skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other problem with updating it is that the future it was predicated on is mostly lost in mainstream.

Sure, the Sprawl trilogy has looming megacorporations, but fundamentally the Matrix is still a democratic, standardized, and free communication medium, open to use by all. Those megacorporations are simply islands in a much more vast net.

In contrast, modern computing reality is much more defined by walled gardens: Apple+Android devices, Meta, Microsoft Office, Discord.

To the extent that "doing what you want in the dangerous corners of the net" is an alien concept to younger folks.
In the range of 99.99% I’d wager.
Now you need to say the same thing about App stores. Since 99% of the population uses Google or Apple Apps, is it still perfectly reasonable to consider these gateways ontop of the Internet or are they "the Internet"?
With ketchup (and mustard, mayo, etc.), squeezable bottles are way more convenient. Gone are the days of wanting to get X amount of ketchup out of the bottle but ending up with either 0X or 10X.

Aside from the ketchup dispensing utility, you also escape tedious discussions about the best way to get ketchup out of a glass bottle. Do you tap the side? Shake the bottle? Angle it? Smack the bottom? Just sit there patiently? Warm it up? Stick a knife in it? You can be pretty sure that if you use any of these methods, someone is going to tell you about one of the others.
Yeah, worth considering that Musk has been regularly saying that full autonomous driving will be coming "in 6 months" since 2016-or-so.

Assuming that he and Apple were both equally confident in this being a problem solvable in the near-term, the main difference between them is that Apple didn't make any public statements about it... and then eventually gave up when that confidence didn't bear out.
> The buffer[x].available = 0 will never run while buffer[x].available is equal to 0 overwriting or causing a data race when setting buffer[x].available to 1.

In particular, because loads and stores of the same variable cannot be reordered out of program order. Once your algorithm involves other variables, you would (likely) need to be a little careful about loading/storing with acquire/release semantics to prevent reordering other accesses relative to this protocol.

> Remember to use compiler memory barrier

I would highly recommend using the language atomic types (and barriers if truly needed) instead of gcc inline assembly syntax.
I'm not talking about just banning plastics (it should be banned involving anything food related IMO) but actually taxing these materials as the hazardous materials they surely are.

Why would you ever expect a bottling plant to move away from plastic when there is no incentive? Why would anyone move to better materials or continue researching when there are cheaper alternatives that aren't rightfully taxed against their externalities?

Why are we as a society, one which has banned lead from gasoline (resulting in lower crime rates across the world) or banning CFCs to repair the ozone layer, feel so helpless trying to hold these corporations accountable for not polluting our world around us today?

Is it really that impossible?
Unfortunately I suspect reddit will join the rest of the internet soon enough. Once they're public, the money has to come from somewhere.
We know why live music makes us so emotional
The negativity comes from people who know, or can sympathize with, people who work in call centers and dont have a lot of other job prospects. What do they do now? It's scary because when we remove jobs from the market without having a replacement we dont actually make the world any better. We just make a company more profitable.

I for one couldnt give two shits if Klarna is successful or not. But I do care if the person who is a perfectly fine call center employee but doesnt have a ton of other skills is able to support themselves or not.
I'm not familiar with this field but is this similar to an Extended Kalman Filter?
I don't actually expect consumer preference is or ever has been a primary factor. It's cheaper and more reliable to ship plastic bottles. Manufacturers will use them for those reasons and then we'll buy them because it's what is available. Or it's cheaper. Or we have a preference. But at that point, it hardly matters.
Dark Forest theory of the internet in practice.
But AWS Crypto is made in C/C++/ASM, so yes the wrapper is sort of safe but the implementation is not.
> they iirc slaughtered the perfectly good GNOME 2.x UI to cater to those devices specifically around a decade ago - and for what?

There was a recent article on here that explained GNOME 2.x was windows-like enough that there was fear Microsoft would come after Linux distributions with patent lawsuits, hence the departure from that style of UI in the next version. KDE on the other hand was made with a patent sharing agreement in place.
Life of comfort? Of not feeling the need? Life of being able to just sit on your butt and be happy?

