skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Democracy is not exactly a single thing though, but current forms kind of do have that quality, yes. "Casting binary votes on specific questions and no take-backs" is actually a kind of terrible model of democracy. There's got to be other ways.

If we take "a healthy interpersonal relationship between people with mutual respect, self-knowledge, and strong communication skills" as a model, we can see how two or more people continually grow into the kinds of lives they want to lead by working together, and that's the kind of democracy I'd like to have.

Obviously, this doesn't scale. But that doesn't mean we just give up and take the lazy, clearly bad option. We ought to evaluate the situation we're actually in and adapt.

I mean, FPTP is obviously bad, but if we're being honest, we should expect a plurality if not majority of people to be unable to recognize a bad decision even when it's presented to them as such. We know that if you run enough emotionally-triggering ads and you will get supporters of virtually any idea - this is basically the concept of manufactured consent. And I think our society can't really evolve in a healthy way until we accept that more widely. (By accept, I mean "beware of", not "exploit".)

If you want a program to run efficiently and give you good results, you don't just keep taking lazier and lazier approaches and delete functions you don't understand. You carefully refactor. It's a continuous process. That's what we're supposed to do with our democratic institutions, but unfortunately, we're stuck focusing on specific outputs so much that we can't even understand the root problems.
I beg to differ. No autocomplete in the traditional sense can take a human language description of something you want to achieve and produce code that implements just that. Or at least, some version of that. And if you're not happy, you can refine - either by hand, or by having a dialog with the AI.

You can also give it buggy code and it can critique it.

That's an order of magnitude more advanced than autocomplete.
The Fastest Redis Ever
But no mention of this insane failure mode? If the article is to be believed
i forgot all about node-gyp. The only memories I do have of it are the errors and thinking about gimps.
> it still was far from insignificant

Stil far from closing the gap between the 6th and 13th largest armies. Russia invaded an inferior force and got stymied. This would be like America's Vietnam being Cuba, where we fully committed the U.S. military and economy to the task and still continued to fail. The fact that Russia has never even established air superiority knocks it out of the category of running a modern military.
> In 2024, the recomend ways to write GUIs in Windows are Win32 (your native widgets library), exposed by WinForms. WPF has parity with WinUI 3, in recomended way by the platform owner, officially communicated at BUILD 2024.

So maybe Microsoft should update their own guides then: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/get-started/?...

| Many apps for Windows are written using Win32, Windows Forms, or UWP. Each of these frameworks is supported and will continue to receive bug, reliability, and security fixes, but varying levels of investment for new features and styles. For more information about these app types see the following tabs.

Yes, in Build 2024, there was backpedaling back to WPF, since WinUI is in terrible shape.

> Webviews are a different matter, as they don't require shipping Chrome with the application.

Electron also doesn't ship Chrome with application; it ships the rendering engine (blink) and javascript engine (v8). Which is exactly the same, as edge webview. Unlike edge webview, they are not dragged in by Microsoft Edge, the browser (so you get it whether you have an use for it or not).

> It definelty has a lot to do with Linux shops, as they can't be bothered to support GNOME, KDE, Sway, XFCE, or whatever everyone else uses, so Electron it is.

So how do you imagine such support would look like? I know a thing or two about development on linux, but I have no idea what would supporting XFCE or Sway explicitly in an app would involve. Unless you hyperbolize, right?

The only real decision would be choosing Gtk or Qt; the desktop environments have no real impact on your app and with Qt, you are getting the multiplatform support, that is supposedly behind the electron usage of those linux shops.

Also, what exactly are those linux shops, that target multiplatform by using electron? Is it like Cisco? Or Meta? Maybe Bitwarden? Discord? Figma? Microsoft (skype, vscode)?
> node-gyp

We're in ... let's call it a transitional period at work. I've got something like a dozen versions of node being managed by asdf. And in half of the projects I work on regularly, I consistently get warnings about this particular project failing to build.

