skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again: explain which argument about the greater good I supposedly made.

Ideally before you go off on a totally unrelated tangent again. Not trying to be mean here, but if you want others to understand why I am wrong a good start is to explain what my argument was.

Because it certainly wasn't: "conflating the concept of the greater good as a core principle of Libertarian ideology". But maybe to the reader your amount of projection onto my very simple statement is in itself telling.
Those are some amazingly spammy "Top Posts" at the bottom of the page. From the same blog, I thought at first that the "left-pad as a service" [0] was a parody, but the whole collection of Online Tools websites is so elaborate that it might truly be in earnest.

Also, this should be (2010). The "last updated 3 weeks ago" is likely not real at all, every page on this blog was allegedly updated in a similar timeframe. (Maybe it counts every change to the list of links? Or maybe it's just bogus SEO nonsense.)

[0] https://catonmat.net/1000-paying-left-pad-users
Hmm, I would not say that a change in state = time, but that a state changes at some point in time where the state is current for the period of time (start to end) in which some measurable attribute of an object does not change. The standard for measuring time is based on planetary movement etc, so its really all about observing change as it happens, and the sequence of those changes.

If the universe was devoid of matter, it would mean there would be no us. And since time is a human concept, that concept would not exist :)
I didn't watch any other talks of this conference, but it looks to me as part of the issue here was that the presenter didn't explain basic (ML) types upfront. Maybe they did in other talks earlier, IDK.

If you never seen such types before it may look intimidating. But if you ever seen any ML style language the type of said function looks actually very ordinary. It does not use any really more complex concepts, it's just regular nested generic types. Pretty standard stuff.

In Rust you could also have things like:

fn foo<'a, T, U, V, W>(a: &'a T, b: U, c: V, d: W)
where
T: MyTrait<U> + Debug + 'a,
U: Debug + Hash,
V: SomeOtherTrait<V> + Debug + std::marker::Copy,
W: Box<dyn Fn(V) -> U> + Debug,
{
todo!("Just a demo");
}

That's indeed much more involved, even it doesn't use any deeply nested wrapper types.

But I think nobody would force such complex signatures on API end-users.

(Even there is of course also no magic going on. It's just the quite quite expressive type language in Rust).
again, cryptography is not crypto, yes I remember the DAO, but no I didnt say buying democracy. I said using the technology behind blockchains.

Any rules of order or organizational structure could be formulated in say metamath as formal sentences and a UI built around it so that people can take steps and make decisions and prove they are entitled to do so.

a malicious actor should fail to be able to prove undeserved powers in a properly formulated formal system.

none of this censorship nonsense
As I wrote my comment, I was thinking 10%. It's funny you bring up homes having driveways but no garages, that was a "thing" for a while, even in suburban homes in the 60s and 70s. The homes in town often didn't even have a driveway.

A couple of days ago I saw an article saying in China extended-range PHEVs are becoming all the rage. It's a full electric drivetrain, the gas engine is only used for charging the battery. That's an idea that could really catch on.
> Example applications of the Universal Protocol:

> ...your smartphone can generate a cryptographically secure response to any query about your financial history or health, while keeping your underlying data private and in your own control.

My kids love playing '20 questions'. It's rather remarkable how fast you can go from knowing nothing, to very specific information. With a few answers to 'any query' about your financial history or health, your underlying data will be neither private, nor in your control.
Eleven Minute AI Film
This article is pretty far out, but definitely worth a read.

Cryptography is one of these subjects that initially seems interesting in terms of how it works but rather boring in terms of what it does.

But then the more you learn about it, the more you discover how deep the rabbit hole of applications actually is.

This article does a pretty good job of exposing you to how deep the topic of cryptography applications potentially is.
i think i get it.

you are in danger but you dont need to know that, its not your job to protect yourself, thats our job.
It’s always magit
Thank you. I think it is unfounded, but it's still a visceral belief and those can be hard to overcome. I'm hoping with time I can change my feelings on it.
It feels like the odds a drug is perfect and a few years too late for you unless you skip the tests is exceedingly low compared to the odds that a drug will not pan out or might even be unsafe.

