skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way I can make the math make sense is if the people angling for RTO are staked entirely in the capital-assets table, and ignoring operational expenses.

Even if you discard features like "employees like it", "it earns you points in competitive recruitment markets", or "some types of employee perform better remote" data, offering 100% remote inherently widens the recruitment net. You can hire two engineers in Dubuque for the cost of one in SF, and you're less likely to get pinned to "there's only one guy on the local market with the skills we need, and he's asking $$$$."
Hmm, the post I’m thinking of was much older. I’ll have to keep looking.
24v Electric drill
Ifixit repair kit
Dewalt Socket wrench set
Starter fluid
;)
As soon as Switch or Playstation are used by >40% of the adult population for multiple hours a day every day on average, sure!
because he was removing the anal transmission device used to win championship
That reply is a pun based on the fact that Mir (Мир) means peace in a lot of Slavic languages, and "Мир! Труд! Май!" ("Peace! Labour! May!") was a popular slogan in the USSR for celebrating 1st of May (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day)
Eh, aren't the footprints of these datacenters really low compared to all the other things we use space for? Also they don't really need premium land they can be built basically anywhere, so you could put them where nothing could grow anyway. I don't think the space is a concern, and including it weakens your argument.

However electricity is a more serious concern. Data centers do use a significant amount of the world electricity, and the production of that electricity does come with concerns and tradeoffs.
You can deregister your phone number from iMessage on the web now, fwiw. https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/
Related:

Let's Build a Compiler (1988) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36054416 - May 2023 (19 comments)

Let’s Build a Compiler (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22346532 - Feb 2020 (41 comments)

Let's Build a Compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20444474 - July 2019 (47 comments)

Let's Build a Compiler (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19890918 - May 2019 (18 comments)

Let’s Build a Compiler (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6641117 - Oct 2013 (56 comments)

Let’s Build a Compiler (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1727004 - Sept 2010 (17 comments)

Let’s Build a Compiler (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=232024 - June 2008 (5 comments)

Let's build a compiler (dated, but very good) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=63004 - Oct 2007 (2 comments)
Maybe it's both: management is running on instinct instead of data, and since they can't get data that supports the "productivity" narrative, they focus on something they can point at-- a risk of lost real-estate value or business-tax-incentives.
I've not run across that discussion / talk, but it sounds interesting. Thanks for the tip!
Sadly it is NOT a drop in replacement at all and requires recompilation of every app the uses MacFUSE. Thus, it is useful for precisely 0% of fuse-using macOS apps out there. There is a bug in veracrypt GitHub to make fuse-t an option. It has had no action since April.
Can you run Doom on a USB-C charger? Did anyone manage to?
I like the concept but what if you doctor this timecode onto archive footage?
"There was no animosity here. This was all done with permission, and Pete and Jeff both got a kick out of it."

IMHO still a bit creepy though to involve kids in business jabs, even in jest.
haha mine was "lockpicking"

I make custom lock picks was member of TOOOL - and have a few cool tricks up my sleeve:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3I6lbpF68Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwD54DiYprw
I find it fascinating the two different schools of thought exposed in the LVDC and the AGC.

The LVDC was a highly redundant can not fail design. the AGC had no redundancy and was designed to recover quickly if failure occurred.
Apple wants deals with news publishers to train AI models
What is wrong in funding everyone's health through taxes? I paid a lot of them for years, although living a quite healthy life, then one day everything changed, and in just a couple years I had to get covid vaccines, a vertebral stabilization after an accident, then two stents after a heart attack. All for free. So far, my healthcare taxes have been the best possible investment.
Their point is that you can't learn general problem solving. IQ is not a skill.
Steam has been pretty good to me over the years for gaming. It took a long time to build up trust to buy digital-only copies of games, but they've been reliable. Even with my trust in that delivery method losing a lot of it's allure lately, it's one of the few digital storefronts I feel any kind of trust in.

And then there's GOG, which I have less experience with, but they were good, too, while I used 'em. They don't offer a Proton/WINE compatibility layer for Linux like Steam does, so I kind of stopped getting stuff there once I switched away from Windows a couple years ago. (Ironically, Linux drove me away from a DRM-free storefront, but here we are.)
Filesystem cache may make latency unpredictable, but it won't make open() unexpectedly fail with ECONNREFUSED. Most programs barely handle ENOENT, let alone EINTR.

Also, how do you do async fstat and mkdir in Linux? I don't see it in manpages.

