skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's propaganda, as the article points out: "The chipmaker, which is quite keen to see people buy the AI PCs sold by its hardware partners,"
For Trump it was chiefly about winning re-election in the face of absolute adversity.

For everyone else, it was namely about getting rid of Trump but also attempting to normalize the regulation of speech and assembly, commerce, and healthcare and expanding the powers of the Executive Branch at both Federal and State levels to limits unprecedented at the time.

Covid should not have been politicized, regardless where you are on the spectrum.
Isn't #8 basically that, just vertically? Or am I misremembering what a sankey is

Edit: and #42 is a visually similar horizontal variant, but not completely the same
This policy should manifest itself in the Guidelines, if HN users are expected to know about it and adhere to it.
Thank you. 'The feel of a mountain' is what I wanted. "make your own fun"... I'm a performance guy, this game has been optimized to run on old Android phones at 60fps on the web. It absolutely flies on a desktop PC or native mobile, like 1ms for the entire frame.

I think I could add a lot more 'life' to the mountain by going really far with the bot skier AI. Like having them queue up to get on the chairlift, and avoid/flock with each other.

Means a lot to me that you like the feel of the skier. I am the kind of gamedev that will spend an entire week tuning the friction of various mechanics, and I have a huge amount of taste on how things like 'max speed', friction & turning should be done. I've built this taste up over 10 years of making games, and I think I've got good taste, but it still feels great to have someone validate that.
I’ve never had close interaction with How Stuff Works itself, but I did get a lot of entertainment and fun knowledge out of Stuff you should know, a podcast spun out of it.
How do you get 71 hiraganas? By counting the dakuten versions and smaller versions separately?
> That being said, an increase in LLM-generated content on HN generally is likely to result in an associated increase in the number of bad actors using LLMs to advance their own ends.

This hit me like a ton of bricks, very true.

The older I get the more I understand the optimist in me rushes to volunteer good things that'll happen over the obvious bad.

This, in retrospect, will apply here too and is explanatory for some notably bad vibes I've had here the past year or two. (been here 15 years)
In some cases it can be certain, the ascii encoded in the usual 8 bits has fat to trim even if it is random in that space.
>You could also have CPU-bound code, such as performing an expensive calculation, which is also a good scenario for writing async code.

That's a scenario for a different reason though (to allow sharing the cpu between chunks of the calculation, e.g. to not freeze UI in JS). In that case you might want to async on CPU-bound code.

But regarding maximizing utilization, you want async to take more advantage of a core's CPU when you got tasks waiting for IO, and threads to leverage more CPU cores when doing CPU bound tasks.
I have no idea, tbh. I just open Google Maps, and it usually takes a few minutes to get a reading. This used to be on the order of seconds on my old (Android) phone.
Should have charged $100 a file.
It's also not a misconception that "AI" PCs are for creative/technical professionals when the vast majority of the marketing is about shitting out creative(?) or technical(?) works(?) to reduce and ultimately democratize that workforce.
Doesn't seem very explicit if you have to search a mod's comment history to find it.
One thing you can do, as the other commenter pointed out, is consider entropy of the file.

However, this restriction is too much for the purposes of this challenge. We don’t actually need a file with low entropy, in fact I claim that a weak file exists for files with entropy 8 (the maximum entropy value) - epsilon for each epsilon > 0.

What we actually need is a sufficiently large chunk in a file to have low entropy. The largeness is in absolute terms, not relative terms.

A very simple file would be taking a very large file with maximum entropy and adding 200 0’s to the end. This would not decrease the entropy of the file much, but it gives way to a compression algorithm that should be able to save ~100 bytes
There's precedent of this at many places.

One of the better-known instances, at least for Geeks Of a Certain Age, was "Bad Attitude", the unofficial group chat for Netscape, run personally by jwz. He'd written about the consequences of that being included within the scope of discovery by Microsoft lawyers during Netscape's actions against that company.

From 1998: <https://archive.is/1bYB6>

(Archive link to avoid jwz's treatment of HN referrer headers.)
I feel the same way about Marx
The tldr is that they don't know it's alphabetic for sure (see below quote). The main scholar (Glenn Schwartz) who co-oversaw the '94-'10 excavation isn't an expert in writing. He put it out there around 2010 and said "maybe it's alphabetic, idk" and there was not much followup from the community. So he consulted with some writing experts who helped him with the 2021 paper where he goes over the evidence for different possibilities and suggests that the strongest argument is for alphabetic. The dating seems to be on firmer ground but the error bands on this and Wadi el-Hol can probably knock a century or two off the "500 years".

