skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've been finding AI's suggestions -- even when rather wrong -- help me do that initial step faster.

I have no idea how I could even integrate AI into my workflow so that it's useful. It's even less reliable than search is for basic research and can't even cite its sources....

This argument held a lot more weight when it was a search engine playing the role of our memory.
I remember using it at a startup around 2017-18. At the time, I thought it was just another tool they were experimenting with. But after moving on to another job, I found myself missing it.
And I'd be willing to wager an even smaller amount of "users" are actually real people.
I so agree! That guideline is one of my favorites too. It's a practical way of eliminating the most unnecessary tranches of kerfuffle.

I like it so much that I even wrote a mini essay about it a little while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40602266.
What I'd like is a future where software is "stupidly fast":

1. RIIR -- for native code execution performance, and correctness

2. async rust preferably -- green threads for efficient cpu usage

3. the constraint efficiency of game developers: 16 ms window to do all your processing

4. data structures sized to fit cache lines

5. vulkan/metal rendering pipeline

oh my

(edit: formatting)
Clark Terry's 3 Steps to Learning Improvisation
Good one. It's similar to "Imitate", "Learn", "Teach"
If you can't keep track of your lies just start to gaslight e.g. "I have never said that", "probably didnt mean it", etc...
> We can blame the okupas, calling them lazy if that suits you. But (...)

I think you are completely missing one of the main origins of okupas in Spain: organized crime involved in extortion schemes.

I personally witnessed a case where individuals took over a store lot previously occupied by a restaurant. As the story goes, the restaurant operator tried to negotiate lowering rent to no success, followed by spending many months not paying rent until they were evicted. As yet another retaliation tactic, the restaurant operator managed to find a kind of service where he arranged for a lawyer team supporting a group of indigents to take over the store space, report it as their home address, and declare squatter's rights. The indigents were day in day out involved in disturbs, all sorts of vandalism, assaulting passer-bys and patrons in neighboring stores, etc. Nasty bunch, they were even caught on film shitting in a sandbox of a kids playground nearby for absolutely no reason. The police came in every single time, but every single time their lawyers were a moment's away. It took a couple of years of due process and multiple court cases exhausting with the lawyer team exploiting all possible legal recourses until the okupas were kicked out. The landlord had to hire a round-the-clock security because the exact same indigents, once kicked out, repeatedly tried to invade the same space.
Milk-V Meles RISC-V Single Board Computer with 8GB RAM, 128GB EMMC
Tesla is the worst. Their cars keep eliminating controls and putting everything on a VERY crowded touchscreen.

Looks clean when you first look in the showroom!

But drive it any length of time and it'll make you a worse driver, anxiously fiddling on a screen instead of driving.

Honestly, can't they just add a "dashboard + stalks + buttons" option for $2k?
> It would be interesting to see what happens if a company like Apple took a hardline approach to application latencies the way they did with iOS system framerates...

Any more info on this? Android vs iPhone, and Android TV vs Apple TV suggests Apple is doing something very right on these small devices.
Why Is NYU Forcing Protesters to Write Apology Letters?
Not really, it's more like CPU registers. Very limited and stuff has to be in their to be computed on (consciously) (lots of unconscious computation as well of course; a lot of efficiency to be found in moving computation from conscious to unconscious).
I specificly decided to comment on the title rather than the article.
Columbia Law Review: Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept [pdf]
Sure. Just saying that, for example, if you spawn threads and use the thread ID as the seed but pull a single value per thread, that's not sufficient.
The "full-stack framework" fallacy
Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS
Google “objective tinnitus”
Which is basically Gwynne Shotwell, if I read her bio correctly.
Thanks! Will give it a try.
Majority of Telegram users don't really care about E2EE, IMO. I've been using the platform since 2016 and have been very happy thus far. What we care about are the ease of use, richness of the platform and rapid release of new features. Things you don't see on E2EE-focused services.
https://rectangleapp.com is the spiritual successor.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240607011424/https://www.theat...
Not even conversations in our own minds, as the thought that was shaped in part of the brain needs time to be transferred to consciousness.
Not to be confused with Threads software that was in conflict with Meta when it started the Instagram-related Threads platform 7 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38072495
It was an ancestor of things with military value, but it had little to none itself. You need a guidance system for a useful cruise missile, and the V1 had essentially none. No points for "military utility" as a "research program" when you're actively launching them at civilians; whatever it is, that's not a research usage anymore.
The "Best" Library: A C++ STL Replacement
Are there any examples of a nation that controls a/the reserve currency having difficulty issuing debt?
Wow! Thanks for sharing.

