skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I subscribe to over 500 feeds and use a tool similar to this to read them. I average several thousand entries per day. Having them all in one combined UI that's lightning fast and entirely based on keyboard input (vi-style 'j', and 'k' to move through them) lets me fly through hundreds of entries at a time in just minutes. I've been using this since Google Reader shut down, experimented with a bunch of different approaches and by far, for me, having everything in one single stream and not having to navigate any kind of categorization is the most efficient way to follow as many feeds as I do.
As with anything, there was a long list of work that I never got around to mostly because life happened - kids, startups, etc. I would love to bring Small Basic to the browser where it's easy to share your programs and creations with your friends.
I continue to maintain the webservices needed for the app, but any substantial investment is at least a year out unfortunately.
Indeed. A much better figurehead would be Thatcher or Raegan.
> One thing a lot of people do not seem to realize is compilers do not use the full instruction set. They use a subset and this subset is what has to be fast.

That’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Compiler writers won’t use the instructions that are (relatively) slow. If, tomorrow, Intel makes ‘add’ slow, compilers will eventually start compiling addition as negation + subtraction (and AMD will become more popular)

That’s what makes hardware designers unhappy sometimes. If they ship a shiny faster CPU that requires a large overhaul of compilers, it can take time for compiler writers to catch up.

Hardware designers shouldn’t (only) aim for getting closer to the local optimum of where compiler writers are, but also for the higher peaks of where they could be.
I'd go to polywork.com to find people open to collaboration
This page isn’t workingandroidblog.a.pinggy.io didn’t send any data.

Ok.
WhatsApp's official statement regarding this can be found here: https://twitter.com/WhatsApp/status/1655989766431862785

"We believe this is a bug on Android that mis-attributes information in their Privacy Dashboard and have asked Google to investigate and remediate."
Almost every closure of a real news outlet is a loss to society as a shrinking news market means stronger echo chambers and narrower reporting. Vice does some good reporting and in areas that others won't or only glaze over. Basically, variety & competition matters.
Quoting the README:

It implements the same concepts introduced by https://github.com/containers/toolbox but in a simplified way using POSIX sh and aiming at broader compatibility.

All the props go to them as they had the great idea to implement this stuff.
Publications are the Journalists that work there, and the culture that they create. If this is the end of Vice as a platform, it's not the end of that culture or the careers of the people that built it. Those journalists will take that culture of investigative, deep and sometimes immersive (gonzo?) journalism elsewhere.

Here in the UK we saw it with Buzzfeed News UK, when is was shut down in 2020 the journalists dispersed into other news organisations, some that they had worked with before (they had collaborated with C4 and BBC News on investigations), and have continued their important investigative work. I believe we will see the same with both Vice and Buzzfeed News (US).

Some will cheer its downfall, but there is an important place for all styles of journalism from all political leanings.
It should be Sylvia Van Os, I'm aware the original website gets it wrong too but Von OS makes it sound like she changed her name because of some sort of Open Source fanaticism.
The content definitely felt that way at one time.
Why would it be flagged? Sweden is a prominent European country, equally valid an example as the USA for such a study.
It's also a convention in GNU Info.
The risk of AI development leading to something truly nasty.

He's investing because his work isn't the risk. Putin's is. There are three possibilities from his point of view: ① Noone develops AI ⇒ no risk. ② Putin does ⇒ major risk. ③ Both Putin and he does ⇒ the same or less risk.

(The risk is the same if Putin has unlimited resources for development, less if Putin and he have to share the income from early products and use that to fund further development, so that his work diminishes Putin's ability.)
It's situational - sometimes a layoff headline may push your stock price down.

I imagine current round[0] of layoffs is opportunistic - companies know they'll want to do some layoffs at some point, but when's a better moment than when everyone else is doing layoffs? The public at this point doesn't even care anymore - there's been too much of it going on, it's not novel, it's what everyone's doing.

--

[0] - I'm not sure if "round" is even a good term anymore - it's been what, half a year already, of ongoing layoffs in tech companies? I've been seeing at least one headline per week about some recognizable name in tech announcing/executing layoffs, since February, or maybe even January 2023.
"There is a world in which generative AI, as a powerful predictive research tool and a performer of tedious tasks, could indeed be marshalled to benefit humanity, other species and our shared home. But for that to happen, these technologies would need to be deployed inside a vastly different economic and social order than our own, one that had as its purpose the meeting of human needs and the protection of the planetary systems that support all life."

They say that yet heartily defend one of the biggest instruments of capitalism: copyright. The author comes close to hitting on the root cause, that it's our societal systems that leave those affected by automation disenfranchised and abandoned, with technology exposing and exacerbating the flaws that already exist in our social frameworks. Which is a problem of course, but one only solved by changing those systems.

