skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 'checkout -b' to create a branch

Well that's actually "create a branch and then checkout that new branch". And you can use "git switch -c" if you feel the "checkout" verb is confusing.

The command to just create a branch is "git branch". Git branch won't touch the HEAD pointer, that's what switch does.

And if "git branch -c" were the command for "create branch and switch", it would be criticised in the exact same way: creating a branch and switching to it would be a different subcommand to that used for switching existing branches. Except now the branch command can also do "switchy" things to your HEAD pointer, but only sometimes (and the fact that checkout also only sometimes changed the HEAD is why switch was introduced).
It's companies' fault we don't want to return to the office
Tldr; they’re about even. Which is what I’d expect given they’re both performance oriented languages which compile via llvm.

As I see it, performance wise Rust has one advantage and one disadvantage compared to zig. Rust’s advantage is that it can add the equivalent of C’s noalias all over the place because of the rules imposed by the borrow checker. This can help the optimizer. And the drawback of rust is that all array accesses are bounds checked. (Well, at least in safe rust). But thanks to prediction intrinsics, the slow down from this is much less than I always expect. Bounds checks do bloat the binary size though.

So rust and zig trading blows benchmark to benchmark is about what I would expect to happen. And that’s exactly what I’m seeing here.
Well that completely depends on the mods and subreddit in question. Never used r/NBA but I would catch a bullet for r/AskHistorians for example.
> Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
The problem is those blocklists sometimes get shared with other companies doing more broad bot management stuff, which could end up getting you blocked (or soft blocked) from other forms of content.

Trying to log in to your streaming platform of choice? Have fun solving three extra CAPTCHAs because your IP has a history of "bot" activity. etc etc etc
Yes exactly. It's not a zero cost abstraction, but it's a very simple format, each byte code oppose maps directly to function and passes its args. So it's basically just a conditional jump
Some past threads for dang to macroexpand:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33413124

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32384769

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25355171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15663980

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18037613

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14836013

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34205294

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13624926

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16960300
I think bettertouchtools is the best to get macos to the point of usability with regard to window management and other general OS QoL.

Linux really does beat out everything for this type of stuff imo. The best window management, sometimes even by default and everything customisable almost to the point of perfection.
Correct except they did this for gpt2 not gpt3
Because other countries are not so filled with temporarily embarrassed millionaires as the US and they need to maintain the status quo in case they ever accidentally stumble back into "their" wealth.
From Korea the rate is 430 won, roughly 33¢, and I suspect this is faster than sending from the PRC.

According to some site, only Taiwan, Sri Lanka and Swaziland are cheaper for an international postcard.
Thanks homie. Not everyone gets it. Pokemon Colosseum is the Deep Space Nine of the Pokemon games.
Another fun learning resource: https://learngitbranching.js.org/
Which is amazing, because Rust comes with more safety guarantees.
Where did you get those numbers from?

Obviously Starbucks has massive margins but I can't imagine that massive!
I have. Maybe I don’t have enough RAM for it, but I find their IDEs to be slow and laggy.

Xcode and Visual Studio Code feel so much snappier on the same machine.
technically you only need to pump a single atom to make the headline true.
CERN 2070 – The Next Generation
Administrative requirements at universities have skyrocketed over the past decades. These admin positions don't exist for fun, but rather to address a plethora of new regulations and needs [1]:

> Perhaps most controversial is an increasing raft of federal and state regulations that universities must abide by: the Clery Act, which requires campuses to report their crime activity; new Title IX regulations that govern the handling of sexual assault; and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) requirements for providing educational records.

> In 2013 and 2014 alone, the Department of Education released rules and directives on 10 new sets of issues, ranging from proposed rules on teacher preparation programs to Net Price Calculator requirements to specific regulations for FAFSA verification. Complying with all these rules requires additional staff and additional money. The resources required are not insignificant: a Vanderbilt study of 13 colleges and universities found that regulatory compliance comprises 3 to 11% of schools’ nonhospital operating expenses, taking up 4 to 15% of faculty and staff’s time.

> “It is pages and pages and pages of regulations that require more sophisticated professionals,” says Penny Rue, vice president for Campus Life at Wake Forest University and board chair-elect of the National Association of Student Affairs Professionals. Rue adds that incidents on college campuses, such as the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, contributed to a need for administrative spending that often goes unnoticed, from case management services to threat assessment teams.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinesimon/2017/09/05/bureau...
I've read about/had enough issues with NVidia drivers in the last couple of years I am willing to say AMD has effectively caught up in that regard, especially when you consider "FineWine" (the common occurrence of AMD GPUs gaining performance over time through driver updates, while that seldom occurs on the Nvidia side).

