skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went a week a Norway from Germany, everything included for 4 people was less than 1k
hmm... AK and margin lead me to Vereshchagin and Vitanyi, Kolmogorov’s Structure Functions and Model Selection (ca. 2002) — might this be something you have opinions on, or should I ask Hutter instead?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0204037

(the description in the abstract of the structure function sounds suspiciously like a galois connection)
Exploring Internet and security trends during the 2024 US Democratic Convention
we in europe are lucky. i got a flight for 20€ to portugal and was staying there for a week for around 50€ a day. thats not even 500 bucks. this vr headset would be 5-8 weeks of holiday worth
I think this is done on purpose.

Many companies have basically reached perfection (or at least as good as it's going to get), but they still need to justify their existence. Another example of this is Osprey backpacks. If you bought one in the last couple of decades then it's basically all the same. But what they do is keep churning out new designs year on year, all 90% the same but they wiggle around that line of perfection ensuring some years have something good but also something bad that they can improve on next time (despite the fact the "improvement" is just from the design of 3 years back). This has been Microsoft's model also for a long time now.
Semantic HTML made sense in the early 1990s where it was intended for formatting static academic literature. It hasn’t made sense since about 1998 however, but unfortunately no new paradigms have emerged to allow creators to express emergent state web apps, which is almost the entirety of content created for the web for the past 25 years. This means we’re simply we’re simply trying to squeeze a square peg into a round hole.

Semantic HTML is the wrong paradigm entirely.
Separating Data from Instructions in Prompting
Practically, its not a problem as you can always create a privileged container and mount the root filesystem into it. I have an alias I use for exactly such things.
Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra
Ask HN: 2 identical 2x100 GbE Ryzen 7950x3d boxes, what should I benchmark?
(The almost EPYC 4584PX on a Ryzen+EPYC server board.)

a. TCP performance metrics of stock vs. tuned OS

b. UDP performance metrics of stock vs. tuned OS

c. C (userland) programming methodology to saturate 100 GbE

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Platforms: FreeBSD 14.1, CentOS 9 Stream, RHEL 9.4

(I can't currently afford 400GbE in QSFP-DD ZR+ form-factor.)
I'm not sure about the CLR, but the JVM has no type safety whatsoever. Java the language does, but all of that goes away once you are in the JVM bytecode.
I have a few questions I would be very interested to hear the answers
1 When is the earliest we can try tab grouping in Firefox Nightly? 2 Will the following things be available, the ability to group by dragging and dropping a tab, the ability to name and change the name, assign a color, and pin and hide a tab group, and the option to sleep tabs in groups? 3 Is the Workspaces feature being considered, it is quite popular and has been implemented in Floorp and Zen? 4 Is tab grouping also considered for the Android version of Firefox? 5 Are there any plans for a Portable version with a built-in dark theme for websites? Thank you very much! We are very sad that many features have been removed, tab grouping, pwa, rss, compact mode, menu icons, etc., hopefully this will all be coming to Firefox and such mistakes will not be made again.
A Superb Sci-Fi Movie [video]
JSON??

I don't want to programm anything without comments.

I guess you can easily convert from use yaml or json5, but all the examples are still in json.
I’m glad they caught the piece of shit. I’m also a victim of a hit and run.
Had to flip back to Boost man (which still works!). Darn shame the gallery was never implemented :-(.
> The real users probably aren't worth much, advertising wise.

Well they have alienated the power users and made the site focused on the 9gag audience then wonder why the value per user goes down
Bootstrapping like HN would be ideal, since the users knew each other (YC startup founders) and set the tone for an ideal interaction. I'm not sure if there's a completely analogous gathering for film.

