skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a 2019 i9 MacBook Pro, which I actually really liked, but it always had issues with thermal management, and I was afraid that Apple would stop supporting the Intel Macs in the near-ish future, so I wanted to replace it while it still had some eBay value. I bought the Macbook when I was still working at Apple, so I had a considerable discount at the time which I do not have anymore, and so I looked at other computers outside of Apple this time around.

I'm really happy with my Thinkpad. It's pretty fast, light, one of the most pain-free Linux installs I've ever had, and reasonably priced. I'm not overly sold on the keyboard nipple but it's easy enough to ignore.
Moot point.

I was born in Czechoslovakia (.cs). It had whooping few thousands registered names (the biggest of decommissioned TLDs). It was later discontinued and we have .cz and .sk instead. .cs was reborn for Serbia and Montenegro and decommissioned again.

Here is the moral: any domain can go away. We had millions of permanent residents and yet it went away.
Source codes of dependencies. Might be acceptable...

Also why not pluralise all words? Sources codes.
My wife still fumes that they don't make kids type two spaces after sentence-terminal punctuation anymore. And she still hasn't processed that periods at the end of sentences are, in certain contexts, considered inappropriately arrogant and to be avoided.
> FWIW you can override the stack trace collecting behaviour of Java exceptions.

Could I ask you to point to an example?
I just don't think that's true. As you say, you get called names sometimes - I think most people who hide behind euphemisms and vaguery just find it tedious or exhausting to get called names when discussing their views. There's multiple topics like education where I can be 100% confident that people are going to accuse me of something like "grievance farming culture war moral panic" if I share my views. I don't personally see the appeal of vagueposting, so I try to either engage and accept the insults or move on, but I understand why other people make different calls.
Maccy – lightweight clipboard manager for macOS
You set a minimum threshold to trigger it, and you set certain realistic exemptions for things that would benefit society, including giving a VC time to mature.
What's up with that?

Why would you rather build SUVs for soccer moms than race cars?
> Romance languages [...] evolved in the past due to the influence of "Vulgar Latin."

Minor correction: they are derived, not influenced by Vulgar Latin.

That's why so many words are different from Classical Latin, but similar between Romance languages. Like how Latin for house is "domus", but Romance languages use casa/casă/chez because common people referred to their house by the word "casa".
Most GPUs and iGPUs have had H.264 decoders for over 15 years.

In theory any computer with a PCI slot can play 1080p with no frame drops.
Ok. I'll try again. I think the 'scaling' issue here is not understanding the size of the scale if we are talking about if dealing with every particle in the universe. The largest super computers today aren't simulating every particle in even a few molecules.

So lets say you have Minecraft running.

You can completely build a CPU / Memory, etc... Inside Minecraft with Redstone.

Lets say you do this, build a PC inside Minecraft to the point that it is functional enough to run Minecraft. Minecraft running in Minecraft.

There is huge overhead.

You need an astronomically large real PC that could handle running Minecraft such that the Minecraft version running inside Minecraft is usable. That is the scale problem.

I'd have to dig up the citation. But pretty sure this compute power needed to compute the universe has been worked out.
As I indicate in another post, I work in finance and I use binary floats. So do a lot of others who work in the industry. I sympathize with people who think that IEEE floating points are some weird or error prone representation and that fixed point arithmetic solves every problem, but in my professional experience that isn't true and systems that start by using fixed point arithmetic eventually end up making a half-assed error prone and slow version of floating point arithmetic as soon as they need to handle more sophisticated use cases like handling multiple currencies, doing calculations involving percentages such as interest rates, etc etc...

The IEEE 754 floating point standard is a very well thought out standard that is suitable for representing money as-is. If you have requirements such as compliance/legal/regulatory needs that mandate a minimum precision, then you can either opt to use decimal floating point or use binary floating point where you adjust the decimal place up to whatever legally required precision you are required to handle.

For example the common complaint about binary floating point is that $1.10 can't be represented exactly so you should instead use a fixed integer representation in terms of cents and represent it as 110. But if your requirement is to be able to represent values exactly to the penny, then you can simply do the same thing but using a floating point to represent cents and represent $1.10 as the floating point 110.0. The fixed integer representation conveys almost no benefit over the floating point representation, and once you need to work with and mix currencies that are significantly out of proportion to one another, you begin to really appreciate the nuances and work that went into IEEE 754 for taking into account a great deal of corner cases that a fixed integer representation will absolutely and spectacularly fail to handle.
> Let me get the most important question out of the way: is AlphaFold’s advance really significant, or is it more of the same? I would characterize their advance as roughly two CASPs in one

―https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/alphafold-casp...
How would you get data or even the OS itself to the machine under your definition?
BFD - Big Fucking Deal

not that i agree, but obscure acronyms are a PITA
Not a participant in your back-and-forth, but the top level comment seems to be much more nuanced than your posts. Perhaps you could:

>”Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.”
> results in a materially worse world.

