skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read a lot of blog posts from both sides in the most recent big "web components vs frameworks" brouhaha a month or so ago. The conclusion I came to was that both sides' arguments were mostly correct but orthogonal to each other, so neither side is ever going to convince the other because they're not really seeking the same goal.

The pro-web-component folks argue that WCs are standardised and will continue to work basically indefinitely regardless of the ebbs and flows of popular libraries, and because it's easier to progressively enhance and therefore more accessible. This is correct, and those points are valuable if what you seek is a way to add resilient islands of interactivity to your document.

The pro-framework folks argue that in their model where the entire UI is a function of state, WCs are incredibly cumbersome, because all you really want from a component is to be a smaller function with which you can compose part of the whole. They are not nearly as concerned with maintaining that component under React vX in five year's time, because the entire system is written in React vX. The components are not maintained or used as individual units unless you are shipping a library. This is also correct, and those points are valuable if what you seek is an effective way to break down complexity in your application UI.

Of course, many (maybe even most?) SPAs should be documents with progressive interactivity—it involves less fighting with the fundamentals of the web (which is, ultimately, still based around documents) and therefore offers better performance and accessibility with less effort. SSR for frameworks is an absurdly complex solution to a problem that doesn't exist if you can just send a complete document right to the browser.

But, likewise, implementing a genuine high-interactivity web application using web components would be far more difficult than using a framework, and I am certain would result in re-implementing some sort of reactive UI/function-of-state paradigm anyway.

Personally I think it's kind of a pointless debate, until and unless we get something that is close enough to <insert popular JS framework here> + SSR built into the browser. I don't know how that would work or whether it's even possible, but at that point the set of standards would actually cover all of the problems everyone is trying to solve and it would be worth arguing whether or not to use them.
"People know the part I'm playing." --"Just a Gigalo" lyrics

And people use most anything in that capacity, Rule #42 is not a theorem, after all.

While the callously selfish oppressive monsters don't care how their victims feel, so long as they get their pleasure. Greed for money and sex are really the same kind of selfish vice. And callousness to the misery of others and heartlessly disrespecting a person's human right to choose what we do with whom they will, are two of the primary drivers of unhappiness upon our Earth today.

Compassion is a balm for all such vices, but we must choose to learn the truth of its importance and then choose to manifest it in our ideals, attitudes, and behaviors. It, like all things human, is within our power, both individually and collectively, but, first, we must give a sh_t.
Turning Stress into Strength
Parental controls on Android are a bit more complicated and require another Google account. I'll take the latter route. I'll just install something like Firefox Focus, which clears browsing data on exit. It will help for one-off searches or an app that launches the browser for some process. I'm not sure if disabling the Play Store is a good idea. It might cause problems with updates. Right?
Ah, the genuine phone experience!

Looking at you, Android dialer.
Well since the letter x is taken, we can use w for web components. So a component file with tagged HTMl strings should have the extension .tsw or .jsw
> Tenstorrent has an implicate view that the future of AI is mixed-workload, not pure linear algebra spam. Yes, MATMUL go BRRRRRR is valuable, but CPU workloads will be needed in the future. That is the hope. So far, this has not played out.

At least not in the training end of machine learning, which is the big money sink.

What striking about this whole business is that it's still mostly hammering on a decades-old idea with more and more hardware and data. That worked great for a few years, but now seems to be reaching its limits. What's next?
Wow, would love to see this started in Boston. I feel like some companies almost make it hard to see where their actual office is, i.e. 'office in greater boston'.
There's a lot of pressure on my youngest, at Primary School in the UK, to have a phone.

Their friends have TVs and game consoles in their rooms too.

For our kids, they have to travel on their own when they get to highschool, so a smartphone makes sense.

Family controls are pretty good nowadays, fwiw.
From the documentation[0]:

> The node:wasi module does not currently provide the comprehensive file system security properties provided by some WASI runtimes. Full support for secure file system sandboxing may or may not be implemented in future. In the mean time, do not rely on it to run untrusted code.

Also some notes on how to use wasmtime here[1].

[0]:https://nodejs.org/api/wasi.html#webassembly-system-interfac...

[1]:https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/4779035
Poker Cheaters Allegedly Use Tiny Hidden Cameras to Spot Dealt Cards
One reason to prefer it in C is to be able to easily add locally scoped functionality like profiling markers and temp allocators.

profile_begin("func");
a = temp_arena_begin();
// ... code
temp_arena_end();
profile_end();
> We live in the real world. It is important to see the real world as it is.

yeah, agree. i guess there's a balance you gotta reach between 'seeing the real world as it is when you're adult' and 'watching a terrorist behead a captive in 4k as a kid'.

i mean there is some kind of bias at play in our societies, as i remember watching documentaries at school as a 13-14 year old, clearly displaying mass-graves at nazi concentration camps. i appreciate having been educated about this topic in such a direct way, yet is is very gruesome and haunting as well.
https://archive.ph/Yrwhr
You're saying "collapse" as if it's something bad.

