skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how I understand how it’s possible for the majority of people if they can’t keep up with the things that make it possible.
Likewise, some do write GNU/Linux games, yet that wasn't in a number relevant enough to keep the original SteamOS going as businesses, until translation of Windows APIs was added.
> Will we see x86 or similar CPUs replace hot instruction blocks with current-processor-specific optimized code during runtime, similar to how certain JIT VMs do?

Wasn't that one of Transmeta's things?
Ask HN: Tech Literacy Course Topics
I am exploring making a "tech literacy" course for children, that is "career-hopeful" agnostic. Age isn't as relevant as inexperience with computers is but for simplicity's sake you could aim for a 12yo child who has taken a typing class.

I have lots of ideas but don't want to predispose anyone to topics, rather get their raw opinions on what might be covered. Feel free to share anything from just a single topic (i.e. encryption) to an itemized list.
Uber effectively doesn't have customer service--or at least it hasn't for the past few years. You can no longer simply "call" and the out-of-app email is a chatbot ouroboros straight out of dystopian fiction. Think Gilliam's Brazil, but worse.

After a few failed Uber pick-ups and one instance of a mysterious 27% post-ride "corridor fee", my policy moving forward was to simply no longer do business as a paying customer with any business that doesn't have actual customer support.

This meant, among other things, migrating off of Google, a few brokerage accounts, and one national bank.

Doing a "support test" is also now one of the very first things I do as a new customer of any company.

So far, I have zero regrets. In a perverse way, I give Uber credit for providing the impetus for those decisions.
Webtoon Targets 170 Pirate Domains Through DMCA Subpoena
sales engineer is quite a lucrative career. don't have to be really good at it, just enough to be useful.
The math does not work that way.

If you’re going 70mph you travel 16.6% further in the same amount of time.

But your average stopping distance increases 240 to 315 feet, 31% increase.

This also stresses your reaction time.

Risk of severe injury in pedestrian accidents goes like this:

16mph: 10%

23mph: 25%

31mph: 50%

So if you slow down in a pedestrian heavy area from 31mph to 23mph, you travel 30% slower but if you hit someone you’ve cut the chance of seriously injuring them in half.

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/learning-to-drive/stoppin...

https://aaafoundation.org/impact-speed-pedestrians-risk-seve...
I mean, we just read about it, right? (:

Harsh but let this be a lesson to set up a more resilient structure for yourself moving forward. Anyone can make mistakes. You can set up failsafes for your own ones pre-emptively.

"2FA is garbage" is not the right lesson to learn here...
Bluuid: Firewallas, Diabetics, and Bluetooth
This is one of the rewards for paying full attention to people, even when you aren't forced to by the situation: small misalignments slip out long before you hear something that jars you into a critical frame of mind.
I am missing something, what is being said that signals incompetence?
It’s not much of a leap to go from cishet to shithead verbally. Very strange choice people seem to have latched onto.
I was honestly looking for / intrigued by (the thought of) e.g. a correlation between Wifi 6E access point density vs older ones, and quality of living / neighbourhood.
I think you'll find I'm consistently willing to be forgiving of people across my comments here.

The only moderately strong objection I'm posing is to the characterization of language evolving as a shibboleth.

My grandad used to use a bunch of WW1 era slurs. Constantly. They were just language to him. I never got angry, I just let him know that if he used those slurs, people would have a perception that he was unwilling to believe in equality. He didn't realize and he tried, not because I said he was bad, but because he wanted to.

If you want to not keep up, that's fine! But language always changes. Whether it's yeet, sus, aura, brat, or disabled, the use of words is going to change.

So, if you choose not to change with it, you will eventually, accidentally, make someone who is keeping up feel hurt. That's not evil or bad. But at that moment, how you respond is something you can control -- talk to the person, share with them how it was unintentional, listen about how they felt. Explain to them how you feel about trying to keep up. Learn from one another.

