skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right that the US is very proud of their trigger and muzzle discipline. Or at least half of it. The other half points loaded guns with the safeties off directly at their own crotches to own the libs[0].

Going a layer deeper, Americans really, really love to abuse the shit out of customer service workers. To put it extremely charitably, we're used to being fucked by corpos so we pre-emptively fuck them back in the dumbest way possible. Less charitably, our country has a bunch of bullies that want to shout at anything they can bully. I don't think they'd actually pull the trigger, but, y'know, law of large numbers, times small but non-zero probability of homicide by virtue a gun being present on the scene equals probably at least one murdered cable tech.

[0] https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/28/holographic-nano-layer-ca...
Needs (1998).
People bring up Figma in almost any discussion related to WebAssembly. I tried to dig into this and understand why they chose this, what kind of benefit they are getting from this and how it compares to alternatives. Turns out that there is no comparison in performance because the alternative (doing everything in JS) was never done, and the choice of going WebAssembly is more due to their history and stack than anything else. In other words, if they rewrote the whole thing with modern JavaScript ecosystem (e.g. TypeScript with strict typing, typed array), it is unclear that the product would be any worse than the current implementation, because nobody ever tried that.

Therefore, "Figma is built on WebAssembly so WebAssembly is good" is weak argument.
Ah, good detective work. I was trying to find the print magazine, and this is the best I could find:

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Cahners+Busine...
Historically how? Biased how?

Programming started off as a “woman’s job”[1] and was that way for several decades. There were a good deal of women programmers, from my own recollection up through the mid-1980s and then they dwindled away rather quickly.

My hypothesis about this is that the personal computer revolution happened and boys hung out in their bedrooms gaming and learning to program.

I’m guessing there was some sort of male-leaning bias on which houses bought personal computers first. Video games were definitely the gateway drug.

I am guessing that girls were less likely to hermit themselves away in their bedrooms all day, every day[2]. Gradually these boys became men and either skipped or surfed their way through college into the job market.

1. https://www.google.com/search?q=women+in+programming

2. Of course there were exceptions and I knew more than a few women coders/hackers of substantial ability.
Any CPU made around or after the time of the Core 2 Duo can still be a perfectly serviceable main computer. Back in the 90s and 00s older CPUs were literally too slow but we passed the MVP threshold around the C2D and now they’re all pretty solid.
The don't have the Time Cube guy.
totally. I can map reduce blind drunk and asleep but I'd have to google how to for loop in just about any language.
So sam bankman fried strategy?
And so the enshittification continues.
Most ISPs still have clauses forbidding running servers on non-business accounts; they just don't pursue them much
Show HN: Transform any website or eBook into a research paper (no LLM required)
If you (think you can) make the case for 3D, then you can make the case for 4D, because we can talk about time--past, present, future, yesterday, five minutes ago...
I think there are two points here:

The first point is more-or-less: the OP should be using their talents for something "better". I don't think this is a really interesting question.

Them more interesting point is: "is this project useful?"

The end product likely won't directly serve some "useful" purpose, like making money or even being played by others.

On the other hand, building such a thing is _likely_ going to teach the poster a large number of useful skills that will serve them for "useful" projects.
Sam isnt really a proponent of EA, for what its worth.

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1593046526284410880?lang=en
Teardown of Huawei's new phone shows China's chip breakthrough
This is essentially how we used to do it for some "print-ready" jobs at a mailhouse I worked at. Usually we'd use proper tools to produce documents ready to print, but sometimes clients thought they knew better and would send us PDFs. It was more effort to work with those usually, and had a higher chance of errors.

Even if the output was correct, we still needed to re-order pages, apply barcodes for mail machine processing and postal sorting, and produce reports - which usually involved text scraping off the page to get an address via perl and other tools. Much easier in PS than PDF usually, but sometimes very unreliable when e.g. their PDFs were 'secure' and didn't have correct glyph mappings.

