skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> [security stuff] sits in the critical path and fails closed.

Not entirely accurate. Some inline IPS appliances fail open, and networks can be architected to fail around a single firewall in a high availability pair.
None of those are rich people hobbies.
Windows 8 & Windows phone had a lot of good things going for it that would eventually get no resources & thrown out. They also had many design ideas borrowed by iOS & Android.
Rotations of a point happen in a plane around some point in the plane, not around a line or axis. In two dimensions there is no line perpendicular to the plane to rotate around, in four and higher dimensions there is no unique plane perpendicular to any given line. It is only in three dimensions that rotating in a plane and around a line coincide.
Keep the same amount of garbage, but make it minimalist garbage
If HN allowed me to edit (can't because it's two days old), I would change "allegedly" to "apparently". Of course there are studies, that is precisely what I was referring to. The fact that studies have shown energy savings, which contradicts what I would expect based on my own mental model of the world and gut feeling, is what I find remarkable. Don't you love it when science challenges your beliefs? I do. I remain somewhat skeptical, but I'm open to the idea that I am just wrong.

The MIT study from 2006 is pretty good.

https://web.mit.edu/~slanou/www/shared_documents/366_06_REVO...

However, I would note:

1. The MIT study makes a lot of assumptions (which they acknowledge).

2. In particular, the MIT study didn't put much effort into carefully measuring real conditions, e.g. using a blower door test. I'd like to see a study that does.

3. The MIT study was arguably more concerned with the psychology of door usage than energy.

4. Other than the MIT study, modern research on this topic is actually pretty sparse. There have been numerous examples of old studies not being reproducible, so I think it's fair to want a reproduction with current materials and building practices.

5. Some of the studies I've seen did not ensure the weather seals were equivalent. Revolving doors tend to have beefier seals. In my opinion, that makes the comparison less meaningful.
The website seems to have gone down under load, if this is a snarky response to Casey's pro performance take previously, then the irony level is high!

I really wish people would stop pushing back on people who are interested or curious about how to make code perform better. Of course you don't want people scattering weird SIMD intrinsics all over mundane parts of your web backend in an unhinged attempt to shave microseconds off a response. But in my career I've never really seen people do this anyway.

What you do want though is programmers who have spent some time understanding how to structure code to perform well on modern hardware. Because often times that structure is NOT a mess, it may even be easier to work with that the usual idioms in your industry or language. Grouping data into adjacent chunks with arrays or array backed data structures has more benefits than just leveraging the L1 cache. It is sometimes also convenient.
I'd say Biodome and Idiocracy were far, far more accurate.
If he cannot name one, I assume he is lying. Is lying in an interview about key business metrics somehow not market manipulation?
Bang on. Though our productivity gap is also the result of Canada being a resource state run by a few oligopolies. There's no incentive for any of them to up productivity. And somehow the population is convinced that government spending is the solution to everything, so instead of innovation, we have synthetic government "innovation" programs that just allow companies to leech.

The result is Canada is it's own little fiefdom run by companies that would be absolutely uncompetitive elsewhere, with a population that compares itself, like you say, to a caricature of the US in what, the 70s, and uses that as the basis for being smug in our shitty position
And by the time they get a push back, if there is any, they will have made enough money to spend a 10th of it in PR to buy back their karma points.

Few vote with their wallets anyway, so it's a winning strategy.
A dedicated server is obviously not “cloud”, but that wasn’t really the point I was making.

My point was rather underlining the absurdity of using cloud for everything.

Herzner is just an example of a dedicated server provider. There are others, some in the same price range, others a bit more.

As an aside to my point, it is often cheaper and more flexible to use dedicated servers than you buy and collocate your own hardware.
I don't think Apple recurringly hounds you to sign in when you hit "Do it later" though. I read "Do it later" here as a subtle reminder that "the option is not gone. You can do it later on your own in your system settings if you want", as opposed to "ok we'll ask you again later unprompted :)"
access to private computer system vs harrassment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harassment
Sonos’ new product category is commercial audio
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
Sorry, not talking about Space X in that case, more the likes of Uber, Advertising, and Social Media.
> What’s the alternative?

100% of corporate revenue goes to the state and federal government. 0% to cities, and cities generate revenue to fund their budgets by levying property taxes on land owners.
But part of the value of a designer is they’d know what prompts to even give. They’d understand your needs, price points, and walk you through a space of directions.

I wonder if this is better suited as a tool for designers themselves to quickly create drafts to demonstrate their direction. But only using stable diffision worries me that the kinds of products they’d want to leverage will be limited.
What the Data Edge is good for
By this logic every isn't every kickstarter is also a security? Aren't tickets for concerts are securities too?

