skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the question is do we think twice as many tornadoes a year and billions of dollars in coastal property lost is a fair trade off for a small percentage of people getting to live in the sticks.

Seems easy if you're not the one paying for the cleanup I guess, except if you're a taxpayer then ultimately you will be.
I was thinking today that companies like google don't understand the implication of losing or discarding a couple percent of their customers per year every year.
> He is not "the right person". The disagreement was on how to best integrate Rust in the filesystem code.

Linus is absolutely the right person because the subject for discussion was the inclusion of Rust for Linux in the kernel.

Despite this being very clear, you're now trying to conflate the "Filesystems in Rust" discussion with what you were referring to the broader Rust for Linux question.

I mean -- you're pretty slippery, but I can certainly remind you again of what you wrote:

>>>>> Just because it was discussed way back when doesn't mean everyone has to accept the resolution from that. People obviously think it wasn't addressed in a good way.

Now, I'm sure you remember what was being discussed "way back when"? Yes, it was the argument re: inclusion of Rust for Linux in the kernel, not the "Filesystems in Rust" discussion.

> If "assume good faith and don't dismiss arguments as bad faith" is guessing at people's motivations then I guess I am shrug.

I completely agree this is ordinarily the right way to act, but there are limits to what we can accept in good faith. When someone acts as passive aggressively as Ted T'so has, or as slippery and dishonest as you have here, even if it's embarrassing to me to have to point such things out, I think it's right to say "Wow maybe someone needs to have a talk with Ted or arp242". Despite your (bad) behavior, I still want someone to be honest and direct with you.
Old MUDs come to mind, and seems like a modern take on their automappers would be something like Mudlet's https://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Manual:Mapper, which has a verbose but human readable XML format?

https://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Manual:Mapper
https://forums.mudlet.org/viewtopic.php?t=22957

Not quite as terse as your Mermaid-like syntax, unfortunately.

Also, in Mermaid, can't you specify left/right top/bottom, etc.? https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/flowchart.html#direction-in-su...
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Awesome. I've been waiting forever for a vector OSM replacement. I already changed it to be the default for my open source GPS tracking project.
Ever since Zillow/Redfin came out, there hasn’t been a need to use a real estate agent. All buyers are getting push notifications 24/7.

If you want to save on commission, then get the pics taken yourself, and pay a listing service a few hundred dollars for your property to show up on Zillow/Redfin.
Aww… definitely makes you feel for the man beneath the bluster.

Most of it seems to be typical Marcus fare—basically that LLMs aren’t true AI yet are also dangerous yet are irreparably broken-but the segment on X-risk is the first time I’ve seen him comment on that, at least for a while. He starts with “I don’t want to see agents happen” basically, and… on some level I think everyone agrees with that, at least on some guttural level.

He brings it on himself (talk about a vitriolic title…), but still, I’m guessing he misses the days when all of this was a bit more calm and he didn’t have to spend his days being the eternal critic. I’m sure it’s brought him plenty of money and substack subscribers, but you can tell in this video that he’s a true academic that is seriously invested in AI as a discipline, if not as an immediate capitalist reality.

Sorry for the kinda off-topic comment, and thanks for sharing! Will have to try to catch the rest tomorrow. He looks good, which in these Dennett-less days we should certainly appreciate
Not OP but I mostly use Reddit for media discussion: /r/movies , /r/books, /r/suggestmeabook, /r/horror, /r/printsf , etc. and they are pretty decent.

I've stayed clear from CS/IT subreddits for a long while now though.
Yes. Moreover, all prices will jump 3-100x, so UBI will be useless anyway: you must go to work or die in poverty. UBI is also known as "true socialism".
I’m directly referring to chatGPT.
This. There is no such thing as blocked on a public platform. Everyone has always known viewing the site incognito allows you to see blocked content.
What on earth is “malicious blocking”?

I cannot think of a case where an entity decides they don’t want someone to see their tweets “maliciously”.

