skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I like how vim is modal, but some Windows shortcuts (like Control-C) just make too much sense to given them up on Linux

Ctrl-C does work in the GUI. That said, one thing I like about Linux is being able to highlight text using the mouse and then pasting it by middle-clicking. I don't have to interact with the keyboard at all to copy and paste text that way.
The book that changed my life was “The well grounded Rubyist”. Learning how objects and messages worked was so amazing.
I found the caption misleading.
This article describes the dreadful ramifications of error(s) in a complex IT system. What it falls short of are details on the hows.
> Who are they people who vote for her? What motivates them?

The same geniuses who got us into Iraq.
I'm curious what is a good quality toaster in your mind?

Also, why does it need to be "made in the USA"? There seems to be lots of expensive "high-end" toasters. Is your only setting point "made in the USA"? Does the population of people who care about "made in the USA" overlap with people who are likely to pay for this toaster vs the $19 toaster from target?

https://www.target.com/p/kitchensmith-by-bella-4-slice-toast...
I can only imagine the kind of fascinating, or maybe frightening list of perceived requirements someone might need from their editor/ide that boils down to their installing this.
Since Welch climbed the corporate ladder over the years, this says a lot about the rot predating him as well.
Castles weren't there to protect the peasants/farmers. They were there to house small military force and the nobility commanding them. Plus relatively tiny amount of workers.

Vast majority of population were working farms. And they were taxed heavily enough that those owning the land had the year or two food stored.
pretty cool you can do that!

nano syntax highlighting is not as good as vim but it can work - the problem is in a lot of places there is nothing but vi

if you can configure vim you probably can also just install nano so it's unlikely this will get any use
I'm in Europe so we don't have these, but I got interested in what are speed queen. Turns out they are laundromat machines that are also sold for residential use.

This article does say it is not an efficient machine. they tweaked the normal cycle to pass the DoE efficiency test (but your clothes are not washed), and left alone the inefficient cycles which are not checked by DoE: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/speed-queen-revie...
Sigh, I should have quoted both side, here is it: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-data-transfer...

Cloudflare rant was posted in July 2021, new Cloudfront free tier was there Nov 2021. I consider changing pricing like this for AWS in 4 months pretty fast.

Where is your 2 years number comes from?
We have infinite data, a microphone and a camera can generate huge amount of it and the public domain literature is wast. Billions of people learn like that everyday.
I think it's mostly a case of software not being optimized for RISC-V. The sipeed website indicates that it's much faster if the benchmarks are built with optimized toolchains.

I imagine it has x64 or arm7 emulator for most builds.
It may well be in some part because of what you say. But I _think_ one of the points is to allow playing video with sound. Current popular browsers only allow websites to do this after a user-initiated action on the site, such as a click. I've seen cookie bars misused to trigger autoplaying videos in the past in this way.

See, e.g., https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay#new_behaviors
It doesn't mention Sapir Whorf either…
yeah, i would call streamlit an imgui framework. also react
FOLGARP is the best. Three out of four of the couples I gifted those toasters are now deceased and will never demand a gift from me ever again. The fire investigators just call it an “act of god.”

Unfortunately the fourth only burned their house down and now we have to tolerate an insufferable GoFundMe campaign because their CA fire insurance only covers gender reveal parties. Bezos ruins everything.
I'm sure there are many well meaning ai safety researchers, but I also see a lott of "ai for me but not for thee' moat digging safety hypocrisy.
I’m from the EU and I’ve never had coffee cake with no coffee nor tea cake with no tea. Very fascinating tidbit about the naming, TIL
> the Harden Star Grenade, which was produced in a beautiful royal blue coloured bottle

I think that color is better described as cobalt blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_glass
> sometimes it's just not useful to blindly memorize things

Specially for language: https://thehardway.guide/srs (own content)
Show HN: GameBoi
Hello HN!

I wanted to show you Gameboi - a 2D game generator I built over the winter break

Gameboi uses GPT, Dall-E and PyGame to build 2D Python games from simple text descriptions. It can,

1. Enhance user prompt to make it richer and more descriptive

2. Figure out what assets and sprites are required by the game

3. Automatically generate these sprites and assets

4. Generate functional, working Python code for the game

This is my first project that uses LLMs, and I'd love to get some feedback from the community
L'anno 2024 segna l'avvento di una nuova era tecnologica, e in questo contesto, l'HONOR PAD X9 si presenta come una straordinaria novità nel mondo dei tablet Android 13. Con un display da 11,5 pollici, una frequenza di aggiornamento di 120 Hz e una risoluzione 2K, questo tablet si distingue per la sua avanzata tecnologia e prestazioni all'avanguardia.

