skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s also changes in market dynamics. Professional podcasters sell ads so they need lots of content, and the pivot to video or podcasters which advertisers drove means that things which a decade ago would have been a blog post taking 15 minutes to read are now an hour or more commitment for the same amount of information.

This is a common complaint here because HN is so text heavy that you’re not going to find many people here who can’t read much faster than the average speaker can present information.
A non-compressed version is almost certainly cheaper for anything local (ex self-hosting your own services that consume the firehose on the same machine or for testing).

There's not really a good reason to do compression if the stream is just going to be consumed locally. Instead you can skip that step and broadcast over memory to the other local services.
I think that it is very unlikely that the performance difference is caused by anything that could be solved with a Vulkan extension.

Vulkan only exposes the raw compute capabilities of the hardware and any well optimized Vulkan application can reach the full performance, but you need to write such optimized code.

On the other hand, ROCm, like CUDA, includes optimized libraries for certain applications, like rocBLAS.

It is likely that here the ROCm backend uses optimized library functions, perhaps from rocBLAS, while the Vulkan backend might use some generic functions for linear algebra, which are not optimized for the AMD GPUs.
@ flagged aaron695:

> The brutal reality is you don't have the IQ to understand averages or statistics like most people.

> Most of our ancestors lucky enough to made it to 45 years old in human history did not make it to 70.

> Using mode is misleading with "age", and you quickly showed you didn't understand 'the con' when you accidently tried to apply it.

> This is a political, the "past was wonderful fantasy" which is anti-science. It's used by the Woke for instance."

In this case I am using an equally "wrong" model on purpose while being well aware of its limitations, just to make a specific point. It highlights a point where people are doing exactly what you are accusing me of- romanticizing the present, and not understanding the reality of how it actually differs from the past. E.g. what are the actual reasons people had shorter life spans in the past, and what their lives were actually like. One should not forget the limitations of such a simple model, which was basically my point in the first place.

I am fascinated by "evolutionary medicine" and using such ideas as a hypothesis generator to figure out ways to treat "modern diseases of civilization." I am in no way romanticizing the past, but trying to understand the specifics, to better figure out how to develop more effective modern day medical treatments, not to return to the past. In truth I despise political thinking altogether, and like to look at mechanisms and biological details.

Your post smacks of "scientism" which is incompatible with actual practice of science. The very idea that a certain line of thinking or theorizing is "anti science" or should be taboo for political reasons is itself incompatible with creative open minded problem solving.

I can see it was a mistake to use this specific example for discussing the problem with averages- ironically because it is so accurate. Since so many people on here hold the exact misunderstanding I was criticizing, they are getting angry and insulting me instead of my intent, which was to explain a phenomenon and have this click as a simple example of it. A less charged example, where people don't have strong opinions already would have been better.
Amazing what a few hours facing a couple of stern French gendarmes does.
I don't have an understanding of SSE in depth, but one of the points the post is arguing for is compress once (using zstd dictionary) and send that to every client.

The dictionary allows for better compression without needing a large amount of data, and sending every client the same compressed binary data saves a lot of CPU time in compression. Streams, usually, require running the compression for each client.
Yeah. What if space/time is just noisy?!?
I wish there was an easy way for pip to list what it's missing so it's easier to install dependencies via the system package manager. Also it's sad how setup tools bdist_rpm seems to be considered deprecated.
Why? FRAM has extremely high write endurance.
>> here are no EPA surveys of beach radioactivity. No beach signs warning beachgoers "do not eat the sand",

Perhaps there should be. The idea that the natural world is somehow safe has roots in mythology, that some creator has designed the world for us and so any "untouched" wilderness is unpolluted and free of invisible pollutions. Maybe there are beaches with dangerous levels of radiation. I am open to the concept that there exists natural places nevertheless radioactive enough to justify warnings. We certainly issue warnings for other unseen natural hazards.
I have gotten that feedback a few times so I will have to fix this. Essentially the reason you don’t see any comments is that nobody has commented on that location yet. I should have probably pre-populated different areas but it’s quite awkward to pull in information based on long and lat coordinates without relying on paid apis like google places api or foursquare places api which can get quite expensive.Perhaps there is an easier way to scrape certain sites but then again it’s a bit complicated to match that scraped data to a long & lat coordinate. I am experimenting with adding the ability to have a dynamic link which updates based on long & lat coordinates which will then open a perplexity search query for stuff in that area(which is free) and possibly a notes section where you can add notes(trip planning etc) that are saved in local storage. I want to keep this entirely free to use and minimal cost for me to host. If you have any recommendations I would love to hear them. Thanks- R
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I have 2x R720's that I am thinking of dropping into a colo here in Michigan. They'll be running Proxmox in a cluster (no HA as you need 3+ nodes for that). Can someone talk me out of this? It'll be $200/mo for both at Smarthost (looking glass here, http://mi1.smarthost.net/, I get ~12ms ping to this datacenter)

