skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Although Pyongyang’s decision-making often appears ad hoc and short sighted, in fact, the North Koreans view the world strategically and from a long-term perspective.

I feel like this statement, which I agree with, is incompatible with NK preparing for war, because short/medium term, leadership knows they'll get stomped in full confrontation. Unless they're riding on PRC treaty or some recent development with RU in security realm, which I doubt RU can honor since they're... busy... except for maybe some nuclear umbrella coverage until NK builds up their arsenal.

IMO Un has been pretty diligent retooling their defense industry, their missiles just got used in UKR, it's mediocre, but it's proven. They're doing as well as can be expected under Juche, and now with increased RU dependency, they have some leverage in terms of importing energy and calories, which they didn't have from PRC whose only import from NK is good behavior. RU NOW benefits from NK agigating SKR and JP.

Another skirmish or large incident like Cheonan perhaps. Or imagine degrading Samsung electronics whose market cap is multiple times NK GDP. Or a few battery chem plants. Most of SKR is strategically threatened after NK moves from mass artillery with limited range to rockets that can reach every point. Pain NK can inflict with good enough missiles is disproportional. Which is not good for SK being import AND export dependant to exist and be comfortable.
> That’s a lot of pointless overhead costs that hurt the bottom line.

Or put the other way: Remote work let's the employee pay for the office space.
Stacks[1] are basically recipes for deploying Postgres for specific use cases. This includes extensions, Postgres configs and application deployments (example: PostgREST)

For examples, you can look at https://github.com/tembo-io/tembo/tree/main/tembo-operator/s...

[1] Blog about Stacks: https://tembo.io/blog/tembo-stacks-intro/
Most rsync.net (business) administration takes place on a 2009 octo-mac-pro.

A classic tower workstation, beautifully engineered.
The famous answer is wrong though, since the question is about tokenization of XHTML (not parsing into a tree) which is indeed possible using a regex.

This is why none of the condescending answers suggest a better way. There isn’t one.
The art and joy of well-architected "bad code"
MySQL Stored Procedures: How and why with examples
Yes, i do this with 3x Archer C7 V2.
Why do you think computers have progressed so quickly? It’s not because of simulations.
Gosh I remember trying to wrap my head around this and Allegro in my early teens. Specifically for use with Mugen.

Years later I learned SDL/SDL2 and found them much much easier.
People are different. For some it really increases productivity and wellbeing. For others the opposite. I'm not surprised it is about the same on average as measured by work output.

I've been working 100% remote since 2017 and I'll never willingly change it.
That seems like it should be illegal
Almost didn't recognize it as "Djgpp". As DJGPP however, it kicks off a lot of memories instantly!
Congrats on your achievement. I have seen many, many softcores run on FPGA (usually from a beginner to HDL and unoptimized as a result) however I have never seen a softcore impl this performant, enough to run quake at 40fps.

For logic usage I see you have about 12k LEs on a Max10 running up to 100mhz with FPU. This is really good. I have looked at many, including NiosII/f.

What chip are you running for the demo? It looks like a DE1 but I can't quite tell.

I would be curious to see how your Fmax increases when moving to a slightly more modern chip like the Cyclone V (from 60nm to 28)
https://arcade.makecode.com/ Is great fun to use and made for kids. The forum (forum.makecode.com) is well moderated and safe too.
> Remember that also Python is known to be pretty resistant to performance improvements.

People certainly say that a lot. This thread for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38923741

> The take that CPython should be a reference implementation and thus slow always aggravated me

What is the actual reason for that? How do other languages avoid falling into that trap?

