skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a westerner in agriculture (Australian, northern territory cattle stations -> mining - Geophysics -> large acre grains) and I consider that to be farmland.

Maybe you're thinking of some specific subset of urban western non agricultural people.

Of course in western culture the "typical" westerner lives in an urban environment so perhaps that explains the disconnect.
Oregon and Washington — both blue states — are examples of other states that have begun to lean more heavily into restricting gun rights (whether you agree or disagree with the motivation & justification).

So, agreed, it’s accurate to say that there are examples of different states imposing legislation that restricts some sets of freedoms depending on the state’s political leaning.
It hinders readability just to save you two keystrokes, you are effectively telling people "fuck you, I don't care about the effort you'll have to make to parse my gibberish". Plus, of course, I'm sure you know almost no-one else uses it like that, so you come off as begging for attention. Both are very childish approaches, when trying to communicate with peers.
During this stage of discovery I'm completely comfortable with ground up rethinks.

I don't feel we have the correct solution and there is no commercial reason to ge this thing shipped. Now is the time to explore all the possibilities.

Once we have explored the problem space we should graft the best bits together for a final solution, if needed.

I'm not sure I see the value of standardizing on a single protocol. Multiple protocols can access the same data store. Adopting one protocol doesn't preclude other protocols. I believe Developers should adopt all the protocols.
I believed this as well. Then came covid-19, and I had to learn that power corrupts people, same for those on the left as well as those on the right. Since then, I basically lost all believe in the narrative of democracy that I have been fed with my entire life. Its all a lie.
Is this specific to humans rather than placental mammalian trichromats?
I didn't even know some of these things were being worked on until recently. I totally understand why devs don't treat development like a Twitter feed, posting every thought that pops into their head instead of working. However, it would be really interesting to follow some of these developments without having to deep lurk all the PRs.

Sorry, pretty shallow complaint. Great work!
From https://bcachefs.org:

Bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness and the complete set of features one would expect from a modern filesystem.

- Copy on write (COW) - like zfs or btrfs

- Full data and metadata checksumming

- Multiple devices

- Replication

- Erasure coding (only feature not quite stable)

- Caching

- Compression

- Encryption

- Snapshots

- Scalable - has been tested to 50+ TB, will eventually scale far higher

- Already working and stable, with a small community of users
I really like how impartial and matter-of-factly your comment is in contrast with dystopian picture it paints. Or maybe there are positive aspects of this process that I don't see?
> They already have so much to target advertisements.

Whatsapp should have nothing more than your contacts list.
Do these things use/incorporate a physics model? It seems like the missing link to me.
The organic label really ended up pretty meaningless unfortunately. Wish I had a link handy, but Joel Salatin has a few podcast episodes where they dug into all the loopholes.

The "product of the USA" label was also meaningless, thankfully it actually just recently got an updated list of requirements that make more sense. Previously you could bring in chicken raised in another country, do a bit of the processing here, and consider it produces in the USA.
In this whole exchange you implied you lived in a 1br apt for $1.6k in a cool area today, but now it comes out you share a 3br. I also chuckled
Latency on a home fibre will be significantly lower than a 56k dial-up connection.

Somehow the artists could collaborate remotely using a shared MIDI clock. Admittedly it was techno which is both loopy and predictable, but still a cool achievement nonetheless.
I have long been interested in permaculture, but I have recently been coming around to your point of view.

People give modern farmers a lot of crap, but overall they are very interested in taking care of their land, and using as few fertilizers and pesticides as possible, if for no other motive than the profit one. As universities discover new best practices for regenerative ag, crop rotation and the like, farmers are overall very quick to adopt them, and the ones who don't go out of business. For instance, a lot of farmers have already adopted practices like no-till farming, cover cropping, and double cropping.

Another example, a soil scientist YouTuber named GardeningInCanada explained how the 'tilling' that farmers do with their giant machines is actually just slicing a cut a few mm deep in the soil with a disk, dropping in new seeds, then pushing the soil back over the cuts with another implement.

I think growing your own food is certainly more valuable than just having a giant turf lawn, but if you really wish to provide the most positive ecological impact, I think you should look into things like rain gardens or bioswales that filter rainwater runoff (helping fix the 'dead zones' that high nitrogen creates in our waterways and oceans), and growing a large diversity of plants native to your region that support the greatest number of specialist pollinators, which in turn will feed other life forms. The way I see it now, there is already an overabundance of food for humans in the world, but there is too little food for insects, birds, reptiles, other mammals, etc. In other words, there are plenty of grocery stores for people around but I want my yard to be a giant grocery store full of food for pollinators.