A decent summary is the blog post below from another researcher who briefly was part of the same dig and a former student of Schwartz (so not entirely independent):

http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?p=921

It is worth noting that in the past Schwartz has been reluctant to affirm that the four inscribed clay cylinders from Tomb 4 of Umm el-Marra are alphabetic (Schwartz 2010). Thus, he certainly did not rush to this conclusion. Moreover, his most recent article about these is also very cautious (Schwartz 2021), as he moves through various possibilities (as discussed above). But it is clear that he is now willing to state that this is the most reasonable position (i.e., it is Early Alphabetic). And I concur. That is, the most reasonable conclusion is that the Umm el-Marra clay cylinders are inscribed with signs that are most readily understood as Early Alphabetic letters (graphemes). Moreover, since the Early Alphabetic alphabet was used to write Semitic, it is logical to conclude that this is the language of the Umm el-Marra inscriptions (the fact that they were found in Syria would also augment this conclusion, of course).

The full blog post is worth reading and summarizes the case for various non-alphabetic possibilities.
My limited corporate experience is that you fluff feedback to the less effective leaders so that you can still influence them. The more effective leaders you talk to them directly and team up with them to accomplish great things together. It is a matter of different strategies.
> I suspect that the cure-is-worse-than-the-disease thinking in places like Red America might not be nearly so strong.

I think the anti-vaxx crowd will fight back much harder against vaccines in any future event, at least at first. They made it through Covid fine, the ones that are alive, why not the next plandemic?

I was just thinking today what a total shit show Covid was between shortages of masks and vaccines, the misinformation online, and the chaotic messaging from the government. It was a circus. I really don't want to go through that again.
Lots of rules on HN work that way. It's a whole thing. We probably don't need to get into it here. I think it works pretty well as a system. We have a jurisprudence!
I read The Hot Zone by Richard Preston and Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. Enjoyed both. Think I preferred Into Thin Air.
What would be the point of an "AI PC" if not to run models locally? I'm very much uncomfortable with sending my keystrokes (or my codebase) off to some remote server. If I can run the model locally, the privacy problems in theory vanish and I'm much more likely to use the tech.

If folks don't understand that, then yes I'd say it's a pretty big misconception and needs to be better marketed as a key feature.

And if the AI PC is just a regular PC with a cloud bot integrated, then ... what even is the point? You can already do the remote chatbot thing with a regular PC, privacy nightmares included!
Alphabet writing is probably the most important invention perhaps even more so than the invention of wheel. It's truly the original "bicycle of the mind".

Syllable based writing are not intuitive for human, Korean found it the hard way by relatively recently by inventing Hangul alphabets despite had been using the Chinese characters for several thousands of years previously with majority of the people remained illiterate.
You didn't mention a mobile app or cloud sync as one of your priorities, so any offline, desktop RSS feeder should provide most of these features.

I use Elfeed in Emacs, which satisfies all your requirements -- except bypassing paywalls -- and is the best RSS reader I've ever used. For context, I've used at least ten RSS readers since 2005 before finding Elfeed in 2018.
I'm reading Endurance now after just having finished Into Thin Air. Good stuff.
THe new electric chainsaws don't make the "normal" sounds.

more like swish.

also: PSA - chainsaw pants.
I have a strong hunch that music has a profound emotional effect because we can use the same kind of signal decomposition to encode both emotionality and musicality. Of course, I have no evidence for my claim.
You’re right of course, but despite these many failures, our public health institutions are still more trustworthy and reliable than Cletus the high school dropout and Cathy the essential oils lady, whose cohort are back in charge for another four years. We are not going to get clear, correct information out of these guys.
> I can tell you that my gas usage is higher at 20pmh than at 25mph.

Thank you for your anecdote. We shall add it to the pile.
The GPL is strategically ambiguous as to the meaning of the word "program" and "combine". The licensing terms could be taken to be relative to UNIX concepts like processes, since Stallman had a very UNIX-centric worldview; but the FSF has been very clear that they consider "program" to be more expansive a definition than that[0].

While there are some cases in which two GPL programs could be said to live in the same address space[1] (or PHP interpreter), WordPress plugins are very much designed to integrate with WordPress and modify its behavior. From a copyright perspective, that smells awfully like a derivative work, and thus all the usual GPL licensing language and copyleft would apply here. Ergo, I'm writing these opinions under the assumption that WordPress plugins have to also be GPL.

[0] For example, they consider proxying out to a separate network service to not escape the bounds of a GPL "Program".

[1] It's very rare nowadays to see separate programs live in the same address space. Classic Mac OS did this; but I don't think anyone is going to take someone to court over retrocomputing hobbyist software. Linus argues that you can have proprietary kernel modules as long as they only touch user-mode API stuff, but that's because they have a specific licensing exception that makes the UAPI outside the bounds of the GPL copyleft. The web is the only place where you could have GPL Programs coexist within the same isolation boundary.
What would be the computing equivalent of an Engineering Physicist?
On the flip side there are many engineers who are so afraid to build anything that seems even a little bit difficult you end up with a million dependencies for things that could have been 100 lines of code.

