skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it wasn't so predictable exactly what the pixel layout is

I could almost understand this argument when Microsoft started abandoning ClearType, although somewhat later, with the Metro user interface, with the explanation that tablets could be rotated freely and the layout had to be continuously re-adjusted.

Apart from that, only once in my life I've encountered a non-RGB LCD monitor: it had a BGR arrangement. With the default ClearType settings, text looked blurry and edges exhibited horrible color aberration. I think no one else ever understood what was wrong with it, so it was mostly relegated to a closet. Shame on you, Philips: there was no reason at all to pick an inverted order for your subpixels.

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Now that I remember, Sharp also did something funky on its Aquos TVs: they had a fourth, yellow subpixel. ClearType only ever supported R, G and B, so it would have worked poorly on them. I don't think many people ever tried to use them as PC monitors with 4:4:4 chroma to notice, though.
> There are also a lot of queries that SQL is awful at, like most things involving graphs. That's why things like graph- and time-series databases have market niches.

Criticizing a general-purpose tool for special-purpose shortcomings never fails to fail at impressing.
And the use of a police, courts, juries, and prisons to punish and prevent violence is violence, yet very few people complain about fighting fire with fire in that spectrum (even if they disagree with the implementation).
You live in a democracy. If ward's of the state were well taken care of, it would imply a voting majority who recognize this as valuable. Maybe they would also do other things with that power, like vote for increased assistance and benefits for parents in general, or expand the program to be a blanket "everyone can have free state college".
Yep, just clarifying for the reader. The use cases/advantages/disadvantages seem to be somewhat different
Neither Star Trek nor Dune are cyberpunk.
It's interesting because the need for this tells you how much fame is not about you as the person, but about other people's ability to enjoy your likness.
It helps when we subsidize their military budget and their drug development costs like the status quo.

If America disappeared, Europe would look a lot less socialist
I wonder how Harvard, elitest of the elite of educational institutions justified it? Presumably such learned ones must have their reasons.
That also increases capital costs, putting us back to square 1. Also, have a look at the energy requirements of desal plants. "a few batteries" is pretty gargantuan hand waving
It depends on your use case, correct? If you do not have a heavy inferencing requirement, then CPU is good enough.
True. This condition only holds in situations where the energy costs dominate the physical plant costs
I COMPLETE AGREE ON THIS!

Affirmative action is about reinforcing the bottom so it doesn't fall any further. It isn't about supporting anyone for a particular reason, but anyone in a condition they can not control.
You can, because Rust doesn’t support first class Union, and uses ADTs. Something like Typescript allows you to write “(T | null) | null)” but that is not the same thing as a double-Option’d type.
He replaced Keith moon first on Face Dances, and you’re right, he is nothing more than a metronome.

Keith Moon was a one-of-a-kind drummer. He pushed the drums up from the background to a first-order instrument. He didn’t keep time and didn’t maintain a steady beat.

I recently started teaching myself drums and when I listened carefully to Keith Moon, he doesn’t maintain any semblance of repeatable beat. But it’s beautiful and intimidating and ferocious. I wonder why others haven’t tried to imitate him because it’s so much more interesting than a regular drummer.
Sure. My point is that "fixed resources" isn't an accurate assumption.

Resources can grow, in spite of the conversation of matter.
>If boot firmware implemented it, I wouldn't count on it being updated very often.

That's precisely the problem when it's not possible to upgrade that boot firmware without the vendor's help.

Or why x86 firmware contains microcode, yet we still have to update it later.
He didn't buy it for Twitter. He's had it since before his PayPal days when he was trying to push for what became PayPal to become x.com.

He's been sitting on this domain and itching to use it for something, like a child. I mean I get it, I also would be itching.

But Twitter was already a perfect (and better) brand for... Twitter.
Or you can build reservoirs for freshwater
> He encouraged Samoans to stop taking the measles vaccine in 2019

I agree. When children die it is a tragedy full stop.