Il design innovativo a 6 diffusori offre un'esperienza audio sorprendente, liberando il suono dal diffusore inferiore e creando un effetto sonoro coinvolgente. Questa disposizione creativa, unita all'unità subwoofer leggera, assicura un campo sonoro multidirezionale che rende la musica più potente e offre un'esperienza di intrattenimento senza precedenti.

Alimentato dal nuovissimo Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 a 6nm, l'HONOR PAD X9 offre un'esperienza eccezionale grazie al suo design innovativo. Il sistema operativo Android 13 porta con sé un'ottimizzazione dell'esperienza di sistema, rendendo il tablet veloce e efficiente nelle attività multitasking.

La batteria da 5200mAh supporta fino a 13 ore di riproduzione video locale con una carica completa, offrendo un sostegno affidabile per attività come lo streaming di sport in diretta, la partecipazione a corsi online o la lettura di libri elettronici. Lo spazio di archiviazione extra-large da 4+128GB, espandibile a 4+3GB in modalità smart con il sistema operativo HONOR OS Turbo, assicura che tu possa conservare tutti i tuoi momenti più cari e utilizzare il tablet in modo fluido.

In conclusione, l'HONOR PAD X9 si pone come una vera e propria rivoluzione nel panorama dei tablet Android 13 del 2024, offrendo prestazioni avanzate, un display di qualità e un'esperienza audio immersiva. Acquistalo ora per essere parte del futuro della tecnologia.
You're right that there are areas like torrenting where big tech can't really go for fear of legal consequences, but there's also the cat-and-mouse game played by IP holders against, say, torrent trackers, which leads me to think that

> open models that can use whatever data they like but must operate in the shadows without access to much compute for training

sounds pretty analogous to private trackers, where high-quality stuff is available but not in full public view. If rightsholders and big tech, abetted by states, crack down on open models I think you're right that the open source community will continue to train on liberated content, but it's not going to be as open and free-flowing as things are now. Going back to the compute problem, I can imagine analogues of private trackers where contributors, not wanting to expose themselves to whatever the law-firm letter/ISP strike analogue will be in this space, use invite-only closed networks to pool compute resources for training on encumbered content.
didn't terry gilliam make a movie about literal bugs in government computers ruining lives back in the early 80s?
Immediate mode is a fuzzy concept, as witnessed by this writeup: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki/About-the-IMGUI-paradi...
As long as the cost for training a model is in the 7+ figures, that means that any such open model is bound to be tracked to someone with deep enough pockets to sue.

Consider that you just spend a few millions on training a model on copyrighted data. Release it would reveal that, problem.

I _guess_ you can try doing training in the public, like Seti @ Home or something like that, which distributes the risk? But no idea if this is even possible in this context.
Retro's are at the core of agile, since they empower the team to finetune their own process.

I don't agree on the manager not being present. The manager must be present in my opinion, but I think you are facing a different problem: Your manager is the 'boss' and not at the service of their team.

Try to push your manager to be at the service of your team. If that doesn't work (which most probably is), go work for a manager that actually is at the service of their team.
Similar but not same.

equality focuses on providing equal opportunities and resources to everyone, communism is a broader ideology that seeks to restructure society’s economic and political systems to eliminate classes and ensure that resources are distributed based on need, not wealth or status.
https://mirror.iscas.ac.cn
I did a quick look around for some blogs about this early paper to digital transaction register migration, I didn't see much for such a major case.

Just a few basic things that wasn't included, no audit/transaction logs, transactions modified by tech support to keep the system running.

Operators couldn't prove they didn't steal funds, and the british law that computers systems are to be trusted as fact, pretty much convicted them all.
> Many AI safety orgs have tried to __criminalize__ currently-existing open-source AI

standard socialist play to use the government's hand to achieve their own objectives
react is pretty common in web dev and it's immediate-mode

ecs is just watered-down in-ram relational databases, and relational databases are also pretty popular for web apps
Also real security issues should be tackled on the os level. If the app sandboxing is actually robust then I don't see what is the problem.
If this is really Bill Gates talking about Jack Welch, we're in real trouble.

It's simplistic to think there was a single cause of failure. Sure, toadyism might delay bad news, but how exactly did they lose their market and product advantages in each of their businesses?

Partly I think it's just too easy to steal expertise once it can be packaged and processed, whether business or engineering or manufacturing. A lot of very expensive value probably just walked out the door. I suspect that has been the business strategy for most of the up-and-coming engineering and product companies today. I wonder if there's some way to quantify that hypothesis?
Why would we care about these "AI Safety Orgs?"

As a developer, do I need their certification or is it like a MADD situation where we if we don't observe and diminish their appeal/growth we will get laws with draconian measures that only benefit the big players? e.g. a PAC? (Don't get me wrong, drunk driving is "bad", but for a group like MADD to exist, eh and meh.)

