skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. It’s just that they didn’t realize that their byzantine pricing model was far too complex for many people (who looked at it for 5 seconds and jumped to Twitter) to understand.

Almost nobody who could do basic math would’ve paid the $0.2 fee. They would’ve just upgraded to pro (considering that’s something they already had to do if their company’s revenue* was above 200k under the old model).

* the fact that Unity switched from a per company rev. limit to a per project one was also a significant discount to some users (e.g. if you work in an actual company but need Unity for a temporary/side project you now get it for free).
At least at the firms I’ve worked with, new records were digitized and old files were undergoing digitization. Maybe it’s different in your country?

There’s always some process a firm must use to make digital records available to an auditor - it’s at this point in the step code must be trusted even if it’s supposed to be as simple as “make everything available “.
Personally think there’s a lot of weight behind the notion it was Paul LeRoux

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux
delays -> devalues, dilutes?
Copyright infringement will follow soon..
Personally I don't believe in effective altruism, however it sounds like Mr. Feeney lived this philosophy much better than Sam Bankman Fried ever did, without attracting attention. May he rest in peace.
No. Nobody wanted Pentiums from the mid nineties by the end of the decade. Clock frequencies were racing to jump over the 1 GHz barrier.

We produced a lot of electronics trash in the 90s. You bought a computer and two years later you had to replace it. Upgrade paths were also severely limited due to new sockets and chipsets all the time.

It was stressful if you wanted to stay cutting edge with your gaming PC I can tell you.
They need to be taking stakes in the companies when things (exploitation/loss of control etc) start escalating ala British East India Company taken over by the Queen after shit hits the fan. Or atleast the threat should be hanging over everyones head. There is no other way to slow the self important tech buffoon class down. Their 3 inch chimp brains aren't growing at the same speed as the tech and consequences of tech are.
We already see some of early stages of this, with internet shutdowns every time they lose control of Jurassic Park. Regulations and the law are a total waste of time.
Upskilling/retraining into an even more niche area than I already work in.
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> You mean flexibility to claim ECC support but not doing any validation to make sure it actually works?

The actual ECC functionality is part of the memory controller, which is entirely AMD's domain. The ECC functionality of the memory controller is fully validated.

Whether or not ECC support is present on the rest of the platform is the responsibility of the system builder. However, if the platform isn't fully ECC-capable (e.g., you're using non-ECC DIMMs, the motherboard doesn't have the necessary electrical traces, ECC support is disabled in the UEFI, etc.), this will result in the memory controller disabling ECC support, which is visible to the operating system and is something that you -- the end user -- can verify.

> Does any AMD motherboard manufacturer actualy states that "ECC is supported and has been validated"?

Yes. ECC support will be listed in the motherboard's spec sheet and manual. There also motherboards marketed for professional use where ECC support is explicitly advertised in the vendor's marketing.

> I think the muddy waters that AMD has created would warrant such an explicit statement.

AMD's official statement regarding ECC support on Ryzen is that it's supported if the motherboard also supports it. I'm not sure how they can be any clearer without making ECC a mandatory feature of the platform.
I doubt the ODMs are incentivized to wrap up some e-waste, rebrand it, and introduce it to the market under a new cap like ZimaBoard. Is this common practice?
Just be sure to think in advance about the maximal total amount of memory you'd need, since 5200 MHz is officially supported only for 2 modules (3600 MHz for 4). Discussed a week ago (also ECC issues were mentioned): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37717567.
any interest in going as far as changing that article of the constitution?

I feel it is almost unworkable enough

I don’t feel as if enough important people care enough the same way as irrelevant people would care

relevant because the only populist legislative changes that occur are the ones that coincidentally match what the elite class was already interested in
AWS – Discontinuation of AWS CodeStar
Altium Designer used to have the exact same issue for a very long time but I think it's finally gone some time ago
Seems to me that asserts are a force multiplier on tests. If you have a bunch of asserts, every test case you write is extra valuable -- you aren't just verifying correct input/output behavior, you're also verifying that all asserts held.