For the optic nerves in humans, a similar questiom comes -- Why does it connect to the rear side of the brain when the front is much closer! This perhaps relates animals having their eyes on the sides of the head and a relatively small brain positioned in a way that the eyes were closer to the rear side of the brain.
In a way - I use laptops that move around and go on/off, as well as VPNs which do the same, network-wise.
I'm still worried about the sanity of people writing web apps. /s
We know exactly what the system is capable of doing. It’s capable of outputting tokens which can then be converted into text.
So how long till AI will be fully replacing a SWE at Google? That is where the drive for productivity at organizations like Google are leading towards.
Cool! Thanks! I'm glad my post invited even more for me to learn -- not quite Cunninghamming it in full.
I worked at Autonomy in the 90's, back when there were a handful of engineers crammed in one room in St John's Innovation Center. It was a lot of fun and a very interesting learning experience. But I quit, because they wanted me to lie to customers all the time and I wasn't comfortable with that. A typical day in the life: fly to a dotcom with more money than sense, install software. Discover sales guy advertised it to have functionality it absolutely doesn't have. Claim I must have done something wrong and I needed to check with "more senior" engineers. Go back to hotel and overnight hack together some approximation of what had been sold.

I can't say whether particular allegations of accounting fraud are true, and startups are not exactly famous for truth in advertising, but that was the culture from the very earliest days.
Immediately as I started reading this, my mind said, "random() has global shared state so of course more threads will make it slower". I say this here not to attempt to demonstrate my oh so special advanced knowledge, but just to marvel how bad our abstractions are sometimes. Maybe "bad" is the wrong word. Leaky, inadequate, inscrutable.

"Give me a random number" feels like it shouldn't require all this overhead and hidden complexity under the hood. But unless you've read a lot about implementation details, or have been bitten by that exact problem before, how would you know? You wouldn't, of course.
> The issue of course being that when there is a population crunch, there is no ‘rest of societies labor’ free, like there would be with a normal population age curve.

Yeah. For that reason, old age pensions should be tied to how many kids you've had, not how much money you paid into the system during your working years. If you have no kids, you get no pension. If you want to support in old age, you need to contribute to the next generation's labor pool to provide that support. Otherwise, you need to work to support yourself.
They are one and the same.
Maybe constant population growth should not be our blind goal. It leads to cultures with higher birth rates taking over.
The Ethos Integrity Series ...

If I told you that was a thing, in the real world and asked you to guess where it came from what would you say?

I feel like this got ripped right out of some kind of document leaked from scientology!

" A Committee of Evidence is considered the most severe form of ethics action."
— L. Ron Hubbard, HCO PL 29 Apr 65 III

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_ethics_and_justice

I need to start handing out copies of 1984.
oh noooooooeeeeeeeeesssssss

don't do that
TBF Telegram doesn't exactly have a direct connection to Toncoin. It's primarily a community project which they heavily promote, since the SEC got on their case about Gram's direct integration.

Yeah, I get the reply was meant to be punny.
Basically a built-in fail2ban. Nice.
It would be easier to follow if you don’t delete your comments. As it is, the thread does not make much sense.
I didn't know that. Thank you.
I'll probably stick with ADD for most things though, because it seems like it's easier to say (barring my own qualifier for clarity) and people generally understand the distinction already. But this will be helpful in more technical circumstances, I imagine.
I am anti-political, big difference. And yes, sarcasm exists
I totally agree.

Reviewing the solution is limited. What you don’t get are the myriads of other ways that didn’t work out.

Elegant solutions are the result of weeding out dozens of other messy ways.

So what gets perpetuated here then is the Dunnimg Kruger effect.

While it might be speed things up in many normal circumstances, it devalues hard work in the long run. Not good.
Only their new McDonell Douglas planes. The old Boeing planes are still fine.

Question is, if the space division is the former or the latter.
Interesting; I have had the opposite experience.
Many websites will directly enroll my Yubikey and will even let me use it instead of a password, and logging in is as simple as touching the button at the prompt. It’s honestly much simpler then using a password for me, and MUCH more convenient then pulling out my phone for 2fa codes (especially for the university site’s painfully short session times)
Yes: the United States. That’s in part why it raises the rates: so that debt has higher yields and there are more buyers for it. Next year we will spend ~1.7T on interest alone, money for which we’re going to borrow as well, likely at an ever higher rate of return
Faked by fakers or created by creators.. hahaha
I don't know what can we learn from analyzing a poorly written program aside from what not to do.

If the program was properly written there wouldn't be any issues with multithreading.

The title of the article gives the false impression that multithreading is slowing programs in the general case. In fact poorly written programs are slow and that is true for both multithreaded and singlethreaded programs.

If your program runs slow but you don't need it to run fast, don't bother.

