skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course there's some sour grapes in Nature's article, as arxiv.org has had the best exposure it's likely to get in years. The more that publish there, the fewer who publish behind firewalls, etc. For starters, Nature's reprints are hellishly expensive.
I am working on a book. An un-edited draft is available at CodeIsForHumans.com
the primacy of doubt by Tim palmer (2023)

Do you have a favorite book about complex adaptive systems?
Good to see more in the compression offload space. Several years ago we ended up running a custom gzip softcore on an FPGA (I believe) co-located on a NIC to get somewhat better gzip compression performance than software. (We were pretty short on PCIe physical capacity in that model.)

Dealing with the gzip core vendor and the FPGA vendor (both in wildly different timezones) was a little unpleasant.
Thanks! They are the result of a lot experimentation and iteration.
Yes. This just began today, even though I've had watch history off for a long time, such a long time that I don't recall turning it off.

Out of curiosity, I briefly turned watch history back on and "Home" (the YouTube page that shows a mix of content you've viewed and content YT hopes you will view) returned to normal. Then I switched it back off, reloaded "Home" and got a blank page with a plea to enable watch history.

It seems as though YouTube tracks and records users' activity on the site regardless of whether or not they assent to having their watch history recorded, but wants users to explicitly assent to being tracked and having their activity recorded before YT will provide their (marginally useful in my experience) 'personalized recommendations'.
The adage is that you can either moderate a community or you can be a very active participant in the community, but really you shouldn't be both.

Thank your local admins.
Why spend $70?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/195922683631?
Bioaccumulation is a good point, but then its just the question of dosage viewed over time.

Agree with long-term effects - this is really hard. The precautionary principle is dangerous in that you could justify the most draconian COVID measures like lockdowns with them, which in hindsight were unwarranted and unprecedented over-reach, having no positive effect at all.

I don’t think there is a recipe that can be easily followed, you have to have very good people, both intellectually and ethically, and even then its still hard.
I trace tolerance in general back to the religious tolerance introduced by the Peace of Westphalia, and the centuries of religious war that preceded it. It obviously goes much further back, but that's the archetypical example for me.

Seen in this light, tolerance is somewhere between symbiosis and mutually assured destruction, and much less wishy-washy than everyone thinks it is.
Very interesting suggestion! I must however point out that near monitoring of bees should not be based on wireless tech. There are now numerous studies showing that bees exhibit avoidance reactions to active phone and WiFi signals (think: colony collapse, hive abandonment). Probably an effect mediated via their high magnetic field sensitivity. For starters, see: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13592-011-001...
The new movie you're thinking of is based on Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
This. Ideally we'd have jitted python loops be efficient. I love array syntax for simple examples but for more complex ops a loop is often clearer.
Hi, I've been skimming over your book. There might be a typo under [1], where you write: "An HTTP response to this htmx-driven request might look something like this", but then the next figure's header is "JSON"

Also, I love your username!

[1] https://hypermedia.systems/hypermedia-reintroduction/#_hyper...
There were iPaqs with GPRS/EDGE/3G they just weren't very nice to use.
As I understand it https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric provides an abstraction at least over the network divide.
Like any logical fallacy, the slippery slope is about the general validity of a logical inference - and not about the truth of its conclusion.

The slippery slope fallacy argues that "if X happens, then eventually Y will happen as well", where Y is a more extreme version of X. This is not a valid logical inference.

That doesn't mean that there are never cases where X actually leads to Y. Just as calling out "appeal to authority" doesn't mean that an expert isn't often right, or just as "correlation is not causation" doesn't imply that correlation is never causation.
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, the installation process is a bit barebones at the moment, a pip install would be a lot cleaner.

As far as the wiki link, it's a reference for the code sample I use in the demo.
Experimentation at Spotify: Three Lessons for Maximizing Impact in Innovation
This is the James Damore argument - tech is overwhelmingly culturally progressive and actually intolerant to views which dissent from this. Since GPT uses RLHF, culturally left responses would be the expected result. Furthermore, as GAI ends up training on more data, including those generated by other AI's, we can expect this them to become increasingly progressive over time.
> saying he cant, and I quote directly, "spending another $100, $200, $300, or even $500 of several employees” time' to do proper testing?

I have no idea on that one. I usually think he does an ok job of considering both sides of an argument, but he really seemed to hate that block which is a bit odd considering a lot of their content is based on impractical things.

> funny, because just yesterday Linus posted that they _wont change a thing_.

I wouldn’t consider that shocking. If you’re him and think you’ve already set things on the best path for improvement, would you change course after one video from someone you may not have a great relationship with?