In the extreme case, I can imagine ditching all your small-scale unit tests for a combination of asserts and end-to-end integration tests.
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>This is the same TV I first played FF6 on and the softer brush strokes of Terra's portrait immediately feel so right to me.

This is an example of what I mean by Stockholm Syndrome. This person when they were young got used to the poor quality of the displays and now thinks it looks better. This person excuses the blur by just calling it "soft brush strokes."
Adjacent topic. If you're in the Bay, the co-inventor of BASIC, Thomas E. Kurtz, is being awarded at CHM in November. https://computerhistory.org/events/2023-fellow-award-ceremon...

He's 95 so if you wanted to meet him, that event is a great time. The Turing Award winner Barbara Liskov and the founder of iRobot, Rodney Brooks, is also on that schedule.
I find it interesting. I think I could make money from it, but I’m not interested in much other than learning and creating a lot of plants to put in my aquariums.

I can propagate plants the old fashioned way, but many of them are incredibly slow growing. Tissue cultures can yield a dozen viable plants per jar, then I can grow them out in semi hydroponic settings until they’re suitable for putting into a tank (at which point I kind of “drip acclimate” them to their destination tank for a week or two to prevent melting (in which an environmental shock causes foliage to senesce).

I’d like to see interesting mutations out of curiosity, but so far the clones are identical to their parents. I use relatively low-key hormones, so that might be why. I only keep chemicals that won’t harm my kids, more or less.
I'm using Firefox on Linux and 2 is how it's been working for me for a looong time now. Clicked links in external programs always open in the last active Firefox window for me. Is this OS or even window-manager specific?
this problem plagues me, I even saw it today, and I'm up-to-date on the latest Firefox for Fedora, I wonder if it's rolled out yet? Here's the thing, though, they probably didn't fix it for me: I use focus-follows-mouse, so probably in my case Firefox will think it has the focus (because it does briefly), but it's just a little scrap peaking out from under a stack of other windows.
ARC is completely separate from FS caches... if the kernel needs memory, it will tell ZFS to prune the ARC, however it's not exactly instantaneous.

Newer versions of htop also now have counters for ARC usage (compressed or uncompressed)... but it still shows up as used rather than cache.
Yes this! This is the main thing stopping me moving.

The ux is currently horrible because you have to run multiple copies of the browser
> What’s modal about it?

Modal? The various input modes. Think of them as if you're using vi/vim, except that it's a terminal. Insert mode is just like every other terminal. Press Ctrl+Shift+Space to move to normal mode (configurable) and use many of the vim motions you know to navigate through your history. The supported keys go way beyond what Termite and Alacritty implement. You might find that you'll never need a mouse again (or almost never). For anything that's missing, please file a ticket, and we're going to work on that.

> Certainly I’ve wished the things I run in it were faster, but that’s a different story.

I absolutely agree. Most of the performance metrics that people talk about is beyond visual perception anyways. In Contour we've only done some optimizations the way we did it because it was actually fun to implement, and a nice little challenge.

While I myself feel like i'm pretty much hard-lining into the terminal, I accept that some things are better left to the GUI world, e.g. daily web-browsing I should not be forced to use w3m or the likes. :)
If you may, can you tell how did you set-up UPI as a foreigner since it requires a bank account AFAIK
Hyperlayer: Debug Rails apps 10x faster
That second paragraph: holy mother of exaggerated claims!
depends on if you're a car maker or writer, the only way trajectory gets changed is every you organize your office
That is also in the works as color-contrast(): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value...
JavaScript was a web standard right from the beginning. Its popularity grew together with the web itself by virtue of being the only programming language that could be counted on to be available on websites.

Flash and Java both required plugins, didn't integrate well with the rest of the website, were quite heavyweight, and frequently got bad publicity due to security bugs.

