skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[Edit] Do you think that the Aphex Twin song Milkman makes reference to this lack of milk delivery during this period?

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is an incurable and invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. . . . Spread to humans is believed to result in variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD). As of 2018, a total of 231 cases of vCJD had been reported globally.

BSE is thought to be due to an infection by a misfolded protein, known as a prion. Cattle are believed to have been infected by being fed meat-and-bone meal (MBM) that contained either the remains of cattle who spontaneously developed the disease or scrapie-infected sheep products. The outbreak increased throughout the United Kingdom due to the practice of feeding meat-and-bone meal to young calves of dairy cows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopat...
I disagree with most of the article. The author states that the reason we start at the bottom is because "it feels good". This is false. We start at the bottom because that's what a product spec is. The product spec can impact any node but will mostly be at the bottom. So, we must start there and work backwards to figure out what engineering choices will meet that product spec.

Second, the author talks about building "program families" instead of just a program. The problem with this concept is that it is essentially asking you to divine the future. Your success at divining in what way the program will change is what determines the success of this approach. That is to say, if you're in a space where you absolutely cannot predict in what way the requirements will change, the optional strategy is to just build for the requirements right now.
No, you'll max pay the same. May pay less.
Fleshing out my thought above. If we want to multiply A*B = C and all operands are stored in 2 separate bits Ap and An (Ap = 1 if A = +1 while An = 1 if A = -1). We can do a product with:

Cp = (Ap & Bp) | (An & Bn)

Cn = (An & Bp) | (Ap & Bn)

So 64 products in 6 instructions, or 256 in 6 instructions with AVX2, or 512 in six instructions using AVX512. If you can execute 2 instructions at a time on different words, this becomes 1024 "products" in 6 cycles or between 0.5 and 1 TOP per core.

The summing still involves using popcount on the positive and negative bits - I doubt AVX supports that but its still a fast way to "sum" individual bits. I don't see custom hardware for this as a short term thing - they need to prove out the quantization concept more first.
> But I would bet that every service you might reasonably need is within a few kilometers of your home, and every conceivable service is likely within 100km.

That is correct. Kindergarten, doctors, train station and my work are all within 7 kilometers. My wife's work is 60 km away, but reachable via train in 40 min. My parents live 400 km away, but are also reachable via train in 3h.

I am not advocating this lifestyle at all. I don't even think it is a lifestyle - as mentioned above, we didn't consciously decide to not own a car, it's just something that slowly developed.

As my wife cannot drive, living in an area like you are describing would be a prison sentence for her, so we avoid that. This has also has its downsides: a house in a remote black forest village with a bus every 2 hours would cost 1/3 of what a house costs in our area.
After the last two seasons the Empire is the only interesting thing so they might have well just got rid of the parts of the story that was in the book of foundation but that would be two people talking to each other …
I like to think that Esperanto is easier, not necessarily easy. It definitely helps if you know e.g. a romance language, but it still is way more accessible than any other "regular" language (and, even for a romance language speaker, it requires effort to learn properly).

In China, for example, Esperanto was used to introduce western languages.
Not just GH. People add StackOverflow snippets, pretty blindly, and pull directly from personally-published repos.

I know what an unpopular opinion this is, with the HN crowd, but I think we need to completely reevaluate our dependence on dependencies.

I have run into people that Literally. Can't. Write. Code, without dependencies. Their skill is at passing LeetCode tests, and googling for dependencies. Their bosses like them, because they pass the interviews with flying colors, and get results really quickly.

I remember, a number of years ago, attending a meetup, promising to explain GraphQL, and, instead, it was a lecture on using a JavaScript GraphQL wrapper. I don't think that two minutes were devoted to the API, itself. I seemed to be the only person in the room, that was going "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"

For myself, I use a lot of dependencies, but I wrote almost all of them, myself. I have spent years, building a library of SDKs and modules that I can integrate into my shipping projects.

I have only two external dependencies, in my current projects. These are not ones that would kill me, if I was forced to go alone, but they do save a lot of time (an Apple Keychain wrapper in Swift, and a streaming JSON parser in PHP, for the record).
There are "concerns without definitive evidence" that everything causes everything. If this turns out to be true, there is a case against everything.
In my experience it's not that simple. I certainly don't believe Krita written in Java Swing would be as successful.

There's a lot of complexity in GUI frameworks, and they are not interchangeable because they end up making different design choices. An application like Maya with very complex user-manipulated data structures will expose weaknesses in the framework, and the fixes and design improvements end up in the framework. A competing framework whose primary users are lightweight consumer-oriented apps doesn't get those benefits.
Do you want your SQL to be correct?
Agreed. I've never understood this cry for "decentralization for everything" coming from this tiny bubble of nerds.

