skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting that the first replies i got were about racists, nazi sympathizers, afd people and so on (who it turns out never got jailed, but fined, and not for "posting a meme" but for going against well known laws against inciting violence).

Yours is the only reply (yet) that talks about Palestine, that I find much more interesting in this context. It should be noted that pro palestinian protesters have been arrested in the US too, so I don't know if it's really a good point when comparing "freedom of speech" between the US and Germany.

Unless what you meant was "freedom of speech" is an illusions and Americans are deluded into thinking they have more of it.
This wasn't someone posting just a meme online or anything. The guy was posting racist shit during civil unrest [1]. Literally throwing oil on a fire. Yeah, you are going to get prosecuted for that.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gdww5lx2vo
You don't poke the hornets nest. Soon you would see fullscale mobilisation in Russia and you have essentially ww3.
This is a false narrative. There is never any active consumer choice.
> The main drawback to this method is, like Gaussian splatting, they have to train an entire neural network for every puzzle.

They discuss how to avoid this in the section "Joint Compression via Weight Sharing Between Puzzles".
> Many do not want democracy and the alternative for the U.S. is frequently to topple regimes and attempt to stand up completely new governments (i.e. nation-building). This is an extraordinarily costly endeavor with a high failure rate.

Yes, and this is one of the stupidest things about American foreign policy. Every european democracy spent hundreds of years as an authoritarian regime first, while it developed the underlying infrastructure of state and civil society. America repeatedly trying to short-circuit that process by toppling authoritarian regimes is in the long run bad for the people in those countries. Those countries are not ready for democracy and the fledgling democracies that the U.S. has tried to install, like in Iraq, have led to horrors.
A side note about my perspective: I studied economics as an undergrad at a time when the Northwestern "pure rationalism" school of thought completely dominated. Some of the conclusions from purely mathematical models built high on dubious assumptions were ridiculous on their face. But anything outside that dogma was heresy and treated as such. Academics were shunned, careers ruined.

It was a few years later that "behavioral economics" began to make inroads. The moniker of "behavioral economics" itself was to distinguish it from "real economics." Alas (for the establishment), behavioral economics proved very popular, and the genie was out of the bottle. It turns out mathematic equations are not all-powerful when it comes to describing certain phenomena, especially when it comes to individual or collective human behavior.

Collective blind faith in models built on dubious assumptions is what gave us the mortgage crisis.
WebSub is your friend here: https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/

This adds a nice publish-subscribe model to RSS. Ping the WebSub server when there are changes; subscribing services are easily notified; nobody has to worry about excessive polling. Hooray.
lately Reddit has been feeling really like dead Internet though. every subreddit is talking about the same current event all the time.

there are smaller spaces that are thriving just like the old days.
The first screen shot is an e-mail from Ian Lance Taylor, the author of, arguably, the best UUCP implementation, and how I sent/received most of my e-mail up until 2010. It was really, really good at dealing with spotty wireless connections like CDPD and spotty early cellular hotspots. All my company's e-mail would come into an SMTP server, and then the last mile was UUCP to our individual laptops.

Story time: Back in maybe '93, I had a UUCP connection to a provider in Colorado. I was calling in from Nebraska (I had moved out there temporarily, but it had always been a long distance call). One day the e-mail stopped flowing. After a bunch of debugging I found that it would connect, and then sit there waiting for data packets from the remote end. I got ahold of the provider and the issue was they were using the SunOS UUCP, which stored all the files for all feeds in a single directory, and some of their users didn't call in regularly, some I get the impression were getting e-mail and not calling in anymore. Eventually this directory filled up to the point where the OS couldn't scan it within the UUCP timeout.

They ended up throwing hardware at the problem, but I suggested that they switch to taylor-uucp. Taylor stored the queues in a per-endpoint set of directories, so you didn't run into the large directory problem unless your UUCP endpoint was the offending one. However the provider replied that "tayloruucp doesn't work well with larger providers." So I asked Ian Lance Taylor about that, and he replied "That's news to [one of the largest national, probably international UUCP providers]".
10x CouchDB Performance Gains for a AAA Game Launch
It's good that they post negative results, but it's hard to know exactly why their attempt failed, and it's tempting for me to make guesses without doing any measurements, so let me fall for that temptation:

They are patching inline-cache sites in an AOT binary and not seeing improvements.

