skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was afflicted with an awareness of existence from an early age and struggled with it till around 40. Having kids obviously enhanced that but also changed me so profoundly and I realized we are just human sized atoms flying through the universe.

I’d simply advise to get on getting on. It is. You are you so see what you can do with it in the way you feel you can.
> Being able to do literally anything and not face cosmic consequences so long as you say you're sorry is mind-boggling to me.

If it truly was like that, wouldn't everyone be doing it? There is, however, a bit more to it:

Acts 3:19 - Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,

Turn to God.

> I wonder if it's partly why so many convicted murderers get born-again when they're in prison.

Convicted murderers get a very real chance to see just how evil people can be.

The worse the symptoms you have, the easier it is to find out you have an illness.

Sadly not everyone wants to acknowledge the illness and accept the remedy.

Turn to God.
Religious life means consecrated life here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consecrated_life),
Yup. They're pollution. (There's gotta be a phrase for "cognitive load" + "pollution".)

I used to love tech ads. I'd inspect every ad in BYTE, Creative Computing, etc. I'd even buy Computer Shopper, a massive catalog interrupted by some articles, just for the ads.

Ads can be useful, informative, and engaging. I wouldn't mind that.
My point was that there are Christian denominations that are accepting of others as they are, and aren't trying to impose their narrow worldview on others. Catholicism isn't one of them.

For instance: Episcopalians support gender and racial equality, as do the Anglicans they're an offshoot of. Presbyterians are similarly accepting, even if they haven't made an official statement on that front. Reform Judaism similarly is an attempt at reconciling historical traditions with the need to exist in a modern world.

It's hard to ascribe a particular ideology to Islam because it varies widely based on its practitioners and their interpretations (as is the case with Baptists, Lutherans, and many other religions where there is not a central authority). Certainly we see very oppressive policies in a number of Middle Eastern countries, but in the US, especially in the past decades we've seen an alignment of American Muslims with the Democratic party and more liberal / progressive policies (largely due to anti-Muslim rhetoric from the right post-9/11).

A few surveys from Pew:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/12/21/where-chr...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/12/02/religious...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/06/21/where-maj...
So you know the latency numbers that every programmer should know? (I hope you do: https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/inte...)

Is there an equivalent for software org spend? Obviously it couldn't be as principled as the above but if you look at engineering at StackOverflow and their compute / requests ratio it's orders of magnitude better than companies I've worked at. I just want numbers in spend on compute and headcount related to operational requirements.

Has someone compiled a set of simple heuristics that says "If you are serving thousands of requests per hour to hundreds of enterprise clients your AWS bills shouldn't be more than thousands per month?" Something which can be used to say very clearly "we are incompetent" to upper management?
You’re blocking the image, not the CSS. Here’s a rule to catch it at present:

||bearblog.dev/hit/

This is the shortest it can be written with certainty of no false positives, but you can do things like making the URL pattern more specific (e.g. /hit/*/) or adding the image option (append $image) or just removing the ||bearblog.dev domain filter if it spread to other domains as well (there probably aren’t enough false positives to worry about).

I find it also worth noting that all of these techniques are pretty easily circumventable by technical means, by blending content and tracking/ads/whatever. In case of all-out war, content blockers will lose. It’s just that no one has seen fit to escalate that far (and in some cases there are legal limitations, potentially on both sides of the fight).
Yes, there are a lot of reasons to homeschool. And I don’t want to undermine your idea, but the vast majority (by far) of people that homeschool do so because of disagreements with secular education. Public schools are an increasingly politicized issue, likely the dominant factor in the recent uptick of homeschooling, and I think saying it is not possible to hold an opinion on the issue one way or the other is a bit too reductionist of reality.
For context, this problem also came up in a discussion about Storybook doing something similar in their telemetry [0] and with zero optimization it takes around two hours to calculate the salted hashes for every IPv4 on my home laptop.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37596757
> As someone who was raised in religious communities, that "higher aspirations" is only the position "in principle" in reality working with people in the religious community was just scams and moral self justification of despicable behavior hidden behind soft language and terrible behavior.

Yeah, but at least there's a defined goal that they're failing at and you can point it out to them with a 30% chance they'll feel shame.

In the secular world it's just free form open world. People have no anchor to cling to or example to fail to aspire to. It's just Elon Musk one week and Kylie Jenner the next.
This model clearly makes a much better search engine than google/kagi/bing/etc.

I've been searching for an obscure connector -- the 8-pin connector you'd find on the cable that delivers power to a GPU, but in a form that can be wave-soldered. I've spent hours searching all the big electronics distributors -- no luck. This thing found it in seconds.

