skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> could be by anything…

Bongs and Bagels?

I think I know what my YC pitch is.... A side line delivering weed AND snacks
Honestly, hard disk space is cheap. The thing that bothers me is when e.g. Norton is naggy and pops up UIs to make me interact with it despite opting out over time. Things like the Photos app sit there and occupy space but zero percent of my brain and perhaps some gigs of storage I personally am not missing.
I have to respectfully disagree. People are allowed to like stuff, it doesn't make it a marketing campaign or a conspiracy. This negativity on async, as if it's just a settled debate that async is a failure and therefor Rust is a failure, feels self-reinforcing.

I've written a fair amount of Rust both with threads and with async and you know what? Async is useful, very often for exactly the reasons the OP mentions, not necessarily for performance. I don't like async for theoretical reasons. I like it because it works. We use async extensively at my job for a lot of lower-level messaging and machine-control code and it works really well. Having well-defined interfaces for Future and Stream that you can pass around is nice. Having a robust mechanism for timers is nice. Cancellation is nice. Tokio is actually really solid (I can't speak to the other executors). I see this "async sucks" meme all over the various programming forums and it feels like a bunch of people going "this thing, that isn't perfect, is therefor trash". Are we not better than this?

This is not to say that async doesn't have issues. Of course it does. I'm not going to enumerate them here, but they exist and we should work to fix them. There are plenty of legitimate criticisms that have been made and can continue to be made about Rust's concurrency story, but async hasn't "cost the community dearly". People who wouldn't use Rust otherwise are using async every single day to solve real problems for real users with concurrent code, which is quite a bit more than can be said for all kinds of other theoretical different implementations Rust could have gone with, but didn't.
For what time period?
I created this some years ago: https://github.com/philippgille/serve

It's written in Go, has zero third party dependencies, supports optional basic auth, and optional TLS cert generation (self signed) for local HTTPS.

Not updated in a while though.

And if you drop the requirement for minimalism I'd second the recommendation for Caddy instead.
Then… don’t? The regulations are not about killing the App Store. It will still be possible to use the App Store while sideloading is a thing. See google play.
I have... Just last week, I saw on the news a still of an aspiring university rector giving a talk where all those terms (and "big data") appeared on the slide. Sadly I don't have any context because the news only talked about how he had been accused of running a fake paper mill. Unbelievable!
UK blames China-affiliated entities for malicious cyber activity
> 1. Unicode isn't a method of storing pixel or graphic representations of writing systems; it's meant to store text, regardless of how similar certain characters look.

I'm not sure that that is really possible without something way bigger or more complicated than Unicode. Consider the string "fart". In English that means to emit gas from the anus. In Swedish it means speed. Does that mean Unicode should have separate "f", "a", "r", and "t" for English and Swedish?

> 2. What do you do about screen readers & the like? If it encounters something that looks like a little half-moon glyph that's in the middle of a sentence about foreign alphabets that reads "Por ejemplo, la letra 'c'", should it pronounce it as the English "see" or as Russian "ess"?

What would a human do if that was in a book and they were reading it aloud for a blind friend?
You missed the point I was making - it's not about absolute amount of pollution, it's about the fact that Musk's company is polluting the sky for every single human on earth, despite the fact it does not provide their service for everyone on earth. People in many countries around the world now have to deal with his swarm of sattelites to look at the sky, because of an American billionaire's fantasy. That doesn't seem fair to me.
I am OK with some cultures not eating some meats: pork for the muslims or jews, horse for some Western countries, sometimes rabbit. Where I'm from (Italy) we eat both horse and rabbits.

But I too draw the line at eating dogs and cats, except during extreme survival situations where it's eat your pet (or fellow human) to avoid starvation. I feel eating canids and felids as taboo as eating a primate, or eating a human.
This map gives the odd sense that the sky is absolutely buzzing with satellites and yet they are still incredibly sparse "on the ground". Look at any western US state and you'll see just a handful above at any time.
I'm not 100% of all legalese technicalities but I know for a fact vatican law applies there and it's managed and guarded by vatican's gendarmerie (my ex went to the university behind the basilica which is also part of the Holy See).
Unavailable at the moment (HN hug of death?), Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20240204131916/https://esoteric....
> serving things like Astro from S3

Given that point, I got the impression that the comparison was against loading resources from S3. The difference between that and serving from memory (even between that and serving from uncached traditional hard-drive) is going to be significant.

EDIT: cursory research suggests S3 latency (https://stackoverflow.com/a/861539/114292, being the most recent reference that turned up) is smaller than it was last time I remember needing to look into it, but still of the order of 10+ms.
If you are using Cludfront with an S3 origin you can turn on static website hosting and specify a 404 fallback page[0] - which would then just be your index file. It will render your client code and let you show a 404 if it is indeed one.

