skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just easier, but faster.

Have you tried moving through a desert or a steppe in the dead of night, far from human infrastructure? It's damn dark, the land is literally darker than the star-strewn sky. Headlights give you only so much light, for the next 100-150m of the road maximum. Unless it's a really nice, well-maintained road, with reflector posts, etc (and usually it's not), it's really easy to lose your way if you drive a tad too fast. You either crawl, or choose to camp and wait until the morning light.

With a GPS map, you can proceed much more confidently. And a few hours may play a serious role in disaster relief.
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> Rock musicians have a love-hate relationship with dynamic range compression, since it removes a dimension of complexity from their music, but is necessary in order to sound professional. Bloat might work by the same principles,

Speaking of which I am a bloated rock musician. I don't feel seen.
I always like to say, "If it happened before the internet, or there isn't an archive of it somewhere online, did it really happen??"

A huge ongoing problem for years, and in particular with recent generations, their ephemeral disdain for history, only existing in the now, discardable/temporary. It's sad, and also losing our history bit by bit, is a threat to our collective cohesion on a longer term scale. You can already see the smaller impacts of this in many spaces.
> Replacing is a cost.

Sorry, I don't understand. What is being replaced? With what?
I was talking about risks in general population, those are not zero, in spite of some individuals who post factum may turn out just fine after 10 years of isolation.
> the hardship they've chosen, likely from lack of foresight earlier in life

Maybe it was a clear-eyed, fully informed choice that they are glad they made. Life is full of trade-offs. I am less impressed by people who avoid hardship and difficult trade-offs.
The guy who figured this out (who Veritasium interviewed) is crazy smart.

Also, a lot of kids math problems (middle school and below) are super vague. I get that they're designed to teach a concept, but they could do it in a more exact/precise (idk what the word is) way.
Judging by some of the comments here it wouldn't surprise me if there are some people operating under the mistaken belief that "full privileges" is the only option. Establishing that "no privileges" (or "nothing") technically IS another option establishes the boundaries of the "surface area" that can be exposed. Evidently, there are at least two possible discrete values for that surface area and "none" is one of them (the other being "all"). That's progress--albeit incremental progress--in this discussion. To me, the obvious next step is to ask and answer the question, "OK, can the exposed surface area take on any other values in the interval [none, all]?" to which I would answer, "Yes."

For example, an OLAP system might with some justification be expected to offer more than 100ms statement timeout in order to support analytical workloads, but also continue to offer arbitrary queries to support exploratory analysis. Fine. Make the statement timeout 10000ms. In Redshift, say (you are using an analytical DB for analytical workloads, aren't you?) you can also impose quotas on rows fetched and data size returned. On the other hand, in an OLTP system (you are keeping your OLTP and OLAP workloads completely separate, aren't you?) for DEV you might have more stringent limits but still preserve a general-purpose SQL query interface. On yet another hand, in an OLTP system for PROD you might lock things down further by "white-listing" blessed queries by baking them into procedures, then turning off access to the underlying relations.

The point which I would like us not to miss, is that we can dial the degrees of protection and of access up or down to suit our needs, right within the database. Sure, you can't have everything. You can't have an API that BOTH offers generous quotas AND ALSO a wide-open and flexible general-purpose SQL query API. Life is about trade-offs, after all.
This is wrong, stdout is not flushed by default on every newline.

You can observe this by printing out tens of thousands of lines with vs without explicit flushing, there will be a big performance difference.
If you do a lot of social events I agree that calculations will show that you should likely get vaccinated.

None the less doesn't mean that calculations show that to every one.

Whatever "anti-vaxers" think doesn't change the calculations.
I am wondering if there were no household loads on that circuit that had that level of in-rush current, the component was on its way out, and the new load pushed it over the edge.
Whoops, I see Game Boy Color was added in there, but he forgot to revise the part about the cartridge size being only 1MB. Some GBC games reach 4MB in size.

edit: There's also an 8MB game about Trains, with some short videos and hi-color images in there.
I agree, Google is wayyyy less monopolistic than Apple. And it's absolutely hilarious that Google lost while Apple won.
Ha, truly! I read his comment, refreshed the GitHub repo and saw the "changes made < 1 minute ago" flag.
Very interesting, though a bit odd to contrast air cooling with fluid cooling, given it takes pretty extreme conditions for air to not be a fluid.
The jury found that Google created a market of Android app distribution, and then they squashed competition in that market.

No just market exists for Apple (it's an entirely closed and self-contained ecosystem) so there was no need to 'squash competition' - it just doesn't exist!

https://www.theverge.com/24003500/epic-v-google-loss-apple-w...
Ridiculing people who are worried about long term effects of something that has been in use for only a few years is such an HN thing.

