skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Launched it on a t3.nano (0.5GB RAM) in a single node configuration for two extremely small tables - got oom kills in couple of hours.

Launched on a t3.micro (1GB RAM) - same.

Launched on a t3.small (2GB RAM) - finally it works and doesn't crash.

So, min 2GB RAM to serve about 10 (as in: ten, not thousands) records queried every other second.
Tech in Translation
It was one of the early events in the greatest material bettering of human existence in the history of history.

You have high standards.
I've had a couple XPS laptops over the years, one XPS 13 and one XPS 15. Both have had issues with their trackpads getting wonky. They would just increasingly ignore inputs and react incorrectly to my finger. The XPS 15 (the 2-in-1 model) would also sometimes just not go to sleep and cook itself in my bag, and its keyboard has keys which just break over time under normal use, and that's not covered under warranty. You can't just replace the keyboard, you have to pay out of pocket to replace the whole top case of the laptop.

Your experience might differ, but I'm not getting a Dell again.
Why Japan is building smart cities from scratch
Fuel leak interrupts launch countdown of NASA moon rocket
Could use links to the following:

• https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html.en

• https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html
what you need is really just Data structure + Algorithm

And Context (at least in my humble experience). Lately I got rid of OOP too and now all my functions accept `params` as a first argument which contains settings and the state of an object/subserver/etc. I find the ability to group functions into different files useful though (it’s js so I cannot do that like one does in c++).
I spend significant time outside work on programming, and have no real usable public repos. The public repo route only works if what you want to build is something that's shareable. I build random experimental image processing software or physics simulations that are held together with hardcoded ducktape. There's nothing there that's usable for anyone else so I don't share it
This is really cool.

For example, many tech illiterate people want to download a youtube video so they can use it for personal use or import it into video editing software and incorporate it into a video of their own, many online sites like y2mate have lots of deceptive ad's all around the page, moreover when you press "download" it opens a new tab to an unrelated website and downloads an ISO file (which is straight up malware). Also these websites don't allow max speed downloads and it takes longer and don't offer things like embedded subtitles.

Therefore they could use GUI software like YT-DLG, however this is very buggy and often breaks + it doesn't provide parameters that YT-DL/P provide due to the nature of how the GUI is built

Therefore something like this is perfect
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 with Arch Linux. Been on it (or similar Lenovo + Arch combination) for nearly a decade after my MacBook Pro broke. It just works.
Security is in the eyes of the beholder.
I was trying to find the actual program. All i found was only instructions how to install it.
That's a deployment and dependencies issue, not a monolith issue.

The microservices equivalent needs Kubernetes to run your tests.
Is anyone working on a variation of this where the output is a blender scene?
Agreed, fashion-driven development is shockingly pervasive.
But writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Again. Why no love for "The Years of Rice and Salt"?
XPS 15 using newest Ubuntu. 100% happy. Just get the nongpu version. Also newest Ubuntu is important (22.04).

Even bluetooth and open wifi works really well now haha. (Those were my biggest pain points)
What's the difference between this and Google offering YouTube or Analytics for free (and at a loss) for years? What's the difference to SaaS companies never turning a profit and operating at a loss for their whole life?
People who need to use that list of blocked websites usually have no idea of VPNs. And vide versa. People used to VPNs already know the pirate sites and don't need that list.
Functional programming languages often work that way. E.g., in Erlang, if you've already bound a variable X to a value, and want to compute another value of X, you cannot use the same variable name - you have to use X2 or something else.
You can see the best by noticing what made Amazon the worst.

Their onboarding experience is incredibly regimented and planned out for 60-90 days. Day to day tasks, goals, etc.

Know what it was missing? The people. I was 100% isolated from others and the people who excelled at amazon (that this process did not bother or disturb) are those who like isolation and do not want to be social. Reaching out to them during my onboarding time was a painful lesson in transactional communication alone.

My best experiences have been recharacterized by my experience here - my bar has lowered. If I get connected to people, the workers, the management, and get a sense of belonging or community then its at the top of my list now.

