skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok now we're talking: important clarifications. Neat read on the type systems. But this part is extremely important:

> The idiomatic way to do it is to allow garbage inputs like negative numbers into your square root function, and return garbage outputs. It is in the theorems where one puts the non-negativity hypotheses.

The equivalent condition here would be for everyone to include "zero-ness" checks on their numeric inputs. But that's awful, because whereas everyone agrees that nullptr is a meaningless pointer, zero is in fact a perfectly good integer/float whatever. So now you have something worse than null pointers- which have course caused us a huge amount of pain ever since being inflicted on the world

So x / 0 = 0 is still a terrible, terrible, idea. But introduce something like the floating-point equivalent of NaN, and say x / 0 = NaN, and now your outputs will at least be obviously wrong, instead of just silently wrong
This makes me think about a e-bike with a control system/transmission that helps you maintain constant output power for a workout, applying resistance or assistance as needed.
End of an era. I remember installing funtoo before I went through the handbook to install Gentoo itself
It isn't as wide on ARM so the gains will be smaller(most ARM is only 128 bit wide neon)
>A food startup who can't afford to hire those people might argue that they are at a disadvantage and therefore the regulations are onerous and favor large companies.

That is literally the point of food regulations.

They are not prescriptive but descriptive.

No regulation says 'make food with >100 E-coli per KG' it always says 'use stainless steel table, no smaller than 2mx1m, in a well ventilated room of size...'.
My weekend project: A one-stop Solana token analysis hub
As someone who recreationally trades solana meme coins, I found myself constantly juggling between multiple analysis sites for token research. The process was tedious: copy a token address, open a new tab, navigate to a site, paste the address, repeat. It was time-consuming and disrupted my workflow.

Frustrated by this, I decided to create a simple solution earlier today. The result is a straightforward web tool that takes a Solana token address and generates direct links to that token's specific page in six essential analysis platforms:

1. DexScreener
2. RugCheck
3. Solscan
4. Birdeye
5. Solana FM
6. Bubblemaps

Now, instead of opening multiple tabs and repeatedly pasting addresses, I can just paste in the address once and access all these resources with a single click. It's not fancy, but it has significantly streamlined my research process and has the added benefit of me not having to remember what tools I like to use.

I built this using basic HTML and JavaScript. The tool doesn't store any data or perform analysis itself - it simply generates and displays the relevant links.

I'm sharing this in case others find it useful. Feedback and suggestions for improvement are welcome.

(Disclaimer: This is a personal project and not affiliated with any of the linked platforms. Always do your own research before making investment or trading decisions.)
> Uncle bob's Clean Code probably feels natural to Java devs.

No.
Out of curiosity - which country?
I prefer this. The failure to discus Lab and OKLab in the main link is quite odd.

Also, I'd mention to those who think that violet/magenta aren't "real" colors that the red X decays more slowly than the blue Z at short wavelengths so you can get saturated violet/magenta single wavelength colors (not well represented on the standard chroma charts) below 400nm at high power. Of course they aren't efficient for monitors (even blue isn't) and they're dangerous to look at for any length of time. But if you see a (single wavelength) violet/magenta laser, it's time to look away or shut your eyes.
MIT 11.350: Sustainable Real Estate
> Why would you expect a company not to pursue profits?

People keep talking about the obligation to shareholders for a company to maximize profits, but there's a wide list of possibilities between not doing that and seeking to actively, wholesale ruin privacy.

I expect the people in companies to take responsibility for their actions instead of pretending that they're beholden to the company's wants.
> Transmeta

Whatever happened to them ...

They had a somewhat serious go at being "third wheel" back in the early 2000s, mid 1990s?

PS. Actually considered getting a Crusoe machine back in the day ...
Not advocating for it but it's called economies of scale and it's happening in every country including mine (Australia)
> If the average user is fine with their data being sold in exchange for a service, then why not let them?