AFAIK Plan9 answers to that was to not implement POSIX interfaces, and instead all I/O looked like RPC calls. This is generally a good design idea, but it's hard to sell an OS where all existing software will have to be rewritten for.
No it doesn’t. Go try to get VeraCrypt to use it. It requires code changes and recompilation.
To be fair, this is a great web site, but the it doesn't look like SimCity 2000 at all apart from some icons here and there. I'm glad that SimCity inspired the web site's creators, but nowhere near to call the web site "SimCity style". Maybe I'm missing something?
2023: The Year Food-Delivery Prices Went Insane
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

We don't care about which political side you're on but we do care about not having those sorts of comments here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
"contemplate how that spider you can see in the corner when youre on the toilet, can survive so long without any critters in her web?"

"spend ten minutes attempting to come up with a name for your dying plant, because if you just remember to talk to it - it wont leave you like everyone else has"

"Promise yourself youll fold the laundry after you rest your eyes for a few minutes"

I'm pretty good at this game!
Let's not go too far either. Money and determination still buys results. A disposable government system might be stuffed with large FPGAs, ASICs and other exotics. Which would rarely be found in any consumer system - certainly not in quantity. A government system might pour a lot of money in the design of these and the cost of each unit. So, perhaps not much difference for each standard CPU and computer node but still as much difference as ever in the rest?
So it's just about the one video? It's not about technology reviews in general, or any of the math stuff (like what was linked in the video above)?
I don’t think the problem is necessarily PCs being inefficient. IMO it is more likely that it is simply much harder to optimize for random hardware combinations that people run, and that there is a lot of pressure on devs to optimize console gameplay (likely at the expense of optimizing PC gameplay, perhaps devs also see less of a need to since most PCs are better equipped than consoles anyhow, that and deadline pressure)
Looks like a fun project but I think the window of opportunity might have passed. The Shopify JIT seems to be the way forward for Ruby JITs, and WASM is the obvious choice for new programming languages.
Bad analogy, because I can either be at Walmart (App store) or not exist at all (no sideloading, other stores) in case of Apple

If this would be the case in the real world, FTC would be tearing such Walmart apart.
> I wonder, does this concept translate between languages?

The topic of 'how does dyslexia manifest in Japanese/Korean/Chinese' is an interesting one to read about, for those interested in this sort of thing.
For what it’s worth, I can see your comment and reply. Though I realize that might not mean you can reply back.
WASM: WebAssembly > Specification > Wasm program > Code representation > C source code and corresponding WebAssembly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly#Code_representatio...

WASI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly :

> WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) is a simple interface (ABI and API) designed by Mozilla intended to be portable to any platform.[84] It provides POSIX-like features like file I/O constrained by capability-based security.[85][86] There are also a few other proposed ABI/APIs.[87][88]

[88]: webassembly/wasm-c-api: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasm-c-api

/? WASM tutorial:
https://www.google.com/search?q=wasm+tutorial

/? WASM helloworld:
https://www.google.com/search?q=wasm+helloworld

Learn X in Y minutes > WebAssembly:
https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/wasm/

WebAssembly/WABT: The WebAssembly Binary Toolkit: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/wasm/ :

docker run \
--runtime=io.containerd.wasmedge.v1 \
--platform=wasi/wasm \
secondstate/rust-example-hello

> Docker Desktop downloads and installs the following runtimes that you can use to run Wasm workloads:

io.containerd.slight.v1
io.containerd.spin.v2
io.containerd.wasmedge.v1
io.containerd.wasmtime.v1
io.containerd.lunatic.v1
io.containerd.wws.v1
io.containerd.wasmer.v1

Do all of these have WASI?
Chickens, home, roost. After all the skuffed products, the destroyed ecosystems, and the general plague Google has become even in their core search product, I hope their gigantic carcass feeds a new generation of hungry companies eager to succeed by making the world better.
The ariicle was a lot of fun however I felt it missed a important aspect about the respective computers. IO channels. I don't know about the USB charge controllers. But the AGC as a flight computer had a bunch of inputs and outputs. Does a Richtek RT7205 have enough IO?
VR is niche hardware and good is subjective. Is it better than the Quest 2? Debatable
Something that the page does not seem to comment on: will easy embeddability, like with lua, be a priority for this project? Especially in Zig (obviously). It's the most interesting question and use-case that comes to mind.
can you post enough about your local LLM setup for me to google/rep. this?

There is so much out there for LLM's parsing is a pain.
Ha! I find it enduringly funny that you mention arrogance here, since your comment is a perfect example of how human arrogance often gets in the way of correct analysis.

If you think that it's optimal problem-solving for humans to just ignore any and all evidence that they would be healthier if they interacted differently with their environment at scale, that's just arrogance.

