skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A startup made for the purpose of acquisition was never a competitor. If you are willing to sell to the big player in your industry you are not competing, you are an opportunist. A startup that wants to compete will run very differently from a startup that wants to be purchased.

A big whale company that gobbles up some of the fifty startups that only have like 2% of the market total is not a competitive market at all.
Presumably as an example of where it doesn't need to go? The graphical representations are incomprehensible at first glance. I'm sure you can learn to understand them, but at that point why not just learn how to read the textual representation? Especially when it doesn't even uphold its claim of being equivalent. The textual representation shows some kind of error handling, but I can find nothing in the graphical representation that indicates that there is error states.
James H. Simons: Using Mathematics to Make Money
> If you want "historical accuracy", you would have the actors speak in Latin or Greek, but these days I'm not sure it'd find an audience

I think Barbarians had quite a bit of viewers on Netflix, right? I can highly, highly recommend the latin-german version[1] of season 1 - even though the Barbarians wouldn't have spoken modern German, it's still superb!

[1] sneak-peak: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ojC-zTXSAsY
Related:

https://gpuopen.com/download/publications/Real-Time_Procedur...

https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/WorkGraphCompute...

https://gpuopen.com/fidelityfx-cauldron-framework/
> This is exactly the sort of dumb reactionary politics that I don’t want in my life

Hey, that's what I thought when I read your comment!

What about the fact that the treatment of women and slaves is almost certainly significantly toned down from what we know to be the reality?

Also there was almost certainly way more gay sex going on among any number of historical personages. Commodus (Gladiator's main villain) in particular was said to have "defil[ed] every part of his body in dealings with persons of either sex." Where is your outrage at this lack of accurate representation?

The implication here is that it's really your own baggage that ruins the immersion for you. You suggest that you can't watch a movie now without cataloguing and mourning the places where a character was more likely in your opinion to be white, male and/or straight.

This is not something anyone can help you with.

White actors have dominated in Hollywood since the beginning, and I don't remember anybody complaining that Mickey Rooney's character in Breakfast at Tiffany's ruined the immersion. Or that literally all of the ethnic Asian characters in the Manchurian Candidate were played by white actors.
The worst part of this is that it writes racism out of history, and leaves young people with bizarre, unrealistic impressions of the past. It leaves them without the tools to understand their racist experience and environment in the present, which can be nothing but a comfort to racists.

If you're doing an artistic thing, fine. But I'm really getting sick of virulently racist eras being portrayed by a multiracial cast becoming standard. 20 years from now, young people may not even understand what the problem was, never having seen a depiction of racism, and watching black Scottish kings, while the descendants of slaves will still be living in the gutter with about the same wealth that we were released from the plantations with: zero.
Interesting take on Gacha game monetization, but I was more interested in the "mission statement" linked in the header of the blog: https://moonbearmusings.com/the-moron-filter-effect/
CL macros are more or less the same as Clojure macros and neither hold a candle to modern Scheme or Racket macros :)
Apparently they downloaded a bunch of the best bots at the time and tested locally to find a seed that performs the best.
The published figure of 10 million people is already outdated. First, they are official figures, which means that they are not telling the truth. Second, six months have elapsed; which means the actual number of residents is less than 9 million.
Not at seemingly infinite scale, no. The days of troll farms where a single human operator working in a low wage country is commanding 24 phones and social media accounts at once in a purpose built workstation are probably numbered.
There are still some mom and pop shops that carry that sort of stuff. Try to find one near you and then give them a lot of business
That's actually how it works, in the real world, with contaminants. Cocoa beans can contain up to 10mg of rodent poop per pound without any consequences.

https://www.fda.gov/food/current-good-manufacturing-practice...

https://www.livescience.com/55459-fda-acceptable-food-defect...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/health/insect-rodent-filth-in...

