skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some regions of the expanding USA about 150 years ago, a printed record of families in an area was sometimes printed and bound as a formal book. Part of the publishing model for some of those books was to solicit money from a person or family. For a larger price you could have a longer and more prominent description. Naturally some publishers had no trouble making flattering or "puffed up" entries, for a price. The simple entries in a book like that often were a listing of facts like names, birthdates, occupation or death date, and not much else.
I understand what you're saying, but in a broader sense there aren't as many opportunities for a woman without a college degree to earn a comparable living as a college graduate, given their prevailing preferences for types of work. And of course we don't know how much the fact that there are so few women plumbers influences a young woman's decision.
Yes. Cue the “I only read 453 books this year, but here’s my top 50” comments
I think API design in general is hard to do well, GraphQL isn’t going to help or hurt that.
Long story deleted. He runs things like a Bond villain.

If you want some granularity in that: risk taking, going against the grain, breaking rules, drive, grandiosity, good physics skills and poor people skills (lack of empathy). I read somewhere that the laws of physics constrain his engineering companies, whereas absolutely nothing constrains the "social" business, though the section 230 free ride may be grinding to a halt.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judges-rule-big-techs-fre...
They did (sort of). They were called demos and trials. But there was no DRM. FlexLM was easy to crack. The WWW was largely plaintext.

I sadly fried my Octane 2 at some point (and got my Indy's, DS10L Mac Pro G5 (also RIP and Suns to the garbage waste disposal). The Octane 2 specifically was also using a lot of Watt. But it was fun to play with, and of course it ran IRIX ;)

(I still remember how good the audio card in the Indy was compared to my PC's.)

I noticed other day prices are still high on eBay. Better off buying recent enterprise stuff (mind the Watts though).

One funny thing to note is SGI completely missed out on the AI era and boom.
With function overloading, templates and late static binding.

You just use a `hash` function in your library code and user has to implement a version of it that accepts the Foo type.

To resolve the scope problem, Nim uses templates[1] and a `mixin`[2] statement to bind user-defined hash procedure.

0 - https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/lib/pure/collections/tables....

1 - https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/652edb229ae3ca736b19474...

2 - https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#generics-mixin-stateme...
It can't be that hard, Theranos and Enron figured it out too.
Netflix uses Bayesian methods all over the place. In a meeting presenting new methods, I called squinting at A/B test results and considering them in the context of prior knowledge "shoot-from-the-hip cowboy Bayes". This eventually lead to a Cowboy Bayes T-shirt, hat and all.
Google also invested $2B into Anthrophic. Seems like both Google and Amazon are providing credits for their cloud, also as a hedge against Microsoft / OpenAI becoming too big.
I actually don’t think that’s why Russia responded. The announcement about being able to us US missiles on Russian territory occurred too quickly for them to have launched this is response. I think this is Russias response to the opening of the Aegis Ashore ballistic missile shield in Poland, which has been in progress for years and just recently was made operational
Establishing an etiquette for LLM use on Libera.Chat
Ignorance is bliss, I'm here to bring enlightenment:

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-...

https://brave.com/privacy-updates
YARC - Yet Another Rest Client https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/yet-another-rest-cl...
I read the quote in Alyosha's voice, I don't remember if it's really him. I'm by no means a Dostoyevsky expert and I read the book, halfheartedly, a long time ago. So please do your own thinking when I say that Ivan, not Alyosha, is closest to the author's heart.. he wrote about the three brothers because he was trying to resolve the conflicts between (at least) 3 archetypes of the Russian soul! Too humble he was, to try to generalize that to the world, but the downside is, later readers can't help but put in their own interpretations, or selectively quote stuff that aligns with their lonely hearts..
> Have you ever actually

Every day of my life, actually. It’s clear you don’t, and I don’t particularly care. Good day.
Will Windows 365 support color managed workflows and chroma 4:4:4? Because RDP does not.
>To illustrate my point, we can compare earnings of men with no college to women with a bachelor’s degree. Men make $45k, women make $65k. To believe that men are choosing trades you have to believe that men would voluntarily choose to make 30% less.

