skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people (and their attitude)

I've always found that New Yorkers aren't as rude as people say, they just tend to get right to the point in a way that people from, e.g., northern California may find off-putting.
AH does this explain drinking then

"Alcohol also acts on at least some of these receptors, enhancing the function of some nAChR subtypes and inhibiting the activity of others"
Pixel 4a user here:

I haven't played with the default launcher, but you can absolutely get rid of it with other launchers (as many sibling comments noted).

As for the chrome//android web view, you can disable the chrome app and 99% of apps that use android web view have an escape hatch option to just open it in your default browser, so that's also a non issue.
I am my data, my data is me. I own myself, of course. So I also own any and all data about me.

The constitutional right to privacy (sovereignty over oneself) is the start. This article's notion of price setting is derived from the right to privacy.

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I'd love to hear any and all proposals about determining the price of demographic data.

Surely, the Big Tech companies do this already. Analyzing current accounting practices is terrific place to start.

One interesting proposal for price setting is to treat warehousing demographic data (on the corporate balance sheet) as a liability vs an asset. The idea being to proactively manage risk (of the inevitable data leaks, ransomeware, etc), right?
Elder Scrolls Online. I was happily playing it after moving to Playstation a couple years ago, but my IRL friends sucked me back in. Now I'm all setup, and 2 of the 4 have stopped playing. Grrr. Maybe I'll just go back to PS.

EDIT: And before anyone suggests it, yes, I've tried it many times on macOS. On my $4000 Intel Mac with a Vega 20 GPU, it pauses so often to load textures, it's almost a slide show. It runs BETTER on a Mac WITHOUT a GPU. Even my buddy with his new M2 Studio only gets 30 FPS at medium settings, while my $700 PC gets 60 on high. If ZOS would somehow address this WIDE disparity, I'd GLADLY give up the PC, but they have officially given up on Mac.
Windows actually added Unix sockets about six years ago, and with how aggressive Microsoft EOLs older versions of their OS (relative to something like enterprise linux at least), it's probably a pretty safe bet to use at this point.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-...
and : https://archive.is/AbtKo
Which official treaty does give US nuclear umbrella to Japan and South Korea?
I like that data is not own-able. If I own data, corporations can own data. Not cool.
It turns out that the general public rather have AOL and Compuserve, than public distributed computing.
You mean the same OS where the internet settings has a (default checked) toggle box for “Tell me if Internet Explorer is not the default web browser.”?
wfh simply highlighted that most companies haven’t been able to accurately measure success for a very long time.

there are a lot of bob ross companies out there.

happy little accidents.
There are numerous cases where code needs comments. People who think identifier names are all you need are frankly frustrating. It forces co-workers to do reverse engineering any time they want to understand the code.

The most obvious case are API docs which includes internal APIs (means: any public method, in my codebases). Comments are much faster to read and understand than the source code, can be quickly pulled up by using the right hotkey in your IDE, and can be browsed via generate API doc pages in a browser. I don't want to read your function to figure out what it does, I don't want to guess how I'm supposed to use it from the name. I want proper docs.

The second most obvious case is where the reason for a piece of code isn't obvious. Typically this means bug fixes or workarounds, but can also be performance optimizations. If something isn't explained by a comment then sooner or later it's going to get accidentally changed. Unit tests aren't a complete replacement because you don't necessarily know what tests are for what lines of code, and often it's hard to unit test an obscure bug fix anyway (e.g. workarounds for OS level problems).
> the ability to quickly rollback to a prior known good stage

This is vital, but it's often not sufficient just to roll back, say, to a known good Docker image. Database migrations may have occurred that dropped columns that the old code expects to exist; feature flags may need to be changed; multiple services may need to be rolled back individually; data may have accumulated under new assumptions that breaks old assumptions when old code is applied to that new data.

