skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What surprises me is that Meta is currently actively hiring in UK. Does that mean they're just optimizing for the cheap labour?

Edit: example of newly open position https://www.metacareers.com/jobs/298738792749406/
Back when global warming wasn't really widely discussed, or even believed, nuclear power was seen as quite threatening to a environmentalist.

After all, nuclear power was brand new. And the pollution and death if one goes bad...
Thanks for the feedback, the loading screen should show progress in a bar in the middle of the screen so I’m interested to know what you’re seeing specifically.
> ran it on a powerful IceLake-based server with 64 cores.

I assume this is not consumer hardware. Is this something you'd normally find in a data center, eg would you rent this from AWS?
What are good and battle proven tools to

A) monitor traffic on my home network - especially in a MikroTik environment

B) identify malicious activity

Thx
I understand this is cringe, but:

> one of the many entities directly responsible for destroying our planet

Do any of you believe this narative?

Honest question: isn't the destruction of the planet due to the 8 billion people that have to be fed, clothed, housed, entertained? Aren't fossil fuels directly responsible for the industrial revolution and people not starving anymore?

I get that "Big Oil" might have delayed some reforms, but isn't the elephant in the room the 8 billion people that still need to be fed, clothed, housed, and entertained?
They just released 1.0 with massive speed increases over node in many scenarios and still have to fix compatibility issues (like the lack of dgram). Let them prioritise coverage.
Moving Marginalia to a new server
Thanks! It was a lot of fun to make and it’s really nice to hear from people enjoying it.
StatusCake has a feature to call me. It's a horrible artificial voice "your website $name is down" but I'm fine with anybody shouting at me at 3am. The phone number is from the United States and I don't need to add it to my phone book because that's the only US phone calling me. (For people inside the US you might think it's another robocall)
I think it was both.

Fossil fuel companies opposing it I can understand: it’s a straightforward, strategic move.

For green proponents, I think it was an own goal, likely driven by a mix of fear and failing to realize that people would not readily temper their demand for energy and the holistic solution needs to include humanity harnessing substantial amounts of energy. Ruling out nuclear directly (in a single step) means decades of people creating gigatons more emissions from burning fossil fuels.
I've stopped relying on those benchmarks for anything other than anecdotal data (if you check some of the server source code and how they finagle things to go faster for that specific benchmark you'll see why)
It doesn't even look good on pure gaming grounds. What a low-effort endeavor.
There’s so much emphasis of government use of these tools, but I’m a lot more weary of a world where consumers have easy access to facial recognition.

Pimeyes is a free and shockingly effective way to figure out who someone in a photo is. High schoolers have already adopted it - poke around on TikTok and you’ll see them uploading images to figure out who that athlete from another school or random stranger on the street is. It’s already here.
https://pyscript.net/ it runs pyodide under the hood.
man tig
A shout-out is definitely due to Ian Bell and his website. This is where you can find the original source code for the BBC Micro version. Those original disks form the basis for all my Elite commentaries, including the NES project we're talking about here.

The core of the 1991 NES version (around 30% of the 128K ROM) is essentially the 1986 BBC Master version, which itself is a development of the original BBC Micro version from 1984. The Commodore 64 and Apple II versions are also cut from the same cloth (and they were developed on a BBC Micro, too).

Most of the code in banks 0, 1 and 2 is directly copied from the original BBC version, with a bit more in bank 7. There are new graphics, sound and controller routines bolted on the front, but the beating heart is still the Beeb version...
ACME.com to the rescue:

https://acme.com/software/mini_httpd (slow)
https://acme.com/software/thttpd (pretty decent)
> I get that "Big Oil" might have delayed some reforms, but isn't the elephant in the room the 8 billion people that still need to be fed, clothed, housed, and entertained?

Imagine how much progress would have been made had Shell et al. not buried research for decades showing the harms of fossil fuels and aggressively lobbied against alternative forms of energy.

This is like saying its not Comcast's fault that your neighborhood still only has 50mbps after decades and millions in grants because people still need Internet access.
> I get that "Big Oil" might have delayed some reforms

That's a huge understatement. They have actively sabotaged green initiatives all along. They have stopped green policies, and green policies is and has always been the ONLY way forward, you can't put shit like this on individuals.
> And yet there is much precedent for having a village raise children.

But are all those other people on the same 'level' of attachment for the child, or is there a 'hierarchy'?

Further, not that having community is bad, but it can 'devolve' into tribal/clan thinking, which is probably not good for society as a whole (can lead to nepotism, which is generally highly correlated with corruption) and something the West is relatively unique in 'breaking out' of:

* https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/joseph-...

