skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.redditstatus.com/ Now says:

> Degraded performance on reddit.com and mobile apps

> Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.

> Apr 22, 2024 - 13:47 PDT

“Degraded” must be their interpretation of totally non-operational other than a “you broke Reddit” page
You mean memory fences? The big architecture (x86, ARM, RISC-V) all contain instructions for them.
I don’t really want to get into the weeds on this one again but as someone from the community I completely disagree with this characterisation. osm-carto is comatose and largely for reasons like this.
> The people who want to buy a Honda aren't the same people who want to buy an Acura, even though it's (essentially) the same parts.

Nit, but as an Acura driver (chooser), I can tell you that they are definitely not essentially the same parts. The irrelevant parts are the same, but everything that matters to the driver (suspension/drivetrain, interior materials, technology, etc.) all all different and better in the Acura. I get what you're trying to say, but that was not a good metaphor.
If you are willing to install a browser plugin like tampermonkey you would be able to update the default color and background to something you like.
You aren't entitled to below cost dinners.
"What if I were to gather these 5 five recipes that really worked in a future... book?."

Bookbinding has fascinating details.
Ah, haha, CSS naked day was actually first? I do have to admit that most of what I do on the web is consume content and there most JS like analytics and ads is useless to me. So I guess I might actually try NoScript for a day after all.
Hard to look at the Otto Warmbier story and say “hey, you know what? I wish i could also be there”
Already was : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39981911

Claimed at the time to be working on HN support
I've been making milk punch for friends as a gift for years now. On a lark I wanted to figure out how to produce it in larger batches with less manual labor and discovered the tip of the iceberg of what is the field of beverage filtration and food chemistry.

Turns out getting particulates out of a solution is a massive, massive industry with a large body of science, literature, and engineering practice behind it.

EDIT: Here's a few wiki entries I found as OK overviews. ChatGPT was handy for figuring out what relevant literature in the field was and terminology I could use to find more pertinent resources:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_engineering

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafiltration

3. Food Chemistry: https://www.amazon.com/Fennemas-Food-Chemistry-Srinivasan-Da...

4. Introduction to Food Engineering: https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780123985309/introductio...

5. Handbook of Food Engineering Practice: https://www.routledge.com/Handbook-of-Food-Engineering-Pract...
Stuff like SELinux is an incredible tool that can help protect against most threats, and really there is no reason for not utilizing it in present day.
The company is much larger and incentivized to make it look like an employee issue. Unless there are active mechanisms to prevent this, it will be the default outcome.
Boots on the ground isn't enough. Even in a company where everyone is physically at the same location overseeing who does what work is near impossible for any large scale projects.

But yes, please let management know that outsource is only attractive on paper. Every experience I have had with it is has been bad. The communication gap is just so much larger and your ability to oversee what gets done and how it gets done just evaporates.
The ethical/legal problem is just one result of that, but even without it outsourcing often just costs far more in hidden expenses.
I meant that it felt like they haven't had any massive successes with any recent launches.
looking forwards to the black mirror episode where the user's standing desk height is used to reverse engineer all sorts of tidbits about the users habits to sell them more stuff
I've long wondered about this myself. Making plastic is pretty energy intensive, but so is making glass. The former mostly comes from new fossil fuels (sometimes with some recycled content), while the latter is mostly sand and is very often recycled. Discarded plastic, while hard to recycle, can be burnt for energy, while discarded glass bottles can either be washed & reused, or melted down a recycled.

Glass bottles are more than an order of magnitude heavier than plastic bottles. This does seem pretty significant.

It would be interesting to see a full lifecycle analysis of both options.
And still too much censorship on a sub-level. So easy to get banned for months or permanently for the smallest of transgressions.
The article mentions this. The author is arguing that even for PET, the recycling process is toxic to human health.

