skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fairly easy for them to defend though. They can offer "free" data transfer on products they control for good reason. Meaning they can tweak how efficient the synchronization is, what network paths it takes, predict when they need to scale it, etc.

Offering the same cost for customer managed tech would mean they take on risk where they have fewer controls and less visibility to manage and mitigate it.
Attention in the Western Hemisphere Is a Gaussian Beam
Looking at https://plaudit.pub and trying to understand it. It seems like a technical solution trying to solve a social problem (which I dare say is impossible). There's too much politics in academia for researchers to objectively endorse work of other research groups.
That's because nobody listens, doctors have more or less given up. People want meds, they always want a quick fix not to exercise and eat better
I watched this documentary last night. The fact that quantitative easing has continued since the 2008 financial crisis was previously unknown to me. This documentary helped me understand some of the financial manias that we have experienced, and the pain ahead.
Big discussion of original article 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35183073

(438 points/2 days ago/114 comments)
For python, you could just install bare python with venv and/or poetry and manage your dev python dependencies outside nix. For eg. if you were using devenv.sh, there is an example here: https://github.com/cachix/devenv/tree/main/examples/python-p...
This is good. The idea that an astrophysicist would ever think seriously one could find ET by just scanning the sky and finding ET signals is baffling. If anyone learned how to do a Fermi problem, they could quickly do a back of the envelope estimation and realize there's zero chance to detect such a signal. The space is simply too large, stupendously large, and signals decay with the square of the distance (at least). This SETI at home experiment was a waste of compute from the beginning. It was a good distributed compute framework, too bad to use it on such a pointless task.
> Microsoft could just have Edge feed Bing traffic and make money off ads on Bing - but they want more!

That won’t work if users switch their default search engine to Google, what many of them probably do. And Edge’s user base is relatively small anyway.
They are living in Japan for centuries and for centuries they are still foreigners.
I have the Lenovo X1 that came with Fedora. Love it.
Hey sqrtc! Thanks for your response. I do intend on building something much larger than for my personal use, but having looked into it more it feels like the security risks are not worth the effort. I also understand the API is only available on Chrome (as other browsers such as Firefox have explicitly said they won't be supporting this). I'll play around with the react-native-ble-manager library and see what I can build. Thank you!
To be fair, they aren't talking about those who "opted out of online culture." They're talking about those who "shrug at politics and social fads and war and rumors of war, and are just fine."

I too could be fine with the world if I just ignored everything outside my tiny little bubble. And maybe that's what you're arguing for, the "I've got mine" sentiment? But not everybody can just ignore systemic injustice and not try to cause change, however small.
You're overlooking the minor fact that in the process, SVB as a company functionally ceased to exist. If you're a company and want to keep existing you don't want to end up in that situation.
Long and protracted is possibly the salient phrase. Julius Caesar's civil war with Pompey was neither long nor protracted and never actually involved the populus of Italy, let alone Rome.

Pompey abandoned Italy effectively as soon as Caesar entered Italy. Pompey's Macedonian strategy ultimately failed as soon as it was contested. Sure, there were the Spanish interludes, but beyond the Senate's abdication of Italy, Caesar was extremely forgiving to his opponents, the institutions of the Republic continued, and ultimately the struggles never reached Italy proper until after his death.

So I can definitely see why the author might emphasize the continued violence of the second Triumvirate ahead of the breaking up of the first.
Nuclear power plant leaked 1.5M litres of radioactive water in Minnesota
Because of electrical current preferring the path of least resistance (the gold instead of the tungsten), and because of the Skin effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_effect), I suspect such a test would be inaccurate. Especially given how thick the plating is in these particular bars.
And? Being shown evidence you committed a crime or breached an agreement doesn't prove malice or forethought.

Additionally people seem to think of legal contracts and licenses as being set in stone or non negotiable. In the legal world they are simple the starting point for any negotiation.
You can have this now if you live anywhere else jn the world but the USA.

Of course the USA needs to solve self-driving cars
to solve a basic social welfare problem. Then you’ll be paying $3500 a mile anyway.
Murdered by Microsoft, like many products and companies which dared challenge them. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/use-cnet-sho...

One of the employees they lured away was Anders Hejlsberg, former chief architect of Delphi, which built C# at Microsoft. WinForms had an uncanny resemblance to VCL.

Before that Microsoft had tried to extend-embrace-extinguish Java with J++, but got sued by Sun into submission.

MS were utter scum back then, but Borland’s mistakes certainly didn’t help either.
Thanks :)

I would take it as a bad news though, because if they raised in a rush, it means they had likely unfavourable conditions, but why not.

