skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what else have I missed

You've missed the part where you can press win+r to launch Firefox immediately (or open if it's already launched, but inactive, or hide if it's active without any autocompletion) on any of those systems ignoring all of the menu UI nonsense, which is also workflow that can remain stable for the rest of your life
(also, Firefox is also sending random telemetry data)
I wouldn't drink either, because even the ones with sugar are contaminated with aspartame.
Probably the most common example is sendfile() for writing file contents out to a socket without reading them into userspace:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/sendfile.2.html
I got the figure from here: “ Foreign Exchange Reserves in the United States increased to 37628 USD Million in April from 37566 USD Million in March of 2023. source: Federal Reserve”

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/foreign-exchange-...
Bummer, I was hoping for shark teeth powers
Headlight regulations seem to be mostly ignored by manufactures of modern cars. Modern LED headlights are insanely bright, and seem to be unfocused or not set up with any kind of "cut" beam. Driving at night is now sort of a game where you get blinded by oncoming headlight glare every minute or two and then hope your night vision recovers in time for you to avoid hitting something you can't see.

It might be good for drivers of these cars, but it's terrible for oncoming traffic.
That struck me too - Brian Eno said the same at a talk of his I attended. He has friends in both disciplines and remarked on how different the thought processes and methods are. I studied both sculpture (to BA level) and neuroscience (to MSc level) and feel the same. This sounds like one of those things that people from one discipline say after a shallow engagement with the other. (In my definition of "shallow" I include people who have seemingly spent quite a bit of time studying something, but somehow seem to miss its essence, much as that sounds like a "no true Scotsman" argument).
you either have enough reviews that it is worth a substantial amount of money to preserve them or you just make a new listing. Change review pricing can also scale with the number of reviews.
OK, let's spitball. Maybe too much for an HN comment, but here we go:

- Define an open protocol

- There are multiple viewers (browser plug-ins), so different users can choose a different viewing/comment ranking interface experience

- There are multiple "channels" of comments for any piece of content, but usually channels will be topic-wide, sitewide, or even internet-wide. All content for a channel comes from a single server. If channels were pulling from existing sites, an episode of TV might have a channel of Reddit comments, a channel of Vulture comments, a channel of AV Club comments, and anyone can create a channel. (Maybe Reddit and Vulture don't participate at all)

- The person/group who runs a channel does/delegates all of the moderation for that channel. They do this out of the good of their hearts, much like Reddit moderators

- Each plug-in gives you a default, or a choice of, approved/blocked channel lists according to your political/cultural/etc. preferences. These lists are maintained similar to adblock lists, each of which are curated by groups with those preferences. So you can avoid unmoderated toxic channels or view them exclusively

- And so each viewer will combine all of the comments from all approved channels into a single comment list. Each top-level comment can come from a different channel, but all subcomments always belong to that same channel. When you leave a top comment, you can choose which channel to leave it in (or have it default to whichever channel is most popular, similar to picking the most popular subreddit on a certain topic)

- User accounts are managed by separate servers, but user servers don't hold comments/upvotes/etc. They merely provide signing to prove comments came from the same user, index comments left by that user, sum the user's received votes (which can be independently verified by the channels), etc. These servers are similarly moderated to kick out abusive users. Channels don't allow comments from users from user servers that don't kick out abusive users. Ultimately your identity is proved by a private key you can always take to a new server. Probably, the groups behind the most popular channels and/or most popular lists will provide these user servers as well

Whaddaya think?
The video did not explain why the sun is a low entropy source. I found this explaining what I am sharing with you:

So, the sun is a low-entropy source of energy, and Earth (and everything on it) increases that entropy as it uses and then reradiates that energy. This process is entirely consistent with the second law of thermodynamics.

The relationship between light frequency and entropy comes from the fact that entropy is a measure of disorder or randomness. High-frequency light, such as ultraviolet or visible light, is more ordered and less random than lower-frequency light, such as infrared or microwave light.

This is due to how light is structured. Light is made up of particles called photons, and each photon carries a certain amount of energy. The energy of a photon is directly proportional to its frequency: higher-frequency photons carry more energy than lower-frequency ones.

So, if you have a fixed amount of energy to distribute among photons, you can do so in many more ways (i.e., with higher entropy) if you use low-energy, low-frequency photons. That's because you would need many more of them to carry the same total amount of energy.

On the other hand, if you use high-energy, high-frequency photons, you would need fewer of them to carry the same total amount of energy. There are fewer ways to distribute the energy (i.e., lower entropy), so this arrangement is more ordered and less random.

