skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that and HSI is now like half the size of the FBI. CBP has 60k people and patrols even the interior of the US, they're basically the modern day gestapo complete with suspension of the constitution within 100 miles of the border (which is where most people live).
It's mentioned in TFA. When he sold his company to Twitter, he chose to receive payment in cash rather than stock, partly to "pay back" the system in the form of higher taxes on the proceeds.
> why was BCD popular?

https://www.truenorthfloatingpoint.com/problem

Floating point arithmetic has its problems.

[1] Ariane 5 ROCKET, Flight 501

[2] Vancouver Stock Exchange

[3] PATRIOT MISSILE FAILURE

[4] The sinking of the Sleipner A offshore platform

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Vancouver_Stock_Exchange#Rounding_errors_on_its_Index_price

[3] https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipner_A#Collapse
I much prefer velcro. If you do use zip ties don't cut the ends. If you do, make sure it's flush, had many many scratches over the years from non-flush cuts on plastic zipties.
It's annoying, but I can see why it was flagged. The thread isn't going to be very interesting. It'll just be a bunch of people being rude about Musk (justifiably) and a bunch of people excusing his behavior.
Firefox + uBlock Origin + Video Background Play Fix.

This has been the best way to watch YouTube on Android. The video keeps playing in the background too and no ads of course.
It’s not clear to me what they’re agreeing with him on?

- That employees have no right to know whether or not they’re employed?

- Or that employee private medical information should be allowed to be disclosed publicly?

This whole thing started because Twitter’s HR couldn’t tell this person if he was or wasn’t employed by Twitter. He guessed the only way he would get an answer was to publicly ask Elon on Twitter. And guess what, he was right! That indeed turned out to be the only way to get an answer.

Elon further decided to commit a bunch of privacy and employment rights abuses but fundamentally it was simply a question of an HR dept that didn’t know who it employed.
French are always protesting, that's not a really good measurement.
this is actually due to Rule 10b5-1 where execs can have a pre-planned schedule to have transactions get executed. this way they're not doing any insider trading since it's predefined months in advance. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rule-10b5-1.asp
Trend in ShowHN & some recent fundings are definitely towards GPT based applications.

Saw this recently -
Chatbot Character.ai valued at $1bn in Andreessen-led funding round
https://www.ft.com/content/b230eb4c-ed53-45ff-8b64-c286a4b98...

But I strongly feel, its GPT powered native apps that will drive the market forward. We will definitely see lot of adoptions coming forward.
> I prefer non-instance methods personally.

Why?
Young people in 13 EU countries refuse surveillance of online communication
I would think that lodash would check to see if the browser supports the methods and then use those method natively instead of a polyfil. this is the approach jquery takes
> 2. Chose to make a donation to the government by taking payment in cash instead of stock.

Is this supposed to be somehow bad? Seems like clearly a pro-social thing to say

> You know what? I'm doing well enough. I want to contribute back to my society in the same proportion and democratic manner as the people who work under me.
Elon said he "did no actual work", that's not the same as saying he was fired for having a disability.
Collect all the diamonds and finally reach the green exit door without being killed by falling stones (or falling diamonds).
Why do you think we'll still be using Lithium for batteries in the future? There might be better technologies up ahead.
Possible with jackd etc

I switched to BSD and got much better latency on the same hardware

But I think that was the alsa -> BSD oss driver swap, which is possible on linux too. I had just never tried it, since I assumed linux was best

(I'm only sharing this cus i think its interesting, and may help you get good latency)
> turn your physical asset into a point of activation?

This sounds like a "fluid exchange" type of proposition.
> I use public transport to go to work. But it's not really convenient. It takes me about 45 minutes to get there. And that's if everything goes well. Half an hour of that is walking (to and from bus stops) and waiting (you should be several minutes early because busses sometimes leave early themselves, but most of the time they are late).