Only 17% of the inline-cache sites could be optimized to what they call O2 level (listing 7). Most could only be optimized to O1 level (listing 6). The only difference from the baseline (listing 5) to O1 is that they replaced:

mov 0x101c(%rip), %rax # load the offset

with

mov 0x3, %rax # load the offset

I'm not very suprised that this did not help much. The old load is probably hoisted up and loaded into a renamed register very early, and it won't miss in the cache.

Basically they already have a pretty nice inline cache system at least for the monomorphic case, and messing with the exact instructions used to implement it doesn't help much. A JIT is able to do so much more, eg polymorphic cases, inlining of simple methods, and eliminating repeated checks of the same hidden class. Not to mention detecting at runtime that some unknown object is almost always an integer or a float and JITting code specialized for that.

People new to virtual machines often focus on the compiler, whereas the stuff that moves the needle is often around the runtime. How tagged and typed data is represented, the GC implementation, and the object layout. Eg this paper explores an interesting new tagging technique and makes a huge difference to performance (there's some author overlap): https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-three-representation...

Incidentally the assembly syntax in the "Attempt to catch up" article is a bit confusing. It looks like the IC addresses are very close to the code, like almost on the same page. Stack overflow explains it:

GAS syntax for RIP-relative addressing looks like symbol + current_address (RIP), but it actually means symbol with respect to RIP.

There's an inconsistency with numeric literals:

[rip + 10] or AT&T 10(%rip) means 10 bytes past the end of this instruction

[rip + a] or AT&T a(%rip) means to calculate a rel32 displacement to reach a, not RIP + symbol value. (The GAS manual documents this special interpretation)
Indeed she did.
> The U.S., not anyone else, is responsible for the #FentanylCrisis inside the U.S.

I actually agree with China on this one...
The best person to implement or flesh out a solution is also rarely the one who came up with it.
Yes. People forget that Charles Dickens was considered trash, pulp, un-intellectual. That people were reading such trash would lead to the downfall of civilization. Basically what everyone says today about whatever latest media type.
For more power try fish's abbreviations.

With `--position anywhere` you can expand an abbreviation even if it's not at the beginning of a line.
Forgiveness? Thats a wrong term here and inapplicable. Loss of trust is the topic, you don't simply ask for forgiveness if you mess up, you work your ass off with building that trust again over lengthy period of time. And even then its not 100% back, trust is a finicky thing.

This leads to loss of revenue, maybe small maybe not. Ie if google is paired with some mentality and/or actions of current US government, US phones and all internet-enabled electronic products everywhere outside of US should be viewed with same scrutiny Huawei was treated previously, with very similar actions.
> They are for freedom and liberty only in the sense that they just want the U.S. government and its regulations and laws to get out of the way so that they can do their bidding.

Pretty sure that is where Libertarianism always ends up. I think you want Utopianism.
> If you pull the feed, don't pull the posts. If you pull the posts, don't pull the feed. If you pull both, you're missing the whole point of having an aggregated feed!

In some cases the reader should fetch both the feed and the pages. Unfortunately, none do

https://github.com/miniflux/v2/issues/3084
No it's when it's used in contexts outside Russia, note I've been saying it but I'd be a shitty Russia astroturf account to be calling myself out too..., people can say warm water ports. It's mentioning it like it's a notable feature elsewhere in the world that's the telltale sign because it's pretty much only a notable feature for Russia because their other ports freeze in the winter. It's not a notable feature of Texas that it's ports are warm water ports. Every US port except small ones in Alaska that serve the fishing industry are warm water and the same is true of most of the world where all non land locked countries have at least a few lovely balmy ports to choose from.
I feel like polling twice a day (with the right etags) will beat exponential back offs.

Exponential back off is great for a lot of problems, but irregularly updated blogs doesn’t seem like one of them.
Well, not “anyone”. It was pretty well-studied and there weren’t good reasons to believe there were extreme levels of waste in government.

Anyone whose only reason for believing there was waste was because a talking head told them there was, sure.
Sure, but I don't check it into my codebase.
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Social Media Posts About Medical Tests with Potential for Overdiagnosis
Bonus point for clients that don't support the HTTP “Accept-Encoding” header [1] and consume all your bandwidth.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...
The government purchases bulk licensing agreements, and they use the licenses as they need them. Granted, they should not be charged for those licenses until they actually use them, otherwise they are just pissing money down the drain. Seems like a case of well we have plenty of money, so why not?
Great, stealing money is soo European.
> It's one of the single biggest misconceptions ever, it gets repeated endlessly

FM Roese here (best DWZ 2399).
I agree, figuring or even conjecturing that Fischer overlooked 30.g3 is totally insane. However he also did not saw the theoretical draw, this strikes me even more off.
He never opened up about his idea, so in all likelihood he calculated something very stupid.

