skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
its pathetic. <40mph following a vehicle directly ahead. basically only usable in stop and go traffic

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Tesla-vs-Mercedes-self-driving...
It looks like it could be more concise sometimes. For instance, you could have this:

if f(x) is Some(a) and g(x, a) is Some(Right(b)) then h1(a, b) else h2(x)

The equivalent pattern matching with a match expression in pseudo-ML:

match f(x) with
None -> h2(x)
Some(a) ->
match g(x, a) with
Some(Right(b)) -> h1(a, b)
_ -> h2(x)
I didn't write them, but I <3 xsnow and xeyes !!!

Totally useless and very fun!
No, the OP said they'd do that if they weren't considering Android.
POSIX-UEFI: Dependency-free compatibility layer and build environment for UEFI
Worth pointing out that FnF and Sneako are actual far-right anti-semites and not just the generic left-wing pro-Palestine activists.
I don't take financial advice from HN and it has served me well.
A possible explanation might be an automated anti-botnet system running wild.

Israel and Palestine are an edge case with a comparatively small population and very active cyberwarfare groups, leading to a relatively high amount of bot traffic.

But even that's quite a stretch, as the error message suggests a country-wide block instead of blocking one or a few ISPs.
I don't usually comment on here, I just lurk but this whole week has been super weird when it comes to twitch. Letting antisemites back on the platform, never punishing people literally spreading terrorist propaganda. Destiny (the streamer not the game) alleges that this block has been in place since october 13th of last year, but for now the only solid proof is that it has been in place since may of this year so take that with a grain of salt.

edit: oh yeah forgot about the racial tier list platform at a sponsored official event lol
Cofounders get much higher expectations so they get more equity. Basically the same thing, just less equity.
I do not hate React and am not the person who made the dumpster fire argument. The original person complained about React, and another person used popularity as a counter argument. That was what I replied to.

> That looks like tautology to me. What point are you trying to make with this?

React is in a place now, where it is the "safe" default choice for Enterprises. It's not necessarily a bad choice, but I argue that risk management is often an important part of deciding which tech to use.

It got to this point by being backed by Meta and was a genuinely good alternative to other frameworks at the time. But it is my view that enterprises prefer React not because it is the best, but because it is good enough and easy to find workers with experience. This is a self reinforcing feedback loop.

I worked in a sales driven startup some years ago and got to shape the technology as the first hire and only developer for a few months. I chose React because it was easier to recruit for and time to market was important. If I had already a team of developers with experience with another framework, I would have chosen that one even if it had been a less popular framework due. Time to market was our main focus.

More established companies don't have the same time constraints and are often more concerned about scaling up with multiple teams. A less popular framework is a bigger risk. It is "easy" to hire 10 people for any framework, but what about 100?
Speaking of which, if you try an actual System V in an emulator, or look at C code in K&R style, certain progress, as in "much more actually usable", can be noticed.

While persisting key architectural ideas certainly has benefits, so does evolving their implementations.
I think OpenAI has already proven that it's a viable product. Their gross margins must be decent. I doubt they're making a loss for every token they inference.
Did you add the “hi mom” bit at the end, or was that organic?
Ask HN: Whats a good publication to subscribe to for tech?
I am an ACM subscriber, and read the ACM journal. I looked at MIT Tech review but Im wary of the MIT brand and many of their articles seems commercial. Im looking for something that people would be interested in just because its interesting tech/science news and not just the latest hype.
Helping to build the open social web
> Lots of very smart people have worked very hard on Python tools written in Python, yet the rust rewrites of those tools are so much faster.

So?

Some tool got written and did its job sufficiently well that it became a bottleneck worth optimizing.

That's a win.

"Finishing the task" is, by far, the most difficult thing in programming. And the two biggest contributors to that are 1) simplicity of programming language and 2) convenience of ecosystem.

Python and Javascript are so popular because they tick both boxes.
That's a real useful resource. Thanks!

