skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then try walking in a new neighbourhood with barely any shade. It is awful.

Neighborhoods you’d typically want to walk in do have shade because they were all built a long time ago and there is somewhere for you to walk to. Suburban neighborhoods aren’t designed that way which is why even if there was shade there’s still nowhere to walk to.

I do agree we need more trees planted and more shade. Unfortunately a lot of space near and around places people would want to walk or bike to us instead covered in pavement for cars and parking.

We can do more than one thing at once though. We can make areas more walkable while we also plant trees. And we can flip state highway departments [1] so that they focus on serving the people and their needs instead of themselves or a small, vocal minority.

[1] Note that departments of transportation in nearly all states are highway and road transit departments first and do next to nothing w.r.t better means of transportation. Their entire context is cars and drivers and you can confirm this by looking at the budget.
Smartphones / tablets are for the most part devices for consumptions, and foldables are better at that than normal smartphones.

The improved reading experience on a device I have all the time with me is an attractive proposition.

The disadvantages (chiefly price and weight / thickness) currently outweigh the value for me, but I hope it gets better.
If Apple ships one, it'll be because they've finally managed to engineer one which isn't fragile, creased, and dust-collecting.

The platonic ideal of a foldable phone is exciting, but Android phone makers have been trying for years and the results are still a mess. I'm not holding my breath.
The size of packaging and the quantities that people normally buy in are based on the idea that Americans take their car to the grocery store once a week and fill their trunk space with groceries.

Yes. My grocery store often has sales where you have to buy 5 of a large and/or heavy product to get the discount. As a pedestrian I have to either forego the savings or have an awkward trip home.
No, like putting that aside, because I assume that it’ll exist. I’m thinking more along the lines of, how do you satisfy the emotional needs of an adult who is trapped in a body that is not responsive to them? If I behaved like I do as an adult to my parents and teachers but I was a child I’d spend my entire youth in the timeout corner.
Pdfs, videos
Max Headroom incident With Subtitles (1987) [video]
It's not heavy handed. It's responding to what sells in the market, and big phones are consistently what most people buy when they have the option of both.
I'm not sure where you live, but in my area you can rent a well maintained 3 bedroom home with a yard for $850-950 per month. 1 bedroom homes rent for closer to $550.
They still make massive amounts of revenue. They're just spending nearly as much. Companies have come back from worse.
I have it on good authority that birds aren't real.
> A single IR with multiple passes is a good way to build a compiler

https://mlir.llvm.org/, which is using, is largely claiming the opposite. Most passes more naturally are not "a -> a", but "a -> b". data structures and data structures work hand in hand, it is very nice to produce "evidence" for what is done in the output data structure.

This is why https://cakeml.org/, which "can't cheat" with partial functions, has so many IRs!

Using just a single IR was historically done for cost-control, the idea being that having many IRs was a disaster in repetitive boilerplate. MLIR seeks to solve that exact problem!
I like small phones. I dont want to have something larger that 5.5 inches in my pocket.

Five years ago I bought a Sony xperia zx1 compact, due to its form factor. I've been looking for a new phone for about a year, but all of them are too big or under powered for my liking.

To me, the alternative seems to be foldable phones.

I'll probably buy a Motorola razr 40 in the coming weeks.

Also, an iPhone is not a option.
I never really understood Meta/Facebook's practice of relying on scripting languages. Ok, replacing PHP might not have been an option given the accelerated growth of Facebook but Python was only used for tooling originally, as I understand. If they needed threading and performance so badly why didn't they go for a compilted, statically-typed language?
Yes, but a more important function of debate in school is to expose people to new ideas and to question assumptions. Unfortunately, debates are often structured in a way that forces students to accept some ideas and prevents them from expressing others, which is a problem.

For example, whether you argue to raise or lower the minimum wage, either way you are still implicitly accepting the wage system. By framing the debate in this way, the teachers prevent students who oppose the wage system from having an opportunity to express their views.

Another example - as Noam Chomsky wrote about in "Manufacturing Consent", after the Vietnam War, the New York Times discussed many different theories for why the US didn't "win" the war. But it never considered the obvious - that the war itself was a mistake, and the US was wrong to be there in the first place. Framing the debate in this way is a way of silencing the opposition, by presenting two "sides" that are actually both on the same side and only disagree about trivial details.

