skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much of the article is rehashing common takes on social media and the attention economy, but this is the money quote imo:

“Eventually, the addiction to useless info leads to what I call “intellectual obesity.” Just as gorging on junk food bloats your body, so gorging on junk info bloats your mind, filling it with a cacophony of half-remembered gibberish that sidetracks your attention and confuses your senses. Unable to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant, you become concerned by trivialities and outraged by falsehoods. These concerns and outrages push you to consume even more, and all the time that you're consuming, you're prevented from doing anything else: learning, focusing, even thinking”

I think a lot of people (myself included) have fallen for this pernicious trap at some point.
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I just use 0xF055 as VID. What is the USB-IF gonna do?
I don't think open source means what you think it does.

https://github.com/timeseries/qstudio/tree/master
All you need to do is sit down for a while with people who aren't in our tech bubble and watch them use their stuff. I used to do on-site tech support for people, and I have seen tons and tons of people constantly click dialog boxes without reading them or knowing what they are clicking on. They just want to dismiss them because they are annoying.

I had a person who was having a printer problem close a dialog box telling exactly what was wrong with the printer. It came up every single time they tried to print. This is not abnormal behavior.

People regularly just click on the default boxes, and you know it's true otherwise there wouldn't be so many dark patterns on the internet. Dark patterns work because people don't read what's on their screen.
it's really not - utility classes avoid specificity conflicts and enforces a consistent design system as defined in the Tailwind config.
If you are watching from the browser I can recommend Clickbait Remover for Youtube. It replaces the title image with a frame from the video itself. It also changes the case of titles for them not to scream at you.

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I think there are still dev environments where ligatures in terminals are not so critical. Especially those of devs who do not use in-terminal editors for most of their editing.
I mean, this is true of any low-level language like C++ or C. Manual memory management. I think it does drive a lot of people nuts who have only ever worked with GC languages. I think your reaction to Rust depends on where you approach it from:

Abstract languages: "Ahhh! String, &str, Cow<str>!?"

Low-level languages: "How come this isn't compiling? Oh, wow, I wouldn't have caught that. Cool!"

I think at this time, there are a lot of people who are getting into Rust from the "top of the stack", so it is their first foray into manual memory management.

Many critiques I have seen of Rust is that it is "too complex" for "no good reason." I think those seem superficially valid, especially if you compare Rust with C. "Just don't use after free bro, skill issue" is easy to say if you've only ever worked on a small, short-lived C codebase with one developer on it. Once you start working on a very large codebase with many contributors, people coming and going, "skill issue" is absolutely nonsensical. The borrow checker is about memory safety; but looking at it more broadly, at the sort of ecosystem-level view, it is about constraining individual programmers. Limiting what an individual programmer can do with the memory, and guiding them towards using memory safely/well, with good compiler warnings.
Reminds me of a mantra I picked up from somewhere on the internet:

1. Make it work

2. Make it right

3. Make it fast
> with a strategy of antifungal therapy and a low-carbohydrate diet.

I wonder if she ultimately switched to a meat only diet or at least tried it.
It does have ports though, so for people who want ladybird there is a route to running it.
> It's missing the dev tools required to manage a production database for a bigger team.

What's stopping Cloudflare from implementing this themselves?
This seems to be the point most people are ignoring. I'm on the Spotify family plan, with 4 people using it almost all day. The amount of songs we've discovered, played, etc is absurdly high. We churn through music constantly, so even if I pirated everything, it would be ridiculously time consuming and not worth the effort to curate things the way I have with Spotify. A good batch of the music I listen to isn't even available to pirate; back in the day I had to use youtube-dl to find and download those and sometimes the quality was terrible.

All that being said, I'm not buying the "innovation" bullshit excuse they're throwing at us and I think such a large price hike for the family plan is too high, but it's still at a price point for me that doesn't justify moving to something else. There is a limit though, and at some point I will just move back to the high seas (like I did with movies).
When to use distributed Postgres for gen AI apps?
Wouldn't doing that eliminate the entire purpose of exams? The point of them is to test your knowledge, not that of an AI.
This is america though. Rather than a sensible commuting vehicle, the best selling vehicle is the f150. There is a subset of truck owners that will put a nut sack on the hitch and blow a cloud of black diesel exhaust at a car like a prius at a light.
Worry about it when it happens.

It seems like finding this version took at least half a miracle, so I feel like the potential and probably not too effortful reorganization of the repo to accommodate another is a problem worth leaving to be solved only once it's known to be worth taking the trouble.

