skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect what you’re trying to describe was the use of blank COMMON as a dynamic storage pool. The anonymous COMMON block begins at the address after the last named block.
It is only winner takes all if Tesla keeps being only one with self-driving... Which to me looking into history is insane. Is there any technology where there is only single provider?

It is big enough market that eventually there will be multiple-players and then it will be race to bottom. Marginal profits. Self-driving taxis will be dumped like Uber and Lyft did against other players. And then it will be low margin business.
Cigarettes only smell when being lit, marijuana smells always. And the smell is way more potent.

Both suck though, I agree.
Ask HN: What's the state of Chemistry?
I see a lot of news regarding physics, bio-tech, and computer related stuff obviously, but it seems like general chemistry gets a lot less love. Yes, I know all the fields I just mentioned more or less deal with chemistry. Anyone here have a high-level understanding of the state of the field? Is progress slowing or at an impasse like Physics seems to be?
Nah I use Legend-State with Context to provide component stores and it's much nicer than the foot gun riddled useEffect standard React. Fine grained reactivity is fantastic.
The point is a CEO can almost certainly derail a company despite not being fully or even partially responsible for previous innovative products.
Look up vagal maneuvers. Used by a subset of tachycardia patients to reset to a typical heartbeat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagal_maneuver
It's really hard to describe, and in my experience, people with mental images tend to have a hard time imagining it (and people with aphantasia seem to differ on how much they use an internal monologue, etc). In a nutshell, for me the directions either 'come out of nowhere' or there is a vague feeling of 'geometrical stuff happening somewhere in my brain, in a mostly non perceptible places'.
I 100% agree. Bodily autonomy is, I think, one of the instincts (yeah, I think it's hard-coded: an instinct) of the most importance to a human being, along side survival, safety and reproduction. Taking bodily autonomy away from a person it's very close to murder, asymptotically so. It's infuriating seeing people clamoring for a curtail of this right, for the greater of good of course.

That being said.

>"In those years, I saw the Dutch euthanasia practice evolve from death being a last resort to death being a default option."

That's absolutely not ok. I would go so far as forbid doctors introducing this option to a patient; I would favor leaflets and online campaigns and have a discussion only _after_ the patient brings it up. At least in Netherlands (and Canada) everyone is aware of being an option, so it's not like the patients will suffer without knowing it exists; but it might reduce some pressure on people that don't need to take it just yet.
Microsoft was the very first to cooperate with the PRISM program...see the 2nd image here https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...
Or blowing up Czech ammunition depots.
That doesn't seem to be the case, at least right now. There's no pinned post as far as I can tell, and searching the sub for `best model` returns mostly questions.
How to communicate with people and get through negotiations and all of those tiny little conversations that happen day to day in our personal and professional lives with more success.

Started with Difficult Conversations last year and it was a total game changer. It has been instrumental in my professional and personal life. If I was going to share two key points for anyone it'd be to remember to listen and that you have also always contributed to the problem.

Working through Getting to Yes by the same group of folks now and it is just as great. A bit more high level but I plan to dive back into more specific areas afterwards and read through the just recently updated version of Difficult Conversations.

Want to hit Supercommunicators and Crucial Conversations later. I've decided that so many things break down, big and small, because of these seemingly small but ultimately important conversations. Always be soft on the people and hard on the problem.
How much better is Zstd? Compression seems like one of those things where diminishing returns kick in very quickly. Whenever I need compression, it's always just been basically, "throw gzip at it because it does a lot without much of a performance hit". Basically it does the job.
Unfortunately, that's what's happening now. Angels of mercy, unfortunately, I think some of them are also murderers. You make a good point, but I don't think we will ever get to that laissez-faire point of dying.

Assisted euthanasia should be a deliberate, purpose built process. Overseen by a doctor, and a guardian social worker, independent of the family and the state, to see at the persons wishes are carried out.
10 > 64, in QR Codes
I see what you're saying and to me seems the most relevant aspect of the transition. This has happened before, vehicles go faster than people or horses and machines play chess better than any human, but we still have foot-races and chess is as popular as ever. People will always do things and compete and play, it will just not be for work and to pay for things we need. The road there may be very bumpy, but once there we will have a new currency for recognition and appreciation.

