skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For clarity: I'm a pandoc diehard (especially because it's written by a philosopher!) but it intentionally doesn't approach this level of functionality, AFAIK.
I’ve been jumping up and down saying this for the past few years. It’s so important. This is a perfect example of a problem that needs a legislative solution. The lack of one has created quagmires like TikTok that wouldn’t be a problem if we didn’t try to pretend it’s okay for domestic companies to take advantage of us either.
I mean, it’s literally his job at Google?
I just heard about this tool but someone else said it simply enumerates defaults already present in most distros.

I can tell you one thing that makes real changes to RHEL at least, CIS Benchmark. It hardens your system by tightening up file permissions, user logins, disables old protocols, sets partition flags and more.

But the best hardening imho doesn't follow any set standard, rather application dependent isolation using containers and MACs like SElinux and MCS (multi-category security).

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...
It's just the X280 and some of the open-source long vector designs that have 1-cycle-per-element vrgather AFAIK. They X280 is more of an accelerator than actual end user core. All other application class cores I know of have a "fast" LMUL=1 vrgather.

The linked discussion was about LMUL>1, which doesn't matter because you can unroll it into multiple LMUL=1 vrgathers if you don't cross lanes. That even uses fewer vector registers. LMUL>1 vrgather should imo only be used if you need to actually cross vector register lanes.

I think a fast 128-bit lane shuffle is certainly unnegotiable for application class processors, but I'm not sure a dedicated instruction is needed for them, because for them a fast LMUL=1 vrgather is similarly important.
You won't see many processors with larger then 512 VLEN running regular software from the binary ecosystem and if they do, they'd better execute a LMUL=1 shuffle quickly, especially if it's within 128/256/512-bit lanes, whatever your internal execution unit width is.
If you got the vasectomy ealier you could have saved ~$1000 on the Babboe Curve e-bike. :)
> has financial independence

well yeah the dream is not the salaryman lifestile, but the financial independence, thanks for agreeing with me
Data-Driven Discovery in Distributed Systems
It could be a medical condition entirely unrelated to their mission. If it's unrelated, the astronaut deserves their privacy. If spaceflight made their condition worse in some unexpected way, that should probably be made public. Maybe NASA is just waiting to confirm which option it is?
Article dating has some issues too

The truffle industry is a scam - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33668896 - Nov 2022 (373 comments)
Not an Irish citizen or a resident. Everyone residing in the EU(including EEA) enjoys GDPR protection.

I don't know how stringent the geo check for claims is, but as soon as you become an EEA resident you can invoke GDPR.

I would recommend to ask Google’s DPO anyway.
Why was it deleted?
Safety in C improves dramatically with good tooling and coding practice and you can slowly move to safer C without much pain. People who really do not care will also create problems with Rust.
Cemtury-old concrete plant that helped build L.A. makes way for a deluxe tower
> I don’t think democratic candidates are flirting with identity politics...

Unfortunately Harris is saddled with that after being chosen by Biden because of her identity, as he admitted:

"I promised you [black leaders] a number of things. But very specifically, I said ... that I was going to pick a Black woman to be Vice President of the United States of America."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/20...
I'm no expert in ML, but beyond the research and emerging work in unsupervised learning clustering seems to be the most common approach, and there's nothing conceptually new here in the past 10+ years. Don't get me wrong, computationally we can do stuff with a ridiculous # of dimensions that was hard/impossible before and there are new algorithms but I was doing KMeans and DBScan/HDBscan and Gaussian mixtures in grad school 15 years ago in relation to databases, I had never heard of "Machine Learning" and we were in the glacial stage of the AI winter. There's some newer work that is based on human judgement for results but clustering still seems to be the mainstream "data validated" approach...
Doesn't matter, you should explicitly specify such a basic configuration option yourself anyway unless you are clueless and don't know any better.
Kurivei (https://kurivei.com) a biology test preparation site for Indian students. At MVP level as of now.
South Korea flounders in quest to restrain power of online platforms
At least in some sectors climate change is considered a serious issue https://www.defense.gov/spotlights/tackling-the-climate-cris....
Missing from this, but very important: you can connect to the same SQLite database file multiple times inside the same process (e.g. in different threads) but you can also connect to the same SQLite database file from multiple different processes on the same machine (with the same filesystem - NFS will lead to all kinds of nasty problems).

Easy way to prove this to yourself: run two different terminals, run "sqlite3 data.db" in each one, run create table / insert / update queries in one and watch the results become visible to selects in the other.

Changes only become visible to other connections after they have been committed.

