skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just get going. Quoting https://randsinrepose.com/archives/your-writing/ :

* Less than 1% of your writing will be life-changing.

* 3% will be trivial to write.

* 4% will strongly resonate with others in a way you didn’t expect.

* 5% will be quite good.

* 15% probably should’ve never been published.

* 26% will elicit a reaction you did not expect. Positive or negative.

* 28% will become vastly better because you chose to edit.

* 30% will start as one piece but finish as another.

* 40% will be good solid writing.

* 45% will do much worse than you expect when published.

* 60% of your writing will never be finished. Be ok with that.

* 100% of your writing is worth your time.
My litmus test for whether an open source application is reliable is whether it has a website or it links to its github page (sourceforge is ok).
Many of them.

Its easy to fake one metric, it harder to consistenly paly around 100 of them.

(But then it’s no longer KPIs probably, as one looking at the data needs to recognise that details and nuance are important)
If an AI can barf up a first draft before I need to actually engage my brain with the underlying material, is that a bug or a feature? Probably the former.

If I were teaching at a university, I think I could not assign essay grades until i sat down with every student for a quick Q&A on the subject of their paper. That would reveal the plagiarists and charlatans and lame non-thinkers.
There are old books about the kingdoms far far away. Ancient Greek legends were enjoyed by renaissance era people who've never even been to Greece. And let's be real those penny dreadfuls with supernatural horror elements weren't that different from superhero comics when it comes to how detached from reality they are.

And of course there's the religious texts. They often have a heavy focus on abstract things like afterlife that are very much detached from our daily life, but they're also very often foreign imports as well. Christianity is popular in Europe but its roots are in the middle east, and buddhism is very popular in east asia but its origins are in south asia. I think a certain desire for escapism is one reason why this is the case.

In fact, one distinctive feature of the last century was that organized religion became less relevant to many western people. Perhaps you could argue that fiction filled the void? Kind of like how the rise of protestantism removed a lot of catholic rites and rituals from northern europe and to fill the void things like freemasonry became really popular.
> ditch Visual Studio for Visual Studio Code

How has Microsoft ditched VS for VSCode? VS is lightyears ahead in features and performance.

The two are not even remotely comparable. VSCode is a text editor that wants to be an IDE, but if you work with C++ or .NET you're shooting yourself in the foot if you use VSCode.

VSCode is not a serious alternative to VS or other IDE's like JetBrains Rider.
I couldn't get through this. Dunking on Star Wars, LOTR, and NATO strategy all at once. Someone hire this guy immediately and make him executive director at the ministry of creative arts and war!

I thought I was going into a piece of writing that would be critical of drawing comparisons between fantasy and the real world, but the author did the exact opposite. He drew the comparison between the Ukraine counter-offensive and magic swords, and put those words into NATO's mouth.
I'd disagree for two reasons:

- Humans can easily treat other humans as things as well. Humans being special is to me more or a convenient fiction than something really at the core of our societies.

- For such a long time, we didn't have to care whether humans need to be separated from animals, the value scale was pretty flat in that respect. In many circumstances a horse from a higher up would be more important than a peasant's life.
Hiding data/code in Android APK embedded signatures
Perhaps you're not aware that Inuit lived without plants for most of the year and did well?

Maybe take a look at this documentary, which touches on the story of a vegetarian who ended up living with the Inuit and his experiences. It's a good place to start to expand your knowledge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVJM_0XEiBI&pp=ygUPZmF0IGRvY...
That's the thing, though, the compat story is terrible. I can't say much about the backwards one, but Microsoft has started the process of removing features from the native versions just to lower the bar for the web one catching up. Even my most Microsoft-enamoured colleagues are getting annoyed by this (and the state of all-MS things going downhill, but that's another story)
James Cameron: Special Video Message at the SCSP AI+Robotics Summit
You must be unlucky, according to Openreach "fibre broadband is already available in more than 96.59 per cent of the UK."
Is it not better to set CanvasBlocker RNG mode to 'perisitent', so that for the same domain you get a same fingerprint?
Can this be put in analogy to arithmetic and calculators? People had to be a lot better at mental math and calculator removed the pressure. You could imagine making similar arguments that losing the ability would be disastrous. The reasons it wasn’t was 1) people still learn and get tested in school without calculator 2) they still need to do enough mental math in day to day life without a calculator at hand so the ability hasn’t just gone to zero. Net result is people are mostly fine and there is a net improvement in arithmetic correctness across economy. Other similar aids: spellcheck, google translate, …. I feel some hesitation that these concerns are time invariant. The argument is probably that writing is different.
It really is a nice way to travel. I did SF → Orlando and back a handful of times.
The trouble with that is that it doesn't scale time-wise (not with 50+ seat classes)
Not open source but Free Libre (GPL) can become a genuine alternative provided it's implemented widely and followed honestly.
The Limits to Growth and The Population Bomb were published in the early 1970s. These books convinced many developed world politicians to put a break on almost all large scale infrastructure projects. Slowly the ideas of degrowth and depopulation have been pushed through many areas of society and culture.