When it comes to art, machines won't replace humans because communicating the human condition is at the core of art. Some things categorized as art e.g. blockbuster movies may entirely be machine made and enjoyed for its novelty and spectacle and that's fine too.
Chromium Lacros
Just a little something for April 1
Which may well be, but those detectives still aren't going to suddenly be able to read the license plate from an "enhanced" blurry photo, like their TV counterparts were doing back in the early 00s.
That’s a joke. Trump’s superpower is not speaking like a company-wide HR email. And even if taken literally, that doesn’t suggest anything about doing anything favorable for China. Trump was the one who started the recent anti-China trend in American politics, which Biden has run with: https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36185012

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_tr... (“An economic conflict between China and the United States has been ongoing since January 2018, when U.S. President Donald Trump began setting tariffs and other trade barriers on China with the goal of forcing it to make changes to what the U.S. says are longstanding unfair trade practices and intellectual property theft.[1]”)
Interviewing is a different situation though, because you start having essentially no relationship with the interviewee, and you haven't seen their work. OSS projects don't just add everyone that asks as a co-maintainer. Usually it's someone that has contributed to the project for a while already, and through that has shown they understand the code, are capable of improving it, and can make sensible decisions about the road to take.
managers who can isolate us developers from being directly pestered by other management

Ironically - he is part of that “other management”. I assume the devs already have their regular manager.
It doesn't matter whether a source likes you or not. It matters if what they are reporting is factual and verifiable. If you only go with sources that say nice things about you, then you're biased and are living in a bubble of your own narcissism.
> Locked system means "not at work" which should mean "no noises from you, ever".

Many companies auto-lock desktops after a few minutes of inactivity. If I go to chat to someone away from my desk, I definitely want Teams to make noises if somebody is phoning me - especially since I no longer have a desk phone.
Not agreeing or disagreeing, just curious how you draw conclusion (4)? This attack has nothing to do with systemd or its ecosystem etc.
Mostly agree but Common Lisp goes out of its way to not prioritize paradigms.

Immutable or mutable? Depends how you write it. Lists don't mutate until you choose to.

Statements or functions? Both I guess. Loop is declarative, many things are imperative, some things are functional.

Dynamic or static typing? Depends whether you bothered to give the compiler type hints or not.

Compile time or runtime? CL is AOT by default but you can eval-when your way into running code whenever you want. Readtime too

To be honest one of the biggest problems with CL is the multiparadigmatic design - you end up with many styles of code, all of which are valid and none of which anyone can agree on.
My grandfather somehow assisted Hemingway in setting up New Atlantis and the documents declaring him and my grandmother Sir and Lady hang proudly in my living room. As far as I know my family is the sole remaining royal line of New Atlantis. Hilarious that this keeps coming up.
It doesn't distribute. The app pulls from hugging face.
Re: 1. People keep saying this. We should stop distributing tarballs. It's an argument that completely ignores why we have release artifacts in the first place. A release artifact contains more than just autoconf scripts.

There can be many reasons to include binary blobs in a release archive. Game resources, firmware images, test cases. There was today a comment that mpv includes parts of media files generated with proprietary encoders as test cases. That's good, not bad.

The well maintained library sqlite is everywhere, and has an excellent test suite. They release not one but two tarballs with every release, for different stages of compilation. It would be trivial to stop doing this, but it would make maintaining packages more work, which does nothing to improve security.

The reason Debian builds from curated tarballs are because they are curated by a human, and signed with a well known key. They could certainly build from git instead. But would that improve the situation? Not all projects sign their release tags. And for those that do, it is more likely to be automated. We the collective want changes to be vetted first by the upstream maintainer, then by the package maintainer, and would prefer these entities to be unrelated.

This time the process was successfully attacked by a corrupt upstream maintainer, but that does not mean we should do away with upstream maintainers. Several backdoor attempts have been stopped over the years by this arrangement and that process is not something we should throw away without careful consideration.

The same improvements we have been talking about for years must continue: We should strive for more reproducible builds. We should strive for lower attack surface and decrease build complexity when possible. We should trust our maintainers, but verify their work.
Good for you! That takes willpower. I'm also curious about your stance on less controversial drugs like coffee and sugar. (Sugar is surprisingly insidious!)

> I enjoy being in full control of my senses

Heh. I suspect you're a lot less in control than you think you are. It took me experiencing mushrooms and LSD to really open my eyes to the ridiculous amount of processing our minds do just outside of our awareness. I'm sure this could be explored without mind altering chemicals too, but few do.
Germany's largest party, the CDU/CSU union, has already announced that they intend to revoke the law ("make cannabis illegal again"). It is only a matter of time until they run the state again, and I'd say whether they actually work on the revocation depends on the junior political party they will need to form the government.

For example, if in 2025 the CDU/CSU and SPD form the new goverment (a constellation that has happened already a few times), I'd say chances are high that cannabis is going to be illegal again. And this turnout is a relatively probable scenario.
I remember the first RAM/HD upgrade I did on a Unibody MacBook...mind-blowing simple. Most laptops were such a pain to work on before that.