If your program runs slow and you need it to run fast, go see what optimizations can be done.
Ah yes, in UK/USA they like to think that they have their privacy protected and fighting the overreaching government by not having a national ID cards and then go ahead and build giant surveillance agencies that spy on them all the time.

It's very weird IMHO. It just creates a lot of headache for the illusion of it, yet I like the attitude. The attitude is important because it defines the expectations from the government.

Another country where I have living experience is Turkey and Turkey has kick-ass ID system and consolidated online government services. Although its very convenient, it makes you feel like living in a boarding school. You can't do anything without providing your national ID number.
Kid you not, they are implementing centralised package tracking system, the companies doing deliveries are required to report every package so the government knows who send stuff to whom at any given time. It's crazy, you feel watched all the time but its alright because the society is already collectivistic and the Turkish attitude expect that kind of control.

Bulgaria on the other hand, another country where I have living experience, does have ID system and used to employ national identity number since the communists days feels as free or even more free than UK. In Bulgaria, the government actually doesn't know where you are or what are you up to. When you have some governmental stuff to do you show up with your national ID card.
There’s a much simpler theory of the war, which is that it was Germany that was worried about a foreign rival catching up to them—Russia—which is why Germany pushed for the war to start. It’s interesting to see this theory projected onto the British, but there’s a fatal flaw with this projection. The first declaration of war was by Austria-Hungary against Serbia. Britain was not in a position to manipulate the situation as to encourage that; Germany was. And Germany would have known that an Austro-Hungarian war on Serbia would draw in Russia, which is how they get the Russo-German war they actually wanted.

How, exactly, mechanistically, does Britain manipulate this crisis into an Anglo-German war? They didn’t make Austria-Hungary declare war. They didn’t even declare war alongside the French. And they certainly didn’t make Germany invade France by way of Belgium in order to give Britain a pretext. It sounds to me like Germany wanted war with Russia and was confident they could also afford war with France (having kicked their asses in 1870 already) but would have really preferred to keep Britain out of it.

If there is a criticism one can levy against the British, it might be that they simply weren’t forceful enough in making that consequence clear to the Germans ahead of time. The “alliances that would likely trigger a larger conflict” were in fact a consciously designed system of balances of power meant to deter exactly that type of large scale war, in the tradition that was established 99 years previously in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars. It’s easy to dismiss that system because it failed catastrophically in 1914, but the fact that it had mostly worked since 1815 was unprecedented in European history. The 99 years between the Napoleonic and First World Wars were the most peaceful 99 years of European history since at least the Roman Empire; check back in 2044 to see if we can break that record.
Telegram doesn't have a crypto, and likely never will. The SEC made sure of that. What they do is heavily promote and support the Toncoin community.
As I understand his claims, “less code that ran faster” was after switching from existing web frameworks to web.py, a from-scratch web framework he wrote himself to ‘do the right thing, simply’ (as all the best frameworks do).

The decision to write web.py instead of web.lisp was not elaborated on, however.

As mentioned above, the closest point I see to him discussing that decision is saying that ‘Python uses objects to make frameworks somewhat like the syntactic constructs Lisp allows you to make’, ie ‘you can do the same things as Lisp less easily in Python, so that’s not an advantage of Lisp’. Which is both incoherent as a refutation of the referenced reason to keep Lisp, and not a reason for the change to Python.
For similar reasons why Microsoft created DirectX. It allows them to have a system where the software and hardware are more tightly integrated than using a cross-platform spec. It also allows them to situate the API within the context of the operating system and other languages that are used on Apple platforms, making things easier on developers. And at least in that regard, they certainly succeeded. Metal is probably the easiest GPU API offered on any platform. Not necessarily the most powerful, but it’s almost trivial to hand write a compute kernel and spin it off.
Quieting the Global Growl
There's a timely sub-thread about `tmux` going on here that might answer some of your questions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40598629
More realistic and detailed information is available here: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/02/a-new-era-for-the...

China may be behind the US, Taiwan, and Europe in semiconductor manufacturing, but they are developing workarounds and developing their own EUV machines and EDA tools.
Depends on what's being authored. Many times more experienced engineers review PRs from junior engineers and do have a higher level of knowledge.
But every user needs to have a pushover license, correct? At least that's how it's always seemed to me.

With telegram my partner doesn't need a license. They already use telegram
> eBay still accepts ... PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay

Which means they still accept Amex, but through places that one would imagine add their own processing costs on top of the fees they've negotiated with Amex.