One of the really subtle wins of devops as a discipline is that by allowing/forcing application teams to take responsibility for deployment, they're more exposed to thinking how to solve these things in a maintainable way: for instance, breaking out complex "the meaning of our data is changing"-type changesets/data migrations into individually reversible stages, with the stages merged onto the production branch over the course of multiple days where analysis is done on error rates and live data.
Here are some notes on the later history of GC in Rust:

RFC 256, 2014-09.
https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/0256-remove-refcounting-gc-...

Includes « I (and I think the majority of the Rust core team) still believe that there are use cases that would be well handled by a proper tracing garbage collector. »

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8312327
A core developer says

« I wouldn't be so quick to give up on GC support yet! "We have a plan!" But I
don't think we'll have it in for Rust 1.0. And it's true that, even if we
never do get it to work in a satisfactory way, the language works just fine
without it. »

By 2015-04 ("Fearless Concurrency"), "Memory safety without garbage collection." is a "key value proposition" (this isn't quite the same as saying "we never want Garbage Collection", of course).

2016-08
https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/08/18/gc-support-in-...
« Recently we (Felix, Niko, and I) have been working on getting compiler-level
GC support for Rust. »

2018-10 withoutboats has a research garbage collector as a library:
https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/shifgrethor-i/
The intro post includes « I do not expect we will ever “add GC to Rust” ».

2021 summary of options:
https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2021/04/05/a-tour-of-safe...
super+e, clicking the explorer button? I think you're being purposefully difficult here.

I cannot list any of the bugs I have had with Windows off the top of my head, but I can with linux. Driver issues, Pulse audio randomly playing static, updates breaking my system, fractional scaling not working, I could go on.
I use Windows 10/11 daily. The number of times Edge was "forced on me": 0 The number of times Edge launched when I expected or wanted my default browser (Firefox): 0 The number of times my browser default was reset to Edge: 0

I just don't understand this outrage. I spend 90% of my time in Firefox/Chrome - I've only started using Edge lately to play with Bing "AI" Chat. I had to search for it!
That'll teach me¹ the folly of badly using irony and hyperbole on the Internet!

You have simultaneously completely missed and directly stated the point I was trying to make. Yes the following part is creepy, and that is exactly what the author is extolling the benefits of in an online context.

Maybe for you² or I the collection of personal & habit data poses little risk when³ it leaks out. My life is too boring and on the beaten track to have much juicy to hide! But there are people for whom the collection and subsequent leaking of data about their habits could be significantly harmful. I do not trust that this system is safe from un-de-personalisation. And from a more selfish & mercenary PoV, if Google are going to use my device to serve their business plan⁴, they aren't doing it for free.

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[1] no, it won't, if I was going to learn the lesson I would have done so on one of several past occasions…

[2] I presume

[3] not if, when

[4] by blocking third party cookies in their browser and replacing with a system they control, they would gain an advantage over other ad-tech businesses
Did they? Because I’m in a lower O365 tier and those features haven’t actually made it down to me yet.
The ideas are similar, but transducers all greater flexibility and composability and testability. The pure idea of "pipelines" isn't anything new, though, as you pointed out.

When you have a Unix pipeline, let's say "cat file | grep -v '^#' | sed 's/\/t//' | wc -l", or something, each step must specify where the input and output comes from. i.e., you can't "pull out" the grep, sed, and wc parts, and then tell it that it's coming from a network socket, or web service instead. It _must_ come from a file descriptor (stdin, stdout). And you can't (easily) multi-thread just the sed piece. Or (easily) add a logger between cat and grep. Or a retry between two parts. Or have it read from a network socket instead. And it's not simple to combine these pipelines with other complex pipelines.

Anyway, take that concept, run with it for a while, and you get transducers.
You usually have a procedure to close out open positions via an alternate system (including via phone).
Does this use a chain of LLM/REST requests or does it use a single multi-task LLM request that launches a REST call while populating its output?
Fully agree. I switched to the web versions of Outlook and Teams about a year ago after problems with responsiveness, cpu utilisation, and excessive memory usage.
3D-Printed ‘Living Material’ Could Clean Up Contaminated Water
> > I'm not advocating this approach.

