skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're likely using TS and not really interested in talking about why you feel it's not "needed".

In an interview setting, it probably would make more sense to discuss its sharp edges or ways in which it can be clumsy. That is, issues that arise with using it every day, not discussing the concept of whether or not it should be used, since that ship has probably already sailed. In that case, stuff like "it requires a build step and you have to type more" is not going to be super convincing and could give an impression you didn't intend to give.
Planting trees hoping that they will mitigate climate change by their carbon draw-down is not effective, which is what Gates was referring to I'm guessing. It's really a scheme for corporations or nations to claim carbon credits for some trees that would have grown even if the land were left alone. Forests and wilderness should be preserved for their aesthetic beauty and biodiversity quality.
Nice! Tito is great, and is definitely one of the inspirations for Hi.Events.

We're still in alpha, but we'll have a beta cloud version soon, so be sure to check back in a few months!
As a veteran open source developer, I've grown increasingly frustrated with the chronic underfunding of countless valuable open source projects. We've all witnessed Heartbleed, StandardJS, Devs raising through patreon, xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise, the list goes on.

Meanwhile, we can Observe the millions squandered on DeFi experiments and memecoins on Ethereum and Solana, I had an epiphany: Why not leverage similar community-building mechanisms for a more noble cause?

Enter repo.trade: A platform that applies the viral community-building strategies of projects like pump.fun (which reportedly generates $1M in daily revenue) to create funding for open source initiatives.

The idea behind repo.trade is to allow open source projects to tokenize their repositories, engaging communities and providing a novel revenue stream. It's an experiment in aligning the incentives of developers, users, and investors in the open source ecosystem. Obviously, we are not just letting people create token and sell them on some platform - far from it. Our prototype takes into account lots of the lessons learned since the age of ICOs almost a decade ago.

The end goal is clear: more engagement between developers and users, increased financial incentive for developers, more entertainment for users to feel part of a community.

Lot's of moving parts and open questions still to be resolved but curious to hear HN's thoughts on the general idea. Is this a path worth pursuing to solve open source funding deficits, and are there potential pitfalls we should consider?
My only hesitation with this if there is a life saving reason to go faster.

Maybe a simpler solution is to just send notifications when the car exceeds certain limits?
Well, the compiler says undefined behavior and optimizes it away :D
Related yesterday:

Ask HN: How do I figure out what skills are in demand?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40905649
Vancouver island is famous for that. In comparison to Eastern Europe the monocultures in Canada get mostly replanted, in the Eastern Europe they most often don't.
Shorten it to the first letter and the last three and see how long it lasts.
I think you're right to point out that some "burden of knowledge" is essentially inevitable, especially within a particular field or targeting a particular metric (e.g. life expectancy, though of course that's one that's so broad that there will be considerable influence from factors other than knowledge advances at the technological frontier). Burden of knowledge shows up in individual endeavors too, with most skills following a learning curve to mastery that looks somewhat logarithmic

But I don't think the article is arguing that there is no such thing as burden of knowledge, nor am I. In fact, the article has a whole section where it explicates this, concluding that since it's talking about a phenomenon for which there appears to be a marked shift in the last few decades, an inherent and permanent problem like burden of knowledge isn't adequate alone to explain this change. The article is arguing against treating this phenomenon as the sole or most important factor behind the widespread sense that it's hard to do research, and I stand by the assertion that the more relevant driving factor right now is institutional decay: The faculty of universities are in a near-constant state of complaining about administrative bloat in their institutions, which has dramatically increased relatively recently. Also, there are a lot of methodological issues that have come to light as a result of the widespread cross-disciplinary replication crisis that got some press in the last decade, and which seem to largely stem from misaligned institutional incentives which come from various sources, including pressure from increasingly muscular industries about the nature and results of research they're interested in, pressure from publishers, both traditional journals and the journalistic organizations that by and large publicize scientific results in practice, and careerist pressures that create publication biases as well. I think for this specific case, the article makes the case more eloquently than I can. My comment made the further claim that institutional decay is such a widespread serious problem in many of our institutions today that it should be our first guess for why any outcome we care about that can reasonably be assumed to be mediated by some important institution is worsening over the last few decades. I call this the null hypothesis because that is the traditional name for this kind of assumption

As with anything complicated compressed into a single articulable concern, the reasons why research is perceived as slowing down are no doubt attributable to a variety of factors, and saying this perception isn't primarily a burden of knowledge issue isn't equivalent to the claim that burden of knowledge doesn't exist at all
Rye looks great (i've also really enjoyed using Poetry as well). But man, do I have respect for Go's quality of out-of-the-box tooling. Feels like every time I start a Python project I need to re-learn the state-of-the-art wrt dependency/venv management.
After Wise moved away from Evolve to Community Federal Savings Bank, they gave me new account details that included an address in New York.