Nobody in the real world cares about it even one bit.

The only thing people out there actually want is CONVENIENCE and USABILITY.

When will the nerds understand?
> remove all traces

You can certainly remove packages that were installed as dependencies, even if `apt remove` doesn't do this by default. I think it's `apt autoremove` or `apt purge` (although I haven't used apt in a long time). All of the package managers I've used have a way to do this.

On the other hand, for the average user I don't know why you'd bother. It's not like it's interfering with other stuff you want to do, unless you are extremely tight on hard drive space.
Thanks for checking it out. I make users select from the dropdown before allowing to submit. But you have to guess the movie that features this song not the artist :)

I'm very much an interactive learner. Following aa article or youtube tutorial can be frustrating when something goes wrong locally but it's not covered in the material. Then your flow is broken by googling how you can best describe what you think your issue is.

I didn't use VScode or copilot integrations- I was literally just copying and pasting code snippets or errors into the browser ChatGPT. It would suggest code changes back, if ChatGPT only gave me a snippet but I wanted the full file I could just ask.

I understand at some level that it's still just an extremely sophisticated interface but it genuinely feels like magic/sentience. You're not contorted to what you think the limitations of 'how the thing likes to be instructed' like voice commands or Siri. You just talk freely about what you're trying to achieve, show it code and explain in plain language what you think has gone wrong or even that you have no idea why something doesn't work- it just teaches you how to debug.

You should dive in!
GNOME doesn't seem ideologically similar to KDE at all though, it's very hardcoded with hardly anything is adjustable. KDE is like the opposite of that, it can mimic most Windows features as well, e.g. quicklaunch, non-grouped taskbar windows with titles.
> US child pedestrian deaths 1975: 1632. US child pedestrian deaths 2019: 138.

Does this reflect safer streets, or just fewer (esp. unsupervised) child pedestrians?
Lina Khan Has Been a Terrible FTC Chair
Do you consider "utopian" an ad hominem, but not "danger to democracy?"
> US child pedestrian deaths 1975: 1632. US child pedestrian deaths 2019: 138.

Not to mention that the US population in the 1970 census was 203M. In the 2020 census, 331M - a 63% increase from 1970!

So a 91% reduction in deaths while population increased 63%. I'm not a statistician but that seems pretty great.

I'm sure the children-per-capita rate changed during that time as well so maybe someone who knows that figure could do some more precise math.

But overall the "oh no my kids couldn't possible cross the street without being immediately killed!" hyperbole seems just that.
Yes exactly. When I think of cyberpunk computing devices, I think of cyber decks, which are basically the exact opposite of Apple devices.
I think many people here object to the statement, that using JS is a good way of teaching, since there are many people here with in-depth knowledge about programming language theory and knowledge about the far too many bad parts of JS. I myself would recommend conceptually richer and yet syntactically simpler languages than JS or Python, with the note, that it depends on what you want to learn. If you want to learn to make a website with dynamic features, sure, learn some JS. If you want to learn computer programming and grasp important concepts well, you are better off learning other languages.
My simple guess it is arrogance of the lobby department. We will see soon some layoffs...
Wonna bet?
I remember being astounded by Johnny Mnemonic when in came out in Omni Magazine, of all places.

(Incidentally, for those old enough to have encountered that magazine, you can see it online at: https://archive.org/details/omni-archive/). I have a ton of nostalgia for Omni. It reflected the techno-optimism of the era and along with G.E.B., was a profound influence on in my life, ultimately leading me into CS.)
> you'd use an approach like SpaceShipOne

If that’s where they’re going they’re fucked.

What kills air launch (specifically, an airplane first stage and conventional second) is the second stage must withstand stress in two dimensions; most rockets wouldn’t fair well being hung horizontally because they don’t have to design to withstand stress in that dimension. Most airliner airframes wouldn’t deal well with being hung from tail or tip; that’s strike fighter stuff.

Air launch combines the worst of staging (complexity) and SSTO (dual dimensioning). What I'm reading is turbojets supplementing rockets to reduce fuel burn.
Interesting.

Of their budget, what's the cost of developing Firefox?
Would disabling all notifications for an app via the iOS settings app also stop push notifications? Or do they keep working in the background without showing pop-ups?
Why would they lower prices if the market easily bore the cost of those goods?

