skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's about war.

I mean yes, ultimately, but it's also about supply chain disruption that we just experienced with COVID. The US economy (and subsequently the Western economy) would probably get hit pretty hard with a chip cutoff and 5 years to onshore it. The economy is also about war; without a strong economy, we can't stockpile all our murder toys. It's also about leverage with China. With China on an aggressive footing and Taiwan so vulnerable, they have a leverage point we're now addressing.

We got this way because we thought if we brought China into the modern economy they would democratize. I think we came to the conclusion that it's not working out that way so we're adjusting and divesting from China. COVID was a wake up call in regard to having a single country be the world's production of goods. It ups the bet when that single country is becoming more of an adversary than a competitive partner.
It's an interesting observation, and it's constructive, providing actual data and knowledge. I downvoted you for negativity because you're providing nothing interesting.
I remember many years ago, SBCL would build noticeably slower on gnome terminal as compared to xterm due to how verbose the build process was. I think they even put a note in the README about it.
I have tried many boutique programming languages. I think I’ll pass on this one, especially higher level (object oriented) programming languages. I usually end up going back to Java/Scala/C#/python/rust/go.
For $10/month or $100/year you’re not paying enough for someone to care about your pictures.
Wild to write an article where point 1 is “Decline in real wage growth. Check” in the time period with the first real wage growth in decades.
>modern German bureaucracy has been built exactly by former Nazis and Stasi agents.

How frustrating for London and Washington to fight and win a war against the Nazis, then occupy (the Western half of) Germany for 7 years, imposing a new government on the country -- all to no effect.
Introduction to Sentence Embeddings
> Thanks to Shackleton’s efforts and those of his crew, all 28 men survived and were rescued in 1917.

The men survived in the antarctic for 2 years until rescue? (ship sank 1915, rescued in 1917) That's insane, what did they eat? How did they stay warm?
Project Mellow: Managed Forecasting API
Ha - so akin to a Discworld camera! Pratchett would be laughing...
"Now" being the operative word. Vala's quite old; when it came out C# barely existed on Linux. I think these days C# is almost definitely the better choice for whatever you might have used Vala for in the past.
This was direct action of their own. They had a problem that the usps would be involved in. That it wasn't really the usps and that specific problem didn't exist is a differenc issue.
Probably some caveats not shown by using GObject over C++ libs for qt
We should have been building new nuclear reactors for the last 20 years. Its so fucking obvious it isn't even funny. At least our idiot nation didn't follow the fucking morons in Germany with their 'destroy the nuclear fleet' policy.
In the case of Poland though only a tiny fraction of it was captured by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The largest portion was captured by Russia. Second largest by German Empire. I have great-grandparents from each of those.

Moreover prior to the fall of the Iron Curtain the term Central Europe wasn’t used much. After that though some people like Milan Kundera started popularising it much more out of sense of inferiority.
I don't think the author is talking about large-scale control of water (like in the theory of hydraulic civilization). He mentions "communal management" and "communities."
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Is your point that people shouldn't be using a standard feature because chrome doesn't like it or that chrome shouldn't be complaining because 25% of all colour declarations use this syntax?
Did the proposed package actually happen? There seem to be no follow-up articles about it. If the CCP wanted to hide it, $140bn would still represent ~1% of their GDP, so there should be some pretty obvious markers indicating that it went through. In Sept 2023, the FT reported that the Big Fund (the main pot for semiconductor subsidies) was struggling to hit its modest targets of $40bn in total across a 5-year investment.

I don't see it as credible to say that China are currently investing $60bn/yr, or anything approaching that figure. They seem to currently be struggling to hit $10bn/yr.
My Final Hackintosh Rodeo
I discovered a critical exploit in ZeroMQ with mostly pure luck
> The car then asks you to leave a recorded message explaining why you intervened, and the struggle is to use words instead of screaming over and over.

Lol
> Layoffs have been limited to tech

And in all honesty, good. Tech Bros (myself included) needed to be cut to size. There was a lot of hubris by my peers in the 2010s.
This doesn't solve the actual problem though. These private insurance companies need to GO!! #MedicareForAll
I'm not a web dev so my knowledge is limited here.

What is the canonical way to do "components" with this htmx workflow though? How do you create an abstraction for a button, or a card, etc...
Do you just copy/paste the html all the time?

Is it just BE templates?
KDD Cup 2024 – Comprehensive RAG Benchmark
Defending free speech does not mean I'm in cahoots with Putin.
How to get a web view mobile approved on Apple and Android?
I have a website that is primarily used on mobile (95%) and my users are asking for mobile apps. The website is basically a leaflet map with some filters. Throwing that into a web view would be all I technically need for a great mobile app but I don't think that would get approved since the native app offers no additional functionality.