And if it's money that they didn't need, it means they are paying interest for something they don't use.
Agreed, reproducibility is only one aspect of Nix and doesn't quite capture the whole picture. That's why so many newcomers see Nix as nothing more than a Docker replacement. There's also too much misconceptions about Nix the language that's scaring people off.

I'd like to see more being discussed about:

* Its unique ability to treat packages as programmable data (i.e., derivations)

* Its use case as a building block for deployment systems that knows about and integrates with packages

* Its JSON-like simplicity

They're all central to the Nix experience, and yet it's often overlooked in Nix discussions.
I have the same model and installed Ubuntu from an ISO burned to a bootable USB. It works great!
I think you read too much into what I said. In this example, the two coins, performance difference is going to be negligible. More "work" would be done in the fragment shader, assuming fragments > vertices, but it can do that significantly faster.
It's a response to people sperging out over silly things which isn't more acceptable just because it's a tech forum.

FWIW, "quit whiteknighting for the megacorps", when someone rejects a comment that happens to slight a corporation, is just as tired as their complaint no matter how effective "down with teh corporations!1" is on social media.

That makes as much sense as accusing someone of whiteknighting just because they happen to defend a female politician or whoever.
I think I have 5-6 things I configure on a new KDE installation, but I'm sure they're different things to everyone else.
It seems to me there are numerous distractions that compete for our time and attention. hackernews, social media, television, sports, and even drugs can all draw us away from pursuing our hobbies. Moreover, the limited time we have available to devote to our hobbies is further challenged by the prevalence of sophisticated, A/B tested platforms that are designed to capture and hold our attention.
Shortly after he resigned as French prime minister in 1940, Paul Reynaud lost his mistress to an unsecured suitcase that came loose when he lost control of their car and hit a tree.
MacOS used to be better, before the phonification trend.

As a heavy terminal user, one thing I very much like about MacOS is that it doesn't steal ASCII control characters for GUI operations. Fortunately KDE/Qt key bindings are largely configurable, and this is a major reason I use it. (I think I blame CDE for bringing Windows-style key bindings to *nix.)

Finder also has some good things — I miss quicklook and column view. And while I'm picking on Dolphin, its information panel seems hardcoded to focus-follows-mouse even though I don't use that mode.
Thank you. Have a nice day!
I think this project is really promising.

My main concern is that it puts another layer of abstraction atop an already complex (and at times leaky) abstraction.

I’d love to see more clear docs about what devenv is actually doing under the covers, and how to escape-hatch into Nix land when I inevitably need to tweak something.

Also, similarly, how do I map Nix docs (often just a set of example expressions) into equivalent
devenv incantations?

(It’s been a few months since I last looked so maybe things have come along since then.)
GitHub CEO offering $250K for decoding ancient Roman scrolls
Thought about covering this in my archaeo/historical newsletter but didn't end up doing it. Maybe it'll be of interest to some of you though — such a cool opportunity!

Self-promo: If you're into this kind of thing, https://ancientbeat.substack.com/
> The deal came together in about 12 hours after Rippling went scrambling when it couldn’t get $300 million that was frozen at SVB when it collapsed on Friday, according to Rippling co-founder Parker Conrad.

Raising $500 million emergency cash after just because they lost access to $300 million doesn’t quite add up.

This feels more like another funding round that was maybe pushed forward due to SVB concerns.
I wouldn’t be surprised. A lot of people don’t test what they buy before ingesting it. A lot of other drugs are marketed as something else. For example “MDMA” is often just amphetamine that the dealer sells as MDMA but they produce very different experiences. The physiological effects are similar but the mental effects are not comparable especially what it feels like the next day. Always test everything you get if you want to be sure.
They both have world models. Understanding just isn't binary and not everything encoded in language is encoded at the same level. Some things fall quicker than others.
He's not a victim - he mostly benefits from them. He runs https://www.duckbillgroup.com/
Yeah it depends on what you're doing. If you're doing a lot of IO probably makes sense. Not running long tasks tho. I don't think that's a good use in Python at least.
Also I miss Actionscript. Typescript tries but it just isn’t the same.
While true, it isn't an easy task. You have to build and maintain infrastructure to transmit it and that is super expensive, with a lot of loss.

This is a remote location, that is sparsely populated, with a big river and many dams. There is a lot more power generated in the area, than there are users for it.

It would be going to waste otherwise.
The conversion is hard, but here's some information from https://www.nirs.org/radiation/tritium/

"The NRC allows a licensee to release an amount of tritium that could result in a radiation dose to a member of the public of up to 100 millirem (one millisievert) per year — in planned air and water effluents (Title 10, Code of Fedl. Regs., Part20.1301). The NRC translates one million picocuries of tritium per liter as the equivalent of 50 millirem/year (10 CFR Part 20, Introductory Notes to Appendix B, Table 2, Column 2). Please note: Table 2 lists concentrations in “microcuries per millileter.” For example, 1E-3 µCi/ml equals one million picocuries per liter."