> if you plug it into an engine, it shows an equal evaluation

They criticized this argument rightly, but many basically repeated your mistake in the process of doing so. All engines use some evolved adaption of iterative refinement, be it either "Iterative deepening" (of an alpha beta search) [1] or "UCT" [2]. If you post computer evaluations you should at the very least give the reported nominal search depth and the engine name and version, otherwise you are just asking for trouble. On computer chess fora [0] they often post the whole log file bluntly.

[0] https://www.talkchess.com/

[1] https://www.chessprogramming.org/Iterative_Deepening

[2] https://www.chessprogramming.org/UCT
Note: ADP numbers, not official data.

Edit: Not sure what’s up with the downvotes. ADP is a private payroll management and hiring company. So they do have a good view into that sector of the labor market. But not all employers use them, and they don’t include government and other types of employment. The Non-Farm Payrolls number due on Friday from the BLS is what actually matters. ADP is intentionally fronting the BLS to position themselves as some sort of reliable data source.
There's no information here in the title. What does the reboot look like? Where does the "with Reddit" come from?

This is just a teaser and an invitation to sign up for marketing. I guess it got upvoted for the name Digg alone.
I think reddit is the best among a very large selection of poor choices. Where else could you go?
U.S. pauses intelligence sharing with Ukraine used for strikes on Russia
I think parents is referring to us - regular people. It is unproductive for people like us. For people, who want to induce fear for one reason or another, clearly it nearly a goal unto itself.
Musk is extremely awful, but OpenAI becoming for-profit is, in fact, a bad thing.
That's very different from the title, isn't it?
Yup. It’s hard to live in a democracy with billionaires. It’s going to be basically impossible with trillionaires.

We waited until the ultra-wealthy figured out how to weaponize their power against us. It may be too late. But we have to reduce the wealth gap as a priority step to fixing democracy.
This is not correct. This is how most people assumed the Apple proposal worked, but it actually worked in a very different way. The device never knew if an image matched. Matches could only be determined via the combination of a receipt calculated on the device, plus information on the server, plus meeting a threshold of many matches. It was not offline scanning and uploading matches.
How is that even a comparison? Governments are elected

Edit: To Americans, fix your own democracy before you think the idea of democracy is broken.
He's been there since he left Bell Labs, in the mid 2000's, I think. The U of A is, or was, rich with Alberta oil sands money and willing to use it to fund "curiosity-driven research", which is pretty nice if you're willing to live where the temperatures go down to -40 in the winter.
> People have been jailed for racist rioting and planning racist riots

This is a factually false. The recent UK riots were largely about protesting violence (stabbings, killings, rape (which increased by a factor of 4.3 over 13 years, closely correlated to migration) and unchecked immigration (which is unpopular and opposed by a large fraction of the population, from someone who lived there).

These are, factually, not issues of racism - they are humans rights (in the case of the violence) and extremely reasonable political positions (in the case of cutting down immigration), and it's intentionally and maliciously deceptive to claim that they're "racism".

Yes, it's likely that some number of people at the riots were there because they were racist. No, the majority of the protestors were not there for that reason, and claiming that that small fraction makes the riots "racist" (not that that's even a coherent statement to make in the first place) is a lie.

Additionally, it's also a lie to
claim that only people participating in or planning the riots were jailed - "A judge has warned that anybody present at a riot will be remanded in custody, even if they were only a “curious observer”"[1], which was actually implemented, with documented video evidence of people getting arrested for merely filming the protests and police, with no participation[2].

It's deeply evil to defend the UK government's behavior here.

> The idea that the US

This is the tu quoque fallacy, in addition to being irrelevant - the topic is the UK and EU on free speech, not the UK.

This whole comment is just a tangle of lies, fallacies, and emotional manipulation.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/09/judge-refuses-ba...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0X4uPjcEsE
"If I wanted to read a novel, I would read an actual novel."

As parent mentioned. You do have a choice not to read novels, or to read novels. That doesn't make a novel bad because it is a novel.
Sure, I used to swear like a sailor, hell, I would offend people who swore all day, they'd ask me to stop swearing so much, yet I never felt the urge to put it into my code.
Dev Used AI to Pass Amazon Interview [video]
That's not the most severe things that can happen for ignoring politics. Some people are unfortunate enough to ignore it to the point they sit in a frozen trench while IR-enabled drone is looking for them
Just for posterity sake I'd like to point out that the Digg of yesterday also shot themselves in the foot when they chose (allegedly) to copy all of their content from DamnInteresting [1].