For that matter, given manual reconciliation of two versions of very old, not previously version-controlled code would almost certainly be required anyway, the additional friction imposed by this repo structure very likely is net neutral in any case.
Need an AI to summarize the article for me. Too long. Please stop posting such large articles to my HN page. Thanks.
El Salvador to Offer 5k Free Passports to Highly Skilled Immigrants
You would think Europeans would have learned from the likes of the SS and Stasi where this stuff leads. It gives too much power to government and especially the police. It wasn’t that long ago since the SS and their ilk were putting people in ovens and nerve gas showers because they had unlimited power and you had to have your papers in order or off to prison. Why is it that Americans remember it better than the ones who suffered it (or their ancestors)
What if they gave a digital revolution and nobody came?

Interesting mental exercise to put ourselves 50 years into the future and examine who, why and to what effect adopted what kind of digital technology...
On the one hand this is interesting to me because it's closely aligned with my own ideas about what will be the general form of the first AGI systems.

On the other hand, just like with my own ideas, there's very little concrete evidence that they're correct. It looks like the author has been very careful about wording and avoids saying directly "there exists an implementation of these ideas that seems to be working well enough to expect it to scale".
I verbally pronounced epitome "ep-a-tome" for a long time because I had read it a billion times, understood usage and context, but never put together "e-pit-a-me" is spelled epitome.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary for macOS
> Sure, a lot of people see LLMs as "useless toys" or "overhyped" now, but people said that about the Internet too.

Sure, you can always find naysayers about any tech, but we've also seen plenty of useless toys, so that internet fact doesn't help your argument that AI will come to the edge in any way (and no, email was not a fad even at dial-up speeds, so you don't even have the internet fact)
Why is the self hosted version framed as a "hobby"?

Is this another one of those enshittification of open source where open source is used more as a marketing gimmick instead of following it's true ethos?
Mobile-indexing-vLast-final-final.doc
And here is the alternative perspective https://michaelweissman.substack.com/p/an-inconvenient-proba...
I wonder if the actual wisdom gets buried under the multitude of biased and unintelligent responses though.
Do I understand correctly that that's the inflation figure for 1 year?

I don't remember Spotify increasing their prices in many years, as a Dutch-ish customer that is, but maybe in the USA they did?
This tracks - it's difficult to speak at the same pace in Chinese as I can English. That said - are those 39.15 bits plaintext? Compressed? Encrypted?

The size of a word does not correlate with it's concept - I still posit that some languages can transfer concepts faster than others, minus our baud rate.

Edit: Or, perhaps I am not as gifted an English speaker as my bias has presumed :| For example, I had to lookup "syntagmatic".
They are extremely annoying in my estimation. That’s why I have 2 extensions running that automatically click opt out 95% of the time. I remember what it was like before that.
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Memories... Installing coolers on these chips always terrified me. There was also a weird aftermarket for "shims" that you'd put between the chip and cooler. They had a cutout for the die and contacts on the surface, but I was never sure what they were supposed to do.
Bubble tea, which is not even a sophisticated resource like coffee, is also over 5 bucks where I live,

FWIW is not even a particularly expensive place in the US.
His name was still Thomson after being knighted (in 1866), his ennoblement as Baron Kelvin in 1892 was a different award.
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Fairly accurate, you can only get support if you're using their cloud product.

"We no longer support paid, open-source deployments and it is no longer possible to buy licenses for self-hosted versions - we instead recommend migrating to PostHog Cloud." - from: https://posthog.com/docs/self-host
Bowler Studio was sort of revelatory for me, because it gave me the ability to model a functional part and immediately test it. The physics engine obviously isn't going to be the most accurate of all time, but for a lot stuff that hobbyists do it can be useful, and being able to play with servos and motors really does open a lot of possibilities to avoid wasting time and prints.

I've actually played with ShapeScript but I admit that I didn't do anything terribly crazy with it.
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So, thank you,. I now have a needed dose of perspective.
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Good OOP practise does involve writing things down. Just look at design patterns books or c2 wiki.

My contention is not that writing things down or naming abstractions is bad. On the contrary i think that is a good thing.

I don't even think monads are a bad abstraction. Monads are a fine abstraction. Its the baggage people carry with it that is the problem.

My main contention is that people are cargo culting the way monads are explained in category theory and applying that to computer programming. This sort of works, but generally not that well because its copied from a field with very different goals.

Math wants to prove things in the most general way possible. This lets them explain & discover the deepest possible patterns. They trade complexity to achieve this goal.

Computer programming aims to solve problems efficiently in a way that is efficient and easy to modify. Complexity is the enemy of this goal.

Even in math, you might prove that some object is a monad or whatever, but you will still generally work from its normal definition and not from the definition of a monad.
Going after macOS for throwing up too many notifications? Talk about living in the most brittle of glass houses. Also, I'm no advertising expert, but when one already has a solid market majority, the wisdom of running an ad campaign that can't stop talking about one's competitor...
We've integrated posthog (cloud hosted) and have been using it for a few months now. It's got a rough edge or two but it's tight, integrated nicely with the codebase, and an order of magnitude cheaper than amplitude. I'd like a nicer sentry integration
This is more "it" than anything

Just like how Jazz Fusion had its day of reckoning in Kenny G, Pop Rock had Nickelback

I still remember Pat Metheny calling Kenny G wacked out and fucked up, and everything he says applies just as much to Nickelback
But we are classical, so I think it's wrong (or at least confusing) to talk about the many photons as repetition codes. Then we might as well start to call all classical phenomena repetition codes. Also how would you define SNR when doing this?

