skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Ministry of Truth intervenes in FOI requests:

> In 2020, the openDemocracy website published a report on the FOI Clearing House. The report described the Clearing House as "Orwellian" and found that it requires government departments to send it requests that are potentially sensitive or too expensive to answer. The report also found that the Clearing House sometimes requires departments to provide it with drafts of responses to FOI requests for vetting. According to the report, government ministers were hindering FOI requests in "disturbing" ways and the number of FOI requests granted by departments had decreased. The Cabinet Office said the Clearing House was designed to "ensur[e] there is a standard approach across government in the way we consider and respond to requests".

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/24/orwellian-g...
What are you trying to achieve? Keep weight/volume of the device low?

Or is about training running but being bicycle-fast?
I prefer to honour the producers of my tools with the money they deserve.
You cannot expect to be paid the same amount of money by the same size audience when the supply increases dramatically. Recording industry got this lesson 20 years back.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koalang
With all due respect, computers have, and continue to be "world changing things".
X has gotten substantially worse for me. I quit when Musk took over and last week returned. It is a less fun experience and much more right-wing.
We are an LLM Enabled Chatbot Development Framework, a unique solution in the market with significantly fewer competitors compared to traditional chatbot platforms. Our primary competitors are Voiceflow and Botpress.

What sets us apart? We offer a native handoff feature to live agents, eliminating the need for third-party tools like Intercom to manage second-level requests that fall outside the scope of automation.
Except OP said, "combined with great graphics performances" - the NUCs never had good graphics performance ... and their CPU performance was actually not that great either.
Mmmm, not quite. The ones you and I can buy have a single plate, and stack height of 36mm. The ban was for shoes (like the VaporFly prototype) with >40mm stack height and/or multiple plates. Not that this article clears the matter a whole lot, but there is more information (sorry, couldn't find a succinct article on the topic): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nike-vaporfly-running-sneaker-n...

I've used them (as a ~3:00 marathoner). They probably are good for a few minutes off your time. But what I noticed most was that the next day I said to my wife, "I don't think I ran hard enough." Oh, I ran hard enough, but the shoes do so much better at keeping the legs from getting trashed. Normally, I'd take the day off the day after a marathon. Instead, I said, "screw it, I'm going for a short run."

And the VaporFly has little to do with this proposition, other than using a spring-like device.
You're right we should (ab)use another unicode code point to indicate that this text was scanned using an OCR app /s
The disconnect here is between people who believe there's an inherent wrongness to things being worse than they need just because it's under a rug, versus those who see no problem here if the market doesn't punish it. I realize those in the first camp have the burden of proof to make a cogent argument beyond "this offends me personally," but those in the second camp are arguing from their own conclusion.

Edit: it's like climate change: individual decisions that are all locally justifiable according to some decision framework, but add up to a world which is objectively crappier than a world in which we did collectively behave this way.
The constant worrying is a real issue. It eats you in your life. I attribute this to ops work and caring more than most. A delicate thing to balance for sure.
> horrifying human experience involved in the commute/walk/bike

Have you been to SF? 95% of my trips around SF are far better than the average soul sucking drive around the rest of the country. Most of it has lovely architecture, beautiful parks, and great spots to stop into. For sure, there can be more extremes in the other direction, but imo they aren't that common and don't much bring down how much better the average is. Plus they're concentrated in tenderloin / civic center and most people will avoid that area to reduce ever encountering crazy stuff.
One of the reason pro cyclists clip their feet to their pedals is so they can load the “other” leg through the back of the stroke, and across the bottom as well by pulling back on the loaded leg. Come unclipped in a sprint and you’re fucked.

