skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> highlight the exact thing that people fear about this technology -- that it will be used to destroy things that people love and those things will be replaced with yet more crap.

Indeed. We might not yet die by goo, but by slop.-
As a customer, I always say thanks for whatever someone did for me, and it I always feel like smacking another customer whrn they are on their phone while giving an order to someone at a counter, like the human behind that register was actually just part of the register. Just an npc, or a toaster. The company they work for does see them that way and treats them that way, but we have no excuse for doing the same.

As an employee, or a boss, I don't find it ridiculous to thank or be thanked for random tasks occasionally, especially when they are a little out of order. No one needs to be worshiped for making fries, and it's techically simply within the expected job description for the manager to tell you to go out back and wash the rubber floor mats or something slightly not your usual task, and yet never acknowledging anything ever is also just being an inconsiderate ingrateful assshole.

It's worth it not to be that guy even if only for the purely self-interest reasons of having more and better choice of employees who do a better job on average and give you less grief when you need a favor like to cover someone else's absense or a large job etc.

Asking instead of telling at least sometimes, and saying thanks at least sometimes, has to be genuine too. If it's just bs noises that don't actually mean you are being accomodating and flexible then don't bother. Even though the boss is the boss, and has the right to just didctate, and even if the thing you're asking is really all else being equal a command, the reason for asking is not just as a pacifier so someone feels respected when thy're not, it's to allow for the possibility that there actually is some problem. 99% of the time there should be no problem and thr answer is expected to be "yep got it", by asking, the person is far less stressed on an ongoing constant level feeling that if there ever was some problem, they could just say so.

It turns dictation into cooperation. Can you restock that station later? I have to pick up my kid. Can you do it now if I take you off this other thing? ok. ok. Much better that way.

Thanks for cooking the fries, or even good job on those fries does sound silly, because it is, because it kind of misses the point and isn't what they're talking about.
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon – Postgres Style
I don't know what "different realms" means. It's an analogy, so it won't be two identical things. The question is: why doesn't the comparison make sense?
IT systems on the internet are not like physical locations in a peaceful society. The analogy falls apart very quickly.

IT systems on the internet are constantly approached by millions of actors, good and bad, and if they are designed correctly then this is no problem and is not a burden on anybody. This is very unlike a comfortable office setting in a peaceful society.

You are making an analogy between modern banks and IT systems. Modern banks are almost never breached, while IT systems have major breaches every week. That's not a fair analogy.
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The PROMOTION of artists like Pollock might have been a CIA psyop, but I don't think the artists themselves were working for the CIA.
I stumbled across a DVD-RW last weekend and popped it in a drive to see if the files were still readable. I had read that for a -RW drive you shouldn't expect more than a few years, maybe a decade before it decays so I was not hopeful. However, the disc was fully readable and the checksums all came back clean even though it was burned in 2003.
This is the point, instead of rewriting a full stack, I would rather change the prototype of these APIs.

To store 999.999.999.999, then you are totally fine with a 64-bits INT (QWORD), and there is no struggle to backward-compatibility store a 32-bits INT (DWORD) into it.

It's more of a matter of doing #ifdef IPV4_EXTENDED #define DWORD QWORD #endif

and add an extra IP field inside the IP header packet itself that says, "this is the IPV4_EXTENDED DESTINATION 5-bytes IP", and the previous field is marked a legacy/deprecated.

In fact, it's quite convenient, since we are all INT64, sockaddr_in would largely fit in an INT64 for both IP itself and the other elements that are in the struct.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/sockaddr.3type.html

5 bytes for the sin_addr field is enough to store until 999.999.999.999.

Gives you 3 bytes to store the port etc.

The networking APIs guys could be drinking cocktails at the bar by now, if they would change these types.

There is backward compatibility and smaller effort for a great impact, and this is beautiful.

It's actually beneficial for the majority of developers.

From the developer of Windows, to the developer of Age of Empires, to the developer of a CRUD app on the web (who stores IP addresses as a string or as an int), they wouldn't see too much struggle to port to int64.

Less than having to build a full new IPv6 experience.

In practice, client apps, at the time you open a new socket, if your lib says it wants an INT32 or an INT64 it doesn't matter for the developer of that app, since type is automatically casted.

time() had a similar situation.

We migrated by adding new bytes, we didn't redefine the concept of time.