There's countless precedent for things once touted as being safe to turn out incredibly damaging. We just don't know the long term effect yet. Please spare me with the "but there's no mechanism for it to do harm!!!!!" the same was said for all the other drugs that ended up causing cancer or malformed babies and were only pulled from the market after decades of "nutjobs" being dismissed for suggesting a link.
Arxiv version:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13127
3 paragraphs of rambling for "make is a waste of time because of sharp edges"

Can you actually articulate what those sharp edges are?
It depends on how it's implemented. Take a look at:

https://www.home-assistant.io/

They have customizable dashboards. What I'm really looking for is something I can use as a sort of command center in a few places in my house. It allows me to control the things I care about, shows my upcoming schedule, and whatever else is relevant. By my work desk, the #1 thing I care about is upcoming meetings. Other places, I care about other things.

Critically, though, I don't want it to glow. I want it either e-ink or purely reflective LCD.

This is probably a few devices. Ideally, there'd be small / cheap ones with mechanical switches and a tiny screen to replace my light switches, and big ones for my living room, work room, etc.

I think the trick would be to start with something, so one doesn't have an infinite engineering task, and so there are ready frameworks for modularity. Either Home Assistant or dash would be decent starting points, depending on which direction this took.

But yeah, now that I mention it, I have a vision in my head for what I want (which I would buy). Retrokludged features without the same vision would probably not get us there.

So I'll cut this back to what everyone else is saying: Calendar flexibility. This needs to sync with home, work, and other calendars, so at the very least, Outlook.
That's wild. Especially the rough similarity to an air-cooled 3 cylinder engine.
A couple of thoughts: I’m unable to go back with my browser’s ’Back’ key. not being able to revisit an activity reduces the site’s usefulness. Also, I’d recommend adding a feature that lets users add activities.
It kind of sounds like we're saying opposite things.

You're talking about the minimum necessary for just drawing a triangle, as if that's what "hello triangle" means. That's nothing. That's pointless.

The construction of hello triangle program marks the end of setup, and the beginning of actual work.

Skipping parts because they're boilerplate, or don't directly serve to draw the triangle, defeats the purpose. That's like typing the words "hello world" into notepad because it's faster than setting up an IDE.
Condemning aggressive settlers is easy, but who will object to seemingly benign, peaceful "normal" families who are just seeking "normal" suburban Americanesque living? . It is the creeping normalization of "military occupation" [1] that poses, in my eyes, a more insidious issue than overt acts of violence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_West...
Thank you :-)

The author, being born in 1987, while interested in how things came to be the way they are, only had an 8-bit and PCs, and needed to base it on some archive digging, and it was really satisfying.

I have corrected the Fortran reference - was mislead by the "70", but it turns out it was more like a WIP standard that wasn't even in use until the end of the decade.

Inserting on a DEC Writer must have been... not the most intuitive experience. I think inserting characters in the middle of the line wasn't practical on anything else than a screen, even if of an electronic typewriter?

It's also a great point how case sensitivity may be confusing for beginners - it's the same word after all, isn't it?
That's also a weird assumption. The sedentary part. My dream life is owning large amount of land with a house where I can be completely self sustainable, including various automations and this includes having an in-built gym.
I've also heard "you handle 30 unruly children, daily? You're a saint." Maybe just in my sphere though.

IIRC teachers were included in the "heroes" group of people who kept things going during covid, no?
I'm just saying AMD hardware is (namely their compute line of cards). Nvidia has great scientists in light transport research and it shows in their Real-time ray tracers.
It was a bit expensive, and it took some time to ramp up production. Still impressive, though.

The problem was that almost everyone who got the vaccine also caught the disease.
Yes, exactly this.

When compiling a project once from a clean state make has no advantage over a shell script that would use a tool like "parallel" to distribute compilation jobs over all available CPU cores.

However writing such a script for parallel compilation is more complex than writing a simple Makefile executed with "make -j N".

As you say, the main reason of existence of "make" is the acceleration of the recompilation of a project after incremental changes in the source files, when only the files that depend on the changes are recompiled, saving time.
Since I meant to be serious, and not present a sophomoric straw man, let's narrow things down to a specific example I gave:

Which should police investigate more - shoplifting from Walmart or wage theft at Walmart, and why?

My question is meant to probe what goes into your decision to prioritize investigating two related types of crime which can both take place at Walmart. It is meant to be more head-to-head than jliptzin's series of questions early in this thread "Someone want to explain to me why my tax dollars should go towards protecting target and Walgreen’s inventory? When they have one security guard in their entire store? When police could instead be spending that time finding the driver of the truck that smashed into my car and drove away?".

How is your [2] at all related to shoplifting? It feels like you are trying to raise the emotional level by switching to manslaughter.

