skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they not? Why do I believe these are always run by contractors? Is that real life?
> Unless you're doing nested locking.

In my experience, needing to do nested locking is a sign you're up the wrong creek.

I've rewritten some interfaces and implementations from using nested locking to non-nested, and they became easier to use and much faster.

Not saying there's never a place for them, but I avoid nested locking like the plague.
It's not the license expiration date is just the annual date that you need to pay your license renewal fees on.
Universities Killed the Academic
Many VPS/web hosters provide email services along with their custom-domain support, e.g. https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/email/. It’s worthwhile to look into that space, because you are getting dedicated and responsive customer support instead of an anonymous black-box mess.
I have AMD and Gentoo. For daily use an eco mode is OK. But at the weekend when I need to emerge, have to use all the power.

But also, now, the deps for $WORK are in pre-buolt docker so I'm not rebuilding nodejs every other weekend.
Obviously you can't attack another user like this on HN, so please don't.

There's another problem: you've been posting about nothing but this one topic for months. That's not what HN is for. I know the topic is important and I'm sure your views are sincere, but we still have to preserve this site for its intended purpose. Using HN primarily for political battle and similar conflicts is against HN's rules, not because those conflicts don't matter (of course they matter, more than basically everything on HN), but because if we don't have such a rule, they will take over the site completely, and then HN won't be HN any more.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
> Who isn't going to set their prices relative to their competitors in a market? And also try to have as low a cost as possible, so they have as good a profit margin as possible? It's basic business 101.

The text book behavior would be to price yourself lower than the competitors and try to get market share from them.

In our current paradigm, if you have low costs while keeping your price as high as the incumbent, there should be other players entering the market and disrupting it by going for lower margins. That mechanism not happening even as there's a variety of actors in the market is where it's qualified as "price fixing" IMHO.

PS: about Google's antitrust case, are you refering to them stopping other stores from getting installed on android phones ?
No they're not. The first reconized school shooting was in 1764, with the Enoch Brown school massacre. There have been school shootings ever since. (Unless you want to argue that the 1700s wasn't that long ago, which it also wasn't, but I don't think that's where you're coming from.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...
The easiest way to "disrupt" the shipping industry is probably through software. Cheap and reliable software is loved by everyone. There are ships out there, military ships, running very old software. But even when new, some would say especially when new, software bugs can quickly render a ship unusable.

https://medium.com/dataseries/when-smart-ships-divide-by-zer...

>> The technician tried to digitally calibrate and reset the fuel valve by entering a 0 value for one of the valve’s component properties into the SMCS Remote Database Manager (RDM). The RDM program then attempted to perform a division operation by the valve property; a divide-by-zero arithmetic exception was thrown, not caught by the program, and the RDM crashed. Since other Smart Ship systems were dependent on RDM availability across the LAN, these other SMCS components including ones controlling the motor and propulsion machinery began to fail in a domino-like sequence until the ship stopped dead in the water.
sleep 30m; checking 60m
Are you saying everyone should receive welfare (eg, some kind of UBI program); or that you're against people receiving welfare based on their needs, but okay with them receiving it based on their age?

If it's the latter are you not equally worried that the current system of giving welfare based on age will turn the young against the old? Also, how would you even build a welfare system to help those in need if you don't have some way to assess that?
> Depth of field is a human eyes thing too.

Not in in the dumb way games do it: You don't need to turn your entire head to make something come into focus, or aim it with with a gun.
You know, maybe some people arent cut out for economics, but, the spirit of rothbard compels me, economic education is for the masses so I will provide a quote from chapter 2, prices and cost subsection.

"While you may put whatever prices you wish on the goods and services you provide, those prices will become economic realities only if others are willing to pay them, and that depends not on whatever prices you have chosen, but on how much consumers want what you offer, and on what other producers charge for the same goods and services."

So, maybe the 6th edition could be better equipped for ctrl+f economists, with all the communist propaganda words indexed to subsections.
> Lots of theories have been thrown out and replaced completely

Which ones? I don't know of settled science that has been found to be false, but maybe I just don't know.

Sometimes a new theory might eclipse another theory - cover all that ground and more, but that doesn't make the prior theory wrong in any way. My new, faster laptop doesn't mean the old one didn't work.
My question is how many?

How many unemployed? And how many opened positions? Your wording suggests that the number of opened positions exceeds half of the number of unemployed workers, but what’s your actual numeric estimation?
Imagine you record audio with perfect fidelity and extreme dynamic range. Now, you have the tiniest and the loudest sounds captured; how do you go about conveying this work?