In the worst cases, they would supply single document PDFs, and merging those would cause an explosion of subset fonts in the output which would fill the printer's memory and crash it. When I stopped working in the area, I think there still wasn't a useful tool to consolidate and merge subset fonts known to come from the same parent font - it would have been a very useful tool and should be possible but I didn't have the time or knowledge to look into it.
There’s also the massive example of illegal immigration. DACA basically says “we’re not going to prosecute this specific group for this specific law.”
It's not about romance or no romance. Same with Korean/Mandarin or any distant human language.

>Not likely to be so lucky with whale songs

Maybe. Maybe not
Ah! No, sorry, I meant that there are quite a few HNers that have some origin in the Bukkit/Spigot scene, e.g. they once wrote plugins for those platforms.
Okay white knight.
By modified form i think you mean "implemented" form. Unlike pretty much every other ethical theory they actually practice what they believe in, which is really their defining characteristic. Even Christians don't do that much charitable giving nowadays.

Also, frankly, it's really strange to see people rushing to attack them. Are mosquito nets and 3rd world children really so hated?
The article is 24 years old...
I’m skeptical but the answer to “who’s upvoting them then?” seems pretty damning
Non-aligned countries met in Algiers in 1973 to plan a new economic order
Have you found that what you eat has an impact to the way you smell?
FWIW the JSON/JavaScript design is roughly where we're going with Oils

We have JSON support for literal data, pure data

But you can also interleave code and data in what turns out to be a very Lisp-y fashion, which is useful for configuration

https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.17.0/doc/hay.html

Slogan: We're adding the missing declarative part to shell, called Hay (Hay Ain't YAML)

That is, most YAML configs are just nested key-value pairs, where some values are shell snippets ... So I think it makes sense to add declarative data to shell instead!
I know nothing about law, but I thought maybe expunging the record was like “garbage collecting” the records of the case, which would make it impossible to reference them in future litigation, such as the counter-litigation against Comcast.
We're talking incest? And the theory (or fact) is that it was a very widespread practice throughout human history? Trying to wrap my mind around how that changes the calculation... it would drop the number from 2x every generation down to what?
Jets actually have to pass emissions testing quite regularly as part of their strict maintenance regime. They are maintained to a standard even the most hardcore car enthusiast can't shake a stick at. They emit a lot of CO2 because they need a lot of energy. But they burn pretty clean, the age of jets trailing large black trails are gone.

The only planes using leaded are general aviation light aircraft that still use AVGAS 100LL. Jets use only Jet A-1 which is unleaded kerosine (though technically they can burn almost anything which is one of the cool things of jets but of course for reliability and safety this is not done in aircraft). The M1 Abrams tank touts this as a major advantage though, if you're in a pinch you can pour pretty much anything that burns in the tank. Just a shitload of it :)
Human geoguessr players use cheats like like less defects or other accidents with the captures.
OK, I'll grant you that... LinkedIn could potentially use a better spam filter for those cases...
I bought into Star Citizen on Kickstarter in 2013, then went to jail for 10 years. Got out and it's still not done...
In fairness, everyone I know in the US who owns firearms - which is basically everyone I know here - takes safety and knowledge of the laws around storing/carrying/brandishing/firing them very seriously. But the sheer scale of the US population and the absolute number of guns is just difficult to conceive of from a European perspective. We have something like 60 privately owned guns in this country for every person in the Czech Republic. So even if only 1% of our gun-owning population were irresponsible or criminal with them, it would still add up to a lot of deaths every day.
No, it can't be theft unless the service provider lost the channel being "stolen" to the "thief" which makes no sense. Things quickly become silly when we insist on using the wrong concept where it doesn't apply.

Charges like disrupting business operations or unauthorized access I can see, but theft? nah.
The rule of thumb is you are still way more likely to be killed by other things before being killed with a firearm. It’s not really that bad. Once you graduate from school your risk of being shot dead dramatically lowers and other normal causes of death take the top spot.
Infix parsing chews up a remarkable amount code and memory.