Therefore, high-frequency light is considered a lower-entropy form of energy compared to low-frequency light, because the energy is concentrated in fewer, more energetic photons.
Adding tail call optimization to Python
Who considers brand names? Most people just buy on price based on whats already available in the shop that fits the wheel.
Periodic doesn't mean perpetual, perfect, constant periodic motion (in general).
It sounds like a lot of the performance issues are TLB-related. Am I right in thinking huge-pages would help here? If so, it's a bit unfortunate they didn't test this in the paper.

Edit: Hm, it might not be possible to mmap files with huge-pages. This LWN article[1] from 5 years ago talks about the work that would be required, but I haven't seen any follow-ups.

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/718102/
Wait, why should it be illegal to own a car that doesn't match the local orientation?
Reds are also still paying Ken Griffey Jr. Orioles are paying Chris Davis. Nationals are on hook for both Scherzer and Strasburg. I can keep going for quite a while. But everyone will only talk about Bobby Bonilla because New York media made a fuss about it and that’s all people know. Talk about the media misleading masses…
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> The prioritisation of "upvoted" content and comments is the number one source of all kinds of perverse problems with modern social media

I (unsurprisingly) like the HN method… the public can’t see the exact number of votes for a comment, but the comments are still ordered by number of votes. And comments with negative votes are styled differently, but you don’t know exactly what the vote totals are.

Yes, you can still have echo chambers and manipulation, but it’s more difficult to effectively manipulate. (At least without a lot of external coordination, in which case the site is already fighting a losing battle).
seems like all databases are moving towards the middle. Postgres has JSON support, MongoDB has transactions and also a columnar extension for OLAP type data. NoSQL seems almost meaningless as a term now. Feels like a move towards a winner takes all multi-modal database that can work with most types of data fairly well. Postgres with all of it's specialized extensions seems like it will be the most popular choice. The convenience of not having to manage multiple databases is hard to beat unless performance is exponentially better, Postgres with these extensions can probably be "good enough" for a lot of companies

reminds me of how industries typically start out dominated by vertically integrated companies, move to specialized horizontal companies, then generally move back to vertical integration due to efficiency. Car industry started this way with Ford, went away from it, and now Tesla is doing it again. Lots of other examples in other industries
> But 11 months... that's long enough time for someone to generate doubts on the thing to either fix it or speak out.

There were enough doubts and enough competent people speaking out in the five previous years.

The problem seems that Mr. Rush was just not willing to listen.

You don't fuck with physics, especially not in 4000 metres depth.

Reading this (excellent) story I caught myself almost permanently shaking my head about the callousy of that guy.
> At the point they needed to be inserted, Unix systems carry on counting seconds as units of time as they pass

unix systems essentially will roll back clocks during leap seconds. here is handy dandy table as an example:

Time tv_sec tv_usec
2015-06-30T23:59:58.9Z 1435708798 900000
2015-06-30T23:59:59.0Z 1435708799 0
2015-06-30T23:59:59.1Z 1435708799 100000
... ... ...
2015-06-30T23:59:59.9Z 1435708799 900000
2015-06-30T23:59:60.0Z 1435708799 0
2015-06-30T23:59:60.1Z 1435708799 100000
... ... ...
2015-06-30T23:59:60.9Z 1435708799 900000
2015-07-01T00:00:00.0Z 1435708800 0
2015-07-01T00:00:00.1Z 1435708800 100000
... ... ...

I don't know about you but I wouldn't call that "counting seconds as units of time as they pass"
Such a weird phenomenon. Hard to say if they were UFOs seen through the eyes of the 1800s.

Then on the other hand I find the classic “they wouldn’t have been able to understand what they saw” theory unlikely because an airship made of shiny metal or something else would have been distinguishable.
To some extent, yes. There's also CORS. I'm not sure the problem can be completely solved without changes in browser behavior.

And yep, that leaves 1 of the top 10 problems not being automatically solved by one-time measures. I didn't include it because differently from managed memory and strict types, I have never seen anybody fight against the use of web frameworks (just against heavy-featured ones, but the light ones also include CSRF protection).
if you truss starting up a binary, the OS normally mmaps the binary, at least in tests i ran.
I always assumed this was a comment on the level of dental care provided by the NHS.

For example, they’ll happily provide you a root canal without a crown – a crown costs significantly extra.

I doubt many dentists in the US would be comfortable providing that standard of care.
Yes, but they're talking about an idealized harmonic oscillator, not a physical mass-spring system.
Though Donald Rumsfeld is mentioned once in the article, his part in the approval of aspartame should be more generally known. Aspartame is equally as toxic as Rumsfeld was.

