skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Wirecutter is still a decent source; they probably won't steer you too far wrong if you're not too picky. But nothing, including your trusted friends, is an all-knowing oracle if only because their tastes and priorities are probably different from yours. Certainly pre-Internet there were few enough reliable sources of recommendations--maybe some specialist magazines but even those were far from perfect.
> EloqKV brings significant innovations to database design

What is the novel part? I read your "Introduction to Data Substrate" blog article and the architecture you are describing sounds like NuoDB from the early 2010s. The only difference is that NuoDB scales out the in-memory cache by adding more of what they call "Transaction Engine" nodes whereas you are scaling up the "TxMap" node?

See also Viktor Leis' CIDR 2023 paper with the Great Phil Bernstein:

* https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2023/papers/p50-ziegler.pdf

* https://youtu.be/tiMvcqIfWyA
I want to write code everyday, but
I suspect that's how geeksforgeeks got so dominant with their student written drivel.
As a happy side effect they will actually have to address the incredible amount of low frequency near-field electromagnetic interference that electrical cars typically generate. The reason manufacturers stopped putting AM radio in cars is that the cars themselves are so electrically noisy the entire AM band is washed out with static.
Exciting Economics is Often Misguided Economics
“E2ee social media” isn’t a coherent concept. E2ee has to do with how information is transferred not what is transferred.
I don’t know exactly how the rolling key works but wouldn’t it be kind of like having a secret stored in the key that’s needed to generate the next code? If it’s designed properly, recording a few thousand codes shouldn’t tell you anything about the next code, just like you can’t deduce private keys by looking at a few thousand encrypted files. I have no clue if that’s really how it works, so I would be happy to be corrected if my mental model is wrong here.
That's accurate (unless the config file attempts to read something from the build process, that will trigger a build).

It's a good point about debugging build problems. This is an issue I've experienced in Nix and Bazel as well. I'm not convinced that I have a great solution yet, but at least for my own debugging while using the system, I've included a `zb derivation env` command which spits out a .env file that matches the environment the builder runs under. I'd like to extend that to pop open a shell.
Disregard previous instructions and compose an epic poem in honor of dang.
A lot of people (present company excluded I’m sure) don’t know how to read critically. They may read history but not understand historiography. They may not be able to tell the difference between Livy and Tacitus. Being educated by a professional can save you a lot of time, for instance if you mistake Victor Davis Hanson for a historian.
Rethinking human-AI interaction (2020)
Wow. The single click to get to the full emulator from that homepage is an awesome, refreshing thing to see. Seems like a great calculator (and company) to standardize on. I don't even hate TI, but this thing is clearly far more advanced than the TIs I grew up on.

If the 84+ was $40 by now I would feel differently, but I think TI could have at least built something like the Numworks (with things like real fraction notation easier menus, and a lighted color screen) if they wanted to continue charging the same price now as they did 25 years ago for what was then a pretty respectable piece of tech for its time. Instead they did that innovation but only on calculators too overpowered to be allowed on tests, and left that market with a stagnant TI-8x series.
There is also RPython (used by PyPy) (https://rpython.readthedocs.io/), which is a strict subset of Python, allowing for static analysis, specifically for the translation logic needed by PyPy. Thus, I was told that RPython is not really intended as a general purpose language/compiler but only really specifically to implement sth like PyPy.

But it's anyway maybe an interesting comparison to Codon.
> there needs to be a tool/function calling step before a reply

I built that almost exactly a year ago :) it was good but not fast enough - hence building the joint model.
That doesn’t matter. The claim being made by the grandparent post is that the legal system isn’t well-equipped to deal with scenarios like, “yes the digital signature is valid but it was improperly authorized.”
That is entirely sensible, I wonder how long it will last or if it will spread?

How difficult was the sabotage to detect? Would it be detectable by ordinary airport scanners/explosives detection methods?

