skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My five-year-old Synology DS418play has support for hardware realtime transcoding via its integrated low-power GPU. I think I paid about $600 for it. You can get a new DS423+ for about the same price.
Pseudo-Intellectualism Ruined Journalism
Imagining faces in tree trunks and your morning eggs? AI can see them, too
When I started to learn programming (by myself), I had a really hard time understanding what foo and bar were and what they meant in various tutorials and blogs. I was already trying to learn the syntax and programming concepts, throwing some unknowns words in the mix did NOT help. For some time I thought foo had special meaning in PHP, or that it meant something in English (not my first language, and I was much less proficient in English at ~14 than I am today).

Using foo bar baz qux is lazy when you can easily find countless examples.
The Discovery feed is personalized and very reminiscent of the twitter feed.

The open protocol nature also means anyone can write any feed that works any way they want for anyone to use
> Now we need to watch hours of overproduced youtube videos,

But we don't. Plenty of people just ignore all that stuff, and there remains an impossibly vast volume of old and new content to consume in other forms. I've probably watched a total of 3 hours of Youtube since it launched, and I don't feel even a little bit less informed for that.

Would you really be worse off if you did something else with your time? Since you seem to prefer text, I'm sure there remain many stimulating blog posts (and books!) you haven't yet read.

If people find that sharing their little hobby efforts by video is easier or makes for better inspiration, it's not coming at some cost to you.

It's a different medium. Among both content creators and content consumers, some people prefer it, some don't.
Your compulsion to belittle strangers doesn't affect me one way or the other.

I do wonder why you don't feel embarrassed posting weak dunks like this under what is apparently your real name.
Fact remains but breaks manifesto:

'V. Strive for robustness'

Using http server to serve hard-wrapped txt.

That is just ornament.

True Brutalism would be unwrapped text.

This is just gimmick.
Headcount (2010)
Ingredients used in chewing gum help tilapia survive cold climates
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/MIME_types...

Common MIME types

This topic lists the most common MIME types with corresponding document types,
ordered by their common extensions.

The following two important MIME types are the default types:

text/plain is the default value for textual files. A textual file should be human-readable and must not contain binary data.
Changing the background color of the div id=content from chocolate(?) to white makes this 1000% more readable.
PS now that I've read it - great summary.
> The contract says the opposite – it states "you can use the trademark, but you have to forfeit your right to fork if you do"

Those mean the same thing. It's implicit in the offer existing that you can choose not take the offer, and so don't get the stuff in it.
Heads up that link to bar.com goes to an advertisement to sell the domain now.
> And, when a self-signed certificate is in use, the browser should show a prominent icon of self-configured security.

..and there should of course be a way to disable that prominent icon of self-configured security.

Because Firefox, unlike most software, is designed to be a user agent.

While it may be natural for Google, for example, to constantly nag Chrome users for non-standard behaviour, Mozilla should not do the same with Firefox.
You’re judged by the company you keep
I wouldn't count anything under 40 MPA as "high strength concrete" at all. Thats where high strength concrete starts for me. High strength concrete mixes can go up to 180-200 MPA although thats some crazy specialty stuff for very niche uses.

25 mpa concrete is "i'm doing my driveway" concrete or "I bought a bag at home depot" concrete not high strength concrete.
> due to the societal expectations historically placed on women

This reads like aliens trying (and failing) to figure out why women act more like women than men do.
I know no one will believe this but I'm reasonably sure I proved P!=NP earlier this week.

It was very similar to a previous unsolved problem in a "haha, history repeats itself" sort of way.

This comment might have a lot more comments someday.
Maybe we should abandon HTTP and create a new protocol just for humans. HHTTP.
Oh, thanks for the correction. I did misinterpret.

Illustrates language is hard for human too, hah.

Anyway, the "next iteration solves it" effect is definitely a result of common problems leaking. But it could also be a result of LLM being universal but not efficiently-universal problem solvers and people tending to choose the simplest problem that can't be solved (such theories seem illustrative).

