skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My post was a bit tongue-in-cheek and was intended to tie this story with the other badly written story in the news about how the weight of the buildings on the island could be causing subsidence. Proposing to demolish unoccupied buildings, haul the debris off the island, and convert the lots to usable park space was obviously a bullshit proposal.

Of course it we put some thought into it maybe good things could happen.

Lets think outside the box in a move fast and break things manner. If we moved fast enough and broke down enough of these buildings then the island could find an equilibrium much sooner. (As a geoscientist I am skeptical). Like in many things related to new software, services, apps, the whole part about how me make it pay off can be figured out later. Run at a loss long enough to fix all the defects in your business model and maybe your first adopters will be gullible enough to set you up for success later. The important part is to be first to the product space and to set the tone and tempo for those that follow. You're the leader, defining the narrative and all others must iterate on your model and brainstorm ways to improve the process while trying to attract funding for their dubious improvements.

I recognize that you and others may not be as forward thinking as I am. If something is to be broken you want to make sure it belongs to someone else or that there is a path to enrichment for you. Surely your investment has paid out many times over and you are ready for a new challenge in an exciting new market or product space.

Maybe you should call someone at HUD and explore your condo options. It may be better for society anyway if some of the commercial space were converted to affordable housing. That region could use more affordable housing. You are probably aware that conversion of commercial property to housing requires a lot of infrastructure improvements and building upgrades to be feasible. Fortunately HUD or other government agencies may have funds to soften those costs and get you right back into business as owner of the most conveniently placed residential property in the city. Just be sure to follow project guidelines in how the money is used to avoid legal problems down the road. People could live a block from their jobs in one of the not-vacant office properties.

Like at least one of our large news services, I'm just throwing shit at the walls here. Maybe some of it will stick.
Danish banks already have ridiculous comissions for wire transfers to other EU countries. Like 8€ for a 1500 DKK transfer.
This is firecracker, so less than a second I guess?
Any CSS for type that's not using clamp() for fluid scaling seems like a waste of time. Demo looks nice on desktop though.
Meh it’s not that joining and leaving treaties is like having a picnic, while I agree with the democratic sentiment of your message I also think that it would be crazy to allow any majority dictate schizophrenic policies, the difference was under 4%, and it triggered a generational change, is that fair?
I think there is a much more important question, which is: what can you do with the tech that makes it valuable at any price point? Like cool, I can augment my vision. Now what? Now much... at least from what I've seen.
No because the reason the Palestinians are mad is because Israel is violating international law. It’s like telling the husband if he stops beating his wife he’ll stop getting arrested
Speaking of questioning authority figures, a more recent saying comes to mind: The next time that somebody tells you, "the government wouldn't do that," oh yes they would!
- Let a new user try the experience without the signup/sign-in flow (single try ? i know it gets hard keeping track to avoid abuse but the signin/signup flow is sort of long)
- Put a template text in the main text-area instead of "Write something"
- Don't persist the pop-up modals (eg choosing the sentiment) when user clicks somewhere else
- Change the color of the "Save" button, right now it looks like disabled.
- On clicking the "Save" button, user needs to indicated what needs to be done. Something like a workflow is needed, otherwise this feels like a simple chatgpt "improve this" prompt response. I feel lost after clicking the save button. (show a saved list ?)
UK: Try an image search for 'Helix Oxford Maths Set'

Compasses, dividers, protractor, setsquares (that we don't use these days) and a 15cm ruler. Pencils, sharpener, rubber. Usually a stencil for lettering and a leaflet with geometry definitions.

Available from supermarkets, stationers and cash and carrys right now because it is GCSE Maths exam time.
That looks like syntax highlighting for the query plan
Adobe developed the XMP metadata format that embeds RDF packets inside almost any kind of file. It is heavily used in Adobe products and also others, see

https://ontology2.com/essays/LookingForMetadataInAllTheWrong...
My thoughts exactly, especially the 486. It was a good all-rounder, worked well—thoroughly debuged unlike the Pentium—and fast enough to be useful even today for some work.

