skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, trade secrets will become bigger, so? You need to expose the product. Or the process, things get reverse engineer. Overall, the net effect will likely be positive if monopolies end.
'The sixth great extinction is happening', conservation expert warns
You have worked helping people edit essays in over 30 different countries? And only Americans address their theses in their writing? If you saw an essay titled “Why dogs are better than cats” you would only expect an American to mention cats? That sounds insane, downright reductive and infantilizing.

I apologize but I am getting a little bit of secondhand embarrassment from seeing someone look at objectively bad writing and saying “This is actually an example of the famously uniform culture of France and Spain” ???

As an aside, where did you develop the “cross-cultural skill” of haughty dismissiveness out-of-hand in response to gentle disagreement?
Supported by some Israelis and Jewish people. Remember, their Prime Minister Rabin was assassinated by the Israeli far-right because they were fiercely against the Oslo Accord negotiations with Palestinians. Netanyahu doesn't believe in a two-state solution, because Ben-Gvir is in his cabinet, he dismissed Gallant, a two-state moderate, and just promoted two fierce one-state supporters to the next highest levels in cabinet.

Israel is still on track to increase one-state annexation because there isn't a majority of Israelis who desire two-state enough to throw them out.

Their new Minister of Defense, Israel Katz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Katz#Peace_and_security

The new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gideon Sa'ar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Sa%27ar#Likud_leadershi...
I'll add my voice to the complaints on doomerism. Frustrating how much of the discourse is on blame and shame. Ignoring that we have done rather well compared to the bad targets for quite a while.
similar story from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42160412
Singapore is de facto part of the Anglosphere, ergo its 'high level of English proficiency'. Singaporeans are effectively bilingual, and English is used at all levels of interaction, from the wet markets and supermarkets, to the public and private schools and universities, to the highest levels of government administration and communication. Can't get more 'Anglo' than that.

It's natural for the citizens of a country that uses English as though it were its native language to be proficient in it.
My complaint about using "real implementations" (aside from databases, which, sure, knock yourself out with testcontainers or even hsqldb running in compatibility mode[1]) is that managing the state of real systems is incredibly hard. I am aware of aws-nuke and its kin, but tearing everything down and then setting everything up for every test cycle consumes very real wall clock time and the flakes drive up "test fatigue" where folks start merging things with test failures because "oh, you know, it's just kidding" or the deadly enemy "we don't have time to wait for the test cycle, we need the fix out now!"

I am 100% with you on the verified fakes and love moto (and its friend localstack) for that reason. If I had lottery money, I'd even go so far as to create a moto-eqsue implementation backed by lxc or such and have it actually provision/mutate some running infra that I can snapshot and restore

1: https://www.hsqldb.org/doc/2.0/guide/compatibility-chapt.htm...
True! Buddha and Alexander the Great were really only 100 years apart. Greeks and Hindu deities have many similarities. The trimurthi of Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva correlates pretty closely to Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. It works the other way as well as I think Greek philosophy also got influenced by Hindu/Buddhist world view like Stocism. Both sides seem to have benefited with the ideas of the other especially along math and science.

A hundred years after Alexander the Great we have Ashoka the Great who sent Buddhist missionaries to the four winds and if you squint Christianity sort of resembles a mesh of Jewish and Buddhist philosophy.
It's obviously not the future (outside of mathematics research). The whole LLM boom we've seen in the past two years comes from one single fact: peopel don't need to learn a new language to use it.
Everything is a rule (Pega)
Show HN: Nova JavaScript Engine
We're building a different kind of JavaScript engine, based on data-oriented design and willingness to try something quite out of left field. This is most concretely visible in our major architectural choices:

1. All data allocated on the JavaScript heap is placed into a type-specific vector. Numbers go into the numbers vector, strings into the strings vector, and so on.

2. All heap references are type-discriminated indexes: A heap number is identified by its discriminant value and the index to which it points to in the numbers vector.