Repetition codes have a very clearly defined meaning in communication theory, using them to mean something else is very confusing.
The Haskell Foundation has a podcast episode by Jezen Thomas (CTO @ Supercede) that I found very interesting:

https://haskell.foundation/podcast/42/
What I do is back up a list of songs. I don't want another Grooveshark event, which went down from one day to the next with all my music gone. (I didn't see it coming because, from my point of view, it was like YouTube: artists can sign up to get paid, or to take down their music piecemeal as people reupload it.) Too bad if Spotify disappears and I need to spend a weekend re-adding everything to another service, but that's the legal and easy and low-storage way to back this up

I don't remember what the tool was called but it was just a static webpage that talked to the Spotify api, dead simple to use if you know how to register a developer token. Looking for it now, ironically I only find things that will download the songs for you... that need ffmpeg etc... Here's the first github link I found in case that's what you're looking for https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader but it's not the one I meant/used. I'd have to check on my desktop later if you're interested
i was very sad to see posthog enabled by default with a hardcoded key in open-interpreter, with a tiny disclaimer that telemetry had been added just with a new feature flag quietly introduced to disable it. Sad to see this sort of thing getting shipped by default, surprised to see my local llm calls leaving my PC. I don't know why developers consider logging a challenge for some reason and default to using MSP for everything including internal logs. Seems unwise in this age of valuable data to just give it away for free when you can just write to a data layer you own...
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Yeah, it's certainly possible that it's not double-pumping. Should be roughly possible to test via comparing latency upon inserting a vandpd between two vpermd's (though then there are questions about bypass networks; and of course if we can't measure which method is used it doesn't matter for us anyway); don't have a Zen 4 to test on though.

But of note is that, at least in uops.info's data[0], there's one perf counter increment per instruction, and all four pipes get non-zero equally-distributed totals, which seems to me much simpler to achieve with double-pumping (though not impossible with splitting across ports; something like incrementing a random one. I'd expect biased results though).

Then again, Agner says "512-bit vector instructions are executed with a single μop using two 256-bit pipes simultaneously".

[0]: https://uops.info/html-tp/ZEN4/VPADDB_ZMM_ZMM_ZMM-Measuremen...
Many of the immigrant devs attended American Education like Stanford, Georgia tech, MIT, CMU, one of the UC’s, etc.
Is this "US timezones" or "US only"?
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Why are they obligated to provide support for a free open source project?
The state of the art in copter drones and flight control systems
Yeah I've only dabbled with it myself. Again it was part of this process of me orienting myself towards "thinking in 3D" and I'm really grateful to much more 3D-literate developers than me that we have so many choices.

CascadeStudio is another one:

https://github.com/zalo/CascadeStudio

This is a browser-based JS CAD thing built around an Emscripten cross-compilation of OpenCascade -- the fact that it works at all was revelatory to me about the capability of Emscripten, which had passed me by a little.

So this is JS code-CAD in a bRep world.
> China wasn't really one united nation either, for most of its time.

China had some small periods were it was splintered, Europe had some small periods were it was unified after Rome. It is very different. China is more like Rome never fell, it might have lost half some time etc, some rebellion splintering it, but always pulling itself together after a century or two.
People talk about Linux as if it's a monolithic OS and one team in some OS team sport. It's not. It's a kernel.

We've got lots of OSes built on top of that kernel: ChromeOS, Android, and all the distros that are largely different flavors of a GNU/GPL'ed user space, including Fedora, SteamOS etc.

This is fine. If you want a new OS with a "holistic" user space, well Linux is probably the easiest kernel to build it on, but you can't count on it being as free as the GNU user space, because it's still going to be expensive as hell to build, and whoever does it is going to want to recoup their investment many times over.

I think the chance that the GNU user space ever morphs into a "holistic" consumer operating system is basically zero due to how it's licensed, and the key is to understand that this is both fine and necessary.

If you want some other kind of more consumer friendly user space... I guess that starts with convincing some VCs they can make money off of it. They are not going to fund it out of the kindness of their hearts.

Personally I lost interest in consumer operating systems that are designed to limit freedom for the sake of profit, and became an exclusive Debian/Ubuntu/Mint user long ago. If you can be a programmer you can run these operating systems. The tradeoff is you lose the "holistic" and you gain freedom. The two are fundamentally incompatible I'd say so you have to make your choice.