> What you watched today was pure C level PR damage control.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if they consult with a PR firm at this point. Regardless, if you’re personally invested in the way everything works, because you built it, and suddenly realize a large chunk of your audience agrees with the recent criticism you’ve dismissed, what would you do? You either double down, which is a huge mistake, or you back off and promise to reevaluate your position, which is seen as “PR damage control”. There’s no easy option that suddenly makes everything ok.

The main thing I thought was good about the video was involving everyone that has input on how things work and what can be improved. I thought it did a good job of reminding the viewer that LMG isn’t just Linus and that the structure isn’t as simple as having one cross domain (tech / entertainment) expert with a full view of everything that happens.

When I called the Lab “cool” all I really meant is that I like the goal of ramping up consumer focused testing. We’ve had a decade long lull in that area and I’d like to see things ramp back up to what it was like when reviewers would torture SSDs until they died. I don’t see any value in rooting against anyone getting into that space, including LMG. I hope they improve the quality of their reviews and get back on track.
> How do people get work done with Windows 11?

If you just want answers to your technical problems that should be your question. Better still use Stack Overflow. To me HN is a discussion forum.
price is coming down fast and coupled with density it is becoming a realistic option

it's already possible to get a 2.5 ssd with 8tb for $350
Also reminds me of the GTA online case.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339
It doesn't matter what humans do or do not do. Human performance as a benchmark is not a useful metric for what machines should or should not do.
Looks nice! I made one of these, but with drum machine samples instead, back when <audio> elements were the new shiny thing.

You might want to look into adding a DynamicsCompressorNode near the end of your web audio stack; it should help with the clipping issues you're getting whenever there's polyphony going on.
Show HN: Qoda Finance
Decentralized lending and borrowing orderbook exchange on Arbitrum.
Sidebar recs are there, but YouTube injected a plea to turn watch history back on, an oversized block with the header "Recommendations not quite right?", followed by "When you turn on watch history you'll get more personalized recommendations." and two buttons: "Leave history off" and "Turn on history". That notification had an "X" at the top right corner to close/hide it, but the "Got it, we won't show you this hint again." message that showed when I opted not to enable watch history had no way to close or hide it.
This is beautiful. I might start using this!
Based on the other comments, it sounds more like emacs supports XDG if you want it to, but still defaults to ~/.emacs if you don't explicitly set up an XDG environment for it. Distributions may choose to do so, but I don't think compiling from source does.
You can technically read it that way, but that's not how I think most native speakers would read it.
>Montana needs to adapt to the 21st century

https://www.iea.org/news/the-world-needs-more-diverse-solar-...

"China’s share in all the key manufacturing stages of solar panels exceeds 80% today, according to the report, and for key elements including polysilicon and wafers, this is set to rise to more than 95% in the coming years, based on current manufacturing capacity under construction."

Given the current state of US-Chinese politics, coal is seeming like a very 21st century solution for the US.
My kindergarten teacher never told me to fuck off to Reddit.
Midomi.com is another service tailored to identify your renditions of a song.
That Reddit discussion reads like a long-form strawman.

I mean, you do not refute the statement that "Teresa ran hospitals like prisons, particularly cruel and unhygienic prisons at that" by answering "oh they were not hospitals, just homes where the dying and destitute were housed without care".

You also do not refute the accusation that "mother Teresa withheld painkillers from the dying with the intent of making them suffer" by claiming that they didn't died on the street and those who did not died could eat a good meal and leave, or claiming that other hospitals on India were also not clean.

I stopped reading that nonsense. It is a wall of text where none of Hitchen's observations were refuted or addressed.
> This list looks like it was written by people who are not paying for anything, so they don't understand the TRADEOFFS, costs and compromises.

That's the important word there (emphasis mine). I'm doing an MVP now for a client for a custom app (used internally by that client, i.e. only employers are users), and my recommendation for security is "I'll use a simple XOR symmetric stream cipher for now. We can switch to TLS[1] if the system turns out to be useful".

Yeah, cut corners on other things as well - they just want to see how viable this thing is in practice.

[1] While TLS is nice, certificate management becomes a pain in the rear for remote devices.
As a millennial, watching gen xers age has been a source of fascination to me. It was hard to imagine the cool apthetic kids could grow old but they somehow did whilst staying cool and themselves for the most part.

When boomers became reagan voting nimbys you'd think the gen x would become grubby self important dicks themselves but every gen x Ive run into in real life is ironic and self effacing as they were when I was a babe but are now 50
Ruby parallelism with request-based server apps probably works the same as other managed languages with single threaded runtimes (eg v8, Python) - you run multiple server processes. Requests are independent so its's an "embarassingly parallel" problem without need for communication between threads of execution.
We had an client side pastebin called 0bin.net

Recently, the last CP addict idiot basically killed us. We always remove those posts when we get a report (we can't see them by our-self, that's the point), but we were swamped by other things, and we didn't catch this one in time. It's a free volunteer project after all.

