skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC you can put it in B+W mode & it’ll refresh as fast as an ordinary B+W eInk screen. Refreshing colour seems to take much longer for some reason.
Do you not have strength settings on the lane keeping? My 2020 Kia Telluride lets me control how strong the lane keeping is with 3 levels.
> Adapted from “Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis” by The Wall Street Journal’s Scott Patterson, to be published on June 6 by Scribner.

TL;DR Black swan events happen. Some hedge funds specialize in them. Book advertisement.
I used to own a psion way back and also had a brush with the OS which morphed into Symbian on Nokia iirc. I loved the software architecture (which borrowed aspects from the B5000), APIs and "services" and overall the focus on robustness. Some aspects like threads having their own heaps contributed to the robustness.
Can you tell us more about the last bit there? That sounds fascinating, finding a home builder on HN!
Is having a hole from U+D800 to U+DFFF such a big deal? The parent comment was specifically talking about surrogate pairs. That to me looks more like buggy implementation issue rather than standards issue.
I've found maybe 3 or 4 jobs from HN, including some well paying consulting work. It continues to be one of the highest signal to noise ratio places out there.
Why would an industry dying be a problem?

Why would you "regulate" to keep it alive? (which means keep it alive with our money)

Who decides which industry should be kept alive and which should die? Let me guess, you do.
> Has it ever occurred to you that it means your ideas are very very outside the mainstream

I recently bought in Wyoming. Low flood, heat and wind risk are actively talked about in the local saloon. The market appears to be segregating into the climate naive and climate savvy, with the latter hoping to profit off a wealth transfer.
> and I'm surprised no one has created a challenger site.

Have been building an alternative at https://sqwok.im, the twist is that it uses realtime chat instead of comments, and no voting currently.
Plus another $24 or so in fees.

I seem to remember there not being any fees the first time I signed up, which was over two years ago but they were there 18 months ago. I’m assuming they didn’t charge them at the start to make the price more attractive.
> death among younger adults due to opioid poisonings

The point under debate is guns and car accidents being asserted as the leading cause of death. I continue to assert it is not true.
> Every bit of this article worries me. Not because I think it's coming for my job, but because it's coming for so many other jobs

This. Anyone who thinks that their job is safe is fooling themselves.
Ask HN: How should we rethink the take-home assessment?
ChatGPT is an awesome tool for developers - it’s only a matter of time before it gets mass adoption. However, I think its causing a bit of a shake-up in how interviewing engineers is done.

I'm particularly interested in understanding its impact on take-home assessments. Personally, I'm a fan of take-homes (as long as they are done correctly). One of the main benefits of take-home assignments is that they don't create the same anxiety as live interviews. Yet, I'm starting to see companies react to ChatGPT by tightening the proctoring constraints of their assessments - completing an assignment in a limited timeframe, using a specific online IDE, disabling copy-paste functions, and so on. But, this kind of approach seems to defeat the purpose of take-home tasks.

How should we modify take-home assessments due to ChatGPT, without resorting to stringent proctoring?
And let’s be honest, you would be foolish to think WhatsApp isn’t compromised by intelligence agencies.
No one actually reads most of that copy anyway. It's the knowledge work equivalent of digging a hole just to fill it in again. Totally pointless, and done more out of inertia than any real business value.
Understood, and that's what I was pointing to with the slightly different idea of a rite of passage. But I think there's an important distinction that impacts the bonds that are formed. For example, all Marines went through the roughly equivalent rite of passage of boot camp. Given that, a Marine who served in Iraq may still feel some camaraderie when meeting a WW2 Marine, but probably not to the same level as another veteran from Iraq because the bond from the latter has closer, shared experience. And when it comes to someone who served in the same unit, the bond will likely be greater still. I think there's an aspect of psychological distance that is relevant to the bond.
Weight is a much more useful metric than height for a laptop.
Noticed a lack of updates after 6 months. The whole thing doesn't exactly speak to extreme infosec competence at Kaspersky labs in my opinion.
This is pretty funny, all in all.

Facebook is the company that attempted to seize the internet in the developing world about a decade ago by attempting to provide a gratis, curated "internet" that they controlled as the entry point for people just getting online. Meanwhile, Facebook was making every attempt to do the same through its various methods; I distinctly remember when they told me I now have an @facebook email address that nobody asked for or wanted.

They wanted to be the internet, essentially, the conduit for all useful information. What they had in mind was to do that capture, and then start squeezing the news themselves by choking off the supply of readers. The fact they are retreating in the face of a tax is actually a bit stunning, because I don't see how they'll ever retake this territory they are ceding, and that more or less dooms their entire strategy in a very visible way.
So the guillotine was invented for people working at the BBC, PBS, and NPR? They should be killed for receiving government money?
The most interesting thing is what's defined as "Canadian Content".