Also, I'd heard accounts that some influential third parties (companies developing stuff for the military etc.) were still using it long past its used-by date because it was the last of the 86 line whose internals they could fully understand. IBM was second-sourcing it too.

Incidentally, I wonder where those 8088s come from, same for the 8087. Seems someone still makes them.

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Edit: Just occurred to me the main/intended use for this computer is as a training aid. The ready access to the chips and that they've sockets for removal would allow access for an ICE (In Circuit Emulator) bond-out chip/board to be inserted. Thus, there's no need for it to run any faster.
Thanks; appears I got what "regulation" meant exactly backwards relative to the alternative.

I think it makes the conclusion stronger, in this case, but regardless, thanks :)
> Presumably this isn't about things people are stuck with (skin color, etc.) but things they choose (laws, etc.)

That is weird. I was never asked to choose my laws. Maybe sometimes I can have an imperceptible influence by being able to vote on a person who might have some say in the laws.

What I'm saying is by far and large laws are things people are stuck with just as much as their skin color.
By these standards the pentagon will have sent $0 worth of stuff to Ukraine?
Much of this design also feels like a hangover from the arcade days where you wanted players to die cheap deaths so they plugged more quarters into the machine.
The majority did not vote for leaving the customs union. We have Vote leave representatives swearing they dont want to leave the single market.
> Here we are were the majority have self selected to live in the way I prefer,

Not everyone who lives the "way you prefer" wants it.

It's just the only place that decent-or-better public schools are, in a lot of US cities.

Everything else about the 'burbs sucks. Worst parts of country and city living, none of the benefits of either. Terrible.
That's a very reasonable approach. Sort-of like what Substack does on the podcast feeds. Do you think having a feed exclusively for subscriber posts would fit the use-case, though? I'd expect the feed to include both public and private posts.
Any infrastructure designed to accept fees will be used for verifying stolen credit cards. You need to have countermeasures implemented for this. (Or whoever you use will need to.)

Also, a high refund rate will nuke your merchant account with most processors. No one wants to deal with this business model.
There's almost nothing that computers do that isn't easier than the pre-computer way.

Look at it from an average user's perspective. They're thinking "Wow, this spreadsheet would have taken hours to do with a calculator and a pencil".

Most users are not programmers. Programming IS the act of making a synthetic invention that relieves us of our labor. It's no different from what a plumber does. If we had to connect pipes in a custom arrangement every time we wanted to do the dishes we would argue all day about the best pipes and threads and tapes.

But we don't. We use premade fixtures and we don't have to think about plumbing.

Those hoops you have to jump through are like the building codes. They make everything consistent. And more importantly, they make things inspectable. There are a million and one ways to plumb or frame a wall or something that would probably be fine. But that would be Real Engineering to do that and show that it's safe.

Wheras the codes are designed to not allow for "interesting" stuff that only an engineer would understand. The programming conventions developed over time based on programmers experience of what works and what doesn't when writing software that is so complicated not one person on earth could ever understand it.

The difference with programmers is they use programs to make programs. There's no user/designer distinction, and they all want to be creative and clever engineers, not just skilled tradespeople, so they don't see the benefits as much. If most of what you do is coding, you might thing nothing has advanced in the last 30 years, because you used text then and now you have more complicated text.

But from a user perspective, we went from drafting tables to CAD. We have Google Keep. We have voice assistants. We have 4k editing for consumers!

Bash pretty much just makes it explicit right in the language that there's no user/coder distinction and kind of keeps that mindset around.

