skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why is a browser more overbloated than windows?

it was meant to run applications, that is why V8 is developed and optimized like hell, that is why we have webassembly to port c++ programs (try stockfish on lichess, it is webassembly)

originally, the browser was not meant to run applications, modern browsers are... strong indicator for this is chromium V8 performance and webassembly and the evolving js language with modules and node.js on server side

jvm introduced a competition to c++ and java is still top language, a browser is a kind of a jvm... you can use kotlin and other languages to compile to jvm and you can use js and webassembly to write apps on browsers

my point is, this is the best platform to introduce competition to native apps on walled gardens

the walled garden is not the os or browser but the company behind a closed os platform or closed single browser

on iOS, you had both: closed OS and closed single webkit browser engine

on every other os platforms you have true browser choice... since chromium is open source, you can create not just your toy browser but one of the most powerful ones... you can download the source code and if it goes in a restrictive direction, everybody can fork the web standard friendly versions

it is open and powerful, that is why most companies give a shit about browsers but it is not difficult for the EU for example to hire great browser engineers and create a beautiful stron free browser from an appropriate chromium version if things turned bad

whereas there are only 2 mobile operating systems that really work, from 2 giant US companies

where it is much more difficult to introduce competition is creating alternative mobile OSs... and then what, developers should create apps for this additional one two with another codebase?

browsers are the perfect level to introduce competition, in a way blink, webkit and gecko are all open source and chromium has a stron focus on improving web capabilities, pushed by 2 giants too (Google, Microsoft)
Nootti's new app lets you post to Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr
I know you didn't ask, but I recommend the Vinyl app on Android. It also lets you manage your music in a directory, but a bit more streamlined for listening to music IMO.
I'll add to this.

It's not only the boundary that is fractal.

We'll soon see that learning on one dataset (area of fractal) with enough data will generalize to other seemingly unrelated datasets.

There is evidence that the structure neural networks are learning to approximate in a generative fractal of sorts.

Finally, we'll need to adapt gradient descent to operate at move between different scales
This is a hobby project, the bare minimum is nothing at all. I agree that these are probably critical features if this website is trying to be best-in-class, but I suspect that it is not.
But prototype-less functions in C don't actually work all that well. In particular, the inferred return type is going to be an int, so if you're trying to return a 64-bit pointer via a prototype-less function, you're going to have a very bad time.
I have a Voip line (ring central) for this exact reason which records all calls in/out by default. Its annoying because RC forces you to play a recording (until you upload empty mp3). Its 50$/mo and for some reason call quality can be pretty terrible sometimes. Part of my todo list is to attempt to find another solution. I also carry a usb recording device on my keychain that is pretty good at picking up a conversation.

There are reasons as to why, but basically all of my business interactions one way or another are recorded.
What problem is public housing supposed to solve? The current housing crisis is a supply problem. We aren't building enough housing in places with high demand, so prices are going up. Even if public housing was subsidized to be cheaper than the market rate, it doesn't matter because the public housing will just fill up right away and then we're back to square one. Is there something about public housing that would allow them to build more than the private sector?
Wow, this article opened my eyes to what is possible in optimizing code for a CPU.

I was expecting this article to rehash the usual algorithmic tricks for speeding up Mandelbrot set calculation -- filling in boxes where the four corners already have the same color, checking for repeating iteration cycles to fill in black, etc.

But I was very surprised to learn about how important CPU pipelines are, and therefore about "sheep race optimization" and interleaving, and then about the possibility of using vectorization on CPU. And in the end I'm utterly astonished that adding everything up results in the algorithm being calculated eight times faster. I would never have dreamed that such a level of speed improvement would be possible on such a simple, straightforward mathematical algorithm.

Of course, in the real world everybody today is going to calculate the Mandelbrot set using the GPU (as the author notes -- this is just an exercise). But now it has me tremendously curious as to whether there are similar optimizations that can be applied on the GPU side?

And especially whether those are accessible if done in WebGL/WebGPU? There are quite a number of Mandelbrot set generators available in the browser that use the GPU for calculations (e.g. [1]).

[1] http://mandelset.ru/ - https://github.com/iskandarov-egor/mandelset
Public housing is for the poors and the ethnics. That will not change as long as policy is set in the interests of neither. Regulations are captured to Keep Your Hands Off My Stash and to possibly embiggen it.

It is the way.
>The problem is that the investors who fund political campaigns and media oligarchs hate HATE HATE public housing

So pretty much anyone who owns property?

It's not like homeowners are fighting to have new apartments built in their neighborhood. It's very well known that even the most bleeding heart liberal areas still have insane NIMBY problems.