The ability to control who does and does not see your content seems like the bare minimum for a social media platform.
It was also only available at all to customers in a very small number of countries.
Awesome! I used to think (well, I still do) that getting a barebones service up and running using the system APIs at the lowest level like this is so satisfying. It's sort of magical, really. And to see it serve real traffic! I'm kind of surprised that the vanilla poll() can put up numbers like you were seeing, but I guess it's been a while since I've had to do anything event related/benchmark at that level.

I love the connection-specific functions and related structs and arrays for your connection bookkeeping, as well as the poll fd arrays. It's very reminiscent of how it's done in lots of other open source packages known for high throughput numbers, like nginx, redis, memcached.

Great work!
very interesting solution. and great idea to have a playground. would love to know some details on the implementation of the architecture you have shared -
1. how do you query across multiple files, do you have a query engine like data fusion doing that heavy lifting, or is this a custom implementation ?
2. how do you manage a WAL with real time query-ability across files ? have you seen any failures (recent entries missing sort of issues)
Thanks, once again really interesting design and intuitively looks more economical.
> but if you asked me at that time how to convert 12/13 to decimal I probably wouldn't be able to do better than a rough approximation

lol now I kind of want to try this at the butchers and see the response I get
There's a new update to it.
Is this just like a one time burst in activity before the average begins its slow creep upwards?
The project has a terrible (and pro-DRM) self-justification. But there’s still a person with flaws, insecurities, loved ones and dreams on the other side.

I doubt you mean that first sentence of your last paragraph, and those words are very harshly chosen. They might cause harm, and I’d suggest you’d reconsider them and republish your comment unless you truly stand by them.
PNG can be Animated Wait WTF? APNG file format
Today i was causally looking through github when this github users winstonrc/README.md had a cool flashing cursor.

LINK: https://github.com/winstonrc

Wow thats cool. how did they do it.
Opening file in new tab reviled its. wait what? a png file? this has to be a error.
NOPE!
turns out a file format called APNG animated PNG, allows for animations by extending a normal PNG file past is normal end byte length.
very interesting.

Possible Use cases:
Animated Profiles for websites that disallow .GIF's

Enjoy!
> Seems like they just got so much bigger that we don't even recognize them as a department store. Walmart, Costco, Home Depot, et al. are just variations on the theme.

That's not an issue of size; Walmart, Costco, and Home Depot are smaller than department stores are.

And department stores have gotten smaller over time; they used to be much bigger than they are now, which you can see by visiting a flagship store.
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I called exactly one person clinically retarded. I also didn't suggest or imply disabled people should have no right to speech or vote. You made all that up.
I'd assume most people would know that? But if they still put random code that someone wrote just for fun into a (serious) production system, then WAT.

Edit: And sure, if the author is lucky, then maybe a handful of people will gather around the code and try to make it "production ready". But since the README doesn't say anything about the topic at all, just let people have fun and learn things along the way?
These responses remind me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTHggXwrJJQ
I’ll give it a shot and update the results.

Unfortunately the bigger issue with Gemini is cost, which is too high for the scraping use case.
The FAA does not require "zero risk" for a flight to proceed. It does, however require analysis of various risks of all phases of flight (launch, MECO, boost-back, etc. There have been situations where FAA and company analysis have come to different conclusions; the way to proceed is to study both models and understand why one (or both) is deficient, correct the error(s) and move forward from there, not cry to your rich and powerful friends that the government won’t let you fly your missile.
Couldn't you just login with a different account?
> But on the moon, it ranges about 2 to 10% of total weight.

That would not be classified as iron ore at all! Mined ores contain up to 65% iron by weight. Also, typical iron ore contains very little other metals, simplifying smelting and other processing.

Moon rocks are a random undifferentiated mess.

I recently read Blindsight by Peter Watts[1], and the aliens in that book use cyclotrons to separate asteroid material into their component elements. This is done in orbit, in a vacuum.

