skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One exception to this is the efforts of anti-war folks: if they fail at their initiative, it truly is game over for many.

If one was naive, one might also describe democracy this way.
Also the scaling - in this case the original had reasonable scaling but it can be manipulated. The changes could be small enough to be random fluctuations on one series and so no real match.

However the graph does show that a slightly deeper look would be worthwhile - even if it is a very quick one to see that the data is manipulated e.g. climate deniers graphs of temperature all starting on the same year. If you change the starting year you got rather different results.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not - but AI predates ChatGPT.
What happened to Ascension hospitals?
So the extension is not even released? And Facebook didn’t actually say its illegal? They are preemptively trying to get a court to affirm its legality? Why? Is there a record of Facebook suing similar extensions?
What's to stop a bunch of chinese from invading Hacker News and just posting on it in Chinese?
> No, it makes it possible to have nuclear base load plants in Hungary and Bulgaria and few other countries while some small country can play the renewable game at home

Those reactors play a negligible role. We've seen it all when the rotting French fleet went down for months.

Nuclear was the smallest part in the mix in 2020. This is 4 years any additional percentage of renewables ago: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/EU-energy-mix-2020-12_fi...

> This makes them useless without a giant battery or power plants

How are you still repeating this myth? We have the whole of Austria or the Nordics as giant batteries. The grid is working now. Despite the constantly rising amounts of really clean energy in it, and despite the FUD from the nuclear bubble.
Moderation kills discussion. Hacker News and 4chan are lightly moderated and that’s why they’ve survived for a decade plus.
By this logic paywalled links should also not be posted.

This would eliminate like what, 30% of HN content?
I preferred The Hunger (1983): Bowie/Deneuve/Sarandon
Yeah the links are useless now. Elon’s changes briefly made them (a lot) better than before, then totally ruined them (for logged-out users). It’s far worse even than Instagram, which has the second-worst following-a-link-as-a-non-user experience I can think of.

We just share screenshots in my friend group. Used to share links. It may as well not be on the Web at all anymore.

[edit] and also it’s now actually broken, but it was so close to broken before that I think they should have been blocked here, and most places, months ago.
Actually, I agree with him. Musk has both passively and actively supported hate speech, by weakening their content policies, and also specifically inviting back users who were previously removed for hate speech.

If X was a brand new social network it would be in the same category as Gab and Truth, people are only (still) willing to give it the benefit of the doubt because of its long history, and the volume of users who are still on it from pre-Musk history.

But Musk's intentions are clear.
Why would you have to pay attention regardless? Is an OpenAI researcher's departure a subject that interests you, or is it not? It sounds like it's not.
Omnispace reports interference from Starlink direct-to-device payloads
The problem is that grid frequency has terrible mid-term performance. The frequency itself will be reasonably close to 50/60Hz, but it's guaranteed to be off by a little bit due to the way it operates - and that small offset accumulates over time.

For example, the European supergrid only makes time corrections if it has drifted by more than 20 seconds. That's good enough for the clock on your microwave, but it's pretty bad compared to literally any other time source.
"..During a panel at the International Telecoms Week conference here May 16, George Giagtzoglou, vice president of strategy at Omnispace, said his company now had “empirical evidence” of increased noise in S-band from Starlink satellites that have payloads operating on similar frequencies.

...We’ve talked in the past about there being academic evidence, engineering studies. What we are actually seeing now with those satellites in operation is empirical evidence,” he said. “You see the noise floor on our satellites increase to the degree that services cannot be provided...”
> But the another thing (which is fascinating to me, given the audience of HN and the tone of the comments here) is that part of the purpose of the ecosystem lock-in is to get users to pay indy devs for software.

The group of indie devs is not a homogeneous group. For example, there exist "hacker-type" indie devs who love to write software that subverts Apple's rules and/or adds functionalities that Apple does not like or restricts.
This is very cool. Congrats!
They are flipping some things over from twitter.com to x.com, so maybe this is just a transition bug.
> Yes, it does. The "shadow" isn't a shadow, it is a preview of what your mark will look like, before you actually make the mark.

... No it's very clearly a shadow of the pen. Watch the link. It's not the angled mark preview.
Researchers outsmarted EasyRide function on Swiss travel app
HN looks lightly moderated but there is a reason why the front page is not full of the latest and greatest political flamewar stuff like all the other media sites.
> 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.

Yeah, because no one is interested in promoting it because it doesn't have analytics baked in so you can't make money from doing so. Of course it deteriorated over the years. It's also cheap to run and can handle a massive amount of users.

> store a lot of OLTP data just to function

Right, so they can run analytics. You could reduce your tracking data to aggregates, but then you can't go back and run analytics on your users. You don't need to keep that data forever.