One day, I'll actually look up what it actually is, and what it does, and why it's being built, but is apparently optional.
> Also, you make a lot of claims that just don't seem to reflect what I've seen.

Can you say more about my claims? Yes, many human creations are re-hashes of old creations. All AI creations are re-hashes. As you say - they seem "novel" to a particular human, but in aggregate they are what they are - re-hashes. There's a meme about how people with limited exposure to something will over-associate the relevance of their small exposure that kind of aligns with this[1].

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/getting-a-lot-of-boss-baby-vi...
I just read about a kid being arrested for $2 bill because the cops didn't know such bills exist. Not the first time it happens too. Some of them aren't exactly brilliant, unfortunately. And there are almost never any consequences for doing stupid while in the uniform.
Does sci-hub have up to date content these days?

Having pretty wide journal access through my institution means I don’t need to reach out to sci-hub.
The current AIs are pretty bad at handling negation especially when the models are small and quantised. To be fair, so are humans: double, triple, or even higher negatives can trip people up.

This effect of smaller models being bad at negation is most obvious in image generators, most of which are only a handful of gigabytes in size. If you ask one for “don’t show an elephant next to the circus tent!” then you will definitely get an elephant.
even a speaker with a specified word in a specified utterance will vary pronunciation for the context of who is listening (imitation of local accent).

(we worked on all this in Motorola in 2001 extensively....then they dropped it)
6.9MW / 700 homes is 9.85 kW/home.

Two of these would do more than that (10.5 kW), for (at current exchange rates) $5934, or just over a quarter that price:

https://www.kaufland.de/product/512021383/?search_value=sola...

And even at that price, it's overlapping in price range with the non-solar equivalents.

The funny thing is, I grew up (in the UK) with news stories about how the latest computers were so expensive in the UK that it was cheaper to fly to NYC, buy one, and fly back with it, than to buy local — and now the US is having the same problem in reverse with PV (you might well be able to fit some of the much smaller flexible PV systems I've seen around here in Berlin into oversized luggage).

(Sure, I get that big projects aren't exactly the same as small ones… but usually that makes big things cheaper, not more expensive, even for home PV vs. park PV).
They do, they mentioned him earlier:

> They also usually involve the victim doing something that's not advisable, even if they're not doing anything legally wrong. Philando Castile, for instance, or Johnny Hurley.

“Not advisable”, of course, being a goalpost on wheels that allows them to justify police misconduct.
Most of the spam I get is from gmail. Maybe they should apply their so effective spam engine to outgoing mail as well...
> heard US sent so many weapons that even US' supply of weapons were running low if and when it came to defending themselves. Is it true? I have no clue.

No, it's not. For small-scale war, we are amply stocked. For large-scale war, stocks don't matter, production does.
It can't, what it can do is mimic other human art and generate it 10000x faster.
If you're an American wondering why you're forced to buy shitty overpriced Teslas instead of those $15k BYD Dolphins, here's Janet Yellen screeching about how unfair it is that China uses its labor force to manufacture consumer goods instead of creating millions of bullshit make-work financialization jobs like good liberal democracies https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/yellen-intends-warn-...
> what's left are mostly edge-cases.

For everything that isn't machine learning, I frankly feel like it's the other way around. Apple's "solution" to these edge cases is telling people to write compute shaders that you could write in Vulkan or DirectX instead. What sets CUDA apart is an integration with a complex acceleration pipeline that Apple gave up trying to replicate years ago.

When cryptocurrency mining was king-for-a-day, everyone rushed out to buy Nvidia hardware because it supported accelerated crypto well from the start. The same thing happened with the AI and machine learning boom. Apple and AMD were both late to the party and wrongly assumed that NPU hardware would provide a comparable solution. Without a CUDA competitor, Apple would struggle more than AMD to find market fit.
It's not just you. There's a real problem right now with the push towards graphical fidelity (specifically "realism") coming at cost to readability -- most of which is informed by careful choices in the game's art (lighting, level design, style, etc.)

