skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite what Casey Muratori is trying to argue (and I'm largely sympathetic to his efforts) most line-of-business software needs to optimise for changeability and correctness ("programming over time") not performance.

In investment banking (markets / trading), much of the most economically valuable software could easily run on a Raspberry Pi. I always call it "10,000 if-thens" (all the business rules that build up over 10+ years). Excel with VBA can still do a lot. A very tiny fraction of markets / trading software needs to be performant, yet, those tiny parts dominate most of the conversations (here and at work). It is tiring. Keep writing simple if-thens with a few for loops. Keep making money...
I believe Peter Thiel would say that capitalism and competition are opposites, and the goal of capitalism is monopoly.

https://morfene.com/021.pdf
This is one area where I imagine C++ wannabe replacements like Rust having a very hard time taking over.

I 100% agree. Although I have a keen interest in Rust I can’t see it offering any unique value to the GPGPU or HPC space. Meanwhile C++ is gaining all sorts of support for HPC. For instance the parallel stl algorithms, mdspan, std::simd, std::blas, executors (eventually), etc. Not to mention all of the development work happening outside of the ISO standard, e.g. CUDA/ROCm(HIP)/OpenACC/OpenCL/OpenMP/SYCL/Kokkos/RAJA and who knows what else.

C++ is going to be sitting tight in compute for a long time to come.
I just love the maker's mind.

> I want something that does not exist, I will make it.

Making things has never been so accessible, if you don't know how to start, join a community and ask, if they are hostile, just ask chatgpt and start from there.

3d printers are 200$, esp32 is the same cost as arduino nano.

Want to make AI things? Make them. Want to make coat hangers? Make them. Want to make a book stand? Make it.

I have few bank PCBs, and every day I hold one and I ask it 'what do you want to be?' and just wait and listen, it doesn't tell me, so I make it into what I want, and then try again the next day.

As David Lynch says, ideas are very quiet, you have to learn how to listen, so far I have not heard one, but maybe some day..
If there's no sun, how long can the battery deliver? And if there's too much sun, where's the extra power dissipated? I'm wondering if it's possible to provide a service equivalent to a nuclear powerplant today, and if so, how much it costs.
Ruby Open Source: Feedbin
I think you are spot on, a LLM focused on science and medicine has a much higher bar to pass when it comes to accuracy.

I tried Galactica when it came out, and I have to say that subjectively at least the results looked much inferior to what the benchmarks suggest. In the paper they claim to be substantially better than GPT-3 on their larger models, while in my personal experience even some generous queries produced garbage output. I cannot remember whether the version available at the site was the largest model, however.
"Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" (Saw it recommended here, was hoping it would help me get unfucked. It didn't.)

"In the Ocean of Night" by Gregory Benford. Very nice XXth century style sci-fi. Written by an academic, so it describes lots of nasty committee meetings.

"The Fish That Ate the Whale" - about bananas

"Count Belisarius" by Robert Graves - historical novel, Byzantium, early Christians

"My World Line" by George Gamow - autobiography; not very relatable for someone with a lower class background
If the issue is about preferences then what behavior is there to change? He's just supporting his case. Looks to me like the moderators have decided that their preference is "right" and the banned person is wrong, and then go on to abuse their power.

You're better than this - if you are a moderator then learn to ignore these (it won't be the last one you see in life :)).
The Fluidity of Time: How Emotions Alter Time Perception
You're just assigning magical value to "turn it off".

That's only a big deal with fossil fuels due to the fuel cost, the fuel cost of nuclear is marginal.

Yes, I agree that it's stupid to build a (big) nuclear power plant only to use it to boil an Olympic sized swimming pool most of the time.

But that's stupid because we're over-relying on "green" energy that can't provide baseload power.

It's even more stupid with fossil fuels, now you also need an entirely different backup infrastructure, but the fossil one pollutes much more than nuclear.
Why the hell is this flagged? The worst feature of HN rears its ugly head again. I only found it by following someone’s comment history.
I believe the author acknowledges that a bit later.

