skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a sad irony that TFL didn't even want this version of the map originally, and it was given to them, and maintained for free (I think) by a map enthusiast like the author of this version

I think Harry Beck would think history was repeating itself

https://youtu.be/cTLCfl01zuE?si=gb-PsswlfW8hSLGW
And often you’re the culprit too!
The term of art is normally “request coalescing” or “collapse forwarding”; I believe the later came from the 90s/00s via squid or ocean.

Yes, multiple minutes to complete is very believable. Cloudflare reported 60% packet loss over ~100ms distance. Thats going kill window sizes and goodput. I wouldnt be surprised by this pathological case also exposing problems in their concurrent streaming window access between so many clients as well.
Except ANSI did very little in terms of changing/enhancing the language. It stayed largely as it had been since Nov '78:

Nov 78 Memo: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cchanges.pdf

About all that happened with ANSI C was that prototypes were created (the major addition), type promotion rules were altered, plus 'const' and 'volatile' were added. ANSI also added 'void *'.

I've a vague recall about 'void' existing in unix C compilers before that, having read a version of the above memo in a unix manual ('papers' section) and it mentioning 'void'.
After Qubes OS I ended up using Fedora with Wayland, Flatpaks and running applications as different users but this introduced other problems.

The security profiles of many "flatpacked" applications are quite permissive (see https://flatkill.org/) so that they could be circumvented. Besides that I'm experience some convenience issues when accessing files on my drive. It's especially annoying when using "flatpacked" office such as onlyoffice.
I agree completely, I did the same thing and now I've been going back gradually. Staying in contact passively makes starting conversations much easier, commenting on their stories, them reacting to a big event, etc. It keeps people in contact, because nobody reaches out of the blue now.

Losing such a network of people is costly, socially and from an opportunity perspective.

Still trying to not click anything not related to people I follow, the algorithms on meta apps are just insane.
A grim position that accurately reflects my 36 years of experience involving people and computers.
Alpha Protocol is a very flawed if intriguing game. The player needs to understand that it's more RPG than Metal Gear Solid. If you invest all your points into stealth, you can perform superhuman feats of cloaking by the end of the game. By the same token, however, you can perfectly line up a headshot on your aiming reticle and still miss, because the backend dice-roll said you missed.

With that said, I agree, the dialogue choices and "consequences" blew away everything else in the genre. In that sense, it felt like it better captured the spirit of the original Deus Ex over even its spiritual successor, Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

At the end of the first mission in Alpha Protocol, you confront a terrorist, and can choose to either kill him or let him go. If you let him go, he becomes a contact that you can call upon in later points of the game. He might give you information, assist on a mission, etc. It has a real payoff for keeping him alive.

In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, you are also confronted with a terrorist at the end of the first mission, and can decide to kill him or spare him. If you decide to spare him, he shows up in an alley later in the game and...gives you some money. That's it.

DE:HR was the far more polished game, overall, but it didn't understand "consequences" very well.
Curious how folks think this measures up: https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-06-23-claudette-src.html
Ye ol’ “belt and suspenders” approach?
Just reloading won't help, you need to actively train the algorithm by telling it what videos you don't like and why. It also lets you stop showing recommendations from a given channel altogether.
On Facebook I've trained the algorithm to never show me any ads because I keep marking every ad that pops up as irrelevant and then 'hide all ads from this advertiser', and by also not following any celebrity, corporate or brand pages.
Oh, I’m glad this Rust fad has died down. Rust is great, but it’s not replacing C or C++. The most annoying part of this fanaticism, though, was that people were legitimately proposing Rust as an alternative to Go or Python. Those two solve completely different sets of problems.

Also, there are startups that failed because the founders decided to ditch Go, Python, or JavaScript for Rust. Now, they can’t hire people, and no one wants to deal with the mess.
It should get pretty good performance yes. Not sure how native like we get with the jit. Gut feeling would be a bit slower than gcc -O0? I would be very interested in your experience if you do try it.
There are at least two aspects to literate programming.

Knuth wrote TeX in Pascal, which has a couple of limitations that annoyed him:

- Pascal has no module system: you can’t break a program up into multiple files

- The order of presentation of a program is dictated by the needs of a single-pass compiler

The tooling that supports literate programming is mostly about overcoming these problems with Pascal. (Knuth also uses it to split up larger procedures in a manner that makes me think of very un-structured C macros.) Most other languages are more flexible so they have much less need for a technology like tangle/weave.

The opposite extreme is Literate Haskell, which doesn’t need any preprocessor. You just feed your TeX document to ghc and it picks the code out of the \begin{code} blocks. Or instead of Knuth style you can write in Bird style, where the file is a plain text document with code marked by > quote blocks.