I've not experienced, at any point, from the Radeon 9550 to the Radeon HD 5750 to the RX 480/580 driver issues that prevented me from playing a game or anything like that. Also, NVidia on Linux has pretty much always been a nightmare. They're still working out Nvidia-specific issues with Wayland over there in Linux world. If you are on Linux, AMD is and has always been the way to go for your GPU if you wanted the best UX.
There were eight Roman legions and a lot of allied troops that had been mostly annihilated. Rome was subsequently no longer in a position to oppose Hannibal in an open field battle. From this alone one can conclude that the Roman losses must have been considerable. The figures given by Polybius and Livius may or may not be approximately correct, but I think they are in the right order of magnitude.
TBH, I don't really see what the new settings stuff offers over the status quo. It feels like a complex abstraction layer to do what everyone was already doing already.
In your worldview Trudeau is on the right? This kind of reasoning won't reach anyone.
Correct.

The documentation says you must buy either 3 postcards or 10 from within the app. 3 postcards sent internationally cost 168CZK = $7.64.

3 postcards sent to the EU cost €6.34.
Zitron is usually on the mark.
Well, world is huge and amount of stuff you might not know is endless.

https://xkcd.com/1769/
Agreed. _Seeing_ the process happen would take this to be next level.
As somebody who has run a company, I actually agree fully with it.
This makes the author's definition a rather uninteresting one.
FWIW, it seems like if you assign a shortcut to the snap commands, they show up in the menu even without Option. So as a workaround you could assign extremely difficult to use keys just to keep them in the menu.
Star Trek took it a bit too far for my tastes. I prefer Sci-fi with tech that is out of reach--but just barely (e.g. The Expanse)

If your recycling scheme involves condensed matter physics, it might as well be magic. But if it's just known-robotics and reusable parts and good design taken to the n'th degree... that's the kind of thing that could feasibly inspire action in a reader--which is the kind of sci-fi I want to read.

Besides, there's something inelegant about breaking something all the way down just to build it all the way back up. A system that understands that the shortest path from here to there means something other than a full molecular disassembly is far more impressive than one that's just a decomposer.
some consequences have feed-back loops with long delays.

go remove some guys that do legal compliance stuff and when the random inspection happen years later, you'll find out that maybe it would've cost you less to keep that employee.
U.S. Energy Dept gets two ransom notices as MOVEit hack claims more victims
If HackerNews started a government, it could be utopia.
>I don’t mean to discount individual experiences of crime, only to say I really enjoyed our stay and it seems still to be a vivacious place.

Your entire comment is littered with assertions that say you felt safe/fine, but at the same time you note your behavior was fairly cautious.

1. You didn't go out at night.

2. You stayed away from the TL

3. Something you witnessed gave you pause.

Then you also have to consider that you weren't really living there. You worked most of the week and toured the rest of your time.

>I don’t mean to discount individual experiences of crime, only to say I really enjoyed our stay and it seems still to be a vivacious place.

You put the idea that negative experiences are individual and not systemic. As if being a victim of a crime is an "individual experience" and not a pervasive element of the area.
i see bound checks as advantage. I don't want random stuff from program tbh. And, if someone really wants to disable bound checks for certain stuff, they can always do that.
I would be angry at such a stupid law
A far more accurate predictor of health is simply waist circumference.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesi...
Very strange that we don't have ingredient labels for alcoholic beverages, even though pretty much every other substance you ingest has them, and even many things you don't, e.g. soap and shampoo.
Doesn't Zig also check bounds by default?
Would be interesting to combine this with staff headcounts to estimate the cost of an all-hands.
It worked fine on Firefox until microshit intentionally broke it
I've seen a priest raid the pantry for bread to perform the sacrament and I think decided triscuits were better than cheese wheat thins. I've also seen a priest talk about the provenance of the wine and which member of the congregation had provided it from their travels. Only one bottle was transubstantiated, the second bottle came out for tasting later.
I don't understand your objection. Step (3) is the one that actually assesses how well the proposed description works, and that is a comparison with the 'real' ground truth.
Alienation from the act of production-

In the capitalist mode of production, the generation of products (goods and services) is accomplished with an endless sequence of discrete, repetitive motions that offer the worker little psychological satisfaction for "a job well done." By means of commodification, the labor power of the worker is reduced to wages (an exchange value); the psychological estrangement (Entfremdung) of the worker results from the unmediated relation between his productive labor and the wages paid to him for the labor. The worker is alienated from the means of production via two forms: wage compulsion and the imposed production content. The worker is bound to unwanted labour as a means of survival, labour is not "voluntary but coerced" (forced labor). The worker is only able to reject wage compulsion at the expense of their life and that of their family. The distribution of private property in the hands of wealth owners, combined with government enforced taxes compel workers to labor. In a capitalist world, our means of survival is based on monetary exchange, therefore we have no other choice than to sell our labour power and consequently be bound to the demands of the capitalist.

