skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think teens and young adults merely tolerate it because it's what they've been given. Any seemingly positive embrace of such drivel is actually an adaptation of it into something more culturally meaningful and better coded to elude boomer advertisers' prying eyes.
California spent $4 billion a year on homelessness. Thats roughly $35,000 per homeless person (115,000).

IMO it shouldn't even that much to institutionalise/imprison/forcefully remove these people but even if it did cost as much or more, it would still be worth it.

Imagine what would clean safe streets do for these cities, it would create such a huge rebound!
The worst thing about Reddit, IMO, besides the UI garbage, is that they condone warfare between communities by allowing moderators to ban people merely for being subbed to another community, and for reasons as simple as the other community being the wrong politics and no history of raids.

That said, I actually think Fidelity's valuation is a bit harsh. Reddit's true utility today is in being a source of actual opinions and not corporate blogvomit. When I do searches today, I frequently use site:reddit.com, and I know many here on HN do at the very least. Reddit is, for better or worse, a centralized version of what the web used to be inside the web itself. For that reason alone, I think there's reason to believe that Reddit is not going anywhere, and that it still has opportunities to correct course. As far as I know, there are no serious competitors yet.
> I appreciated their honesty when they replied that, for a typical 1000-hour project, 250 would be devoted to the estimation.

I did not expect that plot twist to your story. Sounds about reasonable. Proper project management takes alot of time and need to engage the actual implementors.
Fantastic comment, thank you.

One question I have is which of these are fixed across Unicode standards.

(a) Byte count for storage and (b) code point count are definitely fixed, Unicode provides an explicit guarantee of the latter: https://www.unicode.org/policies/stability_policy.html

(c) Visual width will change depending on the system.

But what about (d) grapheme count? If I make a microblogging site which limits post length to 144 graphemes, can my database invariants break when I upgrade my version of Unicode?
Ansible 8 Release Notes
That's pointless since you need to recharge your device all the time. It's not progress if you have a lighter that needs gas every 2 minutes to work.
chatGPT has no concern for the truthfulness of its output. Hence, it is a bullshitter by definition.

Further, it remixes BS in infinite ways heaping it on the masses who are lapping it up (due to the innate bias to believe as true anything we read or hear)

Garbage-In-Garbage-Out at GigaBytes per second (GIGO at GBps).
Don’t judge Apple’s VR headset too soon
Not OP, but I can recommend Glider: https://github.com/Mosc/Glider
It is a nice replacement of Materialistic.
> Some see the current DNSSEC costs simply as teething problems that will reduce as the software and tooling matures to provide more automation of the risky processes and operational teams learn from their mistakes or opt to simply transfer the risk by outsourcing the management and complexity to larger providers to take care of.

> I don’t find these arguments compelling. We’ve already had 15+ years to develop improved software for DNSSEC without success. What’s changed that we should expect a better outcome this year or next? Nothing.

We’ve had the X.509 certificate infrastructure for 30+ years, and it’s only recently become mostly safe and automated enough for people to deploy without risk. (This includes new risks, like accidentally sending HSTS headers with too large timeouts to the world.) DNSSEC will get there, too.
You could certainly make a good argument that Dr Su's direction/focus, as CEO, allowed successful projects to flourish into compelling products.
I think this result actually shows that a parachute doesn't increase death/trauma when exiting a non-moving plane from 2 feet up.

So, worst case for parachute wearers is that they are no worse off than without one. Parachutes are safe for use with regards to de-planing.
If you’re on android you can use Firefox with ublock. It’s my biggest loss switching to iPhone, to the point that HN comments are literally the only web page I will visit on my phone. Anything else I wait for laptop access.

