skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if this was what your parent meant, but

One of the fairly noticeable problems with Stephenson is that he uses the "rape as character development" trope a lot for female characters. So, that's not great. In general in fact female characters in his novels are not written as if they were - you know - people, and even when they're the protagonist we get some weird male gaze stuff going on.

It's not a deal breaker, Diamond Age is one of my favourite novels despite this. But certainly it feels at best lazy.

Other routine complaints are that Stephenson's novels are too long (fair) under edited (presumably with the same root cause, ie celebrity) and poorly paced (e.g. six chapters about the protagonist preparing and then eating cereals, two pages on the climactic bank heist they've spent the whole book planning)

Technically I think Stephenson suffers from having noticed that, unlike many contemporaries who wrote fiction set in the near future, he actually has some idea what he was writing about and not realising how limited that knowledge is. William Gibson knows he has no idea how a computer works, so in a Gibson novel he's not trying to convince you his protagonist knows which IPv6 routing protocol to use - William Gibson doesn't know what IPv6 is. But Neal might spend a paragraph about some nonsense that seems plausible if you know as much as he does... but then is laughable if you know more. That seems if anything worse than what Gibson chose.

I like hard SF, but hard SF is really difficult. One of my other favourite novels is Greg Egan's "Incandescence". Egan isn't great at writing women either, but in Incandescence he cuts himself a break, nobody involved is technically human anyway, but he did spend a lot of time figuring out all the tricky physics needed to make the novel's story work. Is there really a civilisation in the core of our galaxy? We'll probably never know, but Egan attempted to design a scenario that could, in principle, technically work.
I'd say that a staggering amount of work at Fermilab is already applied and/or engineering. That's a compliment. Theorists get the PR but building and running those enormous experiments is no joke.
IT problems paralyze Dutch coast guard, military, airport – DW – 08/28/2024
> It turns out what people want is everything in one place for free

I'd say this is provably false based on the popularity of streaming services, specifically the rise of Netflix's streaming service. That is the opposite of free.

Netflix is not offering ad tiers due to a lack of subscribers; they are doing it because there were a handful of quarters where revenue stagnated. This does not mean it was a bad business model; it means they want perpetual growth to satisfy shareholders. Same old story.

The reasons cable was and is bad and was destined to be replaced:

- No ability to unbundle (as you said)

- Messy time-shifting (DVRs, PPV, all that nonsense)

- Complicated and limited setup (proprietary hardware; extra fees for multiple devices; no ability to view on a computer or mobile device)

- Tons of fun trying to cancel

Cable has two real advantages:

- Fast channel switching

- Garbage exclusivity contracts

Streaming doesn't solve exclusivity but it certainly doesn't make it worse. In fact, making it easier to subscribe and cancel makes it significantly better.
It is definitely a high-spend area. It is not uncommon for teams that are <50 people to spend ~$2-5000/month on CI, sometimes more.

There are repos we've seen that are heavily sharded for testing and trigger ~50-200 separate jobs per commit, each taking a few minutes to run.

CI costs are only going to increase with each engineer putting out 10x code and autogenerated tests in the next few years.

aside: we're tackling this problem as a company. I've been considering putting out an analysis of this data from our customer set - your post might just trigger me to do it.
It is even more ridiculous because it costs them nothing to issue an extra copy of this pdf report. They need to certify anyway because their enterprise customers will demand it.
In my experience multi-channel AAC gets sent as multi-channel LPCM over HDMI, whether that be eARC or not. That's fine though, I don't really care what part of the chain does the AAC decoding because it has to be turned into LPCM _somewhere_.
The Pros and Cons of Open Source Large Language Models
Source/elaboration?
Water Reactive Electroluminescent Panels [video]
The other day I came across a fascinating modification of your standard electroluminescent displays, which have local activation in response to water. This video explains how they work.

