skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good stuff, and I hope I didn’t come across too rude but 10k parallel is not a problem for even basic setups to manage, it’s a problem solved many different ways some out of the box some not. Maybe your question was phrased wrong. But hit into 10kk parallel, there’s an interesting metric to discuss optimization.

I’m reminded of the quasi meme “You have designed an infinitely scalable service for 10 clients “
When I studied ASIC design, it taught me that the complexity increases and reliability decreases every time they shrink a process node. There’s increased variation, degradation, etc. One paper on 130nm to 90nm said they had to build digital monitoring or correction when in the analog parts while cell phones were mixing in analog to save energy (mixed-signal).

The point is that having the reliability of older computers might require the older, simpler hardware they were using. More breakage might be an inherent tradeoff of using modern processes, at least up to a point.

I still have always wanted to see someone mix low-cost components with the older, patent-free, NonStop architectures. The desktops would look like the dual-motherboard SGI’s with pluggable CPU’s, etc. Just replace what breaks with the system chugging along using other components.
“Draconian”
Yep, this was the longest part of the process. Plumbers were in and out in 3 days but left a huge mess to deal with, which we were aware of.
I always wondered if there was a way to effectively "burn" one's entire wealth, creating a small deflationary event that would increase the value of existing dollars. How could one do this? Donate to the Federal Reserve? Or would you literally have to cash everything out and burn it?
Most records set in NES Tetris up to this point, including those that have been reported on, have been set on this mod.

All of these communities set up norms and it is weird how every time any news breaks out of them it is stuff like "wtf he is playing smb1 with a keyboard that doesn't count" while all the people actually involved in the community are just shrugging their shoulders.
> When capitalism is functioning well, ...

I recommend this question as an interesting conversation starter at parties: Is it in the self-interest of the most successful capitalists to have a well-functioning capitalism?
The reason that wasn't done is because Unicode is not really in older C++ standards. I think it may have been added to C++23 but I am not familiar with that. There are many partial solutions in older C++ but if you want to do it well then you need to get a library for it from somewhere, or else (possibly) wait for a new standard.

Unicode and character encodings are pretty esoteric. So are fonts. The stuff is technically everywhere and fundamental, but there are many encodings, technical details, etc. And most programmers only care about one language, or else only use UTF-8 with the most basic chars (the ones that agree with ASCII). That isn't terrible. You only need what you actually need. Most programs don't strictly have to be built for multiple random languages, and there is kind of a standard methodology to learn before you can do that.
Worth noting this is ultimately the problem with string theory: String theory does provide a suite of mathematical tools which can solve real physics problems and give valid answers but they're known physics problems that can also be solved with other tools.

To be useful as a theoretical framework it always needed to be able to predict something which only string theory could - as a "more accurate view of reality".

Which is the same problem here: you've got to make a prediction, an accessible prediction, and ideally also not introduce any new incompatibilities.
Probably we will? As the lawsuit notes, TikTok has specific features which arguably exacerbate the harms - their monetization is gacha-level predatory and they toss you into the “For You” ocean the instant you open the app. But it’s not surprising that the first commercial success in a new industry might be the first to face a lawsuit about the industry’s alleged harms.
The term "octet" is used in IETF documentation (for IP addresses, for example) to be specific that the byte is 8 bits in length. Historically the size of a "byte" on a system was machine-dependent. The industry coalesced around the 8-bit byte, and differentiated it from "machine word" in the 70s and 80s.

Edit: I just checked wikipedia, and this is described there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte
I like the idea, I have some implementation questions but I’ll catch you on GitHub. Nice work so far though.
TIL that in 2024 people are still trying to claim that trickle-down economics works. Given all the wealth at the top these days, I'll expect my trickle-down check in the mail any day now.
Where, in the brazilian constitution, does it say that you can censor people if they "promote violence" in their political speech?

Where is this exception? Because I looked for it and I didn't find it. Every thread about this topic, I ask my fellow brazilians to cite this exception and I have yet to get an actual response. Best I've got was an anti-nazism law which is inferior to the constitution and therefore irrelevant, and should have been declared unconstitutional anyway. Not because I support nazism but because banning nazism, a political ideology, would open the door to banning other political ideologies.

So unless someone explains to me what this "exception" is, I won't be convinced.
Before fossil fuels our cities were ankle-deep in horse shit, and when a horse died the owner dumped the carcass in the river. Some level of pollution is in inescapable price of civilization. We shouldn't be reckless or wanton about it but it's unreasonable and uneconomic to ever clean up all of the mess.
Dang, when I made this silly, little comment about FP, I didn't expect to get corrected by a legend in the field!

