skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With my car, I don't have to wait at all and I can go straight home.

I don't believe all these posts against cars are from humans, especially on this website. Surely, technologically savvy folks like us would have learned to appreciate why decentralized systems (like cars) are better than centralized systems (like mass transit) for their flexibility.
How many cylinders, heads and sectors does the 1TB NVMe have?
As the article says, overlapping halves turns out faster than using powers of two in the general case. But for small enough searches the bitwise method can be run in vector registers! I talked about this at [0], slides as zipped html at [1] (and I forgot the last click on the multi-byte data slide that shifts the indices for the final result!). The overlap method is probably also possible, but the simpler bitwise operations work out better in SIMD.

[0] https://youtu.be/paxIkKBzqBU?t=610

[1] https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/conference/dyalog19/presentat...
I ordered a HAND 386 before it was removed from sale. The order hasn’t shipped yet and I’m trying to not get my hopes up too much that it will actually ship. I was going to use it was a portable testbench for my RP2040-based ISA card emulation projects.
Disinterest?.. Apple initiated the investments in WebKit, and chrome was later on based on that.
Cities of 200k have good transit in some areas. Look around for inspiration. Most of them do not have English as the native language so it can be hard finding them
> These design decisions often reflect the design of the language itself, which is to say that some languages are more amenable to fast compilation than others and I suspect that Zig is at best average or slightly above average for languages of similar expressivity.

Extremely correct. In particular, if care isn't taken at the initial design phase of a language to ensure compilation isn't slow, it's likely going to end up being just that. Much in the same way untested code is likely to be incorrect.

Note that I used "isn't slow" instead of "is fast" deliberately. You don't need to, nor should, stress about low-level optimizations, you just need to get the high-level design right. A poorly written quicksort will run circles around the most optimized bubble sort.
Anybody have experience with k8s dynamically scaling up?
I bought this for iOS ages ago and am very happy to see that I get the Mac version gratis. Great move.
69th Bilderberg Meeting
I find it nice that fast or beautiful cars have been more accessible to regular people every year since the lamborghini countach or ferrari daytona.
Probably "BratGPT: The evil older sibling of ChatGPT" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35971677
What does this mean for Microsoft? Pretty much everything they do is a copy of some other successful product. Consider Microsoft Loop. Pretty good product. But it is a Warhol'd version of Notion. What is Micrsoft Teams, if not a Warhol'd version of Slack? What is C# if not a Warhol'd version of Java?
Reversible computing needs a place to store waste entropy, ie a rather large memory that's initialized to known values and filled with junk as the computation runs. Venting entropy out of a system is not reversible.

Clockless designs mean that you compute readiness information on the fly instead of having it precomputed at design time. This additional run-time computation is not free, and tooling for clocked designs is good enough that the extra slack they need is often cheaper.
What's interesting about Tesla is that his visualization powess. He was gifted with insane capabilities of visualization. He said he would build assemble his inventions in his head, go to the lab to build it. And it would work on the first attempt.

That's similar to coming up with all the code in your head and passing the compiler and tests on the first try without any errors.

Crazy.
Thank you! Most people don't need one (and hopefully it stays that way) but I still think it's a fun and educational device. If nothing else it's a conversation piece. :)
Google didn’t cannibalize search with Bard. Bing/openai forced google to act.

This is exactly the opposite of what was meant
> An Options object is a worse API, since it assumes an implicit dependency.

No, it would be an explicit dependency.

// definition:
function decodeText(input, [format | options])

// use:
decodeText(someBuffer, 'utf8')

// or:
const opts = {encoding: 'utf8', fatal: true, ignoreBOM: false}
decodeText(someBuffer, opts)
decodeText(somethingElse, opts)

> Why?

Because a pure function is idiomatic, concise and clear. Its easier to use, easier to document and easier to understand. The only benefit of a class is that it encapsulates its state behind an interface. That makes sense for a BTree or a database. But TextDecoder has no mutable state. It has no state at all except for its passed-in configuration.

