skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be amazed, but that doesn't make it implausible.

We already did beat evolution first with wheels, later with steam, then with jet engines, nuclear reactors, heart transplants, vaccines, exogenous steroids, etc.

Evolution hit a constraint with us, our increased brain size making childbirth unusually difficult for humans compared to other species; all of us are born premature by the standard of our nearest wild relatives, and have to be premature just so the mother doesn't die all the time, merely unusually often.
Well I'm grateful for it. Because now corporate stock photos remind me of AI images, and I can properly appreciate that those are signs of low effort junk too.
Tokyo is pretty nice
Zuckerberg knows which way the winds are blowing in the US Capital and is ensuring he is aligned with them so to avoid political blowback on his company.

I suspect the changes to the fact checking / free speech will align with Trump's political whims. Thus fact checking will be gone on topics like vaccines, trans people, threats from immigrants, etc.

While the well documented political censorship at Meta affecting Palestine will remain because it does align with Trump's political whims...

- https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship...

- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/29/m...

- https://theintercept.com/2024/10/21/instagram-israel-palesti...
If only there was a way to change and influence the use of public funds...
Boeing engineer shares what 30 years at the beleaguered plane company was like
> Gaming fatigues is not.

It is. You may know it as the "I prefer to play board games (and feel smugly superior about it) because they're ${more social, require imagination, $whatever}" crowd.
The problem is web components (which are great) are not so good for seo. You would be losing the auto SSR benefits of using your own component abstraction in any backend language.
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This worked for me to go all the way to the end of the game:

setInterval(function() { document.querySelectorAll('button, .upgrade-icon').forEach((button) => button.click()) }, 1)
Their GDP is bigger, their army protects us - so at any point in time Trump can say "I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it further" and we have to suck it up.
https://archive.is/6xOMu#selection-1727.0-1727.86
Null modem is also an excellent name for anything vaguely cyberpunk
Americans take it as an article of faith that everyone wants to live like they do.

It must be utterly demoralising for anyone working at the US State department right now.
That's a typical OVH experience.
Cater to the new guy in power. Zuckerberg has already been doing this for decades.
> There are plenty of AAA games released last years that you can do 4K at 60fps with a RTX 3090 for example.

Not when you turn on ray tracing.

Also 60fps is pretty low, certainly isn't "high fps" anyway
Yes same I think they're generally quite good and add important missing context to posts.
I’m wondering if it’s because so many people seem to be living more than 50% of their lives online. Facts seem less important in the virtual world.

Go play with some live electrical wiring and see how quickly facts about electricity become important.
Who was checking the fact checkers, when they were wrong quite often?
I think that the work looks quite interesting but it seriously lacks some important points to be covered.

Benchmarks [1] only cover the random insert workload. Why doesn't it include other types of workloads? Inserting into the hashmap is not the only interesting workload that there is. How about mixed workloads, read-only workloads, workloads that fit in LLC and ones that do not etc

Benchmarks only contrast the implementation against std::unordered_map. Why not against Abseil's flat_hash_map as well because that's a library that this work, according to information on the page, is based on?

Benchmarks only display 8-threads concurrency scenario and again only in random insert workload. This isn't a particularly high concurrency figure. I could make a "for-concurrency" wrapper around std::unordered_map, or Abseil's flat_hash_map, with RW-lock and modulo arithmetic to minimize the contention in probably no more than 100 lines of code. And it would scale to as many cores as there are on the machine.

[1] https://greg7mdp.github.io/parallel-hashmap/
>Maybe it's time said governments start just banning or outlawing these platforms

They should and it's long overdue.

America, China, Russia and to a far lesser extent Japan and South Korea all have outsized political interference power upon other countries through the various social networks that operate out of them.

Any country with a desire to safeguard domestic politics against foreign interference and influence should be banning them without question and it should not be controversial.
Websites like this? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1383764/
I think that question is going to be very easy to answer.
There is, I recently read about the enormous quantities of alcohol that the average American drank in the 1800s. They didn't live as long (but not by that much, considering they didn't have modern medicine), but they were physically active, had healthier social ties, and weren't exposed to the myriad of other poisons most of us are nowadays.
You don't need s-exps (Lisp) for this; it turns out you just need a good parsing framework. Here's the proof: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/combobulate-structure...
Why do you need one of those as a gamer? 1080ti was 120+ fps in heavy realistic looking games. 20xx RT slashed that back to 15 fps, but is RT really necessary to play games? Who cares about real-world reflections? And reviews showed that RT+DLSS introduced so many artefacts sometimes that the realism argument seemed absurd.

