skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's still a problem if operational output goes to stdout and error output to stderr. Where do the warnings go that don't directly affect either? Perhaps a better solution is to have structured 'pipes' that some experimental shells/programs use.
Considering that Counter-Strike 2's beta is being distributed as a private DLC for CS:GO [1], it's possible that CS 2 will entirely replace CS:GO.

[1]: https://steamdb.info/app/2279720/
"Why would mainstream consumers — not the geeky early adopters or impassioned gamers — want to wear something on their head for extended periods?"

"A mixed reality headset wouldn't be like the iPod or iPhone, which expanded the possibilities of existing products but could easily slip into your pocket. It's not just like the AirPods or the Apple Watch, accessories meant to compliment Apple's existing hardware. A headset, by its very definition, would have to be an all-consuming product, a persistent reminder that you're seeing the world through Apple's eyes."

My guess is that it will be too expensive and that it does not have a 'killer app' beyond immersive gaming.

There are already lots of VR game competitors and non-VR game competitors are cheaper and already in use.

What could it offer that is not already offered elsewhere?
Sounds good on the basic binary search. I jumped through the paper a little too quick and missed the source code link, although thanks for the godbolt confirmation as well.

Yeah, the big deal about ITP is not really the interpolation but the graceful fallback to binary search. With of course that nasty division overhead. I'll have to study your paper to see which ideas there could be used.

Glad you liked the talk! And a small world, huh? I've been wanting to get an implementation of the vector binary search into CBQN for a while, so that an open source version of it exists at least. Always some other thing to do. Multiple searches are really a different world. Elijah Stone pointed out recently[0] that with searches that all have the same iteration count (sadly, not interpolation search!), several of them can be run at once just by copying the loop body. That was new to me at least. And for searches that don't fit in cache it's possible to partition the sought values, which does the accesses in a perfectly cache-friendly order for some extra compute. That's described in the page I linked before.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33648924
I hate the Hacker News UI. It is ugly, inaccessible, and confusing. I have some stupid Chrome extension just to make it dark mode.
And includes none of the dependencies used.
Instead of letting clients directly interface with your services over websockets, consider using Pushpin [1], which allows you to completely isolate realtime communication from your services.

As a bonus, it also provides you the ability to cycle (redeploy/restart) your services without your clients having to reconnect (that's where the name comes from). And as you can imagine - because communication with your services is entirely stateless it scales like crazy.

[1] https://pushpin.org/
Physics-Informed Neural Network
I’ve run some fairly network-heavy services (900mbps+ on a 1gbps connection, 24/7) at both leaseweb and hivelocity; they never complained about the traffic
I haven't posted any of him, and ask friends and family not to post any pictures with him in them, even if they're pretty sure their Facebook/Instagram/whatever settings would keep it from getting around. Once I think he's able to understand what the internet is and the ironic permanence of things you later wish would go away (and the fleeting nature of things you'd love to see again in a few years), he can start making his own choices.

However, I'm not going to judge parents who post normal, happy, non-embarrassing kid pictures sometimes. He might end up standing out as a bit of an oddball for not having any publicly-available pictures from his childhood.
> East Germany suffered less during the recent pandemic because of residual investment in social services and infrastructure.

You should consider finding different news sources. 4 of the 6 states on the territory of the former GDR are at the top of the 'COVID-related deaths per capita' statistics, in Saxony and Thuringia twice as high as the German average, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern was only saved by its low population density:

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1116058/umfra...

> ...investment in social services and infrastructure

This investment mainly happened after the reunification in the 90's, and dwarfs anything the GDR invested in 4 decades of its existence.

> Socialism built a more human-centric society.

Even if that were remotely true it wouldn't have any effect today. The Eastern part of Germany is still poorer than the Western part (even though it caught up quite a bit compared to the difference right after the reunification), which leads to more political extremism (both left and right) and less immunity towards anti-democratic propaganda, like the anti-vaxx bullshit.

Also, back in the 80's East Germans didn't need "US propaganda" to see what's up. Many had relatives in West Germany, and could see the difference of quality of life, and much more important, of personal freedom, with their own eyes.
10% is a low estimate based on conversion rates I’ve seen people post on conversion rates. Standard apps with freemium the rates are 1-10%, Reddit however is used a lot so a mobile app will be used daily (900,000 daily users out of 1.2 million overall) it already converts at 1.50 a month. It would be somewhat reasonable to think Spotify-conversion rates of 30% would convert.
>Funny how even the term "word processing" has gone out of common use.