The answer is compression, equalization, all those tricks. And yes, that lowers fidelity, and yes, you will have to make choices as to what’s more important to focus perceptive attention.

Similarly with video: many fidelity-lowering tricks serve a purpose. Film grain, aside from conveying a mood, can mask excess detail in shadows and highlights, the detail that would detract from the story you’re telling. A headlight flare can bring attention to the coming car; if your hero or villain is in that car, that’s useful. Panning over a fleeting sun flare, you momentarily focus on the environment and can use it to bridge attention between subjects or scenes.

It’s all a complicated dance, and it all exists in time, inseparably from both the immediately preceding material and the larger current cultural context.
drinks in manual auditing, mapping, and labeling of semantically meaningful string values for project planning and/or data analysis
I don't know if you did it on purpose, but this is arriving some 40 years late into the flame war and then casually throwing in some bait like you've been living in a cavern. Also, it's entirely unrelated to the post.
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I feel like there's a story here.
> As a kindness to Amiga fans, I am not even going to mention Doom or Syndicate.

I played the hell out of the Syndicate demo on my Amiga, maybe you’re thinking of something else? It was a ton more playable on there than any of the Amiga attempts at Doom clones of the time, thats for sure.

There was definitely a point where PCs left the Amiga in the dust and it was around the time VGA and better started happening though. The A1000 was an amazing beast when it came out but Commodore basically sat on their ass when it came to improving the thing.
It's not surprising the Village Voice covered this - NYC had a rich cyberculture during the mid 1990s, fostered by the various BBS/ISPs (MindVox, Interport, Panix, etc) as well as a number of startups in Silicon Alley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Alley).
Plus there should be some fraction of people, even in Japan, capable of talking frankly and directly to each other, without needing alcohol...

Or is that somehow discouraged too?
The same could be said about bit depth: 24 bits offers far less quantization artifacts than 16 bits, and those artifacts can readily show up during production processes such as dynamic range compression, but they are extremely well hidden by dithering with noise shaping which gets applied during mastering so ultimately listeners are fine either way.

However, any type of subsequent processing in the digital domain, even just a volume change by the listener if it's applied digitally in the 16 bit realm (i.e., without first upscaling to 24 bits), completely destroys the benefit of dithering. For that reason, we might say that additional processing isn't confined to the recording studio and can happen at the end user level.

I'm unsure whether this same logic applies to sampling frequency, but probably? I guess post-mastering processing of amplitude is far more common than time-based changes, but maybe DJs doing beat matching?
This is one of those things where now that I know about it, I see it everywhere. People stick butterfly images on all sorts of things, and 99% of the time they're in the dead and mounted style.
Logistics and delays are a bigger issue than price. I'm not sure how well JIT manufacturing works for those products and at that distance.
Maybe a bit unfair to call it a revolt, given that multiple countries face a decade of constrained capacity on new grid connections. If projects are delayed 10 years because regulators won't connect them to the grid, green energy was never really 'delivered'.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65500339
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/climate/renewable-energy-...
Bad therapy is stunting kids
That is very interesting!

Thanks for sharing.

I hadn’t really thought about those sorts of social problems and how you solve them!
Where I live there isn't just one bank.

So customers can very easily move their money and business elsewhere if they feel like they are being somehow controlled. And as someone who has worked at two banks almost all of those restrictions derive from the government.
I don't have a Pioneer (I wish!) but I just yesterday compiled GCC head (14.0.1) on my 16GB LicheePi 4A (same cores as the Pioneer, but only 4 instead of 64) and it took just under 7:03 in your notation:

real 422m41.367s
user 1430m56.638s
sys 70m17.994s

It's hard to believe the Pioneer with 16x as many cores and a slightly higher clock speed and 128GB RAM and NVMe SSD vs eMMC would be slower.

My expectation is that it would beat my i9-13900HX laptop (24 cores) running riscv64/ubuntu in docker (QEMU) which took 1:42.

real 101m44.472s
user 1695m26.395s
sys 24m36.671s

Note: newlib build, not glibc. But still!
And my point is it doesn't have to.

This tool doesn't need to cover every single thing.
You should read up about the corporate shenanigans at Commodore. The company was effectively self-kneecapped by uninterested suits; they would likely not have survived regardless of any development in the field.