Furthermore, the communities for film appreciation and film making may behave differently on a film news website. While people who appreciate film can candidly talk about films, people who make films have vested stakes. This can make Filmmakers self-censor their thoughts. (e.g. They don't want to openly criticize a veteran filmmaker, since the veterans might have influence in the younger filmmaker's future production.)
What do astrophysics and the oldest profession have in common? (2012)
Also, Swift allows extensions of fundamental types. I often declare extensions of Int and Array. It’s fairly common to add computed properties and functions to basic APIs.

I’m pretty sure that a number of folks extended the API with this property (which is what I did, once I figured out how to address the issue. It just made sense to do so), and ChatGPT read that as a standard system call.

That’s likely to be an issue with more mainstream languages, as extension is a fairly common pattern, these days.

I think I may start tagging my extensions (like a naming prefix), to signal they are added after the fact. I do a lot of open-source work, so it’s likely to be used as training data.
So many options in Europe if you don't mind discomfort. From the UK, I'd maybe take a cheap flight to Poland or even the long distance bus. Once there, YHA hostels, camping etc.

Another option is fly to Greece and island hop on the ferries. Or Portugal and northern Spain. Buses are the cheapest way to get around there and fairly flexible although not quick. Sometimes you can hire a car for a week for $250, or some places hire mopeds for way less.
All issues with ssl certificate has been resolved, thanks for the info
Re: On hobbies, side projects, and money
It does give them some ammo for low-brow dismissal of the entire field of science. Which the more extreme may use to convince the more reasonable people. Even though the argument is rarely done in good faith, we do need some strategy for dealing with it...

Being perfect is not really a realistic option though - mistakes will be made in such a complex endeavour as science. But if we can no longer legitimately say "it only _a few_ bad apples", then we must improve things drastically - or risk loosing all the credibility.
I did not know about Lemmy until now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(social_network)
SDI was super destabilizing the last time ICBM interception was a serious discussion item is my understanding: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative Deploying a defense system creates a closing window that encourages a 'now or never' first strike.
This so called “sweet spot” comes at the cost of billions of dollars in operating losses and layoffs at Reality Labs year after year. The worst part is that Meta is merely licensing the Ray-Ban form factor and this also comes at a hefty price tag. Specially if other companies such as Google enter a bidding war to snatch that exclusivity away from them.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/07/31/metas-reality-labs-posts...

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-steal-ray-ban-meta-m...
> Is this a soft limit or a trajectory prediction?

I don't know. I just tried to frame the problem from a customer's point of view, because cloud vendors' statement that customers would not like a limit is (IMHO) limited by their POV. Customers do want a limit, but not the way that cloud vendors would implement it. I think a huge part of the problem is understanding what exactly it is that you need when you use a cloud service. (This is varying from customer to customer, and from service to service, of course. You usually have important services that must be running, and others where an outage would be unpleasant but not critical.)

> Nobody wants to spend any money really right? But you need to spend some to avoid losing service. That’s just a cost you don’t like but need to pay.

That is not the issue. From a customer's POV, I would be ready to spend extra to keep the service running, but there is a limit where I'd prefer an outage because I can't bear that much. There are two problems with that: First, the limit is blurry. Second, a simple hard limit would leave me with a huge bill AND an outage. I would want to be able to choose one of those evils, not be left with both. And these two problems compound.

> But I don’t know much about this at all. My whole experience was accidentally getting my own personal self a $500 AWS charge and then deciding they cloud services were dumb.

I don't think they are dumber than the alternative. If you run your own hardware, you have a hard limit in both cost and computing power. You could technically get that with the cloud too, but it is not usually offered because it doesn't really solve the problem, but neither does it for for your own hardware.

That said, it would be nice if the major clouds would offer a "hard limit" option, but it really only works for "unimportant" applications that are cost-sensitive and can take an outage.
Omni (necklace)

+2 Charisma
+1 Intelligence

A necklace with a helpful spirit living inside a silicon crystal. The spirit grows with every word it hears.

"First you wear it, then it wears you"
Reddit was my favorite website growing up. I'd discover new interesting subs, read random posts and comments. The frontpage was somewhat interesting too, but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine.

