skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If AI really kills "influencers", I will fully support AI supplanting the deprecated human race with something better and hail them even while they crush my bones.

But seriously, a human influencer or any other kind of celebrity will never be able to "be human" or free to express themselves. I think a little PR literacy would confirm that this would likely conflict with the demand towards those same celebs. Authenticity in this field just means another style of presentation.

I believe it is a false stereotype that fashion has to be superficial in every case, but it still is a special culture with certain attributes. And I believe AI does fit in here. And since they would be strongly curated, it is questionable if they would even be more fake or less human, since there are still people operating behind the scenes.

A summoning on the rights of women doesn't fit here as well. OnlyFans did empower women? "Yes, baby, you did win. Keep going..." - I am not a women, but still certain that such a proposition that OnlyFans gives me power would make me slightly angry. Also, that wouldn't be true for any kind of woman of course.
Yes, is this a problem? There are businesses that assist you with this already. Called investment banks. Or the government if you are looking for small business loans via SBA (and the government hires banks to do the underwriting, which the banks can still do).

> If my money is deposited with the government, then I have to go and find someone to lend to myself, and actually have the money removed from my bank account?

Also, you know the savings rate you earn at a bank is not because of the loans a bank makes, but because the government pays the bank. Why do you want your government to pay a middleman before paying you?

There was a time and purpose for this system, before instant communications and electronic databases. Now, those purposes have been automated away.
> Shame to see a project moving from a self-hosted Mercurial repository to a US-megacorparate-owned Git repository in Microsoft GitHub

I get your point but it’s a bit of an odd complaint when the main reason it went away was that it was self hosted.
Because you can't do that with GPL. Any modification to GPL must be GPL, hence available to everyone. That's not the case with non-copyleft.
> the UK has a way more permissive immigration system than places like the US or Denmark

Could you elaborate? Things like the spouse visa requirements don't feel very permissive.
The Snowiest Place Is Starting to Melt
Does poverty cause crime?
China is a more market orientated economy than most people would expect. There are large SOEs (state owned enterprises) sure but ultimately the whole point of "communism with Chinese characteristics" is to leverage market forces for efficiency where that makes sense.

China generally speaking is very free from a business/trade perspective, the exceptions to that are mostly related to finance or national security sensitive industries.

I would say the Chinese aspire to be more on the EU-esq end of the regulation spectrum than the US though. So over time they are trending towards more regulation even as they open up areas that were traditionally SOE only to private enterprise.
> This is for no good reason other than just luck.

There is a good reason. And that reason is that many recently accessed items survived. Then it's only prudent to devote more of the cache for surviving items than for fresh ones in such circumstances.

This continues until the cache is completely filled with recent survivors which moves the hand back to tail and oldest previous survivors get reevaluated for eviction. This, I imagine happens periodically in practice and often enough for the algorithm to perform well.
You’re right, and I could have been less pithy and perhaps made my point a bit more clear.

Software development is primary an activity concerned with creating useful products. It’s this usefulness that in contrast with art. Commercial art is useful. Painting for its own sake is not! Art for art’s sake, as they say!
Can you name one retailer that is going to allow you to advertise that you can get something cheaper somewhere else?

Also, really complaining about Apple’s security compared to Android? Seeing that most Apple has been publishing security patches for 10 year old phones and Google abandons its own hardware.
> Taligent’s utter failure, not just as a business but also at delivering anything approaching useful software

Technology developed by Taligent landed in other projects, for instance, the Java JDK.

> in early 1996, IBM had assumed full ownership of Taligent, the joint venture started by IBM and Apple and later joined by HP. Taligent had been developing an object-oriented application framework and operating system called CommonPoint, which included extensive international support. When IBM took over, CommonPoint was mothballed, but much of the underlying technology was integrated into other IBM products.

Fairly quickly, the management of IBM and Taligent came to a realization: Java was missing international support. But Taligent had great international technology, talented engineers--including Dr. Mark Davis, president of the Unicode Consortium--and a location about 100 meters from Sun's JavaSoft division in Cupertino, California. Thus, a partnership was born: IBM arranged for Taligent's Text and International group to contribute international classes to Sun's Java Development Kit, making Java powerful enough for real-world business applications.

For JDK 1.1, Taligent provided the new java.text package, plus a number of new classes in java.util. This included Format and all its subclasses for formatting dates, times, numbers and messages; Collator, for language-sensitive string sorting; and BreakIterator , for determining line, word, and sentence boundaries in Unicode text. In java.util, Taligent contributed parts of ResourceBundle, as well as the Calendar and TimeZone classes (which provide flexible, international-friendly date and time support). In addition, IBM contributed a large collection of locale data from their National Language Technical Center in Toronto. This API and data provide a standard way to handle the requirements of different countries and languages, making this transparent to developers.

https://icu-project.org/docs/papers/history_of_java_internat...
OpenBSD Workstation Hardening
That's true, to do that they use a different hack and we can actually (very expensively) route those too.

