skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I make about 180k live alone in a mid sized rust belt town: until 2 years ago I lived like a king - the average income here is about 31,000. It’s still 31,000 now but I am hardly making enough anymore to save anything. How is anyone else ? Why do they keep making things more expensive ? Mg tax return flatly told me I was in the top 1.5% of wage earners. It I’m struggling , how are the other 98% doing ? How is this sustainable ?
Related:

How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21870906 - December 2019 (92 comments)
Every day we stray further from using the web to deliver documents.
The Colors of GTK
func findThing(things []Thing, name string) *Thing {
for i := range things {
if things[i].Name == name {
return &things[i]
}
}
return nil
}

Also you could just return i or -1, and the consuming code would be clear about what it was doing. Find the index. Update the item at the index.

if location := findThing(things, name); location != -1 {
things[location].Name = "updated"
}
Couldn't agree more. Must be politics. The reasons sited for the suspension totally misrepresent the conversation too. It'd be nice to know what's actually going on.
Looking at the supported platforms, it looks like the only one is Linux. The README has this to say about it though: "This will run on Linux; however YOU SHOULD NOT RUN THIS ON LINUX. Instead use the kernel module; see the installation page for instructions."
The lab leak hypothesis is damaging science
That's where Australia is going to want to be. Perfect for solar. Vast quantities of low population density land with virtually perfect solar weather, and relatively near the equator.

The only issue is that, like the Sahara, but unlike the Arabian peninsula and the American Southwest, Australia is not closely located to any other major consumers of power, so will need to build that kind of infrastructure.

To be honest I'm quite excited. I think the transition to solar is happening faster and at an accelerating rate, ahead of anything we dreamed of even a decade ago.
You're obviously not talking about energy policy or laws of physics. You're making moralistic judgements and anthropomorphizing a nation-state

If you wanna make comparisons (I don't, you do), per capita obviously matters. There's no reason why you should be holding members of one nation state to a stricter standard than members of another.
If they don’t, real page threatens to give them the boot apparently.

Also it seems they make it a require multiple manager overrides to deviate.
FOSS is still much harder for normal people.

In theory Desktop Linux should be a major competitor, but it isn't. I'll give an example, I wanted to try other Desktop environments on Manjaro. For reasons I'll never understand Deepin broke KDE. It was fixed once I uninstalled it.

This is a really weird video though. If PHP cost money or had a revenue split, Facebook would of used something use.

For everyone Facebook theirs a million college kids who gave up after 3 days.

I want more MIT/Apache licensed code. Ideally Amazon monetizes an open source project and then contributes back.
I’ve typically used chocolatey. I think it typically uses the regular installer for a package, just in a headless/unattended mode configured by the maintainer.
This is a pretty nice proof, however, my smooth brain tells me that Archimedes's method of exhaustion to "approximate" pi showed us that this process can go on and on forever because there is no "intersection" point on a circle that stops the circumscribing...so there will always be a new set of fractions that approximate pi that is better than ever...hence pi has to be irrational...

Despite its obvious flaw of not having a rigorous proof but it is quite intuitive and easy to understand, and no need for definition of trigonometry functions, just need to have the concept of infinitesimal.

Edit: I just found out that pi can be expressed as infinite series of continued fractions, hence proving its irrationality. Found it interesting because it is almost exactly same as I thought. I think of that "proof" when I was in high school.
At some point storage or overbuilding capacity becomes more cost effective than long transmission lines.
Does it matter that much of “China’s” emissions are caused by manufacturing stuff for “environmentally conscious” US and Europe? Or is it “different” and I “don’t understand”?
To be fair, China's moving at a MUCH faster rate to clean their air than it took the US when they were at this stage of industrialization. And they've set their air quality targets much higher than the US, which hasn't updated its air quality standards in decades.
Incredible.