It'd be really curious to see the costs involved here.
A big difference is that we do very little on our computers now that is actually local to the machine. A significant percentage of the “stupid slow” actions involve waiting for a server that is usually optimized for throughput not latency if it is optimized at all. A surprising number of server workloads also have high latency disk access even though almost all laptops are running SSDs. I think we could vastly improve the performance of local software if we used the network primarily for syncing data, but operated on it locally.
Judging from the ingredients, the Big King is more comparable.
>The Problem with Lying is Keeping Track of All the Lies

Lie consistently. Lie in the same way. Keep using the same lies. Make an alternative story in your mind and connect all lies together so they are consistent and make sense. And practice a lot. Hard work beats talent.
Intel's Gaudi 3 will cost half the price of Nvidia H100
Your information is out of date. EU recently reaffirmed the Irish ruling, so we can expect this to spread:

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/lik...
Dblab: Interactive Terminal Client for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3 and Oracle
I administer my game's server with it. Also realtime event monitoring
So how can that work for air seals? Have a big robust air storage that can replenish losses from your half-broken door? How many other systems like that do we need? And all that extra weight somehow doesn't get you stranded in space when your badly maintained, low efficiency engine can't move it and your payload with the fuel that fits in the tanks? I get the principle, it just seems literally impossible to achieve (without, maybe, a radical step forward from chemical propulsion).
But.. why? Why would I want to force pixel graphics into a text-based, low-resolution matrix, when.. I could just do pixel graphics?
No, that’s when WW2 became a pan-European war. It became a world war when Japan attacked the British and Americans, thus combining the Anglo-German and Sino-Japanese wars into a single conflict.
Wouldn't you lose consumer protection entirely going that route? You'd get more protection buying directly with Visa or Mastercard.
What’s with the use of “we” everywhere?
Would they? Apple Pay and Google pay are just proxies for the actual cards, so if a play does not accept a type of card, that will also be true for the virtual card presented by Apple Pay.

I agree about PayPal, but they charge their own fees and abstract the source of the money away completely. Presumably they have a better deal with Amex
Anyone knows why the hell the most used terms do have no sixel support? The libvte based ones.

And I'd really like to see exiftag support, like the ImageDescription, in the long form.

And I would be a bit concerned about security, but it's certainly not as dangerous as unicode
Musk: "We dug our own grave with cybertruck" [0]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/10/elon-musk-talks-tesla-w...
I don't think it's machine translation. The preceding sentence is this:

> The best illustration of “spillover” is the incredible increase in the size of the ass and thighs in girls. This is not due to squatting or implants, because you see it at very young ages.
No, because the fuel is not a working fluid pushing a piston. All the "leverage" is at the turbopump impeller blade.
Reappraising the exteriorization of the mammalian testes through physiology
The government is paying Boeing, no?
How do they know that?
I wonder what fraction of "accepted AI-generated code" is used in the LLM building and training codebase ...

Kind of reminds me of the mad cow disease problem.
Not only that - spacex uses the highest chamber pressures, enormously high compared to almost any other engine.
Congrats on selling your first side project!

I do not look at side projects that are set up to make money as side projects. Those are businesses you create with the goal of making money. And when you also have a full-time job creating a business on the side is hard enough, so no fun projects.

Basically, I look at it this way:

A) Fulltime job + building a business on the side

B) Fulltime job + fun projects

I don't mix those. Sure, sometimes you set up a new project to try out new technology. But that is for learning, and you do not have to finish the product.
Web applications should support being used behind a reverse proxy
I have to admit that i found the statue of Liberty much smaller than I expected.
Many things are larger than the statue, even when including the pedestal.
The technologies I want to see are those that make people ageless and those that change their appearance.
"xylitol-sweetened (30 g) water, an exposure comparable with a pint of numerous xylitol-sweetened ice creams, a xylitol-sweetened bakery good, or several pieces of xylitol-sweetened candy" (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1d9ql2u/comment/l7...)
> the false impression that multithreading is slowing programs in the general case. In fact poorly written programs are slow

From my experience, in the general case programs are poorly written, so yeah, multithreading makes them 1) more complex, more poorly written, and 2) slower in many cases.
Apple to Launch Standalone 'Passwords' App in iOS 18 and macOS 15
Does not work. You can make this work with an alternative identity and heavy investment like an undercover cop, psychopathy, or starting over in life. In all other cases there are always tells, like bad at poker obvious, that make this not worth the effort.
I was thinking this, and figured it wasn't viable for CPUs because they're already near the limits be being reasonably air cooled.

It's probably good news for RAM and SSDs, though.
>This has led to their use in engineering, control theory and robotics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_conditions#The_Whitney...
more and more american universities of the highest "image" are showing their true colors. i was personally contemplating applying to an american uni to get my LLM (masters in law) but sadly it appears the same would be in vain.

i do not want to associate myself with universities who do not have the balls to stand up to an article written by their own students or demand the protesters to write an apology. this is insulting.
They funded the QA by charging every customer with an apostrophe in their name an extra 5 euro.