skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be right for Rockstar games. Last one I played on PC was San Andreas. I mean in theory as a game developer you can add larger textures and whatnot in a PC game. If you want to spend money on it.

My impression generally is that, especially for the PS5 generation, there is a negligible difference unless you want those 180 fps and 8k and 16x fake frames or whatever DLSS is.
As someone who only understands the benefit of IPv6 to be the much larger address pool, can you elaborate on how it would make this situation simpler?
Such sad news! Condolences to his family, friends and thousands of admirers worldwide. One way to commemorate his life is to donate to the charityware cause he championed: https://www.iccf-holland.org
It could be an entirely new hitherto unobserved phenomena, but that seems pretty unlikely. I think that having a bunch of tiny superconductors chunks separated by a regular conductor would explain a lot.
Wonder if his experience as a poet opened his mind to the kind of imagination you need in higher mathematics.
thanks Bram, you're a legend
Agreed, Terraform does a good job of this. But CloudFormation & CDK can also do this via Change Sets and CDK diff.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

https://blog.mikaeels.com/what-does-the-aws-cdk-diff-command...
Judging by that the announcement email came from his own email, I'm guessing there has been some sort of redundancy setup done when the medical condition was initially detected.
if anything the opposite is the case. As tools get more sophisticated and potent the value of human judgement goes up given the increased leverage of tool use. Tools are force multipliers. Humans today are much less expendable, and much more valued, than they ever were historically. (on display in just about every profession, even on battlefields)
The most influential video game in my life of learning was probably Robot Odyssey.

https://robotodyssey.online

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Odyssey
:q

:'( RIP Bram
Am I the only one who finds these rambling interviews hard to read? Many articles already have too much fluff around the core information, but interviews are even worse.
It seems unthinkable that Dang will not bestow this honor upon him. Given that it's currently early Saturday morning, we just have to wait.
There's the mostly 6502 compatible 16-bit WDC 65C816 that'd probably be a much better, less painfully minimalist starting point.

Apart from a MMU, the biggest hurdle I think for modern dev on the original 6502 is the lack of multiply/divide and the pain of having to either forgo modern levels of stack use or emulate a bigger stack.
I couldn't figure out, what is the difference between "on as in dawn" vs "on as in don"? I watched several examples but felt like the all sounded the same?
A couple of week ago the south part of the country was dealing with near record high temperatures, while the north was dealing with floods.
This absolutely deserves a black bar.<ESC>:wq
I just think it's sad because a lot of people are put off by this kind of snobbery in mathematics.

Joking or ironic or not it can still be harmful.
An absolute legend of computing, you fire up Vim you have his unforgettable name.RIP
> I feel this is one of those moments when the technical term "whew" is appropriate.

I thought mostly of "wow". They had a plan for a case when this "shout" didn't work. So they had at least two plans what could be done and the first one worked all right.

Half a century and 20 billion of kilometres from Earth and it still works.
Isn’t it a great reminder that technology is not progressed enough to even take advantage of 60TFLOPS.
mac isnt for gaming
We obviously remember this time differently. Most people I knew had PCs, the few that had Macs had only one thing in common: Enough money to afford one.

The only other place where I saw a considerable number of Mac deployments was university. So portraying it as a niche product for media people has some truth in it but is in my opinion far from the whole truth.
Linkwarden: Self-hosted, open-source collaborative bookmark manager
It didn’t pin, it bounces, if it was flux pinning it would not bounce when you push it down.
I did that after I had to bin a HP scanner due to non existent drivers.

Got a scanner instead that was fully supported on Linux and cursed HP for three generations.
I have this condition called a recurrent corneal abrasion. Basically, my eyelid occasionally adheres to the skin on my eyeball and rips it open when I open them too quickly after waking up. It is very painful. The only thing that helps is an ointment that I put in my eye before I go to sleep. It comes in a tiny little tube, costs $40, lasts about a month. The last few tubes, I've kept even though they were "empty"; thank the hoarder in me. This turned out to be a saving grace, as the ointment is often sold out at nearby pharmacies, and I can't afford a new tube a month, anyhow. There tends to be enough left in each, if I spend a while squeezing the shit out of it, to get a small drop (1/10th of the recommended dose) into each eye for a couple of weeks. That's a few more weeks of not waking up feeling like someone has taken a razor blade to my cornea. I'll take it.