One small exception, the sudden U-turn on nuclear power last month after 40 years of not building a nuke plant was only made possible by the dire need to beat China in the AI military race. Little of that power will go to civilian use and will be used to power massive data centers.

The failure to build hi-speed rail in the United States is a huge contrast to the non-stop obsession with climate change legislation, administrative agency activities and diplomacy that go on. It's so boring that nobody reports on it, but since I follow the energy sector I get the news alerts and there are non-stop climate negotiations, policy making and legislative pushes and so forth to do everything possible to implement the Limits to Growth and Net Zero 2050 agenda. Voters rank it fairly low on their list of issues they are concerned about though.

If you want to get really dark, there's this guy who's been popular in left of center intellectual publications pushing "Degrowth Communism" which is like communism but there is no prosperity for workers, just endless lowered standards of living to save the planet.
>If you pair that with some OSINT skills, you can learn pretty much anything about anyone from a single leak.

If you need more anxiety, just think about the hottest technology right now that is capable of relating massive amounts of data instantly :-)

SQL isn't ready for AI.
I don't buy this argument. It's simplistic and IMO wrong on multiple accounts.

Big tech can totally sell "FOSS services" and provide ground works for it, like some of it do - you don't have to lock people with proprietary stuff.

Even more, big IT tech couldn't exist without FOSS in this form and shape, while the opposite is not true.
If you prefer to read, there is also the long-form post of Shareholder Supremacy which is IMO excellent: https://www.wheresyoured.at/tss/
Software license may not consciously matter to end users, but they do have a huge impact on everything else. That is, the end user would not have the software, or would have vastly different software, if the licenses were different. They just don't know and don't care about the licensing details and effects, like so many other technical aspects.
I thought Microsoft had one monorepo. Isn't that kind of the point? How many do they have?
I have found journalling to be pretty effective about anything. Most times when I meet a block, I write about it. Doesn't require tons of experience to journal about stuff.
Email in the drafts folder on my phone
This is as long as you don't take _risk_ into account.

RedHat providing OSS licensed software is _less_ risk than RedHat providing proprietary closed source operating system.
the creator fans still exist, but many don't want to deal with threats of copyright enforcement from the popular publishers
> Really interesting and a great win for OSS!

Are they going to be opening a merge request to get their custom git command back in git proper then?
>100,000 lines of multithreaded C++

>potentially introduce memory safety vulnerabilities across the myriad of applications that would eventually need to support it

Right, new code, new vulnerabilities.
Interesting statistic: before the Norman conquest, a typical person was 10-40% Anglo-Saxon. We seem to overuse that term even though the Norman conquest radically reshuffled the prevailing ethnic group and language.
filter-repo is the recommended way these days:

https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo
I am on Safari and if I open two private windows with this websites it will give me two different signature values.

Chrome on the other hand will be give me two identical values.

So I guess Apple is doing something ...
I assume they don’t have a lot of F-150s in Paris, either.
The total IQ on the planet remains constant even as the number of people increase, I guess. Although I really wasn't expecting the average to go down this fast--consider the idealistic and rationally thorough political speeches of the 70s and 80s, and the way things went quickly downhill from there...

As someone said, it's no wonder The Matrix chose the 90s as the peak of human civilization.
Yet again, Paul Graham states his view that people other than him are incapable of thought. I'm shocked at how frequently he does this. I would be embarrassed to make such an assertion in public even once, let alone repeatedly. While the notion that AI will replace writing is somewhat prescient, the idea that it will replace thought most certainly isn't. Paul Graham is someone who writes to think, therefore he assumes writing is the only way to think. Entirely consistent with his massive and unrelenting ego and simultaneous total lack of empathy or understanding of the differences between people. I shall leave you with this quote of his—the most sneering text I've ever read:

“It's not surprising that conventional-minded people would dislike inequality if independent-mindedness is one of the biggest drivers of it. But it's not simply that they don't want anyone to have what they can't. The conventional-minded literally can't imagine what it's like to have novel ideas. So the whole phenomenon of great variation in performance seems unnatural to them, and when they encounter it they assume it must be due to cheating or to some malign external influence.” - https://paulgraham.com/superlinear.html#f12n

There you have it folks. The genius Paul Graham is one of a select few people with the ability to have ideas, something which those who disagree with him are simply incapable of comprehending.
Hi! Please, I also have a few questions:

1. I guess the most time consuming part is multiplication, right? What kind of FFT do you use? Schönhage-Strassen, multi-prime NTT, ..? Is it implemented via floating-point numbers or integers?

