skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I originally got it for CUDA but now my card is too old for PyTorch. Plus, I quickly realized why most models are built on servers instead of PCs. So I have no use for it at the moment.

Still, linux hardware compatibility seems to be far from a sure thing even avoiding Nvidia. I'm thinking of getting a Intel mini PC ThinkCenter for my next system. But I have no way of knowing what issues I'll have until I get it.
I think we generally don't think that it's stupid but that it would really benefit from a cleanup and refactor.
Have some experience with J, would like to comment.

> A jupyter notebook style ide+repl (maybe a bqn for of RIDE)

J terminal looks pretty close.

> libraries for common scripting tasks

There are phrases (see www.jsoftware.com), but for many tasks it seems not many libraries are actually needed.

> embedding (a la lua) in more languages, maybe even a way to compile to libs so you can call bqn code from other languages

There is a way to call C from J and vice versa; not too convenient maybe... but still quite possible. APL languages don't benefit much from compilation, J interpreter is very fast.
This is the final chapter of the blockchain story, created from the scratch by the bankers, who lured early adopters with ideals of anonymity, digital anarchy and other cryptopunk ravings, made them run the prototype of bankers' future monetary system at their own and later investors' expense, provided for schemes to make rich richer and poor poorer, made huge profits for the energy-generating companies, and what the economist really says now is a gloating 'thank you, nerds and wannabe-billionaires, you can now go to hell and don't mess in the way of us the big guys'

Expect a world-wide blockchain-based banker-controlled centralized biometrically authenticated One World Currency soon, which you can loose access to for walking a red light, wearing a pajama in public, not joining the next scheduled Je Suis Charlie charade or refusing to jab.
Alcohol can straight up kill you or impair your judgement when operating anything including your own body.

TikTok can distract you or direct opinions.

Or to put it another way, it wasn't social media that killed Avicci. It was drinking.

Inane, reductive comparison.
Those services aren't controlled by an authoritarian government (yet).

That said, we encourage you to block them all (don't forget Twitter!) in your country.
Really missed an opportunity not naming this site "How do you like them apples?"
> "not your keys not your coin" maxim that Bitcoin advocates preach?

I keep seeing this phrase crop up throughout the past several days of cryptocurrency news, and something always rubbed me the wrong way about it, but I couldn't put my finger on it until today.

It's demanding a change in human nature to accommodate the system, rather than changing the system to accommodate human nature.

It's really not that different than the people who, 15 years ago, were saying, "Well, of course your accounts got hacked, because you didn't create a separate 27-character totally random password for every single account you need, like I do, and never store those passwords anywhere except your head!"

People don't want to deal with a hardware token every single time they want to do anything with their money...and the only reason they have to, with cryptocurrency, is because its proponents think an unregulated "decentralized" financial system where the only law is code is a good idea. (Of course, it was never going to stay unregulated forever. None of the aspects of cryptocurrency that rely on the government not paying attention can last more than another few years.)
Yea, I didn't really understand the hype wave/gold rush that turned it into an investment, so it seemed risky to invest. I did use it way back when in college as a currency on a site that no longer exists and it seemed to be a stable and pretty useful payment method at the time. But yea, maybe it will stabilize and become a currency again when enough apathy sets in or maybe when/if it becomes regulated.
Unless ongoing costs are essential to the thing being provided then it is, by definition, rent seeking. If you sell me a book, the fact that I continue to derive value from it for years to come might be an argument that you could get away with selling it to me as a subscription, but doing so would by definition be rent seeking unless the subscription offered additional value to me somehow, and an alternative and more palatable model for extracting additional profits in proportion to the value in receiving would be to just charge more for the purchase.
It's hard to say where fault lies exactly in terms of the bug itself. Except it's up to the distro maintainer to decide what software they include, test it, and ensure it works as expected along with the other pieces of software they decided to include. I don't know kernel stuff particularly well so maybe this is wrong, but presumably a GUI application, that lets you control other aspects of the OS, not working with the kernels own performance settings seems egregious if not also serious or "major".
Ah, that's why the Chinese appears twice. I didn't see a difference between them (not that I was looking hard).

A question for you, the Chinese characters seem very much more complex eg 但也包括雜誌, which makes me wonder if they're meant to be read at the same font size as the english text or if they'd typically be printed larger?

Also, the full stops and commas seem to be used in Chinese text, as these inherited from european script or did they always exist in some form?
The e-id system has horrible UI. Also, their enterprise website hasn't been updated since the 2000', and any expat there can tell you that most services are done as if you still were in the USSR. 0 care for quality, nor customer service.
The US seems to have invented (or at least normalized) medi-begging - the process of posting to gofundme-type sites to help pay medical debt. The very existence of 'medial fundraising' as a thing should be the damning indicator that we need some form of single-payer across the board.