Getting angry because inter generational language gaps exist is like getting angry because someone bumped you accidentally. Accidents are gonna happen, it's how we get together and give each other grace and listen that matters. Don't assume every bump of a passing stranger is an assault.

I think you might be reading my posts believing that I'm disagreeing with you, or that I'm insisting the new language is the only acceptable language. I'm really not.
What if plastics make people fat
Unfortunately it doesn't look like there's a way to contact the author of this piece.
> What word do you prefer to mean "heterosexual, non transgender person". The word cishet is just a combination of some (Latin? Greek?) prefixes, but if you'd prefer a different descriptor I'm happy to make the effort on your behalf.

I'm half convinced the parent isn't serious, but since you asked: I prefer to not be labeled at all. If you have to pick one, I'd prefer something closer to "neurotypical"—a word that effectively communicates that my sexual identity is defined by existing comfortably within the herd of the 90%+, not something that I've actively shaped or given much thought to.

Aside from the fact that the pronunciation is... hard... "cishet" doesn't fit me because it labels aspects of myself that I never stopped to notice until well into adulthood and seems to give them greater importance than I actually assign to them. It feels a bit like putting a name tag on my left elbow introducing it as "Bob".
Sure, I haven't heard that before but I could see it. I wouldn't be surprised if others made that connection too. Would hetero cisgender person be better for you?
Is My Approach to Vectorizing and Storing 1.5 Trillion Tokens Reasonable?
I'm planning to index and store 1.5 trillion tokens using Faiss and would love some feedback on my approach:

1. Partitioning: I'm thinking of using distributed k-means and inverted multi-index quantizers for efficient data partitioning.

2. On-Disk Storage: Due to the scale, I'm storing everything on disk using a Compressed Sparse Row format.

3. Distributed Search: I plan to implement a client-server model with multiple servers to handle search operations.

Does this approach sound feasible, or am I overlooking something crucial? Any advice or suggestions?

I'm mostly working off of this article: Indexing 1T Vectors (https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/wiki/Indexing-1T-vectors). I think the data is too big for AutoFaiss, but I can use that for experiments.
Oh i've been using Nix on mac for quite a while. Not sure about the uninstall, but recently i did a fresh macbook install and used the Determinate Systems Nix Installer[1]. I haven't tried uninstalling, but installation was a joy by comparison to the traditional way (and poor documentation).

[1]: https://determinate.systems/posts/determinate-nix-installer/
What's remarkable about the treadmill isn't that it exists or that ultimately words become slurs over time. That's predictable. What's remarkable is the rapidity with which language changes are superimposed in top-down societies. To the degree that one could probably measure the authoritarianism or top-down nature of a society based on how quickly verboten words are removed from its published vernacular.
What's wrong with "straight"?
For real: profitable consulting businesses have been formed to help LLM programmers. BUGFIX 66, for example, and various others. They can charge substantial money to help customers cross that "last mile" and get their LLM-generated pile of code working.
One person suffering unemployment is better than one or multiple people suffering permanent injury or death.
The same way that currently most HR departments only care about people with at least 10 years experience in exactly the same stack the company is using, and more often than not, training is not even part of the picture.
It says she was taken in due to a diabetic episode.

What on earth is that? Hypo/hyperglycaemia? You'd have to have extremely poorly managed type 1 diabetes for that to become fatal without a massive screwup at that age.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41315701
What cities are removing transit!?
Since you used the rather telling term ‘corrected’:

You have several comma splices, just as many missing commas, some dubious capitalisation and a missing full stop or two. I personally find sloppy punctuation offensive but I don’t usually point it out. How do /you/ handle being corrected? These rules change a lot less often than once a decade.

Now, you may not like prescriptivist grammar, but if you don’t, I’d like to see how you justify one form of prescriptivism and not another.