Any modern card under $1000 is more than enough for graphics in virtually all games. The gaming crisis is not in a graphics card market at all.
HN doesnt have sponsored content that can be heated up via monetization.
You can go out sidewall in fact I'm pretty sure that is very common.
>Ending Third Party Fact Checking Program, Moving to Community Notes

CNotes were extremely successful on X.

The problem with censorship, why digg and reddit died as platforms, you end up with second order consequences. The anti-free speech people will always deeply analyze their opponent's speech to find a violation of the rules.

They try to make rules that sound reasonable but are beyond section 230. No being anti-LGBT for ex. But then every joke, miscommunication, etc leads to bans. You also ban entire cultures with this rule. Ive had bans because I meant to add NOT to my 1 sentence, but failed to do so.

Then when it comes to politics. You've banned entire swaths of people/viewpoints. There's no actual meaningful conversation happening on reddit.

Reddit temporarily influenced politics in this way. In a recent election a politician built a platform that mirrored the subreddit. There was polls and if you were to go by reddit... the liberals were about to take at least a minority government, if not majority.

What actually happened? The platform was bizarre and very out of touch with the province. They got blasted in the election. The incumbent majority got stronger.
I use an older Samsung 49” odyssey. It’s a bit of a meme monitor. I like the single screen to arrange windows. For things like spreadsheets you can resize it see practically everything if you need.

It’s always fun trying to screen share. You can only share windows, otherwise people will see the entire universe.
and why shouldn't they be forced to censor?

they are regarded by society as the arbiters of truth, regardless if they wish to be or not.

not that i'm a fan of censorship, but if a foreign power's strategy is to sow mass disinformation, it's up to the corporation to stop it.

don't like it, Mark? you don't have to have $100 billion either, you could willingly give all of it up.
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The best thing about community notes IMHO is that you get notified if something you liked previously has been community noted. Gives you a chance to reassess.
It's a dual flow-through design, so some SFF cases will work OK but the typical sandwich style ones probably won't even though it'll physically fit
> But that would mean kick out X...

See what happened in Brazil, and we are a 2x larger market just in population, 8x in GDP. That is the entire point of the EU. We are too big to ignore together. 345M in the US vs. 449M in the EU.

“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”
I guess I'm not sure how you can fully square the two statements here.

- You don't want PP to be PM

- You're angry at the NDP for not voting to bring Trudeau down (and effectively make PP the PM)

I share your frustration with the NDP under Singh. But I'm not sure what alternative he has, tactically. Voting down the government at this juncture would only have led to an election that would have brought PP to power as PM. Which is notably not in the NDP's interests. (Or, I'd argue, the public's)

But, yes, I understand it tactically. But it's strategically inept. For 4 years the NDP has "won the battle but lost the war" -- all the policy planks they forced the Liberals to adopt will simply be dismantled by the conservatives now.

What they were hoping for is some recognition from the public that the progressive moves made by the Liberals in the last parliament were in fact NDP initiatives forced on them. Instead they're just tarred and feathered with the same image that Trudeau has.
> From bad to worse. Meta is probably one of the single largest funders of fact checking. Now that appears to be coming to an end. Third parties will no longer be able to flag misinfo on FB, Instagram or Threads in the US.

Zuck has probably done exactly that cost-benefit calculation — FB has put enormous resources into fact checking, and to most people it hasn't moved the needle on public perception in the slightest. Facebook is still seen through the lens of Cambridge Analytica, and as a hive of disinformation. The resources devoted to these efforts haven’t delivered a meaningful return, either in public trust or regulatory goodwill.
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Real images of real people, although slightly unrealistically racially diverse and very unrealistically attractive, and absolutely not working for the company they're standing around a laptop for... is that really any better? Look at us, we're so serious we can licence shutterstock garbage?
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I enjoy the taste of hops and personally, I find zero version better than their alcoholic counterparts, not sure everyone else feels like that.

I wonder why it took the market so long to boom in this segment. Nice to see other recommendations.
I believe the claim was, with Trump in power there will now be a proper investigation of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

I have doubts. First, as someone else pointed out, there already has been lots of investigation in Republican-run states, and they turned up very little. Second, Trump seems to have the ego-driven need to deny that he lost. He seems to have the tendency to hire people who tell him what he wants to hear, and to fire those that don't. That's not likely to drive an impartial investigation.
> where there is no longer a broad, societally-wide accepted definition of facts.

I am not sure it is actually difference.

In the lead up to the Iraq War in 2003, there was so much discussion in the media about how Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and those saying it was made up were marginalized. In the end those doubters were right.

