skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO the next generation of website tools are coming along in the form of drag-and-drop premade widgets and integrations to YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, etc. Almost all of WP value isn't composed of indie blogs and websites, almost all the value comes from business websites. If indie blogs and websites die it won't be because of WP because there will be other tools. Indie content of the WP variety is dying organically, or at the least the rising tide does not lift all boats.

And if indie content creation moves to TikTok that's because it's what the next generation wants.
I think this take is pretty funny because it's in instance where our elected officials are responding directly to the will of the votes that actually matter. Which is pretty refreshing compared to listening to the campaign donations that matter.

I want more of this kind of thing, not less. Politicians should be scared to piss lots of different voting blocs off. The way we do democracy is terrible at rewarding politicians for enacting (roughly) the will of the people.
So thieves broke into your storage unit again
Picture musical notation, 5 horizontal lines where the y-axis is the note (higher on the staff, higher note) and the x-axis is position in time.

Say you have 5 event types, which occur with various frequencies over time. Plot them as dots on the staff.

Draw lines between events which link to each other.

If you draw the lines for the staff, they should be faint, only to help classify the event.

And you can of course have more than 5 event types, just add more lines. Hopefully less than 20 lines, otherwise this starts to get visually very messy.
This is moving the goalposts. My critique was about list implementation, not about implementing the entire runtime.

> Yet many of the language runtimes are actually following the Lisp model.

This is frankly not true in any way relevant to this conversation. Using garbage collection is not equivalent to using the entire Lisp model. Java, JavaScript, Python, Lua, Ruby, C#, etc. do not make extensive use of linked lists in their standard libraries, instead preferring--you guessed it--vectors. Hashmaps in modern languages are implemented as... vectors again. And if you dig into how structs are implemented in say, C#, they are implemented as contiguous blocks of memory.

Yes, there are some things contiguous blocks of memory can't do, so everyone has to support nested data structures, but by default, most languages push you toward contiguous memory in their standard libraries and idioms whenever possible, because it's just so obviously more performant for the vast majority of cases.

> That's not very different from any other language runtime which uses dynamic memory allocation and a heap of linked objects (-> Java, JavaScript, ...). The problem of dealing/avoiding non-locality and pointer-chasing is there, too.

Yes, and my point is that having cons cells as a ubiquitous data structure in your language greatly exacerbates this problem. The extremely common case of lists does not need to entail pointer chasing, and in the vast majority of cases it should not entail pointer chasing, and contrary to your claims here, in most languages it does not entail pointer chasing. Lisp-family languages are fairly unique in this problem. Ironically, higher order functions like map/reduce/etc. push you toward operating on lists as a whole which is exactly the case where vectors most outshine linked lists.
> I think most people would find the sun tax outrageous...

Probably. There is an effect where, like clockwork, people are outraged by any tax that they can't fob off onto someone else. It is an suspicious coincidence how the tax burden sits the most heavily on a group with very few votes. People being outraged doesn't relate to whether a tax is a good idea or not (at least, relative to other taxes).

> The common factor here is common expectation that taxes are applied to profit in the commercial sphere

With the advent of the Chinese getting good at solar we're moving to a world where people have free energy falling on them from the sky. A sun tax would be surprisingly consistent with the idea that people are taxed on their profits. Sun-exposed land is a whisper away from being an active, profit-producing asset. I have no doubt that California could manage to screw it up but in-principle a sun tax sounds like it'd probably be a good idea. I'd rather people be taxed for loafing under the shade of a solar panel than for working their hands to the bone. They aren't that expensive to install.
It's so nice to be able to quickly and easily remap the caps lock key.

Ahh... finally.
It has ads?
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This is one of my favorites. Very straightforward
Pain sucks, as long as you can cause meaningful harm there’s other targets. Violence isn’t guaranteed to solve the issue, but it’s a proven strategy.

