skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, explosives. They do in fact explode (what it says on the tin) but you have to put in some effort to make them do so. Similar to wiping out your codebase when testing an app. Personally I think developer will reduce support load from angry people by adding guardrails. Someone will not have committed their code.

An alternative is to have a check “Are you sure?” Just before delete, with a -fuckit_yolo flag to override the check.

I once had a desktop app and realised over a while that just making copious backups (50, IIRC) meant users were less likely to get angry when they had lots of extra safety, even from their own actions.
> Stop using Apple products

Remember that all of the above applies to any device with Secure Boot; including but not limited to all Android devices. Additionally, let's not pretend Windows is the paragon of user freedom.
Is there a situation where a lawyer would recommend blowing off courts as a hardball tactic? Or is this just a problem client?
The optimisation the parent is referring to is development time/effort; if the alternative to dumping a structure to a file is to hand roll your serialiser/deserialiser, that's a slower & probably more error prone approach (depending on the context).
Arxiv? More like ar-cave... amirite?

Sorry; It doesn't contribute but I couldn't resist.
Corollary: Not even a patent cube.
How would China block a deal between 2 US companies?
Congrats! I used Inngest when I wrote a video processing pipeline here https://github.com/tigrisdata-community/multi-modal-starter-...

Amazing devEx. Thanks so much for all the work and enabling a local mode too
IMO marinades are really fun to experiment with because you can just taste them. I cook a lot of veg proteins (tempeh, tofu, soya chunks, TVP, etc) and often marinade them. I'm pretty used to elaborate balances of salt, msg, acid, and other flavors. The way I test it out is just to stick a pinky in or use a tasting spoon and taste. You want your marinade to be heavily seasoned than what you're marinading of course. Acid is an essential component of a marinade.
Most recruiters are using ATS[0] systems that can automatically rank and show candidates with the best looking resumes. I'd assume there is no cutoff based on number of applicants, maybe if it's a position with a deadline, but otherwise it makes no sense.

Job applications these days are like email, there's a lot of spam and automated systems fighting it.

Re: networking. I often see this advice but it's not been my experience. Usually finding a job posting on LI even weeks after, going to the company's website and applying there works.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applicant_tracking_system
This has some answers about it https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/
I generally find that it's easier to interact with AV devices (webcams, microphones) on the desktop app, than when having to deal with a browser's opinions. It also separates it from your browser, which might be desirable if you keep a bunch of tabs and don't want them open in the background.

I use either option in different circumstances, they're both comparably fine.
Hey, if you don't want to admit that both OSes are metastasizing the same tumor it's not my problem. I don't use either MacOS or Windows nowadays, but my experience developing with WSL was ~10x more stable than any Mac environment I've made for the same purpose. For Docker, the performance differential is so wide it's embarrassing.
Wasn't there some clause in the Intel/AMD x86-64 cross-licensing deal which voids it if either company changes ownership? I have some recollection of that being a thing.

But to be fair, Qualcomm might not care.
I’ve found that on the website, they seem to log me out pretty aggressively if I’m not using it often.
Big companies have been owned by shareholders for hundreds of years. Most companies being plundered right now were created by selling shares to initial investors. These shareholders held a sense of responsibility towards customers, towards employees and towards their community, which made the companies long term successful.

Blaming shareholders has no relevance unless you look at what has changed about the shareholders. It's a new generation of elderly who never grew up and never learned to think long term.
I never finished it, but I had a lot of fun documenting a basic-ass K8S (well, K3S) setup that costs about 20€/mo on Hetzner.

You don't really learn about sysadmin through it, or even about docker that much, but you get an idea of how you might easily run a few different things on a server while only needing to know YAML, and not some custom DSL like chef or puppet.
This should fill the gap and possibly improve your thinking power. https://www.dogpile.com/serp?q=games+for+brain+health&sc=nZA...
Why is newline at the end relevant?

I remember not having a newline breaks some tools... but why? It can't be because of unix philosophy!?
50k or 100k would be far more appropriate given the severity of this issue. But overall, this makes me think there's probably a lot more vulnerabilities in Arc that are undiscovered/unpatched.

Also, there's the whole notion of every URL you visit being sent to Firebase -- were these logged? Awful for a browser.
In what way is it faster? Do you skip xray for carry ons?
They hired an enterprise tech CEO for a fashion company.
> We know the probability that the sun stops shining and the wind stops blowing for N days, we can calculate it from historical data

We absolutely do not have long-term climate models with that sort of accuracy.
Wherever the bootloader is open, none of that really tends to matter.

> Additionally, let's not pretend Windows is the paragon of user freedom.

