skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, we use different computers. I was thinking, this might be tricky if you aren't careful to keep the file entirely cached in RAM.
Your acting on independent research doesn't distort the market. If you directly or indirectly control pricing in 30% of housing stock you can drive prices up incrementally because you have influence on every lease offer in that population.
Jacking up the price on renewal is the first move any landlord who is looking to maximize profits will do because most people really dislike moving. Plenty of people will accept the rent increase instead of the hassle of moving, allowing you to charge above market rates..
That brings to mind a Krampus-like demon eating books whole while everyone runs away from a burning library.
The fact that healthcare providers are allowed to give access to sensitive healthcare data to foreign nationals should be illegal.
The general form of the argument is just “when things happen very frequently, people get used to them.”

This is both true and a terrible reason to be okay with bad things proliferating. And it’s especially suspicious when this argument is leveled by people who generally aren’t going to be victimized by said bad things.
Story is from 2005. Brendan started working at Sun in 2006.
> That ship sailed when the industrial revolution started

According to this[0] at least, the main deforestation cause is cattle ranching and palm oil production. Not exactly activities caused by industrialisation.

[0] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145988/tracking-ama...
Probably all of it, if we extrapolate from the history of science. The theories we have now have replaced theories we now consoider wrong or less correct. No reason to think this will stop.
You need to look at second order effects and how AI might intersect with other emerging technologies. There will be fundamental shifts that change market dynamics, we just don’t know how they will happen yet. Incumbents have a strong belief in AI being transformational but since no one truly knows how those changes will be realized, so they are mostly all hedging their bets, investing in institutional knowledge and low-hanging fruit. They cannot generally afford to make a “big bet”. If you can develop a strong hypothesis about a non-obvious shift you can get ahead of the curve in a significant way on an emerging, or transforming market. Look for things that are valuable and/or expensive that might become a commodity. Look for technologies, business models and approaches that might be considered inferior or non-viable by incumbents, but that might experience synergies with an ai-powered future that changes the base assumptions.
Only Apple had the phone, Google's phone is mostly for pushing innovation (not sales) and Meta doesn't have a phone or OS. In the final analysis, most of the value went to these guys not the hundreds/thousands of startups that got started on mobile. Whatever these startups did, these guys copied or bought and drove most of the value post-acquisition (ex. Insta/Meta). Uber is probably the biggest and it only just crossed $150B recently.
because that form of media comes from Southern California which does not harbor those mores

and people with those mores will pay for a fantasy that doesn't include those mores
Possibly. That sounds familiar. Most of the backend folks actually worked on EDI stuff. Lot of money movement, so we weren't involved that much.
I met the most advanced robots in the world. They surprised me.
The Fog of War: or, when being vague is useful
Calculus 1 instructors, everywhere, screaming

> TikTok is finally concave down
https://archive.ph/PG27m
the service inherently isn't bad, it's the lack of moderation that's bad, and that responsibility falls to the parents to moderate.

If you can't moderate yourself then it's good you're not on those platforms, I have them and only use them when I poop.
Show HN: The day as a poem, on e-paper
> Putin showing himself using XP is almost certainly propaganda to fuel distrust towards Microsoft and western governments/corporations in general.

Hardly. He probably has more important matters to think about. That would be a world record in propaganda with the least impact.

There's no reason for him or anybody else to use inferior FOSS software when an old OS does just fine.
I don't think this sounds facetious. People and their life experiences are essentially inextricable. Nature vs. nurture stuff.

Separating/abstracting person from their experiences is as you say, a representation of a different, non-existent person - a mutant. Or worse still, some kind of dissection.

Disliking peanuts and being allergic to them each motivate abstaining from eating peanuts, an imitation of that person that abstained from eating peanuts without insight into why would be a rather pale imitation indeed.
Yeah, there were startups from the mobile era, they just got bought.

I think the social media startups like instagram are a good example of the startups from the mobile era.
Not unlike feudal lords building castles.
Its probably just the algorithm but in my experience people over 30 love TikTok. COVID killed the idea that TikTok was only a young person's app.
Did they manage to finally fix this Chrome bug?

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/18818459/chrome-tak...

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40770130
People who are funding political chaos monkeys to "blow up the system" have a financial moat against consequences of their own destructive actions. Now they have actual moats.
(author) Both GEnie and AppleLink used the same backend, which GE called the Mark III network, so there were some operational similarities.
The hater's guide to Kubernetes
It also underscores just how insane raw disk bandwidth is on modern ssds. Most software is not designed around a world where you have gigabytes a second of sequential scan on a laptop.
Misleading title?

This is a Windows API bug with the slim reader/writer (SRW) locks. It's just that the bug was discovered via std::shared_mutex as that is implemented using SRW locks.

SRW locks: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sync/slim-re...