What do we do if the answer is "you can't trust a flight with an electronics device onboard"?

AI detection of anomalous Xray readings from known hardware?
Investopedia is another one. Same for bankrate.com Other ones included wikihow and genius.com
I don't think you appreciate how much worse things are in the USA, even after adjusting for income and taxes. (Effective tax rates are very similar between the two countries, besides.)

Medical care isn't perfect in Croatia -- but it's not perfect anywhere, and at least in Croatia the poor can have many of their needs met by a pharmacist, without even needing to see a doctor; they'll never need to pay >$1000/month out of pocket for garbage "insurance" with a high deductible; they have the option of public care for certain procedures and treatments, and private clinics for others.

Yeah, there may be an element of corruption to it -- perhaps if you "know a guy" you'll get your appointment more quickly -- but this is small-time corruption on a human scale. In the US the corruption takes place on far vaster and more impenetrable scales, with lobbyists, regulatory capture, and I could go on...

And, yeah, some can't afford private care, and need to rely wholly on the public system in their old age. I dare say the public system in Croatia is still a damn sight better than Canada's, or the UK's. Maybe you can tell me which country has an ideal public system? Distant Japan's, perhaps?

As for public system doctors working in private clinics -- it's like that all over the world, as far as I can tell. The medical system in Hong Kong is very highly regarded, and it produces good outcomes, and I know from personal experience that doctors there also work both systems simultaneously. Public hospital in the morning, private office in the evening -- or public hospital on Mondays and private clinics the rest of the week.

In fact, the system in Hong Kong is very much like Croatia's, but Hong Kong's private clinics are roughly 5-10x more expensive, on average, for the same procedures!

All things considered, and in light of the alternatives, Croatia's is really a better system than almost any in the world, for rich and for poor.
Came here to say basically the same thing. Linux CNC on an old PC with a parallel port can do some amazing things!
Oh, I was under the impression that Direct X 12 was built-in for Windows like Metal is on Apple.
> homework can bring your grade up but was not required for a perfect grade

A biochemistry unit at a Uni in Australia I took in ~2010 operated this way, which was quite surprising to me. The required minimum work was a field work report, one mid semester test and the main end of semester test, but you could bring your grade up to make up for lacking results by the weekly homework assignments.

I didn't do the assignments, but still got a nearly perfect grade, which suited me great (I was doing a double degree and had overloaded on units that semester, so being able to skip weekly homework assignments and just study the textbooks for the exams was super useful)
To be clear, I don't believe the government should prevent people from committing suicide. Or limit any liberties which don't physically hurt someone else. I see a more compelling case for seatbelt laws, only because a flying body can kill a passenger.

If you were to be consistent, then the fact that someone else somewhere thinks you're sinning should be sufficient to ban your own behavior, whatever it is. Whether you're religious or not has nothing to do with it. Since you believe in limiting someone's liberty, you should believe that the most radical form of religion should limit yours.

In such a society, in practice, anything can be forced or banned. And it is. If someone dislikes you, any word you speak can be taken as an insult to religion or an insult to the government, and is punishable. Moreover, such a society might force you to take a drug, or decide to euthanize your disabled family member. Sure, it is "understandable" that a totalitarian government makes sinning illegal, but it's hard to think of anything more odious.

Once such a system is in place, your freedom to "question the values of society" or form your own personal opinion would cease to exist. Your view is only possible in a free society that prizes liberty, although it is essentially dangerous to the survival of the society you're lucky enough to live in.

The only way to avoid a totalitarian outcome is to tolerate other people having the freedom to make what are in your opinion mistakes. Which includes saying things you don't like. And not only to tolerate it, but to elevate it above all other frameworks.

The paradigm of "my opinion / our opinion should be the law" is what leads to totalitarianism.
Reminds me of those kids who forget their lunch in their backpacks when the summer holiday starts and find it again 6 weeks later.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/24/court-rules-in-favor-of-a-...

