skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally get where you're coming from about removing certain domains from Google search. But let's take a step back for a sec and consider what this could look like in a different light. Imagine if Reddit got the axe - a site that, despite its redesign snafus and sometimes annoying mobile login walls, a lot of us here on HN still find pretty useful.

Now, I'm not blind to the fact that Reddit's user demographic has a lot in common with us HN folks, while Pinterest... well, not so much. It leans towards a non-techy crowd, with more women users. But the way I see it, if Google keeps popping Pinterest up in search results, someone out there must be finding it helpful.

Perhaps what this all boils down to is a bit of a demographic reality check, rather than a definitive statement on any one platform. And just to be clear, I'm not standing on a soapbox championing for Pinterest, but I reckon we could probably nudge Google to get a bit smarter with its algorithms.

So, what if instead of giving domains the chop, we pushed for Google to up its game on the personalization front? Like, if I'm consistently booting Pinterest from my searches with "-pinterest", Google could take the hint and drop it down the ranks for me. Wouldn't that make more sense than completely blacklisting sites that some folks might still want to use? In the end, we all win if Google gets better at tuning into our search habits, right?
I mean... the author might just assume that most readers will be aware of recent events in Southern Europe; it doesn't really seem necessary to belabour the point. The curious can look it up fairly easily.

If every news article had to go into full detail on every point that most people know anyway, they'd end up kind of ungainly. "A train is a large motorised vehicle which runs, generally on a regular schedule, on steel tracks. Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon. An alloy is..."

Beyond people who actually still deny climate change (they're still out there, though, perhaps unsurprisingly, in the developed world they're concentrated in the US, Canada, and Australia, all big fossil fuel producers... "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it"), I don't think many people would argue that it's not a _fairly significant issue_ for Southern Europe.
Ark Survival is maybe 100GB tops for download size. You’re thinking of unpacking space.

Unless something has changed in the last year, you’ll also have a lot of difficulty getting 10gbps of download speed from steam, let alone 25.
This comment makes me want to read an article focusing on how performance-per-transistor has changed over time.
We have a truly marvellous compound that this subtitle is too small to contain?
He’s right. I vividly remember conversations at Facebook of why forcing women in certain emerging markets to use their real identity for gaming profiles was a bad idea and PM stubbornly repeating the idea that it would be good for them
> Christianity has assimilated other religions and their practices, though.

And over the years Christians have persecuted many when their beliefs didn't agree with the dominant interpretation. The Romans were relatively tolerant of indigenous beliefs, as long as they didn't lead to rebellion.
Apple Watch 'particle cloud' pairing method likely revealed in new patent (2015)
Many interesting headlines.
Yeah, if you read later, he mentions that something as simple as telling your company “hey, maybe we should try using open source” is sufficient to be giving back to the community in his opinion.

“Freeloader” here really means someone like the IT guy that occasionally spins up a microservice in a Linux Docker container because that’s what he saw suggested on Reddit, but is otherwise proudly promoting his Microsoft certs on LinkedIn.
I'm from the US and I've had this same thought about American chocolate tasting like vomit. I figured I was just overly sensitive to the taste, sort of like how coffee smells like skunk sometimes.
Goofing around with Vim as a quiet "rebellion" to my professor demoing EMACs went much further than the joke I started it as - it became a gateway drug to me using the terminal for almost everything and understanding how computers work at a much lower level.

Thank you Bram for the work you put into Vim!
Do any probes publish protocols that have distinct receive or telemetry protocols? Would be cool to be able to listen in to some of the closer ones, if possible.
Goofy Program Files: fold-headers
People always compare with Netflix, but that makes no sense at all to me. Is Kagi comparable to Netflix because they are both presented to you on a digital screen? I see nothing else that makes them comparable.

Laundry detergent and breakfast cereal both come in a box in the supermarket, but it doesn't make the products comparable. A house and a car both have a door and you usually sit inside, but it doesn't make the products comparable.

