skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the diagram on the front page I thought was documenting the huge amount of code next to it but it turns out it's the other way around! huge amount of code is generating the simple diagram. you must really hate dsl's. the point of the DSL is it saves you writing the huge amount of code to do something simple. so your premise here is people aren't writing enough code that's right more code that we have to maintain just to draw diagrams. play something simple like a DSL with something difficult like more code. heaps of it! and then charge money for it :D
Heavy Construction of a Sewage Pump Station – Ep 3 [video]
> Dolphin's ubershader does one thing; simulate fixed-function blending/texturing using modern flexible hardware.

Just to clarify, Dolphin's specialized shaders simulate fixed-function blending/texturing too. What's different about ubershaders is that a single shader can handle a wide variety of fixed-function states whereas a specialized shader can only handle a single state.

Thus whereas specialized shaders have to be generated and compiled on-the-fly resulting in stutter; ubershaders can all be pre-compiled before running the game. Add to this the capability to asynchronously compile specialized shaders to replace ubershaders and the performance loss of ubershaders becomes negligible. A rare case of having your cake and eating it too.
I cancelled my IEEE membership years ago. I enjoyed their magazines and journals, but remember being frustrated at the time with their pricing. After I cancelled, they became aggressively spammy, and they are now on my shitlist. This President's Note seems to be more of the same.
Car makers would adjust but road freight would fight this tooth and nail
Well said. I am grateful that my employer licenses Matlab, Simulink, and a lot of toolboxes and blocksets. The IDE and especially the documentation help me get stuff done. We've had waves of Python as a Matlab killer first with Enthought and then Anaconda as the repository. I gave Python an honest try but was spending all my time searching for help on package after package with poor to no documentation and trying to debug code with substandard tools.
The comment ignores the discussion points around broader public safety, comments in a fashion criticized by the points made, and makes no effort to address any issue.

I think it's worth flagging, but also worth noting the issues in case it wasn't intentional.
I switch bt my Camry and my partner's Sportage. The Kia is a lumbering fatsuit of a vehicle only carrying marginally more cargo and feels like a cartoon beach buggy. But as a nation organized for war, we're conditioned to worship infrastructure, uniforms, equipment, clipboards, and the like.
This is the right answer for internal threats, because having each employee have their own login to services means there are auditable. However it does mean you need to think carefully about the SPOF issue (single point of failure). Especially if your SSO is Google or some other company with a habit of pulling the plug without recourse.

Domain registry, password management and SSO are services which can kill your entire company if you lose access. The other option is to deploy your own SSO as a service, but that does run into the issue of potentially running a security critical service without having sufficient chops internally to keep it secure.
well, honestly I think it'd be better if lego had a bio-degradable brick
Dan Simmons' Illium/Olympos saga blew my young mind away, feels hard to top.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilium_(novel)
Unlike Medicare, which won’t pay for poor performance, Medicaid pays for services rendered, period. If you’re a shitty provider, there’s a calculus for when to bill Medicaid for a lower, guaranteed payment vs Medicare.

There’s a wide variety of shenanigans at the provider, managed care and state/county level. A big part of the performative shipping of migrants and poor people to northern states is all about shifting Medicaid expenses.

This happens often to mental patients, who often find themselves released from a police station or hospital, at a bus station with a ticket to NYC.
It just needs force, no? You could use magnetism or even intertia if you accelerated the system, right?
Usually I simply use pip and poetry. Haven't run into an issue in a long time. Privately I use Guix often, when it has the required packages.
I find the dependency management mostly to be already solved. Perhaps I am not riding along the edge enough, to see things broken.
I free to redistribute the WASM blob to my end users? The blob itself is Apache? I know binaries can be under Apache without being source available but I just want o make sure I understand correctly
Wait, why are we trying to limit the number of Starbucks?
Let's consider the energy efficiency of moving a vehicle weighing about 2000kg to transport a person who weighs around 100kg. That's a ratio of vehicle to person of about 20:1.