I'm not quite sure.

As from what you might be escaping from... Admission that your experiences are irrelevant? That you have no obligation to yourself or anybody to live a specific way? That no way of living is better or worse (given that you have money and ability to decide about yourself). All means of distracting yourself until you die are equally valid.

Meaning of life is a weird thing. It changes as you age and experience. It's different for everybody despite the trends. I'm not gonna argue any point about it.
Not acknowledge. X people in a space would suggest >X people.

Signals and lack of signals are the same thing when tracking or locating.
perhaps we should qualify the claim by pointing out that 20th-century swahili and indonesian are simpler than creoles, but have now been replaced by more complex creoles
Datasets will probably move toward a curated datasets instead of scraping everything from the Internet. Also you could add a tool that would have the purpose of identifying malware and reject the output like using virustotal
And will increase the number of drivers without insurance. It's already an issue now, but it will go way up if insurance is even more expensive.
I'm quite curious what Elm triggers so in people, that they years later actively hunts down discussions about it to interject their negativity.
But it's a case of "One bad apple spoils the lot". Even if every other apple in the bushel is good now, they've now all been exposed to too much ethylene and you have to either immediately turn them all into sauce or throw them away.
The poor are more likely to be driving Civics than Escalades anyway. Increasing insurance on the larger, heavier, taller, more dangerous vehicles is exactly the right thing.

Doubly so if they have "badass offroad cosplay" mods like welded bumpers and lightbars. Yes okay maybe you need that out in the dunes, but if you're playing at that level you should be trailering the warmachine to the dunes and towing it behind something with better visibility. If that tank touches pavement, it should pay the insurance risk commensurate with its armor.
Nah it's all the Netflix, YouTube and HN :)
I was recently at a relative's house - at some point everyone kind of checked their phones and ended up on different apps - I couldn't believe how off-putting it was. Just flipping through the endless void of 'reels' on IG/TikTok/Facebook, many of which were just stolen videos from content mills with horrible AI voiceovers loosely describing the videos. "A man found a dog in a frozen lake, he jumped into action .. ". And they're incredibly addictive. Feels pretty problematic!
> the turbine drive a generator powering an electric motor to drive the fan

Maybe the transmission losses aren't relevant if you're thrusting for a short interval?

> transition from turbofan to turbojet to reach mach 2.7 to allow starting up a ramjet

Oh. Cool. Sounds like an air turboramjet [1]. Plus a fan?

Not sure how you ditch the fan, nor why they'd describe an electric motor driving the fan as an electric compressor. Granted, I skimmed the video.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_turborocket
I liked how author wrote it. Especially this line :)

> fast-tracked to insanity
I've been using this for a few months and from a user perspective, it feels really fast and intuitive.
I think there is a huge issue with centralized social media. Why are unelected tycoons in the US dictating what the rest of the world should be allowed to see? What happens when they neglect languages and regions? It can go horribly wrong: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb....

Decentralized social media gives us a chance to take back control.
Oh wow thank you for this!!
They need a place to build those houses.
Same. I just start using grids everywhere and that works.

But then again I just write plain css and generally don’t have global stylesheets, which helps a lot
I blame streamers and influencers.
From the article:

> In the same study, those who had mild and resolved COVID-19 showed cognitive decline equivalent to a three-point loss of IQ. In comparison, those with unresolved persistent symptoms, such as people with persistent shortness of breath or fatigue, had a six-point loss in IQ. Those who had been admitted to the intensive care unit for COVID-19 had a nine-point loss in IQ. Reinfection with the virus contributed an additional two-point loss in IQ, as compared with no reinfection.

That is troubling
Spanish and German pronunciation are extraordinarily regular, German in particular. Its spelling is regularly updated, most recently just a few years ago.

