skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's better to describe analog and digital electronics as a subset of electronics. For the most part, they look at different domains. Even though they are based upon the same underlying principles, the simplifying assumptions are different. A more dramatic example is with RF electronics. While it may look like you are dealing with the same sort of things as the more common low frequency analog electronics, you are going to have a difficult time coaxing an analog circuit to work in the RF domain.

Contrast that to web developers. They are dealing with very different principles from web browser developers, who are mostly working with different principles than operating system developers, who are working with entirely different principles from those who design hardware. It's not that they are working with a different subset of the same thing because one layer of abstraction is directly on top of the one below it and (ideally) the layers below completely hide how they work from the layers above.
That is far more extreme than I was implying.

Why not play the million video games that already have been released? Why not read the million books that have been released? Watch the TV shows and movies that have already been released?

When you are done consuming all of them, you will be dead multiple times over.
Sorry, I mean that the GPU never does anything much. The CPU is fairly busy.
They headlined it for emotional impact and clicks. People read "on record" and think it's the hottest the earth has been ever. When it's really 'the hottest' it's been the past few decades.

Also, depending on where and how you measure, it will naturally be 'hotter' because the world is getting more urbanized. And cities are artificially hotter.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/city-hotter-co...

Are they taking more measurements from the artificially warmer cities?
It's important to keep in mind that the sensationalism we see in this sort of reporting is generally far removed from the actual science.

Most of this stuff is built on models that are constantly being improved with more data, or in some cases being skewed to meet a predetermined desired outcome.
So, can you provide the calculations?
The use of those inputs isn't creating carbon, just transforming it. Carbon fueled fertilizer is also used for all other cereal crops under the sun.
With MetaMask it's trivial to create a new Ethereum account dedicated for this particular purpose, and not linked to any on-chain transactions.
Oh I'm not being disingenuous, and I'm not telling people to stop using the technology. Using Ethereum is certainly one of the choices of all time. I don't agree with it, but I am happy that people choose to engage with it. I love watching clowns.
And take Greyhound to the destination that only American flies to.
At the end of the day, consumers are using the things that require

"industrial manufacturing, shipping and power generation."
We’re more at « global warming » than « climate collapse » right now for most ecosystems.
Reality? The funding, results and motivations of the parties involved are complicated enough that dismissing it with this cynical view is so overly simplistic that it's not worth mentioning.

Even the notion that the military's aim is to "kill people" is ridiculous. It's aim is be able to kill people so that actually killing them isn't necessary in order to defend its own people.
It's easier and more secure than using a password. Public key cryptography in general is a much better way to do authentication than usernames/passwords. This is just leveraging the existing public key infrastructure and wallet software suite of the Ethereum space to create a community with hopefully a critical mass of users able to authenticate themselves with public key cryptography.

Perhaps another minor additional benefit of making it Ethereum-based is that the Ethereum Name Service allows easy use and registration of human-friendly names as proxies for the public keys.
The weather still breaks down dead plant matter, even without fungi or insects, I think?
That seems almost ridiculous? You commit code that you wrote and then Code Review your commit and then verify it? Doesn't that happen as part of the original commit by common sense?
This seems to really be upsetting to you. I like monitors too.

“2K” monitors are widths that fall around the 2000 pixel range. It’s a resolution category, not a specification.

2K monitor categorization emerged when 4K started to be used as a rough mid point.

2560x1440 is often shortened to 1440p, but 2K is often easier to remember. Still, officially it’s called Quad HD (QHD) or even WQHD. With slight variations beyond it.

Since we’re trying to be precise the category for this res can also be called 2.5K.

But like you said, we won’t always be able to search for that.

Finding the spot between FHD and 4K has this fuzzy category. Every retailer Amy display it different depending on how and when their sites were built and evolved.

The newer ultra wide monitors can do a lot of sleight of hand to stretch a lot more pixels horizontally to make the screen seem bigger.

“5K” monitors might give as many pixels as four 2560x1440, but it won’t be 4 monitors worth of work space.

All I know is my wife won’t give me back my QHD screens since she started using them because she can fit more on 2 monitors.
Joel Spolsky submissions demand a year in parentheses.
Fair point. I was thinking about the US, not Pakistan.
Utility creator claims OTT security hoops are harmful to indie devs (2020)
CPU stuff, let's see... For a dev, maybe running their own program, compilers (sometimes with a lot of optimization passes), interpreters for python/ruby, an IDE with indexing over the whole project, running the OS itself, tests, browser tabs... None of that runs on a GPU! (except part of the browser rendering). CPU is fairly important.
It seems O'reilly has registered the camel as trademark so you can't sidestep it from sourcing the image somewhere else
C++ is everywhere, but no one talks about it
I like greenfield projects but I also have the problem where a blank page gives me writer's block. Sometimes "like" doesn't go far enough.