Also, your river-crossing problems seem quite useful.
There is; the degree of complexity varies, from minimal[1], through less minimal[2], to very complex[3] and anything in between.

[1]: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com

[2]: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com

[3]: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/examples/product/
The Sense of the Self (1996)
Boeing is a cautionary tale about current American manufacturing
I gladly admit that I was making an appeal to emotional intelligence and you won't likely agree with me no matter what back and forth we go through.
When forced to provide answers to dumb “security questions”, I will typically use a password manager to both generate a random “answer” and to store the question-answer pairs. I generate new strings for each site that asks the same dumb question.

For sites that demand to know my birthday when all they really need is a boolean declaration of adulthood I use 1 January 1901. (I’ll admit that when I first started this practice I used 1 April 1901).
Wonderful story. Well done.
I don't believe you, but you can always prove me wrong and share your proof.
Combining Philosophies (2023)
How often and can you give some examples in recent history?
Can you elaborate on that? My goal was to be as clear as possible and leave minimal room for misinterpretation.
You compared a tourist VISA with an immigration VISA?

It’s comparing apples with…an olive tree?

US immigration process - among the countries one would care to immigrate to, of course - is much better designed than most countries. In fact, there are very clear paths one can follow, with very clear steps. Not everyone can qualify, sure, but it’s not complicated or bad. There may be complicated paths for those who don’t readily qualify but immigration lawyers think they can make a case, which is pretty much unheard of for other countries. They simply have no one to even process an out-of-band case.

I asked to reschedule a citizenship appointment because I had COVID and they had specifically instructed to do so in the case of COVID. My wife said my case would fall through the cracks, and that I would never get an appointment. 2 phone calls - actual person looking into my case on the phone, much better experience than most bank call centers - and I got a new appointment.

One gripe I had with the US greencard process was when they asked me to submit my vaccination records from 90s. I thought it was simply an impossible ask, and that was the end of that process for me. It would’ve been nice if they lead with “get these vaccinations OR bring proof of vaccination.” Obviously, I just got the shots and it was done.

Canada, NZ, and Australia may have better processes. But they also have much smaller volume and diversity of applications. Again, not quite the same fruit.
US citizens still use paper Social Security Cards. The point where there is a "critical need" recognized by the relevant parties may be further off than you believe.
I’m not sure it’s procrastination. Years ago, when struggling with maths , I learned juggling ( 5 balls, tricks etc ) and ended up spending quite a bit of time on it every single day.

In practice, it made me feel very good, more relaxed, because I was able to learn something new and make progress rapidly - self confidence was back. The maths soon got unstuck and life became good.
Lidar doesn't work for some things- my Roborock S7 has trouble if there's a USB cable on the ground or a lamp's power cord isn't tucked all the way up against the wall. Supposedly the camera models are better at avoiding certain obstacles, which is good if you have a pet or housemate who sometimes poops inside and you don't want that getting mopped all over the floor.

That's a compelling use case for me but considering how many of these vacuums have had privacy issues, I stuck with Lidar (people cast aspersions on the Chinese companies but US manufacturers have track records that don't inspire confidence either - just ask the Roomba employees who got their naked pics leaked online)
Amen. If I can’t read it I’m not likely to watch a video about it.
Scroll down. It's more commonly qux or quux.
> And then there are transcendent functions which cannot be represented by rationals anyway.

They cannot be represented by floats either. So this doesn't matter.
Israel is the opposite of isolated surely? It gets to enact mass killing and have other governments say that it should do it.
"No one should be using 'insurance' to cover every day expected expenses like random doctor visits for the flu."