Decoding text is a verb not a noun. In programming, verbs are translated to functions, not classes. You don't have an "adder object" to add things. You don't have to instantiate a JSON stringifier before calling JSON.stringify. If thats not obvious, you may have spent too long in OO languages.
Not just Twitter, all big corporations

Charles Stross has a great essay about this, "Invaders From Mars"
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders...
yet another vr headset that is measurably less awful while still not being good is still a massive advancement.

apple can afford to iterate, and their high end and business customers can afford to participate in that process.

it won’t be siri, but they wouldn’t be rolling it out if they didn’t have something that felt different.
I have no desire to be "inspired". Others may wander around hoping to have epiphanies about how everyone else should live, but I don't care how others live as long as they leave me alone. I don't want them to make themselves miserable making it better for me...

It's enough that they don't make things worse for me specifically and spitefully. I do wonder why that wouldn't be good enough for you.
They said “done as well”, not “doing well”, two very different things.
I don't really watch cable news so hadn't considered it but yeah makes sense as similar to sports in a lot of situations and more passive viewing. If you aren't the kind of person who watches films and scripted shows like me where all the lights are off and I want no other external sound and a total immersive experience than sure it invalidates my points. Obviously not for all but an option for a lot.
I'm going to get downvoted for this but transplants like you made Manhattan unbearable to live in.
Free buses should not be considered in any city. Spend that money on more frequent routes. People will not use a free bus that only comes once an hour, or doesn't stop close to them. Until your city is covered with transit coming every 5 minutes you need to work on that not cost.

Not even the best transit cities have transit every 5 minutes all over the city. There is a lot of room to improve in them all
You're acting like Android isn't staying competitive. If Apple is moving forward how can you say Google isn't?
Why so small? 24cm width wtf? Why not a full sized laptop? Screen will be basically invisible, size of a typical smartphone screen.
Also 16:9 screen ratio will definitely work poorly with almost all nontrivial DOS apps.
Do you have fb group references? I leave in greenpoint and my lease ends in Sept. I'm looking for something like what you've mentioned.
Vector Databases Are Having a Moment – A Chat with Pinecone
Interesting that he suggests Open BSD. Seems like a different unix/linux version might be more familiar to newer users.
Which parts of onboarding do you feel like are pain points?
TBH, with today's web the only way I have found to limit the information sent is to either not use a browser to make HTTP requests (e.g., use TCP client instead) or use a browser that (a) does not auto-load resources, e.g., images, Javascript files, etc, and (b) does not run Javascript inside <script> tags. Of course no other silly stuff like automatic "DNS prefetch" either. This way I know that the only information I am sending is the information I the web user actually sent, i.e., the HTTP request. Otherwise, there is no way to know what other HTTP requests will be made to accomplish auto-loading images, fonts, etc. or what other HTTP requests will be made by auto-loaded or inlined JS when the browser automatically runs it.

When the user types or clicks on https://hostx.com/1.htm, the user knows she has sent a request for filepath "/1.htm" at hostx.com. That's straightforward and easy to understand. Her intent is clear. She wants the file named "1.htm" from hostx.com.

However, what if she uses a browser that auto-loads remote files and auto-runs JS, and, e.g., the file 1.htm instricts the browser to auto-load the file "1.js", the browser automatically runs 1.js without any input from the user, and then 1.js makes more HTTP requests. Has the user "authorised" that information to be sent. Imagine she does not know the contents of file 1.js. How can she authorise sending information, i.e., an HTTP request, if she does not know what is the information, i.e., the request, and where it is being sent.
Soon the insurance will cost more than the property.
No undismissable ads as notification bubbles on a Pixel either.
> YT barely makes money

Sure. And the same has been about Amazon in retail. But the scoreboard for the tech companies is not earnings; it is return to shareholders, mostly share price appreciation. If the stock prices are high in relation to income, that suggests that the monopoly power is somehow valuable, probably in expectation that the monopoly can be significantly monetized in the future or used to help other parts of the business.

