skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have so far seen only two reasons that “hard” CS concepts are hard:

1) It’s reputedly hard, but isn’t at all, so I spend way more time convincing myself I’m not missing something (“I must be…”) than I do learning it. Pointers; recursion; “dynamic programming”; various concepts that basically only Haskellers talk about.

2) A huge proportion of explanations are just, unaccountably, confusing as hell and make it seem way more complicated than it is. Bad beginner OO explanations; literally any explanation of anything in which the examples are in Haskell.
Fwiw you can set their router to bridge mode and use your own. It is probably still doing some traffic analysis but certainly no ad injection. This is what I do to get unlimited data without paying their exorbitant standalone fee.
OMG, I remember copying official 5.25 disks back in the 90s...
How much of authorization was realized in actual purchase last year?

Is this announcement a continuation of buybacks at the same rate, or just a renewal of the headroom?
Obama set the FCC on a course to lower jail and prison phone call prices (which is understood to decrease recidivism by keeping prisoners in contact with their support systems).

Trump came in and replaced the FCC head with this guy:

https://nypost.com/2017/08/10/fcc-chairman-under-fire-for-co...
Most of the developed world has effective tax rate of 30-50% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Freedom_Day Given that fact I find pensions are very low in Canada/USA. I don't see pension-age population as freeloaders.
They also likely have technology / libraries / expertise that make building the tracker straightforward.
The Jury is still out. I suspect in 5 years, Valkey and OpenTofu will be more popular than Redis and Terraform, at the very least for new products, but probably also for most actually maintained products. There's a good chance OpenSearch will also displace Elasticsearch.
I agree that this is a bad idea, but you should note that Social Security in the US is already a pyramid scheme. That's the entire reason these articles about the fertility rate are a thing -- there aren't enough able bodied people being born to cover Social Security for the people aging out of the workforce in 20 years.
Except that it doesn't seem like Asian cooking practices have changed significantly in recent years.
Or they are counting bots and other ai agents and ignoring the truth?
> The RDBMS is one of the oldest and most heavily tested technologies in all of computing.

Im not so sure about that. Not since Postgres switched to SQL in 1995 has there even been any notable RDBMS in use.

As Codd points out in the link, SQL is not relational. He literally invented the relational model, so he is kind of the authority.

Maybe SQL is even better, but “R” it is not.
Yes, it does seem like all that effort to wrap redis is wasted, and that it’d be easier to just create their own. It isn’t clear to me why this is better than creating their own. Does anyone know why they would go the route of trying to wrap something around redis rather than just replace it with something that has a redis compatible API?
Yeah, I don't mean it to sound that generous, as in "capitalism likes little guys."

More like "little guys, or even literally any 'guy' that isn't dominant in this space -- which tends toward dominance -- have learned, perhaps counterintuitively, that free/open source is best for their own greedy interests."

:)
Good. Prostitution should be legal and regulated to begin with. People are getting HIV at an alarming rate because the whole system is unregulated.
I bet a non-zero amount of your users care whether it takes a few milliseconds or several seconds to load a page on your website.
WFMU is indeed the one I’m referring to here :)

To get the freeform format with newer, “shinier”, and often more electronic sounding music, I also like NTS.
Capitalism is generally good at the startup scale, to figure out who has the best ideas. Once we have collectively decided (or was forced into) a single or a few implementations, good job, you won! Now you are non-profit / state-owned company / worker coop.
I'd rather people like OJ get some money out of a botched prosecution than the alternative. Most likely, we'd see a lot less botched prosecutions.
It was a long time since I messed with things, but "net drives" something didn't work in FreeDOS a long time ago. This was useful, because it meant you could from within a PC emulator access your host file system. It's entirely possible that works on FreeDOS now.
Lots of people are mentioning starlink. But there is a hard cap to how many subscribers can be in a given zone. Which means that although it is cheap right now, there is a hard cap for supply. That's the main reason the marine and RV packages/plans cost more.
Indeed, population ballooned [1] and everyone thought the gravy train of growth was never going to end. Sucks to discover the future isn’t going to be better than the past. Quality of life was artificially inflated, and the bill coming due will be unpleasant.

