skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an early teenager, in late 90s, I built a crappy non-English website on a topic that was covered by only a few other sites in that language. It received a healthy amount of traffic for a few years, as anyone researching that topic was bound to end up visiting. As you say, I did add it to a few catalogues and exchanged a few banners, but that was it.

And hey, I’m not angry about it. Anyone visiting Wikipedia nowadays is MUCH better served. But the vibe of being a “webmaster” has definitely changed.
The use of the wheelchair emoji for the slow "laydev" is a bit yikes.

Anyway, I tried the benchmark linked and on Firefox the "ninja style" was 12.26 % slower, not 4.2x faster like the article suggests.
> Even on the British Isles English isn't a universal thing. Let alone somewhere like America where it isn't even native.

English isn't native to all of those isles either only Great Britain.
Solar Training
It doesn’t even necessarily say that. People may reasonably evaluate OTP/Erlang/Elixir[/other BEAM languages] and find them appealing, but elect to use another stack because it appeals more for reasons beyond OTP/etc’s appeal. I made that choice once, but I wouldn’t hesitate to consider OTP/etc again the next time I’m working on a problem they solve well.
"Are the immigrants to my country from (COUNTRY) more likely (on average) to commit [1] a crime than the general population" is a very different question than "Is every immigrant from (COUNTRY) dangerous"

The latter is bias, because if you meet a person you should judge them
by their own merits, and not by the ethnic/social slides they belong to.

[1] Or rather, be sentenced for a crime, some we're talking about statistics.
0BSD and MIT-0 don't mention patents explicitly though, few licenses do. I only know of two: https://blueoakcouncil.org/list
Electricity is an essential good in the present era. There is generally no competition on the provider. As such the the energy company has a large amount of pricing power. Price controls, when done properly in such a situation, give the energy company enough profit to make it a worthwhile endeavor to be a provider for enough people whilst also preventing what is popularly referred to as price gouging.

Price controls can be a good thing and when done properly allow for providers to make a sufficient amount of profit to be worthwhile for enough people whilst preventing gouging.

Preventing "gouging" is the effect of capping the amount the of profit. Regulating the price that utility companies can charge has not resulted in shortages. For the most part, regulating how much insurance companies can charge has not resulted in shortages. Price controls, in and of themself do not cause shortages.
I doubt they leap frog TSMC. 18A will come out around the same time as N2. I have more confidence that TSMc’s N2 will perform better and be in far higher volume and yield rate.

20A is sort of Intel’s first foray. 18A is really their serious node.

If you think Intel has a chance to leap TSMC, it will come at the 14A node but you have to bet that TSMC is wrong to stay with low NA.
> when I reverted to using regex

Begrudgingly I hope...

If you replaced 4000LoC with a regex that regex scares me...
I dropped mine when I dropped cable TV. It had more dependable quality than the cell at my house but, for the amount of calling I do, it wasn't worth the $40/month or whatever it was.
One could argue that most devs these days are parts swappers with all the packages floating around.
Wonder how many national security related laws the Israel lobby is running afoul of by acting as a foreign government arm meddling in domestic affairs.
Deterministic simulation testing, property based testing, etc. are very exciting to read about and learn.

Although I consider myself someone that likes to test and ensure correctness it’s only this year that I’ve been using property based testing, and it’s such a… pleasant (?) and very underrated testing methodology. I simply can’t imagine not using it now.

I’ve been working on a project involving maze generation and solving and I’m able to rapidly test something that otherwise would have required a lot of manual fixture creation and lots of test data.

Now I’m able to hit edge cases I didn’t even think of before and with less test data.
IO_uring with Linux 6.9 Gains Truncate Support, Per-Ring NAPI
https://archive.ph/q9zL4
The keel issue, at least, can be solved by using a kite instead of a sail.

