skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you sincerely believe this, you've tinkered enough that the massive knowledge barrier that is Linux seems like nothing to you.

I would never sit my 70 year old mother down in front of a Linux machine. We're not at "caring that video files download too slowly" - we're at "how do I put a file on a USB".
Given that book prices are rising faster than _anything else in the economy_ the market place isn't working at all.

Let them eat competition.
Nice strawman! You completely demolished a market share argument I never made. My point is that audio and video professionals now have viable alternatives to Apple software. Running MacOS is now optional, which wasn't the case in the past, so there's less of an impetus for running MacOS on an non-Apple hardware.

As for making stuff up - I don't know if you remember the years of neglecting Mac Pros, or the clusterfuck that was Final Cut Pro X. I do. I remember a lot of dyed-in-the-wool Apple users switching to Adobe on Windows. How many 3rd party DTP, audio or video production packages are still exclusively available on Apple?
just for your information. there is only little knowledge about the influence of vr glasses on the vision. there have been reports of developers that worked in vr for a long time that had issues with theyr sight afterwards.

problems can come from increased heat within the vr device, but also because every lighty our eye receives comes in at the same angle, and thus the eye never needs to adjust to different distances, as it would have to do in a real environment. while it appears / looks the same as in reality it really isnt. thats also the reason you only need one correction.
Well that take sure goes from 0 to 60 real fast. Can you really be sure that only people with good phones and connections have money to spend? Just to poke some obvious holes: what about old rich people who have a distaste for modern phones but spend lavishly on vacations every year? Or outdoorsy rich people who are frequently in areas with poor cell coverage but are constantly purchasing expensive camping/climbing equipment? How about people who aren’t rich, but work for companies where their input is part of a purchasing process with millions of dollars of budget? Those people are all super-lucrative advertising targets, I don’t think advertisers are intentionally weeding them out.
State your case that bloat is good. I currently have a client who will do literally anything except delete a single javascript library so I'd like to understand them better.
I'm glad people remember what WW in WWW means. :)

It makes me very sad to see that reddit's new design is so heavy it can't even be accessed by part of the world. It's like parts of the internet are closing theirs doors just so they can have more sliding effects that nobody wants.

Or maybe I'm just a weird one who prefers my browser to do a full load when I click a link.

Btw there was a time everyone kept talking about "responsive" web design and, having used only low-end smartphones and tablets, I kept finding it weird that there was such focus on the design being responsive for mobile devices when those mobile devices were so extremely slow to respond to touch to begin with. Of course I know that's not what they meant, but it still felt weird.
> Grouping based on frequency obfuscates the regular nature of numbers.

It's literally a lookup table to go from token to embedding. What would you expect as improved? At best, maybe cache coherency if groups of numbers are converted to embeddings sequentially... But embeddings are huge (e.g. 8kb for llama-2) so you're losing caches jumping around between non-contiguous numbers anyways.
My conspiracy theory is that Musk is using garbage ads so people subscribe to hide them
can_ada dev here. Scrapy is a fantastic project, we used it extensively at 360pi (now Numerator), making trillions of requests. Let me know if I can help :)
"Since the early 1960's, an increasing number of people have been hearing (and feeling) a sound causing everything from annoyance to psychosis to death. We have a deeply objective look at what could be causing it. "
The reason you don't dream is it prevents the rem cycle. It might help in falling asleep but your sleep quality suffers.
I don’t understand why the terms of “purchasing” digital content can’t specify a way to access content in the event that a vendor has to stop offering it.

Surely if the content creator is offering it for sale, it should be illegal to disallow use of it after being purchased.
The quality of OTA TV is certainly superior to anything you're gonna get over fiber or coax.

If you're in the US and you have an online provider for cable channels, try swapping an NFL game between the online broadcast and the OTA broadcast. There's a night and day difference in terms of picture quality.
It's not reasonable. 99% of scams, frauds and harassment will never be subject of legal action, because there just aren't enough prosecutors out there to charge every fraud attempt.

If you require a court ruling before blocking a fraud, it means you will keep hosting 99% of frauds.
Also, there are some websites targeting users with little money as well.
I think whateveracct was referring to is this link:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen...

What that file is doing, is building a package, and it essentially is a combination of what Makefile and what RPM spec file does.

I don't know if you're familiar with those tools, but if you aren't it takes some time to know them enough to understand what is happening. So why would be different here?
As someone with a tolerance, I've learned that consuming too close to bedtime will cause me to have difficulty falling asleep, and also not enter REM sleep.

