skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s simpler until you need basic functionality, then it’s immediately too simple, as the link above shows. People want dicts, arrays with nil, text buffers and so on.

Multithreading in Lua is done through locking every index access (e.g. `print(t.a.b)` does four locks). It’s not that multithreading everyone wants and it is off by default behind a compile-time flag. This index-locking approach is trivial and only serves a few specific use cases. Neovim doesn’t seem to use it (because locking every “.” sucks). https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3010974/purpose-of-lua-l...

As for JIT, you have to spin few thousand times in the same loop before it kicks in. It doesn’t just magically speed things up, as it has a very noticeable upfront cost. I think it’s arguable whether this load pattern exists in a usual editor-plugin setting, maybe yes, if you e.g. implement a whole langserver in Lua. But in general, interpreter speed doesn’t matter at all for what is mostly glue code. Neovim doesn’t have its text management core written in Lua to make it matter here.

Also note that Lua is fast because its design choices allow that. Once you ignore these choices, it’s slow again. For example __newindex fires only once. To make an “active object” which always fires newindex, you proxy it via {} and it becomes pythonic. Strings are always interned, so if you work with long strings, you’re constantly recalculating hashes and trashing the heap. So you need a userdata with a buffer with a metatable and everything. Plugin code is naturally “highly embedded”, so JIT stumbles upon embedding API and stops making difference due to “exits”. It’s a very thin line to walk along even if you want that performance.
Is the grid not composed of power lines?
Ever since the poor initial rollout of the i9 I've never even considered getting one. The performance/price always seemed to be better with i7. Even the i7 is a second choice for me if an AMD cpu isn't offered.
this is a really common problem online and HN too: some people think the general consensus is really biased one direction, and some people (reading the same material) think the opposite is true.

i see people constantly ragging on LLMs as being infringing and bad and wanting to see them fail
Which is exactly what Watterson wanted.

(He famously “came back” for a gag, but he hasn’t “sold out” and is apparently happy doing what he does, set for life.)

https://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-t...
Noble titles are a poor comparison since they're the rare example where there actually is an exclusively-male root form. For most words the root form is neuter, and both male-only (if it exists) and female-only forms require an affix.

Properly, a male lich is "werlich" and a female lich is "wiflich" (unlike other words the /f/ sound is not likely to disappear); the plurals add "-en". But generally sex is irrelevant for undead{cn} so the neuter form by far predominates.

"lichess" is an abominable mixture of German and French roots ... so naturally it is indistinguishable from the rest of English.
> It's trivially obviously possible in theory: take the world expert humans in each of the majority of domains, put them in a room together

That would be a far cry from what AGI paperclip doomists imagine.

> and simulate their combined brain activity.

If simulating their brain activity is the same as what would happen if they were actually in the room, what we would get is probably 80% arguing over what to do, posturing, etc.

It’s not clear to me how we would cause some intelligence to arise that would be immune to that while being superior in other ways and be sufficiently human to appear as intelligence and not, say, some calculation being performed like computers did for decades.

> I'd prefer that people treat software in general, of which AI is a subset, with more regard for the ways it can kill people

I absolutely agree that us programmers should generally be more aware how “neutral” tech they develop is used to not only to benefit but also to hurt people—be it cryptocurrency, E2EE communications, or indeed very much ML—and work towards alleviating that in practical and ethical ways. I just think in case of ML the threat is more prosaic. (I can be wrong, though I’d hate to be proven so, of course.)
Show HN: Memrem – iOS app to efficiently manage your photos library
“Photos” has been the ever growing place where my cherished memories go to die, smothered in a sea of useless content which I never felt I would be able to filter. Condemning me to pay an ever increasing amount to Apple for extra iCloud storage. Few solutions out there and especially none that was efficient, free or priced reasonably. I decided to learn swift and take matter into my own hands. I had encouraging feedback so far and I hope others enjoy it as much as I do! I deleted close to 2000 photos and 500 videos from my phone in just a few days and it felt enjoyable rather than painful.
Shows how European countries are committed to sucking up the US.

Funny thing is years ago the Britain's GCHQ studied the software on Huawei's equipment and give it a clean bill of health, yet the British govt still banned Huawei's equipment and asked Britains telco's to phase out the Huawei equipment.

So how do these countries be sure the alternative equipment will be safe? Is the GCHQ going to study they alternatives like they did Huawei's?
Yes, building the infrastructure in the cheapest way possible has consequences.

Underground lines would not be vulnerable to falling trees. But they are a lot more expensive to install, and when they require maintenence for any other reasons.
They managed to reduce max response times by an order of magnitude. If this project took a week (even two) and some users went from 15s response times to 1.5s response times, only projects where the user experience is even worse or where you work for a for-profit organization where there's money to be made elsewhere (and you admit you don't really care about customer pain) would be a better justification of time.
I've also been doing this for ~30 years. My current job's journal is 17,581 lines long. It's just a file I edit in screen (so I can attach to it from multiple machines) with a line with the date on it and then a sentence for every thing I've done that day.

