skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, nothing about this is related to analytics. I was strictly describing storage, caching, and compute for core product functionality in my previous comment, which is written from direct first-hand experience working on infrastructure for social networks for a decade, including the two social networks I referenced in my previous comment.

Social networks store a lot of OLTP data just to function. Every user, post, comment, follow/friendship relation, like/favorite/interaction, media metadata -- that all gets stored in sharded relational databases and retrieved in order for the product to operate at all. For successful social networks, it adds up to trillions of rows of data (on the smaller end, for something like Tumblr) and that requires a lot of expensive infrastructure to operate. Again, none of this has any relation to analytics.

As for usenet, what? It's basically dead, after becoming an unmanageable cesspool of spam (or worse) more than two decades ago. It was great in the 90s, but the internet population was substantially smaller then.
Links to Consider, 5/17
this doesn't take liability into account when the shack falls over on a visitor LMAO
Yeah the duplicate letters is bugged and also it lets you enter invalid words.
Yes; another example:

https://stevekrouse-staticwordle.web.val.run/eyJhbnN3ZXIiOiJ...
You basically made the comment that I was considering. The problem isn't whether some people want to live in specific types of relationships. The problem is how social media amplifies extremism, as you note. It makes a small minority of people doing a specific thing look like an actual trend when it isn't. Throw in monetization--people making money peddling specific beliefs as if they actually believe and live them when in fact they may not--and it's just a recipe for a mess.
OP said "higher interest rates" relative to historic lows in '20-21.

Your comment does not negate the effect that interest rates have had on affordability. The last time interest rates were this high, home prices were significantly lower than what they are now. Wages have not kept up with inflation.
> Taiwan is already very well prepared for an invasion

The most likely possibility according to the article is not a direct invasion of Taiwan but China controlling Taiwan's borders so that it can decide what trade gets in and out and what doesn't. I don't think Taiwan is in any position to stop that from happening.
The over signing part of DKIM is really confusing. It's easy to overlook and can blow the whole thing wide open. And yet it's not the default, presumably for some reason, so it's unclear what happens if you just go ahead and over sign every header. Is it surprising people get this wrong?
It's easy to mock when it's caricaturized. And, so is the ”War is peace" position when taken to the extremes by perma-hawks, who've never seen a problem that couldn't be solved with an explosion.

As often, the solution lies in the middle. We do need strength as deterrent, but over-focus on this leads to an infinitely escalating need for more strength.

But let's be clear: war is illegitimate. That we have not found a better way to resolve conflict does not legitimize it. Killing people with whom you disagree at-scale is insane on its face.
(I saw this in another HN thread)

https://www.ribbonsunlimited.com/default.asp

There, solved it for you ;) They make the stuff
The Global South includes the entire ASEAN trading bloc and India. At least two of these countries have territorial disputes with China. The influence and actions of the Chinese government matter quite a lot.
This seems pretty cool!

Question:
Does this take into account memory bandwidth and caches between cores? Because getting them wrong can easily make parallel programs slower than sequential ones.
I like the notion of fig. 3 but it doesn't seem to capture evolution of uses over time.
Speaking as one of those developers, we suggested the topic. We are proud of this!

I've worked at several companies you know (https://www.linkedin.com/in/macneale) - and this is the least toxic company I have ever worked at. Hands down. We take pride in running a tight ship.
Room over room (as done in later build games) usually does not require the sectors to overlap in this manner as it is a different thing (it is extension of how swimable water works, where the engine renders the other sector instead of floor/ceiling).

While Lunatic Fringe is pretty in-your-face example of impossible geometry in build, the duke3d maps contain many more cases of intersecting geometry. Obviously such things are impossible in Doom because there is no way to build BSP tree out of that and because doom only tracks X/Y coordinates of player(s)/monsters.
I still love being in a ruby environment more than a JS one mostly because it all feels so straightforward. Somehow, this is an ethos/style baked into Ruby, whereas javascript is too spastic to be straightforward.

