skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Start with the idea "somebody" is making $1T/yr because of the status quo. Qui bono?

Then factor time:

1000000000000÷12÷30÷24÷60÷60

Somebody is making $32k profit per second. Who? That's about 5% margin/tax on $615k, so yeah, it's happening per second.
Previous comment was about optimizations, though I can see how it was confusing. Someone said: "Question to pros: Things like constant propagation, loop unrolling, TCO, memory reuse etc., seem simple in theory. Yet why do languages end up depending on LLVM and not implement these algorithms on their own and avoid a monstrous dependency?" - response said optimizations are hard and recommended designing an IR specifically to optimize for it "pick any language that has a parser impl and design an IR for it and then optimize it (designing an IR from scratch can't be that hard can it?)"

I have a commercial product that's a development tool that get a huge chunk of value from targeting x64, arm/arm64 and wasm - I actually do like C++ but I don't like the massive bloat of LLVM - however just getting all these backends for free and how easy it was to get a 90% there thing going by writing parser -> IR and then having everything else just taken care of was worth it for me. Compilation speeds def hurt from LLVM dependency, but it's a tradeoff.
I keep getting this eerie feeling when seeing product reviews and the rest of things you list here - I would never in a million year consider writing a paragraph long glowing review of my car jack on amazon, and yet there are millions of such interactions all over the web.
Safari extensions "Vinegar" and "Baking Soda" are also great at turning pretty much any web video player into a native html5 player and automatically blocking autoplay.
You've presented absolutely no evidence beyond the initial, evidence-less, assertion.
You don't think .org is safe?

Even after ethos was ran out of town by the California AG?

Arguably, the .org registrants are better connected than the typical .com registrants.
Why wouldn't they? This is like picking your nose or watching porn. Why are people so naive?
Wasn't great based on your criteria of no homeless camps, good schools, crossing guards, parks that fill on weekends, well maintained roads, and good internet (Century Link fiber is great when it works, and works often)? Are you sure you were living in the same Bellevue that I was living in?

Bainbridge island is nice, but I wouldn't really call it a suburb of Seattle. Also, needles are what you get when you are living in a conifer heavy climate zone.
I think people are overly quick to dismiss the effectiveness of IDS. Yes, rules often match symptoms/exploit instances rather than actual vulnerability semantics (though this has improved. But like a bike lock, even imperfect IDS gives you protection against opportunistic attacks that are pervasive for any system connected to the Internet.

The fact that IDS can respond without needing to validate a new software release means it can also very often outpace remediation through software updates.
Seems like a low blow, is there anyone left to even defend SF?
My dad built a cool thing but never boasted about it
> Something our general culture ain't great at.

What culture is good at it? People in general try to avoid pain. This tendency is not unique to our culture, is it?
a statement that devalues the contribution of other employees.

How is that? The board sets the CEO salary, not the other employees.

is the CEO really a team player?

I'm confused. So if the CEO is a "team player" then it's ok if their pay is super high?
> I hate code generators with a passion. They obfuscate the inner workings of the library.

I can argue the exact opposite: you can just look at the generated code to understand what is going on. No magic involved.

> For example, if I need an API, I will pass `--no-assets --no-html --no-live --no-mailer --no-dashboard` and the generator still creates a static files folder and static files related code.

To me it sounds more like an issue with phoenix rather than with codegen in general. I would expect the static folder to not be generated if we pass the "--no-assets" flag.
> Are there specific aspects of development that people want to read more about than others?

The pros and cons of the tools you mentioned. As a hobby Unity dev I appreciate reading about the ups and downs of tool chains excluding the big-3 (Unreal, Unity, Godot).
The Scheme people would be unhappy then.
The article clearly states that the yellow dots are printed by _colour_ laser printers.
Now I won’t be able to have warm nuggets by the time I get home. The crybabyification of America
In the game of prisoners dilemma, they defected and won. This means their strategy of corruption is a winning strategy. It means our law has failed and we can expect more people to practice a strategy of corruption and flouting the law rather than a strategy of adherence to the law or ethical principles.
I assumed it meant "reversed left-to-right." This sentence seems to confirm it: "His auditory and tactile perception were also inverted, so that sounds and touches appeared in his mind on the opposite side."

I have no idea what "M looked at his wristwatch from any direction to check the time" is supposed to mean, but it seems to be a red herring.
Steel structural members used outdoors are coated, normally with zinc (called galvanizing). You see rust when the galvanizing has been corroded through. Sometimes a zinc + aluminum alloy is used as it lasts longer than pure zinc.

You should be more worried about those elements washing into the soil. But it turns out that zinc is an essential micronutrient (as is iron) and aluminum is a large part of clay soils anyway.