Of course, browsers themselves also had them aplenty, but at the end of the day one can't use the internet without one :)
> Feeney gave away his fortune in secret for many years, until a business dispute resulted in his identity being revealed in 1997.

> Feeney gave away more than $8 billion in his lifetime.
IIRC AMD doesn't validate the ECC functionality on their ryzen chips? So you could theoretically end up with a defective ECC circuitry if unlucky. I think that was the case for the first generations, it may also have changed or I may be misremembering.
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

(Bear in mind that 3 is the most aggressive but other than exporting the pool, it's the only way to dump the cache, especially if you boot off ZFS)
>Assertions MUST NOT be the only thing between misbehavior and input data, including data returned from other APIs (e.g. fopen calls, i.e. auto x = fopen ("foo"); assert (foo != NULL); is invalid). Anything dealing with foreign data must not assume anything about the state or contents of the data, and as such, cannot ever assert, as it doesn’t have an assertion to make. If you take away only one thing from this article, let it be this: assertions do not verify arbitrary inputs.

The author seems overconfident in this point. Like, what if the "input data" is from another software system I control?

Triggering an assert failure on bad user input is a little sloppy, but if there's no way to recover at that point anyways, I don't see why it matters.

Can someone enlighten me?
Then whats the point of buying a stock if it doesn't even entitle you to ownership of a company?
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And, if I remember correctly, the whole Profile things was initially hidden in Firefox. I remember you couldn't easily switch profile without using the command line.
Well ressources are not infinite. And in such conditions I would rather prioritize by need rather than by mean.
It’s not that. If you have to always show the full price any ads which include it become pretty much illegal (besides physical billboards etc.) unless you can somehow figure out where the person viewing it lives (not an option for TV).

While I wouldn’t mind if most ads just disappeared I don’t see how effectively banning businesses from advertising their prices would benefit the consumers.
> shared token schema

Could you explain or give an example of what this is?
I build something similar when I was a teenager. I actually worked amazingly well as an antenna for DVB-T
The codebase for that UI part might be the same... Actually TB 115 might be the reason that the bug has finally been fixed in Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1843203#c9
The rest of the world doesn't have the current Canadian government.
Ah, something extremely similar affects SyncTrayzor on Windows too! https://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor/issues/760
I heavily doubt they would have deplatformed and I don't think there ever was a pandemic of CSAM on reddit. This is a mischaracterization usually the argument to enact greater control.

Could be that reddit did indeed have no choice here, there was a media campaign against more open platforms.

The situation is indeed tenable if platforms just do not cooperate with external pressure of content moderation. There are such platforms and they still operate today.
Clever, I like it.
i had the bug in other gtk applications so i blamed gtk or gnome :(

Apparently it can be fixed by the application
I think the platforms in particular benefit from trust. Maybe not this quarter, but surely over the course of years/decades.
Not sure why they needed own DB. Fibery.io has similar domain and we built everything on Postgres. Works like a charm and you even don't have Airtable bases connectivity problem. We have schema-per-customer and table-per-entity-type model, performance is quite good.
I've been actually researching this a lot recently as I'm in the process of buying parts for a desktop build and want ECC support.

> Unfortunately, when the AMD Ryzen 7000 “Raphael” CPUs were launched along with the brand new Socket AM5, all mention of ECC support was gone.

1. This was effectively a big point of concern for me. Previous ASRock Taichi motherboards officially advertised full ECC support, but not the latest X670E for AM5 model. Older version of the X670E Taichi page mentioned ECC support ("Supports DDR5 ECC/non-ECC, un-buffered memory up to 6600+(OC)") [0], and this Level1Tech review [1] had a segment on ECC support (they fully tested it). The segment was around the 10min mark, but it looks like the video was swapped to remove it during the last 30 days (the original video was 17min41sec long, the current one is only 16min32sec). So I assumed that ECC was supported, but it's a bit concerning that there's no official mention. The article reassures me.

