skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I find either a notebook and pen, or butcher paper and pen to be far superior for capturing anything.

I have phases where I convince myself this is true, in between switching back to a note taking app (TickTick last few yrs) and every time I go back it's because it a) has total historical recall + a search box when I want to find something and b) I already carry my phone everywhere, like the grocery store, or I'm on my laptop for work.

Papers only true benefit is focus and "zen" stuff.
Aside from the content of the article (which is great), it’s written in a refreshing, no-frills style that gets to the point and doesn’t smell of “I’m a capital-W Writer, let me show you what I can do.” Wish more pieces were written like this.
The past 30 years of the Linux kernel's evolution has proven that there is no need for a stable kernel ABI. That would make refactoring, adding new features and porting to new platforms exceedingly difficult. Pretty much all of the proprietary kernel modules have either become open source or been replaced by open source replacements. The Linux community doesn't need closed source kernel modules for VMWare anymore, and even Nvidia has finally given up on their closed source GPU drivers. Proprietary Linux kernel modules have no place in the modern world.
Oh this is the oldest trick in the book. If you need to greenwash, then just burn the coal somewhere else. Easy.

Los Angeles has been doing this for decades - for years the largest single energy source for LAPW has been an 1800MW coal burning plant that they operated in Utah, which has very loose environmental regulations.
>> "Could be the reason why both are comfortable going nuclear on each other - they know their users don't have an easy alternative."

I've followed this from the start and as best as I can tell Automattic is the only side that went nuclear. WP Engine sent a C&D, then filed a lawsuit when the attacks persisted, and seems to have gone quiet since then aside from responding to the takeover of ACF.

WP Engine's response is how I expect a professionally-run organization to handle things: address technical issues as they pop up while continuing to provide the service people pay for, but otherwise quietly wait for the trial. Meanwhile there's a new bomb lobbed from Matt Mullenweg 1-2 times a day at WP Engine, the WordPress community, individual contributors, or some combination while Automattic employees are out doing the work of a PR department.
Dimensions:

SE1: 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6

Mini 13: 131.5 x 64.2 x 7.65

Counting the original SE as a mini is perfectly reasonable.

It's also quite clearly what the grandparent comment was referring to.
Can someone link me to an article that explains why C is basically frozen at C99 for all practical purposes? Few projects worth talking about leverage features from C11 and newer
This is not the end. It is the beginning.
Congrats on releasing such a complex tool, that's a big achievement.

Someday, I'd like to try my hand at making my own vector graphics tool that contains a constraint solver. I am just an amateur when it comes to graphic design, but I often find Inkscape incredibly difficult to use. Certain shapes take bizarre combinations of commands to create and once a design is finished it can be hard to make adjustments. I find it much easier to make 2D designs as a fusion 360 sketches because constraining a bunch of lines and curves then playing with measurements is significantly more intuitive and interactive. Also maybe a tool like this already exists and I'm just not aware of it.
My closest solution would be to piggyback off my partner’s iPhone using family watch pairing, and use my own dumbphone.
"Maintenance is never as rewarded as new features,"

And security work is rewarded even less!
Ha! that's the best theory yet
Remember that C++ originally didn't have variadic templates, so something like std::format would have been impossible back in the day. Back in the day, std::iostream was a very neat solution for type safe string formatting. As you conceded, it also makes it very easy to integrate your own types. It was a big improvement over printf(). Historic perspective is everything.
Both articles (there's a sequel) read like not bad flash fiction.
I think the builders of the past would be amazed by modern technology like argon filled double paned windows with advanced window films to reflect the heat instead of letting it in.

But yes, let's bring back the awnings too. Sometimes the low tech ways are easiest and best. I will say that I don't think awnings alone can save a stick built modern house from the heat. Part of the key to old houses staying cool was high thermal mass: lots of brick and stone that could stay cool during the day. As great as modern insulation is at keeping hot and cool separate, a modern insulated wall doesn't cool it's surroundings like a high thermal mass wall would.

Moving to a world where we combine passive cooling and high thermal mass construction with the benefits of modern tech will be key in my opinion.
I feel like I’m kinda being the bad aunt by encouraging -ffast-math. It can definitely break some things (i.e. https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2021/understanding-fast-math/ ) but I use it habitually and I’m fine so clearly it’s safe.
But why cast to it’s own type?
Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong
Very cool.. bravo -- it looks so good
What an awesomely comprehensive resource, reminds me of MITRE ATT&CK.
Seconds, yes. Sorry I figured that was obvious, I'll add it to the graphs I generate next week.
Redbox left PII on decommissioned machines
When you start supporting GPUs, what APIs do you plan to use (cuda, vulkan, dx, etc.)? It would be quite unfortunate to use a non-vendor-neutral API (for both OS and GPU vendor). I would probably use wgpu or vulkan for this.
Do you have a different term you use for when the government is not simply a customer, buying what they need, but intentionally funding a company in excess of the goods and services it receives? This would be more in line with the traditional definition.