That's roughly two mammograms per year. Not inconsequential, but not earthshattering either. You're probably absorbing more than that from the Potassium in your body (according to https://xkcd.com/radiation/).
As far as a list of moves by AWS that seem fishy, this one really isnt. This to me is closer to artificial scarcity pricing that matches a customers need and willingness to pay. Its no different than putting SAML in the “enterprise” column of SaaS pricing.

AWS had way more advantages and while this price is much higher than what the costs are, it’s sort of run of the mill business.
So legitimate use do they have for the funds now?
As far as I know, it’s still about [0]. I’ve had a better experience with deploy-rs though [1] - or even just using nixos-rebuild to target the remote machine.

[0] - https://github.com/NixOS/nixops

[1] - https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs
A high current test might work, albeit with some undesirable side effects :)
I'm trying to compile that in the kernel for some reasons related to startup optimization.

The kernel sees them, and compiles them, and it WORKS with other things requiring a firmware like i915 with the HuC and the GuC, but not for regulatory.db
Meta Pseudo Labels (MPL) Algorithm
It isn't a coincidence that they take their margins on bandwidth instead of compute. Makes you do the computations locally at AWS instead of sending it to some other datacenter.

The better version that will never happen is that AWS makes their margin evenly on all purchases. But that wont happen since by pricing bandwidth so highly encourages people to do everything at AWS instead of sending data between providers.
Fair? Sure. Interesting? Not even slightly.
> The language is 10x more concise

C# is an amazing, well thought out language, agreed.

> async/await is the same as in javascript

How many variations of async/await coroutine programming are there? Not saying I disagree, but I think most of them are similar.

> the documentation and official guides are miles ahead of Java

This is where you lose me. It's been a few years, but the last time I looked at dotnet docs it was a steaming pile compared to most other languages I've looked at, including Java.
> 1. To let you know about local or world events that could affect you and those close to you.

> 2. To let you know about world events that affect others far away, in order to judge the effectiveness of political decisions and the necessity of future political decisions.

> 3. As a form of entertainment derived from the ongoing story of world history (or celebrity gossip, or whatever else).

The stories people classify as "positive" are exclusively category 3. Crime stories are entertainment, charity porn (especially about children doing charity work), stories about sick people and animals that got well again, all entertainment. Sports. Stories about soldiers and cops that are framed as inspiring and patriotic. None of it is news, it's messaging.

It only makes sense. News that affects people is mostly news of problems, or more accurately, actionable news. "Ongoing Processes Maintaining Themselves As Planned" isn't news that affects you unless it's a followup on "Potential Problem Found In Ongoing Process." The other actionable news is "Event Occurring That You May Wish To Take Part In," and the "news" doesn't care about those unless the "event" writes a check.
Feynman attempted to make his speech simple, clear, and precise. It is almost certainly a mistake to read subtlety into his language.

Besides, he expressed his negative opinions on philosophy and philosophers in many ways, on many occasions. He very clearly was on the side of those saying that philosophers SHOULD be ignored by anyone who wished to learn science.
Microsoft just can't stop doing this. All of their products suffer. I'm happy to fork over the absurd Apple tax just to feel comfortable at my computer, and to know I'm not going to wake up one morning to a forced OS update that has Cortana start screaming black friday deals from my desktop. I mean, ads in the task bar? I spend all of my time on my computer, I do not want all this shovelware pushed in my face at every opportunity.

I think this strategy is going to kill them in the long run. I was a pure Windows user, until I was forced to spend some time on mac for a job. What do you know, its just way more pleasant.
Every hobby has this though. I felt fortunate to have discovered SWL, GMRS, Amateur Radio, etc. long after learning the same lesson with everything from Trail maintenance work to Disc Golf to Drones to Pickleball.

If association and its ah...trappings are important to you, it's far easier to manage down your inner critic by exploring a nuanced approach to association in context than it is to find a hobby that's more/less immune to such problems.

(This is doubly true if you are interested in the broader topic of interests and hobbies)
The Windows 10 LTSC IoT Edition still has 10 years of support, and you can apparently hack it to continue working until the 2038 bug takes the digital world down. Looking into this now.
Don't sleep on the fact that, 8 years ago someone pointed to a piece of software someone wrote - and that the author of that software replied 20 minutes ago (as of this comment)!

https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/24fjp9/what_all_is...
> If the language model is large enough to contain the entirety of the documentation and the LSP itself, then why bother integrating with the LSP?

If your goal is to get a response to an LSP query, why on earth would you use an LLM trained on data where >99.9999% of that data has nothing to do with answering an LSP query?