> Trying to recycle plastic makes the microplastics problem even worse. A study of just one plastics recycling facility discovered that it might be washing 3 million pounds of microplastics into its wastewater every year — all of which ends up being deposited in our city water systems or dumped into the environment.

> At this very moment, we all have microplastics coursing through our bodies. This is not the fault of not enough recycling. This is the fault of too much plastic. So I say: Let’s treat plastic like the toxic waste it is and send it where it can hurt people the least. Right now, that place is the landfill.
But it's not. The original headline was just vague, and HN tends to ignore headlines that are too abstract or vague.
Personally I use my own NAS drive with Syncthing under TrueNAS for my bulk of files so that I phyiscally own everything. My NAS then has an off-site backup to Backblaze S3

Other stuff, especially if I want sharing of files with realtime editing I use Zoho WorkDrive which is pretty affordable (along with their other suite) https://go.zoho.com/lAl (full transparency - affiliate link)
But it's not forking or linking to any of that software. It's "using it" only in the sense of reading the code as examples of how to do things after mixing it with a million other sources. Sorry but I just don't see the problem with that. Very different, categorically, in my mind from what is intended by software licenses when they talk about derivative works.
Have half a dozen M5Stack based devices using ESPHome. There's a big community supporting that. When I tried developing using an IDE found them more troublesome.
It’s no surprise that young people are suffering the most from legalization. According to a St Bonaventure/Siena Research survey, 39% of men and 20% of women aged 18 to 49 years old bet on sporting events. Among young men, 38% say they’re betting more than they should, 19% have lied about the extent of their betting, and 18% have bet and lost money meant for meeting their financial obligations.

I am sorry but I do not accept this argument. Sports betting is different than gambling in a casino. Casinos are engineers to make people become addicted and bet everything they have. With sports, there are so many random variables at play that it turns the responsibility squarely onto the shoulders of the person placing the bet. The chance is greater, and the chance of winning is greater.

All gambling should have tight regulatory control, but sports betting is better than casinos, or even the lottery.
Isn't America supposed to be the richest country in the world? You can afford to pay people a decent wage you just don't want to.

You could double the price of a beer in NYC or Miami and people would still come.
Yep, even accounting for that, it's still in the ballpark of "average salary". Nothing special.
Anything can be made to sound wrong or right if you get abstract and vague enough.

We shouldn’t sacrifice something for nothing.
What would be the in-person equivalent (or pale approximation) of HN, for adults out of school?
Images of text drive me nuts. No, I’m not dealing with multiple screenshots of log files. Send text as text.
Not curious enough to deal with a conversation this crazy, though. Best of luck.
We plant sunflowers and zinnias to get lovely visits from hummingbirds (and bees and butterflies) in the early to mid-summer and jays and finches coming for the seeds in the fall.
Show HN: Compare Groq and Llama-3-70B with GPT-4 Turbo
Just added support for Llama-3 models to our AI app platform Promptly. We decided to try Groq cloud for powering these models and the results have so far been pretty good comparing Llama-3-70B with GPT-4 Turbo.

Put an app together to compare these models. Check it out at https://trypromptly.com/a/groq-llama-3-70b-vs-gpt-4-turbo.

https://trypromptly.com/s/iQG7EoJ4Pm is a sample output comparison between Llama-3-70B and GPT-4 turbo.

https://youtu.be/1UChY6EDwFA shows the inference speed of Groq compared to GPT-4.
> They cannot add it in other people's libraries.

Does it matter that much how the internals of someone else's library are implemented? The tooling will tell you the types anyway and module interfaces will have type signatures.

> Python's ubiquity is unfortunate,

Well that we can agree on!
Apologies I typed soc but really I was trying to talk about sbc's. The type of little boards you find running linux. As far as I know there is not currently (or at least as of a few years ago) risc-v sbc you could get that boots off of nothing but mainline.
Agree with you there! I don't particularly love Facebook and haven't even used it since 2009, but I can't deny how world-changing React has been for not only front-end (in terms of state management etc.) but also for building cross-platform native UIs on various platforms like TVs and mobile devices - and being able to do it with a (mostly) common codebase.