The thing with exponential growth, is that it has to stop at some point. The near future is not a bad time for that. There's no food insecurity, and the basic needs can be met with a small fraction of the population.
Antimatter is a big theme in science fiction.
> But I'll ask for a citation on "Pinging towers while powered off."

Here's circumstantial evidence pointing to the negative: that a device in airplane mode, and probably, by extension, a powered-off device, broadcast no signals:

Most people carry their mobile device with them everywhere they go and leave it connected to the mobile network at all times. While they are sitting at home and playing on their device, they are connected to their cellular carrier for convenience. They might switch to Wi-Fi while streaming videos at home, but most people still leave the cellular modem activated, which is constantly recording the location of the device. I believe this is risky behavior and a desire for extreme privacy will require you to take more extreme action.

Some of my clients' primary mobile devices have never entered their homes and have never connected to a cellular tower within five miles of their houses. This prevents their phones from announcing their home locations. If someone did figure out a mobile number, and paid a bounty hunter or private investigator to locate a device, it would not lead anyone back to a home. The last known location should be a busy intersection with no connection to anyone. In the past, some clients have used a secondary mobile device with no cellular service within the home, which only connects via Wi-Fi, but I find this complication to no longer be warranted. For most GrapheneOS users who have the discipline to control their cellular, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi connections, I believe you can safely use your primary mobile device in the home as needed. Please allow me to explain.

I insist on preventing any devices from connecting to any cellular network while in or near my home. These connections can immediately identify someone's location. When you place the GrapheneOS device into airplane mode, the cellular connection sends _absolutely no data to any cell towers_. The ability to block the microphone and cameras from the Quick menu further calms my worries. Unlike Apple devices, airplane mode is not disabled during updates or reboots. I simply trust GrapheneOS to maintain my desired connections more than Apple.

(from Michael Bazzell's Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear, 5th edition. Emphasis mine.)
And let's not forget stop-and-frisk! These guys are criminals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...
This. And even knowing the long-term trend isn't a guarantee that you'll make money. Look at the late 90s: knowing the internet was going to be a huge thing was obvious, but it didn't necessarily translate to knowing who the winners and losers would be long term. You have to both understand the long-term trends AND be smart about the here-and-now.
While you'll always find some people who don't think taxes should pay for anything ever in this case I think there's clear value in the DoT monitoring traffic volumes so the cameras already exist. It's not as if there's some huge cost for those camera feeds to be put online where the public can easily access them. The footage that those cameras capture already belongs to the taxpayers. They are a public record (although short lived since it doesn't look like the government is saving the footage). The taxpayers should have easy access to their own records and they should have the freedom to make use of those records.
I suspect you know the answer, though: people erroneously believe SQLite isn't up to the task—and then combine that with ego, my project needs a real database.
> Its reasonable to interact with another human and expect that they are roughly similar to you, especially when your interactions match what you'd expect.

It is a default belief that most of us have. The more I learn, the less I think it is true.

Some people have no autobiographical memory, some are aphantasic, others are autistic; motivations can be based on community or individualism, power-seeking, achievements, etc.; some are trapped by fawning into saying yes to things when they want to say no; some are sadistic or masochistic; myself I am unusual for many reasons, including having zero interest in spectator sports and that I will choose to listen to music only rarely.

I have no idea if any AI today (including but not limited to LLMs) are conscious by most of the 40 different meanings of that word, but I do suspect that LLMs are self-aware because when you get two of them talking to each other, they act as if they know they're talking to another thing like themselves.

But that's only "I suspect", not even "I believe" or "I'm confident that", because I am absolutely certain that LLMs are fantastic mimics and thus I may only be seeing a cargo-cult version of self-awareness, a Clever Hans version, something that has the outward appearance but no depth.
The point is to buy at a good price. If you know it is a good price at IPO then why not?

I am not advocating IPO trading.

I am saying join unicorn X, see of they have a good plan, if the company is well run etc.

You can tell because you are working there. Then if it is a good buy buy it, otherwise don't.

It is a bit like a hunter "tracking" their deer for 2 days rather than walking around shaking trees.
The same way it has been done for years when you sign up for a mobile plan etc.

You verify your age using either passport, driver's license, digital ID etc.

There are plenty of services that provide this.
I'd like to see wasi:filesystem evolve beyond preopens (which would avoid "ghosts" like this) as described in this blog: https://blog.sunfishcode.online/capabilities-and-filesystems...
Thank you for delivering!
Thanks for the comment btw.

But it doesn't make "what" more real? The argument, the reality we inhabit? How "real" or simulated the world is forms part of the conjecture.