Netflix is a great bargain (for those who enjoy their offerings), and I think people are shooting themselves in the foot by dismissing other great services because they've somehow tricked themselves to thinking they should be compared to Netflix only because they're offered through a digital screen.
Window Snyder, the trailblazer who helped secure the internet
It's doesn't matter, it is not acceptable. They should refund everyone if the train is more than 15 seconds late. This is something a train can do with computer control, and good maintenance. A bus is harder to be on schedule for.
"Power users" are more often than not the ones doing the all arguing. HN and Reddit are the best examples of that.

People who just buy the newer version of their favorite phone don't even care enough to argue.

Even the people who care too much about blue or green bubbles don't give a damn about which phone has more RAM or CPU, or which OS is better, or UX, or whatever. They never stop to compare.
What about just boring old vegetarian diets. (:

Here's a joke. How do you know if someone is a vegan? They'll tell you.
Would that be legal, considering they have a patent (pending) for it? Not denying it won't appear anyway just curious
I would argue that nowadays they do. Maybe not for the actual physical parts. But the running of a business (pretty much all online now), advertising and marketing, communicating with customers - email is essential. If you aren’t able to use a computer you would be left behind by the people that are.
I don't entirely understand why you need tickets for a particular train at a particular time.

Here (Israel) you get to a station, open an app that finds which station you're at and gives you an entry ticket (a QR code), you scan that ticket at the gate on the way to the platforms, and take whatever train(s) you want, and when you're at your destination station you use the app again, which creates an exit ticket and charges you according to the entry and exit stations
Sincerely saddened. Farewell Bram, and thank you for all the things you have brought to the world.
Another one that looks quite like the behavior shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Hy6F_8n58
Not at all, this is disingenuous and a misrepresentation of my comment. You obviously understands my point that railways require massively more infrastructure than air travel, and that their convenience decreases with distance though they do have capacity in their favour.
I'm really confused about responses here, feels like people just didn't read the whole article.

It's literally just a 2-month offer to make it easier for ppl to transition back to RTO (like in case they moved away and now they need to move back and find housing nearby). Google is not asking people to permanently live there.
AMD drivers are a higher priority but he also made tinygrad https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad
which is basically designed to minimize the software complexity and operations that a company like MatX needs to target. It's actually kind of a perfect complement to tinygrad.
Population advantage translates into victory in simple Darwinian analysis.

Not that I particularly agree in this case but that’s what I learned in my human nature college course.
They didn’t ask to go viral
It would help with one (out of many) problems in that field, sure. Though it would likely depend quite a bit on the nature of the superconductors we're able to produce.
Like I said in the blog post, I'd love suggestions for other things I've missed that happen when you run "hello world", _especially_ if there's a way to use a Linux spy tool to trace what exactly is happening.

Considering adding a few things that are happening in the kernel and trying to use `bpftrace` to trace them, but I need to figure out how to use bpftrace/kprobes and hunt down the relevant kernel functions.
Thank you Bram for this amazing software that gave me so pleasure in learning and mastering!
Being dead causes even less climate pollution. But that's not the point of living.
Apple seeks to bolster expertise in generative AI on mobile devices
Like the other commenter said, Matrix is very extensible, as you can just send custom events as you wish. There's also lots of emerging non-IM platforms built on top of Matrix, like collaborative whiteboards, virtual rooms, embeddable comments, etc.

With the new protocol-level performance MSCs coming around the corner, Matrix is becoming ever more appealing for all sorts of applications.
Which means that the stars will have to keep pushing to stay up to date on the latest and greatest tech that hasn't yet made its way into the AI training data.
Moonware’s AI lets airfield ground crews ditch the walkies
We have a very similar printer and I wondered if we had the same sticker. We do, but I obviously peeled it off ages ago because it was stuck randomly to the back of the printer and the USB port is already accessible. I seem to recall having to really mess about with the printer at some point as it stopped functioning with whatever HP online ink scam software it was originally running with. It now just AirPrints.
Serious hint to any Google engineers reading: just penalize those exact freaking sites, and you are half-way there in fixing your results issue. It's not AI-driven or anything, just a regexp will do.
Capitalism is the only reason they exist in the first place.

