skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minix always used a microkernel even in early versions. It was the source of a big flamewar between Linus and Tanenbaum back in the day :)

Microkernels are not really modern as such. Just different.
> Their interests tend to be defending the status quo.

Their interests are in protecting and maintaining their power, not the status quo. The status quo is often in their favor, and when it is they don't want it to change -- but when it isn't, they can be downright revolutionary in their attitude.
Ask HN: Low cost GPU cloud compute for budget conscious developers
I have acquired some 10x GPU Servers from a corporate data center that was shutting down. I am going to put them in my own data center and was thinking that I could open it up to the public on a low cost basis - I think $2 per hour for a 10-GPU (Titan) server. This would make it a fraction of the cost of other GPU Enabled Cloud Compute (admittedly with lower spec hardware) but given the rise of LLMs it is probably challenging for the people to access multi-GPU computers required to run these models. What does HN think of my idea?
Right, in this particular case it looks like a VSCode extension gonna wild since the battery dropped in constant pace which is an indication of constant load and the system reports VSCode dominance in energy use.
I see AIs uses in two types of uses :

- I never run this query : I have found a super Google, but maybe I will miss out some pearls available on the Internet;

- I always run this query, but I'm too lazy to have text files, bookmarks in my web-browser to stock answers that I don't want/cannot memorize.

It is somewhat similar to the arrival of Google, Unity UIs, Gnome 3, Windows 8, where they wanted to replace all menus with a single search.

It is the way forward to idiocracy if we are no more able to tidy our ideas/data.

It is like when we are child and we always ask our parents instead of look it up in the dictionary.
It is regressive. It is already the case with Google.
Since I can look it up on the Internet, I memorize less things.
It is human to go a regressive/easy path without will.

I'm looking forward to a blog post "Use AI without declining mentally" :

- Interact with AI to tidy a corpus of tools/knowledges in personal files

- Delegate to the IA the tidying and research of pearls you keep in your folders

- BUT have a shared mental model of your data and their structures with your IA,
like a manager may had a shared knowledge of the way the files were sorted in boxes and furniture with her secretary. Like this if your IA/secretary is in holidays, you can still work.
I like how every time this topic comes up someone literally whereabouts with "But he donated to Republicans!"... Yes, that's true. But show me one that wasn't on the couple of communities that directly effected crypto.

I don't know why it's so hard for people to be reasonable about this. He was the number 2 Demacrat source of money behind only George Soros. He gave almost nothing to Republicans that he needed. And FTX hedged bets towards useful Republicans.

It's OK for everyone to be honest.
Why walking through the countryside 'tames' our brains
It seems like this happens quite often now... especially since these repositories aren't curated. I'd hate to have to rely on these repositories.
I see what you did there. Well played.
I run Mac daily and use Windows in a VM. Windows is frustrating. Especially for development purposes you may hit problems with the weak filesystem:

1. It's extraordinarily slow.

2. It sometimes has weird path length limits.

3. Symlinks sorta work, sorta don't (you have to opt in to enable them).

4. Apps can leak file handles so sometimes you just randomly can't move or delete files/directories.

And if you don't hit problems with that, you'll hit:

1. PowerShell is really oriented around scripting but used interactively. It's totally different to other languages and you'll have to spend time learning it (unless you cygwin of course). Also, making it interactive in the ways you're used to w.r.t. tab completion and stuff requires you to spend lots of time looking up config hacks.

2. Many open source projects treat Windows as a second class or non-existent citizen. The equivalents of homebrew aren't as good.

3. Virus scanners other than Windows Defender are mostly terrible and break things.

4. The OS is absolutely full of bugs and annoying UI inconsistencies are everywhere. Windows users get numb to it but as a long term Mac user it will be noticeable.

Still if you can 'escape' into WSL some of these issues go away, and for web programming you don't need much from the OS.
My experience on SO has been overwhelmingly positive, but I can say that I observe a large difference in the behavior of other users depending on the subject of my question. The C/C++ community is the most pedantic I've experienced, with tons of people jumping in to get those answer points, but also some fussing over question edits, tags, comments, etc. But I don't mind pedantic; they're also the most active, and I don't remember the last time I had a question that was left unanswered.

I've improved my ability to ask focused, clear questions over the years, and that has led to a higher likelihood of getting answers. When I was a student still learning how to code, a lot of my questions would be left hanging, but looking back I think a lot of that was asking unclear questions, or not using the right keywords, or not even understanding what it was I wanted to ask (some was due to asking questions about arcane stuff used only in academia). Overall, I'd say that learning to use SO well has been largely a matter of improving my technical communication skills.