Confirmation from a Microsoft employee that the bug has been raised internally with the Windows API team: https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1b55686/maybe_possible...
Well; I’m inclined to agree that my comment would indeed sound silly if you simply substituted antidepressants for pot. But in my mind that’s because it’s comparing apples to oranges. I just don’t see how they are comparable.
I thought this was going to be an article about measuring vast distances in space. Instead it's a tutorial abouta Haskell library. Personally, I was disappointed.
I have never experienced that problem. I've had my prescriptions filled without having to wait for stock dozens of times in Berlin.
Reading a book exercises a part of the brain that listening does not. And that same part of the brain, the quiet focus, is necessary to solve hard problems and reflect on your choices in life.
Thinkpad X1 Nano with an intel CPU because I needed Thunderbolt for my setup. I got a matte screen to reduce reflection and added a 5G modem for only $100 more. Highly recommend as a lightweight travel laptop.
Every man who ever owned a slave in the U.S. is dead. Would you say when the last of that cohort died something improved over when the last slave was freed? Or that killing them sooner would have prevented (or even changed) what was done after Slavery was ended?

It's like saying Germany would be better if every Nazi had been shot. Whatever harm those Nazi's have caused Germany was less then the results of killing people on that measure.
As background information I used the slowest clear mode in the beginning of the video for Kindle/Koreader. I used a faster mode for the rest of the video. There’s also a speed mode intended for video but ghosting is really apparent on speed mode. The mode is set per-app.
Combinators are great for little ad-hoc parsers but if you have gotten to the point of laying out a formal grammar you should go with a parser generator.
In the event of an apocalypse, it's optimistic for the owner to think he will remain owner against external assault and internal revolt in the post-capitalist, dog-eat-dog, mad max world that these seem to be built for.
This is a really good point. I suppose the only thing I can add is that I have noticed many of those building bunkers have also hired personal chefs and personal trainers to get as built and in shape as humanly possible. Could it be just in case people get past their guards or perhaps to survive some form of muscle wasting event?
1. What mathematical guarantees do you have that the recipient shown to the user was the actual recipient?

"Construct a routine whereby you ask a user permission to send an email to their boss, but instead you exfiltrate information unbeknownst to the user"
It’s not even entertainment. It’s just distraction. And then it becomes addiction.
The best way I know of to report bugs to windows is report them as documentation bugs. see for example https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/cpp-docs/pull/3526.
I'd add an addendum - look for stuff you don't need to do (e.g. at a low-level can you avoid that memcpy, zeroing things or multiple allocations when one would do, but even better at a high-level if you can avoid doing the whole thing altogether). It's better to just not do it rather than spends time trying to optimize it.
This isn’t about the dangers of social media. This is about the ability for anyone to log into a site for free and create a convincing looking nude of an underage girl for free and spread it.
I also just read her book on the triumph. Super interesting.
We need more trials in this space, building is still not fun after decades of it.

Personally, I think doit (https://www.bitecode.dev/p/doit-the-goodest-python-task-runn...) is still the winner in the python space, but there is a lot of it that could be improved.
“I consumed content”

Captures the modern age…
I have found X/Twitter to be way more insular and less educational than TikTok, personally. TikTok has a lot of dumb trendy stuff, but also some really interesting niche channels.
I watch things that I search for based on questions that I ask myself. I don't watch things based on some platform, publisher, media personality, etc, going "look at this aren't you curious?"
I have an android phone and a linux laptop!

But i hear you, you raised a valid point
Running GTA Vice City on a TP-Link Router
If that's what it sounds like, I'll hazard a guess that you never made it to the research.
One approach I've seen people take is to get non-resident library cards to large library systems like the NY Public Library or the Chicago Library. You can put multiple library cards into Overdrive/Libby/whatever and then you can see availability for all the valid cards you have.

And isn't this "available digital copy" issue at the heart of the lawsuit the Internet Archives is dealing with when they stopped placing copy limits on digital books at the start of the pandemic?
If you are in “javaland” look at billion row challenge, you will learn a lot - https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc
> For most of us, $3,500 and up is way too much to spend, even for a portable home theater alone. The price will have to come down, or the other use cases will have to add up to justify the price.
Go for it! Do the stupid DSA/leetcode thing because you’ll just need to. But with some tenacity you’ll find a role. Despite what you hear about hiring being tough (it is), it’s still happening and lots of folks from are finding jobs. At 6+ years experience you’re also in a good position.
I've started to call YC a "business factory;" commodification of creative human endeavors never goes well. By eliminating the human ability to adapt and grow from consideration, we remove most of the value.

