skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is HTML-first because you can always grab the compiled CSS and optionally, compiled JS and reference it in your plain HTML file via <link rel="" href=""> and it will work just fine.

But this is true for almost every web thing, and every web framework - you can just grab the final outputs and stick it into your web page.

So either your thing is "HTML-first", but so is everything else, or your thing is not "HTML-first", and some other things are.

> Maybe soon, someone will publish the compiled CSS.

So, until then, not only is this not HTML-first, it's not HTML at all.

To me (and maybe others), there's a difference between web development and Node/npm.

They are not one and the same.
Rajastan is amazing to visit, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Jaisalmer, you name it. The last one is a proper desert city near borders with Pakistan, you can have dune safaris with sleeping on dunes and watching various critters roam around. The food there is one notch more spicy above usual Indian already crazy level. They have these various family workshops - jewellery, daggers etc using old family traditions, you can see also workshop or kiln just behind shop. Similar to shopping around for quality nepalese kukri around Kathmandu.

But heat can be brutal out there - one day just sitting on camel around Jaisalmer, I've drunk 6l of water (literally 1l bottles one after another). No pee at all coming out, and even almost had a heat stroke.

India's diversity is stunning, its not just 1 huge country but rather a continent on its own composed out of... 1000 various tribes IIRC? To me, by far the most exotic country (as in different to environment I normally inhabit) globally. Not sure how much of that slowly evaporated in past decade with phones everywhere, I've spent some time there 15 years ago.
Can I get any information about the app? Homepage has no information. Thanks
Yes, it is true that there is difference. I'm not sure about JVM implementation details but the reason the comment says "virtual and interface" calls is to outline it. Virtual calls in .NET are sufficiently close[0] to virtual calls in C++. Interface calls, however, are coded differently[1].

Also you are correct - virtual calls are not terribly expensive, but they encroach on ever limited* CPU resources like indirect jump and load predictors and, as noted in parent comments, block inlining, which is highly undesirable.

[0] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/5111fdc0dc464f01647d6...

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/core... (mind you, the text was initially written 18 years ago, wow)

* through great effort of our industry to take back whatever performance wins each generation brings with even more abstractions that fail to improve our productivity
On a different note, will there some technical documents on how exactly to use it, e.g. exporting functions etc...?

By the way is it an alpha release, usable for testing, or something in between?
Probably not at least until we know for sure what the hardware of the human brain is architected like. So not for quite a while, still.
This Chinese made gaming phone is flat, has good design, and powerful specifications. I have no idea what its customized android is like or what their security and updates are like. But it is very cheap!

https://na.redmagic.gg/pages/redmagic-9-pro

The parent company is Nubia which in turn is part of ZTE (see the bits about FCC and EU):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTE

Review here:
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/redmagic-9-pro
> Thanks for that. Good to know I wasn't the only one...

I'm also glad I'm not the only one.

I may, however, be the only one to be annoyed at what looks like a rug-pull:

"Here, come see this thing I made that doesn't require $FOO!"

> Requirements: $FOO
https://archive.is/yscVH
As a colorblind person I hate this idea.
digital licensing causes artificial scarcity
So cool to read an article discussing a problem I run into on a regular basis.

Whenever I'm creating a 2FA backup on a piece of paper, anxiety hits me every time I cross over certain characters, o/0, v/u, 5/S, etc. I've come to add some fanciness to how I write these characters for this exact reason.

On "Phonetic similarity", reminds me of how I chose my wifi password. I wanted a common word with multiple consonants that a 3rd grader could spell, so I could share the password with a single phrase and have it be unambiguous. Ended up choosing "vacation".
> unlike religion, has no need for martyrs, because it’s based on facts that can’t be denied indefinite

Justin Martyr et al didn’t believe their deaths affected the truth of their theology. But their Matrydom spread awareness to others in a morally helpful way (assuming Christianity is true).

Similarly, scientists who sustain viewpoints through difficult times don’t impact the truth of the underlying science. But they do help spread correct beliefs about germ theory etc in a morally helpful way (again, assuming their theory is correct - this part cannot be overstated).
> If you look at state of the art pre-trained transformers, they gobble up unfathomable quantities of dense textual data that far exceed what even the most learned and smart humans couldn't traverse in centuries. Yet, their results are barely intelligent

Actually this is untrue. Yann Lecun himself said it. A kid at the age of 6 has had much much more data go through his brain (based on the visual data) than what any transformer has ingested. Moreover, words are already compressed data with a lot of lost information, nowhere near the raw experience about the world that our brains have. On top of that there's the evolutionary stuff.
How does it feel to be part of the 1%? You are the publishing industry equivalent of a whale.
Funny?

"You were born to deploy Kubernetes clusters."