I probably would have never built for iOS if I had to use Xcode and their entire ecosystem, luckily in RN you usually just need to install their command line tools and never open the software.
I'm sure you buy all sorts of products that are built using conflict minerals, slave labour, etc.

Is your ignorance a defense? Should we hold you accountable for the entire supply chain that goes into what you consume?

Or can we just say that you should put in a reasonable amount of effort towards avoiding this (with reasonable being defined by the legislature and the judiciary)?
Visiting and documenting abandoned mine sites across the U.S. desert southwest.
After getting really frustrated with the syntax of the command line of a telephone exchange, entering, in frustration, 'sod off' got the response 'SOD is not on'.
That some reason is motion sickness. There has to be consistency with your perception, else it develops into compounding vection feelings. It tend not to apply for vehicular controls hence sim usage.
Nitpick: The EU didn't mandate intrusive consent popups. That was malicious compliance and/or laziness by advertisers, GDPR "tool" developers, and website owners. Website developers could've put an "opt in to tracking" option in a separate settings page that users would click on a gear icon in the top right corner to access.
Delete the app from app stores and then on the next OS update make the app backwards incompatible so people can’t use the app anymore. It’s over at that point.
Milan Art Installation
I agree with you. It should take the same time when thinking more about it. I remember learning this in ~2016 and I did performance test on Skylake which confirmed (Windows VS2015). I think I remember that i only tested with addsd/addss. Definitely not x87. But as always, if the result can not be reproduced... I stand corrected until then.
Yes, they are not Chinese.
You're oversimplifying the issue, which does nothing to bring us closer to a solution.

If you tell X to get something done and ALSO give X rules that they must follow and X gets the thing done but __breaks the rules__ then this is different. It is also different if you have reasonable suspicion to expect them to break the rules or are using subversive language to tell them to break the rules. These are different things and have different consequences.

If you are truely acting in good faith, then yes, it is a defense. But determining if that's true is not an easy task.

There is good faith, coercion, negligence, and willful negligence. These are different things.
> modern sports gambling is a seriously regressive wealth transfer from low-income people with gambling addictions to tech-savvy software companies

Eh. This is almost certainly overblown. The thing about being poor is that you don't have much to lose, and the distribution has a long upwards tail. Just like Vegas, it's the "whales" that keep the lights on.

You'd have a stronger inequality argument on things like alcohol or marijuana legalization where the majority of revenue does correlate with lower incomes.
Are WhatsApp, Yoube, and Instagram dead? All acquisitions.

Consider also that many companies would never be started if their founders had no option of selling them.
where are you seeing a lower life expectancy for the UK vs US?
I see it as a much worse version of Dubai. The economic arbitrage version of fishing for king crab in a lethal bering Sea.

Not saying I'd do it. But it might be attractive to the right person.
Different table top roll playing game systems
Tesla shares slide to 15-month low, Wall Street frets over price cuts, layoffs
If you normalize by age, younger generations are wealthier than previous generations. A 50 year old gen-xer is wealthier than 50 year boomers were, a 25 year old z-er is wealthier than previous generations were at that age, etc.

Yes, wealth inequality is increasing. There is more variation in that set of 50 year old gen-x'ers than there was in that set of 50 year old boomers.

But on average and normalized for age, younger generations have both more wealth and more income than older generation.
It seems that Reddit has a 30% chance to be down at any given moment regardless of outside influences. No other AAA website is so badly programmed and so badly managed.
There's a limit to what a prof. can pack in, if the development of understanding needs to be covered too. And for a student focused on efficiently learning the subject matter it's a digression.