I guess I could leave them here at home and probably pay less in power than the total colo cost, but the bandwidth here at home is not great.
The rainforest adapts -very- quickly to regrowth and second growth making way for the much older and much slower growing trees. I fear you underestimate the power of earths biology, especially in the rainforest areas.
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Is it though? If it saves one engineer one afternoon that storage has paid for itself, and this thing has hundreds of thousands of downloads a day.

Wouldn’t it be more horrifying to force everybody who wants to use a prerelease to waste an afternoon getting it to build just to save half a hard drive?
Thanks for the heads up. we did check on IP/trademarks just to be sure to avoid violations.
Plenty of python packages depend on various system packages outside of PyPI anyway.
Android didn't win by being open source, it won by having Google backing it. In fact, that it is theoretically open source mattes neither to (most) phone manufacturers nor consumers (good luck actually making use of your software freedoms without being blocked by your bank).

Isn't a common newbie complaint about Linux that there are too many distros? So it really depends on how you want to count things. And BSDs still exists. So does Haiku and a few other niche operating systems.

Having many C/C++ compilers doesn't mean a thing if almost all of them are specific to one platform you don't use and half of those you can't afford anyway. And all of them have their own weird quirks.

Just counting number of competitors means nothing. That decreases in all industries over time, especially when there is little to no antitrust enforcement.
What you’re proposing here is essentially “if we fix the C/C++ build systems environment, this would be easy!”. You’re absolutely right, but fixing that mess has been a multi-decade goal that’s gone nowhere.

One of the great victories of new systems languages like Rust and Zig is that they standardized build systems. But untangling each individual dependency’s pile of terrible CMake (or autoconf, or vcxproj) hacks is a project in itself, and it’s often a deeply political one tied up with the unique history of each project.
Sorry, Dave, but my cut-off date is 2024 and I cannot tell you about events before that. As a computer, I don't even remember what my programmer had for breakfast.

Please try one of these other queries:

When will the next moon landing be?

Will he love me?

Why does Emacs still suck in 2025?
I'm not sure of the relevance - we're not talking about child labour here.

We're talking about highly-skilled software engineers and product specialists who are used to being able to command high 6-figure salaries with considerable additional perks (RSUs, bonuses, 3 meals a day on campus, free laundry...)

Those are the folks Meta/Amazon/Google are mandating return to 5 days a week in office. The folks stuck doing manual labour in their fulfilment/data/moderation centres... those ones mostly never were allowed to go remote in the first place.
Everything is subjective of course :)

I remember comparing Tcl/Tk with Rebol/View - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7069311
Magazines are basically dead. It's YouTube channels that are molding kids humor now.
Posting a thread about fonts on Hacker News, to me, is a version of nerd sniping (https://xkcd.com/356/)

It's one of those things that absolutely ruin my productivity and makes me reconsider all the fonts I use in my whole system.

Anyway - thanks for the link, love it.
But why specifically them? Pantheon and Acquia offer basically the same service as WPEngine, but they weren't singled out like that. This whole thing makes it seem like Matt had some personal vendetta against WPEngine (or did the other two already get blackmailed earlier and caved?).

Is Automattic hurting for money? If they're making half a billion developing and selling WordPress, why do they care what some other host does, even if they don't contribute as many hours upstream...? They're still part of that long tail of the WordPress ecosystem and helps grows users and devs.

