skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would mostly be a browser, though. Changing the language used for the API to C (or whatever) from Javascript is mostly cosmetic, existing interpreter/JIT engines are extremely optimized, you can target basically anything to wasm, etc...

The problem isn't the technical hurdle, it's that sandboxed apps really aren't what we want in a lot of cases. There remain a lot of use cases for native apps the interact directly with the hardware in ways that are hard to abstract safely. Games need the whole GPU, backend middleware needs the raw network stack, you want to set up routing tables or a custom NAS, etc...

Those requirements don't go away even when "most" stuff can be done in a browser-equivalent sandbox. And... you need to rely on your Linux distro for those things still, or at least compile from an active github project. You can't just get raw binaries from whoever and expect to be safe.
Wouldn't the be the CEO?
> For example, using 70+% of Arizona's water for agriculture is terrible.

We don't live in a society where the govt allocates the best land for farming as farmland (yet). Normally, I am a proponent for agriculture...as long as it serves as supply for the US.

What's worrying, is how much of the agriculture is foreign owned, then shipped overseas.

https://www.azfamily.com/2022/12/28/wells-are-running-dry-dr...
This study is less than perfect. Borrowing very heavily from a previous comment:

Figure 4 is really quite special. The authors seem to have normalized a bunch of outcome measurements in units of standard deviations and then sorted them by something resembling the average differences, but they couldn’t be bothered to normalize the sign of the measurement? If you’re trying to tell me that 30-ish scores are all Gaussian enough to be worthy of using standard deviation units but that they don’t even all agree as to whether large or small numbers are good, I’m suspicious of the normalization procedure. (If “accuracy” means what I think it does, it’s obviously not even close to Gaussian. 90% might be good, 100% is perfect, and 101% is not “just z standard deviations better.”) There are decent techniques to deal with this (e.g. nonparametric models), but blindly normalizing, sorting, and adding a little caption to indicate that you did in fact notice that a bunch of the tests are backwards is not one of them.
I hoped the article would make some mention of how believable the results were, but no.
(Also, maybe mention that the pre-Omicron strains are not much of an ongoing risk and that those results, while potentially interesting, are probably unhelpful for informing future policy decisions?)

Also:

> This invited subsample comprised participants who reported positive results on a SARS-CoV-2 test or who suspected that they had had Covid-19 and whose symptoms persisted for at least 12 weeks; participants who, as part of the REACT study, either had a positive result on a polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) test for SARS-CoV-2 or were unvaccinated and had a positive test for SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies on an at-home lateral flow immunoassay device16; and participants who were randomly selected from the remaining REACT study population.

This is a retrospective study with an obviously biased study population. And the >12-week-symptoms group contains self-selected participants who may never have even had COVID!
Getting sick for 12 weeks sucks. Finding a detectable effect on an intelligence test should not be remotely surprising.

Earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39575080
Perhaps they are following market pressure to streamline operations. The Classical Learning Test (CLT) is a growing SAT/ACT/PSAT competitor that can be taken online or on paper, with either remote or in-person proctoring. It is accepted by 250+ colleges and universities.

https://www.cltexam.com/
The only non-At will employment state is Montana. [https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/at-will_employment]
Leadership is a hell of a drug
The US dominates the whole continent because it is more free market.
let's do a thought experiment..

think of a modern passenger airplane. That airplane has thousands of specialized parts really.. each one made of plastic or metals or other.. together, it makes something that has enormous, powerful benefit.. to travel over water and mountains and neighbors, to get to a destination and very quickly. Each of those airplane parts could be "recycled" at the end of life, but a) they are unique to their purposes, not made to be generally recyclable and b) the materials are often very low cost in terms of the raw material inputs.. manufacturing starts to mature like that.. so any recycling value for just the materials, is likely low from the material point of view alone..

Now, with that example in mind.. think of a PC computer or server rack mount computers .. each part could be taken out.. the value of the material itself, and the lack of recyclable design.. makes each part very low value and difficult or impossible to recycle.. and here is the conclusion..

The very high value of the complete device or airplane, is completely lost once more than a few parts are removed. The "value chain" of reuse is destroyed quickly.. with the scrap being far, far less value than the thing it came from.. this is a giant loss of energy in more than one way, and a giant source of waste in the deepest sense..
The criteria are pretty ambiguous, though some weak signals may be better than none.
I'll go one better. Many problems aren't worth solving.
MCAS was a design problem, and one inherent from the start. That the FAA (kinda, due to the weird industry setup) approved.

This was an ops problem.

The common element is Boeing, not the model of plane.
Really interesting!

Curious, why reimplementing jax in rust (nox)?
The way container runtimes on Linux work is fundamentally different to MacOS and Windows. You need virtualization (albeit, lighter weight since they can use the host kernel) to run containers on Windows and MacOS.