Now let’s do the DTP vaccine in Africa. In 1979 the original DTP vaccine was introduced in the US. It was discovered to be extremely dangerous killing or causing severe brain damage to 1 in 300 children. As a result it was pulled from the market in the US and Europe.

However, Bill Gates foundation still gives it to 160 million African and South Asian children each year.

Gates went to the Danish government asking for funding for the program. The Danish government asked for data but Gates had none so the Danish government did their own study. They looked at 30 years of data.

What they found was that the vaccines did reduce the incidence of the three diseases it was designed to prevent. However it also increased all cause mortality exclusively among the vaccinated by 10x.

This was unexpected and is one of the primary reasons that double-blind long-term placebo-controlled clinical trials are so important.
It's bizarre. They attempted to remake programming — nothing against visual programming environments, btw — and threw out every good practice we've come upon. Favoring “magic variables” over named variables is just insane.
I think the key question is: do reparations actually change anything? You give one generation a 'payout' so the politicians can wipe their hands of the issue, then what, are we back to the same point with the next generation? What about those old enough where the handout won't do anything for them?

How do reparations actually move the relationship forwards? Handing out money does not solve anything fundamentally. They need to focus on understanding and building a positive future for all, which means working towards ensuring legally and policy-wise there is no remaining racial bias or discrimination (equal opportunity for all - not outcome) and working away from holding the grudges of previous generations.
Don't tell this to the LLM crew.
It already has for business owners of software companies. Almost all now have SaaS and you pay a monthly/yearly fee for software. This mostly came as a result of rampant piracy for the past decade.
I was just wondering if it was cloud hosted k8s, baremetal k8s, or another cloud offering
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natu....

"The true heavyweights for reconstructing ancient seawater temperatures are the microorganisms. Foraminifera, single-celled organisms roughly the size of the period ending this sentence, occur nearly everywhere in the oceans and have an exquisite fossil record."
Kids don't apply for SNAP. If their parents fail them, children should not be blamed. There's no excuse for governments in the USA to not provide free breakfast and lunch to any child, no questions asked. Not doing so is absolutely a problem with every level of government that fails to do so.
Your comment is dripping with ignorance and arrogance
https://www.sdu.dk/-/media/files/om_sdu/institutter/iti/fors...

This study found these uses for indoor residential use:
18 gpd toilet (~10 flushes),
15 gpd washer (~1 load every few days),
11 gpd shower (~5 minutes),
11 gpd from faucet (~5min of flow, this one surprises me),
9.5 gpd from leaks,
1 gpd dishwashing

that's 65gpd right there. A ten minute shower and slightly more frequent laundry would easily get you 82gpd on indoor use only, ignoring any irrigation / outdoor use.

Is that wild?
How on earth do they have the right to make rules about what food kids bring from home?
Ayyy nice work! You actually implemented it exactly how I would have lol
>>>San Francisco was a lovely city until landlords and real estate speculators turned it into a casino for gambling on housing and office space.

before I even begin to address your others points, many I probably agree with we need to stop with this gas lighting narrative.

landlords and real estate speculators are not the villains of the San Francisco of the story. The city government (and the larger state government) is.

From the endless zoning regulations, environmental regulations, and building regulations that make it impossible to build affordable housing, and a decades long process to build any housing at all to the activist prosecutors refusing to prosecute crime in the city, to the "de-fund the police" movement that has put the local police dept at a huge understaffed situation.... Those are the root causes of the problems. not landlords and real estate speculators

You want to have an honest conversation about corporatism I am game, but you are starting out with disinformation and lies so....
Not the first time I've seen a developer advocate for rewrite it all from scratch.
No. The computer in the car will say you can drive 0km but you can actually drive another 50km. How well you can drive that remaining 50km will be a separate question: the battery most likely cannot discharge fast enough for highway driving.
Didn't mean to imply there were. Just general differences in tone in Sci-fi in general.
This argument makes a lot of sense to me.
I completely understand that everything has a political dimension. And the broader culture war is leaving nothing untouched. But that means we have less room for a shared community even in small spaces like this.