And if you don’t like how I picked on your choice of a single word in your post: That is the behaviour you’re defending.
Surely you can just outsource customer service to an offshore provider that is (a) cheaper, and (b) just a company that invoices you for their time (i.e. not your employee therefore not directly owed benefits taxes etc by you)?

I haven't looked into it, so I don't know exactly what price range is involved (and I don't know if it's a price that one could justify, depending on the exact income involved in your side project - but let's assume it's a fairly modest income), and I don't have any names to recommend. But from what I've heard, Philippines is the go-to for this sort of work these days (not that it's the only country, there are other options).
1. Install Linux Mint. 2. Try to do everything (yes, even web browsing) through the terminal. (You can go back to browsing in a non-terminal browser later). 3. Read Kernighan and Pike's "The Unix Programming Environment". 4. Mess around with neovim/emacs. 5. You will now have an understanding of Linux as a user. Where you go from here is up to you!
> federalism (employment contracts are a matter of state rather than federal law)

While the US's particular brand of federalism might imply that (or might not), that specific bit need not be a feature of federalism in general.

> separation of powers (executive branch agencies enforce the law, they don’t make it)

Decades of legislative delegation and executive rulemaking would seem to disagree with that, no? I'm not making a value judgment on whether or not this is a good thing, just stating the facts on the ground. (SCOTUS seems to want to dismantle all that, though.)

> It’s really appalling how many supposedly educated lawyers would arrive at the wrong answer to something a bright 10th grader could figure out from first principles.

Or maybe reasonable people well-versed in the law can disagree in their interpretations? Not sure if you're a lawyer yourself (I'm not), but it seems to me that disagreements on legal interpretation aren't particularly uncommon, especially when it comes to disputes around separation of powers and state vs. federal powers.
>The Civil Service Board, which was headed by Fire Chief Farto's nephew

>He was brought to county jail with fellow narcotics criminal Manny Jones, the city attorney and son of the police chief.

small town vibes.
Excellent talk even if you’re not interested in game consoles
I moved to Linux for a few months (currently on EndeavourOS, but just distro hopping...). The main reasons for me was because of how the latest updates on Windows 11 has been very horrible.

Windows had only one OK consumer mail app, the inbox Mail apps, and they killed and replaced with Outlook Web App basically.

File Explorer got super awful, unstable, slow...

A ton of native things getting replaced by web apps... And each web app using their own Webview2, instead of at least using a shared webview between the apps (that's how W8 and W10 worked).

The result for this is that to show a simple weather info on taskbar, it literally needs a webview. Yes, the temperature thing on taskbar uses webview.
If you are low on resources, the system just can't handle all of that.

Meanwhile on Gnome here, although with some issues, none comes close to that, and the design has been very consistent as well.
It's not merely useful, it's mandatory. There's a real risk of contamination when interacting with bigots!
So I wouldn't use Renpy to facilitate the backend for enterprise services at scale. In terms of visual novels on the desktop, it does just fine.
That's wonderful, thanks for sharing: Adams is extremely cunning in his satirical look at the humanity.

Not that I agree: "pie charts" for tracking time (and otherwise) are useful when you need to roughly and quickly compare how much time is left in a day.

But we have since moved to it being important if something happens in 14:37 or 14:42, which is hard and slow to decipher on a pie chart.

Now, one could argue we are primitive if we have moved in that direction instead of being more lax with time instead.
It takes a lot of money to get people to compromise their morals. That's why wall street has to pay so well, and I think it's the same for ad tech.
Come on down to the big dig!
Are you suggesting the phenomenon is a myth? Or when it does occur, it is impolite to point it out?
Great narration! Thanks for the article.

Loved this line:
"Nowadays, to
me it's about creating good jobs for my friends, helping our customers,
and taking care of the community".

