skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that the article is making me think about my beliefs in the long tail and how they may be in tension with my beliefs in the pareto principle.

The core long tail claim, as I remember it, was that the _area_ under the long tail was larger than the _area_ under the head.

Sometimes much larger.

I vaguely recall a claim that many businesses chopped off the market tail because it was often too expensive to serve those tiny segments (inventory, retail space, distribution, etc.), but that new technologies were reducing or eliminating some of these costs and making it possible to serve emerging, smaller markets profitably.

I wonder if some portion of businesses that see pareto distributions in their sales are just lopping off long tail revenues? I thought that was the central claim.

I also wonder if those pareto variants (i.e., 95/5 splits) were businesses that had potentially over optimized on their largest volume offerings?

Amazon was the quintessential long tail example, and I'd be surprised if anyone could claim that their their SKU count has decreased since 2006.

YouTube comes to mind as another great example of a business capitalizing on this phenomenon.

Consolidating markets (like ??) may be counter examples.

Now I'm curious about how to choose when to push in which direction.
My clusters don't necessarily have one machine, but I have a few clusters with a single node.

K3S is pretty lightweight and kubernetes is much more than cluster orchestration, so the pros win against the cons.
Great questions.

There is some heavy compute - most of the real value is in our pay calculations and compliance features which are all based on algorithms that calculate correct pay based on legal requirements.

But mostly it's just having lots of concurrent users. For a while a few droplets was plenty, and then one day we hit a tipping point where it was overwhelming.
I find that solar panels have very fine time resolution as well. When illuminated by the light coming from a CRT monitor and plugged into a 192khz motherboard audio interface, they were able to clearly resolve individual scanlines at 31.5 KHz, each with a sharp illumination peak falling off over microseconds to milliseconds. And IMO plugging a solar panel into an audio jack or cxadc (cheap high-speed 1-channel capture card) is about as realistic as filling a camera sensor frame with a LED's direct light (unsure if indirect reflections are bright enough).

In terms of cameras, I suspect my Pixel 4a's rolling shutter isn't truly continuous, but has blocks of 4 or so "scanlines" (haha) which start and stop recording light simultaneously.
> massively empowering its non-ethnic [Anglo-American edit] and peripheral regions

Like in the US and UK and Australia and New Zealand and Canada?

EDIT: RESPONSE TO BELLOW

Over 14% of Texans live in poverty, and moreover, "twenty-three percent of all persons in the Texas-Mexico border counties are living under the Federal Poverty Line, and 25 percent of persons in the border counties lack health insurance." [0]

[0] https://www.dshs.texas.gov/hiv-std-program/hiv-dashboard/tex...
I think the assumption that advanced civilisations emit radio waves has been pretty much falsified at this point. We have all but stopped emitting anything detectable less than 100 years after we started.
Show HN: Build production grade web applications with authentication and GraphQL
Rocketgraph is a complete backend. Think of it like Firebase, but much better and open-sourced.

1. AWS RDS Postgres Database with 20 GB storage.

2. Hasura Console(SSL enabled deployment) to GraphQLise the Postgres DB and write granular level authorisation rules. It also provides realtime functionality so you can “subscribe” to your data however you like. Combine this with the authorisation rules and ensure that there is no data leak.

3. Hasura Batteries to manage Authentication with email/password, social and otp. It’s open-sourced.

4. Serverless functions to write additional backend code. All commits to your Github repo are picked up by our bot and compiled as thin AWS Lambdas.

I wrote a ton of tutorials and videos to help you get started with Rocketgraph. It’s free for 1 week without CC. You can build production grade web applications in minutes with Auth, DB and Realtime right out of the box.
> US, a sole world leader in the 1990s-2000s, had the responsibility and opportunity to uphold international law

That’s a hell of a punt there. You said “the US set the precedent” for disregarding international law, starting by citing the bombing of Yugoslavia in ‘99. Russia was already violating the human rights chapters in ‘95, and the Soviet Union (alongside America) was violating the foreign-intervention chapters since basically they were penned.

