skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thought this was going to be about and-not-ing bytes with 0x20. Wrong for most inputs but sure as hell faster than anything else.
If you are don't know anything about cars but suddenly would need a one, would you go to the nearest car dealer you heard about from somewhere or immediately go to the specific resources where you can find a specific model and make you need at a better price?
No, SBF would have continued to take ridiculous risks with customer assets, and eventually it all still would have collapsed.

Don't look at this as validation of SBF's methods. This was luck. And there still isn't enough to make customers whole. For customers who deposited Bitcoin, for example, they're now still a lot worse off than if they'd held onto the coins themselves. Sure, they're getting back the cash value of their Bitcoin from several years ago (plus interest), but if they got the Bitcoins back, they'd have significantly more.
https://archive.is/KW4dZ
As a former physicist (PhD in Experimental condensed matter physics), I have to ask WTF?

I get the importance of AI development, but Physics?
Nobel Prize goes to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton work on machine learning
The UX failures of desktopOS-on-tablet
Reacting to a recent post here that pushed people to wish for MacOS on iPad. A fascinating part of Arno Gourdol's memories about designing PenMac is that he and his team ended up clearly understanding that adapting a desktop OS to a tablet computer caused severe issues and subpar UX.

Yet, 10 years later, Microsoft tried the exact same thing with Tablet PC, and failed. They didn't knew about the internal PenMac UX designers struggles, probably, but they were also blind to the failure of 1992 Microsoft own attempt of bolting pen computing on top of Windows 3.1 : "Microsoft Windows 3.1 for Pen Computing 1.0"

https://www.arno.org/penmac
What bizarre choice. Hinton’s work has nothing to do with physics.

Nobel prize jumping on the bandwagon, just like they did for mRNA after covid. At least that was related to medicine.

The first 2 paragraphs of the linked pdf read like a joke. Like it’s a parody announcement.
> My best guess is that we'll find out that a few food additives that became popular 50 years ago upset the intestinal microbiome in a way that promotes obesity.

I bet it's mostly just sugars. That and plain overconsumption and lack of exercise. Excacerbated by societal shifts that mean people don't get shamed into behaving better as much as they used to be. Trying to blame evil chemicals for making you fat is just a cope for those that don't want to take any responsibility for their unhealthy lifestyle - even if there are additives that "promote obesity" it's going to be a relatively minor effect compared to the basic energy in vs. energy out balance.
Not as much experience as you, but do people really care about what the domain name is as long as it does not look obviously scammy? People click links or CTAs but would rarely actually type the domain. Agree it's important to move business away from the big platforms. I know lots of brands are moving their product away from marketplaces.
Most people's expectations of what a "basic website" should do have gone way up over time.

Even as a programmer, I've fallen into the static site generator trap a few times.

It's annoying to start a side project with a static site generator and then realise I want to add a small feature and suddenly I wish I'd just started with a simple Rails or PHP app.

Nowadays, if I want a static site I just start with a folder of html files.
It's way less complicated and quicker to go from idea -> execution without bike-shedding or procrastination on tools.

I'm pretty happy writing html and css manually though—I don't recommend it for everyone.

The other cool thing is if I then decide to "abort" to rails.. I can copy the folder of html files into the rails public/ folder.. pretty easy upgrade path.
> There is still not a censuses as to the definition of a static website

Static website can be served by `cat index.html`
This is some low level criticism. Just because some one has successful parents it takes anything away from their accomplishments? I mean, it's always nice to root for the underdogs, I do too, but this Zeitgeist has just become childish.
Well, it couldn't run any real programs. ARM caught up now.
Yes, static websites are great! I'm using Jekyll with GitHub - it's 100% free. I agree, though, there is a learning curve.
https://domain-stories.com/thesis_com/
I had no idea about Linus’s pedigree. Thanks!
Show HN: AI Video Generator – Transform text and images into videos
update 2: should be working now (give it a second to fully load)
What?

A static website is a website that has no server side generation. That's how simple it is.
Unix and C are still there, and while on shallow level this can be more or less ignored, all abstractions end up to leak sooner than later.

