skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, there's an increasing amount of GPU use these days, mostly related to soup searching -- see https://catagolue.hatsya.com/home for the software and a tabulation of results from the last several years of collaborative searching.

Caching is very very heavily used for running the biggest universes, which are truly mind-bendingly large. Golly's "HashLife" algorithm can in practice handle patterns that are over a trillion cells in each dimension:

https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?&p=153609#p153609

Patterns with interesting behavior very often have a lot of repeating patterns, with the interesting stuff happening as complex interactions between those predictable patterns. HashLife capitalizes on remembering interactions that it has seen before, so basically the more memory your computer has available, the better HashLife will do in the long run at simulating that type of pattern.
> Books are bought as web novel or viewed on Kindle Unlimited or in general as self-published endeavors.

I've seen no data to suggest this is true at least in the sense it's some sort of major revenue shift. "Traditional" - so non-web novel - type e-books make up about 20% of sales of traditional books, and this has been very slow to change in recent years.

As far as I can tell - and this might well be way off, so I'm happy to see better numbers, the web novel market might maybe be somewhere between 3%-5% of the size of the traditional book market. Both likely can make up substantially more of indie authors earnings - it's certainly far easier for me to sell to Kindle users than getting my books into bookstores, and so paper sales largely come from Amazon too.

The webnovel market is really hard to justify spending time on unless you write in a very specific set of genres, and is prepared to death-march until you get traction. That's fine - some people want to do that.

But KU etc. does not pay well either for most. They pay well for a similarly minuscule fraction of writers, and next to nothing for most. For my part, I'm considering pulling my stuff from there, as it prevents you from putting up your ebooks elsewhere.

This isn't really surprising, sure - it's a market where it's now trivial to enter but still hard to get both good and find a product market fit. So you have a flood of people churning out vast volumes, most of which isn't very good, some of which is good but just up against a deluge of amazing work.

I don't know about the US, but I know there was a survey in the UK a couple of years back that showed that in the UK the average full-time writer, irrespective of platform, earns well below minimum wage, and the vast majority of writers are not full-time. Most full-time writers in the UK at least depend on the income of a partner to be able to afford to write full-time. And that average is pulled significantly up by the top end of the market.

Some people do better on KU or serialized venues than traditional books, sure.

With respect to the click-bait headline, it's not so much that all that much has changed, but that this is the most we've seen the publishing industry numbers laid bare.

And "no one" really do buy books in the sense that reading "books" be they traditional, or webnovel.com or other serial formats, is something most people just don't do very often.
I'm talking about the dating scene. Meeting people and making connections is not hard. It came across as condescending really. I'm talking about changing social dynamics and I'm getting life advice?

Dating apps changed the dynamics of meeting people to the worse in my experience and I'm sharing that experience.
I wonder why not to publish it on Google Play?
Did you actually try to get someone older to use the swipe gestures that are mandatory on new iPhones? Many of them can't be disabled even through a11y or provisioning options and constantly frustrate.

Another massive issue is that iOS doesn't really mark clickable elements / buttons anymore - after iOS7 redesign it's really hard for people to recognize what's a tappable element. Especially since a lot of apps now have their own UI design language.

You don't notice these things until you try to teach someone non-tech savvy. Then you notice just how inconsistent and horrible to use the new OSes are. Even Apple ones.
I appreciate your response, thanks for the context.
Im excited to see them go forward.

They need to get their pricing down. What costs $3k for them, is below $1.5k from say lenovo or dell.
Possibly not in the default c++ language mode, but check out -fwhole-program-vtables. It can be a useful option in cases where all relevant inheritance relationships are known at compile time.

https://reviews.llvm.org/D16821
Folks that have Framework laptops, how is the latest generation hardware as a daily driver? I've not been following as closely as I could, but am very interested in the mission and ideas.
The splash screen shows for seconds on every page load in both Firefox and Chrome, and yes with/without extensions, and yes I tried unplugging it and plugging it back in :P

It's been hilarious trying convey this to you guys. You designed it that way, it's not a user issue at all. If it helps sometimes it will say "Loading Proton Account..." for a couple seconds then "Loading Proton Mail..." for a couple more seconds.

I would say this is one reason not to use Proton - they treat you like this when you open a support ticket too, like it's impossible there's anything wrong and it's always user error. They're always confused as if nobody has ever reported it and you never arrive at a solution, you just get sick of talking with them after a while because they don't know their own product.
"My friends and family understand what I do" (paraphrased)
> Coca-Cola has made a $1.1 billion commitment to the Microsoft Cloud

This is a shot across the bows of the advertising industry.
I agree re: using it as an excuse to get more money. They generally operate on a ‘cost plus’ type model, use very expensive union labor and their own capital equipment, and seem to always do work in the most absurdly inefficient way possible.