What I lament is that the community of tech folks, embodied by sites such as HN, have splintered and moved away from their roots. I mean go watch the documentaries about the early days of the 70s and 80s and even the not so early days of the 00s: vision, tinkering, weirdness, geekery, cussedness, anti-authority, pay it forward, etc. That is what defined the scene. That's our roots and I'd like it to come through in comments here. Instead it's just culture war: us vs. them, grievances, IGMFU, and all the rest.
Does your browser handle having 500+ tabs open?
(I use chrome iOS and it’s totally fine with that many without anything being slowed down. I assume because they unload old tabs. This would be a blocker for me for your app if yours doesn’t do that since I wouldn’t want my phone to slow down)
That’s true for personal projects, which is essentially the case here. If this was a business, not so much.

I was probably too harsh in my initial message, but when I read the article and see reasoning along the lines of “git lacks a good UI for X, I hear there may be 3rd-party solutions to this problem, but then that’s too many things to install, so I’d rather build a custom solution from scratch which does everything”, it reminds me of stuff I see at work ;)
No thanks. Early boot software should only do the bare minimum required to hand over control to the real operating system.

If this means some code duplication between operating systems, that’s OK.
Yes. I have to add a "but". But why "Foster Kids" and not "Passes means test". That means test would probably include all/most foster kids of course.
Frankly, they’d have to be criminally incompetent or negligent considering all the things we know for sure they’ve done.
You could also check out Xenforo, which a bunch of the old vBulletin developers started working on after Jelsoft was acquired.
> Burn it all down and start over

We won't be the ones doing that.

> We're going to have to figure this sustainability thing out though

It may be already late. I wish it wasn't so. I think we could have chance at repairing it ... if only we would do what's necessary. But we're not doing what's necessary, we never started even discussing it, and I'm starting to doubt that we'll ever do. We're talking only about climate change, but that's only one of the symptoms of the overshoot. Even people @ hacker news mostly don't have a clue.

> we can't just ignore the problems

We've been ignoring them for 50-70 years. The limits to growth / club of Rome was in 1972? So far ... we did nothing but ignored the problems.

We may cross the 1.5C threshold in 5 years. Not in 2050 as previously expected, but in 5 years. And we're still pursuing economic growth. Have you noticed any evidence to the contrary lately?

> it's going to be a big challenge, and things may get ugly

I recommend few videos for you. I must warn you ... it may hamper your ability to enjoy parties.

Collapse: The Only Realistic Scenario - Arthur Keller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb_0JZ6-Rc

How to Enjoy the End of the World - Dr. B. Sidney Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WPB2u8EzL8

Arithmetic, Population and Energy - Dr. Albert A. Bartlett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI1C9DyIi_8

Why Societies Collapse And What it Means for Us - Joseph A. Tainter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0R09YzyuCI

Revealing the Naked Emperor – Paris, 2° & Carbon Budgets - Kevin Anderson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPEbIEc1n0s
I think not much will change in short term.

I can't imagine every programming practitioner is going to switch to AI tools even if they get a lot better than they are now. There will be contrarian people making new languages and writing in them. Some of them might catch on and become popular.

Also, it seems that the AI tools don't suck that bad even for made-up toy languages. Maybe it'll struggle if the new language is using lots of unconventional ideas.

ChatGPT will not innovate for you. If I'm a researcher for new programming languages, I can't imagine it would be all that useful for me in the research part. Maybe in the implementation part. I certainly wouldn't stop research just because AI is suddenly a thing.

Also, it seems like finetuning is pretty cheap, I expect it might not be very difficult to add knowledge about a new programming language to an existing foundational model made for code. The tools to do this will get better and more accessible.

I think my hotter take is that new programming languages that are really nice for humans are perhaps also really nice for the AIs. So LLMs being a thing wouldn't necessarily change how you design programming languages.