Regardless, individuals must be empowered to live their best life (if they choose to be childfree) [2] [3] [4] [5], even if it breaks the entrenched system.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population

[2] https://www.axios.com/2024/04/16/young-adult-sterilization-i...

[3] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullartic...

[4] https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230208-the-adults-cel...

[5] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/11/19/growing-s...
Surprised no one has mentioned "thither" as often as dang uses it.

Haven't seen "yon" yet.
From what I remember the aprocyphal story is that Intel dragged their feet on adopting EUV and instead tried to push multi-patterning past it's reasonable limits.

If that's the actual root cause, then Intel's lagging is due to optimizing their balance sheets (investors like low capital expenditures) at the expense of their technology dominance.
For standalone, Quest 3 was the first generation that really had enough CPU to open the settings menu, at the same time as another app, and not result in a stuttery mess. Until very recently, it has definitely been limited by compute.
The interesting part is why they chose to issue a dividend instead of sticking only with a theoretically equivalent buyback.
You're right on the graph. The graph in the article is very misleading, especially the N=4000 non-smokers.

If you look the table in the source paper, 53.4% of 296 Asian American Female (Single Group) lung-cancer patients are non-smokers.

Also, share of lung-cancer patients being non-smoker vs. smoker being higher in Asian american females, does not necessarily mean they're more likely to get lung-cancer. This assumes the non-smoking vs. smoking population is the same in teh general population, which it isn't.
I noticed that too:

https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/%22TrustChain%22-arc...

But not much else about it. Would be interested to read more. Using torrent seeding as a form of Proof-of-Work that rewards tokens is actually an interesting use case for cryptocurrency, and not as energy-hungry. But no global consensus is different from any crypto I've ever heard of. How does it keep a consistent ledger or who owns what tokens?

Edit: full explanation here - https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/The-design-of-a-trus...
No. Locals were demanding officials do something against the rampant overtourism, so they needed to act precisely in a highly visible and obstructive way.

But the main goal was of course to assure whatever they did wouldn't jeopardise tourism as the city's main revenue stream.

5€ is equivalent to a short-term parking fee and won't deter many visitors, except a few that wouldn't have been valuable to the city anyway. It won't make a dent into the actual overtourism problem.
DeadManSnitch works pretty well for that
I guess, it's in a way boring and unexciting. Very in the middle of things. It's a "get things done" experience for me.
Where is the file format specification?

I would prefer to write a parser with zero dependencies.
It’s hard to tell. According to Wikipedia, DOS 4.0 is different than 4.00

> MS-DOS 4.0 (multitasking) and MS-DOS 4.1 – A separate branch of development with additional multitasking features, released between 3.2 and 3.3, and later abandoned. It is unrelated to any later versions, including versions 4.00 and 4.01 listed below

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS#4.01
> It's about the US actively participating. Its something we have the power to easily stop doing.

The same goes for the Syrian massacres. US was very clearly providing support for one side of the conflict.

No protests.

Central Africa. Same.

No protests.

Nigeria. Same.

No protests.

Or how about a HUGE ongoing us involvement resulting in lots of dead? Ukraine.

No protests. (and, no, Minimal Thinking Girl protesting by herself doesn't count)

Lebanon. Yemen. Kashmir. Hungary. Finland ... the list goes on and on. What makes this case of support different? We all know what makes it different ...
What do you use instead of Google Maps? I don't know enough about alternatives to choose one.
You're mostly correct that the older tech is the bulk of what's been sent, but there have been lots of batches of newer tech that the US has delivered. [0]

These newer companies (Anduril, Skydio, etc.) do it for a few reasons. Some are obvious: they get paid and their systems have a chance at influencing real-world events that the leadership & rank-and-file employees might care about personally.