* https://archive.ph/e7DJX
Treat e-bike batteries like fireworks, claims report a month after fatal fire
Failure-Oblivious Computing and Boundless Memory Blocks [pdf]
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I wish he would write a Commander Keen sequel instead.
Some people really do follow this line of thinking all the way down to "the industrial revolution was therefore bad for humanity", but I think most people would agree that not true, so these simple narratives must be incomplete

Jason Crawford has a really good analysis of this sentiment, trying to understand why people think this, on his Roots of Progress blog: https://rootsofprogress.org/the-spiritual-benefits-of-materi...
Let's not pretend a bad thing is equally bad as a significantly worse thing just because it's also bad please
Selling your soul to the Devil is great strategy for the Devil. It may be for you too, at least initially. But it isn't good for the rest of the world.
Definition of what constitutes a middle class is so vague that it's birthtime could be placed anywhere in the timeline just as well.
I don't understand what a middle class is. Someone is either able to live off their property/investment then they are rich, or not then they are poor. Is the middle class someone who still can't, but has a reasonable chance to get there within their lifetime? Only viable definition i can think of.
> your portrayal really feels like a fraudulent way to frame

This an an incredibly offensive thing to say, there's definitely a fraud here and it is not me, you should probably try harder next time with your sigint thing :) Good luck with it mate, please don't ever again.
Also oil is insanely cleaner to burn than coal or wood
On a topic not directly related to the article, there's a book written by a former CEO of Shell called "Why We Hate the Oil Companies" that's rather interesting. In summary, his points are that oil is not necessarily good or bad, but that the lack of effective energy policies and the inherent challenges of the field incentivize bad practices by oil companies, while simultaneously these companies fail to communicate their positive role in civilization as the media routinely use them as a punching bag. I'm not excusing what Shell is doing or has done in the past, but the book provides a nuanced take for anyone interested in the topic.
What's with the random bit flips in pieces that look like they would have been copied from the shell (i.e. likely not typos)?

objects/4c -> objects/5c

2023-07-02 -> 2024-07-02
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/africa/shell-oil-spills-niger...

Couldn’t the oil companies have included environmental responsibility in their work and not just have focused on profits?
Lol nice euphemism "delayed some reforms".

As of today I'll argue that no true reform has been done, externalities of burning fossil fuel are absolutely not taken into account.

And it's been delayed by something like half a century ? (cf https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64241994)
Scary thought:

Let's say you do this. And facial data DBs continue to grow. And eventually they become so widespread that most people are in them. And facial recognition becomes so ubiquitous that it is necessary for everyday transactions. And you can't participate in large swatches of society because you are, as far as the technology is concerned, a statue, or dead.

Far fetched? It's happening with cell phones. Many things are not possible, or vastly more difficult, if you don't have a smart phone.
Agree. And I feel like some patterns emerged from the limitations of programming laguauages Java & C++ which does not apply to languages like python/js. I mean when you can use lambdas/high order functions a lot of those patterns does not even make senses. Not to mention those pure functional programming languages.
A.k.a abusing a free service for personal benefit and breaking ToS
> "Big Oil" might have delayed some reforms

Is the understatement of the century. They knew about global warming from internal research close to a decade before public science was able to gather enough data to raise alarm bells. Over that decade big oil spent time not researching greener alternatives or options for improving things but rather prepared for the globe spanning disinformation campaign you've so lightly referred to as delaying some reforms.

Big oil is a major reason for why 8 billion people are being fed, clothed, and entertained unsustainably. We don't need oranges avaliable year round. We don't need North Sea salmon in pacific Islands. We especially don't need to import so much most is thrown out as waste.

There is a lot wrong with the world right now, and population management needs to be part of the conversation but we are not yet at a point where the volume of people is simply unsustainable. We are unlikely to reach that point as well, since population growth seems to slow naturally as populations hit carrying capacity.
Sure but Radeon cards are not HPC accelerators. A modest 7800XT for example, which would be a great card for SD, has 76 TFlops@FP16, 37TF@FP32 and 1.16TF@FP64.

Keeping all those FPUs busy is another problem and not easy, but in cases where it can be done FP32 is clearly desirable.
> But what will a coin cell do when it's trying to get charged?

You can get rechargeable lithium coin cells. It will just recharge fast.

The cell usually has enough internal resistance and surface area that it can't overheat or violate the charge current limits.

I still wouldn't recommend this approach, simply because the DC/DC converter approach you specified is slightly more power efficient (onboard chargers tend to have poor energy efficiency - many are simple linear regulators from 5v!).
> is this purely to raise awarness?