The blunt truth is that everyone who invested in a home in popular markets (read: a regular everyday metro homeowner) is going to have to take a big hit on the largest investment most of them will ever make in their life. This intrinsically makes it very unpopular on the whole. It's not some shadowy organization pulling strings behind the scenes. It's just about everyone who pays a mortgage and votes.

Just read a housing expansion approval measure through a homeowners eyes:

"Do you approve a measure to lower your home's sale price by 10-20% in order to allow people who earn less than you to move into the area? To grow classroom sizes and increase traffic?"

It's like asking people to volunteer to have needles stuck in their eyes. What is the upside for them?
Being able to host software on my own instance, without requiring everybody else to sign up there to contribute.

I like to self-host, but I don't want to be sysadmin to a public service, and deal with account deletion, password resets, ...
There are economic and political incentives to build rockets and space infrastructure.

Less so for submarines exploring the depths of the ocean, even if the latter is equally or more interesting from a scientific exploration perspective.
geocities didn't arbitrarly remove public web pages for no reason, yahoo groups didn't arbitrarily remove public files for no reason, and friendster didn't arbitrarily remove public profiles for no reason

until, one day, they removed all of them

hosting information on a centralized website is a viable way to host it for a year or two, or maybe ten. but books have a lifespan measured in decades or centuries. so centralized websites are not suitable
> I always wondered if that meant the first 90% takes 50% of the time or 10% of the time.

Essentially the latter; what you thought will be 90% the time ends up being just the first 10%. And the rest is spent on the 10% of the code, plus everything else that is part of the project besides the code: reviews, testing, revisions, deployment issues etc.
>> Why we couldn't do sales is something I'm not going to put on the internet because it affects people other than me.

I can appreciate that but I am wondering if you can share what you think are core skills, habits, or personality traits that are critical in order to make sales happen for a new business/product.
Your arguments still seem to lead me to the entirely opposite conclusion - that different choices would be better for different organizations and different projects, and it would make sense to have things like "lots of small functions vs. few fat ones" or "exceptions vs. expected" to be well-known tradeoffs where the choices would be made according in an objective manner according to the type of the project, and override personal preference because for this thing we'll explicitly optimize for this type of reader because we believe that this codebase has XYZ properties and will be maintained at ABC level by DEF kind of people.
Loads of families only want 2 bedrooms. While I tend to agree that it would be nice to have more 3-4 bedroom homes, I think it is a larger acute problem to build more 0-2 bedroom homes first. That relieves the over-housing problem of seniors living alone in large houses.

Only < 30% of US households have children present. The majority of households will be satisfied with 2 bedrooms or less.
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The exploration into the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and society initiated with the launch of the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence in 2014. This comprehensive investigation delves into the myriad ways AI impacts individuals, communities, and broader societal structures. It encompasses the scientific, engineering, and practical aspects of AI-enabled computing systems.
It is customary for me to enjoy an espresso (occasionally two) with a bar of dark chocolate after dinner. I sleep well not much later. 100s of thousands, if not millions, do this as a matter of culture.
It's splitting hairs at this point, but anyone visiting the page can view the same content as the crawler – if they pay.

Should Google also stop indexing Facebook, since Facebook puts a login wall for people to access their content? Should YouTube (ie Google) ban movie trailers, since it's just a tease for paywalled movies? The iTunes store let people listen to 30 seconds of a song before purchasing at the paywall. Was that wrong?
Since we're exchanging anecdotal evidence, I also feel better with coffee. It lets me control how energized I am. Helped me avoid burnout and generally makes me feel a bit better no matter how much I take.
I think you are correct that it's a response to the social situation. You put on a different set of behaviors for a different environment.

And I think that you feel that the "introvert" set of behaviors doesn't fit you as well as the "extrovert" set of behaviors. It sounds like you - the person you are inside, separate from the social pressure - aren't happy with as introverted as you think you have to make yourself to fit into that social situation.

Is it possible for you to respond in a more extroverted way to that social environment? If not, then your only option is to leave that environment.
I'm delighted to see further advocacy for code reviews in a hiring process. As a software engineering manager, dir of eng, and CTO in 3 companies I replaced take-home tests with one hour code reviews. The process gave me everything I needed to evaluate and hire great people and everyone was happier. I explained to candidates (and my team) that I see software engineering as primarily a social practice. If I hire engineers for excellence in code reviews it means they are technically skilled and also a good fit for a collaborative team.

I created a GitHub organization just for the hiring process with a template repo that was published as a code review repo for each candidate. I feel there's benefit in using GitHub for the code review exercise because it's what we use on the job. But I'd like to try this dedicated tool as well. It's a worthwhile project. Thanks!
How can a BRACELET be HI-FI????
Because computer chips are cool and washing machines are boring.
Laws can be circumvented --- therefore, laws are useless???