Three kinds of beautiful.
Most unfortunately, it was proven that the digits are periodic. Its a complex formula, but they are periodic, where as the digits of sqrt (2) are algebraic, and the digits of e are logarithmic. So without using the identity elements of the arithmetic group, you simply arrive at three very different classes of irrationality.
And this comment improved mine!
Lack of PWA support is the only reason why I keep other browsers handy, so I'm glad to see some movement on this long-outstanding issue. But I do have some concerns with the tone of this post and I hope they don't try too hard to re-imagine what "web apps" should be and end up with either a half-baked solution or a proprietary one.
ReSyncer vs. HeyGen?
Through completely dumb luck, I guessed only the names of fruit, the answer was a fruit, and got it in 6!
Racket's documentation is absurdly good.
Unfortunately our level of certainty generally falls off as we increase the granularity. For example, imagine the patient is a 77yo Polish-American man, and we're lucky enough to have one historical result for 77yo Polish-American men. That man got treatment A and did better than expected. But say if we go out to 70-79y white men we have 1,000 people, of which 500 got treatment A and generally did significantly worse than the 500 who got treatment B. While the more granular category gives us a little information, the sample size is so small that we would be foolish to discard the less granular information.
At this point, why not just write a graphical program?
Yes, there’s no difference between the single and multi core benchmark other than how many threads get spun up.

I’m not sure why you’re trying to equate simd with parallelization. Tbh, a lot of your response seems odd to me because it’s making several incorrect assumptions.

You can’t really escape parallelization with how any modern core works, even on a single core. You may have certain operations process concurrently depending on how the cores resources are available at a given time and what is needed.

Regardless, SIMD isn’t concurrency. It’s batching.

There’s still significant benefit to having SIMD on a single threaded task. There’s a lot of thread overhead to using multiple cores to do something, whereas SIMD lets you effectively batch things on a single core.
The smaller the subpopulation, the higher the variance, and the less significant the result.
Comparison of free Python libraries for data mining and big data analysis (2019)
Interesting that they seem to think it was caused by glitch tokens through the Audio.
While it's physically possible it's likely not economical to setup a full global network.

What is more likely is projects like

https://www.energymagazine.com.au/milestone-for-nt-solar-far...

Where neighbouring countries share generation and consumption (lots of western European countries already do this)
It's pretty clear at this point that the web also being a universal zero-installation-required sandboxed application runtime is a much more exciting vision than if it was restricted to only documents.
I think one big problem with web apps is that browser storage is generally seen as ephemeral, causing data that the user would want to keep to be deleted together with relatively meaningless, truly ephemeral data.

For example, I have my browser set to delete cookies on exit. Others use "delete recent history". I don't know if these things also wipe PWA data, but if they do, that can be a nasty surprise.
If properly motivated, I don't think national boundaries are going to stop someone from accessing a physical device. There may be a small list of countries with very good border controls and lack of existing foreign agents. I'd be curious to know which ones fit
What kind of data is it 14% better on?

The algorithm code looks like it's actually using Zstd, is that right?

Please show some benchmarks. I'd like to repeat your test!
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>i.e. on every state update, the whole app gets rendered

Yes, that's basically correct:

>Calling setState notifies the framework that the internal state of this object has changed in a way that might impact the user interface in this subtree, which causes the framework to schedule a build for this State object.[0]

The `build` method rebuilds the entire widget tree. So "the whole app" does not necessarily get re-rendered, only whatever is in the same widget as the changed state or below it, although potentially that can be the whole screen. Flutter also uses an algorithm to detect unchanged widgets and reuse them,[1] but conceptually the whole thing is re-rendered on state change.

[0] https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/widgets/State/setState.html

[1] https://docs.flutter.dev/resources/inside-flutter#linear-rec...
Harris Appeals to Tech Leaders in a Return to San Francisco
Counter-depth fridges are the way to go. All we lost when we switched was the space where stuff was slowly going bad.
What is a 100% guaranteed secure OS that runs on AMD processors?