False dichotomy
This is so awesome. I hope I can expand my knowledge such that I can understand most of this project, right now it was way past my limited CS proficiency.

Though my highlight (which I could completely comprehend) is "Section 14.b & 14.c - Getting the data..." All it took was 400K files (~275 photos/day after 4 years). We have so much of raw power of processing, storage & network still the most-used (probably) media-sync apps crashed or faced slow sync, AirDrop fails & lack of 'Select-All' UI feature. Crazy times we live/will live in... :)
I wish it would at least not show those obnoxious spinners over and over.
Which to me is somewhat heartening because it makes me think that maybe the veg hasn’t been absolutely soaked in poisons while being grown.
No, same deal. The article argues that you should write portable code based on the ordered bytes in an external format, as that's guaranteed to be a machine-independent thing (i.e. it's stored on disk in exactly one way). Same is true for image files as 2-byte wchar file as zip files, yada yada.

It's true as far as it goes, but (1) it leans very heavily on the compiler understanding what you're doing and "un-portabilifying" your code when the native byte order matches the file format and (2) it presumes you're working with pickled "file" formats you "stream" in via bytes and not e.g. on memory mapped regions (e.g. network packets!) that want naturally to be inspected/modified in place.

It's fine advice though for the 90% of use cases. The author is correct that people tend to tie themselves into knots needlessly over this stuff.
I have no idea and don't know the difference but I could say the same thing of the camera they used to take my passport photo or my state ID.
GitHub's Green Software Directory
This reminds me of Shahzad "Raja" Chaudhry, the Texas political candidate who dumped a bunch of waste on some land he owned causing water and soil pollution impacting his neighbors and claimed agriculture tax breaks dishonestly.

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/fort-worth-illegal-dump-c...
Perhaps that's a theory.

In reality, my desktop does-everything Linux rig literally does everything. It's my ZFS file server/NAS, and VM host, and web-browsing machine, and gaming box, and it does everything else I do with a computer at home (except for routing, directly controlling 3D printers, and playing movies on the BFT).

Sometimes, especially when gaming, sound glitches. It's annoying to me when this happens. (It'd be far worse than annoying if I were doing serious audio work, but I am not.)

An RT kernel may help with that. Not by automagically adjusting buffers (or whatevers) for a glitch after it happens, but by preventing it from ever happening to begin with.

(And I intend to find out for sure if I ever get far enough into moving into this new place that I can plug my desktop back in, now that it is a mainlined feature instead of a potential rabbit hole.)
Qualcomm still hasn't shipped any of the Snapdragon X dev kits, two months and counting. If they can't deliver on their promises (that and CoPilot PCs having very disappointing sales), how could they do anything besides further drag down Intel?

Not only that, it sounds like a major customer (Apple) is close to finally ditching Qualcomm's wireless chips? (At least that's been rumored [1])

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/07/24/apple-has-reporte...
> It did some weird things like if the car in front of you was driving a bit too far to the left/right of a lane, it would copy them

Wouldn't that conceptually be the right thing for the software to do, copy the human in front of it (unless it has demonstrably better information)? OT1H, "lemmings," but OTOH unless the whole line of cars were all on openpilot my life experience has been that the person in front of me by definition has more visibility than I do since their car is not blocking their view as it is mine

I am totally talking out of school, because I'm not in that space and my poor BMW chose to do its own thing[1] so it doesn't work with openpilot[2] -- although they have a dedicated #flexray channel[3] so hope springs eternal

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexRay

2: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/issues/44#issuecomment-...

3: https://discord.com/channels/469524606043160576/533838492443...
mIRC did it better.
I'm totally with you. As a user, I hate subscriptions. I feel like I owe money to others for too long. I launched a couple of services that offered subscriptions, and they didn't go well. So for the latest one I launched (getting/giving user feedback), I opted for a one time payment per use, and it has been much better.
> To Apple, it doesn't matter if your livelihood or carefully-written software relies on a depreciated feature. They never have.

not entirely true, but especially true of Steve Jobs, who seemed to make some special personal effort to crush people and their products. The current CEO was hand-picked by Jobs for his ability to dominate contract negotiations IIR.
Israel can't choose its neighbours, for sure, and it's true that in the first half of its existence it was regularly threatened by them. But that world no longer exists. Lebanon and Syria are now very weak, and Israel has made peace with Egypt and Jordan. I don't know what can be done about Hezbollah, but it may be worth considering that Hezbollah only exists in the first place because of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and it would probably be significantly weaker if Israel would actually resolved the Palestinian question.