Monopolies may have multiple downsides even when they do not extract extortionate profits. Google must obtain plenty of positive feelings from the public for providing so much amusement via youtube, maybe so much good feeling that no one even tries to assess the consequences of their other monopoly (search).

Somehow, when I see a huge company like Alphabet (Google) based on a niche like search, which has a single winner, and they offer a service like youtube that looks so grass-roots inclusive inviting everyone to join in and get happy, rich and famous, but only a very small fraction do, where success is based so much on what youtube itself recommends, I suspect that there may be some implicit bias working in favor of unequal results that maybe google has something to do with.

We should be looking for alternative models and finding ways to reverse the trend to single-winner markets. I grew up when all the significant cities in the USA had multiple local newspapers, all of which hired writers, and when very many more musicians made a living than do so now. I cannot think of a good reason why anyone should have expected that vast improvements in communications technology would destroy that or why we should just let that go. Monocultures do not find global optimums.
If you allow access to all Photos it includes videos... which includes audio. Cool "hack" but not doomsday for privacy.
It is what it says. Buses, trains, and planes are mass transportation - you have to travel with other people and make stops with them. Cars, bikes, and walking are individual transportation - you travel alone and navigate yourself.

geff82's observation that individual transportation is the norm forever is in fact true.

But they fail to notice that making a city more walkable and bikeable - with appropriate paths and distances - also promotes individual transport.
> Throughout much of the year, that's asking to die of heatstroke or something.

One could say the same about Singapore yet they find ways to make it work.

> It will never have a subway.

250k-300k is about the right size for a small tram network - compare e.g. Ghent.

> Hell, there's only one or two buildings that are more than 5 stories tall.

That's fine if there's no need for them.

> It is hundreds of miles away from any city of comparable size.

Sounds like banning cars from the centres of bigger cities won't really inconvenience you then.

> Are we supposed to give up cars? I have a 6 minute ride to work in the morning if I hit the stop lights wrong.

If traffic isn't a problem then there's no reason to give up cars. But generally as cities grow they reach a point where space is at a premium and cars take up too much of it. Again if we look at Ghent as a good example for a city that size, they have a car-free zone but it's only a few blocks around the very centre (there's a larger zone around it where cars are permitted but subject to emission requirements). It works well, makes for a really nice city centre that you can actually live in.

> Why would I ride the piss-stinking bus

What if I told you it was possible to have busses that don't stink of piss?

> It's not a car-industrial complex that is an obstacle to your imagined utopia. It's that there are people like myself who don't want to make our lives more difficult so that yours gets better.

Why do you think any change must be about making your life more difficult? Your whole post seems to be about looking for every possible problem and not making the slightest effort to look for solutions to them.
It feels like this is something that should be easily amenable to statistical analysis.

Large numbers of people get diagnosed with lung cancer; smoking rates vary widely and smoking is typically recorded in patient histories; typical radon levels vary widely with geography and are recorded / known. This looks like a near perfect natural experiment, no?
Using CSS Flexbox to Create a Simple Bar Chart in ColdFusion
I have no idea what it cost in Munich, but the city center undergrounded the commuter trains and the river. The river appears in Englisch Garden from under a road and is a popular surf spot on a standing wave.
Would be cool if there was a video out... Would be cooler if it was a 386.
Related Planet Money:

Dude, where’s my streaming TV show?: Why platforms like HBO Max are removing streaming TV shows

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/06/1161382179/hbo-max-disappeari...
Same here, pretty much. I didn't even write it. I asked GPT-4 for the code from the API playground, and it just worked.
I expect new hardware from Nintendo in 2024 or 2025. The immense sales of the Switch and the pandemic have kept it around longer than it probably was originally planned for.