But from a pure product development perspective, fielding these systems is a valuable test opportunity. You've built a great drone but you're not sure how it'll perform in a GPS-denied environment with S-band radio completely unusable? Russian Electronic Warfare teams are happy to curate that environment for you.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2024-01-08...
I’m very surprised by some of the comments here questioning the value of restoring net neutrality. Times have changed.
Graphics. Managers wanted "windowing systems" as well as multitasking.

People who just wanted mutitasking DOS had DesqView and ... "concurrent"? was it? i forget.

I wrote TSR's that snatched cycles off the timer interrupt and rode 21h for opportunity to flush buffers to/from disk.
Since you say that you were working on VR at Google, did you work on Cardboard Camera or know someone that did ? Do you think there is any chance that the app woukd be open sourced some day ?
All out of ideas. Slowly they will produce less and less real world value but the share price will go higher and higher.
You can install i2c-tools and run i2cdetect from userspace.

https://learn.adafruit.com/scanning-i2c-addresses/raspberry-...
Controversial prediction: the web/applications will largely calcify around TypeScript/React/Node.js/Electron.

Reasons:

1. It's...already happening. (See: job listings, big web platforms, popular desktop apps.)

2. Deploying one unified codebase on the web, mobile, and all major desktops is a phenomenal value. Nobody cares that HN people hate the lack of native controls, slower performance, memory usage, whatever. Good enough is good enough.

3. Vastly less friction hiring from the world's largest dev pool and onboarding them to codebases written with familiar tech.

4. TypeScript's system blow away most other type systems, and sharing them between front/backends is a big deal.

5. Node.js can do nearly anything, is fast (enough), and pulls tools from the largest community of packages on Earth.

6. UI frameworks often heft around piles of heavy abstractions. Nobody wants to learn yet another awkward, shitty programming language that you invented with your templating system. Or the heap of classes needed to do basic things "properly." React avoids this junk and stays simple -- write everything in pure TypeScript (no templates!), declaratively, with a minimal lib. KISS.

To save time replying to common misconceptions: No, JSX is not templating; Yes, tech/tool competitor ABC exists -- TS/Node/React's momentum will slowly kill it; If you like kitchen-sink frameworks, plenty of extremely popular/polished/active ones exist for making SPAs, MPAs, and mixtures between using React; Yes, programming problem space XYZ won't adopt this stack due to particular constraints, you're missing the point;

There, hopefully I pissed off everyone with my overly snarky and opinionated position. I deserve the hate. (I'm still right, tho.)
Nice in theory, but then debugging non-trivial recursive functions would not be my idea of a good time.
What percentage of Americans even have the recommended 6 months of living expenses in liquid savings?
Yesssss, you can now filter your search results to show just llamafiles!

https://huggingface.co/models?library=llamafile&sort=trendin...
I'm confused. This is about retirement savings and cost of living. If they don't already have a retirement savings, how would they after the age of 50?
TAoCP in print. It’s the fixed point for CS.
Spotify CEO is shocked by negative impact of recent layoffs
It’s still strange. It’s not like Asian women in America are cooking on wood fire stoves.
Mercedes is ahead of Tesla in self driving. Sae 3 vs 2
This has nothing to do with layoffs. They have plenty of money for salary even after these payouts. The layoffs are intended to reduce costs / increase profit. Google has no desire for employees; they only have employees insofar they are a necessary expense.
I use Audacious since it has a nice Qt interface and comes standard with my distro, but yes, the closest thing to foobar2000 in Linux would be DeadBeef.
What kind of wired connection did you have previously?

The target audience for Starlink in the continental US seems to be people who's other options are traditional satellite, dial-up, or sometimes DSL (typically implying you're in a more rural area, but not always). For people in those situations, Starlink can be a good alternative.

