skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, people should try and understand the products they use. If they refuse to do so, then the obvious solution are simplified products, which, granted, are easier to understand, with the tradeoff of lacking functionality.

I was talking about being forced to read a manual because the UI wasn't obvious enough when it could have been made obvious without making the UI worse e.g. making features more discoverable by taking them out of right-click menus, preferring single click to double click, removing _unnecessary_ jargon, optimising the UI for common workflows, informative tooltips, better onboarding on the first-run, allowing undoing mistakes (vs warning modals or no undo at all), avoiding modals, auto saving/restoring state so you can continue where you left off.

I really think people take for granted how much better UIs do this stuff now because best practices have improved.

"Read the manual" and (as another comment suggests) "no one questions the need to take driving lessons before being able to operate a car" were common sentiments at the time that blamed the user and excused software for being better.

> Because yes, things like a massive WYSIWYG editor is complex. There is no way around that complexity

Obviously I'm not saying to dumb down complex professional software and stick all menu options in hamburger menus. I'm talking about software that casual non-techy people would often use. Complex software is a whole other design challenge.

I would argue that e.g. VS Code has a lot of UI improvements over Visual Studio though.

It would make more sense if you considered some of the better UIs of today, rather than the worst.
Won't Download a Car? Let's Try: "Piracy Turns Teenagers into Gambling Addicts"
That's a very good point.

I guess that difference stems from the novelty of privacy invasion "weapons". A bit like attempting to threaten a Roman soldier by pointing a machine gun. It takes time, probably a couple of centuries to build up experience with surveillance to fully grasp the ramifications.

But we're also no longer at the unknown-unknown point; we understand that there might be serious problems unless we dial down the pace at which we allow data hoarding.

At least some privacy would be preserved if there was a law that said "if you have a legit reason to track people using facial recognition, you must throw away all inferred information after 1 hour". Or some other arbitrary limit. Or a law saying you're liable if your data were ever to leak. Or some other obstacle.
One forum I frequent automatically replaces Twitter links with nitter.net, which still isn't great but at least lets you see the post.
I wonder if any study has been made regarding the diving reflex and 'cold plunges': could the extremely cold water and the following peripheral vasoconstriction lead to a central blood pressure rise to a degree that may be dangerous to the brain?
Slowly realising my father was right and should work for our family business (construction).
But I'm assuming you're not 8 though...
> You can watch it here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX.
Not many.

At my previous company they had two servers with dual Itanium CPUs.
One CPU failed and they bought a spare used one from Germany.

We were informed that there was about 10 CPUs left for spare in the world by our provider.

The company decommisioned the servers in 2019 so now there are probably four more :p

But since it is a failed architecure, there can't be that many production systems ( < 1000 )
You can play with the computer forever unlike with a human
I think this is fanastic. I just read an article where Vince Clark talks about using 1 finger to program his synthesizer and he's written some of the best pop songs.

Imagine the talent AI assisted music programs will unlock. I think it will be a new instrument people learn to play.
Percussive maintenance has vastly evolved from shunting aged components!
I have nothing useful to comment other than hope and whimsy.

Hope: I loved the idea that the linux kernel not only freed new software from the shackles of corporate influence, but elevated old hardware and pushed them to reach their full potential using new CS concepts.

Whimsy: I loved the idea that a time traveller from 2036 could take a modern linux kernel and run it on a 1976 IBM 5100, and debug various legacy program issues that existed in the future. The Linux kernel is the best weapon we can give to such a traveller.
At the beginning of the recording you can see the user drag a selection box over the main content of the instagram profile omitting the left hand nav elements. I think it never saw that part.
Good luck trying to make the posters stop posting to Twitter / X.

It's almost as if lots of people still use Twitter / X to post content, yet a year later people still crying and moaning about it.

The hundreds of millions of users still posting their content on the platform don't care regardless.
This is a blog post with a "Create Free Account" button, not a Show HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

"Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material."
pinboard.in is quite Ok, if you don't mind paying yearly for it
Single-Chip Neuromorphic FPGA Featuring Nonlinear Functions of Dendrites
This is an interface that has GPT-4 producing content while also producing images using DALL-E 3, we have integrated them.
yes and also with 'vaccine studies' that also has the 'healthy user bias'
While I've had similar notions throughout my life, they have their own host of problems, yeah?
I think it is precisely the point.

What you suggest is basically a tradeoff for speed of front removal against wasting some memory.

There are an infinite number of such subtle tradeoffs that can be done. Some line need to be drawn somewhere.

The STL is not intended to contain all possible variants of data structures in existence. It should provide you with a minimal set of containers that are _good enough_ for most use cases. In the case where front insertion is important to you, you can use std::deque. If you want a mix of the pros and cons of deque and vector, then it's fair to say that's on you to implement it.