I was looking into using the algolia API to get the top 10 posts of the last day, but those won't be unique over the span of several days.
Jerome Lemelson (in?)famously filed many, many patent applications for what he later asserted was bar-code technology, and sued many companies for allegedly infringing. [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_H._Lemelson#Patents_and...
Could you add a screenshot based demo or example to the main page?
Russian streamers are still on Twitch including pro-war Russian streamers who did some rather tasteless streams on the first days of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Indeed. There’s a whole ‘nother controversy on the platform (which the tweet poster is a part of), but that’s far less clear cut than those two.
So whose equity is not worthless? I guess there's no point in having ycombinator around anymore then since all equity is worthless.
Like humans and sugar.
> Debt had nothing to do with WW2.

That is not what I said.
> Also, the obvious hypocrisy of not banning accounts from Sudan, Ukraine, Russia, etc. doesn’t help their image.

There's a very large difference here. They know what decision about those will get them into trouble and what decisions won't.

Or rather, it's also obvious what decisions will get a large US company into trouble on the context of the Israel wars. Every single one of them, whatever direction they are biased into.
General debugging of hardware might lead to that.

Regardless .. discharge the cap, blown or not.

Clear the chamber, even if you removed the magazine and checked it yesterday.

etc.

The general principles of health and safety are intended to be largely overkill and mostly not strictly required, they're in place for that one time that kills or injures.
In benchmarks JS is usually well within magnitude (i.e. under 10x slower).

E.g. C++ vs Node.js here: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Couldn't find C vs JS easily with the new benchmarksgame UI.
McGovern appears to be a pundit trying to make a nice living selling his critique of stupid data retention practices.
US-one-hour guy here:

> fortunate outlier

Not exactly how I would describe it :-) I:

- Hit the ER with two collapsed lungs in an ambulance after a motorcycle accident: saw the docs immediately (I assume, I don't remember it)
- Hit the ER with intestinal blockage after the motorcycle accident, had vomited something like fifty times during the night and was actively bringing up bile as we checked in: they saw me in maybe an hour
- Hit the ER with a suspected deep vein thrombosis: I think they knew it wasn't that serious, but still saw me in <30 minutes
- Hit the ER with *actual* deep vein thrombosis: they saw me almost immediately and almost didn't let me leave that day.

And then there's my wife, who has several things going on that aren't mine to disclose, but that tend to put her toward the head of the line.
A new metric to help find quantum advantage for ground state problems
A Console-Friendly Pastebin with binary support
I can do more with the Internet today than I could with a static /22 assigned over my ISDN BRI back in the mid-1990s. A lot of things I would do back then, I would do differently today; running a chat system by connecting directly out to 6667/tcp feels pretty silly now, for instance. It's rough to build protocols that work that way today, but you're not missing much. Things were not better before the advent of presumptive NAT.
"Rust lacks function overloading, templates, inheritance and exceptions,"

...sounds good to me!
Either/both. A nice feature of lightpath networks is that they are somewhat independent of the signal encoding.

Optical computation can also be digital or analog.

In this case, the control signal appears to be digital while the switched signal can be anything.
> If you hate snaps you can just remove them.

lol.

ubuntu makes it really hard for you to regain control of their system.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1035915/how-to-remove-snap-f...

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1322292/how-do-i-turn-off-au...

https://askubuntu.com/questions/676374/how-to-disable-welcom...

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1434512/how-to-get-rid-of-ub...
I'm not surprised. I have owned multiple RAM trucks, a Toyota Tundra, and a Ford F-150 in the past and I like my Cybertruck better than all of them. It is quiet, fast, powerful, drives itself, has tons of cargo space, and its turn radius is amazing. Because I have solar panels on my roof, it only costs me about $20 a month to charge it.
This should be a Kickstart project!
somebody asked what's the different between LOOPS and CLOS, but probably more time relevant question is what's the difference between LOOPS and Flavors. they list Flavors as an inspiration, but also various knowledge management systems, so there must be something additional going on there. maybe lispm knows.