Windows doesn’t cut it, neither does Linux or many of the BSD variants. Unless you’re running something like SeL4, I think you’re overestimating the security you currently have.
Imagine how worse experience is if you are iOS user or developer - i Have to manually in xcode in gui download app container and unpack it change some mesh assets, pack again and switch containers in xcode again.
Simpson's Paradox keeps experimenters up at night because it embodies the idea that although your data might say one thing, it's always possible that slicing the data via some unknown axis of finer granularity might paint a very different picture. It's hard to know if there is such an axis lurking there in your data, let alone, what it might be.

If you get paranoid about its presence it can lead you to second guess pretty much every statistic. "I know that 4 out of 5 dentists recommend chewing X Brand gum but what if I slice the dentists by number of eyes? Maybe both one-eyed dentists and two-eyed dentists aren't so enthusiastic."
>This is related to a common bad idea, that is, that nuclear should be used to provide backup power when renewables are not available.

fundamentally disagree, this is taking simple facts and changing the narrative around the facts to make renewables look bad.

Renewables are cheaper and faster to invest, build and use.

Nuclear is slower and more expensive to invest, build and use.

there is a use for nuclear, but common widespread rollout is not it.
I recently included a big goof in a blog post. I accidentally consumed all my errors and didn't log them anywhere, so I was just flying mostly blind.

It was also in a language I don't have much experience in (Elixir), doing 3D rendering in OpenGL (which I also don't have much experience in), on a Mac (so no tools to debug OpenGL stuff). Definitely wasted more time than I'd like to admit, but I won't be making that mistake again. :)
Sadly I now see sites refusing to work unless you use Chrome even though there is no technical reason whatsoever why it should break under other standards-complaint browsers. I've seen all sort of tricks to detect non-Chrome-usage and the result is anything from a snarky message advising you to use Chrome (sometimes a very specific version and OS is specified as well!) at best or a blank page at worst. And yes every time I've seen this, it's happened on public facing sites -- I'm lucky that at $WORKPLACE we are a Microsoft shop, and Microsoft (ironically) seems to put some effort into ensuring their tools works across all the 3 major browser engines (with the possible exception of Teams but I reluctantly use the Electron app for that). Chrome has become the modern day IE. The mainstream population just haven't realized that yet to be fair, but this will become clear in the years to come and the next generation will wonder how the heck both IE and later Chrome become dominant.
The objection to soldered RAM isn’t the RAM.
I mean AI transformers. I understand we have pre-embedded STT, though I will like the option to include my own - say an English grammar GPT and expose it by an API for progressive enhancement of content.
You might want to talk to material engineers about the vast spectrum of types of glass in use today.

There's more to glass than borosilicates and bulk ingredients are the least interesting source of unique properties.

FWiW Soda-Lime glass is more common than borosilicate glass and bases in at ~ 70 percent silica (silicon dioxide), 15 percent soda (sodium oxide), and 9 percent lime (calcium oxide). No Boron (in general).

That dull fact alone suggests your knowledge of glass could use a significant leg up.

If you're looking to better educate yourself there's the Corning School of Glass for the Art Glass applications and various industrial glass journals about optical glass, strengthened glass, et al.

As for rare earths in glass you can either take the material science journal search approach (multiple hits) or refer to the uses page of the largest global supplier of rare earths:

Rare earths react with other metallic and non-metallic elements to form compounds each of which has specific chemical behaviours. This makes them indispensable and non-replaceable in many electrical, optical, magnetic, and catalytic applications.

~ https://lynasrareearths.com/about-us/what-are-rare-earths/

See the part "non-replaceable in many .. optical .. applications" ?
But that implies that with all that massive cash flow towards colleges it still warrants cuts of provided value?
> The drug is based on a molecule he discovered while working at Pfizer, and can be delivered via a once-a-month EpiPen-style injection, where it restores protective processes to diseased joints and enables the regeneration of affected tissues. It works by blocking a compound that supports the nerve cells involved in transmitting pain signals to the brain.

So, it restores lost tissue by numbing nerves? This makes no sense.

Wonder if it's just poor reporting or if there is something to this?
> which due to trademark conflicts got renamed to Firefox that we all know today.

