skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The second half of that quote is often omitted but I would argue is as important as the first:
"Above all I hope we don’t become missionaries. Don’t feel as if you’re Bible sales-men. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were ﬁrst led up to it that you can make it more."

I've seen a lot of people in this community be dismissive of those outside if it except when they can court them as customer. I think this is a mistake. I would argue that we hackers are the vanguard of technological progress (well, as far as computers and electronics are concerned), but the vanguard isn't the only part to be concerned with. There is the long tail of everyone else who finally get the refined, consumer result of the prototypes we hack together (either for our employers, the company we found, or the things we sell independently). We need to understand that and make sure their needs and their safety are kept in mind while working on things.

You'd be surprised what people can learn and what changes they can make if they have a safe space to do it in and they have the confidence that if they make a mistake that it's not going to end in catastrophe - either financially or physically.
I think Elon belongs in jail, and I hope all of his companies fail.

That said, when you work for a company you are a representative of that company.

You shouldn’t be making any public posts about your company that aren’t approved by a media relations team.

The fact that he was asked to take the post down and would not is a strange hill to die on.
Root cause of this issue all wonderfully explained in the Tom Holland's Dominion (not to be confused with the Spiderman actor).
Maybe they should just turn it on when using web search. Of course that feature isn't that useful even in google. Some of the auto complete suggestions are horrifying there.
I agree! Real "Fear is the mind killer vibes"
That's reversing the argument. I'm not saying quitting X is bad for X, I'm saying quitting X is good for you. Nobody's completely immune to whatever that sociological experiment is turning into and staying on X is likely to influence your ethics, morals and standards in an objectively negative way.
Dictator. Kings have to abide by the law of parliment.

US newqs outlets seem to be afraid to call him a dictator. Maybe a king is more palateable.
No. Signal groups are advertised with signal.group URLs.
You mean a very active Twitter user who is all about cutting government inefficiency didn't know repercussions of his tweet? It was up for 5 hours. By then damage was done. People with large loses have sued and are getting their money back directly from the scammers. How crazy is this
I really like the simplicity of the ui. I’m curious what makes it immature vs mature in your opinion?
> If their choices were unpopular, people would flock to alternatives. They don't.

What you are saying is actively happening right now.

Certain people dont like that another certain group of people have been allowed back onto Twitter, and so they are going in droves to Mastodon/Bluesky/Threads/TruthSocial etc.

Twitter has received an 87% drop in revenue since reinstating previously blocked accounts.

Id say people are flocking to alternatives.

This is creating an extremely fragmented society, all creating their own bubble of what they want to see. History has shown that where this happens it increases aggression and intense reaction, where people are not used to seeing things they disagree with and so when they do they react more violently.

> Firms have a right to their property, and the choices of how they maximize revenue on it.

Of course they do, but what this generally turns into in the modern age is 'The left doesnt like what the right have to say, block them plz". Then this turns into a political argument, when in fact one group of people just dont want to hear what a different group of people have to say because 'it offends them'.

> I mean, should the head of a media firm be threatened by the Government or President, and forced to comply with their preferred style of gatekeeping?

We have rules and laws to prevent this as it is recognised as being a threat.
I was under the impression that reddit was charging for its API following the whole third-party client debacle that occurred some time ago—I didn't think you were using the API to power a free service if that was the case.
any recursive query is absurdly slow, so I think it scales wonderfully only if you match your representation to your workload
I worked with COBOL long before DB2. I also worked on the COBOL compiler in the 70s. Unless things changed drastically if a value wasn't initialized the compiler left garbage in the variable when the program was loaded. If you were lucky this caused the program to ABEND when you tried to use it, if no ABEND you got strange results. It was up to the programmer to set a default date if one was required by the application. Many applications started with VSAM which did not care if a date in a record was invalid. This caused many systems to set default dates when converting to DB2. DB2 does not allow garbage to be loaded into a date field. COBOL does not initialized data unless instructed to do so.
Not if you're trying to win the next election in the hope is going to be the last.
Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone
https://github.com/gabrielchua/open-notebooklm
> You can not make Wikipedia care about your pet idea without working on it yourself, so the absence of information on something is more an issue with you than with the people that edit Wikipedia.

Have you actually tried creating articles on Wikipedia? I've seen some pretty notable projects have pages that they wrote for Wikipedia be rejected as being "not noteworthy enough". Specifically Pleroma (a Fediverse application similar to Mastodon) comes to mind.
The point is this: say we see a video of an otherwise completely empty region of space, with two masses orbiting each other for a while, that then fly off in different directions. We reverse the video and see two masses coming towards each other until they get into an orbit. Can we tell which of the two videos was the original and which was the reversed one? The answer is that we can't.

However, say we receive a video of a billion billion such masses all starting in a single point, staying more or less still for a few seconds, and then moving out at high speed away from each other. It is obvious that this video is almost certainly playing forward in time, since the reverse, a billion billion balls all coming together to form a single object, is very very unlikely.
libreddit instances are even better (if you're just a lurker)
You're making up rules that no one is required to follow. Wikipedia doesn't exist in order to appease you, it exits in order to educate you.
My experience has been that in a healthy working environment, it’s clear who contributed what (I do make sure to communicate clearly what I achieve towards the team and above), and lifting the entire team up does not jeopardize one’s own position in that team.

Maybe the key here is a good work / team culture? I can also imagine some places or contexts in which the work might be more invisible / harder to attribute to specific individuals.
It's not "useless". The usefulness of the autocomplete options is not on whether or not you click them, it's about education. Most laypeople have no idea what LLMs can do... this feature delicately and non-intrusively shows you what is possible with the product.

This is a huge issue with people using novel interfaces -- the "blank page" problem -- users simply don't know what to do with the empty box. Which is why with AI tools, the most common inputs are generic search terms especially with first time users.

But if I start typing "Led Zepp" into the box, and I see an autocomplete for... "Led Zeppelin if it was techno" or "Led Zeppelin style music with djembe beats" now I have a clue as to what kinds of things I can put here, even if I don't care about those specific things.
Started coding for hire, then started my own outsourcing operation, which i am doing ever since... been 25 years.
Here in Sweden there used to be like 3 libraries that used OverDrive and worked with Kobo, now its down to like 1 library! :(
> usually notable people accept money to promote things

Some businessmen and entrepreneurs (or shady kinds of guys calling themselves so, anyway) are already denouncing Milei (or his close representatives, like his sister Karina, nicknamed "the boss") demanded money in exchange for favors / photo ops / etc. These are guys who have photos with him, not random strangers.

I think there's little doubt Milei is dirty, for all his talk denouncing the "political caste".
Unless they interop. And there is no reason why they shouldn't.

(other than grumpy old neckbeards bickering over their Prefered Thing and blocking any progress towards cooperation or interoperability. Which is actually a thing in "The Fediverse" even right now. Yes, really. A few loud voices manage to bully down projects that build bridges between both.)
>that a specific criticism is true

Or false, in this case.
I've done almost exactly the kind of thing described in article for a couple millions of rows. It broke down when I needed to find "friends of friends" of depth 6.
None of the optimizations I could come up with helped. Neither did Apache Age.

Maybe I'm just not skilled enough to handle such a workload with Postgres. But Neo4j handled it easily
> it's always "different this time"

If you're extrapolating from a sample size of one massively disruptive workflow innovation, then of course, it's natural to assume if you've seen one you've seen them all.

That said, a few examples of disruptive workflow innovations from the past, from someone who was there at the time:

IDE's - gray beards didn't say they made you stupid, they said they didn't like them.

Memory managed languages - gray beards didn't say they made you stupid, they said they didn't like them.

Spell checkers and grammar assist - gray beards didn't say they made you stupid, they said they didn't like them.

Source control systems - gray beards didn't say they made you stupid, they said they loved the concept but they didn't like the one being used on the project (regardless of what it was).

Object oriented programming - gray beards didn't say they made you stupid, they immediately listed it as a skill on their resume.

GUI builders - gray beards didn't say they made you stupid, they actually liked them when they were new (there is probably one from a billion years ago they still think we should all be using today).

Digital readouts on machine tools (yes, massive disruptive workflow innovation) - gray beards didn't say they made you stupid, they said you should absolutely use them.

Calculators (when they were actually new) - gray beards didn't say they made you stupid, they competed to see who could use them the fastest (backlash against them came much, much later).

This one is different. Yes, you should absolutely use it, and yes, if you aren't careful, it risks making you stupid.
GCC and Clang both provide `_readfsbase_u64()`, which presumably is just a wrapper around `__asm__("rdfsbase %0" : "=r"(result))`. Also gcc lets you define variables like `int__seg_fs *foo;`if the `__SEG_FS` preprocessor symbol is defined. With Clang, you can use `int __attribute__((address_space(257))) *foo`
> There's really no way to make it attractive.

https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/case-studies/a3439-chic...

https://i0.wp.com/archeyes.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/In...

https://imgur.com/a/cZ0yy43
People will definitely use this to affirm their faith.
If you know, you know, but pirating books is... very very easy. The answer is not torrents or Usenet.
> you're allowed to fingerprint a unique user and track data with that fingerprint as the sole unique identifier without any PII legislation (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) compliance issues.

That is not true. E.g.

1. https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs...

2. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-pr... specifically https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-pr...

This is for the UK, I am not up to date with other European regulators.
Unit tests with a text fixture of every URL format you can think of, and every time one breaks your e.g. parser, you add it and some permutations to the list. Eventually, you have a vast file with tons of nasty edge cases to ensure that your e.g. parser is robust and reliable.
I gave up on my first paperwhite last year (10+ years old). Would randomly lose its charge, which was annoying when bringing it on trips (and often not having an old micro-usb charger lying around). And from being stuck into all kinds of pockets and bags without a protector (half the use was it fitting in my pants) had seriously scratched up the screen. The new one I got is nice, but other than the old one being beaten up, I don't notice much difference. A bit faster to click around, but in the end it's mostly the same.
I agree with you about Cypher. For a couple of decades I was a RDF and then RDF + SPARQL advocate, but I am a fairly recent convert to property graphs and Cypher.
Not sure what my old kindle version was, it had a keyboard though, but I upgraded eventually because I wanted a warm toned backlight. It's nice that the newer ones are a bit snappier too.
This is where you start to see major limitations of OLTP, and need to look at specialized graph DBs (or indexes really) that take advantage of index-free adjacency
Unfortunately it seems none of that matters in the face of a payday.

I wonder how different tech would be if intel started in Europe. I feel like the culture in the US, at least at large, is entirely money focused.
Show HN: DocsGPT 0.13 Tools and Integrations
Nice "whataboutism". We also had right wingers doxxing and cancelling pro-palestine protestors very recently.

If it was wrong for "leftists" to do something, that makes it morally correct for right wingers to do it? Do no t right wingers have moral agency of their own?

Beyond all that, these "leftists" weren't the US government, they did not have historical employment and income and related data, and they didn't have the capability of organizing some kind of large scale smear campaign with other arms of the government.
I quoted this exact article. It seems almost a tradition to fire all heads of OIGs after elections, from all sorts of presidents.
"yet".

> And at present, there's really only one each of the Relay and (Twitter-like) AppView components used in practice, but there is a real possibility of this changing and real architectural affordance work to allow it. So perhaps things to not seem all that bad.
Russia is not the USSR. In practice, Russia is Moscow and St Petersburg. Pose a credible threat to those cities and be set. Because Poland and Russia are so close geographically, plausible second strike capability can be achieved many ways without having ICBMs and nuclear strike subs.
As you mention "Yes, Minister", as a potential metaphor for truth...

That series was based on conversations between the writers and senior civil servants in UK Government. It was Margaret Thatcher's favourite show (she even wrote a scene to perform with the actors at some event or other), because in 1970s and 1980s Britain, it was incredibly on the money.

However, the more apt political comedy to reflect what modern politics looks like isn't "Yes, Minister" or "Yes, Prime Minister" (the sequel), but "The Thick of It", which shows well-meaning but put-upon civil servants dealing with the tyranny and abuse of special advisors and external consultants bullying and demeaning them at every turn. It, too, is based on conversations with real insiders in UK government.

I'll leave it to you to decide which is most apt for modern Washington, but there was a film of the latter mostly set in Washington, which tries to capture the tensions on that side of the Atlantic quite well, with the main joke being the UK's necessary subservience to a larger World power. It's worth a watch.

For my money, Musk looks a lot more like Malcolm Tucker than he does Jim Hacker.
Just got really lucky. Someone hadn't a clue what they were selling, was listed as "Kobo e reader" or something very vague like that. Fully expected it to either be broken or not match the image.

In general the Forma looks overpriced imo, the benefits of the 8 inch screen don't really warrant a price that nears the Libra Color or Sage.
> for... "Led Zeppelin if it was techno" or "Led Zeppelin style music with djembe beats" now

Can ChatGPT generate music now? What happens if you actually execute those?
What about cyber grooming?

So you think you can’t damage people’s psyche through words?
DeepSeek Did Nvidia a Favor
> You can still say anything you like on X

You cannot even say the word "cisgender" on X.
> How many times was Al mentioned in these episodes of Hard Fork?

> Can you revise this paragraph to make it tighter?

> Pretend you are posting this Times article to Facebook. How would you promote it?

> Summarize this Times article in a concise, conversational voice for a newsletter.

> Can you propose five search-optimized headlines for this Times article?

> Can you summarize this play written by Shakespeare?

> Can you summarize this federal government report in layman’s terms?

All of these functions are currently done by other people specialized in the task. So you know what this move is fixing to do.
Without reading the article, I always quickly estimate what a DRAM based in-memory database would cost. You build a mesh network of FPGA PCBs with 12 x 12.5 Gbps links interconnecting them. Each $100 FPGA has 25 GB/s DDR3 or DDR2 controllers with up to 256 GB. DDR3 DIM have been less than $1 per GB for many years.