The perverse incentives is also a very real issue.
Managing Angular
A keyof Puzzle
> You should be able to be the worst person in the world and not hung for it.

Do you just believe that someone should be allowed to do anything they want and not face repercussions?
up next slashdot?

feels like the old internet is nearly gone
Can it automate a cutout of Michael Jordan attached to a model train set?
Lem has Legit. While missing some features, it works well enough for the daily add/stage/commit loop that makes up 90% of my git commands. It also uses less git commands so it's a fair bit snappier than Magit on large repos.

I can see the lack of org-mode being a dealbreaker for some, but I personally use markdown for my notes/docs so no issue there.
The Future of the Internet: More Robots, Less Us?
Gelsinger opens up about Intel troubles amid talk of possible split
PC GEOS had no future because it was written in object-oriented 8086 assembly language. This made it very small and efficient but effectively tied it to that 16bit platform. When PCs moved to 32bit and protected mode with the 386 there was no hope for GEOS.

It continued to find a niche in handheld PDAs running x86 processors (I had one, the HP OmniGo) but even those types of computers eventually moved to 32bit ARM.
Then it’s just this with C#:

public byte[] Read(string path) => File.ReadAllBytes(path);

I think the article’s trying to explain a concept using an arbitrary piece of code from stdlib, not necessarily that specific scenario (opening and reading all bytes from a file).
Rather arrogant of you to spew forth unfounded conjecture without even bothering to skim the high-level details of a six paragraph article.

> the protective effect occurred immediately — before participants had lost significant amounts of weight.

> the participants taking the drug were not healthier than the others, said Dr. Harlan Krumholz, a cardiologist at Yale and the editor in chief of the journal.
That Thalidomide was not approved by the FDA, while it hurt thousands of babies around the the world is probably a big reason that FDA has been very restrictive in the 60 years since, and often bans drugs that are available in the rest of the world.
By defending the stance of someone actively engaging in political conversation you are engaging in political conversation.

The implication of your response is that there is a genuine/valid point the original poster is making. This is in itself a political statement. And it’s an incorrect statement. You defended someone who was wrong in a political conversation and you’re expecting people to back you up because you quoted something non-political?

What you are doing in that twitter thread and in this thread are intellectually dishonest.
I was messing around a bit with SDL2 and either I was doing something wrong or it was just plain slow. My machine is plenty fast, but even just blitting a few dozen PNGs around a screen 60 times a second was pushing its limits. I freely admit I may have been doing something wrong, but I was surprised at just how inefficient it was at a task that we used to do without too much trouble on 1Mhz CPUs.

Maybe SDL_RenderCopy is the wrong API to use to blit things from a sprite sheet onto a display? The docs didn't give any warning if this is the case.
Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People [video]
This is a superb introduction in the intricacies involved with implementing an infinite canvas from scratch. Reading through it, I'm really glad that when I wrote my canvas library I made a decision to avoid WebGL/WebGpu at all costs - though mature libraries that make heavy/exclusive use of such tech clearly demonstrate the benefits.

Looking forward to future instalments!
That's so sad. Farewell and thanks for everything!

For me, the beginning of the end was when Anand and Brian Klug both moved to Apple. While I bet that they're doing great things there, I've been significantly less fascinated by new hardware, and in particular Apple hardware, ever since.

Shiny exteriors and magical features might appeal to many, but to me, somebody explaining in all detail what makes it work doesn't take anything away from the magic – quite the opposite.
Thanks for the report, following up now. We'll make some updates to our website asap. Preview of the call graph can be seen in our video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgfDXUtWzRk. Happy to chat about reduced subscription price.