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=a7e9u5l5aw1r8ufls0icpb63

This is a very common connector but in a highly unusual form-factor. Molex refuses to make wave-solderable versions of it.

Edit: the first link does not lead directly to the obscure connector, but to the website of a company that does sell it. Here is the obscure connector: https://www.moddiy.com/products/Special-Mini-Low-Profile-ATX... Maybe it just got lucky.

On the other hand, it hallucinated the crap out of a very straightforward question "how do i connect the wake# pins when bifurcating a pcie port?" -- the answer is that it's an open-drain pin so (unlike the clock pins which need a buffer chip) you just wire them both together:

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=zf9witr85q740l4s3vjwzf01

Then it tried to write a bunch of code for an obviously-not-coding question. Not so great.
For you. But not for everyone. Thus making “its calories” overly simplistic.
You aren’t the first. The basis of Buddhism?
Does anyone know if it is possible to fine-tune the whisper models to add new words? Say, brand names it doesn't yet know about?
Can’t you sideload applications like a hacker?
> Think in terms of an Antarctic base. Doesn't produce anything, totally reliant on external supply.

It doesn't have to, because shipping to an Antarctic base is both quicker and much cheaper than shipping to Mars. Making it completely self-sufficient would require a substantial investment that's not really needed considering we have ships that regularly do the journey.

OTOH, NASA could be interested in doing exactly that, as air and water is all they can have for ISRU (unless they hunt for penguins and seals), and there is already a bunch of extremely clever people on-site that would probably be glad to be able to grow plants during their winter stays. Fresh fruit must be something highly coveted in that place.
Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
My own moral duty in that case is rationalized quite simply with the thought that if I were in that position, I would want other people to offer me food.
I don’t know, it’s pretty high there on the list of their complete fuckups, like allowing anyone to log in as root from the login dialog…
It's a meme, there isn't such a thread (probably). I mean, there is no lack of flame wars about ACPI out there, but that megathread mention is a meme used about controversial subjects.
My whole point?

You may want to scroll up parent to parent - ta8645 is the user that I initially responded to and the person who first stated that humans were only either M or F and then moved to suggest that those who didn't fit the M or the F definitions (physically, at birth) were abnormal and outsiders.

My point, such as it is, is that when representing the world as we understand it through science we are faced with a flood of important long tail outliers - eg: collectively every element in the universe that is not Hydrogen and not Helium is proportional to the collection of every human that is neither not perfectly male (by physical birth reproductive biology definitions) nor perfectly female.

I regard the non H and non He elements as significant despite their rarity and it always strikes me as odd that some people make such a song and dance about humans that are born every year with the same frequency.

Regarding the English language, it's a normal common occurrence that { not perfect male, not perfect female } are born every year - a bookie can number their occurrance within a tight window as an example of how regular, precise, and predictable these numbers are.
The Apple today is very different from the Apple of 20 years ago. The brand is the same, yes, but the people are all largely different. You see this all the time in the video game industry, ie Blizzard, Bungie, 343 industries.

Maybe the newest group of programmers and engineers are dealing with a very complicated code base? Maybe no one fully understands everything involved until something breaks?
> What’s strange about this strategy is it’s less cost effective because Apple is now designing a completely different Pro & Max chiplet

That may be true for the M3, but they undoubtedly are already working on the M4 and M5; they may have bigger differences planned for future releases that require the Pro and Max designs to be separate. Could be that they are just doing the initial work to split the design into two branches for M3 so they can make more changes from M4 onwards.
I think the point is not "live like you'll die next week" but rather "live in such a way that, if you were told you have a week to live, you wouldn't regret the choices you made".

If I knew I'll die next week, would I try crack? Well, maybe - there's nothing to lose and they say the highs are pretty high. But if I found myself in a hospice tomorrow, would I regret all the crack I didn't try? No - the pluses I got from living a not-crack-addicted life seem pretty solid from where I stand.

For a less dramatic example: I think that, when the time comes, I won't regret most of the time I spent programming. By being aware of how often people regret the time they spent on a dead-end job I've made the kind of choices that gave me a good life-work balance while keeping me working on interesting stuff. Of course I'm also severely underpaid, but middle class and happy seems better than rich and miserable.
Yes, the author's words are probably meant for someone who is living an inward looking life, not thinking for example to tell their aging parent, "I love you". And for all of us, it is a reminder.
Nope. CompCert is an example of a small team of people writing a proven correct C compiler. seL4 is another. The problem is training. Universities are currently not training CS students to prove code correct. This will change. But slowly.
I think this common truism is less true that it sounds at first blush. Sure, nobody wishes they spent more time "grinding away" at work. But I think lots of people find a calling in their work, and do indeed wish they had been able to spend more time in its pursuit, while also wishing they had spent more time with their family.