I think a company can make 100% of its revenue from the government, but that doesn't mean it is subsidized. The critical criteria is if the government is directing funds for reasons other than pure procurement, such as buying votes, stimulating jobs, ect.
If anything, that's an aggravating circumstance, not an excuse.
A performative personal attack, disguised as helpful suggestion; revealing that the purpose of my engagement was never a serious discussion, but only making myself look good. The use of a semicolon tastefully solidifies my position as a very smart commenter.
IDK how you got that from what I quoted other than just wishcasting it to be the case. There is a 10 second handover window after which the car goes into an emergency stop procedure if the user hasn't taken control.
To encourage this, here in South Australia, households can get free power between 11am and 2pm, to charge their EVs.

We also charge our home batteries and run other things like the dishwasher, washing machine and so on...

It's actually a bit of a thing, where you can be out and the 11am alarms on peoples phones will start going off!
Who then will work to provide these average monthly doses of things they require to stay alive?
Beg bounty hunters are not to blame for utterly abysmal responses by these platforms. Especially after they ghost the researcher and then moan about publication.

Proper response would be to update your program to triage these vulns and thank the researcher for not going public straight away. This current approach is burning a tremendous amount of goodwill.
You can target all and only all criteria at once so only people who fall into all criteria will see the ad. A variation may target a different group and have its own tracking.

If they see the ad they fall into the category combination I specify. If they click the ad then I known all of that stuff about a visitor because I know which visitors clicked and which found their way outside of ads. If they signup or enter email or anything like that then I know exactly who they are for most people. Even if I have only an email but no name I can create a shell profile and use a data broker to find the name behind the email a lot of the time. Then I have everything tied to a person.

Multiply this times thousands upon thousands of ad impressions across multiple campaigns and you can bud a pretty good database with highly specific data. Sure 100% accuracy isn't guaranteed but neither is it guaranteed through more direct data brokers.
Absolutely. Waist circumference should be and is considered as well, especially when evaluating obesity and its comorbities.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7027970/

The combination of BMI and waist circumference is even better.
The "new hotness?" Xeriscape has been promoted at least back to the 1990s.

Palo Verdes can get pretty damn big with significant shade factor, but they tend to blow a coat of a billion tiny yellow flowers in season and make a huge mess that the HOA kvetches about.
Oh ho, you got me. Bruh, if I was here rallying against consumerism with any thought that it would matter, well, I'd be an idiot.
The different X axes are because I figured there's no point having a bunch of graphs which are 90% empty. For a long time we only had base/UFS images. (Even arm64 came a few years later than amd64.)
People have been taking them for decades for other reasons, so if they had side effects reducing max life expectancy worse than being overweight surely we'd know by now.
What a lot of people complain about with Llama is the fact that the weights are open but not the training data and training code. That feels like a red herring to me—code is data and data is code, and we shouldn't require someone to be developing entirely in the open in order for the output to be open source.

The weights are the "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it", to quote the GPL. The rest is just the infrastructure used to produce the work.

Where "open source" is misleading with Llama is that it's restricted to companies under a certain size and has restrictions for what you can and can't do with it. That kind of restriction undermines the freedoms promised by the phrase "open source", and it's concerning to me that people have gotten so fixating on weights vs data when there's a big gap in the freedoms offered on the weights.
I'm wondering how advanced it can get with the math. If it had capabilities like decent symbolic math software, that'd be pretty interesting.
For basic auth it works well, but the challenge comes when you need to integrate with oidc, need to enforce mfa, enable sso etc. session invalidation is also quite complicated.

You need an identity middle man in front of the Postgres identity to tackle these and validate that the session is still active. Last time I looked at electric it was a big challenge to integrate such a service. This might have improved since then however
me @FreeBSD.org. I figured most people reading this would know who I am.
Exercise tracking is a biggie for me.

Integration with Fitness on Apple TV is extremely slick for HIIT and yoga.

Also, the third-party Intervals Pro app has been my go-to running app. I started with Apple+Nike since 2010 and a Fitbit Charge in 2015, but nothing let me customize my workouts as much as the Intervals app.
I got an error after clicking the "Deal with it" button.

Graph successfully started running.

Uncaught (in promise) Error: Unsupported MIME type: application/xml
at Et.a (gif.worker-WYu6DU4i.js:23:56331)
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This might be caused by my workplace enforcing the Okta chrome plugin :(
Would be nice to see how this compares to Linux, I think, for perspective.
I see, this really sheds a lot of light on things. Thanks!
Again, missing the point. Just look at the numbers.

