skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I very much agree about tumblr. I’d plug mastodon as well.

I think we basically do have social websites that work, are enjoyable and aren’t soulless.

A big question is why are people complaining about one platform when they could be on another.
Prime members don't get Drive. (Except for the 5GB free tier.) It's a separate subscription.

Prime members do get Photos, which is staying.
Depends on what distro you're running. If you haven't made time to move off Ubuntu, like me, than about 5 seconds is just loading Snap volumes :)
There's plenty of techniques you can learn in 5 minutes. The key is to show something in 5 minutes. Whether it's just an egg, or just assembling a salad, making something in a blender, anything.

On TikTok you can see a whole recipe in 1 minute. Sure making it takes a tad longer, but it's definitely possible to learn something in 5 minutes or less. Then build on that.

I like the idea, it's good, but no one's going to wade through random trivia that doesn't matter.
This brings me back to when I was shopping for my college computer. I used to pour through Computer Shopper magazine, totally captivated by the ads from (Midwest?) Micron, Gateway 2000, etc.

I ended up with a Gateway 2000 486-25 DX, 4 MB of RAM, 83 MB HDD, 14" SVGA monitor, and Windows 3.1(?), an AnyKey keyboard, and mouse for (IIRC) $3100. And the salesman was named Tom Reibur (I may be misspelling his last name). It was delivered in several large cow-themed boxes by a FedEx delivery van with a woman driver.

Guess my first serious computer left an impression :)
Yes. https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/jerry-garcia-grateful-dead...
Yes you can get better returns in the market, but owning a home is an investment in life. As Charles Schwab once said in an old book of his. (Sure it depends.)
At the cost of some potentially reduced security, I've found that my iPhone will unlock while I'm wearing a full-face helmet as long as the chin bar isn't too high on my face, and the "unlock with a mask on" feature is enabled. It's hit or miss, but I usually give it a shot before pulling off a glove to passcode-unlock. It's worth trying again, if you haven't in a while.
Do all black midi songs sound like anime music?
Are you insinuating that I created fake accounts to give myself pats on the back?

Let's look at the profiles of the 2 accounts that used this totally normal word:

1. @shantnutiwari, with an account that is over 1-year-old, who has 2 websites that he seems to still maintain.

2. @chrisrickard, who directly linked his Twitter account, and to me seems like a pretty real human being.

Would be a lot of effort creating all of this for some engagement on a post don't you think?

If you don't like the guide it's completely fine; I don't expect everyone to like it, but don't make false accusations.
More about this history https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-alternative-to-el...
"Recession" is backward looking and doesn't mean "everyone in poverty," so there's way too much energy being used to fight this meaningless war of optics.

Look at the savings rate, look at various metrics of inflation and purchasing power, or look at the stability/volatility of the market.
At one point it was estimated that Facebook gets $40/month in advertising per US user - how do you then reconcile that with you only being willing to pay $1-5?
If 200GB is enough, you can use Google One.
> Mass transit hubs do bring crime

I never realised we had Stalinists over here - thats a line of seasoning he would endorse - gather up all the poor and the undesirables, send them off to a gulag and the rest of us don't have to be bothered by them.

Actually Stalin doesn't fit, it's more of a victorian england or feudalist line of thinking
Levy addresses this, and agrees with you: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/03/22/high-speed-rai... Basically, Amtrak started out with the existing rail network, which is going
to be oriented to early-20th-century population centers, and so New Orleans is well-served by Amtrak standards. But a modern network in the South would be oriented more towards those parts of the South that have grown - Texas and the Piedmont - and less towards New Orleans, Memphis, and St. Louis.
I thought of that episode constantly for the ≈2 weeks I wore a mustache. Never before had I gotten more approving nods and general warmth from other, usually older, men with mustaches. It was quite entertaining to observe.
I worked as an intern at a Montreal company that had products with initials ES and EJ There were test programs for them named 'testej' and 'testes'. Being more of an English speaker I suggested they might not want to use that naming pattern.
This is a lovely bit of science writing. Thank you for posting.
Not OP, but for me the main reason would be travel. A SSD is much easier to carry as an external drive together with a laptop.
I would have to buy some TB of additional storage to have the whole library on my machine.
This might also be a plus for steam.
For the hex editing, I would have to ask around on the internet, which would maybe also be a solution to storing everything locally
price isn't the only thing to consider. speed and density matter too. if I have 1pb of storage across 10 servers on hdds, the networking cost will be much higher than 1pb across 2 servers on ssds, and will the retrieval times. when speed and density are considering factors, ssds make sense.

