skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>x.ai

Some historical bedtime reading for the curious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom...
As would I. There are a ton of places where the JVM is defensively copying arrays. It often comes up (for me in my work) as a performance problem.

A real common example of this is `Enum#values`.

Ideally (IMO) this applies some aggressive COW operations. So perhaps internal to the enum you have a frozen array of the values and for "values()" you return something like `VALUES.unfreeze()` which points to a transparent unfrozen array. On a write action, you'd copy the array but in the general case you'd simply read from the frozen array until someone does something dumb.

You could take it a step further and simply expose the `values` field or add a new "frozenValues" method to not break existing code. In either case, you'd end up with faster performance because the JVM isn't copying the internal array needlessly.
Flow in Games [pdf]
Yeah, the zip downloaded through Safari is 217507 bytes, whereas through Brave it's 222258 bytes.
I assume that LLMs leapfrog Grammarly's technology? So basically they need to double down on a moat?
> today's equivalent: the MacPro, sells at an eyewatering $6,999[2].

Others have already called you out on this, but are you being intentionally misleading to bolster your point, or just unaware of the Mac Studio's configuration options versus the Mac Pro?

The Mac Studio is effectively the new Pro. It has literally the same chip (Ultra) as the Pro for thousands of dollars less, and also offers another still very performant configuration (Max) for even less money. The Pro now only serves a very small niche that needs PCIe.

If you were to use the Mac Studio in your price comparisons, your point basically evaporates.
WhatsApp's 2021 privacy notification caused its slowest growth since 2012
Why didn’t WhatsApp’s growth slow in 2014, when Facebook acquired WhatsApp? Or in 2016 when WhatsApp started sharing user data with Facebook? Why was one privacy notification enough to send away hundreds of millions of users?
As Linux, Android, iOS and MacOS are as well.
A country going through turmoil is less likely to assign a high priority in keeping weapons safely maintained and under control.

If we took nuclear armageddon seriously as an existential threat to humanity, then this issue would have been dealt with much earlier - most likely when the wall came down.
I like the glyphs, but the kerning between letters bothers me. For example the gaps between i and t, y and p, or the right side of lowercase o.
I’ve found that it does. It’s easy to forget some of the more nuanced grammar rules, or if you’re spending more time building a sentence it can be easy to lose track of things like maintaining prior tenses.

It probably fulfills a slightly different use case than non-native speakers.
> For various economic reasons in screw manufacturing, this is highly unlikely to ever exist.

Did pentalobe screws even exist before Apple started using them? They certainly didn't have a large installed base of manufacturing capacity.

> Either your DRM system has to have special screws that only that particular device uses

But isn't that the core of the issue? You have your special screws for your DRM system. Bob comes along and starts using them on his bicycles to try to force people to have them repaired at the dealer. Can Alice sell special screw drivers? If not, what happened to "that only that particular device uses"? If so, anyone can distribute circumvention tools as soon as a third party uses the same DRM system for something else.

And do you see what I mean by First Amendment issues? We're having a policy discussion, the core of protected speech, and yet:

> I'm pretty sure just mentioning this is committing one of my three felonies for the day.

How do you have a discussion about the effectiveness of a censorship law if describing the facts of its application is illegal?

Suppose the security vendor of the ransomware decryptor wants to make customers aware of its potentially precarious legal status, and then has to explain why.
> two which are owned by two American billionaires

Meta is owned by public investors (plenty of whom are in the EU), nobody has a majority stake.
I remember seeing Lagunitas all over Sweden.
yes, all 2 alternatives. Much choice.

There is always phones and PC for "open platform" at least.
ITAR restricts exports of Nuclear parts, weapons and other Scary Stuff all the time based on what they are.

Sanctions restrict all economic interactions with specific entities (countries, businesses, individuals) based on official displeasure with those entities.