So no, there was no precedent. America continued with the status quo. You’re arguing Washington failed to create a new precedent, as it did when it had global nuclear hegemony in the aftermath of WWII. That’s a legitimate argument. But a different one from that which you’re making.
I agree, if you don't have the time and don't find it fun, managed services in the cloud is a better idea.
HSBC and Standard Chartered pressed by HK regulator to take on crypto clients
Thanks for sharing! What is 'BOM'?
I know mustache, handlebars and many other scripting languages. I never used react and have no idea what tailwind is.

As mostly backend dev with some slight frontend skills I don't get the selling point of this.
> Between 1981 and 1982, the Xerox Star moved the scrollbar to the right to get it out of the way and reduce visual clutter. Scroll arrows pointed inwards in the direction the content would move based on user studies, and + and – buttons allowed for scrolling by pages. The thumb was a fixed size diamond, independent of how much of document is visible. Clicking in the thumb elevator region would jump to that part of document.[7]
Automated Translations: I18next and Deepl
Thanks. Means a lot, particularly coming from you.
https://archive.is/vuq3A
Also, it is starting to become the case that CUDA isn't that important anymore, both pyTorch and TF have numerous other backends and the programmer doesn't need to know what it runs on. And the GGML project has shown that you can come a long way with a good CPU and large "normal" RAM and 4/8 bit weights, with no CUDA in sight. You can definitely enter this domain without having a full-fledged CUDA replacement from the start.
> CR-3 went offline in September 2009 for RFO-16. While the reactor was down, the old steam generators were to be replaced. There are 426 steel tendons within the concrete walls of the reactor containment dome which reinforce the dome. Plan developer Sargent & Lundy specified that 97 tendons be loosened. Progress rejected that number as excessive. The next proposal was to loosen 74 tendons, which was typical of other nuclear plants doing the procedure. According to a Progress employee, "de-tensioning the tendons is a very expensive and time-consuming effort", so the number was further reduced to 65. Progress engaged Bechtel to provide a 3rd party review, which agreed that 65 was appropriate. However, when the work was performed, only 27 tendons were loosened, and a foreman and supervisor sent emails questioning the way the tendons were loosened.
> since we owned the hardware it meant that efficient utilization wasn't a requirement for us anymore

This is a great point. Hyper focus on optimizing micro-containers is costly and sucks up a lot of time. You can still deploy like this in the cloud though. On AWS make a three-year reservation of a c6a.32xlarge to get 128 vCPU for $16k annually. Hetzner is cheaper, 80 vCPU for about €2,506 annually.

[1] https://instances.vantage.sh/aws/ec2/c6a.32xlarge

[2] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/rx170
don't want to release the source code because of moral reservations about how people might use it. Ok upstanding citizen.
You mean making it even easier to rob the place in broad daylight by just donning a hi-vis vest and acting like you belong? I mean, look at them safety cones, it's clear I'm working here!
Your "single core" computer contains a lot of other concurrently operating hardware like storage and network cards.
Like all attempts before it, this will accomplish little. The cost of higher education has increased bc the government has implicitly funded it via massive credit backstops across the student loan complex. This has artificially reduced the cost of capital resulting in much higher borrowing limits.

Students are able to borrow more, so schools increase tuition and see no appreciable drop in demand. Rinse and repeat.

Stop meddling in free markets.
Btw, I love this type of video where you breakdown and explain code like this and I've subscribed. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.

Especially with games, I think the video format lends itself well to demonstrating the effects of the code organically.
Show HN: Fleetbase An Open Source Alternative to OnFleet-JungleWorks-HyperTrack
Fleetbase is an open-source platform designed for the efficient management and orchestration of logistics and supply chain operations. It serves as both a powerful operational tool for businesses and a flexible foundation for developers. The platform's core is built around a collection of "extensions," which create a customizable framework capable of meeting a wide range of supply chain and logistics requirements.