The main example I can think of is the "yellow paint" discourse w.r.t to games like Resident Evil 4 remake Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth. Freya Holmer has a really great thread on the latter: https://x.com/FreyaHolmer/status/1756276112462627119

To be clear, I don't think the push towards realism is at odds with having a stylish and readable game. But the more dimensions you're dealing with (greater complexity in lighting models, materials etc.) the more difficult it gets to tie everything together into something cohesive.
You Don't Know Jack about Bandwidth
> That's exactly how the Russians perceive the EU. They are perceived as weak

Europe has been weak. The difference is Russia is weak while trying its hardest. Europe is weak because it can't bother to try.

> That might look like a "power move" by Germany but it looks absolutely weak in the eyes of Putin

Nobody considers condemnations power moves. Also, Putin's track record in reading who's too weak to do what doesn't look too hot right now.
My grandchildren will live to see Vernor Vinge's programmer-archeologists troubleshooting PHP issues on the Wordpress install responsible for life-support around Alpha Centauri.
> The idea that "shore" and "sure" are pronounced "almost identically" would depend pretty heavily on your accent. The vowel is pretty different to me.

That's not the similarity the author is trying to point out. The idea is that the spelling is a lot more different than the pronunciation is, and that's true. The pronunciations are as similar as it's possible to be, measured by substitution count, without actually being identical. (You could use a measure of phonetic similarity, in which case e.g. fought and thought would be much more similar than fought and caught, but he's not doing that either.)

The pronunciation of sure comes from (1) the old, dead idea that the letter u should be pronounced /ju/ rather than /u/ (compare cure); and (2) the still vital English reduction of /sj/ to /ʃ/. Shore has to indicate the same sound in a radically different way, since it doesn't have and never had a medial /j/ to transform a bare s.
Show HN: Sell your startup with an embed code
just built something fun: http://offerbutton.com and it’s 100% free for founders

story time - back in college i built a dating app. making ok money from ads, nothing crazy.

one day, random email hits our help inbox: "interested in acquiring your site, wanna chat?”

It was a brazilian company. It was only by some random chance that I was in that support inbox. Thank god. turned into life-changing exit offer (at least it felt like that at the time). classic right place right time situation.

got me thinking: why isn't there an easy way for buyers to find sellers? Wouldn’t it be cool to sell your business to someone just browsing?

so i built offerbutton - one line of code that lets anyone make an offer to buy your business: that's it. embed it, forget it, wait for offers.

built this entire thing with v0/cursor because everyone said "ai coding isn't ready for real products"

prove them wrong i guess?

Offerbutton is perfect for:
- indie hackers with projects
- creators with media properties
- saas founders testing exit interest
- anyone building in public

works for deals $1k to $10m+.

100% free to embed. no fees. no commitment. It’s free for now for the first people who install it. too many great products die because founders/buyers never find each other.

let's fix that.

who's got something to sell?
> everyone wants to know how many visitors they have

Actually we already know that if you want to know how many visitors you have, GA will strongly underestimate, especially with tech literate audience. You may want the log parsing instead.

Even if you want the JS-based solution, you can do it first party, without the need for GA.

> I’m quite sure your website is not ranked as high on Google if you don’t use GA.

Sure enough to quote a source? There lots of high ranking pages, using non-GA solutions.
Reject the plan surely should have come many places before shutdown the whole system!
Well, I used it for bounding box and reading order annotations, but that’s a pretty specialized use case.
I don't understand why POW solutions aren't more popular.
Same. One day I'll find out what it is.
Thanks for sharing -- the author runs a synth themed bike ride in Portland, and we worked together on a drum machine participants can use to keep time in addition to the synths and amps the usually bring.

It uses the collaborative live database we are working on at Fireproof -- I hope the folks here like this sort of application model. If you have feedback we are listening.
> we need their false negative rate

We have it. It's almost 100%. They've been threatening WWIII and nuclear armageddon since 2022.
Divine right is not a requirement for monarchy, and many historical monarchies took a very long time to develop something like that.