Don't confuse an entire economic system with the unique problems caused by public ownership or investing (i.e. growth at all costs). Plenty of smaller organizations would be quite happy to operate with modest profits for their owners and never scale beyond that point.
It’s that way in the Civilization tech tree, so it must be true!
I used to have unbelievable loads and then during covid I sort of forgot to look what was going on. Once I finally checked I could not believe the drop in spam attempts. This was after the war in Ukraine started so I was never sure if that was part of the drop off.

Currently what I have is a a lot of persistent attempts at email delivery or login.

If spam does get through it is usually 2 spams from the same source set on a schedule as to seem inconspicuous.

Has been my experience.
It's a step in the right direction, but the dairy industry takes a huge toll on the environment all on its own.
I find it harmful that you think that this is snobbery.
Thank you Bram.

Thank you for your humanitarian efforts, your generosity, and of course your genius. It is because of these traits that your loss, though I never knew you personally, hits so hard. RIP.

:wq!
Vim and its descendant modes in other editors has drastically improved my life, which maybe is a weird thing to say about a text editor but it's true. I am very sorry to hear of his passing.
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I know what the words mean.
> It’s called “aspirational luxury”. Even PhD students who could solder together a laptop with parts off Alibaba still want a MBP because, you know: sex.

It's really not though, for me. I resisted going Mac for many years, to my personal detriment. I finally threw in the towel during a business trip where my current Thinkpad was getting less than 2.5hrs per charge, while the MBP I picked up at Best Buy lasted 12+.

I haven't looked back for laptops ever since, and w/ the M2 the gap is growing even more.

The form factor is far and away a secondary consideration these days to it simply being useful as a tool. Perhaps the windows laptop ecosystem has caught up since - but Apple would have to fuck up for me to consider it a priority worth spending the time on switching again. A $1,000 "apple tax" every 3-5 years when I need a new one is money well spent to avoid such things.

Mobile devices are similar. I'm still on Android, but just barely. The ecosystem continues to get worse in my opinion, and a lot of the benefits of "open" are slowly being eroded into a shittier version of the Apple walled garden.

For me, personally, I'd be in the market for Apple devices that are "skinned" to look like they are not Apple devices. I actually hate bringing my Macbook out with me since it makes you stand out as a target for theft in some areas. I use them because they simply get the job done better for me, and my daily computing is no longer a hobby I enjoy tinkering around with.
Lessons learned from integrating with GPT in production
Lots of other countries have it, but they call it 'corruption'.
Actual paper, open-access: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w. Figures 2 and 3 are what you're after
I think you‘re missing a few things:

1. Not everything is stuff. You can book a flight for 5000 Euros to the other end of the world.

2. Not all prices are the best. You might overpay significantly for said flight in order to not have to think about finding a cheaper one. Same for everything else, such as grocery shopping.

3. Housing. It‘s easy to imagine someone buying a house for 5 million. Depending on the location this may not even buy an _extremely_ fancy house. If you don‘t like debt and want to pay it down in 10 years then 900k (and what really remains of that? 400k?) might be useful. Even if you don‘t care about „stuff“.

Maybe all you care about is not having to care about it.
Then you don't know what you're talking about, so I will end the conversation here to preserve my sanity. Good day sir.
Trains should be show up and go. Always plenty of roomroom for whoever wants to get on always one low price.

The ecconomics of trains are not like airplanes, airplanes need to be full, trains do not
Latency of fiber vs copper isn’t a thing you will notice within any cities. The latency you are probably thinking of is related to shared mediums and having to wait to transmit (e.g. DOCSIS).
I love my own little "devops" toolkit to get this on google cloud and all for free if you stay in their free tier:

https://many.pw/hosting

You get a 30GB hard drive, 1GB ram, and two AMD EPYC 7B12 2250 MHz processors. That's enough to run a nice little site with plently of traffic.