Most of what Celine Dion produced in her career doesn't fit the government approved list of cultural content, so is considered foreign music. Celine Dion, probably Canada's most recognizable voice and signer, signing in French, a language almost exclusively spoken in Canada on the North American continent, isn't considered Canadian culture.

But some recordings from Elvis do count because he happened to record them on Canadian soil. [0]

[0] https://nationalpost.com/news/extremely-canadian-media-that-...
The Instagram Founders’ New News App Is an AI Play
C never has just one way to do something. myArr[5] == 5[myArr] == (insert pointer arithmetic that I won't write here without a compiler check). I think that part of C's beauty is that it gives you freedom. Freedom to shoot yourself in the foot, freedom to write hyper efficient code, and freedom to choose another tool.

I agree that this will never be implemented as a standard, but I think that's a good thing. Higher level languages push against their boundaries non stop. Java has libraries and frameworks that fundamentally change the syntax and functionality of the language. C knows what it is. If you want something that it can't do it promises that you can either build it yourself or switch to a different tool.

All of this to say, C has a single suggested way of doing this: using a different language. That's part of why we built them
Who is the most senior person here to be hired from HN?
I think the number of available jobs will probably shrink to the point where this isn't much of a problem.
Hard disagree. Shorter key travel is a matter of preference. I quite like the ultra-short-travel of my laptops even though I have half a dozen mechanical keyboards that I use on my desktops. It would be nice to have more options, but I'd take a thin and light over a chunky laptop any day.
A digital computer cannot emulate an analog computer: it can only simulate it to an arbitrary level of precision. That’s the whole point.
This explanation admits no difference between a human and a zombie. Or, for that matter, a human and a Turing machine made out of legos.
That's much less cool though.
Isn't the crux of the issue that FB and Instagram (and Google) do everything they can to keep users from clicking away from their website? Thereby starving the producers of the content. HN only posts the titles of articles with outbound links, I don't think it's a comparable situation.
I'm a seasoned web development expert with over a decade of experience helping companies take their products from concept to market delivery.

Over the past four years, I have been exclusively working remotely. Before that, I worked onsite in San Francisco and Berlin, collaborating with highly successful companies (one recently acquired for $7.1b).

My strengths are in front-end, UX, product development, but I also know my way around a back-end codebase. I have led multiple front-end teams and have also independently developed many products from scratch.

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Hedge fund guy here. I actually met NNT, fun character. Irreverent as always.

He was talking exactly about this strategy when he came in. The thing is, trading often presents you with a tough choice:

- Do something that on most days makes a bit of money, but sometimes creates big losses.

- Do something that on most days loses a bit of money, but sometimes gives you a big payday.

Your problem is then what to do. If you've decided that you want to wait for the big payday, how are you going to stay in business until your ticket comes in? How do you keep your investors faithful until then? This is the actual skill in this trade, btw.

If you're wondering about taking the other side, the trope is that you get an even bigger job after you get fired for losing a huge amount of money in an "unforeseen event".
Scientists zap sleeping humans' brains with electricity to improve their memory
There's been a small migration happening that I see on Lemmy instance https://beehaw.org
According to their water data here:

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/az/nwis/water_use?format=html_tab...

They are consuming 1195.15 + 987 Mgal/day of groundwater + surface water, and are supplying 963.30 Mgal/day to domestic users.

Industrial uses 6.12 Mgal/day, mining uses 68.3, livestock uses 38.8, aquaculture 34.5, and irrigation uses 4528 Mgal / day.

So... huh. The more I look at it, the less the data makes sense or adds up.

Anyway, it does look like they could just take water away from farmers, and let people elsewhere run out of food, California style.
right, that's exactly my point, many French words are also English.

amorous, etc...

it's no surprise, as you say... every word op listed is Latin root and French too.
Why would you want to curb this?

Personally Id rather have more people dog sitting and fixing AC units, i.e things that provide actual value.
I'm the wrong person to ask but performance wise a 4090 has over a pflop and a Google search also showed a factor of 3-4 for a 3090.
Australia and Canada are one economy–with one set of flaws
Your point being, what exactly?