There appears to be at least one company working on this: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/travel/airseas-giant-kites-sh...
Keep Secrets from Chrome [pdf]
the points given to a comment aren't public. That information would be highly valuable for training an LLM.
Barely a fine.
I like this person's work. Check it out:

https://github.com/janmojzis

- tinyssh - TinySSH is a small server with less than 100,000 words of code. Language: C. Stars: 1.1k. Forks: 65.

- acmeshell - Shell-style client for LetsEncrypt. Language: Python. Stars: 31. Forks: 6.

- dq - Recursive DNS/DNSCurve server and command-line tool to debug DNS/DNSCurve. Language: C. Stars: 23. Forks: 1.

- pstree - Unix process tree viewer. Language: C. Stars: 14. Forks: 2.

- ntpserver - Pure python NTP server. Language: Python. Stars: 11. Forks: 3.

- httpfile - Httpfile is an HTTP server derived from publicfile-0.52.

A collection of tiny, standard net utils and servers. Gives the impression the person does it to craft something, and to understand. Inspiring and impressive!
I have just built a bookmark service dedicated for Hacker News, which use you own Notion pages as database.

https://hn.toonmaterial.com
Those are all not using Elixir? Maybe for some obscure cronjob

Tell me, why would you pick something that needs 8 servers to do the job Go or Rust could do with only 1?
This is a reasonable hypothesis but if only English has been studied then it would be unscientific to extrapolate at this time.
Except that the company selling the pills will hide the risks away and so it'll end up being a tax on unhealthy people.

There's also people with disabilities that can have a much harder time exercising than other people - seems unfair to use them as guinea pigs.
When would you need to use rdmsr and wrmsr in a crisis?
Build a handy tool designed to share exclusive content
Here's how it works:

Imagine you want to share a confidential message, like planning a surprise or revealing exclusive content or news. You can do just that!

Sign in with Twitter and compose your message, write the specific peoples twitter username you want to send it to and your secret messages, and hit send.

Each recipient receives their own unique link to view the message, keeping it private and secure. (authentication is required to access the secret message)

It's like having your own secret messaging system right within Twitter, making it easy to share personal or exclusive content with just the right people.
Requirements: Postgres

This immediately killed it for me. I need to install a Postgres server just to try out a tool? And if I recommend it to my team, do we need to run and maintain a Postgres instance?

OP- you are creating too much work for me. And don’t ask me to use your hosted version, the easiest solution is to use Vs code devcontainers
https://kagi.com/smallweb
Inspiration and motivation as a genre is the most popular when it comes to content and always has been. It's all downstream of religion. And TED talks are basically layers of inspiration + motivation on top of a complex topic that the speaker is trying to dumb down for the audience. Like every such platform it has its pros and cons.
Not true in my case. Also, removing content pieces from watch history helps immediately.

My usual routine is: dislike, not interested (or don’t recommend channel in case it’s all bad), then go to history and X the video. This clearly works for me.

To remove shorts completely, use Unhook ext.
Sounds like you're hesitating. Or something's holding you back?
Intercity connectivity and urban innovation [pdf]
Does time-restricted eating increase the risk of cardiovascular death?
By take down, you mean stop providing their services.
If you're saving a $1 in fuel today, then in ten years doing the same thing you'll save more than $1 because fuel will cost more.

I'm not sure it's a useful characterization, since inflation affects everything, but it's not wrong.
What economist is willing to say that there is a shortage of electricity where electric companies are regulated in the U.S. because there is a cap on how much they can charge? In almost every state there is not a shortage of companies willing to provide car or home insurance even though they are not allowed to charge whatever they want. Which economist is going to say that in those states the price control on insurance companies is causing a shortage?
> I can't pronounce the name of more than 80% of their writers now.