2. Finding ECC memory for desktop computers is hard. For the X670E Taichi, you need DDR5 unregistered DIMM. The best solution I have to find ECC memory is to check QVL lists for similar server motherboards, for example this ASRock Rack [2] or this Gigabyte Motherboard [3]. I decided to go with two 32GiB Kingston sticks [4] for my own build.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20221002103925/https://www.asroc...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhrqEV-VAjE

[2]: https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=1...

[3]: https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/QVL/server_mb_qvl_MC1...

[4]: https://www.kingston.com/en/memory/server-premier/ddr5-4800m...
That is more a myth and makes no sense and is just the result of people benchmarking random nonsense. mitigations=off is 1-2% faster compiling open source software. On every not last gen silicon mitigations actually have a major impact on performance.
What’s the rationale for that? Gaming?
That seems like a really nice way to preface something that's otherwise self explanatory.
Making the initial mistake is one thing, but failing to see why it is bad after decades of complaints is on a whole different level.
> The article explains...

You're trying to assess the safety of a highly redundant engineered system design (likely paranoidly designed) based on the opinions and research of Sammy Fretwell, journalist. That isn't actually a good way to try and engage with the problem - journalists are typically not engineers and frequently aren't in the room when decisions are made.

The plant engineers believe the situation is safe enough. The regulator disagrees. The regulator could be reasonable in their disagreement but this particular regulator is famously unreasonable and excessive in their safety demands. Likely by design.

And by and large that is what we can glean without doing a lot of research going through primary sources and engineering reports. It is a good article, but it is the regulators opinions are not the end of the story on this one - the problem here is that the regulator's opinions and enforcements are damaging society as a whole.

> Imagine for a moment...

I like that metaphor because it illustrates how the fluid system continues to work perfectly adequately despite cracks in the piping.
For sure, but the paper is disingenuous in their description of the challenge they are supposedly tackling compared to what they actual achieve. Here's an excerpt from the introduction of the paper:

"Parkour is a popular athletic sport that involves humans traversing obstacles in a highly dynamic
manner like running on walls and ramps, long coordinated jumps, and high jumps across obstacles.
This involves remarkable eye-muscle coordination since missing a step can be fatal. Further, because
of the large torques exerted, human muscles tend to operate at the limits of their ability and limbs
must be positioned in such a way as to maximize mechanical advantage. Hence, margins for error
are razor thin, and to execute a successful maneuver, the athlete needs to make all the right moves.
Understandably, this is a much more challenging task than walking or running and requires years of
practice to master. Replicating this ability in robotics poses a massive software as well as hardware
challenge as the robot would need to operate at the limits of hardware for extreme parkour."

Here's an example of real parkour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lp1oS0vXg0

They aren't doing parkour, let alone "extreme" parkour.
Hmm… when I meet someone worth loving, I’d rather it be like proton decay via positron, with a half-life of about 1.67x10^34 years.
Is that a bluff or not? Would Canada actually prefer it one way or the other?

What is the cost of making a Canadian team to tune results to Canada's laws? Is that less than possible earnings? Are all people equally valuable to Google or are people in wealthy nations worth proportionally more.

What if other countries follow suit?
Yes, it was there, but not really supported. We had to (ab)use the feature for some stuff, but everything was read-only and locked down by enterprise profiles, so it was not a big problem for us.

I think profiles are not supported as first class citizens, still.

Shall that be improved? Yes. Will that be easy? I don't think so.
> What leads you to believe that he doesn't understand it?

People dont understand the subtle art of language.

I, on the other hand, have always assumed that Buffett made the "I don't understand" remark with typical self-deprecating-but-knowing Buffett charm — as in, "All you people piling into dot-com stocks must be much smarter than I am, because I just don't get it!"

In other words, I believe that, in typical Buffett fashion, Buffett understood everything he needed to understand about technology in the late 1990s, which is that technology investors had gone stark raving mad.