If you are in North America, you can grow some native food plants like American persimmon, paw paw, American blueberries, and wild strawberries. But most high-calorie crops are not native (even corn, beans, and squash came from Mexico iirc) and even the ones that were here before European colonization are genetically very different than the native plants that they came from and do not really support any wildlife.
That 30% is iVAT :)
My Struggle with Remix
We cannot clone quantum states – how about classical mechanics?
Yes, and completely agree with the title.
Apples and Oranges and Concurrency
also as audio/video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T72dy4TQ9WA
TLS has version fields everywhere, so TLS 1.3 identifies as 1.2 and hides truth deep in extension fields, because anything else broke traffic analysis tools.
leaving aside that a checksum doesn't catch every bit-change, that's still a 50% chance that it _will_ be detected.
Spectre and friends seem to have killed Liedtke’s fast synchronous IPC, unfortunately. Of course, there’s still asynchronous IPC, exokernels (perhaps the closest thing to today’s containers), and so on.
China style policy with some FUD justification.
Thats looks more like dynamics of seasonal jobs in developed economies. People get stable jobs that provide income all year around and avoid hustling for low value odd jobs. The only ways to fill those positions are employing special class workers: unenployed welfare recipients, prisoners, students, foreign unskilled workers, etc... . Foreign unskilled workers usually are the easiest to get
The one thing that golang really needs is a templating library that doesn't suck, Html bindings in this language feel more like an after thought and this is coming from a person that really likes this language.
fastmath is bad in general. In Julia it's not as bad as many other languages because it's attempted to be kept local. The @fastmath macro is essentially a find-replace macro, where it finds things like ^ and replaces it with the fast_pow function which drops the 1ulp requirement. However, this global option was really the one piece left in Julia that where it could creep in, hence the reason to drop it.

There are still some other difficulties of course, since fastmath in the C ABI is quite wild (or I guess, it's really the GCC implementation up to GCC 13 (https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55522#c45)). Simon wrote a nice piece about the difficulties in general: https://simonbyrne.github.io/notes/fastmath/. In a general sense there is still the potential vulnerability that effects the Python ecosystem which is that if any package has binaries built with fastmath it could cause other calculations to be fastmath as well in a non-local way (https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-wit...):

> It turns out (somewhat insanely) that when -ffast-math is enabled, the compiler will link in a constructor that sets the FTZ/DAZ flags whenever the library is loaded — even on shared libraries, which means that any application that loads that library will have its floating point behavior changed for the whole process. And -Ofast, which sounds appealingly like a "make my program go fast" flag, automatically enables -ffast-math, so some projects may unwittingly turn it on without realizing the implications.

With Julia, there is the advantage here that (a) most libraries don't have binary artifacts being built in another language, (b) the Julia core math library is written in Julia and is thus not a shared library effected by this, and (c) those that do have their binaries built and hosted in https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil. So in the binary building and delivery system you can see there are some patches that forcibly remove fastmath from the binaries being built to avoid this problem (https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AJuliaPackaging%2FYggdrasi...). The part (b) of course is the part that is then made globally safe by the removal of the flag in Julia itself, so generally Julia should be well-guarded against this kind of issue with these sets of safeguards in place.
Install a local LLM (e.g. Vicuna https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat) to have an offline alternative for stackoverflow (and GPT4).
or landing harder

Is that a thing people want? It seems to me when I jump in a VR headset the feeling of jumping is just as intense as it needs to me. Walking in VR is such an enormously more pressing issue.
How to Pick a Trustworthy VPN
I have submitted one topic with 250+ comments and do not have a badge about it, I surprised it does not have 100 upvotes. For me a number of comments in the topics I submit is way more exciting, they are a real people telling a real things and not just some +1.
By that logic, given that USA hates Russia, what American news media reports on Russia should also be taken with a grain of salt.
Those were my main concerns with the whole thing.

At the moment, through, passwords are good enough for most people who aren't specifically interesting targets, so I'm not super concerned or holding my breath. I just don't see people who use password managers and any kind of 2FA, even SMS, getting hacked in real life.

I expect the main value of passkeys will just be that people will be forced to transition from memorizing to letting the computer manage credentials.
https://archive.ph/qDpJv
People do all sorts of things without cryptocurrency as an incentive

They host Mastodon instances, contribute to OSS, edit Wikipedia etc etc
macOS and Windows are tier 1, Android tier 2, and GNU/Linux will eventually be supported.

