skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A similar amount of wealth would be generated if every advertised product would be represented by a text description, but we have a race to the bottom.

I fear statements like this go too far. I can't agree with the first part of this sentence.

I feel this about both marketing and finance:

They are valuable fields. There are huge amounts of activity in these fields that offer value to everyone. Removing friction on commerce and the activities that parties take in self-interest to produce a market or financial system are essential to the verdant world we live in.

And yet, they're arms races that can go seemingly-infinitely far. Beyond any generation of societal value. Beyond needless consumption of intellect and resources. All the way to actual negative impacts that clutter the financial world or the ability to communicate effectively in the market.
This is exactly why I like it. I understand it won't be for everyone, but it does everything I need for daily use. Mainly mail + calendar, plus drive for some occasional file sharing/upload. The VPN works fine for what I need, and I still use a separate password manager.
How do you deal with spam in Fastmail?

I switched from GMail to Fastmail about a year ago, but ever since my Inbox is just filled with lots of spam. I tried writing email filters, and have about 50 now, but it is just not cutting it.

And also those promotional mails that I don't want to mark as "spam" but still shouldn't end up in my Inbox ... they drive me nuts.

Since I started using Fastmail, my main means of communication is shifting away from e-mail, which is sad.
Maybe you could offer both links, with a note that says what you just said?

(I don't think you're forcing free open backgammon down people's throats, but there's an existing fatigue due to less scrupulous publishers detecting mobile browsers and pushing people away from otherwise functional websites.)
> So let's just wait until there's 15 minutes of error - a couple of millenia from now.

This might already happen in 200-300 years, because the delta increases quadratically: https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/deltat.html
They want to be able to guess long, long, before actually executing the instructions.
I vaguely recall something about key signing parties. That could be a model.

Or maybe I'm thinking about key parties.

I was never into either community. I'm probably confused.
Many people clearly love them and have found great utility using them. Not sure what point you're trying to make - that you're different?
Are you saying Mariupol is not being rebuild?

The point is you're sharing a link to an obvious propaganda piece, put out by the same folks who destroyed Mariupol in the first place.

Like it's some great revelation that explains everything.
Prefers-reduced-motion: Sometimes less movement is more
I think the standing should be allowed for Mr. Rajaram to sue. I think discrimination on citizenship status should be considered under that act.

I highly doubt Mr. Rajaram will be able to prove that Meta prefers to hire noncitizens whom they can pay less, precisely because they pay them extremely well. Doing that sort of removes any notion that they gain anything from preferring noncitizens, who have an extra cost associated with their legal status.
Dell has been selling laptops with Linux for years. A few of the others have too.
> People talking on the radio is sort of dead.

I don't have any reference to how it used to be, but there's a fair amount of voice activity on the 2m and 70cm repeaters near me.
I think that what we have standardised as modules give us a path off the include model, honestly. It’s just that it’s the most pandered-to version of modules you could imagine. We entirely changed the compilation model and didn’t manage to tie module names to filesystem paths, meaning you need to parse the module file to figure out what module it is. It’s death by a thousand cuts
Great work!

I am currently playing with the Algolia hackernews search API myself and
experimenting with spaCy Named Entity Recognition and llama3 to come up with some interesting data.

Work in progress version here: https://news.facts.dev/topic
Could be better, could be worse.

I am living in rural upstate NY close to a college town and bought a 70 acre farm for a fraction of what a small ranch house costs in the Bay Area. My wife teaches people to ride horses, her business is probably the most profitable horse operation I know of because (1) it was bootstrapped up from 2 horses to 8 and (2) we never bought large amounts of heavy equipment; the average horse barn has a big-ass truck and a horse trailer, we can pay somebody to haul a horse somewhere for a fraction of the monthly payment on a big-ass truck. We have two houses on the lot and get usually get rental income from two units in the second house (though we are renovating it now and I'm using it to gentle a feral cat right now)