It's scary just how much easier it is to parse languages without infix parsing.
Tech workers now doubting decision to move from California to Texas
> just to put this racial thing to bed

n=1
Well, he does have a point. Someone investing their life's savings to buy a second home for rental income is not the same as someone like Infy's Shibulal buying 700+ homes in Seattle [1]

1. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/infosys-ceo-s...
Thanks...so curl always does this but wget never does?
I got the impression initially it was an option.
Or you can do like 80% of the rest of the world does and buy an Android phone and you can have all of the “freedom” that you want.
In fact, it's not even a 3-byte heap buffer overflow: it's a 1-byte overflow resulting from a 3-byte write operation. The relevant string on the heap is read precisely once, to insert the text into the current document, and freed once the file has finished loading (in the destructor of the Utf8_16_Read object). Therefore, the only thing that can be corrupted is the first byte in the Size field of the _HEAP_ENTRY corresponding to the subsequent object in the heap.

However, some cursory research indicates that the 2 bytes of the Size field are protected (alongside the 1-byte Flags) by an XOR checksum stored in SmallTagIndex. Therefore, the worst it could ever do (unless I am missing something important) is cause an error when that subsequent object is freed.

(Also, that particular write overflow is preceded by a 1-byte read overflow, but since the same buffer is reused for each block in the file, and since the bug can only occur after the first block, the read overflow will always read a byte from earlier in the same file.)
A few words are related to sound: in English, "meow" sort of sounds like the sound cats make (although my cat is much more nuanced, he wants you to know!). "Woof" sort of sounds like some dogs' bark, "cock-a-doodle-do" has the same stress pattern as some roosters, and so forth.

Some languages tend to have more onomatopoeic sounds than English, and signs in sign language (especially "young" sign languages, meaning sign languages that have been codified recently) are probably even more onomatopoeic.

But in general, your point is true: the vast majority of words do not sound like the thing they represent. "Knock" (as in a knock on the door) doesn't sound anything like a knock.
From the article:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/legio...

Everyone who sees this picture should understand that the marketers have no idea why you would buy this either.
There’s no free lunch.

The sun radiates heat like a blackbody sphere with the surface area of the sun and a surface temperature of 5600K or so.

If the Earth were to have a fancy heat pump that radiated the same amount of heat into space, it would need the radiating area times the effective temperature to the fourth power equal to that of the sun. The real killer problem is that your heat pump is subject to the Carnot efficiency of pumping heat to that same temperature.

By the most straightforward Second Law calculation, entropy transferred to hot side >= entropy removed from cold side. So Q_hot / T_hot >= Q_cold / T_cold. Q_cold is the heat removed from the pleasant ~300K place where the humans are. At 5600K on the hot side, 18.6 times as much heat needs to be radiated out, so for every bit of useful work done on Earth, at least 17.6 times as much energy is consumed in cooling. If you want the radiator to be only half the surface area of the sun, multiply that by about 16.

What future humans really need is a Dyson sphere with absolutely enormous radiating area. :)
Lyra is a real-time neural speech codec from Google - I don't know if they use it in the Pixel line for call compression, but they certainly could.

Interestingly, I had the idea of using their open-source version as a vocoder for a light-weight TTS model. It did work - as in, it produced intelligible speech - but with very rough audio quality on the validation set. No matter what I tweaked, after 1-2 epochs the validation error would always diverge from the training error, which to me suggests considerable redundancy in the compressed representations (i.e two clips of perceptually similar audio can decode to different representations, so the TTS model has difficulty learning the underlying loss surface). I suspect there's still a lot more entropy to be squeezed out of it The Encodec authors encountered something similar, compressing their codec by a further 40% by simply layering a language model over the top.
> What fundamental error am I making here? How can I have 1K ancestors 10 generations ago, 32K 15 generations ago, 1M 20 generations ago??