I would agree the "weak" bit is that it's as speculative as saying that god exists but I don't think a comment on human behaviour is weak because is anthropocentric.
Design documentation should be done on a whiteboard. You have limited space but that forces you to write down what is important and who it doing what. in a few weens it is so different from reality that you don't feel bad about erasing it for whatever is next.
A few more years, and same here.

Design discussions can be very useful though.
> just swap the names

Then you've just skipped the case when a^2 - b^2 is negative. The diagram does not prove that case and swapping the names still doesn't prove it.
https://archive.is/oYMDj
I didn't see this Sabine video mentioned in the comments. Maybe of interest to someone interested in entropy in physics.

"I don't believe the 2nd law of thermodynamics. (The most uplifting video I'll ever make.)"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=89Mq6gmPo0s

I come to entropy from Machine Learning, Information Theory and probability. For me it's fairly straightforwad. Of interest and useful - but nothing mysterious there.

The p.d.f. aka a fancy histogram is my current best knowledge of how many times an outcome is expected to happen. When I do one experiment - I can't tell the outcome. I can only count the number of different outcomes, without being certain when will any of them appear exactly.

A flat p.d.f. means my knowledge is poor: every outcome is about equaly possible. I'm very ignorant (high entropy). A spiky p.d.f. means I have good knowledge: some outcome is much more likely (low entropy). In extremis the p.d.f. is a Dirac impulse - that's deterministic knowledge.

The only mildly interesting thing is when a new observation reduces my knowledge. Say right now I'm fairly certain I have not got cancer. My chances are 90:10 for my age. Tomorrow I take a test, the test comes back positive. Of people of my age that test positive, aboout half have cancer for real. After the test my chances are 50:50. Now I am perfectly ignorant whether I have cancer or not. Whereas before I took the test and got a positive result, I was very certain I have not got cancer. The new information (positive test result), transformed my probability of cancer from spiky marginal P_Y(y)={0.9,0.1} to perfectly ignorant conditional P_Y(y|+ve test)={0.5,0.5}.

This example is from "How to measure the information gained from one symbol" by DeWeese and Meister (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10695762/).
Maybe have the BSOD when viewed without js:p
The dot product exists in any dimension
And with as many suburbs as there are in Boston, the 'greater Boston' area can mean any number of things. I'll get Boston queued up!
Excellent! This scenario has a precursor in Philip K. Dick's "Ubik" (1969). It's just a sub-plot there, but the parallels are striking.
Being disagreeable isn’t always comfortable but it’s important to advocate for yourself and true things.
Although there are some less powerful cards (the Intel A310/A380s are available for ~$100 and would be fine as basic display adapters w/ good video engines) if you go lower end, modern iGPUs are generally good enough for anything below the $200 level, hence why enthusiast sites (focused on DIY) consider that "low end" these days.

The Radeon 780M on Ryzen APUs can power 1080P gaming, and output to 3-4 4K/8K displays (the latest Intel Xe iGPUs are about on par, but generally pricier). A Ryzen 5700G goes for about $150 (or a 5600G for closer to $100), or you can get entire Ryzen 7840HS minipcs w/ 32GB RAM for $400-500).
Dumb TVs deserve a comeback
and doing so so very, very deliciously, at that.

and no more B-12 shots needed.

(I'm not in any way against vegatarianism and eat rather little meat, most of it bird, but I know of the diffulties some people have with strictly vegetarian diets. At some point, I hope genetic engineering will figure out how to produce the requisite proteins, and our animals can roam free, fertilizing our fields with only sheep dogs to bother them.)
About spilling to disk, in DuckDB’s docs I see:

> Both persistent and in-memory databases use spilling to disk to facilitate larger-than-memory workloads (i.e., out-of-core-processing).

I don’t have personal experience with it though.

https://duckdb.org/docs/connect/overview.html
By good I mean having a small number of good friends rather than superficial relationships with large numbers of people. That should be a false dichotomy of course, but in reality it seems to often hold.

In other words - I'll ensure my chlidren have a small group of kids to regularly play with, ideally in the same neighborhood. Who cares what the other kids are doing?
Ask HN: SD-only digital picture frame?
Can you recommend an SD-only digital picture frame? I know I could homebrew one, but I'm interested in a ready to buy one. Thanks!
Synology DS923 vs. FreeBSD with ZFS
Correct, they just don't return anything. Which is the right behavior sometimes and the wrong behavior others.
In my past experience with a large rails monolith, memory usage was always the limiting factor. Just booting the app had significant memory overhead. Using in-process concurrency would have led to massive infrastructure savings, since a lot of that overhead could be shared across threads. Probably 2-3x the density compared to single threaded.

In the end, we never got quite there, due to thread safety issues. We did use a post-boot forking solution to achieve some memory savings thanks to copy-on-write memory, which also led to significant savings, but was a bit more complex.