I've had some terrible years where I ran up $20k of AWS bills and had no income, I did run up a balance on my HELOC which I later paid off. The good years paid for the bad years, I consistently put money into retirement funds except for the absolutely worst years. I always had health insurance except for a summer that I worked at a web dev shop that didn't offer it.
lobste.rs is what you're looking for
This is extremely easy to avoid in practice, just don't contribute to projects that make you sign a CLA.
Something I learned only recently: Weather forecasts don't actually directly use sensor data. Instead, a physically consistent model is first fitted to all the available sensor data, and then the forecast is made based on the values that model produces. Doing it this way has the benefit that physically implausible sensor readings are given less importance, and the fact that this model can be sampled in regular intervals, whereas the sensors are all over the place (and often moving, e.g. in aircraft, which contribute crucial data).

Of course, higher density of sensors would lead to a better fit of the model to the real world, but there would still be no guarantee that the model would reflect the measured values exactly. I found that pretty interesting.

(And it's kind of funny to think about our own consciousness in this way, which seems to work somewhat similarly: we don't experience the actual 'sensor values', but instead we experience the output of a model our brain fits to those inputs.)
People are different because they have human social interaction offline where terminally online stereotypes and biases often fall apart
How to Visualize Your Python Project's Dependency Graph
First round of French election: party attacks and a modest traffic dip
Infisical Update – June 2024
In my experience it has been significant. going up the mountain from the base to crestline takes as much energy as going from riverside orange county (12 miles up a mountain vs ~50 miles on flat land). (both a fiat500e and bolt EUV for reference have about the same efficacy change)
Autofilling when buying online, having the details handy/ready to be copied if autofill is not an option, keeping track of them in a single place while being encrypted together with other personal info... To me the benefits are many!

(Disclaimer: Work in Proton Pass)
I would love to be able to feed my upvotes and maybe even comments into an LLM and receive search results ordered by relevancy to my interests.
> Unfortunately, one hard lesson is that the Reaper is vulnerable

Looks like they're working on that: "New Electronic Warfare Pod Turns Marine MQ-9 Reaper Into “A Black Hole”"
https://www.twz.com/news-features/new-electronic-warfare-pod...
this guy is either drunk or a meme post
This post shows why programming as a career overall sucks. Sure it’s great if you really enjoy programming. However, staying relevant to earn a decent living your entire life is difficult.
Yes, but we're not speaking historically.
You always diagnose on conditional probabilities. The diagnosis is conditioned on your belief in occurrence of symptoms, which is conditioned on the observations and results of tests you make. In an ideal case, you observe well enough to make a definite diagnosis; in real case, there's always some uncertainty, plus you can't do all the tests simultaneously - which is where all those proxy factors like demographics are useful: they help prioritize tests and narrow down the diagnosis quicker.
They might want to consider posting those on the news site then. Because it looks abandoned
Instead of installing tailscale in all VMs, the author should instead advertise the whole subnet using --advertise-subnet flag from a single VM
Major fields of study like chaos (sensitive dependence on initial conditions within an apparently deterministic system), protein structure solving from X-ray diffraction patterns and many others would be impossible without computational assistance from machines.

As far as style and tone, you can certainly get LLMs to mimic Licklider's style with suitable prompting, e.g.

> "In replicating the reflective and anticipatory tone of the original text, it becomes evident that the concept of man-computer symbiosis was not merely speculative but a forecast grounded in the trajectory of technological and computational advancements. This partnership, as envisioned, holds the promise of amplifying human potential through the strategic leverage of computational power, thereby redefining the boundaries of what can be achieved through the confluence of human and machine capabilities. The profound foresight in recognizing and articulating such a partnership underscores a remarkable understanding of the complementary strengths of man and machine, heralding a new era in the evolution of technological augmentation."
2 decades is about right for the tail end of the heyday.
> this is likely why the compiler doesn't generate SIMD instructions to compute the sum!

