skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please pardon the non-accidental facetiousness (because you and I may have a surprisingly common set of interests),--

But: you can first extend the boundary of what is meant by "physical quantity" to the
Non-Archimedean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrametric_space#Applications

and then think about going even further

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-averaging#Non_self-averag...
Humane Seeks $1B Buyout
> Generally, I feel OpenGL is the recommended route if you don't really aim for advanced rendering techniques.

Unfortunately, Apple is holding every OpenGL app and dev hostage. It's officially deprecated by Apple. So OpenGL is not a viable cross-platform solution moving forward. Eventually, it will be completely removed from macOS, at which point it will just be an OpenGL to Metal converter that everyone uses, just like Vulkan with MoltenVK. So I feel it's better to use something like WebGPU moving forward that directly takes the stance that each OS will implement its own (perhaps multiple) backends. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the tutorials and learning material that OpenGL does. (This is from an inexperienced 3D person that's been looking into this a lot.)
https://archive.ph/HcItE
Sure. I'm not doing a PhD thesis on this topic. I just came up with one example on the fly. I don't think it's particularly unconvincing but anyways. My main point is that we can actual quantitatively convince ourselves that Israel is singled out.

Re: Golan heights that's a particularly interesting example since if Israel does not let people vote in occupied territories then it's condemned as an "Apartheid State". But if it does then it's condemned for something else. Basically Israel can not win, condamned if it does, condamned if it doesn't.
No, this is stupid. We need to drop Earth's population down to 500M or less if we want to retain a functioning ecosystem.
Discord is one other messaging platform that I've found to be very bot friendly
I don't see any evidence that people getting laid off in the tech sector are getting "McJobs". And people outside the tech sector aren't getting laid off in especially high numbers at all.

In fact, income inequality seriously decreased in the US since 2019.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010
The promise of lies is it allows the impossible. Mutually inconsistent ideas to coexist. You don’t have to track anything. You just lie again and again. That’s the beauty of it. If you start tracking everything, you may as well tell the truth and use your brain.
You can increase the size of the scrollback buffer in GNU Screen. See the `scrollback` and `defscrollback` settings.

You can also disable bell: see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23813869/how-do-i-comple...
I believe pretty much anyone who has observed a few cycles can tell as much.

Often the major trigger for a rewrite is that the knowledge has mostly left the building.

But then there's the cognitive dissonance; because the we like pretending that the system is the knowledge and thus has economic value in itself, and that people are interchangeable. None of which is true.
I disagree. I don't want to go into the docs to understand specific syntax or options of a library. Just let me write in natural language what I want and give me the result

If I can't tell based on the code what it's supposed to do, then it's a shitty library or api.
For tiling WM's I think it's rather critical that the hotkey for "move window left" resemble the hotkey for "move focus left". I haven't tried AeroSpace yet, but so far I haven't been able to pull this off with any of the tiling apps on MacOS (if I've overlooked one please let me know).

So my tip for being productive in a tiling window manager is to get a linux machine and use sway.
That's the point.

Which direction do you want to push things?

Keep the paper in a person's hand as long as possible - we may not like what happens on the other end of the spectrum.
> This is a constant battle I fight with more junior programmers

This can go both ways, as senior devs can just want to use what they know.
Before World War I, Britain observed Germany's rapid rise and perceived it as a threat to its own global dominance. This situation is a classic example of the Thucydides trap, named after the ancient Greek historian who noted that when a rising power threatens to displace an existing great power, war becomes more likely. In this case, Germany's growing industrial and military strength was seen as a direct challenge to Britain's hegemony.

Germany, on the other hand, wanted to emerge as a stronger power than Britain while avoiding direct conflict. German leaders pleaded with Britain to remain neutral and not declare war on Germany. However, from the British perspective, war with Germany was deemed necessary to suppress its increasing power and maintain Britain's position on the world stage.

British leaders may not have actively sought to start a war, but they believed that confronting Germany was crucial to protect their national interests. See my reply to sibling comment with more details.

Today there is a similar situation with China being the rising power and America seeking to suppress it.
Add a new function that modifies behavior of an existing one.

Or add a new function that provides behavior different from the existing one.

The latter is simpler. And safer. And more flexible. And faster, because you don't have a condition to check.
> Charging allows you to multitask, and modern EVs can add a hundred or more miles of range in 15 minutes.

Requires a complete mindset change to be ok with the trade off of 75% less range in 3x the time. I can get 380 miles of range in less than 5 mins and 90% of the time I don’t want to multitask during that time but if I really needed a restroom and a drink, etc…I could do it within that same <5 min timeframe. So I don’t really buy in to this as a “benefit” when I hear people touting it. It just seems to be EV apologetics.
I’m equally for and against this.