QEMU is kind of overkill because MacOS provides the VzVirtualMachine API through the Virtualization Framework, which can initialize a VM with the host's kernel. On Windows you can use Hyper-V, which is iirc how docker on Windows gets this done.

If MacOS and Windows had pid/mount/network namespaces, overlayfs, and allowed for unrestricted chroot (MacOS requires disabling SIP for that) then you could do the same thing on all platforms. Today, you need virtualization.
> Next time I’ll be more aggressive with promotion.

Why not this time? If you are interested to promote your extension, you can do it now. Your extension is still there.

Another question is for how long YouTube and Chrome will allow it to work. (They may also feel disappointed).
Easy solution here is for every traveler to refuse to buy seats on a Boeing plane. If we honestly believe the company was at fault and has been negligent in their safety protocols, it seems like an easy answer to just not support their business.
That has its own issues as a metric, since the Shuttles were much more fragile and had to go through much more refurbishment compared to Dragon.
Such a founder perspective.

Here is another; they fucked over their customers. Didn't even open source it on the way out?! Nobody with a memory for this is going use their products without second thought in the future.

But peoples memories are short and a sucker is born every day.

Would a board be lucky to have Ravi on it? Sure, maybe. So their personal success is secured fuck their users; slow clap.
That can be one the same phenomenon.
> point that I think Americans miss sometimes

Definitely. Americans are very quick to prioritise the needs of businesses over those of people.

In Europe, the people come first.
I'm very woried of pepple using this model as if there are not false positives and in 10 years get may stories of wrong incarcelation like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaken_baby_syndrome#Legal_iss...
I mean, it literally does?

If 2 people has died, it would have been a more serious event. By definition, no?
Yeah, I don't think this makes that much sense for internal distribution. Especially if you use kubernetes.

The use case is for distributing software to end users.
The patch system I worked with generated signatures of each build. The signature had the hash of each block of the build. The client has the signature for their version (1.0) and they download the signature of the new version (1.2) and diff the two. Then they download each block that has changed.

I think it was the `electron-updater` for my electron app, but I don't quite remember now.
There are times when I worry that the ubiquity of computers is crushing experimentation in computer interface concepts.
It really is! I didn't go back and click on the homepage til I read this comment, but the vibes of it are amazing.
The fact that the scent stays on dishes after even multiple washes with detergent speaks to how powerful of a surfactant rinse aids are. 2/10 do not recommend.
The New Deal was a welfare system. Welfare has never made a country prosperous.

The success of free markets has been replicated many times:

1. the US

2. Japan after WW2

3. Germany after WW2

4. Hong Kong

5. China after it abandoned the cultural revolution

It has nothing to do with geography.

> America is at the top and that can't be replicated

It can be replicated.

> It might be collectivism!

Yet collectivism always fails. No country has managed to feed itself with collective farms, for example. And it isn't for lack of trying.
If you're considering "just give me the exe" as multiple sharing between people, I wholeheartedly agree that it's a mistake, but the context here is of a person wanting to download the binary from the author themselves.
I’ve tried it - I’m just too used to working with Bootstrap.
Not sure if it is acceptable, but you could put the entire building pipeline in a docker container
It wasn't insightful (and nowhere did I say that Dondald Rumsfeld was incapable of saying something insightful). We knew then what he was trying to claim we didn't know. Even Dick Cheney said on the record (during the first Iraq War) that a full invasion would be a Vietnam style quagmire.

Rumsfeld said a smart-sounding thing he got from somewhere else, but it was just a lie. He knew the WMD claim was made up because he helped manufacture it. Iraq's non-involvement in 9/11 and our inability to accomplish regime change were "known knowns" prior to the invasion.
All Scenarios Data Technology [video]
To be honest I don't like WOTC-era D&D all that much and prefer early TSR-era stuff and modern OSR games. However, I am surrounded by young people in my circles of real world friends who continue to play and post/YouTube about 5th edition - the game they got started in.
The demos look really choppy on iOS.
Search for that user in the comments here;

https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installa...
Presumably you’d want the lowest common manager within the power structure.
PixelSnap: The fastest tool for measuring anything on your screen
around one year ago I've evaluated how much it will cost me to run DB (MYSQL) server on RDS, taking current server (one of) as example.

If my memory serves me well, for medium sized DB of 2TB/160GB RAM/20+ cores, it was something like 2000$/month on RDS and around 230$ on Hetzner (with AX161, actually having 2x3.5TB NVMe disks and high iops capacity and 32c/64t EPYC CPU).

That project was never been in AWS/"cloud" though, so savings are made in upfront.

I have not done any traffic calculations, though - I actually forgot that AWS can charge you for that as well.
Yes, this is indeed increasingly common.