Newer languages are designed to help people make user facing black boxes, and they do a great job of it it seems.
I actually had this idea when I worked for a local HIE. I just lacked the technical competency to make it real. I think this would be incredibly useful for the adoption of FHIR and also learning more about HL7. For security-minded folks this information could be a good tool for tuning DLP and other tools without using real patient data.
> "London's busses are very small"

Small?! The majority of London buses are double-deckers, around 11 meters in length with capacities up to 87 passengers (combined seating + standing). Perhaps not the world's largest buses, but I certainly wouldn't call them small!

> "Do you have a source that they run the entire day with no charging?"

Here's an old press release from when they were first introduced: "The buses are equipped with BYD-designed and built Iron-Phosphate batteries, delivering 345 kWh of power ... The batteries can power the bus for over 24 hours and up to 190 miles of typical urban driving on the service routes with a single daily recharging requiring only four hours."

https://en.byd.com/news/transport-for-london-launches-the-fi...

(The reality is that on many central London bus routes, there just isn't anywhere where they could stop for an extended period for recharging. But as more electric buses expand to suburban routes, maybe that will be less of an issue)
This is from a year old tweet so it may not be correct anymore, but:

“FreeBSD/Firecracker now boots to a login prompt in 782 ms. 170 ms of this is spent generating a self-signed TLS certificate for sendmail, because of course it is.”
To your first point, I think it’s a mistake to assume that the current situation is the natural result of our cities, where as it’s actually policy decisions that add up over time.

If 50 years ago, cities prioritized travel methods for walking and biking, the noise pollution this video describes wouldn’t be so prevalent.
> Oh no, political parties moving in response to the expressed will of the general public in a democracy.

Consider a very simple model of a two party system, expressing views on one left/right axis. Members of the population vote for the political party that is closest to their views on that axis. Political parties want to win as many votes as possible.

Under that model and those assumptions, if one party moves in a particular direction, the 'correct' behaviour for the other party is to move in that direction also to capture more votes, regardless of what the underlying 'will' of the general voting public is.
Inhooks: Lightweight Incoming Webhooks Gateway
Could you please put Canada in the title? I scared everyone at work with this article.
Python can be fast — dnf is pretty fine, and although it has no relation to package managers, my most favorite example is the kitty terminal emulator. Most of it is written in Python, but you don't feel that at all. It feels like pure C. I refused to even try it for a long time, but have been hooked for several years now.
But it’s so much better now. Everyone is on zoom meetings in their cubes all day so you get to half attend meetings all day long that have nothing to do with you when you’re trying to concentrate.
I've seen this referred to as the "BBBB problem", as in: "nobody types BBBB into the search box, so it makes no sense to optimize the algorithm so it doesn't have worst-case complexity with repeated characters".

That is, until someone searches for e.g. git conflict markers.
Thanks for that, looks like the company was just breeching then!
pv has a multi line mode so you can do

tar c foo | pv -cN raw | gzip | pv -cN compressed | whatever else

It’s handy to see multiple progress bars at once.
Fusion supply chain needs confidence to invest
He is indeed a right knob, but that hasn't stopped me from enjoying the few shows of his that I've gone to.

Assuming one accepts the basic premise of his music (melodical moping), he has an amazing catalogue of songs and a lovely voice to deliver them with.
The pandemic, or the specific individuals in positions of power who chose to implement specific policies? Which policies were often based on assessments of risk that were (charitably put) only mildly informed by reality or rationality.

Actual people made mistakes that need to be acknowledged here: Not "so we can punish them" but to help ensure we don't cheerfully march into such errors again.
Hey, keep in mind that things like large caches, neural cores, SIMD units, DSP circuitry all count as dark silicon. The proliferation of these kind of components was predicted 15-20 years ago as a necessary response to the Dennard Scaling breakdown.
It might be we're just from different parts of the world, hence our different views. But not in my entire life have I ever gotten paid any other way than a direct deposit to my bank account. To me getting paid in cash is completely alien. And since it's over a decade since I last used cash (at least..), I'm not even sure what I would do if someone gave me physical money. Like, I have no way of carrying it around comfortably. And most places I just use self checkout which is cashless.
If you want to further the analogy you can think of those of us screaming about car-only infrastructure and the negative effects caused by it as the same people screaming about pollution during the industrial revolution.

