skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mindlessly strap some wings on yourself and the only place you're going is six feet under. In aviation everybody was building on the shoulders of those that came before them. That included Wright Brothers who heavily credited Otto Lilienthal among others. You could draw a tree of aviation and it'd be going back with Clement Adler, Percy Pilcher, George Cayley, and many more names. And these guys were all brilliant inventors, engineers, and entrepreneurs in their own right. All engaging in a similarly rigorous process, but starting with less available information at their fingertips.

In many problems where we're all just standing on the shoulders of those who came before us, somebody's going to eventually get high enough to grab the flag. And while that final achievement deserves distinguished recognition, marginalizing the merit, impact, and ability of the countless individuals holding us up is just crass.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal
Volkswagen SSP EV platform to offer up to 1700bhp from 2026
So "generic string processing helpers" provided by the kernel?
CQC: A C++ General Purpose Development Environment for Automations [video]
This. Is. Perfect. Thank you!
The most interesting part of this for me?

> We were able to achieve these improvements because the second generation execution environment is based on a micro VM. This means that unlike the first generation execution environment, which uses gVisor, a container running in the second generation execution environment has access to a full Linux kernel.

They moved to microVMs.

> Then we switched to the second-generation execution environment and it sped up our boot time by 4x!

And they were 4x faster to start-up than containers with gVisor were for at least this one customer.
> That said, perhaps moderators and users should be willing to admit that Reddit produces some of the value here

Reddit certainly maintains servers and the software, but for now the servers are basically a commodity, can be had from anywhere, and there's a lot of forum software that's not worse than Reddit's. In fact, one of the major complaints in the whole API mess is that the software Reddit provides is inadequate and they are pushing out those who are fixing the inadequacies. Most of the value of Reddit is in being the known meeting point. This is being famous for being famous. There's some merit in being that, but not an awful lot of it. It's like somebody owns a plot of land, which for some reasons becomes a popular hangout point. They keep it reasonably clean, mow grass and clean up leaves, that kind of things - but then one day they start claiming they own all the communities and the relationships that exist because people met there, and it's only by their merit that happened. Wouldn't you consider that claim a bit exaggerated, and while the land ownership is undisputed, the claim to own the communities is a bit far-reaching?
So here is an example. Universe has all system and user-mode emulators for QEMU, it's 20-odd packages. To what extent will Canonical fix bugs in there, even for very old emulated machines? You don't know, but you know that they have no contributions upstream and it's one of the largest packages they have, so your chances aren't great.

Red Hat only has the KVM-enabled binary because, as the #2 contributor to the upstream project, they know exactly what can and cannot be supported. It also has dozens people of employed just to test it. If you have an issue it may languish because no one is perfect, but your prior is a little better.
Improving our ability to find the reason why we're here.
One additional note is that it's possible to make Magnesium alloys much more resistant to burning (adding Calcium and Yttrium for example): https://www.ait.ac.at/en/research-topics/casting-technologie...

Related:

* Testing of WE43/Elektron 21 vs AZ91, ZE41: https://www.fire.tc.faa.gov/2010Conference/files/Magnesium_U...

* Final FAA evaluation of flammability of various magnesium alloys (for aircraft use): https://www.fire.tc.faa.gov/pdf/ar11-13.pdf

* The Wikipedia is a pretty good overview of a bunch of the material properties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_alloy

For context btw, ignition temp (in furnace) for magnesium alloys is around 600C, which a house fire can reach: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00109...
You are doing something wrong. I'm close to 30 with a tenth of your wealth and a disability that is quite limiting to me, yet I never had the feeling that I'm living to just survive. Shouldn't you be in a position to make your work enjoyable?
It's not an affiliate link... I just copied the URL my browser gave me.
"Casualty" means killed or injured.
Because who would report them? The BBC?
Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
Heh. I did a partial port of Resource Manager so I could load up Macintosh Fonts on an Amiga. Aspect ratio was fun as the Mac had square pixels.
> but for non-DBAs, explaining that SQL would be overwhelming

