skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has been done and discussed (flamed) ages ago, in the early Windows demos era. An operating system has a lot of “free” data, graphical or otherwise (from wallpapers to icon resources), which can be used directly or processed into something else. The code to access them cam become too big, but hacks are possible. There's also a question of fonts. Is it OK to use them to “just put some text on screen”, is it OK to use them as a source of all kinds of curves? It is hard to define where “the program” ends, and the rest of the system starts. After all, they all need to load libraries to interact with GPU into their process space. Those libraries have debug functions, example data, and other junk which is not used to put pictures on screen, but is available. Then what if a tiny application links to 50 system libraries only to have a database of potentially suitable data sequences here and there?

And long before that, even regular software on microcomputers struggling to save each byte relied on known values being in known locations in ROM. It worked, because each device came from the factory with the same firmware, and it could never ever be changed for the reason I've just mentioned.

The solution turns out to be pretty simple: if you think you're smart, other smart people will study your trick, and decide whether it's impressive, or just a one-time joke. Formal rules for demoparties don't mention many possible “size extending techniques” because it's generally accepted that they won't help much compared to what can be done in the same amount of bytes directly by a competent author.
I started subscribing in like October and haven't been searching much since the new year cause I've been really busy. I think I have also noticed this quality degradation, and also the results taking much longer. I'm not gonna say it's useless but I understand. So I can dislike it for that reason with you.

As far as politics... for a lot of people not relying on a single particular global megacorp (who tend to extend the soft-power of a given state or economic bloc) for access to information is a semi-political choice. There is very much an inescapable concern of "who chooses what I get to see and what are their incentives" that can't really be reduced to "I don't care about politics". It cannot be separated from politics, which is why people have such strong feelings about it. I'm not sure that's what people really mean though, I think they talk past each other a lot on this topic. No disrespect meant to you and I appreciate your comments.

I really like the idea that they'd hedge and not give any single index overwhelming leverage over what Kagi users are fed, and conveniently for me (who does care a bit about the who of the thing) if they stick to that approach it should provide more diversity of contemporaneous political messaging... so it can also please the (I think somewhat tedious) "no politics" crowd at the same time. So that seems good?

Tradeoffs maybe, and give them some more time to figure it out, incorporate more indices?
No.

Check made out to the publisher of the journal -> publishing fee.

Check made out to the editor -> bribe.
Although they are somewhat older than the 19th century, check out novels by Georgette Heyer, if interested. The genre is Regency romance, sort of romantic (& some adventure) type of novels of 18th century England, and theyinclude a good amount of talk about the cuisine of that period.
This, 200%.

I can't think of anyone other than the most archetypal ditz (think, 'Friends' character, Phoebe) who would conflate the idea of the rubber part that touches the ground with the metal or other hard material the first term is mounted on. (Naming abstractions removed for clarity.)
In Ruby, it really is global. Imports can (and do) modify the behavior of the stdlib, and any other libraries' namespaces in the same way that they would manipulate their "own" code and data.
In case anyone ever finds this via Google, how much water? How did you serve it? A saucer/plate?
Very informative comment! Could you please tell me what you mean by "effective resolution?" Is it the resolution in px or something to do with dynamic range? (I don't know anything about filmmaking.)
they seem to be blocking a lot of IP's . I can't get there via mullvad but my "normal" spectrum connection is fine. So maybe they're sending all VPNs through cloudflare firewalling and it's broken?
I am not really convinced.

First, HTTPS is here to authenticate the server to all users, because it is important that no user wrongly believes that it connected to the website it wanted. Many times it does not matter (e.g. a random blog), but when it does matter, it does matter for all users. Git signing is different: if I sign my commit, I really don't care if whoever runs it checked my signature; I sign it so that someone who cares (and knows what it means) can check it.

Second, I don't see the lock-in with GitHub. Signing a commit is not about getting a "verified" badge, and the public key is not limited to GitHub. On the contrary, because the signature goes with the patch, I would say it really does not depend on GitHub at all. GitHub showing information about it does not make GitHub own it.

Third, I don't get the comparison with the paper signature either: my signature on a document has some kind of legal meaning, so I won't just put it everywhere "just in case". My PGP signature doesn't: I am pretty sure I can even PGP-sign a contract document (e.g. the *.pdf) and it won't be equivalent to me writing my signature next to my name. Of course it can prove that I did PGP-sign that document, so in the case of a highly illegal document that I should not link myself to, probably I should not PGP-sign it.
https://www.uspis.gov/history-spotlight/send-in-the-marines

> "When our men go as guards over the mail, that mail must be delivered, or there must be a Marine dead at the post of duty."
> numerical algebra work [...] is mostly embarrassingly parallel

It's the exact opposite, most numerical linear algebra is _not_ embarrassingly parallel and requires quite an effort to code properly.

