skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comp.arch from the '80s thru the '00s is full of gems from actual CPU architects and other folks who deeply understood what they were talking about. Even (maybe especially) when you had two pros who had very different philosophies, they brought so much fact and experience to their posts you could really see how and why the other side saw things. Now it seems like virtually all processor comparison is some variation on "who runs $HOTGAMESOFTHEMOMENT one FPS faster...that must be the best one".
There was certainly a bolide strike roughly coincident with the beginning of the 1300-year Younger Dryas cold spell.

Whether the strike caused the Younger Dryas cold spell is a matter of speculation. We can anyway be confident that the cold spell did not cause the bolide strike.
What janitorial service requires renewing the service every month?

It's more likely someone cancelled it.
What if the government guaranteed income as risk management on this form of investment and made the housing bond a gilt, at marginal cost rather than absorbing the full cost of social housing?

I mean I still prefer public housing but if we're on a mixed economy road, don't have a national pension model that works and people do market investment in property trusts for income class reliable returns...
Ah yes, the time tested socialism scapegoat. Just enough high schoolers swallowed the capitalist economics fallacies force fed during their formative years to make this a profitable pursuit for many decades after. But the tide is turning. Judging by the comments, we the peasants are figuring out what slavery looks like these days.
Happy newyear from Belgium!
Im content with a Euclidean construction and a proof that its irrational. An infinite series definition.

Actually evaluating the digits is for... technicians.

(Besides, just choose an irrational number base and sqrt 2 is = 1)
This is known as the Solutrean hypothesis. I understand it to be controversial, but it seems like everything about this topic is controversial to somebody.
Great insight. It can be easy to give up on things that don't come naturally. Sticking with the hard stuff and learning from failure is a way better path forward.
Russia hellbent on giving you guys free spicy fireworks
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding how it works, is the model is predicting the original emoji from an augmented emoji, and doing that for every 36x36 patch in the webcam image?
It's important to note that a few years later, Intel came out with the P6 microarchitecture which was a huge surprise in the whole RISC/CISC debate.
Fun read! I’m curious about the part where you discussed changing surroundings while keeping the car same - are KBB images user uploaded or taking in a garage/controlled setting like Carvana?
While the engineering is impressive, I just can’t get on board with how Flutter works.

Imitating native components seems both incredibly wasteful and also very fragile considering Google has an attention span comparable to a puppy.
This is honestly my biggest problem with Rust. C is a small language where the std libraries and language are defined in hundreds of pages. C++ last I checked in the latest standard was getting to almost 2000 pages.

Rust does not have a defined standard yet, but I suspect it also would be quite large.
> The image below will stay in the viewport and update as you scroll.

This blew my mind for some reason.
Interesting. In my home country in Africa building in the cities and towns is also quite difficult. There are all sorts of regulations along with corruption you have to deal with. From as far back as I can remember most people still wanted to own a house in the town or city. It was seen as more prestigious. We would bear with it and eventually build your home. However in the last 10 years or so with availability of solar panels and drilling boreholes being cheaper I have noticed a shift. People now migrating back to the villages. Two main reasons, the land is free and there are no building regulations. The village headman allocates you your land and you good to go. There are some rules to follow with how deep your pit latrine needs to be but that's about it. There has been an explosion of all sorts of building designs in the villages, some good and some not so. But lack of regulation has been good. Oh final note another "disadvantage" with building in village is that there are no title deeds. Homes are passed down to kids or other relatives
I used Google and found other articles, but similarly they were all talking about DigitalRev
I do indeed.

Although I thought about it a bit more, and I'm a sucker for the storytelling trope they use a little bit after that, which means Control probably takes 2 out of the Top 5 moments :)
The current list of hacks can be found here https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/fixincludes/in...

There are 272 of them as of this comment
If there's anyone that deserves a better year, it's the people of Ukraine. Stay safe! All the best wishes for the New Year.
The color of the Martian sky depends heavily on how much dust is in the air, but it's generally orange-ish, while a dust-free sky would probably be black! People have scienced the hell out of this. For example see: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...

