skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
paper is great, as explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41268837, but other commonly used writing media have included papyrus (dominant in europe before paper), clay tablets (great for cuneiform), wax tablets, bamboo slips, silk cloth, and palm leaves. many older texts have survived only in one of these forms. also, universities in india date back to before the introduction of any of them; the texts to study were put into poetic meter, memorized, and sung to music, permitting preservation for millennia. the first table of sines in the aryabhatiya is in such a form even though it postdates the widespread adoption of writing materials

finding ways to preserve calories for long periods of time was necessary for human migration to regions that have winter, an event that happened tens of millennia before refrigeration. techniques have included salting (used for salt pork, salt beef, bread, most cheeses and sausages), acidification (either by adding vinegar or through lactic-acid fermentation as with sauerkraut and pickles), smoking, preservation in sugar (jam, jelly), simple dehydration (jerky, pemmican, raisins, dates, hardtack and other crackers, nuts, wheat berries, flour, other dried grains, dried pulses, sesame, poppy seeds, and perhaps most importantly, olive oil), fungal growth (used by some cheeses and sausages), leaving root vegetables in the ground, and encasement in something defended by one of the above (other sausages, pies and other empanadas)
> it's not even relevant to this discussion

I suppose it's possible to think that, if you jump straight from the title of the Fine Article to my post, without reading the thread which leads to it.

Is that what happened here?
To be more balanced on this, I don't think that many are making <=$150k/yr if they're in NYC/Seattle/SF and are in engineering. I think many are making $300-400k/yr but have a high workload.

Levels gives a clear direction that if you work at big tech as an engineer, you'll usually make decent to good income. Whether it's worth the WLB/PIPing/misery is what you have to figure out.

There's a reason a ton of the people at FAANG are all on H1B. It's not a lack of domestic talent - it's a lack of Americans willing to be worked that hard and go through insane hoops to get said jobs. (justifiably so btw) I think a large reason why most of the crowd at FAANG is way more autistic than average is because autists can put up with such insane working conditions/hoops. Either cause they enjoy it or because they just have something about them that allows them to ignore it. I'm not even going to get in on how so many people in SV are also on various stimulants.
You could make the argument that two things that we don’t understand are the same thing because we’re equally ignorant of both in the same way that you could make the argument that Jimmy Hoffa and Genghis Khan are probably buried in the same place, since we have equal knowledge of their locations.
I do not think the argument is pointless. I did not say that.

I think continuing to explain the same thing to you - that OP did not say Apple laptops are the fastest or most powerful laptops - is pointless when you continue to fail to acknowledge it. You are arguing against a thing that has not been said, at least in this immediate thread as far as I can tell. This has been pointed out multiple times, so pointing it out again doesn't seem particularly fruitful.

You are correct that Apple laptops are not the fastest or most powerful laptops on the market. Neither I nor the original OP I was attempting to clarify said that they were.

Your previous apology is accepted but I would prefer if you stopped saying that people, including myself, said things which they did not. Having to continuously clarify my own words when you change them is exhausting.
It's one of the best cases of "reverse acquisition". It's like NeXT acquired Apple for one Steve Jobs (and an OS) and got $400 million as change.
Tailcalls is something that a language compiler that targets VM bytecode cannot easily address by itself and ideally needs cooperation from the VM.

I'm not aware of implementation details of either Clojure or Kotlin but if it is anything like F#, then I would really not hold tailcalls against either of them.

In order to effectively support FP languages, CIL specification defines tail. prefix for call, calli and callvirt opcodes, and CoreCLR fully supports it except scenarios outlined by the spec.

Does JVM bytecode specification have something like this?

Edit: Turns out F# compiler does additional heavy lifting besides emitting the prefix https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/blob/main/docs/large-inputs...
Weird, why don't US has decent train network across the country still and people are scrambling for clean water in places? China did it in 20 years while US rebuilt the WTC.
i see. this means ecommerce websites need to link review to purchases or face penalties. if they can't prove it then they must take down those non linked reviews to avoid penalties.

this leads to the question can someone create massive amount of fake reviews on a competitor website

we'll have to see the penalties on Amazon if these new fatwas from FTC have any bite
Supposedly disabling IPv6 still doesn't prevent exploitation, so lazy IT will get hacked anyway.
> But that's request/response, because you're requesting blocks.

It doesn't matter.

> - The peer carries any topics they're interested in

How do you implement it? Do you have a human manually looking over each message and marking the interesting ones? Heck, it's likely that everything is encrypted anyway!

> So some content may get shared between the devices, but nobody requested it. The event source was the arrival of the peer. You might also recheck periodically, supposing they stick around for a while.