"We live under capitalism, and under that system, the effects of flooding the market with technologies that can plausibly perform the economic tasks of countless working people is not that those people are suddenly free to become philosophers and artists. It means that those people will find themselves staring into the abyss – with actual artists among the first to fall."

The first? This has been happening since mechanization.

The entire article is a tedious exercise in "so close yet so far".
The article makes some untested assumptions about how/why some popular front end frameworks are fast based upon some of their popular features.

I have done some research on this: https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/performance...

Ultimately speed comes down to transmission, asset consolidation, elimination of string parsing, simplicity of state management, and a few other things.
They already had the Fairbuds, so they just borrowed from Apple with the AirPods Max
Quantel's Paintbox Changed Our World
iirc its because core usage is an average over time, and you can get weird situations where switching between cores (which happens frequently depending on the scheduler) causes the average usage of one core by the program to not be zero yet, and the usage on another core to already be 100.

This is purely speculation though
You can use whisper
I think we'll see more of this in the future. Just like companies are doing RTO as a sort of soft layoff, this will be another way to magically find reasons to get rid of someone
Bruce Pascoe's book has received a lot of heavy criticism (including from some aboriginal groups). It isn't all wrong but is heavily biased and not reliable a source, so readers should be very careful drawing conclusions from it. I think most of what the parent says is right but be careful with the source.
Maybe the journalists should learn to code.
In my opinion humans are worst thing for environment .Direct human causes of deforestation include logging, agriculture, cattle ranching, mining, oil extraction and dam-building.
Probably refers to dead comment at the bottom.
It's not hidden. It's in the title. However the language is... well... local. "our local" or "the local" means "our local pub" in the UK.

"going down to the local" means visiting one's nearest pub.
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?

In all seriousness, these are good restrictions to follow when writing user-facing error messages. Developers tend to complicate the language, leading to more confusion.
Laying off testers? Think twice
Legal advice is an exception. In many jurisdictions, it's a regulated field (like health) and providing legal advice without holding the requisite license is illegal.

Offering your own opinion on the law is fine, but IMHO answering someone else's question with opinion on the law is probably the wrong side of the line.

Disclaimers don't help, either, the regulation exists whether you acknowledge being outwith the licensing or not.
East Germany was not sustainable without Soviet Union. That strip of land in the middle of Europe with barely 16 million people isn't quite China.

But yes it certainly was surprising, without the benefit of hindsight now.
The only CPU I know which had integer overflow detection was MIPS. RISC V is somewhat based on MIPS but they removed this part :-(
In my opinion humans are worst thing for environment, Direct human causes of deforestation include logging, agriculture, cattle ranching, mining, oil extraction and dam-building. https://www.mybalancenow.tips/
He may have bricked his access point as well..
My biggest complaint about Blood Meridian is it throws all this graphic violence in your face and then has typical American squeamishness about sex. It felt like the inability to depict sex undermined whatever point it was trying to make with graphic depictions of violence. Compare, here is the single sex scene in the book which is "fade to black" blink and you missed it:

I seen you right away, she said. I always pick the one I want.

She led him through a door where an old Mexican woman was handing out towels and candles and they ascended like refugees of some sordid disaster the darkened plankboard stairwell to the upper rooms.

Lying in the little cubicle with his trousers about his knees he watched her. He watched her take up her clothes and don them and he watched her hold the candle to the mirror and study her face there. She turned and looked at him.

Let's go, she said. I got to go.
Ha! Back in the good old days, we ran Apache on a Nokia N95

https://mobiforge.com/design-development/pamp-personal-apach...

Same issues as faced here, of course.
Not unreasonable; an exact dodecahedral shape is equally challenging to construct geometrically in any material, and probably more difficult to build in stone or wood than in wax or clay. Artisans and amateurs of different specialties might have emulated each other.
Google I/O 2023 as Keynote Ignites Anticipation
I sent a mail an hour ago to the author of the article. There is no "answer I don't like", if I'm not allowed to do it, then so be it.

Please don't assume things when you don't know the person.
Vice should have focused on their longer form doc content, they produced some really interesting stuff. Here are a few examples:

Golf, Booze & Guns: Inside Boomer Paradise -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp0nqJ1yrrg

Inside the Wellness Festival for Millionaires -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BbNvim11fI

Scams, Zealots, and Jet Skis: Life Inside the Crypto Scene -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9hXfBo8Abo

The Untouchable Chaebols of South Korea -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jFZge6V_is

"Be A Man”: Modernists and Traditionalists Debate Masculinity
-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nE3EQEBzc0

Mexico's Most Wanted Drug Kingpin -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RZoGOc3VCs

Tantra Island: The Search for Sexual Paradise -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UsWj15AFRs

