skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Survival, yes, and happiness to a certain extent. This is probably one of the most important realisations of the 20th Century, that by providing for the basic needs of everyone (and thereby essentially amortizing those costs over the entire population), we can produce overall better results for the country (measured in efficiency, production, happiness, etc).

So by setting up a national health service in the UK, you ensure a base level of health across the whole country. By providing free education (and free higher education), you ensure that the workforce is more skilled, and able to make a wider range of choices. By providing basic housing, food, etc to those who need it, you prevent people having to opt out of society in order to survive.

This sort of safety net is cheaper in the long run (it's worth watching Unlearning Economics' video "Free Stuff is Good Actually", which goes into detail on this point), but it's also fundamentally about freedom. If you have access to free education, you can make choices about your career and life that you just couldn't before. If you have free healthcare and financial support if you get sick, you can continue working for longer, but you'll also have more time to make bad choices and weird choices - the sorts of choices that are fundamental to healthy entrepreneurship. If you have a financial safety net, you can take more interesting risks, because the consequences are less severe.

So yeah, I think if you believe freedom is a virtue, then I think you also need to see it as a virtue for people to be supplied with the tools that can give them freedom.
Yeah it's a pretty fun dataset that you can do a lot of stuff with. Very slept on.
At the risk of conflict of interest, there's a wikipedia page that acknowledges that niche sections of the site have biases. Of particular interest is the section on Croatia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedi...
Leguin was one of the most imaginative and skilled scifi writers ever. She also has fantasy series Earthsea which lots of Harry Potter was inspired from but it never got so popular even though it might be as good or better.
Fortunately digital content rots extremely slowly, especially if emulation is available.
Physical stuff sometimes does, the more chemical or advanced it is, the more it rots.

With physical things it really depends on what you save. I personally tend to keep a bunch of hardware around many people would not. Some of those things will most definitely go out of usefulness date before I get to them, but are hard to get anyway so weird to get rid of. These are liable to become useless. Others are older spare parts that would not, but I cannot be bothered to sell them just yet...
They might go out of style and become useless, but are likely to keep their value.

Yet more are some pieces for plans the didn't pan out yet, but they might. These won't break or might get used for something else. And a few fixable broken things that are not quite junk. These might get fixed depending on requirements.
I literally have a box called wire box, and another which is a whole bunch of audio cables.
That's a lot of copper. It proved useful for a variety of purposes thus far.

That is different from my mom's minor hoarding in that she keeps things that will not get used for anything ever, look cute but are horrible to keep, and additionally I do regularly clean out total junk...

The new meta is to give stuff to people who will make use of it.
Uncle Roger has social media accounts suspended in China
2GB VRAM means you can run things comparable to GPT2, a glorified Markov chain. On your CPU you could run much larger models at far from real time speeds.
It’s not Leetcode in of itself that I hate; in fact, I enjoy programming challenges such as Project Euler and Advent of Code, and I occasionally read my Knuth volumes for fun. It’s the interview process that sucks the fun out of it, where you have to compete against those who just seem to eat, sleep, and drink Leetcode. It reminds me of my high school days when I stressed out over grades and SAT scores. I understand that for highly-desirable companies there needs to be some mechanism for culling the mass number of applications they receive, but when just about every company seemingly asks difficult Leetcode questions even if the job doesn’t require sophisticated algorithms, it’s very demoralizing. I’m getting tired of monkey dancing and I’m researching alternative ways of making a living.
I don't know about every time but honestly the fact that it'll just fill in the gaps when it doesn't know means that you have to treat all responses with a bit of suspicion.
Ref-counting GC is pretty slow. It’s great for avoiding stop-the-world pauses, which can be really important for UI stuff like what Swift is used for, but you won’t win any throughput awards.
You know who. [0]

[0] https://arc.net
Censorship just because he said "...All the phones listening … this nephew got Huawei phone, they all listening,”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnLScLsHNa8
From the description:

Thus, asymmetric fields in choices behave like optional fields for writers and like required fields for readers—the opposite of their behavior in structs.

So if you have a schema change which adds an asymmetric field to both a struct and a choice, it seems both writers and readers needs to be updated in order to successfully transmit to each other?

Or am I missing something fundamental?
Is this better as a preface to Network Programming or a suffix?
And even more interesting, before Age of Empires was Age of Empires, but was called "Tribe", there used to be a space age version developed alongside called "Stratos". Here are some demo/concept screenshots: http://aoe.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action...

I swear, there used to be more, but I keep misplacing them. Maybe they are in an album on there which I can't find.

The concept art was by Ralph McQuarrie, who notably did the concept art for Star Wars.