Just wanted to give a word of support for SO. I love that site, I've used it for over 10 years now, and I look forward to having a place to go for technical help for the foreseeable future. It's gold for googling issues, but I can always count on a community there to help me craft another piece of "internet documentation" to help me and the next person.
“The expected value is negative so playing the lottery is silly” also misses that someone looking for a way out of poverty and seeing a lack of alternatives might judge the opportunity cost of his 2 dollars and 5 minutes worth the vanishingly small chance of getting a payout. The choice gets harder to defend the more you play, but I think it’s in bad taste to say lotteries are a tax on people bad at math.
The WWII generation was also getting more obese just like every other age group during the 1980’s and 1990’s.
those endeavors:

- Maida AI, which automates health care administration tasks like patient intake and note-taking

- a platform that aggregates home furnishing listings from different stores into one place

- a software design and development studio
Why didn't you drive?

With a full car, the environmental and certainly economic argument for the train is gone.

I have used about 5 night trains in recent years. I don't sleep very well, unlike my Russian colleague who grew up with this, but they have all been more or less on time.
There's a national (fiber) ISP that claims -- according to the FCC broadband map -- to provide 1000/1000 to my entire village. According to their own website, the closest address they service is about 25 miles away.

I submitted an FCC challenge about 2 months ago, and just today received notice "provider subject to your challenge has conceded the challenge and is required to submit a correction for the challenged location in the online portal within 30 days".

I am curious what benefit a provider receives from feeding this false information to the FCC? Is it funding (grants, etc.) related? It will also be interesting to see if the updated data will only reflect for my specific address, or if it will also apply to other areas around me that aren't serviced by the provider.

If it's the former, I will be submitting more challenges.
From one of the fists results on Google: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6513924/

It looks like 1kg (2 pounds) of [unwashed?] poppy seeds are addictive but not lethal. I'm not sure how to extrapolate that to the minimal active dose.

How many poppy seeds does bread/desert have? 5%? 10%? You must eat like 10Kg (20 pounds). A normal person eats like 1kg of food per day. Also a reputable bakery will use washed-but-not-perfectly-washed poppy seeds instead of unwashed poppy seeds, so you should multiply the amount of bread x10 or x100.
Looking at the price of the “Hobbyist DV” version, it is not out of line with what people often spend on hobbies like photography, music, and cycling.

Or just on beer and/or wine.

Or books.

Not to say people don’t spend less on their hobbies, just that a license is a less than a Sony A7R3 or a used Les Paul.
This applies more to VPN as a tunneling technology rather than an anonymity provider. But I don't want to share my personal IP address with everyone I interact with online. I don't currently care if, say, Hacker News or Reddit knows it, or really any big web platform where I'm not that interesting to them. But everyone and everything else? It could invite attacks, DOS, expose geographical information, social engineering targets, etc. A VPN at least gives you a layer of protection, and ideally one that you can throw away if anyone targets you. Once someone knows your main IP address, it probably can't be changed quickly, may be difficult to change it at all, and may even be impossible in some cases. It's a piece of knowledge you can't take back, so sharing it by default is bad, IMO.

So I guess that's just a security/privacy concern, but the key point is that you should be secure/private before you think you need it.
One year of war in Ukraine: Internet trends, attacks, and resilience
Unfortunately the market does not work on a year or two timelines.
Hehe, I said something like this happened when the indictment was filed and I was downvoted on here by Crypto bros.
> I wouldn't say that MS "is moving" the .NET release cadence "towards", it has been quite regular for the last few years already

Welp, that shows my .NET ignorance - thanks for the info!
I'll respond in the conversation thread you linked.
Yeah yeah of course, it was your brother who was cheating and we should unban you.

Come on, how naive do you think they are? Antivirus doesn’t load player_pos[4] every 35ms.
Tokens, I think? There's an implication that there's a per-token cost, but no idea how they were architected before to even remotely understand how it fits. If they were running their own model on GPUs I guess I'd expect to see things in terms of token/sec, so I assume instead they were using some cloud learning model where they have to pay per token?

The blog post really suffers from "Written by someone who knows what they're talking about", could have done with a review before publication by someone who doesn't know the space. I go through that exercise any time I'm writing stuff for consumption outside of my service teams.
New/improved rail links are planned/in progress as part of TEN-T which will probably help

https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/infrastructu...
https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/infrastructu...
People do NOT realize the caloric content of various juices, they can EASILY beat soda for calories per ounce.

But I guess it's "good" calories or something.
Yeah, maybe it's just that I'm a decent liar, but the way that people so readily dismiss the possibility that groups of people can lie together and get away with it is just so confusing to me. There are people with secret families! The federal government lied about iraq having weapons and used it to justify invading another country! Believing that wealthy/powerful people aren't able to work together in secret to make themselves richer/more powerful is just so naive to me.
I think nepotism is a pathological case of something that happens just normally anyway. But then it's not nepotism... until it is...

