skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. We've reverted the title now - submitted title was "Algorithmic System for Turning the Elderly into High-Nutrient Slurry", which besides gutting the historical reference, gives way the joke and breaks the HN guidelines:

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Driving down launch costs is the point.

SpaceX a few years ago pretty much completely wiped out their Falcon 9 launch manifest because their launch cadence was so high, and the cost for SpaceX of doing so was so low. They briefly had a dip in launch cadence and it's only now building back up for two reasons:

1. They've dropped launch costs so their customers have new opportunities they can pursue at the new cost basis.
2. They started Starlink to soak up all their spare launch capacity. Hundreds of flights to low-earth orbit launching cheap satellites.

Starship/Super heavy is meant to be the next evolution of this. If the cost of launching heavy payloads massively drops then demand will appear to match it. They hope.
if x is `Some`, then `y` is set to the inner value and the following block occurs. you can also use this with other enums - i don't remember off the top of my head if it works for all enums, but you can at least also use it with `Result`
Very interesting to learn a bit about Berlin’s culture scene. Do you write in German or English?
Obviously that you should have replaced all coal and gas with nuclear. That is why France emits 1/6 the CO2 per kWh as Germany does.
Another huge difference is that the RP2040 lacks floating point support. At least it has (integer) hardware division, but that's about it.
> the physical parameters or our world — continents and oceans, mountains and lakes — appear fixed only because our own lives are so infinitesimally short, measured against geological eras.

And the geological eras are over in a nanosecond in comparison to the lifetime of the universe. It makes me wonder if the lifetime of the universe is over in a nanosecond in comparison to whatever the universe is embedded within (this is assuming the multi-universe theory is correct).
Cool!

Would you consider adding a web font with the proper OpenType features to render the MathML content? The Igalia work in Chrome is quite decent when the font is good, but for now it needs to be set via CSS (presumably Chrome does not feel like bundling a math font just yet).

Some nice demos are at https://fred-wang.github.io/MathFonts/mozilla_mathml_test/ (with Latin Modern, the TeX Gyre's, FiraMath – other fonts are still glitchy).
I don't think this is the defense you think it is, that minorities could live in such conditions they skew the statistics of the population is not a rebuttal.
My big concern about the headset is that it will be more iPhone and less Mac. It’s potentially a powerful input and visual display peripheral but if it’s locked down so tightly that you can’t do something like connect haptic hand tracking hardware then it’s going to suck. I don’t want more consumption devices, I need more productivity devices and Microsoft is turning into a toxic advertising cesspool I can’t trust for basic business security reasons, leaving me with apple as bd going everything myself on Linux.
Why was the `dogs` array initialized as an `Animal[]` type instead of `Dog[]` type which would forbid the addition of a `Cat` type?

Why would you be able to map a call to `woof` over an `Animal[]` when `Animal` doesn't implement `woof`? I don't understand how the SO link answers these questions.
It does seem like a method that'd apply well to software. It's kind of like, "move fast and break things," except that which was broken gets fixed in subsequent iterations instead of being forgotten about as priorities are shifted to the feature of the week and becoming so deeply rooted that they won't get fixed until the next big rewrite.
It's hard to make money on infrastructure, which space launches are in a way. But there is a lot of induced demand here: the main costs of satellites are the costs of the launch and the cost of the satellite, and satellites are in no small part expensive because launches are expensive (low weight, high reliability, long lifespan is expensive). If launches become cheaper, a lot more people will want to use them. Entire industries like zero-gravity fabrication, moon mining or space tourism only become viable as launch costs decrease.
This is why you have long-term holdbacks: a group of users who never sees a set of experiments. That way you can measure over a longer period of time the true impact of a set of experiments.
If ChatGPT causes Google's revenue to drop, it will at first be very gradual, and then suddenly.
I use a 2014 MacBook Pro, running Big Sur, basically daily as a low-power desktop. It is performant, runs everything I throw at it, and does so fairly silently. 16GB RAM, and an NVMe SSD in an adapter.