As of now, there is no need to really submit these these safety orgs, so as long as we don't care for their approval - who cares, right?

Or is the optics far gone now that these orgs control the conversation?

Also, fun question: with AI safety orgs now attempting to police - who really polices the police / do other orgs/countries have the same rules, safety and artificial guard rails?
There are plenty of Republicans that think like you do....
Here some more information about what really went down, technically, behind the scenes: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/09/how-the-post...

"One member of the development team, David McDonnell, who had worked on the Epos system side of the project, told the inquiry that “of eight [people] in the development team, two were very good, another two were mediocre but we could work with them, and then there were probably three or four who just weren’t up to it and weren’t capable of producing professional code”."

(Just in case somebody says I am putting blame on developers) Obviously, the responsibility is firmly on management. People making code bugs should not be held responsible for other people going to prison for it.
It's very likely that there's a blob for the SDRAM controller. Something like this:

https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/arch/riscv/dts/...
A fairly obvious note, and aside from the technical discussions, 90% of your challenge will be marketing. You need to build a brand that exudes quality and value.

I have zero idea about marketing and branding, but it's damn hard/expensive.
LOL...guy is a moron.
It was from the article, not sure how its misleading.

Its pretty much the biggest tech scandal in the news right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
Unplugin-GLSL
Import, inline (and compress) GLSL shader files, compatible with Vite, Rollup, Webpack, esbuild and Rspack by unplugin.
The worst thing about it was the assumption that the computer system was right and the people were crooks. This should give people wanting to stick AI into every orifice of our lives a pause, but I have a feeling it will not.
No, it has write(), but some versions on some OSs needed an eol to flush the buffers. In general the file ops were deliberately underspecified [1], but it was 1973 and the variety of OSs was much weirder than today.

[1] https://www.standardpascaline.org/The_Programming_Language_P...
The only reason React et all need an ecosystem is because they're hard to integrate vanilla libraries with, or harder to develop components for.

Vue suffers less from this issue, as you'll well know, and Svelte doesn't suffer at all.

The same can be said for people being skilled in it. It takes longer to skill up on React, less on Vue, and the least on Svelte.

A lot of people end up using React because of these invented scenarios, when in reality, building something rapidly like a start-up is significantly quicker with Svelte. Trust me, I've done it, and we're post Series A, and now reaching profitability.
Is the training cost equally that high if you do adversarial training?
That's why I don't really (knowingly) want to work on something that could ruin lives if there's a bug. medical devices? Hell no. (But you never know where your code ends up running.)

As you said this didn't just involve software issues to get that big, but I still wonder how all the devs that worked on this over the years could just shrug it off all these years. You can't tell me not a single dev got wind of these issues. Did they just immediately jump to "impossible I'm the most awesome person on this planet no way there's a problem these people all just stole money". I'd have sleepless nights going over the whole system in my mind trying to figure out where things went wrong. Is this some sort of dunning -kruger going on? I don't really consider myself a coding wizard or anything, but I think I know about enough to know I'll keep producing bugs til the day I die. Rust won't stop logic bugs from happening.
oh ok sorry, I thought it was sarcasm.

Well I agree, and also disagree. Bread-machine bread is fine, esp. if you change the program, to proof overnight instead of over an hour or whatever. Maybe not as good as hand-made sourdough with a carefully curated cultivated starter, etc, etc, but for the low effort involved it's a massive improvement over chorleywood supermarket bread.
Daniel Lemire has a good reputation in the HN due to his work on simdjson and the Eisel-Lemire floating point parsing algorithm among others.
Doesn't only one of those companies actually make any profit so far? And even then, its stock price still regarded as likely over-valued given the P/E ratios of any of its peers?
People will do Bosch or Miele appliances because it sounds good in a real estate listing, but that’s relying on the cachet of a known brand.

I looked at a condo once with an interesting sort of art deco kitchen on and a custom refrigerator that fit the theme. My first thought was, it’s got to be hell to get parts for that or find someone who knows how to work on it.
Narrator: We're not even focusing on CO2.
> Toaster which burns 1 sheet of ultimate
I had a similar realization early after first picking up vim in college: customization of any tool eventually hits a point of diminishing returns beyond which further alterations reduce your ability to use the tool in its default state. It's an insight I've found applies to almost any tool... From software to hardware and beyond.

Master the default behavior of a tool, and then improve your effectiveness with customization, but not so much customization that you can no longer use the tool effectively in its unmodified state. Sometimes you have to use other people's tools, and it's important to still work effectively when you do.
It was not a software glitch! Such thing would get normally discovered and fixed in a few months

It was corrupt managers, police and goverment! Literal conspiracy to destroy lives of innocent people!
Not only that, an important thing to consider as the besieging force was to have at least triple the numbers of the garrison defending the castle.[1]

So if a castle was garrisoned by a defending force of 2,000, you wanted at least 6,000 men as the besieging force to even stand a chance of winning the siege whether through killing or attrition.