Especially with modern social media where content older than a day is effectively dead and ignored.

> it adds up to trillions of rows of data

This was a lot of data a decade ago. Nowadays a single postgres instance will handle billions of rows without breaking a sweat, and social media content is exceptionally shardable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719127 :D
I didn't find the polling. Sorry.

Do you mind to elaborate why no? I mean, there is obviously content, but it cant be accessed. Its different with like paywalls, where some nice hacker-human posts an archive link. For twitter it isn't possible the same way.
BBR may not be perfect but it sure is an improvement for Starlink over Cubic. I switched to it on a server I connect to frequently from Starlink and got a 2x performance improvement on TCP connections. Before, big file transfers would regularly bounce between 5 Mbytes/s and 12. After it'd hold a steady 12. Which is what you'd expect given Starlink's high packet loss rate (0.5% for me) and how TCP congestion control traditionally works.
Hacker News is one of the most aggressively moderated forums on the web, what are you talking about?
Speaking of incentives, the way your suggestion tends to work out is that you make a team own both value and risk, then incentivize them only for value, which works out predictably.
Higher interest rates are not that much a hit on new building - the construction loans don't last long and so while there is more cost it isn't very significant compared to all the other costs. They are a problem to owners though - if you want to own a building you will pay a lot more. There is a subtle difference, and this is why new house construction is still going strong - there are enough people who can afford a loan who want a new house as to make it worth building.

Having been in construction I call tell you a contractor can build two identical houses in the same neighborhood, with the only difference being the contractor is planning on selling one after it is built, while the other a buyer is exists for the house. The second house will costs at least $20,000 more than the first, the only difference being the buyer will upgrade lights, doors, flooring, countertops and so on. All those little $300 upgrades add up.
It really can work both ways. r/askscience is notoriously heavy handed and an incredible sub.
Distributed monitoring and centralized reporting would be used to correct anomalous towers providing bad time and can provide independent verification of precision. It is not enough to provide a service; you must also have a system to validate it, and correct when needed.
While we’re on the subject: For the last ~4 months on my desktop, when I click a Twitter link, there is nothing displayed at all. Cleared my cache multiple times and everything. It works on my phone, it’s actually so bizarre it makes me laugh rather than upset.
I thought Hawkins's book "On Intelligence" was amazing. It's a bit wild how close things have followed to the direction he laid out.
Yubikey 5.7
There's a scary, authoritarian vibe to your entire post.
NeRFs are sort of last year's technology. The latest hype is about gaussian splats.

My understanding is that essentially these technologies take some images as input, and then train a model, where the model is learning the best way to render the imagines into a model in some sense. I think for gaussian splats, it represents images as sort of "blobs" in space, and each image has the same set of blobs that have to be used from some perspective to render the image, hence by positioning the splats such that each image is rendered correctly, you can reproduce the scene.

This training is currently very expensive and has to be done for each model, but produces an output that can be explored in real time.

I think the photogrammetry approaches used by matterport et all are older and require much higher quality input data, whereas the newer approaches can work with much less and lower quality data.
Exactly, this kind of thing always happens with these loops, which is why I think programs that allocate are fairer. But then people point out that the C allocator is terrible, so we can't make that point :')
There’s too much signal on there for a blanket ban. Make an account and you can access it that’s probablh the reason
Strides in microbiome-based cancer therapies via iron deprivation
Comparing the discussion of the article on r/medicine to one on r/lucyletby is shocking:

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1crg7u0/a_british...

https://www.reddit.com/r/lucyletby/comments/1crie1n/interest...

The r/lucyletby sub have lost all critical thinking ability, self-filtered for those who can never convinced otherwise about Letby's guilt, and resorted to calling everyone else a conspiracy theorist, all while insulating themselves with an embargo law that doesn't apply to reddit. It's mind-numbing.
Yeah, there's been a number of times where I've pointed out that the thing product is asking for has GDPR implications and then the critical data collection we Must Have magically turns out to not be all that important after all. Even when we go forward with things in a GDPR-compliant way it's made it a lot easier to push back on some user-hostile things and ship something much less awful.
Yes - no more links to Twitter/X.

PS: Twitter was the only social media website I used for the last decade. Unfortunately it’s a cesspool now.
Politics. They lobbied the right people.
A lot of the dancing stuff is about the ability to spin the camera around a moving subject to the music, which is quite difficult otherwise.