It feels to me like someone who has only just noticed that the majority of internet traffic is nowadays malicious.

In about 2002 I set up my first domestic mailserver, and was shocked (and frightened) at the proportion of traffic that was malicious. Then I started digging into other system logs. In those days most malicious traffic was from Eastern Europe. I've run honeypots, for entertainment. It was engaging for a while. Eventually I realised that running a home honeypot was a waste of effort, and I just hardened my systems and instituted a bit of monitoring.
Instead, Shell—a massive oil company and one of the many entities directly responsible for destroying our planet—wants you all to know just how rad its fossil fuel products are, and even made a whole Fortnite world for you to enjoy!

Sure, spreading oil propaganda and trying to influence policies despite very well knowing of the negative consequences is bad, maybe even evil behavior. But making it sound like Shell singlehandedly destroyed the planet is just ignorant. Without us, the consumers, and our desire for the products made from that oil and gas, Shell would not have pumped a single barrel out of the ground or sunk an oiltanker somewhere in the process. The convince of having a car, consuming cheap electricity, getting plastic toys from China delivered across the globe the next day and spending your holiday at the other end of the world is what destroyed the planet.
The personal atomic jet pack?
Governments also.
Clean Code, Horrible performance Rust edition
Hello,

Just reimplemented the infamous video "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance" in Rust!

Casey Muratori showed how trying to be cute with your code and introducing unnecessary indirection can hurt performance. The enum version is 1.6x faster than using traits + dynamic dispatch. The data oriented version is 2.27x faster than dynamic one.

Hope you'll enjoy this short article and I'd be happy to get comments on the implementation and the subject in general!
I mean, they do what they want but if they market themselves as much faster than nodejs and when people are trying it, it's no really faster (and it's not the first time I see such a benchmark), then it's gonna leave a bad impression. Why bother with all the instability that comes from the project's young age[1] if the project fails to deliver on its biggest selling point?

[1] and I'm not blaming them for that, their goal of being node compliant is a big undertaking
NOAA / National Weather Service: U.S. Tsunami Warning System
It's cool (and a bit surprising) to see that Nim was so much faster than Go, even on a toy benchmark. I wonder how Nim+httpbeast would compare against Go+fasthttp or Go+fiber on the same hardware, or also Rust and Haskell.
I suspect that AMD will use their improved compatibility with the leading ML stack for data center deals. Presumably by offering steep discounts over NVIDIA’s GPUs. This might help them to break into the market.

Individual ML practitioners will probably not be tempted to switch to AMD cards anytime soon. Whatever the price difference is: it will hardly offset the time that is subsequently sunk into working around remaining issues resulting from a non-CUDA (and less mature) stack underneath PyTorch.
China has a very large population of educated and under-employed nerds.
The New Architecture for Cloud Native Data Warehousing
The AGI he'll write will make us unlimited Commander Keen sequels.
That's the HTTP config, but the website is served over HTTPS and the HTTP version redirects to it. My bet would be that the HTTPS settings does not bind to IPv6.

Do you have:

listen [::]:443 ssl;

somewhere in the server {} block where the certificate is declared?

My mobile phone carrier uses IPv6 so I cannot access your website from my phone (except if I connect to a wifi network that uses IPv4).
Without a second offer in hand, you're always going to be in a very bad negotiating position when it comes to salary. Avoiding the stress of multiple interviews is almost certainly costing you tens of thousands per year. Over your entire career we're talking about millions of euros.
You mean Replicants, I’m sure.
Where is the ethical part?

She is an adult, she makes decisions.

I do not see the defensers of ethics being around when someone makes foolish decisions such as smoking, having a child or taking drugs. Suddenly we now have a woman who can think on her own.

Let people do what they want if this does not impact the society.
The glass at McCormick Place in Chicago is a lethal obstacle for birds
To be fair, out of these TS/JS and Swift stand out like pretty big ecosystems and languages, I don't know how one developer can fully "learn" all of them to a high proficiency level in a reasonable time.

For C# (which is another "big" language), people tend to overlook high quality first-party tutorials and documentation:

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csha...

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/getting-starte...

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet (general sitemap of everything that's there)
Ah, the Dolchstoßlegende of nuclear energy again. The Green movement was an absolute fringe group without power that never influenced any decision regarding nuclear energy in the 20th century.
I have a 1 Gbps internet connection at home, for which I'm paying $10 per month. I live in Romania.