A potential solution would be to give heavier cars worse crash ratings. This approach would take into account not only the safety of the occupants of the car but also the occupants of other vehicles.
> Using a CFW can utilize the latest method to play most (ISO backed-up) PS2 games

Can it not use the first method if the hardware is available?
Lots of countries beyond Western world have growing middle class and rich people with big carbon footprint. Framing it just a Western issue is very outdated.
Anarchy is lack of government.

That is one possible consequence of civil war.
I just went to Navy Pier in Chicago and the size of cars people in the parking garage was just embarrassing. It really made them look stupid.
Also penalties for moving violations.
For a country so profoundly claiming to be in favour of free market economics, the U.S sure does love its system of socialism for motor vehicles.
“Collect all 2”

My god I want to kiss their marketing team.
“Got mine!”
yeah really valuable stuff. so we know how the ginormous model that we can't train or host works (putting practice there are so many hacks and optimizations that none of them work like this). great.
~60% of Ethiopia's population have a cell phone contract. Given how among the poorer parts of society, only one person in a family has one, that's near 100% penetration.
I also once in a while have IEEE membership because of some conference discount (even if it is not such a nobrainer as with student membership). Other than that I am just seeing a very intransparent huge org that does not provide much benefit. Some field are dominated by US researchers, some by Chinese. IEEE does not show much interest in breaking non-inclusive networks. Unlike ACM (which is far from perfect), I don't even recognize small bits a tranformative spirit. I had colleagues that had their IEEE status in their footer and used their IEEE, but most of those have been retired by now.
I built the opposite of this tool. It lets you generate a page to check which meta tags will generate a preview on a given platform.

https://getoutofmyhead.dev/link-preview-tester/
> Sounds like it's safest for me and my family to physically prevent you from doing that. See how deranged this line of escalation is? How sick in the soul I would have to be to choose to harm your family to increase the safety of mine?

I wouldn't throw stones, we all live in glass houses.
Pedestrians (and cyclists, etc.) could say the exact same thing about car drivers - they're putting their lives at much higher risk by not biking (or using a motorcycle, or public transportation, etc.). Heck, drivers are also endangering pedestrians' children through global warming. If you really tried you could probably name a dozen more examples of ordinary people like yourself putting others at risk for their own benefits.

This isn't to say the parent's decision is great, but that this sort of counterargument isn't all that strong, either.
I try to maximize small denomination coins, so that I have lots of material to entertain the kid at those (fiberglass?) coin collector things where you let it roll down a ramp and it noisily circles and circles, converging on the "drain".
Exactly. The most eco product is the one you don’t produce. Longevity and reuse is what we really should strive for.
Curious if that means putting more CO2 in the atmosphere than if we tossed the old plastic in a landfill and refined oil instead.
Funny, I always thought misleading shareholders was illegal. I guess they only care if the share price goes down.
You don’t get any of that for free. You get it at the cost of working with the abstractions, which can be very high. Your RDBMS is not an OOP/multi-paradigm system like Python is (or whatever other language). Its objects interact differently, and it has different access patterns. Any system you use to try and ignore these differences is just going to create a host of other problems for you, especially this idea that it will allow you to simply ignore database administration.
Per capita passenger mileage is 2x lower in Germany vs US[1]; it looks like this accounts for just ~half of the difference - and there are other factors responsible for increased mortality.

[1]: https://frontiergroup.org/resources/fact-file-americans-driv...
Sure, but if you run the same Nix flake on two macOS machines with the same architecture, it will have the same behavior.

Most of package managers don't offer that guarantee. Only Guix has a similar level of assurance?

Nix openly recognizes outputs are different per platform, x86_64-linux is different from aarch64-darwin. Impossible not to, as ultimately architectures may behave differently.
And so does blowing wind. You never know. Where do you put the limit? Pouring a trillion dollars into war sure has more benefits, like local hiring, finding out about microwaves, cheaper petrol, etc. But is pouring a trillion dollars into that, a good thing?