Supposedly supposed to get side loading later this year which hope to god means Firefox with extensions on iOS
Ha! I’m a staff engineer now, but many many years ago when I was a junior I got the same type of project. It was the CTOs pet project to reimagine the core processing framework. I still feel bad for the folks maintaining it now. I was an expert in the kind of thing that the CTO wanted so it was a good project for me, but I should have had a senior to guide the process and tests and things like that.
How does it compare to AltTab? https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
By what criteria do they suck? Regardless, it doesn’t seem relevant to what I’m suggesting. Even if colleges were perfect there were still be disparities if only due to the student demographics and the problem in the OP would still exist.
Of course not, because no device can run at super low wattage with such an hypothetical OS.
Blackberries were expensive because you needed to pay extra for the BES Exchange Server Sync package, which corporate phones usually needed. The status symbol aspect of it faded because as it turns out, people do not enjoy being at the beck and call of their employers.
My point exactly (well, not about DNSSEC being a failure, just XHTML).
Home projects, I need a couple for home automation.
no - there is a "Bell curve" at least.. many colleges post-covid are in freefall in the USA.
This is a cute headline but let's see AMD put out some software to actually run DNN training on their hardware. Currently either impossible or too onerous to be worth the trouble.
I switched to Intel NUCs. Some of the older models can be really cheap
I would probably write more code as I wouldn’t need to sit in meetings! That said, I’d be pickier about who I wrote code for.
I use them for test systems at my job. Where formally we needed a whole dedicated PC or laptop, we can now just throw a $20 rpi at it with ease.
I did. I was looking for jobs in the US while living half way across the world. My then boss posted on HN without HRs approval. When they found out they made a big issue about unauthorized job postings on a website they've never heard of. But I was able to reach out before they made him remove it

Skipped most of the HR process thanks to speaking directly with the HM. Had a Skype interview which was pretty awkward, they left a single laptop in an empty interview room and people came in an out to speak with me as if it was a physical interview. It worked out great
If you talk to certain old people - like my parents, one is 70 and other will hit the mark this November - they might say, "Russia? Like, the KGB?" and then I can quote Robbie Coltrane's Valentin in The World is Not Enough...

"Now it's FSB. Federal Security Bureau. Same friendly service with a new name."
Sedevacantists have a massive internet presence, many sedes seem to be terminally online. I'll be watching a random YouTube video of someone playing a game and on the scoreboard I'll see someone with a feeneyite sede website.
Also ad buyers don’t mind, and often prefer, deceptive or discrete advertising. Product placement and “native advertising” has been around for decades or maybe even a century.
Electric vehicles dominate gas-powered cars in Norway
Well, George has an acquihire exit option.

> The goal of the tiny corp is: “to commoditize the petaflop”

> ... If we succeed at this project, we will be on the cutting edge of non NVIDIA AI compute. We have the ability to make the software, and that’s the hard part.

[1] https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2023/05/24/the-...
> There must be some force here, because Twitter's UI is also garbage.

It's called modern frontend, I'm afraid :-)

By the way the next iteration of Reddit web UI, which this time is based on web components with Lit rather than on React, is less garbage — at least in terms of raw performance. Design-wise it may still be horrible; but at least technologically, it feels like a definite improvement. You can check it out if you browse Reddit without logging in.
I was hired as a founding CTO a few years ago from a HN post. Without going into detail, the company grew, exited, and I'm still working for them.
HTC Touch Pro 2, G1, G2 and Desire Z - the last great landscape keyboard phones.
Indeed, are you aware of the current state of AMD's equivalent to CUDA? And how far behind would be, and what would need to be done to near equivalence? It seems like the opportunity and differentiator. I wonder how Apple silicon software is doing...
Clicking “show this thread” now opens ads on Twitter(another weird downfall bug)
https://twitter.com/muningis/status/1664634611555524611?s=46&t=8wtu-Ewwi-hd_l5GMzd1ng

After turning off (apparently?) Translation feature, now they are randomly serving ads. Last time it was showing only ads in the timeline,now this.
Projects like this too: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/tags/cluster
Hackers use flaw in popular file transfer tool to steal data, researchers say
I suspect that the people who “matter” (frequent, registered, trackable users) are using third party apps or scripts over the service itself, so there hasn’t been a reason to invest in the interface.

