skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly. One of the most fundamental philosophical questions is about the nature of time, precisely because all of our "laws" of physics are time reversible, so from the perspective of physics time doesn't really exist or is just a space-like dimension (no arrow). And so the Universe should be perfectly deterministic and with enough computing power and precise enough knowledge of the initial conditions everything should be perfectly predictable and the future should be "fixed". In some way or another probably most of philosophy is arguing about whether or not this is true and what it means.

This paper claims that 5% of 3-body systems in the Universe can't be predicted even in principle, because you would need to measure initial conditions to greater precision than the planck length, which is impossible. And of course N-body systems where N > 3 are even more unpredictable, and the whole of the Universe is an N-body system, so if correct it would mean the end of determinism.

For a good treatment of this topic for a lay audience see Lee Smolin's recent book "Time Reborn".
> And how do you know most/many people aren't spending their times scrolling tiktok because they don't have the resources to do something more worthwhile?

Because if that was it, most rich people, rich kids would be all doing crazy science experiments and advancing knowledge. But turns out they don't.
I would 100% recommend drawio (diagrams.net).

It has diagram standards + icon sets for top cloud/compute platforms.

Plus, if you use VSCode, there's a solid extension you can use to create and include the diagrams in your project.
In a sense we might think of this fascinating story as a sign that we are past "peak unsustainability".

Remaining pristine areas will serve as nuclei for a new period of rewilding and healing the planet while we make smarter use of the spaces we have already colonized.
A more interesting source would be https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=<user>
Take this logic one step up: it's X11 which is allowing applications to set the middle click buffer. X11 should only be allowing that to be set from direct user-interaction as any application could be nefariously setting it.
>this is not possible without...

Hence the (almost)

> Are unsigned indexes fit to be used?

More fit than signed ones, clearly shown in the example in the article where a check was removed by the compiler's optimizer.
Yes Herr Professor, they appeared on the same year.

I was trying to make a point about an idea for the people that might have heard of OLE and nothing else.

How many with the age of 30 years and below do you think even know what InterViews was about?
No.

That would break every single module that is compliant with flask 3.x and imports it with `import flask`. This simply isn't justified by the "benefit" of some old packages not having to change a single line of code.

Yes, maybe in hindsight it would have been beneficial to put the major version of some packages (flask is far from the only one) directly into the package name, as a workaround for pythons inability to deal with multiple versions of the same module under the same name in one environment. But python works as it does, `import flask` is how god-knows how many projects use it, so that's how the show runs, period.

If some package requires a certain version, it can pin that version in its `setup.py`. If a project requires a certain version it can pin that version in it's `requirements.txt`. If an environment requires a certain version, the admin can create a virtualenv.
> We also looked at government tech subsidies and grants. Honestly, there is so much paperwork that takes time away from gaining customers and growing the business.

I wonder how that compares with, for example, joining an YC batch, or talking to multiple VCs in search of financing
That line is companion to the previous:

> If it doesn’t work for the developers, then eventually it won’t work for anybody.

Don’t conflate technical challenge with logistical challenge. Picking between two algorithms for condensing data is technically challenging. Picking between a solution that is transparent and one that is opaque are not the same kind of challenging. As an old mentor used to say, “I hate the term ‘tech debt’. This [situation] isn’t tech debt, it’s wear and tear.”

Opaque is magic. Hiring people who understand it is expensive. Building people who understand it is part luck and part patience. And the opportunity costs, which we almost never account for, let alone properly, are one of the biggest consequences. What else could you do with that time and, more importantly, energy?
same, I was making a remark about your comment.

also, in my and industry with much more as the stake, opinion, Ada is better.

i suggest you to try Ada.
The same thing that’s wrong with any part of the military-industrial complex that weaponizes data against civilian populations.
Launching "a missile" at a target pales in comparison with a row of apartment blocks levelled by air strikes.

And no, ground offensives are not the same. I hope we won't see those in Gaza - there is still chance.
I was surprised that I couldn't find Henry Maudslay's thread cutting lathe... Turns out the Science museum isn't a part of the British museum like I had assumed.
What a great project. I wonder how it was done. Blender and photoshop?
The inside of a hot furnace glows with the uniform illumination simulated by the test.
Made using open-source software. Blender, Gimp and Darktable.
I use draw.io for these kind of diagrams. It has symbols for most of the cloud services built in. It also maintains the arrow connections when we move around the elements. Very handy!
You should can that fart and become energy independent
My feeling is they both suffer “version-2-isms”, ie having added many nice-to-haves that are complex. That said, I think QUIC is a much, much bigger step. We are literally adding congestion and flow control to user space, as well as packet-level routing. This has been done before, but mostly for bespoke purposes (like UDT - or with per-OS batching, kernel extensions or at least kernel tuning). Now, it’s supposed to be general purpose, across hardware, platforms and languages.

