skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If West reacted in 2008 how they react now - we could have saved 100s of thousand of people AND avoided 2 wars and billions in military and humanitarian spending.

I don't think this true. The successful resistance to Russia is due to the current strength of Ukraine's military. They have been improving rapidly in response to 2014. Georgia is nowhere near as strong or easy for us to supply.
I see this type of comment and attitude way more often than I think is healthy, at least on HN. I think it's intellectual anxiety and or toxic masculinity.
Huh? I didn’t say I used it. Something optional can still be annoying. That’s I just…don’t.
Rofl

Git is the only software where the need for learning its internals is recommended

It is a sign of huge failure of API design
Isn’t that the case every time one buys any life essentials like food, drinkable water, clothing, shelter and heating/cooling? Are all of those unfair deals? Because that seems to be what you are saying here.
I did miss that. Thanks for the info.
programming dies not have the element of chance that incesting does. Its a bit like conoaring exact science and gambling
Hey akling, since you’re building a browser I’ve got to ask, do you have any thoughts on https://htmx.org/ or whether it could be supported as part of some extension to Ladybird?
I think RW locks are also worth a mention in this problem space, and folly has them. Actually several implementations.
My NAS is turned off and only turned on when required, nothing is more power efficient :-)
I wonder what percentage of people prefer this kind of hierarchy.

Personally if driving were super deprioritized where I live, I'd have more incentive to move out of the city and live more rurally, which seems like a net negative overall (environmentally).

Probably, most people would stay in the city and balance it out though.

I enjoy cycling and walking, but I'd rather keep my usage of public transport to a minimum.

If we could completely exclude all arseholes, make public transport cover far more places, make every bus and train have good climate control, it might be different. 3 seems possible, 2 seems like it would then approach the energy requirements of driving, 1 is a non starter.
You should. Productivity is way up. It was stolen from you.
Bulb Reviews: A Range of Modern LED Bulbs
Huh? I didn’t say I used it. Being optional doesn’t change the thing that it is annoying. It is annoying which is precisely why I just….don’t.
If it proves to be even marginally popular it will be sold by tons of resellers on Aliexpress in a couple days or at most weeks.
I thought the article was long-winded and banal - offering advice which either seemed obvious or more succinctly available elsewhere often in the form of aphorisms.

In contrast, the series, Arnold, about how Arnold Schwarzenegger set and achieved his goals as a bodybuilder, actor and politician was well done, fascinating and inspiring.
It appears there's a plugin to use Kodi as an endpoint for a Jellyfish server... nice!
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/kodi/
>were a threat to the elected government

They really weren't. At the most they had around 500 rebels.

>violating the law.

Yep, they failed to pay a regressive tax the rich passed, and then failed to abandon their farms for weeks to travel to Philadelphia and stand trial.

If this shit isn't relevant, the entire rebellion isn't relevant.
Note that by "capital" meant material, not financial (although the latter reflects the former). Corporations are growing in power at a rate faster than people are. B2B grows faster than B2C.

Even then, private pension funds are a scourge indeed. State-managed PAYGO systems are far less destructive.

Beside, the distribution of economic power is heavily lopsided. Most people have close to none.

Those who have the brunt of it are setting up the system for their own benefit. Under the guise of FreeMarket™ we end up with an economy planned by the wealthy so that they can grow their fortune.
Digest, an AI document parser with referencing
He didn’t identify even one job as BS. So back to the drawing board for your comment.
They are direct competitors in the same space
Thanks for the link.

Her review is almost entirely orthogonal to Karl's. She focuses on the efficacy of the experience. Apparently Apple is able to sidestep a lot of the issues that Karl is mentioning. For instance all the vergence issues seem to be non-existent in her usage. Likely because Apple isn't focusing on interacting with any real world objects.
I guess it depends on how you watch it? We saw it in one of the new Dolby Cinema rooms and it was mind blowing good.

And I’m not sure what you mean by “compared to VR” - do you watch some kind of 3D movies in VR? These are very different experiences to me. In the theater it’s just an aid for immersion, a full 3D environment wouldn’t allow for traditional cinema direction to happen.
It happens elsewhere on the internet because other sites encourage the concept of "following".

My HN karma trounces that of the topic poster, and I can assure you no one considers me to be influential on this site.
I have the same feeling about web-assembly and Flash.
Yes, this particular example I always find really stark.

Large numbers of people look at a VW and think to themselves: "this is a nice car, but what I really want is to pay a whole lot more for it".

