skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. I looked at the Bay Bridge and it gets the towers but probably not the bridge itself (this is a trivial point except for folks right by the bridge, but fun to look for edge cases).
The pandemic gave a large number of people a vision of what __could__ be rather than what is, and those that have tasted freedom and goodness don't want to be caged in the exact ways they have been caged before.
I really wonder why the DOM always comes up. The DOM is just one browser API among many, and WASM is a virtual instruction set. Browser APIs have been designed for Javascript (for better or worse) meaning they work with Javascript objects and properties. WASM isn't Javascript, and it only works with floats and integers, so it needs an FFI layer to talk to browser APIs.

In the end, calling from WASM into JS isn't all that different than calling from native machine code into a virtual machine like .NET or the JVM.
The author puts a lot of effort into emphasizing that it's not just "a handful of people in Antarctica" facing such issues, but quite a noticeable percentage of global population with unstable or otherwise weird connectivity. The internet shouldn't be gatekept from people behind such limitations and reserved for the convenient "target audience" of companies, whoever that might be - especially when solutions to these problems are largely trivial (as presented in the article) and don't require that much "engineering effort" for companies of that scale, since they are already half-implemented, just not exposed to users.

People should not be limited from employing already existing infrastructure to overcome their edge-case troubles just because that infrastructure is not exposed due to it being unnecessary to the "majority of the clients".
> But all the parent commenter said is that the UN doesn't have any either, which seems like a pretty easy argument to defend.

Do you need to defend the UN to make my (even earlier) comment about the UN criticising Facebook?

I think my point still works even if the UN can only catch really egregious cases, those performed by those not of strategic political importance to one of the permanent members of the SC; and likewise also remains valid in the face of the organisation having a functional requirement to honour dead leaders who can at least pretend to have not been secret masterminds to the degree that Iran isn't officially at war with Israel despite the open acrimony.
They did if you were on o2, that's why I'm still with Aldi Talk (they use the o2 network); they've had LTE through the entire network for a while now. The new thing is 5G for everyone.
https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=lkr2jf03np19ieix
Off the top of my head, in turkish, `i` doesn't become `I`, it becomes `İ`. And `ı` is the lower case version of `I`
2GB? I happily ran KDE with 256 MB of RAM...
I always assumed it was about "there goes the neighborhood" style racism/xenophobia.
You have the freedom to sign up to all kinds of ridiculous but enforceable contracts.
We don't need Component Model, rather good tooling that makes as easy to spew WebAssembly as using AssemblyScript, not having to install alternative compiler toolchains.

Additionally the whole WebAssembly on the server is JVM/CLR/BEAM envy, fuelled with SV money for the next big thing, better served with plain old containers.
The quoted paragraph describes two distinct and _separate_ group: the "obvious and silly" ones, and the "others [which] implied that we returned dangerous results". Smoking while pregnant is listed among the latter.
Alcohol? F no. For any strenuous exercise such as biking or running, it's going to destroy your performance and make you feel like shit.

Weed has bronchodilator properties which can help in certain cases, but I'd advise against inhaling fumes from burning before exercise.
Yeah, but do not forget how we are even codifying quite narrow-minded views about how someone should build their house in Bauordnungen (building code). My parents had to sue to build their house with a pitched roof, even though one neighboring house already had the same. And do not get me started on Denkmalschutz (monument protection?) ...
Think Python, 3rd by Allen B. Downey (Free)
That's the thing -

I can't trust ChatGPT.

If I am searching for something I don't know the answer to and don't have the luxury of trial-and-error for the information I'm given, I can't rely on an unreliable agent like ChatGPT (or literally any LLM for that matter).

ChatGPT could be giving me a correct answer. Or it could be blowing smoke up my ass.

I don't know which it is when I'm seeing an answer from ChatGPT!

And that's the problem.
When I was nomadding around SE Asia, I worked 5 hours a day, 6 days a week (so I had time to do all the cool stuff in the places I was travelling through). That worked really well - I was at least as productive as I normally am in a standard 40-hour week.

A decade ago I was working 5 days a week from an open-plan office, and mentally clocked out around 2pm each day. Office culture meant I was just moistening a chair from then until it was acceptable to leave around 6pm.

For the last few years I've been working 35-45 hour weeks from home, especially during COVID, and that was fine productivity-speaking.

I'm currently working 4 days from a co-working space, and 1 day from home. I know my productivity drops when I'm at home, but I'm not sure why this changed in the last year or so.