However, by consuming throughout the day on a daily basis but stopping by late afternoon or early evening, my sleep and dreaming is vastly improved.
It's truly hard to believe that Michael Seibel wasn't appointed as CEO, and equally hard to believe that Garry Tan was.
Wow! For $3k/mo you could hire a nanny or babysitter pretty much full-time (which is more expensive than daycare/preschool, since it's 1-to-1).

Our base rate (in Menlo Park) was around $1,500/mo, but if you added extra hours (past 1 or 2p) then it was more. Presumably someone who is laid off and wants to hold their spot would stick to the minimum hours both for cost reasons and so they could spend more time with their baby/kid.

Out of curiosity, what do mortgages cost for families who attend these daycares?
> The income needed to comfortably afford a home is up 80% since 2020

Based on the $343,000 house price, and the 3%/7% rate difference they mention between 2020 and 2024, the mortgage on a house the exact same price would've gone up from $1900/mo to $2650/mo. That alone is already a 40% increase.

Obviously houses prices have inflated along with everything else, but the pain is really mostly coming from the increased mortgage rates. Even a cheaper house would still be painfully more expensive today.

What I wonder is... when would it make sense to try to return to a low interest rate environment (if ever)? Is there a point where we think it will?
Is the total useful lifetime more than MacBooks with non serviceable components? I see people around me easily using Airs for 5+ years.
> Unfortunately many are misled to believe that pirating books published by cartels is unethical.

It's not a question of ethical vs unethical, but about which evil you consider to be the worse.
> unless you’re confident that your replacement is complete

And that any 3rd party libs you use also don't ever call the stdlib parser internally because you do not want to debug why a URL works through some code paths but not others.

Turns out that url parsing is a cross-cutting concern like logging where libs should defer to the calling code's implementation but the Python devs couldn't have known that when this module was written.
If you have recently endured Windows Update for Patch Tuesday, you know that you are forced to reboot during this process. This activity will deny you "the five 9s," i.e., 99.999% availability in uptime.

If you have recently performed the analog activity on a Linux distribution, which is likely either apt update/upgrade or yum update, you will notice that a reboot is not required. These update approaches cannot alter the running kernel, but ksplice and kernelcare offer either free or low-cost options to address that.

Windows update is enormously painful compared to Linux. There can be no argument of this fact.
That seems excessively cynical (and self-excusing). The reality is it’s incredibly hard to measure engineering work even in the best case scenario, never mind something as abstract as software and in as opaque an environment as a modern remote/hybrid workplace.

Seems more likely they’re relying on bad heuristics because it’s hard to do much else?
There is one standard vector extension, and one company that released two chips with a non standard pre ratification version of the extension.

It was released almost two years before the first rvv 1.0 hardware became available at the end of last year. Without out it, we wouldn't have had any hardware at all.

rvv 1.0 has quite good upstream compiler support already, and before that the t-head had custom compilers that supported their rvv 0.7.1 version of the vector extension.

Now upstream gcc supports it as an alternative codegen target as well, so you can write rvv 1.0 vector instrinsics and compile those to the thead rvv 0.7.1 implementation.

I'm not aware of any company that plans to release a non rvv 1.0 rvv implementation.
It was written with cutlass? No wonder Peter Kim found it valuable and worthwhile to de-obfuscate. Adopting a new programming language invented by OpenAI doesn't sound like a much better alternative. I'd be shocked if either of them were able to build code for AMD GPUs, where it's easy to adapt CUDA code, but not if it's buried in tens of thousands of lines of frameworks. I like open source code to have clarity so I can optimize it for my own production environment myself. When people distribute code they've productionized for themselves, it squeezes out all the alpha and informational value. Just because something's open source doesn't mean it's open source. I think people mostly do it to lick the cookie without giving much away.
A simple text site such as Reddit and some Digg clones are nearly unusable under an Item ATOM with a JS based client.
Interesting, the script part is basically just a different syntax for Clojure, basically making the implementation quite slick.
I'll add this to reasons why I'm opposed to always-on telemetry. A hackintosh should know that its crash reports will be unhelpful to Apple and not bother sending them. It's a waste of your time to deal with data coming from unsupported configurations.
If you read The Lean Startup, you'll have the answer to your question. AI startups don't generally provide AI, they solve some problem using AI. Now, if the only advantage your AI startup has is that your solution costs less at scale, then you're right, lean isn't going to work well for you. But if your solution is significantly better even at small scale than those available in the "saturated" market, then the lean approach is to get your solution out there in some kind of minimal form, to some small group of customers. You just need to prove that there are people who will pay a price for your product/service that you can imagine making money eventually, even if you have to do some things manually to start that you will automate in software later. The book gives examples of this.