Our host took down our server and our backup server. We didn't have an offline backup because it makes taking down bad content more work.

We are still struggling to go back up.

This is why you can't have nice things.

(and also, don't host your backup server with the same host)
If everyone is "bad" the term losing its meaning.

You could argue that with more power people will mess up more in absolute terms. If you are powerfully enough small misteps could crush people.
most people err on the other side of the extreme by being too conservative limiting their potential based on the wrong belief that all successes are due to luck and they can't do anything about it.

Most people woule benefit by being more optimistic and taking more risks. In the modern world, most risks won't destroy you. But you will live a very mediocre life if you believe you dont have much control over external outcome or your own success
I'm basically a cheapskate and paid $80 for 4x 2tb HDD and they've hit $120 as reputable SSD and stuck. I keep hoping they'll drop lower but I need SATA form factor and I fear they will only drop in m.2 form now, SATA is dying. SATA to m.2 carrier boards are $20
For weight do diet. Gym is for muscle mass and cardiovascular health. Just do a low-carb diet in the vr.
Yeah, the domain administrator runs it as a joke.
Sorry, why does one special ed student require 100K / year? That is insane, it's literally twice the median income of an adult in the U.S.
> for some book about something I am not interesting about

It is not about motorcycles. You could read the title instead as about maintenance.

If a mountain leads an author to think about height, the book may not be about alpinism.
"The original authors were sloppy and overeager, not malicious"

Reckon so, but if they believed they were on the brink of a great discovery and thought they could be beaten to it at any moment, then it's understandable.
their tablegen still munges the trees manually. a proper tablegen would give easy to write lhs -> rhs tree rules, and doesn"t allow shooting yourself into your foot.
see proper lisp/scheme matchers. even the gimple matcher hack is far better

see eg. https://github.com/j2kun/mlir-tutorial/blob/92723e224c1a6e8c...
Most prsistent files should never be cleaned on uninstall, you don't know why they're uninstalling, it could just be a reinstall to fix something. Configuration might not need cleanup either.

Temporary files often shouldn't exist. If it's less that a few megabytes why is it touching disk unless it will be needed persistently? In any case the detritus doesn't matter, if it's big enough to care I'll see the disk space is low and find it with baobab at some point.

It's not perfect, but it's not a major nightmare.

For my part, I don't always follow XDG specs, I often just create ~/AppName, but sometimes I'll make more than one to keep features within one app separate. I put IP cam recordings in ~/NVR by default, and stuff like that, because the main app dir is all stuff you would backup and restore, which probably doesn't include NVR recordings for a home user.
This is a great article, love the deep breakdown and use of the charts
We are in agreement then - the dose makes the poison, and animals reacting much more sensitively than humans doesn’t mean we can’t safely consume something, since at some point, everything is a poison, be it water or oxygen.
All those "peer review must die and be replaced by a Twitter mob" comments sound even more stupid now, and yet it will be the same thing next round.

This is leaving a really unpleasant aftertaste for me, seeing how dismissive this community got about the opinion and work of people with actual expertise, based mostly on repeating memes picked up from social media.
That's true of many companies at scale though. :-)

Some of the work on Ruby and Rails that Shopify and Github have produced is available to the community as well.

For instance: https://github.blog/2022-08-25-introducing-trilogy-a-new-dat...

Facebook heavily use, or did use, PHP dont they?

IIRC the Threads backend is Python as well. Which seems to be doing OK!
The main thing to realize is that people may take a really short time to look over a resume, maybe a couple of minutes max. So any project you've worked on, needs to be accessible right away so they can check it - in effect you need to quickly spoon feed them something that shows your capabilities.

So, what not to do - provide some 50-slide online project presentation with a complex summary description.

In the absence of professional experience, what I'd suggest is to build some impressive ML/AI projects, ideally something with a running data pipeline in the background, and put them up online along with their source code. Something like this (below) would really catch my eye on any resume, and would definitely generate some click-throughs and interest. If you could then go on to explain how you single-handedly built out the data pipeline, handled and parsed LARGE volumes of data and what you used to generate the output that would be a great step.

You could even game it, by doing a later public analysis of all the click-throughs and interactions, which would be really impressive.

"May - Aug. 2023 - Built out MyStockForecast.com, which delivers a daily forecast for 500 tech stocks using an XGBoost model, and a continued retrospective analysis.