The problem is that essentially every time a user goes to the site it will be a 404 status code since they are probably not typing in example.com/index but this has pragmatically not been an issue for a wholly authenticated, private, B2B SaaS app. The marketing website is a separate subdomain.

For a public site this is probably worse than returning 200s that should be 404s occasionally, though.

[0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Custom...
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Not with the macOS Python from the Xcode developer tools:

> Error: This build of python cannot create venvs without using symlinks
I have actually! At night you can see the "train" of satellites when the light reflects off them just at the right angle - it's like a long line of dots across the horizon. Of course that is nothing compared to what problems this is causing for astronomy.
This is the generative art I love!
Ideally it would be a private equity, so they would be immune from reporting obligations.
I've read shogun and now i'm watching the latest TV show. Both are amazing.
Is the wife he's buried with Japanese? And he had one in England too?
Depends what you mean by multi-threaded. There are plenty of frameworks that have some support for doing work on background threads.

Take JavaFX for example:

1. Rendering is done on a background thread in parallel with the app thread.

2. The class lib makes it easy to run background tasks that update the GUI to reflect progress and results.

3. You can construct widget trees on background threads and then pass them to the main UI thread only to attach them/make them visible.

With libs like ReactFX you can take event streams from the UI, map over them to a worker thread or pool of threads, and pass the results back to the UI thread.

A few years ago I did a video tutorial showing a few of these things, the code can be seen here:

https://github.com/mikehearn/KotlinFPWebinar/blob/master/src...

Basically this is a simple auto-complete widget. It takes a stream of values from a text field the user is typing in, reduces the frequency of changes (so if you type fast it doesn't constantly do work it's about to throw away) and then passes the heavy work of computing completions onto a background thread, then takes the results back onto the UI thread.

val edits = EventStreams.valuesOf(edit.textProperty()).forgetful()
val fewerEdits = edits.successionEnds(Duration.ofMillis(100)).filter { it.isNotBlank() }

val inBackground = fewerEdits.threadBridgeFromFx(thread)
val completions = inBackground.map { ngrams.complete(it) }
val inForeground = completions.threadBridgeToFx(thread)

val lastResult = inForeground.map {
FXCollections.observableList(it)
}.toBinding(FXCollections.emptyObservableList())
completionsList.itemsProperty().bind(lastResult)

Now if you mean what UI libraries support writes to properties from arbitrary background threads without an explicit thread switch, I think the answer is only Win32 and Motif. But that's not a particularly important feature. JavaFX can catch the case if you access live UI from the wrong thread so such bugs are rarely an issue in practice. In particular it's easy to synchronize with the UI thread with a few simple helpers, e.g.:

thread(name = "background") {
while (true) {
var speed = synchronizeWithUI { speedSlider.value }
doSomeWork(speed)
}
}
It’s still not good though, because it essentially rules out the creation and growth of new browser engines. A group shouldn’t need to be a multinational gigacorp to pull that off.
How does Single Sign-On (SSO) work?
You could also go for Oracle Cloud free tier.

There yiu get 2 tiny vps for free.
Everyone wants the latest chips. That's causing a headache for TSMC
To be fair, at the time dial up was what, 56 kbps? 120 kB would take 17 seconds to transfer over that.

If taken percentually relative to the available bandwidth, most modern sites still come out far ahead I think. At 100 Mbps you'd be able to download over 200 MB in that time.
I actually read all the books and didn't hate it. But I think the most important aspect was the cultural differences from the typical western authors that I've almost exclusively read.
Ah this is awesome! I really like how you handled the hair in these.

I made something similar a few years back, pulling from a suite of random textures. https://holinaty.com/randomfaces/
No mistaking that Elon is a real multibillionaire, unlike some people who play one on TV, but you have to wonder if even Elon can overreach and make his projects all run too lean.

I can't imagine moving tens of billions on a lark, so I suppose I should not be surprised to see that same person under-allocate capital for protecting the value of that investment. It is careless, or self-destructive on a mind-boggling scale.
Yeah, the framing you need to have to understand the comment is dark. How is one to "know" that one ought not to do this, unless the facts about cultural behavior are communicated? Yet those facts themselves, about regions and risks, are extremely contentious. It doesn't seem fair to have it both ways - either every group should be free to move to, try to make a life, do business an lots of US regions without worrying much, or we should spread stereotypes and warnings about how groups are likely to behave, which would look a lot like racism.