OP is a very long book, I haven't had a chance to read it fully, but first thing I wanted to see is how they manage message sending, and it's as jank as it is in flavors. I thought considering how custom interlisp can be they'd do something special. nope, it's just send.

for those who don't know what I'm talking about, an old school smalltalk style object system lets one send arbitrary messages, without prior knowledge of what those messages might be, and treats the receiving object as a blackbox (conceptually anyway). this approach doesn't map well to s-exp, because first symbol in an s-expression drives the logic. in flavors (and in LOOPS) the symbol used is "SEND", so in order to actually send a message you write something like

(send some-window :set-edge 10 10 40 40)

as you can imagine a very heavily object oriented code becomes littered with sends. LOOPS seems to make it a little bit less painful by making ← an equivalent of send, so above can be written as

(← SomeWindow SetEdge 10 10 40 40)

this is obviously only a margin improvement.

clos solved this problem by drifting away from smalltalk's blackbox concept and making everything generic function oriented,

(set-edge some-window 10 10 40 40)
Presumably because, apart from Python (see Ruff, uv, etc) most languages aren’t running into such major issues with their own “self hosted” tooling that it’s worthwhile to rewrite several of them in a completely different language.
Polygon is owned by Vox Media and still pulls an estimated 15m+ monthly visitors per Similarweb. Kotaku is owned by G/O Media, a dying media company that has recently sold both its namesake sites Gizmodo and the Onion. But either way, does not warrant any sort of flagging of Polygon's content.
The Mercedes system is definitely, as I said, very limited. But within it's operating conditions the Mercedes system is much more useful: you can safely and legally read, work, or watch a movie while in the driver's seat, literally not paying any attention to the road.
Except what intrigues me is the Lora module.
no one uses 0-based indexes[0] for references elsewhere, either.

0: this
We’ve also seen the results of societies with extreme economic disparity. Neither seem to work out great.
It is well known that Israel uses botnets and user-controlled fake accounts to steer public opinion in social media.

Reddit, youtube, instagram and lots of media outlets are flooded with pro-israeli propaganda or massive downvoting to any critizism against Israel. Also here in hacker news...
I learned linux proper because I ordered a mandrake CD in the mail. I saw a friends Slackware and I presumed it was just a "cooler windows" or something, so I ordered Mandrake, installed it, was like uh oh..oooh shit... this isn't windows at all...!!! But I couldn't figure out how to go back to NTFS so I just learned linux instead ha. Doubt I'd be here today if it was not for Mandrake (and basically hand rolling a modem driver).
Almost nobody (far, far less than 1% of users overall) do pay this; the system is in this regard smashingly successful by econometric standards.
Generative AI can boost innovation – but only when humans are in control
Yeah, I think it would. I think if we coudl seamlessly transmit thought from one person to another in full fidelity, we would be less smart. Abstraction results from boiling out unnecessary parts and retaining the essence of something. If you have a very high bandwidth connection (unlike language) you dont need to abstract as much and I would guess humans wouldnt be as advanced as they are.
I have an Android on my IPv6 network with no issues, and this is across several different router vendors with different defaults for RAs. Maybe it's not an IPv6 issue and you're barking up the wrong tree?
> decentralized storage isn't as fast as having central servers.

Depending on scale that’s not necessarily true. I find even today there are many services that cannot keep up with my residential fiber connection (3Gbps symmetrical), whereas torrents frequently can. IA in particular is notoriously slow when downloading from their servers, and even taking into account DHT time torrents can be much faster.

Now if all of their PBs of data were cached in a CDN, yeah that’s probably faster than any decentralized solution. But that will take a heck of a lot more money to maintain than I think is possible for IA.
I am predispositioned to agree with this wholeheartedly but the member of a civil society in me has to draw a line at conspiratorial suggestions in the last sentence.

I gotta point out that sort of thing isn't appropriate even in my in-group, so I can make fun of it when the out-group does it.