Personally I think either QUIC makes it into kernels, or it will have a loooong time ahead of it with language- and vectorized/batched IO in the OS (maybe even down to the NICs?) catching up. Even the more mature implementations struggle compared with TCP today, for things like high bandwidth on consumer hardware. Not to mention CPU overhead and the battery drain that comes with it. (At least from my own high-bandwidth experiments)

Yes, I know a large part of web is already http3. But remember that http is used outside of browsers and data centers. I don’t know enough to back any specific proposals, but to me it sounds a lot easier to fix the tcp handshake, open 2-3 conns for the HOL-blocking issue, than to rearchitect the entire stack (and add new features) under UDP. I’m saying this as someone who is still very bullish and excited about QUIC.
My take is that it would have been better for c/c++ to gradually improve the language rather than almost purist-wise stick to strict backward compatability. Want to compile your old code without changes? Use an older compiler or a backward compatibility switch of a newer compiler.
This guy claims to have ridden his bike from Alaska to Argentina and doesn't even mention crossing the gap. https://explorersweb.com/teen-cycles-alaska-argentina/

I thought the story was problematic the moment I heard it. I met someone who crossed the gap while migrating to the United States from Africa. When I asked what they thought about someone riding a bicycle through it, they shook their head. They said even carrying a bike would be problematic because there are parts which require you to climb.
You showed us yours, I show you mine.

My website, game engine, and webserver is one binary. The source has 1000 lines of C code.
The binary has a size of 164k (I don't know why it is so damned big).

I included my own webserver. The existing servers add way too much (hidden) complexity.

You can check out the result, an interactive fiction game in German, here: http://vmd34232.contaboserver.net/
(no tracking, no ads, not commercial)
That's definitely the sort of thing I'd expect Generic Tech Startup to do, but it certainly isn't standard in every industry. B2B stuff is often a bit bespoke.
The test is about being in a uniformly white-lit environment, like a very hot furnace. It's just a mnemonic.
Okay, maybe I should try another mesh chair to be sure. I tried Herman Miller and it wasn't comfortable for me. Felt like the mesh and it's bands was poking into my skin.
It's also possible that inertia is quantized[1], which further complicates things. There is an experiment launching soon which may offer some evidence either way.

[1] https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com
The DNA isn't unencapsulated, is it? It's inside the lipid nanoparticles that are designed to enable transfection. And the pseudouridine is there specifically to disable the immune system's usual responses.
Also, while it wasn't initially done on the environment, automatic formating can take care of it, capitalizing keywords automatically, or on save, no need to overuse the shift key.
I have been using this with a lot of success for a while now: https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeSTT/tree/master , it works in real time, without any delays on an old Nvidia card.

I tried it with German & English without issues. It should also work for French but might need a bit of tweaking. The code is very straightforward, but depending on the context I'd recommend experimenting with the parameters that would suit you.

It's using a model called "Whisper" under the hood.

Have fun :)
> Click "suspend", not "lock" and/or set to suspend after a certain amount of inactivity.

That's stupid. Why would I use suspend if I want to lock the screen? Anyway, suspend is broken in linux so if I suspend there a high chance that I'll have to reboot to bring it back.

> Pop doesn't really support horizontal workspaces last I checked, you needed an extension and this naturally played hell with the rest of the DE. Maybe Cosmic will fix it? IIRC this is still a Gnome thing.

It's GNOME so horizontal workspaces are there. I'm using them but shortcuts are broken.

> Never had need for the pop shop, but I wouldn't call the ad hoc app store based on flathub being slow that big of a deal.

It's an important piece of software so it is a big deal.
This whole conversation isn’t about using Lambda. It’s about using an exorbitant amount of lambda. Which means you’re using it to the exclusion of other things. Once a project is segregated to this degree, invariably discovery has gone out the window. You have a couple of people who really understood the system and little hope of replacing or duplicating them. It’s just another form of job security. Ignore Kernighan and make a system even you barely understand.
AMD CEO Lisa Su on the GPU Shortage, the AI Revolution, and Nvidia [video]
Infinity being bad does not make zero or one better. They both suck.
The German City with More Bikes Than Cars [video]
This is based on classic black body radiation experiments which use ovens/kilns/furnace.

Here the concept is similar and the point is that the object is enclosed in a cavity that has an uniform emission spectrum, in this case white instead of black body.
Oh, we need to fork Enterprise Fizzbuzz. I bet there’s no Lambda Edition yet.
Sure it's from a fiction story I wrote.

In it, customs officers went through the train like a ticket checker to check your passport as the train travels near jet speeds through the Russian forests.

That wasn't the plot of course, but it's part of the setting. The characters desperately cling to 19th century ideas of nationalism like small European countries still have a king even in a time where vast oceans no longer matter. There's a cadence problem with the emotional salience of our institutions and their relevance. This includes the personal.