So you get 10^12 anonymous peers arriving at your node. How do you filter them?
EU antitrust regime nears end of Margrethe Vestager era
This increases the likelihood of accidents and misinterpretations triggering a nuclear war, which is inevitable as long as these weapons exist.

The first bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945 and the world has successfully avoided incidents, accidents, etc. from spiraling out of control into a full-scale exchange for 79 years. Will this continue for 10 more months? 10 more years? 100 years or longer? Nobody knows, but the thing we do know is that there's a non-zero chance of the worst happening.

There's a book about incidents worth reading called "Command and Control": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(book) that's worth reading if you want to better understand the risks we're dealing with by having nuclear weapons.
This UK study used number plates, which haven't changed form between the two years (2004 and 2021), and have found a decline of just under 60%. Aerodynamics may have something to do with it, but I know from driving through insect-abundant areas recently that you still get plenty of splatter in modern cars.

Overview: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022/may/uks-flying-inse...

Study PDF: https://cdn.buglife.org.uk/2022/05/Bugs-Matter-2021-National...
Related

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41233206
I’m sure that will be very popular on top-secret military installations.
Who has the best interest rates for idle cash? I have been using Marcus, but it is not a huge burden to shop around.
Hmm I guess my comment was kind of tongue in cheek. I think a lot of k8s was driven by political or pet-project reasons. E.g. using etcd.
https://archive.ph/5HRBj
Easily overcome by training models on randomized questions. Trivial to implement too.
If you don't have or want to have a printer, try looking for hobbyists with a printer, somewhat in your area. If you contact them personally they might print for cheap and mail it to you.
"Permissioned blockchains" are basically isomorphic to git repositories. They certainly are useful, but they aren't "blockchains" in the regular sense.
The thread started by someone saying switching costs are zero.

Actually read the case. Maybe start with the conclusion. Surely at some point you get tired of just making stuff up.
America’s doctrine is to be ready for WW3 so that we don’t accidentally have to fight WW3. If everyone knows that we can fight them even while at war elsewhere, it discourages any great power wars from starting.
It doesn't matter where the nuclear power plants are. If nuclear war starts the world ends.
In other words, 3 * 3 * 3 * 3 * 5 * 5 is 2025, which falls well short of 11 octaves (2^11 = 2048). No series of 3's and 5's can ever multiply to a power of 2.
The US has the largest train network on the planet, even larger than the entire EU combined. It is just primarily used for cargo.
Most savings accounts restrict you to 6 transfers per month[1]

1. https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/banking/how-regulation-d-...
Relevant recent Levine article on this from last week: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-08-07/ai-com...

> Cash sweep sweep

> If you go to a bank and say “I’d like to open an account and deposit some cash,” they will happily open a checking account for you, take your cash, and pay you an interest rate that is, in round numbers, zero. [4] (My checking account pays 0.01%.) If you say “no, I want a savings account, because those have higher interest rates,” they will happily open a savings account, take your cash, and pay you an interest rate that is … also 0.01%? Maybe 0.03%? But if you utter the correct series of incantations, at least some banks will open a high-yield savings account and pay you 5% or more. You gotta find the right bank, though, and utter the right incantations. Sometimes it’s tricky.

> ...

> People pretty regularly complain about this — “interest rates have gone up, why doesn’t my bank pay me more?” — and sometimes they even do something about it (they move their money to another bank that pays more, or to a money market fund). But the banks do not particularly get in trouble for it. Regulators understand that banks need cheap funding, and that if they can get cheap funding they’re supposed to take it. [5]

> If you go to a brokerage firm and say “I’d like to open an account and deposit some cash while I wait to find some good stocks to buy,” they will happily open an account for you, take your cash, and … well! They will probably pay you some interest rate that is higher than 0.01% and lower than 5%. They would prefer to pay you less, because brokerage firms also mainly make money by getting paid more interest on their cash than they pay you on your deposits. [6] Some brokerages advertise “we pay a really high rate on cash,” and thus attract customers who want to get paid a high rate on their cash. Others … don’t? Others advertise, you know, “we will give you good financial advice” or “we make trading fun” or “we have a good app” or whatever, and they get people who do not pay attention to how much they will get paid on their cash.

> On the other hand, there’s a sense that your broker has some fiduciary duty to you, or ought to, particularly if your broker is also giving you financial advice. If your broker is telling you what stocks to buy, she should probably also mention “hey, you have a bunch of money sitting idly in your brokerage account, and we’re paying you like 1%, but you could just put it into a Treasury money market fund that is essentially cash but pays 5.4%.” That would cost her firm money — it would give up your cheap cash — but would be good customer service.

> Is it mandatory? Eh, maybe a little:

(Links to the similar article, https://www.ft.com/content/de751907-c870-4b8c-b86b-317483f76... )
Changing the last one to r=80 instead of r=40, GPT4o ends up saying:

> The circles overlap in certain areas, depending on their size and position, creating a layered visual effect where the largest circle (third one) dominates most of the canvas space.