From what I have heard, the idea the Palestinians were ever actually offered a state may be a myth, but I think the more important thing there is that Rabin was assassinated and that torpedoed the process. Netanyahu has never really seemed interested in peace, his political career depends on it not happening.
I agree that it'll be needed, but that hardware that can provide enough compute at acceptable wattage is yet to materialize. Only once that changes the equation will change. Today you'd be surprised how many production UGVs run off an actual Pi 4 or something in a comparable compute ballpark.
The alternatives are not commercially viable. (even though I am a Linux/OpenBSD user- and a loud one).

MacOS is perfectly serviceable with things like colima.

Calling MacOS user-hostile (due to SIP being enforced?!) is quite a bit different than the actual major usability issues that Windows has been pushing on users, it’s not fair to compare them like this.

Commercially viable Linux desktops can’t come soon enough; though desktop computing is dying.
"You have to be careful with videos of chefs cooking, because they often don't eat the exact thing that they're filming. The finished dish you see at the end or showed off might be cooked at a different time (usually beforehand) and in a far more sanitary way. What you're seeing is filmed that way for the sake of doing less dishes."

I cannot emphasize this view enough: The problem with cooking videos is, "what did they edit?". If the video doesn't at least slide a little homage to the peon peeling the onions, can you trust it? If not, I don't!
Ask HN: How do you approach technical due diligence?
Hey HN Brains Trust,

I've been asked to perform a technical due diligence exercise on a company that mine is considering acquiring.

I'd love to learn from those who have tackled a task like this before. What did you learn that you wish you knew ahead of time? What do you wish you had asked? Do you have any general advice or guidance you think someone in my position would benefit from knowing?

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A computer is technically not a Turing machine due to the lack of infinite RAM. It is a finite state machine with an absurdly large state space.
Can't confirm. It works for me just as well as it did in 2022.
After upgrading, I was prompted to allow the AltTab utility to control something "for one month," or to open Settings. So I opened Settings and everything was already enabled.

The question is who is clamoring for all this BS? The cynic would say that Apple is prepping us all for the eventual iOSification of Macs, where you can't do squat. Which will leave only Linux as a viable (AKA tolerable) computing platform.
Actually yes it does....except I seem to remember that it doesn't go back that far in cuda versions. I can't seem to find it again right now.
It's all because of those add-in cards containing engineering software. ;)

In other news, I have the HP 48GX overhead projector accessory I should dust off and recondition. Also have the thermal printer.
How exactly would a foreign power block two US companies from merging when it has no significant stock holding in either?
Is there a patent or something Qualcomm is trying to get from Intel? Seems like an odd acquisition otherwise.

As far as chip manufacturing they target different markets, I’d bet most IP isn’t transferable between the orgs anyway, especially since Apple bought Intels modem patents already.
wait, you're living in a campervan with 3 kids?
I wasn't "appalled" but definitely felt uneasy about it. I am aware I could opt out and read all the discussions about it here on HN. I didn't do anything about it, despite being a very privacy conscious person (using firefox, use max adblocking/anti tracking etc). Why? I don't want to be an asshole, hold the queue and cause trouble for a TSA agent who is just doing the job and likely have no idea what "opt out" means, and with, let's admit it, no practical benefit for myself. (If anything, help myself miss a flight.) The feds and local law enforcement probably already have my face data anyway.
21 Year old French YouTuber trains for a year to climb Everest [video]
It's interesting seeing this wave of Indian American immigrants taking over a sector. I've noticed that more and more of the hotels in my neck of the woods here in the NY/NJ metro area are now Indian owned/operated.

It reminds me of an LA Times piece about the rise and fall of the Korean dry cleaners[0][1] and of course, Chinese restaurants before that[2][3] and why immigrant waves tend to end up coalescing around a few business sectors/industries.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/podcasts/story/2021-08-31/the-times-...

[1] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-31/long-a-p...

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/02/22/467113401/lo...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/upshot/chinese-restaurant...
All true, which is why I daily drive Qubes OS with coreboot and TPM with my own keys.
Redis's transaction api is terrible, and doesn't work across shards. Any reasonable transactions are done in Lua, and because Lua mostly works well, there's not a lot of pressure to fix transactions.

However, if you're giving redis access to different tenants, Lua is too dangerous.

I'd love to see a "real" transaction API for Redis.
You can jam the argument cudatoolkit=1.2.3 when creating conda environments.

NB I’m using Miniforge.
Where did it put Canada above Germany? All it has is a list but doesn't claim it is in any order except they are all above the United States.
It’s possible, I guess, but it wouldn’t be my first thought. It’s too slow for that.

A payload of 1.6KB at 45us/B is 75ms, which is below the typical scheduling quantum of about 100ms. (Can’t say anything about Erlang, let alone Erlang bindings to C libraries, but I wouldn’t expect it to be that much smaller either, precisely because of the switching overhead both direct and indirect.) So a single compression operation shouldn’t be getting preempted enough to affect the results.

