skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different offices, but the process for a Supreme to retire and move to "normal federal judge" already exists - no re-confirmation or other antics required.

Of course, SCOTUS would end up being the ultimate arbiter here, so quite likely a non-starter for that reason alone.
I'm just back home from a long vacation. My computer while I was away was my $250 Pinebook Pro, it worked fine for everything that I wanted to do, that included a fair bit of development work.
If it’s anything like REBL (and it looks like it) it’s complimentary to a repl. Think it it as a visual data browser, which is something that a repl isn’t good for
I built a working version of the Christmas lights from Stranger Things (that Joyce used to talk to Will in the upside down) for a friend's Halloween party. It used an arduino board, a string of addressable LEDs, and a little web interface that guests could use to send messages to the lights.

It was so much fun to build and a hit at the party. I wish I had the opportunity to build more things like it :)

https://github.com/zbtaylor/stranger-things-lights
Why, because there is some chance that your spouse gets dementia? If the alternative is to be alone for the rest of your life, I'd take that chance.

To that point, from the article:

> The danger of isolation is well established. It tampers with the immune system and may be as detrimental to bodily health as lack of exercise and high blood pressure. One well-known study suggests that loneliness is comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. We also know that loneliness raises the odds of depression and anxiety. Less well known is its effect on cognitive health: loneliness shortens attention span and interferes with judgment and self-control, the very attributes required to deal with a patient’s fixations and delusions.
Hunger is not a production problem but a distribution problem. It isn't profitable to sell things to people with no money so rather than do that we discard it, turn it into something else or whatever it takes to keep the prices up in the producing countries. Do you have a fix for capitalism and the profit motive? If not, obese 'rich' people and starving 'poor' people is what we get.
Very clever. I would love to re-create this, we have the same issue with our cat.
Alexa vs. Siri vs. Google Assistant
What do you use? And why?
Like I said, I'll believe it when I see it. At the end of the day capitalism rules supreme and trumps jingoistic nationalism. If it's cheaper for Apple and others to build chips overseas then all your devices will continue to have chips made there. I don't see any fundamental change to make labor in America competitive with overseas labor costs. Intel can build as many fancy fabs as they want in Ohio but they will be useless if the cost of living, cost of healthcare, median home price, rent, inflation, etc. continues to skyrocket. It's still too expensive for workers in America and building factories doesn't fix that problem.
I was a bit annoyed with labeling options on pre-NetMD devices and built a little device to do it for me (https://www.tindie.com/products/fijam/gmdrec/). Went from just about knowing what a resistor is, through a couple breadboard prototypes to over 70 devices sold worldwide.
Built a live coding library for python that allows me to reload code I edited while it was executing. It has repl and debugger support and it can be run even for embedded python. It's pretty granular so it can reload modules or even individual objects. Unlike the existing module reload python function it can change object references to the updated code and delete old objects and their references from memory. This way in the next call only the latest code is executed. I built something similar for C code too.
I’m not considering a native app for this, but the mobile web experience should be excellent.
There is zero chance that he had a green light from the Party for these statements. These statements not only contradict basically every tenet of Chinese foreign policy, but also were certain to cause outrage in Europe. There was absolutely nothing to be gained from the ambassador's statements.

If you watch the original video, the ambassador looks flustered. He makes the statement about sovereignty in the heat of the moment, while trying to defend his position. It does not look like a carefully prepared statement that he came in planning to make.
> We can and should eat less anyways

Yeah, but 20% less, not a quarter of what we do now, because we obviously wouldn't survive on that.
Cool option if you have found some candidates in Singapore or Chile but they’re two small-ish countries (relatively speaking - ~25 million combined, compared to the >7 billion in the rest of the world), that probably won’t move the needle much.
Two years ago I decided to built my own web browser, with the underlying idea to use the internet more efficiently (and to force cache everything).

Took a while to find the architecture, but it's still an unfinished ambitious project. You can probably spend forever working on HTML and CSS fixes alone...

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth
Note the article says:

> several dozen small technology companies

So this isn’t the FAANGs of the world. I’m curious if these smaller companies all have an immigration/legal consultancy in common or something like that.
wow that is so cool!
> The absolute cheapest (in fuel) way to move goods, responsible for essentially every advance in living in the last century.

This is a very distorted view of technological and human progress.

A huge factor in improvements in global standards of human living over the last century has been improvements in health care: hygiene, vaccination, antibiotics, basic medication, birth control and health education.