Isn't this the type of thing ffast-math is supposed to enable?
The fact that in 2024 you can still get sub-1-hour applicable reply from the creator of one of the top web frameworks ever is everything that makes HN amazing.
We could solve a lot of problems if every user had to take EE180.
I gotta say I like this QNTM cat. Wrote Hatetris, "There Is No Antimemetics Division," and Absurdle. A fun explorer of adversarial computing environments. Pretty interesting
Word "mini" is used , which usually signifies total volume of the case containing the components is approx. 1 litre.
Kind of off topic, but it's a real shame that Nintendo is so aggressively proprietary and litigious. If you read the (excellent) book "Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America" by Jeff Ryan, you'll see that Nintendo is that to its core and always has been, so I don't expect a change. But it's one of the big tragedies of the world IMHO.
This is what Manly P. Hall described as "acroamatic cipher" in his book "The Secret Teachings Of All Ages" [chapter "The Cryptogram as a factor in Symbolic Philosophy"]
Yup. You would think it can be stopped by diplomacy in the West, while this only allows mr Putin to continue to expand, and "save us from nazis".
I'm not sure what you're talking about. If you're talking about Palestine, you should try to judge an argument by its content rather than by whether it uses words that offend you. Your time is better spent addressing other people than me, trust me.
Completely agree. I love Proton, been a paying customer for many years now. I do use the Proton Drive app all the time, and occasionally the vpn when I'm at an airport or hotel.

But I refuse to use their Pass app, and I similarly will refuse to use this new docs app. I use Standard Notes for all my notes (funny enough they joined with Proton this year lol) and Bitwarden for passwords. And then I just let Apple sync all my contacts, and for calendar it's kind of required that I use the ios calendars for family member sharing reasons.
I read the original Nature article, not the one written by an underpaid and overworked english major who wrote the popular article.
--advertise-subnet is a dream
You have to go look up the Nature article which this po-sci article was written from.
Thanks! This actually makes me wonder if the claims of SBCL C-like performance are out-of-date or exaggerated. I'd like to know if the SBCL compler produces SIMD-enabled, cache-friendly machine code and if so, by what mechanisms/annotations.
Hi, yeah unfortunately this is only in Typescript at the moment. As we refine the framework more, we'll look for a more language agnostic approach, or provide support across different languages.
I think they are technologically, at least 50 years ahead of the US. I heard a rumor they have Universal Health Care and free Universities with no student debt.
Which is a very good reason to abolish the leap second in UTC to make it the same as TAI time. We can then make a new standard that includes the leap seconds and add them to that (which computers will only ever deal with when they format datetime).

Leap seconds are absolutely part of the local datetime conversion functionality of time and not part of the counting functionality. Unix time should never have been different from TAI time in the first place but somewhere along the line some idiot made the absolute undeniable blunder of putting the seconds offset of the suns position relative to earth in the counter of seconds rather than putting it in function that formats the local datetime.

Anyway here we are. It’s totally fair that UTC includes leap seconds but unfortunately they passed on UTC as is into the unixtime seconds counter which makes no sense since computers don’t print UTC datetime directly anyway, they have a special date() formatting functions that could easily and problem free add seconds as needed.

So what’s the solution? Well telling everyone to suddenly adopt TAI is difficult. But we could just abolish leap seconds from UTC effectively migrating everyone without them realising it. Now I know that sounds odd. After all this blunder wasn’t done by the UTC creators, it was the Unix guys that fucked up here. UTC is literally meant to track the sun after all. But still it’s the easiest fix and we can always create a new UTC, UTC_leap_seconds, that we can use in our datetime printing functions if we want. Abolishing leap seconds from UTC and thus Unixtime will make the world run more smoothly. It’s also been planned as we speak so you don’t need to do anything but wait! :)
You should look into the history of Itanium, it was designed around the idea that the compiler would do pretty much exactly that. It looked great on paper, but in practice nobody figured out how to actually write a compiler capable of doing it without constantly running into weird edge cases.

