skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh according to popularity metrics that site doesn't even rank in the top 200000 globally, and only in the 70000s for just the U.S.

If this was a top 1000 site I might get why there's an expectation to know about their 'joke comics', but when it's so obscure, I doubt even 1% of HN readers would know anything about this site.

It seems odd giraffe_lady would phrase it in that way.
It's possible to build nuclear plants by the sea, and it's actually commonly built. There are some in France, China, Korea, etc.
> You can reasonably replace your home internet with 5G

Doing that at scale is an amazing way to drive 5G speeds and latency into the ground, making it worse than old cable connections.
Good intentions, but this leads people to create even more apps that they then proudly proclaim are just as accessible as alternatives because of AccessKit. It's a bit of a catch-22.
Judging by their conservative clocks and odd configurations (ex steam deck is a 4-core) these are some of the lower bind parts that would otherwise not be high-value final products on the open PC market.

Perhaps even "defective" (ex failed PCIe lanes) in some way that makes them useless. I always figured this was a "use the whole pig" situation.
30 Rock had a blackface episode too
But even a basic access most likely violates the GDPR and other regulations.
Why is this downvoted? You might not think these are good sources, but they are this person's valid answer to the Ask HN question. We shouldn't be using downvotes like that.
I like Apollo but I ended up having to install the official reddit app because most times if you google something on Mobile, it just doesn't open Apollo and tries to install the official one :/
Only the binaries are made available, not the source, which is interesting.

I guess they don't claim to be open source, they're claiming to be free, which is - in itself - awesome.

Last time I checked, you couldn't push binaries to maven central, without also releasing the source. That may have changed.
My pubkey is npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn, feel free to send me a DM
What domain are you working in?

Smoothly rendering 3k rectangles isn't a common use case for UI libraries, so I'm not surprised they perform poorly. They generally aren't optimized for that. The normal answer for weird, high performance rendering like that is to just use opengl or something and program against the GPU directly. 3d rendering contexts can render millions of rectangles on modern hardware without breaking a sweat.

This advice is the same on desktop, mobile or the web. I'm not surprised rust UI frameworks have the same limitation. Most UIs don't need thousands of rectangles. But they do need lots of custom widgets, and implementing all of those well is a higher priority job for anyone building a custom UI library.
I find that answer confusing. I don't think I've ever seen binaries being licensed under Apache 2 without the relevant source code before.
I think that gravity isn't shown simply because it isn't part of the standard model. IANAP, but standard model fields can only interact with other quantum fields and we do not yet have a quantum field version of GR.
> If NATO wasn't as expansive, Russia probably wouldn't have invaded. J

The only thing keeping Russia in check in eastern Europe in anyway, shape or form is NATO.

NATO expansion stops Russian aggression not the other way around, but I know the forever belied Russia must always be a victim of some nefarious plot from the entire world.

The only way to stop Russias numerous wars in Eastern Europe and there dangerous escalation is to have them dealt a decisive defeat in Ukraine.
This is the HN equivalent of “No wireless. Less space than the nomad. Lame”
https://m.slashdot.org/story/21026
You are definitely right, I missed quite a few numbers in this set. (Thank you!)
I always thought phones and other devices benefitted from keeping a few physical buttons for repetitive or key tasks. With phones, three buttons across the bottom are great - for going back or to the home screen for example. For a car, I can imagine that volume, climate control, defrost, things like that - should be kept as physical buttons
One example: https://www.datomic.com/nubanks-story.html
The main latencies in TI-OS (from memory) boil down to actual computation (graphing, solving equations, etc), the really slow LED, and those occasional slowdowns (GC).

Of course computation was slow on the slow, under-featured CPU, but that was to be expected. My car’s touchscreen system doesn’t do anything that is computationally complex — a computer from the late 90s could run a media player and do work at the same time, and my car’s CPU is faster.

The LCD is what it is. I’m talking about latency too when the pixels start trying to change. Anything with a CRT avoided this problem.

And GC is a fair criticism. But my car’s touchscreen is always slow. Oh, and it also often. takes a minute or two to start working when I get on the car.
On Samsung phones you can clone the app with a few taps which gives you the same functionality.

Still annoying though.
How was it meaningful? What would the info "This one is called 5nm and this one is called 8nm" give you? Because it didn't really say anything about performance or watt or performance per watt.

I have an old ATI Radeon HD4850 GPU, I bet it beats your Nvidia RTX 4090 since 4850>4090 ;)
Well maybe not literally, just in practical terms. If it's a time gradient that causes an object to accelerate, then if you can apply a reverse gradient that would just cancel out the forces. But yes, one would need to first figure out how to do that without an equivalent amount of mass on the other side, if it's even physically possible.

