skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Is AWS suddenly blocking all ping requests?
I can no longer ping any of my 23 instances on AWS in ap-southeast-2 from Telstra/Optus. Anyone else noticed anything similar?
For a particle travelling faster than light (a tachyon) it takes more and more energy to decelerate the closer to light speed you are, and at zero energy velocity would be infinite. At least via a naïve look at what SR says.
Canadian engineering schools do a ceremony and oath designed by Rudyard Kipling. It has some serious gravitas and leaves a real impression on young minds.

The Kipling oath isn't phrased that way so it probably wasn't a Canadian school, but it does have a similar intent.
In my opinion, software is getting much, much better.

Twenty years ago, applications crashed all the time and there was no thought given to data recovery. For example, whilst writing this post, I accidentally clicked a link, then pressed back and Chrome hadn't lost my post. Back in the day, a mistimed backspace would irretrievably destroy your input. Video games frequently wouldn't work without messing with driver settings - how do I know if want to use glide or DX?

Playing a video involved messing around with codecs and if you were unlucky, the video was actually just a virus that would completely own your computer.

There is one major exception, which is websites. After the age of popups, but before the age of privacy warnings, there was this short window where you could just open a web page and it didn't have a whole bunch of crap you had to dismiss before you could access the content.
One could argue that social media is technically all "blogging websites"

Advertising works there because of the numbers. People will quickly consume enough bite sized content to drive traditional numbers.

Medium broke the things that made them appealing in an attempt to sweeten the advertising sell, but this made the platform unappealing. It was a self inflicted wound.
>demonstrate a semblance of self consciousness (by way of answering all the designed queries correctly)

is self-consciousness really related to answering queries correctly?
I own a Speed Queen washing machine. The best part is it has no digital components and it will last 25 years while also doing a superior job in cleaning clothing.

I highly recommend it. Every other brand is crap compared to it.
DaVinci recently also added hardware acceleration to the free version for .h265, which was previously only available in the paid version.
I'm actually already working on exactly that -- after trying it out on a couple of mini-games such as https://github.com/mristin/pop-that-balloon-desktop, https://github.com/mristin/cactusss-desktop and https://github.com/mristin/ski-leu-desktop.

Please let me know if you want to join forces! You can find my contact information at: https://github.com/mristin.

I figured that I don't mind my kids playing computer games as long as they move. The first stage for me is to find a workable approach to DOS games. In particular, I thought about adapting ski-leu to race games such as Outrun & ilks.
Image support might be simulated with sixels, I guess.

EDIT: it already does.

For a libre alternative, I suggest wordgrinder.

Or, much better, groff+mom, and entr+make to run

groff -mom -step -k < file.groff > file.pdf

Viewers like MUPDF will update the document on
file changes I think.

Help on Groff+Mom:

https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-01.html
Yeah, it appears their growth strategy is the inverse of Medium's.
Please share the link so I can fork it and snag some of these sweet donations
EPA proposes auto pollution limits to aggressively boost electric vehicle sales
By the way, in JavaScript:

> let a = "0e462097431906509019562988736854"; // = md5("240610708")
> let b = "0e830400451993494058024219903391"; // = md5("QNKCDZO")
> let c = 0;
> a == c
true
> b == c
true

but

> a == b
false

(Of course, also solved by using ===)
Searching for the River of Wind
Similarly, the top two suggestions for me were both sequels to books that I had selected.

Interestingly, I asked ChatGPT for recommendations based on the same list and it gave me a very similar result, including matching the top two suggestions! Coincidence? (I added a note that I was interested in finding new authors and it gave me a much better list.)
Perhaps the best counterpoint in the thread. That being said, the exception proves the rule, and I never had issues with 95 or XP. It’s crazy how many basic pieces of OS functionality stop working for me in windows 10.
Ahh 10 year old wifi problems. Did you try the hex key instead of ASCII?
you could buy a Prius Prime and a used BEV cheaper than a new Model 3.