The points about not knowing anybody are fair, but still, the obvious implication is that the comment, while coming from the left, is also suggesting that the MC should have privately been told the racial realities of that area. But the right to speak about that, too, is under attack. Is it or is it not okay to mention that majority black, southern, low income towns are likely to be extremely dangerous, and that poverty is a proxy for it, but that other methods of stereotyping are likely even more effective?
This right there is why pagans get a lot more fun out of it. ~
I don't think there is any meaningful way to boil compute down to single metric. Core count, clock rate, ISA extensions (AVX etc), CPU generation, arm64 vs x86, memory bandwidth, burst vs sustained perf, there are simply too many variables that depend on the workload.
As Hayek said:

> "Credits and credit cards are substitutes. So I think we can forget about existing money and existing banks. And open a system of accounts which would displace money … I don’t believe that we shall ever have good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of the government. We can’t take them violently out of the hands of the government, [then] all we can do is by some sly, roundabout way [and] introduce something they can’t stop."

https://news.bitcoin.com/fa-hayeks-foresight-imagining-bitco...

The relatively gradual development of crypto, with the booms and busts and "told you so's" by tut-tutting academics and People Who Know More, let crypto slip through the gauntlet. I don't believe there is any danger of outright bans anymore given the legal and political successes, most obviously the Bitcoin ETF launch that put crypto into the hands of a much wider set of retail and institutions.

The technology will have to develop more to truly compete, but I believe most of finance will transition to crypto rails over the coming 20 years.
Could run the ad blocker as a MITM proxy on an unmetered fast connection (e.g. residential), and it serves the lightweight modified version over your metered slow connection (e.g. mobile).
What bothers me is that in Europe it was expected to affect the real estate prices. The higher the interest, the lower the prices, which sounds logical but...the prices kept increasing.

So what's going to happen when Lagarde decides to lower them? The demand is way to high and the offer is almost non existent.

And it seems that it didn't affect the inflation either. Bad years for everybody who's not getting a 10% raise every year.
Yeah, I know it's a very slim chance. But rabies is, for all practical sense, a 100% mortality disease, so I couldn't risk not having a shot. I still had to continue getting the treatment (usually 4 doses) when I got home
True. I mentioned asdf mainly because it can be used with many languages & tools and is not restricted to the Python ecosystem.
Usually, it does equal a slowing economy. But IMO there's a difference this time in that a lot of economic "growth" was being carried out by businesses that couldn't exist in a reasonable interest rate environment (which is exactly what Jerry Powell's environment is) and honestly just wanted to cash out.

Think of how many startups only existed to set money on fire until they completely captured a market, or how many got bought by the likes of FAANG+MS just to only kind-of have an integration into products/services that were made.

This has just been a return to the normal rules of business: you need to be able to create a return on investment in a reasonable amount of time, and with a reasonable amount of resources.
The quartz being formed when Africa and North Carolina were one and pressed up against one another is really neat. Similar, NC is the only major source in the US for emeralds for the same reason.
Interesting enough, back in the ps3/ps4 days everyone in my corner of Eastern Europe seemed to have gone for an xbox (and maybe even an xbox 360).

In the past few years, the xboxes were always in stock while people were joining waiting lists and lotteries * for the PS5.

* One large electronics chain actually had a lottery for the PS5 preorders at launch, because they weren't getting enough to cover what was already paid for! Some lucky people got a PS5 the rest got their money back :)
Not sure what single binary means but here’s my take.

https://github.com/dclowd9901/posse
yes but `workon` is too good not to have
Yeah, that completely makes sense. The comment I was thinking of was made in the context of Starlink for home users.

By the way, I think that comment was from the 2023 SpaceX all-hands talk that was posted online if you wish to find it yourself.
Let me add: for services like GitHub that never log you out, 2FA is pure security theater. The only factor in this case is a browser cookie.
Are you also okay with sites running crypto miners while they're open without having received your prior consent as a way to monetize? How about if they install a service worker in case you close the tab before doing sufficient mining to pay what they think is fair?

Personally, I run malware blockers by default, so I don't know which sites are trying to send it to me to avoid visiting them. I couldn't tell you whether e.g. the github link in OP has ads. I see some stuff gets blocked, so I guess maybe? I figured they monetize through upselling their enterprise offerings, but I guess it is Microsoft and their OS has ads built in these days, so wouldn't surprise me.
Yield management and compulsory reservation – how much we tolerate in railways?
Formal methods is what happens when you try to do engineering in the traditional sense in the software space. You sit down, design, find a specification, and then build to spec. It's arguably an idealized version, even, because depending on the methods you cannot fail the spec if you succeed in building it.

Only a small group of software engineers are interested in this principled approach. Hell many software engineers are scared of recursion.
These days, cool kids are into LLMs.

https://github.com/EGjoni/DRUGS
ha, seeing boston called out as maybe a model intl airport :p

As a counter to that, I did 3 weeks around the world, planes every other day, international every 4 days or so. Not a single customs, baggage, check in, transport problem until getting back home to good ol' logan airport.

The "passport validation" line was somehow over 1.5 hour. Only two international planes coming into this terminal the entire time, and they legit reformed the line like three times for some reason????

That cascaded into missing our bus back to new hampshire, which cascaded into being late for a work commitment.