Looking that up on Google Maps and Street View, it appeared to be a small branch in Brooklyn, on a street that looked immediately familiar to me as the starting area in Grand Theft Auto IV.
Every Turing machine execution either halts, or does not halt. There are no intermediate possibilities. Some non-halting is easier to prove than others, but it's all still non-halting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40913057
Your linked article looks at PPP income.

Here are two that compare wealth, showing the US 50th percentilers doing significantly better than European ones. US median wealth according to this is $162k: https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/economic_b....

And it's hard to get this data for Europe but looking at the "Median" column for this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_distribution_in_Europe it looks like the US middle class would slot into fourth place, just below Denmark which is at 165k, and far ahead of say, Germany, which is at 65k.
Why Rust? Aren't you alienating Python devs from working on it?

I see that UV is bragging about being 10-100x faster than pip. In my experience the time spent in dependency resolution is dwarfed by the time making web requests and downloading packages.

Also, this isn't something that runs every time you run a Python script. It's ran once during installation of a Python package.
Why not? At the most simple level, the human brain also just takes a set of inputs and produces a set of outputs. There is a huge complicated function behind that, but complexity is no longer an issue thanks to modern compute capabilities.
Wait, so the idea is in the future, fonts will contain arbitrary full-color vector and bitmap images, they will contain Web Assembly code that needs to be run, and they will be streamed over the network? I’m probably missing a few other proposals, as I only skimmed.

Did anyone stop to consider if this is really necessary? The author makes it sound like he has used his influence steadily over the years to make fonts more complicated. “In year X, I proposed that fonts be able to do Y, because why not?” I get that text shaping is so complex, that in terms of open source, there is just Harfbuzz. I’m not an expert in this area. But I don’t think it’s a good thing if “font standards” are constantly getting new features, like web standards, and font renderers are like mini browser engines, where the sheer scope and number of features and rate of new features keeps everyone using the same codebases.
> What’s the problem? Trackmania 2020 is available on Steam, so just install it through Steam and use Lutris. The problem, just like in the Xvfb section, is that there’s a middleman: Steam opens the Ubisoft Connect Launcher, which itself opens Trackmania

Every single time Ubisoft comes up in an article, I'm reminded how much I despise that company.
Jujutsu supports using Git repositories as the underlying repo format, in fact you can even run most of your `git` commands in the exact same repository -- and it is otherwise unnoticeable to anyone beyond yourself, barring customized setups. And we're committed to supporting and improving our Git integration, as long as Git is useful, and our users need it. We're not going anywhere :)
Asked for this 5 years ago, nice to see it finally implemented!
https://x.com/matheweis/status/1109106624612859904
> but it’s for a service people might actually want

copium
I think you're probably right, but the thing that always gets me is this: if nothing in their terms or UI prohibits you from encoding data into your name and changing it as often as possible, then is doing so actually unauthorized? I can't imagine that every conceivable activity you might perform with a computer system would need to be explicitly documented as ok before you can perform it. In other words, if the system owner lists things you can do and things you can't do, then are you in trouble for doing things not mentioned? They never authorized me to use the brightness control on the entertainment system, but I did anyway, uh oh!

They're charging money for normal easy communication with the ground, and they're not charging for slow convoluted communication with the ground. I see the problem with getting the former without paying, but it's harder to find a problem with getting the latter without paying. They configured their system to allow it, and then failed to list rapid changes and encoding as either authorized or unauthorized.
Agree there are not enough performance zealots. Modern architectures are almost magically fast if you get all of the tiny invisible things that kill your performance sorted out correctly. The fact that the knowledge of how to achieve this is closer to black magic lore than foundational educational knowledge is sad.

Performance is surprisingly often a feature. When things become instantly fast, instead of horribly slow, new opportunities are suddenly feasible for a lot of things.
Personalised Advertising products are likely to be short-lived considering the swathe of Privacy legislation that's out there.
Whether it’s possible to prove it halts or not is irrelevant. It either does halt, or not. Whether a human can prove that a function has a particular value doesn’t change whether that function is computable in the technical sense being used here.
I don’t like it because it means “zoom in” or “focus on,” but in what interface does double clicking so that?