Though tbf to it, I'm not sure I'd say this looks like MM either: https://i.imgur.com/0VHdocf.png (unless I knew this was the intent prior).
Even more so. You'd like everything recorded there. Encryption solves the leaking issue.
Not only because of interest payments banks defrauding customers but also due of hidden charges.
I don't personally care, though unlike you I believe that the median United States citizen does benefit from our global military supremacy and that it's probably worth what we're spending to maintain that position. But the point I'm making is more banal than that: people do not like "creative destruction". We have a lot of stupid weapons programs that aren't doing anything meaningful to preserve our ability to project force; we keep spending money on them because voters in the districts they're built would freak out at the prospect of their towns being gutted. That's not a normative claim!

As is so often the case, the real, useful answer to all of this stuff is that it simply isn't up to message board nerds like us to make these calls, and our axiomatically-derived top-down economic plans are worth all the paper they're not printed on. My point is simply that there's more to military spending than a values statement about military force.
Maybe this problem isn't bottom up, but top down, that is the leadership doesn't enforce rules and actually promotes this kind of very outdated masculine expression. I spent my entire adolescence in a military school and this is something that is very prevalent in the military corporation.

There is a lot of victim blaming for something that is clearly systemic -- where these incidents are dismissed because "boys be boys..." -- and could be worked around by making those responsible accountable, but that will step on some very shiny and important toes, which is why you don't see a push for the correct kind of change in the military that this needs.
Money Stuff: AI Companies Almost Get Bought
Agreed, there's not some organization taking a fat cut, it's a matter of overall demand, namely subsidized demand. We hamstring our healthcare supply in a variety of ways while massively juicing demand, which leads to increased prices.

America spends $4.5t a year on healthcare[0].

~$2t of that comes from the government directing taxed dollars towards healthcare for certain classes, per my previous comment in this thread. If your goal is to reduce our per-capita healthcare spending I see a fairly brutal and swift solution that would halve our spending, and put us below most European countries[1].

This is conjecture on my part, but I would imagine the remaining spending would also fall as the consumers have to bid less money for access to the healthcare resources that are newly freed up.

Further conjecture, I believe we may be able to have our cake and eat it too if we reduce the years of study necessary to start practicing medicine, and reduce our roadblocks to importing foreign-trained doctors. The UK may be trying something similar[2].

[0]: https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-repo...

[1]: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

[2]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nurses-doctors-deg...
This again is where Wikipedia is often invaluable, so long as the story is in fact covered there. And is why I wish news organisations would adopt a Wikipedia-like approach to complex stories.
I have to say seems like wishful thinking. Sure cars have changed and aren't insect traps but at 80km/h bugs splatter on a windshield. The decline of insect biomass has been well reported, e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29045418 although not uniform. I've spent some time in northern areas where the bugs are bad!
It’s interesting how opaque and non-transparent the US military is. From a glance it seemed like this is one of the reason Iraq was such a fuck up. The intel that nothing was working there wouldn’t make its way up the chain, nobody understood how bad the situation was.

There used to be that one documentary circulating on Reddit about that general that was pretty open about things there and got severely reprimanded for it.

I can understand keeping things internal, but if things are not transparent internally then people should go public with the intel they have.
They claim it's fast

> Super fast sprite and tile map rendering engine with WebGL

> Update and render 100,000+ sprites at a solid 60fps
Presumed guilty until proven innocent?
Yeah because nationalization of non-defense industries leads inevitably to corruption, waste, and either complete destruction or incredible mismanagement of whatever value the nationalized industry previously created. Every time. Every student of history of the last two hundred years knows this.
The number plate is still attached to the car and thus the shape of the rest of the car affects how air moves over it.

How much is hard to say. Aerodynamics is just hard but basically as the car moves through air it pushes air out of the way and this air also pushes other air out of the way and thus elements next to each other will effect each other.
This is hardly new...

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-navigate-away-from-a-website-t...

I've always gotten around it by Long pressing the Back button and then selecting the page to go to. Bypassed your "block" as well...

This is not a big of a find that you think there is. And I'm not sure calling it a "Zero Day" is appropriate either as it doesn't exactly cause much of a problem.
On average it’s not, at least not for the average person.

But not everyone is average, and for some of those who do invest the time in going beyond superficial headlines, the payoff is considerable in terms of power, prestige, influence, and wealth.

There is also the fact that if everyone disregarded the news, society would quickly disintegrate as bad actors leveraged people’s ignorance for the own personal ends. Thus, there is a social responsibility aspect to keeping abreast of current events.
Lumping much smaller items in with any of the very small number of huge items in the budget can be misleading, is all, in a “ants are really heavy! Why, this other piece of material with an ant on it is a bit more than ten kilos!”, where the other thing is in fact a ten-kilo piece of steel, sort of way.

