skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking from the outside I would guess this is one of the big reasons for the "missing middle" [1] (lack of medium-density housing) in most North American cities. It is simply not economically feasible to build a small to medium size multi-unit building if you need to include two stairwells, so all buildings are either single family houses or huge mega projects.

In my country the simple and cheap four-story walk-up condo building (with a single stair and no elevator) is the bread and butter medium density housing for the working class. You either have two or four units per floor, all opening to the stairwell with almost no space lost in corridors, it is simple and efficient. Alternatively for higher density there are higher versions with typically up to 12 floors with one or two elevators but still only one stairwell, so keeping the same efficiency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_middle_housing
There is a strong correlation between construction costs and housing stock.
You are assuming they are paying retail price, which they certainly are not.
Which is perfect.
If that time is counted as part of work, thats a good deal. That is ideally what it should change to.
This. People assume weak security. They think if they lose their house or car key they can get in some other way, or a locksmith can “fix it”, or they can order another car key at the dealer.

The concept that if I lose my key I am totally screwed doesn’t align.
That was exactly it, and the video of it looks awesome!
It would have to be the same problem because there’s no way to free memory without a shootdown AFAIK. As I describe elsewhere, I don’t think there’s any way to free memory to the OS without one as otherwise you can run into race conditions where another process allocating memory gets access to the memory being freed in another process through a stale TLB entry.

Here’s a discussion [1] of a hypothetical lazy_munmap option that would initiate the unmap without an immediate shoot down (i.e. the CPUs would lazily evict from the TLB when they notice the request) but no such option exists. It’s also not immediately clear such a hypothetical API could exist on current CPU architectures or if it would require new HW support as I don’t have enough hands-on expertise at that level. Anyway, [1] is an interesting discussion of this idea and the note about huge pages making these even less valuable is interesting to keep in mind.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216590
Do we know whether any of this stuff is actually happening, in reality, to actual people, based on some IP address's history of clicking ads? Any concrete examples you can link to?
That principle has been stated and developed in other context. For example, there was an earlier HN post about composition of features (https://lea.verou.me/blog/2023/eigensolutions/?latest)

Another example is in ecology. Resilient ecology has many possible interactions among members of the ecology (including humans). An "invasive species" isn't necessarily one that is not native to the ecology, but one that is able to exploit a resource while having a minimum interaction with the rest of the ecology.

Dr. John Todd's ecovats are essentially self-contained ecologies that self-organized around a pollutant. They are created by taking samples from a number of ecological systems and putting them together into vats, and then running contaminated water through there. It's because the possible interactions are so high, that somewhere in there, was a path to breaking down the contaminant. In such a way, Dr. Todd was able to break DDT down in a matter of days through a system like that, and has worked on cleaning up superfund sites with this method.

To go one step further than number of interactions, Christopher Alexander's ideas on pattern languages was more than just about interaction of components, but actually about the _grammar_ of design patterns. Such a grammar can be constructed in a way that all possible combination coming out of the grammar results in a cohesive design. This allows inhabitants of an architecture or an end-user to reconfigure anything (as long as it follows that grammar) to suit their current needs, and it would still come off as a cohesive design.

To circle back to addressing the idea of evil and people who do bad things. I think you can find truth anywhere, and Han Reiser certainly touched on an insight (though it was not exclusive to him). I would further suggest this though: wouldn't this also mean that there is value in _relationships_ among people? In, not just the exchange of thoughts and knowledge, but the exchange of shared experience and feeling?

I don't know what went through Reiser's head when he killed his wife, and I can believe that there are a kind of madness that can consume someone. I think perhaps, Reiser saw an insight in systems engineering ... but did not see how that same principle was also present in the day to day life as well. (Or maybe he did see it, and was consumed by a madness anyways)
Also Patreon. The real failure was adopting a panhandling model of giving "each time" you consume content. Not only is this high friction, but people don't like doing it.

They should have aggressively pushed a subscription model ($2 a month or less) that reoccured so creators actually could have reliable income.
Clickbait and sensationalism. The author knows they're wrong, but that people will read it, because it's backwards. Commenters will be baited into engagement. The Americans bankrupted every year by simply lacking health insurance won't be acknowledged in the article, even indirectly.
My current understanding is that the cost of "surveillance capitalism" has been more personalized advertising, but maybe I was under a rock for the last 20 years and missed this sensational story. Have people been discriminated against based on surveillance data? Are vehicle insurance companies going to be allowed to adjust insurance policies based on smart car surveillance, or health insurance companies adjusting policies based on consumption and behaviors? Are employers discriminating against people based on surveillance data describing their political ideologies? What's the big picture for 2023 in terms of what surveillance data is being used and how it's being used?
>you can just let teams and individuals decide what works best for them, then that can be communicated upwards so the company can plan office space/resource allocation

Finding this many self-motivated conscientious employees is uncommon. Consider yourself lucky. This has never been a winning strategy that I've seen anywhere.
What if it was a $150 gift certificate for a nice restaurant?