And this quickly grows exponentially for the besiegers as the defending force becomes bigger: If the defenders numbered 5,000 men, you wanted 15,000 men as the besiegers.

So not only did the besiegers have a harder time fighting compared to the defenders, the logistical requirements and demands for the besiegers was significantly larger than anything the defenders had to deal with.

[1]: https://www.quora.com/How-large-of-an-army-unit-in-medieval-...
You can learn the basics in under 15 minutes.
Oh! These statistics are not reliable. It depends on your asset allocation profile, time to entry, fees... Etc.
That's the claim we see online in general but that's probably not necessarily true.

Even backtesting using a moving-window average should show different figures.
The warning shots across the bow where heard with this statement from the devs:

"Don't replace platform/native threads with virtual ones, replace tasks (without further explanation) instead"?!

Combine that with the fact that they chose to implement the scheduler in Java instead of C(++) and you're set for performance problems.

Remember that NIO took from 1.5 to 1.7 to be usable/performant and that was native!

Edit: Finally figured out why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39010648
No individual connection other than like a cr tral storage server needs 100gbe, at least for me, but a 100gbe backplane is good for a lot of 1gbe poe devices as an example. With residential fiber/coax reaching 5gb, 1gb is not enough.
Indeed. WordPress runs a big part of the web and is probably more likely for blogs, which is what you are likely to want to follow with RSS, and it's located at /feed.

At this point, I just use CTRL+U and search "rss" and "atom", hoping to find a the corresponding <meta /> tag. It's a shame Firefox does not automatically display a feed icon anymore, it would be much better if I want to tell non technical people about RSS. Installing an extension is workable but it's also an additional step.
Library code means every project has to choose which library they use. Smolstring or SmartString? Tokio or one of the others?

And then suddenly we have “colored” libraries. Does my http library work with the async runtime I’m using? How many arena allocator implementations does my package depend on and compile in?

The advantage of something being in core or std is that, because all libraries implicitly depend on it, there’s no choice to be made. String is available everywhere. Libraries pass Strings to each other all the time. Nobody is confused when String is in the public API.

> stuff can be migrated in there from the ecosystem whenever a truly best-in-class solution that won't be replaced anytime soon becomes apparent.

Rust has been remarkably conservative when it comes to adding stuff to std in the last few years. I think it would make sense at the very least to add an async executor and async syscalls to std. You shouldn’t need 3rd party libraries to async read from a file or network stream. Obviously it would be a hugely divisive choice but making no choice at all hurts users.
two planes fell out of the sky.

If you are to be believed, that they broke no regulation, rules, or laws, that's a damnation on the existing body of regulation, rules, and laws, not a defense of Boeing.
I always assumed that your free quota is proportional to the time you pay. Even the price is not the advertised fixed $3.5, you pay less in months with 30 days than in months with 31 days.

I have not checked my cost and usage reports every time I have some experimental instance for a shorter time, so I am not sure. Just from the general knowledge that AWS is permanently counting every fraction of a peanut. But as the submission shows, exceptions to the rule can exist.
I would by a $75+ toaster that:

- was made in a free Democratic country

- is of quality

I often pay a premium for such items.
Does it use U-Boot or EFI?
TY. I didn't feel like hunting around- clicked the link to go to their store page and got an ad and no explanation. I closed it out.
> I quickly found out that IS research had already figured most of this out

What is "IS" in this context? I did some Operations Research modules at uni and thoroughly enjoyed it, but it had nothing to say about why projects didn't work.
If you don’t know, why are you so confident your idea is right? “Diversity” posits that, for example, an all Chinese team would be improved by adding Mexican people. Feel free to substitute any other groups, if you like. This is an idea you apparently subscribe to, so why can’t you provide a concrete example, and instead speak only in abstractions?

The fundamental problem with your reasoning is that you’re taking on faith the notion that differences are good ones. There is no reason to assume that. If differences between people can be good ones, they can just as easily be bad ones.
Regulations are anti-competitive as they prevent people from successfully bootstrapping their startups and becoming entrepreneurs. It forces ambitious people without capital to be wage slaves which causes substantial mental distress.

False peace of mind harms people because it makes people assume that all products on the shelves are safe by default which isn't always the case and drives harmful behaviors on a massive scale. Take the adoption of Glyphosate for example. Had people not been reassured by the government that it was 100% safe, many people would not have used it. Consumers outsourcing trust to the government instead of the individuals who produce the goods is harmful because it creates an environment which gives untrustworthy people a competitive edge and a certain degree of protection from liability. It shifts some responsibility away from producers who understand the product best and towards government agencies whose interest is to help large private companies maintain market dominance.