skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Primark count as a "department store"? TK Maxx? Or, since the closure of Debenhams and BHS, are we down to John Lewis (true archetype of the department store that sells everything), M&S, and the occasional Harvey Nicks?
Not really. A small minority care about space life. A small minority care about conservation.
Have you considered asking an LLM? You have around a ~50% chance of getting a correct answer.
For quite a long time I’ve also considered my personal “runway” as the key metric in considering my financials. The number isn’t perfect because if I lost my job I’d make cuts elsewhere (so my runway is longer than I “think” it is) but it helps reduce my anxiety.

I love YNAB for this since I can fund future months easily.
Web UI: Identifying actions with vision and HTML embeddings
Binary size: should we use static or dynamic linking?
> The original authors are already part of another team (because “breaking silos”, but actually because “make everyone replaceable”)

I've been there and i've inherited some stuff to manage, and it's painful.

But there's another side of this, which is even more painful and definitely infuriating: some people get to stay on the same project for years, and they become "key people" just because they've either A) stumbled on the issues before or B) have introduced the issues themselves.

This is completely infuriating because now you have to play cat and mouse with these people to get help, and they get to play the "super busy, everybody ask me stuff" role because they're the only people with that historic knowledge.

Needless to say, they can also back the claim they deserve a promotion (and a salary increase) by executing on.this playbook. And they usually do.

I've seen this thing happen in pretty much all company sizes (200 people, 1000 people, 500k+ people).

At this point, after almost ten years in the industry, I'm starting to think this is the winning playbook for the meta-game: go rogue in a maliciously-compliant way, artificially claim superiority over your peers, get promoted.
Also, being some sort of streaming firehose with the same data for everyone (if I understood what this is in a quick read) I guess if it makes any sense to do any kind of P2P/distributed transfer of it to ease the load...
I'd class Primark etc as fast fashion stores really - in my mind department stores are Harvey Nicks and Harrods etc
> The world we have now where everything is built to be thrown away, including software, has had the side-effect of destroying craftsmanship. And I'm becoming more convinced as I age that the world is poorer for it.

Not every area in the software market is like this. For example, in ERP software often applications from the 90ies are still in use (maybe revamped, maybe not) by many customers. And the maintenance periods are measured in decades (typically not initially, but there always seems to be a maintenance extension).
> Helps things from escalating I guess.

I imagine its to stop someone from stalking the list of recent comments the person made, and immediately reply to every one.
If you dream about Doom then Doom is running on you.
Great project. Down for me.

$ curl http://playin.coz.is/index.html

curl: (7) Failed to connect to playin.coz.is port 80 after 166 ms: Couldn't connect to server
> Your dishwasher uses dramatically less power and water than you would use, if washing them by hand.

Only if used optimally, or the handwashing is very wasteful. There is one study I know of, it was paid for by washing machine manufacturers and has quite a few issues (like not removing outliers).

And yes, I measured my usage of water and power.

(I’d still get a dishwasher if my kitchen had space for it)
Thanks a lot for the kind words!

I was afraid people would abandon good runs if too long, so started spawning 4 and 8 sometimes to speed it up somewhat. (There's 180-odd entries participating in the compo, so even 10 minutes of play time per entry is a huge commitment for people looking to vote on most / all games.)

Re: Subscribe popup: this is the sole reason I'm looking to migrate from Hashnode! All of their UX "improvements" are egregious, but this one surely takes the cake. I very much agree with your sentiment.

When I joined, it was a nice technical writing-oriented site, but these days it has entirely succumbed to terrible product managers. E.g. their blog post editor's main function is seemingly to upsell their generative AI wrapper.
> We need to send a probe to Europa, like yesterday, and we need to send one that can get below the ice and look around.

IMO, "need" is a strong word here and if I thought that this is something we needed to do I would re-examine my priorities. We need to feed and house people, we need to stop the war machine, we need to slow consumerism to slow climate change.
haha rawk
That's a complete red herring.

Parts serialization didn't make thievery of phones go down. How could it? It's thievery of opportunity. Do you really think an hypothetical thief which would be like "how damn the phone I just pickpocketed is an iPhone. Let me give it back I can't sell the parts" exist?

The only thing it does is allow Apple to keep parts price artificially high, business as usual for Apple.
Venus is the first AI-powered swingers site
> This robot hand will beat you at rock-paper-scissors 100% of the time. It can recognise a competing hand gesture in 1 millisecond and move its own hand to make the winning gesture to complete at the same time.

This is one of those things that is surprisingly un-hard, though I don't claim a 100 % success rate.

On a non-competitive level, people tend to open into their choice on the way down. The strategy I use is to look for if their fingers unfurl, and then I immediately fold out scissors. In all other cases I keep a fist.

