skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The space originally allocated to ROM BASIC (and a user ROM slot) was taken over by a larger allocation for the BIOS over time. Seeing as BIOS compatibility is on its way out (or gone) with modern UEFI systems, you’d assume a ROM BASIC support would’ve gone with it had it continued.

I think the fact that just about everyone bought a PC with disc drives / DOS, and never used ROM BASIC directly meant PC clones just saved the $30 (or whatever) of ROM chips and loaded all of BASIC from disc.
Pyramidal Flow Matching for Efficient Video Generative Modeling
What if working well means making them efficient enough to run more 'neurons' on our current hardware?
Practical Rateless Set Reconciliation
> And why do you think that vendors create search-friendly pages? Advertising!

No, Marketing. Advertising is only one form and the most antisocial one. There is a huge difference between making it possible for people interested in your product to find you versus going out of your way to shove your product in front of the eyes of people who are doing something at best tangentially related.
I'd rather they just didn't track me.
Former PM/PO and my best experiences were when the engineers had final authority on how it works, but I had final say on what it does
How is it more concise if it uses roughly the same amount of verbage?
I definitely view the browser as an app delivery system... one of the benefits being you don't have to install and thus largely avoid dependency hell.

Recently I wrote an .e57 file uploader for quato.xyz - choose a local file, parse its binary headers and embedded xml, decide if it has embedded jpg panoramas in it, pull some out, to give a preview .. and later convert them and upload to 'the cloud'.

Why do that ? If you just want a panorama web tour, you only need 1GB of typically 50GB .. pointclouds are large, jpgs less so !

I was kind of surprised that was doable in browser, tbh.

We save annotations and 3D linework as json to a backend db .. but I am looking for an append-only json archive format on cloud storage which I think would be a simpler solution, especially as we have some people self hosting .. then the data will all be on their intranet or our big-name-cloud provider... they will just download and run the "app" in browser :]
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Happy to hear you like the UI, ease of use is key for us. Would love for you to give it a try, any feedback welcome!
The foundation isn't even 'wordpress.org', it's 'wordpressfoundation.org'. The 'wordpress.org' site is wholly owned and managed by Matt (using Automatic resources from what he's said).

So, it's not just his dual role, it's his triple role.
Thing is the US is the world's superpower and it extends its influence everywhere. That includes its language, tech, culture and food habits (however unhealthy) too
Being smart might give you enough slack in your life to be able to emotionally afford those qualities of personality
Probably because OSI never materialized IRL and today they are all mixed up left and right and not how we “designed” and “imagined” it 50 years ago
I wasn't telling you that. There is a huge difference in preparing on a meta level for national and international level events, and actually investing in countering specific tactical scenarios. The tactical scenario we are talking about is mid-flight hijack and use of sub $1k drones, by a state, and by civilian script kiddies. It's not a "what if china sits it's navy on a contested Philippine island".
> these subjective judgements often reflect an unconscious bias

Are you sure it's unconscious?

Say it's conscious (eg "I like my hires to be scrupulously polite and deferential") and that overlaps with a cultural norm - is that problematic?

How about "I like my employees to be extremely punctual". Or "I like my employees to be dressed smartly". Is correlation with any subset of people sufficient to be illegal? Should it be?
I make sites for non-profits regularly and have been asked to add exit/escape buttons a few times. There more time Ive spent thinking about the problem and researching solutions the more I think they are a bad idea.

1. Lots - if not most - traffic is from mobile these days. Most people already know the fastest way to exit a page on mobile - the home button/action. Adding anything else is just adding confusion.
2. Unless you are going to great lengths - ie pre loading a page and maybe dropping parts of the dom and dealing with evidence in the history - are you actually doing anything much to help the user exit your site? How motivated/skilled a person are you defending against?
3. If your exit button is just a glorified link or redirect what is the point? It will still be in the history and if they have slow internet they could end up just staring at your site while the redirect loads.
4. For some organisations having such buttons is more about "showing" they have it than how useful it actually is to the user.
5. I have tried to push for a page/link to basic internet safety information. Educating visitors would be much better than trying to engineer their personal security day.
6. I've struggled to find good academic/research work on such features. Seems like it would be a good area for a UX researcher but I've not found much actual work.
Lessons from Plain Text
The problem with writing a browser in C# or Java is that neither of them can provide anywhere close to the level of thread safety that Rust does.
Of course, the problem comes when you start believing your own marketing/rhetoric.
I disagree with the title. If all you have in the world is yourself then you may well not make it over the long term. You could get lucky and have an easy life, but its rarely like that.

