skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really feel like it's a hell of a definitions dodge to say "This is what the model is" when no compiler implements constraints to require the user to treat the model like that (i.e. I can always just increment the pointer, or typecast it to numeric type, do math on it, and typecast back to a pointer, without having to pull any big red levers like using "unsafe" methods).

If it's undefined but it compiles to something, is it really undefined, or is the definition merely not standardized?
Mosquito days increase in 173 U.S. locations
> No one understands female founders better than Jessica. But it's unlikely anyone will ever hear her speak candidly about the topic. She ventured a toe in that water a while ago, and the reaction was so violent that she decided "never again."

I wonder how much wisdom has been lost bc of this effect.

I feel like society needs to create a much larger incentive for thoughtful people to share their wisdom. Today, you stand to gain status & wealth, but a lot of thoughtful people like Jessica don't care about that.

I think the only solution is to somehow protect them from the disincentive (backlash from the internet mob), but I don't know how.
From my experience, soaking beans overnight helps prevent gas and farting. Also makes it easier to cook using less energy.
That sounds like satire, but many of the under-30 crowd might support it:

¨However, Americans under the age of 30 stand out when it comes to 1984‐ style in‐ home government surveillance cameras. 3 in 10 (29 percent) Americans under 30 favor “the government installing surveillance cameras in every household” in order to “reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity.” Support declines with age, dropping to 20 percent among 30–44 year olds and dropping considerably to 6 percent among those over the age of 45.¨

https://www.cato.org/blog/nearly-third-gen-z-favors-home-gov...

As someone else put it, the younger folks live so much of their lives online where they can contact a corporate nanny to remove speech they dislike and ban users, it makes sense they'd carry those ideas into meatspace and want the same done.
I don't think it's super common to do any kind of serious string manipulation in BPF. I happened to have Facebook's `dnswatch` open in my editor, and there are zero calls to strtol or printf. The idiomatic design here is to do that kind of thing in userland, piping raw stuff down a perf or ring buffer to postprocess in a "real" language runtime.

So my rebuttal would be: you could just remove those few string helpers, and not change much about the programming model.
I have a VW CC. Four door sedan with huge trunk space. I've driven cross country multiple times, hauled lumber in it, 30 bags of mulch, you name it. The idea that you need an SUV to carry a lot of stuff just doesn't match reality.
I meant the ones that are actually open and accepting posts. There's definitely a lot still protesting.
I think it’s actually much harder to explain this stuff with hand wavy names. I want to see the actual code, how this stuff ACTUALLY works in reality.
this is because programming languages have network effects, and are costly to move and test in real world case, you can use pony, but luck searching sdk, databases, performant compilers, and maintained libraries, the community aspect of programming languages ecosystems makes this, no matters how great it is if inst popular you will have hard time being a developer in it.
that why most languages that works start in niche great scripting, good for data analysis, great for concurrent programming scala, and some of then like python then scale and other like scala or julia don't.
Copy elision exists, the author might just assume (or know) it'll trigger. The rules are way too arcane for me so I could not tell.
> I just had the expectation that an empty git log as well as git reflog output would mean that no objects exist except for what represents the tree of the current HEAD.

It’s a pretty common expectation but the nature of git’s object model means that generally it’s not true for any git provider. You should assume that data pushed to any git remote will live forever unless you both force push away all references to the data and GC all remotes (which for GitHub means contacting support IIRC)
They’re cheap enough for EV’s, but the big number here is you can get 10,000+ charge/discharge cycles. Predictions are near term ~2c/kWh grid storage looks realistic which completely changes the economics of the electricity grid. (As in whatever you pay for the electricity to charge the batteries you need to charge 2 more cents/kWh at discharge to break even.)

Pair with renewables and not only is nuclear and coal looking obsolete but even natural gas is uneconomical at current prices. Of course the economy reacts as you start to bring this stuff online which means wholesale natural gas prices could fall quite a bit etc. You also need enough wind/solar/hydro to actually charge the batteries, but that doesn’t seem to be an issue either.
Well, I don't have any constructive feedback, but it's beautiful.
It is easy to say add unsafe. However the details are very complex. I've read a few of the papers proposing something like this, and they spend a lot of time discussing some nasty details that are important to get right.
> Peak Desktop Internet was twentyish years ago man, and the Web was only mainstreamish for, what, fifteenish years before that?

20 years ago = 2003

15 years before that= 1988

First web client = 1990

First public web page = 1991

NCSA Mosaic = 1993

Netscape Navigator = 1994

Mainstream Web is mid-late 90s.
history, unlike this shape, repeats itself
I love the constant “companies prefer arbitration because it’s cheaper” refrain.