A new Prius Prime is roughly $30K

The cheapest Model 3 is now about $43K --- and it comes with a $7500 rebate.

A Chevy Bolt EV is about $27.5K.
Great! Yes, all these micro-interactions are something that's on the backlog. I focused on getting the MVP out (it's been here for barely 2 days) and will improve the experience in time.
I don't believe Marxism would work in practice, I believe you'd always just get a _different_ one percenter class composed of party leaders instead of business owners, but I'm not sure that it's actually been given a fair trial. To steel man their argument, communist countries always had the world's top economic and military superpowers like USA doing whatever to could to prevent communism from spreading. I'm no history surgeon, but I can't think of a time when it was tried without external interference.
That only means you have to distinguish by frequency and magnitude of quirks, and languages are very different then.
I got: "Something went wrong, please try again later".
The problem I have with articles like this is, well, sample size. They talked to 9 former and current employees, out of 60,000 employees. I'm no fan of Meta, but is it really fair to say there is a "crisis" of morale at a company with such a tiny sample size?
Every /r/books post ever, basically x)
Talk about making wrong conclusions...
Have you heard of LLaMa? Segment Anything? Those are just two major Meta AI projects released within the past two months.

Generative AI is a major part of Zuck’s metaverse hopes and investment priorities.
> A consciousness is just another useful abstraction for making precise predictions about the world

That's an extremely bold claim. I think consciousness is greater than the sum of its parts, not just a "useful abstraction".
Including copying Java features like tiered compilation, default interface methods, compiler plugins, AOT compilation, being able to run UNIX systems, failing on having phone OS written in C#.

Anyone that misses C# on the JVM can use Kotlin or Scala.

And best of all, due to Microsoft's lack of investment on VS4Mac and VSCode versus VS proper, the best .NET IDE outside Windows runs on Java/Kotlin.
My god it's satisfying to look at a web page that's 100% useful, curated content. No overhyped clickbait nonsense, no social media garbage, no "partner content".
FDIC's 'special' fee to make banks pay for SVB cleanup
Pre-java 8 (Java.old) and post-Java.8 (Java++) are philosophically two different languages.

Now, 21 is coming and while the changes aren't quite as in your face, the change in philosophy is just as radical.

Java would be better regarded if less time was spent on "look at this cool new feature" and more spent on "this is how you should use Java now". Or even, "here's how to safely modernise your codebase".

Venkat Subramaniam does some good talks on this but I would prefer if the Java language team were leading it.
How to Survive a Superpower Split
Yeah, but I can understand unseen data, whereas machine learning can't afaik.
I don't need to wait 5 years to laugh --- electric cars don't have to cost $15K to be cheaper than PHEV. A Chevy Bolt EV is already cheaper than some Toyota PHEV.
Homework is inherently classist (and by extension racist) in the first place, and (this i'm way less certain) isn't it largely shown to be ineffective?
Finally mom won't worry about my health anymore! Programmers we dance to program! That's a lot of calories burned I think.
from the outside there is no difference, from the inside you are actually self conscious and know if you are.
It would be nice if all schools did this, but I suspect that doing so, would render the oath almost meaningless.
Not familiar with .NET, virtual threads in Java are an alternative to async await in other languages. The approach Java took is similar to green threads in go.
Do you know for a fact that it was all written by the current maintainer? Though, even if it was. I'm not sure they are intentionally not admitting a mistake. When you work in a shop with blameless culture, you end up learning to always talk like that and you don't even notice.
I've been looking at Substack with the eyes of someone who has lived through the enshitment of Quora, Medium et al, and realized there are never guarantees with any such service. Apparently I owe them money and attention, and they owe me nothing. I will never get long term what I joined a service for, so today I simply do not commit. I never committed to Twitter, and I'm glad. I want to share content, I setup a ghost site. I want to read content, I use RSS and also read what I can for free. That's it.
Conversely, for anything embedded or with hardware control aspect to it that needs more than an arduino or needs a GUI, Pi is the common architecture that has widely available hardware interfaces, code and community support available.
Yeah, if you're using it for web development or something it will suck to just try and install all the dependencies you need. But if you're making a 3D printer with a web interface, touch screen and maybe a camera, or a robotics project, it is by far the easiest thing to get started with.