Some additional demo videos can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qTol_4_k3o

https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1f0oe15/...

https://old.reddit.com/r/water/comments/123j8sw/electrolumin...
Chatbots Are Primed to Warp Reality
My understanding is it merely meant sites not indexed by search engines. Your employers internal websites or the sites for your college coursework would count.
Those killed millions of people?
I remember playing this in a browser. I'll try to find where.

edit: https://jimbly.github.io/regex-crossword/
I think I can elucidate what the author was going after, in the context of advertising.

Most people want shiny things in nice boxes. The aesthetic and aesthetic experience is extremely important.

In engineering it is the functional characteristics which we are ooing and enamored by.

In my line of work (power engineering) there is -zero- thought put into aesthetics and experience. In my girlfriends line of work (cosmetics development) there is a whole team larger than the technical team that puts an enormous effort into things like bottle design and "vibe".

Perhaps at a base level the same brain chemicals get stirred up, but what the author is saying is that the paths there are different.
Comic Relief US launches new Roblox game to help children build community
The problem is simply this https://asia.nikkei.com/content/1f9ed40b4b44745e1a39fafaf94b... here in EU the same car cost a bit less than 40.000€. The world is globalized enough people know the prices, you can't sell something so expensive in some countries while in some other it's so cheap.

The point is that we still have a tech advantage, but far far far shorter than the past and with current financial ruling of anything, including the "you'll own nothing" people simply do their best to save money sticking with what they already have.

Surely, without home charging you can't make a life with an EV but that's even marginal than the above. Remote working despite every pushback and absurd hybrid is here to stay, large cities economy is doomed so people with a garage will be people who can own a car, the others will be too impoverished to own one. Actual ruling class have to understand a thing: people are mostly not so smart, but there is a limit.
This helped me great in an earlier job. Steve Jobs did not want Flash on the iPad. HTML5 was just getting started. And here I was checking how to provide a lean JavaScript Magazine App for the iPad.

Closure library and the advanced closure compiler to the rescue
It seems Intel runs of of money before they can see the results of the foundry comeback attempt. If comeback plan succeeds with A20 and A18 (PowerVia + RibbonFet) they are fully back in game late 2025. If the comeback fails and Intel Foundries drops permanently behind Samsung and TSMC, they are drowning in debt.

AMD did GlobalFoundries spin-off 15 years ago and it was the right choice.
https://elv.sh/
Thanks for providing context on the LLM approval process! User provided API keys will be completed by the end of the week: https://github.com/EdisonLabs-Inc/CodeViz-Public/issues/3

> The price is too steep. I get way more value out of Copilot than I get from CodeViz which is similarly priced.

Copilot is a great product and inexpensive, I do understand where you're coming from. Personally, I spend most of my time reading code and gathering context vs typing code. We hope to provide much more than $19/mo in value, so the subscription is a good signal for whether we're making something useful for you. We also have more features for team licenses that we haven't publicized.

The reduced subscription price for using your own API key does make sense though. If you send me an email or message me on discord I'd be happy to chat this over. This goes for anyone with a strong opinion on the matter
Like it looks a lot like my cluttered office

Yep - I had the same "hey, that's my office" reaction as well.

And an interesting the counterpoint it is to the minimalist aesthete meme that gets continually repeated at us ("He curated his own life, choosing to live in an empty space with just a few exquisite things—a Tiffany lamp, a custom-assembled stereo system"[0]).

I guess that "curated life" thing was just a phase he went through.

[0] https://stevejobsarchive.com/exhibits/objects-of-our-life
The barrier to entry to compete with steam is a newspaper ad, a CD-R writer (or usb stick) an envelope and a stamp. There are a million ways to deliver software. You can setup a website as a front to an S3 bucket and then just pay per download of the file. You have epic, origin gog, greenman gaming etc they all exist, but people choose to buy their games on steam, and publishers choose to sell their games there despite the 30% cut. I wouldn't call it "locking up", they just provide a Better Service to customers.

The last game I bought that wasn't on steam was probably Kerbal Space Program, in ~2014, and later converted my key to Steam when the option presented itself.