Edit: I remember some models having the drive in a bay and the RAM in an easily accessible panel (or under the keyboard), but most were a sandwich of tiny panels and cables.
Stop making excuses, a large part of the world does not have an obesity epidemic. Ozempic has it's uses but only a very small percentage of the population actuality need it.

Same goes for the masses of men over 30 that think they need testosterone replacement therapy. Unless you abused steroids or you have an underlying issues that prevents your gonads from working you do not need it. In fact a major factor in low testosterone is excessive body weight.
I haven’t had success writing fiction just yet but I just read The Snowflake Method and I hope to give it a go. It’s a really interesting read.

https://a.co/d/gJrLsyM

This also got me interested in Creative Nonfiction and I’m reading about that now, although the Snowflake Method book is something else — a fiction story that explains a nonfiction subject.
If your email can be displayed in a gmail ad, then it is spam/marketing.
This is normal for spark. We have very little expectation even our senior engineers can optimize their own jobs. It’s a difficult system to learn but can be very powerful.

That said, making REST calls inside spark sounds like a recipe to accidentally DDoS your target endpoint.
As consumer I always wondered, were the cars worse for it? Or were they actually better, if I don't consider emissions critical in my decision making process.
Any reasonable idea can be taken to an extreme but some variant of "keep your focus on your key goals" doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
Let’s step away from the extremist position and there’s an interesting problem underneath.

If a company or government organization is hiring engineers who will be responsible for critical code, they will undergo background checks at a minimum to ensure they are not an obvious threat to the organization. This isn’t about “country of origin”, but about the criminal history and ties of the individual regardless of origin.

In a government setting, security clearances will be required on top of basic background checks.

The FOSS community doesn’t have the tools to do this kind of screening, and arguably the openness of the community is what makes it successful.

But the uncomfortable reality is that there are indeed malicious actors, and the community doesn’t currently have a mechanism to proactively identify them and instead relies on discovering the results of their malicious behavior.

I don’t claim to know the solution, or if there even is one, but the existence of this comment thread is exhibit A for why we need to be thinking hard about how to proceed as a community.

FOSS projects are in the big leagues now, and will continue to come under threat from increasingly sophisticated actors.
Try opening teams.microsoft.com in Edge and compare the memory usage with the app. On my system the website uses double the RAM.
Yep. I don't know what's left for coders to do when AI is doing the coding, but I wouldn't be interested.

A painter gets in it for the painting, not painting management or painting business strategy technical directorship or touching up photographs taken by the new machine.

PS: I feel this way and I'm way younger than you. ;p I don't think it's an age thing as much as a "we were sold the idea that we could code" thing.
For me, it's being prepared essentially. Having a supply of masks, toilet paper, meds, emergency supplies, etc.
> 2) Simply meeting IRL is a terrible proxy for credibility.

Disagree; trust your intuition, but you can never do that if you never meet IRL.

Also, it's not racist or xenophobic to recognize that some countries exercise nearly complete control over their citizens (and sometimes indirectly over non-citizens), and that those people could be putting themselves at extreme personal risk by disobeying those dictates (assuming they did disagree, which doesn't seem to be a given)
I read the comment as -- we shouldn't hand control of valuable open source projects over to probable operatives of government security services. (Indeed, as many have mentioned, US intelligence might be behind this.)

Do you disagree with that? Or do you think OP meant something different? Because if they did it went right over my head.
What counts as evidence? Anwer without making epistemological statements.
> can promote infection/cancer

Note that while TNF inhibitors like adalimumab (Humira) have a black box cancer warning in the US, this was based on assessing a small number of studies early on. We now have more than 20 years of studies and patient registry data, and later studies, including meta-analyses, have concluded that there is no additional risk of cancer with these TNF inhibitors.

E.g. see:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24361468/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2770105/
Friend used to run his webservers on Amigas about two decades ago, back in a time where the time of hooking up an unpatched Windows system to a 100MBit connection would have it infected before you could start updating it. "Of course the webserver there is horribly insecure, as there haven't been new releases in years, but it's so obscure that none of the exploits work"
LLMs don't have any clue what the concept "research the question before answering" means. Maybe if you asked it a series of leading questions to get some of the "research" in the context window first. Then you might as well just search. Otherwise it'll just confidently sound like it researched without any bearing on the answer.

LLMs are sloppy, and we shouldn't have to do "sociology" experiments to find out whether or not an LLM might give the right answer slightly more often if we trick it into adding more context to the answer.
>Likewise anti-war is anti-war be it a WW2 or Vietnam.