If it was like $20, sure, but when a "routine doctor visit" costs $300 I'd rather use insurance than deal with the mental load of deciding if it's worth the money. I wonder how many people develop more serious conditions because their high deductible tips the calculus towards avoiding the doctor.
My first dog t7xW6q+WX-i9$G4*&^sY was a beautiful creature. I remember her fondly.
Beliefs and outcomes are different things.
Thank you for all your advice.
Show HN: Created an app to mix calendar and TODOs in one list
was using todoist and calendar, constantly switching between them, decided to implement my own spin on it in react native
Maybe in academia, where sketchy incentives rule. In industry, p-hacking is great till you’re eventually caught for doing nonsense that isn’t driving real impact (still, the lead time is enough to mint money).
Ask HN: How long to stay in a role to avoid being considered a "job hopper"?
Hi all, just wanted to share wat I'm working on, any feedback appreciated
Why does someone who works at Automattic have meaningful medical debt? That's awful. I would expect Automattic to have both good insurance and sufficient pay such that no employee suffers from medical debt.
Depends on your peer

You and your nearest 400 neighbours plug into a non-blocking 1g port network. Find you can do 1g to your neighbours

But you need a 400g uplink (and remember to account for resilience), so you go into a switch with 40 400g ports, ok, that's 1.6tbit

Scale this up to a small town with 20,000 people and you need 20tbit of backbone to serve your residents with 1G non-blocking, very few will ever use the full 1G

Sharing bandwidth makes perfect sense. If you want uncontended (to where? Local IXP, a major IXP? One on the other side of the world?) then get a business line which gives you uncontended connectivity.
> no square root, sin, and so on with rationals

Are you thinking about a specific library? You aren't the only person who commented this way. But, the truth is that root, sin and so on don't "work" with floats either. In fact, there are common ways to implement these functions by either using tables (which are approximate) or algebraic approximations (that give you... drum roll: rationals!)

But, really, there isn't any way (except symbolically) to represent transcendental functions in computers. It doesn't matter what kind of number you choose to do it.
This is very misleading.

>Comparing the 2021 report to the current X transparency report is a bit difficult, as the way the company measures different things has changed. For instance, in 2021, 11.6 million accounts were reported. Of this 11.6 million, 4.3 million were “actioned” and 1.3 million were suspended. According to the new X report, there were over 224 million reports, of both accounts and pieces of individual content, but the result was 5.2 million accounts being suspended.

https://www.wired.com/story/x-twitter-first-transparency-rep...
The right way is to compose the base Python package with the libraries you want. For example, this gives you an ephemeral environment with the latest python3 plus NumPy:

nix-shell -p 'python3.withPackages(ps: [ ps.numpy ])'

In case of Python, you can also go for a simpler option that avoids composing Python with its packages, but that gives worse isolation:

nix-shell -p python3 python3Packages.numpy

If other packages were present in that ephemeral environment, aside from python3, they could see NumPy in a global directory. That's why the first option is preferable, as it offers better isolation. In Nix, some languages only let you use libraries with something like the first option. See the Nix user wiki for further information: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Python.
My (least) favorite version of this: there's a state wide alert in Tennessee that happens when a cop is shot.

You can't disable it without disabling all alerts.

Why somebody in Memphis might care that a cop is shot in Knoxville is beyond me.
Why would I use Linux-only getauxval() when POSIX specifies a reasonably portable getentropy()?

Your theory about the relative performance is what I thought, but it turns out not to be the case for older versions of OpenSSL.

The cover letter for getrandom() vDSO support explains the whys and wherefores pretty well https://lwn.net/ml/all/20240712014009.281406-1-Jason@zx2c4.c...
I'm not clever, no. A few of my friends are, but I never was. I would call myself a skilled software developer, yes. And other, more skilled ones, would maybe disagree. :) But all that says nothing about real life cleverness.

I can clearly see that there are unfortunate patterns, even back then when I was young, and it just got worse and worse. Which is no surprise imho. Of course it propagates. If the parents are already 'social media' addicts, and their friends, and the teachers as well, what shall happen with their children. The issues just 'normalize' - that's what we see, but it doesn't _solve_ them.