3. Objects are also split up into object kind -specific vectors. Ordinary objects go into one vector, Arrays go into another, DataViews into yet another, and so on.

4. Unordinary objects' heap data does not contain ordinary object data but instead they contain an optional index to the ordinary objects vector.

5. Objects are aggressively split into parts to avoid common use-cases having to reading parts that are known to be unused.

If this sounds interesting, I've written a few blog posts on the internals of Nova over in our blog, you can jump into that here: https://trynova.dev/blog/what-is-the-nova-javascript-engine
I’m not the parent poster, but I’ve seen two major spurts of Python’s popularity: (1) the mid-2000s when Python became a popular scripting language, displacing Perl, and (2) beginning in the first half of the 2010s when an entire ecosystem of Python APIs backed by code written in C, C++, and even Fortran made up the infrastructure for machine learning code (e.g., NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, Pandas, etc.). If Python didn’t have a good way of interfacing with code written in languages like C, then it might not have been as popular among machine learning researchers and practitioners, who needed the performance of C/C++/Fortran for numerical computing but wanted to work with higher levels of abstraction than what is provided in those languages.

What drew me to Python back in 2006 as a CS student who knew C and Java was its feeling like executable pseudocode compared to languages that required more “boilerplate.” Python’s more expressive syntax, combined with its extensive “batteries included” standard library, meant I could get more done in less time. Thus, for a time in my career Python was my go-to language for short- and medium-sized programs. To this day I often write pseudocode in a Python-like syntax.

Since then I have discovered functional programming languages. I’m more likely to grab something like Common Lisp or Haskell these days; I find Lisps to be more expressive and more flexible than Python, and I also find static typing to be very helpful in larger programs. But I think Python is still a good choice for small- and medium-sized programs.
If you hit a full second, that's just right back to the svn days where there was just enough friction people wouldn't bother to commit until everything was completely done, then the commit would often be too big to easily describe why things were done in the commit message.
As a mathematician, of course I agree. But in a sentence like:

> A speedup in the movement of the maths frontier would be worth many power stations

who is it 'worth' it to? And to what end? I can say with some confidence that many (likely most, albeit certainly not all) mathematicians do not want data centers and power stations to guzzle energy and do their math for them. It's largely a vision imposed from without by Silicon Valley and Google research teams. What do they want it for and why is it (at least for now) "worth" it to them?

Personally, I don't believe for a second that they want it for the good of the mathematical community. Of course, a few of their individual researchers might have their own personal and altruistic motivations; however I don't think this is so relevant.
Paraphrasing your own metaphor, we can all eat 1 quality burger or steak once a week (or fortnight), cycling or at least driving a BEV to the restaurant and we would be well within sustainable limits
Only a thumbnail from the Wikipedia page mentioned in the article was saved to the Internet Archive [1], but it appears the same image was uploaded to Wikia: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/windows/images/3/34/Excel2....

The original description of the file uploaded to Wikipedia read [2]:

Microsoft Excel 2.1 included a run-time version of Windows 2.1

This was a stripped-down version of Windows that had no shell and could run just the four applications shown here in the "Run..." dialog.

The spreadsheets shown are the sample data included with Excel.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090831110358/http://en.wikiped...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20081013141728/http://en.wikiped...
I don't think taking one second to commit is a problem. However, verifying that software builds typically takes a lot longer than a second.
With the potential gutting/further defunding of EPA and other federal regulatory agencies. My money says there will be no action taken until an actual security incident occurs. Administrations don’t care about the long term health of the country, only what they can do in 4 year spans.

Cybersecurity is unfortunately not “sexy” enough for the common American voter to get behind.
I have an AMD Framework 13 and I cannot recommend it enough. IMO there's no other laptop worth considering unless you specifically need a Mac. They fully support Ubuntu, have excellent configuration options, and are powerful enough to run small local LLMs well (Qwen 2.4 14B runs about 6 tk/s and Llama 3.2 3B at about 12 tk/s on the iGPU via Vulkan).