> The resulting noise is gaussian, not uniform. […] This is why you need a specialized algorithm.

(The algorithm is afterwards described)
https://www.blakefallconroy.com/18.html
Windows 11 LTSC version when ?
I'm not advocating, or not advocating for any of these approaches. I'm just answering the commenter question.

Also, due to the downvote I suspect at least one person is focusing on the fact that yes, in some circumstances buying contact lists can be annoying and frowned upon.

In other cases, it's how business is done. I'll give a real world example from a guy I actually met. Say you're the head of sales for the largest independent lolly pop manufacturer in the US. How do you let all the corner stores in the US that they should sell your lollies? Buy a list, send them letters/email, whatever. People can be annoyed by it, but it's what keeps the post office in business and is half of what all marketing and sales folks do half the time.

Another example is in the insurance industry, it's common practice to sell your client list when you retire in many of those spaces.

Again, I'm not Advocating or not advocating for any of this, just answering someone's question.
As a counterpoint imagine instead if the cost of messaging went from $50 million per year to the even more lean $0 per year.

Messaging operations are expensive because they need servers to route your traffic. They need to route your traffic to navigate around the restrictions of IPv4 NAT. In a world of IPv6 there is no NAT (but firewall restrictions still apply).

I have created a relationship model that solves for privacy without need for third party servers and then routes messages based upon that model, but it’s limited by IPv4.
Bad color rendering index.
> am I required to forget that you came into my store?

No. Your head is not covered by the GDPR. It requires you to not keep a record of all your clients' personal info without a legitimate interest.

There's a Seinfeld episode where Elaine goes to buy a fancy pen at a stationery store which isn't available atm. The clerk asks for her full name and number to notify her (that's a legitimate interest) but then uses it to hit on/stalk her (that would be a GDPR violation). Presumably he also doesn't get rid of the number after their business transaction.
Previous discussions I've found:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31219324 May 2022

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29647880 Dec 2021
Here is the paper:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article...

To my surprise this passes my quick rule of thumb test for having to pay attention: the subject group larger than 60 (195 magicians not less).
I have often wonder how many passwords do security cameras capture when people type then on their phones or laptops, also stuff like one-time codes or credit card numbers and so on.
So that answers my question. This doesn't exist yet. 1GW storage isn't 2. Also how long would this last if there's no sun? (Sweden isn't Nevada).
> but since they can only be higher frequencies than the original

That's incorrect, distortion products spread both upwards and downwards in frequency. The easiest example to analyze is x^2, which corresponds to the spectrum convoluted with itself. From there it's easy to expand into polynomials.

Anyway, what you're describing is pretty much a single step in a standard blue noise algo iteration.
> I joke that you can sell anything eventually if you talk to enough people, because if 0.3% of people want to cut off their own genitals (trans person rate), then you can surely find atleast that rate of people for your __whatever___.

Referring to a sex change as "cutting off their own genitals" is deliberately meant to frame it as absurd or bad compared to more clinical terminology. Your statement is that it is so absurd or bad and yet has some takers ergo any product no matter how bad or undesirable will itself find a market.

This is first of all fundamentally insulting. Second it doesn't make any sense. Those who undertake such surgery aren't choosing between having gender reassignment and a corgi.

Lastly you can't sell shit you don't understand. This is like sales 101.
Control isn't the same as ownership, so even technically it doesn't work
Orsted backed out of the deal.
Show HN: An interactive test runner for Rust projects
This remains relevant today, as when a new SSD undergoes evaluation by a prominent website, the tests are typically limited to workloads for which the SSD is specifically designed. If the benchmarks included synchronous write and write latency assessments, the results would present a markedly different narrative. There are SSDs in the market whose write speeds are comparable to those of traditional spinning hard drives.

Here is a barchart from some of the older Samsung SSD's
https://www.diskusjon.no/uploads/monthly_06_2017/post-5591-0...

https://www.diskusjon.no/uploads/monthly_06_2017/post-5591-0...
I have been cold emailing resumes in PDF format all the time. Do recruiters not even open it ?
They compress memory a lot. It almost works on the Mx. Almost.

TBH not even 16 Gb is enough if you open more than a couple terminals and less browser windows that you can count on your fingers. Cook help you if you use IntelliJ.

Bonus, every piece of Javascript uses 1+ Gb. Look for <app name helper - renderer>. Those are the main culprits.
Whilst they presumably aren't going to get a whistleblowing award as they did the hack, I wonder if there's an opportunity to make money by scanning the darkweb for material being sold that's been hacked from public companies, seeing if its been reported and making a complaint if not.
Statussync – Sync with Third-Party Services
I guess that also makes Apple, Google and some Linux distributions not an option as well.
If i tell you 3 times, it's true.

What is sad, is that the media is becoming the new religion with all the upsides and downsides of religions: dogmatims, "answer" to all questions, holy wars etc.
I think I have some unique perspective here, actually, as an American who's been living in the UK for the past year.

I think you're right about the feature set. It's a big historical win for iMessage, and it took a while for Telegram, WhatsApp, etc. to catch up.

I think the other thing here is that a lot of people in Europe have friends from other countries, or travel outside of the country often, and European phone plans don't generally offer good international rates. In the US, most plans offer unlimited SMS/MMS, including international messages -- it wouldn't cost me any more to send SMS to people in Europe from my old American plan (i.e., it would still cost me nothing beyond my base plan price). For Europeans, using WhatsApp is a convenient runaround for this issue. It's a single platform that works internationally, with no particular hurdles aside from "Do you have WhatsApp?"

As an extra little anecdote about the challenges present here, I had to get a Google Voice account and transfer my American number to it, and I now use the Google Voice app to message my family back home. It's pretty annoying, and generally a terrible experience for me, but getting people in the US onto another messaging platform is pretty much a lost cause at this point. I have all of the major messaging apps on my phone - iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, etc. But I just text with most of my American friends, except some of the more privacy-conscious tech nerds who use Signal.
In part two, we're diving into creative assets. Turning Concepts into Ad Creatives.
A link to the actual repository if you don't like videos: https://github.com/lambertjamesd/portal64

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381407 (2023-09-04, 385 points)

That demake does seem more like an (unofficial) port that preserves much of the original game play and style than most other demakes. (Disclaimer: I haven't actually played the game, I only watched videos.) How much would be achievable in the theory? Would it be only limited by the cartridge storage?
How AI Will Make Full on Video Games
Dont worry, Google is removing basic HTML view in 47 days.
> Why would Apple do that? Your entire product feels bad, when you run out of RAM. It seems so off.

One reason is anchoring - an old thing that you see everywhere, e.g. car industry.

You see a poster saying "new Tesla, 24.999$" but that model is a joke lacking everything you want. But the number is baked into your brain, so you don't feel like you paid a lot when you take out a Tesla for 49.999$.

Apple constantly does that stuff with their cheapest models - iPad Air is 599$ with puny, barely usable 64GB of flash storage. When you decide you want one, you'll probably have to get the only other model - 256GB for a massive price jump of 750$.

Same thing is going on with MacBooks - the 8GB models are there to establish lowest price for ads and marketing debates. They might even work for some people if they're careful, but you know you kinda need more RAM for it to not chug while running. And that will be an extra 200$ or 20% of the price. Thank you.
In this case mods just found a convenient excuse to ban the "outgroup" member based on ideological lines of demarcation (specifically the unwoke link in the bio). It is never about the facts. If a convenient argument exists, it will be made, if it doesn't, it or the facts for it will be made up soon enough.
Consumption of memory for this simple page in Chrome for Windows is 150 MB for me. Comparing the functionalities of both web-apps it looks like HN wastes more resources than Gmail.
This always surprises me. While as an Indian I'm ashamed of the level of corruption we have in every government system of ours, at least it's still called corruption (and is illegal) what US calls lobbying (and is legal).
Yes you are.

The question you are asking is defined by the context of what you are replying to.

Selectively choosing to only reply to one part of that, in an effort to change the context, in fact changes nothing.

In this case 'deserves' was used in the context of someone deserving freedom from state interference.
Or they lobby for more hackers to make more, which can happen with a change in location with an overall reduction in budget
Where do you get "cheaper" from that? It certainly has "better" care for individuals ... at a price.

Population health starts with urban design that forces people to walk.
Basically any coat hanger not made of wire or a single plastic part has a rotatable hook. There’s usually enough friction that they won’t normally spin.
I finally upgraded to Sonoma and freed up about 20GB of disk space (I’m close to my 512GB capacity) by switching to gmail as a PWA. I much prefer gmail to mail.app but was always losing it in my many open tabs, so the PWA is perfect.
To me, this really shows that marketing is now the most crucial skill. It has become easy and affordable to design products, the process is now almost fully commodified with all those OEM and production services. The only thing that now stands between your idea and financial success is your ability to reach the target market, i.e. marketing.

Also, such a slick KickStarter campaign typically costs $10k plus ad spend if you buy it from an agency. Roughly 25% of the final price will be marketing and ads. I know because I've seen first hand that you need a 3400% mark-up on the production costs to profitably sell bikinis in the US.

These hangers will also likely cost <$0.1 to make at scale. It's the initial investments into CNCed molds and the upfront marketing that determine the price.
The irony of your comment makes you evil, funny but evil XD
> which I agree are a problem

Are they? These salaries are much lower than most tech competitors. I know we like to call out "high" salaries when a useful service is struggling - but they'll struggle even more if they can't retain good talent because their pay is too low. There's a reason tech skill in government is generally lower than that in industry, for instance.
63% is the Carnot efficiency between 565°C (838 K) and 30°C (303 K)
Visual iconography doesn't need to transmit the same ideas to different users, it's there to reduce space taken but still be identifiable to an experienced user of the tool.
After the mess of Finland's Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant Unit 3, I cannot believe that Sweden is proceeding so aggressively with nuclear power. Personally, I am a fan of nuclear power, but I find it hard to believe in 2023 this plan is better than an equivalent spend on wind power (and maybe batteries). Note: I did not mention solar, which will not be very efficient in Sweden.
I see 2.64mb in Firefox + Linux
You might find this shocking, but in many parts of the world "nice computers on fast internet" is kind of a high-end luxury right now.
Those pictures are way older. I would say early/mid 2000s. Some guy wears a lostprophets shirt which should be based on the 2001 album. They are either first generations of digital cameras or scanned analog if you ask me.
For context, I'm saying it's not worth the trouble for the vast majority of people. Usage statistics agree with this.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30848456#:~:text=%3E%20...

And a good chunk of the 22.29%(vim)+11.88%(neovim) on that survey likely do not configure it out of the box (defaults) and are not using it as their sole/primary editor.

Outside of the stackoverflow sphere, (n)vim usage is far less (globally).

Aside from general usage scenarios, plugins and configuration is finicky and difficult most of the time. It requires care, maintenance and debugging to get things to work - and having to configure LSP/Tree sitter and other things can be frustrating. Things have gotten better, but OOBE leaves much to be desired.

The quality of plugins seem to be somewhat better on VSC (though for some of the more established plugins, (n)vim have really good ones - so it's about even here). It is a simple matter of searching for what you want in the Marketplace.

VSC gets me up and running in 15 minutes on a new machine, if necessary and provides enough working defaults that I can reasonably expect other people to be using the same thing. If not, it is a simple matter of creating a new profile (File>Preferences>Profiles>New) on someone else's machine - making my tweaks and I'm off to the races. I don't have to dive into someone else's config.

