skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As they say in the article, your solution doesn’t work for even moderately complex layouts. If you want to add a space between elements, margin works wonderfully until those elements can wrap. Gap was introduced because regardless of what happens, there will always be a space between elements. Your solution fails to address the situation gap was introduced to fill.
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Revamped AI is delayed to 2027 anyway.
It's such a waste of resources to rebuild an operating system every time you want to run some tests, and these CI machines are much less powerful then personal computers so it takes much longer in the cloud too.
If you have your CI in your own scripts it will be easy to migrate between CI environments too. build: ./buuild.sh test: ./test.sh deploy: ./deploy.sh maybe pass some env variables to the scripts.
There are some advantages to CI platforms, like nightly build/test and automatic security scan on already deployed software, so that you will be notified when something suddenly stops working or a vulnerability is discovered.
Picking an ecosystem with working and chaper peripherials vs one with partially-working and more expensive peripherials seems like an easy choice for consumers.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by the "real price". Companies like Mouser and Digikey charge a premium to be sure, but they also perform a real service for that premium in the form of taking measures to avoid counterfeit and faulty parts. Discount sources (particularly unknown ones) come with a very high chance of selling garbage parts.

How important that is to you depends on your particular needs and situation.
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Lots of stuff is going to shift away from Mac / windows in the next years. If apple assumes they can get away with this tactic they’ll lose even more market share.

Not because the alternatives are better, but just because the exceptions that were made from valid legislation will not be prolonged in face of the “New American Way”.

All hinges on the future of the TDPF.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/deafening-commiss...

Lots of public servants will have to suffer through Linux desktops.
DMA does not provide any means to run Linux on Apple devices.

I don't want their shitty OS, but I like their hardware.

Unfortunately, the law makers prefer to cement oligopolies (Android-iPhone), instead of installing fines for not documentating how their hardware works.
> like binding a macro to the MS Word save button to make it conditional

You have no idea how much I'd love that feature. Inasmuch as "save" is still a thing anyway. I don't miss explicit saves in IDEA, I see commit as the "real" save operation now, and I don't mind being able to hook that in an IDE-independent way.

I think the UX of git hooks has been sub-par for sure, but tools like the confusingly named pre-commit are helping there.
You are conflating user and government.
Depot looks nice, but also looks fairly expensive to me. We're a small B2B company, just 10 devs, but we'd be looking at 200+500 = $700/mo just for building and CI.

I guess that would be reasonable if we really needed the speedup, but if you're also offering a better QoL GHA experience then perhaps another tier for people like us who don't necessarily need the blazing speed?
As others have said: The way CPUs fetch and access memory is in larger word sizes. Even 1 8-bit byte can be inefficient depending on how that byte aligns in the larger structure and which ISA you're talking about.

Memory is cheap, so. shrug

In embedded this can be a very different story though. There we are often working with tiny memories and lower clock speeds and the concern is packing everything in tighter.
It might hurt short term sales, but it helps paint a picture of “evil EU won’t let us sell you the latest features”. I.e.: propaganda fuel.
Yes, all politicians are going to pick or make up facts to suit themselves, but it's a question of degree. Putting around such an obviously false narrative is not going to help engineers at NASA and I can imagine that they'll be looking to move elsewhere if they feel that their livelihood is likely to be threatened when they're identified as being a target.
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> "Develop stuff the way we want, or lose sales"

I think the wants (of the EU buyers) are far less homogeneous than the group of open integration activists make it look like, so there's no "we". We hear the opinions of the vocal ones and based on those voices regulation is enacted, but nothing changes for the silent majority. However, a lot of people in the EU may start caring if they can no longer buy what they want just because of the vocal few, and they may stop being silent about it when it touches them.
Yea Claude sucks at minesweeper (and many spatial reasoning tasks), but isn’t an idea of MCPs is that Claude should be able to ask an MCP what the next best move is rather than figuring it out itself? Like offload hard thinking/reasoning to purpose-built solvers because they are deterministic? Though I guess you’d expect a reasoning model to be able to come up with its own solvers on the fly, especially for well-known problems. Maybe having access to an MCP itself is confusing it?
How would disabling certain features in certain markets hostile to their business model result in 20% revenue loss?
It’s thought that the most common habitable environment in the universe is in underground oceans which are generic in outer solar system and probably interstellar bodies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_oceanography

It’s easy to believe you could get bacteria in that kind of place with an ecosystem like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent

but without energy input from sunlight it is hard to believe you could get more complex organisms or ecosystems, but if you had some oxygen from chemistry that might make a difference.
there are also atomicity issues
Cyfrin Updraft
It is a very well written, truly horrible chapter.