Can you provide more details about where you are and the distance involved? I don't understand why you wouldn't simply drive 10 minutes.
A review of Ungoogled-Chromium patches
> For your big question about a CPython replacement I think that this is our current goal. I do not think people will be using RustPython in their production any time soon but I do think we can be competitive in WASM. Having said that I do not think we should be 100% compatible with CPython. For example we have chosen to implement threading without the GIL. Being compatible with CPython is very helpful as we can use the documentation and tests of CPython.

https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython/issues/1940#issueco...
Yea spinning rust has been plateauing for anything other than SMR disks. A large part of that is that CMR (the old style) just isn't scaling anymore, even though it has much better performance and characteristics than SMR. Combine that with the fact that flash storage has been considerably increasing in density and speed (spinning rust disks haven't really increased in performance either) there's probably not as much investment happening in improving the spinning rust stuff the same way as it used to be. Flash still isn't quite at the same level of cost per storage but it's definitely starting to approach it and will very likely surpass it in the future.
Quick thoughts - I agree with you that most people (myself included) cannot relate to how Musk thinks.

Humbly, when I don't understand where Musk comes from on something, I don't assume that the disconnect is due to superior intelligence on my part[0] (but weirdly, plenty of people with objectively little accomplishment have no problem assuming that they are seeing something Musk is blind to)

So, everything that follows is conjecture for the sake of a probabilistic answer to your question.

I suspect Musk is "allergic" to the type of work/worker this person seems to do. The person's self-cited list of accomplishments doesn't actually list a single impactful accomplishment, which isn't acceptable for someone senior enough to not do any hands-on work.

Now, again, this is a guess, but I suspect that this type of "allergy" is a big component of Musk's success in general in how he works and who he hires for his companies. It likely serves his very well. As a "side effect" of that allergy, it probably compels him to toe/cross the line in cases like this. If you believe in something deeply, you speak to it even at your own risk.

Again, not saying that's what I would do, but I am also not the guy who runs Tesla and all these other companies, so if you have a choice between what I'd do, and what Musk would do, do what he would do!

[0] It's very popular to say he's a hype man who just rides the wave of provocative tweets. But... have people who say that ever seen, drove, ride in a Tesla? Those are real. Maybe people can't comprehend the amount of stuff you gotta get right to make and sell a car, if they did they would keep that totally distinct from the "hype" category. And aren't those ships going to space etc? It's a weird flex to claim that Musk doesn't get really important, difficult things done - and if you accept that he does, then it's weird to claim "but I don't understand how he works, so I assume he's the idiot"
January 2, 2023 - it was for being person of the year 2022
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/03/elon-musk...

Isn't that just the next step of this? I'm not saying it would happen, but it doesn't seem totally out of the realm of possibility given the level of petty we're dealing with.
The guy has himself on a wheelchair as a profile picture and has his disease on the first page of his blog so i'm not sure what's being revealed
I'm on mobile now right now and can't really test, but one thing that a lot of versions of this game gets wrong is that they omit the feature to be able to dig without moving. On the C64 this is done by pressing the button while moving in a direction.

I think a lot of people simply didn't know you could do this, which made it pretty much impossible to complete certain levels.
Ask HN: Have you suffered any long term side effects from the Covid vaccines?
Ok, obviously this is a touchy topic for some people, but it shouldn’t be. I figured HN is probably the most mature forum I am a part of to ask this, especially compared to reddit.

I have not yet completed a primary vaccine course and was planning on finally getting my first shot on Friday (I’ll probably choose one of the two mRNA ones). Obviously, there must be more data on the main vaccines now then there was almost 2 years ago.

So, is one of the mRNA vaccines better? Have any of you had legitimate long term unexpected problems that you think may have been caused by your response to the vaccine?
If they support python packages exposing the C ABI and expose a C ABI for embedding, I can't see why not.
When fuel becomes this expensive food will become unattainable for most people. Or we somehow miraculously create magic batteries to power commercial transport.