Buried lines are much lower risk of fires and going down in bad storms.

Burying lines is a great way to do it in that cost model too, as a lot of these problem areas require blasting (highly regulated in CA, and absurdly controlled!) and these areas are also often very remote and rugged. To avoid causing fires during the work, there is also a lot of secondary work that needs to happen, and additional ‘fire watch’ labor.

So very expensive, time consuming, easy to generate massive amounts of red tape to bog things down, and hard for people to watch them and complain.
It's commonly known as a spring tide:

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/springtide.html

It's readily apparent along most coasts.

Aside, grew up in Florida and was always a little surprised whenever I met someone who'd not seen the ocean until they were an adult, but eventually realized maybe that wasn't so odd considering I didn't see snow for the first time till I was an adult. To me, skiing is something you do on the water, so when I say "snow skiing" people often look at me oddly, as if there's any other kind. Well, there is. :-)
We're generating substantial revenue on our product sales, and we sell our products with positive unit economics. Basically, we don't need new funding to operate the business, we need it to scale into new areas of business that we aren't in today.
Liquid Tensor Experiment also comes to mind:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01627-2

https://leanprover-community.github.io/blog/posts/lte-final/
Useless trash. Imagine not using web components in 2024 and you still use tailwinds and stuff.
There are resources in place, but at least in my area, they aren't being utilized to capacity.

So while it seems logical to the rest of us that addicts don't want to be addicts, they're also apparently not willing to tap into that help.

You can argue this or that about something not being funded right, or set up right, but at the end of the day, these people have to make efforts. And a lot of them try! I talk to them! A lot just don't give a crap and have given up on life.

Then begs the question: who's going to pay for it, and from where? Our education is already underfunded, and personally I'd rather see funds go to education, particularly non-special education (already well-funded) and Career Technical Education.
The downside of flexibility. Choose input method is the system list. Holding the space bar is the keyboard's method. I sometimes switch to a non-Google keyboard and the Choose input method way of switching is how I get back. I didn't know about the long press on the spacebar method, learned something new today.
Reverse engineering a software crack
My neighbors just spent $5k replacing the engine in their 2017 Honda Pilot, with another used engine, and the mechanic was a close friend who gave them a great deal on labor costs..
I can't speak for the state of apps today, but when I used them a decade ago I found they would be valuable for most people. It worked out for me and I'm not extraordinary. At the time though you could ignore all the match/swipe gimmicks (which leads to superficial cursory evaluation) and just send messages directly, drawing on someone's profile.
What? The 2nd paragraph explains that they already raised VC a couple of years ago, and how are you expecting a hardware startup to get off the ground without VC funding?

The founder has also just chimed in to mention that they don't need the funding, which is ideal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132713
Sure, if you can somehow find a way to double the efficiency of labor then you can either double your standard of living or half your number of hours. We've already done that multiple times since the industrial revolution. That's why modern first world society is so rich compared to the past.

And there are certainly significant inefficiencies created due to government regulation, though probably not enough to double our productivity even if you did have the knowledge and political capitol fix all those issues perfectly. It is also worth noting that sometimes regulations, though costly and inefficient, can still be nice things to have. Building codes undoubtedly make housing significantly more expensive, but I'd still rather live in a society with expensive housing where I don't have to worry about the floor collapsing on me than a society with cheap housing where I do. There's a balance there obviously, but my point is sometimes the extra expense can be worth it even if its not "net positive" in a purely economical sense.

> If you could work 10 hours a week and that was enough to earn a living and own a home, would everybody still want to work 40 hours just so they could also own six cars and two boats?

I think you'd be surprised. There are so many things we consider necessities now that would be considered luxuries 100 years ago. I see no reason why things won't continue to move mostly in that direction as technology improves.

I know a lot of people who earn enough that they could match my standard of living working only 10 hours a week. They mostly don't, and instead spend the extra wealth on things like larger houses, fancier cars, exotic vacations, etc.
I love framework.
Have been using as my main device during the last years of my PhD. However now that I got a company mac book I was using it less and less, so I decided to buy the Cooler Master mainboard case and now I'm using it as a home server. Wouldn't have been able to do that with any other laptop.
They have started putting some models in huggingface:
https://huggingface.co/collections/microsoft/phi-3-6626e15e9...
As long as I have a weed penjamin I will be ok. Fortunately TSA doesn't care about these and I travel with them often.
will suck up and monetize every bit of info you give them

Even if you're already paying for the service!