Once you've proven some level of market fit with a lean approach, you're much better positioned to get investment. Lean doesn't mean completely bootstrapped. The problem that lean seeks to avoid is burning through investor cash making mistakes in getting market fit that you should have made before investment. By the time you get investor money, you should be ready to make the next level of mistakes. :-)
So, a declarative language describing a target state (versus how to get there), like the one used for Terraform, but for product behavior?
Ok, I'm going to try and put your argument in my own words, since I have been so eager to make my own points that I have probably been (inadvertently) attacking a straw-man at times. Please let me know if the following is accurate:

There is no reason to think that the FC is personal. One reason for this is that there is no reason to think that the FC can choose what it causes. The fact that lions exist and unicorns don't may be because the FC is choosing to cause lions and not unicorns, but there is no reason to think this. How could we know whether it could cause unicorns but doesn't, or simply can't cause unicorns? And in a universe where unicorns popped into existence at random points in history, the same would apply -- the FC would be causing such things, but how would we know that it is choosing to do so? Could random unicorns not be 'bursting forth', in the same way that laws-of-science-obeying lions already are?

[I am not clear which of the next two paragraphs reflects your view, since they seem to contradict, and I think you've said things that could imply either:]

Even in the absence of a FC, logical possibilities (concepts) would still exist. Given these concepts, and regardless of the existence of the FC, the entire history of the universe (including whatever caused the Big Bang) would also exist hypothetically, since the interaction of every object with every other object would already be 'mapped out'. The script would be written, so to speak; the source code would be written even if it were never compiled and executed. Even if the universe never came into existence, its full history would already be theoretically written, given logic and concepts. Logic/concepts lead to the entire theoretical history of the universe, just as the axioms of geometry lead to the details of triangles. The FC's role is limited to making this theoretical history an actual history.

[OR]

Even in the absence of a FC, logical possibilities (concepts) would still exist. The FC is one set of rules (or chooses one set of rules), out of infinite logical possibilities, that governs the universe's behavior. Given these concepts, and this set of rules, the entire history of the universe (including whatever caused the Big Bang) would also exist hypothetically, since the interaction of every object with every other object would already be 'mapped out'. Etc etc. The FC, as a ruleset, governs the behaviour of the 'theoretical' universe, AND makes the theoretical univese actual.

It is therefore false to say that the FC in some sense chooses to make the lion exist but not the unicorn. The FC simply brings the ruleset, and the subsequent theoretical history of the universe that necessarily follows from the ruleset, into actuality. OR: The FC is simply a ruleset that governs things' behaviour. IN BOTH CASES: the ruleset determines everything that will happen subsequently, including the existence of the lion & gravity and the non-existence of the unicorn & anti-gravity.

Is this a fair summary of your views, or have I unwittingly misrepresented them?

More to follow on water and hydrogen when I get another spare minute...
What's a better way to refer to the bill than a "ban"? I want to know what other people would use as a more "accurate" term. I know that reducing an entire bill to a single term runs the risk of oversimplifying, but it can also be a normal technique of communicating with laypeople like myself.

From the law in question, here is the excerpt that I think is the most important part [1]:

> (a) In General.—

> (1) PROHIBITION OF FOREIGN ADVERSARY CONTROLLED APPLICATIONS.—It shall be unlawful for an entity to distribute, maintain, or update (or enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of) a foreign adversary controlled application by carrying out, within the land or maritime borders of the United States, any of the following:

> (A) Providing services to distribute, maintain, or update such foreign adversary controlled application (including any source code of such application) by means of a marketplace (including an online mobile application store) through which users within the land or maritime borders of the United States may access, maintain, or update such application.

> (B) Providing internet hosting services to enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of such foreign adversary controlled application for users within the land or maritime borders of the United States.

Copying what I wrote elsewhere: An alternative to getting banned is divesting to a US company. You might think of that as "getting banned is an alternative to divesting to a US company", but I think that's the wrong framing in consideration of US TikTok users, who by default have a First Amendment right to use TikTok as long as TikTok willingly continues offering service to the US.
Application.garden – a platform for hosting small web apps written in Clojure
Nope, that's not true, and you neither solved nor explained it in this message
I wrote a bit about Cantor's quest to get people to take infinity seriously here: https://superbowl.substack.com/p/church-of-reality-cantor-on...
webdevs and their managers should use these web "apps" on bad machine over VNC on a slow connection for a few months. these javascript hellpages are basically crime against humanity and do contribute a lot to e-waste, pollution and carbon dioxide emissions
As opposed to the low cost texture changing material proposed?