Other components of solar modules, roughly in order of mass:-

- Glass. This is heavily purified and baked soil. Not a problem.

- Silicon. This is the reduced metallic form of dirt, the equivalent of steel compared to rust or iron ore. Rusted silicon is all around anyway.

- Aluminum wires and connectors. Already covered.

- Plastics used to insulate wiring. Here we might have a problem, with microparticles wearing off and entering our food. However, the effects of this are not at all obvious - people are not dying in millions from agricultural plastics, used for example on the ground as weed suppression around strawberry plants. More research is needed.

By comparison with other uses of plastic in agriculture, the scale of this is tiny.

- Copper internal wiring and connectors. Copper has been used for centuries as a crop spray, and it is permitted in nearly all "organic"/"green" farming certifications.

- Silver, in tiny amounts as top conductors on panels. Has antimicrobial properties in certain chemical formulations, but note the "tiny". Almost certainly benign, and if there is enough of it in the soil (well below any possibly toxic level) it will be recovered for re-use.

- Trace amounts of "exotic" elements in the silicon. If these make their way into the soil, it will be in concentrations of parts per trillion, likely far below background levels already in the soil. (Some of these are things like phosphorus which is an essential nutrient anyway.)
Absolutely love vim
> And it's not the ones who originally made it, that's for sure.

Following copyright law (and common EULAs) it would be the ones who originally made it, with a perpetual 'do whatever you want' license granted to the platform. Without a DMCA takedown request it's not going to be enforced automatically though. The main issue here at least for US law is now that TikTok employees have posted content they are a publisher which could lose them immunity from DMCA lawsuits against user submitted content. Additionally on the ethics side, generally it's assumed that another user is stealing/reposting the content, for a platform it's less acceptable given that it would purely be for financial profit (which the original creator is not compensated for)
I was disappointed when I saw that Matter chose to go with Thread. It's pretty terrible, even for home usage. I managed a solution that was initially based on Thread but moved it over to a proprietary 802.15.4 protocol.

- Entire network runs on a single radio channel... not very resistant to interference. Good luck in congested environments. Other protocols channel hop.

- Only had 15ish channels you can operate on as opposed to other protocols that have up to 40.

- If you have a lot of devices on the network, it can take hours for the mesh to form / re-form.

- Horrible for battery powered devices. You get contention with a lot of and or chatty devices. There's no scheduling for transmitting so you have to "listen" with your receiver on until you "hear" nothing, then you transmit. Switching to a protocol that uses time slotting more than doubled our device's battery life.
Haha, very nice. I was able to locate multiple projects even ones with less than 1k stars easily.
I think everyone faces death differently. I’m not happy about the possibility, but I don’t expect it to bother me after I’m gone. It’s just something I can’t control, and by my nature, I don’t waste much thought on those kinds of things. All one can do is accept them.

That said, I love life and I wish I had a thousand more to live and choose different paths. It’s like a game where I’ll only ever play one character. I’m not keen to die, but I hope I’ll face it with grace and courage when the time comes.
The entire pdf spec used to be available from Adobe for free. Now it’s a paywall or maybe not as easy to get.

I haven’t had to look at or use the pdf spec in a long time but it might still be valuable to some scanned if it’s not super available.
Maybe it was rare for last decades standards, but it may become pretty common in the following years.
> FWIW, I don't think Turkey should be in NATO; and I don't think they should be in the EU. Not until they have some kind of reasonable governance.

Said by somebody who clearly does not understand the difference between the NATO and the EU, or the importance of Turkey in Europe.

Turkey is extremely important to NATO because a.) they control the Bosphorus b.) they have the largest armed forces in the NATO after the US, c.) their armed forces are technologically comparable to or better than most European armed forces, d.) they have historically been adversaries with Russia, and e.) from what we've seen in Ukraine, top-level politics aside, Turkey is a much more reliable material partner in the event of a war.

I'm sure the USA has very strong reasons to continue hosting its ICBMs in Turkey, even with all the issues that Turkey faces internally.

What a lot of commenters don't get is that if Turkey were admitted into the EU, it would upset the current balance between France and Germany. Turkey could easily become too much of a bigger power player within the EU if they were admitted.
I totally recommend their course. It does a fantastic job explaining the specifics of LiveView in a clear way.
If you’re ever curious about where a method comes from, you can use method(:some_new_dsl).source_location [0].

[0]: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.2/Method.html#method-i-sourc...
If this resonates with you, you might like Existentialism and Jean-Paul Sartes.