It seems like this is a good opportunity for LLMs…

A related problem is that "maintenance" is conflated with editing code, but IME some languages especially """bug free""" would prefer you rewrite every time you make a change rather than edit things, because the code becomes impossible to understand after it has more than one author.
What good does immutability truly do you? What are the pros and cons? It is not obvious to me the pros outweigh the cons.
Right - global warming as a function of climate change, it's not the climate that is collapsing, it's the ecology that ~8 billion people depend on to survive that is collapsing :)

fiddles pedantically while the world burns
It's kind of strange to lump both of those (far simpler) "frameworks" (more like template standards) with LangChain. Indeed, they do seem to provide far more value than LangChain does.

Also:

> Gosh you are so fking wrong it's sad.

Isn't very civilized or proportional response.
@blitzar I don't know you, so please forgive my assumptions here...but, you're cool enough that you don't need to wait for bluesky to send you an invite...You don't need them. In fact, if anything, they're artificially creating the scarcity, because the fact is: they need you more. Instead, take a plunge into the the Fediverse, where you can make your own party and you do the inviting of others...or join others on some instance that has open invites, and open (virtual) arms. Think of bluesky or other silos like a single apartment party. Maybe its cool and if you dig it, then that's cool; you do you. But, the greater fediverse - where mastodon and other networks live - is like a major awesome block party of multiple apartments, and all of them spilling their parties out into the street mixing fun up in all sorts of ways. But, no pressure, and fuss no muss. Remember: they need you more than you need their invite. ;-)
>to the detriment of the user

Except these features are not to the detriment of users. If apps were not region locked at the store either they just won't be in the store or they will implement the region lock themselves. Similarly DRM is seemless for users. The users get the same media watching experience they expect, but the content is securely played to stop people from making illegal copies.

>the device the user supposedly owns obeys someone else

The user may own the device, but they don't own a movie that the device is playing. Your device isn't obeying someone else. DRM is a feature that lets your device handle other people's content in a safe manor.
https://archive.li/FhtHM
>they should be serving users

Bringing content users want to watch is serving users.

>DRM should be illegal, period

Why? It is preventing users from doing illegal things. Saying that DRM should be removed so that users can make illegal copies of the media they are watching is not a strong argument to me.

>Our economy should be designed to serve people, not corporations

People make content and people want to be able to have their copyright not be infringed. Computers by default make it way to easy to violate the copyright of creators which in why making it possible to secure content is such a valuable idea.
Why not try and have the creator compensated their work instead of asking for them to give it away for free because your community is unable to come up with a logo themselves.
I'm surprised that this article is from 2023. I recall there being a product many years ago specifically to trick autopilot into thinking you were holding the wheel. I think it was called Mr. Hands?
There is nothing that individual consumers can do that will change this. Policy is needed at a national and international level.
Apple M1 mac GPU is orders of magnitude slower than a single Nvidia T4 GPU with CUDA for certain machine learning tasks.

This was my experience while trying to run Stable diffusion Inpainting/Outpainting to expand images. This task took a mere 5-10 seconds on Nvidia T4, while it took almost 5-6 mins on M1 mac. Nvidia T4 was almost 30x or more faster. I’m not sure how much of this performance is attributable only to the GPU and how much to CUDA working only on Nvidia T4.
There is one coal fired plant remaining in the UK (Ratcliffe-on-Soar), roughly 1.5GW total capacity. A substantial portion of UK electricity consumption is now domestic wind, clean hydro from Norway, and low carbon nuclear from France.

Roughly 61% of electricity used came from low carbon sources over the last 12 months. The coal plant in question will be retired next year (October 2024).

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/GB

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63976805

https://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy-uk-2022.html

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/end-to-coal-power-brought...
Boots in 5 minutes, minimum allocation of 24 hours, is "low stock" if you actually try to allocate one, and was recently "no stock". I'd be unsure if its actually available when you need it. They offered bare metal ARM some years ago and discontinued them (but I guess M1 hardware is a bit more reliable and/or popular enough [1]).

Would be nice to see a Virtualization.Framework as a service, such as with Tart / Orchard [1], but perhaps there are performance and security issues when making those M1s multi-tenant. The license limits it to a maximum of two guest systems anyway, and only for the purposes of software development and testing [2].

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/21/scaleway_arm64_cloud_...

[2] https://github.com/cirruslabs/tart/

[3] https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSVentura.pdf#page=2 (2B iii)
Could someone explain the graph to me? My interpretation of the Y axis (without a legend) is that it’s the number of sites using Htmx among the top 10k/100k/1M sites, but if that’s the case, that doesn’t jive with the numbers detailed in the site totals section.