Yeah of course corporations were racking in cash, so were consumers.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBLN40059

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2REAL
To extend the already really tortured analogy, we've got people who've managed to hoard many billions of... willing blowjob givers? And we've got people who... die from lack of blowjobs.
Electricity Demand Is Surging Since the 1990s
millennials will be rich when... checks notes... boomers stop owning everything? so you're saying boomers are currently the richest generation in history and that won't change until they die?
OVH operates data-center close to Montreal (BHS), 8ms latency to NYC.
Also it's 100% green hydro electricity powered.
Looking at the screenshots in the article, the readings are wrong. You are reading the first number as if that's the amount of JS being loaded, but it's the second number (i.e. if it says 6 MB / 3MB, it's 3 MB of JavaScript, out of 6 MB total page size).
tl;dr; edition: Just how technically difficult, deathly dangerous, and perhaps permanently damaging do you really want to go?
It's actually just a way to fleece people. According to their projections, this will reduce traffic inbound by like 3%. So it's not really gonna reduce cars, just take money out of people's pockets.
It's incredible that on just about every piece I've ever read about Elm since they made that decision, this has been the first, second, and third comment. Wanting to try Elm for myself, I disregarded this advice, and.... immediately ran into the exact same problem! I've never seen such a promising project so conclusively killed by pure developer pigheadedness. And, amazingly, they've never backed down at all. They don't seem to mind that they maimed themselves.
Keep in mind there are fewer kids walking and biking.
All it takes is one anti landlord mayor to put them out of business.
The only somewhat valid criticism I've read is that it's not exactly like the book. I went in fresh to the show and loved it so much that I decided to start the books. I'm enjoying both and mostly agree with the adaption changes to keep some semblance of familiar characters over a story taking place over hundreds of years. But I can see how it can be jarring if you went in expecting huge cast changes constantly.

Some parts of the internet however dislike the adaptation because the main cast is no longer almost entirely male and really hate the skin color of some of the actors.
I can try, but it'll depend on where you're coming from. A few preliminary questions: how many close people in your life (family, friends, spouse, you yourself) are currently live in rental housing? How many own rental housing?
To each his own I suppose, as long as it's adjustable :)

Is it a browser tabs vs. taskbar tabs ideology?
> Jack Ryan seasons tended to start off strong, but then lose my interest as they got to the end. To be fair, that's also true of their source: the beginnings of Tom Clancy books are more interesting than their resolution.

To be fair, the Amazon Jack Ryan series is only related to Tom Clancy's in name(s) only. Loosely based on, Inspired by, or some other weasel words should be permanently affixed to the title screen.

On a tangent, I think the series Designated Survivor should be called Blatantly Ripped Off Clancy Plot
A plausible scenario for the genetic mechanism that led to tail loss in humans
> I don't see custom hardware for this as a short term thing - they need to prove out the quantization concept more first.

Yes, I agree. This still needs to be more extensively tested.
Chinese OEMs are putting a moderate amount of work into the space at L2-L3, as those offerings are rapidly becoming mandatory features for flagship product lines. There are Chinese teams working on L4, but it's difficult to get an good sense of their maturity right now.
I have learned Esperanto using Duolingo and I made more mistakes in English (which was the language in which that Esperanto course was tought) than in Esperanto. Mainly because Esperanto is very regular without all those edge cases which English has.

BTW English is my second language, Czech is my first and I have some limited knowledge of German.
The stupidity of the LLM is completely irrelevant. If you hired a salesperson to negotiate deals, and they offer a massive discount to a customer that you wouldn't normally approve, you're still liable for that discount. If you're dumb enough to let a bot that you cannot control negotiate with customers for you, you are liable for what it agrees to so long as it is within the apparent authority. That is, the salesperson bot does not have apparent authority to sell company equity, for example.
Time to change your passwords from "wintermute".
Yes, actually: That's the entire point of the paper! The concept is that the amount of information contained in a weight like 0.00006103515625 is equivalent to 0. -0.99951172 is equivalent to -1, 1.26406236 equivalent to 1, etc. That there's no practical difference when actually utilizing the model (if trained in ternary from the start).

The paper posits (and provides evidence) that if you train a model using ternary values instead of floating point values you get equivalent (useful/practical) information. You can't take an existing model and round all the values down to `{-1,0,+1}` values but you can (re)train a model using ternary values to get the same end result (equivalent information/output).

Technically a model trained using FP16 values contains vastly more information than a model trained using ternary values. Practically though it seems to make no difference.