It just keeps selling though. Sales have dipped, but not so much that Nintendo is in any hurry.
I never heard of Jetpens before but I'm excited to see they sell what is essentially colossal, unbranded Altoids tins https://www.jetpens.com/Velos-Tin-Pen-Case-Wide/pd/14193
At the time these historical recipes would have been brewed, folks referred to a beverage made with malted barley and yeast as "ale" and beverages made with malted barley, yeast and hops as "beer."
Except it's not. What's the opposite of "live"? "Prerecorded"?

So these Live photos are supposedly not prerecoded - except they actually are. They are a prerecorded video that you send to someone. There is nothing live about it.

You just fell for the marketing.
How does that work without corrupting the jpg for file viewers not expecting it?
I'm getting the mp3 stream too, in Firefox on Linux.

I also have a weird div covering half the viewport (vertically): https://imgur.com/a/vJqWmtO

edit: the div covering half the viewport also occurs on nightride.fm
Why not a lightweight, unobtrusive AR glass that uses the iPhone as the main compute engine and delivers notifications, navigation, speech recognition & translation to the glass in a clear way.
None of this has to be super high-quality or super low-latency, and I’d still pay 500 too buy it.

I don’t care for VR, games or metaverse. Tell me what plant/insect I’m looking at, what’s that star/satellite in the sky, help with measurements. Simple useful stuff that doesn’t need me to wear a supercomputer on my head.
I don't think they're arguing that exceptions are better, just that `try` (in Zig) or `?` (in Rust) is nicer than `if err != nil { ... }`. It's the one thing about go that I really wish had better ergonomics.
Doesn’t the constitution or Declaration of Independence only uncover itself every ten minutes so to reduce fading?

I thought I remember that.
You heard it here first:

Since AI generations are not copyrightable, AI is going to destroy copyright. Because nobody will be able to tell what parts of a new work are generated by AI and what parts are not.
Once, I took Calculus 2 in the summer at a local community college to save some money before attending University. In my class were what I assume to be two brothers. The oldest was probably 12 and the youngest was 8. I thought that was so cool at the time. Community colleges are extremely underrated and I wish I would have known more about available opportunities during High School. It's such a much better environment for focusing on just academics.
> Onboarding in particular is demonstrably more difficult to do remotely.

How would you demonstrate this?

I’m with a funded SV startup that’s been remote-only since its founding, a few years before covid. We have staff in at least five countries, and in the US, in at least five states (just based on the people I can think of offhand.)

The company is the leader in its field, which involves significant real innovation, and has many major enterprise customers.

I’ve helped onboard many employees, and I’ve managed one of the key product teams.

When I hear people talk about all the disadvantages of remote work, I just internally roll my eyes. As you say, they’re plugging their own personal preference. But that seems to be exactly what you’re doing with the quote above.
nearly all of the old stuff just sucked. there's a reason we threw it all away (for the most part) and have turned to emulation.

the new low power SoC systems with actual connectivity are much more interesting... probably why they can barely keep the stuff in stock. as a bonus, they can run emulation just fine. old, and new, in one package.
I'm now struggling to find the study I was thinking of when I said "demonstrably", but I can say anecdotally that our new hires ask fewer questions online than in person, despite my reminders that the worst thing you can do while onboarding is ask too few questions. Coworker relationships are more formal and compartmentalized online than in person and they can be more reluctant to ping people with questions out of fear of being considered annoying. This doesn't apply to everyone but it has a noticeable effect on the average new hire.

