skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have participated in open-source communities for over a decade now. It is likely--not guaranteed, but pretty likely--that I have written more open-source code, both for money and not, than you have. And I am befuddled how you are so toweringly angry about something you're interpreting so directly backwards.

I am not saying that IRC has to change to suit me. I never said that. I am saying that IRC is unfit for my purposes. You, as somebody who is advocating for its use, are taking the latter and inferring the former when it was never implied. I don't care if IRC changes, because I have options that better suit me--the net result if nothing changes is that I continue to not use IRC.

And I'm fine with that! I'm not over here bemoaning it. There is no value to me unlocked by pulling up stakes from Slack and Discord and going to IRC that is being kept from me because of bad mobile experiences on IRC. My initial post, which has apparently spun you off to the moon for some reason, was pointing out that it remains unfit for my purposes, and that's why I don't use it. Nothing, and I mean literally, nothing else.

But you're the one pushing the thing.

If you (or other IRC advocates) want me to use it (for whatever reason, network effects usually chief among them), then perhaps you have a problem to solve pursuant to LOE and other needs and all that. That's not my problem, because I have a solution. Usage of your pursuant-to-network-effects protocol of choice is...your...problem. To borrow a phrase from elsewhere, you have product-market fit problems. And it's not other people's responsibility to make the thing you like fit them--they have other choices.

If you insist that don't care--well, to me that's also fine, but advocating for the use of something that is unfit-for-purpose and then having an extremely normal day of responses to mild feedback about why other people use alternatives instead is...I mean, if you want to talk about toxic, find a mirror. Your behavior in this thread is shameful.
Ok - yes, you said that literally on your original - but then you interpreted as "property of technology" the parallel issue I was proposing.

What I intended to propose was, there may be unexpected glare issue with EPD display instances: you buy an LCD monitor and make sure that the matte coating is satisfactory; you buy a pocket computer and have a selected matte film applied to it; you buy an EPD display and go "it should be more anti-glare".

I said that this is inherent to the outmost layer that the producer chose for the product. To be that glare susceptible is not inherent in EPD as a technology. The product could be shipped at the quality level of good matte products or good matte films, or you could probably fix it with the best matte film available as you do with displays with front glass.

A good matte display (via coating in-factory or via film aftermarket) is not as glare free as paper, but it can come pretty close.
Imagine thinking corn ethanol is even remotely a good idea…
This is pervasive across US corporate culture and present in 4/4 different sectors I have been employed.

Based off your statement in another thread "I've never really been to the US, other than a couple of brief work trips" - I can understand your view, but it is indeed the most common paradigm. Will happily review your sources that refute my experience.
Wikipedia has a summary of some of the earlier history here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
The Culture series is good but I've struggled with getting through it all as well. If you like space opera I can highly recommend the Honor Harrington series, the first book being On Basilisk Station [0]. This has held up for me for well over a decade and I've reread the entire series (~14 books IIRC) at least 4-5 times. I've heard it described as "Horatio Hornblower in space" but I never read that series so I can't speak to that.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35921.On_Basilisk_Statio...
https://old.reddit.com/r/trypophobia/
Finland (Helsinki specifically) did and still does have city-wide free WiFi, that in actuality is likely still the fastest in the world. Is it safe? That's another question, but boy does it work fine.
The library in the city near where I grew up had some variant of this book in it. Unfortunately, the variant of BASIC was something that didn't compile on the 286 my parents had purchased and either I didn't ask or they couldn't help me at age ~5/6 to get around the compiler errors, and I thought I wasn't smart enough to be a programmer for about 8 years.

Then I got into the mid-wave mod scene in 1998, and I realized I had the wrong compiler, but man, I just thought I couldn't follow directions right.
Had a random bug where it kept telling me the right answer before I clicked. The countries showed up as red outlines and I just picked them off.

Otherwise, love games like this.
Well... kind of the point of using things like "\d" for displaying things from the cli is that it's a lot faster to type rather than "SHOW TABLES".

So:

\dt <-- shows tables
\df <-- shows functions
\dv <-- shows views

(there's a large number of things like this, super useful if you use the PG cli a lot)

\? <-- shows the help, including all of the various other \<stuff> commands

Then again, tab completion is a thing too I guess for the MySQL cli as well. :)
What kind of hardware setup are you planning out? Colocation, roll-your-own data center, something in between? Any thoughts on what servers the GPUs will be housed in?
In this case, however, the original author is not enforcing their copyright: https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/06/16/david-ahl-places-all-hi...
I really liked the Combat Flight Simulator set in the Pacific. It was a blast flying the Corsair.
I don't think this is a factual response. This appears to be some cartoon?
I've always wondered this, as a non English native speaker. You could also say the "u" in unity is pronounced as "iu" which starts with a vowel and sounds the same as "you", so your reasoning sounds incorrect. Perhaps a better explanation is that the "iu" diphthong is already paired together, so attaching it to the "an" sound to form "aniu" doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
No, not really. The script does the vast majority of the work. The only challenges here would be knowing how to use Google Colab and formatting/splitting your training and test data. That’s the computer science equivalent of adding wiper fluid to your car.
This article isn't the best, but I'm glad it is attempting to foster a conversation about the future of JAMstack.