You can't. The population of the world gets smaller as you go back in time.

There are that many open spots in your family tree, but, as you go back in time, you will see that each person in the tree simultaneously fills a large number of different spots.

A related but not identical observation: the set of all your ancestors is roughly 1/3 male and 2/3 female, despite the fact that there are an equal number of male and female spots in your genealogy. Males are doing more double duty than females.
You are looking for Her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(film)
I'd be interested to know what state they were working in.
> If true, I would want a refund if placed in the latter group.

It (allegedly) happened on a university class.

*: https://sebastianhetman.com/why-quantity-matters/
Just days ago I was rewriting some matrix math operations for our game from C to WASM SIMD, only for most of them to barely tie the original performance (where for reference a crappy x86 SIMD routine gives me 3x to 5x).

That's not something you'd use for "computationally intensive" applications. Frankly this shit has been around for years and the major implementations still suck.

As for servers, it's insane to pretend you don't know what your server's CPU is and run your crap in what's essentially a handicapped JVM. Made up solutions for made up problems.
Yeah I thought Cardinal of the Kremlin was a decent book too. Had a bit of a spy who came in from the dark feel to it.

But yeah his politics oozing through everything in later books (even written by him) also put me off.
Peak human population is expected to reach 10.4B in 2084 and slowly decrease from there.
This is according to the UN[1] but other estimates envision a much earlier peak by the 2040s at 8.5B followed by a sharp drop to 6B by the end of the century[2].

[1] https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population

[2] https://earth4all.life/news/press-release-global-population-...
...No crap it's a zero-sum game! We've been screaming it from the bloody rooftops while economists and charlatans have gone on and on chasing alpha, instead of really focusing on breaching the most critical breakthroughs we need. Near limitless clean power, closed cycle industrial processes, and bloody innovations in either transport, agri-husbandry, or medicine.

But no.

War. War, real estate, and more pretend finance for finance sake. Either that or mass producing the tools of tyranny.
Absolutely any computer/phone/tablet has the concept of applications.

Web apps remove initial friction of installation, and for big apps not even that much because you still need to download it and run it. But they also pay up this gain, with huge interest, for every single second you use the app. This is not benefitting the users. The bottom line is dire.

However removing initial friction is all about getting your foot in the door. It's like selling a printer under cost and then you get them with the ink. Get them the first drug dose free, and then you get them when they're dependent. Offer a cheap design, and then you destroy them with the manufacturing.

A story as old as the world, of which this "web megaapp" model is a tiny microcosm of. The web is an excellent platform for small to medium apps. Photoshop is gigantic. And Figma and the other rest of its ilk are absolutely insufferable and I'm saying this as a webdev. I would be significantly happier if these products did NOT exist.

Heck if we took out WASM and these kind of products went away I'd consider it a net positive.
I met an at&t installer who was intercepted by law reinforcement who wan'ted him to go into a house wearing a wire.
No, I mean modified. EA is clearly drawing on a lot of utilitarian ideas, but it’s not exactly the same thing.

The comment on implementation is neither here nor there. Plenty of people implement their ethical theories. I don’t know how implementing something is an argument for the correctness of that thing. Certainly it’s good that a lot of people don’t implement their ethical theories.

Even Christians don't do that much charitable giving nowadays.

Every source I can find says exactly the opposite.
Yes I know. But being exposed to threatening situations with firearms so often would not leave me unaffected.
> experts say, is mostly a function of the increasing role of power and velocity in the sport. Even clay courts, historically the slowest surface, play hard and fast these days.

Yeah this line was the key for me. But I think it is the opposite. They don't play hard and fast, they play hard and slow. This is why, I think, we do not have a lot of serve and volley players nowadays or one-handed backhands, not like the 90s. Because the baseliner has enough time to return your serves.

