skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are making weird moral judgements about desktop app frameworks. There is nothing wrong with Electron, there is no "regression". There is a reason why you're losing this battle, and it's because for many devs developing small apps, Electron is easier. That's it.

What I really can't understand is how people get so heated about tech stack choices like this. We're not talking about civil engineering, we're talking about an ffmpeg wrapper. Electron is just a means to an end. If your alternatives were better at what devs and users cared about, they'd be more popular. Clearly that isn't the case.

You should be excited that frameworks like Electron allow more devs to make powerful tools accessible to the public so quickly. This is what open source is all about!
It is clear that they want a "dev environment on a Mac". They don't have to be necessarily developing for Mac.

I don't develop for Mac yet I prefer a Macbook.
The correct market to sell stuff changes too quickly for that to work. And sometimes older people don't even know what markets exist. My father collects some things but has never ever used ebay for example. Plenty of collections might be valuable internationally but not valued locally.

Also in my experience the best collections are for the love of it - collectors often don't care about the value and often don't even know the value. They might care about rareness or uniqueness but not $$$ directly.

Also the value of many collections is unknown until far in the future.
The New Swiss Passport
Well...It does, but it is extremely unintuitive and downright painful to use on mobile.

You need to click on the slider for the year and it will jump around the years; pick something semi close to what you want -or- waste a lot of time getting it exact.

Then click on the map, it will put a pin somewhere (not where you clicked, but somewhere sorta close - within a few thousand miles), but the second click should be exactly where you click (you can safely scroll after that first click).

Then click some white space. Then scroll down, below the previous bottom (where the year selector bar was) and you'll find a submission button you need to click.

After it tells you that you were off by a few years (that you would have gotten had the inputs been more mobile-friendly) and that your distance was closer (but still pretty far off because the resolution on the map is really hard to manage on the mobile text-related zoom-levels), you can click to button (at the bottom) to go to the nest round.

Do this enough and the game ends with a fairly readable score screen.

Or in other words, yeah...broken on mobile.
I think you (and most of the other commenters in this thread) misunderstand the perspective of the author. This is a tool meant to do static analysis of a C codebase. Their job is not to actually follow the standard, but identify what “common C” actually looks like. This is not the same as standard C.

There are a lot of things compilers do not optimize on even though they are technically illegal. As a result, people write code that relies on these kinds of manipulations. No, this is not your standard complaint about undefined behavior being the work of the devil, this is code that in certain places pushes the boundaries of what the compiler silently guarantees. The author’s job is to identify this, not what the standard says, because a tool that rejects any code that’s not entirely standards compliant is generally useless for any nontrivial codebase.
You're missing the point. Knowledge is a physical arrangement of neurons. If there are a finite amount of atoms, there's a finite arrangement of atoms. Neurons are made from atoms.

The fact that such a limit obviously exists contradicts the notion of infinite growth, regardless of how large that limit appears. The power of exponentiation ensures that this limit is practically within reach.

If the premise of infinite growth is wrong, then we should be thinking of alternatives sooner rather than later. That was my takeaway from the article.
Broken on Firefox Windows.
LLMs will radically accelerate power consumption growth, given the extreme processing power they require compared to traditional apps.

It'll probably go to 10% in 2 decades if unchecked. The IEA analysis is completely outdated because it was made pre ChatGPT (As evidenced by the many references to crypto, which is no longer relevant).

Granted, its very easy to boost power efficiency in data centers, given the high margins and low pollution, so the industry is putting huge efforts into restraining power consumption in data centers.
Exactly. It's the configuration of the atoms, not their number, that matters.
Graphic Design in the Middle Ages
What solution can you think of that doesn’t involve breaking any existing websites?

Look, I don’t like how complex web browsers are any more than you do. But it’s the situation we’re in today.
What you’re saying and what the blog post is implying are different things. This is an admission that GCC optimizes on this behavior in practice. Your claim is that GCC could optimize on this, which is a much less interesting claim.
> I was honestly prepared to "upgrade" to Debian at the next opportunity.

Had the same thought as of recently. Debian + KDE. At the end of the day one can just install whatever they need and WMs are distro agnostic anyway.

Having said that i think should go ahead and test run ubuntu for a while see how it feels.
Anaphoric Structure Emerges Between Neural Networks
> but if it's a matter of survival

What is threatening your survival that you feel you need to live underground?
30 mi from epicenter and got a google alert before the very mild shake. More tripped out about the pre-alert and how cool that was than the quake.
No one needs to have been in a cult to discuss this article, and frankly it has nothing to do with cults. Mass movements are different than cults - you are the one who said otherwise and it’s on you to prove your point (not on me to divine the relevant experience of your life).
I know the author. Your guess here is wrong.
I have fond memories of three player coop on a single keyboard - possible as long as at most one player was running.