Bridgetown looks very cool.

For a JS environment, Astro is likely the sweet spot for you. I liked the few days I did some R&D on it. My team uses vite with static site generation, templates in vue bc the rest of the apps we build are in vue. Astro doesn't give us anything more that we need besides a content framework, but so much of our content has to be ported from old html and sprinkled with some functionality from time to time… its easier to make everything components.

It's comfortable enough too, but it took a while to make it so.
> Where is it?

Generally speaking, any unincorporated land.
Whoa, TIL that suspension railways exist!

My first thought after seeing the end of the video was "why is this video flipped?" until I realized that it was only the train that was "upside down".
Back in 2012 there was a very large gap between the quality of ads on Google AdSense vs. all of the other options. DeviantArt was banned from using google adsense and thus had to run ads much more similar to the crap you see on Facebook these days.
When half your babies aren’t dying of disease and you have life and career aspirations for yourself the idea of raising more than 1-3 kids seems pretty insane.

Arguably low birth rates are a very good thing and we should adjust our society more to embrace them (like not building the economy so that it depends on being a giant pyramid scheme).
Corporations only buy housing because it is a good investment. Its only a good investment because supply is severely limited by the government. If you think corporate ownership is a problem the solution is building more, LVT wouldnt hurt either.
Did you have to pay twice the base price for the bonded ADSL setup?
I get the desire to keep oneself productive and make contributions to the world, but it seems like standups and sprint planning aren't that, and for the most part, corporate work involves doing a satisfactory job, but realizing that doing a particularly good job at anything isn't worth it for various reasons (i.e. the idea of "craftsmanship" is generally inappropriate in a corporate context).

Surely there's communal satisfaction to be found making improvements to e.g. digikam. Or we've seen bright college kids try to make things like diaspora or mastodon over the years, but they don't know what they're doing, so it always ends up being something that barely runs and costs way too much to be able to scale. Someone that actually knew what they were doing could easily write something 100x more efficient.

It's not so much "why do you do stuff", but "why do you work at a corporation and worry about OKRs and sprints and 360 peer reviews instead of doing stuff?"
Were those games the AI wrote graphic or text-based? I had an AI write a few games but it used ASCII art instead of graphics.
The powers that be would rather you quibble over inconsequential immigration than notice the other hand reaching into your wallet. It’s just that simple.
Weaponized bureaucracy may be the #1 thing holding this country back, and I don't see a good path forward. Entrenched interests are just that, entrenched. Outside of an extreme strongman gaining political power, how do you get past the plague of a thousand little fiefdoms all demanding their toll?
Being relative to historic lows in anything doesn't say much, though.
I think the point is that Bend in a much higher level than C++.
But to be fair: I also may be missing the point!
SIGQUIT can be ignored, e.g. with:

# handle SIGQUIT appropriately (readable version)
__import__('signal').signal(3, 1)

SIGSTOP just happens, and is mostly transparent (unless you handle SIGCONT, but who does?).
It’s really easy to build a shack that isn’t gonna just fall over one day, with no warning. Especially in a dry, warm area.
Yes, but… there were a half-dozen people here whose comments I alway enjoyed for the deep and nuanced perspective. I haven’t seen them in a few years now, sadly.

Maybe some light-touch people focus would be a nice compromise. Like, highlight the discussion where my favorite people participate? That could avoid the bandwagon effect. I dunno, maybe not.
We will only see more of this as time goes on and there’s so little impetus for companies to do anything that respects privacy when this data is power and freely accessible by virtue of owning the servers. If you haven’t read Technofuedalism, the to;dr is that what we once saw as tools for our entertainment or convenience now own our inputs and use us as free labour, and operate at scales where we have little to no power to protect our interests. For a quick summary: https://www.wired.com/story/yanis-varoufakis-technofeudalism...
> powers that be would rather you quibble over inconsequential immigration

Those powers being two thirds of Americans [1]. (And a greater fraction of voters [2].)

