skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoyed the article but I think it makes a mistake that takes it to the wrong conclusion. The mistake is the idea that people in the past lived in religious fevour.

If we look at history though, it doesn't seem likely that they did. A minority of people were like that and those around them went along with it so that they could get on with life. In terms of the article, people already lived in "the void".

Nowadays, for whatever reason (of which we could probably speculate many causes and paths to where we are now), those with religious fevour have lost power in the West, even if they hold high office. So the majority now does not need to profess a particular faith. If we get something wrong, instead of being punished, we just shrug and say whatever.

I think there's modern examples that test this idea. In Afghanistan, under US occupation, the majority was not feverenty Islamic. They just got on with things. When the US withdrew, that religious minority took over and now we see what has happened.
My parents both have fillings in almost every tooth, my sister and I have none. Neither of us did anything particularly special, my parents were quite strict about sugar (for the UK in the 80s/90s) and we brushed our teeth twice a day. I never flossed regularly, though I have started doing it more in the last few years.
In comparison to bombing to smithereens the entire block, and having hundreds/thousands of people die under the rubble, some of them over the course of days - yes.

Do you know that 100 is more than 1? Some people get confused by simple arithmetic.
I wouldn’t want to deploy a Shjny app externally (although loads of people seem to do so with no problems) but for internal tools it’s incredible. You can make reactive dashboards and analysis tools with no plumbing - just refer to an input when specifying your charts/outputs and they will be automatically plumbed and update automatically.
I once asked ChatGPT to create a marathon training plan and it told me to run 10 intervals at a 4min/mile pace in my first week.

I'm sure this better...
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I'm trying to digest the changes as my company does research, but I believe it is not officially a research organisation (something with how Spain recognizes research organisations).

conda is still open source, but I think the Anaconda distro and the Anaconda channels have changes, based on number of people in an organisation (200 people threshold)...
You can get tightly boxed into one solution. In the US, car culture has caused a fundamental transformation of cities, which makes it extremely difficult to reintroduce public transit. Roads are very wide and there are massive parking lots everywhere, so it's difficult to reorient cities towards walking and public transit. You would have to eliminate those huge parking lots and reduce the number and size of roads in city centers, but because everyone already owns one or two cars, most people are dead-set against such changes.

There is another local optimum, which is extensive public transit and walkable city centers. I'd argue that that other local optimum is far preferable, but transitioning there is very difficult.
I just mentioned it because the real cost must be much, much higher in many cases, and I imagined being on the hook for a million dollars.
I think it's related to how irregular the shapes of the letters are. The circles are all slightly bent out of shape in different ways, and the line strokes all have slightly varying slants.

Most attempts at making a font try to make all that stuff as regular as possible, even the one in the article we're discussing does this.
Different in terms of applying the same principle to produce "semantically compressed" code — instead of having each new dictionary entry be a reference to an older one along with the new symbol, each new function will refer to older ones along with some new literal data.

(If that still doesn't make sense, see the sibling comment to yours.)
> China has the largest navy in the world.

China has the most ships.

Most of those ships are tiny.

By tonnage, the US comes _way_ out on top.
I wanted to check out what it outputs, but I have to enter an email address for the workout to be generated.

This kills the tool for me.
> And you aren't entitled to visit their website.

Yes you are!

The GDPR prohibits conditioning the provision of service on consent to the processing of personal data. Thus mandating acceptance of advertisers tracking cookies ("cookie walls") without providing alternative means of website access are considered violations of the GDPR.
Associative array model of SQL, NoSQL and NewSQL databases
Yea email fields without required verification get my maximum character length pseudo email.
I am having a hard time seeing how this can be useful outside of remote code interviews.

Am I supposed to paste the code from IDE while collaborating?

I think this needs a vscode plugin, so I can share my code directly from vscode while other users just need a browser.
I think the relevant analogy here would be to run a local model. There are several tools to easily run local models for a local API. I run a 70b finetune with some tool use locally on our farm, and it is accessible to all users as a local openAI alternative. For most applications it is adequate and data stays on the campus area network.
What they fail to recognize is curl was around in like the late 90s. PYthon et. al. didn't exist back then.
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> The main injury inflicted on individuals was psychological

Have you seen the footage(0) from hospitals? It's likely that hundreds of Hezbollah members lost hands, eyes, etc. That will degrade their military effectiveness significantly, especially the people who were blinded. And remember that Hezbollah is trying(1) to prevent more footage of the attack from getting out, so what we've seen publicly quite likely underplays the full extent of it.

