skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People somehow forgot the ether epidemic in some parts of Europe at the turn of the 20th century.
Obviously it’s going to vary from program to program. And you always have to be skeptical that removing the safety for performance hasn’t given you a faster but faulty program.

That being said, my intuition matches what little anecdotal data I’ve seen from real perf-sensitive systems, and I’d ballpark 10-15% where it matters.
Depends a lot on the application. For many it matters little, but for some (mostly numerical), it can matter a lot.
Always reconsider the process itself before you automate it. Human based processes are different than computer based ones. Trying to directly emulate human actions is what can make automation fragile.
Again, my complaint isn't the pay. My complaint is the automation.

They can fight for a huge raise! That's good, because it will make it very profitable to just automate things.

Of course they know this and that's why they wanna ban automation
Using lix change control to plot changes over time is a neat idea!
Too big to fail, too big to bail!
Yes, it's outdated. Thanks for the feedback. 4o-mini is the new king for sure!
I took it to mean the speed of the product, not developer velocity.
can you expand on what honour based abuse means?
Can wikis on weird gloop use their own domain names? I feel like that is the best way to ensure that they can leave and that the host can't keep a zombie version of the wiki that hogs Google search position.
The Endless Downfall of a Crypto Power Couple
This definitely resonates with me as an EM at a fast moving startup. I would much rather have a mediocre product that addresses a real need than a perfect product nobody needs. That means my PMs generally need to focus more on understanding the users and the market (and getting everyone on the same page for that vision), not the implementation details.

Our PMs quickly sort issues into very broad priority buckets to save time, and engineering picks work according to those. If the PM on my team is spending 10 hours a week prioritizing issues that's 10 hours of user research, competitive research, and user acceptance testing we're missing.
As usual the typical argument that if it doesn't cover 100% of everything it isn't good enough.

There are plenty of use cases where NativeAOT works perfectly fine, and is getting better with each .NET release.
Nice! What about integrations with Google sheets?
Hi, Dave here.

I recommend using a small box running LibreQoS adjacent to the big router. Large-scale routers based on Application-Specific ICs do a wonderful job, but are hard to change. Having a transparent fix in an inexpensive device now is way better than waiting and hoping that the router vendor can update their ASICs (:-))

I emphasised your problem in a video about the article, at https://vimeo.com/1017926413
The comment I was responding to was criticizing the idea of having to provide hosting support for other CMS's.

That fact that you constantly have to upgrade Kirby and pay new licensing fees (and bill your customers for this) because no web host wants to support an old version of PHP...betrays the idea that Kirby is a way out of this. Sure it doesn't have a database to hassle with like Wordpress so it's better in that regard. But it's still objectively worse than any cloud platform.

If you're on a cloud subscription platform you're completely hands off (no upgrades necessary) and the client now has permanent support from said subscription they're paying for. It's fundamentally a better model than dumping websites on clients and letting them slowly rot away while they forget how to do anything with them.
yep, have to pay the toll trolls.
> [This post] (and many others) have done a much better job than I could, explaining from a reader’s perspective why Fandom is bad place to host a wiki,

The linked post (at j3s.sh) appears blank to me, so if others have the same problem here’s an archive link: https://archive.ph/kwt1b
LLMs Are the CPUs of the AI Era
https://archive.ph/iNh0b
Because 1) it's standardized beyond local / state political footprint, and

2) it's measuring basic availability of resources like water, electricity, natural gas, but also availability of food items like eggs, meat, bread. Plus labor.

And 3) in extreme cases, whether the (relatively uniform) building still stands and is occupied/usable.
Also, the site is really slow. The only thing that the site manages to turn on is the computer fans.
Absolutely, me too. They push hard for the phone because many of the sales tactics don't work with email because they're based on non-verbal cues and subtle detection/exploitation. For example, many salespeople are trained to closely watch the person's face and identify what lands and what doesn't and dynamically adapt.

They also want to be able to pressure you for "next steps" or the "follow up" meeting.

I get it, a call can be a lot more efficient for a discussion. There are certainly legitimate reasons to prefer a call to an email. But it reminds me a lot of big tech companies seizing to things like "security" as an ~excuse~ justification for doing things that benefit them. I know the motives aren't pure, and that bothers me.
Fandom is one of my least favorite things now. The site ends up having more ads than the average porn or piracy website, it manages to slow down my relatively beefy laptops without even trying.

I love the idea of fan wikis, but Fandom is basically the worst possible implementation of that idea.
The hackers are pretty openly anti-Zionist script kiddies.
I hate the OSI model too, but a 240-page book with 137 references? To complain that a model from the 80s isn't the right fit 40 years later? This isn't a paper, it's a rant.
Depending on where you live small local banks still exist. Although some merging processes are definitely happening, in my area.
> To most people FP is just a bunch of functional patterns like map, reduce, filter, etc.