Amiga had good 3D games before the PC; breakthroughs like DOOM happened when the company was already on its way down, after a number of wrong strategic turns - including an unwillingness to foster a liberal ecosystem of third-party add-on manufacturers, which was what eventually dragged the IBM-PC into modern multimedia.
That is an utterly depressing brainworm, Roko's Basilisk
I think so—there are multiple trillion dollar companies out there whose business model is to take your focus. If you can out compete a trillion dollar company, that’s pretty good, right?
> I might even hope for understanding of the population structure and MSA breakdown of their own country, but let's not get greedy

Americans have a wildly inaccurate understanding of who other Americans even are: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-m.... For example, “Black Americans estimate that, on average, Black people make up 52% of the U.S. adult population.” Can you imagine the impact of that perception—that black people are a slight majority of the population when in fact they are 12%—on people's political beliefs and trust in the system?

I bet if you surveyed people who thought the 2020 election was stolen, they would vastly overestimate the percentage of the population that is rural white people. If you start from that premise, you start to understand how they could be astounded about the results of an election conducted under unfamiliar and quite different rules due to the pandemic.
> All these articles undersell how bad the morale is at Google right now... Googlers have zero trust in the leadership.

Not being combative but how would you know?

The articles that have come out have been as opinionated. Many like to see a company they dislike, fail in some way. Many others who view Google pushing an agenda can also being pushing their own agenda. It's hard to say what motivates people to make unfounded statements.

Are you in a position within Google to quantify the statements you've made?
We did a podcast episode about her autobiography “Let It Go”:

https://pnc.st/s/business-books/f3cc494478a544f6/let-it-go-b...
First hit for me is the Bluesky social media logo.
Archive: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/01/death-valle...

And a video, since the pics don't seem to come through on the archive link: https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/reemergence-rare-lake-death-...
For, for, for, and against, respectively.
In today's world: yes. The flip side of some types of ADHD is hyperfocus, where you can simply lose hours doing something and forget to eat sleep or drink, you're so focused on a thing.
a) You can simply run your own servers in a data centre.

b) You don't just get to demand that the entire world bends to your whims.
Are they 100% domestic military production? Seem like expanding shipyard capacity would require contractors to run it and accept orders for at least other allied navies or maybe commercial vessels too. Otherwise, I don't see it working out sustainably.
Open source models seem to be lagging by about a year. But for the end user with a powerful enough computer, you can do GPT 3.5 level work for no additional cost right now.
I have an Amiga 1000 with an expansion package called A-Max. This allows my Amiga to use a real external Macintosh floppy drive. But it also allows me to use a separate partition on the A1K's internal hard drive where I've installed System 6. A-Max allows me to have what would essentially be a Macintosh Plus with crazy stats for the times, including a mild accelerator. The little thing flies. Two computers in one!

Since most software except certain Mac games (cough!) ever hit the Mac custom chips, virtually everything I throw at it works flawlessly.

MS Word, Mac Draw, Hypercard, Quarterstaff... It's pretty cool.
https://archive.is/MPBi4
Better for the planet, better food and cultural options, shorter travel times for typical daily activities... in my book it definitely is.
I have this in my SaaS, as well. I built an Electron app that ushers the jobs from the cloud to the thermal printer. It all works until there is a failed job and the queue backs up. I haven't quite figured out how to monitor the queue remotely yet.
several years ago i do own implementation of SRW/PushLocks - of course based on original NeillC code..
https://github.com/rbmm/SRW_ALT/tree/main/PushLock-ALT

they have slightly worse performance compared to MS, when high contention, but in test with this OP case - work well. in my test i not found bugs in implementation, but of course can not be sure that they not exist, very complex logic really. nobody test this, however very simply replace SRW calls to my implementation, by macros in h file
> this "we shouldn't create a power vacuum" etc. type of reasoning is something I have a lot of problems with.

You seem to have missed the point of that sentence, apparently by ignoring everything around the words "power vacuum". It was well known that Iraq would be a quagmire and a clusterfuck, for many reasons and not just that one.

> So to go back to the top post: "America was wrong. Saddam was evil. They can both be true".

At no point in any of my comments have I argued that America was right, or that Saddam was a nice guy.

> I'll go a step further and say: "The Iraq War was a bad idea. Deposing Saddam was a good idea. They can both be true".

In the real world, outside of hypothetical vacuums entirely, deposing Saddam was a terrible idea and W's Administration knew it. They said so themselves!

Then they found a way to profit from it. Or should I say, profit again - because it was a lot of the same Admin who sold Saddam weapons and intel in the first place.