Using the men's average is not the right metric. We're looking at a choice here, so the proper thing is to look at the percentage of men without a college degree who earn comparably to men with one, vs the same with women. I think you'll find a greater percentage of high earning men without degrees than you will find with women.
It's the most wonderful time on the year..
>I enjoyed reading that feels in the same realm [annoying boxes]

I had to reread that a few times to figure out what he was saying. All that comes down to is the fact that in his presentation technically there's nothing linking the propositional value of the box labels to the box contents. In most puzzles this linkage specified "outside the puzzle world" but in this case it's specified "inside the puzzle world" and so nothing can be deduced from it. But any sane person would assume the two align (especially in the setting of a puzzle), and so there's the gotcha.

Seems very different from the kind of "trick" questions in interview which are closer to one-way questions where the problem is trivial with some key insight but quite hard otherwise.
Is it just me, or would "single page applications" fit easily in the "examples" section there? Sounds kind of trollish when I write it out, but honestly, it fits pretty well, right? We threw away all the things the browser gives you for free and re-implement the back button, history, etc in JavaScript. (and it's somewhat fractal, as within the frameworks we use to do this you'll frequently see people re-implementing things the framework already does).
How to Scare Your Contributors Away: A Veteran's View on the WordPress Turmoil
Funny, I'll have to look when back at a computer in a few days. I don't recall the padding being that bad. Granted... I do largely use it as an emacs machine. I'm sure that colors what I notice.
I'll put a word in for _High And Rising_:

https://www.amazon.com/High-Rising-k-Soul/dp/0358494885
I really enjoyed reading "The Blue Machine: How The Ocean Works".

It turns out the Ocean is fascinating, and I learned something crazy:

"Between 1950 and 1973, world fish harvest trippled, but the amount of fish directly consumed by humans stayed the same. The rest went into fishmeal, as a supplemental food for livestock, and this became an essential ingredient for modern industrial farming".

I didn't realize that fishmeal was a primary input to modern animal agriculture. Global fish stocks collapsed not only because people ate fish, but also because of animal agriculture in general. It's fascinating how it's all connected.

Also, sea turtles cry 8 litres of tears an hour.

Needless to say, this book ended up as a permanent fixture on my bookshelf.
> especially in the light that end users shall not have the privileges to install local apps

So it's a way to lock users into the MS cloud ecosystem even more than normal Windows... How nice.
But they can't quit once they taste that sweet total comp.
The Russians have figured out that the Europeans hate them, that is why we're all on day >1,000 of the current war and they're firming up relations with Asian powers in a way that is a net loss to the rest of us.

> You attack population centers after mutually assured destruction.

There have already been what are basically missiles targeting Moscow, any compunction about targeting Russia itself have been overcome and those storm shadows the other day were a pretty inflammatory gambit. It isn't there yet, but extrapolate forward 12 months and I think some sort of strike on the UK is on the cards. May as well be London. The British aren't going to stop until something stops them, if they don't see a red line at hitting Russia proper then they probably don't see any at all anywhere. And Russia has been pretty clear through their targeting in Ukraine that they are happy to go for civilian infrastructure.

Fingers crossed they run out of money or steam before the situation gets much worse, I suppose.
> Wayland driver enabled in default configuration.

Wait, does this mean Wine under Wayland is finally usable? How about DXVK/VKD3D apps (games)?
It is striking to me that the only locals you seem to care about in your set of responses here are the white locals? Your hypothetical contrast between "remote activists" who want to remove the dams and the "local stalwarts" totally ignores the people who have been most impacted and lost the most through the existence of these dams.