There's a lot of impressive work in 3D animation that looks quite good. Outside of Bandai Namco's work on idol anime, Studio Orange has made some of the best looking 3D modeled anime lately and a few other studios have been getting into it. I'm more familiar with video game animation, where Arcsys Works has made great strides too, by using animation on threes, manual tweening, stretch and squish bones, and carefully UV mapped textures for crisp color boundaries.
Some people have been doing that all along. I've seen fiction books from the 1930s talking about some person doing that. It sometimes works sometimes doesn't.
That's why paths in Rust don't have to be UTF-8. See Path and OsStr documentation.
If they’re low-hanging fruit, why not do that before posting about it publicly? All that happens is that you push yourself into a nasty situation: people get a poor first impression of the system and are less likely to trust you the second time around, and in the (possibly unlikely) event that the problems turn out to be harder than you expect, you wind up in the really nasty situation of having to deal with failed expectations and pressure to fix them quickly.
i would be shocked if this worked well
What a waste
Canadian Renters Now Required to Collect Foreign Landlord's Taxes, Withhold Rent
I simply don't click on X links since I don't have an account and can't see context of the links like tweets before and after. People should feel free to continue posting for those who have an X account. It's not such a big deal to move on with my day.
Those could or should already be prepended in the title with PAYWALL or alike, so one can already at point of reading the title decide not to click on it.
Would argue your examples are: "the exception that confirms the rule..."
Theological questions. The reality is that one "knows an emacs when one sees it." And lem behaves like GNU Emacs in some fundamental respects. Default keybindings, buffer management, macros, etc. Even newer things like lsp support + modes, etc.

It is not clear to me why the marketing for lem is "a Lisp IDE" when it clearly is "an emacs written in Common Lisp"
I think it's mostly messing up viewport and movement calculations, which is why you have textures popping into view when already in the viewport, and shifting too much in the periphery.

In essence, you're just mildly glitching the display. It doesn't really alter the map or the spatial relationship of items. You'd need more fundamental game engine changes to really implement a different geometry.
I have nothing against them. Please note, I edited my comment to change "dual axis charts" (common spreadsheet terminology) to "plots with two different scales in the same direction," which more accurately describes the plots with which the OP -- and I -- disagree.
Is there no one here who works at Twitter and can chime in?

What is the deal with these new weird links?

Also, I would vote no, but if links no longer render for logged out users then I would be willing to discuss alternative measures. I am just not entirely sure about the link you shared and its URL structure.

Twitter has a lot of people using it and posting stuff there exclusively, a lot of which is genuinely interesting and provokes curiosity.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1791498174659715494.html
Not pointed at @helloplanets, just need to note that he responded that way because it was an abomination. And they're all stockholm syndrome about the situation, "we can use AI to make grotesque monsters that feel no pain. All we want to do is make a machine that replaces human drawing." With this weird implied feeling he was supposed to congratulate them.

Quoting Miyazaki, which was not especially harsh given they showed him a naked mutant zombie crawling across the ground using it's head and arm as legs while constantly trying to arch it's butt toward the camera.

> Every morning, not recent days, but I see my friend who has a disability.

> It's so hard for him just to do a high five (waves hand showing difficulty)

> His arm with stiff muscle reaching out to my hand (demonstrates body stiffness)

> Now thinking of him, I can't watch this stuff and find it interesting

> Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is, or whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted.

> If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it

> I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all

> I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

(room sits in silence awkwardly)
> If I open a PDF in Preview on my Mac and delete a page from it, it saves the change instantly. If I made a mistake, I can't just close it and re-open the original version.

There's a system setting to (mostly) restore the old behavior: Desktop & Dock > Ask to keep changes when closing documents. Apple applications will still immediately update the file and disk, but it's a lot easier to discard all changes since the last save by closing without saving, and the on-disk file will be rolled back to the previous version. This setting has been around since 2012, I think one OS after they introduced the "auto-save" feature, and I've been using it ever since.
Given the stance on submission with paywalled content being ok, I don't think HN would ban userwalled content.
While I highly disagree with this, there have been many discussions about it before and nothing has changed so far.
Reddit reinstates post awards (with some changes)
For what it's worth, a very very long time ago, when it was just getting going, 500px had me design a go to market for them, that is what I designed.
Ok, I didn't know that.

The paywalled was also a nail in my eye. But, people pointed out, that there's still a possibility to ask for an archive link. Thats true. So no hard arguments against it.
> If noone ever fought for the environment beyond their own personal immediate health we might be in better position now than we are in term of CO2 and millions of people and thousands of ecosystems and species could be saved.

It is astonishing how far the nuclear bubble is ready to go down the stairs of reason for drama. I mean seriously? Wtf is this? :D Are you joking? This is the equivalent of people who buy a gun to protect their house because the police is useless and being proud of it.
We should stop posting them, yes. But it seems unlikely that "we", meaning all the users of HN, will.

Musk has deliberately repositioned X as a social network that encourages hate speech, and the users have followed. It maintains a veneer of respectability only because of it's pre-Musk history, and because of the number of corporations and media outlets who continue to use it, presumably out of inertia rather than anything else.

