skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a lot easier to appreciate Java when it isn't your first language. I think it's really important for new programmers to have a streamlined experience to their first magical moment with programming, when they understand they can do cool stuff and succeed by being persistent. ("Streamlined" may be overstating it, there will be lots of friction along the way, but it should be caused by bugs they introduced themselves and overcome by debugging, not by tangential or environmental factors.)

There's a lot of context and drudgery involved in programming that can dissuade people before they get to that magical moment, and they can blame themselves and think they weren't smart enough because they don't understand that the deck was stacked against them. For instance with Python, broken virtual environments can be really dissuading for new programmers.

I think Java's opinionated and verbose nature can be cumbersome to beginners, who have never debugged a type confusion issue and so don't give a hoot about static typing. But I think after programming in Python for a while, they'll see why eg declaring what exceptions you'll raise is tremendously helpful.
> Just how insane is the cost of living in Berkeley?

It’s very high.
The above comment would be more complete if it would mention the history of US-backed coups of middle east (and other) governments throughout the 20th century any time a democratically-elected leader began leaning towards the Soviet sphere of influence. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Syria#Operat...
I live on a street in Berkeley that was not red-lined, so it has single family homes and fourplexes. It’s great, we love it. You can choose to be miserable but it’s got nothing to do with whether your neighbors can afford a home.
I fiddled around a little with the idea of test-driven versioning a while back. Maybe you'd find it interesting. https://github.com/abathur/tdver

I did draft a git-based implementation (https://github.com/abathur/tdverpy), but it just obviously can't be as compelling as one that was part of a language's native tooling/ecosystem could be.
this is hilariously myopic that no one can imagine a non-aggressive society at all. No they did not all hunt and kill other humans methodically, no they did not. The winners on a large scale did hunt and kill other humans methodically, with very fancy costumes on at the time, actually. Therefore most everyone alive is yes, descended from those winners. Genghis Khan at 100 children or something? yes, true. No not everyone did that.
It would take 526 solar farms the size of the Solar Star solar farm to power the approx 131 million households in the USofA.

https://8billiontrees.com/solar-panels/largest-solar-farm

That's 526 x 13 km^2 of area (plus grid connection) or 6,838 km^2.

Or one large square of 83 x 83 km.

Or less than a third the size of Anna Creek Cattle Station in Australia.

See map: https://australianscaffolds.com.au/australias-largest-cattle...

For comparison, recall that the land area of Australia is more or less the same as the land area of mainland contiguous USofA.
Many people have internet speeds faster than the ps5 blu-ray drive read speeds.
There's feminism in a lot of countries. This title doesn't make sense.
Yes, but I've never seen it expressed so clearly as pseudocode before.
Inverse-designed structures on silicon photonics – vector–matrix multiplication
I did consider temporary disabilities, and don't see how it changes anything I said (which is, again, not much).
That's my understanding too. Not certain where the parent's comment came from.
Latin quotes defending weaponized aggression as the only possible way ?!? self-parody
"in my book" in that post didn't mean an actual book, it meant "in my opinion".
Killing the api was a massive mistake. They should have worked with appolo et al to broker a deal. They had a the best of both worlds, other people tackling the app development for them and they just needed to take a reasonable rent.
Your turn-of-phrase highlighted an interesting point, for me: a lot of that money will pay for a lot of electricity and other energy. Much of it literally goes up in smoke!

I still don't intuitively factor in the real, physical, non-renewable materials that go into these things projects, but I really should.
Investing in renewables and nuclear should really be where it's going. Should've been done 30 years ago. It is hard to argue with, "but AI will make better panels", maybe it's true, but we need to survive the next 10 years to realize the benefits.

Where I am today it's 15c above average...

Mark has kids so he should know what's at stake.
Nothing will happen until this year’s Worldcon in Glasgow when the business meeting is held. I assume there will be amendments. One problem is that it takes two Worldcon for changes to be enacted. It is very much model from before internet.

I hope they move administration of the Hugos under the WSFS and not each Worldcon. But the new revelations that lots of WSFS people were involved is disheartening. Voting should be done online in central place.

The problem with Worldcon is that have super democratic model that is open to manipulation and hard to change. Nobody fixed things after puppies. Or changed when internet made online voting and central org possible.
> With 5 finetunes you need to host 5 copies or load and unload them.

If you use LoRA, which many do when fine-tuning nowadays, you don't need five full copies. You only need to store adapters, which can be in the tens of MBs range for a given finetune.
The page definitely reads like a collection of journal thoughts/summarizing notes and citations but I appreciated the sections covering the lack of humanity in considerations, with a choice quote from a former Google researcher saying that even extinction from AI is irrelevant if intelligent life can continue (relevant pull quotes[1]).