The other aspect of literate programming is organizing the code like a book. This is very difficult to do well. When I think of how I approach a codebase, it reminds me of textbooks that have a complicated diagram describing multiple suggested orders of reading (a chapter per module?), or the informal introduction to Algol 68 with its orthogonal table of contents. Ideally a program’s commentary should span both the explanatory and reference documentation quadrants.

What strikes me about Knuth’s literate programming is how hypertextual it is, albeit using printed cross-references and indexes. It seems to be in desperate need of interactive pixels. And an underlying programming language that has better support for Knuth’s preferred size of code fragment.

On balance I think modern tools achieve Knuth’s goals better than tangle/weave. Modern languages let you organize code much closer to its narrative structure, without WEB’s unhygienic scoping. Editors and IDEs and documentation browsers give you hyperlinks everywhere.

It’s then “just” a matter of writing the exposition. Less literate programming, more literate programmer.
As someone in a similar situation, my number one piece of advice is to meticulously keep up your software engineering best practices even when doing your day to day data analysis job. All that bread-and-butter stuff like tests and easy deployment and well structured code and reproducible builds and writing reusable tools and packages tends to fall by the wayside when your 'just' hacking one off Jupyter notebooks.

As a software engineer you bring a perspective to the job that many of your colleagues may lack. Lean on that and use that background to help build better tools and ways of working. This not only makes your job (and the job of your colleagues) easier in the long run it will also let you keep your software engineering skills sharp.
>As the First Trump Administration demonstrated, America wins through innovation, competition and by sharing our technologies with the world — not by retreating behind a wall of government overreach.

that's kind of a strange thing to say
Using AI Agents to Flood Reddit with Marketing?
Firm agree. To me the best way to build a mental model of some code is to be able to quickly answer the questions that arise in my mind as I read it. The order in which these questions arise differ for each reader, and indeed for each intention that you approach the code with. There is therefore no one “perfect linear order” the code could be presented in and the best you can do is make it easy for the reader to construct their own reading order by being able to easily navigate around.
> So existing workforce in mines and O&G can transition to new green economy. Gotcha

~90% of global uranium produced comes from 4 countries - Kazakhstan, Canada, Namibia, and Australia - not the US.

> Unlike SWEs, those “SWE level salaries” come at the price of high risk of dismemberment, death, and injury. Offshore oil rigs and domestic oil fields are dangerous working environments

These are dangerous jobs, but clearly the only jobs available in a lot of these areas.

As I noted previously, most renewable energy jobs (including nuclear) require some form of college education or significant retraining.

It's going to be tough convincing someone to leave a well paid and well benefited job, when the alternative industry is heavily automated and thus doesn't require the same amount of employment.

Let's be brutally honest - you aren't going to convince a PV fab to invest in manufacturing in Odessa TX or build a nuclear power plant in Nenana AK. The human capital just doesn't exist AND it is a fairly specialized engineering discipline that cannot be taught on the fly.

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I fully agree with you about the need to prioritize renewables, but you are doing a massive disservice to the cause if you are ignoring the very real concerns tens of thousands of employees in the O&G industry have.

These are hard questions, and hand waving them away with platitudes like "retraining" is just setting the movement up for failure.
France is 70% nuclear and the average co2 per capita still is ~10 tonnes per year... to get it to a sustainable level I think the target is under 3 tonnes according to the Paris agreement.

I think a lot of posters in the thread run a very simplified version of the world in their mind
There are eight states that have a Confederate memorial day and two that combine Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lees birthday.
> It reminds me of the whole fuss over using "homeless" vs "unhoused" - while actual policies to help homeless people get ignored or defunded.

More than one thing happens at a time. I'm fairly certain the people urging us to change our metaphors are also the ones pushing for more substantive change.

I am ambivalent about these language change campaigns myself. On the one hand, you're asking for almost nothing of people other than the agree that they agree something is wrong. On the other, inevitably it results in an ugly, violent backlash which reveals that that which you thought was beyond the pale isn't. Everyone rushes to die on the hill you pointed out.

I have a similar feeling about people insisting that starfish and jellyfish be called sea stars and jellies, but here I think the moral argument lies entirely with the resisters. No one is confused that these radially symmetric things are fish. What, are we going to call cardinals redbirds now because they aren't actually clergymen?

But in the case of metaphors that belittle or bother someone, why not just change? It demands nothing of you but courtesy.
Who are the 18 key allies that can get our chips?
CES 2025: An Abundance of (AI) Experimentation
But root servers aren't a democracy, are they? If US root servers went bonkers, people would just use different root servers. Doesn't matter whether it's 50% or 90% that are in US if they can be ignored?
Installing and Developing VLLM with Ease
I assume you think it's a good thing that we don't use phrases like "[black person] in the woodpile" or "[black person] toes" or "[black person] rigged" anymore. Maybe you agree we shouldn't use names for the Romani or Jewish people as idiom for being cheated. I am certain that there is some phrase or term you wouldn't use that my grandfather would have considered harmless, or his grandfather, etc.