I don't understand why this person's was stuck on Mojave, or why it wouldn't be perfectly serviceable with an SSD upgrade and an OS reinstall.
Did you get a code signing cert from Ksoftware recently?
I emailed their support recently with a question which they have not answered. All I got was an auto-reply with a ticket number.

I am thinking I should just order directly from Comodo/Sectigo.

Do you have recent information about ksoftware?
Funnily enough that's the most common pattern I see in my personal C code (for example, my little lisp interpreter - https://github.com/lelanthran/csl/blob/master/src/parser/ato...) but I still recommend using the `Generic` keyword in C.

For the next time I do a pattern like this, I'll be using `Generic` keyword to make the dispatch a compile-time match, not check at runtime.
I guessing we can't find any instance of a jaywalker ever going to prison. Remember, I said stupid enough to go to prison, not local jail. A big problem we have today in the social revolution we are going through is most readers don't thoroughly read posts before going off with their own biases.
You wouldn’t even need to raise taxes to improve some of these programs. Just stop spending such an absurd amount of money on the military.
Your concern over the risks of nuclear energy should be inversely proportional to how severe you think the risk of climate change caused by CO2 emissions is going to be.
Have you tried living on benefits?
AsciiMath has AsciiSvg: http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/svg/asciisvgeditor.html (Well, no, rather the other way around, but sister projects.)
This is interesting, I don't see how this is possible from a technical sense
Inconstant Regular – A dyslexia-friendly font
It's not clear from the article or Google's response what caused the dependency to be downloaded, however one thing that Google does mention is that they don't believe it has to do with their products or services. Since the purpose of their bug bounty program is to help Google secure their products, it would fall outside it's scope as the fix doesn't sit with product teams. I would imagine though this is something that would be raised with corporate security, that deals with protection of endpoint devices and security awareness training.
You don’t need to be discerning at all to see the difference between 2003, 2013, and 2023.
> has far cheaper renewables in cost per kwh

Currently yes.

In the 80s and 90s not so much. It's huge a tragedy nuclear expansion stopped back then because nuclear was very cheap if we factor the indirect costs from burning fossil fuels (specifically premature deaths and other healthcare issues due to pollution. We basically get 2 to 8 free Chernobyls every year just by burning coal in the EU alone. Stopping climate change would just have been a free bonus).
I like the idea behind this device!

The idea is that you have a simpler piece of hardware (theoretically more transparent, theoretically more secure, theoretically less "attack surface") than a smartphone -- and you use this piece of dedicated hardware to store crypto keys and other crypto related things -- OFF of a smartphone.

That's a good idea at its root...

So, is Ledger any more secure than a smartphone?

I don't know; I haven't tested them; I have no experience with them; short answer -- I simply don't know...

But I like this idea...

I like the idea of simpler hardware storing crypto secrets...

I think there's a definite market here; and I yearn to see what other companies (and individual open hardware creators) can/will produce in this space in the future...
IO forked for technical reasons because Joyent wouldn’t entertain improvements. This rust drama is because some programming Youtubers/streamers don’t understand copyright and fair use, and of course want to bait rage clicks.
Looking at the population pyramid of Afghanistan, it has about as many youngsters under 18 as people in the 18-60 age bracket.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/afghanistan/2023/

With a population structure like this, you don't really have any choice but to tap at least part of the under-18 population into the workforce. Western societies at the same level of development did precisely the same.
> What if we're currently in peak LLM? The moment in history where ~none of the content used to train them, and to have them operate on is aware of its LLM consumers, but from now on everything will be, and the quality of LLMs will slowly decrease?

Having read the authors summary of what they mean by "Peak LLM" I do agree to an extent. As reams of shitty wordpress sites pollute the internet regurgitating GPT prompts and people take action to dissuade indexing the AVERAGE data quality will go down.