That is why BLAS/LAPACK is popular and there are few competing implementations.
The app that I just released is pretty much 99% Me-made. I wrote multiple backend servers, as well as the native frontend. I use two fairly small third-party dependencies (A Big JSON parser on the server, and a keychain wrapper on the frontend), and a whole lot of dependencies that I wrote.

Most folks, hereabouts, would sniff at it, and tell me how "out of touch" I am.

Guilty as charged, I guess, but my work seems to come out pretty well, and I enjoy doing it. I love crafting software, as opposed to writing software.
It would probably be hushed up and the Secret Service would quickly close the investigation because investigating is hard.
In the powerlifting community, it was a pretty well known fact. None of my women friends that competed (that weren't on anabolic steroids) would be on hormonal birth control because it would affect their training.

I'm surprised the article mentions it's not known by doctors.

I'm also surprised that male birth control pills don't exist yet. In my mind it is the easiest thing ever, exogenous testosterone basically solves the problem. We know it's fairly reversible because lifters go on that stuff for years and then still manage to have kids.

It's "just" a matter of figuring out the correct dosages and figuring out how long before it becomes effective.

I suspect significantly more men would be willing to take birth control pills if it was making them "jacked".
> It's like looking at your hot water heater warranty and replacing it when it's over

Why would anyone do that? Seems like a waste of a hot water heater that probably has a lot of life left.

People that do this probably throw out food the moment it hits the best before date too.
Unsolicited, but I just abstract it to energy.

I'm an energy well. They are an energy well. I can't hold off the march of entropy if I don't bring in more energy. So I absorb their well into mine.

Until we figure out how to integrate photosynthesis / photovoltaics into our bodies its not worth stressing out over the necessary survival process of killing other living things.
There's a Firefox addon that does that too [0]... and another one made specifically for old.reddit [1]

0. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
Just in time! I need a new nightshirt!

I’m so glad I signed up for Kagi - I tried DDG for a while but always felt it was missing huge swathes of results and invariably I’d find myself going back to the Goog to “fill in the blanks”.

Think I count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I’ve done that though in the last few months now I’m on Kagi.

And, I have to say, as a tech geek I find it utterly glorious that my searches are Quora free!
> Who gets hurt? Would you consider this train robber a danger to society?

By unjustly appropriating the fruits of other people's labor, thieves make it harder for all honest citizens to support themselves and their families financially. Of course they are a danger to society, and only someone in a position of extreme financial privilege could possibly think otherwise.
Brother me too
> The IDF was not involved.

At least one of the attackers was positively identified by witnesses as Yuval Hadari, that served under IDF Paratroopers special forces for three years. His likedin profile sat at https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuvalhadari but got erased after the skunk attack.
Hormonal birth control was introduced in 1970’s, and were hearing about this decades later.

If Wegovy/etc are on a similar scale, how long until we find out those unintended side effects?
Wow, this looks promising. JetBrains discontinued AppCode, so an alternative for Xcode (trash application) is my dream.
If they keep doing crimes you can lock them up again, you know.

Very few crimes should be able to get you more than 5 years at once.
I see the point you're trying to make, but I don't think it's accurate. I don't think even those people want the DRM.

They just don't realize the tradeoff they're making until it's too late.
Everyone gets hurt because prices rise to cover losses.
The battery and the panels we can do.

ITs the upgrades to the grid that we aren't close on and aren't making progress on.

If you have an all electric house, a 3 day battery, all electric appliances and cars to charge... works great.

Now how about a week of rain. Suddenly your either powerless or your utility has to import enough power to keep that all electric everything running. It's more lines, and transformers. We can't maintain global transformer demand today. A large disaster would be crippling (think solar flair, terrorism). It has been a major issue for Ukraine to replace this damaged infrastructure (due to production constraints).
My first thought as well!
How many times have you seen trees falling on the road at all, much less too close to brake?

I don’t know who taught you how to drive but in California in the 90s they tended to emphasize that if you couldn’t stop without hitting something, you were going too fast. I’d give long odds on that being better advice far, far more frequently in scenarios like what you describe.
Jumping spiders have definitely helped me get over arachnophobia a bit. They're just too cute to be afraid of.
Have you looked at the research into environmental noise and brain development?
Do any of these have an ecosystem of accessibility tested components that pass the muster, e.g. like React Aria[0]?

This is my minimum requirement of any ecosystem in 2024. It’s really important to get this right.

[0]: https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/getting-started....
I bet loads of this is people trying to get their work published to support a US visa application
Is there data that suggests testosterone would work as a male birth control?
Yes, but the objection is that an average driver cannot go beyond 10 MPH “in practice” without losing control. Which is nonsense.

A driver who can control their car in 20 MPH can control it in 35 MPH; it happens all the time.

As to your point: I suppose all is well if a pedestrian is hit at 40 mph in a 40 MPH local zone?
What did people genuinely think was going to happen with OpenAI?