I don't like arbitrary language policing, either. I think there was a much stronger case for eliminating "master"/"slave" than "master branch", for instance, and if people were to argue for eliminating "mastery" as well I'd consider that ridiculous. It's fine if you don't consider this particular argument persuasive, but if it's a step toward Ingsoc we've all already been sprinting in that direction for centuries.
Understanding Memory Management, Part 1: C
Very well said. I struggled with a dearth of social skills in adolescence that persevered well into adulthood, a combination of extreme naivety and being a spoiled brat (and, potentially, some autism for good measure). Being online in forums and IRC helped me work on those a bit at a time, thanks to clear-cut and instant feedback on what was and wasn’t acceptable. What really boosted my abilities were my tenure as server administrator or moderator, though, something I never would’ve been given a position of in a real job. I learned the basics of power politics, how to lead a group of people (or at the very least, how to herd cats), and how successful authority derives respect (hint: by adhering to the rules and punishments it applies to others; yes, I banned myself on several occasions when I overstepped or broke rules, just as I did to anyone else). None of that is really feasible on such a large scale anymore, with centralized social media having centralized moderation (if any at all) that the average community member has no hope of reaching.

That said, I’d also echo what others have pointed out regarding the “barrier to entry”/“this tall to ride” mindset of the early internet. Good sites would block free email providers from signups to both preserve community standards and reduce spam accounts. IRC required some rudimentary understanding of ports and domains to join, along with some text commands if you really wanted to have fun. And everything was offline by default, requiring an always-online connection, a dedicated computer, or access to a shared server at a colo to run your own bouncer and remain online at all times. Even those of us who invested that time and effort to be online more often approached a point of diminishing returns as we moved to smartphones of the era and their meager data plans at extortionate rates (miss you, Nokia N80ie and my Symbian IRC client). The internet was a “destination” that required some degree of skill to engage with, and rewarded those who practiced and honed that skill with more freedom.

Ultimately, the nostalgia my friends and I have for those bygone days is twofold: the ability to disconnect entirely and be unreachable until we decide to hop online again, and the barrier to entry weeding out those who don’t really want to be there in the first place. An era of opt-in, rather than opt-out, and all the beauty that came from the types of people who were willing to put in the effort of going online in the first place.
As it goes, it seems that action against climate change measures is also being used as a vehicle for global elites to gain more power, influence and wealth. Honestly those billionaires will grasp onto anything.

If we have any technical geo engineering type solutions, I hope we try it on another planet first. Although we might find it hard to find something suitably equivalent.
You don’t need to worry that much. Most people turn out pretty OK despite their parents screw-ups and best intentions.
> It is said that "to the Melanesian, a religion is above all a technology: it is the knowledge of how to bring the community into the correct relation, by rites and spells, with the divinities and spirit-beings and cosmic forces that can make or mar man's this-worldly wealth and well-being."

Side note: this is true of most religions throughout history. Bret Devereaux has a great series on this [0]. The bulk of religions throughout history and space more closely resemble what we would consider to be a magic system than they do the Abrahamic religions or Buddhism. They're fundamentally a practical set of rituals that were/are believed to have practical effects, irrespective of belief or morality.

[0] https://acoup.blog/2019/10/25/collections-practical-polythei...
"Weirdo technical shamans"—lmao, I’m borrowing this. The whole FP community is like that. It’s all fun and games until you ask, "But what did you build with it?"
The linked executive order restricts exports of large numbers of GPUs to Singapore, which might make training models there hard, at least until Chinese GPU technology catches up enough.
Google Pixels are the few devices that enable not only to unlock the bootloader but also the ability to flash your own keys and still have secure boot together with full kernel sources availability (which is why Grapheneos only support them as far as I know).

As far as I know Mediatek (and vendors that use those chips) are usually not good with regards to GPL Compliance, which means no Lineageos if kernel sources are not available...
No, it means "computer".
RRT3 economy was great with the addition of the moving of goods outside the rail system it made everything much more organic and realistic as you couldn't just gauge prices anymore
This is great news for Huawei: people outside China will finally have a reason to buy their GPUs, because a mediocre GPU is better than no GPU.
Salesforce Bets on Storytelling over Engineering
Similar is "South Park Reanimated: The List" [1]. From the description:

> 6 years, 175 animators, 260 unique scenes, 1 copyright dispute, and a lot of love-- we are proud to finally present the South Park Reanimated Project! We are so grateful for everyone who participated and made this such an amazing recreation. We hope you enjoy!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QXX6AnO0nI
US-owned Greenland and Gulf of America? What a weird week
As far as I can see, if Trump follows the rhetoric of "Anti-China" for security policy and "America First" trade policy, I believe they will continue with more enforcement.
> mostly just till I'm through with this planet.