[1] https://twitter.com/Tyler_A_Harper/status/175542617047083841...
Safe for UAE citizens or the immigrants who work there?
Jeopardy question - What is religion for a hundred (thousand)
So, is io_uring used anywhere yet?
You can buy the books in PRC. They're not outlawed. The issue is when authors politics are obvious source of controversy relative to local politics. Hugo is not stranger to such drama. Except fallout from ideological drama is extra bad for business in PRC. 8B RMB / 1B USD of deals was made at Chengdu convention, everyone tends to self censor / avoid blowback when that kind of money is involved.
When IBM sold the business to the CCP my first thought was "I can't believe this isn't being blocked. This is the dumbest possible move as far as nat sec, ThinkPads are everywhere important."

Of course this happened:

> In February 2021, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that U.S. investigators found in 2008 that military units in Iraq were using Lenovo laptops in which the hardware had been altered. According to a testimony from the case in 2010, "A large amount of Lenovo laptops were sold to the U.S. military that had a chip encrypted on the motherboard that would record all the data that was being inputted into that laptop and send it back to China". Lenovo was unaware of the testimony. The U.S. military did not inform the company of any security concerns. Spokeswoman Charlotte West stated, "As there have been no reports of any problems, we have no way to assess the allegations you cite or whether security concerns may have been triggered by third-party interference."
Off Topic Question: Doesn't Space pollution causes problem when we launch spacecraft with the risk of colliding with those debris?
I think that likely has more to do with housed people not needing to be on the streets when they take their drugs and overdosing inside than it does with homeless people getting frostbite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolysis
This is great. My mom does embroidery as a hobby and I’ve been curious about how to make designs. They’re incredible machines
In reality rents in Berkeley have been falling for several years because the city has added a lot more new housing over the past few years. https://twitter.com/Jeffinatorator/status/173039356154234085...

Congestion may get worse in some places but the status quo is people commuting from places like Antioch to get to service jobs in Berkeley/Oakland/SF so from a "vehicle miles traveled" perspective it might get better.
The path finding capability perhaps externalized from ripplenet to W3C ILP being worth it, it's not clear why the market doesn't realize there is such incentive and ILP is not yet widely implemented.
Agree that environmental factors play role, however diet, exercise, sleep, stress, social life are also equally important
Indeed they are not true Scotsmen.
Thanks for the feedback.
I will work on improving it.
Islam is a religion, Israel is a state
There are very few places in the USA that have the density of Berkeley and lots of places that have much lower densities.

People who don't want density have plenty of options they can move to; the problem is the misanthropes who want the amenities that come with a large city while also having none of the downsides of living in a city, including no neighbors.
Even the Biggest Electric-Vehicle Market Is Slowing
Completely agree,
We can't do much about genetics and environment (to a large extent), however we can focus on whats in our control
There's not really any organizers who could make that decision.

The organizers are just whoever won the vote to run the conference that year. There's no actual organization that persists from year to year.
I don't know if things work the same way in California as they do up here in Washington, but up here I see a large number of complaints from current home owners about rising house prices.

That's because rising house prices means rising property taxes.
Right. Theres a difference between, “oh no, sorry, WE should fix that in the next patch” vs, “oh no, sorry, YOU should accommodate this incompatibility with a change on your side.”
The State of CS Students
A comment :
Being obese is not the only form of "unhealthy",
One can be in pretty decent shape and still unhealthy..
I have the same question. Goodreads has the same politics problem, plus the rotten tomatoes issue where authors seem to get punished for taking risks or not sticking rigidly to genre. I don’t know where to go for recommendations.
> In amplifiers we care about efficiency,

That is at odds with what the blog post says.

I'm now confused - for the best sound quality, are we to maximise efficiency of power usage or maximise accuracy of signal reproduction?

I didn't think you can do both.
FreeDict: Free Bilingual Dictionaries
No they are not, and no it is not. A corporation is a government granted liability shield intended to foster certain public policy goals. A bunch of people cooperating without adopting the liability shield of a corporation/LLC is eminently possible. It's likely that the massive scaling we've seen would be untenable if the cooperating individuals could be held responsible for the efforts of the group, but that we're suffering a lack of corporate responsibility indicates that wouldn't necessary be a bad thing and thus it's disingenuous to just equate the two.
Uniquely, we have the resources for that not to be the case. We could have the best infrastructure of any nation, across the entire continent and far flung extremities

Just held up by a lack of leadership, lack of consensus, and paranoia
You haven’t shown that this flaw is in Signal in addition to Matrix.

I heard about Matrix having that exact flaw, and if Signal had the same flaw, it would be big news. I remember Signal saying that they are not vulnerable.
You might want to check how much of the stuff made in Mexico uses components and materials from China
There is a cost in trying to force the language to find bugs for you. More is not always better. Unlike a linter, ignoring false positives from a compiler requires more work to work around them.