Hundreds of thousands of people publicly begging for help with medical bills should be a national embarrassment.
Does Unison have stack traces? Using the hash of the ast as the only identifier seems like it would lose some useful runtime debugging information.
true, but HTML-only websites are often pretty clunky

infuriatingly, if HTML had just a bit more oomph, we could make a lot better websites with it, but they haven't been moving HTML forward as a hypermedia for decades now (see https://htmx.org for what I mean, they could implement this concept in the browser in a week, and it would change web development dramatically)

the upcoming view transitions API will help:

https://github.com/WICG/view-transitions

but, still, there are some really obvious and simple things that could be done to make HTML much more compelling (maybe let's start by making PUT, PATCH and DELETE available in HTML!)
Ask HN: Online courses with video, text, quizzes or a mixture - which is best?
What type of instruction works best for you when learning a tech-related course? Or do you combine different course teaching approaches?

Examples of different teaching approaches:

- Text and interactive exercises (e.g. 'educative', 'codecademy')

- Video (e.g. Udemy, Pluralsight, YouTube, LinkedIn Learning)

- Video and interactive activities (e.g. Scrimba)

- Books (printed or ebook)

For me, I have found video is massively varied. Some instrutors know the expertise of the subject but are not good at teaching. The best instructors have a good understanding of their subject but also engaging and excellent at explaining their subject. Also, overly long videos can make watching video a chore. But there are always exceptions (e.g. Hardvard online CS50?)

What is your experience when taking a tech course (video, text, quizzes, interactive, books etc)? What do you prefer and why?
Depends on how long you plan to stay. If your compensation is in stock in a down moving market that might not be a winning strategy.

Really try to understand how much debt your company has. Anyone not making money with high burn is going to be in serious trouble with current interest rates especially when loans expire/roll over
The article literally ends with an exact quote “Hey, I heard about the news. I don’t have the right words and please don’t feel obligated to reply. Just know that if I can do something, big or small, now or in the future, I’m just a text away.”
This isn't related to heap allocations. It's about removing the cost of a stack variable being moved into another stack variable.
0's and 1's, my friend

actually, scratch that. transistors.

or no wait, a mancala board.

a game of checkers, etc.
For them it is, I think they're one of those companies that buys property from you without listings, etc. then you can move and they clean it up and list it. My guess is the property is on their books and prices have been fluctuating a lot so they could be upside-down on a bunch of inventory with less home buyers because the interest rates rose.

For a home owner selling and a realtor, the realtor likely has to compete to earn business but they are a third party to the transaction.
You may want to redo your video voiceover with https://wellsaidlabs.com/
Seems like you will get your wish as the trend is leading towards a future where only approved transactions will be allowed.
Have you listened to music by Polyphia.
>The United States could ban app stores from offering TikTok for download or purchase.

Huh? How can they do this? Just informal pressure on Apple/Google? The government can't just unilaterally direct these companies to ban any disfavored apps, I assume.. or at least I hope.
The fact that it is classified literally is to the collective benefit!

Silly proposal for a rule.
Yes, this is tricky to fix because javascript doesn't check alpha channels on mouse events for images. I have a partial fix planned to improve this, should be improved in the next few weeks.
Looks neat and you have good drive. There are a few spelling mistakes that would turn me off from using the service are you using a spell check?
The interesting part is that CPS determined there was no abuse in this case. So yes, in this case it would have been better to end with CPS.

Unfortunately, due process is whatever the judge say it is.
Not an expert, but angles the link doesn't explore:

1. tiktok is banned in china. Potential product safety angle of 'don't ship us things that aren't legal where they're made'. (But would presumably need new regs here).

2. trade policy -- western social media is banned in china, let's at least not allow theirs to sell stuff here? Article says 'tiktok has not monetized so no point in banning transactions', I think they're oversimplifying the impact of saying 'no income at all'

3. stronger privacy laws generally -- rules about where data is domiciled (or at least honestly disclosing it), how it is used, real audits, and real penalties for violators. (this should apply to domestic cos too)

4. WTO subsidies / anti-dumping? But this probably applies to many tech companies + could escalate badly. Also not sure if tiktok is gov-subsidized -- I think an SOE has a minority stake

5. 'kicking them from app stores would have no impact bc of existing install base' feels naive
What did they expect? Employee activism like this can be disruptive to the company’s mission and coworkers. Not sure why management would allow it.
Yep, TikTok is TV complete with channel surfing but make it social media. The clones don’t actually get that.
People who actually understand this should definitely correct me. My understanding of the analogy is that your velocity through time would have to cross the 0 point (i.e. positive flow through time, 0, negative flow through time). However, 0 is when you're traveling at the speed of light through space and not traveling at all through time. I'm assuming there's either no energy left in the time direction to push you or something about the 4d geometry makes it impossible because a negative time direction would require somehow inverting all the space in the universe (crossing some infinite asymptote) and that's not physically possible.
"you in"? that's probably how he pitched it too : )
The problem here is that performing the optimization can change the semantics of the program, if you consider order of memory allocation to be part of the semantics. If the object you're creating itself has memory allocations within it, then allocating the box before constructing contents will change the order of the mallocs. C++ compilers will not do this optimization for this reason, though C++ has emplace so that the programmer can manually work around it. For this reason I think that it may be best to just introduce an emplace-like pattern for Rust as well.