All the more reason to legislatively nuke it all as fast and as forcefully as possible before it entrenches.
It also selects for people that have spent their early life credential-chasing and turning their life into an easily repeated list of accomplishments.

A lot of great employees rightfully spent their teen years screwing around and having fun before settling into career mode.
Shouldn't that be outright illegal? Like, AI will maximize revenue which in turn means people have to lose more (or win less)
That's really cool. I didn't know about that. Thanks for sharing.

There's a few things that seem to make it unsuitable for the intended use case of dockerc:

* The container extracts itself which means there is quite a bit of overhead for large images. dockerc-built executables have the same startup time whether the image is 2.2GB or 25MB.

* The executables produced by enroot don't seem suitable for running standalone. At least the example doesn't seem to suggest so.
Actually, AZ's desert has some shocking benefits for agriculture.

* Lots of sun, so you can get many growing seasons.

* No pests (there's nothing else for them to live on)

* Few weeds to compete with what you are growing.

I know, I was surprised too.

This podcast goes into more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owieQnPYfT8
i love this kinda interactive documentation, its so great to be able to tinker as you learn. well done!
Your analogy would break down as, if the airplane were intact and had good chain of custody, then the owner would at the very least sell it to a junkyard that would part out the most valuable parts. More likely it would be sold to be reused.

The challenge is the capitalist strategy of manufactured obsolescence that make valid products turn into complete junk to sell new product.

That and the proliferation of cheap ill designed products are the largest source of waste in the world.
The point is that EU employment law (whether somebody can be fired upon saying things) isn't relevant to a dispute between two business entities that are not in an employer/employee relationship...
Does anyone know what a "markdown verbatism" is?

In trying to find out what a "verbatism" the best I could do was a typo of "verbatim" but that doesn't quite map to "markdown formatted literal." Or maybe it's the rendered form of the markdown literal?

Anyway, seemed like interesting and new vocabulary that was key to the one issue for sure.
> ...tells me WHAT IT IS.

Tailwind is a styling library, not label system. You want to know what something is? use the id attribute, it's not rocket science

> I can also easily see what structure the DOM has.

Really? Because even in the cherry-picked half-assed example above I can more easily read the DOM structure than whatever this is.
This is what I don't understand about the movement that wants the SAT/ACT removed for college admissions, or claim that it's biased.

Sure, it's biased. Everything is. But it's biased in an open, auditable way that students of any background can prepare for. The rich will always have an advantage of course, but this is one of those areas where grit and determination can actually close the gap considerably.

Remove that, and a benchmark that anyone can understand and prepare for is just going to be replaced by something more opaque. You think a standardized test is biased? Do you think the application committee at most universities is going to be unbiased when they have nothing to go off but a student's essay and zip code?

It's incongruous to me that the same people who I think have a deep understanding of unconscious bias also seem to be the same ones wanting the standardized tests gone. I don't think it's going to help the people they think it will.
As a diabetic, I've always found that the finger prick for testing my blood hurt more than the insulin needles.
Russian "Special Military Operation" and the Language of Empire
The more I think of it, the more I can draw parallel between Bob cassettes and those overpriced DRM-enabled inkjet cartridges, often costing more than the printer itself.

More than two decades ago, this is the first publicly documented attempt at hacking printer DRM - indeed, also accomplished with EEPROMs in the cartridges: https://eddiem.com/photo/CIS/inkchip/chip.html

I thought the GUID was put in the cartridge to prevent the machine from accepting the same one but refilled, since I know this is done with ink cartridges (printer remembers last N cartridge's IDs) so it's odd to see no other mention of that.
Asking the consumer to help dethrone a government supported monopoly is a sick joke.
Nvidia stock price recently I guess
I think executing code is only in Advanced, but everyone gets a free 2 month trial
Well, the article somewhat supports my claim if you read between the lines (remote the WeaselSpeak).

But on a somewhat more serious note, my view on this is:

I run a small company. We produce small-business electronic devices.

If you would give me the serial number of one product produced 15 years ago, it would take me less than 2 minutes to query our database of work reports, showing which employee had produced it on what date and time, using which components, coming from which delivery lot.

It would also be impossible that someone "forgot to put that in". You have to log in. You have to scan the device to be built. You have to scan the parts. You have to scan the finished product. There is automated QA. And there is manual inspection. Repair means - scan and go to step 1.
You can not delete records from this database, unless you are a system administrator, and if you are, there are offline backups.

And this is the minimum legal requirement in regards of product safety according to UL. For things that reside in homes on offices, not in the sky.

"The dog sadly has eaten our homework" should be technically and practically impossible. It can't be possible by a single entity to forget this, let alone possible for multiple different management layers departments (production, QA, Compliance Management, whatever) to all on this one day having had "bring your kid to work day", while all going out smoking pot while the kids are building the airplanes for that day :) - Either these work logs exist, or they have been intentionally (!) not produced, or they have intentionally be purged. There is no such thing as "can't find" in this regard.

