skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I agree it's intellectually stimulating. But besides that, is there a reason they are particularly passionate about distributed source code repositories?

I’m surprised the answer isn’t obvious to you, yet again maybe I shouldn’t be as I suspect you’re a nocoiner.

Distributed decentralized anything is fundamentally about censorship resistance. Understanding that, for me, make the answer as to why they are passionate about distributed decentralized version control … they are concerned about coming censorship attempts on software, which honestly seems pretty likely given the current authoritarian direction of western civilization in general.

I’d also speculate that your perception isn’t shared by everyone based on the large number of upvotes on this submission.
Also looking for something local but I feel like Apple will probably eventually release local LLMs for your entire filesystem.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39344815 - Feb 2024 (410 comments)

Zluda: Run CUDA code on Intel GPUs, unmodified - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36341211 - June 2023 (90 comments)

Zluda: CUDA on Intel GPUs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26262038 - Feb 2021 (77 comments)

Also recent and related:

Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA software to run on other chips - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39592689 - March 2024 (155 comments)
Regarding Audible
Some things were identical, for example .com files were loaded at 0x0100 which meant that before the start of the loaded program there was space for the FCB:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Control_Block

This block would contain the command-line arguments, and have space for working with files (via FindFirst and FindNext), using the same globbing patterns as CP/M supported.

Of course things changed when MS-DOS got support for subdirectories, and later int21 functions expanded filesystem support. Later still .exe files became more dominant as they could be larger than 64k (minus PSP).
Lovely feedback from your wife!

I don't know anything about photography. Is using specialized lenses like the ones you mentioned better than postprocessing software?
I think it is a strength of Europe going forward. It’s a pain at the beginning but once education levels pick up to a point where being bilingual at least is a standard, it becomes an advantage — and remains one.
I guess my point was: "because [some teams at] Google/Mozilla do it right does not mean that everybody does it right".
That logo is just wrong.
Introduction to Mad Prompts: Copilot for Security Is a Blank
Prompting is key to producing the best results when using a Generative AI assistant to augment your daily tasks or produce desired information.
Suburbia seems very stifling as a kid. I hated it growing up until I was old enough to drive because like you said, there's nothing to do if no one your age is around. I have since moved to a denser area and I see there are a lot more kids hanging out in groups without needing supervision. Its like how they showed it to us on TV growing up, with gangs of kids of varying heights wheeling around the town on the bus or bikes or skateboards. I'm actually a little jealous of it.
Dave King also has a truly hilarios Youtube channel called "Rational Funk": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tK-hfpvwivg

It's a series of satirical "inspirational" drum instruction videos. Sadly, he stopped making new episodes a while ago.
I welcome any and all improvements to touchpads on Linux and Windows systems. Switching from my personal MacBook to my work ThinkPad is like traveling back in time in terms of usability.
Apple has been perfecting its trackpad software since 1994, and it’s been getting better ever since. By contrast Apple keyboards have gotten worse since 1995 when it discontinued the Apple Extended Keyboard II. We don’t talk about Apple’s mice.
Thanks.

The French lost most of their colonies later than the concept/creation European Coal and Steel Community, for example, and the UK joined much later. My impression was that in the late 1940s/early 1950s some of the ideas around overcoming the old animosity between France and Germany were genuine (at least from listening to people around at the time). On some of the later moves I have less insight into - perhaps it was a mix and/or varying motives?
A Terminal Game of Battleship with a 3rd Dimension
Related. Others?

Linux Touchpad like MacBook Update: 2022 progress and new poll - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34300973 - Jan 2023 (59 comments)

Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29555822 - Dec 2021 (419 comments)

Linux Touchpad like MacBook: Touchpad gestures land to Qt, Gimp and X server - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27414160 - June 2021 (3 comments)

Linux touchpad like a Mac update: Firefox gesture support live in nightly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26102894 - Feb 2021 (16 comments)

Q3 Linux touchpad update: Multitouch gesture test packages now ready - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24700537 - Oct 2020 (136 comments)

Linux Touchpad Like a MacBook update: progress on multitouch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23615218 - June 2020 (127 comments)

Linux touchpad: preliminary project funding, survey results - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23235609 - May 2020 (169 comments)

Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23080435 - May 2020 (324 comments)

Linux touchpad like a MacBook: April 2020 update - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23039515 - May 2020 (155 comments)

Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19485178 - March 2019 (212 comments)

Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17547817 - July 2018 (336 comments)

Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16843720 - April 2018 (1 comment)
Wall Street Journal is Murdoch Trash, thinking that they have better quality than Reuters is bold
> DEI initiatives are inherently sexist and racist

We live in a sexist and racist society (and always have). One either takes no action which is passive acceptance of the status quo or we attempt to take action which will inevitably have some racist and sexist consequences (intentional or not). There is no neutral option.