If you are getting fixed up on the one letter = one sound designation (which could be interpreted just as well to apply to German, and almost to Spanish, where one combination of letter always gives the same sound), then this is disingenuous pedantry.

English is pretty unique in not having rigid rules for pronunciation as spelling is typically retained from loan languages.
OpenSuse is fantastic. It’s very easy to set up and nice to use out of the box. It’s also fairly close to the bleeding edge and at the same time very stable. I am quite happy with it.
Weight. Facial tracking. Voice distinction. Infinite methods.
ok but as a native french speaker I find spanish much more intuitive than french. We french people have in common with german people in that we struggle with some sounds like the 'r' but that is the only real struggle when learning spanish. The rest is fairly easy. Everything is pronounced the way it is written.

However spanish people suffer much more than us when learning french because we don't pronounce words the way we write them in a reliable way and we have so many sounds that are so close to them spanish speaking people don't see the difference.
Sometimes I wonder if back when the Internet was "good", how many people were using it and much stuff was on it? Has the proportion of good stuff changed all the much, or is it just not in the same places it used to be, and aging millennials (proud cardholder) just haven't moved on to these new places?
And it definitely varies based on which side of Reston you're in. Being bisected by the Toll Road has some advantages, but really limits the ability to fully link (by foot or pedal) the entire area.
This is a completely unrelated issue, but I do support rent control. Rents were completely unaffordable before the corporate story entered the picture, and at only 11% of the SFH market, it's not the main issue, and perhaps most importantly, nobody ever complained about corporate ownership of apartment buildings. Rents are completely unaffordable even in places that have rent control. The only affordability measure that works is providing enough housing to meet people's desire to live in a place.

I ask you, what are homeowners' profits virtuous but corporate profits not? The corporate ownership of SFH is a sign that there are huge profits in owning homes, not the cause of it.
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Don't hate the player, hate the game. The commercialization of platforms made influencers possible.
I'm impressed other people are actually given options.
All safe code is inherently built on top of unsafe code.
The liquid fuel rocket motor was only invented 98 years ago (https://www.nasa.gov/history/95-years-ago-goddards-first-liq...)

Though borderline possible, it is very hard for solid fuel rockets to make it to orbit, and they have horrible payload to total mass ratios. It all has to do with the specific impulse of the fuels, no solid fuel provides as much as hydrogen/oxygen.
No it’s not!

Also buy NordVPN
>Bored strangers is the embryonic stage of many, if not most friendships.

And romantic relationships.
Honestly Reddit and Twitter feel like the only “real” places left online, provided you have a curated feed.

The web is practically dead. I use search less and less. Most content creators I know have abandoned/are abandoning blogs and written content because its just not worth competing with the SEO farms and Google’s whimsies.
Yeah you need to cultivate those relationships. But with a willing partner that first session will take you from 0 to 1 :)
Isn't that a sign of good content?

If you're making something interesting, it's not going to be the beige thing that everyone feels "meh" (no more positive, no more negative) about.
> Are you logging into a desktop as root?

Nah, but I would occasionally like to move things around outside of /home without doing it manually in the terminal. I'm not sure why that's such a problem.
This is the funniest scene in the entire movie IMHO.

Roger's compulsive, uncontrollable need to respond with "Two Bits" kills me every time.
'swhy Mitatas are so much freakin' fun.

And they present very little risk to pedestrians as a result. You're sitting LOWER than the pedestrians. You can see a bottle-cap on the road. You don't feel superior to anyone at all.
Same! So I guess there are at least 3 of us :)

Memories…
Fashion Show Has No Social Media Policy
I am just clarifying why I consider it impossible.

Production is not some place you're supposed to cowboy code, but instead have a reasonable expectation that you will be able to continue supporting it for as many years as it operates, and it's impossible for anyone to responsibly use technology with known limitations that have bitten other real engineering teams that they can find zero workarounds for.