when I needed 1.2pb of data fully searchable with retrieval times under 3s (across the entire data set, or huge portions.like half or quarter of the data), hdd wasn't even on the table.

but we did use hdd for off-site backups of the data in case we hit a huge shtf scenario.
“This game has been shamelessly stolen ”
I posted this little story to Reddit and I thought the HN crowd might get a smile out of it as well. I'm sure I'm not the only one who was overly protective of their work at a younger age. The good news is that I was able to remove the sitelock by decompiling the SWF.
Why you need SSD for photography? An HD seems a better solution to be honest, isn't?

Opening a single picture is a sequential operation, as well as dumping pictures from camera to disk.

Am I missing something obvious?
Beautiful visualization.
That's a happy coincidence. The $300B locked in a reason for fossil fuel infrastructure to exist, it was a subsidy to the buggy-whip and horseshoe manufacturers of the 20th century so that they can linger on into the 21st.

If the goal was to obtain the cheapest energy in the world, LCOE for a next-generation nuclear power plant was $60/MWh [0]. $300B could have moved the United States to a nuclear-dominant footprint for decades.

[0]: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspec...
The ready made servers often don’t handle authorization well or at all. Prisma is just an orm. This reads like somebody who hasn’t built a lot of prod stuff.
Article also said only 75 cents go to the jackpot. the rest goes to the government
Now imagine being a Brazilian living in South Korea where on of the major chains of convenience stores is called "CU", which means "asshole" in Portuguese.
It looks neat. Makes me want to build dashboards for a living. Wish there was a Svelte version.
AWS offers a set of primitives, not frameworks. These low-level primitives can be combined to build anything you want. Vercel's Build Output API[1] is a level of abstraction higher.

Consider Image Optimization. In this post, there's a `/_vercel/image` URL made available to send an image and return it compressed with a format like `.webp`, if possible based on the browser.

With AWS, this would be a combination of S3 (store images), Lambda (compute the image transformations), Cloudfront (CDN), and Route53 (DNS). With the Build Output API, the entire infrastructure is defined by a JSON object (similar to Terraform). I do think the AWS CDK and Copilot[2] are making infra-as-code easier, but infra-as-filesystem[3] is an interesting twist.

[1]: https://vercel.com/blog/build-output-api

[2]: https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32192498
Russian National Charged with Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agents of the Russia
The powder keg of the modern data stack
You are correct, that would be another example of one of _its_ drawbacks. They certainly promote "No Fees for Egress" and "No egress charges" (home page). But yes, whether that actually is the case depends on your usage.
It kind of feels like one of those corporate cybersecurity online training classes. "Should a password contain English words?" "How often should you reset your password?" "Does phishing come from a weird email, or should you ignore that because they're spoofing the email anyway?"

Crap, what year was this training written in? The correct answers keep changing, and it will talk to me like an idiot if I guess wrong.
My followup question is why you felt the need to claim that the answer to an empirical question is something that you haven't verified empirically?
What are you talking about? Do you have any idea how much money SpaceX has saved Nasa?

https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/05/the-numbers-dont-li...