However, unlike Google which has a perverse incentive to fix blogspam and SEO bullshit and improve search, as worse search means more searches, means more money; LLMs are greatly incentivized to improve. Additionally, there are archives of the past web which should backstop most non-current answers.

It's definitely a REAL consideration for sure that the data and inputs will get fucked up, but I suspect it will be a solvable problem.
https://www.bryanhealth.com/app/files/public/9a4cd902-5ffd-4...

give me a break. Yes wearing a mask helps me as well but nowhere near as if you were doing it.

Don't make me link the pee meme.
how about the ones that think you can print infinite money without it causing inflation?
> If you can tolerate T-Mobile, Google Fi is better in almost every way security wise -- and I am very anti-google services these days. It uses the T-Mobile network.

Be careful there, because T-Mobile rot spreads to any downstream MNVO. Sim-jacking is still possible and data breach is happening above Google Fi level. There were articles about that IIRC.
What do you mean, it's not clear?

https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama links to

https://forms.gle/jk851eBVbX1m5TAv5 which contains LLaMA license agreement below the form.
There’s nothing in the new trademark policy that discourages saying “written in Rust”
They know, they just to care, hence the need for strong regulation to protect the populace from the tech industry.
Individual package signing does seem more straightforward. But, signing a file containing a list of hashes of the individual package files, as Debian does, accomplishes the same verification of package integrity when installing from a repo.

I'm guessing the genesis was since Debian already checked package hashes to ensure no download issues, adding a cryptographic signature to the file containing those hashes was an easy, minimal change that would not break existing clients that didn't know to check it.

Off repo is a use case that IMO should be strongly discouraged (as should adding random repos), but to your point, if you have no choice, a per-package sig would be useful.
But why would AT&T be throttling Cloudfront requests specifically?

That's not traffic shaping, it's just dumb. Traffic shaping is slowing down types of traffic like torrents or video in order to prioritize regular sites. But this is degrading regular sites that are usually what benefit from traffic shaping if there's overall network congestion.

I'm not questioning anything the author reports, it all seems extremely well documented.

I am questioning what AT&T is trying to accomplish here though. It makes no sense, unless they're in some kind of negotiation with Cloudfront right now, punishing them until they pay up or something? But that doesn't explain why it would only happen on a data-only plan. I'm mystified.
Composition?

typedef struct { /* ... */ } context;
typedef struct {
context ctx;
/* ... */
} foo_context;
typedef struct {
context ctx;
/* ... */
} bar_context;

void some_general_method(context* ctx, int a, int b);
void some_foo_specific_method(foo_context* foo_ctx, int c, int d);

foo_context* foo_ctx;
some_foo_specific_method(foo_ctx, 0, 0);
some_general_method(&foo_ctx->ctx, 1, 1);

For checked downcasts, you could include an enum type tag inside `context` and have something like `foo_context* as_foo_context(context* ctx)` for downcasts, which, if `context` is at the beginning of `foo_context`, could just check the tag and cast the `ctx` pointer to `foo_context*` (or do a little pointer arithmetic if `context` is somewhere else in the containing struct). Return `NULL` (or assert) if the tag doesn't match.
ChatGPT makes it easier for remote workers to hold two full-time jobs
Till December 2021 Söders party was part of the federal government together with the CDU and the FDP. No attempts were made when it still would have been somewhat possible to revert the shutdown. Only after he is no longer part in the Government he "changed his mind".
I've only seen vicuna do it so far but this is the right way for now.
Well they could've have already done that by now if not a decade or two ago if they skipped the period of mass psychosis back in the 80s...
> I already knew from previous experience that for some reason, AT&T traffic to fast.com is throttled. Why AT&T wants bandwidth to appear lower than reality is a mystery to me, but I digress