It's tempting to blame a conspiracy. But at least the housing cost side of the equation is quite obviously a policy choice in much of the country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeownership_in_the_United_St...

[2] https://www.route-fifty.com/management/2022/08/problem-homeo...
There are functioning recycling facilities, the primary problem is the lack of input batteries to be recycled. Right now the input is mostly defective batteries from production lines.

See for example Redwood Materials:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-18/redwood-m...

Given the expense of shipping materials long distances, it's quite likely that recycling will be far cheaper than processing from freshly obtained materials. But it remains to be seen what innovations will happen in the mining space or in the recycling space to change that balance.
They are related, millions of more unplanned civilians dramatically increases rent and reduces supply. At least that has been the case in Canada.
> It seems to me that the whole "trad wife" thing is rage-bait that the press took hold of and blew out of proportion

I don't disagree with you, but there were a couple of crucial steps before that: first, extreme views/lifestyles being amplified on social media that lead people to belief that they are more widespread than they may be, and second, people with related political beliefs latching onto and further amplifying this trend for their own political gain.
Yeah, I feel for them.

While we can try to improve the reality, it is the reality today and difficult to improve. There is always a small percentage of people that are bad.

I maintain a couple semi-famous open-sourced projects and get a criticism (of course a milder one than what OP got) once in a while. I read them and only take what is useful.

I always always thank them for feedback whether the feedback is good, bad, or abusive. I never argue that the users are wrong. I might help correct their understanding, but I'd say: I can see why it can be misunderstood.

This is because, if you start arguing with users, it leaves a bad taste in other users even if you are right.

I used to look at one open-sourced project where the maintainers taunted the users to implement the change themselves because it's "the benefit of an open-sourced project". It kinda turned me away from the project.
You're focusing too much on this specific article.

My point is about this type of coverage in general, even on topics that might seem "solved" or "obvious" to you.

And even this article in the JPost is a useful reference for a JPost reader to use when a white person says "that never happened," which is EXTREMELY common.
Gemini 1.5 Model Family: Technical Report [pdf]
I read an anecdote once that novelist Jonathan Franzen writes on a laptop which has had the WiFi card removed and Ethernet port glued shut. He's pretty successful so whatever works imo.
Homeowners still make up the majority of voters by a pretty significant margin [0]. And one could argue that immigration is related, which is a serious problem in Canada, whereas there are much better solutions than curbing immigration in the US (increasing supply).

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/184902/homeownership-rat....
Blue OS Museum
Very tangentially related, the last time I nuked a computer it was with FUSE shenanigans. I used a secure temporary directory as the mount point, and the language's destructor effectively did a hidden rm -rf on the contents when I was done with it after the unmount silently failed.
Are US fire/building codes tend to require some costly processes and/or materials that can be argued to be sort of a diminishing return, or are they're more of a sanity thing, like using GFCI outlets in wet rooms or using fire-retardant materials?

Some time ago, outside of the US, I rewired my grandpa's old shack once, which was gradually built from whatever he had at hand back then (totally not to any code, like literal twists of copper and aluminium wires, idk how that shit held up for over 60 years), and the local code was mostly a bunch of "do things the right way please, don't do stupid shit"-grade standards that totally made sense to me. Plus some local opinionated defaults (so anyone looking at something wouldn't be caught by surprise). Although, I haven't went through any formal inspections (only unofficial LGTM nod from a friendly certified electrician), just replaced obvious "to scared to live here" hazards with less obvious ones.

But I have no idea about the US codes and how complicated those are.
Because that is the way the linux distros and BSD traditionnally package software and this is the most integrated way for the user who is just a small command away to get the software. Additionally it removes the burden of maintaining tens of operating system packages to the developers who can still decide to themselves be the maintainers if that is their wish or nobody else want to do it. A win-win situation.

