skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TBH, I'm amazed at how efficient CUDA is compared to CPU on even a fairly lowly GPU. RTX 3050ti vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600H and I see close to 30x in pytorch.

It makes me wonder if CPUs will start adding a lot of matrix math specific extensions in the near future.
For many things it's simple enough to read the code, did this e.g. for the Configuration system in ASP.NET Core. Dunno, if I could do this with postgres.
Yeah the Gantt chart almost feels amateurish with how simple and optimistic it is. I would love to know how development actually went. I can't imagine building an entire game from scratch in just a year like that with such a small team.
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Ask HN: Who's staying on Google Domains post acquisition?
A lot of people are understandably pissed off hearing this news out of nowhere.

If Squarespaces plan is to acquire all the customer domains and then essentially double the price for no reason then let's show them how much they're actually going to lose by following through on this deal.

I know a lot of people will not share my sentiments but I'll stay on Google Domains if the sale does not go through, albeit my future domains will be registered elsewhere.

So I'll go first:

Not staying, I'll move about 40 domains = around $600 per year
The stock market's made this huge bet that it AI transforms the economy and I just wonder how much is hype? I get that there are clearly benefits and productivity enhancements but I'm just not seeing it being transformative at this point.
> It doesn't need to be raining locusts for things to be really messed up.

Fair enough, but what is the metric for calling something "due to climate change"?

Because it seems to me that currently the blame for every drop of rain that falls above (or below) average is directly ascribed to the evil people in the suburbs driving their cars.
The NH state prison lets people do woodwork and furniture restoration. You can buy the furniture at the retail store in Concord.

https://furnituremasters.org/prison-outreach/

https://www.nh.gov/nhdoc/divisions/corrrectional/index.html
Does anyone else find the agile way of doing things just ends up with lots of increments and no big picture of how the system should be or where it should be going? There also seems to be a with with waterfall that it's a one way process and you can't do iterations.
Icelandic kids can read the sagas too.
> The biggest advantage Rash seems to have over Eshell is the pipe extensions

Maybe we can get this added to eshell, it'd be a perfect fit.
You might imagine I disagree having written that flippant comment last night. On the contrary I've been on both sides at length over my career. While I find the tuple information somewhat useful (if I'm forced to provide semi-informed-guesses around timelines), I ultimately deep down agree with you wholeheartedly. The utility is moreso in having the conversation about why the confidence is low, which many methodologies have their own words and processes for.
I’d argue that it is. The system is suppose to be helping rehabilitate inmates so that they fit better in society…. The focus needs to be helping inmates see how they can otherwise create value.
And if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bicycle!

The point being, take context into account. You can't code like everything everywhere is going to get modified to be worse.
> It’s so obvious that I guess someone must have done it and I just haven’t heard about it yet.

I had the same thought, there must be many smart programmers with some good UX skills who must have done this (I hope)
What is the maximum presumed distance over which photon emissions from blue LEDs can be entangled? What about with [time-synchronized] applied magnetic fields? Could newer waveguide approaches - for example, dual beams - improve the distance and efficiency of transceivers operating with such a quantum communication channel?

From "Experiment demonstrates continuously operating optical fiber made of thin air" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35812168 :

> Electrons turn piece of wire into laser-like light source" (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33490730
The single account for me it's a lot more important than you'd think
An old account that has been consistently interacting with multiple subs and hasn't been banned tells me that at least the account isn't a low effort bot
For years, Reddit has given 3rd parties access to their APIs. Two uses of said APIs that are relevant to what’s going on are third-party mobile apps like Apollo (which has built a large user base) and tools that help mods moderate their subreddits. Reddit recently announced they will be charging very high fees for access starting July 1st.

The fees are so high that the developer behind Apollo said his bill would be $20M per month. As a result he announced he’d be shutting down the app. Many users are upset because they feel that these third-party apps provide a much better user experience than the official web and mobile apps.

There’s also some bad blood because at one point the dev behind Apollo was in negotiations with Reddit that went sour. Reddit CEO accused him of trying to extort the company, but Apollos dev released the recording of a conversation he had with the CEO where the CEO admitted the extortion had been a misunderstanding.

As for the mods, they will lose access to tools that make moderation easier. Mainly because of this, but also due to the Drama with third-party apps as a form of protest, several sub Reddit’s, some of which are among the largest communities on the site, decided to go private.

Those are the general highlights. Someone can jump in in case I missed anything.
"Just a couple weeks of warm weather" is precisely the problem though; it's hot dry weather at a time of year when this historically does not happen. The problem is that the statistical variance of events is going crazy. It's not that there's some sudden break and the temperatures are unilaterally higher, it's that the plot drawing the standard deviation in temperatures (and precipitation) now looks much crazier than it did in the past, and this leads to this kind of unpredictable situation with severe consequences.