Sounds like this is the same thing for running.
>”I personally haven't seen Twitter/X get any better or worse, it's just people posting. Frankly, a lot of this seems like over reaction. There was straight porn on twitter (still is) along with plenty of other unsavory stuff, again same as before”

Maybe this is part of your confusion. Pornography isn’t banned on Twitter, this is an intentional policy decision, not a moderation issue.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/media-policy

At the time of writing it seems
like Twitter is having issues and this page isn’t loading but archived copies confirm posts may include pornography, just not live streams, pfp, or banners.

The types of content that advertisers are worried about is the violent and hate content. The photos of Coca Cola ads next to calls for racist violence give advertisers pause. This isn’t an observation unique to advertisers; groups like the ADL and dozens of similar groups like the CCDH, Israel’s Foreign Ministry, various EU regulatory bodies, news agencies, etc. have all come to pretty similar conclusions based on quantified metrics. Frankly it’s hard to find anywhere where people haven’t noticed… in my experience the change has not been subtle.
Network I had. I add everyone I connect or work with at every job I have. Export a list of all email recipients, and Slack recipients, dedupe. Manually add everyone.

I do this once a year.
Oh, now that is interesting. The requirement for "insecure mode" is a bit scary sounding, but for what I want to control, it shouldn't matter.
> Students who intend to cheat by using an LLM to write their essays are entirely capable of learning "there's some secret data hidden in the text so copy-paste it through this other site to strip that out before turning it in"

In fact there is precedent for this. When I was at school a lot of kids would start writing an essay by copy and pasting the most relevant Wikipedia article into Microsoft Word, and then edit it to sound different, but this resulted in a subtle light-blue background being inserted into the resulting printed page, which made it very obvious that they had copied from Wikipedia. They quickly learnt that they had to paste it through Notepad or similar first to get rid of the background colour.
Which probably points out that Musk is showing he's more a showman like trump than entrepreneur or business developer.
Indeed, it is not "some weird OS [] that nobody uses." :D
Changing the world doesn't necessarily require revenue to accrue to any specific named individual or group: "computer" used to be a job, now a single Raspberry Pi zero would beat all humans combined in this role, even if we all operated at the standard of the current world record holder. It costs $5 new when launched, rather than being valued at the entire global GDP each.

Likewise, even though the dot-com bubble did have a lot of bankruptcies, the fundamental idea was right: the internet did, only a few years later, radically change how connected we all were, and now almost every business has at least some internet presence even if it's a roadside shack outside Nairobi[0] with a gmail account next to their phone number.

AI? It may likewise be too soon for this level of exuberance, leading to a market crash; and it may likewise lead to such a degree of post-scarcity in the specific job roles it can automate that those roles are subsumed entirely within 30 years by the name of the hardware or software that do those roles, with the wealth flowing to everyone else except those who worked them, and the stock market valuations of the supporting businesses remaining small compared to the overall economy.

No way to tell.

But I'm sure it's not tulips.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Curio+Shop/@-1.0622165,36....
And yet we have 60 Minutes GLORIFYING these scumbags. "It's a big club and you ain't in it"
Having energy and money go to something that is not crypto is so refreshing. I’m having conversations about how to use technology to make things cheaper and easier again!
Not sure if you're joking, but a topological sort wouldn't work because Wikipedia contains circular references.
> This is a result of a lot of accidents of history.

These are not accidents though.