If I were more honest and had more time, I'd have the courage to suggest that even though I assumed the first part is true, I shouldn't have, especially given the overall standards of evidence seem low.
Ubuntu was leaps ahead of Mandrake at least in installation friendliness, which, let's face it - is often the biggest hurdle getting people interested. The installer wasn't bad, but kinda threw you to the wolves wrt partitioning and such. As a novice, I had no idea what this meant.

Ubuntu came along and made it easy. A live bootable image to play with and see work, and an installer that just let you click through and let it do the dirty work without me having to know what I was doing. That went a long way, and IIRC was the first of its kind to take this approach.

I'd honestly still be using it today if not for snaps. I generally don't like tinkering and optimizing, much preferring to just get something working quickly and out of my way.
End-user retail endpoints can still act as servers, but the way you have them to that in 2024 is different (and yes, more complicated) than it was in 1996.
No luck on Steam Deck :(
A lot of SK's foreigner workforce are unskilled laborers from poorer countries. So one explanation could be work related but unspecified due to company reputation or that no one simply cares about poor foreign workers.
Bit rich to complain about that when all the major browsers have just as significant differences, and that’s before we bring node into the equation, let alone talking about a good 30% of websites I visit with any quantity of JS in them are either perpetually broken in some way, or so jank as to be effectively broken.
I think a common belief that people have regarding umbrella insurance is that 'it will cover everything that my other insurances, such as auto, home, etc doesn't cover'.

And yes, if your friend slips in your house and requires medical bills, your homeowner insurance will cover it, and if it is not enough, your umbrella insurance will as well.

The issue with umbrella insurance though is that there are a lot of exceptions that prevent it from providing you coverage in case someone tries to take advantage of you civilly.

Why would someone try to take advantage of you in civil court? Outside of the fact that life sometimes just happens, many civil lawyers will take a case on contingency (aka they don't ask for money upfront, and will only get paid if they win). So an accuser can file a couple different suits at no risk to them, and hope that one sticks.

Back to the exceptions. If you look at umbrella insurance policies, there are many exceptions that prevent you from being covered.

Did you act with 'intent'? Intent is vague. For example, you may have intended to send someone a message, but you didn't intend to harass them, or you didn't intend for them to feel negative emotions from it. Regardless, the fact that you did intend to send the message means that a related case might not be covered.

Oh btw, most online interactions / disputes aren't covered under umbrella insurance.

Additional things to keep in mind are the difference between the duty to defend and the duty to indemnify.

Duty to indemnify means that the insurer has to pay out if you lose in a civil suit. And while they might do so in a simple case of someone slipping and falling in your backyard, because of the many exceptions mentioned above, don't except the umbrella to really act like an umbrella in your personal life. Umbrella insurance is more like a perforated cardboard slab rather than a true umbrella.

Duty to defend means that the insurance helps you with your legal costs. So the insurance might have to cover your legal fees, even if they don't have to pay out to the winner if you lose your civil case. See the potential problem here? Don't expect great representation legally if there is really no incentive for the insurer to actually help win your case.
The vast majority of that ~%40 of internet traffic is in direct disagreement with said prophecy though. Mobile carriers like T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T, Telstra, Deutsch Telekom, Orange, (...you get the idea) all used pure IPv6 backbones with NAT64 edges to role out mobile telecommunications without needing double/CG-NAT or boatloads of public IPv4. Each connection made via IPv6 is transparently 1 less NAT session out a public v4 address and the IPv6 design greatly optimized the way the mobile network cores were built out. This is what has driven the growth of IPv6 on the internet (as more users switch to mobile) rather than an explosion of wireline and business users making the switch.

Where pressure is still lacking is in "small" enterprise type case (like most businesses, regional health systems, local government facilities, and so on) where the difference isn't really that much vs networks with 100 million or more clients riding). Only when corps get to the size of e.g. Microsoft do they really start seeing similar value at the moment. Everyone else can scrape by just getting that small bit of IPv4 and forgetting about it for now.
Yes, companies run out of RFC 1918 addresses, but no, they will continue to use public ranges for their internal networks.
agreed on energy for reading. do you think it’s that we’re getting older or that the friction associated with consuming information is just getting lower and lower over time?
Read the parent post. The claim is LLMs can't reason.