From a developer-experience, "link to the latest version of the network library, oh btw, connect() accepts an int64" and remove the UI restriction of 255.

It could even be possible to give compatibility to very old software that we lost source-code from by overriding the network layer with LD_LIBRARY_PRELOAD or equivalent, and patch these softwares by manually NOP the right JGE instruction (the asm code for " >= " ) that checks if we are over 255.
Doing one thing and doing it well is all and good, but most people are not interested in having to manually mess around with up to 4 raw keys in the pursuit of that. That's particularly true if you are doing pipes and you don't have any good place to put all those keys.

Most of the time you want to go:

gpg --sign --encrypt file

... and be done with it.
x86 is a variable-length encoding where more frequently used instructions tend to have shorter encodings. Thumb doesn't go as far, with only 2 and 4 -byte instructions. You can find old papers on Huffman encoding instructions.

More effective block compression schemes are harder to pull off because of branches.
Have you considered the cases are rare because people are extremely scared of it and take precautions?
No, just as you should be able to type your bank's URL in your browser even if they've taken the website down.
To a customer, it's irrelevant.
Hopefully the times learns to love paywall blockers.
I spent quite a bit of time a few years ago recovering my old MySpace account only to realize they “messed up” (unclear whether it was incompetence, or purposeful) and deleted basically anything that had been, oh I dunno, actually interesting: pictures, videos, playlists…you can’t even see the profile pictures of people in your friends list.

In the rush to move to whatever the next big social media was, I’d never thought about backing up my stuff because why would it ever be gone and why would I care? Lesson learned.

I was weirdly bummed out about it. Back when the site first launched I spent loads of time learning HTML just to customize my page before I realized site profile generators existed.
Upon seeing "Warrior Princess" I had first been expecting they'd given DFS an ambiguous (sororal or sapphistical?) companion:

In short, when I can tell you how I break the laws of gravity,
And why my togs expose my intermammary concavity,
And why my comrade changed her dress from one that fit more comfily
To one that shows her omphalos (as cute as that of Omphale),
And why the tale of Spartacus appears in Homer's version,
And where we found examples of the genus Lycopersicon,
And why this Grecian scenery looks more like the Antipodes,
You'll say I'm twice the heroine of any in Euripides!

[full text, footnoted: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~valkyrie/parody/xena.html ]
How many gas wells are punched for every gas turbine? Apparently there are about 500GW of natural gas power stations in America and 90000 producing gas wells, and 40% of that is for electric power, so 15MW per hole in the ground.
They haven’t released it because it doesn’t work. It displayed an unacceptable level of false positives, and was trivial to fool and bypass (meaning real cheaters go free and innocent people get accused).
I feel like it's apparent why comparing healthcare in the US with healthcare in, well, any of the aforementioned countries, is problematic. If you look at Western Europe (a bit less populous than the US) or the EU as a whole (a bit more population than the US) they have functional healthcare at much more reasonable rates than the US. Scale matters, but scale is also a matter of division. If a single system can't serve 300+ million people then it can be broken down into regional systems or state systems. That being said medicare already serves something like 60 million people. I'd argue that scaling a system to support 5x the number it currently serves is significantly more doable than scaling anything from zero.
Which is one of those extremely rare cases where an ad shows you the truth.
It's most likely a fake. Signed prints by Haring and Warhol for for a lot more — you can get an idea for how much by looking at Sotheby's/Christie's past results.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41162463
You seem to have a very narrow C++ view of what sum types are. Sum types are related to the expression problem, and the given example is the canonical instance of the expression problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem
I would argue that the quality of governance of those countries and the strength of their economies relative to the US dramatically outweigh looking at size alone. Size makes things easier. The more scale the more predictable the costs.

We have a single payer system for everyone 65+, because we had the political will to do it, and it remains funded and functional because it is an important and powerful political bloc. A lot of people make a lot of money from the dysfunction of the system for everyone else and they fight tooth and nail to keep that gravy train flowing.
No pricing page?
The problem with Rust in the boot process is that it's going to become much harder to find vulnerabilities for roots/jailbreaks. Still, this is great work!
Not Elon Musk’s grok? Because this one has a q at the end? So confusing. Someone should trademark in force the other.
Ejecta was a project that implemented WebGL with JavaScript bindings -- basically everything you need for a web game without the DOM. It implemented enough of WebGL to run Impact-based games.
> it just so happens the cheapest entertainment these days is in fact in your own house.

