skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from a few short-sighted opportunists like Palihapitiya, Ramaswamy, and Haley; Asians in general aren't supporting Trump.
I have two questions about this. First, what does the first entry look like? Most people don't have ADR started, so these decisions will come on top of an existing infrastructure. What's the first doc look like that holds that info?

Second, I wonder if it would also be good to include decisions NOT made or choices to NOT do a thing. ie.

Title: Set up separate S3-compatible instance for back-up image storage

Date when it occurred: 2024-07-16

Problem description: If our image server became inaccessible our site wouldn't have images.

Decision: Nah too expensive

Consequences of the decision: Really amazing ascii art from our photographers after [pick your AWS region] went down
What's sort of neat with a Raspberry Pi - as far as retrocomputing - is that you can run RISC/OS, the operating system for the Acorn Archimedes, which was the first ARM computer and sort of the British Amiga. On real ARM hardware, even. I haven't figured out a use for that, but it's so cool.
Here's my litmus test: read the source aloud. Over the phone to a person who doesn't see your screen, if needed. Did you have an obvious, understandable, and simple pronunciation for everything, that wasn't just reading ASCII characters one by one?

Now pretend the other person is a smart and experienced programmer, but has never heard of Rust. How would they write down what you just told them, without any idea of Rust's syntax? That's the non-ugly version of Rust.
From my own experience some people need this kind of backwards thinking to keep working on stuff and not lose interest. Not saying it’s ideal…
Even if CSI was real (which it isn’t even close), the vast majority of actions anyone takes leave no discernible evidence that isn’t immediately made useless through entropy.

And the most important element in almost every crime (intent) almost never leaves any evidence at all.

IMO the biggest subtle lie that CSI convinces people of is not that facts can be determined so easily and unambiguously - though that is a lie - but that the evidence found and any conclusions from it will fundamentally matter. Each piece of evidence is always some turn of the plot.

In real life, it usually doesn’t. Too much ambiguity, or inconclusive or inconsistent results. Or false positive/negatives. Or data which is useless in the vacuum of other missing information.

In real life, it’s a frustrated and depressing slog - punctuated by occasional moments of elation and/or terror - being a detective.

So what could be more compelling than someone telling everyone in their own words their intent and their actions, so everyone can stop guessing and ‘know for sure’? That’s what a confession is.

Which conveniently at the end of nearly every crime show the suspect actually does.

In real life, some do that - but many lawyer up, and you spend years dealing with every kind of bullshit and confusion game a professional can throw at you, instead of closure and a clear answer.

The polygraph is an attempt at bluffing folks into ‘we got you’ moments. Which does sometimes work! But the pressure and techniques applied can also result in people falsely confessing to things that never happened, or getting confused themselves and ‘failing/lying’ when they were actually relaying the truth.
Analysis of tools for static security testing of applications
It all depends on what they do, Republicans want to make big change, big change in an economy this size will be disruptive, there will be winners and losers across the political spectrum, and losers for some groups will mean financial devastation. Elections have consequences.

I think a lot of it is how granular you look? Will millions of people be in camps and dead and 10’s of million unemployed in 4 years? Maybe not, but what is the statistic? 1 percent increase in unemployment leads to a 1% increase in suicides?

This is of course not to mention if your gay or trans or a woman who values the right to an abortion.

The republicans will try and go too far by some measure, even Joe Rogan who I would describe as a pretty classical liberal if not conservative libertarian said the other day “Republicans are not the answer, remember when George Bush was in office and we almost had Christofacism?”
you could use the Zig build system as your C build system. See https://zig.news/kristoff/make-zig-your-c-c-build-system-28g...
I suspect that most of the devices you'd expect to find in your consumer cluster are too small/slow to saturate the link.

Edit: it's also a matter of scale. You probably have a small number of small/slow devices in a consumer network versus a lot of large/fast devices in your enterprise cluster.
Prion-like propagation of protein misfolding templated by pathogenic mutants
Or... it doesn't really matter.