Also something about Cuba. I think my point is that we're a bit too cavalier with used electronics these days. The embodied energy and materials are huge, and we just... throw them out, in many cases. I'd like us to get used to repurposing these resources before scarcity forces us to. Really squeezing every bit of use out of them that we can. Bonus: because it's not the Hot New Thing Someone Is Trying To Sell You, you'll likely be less subject to the Hot New Trend Of Actually Being The Product.

And, for what it's worth: an original Apple I just sold for almost $450k at auction. Someone wanted that.
For me, writing code is a way of thinking, and often the best way of thinking about a problem or question, or to start conceptualizing an entire project, is to write some running code as a sketch, a rough draft, a prototype.

If it has any merit, the running code informs the planning and decision-making process, stimulates thought and discussion. Parts of the draft, or even the whole thing, can be transformed, rewritten or refined, and become the basis of the solution and product.

Of course it depends on the goal and nature of the question. Sometimes it's better to talk and think things through in human language, deeply and thoroughly, before writing any code. It could be that the best solution is no code at all, to use an off-the-shelf product or service.

About "throwing away" code.. Imagine a musician with thousands of hours of playing, practice, informal or private performances and recordings - including piles of sketches and rough drafts that will never see the light of day. Only the best selection will be curated for the public, to make it into the final product. But the 99% that are "thrown away" was not a waste of time, they were a necessary part of the creative process to achieve the good stuff.
The issue with those git guis like the vscode one or github desktop is that they fundamentally misunderstand git.

they make it the default to merge current branch into current branch (pull with merge) and they default to committing large amounts of code under a simple message.

i know fulltime devs who use git every day, who have no idea what a rebase is - they think merge does what really rebase does, and thats mostly the fault of bad defaults.

git commit -p should be the default committing interface also; assuming you like git history which can be bisected, reverted, etc.
Cake or death?
The government is making the railway actively hostile now, now they directly control large parts of it. That includes lying to deny Delay Repay claims and accusing people of fraud claims. (Ditto refunds for abandoned journeys)

This shouldn’t put anyone off, quite the opposite. Be prepared to push for what you’re entitled to. If you need any assistance then http://railforums.co.uk is full of experts willing to help.

(Btw some train operators have 15 minutes as the minimum delay (eg Avanti))
> If your prefix is dynamic it gets a bit ugly then you have to use link local addresses and something like NPTv6 or NAT66 on the gateway.

The home connection is probably dynamic. I asked them about paying extra for a fixed IP and they said they're all out. They meant IPv4 of course but that doesn't mean i get fixed IPv6 now.

> A better alternative IMHO would be to use different VLANs for the two networks but then your switch and possibly access point have to support it.

... and it might be fun getting the internal machines to talk to each other? I ssh around all the time.
Certainly not making any claims of the legitimacy, just providing the original sources. There doesn't seem to be any attribution besides the anonymous account.

The Chinese subtitles in the first demonstration claim "further efforts will be made to reduce impurities", then the subsequent video claims "technical details will be published once they are properly organized and documented".
Not really. I don’t have my own theories on how most things work but I can recognise patterns that fall out of the norm
Back in 2006, Intel's Montecito had a transistor budget for more ARM6 cores than the ARM6 had transistors, so:

Transistor : ARM6 = ARM6 : Montecito

And that was a long time ago, Montecito had a measly 1.72 billion transistors, Apple's M2 Ultra has 130 billion.