If constructing the object doesn't have side effects, however, then we should be able to hoist the allocation at the optimizer level.
> How does this actually benefit anyone?

There’s real benefit when we consider the amount of man-hours spent the past years on trying to reinvent finance, with little success so far.

These (smart) people can use their time and skills towards more productive stuff.
Outage in German Phone Network
Yes, it was. It used a very obscure language feature of JavaScript. I won't get more detailed than that.
Yes.

People vastly underestimate DX, unintentionally gatekeeping technology while feeling like they "sticking it to those pesky Devs who overengineer everything!!!"
I'm in a position to effect behavior, set policy, and generally advance things, so I'd be a useful ally. But don't worry about it; I don't mean to bother you.
My claims are from a position of experience - myself, seeing friends/family all diagnosed with disorders out of nowhere, seemingly around the same time. Seeing colleagues and peers suddenly "neurodivergent". Looking for temporary solutions to permanent problems in the form of a pill. Using these substances to lose weight, get ahead at work, study, clean their homes, become more social/personable, etc. I digress, adults can calculate the risks for themselves.

If you take a peek at those articles, you'll notice that there's a big trend in people (usually young adults/teens) self diagnosing on the internet, whether its joining a forum/reddit/discord, then going to a doctor, saying, "I HAVE X" and more often than not, they get what they want. This takes away a good chunk of credibility of the 'medical community'. You can even get "diagnosed" via telehealth services now. No need to go into an office! How many people are they turning away? Hmm.
Incidentally, I (not a Canadian citizen) once wandered into a Canadian military base without showing any ID or anything. The gate was open and the gate house was deserted. I think they expected the public to wander in though, because they had signs on the highway for the (very nice) museum located inside the base. At another Canadian military base I did get carded at the gate, and told to head directly to the museum.
Why DuckDB Slaps
Know offhand what the 30-year yielded back in '80?

For reference, the 30 is now at about 100bp less than shorter treasuries:

https://www.marketwatch.com/market-data/rates
> e-books can be purchased pretty much anywhere in the world

That would be true if and only if there's an ebook version for the book you want.

There are lots of books (even essential works for some fields) out there for which there are no legal ebooks. Your only hope would be to get a digitized PDF from zlibrary or libgen. Even if you had the cash to spare for purchasing it, you can't.

One interesting case is what happened with books such as James Livingston's "Modern Christian Thought" (Fortress Press). I need it as an ebook. Well, they have (and I have purchased) volume I as an ebook, but they have Volume II only as paperback.

I reached out to the publisher to inquire whether they are going to release Volume II as an ebook. Someone there answered, telling me that they "forgot" to release Volume II in electronic format, and that they plan to release it "soon". I'm still waiting...
Power, of course. The defining characteristic of these ARM chips is low power.

Throw on fully functioning x86 cores and you've defeated the entire point.

Remember, running x86 code in emulation on ARM uses less power than running the native code on Intel.
Realistically I think most of the TikTok content creators would go over to Reels and the net effect on attention-destroying time-wasting would be small.
> with isolated incidents of different branches over-stepping and being held accountable later?

Well, there's not much in the way of accountability, so the other one.
Facebook isn’t effectively run by the US government. If it was and one considered the US to be a hostile power then you should ban it.

China, Iran and North Korea all ban Facebook under similar reasoning.
The rights to Mickey Mouse are about as productionless as any crypto, and I'd struggle to find anyone that doesn't think it would be a great investment.
I remember playing this 60 days ago when you released the prototype - congratulations on the official release! The game was a lot of fun, simple enough to be intuitively picked up but complex enough to spend a good 20 minutes trying to solve.

It also teaches the user quite a bit about prioritisation, and the fact it's essentially just a graph problem with multiple constraints which can be solved with a variation topological sort shows how useful algorithmic thinking is in daily life!

I can't view the site at the moment due to the HN hug of death, but I do have a question.

You say these are daily puzzles, are they hand curated by yourself or algorithmically generated - or a bit of both?
I think you might have cause and effect mixed up a bit there. I’ve absolutely worked with people who left because they were unappreciated, and they were unappreciated because they wrote unmaintainable code and were defensive about it. Being a quitter and writing shitty code are very compatible personality traits.