So Grammarly is almost certainly NOT subject to ITAR restrictions (IANAL). Exporting software like this (ie selling it to someone in another country) is usually governed by EAR, which is a rule set like ITAR but for normal civilian stuff and thus not very strict.

So you are correct, Grammarly is not export-restricted the same way nuclear parts are. Both nuclear parts and SaaS (and everything else) are restricted from sale to Russia because of sanctions. Those sanctions were put in place when Russia invaded Ukraine for basically no reason and started committing war crimes.

…I’m very content with the sanctions on Russia.
I'm 99% sure you're confusing this with V. This is Vale, which is not the same. (And V is controversial but I wouldn't say it's a scam either)
People in urban areas have cable. They bitch about what it costs but they are paying maybe $90 a month for 20x the performance I’ve got. Yeah they bitch that the rent is too damn high also. When Uber quits giving them half price taxi rides they’ll claim transportation costs too much too.

In my town of 2000 people broadband is one of the hottest issues after zoning. The leader of the local Republican party is a coworker of mine from a long time ago, personally he will give me the usual reasons why we shouldn’t spend public money on anything but in public they will not say a word against broadband because they know they will get tarred and feathered if they do.

(Actually Trump is so toxic in my town that the Republicans ran an alternative slate in the Democratic primary to try to derail the process of getting a zoning ordinance in our town.)

I did meet an old man at the gas station in my town who lives on our local “Tobacco Road” who is indifferent to broadband, doesn’t own a computer, smartphone, tablet, any of that, can barely get a few TV stations, mostly listens to the radio. He’s an outlier.
There is JS that combines the files into a zip before downloading. I'd imagine that it's that code whose behavior differs between browsers.
Different file systems are optimized for different workloads and use cases. If you're just installing Linux on a laptop for medium-duty use, then you don't need anything special and can go with whatever general-purpose FS the distribution recommends, usually ext4. (Although I am partial to XFS myself.)

You only need to consider more specialized filesystems if you have unique needs. For example, if you are setting up a file server, you might want a filesystem that is good at disk redundancy and data durability. Or you might need a filesystem that can handle billions of small files. Or you might have a huge database that needs random access to large amounts of flash storage. All of these are very different scenarios that require different (competing) things from the filesystems.

In this case, bcachefs _seems_ to be promising many of the features of ZFS but with a better design and less overhead, potentially bringing these features to general-purpose workloads as well. (ZFS is fairly resource-intensive: in order to make full use of its features, you need a dedicated box for it, or really beef up the hardware on the application server that it will run on.)
After thinking about it some more I now think you're right, at least it's a flat fee that doesn't go up as you add more users. And it's not that high a cost. I'll give it a try.

And I'll pay close attention to the reliability of the sync. I've been using Syncthing for a while now and am still not trusting it completely. Quite regularly I have to restart a mobile app for the files to get synched and I just can't figure out what's wrong. I don't want that to happen for photos. Maybe I'll monitor the date of the latest photo per user and alert if it's too old.
Tried systematically buying every alignment minus. Getting all of them yields "Nanobot light sphere consumes earth" which sets human population to zero. You must have accidentally bought an alignment bonus.
We were shown When the Wind Blows at school when I was about 13 and it absolutely traumatised me. To this day just thinking about it makes my stomach drop and I still occasionally daydream about how I'd create a makeshift fallout shelter in my childhood home.
I think you're underestimating the role marketing plays in demand generation. It's not that Taylor Swift is "better" than the local jazz guitarist, she's just more heavily marketed. Music labels know that the mass audience doesn't appreciate musical complexity so they market simple music with attractive performers. Then the Clear Channel/Ticketmaster... machine takes over and handles the promotion and distribution.