These systemic problems that are only tangential to actual work rarely occur but the common mitigations seem to put a lot of pressure on everyday man, maybe even more than the problem itself... I wonder what's the "correct" solution here.
Is it just me or do the character-blocks in the logo almost look like Conway's Game of Life patterns?
The title is part of the article. So I didn't read the whole article, no. I read enough of it to understand it contains bullshit.
So far we’ve invented AI to make predictions based on persistence of current conditions, and another one that threatens users with misinformation. Truly, the digital future we have been promised.
> It's not hypocrisy, its just business.

The problem with prepackaged political beliefs is that it leads to dissonance where ones view on society is at odds with "the free hand of the market", but capitalism does no wrong, so it has to be a conspiracy of CEOs and their personal politics.
Personally, even the remotest possibility of someone broadcasting "evacuate your rooms, there is a fire/active shooter in the building" seems worth spending a few hours protecting against.
That's interesting. Are they taught in Indian primary school that "the layoffs is" is correct?
What geek hasn't been told that they need to just try harder to fit in with the neurotypical non-geeks and then all will be well? I have, in my younger years, where all the non-geeks seemed to have satisfying social lives and I didn't.

So all along the instinct was right. That I'm me, and if I don't fit in, it'll make me miserable, but not as miserable as trying desperately to fit in.

Time cures many things. At the age I'm at now, I'm comfortable being me, with my hobbies and my social preferences (admittedly, even without trying you learn to effortlessly "fake" more and more socially normal stuff - but you can also select your friends from a compatiple geek level). Not uncomfortable always trying to be someone else.
This comment appears in any submission, doesn't it? Doesn't matter what it is, it's probably a trivial emacs feature. :')

(It probably genuinely is in the infamous Dropbox thread somewhere - 'not only that but it's also built in to emacs'!)
These "OMG I was banned for no reason" posts are ALWAYS very low on specific details because if the specific details were included it would be obvious why they were banned.
Did you do it yourself or use a service? What do you use it for?
I was hoping you could provide the specific studies and research you are using to make your claims. Linking to Google Scholar is not sufficient.
People don't have an issue with peanut butter having "butter" in it even though it has no butter in it.
What People Say Before They Die (2019)
> basically the same for 25 years or so

Minix is a lot older than 25 years. Your point stands, but you need to increase the age. Minix and Tannenbaum's textbook was part of my operating systems class in undergrad CS. I think I took that class in 1989 or 1990.
No need to be an asshole.
The main problem is, PKI is hard and banks and DMV aren’t known for their appreciation of technical complexity.

we have highly technical CAs for https that have wild problems. A well functioning PKI system for banking, identity might work - but it needs to actually be well functioning and transparent.
ProcrastiTracker – open-source time tracking tool for Windows
> The entire US election system is comically insecure and the thing that's surprising is how rare evidence of large scale fraud is.

The question that bothers me most is this: how would we know? What safeguards do we have, and how do we detect when they're overcome? Especially as a regular citizen.

The one instance I'm familiar with when some safeguards were actually red teamed was a huge success--for the red team. https://www.wsj.com/articles/voter-fraud-a-myth-thats-not-wh...
This case is a bit different.

GDPR did a lot, true. However, there are deals between EU and US that make the data exchange possible - under certain circumstances, there is not so much you can do, even if you check all the boxes in the "right to be forgotten" and all that.

I do agree that we needed GDPR and even stronger rules for data privacy against companies making money with your data (which is what GDPR is about).

But EU vs Tiktok case is clearly about governments spying and basically collecting data they shouldn't. It's beyond "data sold for marketing purposes" which the GDPR protects you against.

This is why I think there is a "trust" or let's call it just "deal" between EU and US when it's about data used for purposes beyond marketing. From time to time you'll see the BS scandal that US is spying on EU politicians, but that's to me more of a way to sell newspapers/ads than actual politics.

Let's not forget that US helps EU governments to fight also terror attacks - how, if not with data retrieved by spying on citizens? I believe it's convenient for everyone. And don't tell me EU governments don't spy on American politicians? Sorry but I don't believe it, like AT all.