I think in Vietnam, there was similar misleading statements about cause belli e.g. Gulf of Tonkin Incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident I think that there is often disagreement on facts.

I think with Wikipedia existing, we are actually in the gold age of grounded truth.

There is always a sizable segment of the population who doesn't really care for truth though and they will just align with their side and be angry. This happens on all sides of the political spectrum. In the past this was pushed via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism and is still pushed via similar outlets today.
True, there’s a lot of room to optimize costs. For example the congestion tax costs can be reduced to 0 by avoiding areas it targets. And that’s not even tongue in cheek, one could commute to the edge of the city and take public transport for example.
> We really are entering a new dark age.

All the indicators are there:

Instead of leaders like Charlemagne who unified the Frankish domain, stabilized society, and promoted education and culture, we now have leaders who want to dismantle society, education and use culture for wars.

Long-distance ocean trade routes since the 1950s have taken international commerce to another level for humans, but this is being challenged now by aging/leaking tankers, unruly piracy at transit choke points, communication cable destruction, etc.

Loss of interest in classical learning and the arts where dystopian, murder or horror movies, music and books now are the best sellers as WW3 seems to be on many people's minds now.

While innovations are still occurring for improved navigation and agricultural productivity, the Earth's ecosystem collapse is in full effect.

I wish it could reversed somehow.
Hasn't that been the case much longer than that? The US for example has had a problem with creationists.
Zuckerberg knows which way the winds are blowing in the US Capital and is ensuring he is aligned with them so to avoid political blowback on his company.

I suspect the changes to the fact checking / free speech will align with Trump's political whims. Thus fact checking will be gone on topics like vaccines, trans people, threats from immigrants, etc.

While the well documented political censorship at Meta affecting Palestine will remain because it does align with Trump's political whims...

- https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship...

- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/29/m...
'Fixing' 12-Hour Time
Those are all questions no clock can answer though. They require state from the physical world over and above knowing the current time.

It’s a wild misconception to think that a flooring clock is somehow more late than a rounding clock and it’s if anything an even more crazy misconception to think that a clock can tell you whether something in the physical world has or hasn’t happened.
Probably the plan is to sue big, and convince investors that's going to work.
Meta is giving up on the (impossible by design) task of policing their own platform.

The result will be even more poisonous to users.

Just like cigarette companies using chemicals in the papers so that they burn slower. Does it improve the product? Maybe, along one dimension.
In the testing I focus on, testing of compilers, and in particular Common Lisp implementations, PBT has been invaluable, finding bugs in every implementation on which it was tried (I understand this is a universal experience in compiler testing, for example seen from Csmith on C compilers). Here, the property is often of the form "these two related pieces of code should not crash and also compute the same thing". As a simplified example, an expression like

(+ x y)

should compute the same thing as

(the <type1> (+ (the <type2> x) (the <type3> y)))

where the types are randomly generated types that contain the values in question.
> The prices of photos sold by those services are insanely high.

That's because private citizens are not the target group of Getty, Shutterstock etc. - the target group are newspapers, TV stations, high-profile/fulltime YouTubers and media/advertising agencies. They all have these expensive stock photo licenses because that's cheaper than hiring dedicated photographers.

Whatever shot you want - unless it's of your product or you have very specific artistic needs, chances are very high one of the stock photo services (either Getty, one of the large press agencies such as AP or local/industry specific services like Imago that specialises in sports) will have whatever shot you need. And that kind of database access is not cheap to start.
It’s at times like this we realise how much better our situation would be if the internet remained decentralised and not consolidated into a few “social networks”. We messed up.
As far as I can tell they gave up moderation a few years ago, at least every time I report someone spamming about "Elon Musk giving away a million dollars if you click this shady link" or the like I invariably get told it meets their "community standards" and won't be removed. I guess technically I haven't seen a female nipple there though so, job well done?
> we really have entered a world in the past 10-15 years where there is no longer a broad, societally-wide accepted definition of facts.

Never was :(
Stock image looks like a dead business walking to me. If the specific use case isn't important enough to hire an artist for it, I might just use SD.
They weren't punished by the law though, they were debanked in an era where you need to use the banks to eat, pay rent and to merely survive. That is above and beyond any legal punishment. It is economic banishment and it is se excessive that it alone should be shunned by any person who wants civilization to survive.
> Having that data never leave your basement sure can be worth more than $3000 if performance is not a bottleneck

I get what you're saying, but there are also regulations (and your own business interest) that expects data redundancy/protection which keeping everything on-site doesnt seem to cover
The page mentions UGC in prominent places without explaining it, alongside vague claims like "You may now license the internet" and "Harness the power of authentic content". Am I not the target audience, are these things that visitors are simply supposed to understand?