"Dr. John Olney, who founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity, attempted to stop the approval of aspartame with Attorney James Turner back in 1996. The FDA's own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress that without a shadow of a doubt, aspartame can cause brain tumors and brain cancer and that it violated the Delaney Amendment, which forbids putting anything in food that is known to cause cancer." [0]

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-rumsfeld-and-the-s_b_8...
Given that phenylalanine is present in many foods in far greater levels than you get with an aspartame-sweetened food, I would expect people with even mild phenylketonuria to have a lot more issues than just when they consume a diet soda.
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Moreover, your thoughts are so toxic that we've shadowbanned you from the community. Your opinions are not welcome here. If you attempt to create a new account, you'll be banned again and we'll publicly shame you and report you to your employer. You don't deserve health care. Get off the internet and stop breathing.

(This is why we need p2p communication protocols over platforms and federation. The loud, unreasonable moderators and censors are in the minority. Most people can agree to disagree and appreciate diversity of thought.)
Can't see how that would be possible. All postal trucks in the US are RHD.
It really is painful.
Yes. I think mmap() is misunderstood as being an advanced tool for systems hackers, but it's actually the opposite: it's a tool to make application code simpler by leaving the systems stuff to the kernel.

With mmap, you get to avoid thinking about how much data to buffer at once, caching data to speed up repeated access, or shedding that cache when memory pressure is high. The kernel does all that. It may not do it in the absolute ideal way for your program but the benefit is you don't have to think about these logistics.

But if you're already writing intense systems code then you can probably do a better job than the kernel by optimizing for your use case.
Trying BBEdit and Nova
AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare
Cue Big Sugar
They were desperate for something that would heal illness and very limited in their means to do so. Controlled experimentation had not been invented, yet. This is a problem with many traditional medicines. It is the tradition that matters and less so the results.
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What is the difference between the $20k/year vs. $250k/year software engineer?
What I have seen so far there is not much difference between someone who make 20k per year from a third world country and someone who make 250k per year from a developed country.

For example GitHub web code editor that scans thousands of characters after every key stroke for emoji, tons of exploit with obvious issues, Twitter web DDoSing itself, code-mess in Facebook (What I have heard) and lots of other example. Don't tell me, they didn't have enough time, there are literally thousands of people.

Why should companies hire developers with 250k salary who will spend most of their time doing nothing instead of someone with 20k salary?
And lose touch with your code and having too deal with problems through a heavily abstracted layer. Great!
When I rented a scooter in the Bahamas, I was told to repeat the mantra "right side, suicide"
There are some bits of Factorio source code on github — https://gist.github.com/Rseding91

and https://old.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/13bsf3s/technical... is fascinating reading (things like: they used doubly linked lists, and multiple inheritance)
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Funnily, this is an idea that keeps recurring. I talked with a would-be founder circa 1999 who wanted a discussion sidebar for every website. He too was excited about wresting control of the experience of a site from the site's owners. My memory is kinda fuzzy here, but I think this is what the idea turned into:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000301142549/http://www.shopto...

It looks like it went from being a global community (which raises lots of questions, both the ones you mention and things like who moderates it) to something with a much clearer revenue model, one where companies pay for add-on forums. And then blew up at the same time Bubble 1.0 did.

The fact that people keep trying this but that we still don't have it makes me suspect there are fundamental flaws, but I've been wrong about that before.
"I'll take sparkling water and a lime wedge, thank you"
They would have thought of this before they built the Channel Tunnel, with LHD and RHD cars moving freely between the UK and France, no?
Not sure what their criterion is for "obscure institutions", but as a professor from a small, peripheral university that almost no one knows outside my own country, but who has managed to achieve an international reputation in my field (not nutrition-related); that does rub me the wrong way, to be honest.

There's already plenty of unconscious bias around (I've had experiences of people using my contributions and citing some followup paper from Google or Stanford rather than the paper where the contribution was actually made) without actively legitimizing it.
I think of it as a death cult. Thinking we know all that there is to know about the universe to the point where we can declare with 100% certainty that any particular thing will happen is not scientific.
I took a deep learning course in late 2019, during which we implemented transformers as described in Attention is All You Need and fine-tuned GPT-2. The output was amusing, but useless, but I still remember the basic principles.

Now, a few years later, transformers are the tech, and GPT-2's successors are the most hyped technologies of the century so far.

All of which is to say that I wouldn't assume that coursework without immediate application is useless. I'm in a much better position to jump in on the latest AI stuff than I would be if I hadn't taken that course.
I think it was "the [Blender concept of 'camera'] inside the [camera I modeled in Blender]".
All sugar is not remotely the same. The biological processes of digesting glucose vs fructose are dramatically different and involve different organs.
In driving school we were taught to look at the right shoulder when headlights are coming at you like that. Keeps you from being dazzled and keeps the car in the lane.
Life would be easier if UK switched driving sides.
Do you have a link showing that the C standards body or working groups are resistant to this?