Strangely, that somehow seems more valuable.
> The intact gauntlet is a four-fold finger glove worn on the right hand, which has individual iron plates stacked like scales and linked together through side rivets.

How did this not rust over so many centuries?!
Almost no overlap: this metaverse thing just needs classical CPU servers (and not a lot of them considering the minimal user activity there).

For now Google is still late to the party (full proprietary, and nobody has seen the supposedly good model called Ultra, only an average one called Pro), and Meta is actually the company that has pushed the field forward for all companies (with LLaMA).
Right.. hence my dunkin donuts statement.
I don't know about anyone else, but for me the value in taking notes is the actual process of taking the notes, not the end product of the notes themselves.

Having AI (or, indeed, a human colleague) do it for me is a bit pointless, as it eliminates 90% of the value.
I think you're not wrong. There is the BTC Lightning network which burns A LOT less energy and the low transfer costs make it feasible to stream fractions of cents. Ie. when listening to a podcast via Podcasting 2.0 app (like Podverse). Btw, I upvoted you, all the frothing was fading out your reply.

BTC Lightning is one of those babies people want to wash away with the bathwater. Or perhaps it's the only one I know so far. I do agree 99.99% of "crypto" is shitcoin scams.
> "deferred compensation"

Usually such programs are structured intentionally to avoid such designation.
The subreddit /r/IBM is eyeopening about what a terrible place to work IBM is. Most of the posts seem to be by people trying to find ways to escape.
I don't think that matters much. To all practical intents and purposes she was no longer 'his wife' and given that he killed her the fact that the divorce was never finalized shouldn't give him extra rights.
Mitigation isn’t the end result - the OP (as I read it) is saying that two exits provides for not being trapped by a stalker. You may still be stalked or approached by a malicious group of actors, but a second exit makes it much more difficult to be cornered.
In practice, in much of the US, it's the commute that drives people into cities (or maybe being young). But I've never lived in a city after school and had no real interest in doing so. Maybe I would have at first but like most tech companies at the time the offices were well outside the city.
People have definitely asked for that. I don't think I'd be the best person to write a traditional compiler book. Most of my language experience is in front ends and interpreters. Maybe if I get more back end experience. But, also, I think that topic is fairly well covered by Engineering a Compiler.

I have thought about writing something around type checking. That aspect of compilers feels a little underserved to me. Types and Programming Languages does a brilliant job of talking about designing and understanding type systems. But it's less focused on just sitting down and building a working type checker. Most other compiler books seems to gloss over it quickly so they can rush to the fun back end stuff.

But it's hard because the way you implement the type checker depends so heavily on the underlying type system and those vary widely. Does the type system have subtyping or not? Are generics monomorphized? Etc. So I have no plans to write anything about that any time soon.

Also, between my first two books, I wrote almost every day for about a decade, so taking a nice long break from that has been nice.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll admit I was really disappointed with the MangoPi.

I still think I'm going to wait a few years before buying another device.
>Right now it seems like you have the worst of both, and real people get stuck in the middle.

Also commonly called "anarcho-tyranny."
> And then there's the Fairchildren.

Is that referring to companies that originated from Fairchild in some way?
Two exits do not require two stairwells - in any case, this is a very weak argument for denying people the ability to buy housing. Especially in Canada, where there is an absurdly large housing crisis due to an extremely small supply.
Windows 11 for ARM64 is quite good (with full x86/x64 emulation for everything but drivers), the adoption of ARM in laptops has been going slower than I'd expected. Hopefully SoCs like this will accelerate that process.
The only form of settlement I can imagine is for Qualcomm transferring the Nuvia IP to ARM and be allowed to license it back with favorable conditions.

Which would probably lead to it being integrated into a nextgen Blackhawk architecture, merging both paths and making Qualcomm a licensee of Blackhawk.

But hey, I'm no lawyer ;)
There is also the part where human suffering is our problem because someone ate an apple and it gave us free will and the responsibility of our own lives. Still doesn’t change the thousands of children who died in some war zone today, or the ones who died from starvation and so on.

If you really watch that sort of thing from the sidelines with the power to stop it, then you probably aren’t too benevolent. Then again, the last time the Christian God wanted to solve “our” moral issues He drowned everyone but Noah.