If you don't consider that an impossibility for a production environment, then I certainly wouldn't want to work with you on a team with production responsibilities.
It's not too surprising, honestly! I've poked around with similar in the past and am of a perspective that ternary is a very good thing for a lot of neural networks.

Training CIFAR-10 speedily w/ ternary weights on an fp16 interface (using fp16 buffers, and norm params unchanged): https://gist.github.com/tysam-code/a43c0fab332e50163b74141bc...
Sounds like maybe OP is just bad at curating content for themselves? Try to recognize "staged videos and marketing" and dont click on them? These posts have become so tiresome the title should be changed to "The internet feels fake now. Its all just posts complaining and pining for "ye olde days"
Anyone else find more time for enjoying NOT paying attention to any “media” anymore? Seriously, I peek every once in a while to confirm it’s still a train wreck and then enjoy closing the window.
Agreed that there is plenty of weird internet out there left to enjoy, but I think its a bit of a stretch to call YC a corporate mega-site.
This is worded somewhat awkwardly. Nobody that has really thought of it ever thought that AWS was solely what funded Retail. Indeed, Retail was known to seed AWS, such that that view would have difficulty explaining how Amazon grew before AWS existed.

Rather, Amazon has famously spent money on growth. And a distribution network is not at all cheap. You can check openstreet/google maps and see the sheer size of their buildings. I remember the absurd effort to make prime now back when they had to gut some Manhattan buildings to make that work. Could be I was mislead, as I do not claim to be an expert on this, but it did not seem at all outside the pale.
I see your points (though I don't fully agree). Most of these relate to a "central search and discovery service". this doesn't need to be coupled with the rest of the network functionalities (posting content or interacting with content), which I personally believe is better fully distributed (for similar reasons to what you mentioned). We've done this for the internet as a whole (anyone can bring up a website on their own, search engines will discover and index it, but the search engine space is as centralised as it gets), so I believe we can do it for more "social" content as well.
Thanks for your reply. This subject is still new to me.

My understanding of that syntax is that it is a compiler memory barrier, not a CPU memory barrier because the asm block is empty (no sfence or mfence).
> that's very obviously untrue

Only under a very uncharitable misunderstanding of what I said. If the categories are simply "first born" and "not first born", then first born ceases to be the most common as family size increases. But if the categories are "first born", "second born", "third born", etc., then first born never ceases to be the most common. And as I said, "Every family no matter the size has a firstborn child, who by definition has no older sibling to keep an eye on them", so it hasn't been explained why parents were less risk-adverse in the past toward firstborn children (who have no older silbings to keep an eye on them). Every parent past and present had to deal with a firstborn.
I am bound by an NDA with an Intel Vice President and by an agreement with an ally of Nato military sources. Contact me directly and I'l be happy to point you to the sources that are not secret. You could located them yourself if you Google diligently.
This looks really promising, and I love that you make a demo available with no account. But I don't have time to track down some sample data to test it with.

I'm guessing this post is going to the front of HN. If you've got some sample data, you should put it into the demo sheet ASAP. Or at the very least, provide some links to s3 files the user can manually add to test it themselves.
Still, what's the benefit of that? If peak load is a concern, a push-based system can stagger out individual post deliveries just as well, and push gives the producer much more control over load management. If that's not enough, several posts can be combined too.

In a pull system, you are at the mercy of your consumers' refresh rate setting, and for infrequent producers, you'll have lots of wasted cycles fetching nothing new on top of that.

I do agree that pull is simpler to implement (since subscription management is handled entirely on the consumer side, requiring no network protocol and server-side state for it), but in terms of network calls, it's strictly worse.
>made influencers possible

What would we do without them? /s
Yes, that means it is under copyright, "All Rights Reserved," the same as the latest John Grisham thriller novel.

