skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You answered yourself there, Hack is still very widely used inside meta, just less so in IG.
Yeah, for many businesses it probably isn't necessary to have crazy short RTO and RPO. Just restore the most recent backup in a new region and point at the cloud provider outage report...
Because it demonstrates a failure of the Rust ecosystem.

Proc macros have effectively become fundamental to Rust. This is unfortunate, but, given that it is reality, they should get compiler support. Part of what is making them so slow is that they need to process a firehose of information through a drinking straw. Placing proc macros into the compiler would not only speed them up but also remove the 50+ crate dependency chain that gets pulled in.

Serde, while slow, has a more fundamental Rust problem. Serde demonstrates that Rust needs some more abstractions that it currently does not have. The "orphan rule" means that you, dear user, cannot take my crate and Serde and compose them without a large amount of copypasta boilerplate. A better composition story would speed up the compilation of Serde as it would have to do far less work.

Rust has fundamental problems to solve, and lately only seems capable of stopgaps instead of progress. This is unfortunate as it will wind up ceding the field to something like Carbon.
This is probably the most important recent scientific article about the (possible) future of STEM in the U.S.
> I think no matter what you put, some curious human will want to find out.

Yeah. Don't the pyramids have warnings on them about getting cursed and such? I'd imagine these would be taken about as seriously.
Everything is easy if you trivialise it enough. This is why self-help books are America's #1 genre and literary export.

Real life, on the other hand, is a tad more complicated. The rule of thumb is don't waste time with people that think they have all the answers. Either they're lying to you, hopelessly naive, or have no real life experience.

> Drug addicted? Treatment is available

> Criminal record? Start your own business

> Unhappy with your finances? Learn how to invest

I mean, seriously? You forgot "poor? Become rich."
I'm not sure if the cars are the problem. Many things can be disabled with malicious vandalism. We can ban automated elevators because people can put a stick in them and break them
Yes, and there are cognitive and neurological reasons why that cannot work.

"the story of AI being managed by a "human in the loop" is a fantasy, because humans are neurologically incapable of maintaining vigilance in watching for rare occurrences."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/23/automation-blindness/#hum...
Yes SWAR - even hardware supported is called SWAR though?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAR

We used this as far back as the eighties on 68000 machines you could do 8 bit SWAR with the 32 bit registers!
That’s fine, I’ll drink it. You going to get your hands on some and send it to me? You can post it on your telegram/signal/X accounts
"... In a rooming house..." Personally I think this is part of the problem today. We no longer have rooming houses. We no longer have really cheap housing due to zoning and other regulations.
Responsibility does not mutually exclude. I'm a bit disappointed in a compiler engineer not being alive to the logic of that. So many political arguments (in both directions) based on this bogus reasoning, that A can affect an outcome, so therefore B who exerts influence on it has no responsibility. Doesn't work that way.
Regarding to this I personally predict that in the future there will be a massive increase of unemployment because of the decrease of Attention spam among the young population, which will lead to more people failing in their education and them not being able of developing any abilities that are important for labor (Like discipline)

Either that or there will be a decrease of professionals.
These are not mutually exclusive choices.

I own my choices, AND I blame the corps for a LOT of the damage done in the world today, especially loss of attention span.

More guns in slack jawed drunk idiot's hands --> more shooting

More eye candy apps in people's hands --> more slack jawed idiots

People can only "choose" among the choices in front of them, and most people choose not based on what's going to be best for them, but on "what's popular".

For discussion's sake, let's just call this phenomenon "monkey brain".

The fact is that 1st world IQ is in decline because an increasing amount of the population can't pay attention.

I personally don't buy the argument that it's genetic. It seems quite clear this phenomenon is being driven by social norms.
This is giving me the worst of vibes:

- options for people who don't want to expose their children to out-of-family ideas, to perpetuate family biases

- a completely unregulated market for children to go to a "school" with a few other kids, giving them small classrooms, BUT, no teacher with specialization or educational background. Would be extremely hit or miss, with little resource if it isn't working out.

- only for those who can afford it.

It just feels... it feels like people have completely given up on society and said fuck it, we'll make our own.

This is sad. The real solution is not to homeschool. It is to force ALL kids, regardless of age, location, and income to be forced into the same school system. Want to improve things? gotta make it better for everyone.

Edit to those who say "but mah freedum" -- So far evidence shows that societies that force all people into the same system, regardless of income, end up having systemic positive changes because every member of the society is invested into it. Look at Finland, they only set one thing up: rules for how kids are allowed to be selected for schools. Everything else was because all the wealthy people wanted their kids to get benefits, so everyone benefited.

