skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Impressive as heck... what site is that? i might be one of those ppl curious to check it out!
This use case is very different from the usual blogs hosted at substack.

The subscriber popup modal actually sounds perfect for event coordination sites.
> (Which, again, is why the MNT Reform forewent the use of the DP interface to attach their eDP internal display in favour of a MIPI DSI to eDP bridge.)

There's only one display interface capable of driving DP/HDMI on i.MX8M, so if they didn't do that they wouldn't have external HDMI port.
> The better question is why Super Bowl, of all things is using Roman numerals...

Football players are armored and helmeted physical combatants that entertain audiences in arenas. Remind you of anything?
Argentina's lithium pipeline promises white gold boom as Chile tightens control
https://archive.is/qqdCa
They do have a free tier of ChatGPT that costs OpenAI money to run... so we are getting paid in a way.
You need to o differentiate between middle class jobs and poverty jobs like Uber driver and burger flipper.

"Adding jobs" is a poor and lazy indicator of a healthy middle class and healthy economy.
India population: The job crisis driving millions to big cities
The BBC certainly has a lot of problems with regard to actual independence, but I would like to *ahem* provide some balance by pointing to the satirical popular news quiz "Have I Got News For You" which spent the early part of the Blair years having to beep out certain references to Peter Mandelson — the Dominic Cummings of his era — that only ended with (from memory):

???: "Peter Mandelson is a hom… owner"

Regular guest: "Why can't gay people own homes?"

Host: "Well, new Director General, let's see if that goes out."

At the time, and I'm pleasantly amazed how fast this has changed, being gay and in charge was still mildly scandalous in the eyes of tabloids, and that was about the same time the age of consent was equalised.

However such (entirely valid) reasons for respecting privacy should be for all, but as far as I remember Mandelson was the only person who got to keep that particular secret.

Conversely, right after the referendum someone said the BBC should play "God Save The Queen" at the end of the day's programming in concordance with the departure from the EU, and Newsnight responded with this, which is still up on their official channel: https://youtu.be/WwsQ_5Wm4oo
"Chinese writing" is clerical script and later. That's like a full 1000 years after the first Semitic scripts.
As a manager, it's not the day-to-day that concerns me the most.

It's the loss of water-cooler chat with people not on the junior employee's team. Not the random "did you catch the game yesterday" stuff. But, the "team x started using tool Y" or "we're using ML to solve for Z" - the little tidbits that might spur a curious employee to go do something unexpected.

Edit - I can't really quantify the above, so maybe it's not really a thing. But, personally, I miss those conversations and worry that new/young employees aren't able to have them.
I own an ecommerce company, and while I can't tell you the why, I can tell you that ~6% of people fill mine out. Is it annoying? Yup. Would it absolutely, unequivocally, be a bad business decision to take it down? Yup.

You know what else I've got on the site? One of those annoying little notifications that comes up in the bottom right to say "Someone bought this four hours ago!" I hate those things! I swore I'd never put them on my site!

The problem is, when I swore that, I was making the same mistake that you are here - assuming that I was the target and that everyone is like me. The reality is they are not, and these things work well. They're ubiquitous on ecommerce sites for a reason.
> Sometimes lockless algorithms are in fact slower than algorithms using locks, as things like atomic compare-and-exchange instructions can have a significant cost.

You'll need to expand on this, since mutex acquisition also requires similar atomic read-modify-write operations. I think what you may be trying to say is that lockless algorithms require more of these operations as they scale to more processors?
Why would people become novelists if their novels get turned into movies?

I highly doubt that black box models can reproduce a movie without it being nonsensical or uninteresting. You can go look at bad b movies to see all the pitfalls awaiting them.

As an aside, I strongly believe that litterature and cinema are very different and that much is lost in translation from one medium to another, to the point that the essence is often lost. Litterature offers different viewpoints and has many avenues for nuance, like pullling attention or not mentioning things that would have to be visible in a movie. Movies are dynamic and, since you are kind of "in for the ride" during 1h30, the pacing and the spectacle become much more important than in litterature. Being visual, it also calls attention to different things. A 2 page description of a landscape now is a single shot, and you have to actually film the thing instead of just describing it.
They're sterilizing them and putting them in camps. This is in effect killing them off for the future. Stop apologizing for China. It's weird and gross. It makes me think you have some ulterior motive here. Were you just brainwashed to support them in college or something?
"just" need to "extract the actual information out of it and cross check it against other sources".

How do you determine the trustworthiness of those other sources when an ever increasing portion are also LLM generated?

All the "you just need to" responses are predicted on being able to police the LLM output based upon your own expertise (e.g., much talk about code generation being like working with junior devs, and so being able to replace all your juniors and just have super productive seniors).

Question: how does one become an expert? Yep, it's right there: experts are made through experience.