The tribes that relied on the salmon in the klamath watershed lost their jobs, subsistence food, and cultural heritage for nearly a hundred years, and this factors precisely nil in your analysis.
I don't know if I'll get one but its adorable. It would pair nicely with my A-168W-1
Hi, I'm the original commenter.

There was absolutely no negative meaning intended.
It was simply a really interesting project, and I was the first to discover the post.

As someone pointed out, in my country, it doesn't have any negative connotation at all.

If I made the original poster feel bad, I apologize.
It's incorrect, though.

The oriented real projective plane is a sphere, not a torus.

The projective points at infinity (one point for every 1-D angle (R mod 2pi)) form the equator of the sphere.

The T in T² is for "two-sided" , not Torus.

The torus explanation that Tangram gives doesn't make sense.
In a pinhole projection, the horizontal and vertical infinites do not "wrap around" to meet. There is no meaningful "horizontal" and "vertical", the system is rotationally symmetric, which forms a hemisphere of curve it to make it compact. (Half sphere because you can only see one half of the space outside a pinhole camera)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriented_projective_geometry
Never underestimate the power of das blinkenlights to entertain lazy dumb people.
Correct.

Same with Microsoft.
It's cool to learn the term for this, I have used the same principle before with bicycle gearing, so the chain would wear more evenly. Not sure if it makes much difference but it was worth doing anyway.
I don’t read much non-fiction but for this year my pick is “Everyone Who is Gone is Here” by Jonathan Blitzer.

It’s a well-researched and original account of immigration at the US Southern border. It tells the story of many individuals and also whole Central/South American countries. The news media will tell you about caravans and people sneaking through Mexico but it’s hard to get a spin-free version of who is actually coming here and why.

It was enlightening and infuriating. Both political parties have lied to us for their benefit, and it made me realize I understood almost nothing about immigration before reading this. Highly recommend. Those of us who were born in the US are very lucky to not have to fight our way in.
I am very interested in how small these arrays can be. From talking with a friend with cochlear implants, I would assume this could help dramatically with the right signal processing to help him hear.
"Heavenly Numbers: Astronomy and Authority in Early Imperial China" by Christopher Cullen

I read it for a course assignment. The book is structured as a continuous narrative of the development of astronomy throughout the Qin and Han dynasty in early China. It balances general information with mathematical details very nicely, so I feel it will appeal to both readers interested in the history or the astronomy. A pretty fun read for me, despite my purpose.
> It’s clear you don’t

Its been years, but I worked on strategic planning for the DoD. As in the group that actually plans how to preform an invasion, though I was developing the software not doing the actual planning. They still wanted us to have an understanding of what’s involved.

All I can suggest is your methods are inherently flawed. Ask yourself why you were unaware of all these incidents and how you might change that deficiency.
Extracting book titles from comments used to be an excellent exercise in named entity recognition, but with ChatGPT and transformer, it's now trivial.
A New World Order Is Here, and It Looks a Lot Like Mercantilism
Is it the thin client part of the cycle already? I though we were still living in the middle of thick client times.
The 1990s called, they want their X terminals back.

It sounds like basically the same thing: a screen, keyboard and mouse that displays windows for apps running on a remote server.
As far as I know, RGFW is the only minimal windowing of its kind. I guess I would suggest either targeting XWayland or using GLFW.

The Wayland API itself also really sucks to work with, even more so than Xlib....

But, RGFW's Wayland support will probably be improved in the future. :)
Without a doubt "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" by Alfred Lansing.

Read it, read it now.

It's the kind of book that you once you read, you'll never forget. 4.8 stars with 23k reviews on Amazon. Similar survival story vibes as books like "Into Thin Air" or "Into the Wild" but just on another level. It follows the story of a journey to Antarctica in 1914 that goes wrong and ends up with the ship trapped in ice for many months, and follows the crews absolutely insane attempts at survival.