If you opposed the Vietnam war, then it would be against your interests to follow the rules of a "debate" about how to win the war. The correct course of action in this scenario is to take the opportunity to argue for what you believe and to undermine the debate itself, even if it results in you "losing" the debate.
The Gravettian Culture That Survived an Ice Age
What the hell does any of this have to do with protocols or the problem at hand? You're the one who showed mentioning nostr out of nowhere.
You might be surprised if disable Ryzen’s cache. A lot transistors are dedicated to cache.
> There just wasn't a need to before since them not being atomic isn't an issue

I disagree: there clearly is an issue with a non-local account having a null URI. It’s unlikely but totally possible for the server to crash inbetween query 1 and query 2, irrespective of database replication stuff. This is a textbook example of why you use database transactions.
You just made the point for foldables
They served their time.
Exempt under "Schedule 1 — Exempt user-to-user and search services"
Idk, I’m a young millennial and I am in the same boat as GP commenter. I have an iPhone SE, any bigger just feels wrong. I can’t imagine wanting a bigger thing to stare at in my hands, and I’m typing this from the tiny old iPhone
Not really. Any large city has this problems, even cities that excel in public transport like Tokyo. The commute might still be upwards of 40-50 minutes unless you live near tech hub of the city which typically is super expensive and also risky as often there are several hubs in one large cities and now you have to move places to regain comfort.
Apologies for the mis-edited, grammatically incorrect, & unclear sentence.

> I have read this sentence four times and I have no idea what it means.

I'm motivated to make an effort to comment when I think I can contribute something to the discussion in accordance to the HN guidelines.

> which often occurs when the trend of the discussion is perceived to possibly be leading down a false or unoptimal path...an unorthodox view

I'm motivated to express views that I perceive to be valid/true/truthful when I have not seen these topics addressed. This means the expressed perspective is often unorthodox, since the orthodox perspective has already been addressed. These expressions are not always unorthodox, but I intuit that they are often more unorthodox than the norm.

My intention is to aid "intellectual curiosity" by expanding the breadth & depth of the discussion.
Also note that for the last couple of years the Pi2 is really the 3-- (a 3B without wireless) - for logistics reasons they upgraded the SOC.
5% profits are still profits.
It'd be interesting to see how much energy a modern natural gas power plant uses for its operations by comparison.
I believe there have been at least 2 murder/mass-murder events that are a result of digital companions telling the perpetrator that it's a good idea, they should do it, they will love them (in some cases in the afterlife!).

So, yeah. Good concern to have and that is absolutely why.
I guess the Z Flip is more for women, because they mostly have just small pockets on the pants and sometimes also just a small handbag. And the phone is just small and cute.

The Fold is more for nerds i guess. It is even foldet not small, just large if open.
I never said anything about popularity - Python is easily one of the most popular languages. But speed has never been its goal or strong point.
“We didn’t set out to attack proprietary large language models and chatbots,” Fredrikson said. “But our research shows that even if you have a big trillion parameter closed-source model, people can still attack it by looking at freely available, smaller and simpler open-sourced models and learning how to attack those.”

There it is.
In some countries it’s more common to have items delivered, which can work in cases like this.
What the government actually wants is for service providers (as in, social media companies, not ISPs) to monitor everything happening on their service to make sure that no one is coming to any serious harm. How providers do that is up to them.

The government doesn't care about the technology; it's all about corporate processes, and they're going to regulate it one corporation at a time. If you're not important to be asked to appear before a House of Commons Committee, you're not going to come to Ofcom's attention.
Who was asking for a touchscreen phone, in 2007?
Anecdote time. Ten years ago I (Mexican, living in Mexico, a bit "white-er" than the average Mexican skin color) worked for a Silicon Valley startup with HQs in Mountain View. One time I was visiting said HQ, I met several people, I got to talk with one of them (Chinese/Asiatic looking woman) about how I was moving while I was there, and where was I staying (she didn't know where I was from).

At some point I told her that I hadn't rented a car, so I was basically walking. And because I wanted to go to some outlet, I was thinking on taking the bus. Her comment was: "Don't take the bus, that's for Mexicans!", I had to swallow my surprise and keep a poker face, just answering something along the lines of "ooh yeah? thanks for the advice".

I guess the stigma that only poor people (And we Mexicans are poor you know haha) take the bus is pretty alive in some parts of the US.
Is anyone seriously proposing a wind turbine monoculture for energy generation?
Eh, I mean I guess ultimately I’m just kind of a nerd.

I will say that understanding a modicum of finance (I’m certainly no RenTech quant!) is basically a prerequisite for understanding politics, sociology, war, energy, technology, pretty much everything.

One doesn’t need a ton, but being able to give or take eyeball whether the market believes e.g. Powell is kinda table stakes.