So if LLMs replace all the low experience roles, how exactly do new experts emerge?
I expect it to. ARM took 25 years to get there.
This is a ranking by Market cap. Not revenues. This ranking is basically what the stock market and investors feel like these companies are worth as measured by the current stock price and total number of shares held. Not really a great way to rank, but it's a way.
Dataset of 35,316,999 HackerNews Posts and Comments (2006 – 2023)
Don't worry, I'm not interested in prescribing any ideology. I think the world is alright and isn't in need of saving. But I would ask you this - when you are jailed for speaking, would it be of some comfort to know that the decision to jail you was decided by 100 politicians instead of 1?

edit: re-reading your comment, I think (mistakenly perhaps) you were suggesting that I support Russia. I would like to clarify that I most certainly do not.
End of data sharing could make Covid harder to control, high-risk patients warn
I think almost all the potential for getting rich from writing fiction is in the film rights.
> reduce build time and deployment artefact size

I'm confused... doesn't this plan _maximize_ your build time and deployment size? You can't do worse than building and deploying every line of code you own on every build and deploy; it's the worst case scenario. Go is fast enough in compilation that it doesn't matter, right? But then what's the point?
The popups you're thinking of were much more harmful than these. Those were separate browser windows that opened third-party sites and downloaded and ran insecure code.

This is a popup in the visual sense. Although to be fair lots of sites use third-party scripts to handle these email asks, so maybe it's not that different!
That's basically my point. HN people are wealthy and spend most of their working hours and free time on the internet. They also vehemently hate ad-supported business models.

Hell, I probably built my entire career off internet searches.

In theory, HN people should have the most to gain from a better search engine, and be the most likely to pay for one. Yet, to your point, the alternatives are free and good enough.

The problem is, what the mob moralistically claims they want on HN (when upvotes/downvotes are a concern), vs. what those same people actually do in the real world on an individual level, are two separate things.

The lesson is, things evolved the way they have on the internet for a reason. It's not some "evil" companies shoving these ad-supported business models down our throats. We have all voted with our eyeballs and our (lack of) dollars, and will continue to do so. We get exactly the products we deserve.
Sharp even has some nice round color memory LCDs at this point, that still stay under 1 mA even at 20 fps, and are way under that for once-per-second updates. Besides the usual memory LCDs downside (25:1 contrast is truly bad, need a side-light for many use cases just like old-school digital watches did), I suspect the color reproduction is muddy as best. I'd still love one for a few use cases.
Can Putting a Price on a Whale Save the Environment?
I have a list of newsletters it’s almost impossible to disable. Every time I find a new one, I sign them up for each other.

Most of them is the type: “No, I did not sign up for this”
Roman numerals for years are not so much harder to read than those for single digit numbers because they don't change very often. MMXXIII and MMXXIV are about as easy to understand as III and IV - you've already had three years to learn that we're doing MMXX prefixes now.
I wonder how many of these popups result in newsletter subscriptions that quickly get marked as spam because nobody remembers subscribing to them and hitting the spam button is easier than finding the tiny unsubscribe link in the footer that may not actually do anything.

Also, calling for an extra-light font with pale grey type is super illegible, damn.
Fix: I meant good support for vertical panel placing. Horizontal obviously has always been reasonably good. Vertical has always been more or less ugly and I am not sure if it is supported in Windows 11 at all.
self-explanatory that they aren't able to tell you
Our Sun Was Born in a Stellar Family Far, Far from Here
Oh weird... then why are there thousands of articles from the west and several NATO countries calling it genocide? It meets the definition of genocide. Are you a Chinese state actor or just a brainwashed college student?
Quick check if the domain is listed as spam for emails: https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioNTech tells me BioNTech was founded in 2008 based on research by Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, and Christoph Huber, with a seed investment of €150 million from MIG Capital and AT Impf.

I don't know much about Germany I must admit. Is AT Impf some sort of government body? Because this looks a lot like private actors spotting a good thing well in advance.

I'm sure they took government money at some point because the government is handing out money and why not. It'd be silly to turn it down. But there are obviously millions of dollars here to develop influenza vaccines and we see the payoff was billions of dollars. The Free market could do this with no intervention - the payoffs look pretty good.

> In September 2019, BioNTech received a capital contribution of US$55 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with the option of doubling that investment amount at a later date.

Heh, there they are.

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> ...US taxpayers would purchase 100 million doses...

Yeah but the 100 million doses purchase would have encouraged them to build infrastructure, which we already know the private sector is better at than the public sector at. Operation Warp speed wouldn't have hurt, but again they technically had the vaccine developed before Operation Warp Speed was a thing.

