skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fighting a new generation of network bots attacking APIs using
intelligent behavioural monitoring.
'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' [F. Scott Fitzgerald; 1922] [pdf]
It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me to compare paying an indie hacker for a service that you actually find valuable to paying Salesforce for a text communication tool.
The slow train has more stations to stop at, hence there is not a real choice for rural people.
https://archive.is/LiIkr
The level of cross-platform desktop support here is really impressive
I think figuring out the fastest version of a shader at runtime is very non-trivial, I'm not aware of any game or engine that can do this.

I think it'd be possible in principle, because most APIs (D3D, GL, Vulkan etc) expose performance counters (which may or may not be reliable depending on the vendor), and you could in principle construct a representative test scene that you replay a couple times to measure different optimizations. But a lot of games are quite dynamic, having dynamically generated scenes and also dynamically generated shaders, so the number of combinations you might have to test seems like an obstacle. Also you might have to ask the user to spend time waiting on the benchmark to finish.

You could probably just do this ahead of time with a bunch of different GPU generations from each vendor if you have the hardware, and then hard-code the most important decision. So not saying it'd be impossible, but yeah I'm not aware of any existing infrastructure for this.
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Hpa Terminal
I think about a large cluster of cars, say 6-12 cars, going roughly the same speed. Nothing about that entails blocking multiple lanes, certainly not densely enough to preclude someone from passing.
Hah I did something similar around the same time, using random white/gray/black pixels (apparently, I don't remember any details any more!)

https://gilleain.blogspot.com/2008/11/chalky.html
Funnily enough, recently we started a bookclub in our office and we are using slack. Not sure if we need the app, but we might try it.

The biggest challenge for me is to accept when the team chooses an obviously bad book, but they will learn with experience. A feature about book details sounds good but depends on the source and if it is marketing or a good critical one. Finding the book in print would be a nice feature which is easy for english and big countries, but might be hard otherwise.

Edit: maybe consider a feature for setups where people rotate to choose the book if there is not one yet.
Are they breaking the law? I don't love that they're requiring either payment or allowing cookies, but at least they're fully disclosing that and giving you the choice. I'm pretty sure that's what the GDPR requires.
Wake Up, FreeBSD Implementing Modern Standby with S0ix [video]
In Boulders case the goal wasn't to strand rural customers with resiliency costs but to reduce emissions. Xcel moved in that direction enough that Boulder didn't need to municipalize. Owning poles and jiggling electrons would have allowed the city to do things like let homeowners access the 4% muni borrowing rate for solar loans that stay with the property via a tax lien. With the existing structure of public regulator and local monopolies, Xcel can't easily do anything "special" for Boulder without forcing poor rural places to share the costs.
The impact of risks on energy transition: the role of natural resource rents
A shiny university is probably the ultimate distillation of signals though. It's not perfect. No process is. But it's one of the most thorough ones we have. And it's proven its worth in many verticals as a good signal for hiring.
Oops. Missed that!
That's kind of a relief. I was afraid that it was "remembering" things I was not in control of!
As a PM, I have a recommendation:

1) Take time away from devices and notifications. Potentially also turn your notifications off entirely and start checking only at scheduled times (or periods within your SLA if you're supporting people).

2) Try early mornings. I started getting up at 4:30, lifting, and meditating before ever looking at tech. In many cases I still look at my plan for the day before others work!
How it started:

> Scaling PostgreSQL successfully doesn’t always require a full team of DBAs and experts.

How it's going:

> Monitor TOAST table sizes and access patterns via pg_stat_sys_tables

Don't get me wrong, this is a good article I wish I read three years ago, but this is 100% expert level stuff that glazes the eyes of the average CRUD dev.
It does not matter how "unhinged and obsessive" (that's an ad-hominem attack, btw), the co-creator of a fictional character is. They are still co-creator. They know who the other co-creator is; it's Hector Martin.

You know this.

You also know the document you linked affirms that "Asahi Lina" (not a real person) did not like being "doxxed" on the date that Luna said Asahi Lina was Hector Martin.

What I take from that is Hector Martin wrote the document. Do you disagree?
Any ETFs that cover peanut farms?
You're right. I misread the question. It's 9 of the 10 digits 0-9 instead of all 9 digits 1-9 as in sudoku.
Interesting that they keep this in the news cycle. Poor mom, poor family. My condolences!
> The software of the 90s was generally janky in a way that would never be tolerated today.

Modern software, at least for web, is generally hideously unreliable, unperformant, and manages decent uptime only by running it in large parallel deployments, with an orchestrator that automatically reboots dead instances.
This stuff is trivial to detect by the platform. At best the platform could say they don’t search for it, but the only reason not to would be because they don’t want to find it. In essence they’re knowingly outsourcing fraud to sellers.
loving he goes 'int main() { ... }' and never returns an int from it. Even better: without extra error / warning flags the compiler will just eat this and generate some code from it, returning ... yeah. Your guess is probably better than mine.

If the uber-bean counter, herald of the language of bean counters demonstrate unwillingness to count beans, maybe the beans are better counted in another way.
Most dangerous crowd I’ve been in was in 2021 at Astroworld, several people died from being crushed, it felt like there was no escape.
This article is also relevant: https://medium.com/@jasonbooth_86226/branching-on-a-gpu-18bf...

“If you consult the internet about writing a branch of a GPU, you might think they open the gates of hell and let demons in. They will say you should avoid them at all costs, and that you can avoid them by using the ternary operator or step() and other silly math tricks. Most of this advice is outdated at best, or just plain wrong.

Let’s correct that.”
Doesn’t work for me for Swift development yet. Should have been more specific.

I haven’t seen a tool that can debug btw
offer it as a patchfile for anyone who wants to merge it themselves, then forget about it, unless you are interested in maintaining a fork with your changes applied
With AI assistants on our phones, it can be hard to tell the difference, and people often use it for completeness or clarity. Blind AI rephrasing has a cost though, sacrificing your personal voice, and often resulting in overly enthusiastic and repetitive sentences.

(re-reading this, it sounds just like AI!)
Modules were known to be difficult to implement and difficult to migrate to. If modules are mainstream in 5 years, it would be an excellent result.
Why pass over any white candidates?

You have more spots than you have qualified candidates. Even if you take your second band candidates, its still short the number you need.
I’ve heard of math-envy for physicists or computer scientists but physics-envy where mathematicians get riled about criminal axiomatizers seems .. less common.

I don’t necessarily accept the premise that what’s described as Definition-theorem-proof is a hugely different from observe-model-test, but if I did? Why not both? We only have a few ways to manufacture new high-quality knowledge, and I’m not sure there is a point to arguing about the “main” or best one.

And while it might be impossible to “understand” an unmotivated /ungrounded definition, what is really required is to entertain it long enough to see where it leads. Some gardens will bloom and some will not, based on consistency and richness and that’s how you know if the definition is good. One might call that “testing by observation” also, eh?
The good way is to inspect the code :)

> it's also concerning that we have syntax where an if is some times a branch and some times not.

It would be more concerning if we didn't. We might get a branch on one GPU and none on another.
The other either optimizes the same, or has an additional multiplication, and it's definitely less readable.
It’s really nice to here that you like my guides I have 0 money from making them but a lot of dopamine coming from such comments!
This is the way it is with everyone. Rarely does someone choose their industry and job. I was into computers as a child because I had access to them through my grandparents' bookeeping business and being taught by my grandfather.

I really wanted to build houses but could never find a confluence of opportunity. I was sucked in by the available opportunities. My family were all artists and skilled industrial laborers. A lot of whom picked up their trade in the military. My opportunity was tech and I consider myself very lucky.

My father was a failed artist turned retailer bootstrapped by his father's GE stock he was granted as a precision welder, and I worked as a retail clerk and manager in the retail business for a time when I wasn't working in tech.

Farmers kid becomes a farmer. Maybe another opportunity comes up and they take it.

I'm never impressed by anyone's professional title until I hear their story. 99% of the time it's a result of the circumstances they were born into. Usually the only people with an interesting story were born into very modest or limited opportunity and had to grind it out until a better opportunity presented itself.

Sand trafficking is a perfect example. It is the best opportunity they have.
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> Last time the US Supreme Court basically said "Android is too important, we have to declare its use of Java API fair use."

Yes, I remember that case. I do think a hefty fine can be sufficient here though. Meta has been paying out court ordered fines for years, none of which dent their growth much. And current models are trained on those models + datasets are scrubbed more vigorously now so future rehashes of this shouldn't be an issue. Also, most data online has already been hoovered up, according to Ilya the former Chief Scientist of OpenAI, so this will likely not pop back up again.

But good point, courts are often more practical given the law than we perceive them to be.
Most Americans, whether on the left or right, have no real idea how government works, what branch has what powers, and more importantly why.

They have no understanding of history, of how important such separation of power are.

In such context, it is easy to see the logic. They have no idea the relevance, only that their team likes the outcome.
There are financial instruments that adjust what you have in them with the inflation or something close enough, they may be a better way to protect the value of your savings.

And about the safety of bitcoins, during a free fall drop of bitcoins value in 2022 Coinbase suspended withdrawals.
You do make a good point - I think there is something to be said about making things more easier for application/product engineers such that these things are sort of "auto pilot"
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C# (and .NET at large) use generational GV to great effect and there are some good writeups on the different modes you can run the GC in and its performance profiles. .NET has been generational GC since forever and you can’t swap out the GC engine so you won’t be able to find an analogous comparison, but it’s probably the current generational GC SOTA for a one-size-fits-all (with admittedly two different allocation/cleanup roles: server and workstation; and with (new to .NET 9) a new option to configure the GC to act as if it were running alone on the system (the old default, i.e. not sharing resources with other apps on the same os) or to more cooperatively try to manage allocation patterns.

Just mentioning this in case someone wants to read up on a different GC and play around with benchmarks. There is a fair amount of inner workings info and real-world results to dive into.
What year did the Normans invade England?

What's Newton's second law?

Who was the last czar of Russia?

How many moons does Jupiter have?

I bet you "know" a lot of those facts not because you have observed them empirically, but because you read about them in books. And in fact, almost all scientists rely on reading for nearly everything they know about science, including nearly everything they know about their own specialties. Nobody has time to derive all of their knowledge of the world from personal observation, and most people who can read have probably learned almost all "facts" they know about the world from books.
I didn't want to hijack the thread too much but yeah,
organic farming was not originally about better for the consumer.
The origin of organic farming methods was about taking care of the land
and the ecosystems in which farming happens.
The end products happened to be healthier,
in some cases,
because of reduced usage of chemicals known to be harmful resulted in less of them in the product at retail.
HIPAA compliant? Licensed to practice in the appropriate States? Completes appropriate yearly training where a State requires it to do so? Won't tell a client it's probably time to jump off of a bridge? Carries malpractice insurance?
> "optimized game X, runs 40% faster"

... and looks 4O% crappier? E.g. stuttery, because the driver does not get to see the code ahead of time.
What do you mean you were even able to make it work? It works out of the box with no configuration.
Or living so far from civilization, especially in a state where wildfires have been part of the ecosystem for millions of years.
Generational GC was perceived as useful even before Java existed, for example in Lisp.
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Everyone gets things wrong sometimes.
Why slack.. cuz it has huddles integrated?

Just build on Zed at that point.
LLM's demonstrably don't do this, nor do they say that they live in the hundred acre woods and love honey. Unless you ask about a specific bear.
Nothing's more comfortable than a pair of broken-in jeans that fit you perfectly.
I think that capability in the shader language would be interesting to have. One might even want it to two-color all functions in the code. Anything annotated nonbranching must have if statements compile down to conditional moves and must only call nonbranching functions.
Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian power systems synchronised with Europe
It's more about removing branches than instruction counts or latency.
Because having the Reddit app store and load its configuration and such in iCloud, which almost every iOS user has an account for, is a much more seamless experience for most people.

Intricacies of file systems have always been a means to an end for regular computer users.
I'm sorry, but you used ' to denote differentiation.

To have it his way, you'd right:

(derivative(right_expression))(expression)

and so on.

Clear as mud!
You've clearly never observed the allocation behaviour of a continuation-based compiler (every function call causes a short-lived heap allocation - the heap is the "stack")...
Bummer, it’ll likely going to be extremely overpriced then.
> > A lot of our options do change how shaders work though, like forcing a shader to use double precision floats instead of the single it was compiled with.

That will break code sufficienly reliant on the behaviour of sungle precision, though.
I used to have a view from about 3 stories up of one of the densest crosswalks in Hong Kong. As the crowd of people crossed the street in two directions, they would organize into 7 rivers of flow (3 one way, 4 in the other). The rivers were surprisingly consistent over the months I watched this.
Which company provides a webUI for Nebula? Might be interested in checking that out :)
I would run Ubuntu 2006 in a VMware Workstation VM then after a few months, wiped the system, installed Ubuntu 2006 then Windows in a VM (I think VMware Workstation was available on Linux Desktop then, otherwise I don't recall what I ran Windows in but it was in a VM), so very similar to your case.
Amazon and eBay should crack down on this crap.