Countries operate on a different scale. The people in charge are rarely the ones suffering in wars which completely changes the calculus.
I don't get the worship, either. Fallingwater has required a lot of intervention to stay up. The much praised Johnson Wax complex has a tower that can't be occupied. The administration building has workers on the ground floor ("Great Workroom") where management can look down upon them from the second floor. He dictated how people who commissioned him were to live in their homes down to what they could and could not have in them. Many of those houses have required work as well. The guy was arrogant and constantly over budget. HN doesn't consider these good traits in other engineering fields.
I got my undergrad degree over 30 years ago and I was EE, not CS but I remember the CS students had an analog computing lab in addition to the digital logic lab. Even back then I remember thinking it seemed like a waste of time :-)
I don't agree with the thing about the singular "gazonga". Just like if you were to say a boob or a tit, I think a gazonga would be understood by anyone.
That seems like a more defensible idea, but it is significantly different from the original idea.
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Perhaps you are a psychic but that is not my case.

"Charging head-first", even in the wrong direction, is the only thing worth doing.
They're almost certainly not equal because solving NP in P time requires magically making exponential decisions in P time. What's interesting that it's been so hard to prove one way or the other.
It's recently become mainstream knowledge that those numbers were a more like wishful thinking than fact, also pretty useless because nobody parroting them knows any control group numbers, and would be off-topic even if true.
Sure, but isn't most of supply and demand in the market driven by large investors who use such formulas to derive the fair price of the option?

That is, if the real price ever differred significantly from what Black-Scholes predicts, wouldn't algorithmic trading very quickly correct this deviation?
Visit one of his houses. He designed and built them to suit and fit the client, like tailored clothing.

He also was pompous and designed something terrible for a lady who really wanted a house designed by him.
I mean the subsidies exist regardless of what the corn is used for and the rural folks are the most angry about ethanol in their fuel. I'm not sure this explanation lines up all the way.

Out in the country is the only place I can still find 100% gasoline.
I have a lot of problems with Chrome, especially recently but I really don’t like the firefox UX. I can’t remember exactly now but I gave it another try about a year ago and there were so many annoying inconsistencies. Profile UX is basically not even there. Do they still do their own custom janky scrolling? Devtools is clunky and slow. There were definitely more problems too.

I’m very happy with Brave with all its silly ads/crypto/news things turned off.
That would push things towards the mean... not necessarily a bad thing, but presumably later steps of the analysis will be pooling/averaging data together so not that useful.

A more interesting approach, let's call it OPTION2, would be to sample from the predictive distribution of a regression (regression mean + noise), which would result in more variability in the imputations, although random so might not what you want.

The multiple imputation approach seems to be a resampling methods of obtaining OPTION2, w/o need to assume linear regression model.
This is a pattern with the early modern architects, especially as the materials and construction process were still mildly experimental.

LeCorbusier also made a house (Villa Savoye) that was supposed to be functional and easy to live in. It looks super clear and luminous and could be mistaken for a modern house at a glance, but was a hell to maintain (leaked like a seave) and not great to live in in general.
"In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. The aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy, 3.5 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day." -- Norm Augustine, Augustine's Law Number XVI
There is water on the moon. Not a lot, but there is some ice in deep craters at the poles. But there's no cornstarch.
A Book Apart (the publishing company) closed?! When did this happen? The article linked doesn’t mention a date. So sad I had wanted to use them to publish a book eventually.

I wonder what happened
The stock market is objectively quite stupid. I'm not sure what you're trying to imply with this.
It should be noted that Eric Schmidt sat on the board of the Economist Group for a very long time. He has recently given his seat to Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of DeepMind, also of Google.
https://www.economistgroup.com/esg/board

I'm writing this as a subscriber of The Economist for over 15 years, someone who mostly admire their writing and reporting, even if I don't always agree with them.

The Economist ran a comprehensive review of their own coverage of climate change and renewable energy and last year, and admitted that they were completely wrong on the subject in the 70s and 80s. I wonder if a future Economist editor in 2060s would reach a similar conclusion about their current coverage of Big Tech.
Which makes it even more ridiculous that governments subsidize ethanol for fuel.
> Americans eat way, way too much meat and anyone who tells them to cut back is a dirty vegan

Its not like "greed for meat", its also cultural preference (meat was a "whenever you can, if you can afford it" food for centuries), and also the cheapness and readiness of meat as a ready-to-eat food relative to vegetables. Burgers and hot dogs require a lot fewer steps to cook them than almost anything with vegetables, and they're usually about as expensive.

Whens the last time you saw a vegetable other than lettuce at a fast food place? There's not a lot of ready veggies, and they don't keep very well.