The only thing stopping people buying the vaccine in mid-2020 was that the government had made it illegal.
It's quite easy if you go the vector embedding route, and don't output any info the authenticated user doesn't have access too

The info lives in a database, not the LLM' model weights, you just use the LLM to understand natural langauge questions, find relevant documents (the user has access to) and providing relevant bits from them to the context to allow responding with them (That's how all systems who show sources work afaik, braid, bing, and mdx docs based stuff)

For outsiders? That's just public FAQ's

You're the CEO? You can ask anything.
NTHNer but here is the one I use. It's old but it still works a treat: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

(function () {
var i, elements = document.querySelectorAll('body *');

for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
if (getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'fixed') {
elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]);
}
}
})();
Paths to Become a Web Developer
>How do you protect the store that has all the cryptographic keys in the entire United Kingdom?

Also I don't trust any government not to mishandle crypto keys, so backdoored encryption = broken encryption
The old testament has 613 commandments so I think they missed an opportunity there. Funny how these kind of Christians seem to like the old testament better than the new.
Wireless connectivity is great but the esp32 has terrible power consumption due to the wifi.

A lot of times you can get by with Bluetooth. Of course, one then needs an app and a phone or other host device but the power consumption on Nordic Bluetooth chips is just miniscule.
It is culture in about every form. Education isn't actively made to teach people to be independent. Work culture for the past X decades has been pushing people to be dependent on each other directly. Social culture has pushed people to be dependent on work to fulfill various needs beyond a paycheck.

And despite us catering towards the open office for multiple decades, we are still seeing it is barely on par with an ad-hoc WFH call while other things are going awry. Anyone with any kind of perspective can tell these comparisons aren't remotely fair.
> This doesn't really have the types of features I would personally want as someone who has done a lot of rails development in the past.

This is relative.

> React integrated on the frontend

This is something that I don't want at all. Regarding the SSO, without reading the code, I'm sure you are able to accomplish it using devise (included in their framework)
I'm not familiar with "gezellig". The word "gemütlig" means roughly "comfortable", "comforting", "nice", and can be applied equally to a person or an environment. But it seems to have a particular resonance in German, possibly because Germans prize gemütligkeit very highly.

[Edit] Maybe that explains them having two words for it?
No, thanks; that's not my job. I'm hired as an engineer, not as a rat-race "content creator".
> "Protecting democracy"...the military industrial complex has been saying this as a justification for taking tax dollars and doing nasty things....for decades.

What do you call arming a country against an imperialistic invader that literally says on TV they have no reason to exist and they will kill as many of them as they need to?.

I call that protecting democracy.
I was hoping this would turn off the full page modal people see when they land on a post, but I already had it switched off, so I guess not.
What do you think Joe Biden talks about with Macron, Sunak, and Scholz when he calls them up on the phone?
> I’ve said myself that “I get very little out of 95% of tech talks.” Just this morning I walked into a packed lecture hall, discovered that the presenter’s slides for this 100-person room featured 16 lines of code in 8-point font, and walked back out.

This makes me sad. When O'Reilly and SD West still held their conferences, you could easily leapfrog your knowledge of a newer language (such as go or -- way back in the day -- Java) to a much higher level. Cons in the latter half the 2000s were some of the first places where you could see someone demonstrate an entire AJAX code solution, which eventually morphed into the backbone of what became the Web 2.0 revolution ('revolution' at least from a career-growth standpiont, whatever one may think of the movement). I learned c++ from Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter, and Scott Myers at these Cons. Pre-pandemic, I definitely got professional value from technical sessions at GDC.

I'm sure this is a coincidence, but it seems to me that once shops tipped toward glue-jobs of Dockerfiles with declarative serverless cloud templates, a lot more of the online and talk content emphasised "what to" (commodity) instead of "how to" (craftsmanship).
Seeing Triple (Annotated)
The only other candidate then would be Pinker, but I'm not sure if he's monolingual either.
It's garbage lately. no better than Google. they are all shit now a days. they just promote their results. search is a misnomer these days.....it's an engine....for ads
It's become more and more strange to me that the gaming market
isn't segmented by what they play.

There a lot more precise and intricate segmentation in the actual industry. Advertising to gain new players (known in mobile as "user acquisition") is it's own profession and a lot of money and resources are spent on improving it.
I'm a bit burned out testing these different backup/file sync things. I've used at least unison, restic, rsync, kopia, syncthing and rclone. What is becoming clear to me is that I don't like sync/backup solutions that run constantly in the background, the longer I use those, less sure I become how they work. Also many of those have weird formats, that are not easy to manipulate with standard cli tools. When I set up a new machine I have to figure out how those work, which is surprisingly annoying.