It's absolutely nothing more, although I predict you'll keep assigning primacy to your gut feelings because engaging in thorough analysis would involve admitting you were wrong, which would make you feel bad.
Not entirely automated but machine-augmented: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35668525
Which was great when Amazon Prime gave you Turbo for free. When you can compare the pricing of Turbo to YouTube Premium, which is the better value?

In the end what has actually happened is we watch less.
Likewise and I was in the wrong. I hate to beat a dead horse but look at my reply to a sibling comment in this comment thread for an example.

My honest opinion: I have geopolitical views that tend to upset ideological people which includes...coughpowerfulcough folks and got stuck with reputation accordingly (whatever, no complaints). I normally avoid politics because in the US at least, I am too contrarian and "centrist", but on HN people do engage and correct me or educate me when I am incorrect. At least it used to be so, times are achanging. But tech people keep being political so it's hard to avoid. One particular thread about signal or something, I made a point about Silicon Valley tech types presuming things and interfering with politics in other countries (something about signal or other apps enabling one side of politics to win over the other I think), I think that comment was the last straw before the restrictions (can't be sure though, just guessing), this must have been in 2022. But as the saying goes "if a cop tails a car for 500 miles, that car is getting a ticket!", I am sure I have done plenty more that violate the rules, my only complaint is on how my "punishment" was in secret with no opportunity to self-correct. Maybe like reddit, HN is best lurked?

I hope to see better times on HN and make dang's job easier on my part at least. happy 2024!
This work resulted in what seems like the only open source firmware for Ethernet NICs. Is anyone aware of any other ones?

https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open
Oh, THAT old thing?
China's Nuclear-Powered Containership: A Fluke or the Future of Shipping?
yes, this is super obvious for everyone I'm sure... (I remember my wife having this problem like, 6-7 years ago when she switched away from an iphone...it took a while for her to figure out she wasn't getting "texts" from her sister)
That was really something special to behold...

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Very few non tech people realize that. I’d wager the overwhelming majority buy a kindle and then get 100% of their books off BezosBazaar.
To make a modern comparison, the first mass-market device with USB-C was arguably the 2015 MacBook, it was only really last year 2022 that it finally started to feel like most consumer electronics were being released with usb-c instead of micro-usb, and still many devices today are being manufactured with micro-usb ports (I even have a device I bought this year that utilized… mini-usb!!) so that’s 7+ years for something that everyone agrees is superior to gain serious traction. 3D printers are similar, after the patents expired, it took nearly 10 years for them to be truly mainstream.
The people who I describe, which were a bunch.
Brian, never change.
"Nation state" doesn't mean "country". It certainly doesn't mean "rich country".
Corundum – Open Source FPGA-based NIC and platform for in-network compute
Show HN: I made an iOS app to analyze and interpret kid's drawings with GPT-4
Hi HN, this is my first post here!

I am a solo developer introducing crAion: a native iOS app that uses the new model 'Vision' by OpenAI to analyze your child's drawings. It interprets what they are representing through their art and how they might be feeling. You can save then the artworks in an organized gallery in the cloud and share them with family and friends.

Looking forward to your feedback :)

App Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6473756867
> Research into chess found little or no effect of learning it on other academic and cognitive skills, and the same is true for music instruction and cognitive training.This inability to transfer problem-solving skills is why "brain training" is ineffective for developing general intelligence.

I would disagree with this premise, deep work and the forbidden word "discipline" are problem solving skills that are learned and need constant training. They are just as important as any other specific skill needed for the subject. Thus, making some problem-solving skills indeed free flowing from subject to subject.
What's wrong with that? They are. We can always make the finer distinction of "Von Neumann architecture inspired digital electronic computer" if you wish to exclude the examples you've given. After all, anything which transforms a particular input to a particular output in a consistent fashion could be considered a computer which implements a particular function. I would say - don't confuse the word's meaning with the object's function and simply choose a context in which a word refers to a particular meaning, adapt to others contexts and translate, and simply deal with the fact that there is no firm division between computer and not-computer out in the word somewhere apart from people and their context-rich communications. If the context in which you're operating with an interlocutor is clear enough for you to jump to a correction of usage ... simply don't; beyond verifying your translation is correct, of course. As you're already doing this - likely without realising it - by taking care in doing so consciously you're likely to find your communications more efficient, congenial, and illuminating than they otherwise would be.
In Boston I’ve been getting free 2 day shipping without prime. A lot of times it arrives in just one day.

