skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless they've been issuing a ton of new shares recently and then selling them into the market at something resembling the current share price, the amount of capital they've raised is nowhere near their current market cap.

But it looks like they've actually been buying back some shares - they've got fewer shares outstanding than they did a year or two ago.

Not that it matters much - they've still got plenty of cash and other capital available.
> If you open the window some flies will get in

If enough flies get in, the housecats will be more interested in them than in the pigeons outside?
I skimmed right by that. Have you done any feature comparisons against raylib?
Books offer a unique window into the lives and minds of others
Especially with something like voting, it is worth considering those who actually can't use paper and pencil.

In college I worked in a research lab building accessible voting systems. We regularly ran test elections with the deaf and blind community. Its both amazing to see how adapted a person can become to living in a world that assumes a certain level of physical ability. Its also amazing to see how horribly inaccessible most voting systems are.

With paper ballots, for example, you are usually limited to sitting in a booth with a poll worker and telling them how to fill in your ballot. That does technically work, but breaks voter privacy and you have no way of knowing if they filled it in right because, well, you can't see the ballot.
Ask HN: Best Wework Location in NYC?
Hello,

I have a fully remote job, but I want to work somewhere I can meet other people in the tech industry. Someone suggested doing a Wework because they have people from many different types of companies. I was wondering if there is an NYC Wework location (or other coworking space without a long-term contract needed) that has a good culture and people are open to connecting. Thanks!
Everyone knows what GP is getting at, those opposing GP knows it leads to fragmentation and vendor lock-in, not standardization and open sourcing.
I was comparing it to the equipment used to carry the laser or pesticide. The application of pesticide itself is ~2-3 orders of magnitude larger the laser before you consider manufacturing or transportation.

The laser itself is a rounding error here, what matters is the other equipment involved.
Thanks for busting that myth. Foliar isn't about hydration state, it has chemicals and surfactants and it's recommended to do it in morning/night. according to this AL extension office, it can causes a phytotoxicity (leaf burn) at high leaf temps (probably because higher uptake rate of the chemicals) https://www.aces.edu/blog/topics/lawn-garden/foliar-feeding-...
These are still very much in use in Germany today. I met a few of these guys in Berlin looking for a couch to crash on for a few days, all carpenters and very funny guys.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journeyman_years
efficiency != democracy
That’s a questionable assumption, but fine - look at production capacity of air to ground missiles, or whatever it is that you think is relevant.

You will find that US can only produce a fraction of what it could in 1970’s.
> aside from some relatively short-lived attempts at imperiogenesis in eastern Europe

Hm? The Golden Horde seems to have lasted for a fairly respectable period of time as far as empires go. Mongol rule in Russia outlasted Mongol rule in China by more than a century.
I read that book when it came out. Really liked it, but, from that link:

"The reasoning of 1421 is inexorably circular, its evidence spurious, its research derisory, its borrowings unacknowledged, its citations slipshod, and its assertions preposterous ... Examination of the book's central claims reveals they are uniformly without substance."

Whelp!
The probability of picking a single number can't be used to determine the probability of picking a set. You can't build intuition this way.

This is almost exactly the same thing as saying integrating x^3 from minus infinity to plus infinity is zero because each zero width line has zero area, so adding them all up is zero too.

Gives the right answer by coincidence, but also works to show incorrect results.
Some apps apparently only go through a human after they gain enough traction, as evidenced by the Skacz Kurwa incident:

https://youtu.be/Cw7wke_FtuI?si=3b6f3Ohd4wb_0xVS

Despite (and due to) its very much non-family-friendly title it managed to gain considerable attention before being taken down.
Intel has been trying to make cutting edge fabs...and we all know how that is going.

There is good reason nobody wants to be in the fab business.
Here's a talk about how CrossCode was ported to Switch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfBzlzvt8RU
This is presumably based on a project that reconstructed C++ from the disassembly.

https://github.com/halpz/re3
> The book speeds through the actual flight history of the shuttle, including the Challenger and Columbia accidents.

Which people who are critical of the shuttle love to do because it allows them to ignore all the great research, study, and orbital practice we built up using the shuttle.

We docked with Mir. We built the space station. We launched and captured satellites. We did untethered astronaut operations. We repaired several satellites including Hubble. We did zero g medical and electrophoresis experiments. We did tons of space habitation experiments.

While it's possible we could have developed a better vehicle the shuttle provided a premiere research and study platform for the entirely _new_ space industry we were trying to create. We didn't know what we were going to need until we did the work. The shuttle did that work wonderfully and provided several capabilities and massive amounts of electrical power that were unusual and massively aided our space program and our understanding of what the future would hold.