The moon landing was a propaganda stunt against the USSR. We have no need to revive literal mammoths.
I get this question only on Hacker News, and am baffled as to why (and also the question "isn't this just n-grams, nothing more?").

https://github.com/bennyschmidt/next-token-prediction

^ If you look at this GitHub repo, should be obvious it's a token prediction library - the video of the browser demo shown there clearly shows it being used with an <input /> to autocomplete text based on your domain-specific data. Is THAT a Markov chain, nothing more? What a strange question, the answer is an obvious "No" - it's a front-end library for predicting text and pixels (AKA tokens).

https://github.com/bennyschmidt/llimo

This project, which uses the aforementioned library is a chat bot. There's an added NLP layer that uses parts-of-speech analysis to transform your inputs into a cursor that is completed (AKA "answered"). See the video where I am chatting with the bot about Paris? Is that nothing more than a standard Markov chain? Nothing else going on? Again the answer is an obvious "No" it's a chat bot - what about the NLP work, or the chat interface, etc. makes you ask if it's nothing more than a standard [insert vague philosophical idea]?

To me, your question is like when people were asking if jQuery "is just a monad"? I don't understand the significance of the question - jQuery is a library for web development. Maybe there are some similarities to this philosophical concept "monad"? See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10496932/is-jquery-a-mon...

It's like saying "I looked at your website and have concluded it is nothing more than an Array."
When I first graduated I read a bunch of tech focused books: they’re all helpful but I think practice and learning from more senior engineers is the most effective road to mastery! You can probably get away with not reading any of these books if you have good coworkers :).

That being said, these have been my favorites:

- designing data intensive applications (a great way of understanding systems + the basics of SRE)

- the senior engineer (I love the prototyping process he lays out)

- the effective engineer (lots of good gems for approaching prioritization)

- debugging (by David agans)- a great resource for a formalized debugging process if you don’t have one

- on writing well (I’m halfway through this, but it has been indispensable for writing tickets + messages at work)
I found this title to be ambiguous and incomprehensible. Here is the gist of the research:

> "We investigate consumer spending data to understand how early ChatGPT-4 subscribers changed their spending on other digital services."
Easy fix: If you want less of something, tax it. The race to ever bigger vehicles has many costs, from road wear to (now we know) human lives.

You pay an annual registration fee for your vehicle. Make that fee go up dramatically for heavier vehicles. If you pay, say, $100 for a car under a ton, make it $1k for up to two tons, $10k for 3 tons, etc..
Well, we have reached peak oil, so we're slowly edging towards the threshold at which extracting oil will consume more oil than it produces.

Economists are calling for a carbon price because by the time we reach this threshold, it will be way too late for both climate and oil.
Great and beautiful article
Matlab is a categorical loss due to its proprietary character, R debatable, Julia, maybe yes. Octave, while at least not proprietary, still surely not, if the task is anything but some matrix multiplication or matrices using program.
> The price is a proxy for materials and energy required to produce the product.

You're right. Prices reveal true preference and constraints. The market is a machine for answering the question "What should we be working on?". Sometimes, people don't like the answers the market produces and invent justifications for distorting or ignoring price signals. In the limit, this practice amounts to a command economy. Disregarding price signals makes us all worse off and we shouldn't do it.

If something is expensive, that means it's scarce, and if it isn't, that means it isn't. If there's some negative externality you think the market isn't capturing, well, capture that externality. Put a number on it; don't make it a moral issue. It's only through numbers that we understand the world.
Or burn some of the gas you save by using solar and batteries. You can burn it in the gas plants you already have. And store it in the gas storage you already have.

And just keep rolling out more and more renewables with the money you've saved.
Yes I can imagine there are a bunch of repos with "stable" in their name in git.kernel.org but where did you find a reference to this repo in that thread?