What does this mean? Only those with Anglo-Saxon heritage make for good writers?
sycophantic softball interviews, easy pr to influence techbros
This whole singularity theory seems incredibly flawed, assuming infinite intelligence translates to infinite resources seems to discount basic physics. General AI will definitely revolutionize life but it will still be bound by the laws of physics. Climate change could have progressed too far by the time AGI comes around to save us. Even with perfect knowledge you can be in a losing position in a game.
I was going to disagree on "We should definitely not rely on for profit businesses to preserve gaming history", but as I was trying to figure out how to argue against this, I remembered that the intention of copyright (sure, the tuning variables have gotten screwed up in the US thanks to Disney, but focus on the original intent and what we should aspire to) was a trade-off between limited monopoly on a creative work (to allow creators to profit on their work) and growing the cultural commons.

In line with the spirit of that, I think it's reasonable to require companies to release their source code and assets after the copyright duration expires (and I'm in full agreement that the current term is far too long).

I think that the hard part is assessing "profitability" though - Nintendo has shown that they're able to re-release games decades after initial release and turn a profit. Trying to legislate "profitability" could result in Nintendo (and other big game companies) holding on to their IP for longer, as opposed to just getting Congress to reduce copyright term back down to 15 years or something.

I agree with the intent, I just think that it'd be extremely hard to legally implement and a fixed term would work almost as well.
Some development boards and city councils definitely have a talent for shooting themselves in the foot, but the man is outright antagonistic to them and has been for years. Before you can build you have to do some legwork in advance and show the development board that your plans are going to be compliant. The board wants to be assured that the plan won't have safety or nuisance issues for the town. In some cases they want to have a guarantee that development will actually happen. In each case, Pine Bluff presents very low bars to development that this guy repeatedly fails to meet.

IMO this is not a case of a nimby board standing in the way of an eccentric trying to innovate. The problem is that he has made himself known to this board as an unserious crank who does not show the board respect for their processes. He has been approved for several different uses at the site and failed to follow through on any of them. He demands special permissions while actively campaigning against their plans. If he could show a good faith effort to help the town build upon what the electeds are doing he might have a fighting chance, but he instead goes around talking shit about them anywhere he can.
JavaScript: The Gateway Language
Well, there is two Claudes: first, there is claude.ai. Second, there is the Anthropic API. (And there is also AWS Bedrock, but it doesn’t offer Opus). Signing up for the Anthropic API from within the EU works without hassle.

The reason for the geo-block against the EU may also be rooted in the AI act, rather that GDPR. That would explain why the end-user service claude.ai is blocked off, and foundation model access remains available.

To use Claude 3 through Gradio and/or HuggingFace, see https://huggingface.co/spaces/ndurner/claude_chat
It's a problem because they used their open source nature to help themselves become popular, and have now switched away from it (the osi hasn't approved the sspl, don't try to tell me they're still open source).

Another project might have taken off if redis was this way from the start, it was a simple bait and switch by the redis team.
You are flattering yourself. The level of US people's acquaintance with anything outside of their country is well known across the world, and I am afraid that the information you get from your media is not as informative as you think.

On my cell phone I have a video of some polish mercenaries (or volunteers) burning Russian church books, laughing and obviously pleased about what they are doing. I will share it with you if you want.

In Kiev, not long ago, a monument to Pushkin was taken down. Bulgakov is practically forbidden. I will stop here.
I don’t really understand that. Before - yes. But now and on HN.

If people are really curious about Ukraine to the point that they want to express their takes why not to fly to Poland, cross the border and spend several month in Ukraine. See how things are, talk to people and so on?

Many people on HN definitely can afford that. Why just retell some story from one friend you have instead of going on the ground and talking to hundreds of people?
I love these web toys, but this needs a way to zoom!
TAS: Tool Assisted Speedrun

Took more googling than expected to figure that one out, probably should have gone with a GPT.
I agree that they should be full, but since they divide into 4 new (full) bubbles there is no way to display a deflated image. I guess it would be too uniform.
>Both born in apartheid South Africa. Both determined to suggest that has no bearing on their worldview

I've pondered this. I have a theory that the naivety of their position comes from coming from a country a long way from Russia. In Europe a lot of people, maybe most have some relative killed as the result of a Russian invasion or that of their allies.
Wacky entrepreneur moves in, builds go kart track in abandoned warehouse. No safety precautions are taken whatsoever. Kids come for birthday party. Go kart catches on fire, the warehouse fills with smoke. The kids die.