Maybe we should call it “let’s two finger pinch on this.”
To be clear, I'm familiar with the zipper merge and agree it's great.

The thing that is *not* ok is when someone flies by 20-100 cars then blocks their entire lane while forcing their way into the front of the line where there is no space for them to enter.

Not only are they being "selfish" by cutting in line, they're also being incredibly dangerous AND creating traffic by blocking their lane.

There's nothing like encountering 3 lanes of parked cars on a 65MPH highway as they all try to exit in 1 lane they could have entered half a mile ago.
thanks, great to hear. many improvements are coming later this month.
> the language layer has no knowledge of signal handlers or what that means

Despite the fact that there is explicit runtime support for signal handlers in the language runtime (i.e. libc).
And get confronted with Apple’s version of enshittification? The grass is not as green as it used to be in cupertino world.
New Fiber Optics Tech Smashes Data Rate Record
Genuinely curious to what makes it miserable. I mostly love my basic Ubuntu setup (and especially compared to the clown show that is modern Windows), and although I’m a software engineer I am neither particularly good at nor have any interest in tinkering with my Linux setup. It mostly just works (except for distribution of apps outside of the package manager - that sucks!). That said, I’m on desktop - I think anything with batteries and touch interfaces is often more buggy.
>As a father of an about to be 16 year old, this is a very welcome and potentially life saving feature.

"We love an external party able to control the speed of our vehicle!"
The green movement has two roots, one is the worry about global warming the other (and much older) is about pollution/ecology and in some circles new age/hippy pseudo religion

The latter has always been opposed to nuclear and the former converged into it because until relatively recently they were the only ones listening

I'm not saying it was smart (it wasn't) but it's how we got here
People start using cliched buzzwords because they hear other busniess-y people using them and they want to talk to those business-y people in their own vernacular.

But I think, deep down, almost everybody using these buzzwords hates the buzzwords.

Yet we end up converging to this terrible prisoners-dillema equilibrium where all the business people start code-switching to talk like buzzword-assholes and hate themselves for it but they do't realize we could all just agree to stop doing it and we'd all be happier.
same core devs.
THIS right here is why I use emacs. Not that something like this is not possible with other open-source software, but the number of steps required to compile, debug, identify change required, compile, rerun, it is usually not worth your time to investigate minor inconveniences. So there is learned helplessness and you compromise and learn to just live with the annoyance.

With Emacs you truly feel to be in control.
So those stats (from a biased source!) are from 2008.

I guess that means you're happy with going back to the early days of Bratton's policing, then? By 2008 the battle was mostly won.

Assuming I believe your numbers (a stretch, but stay with me): do you have some other way of catching those 82,287 convictions? Or you just don't care?

The reason they were in minority neighborhoods is that that's where the crime is. And also where the crime victims are.
What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with vector databases. This is about the basic capabilities of attention networks and dense layers.
I've noticed throughout the years SQLite has lots of handy features built in for dealing with CSV and other input and output formats. Sometimes it's easier to get data into it and use SQL to slice and dice that data than it is to pipe a bunch of unix shell commands together that really only understand unstructured text. Discoverability and subsequently trying to remember all shell incantations is a bit of an issue though, so many people don't see SQLite as the Swiss army knife it can be.
Guess what, Microsoft's Outlook.com shows ads that's 40% of your screen composition.
excuses excuses

spoken like someone who hasn't used Linux in a decade. The experience is much better in Linux than the other OSes these days

If you need to use software in Windows for work that's one thing, but you probably don't need that software on every personal device and your opinion about using Linux is definitely just your opinion
No, looking into only source of light during night makes your eye to strain which can make you blind.
I can understand your frustration regarding these tactics. Other services should outright be banned.
All of a sudden SaaS vendors that no longer have their round C, D, {insert-letter} funding are raising their prices.
Every kid is different. In highschool I had plenty of friends that would be way more dangerous (to themselves and others) in a fast car than in a speed limited car.

Does that make the car safe? Well, in relative terms, yes it does. Probably 100x less likely to cause fatality for specific kids. Not yours maybe, but a lot of them. Parents usually know if that's their kid or not. There are plenty of signs.
To counter your anecdote with mine, I can't recall ever hearing this term used until this year, and I've now heard it multiple times from multiple people in the last few months.