Railing against DEI almost always comes across as a convenient scapegoat to justify the status quo which overwhelmingly favors men in the tech industry. I will admit I don't have the statistics, but I would expect that one would find proportionally fewer and fewer women at every rung in the organizational ladder in tech firms, which to me speaks to the challenges that women face even in this supposedly level tech space. It is one thing to get an entry level job, possibly even through a DEI initiative, but another to actually be treated as an equal after hiring. My experience at a big company made clear to me that even men who like to think of themselves as egalitarian or even feminist, often have very obvious unconscious bias. I can particularly recall a manager talking up the potential of a young man relative to his female peer even though she was more productive than him on basically every imaginable metric.
Hey sorry to hear that, a couple of things:

- processing is usually stuck at 99% because when we order the components of the repository by file-directory dependency and ast dependency, there are a lot, LOT more leaves than the internal nodes + the root. Since we have to have the results of the dependency before we move on, moving up the dependency chain with llm calls take a while. This is even more pronounced when nearing the root for completion. We are working on optimizing this flow as it is very annoying for us as well.

- "Error: Internal error while locating sources": this is embarrassing but we did experience a database outage today (I wonder why) some repositories have a faulty status. It should be back up now and we are working to recover/reprocess the repos that have failed during the outage (including dvx/lofi)

- "Onboard" that was our previous name, this has slipped through the cracks, thanks for pointing it out!

We are trying to parse most of the popular open source repos (we have processed repos like python, vscode, etc). We are hoping to fully process the linux kernel soon as well (a personal benchmark of mine).
The fact that the poster had difficulty rewriting the code in Rust points to the big issue with Rust. I noticed the vast majority of code written in Rust tends to be re-writes of exiting products. Yet, people have difficulty getting it out in time. Which points to general poor productivity of Rust. Just imagine the OP tried to create the trading system without any reference to begin with?? It would have been much harder to work through the options and tradeoffs since it takes so long for the damn code to compile.

Funnily, the responses from /rust group on reddit is typical. You 'are not holding it right' logic types. Some will claim Rust is the most natural way to write code, easier and faster than Python! Rust evangelism is another level.
The US uses trade agreements to enforce the rule in the EU. Spain used to be quite lenient with copyright, but the US threatened to block all sales to Spain of movies and music. Then a minister basically implemented new restrictions a week before their term was up.
A subset of Ansi C works on a 4 MHZ homebrew CPU made of TTL's.
I've emailed them, but don't have a reply yet. Presumably they're a bit inundated at the moment.

Took me a few attempts writing it before I managed an appropriately civil tone. Ended up venting my frustration cryptically instead, by including a pic of the Enterprise D in the footer.
Seems coincide with this that was on HN: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
That's funny, we actually do ignore those files but realizing now we don't account for that in our calculation of codebase size since we just get that via the GH API.
Last time I checked the MS store it was mainly bikini wallpapers. Not kidding ...
Navy officer to run 75 miles a day in transcontinental world record attempt
I don't think they should be able to claim "safe harbor" protection (or am I getting that confused with common carrier?) and then get to use censorship however they like. The spirit of safe harbor is that "we're not responsible for what random people post on here". It doesn't seem logically consistent to claim this legal protection but then curtail the content to anyone's personal sensitivities.
>> Many surviving owls bear such test cuts, which greatly reduce their value to collectors. Some counterfeit owls, even with noticeably deficient weight, managed to survive intact and be collectable today — a 12.44 gram example sold for $300 in a recent auction.

Collectors be damned. I would rather own a coin with a history. A ancient coin with a test cut, or even an outright forgery, is more interesting than any pure and clean coin. I also like the old coins with the punctures, the ones that were clearly worn as a necklace. A coin that was around the neck of a real person walking around ancient Rome is way more interesting than one sat gathering dust in a vault.
Thanks for posting this. I find a lot of self-described ADHD folks seem to describe fairly normal ennui that makes up life. My wife talked her way into a diagnosis (innocently, and she hasn't taken the medication) and she has never had any issues with aptitude: multiple 4.0 degrees, self taught software career, ultra runner etc.

I think folks are conveniently lying to themselves, and I'm not here to ruin anyone's party but I do get concerned in parenting circles when this kind of over-optimizing of normal laziness gets sold as childhood ADHD.
Show HN: Turn user emails into revenue with AI
was the CMO of a $2b company + generated 100M's of impressions through my marketing career. noticed all the startups I worked on have boatloads of emails sitting in their CMS/database collecting dust.

hacked together these AI crawlers so that those teams can leverage those emails into more information -> use that information to influence feature decisions or marketing strategies.

would love any feedback on it
Claude 3 translates a low-resource language from a few thousand examples
Tooling around embeddings has improved. Creating and fine-tuning custom embeddings for your tabular data should be easier and more powerful these days.
> I just think it's ridiculous to even be discussing gender or color when hiring.