Is it sort of sarcasm or it's cruel new reality, Team behind EdgeDB observes?
Seems to feed the entire hn submissions firehose, and at least in my reader it doesn't let me click into the linked item from within my feed reader?

hnrss.org does both of those things, lets you subscribe to just the front page, and loads more besides - including replied to your own comments, which is how I was alerted to your posting of this.
Artificially intelligent: chatbots, grifters, and the new, new ignorance
Coffee benefits some people (I'm not sure it really provides me benefit though).

But do psychedelic drugs help? If I want to write code, would a psychedelic drug help there? If not, why would a psychedelic drug help in finding why I exist?
It's funny you should say that... I just bought a 6? year old Latitude E7470 for £189 last week.

I had one years ago and it was built like a tank. Also, the screen (2560x1440) is possibly the best I've had on a laptop and the keyboard has particularly deep and solid travel making it the best typing experience I've had on a laptop too.

So, best laptop I've had tbh.

It's only an i7 6600U so not mega powerful but I don't write 2M LOC apps anyway so it's fine.

Just waiting on 32GB RAM arriving (official support is 16GB but the chipset supports 32).

I agree 100%... business-class laptops (and printers for that matter) all the way.
This misses the "same computer" stipulation, no?
I think it's exactly the opposite: researchers are currently studying models that are better than ChatGPT. The reason why when we use one of the open source models those tend to feel worse than ChatGPT is twofold:

1. Those models are usually optimized to run on an average PC, at the cost of accuracy

2. The researchers behind it don't have the kind of money that OpenAI has for training, but this doesn't mean that the model itself is less advanced than ChatGPT.

I also suggest to read a somewhat famous Google memo that leaked a few months ago [1].

[1] https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...
I thought about this for a while now, when to use AI, when to use human-AI collaboration, and when to use full-automation (and also where we really need human-like intelligence within these categories). I would love to here what factors you would consider. The post is more like a digital garden, which will get revisited from time to time as I do more research in human-AI collaboration.
Push-to-talk is literally adding friction because of “bad users”.

If everybody were “considerate” then a simple toggle wouldn’t cause any issues.
Portuguese kitching uses a lot of coarse salt.

A 1 kilo bag is like 0,23 EUR
They asked the hired people to do a task that is usually the food for a LLM. So yes, the title sounds right I’m my opinion.
I mean, in his defense, Amazon really is after him. I also find his whining impossible to listen to for the incredible duration of his videos. However, this is extremely unlikely to be "just a coincidence". It definitely fits retaliation and not much else given the timing.
All modern cars have terrible visibility due to improved crash standards (wider A and C pillars).
News is "new"(s). Nothing new about car accidents
If the sub is exploring a wreck the wire could easily get snagged.
that is literally the format for "perspectives" publications in scientific journals
Would by nice to implement it into Freetube or Newpipe since I watch YT exclusively here.
In a discussion with a work colleague, we agreed on the hope that out of this incident comes an increase in respect for "proper" engineering, maintenance, safety considerations; don't just remove Chesterton's fence because it's your way - it's in your way to slow you down and force you to look at something other than the obvious.
It is, they had CO2 scrubbers
> Palatable

There's no accounting for taste, but... aren't we still taking about polished turds on top of a pile of excrement? "Palatable" is not the word I expected to see in this subthread.
There might be a few, but the complexity of the task reduces the number of options (the most popular choice is probably FreeType+HarfBuzz). But even then there's the problem that FreeType's text rendering might look slightly different than the underlying system's text renderer (so your application stands out like a sore thumb), and text rendering also affects UI layout (just take right-to-left languages for instance) - so it's often not an isolated drop-in solution.