Could the industry get rid of C and ridiculous esoteric abbreviation in identifiers, it could almost be a sane world to wander.
Of all the most popular editors, I think none of them had a way of offering diagnostics for vanilla HTML. The only exception that I know of is Webstorm.

Vim, Neovim, Helix, Zed, VSCode all shared the same basic implementation that has no diagnostics support.

Helix will have SuperHTML enabled by default starting from the next release: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/11609
Fiverr but Cofounding
For us who can't afford freelancers. People team up around startup ideas.

Each team is built around a card which shows what's the project about, who's on team, team roles and open positions. Onboarding new members is easy with live shared collaboration space.
It's one of the more wholesome communities on reddit.
Awesome.

> They trained artificial neural networks using physics

Here's from Nobel Prize official website: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/press-release...
The cases where you want platform-specific integer width (that is not something like size_t/uintptr_t) is extremely niche compared to cases where you want integer to have specific width.

I don't see the relation to fp16; I don't think anyone is pushing for `float` to refer to fp16 (or fp64 for that matter) anywhere. `long double` is already bad enough.
Sure! I found your email through your profile and will send you a message.

Just wondering if git is used to collaborate on hardware design? I've only seen projects share completed KiCad/PDF/BOM.
Right. That’s why I still get mail with my name mangled and my street name barely recognisable. Because I’m in the 1%. Too bad for me…

In all seriousness, though, in the real world ASCII works only for a subset of a handful of languages. The vast majority of the population does not read or write any English in their day to day lives. As far as end users are concerned, you should probably swap your percentages.

ASCII is mostly fine within your programs like the parser you mention in your other comment. But even then, it’s better if a Chinese user name does not break your reporting or logging systems or your parser, so it’s still a good idea to take Unicode seriously. Otherwise, anything that comes from a user or gets out of the program needs to behave.
You can then move it out of the dealer’s parking spot if you find a place cheaper.
The wording implies to me that Postgres is doing the padding for alignment to reduce IO costs which, as branko_d suggests, would do the opposite. You are reading it as the intervention of the DBA reordering columns to remove the padding will improve IO efficiency by fitting more rows into each page, which you are right would be beneficial in that way.

Postgres will be performing padding for alignment to improve processing speed once data is in local memory – CPUs are usually much faster at reading & writing aligned data⁰. This is trading off memory use and IO efficiency for CPU gain, which is the right optimisation if you assume that your core working set fits nicely into RAM and that your CPU(s) have large enough cache that you don't create the same problem there¹. Other DBs don't do this padding at all either because they didn't think of it or, more likely in the case of the big ones, because they are optimising more for IO than being concerned about CPU bottlenecks, or perhaps they natively rearrange the fields where it makes a difference instead of being beholden to the column ordering given by the user².

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[0] in fact some architectures don't directly support unaligned access at all, though probably not any architectures Postgres supports

[1] causing extra cache evictions if cache segment width aligns badly with the padding such that less data fits in the available cache

[2] if the user needs to care about physical ordering like this, you have a leaky abstraction
Of course "probably". I wasn't there. In all likelihood that's what he did say.
> this prof's ideas about engineering mechanical systems revolved around restricting the degrees of freedom as much as possible. A three legged table cannot wobble, but a four legged table can and usually does because it is overdetermined. In mechanical systems (for instance sensitive optical mechanics) reducing "wobble" is key. And the best way to reduce wobble is to make sure it cannot occur.

This is how I was taught mechanical engineering (France, 2000-2005) and not a Dutch in sight.
> Weird as it might be, it's not a great mystery why that is: it's easier to spin up a Wordpress blog than it is to figure out by yourself all the intermediate steps:

This doesn't explain the difference, why would you have to figure it out yourself is some other company could just as well sell all those services, just with an SSG?
I don't know if this is a travesty that they awarded the prize to work on non-physical systems to jump on a bandwagon or that there was nothing else obvious enough to the board in actual physics to give this to.

