skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, maybe evil is too strong of a word. Self interest is more accurate.

I admire the people who are good, I’m just not one of them.
Hanami 2.2: Persistence pays off
> I guess getting loops in Python to run 5-10x faster will still save some people time

I would recommend being less reductively dismissive, after claiming you “don’t really have a dog in this race”.

Edit: Lots of recent changes have done way more than just loop unrolling JIT stuff.
No, I'm not like that. I think myself and millions of others do care and act every day in some small way that adds up to the world not being a dystopian hell-hole.
Scheduling and allocation are done by the GPU driver, e.g. the CUDA runtime, with some hardware/firmware assistance from the GPU, which also contains one or more microcontrollers which may perform some of the tasks required for this.
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Ask HN: Which browser extensions could you not do without?
I sometimes encounter a tiny problem that causes outsized annoyance, and after a search come across a browser extension that solves it. A short time later, the thought of using the web without it is inconceivable; almost barbaric!

Examples: uBlock Origin, Sponsor Block, Enhancer for YouTube, Tamper Monkey, jsonvue.

What extensions do you currently use that you could not do without? (some extensions are broad in scope, so if you can, please explain what you love about it/them)
Anything where the language frontend isn’t tied to the ABI compatibility of the artifacts I think. They can mix versions/editions without worry.

I think it’s a larger problem with interpreted languages where all the source has to be in a single version. In that case I cant think of much.
I would ask people to give me money, but I don’t care to give other people money. I don’t need any moral justification to help me sleep at night.
> 40 years of typesetting tech and 500 years of typography

> some fake retro charme?

That’s a bit hyperbolic, and borders on just being a bit mean. There is no right way to do typography… and that is what 500 years of typography has taught us. We had monospaced typewriters in global widespread use for a hundred years. We still use monospaced fonts for programming computers… and for style in many different contexts. You do you, it’s fine if you personally prefer certain fonts, but please don’t speak for the rest of us. Almost everyone can read monospaced fonts just fine.
Every situation is different.

I live in a city that had a huge influx of migrants. And with them, children. It feels different when those asking for money or trying to sell goods have children with them. Rather than someone who looks like they've struggled with addiction and homelessness for decades.

Everyone should do what they feel is the right decision at that time. One blanket answer for every context and every person out there isn't the answer.

Some people like to help everyone, others only in certain situations, and yet others never give help at all. And that's OK.
Restaurants MUST throw away food because it would look bad to have homeless people around the area, public image and all. I am against this wasting of food.

This does not apply to restaurants only FWIW.
If everything is synchronised to third party could storage an "office raid" can be as easy as getting a court order telling the cloud provider to make a snapshot of everything stored available to the police.
Yeah, "retain" was the wrong word - what I meant was that it replaced one thing that tastes nice with something else that tastes nice. But like GP I find almost every processed food too sweet these days.
The Mystery of the Siberian Craters
Wondering if anyone running a Python mainly application(s) is willing to be a Design Partner for a true AI Agent that can fix a few issues but with very high accuracy and no oversight.

I am from LogicStar.ai and we are trying to get rid of the BS and show true value in real-world applications with deep program analysis, reproduction, verification etc and like everyone else sourcing fix-suggestions from LLMs.

Follow our page on https://www.linkedin.com/company/logicstar-ai/ as I plan to post updates and frank comments here on what other agents are or are NOT.
Your input will drive in what direction we should focus the technology and use cases.
>If dangerous jobs are paid more, what does that have to do with the gender pay gap?

Men do far more dangerous jobs than women
What does it matter if they spend the money on drugs? Their lives suck. I can hardly blame them for wanting drugs and if it makes them more comfortable for a short period of time, that is probably the best I can do for them. I’m powerless to change their situation. Even if I had the resources to house and employ such a person, I have no way to cure their mental and emotional issues that prevent them from being a stable person.
Nature vs nurture is not an either-or. I'm not saying "it" isn't "in the genes". I'm saying it's not just genes.

There's a wide range of possible age brackets, body types etc across all genders that can manifest traits most people would find attractive. Post-pubescent girls arguably aren't special in that sense. Especially if you don't isolate them out of their real-world context (which is where it stops being Oscar-winning Hollywood cinema and starts being child sexual abuse) that allows objectifying and dehumanizing them as "jailbait".