Thanks for taking the time to respond.
I apologize for being insufficiently specific. I wasn't talking about a solution to climate change in general, but a 'solution' to getting rid of internal-combustion personal transport. What I was trying to say that current EVs are suitable replacements for personally-owned internal combustion vehicles for about 80% of use cases.
I have been thinking about this topic for some time, but my focus was a bit different. I wanted to know what would take to make a computer where the state is always preserved, meaning reboots are never required, but most importantly whatever you have been working with is always the exact way you left.

Somehow I think with the current culture of updates, which is linked to security requirements and ultimately to the fact your computer is always connected to the internet are fundamentally incompatible, thus this kind of computer would need also to be offline, but certainly there are tricks like live kernel updates that could be employed to extend uptime as long as possible.
I considered myself a frontend dev 10 years ago, I loved jQuery and Angular 1.x, Sass. I never really caught the Node fever, and it seems like almost everything connected with the JS scene since then has been constant churn and complexity. I moved into infrastructure and data and never looked back.

That said htmx is the only remotely intriguing development I've seen in frontend dev in a decade.
Firefox is developed by the for profit company not the nonprofit org.
I would guess having a CD/DVD drive opens another attack surface. Similar to why people gluing their USB ports closed.
According to my understanding, burning US dollar bills, donating to the Fed (if such a thing is possible) and donating to the Treasury are approximately equivalent in their effects.

What puts a lid on how much money the Fed creates is the desire to keep inflation to reasonable levels, preferably 2% per year. Your burning your cash allows the Fed to create more while adhering to their inflation target. Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that although the Fed decides how much money is created, the Fed is not allowed to keep or to spend newly-created money, but rather must give it to the Treasury (perhaps through some complicated or non-obvious mechanism) which makes it available for the government to spend.
I got owned by this repo
Why focus on CO2 emissions? That's only one aspect of pollution.
Java was built from scratch as a heavy language with a whole portability layer that C++ does not have. Also, libraries have been around to do this stuff in C++ but maybe some people saw it better to not require C++ to support Unicode, presumably.
I don't know where[a] they found that exact number, but it seems reasonable for parts of the bay interior, because of funneling effects. Same reason the Bay of Fundy has a 16-meter daily tide when the open ocean doesn't do that.

([a] 26 feet is the exact elevation of Tampa International Airport, so perhaps it's that. If you look at the surge maps, they do show a nonzero chance of surge over those runways).
The crackpot trajectory of otherwise smart people is fairly well trodden with a number of indicators and nobel laureates who have walked it - one of which is when people start stepping well outside their field...and then also tend to start stepping into "the biggest problems" of wherever they point themselves.
Thank you for the feedback! I'm not quite sure I'm following, though. By the wizard do you mean the framework/element picker within a theme? Would you want the wizard there to be something where you can put in a URL for a subtitle track and we'll add it to the generated tag?

If you're seeing something weird around subtitle syntax then there's probably a documentation issue somewhere (or I'm misunderstanding your question). Subtitles themselves should work with a standard `<track>` in the media element, and the only other place we touch them is via the captions button/menu to toggle those tracks.
On my phone but site:apple.com “PowerPC” will probably find it.
Wealth is a proxy for having options, even if you do not exercise them. There are thus many forms of wealth, and some do not translate directly across domain boundaries.

Arnold Schwarzenegger famously explained that he remains committed to a demanding bodybuilding regimen even long after becoming fabulously wealthy precisely because his physique is a form of wealth that cannot be bought at any price, and is available to almost anyone who wants it badly enough. A billionaire facing an acute and aggressive terminal cancer diagnosis has all the options anyone could want, but one.
Yes, there are many forms of power. Different forms are sometimes fungible to various degrees (varying across time and space). I would expect that financial wealth is the most fungible form of any of them under usual circumstances.
Convergence in probability vs. almost sure convergence
I feel like that blogpost was almost just ragebait for ai researchers. It goes between calling not including the +1 an error (which to me implies it would improve training losses, which it doesn't really https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36854613) and saying possibly it could help with some types of quantization (which could very well be true but is a much weaker statement) and the author provides basically no evidence for either.
Peak HN. (I feel comfortable saying that considering the link to a pg article and “you are in the wrong forum”)

In the face of calling out someone else’s ignorance by saying we are all ignorant then going on to assume the thing you like is wonderful while assuming the thing you hate is terrible.

Classic. PG would be proud.
I think the more direct approach has a good chance. They can’t update your birthday, reasonably IMO, because they would be giving you access to the data after you failed the authentication. But they wouldn’t actually be leaking any info by just deleting the account.
This is coming from 9to5mac, which is Apple-focused. But it might be fair for it to include a mention that pretty much every security expert says the same thing.
Seems like you must not have kids in this age range.
A dynamic website is generated by the server in response to client queries. Static websites—pre-existing flat html files served as-is to viewers—came first, then PHP and CGI made dynamic websites possible & popular. SSR is the very definition of a dynamic website. Client-side scripting came after dynamic websites, but it is not technically, in and of itself, "dynamic."
Do you mean that for like a specific person’s made up god, or would you replace “your God” with “a God, an entity, or a mind of some kind”. Because in that case I assume those two points wouldn’t apply, right?
From the service manager point of view, a daemonizing program is a headache.

The program that the service manager thinks is starting immediately quits, and it's the grandchild (or even great grandchild) that's actually the payload service.

Because the parent quit, the grandchild becomes reparented to the init daemon; it is not a child of the service manager.

The service manager has no idea what the process ID of the service is.

If the self-daemonizing program writes its PID to a pidfile, and the service manaager is configured to know what that is and look for it, it can be obtained that way.

Not being the parent of the process, the service manager doesn't get notified when that process terminates. It has to use hacks to poll for it; like kill the PID with signal 0 to check liveness, and pray that the PID isn't recycled.

If you're writing a deamon program, make sure daemonization is optional, favoring opt-in over opt-out.
You could try smearing Vaseline on the lens.
Trade between countries is actually a good thing and has prevented many wars for resources that lie mostly in other countries. I guess for global warming though it’s an L
> Musk hoped Brazilian users would get angry with the government

It’s like when he claimed he’d “document in great detail” how the boycotting advertisers would kill Twitter, and was smugly confident “Earth” would care. Absolutely delusional. The interviewer even understandably struggled with that line of reasoning.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=U_M_uvDChJQ&t=1m39s
Obviously not. Which is why we have antitrust laws. If it was in the self-interest of the most succesful capitalists, we wouldn't have to have laws about it.
You don't become a vassal by someone else having a lot of wealth.

The feudal systems arose as a way to organize military defense locally in the absence of a strong central power like the Roman Empire.
Yeah. I'm in the middle of writing a book about this, but in a sense it was also discussed by the Pythagoreans. And they (correctly, I think,) went a step further:

"The Pythagoreans too used to say that numerically the same things occur again and again. It is worth setting down a passage from the third book of Eudemus' Physics in which he paraphrases their views:

‘One might wonder-whether or not the same time recurs as some say it does. Now we call things 'the same' in different ways: things the same in kind plainly recur - e.g. summer and winter and the other seasons and periods; again, motions recur the same in kind - for the sun completes the solstices and the equinoxes and the other movements; But if we are to believe the Pythagoreans and hold that things the same in number recur - that you will be sitting here and I shall talk to you, holding this stick, and so on for everything else - then it is plausible that the same time too recurs.’"

- Simplicius, Commentary on the Physics 732.23-33.

Branching paths, "all possible mathematics," etc. In a universe which appears to be discrete, which can support finitist arguments, and where the potential number of paths is starkly finite -- this eventually leads to the conclusion that all paths eventually recur.
So, all-round agreement that you need Linux extensions to fix legacy Unix situations that can be avoided by not forking grandchildren and using pidfiles and whatnot.
I get a lot of value out of my Roomba. It takes me quite a bit longer than 10 minutes to vacuum manually. Whenever I want the Roomba to do its thing, I spend 5 minutes picking things up off the floor (mostly cat toys that I'd have to pick up anyway if I were vacuuming manually) that would trip it up, and then I start it up and ignore it. Sure, it takes longer to vacuum than I would, but aside from the initial 5 minutes of effort, I don't have to do anything. I do also have the model that goes back to the base station to empty its own bin; not having that would be annoying.

Even my sister ended up buying one after I talked about it with her. She was looking for a way to make her daily nighttime kid cleanup ritual less work. Same deal with her: it takes longer for it to do its job than if she were doing it herself, but while it's vacuuming she can clean something else, and be ready for bed earlier than she'd otherwise be.
That is static though. It may not conform to a particular notion of aesthetic purity, but a website is static if and only if you can serve it from a static file server. Client-side scripting is orthogonal to that.
std::transform() seems like overkill when you can just iterate over the string and modify it in place. And in my opinion, tranform is way less readable than seeing a loop over some array with a single operation inside.

The article talks about wstrings for good reason. If you're converting narrow strings, you don't need to be this fancy. Just loop over the string and edit it in place.

If you are operating on wide strings, there is no suitable single solution, partly because wstring is a terrible type. It's different widths on different platforms, and no string encoding format uses a generalized wsring, they have mandatory min/max character byte widths. So a wstring tells you nothing about the actual encoded string contents semantic representation.

The C++ stdlib could include a fully unicode aware string type set, and surrounding library. But personally I think C++ isn't the kind of language to provide an opinionated stdlib module for such a complex task. And there's no way to implement such a module without being very opinionated about something.
> Personally I would start pulling everything out of Florida I can right now (investments, physical assets, etc.) and write everything off that remains, pending revision.
Isn’t that a bit hyperbolic?
>Imagine how people would react if their operating system was so hilariously incapable of managing its responsibilities.