If I was the awardee I'd consider declining just out of respect to the field.
I thought that was what FOSS was all about having all those people in their Internet coffee shops using Termux under DEX to compile their real programs.
> I don't know where the writer writes from (don't care to look it up).

didn't care to read the article either but provided a dismissive TLDR. The article mentions they are from the Netherlands.

>in the UK there are companies were you can outsource (at little cost) most of your admin stuff, and/or you can also mark them as the 'HQ' of your company, using their address instead of yours.

for a minimimal update on an app you finished 11 years ago that probbably isn't making money? No thanks. I think it's important to remember that this isn't some active business, but a hobbyist that made something at a completely different phase of life.

>DUNS: I remember when I created an app for Apple Store, they were requesting the same. I did it. It took me 10mins, nothing to see here, move on.

Also in the article. Feel free to correct me since you're closer, but apparerntly the Netherlands needs to pay to find the DUNS number that was already registered to the CoC.

>Doing business has costs.\

They aren't a business past adding migration updates to an old app. Yes, it is a big deal to give a private middleman your passport and let them post your address/phone number to the world. It's absurd to get on a high horse to a single dev, especially in a community that I thought valued privacy.
> 0.45% of the nuclear waste

Do you mean that the Fukushima nuclear accident dumped locally in a few days 0.45% of all dumped nuclear waste during the last ~80 years?"?
If so it seems non-negligible to me.

> 20 years earlier (nothing on tectonic timescales) this wouldn't be up to much discussion

Not sure about this. Maybe ~50 years ago, and even so the accident at Three Mile Island (1979) didn't pollute much but triggered quite a bunch of discussions.

> would you spend it all on this?

Yes, because there is no other realistic way: it is about losing citizens' trust and having to cope with other nations' claims, whatever the real risk.
Associations of women were created to periodically measure radioactivity in various areas! In Japan! No government exposed to such distrust can decide to ignore it. A stain was made, it has to be cleaned.
"This year’s laureates used tools from physics to construct methods that helped lay the foundation for today’s powerful machine learning."

Does this mean if I'd use a deep understanding of birds to design way more aerodynamic airplanes, I could get the Nobel prize in physiology/medicine? Don't get me wrong, their work is probably prize worthy, but shouldn't the Nobel prize in physics be awarded for discoveries in the _physical world_?
The Iron Dome was easily overwhelmed with the ~200 ballistic rockets fired by Iran recently, many of which hit the military bases they were targeting. So it I think the point stands.
I leaved my last company because they dumped 10 to 15 15v bateries every day to the rubish.

There are laws against that. Impossible to enforce.
I suppose they meant that only a few people, who are professional software engineers, can afford the second option.
Sweden Yes!
I'm equally as confused; huge WTF moment. Seems like a paradigm breakthrough, in that Nobel Prizes can be given for discoveries in tangential fields. Or perhaps it's due to Dr. Hopfields physicist status, that all his discoveries are considered physics related? Or that NNs are considered a part of physics / nature?
Physics Nobel prize now also covers computer science, I guess.
nor was there a question. This was just an odd comparison framed as curiosity.
None at all. The alignment is for cheap and easy access of data once it is in memory. It's probably rooted in PostgreSQL being written in C where aligned access is trivial, and dereference of an unaligned pointer is Undefined Behavior and requires more clunky code instead.
I wrote IDEs not editors, and I am quite sure that the years doing ASP.NET and Java EE/Spring development I had enough HTML diagnostics to fix since 2001.
and if some mad billionare decides that a planetary ring is what they want,a grand gesture if you will,then the technical challenge is not that big
chaff and a delivery/dispersal mechanism launched
from an equatorial mountain
dispersal is just another burn on a stabil orbit
from an outsider's perspective, this has been some of the most fun hacker news comment chains ive seen for a good long while keep it up, if you can consistently come up with such entertainingly divisive stuff as this you'll go far, i'm sure.
> Static site generators are used by technologists who want to tinker and check all the boxes in whatever Chrome's latest devtool benchmark tool is called

No? Downloading Hugo, getting a random theme and writing a few articles is pretty simple and requires no more tinkering than doing the same with a Wordpress (okay, one's actions are big buttons in a UI, the other is copy pasting commands, but in terms of effort, there's barely any difference).