Ethereum was like that. You give them bitcoins, and they promised to build this distributed computer that you can run programs on. They did, and when the computer was up and running, they gave the tokens that pay for the running of programs on the computer. They also offered additional tokens to those who participated in running the computer because that was necessary for the computer to run correctly.

If you bought it, were you planning on running programs or selling to other people who want to run programs at a profit?

Should it matter? If you pre-ordered GPUs from nvidia speculating that other people would want to buy them at a higher price later, would that make the GPUs a security too? Are concert tickets a security because scalpers buy them with intention to resell at a profit? Are the GPUs securities because you expect "the efforts of others" to release driver updates for the latest games, thus contributing to the value of the video cards you hold?
It exists, but I am accessing the LAN via a subnet router.
I have a vague memory of a Borland C++ coming bundled with a rather funky Smalltalk-inspired container library - this was pre-STL and in fact pre-templates even. Perhaps another old fart can confirm or correct?
Absolutely not. The Lisa project started in '78. The Mac effectively started in '81 when Jobs horned in on Jef Raskin's Macintosh project.

The Lisa is clearly derived from bits of the Alto, but it wound up being very similar in terms of capabilities and target market as the Star. The Mac happened after both the Star and Lisa.

The OP's assertion that Jobs saw the Star before the Mac was started in earnest is completely relevant. Though... most of the relevant features of the Star were present in the Lisa. Both the Lisa team at Apple and the Star team at Xerox were trying to make very similar machines (in no small part because Apple lured several PARC people away to work on the Lisa.)

But Jef Raskin's idea of an "information appliance" is definitely present in the Mac in a way that is not seen in the Lisa.
What’s in the roadmap for what will be built by Astral?
A few weeks after the first big incident, I applied for a couple of open IT roles at Southwest. Though I was well qualified for all of them, I never heard back from SWA, not even a "Thank you for applying" type of email. Makes me wonder if they thought the first incident was a fluke and they could go about business as normal. Also makes me wonder if they put out a bunch of ghost jobs to appear like they were staffing up. Most companies will at least acknowledge receipt of job applications no matter how unqualified the applicant and Southwest didn't even do that much.
angel list used to be pretty decent a few years ago so I second that. no idea what it's like now though.
Not saying it should be. But for many it is.
“Lighten everything up”
You seem to be pretty invested here, everything okay? It's shit PR, devoid of any responsibility, and they're already in the dog house when it comes to stock value. For me personally, I just won't fly this airline, I can't trust them on the ground why would I put my life or valuable time in their hands or reward them with business?

We don't need to a postmortem, the blame has been solely laid on someone else's shoulders. I think the only thing we can extrapolate from this conversation is that you possibly work for SW, or that you're upside down on SW shares. Have a great day and welcome to HN.
Seems like pretty basic prompts...

Nothing special that are not already have seen on the internet :(.
> The conditions necessary for biomass expansion are also conducive to biodiversity.

It might be the case in general, but currently we're experiencing biodiversity loss on the global scale. [1] [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_loss
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
You mean, for small x, sin(x) ~= x?
I've been thinking for a while and I can't see a way that it's like that
It is likely a function of density. India is particularly heavily populated and their cities are very dense.

Suburbia and lower-density neighbourhoods will necessarily reduce the number of chance encounters, and thus possibilities to make friends. In many developed nations the only places to "be social" can often also be places in which you can only participate in through the lens of commercialism (e.g. going to a sporting event, paying to play pool or darts at a bar, etc.). This is often described as the loss of the "third place." It's heavily associated with sprawl and car-centric development, but even without that there's tons of places that don't have nearby public parks or plazas that they can just go and exist in without spending money. The pretext of a place to socialize and hang out changes if you need to spend a significant amount of money to participate.

Another reason could be that having easy access to cheap digital entertainment probably reduces the number of times most people voluntarily leave their house to go be social. I know at least for myself that I can easily hole up in my home and avoid the outside world if I want to. You have to make a conscious effort to decide to go out and do social things, and that can sometimes be very difficult in tandem with my previous point about sprawl. Do I really want to drive somewhere and spend money to be social today or should I just find a new show on Netflix? A hard problem when we structure our own incentives against our desires to make more friends!
> In European cities it is not uncommon to have grocery stores, pubs, cafes, bakeries and such within walking distance of your home. My next grocery store is 2 minutes by foot. The next 24/7 store where I can get beer 5 minutes, the next park 8 minutes.

To be fair this exists in many of areas in the US as well.