The long march of time will remove car-only infrastructure because it can't outlast economic physics, but we should do it faster to limit the damage and save hydrocarbons for spaceships and medicine and stuff.

Unfortunately we won't have our Triangle Shirt Factory or smog prevalence to really put the problem in your face. If we put some sort of coloring in car exhaust so you had to see it we'd ban cars within a year.
I was just using a very blatant absurd hypothesis to make it clear that nothing about whatever military agreements in between European countries and the US is something to be taken with gratitude (as implied in the original post I was replying to).

As someone living in Europe, I am grateful for the EU, and I wish the constituent countries to be more integrated over time.

I see no reason to be grateful for the US for its military presence here. They do it for their own benefit, and should definitely leave if the cost to them is too high for whatever benefit it gets. For Europe it's just convenient.
They are not.

I'm still maintaining C++ compact in my pure C projects, just because the C++ compiler is soo much better finding opportunities and errors. C analysis is just too loose.
Real-Time Messaging at Slack
GPT trainer says he's traumatized from the RLHF work
Making the point just because a language has a GC, doesn't mean it doesn't offer C++ like capabilities in resource management.

The tone is a side effect of talking about this since the mid-90's.
And what about the DX of using Workers with Pages?

I tried to use that recently and it was a disaster. I wrote about my experience here:

https://twitter.com/pierbover/status/1641474067013271552

I then opened these two issues:

https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/issues/2962

https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/issues/2964

I ended up moving the project over to Netlify + Edge functions. I had it all working in like 5-10 mins as it should. Took me two hours to figure out why Workers weren't working in my Pages project, and could never get Workers working properly with my Astro project.

I think you're working exclusively on the engine of Workers which is really top notch, but Cloudflare really needs to improve the outer layer which affects DX considerably.
Indeed, watching Hacker News go from a nearly unanimous Musk Cheerleading Squad to the precise diametric opposite of that -- literally in the course of one month -- because he didn't echo CIA talking points about Ukraine was hilarious to watch.
You may be able to force your ISP to give you a new IP by resetting your modem or leaving it off long enough, that may help.

But once cloud flare hates you, you have to bow to them.

Try browsing the normal web over Tor sometime and see how bad it can get.
Like saying we need to recycle more to fix the landfill problem. Recycling fixes nothing with over consumption.
This is where essentially all freshwater comes from.
DARE did in fact usually increase drug use.

This was shown by multiple studies [0], but the program ran many more years.

It could be a coincidence that everyone involved in the program profited immensely from it.

The guy who started DARE, Daryl Gates, was roundly blamed for LAPD's racist culture; so much so that he 'retired' after the Rodney King riots.

Here's a fun quote of his: "... blacks might be more likely to die from chokeholds because their arteries do not open as fast as they do in 'normal people'."

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Abuse_Resistance_Educatio...
Personally I'm hoping for an HP48G or HP50G clone. I still use my 50g and it's great.
What they're getting at is that the latency is caused by overhead from the OS and USB, increasing it across the board regardless of editor — each keystroke has more layers to pass through compared to a machine from the 70s, 80s, or 90s, plus USB by the nature of how it works unavoidably adds latency that's variable depending on CPU load, since USB is CPU-dependent. There's also more layers in the display stack, increasing the amount of time it takes for what's actually displayed on screen to match machine state.

A Core 2 Duo era laptop specifically might not suffer as much as its desktop counterpart though, because laptops from that era often used PS/2 for their internal keyboard+trackpad connection and thus don't suffer USB latency increases unless the laptop's motherboard was doing something weird like implementing PS/2 via an onboard adapter attached to the USB bus.
:) Love seeing this at the top of HN! This project, along with sandspiel (by the same creator), are some of my biggest inspirations!