By the time the police are commanding you to do a field sobriety test, they have already decided to charge you with DUI. There is literally nothing you can do during the test to change their mind. It's a formality, and the "test" is vague enough that the officer can cite any little twitch or misstep as "evidence" that you failed the test.

If you pass a breathalyzer test (blow under the limit), and they still want to charge you with DUI, they will likely do a field sobriety test because the results are non-numeric and are subjective. Heck, you can blow 0.0 and still get arrested for DUI[1][2], and if you tell the world about it, the police will sue you for defamation[3].

1: https://reason.com/2024/02/14/iowa-cops-arrested-a-sober-col...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGWSbAHaHUw

3: https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2023/10/02/after-traffic-sto...
I was talking about a monoculture specifically in the systems programming area. Java, Perl, PhP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, C#, Go, these got popular but they use garbage collection and have limitations for systems programming. C and C++ were the only options for a long while.
The VOR Minimum Operation Network[1] in the US is basically supposed to be that. They're decommissioning a lot of the VORs but at least guaranteeing that you'll be 100NM away from a working VOR and an airport with an approach that can be accomplished with VORs for the initial fixes.

Still definitely feels like putting a lot of reliance on GPS but at least there's a backup for the worst case.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/at...
How far these people have fallen to support a guy who supports QAnon...
A cool demonstration of your skills but not a viable business unfortunately.

Others have said this, but t bears repeating: When you reach the size where you can actually make good money your site will be hosting plenty of malware and other illegal content.
At the same time, even a tiny bit of friction is enough to get people over the mental hump of paying for something.

They could easily gate off certain features behind a paid build, so either you pay or compile it yourself from source. Downstream packagers could of course do whatever they want (eg Debian). However, it creates a minor amount of friction for a relatively large fraction of the user base, and moreover sets the baseline expectation that this is not really "free as in beer", even though it remains "free as in freedom".

See also: Sublime Text, which, despite being closed-source, is 100% free-as-in-beer to use in perpetuity, and yet somehow they make enough money To not only continue development, but even start developing other products (Sublime Merge), even as their brand recognition wanes and their competitive advantage shrinks.
NASA Transmits Hip-Hop Song to Deep Space for First Time
How AI Is Enhancing, Not Replacing, Human Expertise in Creative Fields
A big NO_DELAY thread a couple of months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310896
I love both museums & shopping, but I also tire of both after about 20-30 minutes.

This is why I have memberships to my local museums, I'll pop in for 20-30 minutes at a time and be content, and not feel like I have to "make use of" an entire entry fee.
Making Elizabethan plays understandable and fun to read
Basically, you need to create a `user.js` file in the root folder of your profile, you can find/open the profile folder using about:profiles or about:support (default path is `~/.mozilla/firefox/${profile-name}/user.js`).
You can sync it however you like, e.g. upload it to your dotfiles repo and symlink with stow, etc.

The syntax is:
user_pref("dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled", false); // Disable Privacy-Preserving Attribution

You can find a lot of examples and "documentation" on https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js
....Forgotten? These headlines are pure clickbait and the "journalist" or "editor" should be ashamed. The game shipped 700,000 [0] units in the 90s! It got awards! 5 stars! Come on...

Even in this very damned article:

> one of the most popular sci-fi flight games on the planet

The only tragedy would be if Mark wasn't paid a decent amount for his appearance on the game. This game was awesome, if not just for it's use of FMV alone. WC:IV was awesome not only for it's FMV, but DVD (or 4 or 5 CDs...).

My ass is forgotten. WC:III? Hell no, not forgotten, not tragic.

I can't wait until we get an article in 5 years with the title "Revisiting Terraria, Relogic's forgotten first and only game".
> When you deliver work you’re really proud of, you’ve almost certainly done too much and taken too long.

This one is way more difficult in practice.

Because the difference between something you’re super proud of vs mediocre work, could just be 5%.