This laptop has been everything I wanted it to be and I look forward to upgrading it for many years to come.
This is a big reason why legacy production code bases are such a nightmare to work with: developers refuse to learn anything beyond the minimum necessary to pile on yet another band-aid fix and the code base turns into a disorganized ball of mud
Both comments can be right. People don’t need to know HTML to use the internet.
A very poignant and well-written piece, which only gets sadder as you realize the scale and extent of these systemic issues landing people in such places, and it’s only getting worse.
We can grow indefinitely if we entertain ourselves with more advanced and efficient technologies.

I run my apartment on LEDs I haven’t changed in 4 years and I max out at 100W. When I was a child, that was the power of one fairly bright living room reading light
The New Hatred of Technology
When the car loses power, the outside manual release does enable.
https://archive.ph/RBg2l
Calculations show that it was completely destroyed in the atmosphere. Which makes sense, cause meteorites of similar size don't make it to the ground.

It was also slower, 150,000 mph, than Parker Solar Probe, which reached 430,000 mph.
If "better than humans" means when you give it a real world problem, it gives you a mathematical model to describe it (and does it better than human experts), then yes, it's the end game.

If it just solves a few formalized problems with formalized theorems, not so much. You can write a program that solves ALL the problems under formalized theorems already. It just runs very slowly.
I'm not Vietnamese, but my SO is Vietnamese and used to do medical research in Japan as part of that ASEAN-Japan pipeline (and it's the same model in South Korea and Taiwan).

There are two types of ASEAN students:

1. "Students" - guest workers brought under the "Trainee" program who in reality are temporary guest workers cleaning toilets, gutting fish, manually harvesting strawberries, or working in hostess bars. They are treated similar to how Nepali and Bangladeshi migrant labor would be in UAE because these trainee workers in Japan lack legal support and often in debt to a broker in the home country.

2. Actual Students - brought as part of Japan's soft power diplomacy in ASEAN. They will study in a mix of Japanese and English or full Japanese (depending on the university). They will also be housed in dorms for international students. These students end up becoming civil servants, professors, and potentially business leaders.

Most junior and mid-level professors and medical leadership at top medical universities in Vietnam like UMP tend to be alums of these programs in Japan and SK.
The reincarnation bit interests me. I've had a notion that reincarnation is the process of birthing. A child is going to inherent their parents DNA, genes, environment, and situation. Whatever pain the parents are burdened with will be passed on to their child, and so on and on and on. We are [adaptable] copies of our parents.

Im self aware enough to observe the traits I picked up from my parents. I've thought about all the suffering I've been through. If I dont have children, I can be the end of the thread. I can stop the cycle of suffering.

/armchair
Very good for you! well done!
So because of the shooting Musk endorses the orange idiot plus has the algo modified. Sounds plausible.
Some ISPs have on-site Netflix Open Connect racks. The advantage of this is that they get a high-priority quality of service data stream into the rack, which then serves the cached content to the ISP customers. If your ISP doesn't have a big enough Netflix rack and it gets saturated, then you're getting your streams at the whim of congestion on the open internet. A live stream is a few seconds of video downloaded, and it has to make it over the congestion of the internet in a few seconds and then repeat. If a single one of these repeats hits congestion and gets delayed, you see the buffering spinning wheel.
Other shows, on the other hand, can show the cached Netflix splash animation for 10 seconds while they request 20 minutes of cache until they get it. So, dropped packets don't matter much. Even if the internet is seeing congestion every couple of minutes, delaying your packets, it won't matter as non-live content is very flexible and patient about when it receives the next 20-minute chunk. I'm not an ISP or Netflix engineer, so don't take these as exact numbers. I'm just explaining how the "bandwidth problems might be localized" hypothesis can make sense from my general understanding.
I built an app on bolt.new and got stuck with broken locales. Tried Windsurf last night and damn, it just fixed translations perfectly without breaking anything else. Zero side effects. Pretty sweet!
Assets and cola adjusted annuities also lag. They may lag less, but that's a discussion to have.