Makes the whole Transputer ( Transistor:Computer ) idea seem somewhat prescient.

https://blog.metaobject.com/2007/09/or-transistor.html

And an idea how you could use those transistors differently from now:

https://blog.metaobject.com/2015/08/what-happens-to-oo-when-...
Vegan diets cause far less climate pollution, study shows
It‘s not more difficult, it‘s simply that it cannot be done using the same approach.
rest in peace, bram. thanks for all you've done to software world. you will be missed by many, including those Ugandan kids whose lives have been changed for the better.

to the bereaved, I send you my deepest condolences.
Based on the people listed as contributers to Kawa, I see several Polish people there. Perhaps they chose that name intentionally because both Java and Kawa has the same coffee connection?
I agree we shouldn’t count on our liberal democraties to handle that. Individuals will do the job and the majority is coming, just wait for the boomers to evade in their fantastic plastic graves.
It's common for people to talk about different fields this way, it's a form of lighthearted rivalry. Not worth getting worked up over it, unless you're an unfunny boring person.
Ask HN: How to host simple Rails API to get 99.99% uptime
I am looking to host a relatively simple Rails API. From a technical side the complexity is quite low but availability is crucial and should hopefully be 99.99% or better.

To keep the DevOps overhead low I am thinking about using DigitalOcean.

The current idea is

* Use the "App Platform" with multiple app instances that are load balanced through DO itself (unfortunately only within same region)

* Use managed Postres with multiple standby nodes (allows for "immediate automatic failover")

* Optionally replicate the app servers in a different region and use an external load balancer to fail over between regions (not possible within the App Platform itself)

Do you have any other / better ideas for a rather straightforward setup? I am trying to avoid AWS but am not completely opposed.
At least in the alchemy camp we have minds like Isaac Newton.

On the UFO side it's mostly hucksters and numpties commenting "wake up sheeple, you can see it's CGI" on ISS live stream videos.
> The train from Frankfurt to Basel alone is that price

No? Maybe if you’re trying to book tomorrow, or at a very specific time, but looking on RailEurope for an arbitrary date (September 1), I see plenty of tickets for under $50.

On the other hand, trying to go the whole way from Amsterdam to Rome does get a lot more impractical, because of all the transfers making the trip take around 24 hours, but you can get tickets for only around $150. I do agree that if you live in Amsterdam, it’s probably worth it to just fly to Rome because of a lack of good direct routes.

Other routes that are about the same distance are a lot more feasible though. Paris to Rome can be done with only one stop, for example.
I had the opposite reaction. I thought this was funny but I also think there's a about a 10% chance AI will go really badly for humanity in the next 30 years and appreciated the future of life institute's letter.

I'm also sad to see it flagged. It's important to be able to laugh at yourself.
:q

RIP and thank you. Thoughts are with his loved ones right now.
> In general, the reason Costco sells electronics with different model numbers is so that you can't price match them to/from other retailers.

Costco doesn’t offer price matching.
Replacing only the short flights ( let's say those under 600 mile/1000km) won't sufficiently reduce pollution though.
This is just obviously not true. Any location which is good enough that a bakery could survive without any repeat business would have such high rents that no bakery would be able to survive (or at least, it would be very difficult).
There's an alternative [1], so you can use any search engine. Although i always wonder about whether my privacy is at risk when using this app...

[1] xSearch for Safari: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/xsearch-for-safari/id157990206...
Awesome for tourists because hiring a car and driving in Italy is crazy. I’ve rented cars all over Europe and Italy has the worst service, trashiest cars and craziest drivers. (I love the country, don’t get me wrong)

Trains are so much more relaxing! No worrying about the damage €2000 deposit they’re holding on your credit card.
Flux pinning doesn’t mean it can withstand all forces it just means it will return to where it was
"...The Zuckerberg Doctrine claims that forcing people to use their own names is a way to ensure civility. This is an idea so radioactively wrong, it can be spotted from orbit."

The idea isn't wrong and there are certainly people who will think twice about anti-social behavior if their real name is attached to it.

