skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would force them to push more informative stuff at the expense of fake inflammatory crap that attracts more views. I don't see a change like that coming anytime soon, but hope never dies.
people usually put disclaimers for that kind of stuff
For a lot of kids (myself included), the deepest and strongest desire was not to code, though that's how the effort can manifest. The desire is to then show the end result to someone (often a parent/authority figure) for recognition. It comes right back to the relationship dynamic, and this can be an intensely strong motivator.

As I matured, coding eventually became my own thing, and I started to enjoy it as something I could escape to that nobody around me really had to understand. But when I first started dabbling in it, you bet my Dad heard just... hours, and hours, and hours of my rambling. Mad props to him for listening, even if in hindsight I realize he barely had any interest in the subject and found it hard to keep up. You did good, Dad.
Level 1: Minecraft, Super Mario Maker

Level 2: RPG Maker, Roblox, Dreams

Level 3: Game Maker Studio, Pico 8, Python/PyGame

Level 4: Unity/C#, 2D game from scratch with C/SDL maybe?

Level 5: Unreal Engine/C++, Build engine from scratch, Make 8/16bit game in ASM
Your parents aren't exactly a predictor of current or future markets. Most people under 30 with the financial ability to buy a subscription have heard of ChatGPT. That's the only thing that counts in market terms.
If memory serves, I had a neighbor who bought that 4MB Emulex card.

It was for an 80286 clone that had a 10MB HDD. His rational for buying this card was "I can make a big RAM drive out of it and run everything from memory"

I can't recall the price of the thing, but I want to say it ran in the thousands. Couldn't run most games on it because of copy protection so we never got to take advantage of it. In fact, I don't think the extra memory was usable at all in most software -- I recall we couldn't run a game on his machine due to having 512MB of onboard memory, but it had no issue in my ancient 8088 with 640K installed (in bizarre CGA colors).
> ChatGPT is a game changer when it comes to getting a system to understand the underlying meaning of my query. I used to give the example of searching for Frank Lloyd Wright’s height - doing so on a search engine would give you results about the buildings themselves. You’d have to dig for the simple information of how tall the dude was.

> Alas, Google actually fixed this and quickly displays the man’s actual height now.

That's really the only thing I want: A search engine that understands my queries. I don't want to chat with a computer.
It is very said that people are celebrating digital drivers licenses of all things, how far we have fallen in the battle for privacy and freedom from government intrusion in our lives that we are now celebrating massive authoritarian policies and control as "wins" because they have made our lives more convenient...

The devils deal of convenience over freedom...
> Consumers don’t see this as Google going downhill, they see it as the internet going downhill.

And I think they're right. More and more information on the internet is siloed into apps or behind paywalls. Knowledgeable people who used to write technical articles now make youtube videos (far less searchable). And the good stuff on the internet is diluted with low quality content written by someone who has to churn out an article every 15 minutes that is hard to filter out, even as a human. (I wasted 3 hours yesterday because a website gave me the wrong formula for something)
Nice! (FYI this can be tested without a Kindle by switching the user agent of the browser to a Kindle UA).
What's the point of Obsidian in this case, since all the useful information is already in Anki by definition of "useful" (see previous comment), thus eventually (after a few reviews) in my brain?
Honestly my fairly tech illiterate mother is constantly complaining about how google is full of ads and irrelevant information. I'm not sure that people don't notice. It's just they know there's nothing better.
I have one browser (Chrome) where I have logged into Facebook/Insta/Oculus/Meta and one where I have never logged into them (Brave with Shields UP). I'd like to think that gives me some protection from tracking in the clean browser. Am I naïve?
The voices in our heads are real, we are not alone in our own minds.

Schizophrenia is very real also (the brain does destabilize), we may also be "driven mad."

I know you hate hearing this so much it's a default down vote, yet I implore you to consider this long time taboo as a crises of modernity. What happens when an incomprehensible truth is dismissed as crackpot crazy?
I have a lot of interpersonal work, with people all around the world. Going into the office just to talk on these people on Teams doesn't give a productivity boost. Being able to do this or not is a skill, just like coding is a skill. I try not to bog down my team if I'm deficient in some skill, instead, I work to improve it.
> What was the 'state of mind' of the higher-ups at the post office

I'm not defending the post office, but I suspect you have to look at it in context.