2. Not sure if you encountered this, but do you have any advice for small mulmod (multiplication reduced by prime modulus)? By small I mean machine-word size (i.e. preferably 64-bits).

3. For larger modulus, what do you use? Is it worth precomputing the inverse by, say, Newton iteration or is it faster to use asymptotically slower algorithms? Do you use Montgomery representation?

4. Does the code use any kind of GCD? What algorithm did you choose?

5. Now this is a bit broad question, but could you perhaps compare the traditional algorithms implemented sequentially (e.g. GMP) and algorithm suitable to run on GPUs? I mean, does it make sense to use, say, a quadratic algorithm amenable to parallel execution, rather than a asymptotically faster (and sequential) algorithm?
If you're a government you absolutely have the ability to compete with big tech, it's "just" a matter of political will. If you decide that it's important enough you can hire competitively from the same talent pool. Strategically it makes little sense to depend on another nation's companies to run your critical infrastructure. You have to own your dependencies.
You can't run a 120 billion dollar bond trading operation with like 4 people.

That amount of money is a huge amount of work to manage no matter what you are trading.

The simple explanation of how they do this is that they don't have anything close to 120 billion to manage.

It is really a sociological and network experiment of how long fraud can persist when the fraud is in the short term interest of all nodes of the network.

I suspect the reason Bernie Madoff was able to persist for so long is that many of the investors thought he was front running trades because of his position with Nasdaq. People tend to be fine with fraud if they are directly benefiting from the fraud and only risking their capital in the process.

Time is not a good measure of non-fraud. That is just a rationalization because any crypto investor has to basically keep the idea of a tether fraud out of their head at this point considering the risk to the ecosystem would be so catastrophic.

What does actually grow in time is the risk to the network.
I have used dedicated alarm clocks until the death of my parents, and then I have retired the clocks. One of them was a Sony clock/radio that might have been similar to yours, which I had given to my mother because it had very big digits, so she could see the time clearly from a long distance.

Another alarm clock had been built by my father, some 50 years ago, from medium-scale integration TTL circuits, before the apparition of dedicated integrated circuits for clocks. It still worked perfectly, and because it used a thermo-compensated quartz oscillator it had a much higher accuracy than the cheap quartz clocks or watches that can be bought now.

Since then, whenever I need an alarm or to know the time, I just use a smartphone or computer. I was born much earlier, so I have used dedicated alarm clocks for several decades, but I do not like to use superfluous things, so I no longer use dedicated alarm clocks (or wrist watches or TV sets etc.).

That does not mean that I do not like clocks, either mechanical or electronic. I like them, but I do no longer need them, so I like to examine them like I like to examine some ancient sword, which is beautiful, but for which I do not have any use in my daily life.
It's useful for ideation: suggesting ideas and concepts that you might not think of. A bit like a conceptual thesaurus. But it doesn't replace the hard work of thinking for yourself.
Best-selling author Stephen Hawking?
For what it’s worth, I don’t think “reasoning” and “conveying that reasoning via writing” are quite as siloed as you suggest. Many people write long and complicated sentences in a first draft, but it is the subsequent drafts where that initial block of mental marble is carved and honed into a compelling argument. I believe it is in fact that very act of redrafting — seeing one’s work through the eyes of others — that leads to one’s own greater understanding. Skipping that step with AI limits that potential to whatever ended up in the first draft, and Hemingway’s words apply to far more than fiction.
I am one of the 10 users[1] in the world that uses Docker Swarm (container orchestrator like Kubernetes or Nomad), and I disagree with that statement. I have over 25 containers running (including Jellyfin, Nextcloud, Gitea, TeamSpeak, ...) and it barely uses 10GB of RAM (Jellyfin is eating up more than half of this).

Most of my Compose files contain 2 services (1 for app + 1 for database), but some contain 3 and some contain 1. It's incredibly easy to install new software and incredibly easy to shut it down temporarily if you don't need to use it all day.

I'd even argue that some companies would benefit more from using Swarm than Kubernetes. There is a lot of things to take into account when using Kubernetes (let alone setting it up for GitOps), but Docker Swarm can be managed by 1 person.

[1]: A joke, obviously, but it really isn't popular at all
Arithmetic tends to be a one-shot thing to perform a step in a daily activity. Writing tends to be about planning or communicating more complex things.

Not that, say, doing long division in your head isn't a valuable skill, mind.
tl;dr version:

- Use not one, but many metrics (article mentioned 600)

- Recognize that some metrics you control directly (input metrics) and others you want to but can’t (output metrics).