It doesn't have a huge bearing on the story, so can be skipped - and I think a lot of people probably should.
"Make the changes"... Lol, here's someone who has never owned a car.
All the images there have been prepared by the collaboration, not NYT. I know, since I've made one of those images.
> If Facebook was worse than the web for users, they'd flock to the web.

People go to these platforms for a reason, my point is that the reason isn't because they are walled off. It seems like you are arguing that the chief (if inadvertent) benefit to users of a walled garden is that users don't have to deal with undesirable behavior because access to the platform is restricted by a login wall. This isn't how I would understand a service being "walled off" - Hacker News is not a walled garden even though I need an account to access some of its features. The important distinction is that most (all?) of the content on Hacker News can be accessed without an account. Facebook, Pinterest, and Quora are examples of services going the other way - they lock down content, not for the benefit of the users, but for the benefit of themselves. They save on not having to serve the content to unregistered users, keep the content on their platform, and encourage unregistered users to sign up.

The chief benefit of the open web was always permissive read access, not permissive write access.
Let's first see if the actual government follows suit - this is just a call by Parliament. And even if the government follows suit, we'll have to see how long it will take and how well they will do it.

But still a good first step.
The direction of causation between IQ and economic success is pretty difficult because they obviously drive each other.
I think if you make it a moral violation to give people nice things with attached conditions, this will not result in more people having nice things.

You're proposing the alternative "let people live in the US without being tied to a specific employer." But realistically, the alternative on offer is "don't let people live in the US at all."
Impressive stuff nonetheless.
Yeah, I often have this problem and want some better way than a <hr/> (which doesn’t work in table rows or multi column)
Likewise with the Texas Instruments C40 DSP. sizeof(char)==sizeof(int) in that case, both representing 32-bit values.
I guess it's better than nothing.
and getting yourself elected while being underqualified is intelligent? i think its not. its stupid and damaging behavior based in selfish desires. about as far from intelligent you can get.
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Oh, and 3 or 4 times, someone was convicted by court to do social work and help me out for a few weeks. These were always interesting characters. We once had a girl in her mid-twenties who attacked and beat up her friend in a fit of rage because she stole her boyfriend, and was convicted to a few months on probation and to 2 weeks doing my job. Surprisingly, she greatly enjoyed the work and often told me that it was much less stressful here than in her normal job. She worked full-time at Aldi, and although it seemed to pay good money, she had recently been diagnosed with stress-induced heart arrhythmia after some years of working there.
Because engineering is all about making choices. Making a boolean 1 bit would be space efficient. However, memory is being read at least 1 byte at a time. If you want 1 bit of that byte, that's an extra instruction.

So storing a boolean in one byte is more speed efficient!

(In C you can store a boolean in one bit. If, for example, you need to store a great number of booleans and memory size is more important than speed. )
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> Also, in general, why not?

There are various reasons:

- Premature optimization will take away flexibility, and will thus affect your ability to change the code later.

- If you add features later that will affect performance, then since the users are used to the high performance, they might think your code is slow.

- There are always a thousands things to work on, so why spend effort on things that users, at this point, don't care much about?
But it comes with a ... checks notes ... magic mouse!
Tbh, if I could go to a conference that guaranteed all signs of passion and interest would be banned, it would be depressing.... but far more useful. Passion is something best saved for happy hour. The best advice I've received is not from passionate people but rather people who have resigned themselves to the work.

Very grateful I'm nowhere near conferences or academia, but equally grateful others are doing the work filtering the bullshit out for me.
I have a goal to get rid of all US based software. I already replaced some services but I will continue to look every chance I get.

This is the best thing to ever happen to EU based tech companies.
I understand, and correct me if I'm wrong, that america first damn logic or real-life contrarian examples.
The minimum access in modern computers is 1 byte of 8 bits, which means that to losslessly change the value of an 1-bit bool you need three instructions:

1. load byte at $address into $register

2. use whatever native instructions there are to change just that single bit in $register - in the worst case you need multiple of them

3. write byte from $register into $address

In contrast, all modern platforms have a single "store immediate (=hardcoded in the bytecode) value" instruction, so it's either two (set register to 0 / 1, write register to RAM) or even one (write value directly to RAM) instruction.

Bit-packing structures (another poster showed an example here in the thread) used to be done pretty much everywhere and you'll notice it if you deal with reverse engineering code even from the Windows 98 era... but in anything more modern it's not needed because computers nowadays have more than 640 KB of RAM [1].