(And this case isn't even a contaminant; it's part of the ingredient that was not removed.)
I poked through a few messages in that thread and while there is a space benchmark, there is no time benchmark, something I would expect to see on switching from a LL to a cache-aware implementation. Phoronix, who would benchmark a potato if you told them it gave you better performance, has an article with no benchmarks. The commit says it should be good enough for someone to run a perf benchmark.

Is it common to add an unused data structure into the kernel without understanding its performance characteristics? If they are available it is not obvious to someone who has read the article, read the commit message, read lkml, went looking for benchmarks, and has still come up with no concept of how this might perform in realistic or synthetic scenarios.
Ask HN: Is using Docker worth it or just adds a lot of complexity?
Yes, I neglected to qualify "summer" with "northern hemisphere", but the substance of my comment doesn't meaningfully change with or without it, nor have I denied in other of my comments that "summer" is ambiguous depending on which hemisphere you're in. You're clearly just looking for stuff to nitpick.
You are correct. This headline seems to be purposefully obfuscating the difference. That Tesla is benefitting from these programs is more an indictment of the companies that are paying the money than of Tesla itself and that's where the opprobrium should go.
Policy and leadership failures, are responsible for employees continually being able to exploit the system.
> You'll have to migrate to FreeBSD or support yourself by building dkms modules. So you're taking a non-zero risk by adopting ZFS.

DKMS works fine. And you can also take the NixOS approach where it's not built into the kernel but the system will never actually install a new kernel unless ZFS is supported on it and successfully builds for it.

I agree that it's still not ideal, though. I hope bcachefs thrives and takes a place of pride in the Linux world!
A company, which makes IDEs based on Java and for Java, concludes based on its own surveys that Java is indeed still relevant. That's a shocking revelation.
Regarding the frequentist vs bayesian debates, my slightly provocative take on these three cultures is

- subjective Bayes is the strawman that frequentist academics like to attack

- objective Bayes is a naive self-image that many Bayesian academics tend to possess

- pragmatic Bayes is the approach taken by practitioners that actually apply statistics to something (or in Gelman’s terms, do science)
Always wear different shoes when you commit a crime, then dispose of the shoes afterwards. A friend told me that.
One of the things I've done in the past that is quick and easy is to use grub to chainload another bootable volume. Scp an iso or other disk image over, chainload to that, run the installer inside it as though it had just been pxebooted or booted from a flash drive. If you can netinstall from there, then you're good to go with the OS of your choice.

There's lots of ways if you have access to common cloud primatives (replacement root volume, etc) and have some creativity.

I did appreciate this post though because it's for a way I haven't used before.
Chandrasekhar dynamical friction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical_friction
Does Avalara handle MoR? I know they handle complex taxation in the US for the alcohol industry pretty well but I don't know their other features.
Now let's synthesize a Gaussian splat reproduction!
> (mechanical sympathy)

I get what you are trying to convey but that usage of the term is not helpful in the general case as it confuses what mechanical sympathy actually means.

Mechanical sympathy is simply this: abstractions that acknowledge the underlying embodying stratum of a dynamic construct. In code, that translates to software that attempts at harmonizing the software abstraction with the operational characteristics of the underlying computing device.
Huh, I'm extremely ignorant of C*-algebras (yet another area where JvN seems to have already been stomping around!) but the expansion between https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_C*-algebra#/media/File:D... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_C*-algebra#/media/File:D... really reminds me of Kleene-star expansion from A* to 1|A|AA|AAA|...

`*` is an involution in C*, however, and in Kleene `*` is idempotent.

Funnily enough, I've written a codegen with an involutive `*`: if one has Dijkstra-style IF...FI and DO...OD constructs in the intermediate language, it's possible to generate reasonable code in such a manner that (merely by patching all the jumps appropriately) one can round trip both IF->DO->IF and DO->IF->DO, with IF->DO corresponding to "star" and DO->IF corresponding to what Conway(?) called the "starth-root".