- Constantly refine metrics and your causal model between inputs and outputs. (Article mentions weekly 60-90min reviews)

Edit: crucial part, all consumers of these metrics (all leadership) is in this.
Yep. Even if it is used on the 1% of websites it's still a usage. Sure, I don't expect it to be used as commonly as a regular number.
now i really want pancakes.
They are all useful tools, but I think it's important to keep them in context. I feel like what most people want is the automatic SQL generation from their general purpose language of choice. That and a migration framework. But none of them should be considered a no brainer because they all come with considerable downsides. One of the most difficult things I've found in complex, long running projects is people clinging on to the ORM long after it's ceased to be useful. SQLAlchemy at least lends itself better to proper architecture with it's data mapper, but Django really doesn't like being relegated to a lower level.
Lazarus v4.0rc1
People used to take the Bible and other religious texts very seriously, and they believed in their literal truth -- far more than they believed in the truth of the Iliad or Charlemagne's Paladins. What's more, the Bible mostly presents something like a historical account with supernatural effects. So I'm not sure what we can draw from this.

> What is the first noteworthy piece of fiction set in a fictional land? "Alice in Wonderland", perhaps?

Maybe Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene? Its connection to our real world is tenuous at best, I'd say.
I actually find it a bit surprising that they have not used AES-NI until now, as it has been around for over a decade. In my experience it's about 2-6x faster than ChaCha20 (I use and benchmark both in <https://codeberg.org/ezcrypt/ezcrypt>), which ought to be a huge benefit for ransomware that needs to encrypt the data as quickly as possible (before someone pulls the plug).

I get that portability and robustness across a wide range of targets is key for software like this (and as such ChaCha20 is a good choice as it's the fastest algorithm for pure software implementation, given same level of encryption strength), but the solution used by Qilin.B seems like a no-brainer (prefer AES-NI but fall back to ChaCha20 for ancient machines).

Edit: I also find the title misleading. AES-256 isn't really "stronger" than ChaCha20, it's only faster when the CPU has the AES-NI extension.
> Consequently, the challenge—getting to superconductivity at temperatures above 0 degrees Kelvin (-273.15 degrees Celsius) at ambient pressure—remains a holy grail of physics and materials science.

This alone cannot be a correct statement, because the 3. Law of Thermodynamics states that you cannot reach 0 degrees Kelvin. So I think we already got some working superconductivity at room temperature by that definition.

The author clearly has not the knowledge to write over this so I stopped reading there. Also it cannot be a typo, since he even explains the corresponding degree in Celsius
I think this is a good comparison.

I wonder if some people would argue that it _was_ disastrous though?

We seem to struggle with things like putting people on the moon and not making airplanes fail compared to 50 years ago.

Maybe there was some critical mass of mental maths skills that engineers had in the 60s that we've lost now? Are we still inventing things at the same rate as before?
I'm sorry for your experience with second level managers. For me they were all very chill and friendly, so it's definitely not a hard rule that all higher managers are bad.
Some one gave me a disc with software on it for free. To me that sounds like free software I received. Even if the code is entirely proprietary.

Or I download something like Irfanview for free from internet. That for consumer is free software to use...

It is clearly bad term when it can be used to mean entirely different thing in regular and common use.
Ever since they enshrined the Unix Philosophy into law, it's been touch-and-go for monorepotic corporations.
An API to clean geoloc addresses with AI
# LocationBot

Enhance your applications with accurate location extraction. LocationBot is a powerful tool that parses country, state, and city information from any string—even with spelling errors—ensuring reliable geolocation data for seamless automation.

## Features

- Extract location information (country, city, street) from text input
- Handles spelling errors and variations in location names
- Easy integration with Node.js applications
- Utilizes a robust backend API for accurate results

## Installation

Install LocationBot using npm:

```bash
npm install locationbot
```

or

```bash
yarn add locationbot
```

## Usage

Here's an example of how to use LocationBot in your application:

```javascript
const { LocationBot } = require('locationbot');

const locationBot = new LocationBot('your-api-key');

locationBot.extractLocation('123 Main St, New York, USA').then((result) => {
console.log(result);
});
```
There seems to be a modern fallacy which says that everything is knowable, and what is knowable is expressible. It seems all thoughts should have a lead weight tied to them so that they stay nicely on the ground where they can be admired, discussed and replicated. No wonder our age so pedestrian.
The article says "That's why I've spent way too long thinking about the optimal arrangement of keys on a keychain, to reduce egress time to a minimum.

If you need to find your keys to get out of your house, that's not ideal in an emergency. I think the author is talking about ingress, getting into one's home.
Agreed. Factorio is a fantastic game and it ran so Satisfactory can fly. With every update (and with release) Satisfactory keeps upping the complexity. I would be extremely happy if Factorios development helped push Satisfactory in this way and led to more maps (planets!)
Car designs have converged because there are certain properties that are better than others for safety, performance, efficiency, and so on. Those concerns are arguably much more important than aesthetics or the ability to express one’s individuality.

Not really the case for PCs.