This works because paper is such an obvious shape even early on in the movement. If their fingers go out, they are doing either paper or scissors, which will on average be beaten by scissors. If their fingers don't go out early, it's either scissors or rock, which on average is beaten by rock.
Yup Knight-only was possible, but clunky. Queens sure provide a nice power spike towards the end.
Very disappointing article.

It's true that anime (as in: TV shows and movies) is more popular than ever, but its business has lots of problems. I'd love for someone to improve this situation, so that we could have more episodes of beloved sagas that are somehow paused, eg Berserk and One Punch Man.

But I'm completely uninterested in AI generation or parasocial stuff. Let art be art, even across mediums (comics, TV, games), but the rest just sucks the humanity out of the art.
So they can charge you for it.
There is a lot of context for that you may want to consider reading up on, but I doubt you have interest, so why get angry? There is more than one instance to chose from. That community clearly isn't for you. It's a decentralised network with various niches. You don't have to engage with everyone. It's not Twitter.
Well this is about allowing customer supplied ONT, not supporting them. As in, you have to follow upgrade procedures announced X days in advance, etc.
Harrods is kind of an exception as it's a single store that's always positioned itself at the very highest end of retail. It will probably outlast most other retailers so long as it retains that cachet.
I don't think kids enjoy Harry Potter for the sense of realism...

What the Harry Potter books have is very well written characters, and character stories, and a great sense of adventure and fascination.
Avoiding if-else Hell: The Functional Style
Agree NES is a good place to start.
C64 SID is not FM at all, but agree it's not easy to learn.
Advanced Voice Is Not yet Available in the EU, UK, CH, IS, NO and LI
the dram array is pretty simple, it's true, but its behavior isn't, and the circuitry around the edges to make it act like ram isn't. you have the sense amplifiers with their inputs that are also their outputs, yeah, but also precharge, refresh, and stuff i'm not privy to
Not op, but for productivity, I'll mention one example: I use it to generate unit tests for my software, where it has saved me a lot of time.
Will be sharing the code next week. The basic idea is to find the embeddings of sentences and then finding the distance in the latent space to see if there is too big a jump in context.
Oh, I disagree with plenty of people on there but I've found several communities on there which have helped me offline as well.
Why? How is this better than running nginx or Apache2?
You still can’t create an account without a phone number
Just a PSA, that you really shouldn't be using Vivaldi or any closed source browser. As we know, companies that start off privacy/ethically focused (take Mozilla for example) eventually turn evil and start spying/tracking their users.

Vivaldi will eventually start doing this, and you'll have absolutely no idea because it's entirely closed source. No one knows what mischief they get up to.

TL;DR; Don't sign into your bank with Vivaldi
I'd assume it means that it supports more chips than deflemask https://www.deflemask.com/
>I'm happy to see some counter-evidence that she's lying and all of this is made up.

I presented the exact, same, precise, amount of evidence she did, with one exception.

I used common sense.

If you believe that she saw someone waterboarded to death, WHICH IS WHAT SHE CLAIMED at the twelve minute and thirty seconds mark, you are beyond reason.

That entire video is nothing more than the insertion of jesusfreakiness into an argument that should be dispassionate: you, I, and everyone else has the right to choose the time and manner of their death.

If you want to jesusfreak your way into heaven by shitting your pants, bedridden, stoned out of your mind on morphine while your family agonizes for weeks as your respiratory tidal volume slowly decreases as the morphine doses increase until you suffocate that is also your right.

Your book has no right to tell me what to do and the jesusfreaks are trying to cram their book down my throat.
I'm pretty sure I got PTSD as a kid by getting dragged through these department stores for hours upon hours by my mom as she mindlessly browsed through clothes. Five hours to buy five shirts? I swore I would never shop at such stores, and I never have.
As someone without Clojure experience but eyeing Datomic from the sidelines, thank you for the detailed answer, super interesting!
When I think of heyday US department stores I think of Macy’s, Sears, Carson Pirie Scott, Montgomery Ward, Nordstrom, and I’m sure offers I’m forgetting.

Of course those are all either shells of their former selves or gone entirely.

Macy’s might have been the last high end department store in the US (that I’m aware of), but even 10 years ago going into their flagship Chicago location felt like walking into a K-Mart. I don’t know if I’d consider stores like Saks to truly be department stores.
That exact command line worked for me - might there be something on your end blocking outgoing plain HTTP requests?
There is widespread acceptance nowadays that randomized UUIDs must be generated from the system CSPRNG or something equivalent, and that any non-cryptographically secure method is a bug. Most library implementations across languages have converged on this in some way.

That being said, the PostgreSQL documentation doesn't say anything in particular about the predictability of `gen_random_uuid`, so the behavior is unspecified. But it's worth noting the function has an explicit guard to raise an error if secure random is not available, so they were conscious of this possibility and did not attempt any misguided fallbacks.