A very, very old exe version called "ptribe" still has some STRATOS function names, and a cmdline argument seeminly specifying which game is being started.
You got a point. On the other side, arguably, one could say the same about C#, JavaScript or Python.

It took real effort from Microsoft into the Open Source space to make it more widely popular. Far away from Java or JavaScript, but I see many similarities between the development and evolution of Swift and C#.

Almost everything starts as a domain specific language. Same goes for JavaScript. First browser only, then through Node, suddenly JavaScript everywhere.

Python gained massive traction through Jupyter. Before that, I found Python a clumsy alternative to JavaScript. Since then I have changed my mind. ;)
Currently at 307.
Also https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh (https://cht.sh).
Actually using it quite often!
We seriously need some stronger consumer-protection laws in those areas. We live in a digitalized World. To some degree those accounts are a part of peoples lifes! Companies should not be able to simply take those away without any good reason and any way of legal recourse.
Not sure why the only alternative to Swift is "going back", particularly when Swift is already going back in many ways.

How about going forward to an alternative that actually isn't a step back.
US politics, definitely. But also any other topic that attracts an internet mob large enough to infiltrate the editor community.

Take the first few paragraphs of Donald Trump [0] vs. Joe Biden [1] and try to compare the way they're presented:

Donald John Trump [...] and his businesses have been involved in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six business bankruptcies. Trump promoted conspiracy theories and made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics. Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged or racist and many as misogynistic. [...] He reacted slowly to the COVID-19 pandemic, ignored or contradicted many recommendations from health officials, used political pressure to interfere with testing efforts, and spread misinformation about unproven treatments.

There's not a single positive sentence about him. He must have done something positive in his 4 years of reign, but Wikipedia doesn't tell me that in an objective manner. Meanwhile...

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. [...] has addressed the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recession. He signed the American Rescue Plan Act, the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Respect for Marriage Act, which codified protections for same-sex marriage and repealed the Defense of Marriage Act. He appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. In foreign policy, Biden restored America's membership in the Paris Agreement on climate change.

There's not a single negative sentence about him. He must have done something negative in his 4 years of reign, but Wikipedia doesn't tell me that in an objective manner.

Whenever someone tries to portray someone as completely evil or completely saint-like, I call bullshit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
I think there is one company very well placed to do this, Apple. Their revenue is driven by hardware sales, rather than advertising, and they have committed to some level of "privacy" focussed design (although obviously there are criticisms). On top of that their hardware is looking almost like it was design for exactly these use cases. Apple silicone with its unified memory architecture, GPU and Neural cores is very well placed for local LLMs.

Apple have a history of doing stuff locally, on the hardware they designed, that other companies have offloaded to the cloud.

They are looking for "the next big thing" that lets them sell hardware. Some people thinks that's going to be their VR/AR headset, I don't. It's going to be local AI running privately on your device. Putting the AI in the cloud doesn't help with hardware sales.

My only hesitation is that they have such a crap spell checker, surly you would solve first...
Yeah that’s why the port’s on the bottom. To force a change in habit learned from subpar hardware. The thing charges enough to last a whole day in like a minute or two.
That depends on which model you use it with. It's "bring your own model"
Yes, it's that.. you can easily find someone with regrets of having thrown something away which actually turned out to be useful later (I've had lots of those types of regrets), but it's very rare to find someone saying "I really regret I didn't throw that away" (unless it's e.g. some chemical stuff which went bad and created a mess).
So, better safe than sorry.. I've hoarded a lot of stuff, but I've also realized there's not enough time left in life to use everything, even though I only hoard stuff I'm actually interested in. So I dump stuff. And sometimes I regret it - where's that nice piece of wood I had stashed away, now suddenly it would have been useful.. so I go and buy, instead. And so on.
Some examples please. I’ve yet to find any actual utility, mostly I’ve got a lot of convincing bullshit out of it.
My Logitech MX lasts a couple of months on a charge, and Gnome warns when it is down to 20%, and it's done that for as long as I can remember.

The difference here is that sometimes I ignore the warning and then it gets too low but I can plug it in as I use it for 20 mins, whereas a Mac user can't.
i totally get it.

captchas are NOT DESIGNED to prevent bots... that does not exist in the govt lexicon or understanding.

its just that someone who made these websites was taught "captcha" should exist on search forms, thats about it.

indian income tax website originally had stupid captchas. last year they revamped the site and captcha is gone. EVERYONE IS HAPPY.

this is not about adding friction or some malicious purpose, the dev needs to add a checkbox on the budget that "captcha has been implemented", so they did the lowest cost denominator
Modern, state-of-the-art, generational GC? Not being snarky, that’s literally the comparison.
As much as I am a programming enthusiast, since I started working I really think 40-50 hours of staring at a screen is enough (if not way too much).

