skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> do I need to train for if I could fly or should I focus on reality?

I believe the answer is yes, you need to leave reality sometimes to undersrand reality. It is a very general pattern, to understand something you need to move out of it.

You cannot see a forest while being in the forest, because trees are obscuring your sight.

You cannot prove all true statements in arithmetic system without extending it. For example it is impossible to find a general solution for a cubic equation in real numbers, you need to go imaginary, find imaginary roots and toss away not real ones. The remaining roots will be real roots of real cubic equation.

You cannot understand limitations of a scientific theory without considering an alternative theory. (Or a more general, or a narrower theory)

You cannot prove hypothesis without disproving an alternative one.

This pattern is everywhere. So it wouldn't surprise me a bit, if it turned out that you cannot digest a real experience without getting some unreal experience as well.
There are still a lot of true believers that jump in to these covid discussions (even if it's just to mod down stuff that doesn't support their hysteria). I'm surprised there aren't any smug dismissals posted in this thread yet. Sadly these kind of stories rarely change minds. Once people have dug in, they only get emboldened by any contradictory evidence. Governments spent two+ years radicalizing people, then the messaging just sort of faded away. There should have been loud and unequivocal "ok this is over" but instead nothing because it's politically convenient

Edit: smug dismissal now the top comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35026368
Agreed. The network architectures have evolved so much in the past few years alone. Imagine what they can do in just 5 years if they can embed domain-specific knowledge to the current “dumb” statistical word guessers. Ten years is truly unimaginable.

I’m not expecting the singularity within that timeframe nor do I think we need it for lots of disruption in knowledge-based work. Still, I’m leaning towards a near future where these AI tools augment our capabilities more than the alternative where we lose all our jobs.
Open core in data isn't even close to new: We've had companies contributing to OSS databases, while selling extensions with a bunch of extra features, back when noSQL was all the rage. Back then, I was called to rescue a large distributed system where the architect had bought on the commercial offering, and managed to rely on basically every single feature in it. He hired his engineers from the conference circuit, including some that had written books, thinking this was giving him a good talent. And yet, the system wasn't working well at all: Almost everyting appeared to work on unit tests, but nothing worked well in production for hard to track down reasons.

Given the instability, I started by mistrusting everything in the system, and it didn't take me too long to realize that every single extension feature from the for-pay distributed database wasn't actually doing what it said on the tin, or it performs orders of magnitude worse than anyone expected. Only the open-sourced features, which had been used in production all over the place, and had received sufficient patches to be reliable. Everything that we were actually paying for was mostly worthless, and needed to be engineered around. The real value of open source here had been a very large user base that guaranteed a semblance of quality. Since for-pay features were available only to the few for-pay customers, the company was faking it until they made it... and there was a lot of faking.

This is the ultimate problem of open core v profit: the quality of the OSS has to be rally high to get any actual open acceptance, but every second spent on the OSS system is one you aren't spending on the parts that get you revenue. If you make the OSS system too hard to use, there's little value from the OSS bits, but if all you are missing is a tool or two, someone can build open replacements, which might actually beat yours anyway.

It's not absolutely impossible to end up with a working company like this that is more than a glorified consultancy, but the success rates are just very low. The fact that this is true, and well known, also makes people purchasing tools be wary of the model, you don't want to build your infrastructure around a tool that quickly goes on life support. So all in all, going for this model is quite the gamble.
Over the pandemic I created a website to solve a very similar problem for finding appropriate movies for my kids.

https://www.movienight.tips/

Click through to the list of movies and then add a genre filter for sci-fi. You can further filter by rating, popularity or maturity level as desired. Enjoy!
Could it be the growing prevalence of USB mics used by podcasters and others? I don't own one of those nor follow the industry so not sure if those are dynamic or not.
I think this might be a cash grab and the problem is not nearly as big as they make it out to be. I have seen a few articles on this now and none of them include any pictures of houses and cars covered in fungus and when a paper like the New York Times opts for pictures of a couple tree branches and a leaf instead of the incriminating proof I can't help but wonder why. The New York Times also reported on this once before but they either did not report on the outcome of that case or did not link to that report, another question raised.
I've been using BitCalculator for Android[1] for that. It supports 8, 16, 32, and 64-bit integers, big or little endian byte ordering, signed or unsigned, as well as 32 and 64-bit floats with either endianness.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebstudios...
I'm working on a VDOM in Ruby using Haml kinda like JSX is used in React. It performs pretty well but I don't know how it scales. The syntax is probably the best part. Memory usage not so much, however I haven't done any optimizations.
Apple Vision Accessibility: The AppleVis Report Card
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/03/22/meet-the-man-whose-site-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/techmeme-growth-2014-3

The river is the reverse chronological order similar to https://hckrnews.com

If you go back to the main page of tech meme, and hover over a story an arrow will appear on the left. Click it to see follow up stories to the first story.