In default mode any writes will hold an exclusive lock and will cause any reads to be blocked waiting for that lock. In WAL mode reads can continue even while writes are taking place.

Writes can only run one at a time, but can queue waiting for each other to finish - and since most writes take microseconds to run this is very rarely a problem.

The most complicated thing to understand is the need to use BEGIN IMMEDIATE TRANSACTION in concurrent environments to avoid the occasional SQLITE_BUSY exception. The best explanation I've seen of this is here: https://fractaledmind.github.io/2024/04/15/sqlite-on-rails-t... - search for SQLITE_BUSY.
The Twitter Files, which did not demonstrate any coercion or threats toward Twitter from the federal government [1].

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-...
One of the pain points of using this kind of tools is handling syntax highlighted code blocks. How does html-to-markdown perform in such scenarios?
I would never use SQLite when there is more than one persistent data memory user.
To yourself? Mostly. Manufacture and possession of restricted substances is illegal, but administration of them to yourself is not illegal. In other words, being high in your own home isn't illegal.

But if you administer them to someone else it could be considered commerce which is under the purview of the government. Even growing corn on your own land to feed to your own pigs is considered commerce according to SCOTUS
> Is it so much performance penalty to upload a small texture to GPU so you can't render the whole string to the texture in 2D and just display the texture onto two triangles?

It's not. This technique is more about getting text on the screen in the easiest way possible for debugging. You just add some data to your shader and poof, you get text.

The converse is, you write code to generate a font atlas (so more work), or go find and existing one and need to load it (so need to write loading code so more work). And/Or draw a full message into a texture (more work) and you'll need to cache that result until the message changes (more work)

On top of all of that, you need to manage resources and bind them into the system where as here no resources are needed.

but again, it's a technique for getting "debugging text" on the screen. It is not a solution for text in general.

Note that drawing text to textures is how most browsers and OSes work. They draw fonts into texture atlases dynamically (since a atlas for all of Unicode per font per size would take too much time and memory). They then use the texture atlas glyphs to make more textures of portions of the app's window. In the browser you can turn on show texture edges to see all textures. Rendering->Layer borders will outline each texture in cyan
I did not care for the performance review practices at Apple (and it is probably similar in every other big corporation).

We'll give you a 1 to 3 rating in three categories (it's been a while, something like: "Expertise", "Innovation", "Teamwork"). A "1" means you did not meet expectations, a "2" means you met expectations and a "3" means you exceeded expectations.

If we give you a "1" in anything, you should probably start to look for a job elsewhere.

We can't give you a "3" in two of the categories above however. Well, we can but then we have to go up the management chain — perhaps even to the director — because giving someone a "3" in more than one category means we have to raise your "grade". And moving up a grade is a Big Deal. We can only have so many top-tier engineers.

Oh, and regardless of what your manager thinks of you, all managers have to report to their manager for what we call a "leveling session". Here your manager needs to defend their choices when compensating their direct reports in front of all the other managers and of course their boss as well.

Something in particular we're looking to make sure of is that your manager rewards some of their direct-reports with bonuses, a raise, etc. but "punishes" others. Egalitarianism is frowned upon.
it's still widely used and can be validated without significant human judgement. Implementations are more efficient, and computatal complexity is through the roof but the approach is still legit.
I’m exhausted by these types of posts.

I am a developer with >25 of professional experience.

I am unable to get these things to do anything useful.

I’ve tried: different models, limiting my scope, breaking it down to small tasks, prompt “engineering”; and am still getting less than useless results.

I say less than useless, because I will then additionally waste time debugging or slamming my head against the wall the llm built before I abandon it and go to the official docs and find out the llm is suggesting an API access paradigm that became deprecated in the last major version update.

People on this site love to talk about “muh productivity!”, but always stop short of saying what they got from this productivity boost: pay raise, less time working; or what they built, what level of employment they are, or who they work for.

Are all of these posts just astroturfed?! I ask that sincerely.

Do you all just make “todo SPAs” at your employers?
That’s not how things operate here. Note how your complaint isn’t in the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The site encourages people to delete unproductive comments that haven’t been responding to as it improves the reading experiences for 3rd parties. Which is one of the reasons there’s a big old delete button and you can edit posts for a full hour.

Adding “Edit:” is important for clarity when a post has been responded to, without that it’s just clutter.
I think this might be relevant: https://mathpix.com/handwriting-recognition
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJPXLE9uPr8 "UPGRADING a Brand NEW M4 Mac mini" may interest this audience, too (the whole channel is awesome, IMHO)
I definitely agree that there may be some interesting advancements here.