I watch KRAZAM and I get into a deep existential crisis. I love them.
The whole situation wouldn't have happened if the posting of "the alleged stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel" would violate Twitter's terms of service.

Since it obviously doesn't, these situations will continue to happen. Just because somewhere in the world there are people who have no strong relation to a person in some violent content, in one country it might be an important figure making the content carry much more weight.

Looking forward to see how this service is supposed to become the "everything app" including financial services, if it's already failing at such basic compliance steps...
WIP Is Waste
Step 1: https://ublockorigin.com/
Flights to and from Europe affected by suspected Russian jamming
What is a "native keyboard"?
How to Juggle Priorities (2023)
In the late 90s, DOS-era, I was working on a simulation in Matlab. Something just wasn't working right - as per the limited docs. Getting very frustrated, I typed "f_ck you" on the matlab prompt. It came back with "Your place or mine?".

This was so unexpected, I burst out laughing. Definitely released some stress. I went looking for how this worked: turns out matlab had a "command" called "f_ck" and it had 10-something fixed messages as responses hard-coded into it. It would return one of these randomly.
I would be surprised if the KRAZAM guys did not have an HN account. They are so plugged in the Silicon Valley startup life.

Now I want to see a video from them that references or is about Hacker News.
I have started to buy some technical books again, because the ebook version requires some insane locked down proprietary application to read, or causes the book to self destruct after a few months...

No.

I prefer ebooks for many reasons, and I have purchased thousands of them over the past two decades.

Sometimes a printed book is better for dense technical material. But I'm starting to see textbooks that seem to have been designed as web pages: large x-height, clumsy justification and hyphenation.

No proprietary apps to read a book, please.
But you won't be rewarded? It's a game and has no bearing on your real life, I don't follow this train of thought at all.
> I have a friend who is a postdoc stats guy in the biology field. There's actually a deep need for numeracy in biology, people just don't seem to know it when they're in school.

I was always amazed about a past acquaintance whose PhD thesis included game theory applications, as she was studying the breeding and feeding behaviors of some random bird.
Eventually we course corrected, but illiberal government oppression of legitimate viewpoints delayed it. See the British government’s crackdowns on Trade Unions in the nineteenth century, for instance.
If I cannot/need not re-read a book, I could get rid of it and have more space. Tho the gain feel very tiny compared to the rest of the hoarded stuff.
> I can't think of any publishers that are also in the business of printing and distribution

You're right that publishers don't handle printing, but they do need to handle distribution. Amazon won't help if you want to get books on shelves of retailers, and printers don't distribute. Smaller publishers will usually use the distribution network of a larger publisher. For example, HarperCollins and PRH both handle distribution in the UK for themselves and others.
> Up until about GPT 2, EURISKO was arguably the most interesting achievement in AI.

I agree.

> I suspect its achievements were slightly overblown and heavily guided by a human hand

So do I. We'll find out how much of its performance was real, and how much bullshit.

> the unreasonably effectiveness of differentiable programming and backpropagation has sucked up much of the oxygen in the room

The Bitter Lesson -- http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
What about state belonging to the older code, updating http handlers, user sessions, etc, on production? While living-in-the-image seems admirable, I always wondered how it blends with real production and real ops.

The only thing I heard about this is Paul Graham's story on fixing particular bug in viaweb while talking to the user, but that's just one story from 90s. Would be great to hear more with regard to more modern setup.
I once had to explain this class of security vulnerability to IC5-IC7 senior engineers.

0. There is no universal regex language but many.

1. Perl-like ones (Ruby, Perl, and PCRE1/2) contain additional hidden traps.

2. You must vigorously match untrusted input to assume it to include invalid unicode, control characters, and other oddities.

3. You should replicate frontend and backend validations to ensure they are always exactly consistent and correct, preferably through fuzzing and/or property testing.
… If your keyboard is _introducing_ typos, _buy a new keyboard_.
As Meta flees politics, campaigns rely on new tricks to reach voters
Freixenet is a big company. [If the demand was sustained] they should have all the economical muscle necessary to bring the amount of water that grapes need.

This should be seen in a bigger economical perspective. Since 2017, around 8000 Spanish companies quit Catalonia (including many, if not all, of the really big ones like banks and car makers). They have a strong touristic sector, but lost a lot of muscle in other areas by their separatist adventures.

The main problem with that wine maker could be that they were fiercely Catalonian, but against the separatism so they got crushed between two fronts. Their own local government recommended -not- to buy Freixenet products. Do you imagine the Texas governor saying publicly "don't buy products of Texas"?. Maybe this layoff is just a way to press the local government, I don't know. Many of the things happening in the so called Spanish Donbass are just insane.

