skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they are much better than a 2-stroke but still far worse than e.g. a modern vehicle because the emissions technology is either much much simpler or not present at all.
Honestly though, Fly.io feels like it's off into the future in terms of hosting platforms. Undoubtedly they'll have to work on the reliability problems, not denying that - however, for anyone that can tolerate a bit of reliability issues, which to be honest, is more people than will readily admit it, it might just be worth the trouble for developer experience that legitimately feels like it's from the future.
That would go against the majorities preference within my country where everyone is equal under the law. Other groups of people in other places may feel differently in their sovereign nations. There is no global authority here to resolve these kinds of disputes or impose it's will on those nations.
There's no reason to believe we can successfully run away from all the problem's technology's caused with more technology, specifically tech that doesn't even exist yet and that, more importantly, is not profitable. Even green energy just is not profitable even though it's increasingly affordable. In a weakly regulated capitalist society, that's a death sentence for it. Nobody's saying abandon the cities and go back to the dark ages. But we need to be much more judicious in our production and use of technology.
As we become more interested in the relatively new information about these materials, different kinds of conversations are occurring than we've had in the past. To facilitate these new interests, it's entirely possible that some of the more specific terms could/should/will become part of the household or water-cooler vernacular. BPA already has.

> deflective nerdery

FWIW, the point about carbon bonds was actually a response to nerdery that's already present here, in a forum intended for digging into the nerdy details of various subjects.
If I had the kind of brain to grok vector transformations, I'd build my own game engine. But I don't, so I decide to write stories on the side instead.

The guys who can do that stuff are wizards
The bigger threat, imo, is a device that is still authenticated or trusted by some service I've forgotten about. A bank, email provider, Apple, etc. Yes, it's "easy" to fix any single one of these but hard to remember them all.
> A thing as basic as a bread staple to have different names in the same region seems very significant.

Nah. It's just the result of a long history. In Italy, different towns can call the same specialties with completely different names (crescentina / gnocco fritto, etc...), often simply out of spite or because of some long-forgotten feud.

40 years ago, in Rome a pizza was often called a "torta", which is the word the rest of Italy uses for sweet cakes.
outside of nyc, this is going to have a major impact on quality of life. don't let perfection be the enemy of good.
How much does using Graphene OS instead of an iPhone or stock Android help insulate from this pervasive monitoring?
It's comments like this that moved me to claim, in our infra/ops job post, the benefit "The most lovable user base in the whole technology industry, and a company culture that will keep you in touch with them directly."
How to Speak Confidently When You Don't Feel Confident
I mean, an immutable website for consumption is exactly what most people want. I want to differentiate content editing and content viewing much the same way in software development you edit source code which is then built into an immutable read-only artifact.

Is it really such a foreign concept that people want a dedicated editing-focused mode whose source is published into the final wiki page for viewing? Is this not how basically all tools worked pre-Notion?
Data Compression == AI?
The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200.
Awesome to hear that what we're doing resonates! Appreciate the support :)
Code review on stacked diffs was awesome for bigger features.
"No! Handle units! @milk{4%cup} should be trivially convertible to liters"

No! That's silly and it's not how cooking works! This way you get stupid recipes like on American cooking Youtube channels that just run their volumetric measurements through a converter and end up with recipes that call for 234 grams of flour, 13.5 grams of this or that spice and 78 ml of whatever. Recipes are (well, should be) tuned to the measurement system they use, and packaging availability in the area it targets, so that you get recipes that use e.g. 400ml of coconut milk (because that's the most common can size around here), whole numbers in amounts of ingredients etc. Converting between units in cooking and baking is not simply using a unit conversion calculator on your phone!

(and that's not even mentioning that there are UK, Australian and US cups, tablespoons and teaspoons)
> There are two kinds of platform companies : the kind where you can get your Python or Rust or Julia code running nicely, and the kind where you find a way to recompile it to Javascript.

Throwing shade at cloudflare edge workers?
Congrats, Anisa!
Intel’s Meaningless Margin Chart
1950 meters, about 6400 feet. That doesn't seem at all high. Rocky Mountain National Park in USA has lots of campsites much higher.

Is there something about the Alps that limits campsite elevation? Climate or geography?
I love to cook, but I often have a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast. It's fast and easy. I can see the appeal when you just want to get started on your day.
The second most frequent thing I eat is congee, I make a big batch and then freeze it. It's easy.

If I know I am going to be burning a lot of calories, I will make eggs w/ pancakes, toast or home fries or some breakfast tacos with salsa, crispy home fries, refried beans and/or eggs.

I enjoy the creative process of coming up with new recipes and also like what I cook so that keeps me really motivated to continue preparing food....
The End of the Internet (2006)
Started being end of the internet at 2006 according to wayback machine
I could spend days in front of just one of his real works.
True...