This I think is because they throttle ip addresses for known video streaming sites. That is one of (the only reliable) ways an ISP can get the streaming provider to drop the stream to a lower quality one by default.
Since fast.com is a Netflix ip, and the isp can’t distinguish whether it’s video that is being transferred or a file to measure throughout, the speed test gets caught up in it.
Said the other way around: fast.com is great to see actual throughput from Netflix as opposed to some fake throughout from a dedicated speed test site for the exact same reason.
The rate hikes just coincided with the energy crisis easing, which actually did resolve inflation, so I still strongly believe the hikes themselves didn’t do anything to help bring down inflation (but did cause unnecessary unemployment). But yeah, the grocery store boycotts wouldn’t have done anything either…
I still think the most interesting thing is that the game doesn’t intentionally speed up aliens, the game just runs faster when there’s fewer aliens.
I can see that being a problem in a lot of cases, but in this the title would seem to be sufficient to the reader to indicate this is a probably opinion piece. "We’ve all been way too accepting of inflation" is literally an opinion.
And jelly beans have a giant Fat Free boast on the packaging. Healthy choices!
Half of those episodes would not be able to be made on todays political climate.

The skinny suits that NPH wears would look very dated today.
It means LLMs might self-improve beyond the point where we can comprehend how intelligent they are. An LLM with 10x the capabilities of all human brains combined is indistinguishable to a human with one that has 100x the capabilities of all humanity combined, effectively making it possible for there to be "no peak"
You might want to actually look at the "products" on that page, and then re-read the paragraph on the top of that page.

Nothing about weapons systems, fighter jets, missiles, etc.. is intended for the civilian commercial market.
Don't get me wrong, I am very glad that TS exists and I am using it at least weekly. But there are inconsistencies in the type system that are very surprising to beginners because TS is trying so hard to be good at edge cases.
This is a huge issue with Wikipedia. The “importance” bar is silly when a page is basically free to host. Yet, despite this, they often remove or delete articles because they do not deem it worthy of an encyclopedia. I never understood this - it’s not a physical tome. If the knowledge is well sourced who cares what it’s about?
More like unregulated capture. There is simply no way it legal for a utility to means test people. Regardless of where the data originated.
Please don't act like six years is a long time to offer support. I have a 17-year-old Mac that runs the Windows 10 latest patch set just fine, and makes for a fine space heater at the same time.
The fact that the pattern matches.

Here the type being matched is:

enum Option<T> {
None,
Some(T)
}

let x = Some(42);
let Some(y) = x else { panic!("None") };
Have you seen this?

https://github.com/apple/ml-ane-transformers
He was extradited from... Canada. And his two co-conspirators were from South Africa.
Webp max resolution is 16383 x 16383. That is a problem in some applications.
>For Netflix, part of the message is: If you’ve got a bandwidth problem, don’t blame us — blame your ISP.[0]

This coverage from when Netflix launched Fast.com in 2016 alludes to the reason why the results on Fast.com may be slower than on something like Speedtest.net. ISPs like AT&T throttle connections to streaming video providers like Netflix, in order to force a lower quality stream. By offering a speed test from the same infrastructure that delivers your TV show, they are revealing the 'traffic shaping' that is degrading your connection. Sites like Speedtest.net are all excluded from this throttling, so it will always appear that you are getting 'full speed' when testing your connection.

[0] https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/netflix-fast-internet-...
Yes, the consequence of entertaining angry screeching.
> turning them off is partially exactly getting the act together.

Only from an old-school deeply irrational fear of nuclear energy perspective. Now that we know how catastrophic climate change could be the rational choice would be to replace all coal and gas with nuclear. Germans also really need to understand just how critical cheap and reliable electricity is to quality of life and GDP. Germany is making very bad decisions for deeply ideological reasons divorced from any understanding of real world technological limitations.

The time line was never realistic.
Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Collected K-Mart background music tapes
Odd that the screenshot in the article isn't of the actual arcade game but rather the Atari 2600 port (which is granted a quite good port given the limitations of the 2600), but still.
There seems to be substantial and increasing sentiment among the general public that the current approach (capitalism/neoliberalism/etc) ain't working, and incidences of "negative social behavior" (theft, stabbings, etc) seem to be increasing as a consequence.