My understanding is that they're currently more generally open to major security-oriented improvements than they ever have been in the past; it seems like now would be a good time for someone to put a slice/fat pointer proposal in front of them.
Children aren't buying porn, and if they were they would use their parents CC. Children don't have payment methods.
Brilliant, it's like running a VM inside in a VM. I love how the images have a character due to the lens and simulation characteristics, It should be possible to train a diffusion model which can generate these and make it obsolete though.
It is not true for the universities that 95% of students attend. And you've not replied to the several other points I made in my comment.
The most common example is DPDK [1]. It's a framework for building bespoke networking stacks that are usable from userspace, without involving the kernel.

You'll find DPDK mentioned a lot in the networking/HPC/data center literature. An example of a backend framework that uses DPDK is the seastar framework [2]. Also, I recently stumbled upon a paper for efficient RPC networks in data centers [3].

If you want to learn more, the p99 conference has tons of speakers talking about some interesting challenges in that space.

[1] https://www.dpdk.org/.

[2] https://github.com/scylladb/seastar

[3] https://github.com/erpc-io/eRPC
And now they’re down to 2,300 according to Musk. Those are huge layoffs, even if we take pre pandemic staffing numbers as a baseline.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1616706530841333761?s=46...
I’m not claiming it’s a natural process. I’m refuting the idea that as-is everything is perfectly balanced and serves some greater purpose in an ecosystem, which is what people offer up as emotionally charged arguments for preserving everything extant in perpetuity.

I’ve been involved in the establishment of several large collections for the long-term preservation of biodiversity. I’ve published on the advantages.

How do I feel about that framing?

It’s fair, and the focus should be on mitigating loss. Beyond never building anything anywhere I don’t see an alternative since the discussion at hand is about sand dunes and that’s still considered problematic.
Copying files to /etc doesn't require Guix. Installing applications and copying their respective config files doesn't require Guix. Guix seems worse for this than a repo of config files and a shell script or makefile, because of the required extra complexity
The fact that I would die without it makes me feel differently.
One place I've seen it used was a lib by a guy called DHoerl for reading images that are too big to fit in memory (this was years ago on iOS).

A very over-simplified and probably a bit incorrect description of what it did was to create a smaller version of the image - one that could fit in memory - by sub sampling every nth pixel, which was addressed via mmap.

It actually dealt with jpegs so I have no idea how that bit worked as they are not bitmaps.
This is the naturalistic fallacy and there are many things that people have consumed for long periods of time that are not safe (e.g. tobacco).
> Rust showed that these things were not only possible but viable without unnecessary overhead [..]

Ehrm. You seem to imply that Rust has somehow solved the overhead that C++ introduced. I'm aware that comparing Rust versus C++ is a sensitive subject, but I'm curious if you could elaborate on that?
Isn't there some kind of genetic component to this? People with certain DNA find sweetner disgusting? [1]. I'm the same as you they taste awful, but to some it just tastes like sugar.

[1] https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/multiple-genes-manag...
The New Yorker article doesn't provide support for the claim of "probable billions of dollars" being spent on "increasing public ignorance", which is what I'm asking for. I didn't ask for examples of donations of more than $10k, that's obviously an irrelevant amount anyway, I just pointed out that it was the only example anyone could find last time I challenged this claim.

And it still stands, because the climate part of the New Yorker piece isn't about spending on propaganda. It says the brothers

"succeeded in persuading many members of Congress to sign a little-known pledge in which they have promised to vote against legislation relating to climate change unless it is accompanied by an equivalent amount of tax cuts"

So apparently climate change legislation is fine as long as it's tax neutral, which is also what the old version of the "noclimatetax" website says too. The New Yorker is biased as hell and tries to frame this pledge as making climate legislation impossible, which is clearly not the case. These are guys who hate tax rises a lot more than anything climate related, it seems. The New Yorker can't even tie any spending directly to this pledge, with all mentions of amounts and donations being about many different topics.

Yes, my views are movable. I'll happily accept a source that backs up the original claim about billions of dollars spent on public ignorance, but it has to do that. The other guy was reduced to something like, "ok but if this guy got 5x the money he asked for, for 20 years, then that's 1/5th of a billion so that's kinda like billions being spent right now", which is just hilarious.

I really don't get why anyone is trying to defend this claim that billions of dollars are being spent by oil companies on climate related advertising. It's just transparently untrue. All the most effective stuff arguing against climatology is by individual authors, bloggers, journalists and scientists. And they're doing it for peanuts, or nothing at all.