For example in Puerto Rico there was a good, affordable public health care system many decades ago (El plan Arbona). This was meticulously dismantled by the insurance industry through political lobbying and support of insurance-friendly politicians. Now they have the same debacle as in the US, sky high insurance profits and terrible health care. This was very intentional, not an accident of history.
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Everyone keeps going on about ARM, but isn’t the difference mostly memory latency and throughput? Less waiting for memory means less wasted clock cycles. And probably also hardcore engineering in choosing the right tradeoffs? The x86 "penalty" seems to be mostly a few precent from what I’ve read. Yes x86 wastes some transistors on legacy instructions, but it doesn’t fully explain the year long difference between Apple and Intel and AMD. (Although AMD seems to catch up now and Intel also a bit with their HBM2 chips.) It’s also TSMC and Apple working together on designing a great chip.
React and JSX are still my preferred method for writing HTML - so much better than templating and there's no reason you can't have the output be a static site for something like a marketing friendly splash page. Now is React a great fit for that? Probably not, but it let's me use a consistent set of tools.
It also seems no worse to me than "silent key". It's fine. Whatever. It speaks to a connectedness shared.
Comparison of Web Search Engines
The same can literally be said about M1/M2 Macs. Graphics performance compared to anything discrete is terrible. My 3090Ti wipes the floor with an M2, despite being last generation's model. M2's CPU performance only looks good when divided by power consumption. Whole categories of Intel and AMD chips outperform it, just at higher power usage.
Not sure about this... pregnant lady decides to be a short-term landlord, doesn't get commercial insurance (by the way, her homeowners policy has already covered most of the damage, but you'd have to read about 20 tweets before she clarifies that), apparently was denied a permit by city, and also failed to install things like water leak sensors. And seemingly, never read the policy she now claims Airbnb is not honoring (which lists a lot of exceptions). Now wants money (they already offered 31,000) for secondary expenses.

I despise Airbnb but don't really see why they owe her anything, nor do I think being a landlord should be entirely risk free.
If you change run to travel you can do the same thing with a kick scooter
Note that generators are already implemented, and underpin the async state machine/stackless coroutine transformation as an implementation detail. However, there's still a few things to iron out before they can be stabilized, and I'm happy to see work there proceeding.
I think you’re right about the class of device. MS can’t just treat ARM-based products the way it does now and make a leap in terms of end-user experience - wondering if this changes in the future.
I really wish US politicians would adopt some truth standard in campaigning. I know they won’t do that but it would be really nice if the constant blatant lying would stop. I don’t think AI will make the situation much worse. If anything, it may force the creation of some standards.
Because faster CPU on phones mostly doesn't matter.

I have a midrange Android phone that I use to watch videos, listen to music and podcasts, internet browsing, chat, banking. The only thing I don't do on my phone is play games. I never once caught myself thinking "boy, this phone is slow, a faster CPU would do wonders here". It doesn't ever even feel hot to the touch.

I bet it can run just fine most mobile games available. What the hell are people running on their phones that need a better CPU?
Intense narrow equatorial jet in Jupiter's lower stratosphere observed by JWST
I had just about convinced my team to use 1.X when the 2.0 design finalized. I give up.
> our impatience

that plus greed and regulatory capture. That affects "regular" and "traditional" medicine both, of course.
The specific version of the Nike Alphafly shoe that Eliud Kipchoge wore for his sub 2 hour marathon (out of competition) was banned, but subsequent versions of the Alphafly and Vaporfly are legal and still being used to break records today. As a result of Kipchoge's sub-2 marathon run, some rules were set on shoe design, namely:

1. Max stack height of 40 mm
2. Only one carbon plate allowed per show (Kipchoge's had 3)
wolcen predates o3de of course, its quite different now. several internals have been completely rewritten
> Are you suggesting that maybe users (including you and me) should have to put up with painfully slow, stuttering software? I don’t see why his claim requires any justification - to my mind, it should be just as self evident as the fact that inflicting physical pain upon others should be avoided.

I'm suggesting that the blanket assertion doesn't hold true that slow software is painful software. Software can be so slow that it's painful but "slow" from the point of view of absolute does not immediately make something painful.

A counter-example that the author used when describing people with a pride in inefficiency was to quote:

> @tveastman: I have a Python program I run every day, it takes 1.5 seconds. I spent six hours re-writing it in rust, now it takes 0.06 seconds. That efficiency improvement means I'll make my time back in 41 years, 24 days :-)

I'm also asserting that slow and painful software that does what I want is better than fast software that doesn't or that I can't afford.