Prime used to be a good deal. Now, unless you are neck deep in the amazon ecosystem, it’s just a bundle of lesser services that you’ll never use, and the ones you use keep getting downgraded
Wow, the performance improvements are insane!
> but since "science" (c. 1834AD) is a newer term than "φυσιολόγο" (c. 350BC)

The word "science" is a lot older than 1834. Have a look at page 225 [0] of the 1622 edition of Richard Hooker's Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, where you will read (my emphasis):

> The reason, why no man can attayne beleefe by the bare contemplation of Heaven and Earth, is, for that they neyther are sufficient to give us as much as the least sparke of Light concerning the very principall Mysteries of our Faith; and whatsoever we may learne by them, the same we can onely attaine to know, according to the manner of naturall Sciences, which meere discourse of Wit and Reason findeth out...

Hooker is here using "natural science" ("naturall Sciences") to mean essentially the same thing as the phrase means today. And, although that's from the 1622 edition, that section of the book was first published in 1597, and I believe that passage is the same in the original 1597 edition (Hooker died in 1600).

Earlier in the same book (also first published 1597), he says (page 193 [1], my emphasis):

> It is with teachers of Mathematicall Sciences usuall, for us in this present question necessary, to lay downe first certaine reasonable demands, which in most particulars following are to serve as Principels whereby to worke, and therefore must be before-hand considered.

Once again, here he is using the phrase "mathematical science" ("Mathematicall Sciences") in essentially the same sense as it is used today. (The point he's making there, is he sees the axiomatic methods used in mathematics as a model for theology to emulate.)

And I doubt those are the first uses of the word "science" in a way clearly compatible with contemporary English usage. They were just the earliest I could find after a brief search.

[0] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t0ns23...

[1] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t0ns23...
I use a dns adblocker. Both netflix and prime video have prevented me from watching videos because of that (specific error messages about using ad blockers. netflix, mid streaming). I am now enjoying their content and more using alternative means (found a couple of highly underrated recent indie films as a side effect). There has been a lot of innovation on the high seas in recent years for anyone who doesn't know.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ZcBHvjhGMTTdGF3fIdvg9?si=o...

its worth it several times
Huh. I like Go but its error handling is the only area where I really do not like it at all.
I have two Clara HD and they’re pretty good. They just work. I use Calibre with them.

Inside is a micro SD card so if I ever need more storage I can just clone the original SD and extend the partition to upgrade the storage.

The Kobo are so much better than the kindle imho: more open, not locked down, and the typesetting engine is Mike’s ahead: no ragged edges or page long rivers unlike I was getting on the kindle.
The Developer Experience Book
This comment section is very "why write a Language?" oriented.

I love reading about new languages!! I work with data scientists a lot so I'll probably always use Python professionally, at least for the foreseeable future.

But Python, JavaScript etc are huge languages with massive histories of practical trade offs and compromises. It's always exciting to see what someone's dream language looks like!

Besides, learning languages like Rust and Clojure has taught me a huge amount that's transferable to coding in other languages like Python.

I like the idea of a lightweight json focused / typed scripting language a lot!
I don't know what you're referring to, but I'm curious as I moved to Chicago relatively recently. Could you elaborate?
> These questions are either behind a paywall (in the case of the question bank) or published after 2021 and therefore out-of-training data for both LLMs

I'm not sure that it's true that GPT-4's web scrape is currently from before 2021. And even if it was, this still doesn't seem like an effective analysis of test data contamination. (For example, have any questions that differ only in insignificant ways been asked before?)

I'm not skeptical of GPT-4's capability in the way many (most?) people are, but I'd still like to see the level of dialogue around training set data improve.
> Furthermore, fires in electric cars are declining. The MSB says the number of fires in electric cars has been around 20 a year over the last three years, although the number of electric cars over that tie has almost doubled. Presumably, this is due to EV makers improving fire suppressing designs in newer models.

article directly says that there's an exploding growth of new vehicles, thus "average car" hasn't aged yet

I'm not arguing against EVs being more safe, I'm arguing against awful statistics of comparing "new EVs against aging ICE" while only saying "EV vs ICE"
That's not what's commonly understood by utilitarianism, by the way. If said activity to render goods and services does not result in increased total happiness or average happiness, after factoring in externalities, many utilitarians do not consider that a "good" activity.

(via Wikipedia) for example, Bentham, the first formulator of says that utility is

> That property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness ... [or] to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered.

but the question is open as to whether or not the happiness of animals is included in it. So just as exploitation of many to a great degree for services like a relatively small increase in comfort of few (as in chattel slavery) would be negative utility for Bentham, the suffering of animals for food would be considered negative utility to the utilitarian animal rights advocate.
I'll point out that IRC is still a thing and that there are some very helpful master programmers hanging out there.