(I have a SEAT, which is for people who think the reverse. VAG, so same engine, transmission, gearbox, software, etc. as VW, Audi, Skoda).
It was somewhere around a hundred bucks, as I recall. The argument you're making wouldn't necessarily have been a bad one in its day, but its day is long past; the current successors of these models, the HD 569 and HD 599, differ in price by $20.
Agree here, I have a desk by a window (with quite lovely view frankly), but I have a blind down most time because the sun, the sun is very bright and very hot and can heat faster than the AC can cool. I even had to get the partial light blocking blind replaced with a full light blocking blind. The sun light wasn't even hitting my monitor, the orientation of everything meant it just hit me straight in the face blinding me for part of the day. I still like the window seat, but it isn't all great for sure.
Very helpful especially in a family where you might want to separate out libraries a bit.
why roast only one TV channel on a Russian-regime disparaging story? a long excuse-filled preface justifies it somehow?

by definition this isn't studying falsehoods in news. its a hit piece one a narrative and one media outlet.

the generalization is that Russian bots don't exist and one station not commonly known for glorifying rumors is full of them. "Nothing [you see] is true but everything [contrary to it] is possible"

if they wanted anything else... they could track dozens of falsehoods on many topics with many tilts.
The legend of “x86 CPUs decode instructions into RISC form internally” (2020)
Your filenames can't have colons in them? Sounds like a side-effect of keeping compatibility with 30 year-old Microsoft filesharing protocols. Samba is cool and everything but SMB has no advantages over NFS, SSHFS, or even bind mounts on the same host.
The correct answer is as many as you can reasonably afford to use.

That will probably include PayPal and stripe, managed correctly and handled like they’ll dump you instantly for no reason.

And whatever your customers want to use, too. Falling back to mailed checks in some cases.
I think you misunderstood. He is saying that Uber is a better example of such a failure, not that it is a better business.

Alphabet, Meta and MS at least have vast profits in the present, not just potential, so they are indeed "better" businesses than Uber, as you say, and thus bad examples to make this point.
should be possible...find the handler for a single collapse and call it for all comments
It's long been observed (e.g. Emily Bender has written some articles to that effect) that NLP technology underperforms on languages that aren't English, especially when they are significantly different structurally.

If you train and evaluate something mostly on a language loke English, you're going to end up with a model that thinks everything works like English, which means among other things very little morphological complexity.
Ok, to clear it up:

"Ours is entirely procedural" == ""Infinigen is entirely procedural"

"relying on no external assets" == "every asset, from shape to texture, is generated from scratch via randomized mathematical rules, using no external source"

If that doesn't make it make it clear, could you elaborate on the part that doesn't click and I'll try and explain further.
Git is the only software where the need for learning its internals is recommended

It is a sign of huge failure of API design

If ppl need to spend tens of hours to learn letters management app then it has terrible api and ux
> Some people, no matter how they work to build a startup, are blocked from success by external factors, on which they can do nothing.

What are the factors specifically? How are you defining success? My definition is "You built a profitable business" and there are so many small businesses doing this across the world, I can't really think of external factors that are true deal breakers except perhaps very bad health, it's hard to start a business when you're bedridden. Millions of people are starting businesses all the time in incredibly limited situations like a street food cart in a slum in India and succeeding.
if you hung out in channels there would often be a log bot

If it was a channel with a lot of users, also a general bot would often exist.

For example you could call up faqs easily on say systemd in Debian by just hitting !systemd

You could add to the faqs on the fly

All faqs were synced back to the website.

So we're just reinventing the wheel here
Cute, but seems wrong. This seems to be an emotional appeal to Godel's incompleteness theory/similar that system's can't necessarily answer all questions about themselves, but of course a) the brain is not a formal logic system, and b) it has evolved to understand/predict our environment which seems way more complicated than our brain.
Feds bust heinous body-part trafficking ring
I really wanted to love it, but there was just one problem after another. Sure, they could be fixed if I only downloaded certain formats or or tweaked the settings just right, but that takes a ton of time to figure out and get right. If I kept fixing the issues I could eventually have a good experience in a few months or years. Plex has far fewer of these issues so I can spend less time troubleshooting and more time enjoying.
Its not mutually exclusive. These chiptunes cone from key generators which is why its called keygen music.

> Illegitimate key generators are typically distributed by software crackers in the warez scene and demoscene. These keygens often play "Keygen music", which may include the genres dubstep or chiptunes[1] in the background and have artistic user interfaces.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keygen

More details: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/66nvia/w...
While anyone might not be able to hit the big time, most skills are learnable / improvable.
Uh, no, HN is perennially fascinated with the mind, and grabs up any verifiable bits of information it can. That's why we've been exposed to all the myriad ways the mind is genuinely hard to study. We've seen the rise and fall of lots of studies, some plausible, some not, and we're tired of being conned on something important to us.
IMO Avatar 2 was hindered by the changing frame rate more than anything else
In case you're not aware, as an operator/mod/admin it's fairly straight-forward to bridge a Discord channel to Matrix (and, if one so desires, from there to IRC), allowing users not on Discord to participate. Conservative mods concerned about spam can start with an allowlist for which servers can join.