Especially if you're overweight, spending more time sitting behind a desk is just a poor life choice.
It's missing quite a few vendors, but they are open to PRs :)
This isn't special. My Logitech MX lasts a couple of months on a single charge.
There is the free and open source Beyond All Reason (BAR) inspired by Total Annihilation, which is very polished and a lot of fun. It's got features I've not seen anywhere else yet (in terms of possibilities for commands and customisation) and also has a growing competitive scene. It's worth checking out
Really? Wikipedia's left-wing bias is well known:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wikipedia-bias-socialism-pa...

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1600200000763756544

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9283061/Wikipedia-f...

https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/wikipedia-co-founder-says-site...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/04/27/wikipedias-left-wing-...

Compared to Britannica:

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/is-wikipedia-more-biased-than-enc...
i just randomly find them. if i happen to like them, i would add it to my playlist
I found that (with pylint as my metric) code requests in Russian, German and, strangely enough, best of all, Bulgarian, are higher quality than requests made in english (deepl for translation engine).

I still need to grep through the other data I saved from codex but I made it LARP as a distinguished professor of computer science who was unable to speak english

it kept writing letters to fictional students
That’s interesting, catering to an employee(a) over catering to the customer.
Related:

Drakon: a visual language for specifications from the Russian space program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12638032 - Oct 2016 (39 comments)

Drakon – A visual language for specifications from the Russian space program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6429283 - Sept 2013 (28 comments)
I just love all those except Neal Asher so i guess i have to check him out. Anything you recommend in particular?
Also today: soldered memory and 8GB MBPs that START at $1300.
Example: https://nitter.net/echetus/status/1579776106034757633#m
They also have an incentive not to be sued for some astronomical figure if (more likely when) the data is found not to have been deleted.
I didn’t know that! Just googled and was slightly disappointed - that looks just like AoE with the sprites swapped out, down to the same trees. Well. Still interesting to know this happened!
> Kotlin wasn't developed for Android. And can be run anywhere.

I agree and would go so far as to say that Dart is a better comparison to Swift than Kotlin is.
the incidence of "i don't know" in response to questions in the training data is pretty low if present at all, and even if it were you'd still need to frame those I don't know answers such that they apply to the entire dataset accurately. This is obviously a gargantuan undertaking that would not scale well as data is added, and so right now the idea or concept of not knowing something is not taught. At best you'd build a model that handles human language really well then retrieves information from a database and uses in context learning to answer questions, where a failure to find info results in an i don't know.

What is taught indirectly though is level of certainty, so if you get LLM's to rationalise their answers you tend to get more reliable evidence based answers.

Bottom line, teaching a monolithic model what it means to not know something with certainty, is difficult and not currently done. You'll likely get a lot of false negatives.
Which is a damn shame because RTS games are my favorite genre, with Age of Empires 2 and Warcraft 3 being my favorite games of all time.

It's really a shame to me that the most popular multiplayer games these days seem to be FPS games, or games where you just control a single character. Don't get me wrong those games can still be fun, but they entail a fraction of the strategy as RTS games.

I hope one day we'll see a resurgence of the RTS genre.
Ask HN: AR glasses, so we're cool just being video taped 24/7?
Don't get me wrong, I'll probably end up using them if they take off (not want to stay behind the curve lol) but if they have forward facing cameras we're all basically going to be inadvertently capturing on the street, foot traffic level video of each other via whatever ad tech would exist.

Basically no way to opt now, and honestly makes me feel a bit uncomfortable and worried.
Google AI Search will prioritise Google generated content ahead of pages of backlinks, dominating the on screen real estate. We can expect web traffic to collapse as users become satisfied with the generated results and fail to find or click through to end sites: think citations on Wikipedia. The Web doesn't fundamentally change with this move, but our interface with the web will, and the downstream effects of this will be a starvation of traffic to end destinations, likely leading to their sooner-rather-than-later collapse
I posted this because I started thinking about what it must’ve been like living in a world where we only had horses and trains and what the absolute freedom that cars brought must have felt like. It must have felt miraculous.

There’s a lot of conversation in this thread about all of the horrors cars have brought into this world, and I can certainly attest that I’m a person who greatly wishes most cities were modeled like European cities with abundant public transit and walkable neighborhoods.