I'm actually a big fan of pop music, but that doesn't mean that non-pop is financially unsuccessful because it's "bad", it's just not put into the marketing machine because it very well may be too good.
I haven't seen it but tokenization economics strategies might be an area to check out. I don't have a good source to reference.
The possibility of there being a confluence of problems is one that's hard to grok, but doing so is ultimately fruitful.
Agree, if Commit Mono had a narrow width, it'd replace Iosevka for me in a heartbeat
Cranelift is a separate compiler backend, not an optimizer.
You're right, my knee jerk reaction was to dismiss it as dark pattern pricing but on second thought it might not be unreasonable actually.
Well I looked hard and didn't see it, and while you're obviously free to like the new style, I think it's terrible and I'm angry they made it so hard to revert.

Like... why is it a mix of icons and dropdowns?? Why do the icons switch between being on the top and bottom?? Why is it low contrast??
Oh the sprites are great, don't get me wrong, but I mean how the graphical game system was made.
Writing for TV is much, much, much harder than you might think.

I encourage you to enroll in a screenwriting class if you don't believe me. You'll understand soon enough. :)
Because everyone with a voice (those not at the bottom) are interested in maintaining the social ordering. That is why businesses get saved, but workers do not. You want the people dependent on their wages to not have too many options, otherwise you end up with costs for goods and services increasing (quicker than anticipated), since the lowest wage workers have more options.

The volatility can cause political blowback as people’s expectations are not met.
> It's also a lot clearer in linux when a process is doing something it shouldn't, since it's a lot easier to probe into it to check what's going on.

Is this true? It's been a while but I remember being able to set performance monitors on almost anything in Windows. It seemed to have very robust instrumentation support.
Playstation - yeah (Sony doesn't care at all so far). Nintendo on the other hand is surprisingly positive about it:

https://www.khronos.org/blog/you-can-use-vulkan-without-pipe...

Which is refreshing.
Manhattan Project B Reactor Public Tour
The reactor complex is located near Richland, WA about 3 hours drive from Seattle.

Also nearby is the Hanford site of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory; tours are also available to the public.
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/WA/page/lho-public-tours
OneDrive seems to not honor my wishes. Multiple times it has started syncing my desktop. And each time I notice it I tell it to stop. But it really wants to ingest those desktop files.

Maybe if it understood that I have multiple computers and don’t want the same stuff on all of them. But nope. It has no way to sync multiple separate desktops. Nor does it respect my choices.
Is there any evidence that the tax sites are selling data?
How people acted in the US during the pandemic made me aware of how broken a society we've become. I had always thought that despite our differences, we at least come together to help each other and overcome crises when they happen.

Our behavior with the pandemic showed how untrue that is. Nothing shook my faith and trust in my fellow citizens more than that.
I went to https://sim.tigerbeetle.com/#evolution but nothing happened.
I went on a tour of their facility about a year ago. Really beautiful place with lots of history. I'll be sad to see it go.

As with most brewery tours, we got to try some of their beers afterwards. One of the ones I tasted was the best sour I've ever had in my life. I asked where I could buy it and they said they were never going to sell the stuff.
mine is also a retail license rather than an oem included license, but I don't know if that matters.
Also potentially some "look, we can play nice" signalling to the European Commission; with the DMA on the way this has to be on their minds.
The single largest outstanding security problem with Windows is the one-two punch combo of hiding file extensions by default + not having an executable bit. This makes it insanely easy for an attacker to simply create a malicious executable that has the icon of a word document or other recognizable type. There is literally no way for a lay person to detect the danger there.

If there were an executable bit, exe’s from strange places wouldn’t just run without being granted permission. If extensions were visible by default, the very slightly savvy could SEE the danger. The combo lack-thereof is the danger.

With how many notifications Windows gives you already, it really seems like at the very least just warning you when you double click something the first time “this is an executable, use caution” would go a long way.

Binaries downloaded from browsers get stapled with a “potentially unsafe” extended attribute that pops a warning the first time you try to open it. This helps but is backwards. It should go the other direction and every binary should warn you until stapled with a “user has acknowledged the danger” attribute.
Microsoft government email compromised (and quietly fixed)
Just buy gpus, don't mind waiting for big batches, just buy everything you can.
They put in quite a lot of time and money to build it and make it work on a ridiculous array of devices running weird embedded OSes.