[Edit]

As badly as some people want to believe you can replace one person with any other, it is just not true.
Maladaptations gonna maladapt
Here’s a thread on results with duckdb, I don’t mean to discourage you taking a shot at all though: https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/discussions/39
Yes, addiction, that's exactly what I had in mind. YouTube, Tok Tok etc, train your brain for craving satisfaction in short bursts and move on to something else. Even the "smart intellectual geeky" content is consumed for 20 minutes, you get satisfied, and then move on with your day/media consumption, and never make the effort to deepen your understanding.

I stopped using that word on HN because whenever I suggest that "screens are addictive" I get down voted (and it's not as much that it bothers me to lose imaginary points, it's that then it gets hidden and people don't get to see it, at which point I'm just yelling into the vacuum).
The reshuffling of windows in the option+tab UX is what drives me really crazy in MacOS.

Used to use the Alt+Tab app which makes it more sane, but I eventually removed it to preserve bloat.

Now I switch windows using Spotlight by typing the name of the app I want to switch to.
https://www-archive.mozilla.org/xpfe/xui.html
You just need an umbrella at the Lagrange point.
It's not a Mac (in the "I know this!" scene), it's a Silicon Graphics workstation.

Although a Quadra running A/UX would have been a legitimate Unix at the time, too.
You didn't read that right; at no point did I take the outcome seriously.

But the real point isn't Bruen's specific test: it's the precedent established that activist judges can rewind legal interpretation by centuries which is concerning. Our legislative history contains some real doozies that we don't want coming back.
> I include, especially, stack-oriented bytecodes ...

WASM uses stack-oriented bytecode for simplicity and to make static analysis easier, not just for terseness. (Arguably, the real underlying issue with stack-oriented bytecode is the amount of stack fiddling you have to include in more complex programs. It also does not generalize cleanly to parallel execution, unlike, e.g. dataflow or even register-based SSA.)
What it's like to staff the home of a billionaire
Static linking is not typically a security measure because you would assume the host system's libraries are equally if not more up to date.

In the case of modern software designed for Windows XP, I absolutely consider static linking to be a very significant security measure, because every statically linked library decreases the amount of vulnerable userland code in use. For example, Chromium literally doesn't use the Windows SSL stack—it brings its own—so any and all SSL vulnerabilities on the Windows side are irrelevant.

On Linux, you could decide to statically link everything and create a binary which literally doesn't touch userland—but I don't know if it's possible to go this far on Windows. Regardless, it's true that at some point Chromium will need to tell the OS to e.g. blit pixels on the screen—as does VMWare, which was the point of that comparison—and you could attack the OS via the pixel blitting function. However, this would be considered a Chromium zero day.

A zero-day which is non-exploitable in Windows 11 might be exploitable in Windows XP—this is what you loose by forgoing defense in depth—but it would be fixed in due time regardless.
So the bodies of people shot are seen more often in high police presence areas and just not found in other areas? That seem strange that it would be due to higher police presence. The fact that for non violent crimes the stats are skewed sound plausible but that seem less so for violent ones.
> Agatha Christie mysteries

These definitely invite reader participation. They are designed like puzzles, like the rest of the whodunit genre. I have more trouble with such stories than with hard SF in audiobook format, as the scientific concepts in hard SF are usually well explained and hard to miss.

"Light" technical writing is usually fine in audiobook format, and by light, I usually mean writing that doesn't have exercises. Other things that work really well as audiobooks is if you are learning a spoken foreign language.
Adam Smith Understood That We Need Each Other
What about Uber, Lyft, Instacart, and the many other companies that (arguably) were only possible because of smart phones?
Its unlikely us plebs will get airplanes or boats to get all the way out to Hawaii to overthrow a couple random billionaires, we’ll have much bigger issues to deal with at home.
The revolt will never happen because these billionaires will just lull us to sleep with more TikTok movies and whatnot.
As others have commented, it would be more like deciding which optimisation passes to run and in which order. Things like loop unrolling and inlining are not always helpful. Things like polyhedral optimization can be very slow. Running every optimization pass every time it might help is certainly far too slow.
> The objective metric for value is varying degrees of “was my problem solved”.

Everything said rests upon this. And this is an incredibly present view of programming.

And it's just so hogwash, to me. There's infinite paths we can take in programming to make something happen. Winnowing our view to only consider whether technically we have checked the box or not, blinding ourselves to how we win, disregarding countless other tangible and intangibles: it's an oppressive curse against the craft.

Craftsmen are capable of grappling with the intangibles; they use taste to pick paths that have internal elegance, legibility. They spawn architectures that perform well, atop a selection of apt tools and libraries from a wealth of known options, and which can be worked and reworked on as needed.

You can ignore every cofactor of production at your own risk, but the intangibles of how we win often matter, are an ever expanding horizontal and vertical depth of systems which will create path dependencies for all work going forward. People who focus only on immediate does it work outcomes rob us of vision and dream and short the real journey, which isn't ticket by ticket, but is something whole and bigger, is many components which to work well together require your skill at thinking and imagining comprehensively.
Top AIs still fail IQ tests
I explicitly refer to untagged unions though, not tagged ones. The lack of a language-known tag is part of the API, not just the ABI. Even library-specific tags should only be considered an incremental upgrade, not the core union support.