Please explain how Google has created a materially worse world
Are we talking about Einstein? If I remember correctly, according to Walter Isaacson, Einstein managed to get so many good papers out not despite, but because he was not working for an university. It gave him more freedom to reject existing ideas. Also the years I can find on Wikipedia do not seem to support your claim. He started as a clerk in 1903, and had his miracle year and submitted his PhD dissertation in 1905.
Oh, sorry. I'm at work, and my company uses some dogshit safe browsing wrapper service. Sometimes i forget to trim the prefix off before posting a link. Fixed now, thanks for pointing it out.
> OK, and I say it's true. Now what?

Now you're incorrect, just like before? :)

More seriously though, the word has a historically well-defined meaning, that lots of people put lots of time into defining really clearly, as others have linked to. It has precedence in courtrooms, lawyers have defined it, serious institutions have corrobated the existence of the meaning, etc etc.

You can choose to ignore that if you like, of course. You can argue for the word to be polysemic and have a new, second meaning, and you can even argue that the old meaning should be totally dropped and we just use this new meaning you're proposing.

But retroactively claiming that the word only ever had the meaning you say it has now is... odd, to put it politely.
Google search results are garbage and are still superior to DDG.

I start every search in DDG and have to take it to Google fully 90% of the time.
Oh, big official orthographic reforms happened in 1944 and then in 1996. So that happened in the 90s, and a few minor revisions after that.

A lot of English vocabulary (technology but also every day life) had an influence on German, especially in Eastern Germany post-reunion. An example: Most people born after 1990 probably invite you to a Geburtstagsparty instead of a Geburtstagsfeier.

Compared to the after-war generations, hyper-local dialects probably faded out as bit as well. If I talk to people from my grandparents generation, there were sometimes difference in terms even though people just lived a few villages apart.

Biggest development I am happy about, is that the capital ẞ is probably becoming official during my life time.
It won’t work. Just look at the mess of Imperial units in the United States. And this is when the metric system is vastly more straightforward, simply better, and universally adopted. The English language? No way any standardization would work. And that unlike the Imperial system the variations in English is probably a feature, not a bug.
what a bunch of freaking babies. very glad i never invested heavily in that ecosystem.

how to get me never to recommend or use your software or services ever again, 101

get fucked, wordpress
I don't know the answer to your question but tangentially, many human concepts related to time definitely do not exist in a purely physical sense. Like being "late" or "early", things "taking too long" or "being slow". Being "out of time" or "just in time". These are all human concepts. Physically speaking (classically anyway), things all happen right when they are supposed to.
> The counterpoint is that this leaves money invested, which means others invest in other thing.s.. This means less money for R&D, for expansion, for your employees...

When grandma's Fidelity manager takes 2% every year to buy overpriced mutual funds that themselves eventually just buy SPY, how many dollars do you think goes to capital raises of any kind? The top of the S&P, which essentially determine its returns, are doing stock buybacks with their cash.

You would have been more persuasive if you had said, "Taking cash out of the stock market and into real assets results in inflation, which is bad for everyone, because nobody needs Apple stock to live, but they would like houses."
Geoffrey Hinton glad one of his students had a hand in ousting Sam Altman
"In 2012, it still seemed that these digital intelligences were not nearly as good as people. They might be able to get about the same as people at recognizing objects and images, but at that time we didn't think they'd be able to deal with language and understanding complicated things," Hinton said.

"Ilya changed his mind before me. It turned out he was right," he added.
So does pylint which has been there forever https://pylint.pycqa.org/en/latest/user_guide/messages/warni...
The use of a space as a thousands separator has been around since the 1940s as recommended by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and it was what we used when I was a kid at school in the UK. They specified it should be a thin (half) space.

https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/28433818/working-docume...
Also: There is a MASSIVE incentive for foul play from everyone being searched. Every single business wants their results at the top. Everyone is grasping for every single advertiser's cents. The monetary encouragement to game the system is so incredibly strong. Google has to fight that uphill battle 24/7.

I have a lot of issues with Google as a company, but I do not envy their position when it comes to the web search. It is a cursed problem no matter how you look at it.
Right, thanks for the demonstration about people on HN blaming the API rather than the user or the abuser too. Do you now see why the only realistic option is for platforms to not provide such dangerous unscoped APIs, or in cases where they do provide such an API, have rigorous security and purpose audits?
Space is distributed and time is a centralizing force. The serial action bottleneck forces the brain, for example, to unify and send one action at a time. This is also replicated in LLMs that are distributed internally, but generate one token at a time. So time is like the force of centralization while space supports the distributed side.