Just to take the most extreme kind of example, I think scientists who have really hit on breakthroughs in their field feel more strongly that they wish they could have kept that up, done more of that, for longer.

But I don't think that pattern is unusual at all. Lots of people find work that they believe they believe is valuable and that they are effective at, and only regret that there are not enough hours in the day to do all the things they value and find joy in, including their work.
AMD MI300 Ramp, GPT-4 Performance, Asp and Volumes
Need to wait for 13.6.1.1
A jealousy-inducing OSS fairy tale :)

> 2x the pain when you’re also on call at your day job

I know this is a side point, but I imagine people might be interested in the challenges of being able to work a second job while not annoying your employer. How did you manage it?
I think it’s probably basic accounting math.

Let’s say you can make $100B with 50 engineers at 99% profit margin. You pay your employees $1B and they are the highest paid in the world and all ecstatically happy and the stockholders make $99B and they are pretty happy too.

The board decides they’d rather make $300B at 50% margins because that’s $150B to investors. So it’s lower margin, but they’ve already invested and they just want more money.

Of course, I know many programmers that have insanely high profit margins with 1-4 employees and will never go public and no one except for an IRS computer will know they exist.

I think corporations are usually pretty efficient. It’s just not always clear what they are efficient toward.
Show HN: Search Ngrams in 5 Languages
Yes, give your own meaning to it.
For the curiosity, one solution I've been pondering, but never gotten around to implementing is just logging the country of origin for a request, rather than the entire IP.

IPs are useful in case of attack, but you could limit yourself to simply logging subnets. It's a little more aggressive block a subnet, or an entire ISP, but it seems like a good tradeoff.
I like destroying accounts from time to time. Prevents becoming attached, identifying you with your comments, flushes your permanent record, etc.

Besides, it’s a pain in the ass and you might get banned so you end up working fewer hours for the website.

People with careers are getting cancelled because of their opinions published online. Nudging people to identify themselves online is inviting them to dig a grave
Is it really profound, though? Or is it up there with live, laugh, love and life is a journey?

If a concept like this is widely held to be profound on HN, then perhaps -- and I mean this as gently as possible -- that could be a sign that the average engineer's career is a little too much of a treadmill, and would benefit from a little more downtime.
How Pokémon cards are made – from clay carvings to playtests
While this isn't revolutionary by any means, spacewalks being a semi-regular occurence, the fact that it's streamed on Twitch is pretty out there.

Watching it, I'm reminded of how crude and simple the technology really is. Wires and tubes all over the place, small tight rooms, if you'd told me this is what the OceanGate submarine looked like I would've probably believed it.

Still, this got us to moon. Well, tech a lot simpler than this. Impressive.
Did everyone else have that one teacher who could draw a perfect circle in one sweeping motion on a chalkboard?
It takes years to develop a quality C compiler. I am a professional compiler writer and the difference between a toy compiler and a production compiler is vast.
I can speak to this from the writer's perspective as someone who has been actively blogging since c. 2000 and has been consistently (very) interested in my "stats" the entire time.

The primary reason I care about analytics is to see if posts are getting read, which on the surface (and in some ways) is for reasons of vanity, but is actually about writer-reader engagement. I'm genuinely interested in what my readers resonate with, because I want to give them more of that. The "that" could be topical, tonal, length, who knows. It helps me hone my material specifically for my readers. Ultimately, I could write about a dozen different things in two dozen different ways. Obviously, I do what I like, but I refine it to resonate with my audience.

In this sense, analytics are kind of a way for me to get to know my audience. With blogs that had high engagement, analytics gave me a sort of fuzzy character description of who my readers were. As with above, I got to see what they liked, but also when they liked it. Were they reading first thing in the morning? Were they lunch time readers? Were they late at night readers. This helped me choose (or feel better about) posting at certain times. Of course, all of this was fuzzy intel, but I found it really helped me engage with my readership more actively.
Yes and: apparently the moderators on reddit's r/ublock have been having rough time. At least one has quit and deleted their account because of abusive users.

No good deed goes unpunished.
Why does it matter? I'm not a creationist but the insistence that you take this tiny aspect of a science (origin of life) and make everyone field loyalty to that idea is just weird. It's probably important if you're doing scientific research but not for basic education. You can scoff at creationists about how they don't believe in fossils, but what can the everyday man tell you about fossils? Is it integral to their life? Do they make important decisions based on the existence of fossils? Its basically a bumper sticker belief to 95% of people anyway

All this to say who cares? People choose to believe what they want to believe. And for historical reasons there's this belief common that may or may not align with current scientific thought. Let's not make this a hill to die on if it drives parents away.
So much this. This is the most worrying thread on HN I've ever read. :/
If you want to send obfuscated data on purpose to prevent this dark pattern behaviour from spreading I recommend Adnauseam.