There wasn't a trademark issue, the Mozilla team opted to change the name out of respect for the other OSS project (Firebird SQL).
Sam’s biggest success (OpenAI) did not have a “great idea”, nor did it have a “great product” for many years. Some (not me - I’m a customer) would argue it still doesn’t, since their product currently does not have a path to profitability. And yet it’s arguably a success.
Show HN: Open-source React chart component library
Several of the largest solar plants in the world are in deserts.

Edit: I think that all of the top 5 largest are in deserts. Maybe more.
I meant deepseek coder. Can't edit anymore.
Here's how it looks on safari mobile for me. The lowercase l and 1 are exactly the same. https://imgur.com/a/I2r2ZQ6
What kind/size of tote do you use? I just finished cleaning and realized how much easier it’d be if I did something like this - ‘sorted go-backs’
It's what Microsoft did with "HTA" back in the mid-1990s; this is nothing new.

...and we'll see a repeat of the problems it caused Microsoft back then trying to improve Windows and Internet Explorer over time while still maintaining backwards-compatibility with a surprisingly large number of already-distributed HTAs (HTAs were popular for things like magazine CD demo-disk catalogs, computer hardware driver splash-screen GUIs, kiosk apps, that kind of thing - by 1998 if you didn't care about Netscape support you could take full-advantage of Trident (MSHTML)'s hacked-on support for parts of DirectX graphics (gradients, alpha-transparency, smooth animations) - the only alternative was VB5/VB6 and I think/hope it was obvious to everyone at the time that VB's days were numbered; and don't forget that Macromedia put decent effort into making Flash work well for standalone "Flash Projectors" - and you could embed SWFs in your HTA too; so this incredibly capatable HTML+CSS or HTML+Flash-based "interactive experiences" were expected to quickly become the standard for desktop multimedia.

...well, they didn't: instead .NET's WinForms (a marginal improvement over VB6) is still dominant for Windows fixed-size-window RAD GUIs, while HTAs started to suffer decline when XP shipped in 2001 because of the breaking-changes between IE4, IE5, and IE6 (hence even more hacks like Conditional Comments) - and security-folk sensibly reminded us that it was not a good idea for magazines/trade-shows/etc to distribute CD-ROM discs with autorun HTAs containing embedded ActiveX controls running under full-trust on every Windows machine from 95 to XP.

Mozilla of 2024 needs to avoid repeating Microsoft's self-inflicted issues.

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As for me? For now, I'd really rather just have a fork of the Blink layout engine that can run off XML and CSS and would be driven by something like a COM interface to the DOM - which means Blink doesn't need to bring its own JavaScript engine, which makes the system more secure - and means they'll finally be able to have a Blink-based page render that doesn't require 4 separate isolated processes consuming gigabytes of RAM (looking at you, GitKraken).
I’d love a feature where I could filter out paywalled articles.
Damn took me 13 tries. Fun game. =)
> Initially people assumed without evidence

That's like configuring a firewall with a default-allow rule.

No, with any safety critical system you must assume there might be a problem until there is overwhelming evidence that there won't be.
I tested on the dickens dataset (Charles Dickens novels). This algorithm works well on English text. I do not expect it to be any better than zstd at binary data. I haven't tried code.

It does used zstd. My algorithm is a preprocessing step for zstd.
AI Ethics (comment on ideas from MIT's Coeckelbergh book)
Chapter 10 of AI Ethics (ISBN 978-0262538190) catalogs various proposals
for design and development of ethical systems.

Many of these ideas, such as explainable systems, are beyond the reach
of any future systems in my opinion. Even people will "make up a rational
for things they have done" which has no basis in fact. Asking an AI system
to explain would essentially be asking it to hallucinate.

Given the growing idea of mixture-of-experts, it may be useful to have
the community focus on creating an "Ethical Expert" which is included
in every mixture-of-expert architecture.