It feels like Reddit is in the same place Twitter was pre-Musk. Kind of lost in terms of purpose/trajectory for monetization. Or maybe it’s the other way around: it’s where Twitter will be in a few years, stagnated because it was bought to be part of a larger portfolio, a bauble that sits on the shelf and doesn’t really have anything innovative going for it.

To me there isn’t anything interesting about Reddit anymore. I only use it to hear from people who claim to live in a place I’m living or visiting, or to get very specific troubleshooting advice, where I find a specific post using an external search engine. Mostly I think the culture of the site itself is annoying. Any time I stray outside of regional or technical subreddits it feels like I’ve accidentally landed in a middle school cafeteria.
I kept all my old PDAs (and some that belonged to friends and family that were tossing them out). I have a box filled with my Casio BOSS, Palm Pilot, and several others. They aren't worth much (I just checked ebay and an original, working U.S. Robotics Palm Pilot 5000 is selling for $50), but they are such an interesting memento in the history of digital tools.
If the two options are:

1. Make money while preserving the UI

2. Make money while destroying the UI

... then why would anyone bother to preserve the UI? It's completely irrelevant even in the best case scenario. But allow me to present another more cynical:

They both hate anything good/competent/well-made, and the users too, and also want to make money.

> In fact making the UI garbage will chase away users

When I first started reading reddit in early 2006, the web was a larger place with many thousands of fora. But reddit's growth was at their expense, most are dead or dying. It's depressing when you're looking for something specific, and you end up on one of the old phpbbs... no one's bothered to post a comment in months. If they have, no one ever replied. But in their archives, it shows that just 15 or even 10 years ago, an hour wouldn't go by without someone saying something.

They've solved the "chasing away users" problem by making certain there's nowhere to flee to. Some small fraction might just cut that sort of internet use out of their lives entirely out of spite, but not enough to matter.
ChatGPT is free to use. Stable Diffusion is free to use. Those are two of the largest if not the largest generative models out there.
Insect spaghetti? EU agency greenlights another insect-based foodstuff
Arizona limits building as groundwater dries up
Wow this is fantastic. I was gifted a MacBook a few months ago and I am continually surprised to learn how many features I just take for granted in windows. MacOS often feels very similar to Linux in that the core OS is very barebones and needs a ton of extensions to really be useable. The difference being in Linux most of the extensions are OSS while in MacOS they’re each $9.99.
This is a fair take - ie, the authors are saying what their readers want to hear using some pseudo-statistics.

In this sense, the authors are bullshitting their readers - by telling them what they want to hear (as any politician might)
Having reviewed articles can be a legitimate signal. My brother started working in high school on research that was ultimately published in a peer reviewed physics journal. (Maybe if he’d gotten that article out before graduation he wouldn’t have gotten dinged at MIT.) But he only had that opportunity because he went to an elite public school in Virginia that had a program to get students internships with the dozens of defense industry research labs in the area. Not exactly something that’s available to folks in Iowa, where my wife went to high school.

And getting published in a non-science journal probably provides a much weaker signal. For cultural reasons, lots of families wouldn’t even think it would be worthwhile to have their kid published in say a social science journal. (My dad, who has a sociology degree, told me in no uncertain terms that I wasn’t allowed to major in the subject.)

Really it’s another reason that college admissions should just be based on test scores and grades. If the kids are poor—give them an $1,000 scholarship to take an PowerScore class. (That’s just a fraction of what even poor school districts spend on each student annually.) Everything else is so wildly subjective or unevenly available to kids around the country.
Türkiye has had those for decades - I remember seeing one take off from Dalaman in the early 00's while I was waiting for a flight there.
Are you implying that calls made from smart phones are anything but on the clear? Are you making all your voice calls using some merging other than the phone app?
> What has vanished, is our ability to do general-purpose computing at ~8MHz.

ahem https://xkcd.com/768/
California Assembly votes to pass the Journalism Preservation Act
What you're describing is in a really rough spot already.