6.4x($100+256x4x$1)=$7,193.6 worst case pricing

So this database would cost less than $8000 in DRAM chips hardware and can be searched/indexed in parallel in much less than a second.

Now you can buy old DDR2 chips harvested from ewaste at less than $1 per GB, so this database could cost as low as $1000 including the labour for harvesting.

You can make a wafer scale integration with SRAM that holds around 1 terabyte SRAM for $30K including mask set costs. This database would cost you $210.000. Note that SRAM is much faster than DDR DRAM.

You would need 15000/7 customers of this size database to cover the manufacturing of the wafers. I'm sure there are more than 2143 customers that would buy such a database.

Please invest in my company, I need 450,000,000 up front to manufacture these 1 terabyte wafers in a single batch.
We will sprinkle in the million core small reconfigurable processors[1] in between the terabyte SRAM for free.

For the observant: we have around 50 trillion transistors[2] to play with on a 300mm wafer. Our secret sauce is a 2 transistor design making SRAM 5 times denser that Apple Silicon SRAM densities at 3nm on their M4.

Actually we would not need reconfigurable processors, we would intersperse Morphle Logic in between the SRAM. Now you could reprogram the search logic to do video compression/decompression or encryption by reconfiguring the logic pattern[3]. Total search of each byte would be a few hundred nanoseconds.

The IRAM paper from 1997 mentions 180nm. These wafers cost $750 today (including mask set and profit margin) and now you would need less than a million investment up front to start mass manufactoring. You just would need 3600 times the wafer amount compared to the latest 3nm transistor density on a wafer.

[1] Intelligent RAM (IRAM): chips that remember and compute
(1997) https://sci-hub.ru/10.1109/ISSCC.1997.585348

[2] Merik Voswinkel - Smalltalk and Self Hardware https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbqKClBwFwI&t=262s

[3] Morphle Logic https://github.com/fiberhood/MorphleLogic/blob/main/README_M...
There are open source alternatives to Neo4J, and also very good scalable open source graph databases with query languages similar to Cypher. I think we are in agreement that it is a good idea to choose platform that scales both for compute and all other costs, like licensing costs.
I’m guessing you’re referring to Colin Kaepernick? The dude went 2-14 his last year in the NFL! 2-14!!! That fact always seems to be left out by people claiming “racism”. The fact that he didn’t get another job is because sports is a meritocracy and he sucked, not because of his race or any DEI issue.
SanDisk puts petabyte SSDs on the roadmap, has yet to reveal release date
I searched for several Skia classes and it never found the actual Skia repo, just forks and references from unrelated repos. It also failed to find several classes entirely. Skia exists in GitHub as well as in Chromium CodeSearch so it should have come up at least twice.

As a sanity check, "fwrite" only has 8 references in the entire database.

Yeah, agreed, I think the migration didn't actually work.
A prerequisite to building social housing is to allow building housing at all. Social housing projects also have to pay for artificially inflated land prices and wait years to obtain permits. SF has spent billions of dollars on building new social housing in the past decade, but that doesn't make a difference when they cost millions of dollars a unit to construct.
Yes, but people are just making stuff up about why he’s wrong. That is literally no better.

You may as well just suspend judgement about these claims. No amount of evidence is going to convince most people here: we saw that with the Hunter laptop, where the goalposts moved with each additional proof the smallest amount possible.
No not in this case. Im using a quote from Musk to defend something someone made up about him. Theres no conflict of truth because theirs was an opinion, mine is a fact.
Tl;dr: There's a lot of garbage in the database, but it doesn't matter because a) no one trusts the data, b) no one's falsely getting the money. So they haven't done anything about it because cleaning up millions of PII records was too expensive. No one who has dealt with databases would be surprised that a database older than most people alive would be full of garbage.
Depends on whether you mean the tool of the technology. Yes, the common traceroute uses icmp, but since it has become very popular for transit networks to ignore echo requests, there's also tcp (e.g. lft) and udp (e.g. Cisco's default) traceroute tools.
But this skips having to measure water.
Milei's hardcore followers are now in an impossible situation:

- They can continue claiming their all-knowing leader is an "expert" in everything under the sun. But this means he was an insider! And therefore, he committed a crime.

Or,

- They can claim he was duped in the silliest way possible. I mean, $LIBRA had every possible red flag and anyone with half a brain could tell it was a meme coin. So, that must mean Milei is not as intelligent as his closest followers claim.

Also, he, the president of Argentina, claimed he promoted the meme coin because "he wasn't aware of the details". If he wasn't aware of the details, why did he promote it? Will he also promote random miracle cures? Or only if -- as some people are already claiming -- some money is passed under the table?
Note, it still remains disputed whether it is a scam, devs related are not admitting fraud yet. Although there was an admission of insider trading.

It's very likely they are denying to delay legal consequences or continue monetizing.