Sure, maybe you could argue that the "main" effect in terms of total numbers was psychological. But we shouldn't understate how many Hezbollah members were directly given life-long injuries that will make them ineffective forever. That's a huge win for Israel.

0) https://x.com/Osint613/status/1836040863195029530
1) https://x.com/Saul_Sadka/status/1836039347210002899
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I think it's a significant milestone for the U.S. semiconductor industry.
That is why we should always use a standardized, controlled benchmark suite, which has well-defined rules to assure fair cross-language comparisons with a representative, well-balanced workload. By focusing on a core set of language features and abstractions, Are-we-fast-yet allows for a more controlled comparison of language implementation performance, isolating the effects of compiler and runtime optimizations.

This is especially important for scripting languages like Python, where a large part of the features are implemented in C or other native languages and called via FFI. That's why, for example, the benchmark implements its own collections, because we want to know how fast the interpreter is. Otherwise, as you have noticed, the result is randomly influenced by how much compute a particular application can delegate to the FFI.
Fun fact. There are more people in US prisons than there ever were in Soviet gulags
Yeah -- Ireland and Netherlands are both top contributors on a per capita basis. Though this was only accelerated recently i.e. the 2023 budget not the 2021 budget. Ireland on many occasions has be a net recipient before this while the Dutch have a longer history of being a net contributor.

https://www.icaew.com/insights/viewpoints-on-the-news/2024/j...
Worked at EY in Europe. Usually 50-60 hours a week. 80-hour weeks were fairly common, especially on M&A projects. Once clocked 100 hours in a week on an urgent due diligence. But I'm hearing those days are gone and people there have much better work/life balance now.
You can just enter anything in the email field. I don't know why they bothered requiring it.
> That earlier comment didn’t actually mention “systems” at all

It doesn't really need to mention "systems" specifically, since the comparison to other common systems languages, in addition to the words "low-level" implicitly imply systems programming languages.

Usually, languages with GC will not be considered contenders for systems programming.
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I agree. Python was designed in 1989 and it looks like the OOP we were doing in C (without the ++) back at the time. Objects were a struct with data and function pointers and we were passing them around as pointers. Python has self, explicit in function definition and implicit in function calls, and that self is really like the pointer to the struct. By the way, OO languages from the 90s (e.g. Java and Ruby) were designed to always hide that self, both in method definition and method call. They use it when there is a need to tell the difference between instance attributes and local variables with the same name.

Maybe the explicit self was there to make C programmers feel at home. Functions as fundamental building blocks of the language also make C programmers feel at home. Developers got more familiar with OOP by mid 90s so the new languages could jump from functions-first to objects-first.
There are tens of thousands of Hezbollah members. If anything, the attack was on a much smaller scale than it could have been. Unfortunately for Israel, not every Hezbollah member had a new pager.
it was not the mossad, it was the shin bet.
https://skarnet.org/software/s6-networking/ & https://skarnet.org/software/s6-dns/ won't do?
> When you actually read what these pop-ups says, then you understand why they are there, and why the problem with the laws isn't that it's annoying, but that it is not much more restrictive.

Worse, people (including on HN) actively blaming the EU for it. It’s like having a law mandating people are informed when there’s poison in their drink, then seeing people complain about the warning labels everywhere. The label isn’t the problem! As you said, if anything the issue is that the law isn’t aggressive enough.
> It's actually a pretty common law to have in some form to penalize tax evasion and capital flight.

It really does not sound common at all. In all countries where I have lived, my citizenship did not enter the picture for the local tax authority or that of my country of birth. All that matters is my resident status. I did not renounce any citizenship (because why would I? It comes with no downsides), but I cannot see them going after my foreign possessions, considering they entirely ignored them for years. And if they did, a loophole would be to not renounce it because again it comes with no downsides.

I actually checked with my country of birth, and renouncing simply requires me to send a declaration to the authorities and they have 2 months to accept (it’s accepted by default if they do not reply within 2 months). No other requirements or anything.

Do you have many examples of countries that do what you described?
There is no way to control where the pagers will end up. No way to control who will be near them, even if they are owned by a target.