(Just as LISP got LABEL very early and LABELS relatively late, I think a great deal of harm has been done because data processing, from the card era up through early micros, had harsh pragmatic reasons to analyse A* as 1|AA*, yet many things simplify by multiplying cases in the pursuit of symmetry, and instead analysing A* as 1|A|A*A*)
Not directly related, but this made me feel nostalgic for RapidShare. :-)
I think that grade inflation is a tough topic.

On one hand, you could argue that grade inflation is actually a good thing: if pedagogical methods are getting better over time, then you should naturally expect grades to rise if standards stay the same. After all, we no longer expect literacy to be limited to the rich and/or highly educated.

On the other hand, grade inflation makes it harder to filter above-average students from below-average students. You could combat this by grading on a curve or by making exams harder, but this risks driving students into deleterious zero-sum behaviors - see Asian "cram schools" or American "tiger parenting".

On the gripping hand, maybe grades are the wrong thing to focus on. There does exist the argument that all social classes need smart people, not just the upper-middle/upper classes. Perhaps we should be focusing on improving living standards across society rather than attempting to brain-drain the working class. But this sounds like exactly the sort of thing that would be used to justify aristocracy.
The IQ of the average college student has dropped from ~120 to 102 over time.

College no longer the domain of a people pursuing intellectually-demanding careers. It’s become an expensive and completely unnecessary prerequisite for the general public, costing them a fortune not only in tuition, textbooks, boarding, etc., but also in the opportunity cost of delaying their earnings and career advancement by 4+ years. We’re now stuck in a fundamentally flawed system.

By ignoring the problems, and actually making them worse by lowering academic standards and pushing the student loan burden to taxpayers, it reeks of either gross incompetence or corruption in our government.
I don't understand. Is this not how everyone browses the web?
> What’s the barrier to entry for starting up a similar business?

The merchant of record model.
It's a self-inflicted problem, because as soon as you expose a device to the internet, you have to do constant security updates.

You basically sign up the consumer to an ever-escalating security war against devices by malicious actors.

I just don't want my car to be connected to the internet, full stop, ever. Let it receive GPS signals, and that's it.
Lumafield posts tons of these. I don't think the average person has thought at all about how these work, and even if they do, the appeal of these is to look at the pretty pictures (and demonstrate the analysis that is possible non-destructively to their target audience), not to understand "electricity makes wire hot".

They have a scan of a dang football, and it isn't because people don't know there's air inside: https://www.lumafield.com/article/ct-big-game-football
The site is broken right now, but I read this when it was first submitted some time ago.

Contrary to what the title would suggest, it's about finding a mundane JS memory leak in moment.js by attaching the chrome inspector to node. There's no out-of-the-ordinary tale here and there's certainly little mystery.

The article might be useful if you've never done it before and need some pointers.
Climate change cannot start a wildfire.

Only lightning strikes and humans can. (or volcanos but not a lot of them around the US)

Climate change can, and does depending on the nature of the change, increase the risk of wildfires.

Also bears playing with matches.

edit: It is possible for a large mound of organic debris like a mound of animals that got killed by lighting and then rapidly covered and then decomposed by really vigorous microorganisms to spontaneously ignite but that would be so rare in a world without humans heaping up big piles of the stuff as to be irrelevant.
Recent and related:

One Million Checkboxes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40800869 - June 2024 (305 comments)
No hidden ~local~ variables, as stated in the first paragraph of your link.
In no particular order; Python, Go, Perl, C, Java, Ruby, TCL, PHP, some proprietary stuff, all recently (last 1-2 years) and in different versions: Java: 8, 11 and 17, for example. Deployed to multiple environments at multiple sites, except the C, which is embedded MCU work.
This is something I have noticed and that frustrates me a great deal. Science is treated as received wisdom handed down by the authorities.

I have made great efforts to avoid that in my children's education. A hint for people in the UK - look at science GCSEs other than the usual physics, chemistry biology trio. My daughter did astronomy and it was far better as it had a lot of explanation of historical cosmology and what the evidence has been for various theories.
Cool!

Minor feedback, when I went to sign up, I got "Secure sign-up code is on it&apos;s way" Seems to be some escaping issue.
Interesting that Arc'Teryx is owned by Chinese conglomerate Anta Sports, yet chooses to partner with an American firm on this. It's interesting because China is way ahead in this particular field, and already dominates in civilian exoskeleton production.

This sort of Chinese product is starting to find its way to the West: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hypershell/one-horsepow...

...But there are a dozen firms in China that make similar products that are already commercially available, e.g.: https://www.kenqingkeji.com/product_details/14.html

At a glance, the style of exoskeleton favored by Chinese firms is a hip exoskeleton which assists in raising/swinging the leg, whereas the MO/GO is a knee exoskeleton which assists with straightening the leg and putting one's foot forward. From a metabolic cost perspective, the Chinese style is markedly superior in most scenarios save for climbing. Presumably the MO/GO is mountaineering oriented, whereas most of the hip exoskeletons are mobility oriented.
That’s confusing the issue a bit. Or, if you prefer, you are arguing against a strawman.

The claim is not that climate change “causes” fires (how would that even work, exactly?)

The claim is that the conditions that allow these fires to grow explosively and do so much damage are due in part to climate change. Without climate change, we’d still have human-caused fires, but their effect would not be so severe.

I take no position on this claim, but this is how it is typically advanced.
I know New York is big, and the NYPD is big, but $115 million still seems like way too much
Thats insane

Is git a "clone" of bitkeeper?
IDE company's survey shows it's own product as overwhelmingly most popular IDE. Who could have guessed?
> I'm not sure if it's MBAs at Google sending Reader to the graveyard, or perhaps engineering management reading the usage tea leaves and making a cold calculated numerical decision rather than considering for other customer factors.

Who manages those managers? The answer is probably MBAs with spreadsheet driven metrics for cutting projects. Reader in particular was egregious because it very easily could've been productized and sold.

> Google, famously, is an incredibly engineering-driven companyGoogle, famously, is an incredibly engineering-driven company

Perhaps it once was. Sundar has next to no experience in the industry he leads. This is not uncommon. A brief look at several of the Google executives now shows a dramatic lack of experience in actual software engineering. Some of them have high-flying CS degrees but that is a meaningless metric.

Coincidentally in my startup-filled career I have rarely met an executive that was an actual engineer. When I do, they are typically 10-20 years behind current technology (even ignoring the new-framework-a-week nonsense). Actual, hardcore, born in the trenches engineers seem to have their heads held underwater by the sociopathic business school leadership.
There was a similar one where they found paper aeroplanes in an old schoolhouse, that probably predated actual aeroplanes. Unfortunately the only report is in the Daily Mail, not exactly a reliable source:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2111963/Schoolboys-...
Java is a language (better than rust)
Adfree Cities is worth checking out - https://adfreecities.org.uk

HN post from 7 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38629763
> The state of a quantum system after collapse appears to be completely random, so it’s possible that an external force could affect it.

"Completely random" means the opposite of "an external force could affect it." It means there is no relationship between input and output.
The game of thrones accents are pretty cringe though, leaning way too hard on the "dark featured eastern beauty with an unintelligible accent" trope whenever there is a brothel scene. I'm glad they realized this was stupid and had Myseria unceremoniously drop much of her fake accent for Season 2 House of the Dragon.
Meta-Thunderbolt
I understand why someone may intentionally or accidentally start ONE wildfire but always been baffled anyone could do it a second time realizing the effects. It's a weird phenomenon.
I see no reason at all that qualia should depend on quantum mechanics. It's just hand waving at mystical woo.
The second kind is still information though. Where do they sell mobile phones? At the grocers? At the butcher shop? At the dress shop? At the shoe store? If I had a small store that wasn't Walmart, and wanted people to come to my store that sells cellphones, isn't it also informative to know that my store exists and that I sell cellphones? It's only because people already know about Walmart and that it's an everything store that makes your example seem like it's not informative.
> It makes me want to ask Putin to just launch those nukes already...