It is super helpful when we notice something strange has been going on since a specific date. I give my coworkers access to it and we will regularly refer back to it to try to figure out what was going on on a particular date. I also use it monthly to summarize for my 1:1 meeting with my boss.

I also have a Kindle Scribe e-notebook that I use for my daily todo list. The writing experience with the Kindle is very good, in that it's very paper like, but the access and retrieval is pretty meh. I described it to my coworkers as: It's exactly like paper, only more expensive. I'm basically doing bullet journaling of my tasks, things I need to circle back with coworkers about, and stuff to chat about over lunch or shows people have recommended.
It was not, in fact, Rock Lititz.

Little group called PEDG (Performance Environment Design Group), though it looks like they've rebranded to Nimblist:

https://nimblist.com/
To me it's crazy people run so much AC at home.

It's like making global warming a worse problem with AC, so it gets hotter and we use more AC.

I live in Rome, Italy, we had 40C (104F) degree max temperatures during day, and even at night it doesn't fall below 29C (84) and we survive without AC just fine, not just me but the rest of my family in their houses too, of course it is sometimes uncomfortable, but that's summer.

The worst offenders though are the many shops that blast AC 24/7 and have their doors open! Put some goddamn sensors and sliding doors!?

I just can't look at it. Even worse, electricity comes and goes all time during summer and it's hard to work at times (I'm full remote).

I'm fully convinced nobody gives two damns about global warming and our own impact. It's better to just ignore our actions and focus on evil corporations so we keep avoiding doing anything, maybe buy and change our EVs every 3/4 years as it didn't make it worse.
I was there last weekend & for the day of the hurricane. This was just a cat 1 hurricane at the time it passed through Houston, and there was SO much damage. I can't imagine the city is remotely prepared for (god forbid, and idk how likely it is that far inland anyway) a cat 4 or 5. We were staying in a hotel that had a backup generator, but every single other building that was visible from our hotel had lost power during the storm.

Everyone I talked to in the area lost power at home for at least a day, and many people said they expected to lose power for a full week.

I'm interested if anyone familiar with the local state of the grid knows whose "fault" the enormous turnaround time in restoring power is:

* Not enough employees at the electrical companies

* Infrastructure regulation (e.g. requiring buried lines in critical areas) is insufficient in Houston specifically

* Infrastructure regulation is insufficient in Texas specifically

* (or nationally? are there national guidelines for the power grid in various weather-prone areas?)

* The Texas grid being separate from the rest of the country's

* Other??
Sanders might sound A LOT like Gordon Ramsay in this article, but I doubt Gordon ever shot and killed a man over a turf war and beat up one of his legal clients. I think I remember hearing the Colonel beat down at least one of his bosses. He must have coated himself in restaurant-grade teflon as he seemed to get away with it.. Should have called it Gangster Fried Chicken.
Apple Vision Pro launches in Australia to a line of 13 people
> bidets have this field fully covered

No, they don't. This "let them use a bidet!" stuff is an asinine response that is literally the equivalent of "let them eat cake."

Elderly people who need someone to wipe for them are usually either completely physically immobile where they're not exactly strolling to the toilet in any case, or they're wearing diapers, or they're so mentally declined they basically forget what they're supposed to do.

Plus, as the owner of a bidet who uses it every time I take a poop, you still need to wipe. What, you're going to just drip dry in your underwear - gross! My bidet even comes with a drying fan but it's in no way sufficient, you still need to wipe.
Correct - most of them think the goal is an infinite tower of sophisticated "abstractions" not realizing there's nothing abstract about a finite piece of silicon.
> warning them about the consequences of non-payment and interest on the debt.

You cannot simply add in these penalties though, not suggesting you are implying that.

However any such clauses / penalties need to be clearly laid out in the initial contract, and the contract also needs to be legally enforceable. Always check with the relevant jurisdiction what acceptable penalties are, and get a lawyer.
It seems like you might be able to enable some optimizations with EXTRA_CLING_ARGS. Since it's based on cling, it's probably subject to whatever limitations cling has.

To be honest, I don't know much about the speed, as my use-case isn't speeding up slow code.
stackblitz ceo here, just to clarify:

we haven’t ever pivoted from webcontainers, not sure what you’re talking about there. it’s been our main thing since forever :)

stackblitz itself is a product suite built on top of webcontainers. note that many issues in the repo you linked are not for webcontainers specifically, but instead mostly for stackblitz specific functionality.

we have about 3m devs/mo using us for free on stackblitz.com, so we do the best we can for free public issue triage but do prioritize our paying customers (we are a business after all :)
Because I don't want to manually sync between desktop and mobile?
You have this exact issue in VLIW and it's exactly where you can't cheat by using heuristics:

Combinatorial Register
Allocation and Instruction Scheduling

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3332373
Eventually Putin will die. I have absolutely no idea what follows. Dictators tend to leave a succession crisis, though I doubt there's some real democracy impending. Russian culture genuinely seems to want a strongman in charge.