Yes, it is possible to refactor things like `SDL_Event` to use subclasses instead of unions. But the point is - you shouldn't have to, not at first. And of course, you need to be able to use a union to perform a bitwise cast between float and int. Not some other ad-hoc API; it needs to be trivial to port from C regardless of what the context looks like.
My wikipedia editing experience was similar, crazy to think that it was almost 20 years ago. Me and some friends contributed our honest-best to some articles relating to language dialects we spoke, and minerals we liked - the stuff we could nerd out about a tiny bit more than whatever was on Wikipedia at the time, and so we added our paragraphs. In all cases the changes were reverted, and we actually made an enemy with a wikipedia editor who if I recall was an army vet and science teacher, and personally 'babysat' the articles about minerals, and would allow no changes to his articles.

I think it would be cool if there was something that saved all contributions, even deleted ones, and made it easy to explore all of them. I know Wikipedia has a diff history but that's not the right interface to bring all that to the surface.

Looking forward to the next collaborative scrapbook to start up so I can participate in good faith and have some good fun :D
Isn't that what your parent comment said?

> exporting that heat into the rest of earth (where it is used and expelled as heat)
How is it on decline when Instagram forces you to watch reels of people you don't even follow and YouTube try to force you to watch shorts ever chance they got?

Even if TikTok ceases to exist it has contaminated every other major platform
> incumbents don’t have Innovators Dilemma here

I would argue that they do in some ways. For example, with AI it's not about adopting vs. not adopting AI, but rather degree of adoption.

It's easy to superficially integrate AI, but creating a competitive product predicated on post-AI assumptions requires rebuilding it from the ground up, which is not in the rational self-interest of incumbents.

In fact, this is even harder than the decision whether or not to adopt new technologies because with AI you can fool yourself into thinking you've gone far enough.

AI is such a game-changer that we have no idea what 'far enough' means yet. So the best we can do is run in that direction as fast as possible, which is hard to do with the baggage of an existing business. Startups are uniquely suited to this because they arebets on a different future.

That said, it is a fantastic article -- Jason always puts out insightful, high quality writing.
Interesting that the article itself gives AI-generated vibes:

>It's important to remember that while Wikipedia is "The Free Encyclopedia that Anyone Can Edit,"
My dad did this for my sister and I growing up and it was excellent.

We also played some text adventures, but I wouldn't recommend them for today's kids. Back then it was just cool to sit in front of a computer in the first place so bashing our heads against the wall for months trying to get a babel fish didn't seem as frustrating as it actually was.

VNs and Twine style IF would be less frustrating, although a lot of those are probably not age appropriate for younger kids.
I love it. I tried the new Zelda game during lockdown and wandering around as the music changes is really fun to do.

Digging around your website a bit I see you've also made an interactive version of Paul Batchelor's sporth language cookbook[0], this is very cool, thank you! I'd like to get into sporth but I had a hard time with the stack-based language approach. Your version of the cookbook seems like a very nice way to get more comfortable with it.

[0] https://audiomasher.org/learn
Yep. Peter Thiel's antics supporting Trump and funding psyops on Facebook and Reddit to bring about a new feudalism world is a perfect example. His bunker in New Zealand was luckily exposed, so he can't hide from the consequences. I'd love to see someone develop a Billionaire Bunker locator, similar to the Elon's Jet idea.
3D printed titanium structure shows supernatural strength
Nice to know that it's not just Apple to whom reporting bugs in hopeless. :)
Is your hardware mute switch enabled?
One thing I find interesting about TikTok (and potentially modern algorithm-driven social medias) is the region-locking. Growing up I was fascinated by the fact I could force people across the ocean to read my broken English, and that was basically how I learned English. Nowadays a lot of English vocabulary has invaded my language in gaming and tech circles, while apps like TikTok have their recommendation algorithms designed with strong regional bias and no way of opting out of that apparently. It's hard for me to tell if TikTok is really the way Americans say it is when, if I try to use TikTok, what I will end up seeing will be in literally a different language.

I hope this doesn't catch on. It makes the world wide web feel a lot less world wide.
Pyo is a good one: http://ajaxsoundstudio.com/pyodoc/
Wow, the previous thread had a lot of similar war stories of big companies trying to pass off other people's work as their own. I didn't realize the practice was so widespread! I'm probably spoiled working for HugeCompany but we have thorough legal reviews of all external dependencies we pull in that goes down to the source code to find and stop improper uses of "other people's work". Crazy to hear how much casual credit-taking happens in this industry.