Do you prefer the users to look for software, figure out from themselves they are hitting the right website and not a fake clone with same software but with integrated malware, then to download them and install them with a terrible install process involving hitting next next next install while making sure to not let a checkbox checked that will had some adware like in old win9x days?

BSD ports and curated linux software package repositories are the origins/ancestors of the "app" stores for good reasons. The later only add some voting systems and putting the burden of package maintenance on the software developers, remove curation and don't really prevent rogue mainteners to release malicious clones. I prefer the linux/BSD way.
For what it's worth, I really think DeviantArt should have focused much more on the other revenue sources and abandoned display ads. I'm not sure how that would have turned out but I suspect it might have been good for the company. The sponsorships were far more aligned with the interests of deviantArt's users and I think it was a significant source of revenue that could have been expanded with the right focus and execution. I'm pretty sure that sponsorships amounted to $60k to $150k per deal which usually ran for 1 or 2 weeks with a sponsored art contest, judging and awarding prizes, it wasn't a lot of administrative work for deviantArt AFAIK.
Both. What are the rapidly heated molecules going to do? Create turbulence in the air. That is sound.
> "And as font, use DIN 1451"

Yes

> " ... or Tannenberg for "retro" look."

No

Only if with retro you mean a kitsch Hollywood version of Germany whose role model only existed for a few years - from 1935 until the Nazis banned Fraktur-style typefaces (like Tannenberg) because they deemed them too Jewish.
Post-Mortem: How Heroku Router 2.0 Wrecked Our App
The world needs better pricing models for such tools. Monthly fee, even a cheap one, is just too much of a congitive load. Maybe a subscription service for many SaaS that allocates fees to its components according to a usage based formula? Would be difficult to get incentives right.
> The only solution is to get younger people to vote or to wait for them to die.

There are other means, perhaps less palatable for the HN crowd though
AI Program Aims to Break Barriers for Female Students
the existing housing stock would be fine if the population wasn't growing. With birth rates as they are, increased demand and increased crowding is a choice made through immigration policy.

unpopular political stance, I know, but you can't welcome in unlimited residents without expecting the existing inhabitants to get used to more crowding or fight over the available space
In addition to the other linked post, this one https://faultlore.com/blah/abi-puns/ would give you a good idea of how this bug in LLVM was found
Well, you might assume that they only get hurt once. Maybe it would make their co-conspirators re-evaluate their actions too...
Starshield is a contract vehicle. Not just a constellation
> Inspection codes protect those people

Inspection codes are supposed to protect those people. As currently implemented, they often don't because they force people into ... alternate living arrangements due to strangled housing supply. It's not even the code per se that's the problem. It's the weaponized bureaucratic incompetence around its enforcement.
https://archive.ph/VprzJ

https://web.archive.org/web/20240517020544/https://www.nytim...
Wow, storing data blindly like that sounds like a nightmare but I can totally see it happening.
The path to alleviate suffering involves letting go.
Ai has no more agency, will, or intent as the software warmongers currently use now. The problem is any collateral damage or mistakes will be defended zealously and resolved within the military organization in the same ways it is now
Why would you have a site with a whole load of videos on it, with all of them set to autoplay and constantly loop? I was watching a video on my second screen, and it stutters each time I try to visit the site.
I remember Van Jacobson saying in the early 90s that IP would work over two tin cans and a piece of wet string. For several years, I set this as a possible student project, partly as a joke, but it was had no takers for quite a few years. Then in 2009 a student finally took me up on the offer. The main things we learned were that the tin cans were a bad idea (undesirable resonances), and that you could either do on/off coding at the string's resonant frequency, or try to stay well away from the resonant frequency, but then the signal strength was very low but you could distinguish multiple frequencies so do more interesting coding. In the end the project was successful, but the student ran out of time before he could really investigate in great depth.
For what it's worth, I ported the sum example to pure python.