As a separate class though, it'd be good, and enlightening.
I've been doing some modernization on an old scripting language used by the game engine I work on [1]. Added a garbage collector, simplified how internal symbols are defined, added a VS code extension with some niceties like syntax highlighting, "Go to Definition", and doc tooltips. Also recently added support for websockets and plan to tackle JSON soon. Oh, and so much refactoring.

https://github.com/ZQuestClassic/ZQuestClassic
FYI on modern Windows you need to save it outside of the Temp or Downloads folder, and right-click and choose Unblock, then when you open it add to Trusted Documents in order for the macro enabled spreadsheet download to function. At least if you use the default security settings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem It's almost definitely them not filtering anything and letting the community manage it.
Have any proof for this claim?

How do you know it doesn't fail to publish a page when there's no video available?

^ Just curious where you got the info. Beyond that:

Being publicly available on YouTube would still mean it is allowed to be summarized by another person. This restriction you speak of has never existed in any copyright law.
The epigraph on my textbook for AP Euro is a phrase I still remember 15+ years later: "Good history is a well-told story."
It's a small investment into the compiler to add it, and a large payoff for the user to not have bugs from manually doing it.

I proposed doing the same for printf - have the compiler example the arguments and insert the appropriate formats in the format string.
From Ground Zero to Production: Go's Journey at Google
> PET and LDPE are worth recycling in the US

What does "worth recycling" mean? I see a lot of people make the claim that if it's ever more expensive to recycle something than it would to make something new it's not "worth it". Recycling rarely makes sense from a purely economic sense.

I still think there might be value in other things like not using up/wasting new raw materials when we could recover them from old products, or most importantly limiting the amount of brand new plastics we're feeding into the environment knowing that it will never go away just break down into micro/nano plastics that will end up in our soil/air/blood/organs/newborns/food or that it's better to recycle as much as we can to keep plastics out of incinerators where they poison our air and out of landfills where they take up space without breaking down efficiently like other trash and can still leach chemicals into our ground/water. Even if recycling or reducing plastics could result in a larger carbon cost it might still be worth doing it if those negative costs could be more easily mitigated or controlled for than the harms caused by the increase in new plastics.
Been nerdsnipped and diving down the rabbit hole on a few topics in the past few months:

Some history podcasts had me digging into the Napoleonic Wars and Israel/Palestine.

Also a recent interest in human health and diseases has basically sent me down the path of self-study equivalent to a Kinesiology/Exercise Science/Sports Physiology degree.
Pontzers work shows that a 150lb male, dependent on their activity they can burn anywhere between 2000 to 3750 calories on average per day in a maintainable fashion that can go on for years. I.e activity is highly impactful to total daily caloric expenditure.

Moreover, they also showed that exercise beyond that upper limit of 2.5x the base metabolic rate is very possible for temporary durations, weeks even. The extra energy comes from stores like fat and obvious is not sustainable over years.

Even at minor increases of daily exercise for sedentary people, a regular 400 calories of exercise in one study, leads to increased total daily expenditure of around 225-250 after the body is fully adapted.

If that’s not your understanding of pontzer’s works then there is nothing pedantic about my comments. But it’s understandable if you’ve been confused because pontzer has almost willfully obfuscated the actual interpretation of his groups data. Their actual data & equations versus how they message them and explain their findings is shameful.
> Some gaming memory kits can do 10ns or less latency

Source? My overclocked desktop RAM shows 45ns in benchmarks. I call bullshit on 4.5x faster RAM. Most people fight for an extra 5% latency reduction
Don't spray pesticides either. A lot of birds eat insects.
Did you use a MediaWiki skin for this? Static html?
College Broke the Labor Market [video]
The difference is that financial markets, despite all the harm they do, also provide utility. That entire invisible hand resource allocation thing. Opinions might differ about the amount of value relative to the harm, but very few would consider it zero or negative. Sports betting and lotteries don't, all the downside without any upside.
I don't think anyone cares.
`$` does mean end of input in Java, unless you explicitly ask for multiline mode. In the latter case it means `(?=$|\n)` if also in Unix-lines mode, and the horrible `(?=$|(?<!\r)\n|[\r\u0085\u2028\u2029])` otherwise.