And unfortunately this requirement is not baked into the UUID spec either, which uses the word "should" instead of "must" when discussing CSPRNG usage.
Well, I think we need to do all of it.

Explore space together or in competition, instead of war.

And climate change is a concern for everyone.
I guess because those of us that are fine with Datomic, also don't have any issues going into IBM, Oracle or Microsoft RDMS portfolio of database products.
... plus a 5MM EUR fine, and whatever other threats may have been made.
> A small minority care about conservation.

A small minority care, until it is too late. The everybody cares. It is the job of the scientists and governments to help us understand why we should care. But both are captured by oligarchs and people looking for their own power and prestige.
The last Acorn machine I wrote anything for was the RISC PC, which I think was ARM6, if I remember right. So, I lucked out: first Archimedes: ARM2, last one: ARM6 then done :D
Well... True, but is a little like saying that USA does not have car makers because China is who really make the cars. Substitute launch by operate if you prefer. Is just an example

If Pakistan paid somebody to built them and launch Satellites, reached a technological level enough to operate their own satellites. This is what I'm saying. Or at a level enough to earn a Nobel prize in Physics. Do you know who doesn't have a Nobel prize in Physics? My country.

The branch of science that you support will fix the problems that you have in those fields. The problem is that Religious fanatics loathe the truths from Biology, while Physic or Math, either are too abstract to be seen as a menace, or simply enjoyed a protected first-priority status.

If your people is dying from a lack of antibiotics because religious hawks block the development of Biology, well... you have what you allowed. Do something about this. Or learn to live with the outcome but don't blame the evil west for not coming to fix your problem while saving your face.

We have problems also.

Antibiotics research needs support at a government level; nobody wants to do it with their pocket money. Their best chance is to fund a team of people to research Pakistani biodiversity and find organisms that will provide solutions. They will need to put this people on a protected A-priority level status, where they can do their job freely without being harassed or hunted by it.
Sometimes it's just fun.
maximum control over your DOS filesystems: Create the boot sector with nasm and have mformat -B (from mtools) fill in the disk geometry.

For devices with CHS addressing, information in the BPB is crucial for getting the CHS geometry. It has to match how the medium was formatted.
> We need to feed and house people, we need to stop the war machine, we need to slow consumerism to slow climate change.

Sure thing. We don't have to do them in a specific order, there are enough resources to tackle them all at the same time. A $5 billion project is small enough that it won't affect others, but at least someone is doing something about one of those projects.
I personally don't use it too, but I think it's origins are not just readability, but from developing queries in a REPL like environment.

As you develop and are constantly creating / debugging queries where you often add new and or or clauses as a whole line, that becomes much faster to add and remove those same lines as they're a single shortcut away in nearly all text editors.
There are several plugins for making curved traces in KiCAD.
Yes you do. Communities by definition have mores and norms that members of that community are expected to understand follow, and violating those can lead to one being chastised or expelled from the community. That's the way human social networks have operated since paleolithic times.

Allowing everyone and everything, all the time, is the exact opposite of a community, it's simply a crowd. But even in a crowd, there are limits to what people will put up with.
> What is a variable in C? A register? A memory location?

Wouldn't it depend on the type? Something like:

int p; p = &x;

MOV @R1, R2 ; R1 contains the address of x, move it to pointer p in R2

int p; int value = *p;

MOV @R2, R0 ; Dereference pointer p (in R2), load the value into R0 (int value)

int x = 5;

MOV #5, -(SP) ; Push the value 5 onto the stack (stack-allocated int)

int x = 10; int y = x + 5;

MOV #10, R0 ; Load the immediate value 10 into register R0 (for x)

ADD #5, R0 ; Add 5 to the value in R0 (x + 5), store result in R0

or

MOV #10, -(SP) ; Push 10 onto the stack for x

MOV (SP), R0 ; Load x from stack into R0

ADD #5, R0 ; Add 5 to x

Whether a variable gets stack-allocated or register-allocated, it's still a pretty close mapping afaict. From my understanding the original C mapped closely to PDP-7 and then PDP-11 assembly. The original implementation and how it maps to PDP-11 could be used as a reference implementation.
This works very well on my 4k screen.

Every discussion of font rendering technology must include a statement to the effect of "Acorn RISC OS fonts from 1990 have not been bettered". :-)
Rollout otherwise completed: https://x.com/sama/status/1838864011321872407

As a paying customer from EU, I’m not happy about it. What’s the reasoning for this being held back (while normal voice mode is available)?
Worth noting that the ESA Juice mission will be at Jupiter at the same time as Clipper and the teams are already working together:

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/...
How well that performs compared to a JOIN can vary massively depending on the data sizes of table_a & tale_b, how table_b is indexed, and what else is going on in the query.