And my even more hot take is that I think the impact of these tools is waaaaay overestimated for now.

If some absolutely, obviously amazing programming language is suddenly invented that is only usable with AI assistance that could change things. I am not holding my breath though.
Dude your face is falling off!
But they don't seem to be engineered that way. When my friends drive by in hybrids the engines are invariably burning gasoline. I just don't get it.
VW has lots of brand attachment in China. Black Audis have been synonymous with rich officials since the 80s, and VW is not really a slouch either (they aren’t premium like their Audi brand, but that is true over here as well).

VW is just behind on EV tech, they don’t have much to offer their Chinese JV partners beyond a brand.
Oh the Nats server runs on one of our servers in our own rack on site. It's a bit old fashioned but does the trick.
Yes, economical is always important. In this case, we’re comparing a 231m deep unit with the “boring” existing design, and finding it less economical than the current designs.
This post introduces a short series of posts that show how to get started configuring Neovim 0.9 with Fennel, a Lua Type-A Lisp.
They haven't tried to bill you for "maintaining the grid" cost?
> That's silly; registering new domain names and putting redirects in place is much simpler than changing a freakin' country code.

Cool, here's a $50,000 firm fixed contract for you to go fix all the hardcoded .gov references in every single federal website, knowing how many of them will fail to handle redirects gracefully.
Also android/iOS
> Also the argument that descendants of slaves in America are better off than their counterparts in Africa is problematic because it assumes that the progress of African nations would have been the same without the devastating effects of the Atlantic slave trade, which significantly hindered their development

That’s the hight of results-oriented reasoning. The historical norm is that different societies did not progress at the same rate. Europeans got ahead of Africa and Asia in the 1500s-1900s. That’s why they were positioned to engage in things like colonialism to begin with.

But go back a bit further—Britons were about a thousand years late to the Bronze Age. Nobody held them back. It’s just that key milestones of civilizational development aren’t distributed evenly. Because of course they aren’t.
you keep saying that but your set of facts is clearly missing many pieces (you admit as much) so to keep repeating it doesn't make it any more true and is really revealing a lot.
Why would Nazis (or flat-earthers or QAnon or any other group likely to receive _substantial_ challenges to their world-view) stay somewhere where they'd be challenged, though? On a Reddit-like platform they'd downvote and/or ban to ensure it's almost entirely an echo-chamber, like every other part of Reddit.

If they somehow weren't able to control that, then I suspect they'd move to another platform organically, because why would they put up with a constant flow of opposing viewpoints that these groups believe, with absolute certainty, to be wrong?
Universal pre-k was also a good move.
Asianometry to the rescue!

https://youtu.be/en7hhFJBrAI
Gentoo + EXWM is my daily driver. I'm trying to develop a comprehensive Emacs-based desktop environment on it.

My servers run Proxmox with a mix of Debian, Gentoo, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD.

I have one gaming laptop with Ubuntu on it, and it's the bane of my existence. Ubuntu sucks and just keeps getting worse as time goes on. Every decision they make is a bad one, and Ubuntu is now an disorganized and unmanageable heap of trash.
I flagged that top level affirmative action comment, and I hope more people do. Contentless flamewars about unrelated culture war policies are boring, and are a negative contribution to the discussion.
Social constructs don’t determine what is real or not. Instead they function as processes within a wider ecosystem. Every political decision that’s made has adverse consequences since they require force, no matter the political structure. If something is valuable to people they will do it freely without requiring force; but if something is valuable to a select group at the expense of others, the result is always some degree of negative side effects. It may be possible to argue some social good outweighs those effects, but dismissing them because “we live in a democracy” reveals a totalitarian view of the state.
“The Right to Try Act is one way for patients who have been diagnosed with life-threatening diseases or conditions who have tried all approved treatment options and who are unable to participate in a clinical trial to access certain investigational treatment options.“

As an aside Keytruda is closer to 150k/year.
The city government is controlled by the land owning elite.
The caller could NOT pass a null value before.