By the way, accessing / modifying small values in large(r) containers is a common problem in computing in general, so if it interests you, you might want to look into "SSD write amplification", "SMR HDD write amplification" or "flash wear leveling".

[1] https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5488507/myth-bill-gates-said...
The Future of the Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework
European and American businesses should prepare for a revocation of the TDPF, which would have drastic consequences for digital services offered by American companies.

Effectively the abolishing of the notion of “independent agencies” by the American side invalidates the existing agreements.
> AI companies can also not just 'hide' false information from users while they internally still process false information

To my understanding of this:

1. The false claims were hallucinations, i.e. do not exist in training data

2. OpenAI have filtered the output to prevent it generating these particular false claims

Seems a tricky situation if just the false claim being represented ephemerally in internal model activations, or the model having weights that can lead it to that claim, is defamation.
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So europeans will stop preferring Apple and they loose market share to whoever can offer something better. Sucks to be spiteful.
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If they do then they'll just lose market share to Android, because the Asian manufacturers will offer all these features and they're getting more polished each year. For me personally, all Apple really has going for their products these days is being very stable and dependable, I can always just get the newest Pro phone and have something that'll work well for me. They used to be attractive because they weren't Chinese but US tech is becoming an even bigger liability, and the Asian competition has a lot more on offer in terms of features though it's a lot more of a gamble if it'll be executed well and get maintained and I don't like to gamble on things like that. Most casual users already don't care, nor should they.

But if Apple cripple their devices further I think a lot more of their core user base will be willing to try an Android, depending on what features they axe. If they make iPhones inconvenient in addition to somewhat lagging behind the market, all they'd have left is their brand and marketing and that's about to take a beating in the looming tariff wars.

No, I think they may do a little of that for symbolics and they certainly will throw a lot of fits but ultimately they'll just comply and that will be that.
Yeah, that Military-Industrial Complex thing that we hated?

Well, now we want one.
I expect a company to operate in the interest of the customer, no matter the rules of the government.
I'd think it's pretty much any high-energy ionizing radiation that causes those streaks - probably very few of which are muons. There are "local" sources of ionizing radiation pretty much everywhere.

And if [0] is correct about the approximate muon flux - being that "about one per second passes through a volume the size of a person’s head.", the volume of a the CCD sensor that it would have to interact with is so much smaller (being some 10 microns thick) that I doubt it'll be "Take a few 30s exposures" sort of chance, so much as "Winning the lottery" level chance to actually have a muon pass through the sensor, and interact.

[0] https://home.cern/science/physics/cosmic-rays-particles-oute...
Makes sense to prepare for the Greenland war
I am completely switching my mental model of what a ci/cd system should be at the moment: i use docker compose for absolutely everything possible. unit tests? runs as part of the container build. linear build dependent steps? multi stage docker biuld. DAG of build steps? dependencies in docker compose. This way every developer has the same system that ci/cd uses locally. debugging the dev setup is the same as debugging the ci/cd. The purpose of the actual ci/cd is reduced to handling/configuring triggers, handling env vars/secrets and triggering the docker compose command with the proper selected docker context

This also reduces the lock in by orders of magnitude.
Well, let’s see how that changes the coming years.
> attempting to silence anyone who tried to debate or question what was being purported as scientific fact or properly run scientific studies

Was this more than just trying to get non-knowledgeable people to stop spreading rumours and lies? It makes complete sense to not be sucked into debate with people who base their ideas on YouTube videos, but dismissing actual research out of hand is foolish (unless that research is deliberately trying to push a single narrative such as the tobacco companies funding and directing research into the health effects of cigarettes).
No emoji is a reason HN is still good. Among many.

Your comment IMO has little value to a reader. You forcefully state your opinions but give me no reason why I should adopt them or any basis on which I could challenge them. I am more interested in why you think what you do than in what you actually think.

Why is that the only feature worth paying for? How are watches an "extension of this behaviour"? Why should everything be "mandated open protocol"? Do you see how that can lead to ossification and the stifling of innovation?

Amazon offers returns... so what? I haven't bought anything from Amazon for years. Some people don't want unreliable crap they have to constantly fight over warranties on, even in places with good consumer protection laws. Some just want something that actually works.
I'm not ignoring the magnitude of the lies, that wasn't raised at all by the comment I replied to.

Magnitude when it comes to politicians lying is a tough one to pin down though, its pretty subjective. I took huge issue with many of the lies being shared by the white house during Civic, for example, but many (most?) don't agree and may not even agree they should be considered lies given what we may presume was known st the time.
Just for completeness' sake: bit fields are a feature in plain old C too, and the syntax is the same [1].