In this speecific case, honestly, I don't even understand how it's possible that government officials use tiktok on their professional phones. I myself do not install crap on my company phone! And I am a freaking nobody.
TGVs don't do night trains though. There's a few night trains in France, mostly Perpignan -> Toulouse -> Paris. They're mostly a nice for people who want to be at work in Paris early and don't want to take a plane, because the Bordeaux -> Toulouse LGV does not exists.
CVE-2022-47929: traffic control noqueue no problem?
Today is a hell hole of shitty materials too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHXBacEH0qo
However I daresay you'd get in a bit of trouble if you took margarine and added a tiny bit of peanuts OR apple and then called it (very small "peanut" very large BUTTER).
Disagree about AI. I think it's going to upend industry after industry, and the gold-rush is not going to be in making new advancements, but applying the startling new capabilities of the last year or so to more and more domains

In this way I think it's very similar to the web and then mobile booms
New Heat Circuits Can Move Temperature the Way Current Does
Is it heavy on resources?
See my other comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34914279. I also randomly get the following errors when I navigate to the npm website (usually to view information about some package):

On Firefox:

Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to www.npmjs.com.

SSL received a record with an incorrect Message Authentication Code.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_MAC_READ

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.

Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

On Safari:

Safari Canʼt Open the Page

Safari canʼt open the page “https://www.npmjs.com/package/...” because Safari canʼt establish a secure connection to the server “www.npmjs.com”.

On Chrome:

This site can’t provide a secure connection

www.npmjs.com sent an invalid response.

ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR
Let me guess: Google and Apple are ok. /s

Maybe the EU is, in the end, Uncle's Sam puppet.
I have had pediatricians on both US coasts advise against regularly giving kids juice of any kind, as well as the periodic pamphlets the state sends out about childcare.

Should be very common knowledge by now.
Not really. It's savers. Which is by definition people who could consume more, but choose to postpone or forego some of this consumption.
You and me both. It’s far and away the app I most want.
As much as I love Jetbrains applications and use them daily, they are battery hogs. PyCharm will deplete my M1 battery in a handful of hours.
I would think so. Two of my three children are autistic. My wife (who definitely is not), tells me that after raising autistic children and observing my behaviors while at home (i.e., "in my comfort zone") vs. in social situations that I am as well. I'm kinda surprised she stuck around after really getting to know me.

"You should go get a diagnosis."

My response is always "What good would that do?"

Yes, my anxiety levels are generally lower since I started working from home. I only have to control myself during video calls, which is much easier :D
I don’t think cloud cost is anywhere near as much as the cost to build a semi-decent HA/DR system and the devops process around it. Every minute the site is down it’s real monetary loss for most startups. It also takes time and energy away from building features. I have done both bare metal and cloud in two different startups. (This assumes you can’t afford to lose data or be offline for extended periods of time).

Here’s what you’ll need to setup and run a single database :-

- Installation script and infra provisioning. You need a repeatable way to do this with as little manual intervention as possible and I can swear it never just works.

- Backup and recovery scripts and associated monitoring

- Replication setup, monitoring and debugging. It will break often.

- Monitoring for infra - CPU, memory, network. There’ll be unforeseen spikes and random slow downs and a whole bunch of slow queries you’ll debug on a regular basis.

- Security - users, permissions, auditing. Both machine and database. Regular password rotation and firewall rules. Ability to off-board users.

- If you survive all this, being able to scale up. And I mean just vertical scale up will take you far but you cross that limit, you now suddenly have to deal with sharding or partitioning.

So when I joined a new startup and we were building it all from scratch it was a very easy decision to go with the cloud. We spent $3500 a month. Not a lot but nothing compared to the salaries and marketing spend.
People have been warning against keeping too much funds in PayPal since 2004. Consumer protection is nearly nonexistent.
I somehow envision working at some of the top tech companies in the world requires more than just being good at coding exercises. And more than just software engineers were let go at these companies…
Some are, but a lot of them are also made to be successful long term companies. Small business is still a large employer overall. Some businesses need to be very big, and if you want to be "filthy rich" you have to be in one of those. However you can be nicely wealthy at a small company.
in this specific case, cities are easily in a conflict of interest with zoning, at least politically as Nymbism was/is popular with established residents. This empasse goes against freedom of movement of people or property "rights" enshrined in the Constitution
Susskind really is the man.

My journey with "serious" physics starts with his lectures (I was curious what I needed to know to be able to render my own black holes like in interstellar).
It's entirely common for luxury properties to be seen as investments. Having people actually live there would reduce their value as investments. See any of the new luxury skyscrapers in Manhattan, whose units are mostly vacant despite being sold. More luxury housing doesn't solve a damn thing.
> the maximum the market will offer

This is a function of supply (and demand), increase the supply the market will offer less.
Why not Makefile ?
If vacuum is meta-stable it is possible for entirely different set of fields to exist instead, but the gravity would be the same, I guess. This makes it outside of standard model.
That still seems pretty delicate. The lenses and mirrors would have to be aberration-free to an extreme degree so as to not introduce too many artifacts, and moving the mask further from the surface would increase risk of diffraction artifacts, no?
That depends on what you are doing. Serving static websites needs a great pipe, but doesn't need much CPU.