A common thing to hear in frontend these days is “you’re just rebuilding X” “you mean you want to rebuild X” where X is some trivial flavor of the month library.

All of the famous tools, databases and frameworks you see today was built by someone who said they can do it better and then they built a community around it.
Youngest Planet Discovery Shatters Planetary Formation Theories
I actually think there are a few, only some have achieved critical mass with smaller subnetworks. BlueSky and Threads both seem to have attracted non-tech networks although Threads downranked political content, so BlueSky seems like the natural next mass appeal product.

Others:

Mastodon: many tech subnetworks (security, data)

Nostr and Warpcast: Crypto
Agreed, but if you do healthy habit X, Y, and Z, can you formulate and rely on those risks assessments? What was the risk of the person who smoked cigarettes all their lives yet didn't die of cancer? Should we calculate the risk score of a child with leukemia?

Cancer is scary, because there always looms the unknown causes. Heart disease, less scary, because people have much more control through healthy habits. Cancer, not as much.
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Rather famously, that sentiment is parlous close to something Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO) once said, which makes the irony deliciously palpable:

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmid...> (2009).
I think you're both right, though in different ways.

GP is correct that life today "beats" that from the 90s -- as far as convenience/friction is concerned.

OTOH, just like how "sitting is the new smoking", a 100% frictionless life is not better in every way. It atrophies several important faculties like the ability to deal with boredom (or people who aren't exactly your type), focus for long periods of time on work, etc.

Viewed from this perspective (and as a parent myself), I agree that 2024 does not beat 1994.
I actually agree with you that single-header libs are often not ideal. They're kind of neat in concept: just copy paste and done!

But after being burned a few times by naming or linking conflicts or you cloned your .c and forgot to remove the #define and now you have two implementations or having to debug any BSS/DATA/TEXT issues (because now lib and user code end up in the same .o and the linker can't do its magic for your esoteric architecture), I just took the habit of always manually creating a matching .c that only contains:

#define BLAH_IMPLEMENTATION
#include "blah.h"
If we actually funded public services to the required levels NASA and so forth would be fine to do things in house. We're just allergic to anything that makes actual sense when we have an oligarchy to support. That's it.
Made in Russia. Vlad.
Where does Engineering Physics fit?
Sure, and I think the reason is that whatever else they are, LLM outputs are disposable. Posting them here is like posting outputs from Math.random() - anyone who wants such outputs can easily generate their own.
This is a natural phase of major tech breakthroughs. It is not a negative indicator. The opposite.

It is normal for most tech to have an exploratory period, where its potential is clear, but its immediate economic impact is negative during iterations of product-market fit adaptation.

Normally, the producer of new tech eats most or all of the risk and cost of the search for product-market fit.

But some tech is so compelling, that customers feel the strategic need to participate in the discovery loop too.

Obviously, there are upfront costs and risk deploying/trying tech that is still hit-and-miss. But during a sea change, there is also risk in not experimenting and adopting/adapting early.
The issue you're running into is that to run docker on mac, you have to run it in a vm. Docker is fundamentally a linux technology, so first emulate x86_64 linux, then run the container. That's going to be slow.

There are native macos containers, but they arent very popular
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> They are motivated to be hired

I am also very motivated to convince you to give me, say, 10,000 EUR or USD, will you hand me over the money? ;-)

Seriously: if you see no value in giving me this money, you clearly won't do that. Also: if the person you could hire does not bring more value for the company than he/she costs you, you won't hore the person, no matter if he/she is motivated or not.
At least a finite countable lists worth, there's something for everybody really.

Some of us are satisfied with, say, dimensional reductions of spectral geophysical surveys to improve imaging and train that against existing production records to highlight potential mineral leases.

Others might like to leverage symbolic algebra systems to crack quantum encryption candidates.

A good number like to get rich via high frequency trading, some like to sail satellutes against the magnetic currents of the planet, there's a world of optimisations in logistics that have been implemented and are still being fine tuned to improve throughput efficiency and fuel consumption.

But you're not really asking in good faith here, are you?
Is histogram not a bar chart? As in, it's a transformation you do on the data (to get the frequency per bin) and then most commonly represent it as a bar chart. It seems to me like saying that line smoothing is a different graph type: it's a new look, but if it was previously a line chart, it's still a line chart except that the lines are drawn between different values. How do you see that?