Even the idea of trying to create such an Ethical Expert (an AI Superego?)
is a challenge. Perhaps this is the end goal of Anthropic or
Sutskever's Safe SuperIntelligence (https://ssi.inc/).
I'd love to be a fly-on-the-wall for THOSE discussions :-)

I spend a lot of time studying the ethics question. I'm curious how such
an AI SuperEgo would handle Sissela Bok's book on Lying (ISBN 978-0375705281).
Though her book is about Moral, not Ethical, choice it would still be an interesting
challenge for an AI SuperEgo.

(my working definitions:

Morals: The rules you choose to live by

Ethics: What you would do if the world knew you did it)
Oh wow I didn't realize those phones had 32G storage. Yeah that's unusably small and SD cards are unusably slow.

I guess there are 5/4=1.25 small phones per year. Fewer than I expected!
I'm thinking the nerves were negative feedback for the regeneration pathways.
Only took like 20 years!
Because he didn’t want the heavy hand of Apple’s legal department ruining his life
I don't think this commit has anything to do with wireguard. It's a fix of a bug in the kernel TCP stack, which wireguard doesn't use. (Beware, the wireguard-linux repo is a "fork" of the complete linux kernel)

And even if it did, a userland TUN implementation of the wireguard protocol probably doesn't have the same bugs as the linux kernel one.
The thing I want most is the thing specifically ruled out ..
> "it’s not a goal to make it feel like you’re not in Firefox."

I'm perfectly happy to have my app in a pinned tab or bookmark. Do we really need a third kind of bookmark. Why do we need yet another method for installing apps on our desktop.

On a phone I can understand the convenience of saving a bookmark on your home screen, and removing the space consuming address bar, but desktops don't have the same constraints.

I wish they would just make an Electron alternative, but try and do it better. Make it easy to carve out features you don't need to make the process smaller and lighter. Don't need WebGL or Canvas? Don't need audio or video? How small can you make a browser by cutting features?

How cool would it be to visit a website with a bunch of check boxes that allow you to select the features you want for your app runtime, then it compiles an executable for you on demand.
If the cloud provider is giving metal ring-0 access to their customers, this particular issue is the least of their worries (and their customers').
could also install your own CA
Analysis: Unicorn Startup Founders
You probably do care about your saved credentials and application secrets, CNG keys, and passkeys, though, and VBS can protect those. I appreciate the humor in xkcd but a cartoon over a decade old is not an accurate depiction of the current state of the art, and while Microsoft may not have gotten as far as Apple has (backwards compatibility for the enterprise is a tar pit) it’s not like the security engineers didn’t laugh bitterly at that when it came out and decide to do better.
It's one thing to read an article one believes is wrong.

It's another thing to read, as we have here, a title that proclaims 'This is a Pipe' to an article that states 'This is not a pipe'

If it weren't a similar story with so many 'medical breakthrough' headlines, it would annoy less.
I mean, when I played some NES games, I might hear the same level loop for 30 minutes before I hear the next level. My brain can’t compute hearing the song from a level for only one loop. :)
That was true at the start, but it's most definitely funded development now and that's what will probably get them over the finish line.

If the development work went into debating, specifying and expressing required behavior as a written spec more exactly (beyond w3c specs and towards the more pragmatic reality of what current browsers actually do) then very long term we can probably have engines that are AI built [or just more easily developed by humans] from a combination of the written specs and the set of tests they need to pass.

Using AI for adversarial development (e.g. one group tries to break and hack it, the other group defends and refines) could get interesting and wasn't really an option before. Anything that's now available to reduce the human resource cost of development could make a big difference.
Commit that data + test code :)

Add the results to the readme ::))
Why, because you can charge for cramming 50 MB of tracking JavaScript down the pipe to people paying $10 a month for the privilege?
> MacOS has gained a lot more share than Linux.

I'm guessing the main reason is the IPhone.
Sure, the standard is relatively straightforward, but the implementations have to keep up with their environment. Wireguard in Linux has to keep up with changes in the kernel to a degree, for example.
Only if you suck at making web apps.

(Admittedly a lot of people suck at making web apps.)
Thank you, this article is pretty terrible.