skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't get me wrong. As I said, I'm a font nerd. My old blog has fonts I paid actual money for, which was otherwise exchangeable for goods and services in the real world.

I like fonts. I get why people like fonts. I just don't think they matter.

Now, if Computer Modern was an important professional signal, and it was the case that Monotype owned its copyright and rapaciously charged for its use, that would matter quite a bit. But that's not the case; ironically, the one font we can think of that has professional implications is under an open license.

There is a battery of commonly-used fonts (the Microsoft fonts, we might as well call them) that are professionally important. But they're also universally available; they argue against the idea that font licensing is all that meaningful, as well.
I hope it will force the current system which favours a specific subset of learners to change. I hope it will evolve towards a collaborative system where learners are not tested as specimens in a vacuum. The current system is all about making it easier for the system to do its thing instead of the user(learner) getting something valuable out of it.
> Beth Lewis, director of Save Our Schools Arizona, a public school advocacy group

Uhh, that isn't a "government rep." What kind of school did you go to?
Depending on what you do on the lhs of = you can actually overwrite this operator.

It could be setattr or setitem instead of bind-to-name. Because you can overwrite = only in certain cases that are defined, by the syntax, you can't easily elevate = to an expression and be done with it.
> Quantizing just adds risk, which adds cost, which harms everyone.

No, it adds risk at the scale of the quantum, adding cost for those trading at the scale of the quantum, harming a very small subset of traders who would normally benefit from trading at or below the scale of the quantum, like HFT firms and short-term market makers. Should such institutions cease to exist because the cost of trading at such scales becomes prohibitively expensive, I highly doubt that society will suffer.
> But is it just knowledge or is it the human connection that makes a difference?

Sense of connection, perhaps.

But AI is getting better at faking that. Even ELIZA gave some people the feeling, though I'm not sure how.

> If access to knowledge was all we needed to acquire and maintain intelligence in a specific area, we would all be a lot smarter...

We kinda are though? XKCD comes to mind: https://xkcd.com/903/
There is an amazing video of an early Kraftwerk gig somewhere on YouTube - basically, the audience, dressed like latter-day European hippie-wannabes, haven't got the first idea what hits them, then a few rather hesitantly begin to dance and gradually win the crowd over.

Incredible. I was blown away by Kraftwerk both times I have seen them live, and I very much knew what I was in for; I can't even begin to imagine what it must have felt like to be caught unawares...

I kind of envy that crowd.
I don’t know and I suspect most people in this thread do not know.

A little more specifically, I find that when governments create knee jerk legislation there are always loop holes and new routes around it. Sure not always but it happens.

I am also trying to say I don’t know the full degree of benefits and disadvantages of markets today. What I can see is over the past 40 decades, spreads have tightened, and liquidity has increased. I am sure there are negatives that come from the current setup with market makers but from the retail side I dont feel the pain. What unequal playing field do you feel? Are HFT harming you?
I'd worry about the legal side of things, so finding a lawyer with experience would do you good. All the best mates.
Especially since == can be overwritten, while 'is' can not.
>...but that is just creating more consumers who don't know how their devices work and get irate/disregulated when they stop working...

I am not sure how this has anything to do with Chomebooks. Those who dig into a technical system are always going to be the minority. I also drive a car, but have little understanding of what makes it go vroom.
Wouldn't these happen in the DB?

I can see some algorithms for showing related articles being complex — but writing them in Assembly also invites other challenges (them being difficult to update and improve, concentrating on memory issues rather than algorithm, etc...).

I still think it's a cool project mind you.
You're correct, although I'm fairly sure dereferencing a `void*` is a compile error on all but the most ancient and non-conforming compilers. I'm not even sure what it _could_ compile to, given that `void` has no size.
I started playing piano in 2018 and now it's part of my daily routine. I would recommend this to folks how are looking where to invest time to. Mastering an instrument takes years, but it's progress and dopamine.
The thing about classical music is that you have to understand the works in order to really enjoy them – of course there are exceptions when the melody just grabs you but that's not the norm. There was an album collection called "Musically Speaking" that explained music works and detailed what to listen for. For example, they isolated the flutes in Beethoven's Pastoral and explained they represented birds, etc. My enjoyment of classical works spiked after understanding more. I think it's much easier to connect with Rock/Pop because the works are much, much simpler so it's mostly whether the lyrics speak to you and you like the melody.
What synchronicity! My work slack status is currently this phrase, in Swahili, translated by a recent hire with whom I connected over love of language.

The one time I have been able to bust out my knowledge of Swedish (limited to this one phrase) in order to try and flirt, the focus of my attentions was... not impressed. I couldn't tell if it was because I was not impressive, or just a cultural mismatch. In any case, it didn't discourage me from continuing to learn.
I’m on the side of guaranteed transport security. What in the world are you talking about?