Context matters.
They organise events and parties for people who have come into or made a lot of money.

The intent of the party is not to celebrate a birthday or occasion, but rather to get introduced to a new social group of similarly wealthy people.

The service would also construct a guest list and so on for you.

So you wouldn’t need to invite your old social circle, who probably now hate you because you are so rich! LOL ;-)

Yes, this sort of thing does sound utterly grotesque to a generation that can’t find a place to live or afford rent!

But here we are, and if there is money to be made from this, then it’s good that someone is making it! :-)

TLDR; we hate it when our friends become successful.
No but it's real cheap. Simple questions are a cent or two. I'm paying a couple bucks a month.
What’s frustrating is that the one reason I ever wanted AI is to have a Lt. Cdr. Data or ship computer equivalent that is logical and correct to a fault and that helps me reason through things, but what we got now is almost exactly the opposite, we have to help it reason through things and have to double-check everything for correctness.
precisely. And for me I am at my most vulnerable when I am context-switching for this reason.

One of the most important keys to keep in mind is: always have a clear, delineated next action. Such that no thought is even necessary to know what you need to do. And plan the next step out /before/ you need to perform it, not in the moment of.
This is an excellent application of George Ainslie’s concept of future reward discounting. Very powerful concept that can be fruitfully applied to all sorts of things in life: http://www.picoeconomics.org/
Isn’t this known as the power method?
I used Pyodide (https://pyodide.org/en/stable/) as a python execution environment in browser. That was pretty successful. There are also python libraries that let you generate a config which is later made responsive via a JS library. Pyodide runs in wasm.
I don't think this is a great analogy. The popular "heart" is rather abstract and does not directly depict anything biological. The popular "butterfly" is very concrete and precisely depicts something biological, namely a dead butterfly.

Taking the article, again, perhaps too seriously: Just because a symbol has gained cultural currency doesn't mean we need to accept it as is. We can change. We can fight our immediate symbol associations. Personally I think we should.
If you want to quickly try and tinker with Framework in your browser, I've set up some Codespace devcontainers that automatically configure Node and Python environments here:

[0]: https://github.com/dleeftink/observable-codespace
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Only by breaking laws. As I said, they can do that using less energy without the blockchain.
I think women will choose to have children if they can do it on their own terms. The problem is systematic gender roles and the (word hate ahead) patriarchy still score a bullseye when it comes to motherhood.
Machine learning has already made liquid biopsy cancer screening possible:
https://grail.com/multi-cancer-early-detection/
> If working with number arrays using Float32Array can provide significant improvements to performance.

Do you mean TypedArray? [0]

> Never use .forEach(), always use a for loop. Same applies to methods like .map().

I just found it out yesterday [1]. It's a nice trick. I already changed all forEach (even tho it maked my eyes a little bit wet).

> some clever stuff with WebGL2, WASM or Web Workers

I already use Web Workers with async calls to divide main task into smaller pieces and not to block main render. But I am pretty new to this concept so I don't grasp fully what is the overhead of using this method.

Thank you for the video - will check it now.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[1] https://leanylabs.com/blog/js-forEach-map-reduce-vs-for-for_...
Try the app called Opal. Similar thing but you can always skip the block. The trick is that each time you skip the block, there’s a longer and longer cooldown period to skip it again.
> riscv64-linux-gnu-objdump (though it produces incorrect output for instructions like addi and slli

The assembler accepts either syntax:

user@starfive:~$ echo add a0,a0,13 \; addi a1,a1,420 | as
user@starfive:~$ objdump -d a.out

a.out: file format elf64-littleriscv

Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000000000 <.text>:
0: 00d50513 add a0,a0,13
4: 1a458593 add a1,a1,420

Also, objdump will print them as `addi` if you give the `-Mno-aliases` option.
I think the underwater craze has to be at least partially related to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which was published in 1871.
I don't even understand how to comment...

Do I need a blog somewhere to leave a comment?
>> the underwater thing was so important back then.

Because, unlike outer space, the deep ocean was a magical and alien dimension that existed only feet away from everyone's doorstep, and the technology for getting there was under rapid development. Jules Verne's 20,000 LUTS came out only twenty years previous to this article. The artist may well have read it as as child.
An interesting read, insofar as what it says about nativist vs immigrant tensions, and how those align with Fourth Turnings. While I'd heard that peak globalism/immigration accompanied the Roaring [19]20's, I was unaware that the same tensions existed in 1850.