Originally Pi was created to promote CS learning and I get that it has some shortcomings there but it sure as hell has enabled a lot of people to learn about embedded computing and robotics.
I'm not so sure. I've been studying that stuff for a decade now and we've seen multiple of these "AI gold rushes" where afterwards an "AI winter" followed. Let's see and find out.
That may be true. But if that we’re the case, then a fourth spatial must exist for the entire 3rd dimension to wrap in on itself. And then we find ourselves in the same infinite regression, wondering about the boundaries of the parent dimension.
Ironically this project also first got covered by Hackaday on April 1, so quite a few people thought it was only another prank.
No, I am not. What I am doing is showing that this is not some malicious movement that seeks to destroy good people. There are real problems which led to the situation we are in now. I don't think people should be treated badly or unfairly, no matter which "side". But if you stop talking about social injustice because some people will (in their mind) unjustly be judged, you'll do a lot more harm than good.

Talk about the specific problems, don't attribute them to the whole movement. And don't strawman me please!
I can believe that being reminded of your convictions helps you abide by them, but this is only true if you really have convictions! If you think your being in power is more important than being honest, for example, then the oath your swear might just be one more example of saying the right thing to get into power.
> The moral panic is about pronouns

Yes, about forcing other people to use various imaginary pronouns and chancelling those who don't go along. Naturally there is pushback to this moral panic.

> puberty blockers

Which are not irreversible so shouln't be given to children on a whim.

> mental health counselling

When it doesn't even include the possibility of questioning peoples thoughs about themselves then it is not mental health counselling.

> make books about transgender and gay banned

No books about transgender and gay have been banned in western countries in recent years. No libraries have been closed for carrying such books.

On the other hand, many books, movies and games have had transgender ideology forced into them. Some have even been edited posthumously to not be "offensive" the ideology. It is pretty clear who is trying to do the censoring here.
To be fair, releasing the interesting parts of Llama was a decision made for instead of by them
https://www.f2f.games/

multiplayer card games on android. Keep you own hand private. See the cards on the table. Took more than a weekend, but I knew nothing of android or kotlin at the time.
Do you really thing you would put aside your regular laptop to use an old terminal for writing?

Yes. I already do. It provides focus and a chance for me to concentrate on my writing, rather than be distracted not only by a thousand notifications and temptations (Oh, let me just switch over and see if there's anything new on HN...), but also the mild background anxiety that comes from knowing interruption is just a push notification, or a Command-Tab away.

I have very little faith that anyone would regularly fire up an old power hungry machine to do one single task

Then you have very little faith in George R.R. Martin, who isn't shy about writing on a Kaypro II.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5REM-3nWHg
No, it is the very same thing in the case of this list. Precision is important.

Protesting that one's cause is noble would be missing the point of the quote entirely. Everybody who has ever made lists thought they were doing it for a worthy cause.
Previous discussion on the paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35517649
uh, what I'm saying is that all of that could've begun in 2014, not just now. clearly they're playing catch-up. Before OpenAI what language models did they release, exactly?

how is segment anything playing into their metaverse strategy exactly?

it's very clear that they're relasing this stuff to make it known that they're not going to fall behind to Microsoft (OpenAI) and Google. it clearly was not part of their original strategy around the metaverse, which is why it's all coming out now.
So you're using the word because it sounds scary, not because it's the right word? Why not use words that describe what you mean?
What Makes You Happy
When I was at Facebook the same kinds of articles would pop up all the time while morale + trust in leadership was pretty high internally. It made me think a lot about how we perceive other companies and even governments from the outside versus what the reality can be.
The comment right below yours describes how this effectively bans events on public property in Georgia, because they passed a law to address this precise issue. Other states may have similar laws. Was the Rust Foundation even aware of this? Regardless, this is the expected outcome when top-down intrusive decision making fails to account for regional and cultural diversity.
Very interesting. My understanding is that even when the KJV was being written these pronouns were becoming archaic. If it wasn't for the Bible and Shakespeare I wonder how many English speakers would recognise them.
> extensive test