But they are not okay with it. I understand why Corporations like to insinuate that people who click OK to twenty pages of legalese in an EULA really are okay with whatever clauses in it, but in reality this practice is an abuse of contract law and exploiting asymmetric power relations. In theory, a potential customer could print EULAs out, suggest changes, and send back the revised contract for approval or further negotiation. In practice, nobody ever does that and corporations would freak out if it happened on a large scale.

The problem does not just occur with new big tech. Banks have been doing the same for decades. I recently put some money on a savings account and was greeted with pages and pages of fine print that literally only a lawyer can understand. Normally, nobody in their right mind would accept this. However, the bank serves as a utility, changing banks is very difficult where I live and they all have the same kind of contracts in their favor. There is no alternative. The same is true for social networks and other big tech. It's not really a free choice for a small business owner to have a Facebook account or for a self-published author to put their books on Amazon, for instance.

That's why strong regulations, good customer protection and privacy laws are needed.
The giant global computers that are Solana mainnet / devnet / testnet. The programs are compiled from Rust into (slightly tweaked) EBPF binaries and state updates every 400ms, using VDFs to sync clocks between the leaders that are allowed to update state.
> I came away feeling like Uncle Bob is more interested in playing rhetorical judo than anything else

That's his only option.

I am not trying to speak ill of the man, but I am quite dubious of his advice.

I truly believe everyone has something to offer. However, I would feel more inclined to follow Uncle Bob's advice if he actually had the portfolio to back it up.

If Linus Torvalds were to give advice on how to build an operating system's kernel, I feel as though I should listen. Not only because Torvalds had/has good ideas, but because he also has demonstrable experience and work to back up his claims.

Uncle Bob has a lot of words, but projects speak louder.
You're absolutely right, 90,900/week. Astonishing. ~2x in 3 months? [1]

Are we seeing the hockey stick?

They've been consistently candid, and indicated the next vehicle is the one they'll scale on, custom taxi by Chinese automaker Zeekr. I figured it'd be another couple years, maybe build out LA, scale SF to highways, and then maybe Zeekr. But they recently started testing it, way ahead of what I thought they would...[2]

EDIT: -3?! Anyone have feedback? Genuinely surprised. :)

[1]
May 10th to July 26th = 77 days
1,000,000 rides / 77 days = 12987 rides/day
12987 rides / days * 7 days/week = 90909 rides/week

[2]
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/23/the-waymo-zeekr-robotaxi-h...
Steps:
May 10th to June 1st = 21 days
June 1 to June 30th = 30 days
July 1st to July 26th = 26 days

1m rides in 67 days = 130k
This would also have a higher risk of introducing some nasty, hard to spot errors.

It's actually better for the compilation to fail than for the Clippy to make up something syntactically and compilation correct, but wrong.
This reminds me some other interesting things (but from Linux to FreeBSD) around 15-20 years ago:

* https://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/
I think we're actually somewhat in alignment, but when you say

> Pairing is a one-time thing,

You ignore the two scenarios I face regularly, that stem from me having lots of devices and lots of computers & wanting to switch around what's paired to what.

We both seem to be trying to defeat the notion that using Bluetooth in Linux is hard or special (it's not at all, it works like anywhere else, and these reports of it being hard are from people with at best extremely small domains of experience & knowledge).

I was trying to add that Linux has further upsides for when you do want to go further, and highlight & interpret the parent post to show how I have those issues & describe how adding hotkeys (something only Linux does) would help me, an advanced user juggling many systems & device. I've clarified my post to mention that auto-reconnecting will just work on most scenarios (but I get why some folks might think it's cool to have hotkeys).
>In the long term what matters is the people's quality of life and diversity.

I think you'll be surprised to find out just how many Europeans disagree with the diversity part. We are quite close to ethno-state Europe, just like how it was between 1800 and 1950.