I and many people would agree, and that is why we need DEI: Gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, etc. etc. have long been determinative in hiring, education, etc. The system we inherited is a DEI program for (mostly) heteronormative white guys - it advantages them over others. The data - the outcomes, if you look around - are overwhelming.

They are determinative intentionally (especially now, when open prejudice is brazenly thrown around, hate crimes are multiplying, etc.), unintentionally (we're biased to hire people like us - we're just more comfortable, more trusting), and systematically (we hire from our social networks, which are segregated racially, etc., in large part because we inherited them from prior generations).

For the last eight years I've heard much open prejudice - you can see it everywhere on social media, as an obvious example, and from some prominent political leaders. I remember when a college funding program was voted down in Congress, a white guy I was speaking to laughed and said 'no way was I paying for Blacks to go to college'. The same person told me there is no bias in hiring, education, etc.
My Mazda is so weird. Android Auto has a completely random load time. It could be a few seconds, or it could take over 1 minute. Often I don't know if left or right is the fastest way to get somewhere, so I'd like to check google maps or waze, but it won't finish loading until a while after I've guessed and committed myself. It'll play the radio instead of my phone audio at some starts, then usually switch to phone audio automatically. There are times when the map will "freeze". New frames are only rendered as a response to moving the knob. I have a USB cable and Bluetooth both connected (no idea why both). There is no logical place to put your phone (I bought a holder accessory, it's great). There's no physical music pause button. People who like car accidents and being careless and don't mind pointless death and destruction like to point out you can pause music by fatfingering the knobe through a bunch of menus.

This is probably Spotify's fault, but when you're in a song search, the "next song" button goes to the start of the currently playing song, instead of the next song. The "next song" button works correctly for all other Spotify list-ish things AFAIK, just not search. And search is obviously the place you need a skip button the most.
Control Commabody with an Oculus
> the company would miss out on surveillance based revenue.

More than likely most of Meta's revenue from the Quest series other than hardware is based off of, y'know, selling games. I doubt tracking what games you play to target ads in the OS is more valuable than the money they make when people actually buy games.

In Facebook or Instagram, you're looking at a space that they can shoot lots of
ads into, and it's otherwise very hard to monetize. But a gaming-focused VR headset is a different story. Most of the time you're not looking at anything that can have ads in it, but you can actually sell stuff very easily.

Maybe this'll change someday if they actually get social media shit in there that's popular, I'm sure Meta would love that, but so far that hasn't happened.

> But the world where fb doesn't make any headset, and the world where they make an unacceptable headset are basically equivalent to me

Popularizing the format is useful for pushing the tech forward. A big player pushing lots of devices means that the supply chains feeding the manufacture of those devices bulk up too, not to mention other knock-on effects like greater consumer awareness, and "free research" for whoever copies what the market leader does (at least for things that aren't IP-protected).

> But I am a bit of a Luddite, and I know that people want their toys, and they want them now.

I can hear the sneer from over here, yes.
I agree that this is probably the predominant factor. Even with my own life, many of my friends and coworkers think I am risking my life somehow when I ride the bus and train in to work. I'm like, have you actually ridden the thing? Sure there are a couple drug addicts and transients but the majority of the riders are just people trying to get across town and I've never once felt unsafe. But try and explain this and its like they refuse to value your actual lived experience in favor of the fear they have bit into hook line and sinker.
I have tried Kagi and I don't find anything magical. And I see a lot of testaments saying how good Kagi is, and most of them aren't in any specific comparison.
> Typescript doesn't implement new Javascript features until their addition to Javascript itself is imminent.

I guess we want different things from Type systems.

I want rock solid guarantees that code is correct, so that the only thing left to test as much as possible is the business logic. I don't care about the latest programming fads, and I want stable, performant code.

You seem to just want some boilerplate guarantees and backwards compatibility.