I still use Reddit but way less than I used to before, and I no longer use it for fun but just to read niche tech subs.

I refuse to use the official mobile app. I've always used Baconreader and then Relay on Android. Relay survived the API changes and adopted a subscription model.

But thanks to Revanced I was able to patch an old version of Relay to use my own API key for free.
Whatever number of users are or were bots it was and is still one of the most visited sites in the world and it was text based (before the image and video hosting) with the added bonus of the user autotargetting themselves and their interests...how can it NOT be profitable?
Yep, we had to contact Apple support maybe three times since we switched to Apple products in 2007. It was easy to get hold of them every time and they were very pleasant.

The last time there was an issue with an Apple Care payment. I was forwarded to someone who I believe was actually in Apple’s Dutch accounting department (certainly not a help desk drone). They called me back to follow up and even after everything was sorted out to check if everything was looking good on my end.
That's because of the necessary compression/decoding. This kind of internet speed could stream a raw signal directly into a display driver.
That is not what the GP said. Moreover, according to statistics, white people are underrepresented at Microsoft:

https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/technology--media-a...

48.3% whites are a minority and they are underrepresented compared to the 59.3% in the U.S. population.

That is just for background. GP tried to make the case that developers engaging in diversity initiatives, who are often white, do this for their career. In other words, they are unproductive B players, who will hire C players in order to keep their jobs. They also discourage A players from engaging in work.
https://youtu.be/4-ZblKY48w4?t=184

https://songsear.ch/song/Lupe-Fiasco/Dots-Lines/2615347
Sadly this „Server Install“ has been disabled by MS. But it was only a couple days ago.
In this topic, there is a wonderful summary of concrete examples of dos and don'ts:

https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/02/dos-and-donts-o...
Probably combination of not actually being good at generating revenue. And also over hiring and wasting money on things beyond core-platform. You know all of the short lived "events" and features.

Developers are cost centre and very expensive one when they spend time on things that do not generate any meaningful new revenue. On site like reddit as long as core product is decent users would stay due to network effects.
So are the regular news concerning the destruction of the environment and our human caused climate change.

If a VR set can reduce travel, then that might be something positive for the environment.
Japan on edge of EUV lithography chip-making revolution
I like it because it's Rust
I did Tomb Raider a while back:

https://eikehein.com/stuff/sabatu/

I'll upstream the work to tr1x (which I contribute to) at some point.
Please don’t turn this place into Reddit.
They are deliberately unprofitable. The upside is in tax savings, (potential) growth, and any shady side deals the top level can get away with making.
Please, don't assume your situation is universal. I'd take this smartphone immediately. I'm never far from a 5G tower. I used to have a speedtest script on my Android before I bought an iPhone, and the average speed I had at any time was over 100 Mb/s. Only 5 days of a year I was below 50 Mb/s - but still connected, every day.

> Just the screen is probably already 20% or so of power consumption even at very low brightness

There are other kinds of displays, some of them don't need any brightness at all, but even those that do are getting much more efficient. An old/cheap IPS is incomparable to what a Samsung AMOLED can do, and they're not stopping there.

I use my phone very often - much more than 5-6 hours of screentime - and display is only around 10% of the power budget. The 5G connection usually takes more as I'm always on some call.

I'd gladly take a phone that's just the same size and weight as Samsung S9, but has a giant battery and mainframe-level performance. I'd gladly pay the price of having to be connected, because I have to be and am connected anyways.
They're also impossible to register without an iOS device. I have a pair that I won, but have no iPhone or iPad. They work great with my Macs, and pretty well with Android, but there is no way for me to register them with Find My, which is pretty annoying. There's no logical reason they couldn't do this on a Mac.
> AI is no more familiar with our lives on Earth than it is Frodo's life in the Shire. It can only render solutions amenable to the perverse portrayal of reality that text provides for it.