The question of what it would look like to human observers is another matter. A lot of photos from Mars are color adjusted to try to capture what we'd see if we went in person.
Love the "marathon" and "sprint" language. I've definitely been prone to biting off too much of something and then getting frustrated when it doesn't go smoothly. Chunking large projects into smaller, more manageable tasks has been helpful.
Sounds like a good plan for Austria and Germany to buffer refugees coming through the balkan routes. If I remember correctly, the Dublin regulation states that the EU country that will be responsible for the asylum will be the first one reached by the refugees...
Yep, I learned about Aliexpress this year and realized that Amazon had basically just become a local cache for them anyway. I'm happy to wait awhile for the cheap plastic nonsense I feel compelled to buy for some reason.
author here! I grabbed them from here IIRC https://emojipedia.org/apple/
(there are a bunch of sites that have these)

edit: yep - predicting the original based on the augmented version (as a hack to generalize for unseen inputs)
The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich are Rich, the Poor are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!

by Tim Harford

This book very much changed my understanding of home international finance worked and why.
some charts here https://twitter.com/Econimica/media
You're not wrong - I've actually been coding all day and now for my first Amazon Redshift management product, to get it out to the first two test customers in the next two or so days; all the money it makes is going to the Ukrainian military.

Just posted a screenshot on Masto of per-database blocks, rows and i/o info.

https://data-folks.masto.host/@maxganz/109610845679613726

That info is going to be available for databases, nodes, slices, groups, and users, on a per-cluster and per-database basis level (with two exceptions - no blocks/rows info for cluster-level groups or users, because you can't know at the cluster level which users own which table).
Great insights, thanks! Definitely agree on the value of starting small - that has broad applications.
Yeah seriously. Just a worse version of the bridge. IMO the cart is leading the horse on this one. Might be more convenient for their dev team to just have a web codebase (though I’d argue if they took the time to transition their web codebase to react native web they’d see the same benefit), but it will definitely hurt UX.
Norway entered the new year 27 minutes ago (though my particular little nook is squarely in the GMT zone, details, schmetails.)

Happy New Year to all - let's hope 2023 proves less eventful than 2022 was (for all the wrong reasons)
When a third party controls your currency, they have some very effective levers over you. Let's not even enter the beneficent/maleficent scenario of the said 3rd party. That's what I'm referring to in regards to sovereignty.

I'm sure you've heard of these sayings:

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes its laws.
Oooooops, fixed thanks!
I don't have a good general answer to that.
> We need more ad-tech startups for the university/higher education industry NOW

I had the same thought - intrusive analytics and a focus on exploiting and monetizing client data seem to have damaged the web, made gaming less fun, and made everything user-hostile and creepy. Do we really want universities to go down that path?
Happy New Years from QC!
Of Cost Centers, and Competitive Advantages
We did Fotolog.com using mobile and it gave us several problems. Webviews aren't good at all. We tried Flutter, and we also had complete troubles, but not related to the technology but finding people who were able to do it. The answer was react-native with a good balance of performance, pool of people who knew how to work on it.
You're supposed to get stamped by Andorran and French or Spanish police if you properly want to document the non-Schengen days, but stamps are optional. Not sure how part-days work.
Wrongly alleging isn’t perjuring (per that clause). Misrepresenting who you are is.
If such proposals would result in reduced expenditure on administration, it would obviously be beneficial.

However, I note that your comments largely remark on an insufficient attention given to administration.

The trend in Universities over the past few decades has largely been to increase administration efforts, without that having a notable benefit on student outcomes.
Hard to believe this even needed to be said, yet the FOSS entitlement continues unabated to this day. The post a few days ago from the developer of curl was pointed example of how bad this has become.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/12/30/an-m1-for-curl/
I know this is very HN, but I thought it was about 6AD - there is some evidence of Herod running a census around then IIRR. (And no Joseph and Mary would not have had to travel for the census - that woukd defeat the point of a census ... It seems that is just a way to get Jesus born in Bethlehem as opposed to out of the way nowhere Nazareth).
Yes because entertainment provides food and shelter for the people that make the entertainment.
the current fragility of the "software supply chain" stems from package managers and their perverse economic incentives, and this is just as true for "pure languages". Vendoring and auditing dependencies greatly reduces the attack surface area.
That theory has lost a lot of legs in the past few years now that DNA results from ancient North Americans have been sequenced and they don't show any affinity to Europeans, such as Anzick-1 who's body was found in a Clovis burial and Kennewick Man who's skull shape was used as proof by Solutrean Hypothesis supporters.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14625

If the documentary was older than 2015, it's likely they didn't have this information and would be relying on inferences from the DNA of modern populations, which would be complicated by mixed race people.
both points can be right.

the original impetus being to use trade to solve a political problem, but the original impetus was not federalism, although I imagine there were federalists around at the time.

at some point it became about free trade. and then there was a realisation that free trade between unequal economies was not sustainable. And similarly that consumer rights in a world where infrastructure and technology barriers had been removed, were also not sustainable via the protectionism that public ownership and state control provided.

There was then a need to control the excesses of free markets and the four freedoms in general, and the need to liberalise sectors that were not in the private space.