Their most "obnoxious" feature is that the layout is implementation defined, so they are not very portable between compilers and/or architectures.

Often used in an embedded setting to model hardware registers, when you can know/control what compiler implementation is used.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_field#C_programming_langua...

Edit: more with the words.
Called it, again.

Data sovereignty is the true trend of the next decade. Not Quantum, not AI, but the new multi-pole world order divesting from Americentric technologies and back into the sort of locally-grown economies that children of the Cold War would be familiar with. Local vendors serving local needs with a focus on regional, not global, scale and service.

Us Cassandra types have been screaming for years that the US-centric technology catalog (from hardware to software to services to clouds) cannot be trusted long term, as just a single bad administration will expose how easily the US Government could disrupt “business as usual” or turn into a hostile state actor a la China or Russia. Welp, now we’re here.

Man, I hate being right.
nice enough, wow
I think the better question is why use a single bit or byte for a single bool when sum types exist?

You're pulling in an entire cache line (64 bytes) with any load. Why would you not just turn the bool into sum type that carries the payload with them? That way you can actually use the rest of the cache line instead of loading 64 bytes to work with a single bit, throwing the other 511 bits in the trash, and then doing another load on top for the data.

It's even worse when you do multithreading with packed bools because threads can keep trashing each other's cache lines forcing them to wait for the load from L3, or worse, DRAM.
Why do people still waste time and money on these post hoc theories of Dark Matter / Dark Energy, which were invented to explain anomalies in the conventional cosmological model like galaxy rotation curves?

We neither have direct evidence nor do we not have alternative explanations - to the contrary. They shouldn't even qualify as scientific theory, since they are neither falsifiable, have no predictive power or are supported by any independent experimental confirmation.

Oh,there are presents under the Christmas tree, it must've been Santa Claus!

They are patchwork "solutions" at best and by far not the only explanation for what's happening.

It's the aether rehashed.
> Dutch MP Barbara Kathmann, author of four of the motions, told The Register. "If we continue outsourcing all of our digital infrastructure to billionaires that would rather escape Earth by building space rockets, there will be no Dutch expertise left."

This kind of casual anti-technology attitude among European politicians is part of the reason we are in this mess.
They famously did basically nothing to Microsoft and Microsoft continued to maintain a near monopoly for many years and do all the same things it had always done to keep its monopoly.
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It’s like a mortgage. I want one. I need one. But I still hate it.
It’s also a way to phrase, “Hey, we’ve figured out how to save 10% battery life on the Watch by rejiggering the sync protocol and can ship it in the next iOS / watchOS point release.”

The flexibility and agility you have when the only engineering constraints are internal are night and day vs. having to evolve a documented external spec with interop requirements.
While we may still need more comprehensive test and data. But having higher performance at the lowest 10% signal is far more important than having highest performance most of the time. And we will just have to wait a few more months to get more real world data and feedback. But so far this is looking very good. Especially for first generation.
Another observed phenomenon is that the universe expansion (so also dark energy) is not the same in every direction.
https://www.nasa.gov/universe/universes-expansion-may-not-be...
the latest trend is Dubai.
High earners in Europe moving to Dubai because they double take home salaries when they drop the european government mafia
Thanks a lot! Ordered a copy :)))
See also why the specialisation implementation of vector<bool> (which uses a packed internal representation) is widely considered a mistake.
I believe this comment[1] could be it.

"They should add a simple new heuristic to determine an abusive monopoly. If a company is imposing a volume surcharge instead of a volume discount to its biggest customers, it means there exists an abusive monopoly and regulatory intervention is needed.

There is absolutely no reason in a well functioning market for this to occur."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30111829
> they just stop enabling features there that would trigger the EU’s gatekeeper requirements

Then the requirements will be adjusted.
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Bro, come on. Apple hasn't even tried to pretend they're in the server game for at least a decade now. You're paying for dozens of features you'll never use. They don't even have drivers for their own hardware outside of fucking windows, let alone documentation about how their machines are intended to work.

I love my macs but apple will never be a cost or reliability solution to computation unless they do a complete 180. They're a boutique/luxury firm that can choose which markets they want to dominate. If you think there's not a small horde of people at Apple trying to figure out how to pitch bringing the xserve back, I have a bridge to sell you. But unless they can convince CTOs to become sysadmins it'll never be a viable way for a company as large as Apple to drive hardware development.
Name is correct, thanks a lot, I'll check it out!