Can anyone give guidance on how to approach making this into a mobile app?
447 pages? You can tell a committee worked on this monstrosity. Mistakes wil be made simply because this is too big to be parsed by one person.
Movie Theaters Have Weird Real Estate. It's Saving Them
I find the general idea in this quote hard for me to swallow: "And passkeys can’t suffer mass exposure like passwords because apps and websites only store the public key — the private key remains safely stored on your device. If everyone used passkeys, much of the harmful effects of data breaches would disappear."

If a service can sync your passkey between devices, then by definition it can be copied off. And if it can be copied off, then it can also be caught in a data breach. And as soon as your passkey can be part of a data breach, we seem largely back where we started?

What am I missing? Is it better than it was? Almost assuredly. But a large part of the annoyances brought up in this post are specifically to limit breach exposure. Apple wants to make sure any keys it has synced can only be lost by a breach at Apple. Same for Google. If this is opened up to allow syncing by other actors, each other actor in the chain is now a potential breach, no?
How is information qualified as evidence (e.g., the “Evidence Crawler” functionality)?

The best case scenario would seem to be that results are derived from certain biases built into the model, unless it weighs “factuality” by the number of occurrences of certain statements on the internet which is as far from a qualification for truthfulness as the biased model.
https://archive.is/8HBdU
I suspect they meant it will never come to fruition? Similar to e.g. cold fusion?
Or one could, you know, learn SQL.
I mean there are 999 layers of "more options" before the button "preference" show up.
I agree. I have wondered for many years why this is so. I think because Vala was developed so specifically for use with gnome, that its maturation was mainly limited to problems in that domain. I don't think it offered anything that wasn't already mostly available between Java and C#, so it never took off for web. It also wouldn't have fit well as a GUI building language for other native platforms, so it didn't take off there. It's not a good scripting language, so it didn't take off there.

In the end, I think it lost due to the network effect.
The hyperscale clouds double in cost every 3 years compared to the prices dictated by Moore's law for hardware sold or rented in competitive markets.
Which is an outstanding book series, and while they took some liberties with the tv show I thought it was outstanding as well.
White people are underrepresented (and paid less) in big tech companies by a considerable margin now, according to the companies' own ESG reports that they publish. Our industry is overcompensating for these imbalances.

I work at the biggest FAANG and just last week our team decided we are rejecting all applications for a manager position we have open until we get more diverse candidates. I'm pretty sure that's somehow illegal, but I don't want to get fired for saying that it seems wrong.

Here is Apple's ESG report showing that white people are underrepresented (40% of the company vs 60% of the country):

https://investor.apple.com/esg/

Here is Microsoft's blog post about paying white people less:

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/11/01/microsofts-2023-...

"Inside the U.S., all racial and ethnic minority groups who are rewards-eligible combined earn $1.007 total pay for every $1.000 earned by U.S. rewards-eligible white employees with the same job title and level and considering tenure."
I buy the argument that work arrangements can significantly shape psychology. I am really annoyed by the culture to "sell" your findings using grandiose phrasing. It's a observation that confirms many people's prior, but it's very cool to have a definitive test for one specific manifestation of it. But breakthrough research it is not, and not really telling you anything about cultivating minds.
Oh neat I’ve never heard of NativeAOT. I’ve only used Unity’s AOT compiler “Burst” for C# (I assume that is something different?).

Cool stuff.

edit: Actually I meant to say Unity’s IL2CPP, which transpiles IR to C++. Burst is a different tool with similar goals—it compiles IR straight down to native via LLVM.
Limitations of the Fourier Transform: Need for a Data Driven Approach
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I think the point is that people who have so much medical debt that they’re not even able to make payments on it are not in a position to buy a house or a car either.

And more realistically, more people than ever will never be able to afford to own a home.
> xz sees continual improvement to e.g. make it faster.

Yes, that makes sense.

> ifuncs are an important part of that.

No, IFUNCs have absolutely zero performance benefit over regular function pointers for internal functions. If anything, they can limit optimization oppertunities the compiler has with other approaches. The only benefit IFUNCs bring is being able to avoid another indirection when replacing already exported library functions in their entirety. That's what they are there for - different optimized implementations for things like memcpy in glibc.
what a blast from the past. Shocking to see they are now on version 115.

thunderbird was the bees knees back then. Only 5 years later mozilla started making decisions which wrecked them.
I'm sure I read somewhere gnome was moving to flutter, I definitely might be wrong.