Far from being dependent on either the profit motive or global trade, they are largely public goods, have overwhelmingly been provided outside of private enterprise, and do not in the main depend on goods being transported globally.
"Citron" is how bunch of languages (including mine) refers to lemon. This was pretty confusing article until I figured that out.
We put the Jolokia agent in each one of our JVMs, then use the Telegraf Jolokia2 plugin to collect stats. This exposes JMX over JSON and makes it far simpler to collect with ordinary tools. The JMX Protocol itself is actually a very efficient binary format, but it is esoteric.
Really awesome. Took me a while to figure out how to get a Song Radio playlist though :)
It's natural and healthy for countries to prioritize hiring their own citizens.

H1B has been abused to hire workers of similar skillset for a lower salary.

And I say that as a non-US citizen, interested in H1B program.
When they get on the verge of bankruptcy then i'll buy. They're too "big/important to fail" and will be bailed out by US taxpayers as usual.
This is an absurd moral panic. If someone mentally ill read a book that made them believe suicide was the correct option, would you support a censoring process for all books?
Yeah, it could definitely, from a biz perspective, be worth being arbitrarily slow or sloppy. But purely from a tech perspective, expect something like a rewrite if speed becomes a priority.

Sadly, most software today is insanely slow(†), compared to what it could be, which I think reflects the unfortunate business reality that's it better to get anything out to market quickly than actually build fast software.

But you have to be careful or you'll end up in the situation of e.g., Microsoft, which recently had a video bragging that the latest version of Teams did something like take startup time down from 10 seconds to 5 seconds (video seems to be gone now, alas). They're apparently working heroically to try to improve the performance, but it's really really hard since slowness was baked into the architecture.

(† Just typing this comment in Safari is lagging pretty terribly. This on a Macbook M1 pro. Though of course just entering text in a textbox should be snappy even on a potato.)
https://archive.ph/MY5Dv
I had to research this for my greencard a while back. Here’s a fun stat for ya:

USA opens about 500,000 new software development positions per year.

USA creates about 50,000 new comp sci graduates per year.

There are an order of magnitude too few Americans every year for the jobs available. Whatever you think of the H1B (and it has many problems), I doubt it’s coming even close to bridging that gap.

source with links to sources: https://swizec.com/blog/software-engineering-best-job/
AI Is a Waste of Time
I can't recommend serious use of an all-in-one local Grafana Loki setup
> "Will Hurd, an OpenAI board member, was a former CIA clandestine officer for nearly nine years. He was a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence member during his tenure as a U.S. Rep. Mr. Hurd is also a member of the board of trustees of In-Q-Tel, the primary external investment arm of the CIA and the broader US Intelligence Community."

Last month someone made a throwaway to say this in a reply to something I wrote.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366484

My conspiracy theory was that the $10B from Microsoft is actually from the government/military/intelligence through its dark external investment arms as part of the Sydney Project, the 21st century's Manhattan Project for superhuman machine cognition.
Probably technology shift; the apps that used to be delphi/visual basic became web apps in java, dotnet, or php, and those were free.
This shows that contrary to your own assertion you are the one that actually don't know what you're talking about.

Technology-wise, most countries have faster methods of sending money than how US system works: FedNow is a very late welcome addition that analogous systems already exist in other countries for years, even in places where you don't expect (Nigeria, Myanmar and India of all places do have near real-time transactions). It's genuinely embarrassing that when FedNow was initially announced, most financial analysts and bankers have simply exclaimed "finally!" because that's how behind US is.

Society-wise, most people who are having monetary problems also have much more pressing life-or-death problems: there are danger where they are living (either due to conflicts or due to the general inhospitality of the place), they don't have access to clean water and food, they don't have decent work despite their best efforts, and they don't have a place to study and improve their skills. It doesn't help that their government tends to block improvements that will go to their citizens and just plunder their countries' resources. What problems does cryptocurrency solve here?
If we survive 200 years from now we will either not really know what happened during this time because most people will be illiterate or we will be growing food by using the vast amounts of almost free energy we have figured out how to produce. I don't really see any other situations happening.
This provides a very narrow view of India. Anecdotally, I don't know anyone who has any Echo devices in their home. Nobody cares about Fire TV stick, everybody is doing fine with their setup box. Amazon lagging behind Flipkart is very real in numbers, for each of their big sales, Flipkart almost always outsells Amazon. And Flipkart for electronics is almost always better than Amazon. Amazon is miles ahead when it comes to price, but flipkart has them beat where it matters - price and serviceability.
The biggest thing is making sure people have choice when you are paying. Sometimes it can be that people are paying for control.
> In fact in Clang branchless_lower_bound is slower than std::lower_bound

That's strange, I've profiled it and I find that branchless_lower_bound is still faster than std::lower_bound using clang14, just not as fast as with gcc12 (on Intel Broadwell). I'm using gcc's libstdc++ in both cases, maybe he was using libc++ with clang?