But I do understand the temptation.
I sometimes feel like modern education could really use a "defense against the Dark Arts"-style information savviness class. In theory, it's one of the things research projects are supposed to teach you (critical thinking), but I think it could stand to be even more focused: embrace and emphasize the notion that people state falsehoods as truth, whether it be due to lack of attention to detail, conflicting incentives, or overt malicious intent.

Comprehension is a balance. Believe too much and you've left the path of reason. But we've also seen skepticism come right round to conspiracy theory... Believe too little, and someone ends up standing in a pizze parlor brandishing a firearm demanding to see the nonexistent basement.
It's really simple - the early Unix kernel had so few lines of code because the machine had so few bytes of memory (180KB I think), and a bigger kernel wouldn't have fit. It's actually worse than that, because the PDP-11 address space was 16 bits, so the kernel had to be <64KB.

It really only had two types of devices - the disk and the serial ports. No network protocols, and a single very simple file system. Basically no virtual memory - it had segmentation, and most memory management was done by swapping processes to disk. More complexity would have to wait for bigger machines with more memory.
I noticed that, too. The first few seconds, absolutely not responding. And you're right. It's some background syncing.

For me, it's the calendar that getting synced at each start and slowing everything down. It's not the emails / exchange. I think it has something to do with the group calendar and with the Microsoft account.
If it would run completely local, w/o having some-/everything in the cloud, it would perform better.
> (Side note: I hope more founders build discord alternatives)

Something like Matrix or OMEMO? I feel like if a founder made a Discord alternative, they would end up falling into the same traps the original Discord founders did.
That's based on the assumption that someone would have thought about testing that particular flag for that particular scenario.

In my view this would only have been caught by a deployment to an identical copy of production, with running, simulated transactions, and high level funtional testing. Testing for each individual config value and scenario of where it may be used is playing whack a mole. Basically, I'd make a clone of prod, simulate everything that happends externaly (APIs, etc) and observe transaction KPIs and other high level business indicators. Testing for tech is insuring that the tech works, and sometimes that means testing that it's broken.
I wouldn't use it myself, but I couldn't say what is 'better' for other people. Some will prefer Chrome helping them. Lots of people do things that I don't.

Regardless, that's a debate to have with Chrome devs. It's already in the browser and the article is reporting on the browser.
Then I guess you should sign up somewhere in the VR sector.
A 2.5-5gal sink (lets average it at 3.75gal) filled 3/4 of the way twice is 5.6gal (2.1825 * 2). My dishwasher uses 3.5gal for a larger load than what I'd like to do in a sink. 5.6 > 3.5.
and of course the attacker would not know that and would give time to japan or south korea for them to acquire nuke tech?

Really?
" look something like the population they're selling to"

Would the car have been any less useful to african people if it was invented by a black henry ford?
I remember the eigenvector analysis of the original paper [1] wasn't terribly inaccessible. I think an alternative title for this blog post could be "Intuitively Understanding the Harris Corner Detector Optimizations".

[1] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...
I don't play many modern games. Not really interested in the latest consoles and my graphics card in the PC is around 8 years old. It seems a lot of games now require a large time investment and not for causal gamers.

If I want to play a games these days I normally go to emulators and back to old games. Old arcade games and computer games from the 80s and 90s era may look dated but some of them are more fun.
And the irony is that hand prewashing eats away all your savings of water and energy. Hand washing is tremendously wasteful relative to dish washers.
Pretty good uptime and exactly the same latency (CDNs != cloud, and that's where most latency is handled). Not 99.9%, which is the big selling point of clouds... as long as you forget about all the times that their complex infrastructure collapses on itself and loses you that third 9.
https://archive.is/xsvTc
Google pledges $20M for responsible AI fund
AFAIK, the LinuxONE boxes come without lock-in - what you pay for is what you get and there aren't any monthly subscriptions as there are with z/OS and the various pay-as-you-go features (besides, of course, the maintenance contract you WILL want to have for a multi-million dollar machine that uses mostly bespoke hardware).