And so we'll continue to have "plausible deniability" among some of the corelation of any of these things to climate change, despite the statistical modeling so clearly showing that they're tied together. No sane person is saying we're only getting forest fires because of climate change. We're saying forest fires are incrementally more frequent or severe or unpredictable because of it.

I grew up in the 70s and 80s in one of the areas (Parkland County) that had severe fires this year, and this is not an
area traditionally affected directly by this scale of fire.

My parents live 5 minutes from a town that was evacuated (Entwistle). Some people in their church had their whole house & barn incinerated. It's not a remote highly forested area, it's heavily settled and a mix of farmland and some wooded areas and bush.

In my childwood did we didn't have April and May temperatures like this. In fact, summer time... July, August... temperatures rarely went above 25c-28c, let alone up into near 30c with no precipitation in the end of April.

Snow was on the ground often into last week of April at least. And often still is.

Further west on HWy 16, Edson, Hinton, and down in David Thomson country, and the areas in the eastern foothills, sure, that's always had fairly high fire risk. But what is unique about this spring is the way these fires were brought much closer to settled areas, and how they occurred so early in the season.
> summon KubernPyKafka in Scala

Getting flashbacks from my own time working on what I like to call Cthulhu Architecture. KubernPyKafka in Scala is probably the most reasonable part of it.

The parts that needed to be fast were in python. The parts that could afford to be slow were in Go or LuaJIT. Ops in C++. And the parts that required well defined carefully controlled business logic to be encoded were in JavaScript if you were lucky, but more likely embedded in a DSL constructed over YAML. ACID built over top of NoSQL. Still only scratching the surface of the insanity. I’m sure there are many of us carrying these scars; some of the intent on bringing this dysfunction into their next organization.
> (users) will not accept any compromise short of full rollback of the proposed changes, and Reddit cannot do that because it can not support (servicing 3rd party clients)

To be clear, Reddit has had $350+ million dollars in yearly revenue for a few years now, primarily from premium subscriptions and ad revenue (ads that are not, in fact, always blocked by 3rd-party clients -- ads show up in reddit Sync Pro all the time)

They absolutely could roll back everything and be profitable. They're "struggling to profit" because the CEO is literally burning all the money trying to chase an IPO, not because there was ever any fundamental problem with Reddit's cost structure.
I think the point is that these are all general purpose computers at their core but some have unnecessary barriers erected in userspace to narrow what the user can do.

I wouldn't code on it as-is but perhaps I could plug it into a hub at a desktop or find some other use for it.
No idea. I use them strictly for domain-hosting. I use other services for things like that, mainly to avoid the issues of "too many eggs in one basket" and "jack of all trades, master of none."
> I’m astounded and confused that you and a lot of other commenters are giving Reddit the benefit of the doubt.

I think it makes sense for anyone who values objective truth above any other agenda. "Benefit of the doubt" is just acknowledging that we don't know for sure.
My point was more in reference to GP's comment where even on a paid service, waging war on on users is waging war on your product. Though, after typing this out, that would seem to be even more so the case since that's where your money is coming from.
The whole idea of putting a man in a box with other criminals so he can "think about what he did" seems like a complete failure, besides the fact that he's kept away from the public so he can't commit more crimes.

It's one thing when someone has life in prison without the possibility of parole, but if a man is eventually going to be let out, what good does it really do to prevent him from being able to function on the outside? Basically nothing, as far as I can tell. He is destined to be destitute and possibly go back to a life of criminality.

People don't want money and resources to go towards training "violent murderers who didn't do anything to deserve what they're getting", but then what else do you expect other than that you're deferring the criminality to a later date? The odds are not in your favor that the prisoner be reformed by the time he gets out. Reforming criminals, and I mean actual reformation and not the horseshit we consider reformation today, is a cost society should bear for its own good so that prison actually means something. Why let prisoners out when they are likely destined to go right back to prison?
> If a ransomware attack is enough to cause the hospital to shut down, that means they were a bad glitch away for shutting down, anyway.

Someone competent intentionally doing as much damage as they possibly can is likely to exceed the damage from even the worst accidental fuckup.
> To them, I would need to also point to the sizable fraction of my student population who absolutely despised the project, and may have found that project as the last straw in making their decision that they hate coding.

There are many reasons why I despise the modern model of education, and this phenomenon might be at the top. Students are presented a miniscule, neutered, cherry-picked slice of a discipline that's thousands of years old, and then they form opinions about it based on their ability to stay interested and perform over the 90-200 hours they're forced to engage with it per year. They think they know what "computer science", "chemistry", "history", "creative writing" is like based on their experiences, but they're always wrong. It's not their fault.