Open standards hadn't.

Or if you're referring to MMS: insane user cost and insane unreliability, standards mean nothing if the implementations are all trash.
Every strike has threat of scabs. Scabs can be fought back against, but scabs are also not loyal to the owners and will leave when the bonus pay doesn't keep coming in

Absolutely no implication that unions are loyal, no
People aren't looking to improve the quality of the honest attempts at reproductions of frames, they are looking to have each frame be an honest attempt at reproducing a frame.

There are so many frames where there was no attempt made.

And the FAQ says nothing about that. It does not say that trolling other users is the point. The point is to troll Dreamworks/Paramount by stealing their movie in the weirdest way possible.
Maybe it's because the C910 + V is now sometimes called C920, I think they changed their branding on that.
Instagram has 2.3 billion accounts.
1k Engineering Jobs in AI: Introducing ScaleVP’s AI Job Board
As someone who has spent an amazing amount of time coding, it's not because someone was paying my rent. It's because I sacrificed things to be able to work on my art.

I have never had my rent paid for. I did not have a secret pile of cash or someone funding me.

"Everyone who made it when I couldn't was secretly wealthy" is an interesting take but it seems more like coping mechanism than reality.
> like saying we’re all 32 years old or whatever the average age is

Yes? This [1] is an important metric if you're running a country?

> yes we all have different ages thats obvious but its the average that matters, so you’re 32 like everyone else

This isn't a parable about a bad metric. It's one about not reading a good metric wrong. The fool in your story misunderstands how averaging works; that doesn't make every average bad or misleading.

> that’s not the point of ascribing a number to inflation i hear you cry, it’s still a useful construct because it can be compared across countries

No, it's useful in its proper context. There are a number of metrics because there are, unsurprisingly, a number of questions people ask about prices. PCE is good if you're setting nationwide monetary policy. It's irrelevant to 99% of the contexts it's quoted in.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/241494/median-age-of-the...
I recently installed Clone Hero, with my only PC Guitar Hero-like experience being Frets on Fire probably 15 years ago, and I was blown away by how it felt exactly like Guitar Hero.

FoF felt so clunky whereas Clone Hero is a delight. It handled high FPS well, the song interface looked exactly like Guitar Hero, and the customizability is the icing on top. The community has ported over basically every song from every Rock Band or Guitar Hero game, so there's more than enough content. Clone Hero was so smooth I bought a wireless receiver to use my old Rock Band drums and play with my wife. It's a blast!
Obviously because reinforcing what is most likely a psychological addiction is not a good thing, especially amongst a population who in other legal contexts cannot typically give informed consent?

Frankly you come off as purposefully obtuse for the sake of arguing.
In a Fierce Desert, Microbe ‘Crusts’ Show How Life Tamed the Land
This correct but really applies only to health insurance.

Other forms of insurance, such as life or disability, can deny you coverage based on having had genetic testing.
OpenAI founder Sam Altman just took a nuclear energy startup for $500M
Right, but that would still be functionally quite different from what an LLM does, given that it has no full thought and is entirely predictive by token.
I don't think so. GP is saying that "punishing" Russian citizens by not doing business with them is immoral. I'm saying that doing business with Russian entities is immoral.
Another video by mi amigo OhMeadhbh who still can't post to HN.

This one is about what Sixel graphics in XTerm can do for you.

I'm kind of interested 'cause they have tools to print out sparklines on machines you ssh into, which seems like it could be useful. But it's just an intro to SIXELs, so they don't go into depth about generating sparklines from datasets.
I was thinking Genshin Cosplayers /s
Feds have a nearly immediate effect, elected officials have a much slower effect and only from working together.
So if HDMI is so restricted with NDAs, how is DisplayPort allowed to have a documented compatibility mode for it?
I'd love to work full time on my open source project (see profile) but I'll have to keep working for the man for now.