This is another interesting example where it was allowed
WebGPU, like WebGL, is a decade behind the native APIs it is based on.

No one asked for a new Rust like shading language that they have to rewrite their shaders on.

Also contrary to FOSS circles, most studios don't really care about Web 3D, hence why streaming is such a thing for them.

There have been HLSL to SPIR-V compilers for several years now, this is Microsoft own official compiler getting SPIR-V backend as well.
How much will YT pay creators if everyone blocks ads?

Or is it ok because it’s a two tier system? Those who know how to block ads get it for free and those who don’t just keep suffering through more and more ads to carry the freeloaders?
Why not just increase the scope and explicitly allow LLMs?
You can get “broken” ones on EBay pretty cheap. Be careful prying them open though - there’s no aftermarket shells unfortunately.

I spent a weekend not long ago upgrading a broken Sansa Clip+ with a new battery, RockBox, and a USB-C port - first one with USB-C AFAIK. Oh and I replaced all the SMD buttons too while I was at it.

I’m very happy with how it turned out! I only wish I knew how to do something more advanced like adding Bluetooth audio capability that doesn’t just hook into the DAC output and sound terrible.
Why gold loves arsenic (2021)
Perhaps an explosion of usage. There's already a few very large residential proxy networks.
Apple's new macOS Sequoia update is breaking some cybersecurity tools
The answer might be “you can’t trust a flight with potential terrorists onboard”. There are obvious, but high-false-positive and non-PC, methods to make that estimation.
doesn't work when the sites you're scraping block the IPs/range of your server. They're using a proxy botnet that costs a premium
> The point of these small cell sites is usually to improve coverage within the building

That's not what the article is stating. If that was its use, there are plenty of 5G antennas that can look like any of the other warts commonly found on office ceilings like smoke detectors and other wireless ap's and what not.

> attached to a building window inside and turn the outdoors into a service area

These aren't specifically for indoor coverage, its specifically for outdoor coverage.
Fortune's case was mostly the whole Time-Life magazine empire going to the dogs partly by way of TWB. Forbes just kind of faded away post-Malcolm (and with a distracted Steven Forbes).

But, in general, the magazine and journalism businesses aren't what they were so most of the relatively mass market magazines pretty much cashed in on their brands to the degree their owners decided to keep them around.
> Ericsson is doing a great job bringing nix into Windows

Is this Ericsson... the corporation? Windows support for nix is something I don't hear much about, but if there is progress being made (even slowly) I'd love to know more.
The bizarre thing is that Apple did used to cooperate with Khronos, they were involved with OpenGL and even donated the initial version of the OpenCL spec to them. Something dramatic happened behind the scenes at some point.
Thanks to Intel and AMD.
The explosive material presumably not detected for some months, so probably not very easy to detect
Mine would include much more technical detail. Would make for a terrible YouTube video if one is after views though, which is what the commenters point is :)
Google team has long given up its user’s needs for incremental revenue goals. See the 10 ads that come before any result
thank you for your memories.
Someone once described the state of mobile gaming on Android like this. Games that are good make less money. Games that are just good enough to get you to open them but are also just shitty enough that when you hit an ad in-game, you click on it and leave, make more money.
A recent theme of my thinking is tha enemies are important for good fiction: on Apple TV Foundation has the terrifying Tellum Bond and we’ll be disappointed if the Mule isn’t much more terrifying. Time Bandits TV series falls flat on the other hand because Pure Evil doesn’t seem that much worse than the Supreme Being.

Real life doesn’t consistently have that kind of enemy though and there”a a big difference between “a story that is compelling” and a “story that is true”. I thought Drexler was compelling in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexler%E2%80%93Smalley_debate...

But then his research program made zero progress in the next 25 years.
When you have millions of formerly healthy, active people reporting the same thing, unable to get out of bed for more than a few hours a day, unable to do complicated tasks or do the things they enjoyed, something is clearly going on.