You may look at it, but you may not reproduce it elsewhere or create derivative works (except where covered by exceptions).
No -- for a lock-free design with a single producer and consumer, it's possible both are typically writing to independent regions of memory. With a lock, both have to write the same cache line to take and release the lock.
I don't know how long it will take KDE 6 to arrive on Ubuntu LTS, but there have been several networking improvements to KDE Connect in this release (including supporting mDNS and bluetooth for more reliable operation), so possibly it may be better for your use case now?
There is effort to multiple concurrent efforts to update the breeze style:

Mine is here which is still quite WIP https://carlschwan.eu/2023/12/19/announcing-brise-theme/

And there is another one for icons https://anditosan.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/breeze-icons-upda...
I'd swap 2 and 3. Getting CI, linting, auto-formatting, etc. going is a higher priority than tearing things out. Why? Because you don't know what to tear out yet or even the consequence of tearing them out. Linting (and other static analysis tools) also give you a lot of insight into where the program needs work.

Things that get flagged by a static analysis tool (today) will often be areas where you can tear out entire functions and maybe even classes and files because they'll be a re-creation of STL concepts. Like homegrown iterator libraries (with subtle problems) that can be replaced with the STL algorithms library, or homegrown smart pointers that can just be replaced with actual smart pointers, or replacing the C string functions with C++'s on string class (and related classes) and functions/methods.

But you won't see that as easily until you start scanning the code. And you won't be able to evaluate the consequences until you push towards more rapid test builds (at least) if not deployment.
I've only ever heard fantastic things about Hetzner.

I'm shocked PE hasn't bought them yet and raised prices.
>were their friends.

This was true. I don't know what to tell you. I've been to weddings. It used to be a good place to meet people.
You’ll get that a lot less if you ditch Google. Happy Kagi customer here.
For 25 years I walked to work. The number of times, in a crosswalk, I had to jump out of the way to avoid serious injury or death could not be counted on my fingers and toes. And I was hyper-aware of vehicles (I include bicycles in that, because many times I had to avoid them, too).

Now, I'm in a city (in the Bay Area) and I was walking from a residential area into the city (2-3 miles one way). Still, you would not expect lawful crossing of a street to be so dangerous.
Some people want areas without black people, the Irish, Muslims, old people, women, men, gay people.

It really has nothing to do with having or not having R-rated movies. It’s just discrimination against children, and by extension their parents.
Minimal orbital speed is somewhere around 25,000-28,000 kph. The fastest air breathing plane every built (SR-71) had a top speed of about 3,500 kph. So for the added weight and complexity of adding an air breathing first stage (wings, air breathing engines, landing gear etc) you are only getting about 14% of the way to the minimal orbital velocity needed, and that would be if your air breathing first stage could match the performance of the fastest plane ever built, keep in mind the SR-71 carried almost no payload. It is far more likely that any realistic air breathing first stage is going to get to less than 10% of orbital velocity, and that would likely be for launching a fairly small rocket. On the other hand the Falcon 9 first stage usually doesn't separate until 6,000-9,000 kph which is closer to 25-35% of orbital velocity, and that's while carrying almost 23,000 kg of payload plus the fully fueled second stage.
spanish orthography is regular and simple, though it preserves many sound distinctions that have been lost in the spoken language, so text to speech is easy, but speech to text sometimes is not

french orthography is regular, except for a few exceptions like 'fils', but not that simple

english orthography is neither; it's halfway to chinese
South Korean streamers struggle after Twitch exits due to SPNP network fees
That just ports all the problems to C...

You're better off incrementally rewriting it in modern C++. Replace those raw pointers with references or smart pointers!
"Cost"

Paying rent instead of a mortgage is a cost.

If the rent is bringing in less money than the upkeep costs of the property, why is the landlord renting it out?

There's an entire segment of the market that is priced out of buying. That doesn't mean they want to rent.
That isn't a "price-cap" on electricity, it's a limit to what is essentially a tax routed through electricity bills and given to utility companies, to the tune of about $30 per person per year. The intent of the tax is to improve the grid, although its efficacy is under question, as the article mentions.