The evidence is using one instance of the LLM parroting training data while completely ignoring contradicting evidence where the LLM created novel answers to novel prompts out of thin air.

>Observations trump claims.

No. The same irrational hallucinations that plague LLMs are plaguing human reasoning and trumping rational thinking.
So when I say there a problems with stashing, you suggest wip commits. When I point out problems with wip commits, we go back to stashing?

jj needs neither because everything in your working copy is already part of a commit. You can’t accidentally push unfinished changes because jj will complain if it hasn’t been described (given a commit message). If you need to move changes between commits you don’t need to stash because you can easily move the contents of a commit around.
Did ChatGPT write that for you because it has missed the mark by 500 metres.
Same boat re: audio speed. I actually speed up the voice in the backend by 1.16x . Above that I was getting too many artifacts in the audio. The nice thing about doing it at that point is that I can handle the music and the voice separately, i.e. the speed of the music stays unchanged.

Speeding it up in the player will also speed up the music, which is not very zen. But I guess I'll just add it to the player and let people decide how fast they want to go.
Better be careful. You’re gonna get mobbed and doxed by all the musk sycophants for engaging in wrongthink.
Thanks, that's a bit upsetting :-)
It was designed by former DoubleClick engineers as an afterthought DIY db for another service because no other db met their requirements. Supposedly version 4.2.8 (2020) is fairly solid, i.e. no dirty writes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB#Technical_criticisms
> You can have a mutation that is over-kill and if it doesn't actively impede you in some way, it just stays.

Right, but big brains do actively impede you - they require a lot of energy, so there needs to be some offsetting benefit.
> It is well known that Israel...

It is well known that any cybersecurity aware country... here I point to some papers/articles [1][2][3] just as a reference of the modus operandi, not to isolate a particular country.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.07109

[2] https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/gf7jb/download

[3] https://www.foi.se/download/18.6b6fc4521690ffa2022169/155076...
At this point they should consider a rewirte from scratch. I bet they are running a tech stack from 1992.
For sure many people don't know what it does

Furthermore, a little memory lapse or typo, and, oops! >byebyefile
There's some classic doublespeak in this. The defense of giving people rides to polling places or employers giving time off for people to vote is not considered an inducement for "reasons" they don't elaborate on. If it was there is free rides to anyone from point a to b on this day, then I would agree, but if it's you get a ride to the polling place because it's expected you vote... Also if employer was saying that anyone can have x hours off on the day the vote is held, then that's ok, people can do whatever with free time off, but if it's you get time off because you say you're going to vote... Both would clearly fall in to inducement.

So back to a, we don't like Musk, mantra. Because it's a lottery for a petition. Being registered to vote is a prerequisite, but so is getting that ride to the polling place and that time off to vote.
Meglodon Teeth
I guess so. I clicked on the code for the first one. It’s using a C library to do the computation:

> mpzjs. This library wraps around libgmp's integer functions to perform infinite-precision arithmetic

And then the “array”:

> Buffer.allocUnsafe

So is this a good JavaScript benchmark?
and then the whole phenominon moves up the food chain to crows, specificaly young crows that discover that they can get easy pickings along
certain stretches of roads,only to become road kill themselves,see it each year about this time
anapolis valley to HRM
I'm not into conspiracy theories, but I was told the guide bars on every code (each end, plus middle) is the code for digit 6, so 666 on every one. Something about the mark of the beast on every person. People can find something coincidental when they want I suppose.
Ubuntu 8.04 was my first daily driver. Got it from an issue of Linux Magazine, back when they used to include live CDs. It kept my laptop from becoming a brick after the Windows Vista installation corrupted itself during a long vacation. Everything just worked!