The worker "[d]oes not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself;" "[l]abor is external to the worker,"[12]: 74 it is not a part of their essential being. During work, the worker is miserable, unhappy and drained of their energy, work "mortifies his body and ruins his mind." The production content, direction and form are imposed by the capitalist. The worker is being controlled and told what to do since they do not own the means of production they have no say in production, "labor is external to the worker, i.e. it does not belong to his essential being.[12]: 74 A person's mind should be free and conscious, instead it is controlled and directed by the capitalist, "the external character of labor for the worker appears in the fact that it is not his own but someone else's, that it does not belong to him, that in it he belongs, not to himself, but to another."[12]: 74 This means he cannot freely and spontaneously create according to his own directive as labor's form and direction belong to someone else.

------------------

There it is, "bullshit jobs". And it was written by Karl Marx over 150 years ago, regarding the 4 types of capitalist alienation.
I think fundamentally the current ext management system works well for Wikimedia and really huge farms (I would include Miraheze in that. MediaWiki is open source and there are plenty of non-Wikimedia foundation developers, but there aren't very many from the small wiki farms communities, so stuff aimed at them doesn't really get done.
I remember with smug satisfaction a time that I was able to settle a pedantic argument from a so called "security expert" by pasting the code from the library function he was questioning.

Very satisfying to be able to say "nope, it's fine, here's the source".
If this is true that would be a big nail in the reddit coffin.

r/pics voted to continue with the strike by only allowing posts of pictures of John Oliver. I can see other subs starting such things as well and even if you change out the mods you will have your hands full of people making protest posts.

Somehow I have the feeling some future ML models will have a tendancy to render people that look odly like John Oliver
Is this actually true for present time satellites? I find it hard to believe that teams designing satellites today would not go for such an 'easy' weight reduction, however limitted it might be.
> You want compost for growing things, not because it fixes carbon. It doesn't fix carbon.

A composted plant fixes carbon more than a combusted one. It's the carbon capture.
You can also self-host on a cheap server. apt install mediawiki
Here’s a comparison for you because I just did the same.

Old site.

- Built with Gatsby, hosted on Netlify.

- Lots of client-side JS, but page loads are instantaneous because everything is prefetched and a page load is a client-side JS event not a server request.

- https://v4-johnnydecimal.netlify.app/

New site.

- Built with Astro, hosted on Netlify.

- Zero client-side JS, but each page load is a good ol’ fashioned HTTP request to the server.

- Pages are small. After caching my web fonts, each page is single-digit kilobytes. This is deliberate, I worked hard to achieve this.

- It doesn’t feel as fast. Because it isn’t. Because it can’t possibly be.

- https://johnnydecimal.com
Scientific American during this period was a great magazine with fantastic graphics. I used to really look forward to each issue. Sometime in the 90s they made a decision to make the magazine more “accessible” to the general public. The style of graphics became much more cartoony and the articles themselves somewhat more simplistic.
Good luck, people will continue to post John Oliver and you will have a hard time moderating if the volume keeps up.
We use a lawyer to update the base contract if it's been more than six months since we last had the lawyer look at the contract, otherwise our back office manager updates the pertinent info and handles signing said contract. Onboarding and offboarding is handled by the same person, who then loops in others if needed (i.e our IT guy to turn off/cold store email, nas access, revoke any certificates, etc). Offboarding may also involve the external legal counsel, depending on what sort of release is needed/obligations are relevant from the employment contract on both sides. It probably averages 10 or 20 hours of work a year total (although it is increasing linearly as we add employees). it's honestly very efficient to not have HR at these employment levels as far as these direct business cases go. It's the increasing government regulation and potential liability that seems to require many more hours of HR time to ensure we are properly protected through drafting compliant policy, ensuring all employees are aware of policy in a legally binding way, etc. If things were regulated less insanely (i.e if the liability of someone saying something spicy in a work group chat lands only on the person speaking by default rather than being shiftable to me as the employer) then I wouldn't need obvious things crystallized in company policy with HR ensuring each employee can be shown to know said policy in a court of law while also adjudicating the whole process if someone complains. You may be working in Europe rather than North America. Europe is far ahead of us in terms of bullshit job creation due to government regulation, but we are catching up.
Good grief, yes to this. One of my many concerns with EVs is the insistence of automakers to stuff these with surveillance tech. I suspect it's so that Tesla, GM, et al can sell data to marketers.
That is definitely true. One would need to carefully consider what the person does before making such a judgement.