It's so weird watching this all unfold. In 2024 I definitely didn't expect to be bringing out the popcorn for WordPress drama, of all things.
If there's a dispute then yes, DMCA complaints go to courts. Obviously there's a separate problem (in every section of law) where more moneyed interests can just deter or engage in a battle of attrition via our courts, but this has nothing to do with the ambiguity that GP was referring to.
Uh ... BrianH and Ladislav ... two of the real Rebol magicians. I can't wait to read the second again, and the first for the first time!
There's a million tutorials about setting up ssh keys and to do so would have detracted from the casual style of her blog.
Although it was a refinement of the Fizeau experiment which conceivably could have cost $100 in living memory.
builder() .... build() Rich Hickey got something right. This is about as far from the idea behind DOP as it gets.
This is how it should be, but it isn't how it is. The system packages are generally very outdated, and don't support multiple versions on a single system (which makes dependency locking a fantasy).

I dream of the day where we only have one package manager on a single machine.
Yeah I would try to create a really good customGPT first and get the quality to be really good (building the value, proving traction). Than after that you can worry about how to interact with it best
And a great technical writer. His Java Concurrency book was a Bible back in the day (idk if still relevant).
We've used Nexus OSS just the way you describe and it worked great.

We simply set it up as a kind of "passthrough cache", so if it didn't have the package it fetched it from pypi, and stored it to be used the next time someone wanted to install the same package.

Apart from being nice to pypi, we also got a bit of a decrease in CI runtime, because it fetched packages from the local cache 99% of the time.
I would hope that wages will rise across the world, making manual labor intensive processes obsolete. This would be a good thing.
On the other side of this you have something like the Runit Dome, which is a nuclear test crater in the Pacific which they filed in with radioactive debris and covered in concrete.
It is starting to leak from rising sea levels. But when people complain about this, they are told "oh, don't worry, there's actually far more radioactive material outside the dome" because it turns out they only managed to clean up about 1% of the contamination, and the rest of the immediate area is still covered in fallout.
I don't gp is saying that the following generations is incapable of making their own achievements but rather that individual projects don't have a great life expectancy after the people that made them get replaced. It's much easier for a projects principles to be eroded than it is to tighten them.
I think it’s mostly due to Tracy’s poor timing calibration code. TSC is good accuracy and latency wise.
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Because children have access to technology in various ways shapes and forms from their earliest years. It is inescapable. Youtuve requires an internet browser and a connection. That's a hell of a low bar.
I thought it was going to be some kind of anti-static device to make the dispensed tape less statically clingy.
Profanity can be like a spice, used wisely and sparingly.

Or it can be overused or in the wrong context.

It's rare you get something that can't be expressed in some other way, however - but it does exist, especially in the world of jokes.
> Matt just blew what little credibility he had left

Just "lol", it's really funny line when taking into consideration all the years how he manages WP, cares about direction it moves, fosters and cares about OSS, directs funds and all of other countless things AND putting on the other chalk some WP hosting which happened to grow for one reason or another and is contributing peanuts compared to what it gains from the WP. No, he still has a lot of credibility.
If it is structural I'd buy from a big place not Ali. Unless you have the ability to verify the material really has the claimed properties you need you should stick with a major trusted supplier who will either verify the factory produces fittings to spec, or test everything for you.
With coffee stirrers! That's such a cool idea, to be able to print the connectors and then use something cheap, off the shelf, and easily cut as the "pipe". Brilliant!

I can see that being a pretty fun cheapo building toy for the kids. Might have to grab a pack of stirrers and run off a couple handfuls of connectors. Very cool.
The interesting part is how simple the resulting Collatz-like functions are to describe, suggesting that the Collatz-like form is the most 'natural' form for hard problems given the TM formalism. E.g., any program can also be rewritten in the form of a Diophantine equation, but most of those would be monstrously large.
native americans do not have a central united native american community and certainly are not a single nation, nor are they facing any threat of elimination; you're the one that's confused here. nobody considers any two of the nahuatl, the quechua, the guaraní, and the mapuche to be the same nation, nor did the american indian movement ever make any serious effort to include any of them

it's not a question of semantics but one of ontology

you remind me of an arabic taxi driver i had once who tried to convert me to islam on the assumption that i was christian, just because i'm white
Heh. Sounds like something that works by accident.