Ask a European what they think of Gypsies for a wild time.
It would be unfortunate to find out your distro of choice will stop existing within a month. I used to run Gentoo but haven't heard of this until today -- do many people use it?
I am asking 'it' to validate the answers, and list the details. I.e. when I am asking it to go through some framework or regulation, and I am asking it to list the "technical controls that can be derived from the text" (e.g. law saw "you need to encrypt" thus an internal control is to "regularly check for encryption, blah blah blah".

So I am asking 'it' to create a table (instead of just a list of questions) that would include:
1a) suggested control
1b) example of evidence that would quality/pass/fail the control
2) article of law (i.e. Article 5 paragraph 10)
3) short quote from the article

Then I ask it to check its own output, and change 3) to add the full text/the whole paragraph.

99% is correct, and it is easier to scroll and see with my own eyes that the 'paragraph' is the same
Are they tenured professors?
Just curious, what industry do you work in?
With the SMT core count having to be one less.
It should go indeterminate whenever clicks from two users on the same checkbox are detected where the second click occurred before that copy of the checkbox received the result of the first click.
It's all about small changes. Getting a whole prefabbed house is a thing, but not the nicest. But pre-fabbed roof trusses are very common now. It's more work to ship those than the pieces, but on-site labor savings and consistency make it valuable. Pre-hung doors with doorframes are also the norm.

I'm not in the industry, but I could imagine there's some possibility for pre-fabbed wall panels, but I don't know how much that really saves, because I wouldn't think you want to pre-hang the drywall, it'll get damaged in shipping. Maybe you could prehang exterior sheathing. But it's a big increasing in shipping volume to save only a little bit of time and have a much less flexible layout.
Hmm, that's a solid argument. Thanks.

What I didn't include in my original argument is distributed, off-grid capture of electrons. I would still argue that a national security priority should be increasing the share of EVs and distributed PV generation. If every person, and Amazon distribution center for example, could go off-grid and continue at least partial capacity.. that would be a good thing, wouldn't it?
No, it's not.

This is a not-so-thinly veiled argument for deregulation and rolling back consumer protections, pretty much like the US. It's common to use scare tactics when it comes to regulations and taxes. "Companies will leave". "You're killing companies".

As long as the EU has 400+ million consumers and they have spending power a market will exist and companies will adapt.

Take the example from the article of CUDA being a monopoly. Well, NVidia obviously isn't a European company but it will comply if the EU forces them to open CUDA because the alternative is to close themselves off to Europe. That's never going to happen.

Stop believing this "companies will leave" propaganda.
A resistor is not circuitry, the resistor is a part of a circuit which in this case is analog.
No, its not whataboutism, because corruption in America is literally the subject that we're discussing.

How many people were affected by this issue? Again, it's a rounding eror compared to the number of people who are affected the corrupt practice of civil forfeiture.

These things are night and day different. A one off event compared to a systemic issue.
The steel-man version of "scientism" wouldn't be scientism, it would just be a straight-forward explanation of the scientific method and empiricism that acknowledges its limits.
Slightly related:

There was a time when web browsing was crazy slow and expensive, but there were e-mail services that were also crazy slow, but free.

There were mail to web gateways that you could e-mail a URL to, which would then reply with the contents of the web page. You'd then send another URL from that page, and get another reply, and so on. Free slow-motion web browsing.

I say "slow-motion" because this was back when getting a response to an e-mail took hours or days, not seconds. So you were lucky to get through three or four links in a day. But it was free, and we had other things to do than surf the web anyway.
It is not obscure or overlooked.

I would say that it is so hyped that it is been evaluated by almost everyone, but that most people give less-than-a-full-listen and conclude "I'm out."

I respect their decision.

Sometimes I tell people to watch the Vox Earworm about it. I find it expensive to engage with, so usually I do not--but I never feel like a listen is wasted time.
The OSS was inadequate the same day, when it was introduced; it couldn't even handle hardware available at the time (GUS, for example). It was really just mapping of the Soundblaster to a device file. For a single process, of course, all the others would have to wait, mute -- for mixing multiple inputs, you would need that dreaded daemon. Or GUS-like hardware, but with enough channels, so that yo won't run out of them. But then, mixing them in CPU is more effective, than pushing them all over external bus.