Each extension in Fleetbase is purposefully engineered to fulfil specific roles within the supply chain and logistics ecosystem. Users have the freedom to create their own extensions, expanding the Fleetbase ecosystem capabilities for various use cases. This extensible nature keeps Fleetbase at the forefront of addressing diverse logistical and supply chain needs now and in the future.

The entire platform and ecosystem of extensions and apps are open source and available on Github.
Current extensions provide use cases for:

* Developers building in the supply chain and logistics space with API, Webhooks, Sockets and developer friendly Extension.

* Fleet management and last mile operations solution via the FleetOps extension.

* FleetOps can also be used to enable real time tracking using the open source Navigator app.

* On-demand e-commerce using the Storefront extension which can enable marketplace or store behind a headless API, along with an open source mobile app Storefront app.

See more use cases on the README

If you're a builder in the supply chain and logistics space be sure to watch/star the repo on Github to follow our project as it continues to develop.
True, I can also imagine different directions.

I think it could be useful to have several categories of tag

- topics: science, art, politics, etc.

- purpose: news, opinion, explanation, introduction, humor, etc. (for example, anything from producthunt.com is introduction)

- format: text, audio, video

I think it's good to have wide coverage, because it means much better filtering/sorting, both for manual and automatic.
It's not happening everywhere: we don't have this problem in Japan.

>Cheap loans inflated the price of housing very fast

Interest rates here are 0.5% for primary homes. That's not the problem. The problem is a lack of supply. Over here, there's constant new construction, and zoning codes don't prevent new construction or higher density the way they do in other countries. So houses don't appreciate; they depreciate. So people don't use them as "investments"; they're just a place to live.

>Corporate landlords are just another facet of this imbalance, they can play around with their stock of vacant homes to keep inflated prices

We have corporate landlords here too. High competition and lots of supply keep prices stable.
This was technically possible before. I think the approach used by many - myself included - is to simply embed results in a markdown code block and the match it with regex pattern. Then you just need to phrase the prompt to generate the desired output.

This is an example of that generating the arguments for the MongoDB's `db.runCommand()` function: https://aihelperbot.com/snippets/cliwx7sr80000jj0finjl46cp
In my current codebase there is a lot more overriding going on than simply implementing the retrieve/list/etc... methods. On a quick review I found overrides for:
- get_object
- get_serializer_class
- perform_create
- get_queryset
- get_serializer_context
- perform_destroy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_Nuclear_Power_Plant

"It was estimated that the plant’s investment cost would rise to between 22 and 23 yuan per watt from an originally budgeted 14 yuan"

So about 60% cost overrun.
Why would I ever reboot my laptop without a need to? I only reboot when there's a kernel update, or if I'm doing something where the laptop might get lost or stolen (since powering off will lock the disk encryption).
That sounds like the problem to solve then. Otherwise you're just applying a band-aid to an aortic rupture.
This is still pretty fast - impressive! Are there any tricks you're doing to speed things up?
I'd resist policies that threaten my job too.
I think our success is despite a lot of decisions (specifically the ones in the post), not because of them.
How can you send an email from the front-end without the next scammer using your keys to do the same?
AI Hacker House in Norway – Is this a good idea?
It depends if you annoy one or not. They're trigger happy and there's no walking it back once it happens.
Doesn't the ESP32-C3 have DAC's?
You might be thinking of radius. The diameter is ~500km.
That's what the average hooman being wants tho, why do you think Tiktok is so popular. Most of the content on there is scripted bullshit/fake scenarios and some dumbass' face "reacting" to some other content. That's what people like...for some reason...
Europe votes to regulate AI and ban use of live facial recognition
Zed Code Editor from web store is Visual Code replacement for even obsolete Chromebooks.