(not the creator, just a regular user of this great tool)

We need more tools that send random, fake data to analytics providers which renders the analytics useless to them in protest of tracking.

If there are any more like Adnauseam, I would love to know.

https://adnauseam.io/
I highly recommend a requiem mass/concert (Mozart). Incredibly profound and beautiful music from the past to contemplate our short existence. They will be happening this week in nearly every city.

Eg: https://www.catholicchorale.org/schedule/cuf1ozg4xdcyrasujwg...
(b) is totally ridiculous. Anyone who isn't helping bleed YouTube to death is ultimately hurting creators and keeping them locked into an abusive platform.
There are countless people who have died before you that were born too early for things like penicillin.

You can always find a reason to be grateful (just as, I suppose, we can always find a reason to be saddened ... and probably our future counterparts will as well.)
Even the FBI suggests using an ad Blocker.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/

Leave it to Google to encourage ignoring safety advice so it can keep pocketing profits without any real innovation.
I found SQLite grow bigger and bigger:
- For 3.7.8, its default build on x86 is only 350KiB (1).
- Now it is 650 KB (2).

This is really worrying, especially for the field of embedded development.

[1] https://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/footprint.html
[2] https://www.sqlite.org/footprint.html
You shouldn't need to fine-tune it at all. Whisper supports adding prompts -- not to be confused with GPT-style prompts -- these prompts let you specify the "style" of output the model should give. So if you're giving input that is somewhat ambiguous or has strange spellings of common pronunciations, you can do that via the prompt.

You say "I really like Jason". But, your audience is developers:

prompt=json

"I really like Jason" => "I really like JSON"

The docs give some more detail about how to structure the prompts and has examples about what does and doesn't work, it's meant for this exact purpose.
Yeah I figured it would be cool as long as it's non-commercial, but I was wrong too. I guess they're kinda forced to protect the trademark by the established guidelines or they'll lose it, but they also don't want to discourage people from developing stuff so they're not super heavy handed about it.
Yeah that’s what I was trying to imply.
As far as I can tell the SQLite team's main PR strategy is consistently and quietly releasing software that's so good that large numbers of people do PR for them, for free.
Notes to myself -
"Sometimes, the people who have everything in life have nothing in death. But sometimes the people who have nothing in life have everything that they could ever want in their final hours."
"I never go to bed angry."
"I choose my words wisely with both friend and foe."
"when people are lying in their deathbeds, they remember their parents and siblings and spouses and children and pets — not their high school geometry assignment or that one bad day at work 30 years ago."
We've abstracted so much in life as a transactional situation through which our system of exchange, money, holds power to do so much. It shouldn't be surprising that the some of most useful resources to accomplish tasks in life or even necessary to survive are so sought after.

If we adjust the incentives of life a bit so people aren't constantly looking for another buck to make sure they can actually retire or pay their mortgage off, assure they have access to healthcare when they inevitably get sick, and so on we might find a lot more people would invest their time towards other contributions in society rather than those that they find that compensate them the most.
Sometimes I wish HN had a !remindme bot like Reddit to easily review predictions.
Ask HN: What products that you've used recently have felt magical
It seems like tech is getting more linear. Last time a product felt magical for me was the first time I tried active noise cancellation in a busy street. What has felt magical to you?
The Humiliating Cross-Examination of SBF
Spending more doesn't guarantee a better result.

You misinterpreted that as spending more never gives a better result.
And this is why such a hash will still be considered personal data under legislation like GDPR.
I feel like this is a conscious product placement decision from Apple. The iMac only comes with M3 chips and the Macbook Pros that have the M3 also all cap out at 24GB of RAM. In the Macbook Pro lineup if you want more RAM, you have to get one with an M3 Pro or Max.
Today: Uada, Gaerea and Necrophobic. I like it.
The "aztecs" (Mexica) are not a good example. The Fall of Tenochtitlan was facilitated by an alliance between the Spanish Empire and Tlaxcala.

The Tahuantinsuyu (Inca) had a civil war of succession followed by a purge of the nobility after the monarch died Huayna Capac of smallpox.

So not even in those cases they faced a unified front.

And the innovations you mention are not enough. On one side you have no navigation technology (map making, compass, etc), no animal traction.