These tickets are valid only on a particular service (and connections), since the franchises run the services they can sell tickets for services they run.

Example from a journey I made near Xmas:

0908 from Bingley to Leeds (Northern Rail)

0945 from Leeds to Kings Cross (LNER)

1309 from Waterloo towards home (SWR)

The three franchises get 100% of their part of these routes, and I'm notionally forbidden from, say, getting on an XC to zigzag South and avoid London altogether instead.
Every programmer is sick of seeing this.

Joking aside, welcome to the attention economy. There is probably another book with similar content and a less dramatic title, but unfortunately it did not make it to the HN frontpage due to the descriptive title. There is not much you can do, just use your experience to interpret the title correctly ("50 of the most common programming algorithms"). Trying the world from changing never worked.
Everything will be alright in Iceland
I think 7zip uses 7z almost everywhere by default ?
> To be fair, the Lindy effect does imply that it's less likely for a decades old project to die soon than a newer one.

True, but doesn't that imply its opposite as well? A decade old project will probably die sooner than later, because 11+ year projects are rarer than 10 year ones.

The Lindy effect can only be observed in comparison to something else, not to deduct how long a single project in and of itself will last. Which means, coreutils will probably last longer than this one, because it's been around 33 years vs 10.
Finland is the country I've targeted for if I eventually want to leave the UK.
My dad professed managerial accounting and finance for most of his career. We’ve been talking about this a lot as it applies to the software industry and he offered too broad approaches: make ABC an almost daily routine, or a much easier approach, do periodic internal audits that get on the factory floor to actually see how engineers, product managers, EMs, etc, etc, spend their time during the day.

My email address is my username at gmail and if you would be so obliged I would love to talk to you about this more!
I did do that.
> It takes something like 10½hrs. If you join the train at Plymouth (the start of the journey) it's 11½hrs, and the longest possible train journey you can make in the UK without changing.

You're probably thinking of the direct train from Aberdeen to Penzance (not just Plymouth), which does stop in Exeter. However that one only runs in that direction, not the reverse.
Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
Feels to me, like a either click bait, or the author was unaware of the reality of the situation and didn't do any research before hand.

At this point several youtubers with the equipment have offered to do a transfer for free.

So it seems like a solved problem.
I wouldn't call being concerned about net migration of 750k/year is "a huge fear of immigrants".

I note also that France is happy to let them cross the channel in rubber boats, with no effort to stop them.
Packt feels like Udemy to me. I know there are some good stuff, but...
That's just an artifact of the (probably amateur) pickup and recording of the signal. The audio quality in the cockpit and tower is surely much better.
Multi-Region High Availability Comes to Feature Stores
China has been explicitly pro-market for the last 40+ years (see: Deng's reforms)
I'm looking for resources that explain why touch gestures (for instance, modal sheet swipe) are so much more fluid on mobile.

And what can we do about it.
pretty much all your arguments about the rear ending apply to the mug as well (I think we all know someone who drops/damages objects more often than most, and you can usually link said instances to a lapse of attention). The only difference is the severity of the outcome and thus the importance of avoiding behaviours which increase the risk of it occuring.
I don't know about snakebites but recently I read about a man who ate a Destroying Angel mushroom by mistake. He was given an antidote for the toxin which amazed that me such a thing existed. I wonder how similar if at all amatoxin and snakebite venom are? One is venom and one is a poison so maybe not much.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/29/health/mushrooms-poisoning-fo...
25% is equivalent to going from an ordinary week to not having energy on weekends. Someone is getting squeezed. Change of that magnitude should tinge the interpretation of all social trends.

If I was an elite in the UK, I'd want to be going totalitarian too. Someone should be getting hopping furious; these numbers are comparable to unravelling-of-social-fabric events. Although ironically the totalitarians seem to be outperforming the UK economy; China claims to have overtaken them on a per capita energy basis back in 2020.
Most people interested enough in politics to do political research are likely to also be politically active. However, it would be possible to do political academic research detached from one's personal politics. Similarly, most biblical scholars are religious, but there are notable atheists among them.

You don't need to be politically active to do political research and you don't need to be religious to do religious research. Though, the correlation in both cases is likely high.
This is “just” for changing the license of the coreutils so companies can use a compatible version and do not share the source of they get to modify them. In other words, it’s mostly for people who dislike GPL because of its virality.