I would also say there are more useful visualizations one can do than bar, line, and scatter. For example, though I'm not sure what it's called, there are charts that suit different orders of magnitude. They're like area charts (line chart with the area under the line filled in) but it wraps around from the bottom, when it would otherwise exceed the top, and shows that second layer in a different color. Think I mainly see them for like network traffic or latency graphs. I find them useful because you can see different scales without a lot of vertical space. (Don't know how well they work for color blind people, but then the same argument goes for any sight impairment and visualizations.) The underlying data points remain the same so I'd say it's actually a visualization change and not a change of the values being shown

Of course, most of the things people pick as more-pretty-looking alternatives to bar/line/scatter aren't good visualizations, so I agree with the sentiment. Just that there do seem to be more options that have benefits for certain datasets
The 2020 I saw (small town USA) were people out ignoring stay-at-home (because it was utterly unenforced), horsing around, buying their Khakis, eating at their restaurants… and protesting, ridiculing, and belittling the people actually trying to help. The “COVID restrictions” everyone complained about were largely ignored, to the entire population’s detriment.
As a Brit, I agree with your comments. I've had to overcome a lot of my own culture to be an effective leader, and even then I don't always do a good job.
Are Plotly and/or Seaborn still the best Python packages to get these kind of visualisations out of the box? I am always looking for new ways to better visualise data in reporting, and some of these look very helpful in telling a story from data.
Simple music version of object oriented programming? [video]
I think a better indicator is market cap. Here AMD is about 2x that of Intel.
Sounds scary but it's giving you some compile-time guarantees about correctness.

StumpWM and XMonad do the same and they are quite easy to use, especially the former.

They also lead to very space-efficient setups. Windows can be tightly packed.
Good to know! Yeah I guess that's the inverse of the OP: one account spread to multiple bank accounts vs multiple accounts dumped into one bank account
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Access to the latest foundation models, which can’t be run locally. AI feels like it’s in this really weird place where the latest Claude model sets expectations that can’t be matched by an on-device model.

Even Apple Intelligence is getting a lot of negative feedback by the review crowd due to its limitations like being unable to summarize a very large document (which is pretty much the point of such a feature).

The problem is that AI has few well-defined use cases and a mountain of expectations, and this really shows in the execution by these companies. It’s hard to build good products when the requirements are “we don’t really know”
FreshRSS might be worth a look. Has most, if not all, of what you're looking for. The paywall ladder might require a plugin.
Counter example: until relatively recently you had large segments of the population who didn't know how to read and write, but were very skilled at whatever their trade was.
Unless my designs are predictable and cookie-cutter, why would I want copilot to generate them? How would it know exactly what aesthetic each element should have? I love unique, expressive designs that capture a brand, so Tailwind only serves to make my markup harder to read.
The things I think of as peak irrationality were not being able to hike alone on a trail. not being about to swim outdoors at a beach. making it a crime to drive in my own car to go to my partners house for a romantic evening. My mother had a stroke and I wasnt able to visit her bedside.
Alphabets have symbols that represent sounds which are strung together to make words. Other types of writing might include symbols that represent words or phrases, with an example being like Egyptian hieroglyphs or Chinese characters.
We should also not forget that the public messaging is important.

"Polls in March and April 2020 showed that more than 70 percent of Swedes trusted the public health agency and in January 2022, 68 percent did."

"By early July 2020, Sweden had not suffered the 82,000 deaths that the models had assumed, but 5,455—less than 7 percent of what was predicted."

On the other hand:

"By July 1, 2020, Sweden had experienced 517 COVID-19 deaths per million people, which was lower than Italy and Spain but as much as 5 to 10 times higher than its geographically and culturally closest neighbors, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. This made Sweden’s approach to COVID-19 look like a fiasco."

However:

"Sweden’s excess death rate during the pandemic was 4.4 percent higher than previously. Compared to the data that other countries report to Eurostat, this is less than half of the average European level of 11.1 percent, and remarkably, it is the lowest excess mortality rate during the pandemic of all European countries, including Norway, Denmark, and Finland."

"After all was said and done, astonishingly, Sweden had one of the lowest excess death rates of all European countries, and less than half that of the United States."

"The world economy was 2.9 percent smaller after 2021 than it would have been according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development forecast before the pandemic; the Eurozone 2.1 was percent smaller, and the U.S. economy 1.2 percent smaller. The Swedish economy was 0.4 percent bigger. This is even more exceptional since the Swedish government introduced much less fiscal stimulus than most other countries."

More importantly, general vaccine hesitance was averted:

"In 2020 the Swedish childhood vaccination rate was 97.2—up by a tenth of a percentage point from the year before."

"Sweden’s alternative model was to rely more on recommendations, have faith in voluntary adaptations to the pandemic, and try to keep as much of society up and running as possible. Based on what we now know, this laissez faire approach seems to have paid off."
Thanks, Rishikesh
Cletus and Cathy can’t help us now, but Burks and Faucci were longtime ID specialists. Faucci lied, and Burks let herself be steamrolled.