That thread gave me the impression the source of the problem is direct linkage to C extensions instead of native high level foreign interfaces. The resulting code is too tightly coupled to CPython internals which prevents optimization. Is this right?
This is the new EU law, so every handset sold in the EU will be required to do this. This is just Samsung following the law.
I think that the more fundamental problem is price opacity. Insurance contracts make price discovery technically more complex, but not impractical. A medical service provider can legally tell you (in many or most states) that they will not disclose the price of the procedure they will perform on you. That kills free market mechanisms, which could drive the costs down. Most people don't even care, thinking "insurance will pay for it".
1. Labor law is local. This adds (on a per-country basis) legal risk and compliance costs, as well as operational costs (e.g., you might need to have specific policies that apply to employees in specific countries).

2. Taxation regimes. These too vary by country, and add compliance and operational costs.

3. Other laws (both U.S. and foreign) that make hiring foreign nationals complex in certain situations, e.g., ITAR.

When considered together, these costs and operational obstacles can be significant.
it's model available, not open source!
Same, Allegro was very impressive, and I built a little game in it. However, I remember I got stuck on something that I didn't quite fully understand at the time. Hell of a lot of fun though.

Re SDL - exactly! Same path.

It's been years since I wanted to play around making a game. I was thinking of building something in the love 2d framework now. What do you think of that?
Google Pixel end-of-support info:

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en

GrapheneOS end-of-support info (for Google Pixels):

https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-support
Leased cars are old enough after 12-24 months. We're far enough in for the 3rd generation of that to have been sold. Twenty four months is also long enough for newer rental cars to come on the market.

My position is that this temporary is being extended because of greedy dealership owners feel like they can vs a lack of inventory. This is based on precedence of the banks not releasing all of the foreclosed properties they still own after the '08 meltdown. Also, I've been to events sponsored by car manufactures rewarding their top dealership owners. There's fewer of them than people would think as these larger owners own multiple dealerships across the country. They absolutely have the opportunity to "talk amongst themselves" while conveniently in the same place to discuss this.
The nice thing about MHTML is that compared to just a ZIP of files it is fully plain text and includes HTTP headers so that everything can be rendered the exact same way a browser would when served from a server. The headers can store additional metadata for each resource.

It's also guaranteed to never go away because it uses the exact same way emails are encoded.
It allows a (possibly large) subset of programs written for a POSIX environment to work. I'm all but completely certain that most any program that used Linux-specific features would fail to function correctly.

Also, I don't see what "synergy" you're talking about.
Ambient Light Sensor Cybersecurity Risk
Vera: Vector-Based Random Matrix Adaptation
This is not good faith. This is Samsung following the EU law that mandates this for every handset sold in the EU by (IIRC) the end of 2024.
VeRA makes LoRA ~10x more parameter efficient while retaining the same performance.

It's somewhat like a recursive LoRA scheme, where the LoRA A and B matrices are also decomposed using two small trainable vector parameters.
As it seems many are not clear, here is a quick and abbreviated background:

The case is primarily about Epic's Fortnite game. Fortnite is free to play, but makes billions of dollars based on in-game microtransactions for things like in-game cosmetics. Apple charges developers 30% on each of these transactions. Epic didn't like this and so started offering users a way to pay on their own site instead of going through Apple, with a large discount. Apple responded by kicking Fortnite off their app store, and so Epic sued them for anticompetitive behavior.

The gist of the trial and appeals (to date) is that the judge ruled that Apple must allow developers to advertise non-apple means of payment. So Apple responded to this by allowing developers to include exactly one reference (in the entire program), in plain text (non-hyperlink), to an an outside payment site, and has changed their terms to require that developers must now also pay them 27% off all revenue from these outside transactions as well.

Epic is now claiming that this was a bad-faith compliance of the court's ruling, and this will 100% end up in court again. And that's where we are for now.
Couple days ago I logged into Facebook for the first time in about 2-3 years because I wanted to download a video that I had saved there. What a hot mess.

I needed to reset my password, but the form was seemingly unresponsive. Then suddenly a message appeared in a dialog popup letting me know that I had been temporarily locked out. I eventually managed to log in.

Inside the app, I had a handful of messages from various friends who were obviously hacked, asking me to click a some sketchy link. Several posts on my feed had comments from users who seem like bots.