For a less hypothetical scenario, its not hard to see the parallels with another wacky entrepreneur and a submarine that eschewed traditional safety concerns
I was going to say, if we keep fucking up, I can see that life expectancy hitting a cliff. Birth rates are already down.
In addition to what others are saying, look at the sails of giant ships of the past. They're just big rectangles that block the wind, they don't work anything like a wing.
> Mario Maker 2 is different, it seeds its RNG from the player's input. If you press the same inputs with the same timings, the same "random" events will happen every time.

RNG seeding happens once. Player input during the level would all be occurring after the RNG was seeded. What did you mean?
Let's try not to find out?
Sure, I write small python CLI utils that help me solve media organization, media consumption, and sometimes data analysis. I use this every day on Linux and Android but I haven't tested it on other platforms. There are a lot of different subcommands and, although the CLI package will always be opinionated to some extent, there is a lot of niche functionality which might not need to exist. So I'm open to things being refactored or new subcommands being added. [1]

I have a lot of ideas for new ones, for example, I want a CLI that can take an artist name like "Theodor Kittelsen" and fetch highest quality public domain images--but I realize any implementation that does this well will be somewhat fragile so I haven't really attempted that yet. Other ideas that I have are often solved by piping output from one of my existing commands to another or adding some optional args to an existing command.

1. https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library
Born in the wrong generation types
Their process strategies lined up at final gen DUV and 1st gen EUV, but are divergent for the future: TSMC isn’t using high NA EUV for the time being and instead focuses on multi-patterning. Intel is instead trying to push high NA EUV into production first. We will see which works out; they can of course also both achieve success in different ways.
I'm sharing my admiration for the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City, one of the best museums in the world. An absolutely astounding collection of history, archaeology, and art. Well presented. Worth a visit to CDMX just for itself. If you ever are in the area plan at least a half day at the MNA; you could spend two full days and not see everything. (Take another day to visit Teotihuacán!)
I want the government to have a case, here. I want the DOJ to be able to push back against what companies like Apple are doing.

However, in court, you have to compare what a company is doing to the letter of the law. It seems US anti-trust laws are vague enough that, if the way big tech companies operate today violates them, the enforcement over the years has been so little that it is hard to apply them now in the spirit they were intended. That’s my impression, anyway.

Apple will, of course, argue they are not a monopoly (all their products have competitors, like iOS has Android—even if they tried to kill it). They will argue that having an ecosystem of products in different categories that work together is not illegal, and that executives wanting to entice users to use their products, or deter them from switching, is all the same thing and just good business, not anti-competitive behavior.

If it’s already illegal for Apple to prefer and promote their own apps and products and extract exorbitant rent from everyone else, then please, DOJ, put a stop to it.

Maybe it’s just all the articles about this that are really poor. As it stands, not having dug into the matter deeply, I’m on the DOJ’s side, but I’d rather be a lawyer for Apple.
Social media had a built in feedback mechanism that personal websites don't. We can't even have a 'sign my guestbook' feature without having to deal with spam moderation.
Not builtin, but possible: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/406961
This is how Sama has always been though. He talked down GPT-4 and that was still a huge leap over 3. If anything, he's been more hypey than for 5.
The US isn't a business so anti-trust laws don't apply to it.
Yeah, they're selected based on something like "vibe". I've tried to make it a bit chaotic with a few wildcards and unexpected results, without the pure pandemonium you'd get with no curation at all.