The distinction between lese-majeste and vaguely defined dictatorial "repression" is also unclear. You seem to imply that the latter is generally outside of the rule of law, but this isn't necessarily true - dictatorships absolutely can and do have actual laws similar to lese-majeste etc on the books, and in a stable and long-running dictatorship, consistent application of such laws is how most repression is implemented. Conversely, monarchies don't always have rule of law, either - indeed, autocratic monarchies are defined by the notion that monarch is above the law and can disregard it with impunity, including to punish subjects for things that aren't technically illegal.
The bar could drop too...
I'm not a medical professional, but I have a close friend who is. Most of the time, no you don't need yearly checkups. But if you develop something like diabetes, a thyroid condition, or some types of cancer, it might save your life.

If you're going to do it, I would recommend having a bunch of labs done so you can at least know how you're doing. For example might as well test A1C, Vitamin D, Iron, Thyroid, Testosterone and many other hormones and vitamin levels to get a good picture of your nutrition. If you're low/high in many of these things a simple supplementation can radically improve your life, but not if you don't know about it. A friend of mine recently found his Testosterone levels were really low, and after starting TRT he feels way, way better. It improved depression levels and many other things, with a bonus that now when he goes to the gym it's actually possible to get some results.

Worth pointing out is that you can have (most) of these labs done without a doctor. There are websites you can buy kits, and you can sometimes just go in-person to Labcorp offices and they'll run stuff for you.

Anyway, just something to consider.
New York City pauses $2B aqueduct repair project, citing drought
Don't you run into issues with n-key rollover with those old membrane keyboards?
Advanced autocomplete is still autocomplete.
You pay more. Boohoo
> E.g. what if the liability was solely with the person who sold me the wood (even if they’re actually “innocent” and simply bought from a fraudulent distributor).

Why would the liability stop with them and not you? If only the last person in the chain is liable, the shouldn’t it be you who is sued by the people whose land was exploited for lumber?
Cheap travel is a horrible thing for the world. Mass tourism has destroyed a lot.
So it really looks like doing business with US banks is extremely risky. EU banks also put high hurdles dealing with them. Why does not everyone who has something to loose open accounts in non-US banks to limit such risks?
No

Other browsers are updated more frequently and do not need OS updates.

Safari users are left behind with a broken browser.

I have more iOS 16.1 users (specific version) than all Chrome users with 6+ months old versions.
Am I the only one left happily using Firefox? You know, the only "major" browser that doesn't seem to have these conflicts of interest?
> Using some italics with an edgy claim

There is nothing edgy about it. You can't detect it, you can't measure it, and if the word had any applicability (to say, humans), then you're also misapplying it. If it is your contention that suffering is something-other-than-subjective, then you're the one trying to be edgy. Not I.

The way sane, reasonable people describe subjective phenomena that we can't detect or measure is "not real". When we're talking about decapods, it can't even be self-reported.

> but I find it deeply sad when people convince themselves that they don't really exist as a thinking, feeling thing. It's self repression to the maximum,

Says the guy agreeing with a faction that seeks to convince people shrimp are anything other than food. That if for some reason we need to euthanize them, that they must be laid down on a velvet pillow to listen to symphonic music and watch films of the beautiful Swiss mountain countryside until their last gasp.

"Sad" is letting yourself be manipulated so that some other religion can enforce its noodle-brained dietary laws on you.

> If you don't have certain measurable proof either way

I'm not obligated to prove the negative.
A sewing needle, a spare magnet, and a very steady hand.
I'd never heard of them before getting them while using Brave search sometimes, I'm not sure I entirely understand how they work and differentiate between a bot and human.
"Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) movement is followed by those who want to quit working before reaching traditional retirement age.