I found the thumbnail of the video that I was looking for, clicked it, and got a plain-text page that read: "Gone." So, I guess the video doesn't exist anymore.

It felt like some sort of dystopia.

I couldn't stop thinking to myself about how many smart people work there, and how much money the company has, yet still it was one of the worst online experiences that I've had.
With the exception of task specialization. Fine-tuning a small model such as Mistral 7B on a specific set of tasks can outperform using GPT-4 on those tasks, and with cheaper and faster inference.
Codeium Tuned on MongoDB APIs
> "For a 9yo, you might need to help. Take that opportunity."

Indeed. Quality time with yer kid and learn a potentially useful, maybe even profitable new skill right alongside 'em? Win, win.
> But I have been assuming that podcast apps collect information about whether or not a podcast episode is ever played, and also on what parts of the episode the user rewinds or skips, and so forth.

Why would you assume this?

(Most) podcasts are RSS feeds. You can use any app to listen to them. You can even write your own app to listen to them.

Why would you intentionally pick an RSS reader that told some rando everything you listened to?
Turns out people would pay any price for life-saving treatments. There is also the lack of competition due to high regulatory barrier.
They had a YouTube. It was called Google Video, and it went nowhere.
We started down this path before COVID, it's just accelerating now.

I think language, accents[0], time zones, and culture are the main things providing any resistance to this happening even quicker than it should.

[0]We once had a person on our team from India, sharp guy but his accent was extremely difficult to parse over audio. We ended up doing most communication over email and chat.
Suggesting a seemingly easy solution to a debilitating problem someone is having might cause them to feel less about themselves. I believe the point is to offer sympathy to a reader who reads your post and sort of goes “if it’s just that, why can’t I seem to do it?”.

I can tell you mean well, but there’s an asterisk to your advice your commenters seem to point out. Your advice might require years and finding a good therapist or purpose for some. Doesn’t mean it’s not worth it.
The unreasonable effectiveness of lxc containers
Does anyone else use lxc? With networking bridged to my local network, I find it a great way to spin up small and disposable dev environments for one-off things and testing.

I've been using this little bash script for awhile and decided to throw it up on github - incredibly handy to have a bare ubuntu server install in 30s whenever I need.
Wouldn't it be easier to unblock some sites for updates instead of doing it manually?
Fair point, yeah it's definitely still cut down
That's called telemetry.

We hate that here on HN and always disable it.

Do you want Microsoft to snitch on your listening habits? I bet not.
I've chatted with a co-worker about all kinds of interesting topics related to our with the last few days. We both work on GPU related stuff, he's been optimizing compute shaders and finding out new and interesting things. The conversations are not conversations I've never seen in chat. He could make a formal presentation but that's not really the point. The point is, as I sat down into the seat next to him, it was obvious to say "Good morning, what's up" and have him tell me.

This has happen the last 3 days, each day I learned something I would unlikely have learned any other way. I had stuff to share with him too.

This is what I don't personally get from "work from home". I'm in no way suggest you should therefore work from office. I'm only relating my experience. This type of experience has been common in my career but maybe I'm an outlier.
>Is there Costco in Canada?

Costco's world headquarters are in Canada. They are a Canadian company.
As I understand it, the point of 222nm is NOT to sterilize organic tissue directly.

The point of 222nm is to able to use it for sterilization in things like air return ducts, industrial cleaning equipment, etc.

Since 222nm is relatively "safe", you don't have to worry some idiot opening up a system, giving himself a gigantic flux of UV in the face, and winding up in the ER for cornea burns.