To keep uptime during deploys it runs a reverse proxy to port 3000 and 3001 and switch between them each deploy.
Good telemetry is an absolute game changer to be fair.

The annoying thing about OpenTelemetry is just how underbaked/rudimentary it is, and how opinionated the implementations are.

For C#, I consider Microsoft's Application Insights to be the gold standard. You get per request tracing, stack traces, hot paths, dependency operations etc. with absolutely no setup on your part.

I was looking for an alternative since my current place is on AWS and OpenTelemetry seemed like a flexible, Terraform-like alternative to the platform specific SDKs.

It's not that simple though... AWS doesn't provide any direct sinks to their services, instead you must send it to a collector running in a sidecar container, or if it's a lambda: create a custom layer.

X-Ray's surfacing of the traces sucks as well. It'll only show traces in 6 hour ranges. Hopping between 5 different products trying to find the right metric is not an enjoyable experience.
Have been using Vim for years since college. It helps me and teaches me a lot.
Thank you, Bram. RIP.
Sure thing: by not putting you through the rest of the interviewing process that takes 5 more hours :)
I'm not sure how it works, but this was the first result:

> Patents are territorial and must be filed in each country where protection is sought.

[0] https://www.stopfakes.gov/article?id=Is-My-US-Patent-Good-in...
Unspecified currency
It reads to me same as xereeto said. That's why I asked. Maybe think about that? Do you have some difficulty in interactions?
Multitasking is tricky because the stack pointer is hard-coded to use page 1. it could be moved first on the 65EC02 and on the 16-bit 65C816.

In a code density comparison, the 6502 is as bad as some RISC processors where instructions are four bytes instead of one. <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224114307_Code_dens...>

But it was fast, with the smallest instructions taking 2 cycles (one to read the op-code, one to execute). A 1 MHz 6502 is considered on par with a 3.5 MHz Z80, overall.
Ugh. Just a tiny bit of googling would have informed the Polish people that قَهْوَة‎ (qahwa) is the Arabic word for coffee.
it’s bullshit. Facebook comments are no different from youtube.
If riders have to make an appointment it’s easier to plan capacity. But if it’s too inconvenient people might drive an automobile instead. There’s a trade off between the system having to be flexible and the rider having to be flexible.
> Hyun Tak Kim has about 10k citations (Google scholar, which sometimes combines people who have the same name though) and authored a paper in scientific reports which got L&K interested in collaborating with him.

It appears he was a latecomer to the project, mostly borrowing his reputation to the trio of anonymous, non anglosphere native original authors.
An industry in decline: the last gasp of a Big Aroma Therapy.
For an idea in that vein (many 6502's on a die), look at (the sadly defunct) Epiphany, in the Parallela [1] (the buy links are still there but I doubt any are still available).

I have two, and they're fun little toys and I wish they'd have gotten further, with the caveat that actually making use of them in a way that'd be better than just resorting to a GPU is hard.

The 16-core Epiphany[2] in the Parallella is too small, but they were hoping for 1k or 4k core version.

I'm saying it's a similar idea because the Epiphany cores had 32KB on-die RAM per core, and a predictable "single cycle per core traversed" (I think, not checked the docs in years) cost of accessing RAM on the other cores, arranged in a grid. Each core is very simple, though still nowhere near the simplicity of a 6502 (they're 32 bit, w/with a much more "complete" modern instruction set)

The challenge is finding a problem that 1) decomposes well enough to benefit from many cores despite low RAM per core (if you need to keep hitting main system memory or neighbouring core RAM, you lose performance fast), 2) does ot decompose well into SIMD style processing where a modern GPU would make mincemeat of it, and 3) is worth the hassle of figuring out how to fit your problem into the memory constraints.