There are repos on git.kernel.org for microemacs, that doesn't mean this thread relates to microemacs.
I'm not sure it's so much of a boycott anymore most people that I know who complained about Bud light and stop drinking it cuz the big brouhaha didn't even bother to realize all the other brands that Anheuser-Busch has. Granted each one operates with somewhat autonomy for their marketing and so forth they're still under one big corporate umbrella who ultimately oversees all of it.

I think they had forgotten one of the oldest principles about having loyal customers. Never give your customer an excuse to try another brand. Overall beer drinking hasn't fallen but when you produce a beer that is slightly flavored alcoholic water and the reason people drink it is mainly around image when you change that image they'll try something else. People will find other slightly flavored alcoholic water to drink. They'll realize that it don't taste that much different and they weren't drinking it for the taste to begin with so this is what happens.

Considering overall sales of Anheuser-Busch owned beers have continued to rise and they continue to be the market leader worldwide it almost seems that perhaps this was a calculated strategy. Perhaps their goal was to stop having such lopsided sales of Bud light compared to their many other brands and to even that out a bit. Because a boycott of an individual beer line when they have countless others many of which are very similar could have been a planned correction strategy, or it could have been ignorance and dumb luck. Because we've never seen companies do anything like that, ever.
Wish there was a dataset a available of this. I've always wanted to play with a detailed map of the net.
There are still many ways around this. A proxy is only as good as what the administrators have thought of as bypass. Things like domain fronting are still easily leveraged. And most organizations won't touch financial websites with a 10-foot pole because of the legal obligation of potentially decrypting PII. It's not impossible to get a domain classified as financial with a bit of work.

The unfortunate reality is all it takes is one.
Only ~1.8x as a function of kms driven. Still significantly better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
> 2 lines of code with 62362 characters is not good.

Huh? Did you "view source" and see minified code or something?
It's true the title is clickbait and VMs and serverless are completely different beasts.

However, there is something right in this title: when you take into account how serverless was originally marketed ("you save costs as you run things only when you need so you save on these expensive ec2s running 24/7") and the reality (performance issues, cold boot, arbitrary timeout limit, high cost for longer-running processes) it may turn out that cheap VMs might work much better in scenarios where serverless was initially considered.
React Native 2D game engine built on Skia and Expo
>At some point they'll have to learn about the file system, shell, network. Otherwise there is little point in learning Python.

Sure, but I would argue that overwhelming someone with all those topics at the beginning is counterproductive.
Why use this instead of a subreddit for my topic or community?
I was hoping on this would be a deep dive on how energy delivery wouldn't be able to keep up with demand.

I've been wondering how we could ever handle everyone plugging in a 1-10kwh charger at home every night for potentially hours. Think about charging a fleet of Rivian delivery vans...

Not to mention the insane chargers required for semi-trucks.
> You have to change hearts and minds within the broader population in order to bring lasting power towards change, but that's something that the modern crop of progressives entirely gave up on 10+ years ago in favor of racing to the finish line and declaring victory prematurely.

I can't speak for America as I've never been there, but here in Southern Europe it was pretty successful and at least LGBTIQ+ are really well accepted now <3 I know many clubs where people get banned if they make racial or gender slurs but in general it doesn't even happen.

I think part of the issue is that what is considered "left" in America (liberal/democratic party) is still very right-wing here in Europe, especially in economical terms, not as much in social ones. What the republican represent would be radical-right here.

So I just can't compare politics here.
If you want a small electric car then you can buy a Fiat 500E. It’s the same wheelbase, 11ʺ shorter, and 2ʺ thinner.
A tenth of a cent is a "mill". As used in gasoline prices. I learned this after reading the cash value of S&H Green Stamps and of Plaid Stamps.

The last time I saw a department store with a sign outside saying "We give Green Stamps" was probably at the end of the 70s.
Brain Scientists Discover the Glue That Makes Memories Stick for a Lifetime
A side question.