I think a 4-day week would probably work well for me at the moment. But I'm not sure - I could end up with Tuesdays looking a lot like Mondays do at the moment. Or the extra day to do all the other stuff would be amazing and I'd really focus on the other four days. shrug

Developer productivity is a strange beast. Can't measure it. Can't control it directly. I know it when I see it, but I couldn't explain why or how.
I'm not sure about this (someone please feel free to chime in), but HOAs are only "local people" after the developers have sold all the houses and moved on, at which point the HOA becomes controlled by the homeowners in the association with the most Nazi-like mentalities. Before this, the HOA is set up by the developer that bought all the land and developed the subdivision. So, presumably, the "HOA lobbyists" are actually the lobbyists for housing developers, which I think are definitely a real thing.
I cringe whenever I think how blazing fast things could be today if only we hadn't bloated the web by 1000x.

In the dial-up era things used to be unworldly fast merely by getting access to something like 10M ethernet. Now mobile connections are way, way faster than physical connections in the 90's but web pages aren't few KB, they are few MB at minimum.

It takes four seconds and 2.5 MB to load my local meteorological institute's weather page which changes not more often than maybe once an hour and could be cached and served as a static base page in a few dozen milliseconds (i.e. instantly). A modern connection that's plenty capable to support all my remote work and development over a VPN and interactive shells without any lag can't help me get modern web pages load any faster because of the amount of data and the required processing/execution of a million lines of javascript that's imported from a bunch of number of sources, with the appropriate handshake delays of new connections implied, for each page load.

A weather page from 2004 served exactly the same information as a weather page from 2024, and that information is everything required to get a sufficient glimpse of today's weather. One web page could be fixed but there are billions of URIs that load poorly. The overall user experience hasn't improved much, if at all. Yes, you can stream 4K video without any problems which reveals how fast things actually are today but you won't see it when browsing common pages -- I'd actually like to say web pages have only gone slower despite the improvements in bandwidth and processing power.

When many pages still had mobile versions it was occasionally a very welcome alternative. Either the mobile version was so crappy you wanted to use the desktop version on your phone, or it was so good you wanted to predominantly load the mobile version even on desktop.

I'd love to see an information internet where things like weather data, news articles, forum posts, etc. would be downloadable as snippets of plaintext, presumably intended to be machine readable, and "web" would actually be a www site that builds a presentation and UI for loading and viewing these snippets. You could use whichever "web" you want but you would still ultimately see the same information. This would disconnect information sources from the presentation which I think is the reason web sites started considering "browser" a programmable platform, thus taking away user control and each site bloating their pages each individually, leaving no choice for the user but maybe some 3rd party monkeyscripts or forced CSS rules.

If the end user could always choose the presentation, the user would be greatly empowered in comparison to the current state of affairs where web users are currently being tamed down to be mere receivers or consumers of information, much not unlike passive TV viewers.
Basically since they want to redo P-Code/M-Code/JVM/CLR/BEAM/TIMI/Language Environments/..., now they need to re-invent CORBA, DCOM, XPC, AIDL, gRPC as well.

They already reinvented application servers with WASM containers on Kubernetes.

Otherwise how one would expect to create startups whose goal is to deliver services on top of WebAssembly, something whose original goal was only being a safer ActiveX, Flash, Silverlight, Applets, PNaCL, asm.js, alongside JavaScript.
Don't use DRY but WET: Write Everything Twice. :o)

In practice: The second time you implement something, start out by copy-pasting the first implementation. Once you're done with the second version, figure out if and how to abstract the two implementations.
Here's a classic man vs. the Man from London https://www.timeout.com/london/blog/red-red-wall-watch-this-...
Well I certainly have now!

I hoped that proffering this idea here would be fruitful and prosperous, and already I am satisfied. Thanks.
Obliged to please. Here is John Oliver explaining them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrizmAo17Os
It's not that bad, the vast majority of people in an HOA like being in one.

Always remember: If it's in the news it's not the norm. Whatever you hear about a country via the news is the opposite of what that country typically is.
In 1990 Ukraine was part of the same country as Moscow. The USSR had already carried out their programs of ethnic cleansing in Ukraine in the early part of the 20th century (see also the Holodomor and the general scourge of communism).

It'd be a bit weird if they felt a need to culturally reshape Ukraine again after only a few decades of independence. I'm going to be sceptical there is a "cultural genocide" going on here beyond the usual horrors of war and occupation.
This is the true question
I think you're right - the average person absolutely works more hours than is healthy or most beneficial to the true, human experience.

I would bet many people agree with you, too! Even many people in these threads.

I think what you may be seeing (I'm speaking for myself, I suppose?) is people who've thought about it for a long while, and we have to think about it in ways we can introduce and fight for that stance with our bosses, or with our shareholders, etc, since those are the people we have to convince, not the people in the trenches doing the work.

