple financial maximisation but showing who was in charge.
In Python an iterator is simply an object that implements the __next__ method, and raises StopIteration to signal the end of the iteration.

It's not hard to implement just about any protocol on top of that abstraction, e.g. you have itertools.zip_longest()
Isn't that a very niche application simply because it's voice-based? I.e. it can only be used if you are alone in an office, otherwise you would be annoying your coworkers and the voices would get mixed up.
Are you serious? I wish there were an an emoji for a hollow, scornful laugh.

India is not an autocratic country only as long as the autocrats at any level don't deem you a threat. Otherwise you are screwed. When the law makers and law enforcers form a tight bond, what is the meaning of "protected" and "rule of law"?

Try getting the law involved when you don't want to pay a bribe.

Try peacefully protesting for people's rights.
https://www.wired.com/story/modified-elephant-planted-eviden...
There is v little room for dissent under this govt.

Try appealing to the law by getting the local MLA/MP's goons off your land.

I could go on ....
Jokes on you, I just remote desktop them into a Windows machine, from the browser, and then run an electron app from within there.
What happened to absolute free speech?
Funny to see this crop up—I've had my explore location set to Japan for the past few years and would strongly recommend it. I hated the explore tab, but don't speak a word of Japanese so it's a great way to avoid news. As such the actual content does even matter so I didn't notice the change mentioned in the article.
It's pretty obvious to everyone so I wonder what really happened. Once people received this mail did they tell him to his face that he was partly wrong? Or decided to just support his vision? Because among tech people I talk to, there is no single person who believes VR is the future, unless a major breakthrough happens that would eliminate all heavy inconveniences that make it almost unusable for the majority of population for more than half an hour.

AR is a vastly different beast as you need to move in the real world and receive sensory input from your device. People have been using Google Glass for over a decade and already have a feeling of what this entangles if you take just vision into account. To eliminate all awkwardness you'd basically need an advanced implant that wouldn't stand out - but I'm not sure anyone would want such a thing.
I don't get it. Your friends wouldn't be paying to connect to your Ipv4.
IBM Introduces 433 Qubit “Osprey” Quantum Processing Unit
Generate social media posts in seconds using the AI
This post totally resonates, but wondering where the initial expectation came from : GH stars -> revenue ?

Open source can be a part of a business model, but cannot be the only foundation of a business model.
It would amount to say 'self-serve won't pay for your rent' if you assume 'self-serve' is just putting your product out there, without marketing, or growth loops.

Some new OSS companies nailed the business model
Plausible: https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-saas (never raised funds)
Posthog: https://posthog.com/blog/open-source-business-models
spreading democracy I find the track record more horrific than corny.

Has there been another nation in history that it was better to lose a war against rather than win? Compare Germany, Japan, South Korea to Vietnam, North Korea, Afghanistan. Perhaps the Achaemenid Empire also qualifies.
People like Sindre Sorhus (https://sindresorhus.com) are, but I'd say survivorship bias comes into play here, he's more of an exception than a rule.
> >TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want: the amount of time you linger over a piece of content

I thought this is the naive view expressed to non-technical people, but it incorporates a lot more user input. It's just, to the user, it feels like that's the only thing it's communicating.
This piece only came out now because everyone is dropping Trump like hot potato, betting on DeSantis who happens to be waging the same useless culture war Trump does. In fact you will barely find one Republican who have a platform other than forcing conservative social beliefs on a country that is already center-left without gerrymandering.

I also don't believe that Pence didn't see this coming after years of riling up their supporters with conspiracy theories, fueling an unprecedented amount of right-wing extremism.
The level of surprise does seem overblown. This bit stuck out to me:

> ... access to this data is so accessible remotely that physically visiting an internet provider’s premises is no longer required for government agencies.

They were expecting government agents to have to physically visit the ISP's offices? Were they perhaps going to get their data on a floppy disk?
"Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard." ~David McCullough

This not only holds for literature but also for programming. Concerning the hard part, I would argue that is the reason why it is not called "talking is thinking".
There's no curation in Taiwan. Since coming here I only see "Taiwan" and #<random Chinese City> + "girl" trending. The latter is selling adult pictures or content or scams.
The only voice control anything I use is to create reminders on my iPhone, and the only reason I use that is because the default reminders app's UX is really bad that it's quicker to use the voice commands.