What's with accounts here wanting Putin to use nukes all of a sudden?

'If I could have one wish it would be for Putin to nuke Warsaw.'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41051619

It is some meme I'm not getting? Bizarre.
I agree: it seems like extant policies maintain systemic incentives to exploit the system but too much leeway, perhaps, is afforded to individual officers in their discretionary use of time. Better recordkeeping might see greater adherence to well-intentioned policy.
Does anyone actually want to clutter their code with such annotations? The example looks like something that should always warn or always generate an error, which makes this whole exercise seem that much worse.
V programming language – Releases 0.4.7
Paper: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/RepulsiveShells/ind...
Depends on the use case, and the alternatives available to you.
It's well known fact among those who have anything to do with retirement homes: really old people with severe dementia and other such ailments have no problem recalling music, their favorite songs, etc.
Which games are those?
Finance and accounting are my least favorite aspects of being in a startup, yet absolutely crucial. Does anyone have any tips helping my brain learn to enjoy these? Loaded question...
not a well thought out take, but i think visual programming should stop trying to encode application logic and focus on:

- building good UIs rapidly (e.g. improving & simplifying layout options, look & feel, etc.)

- make debugging trivial & powerful

- make deployment trivial

Visual Basic was on the right track in almost every way except as a language. Hypercard maybe had the language thing figured out: use english as a base?

Hooking up loops and conditionals visually is a waste of type, people can type it out with a little instruction with a good IDE & code completion that caters to non-coders. Focus on the tooling around the code & the things visual development has proven good for (laying out UIs, debugging) and then the stuff that people don't want to think about (deploy)
As reported by the article: "However, for smaller matrices, we’re doing poorly in comparison to Nvidia’s library! This happens because cuBLAS contains not one single implementation of SGEMM, but hundreds of them.", it would take considerable effort to replace CuBLAS.
Nothing new, we've been doing it like that for ages here in Germany. But it's a cool Hamburger phone.
Good luck trying to sue a restaurant if you get food poisoning, though. That's typically just considered part of the normal risk; I think this is thought of as the same way. You'd have to show specifically that the restaurant failed to use the normal amount of care for the industry.
> At its core, it is price fixing, and already technically illegal.

In what way? Price fixing is when competitors agree not to compete.
FWIW NASA's modern brand standards (including RGB/HEX/CMYK/PMS codes for the brand colors) are at https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/brand-guidelines/
I don't think this really helps: It's a trick to drive maximum possible memory bandwidth in service of a single executing thread which can process data as fast as it's being delivered.

A parallel matrix multiply running across every core shouldn't have any trouble maximizing memory bandwidth utilization.
Related:

NASA Graphics Standards Manual - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14890791 - July 2017 (8 comments)

NASA Graphics Standards Manual (1976) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11356246 - March 2016 (8 comments)

NASA’s 1976 Graphics Standards Manual [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10236380 - Sept 2015 (1 comment)

NASA's 1975 Graphics Standards Manual - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10171018 - Sept 2015 (10 comments)
there's a video on their instragram and linkedin posts, but weird to not link the article https://www.instagram.com/reel/C93Nec8MTH0/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWF...
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7222666...
> you think that writing graffiti is self-advertising

I wonder what else you think it could be? The vast majority of graffiti works I have seen, whether in person or in books of graffiti art, consist of nothing more than the writer's alias. Some people advertise their persistence, by scrawling their names in as many places as possible; some advertise their athleticism and courage, by writing in spots which are difficult or dangerous to reach; others advertise their artistic skill, writing their names in elaborate style with color and shading; but they're virtually all just writing their names, over and over, trying to build a reputation.