*Epic offers 0% cut for the first year to most indie games
They’re clearly talking about a political class of elderly, not one’s own family.
I do admin work for a pharma-related company. I would never want to be in charge of verifying with my own body what treatment is safe and/or effective.

Drug development and clinical trials are expensive for a reason. Not doing them in an orderly manner is more expensive.
>That kind of population isn’t building integrated circuits.

It's infrastructure, too. Some people think the "Dendera light[0]" is an actual ancient Egyptian lightbulb but never bother to wonder why there are no sockets or wires at the Temple of Hathor for it to draw power from, or where the power source was, or where the switches were, or why the Egyptians apparently only had one lightbulb to their name, why the Romans never mentioned the Egyptians had electric lights, why they saw fit to carve a picture of a lightbulb onto a temple wall, etc.

>It’s big enough to support enough copper merchants that some of them are terrible, but that’s about all.

A million years from now when humanity has merged with the Matrix and spread across the universe as beings of pure thought... poor Ea-Nasir will still be known for his lousy copper and customer service.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendera_light
Maybe it's an actor for a nation state intentionally dropping this disinformation as a false flag to distract the humongous brains of HN!!!
So some kind of annual appointment where we get our BMI measured
Fortunately, the position would be voluntary.

You might be a big fan of the work the FDA does to keep us safe in light of past industry abuses, but keeping good drugs off the market - whether by outright fiat or by making them too expensive to develop, test, and deploy -- also has a terrible human cost. It's not clear that the FDA has found the right balance between risk reduction and upside potential.
As cool as it would be to go to Ikebukuro, I don't want to experience the successor to this.
Does AMDGPU PRO (the proprietary AMD userland driver) support HDMI 2.1?
First Temple-era 'genie' seal discovered in Jerusalem
And just how much of the Linux Foundation budget goes to supporting kernel development? What percentage of core kernel developers are paid from the Foundation? As long as Linus is happy and productive, I suspect nothing much will change.
As a web dev: Mac. 1000%.

It can easily do the Unix-y things that you need to as a dev (Windows can too, it just takes a few more steps because it's not natively Unix-y.)

But, importantly, it can also seamlessly use the apps that you need to use with your non-dev teammates, like opening your designers' files (if you need to manipulate a SVG in Illustrator, let's say) or running whatever corporate software they use (Microsoft Office, Zoom/Teams/etc.) There are always workarounds on Linux machines, but why waste time on them when most things don't need workarounds on a Mac or Windows machine.

Lastly, the overwhelming majority of other web devs you'll likely meet will also be on Macs, and will only want to troubleshoot issues you might have on a Mac, and your issues on a Mac will get fixed way quicker than whatever obscure Linux flavor of the day might be. I haven't met a web dev not on a Mac for more than a decade now. (Firmware engineers, EEs, etc., sure, but not web devs). It's kinda a feedback loop... web devs love Macs because they're so good now, but then more web devs start to use Macs just because everyone else is too, and soon it's just the de facto standard for this work.

The Apple Silicon machines in particular are really, REALLY, REALLY good in terms of performance vs power consumption (meaning long battery life, low heat, low/no noise). And there are no shitty ads like there are everywhere in Windows.

When they first came out, there was some compatibility issues between the ARM builds on our dev machines and the x86 builds normally found on the cloud Linux servers, but most of that got sorted out within the first few years and hasn't been an issue for a while now.

And as much as I sound like a Mac fanboy, I grew up with MS-DOS, started using the Web on Windows 3.1, and developed on Windows for 20+ years before my first Mac, going through a variety of ThinkPads and Dell business machines. I also work with Linux VMs every day for work, but the desktop distros are just so unpolished compared to either Mac or Windows and the drivers are an eternal hassle. Apple did a really, really good job with the M-series and there is really no better choice today. Nothing else on the market even comes close. Intel is way, way behind right now.