Edit:

Replacing the contents of the for loop with the following improves performance for clang but reduces performance for gcc:

const size_t increment[] = { 0, step };
begin += increment[compare(begin[step], value)];
For NYC, it's not even "few", it's a couple hours drive at most. Hell, you're still within the commuter rail radius and closer to the city than its main reservoir.
> BlueHat IL 2023: Microsoft rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust (youtube.com)
89 points by mustache_kimono 23 hours ago | past | 45 comments

The primary source material is this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T6ClX-y2AE
I'm not sure I would think "food" when someone says they "use [it] in the kitchen". You "use" food? (Used in cooking != used in kitchen, imo)
This is fun! How are you calculating word relatedness?
Most of the Bay Area gets about the same amount of rain as London. The key difference is that in Cupertino/Los Gators/Palo Alto it rains less often but with more intensity.
It's returning the correct results for me (or at least the line you posted is the very first search result). Who knows what's happening behind the scenes. You might want to try using Sourcegraph instead.

https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=repo%3Ahuggingface%2Ftransf...
The fun part about such bombastic claims is they can be disproven with just one counterexample.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/us-government-enlists-usdc-f...

> US Government Enlists USDC for ‘Global Foreign Policy Objective’ in Venezuela: Circle CEO

Even the US government is willing to admit there are situations where crypto is the best option available.
If this person worked for me and I found out about this, I wouldn't call them a hacker. I'd call them unemployed without a reference.
> Intel will contract TSMC to make their chips?

"Intel Battlemage, Celestial GPUs Are Booked in at TSMC: Report"

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-battlemage-celestial...

Order recently deferred to late 2024, though.
I disagree. They need smaller, more efficient chips, they just fell behind.

Intel was the major driver of EUV in its inception. They funded ASML, only to sell their share later to keep the semis ecosystem open (oh the irony...).

They are making all the right moves now, but the semis cycle is ridiculously long. 5-6 years from planning to delivery.

x86 is what keeps them in the running for now, as there's so much software built on it, but if they don't stick to their roadmap and start leading with their products, that edge will also degrade.
Consider the Tibetans who evolved unique genetic adaptations that allow them to better survive in the low oxygen environment of the Himalayas. Or the Inca, who developed specific architecture and agricultural technologies to deal with the high winds, limited arable lands, and harsh weather in the Andes. These are dangerous environments that supported a significant population 24/7/365.
Honest question…how is this any worse than Sony’s exclusivity deals? What other choice does Microsoft have? There are not enough differences in the hardware at this point to justify choosing one or the other, so it ultimately comes down to the availability of games.
Remarks by National Security Advisor on Renewing American Economic Leadership
Amazon is hilariously bad at understanding voices. The number of times it has played "Pure" instead of "NPR" is astounding, despite me going in to the Alexa app to report the error every time.

I'm convinced those error reports are round-filed.
I agree it would be nice, but if you wanted to make do with what you have, I wonder: since LoRa bandwidth is so low, could there be a companion LoRa device that connects to the FZ via BLE? Not as convenient, but again, I'm working with what we already have.
Well now it’s like if I spend my money it’s almost necessarily creating carbon and fucking the world more. So it’s like I don’t even feel like I can spend my money if that makes any sense. What is the point of all this money when you can’t use it ethically?
Is..is it not the webcam that's reporting the endpoint? Not Linux?
(OrbStack developer here) Yep, feel free to share any ideas you have for pricing!
It is going to be relevant after 2025, regardless.

By the way, some of this stuff is already on Window 11 Previews and can be enabled.

Even if they botch this, like it happened to UWP, the alternative will be moving everything to Azure OS with thin clients, so one way or the other, it will happen.
> It should generally work for any household appliance remotes, as long as the appliance was designed for the region it's being used in.

Unfortunately not, I've got multiple fans from different manufacturers that were sold at major US retailers (i.e., not purchased online) and I can read the remote's transmission but I'm region locked out of transmitting it from the flipper zero. Going to try out some of the custom firmware though, thanks for the details.
As a meat-eater I agree with you in spirit, though imho that doesn't invalidate what the original poster said.

"I don't eat meat for environmental reasons, but would prefer traditional farm-animal-meat to this" is a valid opinion. It is also easy to confuse with "I don't eat any animal products for ethical reasons, but still find eating real meat better than this", which would be much more surprising and interesting, but is not something expressed here. It's important to note the difference, though let's avoid judgements to avoid descending in a flamewar
I think we agree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35741552
When you buy a Kindle from Amazon that they advertised that you could subscribe to magazines on, why do they get to keep your money but take that feature back off of you?
This is awesome! How did you figure out the signalling protocol between the head unit and the CD changer?
Absolutely love this idea. Great work.
> But I always wondered why stuff that literally grows on trees isn't cheap and abundant.