I'm sure you can come up with the perfect counterpoint to my anecdote. We'll just have to wait a few more years for more robust, large scale comparisons before we really understand how much an office is worth.
> and Utah passed hyper-totalitarian laws

I haven't actually seen anything about a Utah law yet, only the Montana ban of TikTok. What exactly does "hyper-totalitarian" mean compared to totalitarian, and what was the Utah law passed recently?
It gives people a reason to create works. You might not like big budget movies, but I do. We works loose those. No more good TV shows, just amateur hour. No more good books. Just more amateur hour.
20 packets per second continuously from your phone to a single server, when you’re otherwise sitting there doing nothing would be very noticeable (for anyone who cared to look for it). And yet I’ve never seen any evidence reported of this.
Copyright is too long. But it isn't broken. And it does indeed protect the little guy
The idea that beer (at least normal low alcohol content beer) dehydrates you is also something of a myth: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26702122/
It doesn't seem any better than the alternatives. I happen to prefer Docalysis.com ;)
They do what? They do not need to. But they ARE, because they want to. You and the other simply misunderstand that Apple rule because it's written strangely. Do YOU have first hand experience with this rule? Go do your research.
Everyone in the US is wealthy. What we call poor is still very rich by world standards and a car is well within reach.

The above applies to most counties where someone is likely to read this.
Everyone want their 30% cut.
So did I! Once I realized I could take “school” classes at the local community college I did as much as possible.

Really opened my eyes.
Associates degrees.
Committee on Governmental Affairs starring senator and actor Fred Thompson.

“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.” - Admiral Josh Painter (Fred Thompson) The Hunt For Red October
They are still freedom. Nothing else gives the overall ability to get where you want to go when you want to.
How will the human race end?
>I'm similarly concerned about doing something that will make Americans more isolated by default.

You're right to be concerned about this, but I think it stems from a combination of "false dichotomy" and "learned helplessness":

The socializing we do at work is ultimately a side effect of the work environment, not part of the primary goal. We can learn from how non-car-oriented societies structure their settlements. Returning to the previous (and terrible) iteration of the American status quo is not the only alternative.

We don't have to settle for terrible choices simply because they have mildly beneficial side effects.
> However, C happens to be almost a clean subset of Rust. You can take a C program and translate it line by line to Rust.

I can't see how that's possible, unless you litter your code with `unsafe` all over the place. Rust requires a lot of restructuring around ownership and borrowing to get your code to even compile.
You can display the hello page on Emacs and install the emacs fonts package to reduce the TOFU. Google has NOTO (no tofu) font sets but the quality is suspect at points.
Many people are not aware that - currently - Zig completely rebuilds your entire application with every compilation - including any parts of the standard library you use. There is not yet any incremental compilation.

It takes a lot of time investment to make compilation fast, and we have gone all in on this investment. There was almost an entire year when not much happened besides the compiler rewrite (which is now done). Finally, we are starting to see some fruits of our labor. Some upcoming milestones that will affect compilation speed:

* x86 backend (90% complete) - eliminates the biggest compilation speed bottleneck, which is LLVM.

* our own self-hosted ELF linker - instead of relying on LLD, we tightly couple our linker directly with the compiler in order to speed up compilation.

* incremental compilation (in place binary patching) - after this Zig will only compile functions affected by changes since the last build.

* Interned types & values. Speed up Semantic Analysis which is the remaining bottleneck of the compiler

* Introduce a separate thread for linking / machine code generation, instead of ping-ponging between Semantic Analysis & linking/mcg

* Multi-threaded semantic analysis. Attack the last remaining bottleneck of the compiler with brute force

Anyway, I won't argue with cold hard performance facts if you have some to share, but I won't stand accused of failing to prioritize compilation speed.
I am just plugging my preference. Tried to emphasize "me personally". I'm sure many companies work much better without an office, though I think at a certain size it almost certainly becomes beneficial to have at least some office space. My main point was that neckties are not an apt comparison, and that we don't really know yet how valuable offices are under various circumstances.
Correct. Arguably an Apple employee in the future will leave and rethink it to be successful when technology or the market is right.

Even as an Apple enthusiast, I think this product is destined to be this year’s HomePod.
Redditors who make over $100k without being 'killed' by stress discussing jobs
8088 chip does not include FPU, does this laptop has one, otherwise it is going to be very slow.
> He turned down $100m offer with substantial cash buyout.

What do we think he's worth roughly as is?