I am trying to call attention to the models used for evaluation comparison. There are 3 factors: inference speed/latency, model size in total loaded VRAM, and model performance in terms of output.

Comparisons should address all of these considerations, otherwise it's easy to hide deficiencies.
One of the best write-ups on dithering that I've seen so far! I worked on the b&w dithering for Return to Dark Castle.

We wanted to use Atkinson dithering, but it was hard to do in a shader because of how neighboring pixel values trickle into each other, and I was super stressed and tired at the time. I don't think it occurred to us to pin the pattern to the offset of the scene, so I think there is twinkling on scrolling levels like the catacombs and helicopter pack. But maybe we did? I wish I could remember. Anyway, kudos!
I can't read the article, because it was apparently deleted. But you quoted single women and then assumed single parent?
Small Businesses and Startups Can Hire Better
You might enjoy the research of Dr. Ian Stevenson. It's his research that got me deep down the rabbit hole on this subject many years ago. (I have 1 vivid memory that I would call a "past life memory") - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stevenson
Europe's 35-year journey since the fall of the Berlin Wall
Supra et Ultra!
Out of the Landscape, into the Portrait
What makes an OS “successful”? Does that have anything at all to do with the point they are making?

Do you just mean, successfully make an OS? Because there are multiple examples of Rust based operating systems that are complete or nearly so.

https://www.redox-os.org/

Or by “successful”, do we mean that it is popular? Because popularity has rarely correlated with technical superiority in the past ( or present ). Windows is much more popular than Linux. Linux surged to popularity when FreeBSD was more complete and technically superior. Plan 9 has entered the chat.

Popularity depends on totally different skills and circumstances than technical excellence. Memory safety, performance, and security do not necessarily drive popularity.

What do we mean by success?
Off the top of my head:

- open a file for editing, realize you needed admin rights, npp allows you to relaunch with escalation and keeping the change in memory

- find all gives you a list of items, a count of them, and quick preview of each

- supports the editorconfig format, so inherits rules you've designed for your other IDEs

- colors

- allows tail -f (the eye icon)

- can be extended with plugins (unlike notepad) although the out of the box works well enough for most (unlike vsc)

- less bloated than electron apps, when comparing with any vscode setup you would use for larger developments

- tracks which open files have had a change, lets you choose if you want to reload the file (update contents displayed without reopening the app) or not (helps you save what you're seeing before verifying what might have replaced it)

- lets you see and change encoding very easily

There's more, but I just picked a few things I find useful every day when I need to deal with many windows machines at a midsized company.
I've driven into some the caves a number of times. Pretty wild.

Here's a video of "Subtropolis": https://youtu.be/3DJ4VjIRM24
When you install Obtanium from an APK, it prefills the Obtanium source for self-management.
Trellis (YC W24) is hiring eng to turn documents into database
20 Years Ago Today: 'Firefox Browser Takes on Microsoft'
Apply Occam's Razor. It could have been something as trivial (?) and embarrassing as a STD.
Oh, I see. You expected people to infer "toxins" from the words "resilience/filter". Got it.

However, liver eating is a moot point regardless, because evolutionary theory would suggest eating toxins would have a bad taste/smell, so that organ would simply be avoided, while eating the rest. So it has no bearing on whether cannibalism happens or not.
It appears to be using some sort of encrypted file uploading service that has gone offline.

https://github.com/petabyt/eggnog

https://eggnog.theres.life
> This algorithm remains mysterious to me to this day.

The basic idea of Reed-Solomon is to represent a piece of data as though it's the coefficients on a polynomial and then transmitting the value of various points on the polynomial. You have the opportunity to provide an infinite number of points, and you only need the <order of the polynomial> to be correct to derive the original polynomial. If the polynomial is overspecified, then you have the opportunity to derive the original polynomial for each set of points and see whether or not you get the same result each time. Various combinations of this outcome result in no errors, errors that are corrected, or errors that are detected but not corrected.

The rest of Reed-Solomon is about which polynomial to pick, as the selection of polynomial and where to evaluate it makes the coefficients easier to derive, and how "finite field" math works. We're used to math over all real numbers from math class; finite fields define the same operations but over a finite number of numbers (i.e. "all uint8s"). This is convenient when implementing this algorithm on a computer. (The math, of course, still works when "all real numbers" is the domain of the coefficients and points; restricting to fixed-size integers just makes things easier for computers.)
"backend" seemed to imply it was contacting some server, but https://github.com/ironcalc/ironcalc#early-testing claims (and the network tab confirms) it is just Rust compiled to wasm, no "backend" required

MIT or Apache 2 (player's choice) if anyone else has grown deeply suspicious about any "open source" HN headlines of late
> the Reset button would move away from the mouse

Oh, that was you? I remember this program!
Charts on forms of human-AI interaction
Electric Street Drivable Grumobile
I assume they're talking about attempts to eradicate it in the first few weeks when it was thought to only be present in a few people.
I'm gonna say his analysis of the groups is just wild guessing.