However, if you have access to modern cable or FTTH... well, it's not a substitute.
How about actually hooking them up to a computer?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4490468/
There's a lot of points in this thread about birth rates needing to rise for economic good. This is based on the false premise that the only stable thing for an economy is growth.

For what it matters, here are my reasons for not having children. And yes, I'm in a heterosexual relationship and it was possible for us to have children but chose not to. The world is fucked, I couldn't bring a life in to this world where we are killing ourselves and the planet. Where the day to day is to hope you make enough money to just survive. We humans are selfish and fearful creatures. It's a gross world we live in.

Someone will come along and say, who will take care of me when I'm old? When I get close to that point, I'll follow Hunter S. Thompson's lead.

Seriously, I watched my grand parents slowly decay over the course of 15 years, it was not life.

If our primary goals as humans was to learn, create, explore and preserve; I would probably have a big fucking family because I would want my children to share in that.

Rather, we deny, horde, kill and build walls.
I've been in big tech for a while and oh wow is there a lot of proactive compliance.
so much for all the google doomers. Just goes to show how unintuitive all of this things are
Please don't call me deranged. How much do you know about China?

As vague and imprecise as the term "most capitalist" is, it is a blatant ignorance of the way Chinese people (have to) live, especially in cities, to think that it isn't a consequence of an extreme form of capitalism: enormous gaps between the wealthy and the poor and materialism.

China is as much a communist country as Congo is a republic.

Edit: Reading the other comments, it seems like we might all value different aspects of the country to define whether it is capitalist.
Weird that for a couple minutes, these paths existed:

* https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/main/v4.0/bin

* https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/main/v4.0/bin/DISK1

* https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/main/v4.0/pdf

But they disappeared as I browsed the repo. I guess they didn't want that part public?

Edit: I knew I wasn't seeing things! Somebody forked it along with those files:
https://github.com/OwnedByWuigi/DOS/tree/main/v4.0
I went to Kagi.

Only better quality alternative I found that has the same coverage and is available here.

FWIW for my purposes Marginalia is also a lot better quality (less annoying, more likely to give me the results I want - if it has them) than Google now but I cannot use it as my only search engine since the index is still small.

The other big ones (Bing, DDG) managed to still be worse than Google last time I tried despite Google goong out of their way to make it easy for others to walk past them.

There was another interesting one but they discriminated against non Americans and didn't even allow is to try so I don't know. It looked promising though, but as long as kagi don't betray us I get I stay with it.
Yeah I mean fair enough. Im no AI enthusiast and I knew about it a long time ago, however, I also spend a ton of time on the internet, read computer related news etc, so I spose your right.

But I remember watching northernlion like 8 years ago and thinking "you could probably spoof this guys voice really easy with a nueral net"
This is one of those things that sounds good in theory, but is terrible in practice.

It would incentivize prosecution to avoid court at all costs. Which means de facto immunity for wealthy people who can easily afford to go to court. And it will probably make law enforcement even worse about railroading people who can't afford any legal representation.
I wonder how well it functions as a blobstore.
How AI is unfairly targeting and discriminating against Black people
> when you want/need to buy something online

Not OP, but Kagi/reddit/trustedReviewSites/anywhereButAmazon.
Ultimately advertisers want a return on their spend and it's a closely watched metric for marketers. Them continuing to spend is indicative that there's growing value in ads, ie bots/ai agents cannot be the reason for their growth.

You could argue fb and particularly twitter are incentivized to include it in their DAU counts but market cares more for revenue for large companies.
I'm surprised this isn't happening more in the election campaigns.
TypeScript 5.5 Beta
This is indeed surprising. What's the source?
Beats me. Their buybacks have accelerated over the last decade and were about $60B each of 22 and 23.
So if MS-DOS 4 was released in 1986, and it is now 2024, that's a 37 year gap between release and open source.