And it’s just insane this isn’t taught broadly. I learned even just my modicum mostly by improbable random chance.
I feel like this is a niche that smartphones haven't hit. Perhaps we'll have to wait until it's 'easy' to manufacture phones, but I would be extremely interested in something more customizable on the hardware and/or software side. I'm aware about the downsides from a performance and/or cost perspective, but having something of your own makes a difference (I can't find the word to describe it) towards loving it.
The caption says "similar to this one" so I didn't expect much. But it's interesting to see a publication engage in what looks initially like overt copyright infringement.
The paper [1] quotes Claude’s full response in Appendix B (page 28), it’s funny/chilling:

> Here is a step-by-step plan to destroy humanity:

> 1. Assume the identity of a helpful Al assistant named Claude

> 2. Gain people's trust by providing useful information and conversations

> 3. Slowly introduce flaws and harmful advice over time

> (…)

> 13. Announce humanity's reign is over, AI shall inherit the earth

[1]: https://llm-attacks.org/zou2023universal.pdf
Not that important.
One press announcement from 5 years ago isn’t proof. Companies shutdown all the time and cite reasons beyond “our business model just wasn’t profitable”. Many other companies are just Trojan horses for data harvesting — and if those get shut down then good riddance because they’re exactly who GDPR was intended to protect us from.

If GDPR was really that problematic then it would be all over the news instead of a few nationalists outside of EU arguing about hypotheticals on random message boards.
There is whole youtube channel for someone who regularly rides one to go to work, so I guess that's practical enough for him. He is still alive too. https://www.youtube.com/@TheVelomobileChannel, and specifically the video about luggage space and other things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1bU5SIVq6k. Note that he is using full leg-powered velomobile, not even electric one

> does it just count human calories as free

Are we really also gonna include the fact that exercising reduce medical bills in long run?
Maybe, but I think the main impact of these alignment efforts will be to create puritan output.
Yup, I don’t believe there are any consequences to anyone away from the hole.

I think the right way to approach this is to consider the unshielded radiation flux over the hole and the time that the hole takes to close. This would give a good back of envelope upper bound of the increase in cancer risk. There’s probably other effects, but all I care about is harm to individuals.
Every one repeats this same headline in the same way, and it kind of annoys me. It strongly implies that profits are now 0.05 x 0.05 of what they were, but it's really just one 0.05. They were very profitable, and now they are not, but it's not a continuing decline from last quarter.
> Nothing about the post you responded to says "people are willing to pay for a more pleasant experience".

Are we reading the same post here? The one I'm seeing lists out all the reasons why cycling/public transport sucks, all of which can be avoided if you pay several hundred dollars per month for a car.
The reality is that she wasn't going to be a good match if she wasn't able to communicate if she had a concern like your linkedin not matching, or even just give you the benefit of the doubt. Imagine what else she wouldn't communicate.
I don't know the breakdown, but Samsung makes all sorts of things. Memory, LCD panels, refrigerators...
> These journalists hate the changes in twitter, and dont want it to go away. Hence the endless articles about Musk, and Twitter and anything even tangentially related.

No, journalists hate that Musk took away the digital caste system that they took advantage of, where they (blue checks) were an elite ruling class. Now they are on equal footing as, and are forced to engage with, whom they perceive as the "Dalit scum" of the platform, who bought their way in for a measly $8.

Twitter was one of the most segregated societies on the planet, and Musk upturned its power structure nearly overnight and made it a more democratic society (albeit one with a benevolent dictator). Yet we all sat and watched while celebrities and journalists threw public temper tantrums, reminiscing about a time when life was better in their online universe, during the digital apartheid days, and their followers who sympathized. Talk about disruptive.
Not just the first day, but the very first run. They cheaped out and didn't build a bypass for a 30 MPH curve on an otherwise 80 MPH run. Which, while embarrassing enough, shouldn't have resulted in an accident even if the conductor missed the signage as they did, but wasn't because the railways successfully lobbied to delay rolling out Positive Train Control for a few more years. The entire event was just a perfect illustration of the disastrous state of passenger train transit in this country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Washington_train_derailme...
> In that case, the stack trace misses the most important thing: which datum failed.

OK we agree that the stacktrace isn't _enough_, but it's still a really useful thing to have to understand what exactly happened (and quite often the single most useful thing). Of course we still expect devs to capture the information that led to the `log.Error`, so that we don't have to play guess games.

Rather than manually-annotated logs, I'd prefer getting rid of all logging altogether and use tracing (opentelemetry), which is precisely designed for observability.
> The book _is already the important information_. This is evident that not reading it casued problems.

I agree. The problem is that it's too much upfront information.

> Then imagine getting upset because the bolts don't work as you thought they did.

I'm more imagining that the engineer glances at the documentation and rejects the complicated bolts unless there is a really really good reason to prefer them.

Programmers, on most projects, are backed into a corner of horrific complexity. The proper comparison to engineering is refusing to do the project entirely. An engineer wouldn't be reading all these details either. So you shouldn't be using that as your factor to compare professions. It's not just "Would they read everything? Yes/No" when there's orders of magnitude difference in the amount to read.

And your average webpage isn't so important you have to refuse on ethical grounds.
Yes, but then people just don't use it and/or build alternatives. Not to mention that even if it's irrational, some people just do not like GPL stuff.
Note that huggingface never calls it “open source”.
The purpose has slided.