I guess I'm older than the author or their bereaved colleague. I lost one parent thirty yeara ago when I was in my mid twenties, and am now losing the other to dementia. I've lost dear friends along the way. You acquire the scar tissue and you wonder why your only life is like this. But its the people in your life that pull you through, wholly or partly, in whatever state you end-up in. The work ultimately means nothing. Be there for your people.
… all too often, we don’t even have that.
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I feel I'm uneducated and unprepared to face grief.
Grief should be taught and discussed openly

It's incredible how we managed to extend our life expectancy: still, it's not infinite.
I remember reading article about illegal western music in Soviet times.

Creating vinyls out of xray images sounded ingenious, its amazing to hear one now.
Martina and Hansi from Nerdforge made a video about art at some point. She's an artist and he wanted to learn, so I believe she made the following playlist for him:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKxVMUwzoPxEyxkyyTHw_...

The video they made about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWi1pCR3peg
Seems like NOYB already filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authorities: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Data-protection-complaint-Noyb-...
Brainfuck too!
I was the network engineer. It was their server and database, I couldn't solve the latency problem for them.
I have no horse in this race, my site is powered by Kirby CMS due to my preference for simplicity and security.

Wordpress seems like the dying Emperor in 40k where the daily sacrifice of thousands of psykers (developers) is the only thing sustaining its life.

If this drama craters the developer base then Wordpress might collapse under its own weight.
Additionally (and more importantly), SU is still reserved in the ISO 3166 list (https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:SU), so if United Kingdom somehow convinced ISO 3166 MA to reserve IO then it will be messy.
I've thought about this for so many hours over the course of months and likely years. Even as a mere college student, I know when it comes down to it, I can only hold onto myself. I've lost countless friends, acquaintances, and good people to just the way of life, or by being a panicky anxious lonely version of myself. Whenever I start to think someone great will stick around, they leave. I don't pay enough attention to the ones who have stayed, who are always there for me.
It goes against my inner desires to be selfish and care more for nyself, but ultimately, it's something I've had to recently come to terms with. I have to make sacrifices for my survival. For me it was a diagnosis, for you it could be loss, rejection, depression, disillusionment, anything powerful enough.
I'm very introspective now. I gotta stop or else it'll get as deep as an abyss.
> white restaurants

LMAO! What are white restaurants?
It is, but not my problem as a network engineer. We did suggest that though but they refused to believe that we couldn't solve the latency "problem".
Yes, but it's a compromise, because I'm not happy spinning up tons of kernels and trying to share access to devices that do not want to be shared, either.

You're right that the trusted codebase is huge, but I sincerely do not know how big a problem this is in practice, hence the question.
The foundation doesn't even contribute to core development anyway. Check out their yearly financial reports. In Matt's world, the only 'donation' that would directly support development would be to the commercial entity Automatic who is a direct competitor.
> I disagree with the title. If all you have in the world is yourself then you may well not make it over the long term.

Absolutely none of us do. I'm in my mid 30s, have been without both parents for at least the better part of a decade.

What pulled me through? Me. Not to discount what you say, just offer perspective. Several good people have crossed my path, more were worse. Nobody sticks around forever, nor their lessons. Cherish them while you can.
It's such an odd feeling being alone with your grief. Most of the time there are others who feel just as bad, if not worse than how you feel, but they may not be anywhere close to you, so at least you can bond in that way...

Just a tad over a year now, I lost my dearest friend. I work so far away that I could not even attend the funeral. I was demolished, maybe I still am; I just don't talk too much about it. There was nobody around me that would even know him; it was just me.

Soon enough, while drowning in despair, I realized the last time we spent time together was February 2023. I had lost a connecting flight, so I called him around 9 AM. He was out of town, in the countryside with his partner, just enjoying a day out of the city. He couldn't believe I missed the flight, joked for a bit, and gave me instructions on how to get to where he was from the airport, about a 6-hour trip.

I got there, and this place was the closest thing to heaven. I had an amazing weekend (missed the flight early Saturday), and then on Monday we all went back to the city... Because of the nature of the flight, I was going to have to wait until next Saturday to take the flight again. And so we spent that whole week together, just going out for beers and joking around just as we always did... And that was the last week we had together. I know there are a lot of atheists in this community, and that's OK, but in my head, forever, I will always thank God for that week, that so many other people did not have.
On a full sized interchangeable lens camera, I’d give up having a screen completely before giving up the viewfinder. It depends on what and how you shoot, of course, but trying to shoot sports or live music without a viewfinder would be horrible.
I'm not entirely sure why that is the article's title, since it seems to be about the fact that your coworkers are not your friends, and your work is not your life. Which is true. But maybe I'm missing something.
America is not at war with Russia, yet.
Yeah, I suppose. It's strange how fast we've developed other tech (like GPUs) but still struggle with limited, old, inefficient energy production and storage systems.
You don't need to daydream, just use a password manager.
> That girl is probably at home, grieving deeply for the loss of her father, while at the same time, people are on WhatsApp or in their units, discussing their 'call schedules.' Isn’t that heartbreaking?