The US and its companies are not the only ones on this earth, so unless you're going to claim some sort of conspiracy that prevented global progress, I'm not buying it.
I am starting to believe that this is, most likely, the best way out of a lot of the mess we find ourselves in, in the modern digital world. We, the laypeople, are under scrutiny in so many ways, our lives being recorded all the time. The basic asymmetry is that, on the other hand, the powerful have tools at their disposal to hide from scrutiny, and at the same time have access to the data collected on us. With well designed systems, we could remove this unfair advantage that they have, and level the playing field.
As Bush would say, "Mission Accomplished".
> then it's gonna leave a bad impression

My company's frontend team (comprised mostly of people who believe anything written) jumped the wagon on Bun.

After a few days of working with it, it turned out that Bun isn't really faster in real world scenarios.

This brings up the question - why market it as so much faster then?

Many frameworks and tools market themselves primarily as faster than $otherThing but it won't fix suboptimal code, wrong choices for data structures, silly things like "let's select * and sort in browser". When you remove those mistakes that bad devs make, it turns out node/deno are more than fast enough. What we need is less bloat, more engineering and no lazy development by "packagemanager install lib-that-could-do-my-work"
Deno is missing!
Fossil fuels have enabled great things. Fossil fuel companies also directly interfere with policy and regulation that will enable people to have a similar quality of life while using considerably more non-emitting power. That's horrible.
It takes virtually no time with something like cpp-httplib. but I guess one have to discover it first.
Why did it take mathematicians and logicians so long to figure out their differences?
At my 100% remote company, we got a negative review from someone saying the bathrooms were dirty in our office. (We've never had an office, but there's another company with a similar name as ours that does)

We eventually got it removed, but it took an extreme amount of effort to convince them to take it down.

I can't imagine how difficult it would be to take a review down that isn't as easy to prove illegitimate.

This was in 2020, so maybe things have devolved since then..
Sometimes I think, that green policies are not stopped by Big Oil but undermined.
You see, in many countries green policies are tied with rejection of nuclear power plants, which is much more effective and sustainable than all solar & wind sources.

When I've lived in Russia, I've donated to Green Peace and WWF, because they helps a lot to save Nature Reserves, oppose predatory laws which allows to exploit Protected Areas without any ecological control, they sued factories which dump industrial waste into soil and water without any treatment, etc.

Now I'm living in Europe and I don't want to give money to Green Peace, because their agenda is not about nature reserves and industrial waste treatment, but, first, anti-nuclear-plant and then anti-travel, antu-car-ownership, etc.
Seems awfully suspicious that the two highest rated comments in this thread are both oil apologists and both say the same exact thing.
It is indeed different on PAL vs NTSC. The code relies on the NMI being called at 50Hz - as a result a number of timings are wrong on the NTSC version, so the music is too fast, the combat demo auto-play doesn't work properly, the time reported for completing the combat demo is wrong, and so on. The NTSC version is unfinished, and this is just one area where it shows.
Blazor Server is completely inappropriate for an internet facing site.

The same is not true for Blazor Webassembly, which operates as combination of client and server projects, typically communicating via standard REST calls.
It’s cool to see more innovation in this space, but I’m not sure how these companies are “beating the west.”

In many situations it’s not really even competition as it’s not like PayPal is trying to make inroads to MPesa’s market in Kenya.
i'd say figure out a way to make it cheap. don't be afraid to rework your backend.
Spanish company PLD Space launches rocket for first time
Do you have some examples of hip-hop tracks that steal well?
P2k23 – OpenBSD Ports Hackathon Dublin 2023
> That passage is fascinating in that it itself confidently makes statements about history that are based more on supposition than evidence.

It's not making statements about history. Elsewhere in the book it states that the Ancient Egyptians traveled to America, which is why Thoth has a presence there. It's a fictional world.

> [Easter eggs] came to Easter via Persian New Year celebrations.

Is this something we know? I had the impression that Easter eggs were attested for the Kievan Rus.
I think you misunderstood my comment. Comcast is a US company; the fact you have 1Gbps Internet in Romania and yet many parts of the US don't (or don't for a reasonable price) just illustrates my point.
I can tell you with full sincerity that no missile is going to hit the one of these two places (home and coffee shop) where you won't be at 8PM.

Now maybe I'm with the NSA and I know where you'll be. Maybe I'm just an informant and I know where the NSA thinks you'll be.

What will you do?
Saving as a JPG gave me a cropped version that cuts off the bottom, just fyi
Good! A 0.01 - 1% failure rate and people will become very pissed off at the system, making it politically untenable. Which for a small country means cloning and poisoning the internet for 200 - 20.000 people. Not too impossible.
I wrote multiple times to cloudflare about not being able to verify as human (especially on chatgpt) but with no success. Technology working as intended /s