Am I wrong?
Wrong.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/handheld-mode-for-wi...

By the way, Linux is your strawman; not mine.
Also Google still cares about serving the correct font version depending on your browser and OS, e.g. by not sending variable fonts (where one font file covers multiple font weights for example) to old browsers that didn't yet support them.

People self-hosting Montserrat are one bane of older browsers, because that seems to be a relatively popular font that got converted to a variable font file at some point, and which in browsers without variable font weight support then gets displayed at the thinnest possible font weight, which is really thin. (I concede that this is a niche complaint, but still…)
FWIW gitlab has also done similar.

I think MFA is important for something like code repositories.
I have similar childhood memories about Garrison Keillor/APHC..

I just never got to encounter them almost 1:1 like that.
https://archive.is/hv7rv
Nah, the mirror image of this would probably be a meetup for management type folks, with talks praising the efficacy of NOT interrupting your team when doing work requiring deep attention, let them only come to the office when it is really useful, stop doing meetings, etc.
not a silicon engineer or even in the same sphere, but here's my guess- feel free to correct me if I'm wrong:

Like Arm's big.LITTLE cpu designs, the last few Intel CPU design generations have used heterogenous CPU cores- some more powerful designed for fast execution, and other less powerful ones designed for power efficiency and density. AMD also has heterogenous cores now, too- with it's X3D chips utilizing chiplets with both stacked cache and without.

Unlike how it used to be on x86, where a reasonable approach was to just spread jobs out evenly across all cores, now which core things go to can have a huge impact on speed, with some games running better on the higher cache cores of an X3D chip while others do better with the higher frequencies of the normal ones.

In the future, I believe this will help reshape the backbone of thread scheduling to make it more efficient and have a better understanding of the processor it's working with without necessarily needing a significant amount of engineering work per heterogenous CPU that comes out.
> ...nor do we get shares/equity in our water/power consumption...

If you have a local municipal water or power utility, then you effectively do have shares/equity.

(And if your municipality is competent in managing their Water Dept. or Power Dept., you probably have better service than a for-profit private utility would provide. Sadly... municipal governments are frequently allergic to that "competent" stuff.)
Seems like a pretty lowball amount given the amount of funding they're investing into commercialization -- pretty sure they put $300M into just an investment in Anthropic.
How do you select the pages? Did you filter some of them or it's a random sample? I guess it would be nice to filter only "important" pages with many translations.

Also, I got a draw. Does it count like a win or a loose?
Lovely.

It is still pricing that VM at about $9 per month. I'll play with it and see.
TikTok Is Spending $1.3B to Dodge Bans in Europe
Blame extension devs not Firefox. I agree on the video performance though.
> H.G. Wells was read with a pause in between each period because it "thinks" that each letter boundary is a sentence change

This is why I'm a firm "two spaces after the period" guy. Makes it unambiguous the difference between the abbrevs. period and the sentence-end period. Otherwise you get sentences like "Let's not forget that Dr. Principal does not care about this." which can be read in two valid ways.
Upon first impression, this is incredible! Audiobooks have enabled me to enjoy fiction books that I, otherwise, would not have been able to due to time constraints or other commitments. Perhaps, in the near future, AI will be able to make many obscure books that are collecting dust in museums and libraries accessible to the public through audiobooks. That is a future to look forward to.
Renting isn’t cheaper than buying at nearly any point from 2008 to 2020 in any US city. Renting being cheaper than buying is a “new” phenomenon and still debatable since renting doesn’t result in equity and can never result in ownership. A house isn’t just an asset, it’s a place to live.
Show HN: Node.js File-based routing back end library
This project was built for quick and easy backend building. I'm still not good at programming.
If you have any suggestions please leave a comment. Thankyou :)

repo: https://github.com/zely-js/core
This is driven by drug overdoses of working age people.
What's in the way of TCP hitting the same performance as unix sockets, is it just netfilter?
Are people hallucinating? If so, why? Mere prejudice?
Why would I give a break to someone who doesn't give me one?
> multinational brands (like Coca-Cola) are actively avoiding controversy