The thing is, our societies love to chatter about all kinds of issues and troubles, as long as they are somewhere else or at least the bad guys are far enough away. Something not binding. But as soon as an inconvenient discussion about themselves start, about what they do wrong and what issues we get by them, it turns into silence. So we also do not discuss much about more and more incompetent social media addicts. Since the majority is addicted, and the ground for public discussions is social media only nowadays, who should even start this discussion - and where...
Here's some Stack Overflow discussion showing why it's a non-trivial problem:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/400359/algorithm-for-re-...

Modern LLMs could probably do a better job, but there's no perfect solution. Hard wrapping text loses information. There's no guarantee you can reconstruct the original.
There’s a section of the article at the end about how Postgres doesn’t have LTO enabled by default. I’m assuming they’re not doing PGO/FDO either?

From the Bolt paper: “For the GCC and Clang compilers, our evaluation shows that BOLT speeds up their binaries by up to 20.4% on top of FDO and LTO, and up to 52.1% if the binaries are built without FDO and LTO.”
having this become so accepted that it is no longer disallowed for selling.

This is a nonsensical train of thought that conflates multiple distinct issues.

Fermented products are already widely sold in stores and restaurants. And homemade foodstuffs can already be sold but are subject to the same rules and regulations that govern foods made in commercial facility. These rules generally preclude the sale of homemade fermented foodstuffs, because the risk of contamination if the foods are improperly fermented is extremely high and most home kitchens lack the necessary equipment or facilities needed because this is all very expensive compared to consumer equipment. This is why there are so few fermented foodstuffs available at farmer's markets in the U.S.; the initial capital outlay puts it out of reach.
My goodness, I never would have guessed. Thank you for sharing.

Also, if gaol can have a soft g, then so can gif? :-)
>It has gained prominence in the 2022 invasion

See the problem, that is incorrect. The term has been in use long before 2022. Originally it was coined during the 2015, and meant to be used for both sides due to how miserable and incompetent the entire thing looked (and was).

That is the problem with the paper in question as well - authors don't seem to be familiar with the topic they're trying to research, thinking it's a single event. The timeframe in the dataset is 2015 to mid-2023, which makes very little sense. The use of Telegram for war reporting and the language have been completely different at various points of this timeframe.

To add insult to injury, they are labeling various channels as pro-R or pro-U based on recent messages, but certain channels literally switched sides. They (and many others as well) wiped their message history multiple times, came back with slightly or completely different narratives, and their actual history can only be found in one of the Telegram-related cache services, if at all, as some of these services are either long dead or the info didn't survive. Some people who have been trying to profit from the war started multiple pro-R and pro-U media, including the Telegram channels, although 2022 quickly made them choose sides.

So much happened in 8 years they tried to shove into an LLM and do a primitive sentiment analysis. Gathering the full picture on this timeframe should have been their main thing, as it's not trivial. Just like with anything on the internet and in real life across 8 years, especially if you don't speak any of the languages. These results are not going to be accurate.
Not really - I’d say he just really wants to. Just like when you meet someone and want to spend time with them, are binge watching a show, playing a video game, reading a book, writing code : you want to do that thing again, here learn mandarin.

I’m a lot more familiar with Japanese than with mandarin (and use srs), and it’s worth noting than srs essentially turns anything into an extremely satisfying game : you learn quickly, you really wonder how far you can go, so you keep playing.

I believe that’s the killer combo : really wanting to do something, and having that something turned into a game to avoid giving up.
I scanned the article, not a single line of code sample.

Moving on…
Considering they only choose top performers and inflation sounds like a safe guess :D
So you believe they became the most valuable company in the world (a few times recently though Apple is currently 13% ahead) with no moat? That's an interesting take. Is it possible you just don't know much about them?
Does the polymerization prevent biodegradation (e.g. digestion by fungus)

I don't think I have access to the full paper, but it is described as biodegradable, which seems to be the opposite of what you'd want your house to be made of?
> Perhaps you trust gorhill with that power, but it's pretty understandable why others might not want to give that power to a third party.