This alternative topic has consumed endless discussion over the years. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_New_York_City_Subway_shoo... and https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-12-16-860403... from the 1980s as two examples. NYC has had a long time to refine how to handle something like your [2], and there is no way it makes sense to discuss it futher here.

> I don't think the police should be doing most of the work at the store, but I think the police should take the apprehended criminals from the store when called.

Right, but the top-level topic centers more about Target is locking things up, and how shoplifters can grab-and-run, and why Walgreens seems to only have "one security guard in their entire store".

Larger companies already expect "shrink" (theft by employees and customers) and factor it into their calculations of how much staff to have, how much security to have, the effect of locking up particular items, the use of self-checkout vs. cashiers, etc. They have long ago figured out how to maximize profit in the face of shoplifting.

In your terms, Walmart already allows crime to go unpunished because they don't want to spend enough to identify those crimes.

The police response - no matter how good! - is rather useless if over-worked employees don't notice the shoplifting so never contact the police, or if the police physically can't arrive until many minutes after the thieves have left.

Low wage employees of large companies, as a general rule, do not get paid to risk bodily harm to stop thieves. Your [2] is a rare exception, ... and also not an employee of a large company.

In general discussion, the argument is the city should direct the police to do more to help prevent shoplifting. Which means the big companies will go to their spreadsheets and figure out how to spend even less money on security and staff, ending up with more profit as the government ends up subsidizing their security.
I'm pretty sure the principle is favoring Japanese businesses.
Your comment looks a lot like a common trope on this site: people encountering a problem they know little about, thinking for 20 seconds, and saying “You could just…”

And that’s annoying because it’s arrogant and it invalidates people who have dedicated their lives and careers to that work.

But rereading your initial comment, I think it was actually framed as invitation for discussion rather than an “obvious simple solution”.

Don’t let it worry you too much. Sometimes shit just gets downvoted!
Don't miss the 31 global improvement trends either: https://www.gapminder.org/facts/improvements/
> Say what you will about C++ programmers, but at least they are free from the burden of trying to use a perfect language and can focus on more important things.

I would say most programmers, in any language, are free from that burden: once they picked their language they can focus on those important things.
Then you will have to make it illegal for Microsoft to have products like Microsoft Office or XBox that it has not opened up.
The elephant in the room is that people do not care about the continued survival of humanity
General population wouldn't strive for being isolated in the first place though.
Can you share the size of the datasets, and some parameter used for training?

I'm trying to understand what is the minimum size of a corpus and the architecture size too.
Well, given the name I assume it's a ranking? Though some colors are weird and it would be hard to believe a lot of people use it (like #fafafd or #0082a0 )

And yes my choice is there (#ffaa33)
Given how long they support their devices, your comment calls for a big ol' [citation needed].
Shouldn’t everyone’s parents have already had their kids phones in school mode? Who would have been on their phone in the first place to notice it was off?

Pretty interesting they are referring to everyone whose photo turned off as victims. Wouldn’t they also be violators of school phone policy?
It was like $30 a dose or less. Super cheap. Egad.
This page just makes me miss manpages in general.

Not every manpage was great, but many were, and many could also be formatted, printed out, and placed into a binder for easier reading.

What I enjoyed most about manpages is that the people that cared to write good documentation on things like bash.

If you have groff installed you can:

man -Tpdf man >man.pdf

The only problem with groff is that it doesn't support system standard fonts.
I feel piracy today is pretty morally excused.
There's a lot to be said for when dynamic analysis is possible; it doesn't have to be perfect in order to eliminate code that isn't involved in an interaction (worst case you cause that code to die horribly & observe the fail, or lack thereof)
Well, it's a compiler intrinsic to expose a part of C that's missing in C++. It's not like it's something GCC or clang came up with. It's like `_Bool` and `_Generic`
Imagine you had all your build commands in a shell-script.

Now imagine that you want to run individual steps from time-to-time, instead of running your whole script start to finish. So maybe you write functions that represent each group of commands, and call the function based on an input argument.

Now imagine that some of your build-steps have dependencies on other build-steps, and you want to be able to say "run step X, plus whatever else you have to do first." Or maybe you want to retry a failed build from wherever it left off, instead of having to re-run the entire thing.

Now imagine that you'd like to have some level of isolation between build-steps, so that one step doesn't mess the other one up.

As you add more and more things to your build script, you'll find yourself writing an implementation of Make pretty quickly.

Now

- sometimes - your build fails halfway though, and you want to resume from where-ever it failed. S
> Looks like technology can only help people to create a more sophisticated ways to kill each other.

If technology can help to create more sophisticated way to kill each other, it can also be used to create the defense against the same. Laser can be a killing weapon, or can also be used to shoot down drones.