Companies prefer arbitration because they get to buy the judge. Yea, I know that the arbitrators are “unbiased”, but the idea that someone can be unbiased when their job both directly and indirectly is dependent on paychecks from a specific party is objectively BS. In the actual legal system if a judge is being paid, directly or indirectly, by one of the plaintiffs they are required to remove themselves from the trial or the defendant has a more or less guaranteed retrial down the line. Meanwhile in arbitration land those payments are explicit.

So yes arbitration is “cheaper”, but only because it is legally mandated corruption of the legal system. Yes the fines are cheaper: the “arbitrators” don’t want to bankrupt the company paying them. They also ban class action lawsuits making most valid lawsuits impractically expensive: who sues over $50 fraudulent charges given the time and expense required? Class action lawsuits are the only thing that makes punishing such theft possible.
The project is so excellent, so impressive. And needing to open the case & attach a serial connection is not for the faint of heart (but so fun).

But above all, it's exactly this that's the biggest problem. I'd wager like 75% of devices have an OpenIPC capable chipset. But there's only rudimentary tracking of what devices have what chipsets.

And it's unknown what other wrinkles folks might run into if they do get a device with a valid chipset. Most should just work, but a number will also require more embedded hacking.

Such an amazing project though. Stunningly wide support for a huge array of chipsets.
Also worth mentioning her new podcast (along with Carolynn Levy), The Social Radars, which is sort of a podcast version of Founders At Work: https://www.thesocialradars.com/
lots of metaphors and hyperbole without any concrete examples
Rookie mistake! :P
How are you going to implement elevated crossings in a suburban neighborhood, where the soccer moms in their monster SUVs can't see squat, and routinely speed? Kids are crossing multiple places; we can barely get ADA type curb cuts at the crossings.

Oh, and "pedestrian airbags" only help you avoid hitting the windshield. On most trucks and SUVs you don't even make it that far. You're just squashed like roadkill on their grills.
“I made ‘Titanic’ because I wanted to dive to the shipwreck, not because I particularly wanted to make the movie,” he told Playboy in 2009. “The Titanic was the Mount Everest of shipwrecks, and as a diver I wanted to do it right. When I learned some other guys had dived to the Titanic to make an IMAX movie, I said, ‘I’ll make a Hollywood movie to pay for an expedition and do the same thing. I loved that first taste, and I wanted more.”

What a guy! And in a playboy interview!
The cancer miracle is always just around the corner
Insurance is required by the lender (yes, I understand people purchase with cash outright, but that's a vanishingly small portion of the population).
I did a fairly generic search for Geovision and landed on this: https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/backdoor-wide-open-...

(not to fear-monger, just something to note)
> Things used to get better, do more, and faster.

I bought a newer PC because my older one from 2012 legit wasn't fast enough for what I wanted to do. It couldn't handle the VR applications I wanted to run, as its PCIe and RAM performance just wouldn't be up to the task to run the resolutions, texture qualities, and latencies I wanted. The newer one is miles ahead of the older hardware, and the applications I use are significantly better because of it.

But even then, from the other perspective of continuing to run similar-ish workloads using newer software, a lot of the other things continue to run the same experience-wise with slightly better features than when the software was new. When I first built that 2012 machine I installed the then brand-new Windows 8 on it. These days its running Windows 10. From a UX perspective it definitely feels faster than the OS it shipped with. Things like the new Terminal app are way better functionally than the old cmd.exe that used to be on it. I do demand more still from using VSCode with more plugins and what not than before while previously I used things like PyCharm more. I videochat, watch more streaming content on it than when I first had it, and it consumes far more animated GIFs and what not than it used to.

But in the end even with software supposedly getting more bloated and what not, its at least as snappy if not more than it was when it was brand new in 2012, other than the fact there's a whole new class of application I demand from my hardware.

So yeah, even today things are still getting better, doing more, and getting faster. Its not the extreme doubling or quadrupling of stuff like the 80s and 90s where things literally went from only text interfaces to GUIs to 3D apps, but there's still bleeding edge stuff that legit just takes more oomph than a box from 2012.
It is a US/Europe difference in attitude that can be seen across all fields.
If you're an aspiring founder, you should definitely try to make the time. It's a pretty easy read and insightful.
> everything further out is playing with fire.

That's the point. C and C++ don't prevent you from playing with that for. Memory-safe language do.
ESS should not be mentioned except as an example of how prone the green news cycle is to fraud. As I detailed last year, their claims are highly dubious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31430227

(previously I misspelled the last name of Sri Narayanan as "Narayan", for which I belatedly apologize)

And that prediction was substantiated when they were subject to a class-action shareholder lawsuit in February involving a fabricated customer which was actually a subsidiary:

https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2023-03-10/the-law-...

The other shoe has yet to drop, but I suggest that any battery company without publications should be considered with appropriate salinity.
Yeah, your last point is totally spot on, it is so gratifying to make something feel obviously much faster, in a way that few other things in programming are, and there's usually a lot of low hanging fruit.