Good luck!
I re-redesigned my own watchface. The result is that the hour-indicator grew bigger and bigger, because that is the main need when the sun is not shining.
https://github.com/timonoko/Amazfit
If they spend $100m on a feasibility study or planning work before getting shit canned for "cost blowouts" someone still got paid.
So a sort of null -- gender or sexuality aren't things you consider much, so you haven't really assigned any labels to yourself. I think that makes sense.

I've seen people use "gender or sexual minority" to describe lgbtq+ folks, so maybe you feel better described by "gender or sexual majority"? (Which I think is a judgement free expression of percentage?)
Are you a fan of the show Utopia?
2FA apps are a fundamentally broken auth mechanism. We just saw Microsoft's authenticator app inexplicably delete people's codes and lock them out of their accounts. And this is another example of how stupid the whole thing is.

It's all for theater.
Wow, another RF/electronics tech turned SWE? How many of us do you think there are?
"A message from CPS Energy"

I haven't paid much attention to them. Perhaps they should put a threat level code in the subject line.

Green = Go about your day

Yellow = Don't use your big appliances or hot water as much

Orange = Yellow, plus turn the thermostat to 80 and keep the doors closed

Red = Bitcoin mines offline. All buildings shut down ancillary consumption. A/C in common spaces set to 85. Prepare to roll blackouts.
It's very funny when it comes full circle, like for 'moron', which no one thinks is a slur anymore.
Canadian freight railroads shut down, dealing a blow to North America's economy
Awesome to hear- that sounds like an application we'd love to help with!

(Please feel free to reach out to us too at towaki@outerport.com !)
Just wait for one of Aussies famous dust storms to blow thru and scratch all the PV to shit....
Certainly, if you construct enough postulates, you can wind up in some funny places. If you forget your cash, is a shop obligated to give you the goods for free? What if you fail to read the sign in the car saying "NO LOBSTERS" and you have your crustacean for a walk?

What if you made a new Uber account with another email address? Would you be committing a venal sin?

Your actual sin, non-venal, was not naming the thread either "I love reductive argument ad absurdiam" or "Uber needs a real human on the helpdesk, this is why"
Tangentially: I own property in Wonder Valley by 29 Palms, where the municipal water district received a fluoride levels variance and federal assistance in building a water treatment facility to remove excess naturally occurring fluoride from the groundwater.

I dunno what's worse, the excess fluoride or hexavalent chromium...

https://29palmswater.com/wp-content/uploads/Consumer-Confide...
> the characterization of language evolving as a shibboleth.

When I showed up at my most recent job I used "you guys" once and immediately regretted it. Things got awkward for a second and then someone in the group constructed a sentence that allowed them to use "folks" and place the emphasis.

I adapted, but if that's not a shibboleth I don't know what is.
50% of Australia lives in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Having a nuclear power plant for each would make sense. Melbourne would make the most sense first as it gets a lot less sun than the others.
Yep. Like I said, I hang out in a lot of disabled spaces. Many of those disabilities are invisible (social anxiety is super common).

There's not a great one size fits all solution, so I push for grace and I push for understanding. Two people might have mutually impossible to reconcile experiences with language. I believe if we assume good intent from others and attempt good intent towards others, we'll clear many, many situations with a minimum of harm to all.
What a bloat, mine is in 5 lines of bash: https://github.com/tenox7/autosnap
I think you may have missed the qualifier "typically"
Texas has these free electricity nights. Anyone know of a battery system that can fill the batteries at night (from the grid) and use them during the day? And then recharge at night again. Due to location solar isn’t an option but still interested in batteries due to free nights.
Why do you care about an Uber account? Can't you just create a new account and start over? The accounts I care about are the ones where I've got important files or data stored in them.
Weirdly, by compatibility is better on Linux than on Windows.

On Windows, on a clean install, I need to install the drivers from WU to get audio working, etc. And then I need to open Intel website to get the latest Bluetooth driver, go to Dell to get the latest wifi, as on Windows Update's these are not the latest.