Anyway, I’m happy people find comfort in their faith. I even sort of wish I could, but I just can’t get past the watching of all the evil and doing nothing to stop it. You wouldn’t let your toddlers set fire to each other either, well, I hope you wouldn’t.
When I saw the picture of the gauntlet, I immediately thought of the ressurection gauntlet from Torchwood. [0]

[0] https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Resurrection_gauntlet
I think the one trick is using subscriptions that people opt into one time and just forget about. Using the dodgy psychology tricks of gym memberships to actually help people.
Puter.js: An Alternative to Backend Programming
Anyone ever thought of creating a drop in "cloud" machine that could host self hosted services with minimal technical knowhow? The biggest technical achievement that would make this intriguing for me would be family distributed backups. If I could buy like 3 or 4 of these and have it magically do multi site clustering and backups and have some sort of app store it might solve most of the issues.

The provider of such a machine could also provide technical assistance in the form of:
- DNS / domain registration
- Host OS Updates
- Encrypted cloud backups
- Specialized router/firewalls to make it even easier to expose on the internet safely
- Accessories like media archival equipment
- Hardware upgrade kits

I mean really just https://oxide.computer/ but for consumers.
Premeditation means planning it beforehand.

The books were purchased after the deed was done.

A crime of passion can be covered up without making it premeditated.
Did exactly that, thanks for spotting that. :)

https://github.com/collabora/WhisperSpeech/commit/398b889060...
Is the headline stable, I see it pretty common for articles to sample multiple headlines until one gains traction.
> Programmers’ expectations are not codified and do not need to be respected: international standards do.

What if...stick with me...the standards sought to codify and respect programmers' expectations?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...
So it's just a really big battery.

The kite thing is just a novelty/marketing move. There have been containerized commercial battery systems available for at least a decade. The barrier to adoption is, as always, price, not "kite delivery".

Is this for really remote places, like Greenland/Alaska? Because otherwise you can just use a truck/tractor.
If your main use case for a web UI is browsing photos, have you considered a self-hosted photo gallery like PhotoPrism, Immich, or Lychee?

I'm in a similar boat, where I use NextCloud but really wish there was a better option (especially for mobile photo sync). Syncthing + Photoprism is currently at the top of my list of possible viable alternatives.
I was talking about the “Releases” feature of GitHub (which the document you quoted recommends using for large downloads), not GitHub Pages. And specifically for games, there is Itch.
The 40M-Core Sunway Supercomputer
Yea, makes sense, didn't think of that. It would indeed sketch me out a little to carry that around, but could see wanting to carry it around.
There were a lot of different and kind of weird attempts at this in the industry. The basic problem is that recalculating DAGs and monte-carlo simulations using a ton of floating point math was extremely expensive. Excel was way too slow, C++ required expert programmers and much better organization of programming teams to figure how to coordinate cached intermediate values. MS went with APL, which reduced a lot of the boilerplate and allowed for relatively easy memoization. GS went with SecDB which treated computation as memoized DAGs. Not sure what the others did
> it's hard to legally get your hands on DRM-free digital media

Time to hoist the jolly roger and plunder the high seas, friend
I’ve read the article and I’m still lost as to how this optimization results in a 200x discrepancy between capacity and length. Was the mapped element size 200x smaller in this case? Or is there some bug where repeated mappings like this cause a 2x growth based on the previous element size instead of the target element size?
The reason five over ones are popular in the US has nothing to do with staircase requirements. The reason is money, like always.

You can stick build residential buildings up to five stories and it’s way, way cheaper than reinforced concrete and steel. They are mega complexes because the financial stakeholders want to maximize the available land and rents.
> But it's tough to measure, and impossible to convey to someone who can just afford to pay a person to do their dishes.

My least-favorite genre of C-suite-sort LinkedIn post is the kind that explains how they manage to be CEO of startup X, on the board of another company and a charity, an advisor on some other startup, plus maybe a few other things, and still find time for their kids and for travel and such despite all those "challenges".

Gee. What could be the explanation? It must be that you're just that good.

It can't be that all of those are effectively very-part-time jobs (let me see... hm, Startup X has 40 employees and two of them are your executive assistants...) with very flexible schedules, and that you pay more than some people make all year to make twenty hours a week of chores & maintenance & childcare work just vanish.

No, it must be that you're amazing. You should probably give your advice to some working-class single parents, bet they could use your expertise.
So what is Google Boss doing to ensure their position is of value?
being faster, on paper, is not enough.

i have seen radeon cards with better hardware specs, end up behind cheaper and less power nvidia cards on _every_ _single_ _tested_ _gane_.

people using apple hardware are not only interested in pure hardware raw performance. you have an ecosystem, an operating system. sometimes, a single app makes someone buy a mac (musicians, artists...).

if that chip is "faster" but requires me to use windows 11 or later, you can shove it up your ass.
kinda , sorta

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/?view=sql-server-ver16
> Why would you think comparing the developing world with the USA makes in any way sense

Because you said - "Thankfully the US is a major outlier in this aspect globally." "Globally" implies the entire world. Now why are you moving the goalposts? If you wanted to confine the discussion to the developed world, just call out US being an outlier in the developed world.
You can also dock a laptop and use it as a desktop.
Because it doubles in every node and OP has 300k of them[1]. It's not a leak, since memory is...well...accounted for and easily freed by either dropping Vec or calling shirk_to_fit. IMO it's expected behavior.