But the thing is, with determination, in 1000 years, that printout might be legible, with great care and delicacy.

Whereas there probably isn't a single digital medium in the world that will be. (All right, punch cards or paper tape, but both require very specific skills, rather than just being able to read an alphabet with your bare eyes.)

Compactness is sometimes overrated.
CQS is super important. That was a key tool for selecting the LED that we did. Thanks for bringing that up!
TBH I have no idea [1] but I have quite a low limit of expenses using the API (10 bucks) and I'm yet to reach it.

Besides that, you can as well log in via web (That I haven't done, but it's possible)

As a side note, even thought the friction might be too high I couple it with the same programmer's MacWhisper, so that when I need a large text I just speak to the computer.

[1] Geez. I just checked, and my cumulative expenses for June are a staggering 0.27 USD
CentOS stream isn't stable, it's a rolling distro. That's like asking "why can't people running RHEL go to Arch Linux or OpenSuSE TumbleWeed?"
The simple answer is: we sell something people want to pay for (VM time, network services, etc). We'll obviously want to improve our margins over time, but there's a market price for this stuff and we don't have pricing power.

I don't think you can build an interesting public cloud without raising money, unfortunately. At least, not without jumping back in time 25 years and starting then.
RIP Paul :')
> Sudo has displayed an endless parade of heap overflows and suchlike.

sudo is 43 years old though

> It is written in the extreme YOLO style by people with very poor taste.

Sounds a bit exaggerated to me. Do you happen to have data on this?
Exactly what went through my head when reading

> There are customers who are comfortable engaging with tiny Fly.io, and others who are comfortable engaging with the Fly.io that raised an additional $70MM led by EQT ventures

There's the other kind of customer who sees that "$70MM led by EQT ventures" is a liability and will inevitably screw over their customers at a later date.
The math is pretty straight forward.

Cost to make article = $2000

Article gets 100,000 views

Fly.io converts 1% of views to paying customers

1,000 new customers.

Revenue per customer = $10 monthly

MRR goes up by $10,000

Obviously I am pulling these numbers out of my ass, but there a pretty direct path to value.

This is way more efficient than Google ads in a competitive space, I can only imagine hosting related ads are $3-5 per click...
Is the photo in the article a real one? If yes I thought that the NASA might have a few more dollars in budget for a simulation, it seems 4 sheet painted walls and some sand
NYC Launches 1st Drug “Public Health” Vending Machine
Thank you. I appreciate the response.

My ISP can do what they want with their equipment but I prefer anything inside my firewall to not phone home.
Thanks for reporting this - I think we need to optimise some of our heavier animations and lazy load some of them :)
Sure that could work but requires investment in the vans. The way I'm thinking this works you just need a guy with a cell phone & a bicycle.
I Gave up on the youtube video.

Honestly though, this is still better than some of the "secure password" prompts I've encountered in life.
The GUIfication of LLMs. Yuck. I’d better join the local model camp before bad ideas like this catch on and fully nerf this tech.
Bayer: The future is in regenerative agriculture
I was planning an "Our incredible journey" post, but "We razed a bunch of money" is much better.
What do you make with those?

Bean and apple soup, mmm
Wouldn't that be a really short and boring blog post?
That's true. Our pitch is more or less revolves around the first part of the audio. So, it is definitely possible to add Hi and the name instead of editing the message in between which makes the uncanny valley part more pronounced.

Thanks a lot for the suggestion.
We will implement this.
Which is strange, because taking off is far easier than landing.
You're not wrong, but is this the way we want art to be created? Should arts be primarily pursued by those who have the means to defer or lose income, or those who have the reputation and connections to nearly guarantee economic success?
It's crazy, I mean, theoretically you could run a retail business off a smartphone and a Square account. Who can afford to outsource IT to a MSP if you can barely afford to pay your webmaster?

When you rent a building, you get some form of physical security included. You may have fire and burglar alarms, a guard, doors that lock and a key to get in, you get insurance. Physical security is very well-understood.

It's a world of difference with IT and Cybersecurity. You can purchase devices and apps and you can subscribe to services and get in all kinds of trouble in the cloud, but who's managing your Cybersecurity? It's a cultural concept too, not merely technical: businesses will need to understand Cybersecurity in order to prepare for threats and respond to attacks in the same way that they do for physical security. That's quite intractable for the time being. There's a huge learning curve and I think there's a huge opportunity for growth in the Cyber industry, as SMBs realize they need this, but still don't know what they want.
reviewstack is the thing now, adds some parts of phab UX ontop of github apis. Been enjoying using it for oss stuff oursite meta and fixed a limitation of it recently, https://reviewstack.dev/facebook/sapling/pull/656 shows what it looks like with the versioning available
Thank you for the clarification. The descriptions I'm seeing imply that your telemetry code is embedded in network enabled devices. It's good to know that this data collection only applies to your whitebox.
Yes, it really smells like a strange about-face. What is Apple's real stance here?
One of the great things about both Unity and Unreal is that both engines let you get a basic project up and running quickly. Throw in a cube, give it controls and movement, and build a little level, and things basically work. The game engines have handled physics, lighting, shaders, camera, etc without you needing to touch them.