I’m all for privacy but that is regulated via other means — the law.
There's also a lot of low hanging fruits in developped countries, better farming techniques, electric cars, heat insulation, financing renewables depending of the electric mix, making food products with less emissions cheaper for consumers to shift consumption...

It's true that the state has the upper hand but there's also things that an NGO or a private company could do.
Of course there are so many of these that people made "top-N" lists.
Just randomly pick it. /s

I find these threads are the opposite of Bitcoin threads. It brings out the wild opinions about financial markets.
What if Fyre Festival, but you lived there?
FYI for those passing by, that New York Times article above is fantastic, I was about to post it as well.
The phonetics of Turkic languages are pretty close to Latin languages, though.
assembly? the current standard is kotlin or swift which while reasonably performant, leave a lot on the table. i'd love to have first class support for writing android and ios applications in rust. plenty fast enough for me. my day job is elixir but the memory requirements are a bit high for mobile apps (though I'm sure the guys at nerves would disagree)
It definitely reminds me more of "x86-64", the name used on early publications before they decided to brand it (AMD64, Intel calling it EM64T or something, and eventually x64 appearing as a shorthand). You've got the "86" and a 6, and unlike i386 or i486, "686" never had significant currency as a "real" chip name.

I feel like "i586" and "i686" are sort of a hairball logistically. I can recall a friend in the late 1990s whose forum signature boasted having a "686" overclocked to 262MHz-- an AMD K6. While we sort of understand i586 to mean Pentium, and i686 to be PPro/PII/PIII and beyond, you can make cases for the non-Intel Pentium-class CPUs to be anywhere from i386 (NexGen Nx586-- where's the FPU),to i686 (something like a K6-IiI+ is clearly more advanced than, say, the original i586 Pentium 60, although not necessarily matching PPro additions one-for-one)

Going completely on a further tangent, it feels like we stopped awarding architecture tiers like that. There were definitely new instructions in some of the later-generation parts, why didn't the Pentium III with SSE, for example, become an 'i786' tier? Why is there only one 'amd64'? Guessing the overall strategy is that modern code feature-detects and compilers build a binary with multiple code paths-- something that will run grudgingly on a Pentium Pro or original Socket 940 Opteron, but will pick more efficient code paths on a more recent CPU. Although, wasn't that sort of the promise of things like Gentoo-- by building things yourself, you could make a hyper-lean system knowing it only needed to run on the exact hardware you had? I'd expect a marginal performance uptick, just because you'd be avoiding checks and branches related to feature selection and smaller binary sizes, but it doesn't seem like there's a clear consensus it carries its weight.
Swallowing ground glass is not actually all that dangerous. [1] The trick would be in chewing carefully, without your mouth becoming a bloody mess. Seems doable, maybe, though I don't feel any urge to try it any time soon. :-)

[1]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ground-glass-deadly/
Curious about someone in the industry's opinion, but the problem sounds like carbon offsets should actually be treated as carbon offset futures.

I.e. the value is determined at the time of delivered carbon offsets, and the instrument's price floats on the market before that time, including relative to how likely / valuable the delivery is

If company A buys a carbon offset from entity X, and it becomes increasingly apparent that entity X isn't going to be able to deliver the face value in terms of carbon, the instrument bought by company A should decrease in value.

Consequently, next time around, company A would not purchase from entity X.

Which is exactly what you'd want to happen!

Corollary: Verification by third party should be required, with less measurable schemes less valued.

Multiple satellites confirming forests intact? Proof. Direct air capture or weathering? Proof.

Some nebulous walk through how this might have influenced this other thing? Eh...
I'm not referring to reforestation projects, I'm referring to natural growth of forests, that out of they way...

Yes, for nuclear I will buy the argument, on the cheap though, because ultimately someone has to pay for it. I return to my point, there will someday be a market for carbon emissions as a commodity, today it is fictitious.
> If you really took that to heart you would be unable to use a computer at all.

Or any transistor. Although Shockley certainly wasn't a communist, so maybe his views are more appealing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley
I do agree, but it's slightly different I think. All people acknowledge that snakes exist, some think it's not so clear-cut in this other topic.
1) what. is. in. that. game.

A lot of very high resolution textures mainly. Also very detailed 3D models and audio recordings of 100s of cars.

2) what do you do if you’re charged $1/gb and want to play forza? Sit in a Starbucks for a whole day?

What was old is new again. I remember going to the library with a stack of 3.5" floppies and downloading stuff there.
> On one hand, people should have the ability to do what they want with properties they own.