You need to append "reddit" to get any useful result, but unless you're on desktop, the mobile site is essentially broken if you're looking for answers. The app nag is omnipresent and the comment section is always broken after 2 or 3 comments with a "show more" button and lists of other posts.

If information is hard to glean from reddit, and the rest of the internet is AI blogspam, what is to be done?
Yeah, I call BS that people won't pay for anything on the internet. They'll complain if you charge $7 a month, yes, but if you charge $25 a month, then you will have a smaller sunset of customers who are less likely to whine like those who threw a hissy fit over blue checkmarks.
I love that the first reply is for Minion.AI. Are you a god? Do you want minions? We can get you minions.
Try an Android e-ink tablet like a Boox Note. They have wifi, but it's mostly for file sync and stuff because web browsing on e-ink is bad enough to not be worthwhile.
I swear they said they were going to add hiding the top tab bar back in as a native option back in 2017, but I'm still using the userChrome.css hack today.
I don't get how these ideas are draconian.

Forget the fact that its whats the most liberal countries do, what else do you propose?

Whats draconian is the current state of affairs. Letting these people rot and devolve further whilst ravaging our cities, nobody wins here.

These people need help and those who don't need help are knowingly causing public harm. Public harm as in harming the public in the public spaces where the public pays ungodly amounts of taxes to keep them safe.
No we don’t need a relationship. It is transactional, and the fact that they think they need a relationship wastes time and aggravates me.

Yes it’s better for them if they “build a relationship” because it better enables them to upsell, but it’s not at all necessary or advantageous for the person buying the product.

I don’t need them to “tailor their experience” to me. I need them to be transparent about their functionality and the technical details so I can scope value and integration efforts. The sales people never want this because it easily exposes that they’re trying to sell me a lemon.

If you are a salesperson and trying to build a relationship with me then you need to stop. You are being a sociopathic douchebag, flat out. You are not actually interested in me or my problems beyond making the sale so stop pretending.
> this looses much of its power once you start passing these buffers around to functions that do not use these macros.

Alas it's even worse: once you pass buffers around to functions, you can't use these macros!
Not everything needs massive amounts of speed. Most projects benefit the more from a good price, good ecosystem, and low power consumption.
They at least don't seem afraid to take the risk to walk up high vertical walls towards roofs and attics
CPU development cycle is definitely longer than 3 years, especially for a big change like that. Zen architecture design certainly started before 2014. So I think it's fair to say that she started around the time AMD became successful.
This, for example: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product...

Honestly the major sticking point of Pis for me is that their microSD cards are wholly unsuitable for anything that may lose power or requires long term reliability. Most equivalent manufacturers such as the one above ship with eMMC, which won't get corrupted by sudden power cycles.
Hm I think it was something else entirely. If I recall correctly, it felt like a motorized ratchet pulling me back in my seat.
Except the lighter nowadays is a flamethrower. You can get a lighter that needs gas every month, or a flamethrower that needs gas every two minutes, but complaining that the flamethrower needs much more gas than the lighter is silly.
> Prepare a script that deletes one character randomly:

Hmm, but can it also deal with general bit flips? Because that's usually what radiation does not delete characters. The only case it would delete a character with a bit flip on the data would be causing the DEL char 0x7F i think, which 7 ASCII chars have a 1 in 8 chance of mutating into (because we have 8 actual bits but only 7 are used for ASCII): ~}{wo_?

There are 96 ASCII characters that might be used in source code naively assuming equal character probability that's 7/96 * 1/8 = 0.9% chance of a bit flip deleting a character by mutating into 0x7F. There's also a chance of a character mutating into a non-printable character (0-31), only the 2nd and 3rd column of ASCII can mutate into this by ending up with both high bits off, so there are 64/96 chars with a 1/8 chance that's an 8.3% chance of mutating into a non-printable control char etc (i'm ignoring LF because it displaces DEL). If the 8th bit flips into a one on any char then we get extended ASCII I think, that's 96/96 * 1/8 = 12.5% chance. That leaves 78.3% chance of mutating into another regular printable ASCII character. Apologies for any bad math.