If I had to do this I'd probably look into PCB-based solenoids with compliant mechanisms. But there are already people working on that.
I think Let's Encrypt made a heroic effort. They deployed a hack to support Androids long abandoned by the operating system maintainer and manufacturer. If you want to blame LE for the breakage then also blame: GOOG for using the IBM PC clone business model without a device tree standard, QCOM for selling chips but very quickly cutting support, the manufacturer, and cellular carriers who prefer to lock you into another 24 month installment plan than approve an update for your existing handset.
Well basically any of the numerous books describing spiritual awakenings, since that's what religions are pointing to.

A good overview is The Kundalini Guide [1]. Some of the stuff defies explanation from a western perspective, but the strange stuff is mentioned throughout history and across traditions, so..?

There are also a few academic papers on kundalini now. Just search on nih.

Finally, after 20 years of trying different schools I'm now having the most success with the free lessons on AYP [2] if you want something practical.

That's the best way IMO since without understanding enlightenment as a real phenomenon, people can get quite confused. And what's the point in just reading a travel guide when you can visit for yourself?

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kundalini-Guide-Companion-Journey-C...

[2] https://www.aypsite.org/10.html
Can you elaborate on where the delays came from?
A Core Duo it's perfectly fine with an ad blocker:

git://bitreich.org/privacy-haters
Is that photo the Y Combinator office? That looks super quiant and nice to work in...
For a great UK documentary, watch The Last Pirates.
Everyone thinks they'd be the king and not the pauper. The luddites starved on the street because they were kicked from their properties with nowhere to live and no way to earn a living. The next generation of kids worked on the textile machines and commonly got turned to hamburger, all while the robber barons made obscene wealth. It mostly worked out over time because the populace fought things like unions and social safety nets. But hey, don't worry, the modern day tech barons are telling us we don't need those pesky 'expensive' social safety nets, I'm sure out of the kindness of their blackened hearts they'll provide for us all when robots replace our jobs.
To expand on the sibling comments: This encoding (called Punycode) works by combining the character to encode (é) and the position the character should be in (the 7th position out of a possible 7) into a single number. é is 233, there are 7 possible positions, and it is in position 6 (0-indexed) so that single number is 233 * 7 + 6 = 1637. This is then encoded via a fairly complex variable-length encoding scheme into the letters "fsa".

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode#Encoding_the_non-ASCI...
How MOSFETs Work [video]
> PO

What's the acronym?

Unfortunately acronyms are context sensitive and many users here are not in your context... Maybe try to avoid using acronyms!
Eh. Cloudfront pricing starts at 8.5c per GB and goes down to 2c. I think you’d struggle to use that pricing as a justification when compared to the software engineer hours required to shrink down a CSS bundle. (don’t get me wrong, 2MB is insane and ought to be a professional embarrassment. But I think you’re going to struggle using bandwidth bills as the reason)

I agree with you about frameworks, though. So much waste in creating everything as (e.g.) a React app when there’s no need. Sadly the industry heavily prioritises developer experience over user experience.
YouTube is one of the slowest websites I have ever used.

It takes several seconds to load, even with moderate hardware and fast internet connections.
I would love to take atleast one of these & try to restore it... Such a beatiful piece of engineering (and history)!
Performing a sublime end-run around Greenspun by simply including a mature Lisp right away. 10/10
Yeah, I agree. I think it can be a case-by-case situation depending on both the reader and the publishere/author. An undergrad needing a course textbook that's published by a monopolistic cartel with a 300% markup? Absolutely. For well-paid worker in a developed country buying a novel written by a niche author? probably not the right thing to do.
As with many projects that bubble to the top of HN, I wish there was more justification of what problem this is trying to solve. Of course "just for fun" is a totally valid reason, but this seems to go beyond that and it's not clear to me why this is a better solution than existing languages.
Again, again, again, the accounting manual says training is OpEx; therefore these fabs could only be staffed on H1B, and that is assuming that the deals were on the level. But when cash like this is paid out up front, the facilities that it is supposed to subsidize are never completed.
And that's what makes it not neccessarily less work at all to say "patches welcome", if you take that approach.

Reviewing patches is real work, and often turns into mentoring/helping/directing the code, if you want to keep the software from turning into a ball of mess.

(Or saying "no, patches not welcome for this one we won't be doing it", or "not unless you can find an elegant way to implement it, according to me")

I don't find that reviewing patches (with all it entails as above) is often even less work than doing it yourself.
web bloat also impacts my sanity
Aren't they all enshittified smartphones on wheels? I'd consider getting one if there were simple ones. The closest to what I'm looking for is https://www.caricecars.com, but that's not very practical car in terms of size. I'll soon be selling my combustion engine car and the EV I'll be replacing it with is a cargo e-bike.