skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really inconsistent with what I said or what the OP said. It's disgraceful and embarrassing behavior which would be more than enough to get many people in public-facing jobs fired. But if YC want to continue to be represented by this mook, that's their choice.

Also, while I don't think that a serious threat was intended in this case, there is absolutely no logic to the idea that something cannot possibly be construed as a threat if it's a quotation from song lyrics.
All good, no worries at all. Just wanted to make sure that this was what you actually meant, and that I didn’t interpret it incorrectly.
The official challenge is in Java, but there are unofficial solutions in the "Show and tell" categories, using other languages, databases, and stuff (even a Fortran solution that takes 3 seconds without going too far in optimization):

https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/discussions/categories...

I like this discussion because while the original is about "what can you do in 2024 stock java", I'm more interested in "what can you do if you use naive, obvious solutions". AWK does this in 6 minutes but, as pointed in this comment:

https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/discussions/171#discus...

> It's either 6 minutes with 20 lines of AWK written in five minutes. Or 6 seconds in 300 lines of java written in five days. Classic "XKCD: Is It Worth the Time?".
I thought it landed upside down. If so they will just try to do stuff like that?
Do you really think that this is different in other countries?
As if they were changing their operating system of their trains every 5 years XD That's just stupid.
yes, it's collectively irrational behavior, just like warfare. but it's often individually rational behavior (like defending your country when it's invaded, in some cases) because electric power utilities commonly have monopolies, which causes two problems:

1. they become single points of failure, and their risk tolerance for outages may not match yours, so you may end up either paying excessive costs for reliability you don't need, or experiencing an outage risk you can't tolerate. or they may have outage risks which you can't solve by dumping money on them, such as corruption

2. they sometimes try to extract monopoly rents

there are also coordination problems around things like time-of-usage billing. solar power is free during the day, but your utility provider may not be willing to deliver it to you for the extremely low marginal price of transmission and distribution; they may be legally obligated to charge you the same price as at midnight, for example
What you seem to be missing is that the article did not have any actual source for its claims, it's just reporting an answer from an AI. What the article says is irrelevant, because all of it has been made up.

Your new link is even worse. It just quotes from this article, but conveniently omits the part about the original source being a chatbot.

It's quite amazing how gullible some people are. I can kind of understand HN commenters reading the headline, believing it, and commenting without reading the article. But this is somebody whose self-identity is so tied to online privacy issues that their handle is "thatprivacyguy", and they're literally filing official complaints with no fact checking despite obvious red flags, and wasting precious DPC resources on AI-generated slop.
>> Hover isn’t really acceptable UX since the touchscreen era

It's an augmentation that can be used on desktops though. I agree that it shouldn't be necessary but, but it can help. Some apps aren't meant for mobile either.
Almost everyone who reads your stuff online is busy/distracted, because they're online. They may have 40 tabs open. You have to give them a reason to be interested in your tab, fast. If you don't give it to them in... 7 seconds? 5? 3? Then they're gone. They close your tab and move on to the next one.

They're probably not even reading your first paragraph. They're skimming it. They might skim the second. You want them to actually read your article? Give them a reason in that first paragraph. Give them more reason in the second. Keep giving it to them, paragraph by paragraph. If you don't, they're gone.
Show HN: A platform to host AI/ML models for clinical medicine
Hi HN,

While completing my PhD in biostatistics where I worked with clinical datasets from Alzheimer's Disease, I always received great feedback when I made an interactive visualization for my ML or statistics models and included a link in the journal article. Therefore, I decided to make a platform called clinicalmodels.io where you simply upload a fitted R or Python model and then near-automatically get an interactive visualization.

An example model is here for everyone to try out: https://clinicalmodels.io/nickcullen31/mixed-effects-model

The idea of this platform is to fill a niche in hosting of diagnostic and prognostic models for medicine, and to be a place where AI/ML experts can come to get more clinical knowledge in order to build more relevant and impactful models. I also hope that by focusing on model sharing rather than data sharing, we can avoid data privacy issues and thereby increase collaboration within the medical community.

I would love to hear any feedback from the community on what may be missing in the model hosting space - specifically models with a clinical medicine focus.
At least in the UK, taxation on tobacco more than covers the cost of smoking-related illnesses.
> Teletext was an analogue service

Teletext was a _digital_ service provided over an _analogue_ bearer - the modulation of the signal is continuous, not discrete.
Yup, the only "real" cost there is a customer who decides not to buy after all, or buys elsewhere instead. But that's pretty unlikely, especially for short outages. And it's even less of an issue for entities with a lot of stickiness like social networks (Facebook, Twitter) or shopping websites with robust loyalty programs (Amazon Prime).
... Wait, what on earth are you talking about? Like, assuming you're defining 'tech' as normally defined here (in practice, software engineer), there has never exactly been a huge shortage of jobs. These jobs are ~universally well above the locally prevailing living wage.
Modern-day IE does need some heat though.
its not as hard as the author thinks. Take a book set in real world, let' say a book written by an adventurer like marco polo, or like, any settler or historian. The goal of fantasy worldbuilding is to mimic the richness of that book, not mimic the richness of the actual place (you'll need so many books, and pictures, and videos).
"I want to be able to send and receive emails from my custom domains but not pay 5-49$ a month in doing so."