Also, if you work on a website, the Google crawler seems to allocate a certain amount of wall time (not just CPU time) to crawling your page. If you can get your pages to respond extremely quickly, more of your pages will be indexed, and you're going to match for more keywords. So if for some reason people aren't convinced that speed is an important feature for users wanting to use your site, maybe SEO benefits will help make the case.
charging the government to have employees do nothing(to the extent they complain about not having any work to do) is corrupt. It's the type of stuff you see in African countries with government funds being handed out for work that never happens

especially considering the comment was referring to Boeing, a company notorious for their lobbying to get contracts they don't deserve
Yes, exactly.

The only thing I'd add is that raising those issues and trying to find resolution is probably even more important than the code. People can see whether the app is working or not. They can't see when these conflicts happen unless somebody helps them.
I do raise meat animals.

This is life. We must eat. Large scale plant agriculture is also destructive. There is no escape.
It's clear that one cares when they inject themselves into the thread/conversation. If one did not care, one wouldn't be in this thread.
I've spent this year slowly moving everything away from them. It's exhausting putting effort into their things to just have them die a few years later. In this case it lasted almost 10 years.. but still seemed to be working for them. Maybe it has to do with the engineering efforts to keep things going, and the kind of employee retention?
Frustrated more like. It sucks when people are too proud to be sensible and it makes me misanthropic.
The government can also buy the $30 trash cans.
> Every consultant and successful indie developer does this :-)

I'm an indie developer.

> I know a few prominent solopreneurs who are making millions/year while we argue whether this is possible on HN ;)

That isn't the argument. It was never the argument, and nobody has disputed that. So you've clearly just misunderstood the discussion here, which may explain why you keep saying absurd things.
Continuous batching enables 23x throughput in LLM inference
Reddit has a long history of recovering from mutinies and other things that should have made it obsolete. Users get mad, some quit, and lots of bad press ensues, but defectors slowly and quietly return because the alternatives are worse and empty. See what happened with twitter and mastodon.
Initiative to connect all European capitals through a high-speed train network
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The demand for natural gas is probably minuscule compared to the total heat output of a burning cycle. Also, thanks to the war in Ukraine, demand for natural gas might decline in the long term if European countries switch to alternative, hopefully greener, energy sources.
Woopsie, you are correct. That's not abysmal then, merely terrible. ;)
Sure. Reading about colors will tell you nothing about them until you can see a depiction of them attached to their names. Same with all the other senses.
Yes, selective logging and controlled burns have to be paired if the forest has ever been clear cut.

Where I live (Santa Cruz Mountains) the vast old growth redwood trees were extensively logged (via clear cutting) into the early-to-mid 20th Century.

Then widespread logging just stopped. And for at least the past 50-60 years there has been intense hostility to logging. Everywhere, doesn't matter if public or private land.

The redwood groves that have grown back are all extremely densely packed, relatively small diameter trees mixed in with tan and coast live oaks and lots of smaller shrubbery. Lots of low branches on all trees. Lots of redwood needles and dead tan oak and coast live oak leaves laying thick on the forest floor.

Perfect tinder.

About 3 years ago a lightening storm sparked a fire that burned hundreds of thousands of acres.

Controlled burns would have helped remove the forest duff. But the trees themselves are perfectly set up to respond to fire, unlike in an old growth forest.
Yes, this is a strange approach. Separate iron from iron oxide, which is energy intensive. That's what blast furnaces did, or do, and it's a messy and energy-intensive process. Burn iron to get heat and iron oxide. Repeat.

Are there numbers on the energy efficiency and costs of this process? This seems very strange. Batteries are above 90% round-trip efficiency now. This has to be lower.
If they used ChatGPT to find real cases that's not lazy, that's smart. The dumb and lazy part was NOT CHECKING ON THE NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR SOMETHING YOU SENT TO A JUDGE. Sorry for the caps, but so, so stupid. IIRC they asked ChatGPT if it lied, and it said no..
> But an automated script (AnomieBot) tagged that article

AnomieBot put a date on the tag, it didn't add it. The tag was added without a listed reason by an anonymous user while not logged in: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jessica_Livingsto...
Not sure what you mean; Windows doesn't force mouse acceleration.
I understand the motivation behind creating a local-only WYSIWYG Markdown editor, but I can't help but feel conflicted about it. Markdown was designed to prioritize simplicity and readability, allowing documents to be published as plain text without any markup clutter. Introducing a WYSIWYG editor seems to contradict the essence of Markdown itself. While I appreciate the effort and consideration for different use cases, the combination of Markdown syntax with a WYSIWYG editor strikes me as odd. However, everyone has their own preferences, so perhaps there is a balance to be found between simplicity and flexibility. Keep exploring and iterating, and who knows, you might discover the sweet spot that works for you and your users.
Why? React’s component model can be an excellent abstraction for building a “normal website”—or rather, its component parts—for developers who prefer it. React can compile to static HTML, without running any JS client side, and/or can be used to mount or hydrate arbitrary subtrees however one sees fit. (I’d probably favor Preact or Solid for the latter, but React is a perfectly cromulent choice)
I never said anything about if I agreed with this attitude on Reddit or not- there is indeed a culture of hatred and blaming problems on those specific groups.