Url: MyStockForecast.com
Repo: GitHub/blah/MyStockForecast
"
Seems like a semantic argument. Sure it might not be a cartel in the precise definition of the word meaning competitors colluding, but call it a gang if you like.
"So you're saying there's a chance?"... What you say is not incorrect, proving a negative here beyond all other possibility is hard. But I feel like for the lay person like me (us?), this matter should be considered resolved now. There's no point stretching hope and spending energy to follow it further.
I don't think IPs are banned outright, but they lose the right to edit without an account. I think my mobile provider uses CGNAT and I can't edit anonymously on cellular.
State management is done in whatever day your backend does it. HTMX is mostly concerned with sending requests to the backend and shoving the HTML response in the right place in the DOM
I’ve been building an app that lets you convert rough notes into articles that match your writing style. The app is called PenPersona, here’s the landing page: https://beta.penpersona.com and here’s the app https://app.penpersona.com

The idea is to remove friction in the writing process. I’ve always wanted to be more regular with my writing, and I have a long list of topics I want to write about with notes on quite a few. I have content, converting those rough notes into blog posts is a time consuming process. I can get GPT to rewrite the notes but it’ll not preserve my writing style and will stand out as AI generated content even though it’s not.

PenPersona is able to look at samples of your writing, generate a “persona” from those samples, and then apply it to notes to convert them into articles matching the style from those samples.

While working on this I’ve seen many similar apps which gives me reassurance that it’s a real problem, but I’m not sure I want to enter a crowded market and the product feels more like a feature rather than a full product to me.
And Twitter is at the mercy of Musk. If he blocks access to the public that chooses not to join then the problem is not Nitter. If X is going to be members-only like the Meta clone then I hope folks will stop submitting tweets to HN.
Chinese CEO: China is 5 gen behind in chip manufacturing due to US sanctions
Diaspora [0] by Greg Egan. A fun dive into post-human civilization published in late ‘90s. Great read if you like hard sci-fi.

Tao of Wu [1] by RZA. Because, perspective.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Wu
How tourists are ruining the world’s greatest destinations
As someone who was briefly a member pre-covid, I saw/see huge potential for the resistance + game system they developed. I got fit and had fun doing so rather than feeling grumpy. With an ever-developing game world, I would pay thousands to have a home system…

But Apple Vision Pro apps + dumbbells might be all I will need before too long.

It’s amusing to read the confident armchair critiques in the comments. Comments stay commenting.
What practical lessons did you take from these books?
It seems obvious to me that running red lights has more severe risks than people stopping more abruptly at yellow lights. And since it's not illegal to slow down for a yellow light, but it is to tailgate someone, well... just don't do that, then.

There are plenty of ways to make it more obvious how long the yellow light will last and whether you can make it through before it turns red. The all-red grace period that wiki article mentions also makes sense to me.

I would say it is better to trade red-light-running collisions for yellow-light-stopping collisions. Just because you can't eliminate all collisions doesn't mean you do nothing. That's letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Coming from software engineer, pharmacy tech salaries are a pittance. $30-50k tops.
A bionic reader for fast reading within a terminal console
AI Apocalypse: There's Too Much VC Money Going to AI Doomers
https://archive.ph/PGrbh
VHS was the better format, actually.
How is it 5x faster than Tailscale when Tailscale also runs on Wireguard?
Agreed, even if you sign an NDA, I think that you can realistically communicate that "I was misrepresented the truth" to other employers and they would understand
Ok, so my memory is a little foggy. Looks like the laser one didn't come out until 2000, but the hockey puck was USB at least!
When I visit the link I see:

> for enterprise-ready products and services

Are we seeing something different?
I am currently going through the book about Oppenheimer, the one they based the movie on (https://www.amazon.in/American-Prometheus-Triumph-Tragedy-Op...). I am listening to via Audible and it really gives some fascinating insight into the troubled man's life, much more than the movie did.
Double Cross is the story of how the British turned, relied on and managed German double agents through World War Two.

Not spoiling anything when I say that reading about one person running a fictitious group of spies across the UK from a flat in London, feeding thousands of pages of fake intelligence to the Germans amazes me. The creativity and mental capacity to stay on top of all those lies is astounding.

Oh and Expeditionary Force for some fun, slightly thought provoking space opera sci fi, first book is on Audible Plus so you can get into it without using a credit.
It's probably due to unfortunate naming of things.

First, NP doesn't mean "non polynomial", though people can imply that since there are no known polynomial solvers for NP-complete problems. It's a shorthand for "nondeterministic polynomial", but that naming is not intuitive either. It's a class of problems that has polynomial verifiers of solutions.

Second, NP-hard means the problem is either NP-complete or not in NP at all. Which is another confusing naming, because problems not in NP are NP-hard.

As a saying goes, there are two main problems in programming - naming things and cache invalidation. And in this case the former fails badly.
Is only a single packet being sent or something?
Modern education is already rotten with extrinsic motivations and you wanna add money in? Those extrinsic motivations are primarily mediated by the parents, imagine the impacts with 1-2K (or even less)
This might be the first YouTube video I’ve ever actually upvoted. No bullshit, no filler, under 1 minute with all the information shared. Bravo.