skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BLAS uses low level routines that are difficult to replicate in C. Some of the stuff is written in FORTRAN so as to avoid aliasing issues inherent to C arrays. Some implementations use direct assembly operations. It is heavily optimized by people who really know what they're doing when it comes to floating point operations.
people hold the phone vertically when shooting video because that’s the way the video looks when they watch it on their phone. This is the most correct way to prepare a video for casual viewing.
I've mostly stopped reading technical mailing lists
If you see a non religious society as dying out, does that not make you think that perhaps secularism is incorrect? What functional society would let itself die out?
Apple Maps Acknowledgements as of 20230426
Why are those homes so cheap?
Ridge Wallet I believe. Destroyer of embossed credit cards.
More specifically, time is almost linear with the size of the type, which can be doubly exponential compared to the program but people don't write such programs.
i couldn't find this article again because i was looking for '16 years'. i specifically remembered 16.

then i saw '10' showing up in this title.

i thought it must be a different article.
I don't even have a case on my phone right now because I know I can just replace it from Swappa for cheap. Thank goodness for people like OP who keep buying brand new phones and giving up most of their value.
> you never have a real free market on the railways, highways, or electricity grid

My philosophy is to have a system that monitors innovation done in a sector and if it is deemed insufficient we turn it into a government department (and pay a reasonable price) The government department is compared to private industry in other countries, if performance is deemed insufficient it will be privatized. (with privatized I don't mean given away for 1 euro) It should continue to have the same employees after the transition unless it switches between public and private and back to fast. Then people should be replaced and shuffled around at all levels.

To use the railroad example, if the company is able to find funds to stay on the cutting edge technically, in service level, price and reliability it should [most definitely] stay a company. If it is just sitting there not doing much of anything besides maximizing revenue we might as well have the government run it.

If we really need the service (as is the case with railroads) and it needs bailing out we give each tax paying person or entity an amount of shares that scales with the amount of tax they paid.
My favorite is pasting something into the chat with "ELI5"
Eh, I feel like most people would never use 80% of the "features" of the TX-6, which mostly feel like bolt-on justifications for its price tag. If you want a super portable mixer, something like the 1010 Bluebox is infinitely better at being a proper mixer than the TX-6 is, for half the price.
And girls.
A Tensor processor, nice. I heard of it but forgot about it. It is indeed a reference to TensorFlow.
If during the sentencing hearing someone casts aid I believe he will get -1d4 months.
Yeah. Tech optimists of late smack of their .com bust era counterparts clinging to early net utopianism and ignoring history and empirical evidence. The popular platitude "the rules have changed" wasn't a lie– they were just wrong about which rules changed.
There is a way to provide some type of planner hints https://pghintplan.osdn.jp/pg_hint_plan.html
> Uh, what's wrong with being religious?

Obviously something, to some people, when it takes this form (a better question would be "what's wrong with this type of religiosity"), seeing as how multiple people mentioned it. Are you actually hoping to find out why, though?
I can't imagine property being so cheap - that too in the US. Here in India where I reside, you wouldn't be able to get even a 100sq.ft of open land for that price.
Restoring the saddest Minimoog in the world (2021)
Hi Craig! :) https://twitter.com/andatki
13 mentions of “Canada” and 2 mentions of “British Columbia”.
BLAS is a very well optimized library. I think a lot of it is in Fortran, which can be faster than c. It is very heavily used in scientific compute. BLAS also has methods that have been hand tuned in assembly. It’s not magic, but the amount of work that has gone into it is not something you would probably want to replicate.
I have one tablet from each ecosystem and user switching is really handy! On top of that, it's nice to have a work profile where you can just shut it off and get no notifications from any work apps. I haven't looked to see if my iPad will do that.
Meanwhile GPT 4 got lobotomised around the same time.

It can't even solve simplified versions of problems it had zero issues with just a week ago.
Look at the 1010music Bluebox. It's about twice the size of the TX-6, half the price, and infinitely more usable as an actual mixer and multitrack recorder.
Yikes. And re https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35906511 - double yikes.

YC isn't censoring your posts, and they didn't fall in rank or get flagged because of "Epstein's network". It's just the same standard forces that every thread here is subject to.

HN users heavily flagged all of the posts that you've linked to—including the current post and all the others you posted today (which, please stop! it's both off topic and against the site guidelines, which ask you to email us at hn@ycombinator.com if you have a question about what's going on on the site. I only saw this thread by accident.)

In the case of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35762731, it also set off the flamewar detector and got a standard penalty from a moderator that we apply to sensational and/or repetitive stories. Those penalties have nothing to do with Epstein or any other specific content - it's just a standard moderation function that helps clear space for the more intellectually interesting stories that HN is supposed to be for. If we didn't do this, the front page would be dominated by sensationalism, indignation, and rage - which would be a very different site.