I am waiting for time to forget enough of it so that I can read it again.
I bet there are nuclear tipped interceptors too, though that wouldn't be public. Its a lot easier to destroy the incoming missile if your margin of error is a few miles versus a few meters. Not to mention it would blot out all the multiple re-entry vehicles. The public wouldn't want to know that's the plan but it would sure beat nukes detonating in cities.

I even remember reading about how the Soviets planned to chain detonate nukes over Moscow in the event of an exchange to destroy incoming ICMBs.
I am a terrible reader and I'm really ashamed of it. I don't know how people can read that many books, I think in my lifetime I've finished at most 4 books? and two of them were technical books.

I think I suffer from aphantasia which may be related to the impossibility of getting hook to anything by reading. I've tried mangas as well and it's a bit easier, but still find hard to really enjoy.

Of course, most of the books I tried are the ones that I had to read in school, but I also tried a few recommendations from friends and the result was the same.

It makes me a bit sad.
I read 453 books if you run cat | wc on all the HN submissions I read.
^ great example of the evil-Biden mentality I described above. I wonder, do the folks who are opposed to my viewpoint generally support this narrative?
The one I've heard is "Every machine is a smoke machine, if you operate it wrongly enough."
Correct your vision and your mosquito problem in one easy purchase.
But then the source code of the nation states is hacked and anyone can pull off nation state style attacks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7

The nation states still have a money/people/breaking+entering advantage, but the cyberattack code is now something everyone has to protect against. Also some companies are important enough that they have to protect against nation state attacks, like pipeline operators, chemical plant operators, utilities, and telecom companies:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/us/politics/chinese-hack-...

And criminals won't hestitate to use your family to blackmail you, so all the families of people with critical jobs need to be protect also, and their friends families, and...basically everybody.
$349 for a terrible thinclient
Culture of Flowers by Jack Goodie. An anthropology book that compares the culture of Flowers across civilizations. "No flowers in Africa" to China being most gifted place in terms of flowers. Variability across Europe and Muslim civilizations etc etc.

As an Indian, I found how civilizations treat luxury (flowers) and necessity fascinating. Apparently Europe had a culture of garlands before the banquet culture. India is still predominantly garlands expect for a few highly westernised places. Muslim treatment or rather rejection of flowers in mosque but giving the world spectacle of flower gardens was very fascinating.

The book is not going to win any prize for prose or even coherence structure.
Koot-zay.
Has it been demoed/tested against hypersonic missiles?
most of this holds up really well except for

> Do not worry at this time about acquiring the resources to build the house itself. Your first priority is to develop detailed plans and specifications. Once I approve these plans, I would expect the house to be under roof within 48 hours.

..nowadays would be more like:

> The MVP should be move-in-ready ASAP at which point we shall move into the house and live there while you complete the remaining requirements.
Oh I don't think there is any expectation for LLMs to reproduce any training data exactly. By design an LLM is a lossy compression algorithm, data can't be expected to be an exact reproduction.

The question I have is whether the LLM might be reproducing mostly legal moves only because it was trained on a set of data that itself only included legal moves. The training data would have only helped predict legal moves, and any illegal moves it predicts may very well be because the LLMs are design with random variables as part of the prediction loop.
I’ve been getting into self-optimization lately, and sleep has been a game-changer. Two books that really opened my eyes are Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker and Outlive by Peter Attia. Walker breaks down why sleep is so critical, while Attia ties it into the bigger picture of health and longevity. Also been exploring Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint Protocol.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mMaz70bOd7w

There is a comment there with the lyrics (Cyrillic, yes) (@nickwilde9991)
Part of the political circus here is around the definition of occupation.

Not just the ICC but the UN as a whole, and the EU consider Gaza to be occupied due to the fact that it controls air and maritime space, along with all 7 border crossings, along with its oft-exercised ability to enter the strip forcibly at will, which take precedence over the 2005 withdrawal of permanent internal forces.