It annoys me that people focus on the unusual and ultimately flawed design of the shuttle and then use it as a means to judge the space program or NASA as a whole. We did huge, insane, and novel things with that absolutely beautiful machine. It set the stage for the next generation of space exploration and the program should always be cherished for what it was able to become.
Why? K8s so far had been very well designed piece of mature and battle tested infra software and documentation is awesome. It also removed a lot of headaches over other proprietary junk I had to deal with. While many hopes and dreams are that docker compose or docker swarm would be enough, once your application group ranges above 100 and want less pampering, k8s is unbeatable.
I've been enjoying La Posta Hatch Smoked Chile the past month. It's nice and smoky with a decent kick. My last bottle was African Rhino Peri-Peri, which is a much brighter sauce then the smokey ones.

https://lapostachileco.com/products/hatch-smoked-chile-hot-s...

https://www.hotsauce.com/african-rhino-peri-peri-hot-sauce/
Urgh, typo but I can't edit anymore. I meant: is not necessarily bad.
> If SQLite wants exactly C89, it can just require -std=c89, and then people compiling it with a different standard target are to blame.

Backwards compatibility? I thought that was a target for WG14.

> This is just standard backwards incompatibility, nothing about UB

But UB is insidious and can bite you with implicit compiler settings, like the default to C99 or C11.

> whether the C standard should always be backwards compatible is more interesting, but is a question orthogonal to UB

If it's a target, then it should be.

And on the contrary, UB is not orthogonal to backwards compatibility.

Any UB could have been made implementation-defined and still be backwards compatible. But it's backwards-incompatible to make anything UB that wasn't UB. These count as examples of WG14 screwing over its users.

> I do remember some mention somewhere of a real platform in fact not handling size 0 properly being an argument for reducing the standard requirement.

So WG14 just decides to screw over users from other platforms? Just keep it implementation-defined! It already was! And that's still a concession from the pure defined behavior of C89!

> I had edited one of my parent comments to mention realloc, so if we both landed on the same example, there's probably not that many significant other cases.

I beg to differ. Any case where UB was implicit just because it wasn't defined in the standard could have easily been made implementation-defined instead.

Anytime WG14 adds UB that doesn't need to be UB, it is screwing over users.
The state of C++ package management: The big three
'Charger hogs' are ruining the electric vehicle experience
Most of the requests came from Google. I have a couple of keywords where SkillsRace is ranking pretty well. I can't say much about the second one. I am going to start talking with them tomorrow. I hope a few will reply so I can gather more insights and feedback. I already have 5-6 replies from earlier, and I asked them to join the waitlist. I will try to convince more to talk.
"These drives enabled computers to permanently store and retrieve data."

Interesting that computing has become so thoroughly integrated and invisible that an aside in the article notes this.
> Today, if you have a powerful enough GPU cluster, you can run an internal GPT4-level LLM by deploying Meta's LLama 3.1 405b.

You also have to be willing to consume ungodly amounts of energy to run those GPUs. That seems like an important caveat while the conversation about climate change and unpredictable weather is still top of mind for so many people.
> The vast majority of research into photobiomodulation was done on animals, not humans, and most positive results in lab animals do not lead to approved interventions in humans

This statement is true for all medical research. It's not a critique unique to PBM.

> Proponents of photobiomodulation will often cite that we understand how it affects the body at a molecular level, but these kinds of mechanisms are easy to hypothesize and they do not imply that the technology is actually curing anything

Also true for all medical research.

There is no actual examination / critique of any evidence, just a meta critique about the unreliability of young science with questionable hype to evidence ratio. Which is well deserved, but very redundant.

This kind of article is very easy to write, and can be copy pasted for any emerging area of research: be skeptical, wait for oodles of double blind RCTs, don't give money to hype artists.
Individuality isn't always welcomed. I've had multiple managers tell me to use a narrow vocabulary, and intimate friends tell me I'm wrong for asking for "a pound and a half" of something at the deli counter instead of "one and a half pounds". The common thread is that I'm wrong for not fitting in. No one seems to win for being themselves if they're not within some tight band of acceptability, and reading a lot of works written before 1975 while growing up definitely places you on the fringe.

Maybe GenAI can prepare you for what real people can actually deal with.
Here's a recent English report.

isis-online.org/uploads/isis-reports/documents/TaiwansFormerNuclearWeaponsProgram_POD_color_withCover.pdf

Looks like there are some old archived articles on TW wiki of their nuclear program. Coverage stirried up in early 2000s when US/PRC relations warming up and TW felt threatened about their security started seeding more info about nuclear program, hinting they can restart. I read some of the books that started popping up a few years later, they were in Chinese, I can't recall them anymore.

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E8%8F%AF%E6%B0%91%E5...