Once they got themselves called out they stopped sharing that content and, consequently, the quality of the site went back down. Until yesterday they lived off Reddit polls, advice columns, and Twitter controversies.

Source: I check the website about once a week.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39046023
Such a freer country is China than the US... Funny word to use in this context also, to dictate...
Your calculations are ignoring the costs of enrichment - you can't just feed soil into your reactor - whereas you can just feed the raw coal into your furnace.

Now I freely admit I don't know the costs of enrichment. I just used your numbers - you said you'd just have to mine 300 times as much rock - and obviously that's 300 times more expensive - for something which is already not energy cheap.

ie to convince me you have to show the full costs of mining and enrichment, to the point you actually have a fuel that's reactor ready.

And even if that's net positive energy - I'd suspect you'd be much better in investing in wind, hydro, tidal and solar and a decent storage and grid system.

Sometimes I feel nuclear is fetishised because it's cool science - however I'm more interested in practical solutions, and if that means a simple wind or water turbine - so be it.

Happy to be convinced otherwise - but you need to show the numbers.
What is the countdown in the header for?
I'm not sure I understand this point:

> I use Bash for a lot of my scripts, but not all. For example
> I have a note-taking script called ~/bin/note which I didn’t
> want to write in Bash, so I wrote it in Python instead. With
> an alias, I’d have to write it in Zsh.

If the script is an actual script that does something more than just calling another program, then the comparison to an alias doesn't make sense. And if it's about setting up an alias to a Python program, it can definitely be done. Is there anything I'm missing here?
It’ll be funny if they cut the price in half in Europe, to see exactly how much europeans stick to their values.
The cult elements of isolation (boat/van life), alienation from self (trans, split brain), false moral superiority (vegan), demands for purity in action (vegan), sense of false higher purpose (AI basilisk), false possession of method for empowerment (rationalism) are there. The hatred of landlords et al (anarchism) and use of drugs (psychedelic, others?) seems to be my guess for the violence part.

Lots of highly exploitative groups don't get to violent assaults. That's got me wondering why.
This looks awesome! I have an app built with Hono on Bun. Is that supported?
Crimes in the US are only for individuals (and even then only for poors). If you are a registered corporation you may defraud, steal, or manslaughter without consequence.
They've actually cracked PGP, and email is fine, especially between self hosters and anyone using chatmail. I've been using it for years: Delta really, really works.
Survivorship bias would be a good explanation for Musk's success, if he succeeded at one thing. But it doesn't explain having a string of successes.
Rachel makes an excellent point here about feed change frequency.

Seems like it'd be straightforward to implement a backoff strategy based on how frequently the feed content changed into most readers. For a regular, periodic fetch, if the content has proven it doesn't update frequently, just back off the period for that endpoint.
Apple's 64GB Era Is Over – MacRumors
The Stanford GraphBase: A Platform for Combinatorial Computing
I don’t have a choice if I want to know the 5 W’s here. If every news article was like this, nobody could know the news because they would still be reading yesterday’s news when today’s news is published.

Perhaps AI could help here by rewriting the article into the format it should have used, but then you risk hallucinations.
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Don't mess with cowboys.
IIRC correctly the original Java VM was a stack based machine. That made sense when it was first created since a stack based machine is the simplest system you can create that run code and since it only need three registers, one for the instruction, one for the first data and one for the top of the stack for the other data. The problem is that you need to push and pop a lot from the stack during runtime which means more memory accesses and more time spent on gathering the data than on doing actual operations. That also underutilizes the processor registers since on a normal processor you would be using two data registers at most. This was one of the early issues with java running slowly on android and the reason of the creation of the Dalvik VM which was a register one.
https://archive.is/u7mE7
It's also about blocking spam. Don't know why that's buried in this particular article, but many sources have pointed to that as one of the primary use cases for the new system tool.
https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil215/Nozick.pdf
Machines of Love & Grace
I see, by “MMT” you mean quantitative easing. Not really the same thing.
IIUC, accept-language is mostly ignored because the tooling to configure it on the user agent is really poor for most user agents. So users log into a site, they get the site in the wrong language, and because only the site is visible they blame the site, not their UA.

It's the "Your site's broken if IE won't load it" problem.
Yeah same. I'm not an economy understander, the article had lots of upvotes, seemed like kind of interesting ideas at the start. Then he wrote "jailed for memes" and oh, it's just another crank who escaped confinement from Elon Musk's X. I come back to the HN discussion and sure enough he has no idea what he's talking about.