I created an issue for user provided API keys, tracked here: https://github.com/EdisonLabs-Inc/CodeViz-Public/issues/3
I am more persuaded by the research done by Peter Dickinson and summarized in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_Dragons_(book) and further presented in The Last Dragon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Dragon_(2004_film) ( https://youtu.be/NYY5ksNCjCY - with Patrick Stewart as the narrator in the US version)
Another thing AWS did that was really out there back then was to allow on-the-go, only pay for what you use workloads. EC2 instances were billed per hour instead of per month.
> Apple allows users to easily find these apps, with some even in the top 100 within their app category. Apple is not just distributing these apps but promoting them.

Touch of clickbait in the title is evident in the snippet quoted directly above.

A list of the most popular apps according to consumer purchases does not equate to Apple _promoting_ them, just reporting on their popularity.
> they moved too slow, were stuck in their ways, and unable to change

This goes beyond just engineering- people generally get more like this in all aspects of life as they get older, and I believe you can prevent it by deciding not to be that way, and taking actions to not be that way.

Personally, I feel that I was very rigid and closed minded when I was younger, and I've been learning and working on how to be less like that as I get older. I used to get angry when people believed or did things I thought were "wrong" - and I found if I take the time to understand why they think it is the right way, I am not bothered by it anymore, and am more able to work with them and be kind and understanding to them, even if I disagree still.
Revisiting Star Trek's Most Political Episode
So just a normal weekend then?
Let's Fund the Fediverse
Related:

Sub.club aims to fund the fediverse via premium feeds

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/29/sub-club-aims-to-fund-the-...

Aforementioned article, previously on HN (4 points, 0 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41397245
> You're preaching to the choir, but even preaching needs to be truthful and I don't think calling Mozilla ad-tech or suggesting that it's just as bad as Google is remotely true.

Mozilla is literally an ad-tech company. They bought and now own an actual ad-tech start up, they are partnering with Facebook to develop and implement protocols like DAP, and they are currently working on turning firefox into an ad platform that will deliver reports of people's browsing history to marketers in exchange for money. In what way are they are not an ad-tech company exactly?

I'll admit that they aren't as bad as Google, but they're heading in that direction and they've also only just gotten into the ad-tech game. It took Google a long time to get as evil as they are now.

Rejecting firefox because of Mozilla's new role as an ad-tech company and their insistence on exploiting firefox users isn't the perfect becoming the enemy of the good. Surveillance capitalism isn't good. Maybe standing up for ourselves and our values by saying no to spying from Firefox will cause Mozilla to look to other options. Even if it doesn't, it will keep us from being exploited and tarnished by our participation in their decline.

I've been a firefox user from the very beginning. My first browser of choice was Netscape. I hate that the enshittification of firefox is here, but I won't ignore it any longer. We still have a few alternatives like librewolf that provide the benefits of firefox without the recent corruption, and there's some hope on the horizon with ladybird too. The internet is only in the sorry state it is now because we've conceded too much to advertisers. We need to start holding ourselves and the software/services we use to a higher standard or it's only going to get worse. If Mozilla suddenly wants to be a part of the problem, I'll leave them behind while I look for a new solution.
Rhere are a few interesting cases where superposition is inevitable.

A) In a molecule with two electrons, the wavefunction of the electrons is written as |aa> + |bb> + ... combining one electron with spin up and one with spin down. [1] [2]

It would be nice to choose the base carefully and write only |aa>. That is the Hartree-Fock method [3] and the result is like 95% or 99% accurate, sometimes you get 100% accurate, but it's not usual.

To get the small difference, you must allow combinations like Sqrt(99%) |aa> + Sqrt(1%) |bb>. [4]

It would be very nice to be able to use the simple form because calculations would be much faster.

B) In a different area, IIUC the neutrino osculation is caused because it's impossible to choose the bases for leptons and neutrinos and their transformations in a way there is no superpositions.

[1] Actually, in some cases you must use |ab> + |cd> + ... , but the simple version is good enough.