You're probably right. I'd probably just say I'll write something up or I'll share a Google Doc or something along those lines. And we'd just create "some slides" or "a slide deck" and no one would imagine for a second we were going to create actual 35mm slides. We still use "spreadsheet" though.
Our software isn't horrible. Our software is pretty good, but reality is horribly unpredictable, complicated, and replete with edge cases.
And in small memory. I once had to prepare a church address list on a Psion 3 or 3a with 256kB of memory. That was total memory, used for both execution and battery backed RAM disk. I entered the addresses in to a database, exported to a spreadsheet for sorting and putting the columns in the right order, then exported to word processor document for formatting, and printed over IRDA. No third party sw required. And the thing was so stable even with third party sw that it was quite likely that it was never rebooted before it was replaced years later.
I browse HN mainly on mobile and it can feel quite cluttered, definitely useable but non idempotent operations like flagging a post have no confirmation. For the most part, I think I've noticed when I've accidentally flagged a post and unflagged it, but I feel I can't agree to call the UI perfect.
Long ago a friend's car battery exploded. The car was an early 70s chevy nova so there wasn't much in the way of electrical system to check. Everything was good and the next battery lived +5 years with no changes.

Always figured there was some minor defect or something that caused the battery to start emitting hydrogen.
Honestly, we are an open source project, not a company. If we have the money, of course, we would prefer to spend it there and do better and more with it.

If this is threatening in a serious countenance, our growth and ability to conduct our project. I'm not sure if we need all the 9s of durability of S3, given that people already lost all their buckets on S3.

We do not have the money to store 5x or 6x the contents of the cache.

So we much prefer to have control, and we have enough skills to run all that shit easily, the problem is that the skilled people are in rare availability and are usually working on harder problems than running that. So ultimately, this is a balance problem.

Disclaimer: NixOS developer, 23.05 Release Manager.
How to Misuse Code Coverage [pdf]
You pretty much described my last interviewing experience from one end to the other
It's unfortunate that there's no legally required email confirmation before a company is allowed to spam you regarding someone else's transactions.
I would still say that it is the replacement and attempts at replacing that are harmful.

Good examples of this are automated customer "service" and "self"-driving technologies. The latter has done nothing but spin its wheels by burning off R&D dollars and time while killing people along the way. Eventually, people will realize that a much better goal is to simply assist drivers in more effective ways and to pour the resources into better urban design and non-automotive transportation. Unfortunately, that's happening not because of realization of this but because of the realization that self-driving is a pipe dream of being able to solve intractible societal and technological problems.
> Later it's confirm that masks are effective vs COVID

This has never been proven in any real sense, certainly not enough to justify mandatory masking. Now that the smoke is starting to clear a bit it is becoming clear that "There is not enough evidence to suggest medical-grade face masks protect vulnerable people from Covid" [1] and that "There is just no evidence that they — masks — make any difference ... There’s no evidence that many of these things make any difference” [2]. A similar conclusion was reached earlier by an oft-cited Danish study [3] from 2020 so it can not be said that these are new insights. This also makes it clear that forcing people to wear masks was not based on scientific data and as such can not be justified as "following science".

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/12/face-masks-prote...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/do-mask-mandates-...

[3] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
It sounds like we are in agreement?
I’m not convinced social safety nets would fix worker reliability (people skipping work when they’re not sick)

Work ethic, reliability, trustworthiness, etc are character traits that aren’t easily changed by a better HR policy or safety nets. Unreliable workers will still be unreliable regardless of how much they’re paid.
It's in the article:

"Why not just put down an underwater cable? That's a fine question. PowerX points out that Japan is surrounded by deep seas, and prone to earthquakes, and says in a press release that "the ship-based solution resolves issues such as long downtime from undersea cable malfunctions and repairs, as well as the high costs associated with ultra-high voltage connections and substations."
You pay for the programmes, not the broadcast, obviously. You can just say "I don't need a TV license" online and usually that's the end of it. https://tvlicensing.co.uk/noTV

And in many other countries the "TV license" is just included in general tax; in e.g. when the TV license was abolished in the Netherlands taxes went up by 1.1% to compensate. In Germany it's €220/year/person (not household) regardless of whether you have a TV or not. This way you don't pay for a product I don't use.
You put a lock on your bike.

But you also put it in the shed, and lock the shed.
Defense? “The market at work” (ignoring labor isn’t a perfect market and being an over-controlling asshole isn’t required to make a profit).

The US is just anti-labor and in love with cheap consumables. Combined, we end up with a massive case of haves and have-nots. Vacation, sick leave, retirement accounts, medical care. It’s great if you’re rich (as damn near everybody on this forum is).

My brother in law is an auto mechanic here in the US. My uncle as well, but in Scotland. While they’re overall income is pretty close (solidly middle class) the amount of financial stress in the US is MUCH MUCH higher.