I watched the Wimbledon final and although Alcaraz went to the nets, it did not feel it is his style like a McEnroe or a Sampras. It felt like it was a strategy against Djokovic. Barely managed to hold on though.

Anyways, I stopped watching tennis a while ago (except the wimbledon finals), there is too much power and bullying involved, not enough grace and beauty. It feels like, I dare say, when field hockey decided to use astroturf instead of grass. In one stroke, all the flair players that relied on the unpredictability of grass were out and "hard running" and "precision scientific passing" won the day. Field Hockey stadiums are now almost always half-full, the beauty is gone.

Football and Rugby, I hope they stay the same.

EDIT: One other thing I noticed is that, in the 90s and early 00s, you had clay court specialists, hard court specialist and grass court specialists. The 4 grand slams were called the Vivaldi 4 seasons, they were that different. Winning all 4 was exceedingly tough. I think, now they are all the same, hard and slow. The variablility and unpredicatability is gone. You win 1, you can win them all.
That presumes that there is non-human sentience on Earth, which is not a given. Given that it's been impossible to teach apes anything like real language (they have been taught a few signed words), my guess is there are not any truly sentient non-human beings on this planet, where "sentient" means you can communicate with words and a grammar.

My cat excepted.
I suffered with crappy DSL for several years because dealing with Comcast was worse than having bad internet.
And it’s been said that the mass requires to build a Dyson sphere around our sun would necessitate destroying all of the planets: not gonna happen.
> most are kinda opinionated non-essential tweaks

"That's just like uh… your opinion man." —"The Big Lebowski", I think ;-)

I'm mostly of the opinion that vanilla Emacs has some bad opinions with regards to discoverability and ease-of-use-for-newbies, which is what this starter kit is targeting.

CUA-mode is on because without it you're gonna have newbies footgunning themselves super hard right out the gate, and that's the biggest thing I want to avoid.

If you consider this setup opinionated, then great—I'll embrace that. :) I think they're the kind of opinions that help newbies.

> ergoemacs

Are you referring to Xah Lee's stuff? Or something else? I'd love to see what you're referring to—please send me a link here or on my contact page. That said, Xah himself said at one point that `cua-mode` should be on by default,[1] so I think it's good enough for this kit.

[1]: http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/modernization.html
While there is no clear evidence that gameplay was significantly changed due to Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs), the analytics revolution headlined by Moneyball has continued to change the game towards power. Both hitting (hitting fly balls far as the core strategy, accepting increased strikeouts which used to be "embarassing") and pitching ("pitch labs", where the average velocity has significantly increased with harder to hit pitches) were impacted.

Basically, the benefit of a homerun and the benefit of a strikeout were both better understood and so the balance of the game changed so those were more common outcomes.
The turbulent history of modern Afghanistan
A server configured with a docroot to serve a static site will map requested URLs to hierarchical filesystem paths, but that isn't the only possibility; it's a common but quite loose coupling of ideas.

But the filename directive of the content-disposition response header is entirely coupled to the idea of a filename. Therefore, it ought to take precedence.
> With fully random matings the number of your ancestors doubles every generation. Ten generations ago (250-300 years) we might expect about 1,000 ancestors each contributing 0.1 percent of their total variants to your genome... when the number of ancestors exceeds 2,000-3,000 (12 generations would be about 4,000), it is likely that some ancestral sections of DNA have been lost altogether... by about 15 generations back many of the ancestors contribute no DNA variants at all but they are still ancestors on the lineage.

So cool, I never thought about a generation limit to meaningful genetic contribution.
There was a paper in early 2000s with some mathematical modeling about that, see https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-all-mo...

TLDR all Europeans may have a common ancestor as late as 1400 BCE, maybe 55 CE.
Seems also like too much talking with the company. I had cable internet only around this time and for some time a trap wasn't set. Why would you tell the company? Just don't watch cable TV if you have concerns.