X86 does have "prefetch" instructions, which tell the CPU that you want to use some data in the near future. There are also "branch hint" instructions which tell the CPU if a branch is usually taken or not. The problem is that they tend to make your code slower: the CPU is already more than capable of predicting it by itself, and the extra instructions slow down the overall execution because they take up cache space and have to be decoded too.
I am a web dev and I think I’ll stay relevant to earn a decent living as a web dev until I retire (it’s hard to predict 20 years ahead, but definitely the next 5-10 years at least).

It seems the author just want to change their career, not necessarily because of they won’t be able to earn money if they don’t.
I assume you mean high precision clocks in computers because an actual clock won't care about half a second.

You could use TAI-ish timestamps right now, but people are going to get confused and make mistakes if your timestamps are almost UTC but several seconds off. And if UTC stays constant then you need to nudge all the time zones around and that sounds even worse.
They need to keep in mind that Google spend decades getting to where they are with the current toolset. Proton shouldn't be expected to replicate it in a couple years.

I'm sure people are asking for this stuff, but I hope it is sustainable. I'm a paying customer and only use the email today. With the pace of these releases, I'm not comfortable investing in these new tools, because I'm not sure how long they'll be around. I'm starting to question the email choice, since I'm worried they are spreading themselves too thin. I'm not sure what their financial situation is like, but I hope this isn't all from a bunch of funding or debt they will need to answer for at some point.
I look forward to the day when Germany ends the use of fax machines.
Interesting take. I was a paying personal customer who switched away from ProtonMail. I appreciate it for what it is, but ultimately for me it was just way too slow. The website is incredibly sluggish, and the mobile app is worse. I spent a good 5-10 seconds waiting on a loading screen everything I wanted to check my email.
It's clearly how things work on rare occasion, which is self-evidently obvious in MSTN knockout animals, and certain other gene knockout phenotypes.

It's the exception rather than the rule, of course, as many if not most traits -- like, most famously, height and IQ -- are polygenic and mediated by a network of many genes of small effect.

There's still a lot you can do by silencing certain individual genes. I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
Ignoring industries built on regulatory capture / credentialism gatekeeping like law and medicine [by the way, even those both have continuing education requirements], are there actually exceptions to this?

Plenty of careers just go away. Might as well pick one where you can stay relevant by picking up incremental/adjacent skills continuously.
I agree. I also like their explanation on why they don't offer PGP.

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-dont-offer-pgp/
The EU already fails to agree on dropping DST (and adjusting time zones in the process), because member states will be affected differently, and neighboring countries that should really be in different time zones benefit from being in the same zone. I doubt they could agree on shifting their time zones, because invariably some countries would get the short stick.
Niron Magnetics is using iron nitride:

https://haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/Niron-Magnetics...

https://www.nironmagnetics.com/scientific-publications/

Based on their publications, it looks like they have achieved an energy product of 20 mega-gauss-oersteds (MGOe). This is not as high as neodymium iron boron magnets, which can range from about 35-52 MGOe, but it's significantly higher than common ferrite magnets (up to 5.2 MGOe) and is about equal to the lower end of the samarium cobalt magnet range (16-32 MGOe).

In one sense iron nitride is very simple; it uses only two common elements and its magnetism has been known for decades. But simple is not easy, since it is difficult to make bulk magnets from the material while maintaining the correct element ratio and structure. I hope that Niron succeeds.

I don't know if there are any companies yet trying to commercialize synthetic tetrataenite.
> They're all scams.