It’s so short-sighted. I’d happily pay another $30k/year or more in taxes for nationalized medical, lower college costs and other things most Europeans have.
Absolutely. And if one wants to look for scary things, a big one is how there seem to be genuine efforts to achieve proper alignment and safety based on the shaky ground(s) of our "human value system(s)" -- of which even if there was only One True Version, it would still be way too haphazard and incoherent, or just ill-defined, to anything as truly honest and bias-free as a blank-slate NN model to base it's decisions on.

That kinda feels like a great way to achieve really unpredictable/unexpected results instead in rare corner cases, where it may matter the most. (It's easy to be safe in routine everyday cases.)
seems to work when being logged in on the mobile site. they're just really really damn pushy for that stupid app
> Spending money or how much is spent, as a metric, is meaningless. Ridiculous, really.

I agree, that's why I’ve been mocking you for setting it up as a metric (and for misrepresenting the facts when you did so.)

> What also matters is what is attainable with the legal framework we have,

While I disagree with a lot of your rant, this is definitely true.

> Therefore, the only potential solution is some form of severe clamp-down on drugs and alcohol

We've tried, in both cases; neither is effectively attainable within anything like the legal framework we have, and even trying has massive adverse effects in other areas.

The solution is adequate housing (both quantitatively and with distributive support) [0] + much better health, especially behavioral health (which encompasses both what is usually known as mental health and substance use disorder prevention and treatment) support.

> The root causes are nowhere near to housing

The root causes are complex, but housing absolutely is one of them, and often preceds manifestation or significant deepening of health (behavioral and physical health) problems that make housing alone and inadequate solution for that individual. Adequate housing is not only necessary for other interventions for the currently homeless, it is an even more important preventive measure to reduce the rate at which people become homeless.

[0] And most of what has been seriously tried in CA is too little, too late on distributive support. Rather than actually achieving quantitatively adequate housing, though there are long-term measures toward adequacy finally beginning to exert some force.
Imagine how much it'd be worth if it had started in a Waffle House
Apollo et al. are still under threat
Wireguard will encapsulate all your traffic inside UDP packets encrypted with chacha20-poly1305.

Networking between two Wireguard hosts will never see TCP on the wire.

Bad habits are OK with this in place.
You assume people would use the system as designed. They'd have no incentive to do so. Don't like someone's ethnicity? Downvote. Don't like electric cars? Downvote.

That would be the overwhelming majority of votes, much like how car horns are overwhelmingly used for non-safety related honking.
Sick days shouldn't be countable except in extreme cases. If someone is unfortunate enough to get something that requires extended time off work, losing income shouldn't be a worry.

What is needed is a national insurance scheme that pays your salary when sick beyond some minimum that your employer has to cover.
That is an excellent point, but I have to think that MS wouldn't want OpenAI to walk to one of the other big cloud compute shops at the end of a contract. So, not quite 100% control. But that goes for the 49% limit too.
You can put matter on grid powered trains instead of battery powered self propelled vehicles.
https://imageio.forbes.com/blogs-images/timworstall/files/20...

Lines up well at parts. It isn't the full explanation.
> We find that research from prestigious institutions spreads more quickly and completely than work of similar quality originating from less prestigious institutions.

That's a bit of a leap though, isn't it? How to establish that the works are of 'similar quality'?
do people actually use this? i mean, sure, it seems like it bundles features and workflows that “gamers” would be into, but i’m genuinely curious if the juice is worth the squeeze.

it just seems like it’s pandering to the intended audience and not really necessary.
> It was allegedly a large part of the impetus that led them to create their own ARTICHOKE/MKULTRA program.

This is a commonly repeated refrain, but it just exists to provide a comforting explanation for the fact that the U.S. security state decided to embark on a program of mind control experimentation on many unwitting and unwilling human guinea pigs. The truth is that as WWII wound down, we eagerly imported Nazi scientists who were already engaged in this kind of research, and ARTICHOKE/MKULTRA/etc were just the continuation of it for all the same purposes but under a different name.
they had to quickly repurpose it to be used in the next big thing with whatever tools did the trick, so makes sense
I've been meaning to read it ever since I saw this quote, which I found quite beautiful and sad:

The Machine is much, but it is not everything. I see something like you in this plate, but I do not see you. I hear something like you through this telephone, but I do not hear you. That is why I want you to come. Pay me a visit, so that we can meet face to face, and talk about the hopes that are in my mind.

- The Machine Stops (1909)
That's not how arts patronage would have worked in the 1500s.
> Your proof that utility-scale batteries don't work is that some random e-bike battery pack has design flaws?

I have absolutely no idea how you got that from what I wrote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_biological_warf...
> I wonder whether that will ultimately do my student’s a disservice.