I've been developing with React for 10ish years now. My most recent startups have been a mixture of React front-ends that call to a variety of backend services. Most recently using Vercel and Next.js to host our frontend codebase.

One of our lead engineers setup an NX monorepo. We deploy an API to AWS and our front-end to vercel. This has honestly added so much unnecessary complexity, I really regret it. Here's the main issue as I see it:

Conflating a fullstack web application, with a decoupled UI and a standalone API.

It's the same old conversation about "microservices" and knowing where to draw the boundaries. In my experience "frontend" and "backend" are not really good boundaries.

Sometimes there needs to be a high degree of coordination between frontend and backend. In this case, they should probably be part of a fullstack deployment like Rails or Django, or my personal favorite: Remix.

Personally, I think all web applications should start out with the assumption they are a monolith. Only after the product is starting to reach maturity, and weaknesses in the monolith are revealed, should a backend api or a decoupled front-end be split off.

Vercel and Netlify (among others) try and avoid the basic necessity of databases and other backend complexities as if a front-end developer can exist in some shining, pretty land free of that yucky backend stuff.
Unless Apple can deliver a sub-800 dollar product, they'll never own the laptop market.
Neat to see this on HN! I'm in a couple of fifth-wave emo bands currently, and there's some incredible music being made in this genre right now. I'll second the recommendations above, and add:
Saturdays at Your Place, Ben Quad, Summerbruise, Arm's Length, MooseCreek Park, and Home is Where. They've all put out incredible albums in the last year or so :)
What are the FreeBSD/OpenBSD init systems? Are there competing ones?
It's not bullshit, my parents had the same fridge from when I was born until I graduated from college.
Some thoughts on the efforts to regulate children’s use of social media
>I don't see micromanagement in that list.

Is micromanaging what you're claiming is a strawman in my position? I'm not claiming you are saying the military doesn't need oversight, I'm probing with a concrete example where you draw the line on what constitutes a reasonable threshold of accountability. Note my statements were framed as questions to get clarification; that's not a strawman.

Your micromanaging claim is however another strawman statement. I guess I could use clarification on your point. Your equating to micromanaging is misapplied IMO. "Micromanaging" would be a direct democratic vote on most or all issues, IMO. That's not what's being asked for here here. What seems to be asked for is transparency. Access to information is not the same as having authority to make all decisions. But it is paramount in a government when people elect representatives who make decisions (or appoint those who do). The big issue I'm asking is: where is the reasonable 'trust, no need to verify' stance when it comes to public/govt work? Can we just trust tens of millions of dollars on construction projects, but not when it gets to hundreds of millions? What about aerospace? Do we say it's fine to go ahead with limited accountability when it comes to billion-dollar robotic missions, but not when there's a safety-critical application?

>A report now wont tell us anything of significance.

What makes you so confident? A report can tell us if processes were followed appropriately and, if not, if anyone was held accountable for not following them. I'd say that is pretty significant if you care about governmental fraud, waste, and abuse.
Yeah, my Canadian girlfriend works there.
half life generally means that within the time frame 50% of the material will have been destroyed or changed.

so it would mean that half of the dna might still be available after 1M years
You guys never update your servers?
damn maths. thanks!
That didn't seem to help SBF though - he is still arrested and bring prosecuted for his financial crimes.

Also SBF contributed to both D and R equally apparently - but he did his R contributions dark to avoid scrutiny, but is that claim of his true? I don't know:

Although federal election receipts show that Bankman-Fried donated almost exclusively to Democrats, he claimed on a November phone call with YouTuber Tiffany Fong that he donated an equal amount to Republicans and Democrats.

“All my Republican donations were dark,” he said, referring to political donations that are not publicly disclosed in FEC filings. “The reason was not for regulatory reasons, it’s because reporters freak the f—k out if you donate to Republicans. They’re all super liberal, and I didn’t want to have that fight.”

Given that he donated nearly $40 million to Democrats in the 2022 election cycle—and he admitted to giving an equal amount to Republicans—his total political contributions may have actually been around $80 million.

https://time.com/6241262/sam-bankman-fried-political-donatio...
> There will never be a long-distance battery powered plane.