Friends don't let friends join Amazon.
There's clearly a temporal correlation.

A possible explanation for why the effect isn't linear is that you'd expect the impact to be less for later shots, because people who had bad near-miss reactions to the first will sometimes choose to be "unvaccinated" rather than take the risk of another bad reaction. That then leaves people in the pool whose systems can either take it, or who didn't detect the damage and who then later die unexpectedly (been lots of SADS around lately).
> Also, if you're working with digital mixing, you have a few fixed ms implicit extra delay everywhere...

This is just shoddy implementation... It's totally possible for delays in digital systems to be measured in microseconds... So to have delays of milliseconds is just some software/firmware engineer being lazy and buffering a load of samples together somewhere.
I suggest you acquaint yourself with the productive output of Peter Zeihan, who just finished a book "The End of the World is just the Beginning". He's did a lot of interviews on his book tour, and is now on a well earned vacation, hiking in the Sierra Madre mountains for a month.

Warning -- You will not like what you learn, but will appreciate the knowledge as a tool for planning your personal future.

Here's a summary of what I've learned:

We (humanity) are all in for a very bumpy ride. Globalization was a bribe from the US to gather up a large enough coalition to fight the Soviet Union. That's ended, and we in the US (where I live) are taking our toys and going home.

On top of this, the worlds populations all stopped having tons of kids when they urbanized, and that's created some huge demographic problems that can't be fixed, so globalization can't return, no matter the intent of the US.

As for NATO and Europe:

If Germany stands up to Putin, NATO has a future, if he manages to bully them into pulling out of NATO, then it's possible Russia expands to the old Soviet Borders.

I wish you all the best of luck.
An explanation by Gerald Sussman himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m6hoOelZH8#t=1h12m30s
Agreed. However, IMO SoftBank is just a symptom, when world's banks are (were) so liberal with the money, you get these type of deformations, zombie companies is another one.
Turns out some things stay loss making longer than you can throw money at it.
The most obvious and glaring example is odds of loss of crew. NASA mandated that SpaceX and Boeing achieve an odds of loss-of-crew no higher than 1-in-270. Except no launch system in the history of NASA has ever had odds these good. The best was the Shuttle with on-paper odds of 1-in-100, but with two failures in 135 flown missions the actual odds were 1-in-67. The Apollo program lost one crew on Apollo 1, and very nearly lost Apollo 13. Gemini 8 also very nearly ended in loss of crew. 1-in-270 is an insanely high bar! I cannot find numbers for SLS, but I also cannot believe that it would be as good as SLS uses a fundamentally less safe rocket design than Falcon 9 or Atlas V.

Which is actually a rather on-point observation: NASA human-rating certification is a lot of do-as-I-say,not-as-I-do hypocrisy. The commercial crew contractors had to actually demonstrate safety. NASA, on the other hand, asked Boeing, the prime contractor, to estimate odds of failure for various subsystems of SLS. Boeing wrote many reports explaining in detail why the odds of failure were within acceptable limits. NASA read these documents and said "okay, I believe you." And that is why the SLS is human-rated.

This Quora answer does a decently good job of explaining the absurdity of the situation:

https://www.quora.com/Why-will-SLS-be-man-rated-after-a-sing...

But also, let me introduce you to the magical concept of a 'waiver'. NASA has very strict rules for what are allowable risks in human spaceflight. If anything exceeds acceptable risk tolerances, the countdown stops or the mission aborts. UNLESS, you can get a 'waiver.' A waiver is a piece of paper that says NASA is free to ignore the identified problem! Cold Florida mornings leads to ice build up on the Shuttle overnight? Waiver! No need to wait until external temperatures are back within design limits. Foam insulation strike on the leading edge of the wing? Waiver! No need to image the impact point with ground-based radar. NASA, quite famously, gives out wavers like candy for its own launch systems. When I was at NASA (admittedly not on the human spaceflight side), whenever we encountered a problem the first question was always "alright, can we get a waiver?" The answer was usually yes for things in-house. But a commercial spaceflight provider? Good luck convincing NASA to give you a waiver for anything that isn't well and truly, quite obviously a procedural hiccup only.
> Ferret is a functional, lazy language designed to be used in real time embedded control systems. It is heavily inspired by Clojure both syntactically and semantically. Functions / Macros that are present in both Ferret and Clojure should mimic their Clojure counter parts. If they don't it is considered a bug. (or not possible to implement with the current implementation.)