In a modern computer, you might have more sound cards than you are aware; the onboard sound codec, the outputs on your graphic card (that thing that pushes sound over DP/HDMI is a separate "sound card"), you might have some usb device (soundbars on monitors are usually usb sound devices), heck, even microphones from the last two decades have their own output. Webcam? Another sound device. Gamepad? That one too. And that's before anyone connects anything bluetooth. So it is not a small minority, in fact, it is the vast majority.

Audio stack boundary is in user space; period. It does stuff, that doesn't belong to kernel and is a perfect candidate for a daemon.
Perhaps the Uncle Bob principles do not create the best code, or most clear code, but more dogmatic adherence does make it harder to create the code I see on a daily basis that is so much worse and much more unmaintainable.
Meta should've been nuked when Cambridge Analytica happened; the fact that US lawmakers did nothing after that is a complete joke. Zucc should be in jail alongside every other piece of shit who thinks it's their right to mass-harvest every single person's personal data indiscriminately for profit.
> Omitting the "almost" from "almost none" makes it sound disingenuously more absolute than it actually is.

Except that isn't what happened. Within the context, 'almost none' referred to size of the group, not to the amount of crawling.

I was discussing how much crawling is being done - outside of the 'almost none' sized group.

The 'almost none' sized group has 'their own results', so they do crawl. Based on that, the rest do not. Ergo, they do not crawl.

A search engine that never crawls seems non-intuitive.
Interesting topic, but I would prefer it to be handled with more expertise than in this video. Seems to be a bit of unsystematic guessing.

Also the connections opened could be watched in a router and/or with something like Wireshark.
Yes. I haven't been able to get it to work reliably on any of my systems. Problem might be me.
Also it would help reduce overconsumption which is great given the finite resources we have on this planet.
That's got to be actually useful. I can't think how but there's got to be some situation where that is the best solution.
For Better or for Worse, the Overload
civial engineerin, is often small variation on every other structrure. as suchiit is easy to estimate as things didn't change. when things are very different is when they overrun schedules.
So making agricultural markets orders of magnitudes more efficient is destroying it in your view?
I don't believe a single word anyone from Meta says, yes. That company is full of amoral scum, you think lying is beneath them if it helps them out?
You know you're out of good arguments when you have to defend the eX-Twitter's blue checkmark fiasco
He means the network effects of it. Facebook has locked people in via Facebook groups, Instagram messenger and such.

So many people are in it’s if you don’t have it, it’s hard to be part of certain communities.

I deleted my Facebook like ten years ago, I missed out on a a LOT of party invites.
That might have been 1968. It's not like he worshipped his audience later, but he did get to a point where the fan base was large enough and more "in tune" with his thinking, organically. He made the comment that nobody could get 100% of what he'd do, simply because everybody's life experiences are unique, but maybe someone somewhere has enough context for 50-60% of his output. In later interviews he said that he offered a certain kind of product, which many might not like, but enough people did like, kinda employing him for entertainment. He just wouldn't go out of his way to cater to them. And he did know that the people at his concerts or buying his records were not a monolith. The most he might have done for them was when the band learned Whipping Post a whole seven years after a fan had interrupted the 1974 concert in Helsinki to request it. :-)

(If you think he liked orchestras, you should read about his LSO recordings and how he had to rescue them by editing tapes with razor blades. He wasn't actually happy until he recorded with the Ensemble Modern at the end of his life.)
Anything that gets close gets bought or killed by non-european giants.

Tencent buys basically all game companies, microsoft buys basically all communication companies (skype, nokia come to mind), google buys basically everything. Even ARM is owned by Softbank after starting out in the UK.