Program | Cargo Dragon | Commercial crew | Constellation

Type | Private, fixed-price | Private, fixed-price | Government, cost-plus

NASA costs | $396 million | $5 billion | $34.5 billion
> It was utterly shocking that Google did not copy Nvidia's streaming games

They wanted the lock in. They did it for profit margin. Because people like the Director of Product the GP mentions hops from one role to the next its all short term nonsense.
People across various sectors are leaving their jobs to fight climate change
WebAuthn: Passkeys
Tim Hortons proposes settlement in class-action suits over data-tracking app
Cachix is the MOST expensive service ever! If they lower their prices, they can get a lot more revenue!
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

GP asked for a well founded data-based argument, assuming they don't actually want that is in bad faith.

I agree with GP that the connection between sensors and high speed to better freight rail is tenuous, whereas large amounts of tonnage moved more clearly indicates good freight rail.
We don't have a clear defination of life, for example, James Lovelock's Gaia theory says the earth is alive. How can one discover something when that something is undefined?
Great analysis. I want to share my thoughts on EV because they seem to go against what pretty much everyone else is saying. I think even if the EV was >$2, it would still be irrational to play. I say this because I think it's silly to talk about the EV of buying a single ticket when the odds of winning are 1 in 300 million.

Like, you still aren't going to win the jackpot. Your odds didn't improve just because the jackpot got bigger. I guarantee you are going to find out tonight that you wasted $2, just as you would have wasted $2 at any other time when the jackpot is/was smaller.

I think it's just people rationalizing what they know is an irrational behavior. They're fooling themselves into believing they are making a rational choice because they want in on the fun/excitement despite paying the "poor tax."

Anyway, good luck to anyone who decided to buy a ticket and enjoy a few hours of fantasizing about what you'd do with the winnings :)
Wait...you took TFA to be entirely serious? Try re-reading the 2nd paragraph.
Difftastic's wiki also has a breakdown of some structured diff algorithms: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/wiki/Structural-Diffs

(I've been working on a similar problem, effectively diffing an XML tree.)
Indeed.
The rich countries are gaining forestland but it is only because everything is imported now. Including the deforestation.

https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation

Same thing for the acid rain.

https://www.britannica.com/story/what-happened-to-acid-rain
website says pytorch i think
I think Ukraine and the Russians have learned to track consumer drone signals with aeroscope https://www.dji.com/aeroscope. There are a few videos out there of drones taking off then artillery shells arriving very soon after.
> People who learn to resist this onslaught of stimulation targeting our limited attention span will be the winners

I agree. One hopes they have a civilisation to come home to.
Recession is one of those words like Abortion where everybody has their own definition.

The US officially [1] goes by what NBER says and NBER doesn't call recessions/etc until several quarters after it starts. So any talk right now is speculation and you may speculate correctly but you might not.

[1]: https://www.bea.gov/help/glossary/recession
I've observed the same for at least the past 20 years: most people who are working as programmers can't or won't write object-oriented code, nor will they write functional code. For whatever reason, even if they're working in a language like Java that's fundamentally object oriented, they'll write primarily procedural code (mostly static functions accessing datatypes with no functionality besides getters and setters): either they don't understand that there's an alternative, or they see some benefit in it.
How many ready-made servers are there that aren’t in JavaScript?

I’ve looked a couple times and didn’t find anything.
To fix the issue you're bringing up, we need different politicians and judges. There's not much for research scientists to do about it, and their funding sources generally can't be repurposed to politics either.

(Also worth mentioning that the research here could also help wound healing.)
Unfortunately they just directly copy laravel line by line when I had last seen it. It doesn't use the strengths of JavaScript as much.
Preference.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2022/05/23/did-the-p...
Yeah, I know the expected value is negative. But the variance is what makes the occasional purchase worthwhile.
What noise? I've been living in an apartment for three and a half years and the noise is really not a big deal. The primary issue is being quite close to a busy-ish street, which can be annoying with the windows open. With the windows closed, it's basically a non-issue. And when I do hear my neighbours, it's heavily muffled and just turning on the TV is enough to drown it out.

Yes, older buildings can have terrible sound insulation, but modern apartments are well-built and you won't hear a thing (at least in Germany, and in my experience).
You're describing the same concept.