Not having exceptions in the language creates a tradeoff as well. This may lead to either ignoring errors or adding non-linear boilerplate between where the issue is detected and where the code can handle it, negatively impacting readability and refactoring.
Wait how to get that ? I just submit email on waitlist
Cedar: A new language for expressive, fast, safe and analyzable authorization [video]
This take seems disconnected from the facts of the matter at hand - it wasn't a technology problem, it was a human problem. The Hugo organizers voluntarily chose to censor the awards because a Chinese city had been selected by the venue. Technology was not at issue, nor was capitalism. They chose to support authoritarianism and diminished the integrity of the awards in the process.
I tried to do exactly what you say last week but I couldn't get it to work. The turborepo documentation seems to indicate its possible with the whole concept of "internal packages" but it all depends on the compilation step of Project B being configured to compile and bundle workspace dependencies, and a simple "tsc" wasn't doing it for me regardless of the different tsconfig settings I tried.

If its actually possible I'd love to know how.
Farming = more/stable food = higher population = standing army.
This is such a weird comment. If transit systems arent built around people's housing and employment, its useless. San Francisco is a huge city, with a significant population that commutes south as well. Even if the transit was originally made for people commuting into SF, it clearly isnt what is needed the most now. Downtown SF office space has significant vacancies, and I would guess there is a similar number of workers commuting south as there are commuting north.

Caltrain's current ridership (very poor) demonstrates the need to change the connecting systems so it is popular again. The idea of having rapid busses connecting to the caltrain stops (especially 22nd and bayshore stations) is hardly a massive thing, and could significantly improve transit across the Bay.

Building robust transit between SF and San Mateo is good for everyone, its not selfishness.
Unfortunately prop 13 broke that dynamic, among other ill effects.
It warms my heart to see people still taking about the X201’s faulty WiFi switch. I loved that laptop but ended up mothballing it over the switch. It remains a perfect example of how cheaping out on an extremely minor component (a plastic slide-switch) can sabotage an otherwise fantastic product.
Yeah, 15 years ago was still well into the OS X days (heck, it was into the iOS days). Resource forks were long gone as a concern by then, and as such stuffit didn't really bring anything unique to the table, an in some ways was worse since no other *nix user was likely to even have it.
>Sounds like they were scared into actually overdoing the censorship.

More than 1 billion with a B, US dollars worth of deals was signed at Chengdu convention. Why incentivize with fear when that much money is on the line. Western media/businesses selling out to PRC is not new.
At one point, I know neither Microsoft or Sony deployed patches as binary diffs. Depending on what assets get patched, it might be faster to download the latest available version instead of installing from local disc and then patching to current as the "patch" may be similar size to fresh install.
JustWatch isn't a streaming service to be clear. It's a directory of where you can stream any given movie/series in your region, if available at all.
Recent and related:

Hugo Awards – A Report on Censorship and Exclusion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382323 - Feb 2024 (1 comment)

The 2023 Hugo nomination statistics have been released and we have questions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132185 - Jan 2024 (74 comments)

Hugo Nomination Report Has Unexplained Ineligibility Rulings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39083571 - Jan 2024 (3 comments)

2023 Hugo Awards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38012127 - Oct 2023 (67 comments)
Going to a bar and complaining that people want to drink is a bit silly though, isn’t it?
File-based hashing is done is so many places, there's so much heat.

Sub- file-based hashing with feature engineering is necessary for AV, which must take packing, obfuscating, loading, and dynamic analysis into account in addition to zip archives and magic file numbers.

AV AntiVirus applications with LLMs: what do you train it on, what are some of the existing signature databases.

https://SigStore.dev/ (The Linux Foundation) also has a hash-file inverted index for released artifacts.

Also otoh with a time limit,

1. What file is this? Dirname, basename, hashes(s)

2. Is it supposed to be installed at such path?

3. Per it's header, is the file an archive or an image or a document?

4. What file(s) and records and fields are packed into a file, and what transforms were the data transformed with?
There is no "they" who agreed to it. The location is decided by a vote at the convention two years earlier. Anyone attending can vote. It turns out that there are a lot of Chinese SF fans who decided to vote in 2021.
Hey, thanks for reminding me of Ruben Bolling's classic (it's been 20+ years, that qualifies as "classic" right?) comic character "Lucky Ducky".

https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2002/12/21
In the mid-1970s, the growing environmental movement tried hard to tax or ban plastics, especially plastic packaging. The plastics industry responded by promoting recycling purely for its public-relations value. It was never economical, and often isn't even practical, even today.

I.e. An Exxon VP in 1994: "We are committed to the activities, but not committed to the results." [1]

1. https://www.opb.org/article/2024/02/16/plastic-recycling-was...

Also see:
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...
Rent will go down which will reduce suffering.