In the US school funding is dependent on local municipalities, so some places have excellent education, and everyone who can't afford it is stuck with crap. This is why I dislike it. You either buy your way into a solid life, or you're fucked. The audience here tends to be high earners, at least for middle-class. Most of America cannot afford 10k per year for schooling, much less the significantly higher cost required.
> Jam tomorrow

However it is very likely that self driving is in some sense AGI complete - in other words to get to the goal may require something just as generally intelligent as humans, not least as driving in a city is a social interaction problem as much as a routing problem.
Kinda makes sense you would use PHP, even though I'm sure many people are shocked by it. PHP was pretty much born in a web context. The language was created with servers and request/response in mind and it shows.
Well said. Companies will want:

* Pricing stability -- your business costs cannot be at the whim/survival of some particular company. Competition (including local options) is the solution.

* Model stability –– model output must be reproducible. If it's shifting unreliably, that's a showstopper.

* Alignment –– The model I use must be aligned to my business, not to Some AI Business. I don't want a model that was kneecapped in some secret, arbitrary way that a group of largely white, male, West Coast techbros decided was crucial for my business.

* Privacy –– Sensitive company data NEVER leaves the building. It sure as hell doesn't get expedited to a company with strong incentives to hoover up and use that data.

There will soon be 3 big competitors racing each other in the GPU space. Specialized AI hardware will grow in volume and power. Algorithms will be optimized. Perhaps new algorithms will appear for distributed training of open source models by millions of consumers cards (reminiscent of the Folding@home project). Hardware 5 years from now will blow away current tech.

Intelligence is a widely applicable asset with strong incentives to pop up everywhere. It won't sit gated behind a handful of companies. That's true regardless of substrate -- proteins or silicon.
Compilers are usually very reluctant to add "surprising" optimizations to atomics, even if they're fully justified by the standard, because (1) there are a lot of compiler bugs and/or holes in the standard that are only exposed after combining multiple optimizations involving atomics, (2) most programs explicitly use atomics only rarely, making it not the most productive thing to optimize, and (3) the programs and libraries that do use them are often reliant on them for synchronization, "liveness," or performance behavior that's not mandated by the standard. Common pathological examples include checks that assume the compiler won't skip assigning values if it can prove there's some obscure possible execution where the intermediate value can never be read, assuming that checking the result of a relaxed load in an if statement will guarantee that accesses run in the if will be sequenced after the read, etc.
I was public schooled and also felt uncomfortable sitting around hanging out, without a purpose or a goal or activity. May not be home schooling that is the cause - people are just different.
I can still get a car just fine by keeping the app open and seeing how far the driver is. The point is that some apps really do benefit from real time notifications, but it’s too tempting for PMs at those companies to not abuse it because of the metrics that they are evaluated on. Pretty sure the apps report back if the notifications are turned off so that’s my form of feedback into those same metrics.
I tend to have a view somewhat similar to this IMO.

My way of managing this stuff has been to straight up block the worst offending services on all my devices (Facebook, Twitter), and use tools to restrict the amount of time I can access the others that I know steal my attention, but i've consciously decided I get enough value from to make a small amount of theft worth it (reddit, hacker news, etc).

I get 15 minutes a day on Reddit and HN (each), but all "traditional" social networks are flat out blocked.

It's exactly the same style I would use if I had a traditional addiction I was trying to manage. Use tools to make it impossible to access the things that feed the addiction the worst, and other tools to force moderation with the things that make my life a bit better/more interesting, but could lead to slippery slopes.
I've always thought that if some God from another reality peeked into ours and saw two things, you and the Andromeda galaxy, they'd be interested in you. Entire galaxies are boring compared to even the simplest organisms. (As far as we know at least.)
New York is a sanctuary city. They want to help
If you're interested in a fantasy book series like this, the Broken Empire series (first book is called Prince of Thorns) is quite good.
In other words: if data goes over the air, [smallest files] practically always wins.

(besides saving recipients' data budgets)
> Uhh, a statement like this somewhat hurts the ability to trust the other claims of the benchmark.

Why?

> Sure, Linode has the lowest clock speed, but you're comparing Epyc Milan which is almost a decade newer than the Sandy-Bridge EP of Cloudfanatic for example.

Sure, but also take into consideration that the Linode instance costs $48/month while the Cloudfanatic one costs $18/month. Both of them have the same amount of CPU cores too.

Seems like this is a Linode problem of offering old hardware, instead of a problem with the benchmark itself.
People will defend themselves. Robots taking care of people won't
Is using a 32-core CPU as a baseline for speed comparisons some kind of satire in this thread?
All physical theories are computational so the models of the universe are technically some model of a computer. Classical Hamiltonian mechanics is a computational model, as are all further generalizations like quantum mechanics. If a physical theory was not computable then it couldn't be used for controlling GPS satellites and landing rockets after lift off. In fact, it would be very interesting if there was a non-computational model of physics that could be used to make predictions about physical reality like planetary trajectories.