Real median wages have gone up more than inflation has over the last few years. It's just not evenly distributed.
The blog post did not attack the people that created it in 1991. It criticizes what we have today.

What we have today is a mess of legacy cruft that is still heavily evangelized by people that don't know better.

Enough with tradition. Enough with reverence for the past. What matters more is what's the better solution. If we continue to insist on this veneer of "respect", it will just make the PGP evangelists think they're in the right.
There's no way that a disaster on a manned mission would affect a satellite launch. They share nothing in common.
I try to avoid python in production code bases as much as possible: dependency management issues alone are a good reason to do so for anything that will last longer than a year or two.
Native English speakers who teach English in Japan make like 30K per year or something in that ridiculous ballpark.
Cut to the chase:

> “When you need to cut headcount, you tighten up the rules.”

> Many companies want to avoid looking weak by announcing official lay-offs, and having a reason to fire employees can save money by avoiding severance packages.
Definitely dreaming of systems like this for BlueSky.

It's amazing that speech is finally really free, that there's no network gatekeepers blocking hobbyists and researchers from understanding & working with speech.

Watching the web 2.0 world collapse as APIs shutters or got absurdly expensive, watching the remaining players withdraw availability ongoingly: man that was sad. That was such an anti- inter-networking tragedy that I was not prepared for.

We can start to see the threads intertwine again. Thanks to protocols not platforms.
I don't think sarcastic comments really help, people who aren't capable of having real conversations about this already bring enough of that. It is definitely worth talking openly about whether it's worth trading short term inflationary pain for long-term climate pain.
Yes, for most use cases it doesn’t really matter which language is chosen.

Regarding just spending more money on memory - I agree that it’s definitely cheaper but it’s not only about wasting bytes of memory. If the garbage collector has a lot of work to do it may also impact response time/throughput.

And yes, C# did a pretty good job with implementing mechanisms for reducing allocations on a language level. This definitely helps to reduce garbage collection.
Differentiable relaxation makes it sound like Rowhammer backpropagation, but I'm fairly certain that's not what they're talking about.
to be fair, humans also have to run experiments to discover whether their models fit nature - AI will do it too.
My point is that people cannot manifest that which they cannot imagine, and the system as it’s currently structured crushes imagination and packs it away into the box of “childish” fiction. All those opportunities you’ve mentioned get boxed up along with that, because they don’t align with any of the paths prescribed by society. They’re viewed as unreachable fantasies.

People still have a drive to procure agency in their lives though, and so instead of pursuing opportunities in real life (which they’ve been told is unrealistic), they live them out in mediums that give them permission to do so, like video games, TV shows, and books.

So ironically, if we want to encourage people to get their head out of the clouds and pursue their goals, telling them to grow up is the least productive thing one could possibly do. A much more productive message would be one of empowerment — that dreams don’t have to remain dreams, that it’s ok to take risks, try things, and potentially fail, and that everybody has some amount of power to shape their own reality.
There are (ȓ/r^3) terms involving unit vectors, but that works out to 1/r^2 in practice. There are cubed terms in string theory and Quantum General Relativity (QGR) / Loop Quantum Gravity, but these do not apply at macroscopic distances. If you know of a url link to a non-theoretical inverse-cube effect which has actually been confirmed in lab experiments or actual observation, please post it.
Study links relative brain volume to temperament in diverse dog breeds
CEDARScript: SQL-like language for efficient code analysis and transformations
I signed up two weeks ago after a hackernews story. I wanted to see quality vs OpenAI. Completely new users first prompt.
X is only Y% of emissions is the NIMBY of climate change. You can slice every single emissions source as "only Y% of emissions, you should worry about the others first", and then nothing is done on any of them. No, you tackle everything above 0.5%. Otherwise, the SUV's say blame the private jets, the private jets say blame the SUV's, the public transport blames the EV's, America blames China, China blames America's past, the consumers blame the producers and the producers blame the consumers, etc.
I just got the AMD FW13 a few months ago, and I've enjoyed it very much as well.