> This document is not intended to be a full lisp tutorial. It is a specification of the subset of lisp implemented by Ferret, and the particular workings of the Runtime and Core library. Any getting started guide for Clojure should get you upto speed on Ferret.

From the outline on the site: https://ferret-lang.org/#outline-container-sec-2
Precisely. Your Chrome must be broken and arguably intentionally so.

You will find that my web server does not offer any AES algorithm option in which for a Chrome web client to currently get twisted into a knot over.

Oppositely, you will find nearly all other web clients able to handle these non-AES algorithm of TLSv1.3 server option quite well.

Web clients like Aloha, Brave, curl, DuckDuckGo, Edge, Firefox (any), Firefox Focus (iOS), LibreFox, links (CLI), Lynx, OnionBrowser (iOS), Opera, Orion (iOS), Safari, SeaMonkey, TorBrowser, Vivaldi, and wget all work well without any AES algorithm in TLS v1.3.

This is my website’s way of doing things that the TLS v1.3 spec allows us to do.

And I play with maximum cyber security.
> Restricted licenses (reminiscent of the older shareware movement) are not open source

I can look at the code. Seems open enough to me [ducks from tomatoes].

People play the semantics game on this a lot but the source is viewable/available/stealable by anyone who wants it. Hackers can find bugs to either exploit or notify the maintainers of and people can modify it to better suit their needs. Legitimate businesses will buy a license if it is of worth to them, I doubt you'll find many that are overpriced for their value.

The fervent animosity towards dual free non-commercial/paid commercial licenses in the foss world has always puzzled me. In the end it is source code readable by anyone yeah? What would you actually prefer, it stays locked up forever?
You should see their 4 hour 24x7 ProSupport option.

We managed to bundle it in with a 1600-device order one year and I was (un)fortunate enough to get to experience it.

“So if I understand correctly, You’ve just spilt a red bull on your work laptop at a LAN party you’re facilitating just now, and it’s 1AM, and you need your laptop tomorrow morning for bump out…?

Ok does 3:30am work for you?”
I wonder if poachers quickly learn to alter behavior in presence of drone noise...
This can be done by writing an app that uses Windows API hook functions.

It could be made to work with most apps - since hook functions intercept messages before the app gets them.

A simple "Mirror whatever I type into a given window's input" is not too hard to develop.
But this is a serious security risk - what if someone set this up to some invisible window and grabbed everything you type?

Sure, many apps use hook functions (for example some remote desktop software), but it's a dicey thing to let some program hook everything that you type.

If you can trust the code, then it's cool
What you're describing is essentially a DSL. We can ruminate on the exact level of details that will be needed but in my opinion by necessity it will be a lot higher than what most commenters in those threads are imagining. Open API specs are already quite complex and verbose and it's not exactly clear to me we can do a lot better when describing APIs, whether web ones or not.
Direct streaming links for those who don't want to use a web browser. Just give one of them to a network capable video player (VLC works fine).

https://ntv1.akamaized.net/hls/live/2014075/NASA-NTV1-HLS/ma...

https://ntv2.akamaized.net/hls/live/2013923/NASA-NTV2-HLS/ma...
In terms of speed, at least when we look at mostly single-threaded work load (like most dev work is), a M2 Macbook Air is faster than every Desktop PC. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I just got my bottle of Potassium Iodide tablets on Saturday, and I'm in the USA (near Chicago). It's for my daughter, just in case. It replaces the old bottle I bought just after Fukushima. I see it as insurance to help her live a long and happy life. I hope it gets old and expires unused, like the last bottle. 8)

The issue is keeping spent fuel and powered down reactors cool, which is a non-trivial issue. According to Wikipedia "About 1 hour after shutdown, the decay heat will be about 1.5% of the previous core power. After a day, the decay heat falls to 0.4%, and after a week it will be 0.2%. The decay heat production rate will continue to slowly decrease over time."