From my suburban single family home in a small town in California I can easily walk to all those things in a few minutes, including 24x7 supermarket, another nicer supermarket, plenty of restaurants, movies, stores of nearly all kinds, playgrounds, sports fields, etc.
Video with a title "Brain images just got 64 million times sharper", in 240p ...killed me, hhehehe.
Not ideal but my dual alienware setup looks stunning. A lot better than the ugly windows desktop i used to play games on and a lot more permissive than a mac.
There was a giant popup as soon as I loaded the page. This is after using ad removal extensions. Ads are out of control.

https://i.imgur.com/KOU98Bw.png
Yeah, I was expecting something like the exact opposite of that "things fitting perfectly in other things" Tumblr (at least, I think it was a Tumblr).
Interesting approach. What does it even mean?

Wouldn’t most of an airline run on “vendor supplied $thing”?

“Today, a vendor-supplied plane went down […]”
Fantastic post; useful and entertaining. 10/10, bookmarked, will share.

Context: perf-related webdev since 1998.
The Cyberspace Meta-Protocol: An Extension of Reality
"Only" need about France (~551,000 km^2) worth of panels. I see your point though
What's the bore diameter for a 7T or a 10T magnet? All of the ones I've seen wouldn't be wide enough for an adult human.
I wasnt aware that it was his favorite story, thanks for posting it
> I thought this worked like a stack? i.e. California gets x%, Santa Clara County gets y% and Cupertino gets z% …

To the extent that is approximately correct, the issue here is that the Apple/Cupertino deal involves Apple apparently filing false paperwork to make Cupertino rather than the actual distribution site for the particular order the bottom of the stack, and is getting kickbacks from Cupertino out of the money effectively stolen from some other jurisdiction by that false reporting.
Reddit is killing off pages in JSON format
It's almost never a technology issue. It's an investment and prioritization issue.
When I learned about the Jobs' car deal, I asked someone I knew in car sales about it. They said that most likely its a mundane 6 month lease that they were likely just repeatedly auto-renewing against the same vehicle until he chose to drive a different one, if at all.

This is the most probable scenario
Men's vs. Women's Razors
I remember this was a holy war amongst programmers (even myself!) - readability OR performance.

With tools like ChatGPT - we can have both readability AND performance, right??

Or am I missing something?
Augmental Launches a Tongue-Controlled Touchpad
I won't comment on Airbnb because I work there, but for Uber and WeWork, the fact that they're global is a feature in and of itself. It's great that I can request a ride in a city I've never been to, in my native language, without having to look up a local taxi company's phone number or download their app, and with relatively low risk of getting scammed or extorted.

I don't know if Uber or WeWork are or will ever be good investments, but their products are clearly great for users. The fact that they abstract away the underlying hard problems so effectively that they seem like they should be the same app is just a testament to this. But the underlying problems that they're solving are fundamentally very different. WeWork doesn't need Uber's complicated routing and matching algorithms, for example. And unlike WeWork, Uber probably doesn't have architects or construction engineers on staff.
I'd say it's orthogonal to Casey's take, which was about trading abstraction for (arguable) simplicity + performance. This was an article about aggressively optimizing a simple loop, thus trading simplicity for performance.

Given that it was from a consultancy advertising its optimization services, the irony of it going down is still pretty high, though.
Half the time I use that key to stop my music, teams randomly calls someone.

The play/pause keys should work with any media player, (and might, or might not) but they’re in no way advertising random crap on your face when you’re trying to work.
"$107.7 million since 1998" --that's peanuts to Apple, right?

It may be more to the state of California or local municipalities who would be getting the money (actually 107/35% == 305 million... still over 25 years though!).

But if Apple ends up getting dinged over this, they're really going to feel like they made a mistake, this was not much benefit to be worth even bad press.

Maybe the Apple of 1998 was hungrier, and it just stayed there.

Or are those numbers wrong? Does that number seem low for 35% of the entire CA sales tax owed by Apple over 25 years?
Typewriters in the Sky
The blog post is effectively implementing memmem() or strstr() that searches a short string in a long string. If we are allowed to use GNU extensions, the cleanest solution is to call memmem(). Without memmem(), I would implement Boyer–Moore or Knuth–Morris–Pratt, which will be more scalable than the O(MN) implementation in the blog post. Time complexity matters.
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What Is Computational Intelligence?
> You might not remember what you purchased 20 years ago, but they certainly do.

