skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WASM support is not there yet but it's on the roadmap and we had it in our mind since the beginning of the project, and have made our dev choices accordingly.

So yes it could be used in a serverless platform like Cloudflare workers. Our startup time is a huge advantage here (20ms vs 600ms for Chrome headless in our local tests).

Regarding v8 in Cloudflare workers I think we can not used directly, ie. we still need to embed a JS engine in the wasm module.
Generally the problem in this situation is that the person wants a different temperature now, and they think that setting a higher number will make it get there faster.
You can set it so you don’t need the “hey” anymore. Tough habit to break though…
The U.S. just experienced its slowest annual sales of homes since 1995
We all knew it was coming. Real question is will people leave or roll over and accept it? I expect the latter.

Maybe with federation it’s easier to move about but laziness seems to win every time sadly.
Great, at least with ads there will be some posts in the network.
I'm a bit disappointed that nobody really answered your question. I admit that maybe asking for Nix to be simpler is a bit loaded, because I think people are right in that Nix is "simple", but it's definitely not simple to use in practice.

Several people have worked on offshoots of Nix and the Nix language that try to address this in different ways. For example, there is Nickel: https://github.com/tweag/nickel

I think the Nix language is OK for what it is: lazy evaluation and functional purity is a good fit for what Nix aims to do. That said... I definitely feel like functionally-pure programming languages have trouble when it comes to trying to write maintainable code. I'm sure that statement would anger some, but it is my personal belief trying to use functional programming languages as a life long imperative programmer: the advantages of functional purity are pretty obvious, but writing code that you can't make sense of later is so much easier for me in functional languages. They're so powerful and elegant that writing nearly indecipherable things feels very tempting at times.

So, I'd be interested in seeing someone attempt a Nix-like ecosystem built around something else. If Bazel can do "hermetic-ish" with Starlark, I reckon you could pull off something like Nix with it, too.
Fake consultants, false documents: AI founders allegedly stole millions
Doesn't the Android calculator use constructive reals? https://cacm.acm.org/practice/small-data-computing/
This is a different problem though, despite the similar name.
Leading contender for actual quote:

"... we expected to get orders for five [IBM 701] machines, we came home with orders for 18."
What would be refreshing would be a C/C++ compiler that did away with the intermediate step of linking and built the whole program as a unit. LTO doesn't even have to be a thing if the compiler can see the entire program in the first place. It would still have to save some build products so that incremental builds are possible, but not as object files, the compiler would need metadata to know of the origin and dependencies of all the generated code so it would be able to replace the right things.

External libs are most often linked dynamically these days, so they don't need to be built from source, so eliminating the linker doesn't pose a problem for non-open source dependencies. And if that's not enough letting the compiler also consume object files could provide for legacy use cases or edge cases where you must statically link to a binary.
I haven't thought about this much before, but I think it must be a myth. Going from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM wiki on the history of Wikipedia, there were "Computing machines" in the 30s referring to their calculators and tabulating machines. IBM was already selling more than 5 of these devices, so if the 1943 date was true, it makes no sense. So it referring to a single machine having a market of 5 devices, that might be true.
Starts by having proper strings and array types with bounds checking instead of pointers, followed by memory allocation with types instead of sizeof math, less scenarios for implicit conversions, reference parameters reducing the use cases where an invalid pointer might be used instead.
I am curious how Lightpanda compares to chrome-headless-shell ({headless: 'shell'} in Puppeteer) in benchmarks.
Diet and cancer: What we know and what we don't
> No, you ask that first and if it's a downstream package you stop working on it. If the downstream maintainer determines that it is on your end and not theirs, then you can pick it back up.

They're not going to devote that kind of time. That just means bugs not getting looked at or fixed.

> Assuming that "working with upstream" means "adopting upstream code in direct contravention of their own policies": If your solution depends on Debian not being Debian, then it's unlikely to work.

I'm not sure why you think that policies that are causing problems shouldn't change.

Again: they volunteered to package it, they did it badly and users were affected. Until they can get their act together, bcachefs-tools won't be in Debian.

That's ok. There are other distros, and there's no rush.
Actually, a comment linked to an alternate visualization which debunks the Paper Billionaire argument with great sources.

https://github.com/MKorostoff/1-pixel-wealth/blob/master/THE...

Remember when Jeff Bezos sold 4+ billions of Amazon stock in 11 days, and it didn't crash? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/11/jeff-bezos-sold-4point1-bill...
I can definitely see use cases where DIY routing would be better than traditional routing. But the thing that bothers me most about almost all mobile navigation apps is thw complete inability to multi task. Want to compare two routes? You can't without losing your state re-searching for the route each time. Same problem if you want to say compare reviews for a few different businesses in an area, or worse, different areas.