Hard disagree. Society did indeed already decide otherwise, hence why short term rentals are regulated in the first place. Airbnb has made its money helping people circumvent those laws… the Uber of housing. I’m surprised it’s taking so long for cities to react.
You mean his stance on the whole nuclear war thing? At least with that I can kind of see where he was coming from, but this forum guy just seems delusional.
What gets Wikipedia its most clicks in India? ‘xxx’, sex, ‘xxx_film_series’
From an earlier post, copying my answer which seems relevant to your query

> Being a Japanese resident (PR) now, I did look up this option for a summer home in the woods (Akita, Aichi-ken etc). This is what I learnt:

* Akiya houses come with an agreement to reside. Not just be a summer home. Their goal is to repopulate the countryside.

* You have to cultivate any farmland that comes with the deed. You cannot sell it without special permission. There is a whole lot of paperwork to deal with such situations.

* Most old Akiya will have strong regulation not to change the frontage significantly. It isn't permitted. Architecturally these changes have to be consistent with the older house and rest of the community. Building permits are very stringent. (Basically, you can't build a sprawling European villa in a Japanese countryside for e.g., even if land wasn't a concern.)

* Land tax is levied the day from purchase - not from the day of moving in. (This could pinch given that time to renovate can be 1-2 years in remote places, and taxes aren't cheap necessarily)

* Residents have to contribute to local development funds which take care of Matsuris etc. You like it or not, local government will knock on your door with a bill.

* Connectivity is poor. Cell reception outside NTT can be spotty. Internet is even harder.

* Language proficiency is a must. No one speaks English. Not even the local government officials.

* House will need a significant amount of renovation. With the stringent restrictions - anywhere between 100 & 200 grand (depending on the disrepair)
We have an inefficient distribution of benefits in the US.

Hell we are in an active housing crisis because of inequality.

Sure you won't starve but the idea that the wealthiest country in the world can't house everyone isn't something that should be ignored.
I don’t think that’s actually true. Compilers write machine code that’s often much more efficient than anything you could think up by hand, and the bulk of the disk space/memory used by a modern executable is for resources/strings, not instructions. Stereotypical assembly code - extremely lean routines that accept minimal user input and don’t create human-readable output - is indeed smaller than a stereotypical compiled executable, but you’d have trouble beating the compiler 1:1 on the same problem.
Yep. When someone holds a view like that, they come off as an unstable or delusional person. Using a product from such a person can quickly become a liability.
That doesn’t make sense. You can’t intermingle 32 bit and 64bit code in the same process at all afaik. This is a CPU decision.

An obvious problem is the fact that 32bit applications will use 32bit addressing modes which are illegal when the processor is running in 64-bit mode.

Wow64 is just a support library to make 32bit apps run in a 64-bit OS, but that library itself is 32-bit.

If you have any supporting evidence to the contrary I’d love to read it because it’ll blow up my conception of how multi arch works on 64-bit.
ADHD chiming in. That approach just doesn’t work when you have to actively spend nontrivial brain energy to even brush your teeth, every day. There is no such thing as a hackable routine, atomic/keystone habits, or „too lazy to stay on track“.
yes, the speed is mostly limited by network/disk; no, there is no improvement from writing entire thing in assembly (optimizing a few hot functions is a different story)

I have not looked at this at this software in particular, but the few assembly web engines I have looked at in the past had worse performance that C versions due to making a much higher number of syscalls. For example, multiple send calls per response; lack of pool allocators; etc...
It's interesting to see how most of the comments here are either "no, this is how lots of startups end up with a mess they have to clean up" or "yes, lots of startups optimize this stuff too early".

And I think that's because both things are true! This is one of the many hard parts about starting a brand new company, figuring out the right balance to strike on this. It's no surprise that companies mostly get it wrong, and in both directions.

There's no single right answer here. It depends on exactly what the company does, the exact path to product market fit, what growth looks like afterwards, and how lucky the guesses about all that stuff were.
I don't understand this all or nothing rebuttal. You can avoid supporting an individual that you don't like without doing background checks on everyone involved with everything you use.

Also, not supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not about not supporting communism.
Have to disagree with this. Choosing a language is not just about its features but also its ecosystem. I chose Python for my current project because it has great libraries that don't exist in other languages.
If the only classification you have for supporting the brutal genocide of a people is "wrong political opinion", then you have woefully inadequate mental models for the world around you.
It's amusing that you are certain that you know his customers better than he does. I believe that you are utterly wrong, and if not most than certainly many people who use public transport and smartphones have never or nearly never been using websites on their phones, many of them haven't been using websites on a computer two - this is very typical of the non-technical people, especially those who are members of the younger and the older generations.
This just regurgitates the NYT reporting and others. Some of the facts don't line up. "Tens of thousands" of people don't occupy 55000 acres. 31000 people live in the westernmost part of SF's Sunset neighborhood and that's only 1000 acres, and it is developed at very low intensity with almost exclusively detached single-family homes.