The first two techmeme and mediagazer at least, do headline rewriting to debuzzfeed/deupworthy clickbait headlines. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/aggregators-attack-techmeme-h... https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2015/techmeme-is-p...
Eh... I have a T480. It's advertised at "17+" hours. With the 72Wh extended battery fitted, it has a total of 96Wh energy storage. With some small effort tuning (making sure the nvidia GPU is properly powered down etc) I can easily get its consumption down to about 5W - less, with lowered screen brightness and wifi off. 96Wh / 5W = 19h 12 min. Seems legit.
Bit flips are totally real, at scale you will definitely see them on large queries. There was a fun talk at DEFCON on bitsquatting, the process of buying 1 bit off domain names and then accepting all incoming connections. Attacks like rowhammer similarly abuse erroneous bit flips. Supposedly microsoft can detect solar activity based on the number of windows crash logs they receive.

DEFCON Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT7mnSstKGs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitsquatting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer
Indeed. When someone says ワープロ, electronic typewriters are what come to mind, just like what the Japanese Wikipedia page[1] shows. The word ワープロ馬鹿 probably wouldn't make much sense to those under 30, as they're very unlikely to have ever used a ワープロ.

1: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3...
How does that work? Do you not need to provide your previous (current) manager as a reference?

When your vacation ends, do you just quit and not give 2 weeks notice?
What approach do you prefer for big apps?

The state has to go somewhere, curious how you choose to handle it.
Why is intel like this =\
Take potassium citrate; eventually, drink a lot of beer.
Cursive was so fucking stupid. I wasted years of my life on that and then I never used it except to sign my name.
> Oakeshott said she chose the newspaper for ideological reasons, because it “pushed back against lockdown during the pandemic”.

She made the right choice, as much as The Guardian might dislike it. They seem more interested in reporting on the background bickering, rather than on the leaks themselves. A common tactic when one wants to obfuscate a story. And when they do report on the leaks, they use the most discreet of headlines:

Matt Hancock: what do the leaked WhatsApp messages reveal? Texts sent at height of pandemic suggest former health secretary rejected advice on testing in care homes - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/01/matt-hancoc...
> To even detect this, I needed the patience and discipline to verify the checksum on a 500GB file! Imagine how much more time I could have wasted if I didn't bother to verify the checksum and made use of an important business document that contained one of the 14 bit flips?

Unpopular-opinion counterpoint - the odds of this actually happening are vanishingly unlikely. Many file formats have built-in integrity checks and tons of redundancies and waste. I wouldn't want to risk handling extremely valuable private keys or conducting high value cryptocurrency transactions or something, I suppose, on a machine without ECC memory, but that just doesn't really come up in most knowledge worker or end consumer scenarios.

The odds of actually getting bit by this in a way that matters to you are really low, which is why nobody cares.
Here is a quick deep link to 80s and 90s sci-fi movies for 12 and unders. Sorted by popularity.

https://www.movienight.tips/movies.php?m=1&start=1980&end=19...
I'm using 4 monitors, two 33" and two vertical 22".

It has nothing to do with knowing how to do shortcuts, but having to do them at all. There are plenty of instances where you may only need to provide input to one window at a time, but see other things, like documentation, output, logs, or a browser window of the page you are editing. Having multiple monitors allows me to greatly reduce the need to switch between windows to reference something or see results of my inputs.

I personally find that if I'm forced to alt-tab between my IDE and documentation, like when I'm working on a laptop, it's incredibly distracting, breaks my flow, and slows down my work significantly.
Hmm, I’ll go ahead and assume that consuming the lemon juice in a cocktail (e.g. a Sidecar) negates the benefits.
That's a very hot take!
The tech tycoon martyrdom charade – Anil Dash
The laptop builder likely didn’t spend the extra $2 to properly cool the CPU, so the CPU slows down to prevent burning out or burning your lap? The CPU being smart about its own temp is a good thing.
> There is a formal, correct way to write characters, and common "cursive" doesn't follow it.

There are political attempts to formalize how to write characters, but there is no one correct way, only more common ways and less common ways. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke_order#Stroke_order_per_... shows how a very common character is standardized to be written in different stroke orders.

On to strokes themselves, you can see for example that there are multiple ways to correctly write the word for tiger even though standardizations has blessed one particular form:

This is a standard way: http://www.sfzd.cn/gq/3/16/1/1671084904a28_170_0179b.jpg

But important authors have written it in this manner: http://www.sfzd.cn/gq/2/14/1/1669634829a4_919_396.jpg and you frequently see this manner of writing in New Year calligraphy

More examples: historically we have a character most commonly written 䖏, but standardized as (simplified) (CN) 处, (JP) 処, (HK/TW traditional) 處. Historically, 侯 was frequently written like 隹 with diagonal /\ at the bottom as in https://www.shufazidian.com/gq/1/8/46115.jpg .