It's very much powerful enough for casual Rust programming, and it looks and feels great.
Not when we start talking 4x or more the price. The cost premium of biofuels for air travel aren’t that high and the scale can meet demand for long distance flights. Fertilizer from nitrogen in the atmosphere is again cost competitive relative to that kind of increase.

Batteries are fine for ocean shipping on a ~50 year timescale, and that basically covers burning fossil fuels. Using it as a feedstock for plastics etc is a non issue for climate change.
Originally it was personal home page
It's somewhat ridiculous that Singapore is included in the English proficiency index given that is English is one of its four official languages. Not only that, but it's also the privileged official language that all children must use in school. The other official languages are widespread but not universal.
So that would be $7.72 per taxpayer, a single-digit dollar amount.

(based on number of taxpayers in 1989 -- using the numbers from 1972, it would be a low double-digit amount).
That exists for maps and lists.
I've had MediaWiki (which is Wikipedia) run fine on its own in the past with minimal requirements.
It was relatively easy to lash Python as a higher-level orchestration layer to popular number crunching libraries, yielding NumPy and similar, which made Python popular for machine learning applications.

If you're used to Scheme, Common Lisp, or Haskell, Python's arbitrary decisions about e.g. lambda or how scopes work may be grating. But Python is the BASIC of the modern day, and people laughed at BASIC in the 80s too... except businesses ran on BASIC code and fortunes had been made from it.
It's much easier to become a shareholder than to become an employee. Today it takes about an hour, you can do it online, and you need just 50 EUR. Of course, the real trick is in making profit - and now it's up to you to show how invaluable and company-making-or-breaking your skills are - as they should be if you're asking for the full upside.

Can't do it? Then you have to share with sales, marketing, accounting, tax consultants, finance, auditors, lawyers, internal IT, HR, post-sales account managers, customer support, office managers, other engineers - and of course the people who keep it organized, and the people who took a risk and funded it. Seems fair to me.

Consider the opportunity cost of providing capital: if I invested my capital into NASDAQ100 accumulating ETF, I could reasonably expect 10-15% of yearly tax-free[0] profit stored in a safe asset that can be liquidated at any time. Potentially much more profit - last few years were great (20-40% p.a.). You have to give me more if you want me to risk my capital in a custom illiquid and unregulated over the counter deal, and I mean a lot more.

[0] In my country if you hold an asset for 3 years, you don't pay capital gains tax - this doesn't apply to dividends or any other form of income such as interest or rent. But the accumulating ETFs are fully tax free after 3 years - including the dividends and the gains. You just sell when you need money, no need to "reinvest" manually.
It’s probably necessary for something along the lines of requiring a licensed engineer to sign off on these systems if private companies are going to manage critical infrastructure.
Just fyi (perhaps @dang) this jumps to the Postscript of the blog post due to the anchor/hash in the URL. I was a bit confused initially.
* Inflation Reduction Act (IRA): largest federal investment in climate action to date, allocating over $391 billion to reduce carbon emissions.

* Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: investments in public transit and infrastructure, promoting sustainable transportation and reducing emissions.

* Methane Emissions Reduction: EPA introduced regulations to curb methane emissions from the oil and gas industry

* Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) Phase-Down: EPA issued a final rule to reduce HFC production and consumption by 85% over 15 years

* Rejoining the Paris Agreement

* Climate Finance Pledge: the administration pledged to increase international climate finance to over $11 billion annually by 2024

* National Climate Task Force: established to coordinate a whole-of-government approach to tackling the climate crisis, aiming for net-zero emissions by 2050.