EDIT: might be getting confused with ubuntu
Same. I see a show advertised and I want to hear what the bands sound like, the easiest way (for me) is to search for them on Spotify and check out the top few tracks and the new release. If I like what I hear then I'll buy a ticket and go. I probably could have found the tracks other ways if I really tried, but this way just works, almost always.
There are very few reasons to.
I found parent to be constructive as to tone rather than content and upvoted them for that reason. The constructive part of grandparent's point can be made without needlessly crapping on people's hard work.
Go is notoriously difficult to use in a scenario like this, especially when bindings to C# in the form of https://github.com/gircore/gir.core exist (overhead of calling which is very low by nature of interop being a first-class feature since .NET's inception).
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From what you've said my guess is that your eldest is probably the biggest drain on your emotional resources.

Have you joined a support group for families with special needs kids?

There's no substitute for interactions with other folk in a similar position to yours.

Disclosure: Two difficult kids, no outside support while they were growing up. Seven years ago, around the time our eldest moved out, our youngest had their first hospitalization for a psychotic episode and is now formally diagnosed as schizophrenic. Loving them ain't ever been easy and it's meant giving up on most of our personal ambitions but I wouldn't want either of them out of my life even if you put a gun to my head.
Could you explain how artists are paid more? The subscription fee is roughly the same.
Thanks. Currently I use Notepad++ as my general text editor on Windows and Brackets on Mac. Brackets is fine for my use, but a Mac version of Notepad++ is definiately worth a look.
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Technologies: Rendering, C, C++, Rust, Python, Embedded,
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Ideally I'd like to find a position related to what I studied during my MSc, so rendering (online or offline), VFX, tool/pipeline developer.
But I do realize that before being so picky, I need some experience, so throw anything at me!

I do realize I don't have much professional experience in current hot topics, but I am willing to learn anything that the position requires. I believe that thanks to my studies I'd be able to pick up and being productive quite fast!

Thanks :)
Being to gnome what swift is to macOS
Thank you.

I had fun making this little toy project, I felt like a software artisan assembling some simple existing pieces of hardware and software.

It's a refreshing change from complex professional projects that take months to complete.

And Mamie Colette loves it too !
are you expected to pack everything at the end of the day and ... unpack when you arrive?
Yes, it's close to an iPod Shuffle but my grandmother cannot use an iPod Shuffle, it's too complicated for her with 5 (too small) buttons.
I think "real" wage growth is exactly that point. There hasn't been any, and the recent growth is miniscule and is not even close to having kept up with inflation over that time.
> but I already had enough not marketable languages

Ha! Ain't that the truth :-)

It touches on a big problem for new language development in that there are barriers to entry at getting workable in a new language, but employers don't want to use them unless they can hire for them, and they can't hire for them unless people use them, but people don't use them because they can't get hire'd to use them, rinse and repeat.
Bay Area: first-in-nation climate experiment by helping clouds deflect sunlight
I just found out that around the same time the Chinese also released a 30 episode version as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Body
Right, this is changing gradually but single thread performance is still king on the web.
So the impact to the employers is low; whereas the potential to help disadvantaged racialized people is high. That’s a perfectly acceptable trade off.
https://archive.is/DwFGw
Time–frequency signal processing: Today and future
I love Google Photos but I hate that there isn't a good way to make an easy backup. Your photos used to be a folder in Google Drive that you could sync to a local NAS but that option is gone now.
. Tech Bros are infact rarely let go first because of their chummy relationship with managmemnt.

I know a lot of my colleagues on Visas and families here were laidoff and ppl on visas live with this constant layoff anxiety.
The reason is that the limiting factor absolutely should be the human, so if the computer is slow enough that the human can possibly notice it, it needs to be 10x faster.
Fixing all the bugs won't solve all the problems – Deming's path of frustration
Microplastics in blood vessels quadruple the risk of heart failure
No reason to get in a hurry.

With greedy record companies as part of the structure from the beginning, looks like they are fairly consistently demonetizing themselves.

When a business depends on a resource that's so well-heeled it can truly afford to waste substantial amounts, you really hope that resource will not run out.

If the balance tips toward dependence on consumers who can not afford much waste if any, that portion could very well be subject to collapse under the strain.

As for demon-ization, looks like that's already in progress quite a bit too.
https://archive.is/2024.04.08-040812/https://www.nytimes.com...

I am only part way through but I feel the Chinese have point. Anyone and everyone knows that there are more good people than bad in any society. To present people as caricatures in this way would be hurtful to any group of people. No attempt has been made to nuance the characters which is a missed opportunity.
What percentage do Tidal and Spotify each pay?
Interpreting the Progress of Ctgan
A word of warning, though: the series is dark and extremely depressing. I would not recommend it for people struggling with depression.
Journalists gonna journalist.
No, the Ubuntu community is pushing Flutter, not upstream GNOME.

Like the desktop app store, the Ubuntu installer is now written in Flutter.
Sure, fear and reality are very different things.