The data set is available here in no particular order: https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/PublicData/blob/master/s...
5 GHz in off the shelf SKUs was passed years ago.
Depending on your performance requirements extra milliseconds of roundtrip to the externalized queue may be too long of a wait. Or you may simply not care enough for an extra piece of infrastructure that you'd need to support, and maybe this is good enough.
It's is all about trade offs, no solution fits all use cases.
Agreed. Although being "extra nice" -- going out of your way to learn about people, eat with them, etc. -- does take extra time, so you can't do that with everyone.
This reminds me of when I discovered the kRPC plugin for Kerbal Space Program and I wrote a state machine for it - https://github.com/standaloneSA/krpc_state_machine
Yeah Spanish colonialism was very different from English colonialism. The Spanish attempted to coopt and convert the local population, not displace and kill them. That’s not to say it wasn’t a nasty process but to this day there are millions of people in Mexico who speak Nahuatl (the Aztec language) as their first and primary language.
Interesting observation with Firefox. It probably comes from the fact that Mozilla use different JavaScript engine than V8 (SpiderMonkey).

But thank you for the feedback - will update the post accordingly.
Also the Aphex Compellor.
We used to have one. Maybe we can revive it. What is your use case?
ssh root@localhost

suid bit is considered harmful
Not trying to say anything, this is just a drive-by TinEye and I don't read Japanese.
Of course Picasa is one of Google abandoned projects...
Sure, in the same sense that it would be "unscientific" to conclude that someone's amputated leg didn't regenerate by chance, because the sample size is only 1.

If you know how you're recognizing English, and you know that other languages do not differ from English in relevant ways, then you know you can recognize those other languages. Pretending you don't know something you do know is not scientific.
How To Choose A Romantic Partner: What psychology tells us
I am really glad to see that deterministic simulation testing is getting more coverage on HN lately. It feels like the next step up from property-based testing and (coverage-based) fuzzing.

We have gotten a lot of good use out of property-based testing in Haskell (using QuickCheck) since it is easy to set up and can cover a lot of ground for which you would otherwise have to write a lot of testing code.

I think that techniques like this have the potential to dramatically change software for the better if more of our industry starts adopting them (and it feels as if this is happening more and more!).
Thats's correct, part of the reason the Internet feels low quality is because it is. Garbage content abounds because you need to put something out every day, or at least every week, so that the Gooogle/FB algos don't drop you from their discoverability index.

Even the biggest TV shows did not put out more than 24 episodes in a season. A solo blogger/artist is required to put out twice that many pieces of content in a year. Can't expect the quality of that to be very good.
That's gonna be a trip for archaeologists in a few thousand years.
So a spam tool.
> I’ve always said that vinyl sounds “warmer” but that is a squishy term that I can’t really elaborate on.

I think it is at least partly due to a reduced top end/treble. Though googling something like "why does vinyl sound warmer" will give more information. Sites like ASR forums or diyaudio will help if you want to get more technical.
Zeal OS
These look a lot like functions to me. Can someone explain the nuance here?
Pets vs. Cattle and How to Use the Analogy Properly (2016)
Function free but then signals are basically functions.

It's like saying that a free monad represents a computation but doesn't actually execute it.

The user can read the context and execute computations and side effects.

From a DX point of view it can enable some good applications but it just shifts "where" the computation will run. The developer will still think in terms of functions.
Shows how brittle package managers are.

In this day and age, a simple "apt rollback" should be enough.
Whatever someone does, some other jumps up: But Lisp! But Erlang! But Haskell!

While others nod and think, "I did choose Go for some valid reasons, great library."
It turned out that having the whole of society on the Internet, made it as sh*tty as, well, …the whole of society is. I’d love to see a chart of “IQ of an average Internet user, 1990-2024”.
You're assuming the West's goal is ending the conflict. Their behavior is consistent with only one goal: a grinding down of Russia. Regardless of the final war outcome, Russia will emerge as a tertiary power: its male population diminished and its military shown as a paper tiger.
Aren't parties just a celebration of not being dead yet?
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