The music was always a strong point, especially that it was typically at most four voices at once due to the file format used.
Or rather, an ideology doesn't operate in service to the individuals who hold it, but in service to itself. So rather than scratching our heads about how an older women could possibly be a rival to the baker, or the town leader, it makes more sense to look at how she might be a rival to the overall belief system of the community, especially in situations where a new belief system (e.g. Christianity) has displaced an older belief system (e.g. paganism, animism, etc).
Such a simple but awesome game. The level editor was hours of fun. And the best part, it worked on all my friends computers, no matter how cheap or old they were!
Which brand of CL (Contact Lens) did they use for the limbal stem cell delivery?

From "Sight for sore eyes" (2009) https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/sight-sore-eyes :

"A contact lens-based technique for expansion and transplantation of autologous epithelial progenitors for ocular surface reconstruction" (2009) http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/TP.0b013e3181a4bbf2

In this study, they found that only one brand (Bausch and Lomb IIRC) of contact lens worked well as a scaffold for the SC

"Contact lens delivery of stem cells for restoring the ocular surface." (2016) https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=Con...

List of soft contact lens materials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_soft_contact_lens_mate... ; Hydrogels
It’s not uncommon for triathlon athletes to not be very good swimmers.

It’s a sport that many get into later in life, not everyone has equal access to pools, and swimming in open water is much harder and scarier than swimming in a pool.

And those rocks look sharp. I would not want to be dashed against them.

I have done a (sprint distance) triathlon in conditions that were similar to this. I don’t know what happened in this race but in that one something like eight people had to be rescued from the water. I was also surprised that the swimming leg wasn’t canceled in that race.

However, I didn’t personally have any trouble swimming in those conditions, as someone who swam competitively all through middle and high school and can swim 3+ miles in the pool without trouble.

I think what makes swimming in triathlons so dangerous is that there is a wide range of swimming skill levels, and conditions that are reasonable for advanced swimmers can be deadly for newer ones. But organizers don’t want to cancel an expensive event that people have traveled internationally to compete in over weather conditions that are reasonable for prepared athletes.

I have also done a half Ironman and I think it is at that weird middle distance where people sign up for it with big plans to train aggressively, fall behind on their training, and then attempt it anyway and end up not finishing. Unfortunately, with the swimming component, under-preparation can be deadly.
The post makes a case for a radically expanded future as a possibility we can't seriously ignore -- that a "business as usual" future doesn't make sense. Your objection is that you don't expect stagnation. Neither does the writer!
I avoided eBay for years due to horror stories online. Then I had some junk I wanted to sell for a token amount where I didn’t mind a chance of losing some of the money.

A couple hundred sales later and I’ve only had one problem. eBay sided with me on it, to my surprise.

Maybe don’t list one-off priceless family heirlooms on eBay, but it’s actually quite good for moving a lot of random products in my experience.
That depends on which vector instructions you use.
https://www.youtube.com/@Numberblocks/about
Holy crap, I spent way too much time trying to type text or figure out why it changed state when you clicked on it.
In a lot of cases rent control doesn’t even apply to new housing, and even where it might it’s effectively a declaration that profit is allowed on volume more than margins, so it’s pro-density.

You can ruin that with zoning, of course. But rent control isn’t the anti-supply force in that scenario.
Answer unsatisfactory. With the recent T&C update, Zoom committed (business) suicide.
A memorable fail story to avoid.
Goodbye forever, Zoom.
Flash was already quite popular when Adobe acquired Macromedia. I knew of at least one "Flash competitor" project that fizzled out internally before they decided to buy.
I can't believe you're comparing developing desktop apps to surgery and civil engineering. The stakes here are zero. This is what open source software is all about: making apps accessible to more devs, and more users.
What’s wrong with being a senior engineer? Not everyone wants the hassles of management, and senior engineer compensation is very livable.
Which is super insightful when you failed to mention… any of them.
The general problem with this argument is that “do what the hardware does” is actually not easy to reason about. The end results of this typically are impossible to grok.
Neat.

Although a flat memory space / full file approach would be nice, I wonder if a paging scheme would be possible?

Where you would only need all possible finite strings of length N, where N would ideally be the max page size of RAM, but could be less if the substring could not be found within a reasonable offset...

Ignoring compression speed, I suspect it'd have a practical limitation where using a maximum offset would mean that some strings wouldn't be as big as the cell needed to describe them. That's usually the gotcha in schemes like this...

In order to entertain this, I think all possible 12 byte strings (64bit offset + 32bit size) would need to be found within whatever a reasonable amount of storage is.

I suppose the computational challenge is "How big an offset is required to have all possible strings of length N?"
Meta’s Threads App to Launch Web Version as Rivalry with X Enters New Stage
> Firstly, they target signals that are inherently rare in blood (less than 1% of any blood volume).