If table_b has an index on id,column2,column3 (or on id INLUDEing column2,column3) I would expect the equivalent JOIN to usually be faster. If you have a clustered index on Id (which is the case more often than not in MS SQL Server and MySQL/InnoDB) then that would count for this unless the table is much wider than those three columns (so the index with its selective data would get many rows per page more than the base data).

Worst (and fairly common) case with sub-selects like that is the query planner deciding to run each subquery one per row from table_a. This is not an issue if you are only returning a few rows, or just one, from table_a, but in more complex examples (perhaps if this fragment is a CTE or view that is joined in a non-sargable manner so filtering predicates can't push down) you might find a lot more rows are processed this way even if few are eventually returned due to other filters.

There are times when the method is definitely faster but be very careful with it (test with realistic data sizes and patterns) because often when it isn't, it really isn't.
> Google and everyone else just gives access, no gatekeeping.

Well, Gemini Pro was delayed in Europe for many months. Same for Claude.
Vivaldi is one of the dozen supporting orgs, so why link to their blog instead of the original annoucement that mentions all of them? https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/
Oh neat! Thanks! I'm checking the docs and I guess you're referring to "Inline files". I don't have much knowledge about btrfs, so I didn't know...

The nearest thing (and it's not really really similar, just related) that ZFS has is special VDEVs.

When you have an array of disks (usually "slow", like regular HDDs) you can attach to it another array of disks (usually very fast, like NVMe) where you can store metadata (file information) and optionally small files up to a size that you can define.

So for example you have a 50TB (or 500, who knows) array of SATA disks, and a small but superfast array of NVMe drives. Lets say 128GB. Or 512, or 1TB depending on you want to do.

File metadata is saved there, so doing a find, ls, tree... operation is now very fast. And if you save, for example, all files smaller than 32KB there (it will depend on your needs, also) all the small file operations will be way faster.
So you are saying that "US global security commitments" actually increase the danger of the global nuclear catastrophe. Doesn't look secure for me.
Gemini Flash API costs 50% less than gpt-4o-mini. It's not clear why your benchmark recorded 13x more token usage for Flash for the same input.
same. So to shortcut the big question "when"? April 2030
Visa's operating costs in 2023 were $10-$11 billion, compared to their profit of $17-$18 billion. This is on a revenue of $32 billion.
Indeed. There is no independent arbitor. One can imagine that the collective, consensus answer is best, or not. If it is possible to steer that answer towards something that is beneficial to someone somewhere - why wouldn't vested interests do that?
Yeah... I would go that far. Average human's life wouldn't change in short period. But on a larger scale of time, it could propel us to explore the universe.
You don't get to say "go ahead and use it," wait a decade, and then grumble that people are "confused". But even then, some random reddit or content farm post doesn't rise to the level of demonstrating "widespread consumer confusion". Hell, that content farm post looks generated by ChatGPT, should a hallucination be admissable as evidence of "confusion"?

Had Automattic cared at all eight or nine years ago, they might have a case. But saying that a few random people on the Internet got it wrong (maybe even because some random content farm posted nonsense) after ignoring the issue for so long is decidedly nonsense.
That’s right, the hill to die on is the browser’s openness.

Not your OS, not your firmware. Not your hardware. It’s the browser
Allmost everyone cares about conservation .. but about conserving the immediate life around them, e.g. their life and the close people around them.

Climate change is still too abstract for most people to be a real concern. If they are cold, coal makes them warm now.

I more and more find truth in the simplified statement: "we are little more than confused apes after all"

We are capable of so much more .. but it takes time and whether we have the time to evolve some collective consciouss about the bigger problems concerning us all, remains to be seen.
We cannot do all of it. The money and the manpower does not exist to do all of it.

We need to prioritize. Have you ever tried to survive in the wilderness? Shelter, water, fire, and food. Priorities. You would not spend your time trying to find out if there is a form of life 20 feet below you.

Right now on earth there are plenty of people who do not have these basics.
Where do you think a Tesla goes to get new tie rods or a body panel replacement? They lean on the existing service location network.

My friend needed body work on his Model 3 after someone hit him. They sent him to a traditional dealership body shop an hour away that was booked solid for 3 months. His insurance only covered a month of rental. His life situation allowed him to do the remaining 2 months without a car but not everyone has that luxury.

Tesla has to do this via partnerships and has little control over the customer experience. Great for people are willing to suffer for the brand but most will take the path with least headache.
It's the American PBMs that make their money on the difference between the list price and the price they sell it for. Higher list price means more profit

This was repeated over and over in the hearing. And apparently the regulation of PBMs (changed about a year ago) hasn't resulted in PBMs taking up cheaper drugs
Who cares what they call it? Anyone that cares about decentralized social networking and is serious about it is on Nostr by now anyway. Let them say whatever they want in their cold, lonely, dark corners, which they've all secluded themselves in lording over their instance fiefdoms as they break the very federation they claim to be building.