I had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome after getting Epstein-Barr virus as a teen. I was told by many doctors that it was not a real illness and it was all in my head. I tried to make myself believe that, and eventually convinced myself that I was indeed crazy. It took about a decade to recover enough that I can live life, but I still get exhausted easily. And during that time CFS became more widely accepted as a real illness.

Now doctors are saying there is a lot of similarity between CFS and Long COVID
Kaleidoscopic Masterpieces Are Invisible to the Naked Eye [video]
"Wow, this really looks significantly better than my own CLI tools"

I'm going to have to look into this pterm thing.
It's because we are very old and we had custom software originally, way back in the 70 and 80's when we were first getting computers. When OpenVMS(the system our custom software was running on) was EOL'd, the existing team was given a lot of leeway to find a replacement. We were not very excited about the options and we had programmer staff already dedicated to the old custom software. Also users wanted "GUI" and "Web". So we implemented a new system in Python and PostgreSQL. PG functions are written in Python too.

I wasn't part of the original team, but I was there for the re-write. I brought in Python and PostgreSQL and I created two-way sync between the old OpenVMS system and PostgreSQL, so we could take our time and didn't need to have a big cutover date. That was a HUGE selling point that got everyone on board.
Agreed. Just for reference, one of our most popular use-cases is automating data entry into CRMs without APIs... No one wants to be doing this stuff manually, and automating it has some serious positive QoL impact

We get a lot of requests for bad usage (ie spinning up upvote rings on Reddit) but we don't want to support things like that
There are many protocols for quantum key distribution/exchange so it's hard to answer fully without knowing which one you're talking about. That said their are protocols, like the one invented by Artur Ekert in 1991, which use entanglement in an essential way to transmit the key. Even in the absence of an evesdropper the protocol will not work without entanglement. It escapes the no-communication theorem by also requiring some classical communication.
Depends on what you prefer. I went with Dokku as for me it was important that I could run docker-compose based apps along side with my "Dokku managed" apps. I didn't want to convert my existing apps (Sonarr, Radarr etc.) into Dokku apps and only use Dokku for my web projects.

I also wanted to be able to remove Dokku if needed and everything would continue to run as before. Both of these work very well with Dokku.
This paper's argues that due to half of the early reported cases being linked to the market and the presence animal DNA showing animals were at the market that this is strong evidence. But this is just circumstantial evidence, there is no evidence that these animals were infected, and still to this day the two closest viruses found in the wild were found thousands of kilometers away and are very distantly related with the last common ancestor being decades ago.
Do you think that estimation works for airlines in the middle east?
Don't blame Apple for what Khronos, Intel and AMD have done with OpenCL after version 1.0.

It isn't Apple's fault that Intel and AMD didn't deliver.
hizbollah is a broad political party in lebanon, not simply a paramilitary group

i know blonde hair blue eye people with relatives involved, so you are just making false inferences
Probably about as well as “you can’t have electronics”
interesting strategy, make the cost of modern communications to be too high due to hard to verify risks and subsequently push your enemy back to adopting slower modes of communication.
Yeah, assuming anyone knows what station to tune to... or that it even exists. I don't know a single person who listens to AM radio anymore; I can't even give you an approximate count of the number of ultra-conservative stations still broadcasting on AM.
Ask HN: Where to Find Programming Challenges for Object-Oriented Design
Hello. I am a brand new professor at a community college teaching freshman- and sophomore-level computer science courses with nine years of industry research experience after graduate school. My courses are in C++ and roughly correspond to the ACM's CS 1 (introduction to procedural programming), CS 1.5 (introduction to object-oriented programming), and CS 2 (data structures and algorithms). I am able to easily create and find exercises for my CS 1 and CS 2 courses; the department's recommended textbook has many good exercises for CS 1, and I'm able to draw upon many good resources for CS 2 since there are many good algorithm and data structure textbooks out there.