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord
This is my area of interest and I know a little about interpretation/compiling. I'm a little dubious about this (which I shouldn't be because the benchmarks speak for themselves). But a couple of doubts.

1. "it avoids an extra jump to the top of the loop at the end of each bytecode" – but the top of the loop is a known, hardcoded value, so the prefetcher should be able to take the unconditional jump at little or no cost.

2. "we have multiple dispatch points instead of a single one" which is supposed to assist branch prediction - I made a big "oooh!" at that, but thinking it over, the target of the GOTO is computed each time eg.

push_local:
void* target = targets[index];
index += /* ... */
goto *target;

So I don't see how the branch predictor has that much to work on. I suppose it cuts down on the possible number of targets so it's more likely to predict correctly, and reading again, that's exactly what they say "we may only see a subset of bytecodes, which increases the chance that the processor can predict the jump correctly". Hmm, I'm a bit surprised that makes that much of a difference but a quick look at the benchmarks suggest they are really pretty small. I'd expect the technique to lose its speedup as the amount of code grows.

Perhaps if you wanted speed then picking out common bits of code and inlining it would cut down on the branches and possibly make the code more compact, for better cache use. (that's a bit petty though, it's clearly not the target of their research).

I suppose if you had some spare byte codes left over and you have a commonly used instruction, perhaps 'add', you might have a few different versions of add (add1, add2, add3) which behaved identically but were scattered through the 'source' code, to help the branch predictor even more.
Andreas had a similar situation. its just really practical
Kind of shows how many rewrites of the rust code are needed to equalize or surpass the zig implementations which are much simpler to write
Nobody cares there's only one implementation that's really used widely for Java. I don't see why I should care what VM is used for the web. Chromium can be that and you can build whatever tooling on top to interact with that VM
The first one does not show gov forcing anything. Neither does the third one (contrary to the censorship idea, it includes multiple cases of internal debates and successful pushing against the gov intentions).

The second one talks about access to private data: no details, so it's hard to say if he means complying with lawful requests or not.
The Jellyfin Android TV app is much faster and more stable the Plex's. For me the Plex app keeps bogging down and crashing several times while I browse my library.

That's a huge plus, however sadly Jellyfin doesn't handle subtitles well, and I really dislike the lack of a quick "skip forward" action. So I tend to still use Plex.
He describes a hit and run where the driver took of when he approached. Then I saw a picture of him with a homemade helmet thing with two antennas sticking out (second in the slideshow). And I think I can think of at least one reason that driver slammed it in reverse.
>Who do you think deals with payroll and pensions

In the several mid-sized companies I know of, the accounting department deals with the payroll. Nobody deals with pensions, that's not a company concern in those countries.

>and hiring and firing and contracts and complaints and m/paternity leave and ....

Nobody special. Each team gets to ask for hiring positions, some C-level gives them a number of alloted slots, they do the interviews and decide on some people, and get a final approval for the hire. The contracts are standard issue, done once with the help of the company's lawyers and re-used as templates. Firing is done in a similar fashion. Same for m/paternity leaves. Regular leave days are just claimed through the intranet system, and approved by the immediate team leader, out of a total of X vacation days (which can vary with the seniority). Team leaders are trusted to just approve their own vacations, they don't need to bother anyone.

As for complaints, people take them to their team leader, and if that's not resolved (or the issue is the team leader themselves), they can check with a higher exec. The role of HR in big companies is for ass saving: to avoid those executives having to deal with this directly. If your company is not yet a big faceless blob, this is not needed.

And that's it. For a company of around 100, that's like a few days of checking these, alongside other things, from team leaders every hiring-spurt period.
Some years ago in the early 1980s I was involved with a team that wrote drivers that allowed custom hardware to be programed to shear a sheep.

Of course, as a corollary, the code for these drivers also allowed that same hardware to be programmed to commit murder .. which I imagine to be contrary to US laws.

I would posit that had some nefarious villian done so we would not have been held accountable for the action of others contrary to US law, not the least of which due to our presence in Australia.
RES is one thing I miss from Reddit. HN needs something similar. I would like to have all replies to root comments collapsed by default. That made Reddit easier to read.
There are lots of magnetic charging adaptors on Amazon and eBay which come with USB-C, Micro-USB, and Lightning tips, all of which share a common interface with their cables. Most of them seem to come from the same manufacturers; there are about three styles, and while no two are interchangeable, it's usually not hard to find a variety of sellers for whichever style you want.