Here's a stupid idea that's based on my definitely flawed understanding of relativity: If having high relative velocity causes time dilation, then wouldn't spinning a disc at relativistic speeds cause that same time gradient? Maybe we just need 99.9% c rad/s fidget spinners to float in the air just like bricks don't.

Found the video on this theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKxQTvqcpSg
Try watching e.g. Friends without the top and bottom cut off, in a legal way.

I hate how the IP owners just can't resist messing up the culture.
It really is not. There’s a difference in seeking improvement in a system in which you participate and the current mainstream nihilism that demonizes our past achievements and seeks its destruction.
Why did the project managers introduce the bugs in the first place?
I figure the title is meant to be taken as a joke right?
StrongSync: macOS file sync app using APFS file provider API
Thing is, it's possible to just run experiments against your claim that "actually the bot was doing a good job"

https://twitter.com/eb_french/status/1651584746089218049

it wasn't.

Again, I don't know why everyone is so defensive. I love MJ. There's nothing wrong with admitting that other models might do certain things better. We all can use any model we want.
Yes, it's used by many companies in production. There's a partial list here:

https://www.datomic.com/customers.html
I think I enabled this with a SIM in another phone and entered the SMS based OTP, but I can't be sure. In any case, right now I only have one SIM in the device, and the dual app continues to work without a problem.

Yes, it's Android. Not surprised that it doesn't work on iOS.
Does anybody know if this would also work for tablets?
It has been quite some time since I tried last, but you used to have to use the web app to check your messages on your tablet.
Would be nice if both devices could now share an account
The existence of poetry, hatch, pdm, etc. (and lately rye) is proof that "just use pip-tools" isn't consensus.
Which means something’s probably wrong with the proof, right?
This is the first WebGPU guide I've seen that shows how to make shaders do something useful, really appreciate that.
Yeah, it's a complete bullshit move. Mongoose OS (an embedded iot Plattform not the db) does something similar. It's extremely weasely and doesn't instill trust at all.
ASML who makes the EUV machines and Carl Zeiss who make the optics for the ASML machines are both in Europe?
I know car software is an afterthought for companies because most consumers don't make their car buying decisions based on how good the software is, but if any company made truly intuitive car software, I would be won as a customer.
The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI&#8217;S Black Boxes
Well for anything curved there is more tension in the middle compared to the ends. Maybe it's the same thing.
There was a single run that included the THX LaserDisc version of the original Trilogy on DVD. I own it specifically because it included the original release and it’s the version I shown my kids. https://comic-cons.xyz/star-wars-original-trilogy-unaltered-...

At the time the excuse was that there were no longer any masters for the original trilogy to rescan for rerelease, so the LaserDisc version was the best that could be done.
This is a bad argument because it could be used to rationalize preventing any progress whatsoever.
I have a parent from each of those categories and can confirm from this natural A/B test that that’s how they are treated.
I would love for someone who knows more about this to also explain to me why goods sold on Amazon, which 20 years ago would be something I need to replace once per generation seem to universally break within 1-2 years.

That's better than what I have been experiencing. About half of the stuff I buy breaks right away. I leave them 1 star and comment on what happened. Amazon approves the reviews to my surprise. Some of the vendors will physically mail me a card offering $30+ for 5 stars. I find it interesting they are able to send me physical mail.

I would avoid Amazon but I live in the middle of nowhere. That is one of the trade-offs I accepted by moving here. I try to utilize the local stores as much as I can.
So you're saying it's a slippery slope?
+1

I find it dishonest to call it "full text search" whereas it's actually just "English/Indo-European full text search" that uses language-specific features to achieve its goals.

Instead of pretending to have solved the string searching problem by using "language hacks", I'd really like see an open source database that provides easy to use interfaces to suffix trees instead.

The even more infuriating thing is that apparently some databases actually do have suffix tree implementations, but because of assumptions that the data is English/European, other languages work half-assedly on it.

Imagine i18n implications for projects that are based on them. And the users would have no clue how f*cked up things are.
And Disney proceeded to nuke said expanded universe canon upon acquiring Lucasfilm
Next step, set up the Cape Dread port!

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/appcapedread.ph...

EDIT: To summarize a big page, Demimos is relatively close to Low Earth Orbit in delta-v terms so it makes a convenient place to top up fuel tanks with volatiles extracted from the carbonaceous before heading further outwards. Maybe.
Co2 does not create a “sour” taste.
It's not that a long movie is inherently bad. Indeed, the subtitle here absolutely call out that a three hour film from the right filmmaker could be great!

It's that the financial constraints that previously existed, that would drive filmmakers to a tighter narrative, have been removed. And now there's little constraining the desire to turn in a 180+ minute opus.