American grocery stores sell bananas grown outside on trees for literal pennies each. Dirt cheap tropical fruit, arguably the CIA's finest contribution to American society..

Anyway, mirrors. Mirrors don't multiply light, they only bounce it. 1 square meter of mirror can only bounce a square meter of sunlight. If you have a 5 level parking garage, each level 1000 square meters, then you need 5000 square meters of mirror. What did any of this accomplish, vs simply building a single layer regular old greenhouse? Remember that most surface areas of most countries is not urban so in most cases there's no reason to grow food in urban areas.
Bitcoin mining benefiting the energy grid is an absurd statement. I live in Texas and the bitcoin mines are messing up our grid by making energy more expensive during heatwaves and freezes and when shutdown we have to pay them!

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/15/crypto-energy-texas-...
https://www.govtech.com/computing/bitcoin-mining-threatens-t...
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/warren-bitcoin-texas-power-...
https://fortune.com/2022/07/12/texas-bitcoin-miners-paid-shu...
Wild to see a practical application of quantum entanglement hit the milestone of both miniaturization and performance enhancement through scaling.
Interesting question. If I wanted to say grow the index 10-fold and aim for a billion documents indexed (~2.5bn crawled), I'd need:

* More crawlers. This is mostly a network limitation. Disk requirement would be about 50 Tb in total of literally any hard drive, split along the crawlers.

* A dedicated number crunching machine for index construction and processing. Basically needs to be all cores and all RAM.

* A dedicated SQL server. Doesn't have to be super big or fast, but right now it's contending with the index for RAM.

* Either a bigger index server, or a few machines for a sharded index. I'd basically need 40 Tb worth of Enterpise SSD and 1 Tb total of RAM.

The problem space is very nice in that almost everything is either embarrassingly parallel along some axis or another or O(n)-O(n log n) so adding more hardware pays off well.

This is clearly too much hardware to run out of my apartment, even if the fuses held up the noise and heat would be intolerable, so likely some form of colocation hosting as well.

I dunno what it would land on. Probably a one-off cost of about $50k-$100k, depending the degree of redundancy. There's definitely stuff that could be done for less as well. Like right now the entire operation runs out of a single machine, and it's causing me to have to bring the service down for days at a time when I'm switching to a new index.
They should. However, that's not the point of the H1B - it's designed to bridge gaps in domestic skills, not increase competition.
A ratio of fuel calories to food calories isn't that useful a metric unless you have similar numbers for all the conventional methods of producing food at scale.

It's not like 1 is a goal: we can't eat fossil fuels (or solar energy), and we know that eating either plants or animals is never going to yield all the energy they absorbed during their lives.
Yeah, I can imagine it would be tough to charge for this, especially on a recurring basis. If I was splitting a bill, and thought I could use this, but then it turns out I'm going to have to pay $5 or a monthly subscription or something, at that point I'd probably just split the bill manually.

If you actually handled the payments, you could introduce a small upcharge that way, but even there it might be a hard sell, and the amount of bullshit you'd have to deal with to be able to scrape a buck or two off each transaction might mean the juice isn't worth the squeeze. But still, if you could scale it enough, a buck or two per transaction could be big money!
Twitter threads summarizing the speech:

- Play-by-play: https://twitter.com/toddntucker/status/1651634719031795721

- Overall summary: https://twitter.com/jennifermharris/status/16516981316820664...
Show HN: Share a region of your screen on Google Meet
When it comes to video conferencing, screen sharing is a critical feature that enables remote teams to collaborate effectively. However, the limitations of conventional screen sharing options can hinder this collaboration. For instance, if you're working on multiple windows simultaneously, you may need to switch between them while sharing your screen. In such cases, the inability to share multiple windows at once without sharing your entire desktop can be a significant drawback. Similarly, if you need to add another window to the stream, you have to re-share your screen, which can be disruptive and inconvenient.

FrameCast provides a way to overcome these limitations by allowing you to share a specific region of your screen instead of the entire screen or a single window. This can help you avoid distractions and maintain a focused, streamlined presentation. Additionally, it enables you to share multiple windows simultaneously without the need to re-share your screen, enhancing your ability to collaborate with others.

The application works by using FFMPEG, an open-source video and audio processing software, to stream a portion of your screen to a separate window that you can then select for sharing in your video conferencing application. The viewer window is fully customizable, allowing you to adjust its size, position, bit-rate and frame-rate to suit your preferences.
You may have a point, but there at least a few degrees apart from Comp Sci that can lead to software development, nevermind mid-career direction changes and boot camps.