To an extent then, if the original authors are still around, they were either appreciated or feared, but you probably won’t know which just from the interview. If they split it may be good riddance.

I do have a couple of mystery cases where I believe that someone who previously thought very highly of their own work had a change of heart, and realizing what they’ve done and how hard it would be to fix it, have decided it would be easier to start over someplace else. That may be true but I would recommend that it’s a character building exercise if you at least try to clean up your mess before leaving. There will be other messes, from other blind spots.
No, they will not. If you're a company with a substantial enough userbase in their country to be investigated under their regulations, then failing to follow them and/or ignoring fines will most likely result in them preventing your services from being accessed in their country.
> we live in 2022 with high broadband and powerful browsers/CPU.

Some of us do. I think it's important to keep in mind that especially those of us living in tech hubs are in a highly distorted bubble when it comes to tech — for us, things like gigabit internet and 1-3 year old top of the line phones and laptops are the norm.

Beyond that bubble however are a lot of slow internet connections (sub 1mbps DSL is still a reality for many North Americans) as are computers that are either pushing between 5 and 10 years of age or are of similar power to computers that old (think bargain bin x86 laptops and Chromebooks).

Occasionally I'll pull out my circa-2008 Dell laptop (which can still run modern operating systems fine) and use it for a few hours to remind myself of this. It mostly does fine until I have to use some unnecessarily heavy website.
Who here is going to start a kickstarter for those books?

I mean - who doesn’t love pop up books?
FWIW I thought your comment was aggressive and borderline rude. Being right and being polite are not mutually exclusive.
Ironically, this page is borderline unusable if you block CSS and scripts.
I did some hail mary fixes to try to get it up again, but it's unfortunately still struggling
There is low hanging fruit in this specific application for Agbots.

The way wine grapes are grown, carefully trained and groomed to grow in a line, a specific shape and orientation, almost like an entire field of carefully shaped bonsai trees. Once it's established, a vineyard doesn't change much year to year. It's a ideal place to start with agbots and get things right before going to more complicated applications. The labor costs are also high, and highly seasonal as many of these vineyards are in expensive coastal areas like Nor Cal.
It is totally unrelated to production readiness. This is just trying to address and understand a cost in Rust that ideally wouldn't exist. The cost exists in C++ too, but Rust uses move semantics much more aggressively vs reference forwarding.
I know this is getting downvoted, but I think there's a few croutons of truth in this snarky soup.
Personally I'd stop talking after "how are you holding up?" and just listen to them.
Thanks to our idiotic far-right government's financial blunders, it's too expensive to charge an electric car anyway.
Is there an alternative? People can’t live in the desert or they would do that. Or at least the people they need to accomplish that task.

Climate change is significant, but “considering the carbon footprint” of commuter airplanes for a multi-billion dollar project that creates world ending weapons is kind of missing to point, I think.
I don't even understand the premise. On what basis would someone be convinced to part with billions of dollars just to have them given to fraud victims? Like, what's the pitch?
> It's impossible in general to be certain of causality for humans too, all we see are correlations in data and we invent causal theories that explain those correlations.

We do experiments - we actually do them a lot and it starts very early with infants experimenting how activating a particular muscle moves his hand etc. Later we do less of original experiments - but repeat those that we already know the results - by walking for example and getting where we planned to.

In science to get from correlations to causation we have 'randomized trials'. In everyday practice we use something called 'free will' in our minds as the source of the needed independence.
Jamie Zawinski thought there were two kinds of people. Those who want to make a company successful, and those who want to work at a successful company. He was salty enough about what happened at Netscape Corp that he quit the industry and opened a bar.
plasma more likely, but lots of places like https://www.cslplasma.com/
100% disagree with these rankings.

But then, all the top ones he selected are reds, so yeah...
The top official who escaped Scientology
Cable company’s accidental email to rival discusses plan to block competition
2 days - I get the BTC around noon, transfer it immediately, in the evening I get a confirmation from the recipient that they got it, and then I see them transfer it to someone the second day. Sometimes it's just 1 day.
This isn’t limited to engineers. For better or worse, it seems to be the default human response.

Good for the species, I guess. Aggravating for the individual. :)
>> but Janet airlines is utterly inconsequential compared to casual vacation travel

But, Janet Airlines also exists solely for the convenience of a very small number of people.
I found with the pandemic slowing down, used exercise equipment is plentiful.

Elyptical, rowing machines, stairmasters, all types of weights...

breaks things up and helps to easily get exercise into your schedule.
Linux Mint Cinnamon works better than Windows for me, just out of the box.
What percent of crypto activity happens on centralized platforms. 90%? 95%? Whatever the precise number, it's really high.

It's hard to argue that 95% of people in Scotland aren't true Scots.
Sure, this is fine for a simple hobby or personal site. But businesses add a lot of extra junk to their sites for their own benefit not the users.