Are there stories that need 3 hours, or that can justify that kind of length? Sure. But there's a whole lot of films being released that are far longer than they really need to be. JOHN WICK 4 is almost 3 hours long. That seems absurd. THE BATMAN was a fucking SLOG of a film, and absolutely did not have 3 hours of content. It badly needed editing.

You know who else needs editing? Scorsese. His later films, including and especially the ones called out in the linked article, are fat, fat, fat. No word of it a lie, I'm not sure he's made a film I liked in nearly 20 years.
America and Asia have cheaper labor and energy although I don't know how much of an advantage that really is for such a highly complex product.
Tesla says Elon Musk's statements on self-driving 'might have been deep fakes'
If a slave owner has a forced breeding program, should the children of his slaves praise the institution of slavery for the gift of their lives?
Surprised I haven't seen Techmeme in anyone's daily habits yet. I check the site multiple times a day to get caught up on relevant tech news. By far the most frequent website I visit.
Everyone getting angry at Netflix but not the real source of all the problems; the suit&tie media execs who are forcing these companies to shake their hands for exclusive deals, and pocketing fat wads of cash from these contracts.

Even before streaming, this has always been an issue and it ties in with the ludicrous amounts of money paid to movie stars, the cost of which is carried onto us consumers; and yet people blame movie theatres for the ludicrous prices, how fucking shortsighted - do people even think at all?

Why the hell is RDJ making 40M for a Captain America movie? Why is Will Smith being paid 40M for King Richard? Why Did Johnny Depp get a 35M wad for Pirates?

Sure these actors are all skilled professionals, but do we honestly believe those amounts are okay? It's clearly all of our collective, consumer faults at the end of the day; story of human history.
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I bet the Galilean Moons of Jupiter are known to more people but yeah, Mars's are relatively well known.
Security Risks of AI
Talent Code by Daniel Coyle. It’s an amazing book about how the best teams and most skilled people in the world learn and get good at their craft. I started learning piano as an adult which is incredibly difficult. Reading this book made a huge impact on how I approach learning. And it’s made a big difference to my playing skills.

His other book Culture Code is also brilliant (about building world class teams).
There are some bugs. Contacts that show up in one app doesn't show in the second one. At least that's my experience.
Datomic's is perfect for probably 90% of small-ish backoffice systems that never has to be web scale (i.e. most of what I do at work).

Writing in a single thread removes a whole host of problems in understanding (and implementing) how data changes over time. (And a busy MVCC sql db spends 75% of its time doing coordination, not actual writes, so a single thread applying a queue of transactions in sequence can be faster than your gut feeling might tell you.)

Transactions as first-class entities of the system means you can easily add meta-data for every change in the system that explains who and why the change happened, so you'll never again have to wonder "hmm, why does that column have that value, and how did it happen". Once you get used to this, doing UPDATE in SQL feels pretty weird, as the default mode of operation of your _business data_ is to delete data, with no trace of who and why!

Having the value of the entire database at a point in time available to your business logic as a (lazy) immutable value you can run queries on opens up completely new ways of writing code, and lets your database follow "functional core, imperative shell". Someone needs to have the working set of your database in memory, why shouldn't it be your app server and business logic?

Looking forward to see what this does for the adoption of Datomic!
Since the paper claims to give an algorithm for solving an NP-hard problem, e.g. it's a constructive proof, not just an existence proof, then presumably the author should be able to reduce some other problems to this one (2-Maxsat) and solve them as a demonstration.
I don't have a good source for this but my understanding is that converting offices to residential is quite expensive, sometimes not far off from the cost of building from scratch.

Also if you're the building owner it might be worth more as vacant office space than spending the money to covert it.
Out of curiosity... Does anyone use the rss reader in MS Outlook? I know MS is supposed to pack a lot of features to catch as much audience as possible, but are there enough people still using it to this day?
I stuffed all the sites I was checking multiple times per day into progscrape.com. I try to avoid visiting the sites directly and prefer to refresh one site which avoids getting into the "thrill of the hunt" for new news.
Why not believe it? I can go on eBay today and buy HW that was state of the art couple of 250k dollar a blade servers 10 years ago for a a few hundred bucks. In 10 years the a100 will be old hat. They will be most likely cheaply available. Set up something where as you noodle around on the web you add to a webgpt model with a plugin and you get to use it for free and people might jump on doing your modeling for you. That is not that hard to think of in the future. Now your legal idea holds some merit but people do not really seem to care much for that anymore.
That is an interesting way of looking at it. Kind of makes sense considering unlike western units, 100k in Hindi is "ek lakh". And in India, the numbers are expressed as xx,xx,xx,xxx. So
100 is sau (hundred),
1,000 is hazar (thousand)
1,00,000 is lakh (hundred thousand)
1,00,00,000 is crore (10 million)

Somehow the first split is 1000, then on every order of 100 gets a name. It sure is confusing, but there must be some reason to this.
This is great satire. I just can't understand how people go home at night knowing that this thing they built could easily have got right but they just got it so wrong. I think the big "system constraint" isn't so much the technical system but the business management system that clearly has to please "stakeholders" allows these flaws to keep continuing.