Heck, I empathize with the author: when I run Slack there is a perceptible delay when I type. Do I want them to fix it? I mean, no, not really. I'd personally rather they provide an offline search mechanism or a way to write direct CSS for theming. It's something that is annoying but it is less annoying that missing new features or the price going up. Likewise, I could use Vim for editing if I really wanted to, but I'd rather have the featureset of IntelliJ.
> stop splitting the job of dev and ops into separate roles

Specialization is the key to managing complex projects effectively. Effective teams will increase specialization where possible, and improve the feedback mechanisms between specialists.

Take a look at other complex industries like aircraft. We do not have simple "Airplane Professionals" who design/build/maintain/fly planes. But rather each of those categories are divided into subcategories with specialists.
> Are you sure you can’t just buy insurance through the ACA?

Have you tried? I did, when between jobs. Over $3000/month for a family of three.
It is a bit sad that the article doesn't explain what the motion would feel like similar to. Would it be like walking stairs?
But that activism is free speech itself

always funny when the free speech absolutist gets mad when people use free speech to cancel someone
Benchmarks aren't perfect but this shows the reality of Apple vs non-Apple ARM cores. An iPhone 12, from 3 years ago, has a 13% single thread performance advantage over the top Pixel 8 Pro.

Geekbench:

* Pixel 8 Pro: Single: 1760 Multi: 4442

* iPhone 15 Pro: Single: 2894 Multi: 7192

* iPhone 12: Single: 1995 Multi: 4401
Adressing nr. 1:

Oftentimes it is make or break for a company/project to get the programmers to follow yagni. Cleaning up old code can very much offer no value (short or long term) to the product, the conpany or the user. And a programmer who is zoning on a task or story should not need to pull himself out of that.
I'm really curious if unified cpu/gpu chips are the future for laptop/desktop hardware. Mac is now unified across its product line, consoles are unified, phones are unified. My limited understanding though is that unified memory means giving up either high speed (for the cpu), or high bandwidth (for the gpu). Is that correct?
Web Environment Integrity? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity
NASA tweaks Voyager software to protect thrusters against gunge
"In the playoffs you don't tell your star player to stop shooting and pass more" yes, you absolutely do? if the players are making their shots but having a hard time getting open or dealing with defenders then more passing can definitely be the right solution.

If your company isn't budgeting/estimating development effort appropriately, then it's going to affect a lot more things then just code reviews: writing good planning documents, adding tests, Q&A, fixing bugs, design polish, small touches, etc. are all going to suffer if the organization is broken in this way.
> Do they have an answer to rosetta so the transition can be mostly seamless (for everyone except developers if the M series is any indication...).

Microsoft had an AoT x86->ARM (and now, amd64->aarch64) binary translation layer before Apple's Rosetta had that capability (at least, publicly).
Nice AI generated image of random BS with the caption:

"Here, the researchers show that the Ab-like peptides also can be generated from a different source – C. albicans. Credit: Neuroscience News"
I don't underestimate it. I've done stage rally. TSD just isn't the first thing that comes to me and when I read "off-road competition".
New data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI
You mean WEI, or "Web Environment Integrity".
Definitely, on the university related coffee shops that I regularly go to, tablets from both ecosystems dominate the tables, some of them with keyboards.

It is visible a trend of newer student generations eschewing traditional laptops.

Ironically this vertical integration is a return to how computers used to be like before IBM failed to prevent PC clones to take off.
Base85 uses ASCII characters 33 (“!”) through 117 (“u”), which includes a number of inconvenient characters, like backslash and single and double quotes. The reason to use an encoding at all instead of just raw binary is not just to avoid nonprintable characters, but also to avoid certain printable characters with meta semantics, like string delimiters and escape characters.

An alternative would be the encoding specified by RFC 1924, which uses a different, noncontiguous set of characters. It still has the drawback that dividing by 85 is a bit slower than dividing by 64 (which is just a bit shift).