There are a lot of possible affects on the interpreter when it sees any of those characters, the control chars could be particularly troublesome.

Either way this is still a very cool quine :P
I'm still looking for an open ECU focused only on old, carbureted cars. Projects like Speeduino, rusEFI, MegaSquirt, etc. are wonderful, but I have no use for them because they're more geared towards fuel-injected engines (though some do have ways to run injector-less).

Case in point: I have a Renault R5 GTL with a Renix pseudo-ECU module [1] taken from a Renault R11 TX, along with its camshaft, head, double barrel carb and other bits. It has inputs only for manifold vacuum & crankshaft sensor (some support a knock sensor, mine does not). A crude ROM map is applied to the advance curve from just those two parameters. It works really well, but that's it, no way to change or fine-tune anything.

> while testing showed it produced more power and better emissions

A customizable "ECU" similar to the Renix approach that does EXACTLY this, would be a godsend to me (and also my local old Fiat/Lada/you-name-it heads). At these small displacements, we just don't care how the engine sounds: every HP gained is a win.

[1] http://boursinp.free.fr/pdgdiag2.htm

PS. Yes, I know an 123ignition dizzy is what I need, but they're way too expensive - and proprietary. Where's the fun in that?
If minimum wage were suddenly eliminated, the least skilled would now compete in a free market for their wages. Housing prices would fall, in the slums.
> might be wise to have the option to disable in some situations

Snow and gravel are the only valid situations where ABS can increase braking distance.

However, disabling ABS is still a really poor idea.

ABS increases braking distance in the snow because it allows the wheels to rotate so they can grip the road. ABS allowing your front wheels to rotate is why you have any marginal ability to steer and brake simultaneously. Without ABS in the snow your front wheels will lock while steering before your rears and you will lose control of the vehicle.

On top of that, disabling ABS usually disables the vehicle's entire suite of driver aids like traction control and stability control which are extremely helpful in snow.

I can't think of any situation, however contrived, where I would willingly disable ABS on a vehicle in snowy conditions... unless you were trying to slide a car around.
It's not a hypothetical OS, it's what the Psion runs, and why not?
Apache Arrow, Parquet, Flight and Their Ecosystem Are a Game Changer for OLAP
This is why I'm so skeptical that de-prioritizing SAT/ACT scores will make college admissions more equitable.

Yes, the SAT favors rich applicants who can afford to pay for (and spend time on) test prep. Unfortunately, rich applicants can also pay to boost whatever other signal is used by the admissions committee. Extracurriculars? Those violin lessons didn't pay for themselves! High School internship? Consider which families have the connections to find those opportunities. And now research papers...

I actually think standardized test scores are considerably less subject to bias than anything else!

IMO, the only actual solution is to specifically consider socioeconomic background as part of the admissions process. But everyone hates that because it feels unfair. And it is unfair, but that's the point—any system we come up with will be unfair, so we have to find the least-unfair one.
Additionally, any mobile network service that Amazon sells will have lower priority than mobile network service bought directly from the cell tower owners:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/tn4733/qci_leve...
Everyone? I beg to differ. Tons of people love Musk no matter what he does.
We can't improve all of these institutions because they are either directly run or mostly financed by governments, and governments are driven by politics.
I really hope this is true, I have a display in my home I have been wanting to setup for close to a year (the monitor is even already mounted) but I just did not want to support scalpers.

If within a couple months I can buy a new PI for retail that would be great.
Its sorta funny, when I'm looking for opinions on a new tech stack or a language comparison, I add the "hackernews" at the end of my query.
Plenty of jobs check your credentials before hiring already. It's not a significant burden.
Any downsides to these compared to a Pi? Heating, noise, power consumption?
Ok, so it's not just me. At least we have HN. My doom scroll is now artifact. Though I've never engaged in the comments. Tho identical IMHO, It replaced apple news for me which I got made fun of for sharing a link from...