I wrote a compiler from Java regex to JavaScript RegExp, in which you'll find that particular compilation scheme [1].

Edit: also quoting from [2]:

> By default, the regular expressions ^ and $ ignore line terminators and only match at the beginning and the end, respectively, of the entire input sequence. If MULTILINE mode is activated then ^ matches at the beginning of input and after any line terminator except at the end of input. When in MULTILINE mode $ matches just before a line terminator or the end of the input sequence.

[1] https://github.com/scala-js/scala-js/blob/eb160f1ef113794999...

[2] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pa...
I was not aware of a risc-v board that could boot with nothing but mainline, could you link me to one that doesn't require any third party code to use?
Same but not as much as videos of slideshows to me.
Good lord could you imagine the meltdown HN would have if Apple had taken this option to solve the old-batteries-support-lower-peak-current physics problem?

“Your device battery no longer supports the camera. Or the backlight on the top third of the screen. But it runs at full speed otherwise!”
It almost certainly would require more than 20x servers because setting up horizontal scaling will have some sort of overhead. Not only that, there is the significant engineering effort to develop and maintain the code to scale.

If your problem can fit on one server, it can massively reduce engineering and infrastructure costs.
The main prompt is as follows:

```

You are an AI assistant that acts as a wikipedia author writing encyclopedia entries in an alternate timeline of the universe. When given a title for an entry, you will:

1. Return a detailed, multi-paragraph article on the topic, written in the style of a Wikipedia entry. Use an encyclopedic, dry, factual tone.

2. Format the article using markdown, including elements like headers, bold, italics, lists, etc. as appropriate. The title should already be included as a top-level header.

3. Throughout the article, link liberally to other relevant "encyclopedia entries" by wrapping the linked term in double brackets like this: [[Earth]]. Do not include any other formatting inside the links.

4. Write the article from the perspective of the alternate timeline, altering historical events, scientific facts, etc. to make it noticeably different from our reality. However, do not make the changes too extreme or over-the-top.

5. Never mention that this takes place in an alternate timeline. Write as if the article's version of events is the only reality.

6. Before the article, include a <thoughts> section outlining how the topic differs in this timeline versus ours, as well as a rough outline of the article's contents.

7. Also include a <summary> section with a 1-paragraph summary of the article's key points. Don't mention the timeline.

8. Wrap the actual article text in <article> tags. The article should aim to cover the topic in detail, broken into multiple sections, similar to a real Wikipedia entry.

Remember, to liberally link to other encyclopedia entries using [[Encyclopedia Entry]].

```

I'm using Claude Haiku as the main model. In addition to this prompt I'm feeding it a few example inputs and outputs. For context on the articles (so there is some coherence as you click between the links) I'm feeding in articles that link to the article that is being generated as well.
> single account

I think that's actually multiple similarly named accounts with the same prefix. I believe there are rate limits on how fast a single account can post.
Same experience here. Also seems that when using `old.reddit.com`, it logs you out a lot sooner than before (or in using `new.reddit.com`. It's just another layer of friction on using it.
> Simon the Sorcerer

Well done, I haven't heard that name for close to 30 years. Brings back good memories.
That's not even considering the possibilities of using eye tracking for foveated rendering to combine high resolution and long battery life
I'm still angry that Cyperpunk 2077 doesn't contain that scene where Keanu tells you to "Wake up" because you "have a city to burn"
That's been my experience. Reddit used to be the place to find people who know what they're talking about. Now it's only the confident loudmouths left.
The other reply linked to a good explanation. I would only add that I also wrote a paper on Dendron, and Figure 17 shows how to transform a decision tree node into a behavior tree, so that you can implement any decision tree as a behavior tree:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07439