> Mostly married with low credit limits and high utilization rates. These customers may benefit from tools and programs to manage their credit usage.

> Mostly single women with low c redit limits and high utilization rates. Offering credit management tools and financial literacy programs could be valuable for this group.
Welcome to Patternfly 6
I've been using it for a while I'm surprised that Android allows third party app installers that can update apps in tbe background. I don't follow the specifics of Android developments but I 100% expected it to get more locked down with time.
It's code, but not a program - there is no algorithm. Something resembling an algorithm is on the reader side.
In which jurisdictions the suicide itself (not assistance or encouraging) is illegal? I can only think of some deeply religious societies.
Notepad was and always had been a simple and light application for viewing raw text files. Text editing is secondary and justifiably quite limited. If you wanted a real text editor you used Wordpad.

Microsoft has absolutely no concept of the value that anyone gets out of anything they make. The one and only question they seem capable of asking is "how can we monetize this?"
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Nice to see lilypond in the example.
I am not trying to run oltp on btrfs, so I don't personally need more recent knowledge.

A quick search suggests:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10257466

I am sure that you will find far more detail in your own research, should this motivate you. Good luck!
Is there any other excuse that clearly is employed to restrict due process to the extent that "national security" (whatever that means) does?

Not that I give a damn about crypto; for the most part it's a cancer on the country. But I find it curious how blithely people accept this reasoning despite it, well, not being coherent reasoning at all.
Thank you for educating me on this.
A long time ago there was a famous / infamous ad campaign for some food product like bread or milk, and the ad merely stated the true fact that their milk didn't contain any bleach. Of course no one's milk (or whatever it was) had any bleach (or whatever it was).

Specially highlighting something true, but out of context and with no equally special justification, is not an innocent act and is misleading. And yes, absolutely, very clearly, causes harm, and does so unfairly.

A not-unfair version of this same article would just talk about databases, and include sqlite with others, and not only sqlite and not be titled sqlite.

And then there is this:
"Hey there I am v. I work at Turso Database."
Not sure if you're familiar with the state of 3D browser graphics when this project started; it was not good. Even by the time I came to the party in the mid 2010's mrdoob had been at it for a while. I was trying to build visual, interactive modeling software for the energy industry, competing with big enterprise software and still remember my first boardroom demo when we bluescreened their computer with a "web app".

My point is you frame this like he planned to capitalized on it and was really lucky, but based on the context I think you've got it backwards. Mrdoob had already poured so much work and effort into this it would have been a foolish & unsustainable strategy if it was a way to "get clients and a great job". That's like deciding to do a startup as the best way to get really rich. I find it hard to believe given the consistent energy and progress of three.js that it's the product of someone with a "lottery winning" mentality.
Why does the hydraulic system need 2000 psi and the fueldraulic system only needs 50 psi?

Then they needed to double hydraulic pressure to 4000 psi for the new rocket, but never explained the key considerations. Seemed like it would be the same actuator?

Cool article.
I’ve found using AI tools strategically helps boost productivity. I use OpenAI Chat, Cursor, and Claude, each for specific purposes. Claude is great for coding without memory and serves as a nutrient-tracking diary, but I occasionally reset prompts to manage memory limitations. Cursor handles programming well but requires persistent, structured questioning. OpenAI Chat’s memory is a double-edged sword, useful yet needing occasional edits. Living in Poland, I rely on both Claude and OpenAI for translations, especially between English, Polish, and Ukrainian.

The humor comes when AI ‘misunderstands’—once, ChatGPT hilariously offered to vacuum a room instead of translating the words "Please vacuum the room”.
And can those stored behaviors affect the phenotype of the offspring too? (LaMark has entered the building)
The Billups Railroad Crossing
> what body shapes should be considered more desirable for a mate out of an infinite variety of shapes.

However this specifically works in humans — and considering the diversity of actual human preferences includes, amongst many other things, non-existant dragons* — the first I heard of the term "superstimulus" was with the example of certain beetles that kept trying to copulate with beer bottles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus

* Humans must have something guiding us, or we'd all be (a) bisexual and (b) equally often aroused by dragons as by those we could actually have a child with; the fact that dragons happen at all is simply an indication that our brains are likely using a very simple set of heuristics to get there, and simple heuristics is totally a thing that DNA could encode