Are you forgetting decades of Windows blue screens? It took Windows ages to become somewhat reliable, and when it finally did, they added a bunch of advertisements to it. Yet, in all that time of enduring BSODs, most people happily stuck with it instead of exploring alternatives that were proven to be far more reliable.
Interestingly, it seems like this utility can create read-only replicas on a different host:

While sqlite3-rsync is running, REPLICA is read-only.

Queries can be run against REPLICA while this utility is running, just
not write transactions.

That seems like it'll be useful in some novel high load situations.
I think it’s really interesting to see the similarities between what Wolfram is saying and the work of Julian Barbour on time being an emergent property. Both suggest a similar underlying ontology for the universe: a timeless, all-encompassing realm containing all possible states / configurations of everything. But what’s really fascinating is that they reach this conclusion through different implementations of that same interface. Barbour talks about a static geometric landscape where time emerges objectively from the relational (I won’t say causal) structures between configurations, independent of any observer. On the other hand, Wolfram’s idea of the Ruliad is that there’s a timeless computational structure, but time emerges due to our computational limitations as observers navigating this space.

They’ve both converged on a timeless “foundation” for reality, but they’re completely opposite in how they explain the emergence of time: objective geometry, vs. subjective computational experience
Giving $7B to the gov changes zero. Not a single function of the government will change not a single thing. They should have just thrown it in the trash. At least go pay off student loans with a lottery until the money is gone or something, that could help. Maybe pay all the mortgages in a small town or something. What they did by giving it to the gov is the same as setting it on fire in the front yard. It’s kind of upsetting.
I call it helicoptering, my old boss used to love to do it. Helicopter down onto a problem, act like everyone that already studied it was an idiot and hadn’t spent their life trying to solve X, stir a bunch of dust up, accomplish nothing, and helicopter away again to something else.
what about using web components?
> That’s why I still get mail with my name mangled

Which is why you always type out addresses in ASCII representations in any foreign transactions even if it's not going to match your identity documents, unless the other party specifically demands it in UTF-8 and insists that they can handle it.

> it’s better if a Chinese user name does not break your reporting or logging systems

You should not be just casually dumping Chinese usernames into logs without warnings, in fact, you should not be using Chinese characters for usernames at all. Lots of Chinese online services exclusively use numeric IDs and e-mails for login IDs. "Usernames in natural human language" is a valid concept only in ASCII cultural sphere.
Honestly I think you're overestimating most people.

The concept of a LAN is a non-starter for many folks. My measure are my in-laws. They like technology but don't understand it. My mother in law does not know what LAN means or how to access it.

These things phone home for the apps that lets normal people like that run them.
I got it from the Project Phoenix Scenario.
https://archive.ph/2024.10.08-204110/https://www.washingtonp...
That's surprisingly close, but the numbers will have some skew:

- Amazon Prime Video comes free with Prime

- Apple TV+ gives out three free months on every new device you add to your Apple account

- Disney and Hulu and often bundled together

Also the source is:

"Justwatch.com - Measured interest in SVOD services in the United States from 01/01 - 06/30/24 on Justwatch.com"

Which is not subscriber numbers, watch numbers, or income.
That seems like a really good way to get my dog to absolutely savage a smart speaker.
Qantas apologizes after R-rated film plays on every screen during flight
On point.

Just because the L2-norm yields the same rankings as cosine similarity for the particular case of normalized embeddings when retrieving relevant documents doesn't mean that any other L-norm or commonly used measure in the field of (un)supervised learning or information retrieval presents itself as a viable alternative for the problem at hand — which, by the way, had to be guessed too.

Looking at the "history" of this development (e.g. bag-of-words model, curse of dimensionality etc.) provides a solid explanation for why we've ended up using embeddings and cosine similarity for retrieval.

Though, I'm curious to see any advancements and new approaches in this area. This might sound snarky, but I still commend the author for doing what I wasn't able to by now: writing down their view of the world and putting it out for public scrutiny.
This feels like a really interesting idea that would benefit from a real world use case.

As it is now, the main motivation is "save your attention, your wallet, your creativity, your soul and the planet" which to me sounds like no specific purpose, which makes it hard to imagine if the result will have any use in 50 years.

As a comparison point this story about warning signs [0] makes the challenges a lot more palatable, and that's how I'd see any chance of success for a product design.

And that makes me wonder how many actual long lasting computer projects already exist in the world, for instance to control nuclear reactors, to activate water pumping stations, control emergency valves etc.

[0] https://99percentinvisible.org/article/beyond-biohazard-dang...