For me, these were the gateway drugs to FP, because they weren't available in the languages I was used to, namely C++ and Java. I encountered map and filter in Python in the 1990s, immediately realized a ton of Java and C++ code I wrote would be simpler with them, and dove into Lisp when I found out that's where Python got them. They have nothing to do with pure functional programming, of course; they're just nice idioms that came from functional languages. That led to a long slippery slope of ideas that upgraded my non-FP programming at every step, long before I got into anything that could be described as pure FP.

I don't know if it helps to draw a strict line between "pure" and "impure" FP. I mostly code in Scala, which is an imperative, side-effecting language. Scala gives you exactly the same power as Java to read and mutate global state. However, by design, Scala provides extremely good support for functional idioms, and you can use an effects system (such as Cats Effect or ZIO) to write in a pure FP style. But is it "pure FP" if you can read and mutate global state, and if you have to rely on libraries that are written in Java? Maybe, maybe not, but I don't think trying to answer that question yields much insight.
Hard to tell honestly. I just chose to fill in the blanks in a way that made for the strongest argument.

I mean a Nobel prize category for advances in computing makes a lot of sense and I can easily name a whole list of people who could qualify. We'll need to be quick if we don't want to award some of them posthumously though.
LLM Evaluation Guidebook
There are not that many trust fund kids and I don't care if they blow their family fortune on something stupid. It's their money, it's not like spending it makes ME worse off.

But high shipping costs? That causes INFLATION. It's a cost they ask all of us to pay, unnecessarily, since they have blocked automation.
Windows 11's new passkey design includes cloud syncing and 1Password integration
It should, mainly because an email is not just an email, it's a channel to reach otu to you, your internet address. And we know how that is going in your inbox.
>So there's no fundamental difference between WASM and JVM bytecode. There's only practical difference: WASM proved to be secure and JVM did not.

There's more to it than just the sandbox security model. The JVM bytecode doesn't have pointers which has significant performance ramifications for any language with native pointers. This limitation was one of the reasons why the JVM was never a serious compilation target platform for low-level languages like C/C++.

E.g. Adobe compiled their Photoshop C++ code to WASM but not to the JVM to run in a Java JRE nor the Java web applet. Sure, one can twist a Java byte array to act as a flat address space and then "emulate" pointers to C/C++ but this extra layer of indirection which reduces performance wasn't something software companies with C/C++ codebases were interested in. Even though the JVM was advertised as "WORA Write-Once-Run-Anywhere", commercial software companies never deployed their C/C++ apps to the JVM.

In contrast, the motivation for asm.js (predecessor to WASM) was to act as a reasonable and realistic compilation target for C/C++. (https://blog.mozilla.org/luke/2013/03/21/asm-js-in-firefox-n....)

So the WASM-vs-JVM story can't be simplified to "just security" or "just politics". There were actual different technical choices made in the WASM bytecode architecture to enable lower-level languages like C/C++. That's not to say the Sun Java team's technical choices for the JVM bytecode were "wrong"; they just used different assumptions for a different world.
Depends, how much from unstable Rust ends up in Rust during the next 30 years, to match where C++ is today after 40 years of production deployments across the industry.
Variants of that is older than Rostand [1]

> To sate the lust of power; more horrid still, The foulest stain and scandal of our nature Became its boast — One Murder made a Villain, Millions a Hero. — Princes were privileg’d To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Ah! why will Kings forget that they are Men?

-- Beilby Porteus (1759)

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/21/death-statistic/
> Do I also need to say "can eat with cutlery"?

Only if it’s a core part of the job (it wasn’t in our case, we were fine if the candidate eats with their hands).

You're right, we will absolutely filter out a lot of good people. We aren’t trying to find the best, and it’s not obvious that if we did read through every application in detail that it would result in a better outcome, because it would take significantly longer and good applicants will have had other offers by then.
That seems quite doable but it would require a backend to store the OAuth
At least be intellectually honest here

Ads might suck a lot, but you are also not entitled to free content.
Thanks. Another consideration that favors Rust, at least for game engines, is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41793725
Hi! You may be pleased to hear that this is an active area of development, in fact there is currently a testing project for Podman on FreeBSD, you can find out more here https://github.com/oci-playground/freebsd-podman-testing
> Every developer doing serious work will trip over every available language feature eventually.

Steve Klabnik:

“Just to provide another perspective: if you can write the programs you want to write, then all is good. You don't have to use every single tool in the standard library.

I co-authored the Rust book. I have twelve years experience writing Rust code, and just over thirty years of experience writing software. I have written a macro_rules macro exactly one time, and that was 95% taking someone else's macro and modifying it. I have written one proc macro. I have used Box::leak once. I have never used Arc::downgrade. I've used Cow a handful of times.