You can sometimes work around this by accessing the web versions or using 2 different navigation apps, but it's dumb.
Hm, it doesn't seem problematic for the area to be lower than expected for a given perimeter. You could do the same thing by having a triangle (an actual triangle), but then at some random point have the bounding line shoot off in some random outward direction, then come back (increasing the perimeter without enclosing any area at all). It's no more or less a triangle than your fractally jagged triangle, and it has the same perimeter and area.

I think the lesson for me is that any part of any line, if you zoomed into it enough, could actually be found to be all wadded up and much longer than you would otherwise expect. A line from point A to point B must be at least as long as the straight line from A to B, but could be any length greater than that.

The only thing that makes your jaggy line special is that the distance from any point along it to the nearest point on the straight (triangle's) line is zero.
I think the assumption is that you can pass the buck as well/throw under the bus as easily the AI as the under-equipped employee. The thing is you can't really blame the AI, you are the retard at the end of the line.
Interestingly you exemplify the problem here. You ignore their explanation and examples and rather fall down to prescribe some flaw to them. Ironically this is some of the outcomes of giving honest feedback that makes people don't bother.
A child born in the USA is not a "criminal alien" regardless of the circumstances of their birth. There is no federal criminal law against being born. The parents could be legally classified as criminal aliens in some cases but that has no bearing on the child as a legally separate person.
People really love apocryphal quotes that portray famous or disliked figures as morons. Bill Gates never said "640k ought to be enough for anybody" either, yet that circulates to this day.
> I'm not going to placate sealions.

It's called citing sources. You've posted 2,087 times and only 56 of those posts include "http"[1], which is a measly 2.7%. In comparison, I've posted 556 times and 205 of my posts include "http", which is 36.9%. The problem isn't sealioning; it's that you're either lazy or you just make things up. And given that you're not too lazy to reply to a request for a source without actually providing a source, it's reasonable to assume you might be making shit up.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?prefix=true&type=comment&query=autho...
I had a similar experience, but my employer was fortunate to have our lease expiring in late 2020, so we just took the dive into being all-remote. Since then, I've had direct reports from the UK to Oregon. I live in a major city with a lot of talent, but being able to increase our pool to a global search has been amazing, and I think we all get more done by working from home.
That is how I implemented it at work around 9 years ago. Use strings for ordering and if you use the full byte range they end up fairly compact (rather than just 1-9 as in your example). There are some edge cases that can cause it to balloon in size so there is a separate reordering step but it almost never needs to be invoked.
In case of mutation either the replicas will be out of sync (so no C), or you'll need to synchronously mutate the replicas (so bad A due to latency).
I think you could say that Heidegger actually defeated his own argument here. Lots of people will never think of him, or Van Gogh, or beat up old peasant shoes, without free association that connects and enriches each of the individual threads.

For those that aren’t aware of the context.. much has been written about this, and it’s a shorthand for a long and interesting conversation. See for example https://harpers.org/2009/10/philosophers-rumble-over-van-gog...

Http://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/11/29/schapiro-contra-heidegger-the-controversy-over-a-painting-by-van-gogh/

So much depends on a pair of shoes, which reminds me pleasantly of how much depends on a red wheelbarrow, and that’s how knowledge/appreciation of one thing introduces or enriches another.
Well, for all applications which don't require to addres more than 4 GB memory, a 64 bit machine is overkill. This especially applies to embedded systems (which make up the majority of all systems). This is unlikely to change for the next fifty years.
Great question:

The Virtual Objects in Restate are much like actors. They are somewhat inspired by Orleans [1], and you could call them virtual stateful actors. They blend with the durable execution for processing messages with multiple durable steps.

Regarding temporal, check also this question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42815318
It certainly has, as proven by recent talk at BlueHat 2024, on Windows kernel refactorings, as not everyone is knowledgeable of ISO C minutia and how optimisers take advantage of it, and still think they know better than analysers.
Out of the 20 potential customers they pitched to.

So they were counting on a 25% success rate and got 90%.
Note: the reasons Bluesky is more popular than Mastodon have nothing to do with their technical architectures (except insofar as some people have learned helplessness about x@y), and everything to do with one being heavily marketed by a billionaire.

Though people do seem to prefer a consistent moderation policy, even if it's harsher. People don't like to have free speech about the things they want to speak about, and have another group of people choose to ignore it. They want to either speak to everyone at once or be blocked from everyone at once (at which time they make a new account).
VPN is the right solution here. Each app shouldn’t have to develop its own remote access method when a generic solution already exists.

It would be an issue if you’re stuck behind double NAT, but I think tailscale can help with that.
Gentoo with openrc has less problems with the init system than Arch has, at least in my experience.