That's one of the advantages of this technique.

> Secondly, they focus on either cfDNA or ctDNA, indicating that cancer has already progressed significantly or spread to other areas.

This isn't really accurate and is a bit misleading. For starters cf/ctDNA can be detected in stage I disease (and some limited reports of in situ). It's hard to compare studies or assess accuracy in early stage diseases as methodology is very variable and sample sizes aren't great yet. Ongoing trials will give more info.

The method described here isn't only for MCED testing, the more significant advancement is in disease monitoring and treatment response with the idea that we would be able to detect treatment failures and mutations earlier and easier with high fidelity.

Speaking about "liquid biopsies" and MCED in general, there still isn't really anything compelling to support this approach (for cancers that have screening tests available), we don't have nearly enough data to have an informed opinion on yield, benefit, and cost. Preliminary results have been underwhelming in terms of positivity rates, PPV and specificity.

> We aim to leverage the immune response as an indicator of the body's cancer status. By harnessing the highly effective detectors within the immune system, we actively pursue cancer detection. Additionally, relying solely on specific biomarkers seems reminiscent of manually curating features, akin to the early days of NLP when compared to modern transformers.

Does this actually mean anything? It reads as a bunch of marketing hype. Do you have a reference about the "highly effective detectors within the immune system" one might harness?
Fundamentally, the "size of the economy" measures value creation, i.e. the conversion of low value atoms into higher value atoms.

The economy grows by either converting more atoms, or changing the value of the in/output.

Obviously "sustaining more people" requires proportionally more atoms, so exponentially growing population implies exponential economic growth.

What happens in the constant population assumption is an open question.

It could be that our rate of atom conversion also becomes constant/decline. We might become more efficient and grow the economy by increasing the value of the atoms we convert. The economy might cease growing altogether because we reach a technological plateau and need satiety.

But it's also possible that we'll decouple demand from the capitas, and find whole new ways and reasons to increase atom conversion.
Novice level posts are great. Someone found something exciting to them, not new to us, but we should encourage them to keep exploring and writing.
Really? I learned awk by watching a one hour youtube video one afternoon. It being a DSL really makes it super easy to learn, and this, to me suggests you probably haven't given it much time.
> A moment ago you seemed awfully anxious to defend a movement and a style of behavior

Can you quote his defense of a style of behavior? I scrolled up and I'm not seeing it. FWIW, I am not religious but I personally oppose anti-theism and the antagonistic sort of atheist advocacy.
Though there's the fun twist that Epic has their own competing storefront now and it doesn't include either Jazz Jackrabbit game. What does it say about a company like Epic that their own storefront doesn't include most of their back catalog? It certainly feels abandoned if not abadonware.
I didn't think that particular point of mine through, well enough. I think you're right, I should have removed it before replying.
I actually wish alcohol would require ingredient information and nutrition facts as well, but you do raise a good point
Except we have good contact tracing associated with the wet market and it hits people >50 years old hard, and >70 with a high fatality rate ("severe pneumonia in people over 50 years old with comorbidities" is how it was characterized at the start). So again, the infected lab worker was perfectly surrounded by healthy young people and very fit old people, except for one visit to the exact location where zoonotic spillover would have happened.
Hoffer doesn’t say bad mass movements are like that, he says all mass movements are like that, according to the article:

“ Hoffer writes that “in a mass movement, the air is heavy-laden with suspicion…the faithful strive to escape suspicion by adhering zealously to prescribed behavior and opinion…”

Totally specious. How is this true of the civil rights movement, or the gay rights movement , or the movement for labor rights (pensions, 8 hour workdays, weekends) in the first half of the 20th century?

The whole piece is painting mass movements with a broad brush because the author doesn’t like certain specific recent ones.
Yeah, a common refrain internally was the I stood for India.

I know the Kyndryl spin out recently made a decision that US based roles will be limited going forward due to cost goals and have been "workforce rebalancing" teams instead of allowing them to go to the bench to find new roles. The same is not true for offshore resources.
Unfortunately, the only remedy ever given for bad search warrants is exclusion of evidence from trial. Since the newspaper isn't likely to be put on trial, no remedy is forthcoming.
I think it just focuses heavily on wave mechanics and gets to dirac rather late

i like townsend because it’s like baby sakurai
It's wrapped with a nice semantic tag with the actual date:

<time class="dt-published date-callout" datetime="2022-02-21" pubdate="">
<div class="date-wrapper">
<span class="month">Feb </span><span class="day">21</span>
</div>
</time>

Not sure if that's correct or not, though.
What a headline -- Big tech is not even mentioned in the article. It's literally an article about waste management startups. Neither big nor "tech" (at least as the press uses it)?
> It passed 100% of spellcheck tests

Just like your post does! :)
> the resturant owner's own old DUI being used in the paper's character attack

I thought the issue raised by the newspaper wasn't the restaurateur's DUIs, but rather her continuing to drive around despite having her license suspended/revoked due to those DUIs. That's not just a run of the mill character attack, there's a clear public interest in publishing that information.
> I wonder where George Orwell got his inspiration for 1984 from?