All things start and end as ceremony and theater but somewhere in the middle, they become real.
Hey, that's my last job..!

Are you up to the point where you outline necessary short-term steps that must be taken, and the CEO says "Yeah ok, here's what we're doing <totally unrelated stuff>"?

Or the cool part where you push for SOC2 accreditation, the CEO says "not yet" but still talks about how you're "working towards SOC2 accreditation" in sales pitches?

Don't worry, its not you that's schizophrenic.
> A great thinker and leader who appears to deserve any accolade bestowed upon him.

Why so binary? Like any person, he's probably great but also in some parts not.
This statement is true regardless of whether FAAS exists or you’re having a conversation over beers in 1999.
One thing I am guilty of is trying to get an extra legroom seat for free.

I’m 6ft5 and feel like my choice is between being forced to pay for something which I cannot help or be placed in a seat which is so small I end up damaging body.

However, this is usually something which takes up a few seconds of me just asking and moving on if they can’t.

While I have no data and this is just logical assessment I’d bet a lot of reason for the increase in these incidents is the way in which airlines have drastically increased fares and lowered services since the pandemic.

Since the pandemic airfares have doubled across the board and, with that, things like a complimentary checkin bag on an 8 hour flight have been removed.

Atop of that other complimentary things such as alcoholic drinks and meals have also been removed from many airlines. All the while operators have been implementing algorithms which force you to pay to sit next to the person with whom you are travelling.

It’s not an excuse for people to start abusing staff as that is unacceptable no matter the reasoning. Just trying to add some perspective
Why did the author introduce the weird broken "move a negative amount of money" behavior and then never follow up on its brokenness? That was too distracting.
> And of course N-body systems are even more unpredictable, and the whole of the Universe is an N-body system, so if correct it would mean the end of determinism.

I read this as the systems are, for all intents and purposes, practically unpredictable, not fundamentally unpredictable.

Just because we can't measure beyond the plank length doesn't mean there aren't deterministic rules down there.

So my take is that the universe could still be deterministic, but that can't be knowable to us since we'd have to be able to peer below the plank length.

Maybe I'm reading this wrong.
Or maybe the issue is regulatory capture of government, not government itself?

‘Government intervention’ isn’t the same as a government who works to support the needs of citizens.
> Truly spoken like someone who has no information about illegal immigration

Quote from this [0] article: "But in the past 10 years, visa overstays in the United States have outnumbered border crossings by a ratio of about 2 to 1, according to Robert Warren, who was for a decade the director of the statistics division at the agency that has since been renamed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services".

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/04/re...
The winners of the js13kGames 2023 competition
I use Excalidraw because I like the hand-drawn look when planning/sketching things out.

If/when I make the jump to actual documentation I use Mermaid so I can keep everything tidy under source control.
Fair point. Not trying to hero worship here.

But have you listened to that interview?

It was just refreshing compared to normal CEO speak / mythology / ego.
Oops! Yes I meant Ponte Vecchio not Sapphire Rapids. It's now called "Intel data centre GPU Max" which although it doesn't exactly roll of the tounge is at least harder to confuse with a CPU!
> I'm using Apache at the moment and it's working great.

You know, Apache is pretty decent.

I'm actually surprised that they added ACME functionality with mod_md before Nginx, so now you can get Let's Encrypt certs without the need for certbot: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_md.html

If you turn off .htaccess the performance is okay as well (closer to how Nginx has nginx.conf), their mod_security performs pretty well and I'm not sure of that many alternatives to mod_auth_openidc elsewhere.

Of course, Nginx, Caddy and other web servers are really nice too!
I am surprised they used a PNG for the preview instead of an SVG file. I know you can embed JavaScript in SVG files, I wonder if it could react to the `prefers-color-scheme` CSS feature of the page it's embedded in.
Do you imply creative people are a special breed who are immune to attention engineering?
It is exactly the opposite. Raspberry pi are created for learning and experimentation, and hobbyists too. There is an entire industry based around using it with expanded components.
Wrt who is happy to exploit TFWs: is it Canadians, or the Canadian government at the request of Canadian big business?

Who stands to gain? Without TFWs the minimum wage (or the amount actually paid for workers) would have to rise - supply and demand.
She says it's not Duran Duran and it's not Motley Crue
This is a very black and white view of the suburbs.

I would call the entire peninsula from SF to San Jose one big suburb.

Hell, everything West of Gough St in SF is pretty suburb-like: mostly residential, a few shopping streets and no offices.

Despite that there are plenty of areas that are very walkable, including public transportation and shopping for daily needs.