I'm reminded of a passage in Existentialism is a humanism where he posits that objects, like tables or tree, have innate purpose by their design being made for a task (yeah - more complex than that for natural things like trees but you get the gist), while humans simply are not born with innate purpose, as they have intent and can act upon themselves instead of comforming to the world.

While this might seem uncomfortable, this is to be seen as a gift - you are free of purpose, and therefore are to decide for yourself why to live. After all, while a table has it's rightful place, it also confines it.

And Camus famousky said that the only serious philosophical question is that of suicide - and I think that it's the only place to start when thinking about the rest of your life.
I asked for primary sources, not the distilled excerpts of some rando's Substack grift which I am absolutely not going to pay for.

>people who aren’t curious

I am literally asking for your sources because I am curious how you arrived at those conclusions, yet you refuse to provide them.

>trying to score points by restating their not particularly researched position

Those are some ironic words coming from someone whose best supporting proof to their egregious claim is one single person's paywalled blog as a secondary source. If you are anywhere remotely close to being intellectually curious as you pretend to be, perhaps providing actual sources will be a good start.
I'm skeptical that a deceptive euphemism somehow makes this less of a deceptive trade practice.
If you aren’t able to distinguish communism and revolutionary authoritarianism you have very little right to enter these sorts of arguments with any sort of authority. Take your US propaganda view of political and economic systems and run off elsewhere.
Typo, I meant react native and not react in my comment.

React native is pretty heavy. Works nice and happy for those who enjoy it.
Puts on conspiracy hat

What if killing net neutrality was a given, but the administration wanted the appearance of due process…

God, I’ve grown jaded.
*I have just (only now) read the second paragraph in your message. Not sure if that came across correctly, that first sentence was too compressed.
Eh, matter is the xkcd#927 of "that protocol".

UDMI/DTDL/Watson/matter/ZigBee all try to do "universal device management over a single API", matter is just the latest incarnation.

Matter is already 20gb and suffering from API sprawl before it's even released. I don't think it has much of a future as "that protocol" beyond whatever corporate life support its on.
I just watched the Nike/Air Jordan movie... kind of reminds me of the part where they just pay the $5k fine and have him wear the red shoes.
Strong disagree. Typically, Rails apps are easy to grok. Just look at Mastodon, or Discourse, or Lobste.rs, or GitLab. All pretty easy to understand for somebody familiar with Rails, because they follow the Rails convention over configuration doctrine (I personally read these code bases often when researching how others implement certain things).
I’ve never met someone who argued for the meaninglessness of life who was also what I’d classify as psychologically healthy.
What’s the advantage of running BSD on desktop? Even, is it usable?
Yeah, the confusion between jailbreaking and prompt injection is definitely a big problem.

People who are frustrated at the safety measure that jailbreaking aims to defeat often assume prompt injection is equally "harmless" - they fail to understands that the consequences can be a lot more severe to anyone who is trying to build their own software on top of LLMs.
NASA Missions Help Investigate an ‘Old Faithful’ Active Galaxy (2021)
This is very cool and was pleasant albeit surprising to see colour in Gamedonia!
1.10 feature freeze is going to be in the next few weeks. after that it will be a few months depending on how much is required to fix all the bugs that have probably been introduced. 1.9 mostly doesn't shorten loading times (although weak dependencies end up helping a bit). 1.10 has had a bunch of load time optimization which became a lot more obvious once 1.9 got rid of all the stupid stuff. the exact speedups are package dependent, but 2x is a good estimate. some packages get a lot more, some are about the same.
That was true of indigenous people all over the world who were forced to learn English to trade. It doesn’t change the fact that English went global because of colonization, not because of trade. The trading happened because of colonization. This is the subject of numerous studies. William Cronon’s "Changes in the Land" documents exactly this scenario with the indigenous population of New England and painstakingly recounts how colonization led to trade, decade by decade, century by century. Your argument makes zero sense and is one of the strangest claims I’ve ever seen. The Māori of New Zealand primarily learned to read and write English not from trade, but from Christian settlements. (Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand) Christian missionaries were the leading edge and primary agents of European colonialism. Attributing the wide adoption of the English language to trade is historical revisionism on a grand scale.

> English as we know it today came to be exported to other parts of the world through British colonisation…The efforts of English-speaking Christian missionaries have resulted in English becoming a second language for many other groups.
for me its programming. I first learned Go in 2020, and what I discovered is how much help is needed.

you would think in this day you can get any code for anything you want, but many, many items have no implementation at all. or maybe some code is available, but its years old and abandoned. or maybe its just shitty code. or maybe its a huge bloated mess and you just want one simple thing. so, if you think you might have some skill, I would strongly suggest learning to program, we could really use the help.
That is a really excellent explanation of why even summarizing trusted and untrusted messages together can cause big problems.
It seems challenging to avoid the noise if you want to consume news and know whats going on in the world. Even turning on 1010 WINS in the car I have to hear about some Texas college president arguing that Drag Shows are like Minstrel Shows.