Mainframe manufacturers talk about "huge IO throughputs" but a rack of x86 kit with ordinary SSD SAN storage will have extra zeroes on the aggregate throughput. Similarly, on a bandwidth/dollar basis, Intel-compatible generic server boxes are vastly cheaper than any mainframe. Unless you're buying the very largest mainframes ($billions!), then for the same price a single Intel box will practically always win if you spend the same budget. E.g.: just pack it full of NVMe SSDs and enjoy ~100GB/s cached read throughput on top of ~20GB/s writes to remote "persistent" storage.

The "architecture" here is all about the latency. Sure, you can "scale" a data centre full of thousands of boxes far past the maximums of any single mainframe, but then the latency necessarily goes up because of physics, not to mention the practicalities of large-scale Ethernet networking.

The closest you can get to the properties of a mainframe is to put everything into one rack and use RDMA with Infiniband.
Brandon Sanderson: Spacebar activates your special movement ability, F activates your special attack, watch your power meter--and don't miss the cutscene at the end of the final boss fight!

(From someone who loves Brandon Sanderson)
Out-of-Distribution Machine Learning
> Hohndel clarified that by "clueless", Torvalds was referring to his younger self

As the saying goes "We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy."

Occasionally these are starts of great things.
Everyone says what they are used to is better or more productive. Even in assembly vs ruby, some stuff are much easier in assembly and maybe impossible in ruby afaik
> I don't think it's worth trying to write a rendering engine for HTML. You will never finish - HTML is a spec fully owned by Google and Apple at this point and it's just too complex to implement from scratch.

Andreas Kling, the author of Ladybird browser, proves otherwise.

There is also QML as an alternative for HTML - see Canonic browser: https://www.canonic.com
Nah. It's just the natural semantics -- he added stuff to C, but returned something that wasn't actually more advanced...
I wonder if any of the companies making 9spd clones would be interested in making 8spd clones. It might not be worth it for them, but probably wouldn't hurt to ask, especially if people are actually getting $100 for a set when they dig up some NOS.
Command AI co-founder here. What I'll add to Spenser's nice comment is that there was this strange tension when we were deciding to do this between: (1) Feeling like the only right outcome for a growing startup with runway is to keep going and try to build a massive independent company, (2) Realizing that we can probably grow faster as part of Amplitude (obv with less upside capture)

Obviously if your growth is so epic and you're a top 1% company, the choice is obvious. But there are a lot of companies that are doing well outside of that group that I don't think allow themselves to consider the acquisition route. We were like that until Amplitude reached out and we got good counsel to seriously consider their offer.
I'm just saying, there's nothing "modern" about multi-threading.
Definitely! And in fact, that is on our [roadmap](https://graphite.rs/features/#:~:text=CAD%2Dlike%20constrain...). Maybe you could get involved instead of making something separate.
GCC support has been around since gcc 11 apparently. See table at (1). This is available in ubuntu 22.04. The page below also shows support for C26!

1) https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html#:~:text=C%2B%2B...
This is what real Extreme Programming looks like. Still haven't been anywhere that truly embraces the less popular aspects (pair programming, very short feedback cycles, direct customer involvement).
ptpython is great in this usage
Fixing instance types was probably wrong.

Depends what you're trying to measure, I think? My goal as a FreeBSD developer is to look at FreeBSD performance -- this is both to show the improvements which have been made over the years and to alert me to any performance regressions (I generate these graphs automatically when I build the weekly snapshots).

If you want to compare EC2 to other clouds you would definitely want to use the latest instance generation, of course.
Tables are trivial in comparison to floats. If you think the latter are easy --- there are many (literal) edge-cases to consider.
There’s Argon in those? Interesting. I wonder if anyone’s tried adding an electrode for plasma effects.
This kind of reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys.
For an interesting side piece:

Curiously, however, for a system apparently stultified by the dead hand of government, Australia’s health system far outperforms the free market-based US healthcare system, which spends nearly twice as much per capita as Australia to deliver far worse outcomes — including Americans dying five years younger than us.

The shocking truth: Australia has a world-leading health system — because of governments

Source: https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/10/16/pubic-private-healthcar...

Bypass: https://clearthis.page/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crikey.com.au%2F...

Overall, we now have the fourth-highest life expectancy in the world.

This is contrary to the narrative that pervades the media about our health system — one in which our “frontline” health workers heroically battle to overcome government neglect and inadequate spending, while the population is beset by various “epidemics” — obesity, alcohol, illicit drugs.

In fact, Australian longevity is so remarkable that in August The Economist published a piece simply titled “Why do Australians live so long?”

Other references:

The Economist: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/08/23/why-do-a...

AU Gov Report: Advances in measuring healthcare productivity https://www.pc.gov.au/research/completed/measuring-healthcar...
If nobody paid ransoms, ransomware would cease.