I don't see how text to code would be faster than typing. And even if it is, typing speed is not really a limiting factor in the speed at which I can produce code.
You're right... So, yes, it will be largely useless (as shown) for actual programming.

But I suspect there'll be a subset of its features consistent with my comment that will be actually useful.

Programming, via Naur/Ryle, is always a kind of theory building. And unless you're basically copy/pasting, it's a novel theory of some area (, business process, etc.).

That's something where intentions arent even really communicable as such, since the art of programming is sketching possible theories as a way of finding out what we ought intend.

So this is another gimmik with maybe marginal improvements at the edges.
Intel Introduces Xeon Max and Data Center GPU Max Series Review
However weird and seemingly useless this might appear to the normal programmer on here, I see this as a huge accomplishment and an incredibly important tool. Why? Accessibility.

Let’s hope that I never get in a serious accident or get an disabling disease, but if I do I am not planning on giving up coding. What would you do if you lost your hands, or became permanently paralyzed. This is the tool we need to combat that. Hats off to github on this one.
When I say "sounds like hell" I'm not necessarily looking at it from the point of view of what's economical, but rather from the point of view of job satisfaction.

Like: If a decision is made not to automate something, someone is going to have to do that boring repetitive work that could have been automated. The person making that decision not to automate is usually not the same person having to do that work. -- The former will usually be some kind of manager or owner, while the latter will usually be some kind of IC-level engineer or bookkeeper or something like that.

If a decision is made not to build that feature that a lot of customers requested, someone is going to have to explain to customers on a regular basis why they can't have their wish (usually some kind of sales person or customer service representative or something like that).

That's where the sadistic element of the Mordac character comes in.

There's a related problem that is discussed at length in the book "Peopleware" [1]: Often, from a strictly economical standpoint, you might be in a situation where you'd say "quality level x is the quality level that the market is willing to pay for, while any higher quality level is uneconomical". You might then be tempted to ask your employees to dial down the quality level of their work and produce worse work than they're capable of. -- The book argues that this is almost always a bad idea because of the demotivating effect. You'll get lower productivity and won't realize the cost-advantage you were hoping for in your purely economic analysis. Or to put it differently: Dialling up the quality-level in your product from the level you economically need/want to the level your employees are capable of will often pay for itself through increased productivity through increased motivation.

So, if you ask your employees to be 0.1x employees, you will truly get 0.1x employees. But the result won't be that you'll accomplish more with less, but rather that you'll do less and accomplish less due to lesser productivity.

[1] https://a.co/d/38NbxtG
Mobilizon v3: Find events and groups throughout the fediverse
Yes I mean undo would always restore the git to a previous state no matter what kind of commands you typed (best effort). It's perfectly symmetrical forward and backward operation which will guarantee restore to the same repo result whether you misstep git once or multiple times.

Is there a better word to describe this? I am an ESL speaker.
Oh, yes. I mixed up TeX and LaTeX. And the amount of the bug bounty, too. Sorry.
Failure is based on a goal you have created. My golf is just to do some work on my start-up. If that is your goal it is easier to get your momentum back up and start working again.

Separate the doing the work on the startup vs decisions on when to fold.

If you have done 5 startups already each one has taught you something that you have rolled into the next. If you learned anything at each of those startups then I do not see them as failures.
They weren't asking for floppy disks, they were sending their people to connect directly to infrastructure.

One of examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Struggle & synthetic stress prevents large scale strategy pivots though.

You need to be able to let the subconcious do its thing, for which it needs peace, quiet and freedom from stress. Difficult to do the step back otherwise.

The stress returns, when things then get traction, so i guess the truth is - alternation between stress free "creative" periods and stressy "realization" periods?

No idea what the optimal sinus is.
Neglecting the additional mass for a heater and for thermal insulation, the specific capacity in ampere-hour per kg should be less than for non-rechargeable lithium batteries (which have a slightly lighter lithium metal electrode and also lighter organic electrolyte), but much higher than for lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.

The mass of the heater and of the thermal insulation will diminish the specific capacity only a little for large batteries, but much more for small batteries.

To get the specific energy we also need the output voltage, which is mentioned neither in the paper abstract nor in the press release.