I use Hugo because it's light and allows me to have a blog running for free and scale to infinity (I have at least two articles that sat high up on the front page of HN, and there was neither a hug of death nor a bill associated), with zero maintenance, while also having flexibility if I need it. I haven't even checked my score on Google's whatever and I don't care about it.

As for WordPress, none of what you described can be had for free, and it requires ongoing maintenance (updates to keep up with the crappy ecosystem).
I find almost all B2B SaaS solutions really bad to handle payments (even when they use Stripe).
There was a really good Thunderbirds game for its time on the inferior Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k. I was amazed all those years ago by its puzzle gameplay design. You can play it here.

https://archive.org/details/zx_Thunderbirds_1985_Firebird_So...

Edit : to set up controls since it's not noted on that page, you'll need to press R ( Redefine keys! ) and that'll get you started!

How to play : you swap between thunderbird 1 and 2 each ship by pressing spacebar ( default ) or whatever you configured it to. You'll notice the ship selected in the bottom left corner of the screen.
The linked document connects their work to physics as follows:

"The Hopfeld network utilises physics
that describes a material’s characteristics due to its
atomic spin – a property that makes each atom a tiny
magnet. The network as a whole is described in a
manner equivalent to the energy in the spin system
found in physics, and is trained by fnding values for
the connections between the nodes so that the saved
images have low energy"

"Hinton used tools from statistical physics, the science
of systems built from many similar components."
Well, the only time you can do str lower where unicode locale awareness will be a problem is when you do it on the user input, like names.

How about you just dont? If it's a constant in your code, you probably use ASCII anyway or can do a static mapping. If it's user user input -- just don't str lower / str upper it.
> Converting one Unicode string to another is a purely in-memory, in-CPU operation.

...but it's a complex operation. This is what libICU is mostly for. You can't just look-up a single table and convert a string to another like you work on ASCII table or any other simple encoding.

Germans have their ß to S (or capital ß depending on the year), Turkish has ı/I and i/İ pairs, and tons of other languages have other rules.

Esp, this I/ı and İ/i pairs break tons of applications in very unexpected ways. I don't remember how many bugs I reported, and how many workarounds I have implemented in my systems.

Adding a type is nice, but the surrounding machinery is so big, it brings tons of work with itself. Unicode is such a complicated system, that I read that even you need two UTF-16 characters (4 bytes in total) to encode a single character. This is insane (as in complexity, I guess they have their reasons).
Everything in the universe is a tool from physics - taps head smugly.
>I think you are under the impression that if a company files for bankruptcy they can discharge debts they owe to the government.

No impressions here, surely you realize that if a company has no money, they won't get money just because the government demands it.

>Here's a link to a story that BP paid more than $60 BN for the cleanup related to the Deepwater Horizon spill [1].

But BP has lots of money. Nuclear operators don't.
Equally serious answer: yes, if it doesn't break backwards compatibilty between the updates.

This is what the Rust project means by stable. You can update and your code will continue building. (There's a bunch of documented caveats though.) Rust has been stable in this sense since 1.0, almost ten years.

Of course, you might have different semantics for "stable". Some seem to mean "rarely updating" or "each update is small" by that. In the latter sense, too, Rust has becoming stabler over the last few years.

In the "rarely updating" sense, Rust is not going to change course. Frequent, time-based releases have demonstrably made the progress smoother, and in a sense, "stabler", as in, more predictable and bug-free.
Physicist here. I'm sure Hinton deserves some sort of prize, but in Physics is really bizarre.
> So, am I to understand that prime beach real estate is to be taxed the same as a plot in a desert or swamp?