"Long-distance" is a subjective term. There is an ever-increasing distance for which batteries are doable. Everything else is will be liquid biofuels, rather than efuels.

Biofuels are as green as the process making them. Electrify the equipment being used (something that's being done for reasons orthogonal to this) and you're already made the process more green.
There is no reason to factor race, or even to know about it, in college applications.
Tether (USDT) Says Second-Quarter Profit Was $850M
As long as they don't come up with schematics to build a white Marker...
> what is HNs obsession with disabling JavaScript?

Javascript is an inherent security vulnerability because it allows other entities to execute arbitrary code on your computer system. Disabling it is basic prudence at this point.

> Are y’all browsing the internet like this?

Yes. Every system I use online has Javascript disabled by default for all sites and a curated whitelist.

> If so how and why?

Why is already answered above. How is via Firefox + NoScript + uBlock Origin. This allows me to control which domains are allowed to execute Javascript with a default-deny policy and blanket disable XSS.

> Isn’t most of the modern web dependent on JavaScript?

Yes, but most of it renders text just fine without it, and the ones that don't are usually sites I don't want to be on anyway. Most of the modern web is also garbage that is actively harmful to the security of your system and to your psyche.
Half of them. Which is still useful in biological samples that have billions of copies.
The failure mode for pre-80s compressors was to continue heating up until the windings short out.
fixed... =)
Apple is doing what people hated Microsoft for.
It's amazing that a closed ecosystem is so welcomed by Apple fans. But I suppose man has always been tribal.
Delta always shows the actual price on the search page. When you check out, they break down the costs by fare, taxes, fees etc. But if you look at the numbers, the flight that was listed on the search page as $250 gets broken down into a $160 fare, $80 in taxes and $10 in fees. It's still the same $250.
Looks like figma for spreadsheets
I disagree entirely. If we want to solve problems like "make sure packages have maintainers" we need to think very hard about human impact and human motivation.

People can be addicted to work. People can be addicted to anything that provides relief from pain while increasing the likelihood of future pain. This very site has the "noprocrast" feature, something that recognizes we can get hooked on things that can be productive.

When somebody goes from doing 6x what anybody else is doing to quitting cold turkey and saying that they're going to lock themselves out and catch up on a year of sleep, that's pretty clearly an unhealthy, unsustainable relationship. If we want to keep this from happening again, seeing what the addiction model can tell us is both helpful and relevant.
Except battlebit uses perfectly modern rendering techniques, technologies, and features, just with cuboid player models. It looks rather nice. This on the other hand is rendered clearly with 90s systems, it looks phong shaded.
Western europe is being left behind and it’s politicians are getting nervous. Claims of higher quality of life are false information.
:) it's a nice touch!
One of the YouTube channels that I watch from time to time is a guy who is ranting/passionate about technology.

The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours - https://youtu.be/1OfxlSG6q5Y

and

How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's - https://youtu.be/bLk1cjZ4ll0

It's not a fridge... but similar design thoughts. There is a recent video about a fridge...

This goofy fridge has a really clever design. It's also kinda terrible. - https://youtu.be/8PTjPzw9VhY
A brick can't fix itself in case of problems. Just grab a brick, put it in a corner of the room and you'll see. It stays there doing nothing, it's kind of amazing how little it can do.
> marrying, then being a stay at home mom or working under the table jobs so that she can default without getting her wages garnished.

~200k in student debt or other debt? My understanding is that most student debt in the US is non-dischargeable in bankruptcy, so defaulting and destroying your credit doesn't do you that much good.

Also if it's student debt, seems like a bad plan to incur it in the first place if the plan is not to work.

If it's not student debt, then I don't see how it is particularly relevant to the conversation here.
I did not say that they never transitioned to a pastoral lifestyle, I said that the original peoples clearly migrated as a nomadic tribe, which is substantiated by a lot of evidence. Unless you believe in the Out of India Theory which is peddled by members of the far-right in order to justify their political supremacy.
I'm curious what line-length limits these company's have (either imposed by an autoformatter or imposed by informal means).
Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue
As a separate data point, I briefly switched one of our servers from an r6a.4xlarge (AMD Epyc) to a r6i.4xlarge (Intel Xeon) and saw a 30% speedup in our number-heavy compute task. I would love to find out why (MKL or AVX512? Do I need to recompile numpy?), but for the time being it pays to stay on Xeon.

We eventually switched to m-instances since that fits our compute/memory usage better when we’re at limits.
Yeah, you can still assemble a genome even if strands are broken. In fact this is done all the time as the size of the strands going into DNA sequencers are often only 100s or maybe 1000s of basepairs.
Tamagochis are running on 6502 compatible chips. Which makes me think it is used in other toys, too.
Last time I looked into it, I saw that the large, conical agitator had been replaced with a sort of agitator-plate that was much smaller.