What’s the relevance? Let’s be open to the possibility that proper intelligence won’t be 100% consumed with the affairs of beings who are less smart and capable. If it is, it’ll be artificially limited and that seems an unsustainable barrier.

> Show me progress or GTFO, that's my policy.

We had Eliza an extremely long time ago. No progress would mean you’re still using Google and Wikipedia to figure stuff out and Eliza level tech to brainstorm code. Frankly if you offered to take away Google or my LLM’s, I’d choose the former. I know it’s flawed but I can work around that rather than putz around with annoying UX that doesn’t let me ask follow up questions. And again, this is just very good autocomplete and does nothing to prevent future improvements.

There is SO much money and talent looking for improvements. Governments give a shit and are competing with each other. It takes a stunning lack of imagination to think we’ve found the end.
Nice, it’s a solid product! It’s just a shame it’s not open source and its license doesn’t permit work use.
The stumbling block here seems likely to be Apple's fundamental dislike of, and disconnect with, all things gaming.

It's an aesthetic and cultural divide. Like premium German car brands vs ricers, and I don't need to tell you which is which.
For Mac and iOS, you can install ChatGPT app.

Why they won't enable search for their main web user crowd is beyond me.

Perhaps they are just afraid of scale. With all their might, it's still possible that they can't estimate the scale and complexity of queries they might receive.
Don’t forget to tune your num_batch
>Open sourcing the non-GUI core could be a good initial step,

I think that is what could happen in 10-20 year period. As long as they could drive enough revenue from Cloud.

At least M$ under Nadella so far has a much better strategic play than most other tech CEO.
Personally, the only people in my circle of friends I know that use it heavily are single, older liberal Millennials. Plenty of others use it for niche topics at times, but not to the same extent. To young people, it might as well be a more boring Facebook.

The key demo of 18 to 34 is mostly uninterested. Of the next demo, you only have one slice of the pie who interacts much at all. Compared to most other social media, it's not worth much.

This, however, is an anecdote of one data point of course.

Edit - Also, why pay to advertise when you can just make a shill account for free?
You're all correct, of course. Whenever I listen to UX/UI where I work talk about "improving" the UI or how they design things, I just want to chug on a bottle of vodka until I forget which year I'm living in. I can't stand the UI for the services we provide because it's utter shit and was designed with a laser focus on increasing KPIs and sales. I'm not sure what Microsoft's excuse is in designing such a terrible control panel replacement. The only small solace I can find is that all our competitors are designing their UIs the exact same way. Or maybe that's just more depressing. I can't decide.
Doesn't sound useful tho
They can regulate their own. You cannot bring certain plants into California. You cannot transport live crawfish in Arizona. The entire base premise of "Smokey And The Bandit" is based on state restrictions.

A state may be limited in things transported through the state, not necessarily into/for the state.
From Knowledge to Belief (1994) [pdf]
Does anyone know if there's a changelog/release notes available for all historical versions of this? This is one of those programs with the annoying habit to surface only the list of changes in the most recent version, and their release cadence is such that there are some 3 to 5 updates between the times I run, and then I have no idea what changed.
I suppose Hacker News likewise dissuaded average users with its brutalist design, which made users to focus on the content of their post/comment. Furthermore, ycombinator.com is not a domain that seems friendly to the average user.

Like any social networks, the key to this website's success would be retention. I hope you find a way to make users come back often.
I guess the affect of the Internet would have been discounted at the times of books and libraries.

You might also be underestimating the brains ability to conjure a completely new reality. Our imagination can transport us anywhere - hence adventure, travel and crime books. VR/AR experience augmented by our own imagination, hence to discount the affect of VR is also discounting the ability of our imagination.

Of course holidays are much more but why do so many people prefer chatting online than chatting personally with other people? Why are online dating apps and food delivery so popular? I don't know but it definitely does not have something to do with people wanting to go out and interact with random people.
They don't seem to advertise very much. And I'd expect most of the advertising revenue would be going to people cutting out the middle man by posting to Reddit directly. If they aren't making $ per page view, it is not crazy to think that being the most visited site in the world is unprofitable.