"FatFIRE promotes abundance. The goal is to have enough funds to enjoy freedom and flexibility when you retire early."
It regionally-dependent though. On average, if we need to see a doctor, we can get an appointment in a day or two. For a routine physical, it might be two weeks, three at most.
NK is a theocratic monarchy with a God-Emperor cult.
KYC happens everywhere except countries you probably don't want to put your money anyway.
indeed... and use Zotero with the correct plugin to download them automagically
This sort of thing was only a matter of time. The clock is also ticking on 23andMe going bankrupt and selling their assets (your PII) to stay afloat.

https://hoodline.com/2024/11/23andme-in-turmoil-stock-plunge...
> Russia isn't a fucking bear, it's a drunk wasteland with plenty natural resources, but with fucked up leadership. The Russian oligarchy is desperate, and it's showing.

It doesn't matter. It attacked one of the largest countries in Europe, captured territory and is still holding it and making progress. Right under EU's nose. It can brutally throw men in the meat grinder and doesn't worry too much about it. Calling Putin like Sholz did or like Macron didn't help. Showing him a fist that's ready to strike, only that works. Anything else is showing weakness.

> We are "weak" because Putin has been destabilising our peaceful politics over the past 20 years.

The weakness is not accidental, they've been weaving in their agents all over the place and shaping public opinion. Now they are engaged in asymmetrical warfare. Germany has been doing deals with the Russians buying gas and oil from them. Merkel laughed at the US for being worried about it:

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/aa2afe9f-0b5d-45b7-a647-cc61f6d01...

> If we’d known then what we know now, we would of course have acted differently
Can't wait to ask this one as a Leetcode warmup.
Also happy Firefox user here. Do not worry, there are dozens of us. Dozens!
And you'd never get anything close to what Lynch would make, you'd get the equivalent of fan fiction.
People have been chipping away at this for a while. HIP allows source-level translation, and libraries like Jax provide a HIP version.
> P.s. how much is an exaflop or petaflop, and how significant is it? The numbers thrown around in this article don't mean anything to me. Is this new cluster way more powerful than the last top?

Nominally, a measurement in "flops" is how many (typically 32-bit) FLoating-point Operations Per Second the hardware is capable of performing, so it's an approximate measure of total available computing power.

A high-end consumer-grade CPU can achieve on the order of a few hundred gigaflops (let's say 250, just for a nice round number). https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/cpu_list.php

A petaflop is therefore about four thousand of those; multiply by another thousand to get an exaflop.

For another point of comparison, a high-end GPU might be on the order of 40-80 teraflops. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388-2.ht...
Probably not. It will probably be more than a single flag.

And also it has to be something backed by legislation. Do Not Track was a dumb idea because it had no teeth.
The audience for computers in 2024 has grown to maybe 1,000x what it was in 2008. Everyone has to rediscover the meaning of being able to choose.
This feels almost like a request made in bad faith. I don't exactly know what quintessence of inspiration is required too put together any given movie - but lets take Portrait de la jeune fille en feu[1]. It's regarded as a masterwork on relationships and as visually stunning, judgements I agree with. The skill in its craft is in drawing out how the technique of painting lingers on details of humans in the same way that humans linger on them. On how the emphasis of an element (a stroke, a gaze) can overcome its humble character in the context of the moment. The overall plot of the movie is unremarkable - the reason it is a masterpiece lies in the how the actors are able to draw each other out and how the team putting together the look of the movie is able to reflect their relationship in tone and vibe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_a_Lady_on_Fire
Forced assoc.
Careers link points to index page :)
> you just pay TSMC a shitload of money

I guess with money you can win any argument ...
Linux 6.13 Quadrupling Workqueue Concurrency Limit
As a Firefox mainliner for 'legacy' reasons to be fair, I often have to revert to Chrome to get sites to work. I guess there are a lott of dev shops out there that just test on Chrome/Edge (and maybe Safari)
I wonder what penetration testing would show in it. When there is web and rewrite to display there is a lot to do in terms of security
To slower hardware? What are they supposed to port to, ASICs?
Is this an obvious reference? Do people often know the text of this, or of bits of it?