But that 5% might be the most challenging work to complete.
Redox: An Operating System in Rust
Sure, but I'm not sure if that is what the parent poster was saying (that nvcc generates poor quality PTX for newer devices).

It's been a while since I looked at CUDA, but it used to be that NVIDIA were continually extending cuDNN to add support for kernels needed by SOTA models, and I assume these kernels were all hand optimized.

I'm curious what kind of models people are writing where not only is there is no optimized cuDNN support, but also solutions like Triton or torch.compile, and even hand optimized CUDA C kernels are too slow. Are hand written PTX kernels really that common ?
You're going to be in trouble once you get to 20 houses :)
Maybe placebo effect, but I’ve found these sorts of issues disappear when I pump everything through a Wireguard connection (so all TCP is handled locally and multiplexed into UDP packets sent on the outbound connection).

Last time it happened was an `npm install` of a large repo that was stalling during parallel download step. This is on a 500mbps wired connection (though admittedly with a router that has some known issues with TCP congestion). When I enabled Wireguard the problem disappeared and the install completed with no choking.
>You're comparing Horizon to cloud storage services, which I think is unfair. Horizon is focused on the sharing aspect.

I think the closest competitor you have is MEGA, and they are not a Cloud Storage service, they are a File Hosting service like Horizon is. There is plenty of overlap between the offerings of Cloud Storage and File Hosting services, but if sharing files with others is a central feature, the service is generally understood to be a File Hosting service, and that would definitely include services like OneDrive and Google Drive too.

>Uploading to Google Drive and OneDrive is not as effortless as Horizon

How specifically is it easier? Create an account, upload files, optionally with a client. API for uploading programatically. Sharable URLs for giving access to others. It seems fundamentally equal to other platforms in ease-of-use.

>Horizon is actually cheaper than alternatives, including Gyazo and Streamable

Gyazo's entry tier costs the same as your's, and also offers an Enterprise tier with SSO/MFA that is going to be a operational requirement of any business customer that cares about privacy and security.

Streamable's entry tier may cost twice as much ($10/month), but it comes with 5x the storage (critical if you're sharing 4K HDR video), and the guarantee of a highly available CDN. It is marketed towards a specific need, instead of the broad social/business product you have created, which is superfluous to anyone who just needs reliable video hosting.

>Global encryption is enabled at rest for every file, but with a key that I control.

As good as unencrypted if this key is hot and used to decrypt all files shared without user encryption.
This is attempting to buy “a seat at the table.” I have a lot of negative feelings about the morality of that.

But what really stands out to me is how misguided the attempt is here. Trump only rewards absolute fealty - not campaign cash. If they really want a “seat at the table,” they’re going to have to pony up a lot more than just their money.
Ack! That is what I get for writing a post quickly while drunk on sleep fatigue late at night.

And the rantiness comes as a side effect of that.

Fixed, Thank you!
No, still Clevo. Although the CEO said they are currently designing a custom laptop chassis in house. Probably still a minimum 2 years away, but at least they are working on it.
Here's my question: if humans caused megafauna extinction, why did this not happen in Africa? That's where many of the megafauna continue to live. But humans came from Africa.
From later in [1]

> Mind that all of this does not impose how we actually scale temperature.

> How we scale temperature comes from practical applications such as thermal expansion being linear with temperature on small scales.

An absolute scale for temperature is determined (up to proportionality) by the maximal efficiency of a heat engine operating between two reservoirs: e = 1 - T2/T1.

This might seem like a practical application, but intellectually, it’s an important abstraction away from the properties of any particular system to a constraint on all possible physical systems. This was an important step on the historical path to a modern conception of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics [2].

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/727798/36360

[2] https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/ccarnot.pdf
Is GPT-4 conscious? No, but it could be
> Google makes no money off of it, nor does anyone else

Google makes no money off of Android? That seems like a really weird claim to make. Do you really think Google would be anywhere near as valuable of a company if iOS had all of the market share that the data vacuum that is Android has? I can't imagine that being the case.