My understanding is that during that period of time (1999–2002) the Post Office's accounts took two large hits:

- £570m write-off of the failed Horizon project
- £1bn losses from the so-called renewal plan

So perhaps the higher-ups regarded it as form of revenue management, claw-back of losses from the postmasters.
The third largest bitcoin exchange made a change to their RAM settings in EC2. This shut down the machines, wiping out the hard drive and RAM. Their wallet was stored there. They lost everything.

https://siliconangle.com/2011/08/01/third-largest-bitcoin-ex...
I recall hearing that they discontinued it. Is the community still going strong?
> > Although we cannot predict the rank of individual pages, at the population level, we can conclude that higher-ranked pages are on average more optimized, more monetized with affiliate marketing, and they show signs of lower text quality

As far as I can tell, that's not a claim about variance over time, i.e. about results being worse now than in the past. It's a claim about how the current population of pages and their current ranks, i.e. a page ranking higher is likely to be more SEO-optimized than a page ranking lower. It makes no claim about whether that was the case in the past, and if it was, whether it was true to a larger or lesser extent.

> Yet, we can still find several spam domains

They would have been able to find several spam domains at the start of their study, five years ago, ten years ago, or fifteen years ago. This statement is just totally empty when talking about whether the results are getting worse over time or not.

> and also see an overall downwards trend in text quality in all three search engines, so there is still quite a lot of room for improvement.

Sure. Did you check on what their definition of "text quality" is? I tried to, but couldn't since the paper never actually states it. But the only thing they actually report temporal statistics for is the "type-token ratio". Sounds fancy! What it turns out to be is "the number of unique words on page / number of total words on page".

That doesn't seem like a very strong claim about actual quality, especially when the only statistics they report is the 95th percentile.
Sea level is a low side on both ends of the channel.
Those signs are the same signs. They’re digital signs above the freeway. Sometimes they say travel times and info about burn bans, other times they have silly puns about not drinking and driving, or not passing on the left.
Very cool. I've no idea if this is possible without rooting the Kindle, but I wonder would it be possible to highlight sections of text in a book and send it to something like this with a request to summarise/explain?
> For all intents and purposes they have a monopoly on my household internet

I thought you said you’re using Verizon now so I really don’t see why you think Cox has a monopoly on your household internet.
Basically Little's law. It is queues all the way down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little's_law

Additionally, here is a great talk on queuing theory and load shedding. One argument this talk makes is that autoscaling is not the silver bullet you think it is (similar to queues).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oQl1xv0hDk
Yes DaisyUI is nice. Ironically, it convinced us not to move from Bootstrap, because we realized its components were almost 1:1 with Bootstrap. And that we actually don't want the infinite styling options that Tailwind offers, so that devs mostly use design system components. At that point, who cares where/what the CSS is?
Hey, can you recommend something one might read to get up to speed on queuing theory? I certainly am not aware of it, but work with queues.
My 1990s multi-node BBS ran via DESQView/x

That company produced a number of excellent DOS survival tools. QEMM memory manager was an absolute must to get games working.
Well the good news is that all of the normal signs that tell you stuff like that are still there, and these humorous messages on the digital signs above the freeway have absolutely nothing to do with those.
This resonates.

I started coding pretty young (Perl probably ruined me at 12), and what I realized as a teenager was that I didn't really enjoy programming, it was just the means to an end. I wanted to make the computers do something.

I'm a system administrator now. Turns out that most of the problems I wanted to solved had capable people already working on them.

Those years of coding give me such an advantage when things go wrong, though. I've never regretted it for a second.
Sure sure. But is cannabis bad in the same way whiskey is bad, or is it bad in the same way heroin is bad?
I know. I'm just pointing out that a lot of content on HN is very clearly astroturfed. A good YC buddy of mine even confirmed how a couple startups would attempt to astoturf or guerilla market on HN, sometimes getting caught, other times not so.
Firefox offers tab sandbox/isolation so you don't need to do this. It's becoming standard elsewhere. You'll want to start isolating everything eventually. Gmail, shopping sites, etc.
> something that makes you smile is good

But something that keeps drivers’ eyes on the road is safer. It’s a trade off: a minor increase in excitement for a minor decrease in safety
> An interest in science and art is not something most of us need to be reminded about; it’s the default.

It really isn't.
cybertruck is the google-glass of automobile market.

It might be 'innovative' but you still look like an ass in it
What’s your plan to enforce it? Because passing a law doesn’t magically eliminate a problem. Often times laws increase the behavior they are trying to prevent, like drug laws.
There’s nothing wrong with discussing a problem if you try to understand the problem first.

You haven’t asked why so many people get stuck. Why is it so hard to move on? Why do some people manage and others don’t?

You have to genuinely want to know these things, not just ask to check a box or make people convince you with some kind of evidence.
Tlaib is an activist on certain issues and a moderate on others. Balance is her game.
DX2/66 will run Windows 95 if you have enough memory, but it's absolutely stellar with OS/2 Warp.
The same is true in America. It is just that there was that wildly successful marketing campaign a few decades ago that went something along the lines of "Go to university or you will be forever left to flip burgers", so most people won't even stop to consider vocational training from traditional vocational schools, and instead are always pushing for universities to become the vocational schools instead.
Hey if you’re going to push to ban billboard, or writing on the sides of semi trucks, or giant signs on the buildings near freeways you absolutely have my support.
Ah. The ego of Effective Altruism and Sam-Bankman Fried.
What is the percentage of Google searches actually performed by humans? Maybe if we all switched there would still be so much bot traffic the market share would barely moved? Then again I haven't started using it and I don't know anyone who has so at least in my bubble it's not surprising
q/kdb+ is used in finance (banking + funds) for heavy numerical computation every day. high-volume realtime data straight from markets, and petabyte/trillion-row historical DBs. it runs on CPU but computation easily parallelizes over cores/clusters.

regarding use cases, see https://kx.com/resources/use-cases/
Same for Twitter[0], ever since Elon took over. It opened the gates for twitter blue bots that upvote far-right and climate denying posts to no end.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/20/twitter-x...
because... you're so tolerant?
https://granmaizal.com/pages/shipping (ships to the US)

https://abasolowhisky.com/en/shop-now/ (ships to the US)

https://shop.sierranortewhiskey.com/64746290 (ships to the US)

If you like Whiskey its an interesting change from Scottish single malts.

Maybe so, but I don't know why people are so desperate to pretend this isn't a straight advertisement.
The simple railroad idea is “big ship comes to west Panama, unloads onto trains, which load into big ship in east Panama” but that avoids the strength of railroads.

You have to unload the ship eventually anyway, so you instead have it load into rail and disperse to final destination more directly.

You’d need a heat map of where everything ends up that is going through Panama, but if you’re dumping to rail many of those ships would unload elsewhere.

Or in other words, Europe will be hit much harder by this than the USA will.
I had to cancel Cox Internet a few years ago because I was moving to a different state. When I called to cancel they asked why and I declined to say. Why should I provide them with another data point for their executives to see in a report? It's enough that I want to cancel the service. They don't need to know anything else.

Yet they just kept asking, refusing to take "no answer" as my answer. I had to get almost belligerent before they finally agreed to cancel the service. Was it petty on my part? Yes. Were they entitled to a reason? Fuck no.

Internet service should be a public utility at this point, or at least ISPs should be much more heavily regulated.
The one and a half downsides not mentioned here:

1: Separating storage and compute tends to result in relatively high startup latency (Databricks, here's looking at you!) when you have to provision new compute. For a massive batch job, waiting 10 minutes for a cluster to come up is fine, but a lot of orgs don't realize the cost implications and end up with tiny developer/analyst clusters, or aggressively spin inactive clusters down, which results in long wait times. Analyst/developer ergonomics have not traditionally been a major concern in the big data space.

1.5: Dealing with multiple files instead of a data warehouse SQL interface requires work, and can introduce interesting performance issues. Obviously you can put a SQL interface in front of the data, but most RDBMS / Data Warehouses have a lot of functionality around maintaining your data that you may not get with the native file format, so you get soft-locked into the metadata format that comes from your data lake file format. It's all open, so this is only a half issue, but there are switching costs.
Yeah I get that dunking on Boeing is the cool new thing but realistically the amount of caution they take with things almost certainly dwarves whatever most of us software gardeners do.
I’m conflicted because on one hand I think, “did you people even read the book?” And on the other, if multiple people have this experience, the book was not written well enough to have a lasting impression of its intentions.

Carnegie specifically mentions in the book how you need to be sincere and genuinely cultivate interest in people.
Ask HN: How do you go from good to great Programmer?
Don’t be modest. How did you become a great programmer?

The more specific the better
DMCA gets hosts out of being fined for user uploads or even having to think much about it. YouTube has their own system that goes well beyond DMCA, probably because they want to encourage the copyright owner to agree to accept monetization of the infringing material instead of having it removed.

For a host that just sticks to DMCA it is quite simple.

1. A claimant alleges that a user is infringing their copyright.

2. The notifies the alleged infringer and removes the content.

3. If the alleged infringer disagrees that the content is infringing they notify the host.

4. The host notifies claimant that the user disputes the claim, and gives the claimant the user's contact information.

5. If the host does not receive within a couple weeks proof from the claimant that the claimant has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the user the host puts the content back up.
And for only $700 / hour to hire an expert witness on AI (on top of hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills to get to that point), you can prove it in court!
Speaking respectfully, does anything look the same as the 2.4 days? That was before the giant UI flush, when they decided, "screw it, make it look like Maya" (I was pretty hostile at first, especially since half my Python scripts stopped working, but I eventually got used to it. I keep an old EXE for the old scripts I really need, but with geo nodes I'm hitting those less and less).
FWIW the quoted researcher describes the laser technique used as being invasive. It likely involves an opened skull. How would waveguiding get through a thick totally-surrounding skull?
If that’s the state of things - taking money for personal interest to oppress the people that are suppose to be represented - perhaps we need an amendment to bar holding public office after attaching a name (authoring or sponsoring) to bills that get struck down as constitutional. I don’t know what the solution is, but there should be some teeth and personal accountability for shenanigans like this.
We love you too.
"Status Limbo"
PiDex: your Raspberry Pi 5-powered doomsday companion
It's a massive pain when working with non-technical entities. Both professionally and in my side-business I have to do this and it's a horrible experience. I'll pay the damn $99/yr, just let me admin everything for the client. Tracking down the owner and getting them to login and click a button is harder than it sounds and it brings updates (even internal on TF) to a screeching halt.
I have an adult child with severe mental illness. It makes life less-than-easy, but others have it worse (including her). She will probably live with us until we check out. One of the things that concerns me, is how to help her, after we are gone.

I have also had many close associations and friends lose children, relatives, and associates; often, to unnatural causes. It has to do with the demographic I hang with.
So it allows the dev team to blame the queue. Instead of “we decided to drop requests,” it’s “oh look, the queue is dropping requests.”
Might want to check for capacitor leakage before turning it on for the first time.
Crop Health Sensor Runs on Solar, Microbe Power
Following the link to the StatCounter[0] source, it seems bing chat isn't taken into account in the first place, nor do they have an acurate view of the search activity.

To add to that since it's an analytics plugin, it could also affect how those pages are ranked in Google and Bing in not so subtle ways.

All in all, that feels like very little facts to come up with any opinion on the subject matter.

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology

> Is bing chat included in search engine share?

> We have no way of measuring the number of queries performed in bing chat. However, we also don't measure the number of queries to regular search engines like bing or google either. Instead we track search engine referrals.
> high value items

Medium value parts actually (eg. OEM).

And it's the same specialization that Mexico has had since the late 1990s and early 2000s when their factories left for China [0][1][2]. That's why Mexican manufacturing has started growing again - costs have equalized between CN and MX manufacturing for intermediate parts.

For example, take apart a Sony PS2, Compaq workstation, or a Toshiba DVD Player from the early 2000s - all the electronics parts in it will say Made in "Mexico/Malaysia/Thailand", and the plastic molding was 50% Mexico and China. China didn't enter the fray until after 2008 when Steve Jobs tasked Tim Cook with exploring manufacturing in China, and Samsung began opening OLED factories there as well.

Low cost gizmos and gadgets have been manufactured in Vietnam and India for a decade now, and within 10 years they'll both also climb up the value chain manufacturing wise. Nhat Tao in Saigon and Sector 63 in Noida have a similar feel as Huaqiangbei in Shenzhen 10-15 years ago.

History doesn't repeat, but it sure as hell rhymes.

Mexico also saw economic and political instability 20-30 years ago when its factories began leaving for China. Same thing happened to Thailand in the 1990s, Malaysia in the 2000s, Turkiye in the 2010s, and Phillipines in the 1990s-2000s.

[0] - http://international-economy.com/TIE_Sp03_Rosen.pdf

[1] - https://www.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/12/13/china.mexico.reut/

[2] - https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/03/world/as-china-gallops-me...
Firstly, the other comments about his interest being bonding with you. Definitely leverage as much as you can prior to building anything. But I suspect he actually DOES want to play his idea. He thinks you’re a programmer so could help him, so that’s why he’s asking you. IMO that is.

Secondly, I think you be honest with him and say games are hard and not something you specialize in but if he really want to invest some time learning you’ll help him solve problems and you can do it together. Make sure he’s not just your boss tossing ideas/designs that you have to go implement. Start by googling different frameworks and watching/reading tutorials together. Basically show him the process you’d go through if this was your idea to learn game development. Look into unity or godot, vet solutions, play with some demo apps. Watch some of the videos of people building simple games. Building the basic rollaball game will give him an idea if it’s even something he wants to continue with. Also look for assets that complements his game’s style/theme. Asset development is a common road block so if you start with a character rig and an environment that looks something like what he’s after it will give you some momentum on the actual game mechanics/story/etc. I think if you approach it as a team of equals willing to figure this out, you can’t really lose but don’t expect him to have the fortitude to complete it. Put in as much effort as he does.
Both models are using around 3GB right now (converted into FP16 for speed). But I checked that the (slower) FP32 version uses 2.3GB so we are probably doing something suboptimal here.

We support CUDA right now although it should not be too hard to port it to whisper/llama.cpp or Apple's MLX. It's a pretty straightforward transformer architecture.