skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I needed to build a screen for my models" gets old
Yes, they are all equivalent. There are variations in specific features but it should be obvious how irrelevant that is.

The present day "apps" you describe are bloated because they bundle an entire web browser and more, maybe the equivalent of a container, to run the little sliver of JS/html that presents the UI to the user.

The reason they are bundled like this is to enable web developers to work on them.
Raw. Software only. Pixel shading is done in code with methods defined per scene object. The delivery to eyeballs is via streaming images to browser over web socket. Absolutely no GPU is required (this is a central design objective).
I feel like Spotify going after big celebrities like the Obamas is a bit tone deaf specifically with regards to the podcasting audience.

At least anecdotally speaking, my experience is the podcasting audience largely seems to seek out fresh and lesser known voices rather than big, established celebrities.

If SiriusXM is the audio equivalent of premium TV networks like HBO, which has an audience base interested in following big celebrities (or, at least, did so 5-10 years ago) then podcasts are the audio equivalent of YouTube.

That said, it sounds like Spotify kind of threw a variety of deals at the wall to see what stuck. By now, they should have a better idea of what works and what doesn’t, so hopefully they aren’t reigning in all the spending equally, but instead are being smart about it.

SiriusXM was either very smart or very lucky in the deals they went after at the time, but Spotify was not so much. So now’s their moment to show what they’ve learned.

I still maintain that audio is unique amongst all entertainment avenues in that it does not ask for undivided attention, can be listened to everywhere (work, car, at night in bed while sleeping) and therefore is not subject to as much competition of human needs as video or gaming is.

At the same time, the cost of entering the space is so low, I don’t think you can ever really “out own” your competition.
Offtopic (and feels weird to ask in English) but I'm looking for good general-interest Spanish-language podcasts. Do you have any recommendations for ways to discover new ones?
It's not about the facts, it's about the framing and omissions. They frame it as a "pollution war" and even use the phrase "countries that hate each other" in the lede. This is "FBI Statistics" level of hate-baiting. It's not journalism.
India has full confidence in the incompetence of its cute little neighbour. Look at that country's condition right now, it is on its knees with a crippled economy and dysfunctional administration.

How can a country that has consistently shown itself to not be capable of even regular state governance be an existential threat? Just because it got nuclear tech in the cold war? Lol give me a break.
Yes I was agreeing with you. It’s very possible it was inorganic.
This guy has been giving daily updates https://www.tiktok.com/@nickdrom
Health concerns also grow in East Palestine
Based on what? Do you just hold everything else constant and remove Musk. Is there any evidence that this would be the case? Seems to me that all evidence points in the opposite direction, and all companies not led by Musk are not nearly as ambitious, goals oriented and successful.

If Musk had left the company in 2014, do you think Starship and Starlink would be what they are now? Because I think that is pretty unlikely.
I think you can manage a less reductive analysis the considers the possibility that militancy is rooted at least partly in legitimate grievances rather than mental illness.
Banning ICE and replacing them with EV won't reduce emissions at a first place. It will just move them around. Case and point: Germany.

Banning meat won't reduce emissions, it will just move them around into making fake meat.

Killing unproductives won't reduce emissions, because their bodies decompose and captured carbon will return back to atmosphere.

All this thread, including GP is pointless, because there is currently no solution for excess CO2 in atmosphere and every attempt to reduce it will only increase it (see carbon capture devices). Therefore there is no reason to restrict quality of life of average citizen.
I’ve been serving as an architect for two teams, one working with Spring Boot and the other with .NET Core.