Planes can keep flying without a pilot for quite awhile, until they run out of fuel or crash into a mountain.
Oof I didn’t know about this. So it only works now if it’s the first thing you say?
History repeats itself:
https://www.simplehtmlguide.com/pagetransitions.php
If these mods don't like it, they can withdraw their labour and walk away, let someone else do the work. Ruining things for everyone else who wants to participate in a subreddit is just abusive.
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I did view some of the source files though, and the rust ones look to be a lot longer :-)
I'm Shakeel from PayBridge Technologies (https://paybridgetech.com). We connect payment platforms like PayPal, Cash App and Venmo to make it easier for people to pay friends, split bills, etc. As a group of high schoolers, we were frustrated by the fact that we couldn't pay each other just because some of us had Cash App while the rest had PayPal. We believe PayBridge is the solution to this problem, which we also believe is faced by not only us. Been actively marketing but no luck so far - trust could be something holding us back. Help would be much appreciated!
Discord: Shacker123#5204
https://github.com/lua/lua

Everything is nicely documented and pretty easy to read.

It's a great companion if you want to learn more about how languages are implemented.
Just posting numbers without commentary doesn't seem that useful. Per the GitHub "Note that implementations might be using different optimizations, e.g. with or w/o multithreading, please do read the source code to check if it's a fair comparision or not."

I think this shows that Zig isn't a slow language despite its relative youth, but it'd be much more useful if someone did the work to look through the code and provide commentary on comparable the entries are.
Oh wow. So surprised this is viable on a 4 (1, really) MHz processor. Thanks for clarifying and sharing, you both!
Smartvs are a joke. Once again: it amazes me that I'm an exception among this crowd, in having a laptop connected to my living room TV HDMI port 100% of the time. It's my workstation, and it's my entertainment center. Wireless mouse + wireless keyboard, the ultimate input medium. Whyyyyy don't ALL tech savy people do this is beyond my comprehension.
I use an app called Cinch but there are a few third party apps that do it. I wish I could run GNOME on my macOS
> when you Command-Tab to an app, Apple doesn't restore its window.

You can hold OPT as you pick the window in the cmd+TAB mode, and that would open all of its windows.

It's quite convenient actually.
DL practitioner for a decade here:

The OP doesn’t explain anything. It just vaguely talks about a few things that might break when scaling context. But that means nothing.

Take for example sinusoidal embeddings they talk about. Of course it breaks for large contexts but in no one uses it. GPT uses learned positional embeddings so the entire section is irrelevant.

Copy this for pretty much everything else.

Being an expert in a field has never been this exhausting
If people haven't seen it UT Prof Scott Aaronson had GPT4 take his Intro Quantum
final exam and had his TA grade it. It made some mistakes, but did surprisingly well with a "B". He even had it argue for a better grade on a problem it did poorly on.

Of course this was back in April when you could still get the pure unadulterated GPT4 and they hadn't cut it down with baby laxative for the noobs.

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7209
Because it shows how far off the floor is from where everything else is. And I did include a normal, common, hourly job as reference to show it's not much better.
Looks like the electric universe people have found their way onto this website. Some guy in this thread was even promoting a debunked disaster prediction app that was created by a lawyer who is not a scientist. Literally the first paragraph, “Scientists have identified a striking correlation between global seismic activity – earthquakes, to be precise – and changes in the intensity of cosmic radiation measured on Earth’s surface.” Cool, a correlation, not really “directly linked to.” Correlation is not causation.
I agree it's very likely that the total number of people using Reddit might not decrease, it might even increase.

But I'm willing to bet the quality of discussion and content will go down. Have you looked at YouTube comments? Millions (billions?) of people commenting and producing mostly absolute garbage.

It's entirely reasonable to me that Reddit can grow as a tiktok reposting platform, and if that's what spez is trying to achieve, he's doing a good job.
> I wholeheartedly and aggressively recommend Graeber's book Debt: the first 5000 years.

It was popular and heavily recommended here on HN. But I wonder how many people actually read it. I stopped after a few chapters. Maybe I'm just too dumb or I should have bought it in my native language, but it was too dense and unstructured for my taste. I think there are some people on youtube who summarized the main points. Found it more interesting.
Same, I really don't like Discord. It probably doesn't help that I only use it when I have to but it makes me feel tired trying to find specific information even in smaller Discord groups, and even when I know for sure it's there.
"Fears of crime" and also crime...
These are neat new features, but I don’t know if I would call them “big philosophical things”.

> It feels like we’ve entered this new phase in the life of CSS where just keeping up with what’s shipping each year is too much for any one person to keep track of, let alone take advantage of.

So, basically, CSS has caught up to JavaScript ;-)