def sum(depth, x):
if depth == 0:
return x
else:
fst = sum(depth-1, x*2+0) # adds the fst half
snd = sum(depth-1, x*2+1) # adds the snd half
return fst + snd

print(sum(30, 0))

under pypy3 it executes in 0m4.478s, single threaded. Under python 3.12, it executed in 1m42.148s, again single threaded. I mention that because you include benchmark information:

CPU, Apple M3 Max, 1 thread: 3.5 minutes
CPU, Apple M3 Max, 16 threads: 10.26 seconds
GPU, NVIDIA RTX 4090, 32k threads: 1.88 seconds

The bend single-threaded version has been running for 42 minutes on my laptop, is consuming 6GB of memory, and still hasn't finished (12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1270P, Ubuntu 24.04). That seems to be an incredibly slow interpreter. Has this been tested or developed on anything other than Macs / aarch64?

I appreciate this is early days, but it's hard to get excited about what seems to be incredibly slow performance from a really simple example you give. If the simple stuff is slow, what does that mean for the complicated stuff?

If I get a chance tonight, I'll re-run it with `-s` argument, see if I get anything helpful.
My apologies! It's even more emberrasing given the fact that I looked up the website, knowing that I _always_ swap them after having written too many `tx-listen` in my career.

They expanded their work to wider relations and made the whole framework a lot more penetrable. I think they over-complicate things a bit with their forward-extension, so I'm keeping every column twice (still much better than all permutations), which in turn allows for ad-hoc cardinality estimation.

Also the 1 based indexing with inclusive ranges is really not doing them any favours. Most formula become much more streamlined and simpler with 0 based indexing and exclusive ranges. (see `base_range` and `restrict_range` in [0])

0: https://github.com/triblespace/tribles-rust/blob/e3ad6f21cdc...
(Taelin says will likely be MIT or similar)
AFB vaccination is less than two years old and is not available worldwide. The majority of beekeepers expect to burn or absolutely sterilize any equipment that contacts it.

The EU requires equipment to be destroyed if it contacts AFB.

The standard practice is fire, full stop.
There are many different ways to do code and enforcement. CA does a lot of things that are not good. Code should be prescriptive - do this and it will pass - that way all builders know the rules and can do things. Most buildings the planning commission should have zero say - the builder already has rights to build what they want to build. Sometimes they may go in and ask for an exception, but that should be less than 10% of all buildings - if it is more you have your zoning rules wrong.
Indeed. I flagged this internally the first thing this morning, and fully expect to field questions from our clients over the next couple of weeks as the news percolates through to upper echelons.

I can tolerate Slack and/or Salesforce at large building per-customer overlays on top of a generic LLM. Those at least can provide actual business value[ß], and give their AI teams something to experiment on. But feeding gazillion companies' internal (and workspace-joined!) chats to a global model? Hell no.

Unsurprisingly, we opted out a few hours ago.

ß: a smart, context-aware autocomplete for those who need to type a lot on their phones would not be a bad idea. The current generation of autocorrupt is obnoxious.
Just like normal money right?
It's worse than that, because lora requires two matrices per layer. At full rank, you have an additional NxN parameters to learn versus full finetuning, where N is min(input_features, output_features).

For example, tuning a layer of 128 in x 256 out is 32k params. Learning a full-rank lora for that layer would be two matrices of 128x128 and 128x256 = 48k params.
It kinda went the other way - HN has a calming feature that prevents you from quickly replying to a comment on your comment. That was clearly on purpose.
As far as I know there are only two email providers that support OAuth: Gmail and Microsoft. Each uses their own standard to do it, but both are fully supported in Thunderbird with no passwords stored locally.
I have an F-91 and the thing I dislike about that watch and watches like it are the 3-button design. There's a pad for the fourth button and some functions could have been easier with a fourth button, but it probably increased the bill of materials by $1. Not sure why, but the 3-button asymmetry just feels wrong to me.

Timex has a similar watch with 4 buttons and when my Casio dies, I'll probably buy one.