The problem with cities will solve itself: no one is going to live in a concrete desert where simple food is too expensive.
The RTAudio tools this is based on allows different backends to be configured. I guess you could use Alsa or Jack if you want...

https://github.com/thestk/rtaudio/blob/master/install.txt
Imagine how many more patents Qualcomm could fit into your phone by removing that ~2.5mm chip!
Jack offers the low latency necessary for music production.

Pipewire is supposed to offer low latency as well - at least lower than Pulseaudio, but I don't know how much.
I think "agreeing" was the wrong choice of words from me, I'm sorry, substitute it for "egging on" or "supporting".

They're literally followers, if Elon said/did there's a good reason for it. As classic as it can be for a cult of personality.
If I care about what it looks like and want to precisely arrange my cables, I always lace. It's time-consuming, finger-aching work, though and I'm not as good at it as I was when I was younger[0].

In my late teens, I worked at a telecom in desktop support and ended up on a multi-day project installing hardware at a switch site in Cleveland. They'd taken on a new director who was furious at the condition of the cabling/cable management[1]. I remember a piece of paper with a sliced black zip-tie taped to it and the words "FIRED" scrawled in big letters. Teams of two men were working throughout the site.

They were ripping out/replacing a huge number of runs. During the week, a group was working on a bundle of what looked like thousand Ethernet cables coming from the ceiling, all labeled, starting out as a perfectly laced 3x2 ft rectangle through the channel in the ceiling and then falling into a spaghetti pile extending most of the floor of the large room.

By the time I left, that channel was nearly done, the wires broke off at 40 or so points in different bundles ranging in size, but most were inches thick/wide, wires joined the bundle at various points in the metal channel causing the wire bundle that went to the floor, below, to be only a little smaller than the one coming in. Every curve of every bundle was visibly the same radius.

After seeing what could be done, I decided to learn how to do it. :)

[0] I'm not that old.

[1] Some of the issues were straight-up code violations, but most were issues of good practice.
Automatic transmissions actually do a good and thorough job. File search, if the user hasn't done any sorting at all, will fail a lot. That's why it's a pipe dream. People can always refuse to sort but they won't get the experience they want.
Just don't.

SQL:

- does not allow for easy and clean importing of modules/libraries

- is not easily to write tests for

- has limited support for a debugger

- lacks a consistent style for such large queries (plus most textbook cover fairly simple stuff) which means it's hard for a developer to start reading someone else's code (more than in other languages)

- clearly indicates in its name that it is a Query language.

Save yourself the trouble and all your collaborators the pain of working with this code in the future, of trying to add new features, of trying to reuse it in another project.

If you want to operate near the data, use PL/Python for PostgreSQL.

EDIT: Fixed formatting.
Worked with some of the teams that are bringing this tech out, top-notch people, super fun tech. This not really applicable to commodity drives as pure storage flash controllers aren't limited by SSD dimensions.
Congrats Bearer team, looks awesome
Those aren't that sad looking. You can't go down 4 cents/gb when you're at 4 cents/gb. If you look at the halving period, it's pretty stable at 4-6 years.
> Which of these (apart from non fractional decimal systems) are if Indian origin?

There is in fact a wikipedia article on the subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_influence_on_Islamic_sc...

I am sure that the references there will provide a jumping off point to learn more
What government subsidies?
In 2015 carmakers were planning to manufacture only self driving hybrids. So what you plan 12 years from now says nothing about what is going to be made 12 years from now.
> Now we are back at the cellphone is the SIM card.

No, because the eSIM provisioning process, as well as eSIM profiles themselves, are standardized, down to how the activation code is represented in a QR code.

SIM-less CDMA phone provisioning was never that flexible, as far as I know.

Of course, providers can make this as easy or hard as they want to (e.g. by not allowing the reuse of activation codes, tying activation codes to an IMEI, having an allowlist of supported phone models despite eSIM being a standard etc.), but they can already do much of that for physical SIMs as well.
Barnes and Noble turned a page, expanding for the first time in years
Depends...