Interestingly, something like that would work just fine on the Moon, because it has a negligible atmosphere -- essentially a hard vacuum. It might be possible to do an "outdoor" particle accelerator to separate regolith like a mass spectrometer.

Imagine a device that uses concentrated solar power (or solar cells and an e-beam furnace) to vaporise regolith, ionise it, and then use magnets to spread it out in a huge fan hundreds of meters in size. The mass-separated atoms could be sprayed out onto the landscape where they would freeze onto the bare surface of the Moon. You'd get patches of pure metals slowly but surely building up. This would have almost no moving parts and needs no chemicals, oxidisers, or other consumables.

[1] A book I can highly recommend for the HN audience. (It has been positively reviewed here previously, which is why I read it in the first place.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180816030039/https://www.theat...
Even Macy's (which is what took over Marshall Field's) is a far, far inferior experience to classy classic stores like Marshall Field's.
Is there a video which showcases the unique aspects of RA2 gameplay with Phobos?
Brazil has been experiencing de growth since about 2011. The GDP per capita has been decreasing, unemployment has been increasing, corruption has been increasing, and governance has been getting worse.

If this continues the people of Brazil will necessarily be much more at the mercy of forces of nature than if they had a stronger economy and were well governed.
Finally! A best practice that makes sense! Now let us see the password as we "type" on rinky dink cell phone virtual keyboards!
> Sniff-test-wise, I find it hard to believe that gas stations (and other retailers) would offer a cash discount if cash was actually more expensive for them to handle than credit cards. It seems unlikely that they wouldn't have come up with that without at least some research to quantify their cash-handling costs.

Well said. I totally agree, and I can't imagine any basis in reality for cash handling costing retailers 4.7% (much less 15.3%). Sure, cashiers need to handle change, but that's not a big cost compared to turnover for most businesses.
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By definition the undefined memory behavior is only in the undefined parts of the spec modulo bugs. The spec is written against an abstract virtual machine and C was one of the first to pioneer such a concept and why it was so successful at getting ported everywhere.
I spend around $20 a month on my personal AWS account, and the level of support I've received on the handful of occasions I've needed it has been phenomenal.

I'n guessing that's because AWS support engineers live in eternal fear of ending up on a PIP if I rate them less than 5 stars.
Yeah you're right, that last part was pretty unnecessary.
This vim plugin is the best way to write Markdown documents. It has a lot of features:

Cross platform (MacOS/Linux/Windows)
Synchronised scrolling
Fast asynchronous updates
KaTeX for typesetting of math
PlantUML
Mermaid
Chart.js
js-sequence-diagrams
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(by my reading) the problem is that determining what the C ABI is relies on a C parser. If a module depends on an API, genksyms checks if the ABI has changed and won't load the module as a result (or more broadly, it could also use content addressing to look at the body of the function).

It seems like the solution is to use DWARF info to determine that but it has to be backwards compatible because previous implementations relied on the parsed C code and not the DWARF symbol info.
2024 is truly shaping up to be the year of Palm OS on the desktop :)
How does it work? I want to know how it works!!!
AFAIU the asahi rust gpu driver is shipping in asahi but not upstreamed yet

(torvalds/linux.git doesn’t have drivers/gpu/drm/asahi)
> It's more accurate to say that his ideas were dangerous and fringe and unsupported by the science. And while he was derelict in the science, he was very active promoting his opposition to lock downs to the White House and to conservative media.

I may have misunderstood your tone, but it sounds like you think it's a good reason to have a bad opinion of him as a person or a scientist, or even prevent his ideas from being heard? I wouldn't want to live in a society like that.