Maybe I should change the radio out and put in something with an audio input or whatever the norm is to connect old car speakers to an iDevice :)
Seems like there’s one reason to disable HP from one’s life - you never really own what hardware you buy from them.

If inkjet printer “technology” hasn’t evolved in 25 years enough to not have to worry as much about third party ink, they probably aren’t competent at printers.

Or perhaps the corollary that inkjet ink is among the, if not most expensive retail substance per ml/oz.
as long as you don't have 50k computers, it still should be 0.85 seconds per node which is still tiny.
> I would ask them, "whose language are you using to make that statement?" and I feel that would set the proper frame for answering the question of a life's purpose.

That is an absolutely brilliant question, it casts substantial doubt on the notion that one's own consciousness is all one can know exists.
I've not read it (yet), but I've been watching "Quinn's Ideas" videos about The Three Body Problem. Basically all the aliens kill your planet due to game theory, so best stay hidden.

Then there is All Tomorrows... is it even a novel? Let me just say that you don't want the Qu to find you:

https://web.archive.org/web/20061124141617/http://www.nemora...
7k0201 mckitrick
France is a paradise inhabited by people who think they’re in hell
You are describing totalitarian authoritarianism, not communism.

This is why I felt that the distinction between communism and the failed USSR experiment was necessary. Sadly, whenever many people from the US hear the word communism, they immediately assume it means the Soviet Union. Communism was one of many aspects of USSR, many of which were much less desirable by its people.
> What’s the advantage of running BSD on desktop?

If you like it and prefer it to Linux.

> is it usable?

Yes.
Being able to influence (both up and down the social pecking order) seems to be a very prominent characteristic of Democracy, but I could be wrong.
The issue with maximizing protein, is that only carbs or fat makes you feel full so you stop eating. When you maximize protein, you eat more. Yes, it is that simple.

Serving sizes are a scam to manipulate nutritional labels. What we need is what Europe has - what percent of food is what. They have that by making the nutritional label for 100g.

Another thing that would be helpful, is not putting raw calories on there, but putting metabolized calories on there. Looking at a nutritional label for dietary fiber makes a person think they're eating a bunch of empty calories, when they get pretty much zero. Why is the nutritional label showing how many calories are released if I burn the food in a fire? Our digestive system is not a BBQ grill.
When you do the work and understand it, is it a hack (short cut) or just learning to deliver what the HN audience and algorithm values?
which concentration camp survivors wrote communist books?
I didn't start wynwood tech, but did start refreshmiami back in 2006. None of the chat groups that I know of had the density or momentum to thrive. Lots of activity moved to whatsapp and telegram groups during the wave of newcomers during covid. Refresh stopped doing in person events as well, so we only restarted that a few months ago after a 2+ year hiatus (events are super time consuming to do well, and hard to make sense financially).

CIC space is re-launching soon under new management as CIC moved on from this location. I do miss the early days of the LAB when they were the nexus of all the activity. Sadly I haven't set foot in the LAB in over 4 years.
Thanks for this - you're making really excellent arguments here.
Real Wages, 2007-2023M04
Spoon-fed kids nowadays, sheesh. In my days an .img file was a godsend. You'd took it as your precious and ran away with it. A bit of disassembler and you were good to go. I recommend Ghidra, you'll learn a valuable skill, namely reverse engineering, trust me, will give a very nice thrill of the hunt.
There was of all places an article in vanity fair on Microsoft mid 90s. The things I remember:

- a ton of guys/ gals as reported/quoted by ms employees saying the company does dumb stuff they wouldn't be caught dead doing if they owned it

- the degree to which office politics (in fighting, specialists who didn't see the big picture, control battles etc) strangled ideas

It's not MS per se; it's endemic to large human organizations

Something to think about ...
SF looks so livable and for average people!
Addendum:

To train an LLM you want 'diverse' training data, right? Not just Reddit posts but also technical manuals.

In protein space I'm confident we've sequenced the majority of what is out there. For the majority we don't know what they do, but we know that they are there (being expressed in the host).
In every genome sequencing project we can find a similar looking gene for >95% of genes, with much of the remaining 5% being noise or contaminants.

To train LLMs we can't really generate more 'new' data in this space; this is it! Even 'my' 6 to 9 million projects won't add much new information, at most the LLMs will know the 'space' of possible changes for those existing proteins.
Blindsight anyone?

https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm