skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truly inspiring work from Framasoft! I just hope for more adoption. I don't know if anyone remembers the days of Firefox 2 and 3 and the days of "community marketing" but I think something like that could be a worthwhile project here. I would love, for instance, if significant creators could do a Framasoft February each year where they commit to hosting some portion of videos of their choice on Peertube.
Yes, all this works. These are Pythonic ways. But see, here the `enumerate` function will allocate a new number and a tuple for the number and the item. Then `i, item` will unpack that tuple and deallocate the tuple memory. All this happens quickly (in a loop it may be essentially the same memory for every tuple) and CPython is well optimized for that, of course, but it is not free.

With an integer cursor (`i`) there are no unique numbers for each item and no temporary tuples. This is slightly cheaper. And also more flexible, which is the main point I'm trying to make. Other loop constructs are meant to be used in certain way and will not work otherwise. Integer cursors are not meant to be used in any special way, you can combine them as you wish. They give the maximum possible flexibility from the beginning. You can loop in any direction, by multiple items or by a variable number of items, over many iterables at once, changing the iterables as you go, and so on.

(A special case in Python are list comprehensions; these are useful because most of that “comprehending” happens inside CPython and thus they are faster.)
TAOCP is about like reading an encyclopedia; a very well-written, black and white encyclopedia with not-necessarily-clear illustrations.

For instance, I just opened randomly to the binary tree traversal material in Vol. I. It's very mathematic or formal, e.g. "T2. [P = Λ?] If P = Λ, go to step T4." and so on. To fish out some of the more interesting details, you have to look through the questions and then flip to the answers.

Meanwhile, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_traversal has the same information but somehow more clearly presented.

If I flip to other random pages and scan for 30 seconds, I can't find much that is actually interesting---particularly in the early volumes.

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The Art of Electronics is more my speed, as it's a collection of real-world applications, deep dives into each component type, quick comparison tables, and clear overview of a specific design's pros and cons. It's as much interesting to read through as it is useful as a reference.

I can flip to basically any random page of The Art of Electronics and find something eliciting, "Oh cool." I can't say the same for TAOCP.
I wasn't an Android user for 13 years because I couldn't afford an iPhone. I was an Android user for 13 years because I despised Apple's vision of mobile computing, specifically more paternalistic tendencies like "not allowed to side-load apps", "no filesystem access for you", "lol what are standards, let's use Lightning for everything".

Don't pretend that Apple and quality of computing go hand in hand. They only do if you buy into their mindset wholesale, warts and all.
The high costs can be easily traced to the insurers lobby. See their late huge profits while at the same time raising the prices because muh costs... all passing basically unchallenged even at the recent elections - not even by the left parties. While it's better than in many other places in the world, still we should complain, if only for awareness.
Yeah they're not even deprecated really, that's the wrong word. That implies there not actively encouraged to be used. They just moved them to their own repo outside of eslint itself.
the habitable zone, defined as the distance from a star at which you could expect temperatures on a planetary surface consistent with the presence of liquid water

I know nothing about the search for extraterrestrial lifeforms, but isn't using this definition extremely limiting? Or are the various aspects of water really such that it's extremely unlikely any other lifeform not using water could exist? Like, based on another fluid? Or maybe just no fluid at all? Or is the issue that we wouldn't be able to detect another lifeform as being one if it's not water-based?
> they've also decided to bring back pseudoephedrine tablets too

I dislike many of their policies but I'm not convinced this one is wrongheaded.

While meth (called 'P' in New Zealand) was often manufactured from pseudoephedrine tablets here, the outright ban on this medication did not seem to have succeeded in lowering the availability of P in the country; after an initial rise in price and reports of lowering of purity, the street price has overall dropped from around 700 NZD / gram in 2009 to around 400 NZD / gram today, as described here[1]

[1] https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/09/26/pseudoregulation-the-failu...
SO roughyl how much does this instance cost a day? Like $30?
Im kind of confused why it wasnt mentioned, but hey maybe poeple arent as cheap as me. Cool project tho.
> And which kind of mass is a proxy for the total energy of a system?

When considering systems there is only one mass. It's called mass. It's neither relativistic nor rest mass. It's just E/c2 where E is the total energy of the system. It's not the sum of the parts because it's dependent on interactions between the parts as well. The mass of deuterium nucleus is not the sum of relativistic masses of the proton and neutron. It's less because they are bound.

Rest mass is a sort of useful concept because it is the bit of energy that's still there even when object is at rest. Apparently it has something to do with Higgs field which I'm not super keen on because I don't understand it but nothing seems to contradict this so far.

But talking about relativistic mass doesn't make much sense. The velocities are involved in mass only because equation for the energy of a particle has momentum term. It doesn't create anything qualitatively different to be worth naming it. Relativistic mass is only talked about to avoid contradicting the intuition of mass being quantity of matter which was introduced earlier to weed out the intuition of mass being weight which kids get from everyday language. It's really not a great idea because it misleads people who try to think for themselves a bit further. For example what would happen if you tried to push fast moving object sideways. Would it be harder because of higher innertia because of higher relativistic mass? After all trying to push it in the direction it travels should be harder because of high relativistic mass. That's what people say when trying to explain why you can't accelerate matter to the speed of light. Suddenly relativistic mass becomes a directional property. When you use the correct equations in their full form istead of trying to shortcut to skip momentum and vectors all of this confusion disappears.
- No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese fire ants. They’ll wipe out the ticks.

- But aren’t the ants even worse?

- Yes, but we’re prepared for that. We’ve lined up a fabulous type of spider that thrives on ant meat.

- But then we’re stuck with spiders!

- No, that’s the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the spiders simply freeze to death.
By that logic we should prosecute the inventor of programming languages that are used in hacking.
So let’s see if I understand this properly…

A random blue tick crypto account posts an unverifiable screenshot from an unknown tool showing what appears to be traffic data for a random crypto website and in that instance they got more traffic from Twitter than Facebook or Google.

What on earth are we supposed to learn from that other than crypto scammers preferred platform of choice is Twitter which everyone already knew anyways.

This is not an interesting data point let alone a “news story”.
Well, Windows still has that trick where you can launch some other program as the shell instead of explorer.exe. Perhaps your newly built system should just launch to Steam as the primary OS shell directly ;)

In fact, I'm surprised I didn't do this earlier.
I'm impressed by all the work the Kagi team is getting done. I wonder how they split their focus between the two major challenges of building a new search engine and a new browser with the same small team.
Ok. Well, it does happen. Happened a lot more in the past vs now.
Theres is literally no further context or data points here, just the line "driving traffic through Google" repeated a couple of times.
That professor probably had an electrifying personality
I wonder how it fares in double blind comparisons.

Maybe you can tell, maybe not?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/decaf-vs-regular-coffee-taste...
Isn't that a technicality though? 99% of the content I watch, I only watch once and never again personally. It's deleted/returned as soon as I'm done with it but I do keep a permanent copy in my memory as having read the book/watched the movie/tv show.
> Instead of letting "fact checkers" do the thinking for you, make some effort to actually think for yourself.

Have you tried doing that yourself? Or are you only willing to believe the interpretations you want to believe?

And yes, "interpretations" is valid — imagine talking about "killing child with fork" to someone who knows nothing about computers, what they would think, how they would react. Would sound a lot like the pizzagate conspiracy theory, wouldn't it? And yet, the reality of those words in the context of Unix is nothing remotely close to that.
Lots of outrage, but where is the pragmatic reality? Prohibition didn't eliminate alcohol. The "War on Drugs" has been a spectacular failure.

Surely it makes better sense to tax this behaviour and try to mitigate the harm caused?
I'm not quite sure I understand what "driving traffic through Google" actually means.. Anyone?
had he wrote it in 2 years in 1968, it would be long forgotten by now.
The analogy does not completely explain the actual behavior of electrical current, that's true. But what's more important, and what it does clearly show, is that a fast wave can exist without fast movement of the particles involved.
So the source is Elon's tweet (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1727479336465297667), which is a quote tweet of this weird screenshot:

https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1727478785086267884
Enter climate change and warming temperatures in winter.
>I've spent years saying that programmers make good money, then expect slave labor from writers and content developers.

I guess. They have very different histories and it's not like programmers are strangers to doing "free work" (i.e. the entire open source community until the Github era). the narrative would be flipped 30 years ago. I'm not quite sure how that is relevant.

>If the only way people will "allow" a valuable service to live is as their bitch, the entire internet is welcome to go die in a fire while we dream up some new answer for the future of this world.

sure. pay your labor. I don't think we disagree.

But the issue isn't that reddit doesn't make millions. It's that it's obsessed with spending 10's of millions in hopes of making hundreds of millions off of content provided via free labor. I just want to browse some news and discuss with people. HN doesn't cost millions in server costs and performs that perfectly for me.

If I had a nice cozy forum I wouldn't mind a subscription to it. I paid my 10 bux to SA back in the day and I donated to Tildes for a few years. But I do agree many would rather let the internet burn than pay for a site directly.
I don't understand this comment. Is it a joke? Why would the cloning matter? All of the clones can clone, which just means laying eggs without finding a mate.
These scenarios are based on the "The Business-as-Usual" assumption that is not 100% valid. In IPCC 1990 business-as-usual scenario C02 emissions are roughly 45 Gt today, in reality, it's 37 Gt.

Probably the most important factor is that coal use has not increased to the levels predicted, because actions have been taken in the last decade or so.
I know it's very difficult to explore, but I think one possibility would be to look for life on gas giant moons in habitable zones. Even if they are tidal locked, they would have a day-night cycle.
Because games back in the 90s weren't developed the same way they are today. The consoles were so different that you had to make significant changes to the games to fit within the limitations of different consoles. This usually meant the game was better on the original than the port (since they'd deliberately designed around that console).

There's plenty of stuff on YouTube showing the differences for different games. Avalanche Reviews did a good video of Resident Evil 2 ports across different consoles and generations.
Yeah ports existed but they were far more rare then, because as OP said, it required devs to build an entire game engine from scratch for each platform. After the early 2000s, projects like Unreal engine and Unity engine started to take over game development and allow for lightweight porting efforts across all game consoles and PC.

N64 had very few ports and vice versa with the PS1. PS1 had a catalog of over 1000 games but N64 had somewhere around 300, with Nintendo franchises probably forming about 20-25% of the total catalog.

This was also partly because games engineered and designed for the N64's strengths were not suitable for PS1 and vice versa. Porting Resident Evil 2 to the N64 took heroic efforts by Capcom to compress the game into a size suitable for cartridge, for example, and even then they had to create a custom cartridge design for it. StarCraft 64 was clearly quite different gameplay-wise from its PC counterpart as a result of a lack of mouse and keyboard, which are especially important for RTS. It also required a 4MB (RAM) expansion pack to be installed onto the N64 in order to play the full game. Other differences included a lack of voice acting in campaigns as a result of cartridge size limitations.

Ports existed in the SNES and Genesis era (NBA Jam, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Earthworm Jim, etc come to mind). I would argue they were far more common then as the two consoles were not far off in specs and 2D game engines were already mature by then.
At least from my perspective it's not so much whether someone puts themself out there, as much as the format kinda treating the authors of comments as interchangable. Like, it's unlikely I'll recognise a name from a previous comments section or post, simply because it's such a minor part of the page and so de emphasised compared to what they posted.

I know that people here are usually not toxic, and I wouldn't be worried about sharing personal info that much, but it's just an 'all names kinda blend in with this format' thing.
I'm feeling this pain right now. I was forced to switch to my backup phone after my main one broke. Data is okay over LTE, but it doesn't support VoLTE, and calls over 2G is miserable. Connection is super spotty unless I take the call outdoors, and even then, quality isn't great. Couple that with T-Mobile shutting down 2G in April 2024, and guess who's forced to purchase a new phone just to keep up.
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A lot of people here argue that access to Facebook/other social media is not a fundamental right. I disagree - when you build something so big (either by accident or by intention) that it becomes humanity's de-facto social fabric, maybe it should be considered a fundamental right.
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D suffered from lack of focus, and company sponsoring, hence why it hardly mattered to C++ folks.

The domains that Java and .NET took away from C++ aren't coming back to C++, even if now they feel the pressure to have AOT and value types with better low level coding primitives.

Additionally Java and .NET applications that get rewritten, most likely will be in one of those C++ wannabe successors, even if C++ is part of the equation by using GCC/LLVM backends.
Probably because we know its entire genome?
They're blaming NZF and Act but it's not terribly convincing when National have a former tobacco lobbyist in their ranks.
> "Pellet-Beam Propulsion for Breakthrough Space Exploration"

More than 250,000AU separate us from Alpha Centauri and at a speed of 500AU in 15 years, that doesn't look very realistic... More realistic is however a faster exploration of the solar system.
how is this relevant to Reddit (a tech site in SV) having the right to monetize off of other people's passion, though? And who is expecting and demanding what?
Green tea tastes awful.
> Like, if you are correct, and Facebook would make more money per user charging them €25 instead of showing them ads, then wouldn't they be idiots to purposefully price their product so high as to "avoid" people making them more profitable?

Each user that signs up to pay decreases the value of the ones who don’t because it lowers their number. If the price is reasonable and “too many” people sign up, they’re decreasing revenue on the other side. Plus, paying users have a bigger voice in general, in that they can stop paying and you’ll notice. Free users are easier to control as they’ll stick around and accept much more crap.
also removing skip connections leads to a rougher loss landscape, hence it should be harder to find the optimal weights.
Well, how reliable is peertube? Say I would do a ShowHN, that gets traction and a HN hug of death. In theory peertube could take the load for the videos without having to rely on youtube - but has anyone done this succesful in reality?
300M params will train in a Google Colab most likely, or for a few bucks on vast.ai, or a few hours on a fairly decent card. So that is super small!
Plus the MG is not just considered a collector's item today, it was originally designed as a pleasure craft, not exclusively for transportation.
I'm sure there's plenty of local enforcement, I'm just talking about my own cookie wall experience which is mostly happening when consuming Europe-based news outlets. I was really surprised to see that it was enabled by some national agencies which have explicitly okayed the cookie wall for such cases.
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A bit of topic.

I created a peertube client[1] for android a few years ago. I love peertube and I really believe in the project however the effort I have put into the client and the rewrite which I almost finished using jetpack/mvvm structure just doesn't seem to be worth it. I feel bad for abandoning it but I think I may have too.

[1] https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android
So you propose a genetically engeneered virus or bacteria to be released into the wild?
> One of NOYB's arguments is that cost is too high and thus excludes lower classes unable to pay for the subscription.

Their argument for the price being to high is that Facebook makes about €60 per EU user per year so setting the privacy fee to about €250 seems to be too high. Their argument, the main one, is also that consent should be freely given but if one choice is behind a paywall while the other isn't then the choice isn't freely given.
If I remember correctly, pseudo-elements act as they are children of their "parent" element, e.g.

<dquo-pull><::before></::before>... </dquo-pull>

In that case the ::before element doesn't linebreak independently from its "parent" element and so those two elements are always together, even at a break before the start of a new line.
Did nobody create a MIX virtual machine or compiler in all this time?
That made me happy as well in one of my examples.

ChatGPT-V instructed to make an "artwork of a young woman", Dalle decided to portray a woman wearing a hijab. Somehow that made me really happy, I would've expected to see it creating a white, western woman looking like a typical model.

After all, a young woman wearing a hijab is literally just a young woman.

See Image #7 here: https://dalle.party/?party=55ksH82R
EULA is just a wishlist of a service or software provider. Nothing more unless it's upheld in court. And sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't:

https://superuser.com/questions/30940/is-an-eula-enforceable...

Comparison to real world situations when the trigger is physical presence are not a good example exactly because they require physical presence, something unachievable in the virtual world of software and internet.
I'm at 15 years with my £50 brother laser. I think it's had 3 or 4 toner cartridges in that time. It just sits quietly and prints when requested. Brilliant!
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Yeah, but there's a difference between eating junk food (once in a while) and investing in a junk food company, isn't it?

Surely you can invest in something else?

But you do you of course :-)
What's a great terminal for Mac?
Indeed. No privacy/cryptography oriented company in Switzerland was ever a joint BND/CIA operation ;)
In my experience its very common on HN. Sadly these talking points represent such a large amount of memes that are so entrenched that its akin to talking to flat Earthers or sovereign citizens.

The Gish gallop is never ending and due its being a strongly politically-identity coupled you can't hardly convince anybody. there isn't a chance of fruitful debate :/
the hard ones are unsolved research problems?

I haven't read the book, so he poses research questions as exercises to the reader...?
Yeah, love all the innovation and competition in the mail clients nowadays.
You sell your data to big companies or you get spam blocked by these companies, if you self host.

Why google would invent better email sender validation procedures and encryption, if the current system works pretty well for them.
The camera in the fridge is not for the customer's convenience. The camera is for image-recognizing the food brands the household is consuming, so the manufacturer could sell data for an extra couple of cents.

I imagine a scenario in the future when all fridges have it, like all TVs now have smart features. Of course it will sold as "check fridge while you are at the grocery store" feature.
My concern about my own backup strategy (which, for Photos, is exactly the same as yours) is that I don't have a system in place that notifies me if files get corrupted or randomly deleted, and I'm not sure how I would go about implementing something like that. Any ideas?
it goes the other way around.

metas service is not essential. respecting your privacy is essential.
Not to mention the fact such "interventions" almost universally condemn developing countries to economic irrelevance. It's easy to act all virtuous about the climate when you're an obscenely wealthy industrial country. I for one would burn down the entire Amazon jungle if it brought my nation the industrial strength needed to rival the developed world. I wouldn't even think twice.
Mkcontext – Generate ChatGPT prompts from files
I just made this after realising that chatgpt 4 now has 32k input context so it's useful to inject multiple files into my prompts easily
Just don’t use Hostpoint for email (have had many bad experiences).

Stick to someone who specializes in email (ie. Gmail/Outlook/Zoho/Fastmail/etc).
I really hope uBo for Safari would get some love thanks to chrome banning
The taxes I'm talking about are the cost of building a new home. Prices mean revert to replacement cost.
> Getting someone to host your pictures and provide you a platform to share them isn't a fundamental right.

By my privacy is so nobody can require me to pay for things with it. What point are you trying to make?
Goldeneye isn't a third party exclusive. It's a game published and funded by Nintendo, just handled by an external studio (Rare).
Some people were complaining about low quality climate denial comments, but this is a good example of high-effort climate denial you find on HN.

It's the equivalent of "intelligent Design" in evolution where they wrap an obviously wrong and totally discredited position like Creationism in sophistry to confuse matters.
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