So, if the plant was producing 57,000 Megawatts (full output), that's still 114 megawatts of heat trying to melt things after a week.
>As I grow older, I find myself wanting to use languages that are more conservative in their designs.

What about Hare? It's meant to be a modern boring (read simple and stable) language.
> We've already got one:

ARTHUR: What?

GALAHAD: He says they've already got one!

ARTHUR: Are you sure he's got one?

FRENCH GUARD: Oh, yes. It's very nice-a. (I told him we already got one.)

FRENCH GUARDS: [chuckling]

ARTHUR: Well, u-- um, can we come up and have a look?

FRENCH GUARD: Of course not! You are English types-a!

ARTHUR: Well, what are you, then?

FRENCH GUARD: I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king-a?!

GALAHAD: What are you doing in England?

FRENCH GUARD: Mind your own business!
Will the cloud kill the data centre? Jim Chanos thinks so
https://archive.ph/JiPSW
Why drag around a laptop, if you have monitors everywhere anyway, and I assume you could easily add a full PC too?
Dell business level support is the best I've seen. My dad broke his laptop while overseas on a business trip and Dell sent a local service tech to his hotel to fix it.
This looks like something IBM would make.
This was pretty much what the owner of small game park told me. The drones are too high tech and expensive for them to run. He said having small teams patrol every night worked better. When the teams haven't been able to patrol, for example due to flooded roads. He said it only took a couple of weeks before the poachers started showing up again.

I always wonder if the better solution isn't to re-legalize ivory and rhino horn. All the game farms have room full of the stuff. Dumping that onto the market will kill the price, at the same time there is suddenly a financial incentive to keep the animals safe. Currently its $10k a horn on the black market vs a bit of tourism money to incentivize keeping the parks safe.

The saddest part is that horn and tusks grow back so it could be a renewable resource if farmed properly. The poachers only kill.
I want to know what happens when they read text.
> I don't really understand why people think its a good experience.

Sounds like you're still going? That is very confusing reading your write up with multiple complaints and how there are better alternatives and nobody has time to wait to save a bit on gas.

Can even have a better experience by not renewing the membership.
I listened to Baldemort's Warhammer lore, now I have a couple relaxing songs I doze off to.
I use ImageMagick a lot for basic things but there is no way it can remove an arbitrary background. That's an AI task.
You hire smart people not perfect matches.
Just make sure the model you're getting supports S3 sleep mode (AKA real sleep mode) before hand. A lot of the newer Dells don't. Its something the OEM needs to support in the BIOS, so you can't just fix it by installing a new distro.
Time Zone Converter
> Dell XPS compatibility with Linux is a half-scam

How so? I'm using one with ubuntu 22. 04 and it works great. Haven't seen a laptop that properly sleeps and wakes up with Linux before so it has been a pleasant experience. Only thing that doesn't work out of the box is the fingerprint reader.
But it was a teenage girl who "solved" something you engineers couldn't, so take that!

I always found it funny, how journalists manage to take something a kid did, without knowing the specifics, and inflate the story, just because a kid did it.

Even if it's useless in real world, and the people working on that professionally, could already tell you that...

Sometimes it's even a direct scam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otjvUz7qKXc
The flow programming is for me at home in integrations. Middleware like Apache Camel, data pipelines like Jaspersoft or workflows like Activiti always offered an IDE with graphical representations of those flows - traditionally a bit kludgy maybe. The newer Ballerina cloud integration language from WSO2 offer this duality code-visual natively.
I'm confused by your comment for a couple reasons.

1) SpaceX doesn't have a complete super heavy lift rocket because they're still iterating the design, they started later than SLS (roughly 2013 vs. 2011), they have to build their own infrastructure and deal with the FAA (NASA/contractors largely don't), and they're designing from an entirely different and likely much better long-term requirement of reusability. Cost is only a side factor if you've been tracking Starship development.