If it were up to me, HN would not support any site that supports hate speech. And it mostly already doesn't. X is a weird quirk as it is in transition from what it used to be to what Musk wants it to be, and a lot of people haven't really accepted it yet.
> it is allocating 2 IC nodes for each numeric operation, while Python is not

While that's true, Python would be using big integers (PyLongObject) for most of the computations, meaning every number gets allocated on the heap.

If we use a Python implementation that would avoid this, like PyPy or Cython, the results change significantly:

% cat sum.py
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

if __name__ == '__main__':
print(sum(30, 0))

% time pypy sum.py
576460751766552576
pypy sum.py 4.26s user 0.06s system 96% cpu 4.464 total

That's on an M2 Pro. I also imagine the result in Bend would not be correct since it only supports 24 bit integers, meaning it'd overflow quite quickly when summing up to 2^30, is that right?

[Edit: just noticed the previous comment had already mentioned pypy]

> I'm aware it is 2x slower on non-Apple CPUs.

Do you know why? As far as I can tell, HVM has no aarch64/Apple-specific code. Could it be because Apple Silicon has wider decode blocks?

> can be underwhelming, and I understand if you don't believe on my words

I don't think anyone wants to rain on your parade, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The work you've done in Bend and HVM sounds impressive, but I feel the benchmarks need more evaluation/scrutiny. Since your main competitor would be Mojo and not Python, comparisons to Mojo would be nice as well.
Kind of wonder what the plan they tried to get people to sign onto and failed would've been:

> LILCO's problems were compounded by NRC rules in the wake of Three Mile Island, requiring that operators of nuclear plants work out evacuation plans in cooperation with state and local governments. This prompted local politicians to join the growing opposition to the plant. Since any land evacuation off the island would involve traveling at least 60 miles (97 km) back through New York City to reach its bridges, local officials feared that the island could not be safely evacuated.[3]

There are currently 1.5M people in Suffolk County today, and millions more in adjoining areas. If that were a peacetime evacuation that would be one of the largest in history.
America's last Pandas expected to leave for China
The Bobiverse books are great IMHO.
I would think Russia makes more money selling fossil fuels than by promoting nuclear energy.
That's not the point I was trying to make. If anything, it's the opposite. We need moralistic people to take on amoral/uncomfortable problems.

If you refuse to deal with drug addiction, you shouldn't be surprised when drug dealers do.
> Isn't it the case that you can only prove that a program halts if it can be reduced/transformed to a computational model (e.g., a model that is effectively calculable) that is less powerful than a Turing machine?

Models less power than a turing machine are still incredibly powerful. Some useful general purpose languages only accept programs that terminate. Hell, every useful program I ever wrote could be (in principle) proved to halt (excepting a `while True: do useful terminating thing again` main loop, of course).
Productivity on the Go
I'd rather occasionally have my house burn down than live in a tent.

You might not have that issue, and if so, that's great.

And yes, I'd also rather live in Kowloon than on the street.

There is no magical utopia being referenced here. Just cheaper housing for people who have lower standards.
I think you're off by about 5 years but otherwise correct. :)

I remember our startup didn't have a library, but we had one dude who had an entire shelf of O'Reilly books that the company bought for him, so it was sort of our defacto library. When he got laid off, it was like vultures circling a kill to get his books into the IT pen so we would have them.

When I got laid off the company let me take some of them home, and that is what started my home collection of O'Reilly books, and that was in 2001. By 2009 we didn't really use books anymore -- it was all on the internet.
> 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.

A blog engine is basically just splatting strings together, and Ruby is the nicest language for splatting strings together by far.
You might want to double check with objdump if the loop is actually vectorized, or if the compiler just optimizes it out. Your loop actually performs signed integer overflow, which is UB in C++; the compiler could legally output anything. If you want to avoid the UB, declare sum as unsigned (unsigned integer overflow is well-defined); the optimization will still happen but at least you’ll be guaranteed that it’ll be correct.
MacBrickout
I believe the single-core version was running slower due to the memory getting full. The benchmark was adding 2^30 numbers, but HVM2 32-bit has a limit of 2^29 nodes. I've re-ran it with 2^28 instead, and the numbers are `33.39 seconds` (1 core) vs `2.94 seconds` (16 cores). You can replicate the benchmark in an Apple M3 Max. I apologize for the mistake.
Bro, that's because that dude didn't post the right link. It's this https://x.com/jmechner/status/1791226510336045286
And it's sick! You're missing out by not checking it out.

That works for me even when I'm in incognito. Asking for the smallest amount of agency from this crowd may well be trying to make a cow do calculus. Industrial-grade complaint merchants.