Stalin's USSR and Nazi Germany.
> Lisp machines are long gone.

They also had assembly and microcode (and Maclisp got scoping wrong until CL, anyway). So those weren't much better if you want to measure "purity".

> Tell people to implement a Lisp down on the imperative language of the machine. ...

Somehow there is no end to the difficulty of mapping an imperative language to another, as evidenced by the size of LLVM. One picks one's poison, I guess.
Fun fact - the creator of Lori is none other than Dean Dodrill, who would later develop Dust: An Elysian Tail.
Yes CT highways are soul sucking. The endless monotony of urban sprawl is mindnumbing. It is little wonder I hated driving anywhere as a child.
The editors at the New Republic shouldn't have let this headline go to press. The article has almost nothing to do with "big tech"; it seems like the term is used just to invoke some group we're supposed to dislike.
Vector search seems to have very different usage patterns than a regular database, both in terms of writes and queries.
Enshittification is built into the system. All good things must become shit over time.

All commercial things are subject to these pressures. Open source projects are not. We need to decomercialize everything that we can.
This is the first significant update I've heard on the subject of genetically-engineered-pig-organs for human transplant since the heart transplant patient died after 2 months.

I agree that transplants should be offered on an experimental basis to patients that are not on the verge of death. I might volunteer for such a study if I am unable to work.
overly polite :)
are you planning to scale this up by adding more kids?
Like the Salem case…
If it is trivial, why are we still using coal and gas to power electricity grids?
> I regard a physics education as a modern-day ‘liberal arts’ technical degree.

Some anecdotal evidence for this:

https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/dario-amodei#details

> Dario Amodei: We have generally found that if we hire someone who is a Physics PhD or something, that they can learn ML and contribute just very quickly in most cases.
> cut -d' ' -f 1 access.log |sort |uniq -c |sort -rn |head

FYI Go has Compact now:

https://godocs.io/slices#Compact
Could you be a bit more explicit here? I mean, pick a specific reasonably long period of time over which you consider real economic growth not to have been as much as say 2% per year, and explain a bit about what you think actually happened?

It seems to me that ...

... in general poor people, and especially poor people in poor countries, don't have all that much wealth to extract, so if rich people in rich countries have become substantially richer in real terms (which seems hard to deny) it's not clear that it can have come from poor people in poor countries;

... poor people in poor countries have in fact been getting richer, not poorer, for the last several decades;

... surely if poor people in the US become less attractive as employees the effect is to make people in "more primitive foreign economies" richer rather than poorer (because those people start taking jobs that would previously have been done by poor people in the US, and miserable though those jobs may be compared with the ones we[1] are lucky enough to have, presumably they're better than the ones they had before because otherwise they wouldn't have taken them);

... the question was about the world economy, not the US economy, and I don't see any particular reason to assume that when a fab or factory moves from the US to somewhere else it makes the world poorer (or for that matter that it makes the world richer).

[1] Meaning "folks on HN in general"; of course there will be exceptions.

There's definitely a case to be made that since somewhere around 1980 most gains have gone disproportionately to richer people. Or for that matter that all the time most gains go disproportionately to richer people. (Which shouldn't be a surprise. Being rich means having more resources to use to make things go the way you want, and most people want to be richer. If at any place and time economic gains aren't going disproportionately to richer people, it's probably because a vigorous effort is being made to make that not happen despite its "natural" tendency to do so.) But, again, it doesn't look to me as if poorer people are generally getting poorer in real terms, and even if they were they don't have enough for the rich to get much richer just by taking from them.
Even today, you’d be hard pressed to find a digital camera with a sensor resolution equivalent to medium or large format film.
After trying it with a few posts, the biggest flaw I saw, is that LLMs, just can't say yes or no, and only talk hypothetical.

https://www.fakehn.com/submission?id=EUfJuTfwvbjNQWifM20C
vs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37199177
In some ways it's improved slightly, they gave up on Mir and Unity and now run a lightly modified GNOME on Wayland.

However, they now insist on Snaps so much that they'll install Snaps through apt and have replaced a number of packages this way. Its an incredibly stupid move, and unlike Flatpaks the backend isn't open and it only supports Canonical's own "app store" as a package source.
1337 for everything... until I installed Kdenlive and realized they were as cool as me, so sometimes 1336 >.>