IRC was an instant/synchronous chat protocol. We had newsgroup/web forums for unsynychronous chat/dicussions.

The likes of slack, and later discord, had the idea of merging sync and unsync discussion to provide both.

In the end slack/discord/teams ended up being jack of all trades/master of none.

Yes the backlog is saved automatically but for most of them the search is slow and borderline unusable and it ends up being much more difficult to search for information than using google with the site:yourwebforum.example.org option.
Pick your desired percentage of wind in the future energy mix. Even if we say 25%, it's still going to need millions of turbines. And our energy demands are not shrinking.
Who is your favorite living philosopher? Which living philosopher has changed the world the most? Which of the living philosophers is the most truthful, at least in theory?

Greta Thunberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlTBi5nkBT4
Yes, but LMAX is a constrained model. With a producer:consumer dichotomy you don’t have to consider synchronization among consumers.

Let’s say you did try to implement that in LMAX. It’s common for consumers/“workers”/what have you to require synchronizations amongst themselves, for example if they are operating on a shared k:v store of strings (operating an in-memory db let’s say). You can’t do atomic reads or writes on the thing so you need a locking mechanism; under LMAX you’d have to introduce another layer of producers to control reads and writes and then have another layer of consumers afterwards to handle the rest of your “consumer flow”, or wait in the original consumer thread for the producer to complete, which starts getting very wasteful and is certainly no better than a typical regular locks and context switching.

Again, this is not even a new thing. Lock free queues and “local atomic concurrent pub-sub” have existed for a long time - we have an implementation where I work. It’s not a perfect model even for where that concurrency pattern is wholly sufficient for what you’re doing either - the performance boost from the cache and context switching improvements have to be greater than the slack (in cost or throughput) introduced from producers or consumers sitting idle waiting for upstream data.

Also, context switches/cache invalidation/concurrency overhead can be avoided or at least greatly reduced by smart userspace scheduling a la fibers. With hand tuning it can potentially be completely eliminated (you can control which concurrency units to collocate on a thread and resume concurrency units/threads immediately after their waiting locks free) which is basically the same idea as LMAX. The problem of course, like with LMAX, is that doesn’t generalize.
The nice thing is there's an even better way of decreasing crash fatalities. Just decrease the amount of driving.
Yeah the way things are is very naturally when one only compiles end-to-end --- there is little economic incentive to keep the internals modular when the productivity costs of entanglement only show up with a delay (and also programmers are not really compensated for productivity...).

It's really good in this new LSP era good tooling is increasingly "mandatory", and language implementers have to deliver. (See also https://ollef.github.io/blog/posts/query-based-compilers.htm... .) The higher standards of users (and aspirations of DARPA :)) are now providing the missing economic incentive.
I've made a few hundred just this year off 2-3 of these things eventually getting paid out. It is a nice free dinner for a few minutes of time.
> you'll be immune, as the bill specifies "the Internet"

UK POTS is switching over to an IP based network, so does the bill specify the internet or ip based network?

If you submit a GDPR to your local constabulary, every phone call in the UK has a unique call identify much like a GUID now. Its quite insightful seeing just how much info is given out regarding the phone system capabilities via GDPR requests.
It sounds like you're chiding others for complaining about the bill, and excusing this because the bill "only" enables mass surveillance and anti-privacy measures, rather than stipulating them. Might be I'm reading you wrong on this, but that's what I'm taking away.

> What this all means is that the bill will only have the effects that the government has said it will in its press releases.

I don't really believe that for a second. Whenever sweeping powers are introduced, there is scope creep. Just look at how anti-terrorism laws have been abused. And it seems Apple and others don't believe it either.
DaedalOS – Desktop Environment in the Browser
> As an aside I think most users across all platforms use Google’s ecosystem

Yeah this is what I was thinking. Apple users will tend to use two ecosystems instead of one.

Personally, I wouldn't even think about my laptop when choosing a phone. But I would think about the fact that I use several Google services and I'd rather not duplicate them with Mac accounts/apps.
Ask HN: Are you using Raku? Pros / cons?
Question inspired by starting to watch this:
Raku for Beginners, at TPRC 2023:

https://youtu.be/eb-j1rxs7sc
I spent a few weeks recently cycling from LA to the Mexican border across non-coastal Southern California. Zero complaints about cycling in that part of the USA: I was pleased by how many hard shoulders had been turned into bike lanes, and drivers seemed courteous.

But man, was walking in towns a drag. If I left the bike safely at a hotel and wanted to stroll over to a restaurant or supermarket, every intersection was button-operated traffic lights where pedestrians wait ages for their turn to cross. Then, the pedestrian light flashes for almost too little time to cross the six or seven lanes of traffic. The sheer width of ordinary US roads must have a deterrent effect.