You think that multinational brands (like Adidas, Target, PepsiCo, and Anheuser-Busch) have been striving to avoid controversy lately? Really?

It's more correct to say that multinational brands avoid controversy in one political direction. They seem to have no qualms embracing it in the other.
> should we be similarly outraged about the climate footprint of tech conferences

Yes, even more so.
Or more realistically, another JVM language.

I actually wouldn't mind a subset of Rust that targets the JVM.
> The bad news is, any criticism of these particular billionaires results in synthesized media campaigns crying wolf about anti-Semitism or anti-science

Who’s the billionaire you have in mind? Also remember that he also has his own self-interests and will toss you under the bus if it furthers his interests, too.
> Only four nations have successfully landed on the moon, the U.S., Russia, China and India.

Correction: the U.S., the Soviet Union, China, and India.
https://archive.is/p5gXr
Here's an example that just got me: the Tesco mobile prepaid login has a hidden recapcha field that isn't filled in on Firefox mobile. It's rare, but happens enough I increasingly try and use chrome for multi step things that will be annoying or problems if they fail near the end, like government forms.
Sorry for my English, I try to clarify like this:

- cities material costs (meaning raw materials, energy etc) is enormous compared to the same people of any city living a far less dense area with single families homes AND commerce around intermixed. In such scenario moving with light electrical vehicles, mostly recharged from local p.v. since it's effective in most of the inhabited word is FAR cheaper (again in resources) than collective transports in a dense city;

- WFH in a dense city is a nightmare, because you miss nature and social contacts together. I came from a large EU city, now living in the Alps, WFH. In the city I have had a FAR LESS social life, simply because it's limited to a small number of selected friends doing service-based activities, like eating together in a restaurant, going to some events etc. Here being less dense anyone (almost) interact with almost any other, normally, and that's completely change the social paradigm compensating the "alienation" of working at home, distant from your peers. As a result I can WFH and remain a social animal in a not so dense area, where I can goes around, find people etc WITHOUT services, and the anonymity of the crowd. I probably can't in cities. Doing so means also I travel LESS (no commute) and longer trips are almost meaningless since I mostly recharge from my p.v. I keep more stuff at home, so I have less "impromptu trip" to buy something and so on. I'm more in nature, more social, more resilient (for instance no long series of stairs if there is a blackout and still have my home powered).

About health:

> Is that after controlling for wealth?

I do not know if most studies have taken family economy into account BUT so far people in cities are normally a bit more wealthy than outside, and still, they tend to live less.

> [gut microbe] Is that good or bad?

Perhaps not definitively clear, but typically healthy people have a significant set of gut microbes...

> Pollution is important though. The more you can walk or cycle, and more generally the lower the per capita energy use, the less pollution and the better for human health.

In toxicology pollution is measured in density, too little oxygen and we die, too much and we die as well. Similarly a poison below a certain threshold it's harmless. Try looking at ANY city, there are some more polluted than some others, but all are more polluted than far enough surroundings. People activities do pollute. You can walk, but the truck bringing you food does not.
Oracle does not own the Java programming language itself. Java is an open-source language, and Oracle primarily maintains Java SE and Java EE platforms implementation. But, there are other implementations and open-source versions of Java, e.g. OpenJDK, which are not owned by Oracle.
"... For an hour"
At 15 years old it probably does have the grinder. They starting going away about then though, so hard to say without doing more digging than I care to.
You should read Flowers for Algernon if you have not