You can't know if you're "good at" or "enjoy" "math" based on your experience in school. In school they're not measuring your ability to do math, they're measuring your ability to do math class. Every class has students of deeply mixed abilities soldiering on through a curated set of exercises and practice problems, progressing regardless whether or not they understand the fundamental mechanics of their exercises. Some people end up believing they're "good" at their subject, some people believe they're "bad" at it. They're almost certainly both incorrect.
Yeah, I was there. At the time, Apple was making a ton of money selling the bit, 6502 based computers.

These machines were a completely open book, featured slots to plug anything you could imagine into (and people did, using those computers as quite capable 8 bit workstations: test and measure, cross dev, business, publishing, and so many more...)

I will stop there as the story of the 8 bit Apple computers is well known.

I will say Jobs hobbled the 16 bit machine so it would not spank the Mac silly.

Delivering serious use value to users is what funded the Mac and then some.

The only people I knew who wanted a Mac back then were ones that would never write a program.

Funny enough, many of those went on to use the crap out of HyperCard.
In my experience they also don't want to have the computer make a api call and wake them up at 3am.. but are happy to let the DevOps guys take that sword.
This started with my LG g3. That was a flagship when I got it. My HTC M8 also died. I had a galaxy s3, s4, s6, and a note. The note 8 was the only one that survived longer than a year.

Meanwhile, my iPhone 7+ was in service for 6 years. I owned it until I upgraded to an XS, and a family member used it up until last year. I used the XS until I got a free upgrade to the 13.
It’s pretty simple to do yourself. Last time I did this, I injected jQuery and wrote a few lines to delete a comment, wait a few seconds, delete another… then you reload the page and do it again. I would imagine that most HN members could do that fairly easily.
Note this line that you quoted: "Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messages you submitted prior to deleting your account will still be visible to others unless you first delete the specific content."

The privacy policy is explicitly saying that deleting your account does not delete your comments.
The moment they post it publicly, it is no longer considered personal private content
If I wrote something especially noteworthy, I'll likely remember in my mind forevermore. If memory loss does occur someday, oh well. Am I going to remember to care?

The rest served its purpose at the time, but isn't something I will ever want to look back on again. What do you find so interesting in your old work?
CN's parent company owns Reddit, it's a fuzzy distinction that doesn't matter. Hurting CN publications hurts reddit's owner all the same.
You're leaving off theft, fraud, tax evasion, and ransomware.
Being popular used to pay the bills, in the form of VC financing. The jig is up, now they need to make actual money.
My uncle is also in prison and I also don't like these types of articles. I much prefer writing from prisoners themselves:

https://prisonjournalismproject.org/category/perspective/
This is not what I've seen at many places I've worked it. Plenty of devops people with only basic programming background plus a AWS/Azure certification course or two.

Also I work in AI/ML and hardly anybody has 10+ years of SWE experience before specialising. Most people start fresh out of a PhD or postdoc program or come from some sort of math or physics background.
Unpopular opinion:

Why do we push games on society instead of work? Why is chess and MMOs fun, but not sewing a shirt or building a new app?

I would disagree, I find sewing shirts and making apps fun, MMOs can be grindy and chess is basically just studying.

I'm sure there are some relatively minor things like reward rate, physical exertion, etc... but I have to imagine much of it is cultural. Lets not take this to logical extremes, but rather, why don't we value group volunteer work more than playing chess? You have your social aspect, you have rewards, its often different and unique each time.

As I've gotten older, its a bit apparent to me that 'beating Zelda' is more akin to work, than it is to getting fulfillment. (However, then there are games like Divinity Original Sin(2) that feel extremely fulfilling, can't deny that.) You wonder how many people are playing Call of Duty because a leader of a friend group saw the advertisement, bought the game, and pushed their friends to do the same. Instead of playing football, they play COD.
On point 7 ((Testing an unclear hypothesis), while agreeing with the overall point, I strongly disagree with the examples.

> Bad Hypothesis: Changing the color of the "Proceed to checkout" button will increase purchases.

This is succinct, clear, and is very clear what the variable/measure will be.

> Good hypothesis: User research showed that users are unsure of how to proceed to the checkout page. Changing the button's color will lead to more users noticing it and thus more people will proceed to the checkout page. This will then lead to more purchases.

> User research showed that users are unsure of how to proceed to the checkout page.

Not a hypothesis, but a problem statement. Cut the fluff.

> Changing the button's color will lead to more users noticing it and thus more people will proceed to the checkout page.

This is now two hypotheses.

> This will then lead to more purchases.

Sorry I meant three hypotheses.
> if there is no link between the user and the data, that satisfies a right to erasure request. That is not what is happening here

Clearly not, as the data and links to user profile has been restored.