Some of the problems with the water in the region are just by neglect of the infrastructures that leak, other by criminal wildfires, and in other cases the water is being directly stolen. All the money to fix that, was divested to promote the language and national identity.
I would assume that the lack of sales publishers see is directly related to self-publishing and web novels success.

Nice numbers from a self-published LitRPG success: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressionFantasy/comments/1c2a3x4...

Other authors and people on Kindle Unlimited:
https://www.reddit.com/r/litrpg/comments/15o4f5d/ku_payouts_...
It doesn't seem HTML-first though. Also the Github description says it's a library of web components, this may be misleading because this project doesn't use Web Components.
> The one piece of information that I wish the article had mentioned is the age demographics of avid book readers. My gut tells me the market has dropped significantly in the last ~25 years, but I'd like to see the data.

I read a lot of non-fiction books and don't think much has changed over time. For non-fiction you always had groups of people, typically academics and successful business people and politicians, who read tons and tons of books. Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower, for example, both read many books when they were young in around 1900 to 1930. How many people who worked in factories at the time would have read books? Not many I think. Today it's more or less the same. You have a few people like David Senra or Stephen Kotkin, who read 100-200 books per year, and you have the average person who reads maybe one. Just like book sales, it's a power law.
...and I feel fine (?)

(I know I will probably get downvoted for this, but as an old R.E.M. fan, I just couldn't help it)
From my experience you just weren’t actually billed until they were done, it could be many hours after you left the store.
Well, Amazon started out with almost no capital, so apparently they could have built an online book platform pretty easily. And the capital requirements of selling books online only fell over time as the tech got more widespread.

Businesses like that are everywhere, but the root cause is always the same: they're run by people who do not like or have any interest in technology. And they hire people just like themselves.
Precisely. If you asked a developer at the time whether the "assumption that any loaned memory would fit into one region" was static, I'm guessing they'd say "no, it's just what we've assumed for now. I'm hoping that no one changes that without it being discussed properly."
This comes across as a cheap ad hominem attack on a serious topic but unfortunately that's a common tactic.

Everyone agrees that Australia can censor what they want within their borders (and X is blocking the content within Australia). But here they have issued an injunction for a global takedown, and I think it is right for X to push back against this.
Today's histogram of commit abbreviation lengths:

$ git rev-list --all --abbrev=0 --abbrev-commit | awk '{ a[length] += 1 } END { for (len in a) print len, a[len] }'
5 84
6 692222
7 527029
8 43802
9 2791
10 181
11 8
> I've been dwelling in some nostalgia recently and miss some of the earlier days when everything wasn't so homogenous.

You are not alone in this. I see announcements like this one from Meta and others like Oxide - companies out there having a swing in a different direction and it makes me glad that there are people out there thinking outside the monoculture that computing feels like it's become sometimes.

Sure, standardisation has been good in some respects, but I feel like the incentive to really innovate (as opposed to incrementally improve) in the operating system and compute space has really dried up.
> beware of "always" statements, especially especially in regard to client requirements.

Along with its complimentary statement:

Beware of "never", especially in regards to client requirements.

Been on too many projects where it turned out "never" meant once or twice per year once we'd gone into production...
I need one with the daily DevOps affirmations to get through my mornings.
This is an exaggeration. I also live in Thailand, and I just got a library card at the very stately Neilson Hayes library last week. A bit pricey (3000 THB/year) but amazing ambience since the library was built in 1860.
I set my wife's side-hustle business up on Zoho four or five years ago. It was very smooth, and excellent value. Would recommend.
Yes. Installed a Brother printer myself the other day, was expecting a half-day affair, but it all just worked in 5 minutes.

Contrast this with an HP printer I bought. I had to:

- manually install sketchy HP software on my mac

- use that sketchy software, through a USB cable to update the firmware on the HP printer

- somehow figure out how to get the HP printer to connect to Wifi

- get it working, and never touch it again
In the Agent-Based Modeling terms:

G-d (Heaven, Aliens, AI Superintelligence, etc.)
Shepherd¹/King (Mandate of Heaven - G-d's proxy on Earth)
dogs/generals (Shepherd's proxies)
flock (Meta-Agent)
sheep/subjects (individuals/agents)

This is a simplified agent hierarchy, in the real life we may have many more layers/classes/castes/etc., e.g. priests, noblemen, warriors, tradesmen, commoners, outcasts, etc.

Maybe there are even different classes of Aliens or SAI.

---

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd#Religion
Yeah... Libraries are very much lovely places. Truly bliss how they can exist...

And about books themselves, I hate subscriptions, and all the DRM garbage, and if I can't own the epub without DRM, then I won't buy it. To be honest, the silver lining is that DeDRM exists, so I can actually obtain Japanese novels for my cute e-ink devices, but.. bleh.
It's not "alleged" if the event happened and the video purports it
Ultimately this is a offline problem as well: Trust, reputation, social-proof, and webs of attestation.