All the rest is for dedicated libraries / custom containers to implement.
More discussion here:

The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38284020
Great point. The n+1 sql queries antipattern comes to mind as a very common "push loops down" application in line of business stuff. Let the db do the work/join.
Ah, so that's why it was deleted today.
I don’t think anybody is claiming their questions are wrong. It’s the way they answer them.

And yes, that applies to mainstream fields, too. In the harder sciences such as psychology, sociology and history (physics is easy because all electrons are identical and repeating experiments is possible, if sometimes impractical) it is extremely hard to draw any conclusions, and there’s pressure to publish strong statements (both externally and from people’s egos).

For example, discovering a new dinosaur is better for one’s career than discovering the one thousandth part of a thigh bone of a known one.

To make things worse, the popular press version of such papers tend to remove many of the doubts that the ‘real’ papers mention.

Non-mainstream publications are worse at that, though, by not mentioning doubts at all, and bending facts.
"Over-engineered cathedrals" aren't what I mean by "good, proper design".

I hate huge, messy meta-frameworks where everything happens implicitly and you can debug nothing. But I hate piles of ad-hoc code where everything calls everything and you can't change a single thing without breaking 2000 other things just as well. You usually don't need complicated code constructs to organise your code well - but you do need to think.

Designing maintainable code is a difficult skill and one that involves careful thinking about tradeoffs. Unfortunately, mostly we as an industry never seem to be able to have time for it.
NetBSD support for ia64 is a "work in progress" according to their website: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/ia64/

Do hobbyists looking to keep their machines alive actually need Linux or would another FOSS Unixoid system meet their needs as well? I'm sure the NetBSD people would love to welcome some volunteers, especially if they have actual hardware for debugging and testing.
The fact that you point this out, is a proof that humanity can improve, what needs to change is our culture, especially education, ofc it may take a lot of time but it will happen eventually.
That might be kind of disturbing.
Not sure which keycron keyboard you got, and how low pro low profile it actually is. The NuPhy Air v2 gives me the low profile feel that I like. Tented split keyboards for me also help avoid the issue of a keyboard raising from front to back although certainly the feel is still not low profile.
Thanks! Somehow it didn't show up when I searched for it in github. My fault for sure.
The ones I tried (Jazz Jackrabbit and Epic Megagames) were not full versions. So nothing wrong there.
[dupe] [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38283564
Oink's Pink Palace
Who else was here? God damn does this bring back memories.
Sheep are pretty easy keepers. They need less hands-on care than many other livestock (other than shearing, which produces wool that can be sold), they don't require shelter, they don't require strong fences, they don't require high-quality feed, etc.

There can also be other forces at play. For example, we have just transitioned from la Nina (which brings high rainfall to this part of the world) to el Nino (which brings drought), so a lot of farmers will be downsizing their flocks.

Changes in wool prices can also affect lamb prices.
When it does it step by step it can look at every step when it writes down its final answer after the steps. There is no extra magic that happens just because you write something in between.

Edit: To expand on that, a humans inner thought would have caught the mistake at that point and corrected it by writing more instead of ending the text. The LLM basically never does that unless you tell it to fix the answer.
Nothing is truly perfect. Maybe in 5-10 years we'll have massive 3D printers that can build you any house without needing a big construction crew. I doubt but if you asked me 5 years ago about AI being capable of replacing me, I'd have laughed in your face... Alas, here we are.
You can play with humans forever online. There isn't a lack of people willing to play.
I think nearly every single person in Chicago would happily tell him to eat shit and tell him they hope he gets hits by a car in Florida so they won't have to keep reading about him trying to use his money to decide how people in the US should live their lives
I got one from ebay for basically the price of shipping (£58, that thing weighs a lot). They are less available now than they used to be though. The era of decommissioning data centers with Itanic in them is over. https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/raise-the-itanic/

It was difficult hardware to deal with because it had noisy high speed fans that couldn't be disabled. Really, disabling them caused the machine to automatically shut off after 5 minutes even if it was in no danger of overheating. You couldn't be in the same room when it was running.
"Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread."

We made it, you can play with it :)
Slightly tangential: is it unfair/unreasonable to judge a project by its name? It's hard not to interpret this project's name as the result of poor judgement. Is that sufficient cause to write off the project entirely? That may seem a tad dramatic but I feel that it's a fairly strong signal for how little effort I need to put into evaluating it.
oh well, this site's becoming unusable without enabling view of dead/flagged posts

Anti-mob-censorship bookmarklet:

javascript:document.querySelectorAll('.commtext').forEach(a => a.className = 'commtext c00');
it's a joke that has changed meaning over time. Pennsylvania had the oil wells at that time, although given that Standard Oil was founded in 1870 didn't think they were yet so important that one would pray for their success.