If you're not aware, there's a relatively deep technical explanation of how sandspiel was built which I found interesting. If you're into orb.farm then you'll probably find it interesting, too: https://maxbittker.com/making-sandspiel

And, shameless plug, I've been teaching myself Rust/Bevy/ECS lately and am creating a simulation ant farm. The project is still in its infancy, and is nowhere near as cool as these, but https://meomix.github.io/symbiants/ for some ants that scurry around and emergently create piles of sand. Pan/Zoom launching in a couple of hours, feeding them hopefully in the next week or so. If you have ideas for simple features I'd love to hear them or if you want to follow along with the project check my profile for a Discord link.
For me, when I use the output I am acutely aware of how difficult it was to create the sources its sampling from.

Behind each line I can imagine a person solving a problem, for themselves and writing up their solution, and sharing it. This process is inordinately expensive for each individual: they must be competent with the ideas, techniques, etc. and deploy them in a novel circumstance.

LLMs need no competence with the ideas, indeed, need no ideas or techniques at all. The very same work can be obtain via two radically different algorithms: 1) develop conceptualisations and techniques to generate solutions in the face of novel problems; 2) sample from all such prior attempts. (2) requires many cases of (1) to work -- and that's the copyright laundering, or just, theft if you like.

Who in all their writing on the internet was consenting to train ChatGPT? No one.

This is the innovation. We have google search. We can easily get 99.5% of whatever chatgpt generates if we have the gaul to copy/paste it. Since we don't we launder these efforts through a novel interface.

It is an extremely useful tool, but we should be more aware of where it's utility comes from. From the last twenty years of human labour which has placed all our lives and thoughts on a digital commons which is here being replayed back to us as if "ChatGPT wrote it". AI here has written zilch. Absent all those digital efforts, this is a dumb system with nothing to say.

And if we had the audacity just to copy/paste from ebooks, github, blogs and the like -- we would barely benefit from it at all.
A variety of influencers in developing countries tell their audiences that they can make money by submitting AI-generated stories to sites with open submissions.

The people submitting don't know that there's virtually zero chance of acceptance and are trying to get the fee for a published story, which is a substantial amount in their country. The influencers probably know that the scheme won't work, but don't care because they just need to keep their audience watching.
In that particular case, 620 ms for the entire boot process. 28 ms for the kernel boot (of which 7% or 2 ms is the bubblesort).
I just use a simple chaining function for python like so https://sr.ht/~tpapastylianou/chain-ops-python/
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
-- Wayne Gretzky

-- person who made a GPT-generated submission to Clarkesworld, probably
I would love to see a detailed analysis of various OS boot sequences and times, it is kind of insane that modern computers and phones can take minutes to boot; what ever are they doing?
Only if the "battered woman" in question has moved into the man's home uninvited, taken away his keys, set up checkpoints at the front door and the door between the living room and the kitchen, and invited her friends from all over the world to move in, bringing guns.
Whichlang – Fast, OSS for Language Detection in Rust
Hey man, I was responding to a comment that brought up Tokyo. I could talk about Tokyo air quality all day, yeah. Because I live with it. If you don’t want to talk about that, just stop talking about it maybe?
Both approaches are not mutually exclusive. Education is important, but societal and peer pressure is a thing.
What I want is an app that allows me to increase the maximum volume of my MacBook Pro.
My most CPU-intensive usage is compilation and "make -j8" is doing a pretty good job at scaling things to fully utilize my CPU. It's not about one program using all your resources.
Ask HN: Axure was THE proto tool 10 years ago. Which tools are used now?
Back when i was working with prototypes(10 years ago) i used axure. It is a great tool, but nowadays is very expensive. Which open source alternatives are being used? Do they publish a full html interactive prototype?
> It uses advanced cryptography to do this without creating any new tracking vectors.

Sounds like something which is designed to create hard to detect tracking vectors.
No, we hate both.