Ironic for a company that uses so much Linux based systems.
Ah, now I'm sad. It's a very cool concept nonetheless.
I'm arguing against

> most bit-errors... are handled in userspace error-detection

If there really are a significant number of bad-RAM errors getting caught at the TCP layer, then there are also a significant number happening after that. There aren't, so there aren't.
I believe iphone and iPad to be the same and Macbook to be different.
Who is this Sam guy? He yells a lot and while he has identified some interesting points, he also seems very... Alarmist. Is there a reason this post deserves attention beyond its content?
What Survives in the Atacama Desert?
I don't know if the majority of people want to be oppressed, that sounds like a simplified generalization. Specially taking into account the variances of oppression between different regimes across the world. The reasons for oppressive regimes to arise may be completely different, even if there are some shared psychological and sociological features. The very concept of freedom is not stable and is constantly being negotiated. However you point out an important issue that I agree with, and is many times forgotten: the questions about freedom that arise with technological developments are not technological per se, but political and ethical in their nature
I would subscribe if it stopped all the draconian tracking, but unfortunately it doesn't.
For developments in latency specifically, check out my blog post: https://viralinstruction.com/posts/latency/

I know this doesn't inform you about dev work on Julia in general, but it goes into detail with the recent improvements to latency
No, they will not get a visit from FCC for any form of passive blocking.

Maybe in a banana republic, but certainly not in U.S.A.
I love Jupyter notebooks I just wish they looked as good as observable notebooks[1], not just in the overall layout but the charts/graphs you could make in general (plotly, matplotlib, etc don't even come close to d3.js, Observable Plot, etc)... I don't know why there seems to be a hole in the Python ecosystem for good designers or something

This seems to be a step in the right direction with reactivity though. But it's not instant like Observable notebooks. But still good

[1] https://observablehq.com
For comparison, on my Debian Bookworm (aka "testing" but in hard freeze and full freeze in a few days I think, stable release in june) here...

...$ lsmod|grep nf_table (tried without any just to make sure)
...$ unshare -U -m -n -r
unshare: unshare: failed: Operation not permitted
...$ /sbin/nft add table inet filter
Error: Could not process rule: Operation not permitted
add table inet filter
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

root # cat /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone
0
> The problem is, guys with guns will come to your door, beat you with a wrench, and put you in jail.

Counterpoint: guns, doors, wrenches and jails are tools as well. So, I don't buy this notion that technology can't solve societal issues.

It's like saying you can't fix a leaky faucet with a wrench because the real problem is that the pipes are old and rusty. Sure, the root cause may be a societal issue, but that doesn't mean we can't use technology to mitigate the problem. I mean, imagine telling a doctor not to prescribe medicine to a sick patient because the real issue is poor lifestyle choices.
It's a domestic report that says nothing about other countries. I don't know what made you think of comparison to Pakistan and Afghanistan, but forgive me if I say this is classic signs of confirmation bias, where people tend to dismiss information that doesn't fit their worldview.
ThunderCast Episode #2: With Special Mozilla Guest Mike Conley
You’re probably talking about this guy:
https://medium.com/immersedteam/working-from-orbit-39bf95a6d...

I read this every few months for a certain kind of amusement. I remain utterly unconvinced of any merits…
Opting out would mean you would be barred from making use of any public roads. Or having 24/7 access to emergency services. I don't see how either being subject to that or the enforcement of it would be feasible in any measure.
NeXTSTEP! I never had the experience and wish I had. It was like IRIX in that the team really pushed things and got results!

Running that stuff at it's peak was living a future for a while. Good times.
> you need to revalidate which blocks are still valid.

No you don't. Sorry if I'm misunderstanding, but it sounds like maybe you don't have a clear idea of how systems like git work. One of their core advantages is what we're talking about here -- that they make replication so much simpler.

When you pull from a git remote you ask the remote what the root hash is, then you fetch all the chunks reachable from that hash which you don't yet have. If the remote says you need the chunk with hash X, and you have a chunk with hash X, then you have the data. You don't have to worry if it has changed. Once you have all the chunks reachable from the latest head, you have the latest state of the entire repository. That's it.

(I mean simple in the sense of clear/direct/correct, not in the sense of "easy". It's certainly the case that a design based on consuming a stream of change events is a lot less code).
We love ESP32 and you should too
I’m not qualified to evaluate it, but Douglas Crockford has at least made a proposal: https://www.crockford.com/dec64.html
It must be great to wake up to some jerk shitting all over your work on the front page of HN.