I was listening on the radio to an interview with a "privacy journalist" the other day. He said that paid services are likely not collecting your info. This is simply not true. You can't make any assumptions here. I think most people don't seem to care because what's happening behind the curtain is not exactly obvious.
AI's impact on nursing and health care
Ruby 3.3.1 Released
This is why I just cannot take the "our democracy is under threat" bullshit seriously. Our "democracy" is a popularity contest where every 4 years a bunch of rich people lie to us for months to get elected and then do whatever their financial backers tell them to do.

Oh well. Hopefully nobody ever abuses these powers!
You could start with the Natural numbers game.

https://adam.math.hhu.de/#/g/leanprover-community/NNG4
Complicated by the fact that it may be in an online dating company's interest _to keep you single_ and thus on the platform: once you find someone, you don't need to use the platform anymore, and they lose an active user / subscription.
I'm one of the people you don't understand. My wife is one of the ones who wants to relax, do one thing, even read a book in the room or at a nice location.

When we were first married, I didn't even realize there was a way to travel where you didn't have an itinerary jam-packed from 7am-7pm.

We found a nice middle ground, and I think I understand both perspectives now.

On the one hand (my hand), travel and vacations are expensive and getting more and more out of reach. There's definitely a need to plan in advance to make the most of your time, especially if this may be your one chance to travel to X or Y destination.

On the other hand, travel and vacations are often a much-needed respite from an increasingly mentally taxing work life. If you also mentally tax yourself planning out your vacation and continue to worry about making it to every stop on your itinerary, you will only see your stress levels rise, and the relaxation aspect of vacation and travel can be totally missed.
Whether or not they have an autistic neurotype is something they deserve to know whether they want help with it or not.
Ask HN: How to Make News Aggregation Work in 2024?
Some neural conditions are like that.

ADHD can make it hard to manage emotions, stay focused, or follow through on intent. I certainly feel like a child at my worst. I've finally started trying a new med recently.
If you had autism, what would you do with that diagnosis? There is no pill for autism.

In the end, provided you've been functional in society so far in your adult life, a diagnosis won't change _you_.

What a diagnosis can do is lead to an in-road for specific types of therapy designed to help you cope with specific symptoms and/or navigate through social life.

But that kind of therapy is not free in the US.
I didn't say that DeepL is better than LLMs only that DeepL is miles better than Google ;). And yeah, I also noticed DeepL sometimes misses some words when translating Japanese (it just ignores them). Google is so much worse though, because it translates Japanese through English (if the target language is not English). DeepL gets better when you have a lot of text.

Point is that Google Translate hasn't been #1 since DeepL launched. But now LLMs are (obviously) much better with the added bonus that they can also break down sentences for you.
> Been out of the dating scene quite a while, but for those who are not, has the 'old school' way of meeting people and asking a phone number etc. become harder now? Do people only want to use dating apps for that purpose now?

I was always too shy to ask a stranger for her number, but do remember a push to make that inappropriate in the 2010s (though that might have been more of an angry online feminist thing, the gist was asking someone for their number was a non-consensual imposition, thus harassment, while online dating was consensual).
This is dragnet surveillance by any plain reading of the situation. This should be illegal under existing laws barring law enforcement from dragnet surveillance.
Where Small Is Big – Berlin Is Strong in Quantum Tech
Glory to the Terran empire!
"I own an orbital rail cannon for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my compound...."

Someone more creative than me can finish this alt version of the copypasta. [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/9sc91k/own_a_mus... For those unfamiliar with the copypasta.
Dunno but that is how we did it with my partner 4 years ago when we met. We both had an active account on at least one dating app and both having been deceived by all our dates on said app and in the end we met in a totally non dating context.

I don't think I would go through the dating app shit show again if I were to be single again.
Anxiety and depression absolutely do not contraindicate autism. Where did you even hear that?

You know, detail-oriented thinking as in autism can make it a lot easier to fixate on specific negatives or anxieties compared to neurotypicals.
Perhaps they meant to switch off the main breakers. There would still be a monthly fee but I don't know how much it would be.
Minecraft Java Edition 1.20.5
Fedora Silverlight for PC.