Don't stress yourself out. You're doing fine.“

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1fofg43/i_am_struggli...
If you have the ability to write these comments on Hacker News, you probably have enough money to pay an artist $20 to draw something and donate it to the project.
As a measure of deterrence, carries with Hornets can be useful. They do make it more difficult and expensive for the Chinese to take Taiwan.

However, it's unrealistic for them to establish anything like air superiority over the Taiwan Straits. Each carrier has fewer than 100 aircraft, and only a couple can be deployed to the region at a time. The opposing PLAAF has over 2000 combat aircraft including hundreds of stealth planes.

For the US to be competitive such a contest they need planes that are qualitatively better than the Chinese ones by a huge margin. American advantages in stealth, missile range and avionics are essential just to stay in the game.
> What do you mean? Of course they will be taxing future transactions. Thats how we get congress with no empathy for people without a small loan of a million dollars.

A trust fund is FUNDED. They are spending money that someone else made for them.

High port costs, on the other hand, are paid for by consumers.
Use OpenAI Voice mode to practise for YC interview
Hi, I'm a non-native English speaker, and YC interviews are known for requiring quick and concise answers. This is a much bigger challenge for me than for native speakers. The best way to improve is, of course, practice. Thanks to OpenAI's real-time API, I can train anytime, knowing it's just AI. It's far more comfortable for me to make mistakes this way, and when properly prompted, the LLM can be quite critical. By default, it tends to be overly optimistic, calling every silly idea brilliant. I'd appreciate if you could try it out. This app was created in just one day over a weekend. The images are generated using Flux 1.1-pro. Regarding the OpenAI key, it's only on the frontend and isn't sent to our backend.
Currently, every wiki they host is on its own domain (besides the meta one)
To they can. See the Minecraft wiki for example: https://minecraft.wiki
RIP, as one says.

That being said, it always irks me when people worship "philantropic" billionaires. I'm sure he's done good things. But there are no ethical billionaires in capitalism. TATA is a giant corp with a lot of influence, I can't believe that they're a 'honest company which doesn't bribe, pays their taxes and are otherwise clean'.

Would probably be the first case of an ethical corporation/billionaire :)

Certainly cool that he helped stray dogs and people with cancer, but come on people, see through the corpo propaganda. Sounds the same to me as "[INSERT US BILLIONARE] has donated 5 milion dollars to [CUTE CAUSE], what a hero! (ignore the atrocious things done by their corps and themselves)."
Maybe you already do, but I've had this exact challenge in the past as well and what has worked best is to send them some SQL queries that do it the "right" way. Often times I think they just don't want to deal with the problem: it's hard, it's uncomfortable, and nobody "up the chain" will care about it. There's plenty of reason not to want to do it.

But giving them the query, or writing the migration for them, often takes care of both one and two. I've even seen this approach ignite a passion for query optimization as it "clicked" for them!
Coca-Cola still uses coca leaves in the production of its drink.

The Stepan Company plant in New Jersey is the only place in the USA authorized to import coca.

"Equality before the law" is unfortunately a farce in this country, if you didn't already know.
It gets a lot better with an ad blocker and other annoyance-blockers. The deeper question is whether or not you think it’s worth it. I think many people visit Fandom pages only briefly from a SERP and then take off, like Wikipedia but specific to a game. If that’s the way you use Fandom then it’s probably not worth it.

What makes it worth it is if there’s a page specific to a game you like and you spend a good amount of time there reading stuff. That’s a long tail thing though.
Show HN: Handle Batch Errors in Go
A tiny package that makes it somewhat more convenient to work with errors from batch processes where signatures don't allow custom return types.

I personally found it quite ergonomic, but would like to hear your feedback.
Important consideration, thank you.

Edit: Seems like someone has managed to get CUDA to work, with some effort.

https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/nvidia-gpu-passthrough-into-lin...
to fix the interrupt issue they could initially load a page with begnign information, and then load the help text afterwards
Coming soon to a specific, hand selected movie studio lot --- CyberCab rides.

Not to be confused with real CyberCab rides on real streets with real traffic and real paying customers --- which is likely years away and based on Musk's history will likely take much longer than whatever he says.

Just like FSD which has been promised to existing, paying customers for at least a decade. And it still requires the full attention of a real driver.
> Apparently, kids these days know little about the hardships of life.

Everyone's a kid to someone else. I remember being told some stories when my beard was already white and genuinely wondering if they were true or not just because my personal experience had stories that were just as crazy for someone just 10 years younger.
There's a big difference between secured and unsecured loans, subprime lending crises aside.
For a fee. In Australia at least it cost money not to be listed in the phone book.

Numbers were however tied to a property rather than individual personal phones in our pockets. When you think about it, mobile phone technology arrived quickly and caught everyone by surprise. Back in the 80s very few people thought we'd be carrying around "pocket TV phones" in such a short time.
It's not just uploads but any item that uses the email address as a unique user identifier (I'm not technical enough to explain this clearer but [1]).