> but it is not as if reddit has no way to keep deleted comments and still be GDPR compliant.

They would have to prove that the data is irreversibly anonymized - which is tricky. Say they keep threads by supplanting an opaque (guuid) user id - and a single message in a single thread mentions a users full name, phone number or email in a reply? Now all of that users messages are associated with a
person....
Three Arrows Capital’s NFT collection sold for almost $11M at auction
Ask HN: Which substacks do you read as soon as it hits your inbox?
just curious for some good insightful reading on whatever you’re passionate about.
GitHub Availability May 2023
Were you playing multiplayer? Multiplayer always starts with Butcher and Skeleton King.
It's not Reddit's content, it's your content and you grant them a license to it. The difference matters for a few reasons:

1. It means the cyber-vandalism law that the grandparent proposed wouldn't have any teeth here because it legally still belongs to you.

2. They can't change that provision because a good chunk of the TOS is about how the fact that it's your content means they're not liable for it. Their nonliability looks a lot fishier if they're also claiming copyright.
> All models are clear that global warming cannot be reversed. No "turning green" will lower average temperatures enough in our lifetime.

Thats factually correct, but also kind of a strawman. The objective at this point is not to reverse climate change, but to stop it getting much, much worse.
A general question about the benefits of teaching coding:

For at least the past ten years, there's been a big emphasis on teaching coding to as many people as possible. I think a big part of that was the general assumption that, for many people, being able to code would be a ticket to a solid middle-class life, at minimum.

With the rise of LLMs, do we still think that assumption is viable? What are going to be the number of software engineering jobs in 10 or 20 years? I worry that there will be half as many.
It's far faster when you can look at the URL and see the parameters. I have worked on systems with both and I didn't like everything as a POST. If you want to get a page with list of objects with a filter it's a lot easier to copy paste a URL than it is to fart about in developer tools and try top recreate the POST request.
This attitude is exactly why if I was the mod in question, I would just ditch the account. You're asking them to prove a negative, no amount of proof they could provide would ever be enough. They'd be forever hounded by internet lunatics.
Forty-some years ago, my first programming experience was moving a pen wielding turtle around the screen with Logo. A visual introduction was great then and I think your suggestion is a good one for new students today.
Chemistry pissed me off. We spent like 3 months learning all these arcane and arbitrary combinations, and then it turns out there are some algebra-like equations at the end that you can just compute your way through.

I’m sure I missed something important because all the memorization was super annoying and so I basically checked out, but I regret nothing and revel in my ignorance of the topic. Chemistry, ugh, may as well be alchemy as far as I’m concerned.
Crypto does have a valid case for paying people for work across country boundaries when financial systems to do this are unreliable or non-existent. (Or has prohibitive fees.)

In some cases, doesn't event violate any laws! :)
So those that value truth support Democrats in the US. Makes some sense, the previous president* was known for lying through his arse and it didn’t seem to affect his popularity at all.
14!
I love it. I go for a walk every night now. Its actually a pretty cool world, the big room.
What I find from what's left of my Latin (and as a daily French speaker, though it's not my native language) is that if I pick up an Italian newspaper I can tantalizingly almost get the gist: there was a bank robbery, the robbers fled in a car and were pursued by the police. But were they caught or did they escape? Was anyone hurt? Basically I miss out on the interesting part.

Another possibility is Dunning-Kruger: I understand so poorly that it wasn't even an article about a bank robbery.
Paul McCartney says AI helped rescue Lennon vocals for ‘last Beatles record’
Chess specifically helps practice complex multi-step thinking and grokking multiple component systems.
I'd wager site cloning in that scale to be expressly forbidden by Reddit's TOS, I can't see why they wouldn't
Interestingly that is exactly what I was thinking about when I typed that comment. Lot's of promise 35 years ago when I was in high school. Every so often we hear about some breakthrough, but nothing ever materializes.
Landslide misses Swiss mountain village of Brienz ‘ by a hair’
Willingness to accept facts and live in the real world fell. Scientists were just one group of messengers shot at for not telling people what they want to hear...
Even just a little bit of giving concessions to legacy customers would have been fine. It's not like you need to completely give up on your new pricing model just because your have existing customers. It's crab.
This isn’t complicated. The charlatans moved from Agile to DevOps, taking another reasonable idea and turning it into the exact problem it was supposed to solve, and the cycle repeats (because they need to eat too).

Much like with the agile debacle, the best thing to do is continue working and try to avoid/minimise the harm they can do until they find the next idea to latch onto.

Incidentally, this video popped into my head as I always think of it when this comes up:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0qFGs-SIWB4&pp=ygUeRGVlcGFrIGN...
(back in 2006)
Want multitasking? Buy a phone that supports it.

Or: want a cleaner and safer city? Go live someplace else.