I actually agree with the facts behind this attitude on Reddit, those groups are totally culpable for exactly what they are accused of. Those responsible should be held accountable, and those of us that care should try to do something to reverse the damage that has occurred, even if we have limited ability to, and those responsible will not.

The situation on Reddit is a case of toxic victimhood, despite the fact that the victimhood itself is real. These people are so focused on hating some specific outgroup, it has become an entire personal identity for many, and they spend much of their free time talking about it online. They use it as an excuse for not making any effort to make the world or their own lives better, and instead wallow in self pity with others online. This makes them also complicit in exactly what they are upset about- they also possess some amount of time, power, and energy they could use to make the world a better place by taking action towards specific problems they claim to care about deeply, but are choosing to do otherwise.

These people are hypocrites. They are largely middle class American millennials, in the top 1% of incomes globally. From a global perspective, they are exactly what they hate: a wealthy leisure class that carelessly lives a life of comfort while outsourcing the negative consequences to others, while having the means to make a huge positive difference yet choosing not to.
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That's not how physics works. We understand the world by interacting with it. How do you know your internal model is right until it is tested in reality?
I want to say at one time multimedia was a little wonky on SuSE. Stuff like getting my OTA TV cards and some of the HTPC apps required an excessive amount of googling for rando repositories that inevitably ran into a broken dependency at some point down the road. That's about all I can remember going badly over the years. Hopefully that's no longer an issue.
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TekSavvy is one of the only major wholesale-based ISPs left. I was a happy customer for years but they are wholly dependent on the big providers for the pipes which meant that I had to go with one of the big names to improve my network speeds. If the CRTC forced proper access I would have never left.
Perhaps, however I would expect they would understand the immense value of selling it to the European public by properly showing them what they're paying for. Getting the European public excited about space is half the battle (for funding), NASA has understood that for well over half a century. Somehow ESA is still oblivious (which helps explain their budget).
This podcast is wonderful – I'd recommend starting with the Paul Graham espisode.
The term bloat (as it applies to software) is rooted in gamer-think that has no basis in reality and sends a strong signal of lack of understanding. It's reminiscent of the days of 'BlackViper' and disabling Windows Services -- again, another gamer lack of knowledge issue.
About 20 years ago I was evaluating solutions for reporting to see if we could save money switching from Crystal Reports. One reason we stayed with Crystal was they did something they other report engines did not; they made available for display every page as it was rendered. So for a 400 page report, you could start working with it immediately. It took each engine (with a couple exceptions) about the same time to generate the entire report, but for the other engines, you had to wait until they were done.

There is speed, then there is the perception of speed. Crystal got this right.
> > Whoever trusted them in the past, got screwed

Righfully so. It's econ101. Central Banks modulate the interest rate based on inflation.

Nobody knows how inflation originates or subsides
With gitolite I don't have to manually setup every single repo and configure access with maybe one user name per project. That would be too much. And how about read only, read write?
The new Windows Terminal is also extremely slow for some wild reason
And I'm a French model..
I had a friend email me from his gmail account yesterday which was nowhere to be found, it was in spam.
It's not like I don't believe you, but I scrolled through two of his videos where he used excel and I didn't notice anything unusual.

So if anyone has an example of some wizardry, please share!
> The Chinese point system is exactly what this reminds me of. It is ironic that unrestrained capitalism actually ends in a variant of communism where it are the corporations, rather than the party, that rule society.

That's not what happened in China.

The revolution in China was a _Communist_ one. Maoism is "Communism with Chinese characteristics". That's when 10s of millions of Chinese men, women and children were murdered to further the Communist utopia.

After Mao's death, Deng instituted many reforms and it would be arguable that it was no longer Communist -- but it would be rubbish to call it Capitalism. The government runs _everything_. Where they don't own corporations outright, they install party members to oversee them or own them "individually".

Look at what happened to Jack Ma to see exactly how NOT capitalist the country is.
> All told, the total cost of the Mars Sample Return mission is now about $10 billion.

Woof.

For a bit of perspective, the cost of building, launching, landing, and operating (for 5 years!) the Spirit and Opportunity rovers was $944 Million, according to the wiki. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover
The federal government has full control over much of forest land in california and could have done burns there whenever they wanted.
> Some of that bloat is useful.

If bloat is useful, notepad in any form on any version of Windows is bloat by definition.

You've got CLI editors that are smaller.
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