An email address will be part of the xml in his uploads but also in his profile, which anyone can access by simply changing the url from https://archive.org/details/@foobar to https://archive.org/download/foobar. So, in essence, one just needs to have a registered account, independeltly any uploads made.

[1] https://help.archive.org/help/accounts-a-basic-guide-2/
Whenever my phone accidentally opens fandom with Chrome rather than Firefox mobile (with uBO), I wonder how the hell anybody browses the internet on their phone without an ad blocker...
Bring Me the Head of Arthropleura
Generating 8.4B nonwords to investigate uselessness
Oh wow, I realized it's turning 30 next year and my back just started hurting.
Hypothetically: If a friend with interest in this kind of logistics were to be looking for a job. Which company would one tell said friend to look at?
Many of these components have been made part of the ecosystem long after they were introduced in Firefox. Also, the more platform-specific you go for each component, the more you're going to introduce subtle incompatibilities between Firefox running on different versions of Windows or in Firefox for Windows vs. macOS vs. Linux. Also, for a very, very long time, Microsoft had an extremely poor record in terms of security fixes. So what happens when you rely on a Microsoft http library and Microsoft takes a year or two to release a 0-day?

There are benefits to this approach, of course, but the costs would have been consequential.
Thunderbird Android client is K-9 Mail reborn, and it's in solid beta
On of my _evil hidden agendas_ is making end-users aware that their ISP (Rogers, anyone?) is doing a terrible job, and someone like TekSavvy can solve their problems for them (;-))
I love some misconceptions about technology or the way of living in the 80s / 90s.

An anecdote I love is a young scholar asking his teacher:

Before you had internet, how did you access Wikipedia?
Solar storm could supercharge auroras across US, impact power grids
Couldn't the causality be reversed here? If you're powerful, people are compelled to lend to you. See the situation with government bonds.

So many "paradoxes" make perfect sense if you flip the causality.
I get it every year, possibly even stronger. The opening line still gives me chills every read-through:

> Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.
Yes sure, but the raise statement is part of the implementation (like throw in Java), and not part of the signature (throws), which would presumably make it into a generated API documentation.
The "fan" in "Fandom" means the fan in your computer.
I think it's a period thing rather than a country one. People are likely to say they owe "the bank" over here in the UK as well. Back in the 40s though your bank manager had a lot more leeway in the debts they'd underwrite, and presumably had more personal investment in any loans that were defaulted on because they'd personally signed off on them.
Show HN : ContribHub – Find and contribute to opensource projects you care about
Hello all,

For Hacktoberfest, I built ContribHub, a platform to help developers find open-source projects to contribute to. Whether you're a beginner just exploring open source or an experienced developer looking for new challenges, ContribHub aims to make the search process easier.

What sets it apart is that the results are randomized, giving every project a fair chance to be discovered. As someone who maintains an open-source project, I know how tough it can be to find contributors and reach the right audience. This helps smaller or less well-known projects get noticed, which is especially useful for maintainers who are struggling to grow their community.

Many developers also prefer contributing to new or early-stage projects, where they can be part of something from the beginning. That's why the star filter is useful — it helps you find projects at different stages of growth.

Let me know what you think :), I'll be improving it and adding more features to make it even easier for maintainers to get discovered and for developers to find projects that truly resonate with them.
There used to be much more personal relationships. So it was possible you had a banker a person you worked in with in the bank. Especially with a big bank. So certainly for them losing million might mean losing job, even if the bank itself was big enough to manage.
I spend a lot of my time researching live-action anime[0][1], and there's an important thing to learn from Japanese animators: sometimes an animation style may seem technically lacking, but visually stunning.

When animator Ken Arto was on the Trash Taste podcast he mentioned how Disney had the resources to perfect the animation, while in Japan they had to achieve more with less.

This basically shifts the "what is good animation" discussion in ways that are not as clear from looking at the stats.

[0] https://blog.nestful.app/p/ways-to-use-nestful-outlining-ani...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiyqBHNNSlo
Is this not restricted to company names deriving from personal names (or words that are perceived as such), though? For example, would you say “I bought this shirt at Target’s”?
As a British English speaker I would say "the bank". I think it's not so much a difference between 1940s English and modern English as between 1940s banking practices and today's (especially for the more well-to-do customer) -- it implies that you have a personal relationship with an individual person at the bank who knows you and manages your money for you, and that just isn't the way banks work these days, except perhaps for the mega-rich.
I 100% agree. Just pointing out that UBI changes the discourse on this subject.
I’m pretty sure that Lucene is exactly the same, the segments it creates are immutable and Elastic is what handles a “mutable” view of the data. Which makes sense because Tantivy is like Lucene, not ES.

https://lucene.apache.org/core/7_7_0/core/org/apache/lucene/...