Quite frankly, they seem to be roughly equivalent in everything, from features to developer experience to performance. We ended up preferring Flyway for db migrations for both platforms.
Using a screenshot tool should be safe. It will treat all pixels on the screen the same, so it doesn't know that some pixels have metadata beyond what's visible on the screen.
The Turing test was never intended to be a determination of "should I use this computer program to help guide me through the world's knowledge".
Just get a cleaner 2-3 times a week. As long as you can tidy first, they'll be able to clean stuff, and specifically get all the annoying stuff done (fllors, bathroom etc).
> would have invented another populist topic to distract people with

Probably China. A far more dangerous sparring partner likely, considering China's generalized over-aggressiveness even at minor perceived offenses.
I paid for Spotify but I won't listen to podcasts in their app. I use Pocket Casts, which I've loved for years.
Twitter has been a mess since Space Karen took over now it is just filled with his Q-moron spam.

Hopefully he loses enough money that he will sell it to someone competent or an adult.
> Geography really is destiny.

While I generally agree with the importance of geography I think this is glossing over a major part of the history of India and Pakistan.

The partition of India [0] by the British upon their exit from the region should be understood as a major tragedy in human history and very much lead to increased instability in the region.

Writing this off as "mere geography" is to miss the major and well documented impact of British colonialism on today's political climate in the region.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India
You could play AAA games on your smartphone with stadia. But google didn't advertise this at all
I appreciate that you are trying to give examples of "L2 things" but none of this is really good advice.

For QoS, what do you think double-encapsulating all of the QoS bits inside of two tunnels is going to do for you? If you pay your carrier to respect QoS, you have to actually give them the bits! QoS goes on the OUTSIDE of the onion.

DHCP for VLANs should be handled by snooping for it on the switch and forwarding over L3 (ip helper-address), not by running vxlan over a VPN tunnel. And really it shouldn't ever be done over a potentially unreliable WAN link either; you should have a local agent for DDI at each site.

The only story here is that L2-over-L3 VPN have their very specific niches, and VXLAN+Wireguard is an alternative to L2TP+IPSec that is (IMO) both easier to configure and more reliable when such a thing is needed.
Submarines don't recycle carbon; they capture CO2 and vent it.
The semantic difference between an auto-generated CLI commit message and the one the author writes would actually be a pretty good lint.

I've seen bad rebases where unintended stuff slips in that probably could be caught by this sort of thing.
I gotta admit, as someone whose first Morrowind experience was on a smartphone running OpenMW, combat that requires aiming correctly and having hit chance was infuriating. One or the other would be fine, like with a Zelda-esque lock-on feature combined with hit chance.
You’re not using ChatGPT correctly.
So, a nuclear power ruled by populists hating your guts because of religion is no existential threat? That is, to a degree, a reasonable stance to take for Pakistan. In this particular conflict both sides suck.
Depends on the media. If you read general mass media like OpIndia, Zee, or NDTV that's true, but if you read media aimed at policymakers (ThePrint, ORF, or Himal for example) it's 70-30 China-PK. Same in PK as well - in vernacular media like Ary or Geo it's all Amreeki/Yahudi/Hindu Sazish but English media which policymakers read is more prosaic. I guess the difference is, English has increasingly become a vernacular language in Indian discource, but not yet in PK.
Google didn’t act fast enough over the last year but acted too fast over the last month.

If Google was able to launch anything Bard related that someone could use -even if flawed- I think most people would call it a win. It would mean that Google takes it seriously but also has the tech on a shelf in a usable form. Google was understandably not worried about search until ChatGPT. Once the first whiff of search-replacement discussions happened in November, Google should have started scheduling a February release and prepped a plan. Or a marketing campaign warning about lying AIs or something real.

FWIW, I think it’s probably good that they didn’t release anything. If an AI search goes poorly, bing gets all the bad press. If it goes well, they can swoop in and say “now let the search engine you actually want do it”.
> The former is entirely in software and has the favorable economics that brings with it

You still need data labelling, which is not done by software and which is quite difficult to scale up and to carry out in a consistent manner. I know that most probably there are self-learning LLM models that would partly alleviate that issue, but (absent AGI) I don't think that they'll really solve the problem going forward.
I mean, dead fishes and chickens and rashes occur at natural rates in any population regardless of the presence of chemicals.
1-3 are from his time as a practitioner in the field. There was an exchange in Knuth's interview in Peter Seibel's "Coders at Work" that I thought really insightful:

> Seibel: It seems a lot of the people I've talked to had direct access to a machine when they were starting out. Yet Dijkstra has a paper I'm sure you're familiar with, where he basically says we shouldn't let computer-science science students touch a machine for the first few years of their training; they should spend all their time manipulating symbols.