If the user gives you what, as far as they're considered, is a glyph. And you return a completely different glyph. You've mangled their data.
isn't an regular offline gps device an option?
Wow, that's significantly better than I was expecting!
but what is the 'software' equivalent for this thing?

the physical state of all them wires? not very portable
Activation-Aware Weight Quantization for LLM Compression Outperforms GPTQ
What would you recommend as an obvious "you'd have to be a fool to prefer a Pi 4 to this" Celeron-based SBC choice, and how much does it cost?
> where are the other solutions

Subsidizing local news isn't a bad idea. It's doing it like that's stupid. Just tax social media use in California and use that to fund a revenue-positive subsidy.
I have trouble remembering a time when it wasn't.
Seems like TechCrunch decided to time the article, not Fidelity.
> rather not have much of a difference between Oracle and Postgresql

That will make Postgresql blatantly non-standard and you will instead get the old "it's the same thing, why bother changing" argument against switching from Oracle to Postgresql.
Skybox AI: Use AI to generate 3D worlds
This hand sanitizer everywhere thing was just one of the many unproductive insanities of the Covid era.

Quick story: In 2021 I was shopping at an Office Max in Florida. At the counter, the checkout guy snuck two small bottles into my bag.

Me: Wait! I didn't buy that!

Him: Don't worry, it's free.

Me: Ok, but what is it?

Him: Hand sanitizer, we're giving them away.

Me: (Takes bottles out of bag, hands back to him)
Oh, got it. I thought the tool wanted to go back and walk through a progression of previous backups. I can certainly do a new backup
How well do these deal with dust?
> The "Statement on AI Risk" by Sam Altman and wealthy individuals fails to address the potential impact of AI on job security.

I think that was very intentional. Put the focus on scary-sounding things that aren't actually an imminent risk in order to distract from those things that are.
It got posted a few time to HN but oddly none of the threads got any traction
Analog computers don't have infinite precision due to the presence of noise, so digital computers can emulate that with high-enough precision arithmetic.
As long as they don't go too crazy, it can be nice - until they bundle too many things and it's more expensive than getting what you want elsewhere.

I have little use for Prime Video so I'm not "saving $20 a month" compared to Netflix, I'm paying $10 a month for (whatever it has become, certainly not 2nd day) prime shipping.

They also do a horrible job letting you know what you get, because I didn't even know about the Grubhub+ thing until I read it here.
I thought so too; but then I discovered that I was seeing seconds-long interaction delay on my old laptop after scrolling down the feed a bit. The performance profile I recorded in dev tools then looked like this:

https://i.imgur.com/OSfzPDa.png

That was when I fully appreciated both that raw performance is important for me, and how truly horrible it was on the Reddit site.
Calloc is the function originally intented to allocate arrays. Instead of accepting a number of bytes, it takes two unsigned integers(size_t): the number of array members, and the the size of each member. And it checks whether the result of multiplying them fits in a size_t. If not, it returns NULL, allocating nothing(and also sets errno, iirc). Then you can have your code detect it, crash or report an error, and avoid memory corruption. Even if you sloppily don't check calloc's return value, you're probably just gonna segfault which is unlikely to lead to data leaks or code execution

If you use malloc(n * size), and n is too large, it could wrap around, malloc gets a smaller number than the program thinks it allocated. Which means that even if the program does bounds/null checking on the array later on, it has the wrong bounds. This can be used to access or modify other objects on the heap, or even modify allocator internals in some cases, depends on the implementation details of the allocator.

So what I meant was, you better be careful using malloc(n * size) unless n is a constant. If it's in any way tied to program behaviour or user input, it's a hole waiting to happen.
There are often some RTC registers that get preserved during standby, so you can use that instead of flash or EEPROM.
Straato: A New Digital Asset and the Ultimate Strategy Marketplace
I keep wanting to fiddle with kubernetes on rPi class hardware. Even the minimalist versions want half a gigabyte per node. Admin software does not need half a gigabyte of memory.
Hardware radiation hardening techniques have existed for a long time, and are applied commonly in space, satellites, nuclear power, military.

Roughly speaking it breaks down into a couple categories including the manufacturing of electronics and chips themselves, including everything from substrate differences to using entirely different types of RAM and block storage [0], to the higher level strategies employed by many generations of space probes where a variety of total system redundancy is employed, e.g the Voyager probes used discrete component level redundancy, and most modern probes use almost full system redundancy where they run 3 complete computers in lock step, the idea being that triple redundancy is the minimum needed to detect which computer is wrong.

Another potential strategy not so commonly applied for this purpose is software resilience, such as the techniques applied by the Minix3 microkernel, the idea being to minimise the critical kernel code to be so small that it's unlikely to have bugs or be affected by hardware level affects, then everything else underneath can be kept alive by the kernel, even block device drivers, by employing triple redundancy and a "resurrection server". This was intended to protect against bugs in critical software like device drivers and hardware/firmware bugs rather than radiation, but it could be similarly effective especially as a layered strategy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening#Radiation-...
How can you internet in {current year}, and seriously think we need more content writers? We’re not talking about top-tier investigative journalists blowing scandals open and speaking truth to power. We’re talking about the meaningless banter filling space between ads that turn a simple recipe search into a dystopian nightmare.