Google makes a boatload off of Android, just like AMD would if they supported open GPGPU efforts aggressively.
Thank you for your interest. I encourage and look forward to your contributions. This is important work, and I'd love to have you apart of it.
Show HN: SchemaFlow – ORM style migrations for SQL-first developers
Hey quackery or not, the Polygraph saved my heart. (Disclosure: A bit of an exaggeration.)

After hours of uncomfortable prodding, an interviewer came into the room and suggested I see a doctor for what looked like heart arrhythmia. I did shortly after and they were right! (It was deemed nothing too serious though.)
Two days after Compact gave the Kreml spokeswoman[1] an interview, they banned the magazine in Germany.

Compact was always right-wing nothing changed really on that front, except now they gave the Kreml a voice and translated the whole interview into German reaching over 200k people.

1. https://youtu.be/0DAeXDU6Ek8?si=LLr_EIxjTayjupzs
Yeah, it's partly a tradeoff for convenience. The carpet helps capture dust which makes everything more breathable in the lab as well. I'm sure bigger labs have more sophisticated facilities, but he's just one guy in his attic.
I don't see how it's conspiracy theory. Firefox has done exactly this over and over again. (The latest example that annoyed me: browser.proton.enabled =false)

As a user of Firefox, I feel like I'm in a constant battle with Mozilla/FF to disable every new bad idea they have. Every time I'm forced into a surprise update I didn't ask for/try_to_install, something gets worse. This isn't an unusual state for commercial software, but Firefox is supposed to try to not be commercial.
> Although most linux distros still have quirks (bluetooth issues, sleep/resume issues, no hibernation out of the box, high battery consumption, among a plethora a of other papercuts) I am sticking with it mainly because windows ux just sux so much.

Heh, as usual, YMMV. My bluetooth headphones actually work reliably on Linux (with LDAC support!), while on Windows I usually have to fiddle with them for a few minutes until they start working. For some reason, whenever I reconnect them, Windows thinks it's a different "sound card". I sometimes can't control the volume in video calls, and they start at the max which is painful.

Battery is much better on Linux (there not being anything doing god knows what with the cpu for no reason must help), and it actually stays asleep when I close it. Hibernation also worked well whenever I tried it, but I don't really have any use for it, so I can't tell for sure it's actually fully reliable.

I didn't jump through any hoops for this other than an almost standard Arch install ("almost" because I use a fully encrypted drive with TPM+PIN unlock and secure boot with my own keys).
This is HN, is asking about a VPS a bit quaint, when we're in the era of container orchestration/etc?
I'm not sure I would take ownership if you gave me $2b. It would take more for me to bite.
You're ignoring the increasing costs the business will also incur by continuing to refuse to pay. Again, for large businesses, it may be possible for them to absorb this additional load with no issue. For quite a few small and medium businesses, this extra load can't be easily absorbed.

Keep in mind you don't have to actually have any intent of suing them when you show up. You can treat it like a poker bluff. It creates the impression you might go all the way, and that's often enough to change the business' perception of the costs and risks.
I take that as part of the point they were making: white supremecists, for example, claim white people are superior. Their actions are logical in some sense if you accept their premises that a) race is a useful classification akin to species and b) there is some inherent difference between races.

To be clear personally I think the science has definitively debunked not only supremacy of any race but even race as a concept which is really all about skin tone and facial features... many people's DNA doesn't even match their supposed "race" because the categorization of race is akin to color of coat in dogs: a very superficial trait useful as a visual descriptor but not useful for segmenting individuals into groups.

Not to mention the whole story of homosapiens is freeing us from biological evolution. The idea that someone's biology inherently limits their worth or makes them not an equal member of humanity is in some sense the most perverse denial of our very nature.
Fingerprints are less accurate and reliable than often portrayed in the media.
the same series of videos that launched this, also confirm that chips like 13700T are degrading (or at least crashing). So it’s not nearly so simple as “too much power/voltage” - this is happening in 35W chips.