Hence the need for political union.
As always, seeking lessons by studying only the successful suffers from nasty selection bias. Maybe most new industries come from crazy people, but you're probably not one of them. Most crazy people just lose everything being crazy.
I've updated my comment to clarify the question
You probably don't want all the platform-specific stuff in a capability based language, because the filesystems in mainstream OSs are not capability based, and you can't sugar-coat a non-capability system with capabilities. The capabilities need to be built in, and one of the main principles behind them is that you should not separate designation and authority. Access-control-lists (MAC, DAC, RBAC, etc) violate this principle - the authority is held separately from the designator, and this is why these systems are always vulnerable to confused deputies.

In a capability based system, you should present a set of directory capabilities to a process on launch, and the process should be able to access files/subdirs, or create new files/subdirs within it, and potentially pass capabilities to those files to other processes. The app should not, however, be able to escape the directories it has capabilities to. There should be no way to go "up". The only way a process should gain access to another directory is if another process explicitly passes it the capability. This should really be enforced at the OS level, but it is not (usually). If a capability based language can enforce it in its runtime/stl, then you can at least not have to worry about programs written in those languages escaping their directories (assuming no unsafe/FFI).
It's a tough thing to balance, but generally, bringing in someone's personal details as ammunition in an internet argument is not ok on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). I'm not saying those are never relevant, but the default impact of doing this is to poison discussion so badly that the default bias has to be "don't do it". Certainly you should not be doing it as part of a flamewar post, which your comments in this thread have been. We want curious conversation here, not people cross examining each other.

I'm not disagreeing with you about the underlying issue—there's an argument to be made that the kind of "publishing" that Google/Chrome does here is is really a way of obscuring it from the majority of users, and so on. HN commenters are certainly welcome to make that kind of argument. But we need you to err on the side of not posting in the flamewar style. If I see a commenter posting in the flamewar style and then also bringing in someone's personal details as ammunition, it's no longer a tough-thing-to-balance, it's just out of line.

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Actually, I did see one firework - a little red flare, someone hand threw it out from their apartment window, about 20 floors up :-)

About 10 minutes after midnight, there were broad, flicking flashes of light from the north, which were in the dark lighting the clouds up, and you can see the light from pretty far away. I'm guessing it was related to the incoming volley of drones. This was about 20 minutes before the air raid warnings went off.
Happy new year 2023 to all techies from London the UK.
Reading the comments here, and on previous EU-related threads, I can't understand the anti-EU sentiment on HN.

Despite its flaws, which it surely has, I can't see the EU as anything but a major success of humanity. A force for cooperation between peoples with vastly different cultures, languages and historical backgrounds, working together towards a better future.

For those critical of the EU, please comment here on what you suggest as an alternative. Are the countries supposed to split up and go back to competing with each other in an increasingly harsher global market? How on earth are the small EU countries supposed to compete?

Maybe you'll say that the EU is great for small countries and not so much for larger ones, who are sponsoring the EU's success with their citizens tax money. Maybe that is true so, as a citizen of one of those small countries, I am thankful to my fellow EU-tizens who are better-off, for quite literally bringing my country into the world stage, with the increases in quality of life that that entails.

I welcome my fellow Croatian citizens to Shenghen and the Euro, I hope to get to meet some of you next time I visit your country, or vice-versa. Long live the EU, one of humanity's greatest achievements.
It’s not an ad hominem. He’s stated his position in the past quite clearly in multiple journal articles and no real reason to believe he’s changed his approach. As far as “similar”, his approach led to a calculation of 0.15% IFR whereas others argued for a 0.5-0.6% IFR. I think most would consider that a significant difference. Ioannidis himself does since he harshly criticized others who reported the higher numbers. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-the-heck-happened-to-j...
Why would anyone do that.
> That's what I'm referring to in regards to sovereignty.

But that's not what sovereignty means. I don't know how to make that any clearer.

Yes there are levers, but that doesn't make Croatia any less sovereign. Sovereignty is a word with an established, defined meaning -- it's completely and totally separate from economic influence, which is what you seem to be referring to.
> We should bright back 50% down, five year mortgages and cut the rest of the stuff out.

Well, in that case, good luck convincing the majority of the population to adopt a policy that will catastrophically crash their net worth. Government involvement in mortgages is what keeps our society civil at this point.
Good article on a nifty image encoding. But I wonder how fast they could get the brute-force algorithm to run on hardware of that era. :)
“I am not a supplier,” they say, while supplying things.

I agree with the fundamental points here. Expecting things like they describe out of open source volunteers is absurd.