This is why it's kinda silly to claim the universe is a computer because there is no competing predictive model of physical reality that is not computational.
Wait until they end up in the bay like Lime scooters.
I'd say it's more like a manifestation of the neurology of humans: we are very bad at catching rare occurrences in stream of repeated events. Unless they somehow stand out from the rest, our brains aren't wired to notice them.
For me, caffeine aids sleep. I find it much easier to make myself stop excessively thinking about things when I am caffeinated.

However, if I have caffeine too early in the day, it makes it harder to clear my mind and sleep that night than if I had no caffeine at all.

For this reason, I aim to only have caffeine after 3pm (preferably later, depending on when I plan to go to bed).
There is a freely older readable older version, and some helpful books on Robert's Rules, at archive.org. Also there is a web site (findable with a search) that has an html version (https://robertsrules.com/).

ps: In reading some of the above I learned that there are informal ways to manage a meeting, so it doesn't have to be stiff and formal all the time. But the formality can be used as soon as it is needed. (Haven't yet had practice with it though, unlike some other commenters here.)
From "Free and Open Source Governance" https://fossgovernance.org/ :

> An indexed collection of governance documents from Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects.

> FOSS Governance Zotero Collection:
https://www.zotero.org/groups/2310183/foss_governance/item-l...

Open-source governance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_governance

Communication in distributed software development > Forms of communication > Synchronous, Asynchronous, Hybrid:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_in_distributed_s...
It is happening for many young people (particularly in Europe). To own a car is becoming pretty unusual (and generally because of a specific need).
On mobile it’s a trade off of rendering bugs with UI bugs. I’ve seen issues on older Android phones where Compose causes the text field to lose focus and flicker when typing if autocomplete is switched on. The workaround is to tell users to switch it off in the OS settings. And of course the latency issues are UX concerns all their own
I specifically wrote it wasn't easy.
Right! I upped the ante from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29343065 by taking out the j/k
Could you elaborate further on what you're saying about running on top of other providers?
It’s a new OS design that runs in a runtime with baked in networking and PKI lookup for encrypted routes between users.

I primarily use it today for chat (similar to IRC), and I locally host my own system. Every user is their own server.

I wrote up a longer form description here: https://zalberico.com/essay/2022/09/28/tlon-urbit-computing-...

Hopefully that’s helpful. It’s a little outdated now though. We’re doing free hosting for now at tlon.io to help the network grow (so it’s easy to check it out).

The (long) original technical intro to the ideas is here: http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progra...
Autonomous Trap 001 by James Bridle comes to mind

https://jamesbridle.com/works/autonomous-trap-001
Edit, never mind, prefer not to engage here.
With a distro we're trusting a single trustworthy source for all the software, whereas with package managers for most programming languages we're trusting hundreds of individual developers, any one of which can suddenly decide to sell us out.
Seems based on ALERTWildfire, based only on the name. Perhaps they’re affiliated in some way. I wouldn’t be shocked if they are the same program, but CalFire feels the need to be “more California” about it.

That program is coordinated out of the University of Nevada.
Lazymirror xs4all link is dead under file->Backup, which is unfortunate, because it sounds perfect. The version listed is different than the one that comes up if you websearch "Lazymirror", say from softpedia.

Cool list, i grabbed several things that i remembered from years ago.
It certainly did for me.

I was a regular espresso drinker, one in the morning with my wife before work and giving it up has made a world of difference. Even a coffee at 7am was impacting my sleep, I suspect I just metabolise caffeine slowly.

I can still have a tea in the morning to replace the ritual, and chocolate doesn't cause me any issues (in moderation) so I'm not 100% caffeine free, but it's made a huge difference to my sleep quality and overall mood. The first week or so felt very sluggish, but one I was sleeping properly I now feel more alert and productive without coffee than I ever did with it.

I still have one occasionally (~2 a month I guess) because I enjoy it, but I definitely notice the sleep impact that night and feel crap the next day.
Being able to dig a big hole does not equal knowledge about where things are buried. We are still finding ruins to this day. And digital records on things like ssds will decay faster than parchment for the most part.
> sacrifice an unacceptable amount of their income to pay for basic transpiration

They could do with a proofreader.
I see people on Mastodon gleefully sharing this, saying it's the "new Lenna", and mocking the people in this thread who are "upset".

I don't think people are mad because of what it says about Spencer, they are annoyed because of what it says about the maker.