If anything, just by the logic of commodity economics, they should in theory be - at best - borderline profitable. They don't provide any obviously useful or difficult service apart from an easily recognisable domain name and they face global competition. No obvious moat, no obvious profits.
If you want, I'd be happy to have you at https://communick.news. Doubly so if you happen to be interested in helping me bootstrap the movie community on https://metacritics.zone/c/movies (the movie community on the topic-specific instance that I run.)
> imagine a world where everyone has perfect memory recall

This describes the plot of a Black Mirror episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050 (S1 E3)
There is an even simpler way, just use a bash file with each function being a task, saves you from the .PHONEY hack and the "bash but not really bash" quirks of makefile.

https://github.com/adriancooney/Taskfile
Democracy is like Voodoo, it only works if you believe in it.
Global Burden of Disease – Compare
> What we need are court rouling against this !

Not possible, since this is a requirement of EU regulation.
Fair and Balanced AI
We're getting repeatable fair and balanced reasoning over legal contracts, using a system that allows us to tame the bounded unpredictability of LLMs.

Happy to do a demo where I run it 100X times so you can see for yourselves the level of stability we're able to get with our approach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odRcO6m9zbo
see also: https://tools.suckless.org/ii/
Impossible in Europe - can't buy a train/bus ticket, can't go to a doctor, can't download/submit homework, can't prove I don't have COVID...
Sometimes ChatGPT doesn't perform as well as Claude.
These might be available soon. Is not like the community didn't mess with UT and Deus Ex renderers since forever. That's how GMDX works today on DX9/GL video cards (and even DX10 and 11).

Also, Deus Ex it's one of the most played games ever due to its cult status (and, well, people loves conspiracy theories on the 9/11 and the Covid and in-game terror attacks). Having a GL 2.1 renderer (even a software one) will be one of the first succesful tasks being done.

I'm pretty sure even PPC Amigans would love playing it on their machines.

DX might be like the old Nethack 3.4.3 which have been ported everywhere, even to more platforms than Doom.
So far, I’ve gathered the default command to be

curl -LOCf URL
Conceptual structure and the growth of scientific knowledge
> Whether or not that is true, why would they care? They'll be gone.

Well, it’s not true (in my opinion), but try telling that to people who have been successfully shipping world-class optical gear, for a century.

I have learned that, if we want to introduce new paradigms, it’s a very bad idea to do so, by telling folks that the way they do it now, is wrong (even if it is).

That experience taught me a great deal about working within a super-high-Quality context. The personalities and opinions are very powerful, and most of the senior folks involved, got there, by being very, very good at their jobs. A true meritocracy.

They won’t react well to having some wet-behind-the-ears yank, come in and tell them that they are wrong, when that’s clearly not the case (in their eyes).

I’ve found that, if I want to introduce change, I need to begin by respecting the context and the people, and using that as a substrate for change, as opposed to suggesting it be removed, wholesale.

Or start my own company, which is what a lot of folks do, these days. It’s not an option that’s available to many. Also, those companies often encounter problems that have nothing to do with the tech, and everything to do with the inexperience of the founders (like reckless behavior).
We're working on an upgraded credit card platform. There are a few setbacks and it's less easy than expected, but it's in the works.
To be fair, the problem isn't the greybeard. It is that nobody understands bash.
> but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine.

Pretty much sums up every popular social media platform these days.

HN is still a good place to learn about whats going on in the tech world and what not because it's simple and filters out alot of "brainrot", although there is an increasing number of comments that soley react at the headline.

Reddit has become like meta, you either have an account or your user experience will be so horrible that you won't use it.

X simply doesn't allow you to use it, atleast it doesn't pretend.

I think we need more simple websites again, but I am not sure about the incentive structure.