If that's the goal, I usually just use https://forwardemail.net. Not self-host, but a forwarding service.
More points.

- our equilibrium sense in the inner ear is very sensitive to velocity changes

- the machinery only fools for steady velocities or small velocity changes

- turns in walking imply strong velocity changes

The effect is that we tend to counterbalance the velocity changes but because the machinery cannot simulate velocity changes, counterbalancing makes us fall. If that gadget manages to sell expect many hilarious videos of people falling on their noses or butts. Exactly like for the treadmill. Note how people always fall if they assume a velocity change (like starting to run by jumping on a running treadmill). I always laugh when the treadmill then sends people off. It's hilarious.

Perhaps with some tilting platform the velocity changes can be emulated. Whenever the person changes the direction of the walk, the tilting platform tilts in the opposite direction of the velocity change. Let's say a person walks to the right and suddenly walks to the left. The velocity change vector points to the left. The platform will tilt to the right. This is difficult to get right. Probably latencies of more than five milliseconds will irritate our equilibrium organ I think. Software should be fast enough but the platform has to move swiftly.

And even this is not enough. There will be rotation in the tilting. Some sensitive people will feel sick.

And the quickly moving platform is dangerous. A bug (wrong sign of the vector) and the platform kicks people off it. Or some body part gets below the platform and the crush is strong enough to grievously hurt people.
For me that language is Python (well, and x86 assembler). Python just feels fundamentally inelegant and messy to me, in a way that makes it tedious to read and write. I'll work on it if I must, but thankfully I rarely must.
> The other value of pretty specifically addresses preventing orphans and can be more broadly applied. The algorithm behind pretty will evaluate the last four lines in a text block to work out adjustments as needed to ensure the last line has two or more words.

This is very, very badly wrong. `text-wrap-style: pretty` is explicitly not about orphans and does not have a defined algorithm. It’s about prettiness, a subjective thing that will have different interpretations in different browsers and over time, and this is extremely deliberate. What the author has described is what Chromium has implemented at this time.

All the spec says is <https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-4/#valdef-text-wrap-style-pre...>, that `text-wrap-style: pretty` “Specifies the UA should bias for better layout over speed, and is expected to consider multiple lines, when making break decisions. Otherwise equivalent to auto”.

TAG review of the feature requested that implementers use at least two heuristics, “to avoid authors using it as a proxy for a more specific thing” <https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/864#issuecom...>.

For total clarity: ‘pretty’ is not necessarily any different from ‘auto’, and ‘auto’ is permitted to do exactly the same thing as ‘pretty’ does, and I hope and expect that browser makers will eventually go that direction for most contexts (contenteditable/<textarea> being the main exception, and maybe lower-powered platforms). If you explicitly want a greedy/first-fit technique, use `text-wrap: stable`. Firefox has had a bug open for 13 years where shifting in this direction and using Knuth–Plass almost everywhere has been seriously contemplated <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630181>, long before text-wrap-style.
That would be the class 333.
It's not so much how you talk to a chatbot as what kind of communication you're exposed to.

Anecdotal N=1 example, our 15 year old who grew up on youtube and nowadays tiktok speaks very loudly and emphatically, because the people he watches and listens to 24 hours a day (or would if we let him) do that. Same with speech mannerisms and the like.

Which is nothing new of course, there were alarm bells that American kids were speaking in British accents because of watching so much Peppa Pig.
I think it's important to differentiate "a mismatch between two abstractions" and "hardware bug". Because you can frame any sort of hardware (or even software!) problem like this:

"Capacitor plague of 2000 was a mismatch between two abstractions: the abstraction that capacitor actually provides datasheet-described amount of capacitance vs the reality of the system"

"Toyota unintended acceleration was a mismatch between two abstractions: the abstraction that ECU properly responds to accelerator pedal release vs the reality of the system"

Yes, digital systems are made of analog parts, but that's not a reason to accept systems behaving out of spec. For the last 50 years, the specifications for RAM have been pretty clear: as long as all datasheet requirements are obeyed, the only way to change stored data in one location should be to do a write to that location. If a memory chip does not act according to its own datasheet, it's not a "leaky abstraction", it's a hardware bug.