> Knuth: But that's not the way he learned either. He said a lot of really great things and inspirational things, but he's not always right. Neither am I, but my take on it is this: Take a scientist in any field. The scientist gets older and says, "Oh, yes, some of the things that I've been doing have a really great payoff and other things, I'm not using anymore. I'm not going to have my students waste time on the stuff that doesn't make giant steps. I'm not going to talk about low-level stuff at all. These theoretical concepts are really so powerful-that's the whole story. Forget about how I got to this point."

> I think that's a fundamental error made by scientists in every field. They don't realize that when you're learning something you've got to see something at all levels. You've got to see the floor before you build the ceiling. That all goes into the brain and gets shoved down to the point where the older people forget that they needed it.

(4) He certainly promoted them. I don't think he invented them; I believe the one he was most involved in was guard clauses which he promoted as an alternative to if statements. For better or worse, this never caught on.

(5) I think it is, in fact, vastly overstated. Mathematical rigor has its uses in some areas (progress conditions in loops, e.g., and getting binary searches right is vastly easier by applying some mathematical thinking). The kind of "end to end" correctness reasoning he promoted has found only a few adopters (avionics, etc).

If you disagree, how many of your last 10 projects have you proven correct? How many of them have found to be defect free so far?

6-7 yes, sure. I'm not denying that he made many important contributions to algorithmic thinking. But that does not translate into expertise into how programming ought to be done. Notably, none of his accomplishments in 1-3 were attained according to the methodology he advocated later in life as the only possible one, nor did he try to reproduce them using that methodology.
> Comments on twitter?

Yes. Mostly his.
Yeah, those are optional language features. Namespaces with braces work just fine, and any other language features that are too fancy can be easily disabled in your .csproj (sometimes by downgrading to an older LangVersion).
Yes. If I was on OpenAI's board or product team, this is exactly where I'd be trying to go. It's a purely technical challenge with nothing standing in its way beyond regular engineering problem solving.

1) Scaling
2) Efficiency
4) Quality
5) Security

Some of these may be super-duper hard problems, but hard problems worth solving = massive opportunity.

If IBM could put space age technology into corporate offices in the 50s, we can put dystopian era technology into offices in the 2020s. At first it will be stupidly expensive, and only the big players will be able to take advantage of the cost to benefit ratio, but in time it will more than likely be on your phone.
That's exactly what an existential threat looks like - desperate for an external enemy to blame. Consider Putin, Hitler, etc - when things are properly screwed, the easiest thing for a leader to do is blame then annihilate their neighbors.

Nuclear weapons mean that poor troop training means nothing. Trucking a bomb into New Delhi has never been difficult.
Pakistan unites India as much as India unites Pakistan.

But in recent years, India is less relevant to Pakistan as the country has tried to fend off post Afghanistan war terror. On this subject, the country is divided either in favor of taliban or in support of western powers.