And even after all of this, some of the drivers on Linux is better maintained, because the support for old Intel GPUs on Windows is very short. Meanwhile, on Linux, I get Vulkan support, and all recent drivers on my Broadwell.
Video perf is way better on Linux here.
While we are all waiting for the world to sort these problems out, companies that are not interested in solving them for the world will continue to use SSO techniques.

I’m very not impressed by this deep, extended critique of machine learning researchers using common security best practices on the grounds that those practices involve an imperfect user experience for those requiring perfect anonymity…
Towards a Vendor-Lock-in-Free Conda Experience
Isn't this the China Winnie-The-Poo experience? The euphemistic label for "leader I don't like" has to cycle at a frequency somewhat higher than the rate of word-bans but somewhat lower than the minimum acquisition time for ordinary people.
They're extrapolating from their beliefs which they must hold given the investments they've already made in a fairly immature technology.

They have to believe that AI will lower their staffing costs and start generating serious revenues because to admit otherwise means they have failed to present an honest picture to their investors.
This is the first time I've heard of a Penicillin, and I love both ginger and Islay....color me intriuged
Yeah, you're doing what I just said: waving your hands and speculating that this finding is the secret reason for the other problems.
Probably closer to 10 - 15k usd. It's https://www.ochsundjunior.swiss/watches/annual-calendar/ which starts at CHF 8’800 / 10.3k USD.

It's not completely custom, i.e. ochs und junior is using their own design, but the blog post is a lovely showcase of why he loves the watch, and watches in general.
I was trying to make it clear it was built as part of the kernel source, not as an external module.

There are some subtle arguable advantages, for example on x86 static kernel text sits on 2MB hugepages while module text sits on 4K pages from vmalloc.

The kernel on my gaming machine is actually built without loadable module support at all. It's a static binary with only the exact necessary set of drivers turned on.
The thing about most modern web backends is that virtually nothing is guaranteed to complete.

The processes that use locks are often short-lived. They live in short-lived containers with no state, or maybe they're just lambdas executing under a strict resource limit. Either way, there's nobody to clean up after them or restart them once they're killed. When they begin a database transaction and then disappear for any reason, the best practice is to roll back and pretend they never did anything.

In this brave new world of YOLO lock holders, antirez's position makes a lot of sense. There's definitely still room for old-fashioned durable locks, but these are different use cases.
I type on my phone, apologies. I try to take corrections with grace. If you've got suggestions that would clarify or corrections to my language that would remove understandings, please share them.

I'm not bothered by your post! Genuinely. I find it takes all types, and if there's a way I can improve to be better understood, that's a language win for me. I level up when corrected.
Profitable
Canada's 2 major freight railroads come to a full stop as labour talks collapse
This is called firing customers, it works surprisingly well.
Oil giant Halliburton hit by apparent cyberattack disrupting systems
Straight is fine.
Is that open sourced? I want to render shakuhachi music notation in the browser trying to replicate the caligraphic style and it's not trivial.
now I’m convinced that a certain senior engineer at a very well known tech company had this as an instruction manual. I’ve experienced each of these multiple times from the same person!

On my own though, I’m certainly guilty of the 100 round trips. I tend to mentally group nits and not spell out every one that I find
Anything that's live service aspect is a pain in the ass to run. That's why I decided to make my side project an old school (VR) videogame with a singleplayer campaign.

Basically you can sell it and sleep on it if you want to do something else.
Everyone expects to get multiplayer though... :(
This is an interesting corporate paradox that existed forever. It boils down to this: profit centers are always more frugal than cost centers. With cost centers you can say “you gotta spend money to make money” and PHBs will nod their heads. With established profit centers the most profitable (in the short run) course of action is to cut cost.
Except that most cholesterol is made in your body, and dietary sources don’t move that needle much.
Async_API_caller – Python - as name implies (now w. progress bar and caching)
What was the negative consequence you experienced from that interaction (genuine)? Did you follow up afterwards to understand why someone chose both the language they did?