Why would that be the case? A beachfront plot would likely have a higher value than a plot in a desert or swamp, so the tax levied on the beachfront plot’s value would, of course, be higher. It’s a tax on the land’s value, not a tax on the size of the plot.
Thats what I expect a static site to be too. Along with preferably as little js as reasonable.
I have iPad 2 Retina. Screen still is great, battery allow for hours of playing, but it stays at iOS 12. Even Github doesn't work correctly there, because we moved onto super-extra-required-new-crazy-stuff in JS area.
It's so trashy for me I gave it for 2-year-old on the trip and she pushed the home button so hard it's not working anymore, but iOS 12 allowed to just swipe from bottom, so device is still ok.

The only thing I can do with it is to throw it away, because Apple in Poland redirects to some garbage collecting company and even in US the device is worth 0$. I think materials and working Retina screen is worth much more than nothing. Great quality build, great hardware set, 64G memory. Much better than current models. But it still is a trash and waste for planet :( Sad.
I think this is the Royal Academy of Sciences way to admit that Physics as a research subject has ground to a halt. String theory suffocated theoretical high energy physics for nearly half a century with nothing to show for it, and a lot of other areas of fundamental physics are kind of done.
I also had the toys in the 90s and possibly attempted the blue Peter make of the fortress. I even had a duvet cover and lunchbox. These things were of course bought by my parents who watched the show in their childhoods. In turn my kid loves sonic and I have bought him hats and jumpers etc.

I think these revivals intentionally capitalise on nostalgia.
They’d either don’t know what it is or, if they’d know, they’d have some reason to.

In any case, if there is embarrassment, it’d be on them :)
Generation Never-Called-in-Sick
I would say a static website is just one that doesn't do any extra work on the client to generate the content. Either SSR or just plain HTML files
I worked with Danfuzz on ScriptX at Kaleida Labs from 1993-1996. Yes, he's a great programmer!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40417009

>Kaleida Labs (a joint venture of Apple and IBM) developed ScriptX, which was a cousin of Dylan: a lisp-like language with a "normal" syntax without all the parens, with a CLOS-like (without all the MOOP stuff) object system with generic dispatch, multiple inheritance, proxies, and a "Bento" persistence system (from OpenDoc), and container and multimedia libraries that leaned heavily into multiple inheritance. (You'd typically mix arrays or dicts into your collections of other kinds of objects. So you could directly loop over, filter, and collect your custom classes.)

>Its parser was a separate layer from its compiler, so Dan Bornstein (one of the ScriptX designers who later made Dalvik for Android) write a Scheme parser front end for it.

>ScriptX influenced MaxScript, the scripting language in 3D Studio Max, which was written by one of the ScriptX designers, John Wainwright. Other Kaleidan Lisp hackers include Shell Kaplan (Employee #1 at Amazon) and Eric Benson (who worked on Lucid Emacs), both went to Amazon and did a lot of Lisp and Lisp inspired stuff there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScriptX

He scanned the letter about the "Bruce Font" -- The Artist Formerly Known as Prince's own font distributed around the "CDROM Industry" on a floppy disk in 1993 by his PR company "Graphix Zone":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821030

>Funny, I thought the symbol for The Artist Formerly Known As Prince was informally pronounced and spelled "BRUCE", which is less cumbersome to speak and spell than the official alternative (which is unspeakable unspellable silence).
His PR company sent this memorandum around to the press and industry, including step-by-step downloading, installation, and usage instructions for Macintosh and PC, of a special [BRUCE] font with just one unpronounceable [BRUCE] symbol, to be used when referring to The Artist in print. I guess Weird Al didn't get the memo.

https://milk.com/wall-o-shame/bruce_font.html

>Why, the ``Bruce'' font? Because someone jokingly suggested that because it was way too cumbersome to say, ``that symbol guy'' or whatever, it'd be much easier to give the symbol a name, and that name should be ``Bruce.'' So there.

Somebody finally dug up a copy of the floppy:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/princes-legendary-fl...

https://web.archive.org/web/20160605114246/https://www.anild...

https://x.com/anildash/status/481211515630936067

https://hackaday.com/2021/11/23/cracking-open-the-prince-flo...