Without Pakistan, India has more factions within its borders that they would be fighting amongst themselves.
I'd like to thank Adam Curry and the Podcasting 2.0 team for helping ensure that it stays that way.

https://podcastindex.org/
Maybe it still attracts the kind of investor that’s easier to separate from their money.
> Electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes are a type of modern railway braking system which offer improved performance compared to traditional railway air brakes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronically_controlled_pneu...
WebContainer API
Heh, yeah this description in the article made me giggle:

> a user-friendly interface

It is the worst interface I have the misfortune of having to use (don't ask).
Can SA prevent the generation of 8 fingered hands?
I don't think two apps is the answer, they should just build a better distinction between music and podcasts into the existing app. A toggle at the top of the app that let you switch between music and podcasts would work, and that way you could still include the option to slot in a few songs between podcasts if that is how you enjoy your listen experience.
Yes, but it will be incredibly misleading. You'd want to look at the distribution of outcomes to get a sense of what's really happening. The startup I work for is remote first but has some offices so we wouldn't count as fully remote even though we mostly are.
They should bring back radio plays. Grifty podcasts with uninformed hosts are annoying. They are too easy to produce and just a noise.
I don't think him moving to Texas had anything to do with it.

I do think he became deeply unpopular in many circles because of the anti COVID takes though. He went from a bro-y, kinda douchey guy who seemed harmless to a spokesperson for antivaxers. Lots of folks in the middle who didn't have much of an opinion, or care too much about him, that ended up writing him off completely.
I don't want this to sound like I'm defending having a proprietary debugger, but a lot of the tools that people use are proprietary even while they think they're using FOSS. For example, Visual Studio Code + Python? All that IntelliSense is a proprietary Microsoft binary and can't be used with non-Microsoft products. Are you running an open-source fork of VSCode? You can't run that plugin. Want VSCode + JavaScript + IntelliCode? Proprietary again.

As the link notes, there is Samsung's open source debugger, but it's not the one that is used by any of the common IDEs (VSCode, Visual Studio, or Rider).

It's certainly not an amazing situation that I want to be defending, but most people look past the fact that they're running plenty of proprietary stuff inside their VSCode editor and if you're looking past proprietary extensions for JS or Python, it makes sense to also look past proprietary extensions for C#.
Think how simple minded that would make them seem though: "Ugg ugg me see me no understand me attack"

As much as I want ETs to exist, I really hope we wouldn't shoot them down if they were just observing.
I find quite interesting that people will prefer a highly malleable language like Python, and then orgs have to adopt testing to get around all the inconsistencies caused by absent type system. And then people will write libraries to get around the pesky tests to get their flexibility back.

It's fascinating really... Complex systems are always in partial failure mode and that applies to collective optimization challenges. Organizations will always be stuck in local optima in most domains.
Before you pull out the pitchforks, look at what I said. I said his numbers weren't to be trusted. Elon has a well documented track record of saying X will be ready by Y date and cost Z amount, and all those numbers be wrong.

From the very first model 3, to full self drive, to cybertruck, to the boring company, to the starship itself. All of those were/are later than the dates that he gave, and cost more (for the ones that are for sale) than he said they'd cost. He was saying the orbital launch for starship was weeks away more than a year ago. It's still not happened.

Elon makes his own propaganda
Proud Boys war on drag is fueling a surge in anti-LGBTQ+ protests across the US
Sundar faces intense spotlight because his background is McKinsey and Product Management . In core engineering and tech circles that’s the ultimate enemy and sell out.
IMO Sundar hasn’t demonstrated the type of tech leadership like Satya or Zuck has. I am no fan of Zuck but he has a product he wants to pursue ( Metaverse) and is sticking to his guns to make it happen . Sundar just comes across as a pleasant McKinsey consultant who has seen ads and search as a cash cow and is focused on extracting as much cash from it to appeal to shareholders and others . There is no underlying tech vision or guts.
Reference to Red Dwarf. +1
Apple Podcasts is atrocious from a usability standpoint and unless you know exactly what you're looking for, discoverability is extremely opaque. No "trending," no "new podcasts," no "shorts." Compare the Apple Podcast experience to something like TikTok or even the YouTube algorithm.
Oh good!