Fortunately not something ive had to experience!
I use 127/8 for local services, because ports are a very scarce resource. In this respect ip6 is a complete no go.
Sure nothing stops you doing those things, but also nothing makes them seem like a good idea.

Why bother with Mastodon interop? Why bother building on top of a standard that doesn’t do what you want if you don’t think being part of the “Fediverse” is particularly interesting or a goal of the platform you’re building?

Something new is a better bet at this point than being anchored to or seeming like part of Mastodon IMO.
Did you mean Rand Paul? I don’t remember Ron taking much about lobbying. Rand talked about it, but then jumped on the money train once he was elected.
AWS Lambda for the Containers Developer
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(ASCII for “TLDR”)
Whether or not this is as good as brand-new software that managed the layout itself is debatable, and nobody will write that software anyway because they won't have users that have SSDs that let the database manage the disk in full.

Maybe it's not relevant to databases, but in my experience everything written with SSDs in mind has been horrifying. Compare two machines with nice NVMe drives running Windows 10/11 and Windows 7. Your user experience will be virtually identical. Swap the SSDs out for hard drives. The Windows 7 machine will get slower and have the many split-second delays we all remember from back in the day. The Windows 11 machine, however, will completely shit the bed. Massive multi-second delays crop up trying to do the most simple tasks.

So far developers, instead of taking advantage of SSDs, are just using them as a crutch.
matrix has implied e2e which most of the incumbent players do not like too much...
That's especially true for `fastmath`, which shoves a bunch of optimization tradeoffs together, some of them "handle with care" territory, some of them in the "faulty live grenade that'll probably explode in your face" territory.

I was just wondering why the post said "impossible to use correctly in Julia" rather than just "impossible to use correctly", but writing it out now, I realize that "impossible" would be hyperbole for the latter, it would be more like "highly likely to go wrong".
Microsoft ramps up AI game w bet on startup that helps coding novices build apps
https://archive.md/QXZ8h

But you can also just hit the <esc> key immediately on page load to be able to see the entire article on nytimes.com itself. It's 100% effective but you need to time it very, very early on the page load.
These are the 2023 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies
I was ready to leave with only 6 months of expenses... that was before companies started firing everyone... 5 years is probably enough though.
I'm really surprised every time anyone complains that a web-application (not just a plain web site) doesn't work without JS.

I mean it's an application, applications contain code and tracking that code state server side can involve a non small amount of additional cost.

Sure they could have a web-side like non-logged in viewer mode and then somehow using hydration magic transition to being a app on demand, but that is a bunch of additional work (i.e. cost) for a very small number of people.

But here is a good thing, it's open source so you or any of the view people which care about no-js could try to contribute such a "view only web-site" functionality, or crate an alternative web client which solely uses server side rendering or similar.

But in the end that's not worth your time right (at least for me it wouldn't be if I where in your situation)? So why expect anyone who doesn't even get any benefits from it to invest that time?
Not with Bill C-11 now being turn into law now the CRTC can do the same on the internet, so Spotify, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube can now be silenced
While Matlab language is horrific, switching requires much more than that. Matlab has a lot of inertia in large scientific projects. It will change, eventually, but this is a slow process. Fortran was the tool for numerical computation for decades even when languages with better syntax were available because of its fast, rock solid and validated libraries.

On technical merits Matlab still comes ahead in fast plotting of large datasets. And Julia still has a reputation for a "go fast and break things" community and the corresponding cavalier response to bugs. Those will slowly change, but as of now, Matlab holds an advantage there. My 2c.
>Farming is extremely lucrative

I dont know the margins in US, but in italy, considering all capital costs, margins for cereals farms average 2% before tax (inheriting lands makes numbers look bigger but one has to factor land costs).
The retinoids are derived from human stem cells. The authors say "our approaches should be adaptable to other developing organoid or other model systems"
WhatsApp has video calls. WhatsApp also has a significant user base amount illiterate people. They've built a clever intuitive system where you hold a button down to record a voice message. Obviously it shouldn't be recording without the user asking for it, but there's a reason for it to be an option.

Edit: I realized you might be referring to WhatsApp not having much ad data. True, but their parent company Meta does.
For the normal consumer, Twitter is better than Bluesky/Mastodon, Macs and Windows are better than Linux, ChatGPT and Open AI have better predictions than open source LLMs. Its not even competitive the closed source solutions are so much better than open source ones, in these scenarios.
Doesn't Altair use something like D3 behind the scenes? I guess it's Vega.

https://pypi.org/project/altair/
US smartphone users continue to switch from Android to iPhone