Meat honestly sucks as a thing for the world though - way more land, have to grow massive amounts of grain. I reduced most of my meat consumption to eat better, but it does require more effort, or more money for restaurants and takeout for convenience.
My bad, he was Field CTO.
Too bad he didn't build the Illinois...
I am amazed by a worldview which considers The Economist "extreme left".
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One of the most fascinating things about working on a trading floor is that models such as BSM transcend their normative aspect and become mental models. Pricing an option? Basically only two things matter: where the underlying asset forward price is at maturity (this is related to the concept of drift) and what the volatility is. At any time, your job is choose “bumps” (which you add to market prices) in order to maximize your odds of making money on a trade subject to beating your competition on price. There are some people who make a living making these markets who likely have never heard of “Ito’s lemma” or diffusion equations.
Sorry, which limits? How do those apply to the increasing economic value of turning the same amount of sand into faster and faster GPUs, for example?
I suspect that the current fashion for JavaScript-driven mega-sites, as well as most CMSes, is what happened.

His whole Web design system was based on a hand-coded methodology that made standard HTML/CSS sites work optimally.

That doesn't really scale too well, into the current world.

I was unaware that the company (and conferences) closed. I am sad to hear about his medical issues. They can really clobber you.
I went through the LFS process back in 2003 or 2004. I didn't have a Linux system handy, so I built it with Fedora 3 running under VMWare on a Windows XP laptop. It was not speedy.

I tried to automate the process as much as possible. There's a separate Automated Linux From Scratch project, but I choose to roll my own. This was my first experience with Bash scripts -- I developed skills (and bad habits) that I continue to use this day.
Sudoku was always a meditative thing for me. It’s impossible not to win so long as you pay attention. Optimizing solutions seems contrary to the point to me.
I guessed sarcasm only after seeing your other comment.
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I don't think they exist.
[...] let's make it clear: you have exactly two choices here:

(a) play better with others

(b) take your toy and go home

I've been following from the sidelines, keen to see how bcachefs pans out. When it got included in the mainline kernel I was hoping that was a sign it was soon time to give it a proper whirl.

Based on the recent kerfuffle though, it really seems like the better move is to just remove it from mainline until it's a lot more mature.
Sorry for the very late reply...

For someone working in the are it should be fast. It's too far away from my are to skim and find the errors.

Anyway, the default for a preprint (or paper) in the trash bin. Unless it's recommended by someone I thrust or it's published in a serious journal, I'd just ignore it.

For a post in HN, I can take a 10 minute look and try to find something interesting to comment about it good or bad. But not more than 10 minutes unless there is good reason.
Thanks for posting this site. I added the 10 or so companies where I “applied” and then never heard anything back / never processed the application in Workday.
important idea. a theme in these is they are variations on story forms that break the fourth wall. where literary fiction breathed life into characters and gave words to essential human experiences, the horror in these stories feels like iterating on a kind of transmissible schizophrenia, not unlike the meme virus in Snowcrash. we're into version 4.x or more of this, where the doubts about the real shown by AI are the effect earlier discoveries about the consequences of a "hyperreal" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality).

decades ago those cultural studies people (who now run our institutions) were on to more than we knew. they were reasoning about how to operate in a world that disconnected from a shared Real. we can see these weird fictions as the artifacts of devices operating on todays fragmented, narrative driven realities. i'd call it post-nihilism, where culturally we're downstream of a great unmooring and in an all against all struggle for narrative dominance with no safety in a base reality or truth. the weird fiction devices are patterns of reframing, analogous to exploits for injecting cognitive associations (or dissociations) to align other minds. It's like in the "wet cement" stage of a news event where everyone crowds in to establish the dominant meme first for their "side."