These two tendencies are reflected in the exploration/exploitation tradeoff. The exploitation part is centralized in language and culture, while the exploration part is distributed across the components of a system. They work together to achieve intelligence, both are needed.
I recall playing with FRACTINT, which was a fractal generator that existed before floating point coprocessors were common, that used fixed point math to calculate and display fractals. That was back when fractals were super cool and everyone wanted to be in the business of fractals, and all the Nobel Prizes were given out to fractal researchers.
Wimbledon abolishes line judges after 147 years
Because it's not an experimental result. There are two disparate experimental results, one about superpositions and one about gravity. There's no experimental result about gravity being or not being in superpositions. What will happen to gravity (if there is any) in a double split experiment is pure theoretical speculations.

And I readily admit that it would be interesting to know what would happen. But many decades of more or less convoluted hypotheses has proved to be unfruitful. We need a new way to do fundamental physics, or if possible go back to the old way, because the current one clearly doesn't work.
New Red Dead Redemption 2 Mod Turns Every NPC Permanently Drunk
Nintendo's latest hardware is Alarmo, a $100 motion-sensing alarm clock
> I'm hoping Python 4 will be a big breaking change similar to the previous one and full support for explicit types will be one of the reasons.

History shows that's a good idea if and only if you use a new name for the new language.

cf Python 2 -> 3, Perl 5 -> 6 -> Raku, Javascript -> Typescript

You can keep Python as part of the name. Call it SuperPython or something. Just don't call it Python 4.
That's actually a great question, and one I've been wrestling with for years. Why do we perceive time as a sort of continuous monotonic flow? And I think it can be explained in terms of perception and comprehension, which I have a gut feel can be formalized as a kind of preferred basis selection. But rendering that intuition into words (and math) has turned out to be quite challenging, which I why I haven't written about it yet. Maybe in the future :-)
We were talking about bread. And "between 2002 and 2005" is somewhat longer than "over a year".
> Tell your friends to use Firefox, people.

Mozilla is pretty much entirely funded by Google
NASA Announces a New Class of Space Missions: Probe Explorers
There have been people trying to enforce safer programming at the language level at least since Java positioned itself as the safer alternative to C++ way back in the 90s.
magit: A Git Porcelain Inside Emacs
The original article literally starts with this:

> In the years since I wrote this, I have gotten much more bullish about pure functional programming, even in C/C++ where reasonable: (link) > >The real enemy addressed by inlining is unexpected dependency and mutation of state, which functional programming solves more directly and completely. However, if you are going to make a lot of state changes, having them all happen inline does have advantages; you should be made constantly aware of the full horror of what you are doing.

He explicitly says that functional programming solves the same issue as inlining but more directly and completely.
Don't Have a Biggest Customer
That even if True is irrelevant to discussion. Antitrust isn't mostly against monopoly, but its abuse to gain benefit in another area or uncompetitive practices to stifle potential competition.
Idk how you could split it up other than right down the middle, creating 2 of each unit. 2 search engines, 2 browsers, 2 ad exchanges, 2 clouds and so on. Anything else is not going to be viable. Though maybe that’s the real goal.
Ask HN: How long do you wait it out in a job you hate
with todays insanely bad job market, how bad do you wait it out in a job that is increasingly soul sucking?
Wealth Inequality in America Has Never Been Worse [video]
I found the original video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM) incredibly eye-opening. But now, another person has updated it. Definitely worth a watch if you're interested in how wealth distribution has changed over time.
I don't know that I actually have any Electron apps installed on my computer, unless VSCode is Electron, in which case that one hasn't given me any issues.

I haven't had any scaling issues, I haven't tried screen recording. Sound mostly works fine, though it occasionally gets pretty confused by HDMI sound output (though that's usually resolved by re-plugging the cable). Bluetooth worked fine for me without any headaches, I even got Airpods to work without much trouble.

The only issue I've really had with Gnome, and I have no idea what this is and it's probably a bug in Firefox, is that for some reason the web interface for Transmission Server will crash the entire desktop. I need to muck about with dmesg or journalctl to figure out why and then file a bug report, but it's definitely that page (I've recreated it with just Firefox open on the Transmission Web page).

Otherwise, it's been great, I really like Gnome right now.
> You also seem very certain that Amazon's scale is a good thing, overall, which I remain unconvinced of.

What do you find unconvincing about roughly 30 billion in net income and free cashflow in 2023?
At our company our Machine Learning train+eval pipelines run in standard Gitlab CI (in addition to all the standard backend/frontend software builds, and some IoT builds). We have some 4 small PCs at the office set up as runners for the compute intensive jobs. So that each job gets multi-core CPUs with NVME, not just vCPU and virtualized storage. Each job execution is around 8x faster than the standard Gitlab CI runners.
And much cheaper than dedicated compute at the standard cloud vendors. Hetzner would be similarly cheap, but I did not want to bother with with remote management, another vendor, network etc.
The alternatives are bad because the ones that were even remotely good were bought and killed by Google over the years. This includes ones we all have heard of as well as countless others.