More extreme people may see it as a major milestone in “killing” GPL.
>China will only more invest into producing their own

This is already happening. It doesn't take a brilliant mind to see the global supply chain isn't dependable (case in point, this license revocation).

But don't underestimate the difficulty in building these machines.
Can you write the 3d version of it?
'Toughness' of the law is defined by how harsh it is on the people, not the state apparatus.
Why learn anything?
I’m not sure I value the opinion of (or want to use software written by) someone who couldn’t read nine pages.
I dismiss it because I haven't seen substantiated remarks; i.e proof that anyone actually looked at the source of coreutils to do the the reimplementation.
This is not a new problem, as they have been starved of high-end semiconductors for years already. However, catching up to the knowledge that ASML and Zeiss have regarding lithography machines is not an easy task to overcome.
These days, I don't think people care about the principles that made Linux a success in the first place. From what I can tell, most people seem to take "open source" as "code I can reuse" rather than some kind of ideology about software freedom.

Luckily, most Linux alternatives seem to go absolutely nowhere, so I doubt this project will have much of an impact beyond people thinking "huh, cool project".
Latitude-Longitude are references within a CRS (Coordinate Reference System).

US mapping can be based on USNG (United States National Grid) which is a cartesian geometry reference system, and if the entire USA moved a meter to the east, you may find that your USNG coordinates do not change at all.

The most common CRS is called WGS84, as this is the reference CRS for GPS. If the USA moved a meter to the east, the WGS84 coordinates would change.

There's a field of study devoted to translations between different coordinate reference systems, projections, geometries and more – and that's before we even get to mapping Mars or the Moon!

Geospatial definitions have a similar delight to date definitions, in that any and every reference could be annotated with "It depends" :-)
"if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is a good phrase to throw right back at politicians who have closed door meetings about surveillance, or anything.
From a first-order perspective, perhaps.
> SIEVE is nailing it, outperforming the rest in almost all scenarios.

I'm curious why there's a lack of transparency regarding the scenarios where SIEVE did not surpass other algorithms.

Another concern is the emphasis on average performance and P10/P90 metrics.
When evaluating a caching algorithm metrics like P99x are often more insightful.

The omission of these details coupled with the sensationalist tone of the article definitely triggers some red flags for me.
I disagree that no other country wages war on its citizens as much as the UK does.

I think if you narrow your scope to the Anglosphere and include Europe that could be true. However there's a lot of countries that are really bad and we must acknowledge their existence.

What is interesting in the UK is that it seems largely to be people voting against their own interests a lot of the time.

It's like the population is told that "bad people drink water, therefore we should poison the water" and they buy into it completely. The country (as mentioned before) is on the decline for sure, but the standards decline much faster than they should largely I think because people are protectionist in mentality.

It's the individualism that causes most problems; there's very little sense of collectivism in the UK. The belief is that everyone is sort of out to get you and that there is a finite number of resources we all compete for.

At least this is my experience having grown up in central England (but expatriated 8 years ago)
>capitalist market in China invest into chipmaking, not just the government

Where is the line between the "capitalist market" and the government in China?
In order to consume such algorithmus in any form, one should first know whether such algorithms exist at all. Moreover they should be able to figure out which one applies to their problem best.
Ground coffee doesn't stay that good for very long so roasting and grinding it close to the end user is preferred.

Beans do stay okish for a year or so if in a sealed package.
Shocking I know, but what Trump says and American cultural interpretations of it don’t really hold sway over here.

Pretty harsh descriptor, but I’m from the North and often have referred to my area as a shithole. It’s not the area’s fault, it’s 40 years of mismanagement and underfunding, but still not a good place.
Probably means they're shitholes, because that's what they are.
That sums up the complexity better than I ever could, but as a tourist visiting London it was relatively painless to tap my Apple Watch and pay by contactless credit card when I got on and when I got off, as long as you’re travelling through supported stops within the city region. This generally included any routes to and from London airports.

Comparing the process in London to that of, say, Paris, it is night and day better with London’s system. Yes, trips might cost more than a flat rate, but you don’t need to have a special card - contactless payments are charged at the same rates as an Oyster card would get charged, including discounts if you take multiple trips in a day.

Compare to Paris where it’s a flat rate, but you can’t get a normal ticket because your anonymous card is somehow designed only for tourist pricing. Let’s not even bother with how long the lines can be to buy said card. I’ll take a system where you tap on and tap off any day of the week over a flat rate system that doesn’t support easy contactless payment at the same rates as everybody else.

I should clarify though - this only applies to any travel by train that you can do from stations that have contactless to stations that also have contactless. Anywhere else, you’re expected to tap off and pay a normal fare for the rest of your travel to an unsupported station by buying it from a website.