If we want to look for solutions to apply to the internet, we need to look at what has developed in the real-world domain, where different interests have been trying to alternately solve and exploit trust-issues for millennia. It might not have final definitive answers, but we can at least avoid reinventing too many wheels.
My favourite web novel author is currently making around half a million a year on Patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/Sleyca

Really happy for them, the story is great.
Hi I would greatly enjoy talking to you.

I play with io_uring and multithreading. I am looking at event loops.
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Turbocharging Meta Llama 3 Performance with Nvidia TensorRT-LLM and Triton
‘The end of … as we know it’

is such a terrible and deeply dishonest trope in my view, I really dislike it.
Also worth mentioning that there are some genres that will never make sense as ebooks.

When was the last time someone bought you an ebook as a gift? This is is the main market for cookbooks, for example.
The thread has drifted from government identity to censorship, then to sanctions and abuse of power.

It’s faithful to the original topic because strong government identity assists state actors who pursue those outcomes.
The story of how two Beverly Hills Hotel cabana boys and the prophet of LSD ended up creating a seminal adventure game based on William Gibson's novel.

"The film rights to the hottest science-fiction novel in recent memory were now in the hands of two California surfer dudes and a plastic surgeon’s trophy wife. And then, just to make the situation that much more surreal, Timothy Leary showed up."
Training critical steps before actually doing it.

If its good enough, you can train cutting a 1000 onions without cutting 1000 onions.

With complex machines, you can learn how to control them and than focus on actually using them instead of first learning were all the buttons are.
Sanity is slowly restored also within the Apple reality distortion field.

They combined the best technology available to make the best possible consumer product, not caring about the final price, but then insisted that it shall NOT be used for the only consumer use-case which has SOME traction: VR-Gaming.

Like insisting that the Apple Watch shall never display the time under any circumstances...
I got my 90 year old grandma to use an iPad. The other day I saw her switching languages via the keyboard to search for a video on YouTube using a combination of Chinese and English, and I was dumbfounded.

It's a true testament to the intuitiveness of Apple UX.

Switched parents over to Mac/iPhone years ago too. They still have issues, but it's usually something like "I maximized my window, how do I get out of that?". I wish Apple would release a "dumb mode", which removes 90% of the already limited UX features of macOS/iOS.
Apple's China iPhone Sales Dive 19% in Worst Quarter Since 2020
Made an interactive directory of the Hot Springs
Decided to improve my front end engineering skills by making a modern directory. Looking for your feedback on the look & feel of the app! (https://hotspringslist.com)

Inspiration was Japan's deep culture regarding hot springs (Onsen) and bath houses. There are so many hot springs around the world and I was amazed at what Australia and the USA have to offer, let alone other unknown gems.
Google's SEO malarkey created the intense vacuum which AI will now happily rush to fill.

The article mentions recipe articles, and how these now invariably have a waffly preamble designed to please the SEO algorithms. It's been obvious to humans how stupid this is for years, just as it's obvious that sites that simply copy from stack overflow are leaches on our attention and should not be highly ranked.

Yet Google hasn't dealt with any of these problems, and with a focus on short term profits, has consistently preferred to take the money from ads hosted on these crappy sites instead of delivering a quality search experience.

Now the chickens are coming home to roost for Google, which can only benefit a range of competitors, from Kagi to OpenAI.
I totally agree, we are lucky here in Sweden to have free access to ice rinks, basic lessons are also rather cheap and usually operated but local not for profit organizations.
Beside of the fact that I was quoting the article (!), that's the criteria the video should meet to violate the terms of a service

(I don't care if some authority has confirmed that a person was actually stabbed, it should be sufficient to be removed for allegedly showing that event)
Username checks out. Hahaha! :)
TITAN – Powered by Palantir [video]
Are they prohibited from reselling the licenses?
Funny story, I was named "Steven" and yet I've been called Steve my whole life, at my preference.

Recently I went through the process of changing my name legally, because I'd fallen into a bad habit of writing "Steve" when asked for my name on some documents, but then remembering my "official" name was "Steven" on others.

Having multiple IDs with different names, especially after moving to a new country, was just too much of a pain - for example my official residence permit name didn't match my passport name, which caused some fun at airports.
Straight to the bookmarks
People who want to control the illiterate and subjugate their voting power to their own ends.
> eSafety “will continue to use its suite of powers under the Online Safety Act to protect Australians from serious online harms, including extreme violent content”

So in this case that's the Australian's Online Safety Act.

The legal basis is easy. The issue is obviously enforcement, so realistically this only works for countries powerful enough to put enough pressure on the target company.
I got 2 Chromebooks 8-10y ago and never looked back. No maintenance calls, ever.
Interesting, what’s the scheduling problem?