skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, wordpress.org runs at a large loss

Someone's getting paid something for the hosting referrals here:

https://wordpress.org/hosting/

I quote from the page:

> If you do decide to go with one of the hosts below and click through from this page, some will donate a portion of your fee back
Peak Design Everyday Clarino Case for Pixel 9 [video]
Well, the accretion disk surely runs out at some point, and just before that point, shouldn't it look like a quasar in surprisingly empty space?
But they're using the Flutter trademark. It's a fair question. They appear to be using a trademark owned by someone else without permission.
Waddler: Modern DuckDB and MotherDuck Client for JavaScript and TS
According to its web site, eBay, New York Times, Square, American Airlines.
That’s a great question. I was really hooked on Mr. Money Mustache for awhile but his content got old. Levine is harder for me to read. He feels more complex feels more relevant.
> A better comparison would be with C++ or a similarly low-level language.

You probably want the apples-to-apples comparison but this looks an artificially limiting comparison; people are shilling, ahem, sorry, advocating for their languages in most areas, especially web / API servers. If somebody is making grandiose claims about their pet language then it's very fair to slap them with C++ or Rust or anything else that's actually mega ultra fast.

So there's no "better" comparison here. It's a fair game to compare everything to everything if people use all languages for the same kinds of tasks. And they do.
Calling this out. A loop calling a function in terms of style is roughly the same as a function calling itself.
Why use RHEL if you don't want one of the main advantages it offers? There have been numerous exploits that RHEL has been protected against because of SELinux and their policies.

Sure, not all servers need to be secured, but why use RHEL then? Why not use Debian or some RH fork that doesn't have it on by default, or even SuSE?

The people who disable it out of convenience are generally bad admins, and generally being lazy and/or incompetent.
It was a difficult book for me, but it was worth powering my way through it.
Standardizing Automotive Connectivity – Tesla
Flutter showcase is a disgrace, to be honest. Doesn't represent the actual landscape even remotely.
As I said it can prevent and cause cancer with different mechanisms.

1. Immune system kills cancers. T cells attack and try to destroy the cancerous cells and Rapamycin weakens T cell reactions.

2. Rapamycin inhibits the growth of several cancer cell lines.
I can infer enough about you from our conversation to reaffirm my point that human society is predicated on humans being special. It is our instinctive nature to place ourselves upon a pedestal and look down upon all non-human life, and you're demonstrating that in spades.

I'm not going to say this is human nature, because I think all species have the same instinctive frame of mind if we could but communicate with them. I have no doubt that elephants look down upon us as crazy apes, but I have no way to prove that since I don't speak elephant.
> when it comes to the possibility of logic errors, we're in "all things being equal" territory. When it comes to memory safety, we very much are not.

Very well summed. I'll remember this exact quote. Thank you.
> Matt Levines of, say, chemistry or drug development

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sabine Hossenfelder, Brian Greene and many others cover astrophysics, quantum mechanics, particle physics, and other science topics.

I think the challenge is that the sciences are hard and developments there are fairly slow as compared with financial stuff which moves a bit more quickly.
Yes, you may get some swapping, but with a fast SSD that won't necessarily degrade performance too much.

Some RAM is used for file caching and other optional stuff, so not all of the additional usage will translate into swap if RAM is reduced.

MacOS also makes use of RAM compression, which increases the amount of memory pressure that can be sustained before swapping is necessary.

All in all, it's pretty complicated, and the only way to know if a workload will perform acceptably on a machine with less RAM is to try it.
The trouble with this is most users only use one platform and so don't care. They just see the app as badly implemented as it does not match other apps on the platform.
Yes. Python is performant when all the performance-sensitive code is written as extension code.
It is disappointing that the only viable alternative to "liberal bias", at least according to comments here, seems to be "conservative bias". One would hope that there'd be a sizable pool of readers who are not really taking a particular side and would appreciate honest, neutral coverage. That's certainly what I'd appreciate (and pay for).
As the most extreme counterexample of your ... experience[1], someone made a plugin that allowed writing pom files in languages other than XML: https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven/tree/polyglot-0.7.2...

With an especial nod to https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven/tree/polyglot-0.7.2... given this submission

1: I believe that you encountered errors, programming is packed to the gills with them, but correlation is not causation in that just because it did not immediately work in your setup does not mean it's impossible or forbidden
I've so far failed to see why jj needs to reimplement git to add some UI pleasantness.

To me, the real value I saw when playing with jj was the drag-and-drop change history manipulation in the `gg` GUI app -- and as far as I can tell, that could just as well live directly on top of git.

https://github.com/gulbanana/gg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD9L3Mi1Vy4
I'm gearing all my personal tooling stuff towards collecting a ton of data points—screenshots, logs, notes, todos—that I can then pare down over time to make them useful. I've got a similar setup with a central monolith that can handle anything I throw at it from stdout.