2) This SLS can't actually land on the moon. It's a to-orbit and orbital transfer platform only.

3) Given 1 and 2, it isn't at all clear that "public funds leap frog over business" or that in this case SLS somehow "paves the way for private industry". SLS is untested, horribly expensive to launch, has basically no new technology, and isn't even "done" (this is just Block 1).

While I'm happy to have a second super heavy lift rock available, I and many other people strongly question if this was really the best use of the funds as opposed to using those same funds to incentivize SpaceX and its competitors to build more modern rockets free from special interests. Doing the latter seems like it would be the more efficient way to pave a path for private industry.
Nuru, the developer for this is an absolute 10x god.
I’ve really enjoyed The Secret Life of Programs by Jonathan E. Steinhart. From analog signals, to gates, to cpus and memory, and so on all the way up. Very cool concept, well executed.
>Wow ! It took you 10 years of suffering? This sounds suspicious to me.

You'd be amazed by the amount of people still using Windows in 2022, and cursing it every single day while doing so.
Towards the end of the war, Germany was so short of oil that they researched a coal-powered fighter jet: https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.php?aircraft... https://hushkit.net/2019/03/29/the-lippisch-p-13-supersonic-...
We don't need to look outside the Bible for this, we can find the gist of these very arguments in the text. They nicely illustrate the inherent limits of ordinary rational understanding compared with divine inspiration, even though the latter is only granted as a very rare gift to the truly worthy.
I bought a P14s a few months ago and got an offer for 3 years of premium on-site support for €1 :D

Note that you have to purchase it as a company to get access to the premium support.
Earth's Recent Climate Spiral (Visualization)
A novel visualisation of temperature fluctuations since 1880
I use my XPS for work. But I've got a M2 Air coming for personal projects.
That would be more like VR or AR, right?

Metaverse implies these worlds are interconnected somehow.

Or have Meta, Inc. managed to change the meaning of the term already?
All I want is a laptop with mac quality case and components, magsafe equivalent and most of all... a direct sunlight readable screen (transreflective or something new and exotic). But honestly would happily take just about anything with a sunlight readable screen. Not trapped in an office, would like not to be trapped indoors when it's bright out.
People in the counter culture who are against war mongering are historically considered to be a minority

The term "minority" is not only about race
A few years ago i invested a full month's wage into buying leasing return thinkpads from ebay. Its basically pre-selected business hardware for few bucks. The hardware is from around 2010, so its fine for everything except gaming and electron apps.
Fedora works beautifully on Thinkpads. And Lenovo next day support plans, in the numerous geographies in which they are available, really are that.

Fedora is quite different from MacOS, to be sure. But if you use package management, the terminal, and VSCode- those bits are pretty much the same.
Due to Lenovo shortages I could pick an MSI gaming laptop (GS66 Stealth) to replace my broken work laptop.

It's awesome. Happily been running Guix on it for the past six months. (As expected, since it is Linux on an unsupported machine, I had to put in some time to get it running smoothly but the person after me does not have to do that anymore.)
Claiming lofty ideology is not useful because those policies never exist in real life
A lot more than usual. Leaving the rhythm open to interpretation, much more so than pitch, can lead to wildly different pieces of music. It's like having no punctuation. You can end up with an entirely different piece.
No doubt many, such as myself. I became disillusioned with NASA and gave up on my dream of becoming an astronaut, since it didn't seem like astronauts would be doing anything of value for decades. I went into tech startups instead, where the pay is significantly better.

But of those more on the aerospace side, with less transferable skill sets, leaving the industry isn't a clear-cut option. Many of them did move to SpaceX though. At the time that I left, I remember there being concern about the best and brightest SLS engineers getting lured away to work on Falcon 9. There was certainly a lot of churn in the late Constellation & early SLS days.
D is GC by default (and currently required for larger parts of stdlib) but also allows disabling GC and doing manual memory management.