Consequently, your maintenance people don't need special equipment or extra training.
I work for a small tech company in the US (~25 employees) and a few of them are in Europe. My boss didn't seem to have any issue hiring them and he wears a lot of hats, and we didn't hire them due to cost but to their very specific expertise.
Me too! On a bunch of old 486 machines my high school library threw in the trash (I fished them out after school)

Frankensteined a few together until I had 4 machines, connected their serial ports, and learnt C and how to use a chess library to make them play chess against each other, it took me years but I leant heaps,

Also got my first exposure to a decent graphical desktop, Desqview/X!
That WAS productive, but since you can't see it, there's probably no point in engaging with you any further. TTFN
I am sorry. My thoughts are with you and your family.
Never knew HN catered to sovereign citizens. Yikes.
I’ve said this before, but if productivity isn’t lost, it’s at the expense of a very overworked manager, in companies that weren’t built remote-first, and don’t operate primarily remotely.

This is a more complex issue than simply measuring work output of one person and comparing it to their work output in different locations.

For my wife, it is objectively false to claim that remote work is better for her teams, in her specific situation.
What a great response. To follow, this doesn't preclude anyone's child from jumping head first into programming, just that "producing" a game isn't really the goal but "making" it is. My 9 year old son makes mini RPGs on paper. Like he draws hit points and a monster and does attacks and marks damage as he plays. It's awesome. Sometimes "making a game" doesn't need to be programming at all.
not for the point of this discussion which was "properly typeset digital documents"
What came first, the refinery or the people? It was the refinery in most (all?) of those cases in north east Bay Area. People chose to get more bang for their buck and live near an oil refinery (but doesn't excuse any misinformation about the risks), like people move next to railroad tracks and then complain about the noise and want them to stop blowing horns.

Still I agree with you that there should be almost zero tolerance for any emissions and an "oopsie" every year should be met with a fine of a year's profits every year then.
Theres talk to change the law, so that computer evidence isn't considered reliable by default. But its been talk for years, its only getting attention now.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/12/update-law-o...
Source: https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...

Note that when economists are talking about productivity, it's specific. It's units of output per hour worked (quantitative, not qualitative). https://www.bls.gov/k12/productivity-101/content/what-is-pro...
But these Teslas are not luxury cars and such parts should not be priced as such.
I used to love tailwind. Used it a ton. Not so much anymore. Plain CSS is enough for me.
I've always despised the higher echelons of academia, the top 1%, the Ivy leagues et. al. for a similar reason.

Success in academia comes to those who pick the right people to work with, pick the right things to work on at the right time and say the right things at the right times to the right people, all to push yourself ahead of others guised under veils and veneers of goodness. Truth, morality and the quest for knowledge be damned.

"Picking" is more than what the word suggests. It involves shutting others out, stealing ideas and actual work, propagandizing, giving out freebies but keeping the kickbacks hidden, buttering people for favors, building and fostering inner circles etc. All this is the politics.

No surprise that the ones who are left and thrive are self driven narcissists and ruthless cold blooded creatures painted in playful colors.

Google is the equivalent of the Ivy league. Hopeless, clueless and on a path to irrelevance fostered by a thousand leeches.

Some argue, the world is better because of what Google produced and hence entitled to such inner workings. Same argument as the Ivy's. That's missing the forest for the trees. The real loss isn't what Google or the Ivys have become, but the opportunity loss comparing to what they could have been, with all their resources, had they not gone down this path. This isn't the only possible outcome in this game.
There were many of these.

An impressive suite was the stuff from QuarterDeck. Their DOS extender was called QDPMI, and used the QEMM memory manager.

Quarterdeck DESQview, built on QEMM, truly extended DOS by turning it into a kind of multi-tasking system, allowing users to be more productive.

It was known for its high application compatibility.

I used DJGPP in the early 1990's, and the GO32.EXE extender, which did the job.
Maybe I’m not a good judge but OpenAI’s voices sound very natural to me and seem better than Eleven labs.
> It feels like almost all the issues with self-checkout technology come from the attempts to minimise shoplifting, which don't even seem that effective at doing that. In theory, a system that let you scan products the same way checkout staff do without any weight checks or bagging area rules or other interruptions would be incredibly efficient. Especially if you could do things like scan the same product multiple times if you were buying multiple copies of it.