Lately, I've been focusing mainly on the collectors because I figure the state-of-the-art in any middleware I write is going to change quickly. I've been playing around with knowledge graphs for visualization and might consider using them as a data store for this kind of thing. I'm still thinking about it. My watchword has been minimalism when it comes to design—no added steps or latency to existing workflows.
Were you actually using Levine's insights in your work previously (like, trading on them)? That is interesting if so. Some of Levine's stuff is relevant to my work and most of it is not, but I never really considered it particularly useful, just entertaining. I suppose it can be useful for its educational value as the article explains.

I do also read his stuff less nowadays. I still enjoy it, but it's not as high a priority for me as it used to be. I think it's the repetition. After 100 "everything is securities fraud" stories, number 101 is less entertaining.

Still a big fan though.
Your brain does burn more glucose when it's working hard and this should cause a noticeable if slight temperature increase in the surrounding environment - so a physical change does take place, just by thinking. Other than that, some extraordinary evidence would be required.
http://archive.today/UoLfN
Use case #1: You have a problem table (e.g. a high-volume events table) that grows non-linearly as your business starts to scale up. A queue + columnar store package like Trench moves the problem table out to a system better equipped to deal with it and lets your DB server handle its relational business in relative peace and quiet.
But they could barely do it without swapping in my experience.

The OS alone takes 2GB or more (200MB just for spotlight iirc), a bit is used for graphics, and once you add a bunch of browser tabs and windows you're easily in a situation where RAM usage is permanently above 80%. You don't feel it as quickly on the M1 but by the time you notice lags it's already swapping 15GB, sometimes for no apparent reason.

I still don't quite get it, on the 16GB Macbook I feel like I can do much more without exceeding 8GB usage.
Thank goodness you're here to tell them that. It would really be a shame if they did threat modeling and determined it was not necessary for their use case. That would make you look goofy and kind of a jerk.
So that means one has to target both GTK and Qt to be native on Linux. Fat chance of that on anything but yet another music player or other relatively trivial UI app.

In any event, that still doesn't answer what it means to be "native"? And my point is I think most definitions are dumb or useless.

If I'm running a GTK desktop, Qt apps are generally not "native" no matter how much theme fuckery one tries. Native can also speak to other common UI affordances and design guidelines, and there sure as hell is nothing like there is in the MacOS world for linux. Some core GNOME and KDE desktop apps maybe, but overall there isn't much adopted standardization in Linux world.

90% of the work I get done involving a GUI outside a browser on Linux usually involves Java, whether it be Intellij, ghidra, etc. Maybe I'll pick up blender from time to time. Audacity, there's a good one, targeting (for now) a cross-platform toolkit that pretends you can have your cake and eat it too - wxWidgets never fooled anyone - they sure as hell don't look native on MacOS, and they invariably look much closer to what they riffed off of, a 90s MFC app. (And wxWidgets wraps GTK and AppKit, so is it native? If so, native is meaningless IMHO. If not, why not?)
It's to reduce unit costs, not engineering costs. They integrated an NVMe controller into the SoC and they can now just buy NAND chips instead of full SSDs.

Soldering them to the board is just an asshole thing to do though, especially since these machines can't boot off of USB if the NAND dies. Surely some elastomer BGA sockets wouldn't cost that much. There's no sane explanation other than they're doing it so you have to buy a new Mac to get more storage.
This is very cool. Here is interesting application of something like this. My handwriting is pretty bad, and worse still when writing fast. When I am teaching, a lot of what I write is worse than I would like it to be.

I could teach a system like this my very slow neat handwriting. And then as I write on my whiteboard while teaching, it replaces my quick bad handwriting with the neater handwriting.
Utter guesswork on my part, but this just feels like the software probably isn’t ready to ship, so it’s a case of using the excuse of legislation to buy as much time as humanly possible to improve it before a wider rollout. Source: LLM development in general — massively promising but perhaps not the Swiss Army knife every PM assumed it would be.
If you need a citation to understand, then nothing will get through to you. Apple glued in their batteries before "it was a thing" and implemented parts pairing DRM "before it was a thing" too. Whatever era you worked at Apple during, the company is changed now and has been changed for over a decade. Their modern rhetoric proves they detest the Reduce, reuse, recycle hierarchy that defines how "green" is and has been defined. You can prove that Apple is anti-green through basic examination of their modern business model:

- They deliberately limit the functionality of devices unsupported by their first-party services (eg. App Store and Safari) which prevents reduction of new hardware required. Third-parties are prevented from offering serious and lasting alternatives.

- They've systematically prevented repair of both their laptop and phone hardware, obviating the "reuse" part of the cycle. In their current scheme, independent repair shops are deliberately and unnecessarily cut off from the parts they need to repair Apple hardware at-cost.

- Their stance towards recycling is asinine and insidious. Since store owners can't recycle partially-broken hardware as donor boards and users can't extend the use of their devices once iOS stops supporting them, Apple graciously offers to take your valuable hardware for free and destroy it for parts or materials for their own benefit. Users aren't expected to want any better and instead are supposed to thank Apple for pocketing their broken hardware to pay for Carbon Credits and Mother Nature spotlights.

Apple's "serious" dedication to the environment is a joke, and the cracks have been showing for a while. They prioritize obstinate and unnecessary proprietary features instead of differentiating themselves through natural competition on their merits. If it wasn't for regulatory concern Apple would continue abusing the environment and people like you would keep defending Apple regardless.

This is bad. I expect better.
I can no longer speak for the Google team (since I no longer lead it), but my understanding is that yes, Google is focusing their efforts on other platforms rather than Desktop (despite themselves using Flutter on Desktop for a variety of platforms). Canonical is contributing to the Desktop efforts substantially.
How is a "prediction market" different to gambling?
Yes I expect there may be some micro-optimizations that are available on CUDA, such as using bits of PTX in places.

And if the GPU provides some sort of matrix-multiplication on FP64, that we're not currently making use of -- clearly that would be a big opportunity.

But somebody needs to implement it, profile, test.. on some HW.
Out of curiosity, what proof are you expecting to get? An internal Google usage report and a list of developer names that work on core infra?
I factory reset a 2012 Mac book pro that was needed for a client to use to check emails and use the web browser. Device was instantly blocked by Apple from accessing most websites because the factory version of the OS was deemed insecure by Apple. This included blocking the updater from being able to update the device via the web to a safe version of the OS that was available. What was supposed to be a 1 hour service became about 4 hours of me reading online trying to work out wtf was going on. Then I had to spend time navigating my way around the nightmare of distro hopping it up OS updates manually til it got to the most recent "safe" supported os version.

Device works completely fine and lives behind a well secured network (battery was stuffed but it lives plugged in). Apple took it upon themselves to dictate to the user that it was no longer fit for operation. Apples solution was "replace the device and send the old one to landfil.

Apple literally greenwash their entire business model. But they are one of the most wasteful companies around.

Meanwhile I'm still reformatting 8, 12 and 15 year old windows pcs with Linux and putting them back into service for email checking and basic web browsing without a single hiccup. Saving more and more from landfil, they get used once in a blue moon but it's literally all the owners want. They don't mind waiting a bit for stuff to turn on, hell plenty of them are over 60, they've spend their life being patient and a few mins to make a cuppa while something turns on is a blessing to them.
Derek Lowe is the Matt Levine of chemistry and drug development. https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline
His "Things I Won't Work With" series is legendary even in HN.

Ann Lipton is the Matt Levine of business law.
https://www.businesslawprofessors.com/author/alipton/
“Supported by Google” doesn’t communicate “owned by Google”, and anyway, marketing text in the middle of the page is not particularly telling. I expect a site about some technology to have an About page with some information about who is behind it and who funds it.

Compare https://go.dev/project which explicitly mentions that Google runs the show. The front page makes it clear that Google runs the language’s cloud infra. Plus there’s the Google logo in the footer.

The Flutter page never mentions who runs it. If it’s independent but sponsored by Google, there ought to still be people involved. If it’s owned by Google, it should be clear about it, and not just indirectly mention it.
Are you like the king of awful, straw-man analogies or something? Will just say I think your attempt to redefine this podcast and the Freakonomics brand to just "light, fluffy entertainment" is BS. These other comments put it better:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975615

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975342
Spooky action at a distance I presume would refer to the sudden reification of a type variable that is established as an existential based on its use in a non-obvious part of the code base. For example, a common one is writing a monadic expression using `do` notation with an existential monad (but not an explicitly typed one) and then one of your monadic actions happens to have a particular type. Suddenly, you'll get a slough of error messages regarding type mismatches, perhaps missing constraints, etc.
Microprocessor's Romance with Integers
An article I wrote on how subtraction (or basic arithmetic) works inside the processor. I wondered it one day and went deep into up till registers. This resulted in me learning about how exactly CPU executes code.

Its from a few years back but never posted on HN. The content is timeless because basics stay more or less the same.

Let me know your honest thoughts. I love going deep into questions my mind gets stuck on. Let me know if you want me to continue this deep dive:D
Seems like there is a lack of power supply design expertise there, maybe due to certification requirements or possibly just the margins on a replacement PSU is much less than something like a flash cart or HDMI solution. I personally wouldn't dare to design a PSU: I would probably burn my house down.

My hope is that certified designs that target various DC voltages will cover a lot of use cases.