Don't expect much in data support even from versions that claim to offer it, but they all deliver power just fine, and it's been getting on for a decade since I've had to screw around with finding the right cable to charge anything. Saves insertion cycles on the device connector socket, too.
I think you and OP are talking about different things (pprof vs OTEL spans). OTEL spans need to be initialized in every function you want traced, it sucks.
In the fiction books of the "Gaia Trilogy", John Varley has a long term nuclear war as the demise of earth. after the first "accidental" launch retaliations and opportunistic strikes happen infrequently for months and years.

I recall some discussion in fandom of the dissonance between that vision and the public propaganda lines of "Mutually Assured Destruction" and "Nuclear Winter". It seems to be a religious kind of debate where facts aren't welcome: There have been multiple nuclear weapons detonated in the last 80 years. Many still insist that even a single uncontrolled fission reaction is the equivalent of the end of the world.
The irony is that this article is based on bs anecdotes.
You're looking at this all wrong.

The 595s were competitive at their price point. They reviewed extremely well. They are considered good value.

The 555s were excellent value, using the same driver.

Neither is a ripoff. They're both good to excellent value when looking at the market.
Nice, yeah from what little I've done with it, I've learned that the difficulty can vary greatly depending on your requirements.

For me, I had a pre-existing note-taking app so there were tons of documents stored in html format. So I had this challenge where I had to read them from html, convert them to yjs, then sync the changes back to the DB in html format. It was kinda tough.
There are quite a few tools in this space already, including Easy Data Transform, Alteryx, Knime and Tableau Data Prep.
Consider it a $4.5m asshole tax.
Most of the ones zig is slightly slower than rust are due to a less than performative bignum implementation. All the rest zig handily beats rust
Yep, all MBA ideas from the ivy league. Not enough diversity is the actual problem with modern america.
Interesting article, and a good one.

It should be expanded to include the capability to discern between:

* Wants, needs, must have(s): too often people seek wants and disregard needs.

* Emotionally-driven wants vs rationally-driven wants: today's world hacks people's mind to make only emotionally-driven decisions, to their own detriment.
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox is also an option for organizing articles.
The iPod and iPhone tried to look sexy.

Only someone with a cyborg fetish could consider that headset sexy.
Isn't a tree just a graph that is directed and acyclic (DAG)?

So a tree is just a subtype of a graph?
Shannon’s Source Coding Theorem (2020)
I was curious as to wether or not there is a way to determine the actual amount of information in a given file (say, an image), and thus a theoretical limit to lossless compression, which is apparently called "Kolmogorov Complexity" [1], and this came up.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
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Why do you think this might be more likely? Would you wait to see if the other side is going to nuke another one of your cities?.

I could see it starting that way. One side gambles that they can nuke one city and the enemy will deescalate to avoid a full exchange. But the other side is compelled to respond in kind, knowing that they can't sit and do nothing, and hoping that that a one-for-one exchange will be the end of it. And it might be. But if not, then it must be an all-out exchange imo.

Think about it like this: someone punches you. You punch back. If they do nothing, then that's the end of it (for now). But if they do it again - are you going to stand there all day exchanging punches? You now know that they're determined to keep hitting you. Your best chance is to throw everything you have at them right now. That minimizes the damage to you. That's clearly true if you're stronger than them. But if you think about, it it's equally true if you're weaker.

FWIW, I think everyone should stop worrying about nuclear war. The US would win hands down and everyone knows it.
Also known as cargo cult
Could a nuclear war happen in slow motion with one city nuked per week?

Briefly at first perhaps as a show of force. Most people would not want to go full mutual destruction. There could initially be some strategic strikes that hit small cities as a show of force.

I think the escalation risk would be countries that feel they are on the way out, have a history of not caring about their people and in effect feel they have nothing to lose. failing nations or governments going out with a bang vs. a whimper so to speak. One hit or fallout too close to a bordering nation could escalate quickly.

Another possibility for a first strike could be a few dozen stratospheric high altitude balloons carrying an EMP that wipe out electronics for a several countries or continents at the same time. I do not know how people might respond to that. There are also nuclear missile submarines all around the world that would be protected from initial kinetic and EMP damage.
I do this as well, but I don't like setting it to Reader Mode because the site design disappears. Unfortunately it's necessary because "print to PDF" will obscure text due to including the stupid sticky nav bars and cookie notices in the PDF.
It's WizardLM, not WizardCoder, but I'd bet it improves it in some degree.

https://huggingface.co/ehartford/WizardLM-Uncensored-Falcon-...
Thanks, regardless of ability to parallelise it looks interesting.