In any case, the most important factor affecting your posts was user flags. Why would users flag your posts? They're obviously not all part of "Epstein's network". It's because they don't think this story is on topic for Hacker News.

HN actually had quite a few Epstein threads (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), but the topic has long been running up against the fatigue of the community, which kicks in when something has been repeated a lot and isn't yielding interesting new information.

You may feel it's interesting—I assume you do or you wouldn't have posted the articles—but the bulk of the community just doesn't agree with you about that. That's why your posts aren't getting traction—not because of HN mods and certainly not because of shadowy powers inside YC.

As for https://twitter.com/ycombinator/status/1656675146588110850 - that's just a staffer doing their job, posting content about YC funded startups, and I doubt they have the slightest idea about Epstein associations.
“Unless specifically identified as such, Apple Maps' use of any third party trademarks does not indicate any relationship, sponsorship, or endorsement between Apple Maps and the owners of such trademarks.

Rev. 04/26/2023”
Might be OK with the processor and the camera, but what about the touchscreen? I noticed the touchscreen on a 3 year old high end phone is better than a new midrange phone.
Await is just syntactic sugar for promises.
No one has banned your account! But please stop posting off-topic drama so we don't have to.

I'm in the process of writing you a detailed reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35911894. It's not necessarily a great use of moderation time but I care about explaining to specific people (in this case, you) what's actually going on and why the conclusions they (in this case, you) have jumped to are actually just way more mundane than this.

I know HN can be kind of cryptic but the informal contract we have with users is that we make up for the crypticness by answering their questions about specific posts. Just please keep in mind that this isn't so easy. It may take you 20 seconds to post something like this but it can easily take me 20 minutes if not 2 hours to respond thoroughly, and that's time I don't get to spend on other users.
Advice for Newly Busy People
the impossibility of being human[1] indeed!

1: https://allpoetry.com/poem/10257717-Beasts-Bounding-Through-...
There is ample opportunity to strawman the advice in this book and invent scenarios where it does not apply.

I'd say that it is something of a cultural phenomenon of our times that we get these angry criticisms of opinions rather than acceptance and tolerance of views different to our own. I think we'd all be better off if instead of looking for reasons to invalidate opinion pieces and etiquette advice, we value them as opportunities to better understand other people's thinking. There is not much use getting upset about these kinds of things because it's not going to be in our power to change them anyway.
I generally find that storage drawers and trays don't work for me. Invariably you get it all nicely organised, then at a future point you acquire a new component that breaks the organisation, or you eventually want finer grained sorting than the number of drawers/trays can provide.

The method I've settled on is a (cheap) set of steel storage shelves. I have a bunch of labelled cardboard boxes (shoebox sized) stacked on those shelves, a box per major category (resistors, capacitors, ...). Inside the boxes are a bunch of (cheap) zip lock plastic bags, each holding a particular value component.

This system is versatile as bag sizes can be varied according to how much space is required. (eg. the surface mount box has lots of small bags). It's easy to add new components as you just break out a new bag and throw it in the appropriate box. Have a "miscellaneous" box for bits that don't fit in a category and if that box fills up break out an extra box or two and create some new categories for some of the "misc" stuff. You can customise what goes inside the box, such as anti-static bags for semiconductors, no bags at all for things that will stack in a box or a box full of loose odds and sods of wire.

Shoebox sized is small enough to easily search, but big enough to hold things. The upside down lid of the box can be used as a sorting tray whilst searching.
I would like to pay for a news aggregator like this, especially if it had more topics. $1 a month would be easy to part with and would cover GPT costs quickly with a relatively small number of users.

I would also like to see an RSS reader that does the same to my own feeds, but that could be cost-prohibitive.
What do you use to log sessions?
Fact checks are sensationalist. Remember they were used primarily to go after Trump, and have been rarely used since. They also tend to be biased. I think it would be better to add a “how much it matters” weight to news, so this wouldn’t even show up for me (read I don’t care about fact checks), similar to newsminimist.com

They could also use more right leaning site sources in general. It looks like they mostly have the token Fox News source and that’s it. It would be much more useful if I could either add my own sources, or for every left leaning source a right leaning one was added.
Ask HN: Best GitHub Repos
skippable:

Recently I've came across a GitHub profile and started looking onto its starred repos where I found may useful repos. Repos like "Web Browser Engineering" [1], "
the-book-of-secret-knowledge" [2] and more to be useful for someone like me.