Not every suburb looks like a cluster of single family homes with nothing else within 10 miles.
and C++ doesn't?
Its about efficiency, a grocery store will require one large supply truck. Supplying everyone to their home requires way more people and energy.
What’s the difference between delivery in the city versus the suburbs? Does less distance make it ok?
For searching, [speech recognition] or ["speech to text"] should work. I've experimented a little with whisper.cpp and was quite impressed with how it coped with technical language, though you can't get away without an editing pass.
Hal Finney Was Not Satoshi Nakamoto
I really like the C4 model as part of a larger toolset. If you’re also using it then I recommend looking at https://icepanel.io/

Great tooling strongly based on C4, I use it a lot.
Suppose this was “trained” using copyrighted work?
High levels of cortisol and adrenaline impede reasoning - so passengers lash out at whoever/whatever is available at the moment.
Wow, thank you for posting that. One of my kids is in love with that picture, certainly going to show him this.
[2] leads to https://share.descript.com/view/snZvbV85LdN
When you finally find product market fit you'll have a hundred other things to worry about before you can even approach a rewrite.

Result: you're now stuck with a ton of tech debt and a flimsy product.
From my experience what you are experiencing is a case of "the current architectural best practices disagree with what we are doing successfully" which many organizations and Senior Engineers interpret as reason enough to introduce change. You will probably receive comments along those lines, be in arguments around this.

You could also actively ignore this for half a decade and see if the tides are changing again. I can almost taste a push towards "lower amounts of abstraction levels and system boundaries lead to smaller stack traces which have xyz advantages" on the horizon. Hang in there, solve the problems you have.
Tangential: What’s a WWII novel that you enjoyed, that made you think, impressed you by being well researched, or all of the above?
Does anyone at Google want to chime in how easy it is to get from L8 to L10 in two years? And is it reasonable to file a lawsuit over not having been promoted from L8 to L10 in two years and claiming gender based discrimination because you didn't get those promotions?
Mac OS pre OSX wasn't.
Very useful C testing library that our embedded developers use along with the principles and methods described in the book 'Test-Driven Development for Embedded C':

https://pragprog.com/titles/jgade/test-driven-development-fo...
Is this a new feature of Nota Bene 14? Might have to give it another look then.
Israeli newspaper reported that Taylor Swift's bodyguard returned to Israel to join the IDF in their fight against Hamas. X users added Community Note saying he wasn't actually her bodyguard but hired by the venue, citing a Daily Mail article as a source. The Daily Mail article contains no mention of the bodyguard's supposed employer and as such does not support the Community Note. Bellingcat then go on to show the bodyguard has been seen working with Swift for a while and in different locations, further disproving the Community Note.
> Warszawa → Warsaw

It took years of living in Berlin to realise that "Warschau" was the German for Warsaw.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/4epDsvkKf42jXhG47?g_st=ic
Reminds me of my site :)

https://toldby.ai/

Mine is not a single binary though. It's asp.net
In this context, favoring simple text files (markdown, HTML) instead of Javascript-enabled, server-side rendering. Tech that ought to last for 20+years. I imagine a 1990s-era office - wired connections (no flaky bluetooth connections, wired ethernet, simple local file servers; minimal cloud based service - can the people in the office be productive without Wifi/internet for a half day? Async tools, like local email clients instead of web-based ones).
Connecting an EV means getting better battery efficiency over time.

I work with batteries in the EV industry (not inside cars, though, but lithium-iron-phosphate), and the list of planned improvements is not short.

There’s a gap between when a product is ready to be used and when most of the known optimisations are done. And there’s a big risk factor with the company suddenly deciding to depreciate your thing.

I try to only have only “dumb” appliances in my home: kitchen, washing, lighting. If I couldn’t avoid buying with wifi, it doesn’t get enabled.
Cool, looks like lisp without parenthesis
I tried parking in my garage for a while, but the car took up too much valuable space.
How's that stereotype? Poor people are on average more likely to be black. If you asked for samurai would you complain about stereotypes if it gave you asian samurai if you asked for white one?
In biology things mostly only get interesting on a logarithmic scale. It has to do with the fact that on/off is decided by concentrations.

So I was a tad surprised for example that I had my drinking water tested for lead. It came back “clean” at 1.9 ug/L, a friend’s came back as “be careful, flush in the morning at 2.7. That does not make sense to me. Although of course a wage difference of 1.6x is pretty significant.
They are just saying that if you assume this following:

* There is a rough fixed % of people that are capable of doing interesting things and maybe useful things

* There are minimum levels of resources, time, and comfort that enables you to do interesting things

* The current population that enjoys those resources isn't actually that different from the population at large in terms of that %

Assuming all of that, if you increased the welfare of the entire population to that minimum level (would be nice to do this anyway) then the absolute number of people doing interesting and maybe useful things would increase. I would say that most of human history and esp the past few hundred years has probably proven that to be true.

It is pretty clear from the photos that this young man is very fortunate to have well off and supportive parents. Very few working age adults in full time employment could afford the things shown in those photos let alone someone still in education.