Why would I switch out an LSP server of 100% accuracy for an LLM that’s slower and has lower accuracy?
It's almost like it's a business arrangement.

If you expect your employer to love you and take care of you like your parents, you will be disappointed.

It's business.
+1 for Kenji
> I’d really love to know what the marginal cost to AWS for this is though.

I'd wager that AWS's marginal cost for intra-region traffic is zero. They own their infrastructure and other than maintenance and upgrades they have no cost linked with traffic volume.

Some cloud providers charge a round zero for intra-region traffic, and they don't have anything resembling AWS's scale. I doubt it's a loss leader.
> let's just set a formula for the entire column, and make it refer to another column

Meet Lotus Improv (1991): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv

I think the patents have expired now.
You're not circumventing the borrow checker though. You can only access a hashmap/vec entry if you have the right borrow of it's container. Unless you play around with unsafe, the hash map entries that stay in the container will live at most as much as the container.

This is what the borrow checker does. The index is just for doing an If let Some(entry) = map.get(&ident) {}

and not fail if it does not exist. Do you want to keep stuff alive even if they are removed? You can use reference counter wrappers (Rc and Arc) just fine.

The right pattern for graphs etc in vectors and maps is that the owning struct/type is responsible for keeping its internal state (indices it knows to exist) consistent. But that's not a memory safety issue, it's a logic issue
You are correct. There is one in upstate new york as well. An old Alcoa smelter factory powered off the Moses-Saunders dam. It is so remote and sparsely populated that transmitting the power elsewhere is just too expensive. I've even seen their energy bills and the transmission costs alone are insane.
A short history of the VW Mark 1 Rabbit/Golf (2021)
South Park did weeks ago. Catch up old man.
Interest, in contrast I have the bad habit of never using right shift, which is definitely inefficient when typing capital A for example.

I've not been very successful changing this habit.
Ask HN: Thinking about going from React back to Backbone?
I often think back to how simple Backbone.js was.

You could read the entire source code quite easily. Debugging was easy. It was so simple you could write it yourself in fact.

A `View/Component` had a `model` property and a `render` function and that was essentially it. Views used data binding, so that you get nice fine-grained reactivity (in React this is a nightmare). You have full control of the performance too. I badly miss being able to manually manipulate HTML to get animations how I would like.

I never liked JSX either. I'd prefer to just use JSON. In React, I would always just pass JSON as a single prop like so: `<Comp {...props} />`. The ternary conditionals inside JSX are ugly as hell too.

It's just way too hard to understand. You have to keep so many caveats and internals knowledge in your head to make something performant. And it's impossible to debug or step-through. It's simply not JavaScript. I remeber when people liked it because it's "just a library". It's really not. It's more comparable to an operating system, let alone a framework.

I think myself and others have just bought into it for so long that it feels impossible to leave. And things like write-once run-anywhere with React Native felt so appealing. And then there's Next.js and friends.

Was Backbone + jQuery really so bad? Am I forgetting anything?
You did make good standalone points. Monopolies have strong downsides.
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The realist ontologists have subdivided the world in things like functions for that exact reason. See http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Functions-in-BFO.... . Fumiaki Toyoshima has had some thoughts about functional parthood too: https://hal.science/hal-03041516/document
Agreed, the article a stupid take. AWS must be able to differentiate their services, otherwise, what reason would one have to buy vs. build yourself?
I'm not saying in person, but at least some type of vouching before sharing the material.
Just recently, my partner's PC had to be wiped because BitLocker was surprise enabled by Windows 11, and I hadn't set her PC up with an online Microsoft login, so we couldn't get the BitLocker key that we never knew we needed.

So your data is now hostage to Microsoft, and if you didn't read the full manual when setting up your partner's new Windows PC, you now lost her data. Writing about it, it feels like ransomware, except I guess we don't have to pay anything yet, other than an account that Microsoft can gather metrics from.
The open source aspect is a good point. I'm guessing the team thought making the source open would increase the risk of cheating; misguided I know, but cheaters were a pain in the neck at first.

Many of the folks there were into music (in bands, wrote music related software, etc), so I'm guessing the signals were boring to listen to.
This is not an "anti-competitive mode"

This is called a bundle

On the third-party side, we have:
Compute + aws compute margin + network + aws network margin + storage + aws storage margin + software management + third-party margin

AWS is able to lower each margin parts, because they know you take a bundle

Why would you even think doing a cheaper but overall equivalent service in someone else's infrastructure .. THAT does not make any sense.
Wow really? As a flash dev I was so psyched to see each successive AS version come out - AS2 was a huge step forward, and so was AS3. I dreaded going back to legacy AS2 projects once version 3 was available.