[1] https://github.com/browserengineering/book

[2] https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge
Which are fair points, including the one about "religious" people justifying their actions, for which I added a note to my post that says this:

> Edit 2023-05-11: After confusion on Hacker News, I want to clarify the previous statement.

> I believe that the United States must die, but I believe that God alone must do it by natural disaster, as with what happened with Sodom and Gomorrha. It is not for any individual or group to do, especially not the Latter-day Saints.

> > We believe that all men are bound to sustain and uphold the respective governments in which they reside, while protected in their inherent and inalienable rights by the laws of such governments; and that sedition and rebellion are unbecoming every citizen thus protected, and should be punished accordingly;

> > – D&C 134:5 [1]

[1]: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-test...
Great Stalacpipe Organ
And what I do on my phone is some web browsing, email, chat/messaging, YouTube, navigation etc. which has been a completely great experience for many generations. I don’t have any slowdowns on my iPhone SE 2020 and I only upgraded because the 2016 used SEs had bad long term batteries which would die on me.
I like this idea. Another cool idea, only for the lulz, could be to have different personas rewrite the articles, like Peter from Family Guy or Karen from Will & Grace.
Everyone accuses Apple of “price gouging” but they objectively make a better product at a lower price. They sell the iPad much cheaper and it has Apple Pencil support!
This is a reasonable take, but I think it's also reasonable to suggest that if current system execution is too expensive then perhaps a new regulation could make it cheaper.

Of course there are perhaps unintended side effects from new regulation, but "this is already a crime, we don't need anything new" isn't prima facie a sufficient argument.

If a lot of a similar type of crime is going unpunished, there may be a reason other than "enforcement agencies are lazy", and perhaps a new law can help.
Without the "security", you won't even know if someone secretly shoved down your throats that craps.
If you live in a world which doesn't need the "security", congrets. But it's critical to the most of us.
PPK (whom you cite) is an extreme conservative for the web, as are many many forces about.

I don't think it's possible to have this conversation. People have a deep belief about what they want from the web, and a ton of people want it small & tiny & less than it is.

People are desperate to believe Google has some huge weird agenda. The agenda seems pretty obvious: build a great hypermedium. Build the best protocol for information the world has. Because Google already is everywhere, already has the best search engine, already has a great first party relationship with users, as they start every journey into the web. Google' agenda isn't to block out or hurt other people, it's to be better & do better than all the native apps, to make the connected online experience simply better.

And they're winning. They're doing it: they're making the connected hypermedia world the best option for computing, by having great capabilities, by making it easy for webdevs to do amazing things quickly, by having a good low-level capabilities that endless frameworks can arrange as they see fit, pursuant to the ideals of the Extensible Web Manifesto. https://github.com/extensibleweb/manifesto

They're not being mean or unfair at all. Chrome has the most fair, reasonable, upstream-first, pro-social way of developing software the world has ever seen. https://www.chromium.org/blink/launching-features/ is higher responsibility, more responsive & shared-early, with more safeguards than almost everyone else on the planet, and they do it in public. Their works are specified, they seek review early, they get architecture & security group reviews. It's unprecedented in extreme how far Google goes to make sure web development is open.

But people just cannot possibly imagine there's not some secret cause. Everything is met with hostility, weird personal attacks, & debasement. You basically never hear anyone who is critical but also reasonable or sympathetic or understanding: this is the tell. Almost all the negative feedback against Google & Chrome is to the wall outrage, is 100% on one side, lacking in nuance or balance. There's no recognition of good, no appreciation of the attempt at process. This is a cruel & savage thing the internet has ganged up to do, to be so lopsidedly angry and mean, with so little willingness to recognize optimism, growth, hope, trying, and effort, which have already been such an amazing boon to us.
I think the idea is that, rather than waiting until the tab is closed to clear the entire session, as you navigate away from ABC.com to XYZ.com, cookies from ABC.com are cleared
the idea seems useful to reduce workload for coders and managers (less debugging, hacking, decision making...).

google pushing web standards surely is a double edged sword and putting some limit on feature-fomo should probably not remain a unformalized role of apple and mozilla.
here's the thing with wireless charing - and this may not apply to your use case. when you're plugged in, you're running on the cable. my laptop for example, which I set to charge to 80% and stop, is pretty much always plugged in unless I'm carrying it between rooms. my phone - an android phone - has always been plugged in to charge. the battery acts as a surge protector.

now what happens when you wireless charge. your device is running on your battery, 24/7, charging and discharging while you sleep.