Granted, "extinction level event" is a bit of a stretch (at least on a collective basis, though individually it can be a very different story), but perhaps we could manifest a French Revolution type of thing with some coordination.
There's an argument that companies should be able to run themselves however they please, that Lyft should be able to have whatever community guidelines they choose, no matter how silly it's their right.

I agree with this as long as there is a healthy free market, and 2 or 3 companies to choose from isn't a healthy free market. Either we need to bust these companies up, or regulate them better. In D&D terms, a single company shouldn't be able to give you a permanent stat penalty just because you did something like use the word "young". Many of these companies are so big that if one of the big 2 or 3 ban you, your entire life will be affected. Another example is LinkedIn, if I get banned from LinkedIn I guess I'll just take the -50% to all future job opportunities. Once these companies get big enough they owe society better than automated support processes and surprise lifetime bans once an algorithm determines you might not be profitable enough to bother with.
I've never experienced this. How would this even work for encrypted (HTTPS) streams?

Even if this were technically feasible, it sounds like a massive infrastructure investment with little to no value. T-Mobile would need to have enough compute and network horsepower to DPI all outbound traffic, intercept every video stream, detect if it's over some resolution threshold, and re-encode it at a lower resolution or bit rate, all in real time.
I agree but a truly nuanced approach to interpretation of A/B tests is rare especially when mixed incentives are involved. Ignoring empirical evidence is bad and taking it as gospel is also bad.
When I had AT&T VDSL they had weak peering. Some traffic that should have gone across town would routinely get routed several states away before coming back to town, because they hadn't peered with the local exchanges. Some traffic was ok.

When I switched to an ISP with local peering, ping times between my home and my server downtown dropped to a few milliseconds. It's like being on my LAN.

If this is still an issue for AT&T, traceroute+reverse DNS of each router may indicate it.

This poor peering isn't directly a throughput problem, but really increases the chance of being routed through a congested link, which you could sometimes guestimate from ping times and peeringdb.
Corporate profits are high. That they can do this is a function of the ultimate source of the problem: lack of competition. In a competitive environment, businesses would be less able to pass costs onto the consumer.

It is time for the anti-trust machinery to start working again.
If it is an HLS or DASH type of video stream, they could just query the playlist for a smaller video size and throttle that connection so that you're only served the smaller encode vs the full frame highest quality. Pretty simple thing to do really
Consider this a rumor until I can remember the source.

There was a deep dive article I came across about this a while ago and the only other interesting bits I've never seen anywhere else were tha

- Intel was offering a chip based on core/atom and couldn't hit the required performance/TDP

- apple wanted a custom chip meeting the required specs, but this is where Intel balked due to estimates of low demand to design and fab it

- apple went with ARM and PowerVR GPU was an important part of this story

Sometimes I wish I had a searchable full text index of articles I found interesting but didn't see value in bookmarking
Does anybody know why the earlier JPEG-XR also never got useful browser support? Are we just going to see this repeating over and over with nice general purpose image formats being relegated to individual vendor-centric ecosystems and never providing widespread interop?

I find it frustrating how computers have gained so much compute and storage capacity but the web seems to be slipping away as ever more consumer-focused and neutered. Having been there since the beginning, I really expected the web tech and browsers to improve and facilitate scientific data sharing. Not being able to natively decode and display any "exotic" imagery without a bunch of server-side nonsense is frustrating.

Today's client machines have so much capability but become totally balkanized when you can't just serve an image tag and display a real scientific image. Instead you either have to hope the users install extra "workstation" tools to display an image after downloading, or deploy absurdly over-engineered "image servers" to do the basic image rendering and ship plain 8-bit JPEGs to the client.

Why can't a browser natively provide some basic range-mapping color transfer function tools for high bit-depth images in an image tag? Why can't it provide a pan-zoom viewing mode for high resolution images in an image tag?