These days? That is pretty much true since advent of home computers in 80s/90s.
I just got back from a furry convention. Guess what? There was tons of people. People who mostly know each other online made the expensive and tedious choice to book a room at a hotel and a train/flight and get to Ottawa to go and see people they talk to online ALL the time. There was even the option of a VR experience. We /could've/ just stayed at home. We didn't.

I don't think there's a retreat from "friction" as the author puts it. I think the author is conflating their ideal activities as the only ones worth measuring. I think the thing that the pandemic actually changed was people's attitudes about letting other people dictate what they have to do.
We're at about 40%. Current energy use is 20 TW per year, and the heat capacity of the earth is about 50 TW.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt#Terawatt
In my opinion, more innovations (which the rest of the world’s public systems do benefit from), better customer service, better patient care (far fewer rude or abusive nurses and doctors), higher standards (quality of facilities and attention to detail and time spent with patient), flexibility (between providers, in scheduling, and even in the care/procedures you receive), etc. Oh and the ability to receive the care you are willing to pay for at all, instead of being denied. I do think there are lots of flaws too but feel they’re addressable with targeted legislation instead of some massive change.
Implosion of the Yen Carry Trade
No pricing page. Can anyone shed some light into their pricing?
I think this is a ridiculous sentiment, but I understand why it's so common. Proactively trying to head-off any and all possible problems before they cause measurable impact is not a great way to manage a product.

Maybe they did see impact, but I still would have rewarded non-abusive loyal customers for using the product—maybe restrict access based on resource-usage rather than hitting people with TOS violations. Instead this attitude (plus their generally very poor track record at supporting and improving their own products) has caused me to abandon all google products outside of work.
> > PinePhone doesn’t even have secure boot

If GP
is correct about that, software won’t fix that limitation in PinePhone hardware. I expect the lack of a secure enclave is a similar story.
This was going to happen regardless. I believe Nvidia's RISC-V coprocessor ships with hardware fuses that serve more-or-less the same purpose.

If anything, it just makes me glad that RISC-V also has specs for UEFI-like interfaces.
Not true. There are false premises in your argument leading to a false conclusion. You’re either misinformed or deliberately misleading.
I've always been a programmer. Because it was good enough for Dijkstra.
From what I've seen, it's not the same. I worked at McDonalds in high school and college. It was fun for the most part. But most of the employees were like me. Young, not really adults yet, pretty carefree.

The people I see at McDonalds today are not the same at all. Mostly older, disinterested, no energy, no spark, marginal care for personal appearance. You rarely see a high schooler or young person working there. It's just depressing to even be in there watching them.
Firefox does a "good enough" job of flushing tab memory on it's on. You don't really need these extensions.
My first CS prof (~2000) talked about a circular interface he used on some navy gear back in the early/mid 70s (complete with round screens)
If you haven’t you should try growing celery. The flavor difference is simply incredible.
Both cases assume that the user doesn't understand what a signature means. In either case it means that the signer certified the thing signed. Are paper signatures getting so rare that we are collectively starting to forget this?
Dismantling Smart App Control
There's not a lot of details there, but GPUs tend to not like code with a lot of branching. I'm guessing that's probably the issue.
This isn't a $XCityBad thing. It's happened to drunk crowds everywhere and is completely irrelevant to location or whether you're even downtown. I guarantee the two step bars in the burbs are filled with drunk drama too nowadays. I was in Austin, Tampa, Dallas, Houston and Denver over the last decade and go to a few of them yearly. Denver is far away the safest out of those and I'm glad to be here. I live in 5 points, which I'm sure you think is a big scary place.

I will happily trade seeing a person living in a tent and being able to go out and do an incredible amount of various things literally every single day without driving to living in the suburbs, but glad you like it. Cities are scary.

Can't walk home after 9pm.. lmao.

I'm more afraid of sitting at the airport nowadays than walking around downtown. That's where the real psychos are nowadays. Or hotel bars when traveling. Awful, rude impatient people who act like they've never left the house before. 2020 really did a number on peoples aggression/patience levels and industry people are taking the brunt of it.

Hell, if you look at the /r/boomersbeingfools subreddit it's all of the people living in the burbs being harassed by old angry grandparents constantly. I rarely see that crowd out here.
> Optimizing compilers on the other hand are all about outputting something that is equivalent to your code UNDER THE RULES OF THE LANGUAGE while hopefully being faster.