In the US, there's an "open banking" federal proposal to require banks to publish transaction history via APIs, upon consumer request and control, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34137709#34144877
I agree it's a good idea to take a moderate approach. The hype that LLMs are going to replace SWEs is clearly just that, hype, if you've done any real work trying to get GPT4 to give you the code you want. But it's also clearly a very useful tool. I think it'll absolutely destroy Stack Overflow.
Light sheet microscopy is actually pretty neat. You can use it on a whole brain without slicing it but not on a living animal. The tissue needs to go through a special fixing procedure first
The venue it's published on also matters... If music is published (for profit) on official services like iTunes or Spotify and it isn't exactly clear that it's AI generated content, then there is a certain level of misrepresentation involved in it all...

If the music was posted to somewhere that it's normal to expect non-serious content (like Reddit or social media) but still properly credited as Ai generated on a non-profit basis (standard practice of course), then that would have been far less offensive.
my nearly 10 year old imac asks me daily to either install updates now, enable auto updates, or "remind me later" for software updates. apple doesn't even update anything for this OS anymore.
You can use Flatpaks to basically solve this issue. Most applications nowadays are already available as Flatpaks, the ones that aren't probably have been reviewed by your distribution. Stick to official repositories and there shouldn't be any worries really. Of course for the average user this kind of discipline might be impossible, but for power-users out there: https://firejail.wordpress.com/

You could also play a bit with writing SELinux or AppArmor policies, although I grant that most people don't give a fuck and just want to get their computing done.

Opting for a Wayland-compliant display server instead of XOrg will also provide you with similar benefits such as preventing applications from capturing your key-presses without you knowing or recording your screen without your permission.

edit: I have no idea how I forgot about this, but immutable file systems are a thing now and they work pretty well, you can go for something such as Fedora Kinoite [0], Fedora Silverblue [1][2], OpenSUSE MicroOS [3], or VanillaOS [4] where all applications you install will be Flatpaks.

[0]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/emerging/

[1]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/

[2]: https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/

[3]: https://microos.opensuse.org/

[4]: https://vanillaos.org/
A faster version of black is not a strong enough value proposition for an entire company. Ruff should remain an open source product. What is the point of making every half decent Developer tool a whole startup?
Apps still work horribly in Linux. Gimp still pales to Photoshop, Lightroom's still better than Darktable, etc. Same goes for video, audio, etc.
Cyberspace: A Real Digital Place
You need to learn something other than English! Spanish has easy spelling rules because it is one sound = one letter. (except for ll - and they consider that a separate letter). It is easy to spell in Spanish because each letter maps to exactly one sound, and each sound maps to exactly one letter.

We can reform English spelling to be the same - but it would require adding about 20 more letters. (I understand languages like French and Polish solve this by having rules of how every letter combination sounds, but I don't know enough of them to explain how it works - but they might be useful inspiration if you don't want to add letters). There should be exactly one way to spell a word, and it should be obvious what that way is by how the word is pronounced.

Of course we also need to reform English so that we all pronounce words the same (goodbye and good riddance to all the funky accents - they sound cool but they hinder communication), and a lot of other related reforms that will never happen.
Heat pump water heaters are what you're looking for. They're still tanked so don't need as much instantaneous power to heat a large body of water which also makes them amenable to batteries as a backup. As a bonus, in California water heaters are often installed in garages for townhomes and detached houses and the heat pump will end up cooling the surrounding space which tends to be a benefit during the summers and isn't a big problem through our generally mild winters.
Exercising restores sensitivity of neurons that make one feel full (2010)
Nah there's still plenty of "An area that's mostly nature and you can just walk through and enjoy it" but the vast majority of them were set up a hundred years ago so the reality is that most of them aren't even remotely close to population centers anymore. This means if you want to walk in a park, first you must drive there. Also in many places, staying past sundown is not allowed, as in the cops drive in (like they will actually drive around on the grass if they physically can!!) and sass you.
Yeah, absent an effort to speed up a code base, it will tend to get slower, unless the team has a culture of performance, everyone is looking for easy performance wins and taking them, and common performance mistakes and getting rid of them.

To do that the team needs experience with performance, and most of internet programmer culture is just to lecture people about how programmers are cheaper than hardware if anyone asks or talks about performance. So many people don't get that experience.
This presumes said products would not exist without VC-companies, which I will gladly assert is false nearly 100% of the time.
> one country every 10-20 years gaining nuclear weapons and basically no tests happening

This past week had a test in both N. Korea and Iran, so I don't think that is accurate.

> I'd say that's a massive improvement.

Oh, yes sure it's an improvement. But if we only have two countries intent on starting a nuclear war, thats already enough to hose the whole planet. And I am far from confident that we can safely say we aren't there.
Just a Bueracrat. Same thing.