Last but not least, Base64 has the benefit of being easily recognizable by a human. Due to its relatively restricted character set, it doesn’t look like just line noise, but also doesn’t look like more intelligible syntax, or like hex, etc. It sits in a middle sweet spot.
sociology idea, essentially that you have a 3rd place outside of home and work to spend your time, meeting people, grow as a person, make connections, etc.

colleges have that, in the form of libraries, student unions, cafeterias, etc. where you can hang out while not sleeping in stuffy dorms. same idea, but for the average person working a job and living life.

Starbucks famously positioned itself as a 3rd place, and also famously dialed that back.
Apparently a developer is releasing an F-104 module for DCS. I cannot imagine that taking off, flying in a straight line and crashing somewhere in Germany could be in any way “fun” (even accounting for possibly distorted DCS definitions of “fun”.)

I’ll almost certainly buy it, though.
AI is being hoisted to a pedestal for lots of tasks, but can it save the commercial real-estate bubble?
Wow, and I thought the only shitty thing about the shorts is that you can't really rewind them easily (there is a way, but it's enshittification at it's finest).
How does this differ from https://otolawn.com/ ? It's just buried in the ground?
I googled "Naruto run" and it's just... Anime characters running with their arms outstretched behind them.

That's not what TFA is discussing, you should probably read it.
With respect to the way this article presents efficiency, I would actually expect Naruto running to be slightly more energy efficient than regular running -- the further forward that one can lean while running, the more that gravity will contribute to forward momentum.
Not all echos accept -n to suppress newlines.

printf is always the better choice.
I cannot express how painful yarn pnp has been for us. We've been stuck on a relatively pretty old version of Typescript (4.8) because upgrading it with yarn is so difficult. You have to contend with Yarn patching Typescript, and requiring obscure IDE integrations so it all just works. We still can't update, because we can't get Typescript + Yarn PnP + VS Code on macOS to work together. It has been such a massive time sink for us.

I see no reason for anyone to use Yarn. Either use vanilla npm, or use pnpm which doesnt require a mountain of hacks to work.
Some stuff I'd love to see implemented:

- Typed inputs and IntelliSense. There is very basic support for types, even so, I'd love even more strict types and type inference as in Typescript, so my terminal and shell can give me a hint what kind of input the command is expecting. At the same time, IntelliSense should tell me what command flags are still available and what are viable inputs, like cd suggesting only directories, or kubectl --namespace suggesting available namespaces.

- A concept of past commands as building blocks and/or interactive data wrangling. Many times I am mucking around in zsh to find a chain of commands that reliably gets the data I need out of some CSV or other source, retyping the same few commands with some new links until it works the way I want it to.

- A command like EXPLAIN in SQL so I can see where I should rethink what I am doing so I can refactor that part of the chain. At the same time, I'd love it if I could take one of those magic snippets from Stack Overflow and have an EXPLAIN-like command pick the components apart and explain the flags via some structured docstring format.

- Snippets in the Shell for some regularly used patterns of command chains.

- The concept of transactions, like in SQL, so I can run a command or script without worrying about it failing halfway through - the shell automatically undoing its changes. Maybe this should work on the level of a shell session even.
HN has a nursery. Go there and kill of the nonviable and nuture those with prowess. Since the distribution of popularity on HN is exponentially distributed this has an over-sized effect on the top page (and is easily gameable to everyone's chagrin).
RISC-V Wearables, Ryzen AI on Linux, Firefox 119, and More – FOSS Weekly
That only summarizes the first two paragraphs. The article goes on about VC funding and office expansions among other things.

The flow of venture capital dollars into AI and machine learning companies in San Francisco hit new highs this year, with start-ups raising $18.5 billion in the first quarter — about 82 percent of U.S. investments in the segment

There's no denying the fact that SF is the place for AI startups.
n=33 ain't bad. That means you will have data on 33 Calibri participants, and you get 33 more Arial participants as well.