No, its not? People did a great effort of ignoring mortality and then get surprised by the most real thing of everything we know. Death happens and you can use it as a powerful tool to get wiser and realise the life is for the living, your grief and your sadness is only for you. In my eyes you are just losing time doing that instead of being happy and joyful.
I think it should be obvious from the full comment that I don't think that doing _something_ for this is useless. Most of my comment is about how this is not actually sufficient to protect people.

And "we need to do something for this" doesn't mean that this particular feature/button is a good idea.

Like I said, telling people to use private windows and teaching them Ctrl+W seems like a better solution to solve the same problem to me. You can have a widget with some basic tips, and you can even show the correct instructions based on the browser the person is using.
I worked on JVM bytecode for a significant number of years before working on Wasm. JVM bytecode verification is non-trivial, not only to specify, but to implement efficiently. In Java 6 the class file format introduced stack maps to tame a worst-case O(n^3) bytecode verification overhead, which had become a DoS attack vector. Structured control flow makes Wasm validation effectively linear and vastly simpler to understand and vet. Wasm cleaned up a number of JVM bytecode issues, such as massive redundancy between class files (duplicate constant pool entries), length limitations (Wasm uses LEBs everywhere), typing of locals, more arithmetic instructions, with signedness and floating point that closer matches hardware, addition of SIMD, explicit tail calls, and now first-class functions and a lower-level object model.
Why would you need to reinvent networking layer instead of just sending http requests via matrue, battle tested lib available in your programming ecosystem e.g from MSFT? Same with crypto, sockets, compression, etc?

Video and audio I mentioned.

Extensions are tricky, right, but more from privacy standpoint cuz after all you can just expose too much
Lessons from running WebAssembly in production with Go and Wazero
Second Thoughts About Decision Reversibility (2016) [pdf]
Urgency isn't a good metric in the corporate world because basically everything is called urgent all the time (spoiler: most of the time it's not).
> This vulnerability affects Firefox < 131.0.2, Firefox ESR < 128.3.1, and Firefox ESR < 115.16.1.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9680
> They could do all this (except for the sandboxing thing).

The sandbox is very very important, it is the reason I mostly do not worry about clicking random links or pasting random urls in a browser.

There are many apps that I would have liked to try if not for the security risk.
that's interesting, I love Indiana Jones movies. Luckily I can watch my fav movies https://0123movies-hd.net/ . There are various movies in different genres that are available for free. I like that the collections of movies are structured, and I can use any filter to sort movies by genre, year of release, actor etc. And it's easy to find an interesting movie to watch, I just check the reviews on the site.
On AMD64 Windows, .NET 8.0 runtime takes 31.7 MB to download, and 70.7 MB on disk. On ARM64 Linux, the numbers are 28.4 MB and 75.0 MB, respectively.

For that amount of data, both internet bandwidth and disk space are rather cheap these days?
We Built an App That Changed Everything: Decisions That Boosted Our Business
Tropical Semirings in Dyalog APL
Is there an app that suggest "Popular places near your route" while I'm planning a day? Or not just popular, but spots that've been mentioned in e.g. Lonely Planet, or some travel blog (sourcing the data would be a fascinating engineering exercise). It'd be great if the app recommends a spot, and when the user clicks "Squeeze it in", it would adjust the times accordingly. Or using your example of Tokyo, if I'm booked to see a Sumo match at 2 pm, and there's not enough time beforehand to squeeze it in, the app could even suggest an alternative time. (Hah this is turning to a travelling salesman problem...)

Yeah yeah, "popular" equals touristy, but just like Pumpkin Spice Latte in September, maybe I don't mind being a "basic tourist".

When Instagram's API was more open, someone did a heatmap of places that are tagged a lot in photos.
Left handed here, and having been in school from the early 70s, I had to suffer their stupid shortsighted attempts to "correct" what they thought was a voluntary mistake when writing or eating.
I never stopped being left handed of course, but for some things I'm right handed, although in most of them I can also use the left almost comfortably.

Here's small list:

fork: left

pen: left

tools (screwdriver, wrench, etc): right

solder iron: right

fighting stance: mostly traditional, but sometimes southpaw by instinct

Also applies to feet.
playing football (soccer), kicking: mostly right

Curiously, I developed as right handed (and foot) on the things nobody ever tried to push me to correct.
If you anything with a GPU anywhere, you can essentially forget it. Or at least this was the case a few years ago when I briefly toyed with using qubes seriously.
To make this analogous, the words for "alcohol" and "vodka" would have to be the same. The OP is arguing that when people say "doing cocaine" they are generally referring to the high-strength powdered form, not the underlying chemical in general.