I don't indulge in these stories because I read most of PKD's "Exegesis" and it is among the works you hear about from people who shortly thereafter break down completely. I've met more than one person muttering about Jung's red book and Kripke's theories of truth, PKD's exegesis, evola, and junger, before disappearing into rehab or homelessness. some ideas are just not healthy recreation, and what they all have in common is a meme complex that causes people to dissociate with all the zeal of a religious conversion but imbued with existential horror. in short, avoid.

these weird fictions should be studied, but mainly to innoculate people to them, as what we know from LLM's is that we can now produce complete ideologies the way we used to write pop songs, where the hooks are now reframings, and if you can't explicitly source a belief from a first hand experience, it could be the artifact of one so be on guard. we may actually need to form an anti-memetics division.
I guess I'm the opposite. After doing a couple of sudoku many years ago my thought was "Hey, I could just automate this" and started thinking of algorithms.
Simulated circuit level breakdown of 1972 Atair Pong
Power purchase agreements are what renewables developers use to obtain financing for construction. The contract is collateral. Worst case, the developer might need to be prepared to find a substitute offtaker for the power if a PPA with a gen AI offtaker goes bust (if brought up by whomever is underwriting the financing, if there are debt covenants, etc).

I absolutely support AI companies signing as many PPAs for low carbon energy even if they implode in the future. The PV panels, wind turbines, and potentially stationary storage will already be deployed at that point.

https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/financing-n...
For print/static graphic? An Ishikawa diagram paired with a, probably keyed, network diagrams(s). For video or interactive there would be more flexibility. Your delivery method ultimately makes many choices for you.
I hate the arrogance as well… but, I’ve watched shows of homes built by renowned architects and some their clients have a special ability to accommodate the architects’s eccentricities. They’ll point out some odd and queer things with pride —and how they keep the oddities despite how impractical or inconvenient they prove. It’s like the clients get off on that themselves. It’s really weird.
As someone who lives in CA I think it would be cool to bring back neo Roman or Greek architecture.

Open spaces with columns and hemp roofs.
I suspect you know this based on the detail in your comment and just missed it, but parent is talking about FDO, not BOLT.
Sure, and the word used to describe this at law schools would be:

Extortion
Solvers are useful for confirming that a puzzle you've recieved or generated is solvable. The meditative process can really go sideways when there is no solution for you to stumble upon.

Puzzles in commercial collections don't usually have that problem, but those from other sources sometimes do.

Solvers also make for a nice craft exercise, as here. Simple but not trivial, you can approach them in a lot of different ways and thereby work through different techniques or constraints you mean to explore.
Message from the future: All good there.

The issue is USB4 Gen II, which uses a slightly different protocol compared to USB4 2.0 for the higher bits. And the industry split in two camps, so if you really need the last order of magnitude of W or bps, you'll need to identify one ecosystem and stick with it.

Supposedly this will all be fixed in USB4.1, which unifies the two.
I can't fine anything talking about carbonic acid and calories. Is there something you're referring to?
There is a video about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmT80OseAGs

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Bcachefs Fixes Pull Once Again Frustrates Linus Torvalds – Two Choices Offered
This text has line breaks, which will be wack if you try to wrap them. So, you MUST open it on a screen that is wide enough to show the whole line at a comfortable font size. This is not code. I should not have to struggle to read this shit on my phone (which surely counts as "any modern computer) when even the most rudimentary HTML would fix the problem.
I think you have to be a bit careful here, since if the profiles are too different from what you'll actually see in production, you can end up regressing performance instead of improving it. E.g., imagine you use one kind of compression in test and another in production, and the FDO decides that your production compression code doesn't need optimization at all.

If you set up continuous profiling though (which you can use to get flamegraphs for production) you can use that same dataset for FDO.
USB-2.0 is up to 480mbps which I believe is several multiples higher bit rate than even the highest quality 4k Blu-ray disks. I don't see why "heavy" compression would be required.

Edit: doing some quick math, it seems like transmitting a raw/uncompressed signal at even 720p60 far exceeds the bandwidth of USB-2.

So if the goal is to shift all transcoding to the CPU, MIPI does make sense.
We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem
I’m not sure I agree, but there is definitely a sense of enclosure and protection. He made some space beautifully well lit (the office attached to his home in Oak Park is a good example) but others parts of his houses seem to offer ways to see the outside world while retreating from it.
GPU organ plays music acoustically by controlling the RPM of each fan
Development Update: Closing in on the 3.0 Release Candidate
BZFlag, a tank FPS where you can pick up flags that give you certain extra abilities. It ran originally on Silicon Graphics workstations (at least that's were I encountered it), but it was based on the Battle Zone arcade game. There was a PC port.

Snipes, a "shoot the bugs (and each other) network game for Novell networks back in the mid 1980s.
Actual link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Fixes-Two-Choices