Your test doesn't seem extensive
Yeah I see people talk shit about Meta and AI, but FAIR is one of the most prolific research labs...
Very interesting! What you describe (inaccessible location) is also similar to the German elections after the Reichstag fire:

> After the Fire Decree was issued, the Nazi-controlled police made mass arrests of communists, including all of the communist Reichstag delegates. This severely crippled communist participation in the 5 March elections. After the 5 March elections, the absence of the communists gave the Nazi Party a majority in the Reichstag, greatly assisting the Nazi seizure of total power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
I find that it just seems to pick the most well known author of the three and gives me back mostly just other books by them. Or otherwise doesn't seem to recommend based on the content or themes or historical context of the book, but broad current cultural patterns.

Like, I get that the type of guy who likes Infinite Jest would probably like the three James Joyce books recommended to me, but thats more of an Amazon recommendation than an informed AI one. Its also surely the case that an IJ fan is aware of Joyce already!

I tried to be more obscure and personalized: 2666 by Robert Bolaño, The Dissertation by RM Koster, and Notable American Women by Ben Marcus (which is a novel despite its title). I got back a David Foster Wallace book, another Bolaño book, a book of short stories that is maybe actually interesting but very different from my input, and a homemaking book about reducing waste in your home.

Kinda seems like a waste of energy hooking up AI to this, you could just scrape Goodreads and get the same quality output.
an Emergent behavior is usually defined as a behavior that is not expected from the training or the starting configuration. Their Emergent Definition is absurd.
is like saying that understanding Calculus is emergent behavior in 12 grade because in was not present in 3rd grade.
Aiven introduces free plans for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis
So basically this line describes that it's an inside job

"Flan_Hill transferred enough of his shares in the corporation to the infiltrator to enable a call for a vote for a new CEO"

Every CEO knows not to give shares away. The only reason to give other people shares is so that they can intentionally take over in case you die IRL and don't want to trap assets.

"The one aspect of the story that some redditors took issue with is the origin of the 1,000 shares in Event Horizon Expeditionaries that made this theft possible in the first place. Some redditors theorized that Flam_Hill is actually the long-departed founder of the corporation, who's been sitting with those shares in his personal wallet for years;

Absolutely possible

"others said they may have purchased a character from a member of the corporation who forget to remove the shares from their wallet before transferring ownership."

They're not supposed to have shares before being sold in the Bazaar, maybe RMT?
Squeezing in a couple pregnancies while faced with spending her remaining childbearing years in prison adds to the drama and sadness here. What a lady.
I think the best explanation comes from singing. Say "crayon" and "offer". "Crayon" is a brighter, more nasally sound, whereas 'offer' is generally further back in the vocal cavity (referred to as a darker tone). I don't necessarily like "through the nose" but I think this is what it is describing.
> That's not something done because zombie mothers will rise up to enforce anything.

This was done in cultures where people really believed their deceased ancestors were watching them and judging their every move, and that in the future they’d either see their ancestors in paradise, or they wouldn’t.

We just kept doing it long after those beliefs became uncool, like a lot of other vestiges of our religious past.
Nvidia DGX vs. HGX: What’s the Difference?
You “know” you are? Who is doing the knowing, exactly?

This issue is not so clear cut. You can spend many lives doing nothing but going deeper into this.
You left out getting paid (well) every two weeks and receiving options that are increasing in value as the company becomes more efficient. It’s not personal, it’s not stupidity it’s just business and there are hundreds of thousands of developers who are willing and capable of replacing any of us.