I hope and trust that they will find meaning in a career fixing and building and caring for physical things that people actually want to pay for. This is a step forward.
I've never had that bug, although I'm on chrome.
Basically all the libraries, IDEs, game engines, game console SDKs, HFT, HPC, OS SDKs, embedded OSes, High Integrity Computing certifications, and plenty more stuff deployed into production since C++ ARM [0] was published in 1990, 33 years ago.

[0] - The Annotated C++ Reference Manual
I don't know about the current status quo, but three years ago Zerodium stopped buying several types of iOS exploits because of how many submissions they received: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/14/zerodium-pauses-acquiri...

It's gotten to the point where full-chain Android exploits, traditionally easier to find and use because of lacking update policies and incompetent manufacturer chains, are worth more than their iOS counterparts: https://zerodium.com/program.html

Because of iOS' excellent update rate and generally very secure operating system model, I'd expect this to mean that there are so many exploits for either platform that the trade of exploits for the ostensibly more secure platform isn't restricted by the amount of exploits anymore, but rather by the rate the existing 0day stock gets burned by use.

I expect intelligence agencies to be fully stocked with more 0days than they currently need. Not just intelligence agencies either; for your average large international criminal organization, whether it's the maffia or the NSO group, there should be plenty of exploits to be found and bought.
Agreed that eliminating drunk and impaired driving is important. (For example, if there was a well-tested and reliable technology that could reduce drunk and impaired driving, I would be in favor of mandating it in new cars.)

But this is not mutually exclusive. For one thing, we can do two things at once. For another, automobile fatalities typically have multiple contributing causes. If we had stronger safety regulations around vehicle height, stopping distance, windshield visibility, etc then some number of the crashes involving alcohol or drug use might have been injuries or close calls instead of fatalities.
It's an educational board. I made a custom educational board for my kid a few years back (with a 16 bit digital CPU though) just to have something physical, with the possibility to be underclocked to extreme values and a bunch of LEDs in key points to illustrate the principle. I could have used an emulator, but something like that is 1000x better as it's bare metal and doesn't have any black magic under the hood.
I don't disagree with you, but it might help to be clear here. When people (including me) say "GC" they usually mean tracing GC. Technically, reference counting and other techniques are also GC. Except for short-running scripts (where memory consumption literally can't grow enough to matter) or the very hardest of hard real-time (where any kind of dynamic allocation is verboten), every program needs some way to find and recycle garbage. Games are not in either of those excepted categories.

I'm not just saying this to be pedantic. It's important to note that every GC method involves some overhead and has a potential to make execution time less deterministic. This is certainly true of reference counting, generally true of object pooling, etc. There are even cases where tracing GC improves locality of reference vs. other methods, and thus improves performance and predictability, though those are rare AFAIK. So when you say "extract every last CPU cycle" it's important that such a goal does not necessarily favor some other approach.

Many would also say that an aversion to tracing GC does not justify having nothing beyond plain malloc/free. No borrow checker, no reference counting (which can be done with very low overhead), no arena or custom-allocator support? Not in 2023. Leaving programmers entirely on their own for memory correctness is an eminently questionable choice, especially when other language features make gratuitous or hidden allocations easy. As a C programmer for 30 years I'm not going to say it's an illegal choice, but it certainly needs more than "but games" to justify it.
Egypt has about 4 guns for every 100 people. The US has about 120. I think it would play out differently here.
https://mythic.ai is an analog chip for doing neural nets.

https://youtu.be/GVsUOuSjvcg?t=898 (this is a time stamp'ed link for a video mentioned elsewhere in the comments).
It happened a lot earlier than that. Progressives embracing corporations is neoliberalism which got big in the 80's.
"I apologize for the confusion. It seems that the SQL:2023 query I mentioned in my previous response is not a valid query in ${your-database-here}. I apologize for the incorrect information."
Kaspersky said attackers hacked staff iPhones with unknown malware
A field of weeds is home to insects, pollinators, small wildlife, CO2 removing/oxygen producing plants, it can be a nice place to look at, to make a path and walk through, weeds can be beneficial[1] to the soil, or edible or medicinal[2].

A server with nothing on it is worse than taking up space, it's an investment of energy and CO2 release to make it and ship it around the world, and if it's powered on then it's taking electricity probably from fossil fuels and turning it into waste heat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneficial_weed

[2] https://gardenerspath.com/plants/herbs/edible-medicinal-weed...
No traffic updates, no transit directions, no bike directions.

It’s very much worse
i get that but i am not convinced that there doesnt exist some possible gc technology that would make such costs negligible. but thats just a (yummy) pie in the sky
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