To the extent that there's a "circus", it's in the minds of those who prefer to allow themselves to be soothed and distracted by the government's narrative of the situation.
That sounds simply wrong. Assuming the code author is part of the team (and if not, why have code reviews at all?), they also have to make sure that others' life is not made worse.

Merging code with performance regression, memory leaks, or crashes will affect everyone on the team, as they could not test their own changes, and/or will have to debug code they didn't write. So reviewers should not approve that.

Merging code which goes against project's conventions - be it bad design, or abstraction violations, or using languages or libraries which should not be used in project - will affect others' ability to fix author's code. Unless people want super-siloe'd system, where every file has a single owner and no one else can make sense of it, the reviews should not accept the code either.

The "Polishing code that’s in a [...] exploratory phase [...] is wasteful" argument only works if there is a clear definition of "exploratory code" - often it's a directory called "sandbox" or "experimental". The review rules should be clear that such directories have little rules, and when code is moved out it needs to be re-reviewed. If there is no such system in place, then all code is "production" because there will _never_ be a time to rewrite and polish it properly. (Especially in "agile" companies which make arguments like that).

Finally, "code author, by virtue of their time and effort, deserves the chance to see their proposals in action" is the most ridiculous argument. Shared code is a shared space, and one should be thinking of others. And I know that I can spend a lot of time and effort making a chair.. but trust me, it will be a horrible chair and you'll never want to sit on it, no matter how much time I wasted on it.
I wouldn't leave nyt_all.zip sitting in the Recycle Bin for too long.
release it on steam with the promise of multiplayer and it'll sell for $10
The best I can tell is that stuff is related to photography. I think the purpose of this thing is for office work, so probably not.
There are lots of other fanless thin clients already, and they work fine. I have some that work fine as local machines too after I upgraded RAM and storage.
And phones and tablets.
For those of us in "enterprise" work farms, thin clients never really left. Citrix and related technologies are still massively used within any enterprise that has offshore/outsourced IT and software dev teams. It is still the most cost-optimal way to provide IT environments to vendor/non-FTE resources, and this is not going away any time soon. These devices can be incredibly convenient, it takes away the multiple man-years of effort involved in rolling out remote-access solutions.
I would, ipso facto(rio), in the hope that some of these corruptions, like Shakespeare's monkeys, would rephrase the muddled messages I get from the aether in something worth remembering for all time..
Yes. I could not put this book down.

If you liked this one as an against the odds shipwreck survival story, David Grann’s The Wager is also very good.
the real mvp.
> I am waiting for time to forget enough of it so that I can read it again.

Incredible book and story, I read it this year too and your statement resonates.
Engineers in small Tamil Nadu town develop GPU solution
I believe those words are said by the elder Zosima in one of the early chapters when he has several visitors. Not Alyosha - although it's been several years since I've reread the book.
They set the root font size relative to the total width of the screen (1.04vw) with the rest of the styling using rem units

Ive never seen anyone do that before.. It may well be the only way to circumvent browser zoom
I'm looking forward to the part of the cycle where these are discontinued, have been hacked to run Linux, and are sold used on ebay for $5 each.
"The Alchemy of Air" by Thomas Hager. This covers the discovery of fertilizer, its strategic implications (it was the oil of its day), the creation in Germany of the Haber-Bosch process for producing fertilizer and gunpowder precursors from air, and how it fueled two world wars. An incredible story that is not widely known these days.

"The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes. This is an old one, but still a classic. The first half is like a scientific detective story about the discovery and development of quantum theory itself, in Germany and Denmark, and can be read by itself as an engaging history of physics. Then Hitler rises to power, we learn how most of the characters we've met so far escape to England and the USA, and the others except Bohr become part of the German nuclear project. It then becomes an engineering management history of the Manhattan project, and a fascinating look at the challenges they overcame. The final chapter is a sobering play by play description of what happened to the people of Hiroshima, and was hardest but necessary to read.
Baby’s Second Garbage Collector