And this is saying nothing about civilian application that save instead of killing each other.
You could do something like this to get dependencies almost for free:

.depends: $(SRCS)
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -MM $(SRCS) -o .depends

-include .depends
Well no, then the correct answer is anything between zero and fourty depending on whether one wants to recognize slang. Are we closer to AGI if some GPT 5 answers this?
Trophy hunters are like stamp or coin collectors. They search and search for the rarest animal (record setting whitetail deer being the most common) to kill and hang in their wall. People don’t like it but that’s about what it is, rare collectibles.
You're comparing a product from one of the largest companies on earth with an upstart. and even the cheapest ad-supported Kindle is only 2/3 the price of this in US?
Why do you speak in the past tense? Man pages are alive and well, and we use them every day.
The official package insert can be read here: https://www.drugs.com/pro/moderna-covid-19-vaccine.html
I love how you go on, having exposed that you even don't know the difference between a powerplant and a reactor. All the while you claim others to be 'comically incorrect'. You should really tone down and don't say that anti-nuclear people are clueless, while you are yourself demonstrating a lot of ignorance.
To me the biggest risk is still the unknown, as in not enough experience. They have never been used “in production” until 2020.

I saved this post as a favorite and set up a reminder in 2 years and in 5 years about it. Hope there will be nothing to add, and we just got ourselves a mighty vaccines platform at zero long term consequences.
I am so glad that the congress is back. It's been an important event for me for more than a decade, and has been a huge gap between Christmas and New Year since it was cancelled during Covid.
> I would start with C, then take it from there.

I would be very careful with that approach. C is broken beyond repair, and C++ didn't fix it. The only sane way forward is a clean break with a cleaner syntax (or at least one that is truly context free, dammit), and fewer undefined behaviours. Much fewer.
Was that entire article just straight up an insurance broker ad?
They've been a major thing in China for almost 15 years now. And none of that panned out (compared to the alternatives).
Amazon prime became worthless to me around 2018. I'm surprised anyone still gets value out of it. For those that do, maybe this isn't a big deal. I care much more about how bad and confusing their selection is, dodgy marketplace sellers, and almost everything cheap being not eligible for prime than I do about this.

Amazon of the "prime" example of a new-er tech company that bought their way into a monopoly and they used it to gouge people while providing bad service. Uber being the other obvious one.
I purchased one of these after seeing it posted to hn a few weeks ago. Very happy with it. Super easy to setup and just works. Maker has clearly put loads of work into refining the experience.
It is wouldn't, but the ITC ruling is quicker to get than going to court for patent issues.

Which is exactly why Apple uses import bans to screw with competitors importing headphones.
I’m not sure I’ve come across this use of lead to replace led. You have any examples?
While not as pretty (and mobile-friendly) as the original link, the calculators below support modeling LoRA-based training, alongside full finetuning.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/Vokturz/can-it-run-llm

https://rahulschand.github.io/gpu_poor/
Game show idea: Is it a malfunctioning market, or just regulatory capture?
They'll need to talk louder (and in the same social circles) versus the people heavily invested in office real-estate or who negotiated tax breaks for the company based on "creating local jobs."
Why do you wanna call a thing that stimulates an immune response to an antigen a gene therapy?

It's using the same mechanism as vaccines (exposure to the proteins in question), it's utterly bizarre to conflate it with gene therapy.

It's probably reasonable to call it a vaccine based immunotherapy.
Not the OP, but I don't think that's irrelevant... it's an interesting data point! Even in the US, the few Java companies or teams I've seen also tended to be Indian-dominant.

Part of the reason I quit my last job was that when my previous manager quit, they replaced him with an Indian manager who insisted that we write all the frontend tests in Java and Spring Boot too (even though our frontend used React and JS exclusively). We spent weeks debugging issues with Java VMs, CI/CD runners, containers, build chains, and other inter-op issues... all for a few simple DOM tests that I could've written in an afternoon, in the same repo. /cry

The person they hired to write those tests with me was also Indian, and she only knew Java too. She was brilliant and extremely hard-working, and the choice of stack wasn't her fault. Just kinda sucks that she was put into that situation.

Overall, it didn't really change my perception of Indian coworkers, but it certainly made me hate Java. I didn't really like Java before that job (too much bloat), but after... oh boy... it is probably at the top of my "never again" list now, alongside Drupal.
Because interesting stuff is written in C and C++, far more than any other language in existence right now.

Compilers, games, all of the backends of the current LLM revolution, control systems for interesting hardware.

You would sabotage yourself if you choose not to learn how to use a possibly suboptimal tool that is an industry standard.
That’s just biodegradable plastic. It will last a couple of days out in the open. I actually mean plastic that’s lasts for multiple lifetimes but still starts to break down only after ~200 years.