I don't know if this is an idea that will ever work - I suspect the problem set where they could potentially compete is too small, but I really wish we'd see more weird hardware attempt like this anyway.

[1] https://parallella.org/

[2] https://www.adapteva.com/docs/e16g301_datasheet.pdf
Saturated with what? Real life use cases aren’t just copying the same files back and forth.
I think that homo sapiens was happiest in the hunter gatherer era, right before we've started to think more and more in abstract and conscious ways. Sure, it's cool we can fly humans to the Moon and robots to Mars, but everybody is miserable in the capitalist hamster wheel and an increasing number of people are getting depressed and committing suicide.

The other day I was at the lake and looking at ducks, contemplating this. Is a duck really less happy than an average human? Sure, they can't buy fancy iPhones and might get eaten tomorrow, but it's all relative anyways, right?

And before you start suggesting that I'm depressed: I'm not, I have been lucky. I have a happy life, great job, great friends and family. But still, one can't stop and wonder about these things...
OT but why do I need to press "enable this playback" and reload the page to view the clip? What does it do?
What do you mean "what about?" them? Can you post a video of any of those that don't jiggle when poked?
already decades ago germany and i don't know which other countries started charging more for these flexible tickets and you could get cheaper tickets if you booked a particular train in advance. i suppose the advantage is that by committing to a particular train it is easier to predict which trains will be full, and potentially even do something about it like adding a car to fit more passengers.

as far as i know, this only applies to long distance trains and not to regional trains. israel is a small country so all trains are more comparable to regional trains.

selling such a ticket right before getting on the train of course doesn't make any sense.
A password that simple is also going to get cracked really quickly if an attacker steals the hash.
>I am not sure we are making good use of all that hardware yet.
Dunno, working out the color of 8 million pixels every 6ms seems pretty good to me
So sad to hear. Vim got me hooked on programming. It's truly a revolutionary editor, and now has been adopted and improved by so many others. Bram really touched so many people through Vim. Thank you for your immense contribution to computer science. RIP.
Yes, if you buy an Android phone without an industry standard headphone jack, you have to deal with the same problems as an iPhone. Or you can select a phone where it's simple.

Lightning and USB-C headphones and adapters exist, of course, but it's easier to have one set of headphones that works for everything except the gameboy advance (nintendo learned and went back to 3.5mm), and has an adapter taped to the receiver if you want to plug into your receiver.
You'd probably want to add at least a small cache, sure. Putting the zero page (256 bytes) on-die on each core (because it's typically used as "extra registers" of sort in 6502 code) plus a small additional instruction cache could do wonders. But you probably still wouldn't get anywhere near enough performance for it to be competitive with a more complex modern architecture.

It'd be a fun experiment to see someone do in an FPGA, though.
https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/ This was posted to HN recently and has the answer you asked for better written up the I can write here.
"Rent seeking" has an existing meaning that has little overlap with general enshitification.

To be a "rent seeking" business is to be a business that is dependent on handouts made from the government with the taxpayers' money, with a business model that is otherwise less competitive, or uncompetitive altogether.

For example, see: every single business operated by Elon Musk post-Paypal.
Does anyone know if this data is available in a structured format for the regions? E.g. geojson? It would be really cool to transform this into an interactive map on top of an OSM base map to make it easier to use.

It looks like all the boundaries are part of an <area> tag, so I could reverse-engineer them back into coordinates, but that seems a bit awkward.
How many of us will be remembered like this? Not too many, I imagine. I'm teaching my 8 year old daughter to use VIM. As an African, what he has done puts me to shame.
Few contribute so meaningfully to the world through software as Bram did. I donated an amount as if I were purchasing vim as an expensive commercial text editor.

For most death announcements on HN, I have to look up who they were. Not this one. I greatly appreciate his work and contributions to the world.
Most cloud services have SLAs of 99.99 themselves, so it's not entirely realistic to go higher than that.

The good news is that you probably don't need 99.99. Read "Embracing Risk": https://sre.google/sre-book/embracing-risk/