One can do things like say, “foreign aid is out of control! Why, our defense and foreign aid spending is XX% of the budget!” to imply that the foreign aid portion of that is more than a rounding error, which it is not.
Completely unsurprising. There is a longstanding history of incentives and policy inconsistencies that make this outcome a virtual certainty. Everyone knows it is an issue but addressing it has been turned into a forum to push ideologically-driven narratives by all sides rather than a sincere effort to do what is necessary to find an effective solution. Lots of political vibes and platitudes, little interest in the hard questions.
I think you misunderstood my comment. The videos didn't win because of AI. A real person narrating, with a video set to a soundtrack of a real musician's music could very well be superior.

But the author of this post saved a lot of time in the interest of dominating the competition by using AI instead.

While I can appreciate that the process of assembly and curation of AI-produced components is an art (much as collage is an art form), I'm still dismayed by how AI 'art' is replacing real art (as the components of this collage, if you will).

To me, the difference between real art and AI output is human intent. There's a context, a though, a mood. What AI produces can't be art in the same sense, because there's no human behind it, who can explain their reasoning for why they used a specific stroke in one place. And real-world incentives diminish the value of the human element, which is why we're heading to a "dead internet" fast.
The CI Flake
Glassdoor has a lot to combat negetive reviews. Same with most apartment complexes.
In the title and abstract there is a proposal that LLMs "understand", "reason", and "imagine." It's off putting to me, since LLMs are not capable of any of these.
keep a little moth under my pillow for the "moth man"
In the case of WASM though, does it really matter? Ideally I want to see other languages do the same thing.
In what possible universe could you contrive the GP's comment as victim blaming?
“What in the world does _words_used_as_words_ mean?” would be a valid way of formatting that question according to the guide: that's what they mean.
Marketing High Tech Without Talking Tech
I use Rider on other platforms.
It's hard to beat a decent money market fund.
Traditional belief: photons do not interact with photons, photons are massless according to the mass energy relation.

New findings: Photons interact as phonons in matter.

"Quantum entangled photons react to Earth's spin" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720147 :

> Actually, photons do interact with photons; as phonons in matter: "Quantum vortices of strongly interacting photons" (2024) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh5315 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600762

"New theory links quantum geometry to electron-phonon coupling" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40663966 https://phys.org/news/2024-06-theory-links-quantum-geometry-... :

> A new study published in Nature Physics introduces a theory of electron-phonon coupling that is affected by the quantum geometry of the electronic wavefunctions
I’ve struggled with improving my executive functioning.

I think it can be negatively affected by mental health issues and can take time to recover and get back to parity.

I’ve found that voice-memos are particularly effective in assisting me. I’ll talk through a problem and usually find solutions quickly, eg debugging.

Am currently working on a (transcribed) voice-interface to improve in this area, right now.

I might try out his formula tomorrow, possibly in voice.
I like to imagine they couldn't make a dent in the Mac market because their products were too ugly to appeal to Mac users.

Sometimes I think I'm only half joking on that.

Back then, making software run on more than one platform was much more painful than it is now. Not only were the range of features provided by the OS vastly different, it was common to write performance critical parts in assembly - which made them need to be almost completely rewritten (there were macro assemblers that made that slightly easier). Unix was heralded as "open" (not to be confused with open source) because it was less painful to port stuff and make it interoperate with other Unixes.
Because you don’t see X is not a proof that X doesn’t exist. Here X may or not exist.

X = difference between simulated and real consciousness

Black holes were posited before they were detected empirically. We don't declare them to be non-existent when their theory came out just because we couldn't detect them.
So that's 74,000 assaults against a population of 1,328,000[1]. So about 5.57% of the armed forces were assaulted sexually in one year.

But the United States as a whole had a reported ≈325k[2] sexual assaults in 2021. That's 0.09% of the population.

Are you really over 60 times more likely to be sexually assaulted in the military than in the general public? And are over a fifth of sexual assaults in America happening between military personnel? Somebody please tell me what I'm missing because I must be making a serious logical mistake.

[1] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11994

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/642458/rape-and-sexual-a...
You are taking half a sentence out of context, reinterpreting it, and replying to a statement nobody said.
Can you really sign away your rights like this?
Replace the 3.7v lithium backup battery for the RTC before it blows up and spews acid all over your board! ROM01 versions have it soldered in, ROM03 is in a battery holder. Replacements for both are readily available.
My guess is that their interpretation of word "temperance" (e.g. inaction) derives from Christianity, not from ancient Greece.

The 5th century BC Greece is a place where dying for your city-state is by all means, the highest honour one can achieve.