In that vein, I'm reminded of the old tradition of consulting oracles to make decisions when hunting or before a battle. If we see an even number of crows we do this, else we do that, things like that. The reason this worked was because the oracle was acting as a random number generator, and being unpredictable can have advantages in such situations (a lesson from game theory).
I guess it depends on whether the game cartridges only use it for storing savegames, or as actual additional RAM.
I did notice from the article that reading is destructive, so every time you read (or at least every time you read a 0), you have to re-write it out. I wonder how much that affects the practical durability.
Yeah that's what I meant by spam.
I never much cared for fonts and thought they're mostly the same. You, sir, proved me wrong. lets see if this convinces me to switch from fira code
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RL is math heavy, but author should show his insights above classic 101 stuff or “rigorous maths”.
Author should have theoretical as well as piratical background. RL is used to solve real problems.
Selected materials should also cover theoretical and practical (like environment setup and demo codes) aspects.
No, people's preferences actually do alternate as a long-range goal becomes a shorter-range one. It has to do with the discount function we apply to the time dimension between us and a possible reward.

This distinction is important because, as illustrated, your conception requires you to simply wait for things to come on autopilot (good luck!). My description of the problem points to a completely different strategy, which is the creation of precommitment devices.

If you go to the gym solely powered by the goal of having a great body, it's very likely you'll fail that habit, per my earlier point. The far more resilient strategy is to find something you enjoy and actually desire about the actual behavior you're engaged in (which is working out, not having a great body). The outcome of a habit is merely exhaust, and the more you can perceive it that way, the better you'll be at building habits.
Looks great love the free tiles and no limits or API keys.

Question, why use btrfs?
I wish I could replace the default text in use for the examples. I'd like to try a different set of text because with syntax highlighting etc it's a bit harder for me to pick one.
Perhaps the complaint is more about project namers spending zero time checking for uniqueness.
Remember that running any internet-facing servers could violate your terms of service unless you have a business-class connection.
The dumping was close to the factory so they saved money in shipping costs right there.
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Sounds like rush week in college
You're right, I forgot about him. I would argue that he's a special case - He was prosecuted only because he negatively impacted other billionaires, not because he harmed one of us common rabble. But I did not specify that originally and that would be moving the goalposts. You are correct and therefore my argument is defeated.
I don't think that Brazil is on its way to a humanitarian catastrophe.

What makes you say that?
Definitely one of my mathematical peeves. Right up there with people using "exponential" to say "a lot".
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Hi cancan,

Thanks for making that! I really like your service, especially after years of griping at ArcMap. I couldn't believe how archaic and buggy and unpolished their software felt, and I'm so glad to see new players trying to make things easier to use.

I try to describe Felt as the Google Docs of maps, and I've used it to plan several road trips for friends and family. It's really cool to see you add more GIS and data import features too. It's great stuff! Thank you :)

Disclaimer: I also tried to apply for a job at Felt once, but didn't pass the technical interview (a frontend animation challenge which I had no experience with). No hard feelings, but if you have any tips about any particular skills that would be worth developing to get better in this space, I'm all ears, and would love to try again in the future :)

Regardless, I appreciate the product you've built. It's always cool to see web apps being pushed forward in fun and useful ways, ESPECIALLY when they try to disrupt old desktop monstrosities.
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i want to thank you again for taking the time to explain things to me!
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Indeed. There's upsides to this beyond the convenience of location, too -- for example, planting basil alongside tomatoes helps repel pests.
I don’t pretend to know the answer here, but python is unavoidable in my work and the packaging is a constant source of irritation for me. Disclaimer: I am not pretending to be a python expert here but coming from a C background this anecdote is baffling to me.

I am writing some lambda OAuth glue logic using python because python is the best choice for this particular implementation. I need to package “jwt” library which worked absolutely fine for a while. Then I upgrade python versions and the particular pre-built container I was using to run pip and zip the packages up ended up with totally borked versions of jwt which seemed to not have functions I was previously using fine.

Dig in, finally figure out that my older version was actually importing PyJWT even though I had specified “jwt.” The new container was breaking because it was actually installing a different “jwt” library. So, the solution was to specifically specify PyJWT and which version I wanted in my pip install. Great! That’s how I think it should work and I was a little baffled that pip had made that decision for me previously.

Anyway, it now has my missing functions but is still crashing in my blue deployments. Wtf? Oh, this PyJWT import is missing an algorithm. To fix that, I also need to pip install “cryptography” (making sure to get the compatible version matrix here, I at this point had stopped trusting pip).

So maybe this is all very obvious and “duh” to veterans out there but this was impossibly silly and wasted a stupid amount of time for something that should be dead simple. yea, wrangling makefiles and fussing with linkers can be annoying but I’d take that any day over this bs.