Whereas these CLI tools like tar, rclone and rsync, I setup to run periodically, I have a simple bash script, and I have a pretty good idea of how they work when I reinstall my system.
This is a good point. Having a single process to handle all requests is asking for trouble.
Google could very easily populate search results with mainly non-commercial websites. However, they are very strongly incentivized to support commercial websites; I believe this explains why they don't generally penalize popups and similar things.
It's both, because both are a threat to our standard of living. This is obvious. The question for you is why you would prefer to lower our standard of living and become subservient to a communist led genocidal government? Does that sound like a good path to go down?
I mean the former.
The answer is 6 years old if we count the last modification time.
It's impressive that your comments reads like a well-educated native speaker of English, except for "Englisch".

Anyway, your English is far, far better than "learned it in school". Those books and TV(And fluent English users in school?) were an effective immersion. It's quite different from the common USA style of learning a non-English language: "5 years of classes but no immersit in culture"
Ed Zitron's phrase for this sort of article is "boss erotica". https://ez.substack.com/p/techs-elite-hates-labor
Backporting RISC-V Vector assembly
Cool content
At work, I deal with enterprise software, and I agree that the focus on numbers (and NPS) can drive things the wrong way.

In my personal time, I own an ecommerce company, and there it absolutely makes sense to be purely numbers-focused. The thing that matters is getting someone to buy, and getting an email address is almost universally the second most important thing, because it's the best road to getting someone to buy.
I've got one of those. Hated the in-box case though so printed one of these: https://github.com/sqfmi/watchy-cases/tree/main/Flipped%20Ch...

Also didn't like the watch face so made my own from the default one, changed layout and font and stuff.

Oh and replaced the strap with a velcro strap.
Tiny Jets on the Sun Power the Colossal Solar Wind
Using G Maps / Waze in Rio de Janeiro used to produce similar stories, but somehow they got better at recognizing risky areas over the years.
No, you have your lower-level guys coordinate transnational policy. That is the entire point of organizations like the Atlantic Council!
> End-to-end implies traffic between individuals

That's certainly one interpretation, but I'd counter that an HTTPS connection to an online shop is also end-to-end as the contents are encrypted such that any intermediate ISP cannot sniff the contents, but only myself and the online shop are able to.
...the poster values not being lied to their face. 10 years of work to check back on because someone was deceitful enough to lie to your face is a hell of a blast crater, and I'm not taking responsibility for having a flat out liar running rampant in my codebase.

If you don't have a degree, don't claim it. If you can still walk the walk, you've still got a chance. If you fail basic due diligence, you're telegraphing your integrity is in question.

No one can afford that.
I wonder if the people who implement this stuff consciously balance "it works" with "this is shitty" and feel a twinge of guilt when they do it. Or are they just scumbags who don't know the difference between effective and good?
Show HN: Tumbleweed, pragmatic tool to understand large Java and Kotlin classes
Large classes can be challenging to understand and maintain. Tumbleweed helps developers alleviate the pain by,

- Building a domain vocabulary
- Limiting information from the source code
- Creates an interactive visualization
- Updates the visualization in real-time during edits

You can find the launch blog post here: https://legacycode.com/introducing-tumbleweed/
Change the time to rush hour in Tokyo on Google maps and the commute is the same. Cars are great if there is no traffic and you can park, which is something we can't just engineer ourselves out of without supporting other modes of transit.

> 17 mins by car, 26 mins by transit (though walking is faster than transit and biking is faster than car, apparently you cannot drive through the city, very progressive).

Walking is almost as fast as driving and biking is faster? Not sure how this proves your point, sounds like it is working as intended
....AND workers are dirt cheap and have nearly zero protections.
People understand the value prop with e-commerce when they put in their email
Does this explain why we didn't detect Aliens with SETI?

Because their signals would be under the noise level (except for a few stars)?

Indeed those stars that close enough to our interstellar probes will be also informed of our existence.

"The transmissions to Voyager 2, Pioneer 10, and Pioneer 11 have already encountered at least one star,
while those to Voyager 1 and New Horizons will encounter their first stars in the near future."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.07400.pdf
What a beautiful love letter
Not really, I already use Cloudflare, also free.
if a voter ID is free and requires no effort on the citizens part, how is it anti-democratic? is this to say that all IDs are anti-democratic?
Snapchat MyAI prompt exposed, lies about knowing user’s location
You need to learn to read. I am stating that the monarch has the power to veto legislation, not that the power was used in opposition to the advice of ministers.

That you don't see an issue with democratic debate being shutdown on the advice of a government minister to the monarch is another issue.
Is an HN/forum/human thing to ignore people with similar politics as "normal" background, and overestimate the prevalence of people with different politics.

You get a wide range of responses if you search for comments of HN posters trying to estimate the politics of HN posters.
Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews
That is, all 100% positive reviews except this one, obviously: https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B0BWVH451G/ref=acr_dp...
"When will AI be able to turn entire novels into movies?"

At the rate we seem to be going, likely by next week.
It's not so strange; it's on the beach, so you can bring supplies in by boat or seaplane.