I don't particularly like MacOS (I prefer Windows 7, so sad, too bad), but the Mac hardware is just so much better than the crap disposable PC laptops these days. Even the similarly priced ThinkPads significantly pale in build quality and performance/watt. PC still has the edge in some raw horsepower scenarios, but as a web dev you'll never need that. Being able to work on battery for a full day and never hearing the fan come on, though, while still not waiting more than a few seconds for any npm install? That's really nice.
I love how politicians invoke "the dark web" like its some bogeyman that hides in the night and preys upon young children. It's literally a bunch of websites. That's it.
And why dinosaurs are in reptiles, but birds are not?
Well, you miss the point: we do not have much storage because it last way too little at certain daily load. It's simply way to costly so far to have a nation-wide grid full of renewables, while we can make p.v. grow at small scale, for self-consumption reducing the daily load on the grid, when the grid is most charged.
Why is Apple promoting Chinese spyware apps?
Because adding fat (usually in the form of vegetable oil) and sodium is the cheapest, easiest way to make food hyperpalatable, and the share of the grocery store shelf space occupied by these products has exploded in the last 40 years, greatly contributing to the obesity epidemic. Ominously, this a trend that the researcher behind that paper I linked to attributes in large measure to the tobacco companies entering the packaged food business:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.16332
I agree that huge benefits would come from electrification of residential and commercial (e.g. heat pump, induction stove, etc.), industrial (starting with the dozen of blast furnaces in US), and transportation (e.g. trains, trucks... more technologically difficult for ships and planes).

Electric "transformers" (aka machines) are more efficient in general than their fossil fuel counterparts (less heat).

Electrification (with matching electricity production) is a matter of national security. If/when fossil fuel would become either more scarce or more expensive (or both), all hell will break loose. There would be conflicts and chaos.

China is planning for long term, and putting resources in to it.

Unfortunately, the US democracy is not suitable for long term planning (while politicians can have very long terms, they are always busy planning for their re-election, not planning long term for the country). Who would have the fortitude to plan for a 10, 20, 50 years time horizon ?

US should plan for electrification (production + grid) and give a strong signal to the industry so the industry can plan ahead (e.g. GE,etc. can prepare production from gas stove to electric stoves, car manufacturers and dealers to electric vehicles, logistic companies to be ready to use electric trucks and trains, etc.), and no flip-flopping signals like we get now. The industry needs to feel confident that their investments would hold decades from now.

All this would takes years, and cost a lot. And the benefits would only be visible decades from now (no incentive for politicians). But at the time, any nation still dependent on fossil fuel, would be crushed.
> You'll notice I added four "food" emojis: the crab, shrimp, squid, and lobster. I have no idea why they were assigned "food-marine" instead of "animal-marine". They look happy, healthy, and uncooked.

On Apple platforms, at least, all the crustaceans mentioned are red and therefore look very much cooked.
It’s a common misconception that dragons are reptiles. The are actually mammals. For some reason, historical depictions of dragons depict them with scales—this is inaccurate, real dragons have fur, give live birth, and even produce milk. I think the misconception of dragons as reptilian has an origin in early European depictions of dragons. Dragons are not native to most parts of Europe so we can assume that the artists never saw a real dragon. You can see similar inaccuracies in depictions of other animals, like lions, leopards, beavers, and elephants.

You’d think the Unicode consortium would know better. Dinosaurs are also miscategorized as reptilian but I can understand the mistake, because dinosaurs are extinct.
> elderly gentleman

> their outhouse collapse, trapping them in it.

You lost me. Were there multiple people trapped in the seat?
You are only exempt if you make at least 125k a year. Below that, you MUST log all your hours, IT or not.
Hi o/ Hopefully the goal of CIEL is well explained. I use it daily (with the core image, in my editor), I ship products with it. It saves me a load of time, when I start a new project, when I need to interact with the outside world, when I want to write a little something and ship it on the server without Python's mess, etc. Speaking of which, Django is of course difficult to replace, but I started an automatic DB dashboard for CRUD operations, something's on the way (unreleased).