Defensive and Just wars are not exactly the same as carving out political spheres of influence.
These Are Dangerous People
AI innovator Sir Demis Hassabis: Video games can boost creativity in young
https://jan.ai/ is pretty idiot proof.
Letter to AMD: Ongoing AMD hardware/software/firmware problems
Prompts are using 4x more tokens than you need
>This is true, and for sure pretty much all humans can benefit from increased skepticism (though not cynicism), but that superstar status is achieved from numerous impressive works.

It is achieved through a never ending parade of self aggrandizement.

What Justine is very good at is presenting trivial concepts from a world which few front end developers understand in a language that most front end developers understand.

I had the misfortune of having to find out about her because of how thoroughly she polluted the google search space for lisp with her implementation of sector lisp. For some reason google decided that sector lisp needed to be in the top 5 results for every query about `minimal lisp with quotation` even when quotation wasn't implemented in her version.
Xlsx-dict-reader 0.2.0, or, publishing to PyPI in 2024
I prefer my navy blue stuff to be a slightly lighter shade than sometimes used. For a really dark navy, I’d need to have a known black reference, and a lot of light, to determine the color.

And that light green just looks tan to me (kind of like the background here on HN), or like a normal monitor with the blue light blocking turned on.
I like this too. If a knob is too obtrusive/expensive, could do the same with two buttons. One button for forward and one for back. Make them sensitive enough that it's likely that a casual press will visibly scroll multiple minutes, but not too sensitive to prevent setting a specific minute with a quick tap.
The Mayor of London Enters the Bullshit Cinematic Universe
If you're broke, get a refurbished/used Nvidia P40. Same amount of vram as a 3090, between 4 and 10 times cheaper depending on how cheap you can find a 3090.

Granted it's slower of course, but best bang for your buck on vram, so you can run larger models than on a smaller bit faster card might be able to. (Not an expert.)

Edit: if using in desktop tower, you'll need to cool it somehow. I'm using a 3D printed fan thingy, but some people have figured out how to use a 1080 ti APU cooler with it too.
Considering the airport is testing out facial recognition systems to replace IDs:

Would you allow your face to be scanned by a government system to prove your identity online?
You might want to check the date.
Once again, a pro-Chinese interest comment tops the China-related Hacker News thread. You guys are really good at your jobs. (Note: I'm not implying that the above post or poster is suspicious, only that is the fact that these pro-China hot takes regularly get up voted to the top (e.g. the recent TikTok threads.)
I’d argue ‘it depends on the times and the circumstances’.

There is no one right answer.

Several things however are clear - most people are NOT having a good time, this isn’t a hypothetical situation anymore, and there are real consequences building for everyone.

Could ‘yeah whatever who cares’ work out the best?

It’s not impossible. But I’d argue if you did a decent gut check the vast majority of people will not agree that’s going to happen in the current circumstances. It’s certainly what the polls are telling us.

There are far too many clear predators out and about, and they’re succeeding far too much.

The challenge is that the predators are successful because they’re getting so good at creating noise and bullshit and pushing peoples buttons - because of the data they have and everyone being overwhelmed.
> If companies insist on always taking the easy way out, they continue to introduce a significant amount of risk. Since it’s currently possible to make huge buckets of money, by writing crap, we’re not incentivizing high-Quality engineering.

For the past 10-15 years there has been a strong culture of never writing code when a library on GitHub or NPM already exists, which has, in large part, contributed to this. In many cases using existing battle tested code is the right thing, but it was taken to an extreme where the avoidance of pulling down a bunch of random open source packages with questionable stability and longevity was often maligned as not invented here syndrome.

Now many of those packages are unmaintained, the job hopping SWEs who added them to the codebase are long gone, and the chickens are coming home to roost. The pendulum will probably swing too far in the other direction, but thoughtful companies will find the right balance.
Meanwhile my 7800x3d and 7900xt sip power compared to the new Intel chips pulling 400w on the processor alone. I also have 20GB of vram future proofing me for some time.
If you do want some insurance, the old over-provisioning trick should still work to prolong the life of the drive when used in a system that doesn't support TRIM. Format the drive on a modern system that does support TRIM, or secure erase it with the manufacturers utility, then create a partition which doesn't fill the entire drive and use that on the classic system that doesn't support TRIM. As long as the system never writes to the unpartitioned area it will remain in the TRIMed state and allow the SSD controller to use it as slack space.
20% chance AI destroys humanity. 80% chance humanity uses AI to destroy itself. Let's do it anyway.
Being in that situation, two things that stand out are: when thinking about a topic, I do sometimes formulate my questions or hypotheses in internal words, but the "answers" come back in non verbal form: for instance I suddenly just "know" where the flaw in the argument is, or what (counter)example I need to think more about. The other striking fact is that when I am very emotional (eg angry), the internal monologue is suddenly very vivid :)