[2] And with more electrons it's even worse.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartree%E2%80%93Fock_method

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_correlation

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation
I'm fortunate to be in a company where there isn't a stereotypical push for senior dev to "switch to management." I'm happily doing the IC thing but feel like I am on the other end of the pendulum swing a bit, in that I feel like I maybe should look into the management path before I get too old and out of date. The main thing that stops me is that so far I've been able to adopt and learn new tech reasonably well (or so I think!) so I suppose as long as that continues I shouldn't mess with what ain't broken. :-)
Slightly related, please forgive the offtopicness: has anyone implemented a DIY UWB location base + beacon/tag?

I ask because my neurodivergent wife loses things, and often Tile either doesn't work or isn't load enough. I read that UWB promises 10cm² or 10cm³ accuracy, which would be ideal for finding lost stuff.

I've seen a couple of commercial offerings, but they didn't have pricing.
One far less scary version is to allow drugs approved by other reputable agencies (EU, Japan, UK, maybe) to be used in some limited capacity in the US.
Fortunately, presence simulation is only needed at dusk/night - when cats have their zoomies.
Yes I'm waiting for a nixos package. I have used it a bit through the Docker image and it's super cool. I can see it succeeding emacs. Seems like it's even more hackable than the latter, since it's all written in Common Lisp (there's no C core).
> Being active on Reddit

This has gotten really frustrating since the exclusivity agreement. Reddit now has no way to search for privacy mind folks that refuse to use Google.

That said, this is probably good for mental health as it means less time on Reddit.
Our dragons are all reptiles around here. I had to slay four of them last fall before they set up dens in the yard. It was miserable work, but I'm a good candidate for canonization now, which is more than I can say for most weekend projects.
Yeah, the Shibuya office is significantly larger. IIRC Shibuya Stream building is around 35 floors, and Google occupies at least half of them.
This is basically multiplying by sqrt(5) ~ 2.236, and 1 kg = 2.204 lb. Not bad!
Ask HN: AOSA books as "systems design" reference?
When talking about "systems design" people usually refer to books like DDIA, System Design Interview, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, etc. I find these books very theoretical and while interesting, I rarely remember anything and much less I apply what they talk about.

I find the AOSA (The Architecture of Open Source Applications) books much more fun to read, useful, and very hands on. The only "problem" perhaps is that they are not 100% "web" oriented (some chapters are related to distributed systems and the like, but the majority are not).
How can I install Node from an official source without installing NPM? This is what keeps Node development out of many secure environments.
Reads like it was majorly inspired by Liz Wiseman’s “Multipliers”.

It’s a pretty tedious read (to me) but goes into a lot of detail on these leadership traits and dwells quite a bit on the “diminishing” aspects of them.
I guess it won’t take very long before you can do PPC (or similar paid advertising) in LLM results. Google had to turn to paid advertising for profitability. OpenAI and the likes might have to do the same — competition is fierce and price are dropping so not sure users will continue to accept paying a subscription.
If these animals are eaten raw after "it has been frozen at -18’C for a minimum period of 14 days". AKA "sashimi quality"

Otherwise you are risking serious illness. From either pathogens of marine origin or later handling.

Crab: parasitic flukes (liver flukes and lung flukes), roundworms (e.g. Angiostrongylus cantonensis) and tapeworms (e.g. Diphyllobothrium spp.). Viruses: norovirus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

Lobsters: Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio vulnificus, Vibrio cholera.

Shrimp and Squid: many of the same.

Sources:

- https://seafoodbysykes.com/guide-to-eating-squid/

- https://www.cfs.gov.hk/english/multimedia/multimedia_pub/mul...

- https://www.vinmec.com/eng/article/is-it-safe-to-eat-raw-shr...

- https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40012224
I had a similar problem, trying to make my Macbooks less glare-y outdoors. I tried a variety of solutions (like sunbrellas and screen enclosures) but they didn't work very well.

Having tried various no-name anti-glare protectors off Amazon that didn't work very well, eventually I found a small US-based company that does custom-cut anti-glare protectors with actual optical analyses: https://www.photodon.com/

They primarily sell industrial, I think, but also will cut a sheet for you to spec. They have common device types/sizes listed, or you can provide detailed measurements and they'll do a special cut for you, including for curved monitors.