ISIS report interesting in that on the box on page 123, note 14, acknowledges US+PRC intelligence cooperation (from interview by authors with former CIA/US ambassador to PRC). This is something I've seen mentioned in Chinese writing years ago, getting confirmed. Hence there's something to PRC's narrative that they had foreknowledge of TW program and had hand in compelling US to dismantle TW nuclear program to avert crisis.
If that were true, when the Portuguese and Spaniards got to tne new world 90% of the people would have died recently of disease.

Those chinese ships were small floating cities and disease would have spread throughout the continent.
Aw, that's not what I hoped it would be. An actual file-based calendar UI is a neat idea, where you can (for instance) echo into a file to create a calendar event on the command line.
Surprise, the study designers did happen to also think to control for smoking.
I'm not sure it was purely causal, but it was definitely symptomatic of a company that was so comfortable with its monopoly position that it focused efforts on maximizing value extraction from existing products vs new product innovation. Over time this shift in focus certainly contributed to their slide.
Warm greetings Ethan,

I'm a computer vision developer currently working at Tech Mahindra and have extensively worked in the field of video analytics and its applications in factory floor and warehousing. I wish to further expand my knowledge and put my experience to work with your company.

I'd be glad to hear from you.

Thank you for your time,
Yours sincerely
Rijul Singh
rijulsingh04@gmail.com
No need for human review, they can just reject anything suspicious.
Wild guess on one of the major reasons in western cultures: A women will unlikely create a family with a man who is not economically solid/future proof.

Economic solididy and future proofing has been carefully destroyed in the last decades in our modern western societies.
It's a variety of beefsteak tomato, and those are widely available. At WalMart, even.[1] They're unusual, but not rare.

[1] https://www.walmart.com/ip/Beefsteak-Tomato-Plants-Two-Live-...
I wouldn't do it out of fear that someone else might find it and read it. Having been witness to the fallout of such an event, friendships were ruined, a relationship ended, and there was much emotional pain.

Some things are just best kept inside one's own head.
I agree. But I commented because there is a significant overlap between the two.

For Indian mythology, many, many people believe that their Gods are historical characters, too.

And I have seen plenty of non-zealous, non-fundamentalist, hatredless, kind people who believe in this way, and the peace they derive from it to see it as fully bad.

I know the other side of the coin, too. But you should know that such people exist.

I read some basic "Bible for Kids" kinda stuff before it, but the first time I felt something for Jesus Christ was through the novel Ben Hur.

When fiction and living religion is mixed in a good way, with zero ill-intent, the differences fade to a significant degree.
> Ideally there would be superior alternatives to something like Electron while still remaining accessible.

That's exactly why we in the Handmade Network community are building Orca (https://orca-app.dev/). It will take a while, but that's the goal.
It was an interesting read, thanks for sharing.

There were some communities out there, via both BBS and early internet forums, & etc. I remember reading Phrack, 40hex, and similar zines which had extensive documentation and samples.

You can still find them online, along with other things:

http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/40HEX/
> why does a voter want to see their ballot?

Because of potential malware on the client's device that can manipulate a vote before it is cast.
Not to defend the tapes, but typical use case of holo tape is to make your own pattern, which comes with big setup cost and small marginal cost of production, so it's not economically feasible/reasonable to copy it for one-off stunt.
Don’t worry, I’m sure your smaller parties are competent enough to rules lawyer as well.
There are some "double counting" techniques which lead to very intuitive solutions. Perhaps one could find such a solution.
This is abhorrent behavior from a moral stance. I figure the US has never had a moral upper hand. A morally superior stance would be to shed all hostilities and work toward common goals that enrich everyone's lives - there are many such attainable goals. The mental reptilians among us on both sides, hiding as mammals, can't however let go of hate.
That page specifically says the free plan is for development and testing only. Not much point in setting up a form when it might get silently g-lined at any point for ToS violations.
That was my assumption, indeed.
What's the downfall part of that?
Most architectures have a subset of their instructions that can be called in constant time (constant time meaning data-independent time). Things like non-constant pointer loads and branches are obviously out, and so are div/mod in almost all chips, but other arithmetic and conditional moves are in that set.

CPUs are actually much better at making those guarantees than compilers are.
TFA complains a lot about the camera, specifically about poor quality night pictures which are not sharp enough. However the pictures displayed look fine for a phone camera. Am I missing something?

This years Razr looks like a very cool device. It would be awesome to have more high-end choices other than Samsung or Apple.