There are at least 2 causes and failures modes, intel has already confirmed eTVB=off was a problem and could cause degradation due to excessive heat. The other suspect right now is the ring bus degrading, perhaps.
Stephen King's The Mist (bookware interactive fiction)
You're replying to me as if the comment was in a vacuum

It's responding to:

> complexity just for the sake of it,

> lots of pain for minimal gain

> If you need async/await you'll do better in modern .NET despite the GC

> if you need the highest CPU performance you'll do better in C++ despite the unsafety

To this I respond, GC is such a massive problem (I guess you can fill in "for some categories of problems" but I think it's obvious) that some people need to avoid it. And those people often turn to C++, where the "unsafety" is a very big problem.
I have a cheap Ideapad Pro with an AMD proc that gives me the same experience using Pop_OS.

MacOS doesn't run on anything(1) but a Mac and people seem to be okay with that, but good grief, you tell them to pick a machine that is compatible with Linux and they lose their shit.

(1) Please don't be pedantic, I get it.
>>urinate [on] command

Wait, what do you think potty training is?
Wife worked for Polestar at the time and finally had the chance to get on the company lease scheme. We knew she was leaving by this point but decided a couple of months with an EV was worth a try to see if it fit our lifestyle. Glad we did it, I'll try again in 10 years.
Asking nicely is almost certainly sufficient:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-en...

Alternatively, do a viral campaign about how evil the corporation is for not allowing everyone to download its weights:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22ClosedAI%22+news.ycombina...
The C++ community is talking about evolving in the following ways in this space:

1. contracts
2. profiles
3. successor languages
4. borrow checking

The idea of a "subset of the language" is one that's often talked about, but there seems to be an explicit rejection of the idea of a subset, at least by several important committee members. It's not clear to me why this is the case.
Hmm, I'm not sure in what capacity Chromium phones home.

I definitely have no ability to setup Google account sync nor did it play nicely out of the box with the Chrome web store, so I assumed not? But I haven't done my own tests
I built an AI that watches your screen and yells at you if you procrastinate
Yes, but the section name "Web Site Advertising Preferences" has the word Advertising in it.
You might be interested in the recently announced Kickstarter which explores what might have been if Commodore hadn’t suffered from extraordinary management incompetence. It’s based on plans the actual people had at the time and seems like a fun read.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/daretodreamhardback/dar...
Graphical Explanation of Advanced RAG: Query Expansion, HyDE, ReRanking, etc.
Not the OP, but the 'decision' section is the place to describe trade-offs and rejected solutions, I think?

To start a new project, an overall 'design' or 'requirements' section. I'm not sure how you'd deal with an existing large code-base.
> Arguments they find convincing are not convincing to the average programmer

I think one problem is believing there exists an "average programmer". It's easy to think in averages (or medians), but the reality is that there is no average person, and exactly one median person.

Realizing that every single person is different is important, because you then start to work in more discrete niches. It's going to be much easier to appeal to "programmers who write X in Y with the following constraints" than it will ever be "programmers who write in Y".

Or to bring this closer to the topic of discussion, you'll never convince game developers to drop C++ in favor of rust using the same arguments as you'd use to convince a service developer to drop C++ for rust.
Robots.txt Won't Save You
Personally, I think that's what they should've been doing all along. If it doesn't work at this point, it's because it's too late, and they've already burned enough of their credibility that people don't want to give them money anymore.
Oh, you haven't touched your laptop in 30 minutes and we just reached 35,000 feet? This must be a good time to run "Antimalware Service Executable"!
Solus Dropping AppArmor Kernel Patches
Thanks for providing an example of the search query you had problems with. Interestingly, I haven't noticed the decay in Google search quality that many are complaining about. The first hit when I use your Google query is https://github.com/alpinelinux/aports/blob/master/COMMITSTYL... which seems correct?
Maybe, but I've got quite a few friends in that do similar amounts of driving so I might not be as far out there as you think. But I agree we are at the higher end.