E.g., this lists Htmx as being used in 143 of the top 100k sites, but in the graph it’s currently at or just below 100 on the Y axis.
Luckily Dennis the Menace wasn’t around!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vArIH8-J6Tc
It is at least as objective as the original commenter's assertion that it's "a community made by nerds for nerds." I will not be browbeaten for common turns of phrase, thank you.
The problem is trademark, not copyright. O'Reilly owns the trademark on it in the context of Perl: "The camel with the topic of Perl is a trademark of O’Reilly Media, Inc." -- https://www.perl.org/camel.html

The camel picture used on the original book cover is in Animals 1,419 Copyright Free Illustrations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, Insects, etc. by Jim Harter: https://www.doverbooks.co.uk/animals-1419-copyright-free-ill... (image 241).
This PDF [0] that can be found on the linked page [1] contains some more technical details.

[0] https://www.rsc.org/suppdata/d2/ee/d2ee00233g/d2ee00233g1.pd...
[1] https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/EE/D2EE0...
> Tests should mostly be integration, not unit.

Other people disagree: <https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/series#beware-the-integrat...>

In short (IIUC), integration tests do not give you any feedback on when your design needs to change, while unit tests do.
Roller Coaster Tycoon was written in assembly despite it being the 90s. That’s a lot crazier than writing a platformer in C.

Many, if not most, are C++ with scripting. If you’re working on something that doesn’t need scripting, pure C is totally fine.
Oh, that'd just be a NewThing() constructor. The ThingFactory() can probably take an argument specifying which implementation you need. It's almost always just a small function holding a conditional chain that you don't want to copy/paste all over the place. As a bonus, it's a named design pattern that you can find in basically any book about design patterns.

Whether it's actually worth using is another question, but at least it's a point of reference.
One of ServiceNow’s biggest mistakes and greatest strengths is how much freedom it provides admins and devs to absolutely grind the instance to a halt.

Every shitty or slow ServiceNow instance I have seen in recent memory is because the customer is slugging along horrible code and poorly designed LCNC apps. A well managed instance can fly.

Not that the platform doesn’t have its problems of course. But most people’s experience with it is as the victim/end user of awful implementations.

My university used a resold white label instance from a consultant and that thing was an absolute disaster.
To quote Hofstadter:

I frankly am baffled by the allure ... of letting opaque computational systems perform intellectual tasks for them. ...when it comes to using language in a sensitive manner and talking about real-life situations where the distinction between truth and falsity and between genuineness and fakeness is absolutely crucial, to me it makes no sense whatsoever to let the artificial voice of a chatbot, chatting randomly away at dazzling speed, replace the far slower but authentic and reflective voice of a thinking, living human being.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/godel-esch...
That's possible, yeah.

I'm not sure how many different "algorithms" Instagram has. For me I've got the reels to only show me animal videos so it's a pretty good experience, but I'm afraid to give them any signals that'll knock it to anything else. Account recommendations and ads do try to hornybait me, mostly because my partner is a dancer so it reads that content as sexy.
people who live next to a CalTrain station

Right. Nobody's taking Caltrain from the airport to a conference at Moscone.

Or a CalTrain accessible hotel

How many area hotels offer shuttles to SFO? How many offer shuttles to Caltrain? Airport shuttles will stop at the international terminal which is where the BART station is. Shuttles to Millbrae (Caltrain) don't exist ergo nobody's taking Caltrain to Moscone.

Even if there were shuttles to Caltrain, it's a much shorter walk from Powell at 4th and Market (or the Moscone station at 4th and Folsom) than 4th and King or the transbay terminal.
Python 5000, why not.
We know and have known the earth is warming. Since there is some natural variability, we don’t set a new record every year. But if there wasn’t, we would. And so it shouldn’t be a surprise to us when we do.
As I see it there are really two twitters: consumption twitter and conversation twitter. Consumption twitter is where people go to follow celebrities, athletes, news publications, brands, etc. Most twitter users don’t post, they belong to consumption twitter.

Then there’s conversation twitter. It’s smaller but it was there from the beginning, even before the celebrities showed up in force.

It seems to me that Threads will capture the consumption twitter market. I’m far from convinced that Threads will capture the conversation twitter market. So far, Bluesky feels to me the most like early twitter, community-wise.
Oh, I meant the horsepower it takes to drive 3-4 separate monitors consisting of all those pixels can a single or maybe two 4/5/6K displays.