Maybe your company, region or industry were the starting point and it just became widespread recently.
Regarding "it would be impossible to train today's leading AI models": OpenAI has a pattern of equating humanity's progress with their own progress in their corporate communication.

A similar instance that bugs me is on the documentation page for their GPTBot scraper (https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot) where they say "Allowing GPTBot to access your site can help AI models become more accurate". Strange wording, given that is specifically OpenAI's models you're allowing, not "AI models" in general.

The goal is both cases is to make you feel like you're standing in the way of progress by objecting.
Let's "double tap"
Another AI company wrote us and here’s our response
i answered to the email and i received an automated email saying customer service email wasn't working anymore, so i went through the official microsoft xandr form and wrote this

"Hi, i previously made a data access request which was denied per your policy for which you even have a webpage showing the number of requests denied. i replied to the email but the customer service email was apparently shutdown and i received an email that said it wasn't working anymore. So i'm contacting you through this form. i'll paste my answer to your data access request answer here: "Hi, i'm answering to this email regarding my inquiry. Per microsoft xandr cookie policy you do use a cookie that is unique and can be associated with my datas https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en/resources/policies/digita...
that cookie is uuid2. by giving you the value of this cookie, which is unique, you should be able to identify my data. I would like to receive the data linked to that uuid2 -if existing - in a zipped format if possible. I also ask for the data with that uuid2 - if exisitng at all - to be deleted
the cookie value is [cookie value]

Regards
Name Surname""
A wreck in the old minivan is financially less expensive, but isn’t the Tesla much safer for your child in the event of an accident? I can replace my car with insurance, but I can’t replace my kid.

https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
If the price of water was the same for human and agricultural use then the cost of the beef would increase and more people would stop eating it and eat the cheaper plants instead. This would also decrease energy usage helping with climate change.

When we subsidize the price of water for agriculture then people will do wasteful and stupid things to make more money like growing water rich alfalfa and shipping it to China and Japan to feed their livestock.

See the link I posted in the thread.
On the other hand, I don't think "let's tap that" will get much further than an email from HR :)
> I was under the vague impression that all the "obvious" optimizations had already been done (i.e. JIT, and more recently, SIMD support)

Aren’t threads still missing? That seems like a pretty major optimization, now that almost any CPU you can buy has multiple cores.
> Well, many industries rely on advertising to sell their products

I’m not objecting to advertising, but the privacy violations.

> and I wouldn't say those industries are inherently worse than others.

I wouldn’t (and didn’t) say that either.
It goes well beyond creepy spyware tracking. The rampant marketing-driven consumerism corrupts the whole culture and society.
Self-directed learning and exploration. I find that a lot of people are unwilling or at the very least not used to actually trying to find answers on their own, writing experiments or just doing things that aren't directly assigned in detail. This isn't to say, "don't ask for help," so much as one should at least try to understand and find answers on their own as an initial effort. Set aside an amount of time to dig in, google, look at results, read documentation, etc. After some effort has been made, then ask as needed.

It can go the other way too... which are those that won't ask for help after exausting days of effort on what may/should be a simple answer.

Aside from this, but similar and related is the understanding of what you're using. The tools, system and projects. Too many times I'll see devs re-create something that's already in the box, or easily put into the box. This includes adding massive libraries to a given project (how many date-time libraries do you need). Take the time to look at the build scripts, docker files, and project dependencies list. More so, if you're using a UI component library, spend the hour or so familiarizing yourself with the example pages demonstrating the library so you at least know what's there.
> In my new book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I have a long chapter on the erosion of free speech and viewpoint diversity in higher education.

> We previously discussed how surveys at universities show a virtual purging of conservative and Republican faculty members. For example, last year, the Harvard Crimson noted that the university had virtually eliminated Republicans from most departments but that the lack of diversity was not a problem.

And so on, seemingly 100% focused on "Campus vs. Conservatives" culture war stuff. Not a hint of the horrific decline in the affordability of higher education over the past half-century. Nor the transformation of basic, functional campuses into 5-star resorts. Nor the protection & pampering of habitual sexual predators on the university staff. Nor ...

I might agree with most of his talking points - but I'd neither buy his book, nor want anyone like him to hold power at a university.
Most servers already run gnu/linux, and are juicier targets than the average consumer device. The incentives are already huge.
I have been suffering from this venv problem as well. Anyone know if there is a programme or effort to dedup dependencies across projects or something? Feels like it is probably doable.
Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers