skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know whether QM2 or other Cunard ships have any special equipment for crossings, but pretty much all cruise ships have stabilizers. Other cruise lines also do trans-Atlantic crossings cruises when re-positioning ships between seasons.
Adding custom instructions for GitHub Copilot
>The compositor has a frame to paint and it can't have to wait on applications.

This is the source of the visual artifacts this article is trying to prevent, however. Sure, you probably don't want to block resize for multiple seconds, but in general the compositor is very responsive. The app may not be. If you just let the window chrome resize as fast as you get, what do you do with the rest of the window? Leave it transparent? Draw a default black or white area? Both are very ugly and very noticeable in practice.

This is the part of the problem space I know the most about - for a number of years I owned window chrome on Windows (don't blame me for the 1px border and way-too-subtle shadows, but after being overruled by PM/design, yes, I was responsible for implementing them).

As far as custom decorations - that is a lost battle. Companies and apps want their special design language and will simply not build for your product/operating system/compositor/whatever if you don't give them that kind of support. Twitter and Facebook both want their specific shade of blue and their specific font. Adobe is....well, let's not talk about Adobe. Browser tabs in the title bar are a P0 requirement these days and anyone who doesn't support that will be laughed out of the room. Etc., etc.
Yet Google and Anthropic wanted in on the huge data that GitHub has to offer. It seems the world has not moved on just yet.
I had the same experience migrating to their CRM. Half of what they promised was technically possible, but oh, we actually need the next tier of licensing which was like 10x more per month than the licensing we were told would work. The other half, like you said, was hacky and "in development". It was an a absolute nightmare and made me look incompetent because I had to explain to my superiors that I was essentially lied to.
+ there are cars without these tools for fools.

and hackers who share how to disable them.
> OTOH, it's an improvement over the other world of solving everything through "discipline" and other kinds of wishful thinking.

kinda, the truth is somewhere in between in my opinion.

most things related to our body movement do require training to be mastered.

I think that writing is no different endeavur. It's just that fountain pens can make it more pleasant.
Discussion a few weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41749592
This is ridiculous. You grade people to a standard, not against each other. Stack ranking Jack Welch-style is basically operating under the assumption that if you had Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, and Jeff Bezos on a team, that one of them would have to get a shitty grade and be fired.

All it does is make true talent not want to work with other true talent for fear they get screwed over.
Times have changed, now the living are treated no better. I kid, I kid.
Stockfish uses a neural net optimized for CPU called NNUE for static evaluation. They have not used a heuristic evaluator for some time now. In fact it is removed from the code base.
I’ve lived in Berlin for the last 11 years and have never seen the phenomena you describe (I wish I had them in my neighbourhood!)
Sure, but note that unlike the aliasing overhead the C programmer can just specialise by hand to get the same results.

Also, sorting is something where algorithmic improvement makes a sizeable difference so you need to be sure you're either measuring apples vs apples or that you've decided up front what your criteria are (e.g. lazy people will use the stdlib so only test that; or nobody sorts non-integer types so I only test those)

For some inputs if you're willing to use a specialist sort the best option today is C. If you care enough to spend resources on specialising the sort for your purpose that's a real option. Or alternatively if you can't be bothered to do more than reach for the standard library of course Rust has significantly faster sort (stable and unstable) than any of the three C++ stdlibs. Or maybe you want a specialized vector sort that Intel came up with and they wrote it for C++. Hope portability wasn't an issue 'cos unsurprisingly Intel only care if it works on Intel CPUs.
Apple's silicon is good but I don't see what's so special about all the other stuff. Looks like they just solder components to the motherboard instead of using industry standard interfaces.
NVIDIA Ethernet Networking Accelerates Largest AI Supercomputer, Built by XAI
Nope, one of them is Flutter (I know team PM personally). Which one?
Microsoft Windows is a non-starter though.
I mean, the books definitely show lots of "real" jobs, and ones people wouldn't necessarily be naturally passionate about.

What's missing is all the bullshit jobs and awful management. But, even if you wanted to, you probably couldn't really convey that in a children's book... Hell, even most adult books fail to capture just how bullshit the bullshit is!
seeing as how windows overwhelmingly owns the desktop market i would suggest it is in fact not a deal breaker for most people.
History has shown being first to market isn't all it's cut out to be. You spend more, it's more difficult creating the trail others will follow, you end up with a tech stack that was built before tools and patterns stabilized and you've created a giant super highway for a fast-follower. Anyone remember MapQuest, AltaVista or Hotmail?

OpenAI has some very serious competition now. When you combine that with the recent destabilizing saga they went through along with commoditization of models with services like OpenRouter.ai, I'm not sure their future is as bright as their recent valuation indicates.
You can (and it would't look that different).

I left the Old Country for my adopted country in part because it reminded me of "What do people do all day" – although I was not conscious of the resemblance until my father, having seen the not-a-pig dude from the city coming around with a little vehicle specially outfitted to water various geraniums, pointed it out.
Use Twitter lists to bypass the algorithm:

1. Create a list of accounts you want to follow at https://x.com/<your_username>/lists

2. Bookmark your list instead of the main feed

3. Optional: Use a browser extension to auto-redirect to your list

Result: A chronological feed without algorithmic interference.
The on-chip RAM means that you can run models on the CPU that would require the GPU on a peecee.
This is an honest question for people still using X/Twitter and yet complaining about it: why?

It's been obviously going downhill for a while and the reason has been obvious too. The leadership doesn't care about your concerns.

Why not stop using it or move to something else?

There are a bunch of alternatives out there and most people don't have a job that requires them to specifically use Twitter.

Unlike Facebook, where I know I have missed out on communities by not using it, I don't feel like I've ever lost anything by not using Twitter. Anything that goes viral on Twitter these days gets a bunch of mainstream news articles anyway.
Okay, looks like I will reply to a few of the comments to clarify things.
I’ll give a concrete, real example.

I worked at a company that hosted some web assets on-prem in one of their branches. They had a 1Gbps connection there. However, at HQ, we had multiple 10G connections and a pretty good data center. So, we moved the web VM to HQ but kept the assigned IP address (a public static from ISP-A). We routed it through a VPN to HQ. The server used our default GW and sent responses with source IP (ISP-A) via ISP-B (10G).

That way, we utilized 10G outbound, even though the inbound was limited to 1G. It was only for GET requests anyway. I know this wasn’t the most optimal setup, and we eventually changed the IP, but it seems like a valid use case.

Scenario 2: We had two connections from two different ISPs (our own ASN, our own /23 addresses). We wanted to load balance some traffic and sent half of our IPs through ISP-A and the other half through ISP-B. It worked fine, but when we tried to mix the balance a bit, we found an interesting glitch. We announced the first /24 to ISP-A and the second /24 to ISP-B, but ISP-A had RP filtering. So, we had to announce all the IPs to them.

The way the RP filter works, as you may guess, means we cannot prepend or anything. All traffic must come through them. If they see a better route for that prefix, they will filter it. For a few months, they refused to fix this, citing security. There’s no shame in security best practices, so I might as well name the ISP—Virgin Media.

Note that the internet with rp_filter is not $20/month. It was more like 5K+/month!! And we did not change it due to lack of alternatives there. But otherwise guess who loses the contract :)
It shows up as "Shared GPU memory" in Task Manager. What BIOS sets is the Dedicated i.e. reserved video memory in RAM.

e.g. My Ryzen iGPU reserves 2GB/32GB for itself (which Windows can't see) via BIOS and use 9 more as shared "unified" memory.
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I was working with a friend writing a paper about the Ship of Theseus, but my friend kept replacing all of my arguments.
And TFA goes on and on about how the Mac Mini is like 20x faster than i9.
Show HN: Polaris – Toolbox for AI computer use
Eh, the pit stops would probably be a few seconds longer while they swap batteries too.
Better fix your boot loader then.
There are billions of people on earth whose living standards could be made better by making yours worse.
I have an account I exclusively use to follow users of a certain topic. I don’t really get political content, even when using the for you tab. That being said I’d love for there to be an option to ditch political content on my main account.
Why the hell are your baristas competing? Why are you not just measuring whether or not they are acceptably good at their jobs? If they are superior, promote them. If they are acceptably OK, keep them. If they suck, fire them. You shouldn't have to arbitrarily put someone at the bottom of the curve; that's ridiculous.
There seems to be very few options for HiDPI smaller 8k displays. I only know of the DELL Ultrasharp and it costs way more than 8K TVs
Many power banks support pass through charging where it powers attached devices while also charging the battery
Just because they're both books that are hard to stumble upon and are a bit out of the usual recommendations, and yet everyone I have recommended them to have /deeply/ enjoyed them:

"Constellation Games" by Leonard Richardson (also known for the Beautiful Soup Python library!) https://constellation.crummy.com/

"Happy Snak" by Nicole Kimberling https://www.nicolekimberling.com/happy-snak
Cliff Mass has been tenured at U-Dub for decades. The guy could have moved private to finance (energy trading, other commodities highly correlated with weather) to multiply his income, but didn't.
Claude is better than OpenAI for most tasks, and yet OpenAI has enormously more users.

What is this, if not first mover advantage?
It is not USB-C powered.

It needs 100-240V, 50hz-60hz AC power.
That's the entire point of Home Assistant, I'm currently writing an integration for my electric company. I'd argue the college junior programmer would try to do it from scratch instead of leveraging the solution that gets you 90 percent of the way there out of the box.
I made the original suggestion explicitly to avoid the rabbitholes.

I use a Pelikan Jazz (20$) and a bucket of black cartidriges (100 pieces) I got off amazon for like 8$ (like two years ago).

I got a kaweco fountain pen a few months ago and i honestly regret spending those money, it's a shitty pen, some of the most dumbly-wasted money of my life.
I'm curious about where we draw the line on questioning scientific consensus.

Take Cliff Mass - he's a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at UW whose research focuses on weather modeling, climate systems, and atmospheric dynamics. When someone with his expertise raises questions about climate science conclusions, should we approach this differently than when non-experts do so?

This raises an interesting question about the role of expertise and scientific discourse: Is there a meaningful distinction between how we treat challenges to consensus from qualified researchers in the field versus those from outside it? Or should acceptance of consensus apply equally regardless of one's credentials?
It's one week before the election, it's hard to avoid election content no matter what platform you are on.
It just has to be popular and common boilerplate like the example I gave.

It's hard with less popular APIs. It will almost always get something wrong. In such cases, I read docs, search sourcegraph / GitHub, and finally check the source code.
Also, it did start life as an acronym, and that spelling perdures in the hated "ECMAScript" name.
Now do that with all whitespace!
Maybe I should have been more clear: I see this as a problem with the real world, not with children’s books. The books are good. What’s busted is that so many adults don’t see such a world as worth building and working towards.
>Wikipedia told the Delhi High Court that it is willing to provide basic subscriber information (BSI) details about users who edited the page on Asian News International (ANI) in a sealed cover to the court, during an appeal hearing at the Delhi High Court on October 28. Bar and Bench reported that Wikipedia also offered to serve a notice to these users and notify ANI of the same, but without any identifying details.

The core issue here is that ANI - an indian news syndication agency - has regular and credible accusations of being biased towards india's hindu nationalist government. ANI sued Wikipedia in court using the argument of defamation.

There is a serious threat to freedom of speech in india and the indian state is only too happy to indirectly threaten media houses via the tax authorities.

See also the Indian Broadcast bill, where the state tries to "regulate" speech on platforms like youtube. In typical incompetent fashion, this is textbook overreach that is simultaneously vague but broad reaching.

https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/08/02/broadcast-bill-explai...
Starbucks Tells Workers to Return to the Office or Risk Getting Fired
All "Apple Silicon" products, going back to the first one, which was the iPhone 4.
That's not how HN works. We have to ban accounts that won't stick to the intended use of the site, because if we didn't, the site wouldn't survive for long.

If you want to use HN as intended, you're certainly welcome to do so, but that means sticking to both the letter and spirit of the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
OK, so unnecessary and arbitrary restrictions on screen numbers, once again.

There is really no reason you couldn't drive four (or more) lower resolution (4k) screens, given the array of ports.

In case anyone is wondering, the use-case here is a triple-monitor configuration at a desk with a much larger "TV" positioned, or hung, elsewhere in the room.
Aren't all weather forecasts getting their data from Raytheon in the US via Weather Central, LP?
[dupe] More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41985915
If you wish to enjoy sausage, it's probably best not to enquire into how swine are raised and kept in our time.
I think it was the switch from desktop search traffic being dominant to mobile traffic being dominant, that switch happened around the end of 2016.

Google used to prioritise big comprehensive articles on subjects for desktop users but mobile users just wanted quick answers, so that's what google prioritised as they became the biggest users.

But also, per your point, I think those smaller simpler less comprehensive posts are easier to fake/spam than the larger more compreshensible posts that came before.
Not if you're an NVDA shareholder!
Not really. Early IPv6 documentation kind of assumed that the vast address space would lead towards hierarchical addressing and that a multi-homed user would use addresses assigned by all of their ISPs, but at least in my experience, that doesn't really pan out --- if you have router advertisements from two different ISP prefixes, automatic configuration on common OSes (windows, linux, freebsd) will lead towards often sending traffic with ISP A through the router from ISP B, which doesn't really work well, especially if either or both ISPs run prefix filters. There's probably ways to make that style of multihoming work, but it's not fun.

Turns out, most multiphomed IPv6 users need provider indepdent addresses, just like with IPv4. And then you need to make sure your all your ISPs allow you to use all your prefixes. On the plus side, it's much more likely to get an IPv6 allocation that's contiguous and that you won't outgrow; so probably you only need one v6 prefix, and you may not need to change it as often as with v4.
That's an interesting claim. An external drive is just another block device. Is this something you experienced?
> I think this easily beats any sort of desktop PC you can buy at that price (let's exclude custom builds, they're not the same market).

This is squarely in the NUC/SFF/1l-pc territory, and there is plenty of competition here from Beelink and Minisforum.

I just found the Beelink SER7 going for $509, and it has an 8-core/16-thread Ryzen 7 CPU, 32GB DDR4. The 8845 in the beelink is very competitive[1] with M4 (beaten, but not "easily"), and also supports memory upgrades of up to 256GB.

1. https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m4-vs-amd-ryzen-...
Fair enough, I suppose I could be overly optimistic. I just figure it's garnered enough interest that even if there's turnover in the team somebody will carry the torch. Especially since Apple seems to be actively tolerant if not even supportive of the project.
> though of course it leans in the other direction.

Besides what the others have noted, are you implying that the Twitter is leftist, or that the WSJ is?

Overall, both the WSJ and Twitter very much lean right in the political spectrum.
New Report on Nuclear Risk
Stagnating your company into a "lost decade" while not technically going bankrupt barely counts as a "win."
The 6 actually had an S release, as well as the X.

But yeah the headphone jack dropping was obviously just to get more people onboard with AirPods that launched at the same time. And you can't say it didn't work! I remember when the first images of people wearing AirPods came out and it was the laughing stock of the internet. People said it looked like you had Q-tips hanging out of your ears, or the tips of an electric toothbrush.