If an entity were serious about building a "new city" as normal people understand the word "city" they would slap it down in the middle of an existing city like Stockton that already has transportation infrastructure of regional importance. That city practically deleted their entire zoning code in an effort to attract development in the central district. It's already a de facto libertarian ideal.
Ask HN: How long does the brain take to start thinking around a skills basis?
whether it be guitar,programming,sculpting, or coming up with ways to start generating lets say organic body rejuvenation methods but are still feasible and somewhat within the basis of understanding.
Carbon offsets never made sense from the start. Obviously just a way to continue polluting, maintain a clean image, and line somebody’s pockets.
> Ad hominem

It's not an ad hominem at all. I attacked their thought process, not their person. And the point is that they encourage other people not to use their critical thinking and brains, and just defer to others who they happen to agree with.

> Being charitable here

And why would I do that? They're not being charitable to the opposing opinion.
If they were rational, they would have attempted a full catalogue of both sides of the matter, taking the actual of actual opposition, rather than making up straw men.

> The evidence is overwhelming that intelligence is at least partly heritable

This is an argument against nobody and nothing. I don't think there's a single scientist in the world who said intelligence is 0% heritable. This is a very far cry from the stance that it's mostly heritable. Which would imply greater than 50%.

So even being charitable the author's factual stance is very weak, yet they're drawing strong conclusions from it.

If it's 50% heritable that means less than 50% genetic... which implies that at least 50% of intelligence is based in environment. This is not at all evidence of the author's point. It's evidence against it.
My college information assurance class was just… do the exercises on this website that you could already do on your own for free, but it’ll go on your transcript.

I never met the professor for that class a single time. Props for completely automating the whole class though, including a discord bot to give students extra credit if they helped each other solve problems.
I’m lucky enough to get paid by the companies I’ve shipped on top of for years. I take a huge financial hit by working with them and not working with bigger companies that I dislike.

Here are my options:
- Take no sponsors, make no money, stop YouTube
- Work my ass off to convince companies I trust that it’s worth supporting my channel
- Grift away to whoever will pay the most

I think I found a good balance. Nobody has ever paid me to say something I don’t believe. I am confident in every recommendation I’ve ever made.
Enoch Root wants to borrow your bicycle.
Has there been a boom in military startups given that there is a hot conventional war? If you have a shooty thing, I am sure that Ukraine is quite happy to let you test it on live targets.
It seems you want to keep asking the same questions over and over phrased differently and in a way that tries to discredit me or make me sound dumb, so forgive me but this discussion has now reached its end.
I read something to the effect that for most people, the required willpower to not do something (e.g. not have a snack) is not achieved by gritting your teeth and forcing yourself not to give into the temptation that’s right in front of you, but to remove it all together. For example, I live in a city and ate dinner every night at a healthy vegetarian cafe on the way home from work, and ate a breakfast of cereals at work. This allowed me to turn off my fridge at home and keep no snacks or food at all in the house. I still had the urge to snack, but the amount of work it would have required (going out to buy some snacks first) made it impractical enough that I didn’t give in.
Cost? Please explain why writing programs in assembly is supposed to be *cheaper* than writing programs in a higher level language? The same goes for convenience: Since when is writing an application in assemlby more convenient than writing an application in a modern language?
Isn't the whole premise of this grouped home schooling that it makes life easier for the parents, at the expense of tying into some commitments? There surely can never be enough grouped home schooling setups in any given locality with the freedom to break existing commitments for a parent to easily swap between them. It seems like there is a strong incentive for a parent to stick to the status quo.
I used to like music and listen to it (even tried playing an instrument and using DAW tools), but I found out that, despite my enjoyment, the OCD and intrusive thoughts it gave (I have medical OCD) are just not worth it.

(Not a criticism of the article, and still of course respectful of others who like music but music in general is not something for all of us.)
wow64 itself would have to be a 32 bit library that interacts with 32-bit wine. I don’t believe there’s a way around that. The talk of syscalls seems irrelevant since Wine has to intercept all the syscalls and redirect them to libc, reimplement, or make its own Linux syscall. Being able to do syscalls from 32-bit mode and the back compat of that seems completely irrelevant here.

Clarification: you could actually have Wow64 do IPC to 64-but wine to get rid of the need for a 32-bit wine, but I suspect there’s too much overhead for that, especially since WoW64 would still need to be in 32-bit.
It looks like it is in fact universal. Just glancing at the code here, it looks like the tool searches any arbitrary file for bytes that look like encoded protobuf descriptors, specifically looking for bytes that are plausibly the beginning of a FileDescriptorProto message defined here:

https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/src/go...

This takes advantage of the fact that such descriptors are commonly compiled into programs that use protobuf. The descriptors are usually embedded as constant byte arrays. That said, not all protobuf implementations embed the descriptors and those that do often have an option to inhibit such embedding (at the expense of losing some dynamic introspection features).