SSH Agent for Google Chrome
MindMap Tab
Chromebook Recovery Utility
Shameless plug for my own python GUI toolkit: guietta! http://guietta.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

It is built on top of PyQt5. But be very careful if you use conda, because conda decided to rename the PyQt5 packages, resulting in near-irrecoverable env crashes if conda and pip are mixed. In that case, make sure to use conda-forge to install.
Contrary to the dogma of certain politico-economic camps, a monopoly (the actual presence of market power and absence of substitution effect marking an absence of actual competition in some space) can exist without competition being illegal. So, “Any…competitor could even legally re-implement [CUDA] for their hardware” is not a counter-argument to CUDA being the basis for an actual existing monopoly.

It might be an argument that, to the extent that that is the sole basis for the monopoly, the monopoly is unlikely to be a long-term stable condition, but its not a counterargument to it existing.
How Can Computers Calculate Sine, Cosine, and More? – The CORDIC Algorithm
Aside from the technical problems, like discoverability and others, the problem from my POV is that most federated instances are run by infantile people who would de-federate one another because of (mostly stupid) political disagreements. Which makes your life difficult as an user, on top of the many technical problems everyone in HN is able to bring to light.

The big problem, IMO, is human, and no amount of tech is going to solve that.

At least Reddit is big, what does the alternative social media bring to the table, that is not a dream of becoming something they themselves sabotage every time they have the opportunity.

I'm not going to invest my time into comunities run by crybabies. Centralized social media has it's problems in this regard too but at least they put huge content in front of me.

I've been researching alternatives to reddit lately, and I already found drama between Kbin and some Lemmy instance because some kulturwars I don't give a flying shit about.

I live in a world surrounded by people that has, most likely, different political opinions than me. My friends, my GF, my family, they all have very conflicting opinions about many items, yet we get along together. Why can't you do the same with a fucking forum, you dimwit.
Before Java 9 it could have been done using Unsafe. VarHandle just provides a slightly higher level construct.
To be fair I am using a very limited 'style' for all my emails and usually they just work. Everywhere

In my experience the more shiny the email is, the more logos and whatever components are around the actual content the less clicks I get. So i try to be just a branded level above a text email.
The value of adulthood as a period of certainty has declined for many, which means that this period is being delayed.

Delayed? It means it’s being eliminated for some. Like Einstein, who said;

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
Life Timeline in a Spreadsheet
> 2021-05-01

No it's not :)
On a typical write back cache, the cache line is written back to memory (or to a lower hierarchy) only when needed: either some other core wants it or it needs to be evicted to make space for other data. For a write mostly task, if you write to
the same line again, it is likely to be still in the M state and data can be written to it immediately. Later, when the line is written back, the separate writes are effectively coalesced. But if some other core is concurrently reading from the head of the log, it can be suboptimal as the cacheline will keep bouncing between M and S state generating coherence traffic. This is still more scalable than two threads writing to the same cacheline of course.
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Check out Cloudflare D1
> `dispatch_semaphore/dispatch_sync` blocks the thread instead of yielding asychronously (can cause "thread explosion")

dispatch_group can do waits without blocking threads, but asynchronicity is overrated, and dispatch's design makes it easy to overdo. Having default global concurrent queues was probably a mistake.

Swift concurrency is a more modern design here.
I think the context was rather different. The reddit thing was slightly out of the blue; lots of basically happy Redditors and then suddenly, chaos.

Twitter, by contrast, well, there's a reason that Twitter users affectionately called old-Twitter the hellsite; there's always been a slightly sadomasochistic relationship there. And bear in mind that this happened as part of a collection of stupid decisions by new management, and rather late in that series. The attitude, by the time it happened, was far more "well, screw this, then" than fight-the-power; Twitter was kinda ruined _anyway_. For people who cared about Twitter-as-community, it was, I think, just part of the decline and fall.

Personally, I'd already left twitter when it happened, though if I hadn't left over some earlier nonsense by Naughty Old Mr Car I'd certainly have left over the API (the first-party app is frankly unusable).

There's also, I think, a question of what can reasonably be achieved. Twitter is not being run rationally; you can't expect that it will respond in a normal way to negative consequences to its actions, because, well, I mean, see all changes over the last 9 months or so. Reddit, by contrast, is a fairly normal company with normal investors and a board and everything; if it perceives that its actions are hurting it it might reconsider.
Absolutely. I wouldn't say they made all the right choices, whatever that means, but I don't remember Nvidia being stagnant.