In any case, the voltage will be much lower than for lithium-ion batteries, so it is likely that despite the higher specific capacity such Al-S batteries will have lower specific energy. Even so, the difference in cost could be so large that this would not matter.

It is hard to say which will be the output voltage, because the enthalpy of the reaction can vary a lot in function of the structure of the sulfur deposited on the electrode during charging and on the type of sulfide that forms during discharging.

Googling for the enthalpy of formation of aluminum sulfides provides contradictory information, with various values corresponding to output voltages between 0.7 V and 1.4 V.

Anyway, it is probable that the output voltage of an Al-S battery would be at most half, but more likely no more than a third of that of a Li-ion battery.

Probably the specific energy will be less than for Li-ion, but it is hard to predict if the difference will be significant or negligible.

On the other hand, for the energy per volume it is much more likely that it could exceed the energy per volume of the Li-ion batteries.
Tesla fell near its two year low on Wednesday as Elon Musk sells nearly $4 billion in stock.
Globalization started long ago. With English being spoken everywhere, everything became american. People in obscure countries now celebrate halloween. Well, there are no obscure countries anymore. Once upon a time tourism used to adapt itself to the local culture, now tourists expect the locals to adapt to whatever is considered progressively american. That was the whole point of globalization and what people want. The same soup everywhere. It's not even very new, the tourism industry has been selling since forever packages of "Sea & Sun" with little regard for destination
How to Speed Up Software Development Process?
I know what an iterator is. I think you missed the point.
You quit your series A? Why? You talked about your scripts?
I'm not convinced the Not Interested button does anything at all. I have blocked and "not interested" 103 (one hundred and three) reddit accounts on tiktok so far and it still shows me them.
Could you possibly share the tools you use to obfuscate your traffic?
Arm-Based Laptops Will Make Up 13.9% of the Market in 2023
Just because data can be made accessible remotely doesn’t mean it should be.

Airgapped systems are also still a thing.

On-site access would also make it harder to abuse the data at scale.

I’m not surprised that the data is accessed remotely. But I can also understand scenarios where it makes sense to require physical access, and not because of long gone floppy disk drives or other ancient hardware.
Who cares lol
The Wa Programming Language
Wa is a general-purpose programming language designed for developing robustness and maintainability WebAssembly software. Instead of requiring complex toolchains to set up, you can simply go install it - or run it in a browser.

- Home: https://wa-lang.org
- Github: https://github.com/wa-lang/wa
- Playground: https://wa-lang.org/playground/
Basketball was equally repetitive and homogenous when it was about fighting for position under the rim.
Why on earth does "month" view still exist in digital calendars? Even worse, many (e.g. Google, Microsoft) don't even have an option for anything better (Thunderbird has "multiweek" which is far more useful).

Can anyone think of another relic from paper-based systems that we still cling to for unknown reasons? Imagine if the web could only be viewed in whole "pages".

But pages don't even negatively affect reading prose that much. Calendars, on the other hand, are all about context. On the first of the month I get the context of the next few following weeks. Useful. But at the end of the month I get the few preceding weeks?! What good is that? Why would my needs change depending on the time of the month? I either need the context or I don't. Month view makes absolutely no sense.
In Europe (France) there was a much earlier experiment (subsidized, the actual cost was astronomical) in the city of Biarritz:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32062275

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16347686
Outrage drives engagement.
Reminds me of people working on Java apps, who had to wait 2-3 minutes for every freaking change
I cannot even concentrate on reading a text while the radio is playing; let alone programming while assembling furniture.
Tech CEOs made same dumb mistake, thinking pandemic boom would last forever
Yes but most of the time deviation is not that big. I've checked prices where I live and also it varies it similar to $0.82 (but we do not us $ and it is not exactly same brick).
> Interior spaces most definitely don't look the same.

I like to watch real estate videos. In the high end certainly everything looks the same. You cannot even tell them apart if they mixed up the videos, zero local aesthetic, and generic contemporary grey minimalism seems to be what people want
I think what will sink Twitter will be if Mr Musk goes ahead with his plan (as he's stated) to have "blue tick" tweets all float to the top while deprecating tweets from non-paying users. In my world $8/month seems an outrageous amount for the privilege of bloviating into the void, yet if I don't see my own comments and those of my other non-paying friends, what the hell is the point of even being on the platform?
> It's just being used to coerce a clinical reading, like some sort of wildlife observer, relax. "The female builds her nest in the late summer..."