To ground the planes may be good for aviation safety. But it also hurts the wrong people.

But what really needs to happen here is to someone go there, knock down the door, and ground the management until the work reports are produced, or management guilt be admitted.

It is shocking that the NTSB clearly does not have such powers, and that after more than two months of obvious stone-walling still have not been provided with any such powers. It should not even have come to the point of "If you won't provide the work reports, can we at least talk to the employees, pretty please?". They are supposed to be the regulatory authority.

Where is the A-Team when you need it?
see also Signs that a Startup is Going Bad https://www.swyx.io/startups-going-bad
In terms of linkers, the state of the art has definitely been pushed in recent years (mold, the new linker from Apple, and the already mentioned gold linker) but some of these are so new that a book hasn't been written on it yet.

There's a PhD thesis I can't find on the topic that mentions some strategies for concurrent linking that came from gold, the big idea being that a lot of the work can be done in parallel and concurrently with the compiler generating object code (while the compiler is generating object code and before the final link step, scan the object files for their symbol definitions/requirements so the final link can be done very fast - iirc the idea came from gold).

In terms of loading, so few people work on these things and there's not a ton of interest in making it better that there isn't a ton of literature on the subject. The best source for the state of the art is the RTLD source in glibc and ld.so in musl, and equivalents in the BSD/Darwin/Linux kernels.

Loading is a lot "easier" than linking, and easy to make fast enough that I don't think a ton of research has been put into it. It's mostly determined by the executable format, and Linkers and Loaders is an excellent reference on their design. I also think that the people who work on this are doing it in environments that don't lend themselves to publishing papers and textbooks, but application notes and internal documentation at the companies that need to deal with the serious performance and security implications of a loader and executable format. And the executable formats have been proven to be very robust over the last few decades.

Language designers also take this for granted because they need ABI compatibility with system libraries to be useful, so most new language projects just reuse the linker/loader that is on the system instead of inventing a new one. And new projects have to be compatible with the executable formats created by existing toolchains, so you have a chicken/egg problem there.
Contrary the sibling comment, the answer is no, and it isn't pedantry at all. The people who established the free software and open source movements care deeply about the standards embodied in the licenses those movements use. It disrespects their work and vision to conflate other licenses with FOSS licenses, and it pollutes the commons. We use words to communicate things, and having a clear definition of what is and isn't open source is important.

There are certainly licenses which meet those goals, and in my opinion at least, there's nothing wrong with using them. I'm not opposed to proprietary software, or source-available licenses which come with certain restrictions. But by definition, it isn't open source or free software.
I think you may have mistyped “Hypothetical” as “Easy.” Given Boeing made about what, 60% of the full size jets domestically, and their only competitor is backlogged for a decade or so, for people to comply with that plan would also require that about 60% of air travel just be cancelled for the next 5-10 years. Which, coincidentally, would actually bankrupt all the airlines that we’d be asking at the same time to replace 50-100% of their working airplanes with very expensive new ones.

In summary, this isn’t something we can really seriously attempt. Btw i say this as someone very disappointed in Boeing, not as a defender of their bad decisions.
This is so freaking insane! I love it!
I like the first rule in particular: "A CSS approach that can work for a small site and remain the same approach for a large site"
I'm an airplane user, and have already moved our tooling over to retool. Fuck over their customers? I'm sorry, but you have a choice in what tools you acquire, buy, and invest in, if you don't take into account that the company is small, new, and requires VC funding to exist, I just can't empathize with you if you are angry about it not working out. I use new software because it usually gives me access to the team in a way that lets me build with them and get features that a larger incumbent won't provide, but that doesn't mean it will make the company successful, and if they fail it sucks, but it's not like they are actively trying to hurt me.

There are so many reasons it's not easy or straight forward to open source the software of a startup that failed. I don't know what to tell you, I guess since I've only worked for startups I kind of understand what risks are involved when working with them, but there are also benefits, it's a trade off that you should be making when you're informed.

If you want stability, buy from a profitable and stable company that can pen multi-year contracts that include liability clauses, and if your company has the leverage, get source code/on prem written into your MSA.

All that said: please, don't use new software or tools, avoid startups and steer clear of emerging technology, you'll feel less betrayed.

*I'm not a founder, never have been a founder, and never could be a founder.
Negative exponent: PV panel cost in dollars per peak watt; lithium battery cost is $ per kWh.

Possibly: reverse osmosis water purification, proton exchange membrane electrolysis, smelting of iron using hydrogen or direct electric arc reduction (early days yet). Total fertility rate on a per-country basis.

Positive exponent: number of staff per student in tertiary education institutions. OK, that's a bit tongue in cheek. A bit.