I don’t think a product like this would be needed if the interview requirements haven’t been getting out of control for the last 10 years. We’ve all read the posts about how interviews are being done these days.

If companies don’t want products like these then let’s tame the interview process.

There are probably as many companies or more that do interviews in a fair and logical way vs. the ones that don’t. However, everyone goes into them these days fearing the worst.
hey there:)
Model F came out in 81 with same bucking springs
Mid-1900s science fiction writers really seemed to like just randomly saying stuff and having people believe them. This isn't as bad as "Pournelle's Iron Law", but it's just as fact free, and I don't think it's good to believe fiction writers.

Since then, we've moved on and now instead believe cynical standup comedians or late night TV hosts are the ones who know the truth about everything.
All EDL's are RealID complaint, not all drivers licenses are. NJ issues 'not for Real ID purposes' drivers licenses still with the option to get the realid yellow star licenses DHS shows on your first link. They keep pushing back the enforcement date due to various ACLU and state lawsuits as well as COVID-19 backlog.
What type of projects are you working on?
Completely annoying. I can't imagine any legitimate reason for disabling paste, and I work in cyber security. (There are poorly thought out reasons for disabling paste such as trying to discourage bots, but those sorts of attacks can easily work around such "security" measures.)
As I learned from other comments, the game ends when all the balls are out of play. Whoever is in the lead wins, and your final score is the amount of the lead. So you can allow the balls to get past you and go out of play to end the game, but make sure you have enough of a lead first!

Hmm, next I'll see how low of a score I can have and win the game.
Call me old fashioned, but I wouldn't waste 100s, if not 1000s of bytes of program space to program them in python when literally 5-10 bytes of register programming would suffice. But, of course, this requires a bigger commitment of time to study and understand the reference manual.
Getting human rated for launching seems feasible. Getting it human rated for landing on Earth seems infeasible.
RISC-V exists, therefore this is not happening.
Not important, but I would appreciate it if someone could provide intuition as to why on Qwen2-7B-Instruct nearly flawlessly handles contexts up to 128k in length, the inaccuracies occur around context width = 40K.

If seems counterintuitive to me that if I happen to have a context of size about 40K tokens, then if I add some noise to get the context away from 40K then there are no inaccuracies.

Thanks.
opsbootcamp.com

I didn't even buy it, a friend kindly let me have it, for my training business
I believe we'll see a lot more of this in the future. The sophistication of politi-tech is going to go up a lot more, and will be taken quite seriously.
I was surprised Ryanair (who you would expect to be top of the list for cut price software given everything else about them) handles this correctly… but then remembered the name of the CEO.
> So I'd guess that's why squatters aren't targeting these properties.

The primary reason they won't target homes of the rich or well connected is because they can afford to be in areas with private security that will make any squatting attempts a complete non-starter.

Thus squatters can only harm the middle class homeowner who can't afford such protection measures.
The shorts were trying to deliberately drive GameStop into the ground so they could cash out. It was an indirect form of the private equity shred and dump move.
Typically software engineering projects in a variety of domains, but mostly distributed systems.
Google has been really lost here over the last several years. When lambda and bard were already killer at producing reasonable code and OpenAI had scarcely released anything, there was an explicit embargo against using them internally.

When Blake Lemoine was talking nonsense about lambda being conscious in June ‘22, these internal models were already killer at producing code. ChatGPT wouldn’t be released for another 5-6 months.

https://theconversation.com/is-googles-lamda-conscious-a-phi...
I’m 100% in agreement that there is a massive reproducibility crisis in science and that the publish-or-perish model is broken.

But, for completeness, paper retractions can happen for many reasons, not all of them nefarious, though it could be that most retractions are from authors trying to game the system and getting called out. For example, if the terms of using a certain data set change, you could be required to retract your paper and remove that data from the analysis.
Maybe mobileview
> There are 1st grade girls in 2021 that have asses that didn’t used to show up until 16

This is certainly... something
> RealID requires a social security card and is mostly about making it difficult for poor people to vote.

Bruh. If you don't have a social security number, you can't even work legally. Also, 99% of people born in the US[0] get them at birth.

What are you talking about?