Honestly, if I had 300k Vecs, I would call `shrink_to_fit` even without that optimization.

1: Since the edge list calculation logic is run for one node at a time in sequence, the fact that it temporarily uses 132kb of memory would normally not be a problem at all. However, the new collect() optimization meant that that internal storage was being preserved in the final vec which got inserted into the list of edge lists, thus keeping around that 132kb of obsolete memory forever. Multiply that by 300k nodes and suddenly you’ve leaked the computer’s entire RAM.
Part of the reason for the long lasting aspect is the over engineering of the products back then. See also Roman aqueducts. Slave labor or nearly free peons also probably contributed to this.

Today we have much tighter engineering tolerances for cost reasons.
Right. The US economy was well poised to tackle the massive task of computerizing humanity and, being a nascent technology stack with green field opportunities abounding, it was more profitable than continuing to produce machine tools. Meanwhile the Pax Americana has eliminated the risk premium to manufacturing overseas, so our entire economy has reconfigured itself around this task and opportunity of computerizing humanity. To our massive benefit, I think. IMO this is the main driver between diverging American incomes compared to the rest of the developed world.
With WFH, you’ll have unused offices no matter how cheap the rent. There are simply more offices than workers to occupy them. At some point it becomes immoral not to let people live there instead.
Those things happened after the murder, and don't necessarily preclude a crime of passion. When someone does commit a crime of passion, they don't always just come out and confess as soon as they're clear headed again.
This was a fragment of doughnut glaze on the floor of the car; the other incident cited drywall dust on the floor. It's very clear people are being detained just off "tested positive"; no apparent extenuating "they had a bunch of dime bags" in either scenario.
What was considered high-end precision machining a few decades ago is now standard and easily reproducible in cheap labor markets. For example, guitars made in SKorea used to be a bad joke. Their machining tolerances were too big and too inconsistent. Much like storage and bandwidth what used to be exotic cost-prohibitive is now cheap.
OP's words: "Thankfully the US is a major outlier in this aspect globally."

I don't think OP understands the meaning of the word globally
A set of exercises for deliberate Git Practice
Right. And I think the point is that Redux is a godsend for some small percentage of products but for the vast majority the cure is worse than the disease. Simple and slightly verbose is just "better" as a general solution than the powerful but complex solutions you get with Redux.
Flattr was the first time anyone paid me money for my open source/freely-hosted passion projects. It made my heart glow for a week.
Yea, didn't think of that. I would probably be too scared to pack that for a flight.
>And the asymmetry doesn’t for a second make those relationships any less valid, or less important, or less real.

Not in a author/reader sense, no. But in a social media age where influencers use specific language to appear friendly and familiar? At the very least it's blurring the lines.
Please read the article. His produces 200x intermediary values. Clickbait title, since it wasn't a leak.
Other than defense and government, most of these industries rely on Tata, Infosys, and their brethren for dev resources, which are mostly not US citizens. The in-house employees working in software are mostly project managers.
We don't usually do that (e.g. Nvidia not NVIDIA is standard in HN titles) but I've uppercased it (belatedly) now.
"Imagineer Lanny Smoot to Join the Inventors Hall of Fame"
Man, the Metaverse... what a fad. I almost can't even believe that WAS a thing. We had Habbo, and then we had Second Life, and NOW!!!!!!.... * deafening silence *
It loosens the coupling between A and C of course. But it introduces coupling between A and B and between B and C.

So instead of one tight coupling and two components to manage, you now have two tight couplings and three components to manage.
Yeah I see this as making a lot of sense for armies as a first customer. Highly mobile, reliable energy supply you can set up anywhere (assuming their claims are correct)
their position is of value? what do you mean?
Maybe. I'd like to see something like that run as a simulation over a city to see effects for varying high value uses.
I guess I should clarify often in the US the "builder" and "designer" are the same entity. By "builder" I mean the people responsible for designing unsafe designs, and the people responsible for poorly executing good designs.

Find root cause, and make that entity liable
I've dealt with this before. We had a prior employee who stole a team's work and filed it himself. When it was discovered it raised a ruckus and it turns out you really can't "drop" a person from a patent without invalidating it, but they were able to amend it to get the team added back. So now they share credit.
US jobless claims hit 16-month low [pdf]
I agree. Then let's say "developed world". Saying US is a global outlier is silly when much of the globe is underdeveloped.
That's not true even before mixture of experts because the systems are stochastic. They are only identical if we were to always initialize with the same starting seed and rng_state.