A few years later and they're pulling in tens of billions of dollars per year, just on AirPods sales alone. AirPods could be pulled out into its own business and it would be seen as a wildly successful tech company.
What do you mean by A+B?
The Return of Stealth Mountain
sure, especially if you are an academic. how can i get in contact?
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The problem with the “lbLDL is harmless” argument is that, while it was an interesting theory ten years ago, we have very strong evidence this is not the case now. I could go through exactly why people thought this is the case, and why the hypothesis turned out to be wrong, but this paper does a better job than I could: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7369156

Paul Mason is a renowned spreader of misinformation on this topic (and many others). My favourite moment of his is when he tried to teach a clinical research scientist that the lipid hypothesis was false, and in doing so revealed that his entire argument against the lipid hypothesis was based on an undergraduate-level misreading of a study, after which he just ran away from the conversation instead of admitting he was wrong. Absolute chef’s kiss moment, enjoy: https://x.com/avibittmd/status/1335491375073271808?s=46
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Yes, you can. Can you boot them from external drives when their internal SSD is dead? This isn't about booting them when their OS is wiped out.

Having a dead SSD seems to kill these computers. That's expected for something with soldered flash chips.
To an ideological position like yours, I would say... maybe? I, for one, am happy to pay for good solutions and let the market figure it out. If there are open source solutions that are just as smooth, that's great. I've seen a few, but none have been as good thus far.
I began recruiting for what became Azure in Jan 2006. I was chief software architect / cto at the company. Amitabh Srivastava and the legendary Dave Cutler were the leads, with Dave focused on the hypervisor. (I'd met Dave in the 80's when he was at DEC and I was at DG.)

The project was in my team (CSA labs) but was cross-funded behind the scenes by Kevin Johnson, the president of Server & Tools. KJ & I did this because there was passive-aggressive resistance to a 'cloud first' design/architecture philosophy from within his org, where there was a deeply-rooted belief that enterprise servers and ops management tools would adequately scale-up.

KJ bought in and was all-in, as was the 'tools' part of his org (Soma & ScottGu). SteveB initially didn't quite know what to make of my desire and myriad efforts to fundamentally transform the company from packaged products toward services, and he had to cope with some of the wake I was leaving. It wasn't all smooth. But he believed in me and helped me to recruit internally, which was essential.

My explicit cross-funding agreement with KJ, my peer, was that when I decided it was the 'right time', I'd hand off my Azure org and it would be re-merged into S&T in more-or-less a 'reverse merger', with cloud leadership taking over server.

I launched Azure at PDC 2008 with what today we'd call lambda's (functions-as-a-service based on .net) & blobs & cloud database as the core services. Why no linux or windows VMs? They were absolutely part of day 1 plans, but a major political ploy from within KJ's team ('this will kill the server business') resulted in an active decision (mine) to defer until post-launch. It wasn't a technology issue, nor was it an OSS issue; the team believed in OSS & Linux. But shipping was top priority, and we shipped.

When I ultimately left the company in 2011, it was time to do the reverse merger that KJ and I had planned. A proven, super-talented manager from Bing that everyone loved, Satya, was chosen to lead the org as it was moved into S&T upon my departure. James Hamilton, the architect of Azure's relational DB, left for AWS.
Ultimately, under Satya, ScottGU & co ended up re-plumbing much of the original code with a by-then-ready Windows hypervisor, VMs & Linux, and all that you see today. By then the org finally was aligned and 'believed', and SteveB was genuinely 'all in'.

Getting products from 0 to 1 is sometimes a challenging process involving incredible people and stamina from believers at every level. In this case I'd say it was worth the effort.
Cloud storage is still painfully slow compared to local.
One issue to watch out for: Sub-4K res monitors look surprisingly bad on newer versions of macOS with Apple Silicon Macs. And no, it's not simply a matter of non-Retina obviously not looking as nice as Retina monitors - something like a 1440p monitor will look much worse on macOS than it would on Windows or Linux. This is partly caused by a lack of subpixel rendering for text on macOS, but it doesn't affect just text, with app icon graphics and such seemingly optimized for High-DPI resolutions only and thus looking awful too.
You commonly see people using 3rd party apps such as BetterDisplay to partially work around this problem by tricking the system to treat 1440p displays as 5K displays and then downscale, but it doesn't solve this completely.
So yes, the price for the machine is fantastic, but you may want to budget for a basic 4K display as well.