The tipoffs you are detecting are those game engine default settings. One distinction between them is that Unreal has motion blur, camera aperture effects, and some fancy lighting configured by default. Unity is more "basic" by default. For small projects, a dev is focusing on other things rather than pouring a lot of energy into how light reflects off surfaces or whatever. Each engine is capable of really unique looks, but they also look pretty good even if a dev doesn't touch it.
Professor Gary Nolan of Stanford doesn’t seem to think Havana syndrome is a “non event” considering he was contacted by the CIA to do brain scans of the victims.

I agree it’s frustrating because the entire situation is classified, but this is how the intelligence community works. We can’t show our hands by making reports to the public. I hope one day we can.

There is a discussion in congress about trying to change the classification system since the default is to over-classify everything, but we will see if that happens.
So, there was probably some person born in a manger a couple months after the first year AD, on the day after February 28th, in Korea... When did he turn 30 exactly?
> The planet will die off first.

Definitely not. It may go through a bottleneck in which humanity has to adapt or die (not for the first time, I might add), but (if anything) after the climate has stabilized and life has adapted it will be more fecund than anything -- all those new shallow seas will be totally awesome biomes.
It’s case-insensitive.
coincidentally we have a lot of diseases that have skyrocketed in the last 50 years.

Yes Perhaps it’s not plastic itself but what plastic enables.
There are multiple factors:

Doubles can exactly represent all 16 digit ints (IIRC) which is good enough for most use cases, you can catch the out of range cases (as you should do with ints as well)

If you use long ints you must track the decimal precision along the value which is not always trivial if you use mixed currencies.

Long ints are not guaranteed to correctly roundtrip through json serialisation / deserialisation

Doubles are easier to handle in the frontend

Currency math is different enough from regular math that you need special operator functions anyway so it’s not like ints are easier to handle either
In principle looking up the barcodes would not just find duplicates but let you look up bibliographic records and make a catalog of your books.

I did a short pilot project for scanning barcodes on books in my collection and gave up quickly because many of the books I have are too old to have an ISBN. This doesn't have to be very old, I just took this 1985 book off the shelf

https://monoskop.org/images/a/a0/Foster_Hal_Recodings_Art_Sp...

and it has no barcode or ISBN. If you look on page 4 of the PDF, however, you will find the "Library of Congress Cataloging In Progress Data" and find a mini biblographic record, the number 85-70184 is the LoC catalog number and points to this record

https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchA...

you can download all the MARC records from the LoC so this is a good way to get metadata, I took a 1966 book off the shelf and found it also had a LCCN.

With ISBN I had other problems too. Some books turned up no records, also I have some books from South End Press (I knew somebody who knew the people there) and they notoriously reuse ISBN numbers as a way to "stick it to the man".

I think OCRing the LoC record at the start of books though would be a better approach.

The LCCN is supposed to identify a "book" but not an edition,

https://oldmatemedia.com/guides/how-to-get-a-lccn/

for instance the number is the same for the hardcover or softcover. It's probably still non-trivial to find "duplicates" (do you count the many different editions of a Shakespeare play as "duplicates?) but you'd have good metadata to do the task.
That's okay, even native English speakers don't speak native English. Nobody knows how this language works lol
My impression is that when fly.io has been discussed in the recent past on HN, the conversation tends to be less about databases and more about Heroku alternatives. (?)

Out of curiosity, how _does_ fly.io see itself in relation to Heroku?
Yeah. The generics use a different ER mechanism, which is surely part of the problem, but others report issues with non-ER versions, too, presumably due either to purity/consistency issues or different filler material, so I doubt the ER difference is the only problem—we did use name brand non-ER at first before switching to extended release, and that wasn't even close to as ineffective as generics of the ER. I've read (but not confirmed) that some adhd generics are also allowed to use cheaper-to-manufacture almost-but-not-quite-identical isomers that haven't been tested and may have significantly worse efficacy, though, no clue if that affects ours (or if that's even true, really).
They should, probably. We have partner-like customers who are paying actual hardware costs and then a platform fee for us to manage it.