This line of reasoning is highly suspect --- particularly when based on assumptions without concrete supporting evidence.
Stronger By Science[0] recently did a longer piece on caffeine, trying to argue against it (from the perspective of lifters who actually enjoy caffeine as a performance enhancer). You know, scientifically trying to disprove your believes.

TL;DR: Probably mostly harmless in medium quantities, but no real proven long-term benefits. So if you enjoy coffee, just drink in moderation.

[0] - https://www.strongerbyscience.com/pros-cons-caffeine/
Because most "normal" homeowners or those who own a couple of properties would be extremely happy to vote for policies which would potentially reduce their equity...
I just bought an ICE car although I was considering a Tesla. Reasons:

- I have no idea what is going to happen with electric rates and no confidence in PG&E or the state to manage electricity provision or rates in a sane fashion.

- I don't qualify for the EV subsidy which makes ICE cars more attractive in terms of cost.

- I consider gas cars more robust in the face of natural disasters or sudden need to get far out of the Bay Area for whatever reason (zombie attack).

- Avoids the complexity of figuring out a home charging solution or how to change to an optimal one of the N electricity pricing plans.
From the actual article:

> They use the Intel 8008 CPU, an 8-bit CPU capable of processing a whopping sixteen kilobytes of memory

Which is correct. As you say, highly unlikely that the computers had that much, though.

I'm not sure how Tom's Hardware does things, but it's well-known in the _newspaper_ industry that the headlines aren't written by the person who writes the article, and misinterpretation happens from time to time. I suspect whoever wrote the headline just got confused, here.

Of course, because of the plague of LLMs which now lies over the land, anyone trying to find out how much RAM such a machine had in 2050 will be confidently, incorrectly told 16kB by GPT47, even though it's obviously wrong, due to this headline...
Advertising helps but it's not decisive. In the 2016 Presidential campaign, Clinton spent far more than Trump on advertising but she still lost. Savvy politicians have figured out how to leverage grass roots social media campaigns at very low cost.
Is 35 cents / kWh normal in CA? I thought Europe had expensive electricity lately!
I appreciate every single new housing unit being built and think public housing is generally a good idea. But recently there seems to be a trend of people wanting to fast-track zoning and permitting for public housing only, while keeping private builders stuck in the quicksand of permitting.

This is not the way mainly because the state does not have the resources to satisfy all housing demand (but also because two-tier rental markets are really unfair to newcomers). What we need is radical reforms in permitting and regulation at all levels of government (but especially at the local level). Imo the main obstacle to these reforms is that it is too easy to shout them down with talking points like "neighbourhood character", "lawn space", "shoeboxes" or "greedy developers".

If North American cities zoned a quarter of their area as 5-story midrises with large parks and mixed use and made permitting quick and easy we could really bankrupt the rent-seekers.
So the confusion is around the intended definition of the word "dynamic"? Sure, you can't rely on any feedback in a one way route situation.

My point is that IP fragmentation, as a method, gets packets through a network that would otherwise be truncated or dropped by other methods. It can also do it reasonably efficiently and conveniently, moreso than always assuming a worst case MTU at the application protocol layer.

I think what changes between methods is the use of fragmented packets to begin with? The whole premise is that IP fragmentation is bad because real world routers and firewalls don't support fragmentation properly. If fragmentation is deprecated, then wouldn't network stacks need to also start dropping oversized packets coming from user space applications?
Thank you for the response, it is helpful. I am not used to Python and know that I am not using the language well. So I think it is worth focusing on this.

> not to make huge (also architectural) mistakes

I'm noticing it's the first time I'm even having to make significant architectural decisions, which is difficult because I don't have much experience to draw from, so even the smallest decisions often require a lot of research.
Singapore was a third world country when it started its public housing program. Are you arguing that the US's starting point is somehow worse than that?

If so how?
Pyramid-builders, Theory-builders and Problem-solvers
> Although obviously there’s no way to tell what whoever did it was thinking at such a remove.

Well there are some hints. Hint 1: The specimen wasn't officially described scientifically until 1959. Hence it seems neither the person who found it, nor the geologist he turned it over to seemed to want to cause sensation with a fake find. Hint 2: Giorgio Dal Piaz died in 1962. This means that he was alive (age 87) to protest when it was described scientificially and did cause sensation, but chose not to (though it's possible he was frail and demented I suppose). Hint 3: The person that found the fossil was a museum employee, this makes carelessness less likely, but could go either way for deliberate fraud I suppose.
It’s a money dump no question about it. America simply can’t do these things.
Reusing the <slot> element like this is a bad idea - it has very specific behavior in browsers. In a shadow root it'll be replaced by the children of the host element, no matter what the library does.