Attacking the x86 servers was the best, most obvious thing they could've done. As it turns out,nit saved the company.

Going straight against Nvidia, as people suggest (for completely selfish reasons), would've killed them
> Like in the US and UK and Australia and New Zealand and Canada?

On the peripheral front, absolutely. Texans and Alaskans are rich and powerful off their oil, and have the power to tell Washington to go screw itself in major respects. (Similar for Albertans.)

Ethnic tensions are more complex, and on this unexpectedly Putin represents the liberal front, but both American tribes and Canadian First Nations have more legal autonomy than e.g. Siberia. (Chechnya being an unfortunate model exception.)

In the end, China may succeed where America failed. Where America saw a potential democracy, Beijing sees a spigot of resources with a contained military with which Moscow cannot create trouble outside its own borders. That may be the least-worst solution for the time being.

EDIT: Yes, Texas isn’t a utopia. No, this isn’t evidence of Washington having an imperial relationship with Austin. There are disagreements, of course, but both sides can and do force the other to back down.
LoC, the ultimate metric
There can be many reasons that homeless people avoid shelters, it's not entirely fair to say that it's only one reason.

I grew up in a very bad place in the UK and I knew many homeless people (different than homeless people in the US for sure, much lower propensity for mental health issues for example) but they avoided shelters because many homeless shelters aren’t safe. Any possessions you have will be stolen while you sleep. Women are molested and raped. Lice are all over. There are limited beds so giving up your "sure-fire" place in an underpass for a potential bed is not ideal.

You have to leave at 7 am and can’t return until 5pm at the earliest, and they’re first come first serve. Some shelters make you attend religious services.

Some shelters will "encourage" you to pay a fee to go to them.

It's very easy to become homeless and very difficult to get out of it (I mean, who has the finances to have 2 months rent, a deposit and enough to cover a failed background check), so it's not good to tar all homeless people with the "drug-use" brush.
I disagree. But note that I never said it was Siemens fault. Or Framatome. I have no clue on that, so won’t make any claim on the subject.

And frankly, I don’t care. I look for flaws in processes, rather than trying to assign blame. Especially trying to assign blame to a country…

So my claim is that the design complexity is due to forcing Framatome (then Areva) and Siemens into designing something together. An alliance willed by politicians, in the name of Europe, or maybe French-German cooperation, but certainly not something wanted by the industrial players.

There lies the original flaw. The rest is just consequences.

I’m sure Framatome would have preferred to iterate on its own design (itself an iteration on a design of Westing House, Fr-am-atome stands for French-American-Atome). Same for Siemens.

12 years ago, when Germany decided to get out of nuclear power altogether, the EPR was already designed. Contracts were signed. Constructions ongoing.

Do you really think the design complexity would suddenly go away 12 years ago? France, UK, Finland and China signed for that overly complex EPR design, and that’s what they are getting.

Much faster in China, because they actually know how to build things, while in (at least some parts of) Europe we seem to have dropped the ball quite a bit… but that’s another subject.
Modern, no.

Some used to, however.

PA-RISC PA-8200 (1997) had 2MB iCache and dCache, up from 1MB of PA-8000. The last two PA-RISC models did 768kB L1 per core, with 32MB or 64MB of L2
Duke Nukem 3D was built on the 'build' engine, which was built by a super cool 18yo called Ken Silverman http://advsys.net/ken/ .

Back in the 90s John Carmack was asked "If you could just hire anybody from the 3D world, who would you hire?", and he named Ken http://advsys.net/ken/carmken.htm
Assuming DNI chooses to divulge that tidbit formally. Per Biden's published interpretation of that law, they can withhold anything on grounds of 'national security' (note not the narrower 'sources and methods' scope).

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

What could 'national security' be construed as? :
https://twitter.com/gdemaneuf/status/1669165325722722306?t=M...