It works and is useful for me already, but without the time needed to polish it and add more content, won't be that useful to other people.

One can dream.
Wait, you say malware don't target Linux because it has no market share? The OS that is ubiquitous on servers and mobile?
Some. Here's for the Linux Kernel: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-walk-throug...

The dataset is quite small, but on average it took Linux 25 days to fix a 0-day while it took Microsoft 83 days.
While Zuckerberg owns just 13 percent of Meta's stock, he controls 61.1 percent of the vote because of the company's voting structure.
A lot of ad hominems and other fallacious bs

Pure troll behavior, as detected prior.

Shame on you.
Lawyers with Supreme Court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo
Vulnerability chains on iOS (and presumably macOS) also rely on various complex 90's/late-80's legacy technologies at the heart of the OS. But I can only assume that such complexity would exist somewhere even in a clean-slate OS.
I find it a more hostile place to be in general. Belligerent republicans seem emboldened to add politics in a hostile manner to literally every topic.

No. Thank. You.
States of what?
I don't want to delve into politics, but I would not call the BoC unaccountable. Their goal is to juggle employment and inflation by setting the interest rates. Inflation is/was high and unemployment was low, that calls for increased interest rates (especially as the US is raising rates anyway).

The government not cutting spending is an appeal to the people though. Seems like the BoC is the one acting like grown ups.
There are diminishing returns at a certain point though, the crowd gets so large that utility stops increasing.

I want to interact with experts in subjects I'm interested in, the occasional media figure, and some brands. Sadly brands are lacking, but I get enough of the rest on Mastodon to keep me happy.

It's a shame Patrick Rothfuss isn't on Mastodon, but John Scalzi is, so that's cool.
A company does not need a reason to stop servicing a country. They just can.
Honestly I always saw the California Common/Steam beer style as more marketing than a true style. In my head I grouped them in with amber lagers. I Totally agree that Anchor Steam was mediocre.
Or maybe because a lot of people in this scene have ties to SF so they post it in the way that you tell friends of happenings.
> There was no sale

Maybe, maybe not. I think it merits investigation. Even if this was accidental I think it is still criminal negligence and should be prosecuted.
https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/pull/86 an example of why it's better to have our own project to move fast.
The “don’t be evil” comes out of an extremely optimistic techno-futurism from the early Internet I’m not sure exists anymore. At best the current “optimist” techno futurist folks are at best talking about how to mitigate the negatives of things like AI.

I’d also say at this exact moment, trust with tech execs writ large is low, given fairly universal layoff trends.
And permits are way higher than houses being built, it's more like market failure.
Technically, they need an instagram account to follow the dutch government on threads. Which kind of illuminates my point, for this to become standard we need far better implementation details than what activitypub currently describes. Until that happens, this is just another "social network" to join and keep up with, or ignoring it entirely to rely on some other social network.
I think there's a unique element to Windows with it's attempt to be extremely backwards compatible. This can be a tremendous boon when, say, running older software targeting a previous OS, but introduces vulnerabilities since your dependency tree has such deep roots. It's definitely a good target because god knows how many banks/hospitals/etc are running windows and have critical business data in Excel sheets or Power BI or whatever, but it doesn't help that Windows itself is constructed of layers and layers of older code that can't be sacrificed without wrecking some client workflow. I mean that screenshot of 10 different design styles in Windows 11 kinda goes to show how much of it is just ported over kinda arbitrarily.
This is where Linux is going as well. I believe that in the future most peoples base systems will contain only necessary packages and other software will be run out of Flatpaks or a comparable technology separate from the host.
It’s necessary for long term economic growth.
We're not at the point where people can't tell the difference though.

A human will often say "I don't know". The machine will outright lie using it's best probabilistic guess.