I have been using the extension, now called ublock origin, for longer than I have been using the Firefox browser. Mozilla is the third party in this relationship.

In all those years, the extension project's principles were very strict, and the authors never disappointed. Mozilla, meanwhile, is just a constant stream of disappointments.

It's so many things, really. Magic opt-out tracking here and there, ads in new tab windows, nuking almost the entire extension ecosystem on Android for a couple of years just to grind down the user base, etc. It never ends.

You can also communicate with gorhill like a real person. Mozilla press communication is always a psychopathic mess of corporate speak. There is hardly anything in there.

I'm not even sure which project, ublock origin or Firefox, has more users by now.

My loyalties are pretty well sorted at this point.
Not OP, but I'm a big fan of the Vacuum Wars YouTube channel (they have text summaries on their website too)
I posted this in a comment already, but the results here line up with the original BOLT paper.

“For the GCC and Clang compilers, our evaluation shows that BOLT speeds up their binaries by up to 20.4% on top of FDO and LTO, and up to 52.1% if the binaries are built without FDO and LTO.”

“Up to” though is always hard to evaluate.
Nah. Or at least, not entirely. (I'm not really writing about Automattic here).

Contracts -- and law in general -- describe in detail what kinds of actions will allow another to bring legal force into play against you or vice-versa.

But there's all kinds of actions that I can legally take that don't conform to norms that will invite condemnation and reprisal through means other than the legal sphere.

Not every obligation should be given legal force; not every action that's strictly legal will turn out to be socially okay or consequence free.
Project Steve (2016)
I agree they should be tracked, absolutely. I should have specified that I wouldn’t expect it to be an issue in the short term. Eventually they would almost certainly interact, though at that point hopefully the marmots will be established with stable populations.

I also agree that prioritizing endangered species is the right decision here. We have more than enough bears on the island. We don’t really need to ensure grizzlies stay in the mix at the moment, haha.
Come on, pretty much all work is hurting the world now by furthering unsustainable capitalism. I have yet to find a job that truly helps people in the tech line of work.
well that read got more and more bizarre the farther I got in. Started with a simple allusion to "hype" culture, advertised Schrier's new (at the time) book about the devs trying to live up to that hype, and then somewhere we took a left turn into corporatism and how entertainment is just a "work simulator". Then by the ending 10% we go to the typical preaching to the audience about better work conditions.

It ends up feeling like 3 different stories stitched together instead of one solid thesis. I don't know what to make of it. Things only got worse in the 3 years, so all it seemed t provide was nice platitudes to hope for.
Is the interesting part of P vs NP (since it seems very unlikely that P = NP) the mathematical machinery that would be required to prove that P != NP? Presumably doing so would require a way to determine a lower bound for _all_ possible algorithms that solve a particular problem.
It's not; there is a nominal series of standards for this.
Good thing we’re not a society of wizard anthropomorphic mice chopping up magical brooms!
Why?
I don't expect all ACX meetup folks to be programmers.
Heh, actually I'm pretty sure I've come across your X profile before. :) You're definitely in a small minority of folks with a deep(er) understanding of WebRTC.
So how does a diabetic get one of the older, worse insulins that they can afford? Certainly that's preferable to the better insulin that they can't afford.
In this case the u stands for “up”: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fubar
You may want to read up on industry best practices for theatrical sound mixing and digital cinema delivery.
The meaningful difference with irrational computations on rationals vs floats is that in floats you have some inherent, expected, and well-understood imprecision that applies evenly over results of add/mul/div/sqrt/sin/etc, whereas in unbounded rationals add/mul/div are all infinitely precise always (and presumably this property is why one would want rationals over floats) but has no such possible equivalent for sqrt/sin (at which point your options are either just giving up, or capping the required precision, at which point you could just use floats).
Omerxx/tmux-sessionx: A Tmux session manager, with preview, fuzzy finding