You’re absolutely right about clarity - if I was running two screens I’d probably get what you’re referring to. But having a workable third monitor at QHD proves priceless quite regularly for my work and most of it can be text specific.
Maybe because they also do creative work for free as a community and they want the creator to be a part of the community. I am sure they can come up with a logo but they appreciate someone else’s creation. Even if he does not agree, it’s still a compliment.
Remember folks, it's not just the drivers that are beta testing Full Self Driving technology...we all are.
>Not having to deal with the distributed computing problems a blockchain provides. No worrying about any proof of stake slowdowns or overhead

Ethereum operates perfectly smoothly, with zero downtime since launching 8 years ago. In any case, besides peripheral features like NFT-gated forums and Ethereum Name Service created proxy names, this doesn't use Ethereum's distributed network. Just the public key wallet software built for using Ethereum.
I'm going by the description in the source you provided me, which provides a detailed and specific meaning in the context of fanfic and then says the term is also used as a general pejorative. If I'm not meant to use the description in that source I'm not sure why you linked to it.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sci....
I thought maybe they had opened up account creation, but it’s still behind a waitlist. I put my name down several weeks ago. Unless I missed the invite, they seem to be stingy about giving them out. If this is still mostly unavailable to the public why post it on HN again?
68% of all random-ass percentage laws are crap.
When the sun stops shining, natural gas peaking plants are the backup.
In fanfiction. The Harry Potter books are not fanfiction.
I read somewhere they don't opt for maximum efficiency turns out when it's most efficient it becomes too varied for efficient consistent atp or something, amazing stuff
it is certainly better for all AI agents, not just human like systems, because it is almost the definition of intelligence. Forgetting the irrelevant stuff and having a system that does as much as possible with as little information as possible is what learning is, compression in other terms.
To be fair, Apples anti repair bullshit is not just soldered components. I'd buy them if it were just that.
It's their refusal to release necessary software and tools to allow for repair, their design that is unnecessarily hard to open and repair (there is 0 reason to have any glue in a notebook ever) and them fucking over anyone in their supply chain making it impossible to even buy replacement components. They do this so they can quote you outrageous repair costs so you buy a new device instead
The funny thing is Perl is now arguably more obsolete than sed and awk.
Can anyone do a "explain lime I'm five" summary of the problem and how the solution would work when typescript is converted down to JavaScript again so the interpreter takes it? Looking from the top it seems like it would add more complexity (and potentially new bugs or exceptions) than it could make things faster and safer.

IF typescript was 100% its own thing and not built on top of JS, it would make complete sense to do it, but with a js engine below it...
> you don’t get fulfilling internet experiences when you build for brand safety

No but you do get a viable business.

There isn't just the significant costs of building and operating a global social network. It's dealing with the risks of EU, Australia etc who aren't interested in companies taking a laissez faire approach to hate speech, consumer safety etc.
> with the length of records and a random distribution you’d still expect “hottest year” to happen pretty often. (Somebody please do the statistics)

No you wouldn't, it would be increasingly rare as time went on.

> With a very slightly warming planet it would indeed happen quite often.

Yes? The frequency it happens is based on how fast the planet is heating.
Didn't git come out in 2005? Which version control was this using in 1987 that was converted into git compatibility?
Perhaps. But if you don't want to be a statistic counted among the dead in the next heat wave, I recommend taking your trash out, getting rid of cardboard, etc to make the temp and humidity in your space more bearable.
Powerful! Franco only lasted another what, 25 years?
I used to kind of unfairly disparage perl, but now I regret never learning it. I've written a lot of scripts for munging text/files that outgrow bash, and when I rewrite in Python they get twice as long. Seems like perl would be a happy medium and let me keep using a lot of the nice bash shortcuts like `baskticks` for shell execution, etc
"I calculated that my keyboard had 90 keys and that replacing them all just once would cost me 1,350 euros."

This is a problem in the godawful 2016- macbooks, but with thinkpads, you can replace the entire keyboard, and do it yourself, for $30.
One thing to keep in mind is that this is not actually the first version of perl, it's the first public version of perl. A version 0 did exist at the JPL previously but it's likely lost to the ages at this point.

EDIT: For the curious about the history, take a look at the perlhist documentation, https://perldoc.perl.org/perlhist it's got a lot of good info about the history of perl and it's releases.
some say crop some say pest tomato tomato... really got that winter adapted hogs vibe that are causing havoc between Canada and the US
Bluesky is dead in the water. There was a point where people were talking about it and wanted in. No one (in my social sphere) is talking about it anymore. I even mentioned it at work (FAANG) the other day and most people haven’t even heard of it. I’d love for it to be a thing. But history dictates they missed the opportunity.
Currently, you have to opt-in to crypto. It looks like there is a non-negligible chance that it might become opt-out, then societally required.

Let me put it simply: the ecosystem is built on bad tech. Immutable transaction history is stupid because it enshrines bad transactions as absolute fact, making the fight over established history competitive and zero-sum. The transaction times make legitimate transactions inconvenient or impossible. The gas fees are unconscionable in how large they can inflate and how rapidly they shift. Proof of Stake is designed to entrench the power of early movers by ensuring marginal rewards go to those with more.

It is a bad system by which to organize people.