It's just so damn aggravating because it's making their country poor. China and the US are pushing each other economically. It's kinda ugly but it's not killing anyone, and a lot of people are getting employed out of it.

Russia could play that same game, and they've got the resources and brain power to get rich. Instead they are trying to win by dragging everyone else down.

And I really hate that China knows it gets a leg up on the US by egging them on. Not that the US is any great shakes on the moral high road but that part is genuinely killing people.
> though why not Geiger counters for radiation? there must be a reason.

If a detector fish moves, it works. With Geiger counter, you may not be always able to tell when it malfunctions.
The little minus sign to collapse the comments is key.
I don't think you can say that a language is strongly typed if only the language's internals are. The Python interpreter prevents you from summing an integer to a string, but only at runtime when in many cases it's already too late. A strongly typed language would warn you much sooner.
Crinkler – Compressing linker for Windows specialized for 4k intros
That's just reflection. That's a feature of code, not language runtime. I think there are some languages which in fact have type checking in the runtime as a bona-fide feature. Most won't, unless you do something like isinstance()
All neutrinos are relativistic (moving at almost speed of light) and our current model assumes dark matter is "cold" (moving at relatively slow speeds).
There is also lishogi but it is smaller enough to not require such optimizations yet.

Shogi is the most entertaining for chess variants. Xiangqi not as much.
Sure, and then it's the government's job to ensure the shareholders lose their money when the company loses a hundred million customers' records. So yeah, it turns out that when you pay yourself instead of doing right by your customers, I think you shouldn't be allowed to make a profit.
> Will it block Apple's 'hide my email' feature from functioning with valid @icloud.com

(not OP) No, but you can block those with a regex pretty easily.
Went there with a reporter from the NY Times, and put on a show in the kitchen. One hopes he didn't make a habit of "walking into the kitchen in a random KFC and berating the people", but this specific incident was not that at all.
This essay explores the boundary between two aspects of math: its unchanging truths on the one hand, and the ever-changing ways we try to capture those truths in symbols on the other. Modern symbolical algebra is relatively new on the scene (only five hundred years old); this essay tells how it came to be and discusses the benefits and pitfalls of its extreme concision.
Moray for POV-ray on MS DOS (1)
Good times on a 386 in beginning of the 90th.

(1) http://www.povray.org/news/moray-announcement.phphttp://www....
Exporting private keys in plang programming language
Similar discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245
> While in the past their views may have been countered by equally imaginative narratives from the left — like the liberatory progressivism of Whig historians and Marxist theorists — today it feels as though that ground is too often ceded in favor of “trusting the science.”

The first part describing the webs and flows of objectivity in history, with interesting examples was well written, But the conclusion is a bit odd. The author thinks, if you follow one the links they provide, that the far right individuals like Tolkien's works, and then also invent crockpot alternate histories, and suggests that the left should come up with something similar.

> American narrative in decades, was the work not of historians, but journalists. When the profession has ceded its domination over the public narrative of history, amateurs will take over. [...] Maybe that amateurism is not such a bad thing.

If historians won't do it, the journalists should. I can see interpreting it, yes, but pretending to write whole fictionalized narratives masking as history is a bit extreme. That's exactly what journalists in totalitarian regimes do: in Russia they say that Ukraine is a fictional country, it's just Russians corrupted by the "Satanic West", in North Korea I am sure they tell similar elaborate stories and so on.
>To me it's crazy people run so much AC at home.

Tell me you've never been to Texas in July without telling me.
> It calls x.__add__(y)

Your answer doesn't solve the problem, it just moves it: can you tell me what x. __add__(y) does?
> Not angry enough to get their elected officials to make the power grid changes needed

Do you have the magic solution that makes them resilient to natural disasters short of burying every single power line underground? Which is not only impractical but insanely expensive. The infrastructure has been physically damaged or destroyed. You fired off a politically charged comment and offered no specifics.
AC isn't a problem if the energy feeding it is carbon neutral. With a strong mix of renewables and nuclear this is achievable, but instead we continue to burn coal and natural gas to provide base load.
Suppose I have trading system built on Tokio. How would I go about using this instead? What parts need replacing?