All the employees wanted to simply get rich and support Sam Altman's and his mission to get them there (why else would be a revolt upon his firing?) so with that in mind, I can't help but to think that self-deception is the best weapon people have to use a facade for their greed.

I frankly have more respect for scammers, at least they know firmly where they stand on a moral spectrum.
Inb4 Google acquires them. I’m a paying customer and digging it. DuckDuckGo despite their privacy claims was (ironically) hanging hard for me due to blocked domains in pihole. Jumped to Kagi and have been pretty happy ever since. Just wish there was better safari integration - their extension perma bricked safari on my MacBook and despite being a Unix hacker for dang near 20 years I haven’t found the right library path to wipe to bring things back to life. Transitioned to Firefox on all platforms though and it’s been smooth sailing. The things we do for fast and relevant search.
I don’t know. Might have been worth it just for the exposure on Hacker News.
I did that a couple months ago, and just signed up for a paid tier after I tried to go back to duckduckgo and started losing my mind. Kagi is better for discovering new content and mediocre places on the internet.
I’ve often wondered how effective it’d be if speeding simply turned off the entertainment system and played an excessive speed warning message instead. You’d accept that in any actual emergency but it’d really put a damper on LARPimg GTA on the way home from work.
Ordoliberalism: Germany Postwar Economic Doctrine
Thinking seriously about it:

Of course you can try to minimize the sentience of what you eat - wheat < ants < pigs < people - which may be better than nothing, but I'm sure you've thought of that.

I heard of a small religion that eats only nuts and fruits, with the belief that the plants want them eaten - they evolved to make the nuts and fruits desireable in order to spread the plant's seeds. It's arguably still exploitation: The plants evolved that way because it is the least bad option among predators.
"You clothe 0% of the people you don't send shirts to"
Tried it, I don't see the value over duckduckgo
Not GP, but…to wear clothes? Most people don’t wear clothes for any other end.
I would love to be corrected: do you have some specific examples or some underlying principles?

My professional and academic background is in numerical analysis and scientific computing (including BLAS/LAPACK level implementations), but I admit I haven't done deep numerical implementations in years.
If you drive 60mph for 20 minutes, you will go 20 miles. If you drove 65mph, then you would travel the same distance 1 minute 32 seconds sooner. At lower speeds, the effect is bigger, e.g. going 45 instead of 40 saves 2:13, and 35 instead of 30 saves 2:51. If my math is right, to only lose 30 seconds by going 5 under for 20 minutes, you would have to be going 195 in a 200.
My point is that there is no "there there". I think all of them get that AGI isnt coming but they can make a shit load of money.

Hope, progress... both of those left the building, it's just greed moving them forward now.
Hi there! What is https://fider.io/ built on?
No. The only reason to have a C-corp is because actual investors are actually paying for it.

Not potential investors.

Not just in case.

Good luck.
I can't comment on BLIS-specific interfaces as I do not know, but BLAS standards (including MKL API) covers both different precision levels and matrix representations.
I could just upvote your comment (which I did), but I'd like to tell you explicitly that your comment was particularly informative. Thanks!
I would not. This is the first time a generation has been able to say this in 400 years. I would much rather have no cell phones or big TVs if it meant I could have a place of my own.
Leading US particle physics lab faces uncertain future
To be clear the literal text on the slide is “aimed to counter Microsoft’s .NET framework.” He said something similar verbally.

Slightly earlier he did discuss the general alliance against Microsoft. I thought it was funny he didn’t mention Netscape as part of the alliance. At the time they were considered far more important than IBM or Oracle for purposes of displacing Microsoft on the consumer side.

It’s fine in the grand scheme of things, a younger person who was not there trying to reconstruct what happened and slipping up a bit. But for someone who cares about the details of this sort of history I didn’t want to absorb any similar errors about Common Lisp which I’m genuinely curious to learn about.
That sounds pretty unique to me; I've done a few 1000+ mile road trips across the US and have never run into a sign that looks like a speed limit but isn't actually one. The closest thing would be a yellow advisory sign, but those don't look like speed limits.

(This sounds like the kind of thing you should report to either your state or county -- AFAIK every state maintains a DB of posted limits with geofences, and correcting them is generally a high priority for ticketing reasons.)
Yes, and clearly if an asteroid hits the world, we will not have to worry about speed limits at all! We should skip doing the work.

As usual, don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough. We have scooters that limit their speed in pedestrian zones and drones weighing 35g that will refuse to fly anywhere near airports. Yet cars that know perfectly well where they are can go 100mph in cities. It's not reasonable.
Japan has been a peaceful place throughout its demographic changes. It's not about being "awful" (inflicting maximum misery) but about effectively correcting problem behaviours. This actually requires a high degree of discipline and order among prison staff, not unlike raising children.

Life in Japanese prison is highly regimented, expectations of correct behaviour are high, and inmates are not allowed to freely interact and form a prison culture. This is in contrast to the US, where prison is effectively crime university. There are also effective post-correctional structures, eg. hiring discrimination against convicts isn't legal.

I'm arguing that Japan is a model of penal efficiency, getting a lot more bang for penal system buck, not that their system is most effective in absolute terms.

Edit: Japan spends ~14 USD per prisoner per day[1] and the US spends ~110 USD[2].

1. https://www.moj.go.jp/content/001409459.pdf

2. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/09/22/2023-20...
I think most companies that try offshoring dev work (and there have been many) reverse course fairly quickly, for a variety of reasons. However, there were a lot of devs being paid to do things that just didn't need doing, either because it was 10 companies trying to do the same thing, or because it was trying to look good for an IPO rather than solving someone's real problem.

There is still lots of real, useful programming work out there to do, but it will take some time for the industry to pivot back towards working on real problems.
Exactly because spying, to a corporation, is a profit opportunity. They are built to see any opportunity in terms of ROI; spying using data, which is relatively cheap, is a great ROI.

Even if it is deplorable.
These are real questions that people have been thinking hard about, and finding solutions for, for centuries. It would be valuable to explore them, IMHO.
A more equitable society is a society in which people in precarious financial and social situations are free to work to improve their lot, without fear that lawbreakers will destroy all they have built. Enforcing the law and holding criminals accountable is a prerequisite to creating economic and social opportunity. El Salvador's recent rebirth is a perfect demonstration of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KU-Tkh4yoQ
> I'm not aware of any other developed country with a comparable culture of neglect

In terms of road fatalities per vehicle-mile traveled[0],the US is on par with other developed nations like Belgium and New Zealand, fares substantially better than Korea or the Czech Republic, and is substantially worse than Norway or Switzerland.

But you have to remember that driving is a much more fundamentally required part of life in much of the US than it is in many of those other countries. The culture of neglect comes from (among other things) the fact that if you make getting a driver's license too hard, or losing one too easy, you effectively cut off someone's livelihood.

[0]: https://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/irtad-road...
Not necessarily. You'll still be able to nuke the whole domain from your results, permanently. That means you'll see the spam once, and getting a new domain promoted to the top takes time and effectively money.

I also hope that domains which get blocked by lots of people will get reviewed for global downranking, but I don't think that's happening yet?
I love things like this. The guy is currently on episode 2 / 5 on this radar thing.

Drones have the potential to really become a cool real-life e-sport over time. It'll even be a direct analogue to modern combat, much like early sport was.
This obligation comes, historically, second to the obligation to reward investors and is only considered in terms of “ratio” and return. They (corps) don’t actually “care” in the way a human with a heart may.

They only ever see numbers and a “fine” for instance is just a “cost.”
> Is there any chance that the lack of US regulations will, at some point, cause the general populations to flee the US rather than deal with tech companies monitoring and controlling every aspect of your life?

Speaking as an Australian who lives in a place that is often considered over regulated ... zero chance.

Turns out living in a place that has laws like "thou shall not lie on the box", and "shrink wrap licences for software shall not override the law" (this is what new EU law says) is pretty nice.

Hell, in Australia we have laws that say ISP's must tell you what minimum bandwidth you are paying for, and horrors, the price displayed must be the price you pay in the end. Oh, the imposition this must place be on a business ... Actually it turns out it's very little. The ISP's already knew how much bandwidth people were using because they pay for it, and as for the difficulty of displaying th price you plan on charging the customer - lets no go there.

Most of the world thinks competitive markets are a good thing. The free markets the USA seems to prefer look to be a form of self flagellation to us.
> If you're using a reasonably fast language-server, which rust-analyzer apparently is (I didn't know this using vscode)

Some more anecdata to back this up: initial workspace load in VScode I can watch RA tick through its progress. Clean and boot up Zed and the same process is so fast that it’s almost unbelievable.
How often does it end up court? And since he was part of a group that robbed a train, there is also conspiracy charges that were never filed.
You think they came up with the long name and THEN were astonished to discover that it spells "PATRIOT"?
Spending on Ukraine is a rounding error compared to overall defense spending:
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/russia-ukraine/
"For context, the $24B the U.S. has spent on security assistance to Ukraine amounts to less than three percent of last year’s defense budget."
...and most of that money never actually left the country.
If you want to relive some the joy of X-Wing, X-Wing Alliance Update (XWAU) modernizes the XWA game (including VR support). For TIE Fighter afficionados, there is even a TIE Fighter Total Conversion project that rebuilds entire TIE Fighter campaign in XWA, including a reimagined campaign that takes advantage of the engine improvements in the mods to build larger engagements. Definitely took me back to that summer spent at the computer with my trusty Wingman Extreme.