Ideally the underlying system would offer a low level text rendering API that's independent from the system's UI framework and can be combined with your own rendering efficiently (haven't used it, so don't know how good it actually is, but for instance on Windows there's DirectWrite). The problem with this approach is that not all platforms provide such a modular text renderer (for instance web browsers), and you need different code paths on different platforms (maybe even still have to integrate FreeType because one of the target platforms doesn't expose a text rendering API).
$5612 after expenses and tax cover your mortgage? Was this per month or per year?
Exactly this! But not with salt, but caramelized sugar. Maybe also pinch of salt just for the kick.

Can't be worse than the PFAS infused kind right?
There is no such implication. And you yourself described it as a slave relationship. So I’m not really sure what your point really is?

Their kink was a slave relationship and some people thought that was taking advantage of a mentally challenged woman. He says he even consulted with doctors to ensure they were able to consent. He says police also attended and were ok with it (but Dahmer and others prove that doesn’t really mean anything).
Oh I was not aware of that part of the news. Sorry to hear this.

I thought they were still searching.
Ada 2022 Language Standard to Be Published by Springer
Christian nontrinitarian positions include Unitarianism, Binitarianism and Modalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binitarianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modalistic_Monarchianism
I'll reword that:

- The technology was attempted and failed 50 years ago, like so many other things.

- 12 years ago, video calls (1-to-1) became available to everyone

- 4 years ago, for inexplicable reasons, demand spiked for videoconferencing. MS Teams gained an annoying foothold.

- Around the same time, Jitsi Meet usage goes up as an easily accessible open source solution.

- 2 years ago (looks like only 1 when checking), Matrix replaces integration with a native feature, for standalone feature parity with the rest of the space.

Not that exciting a timeline...
Thanks! The "what is Svelte" part really should be on the homepage.
Yes. One's a summary, one's detail about the exact same subject for discussion - developer information for a just announced product that nobody can use for a few months.
Comments about years of ignoring safety are not stupid, neither are comments comparing to other more working-class tragedies.

You use an idiom comparing people to insects crawling fourth from woodwork like some master of science laughing at the plebs.

That said of course lots of stupid stuff is said, it's the internet, but your comment is just as stupid which is pretty funny.
At this rate Svelte 5 is going to have to be renamed Anorexic!
Not sure what you mean by testing intuitions. Which intuitions?

It sounds more like testing whether you know the speed of DDR5 without looking it up, and doing a bunch of basic unit conversions.

And your analysis doesn't even cover latency (which GP mentioned), which apparently according to my first google result is ~90ns. So unless your data is already in a cache it might not even be fetched within the requisite time.

Your question sounds like a trick question because there are so many nuances and gotchas, and if you're asked this question without a concrete context and the problem one's trying to solve, it's basically a check of whether the interviewee's mental model of computation matches the interviewer's. And as this thread shows, even among (presumably) competent people, the factors to consider can differ quite a bit.
I do the same. I feel the same way. I don't know if there's an easy fix, but I also don't know if it needs to be fixed.

You're happy, right? And you act in a healthy, sustainable way? The only thing you need is something to need. Not bad! Then let the money pile on. Financial security is also good to have. You can use it for a well-placed "fuck it" once in a while. Mine was a long motorcycle trip a few years ago.
You seem to believe that companies do what's best for their users. Not sure in which world you live: companies do what seems most profitable for them (and pray that it is).

Can we at least agree on the fact that it would not be that difficult (and costly) for Slack to actually expose an API allowing for third-party clients? That way I could have a lightweight CLI client and I would be fine with most users staying on their crappy Electron client.

I guess they don't do it for a reason, which is probably not user experience. Maybe having only official apps is (or seems, again) better for lock-in?
Just a few months ago, I found it easy to get ChatGPT4 to fabricate unfounded accusation of sexual harassment. Complete with links to non-existent newspaper articles.

I was about to post these findings here. But to be sure I just repeated the experiment. But its behavior is quite different now. I can't get it to cite sources at all. It takes greater effort to get it to name names. But best of all, once it does give a list of names, they were all correct. (i.e. they all harassed women, according too Google).
that's what GP said.