One of the main things that fuelled conspiracy theories the most were draconian measures against dissenting opinions which were perpetrated by social media platforms. Silencing wrong ideas by force damages trust in science much more than engaging with them, and gives these ideas much more credibility.
But the arena for that fight is legislation. Weed didn't become legal through lawsuits, it became legal because laws were repealed. I hope IA prevails but it's long shot, even more with the Heritage infestation of the courts.
> It needs a layer of quasi-stable well documented subsystem APIs

I think the Rust developers weren't even asking for that. They just want the C developers to sign up to some semantics. But the C developers know the function interface has evolved to be merely functional: it works, but with few invariants, riddled with caveats and few cross-function guarantees. It can't be hoisted into meaningful semantics, no less a type system, particularly across 10 filesystem API's.

Rust developers should focus on drivers in subsystems with stable API's, instead of trying to stabilize what decades of work has failed to.
applied science segment about this: https://youtu.be/KdfHVcU8U7U?t=1190
In the 80s, Sears was this sort of meandering store with no real identity that had some strong points (Craftsman) but had mostly mediocre clothing--they brought in Lands End but mis-managed. Were OK in appliances but big box vendors really out-competed them. And Walmart really outcompeted on discount.

I did shop at Sears at one point especially after I bought a house but they became increasingly uninteresting relative to alternatives.
Golang has also had these types for quite a long time
Source tweet: https://x.com/technerdteitzel/status/1838633746217439355?t=8...
https://archive.today/BWN5v
Absolutely. It is probably the best existing example of the classic department store (not discount store like WalMart or the current version of Macy's) that is basically already gone in the US.
He doesn’t want to click on the wrong thing while watching a video or browsing around outside and accidentally get click jacked. A little bit of JavaScript in an advertisement could cause this to happen. Without an active session cookie, none of your drive files can be jacked.
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Wow, this is absolutely deviously simple, and drop-dead obvious in hindsight. Unless this person is copying someone else without knowing it, this little blog post is the most important LLM paper to come out in months! Assuming I understood it properly, ofc.

Some random musings off the top of my head on quantitative analysis of tokenized text:

1. Could you enhance this by generating piecemeal summaries and comparing those to find chunks? Presumably it would decrease noise.

2. If we’re dealing with graphable data, can’t we just apply some old-school clustering algorithms to it? Say, KNN?

3. Idk if this is implied or not already these days, but can you filter out incidental words before tokenizing to get a cleaner analysis? I.e. take out the prepositions to better highlight the unique words for each chunk?
Totally unrelated comment to my previous one

I think it's folly to encode the semantics of APIs in the Rust type system and memory model and that's the impedance mismatch that has people riled up. unsafe code isn't incorrect code, and trying to add abstraction where there wasn't one before is encoding principles where they didn't previously exist and should be an obvious problem.

I've written a lot of systems-type Rust using unsafe and I think the design pattern of -sys bindings and then a higher level safe wrapper is mostly incorrect because callers should always use the -sys bindings directly. It's more workable and doesn't suffer from changes that the detractors complain about.
Perhaps Bill Gates could put his millions of acres of land he owns to build out insane solar farms..
it looks like they are using mpg123 for the actual mp3 decoding
Raylib is really good
At least Community Notes help a bit by exposing their scams.
Any site that consists of static files served by a professional-grade web server like nginx on a small VPS can also trivially do that.
They also sell apps on AppStore (with in-app purchases), Switch and Steam. So I think that they do.
The results are useful in engineering, but the fact that the results are useful does not mean that a class that teaches just the results is a science class.

You don't have to include the boring bits of who paid for the research or the day to day lives of the researchers. That isn't science, and it doesn't help the student understand science. A mere description of the fact that Tycho Brahe kept meticulous records of the positions of the planets in the sky and a walkthrough of the math that shows this data matches elliptical orbits and the math that shows that Newton's laws lead to those elliptical orbits is sufficient. The fact that there is a discrepancy for Mercury motivates further developments.
https://archive.ph/sBBCh
If you're hosting static data, shouldn't HTTP cache flags be enough in most cases? Read-only cacheable data shouldn't be toppling even a modest server. Even without an explicit CDN, various nodes along the chain will be caching it.