A lot of them literally do work this way and just accept the risk of shrink,.
Same here.

In addition, to prevent shadow profiles, I've blocked them on NextDNS, setup NetGuard[0] and Firefox with uBlock Origin on Android.

[0]: https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/releases
No; at some point you're going to lift the water up. That requires pumping.
It would be interesting to understand the Quarterdeck products and how they fit together: the separation between QEMM and QDPMI, and how DESQview worked to enhance DOS with multitasking.
It's not a seemingly easy solution to let others and your past affect you less...

Or it may require taking the steps yourself right now because someone has helped you realise it.

Stop trying to protect people from helping themselves. If people don't want to help themselves they are free to.

Sounds like all of you are enabling the self-destruction of the above comment. That's something even I'm offended by.
This is the problem; for “focus” work, perhaps. But as a TPM, you know that not all work is “focus work”, and the “collaborative work” suffers when done remotely. You also know that even “focus” work doesn’t make up even one whole job that someone can do without any “collaboration”.

The myth of the “guy in a room” is just that — a myth, at best, and a classic antipattern at worst.
How did you get into such a position? Is there an application process of some sort?

After verifying solvability, what is the process for selecting the specific problems that will show up in the finished set? Is it by vote or some other evaluation?
I have never worked with state legislators, but my general impression is that they're more, uh, polite, than the general population.

I framed that version as "vulgar..." for a reason.
Spotify took a dear podcast of mine 'private' (it has since been freed). Some have their own paywalls. Even some 'smaller' podcasts now feature network leaders. Many thus feature localized ads.

Not sure we're not already on that path.
P.s.
Reading patent details: "to prevent the at least one radiation from having any wavelength that is outside of the range can be provided or which can be substantially harmful to cells of the body". What means "substantially harmful" radiation ? That is harmful but not so much ? A little bit harmful, maybe? Tell me if I'm wrong, because, for me, if something can't damage anything is "harmless", not "probably harmless" or "not substantially harmful". That is the language of the lawyers or the sellers. They simply don't know yet.

P.S.2 What about photochemical effects ? You put this inside a home and UVC start to discolor everything around. Besides piss off customers, could create serious legal problems to the seller. You know, damage to expensive furniture, paintings, etc.
Same here, not into upgrading continuously for no good reason.

My primary home server (ZFS pools and hosting many VMs) is one I built in 2010, still nothing wrong with it. I keep wanting to upgrade to a new one but there's nothing wrong with it so can't really justify change.

My desktop mac mini is from 2014, works just fine. My windows laptop (toshiba) is from about 2009-2010 (I bought it used in 2011) and still works just fine (I don't use windows generally but have a bunch of niche astrophotography programs which are windows only).

Meanwhile... A Mac work laptop from 2021 lasted a year before the right side usbc ports both died. A Mac laptop from 2021 lasted a year before the screen died completely. The new machines have terrible quality problems.
On HN we go by article quality, not site quality. Lots of past explanations about this at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

Btw I'm not saying the current article was high quality—I haven't looked at it. But it needs to be a judgment about the article, not the site. Pretty much every major site occasionally puts up good articles, and no major site has good (for HN) articles all the time.
Yes, digitally signing PDFs is regular business in my industry.
The "Touch ID button" is just a power button - pressing it puts your laptop to sleep just like pressing the power button on a non-Touch ID one would.
It's so weird to me to separate strategic choices from execution. If you haven't a clue what a system can or cannot pull off, you cannot produce sound strategies for it.
I'm in a similar setup for FF on my Mac, but I also have it clear everything on exit. I exit at least every couple of days just to clear things, and sometimes immediately after visiting certain sites just because it makes me feel better while wearing tin foil. It's annoying after every launch causes me to use all of the various 2FAs to log back in, but I just don't trust what all you evil devs have done to the internet.