I really like how small this phone is. Have played around with my friend's brand new z-fold a few weeks ago and it's neat but quite the chunkster (they fold out be a small tablet, but are almost twice as thick as a typical phone).
The article below claims that milder store-bought peppers are the result of growers using different varieties, which is driven by larger (factory) consumers of the peppers.

https://www.dmagazine.com/food-drink/2023/05/why-jalapeno-pe...
Berkshire halves Apple stake, boosts cash to $277B as it gets 'defensive'
Even PSP had Flash, and it was fairly decent. I wonder how much effort and money Sony put into that.
To translate:

- the engineering team delivered on many goals along with 2 serious downtime incidents

- the product team had too many people to please and produced insane requirements that ultimately failed to achieve most (all?) of the goals of the platform versus just using rockets.
ABA can be started as soon as a diagnosis is made. I think now it's 1.6 years of age, and while I'm not exactly sure about the ABA umbrella, I'm sure "early intervention" exists even for the 1.6 years mark.
If you are paranoid/targeted you just normally don't leave it, just always take it with you.
We have a perfectly reasonable blueprint for an ML accelerator that isn't tied into the google ecosystem: nvidia's entire product line.

Between that and the fact Google already sells "Coral Edge TPUs" [1] I'd think they could manage to untangle things.

Whether the employees would want to be spun off or not is a different matter, of course...

[1] https://coral.ai/products/
> Why Did You Do This?

> I used this project as an opportunity to learn about Rust and FUSE file systems. I also think it's hilarious.

> Visitors interested in the code should note that this is
an irredeemably messy codebase—it's full of hacks, unidiomatic code, and wildly poor design decisions.

> However, visitors should also
note that that's okay. The
best way to learn something
new is to try it out for
yourself—and creating a mess
is a vital part of that
process.

I absolutely love this sentiment. Why do this? Because it’s fun. And messy. And sometimes, that’s okay. Not everything needs to be a product… sometimes it’s enough to do something because you can… or want to… or because $RANDOM reason. I’m very grateful to the author and whoever decided to submit it today.
This is absolute nonsense. You can't have peace and prosperity if the other side doesn't want it, see Ukraine. How anyone can still look at it this way in the current geopolitical environment is beyond me.
None of that worked out of the box, and we also spent most of the loading time CPU bound, processing the individual assets after they arrived over the wire. That was a blocking, non-async operation.
> Backwards compatibility? I thought that was a target for WG14.

C23 removed K&R function declarations. Indeed backwards-compatibility is important for them, but it's not the be-all end-all.

Having a standard state exact possible behavior is meaningless if in practice it isn't followed. And it wasn't just implementation-defined, it had a specific set of options for what it could do.

> Any case where UB was implicit just because it wasn't defined in the standard could have easily been made implementation-defined instead. Any UB could have been made implementation-defined and still be backwards compatible. But anything that wasn't UB that now is counts as an example of WG14 screwing over its users.

If this is such a big issue for you, you could just name another example. It'd take, like, 5 words to say another feature in question unnecessarily changed. I'll happily do the research on how it changed over time.

It's clear that you don't like UB, but I don't think you've said anything more than that. I quite like that my compiler will optimize out dead null comparisons or some check that collapses to a 'a + C1 < a' after inlining/constant propagation. I think it's quite neat that not being able to assume signed wrapping means that one can run sanitizers that warn on such, without heaps of false-positives from people doing wrapping arith with it. If anything, I'd want some unsigned types with no unsigned wrapping (though I'd of course still want some way to do wrapping arith where needed)
I don’t understand that. I read that many times, including money mustache. I just can’t imagine 1/4 income is sufficient. Again, I’m not trying to be difficult but I don’t know anyone who was able to FIRE that way.
Yep, and a lot of backup software will use them (along with file size, and other stat() fields) to determine if a file has changed, so backdating them can actually lead to silently stale backups
> What people call "introversion" today is the reality that some people legitimately leave most social interactions more exhausted than they started

“Some”? How about all! Of course being outside, physically interacting with others is exhausting: of all the social interactions which one can have, the most exhausting and at the same time the most ecstatic is sex, and that often puts people to sleep!

There is a push and pull, everybody wants to be left alone sometimes. To strictly delineate between introverts and non-introverts (since you’ve seemingly thrown out the other dichotomy as “pseudoscience”) just invents an identity around a behavior that is actually shared amongst everybody: and then calling yourself special for doing it. That is the most infantalizing part: identifying with a social imaginary, thinking of yourself as part of some greater whole! What an irony that its a whole of people who think they want to be alone all the time! Go ahead, try to be truly “by yourself.” Stop reading Hacker News, stop going grocery shopping, stop leaving your house: move to a cabin in the middle of the woods—see how long you make it.

You are always already social, almost everything you do involves social interaction, you would not have been brought on this earth without your family or whatever social arrangement raised you. What you’re really doing is, as the article said, isolating yourself from the dangerous part of sociality: meeting new people, talking to someone who is standing in front of you, throwing off your insecurities and not worrying about what others think.

I say, if introvert is arbritrary, then we’ll start calling it infantalism. Since you said it doesn’t matter! At least that word is closer to the truth.
Direct link to playable wasm version:

https://phoboslab.org/high_impact/biolab/