[0] I on the other hand, didn't get one until I was about 8 years old, because my parents wanted to hide me from the draft, but that's now the draft works, and you need a social security number for all sorts of stuff now, like tax deductions.
Meta's Ad Algorithm Directs Black Users to For-Profit Colleges
> Would be good if there were modes where it randomly breaks n thrusters so you are forced to get creative

Or rates you on your time to approach vs fuel efficiency.
Presumably these are not pseudocrustaceans
check out Kepler from CNCF
https://sustainable-computing.io/design/architecture/
KSP mojo.
This made me laugh out loud, thanks.
A bit biased, but less then I expected, honestly:

https://pastebin.com/mEb4fNkH
There are plenty in this post, and I'm one of them.

It may or may not be great for job prospects, but as someone who isn't one of you fancy startup/FAANG super programmers it's great for me to be able to ask it design problems, what the 'best' way to do a certain thing is, or tell it "I need a function given x,y, and z that does this and returns this."

There are plenty of instances where it doesn't make sense to use it, but I always have a tab with ChatGPT open when coding now. Always.
Link seems to have gone dead since earlier, lol, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_APP_SDK
The future certainly looks brighter with minds like tom7 bringing their talents to bear on alignment problems in machine learning.
> Let me help you out, because I actually know what you mean ... even if you don't really know what you mean.

^_~ You do you, I suppose.

> Given that the most unassailable models in science make it practically certain the Sun won't exist as it does now within 10 billion years, your necessary conditions are unlikely.

Everything that happens is unlikely. There isn't anything in particular stopping either of those conditions being fulfilled if progress keeps up at the rate it has for all of recorded human history and the upper limit is a long way away. We'd have to move the earth at some point in the next few billion years.

It does seem most likely that we bump in to a hard limit somewhere under the same logic as the Fermi paradox - but we don't know what it is yet and until we do it is simply the case that the number of people on the earth is potentially infinite. As is wealth, as far as we know - especially since wealth doesn't have to have mass.
The Russian wannabe super app is VKontakte. Telegram is currently based in UAE.
Yeah, saving links can be cumbersome if you aren't using a tool that takes care of it for you. I hope you may find this useful :)
Curious what interesting ways have you used chatGPT ... yesterday i used it to test my pool levels (took a pic of my pool strip i had laying around and told it the brand of pool strip).
> [I hope an LLM made it polite enough]

Engage in self harm.
Knuth was right! Profiling would indicate whether your JSON serialization/deserialization is actually a problem. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't.
Finally solved the AirPods Max clamping force tightness
In California, you need social security (number only, not card), only if you are eligible for one, or has one. If you are on a non immigrant non work visa, and thus are not eligible to work/ssn, you still can get REAL ID.

Not every REAL ID holder is a citizen & thus eligible to vote. Real ID needs only proof of legal status (citizen, permanent resident, tourist, work permit, study vis etc) and address.
> Single use plastic gloves?

Probably.

Clean hands are better, IMO, than those gloves
Yup. For example at the time I was IT director of a doc com in the UK. Autonomy came to me and pitched their product, which was basically an enterprise-wide indexer thing which you could point at a file share and it would index all the documents, including looking inside MS Office files and then you could search it all. So quite far ahead of its time for what must have been like 1999 or so.

I told them their product didn't really meet any pressing need we had and was a bit expensive so thanks but no thanks. They came back with the proposal that instead of buying the software I could buy (from them) a really expensive NAS and they would throw the indexer in for free and the advantage for me would be that because it was hardware the expenditure could be written off against tax over time as depreciation.

It sounded sketchy so I didn't bite, but in essence they pitched me on the exact fraudulent thing that he was acquitted of.
I often come here for the comments as I often learn more from the comments than the actual article. I don't think it is necessarily a bad thing.
> Most bacteria are not water soluble yet we manage to wash them off our hands.

We use soap.

Well, I do
Note: this is not Instagram Threads
Buy eBay gift cards at a grocery store on an Amex with a grocery multiplier. Get more points and still use Amex.
Ask HN: What annoys you the most while coding on a new React Native app?
Hahah! I was confused too. Maybe now Meta can acquire the threads.com domain
I genuinely didn't even know about it being sold to a proprietary company until this whole fiasco.
But what is it exactly?
11 days to get your data out and into a new tool. Must’ve been a fire sale where Shopify wants no part of running or supporting the product.
Even after clicking around a bit, I still can’t tell what this “threads” is. Can anyone offer a summary?
Challenge 1: Win the game with the lowest lead you can get. Or tie.

Challenge 2: Win the game with the least number of points; total points, before the bot's points are subtracted.

My first attempt at this (which was my second game) I won with 442 - 405 = 37.

EDIT: Second attempt, this time on mobile: 43 - 35 = 8
Thanks for the link! (I'm afraid there's nothing for me to reciprocate with ATM)

You don't have to defend my eccentricity, but I always pay attention to BS theses, even drafts (RIP Grothendieck) because, they almost always* teach me something deep, and more importantly, efficiently. YMMV, but I'd be curious about your counter-defence if so.