The problem here is how far you stretch this "equivalent under the rules of the language" concept. I think many agree that C and C++ compilers have chosen to play language lawyer games to little performance in real world code, but introducing very real bugs.

As it stands today, C and C++ are the only mainstream languages that have non-timing-related bugs in optimized builds that aren't there in debug builds - putting a massive burden on programmers to find and fix these bugs. The performance gain from this is extremely debatable. But what is clear is that you can create very performant code without relying on this type of UB logic.
Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html - you could post something like this without the Show HN but regular reading material usually can't be a Show HN which is more for things that can be tried.
If you proceed into the building? Almost certainly.

If you put the doors or windows through a stress test? Again, almost certainly.
My old University has been powered by Geothermal for 11 years now, and they produce quite a bit more than they need, so they sell excess to the hospital next door.

There are other geothermal wells on campus (not as deep or hot) just for hot water, that are used to flow in pipes directly under large staircases (campus is built on a hill) and sidewalks to keep them clear in winter, and are also used with large heat pumps to heat and cool all buildings on campus. Those have been used since the 60's..

Warning, PDF's

https://chptap.ornl.gov/profile/174/OIT_ORC-Project_Profile....

https://www.osti.gov/etdeweb/servlets/purl/895238
Support for MS-Windows Build of Emacs
I find it so jarring when visiting - not so much thanking (I would say thanks/cheers in those situations in the UK too) but the way it's taken (or so it seems) with such sincerity or like it was a huge thing that really needed to be thanked. 'Thanks.' -- oh you're so welcome!

It's completely arbitrary really, it's just really noticeable and, well, jarring when you're not used to it/used to different. I'm sure it's similar in reverse (I thanked him and he was so grumpy about it, didn't say a word! (Or he just said 'cheers' back, I didn't buy any alcohol?)).
GPU Restaking – Beyond digital currencies to physical computing resources
Yeah, this one needs to be resolved. It really is confusing since they're in the same space.
Only in the case of symmetrical encryption. Then the authentication is based on the shared secret key.
I've been kind of wanting to try to make a super-smokey pepper sauce. Thinking of getting poblanos, hatch, and/or jalapeno, smoking them on the pellet grill for 24+ hours using mesquite, then blending with vinegar, salt, and some spices.
I suspect it is because they have different activation functions on each edge, rather than using the same one over lots of data.
Meta creates top models, Groq has the hardware to run them. Whats not to like?
Yeah it's a baffling example to me. WordArt was really popular! People liked using it! The fact that it has aesthetically gone out of favor, years later, has nothing to do with software quality.
Chromatin imaging neural network analysis identifies DCIS at all stages
Gated by login: https://console.groq.com/settings/billing
I favorited your comment, thank you: https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=akkartik&comments=...
Fun fact: the creators of Max Headroom were the creators behind the original 1993 Super Mario Bros movie with Dennis Hopper, Bob Hoskins, and John Leguizamo.

The making of that film is a bit crazy. Part of the issue was, Disney bought the distribution rights shortly before filming was supposed to start, and demanded all these rewrites. Probably also demanded that the stripper scenes be cut. :P

Hoskins claimed that he and Leguizamo started drinking every day before, and between, takes.
Groq actually has a competetive edge about something, unlike Musk's "Grok"
Measured Boot maybe, but Secure Boot is not for that -- e.g. if your attackers can compromise your running Windows system (or e.g. your $HOME in Linux) the attack surface for spyware they can leave without any reasonable person noticing is HUGE.
Is there something special about this unlike the million other AI companies that justifies putting some company’s press release on the front page or was this the result of unnatural voting patterns?
It is incredibly confusing, Groq was first (by a lot) and they did write a nice letter (https://wow.groq.com/hey-elon-its-time-to-cease-de-grok/), but understandably they probably don't want to burn money suing the richest person in the world.
Bioavailability of Different Vitamin D Oral Supplements (2019)
Mine work now for almost 40 years. And don't forget: floppy disks have mechanical attrition.

The floppy disk lifetime was, as always, an estimate. My 5 1/4 disks for C64 seem to be the way more robust product compared with the 3 1/2 for Amiga and later PC. Maybe information density plays a role here.

CDs have the reflection layer problem, not the information loss per se. That's the main difference between disks and CDs.