HTML already has an inert <output> element for things like this.
Uh, oh. Taking a look, sorry about that. What error are you getting? In the meantime, you can email me at giulio at searchbase.dev and I can add you manually.
Futurist Prediction Methods and Accuracy
this is stunning

does anyone have a public mirror of the tweets?
Russia has an unprecedented amount of cash in its government coffers
Singapore public housing is for the middle class, so it’s really different from American kind. Singapore also has subsidized/free housing for those that can’t even afford public housing, which isn’t exactly cheap, even if affordable to the middle class. Many Americans would think $500k for a flat was actually not reasonably priced at all, but locations is key.
A shallow lake in Canada could point to the origin of life on Earth
Drink more red wine! Drinking any red wine at all will kill you! Replace water with red wine! Just looking at red wine linked to spontaneous combustion!!!
Frog the company perspective, your cost is what they have to pay to get you. That's where the supply & demand gets decided. Everything that reduces your net compensation from that amount comes effectively from your pocket.

Company "contributions" are just a government conspiracy to gaslight you into thinking you pay less taxes & contributions than you actually pay.
>But you also (partially) date strata from the fossils who are found in them...

And carbon dating.

And decay of uranium into lead.

They usually have multiple techniques that can be used together.
An Experiment on Precognition with Planarian Worms
Are you talking about profitable RIO mines? Then there is an argument to be had about how those profits are split between shareholders, workers (incl managers), and the national gov in royalties. Off-topic and this margin too small ... etc.

But that was not the case in the British coal industry in the 1980s. Only a handful of marginal mines survived into the 2000s. The last coal-fired power stations will close this year.

No profits, no discussion (except the offer I mentioned above, which is the only true test of whether it is really profitable, on a risk-adjusted basis, judged by those with the most information).
Public housing is for the middle class. This isn’t low barrier or even housing for the poor like in the USA.
popular strain of Neo-puritanism trying to dig under consumption habits long attested to be perfectly safe and not harmful to your health, if not good for you

yes, not drinking coffee makes you a super special person. good job you!
I'm sure most homeowners (especially those owning multiple properties but not even remotely close to being "super wealthy") would gladly vote against their interest as long as lobbyists stopped trying to influence public opinion...
I'm always happy to see efforts to improve the state of technical interviewing.

IMO this style of interview works better for more senior engineers, where you want them to think about performance issues, pitfalls, API considerations, maintainability, etc.

There's a separate but related workflow you could test which focuses on actually reading code to answer questions / debug issues. That's hinted at as one of the use cases in the FAQ ("roles like technical support or QA who may be tracing code, but not writing code"), but I think it's a sufficiently distinct workflow that it should be separated -- the difference here is reading a code sample, versus reading a pull request.

I don't think either is a full replacement for coding exercises -- I for one can passably read code in many more languages (and even make some small edits) than I'd be comfortable writing in (mostly due to lower familiarity with standard libraries, but I can always consult an API reference if I'm not sure about some function or type).
The issue is Apple's using its dominance in one domain to restrict competitors in another domain, not whether they offer a better deal. In fact, one would expect that they can offer the best deal around.
I don't know if this is what you mean, but Foundation Medicine has a biobank of genomic data (HIPAA) with cancer patients' genomic profiles.[1] It's pan-tumor and pan-cancer.

EDIT: if you're looking for more of a "what is the current best known treatment plan for xyz" then this might not be what you're looking for. The standard of care is very much changing very often, I don't know if anyone has a solution for disseminating that. foundation medicine also has a patient-focused side where you can get your own test and get pointed to the treatment for your cancer genomic profile [2]. The societies are probably trying the most to get all of that data available/up-to-date (for example: the American Cancer Society)

[1] https://www.foundationmedicine.com/service/genomic-data-solu...

[2] https://www.foundationmedicine.com/patient/start-with-step-o...
How do we get from DNS to Human rights? Why would they get involved?
Are You a Solver or a Builder?
Games played with French Suited Tarot Cards has a few - https://www.pagat.com/class/ftarot.html

And there is a slightly different list with https://www.pagat.com/class/itarot.html

Italian suited cards have swords, batons, cups and coins while French suited uses hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades.

There's also https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/23567/cripple-mr-onion which uses a double deck that has all of hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades, swords, batons, cups and coins.

For a more recent game, https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/152/mu-more

The Mu deck has 60 cards (evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 - allowing for more combinations of players than 52 cards). It has 5 suits of 12 cards numbered 0 through 9 with two 1s and two 7s. Each card has 0, 1, or 2 pips on it which are used for points. The 1 and 9 have no pips. The 6 and 7 have two pips. All other cards have one pip.

One more late edit - Five Crowns https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1472/five-crowns which is a 5 suited progressive rummy.