*sometimes I do disagree with their headlines.
> It all started with the rise of Instagram Threads, which presented us with the opportunity to sell our domains.

Sounds like yes lol
One way or another, most likely ideological, things will change. Probably in the ‘over correct once it’s too late, in some terribly traumatic fashion’ as is the norm.

Eventually, likely in the direction of gun control - birth control being licensed or the like. Or being religious being a requirement again to be a ‘respected member of society’.

Unlikely to be popular of course, but eventually society will change to protect its interests - or die.
Threads must have had very little meaningful usage from customers to be able to shut down and delete all data within 2 weeks of the announcement with hardly a mention of how this might impact their userbase
"A Slack replacement, not a social app from Instagram" according to the login page (https://threads.com/login)
It was billed as a slower paced Slack alternative. More forum and less IRC iirc.
It's either horrid or a broken machine translation to English.
The login page is enlightening:

> A Slack replacement, not a social app from Instagram
People like watering down good versus bad as if it were binary. They don’t care to think a good person can sometimes be bad, or that many crimes are crimes of opportunity, because then they’d have to question their own goodness
This is the real world, not Path of Exile where pseudo-random numbers rule the day. Trading is about interacting, and yes a stock can (and often should) move based on reputation, and someone talking about it can affect that reputation.

Insider trading is the line. You can't trade based on your knowledge from within the company.

As others point out, hedge funds can mess with it just by applying enough "capital" to make a stock do what they want. They're in the market to, and this time they got played.
ThankYouHN: 14 Years
I don't remember exactly when I got hooked on HN—probably around mid-2009 or 2010. For the past 14 years, it's been the only serious social media I use and love.

HN has changed my perspective on engineering and the world, my life metrics, and ultimately given me wisdom. Anonymous arguments flourish beautifully here. No one cares who you are—only your argument matters.

It's helped me a lot with running my consulting business. I don’t have to repeat other people's mistakes or, even better, I can just copy proven systems and best practices. I've learned so many lessons and found incredibly useful links here.

The text-based format with upvotes and downvotes works beautifully. No fancy web frameworks—just pure HTML and CSS for my browser.

HN is the only tab in my Chrome that uses the least RAM but provides the most benefit to my daily info intake. Text mode keeps me focus to read & write content. No emojis, no stickers, no visual distraction !

I hope HN stays like this forever.
I live in an 8 million people country. There are like 2 shops which handle official Samsung repairs.

HOWEVER, any small shop here is brick and mortar, and can handle repairs if you are out of new device replacement warranty from your seller. Granted, parts might be oem. And their fulfilment times are capricious.

Apple, on the other hand, has several shops (not over 20), but iphones can't be serviced anywhere else. And For a 2 year old model, it is usually better to pay your other arm or leg than to repair your old iphone.

Does Samsung want to lower the bar to Apple level?
I don't see any example in the article, in which some bad action by the Ugandan government could only have been done due to the existence of the national ID card.

The core problem is digitization. Once you have people's activity in digital form, it only takes a couple of dozen bits to super uniquely identify every person in the country. ID cards just formalize that.
Well, Meta paid 10m for fb.com (and had to promise not to ever get into farming), so I guess threads.com is probably worth the same ballpark to them.

Edit, I'm remembering wrong, it was 8.5m.
If some of that involves you trying to fix healthcare, I salute you!
They also did an homage to that in Westworld Season 3!

https://www.postapocalypticmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022...

Via:
https://www.postapocalypticmedia.com/westworld-season-4-film...
"Threads is a Slack replacement designed for makers," from https://www.linkedin.com/company/threadsgroupinc/
WOW,

Over under on this being the start of the AI bubble pop?

Having survived the dot com bubble back in 2000 I gotta say that at least we got to "liberate" aeron chairs and servers as an exit package.
Came to say the same. Might be the task "describe the picture" that puts it into that mode; however I still hope that no human being would really write such tosh.
Apparently a slack competitor.

I found this: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/15/threads-a-slack-alternativ...
There is a video here that might help. It was a workplace communications tool.

https://youtu.be/_gKXA4kMLJY?si=yEFNlD385T1Xw5FG
> Western Poland and bits of other nations, sure

You say that as if it is meaningless. How about just not invading your neighbors?
Very cool, nice design, much of the satisfaction comes from the sounds ++
Oh, come on: you went because you were called.

Big tech don't like to admit the regulatory powers they exist at the grace of.

Tech bros, got to learn you some respec. Hahaha! :)