Where culture comes in is meaning. Taken at face value, a kid is just a kid. But culturally a kid represents something - naivety, hope, innocence, inexperience, whatever. This turns female youth into a fetish - something imbued with additional meaning. It's not actually the literal youthfulness that is culturally attractive in women (or else most people wouldn't react so violently against the idea of people sexually abusing minors), it's what that youthfulness represents. It's a male power fantasy.

Again, power fantasies aren't inherently a problem. What I'm arguing is that this one very much is a problem because it's so normalized it informs real-world social dynamics, i.e. where people start to forget it's a fantasy. Also I would argue the need for this specific fantasy is also not inherent (i.e. maleness does not inherently create a desire for absolute dominance over others). But I've rambled enough as it is.
(I work at Vercel) We spend $0 on YouTube, just FYI as I sometimes see this sentiment.
I think you’d be surprised how many people are like me but don’t admit it. I’m just be honest here. Maybe I’m a bit more evil then normal with the reply but I think my original comment is quite commonplace.
> If you were dying I’d probably let you die and would be happy about it.

This is an insane, sociopathic thing to say in a reasonably civil internet discussion.

> Another dark truth. I think a lot of people are like me.

I think there are far fewer than you believe.
These are just deaths. I wonder also about exposure related hazards.
A friend of mine met Herbie on a Buddhist summer camp. She said he's an incredibly nice, humble guy as you would sort of imagine, he introduced himself to everyone as "Hi I'm Herbie, I'm a pianist". She didn't know anything about him so asked him what sort of music he played and he said she should listen to "Maiden Voyage". She became a jazz singer as a result.
It's hard to accurately measure secretive crimes like this, but the estimates seem to put corporate tax evasion by percentage of GDP at either similar levels between the EU and US or actually higher in the EU.
I always come back to the this passage from john chysostom's on wealth and poverty:

> The almsgiver is a harbor for those in necessity: a harbor receives all who have encountered shipwreck, and frees them from danger; whether they are bad or good or whatever they are who are in danger, it escorts them into its own shelter. So you likewise, when you see on earth the man who has encountered the shipwreck of poverty, do not judge him, do not seek an account of his life, but free him from his misfortune. Why do you make trouble for yourself? God has excused you from all officiousness and meddlesomeness. How much most of us would complain, if God had bidden us first to examine each person's life exactly, to interfere with his behavior and his deeds, and only then to give alms? But as it is we are freed from all this kind of annoyance. Then why do we bring excessive cares on ourselves? A judge is one thing, an almsgiver is another. Charity is so called because we give it even to the unworthy.
s/The government/Congress/
The first wooden satellite launched into space
Thanks, what more features are you looking for , just out of curiosity?
DC can definitely cause a lot of electrolytic damage, but AC usually doesn't. Perhaps something was acting as a diode (these are easily formed from natural processes) and rectifying the signal.
Sure, here is an example:

https://go.dev/play/p/_EJ4EvYntr2

When you run this you will see that occasionally it prints something other than 11 or 100. If it doesn't happen in one run, run it again a few times.

An equivalent Java program will never print anything else.
Myths About Electric-Vehicle Batteries
Pando has an almost mythical ring to it
Yes, because insurances don't have them valued, they just trust owners for the price.

Then it's even more profit because they get to keep the paintings to insure again, sell again, or put them on display at the owner's house? I'm not sure it's that easy to get away with.
I don't mean temporary shelter. But I agree there is a subset of the homeless population that have more problems than just homelessness. It may be impossible to solve their homelessness without solving other problems first.
Literally every single company that can afford to setup things like tax transfer schemes, are actively evading taxes.

It’s mind boggling how widespread it is, how accepted (legal) it is, and how it will seemingly never be fixed.

https://www.somo.nl/the-netherlands-still-a-tax-haven/
You still have time to edit your comment.
I know, I do realize that. I worked in healthcare before. Regardless, I am not judging, live and let live.

I still believe your comment was unwarranted, unnecessary, and inappropriate.
Timeline of the 2020 Election (Wikipedia)
Key stages in the decline of academic Marxism
We're so, so, so, so far away from shunning defense I just can't take this comment seriously. Let's focus on not having multiple orders of magnitude more defense than is necessary before we doom-and-gloom about WWIII.
Is there a product allowing for client-side encrypted mounts? Or just use a SAAS outside of the country that doesn't allow for exporting any data under any circumstances?
> Most developers I have worked with are incapable or unwilling to measure things (on any level), therefore they are incapable or unwilling to be engineers.