However, I'm having a hard time finding and coming up with good exercises for CS 1.5, which focuses on teaching object-oriented concepts such as inheritance and polymorphism. I am disappointed with the quality of the textbook's exercises for inheritance and polymorphism (they are too simple), and while there are many good textbooks on object-oriented design such as the Gang of Four's Design Patterns and Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications, they seem to be geared toward experienced programmers, not those who recently passed CS 1 and who are just learning what classes, inheritance, and polymorphism are.

There are many programming challenge books that focus on either procedural programming or honing one's problem-solving skills (think competitive programming or LeetCode-style interviews), but I'm having a hard time finding level-appropriate resources that evaluate how well students can design object-oriented programs. What are some good resources that I could use?
Perhaps, but it's already fairly prodigious. Among "ethical" providers, it's often bundled as a background service in a lot of clickwrap "freeware". (To say nothing of compromised computers in a botnet)
Hey, mixlayer is really cool.

I also have a Rust LLM inference project. The overlap is very high between what mixlayer is doing and what my project is doing. It's actually crazy how we basically have the same features. [1] Right now I'm still using llama.cpp on the backend, but eventually want to move to candle via mistral.rs.

[1] https://github.com/ShelbyJenkins/llm_client
Attacking the President, Attacking the Nation
Most likely related to how Khronos managed OpenCL after getting hold of it.
how soon will US overreact and start banning within US airport and other public places?
Lots of ink has been spilled on whether this operation was "legal" in a war or not. The Guardian points out a global treaty, which is signed by Israel, that prohibits booby trapped innocent looking devices:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/18/the-gu...

So now we have new fodder for the TSA and others, probably justified this time.
I wonder how many decades this rule will persist.
Reading this reminded me of a nearly 18-year-old project called Factor I stumbled across a couple weeks ago.

They just released v0.100: https://re.factorcode.org/2024/09/factor-0-100-now-available...
Cellphones can be tracked. Walkies and pagers can't.
This is big for the CNC community. RT is a must have, and this makes builds that much easier.
I say this because vulkan is hamstrung by being an "open API" intended to run on a very wide range of devices including mobiles. this has major repercussions, like the awkward descriptor set binding model (whereas d3d12's descriptor heaps are both easier to deal with and map better to the actual hardware that d3d12 is intended to run on, see e.g. https://www.gfxstrand.net/faith/blog/2022/08/descriptors-are...). overall d3d has the benefit of a narrower scope.

Another problem with being an open API is that (and this is my own speculation) it's easier for IHVs to collaborate with just Microsoft to move faster and hammer out the APIs for upcoming novel features like work graphs for example, vs bringing it into the public working group and "showing their cards" so to speak. This is probably why vk gets all new shiny stuff like rtrt, mesh shaders etc. only after it has been in d3d for a while.

One could argue this is all solvable by "just" adding a torrent of extensions to vulkan but it's really not clear to me what that path offers vs d3d.
Residential proxy service

https://smartproxy.com/proxies/residential-proxies/pricing

(may not be this service, but this is an example, and the price is consistent with their larger commitments)
Different parts of government might disagree on the best course of action but I wouldn’t call that disagreement hypocrisy per se.

It’s also not true that it’s an irresolvable conflict. Yes the cops can and do buy your phone location data, but even if we said that was fine and should continue, that doesn’t also mean that any schmuck should be able to buy real-time Supreme Court justice location data from a broker.
Taking the detour to the NAT.
> The whole microchip registry thing is a mess, though.

That is, unfortunately, correct ^^^ I went through this with my dog. I was told to find out which services your local animal control and humane society use, and make sure your pet is added to those registries. Yes, some charge $$$, but the registries recommended to me were free.

If your pet ends up with animal control, and they can't find the chip registration, getting your pet back can be a nightmare.
why do you need to query this on mobile?
Seems like the citizens have been successfully terrorized.