Or ChromeOS Flex, if you need only the browser. Basically zero maintenance system.

iPad and iPhone for mobile devices, they just work. I think slightly outdated devices are the best: they still very good, are cheap and won’t attack with the updates. These days I would say it’s iPhones 6S or 7, and iPad Air 2 or even iPad Pro 12.9 (1st Gen.). They are very cheap, still support all of the basic apps and are very good for anyone. Even I myself use the devices from that epic till today.
Create a webapp from it. The typical usecase for an installable version. Add service worker and a manifest.json. that way on android phones you have an icon.
How on earth could a college student enrolled full-time only have 1.2 hours of in-class instruction per day? Back in my day, when we had a foot of snow on the ground and had to walk barefoot uphill in every direction, a 15-credit-hour semester amounted to 3 hour-long courses on MWF and 2 hour and a half courses Tu and Th. Even subtracting 10 minutes for time between classes, it comes to 2.83 hours per day, using a real-world example- my own freshman year. Am I splitting hairs, or does this seem wrong to anyone else?
Sell them 2nd hand. I mainly buy 2nd hand and sell 2nd hand.
Could you give me some examples of this unnecessary code? Are you using type inference to its full capabilities? It's only really necessary to declare types at interfaces (function arguments, etc)... Is that what you're referring to?
A Bibliography of Books and Articles about Unix and Unix Programming [pdf]
>The law allows the U.S. intelligence community (most notably the NSA) to conduct “targeted surveillance” of people outside the U.S. with the “compelled assistance of electronic communication service providers,” when a government court deems it necessary for national security reasons.

How "compelled"? Would the government be able to force, say, Signal to do a MITM against some of their users?
I think it is a nice way to engage the community, and there are plenty of people that would invest $10,000 (me included). When I did my startup we had some community investment and it made the shareholder meetings far more interesting and engaging. And I made some great friends along the way.
Good point, in that some of these are not like the others.

Imho, if you're joining a group with a goal of meeting people to possibly have a relationship with, you want a group that:

- Is a community (people stay in it)
- Is growing or has turnover
- Has enough of a connection to make friends

And a particular note that you might not meet people in the group, but... the people you meet in the group might introduce you to other people.

That's the way things used to be done before social/dating apps -- "Hi, have you met ____? I think the two of you have a lot in common..."

And by and large, it worked pretty well. Who better to matchmake than people who actually know both of you?
Yeah, edited that in before I saw your comment. Apologies!
Most space junk, especially from the ISS is government-created. Your point kind of falls flat.
The biggest things for me were:

1) Realizing that I was autistic

2) Developing better awareness for when I was in a taxing environment and better verbalizing my needs. People are usually happy to accommodate if you can communicate before you get irritable from putting up with that noisy restaurant.

3) Active noise-cancelling headphones (Bose QuietComfort)
Conway has said GOL is not something he is particularly pleased got as famous as it did. (Ref: https://youtu.be/R9Plq-D1gEk?t=600)

Why do you think that is?

Edit: This is the video I meant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8kUJL04ELA
Title should include (2010)
Air Canada's Chatbot: Why RAG Is Better Than an LLM for Facts
Suppose we could create a backwards-incompatible system to replace CSS. How would we do it?

Are there any books or papers on how to create a coherent layout system?

What about alternatives like Qt, Tk, SwiftUI, etc.? I've never used anything besides CSS. Are any of the actually-implemented systems in the wild better? If so, what makes them better?

I want a system that provides a better interface for developers, but how? If we could start over, what are the design principles?
Normally re-entry vehicles fall, not fly/glide (except the shuttle), and as we know the FAA is bad...eh good at both "modes" (Boeing).
You might want to set up NixOS with impermanence, with something like https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence. Install an easy to use desktop environment like ElementaryOS, and configure NixOS with or without Flatpak, if you want to give the user the ability to install new software or not. Then set up automatic updates, automatic garbage collection and you have a truly stable system.
No clue, because the general quality and incentives of the news business is so terrible.

I enjoy Techmeme[1] and sumi.news[2], though.

1. https://techmeme.com/river

2. https://sumi.news (the creator, Alex, is on HN somewhere)
I completely agree. Hell I do mobile development and still play “find the magical long press/swipe/spot to manage an item on this ui”

It has zero ability to be discovered.

Its not good but so many people are decades entrenched they do not think about how annoying it is
Thank you everyone involved.

I’ve got Fedora running on a 2013 MacBook Air (midrange). Perfect as a second screen to watch videos or couch surf.
A lot of asian work ethic is centered on appearances more than raw productivity. There is a big difference between being at work for 12 hours and doing work for 12 hours. There is tons of stupid appearances fluff going on. They're not super humans.
This is the thread that is here to remind us that lots of people in the tech industry aren't gamers, and especially not PC/indie gamers.
Yeah, edited that in before I saw your comment. Apologies!

No need to apologize. I could be entirely wrong as to what they meant.
> Not really, there are not. Most sources just simply do not go into details.

The question is do such details even matter. Even Stalin's communism can be disregarded if we'll start detailing it out: we can arrive at the conclusion that it was not real communism, therefore communism is good.

> The first nazi victims were pro-democratic and left wing politicians or sympathisers.

And not communists? Unless you think communism is leftwing and pro-democratic, I know there are people who think this way.