Hamiltons Pharmacopeia --
https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/show/hamiltons-pharmacopeia
Plenty of other companies continue after bankruptcy restructuring as well. American Airlines, General Motors, and Marvel Entertainment all went through bankruptcy in their past.
I wonder if they confused neoliberal with liberal? Similar words, very different meaning. Either way, wishing for even less echo chambers in the media is not constructive or beneficial for society.
You should look into Vice's origin as a underground music magazine.
Legal? Probably not. Would GitHub care? No. Would GitHub be happy their content is being translated and pointed back to the source? Yes.
I don't think it's shaming to suggest people take a beat and to offer relevant items for consideration. I thought the comment was well constructed and nonaccusatory.
It is indeed a very vaguely defined term! But i don't think it has ever meant free trade. Free trade is key plank of classical liberalism. But neoliberalism is about replacing state or community action with markets in the domestic sphere - privatization, deregulation, reframing users of services like education and public transport as customers rather than students or passengers, generally "giving people choices" rather than taking responsibility for providing services.

I can't see how Vice is neoliberal at all.
At this point the G subset is just a historical notation shorthand, not really a target.

The new thing is RISC-V Architecture Profiles like RVA23, which comes with the base C extension plus extra compressed instructions specifically intended to reduce code size (Zcb), bitmanip instructions, the V vector extension now being mandatory, etc etc.

This is what big application cores are expected to target in the future, so if successful you could expect Linux distros to start taking advantage of those at some point
Decision-making processes shouldn't really be affected - if someone's manager has a psychological need to rubber-stamp their decisions, then that is just as necessary with them working from home as in the office, and failure to do so will ultimately lead to conflict and probably looking for a new job in the end.
Please note that despite current lack of MGL-PAX (https://github.com/melisgl/mgl-pax) documentation, Boltzman Machines and Gaussian Processes are implemented and documented in the source, which is very well and cleanly written

https://github.com/melisgl/mgl/blob/master/src/boltzmann-mac...

https://github.com/melisgl/mgl/blob/master/src/gaussian-proc...
Nice article! most new frameworks now supports SSG and SSR, which improves web performance.
Not only that, but Vice produced some of the highest quality, and only "mildly western-biased" reporting we have seen from world events.

See the 100+ dispatches from Ukraine 2014 mostly by Kamil Ostrovsky.[1]

But with time the amount of content by Vice literally exploded in magnitudes, and so did the quality of content and journalism.

Don't get me wrong, Vice still produced many other interesting contents, but eventually it has been so watered down by so many types of content that finding relevant or quality journalism became very difficult.

I wish they stuck with their initial spirit of focusing on quality reporting and content from around the world (NK, Ukraine, Africa etc), they would've built a terrific journalistic niche for themselves. A niche that I can't find anyone to be able to fill.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNKsLlK52ss
Obviously depends, but solar powered website currently uses 2.8W. [0]

Louwrentius uses 29W? Do I read it correctly? [1]

[0] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power.html

[1] https://louwrentius.com/
> I only wish Android phones would be more open to put a full Linux distro on them.

You can: https://userland.tech/
taking classes at Equinox https://www.equinox.com/

"it's not fitness, it's life"
Laravel was the first framework I ever used. Until now, I haven't come across any other framework that is well-designed, and enjoyable to use as Laravel (and made PHP fun). I always assumed Laravel was the standard, but sadly that it's not the case.
Current thermal cycle power stations are about 50% efficient. It's still a lot of waste heat, but far from "vast majority".

Car engines, on the other hand,...
> look at the color of the sky over China's largest cities

But they are still the largest cities in China: people are flowing towards the smog, not escaping from it.

Eating under a grim sky has always been incredibly better than starving in a pristine environment.
Think of it the other way around and it becomes less surprising. We should expect people to become less healthy when healthcare improves. Thanks to the improvements in healthcare more people have the opportunity to become overweight and stay that way for a longer time.
There's presumably no router in this setup.
My dad died from a heart attack in 1992. His arteries were blocked. He had very high cholesterol and statins were unavailable until the mid 90s. I was found to have the same issue and it was so high I was told it had be familial. A couple of doctors told me eating healthy and exercising could help keep it down but others said, no not really, it's not a little high, it's massively high, I need intervention, so I have been on statins for several years and they have kept my cholesterol levels in the normal range. I am grateful and I do hope that if the second set of doctors are right that the first set learn about this.
Good idea! It would all boil down to how many API's you can bring on the platform. I would see myself paying money for this. I too, had the same problem with RapidApi where I wanted a mix of APi's to hack something together. As the numbers of indie hackers continue to increase I don't see why something like this won't make it big. Good luck!
> But when she does, the office is half empty, and she hates it.

And those who prefer to work from home dislike working in a noisy place filled with people like her. Why does her choice gets to win?