Works both ways though: For this specific fear, a lot of people spent most of my life saying "ha ha, this is silly, AI will never be able to ${x}" right before a major news story broke about an AI that could do ${x} now.

For automation in general: I recently visited the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin, which has a Jacquard loom by the café — people at the time reacted to that machine in much the same way people react today to GenAI. Something, something, the memes of production.

That said, do be aware that while society did well from automation, many individuals suffered greatly from it, and the way it was handled 200 years ago led to literal Karl Marx writing the literal Communist Manifesto.

Furthermore, even though we think of Communism as having lost the Cold War, the Laissez-faire form of Capitalism died with the Great Depression: we may have kept the name "Capitalism", but the way we structure our societies in capitalist nations, even the USA, has been substantially influenced by the Communist Manifesto to the extent we consider these things so foundational they are "common sense" — send all kids to school, women are not property, that kind of thing was novel when Marx wrote about it.

I don't know what the future will be, but I bet 2124 going to be at least as surprising to us, as the Russian Revolution and domestic electricity would have been to someone from 1824.
Some of it is… impressive. “These side effects are also in some sense shortcomings of the D-Bus configuration scheme, since developers of a specific D-Bus service don’t expect that their configuration file has a global influence.”
To be precise, runtime is an umbrella term. Swift, C++ and Rust usually have """runtime""" just as much. Which includes but not limited to:

- Automatic or semi-automatic memory management

- Threadpool and, optionally, async abstraction implementation

- APIs to introspect type system properties / reflection

Swift very much has all these. And so does .NET.

As for Unity, it has diverged and lags behind "vanilla" .NET in features, language versions and performance significantly, so the experience of using it won't translate to what is expected to be "normal" C#/.NET of today.
This, and the linked article, show the photo sensor halfway the monitor. Nothing wrong with that for comparing measurements, but for quite a lot (possibly the majority) of typical monitors out there that actually means for a refresh of 60Hz putting the sensor at the top of the screen will give you about 8mSec faster and at the bottom 8mSec slower measurements because pixels / lines thereof are driven top to bottom. Like a CRT basically. So if you're getting into the details (just like where to put the threshold on the photo sensor signal to decide when the pixel is on) that should probably be mentioned. Also because 8mSec is quite the deal when looking at the numbers in tha article :)

Likewise just saying 'monitor x' is 30mSec slower than 'monitor y' can be a bit of a stretch; it's more like 'I measured this to be xxmSec slower on my setup with settings X and Y and Z'. I.e. should also check if the monitor isn't applying some funny 'enhancement' adding latency with no perceivable effect but which can be turned off, whether when switching monitors your graphics card and/or its driver didn't try to be helpful and magically switched to some profile where it tries to apply enhancements, corrections, scaling and whatnot which add latency. All without a word of warning from said devices usually, but these are just a couple of the things I've seen.
Rightfully so.
I've been coming back to this comment and I'm not sure what you mean exactly.

The brain is trapped in the body, and forced to meet its needs (e.g. regulate hormone levels).

The brain and body are trapped in civilization, and forced to produce "outputs" it considers acceptable.

All three, in turn, are trapped in natural selection.
OK HN, but you really should get some exercise.
Butterflies can retain memories from their time as a caterpillar
> Notely uses AI to automatically generate beautiful product updates.

I read the landing page but I have no idea what this actually does. What's a "product update" in this context?
Unsurprisingly, it takes a long time to develop technology.
I started a project that turned into a mulitibillion dollar source of revenue for the company I worked at. I was just an engineer at the company so I didn't get rich or anything but I would say that was pretty useful.

I started another project that turned into 8 figures of revenue but it was shut down for being too small.
Also a bunch of watch lists use soundex algorithms and fuzzy matches and put you into all sorts of tarpits/extra screenings based on them.

If the name is actually ‘smith jones’ (or ‘Mohammed’, or ‘Chan’) your odds of getting whacked by one of them goes way up. Since what are the odds one of the hundreds of millions of people with a similar name misbehaved enough to get on one of those?
netflix nailed the tv adaption (imo).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mogSbMD6EcY
Ironically, a bug in mutter crept into Ubuntu 22.04 and later just a week ago. It increased the keyboard latency dramatically on some systems and made typing a pain.

There's currently a bug fix with update trial packages. The solution presented here worked for me: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/205984...
After trying to understand and implement some algorithms in RASP [1, 2], my take-way was that certain functions need a certain amount of transformer layers to operate. Following this logic, it should become apparent that the functions learned by transformers can be spread over multiple heads. Repeating these functions might be very valuable for understanding and solving a problem, but current inference does not allow (a set of subsequent) heads to be repeated. This paper indeed seems a promising direction.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.06981.pdf

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5LjgczaS80