You do know that carpet bombing is a war crime by Geneva Conventions ?
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It is a tragedy for many things, economical, societal, psychological / sociological; so much human potential being wasted on "busywork".
Exactly this. It's interesting how I haven't been able to find any single media portraying this as a possible act of terror while they have been quite critical of conduct in Gaza. I hope this changes as there really needs to be a reckoning with the idea of bombs randomly triggered anywhere, maybe hospitals, schools, theaters.
I've been using Flutter and Dart for multiplatform apps, as I found Compose Multiplatform to be far behind Flutter thus far in support. Dart also compiles to a VM, WASM, JS, and native code, although not the JVM but I don't know how useful that is if you already have the previous three.
The power usage gap is much less in single-threaded tasks, than the gap between the nominal TDPs of the CPUs.

A desktop CPU at 5 to 6 GHz in single-threaded mode has a power consumption in the range of 20 W to 30 W per core.

I do not know about the latest Apple CPU, but for the older Apple smartphone CPUs the power consumption in single-threaded mode was between 4 W and 5 W per core, similar to the power consumption of an Intel or AMD CPU core when running at clock frequencies between 3 GHz and 4 GHz.

The engineering samples of Arrow Lake S running at 5.7 GHz have demonstrated slightly higher ST GB6 scores (e.g. 3450), while AMD 9950X at 5.7 GHz has demonstrated ST GB6 scores insignificantly lower (e.g. 3418).

For all practical purposes, it can be considered that the current desktop CPUs of Intel and AMD (Arrow Lake S with Lion Cove cores, e.g. 285K, and Granite Ridge with Zen 5 cores, e.g. 9950X) and the new Apple A18 Pro CPUs have the same single thread speed, because the differences between them do not exceed 1%.

Of course, it is very impressive that Apple's smartphone CPU matches the single-thread speed of the desktop CPUs, but for multithreaded applications the performance depends very little on microarchitecture and it is mostly determined by the CMOS manufacturing process and by the configured power limits, so there no smartphone CPU can approach the throughput of a desktop CPU.
It shows you random shit, you look at the random shit that catches your eye, it tries to show you less random shit. Repeat.

It’s only reading your mind if the only thing in there is “how do I give Zuckerberg more money?”.
I use DejaVu Sans Mono for programming, it places a dot inside 0.
> maybe you should more angry at the people who started the war

How far back are we willing to go for that? Who evicted whom? When? How many times? In what order?
Now that I'm thinking about buying a new phone, maybe it's worth waiting for the SE to come out
Good news doesn't have to mean overwhelming good news. Directionally, it is clearly good, not bad, and not nothing.
The quality of our education has fallen in addition to the rising costs.
From the first two sentences on wikipedia

> The 1982 Lebanon War began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded Lebanon. The invasion followed a series of attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operating in southern Lebanon and the Israeli military that had caused civilian casualties on both sides of the border.

You asked "but what pissed them off so much". Maybe it was the PLO operating in Lebanon, not sure.
>> The Supreme Court decision was toothless because it allowed universities to create race proxies

It most certainly did not.

From the decision:

"despite the dissent’s assertion to the contrary, universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today..."[W]hat cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly. The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows," and the prohibition against racial discrimination is "levelled at the thing, not the name." ... A benefit to a student who overcame racial discrimination, for example, must be tied to that student’s courage and determination. Or a benefit to a student whose heritage or culture motivated him or her to assume a leadership role or attain a particular goal must be tied to that student’s unique ability to contribute to the university. In other words, the student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual - not on the basis of race".

-- https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf

The Supreme Court decision is not toothless because it explicitly disallows universities to create race proxies.
Finally, the revolution begins!! #dozenuts
Python existed even in the early 90s. Not that cURL should have been written in it, though.
That looks pretty neat, how well does the gemini nano model work for this? Is it just picking up spelling errors or also looking things like punctuation?
It can definitely contribute to the feeling of being stretched thin
And yet Intel just cancelled a multi-billon dollar fab upgrade ...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/intel-suspends-planned-15-bill...

Israeli ports are going bankrupt ....

https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/ports-logistics/attacks-on...
The non-euphemistic term for that kind of bombing is "terror bombing". It is called "strategic bombing" by those who wish to sanitize it.

Anyway, these are both terror tactics, you're setting up a false dichotomy.
Even though I'm 120 years old and weigh 1000kg it just wanted me to do a few dips and lunges and download their app.
> The daily is about getting people unstuck with their current tasks

This I don't understand. Why do people need a daily to "get unstuck"? Are they not talking to each other? If I have a problem, I can proactively work on it, and contact whoever necessary. Unless you are very junior, this should not be a problem.
The tone of the article is for some reason very dismissive and derisive of alternatives to plain dental hygiene. As you point out, if a simple supplement in the form of harmless bacteria could improve caries reduction by even a small amount, it seems it would be a valuable option.