Typical RAM bandwidth is tens of GB/s (even consumer-class SSDs[1] are single-digit GB/s) so with tens to hundreds of cores that’s not enough to affect anything, and even taking into account the compressor’s window is measured in megabytes not kilobytes that’s likely not enough (it would be a bad compressor that reread its whole window each time, anyway). And the data we’re compressing is not only minuscule, it has just been generated and is virtually guaranteed to be cached.

Honestly, I almost want to say that the benchmark is measuring the wrong thing somehow, except they’re reporting a 2× speedup switching from one compressor to another. So it can’t be the JSON encoding overhead or whatnot, and, unless one of the Erlang bindings is somehow drastically stupider than the other, it shouldn’t be the FFI overhead, and even those are a huge stretch. The Flying Spaghetti Monster be merciful, I cannot see anything here that we could be spending over a hundred million cycles on.

At this point I’m hoping somebody just mixed up the units, because this is really unsettling.

[1] https://lemire.me/en/talk/perfsummit2020/
China has a say because both companies do business in China. It’s the reason why the Intel acquisition of Tower semiconductor fell through.
Distillation will make the inference cost of these models go down by a lot.
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I wouldn't be surprised if some HN client apps support markdown.
I wouldn't call Android even close to micro. Its just a different linux kernel.

You would be best off getting like an SoC with wifi and display and usb ports. There are quite a few floating around these days that you can get a 3d printed case for.
I'd bind-mount the tree into the context. (I assume Docker won't follow simple symlinks.)
I can think of multiple specific instances where the Israeli military killed children in Gaza, which are confirmed by humanitarian organizations on the ground as well as video/photographic evidence. But I will not name these specific victims here, because that would not prove anything. It'd be intellectually dishonest. Go read "The Two State Delusion" by Padraig O'Malley, or the ICC case by South Africa against Israel

https://libgen.is/search.php?req=Padraig+O%27Malley&column=a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa%27s_genocide_case...
Chinese regulators have a say because both companies do business in China.
Err… no. They seem to be using the power consumption of an entire data centre as if the whole building was used for just your email. That’s not how that works!

GPT-4 needs roughly 8x GPUs and can generate 100 words in about a second or two. Let’s say it’s a single DGX server running for 2 seconds at 6.5kW. This is just 13 kJ, which can be cooled with about 5mL of water maximum… not 3 bottles!

In reality it’s much more efficient than that because during inference multiple requests are processed together, typically something like 8 to 32 at once depending on the model and the hardware. This means that a single email needs something like a tiny drop of water… which isn’t destroyed, merely evaporated.

This is histerical reporting by a scientifically illiterate arts major worried about being replaced by an AI next year.
Jennifer Warnes cover of Famous Blue Raincoat is so good - partially because it’s so of it’s time (80’s)
Many things which receive an Ig Nobel (but not all) are bona fide <thing> that just happen to be funny or have a particularly strong aspect (not necessarily in their entirety) of triviality. I'd be honored if I did a project like this that got enough attention and generated enough amusement to deserve an Ig Nobel instead of offended I'm on the same list as projects that weren't all genuinely representative works of the field.
America is not a country that anyone can count on unless you're Israel. Both sides of the Political spectrum lack any true leadership.
This is very cool. Thanks for making it open source.
As a person that recently started using it: it has something like "tree style tabs", and sort of a hybrid merge of the concepts of tabs and bookmarks. In other words, the tabs work more like files on disk -- open/closed, sorted into folders. I'm probably not explaining it well either, but I encourage you to try it if you ever wanted to experiment with alternative tab management (tree style tab, tab groups etc). It's a concept that clicked for me quickly once I started using it, and now I'm angry since I want to use Firefox for philosophical reasons but don't want to go back to regular tabs.
Same way China blocked Intel from acquiring Tower Semiconductor.
Resolving this pathological impasse is straightforward - differentiate between personal activity and commercial activity. Individuals recording the police, other people happenstance, or even spending a considerable amount of their personal time compiling a self-administered facial recognition database of people - fine. Businesses (or really, entire industries) creating surveillance databases that would make a Stasi agent blush, likely by paying the salaries of many people to do this, and likely selling [access to] the databases to pay for it all - not fine. Societally, we've basically been hoodwinked with this temporarily embarassed millionaires fallacy - scale itself creates logical contradictions of our rights and we need to attack this head on.
Literally or figuratively?
Yes. This would also give more volume for the existing Intel factories.
Was gonna meave the same comment almost verbatim.