You should rather consider this is a sign that software development is also partly an art, and not only an engineering discipline. Also, not all (good) developers are the same: some are more "artsy" and some are more "engineeringy".
If it causes procrastination, that's a problem. Seems to me, being an entrepreneur requires high levels of self discipline, vs working in some big org where you get told what to do and held to it. I worked at a start-up where my boss who was one of the founders, didn't do what needed doing if it didn't interest him. Suffice to say, the company wasn't ultimately successful. Its understandable that with ADHD people seek to escape the strait-jacket of the conventional workplace, and find somewhere that they can tailor more to their way of working, but I'd caution about entrepreneurship, might be even worse. And if you don't get on with "what you're meant to be doing" you then don't get paid. Whereas in conventional job its easier to work your a* off the next day if you faffed about and had nothing to show one day.
OK: all three of those are specifically about "Zoom fatigue".

None of them in any way address the issue at hand, which is the ability to engage in meaningful conversations over online platforms such as Teams and Slack.
"set it to 'g'". Awesome.

G for maGic, I presume?
Anyone interested in more recent examples, look up the binaural versions of some of Jean-Michel Jarre's albums.

Most of his music is very experimental but I recommend "Zero Gravity" from "Live in Notre Dame - Binaural headphone mix". It is a straight forward EDM track.
The currently in-vogue answer is "give them houses", but your answer is more attainable. When someone asks me for money I take it as a reminder to donate to organizations that help the homeless and near-homeless.

The best homeless shelters have programs targeted at helping people graduate into apartments. They have social workers and counselors that try to help people overcome addictions. They partner with charities that collect donated home goods and turn them into a "free store" so that when someone graduates into an apartment they are able to furnish it. This is how the shelters in my area operate, but many shelters do not have the resources to offer this many resources.

The best food banks do not question your level of need, but offer food and hygiene supplies to anyone who asks. If someone owns a car and home but has run across hard times, these no-questions-asked resources help them make do without losing their car or their home.

Giving to homeless shelters and food banks helps us to have better homeless shelters and food banks. Shelters that have more resources are able to offer more to those in need, including helping people graduate to stable living conditions.
Washington courts grapple with statewide outage after 'unauthorized activity'
> I think the problem is with you, who cannot seem to believe that marine engineering with centuries of experience could have found reasonable trade-offs in the regulations.

You are putting something in my mouth which I did not say. Can it be done? Yes. Physically it can be built. Is it a reasonable trade-off? I don't think so, and I didn't said that it is.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organis...

I've not yet seen an explanation of what counts as a single "organism" for these purposes and the estimated ages are all over the place.
> sounds like a lot of mental masturbation to simply justify your selfishness and unwillingness to occasionaly do a kind thing for someone less fortunate than you. At least you feel a sense of superiority – short lived though it is.

accurate
Wikipedia's war on India – A Dossier [pdf]
"This dossier has been prepared with the purpose of demonstrating and establishing
conclusively how Wikipedia is not a free, editorial intervention free encyclopaedia which
relies on the voluntary work of thousands of unpaid, passionate volunteers across the globe,
as claimed by the Wikimedia Foundation."

I found the above document seemingly influencing the prosecution against Wikipedia by Indian court. What do you all think about the matter presented in it?

I further found the following article by the same media that published the document:
https://www.opindia.com/2024/11/opindia-dossier-wikipedia-ex...

It highlighted some aspects of Wikipedia:

1. Wikipedia is not neutral
2. Wikipedia is tightly controlled
3. ‘Anonymised’ funding and its use by Wikimedia Foundation
....
6. Wikipedia is not an ‘intermediary’ but a publisher

The claims mentioned are not far-fetched but certainly bold.
Are there not charities that go around collecting leftover restaurant food that's still edible?
> Literally every single company that can afford to setup these tax transfer schemes, are actively evading taxes.

Yeah, but I think that's different than what happened in this case with Netflix. Declaring earnings from one country in another country is not just "tax optimizations" but straight up illegal. It's not using/abusing legal loopholes like most larger companies do, but going against the law.
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>It is better to give to homeless shelters and food banks.