Prosecuting the companies who have paid, disbarring their attorneys, and seizing their assets to pay off future victims of ransomware (so they can replace their systems and data) would stop ransomware.
Thanks for checking it out! I had some help from the many open source projects I made use of :-)
I did that comparison a few years ago: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2021-08-12-EC2-boot-time-be...

Re-running the comparison with Linux AMIs from 2024 is on my to-do list.
>you can actually buy a computer that is compliant and will run Linux out of the box, even if with some glitches.

Note that neither RISC-V nor aarch64 are any worse in that regard.

If anything, they're doing much better platform standardization wise.
I both think this comment is spot on (acquisition theater / cope-core is very real) and what I said was true :)

Obviously, the better financial outcome is to grow huge independently and go public, etc, but there are a lot of good outcomes that are not that.
Ironically macOS is more "open" (as in source available) than Windows.

https://opensource.apple.com/releases/
Years ago I was one of those grumpy-looking guys with a rifle standing next to those "USE OF DEADLY FORCE AUTHORIZED" signs, or directed the responses of said grumpy-looking guys.

This is all anecdotal and will vary wildly by org and era. So if you were to compare, say, a NATO WSA during the Cold War against a modern colocation facility that occasionally trots out crew-served weapons for marketing photoshoots...while both are secure facilities featuring some degree of lethal response capability, these will have very different liability profiles and rules of engagement. But in both cases there will need to be procedures in place for evaluating on-duty armed guards in a manner that doesn't get anyone hurt.

For routine training during shifts, a training exercise is openly declared. This can be done ahead of time, or an evaluator may do so by surprise - it all depends on what procedures and scenarios are being evaluated. Once the evaluator/actor is detected or challenged by guards (or some other threshold is passed during a scenario), an exercise is declared out loud. Normally, this will happen before anyone in that scenario might reasonably need to use force.

Upon exercise declaration this is accompanied by a quick "safety briefing" over the radio to response forces with routine reminders on what to do if an unsafe act occurs, so guard forces know to appropriately pretend (shout "bang", blink flashlight, etc) instead of actually firing upon intruders. There's a degree of make-believe roleplay once the exercise is active, since discharging duty weapons in real life comes with mountains of paperwork that I don't want to think about even decades later. Of course, less harmful forms of force may still be permissible (and expected!), such as various restraint techniques or handcuffing/zip-tying resistant bad guys.

For any competent org, this sort of training happens constantly and with enough variation to keep everyone on their toes. The role of "bad guy" is rotated between different guards, so everyone has a chance to attempt breaking in to various restricted areas and enjoy tasting the various flavors of pavement around base as we tackle each other. An exercise of one type can snowball into another, if I manage to catch some unsuspecting lazy troop unawares and "kill" them (usually with a "Surprise! This is an exercise, you're dead, do not answer your radio."), then while they're tagged out (and chewed on by their sergeants about situational awareness), a quick response force is scrambled from available troops on shift to stop us. By this point everyone on shift will know the situation has escalated from a failed pentest into a nasty wargame and should act accordingly.

Bear in mind that these sorts of live exercises are meant to evaluate procedures and test readiness in situ - the forces involved may suddenly be interrupted by real-world duties and time constraints. Live force-on-force training conducted with blanks, MILES gear, airsoft or whatever less-lethal weapons they have these days would be during designated training time and not on shift.
Awesome! If I ever find the time, I will definitely look into contributing.
<3 thank you!
Andy Weir: Your indomitable human spirit has gotten you far. Now in the face of overwhelming odds, you will need to show resilience and science the shit out of your situation.
For less RAM, try: Dillo, Netsurf, Otter Browser, K-Meleon, Pale Moon, Basilisk, Ultralight.

As an alternative for HTML, why not QML with Canonic browser?
Everything will be using compute shaders for the foreseeable future. [WGPU](https://wgpu.rs/) abstracts that to work with WebGPU on browsers, DirectX/Vulkan on Windows, Metal on Mac, and Vulkan on Linux and Android. There may be opportunities to explore vendor-specific options like CUDA in the far future to leverage a further increase in performance, but compute shaders are portable and nearly as good.
Ooof, savage
Somewhat related to their FUD policy towards linux
Worth noting the Sheryl Sandberg produced “Screams before Silence” which featured many debunked claims about Oct 7.
Ozempic et al are nothing like amphetamines. They definitely have side-effects but we have far, far more evidence that the benefits are outweighed than we did for stimulants in the 80s.
Now that WordPress has taken over the ACF plugin, I wonder if WP Engine holds the trademark for "ACF".
Headstart accelerates software development by up to 100x with Claude
That I agree with in general, though they have different enough business practices that the remedy re:antitrust action could look much different. Perhaps for apple it's allowing multiple storefronts or payment vendors, similar (I know not identical) to MS being required to allow other browsers with parity of access to the OS. For Google maybe some sort of splitup. I'm just throwing these out there though I don't claim to know the best option.