As a Sydneysider you know we like those shame pages for bad restaurants and the like, maybe we need one for crappy UX
Kids are generally monitored in parks and such. You cant easily creep on them without another adult or kid noticing.

And Instagram is like a mall for a predator. Its literally just walls of selfies to anonymously scroll through, and then an instant way to DM anyone you want. Thats not like a park at all.
If you’re okay with a VPS, Servarica’s 2022 Black Friday offerings (which are still available) has a 2 TB HDD VPS for $48/year.
They are (unfortunately) not remastered. They are 480i letterboxed scans of an earlier LaserDisc release.
You can, but it's definitely better if you have an ultra wideband 5G close to your home. That's a pretty legitimate no-compromise replacement for typical cable internet service.
What problems? Did it actually solve them, or just convince you that it did?
There are more exotic three letter variants too.
Learn Pact in 20 Minutes
Let me make the case that it's definitely not just nostalgia - or, at least, that Quake style movement didn't fade away because of any objective, rational process.

One of the exasperating consequences of the rise of game engines has been that you have games shipping that have more and more of their game design inherited from their game engines.

On some level this makes sense - games are just massively complicated, and so if you already have working, tested code, it's often quite tempting to just go with what already works (and not spend time really internalizing how working things work) and then focus on figuring out the particular things you are adding from that baseline.

As just such an example, when I was working on Activision's Soldier of Fortune, we largely inherited Quake 2's movement code, and most of it was left untouched by the time we shipped. At some point, midway through development, inspired by Thief, I stayed late one night with a co-worker, and I added in leaning around corners to the player controls. I don't remember the particulars of that process, but (obviously) I had to make tons of aesthetic choices while doing that, because I was writing it from scratch. But the base movement we could inherit.

If you go back and look at first person games from the late 90's, their aesthetic choices about basic player movement are all different in subtle ways. That makes sense, because most studios were writing their own bespoke engines at the time, and there was vastly less code sharing. So people were writing code because there was no particular alternative, and so they were making tons and tons of aesthetics choices whether they wanted to or not. Lots of those choices weren't always great, but they were often particular.

It's clear at this point that lots and lots of FPS games just inherit Unreal Engines movement. Not because it's great, but because it comes with Unreal and it's a default. To me, there's something very specific about the way friction works with player movement in Unreal that feels very ... sticky? ... compared to Quake Engine games. Players come to a stop when input is released in a way that feels like being in glue - again, at least to me. There's more subtle gliding around in Quake. As far as I can tell, the difference rarely effects game play in most games. But it does change how it feels aesthetically to play moment by moment.

Anyway, this topic feels intensely path dependent to me. Unreal's movement is the default because Unreal is the default engine (in a lot of contexts), but it didn't become the default because of anything specific about its player movement code. Those aesthetic decisions were just along for the ride, so to speak. Or at least, that's my sense.

Interestingly, I found a github project a while ago that tried to reverse engineer Quake / Source's movement and put it into Unreal Engine 4. No idea how successful the project is, but I suspect it might be an interesting resource for seeing what's different between the two: https://github.com/ProjectBorealis/PBCharacterMovement
Yeah, Postgresql was the FreeBSD of DBMSes. Solid, conceptually integral, well documented.*

I recall doing an evaluation of open source databases in 2001. MySQL didn't even have row-level locking, let alone any concept of transactions. I summarised it as "easy to use; but only for data you don't care about".

* Not that Postgres (as it was then) was without warts in 2001. A huge one was its "object orientation": table inheritance. What it needed then, and would still be nice to have, is object orientation at data type (column) level, an extension of the SQL domain.
I could believe that an O(n^5) algorithm, like what was presented here, can satisfy P==NP, but still maintain the status quo where P!=NP for all practical problems. That is honestly what matters most of the time.

Still, there's almost certainly a mistake in this paper.
to be honest the testimonials are terrible.

> “Datomic added to DynamoDB was the only option that didn’t force us to sacrifice features or add the expense of developer time. Without it, we would have had to push back a lot more, as the features would have been too difficult.”

(https://www.datomic.com/the-brigades-story.html)

like, what? effectively useless information.

some of the other testimonials mention keeping revision history, which is neat, but why Datomic vs. others? it's pretty easy to keep revision history with other databases too.