They are semantically simple string operations whose computational complexity scales with string length.
Near unbound string lengths would exhaust the time (somewhat aproximated by instruction) budget of eBPF applications doing even a single one.
Harfbuzz only provides 'text shaping' (very important for UNICODE support, especially for languages like Arabic), but the actual text rendering needs to be done elsewhere.
A non-Trinitarian is, by definition (see above), a non-Christian.

How do you define "Christian"?

There are a number of sects, with significant numbers and influence, who call on the name of Jesus (in a "Lord, Lord" way) and they "self-identify" as Christian, and yet they do not share a Christian belief as commonly understood by Christians.

Christians have always defined our belief in a particular way. It's fine if sects wish to disbelieve in the Trinity or not use water Baptism, but then they cease to be members of the Church by any stretch of the imagination.

These sects include henotheists such as LDS, Arians such as Jehovah's Witnesses, and non-Trinitarians such as Oneness Pentecostals. They all believe themselves to be Christians, but have excluded themselves by definition.
> and you can't legislature away bad decisions.

Of course you can. Seatbelts and airbags don't sell cars nor make shareholders money, they're only there because they were forced by legislation.
I’m reading Fahrenheit 451. The original books nowadays are dying, all will be LLM regurgitation from the food of another LLM.
I guess it'd depend on what the agent was, but either way, it means some amount of the salt you're pouring over your food isn't salt. Eliminate the non-salt from your salt and you never have to worry about what might be wrong with it or how much non-salt you're paying for. That's the reason I've switched to shredding my own parmesan cheese instead of just shaking it out of a can since the cans in some cases contain ~10% cellulose.
The situation is quite often the exact opposite: young engineers often fail to see the big picture and don’t know how to find the adequate architecture or approach to solve a problem in a genuine way, while experienced engineers will have a natural, intuitive approach that works easily.

I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve looked at a project by some engineer in their 20s, and it is so over-engineered and complicated, entirely lacking in any ability to future proof against onboarding or feature development, so clever they probably are very proud of themselves, but mostly useless.
Have you considered that the first sentence might be the cause of the second and third?

It seems to me that if you spend all your time telling YouTube its recommendations are bad, it can only respond by giving you worse recommendations. Given your expressed lack of interest in everything it has recommended thus far, have you considered that when you search for something, that might become the strongest signal of interest that the recommendation engine can work with?
This headline and some of the topics within will generate a lot of predictable, less-than-illuminating discourse... but there is something interesting amidst it all. It is becoming widely known how readily LLMs spew nonsense. I hope this spurs research into AI models that can self-critique, self-correct, and acknowledge uncertainty in their assertions. I believe the biggest breakthroughs are yet to come.
Hi. Irrelevant with this thread, but can you please reply to me here if you got the time:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35955336

Search for my username and you will find my question! Thanks!
That exists - it's called a VW e-UP(along with its sisters - Seat Mii Electric and Skoda Citigo EV). Super basic, analogue gauges, it has a phone mount instead of an infotainment system....you hop in, turn the key(!) and drive. 160 miles range, can rapid charge, easily fits 4 adults or in our case 2 adults, baby seat, pram and Costco shopping. I love that car more than I love our 400bhp Volvo - it just works, gets us everywhere in our daily life, and costs absolutely nothing to drive. And yes, it has A/C, electric windows, and even heated seats. I'm keeping this car forever, absolutely not interested in any future replacement with VW's ID.1 and such, I know they will be packed with crappy tech that will drive me mad.
Me: Hey babe, your're almost a litre!

Her: Why?

Me: Because you're a qt!
I went through dozens and when I found one I could trust I treated them like kings. The reality is most people treat offshore workers like trash, so I don't blame them for screwing over non technical people who don't understand what they are doing.