Part of that is it's also more efficient, iirc.
That's such a good idea! Sadly I am at work right now so I can't hack on it for a while, but I love it
This is some dystopian cyberpunk bullshit. SF spends a crap-ton on policing. Spending which apparently doesn’t do any good since the police can’t seem to do anything. Try calling the non emergency line. After an hour and a half of it blairing in your ear you’ll hear that someone might show up tomorrow.

This “solution” is even worse than the problem.

“I’d love to help you citizen, but your policing plan is expired so you’re on the public plan which provides no help and support whatsoever.”

I actually feel for the SF police. They can’t recruit because police have a bad name.

Instead of trying and failing to recruit into the old guard the city should initiate community policing initiatives. Training and authorization for local communities to police themselves. I don’t need an armed response to go write my neighbor a noise ticket at 4am. I just need someone with authority to investigate and issue the ticket.

There are plenty of bike commuters who are infuriated that their bikes have been stolen, but they’re not allowed to investigate and follow up on their own. The police can’t be arsed about bike theft. Put the authority, training and funding into the community and let the community police itself.

This is the only way “defund police” works. If you don’t want society to collapse you have to allow communities to replace authoritarian external policing with locally driven initiatives that actually serve public order and safety.

Publicly funded community policing.

The answer is NOT pay for private. The answer is drastically rethink our approach to policing.
It’s federated, some instances will be run by far left, some will be by far right, some by libertarians, some by anime fans and so on. My only hope is these kind of dynamics to actually encourage debates and conflicts as obviously we should not all agree about the same thing, instead of the “if you don’t agree with X then you’re Y and should be banned!!” mindset.
You might be suffering from a cognitive distortion, my good mathematician, I suggest you check with a cognitive therapist.

I'm kidding, of course, the joke being that whatever anyone says to me will result in a dismissal that only a cognitive therapist can know for sure what's real and what isn't, since they are the self declared experts on whether thoughts match reality.
There are copies of the book on eBay, so it is available if you want a better copy to work from yourself. A quick search finds copies on archive.org too, though you might have to check a few to find a good one (the one I just opened wasn't a very clear scan, the code was not particularly easy to read due to being a low-res scan of already low-quality text).

--

EDIT: having looked at the repository, it is reimplementing the games from that book in various languages, including javascript hosted in a web page, so for a direct translation it is exactly what you are looking for. If you want the multi-player ones to be playable between remote players, you still have some work to do!
There are a couple of errors I noticed. When the author says:

Even if we start with two numbers that are completely unrelated in the Fibonacci sequence – say, 8 and 41 – the simple way that we pick the next number of the Fibonacci sequence will cause us to approximate the golden ratio after only a few iterations:

8 / 41 = 0.1951219
(8 + 41 = 49) / 8 = 6.125
(49 + 8 = 57) / 49 = 1.16326531
(57 + 49 = 106) / 57 = 1.85964912
(106 + 57 = 163) / 106 = 1.53773585

Why is that? Well, because of the definition of the golden ratio.

He mis-adds in the third step 8+41 ought to be 41+49..

But that's not all. He says "if we start with [any] two numbers...in the Fibonacci sequence" but in fact you can start with ANY two numbers WHETHER OR NOT they are fibonacci numbers.. and perform the Fibonacci operation and divide adjacent numbers and it will converge to the golden ratio. E.g.

8
10 1.25
18 1.8
28 1.555555556
46 1.642857143
74 1.608695652
120 1.621621622
194 1.616666667
314 1.618556701
I posted on the github thread - it looks like there is a visibilty: hidden; that never gets removed so the page looks blank even though all the elements are there.
It's all controlled by a single professor who is quite a ways outside of the mainstream, and consistently presents his small, and very nonstandard school of thought as accepted truth. Frequently without so much as mention of the actual standard interpretation. It's not a good place to send a beginner, and frankly not even that useful as a reference for an expert unless they are particularly studying that one small school of thought.

The SEP was a land-grab in the early days of the internet.
> All it takes is for a big successful deployment I think.

Yes - I think one company doing a big deployment of AMD GPUs for training and inference would be extremely confidence boosting for other companies.

I wonder why AMD doesn't do it themselves.
Only the hard cover. Paperback is also valuable, but only about 15% of the hardcover.
"perception is reality" is not a trait that is particularly limited to the UK.
Somewhat related trivia: Sid Meier's Pirates! for the Commodore 64 is written mostly in BASIC, coupled with assembly for parts requiring snappier performance (for example the full-screen scrolling while sailing).