The South seceded, along with Texas.

Pennsylvania didn't secede so all good.

But later Pennsylvania didn't have any more oil worth mentioning, but Texas did.

From our viewpoint the joke operates on two levels, that of its time - let's hope Pennsylvania doesn't secede because then we're screwed! And that looking back - Texas did secede and they prayed for the states with the oil not to secede hah hah, irony.

The irony indicating somewhat that usefulness of a resource is time dependent.
Talent certainly exists. To pretend it doesn’t is to reject reality.
I love this part of the README:

> Disclaimer: This is a demo and is not intended for production use. It doesn't have any auth so you will go broke if you deploy it.
Reading this, I really wonder why the dev hasn't forseen this outcome. It was already obvious in March that OpenAI will censor all sorts of content. Building a sexually charged bussiness on the OpenAI API was always a dead end for those that have a feel for american prudish approach to sexuality. If you had asked me to do this sort of product 6 motnsh ago, I would have declined because it was (to me) rather obvious content filtering will kill you at some point.

Heck, there are a bunch of legitimate use cases that are being blocked by OpenAI. A blind friend of mine wanted to use Be My AI to have explicit photos of his girlfriend described. Guess what, no way. Consent was given, actually, she asked him to do this because she was also interested in the result. Everyone involved consented. But the sex filter from the USA decided that even though the technology is available, a blind man is not supposed to know how his own girlfriend looks naked... This is weird beyond description. Plain patronisation.

Another example regarding Be My AI: A blind woman I know was trying to have something described which she held in her hand to present it to the camera. A kind of selfie situation. Guess what? OpenAI declined to describe the thing in her hand, because the photo also contained parts of her (covered) breats. Imagine how hilarious this must feel? "Censoring just declared my own boobs to be off-limits for me." If you think about this long enough, its a form of discrimination. Because women will likely hit the filter more often then men when they are (accidentally) part of the picture they are trying to get described.

And then there is this blog post by Sam Hartman: https://hartmans.dreamwidth.org/100499.html
They can. But bugfixes may not be packported due to lack of developers. Same with drivers for newer hardware which (potentially) could be plugged into an Itanium system.

Worse if such newer code relies on kernel infrastructure that changed in the meanwhile.

For users that don't ever change their setup, there's no issue really.
It is supposedly an inside joke and not an actual test.

Source: https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/17249896200296205...
It certainly puts stress on the cardiovascular system. eg https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/26/woman-likely...
*26.36583333...

You posted the comment @1700131083 (2023-11-16T10:38:03Z) (see https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/38287917.json?pri...) and the start will be @1700226000 (2023-11-17T13:00:00Z)

1700226000 - 1700131083 = 94917 seconds = 26.36583333... hours
→ 1 day 2 hour 21 minutes 57 seconds
People pay a lot of thing much higher because they are less perfectly made by humans. All the time.
In C a NULL is often a valid non-dereferencable pointer value. If you're checking for invalid pointer values you need to check for any of the 0xfffffffffffffffe possible invalid values. If all you're doing is checking for NULL you're not checking for invalid values at all.

If the precondition of your function is "parameter p can not be NULL" that's fine, go ahead and check for it. If the precondition is "parameter p must be a valid pointer" well then, good luck to you finding the appropriate assertion condition.
Post-its from 3M, an awesome source of PFAS.

Perfect to pollute your home in a permanent and irreversible way.
What is the point of quoting the introductory sentence of a page full of rules?

If that was the only thing about a Show HN, every corporate blog post would be a Show HN. They all have products you can try out after signing up.

There is certainly some gray area around what constitutes a Show HN. But the link you submitted clearly is a blog post.
> This blue glow has barely entered popular culture. The only two examples I’m aware of are the cinematographic depictions of the Chernobyl disaster, and the ficticious Nuka-Cola Quantum non-alcoholic beverage in the Fallout videogame series.

Don't forget Dr Manhattan from Watchmen!
I'm sorry you feel that way. The primary intention of writing this article was to discuss it from the perspective of a 'failed product,' so I didn't mention my personal feelings. I am also aware of the potential harm it could cause to users, which is why I don't resent OpenAI's review process. I hope that during the period without review, it didn't cause any psychological harm to users.
Some of what you are claiming is false. Most chess AIs for example can identify almost every opening move in existence. Something no human can do. That's a type of position evaluation, and a good starting point for further research. No free coach is going to sit for 4 hours straight, 5 days a week, playing thousands of games exploring variations of a particular opening. That kind of self-study will definitely help you become a better player. Humans just aren't willing to be that opponent, especially to a beginner and not for free.