There's a video showing their different types (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhIZPO9oMGY) and a quick comparison sheet (https://www.photodon.com/Film-Comparison-Print.pdf), or you can order a sample kit to try different kinds (https://www.photodon.com/p/sample-screen-protector-privacy-f...) to see what suits your needs the best.

Personally I got the MXG 85% glare reduction film (https://www.photodon.com/Anti-Glare-Screen-Protector-Specs-M...), and it's worked VERY well on both laptops it's installed on, with minimal change in clarity (it's hardly even noticeable, but really really helps with glare and specular lighting). I notice that it's not immediately available on their website; maybe they replaced it with a similar material but with blue-light blocking (AGB)?

Their support is US-based and very helpful, if you have any pre-purchase questions.

I'm not affiliated with the company, just a very happy customer who's grateful to have found them.
I lived in an old house in a place which got developed into suburbs later for a while. Preparing hot water by burning wood, what one must prepare in advance was an adventure. Luckily there was a pile of wood from before. But doing this repeatedly isn’t for everybody. The place lost afterwards electricity in spring for whole 2 weeks. So no backup. Heating only by burning wood. There are so many fail safes to be implemented to live outside civilization that I don’t want to think about it. A gas and electricity powered fridge. Enough gas, enough firewood. Boiling all water from the well before using it. Digging regularly a new hole for a toilet. Having at least one spare for every critical piece of equipment. Electronic loves to fail suddenly and Amazon does not come with next day delivery.
There's a slightly quicker way that they kind of stumble upon, but never outright say. miles * 8/5 = km and km * 5/8 = miles.

How many km in 100 miles? 100/5 = 20, 20 * 8 = 160.

How many miles in 400km? 400/8 = 50, 50 * 5 = 250.

And 8/5 is 1.6 exactly, which is close to the "golden ratio".
If You Want People to Remember, Tell a Story
My compliments on your vocabulary:

etoliated:
Def 2. literary. weakened; no longer at full strength. "Her voice was thinner than I recalled..."
Elections Corrupt the Democratic Process [video]
This times 1000. I loved their deeply technical reviews and articles. I got hooked early on their CPU and GPU deep dives and their mobile deep dives in the 2010s.

I've been reading them since before my teenage years and they got me interested in the insides of tech enough for me to pursue and gain my degree in Computer Engineering. It definitely changed when Anand and Brian left, but end of an era now that the site is shutting down.
> A pure coincidence that the Golden ratio is almost the same as kilometers in a mile.

Is it really just a coincidence? Genuinely curious.
Not a judgement or anything, but pointing out that you are interacting with people in a social capacity online right now.
The economic solution again: you want your worker not to have to log hours because they have an important management job and work "as much as necessary"? Sure, pay them at least 125k a year. Anything under that, they must log hours.
It's easy to downvote and move on, but I don’t think that does justice to the valid underlying concerns this parent comment raises. I don’t agree with the idea that there’s “no reason” to question the guy’s actions - because his methods do raise serious ethical and safety concerns - but I think it’s right to caution against kneejerk reactions that might lead to government overreach. We should be wary of how power can be used to silence people, even if those people did shitty things in the past or are controversial figures.

Ignoring the underlying point being made won't make it go away, and won’t help educate any of our peers who might take some of this stuff at face value.
From what I understand, even with the best science had to offer at the time, the odds still weren’t good. Definitely didn’t help ignoring science though.
That was going to be my suggestion as well. They're popular and recognizable.
I don't want any of my data be collected without my permission and without a negotiated monetary compensation and expect that the browser is on my side here.

Also the data about you can be used to charge you a higher price. For example, if a company knows that the user is reading HN, and we know that people using HN (expect for me of course) all are mostly filthy rich Californian software engineers or enterpreneurs so they should have no problem with paying a little more.