As far as being judged harshly, I am not surprised at the responses I have gotten - the fact of the matter is: you have to be a unique person to want to use (n)vim. Just by virtue of using (n)vim, emacs or similar style editors - you are already in the outlier of users that code/program on their computer. Just like being here on HN already puts you on the outlier. HN, Reddit, stackoverflow all exist in their own bubble of technically skewed, predominantly male in their 20s to 40s.
> which they ironically send to people who gave

I'm a lifetime member of my university's alumni association. This means I routinely get physical mail with headlines like, "YOUR OFFER INSIDE," and then the "offer" is to give them more money.

Sigh.
Well the Intel S3500 sells for about $340 while the EVO 750 goes for about $40 for the same 0.5 TB size. I guess you get what you pay for.
2 clicks is too much. It should not be turned on by default.
Parquet files are also /can also be split into different row groups. By ordering the contents by whatever you're most likely to filter on you can cut down on accessed data even more.

E.g if you filter on creation time order the data by that. Then when you query it, duckdb/similar should read the metadata for each row groups and ignore any that cannot contain the data you want. Ordering by user id or country, etc. are common other ones. Order by the biggest group first (so country then timestamp if you often filter on both).

You can tune the size of the row groups depending on your access pattern.
There is none except hydro and nuclear for base load. Unless you want to burn gas (co2) or coal (co2 and radioactive emissions that cause more cancers in the us then nuclear has world wide)

Renewables outside hydro cannot, and will never, be able to provide a a stable base load for the grid, battery storage isn’t there and has all sorts of issues, pumped storage requires even more rare conditions then hydro, as does geothermal, so we are left with nuclear as the only real clean and reasonable path forward that we would have done decades ago if not for oil and gas doing everything to prevent it.

So what is YOUR proposal to provide a stable base load?
Profit or non-profit is not about paying market rates. Even non-profits have to pay reasonably competitive salaries to attract and retain good employees.
They rejected the proposal
And that's why we get to see texts like

> 'I love you alive girl…I will show you with my body.' 'I want to smell you, I want to breathe you in.'
That's how evolution works (?)
Apple has supported compressed memory pages for almost a decade now. It compresses pages before it writes pages to swap (iOS doesn't even have swap). The cost to compress pages is an order of magnitude better than writing to disk including SSDs.

Compressed pages aren't magic but they let 8GB go further than you might expect.
Yes, I am encouraging people to donate to Signal because I prefer it. Why would I be soliciting donations for something I don't favor? If you want to contribute to something else go right ahead, but this is a thread about Signal's financial needs so it shouldn't surprise you that Signal supporters encourage other supporters to donate.

I also use Matrix. Element has been pretty good for a few years now, but it's still not smooth enough for mainstream use. (Encryption state in chats gets messed up sometimes, for example. It feels like Signal 10 years ago, and it's had security issues in its client also)

The Matrix protocol is also inferior to Signal in that all metadata is stored in cleartext on the server. You get to choose or run a server, but the protocol still leaks the user info to whoever runs the home server and to any foreign server that has a user in the same channel if you are using it in a federated context. Signal manages all of this by peer to peer messages where cleartext is only available to clients, which is really slick.

XMPP is just dead. Forget about XMPP. Matrix is the clear leader in the federated messaging system category. I'd like to see Matrix displace things like Telegram, Discord, and Slack. I may donate to Matrix affiliated projects in the future, as I also donate to other open source projects from time to time, but I'm not going to promote any of those things in this thread.
The key point here is the credibility part. The Nigerian prince has no credibility. If you are approaching someone looking to solve a problem and you demonstrate competance via an extensive Github profile / blog your chances of a response are enormously increased I'd have thought.
"Make It Real" AI prototype wows devs by turning drawings into working software
10, 000, 000 bucks to homeless pet needs?

This would be great but try and find out where a homeless person can go and get help for their pet...thats no where to be found. The money just went ...somewhere.

Government's have a way of disappearing money.

https://www.grants.ca.gov/grants/pet-assistance-and-support-....
New open source Svelte UI controls released
The SVAR Team is excited to offer essential Svelte components that are ready-to-use and designed to create fast and visually appealing apps.