Also I'm not claiming you can learn quicker by exclusively using AI. I'm claiming you can learn quicker by adding it to your set of tools. Human coaches and books are other tools you can or should use.

Even the some of the best chess players in the world are now using AI opponents to explore new ideas.
The album cover for the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack has Snoopy sitting on top of a Christmas tree. I was playing the album from YouTube through the stereo and the album cover was showing on the TV to which the computer was connected.
I wonder if they used a newer process. Presumably not since that would involve making new masks, raising the NRE costs massively.
Is the Poincaré disk, a compact hyperbolic 2-d manifold. A space with negative curvature and maximal symmetry, the equivalent of a sphere but with negative curvature if you will.

You may have seen something similar in holography and AdS/CFT context. Or in an Escher painting.
Enjoyed reading this job spec https://github.com/OneUptime/interview/blob/master/software-...
Most K-POP, reggaeton or even Pop music hits in general wouldn't be so popular if popularity was based on quality.
I’m confused - what are you specifically having problems with?

I’m not logged in and the site loaded fine on mobile and then again on desktop. The video played immediately, I didn’t see any ads. Are you hoping to be able to comment without an account? That’s usually not how things work.

I’m guessing this is another case of Elon induced nerd grumpiness?
I will try to make it open source.
You are free to stop buying tickets (to this free blog?) Ex-fans can be confused about social debts that don't exists and presumably stem from past transactions.
I feel such a disconnect with what passes as normality when I read pieces like this. The final few paragraphs are bonkers to me. Out of nowhere, they put their poor dog down because their child surprised it and it bit back and then she feels a sense of pride that he's stronger about putting down his dog because running a startup toughened him up? Everything this author says feels alien to me, I could believe it were transcribed from an ancient scroll.
First they came for the artists.
And I did not speak out
because I was not an artist.
Then they came for the actors.
And I did not speak out
because I was not an actor.
Then they came for the musicians.
And I did not speak out
because I was not a musician.

...

Then they came for the Indie Game Devs.
And there was nobody left to speak for them.
HM Embody. It's not "comfy", but after six months, a lower back condition that hasn't been corrected, only managed by years of PT improved enough for me to go off pain management. Bonus: It also solved a prostate issue I didn't know I had.

RealForce R3S TKL, 30g. I returned a Kinesis 360 and got this instead. None of the reviews helped, and tbf, it's not easy to explain the difference or value of optical programmable switches until you use them. Note: I broke my hand a lifetime ago, and it just wasn't mechanically able to fit the 360's ergonomics. You have to be well to stay well, I guess.

Air purifiers. Breathe well.

High CRI lighting. Your lights can be for more than helping you not bump into things. I feel like I'm seeing our home for the first time, and I need less light to prevent strain or fatigue while reading, etc.
Yes. Jupyter et al are quick to get started with and you can get quite far until things start to get unmanageable.

But this may not be good for anybody in the long run. For example it tends to lead many students to not understand basic concepts, like variables. Which is understandable because variables don't behave like variables in notebooks (e.g. the same variable in the same notebook may refer to different values in different cells depending on how they are run). For many students this can cause almost insurmountably wrong mental models (which they will of course carry to "production" later on).

But as I argued in another thread here, it doesn't have to be this way. E.g. Pluto does notebooks in a more rigorous manner.

Almost all "software engineering" languages and tools makes getting started and actually getting something done quickly needlessly difficult. Probably uncontroversial that git UI is a total mess, and things are getting even worse with more build tools, dogmatic static typing and general pointless ceremony.
Herman Miller Embody.

I am physically disabled from severing my spine. This changed my experience of being at the desk.
Mkws Odes
Had some fun with suno.ai with a rather obscure subject.
I don’t think that’s how that works. If your depression “goes away” when you stop using Instagram, that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about that “wake up on a warm sunny day in a house with your loving family and feel like jumping off the roof” kind of depression. That “everything can be going great and you can’t get out of bed” depression. The kind of depression that isn’t “cured” by turning off your phone or going off the grid.

And it certainly isn’t “cured” by antidepressants, however, they can make a huge impact on quality of life for many people.
> I suppose large LMUL implementations would need to tag vector registers with their vl to make this work

Again, I'm only considering LMUL=1 here.

You'd need to also tag how tail elements are handled; tail undisturbed probably won't work, so it'd only work with tail agnostic, and if the processor always sets tail elements to -1.

It'd also be more complicated with LMUL>1, since the processor would have to check the tagged VL for all registers in the group. And having scheduling depend on multiple register values is going to be problematic, but it's probably doable if high performance isn't a major concern.

In general, it's wrong to think of VL meaning "vector length". It's more accurate to think of it as an additional mask such that mask=(1<<vl)-1