That means Windows XP should be open sourced by ... 2038. Not as far away as it seems. I'll add it to my calendar.
Even this is almost certainly an underestimate. Open source intelligence that just the bill of materials for a Shahed is more than the tens of thousands previously estimated. These are probably more on the order of ~$400k [0]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2024/02/07/375000the...
Narratives of War: Dissecting Ukrainian Memetic Warfare on Twitter
Founder Associate Roles
Any tips for applying and reaching out to startups offering to be their Founders Associate?
Summer Health pockets $12M Series A to grow text-based pediatric service
My wife is Thai, we now live in Australia.

Back in Thailand she and her mother often used coal for cooking (which is listed in the article as a possible cause) but after moving to Australia, she no longer used it because it is impractical (the coal is hard to find, the type of stove used for cooking with coal is not readily available, neighbours would complain about the smoke, etc etc).

I imagine that most other Asian women who migrated to Western countries face a similar situation and no longer use coal on a daily basis.

Also, I am sceptical that cooking oils could be a factor, it seems to me that, at least in the parts of Asia where I have lived, the types of cooking oils used are similar to the ones used in the West. I have seen the comments about mustard oil but its usage seems to be limited to certain countries or regions and not widespread everywhere in Asia, whereas according to the article, the issue affects women from various countries from India to China.

EDIT - however some of the comments indicate that other oils, not just mustard oil, also present similar health challenges and they are widely used in several Asian cooking traditions.
> This is the industry roadmap from 2022: https://irds.ieee.org/images/files/pdf/2022/2022IRDS_Litho.p...

Very interesting document - lots of numbers in there for real feature sizes that I had not seen before (Table LITH-1).

And this snippet was particularly striking:

Chip making in Taiwan already uses as much as 10%
of the island’s electricity.
I thought the future would have been unstructured.
Thank you for your input, Steven. AppleTV is high on the roadmap for future product updates. Regarding your Wahoo sensors, they are all supported (except for the fan). I am not 100% sure about the SRAM power meter since there is some variation in the way different vendors support the Bluetooth sensor specification, so that is something you would need to try out. I would greatly appreciate your feedback if you ever have the chance to try the game.
Control of magnetization state emerging from Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation
>I’m not going to use an LLM to shop for car insurance or look for hotels.

As I understand it, this is a great use-case for AI agents (a-la Custom GPT) and I wouldn't be surprised if the tech for that matures over the next year.
I don't think you're being very fair. We can see stark difference between Democratic and Republican controlled states, especially when looking at the South. In terms of women's rights, they are second class citizens in the South while their rights are protected in states with Democrats leading the charge. In states where Republicans have complete control, they've asserted full control over women. That's a real difference between Democrats and Republicans that I hope you can appreciate.

In the South they are banning DEI, queer books, and trans participation in public life. This is not happening in Democratic controlled places, and that's not just lip service, that's for real. People's jobs are being impacted by this, teachers are fleeing Republican controlled states.

You look at rate of infant mortality, pregnancy complications, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, opioid addiction, childhood poverty, poverty in general, and it all looks better in Blue versus Red states. That's real data we can look at which tells us the parties are different. Under Democratic administrations, access to healthcare is expanded. Under Republican control, it contracts. I know it's not your preferred solution, and I'd like a better one too, but when it comes time to vote I'm damn for sure voting for the party that causes healthcare access to expand.

And Trump's problem isn't that he has poor diction or vocabulary, it's that what he says is literally insane and psychopathic. The SC case today was evidence of that, where he argued in court that he deserves the power to assassinate his rivals and to order the military to stage a coup without fear of prosecution. Democrats are not arguing this position in court.

Yes both will not address the fundamental problems of capitalism, and the working class will continue to suffer under both, but the data say they will suffer more under Republicans compared to Democrats.

We are not talking about window dressing we are talking about measurably less suffering. I understand that's not the "no suffering" benchmark you'd like to achieve, but how about we not let perfect be the enemy of better?