All that to say, the naive "just let kubernetes scale it for you" is probably quite expensive.
A Man Who Found Forrest Fenn's Treasure
Glowing Orb on Camera in the New Jersey Sky
I hate it so, so much. Excellent job.
Sora Game Play Video
People make the mistake of thinking it's a single 100GB dataset.

When it's more common to be manipulating lots of smaller datasets together in a way where you need to have more than 100GB of disk space. And in this situation you really need Spark.
> Gen Z's focus on extracurricular activities to boost their college competitiveness rather than gaining job experience has led to "unrealistic expectations" about the workplace and how to deal with their bosses.

ROFL! Students did all the things companies said were the right things to get hired, and now the companies are complaining about the result. And they want to blame the students?

The last 40 years companies have said that they need more college-educated people - that is, young adults need go into massive debt to train themselves for a career, rather than having the company pay for on-the-job training.

So they did that, which means out-competing all the other students who want to get into the upper-level schools which companies want to hire from.

Of course that means they don't have job experience. If companies want people with job experience, they need to pay real wages for internships and apprentices.

> Around six in ten companies included in the survey reported firing a recent university graduate they hired this year.

Did I read that right that if they hired 100 people and fired one, that would be included in this statistic.

> also reported that some of their Gen Z workers struggled to manage their workload, were frequently late, and did not dress or speak appropriately

Umm, they made the same comments about Gen X workers.
Forget Sora, These are 8 next best AI Text-to-Video
> because people have been arrested for saying things that are anti-immigration and offensive online.

What does immigration have to do with this? Nobody has a right to immigrate. Pointing out that there have been a massive influx of immigrants in the UK by any reasonable standard, that the majority of the UK population supports limiting/restricting immigration to at least some extent, that the UK does not have the resources to support the current rate of immigration, that the number of rapes in the UK has quintupled over the past 12 years, and that the rape increase coincides with the increase in immigration are all (1) factually true (2) non-hateful and (3) covered by free speech.

> People have free speech, but obviously that doesn't mean you are free to say things that could be considered hateful or factually untrue

That's literally the definition of "free speech". "Free speech" does not have clauses for "hateful" or "truthiness".

Additionally, any normal person who thinks about the problem for more than a few seconds can easily see that even if free speech did have those clauses, deciding whether things are "true" or "hateful" in general is completely impossible - it's not that hard to understand. It's also certainly not something you'd want the government deciding.

The arguments made by free speech advocates are not "bogus" - what's bogus is ignorant statements of yours that get the definition of "free speech" wrong and ignore basic knowledge about reality.
Right, although we do know how to scrub CO₂ from fossil-fuel power-plant flue gases, it eats up a substantial percentage of the energy produced by the power plant, as I explained in more detail in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424292. This makes the power plant economically uncompetitive with other plants in the same area burning the same fuel and using the same design, so it is only profitable in the presence of fairly stiff cap-and-trade pricing.

But, as I explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42423291, the price of renewable energy (in particular solar photovoltaic) is in free fall, which is suddenly making vast amounts of very cheap energy available. The biggest cost of even existing direct-air-capture technologies is energy, so cheaper energy makes them viable in cases where they weren't viable before. Probably those prices will continue to fall further.

In short, we shouldn't be surprised that carbon capture hasn't taken off yet; we're still on the fossil side of the renewable energy transition.
When I worked at Defense a friend maintained a db of TLAs.

There were over 13,000, and I can’t remember how many were not unique, but it was staggering
It's like our society is in denial about this, finding creative ways not to reckon with an addiction. For the record: you'll be better off if you use your phone as little as possible.
The UK Now Has Its Own Illegal Rubberized Cybertruck on the Road
I’m beginning to see LLMs more as a solution to the code reuse problem: they can implement anything that’s common enough to appear a number of times in their training data.

If you’re hoping they will soon implement entirely novel complex systems based on a loose specification I think you’ll be disappointed.
I may have been ambiguous but I am saying if you work somewhere (pre IPO) and you can see their killing it, on fire, and are seeing a truth other companies can't see then you know (perhaps doing some more research on public info) that it is a good buy.

Also for private companies you often get an all hands with financials, sales info, strategy etc.

The bet here is: this company isn't just lucky they have a killer system. You would get shares privately if possible. Even at IPO at a higher price, knowing they are kickass you can buy then.
Ingenuity helicopter's flying days cut short by featureless Martian terrain
The atmosphere of the movie is amazing, as you say. But the storyline in the end seems not to tie together, and not in the intentional way like, e.g., a David Lynch movie would mess with the story on purpose, but in the sense that "we had this much footage when the director died, so we had to put together what we had and call it a day".
Still one of my favorite movies though.
> The time, energy and resources required to emit these gasses is insignificant when compared to what it will take to capture them back.

I explained why this is incorrect in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424292.