That aside, systemd is a genuinely terrible software project and a genuinely terrible init system.

Just FYI, before my experience of 5 days a week dealing with systemd, I thought people who disliked it were just exaggerating or wanting to be "different". I assumed most hate it was getting was undeserved. My professional experience made it absolutely clear to me that every piece of hate it is getting is well deserved. It is bad software all around, terrible design decisions, completely unpredictable, hard to debug and all around very poorly integrated into the rest of the system.
"We have physical buttons"

drops mic
I've been using this to play TF2 Classic on my M3 MBP and it works perfectly. I had some freezing-while-sound-skips-endlessly issues when using the voice chat hotkey, but that was resolved using WineTricks (built in to Whisky UI) to install `dsound`.

Now's a great time to start playing — The TF2C 2.2 “Double Down Update” comes out today!! https://tf2classic.com/double_down/

e: And I also had to disable macOS's default keyboard layout switching shortcuts (which I never use anyway) since I kept triggering it while crouch-jumping lol

e 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42816545
Does this imply that Vim has no LSP support? Cause ALE is a Vim-spirited zeroconf-ish LSP bridge for those who don’t know.
>A tipless commerce?

It is worse than that in Europe now. Just like Halloween, the tipping culture is sipping in, but you can still just not tip, because it is also considered American imperialism and optional. It is an infected question.
This is well expressed; I've never heard anyone present this perspective before.

This framework neatly explains why the experiences I've had working for big companies have been consistently dismal, and why that's likely to be true at any big company regardless of their culture or the nature of their business: the kind of high-complexity, marginal-profit-seeking work described here is completely at odds with the values which motivate me, and with the goals I had when I went to work for those places.

(I spent my entire stint at Microsoft working on one single "wicked feature", initially described as a simple, six-month starter project; it grew and grew, ultimately pulling in ten or fifteen people across half a dozen teams and putting them through a brutal sync-meeting schedule for literally years. The whole thing amounted to a single checkbox in some obscure settings dialog, meant to be clicked by a handful of institutional customers who wanted to save some disk space while porting their rickety piles of internal scripts from one ancient legacy platform to a newer legacy platform: for that, we made an unholy mess of permanent, irreducible complexity all over a couple of different codebases. I found it impossible to believe that the value of this feature could ever justify the cost of its creation, or its maintenance, and quit that job feeling that all I had accomplished there was to make things a little bit worse.)
How would it be different from Mastodon?
Agreed. Like are American Gen Z more or less debt-burdened than Millienals? What are the differences in their spending habits, education decisions, relationship and family choices, etc.

Seems strange to not try to show any meaningful data on any of that.
It happens in a couple of places, Teams, Outlook, and Exchange Online come to mind but it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s in other places like OneDrive links or Word documents.
Yeah, there were so many specialist analog computing machines out there in the 1940s and earlier that the pop culture interpretation of the quote as being "for all digital computers of all types the world over" just doesn't pass the sniff test.
QR Code Leads to Two Websites, but How?
I currently don't have a Mac, but could we do an MITM inspection to see what is requested and responded?

Since this is a Google domain I wonder if Apple pins the certificates.

I am currently battling a bug on iOS where blocking mask.icloud.com & mask-h2.icloud.com leads to Mail 'checking for email' for a long time. But I can't inspect what is requested. And supposedly, this is the way to prevent iCloud relay: https://developer.apple.com/icloud/prepare-your-network-for-...
> Ullbricht served 11 years in prison before he was pardoned, and I don't think anything our current justice system does is "fair", I think that's about as fair as we can expect given what he did.

I would say he deserved about 20-25 years. He engaged in a large-scale drug operation. He explicitly set out to start a drug operation. He operated a drug operation that was larger than most could even imagine. And the fact he tried to put hits out on people really seals the deal, while it doesn't matter legally it does matter when we think about how much time did he really deserve.
Not even the rationals are needed here. Just the rationals whose denominators are powers of two, for example, will do it (these have binary representations with a finite number of digits).
Do you ever admit you're wrong?
The actual better algorithm does use history dependence though. So I found this part of the article misleading.
To be fair, software discussions in particular are absolutely overflowing with snark, reflexive dismissals, and just general one-upmanship. So I can understand people assuming the worst.
Which Jobs Will AI Take?
Trump signs executive order to release more JFK, RFK, MLK assassination files
One of the big subtle problems is designing the broader interaction so that the humans in the loop are both capable and motivated to do a proper review of every item that will occur.