If I were writing/creating TypeScript, I would be not implementing new features before JS upgrades, but long after (possibly as support libraries). I understand the goal of "easing" the transition, but IMO those sorts of "upgrades" should be late, not early, in a tool whose primary goal is static type checking, not JS features.
Will there be refiner models too?
> As far as I know, an exemption for FOSS authors was added.

last time I caught up on it, it was a very narrow exemption that was only of use to pure hobby projects.
I'm generally a fan of encoding invariants in the type system, but there's a balance to be had between that and the library becoming relatively unusable. I haven't used embedded Rust very much, but my general impression from afar, and from talking to people who are experts in the domain, is that the ecosystem leans far too much into the type system.
> It's objectively the best

Sources?
It's a dialog, you can't push ADHD diagnoses and then get upset when other folks don't agree with your view of the human condition.
I see that it has an inbuilt compiler-compiler, prolog, and features for DSLs. Is the idea that Shen good for implementing statically typed, compiled languages? Or for metaprogramming?

Looks like it's been around for a while and I'm curious what folks have used it for.
So my instinct to avoid Java at all costs wasn't irrational dysphoria after all!
Stable employment generally requires a stable location, stable schedule, and a mailing address.
I guessed "Dazed and Confused," for that song, which was also wrong--sadly. I guess "School's Out" might have been a _better_ pick for Dazed though.
> My classes were like 30:1 or worse male to female. Gender gap being close will always look like hiring bias to me...

How do your personal classes represent the labor supply? The fact is that most college students now are female.
These are all great points, we should probably audit the polling.
Why does this seem like such a hard problem to solve for everyone that isn’t Apple, when Apple seemingly solved the Trackpad over a decade ago?

Is this it? An unknown ROI?

>the highly uncertain ROI for trying to align touchpad acceleration has prevented us from proposing a system change to the default Linux settings.

I can only speak for myself, but I gave up using trackpads on anything that isn’t a MacBook many years ago. Very occasionally I’ll try them and have always been disappointed. This prevents me from buying any laptop that isn’t a Mac and prevents me from running any OS that isn’t macOS on a laptop. I can’t be the only person who prioritizes the quality and feel of input devices when choosing a system. If this can make or break sales and adoption, it seems like the ROI would be pretty good. Even if we are just talking about Java app, if I’m using an obviously Java app that feels like a clunky Java app, I’ll usually find an alternative app that doesn’t feel horrible to use.

I’m glad progress is being made, but I struggle to understand why it’s still a problem at all when it’s been so good for so long with Apple. They even sell Bluetooth trackpads for desktops it’s so good.
WSA is a great feature for developers. not having to deal with sluggish Android emulators was a big plus for me.
And killing the free plan
Or a future update starts to use those reserved high bits. Some of the current encoding space restrictions are just that Unicode didn't reserve enough high bit surrogates for UTF-16 to extend indefinitely. (UTF-8 can in theory. UTF-32 has options, including some of these still reserved in UTF-8 but currently unused high byte codepoints, UTF-16 is accidentally stuck, for now.) Sure, it is unlikely that we'll see another Unicode plane extension in our lifetimes, but many of the people that bet on UCS-2 when that looked like it covered everything and are consequentially now stuck with the somewhat broken UTF-16 thought the same thing.
msft probably assumes devs are already using something like rclone
Linear has something velocity like: https://linear.app/docs/project-graph - I am not using it and I don't know how it compares to PT.
the famous FB ads paper (from 10 years ago!) combines decision trees with a logistic regression and shows a significant improvement: https://research.facebook.com/publications/practical-lessons...

feel free to extend logistic regression to an MLP :)
My guess would be that they would lose a significant amount of their user base and engagement without politics and news media.
They sell API access to Google searching.
And that's why Packet Loss Concealment is only used to fill in the occasional lost packet. That way, the occasional vowel or the end of a syllable could be bridged over. Other improvements exist to prevent packet loss in the first place that are much less in make-samples-up territory.
I think the academy is biased AND Diamond is a dunce. Have you read any of the responses to his work from actual historians? There are deep methodological flaws. Fundamentally, what he is doing is not history. He has no interest in engaging with other academics, or in systematically analyzing all of the data. He starts with his conclusion and then cherry picks the facts, and it's popular because it appeals to people's preconceived notions. It's "lead caused the fall of the Roman Empire" level thinking.

Plenty of academics hate Foucault. Ask an analytic philosopher what they think of him. And yet, those people still get to be part of the academy. Are some people shut out unfairly? Sure. Are many people shut out fairly because they aren't interested in rigor, they are only interested in exposure? Well, ok, academia has a lot of those. But at least it doesn't have Jared Diamond.
Aren't there many things which, while not unique to the US, came to be perceived as American? Or pioneered here then imitated elsewhere? or exported as a strength or "leading example" of the US? - And do you mean positives or negatives?

And it has always surprised me how much French TV news for example love to report on what happens in the US. To a large extent, it may be just a historical bad habit or quirk (I mean as opposed to reporting on what happens in the rest of the EU or in China for example) but it's still there. So it's not exactly what americans think of as their strengths that makes it through.