You can only build so many company margins on top of capital expenditures.
I’m not a pilot, but my impression is that the reaction time required to take over in a dangerous situation is much less strict with planes than with cars. Except when the plane is close to the ground, I suppose, but pilots know when this is happening and can specifically pay more attention for that brief period. The plane autopilot physically can’t cause you to crash within a second at any point mid flight, AFAIK, unlike with a car “autopilot”.
Same for me on Firefox, though Chromium and Safari seem to work
I’d go further and say it’s the best app I’ve ever used on Windows. Snappy, Vim controls, can’t ask for more than that.
You can also meaningfully resist spying by reducing the amount of sensitive user info you hold or building a transparent system. Apple has not done that, so they are now in a position where they have to reconcile what "fair data collection" even means.

If you're just asking me, they bungled it. MacOS shouldn't have ever gotten stuck in the Windows 8 Software as a Service trap, because it radically redirected their trajectory from "well-made personal devices" to "golden handcuffs". Don't believe me? Just try to install a freedom-respecting OS on your iPhone. You can't. It's a goose-chase, because Apple insists they don't even make computers in the first place. It's an iPhone, running a very special superior version of UNIX you're not entirely allowed to look at, but you can trust is secure.

So of course an authoritarian regime can compel spying regardless. They've probably been doing it for the past decade, given what we know about FIVE EYES and PRISM. When you're a company like Apple or Microsoft, they just update the software with the requested backdoor/vulnerability installed and push it to the closed codebase. Even Apple's proposed E2E encryption could be backdoored. Nobody would ever know the wiser.

If you want the reason I'm mad, it's because it echoes the reasons I left the ecosystem with MacOS Catalina. The idea of Apple defaulting to you trusting them on so many things is kinda sickening. They've had the opportunity to build groundbreaking trustless systems with unparalleled openness and plausible deniability for all user data. Now the users are bartering for a better (but also closed) E2E system with a company that doesn't want to hear them out. It's not my jam, I'm not going to be held hostage by my computer because Apple has a fetish for making extreme decisions on the behalf of their users.
I wouldn’t be surprised. Concerta (osmotic time release) is so much more effective than normal generics (non-osmotic time release) that they shouldn’t even be considered the same drug.
Why wouldn't the government just announce that the new tech was created in any of 1000 labs? I am sure there is a scientist somewhere willing to take credit can get a nobel prize. Or just say it was discovered by Darpa, don't ask questions but here is how it works?
People forget AWS is 20 years old. When I routinely remind people of that fact they often remark (incredulously) with "WHAT? Really?" When I think about it the entire paradigm of "regions" itself seems completely antiquated in the grand scheme of things. AWS has made a few moves on this but in the end you're largely still tied to this fundamental regional concept in terms of control planes, etc and you incur the ridiculousness that is VPCs, wild billing and availability issues, all kinds of hacks, stacks, and effort all over the place to have multiple regions/AZs, etc.

I suspect that later starters like Fly, Cloudflare, etc with their approaches of (more or less) compute at edge with no concept of region etc will grow more and more to dominate the cloud space with AWS region-based approaches primarily relegated to "legacy applications" that are stuck there. It may take a generation or so to get there but more and more the next crop of startups, etc are building on things like Fly instead of AWS and friends.

When I think about it the region based approaches are more akin to "hosted elastic datacenter" than they are what could be described as a "true cloud" - where it's just everywhere and not even a consideration.
You’re missing the ones that are
> just been knocked unconscious for a number of hours

You should try not to be unconscious for too long, that's like, super bad for you.
We basically built an all-wooden house: Timber posts and beams (not the flimsy sticks that are used commonly in construction in the US but solid 8" posts), interlocking OSB-boards on the inside for air tightness (this can also be achieved with other wood-based techniques, my house has an air tightness comparable to passive house construction), wood fibre insulation material (15+ inches on all sides and the roof), clay plastering on the inside (great for thermal mass).

The house is really air tight but moisture can get out through the walls easily without causing rot. There are thermal bridges. Window frames are from oak. We have a bit of plastics-based insulation around the foundation and the roof is covered with an oil-based-rubber, but that's about it except for smaller items like cable insulations, switches, etc.

We did some of the interior stuff DIY but the major parts of the construction were done by various contractors.
> But people didn’t read the details and instead imagined it worked in a much simpler way, drowning out any useful conversation about what it was actually doing.

I read the details. I think I understood it perfectly well. I found it very objectionable.
Maybe it's not necessary anymore, but wasn't the virtual DOM made for performance reasons since updating the DOM used to be really really slow?
Human psychology is a huge consideration in selling the idea that a long term mission and any results obtained will justify the time, effort, cost and risk involved.

The only realistic result at this time is most likely bragging rights and a few Mars rocks if we're lucky and few dead people if not.