LLMs are able to counterfeit a truly impressive number of indirect signals which humans currently use to make snap-judgements and mental-shortcuts, and somehow reviewers need to be shielded from that.
Same difference. What makes non-cis men special that they required specific exclusion from that sentence?
Try the 2025 ACX/Metaculus Forecasting Contest
Walgreens also wasted $250MM on Theranos! And the same board and CEO are still there.
The history of North Korea is quite interesting. The mass starvation was in the 90s and mostly caused by US sanctions. They were wholly dependent on foreign imported oil both as fuel and as a way to make fertilizer with the USSR as their primary source.

When the USSR collapsed in the 90s, they no longer had any source for oil owing to sanctions. Their farming was thus severely impaired, and starvation was the predictable result.

We then post facto gave them emergency aid, likely with the idea of turning the people against their government and to the people starving them for geopolitics. Shockingly, it didn't work.

Their deepening relationship with Russia is mostly just a return to the past.

I think this is yet another example of how sanctions are quite a useless tool. If we'd straight up gone for the carrot (perhaps simply trading oil for arms at fair market rates) instead of waiting to starve people first, North Korea could very possibly be a friendly nation today.

Of course this sounds absurd only because most people don't realize South Korea was also under brutal dictatorships for most of its life since the Korean War (their first democratic election was in 1987) - big difference is those dictatorships were backed by the West and allowed to engage in more normal trade and development.

Realpolitik is far dirtier (and often painfully myopic) than most realize. I'd love to read a textbook about current times from a few hundred years from now...
This is talking about sexuality, not gender identity. Who you want to have sex with is not determined by your sex or gender. It is correlated, but not determined (as in more cis men are bi and straight than gay, thus a random man is more likely to be bi or straight than gay).

In this case, she's talking about her preferences which can be any identity, sex etc.

For example, a trans person may prefer to date other trans people because they will have more common experiences and there will be less explaining if how things work on their body etc. Others might have preferences based on primary or secondary sex characteristics. Others may only date people who like a specific type of cheese.
This makes it even more dangerous - we wouldn’t recognise sentience immediately.
The linked Subpixel Zoo article taught me that Pentile is still actually incredibly popular.

My first Pentile screen was on my Motorola Droid 4 phone, and it was awful. Small text was often impossible to read depending on the color of the text and its background. The massive gaps between colors made solid red, green, or blue areas of the screen look like a checkerboard. It basically had a screen-door effect before VR became mainstream and made "screen-door effect" a household term.

So it hit me as a surprise to know that Pentile is still popular and used today. I guess it's just gotten better? Smaller gaps between the subpixels? Maybe higher resolutions and pixel densities hide the weaknesses shown in my Droid 4?
It was posted three days ago, and got re-upped by the mods via the the second chance pool[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
Co-author of the post here — we had 280 characters in mind. :-)
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Excuse me for sounding rough, but - isn't this reinventing comp-sci, one step at a time?

I learned about distributed incrementally
-monotonic logs back at the late 90s, with many other ways to do guaranteed transactional database actions. And I'm quite certain these must have been invented in the 50s or 60s, as these are the problems that early business computer users had: banking software. These are the techniques that were buried in legacy COBOL routines, and needed to be slowly replaced by robust Java core services.

I'm sure the Restate designers will have learned terribly useful insights in how to translate these basic principles into a working system with the complexities of today's hardware/software ecosystem.

Yet it makes me wonder if young programmers are only being taught the "build fast-break things" mentality and there are no longer SW engineers able to insert these guarantees into their systems from the beginning, by standing on the shoulders of the ancients that invented our discipline, so that their lore is actually used in practice? Or am I just missing something new in the article that describes some novel twist?
I'm surprised they have over 300 million users. I've never met a single (non online) person who uses it.
As a child is dependent on its parents, they must go with their parents. I don't think they automatically deserve citizenship just because their parents happened to sneak into the country, and their parents shouldn't be given a pass just because they dared to break our laws to get in and drop a child on us.
Try to do Windows Formw, WPF, WinUI without Visual Studio, no, Rider doesn't support 100% of the ecosystem.
> That being said if I lived in Europe I'd have to hope that a football star is willing to auction his shoes to fund my trip to the US for treatment and I don't want that.

Generally, most of these cases where people are raising money to travel for treatment are about... dubious treatment which your insurance probably doesn't cover either. Evidence-based cancer treatment is of course available in Europe.
Back in the days on lan parties there was what we called "the russian version" that only had question marks in the installation dialog (Because of unsupported fonts most likely) which had Z-Bot included.

That's probably this one: https://archive.org/details/cs-1_6_z-bot
But nothing related to Epstein, eh?
Wikipedia has a section on this algorithm under exponential labels: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List-labeling_problem

Basically it works as long as your label space is large compared to the number of items. The more sophisticated methods are necessary when that isn’t the case. For example, say you have 4 bytes for the label and 1 billion items.