That's an abbreviation of 'the female of the species' which is essentially writing out a definition of 'woman' except for the given species, since a woman is a human and there probably generally isn't an equivalent (and if there is it won't be widely known) for most species.

Other than to humorous effect (Wodehouse was fond of it) it is redundant and not useful for describing humans. The female of the human species is called a woman, and this is widely known.

> relax

> So it's a thing that happens in English.

I don't have to like it.

Using the wrong their/they're/there is also 'a thing that happens in English', if by English we mean the words of people aiming to use it.
How do they know that, given that $8 accounts must be still pretty rare given they were just introduced?
I read a tweet a while ago that said something along the lines of:

>Crypto is learning all the lessons tradfi learned in 200 years only over 10 years.

I think we're entering a weird time of big money, low trustworthiness, very poor regulation and both scams and meta-scams.

Crazy times.

TIL: Never gamble what you cannot afford to lose
I suppose they meant that (most) git commands should be idempotent, and therefore easily reversible.
You're right, this process has always happened. But I think these days it's different in that it is almost completely globalized, whereas before you would have different trends in different countries, and trends are able to spread more quickly, resulting in less experimentation/differentation by those who aren't aware of the trend yet.
Musk tells Twitter staff remote working will end
I sometimes use github search to double-check if someone has worked on a problem before startin myself. Even when the repo is abandonned, it sometimes gives a good starting point. GitHub often tells me about repos I didn't find on search engines.

I'd say go for it, but the discoverability aspect is important.
I also follow friends and sometimes find interesting projects through their stars.
Unpopular, there will be that "one" server, offering the same services twitter does, where everyone flocks to, breaking the concept of the federated servers, because the audience wants one public plaza.
People who cannot see or use a keyboard already use tools like this to code. Been doing this for a long time.
Why does ISP's block SMTP port for the IPv4 address but not IPv6 address?
Rare, deadly genetic disease successfully treated in utero for first time
PC shmups, mostly of PC-98 and MSX traditions, never stopped using arrow keys. New ones released this year still use arrow keys for movement and Shift+ZXC for action buttons. Probably because the mouse was never relevant for that genre.
5 days ago i wrote about UK govt doing scans of all websites hosted in UK for "security" reasons and i was downvoted for " Stop lying and not relevant, you clearly came here with an agenda"...
i guess we really do have an agenda when the government has access to full internet web traffic and they can pick and choose their targets with impunity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33470079#33470409
How Cryptography’s Quantum-Safe Future Will Work
It’s most likely just Cortana bolted on to Copilot.
Would you like to explain that further?
Do anything long enough and you'll get lucky one day. There was no skill involved beyond HN addiction.
> Cryptocurrencies were meant to put an end to such things

Yeah, well, Communism was meant to put an end to poverty and class injustice. Brexit was meant to restore glory to Britain. The Catholic Church was mean to put an end to vice. Things don't always do what they say on the tin.

As the Bible puts it: "For every tree is known by its own fruit".

Specifically, if the fruit seems consist of nothing but speculative bubbles and billion dollar frauds then that may be the true nature of the tree.
I'm not sure I understand your point.

The only legal way you can use copyrighted code is due to the license attached to it by the copyright holder.

If a license specifically prohibits copying the code for a purpose, then it is a violation of the copyright to copy the code for that purpose. You have no other legal way to do it.

These aren't magic words, they are legal obligations. Ok, well maybe legal obligations are magic words. But it is magic that works :). Otherwise things like GPL could not function.
He probably could have saved a lot of money by making that decision before making half of the Twitter staff redundant.
> I don't see why something similar can't be done for the Czech alphabet.

It probably could — we already can't fit all the letters with diacritics on the number row, so "ď, ť, ň, ó" are key combos. But as far as I know, Czech uses diacritics a bit more than Polish (e.g. for sounds that are digraphs in Polish), consider:

"Že se nestydÍŠ, nutit lidi psÁt ČeskÉ speciÁlnÍ znaky pomocÍ dvojhmatŮ!" — that's 10 modifiers just for the diacritics.

Having ALL diacritics as modifier combos would make typing actual texts even more annoying than programming is now.