The Automotive industry and ASML are just about the only things resistant to this because they're so large already; Automotive acts a lot like big tech. (a clear similarity I saw after being in BMW R&D and Googles Zurich and SF campuses)
I'm feeling the irony of not being able to read this article due to the banner advertising in the Bloomberg site.
Bring back yellow pages.
Not on Apple's scale, but with apple pulling products from the market, this opens the door for someone else to step up and fill that highly profitable gap in the market apple abandoned. I really hope that they do. The more players there are in the game from other countries the better off we'll all be.
What rights are you contracting away, exactly?

Usually capitalist rhetoric refers to contracting as a right in itself, muddying your point significantly.
This could be the beginning of big tech for them, another winning situation.
I haven't heard of this distro before. What made it unique?
Wonderful video, cheers! I also had no idea Processing was so efficient at animations, I'll have to look into that furhter

https://github.com/argonautcode/animal-proc-anim
There have been no cards that can do hardware mixing under production for more than 15 years. This is delusional.

Also, the cards that could do that back in the day were, audio quality speaking, shite.

If that's really what you consider "the best audio linux has ever", I think you don't know audio on linux very well.

I will grant you one thing: if you did have one of those cards, it certainly made multiple applications all playing (same sample rate) audio at the same time as easy as it could be. But that's all.
Yeah if people complain about government regulation then they've never seen a company regulate a market.
Current advances in AI are based on miniscule, almost insignificant amounts of data, time, sensory abilities, and processing power, compared to what we know a human brain does.
The demographics have changed and that has A LOT to do with it. Not only inside of American, movies must now sell in places like China and India and to a lesser extent in Africa and satisfy very different kinds of audiences and worldviews very different from yours. It's business. Success at the global box office is just about a necessity these days for movies with gargantuan budgets. Sure there might be a DEI push and it might seem heavy-handed and forced at times but imo it is kind of necessary because Hollywood has been very slow to adapt. You might think you hate it but there are millions of people with equally valid opinion who actually think it is not enough. Somewhere between 'DEI' and the backlash (whether well meaning or not) there's hopefully a happy medium that satisfies most people, not just a minority.
How important “big tech” though? Honestly ? It’s even an insidious sounding name.
I guess it makes a sort of sense. Eyes sense photons, touch detects physical force, tongue and nose give useful attributes of chemical properties, and neuron clusters adjudicate probability, the navigation of all the possible paths for the organism. "This happens when you go there, go here instead"
Wonderful, thank you for providing this content at no cost. Would there be a description of what new material was added in this version?
Restic 0.17.0 Released
For those that don't understand the differences between Funtoo and Gentoo, this is a good summary:

https://www.funtoo.org/Wolf_Pack_Philosophy

My understanding is that it was created after the founder of Gentoo had some disagreements about the direction of the distro and forked. Many of the big distinctions (like git instead of rsync for updates; gentoo supports both now) have eroded over time.
You are saying I shouldn't be able to consent to letting someone sell my data? Can I sell my own data? How about if I shared it, would that be illegal?
Same. I've had interviews where people (younger than me) tell me "how do I know you won't be bored doing level-10 work, while your skills are clearly level-30 work? I don't want you to debate my budget or strategy" (because the team FTE costs is $2-3m and I'll be one of the pawns, while I've ran $20m teams as a rook or king).
Apropos Rome, there is the other semi-recent roman series, Spartacus, which obviously isn’t on the niveau of Rome, concentrating more on violence and nudity. But it did something very interesting with the language, making it through vocabulary far more archaic sounding, and as this blog post argues possibly somewhat "latin":

http://bachae.blogspot.com/2012/02/language-of-spartacus.htm...

(Don’t know if that’s true; back in school I wrongly chose French instead of Latin as a third language. Maybe someone else knows more.)
> persist on server shutdown

Probably this is not the simplest thing to do if you want a certain degree of reliability. Should be definitely easier than writing the entire storage engine, but likely an overkill for this kind of overnight hobby projects.