(though I confess it's been some years since I've worked in this area)
Yeah but this becomes very, very relevant for larger corpuses. It’s not just about pulling the right sized snippet in the end (really that could be done by an intermediate LLM call…), it’s also about supporting effective vector similarity searches to find the right snippet in the first place.

If you’re embedding all five pages into a single vector, and only two of them are relevant to your query, that makes the search much less effective. AFAIU.
> There is nothing wrong with the LLMs, you just have to double-check everything.

That does not seem very helpful. I don't spend a lot of time verifying each and every X509 cert my browser uses, because I know other people have spent a lot of time doing that already.
I don’t think it has been mentioned here, but dot big bang is pretty cool and suitable for young game dev-curious kids.

It has a fairly easy learning experience if you want to do very basic things, but opens up into an impressively capable editor if you want it to.

I worked on it for a year and the team behind it is awesome. Great people who are passionate about what they’re doing, care a lot about the kids using the platform (making it kid-friendly matters a huge amount), and put a lot of effort into making it genuinely fun first (rather than chasing trends for example).

Not sure how it compares to other options but it’s worth checking it out. I often wish I still worked on it.
The trademark argument is a smokescreen. Just watch Matt’s video—he clearly uses the word “contribute” in the context of source code.

Additionally, you’re required to defend your trademark to maintain your rights. So why is this issue surfacing now, after 14 years of inaction?
I would argue that if you have an MMU, you aren't really "embedded" anymore. An RPi isn't "embedded". However, you may still be doing systems programming.
In Europe, sure. In the US, not so much. Unless you want to make the argument that the fees charged in the US are effectively subsidizing European cardholders and merchants who enjoy a legally-mandated lower fee, Visa seems feel the European market is worth it even with their lower profit margins.

And even if you did want to make that argument, I'm not sure I care to subsidize Visa's profit margins in other places; capping fees in the US to a similar level as in Europe would be fine with me.

(Except maybe not really: I do very well with rewards from credit cards. Mandated lower fees would make those disappear overnight. Of course I can't prove that I wouldn't still be saving more money with mandated lower fees, though. But I think the average person would probably save with capped fees, and that's what's most important from a policy perspective.)

(Of course this presupposes that merchants set prices in order to pass along CC fees to the customer, rather than just charging whatever highest price the market will bear. If CC fees get reduced, prices might stay the same.)
At least Ted Tso has clarified his position greatly from what initially read as “I refuse to learn rust”. Instead yes asking for a guide to help him understand the Rust:

> There is a need for documentation and tutorials on how to write filesystem code in idiomatic Rust. He said that he has a lot to learn; he is willing to do that, but needs help on what to learn.
I started blocking advertisers on Twitter whenever I saw an ad since Musk took over. They gradually made the blocking experience related to advertiser accounts harder. First, they started showing “upgrade to ad-free” popups when you blocked an advertiser through an ad’s context menu. Then, they removed block option from the context menu of tweets. (They later put it back under a sub menu). And finally now, they’re getting rid of the feature.

I think they are trying to address the concerns of advertisers about constantly getting blocked causing their reach to diminish. Twitter revenue has gone down 80+% since Musk’s takeover. I don’t know, maybe, not saying “go fuck yourselves” to the advertisers might have helped more, but he do him.
Not to compare but i realice this is something you can do with rust with few lines

https://github.com/actix/actix-web/tree/master/actix-http
https://archive.is/m7ELA
Yes, violins are the largest section in the orchestra to balance the sound of louder instruments like brass and to create a rich, full texture in the music.
This really is a bad look for Automattic, they're only doing this out of spite. They had no problem having WP Engine as a sponsor of WordCampUS (https://us.wordcamp.org/2024/sponsor/wp-engine/).

It's like Matt has lost his mind. Certainly makes me not want to support WordPress any more.
On the one hand... OK great for consumption.

On the other... Wouldn't this lead to terrible choices in font selection for anyone NOT using these settings?