My prediction: Floating point models will still be used extensively by scientists and academics in their AI research but nearly all real-world, publicly-distributed AI models will be ternary. It's just too practical and enticing! Even if the ternary representation of a model is only 90% effective it's going to be so much faster and cheaper to use it in reality. We're talking about the difference between requiring a $500 GPU or a $5 microcontroller.
yeah it was trump and the dark army thank god biden put an end to that
Because McDonalds is publicly traded, there’s no such thing as “insisting” that performance is fine when they’re not, the sales facts are made public. The company indeed has seen profits recently that were missing from 2014-2020. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/reve...

It is entirely possible for the number of hamburgers sold to go down while the price goes us, and for MCD revenues to stay even or earn more money. That might lead to a hollowing out of their customer base, and could lead to eventual decline, but there’s no guarantee of that.

McDonalds also has a lot of incentives to try to escape the rock-bottom commodity pricing, if it can, and regardless of quality, some companies do charge “market rates”. Apple and Starbucks come to mind. Starbucks is a good example of a company that took a cheap commodity product and pushed the price up considerably without suffering decline; the primary consequences were mountains of profit.
The British tax year still follows roughly this. A UK tax year runs from 6 April to the following 5 April.

See, e.g., https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-23...
Hope not, but wintermute did use humans as messengers iirc.
> Despite much misinformation to the contrary, Citizens United had nothing whatsoever to do with campaign donations and was standard first-amendment jurisprudence striking down an attempt by a federal agency to exercise prior restraint on speech.

Only when viewed over-literally. If you take a perspective akin to "duck typing," it's both.

But even if you're totally right, this whole digression on the term "campaign donations" is a nitpick that doesn't undermine the OP's point. Which was billionaires spending unlimited money on politics is anti-democratic (in a similar, but less extreme, way as total one-party control of the media is).
Tahoe storm upgraded to a blizzard, up to 8 feet could fall in upper elevations
That's just not true at all. The reason Linux hasn't penetrated the desktop is because it's not installed by default. Even if that isn't the reason, the GPs preference for reinstalling is certainly not. Switching DEs doesn't require reinstalling the OS, it requires searching your distros app store for KDE, and then logging out and selecting "KDE" when you log in again.

You could even switch between them each time you log in, depending on your mood that day.
The problem is, we already have that.
Bread is kind of a broad term like biscuits, bagels, and buns are bread and lots of chains sell those.
Ok. I don’t know how Apple Scripts are distributed and invoked, but this is starting to sound like a generic “trick user to run a script from the terminal” which is a vector in all OSs. Terminal=power.

The annoying thing is tons of legit projects distribute their scripts on the web and ask you to run them with curl and sh. Normalizing that paves the way for this type of attack.
I'm glad I own a house but it can be a massive headache, expense, and time sink. It also places a big constraint on moving as you say. I absolutely wouldn't have wanted one the first 15 years or so out of school and I've been lucky enough that jobs have never forced me to move.
I agree with you on most points. But none of the countries have a candidate that publicly admires is yearning to please dictators, who says that "presidency for life" sounds "pretty great" and who talks about political opponents as "enemies", who "have to be dealt with". The simple fact that another violent upheaval at the next election would surprise no one, is a dead giveaway that the USA is on a very dangerous trajectory.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/19/1220443867/trump-s-rhetoric-i...
I will say they've done 'not a terrible job' with their Foundation series -- another hardcore SciFi book. I don't recommend it to people for viewing but I've enjoyed it myself.
How would "they" know there are four people in that elevator, not three?
I would be curious on how well it builds an immersive environment. Early stages might be useful for LEOs to train in VR in a wide variety of settings. No need to hire or outsource to a third party. Or build/maintain expensive real life replicas.

Consequently, also allows for pieces of shit to train as well. Got to take the bad with the good, right?
Ease of movement is such a meme.
Every time I've sold houses in 2nd or 3rd tier markets they've sold and gone into escrow in less than 2 months.

Maybe back when housing wasn't so tight this was the case. That isn't it anymore. Sure you have to queue up a bunch of things like a realtor and a mortgage broker but the benefits of getting equity outweigh the supposed convenience of renting .
DigitalOcean has a long history of kicking out customers with no warning and no explanation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11036554

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596138

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29600320

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38880713

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39127683
It's a widespread problem throughout Europe,

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/07/world/europe/... ("Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy")
companies buying up property drives prices of homes up

they are operating under a completely different model than individuals and can more easily shoulder paying more now in order to make up for it later.

kind of like two people playing the same game with a different set of rules.
Kids don't walk and bike like they used to. I used to walk alone to visit neighbors on other blocks when I was 5yo in the 80s. Before owning a computer I'd walk or bike to play outside every day it wasn't snowing. And sometimes even then.
It's high , many renters have given up hope they'll ever own.