(Now, can this be fixed economically? I don't know, I could believe the answer is "no". However, the solution in this case is not software workarounds, but rather to make a new spec: "RH-RAM is like regular RAM but cannot tolerate certain access pattern")
> as a society we've made the dangers of alcohol and similar things so well understood that no parent wants to.

Unfortunately, as a society, we have a much harder time grasping social media threat data. I suppose some of that is due to how news orgs consistently+bizarrely+hugely overstating the actual harms in the data.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/08/leading-save-the-kids-ad...
With the new Outlook client, all your emails and email account credentials go trough Microsoft's servers, even if you use a 3rd party email provider.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38208797
Living proof that Touhou fans will stop at nothing.
Thats great that we both agree that we want safe streets and value autonomy! Glad I could change your mind. Now let's work on incentivizing people who don't drive safely to do so without impacting the liberties of those who do.
Long-form journalism is for those who want to read, not who want to get information. And that's fine. "For those who like this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like." The problem comes when long-form journalism and "news" are put in the same "list of things you might be interested in reading".
Show HN: Unbundling Microlearning from Social Media
Hi HN,

Because I love to learn I've always felt like I'm wasting time on social apps. On X, for me there's too much noise/clickbait versus helpful learning content.

I've built a site where you get a feed of educational Q&As organised by topics and across fields like tech, science, design.

I'm onboarding creators at the moment who answer new Qs asynchronously in video, audio or text.

Jason Fried/37signals was cool with me posting his X Q&As to show how it works.

Let me know if you have any thoughts about what is good/bad and how it could be a better experience.

Thanks
It's sort of wild that there's no vector load or store that doesn't include bounds checks. Even if you make a MemorySegment from 0 to 2^63-1 (~2^15 times larger than addressable memory on x64!) you'll pay for bounds checks on every load and every store.
I wish this also worked for Gnome settings, network settings, firewall config GUIs, and anything that can do things using CLI commands.
Dr Strangelove at 60
> Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the first weeks of 2024. Why?

They are being replaced by AI. (I heard that AI learned to code and, taking a look at the masterpieces Windows 10 and Windows 11, this makes a lot of sense). /s
I don't know if it is good for the growth of the MLS.

If I want to watch the Premier League there is a free game around noon EST on Saturday on NBC. If I decide I like what I see I can get a lot of Premier League games on Peacock (as well as other stuff, like the Rugby World Cup) for $6 a month.

Now there is no doubt that the Premier League is good soccer. I've got an open mind about the MLS and I'm pretty curious but if I want to watch a game it looks like I have to get a regular Apple TV subscription and an additional subscription which is a lot more more expensive. I was a committed MLS fan I don't think the pricing is bad at all but for someone who is just curious there is not an easy way to get a sample. Between the Premier League and going to college men's and women's soccer games and all the other college sports games I go to take photographs of, I'm not about to shell out a lot of money for a TV subscription that I don't know if I want. If I want to check out MLS I might as well go down to NYC and see a game in person.
Italy Watchdog Says OpenAI's ChatGPT Breaches Privacy Laws
AI nondeterminism breaks this idea as each interaction can and probably will differ between iterations, breaking any long term continuity.
https://archive.is/2024.01.29-133550/https://www.bloomberg.c...
The showrunners agonized over making the show historically accurate vs fitting the story into a TV format. It sounds like they traded the minor details to get the broad brushstrokes right - and especially dissect the themes around hubris, willful ignorance, and so on. The 'making of' podcast where they discuss this is quite interesting:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-chernobyl-podcast/...
I thought the law concerning sex toys was settled years ago. If they're going to ban "sex robots" then are dildo bans back on the menu?
I had colorectal surgery for a 5cm tumor at 41. I had two very young kids and wife, so opting out wasn't really a serious option. I'm pretty glad how things turned out, all things considered but knowing how tough those years of treatment and surgery were, there's no chance in hell I'd go through it at 80. I lost my father to lung cancer at 85, and his last year of fighting it really hit hard on his quality of life. He thought he was going to beat it though.
I've been using https://mailinabox.email on a small VPS where I host a few other websites and projects. I'd recommend it for the management aspect: It has backup scripts and a UI for let's encrypt and dns entries.
Oh and just to clarify, by "Nikon chose to not pursue EUV" I of course mean "the US made sure the japs can't access the relevant technology because they were market leaders at the time".
I entirely agree. I wasn't making a statement that "what we know is discrete". I was referring to a particular subset of cognition as "what [i.e. the things that] we know are discrete".

There are aspects of cognition that are discrete: a language contains a finite set of phonemes and words, a human mind is capable of (painfully slowly) carrying out purely symbolic algorithms like those a computer performs, etc. My point was that these things are a small subset of cognition, and most of cognition we have no particular reason to think depends on discreteness, which I think is the same point you're making.

Personally I strongly suspect that the "discrete" aspects of cognition are things that have evolved on top of / within a system that is fundamentally continuous (analogue) in nature.
Why are countries suspending funds to UNRWA yet continuing to give funds and support to Israel even though they've committed 1000x the atrocities of Hamas?
I wouldn't have any of these anecdotes if this friend didn't keep pushing horrible 'bot-takes' on me. My issue isn't with what GPT tools are actually useful or not useful for, they're just tools, but with idiots who think typing in a query to save 5 minutes of Googling and actually reading results to get a quick overview of a topic, especially on a topic that I have some familiarity with. He seems to think the bot is smarter and more useful than actual human knowledge.

Oh and the other problem I have with it is that you have to wade through endless pages of gpt-trash when you do try to use a search engine to get an answer to a question now.
> Most of these seem sensible enough, provided that someone really is offended by them and believes that equality can be achieved by language manipulation.

How far are you willing to implement this based on someone's presumed offence?
Wayland has fractional-scale-v1 merged.
It's also hard to understand because it's largely illusory. If, say, Facebook is down and ad spending ceases for an hour, that money didn't just go up in smoke. It's still in somebody's ad budget, and there's a very good chance they're still going to spend it on ads. Thus, while there will be a temporary slow down in ad spend rate, over the course of the quarter the average may be completely unaffected due to catch up spending to use the budget.
Yes, both in theory and in practice [1].

What I'm more curious about is whether variable fonts can save disk space. I.e. whether a variable font that interpolates between "regular" and "bold" is smaller than one font file in "regular" and another in "bold".

Because so much about the two variations is the same -- the same glyphs, the same number of anchor points, in the same order... it's just the actual anchor point coordinates and control point values that differ. I find myself wondering if the actual font file is encoded in a way that eliminates as much redundant information as possible, or if it's basically merely multiple font files concatenated together with extra info on top.

[1] https://clagnut.com/blog/2418
They don't.

Barbwire is set up at the border to cause damage. It is actually even worse than not having it, since border agents are required to seek medical assistance for any individual hurt during an operation.
>In the years immediately following the Civil War, there was a systematic and concerted effort to reframe the war in order to reunite the nation, quell bitterness, and assuage the ego of the defeated Southerners. Known as the “Lost Cause” narrative, this version of the Civil War downplays the conflict over slaveholder rights, amplifies the notion of “states’ rights,” and embraces the honorable valor of soldiers on both sides.

https://blogs.iu.edu/establishingshot/2021/02/15/the-myth-of...

Government, industry, and academia conspired to disseminate a narrative regarding the Civil War that they knew not to be factual but that served their sociopolitical purposes. This is the textbook definition of a Big Lie, and it was the standard interpretation of events for more than one hundred years in large swathes of this country.

>I don’t know what the alleged recession conspiracy would be.

Because it was successful.

You didn't address the mid-century, so I'll expound: the Big Lie of a stable and affluent 50s, where the standard American nuclear family lived in a modest home in a nice suburb and espoused traditional values that kept the country on the straight-and-narrow (adopted most infamously in the various incarnations of "Make America Great Again", which were absolutely centralized campaigns by an identifiable set of figures) is oft taken to be the truth - never mind that this was the era of McCarthyism, war in Asia, "urban renewal", racial strife, PTSD-addled fathers and drunk housewives inflicting Baby Boomers with trauma that warps the American social landscape to this day, etc. There is a non-trivial part of America that wants to go back to an era that never existed, because they bought the Big Lie of its utopianism.
Yeah, that has made my life so much easier when troubleshooting an API endpoint. I can tweak the request params to run against a local instance as well as pipe through jq for formatting etc.
While I like bashing on capitalism as much as the next guy, I don't think it's very relevant here. For the general phenomenon of spam and trolling, I don't think capitalism matters at all, and for the scams on eBay and Amazon, I don't think a system where those are fixed has to be much different from today's.
Yeah exactly. I wrote a rough draft of a several centuries post collapse great lakes area, after a writing prompt on Reddit. It was something like "tribal people find mount Rushmore", and I ran with it mentally for a few months. I adored removing as much "tell" as I could without making things incomprehensible.

Ann Arbor became Anaba, Michigan became Meshaga. Russymons are Rust Demons, automated hunter killer drones that sometimes come to life if disturbed.

Sorry, offtopic rambling. Cool to remember how much work I put in!
I hope we have reached peak fried chicken in the UK, it got out of hand for a while. I doubt it's going to be replaced with beef though, it's not as versatile and is a much less neutral flavour. People have also been conditioned to think red meat is bad for them in any form, but they seem fine with deep fried chicken.
Yeah, my first thought when I saw the headline was metafont, and also that's so last century. Metafont was first released in 1979. Anyone who has written a document using LaTeX with its default font has used a variable font.