This is a common tactic of tech giants, and the direct consequence of it is… what we have today.
The funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms
I assumed the parent post was talking about his adopted father. The man who raised and dropped $250k on Bezos was Miguel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Bezos
> repeated tests of compiling various software packages reveal that the borrow checker is within the noise performance wise.

Out of curiosity, do you have a source for this? The stuff I remember reading on the topic is from back in 2018 where they managed to get the NLL borrow checker to be not much slower than the old borrow checker (https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2018/11/06/how-to-speed...) -- but that took a concerted effort, and the borrow checker was overall a large enough contributor to compilation time that it was worth spending a bunch of effort optimizing it.
> Pinyin is pretty good at rendering Manderin in a Latin script.

It's pretty good for Mandarin speakers. It's terrible for English speakers.

> Can you elaborate on what you mean by “English-friendly”?

English friendly is something that will produce reasonably-close approximate pronunciations by an English reader without any extra foreign-language training. Basically, something that prioritizes following existing English orthography (e.g. do not use "c" for "ts", use the closest approximate for sounds that do no exist in English) instead of maximal fidelity to the foreign language.
Until Dawn Remake Is Struggling on PC
I find it interesting that Mathematica ranks so high!
Pigs are also used to separate products. Lots of pipelines can switch between different products and different grades of products (e.g. gasoline of different specs required for different areas, kerosene, jet fuel, diesel).

I’m guessing those are usually “dumber” ones.
Supercharging CSS variables debugging in Firefox 131
Go you can hardly call an innovation. All of the ideas existed previously, and it's a poor execution on those ideas for reasons that have been discussed on HN at length before. They created it to serve their own needs in conditioning the labor market to make their hiring process easier.
I love MediaTek for these things. Same for "old" Android phones.
"pure FP" does not mean only writing in a functional style. Purity refers to referential transparency, ie., functions do not depend on or modify some global state.
When Cell Service Is Down, You Can Send iPhone Texts via Satellite
But if you and a million other people, all with differing priorities, all agree to pay taxes…
No. A serious language designer will try to make things they like at the beginning, not trying to patch it later. Patching via breaking public API (language design) is never a good thing.
They do take it seriously, I agree. However, the commonly repeated meme that Rust only makes backwards-incompatible changes by mistake or to fix soundness issues is wrong. They allow themselves to make changes if they're judged to have a low (but nonzero) risk of causing backwards incompatibility in the wild. For example, adding a new function to a standard trait can be backwards incompatible but they do it all the time.
Imagine an ad company locking up talent for decades. Zzzzzzzz
Wouldn’t ChatGPT and similar be a perfect use case for parsing those emails and outputting in whatever format you’d like?
We're solving a lot of these problems with Mint: https://rwx.com/mint

Key differentiators:

* Content-based caching eliminates duplicate execution – only run what's relevant based on the changes being made

* Filters are applied before execution, ensuring that cache keys are reliable

* Steps are defined as a DAG, with machines abstracted away, for better performance, efficiency, and composition/reuse
> Yes, Chrome was absolutely superior to Firefox in every way at the beginning.

At the time of Chrome's introduction, Firefox still had XUL extensions and a somewhat different UI from Chrome, so Chrome wasn't strictly superior (though it is fair to say it had better performance than Firefox). Over time, Mozilla replaced XUL extensions with Chrome's extensions API (without providing meaningful additions, like reintroducing the ability to modify the UI) and reworked the UI to be a clone of Chrome, so thanks to Mozilla's efforts it might be fair to say that today Chrome is strictly superior (excluding privacy and MV3 etc.).

(I still begrudgingly use Firefox BTW :))
> it still baffles me how bad the alternatives still are

Hard disagree. Google almost delights in not showing what you want. For political stuff it's very biased. If you search for something more obscure, Google really likes to "correct" your search and eliminate terms.

Although Google is better in my maternal language and for images (but AI is ruining image search for everyone).
Motion (YC W20) is hiring our first customer success manager
That argument still seems inconsistent to me, since saying "use python 2, pin your dependences and never upgrade python so your script runs forever" is the same as "use python 3.12, pin your dependences and never upgrade python so your script runs forever".
I am struggling to juggle the balls in my mind. Are there any stepping-stone visual pieces like this to hopefully get me there? Very neat write-up, but I can't wait to share the realized absurdity of the red ball's green box eclipsing in our 3D intersection of the fully diagonalized 10D construct
Same author, another mind blowing book, especially then: " Day of the Triffids".
one of the first apocalypse books. Makes you always think twice when looking up at the Aurora Borealis, like a few days ago.
Walt Disney's Corporate Strategy Chart (2015)
That's not an air-gapped system but mediocre op-sec at best.