Actually looking at the code a bit, it seems like you could replace the select statements with the various handlers, and hook up some threads to them. It would indeed cook your CPU but that's ok for certain use cases.
Lol, I'm at the point where anything > 4 days per week is a hard no.
Navidrome just works.
Show HN: Self-hosted color emoji font for all browsers
In my vite-based web projects, I want consistent emoji font in all browsers. I like the fontsource packages for self-hosted fonts, but their Noto Color Emoji font is broken in Chrome and Edge. So I created a package that works better and can be used like the fontsource packages. Until fontsource finds a way to integrate color fonts in their automation, have fun with it.
...just owrks...
How humid is it in Rome during the summer compared to Houston?
The story that I recall about the origins of stderr is that without it, pipes are a mess. Keeping stdout to just the text that you want to pipe between tools and diverting all “noise” elsewhere is what makes pipes useable.
Loneliness is a big one, maybe boomerMeetup.com

Day centers for old people used to be very popular

But I would say there should be better health lifestyle guidelines for everyone to avoid being incapacitated. How in rural Europe and Africa you still see 80 and 90 year olds still digging land, saw an 100 year old lady, in Africa, still doing accounting for local businesses

Maybe is the lack of sleep, unhealthy food, too much coffee, alcohol excess, too many pills... but people should watch out the bill will come
Platforms charge a fee, but in the end, this may be the one thing they do well in most cases. Protect payments.

In the future for domestic transactions, just add a little clause like "If valid payment is not made by due date, provider can send client a 3 day notice to cure. if the balance is not paid, Client stipulates to default judgement for the purpose of collections."

Now I'm sure that is not legally phrased correctly, but someone could make it a better. Idea is, Client, if they have not disputed invoice and not paid, admit to a default and you are immediately off to a judgement and collection.

Screening clients is tough. And sooner or later, this happens.

Oh, one guy I know always inserted code in his work so that he could turn his code off is someone did not pay. And then showed a screen with a payment message. Nice.
That sentence had a complicated enough structure as it is and the meaning is clear. My direct experience with such a woman is that in most contexts she says she "doesn't work", and it's understood that that means labor force participation. You'll find up thread that I said "her work... is still more exhausting than mine".

The statistics agree with our lived experience. There's also lots of reasons why those numbers would reflect happiness and accomplishment, which I've tried to provide some color to. They're not slaves, and in fact the stats show they have almost 50% more free time and get more sleep[0]. So they actually have more time and energy to pursue their interests, and they have pretty much complete autonomy in their work in the home. Because of that increased autonomy, their accomplishments are also more directly attributable to them.

Staying at home is not the safe choice. If you're middle class, you'll face all sorts of microagressions for it (e.g. people acting like raising bright, well-adjusted kids is not a substantial accomplishment while writing CRUD software is). You also don't have a career to fall back on if the marriage fails or your spouse dies, so it's actually high risk and requires trust and planning. But it can also carry substantial rewards, and the type of person who would be high achieving in a STEM career is also the type of person who is likely to be a high achieving parent, so they are likely to see those rewards.

Without more info, why would you assume women's stated preferences are wrong? Especially if you restrict to women who are capable of a STEM career? Based on my direct experience with a woman who got her MRS in math, I'd expect that actually they are quite intelligent and self-aware, and are quite good at achieving their goals.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2014/04/08/chapter...
> Microsoft AI including GitHub Copilot is prohibited to use for AI

I could not find anything like that in Copilot agreement, so the parent comment seems untrustworthy.
I have no insight, but I always wondered what happens to the $100k+ domains that VC-funded startups buy and then go bust.

Do they sell them at a bargain?
The article isn’t very substantive. What is typical of similar organizations? What exactly is a foundation? Are there any important benefits to not having members for its mission? How is the board chosen? The article describes none of this
> we survive without AC just fine

There were 5,600 deaths across Spain, Italy, and Germany in the 2023 heatwave that could be attributed to a lack of AC [0][1]

Just because you and your family have been fine doesn't mean others can.

AC is a critical need in increasingly hot environments.

[0] - https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/hotter-summers-kill-thousan...

[1] - https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/339462/978928905...
I’d much rather have someone, or something, providing guidance as I learned to ride a bike. Of course you’re less likely to end up with a head injury writing an interpreter, but still, it’s not exactly a crime to learn before doing.
When you learn to ride a bike, someone teaches you how to do it.

You could go out and fall down a few times by yourself so it’s more fulfilling when you have instruction, but I wouldn’t say that’s the most efficient path.
What does webcontainers exactly mean? Browsers don't allow me to call arbitrary other urls since the called server needs to allow with cross domain request headers.

What happens if I close browser tab? does that make the webcontainer go poof? What about memory and CPU requirements?

The idea sounds like a great hack, but the whole point of cloud IDEs is that it uses someone else's resources. I could get a 64 CPU with a bunch of H100s to dev on, run some script in background, and shut it when I'm done.
Maneage – Managing Data Lineage
They should port thunar to macOS. For the moment yazi will suffice.
Hacking a BMD Speed Editor keypad into an X11 macropad [video]