> The spacecraft would be taking one pixel, then awhile later another pixel, then another.

This is what each pixel in scanners CCD does. In his example, the swarm would be like the row of pixels.

> unlike your scanner bed, which collects many thousands simultaneously

The swarm would.

> watching a different bit of planet surface. Two thin line samples would not be very informative, but hundreds could be.

You would want to do this simultaneously, like in a scanner, with some distance between the sensors, so they could sample different "thin lines" of the planet, which could be stitched together to make one image, just as in a scanner. No need to wait. Regardless, a rigid physical or temporal lock isn't really required here. The concept is the same. You could arrange the swarm as a line, diagonal, grid, whatever.
"if we had a protocol for a people directory social network" -- back around 2004, that's exactly what FOAF was for (Friend Of A Friend). I set up mine, a lot of people did, there was excitement around the blogosphere for this, but in the end it lost out to walled-gardens like MySpace and then Facebook.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_(ontology)
Every time that you make a truss to package your model, you can add custom pre/post processing to every request/response. We've done our best to document it.
https://truss.baseten.co/reference/structure#model
https://truss.baseten.co/develop/processing

Take a look at `{truss_name}/model/model.py` to add the code.

Please open up an issue or PR if you think we can improve on the documentation!
This is begging for someone to make a robot using MEPNet that can assemble any kit for which you show it the instructions.

Bonus points if it's made out of Lego and can build itself.
Looks like plugins available for Matlab/Simulink from the graphic on your intro page.
Didn't see a quick list of supported interfaces - do you support:
Dymola FMI?
Modbus?
Just following the sequence of this release is pretty fascinating:

> “As court documents show, Ionov allegedly orchestrated a brazen influence campaign, turning U.S. political groups and U.S. citizens into instruments of the Russian government,”

> According to the indictment, Ionov — working under the supervision of the FSB and with the Russian government’s support — recruited political groups within the United States, including U.S. Political Group 1 in Florida, U.S. Political Group 2 in Georgia, and U.S. Political Group 3 in California, and exercised direction or control over them on behalf of the FSB. Specifically, Ionov provided financial support to these groups, directed them to publish pro-Russian propaganda, coordinated and funded direct action by these groups within the United States intended to further Russian interests, and coordinated coverage of this activity in Russian media outlets. Ionov also relayed detailed information about this influence campaign to three FSB officials.

> Early in the conspiracy, senior members of U.S. Political Group 1, UIC-1, UIC-2, and UIC-3 exchanged emails about the fact that Ionov was working on behalf of the Russian government.

...

> According to the indictment, Ionov’s relationship with U.S. Political Group 1 continued until at least March 2022. Specifically, in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Political Group 1 repeatedly hosted Ionov via video conference to discuss the war, during which Ionov falsely stated that anyone who supported Ukraine also supported Nazism and white supremacy. In a report to the FSB, Ionov explained that he had enlisted U.S. Political Group 1 to support Russia in the “information war unleashed” by the West.

Wow! Justice actions are heating up, thinking back to those normal-Americans-in-KGB-uniform photos dropped yesterday.
You'd be surprised how faster the boot time back in those days got simply by disabling the kernel's printk! It was mostly for fun, of course, and there were alternative special-purposed inits too. I worked on a couple low-tier "netbooks" projects and the fastest we got was between 7-10 seconds but it wasn't worth the trouble and 15-30 seconds of boot time [to a fully functional desktop] back in 2008 was already fantastic anyway.
So you mean you made a voter registry search...
True, a query is needed, but that is pretty straightforward and crucially, there are schema-aware editors that just plug in to the endpoint. Boom, autocomplete for fields and queries, and syntax validation out of the box. Indispensable piece of any GraphQL backend stack.

Besides, any sane developer will build an abstraction on top of the fetch request.

The difference to any other JSON reply is minimal.
if you are moving that data around, nas/cloud storage can be super frustrating. copying 16tb of data over usb3/c is much faster than 100mbps or 200mbps internet.
"This is to bullets and shells what bullets and shells were to pikes."