Interesting. Please link to your investigation of all the airdrops. We've had a decade of them and I think everyone would find such investigations useful. Presumably you've also informed law enforcement in your jurisdiction of your findings.
That was not always the case, contrary to what you want to believe.
Sprints are not needed to measure cycle time and forecast.
If you read the article you'll probably notice that it explicitly states that it is about motors for electric vehicles. These do actually have rare earth metals in them.
Not everybody has a Google account.
Great example of LLM-produced code. I found the first bug after 20 seconds of reading. Enjoy!
I enjoy letter-writing. So should I go on writing physical letters to everyone today? Moving with technology is essential, not just for developers, but for public as well. The trap is that we have to do it even if we don't want to. E.g: your neighbor country has nukes and you don't.
The Stripe Press edition of the book is a beautiful product, but the font is small. I bought the book but had a hard time reading it so I got a digital copy for my ereader where I could select a larger font.
I've lost count of the times I've sped up some existing code by removing the hand-optimized assembly and just used a plain C implementation or similar. Sure, it was hand-optimized assembly, but for a 10+ year old CPU.

If you're going to do hand-optimized code for a given platform, include the baseline code and measure at runtime to pick the implementation.
Yes. Use your CS and math background to get a job in Operations Research. Use the OR techniques to do V&V on applications of AI/ML models.

Ie, Verification that the application/model do the job correctly and Validation that the app/mdl is appropriate for the business case.

This is not exciting but it pays well and people with the skill set are extremely needed.
But language itself and pronunciation of that language shifts over time. Probably better than hand transcription, but 7000 years is a long time.
> There is a lot of "wastage" that goes to safeguard currency creation and storage and to prevent counterfeiting.

Yes. But the point I'm making is, none of that benefits from waste. The waste is something everyone want to reduce. With Bitcoin, the trend is uniquely opposite, because the crypto system is secured through aggregate waste being way larger than any actor or group can afford.
>gene therapy of any kind is actually extremely complex

Yet there’s people on YouTube self administering gene therapy to cure lactose intolerance.

Not an endorsement, just to say it’s interesting how easy it’s becoming to do these things.
(Paying customer)
Yes! I cant believe I still cant share a folder with another account on proton drive (apart from read-only sharing via link), but now instead they add .....
Not the OP, but I have some of the same concern. No, it's not a "mockumentary"; yes, it's based on true events; but based on some of Herzog's other films and public statements, there are good reasons to doubt that it's a straight factual account of what happened. Herzog has frequently stated that he's not trying to relate straight facts, but is going for a deeper truth.

In pursuit of this, he's frequently bent the facts in his other "documentaries" to achieve the narrative that he's aiming for. I vouched for the parent comment because I think it's a view that should be discussed rather than suppressed. I like his art, but equating a Herzog documentary with factual truth is likely to end badly.

I've only skimmed it (and I don't have time to read it closer today) but this looks to be a decent academic paper that explores some of the problems with Grizzly Man:

Conceiving Grizzly Man through the "Powers of the False"

...

But is Grizzly Man a documentary at all? Is it a "true" or appropriate representation of reality?
Grizzly Man engages in "creative falsification" -- a cinematic concept theorized by Gilles Deleuze in which the filmmaker generates optical images which bond to virtual images (or images that evoke a people's general past, fantasies, and dreams) to reveal some representation of "truth"

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/documents/2008/june-2008/...
Never! That would break the strength of the German Military force!

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1bd2ocv/german_mili...
What a cute cop out
Interesting, I've always thought the "mini" designation was more a commentary on size rather than price. When I think of a "mini" I expect it to be in a very compact case that makes it a lot more difficult to work on/upgrade/repair than a typical desktop, but be physically compact and able to fit in a small space.
Needs to add (2024) at end of title
Nah, just a rumor. :)
"They fulfill fantasies of control, seek personal thrills like flying, have sex with Jeremy Allen White."

I really hope someone called Jeremy Allen White reads this.
Sorry, it was an autocorrect by my phone. EDB means Elektronisk Data Behandling, which is an archaic Norwegian way of writing computers, lol..

I meant to write EBH, Edvald Boasson-Hagen. I probably should've spelled it out, but the Velochef book is by the Team Sky chef, the team of EBH.