There are already other implementations. But CPython is the reference implementation. That's part of why we're only now seeing optimizations that reduce code clarity for reading. (i think, dont quote me on this)
I think what you're getting at is that it seems ponderous to have types named things like NonEmptyListWhereTheThirdElementIsTheIntegerFourAndTheOtherElementsAreStringsOfLengthSixOrUnder and the answer is that you shouldn't do that, but instead name it something in the problem domain (of whatever the program is about) like WidgetDescription or whatever.
Nah, low latency audio is absolutely possible, but not necessarily using pulse audio. Using either Jack for the low latency stuff has been the advice for years, but with the advent of pipewire you can mix and match without too much difficulty.

A quick skim didn't turn up what audio backend this project is using, but I'm using patchbox with modep on my Pi4 as a bass pedal board and it's pretty much flawless low latency. I do need to add a fan to my pi since it's mounted underneath a pedal board and doesn't get quite enough air though.
Jason Scott put out a plead to discord in 2021[0], with asks similar to the end of the article to add archiveability to their service, and I basically replied saying this is what we get for ditching irc, and he replied a tepid "I know what you're trying to say."

I love Jason and the work he does and I don't blame him. The thing is Discord was never going to play ball, why would they? Again, we're going to have this discussion in 2026 too and nothing will change. I appreciate now he does offer thoughtful rebuff wrt IRC, but it is a pain then that other platforms like matrix haven't had Discord's uptick.

People just gave up on better interfaces to IRC or other protocols. I get it many things are magic and we don't know how to get numbers, but it can't hurt to try.

[0] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1345422597505351685
Only if the CPython devs will it so.
I would think stacking 10 generic conditions wouldn't scale if you are trying to mix and match arbitrarily. If you are trying to mix NonEmpty and AllEven and AllGreaterThan100 for the List example, then you would get the combinatorial explosion of types.

In practice, I find it is usually something like 'UnvalidatedCustomerInfo' being parsed into a 'CustomerInfo' object, where you can validate all of the fields at the same time (phone number, age, non-null name etc.). Once you have parsed it into the internal 'CustomerInfo' type - you don't need to keep re-validating the expected invariants everywhere this type is used. There was a good video on this that I wish I could find again, where the presenter gave the example of using String for a telephoneNumber field instead of a dedicated type. Any code that used the telephoneNumber field would have to re-parse and validate it "to be safe" it was in the expected format.

The topic of having untrusted external types and internal trusted types is also explained in the book `Domain Modeling Made Functional` which I highly recommend.
Show HN: Prompter, a fast and simple ChatGPT Chrome extension
I wanted a way to access a ChatGPT prompt at any time while browsing, so I created this extension. Try it out and enjoy! Haven't shown this to many people yet so very open to feedback.
Palm-E: “bring me the rice chips from the drawer” [video]
Simple: feed Africa so they create more children to work in lithium and cobalt mines.
Test flight with actual payload? That doesn't sound like a "test", or is that just how things are done in spaceflight?
What Just because you can see HTML and JS that THE BACKEND SENT doesn't mean you can see the actual logic (code)
Which one cost him $44 billion? I thought signing an agreement to buy Twitter was what ended up costing him that money.
Depends on what type of miles those 90k were. Highway vs. city makes a difference.
To solve what problem exactly?
I have to Laugh out loud.

What a question. Who in their right minds would say, "Yes, please! I want to have my communications surveilled like a nosy parent would but also have the force of the law behind it to punish me."

What's the next question? Would you like to pay more in taxes and you have no say on how it gets spent?
I just want to say I disagree and think this is brainwashed thinking. You could crash into a pole... make sure all poles have car guards! It's a really good idea to have some sort of guard rail around every single thing that could be hit by a car. Why don't the trash cans have car-guard rails? Just in case someone is gonna crash in them.