For myself, I have to operate as both my boss - trying to make enough money to continue or elevate my desired way of life - and myself the person - trying to live life to the most joyful and fullest.
Sun hits the water

Surface water slightly warmer

...

Damn humans
> no one else has the small third row option

Rivian R1S, Kia Ev9, Mercedes EQS SUV?
It sounds like GP would benefit from satellite internet bypassing the firewall, but I don't know how hard the Chinese government works to crack down on that loophole.
Here it is not showing any shadows in Honolulu mid-May around noon: https://shademap.app/@21.30371,-157.85237,16.56781z,17168489...

Which is how it should be[1]; cool!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahaina_Noon
And uncensored websites that function through the great firewall would help organize that government fixing.
> JS remains the best choice when considering load time and transfer size.

Wasm often has a larger transfer size (although wasmgc might go a long way toward alleviating this). But it also often has a smaller load time. Web browsers can load equivalently sized wasm bundles much faster than they can load JavaScript.
Good question. It's probably too early to tell.

By signing DORA, the university leadership has stated support for a principle about how hiring and promotion decisions should be made. But it may take a few years before that principle is fully absorbed by the faculty committees who actually evaluate candidates.
Get a trailer and park the bike in the trailer.
Additionally if computation performance is a bottleneck, just write some shader code, much easier than dealing with WebAssembly toolchains.
Elastic Search is publishing a lot of interesting posts on this topic although with a bit of marketing for ex https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/semantic-reranking-w...
Reproducing is a special case of learning.
Exactly. AFAIK the idea is the same as 1990's COM or CORBA, but for WASM (e.g. being able to call between WASM "DLLs" written in different languages but without having to define a C API for each DLL), so pretty much irrelevant for statically linked WASM apps or anything that uses C APIs anyway to talk to each other.
Large File Download: A Sneak DDoS Attack
I recall you have written in favour of structured concurrency before. I'd be interested in your thoughts about how we can combine this with a GUI framework for something better than the status-quo. Most of the other frameworks out there run an event loop in the main thread and just fire-and-forget a new thread when they need to prevent the UI thread from blocking. It's a pretty dire state of affairs.

Try r/programminglanguages, usually get some decent discussions there.
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>If a manager is not technical enough to delve into an issue within their team, should they even be leading that team ?

From my experience, this type of manager is more like that of a producer, merely called manager. Their job leans more on the lead to understand the technical planning, while they themselves coordinate between leads. In addition, they are also the direct contact for (often non-technical) stakeholders, so their strengths may lay more on securing deals/clients as opposed to developing/maintaining the product.

Lots of hats being worn in such a role between "kinda tech", PR, sales, and producing, so these happen semi-often in smaller companies, and almost never in a sufficiently large company.
Despite Berlin's general lack of parity with modern technology, I've never actually had a problem with internet access across the ubahn network in the past decade. I noticed that certain carriers used to have very different availability when travelling and so switched to a better one, but I was always surprised at being able to handle mobile data whilst underground.
Yeah, and I know that it would be far easier and probably immensely more playable and practical to just craft a good prompt for an LLM, presto! Play Doom in Zork with ChatGPT. The ludicrous technical implementation is actually the point though in this case.
But... That tor exit node then sends the traffic onwards... Again via the internet, and the backbone provider can inspect it again.

Seeing a packet heading to a tor exit node and then a similarly sized packet heading onwards a fraction of a millisecond later is a pretty surefire way to spy on individual tor users.
This is why people also talk about retention.

Personally I'd think of the extra day as rent paid on not having to hire and onboard someone new.
Aren’t HOAs private entity? It was an HOA demand in this case, not a municipal one I think.
I don’t remember much about the specifics of OCB. But the xchacha/xsalsa20 approach is completely generic, so can be applied to any cipher: effectively just run a large nonce through a PRF to derive a fresh key for each message.
For me the best way to think about WebAssembly, is to use the same approach as to keep a sane NDK experience on Android, write the code in a way that is always called from the host, instead of a interweb from down and upcalls.
You can install programs at software level to emulate it as a whole. I remember using one for OSX and it working pretty well.
I see two differences: (1) the software stack on the server side and (2) I guess there is JS to be sent to the client side for HTMX support(?). Both those things make a difference.
How about writing relatively complex things not in Bash? If your shell script requires configuration, it shouldn't be a shell script.
It is very important to preserve the freedom of people with slightly more power to fuck with those with slightly less power!
No, you've achieved much more and I'd be curious to give it a spin some day when I finally find the motivation and time and work on some games. Sadly I'm swarmed with much larger stuff atm, even in my spare time :(
You do realize it's not just Antarctica?

There are lots of places in the world where the internet speed isn't great.