Sometimes Chinese pedagogy has an air of "one stroke order", "one correct way", but this situation is a lot like with mcdojos where there are multiple idio-traditions that tend to think that they are an authority.
That's not the role of media?
Interactive Text Generation
Nope. 2% max per year from your purchase price.

There's people that own $8M dollar houses in Hollywood paying less property tax than people living in $800k condos.
Do you think squeezing some lemon juice into, say, a morning tea, like maybe a Yerba Mate, would cover the requirement here?
Personally I just use Redux Toolkit with RTK Query for any synchronization with backend state. What I like about Redux is that it takes the immutable functional approach, you cannot change previous state but must instead derive new state from the old state very explicitly. In this way, it's the antithesis of signal-based state.
> Worst experience I've ever had.

wait... did you... have a surgery without anesthesia or something??
Why does Intel allow firmware to control power management? That's a long story but it's very boring and hardly evil.
Guess I was wrong. It’s fixed point, and also what you said — COBOL defaults to it. It still makes it easier to write software that need to do a lot of calculations like that.

https://medium.com/the-technical-archaeologist/is-cobol-hold...
Nopaste – Client-side paste service
That's not what's happening in this case. Linux is getting much lower performance than Windows on the same laptop due to a firmware bug.
>There's no brain and you, there's just you (or just the brain, it's the same thing). You and your brain is one thing, not two.

This is only true if you equate "self" with "body", which is a fairly narrow assertion that breaks down quickly when confronted with the complex reality of human experience (e.g. dissociation [0]).

Even the "conscious you" is not really a discrete entity when it comes to self-perception. There are many useful approaches in psychology that regard that "conscious you" as being a composition of a team of several things with differing motivations [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation_(psychology)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Family_Systems_Model
Tesla is building its next major factory in Mexico https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/01/business/tesla-mexico-plant/i..., that's how much Elon believes in China.

> If I had to put money on which EV company becomes the next major car company of the world, I would almost certainly bet that it's going to be a Chinese one.

Do you mean WM motor? one of the most promising startup https://www.autonews.com/china/wm-motor-pay-cuts-layoffs-sig... where at least 20 percent of WM Motor’s workforce has been laid off since November?

or Didi/Li auto venture? https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chinas... which declared bankruptcy?

or Nio, whose stock was as high as $62, now below $10?

or BYD, whose stock has been offloaded by Warren Buffet by 1/3 since august of last year?

or China's car industry as a whole https://www.marklines.com/en/statistics/flash_sales/automoti..., whose production dropped 35% and sales dropped 34% in January 2023?

And why would a Chinese car company not be sanctioned/outlawed relating to the CHIP act, or something similar out of Europe?
> This study presents the first characterization of a domestic species in Chernobyl, establishing their importance for genetic studies into the effects of exposure to long-term, low-dose ionizing radiation.

That comes across as an especially clear, or at least understandable, statement about why a paper represents preliminary research.
Mostly medical issues and poor money management exacerbated by my mental health issues.
ECC is good, and I genuinely wish it were more common. Thankfully, Ryzen CPUs support ECC by default (except for pre-7000 series with integrated graphics that aren't "Pro" versions), so long as the motherboard does, too (like all ASRock that I've seen). I'm running several Ryzen servers with ECC.

On the other hand, there are many, many systems out there that don't have ECC, nor do they have the option to have ECC. While every video on Youtube wants us to believe that the difference between 580 and 585 frames per second in some silly game or another makes all the difference in the world, for me the difference between a system that runs 10% slower and one that crashes in the middle of the night is actually significant. I test all my systems at a certain memory frequency, then back off to the next slower frequency just to be sure.

That doesn't stop memory errors from happening, but most systems have lived their entire lives without having random crashes or random segfaulting. I consider that worthwhile.
Why even try if success is blind luck? Why go to school? Why learn things?

Telling people that the success is just blind luck is offensive, IMO.

Not that successful people care.
> I'd disagree with the first point there, they were very late to pivot.

Relax the US took 10 years to apologize to the Japanese people they threw into internment camps. That was a bigger fuck up than the china covid lock downs.

>The rest seems internally inconsistent with where you were initially. I think it's because you might have stretched the kernel of wisdom, "authoritarianism may have some benefit in the kind of disaster which is only mitigated by authoritarianism" a bit further than it goes on its own merits.

Internally inconsistent? No it's not. And you didn't point out where too. Just a vague, "seems inconsistent".

It's also not really a stretch. Part of the speed and efficiency in China's response comes from central control. Part of Americas dying infrastructure comes from lack of centralized control, too many Nimbys, different motives and conflicting opinions.