Watch this stand-up comedy bit which deals with this topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm6kl17HH9s
Apple 'broke law' by pushing out labor-organizing dev
I personally would rather create a .drawio file visually and keep that under version control. Sure, the diffs aren’t that meaningful, but that’s what commit messages are for.
I would feel shitty about myself that I got taken in by a scam.
You said that working out the consequences was indistinguishable from attempting to disprove the conjecture. I was just noting that there are sometimes subtle differences. I agree in general though, this wasn't intended as a criticism =)
How many lives have you saved with your money? I’ve saved zero but if I wanted to I can make a focused effort on changing at least one life.

I don’t care to spend that effort. And neither do you. I don’t think you’ve saved a single life either.
What You Need to Know About Election Night Results and the New York Times Needle
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Yes, but today most of them never exit cyberspace. Wouldn't it be more reasonable to consider that instead of printing?

Edit: Also, are there any advantages with large papers like A4/Letter for physical prints, except that you can fit more on a single page?
One way to solve this might be to institute some kind of cultural practice of largesse. That is, if it becomes disreputable to throw away food and a kind of hour of charity is created, that might help.

The devil is in the details, but this may be one way to go about it, even if not daily, even if not perfect.
> Not because I think it's helping him in the long run, but because it could help him feel better now.

Very much this: The long run is vague, and the only sure thing is that we will be dead. But this is a small thing one can do now.
when therapy talk is used to justify being an asshole, it's really amazing—like, "i also can’t endorse subjecting yourself to the mental load." therapy language repurposed to justify self-centeredness, dressing up selfish behavior as a form of "self-care" or boundary setting really feels like a hallmark of our era.

it would be much easier to say, "i am a bad person, and i don't care," and own it. that would help develop a less hypocritical vision of ethics and the functioning of society. confronting the banality of our own evil would humanize the evil in others.

probably even better than offering food, which is the most patronizing and offensive move (just offer money, always, please—and if they use it for drugs or alcohol, good for them). If people ask money, give money please. don't be an ass.
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So edgy...
I usually give when I see people. I've volunteered helping and met people in a variety of circumstances. The only thing I've learned that's common to all of them is they don't want to be in that situation.

I'm not going to judge someone on what they do with it. I have a fundamental belief that people are going to do the best they can with what they have. I'm going to put it all in the same level of self-determinism as the people who give me my income and what say they have on what I can do with it (none). If anything, by giving them that with no strings attached at least I gave them a little bit of dignity.

If you're not convinced, I encourage you to talk to them and make up your own mind.
Meta's plan for nuclear datacenter reportedly undone by bees
I'd imagine you'd get done for not being tax compliant. At least in Ireland you have to able to show all tax accounting for the last four years on request by Revenue. If you can't produce this and all the files 'have gone missing' or 'we can't find the cloud keys' I'd would expect to be fined out of existence and ordered to cease trading immediately. So that would be worse that getting dragged through the courts while you pay lawyers to figure out to mitigate any fines or sentences passed down. I think it can even result in prison time for the CEO and other company officers.
> everything being stored in the cloud somewhere

Sounds like it would make it easier for law enforcement. They no longer need a warrant against/for the company they're investigating, just the place where their data is stored. Get the warrant, raid the place and grab the drives, then continue the investigation. Done the right way, the company under investigation wouldn't even notice it.
There is a homeless shelter in my town that we support. When a transient asks me for money, I direct them to where they can get food, clothing, shelter, and a job. They never seem interested. I suppose they already knew about it but didn't go. A few times some have appeared to be legitimately victims of unusual bad luck and I offered to buy them a meal, but each time they only wanted cash.
> I suggest never beginning an introduction with "this is the best talk I've ever given".

Heh, this is fair, and I actually just edited the intro in response to that feedback. In my defense, the talk itself doesn’t start that way; that was how I introduced for the folks who read my blog via feed or email subscription. Might need to iterate on having ways to add “feed-only content” for that kind of thing, because I think it’s reasonable to say that in the context of folks who already follow your work, but you’re right that it’s weird at the start of a “regular” blog post for people coming to it fresh!

Sorry to hear the rest of it didn’t land for you. Can’t win them all!
> Publishing the Needle live on election night relies on computer systems maintained by engineers across the company, including some who are currently on strike. How we display our election forecast will depend on those systems, as well as incoming data feeds, and we will only publish a live version of the Needle if we are confident those systems are stable.

Looks like the NYT dev strike is working, they may not be able to publish their most popular election night page.