I wish they'd bring Gimlet's old shows back to the internet. Really been fancying a StartUp relisten recently.
And how many new nuclear powers are there since North Korea? I can not think of any.
Wow so this is why it's so hard finding RSS links for spanish podcasts...

edit: nevermind, iVoox offer rss links.
I'm not sure that's a great example. The Indus water treaty has been respected by India despite all the wars and tensions with Pakistan over the decades. Only in the last month is it that it has been brought into question.
I don't really agree. Femshep is way overhyped and maleshep is just fine, if not even more iconic. Femshep sounds like trying too hard to come across as gruff and experienced military veteran and it just doesn't work for me. Comes across as fake.
formatted for wide monitors https://ddanluu.com/wat
The problem with New Glenn is that its basically a 'government rocke't. It exists because Blue Origin is dropping 2 billion $ a year in loses. New Glenn will never even remotely pay back its investment and at best they can maybe fly it with profitable operations.

But until then Blue Origin has basically no actual revenue beyond a very small amount of BE-4 sales.

Are we expecting Bezos just to continue to drop billions of $ into Blue Origin for unlimited amount of time? Because non of the projects they have will ever make this company profitable.
Or we should make some good porn. It baffles me to no extent why there are no instructional videos on how to improve your sex lives.

Porn shows unrealistic sex and it’s bad that people learn from it? Then make porn that shows how to have better sex.
Anything involving government really. This is the decades old "starve the beast" [1] mindset. Let's make sure government is absolutely ineffective at every step of the way, and then later point out how ineffective the government is and propose an even more ineffective, under-resourced government. It's a vicious cycle, and a self-fulfilled prophecy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
Then it's not actually an equivalent solution.

L2 connectivity is still quite useful, even if you don't have a need for it.
the legislation last year forcing an end to the labor dispute meant that rail workers stopping work had no legal protection. the railway labor act makes it illegal to stop work before exhausting a lengthy dispute process
Given how quickly support is dropped for consumer electronics, not opening up access to them is unacceptable.

And that isn't really addressing the fact that many companies don't have the funding or the will to secure these devices.
It's not a conspiracy. The amplified version of the story originated from Chinese state media as a direct response to the balloon story: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64633990

> At the same time, state media has begun focusing on a different narrative - a derailed train carrying hazardous material in Ohio.

> Though the incident happened in early February, Chinese news outlets are now devoting significant coverage on the topic, citing US media reports. US officials have performed a controlled release of toxic chemicals from the train to prevent contamination.

> It has since become a significant talking point on social media. On Weibo, China's equivalent to Twitter, the main Ohio train hashtag has been viewed more than 690 million times since the weekend, with more than 40 hashtags created on the topic.

> Many Chinese netizens have expressed worry that the incident would turn into a global environmental crisis, and anger over the relatively sparser coverage of the train incident in US media compared to the balloons.

> "Turns out the Wandering Balloon was being used to take the heat for Ohio," a post liked nearly 3,000 times reads.
Yup my relatively liberal Pakistani friends used to ponder that a lot... until Modi came and suddenly they were really glad for Pakistan. :)
To summarize: .NET, the entire platform and language and ecosystem and everything, should be completely and utterly avoided because:

- the ability for the open-source extension to, at the user's option, additionally interface with existing closed-source tools (in a non-license-affecting way), was added

- they wanted to limit hot-reload in .NET 6 because of quality issues (but reverted after people disagreed)

- Microsoft's debugger isn't open-source (even though there still is a popular open-source one)

- a clerical error resulted in all the repos the .NET foundation were administrating getting moved to the .NET foundation's GitHub, including ones that weren't supposed to (which, being incredibly obviously a mistake, was instantly reverted)

If you call these things 'showing their hand', I would call that motivated reasoning. I consider it impressive that a site dedicated to collating all the idiotic drama in order to smear the participants, can only find four examples, despite targeting literally Microsoft. By comparison if you started trying to collate the community drama for Rust or Golang (or god forbid Java) you'd be at it all day.

Please stop linking this website.
For PDFs at least there are tools to reduce file size that get rid of the originals and just save the image as it is used.