The alternative is to start your own business. If you did and generated more revenue while your employees were in the office based on previous data, I think you’d end your remote work policy for all but the people who are irreplaceable to your revenue stream.
Cannot comment on that location but I've noticed a few sellers on ebay seem too just take older 4GB ram chromebook and install linux on them before selling them for $50-75. If you're not as lazy as I am you can do the installation yourself of course.

I think the raspberry pi is mainly interesting for its small size, GPIO pins and very low idle power.
> The cheapest Model 3 is now about $43K --- and it comes with a $7500 rebate.

A rebate for qualified people. There are PHEVs that also qualify for rebates...

Regardless, a rebate does that mean the car's MSRP is cheaper.
Desktop UI has also gotten worse, mostly due to the mobile/web influence. Peek desktop UI was 15-20 years ago.
Yeah, I love vim, but that’s not its forte
I noticed the website has some kind of delay, because the API returns the response in one fast block, while the site seems to type it out slowly.

My theory is it just inserts some sort of delay() based on the server load so you can't overload it. So everyone gets it slowly, setting consistent expectations.

It seems more naive than malicious. It's like how TCP distributed the load across individual connections. Then somebody invented download accelerators, which split up a file into a dozen connections.
For your appliances, maybe look at the commercial market. You usually get minimalism and quality material (lots of stainless steel). Often good reparability, but not much open sourcing I am afraid. And certainly several times the price.

Note that commercial dishwashers are not at all like their consumer counterparts. They don't really wash the dishes, they sanitize them after they have been properly rinsed, and a cycle takes minutes instead of hours.
Totally agree. Buying new appliances is hard if you are blind. It's either very cheap stuff that still has buttons, expensive stuff with touch screens which are unusable to me or expensive stuff that has touch screens and an app to control it. Besides not willing to fiddle with a phone and an app for every single action, the expensive stuff with apps will be unusable sooner or later when the software stops getting support and the appliance is still there.
Maybe don't base your opinion of the EU on some speculative HN comments about a non-voted law proposal?
It's the kind of thing you get with weak typing.

Perl does better here by requiring "eq" for strings, so there's less chance for such an issue to happen. But you have the "zero but true" fun quirk -- "0e0" evaluates to 0 numerically, but 1 logically because it's not an empty string.
hmm...yes that's perhaps better. Defining it as a bigger improvement than would be expected from the size increase.

Don't think the baseline expectation would be linear per se though
> [Meta] has conducted two rounds of cuts over the past six months, eliminating more than 26,000 people, or nearly 30 percent of his company’s work force.

I thought the same thing about the sample size but if a third of the company gets chopped, you’re going to have major morale problems. It points to many, many leadership and management problems.
This overstates it - the regime transitioned to the type used extensively in the lands it had just conquered ("certificates and appointments for officials" per the Bormann memo), and printers were free to use fraktur. The statement you respond to is correct, as the order in fact solidified fraktur as totally a Nazi face. It's worth noting that the idea was rooted in the sort of "Soros-funded DA" politically messaging that was so absurd it could only be effective in that sort of regime, anyway.
> I'm very disappointed in Musk for essentially ruining one of the world's great information platforms.

I’m happy with the destruction of Twitter. I think it’s a net negative for the world and we’ll be better off without it. This might be the only tech I’ve ever felt like this about (including atomic bombs). I think it amplifies and even creates hate and division.

It will be funny if ten years from now we find out it was a gawker-style takedown with the intent to purposely destroy something in a lasting and permanent way as described in Ryan Holiday’s book about Thiel’s purposeful execution of strategy to destroy gawker, https://www.grahammann.net/book-notes/conspiracy-ryan-holida...

PS- are there any other business/tech “case study” type books out there. I also liked Clifford Stoll’s Cuckoo’s Egg, John Brooks’ Business Adventures, Michael Lewis’ Liar’s Poker, Po Bronson’s Nudist on the Late Shift, and David Kaplan’s Silicon Boys. Looking for more of what I suspect is more common than I can find.