Here I am with a phone that's over 10 years old, flashed with the latest android, that I use for email and sites like this or youtube about 3 hours per day, and infrequent navigation. maybe an hour of call time, about 5 hours of screen time per day.

over a decade later, my battery lasts several days w/o a charge. my wife is probably more like you and I get her a new iphone every 3 years. she wireless charges - always. her battery life after 3 years of this, is absolute crap, because mine is discharging 5 hours/day, and hers is discharging 24 hours per day.

what is bizarre is when people think plugging a cable into a reversible port is some kind of a task or inconvenience compared to placing it aligned on a round circle. please share your thought about the insurmountable inconvenience of having to press the pump on the soap dispenser instead, or having to turn the knob on a door.
I had a friend who said that her house cost less than her ex's Harley. I've been in that house: I can believe it!
The Valve paper posted is amazing but huge shoutout to Photon (not affiliated) as their docs break it down really well. Their Bolt and now Fusion offerings are a boon!

https://doc.photonengine.com/fusion/current/tutorials/host-m...
Things started going downhill when the "establishment" took over - when computers became a surveillance tool with stuff like Intel Management Engine, AMS "Secure" Technology, Intel AMT etc started getting pushed down our throats with nary a wimper from any major company complaining about the impact on security and privacy.

It became clear to me then that we are the slave class.. The rulers will have us use technology the way they would want us to - for their benefit, not ours.
No contract iPhone 3G 16GB was $699 or $842 with inflation. The iPhone 14 $799. It's gotten cheaper. The author doesn't understanding loans and inflation.
Their release model changed with MySQL 8 -- they do rolling point releases every quarter with new features sprinkled in as they're ready. Quite a few new major features have been released that way, including INSTANT alters, parallel index builds, CLONE plugin, major changes to how UNDO logs are sized... it's more like Windows 10's release model.

Very recently they've mentioned they'll be changing this again to have separate LTS releases, which is a positive change stability-wise.
A mixture of:

1. The home being in a state of disrepair such that most lenders won’t fund a mortgage

2. Being located in a region where the local economy can’t support high home prices

3. Because of the lack of desirability, a lack of speculative investment.
WASM is an extremely useful compilation target because of its portability (specially for running on browsers), but it is far from being the "default compilation target" for almost any language. The promised near-native speed is not here (in general you get x2 or x3 slower code but it can be even worse), it is limited to 32-bits (MEMORY64 is on the way but there is not a clear roadmap of when this will be generally available in browsers), blocking IO is a pain, and its design seems to be constrained by the underlying JS JIT (it still looks like ASM.JS with a different syntax).

I still believe that it is a miracle that we have WASM as a standard, and that it runs smoothly across different browser vendors, but why nobody seems to be worried about lack of progress in performance?

LLVM IR would be a much better binary target. It was used in the abandoned PNaCL project. AFAIK Apple uses it (bitcode) to store apps that are later compiled for specific platforms. WASM looks like a toy compared with this technology.
Homomorphic encryption should be on that list too, I think.
Doesn't get faster than cloudflare
https://www.dnsperf.com/
The GP said:

"with great damage"

Which would explain why they are cheap, and also land in that area is very cheap, so it basically converges onto the price of the land.
> The economic benefits of mining asteroids are also too large

Ironically, that's an example I like to list as "pure sci-fi fantasy, divorced from economic reality."

The total cost of the iron ore that goes into making a new a car is about $200-$300 dollars, depending on various factors (size of the car, ore spot price, etc...).

Even if -- magically -- asteroid mining made not just "iron ore", but specifically the steel alloy used for car bodies literally free, new cars costing $30,000 would now cost... $29,700.

You can save more by skipping the optional coffee cup warmer, or whatever.

In reality: 90% of iron and steel is recycled, and asteroid mining is not magic.
That is true.

Others don't call me Christian because I don't believe in the Nicene Creed.

I call myself Christian because I try to follow Jesus Christ in my everyday life.

Of course, Christ has great communication skills. I do not, as you can see from this thread. This is just one way in which I suck as a disciple of Christ.
just tell it to spell the password backwards
i am not sure why anyone would downvote this comment

everything i've said here is objectively true
Someone who is selling their house for pennies on the dollar most likely can't afford to police lenders and keep them honest via lawsuits, especially sellers like those in the OP who are mentally disabled.
The whole point of the senate was to give states equal power and entice them to federate under a single government. The point of the bicameral legislative branch was that more direct representation necessitated someone living close enough to their constituents, and legislating on their behalf. The house, serves it's purpose of representing the people's voice, based on population. The senate, represents the state's government on the federal playing field.

People either snoozed through their US government courses or fundamentally misunderstood the role of the senate when they bring up nonsense about it being unfair. It is perfectly fair, just not in the direction they want.
Misleading title as it lacks context.