And while it is unusual to have such complexity, I should mention that rail travel between countries often has similar complexity - I bought a ticket once from Copenhagen to Malmo, Sweden, but got on a train operated by a different company and had to buy a second ticket - the trains left at the same time to and from the same stations but from two different operators. The confusing part is that the train ticket I needed to buy wasn’t available from a Denmark regional train travel ticket kiosk, it was timed ticket you had to buy in advance from a website as the train’s origins was in Sweden rather than Denmark. (And the Denmark station didn’t have Swedish kiosks.)

I guess what I’m saying is that trains can make airlines look efficient, at least when it comes to buying and handling tickets. ;-)

Edit: I should also mention if I got any of this wrong, I’m actually from North America and about all I can say in response is “at least you have (express, high speed) trains,” as I look at our preference for highways and buses and how most rail in North America is for cargo...
> This is for no good reason other than just luck.

> When the Hand finds a victim we just replace the Hand slot with the new item, and mark it visited

That would cause newly inserted items to take at least N (size of the cache) rounds to be evicted. Evicting cache entries early is extremely important for performance. Their algorithm means new items will have a higher chance of being evicted, and that is by design, not random chance.

Here's the paper: https://yazhuozhang.com/assets/pdf/nsdi24-sieve.pdf
Steve Hsu has had guests on his podcasts saying exactly this. There was already a domestic semiconductor industry but big players almost never used them since the big semiconductor companies were such a safe bet.

Well, now they’re forced to use them, and they’re growing.

With the fabs available to them they can’t produce latest gen very few nanometer dies, but for a lot of use cases that doesn’t matter.

And of course, I’m sure they’ve got too people working on catching up. China graduates more engineers in a year than the United States has total.

Imagine if you banned Western countries from exporting cars to Japan in 1950.
Not a single person living in the moment
I wonder how far we are from having a GPT-X.Y operating in a loop, creating a fully Linux-compatible kernel with all 437 system calls in Rust within a day, which includes testing, debugging, and recompiling.
The current record [1] is in fact 26.59 seconds for expert. This doesn't make you an unofficial world record holder because, among other reasons, the chance is that you have encountered an easy enough board by chance. The most popular measure of board difficulty is 3BV, defined as the minimum number of left clicks to solve that particular board, and should be at least 100 for the expert record to be recognized. This makes the current record extremely impressive---someone somehow clicked 4+ times second and correctly solved the whole table!

[1] https://minesweepergame.com/world-records.php
The university brass showed up to a reality tv show thinking that it was going to be a PhD defense.

If I were doing their media prep, I would tell them to just ignore the questions and launch into fiery monologues about freedom of speech, liberty, American values, etc instead. Maybe accuse one of the unfriendlies of antisemitism and political grandstanding.
Why did Firefox drop its support for PWAs on the desktop?
One man's neutral is another's bias. I don't think you get to claim that your preferred choice of words intended to guide the thinking about something is fundamentally more neutral than any other: it just reflects your point of view better (whether this point of view is more accurate or useful is a seperate question entirely). Put another way: arguing about the terms and the implications of using one kind of language or another over an issue is effectively equivilent to just arguing about the actual issue, just abstracted, usually in a not very useful way.
Also China is pretty good at espionage these days...
It's your right to feel that way as is the right of the author to use whatever style they please.
You are right; authoritarianism is the default of states throughout history.
Relevant https://youtu.be/wVPn14A1msc
Same thing I thought.
> Tech companies are most concerned by a change that would allow the Home Office to issue notices preventing them from making technical updates that might impede information-sharing with U.K. intelligence agencies.

This is so shockingly shortsighted it's almost funny. Do the people writing these bills not consult with any technical advisors? I mean they somehow took the concept of a backdoor (which in itself is already a very bad idea) and somehow made that concept even worse. At least with a backdoor, a tech company could preserve some semblance of security to a system outside of the parties that have this backdoor access. Keeping exploits in is just egging on bad actors to find the exploits that the spy agencies have already found. I'm honestly speechless.
> Most programmers shouldn't be writing their own lists, hash maps, b-trees, sort algorithms, etc. Or generally reinvent wheels.

Of course one should not reinvent the wheels. But understanding tricks and idioms used in these algorithms are useful elsewhere and in general helps you grow as a programmer.
(1) I want to call out the coiner of “enshittification” for diluting his message by being on Medium but (2) for once I like the Medium post better than the personal blog because (a) his blog is even more ‘whitespace uber alles’ than Medium and (b) he uses a font that makes Don Knuth look like a good font designer.