I'm actually experiencing slow internet right now and I' m in Germany.
> Sure, disabling firmware updates would have prevented this attack, but it would also prevent security fixes that keep the routers from being turned into a botnet.

But a switch on the route: Flip the switch the router reboots to a known safe OS, that downloads, verifies, and updates the firmware. Then it waits for you to flip the switch back before it will behave as a router again.

Unless attackers manage to steal key-signing codes, and also intercept and redirect traffic to their webserver to send a fake firmware, this seems secure to me. Only downside I'm seeing is that it would be impossible to put in a custom firmware. Maybe add a USB-key firmware option?
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The Byzantine Empire was pretty much the sole focus of my history education for years in school. Such a fascinating period, that gets overlooked so much.
Patrick Stewart influenced me to drink even more tea.
> prioritize messages over telemetry

This is a big one that makes low-bandwidth connections unusable in a lot of apps. The deluge of ad/tracking/telemetry SDKs' requests all being fired in parallel with the main business-logic requests makes them all saturate the slow pipe and usually leads to all of them timing out. By being third-party SDKs they may not even give you control of the underlying network requests nor the ability to buffer/delay/cache those requests.

One advantage of being Facebook in this case is that they're the masters of spyware and are unlikely to need to embed third-party spyware, so they can blend tracking/telemetry traffic within their business logic traffic and apply prioritization, including buffering any telemetry and sending it during less critical times.
Some explaination from where I found the it: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/blogs/hardened-ubuntu-...
Chuck Moore has been pretty clear that he didn't come up with this as a replacement for x86 or ARM CPU:s. The way he talks about it is closer to what you hear among permacomputing folks, it's a platform for relatively fast general computation in low-energy settings.

I've never implemented a gaussian blur on bitmaps with a FPGA, maybe it is simpler somehow than this example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwM0qfQqmdE
Yeah probably(or corp profile), it works in chrome...

Anyway this one works in FF with my settings

https://gist.github.com/joakin/f05fd565e8df77a805e21d2d3469d...
At something like a cent per message, both ways, SMS is annoyingly expensive for any application with a lot of back and forth traffic - hence, chatbot-over-SMS solutions are rare, and auth providers charge extra for SMS based verifications. Does this create a niche opportunity for dumbphones where in-network SMS is cheaper to provide a light-llm-over-ssm service?
I didn't think I'll ever get to see native vertical tabs in FF.
I thought this would be about installing a piece of software each month and evaluating it together. Which sounds awesome. Maybe I should go start that.
The office who persecuted bible smugglers in the ussr, produced a guy who now runs the whole shop and suddenly is the champion of the bible belt. Stanger alliances have been seen, but not much..
Very nice. I was considering installing a few PV panels and was looking for something like this to estimate the solar exposure in various time periods. Works nicely to get an initial idea.
Oh - I see. Because the .db file is centralised, you can connect to it from somewhere and do stuff to it. I think I missed that the DB is like that.

Is it like dumping a SQLite database somewhere with a view in it, and connecting over that as well? Or does DuckDB have more magic to transfer less data in the query work?
The best tool I found for myself for similar goal was Devonthink. Using it for many years since and quite happy with it.

There is no AI or any other modern fad, but fulltext search (including OCR for image files inside PDFs) works great
Cool. The point here is more about the actual (ludicrous) technical process, than about replicating the mythos and playability, but it would be amazing if an actually enjoyable Doom IF in its own right emerged from the process.

Also, I appreciate you turning me on to the existence of glulx.
I believe you four are talking about different things; the models are executed on very good "calculators" (if you want to call the GPUs that), but themselves are not very good at being used as calculators.

LLMs are sufficiently good hammers that people see everything as a nail, then talk about how bad they are at driving screws.
In the US, there's many doctrinaire refusers of anything with the "government" label so the exact same societal function and role is carefully reinvented without using that scary "g" word that leads to wobbly knees and couch fainting and so we have things like HOAs and a slew of other institutions.

There's even privately run versions of it like the Irvine Company, which built centrally planned cities by a board of unelected bureaucrats - but you see that's privately owned, so it's great! Just don't call that the "g" word otherwise the blood vessels in many Americans foreheads are likely to pop while they scream about public libraries and the post office being a communist menace.
People spend all their lives doing pointless work, accumulating wealth, then have nothing to spend it on so buy something like a car they don't need (like an SUV).

It's odd there aren't more people questioning this. Wouldn't they rather enjoy their lives while they're young and not worry about having tons of disposable income when they're old?

I guess there's something about security that drives people to the latter. Also I feel like there's an addiction and/or conditioning element to it. I think people are scared of what will happen if certain people (thick people) no longer have to work. What will they do during the day etc?