Make sure you take all cell phones from anyone entering a vehicle. Wouldn't want the phone to start ringing unexepectantly and cause a car crash!!! Don't forget to follow all laws. Wouldn't want to be illegal. In Tennessee, it is illegal to share your Netflix password with others. Better report yourself to the authorities. How reckless!
These are enterprise products ... pricing on call
Not what I meant, as one can obviously also filter or map in a reduce block, but maybe one needs to do a sort afterwards.
Smaller settlements profit from less demand for cars. That will stabilize prices for cars and petrol and everything around that.
I have plans for some other personalised features which will need some storage of information. But that will be opt-in based.
Viagra is often abused in combination with alcohol or opiods (this may be the more boring codeine type abuse, not meth, etc) since it can allow you to have an erection when your body might not normally allow.

Thus if you are at a house party, consuming drugs and intend to get laid, you need to have viagra.

Smarter drug dealers include viagra as an addon to "party packages" for an upcharge. For obvious reasons it is desirable to buy in bulk.
Whoops, thanks!

Shows what I know about metrics :D

edit: fixed it
The parent post made absolutely none of the claims you assert they "want".
It is true that on at least some platforms an int* that is 4 byte aligned is faster to access than a pointer that is not aligned. I don’t know if there are platforms where int* is assumed to be 4-byte aligned, or if the C standard allows or disallows that, but it seems plausible that some compiler somewhere defaulted to assuming an int* is aligned. Some compilers might generate 2 load instructions for an unaligned load, which incurs extra latency even if your data is already in the cache line. These days usually you might use some kind of alignment directive to enforce these things, which works on any pointer type, but it does seem possible that the person’s code you reviewed wasn’t incorrect to assume there’s a difference between those pointer types, even if there was a better option.
Careful with the sarcasm. Only positive vibes are allowed on showHN or the admin goes ballistic. I've seen it happen.
So that's your plan, waiting on a miracle?
It must be so much easier these days with him distracted with a new toy.
It does work in software engineering. You are mis-characterizing both problems in essentially the same fashion.

The purpose of setting a deadline is not to achieve a specific thing at the nominated date, but to establish bounds on the timeline for activity. We know well that unbounded schedules fail to motivate action; so we set a boundary and then compromise on what is delivered over the resulting interval.

The 2035 deadline is a forcing function. It exists to frame discussion and to instill a sense of urgency.
Probably because it's not news at all, it's 3 months old and nobody cares about the Person of the Year in Iceland. Instead it feels just like astroturfing to show how good this guy is (he seems to be, not denying that) VS how bad Musk is (he definitely is).

If this was shared the day the article had been published, would it have received any upvotes? No.
Ask HN: Anyone else fed up of the lack of human interaction in interviews?
Example: I applied to invessed and got a canned email that linked me to this: https://invessed.com/careers/vuejs-tech-assessment/ - a 4 hour+ assesment before I've spoken to anyone. I've seen this multiple times now.

Surely there is a better way?

How do you filter applicants you want to interview?
I think I got your point. It is valid. To construct the DFA and have a finite number of derivatives we have to keep track of the following equivalences:

r + r ~ r

r + s ~ s + r

(r + s) + t ~ r + (s + t)

In [1] authors state this and refer to the proof in the original paper. They even extend it to a set of extended rules to reduce the number of terms (states) even more.

Actually, the code for (lazy) DFA construction code is not even committed yet. The repo contains just sequential per-character application of the derivative to a regex. Which is obviously finite (though not efficient). Again, just to demonstrate the concept.

[1] https://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/turon/re-deriv.pdf
Yeah, they're fun to work with. Some decent open source libraries to interact with their APIs too.

I really appreciate the effort they put into APIs for their appliance.
Lazyasdf: An Elixir-based TUI for the asdf version manager
Chuck E. Cheese Still Uses Floppy Disks to Make Its Rodent Mascot Dance
In this case, Pure will monitor your arrays for you and determine if the latency issues are coming from the controllers or the nvme subsystem, and they’ll either add more drives or swap out the controllers for faster hardware to make sure the SLA is met.

It’s a pretty good system especially for CFOs who prefer opex model
What kind of lab testing or purity promises do online sellers tend to make? Is lab paperwork common? Do they list country of origin?