How about let those who like face to face interactions go to office and discuss away while those who prefer to wfh from home are allowed to do so? It doesn't even have to be a 100% strict thing - the firm can say that every employee must come to office once a week so that face-timers can get their appetite taken care of (even though video calls already cater to that) without overwhelming the wfh-ers.

Nobody is denying that there are genuine circumstances when hashing things out face to face can be more efficient and quicker. It just doesn't have to be the default mode.
Wow! Thank you! never knew I could leverage service workers to improve web performance
Warnings over NHS data privacy after ‘stalker’ doctor shares woman’s records
Unhealthy habits like…?
Depending on the circumstances, couldn't that be tantamount to constructive dismissal in some countries?
Sit ups and back pain – how to make the core workout safe
Can we run this locally? (on normal machines?)

How fast are generations on consumer machines?
I don't want to stigmatize ADHD in any way, but the executive dysfunction of this disorder is debilitating and it is definitely not a "normal variation". Neurodiverse people are forced to lean into and develop their other talents to be able to cope with adult life, which gives an impression that neurodiversity has certain advantages, but the negative symptoms of ADHD and ASD outweigh the benefits. I'd rather have a prefrontal cortex that actually works.
Oh, that's interesting - I've played the Polish bit from the examples page [1] and it's quite heavily accented. Like a foreign national learning the language. Do the other non-English examples also sound somewhat off to native speakers?

[1] https://suno-ai.notion.site/Bark-Examples-5edae8b02a604b54a4...
I don't think Grant has a day job besides his 3b1b stuff?
Or probably just some politics based on beliefs and sensitivities took hold, as often, not specific to this company and topic? ;)
(Otherwise, why not bring up this data to justify something that you know will frustrate some employees?)
While there seems to be a difference in how they perceived what the stated problem actually was (where Knuth interpreted it as a call for a pedagogically laid out solution and McIlroy seemingly didn't?) I disagree with your conclusion here.

They chose different languages to express themselves in or with. Bash and WEB, respectively. Given other and perhaps even changing requirements, who knows what they'd have done? Why would McIlroy have had to resort to implementing (parts of) his solution in C and not, say, AWK or just in terms of more and other Bash constructs?

The conciseness, perhaps even terseness, to McIlroys expression is very elegant and despite the fact that I could not repeat that, I'd still call him a winner in a number of different hypothetical competitions drawn from this context of interactions.

And I'm in love with Donald Knuth!
I'd be really curious to read the memos — if there is any... — explaining the rationale leading to those decisions. What concrete problems have they seen with the WFH setup? But also what advantages? How does it compare to the pros and cons of working at the office?
In my experience, managers are the ones pushing developers to skip tests, bug reports, etc.

Most of them are content to simply pile on new functionality, without any concept of polish, refinement, or how allocating time for technical work can speed up the delivery of that functionality.
Introduction to the Fourier transform for image processing (2001)
> Diet/exercise changes of course may be some contributors but they’re clearly not being widely followed

Human here, can confirm. No source required.
I think the prompt does add value, but its about wrapping the LLM + Prompt into a journey that works well for the intended use case.
I think the most elegant implementation so far of this is:
- notionai
- blenderGPT

Both are embedded right where you need them, and they are tuned to provide great results.
Another ChatGPT with a better prompt probably isn't much of a moat.
Childbirth deaths have increased in the USA in particular. It is a very troubling trend.
In my opinion, above a certain size, companies don't really care about employee quality all that much. So long as they meet the initial hire criteria it doesn't matter who's a 5x or 1x dev anymore. It's just one FTE anyway in the planning.
I liked their motherboard columns. Very informative and well presented.
Medication in psychiatry is not the last resort but the first line of treatment, because it drags people out of bad mental states and allows them the mental space to adjust their life to better cope with their condition.
Come to my country. 100% 5G antenna + 100% WIFI anywhere in any metro.
The Myths and Realities Behind the Time on All Watches–10:10
Monte Carlo integration and its many many offshoot techniques (biased and unbiased) are still fascinating to me.

It's less impressive if you simply see the result, e.g. in ray traced images but what is done mathematically, is evaluate an expression of infinitely-nested luminance integrals.
I actually strongly disagree with this. It's easier to teach a CS major passable English, the bar for which is much lower than passable code.

If we cared about English in software engineering as much as we care about code it would be of similar difficulty.
The reason that I avoided that bunch was the very opposite of them being woke.
Is Meta having growing pains or in a death spiral?
> Pretty sure that's more than the cheapest VPS on Hetzner.

I'm rocking a two node cluster in Hetzner. One is an old 1vCPU small that costs over $3/month, and the other is a new 2vCPU addition that is a dash over $4.

I pay for two ipv4 external IPs which costs more.

Also, Hetzner started to offer ARM64 nodes that are even cheaper.

Yes, Pinggy Pro is more expensive than operating your own nodes in Hetzner.