EDIT: Oh sorry I misread your comment. You are claiming there is a large selection already? I don't see it as often as I see other 'mods'. Are you speaking about any particular vintage computing/gaming community in particular? For consoles all I see is junk coming out of China. I've been burned too many times by that.
Unification, etc, is one of the good use cases of the so-called Tardis monad.
I understand the reaction of people canceling their subscription, but I think it is a mistaken one.

To me it is looks a lot like punishing the victim.

The primary victim here is WP whose employees didn't do anything wrong in this situation and didn't have much of the choice.

Even Bezos, at worst, is the person who didn't manage to stand under pressure put on him.
I believe it. I've never worked at Google, but I was the engineer for SMS/Voice registration at WhatsApp, ocassionally with one other engineer (I believe the team was 3 when I left, not sure if it grew); I think there were two engineers doing my job for Facebook; although they had a little bit more scope, since there were more kinds of SMS they sent. That doesn't have a huge request rate, but it is super important.

Something like DNS or BGP is going to have a tiny team and a huge impact. Load balancers probably has a bigger team, maybe 10-20 engineers, and almost everything goes through load balancers. And that's just the things that are easy to enumerate. I can think of lots of small teams when I was at Yahoo that worked on bits of software that are hard to explain, but were critical.
That's part of it - GAN-FETs are becoming very popular in the audio world (e.g. the Peachtree GaN power amps).
Don’t be fooled by the “non-profit” label. Many are as greedy as for-profit hospitals, except that the money goes to execs and their friends instead of shareholders.
AI startup Sierra is being valued at $4.5B with $20M ARR
Chinese food culture is very tied to geography in my experience. Mentioning where the astronauts were from was a charming touch.
Try doing a binary tree with tail recursion.
As far as I know even the newest iPad Pro is limited to 5GB per app, so if you use it for things like drawing in Procreate the 16GB upgrade does literally nothing.
Swapping is fine as long as performance remains acceptable. Obviously at some point it won't – the 8GB models do have limits. But these limits are often wildly exaggerated in this sort of discussion.
and yet you continue to moan about your NPC problem when the right product for you already exists?
After updating my Google Pixel and some cleaning I get these kind of messages on some apps (including apps that come with the phone like Google Map, Drive, etc): The app installed on your device didn't come from Google Play...

The apps were previously updated from regular Google Play. Not all my apps have these messages.

To make things more suspicious I tried to post on a few subreddits and the body of the message is removed.
The problem with prediction markets is that they are tiny and restricted to individuals.

Last election cycle I was able to handily "win" a bit of money on PredictIt by just looking at polling data and betting the line. Markets are heavily distorted, but the max I could bet is $800 so there's no way a handful of informed "investors" (gamblers) could un-distort the market.

The only way to actually get the markets efficient and predictive would be to bring in huge money from things like hedge funds. But then you obviously have a much bigger problem where there's suddenly huge financial incentives for interfering and tampering in elections.
haha I hope he does
I’ve heard from lawyers there is a reason but I’ve never heard the explanation so I’m sorry that I can’t share one :(

Is there any chance someone else could clear this up?
Wow, that's longer than it takes me to find a working Lightning cable most days.
Of the three, I always loved That Hideous Strength the most. The first two, which I think are good, were too much like travelogs, but the third had a pretty decent story.
An endorsement from the editorial desk of a paper is entirely orthogonal to neutral news coverage from the reporting desk.

One of the major reasons for concern here is that the non-endorsement was the result of executive meddling by Bezos. If he's stepping in to override the paper's editorial positions, who's to say he wouldn't also interfere if the paper were to report on something he found inconvenient?
Citation: MacBook Pro with 8GB memory, starting at $1,599, on sale right now.
I think it’s a mistake to broadly think of open source maintainers as vendors of free software, whose “job” is to make their users happy. Maintainers can do what they want. Complaining about missing features is like coming into someone’s house and criticising their furniture.

The most important button on GitHub isn’t “create issue”. It’s “fork”. Use it to fix your own problems.

When “users” and “potential developers” don’t have overlap, the developers often feel pressure to act as unpaid customer support reps. We should normalise telling beggars to move on.
Not in terms of colors but the 5K panel (I assume from LG) was more uniform in the blacks and suffered from almost no IPS glow. Not a big deal. The Asus is great for the price paid.

Obviously big difference in DPI too, but 4K still looks great at 32''.

For reference, I'm using the PA329CV. I don't know if all ProArt monitors use the same quality of panel.
>You're also forgetting that inflation doesn't just affect assets, it also affects living necessities (and that's how it's defined in fact), so it's unclear how this is a net gain for asset holders.

Because the rate of increase of asset prices is quicker than that of other prices, namely labor. Hence the griping by young people about wages not keeping up with costs over the past many decades.

Again, it’s not all old people, but a significant proportion are going to be pissed if their 401k show declines or even stagnation at this point. You can even include soon to be old people here, the 50+ year olds that are invested.