I also really liked the “hacker” nature of Winton who sounds like an SV developer from the early-mid ‘10s. I miss the days when we just built shit and shared (knowing full well the days when we _really_ just built shit and shared happened like 40 years prior).
'Beyond All Reason' regularly ranks second place behind SC2 on Twitch.
How much space does that take up, especially SO? There's so much junk on there.
Can you please not post unsubstantive comments or political flamebait (or other flamebait) to HN? You've already done it repeatedly with this account. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I think there can a narcissistic component to hoarding - the internal narrative such that I am the best person to curate / guide / fix these valuable objects. And to keep them out of the hands of rivals / unwashed masses. Maybe this gets more to why rich people hoard money.
The article covers allegations of corruption and mentions his "gaffes" a number of times.

Sometimes where there's no smoke, there's no fire. The guy is very boring and has a weird kid. That's about it.
Something that could involve giving the end user some control over schema...
This may shock you but there is effort involved in learning how to use Python effectively.
Knowing your geographical ancestry - which, to me, seems slightly ridiculous, versus knowing some genetic predisposition for disease or problems like the one discussed above with caffeine or, say, ibuprofen, don't seem to be comparable in the slightest.
Thanks for the suggestion. I fixed it and indeed it improved memory consumption of NodeJS.
Wikipedia is as biased as the writers of the articles. Wikipedia has articles outlining bias in its own articles. These things are authored by people, and people are biased. Wikipedia knows this and so should its readers. They aren't unique.
Objective-C was always "good enough", and in fact the rewrite from an Objective-C Foundation to the C-based CoreFoundation saw a huge regression:

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.next.advocacy/c/uOQnC1x...

The objections to Objective-C at Apple were always political, not technical, with a very entrenched "no Objective-C, ever" faction. Took a quarter of a century, but it looks like they finally won.
That's why electric cars are required to emit an artificial noise when driving under 30 km/h to alert the visually impaired pedestrians. The Renault Zoe car makes a very strange noise, almost like an alien flying saucer from a 60s movie.
The drn file format is described here https://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/file_format.html

The drakon widget by the same author uses a json based serialzation scheme as you can see here https://github.com/stepan-mitkin/drakonwidget/blob/main/js/e...
Tea contains L-Theanine, you can simply switch if you still want the caffeine.
I use it to speed up writing boilerplate code. That alone saves me enough time to justify paying for access many times over.
I don't have a tendency to hoard, but I do find it useful when I'm considering whether to keep a thing, to consider whether I can easily buy an equivalent or better thing on Amazon or eBay and have it at my house within a couple of days for a minimal cost. If so, then the question isn't whether the thing will someday potentially be needed, but whether I'm willing to potentially pay $X if and when that happens, in exchange for not having the thing take up space in my house until then. If you want to get fancy with it, you can mentally multiply X by the odds of that day every coming.
Trying to raise the limit, but it didn't work:

$ /usr/bin/time -v elixir --erl "-P 10000000" main.exs 1000000

08:42:56.594 [error] Too many processes
** (SystemLimitError) a system limit has been reached

Any other ideas how to raise the limit?
I love this guide, I gave this link as a reference to my students when I was teaching networks a few years ago. But the last time I looked at it the guide didn't have IPv6 taken into account! Very nice to know that it is now the case! Thanks for posting :).
About 500, after a clear up.

I'm currently shopping around for a new password manager but that's proving to be a frustrating search. Bitwarden scrambled my master password so that I lost access, not just once but twice (password was saved in another password manager, so definitely correct). Lastpass has 'issues'. Dashlane web app only gives me an error message. 1Password feels clunky but may be what I end up going with. Needs to be usable & shareable by tech-averse spouse & children as well, so hosting my own isn't really an option.
Exactly. This is the tip of the iceberg.
Break your relationship with what?
tl;dr; HTTP3 provides a little improvement, but optimizing search speed is much more important in this case.
The appeal of swift is that it is lightyears better than ObjectiveC. To ObjC developers that are used to being treated like trash by Apple (abysmal documentation, stone age IDE and tooling etc) that's huge
They provide an excellent, consistent service at global scale that no competitor even comes close to matching. They are a fantastic operator from the customer’s vantage point.
For majority of those benchmarks it produced the right code from the first go. It struggled more with Java VirtualThreads - probably fewer programs in the training set. It also had a tendency to overcomplicate things (adding unncecessary code). So there were a few iterations needed plus some hand edits.
I took a look this wonderlic test and have been disqualified at question 2 (not from the US):

>Instructions for a blanket call for 36 yards of yarn. A skein of yarn has 6 feet in in. How many skeins of yarn do you need?

What is this arcane foolery? Are test results shared with the immigration office?
imo the best way to handle this would be to have identities on browsers, and then have browsers automatically handle the logins without the user seening any passwords