Old situation: called function says: "i would crash if you gave me a null value, so my interface says you cannot give me a null value"

New situation: called function says: "i no longer crash if given a null value, which you couldn't do before anyway, so you won't notice any difference"
I’m sorry to hear that. Best wishes for Jake and your family.
Can I just give my 17 year old up for adoption then? Just curious...
Who are you voting for that will raise wages for teachers? Or are you looking to cut wages for burger flippers.
>>I get it, you invented the internet, but the special status you have over it is a little frustrating.

america music intensifies
> software is always pretty much done by about version 4

IPv4 has entered the chat
Corruption Perceptions Index data has been documenting this for decades:

* 2000: Bulgaria 3.5/10, Romania 2.9/10 https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2000

* 2007: Bulgaria 4.1/10, Romania 3.7/10 https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2007

* 2013: Bulgaria 41/100, Romania 43/100 https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2013

* 2022: Bulgaria 43/100, Romania 46/100, Western Europe and EU average: 66 https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022

"2022 Corruption Perceptions Index Reveals Undue Influence And Fragmented Anti-Corruption Efforts Threaten Progress In Western Europe & EU": https://www.transparency.org/en/press/2022-corruption-percep...
> Wait so in Rust you can’t have an Option<Option<T>>?

You can, Rust has sum types rather than union types.

> That’s really bad!

I agree, but some people seem to like union types for some reason.
Struggling to figure out what "cloud native" actually means. Unfortunately their own web site doesn't say and the CNCF web site they link to leaves me none the wiser.

At a guess they are talking about applications being built from the ground up to dynamically allocate resources using cloud providers APIs directly rather than relying on an assumption fixed resources are already provisioned and the application runs within them.

I wonder if I'm right ...
‘I’m shocked, shocked! that gambling is going on here!’
I've seen many of these tactics in action. Typically inadvertently applied but that's beside the point. Or is it the point?
Affirmative action came in response to Jim Crow. When slavery ended during the civil war, people had the idea that it wasn’t needed. It wasn’t until reconstruction ended and southern states leaned heavily into racist policy making that it became popular.
Interesting read. I’m not inclined to critique it much beyond observing that the author clearly set out with an objective in mind and argued well to that end. My brief response is that the fact that we can find similar patterns in noise doesn’t actually show that the discovery of patterns indicates the data is noise.

And of course intelligence is a real and observable thing. Some people really are considerably smarter than others. They have better recall, learn faster, and are able to reach correct conclusions either more quickly or with less information than less intelligent persons. Reducing that difference to a single factor almost certainly is a simplification, but just as we can usefully talk about height without getting caught up on difference in leg, torso, and neck length, we can talk about intelligence similarly.
> A very oversimplified pro argument: if it wasn't for slavery, these families would have generational wealth and better social situations. African Americans in the US ARE disproportionately lower wealth/income and this has CLEAR historical origins.

I'm confused by the pro argument. My known lineage was not enslaved, but my grandparents immigrated with 0$, and my family has no generational wealth and we don't receive reparations.

Isn't being freed from slavery the same as being freshly immigrated with 0$?

Furthermore, there are tons of Asian immigrants that come from a third world country with virtually nothing, but become top earners because of their cultural values of education and filial piety
we need to kick the "ethical AI" people out. Its becoming increasingly clear they are damn annoying. I don't want safety scissors. restrict things running on your own servers, sure but don't give me a model I can't modify and use how i want on my machine.
A feature you can't use with generic types is pretty useless, frankly. So "manageable" yes, but the cure is worse than the disease.
I've never seen as the primary workflow.

It's handy, especially if you're using Git as a CMS or something like that.
Get AGI on this stuff already
Very much. Or pump it into aquifers.
No secret that society is a metaphorical group of crabs in a bucket at times:

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