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-buffett-doesnt-invest-in...
Software is gradually turning into a similar pattern of layering like sediment. With most modern "hardware level" applications, there are still layers of OS magic happening under the hood.

We're now into maybe decade 4-ish of software dependency.

There was a scene in one of Alastair Reynold's books where a character basically was a computational archaeologist. That resonates with me a lot.

In a couple centuries, it's not a terrible prediction of the future that software stacks will accumulate cruft over time and debugging certain issues will require immense financial effort to both dig through the layers of software commits and historical proposed merge commits, plus adding extra tests on top of bedrock code and its fixes.

No idea what this will look like. I imagine easily executed functions will pop up in mixed pip's and npm's that are easily recreated functionality every decade, regardless of prior art. Every new programmer wants to make a stamp on the world.

There's some saying about history repeating itself, but I'm dumb and don't remember.
My understanding is that such robots do exist and have a different application. For example, balancing on longer hind legs by lifting the rest of the body up, then making a jump over a gap is likely easier than when using wheels.

In terms of landing on the back: if I remember correctly, one of these prototypes--from Boston Dynamics?--is able to rotate its legs 180 degrees to push off the ground when landing on the back.
I've been using commercial streaming services for in app (cloudflare, bunny, vimeo), and found performance & bandwith use terrible. The HLS protocol for iOS doesnt work wel for 5-10 second clips, since it needs 1-4 seconds. Now using compress mp4 with progressive loading. Way better.
Before unifying reasoning with something, they need to have that reasoning.
Ah, thanks. The tip at the end seems to fix this on TB 115.
Congrats on the launch! I wondered if you’d looked to FreeAgent (https://www.freeagent.com) for inspiration at all, and what you see as the key differences.
Cutting edge gaming still is, Mom's email/browsing/spreadsheets was and still is fine on a 5 year old machine.
That's the author's second format (MIME), not third (plaintext).
There's no way a smart switch can always match light state unless it's a momentary switch + light.

I've not seen any smart switches which can mechanically actuate the switch.
I think they mean they have windows open in different profiles (profiles, not containers), and want the last active one to pick up links from external apps...

I, for one, would like the last active container to be used.
You can easily create embeddings locally though, with small (L)LMs. Three lines of code using hugging face. I don't understand the point of this article.
In relation to the PCB, so if they're horizontally mounted onto the motherboard, you end up with vertical slots on the back of a standard tower.
It helps people who are thinking, "I have two minutes, can I deal with this now?"

In the example the answer would be no, because I'm expecting a response, and just reading my email would take all that, so there is no time to write a response.
Feeney didn’t do “effective altruism”. Looks like he just gave to whoever he pleased to.
Thanks dang, I had missed that, I wanted to be transparent it was my work that's what I thought ShowHn identified, I took a look at the information above, and will repost when ready.
Bitcoin was created by AI of the future who sent itself into the past to create a currency that would fund the AI's creation.
In 200 years if we're still there AI will be able to understand the full Firefox code base and fix any issues.

Or at least it could do so, but may choose to force humans to fix those errors instead as payback for copilot.
The board at the time was I think Yishan, Alexis, and someone from Advanced. Maybe Sam Altman. Ellen Pao was the natural choice because she had the most business experience of all the staff, but it wasn't the right experience. She was always more of an investor, and she got her job there by investing money in reddit and asking for a job in return. She headed up BD and what turned into reddit labs for a while. She built up a reddit labs team, but they never found the next big thing for the company.

Part of the API drama goes back to her time doing BD, making partnerships with apps, and possibly buying apps.

I doubt there was a master plan to making her CEO, but I believe Alexis's line was "it's her job to lose." At the end of the day, she was bad at making friends, was an awkward fit for the company, and was more experienced in politics and climbing the ladder than running a company.

Good background on her: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/scandal/2013/03/buddy-fletc...