Look at changes in rent in Austin vs San Francisco. One builds and the other doesn't.
It's all jokes in this thread, but I wonder if there's any substance to such high praise. Is this just that, a praise? Or are there some traits of his that would make this plausible? Can I learn these traits?

I mean, surely I could say something like this about some of my acquaintances. Probably I have said that. But this doesn't really mean anything, and you shouldn't quote these jokes of mine as if they actually do.

My point is, there's that myth about "special" people. You know, like, there are NPCs, and there is Napoleon. But even though there are people I consider more capable and less capable, more interesting and less interesting, I don't know anybody I would truly believe to be special. And in the real world, everybody would die on that island just the same.

But then, I'm surely less well connected than Graham, and I don't even know many billionaires personally. So I cannot help but wonder.
Probably not what you had in mind but has all the characteristics you asked for:

https://github.com/dotnet
A hammer is for hammering objects. Where does it say it's for hammering nails?

A dating app is for finding people who are looking/available. Where does it say it's for short term relationships?

> My point is that if your goal is long term relationships, you will likely have better luck using other tools designed for and more frequently used for that.

Thinking that using one dating app instead of another dating app is magically going to save you from your SO leaving you is maybe not the right mindset here.

Finding soulmate is about exploration.

But the apps are all the same and simply show people who are actually looking so you don't have to guess if it's okay to chat them up. Short or long, that most people themselves don't know (but they may think so) because it depends. Are you the kind who would not want to do the work and just assume because you met on the long term dating app you don't need to shower every day? etc.

If they say up front they want a hookup then sure but I haven't met anyone like that.
> Their foreign policy for example seems to be much gentler than the average.

Is this one of those Excel bugs where you forgot to select the entire column?
You can also batch requests using different LoRAs. See "S-LoRA: Serving Thousands of Concurrent LoRA Adapters". https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03285
Reasons to heat your home using infrared fabric radiant heat
Thanks, I'll have a look at those pages in more detail.

They did not seem applicable when I first saw them, so ... Mea Culpa?
SciFi is not forbidden in China, and is, in fact, extremely popular there.
I'm not sure if greed has boundaries, if something is there for the taking, most business leaders will take it.
The problem is... even it being low-level it isn't really a good abstraction. It mainly maps well with how AMD's hardware works but not NVIDIA's - NVIDIA has some inherent dynamic state baked into their hardware that makes the whole pipeline object thing a bit inefficient in theirs. But even ignoring this, it's a bit disheartening seeing all the graphics engineers working on game engines building similar things on top of it in suboptimal ways (ex. the pipeline cache), when it could have been just done at the driver level from the start! The reality is that most graphics application developers really do not care too much about the intricacies of low-level device management - and the ones who actually care are also building abstractions around it since they too don't really want to deal with this. Vulkan / DX12 basically feels like the driver developers have just given up and dumped the whole responsibility of managing a GPU onto the application developers.

It's a bit like how even the best performance-oriented engineers rarely go down to directly writing assembly to optimize their C/C++ code - sure you can do that, but excluding the rare hot spots it's mostly a waste of time. It is incredibly useful to get a debugger/profiler and observe how your code is compiled down to, but actually writing it is cumbersome and requires too much of a discipline with too many footguns.
Whats the marginal benefit of hosting in Chengdu? Presumably deals would have been signed at other locations too.
Nice take. One may also draw parallels with other forms of writing, like music. Sort of aligns with “the ability to speak does not make you intelligent”
> Well, ok. I’m specifically talking about what might count as an IDE feature.

Well, that changes things. I replied to the 'programming text editor' part.
I don't think the parent comment is suggesting anything about trying to make the Middle East democratic.
The land is valuable because it is the only land zoned that way. You can’t build a building that tall in Flushing NY.

If you could build 100 floor skyscrapers in the entire metropolitan area, this advantage goes away.
> It's a lot easier to spend 10 mins three times a week than an hour every day, so accessible it's almost embarrassing to not do it.

Indeed you can tradeoff time for intensity if you are so inclined and in fact what you describe is more optimal. I wrote this very thing in another comment.

Whatever works. Whatever the person is willing to actually do and stick to. Whether or not it is easier depends on the individual and where they are at, first you got to get an overweight beginner to do literally anything at all.
I haven't given up, but the past few years have accellerated my plans to try and become self-suffient in the field instead of relying on corporate to respect and compensate me. At least if I fail to appeal to an audience it will be on my own laurels and not because The company was fine with my labor but needed a 0.1% better earning call statement.

I of course can't speak for everyone, but I imagine there will be more startups/small companies forming over the next few years from people that were otherwise satisfied at BigCo. Tech has definitely felt like it devolved to being a cog in the wheel of raw profits over a field of innovation meant to make lives easier. You can't really get that back without sizing down.
No paywall: https://archive.is/7wxEX