There is an existing 'probiotic' that has been around for years and works the same way, and promises the same benefits, as the one described in the article, it is called Streptococcus salivarius M18, there are quite a few studies that indicate it does work to some extent [1]. You get them in the form of lozenges that you put in the mouth while sleeping and they dissolve by themselves, so not a very invasive treatment if one wanted to use it.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Streptococcus+salivarius+M18
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> it is your job to explain why not.

According to whom? Most of us living in western (and purportedly freedom-respecting) countries are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, not guilty until proven innocent.

It's undemocratic and frankly vile to openly support violation of our constitutional rights like this, instead of campaigning for laws to be changed if you disagree with them.
Vladimir Komarov would argue against your theory
Infuriatingly, they didn't actually use the same text but they introduced multiple tiny changes so that you're forced to check word-by-word whether it's still an open/free license.

Was it really necessary to replace "Original or Modified Versions" with "The Original Version or Modified Version", or "Reserved Font Name(s)" with "Reserved Typeface Name"? So necessary that you're willing to sacrifice potential reuse?
When I was still doing contract work I rescued a bunch of native code iOS app disasters. For most apps cross platform solutions are fine.
I see what you did there [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577878
What the font! Can't even read it for 5 seconds :(
In some Newtonian or pseudo-Newtonian models, possibly? Not in GR/General Relativity.
True, but it is kinda like paying for insurance and then when you need it you get a giant surprise bill.

Although ironically much like the American health care insurance system which is much the same. Pay every month for “insurance”, and when you need it you also pay for it.

Fun times.
If VC funding for AI dries up and the french continue investing in mistral that would prevent much of the damage of an AI winter that could make openai and anthropic fail
It's not uncommon for perfectly legitimate military operations in urban areas to kill more civilians than enemy soldiers. Managing to only injure a few civilians while seriously wounding hundreds of enemy soldiers in an urban area is a remarkable achievement.

Hezbollah of course is an entirely legitimate military target. They've been indiscriminately raining down missiles on northern Israel for months, forcing tens of thousands of Israeli's to abandon their homes. Israel has every right to put a stop to that, and it would have been perfectly reasonable for them to kill tens of thousands of Lebanese civilians in the process of killing the tens of thousands of Hezbollah members responsible for this.
Work drinks in fields like law and finance is London are _huge_. Even in tech they're a thing. Working in a pretty no-name tech company, I've did my share of out-til-2am, home by 3am, then back in work by 9am. Less so now I just exited my 20s, but the culture lives on.
I agree that it's perhaps not the most robust choice, but at least for my field (bioinformatics) it's a good balance between accessibility and performance. That being said, in most cases when I come across a paper >1 year old presenting the latest-and-greatest Shiny web app, it is wholey broken when I try to use it :|
The no code space in YouTube is on fire right now with people showing off how to build apps with ai.

The tools aren't too bad, I've been building a few things with cursor and ChatGPT to see how far you can. It's basically like you're pair programming with a junior who knows how to do all the basics but needs a lot of help in review.

Your read that this is going to be a huge mess in the freelance space soon is very accurate, the better the tooling gets the worse it will be.
People usually still have bread and circuses and the circuses of today are very good. Have you tried farming or even just growing something to eat in a pot? For most people an office job is better than subsistence farming.
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In short, yes. I hope the comment didn't come off as too protectionist. I'm not against collaboration or trade in general, but the "savings" companies think they reap from outsourcing to countries with much worse labour practices needs to be remedied somehow. It's a form of externality.
He addresses this in the pinned comment:

> UPDATE: This only shipped in the NTSUR release, as far as I can now tell. I've confirmed with team members that I'm not crazy, I did write and we did ship the code I describe in this episode, but it was ultimately replaced circa NT4 with bitmaps!

I don't know what's true, but it seems odd to not mention that.
My wife was a lawyer at a Big 4 and got fired when they suspected that she was pregnant. Even though the corporate propaganda was full of "inclusivity" and other woke bullshit.

Interestingly enough, it was during Covid, she had to work from home and their main complain was that she wasn't "bonding enough with the team". Yes no shit when everyone is buried under 12h of work and bars are closed, what was she supposed to do? Those partners will do anything, including illegal things, to get to their 3% growth target.