And that if we interpret the sentence like that (which we should if that's how it's generally understood) then it is not true that people were doing cocaine in the 17th century.
Most (all?) cultures have specific rituals for grief. As communities were "phased out", those rituals also got lost.
You are lucky because you really like something and know that you like it. So just enjoy it and have time for yourself and your family. I hope I know what I really like to spend my time for it without regretting like you.

Sometimes you may feel sad, but don't cry because you're lonely. We need that loneliness to grow up.
Data, 23, and Me
Now add a language translation layer with X.75 :)
we resize the conditioning (i.e.,
encoded latents) via bilinear sampling to the desired resolution of each stage in the U-Net model

I am surprised that this works at high compression rates.

I would have thought that the more you squeeze into a latent the less correlated the individual latent values become. If they are correlated you can store them more efficiently by having the decoder know about the correlation and store the variance from that correlation with more precision. If that happens, and the values are uncorrelated then bilinear sampling would surely be counterproductive.

I feel like even a tiny-brained traditional VAE decoder would be able to do a better job at transforming the latent into a good conditioning for the U-Net.
If Mauritius decided to used a variant of Chagos/Chagas (so probably CS, since that's the only available code that still somehow fits) then IO will probably be ejected from ISO 3166.
Containers aren't a security measure, so you'd be comparing a stick of wood to a car in this case.
I worked on something in this space[1], using a heavily modified Chrome browser years ago, but I consider I was too early and I bet something in this lines (probably simpler) will take off when the time is right.

Unfortunately I got a little of a burnout for working some years on it, but I confess I have a more optimized and more to the point version of this. Also having to work on Chrome for this with all its complexity is a bit too much.

So even though is a lot of work, nowadays I think is better to start from scratch and implement the features slowly.

1 - https://github.com/mumba-org/mumba
> It sounds like a real job with all the real job issues and none of the pay

I dunno, 5 hours per week without pay sounds like volunteering to me, not like a "real job".
Usually folks looking for this sort of social network are also looking for a more intimate social experience, so we're not necessarily talking about sync'ing the whole Twitter feed firehose.

I don't think it's unreasonable from a resources perspective to sync the posts/actions of mutual followers, and from a privacy standpoint it's not really any worse than your friend screenshotting a text message from you.
The power of interactive command-line tools is very undervalued comparing to tools with web UI or desktop tools with graphical UI. Command-line tools can provide more useful information needed by users, while providing much higher signal/noise ratio.

I tried creating `vlogscli` with the basic functionality needed for interactive logs' investigation with high productivity. It supports query history, scrolling over large responses, instant canceling of long-running queries and live tailing.

See slides from the recent talks about VictoriaLogs and vlogscli - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ocib-qMiT4AfDm-LegKE...
Ask HN: What developer tools do you use in Windows?
I'm trying to be more open-minded and going all-in on using Windows for development for a month. For a lot of the projects I'm working on, devcontainers (via Docker + VSCode) let me pretty much use my native *nix tools.

That said, I'm curious - are there any Windows native tools that y'all like to use and that I might want to know about? For example, I've only recently learned of scoop and winget and have since started using them to basically install manage as much of the tools that I need.

In addition:

- dbeaver for SQL
- Insomnia for HTTP testing
- stream deck + python for a bunch of automation

What other notable Windows native tools do you use?
My biggest gripe: You can only have one homebrew user per machine, so on a multi-user, multi-admin Mac, only one of those is allowed to brew install.
Hm, yes I am. What breaks for you? I have noticed a bug where it suddenly jumps to the end of a file and I have to navigate back.
the best lie you can tell is one that you yourself believe in. I think drinking one's own koolaid is a feature, not a bug.
Revealing lack of knowledge, some of those bytecode formats were designed for low level languages like Pascal, Modula-2, C, C++, among others.
German coal use crashes whilst renewables surge
Applies to most bytecode formats, it is a matter of implementation.
Ignoring direct monetary costs, if WordPress.org is wholly owned by Matt (not Automattic) and he's directing Automattic resources to maintain the site, is that not some kind of violation of fiduciary duty to Automattic? He's using company resources to maintain a personal project.
It depends on what you expect from your surroundings, but I'd say having people around that don't give you slack for being in a bad spot and just keep moving on until you're out of it can be a big deal.

Sure you could be blessed by super supportive, extremely affectionate and compassionate friends all around. But IMHO even having people to keep you in a routine when you'd just want to fall apart can save you from depression.

I think a lot of people are pretty helpful without being overboard or too obvious about their empathy for other people.
I actively avoid friendships or getting too close to people or animals because loss is too hard. When you love lots of people and animals you're sad all the time because you're always losing and missing someone.

I'm a bit happier now I'm more alone, but I wish life wasn't like this. Why was I made to love so much if I must eventually lose everyone I love?

I struggle to understand how everyone isn't constantly feeling overwhelmed with grief to be honest.