Dude, if you make errors like that in your letters, letting AI write for you will probably be a good idea.
The enshitification continues
Because we don't like it when the government unilaterally acts on our behalf

We're not all libertarians and many of us believe that the government has a hand in promoting a well functioning society -- including regulating bank-like entities to be sure that they are a safe place to keep our cash.

While I know that Paypal isn't a bank, it's not at all obvious that my money is less safe stored in my Paypal account than in a bank and that if Paypal goes bankrupt tomorrow, I can lose whatever cash I have with them.
The GP may well only have 4G/LTE available, not the faster 5G/fixed wireless. In our neighborhood, the 5G/fixed wireless stuff is not yet available from T-Mobile or Verizon, only 4G/LTE.

And either way, even that coverage is spotty and speed varies highly on the time of day that you're trying to use it.

All this is fine for a tertiary backup solution (behind Starlink) but not as a primary method of accessing the Internet.
I wasn't referring to the pancakes
And if telnet is not there, then curl very often is, and one can usually then just do curl -v telnet://target:port
Battle Chess (1988)
That's not a meaningful definition of a hash function, then.

def hash(val):
return 0
I don't understand that article. Those issues look easy to patch up? The first one has been. The second one seem like a case of not allowing the server to execute text sent by the client in the filename?
Whether or not this is a sound engineering decision, it also sounds a bit like a hack in Factorio that makes sense due to a quirk in game mechanics.
Windows 11's Get Help support app is showing ads as well now
>it strongly implies that they testified, after the war, about dropping biological weapons.

It directly says it happened in 1952, and links to a newspaper clearly saying the 'confession' was made by captured American officers. How does it imply the exact opposite of what it says?
I think the gripe people have with the title is insecurity. They feel that they're "less than" because they can't go from humble beginnings to being a master of the universe as the title here implies.
As someone who had a great time with Kaitai, may I suggest that you write an interface so that fq can be used with any format that Kaitai understands (and any that people add in future)
> quite opaque as to his decision-making

Genuine question: I thought it was well understood that his decision making was guided by a fear of Russian expansion, and that conservative measures (such as keeping the Emperor in place and several important politicians) were aimed at quickly reestablishing the country to avoid communist impetus from arising. Is this not the case?
Repair.wiki – A repository of information for repairing any kind of device
Traveling to other states for work is done at the gov expense (for our line of work). If there are extenuating circumstances to remove someone and bring them home quickly, we still have to abide by federal travel regulation to get them home. Otherwise they're stranded in another state trying to arrange airfare or a car + hotel(s) which can be very expensive on short notice:

https://www.gsa.gov/policy-regulations/regulations/federal-t...

My understanding is in Florida you can be arrested for dressing in opposition to the gender you were assigned at birth. If witnessed by a child this can be considered a sex crime, for which sex crimes involving children in Florida are eligible for the death penalty. Do I think this is likely to happen? Yes. The past 4-6 years have demonstrated we keep /hoping/ for de-escalation, but then examples are made that get national attention and evil things become normalized. Can and 'will happen' are subjective, but they did recently make it legal to seize trans kids.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/desantis-signs-florida-ban-...

I'm part of an employee advocacy group. It is my role to be sensitive and address concerns some may consider isolated or minute. Things we never thought we'd have to discuss at work are now being discussed to keep (management), employees, and families aware of risks and safe.

What is your definition of evil?
One can totally care about an illness, but not CARE about it much.
Totally agree. I was just thinking baby steps towards something reasonable.
Telly dual-screen TV first look: it’s free and may be the future
This way every search request goes through third party proxy. I wonder if it can be done client-side (as a browser extension or a custom js bookmark).
They do both. Imagine driving to pick up someone who charges their phone in your car.
Why is it such a problem to create a reddit clone?

I’m assuming it’s the user base; most attempts I’ve seen are either empty or focus on non-mainstream and often controversial content.

Are there ways to address that? Or is there something else?
I do like some things better about https://hckrnews.com/ as a front page.

The left numbers almost act as a bar graph to tell you how popular something is, and it is otherwise chronological.

High text interfaces are also dense compared to modern mobile touch based interfaces trying to render on a desktop. https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1407-why-the-drudge-report-is...
I have seen companies, that when confronted by this, that will send the employee to a physician vetted by the company to confirm the need for accommodation.
Indeed, an assembler, and a computer to run it on, were luxuries in those days. I'll bet a lot of early code was hand assembled. It wasn't too hard on 8 bit machines. I coded on grid paper. In reality, all it took was a few dozen lines of code and I was simultaneously hooked on coding, and motivated to earn enough money to buy a computer of my own.

In addition to having access to computers, even just being able to get a copy of any software and do anything with it were a bit of a hurdle if you had started at the chip level.
You’re aware that the peer review process is basically impossible without the release of weights?