The second reality is there is no such thing as mediocre anymore so long as they use AI to code. This is precisely my point, the marginal advantage of a 10x engineer and a team of 20 + to build something awesome is now cut in 1/2, soon probably 1/4.
In eBPF years, 2 years is an eternity.
Very niche indeed. I admit I love the look and would like to have one to tinker with and use for various electronics related projects, but price vs performance is definitely in favor of the PineTab-V. I would however seriously consider buying an edition with no brains, only keyboard plus trackball, LVDS/HDMI/DP/* capable screen, a battery holder and related charging circuitry, then enough internal space to be filled with whatever board the user already has handy, and possibly mounting frames compatible with most known boards (RPi, OrangePi, NanopPi, Odroids, etc). There is already something like that that can use RPi compute modules and similar others, but I'm talking about the full boards, of which almost everyone has a couple unused in a drawer.
Yeah, the satnav built into my Volvo is actually really nice and I trust it more than I trust Google maps. The interface for Google maps is somewhat nicer, but android auto cannot be made full screen in my Volvo while the built in satnav can. And the built in satnav can be displayed on the driver's dash.
This should suffice?
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
When I read the title I thought this was maybe about eBPF verification and the difficulty of creating eBPF programs that actually pass the verifier. What's the HN take on this?
The other one that threw me is how am I supposed to measure 1/8th cup of butter?
Just speculation, but since the majority of the hull was made by carbon fiber - it depends on how that carbon fiber imploded / collapsed. So far they've found the titanium parts, which are the front- and end parts. If they don't find any huge chunks of carbon fiber, I think it is safe to say that the fiber splintered like a bomb, inwards, like a bomb. And many of those fibers would still projectile in air, at the very moment of the implosion. Imagine carbon fiber shrapnel from the inside of the hull traveling toward the center of the hull.
Documentation is a necessary skill at senior levels in large orgs. There will never be a shortage of interested parties eager to vampire away your cycles. Being able to send them docs, diagrams, etc. will save you so much oxygen.
ULID seems like a better solution to me: still 128 bits but with a more compact canonical format and sensible timestamp and increment semantics.
I guess it's not far off a v7 UUID though.

https://github.com/ulid/spec
I prefer course grained and no anti caking agents or iodine added.

It's nothing special, some no-name Himalayan pink salt in a plastic grinder.
My Volkswagen e-Up has a reverse camera even though it doesn't have what I'd call "infotainment" - just a hyper basic screen for radio, it just happens to also display the camera feed when needed.

Some photos here:
https://www.parkers.co.uk/volkswagen/e-up/review/interior/
What? Meditate on? What are you smoking?

Anyone remembers the Boeing MAX 8 issues? Safety procedures / processes had been disabled on purpose for greed and people eventually died as a result. History has a truckload of examples in that direction, also because, despite better knowledge, proactively trying to prevent problems is often seen as some expense that is not needed ... until something happens and then the blame shifting starts.

At least in this case the perpetrator was eating his own dog food and choked on it. Good riddance. Unfortunately, and yet again, others had to suffer (and some do for having lost family / friends) for this incompetence as well. But there will be no learning process, the amount of people like him is just too vast and they are too dense in their heads to face reality for what it is because they are just too used to "bending reality" to their will. That works with people (up to a certain degree), but when it comes to physics, there is a hard wall they will crack their skulls open.
Because of killer bang for buck. Dacias are essentially cheapened versions of Renault models. The cars are reliable enough for first two owners not to be bothered, so resale value does not drop too much. Of course the absolute price point is also relevant.
Interesting that my ThinkPad can get 8 hours from stock Fedora.

Might not be as much as my work MacBook Pro, but definitely more pleasant to work with.
i mostly access yt via freetube but if i don't then clickbait remover for youtube protects me from a visual barrage of atrocious open mouth pictures ... i just couldn't put up with it anymore.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...
Well, sometimes it's also unjust to call someone a "journalist", isn't it.