But screaming “I am not a supplier” in this context is like yelling “I am not a driver” while driving a car.
I don’t have a reference offhand, but surely this analysis has been done when the euro coins and notes were introduced in 2002.
The article nicely illustrates by numerous examples how opponents of not yet well-established proposals endlessly trot out long-since discredited assertions in defense of whatever they fought over while in grad school.
- Stock market continues to go down.

- Home prices tumbles.

- Employment rates drop further.

- Major recession starts.

- GPT4 let us know what data was used for answering our questions.
Re you at Svalbard or what?
reported https://github.com/zlib-searcher/zlib-searcher/issues/57
Happy 2023, HN
Is the actual view rendering done in webviews? I've struggled with that because the compatibility between different Android webviews can be very janky, and lead to some really obscure bugs, plus on many phones it just feels "off".
Happy new year from Barcelona!

And in case you missed a post from yesterday, here are some seasonal greetings made with EndBASIC: https://repl.endbasic.dev/?run=jmmv/flakes.bas :D
While I agree, I’d also argue that some companies put out purposefully bad policies and then staff customer service reps to handle the blow back. These situations are often really bad for the consumers and the staff.
Can you elaborate on the incentives of package managers? The problem I see with Rust is that it's just really easy to add dependebcies in a way that is difficult in C++.

I don't follow your point about purity. A dependency in a side-effect free language can't suddenly open a socket or access the file system. The attack surface is much smaller.
Why would these two X's be the same? Lowering rent by X% doesn't mean you get X% more renters.
Very similar to my last several resolutions! One of these years I'll follow through with them.
Fertilizer was used for centuries before this. He did not invent fertilizer.
They check for ID at the same time quite often. Just to look at briefly usually.
Happy new year from central Europe!
You are neither late nor did you miss it here in the US, so I’ll be back in 8.5 hours (I’m on PST) :)
This is heavily censored in the US, but is quite the popular theory in Russia: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/03/01/2-in-3-russians-be...

It does seem pretty far-fetched, but both countries have their propaganda machines in full force on this which at least makes it an interesting theory.
I agree that most things aren't invented by one person. We stand on the shoulders of giants. I am okay with recognising all 20 or 100 people who contribute to an invention. Heck even the 1000 people. I am just having a hard time with notion that those administering the vaccine are the same as those who invented the vaccine. I use Linux promote Linux to those in my circles. I certainly do not view myself as an equal to Linus.
Time to market can matter in fintech as much as anywhere else.

Edit: also optimizations often interact with each other and you can't always benchmark all possible combinations, so sometime you do have to rely on experience or reasoning from first principles to decide if an optimisation is worth it or not.
Wow, I'm kinda surprised to find my site in the top million worldwide. I have about 100k monthly visits as measured by Cloudflare web analytics, I guess that's all it takes.
Rgb isn't a great color space to use with distance measures. CIELAB is better, though really perceptually uniform color difference measures are still nontrivial in that space as well.
Yes. After missing a streak, gamified apps should adapt their feedback metric from current streak to cumulative days over a meaningful period (week, 1-3-6 months, year) to encourage resuming the habit.
3400KM is the diameter at the equator, lesser at latitude, I would say do-able once aluminum is available in qty and can be extruded, losses shouldnt be too horrible at 1MV. I like the out of the box thinking here.
no its not. its saying i am not an uber driver to the pretentious guy entering his car on wallstreet.
I hope by then I'll be catching some z's so enjoy the party!
I have played with HAM conversion myself[0], but my approach has been to deliberately avoid brute-force. That's not just because it'd be less fun, but also as I'd like to get these algorithms working on the Amiga itself at some point.

My current local code has new strategies and also does dynamic hires, but it's an uncommitted mess.

0. https://github.com/rvalles/amigagfxmangle
Happy new year HN from central Europe!
GDScript is quite a bit better than Python in many ways. But to be fair Python would be a terrible choice.
Programming Pascal Using an AI Chatbot
But, as you granted, even demanded the use by contract, is the right at this point still exclusive to you? Hasn't it been partially transferred under the restrictions of this very contract?
Happy new Year all and greetings from Switzerland
Looks like if you try to install it via source you might need a compiler/linker toolchain installed for its Rust bindings.
Different is way too ambiguous.
My understanding is that this is, essentially, the optimization that you get with many common "entity component system" frameworks. That is, you typically try to keep homogeneous collections of entities so that when you are processing them, you are doing a similar processing in a loop.

Amusingly, as I try to google to make sure I am using the right terms, I find https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28200030 as a good result. Seems to cover the general idea and hints at other terms to look into. In particular, have fun with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AoS_and_SoA. :D

Edit: I should add that I'm pretty sure my memory conjuring up ECS stuff was just mistaken, btw. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design is probably what I actually had in mind.