Edit: doing a search, is this like YouTube results? I thought Getty images and Shutterstock were for photos you can put in an article, presentation, website, game, etc. There's also no license mentioned for any of the results that I see. I really have no clue what this website or its videos are about, even with the context of this thread
That Altra may be a good choice for certain server applications, like a Web server, but when used as a workstation it will be sluggish, because it uses weak cores, with much lower single-threaded performance than the Arm cores used in NVIDIA Digits.

For certain applications, e.g. for those with many array operations, the 20 cores of Digits might match 40 cores of Altra at equal clock frequency, but the cores of Digits are likely to also have a higher clock frequency, so for some applications the 20 Arm cores of Digits may provide a higher throughput than 64 Altra cores, while also having a much higher single-thread performance, perhaps about double.

So at equal price, NVIDIA Digits is certainly preferable as a workstation instead of a 64-core Altra. As a server, the latter should be better.
I used C++ with QT for my little Quake launcher and it was very pleasant to develop. Probably would only cost a couple of nights if I was focused, which I was not.
Current canuck here.

Since Trudeau has been elected the likelihood of purchasing a home or finding a job has drastically reduced and continues to fall. Rising tides raise all boats, given that the rent has risen everywhere too.

This creates a divide between the have and have-nots of property ownership and public or private employment. This divides ends in the individuals who have are happy since their investment skyrocketed while the have-nots are left with no hope for their future.

As for employment, the primary job growth is in public sector (government jobs) which are ultimately a parasitic value add to the economy.

Given this, it's easy to see the negative sentiment in Trudeau and his cabinet. This sentiment seems to have hit a crescendo with the recent release of the over-shot budget deficit.

Thoughts?
> Sure, but only after it's fully expanded,

Code goes into the compiler. Either compiled code or errors come out. There's no partial expansion step to cause confusion.

You're probably referring to something about the flexibility zig's comptime allows, but it's important to note a zig programmer can be as picky as they want about what types a generic function will accept. People are really just talking about what the syntax for expression type restrictions is.

> Without parametricity your software is not compositional and it becomes impossible to write correct software to solve complex problems.

You can hold that opinion, but it's not a fact. The overall question isn't binary. It's one of balancing complexity and flexibility. A fixed system for specifying type restrictions is simpler and provides fewer opportunities for mistakes (assuming it's well designed), and may have parametricity. However, the lack of flexibility can just push the complexity elsewhere, e.g., leading to convoluted usage patterns, which could lead to more mistakes. A programmable system for specifying type restrictions offers more flexibility at the cost of more up-front complexity, but in a well-designed system the flexibility could lead to less overall complexity, and fewer mistakes. A nice thing about zig's approach is that the generics metaprogramming language is pretty much the same as the regular language, which mitigates the increase in complexity. I actually think it should be possible to create some kind of generics system that could credibly be said to be programmable and have parametricity, though I don't think there's any point to doing so.
Desktop Linux is to my knowledge the only "major" OS without a CLAT; Android and iOS/MacOS have had a CLAT for ages and I believe Windows got one recently*.

* not sure about that

> I guess this is because sometimes hosts use bare IPv4 address

This, and also legacy applications just not using IPv6 sockets.
Yeah. I'll usually take commuter rail in for the rare 9-5ish stuff because it's such a lousy drive. But catching one of the very few later trains, especially if I have to time it with the subway, just doesn't work and it's usually a <1 hour drive anyway at that time of night.

I'm also pretty far out and not all the trains run that far.
You seriously think NYC is the greatest city in the history of world civilization? Or is it sarcasm? I am asking this as NYC resident.
> His post reminds me of an old idea I had of a language where all you wrote was function signatures and high-level control flow

Regardless of language, that's basically how you approach the design of a new large project - top down architecture first, then split the implementation into modules, design the major data types, write function signatures. By the time you are done what is left is basically the grunt work of implementing it all, which is the part that LLMs should be decent at, especially if the functions/methods are documented to level (input/output assertions as well as functionality) where it can also write good unit tests for them.
> This is a major change for humanity, one I'm not quite sure how we'll cope with.

I don't know, it seems vastly more likely to me that this is a regression to how things have been for thousands of years before the invention of mass media. Like, once mass media was invented, the "set of facts" could be distributed to everyone, and so it exploded, but now the various factions who want to control the narrative have figured out how to use that mass media to share their "set of facts" in the same way.