Wasn't that big a deal but was very funny.
Federation’s a non-starter when most devices people use are battery powered and don’t like to hold connections open when idle. Like, it works, but it won’t work well enough unless most devices are just going through gateways, which largely defeats the point.
This wasn't "one of the most aggressive episodes". This was nothing compared to Volcker in 1979-1981.

And the fact that nothing has broken indicates that they didn't go overly aggressive. They stopped inflation from getting worse without driving the country into a recession. That's a pretty decent balancing act.
People buy Apple products because they don’t have that crap. What are you talking about?

If there’s one company that DOESN’T bloat your computing device with worthless junk from third parties, it’s Apple.
Glenn Greenwald on TikTok Ban Bill [video]
Of course I'd rather they do it this way than not at all. It's just so sad how unsustainable it is. It's great that there is so much interest, at least right now, I could only get a read-only spot in the feed.
Largely it's this point below from the article:

"The obvious one is fiscal policy, with governments everywhere using budgetary stimulus more actively since the pandemic. The impact of higher interest rates has been dampened in two ways. First, consumers had high levels of liquid assets (sometimes called “excess savings”) left over from the pandemic, which provided a financial cushion that protected their spending power. Second, governments have been deploying additional funds since COVID-19, such as the large energy support programmes in Europe and Bidenomics in the US (big tax subsidies that encouraged US companies to invest heavily in green energies). These funds have supported incomes and employment, even as monetary policy engineered a squeeze"

-----

People on here are overstating the impact of a handful of software companies and buzzwords on the larger economy.
Imagine how much time could have been saved if they had just made Photos a normal app from the beginning?
Isn't effective tightening for global multinationals a function of tightening the lowest global interest rate? Which refers to Japan, and Japan only just a few weeks ago exited negative territory and has not tightened meaningfully at all.
+1

As another comment suggested, I think it's the crowds and the commercialism. It might as well have been erected inside Disney World. Maybe I'm insensitive, but it takes more than the literal/physical art (the building itself) to move me.

Edit: For example, just walking around the Gothic Quarter at night was a significantly more moving, cathartic, or "timeless" experience for me.
These types of articles/pronouncement always tend to make a connection that is nearly never warranted. That is, the article quotes this tweet that says "The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The road runs to the two mines that is the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers." But the first sentence doesn't really follow from the second.

That is, even if all the silicon wafers are made from this quartz from NC today, it's not really because that is the only possible option, it's because that quartz is the highest quality that can be procured at a relatively low price. But if that factory and quarry went away tomorrow, I have no doubt that the worldwide semiconductor industry would quickly adjust to a different quartz supplier.

I think it's still a very cool factoid, but the subtext that "the whole world economy 'hinges' on a teeny NC town" is false.
A similar tool for Go: https://go101.org/apps-and-libs/gotv.html
>> you're basically saying that you'd rather have Starlink not exist at all than to have Musk in charge

No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying having Musk in charge makes it distopian, but even without him at the helm I'd rather it didn't exist.

>>Confirmed: You'd rather have every Starlink customer go dark than have someone you've been told to dislike provide those customers with a service they willingly sign up for.

No, I'd rather not have my sky polluted to satisfy an American billionaire's fancy, even if he has willing and paying customers. The night sky is a common good of every single person on earth, and he's playing with it to make money. I'd have the exact same complaint about any competing constallation, and in fact I am going to have it because Amazon is building a competing service themselves.
They did slow it down ( including the form of couple banks going under and Summers begging for a bailout ). It just so happens that federal government also managed to pass some corporate stimulus in the form of 'green new deal' or whatever they ended up calling it and war of Ukraine, which helps domestic warmachine ( billions from misnamed foreign aid ).

edit: Oh, and the Summeers did manage to scare enough people to rescue SVB so that impact was absorbed, amusingly, by other banks via extraordinary FDIC fee ( most banks have it listed now on their quarterly statement in case you are inclined to check ).
You could generate svg.
>Is your point that we care in principle but don't functionally care when faced with an actual decision?

Yes this is basically why the only thing capitalism can do is lower prices through squeezing everything, because while large groups of people are principled and care a lot, individual humans are largely irrational (especially when it comes to risk, because the humans who accurately analyzed risk on a population scale were eaten by tigers) and fairly flexible in morals, ideology, and priorities.
CUDA IS the merit. They’ve been developing the software stack to make GPU programming accessible for 2 decades now. They’re a software company as much or more than they are a hardware company. Ignoring this fundamentally misunderstands why they’re in the position they’re in now.
It's always nice to see a replication of the observed phenomenon. The fact is that optical lattice atomic clocks can measure a 2 centimeter difference in height purely because of time dilation.
Basically most humans. Hedge funds are doing great.
Very cool, this is the first time I'm hearing of PEP 711! I hope this (or some other PEP like it) will get accepted eventually!