That kind of thinking is how we got into this mess in the first place.

The long-term impact of climate change was evident 20 years ago, well before we reached this point; back then we didn't have cheap renewables, but there was enough time to have done a big nuclear roll-out.
Curiously the words you list for that usage are now tell tale signs of language policing.

It's almost as revealing as "Yikes, there's a lot of issues to unpack there. Top of mind is the absence of guardrails around inappropriate language and metaphor."

Quite how we've reached the point where political persuasions are linguistically distinct I have no idea.
> the output token of the LLM (black box) is not deterministic. Rather, it is a probability distribution over all the available tokens

How is this not deterministic? Randomness is intentionally added via temperature.
Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers
Realistically everything my several hundred friends have to share with me takes maybe 5 minutes a day to go through (close friends of course would call about things that are too personal for facebook so this is about things more distance friends would care about) . There is a lot more money in the handful of people who are scrolling through, finding, and sharing various memes and news that will make you angry (though this is fun if you - like most people - have friends on both the right and the left doing this and so you can see the bias each side is taking) than there is in friends sharing their life which is not lived on facebook (unless your a physically disabled and so you can only live vicariously through others)
You've left out one important player here: it's not just about the manufacturers and the masses yearning for entertainment, but also about the surveillance industry. Phones in particular, but computers in general, are increasingly important for surveilling the population in novel ways that AI opens up. Giving people root access on their tracking equipment would jeopardize its surveillance functions, because people might elect to give themselves privacy.
No, I'm making a claim that a sloppy argument was made.

You are focusing on factors that you consider obvious, which is exactly my point, using your subjective judgement doesn't give you a framework that isn't subjective.
The 18 countries with no restrictions are: UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden and Taiwan. https://www.wired.com/story/new-us-rule-aims-to-block-chinas...

Singapore and Israel are notably absent.
I wonder why they redacted almost all domains but the Federal High Court of Nigeria's? It's not mentioned explicitly, so I hope they did responsible disclosure.
Individuals may have morals.

Corporations have none. They only care about profits.

That's why I support strong government regulation to rein in how corporations behave.

I am not taking the side of corporations here. You are by believing in the fairy tale of "company values".
Maybe they are playing the card of "Trump is with us" and will undo it?
Every company I worked at which put this change into practice did it as a result of employee volunteer effort, not as a PR thing.
And this company that says: let's push to the users the installer of our brand new app, that will reside in their tray, which we have made in electron. Poof. 400MB taken for a tray notifier that also accidentally adds a browser to the memory

My computer: starts 5 seconds slower

1mln of computers in the world: start cumulatively 5mln seconds slower

Meanwhile a Microsoft programmer whose postgres via ssh starts 500ms slower: "I think this is a rootkit installed in ssh"
>So the rule pre-supposes that close-weight models will just always be better than their open-weight counterparts

It doesn't necessarily presuppose that. Trying to limit the export of open weight models would likely fail on first amendment grounds, the same way the supreme court struck down attempts to limit the export of "military grade" cryptography.
> by definition MOND cannot produce Keplerian rotation curves.

thats a common misunderstanding of MOND and means you did not stop to understand the definition. look at the formula carefully; in high gravitational regimes it looks newtonian (obviously, e.g. solar system). MOND, by definition predicts keplerian curves when the galaxies are rotating quickly (high gravitation). You will find that ellpitical and lenticular galaxies are almost always rotating fast. it also can through EFE but i dont fully understand the math enough to explain that.
Hmm. Perhaps, but mannequin is not nearly as whimsical sounding as a rubber duck which inspires you to bounce your ideas off of the inanimate object.
LBAL and Balatro being banned or 18+ age-gated for having gambling "vibes" despite not actually simulating gambling, while the stores are full of gacha games which are designed to bleed players dry through real-money gambling mechanics is a ridiculous state of affairs. The latter makes Google and Apple insane amounts of money though so of course they're not going to do anything about them unless their hand is forced.
Cool, I didn't know about RUST_BACKTRACE = 1. That addresses the core of my comment, yes. I will note that some runtimes (like Java or C#, I believe) don't compute the stack trace unless and until it is requested, which means that exceptions that are caught and handled without being logged shouldn't incur the performance cost - thus removing most of the reason you may want to have a way to disable this behavior.

I did know about anyhow, that was exactly the library I was mentioning. But that requires manually adding context at all places where the error is passed.
https://archive.is/Bmtld