> ...Just because you’re a top performer...

Do you just trust performance reviews for finding them? My experience in BigTech that those can't be always trusted. It seems getting good reviews is a skill and some people are better at it while some others might not even care about ratings at all.
For athletes, everything is less subjective. Diet, gear, tactics, strategies either produces results or they don't.
Apart from the WhatsApp example (which itself is enough to suffice, because WA hasn't changed much on positives post-acquisition), it's very much possible that Telegram is just a bunch of 50 or so people. They do not have a Dubai office afaik, but it's not that hard to get CIS talent to move to Dubai for highly paid but less than US salaries.

FWIW, I co-run a quanty multifamily investment office, and all of our employees (including partners) are expressly forbidden from listing their workplace on LinkedIn - which is the norm for family offices. We simply write Family Office and call it a day. In return, the firm will take care of you and your family for generations - extensive compensation but also other perks that you will never get in other jobs at any level.
A tax would make it even more dystopian. Imagine the rich paying for the right to murder people on the road.
It's a blatant lie to call this a "vague and hand-wavey reference". The files are publicly available on the Intercept and the first page on Google search results - there is absolutely no vagueness here.

It's also a blatant lie to claim that "no one has time" to spend 10 seconds on a Google search to find the files and 5-10 minutes to sample them and see how many are related to domestic collection.

Your response clearly indicates that you have neither read the files nor have the intellectual honesty to admit that you haven't read them and don't want to because it'll refute your existing beliefs.

Future HN readers: notice how this user is unwilling to read documents that are the first page on a Google search for "Snowden files", and uses any excuse necessary to avoid doing so and deflect when called out. This is an excellent confirmation of my claim that the majority of the documents are unrelated to domestic collection.
So it's also okay for police to deploy large-scale facial recognition systems to help enforce the law and catch violent criminals, right? Or is there something special about cars or about insurance companies that makes them the exception?
Yeah. The categories seem to be:

- Compact cars (rare) - <3K LBs
- Sedans / cross-over SUVs (RAV4, Crosstrek) - 3-4K LBs
- Small 3 row SUVs (Pilot) / real SUVs (Explorer / Jeep) - 4-5K LBs
- Big SUVs (Expedition) / Trucks - 5K+ LBs
The mustang also comes in an SUV format now in addition to the sports car format.
> For more than 40 years, IEEE has been a great place to build my personal brand

When I hear the phrase "personal brand," I normally throw up. Today was a normal day.
The failed promise of Domain Driven Design
Nobody would buy all weather floor mats for 600$ or protective finish applications if you could remove them. That’s why they bundle features you want with those you don’t
> I don’t get how an ORM will handle Postgres’ CTEs and windowing functions. Those are pretty basic and extremely useful features to me, but those require dropping to raw SQL. Each vendor has those useful particularities that you immediately lose by going ORM.

Django has supported windowing functions since 2.0, almost 7 years ago: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/models/expressions...

And people are experimenting with CTEs - this looks pretty natural to use, at least with the basic example, and it supports recursive CTEs even if the example looks clunky (though I think that's their choice of example rather than the actual recursive part making it look bad): https://dimagi.github.io/django-cte/ (repo: https://github.com/dimagi/django-cte)
Next you’re gonna tell me “send me the password over slack and then delete the message” isn’t good password security.
> We use it professionally.

That doesn't really say anything in the parent context of persistent 100% CPU usage.
I think a lot of this is details lost in the stats. Every car is heavier due to safety standards. A 2024 Civic is bigger than a 1994 Accord.

The pickups are less safe for all stakeholders and are a dominant category. They have poor safety features, handle poorly and have comically bad visibility.

That plus the abandonment of speed enforcement drives death. 2000lb or 8000lb car, if you get hit at 45mph, you’re dead. Velocity is exponentially more important than mass.