I integrated CL step by step for my clients' work, and CIEL is another means to this end. To use CL, for real. None of my projects need CL's superpowers, but I want them for development, deployment and monitoring!

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Today I fixed a few issues and released a v0.2: https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/releases/tag/v02 The key point is that CIEL should be much easier to install, specially on Mac. We now rely on many less system dependencies.

If you find out that CIEL is still difficult to install on your platform, don't hesitate to send details on an issue. Thanks in advance.

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TLDR; May CIEL ease and soften your CL journey.

ps: you have no idea how much time it took me to discover certain things! Now you have them here, ready, packaged :-]
What is it that bothers you about the UX?
Does it specifically target children or does it simply target people and children happen to be some of the people using it?

If a child searches Google for "boobs", it's not fair to accuse Google of showing naked women to children, and definitely not fair to even say Google was targeting children.
Don't forget bit torrent. There are teenagers out there committing several world GDP worth of piracy on the daily if you believe the entertainment industry
Rings of Power – The Ultimate Insult to Tolkien [video]
Emacs is snappy in the terminal with the tui version while the gui versions are still really slow for me. Hopefully someone will make a fast frontend with GPUI or something because the lisp engine is certainly fast enough these days
As someone who has recently been doing Godot mobile development with Cursor as my IDE, this repo and the video in another comment gave me some quick thoughts.

1. The main thing the library seems to offer is some pre-packaged libraries for mobile touch controls in GDScript, the custom language for the Godot game dev framework.

2. I have recently come across similar problems to what that this library tries to solve.

3. However, the way I went about solving it was basically using Claude and ChatGPT as my co-developers and asking them to answer coding questions. Here’s a quick example prompt about coding GDScript similar to some of the attributes of the library: https://chatgpt.com/share/c8e713e3-0662-4c7d-8645-9a76b0c032...

4. An optimistic perspective from all the above is that AI coding assistants can make it easier for people to develop libraries like this faster.

5. A negative view would be that AI coding assistants mean people don’t necessarily need “libraries” like this if an LLM can spit out the same results in a couple queries (rather than hunting around Github or the internet for pre-packaged code).
>...while 90% of the people I know in real life love their parents very much.

Wait hold on. Let's not conflate a strained family relationship with not loving them. Both my parents had an extremely abusive relationship with their parents, to the point where they could not be around them (And by extension neither was I), but they always loved them — And so did their parents, they were just extremely flawed.

I get along well with mine, but completely understand how complicated family relationships are.
If the goal is to shock people into thinking a certain way, 20,000 deformed infants has more or less the same shock-value as 1 million deaths.

(Obviously talking about Thalidomide here)
Well, there’s my new bar trick.
Simulated presence in our home: Motion-triggered lights and a cat
The ven-diagram isn't empty, but also isn't a circle.

And ride hailing apps surely aren't too convenient: you have to wait for the car, drivers attitude is always a hit-or-miss (my last ride, the driver threatened me with physical violence), and it costs more than most alternatives.
> Maybe in the US, but not in much of the world. I never owned a car when I lived in London, nor for most of the time I lived in Manchester. L

Without gas you'd starve in a week in any major city...

I also don't own a car, never owned one either btw
Why hasn't streaming gone after YouTubers?
We all know there's no good direct competition for YouTube, but I'm wondering why no big streaming service like Netflix has...

a) Started to offer "shorts"

b) Offered a big exclusivity contract to a popular YouTuber

No doubt there would be some risk involved, but the paycheck would make it more than a worthwhile risk for the YouTuber, and streaming services make big bets every day. Am I off base in thinking this is destined to happen?
I found some phentermine tablets next to my neighbors trash bin, still in the blister pack. So I thought maybe if I snorted one I'd get high. I didn't. Just got really jittery and nauseous then puked on a tree while a woman who looked like she worked for the government walked by (this was in the capitol city of another country). Would not recommend. And then I accidentally brought it back with me through customs.
and which book are you talking about?