I bought some tools on Amazon, sent them back because of quality issues, and left a 1 star review (they don't allow zero star reviews but that's another issue). Sure enough I get an email offering to send me a replacement, asking me to remove my review, I reported it and who knows what happens from there.

Now, I have had very similar things happen on a website like HomeDepot.com, the manufacturer reached out, sent me a different tool as a replacement, and said I did not have to remove my review but they would appreciate if I did.

Just as bad, IMO. The whole point of reviews is to let other consumers know your experience with the product.
Yep, either people are willing to do the fork and take the challenge or they accept that nobody has to be forced to accept their opinions and contributions, good or not.
I believe the conclusion is correct in 2025, but the article in a way just perpetuates the 'misinformation', making it seem like finding if your code will compile to a dynamic branch or not is easier than it is.

The unfortunate truth with shaders is that they are compiled by the users machine at the point of use. So compiling it on just your machine isn't nearly good enough. NVIDIA pricing means large numbers of customers are running 10 year old hardware. Depending on target market you might even want the code to run on 10 year old integrated graphics.

Does 10 year old integrated graphics across the range of drivers people actually have running prefer conditional moves over more arithmetic ops.. probably, but I would want to keep both versions around and test on real user hardware if this shader was used a lot.
I went a couple years ago in coutryside Rwanda, where locals brought me to a place where I could have some homemade banana wine, or "Urwagwa" (not sure about the spelling!). That place was someone's house with a few people hanging out and drinking, the wine was served in already-opened glass bottles.

For those curious, it is not very boozy (maybe around 7%-10% abv), but very yeasty - to a point where it kinda numbed my mouth. For those curious the yeast is the dominant flavor, followed by banana. Very earthy taste.

Later on I saw Urwagwa sold in a can at the airport, it was very different, no yeast but bitterness instead. I preferred the homemade one.
Pretty clever of the school administrators to spend a year criminalizing protest

They did it on behalf of pro-ethnic cleansing donors, who at most write $10 M checks.

The schools need those checks to make up for the public funding cuts that these same guys are largely responsible for

Now the schools are losing NIH grants ten times larger, courtesy of the same right wing politics
"The tactic has been criticised by privacy advocates and non-governmental organisations such as NOYB and Wikimedia Europe, which claim that it is illegal under the GDPR. On 17 April 2024, the European Data Protection Board released a non-binding opinion stating that in most cases, consent-or-pay models do not constitute valid consent within the meaning of the GDPR."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_or_pay
Ask HN: Are there any LLM-based translation sites with excellent UI?
google translate or deepl are useful. The translation accuracy and speed are perfect, and the UI is excellent. However, deepl pro is a bit expensive and I would like to switch.

I think modern LLMs are better and some models can combine a response as fast as google translate and accuracy like deepl. However, it is tedious to go to sites like ChatGPT, type “please translate the following text” and wait for the tokens to be generated bit by bit.
Do you know of any translation site with an architecture that directly wraps GPT or claude that combines UI, accuracy, and speed?

In particular, what we need is a UI that displays the translation immediately after copying a sentence (no translation button), and a feature that says, “If you paste an English sentence, it automatically becomes an EN->JA translation, and if you paste a Japanese sentence, it automatically becomes a JA->EN translation”.
I don't think it needs balance. It is making comparisons between Yarvin's original plan and the actions Musk and Trump administration are taking and how they significantly overlap.
You're not going to take over NT's control of the MMU et. al. without elevated privileges. To run as a non-admin, you either need a VM that leverages NT's built-in virtualization capabilities (requires admin to enable), a separate personality (requires admin to install), or a Win32 application a la cygwin, which isn't very good.
Thank you! There are a couple of competitors most of whom target professionals. We're building specially for students and hoping to guide the development of executive skills during early growth.
Android are technically linux based.

I bought the Ubuntu phone. The phone was nice, but there were bareley any apps, and the maps app only worked online, which was useless outside of my home country. A dissapointment overall.
We have a decent app for bus schedules, that whole debacle could have been avoided by checking that app beforehand.
> most of the time we detect things like the exe name calling us

What could possibly go wrong? :)
GDPR states that consent must be freely given. If there are financial incentives, the consent may be invalid.
Regarding the apple paper:
https://andrewmayne.com/2024/10/18/can-you-dramatically-impr...