>They screwed up by doubling down. Your main point would actually be a lot easier to defend if you separated it from the overextended Chinese implementation.

Yeah they screwed up. But my point still stands. Also it's not the biggest fuck up. Not by a long shot. Take a look at the US blowing up the nordstream pipelines. Holy shit a literal act of war/terrorism on an allied country. The US is no stranger to dark shit and huge fuck ups on a scale equivalent if not worse than china.
Redis is technically open core, with Redis Enterprise supposedly gating 'simple' scaling, multi-tenancy, and a (I assume) plug-and-play k8s integration https://redis.io/docs/about/redis-enterprise/
SVG Viewing and Diffing in GitHub (2014)
I'd say the plan was focused on helping students to learn. It was not focused on teaching students with no intrinsic motivation to learn.

When I was a student in Finland, there were still remnants of the old system left. In that system, it was the student's responsibility to learn. The university provided opportunities and supported the student to the extent its resources allowed. The curriculum was centered around exams, which the student was expected to pass even when the corresponding classes were not offered. There was no expectation that everyone should graduate. It was ok to drop out if you could not find the motivation to study and pass the exams.

That was a good system for some and bad for others. And it was a poor fit to the new era, where the universities were repurposed to teach the masses skills that were supposed to be relevant in the job market.
This is really not the correct approach. https://github.com/intel/thermal_daemon ought to do a better job without ignoring manufacturer thermal limits (I reverse engineered Intel's Dynamic Power and Thermal Framework a few years back, and upstream kernels should have everything needed now: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/54923.html)
I'm a huge fan of maturin but that might be a bit meta. It's a python build tool for wrapping rust projects. There github page has a list of projects using it and you might find more of what you are looking for: https://github.com/PyO3/maturin#examples
I had enough in my Roth IRA to retire on in my mid-20s. I blew most of my liquid assets thanks to massive medical debt and bad money management.
I'm a bit odd in that I prefer total silence, though my wife needs background or white noise.

I'd rather just have the ringing in my ears than ringing PLUS something else. There's something distinctly different between ANC and true silence, and despite several attempts I've never found an ANC that proved otherwise.
Musical noise rarely gives me any issues, though some of the weirder electronic/noise/artsy punk shows have been problematic. Usually it is in short bursts though, I can't think of a show I actually left due to the noise. I enjoy music I can feel but I am very diligent about earplug usage to the point that I bring extras to share just in case. I typically pull each earplug out for a few seconds on each side to see if I'm missing much. There is something very different about listening to Earth for example at show volume. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiCIW04PF3I

Unfortunately my tinnitus stemmed from lightning. I'm fortunate that it doesn't seem noticeable all the time.
https://archive.is/M53QK
I mostly assume people here are above the threshold you describe but maybe that’s just wrong? I think the uniquely American perspective is software developers getting paid very well at plenty of big tech companies. That’s the kind of compensation that people who go into biglaw or investment banking would get without the poor working conditions or high barriers to entry. That sort of compensation is much less common in Europe, even from the same American tech companies. A thing people often say is that this compensates for high cost of living but plenty of European cities are expensive and cost of living adjustments for these companies in the US often aren’t so large relative to the compensation, presumably because people could threaten to move to a high-CoL area. Maybe this will stop being the case (software developers might get paid less in the US) at some point. And maybe that is already happening (stock prices no longer massively increasing making stock grants magically worth more) to a lesser extent.

Personally, I think most people don’t quit because of a lack of quantitative approaches but rather because they are afraid about losing what they have, ending somewhere else that’s worse, making big, irreversible-seeming decisions, etc.
Ad-hoc structured log analysis with SQLite and DuckDB
Too bad the 16Gb chip he found was fake. It would be cool to have one of the world's only 16Gb or more Raspberry Pis.
No, Linux is getting lower performance than Windows because distributions aren't shipping the tooling needed to inform the firmware that the OS can manage platform thermals, and so the firmware is defaulting to a safe state. Of course, the reason they're failing to do so is because Intel never publicly documented any of this.
CeBeans: 16,346 (and counting) freeware apps for Windows CE
I stumbled across this site a while back. The owner has been cranking out freeware apps on a daily basis for the last 20+ years (check archive.org!)

The quality of these apps is about what you'd expect, but I'm impressed nonetheless.
But what's a MANFIA?
Thanks for the conversation. I’m not a nervous wreck, thanks in large part to not being on Twitter. Sorry if I came across that way.

And yeah, I’ve had a lot of conversations about this stuff. Thanks for trying to help. But It’s usually impossible to logic someone out of a feeling.

To close, I think there’s more than enough reasons for feeling afraid of the woke mob if you look for them. Whether or not that’s a good idea? Hard to say.
I did some intense Linux/POSIX signals work in C over the last year, and expected this article to be about those creatures, since so foundational.

Nope.