The politically opposite equivalent would be using a video of, say, black-on-white crime as a test case, or maybe a video mocking George Floyd as a drug addict and celebrating his death-by-fentanyl, and I'm pretty sure that would result in a lot more outrage than this.

Russel conjugation: "I am subverting their silly ideas. You are being confrontational. They are insulting our most deeply held values."
You can impede manned vehicles with traffic cones in exactly the same way. Randomly put them on roads, and people will stop, causing traffic jams. Throw them under the wheels of moving cars, and people will crash and likely die.

Allowing people to drive 2-tonne death traps around dense urban areas seems like a bigger mistake.
Economist Robert Shiller predicts ‘revolution’ by workers over remote work
Tbh, many comments here are FUD and downvotes by big tech employees. And somehow DO is HN’s little baby or something. They did have great ads during their launch period.

Hertzner is pretty great
Dude spent 50k on teeth and didn't even smile in his Presidential potrait nor his mugshot
https://archive.ph/Z51v5
I'm not the person who apologised or the person who was apologised to, but the following, to me, reads like an appropriate apology in the context:

> Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker. "disingenuous " was the wrong word in that context. I meant to use it as a synonym for "unfair" and made a mistake.

This particular mistake (assuming disingenuous means a little less than it does) is not particularly uncommon among native english speakers (or on HN, at that).

FWIW:

> you called them a liar who was pretending to be stupid

The "pretending to be stupid" is not an essential part of the definition above (merely "typically by").

Finally, Merriam-Webster offers up other definitions:

lacking in candor

giving a false appearance of simple frankness

These don't fit particularly with the strident definition you're using.

English words are complex, with contextual and flexible meanings. You've picked one definition. And then you've attacked someone's integrity on the basis of it, which is exactly what you're arguing has been done to someone else. Don't be this guy.
We’ve merrily dug into Egyptian pyramids with even more dire warnings on them. How would we know if future people would consider our warnings just as silly?
Man, how many articles are we going to see on this subject?
All one has to do is attend stats 101 to become a deity
I think as long as quarterly numbers are rewarded, they'll continue to be optimized.

You get what you measure for, after all.
It does offer support for a keyboard and a mouse but what you're proposing is adding features or programs that would only work (or at least only work well) with a keyboard and a mouse, which would be a pretty big departure from the current design of the device.
Yeah. Looks like they went with a big fan and a swarm of buried killer bees or something.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warn...
Misread GP's post. Was referring to TSMC building plants overseas in Arizona.
I am a compiler engineer and this is not as great as it seems like.

If you are replacing pointer chasing with arbitrary indexes into arrays, you are likely going to make it orders of magnitude slower for large arrays. (It's barely worth it even if the array fits in L1)

It's counterintuitive because pointers have been optimized on hardware for about 50 years, and array indices are just pointers that your hardware doesn't know about.

The main things that go wrong are hardware prefetching and compiler optimizations taking advantage of alias analysis.
I think GitHub Pages only supports a whitelist of plugins, so you might have some more difficulties solving it well without any plugins. I use Netlify for my site, which does support arbitrary plugins.

One quick way to make it faster is to include that "_includes/nav.html" only in a nav.html, and then use an iframe to load that on every page, or something like that.

Anyway, I'm not the first to notice this it seems, although even "twice as fast" would still be quite slow: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/issues/1323
Not really because the image is encoded only once and the image is typically then served over the Internet a huge number of times.
I love e-ink devices.

Just back from a reading session in my Kobo, and I sent this article to it of course :) (through Firefox/Pocket). I can even read in the swimming pool (it's water resistant), nothing better than reading in sunglasses halfway in on a sunny day, awesome!!! And it doesn't weigh as much as some books. While I still prefer paper for certain reads, it has definitely helped get back into the habit of reading real books/reading more, so lost to smartphones and social media / "sugar" information type content these days. So convenient in terms of size/weight/number of books you can carry, while being easy on the eyes. No distracting crap, either, as TFA mentions.

Long live e-ink, whatever device you like most!!
What are some of those approaches? Are there formal methods and/or tools for doing this?
So I only use Firefox and the Slack web client and don't experience any lag. I am surprised so many people use the Slack app over a web tab.
The "it isn't easy" is the bloody important part that none of your slogans touch upon, so they're not even worth the memory they're stored in. There is no insight to be gained from any of them.

Or do you truly believe that people with hardship in their lives are so hopelessly stupid that they don't know they will have to put some effort, instead of sitting around crying over themselves? Come on now.
> In my mind I was so uncool that the only way to win was not to play

I mean, if you are thinking about it in those terms it sounds like it was pretty important.
New York is about to crack down on short-term rentals on September 5th
Well, no, we have the HumanEval results for the June release.
That link gave me a 404