Mainly these drones are for scouting and directing the shells of the artillery and the bullets of the soldiers, so I am not sure the comparison is adequate as they are not making the shells obsolete.

Once they are so cheap, that a drone with explosive is cheaper than an artillery round, they might make artillery obsolete, but so far they are strenghtening the value of artillery.
Google's habit of shutting stuff down on people's faces is a reason why many of their services are being ignored by a lot of people. So much that it is hurting them even in the cloud even when they promise that they wont 'deprecate' so much stuff.

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...
15 network requests, 247 KB transfered

May I recommend as a lightweight alternative http://shrug.io which weighs in at a whopping 799 bytes transferred.
Excellent comment. I think the issue is that "better" is underspecified and needs some precisification to be useful. The metric you are using here is the proper response to the question "how many times more surprising is it when method A fails than method B?". This is in many cases what we care about. Probably, it's what we care about here. The odds ratio seems to do a good job of capturing the scale of the achievement.

On the other hand, it's not necessarily the only thing we might care about under that description. If I have a manufacturing process that is 99.99% successful (the remaining 0.01% has to be thrown out), it probably does not strike me as a 10x improvement if the process is improved to 99.999% success. What I care about is the cost to produce the average product that can be sent to market, and this "10x improvement" changes that only a very small amount.
> It’s frankly sad that Zuckerberg’s vision of the metaverse is nothing more than the dreamworld of a selfish Peter Pan with a god complex

Never really thought of it this way, but it explains so much
Elephantdb
Pass SQL as a parameter, access PostgreSQL with HTTPS. Generate your API from SQL function (security and abstractions).
> Almost everyone that actually uses reference counting uses more like 2-4 bits.

Here is an incomplete list of languages which use 8 bytes for their reference count on 64-bit computers:

1. Rust, in Rc<T> and Arc<T>

2. C++, in std::shared_ptr<T>

3. Objective-C, in NSObject's retainCount

4. Swift, because of Objective-C

5. Python, where reference count is Py_ssize_t

These were literally the first languages i thought of, they all use 64-bit types. I would argue since reference counting is much rarer than GC, these make up the bulk of reference counting use in the real world. "Almost everyone", huh? It's a bit rich accusing the author of being "almost incoherent" and then say this.

> Reference counting can have arbitrarily long pauses as well.

Deallocating can take arbitrarily long, but deallocation does not stop-the-world. It stops the current thread, which is a huge difference. Malloc can take arbitrarily long as well, it's not like it's wait-free.

In addition, the GC pauses in regular programming languages are frequently orders of magnitude longer than deallocation. You would have to deallocate an enormous tree of object at the root for this to be an issue. And GCs have to do that as well, in addition to their regular stop-the-world pauses. This argument is just irrelevant.

> The blog states that atomic writes are "basically free", but that ignores the fact that in multi-threaded code, atomic writes can actually be fairly expensive since each one requires communication between every thread (This is why python still has a GIL)

First off, this is not why Python has a GIL, but lets leave that aside.

Atomic writes are more expensive than non-atomic ones, but they are not slow operations in the grand scheme of things. If you properly implement acquire-release semantics, they are not even that slow under high contention. Compare this to a GC which literally STOPS ALL THREADS, it's nothing.

> you still need a GC anyway to deal with objects that get too many references.

This is just silly. In languages which has both reference counting and traditional garbage collection (e.g. Python), they do it to avoid reference cycles, not because objects get "too many references". That is a ridiculous statement.

In fact! I just realized we do have data for which is more performant: this article describes how Instagram turned of GC for Python and just relied on reference counting. They gained 10% increase in performance:

https://instagram-engineering.com/dismissing-python-garbage-...

I think it's still an open question if reference counting is always faster than GC, but I do not believe you have the technical expertise to evaluate such a claim. Your comment is four paragraphs long and riddled with factual errors. If you want to be convincing, show data that is better than that Instagram case study.