The only issue here is that some people think they're entitled to use a pseudonym online on somebody else's platform that doesn't want them to. Ya'll need to go spin up a 5-person Mastodon server to echo-chamber a bit and hopefully learn you're behavior isn't acceptable to most for reasons that go well beyond you thinking you're a victim.

And for the few people who want to use a pseudonym online for reasons beyond anti-social behavior, FB has tools to protect your account notably for journalist. I get you'll have to use someone else's platform for communications at times, but FB has no interest in quelling this and you should just do what you need to do without trying to publicly sway opinion for likely other and hopefully unrelated anti-social reasons. FB is a social network, not the front page of the internet, and they have their own position to uphold that is beyond its users and clearly documented in TOS that people like pretending doesn't exist or cherry-picking to promote victim-hood.

FB and Zuck are not some boogieman out to get people lol, and there's plenty of different platforms to do whatever it is you need to do safely, or not at all.
I love/hate OpenSCAD for 3d printing, but just curious, why is it not a real CAD?
Yeah, it's jumping back to a fixed position which isn't how I thought the Meissner effect worked. Since this seems to be posted by someone reputable though it's weird they missed that.
What you describe is basically how DNA works. Most of it is inactive junk. Parts of which, however, gets activated when... who knows what happens.

Basically we got coded by millions of interns.
Quite easily. Everyone is fixated on LLMs delivering a complete product or providing 100% accurate information. Too much of a focus on hallucinations.

First, humans don't deliver 100% accurate information, so let's keep the bar at something reasonable. Secondly, complete products are not necessarily the only value of LLMs. LLMs are pretty solid when it comes to helping break out of some sort of creative block. Think about it this way - when you're trying to creatively solve a hard problem, what is one of the best mechanisms to help? Perspective changes. LLMs are extremely helpful when assisting with perspective changes (driving/helping iterate on different creativity tools like combination, association, etc).

I can't get the full article to load for some reason - but so far I seem to see people mostly arguing that LLMs will do the work for us and it will be amazing or subpar, etc - but neglecting, which I assume is the point of the article, that LLMs will be a co-pilot for humans and assist in ways like perspective shifting to find faster/better/more innovative solutions.
The video is watermarked 炼丹师阿翔 (Alchemist Axiang), which is also the username of the Douyin video, so I think that's the closest to the original source we can get. (The tweet claims Bilibili as the source, but it was apparently a live stream and 炼丹师阿翔's Bilibili account currently only has a previous video without full levitation. https://bilibili.com/video/BV1sM4y1H7MX )
IMO you shouldn't be storing credentials in shared state, as suggested by the other comments, since that means that the principals able to read the state to deploy their service can also read the credentials for other services bundled in that state file. This could be the case if one had broken down the root modules into scopes/services like the linked page suggests.

It is reasonable to assume if you are using Terraform to manage your infra, than your infra likely has access to a secrets manager from your infra vendor, e.g., AWS. Instead I'd recommend using a Terraform data resource to pull a credential from the secret manager by name -- and the name doesn't even necessarily have to be communicated through Terraform state. Then the credentials could directly be fed into where it is needed, e.g., a resource like a Kubernetes Secret. One can even skip this whole thing if the service can use the secret manager api itself. Finally access to the credentials itself would be locked down with IAM/RBAC.
No, it's not. Even if they were employees of a different company that is a subcontractor, the jurisprudence is not clear at all.

This is basically the "museum argument" which is quite old.
It's an entire different story if you do distribute the software to your subcontractors for their use.
Wow that hits rather hard actually. I never knew him other than through the welcome message on Vim, but he made one of the tools I rely on the most in my daily life.

Thanks Bram, have a good afterlife.
What about those Flux pinned maglev "trains" you see on YouTube?
Rest in piece Bram, your invention of keybindings will be everlastingly remembered by generations
That's not true. Here's a video from a few years ago [showing a superconductor flux pinning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSojjjvRCR0). You can see from the video it's moving around. Also if it didn't move when you applied a force to it that would be quite the immovable object.
> The pinnacle of musical achievement cannot be 3-chord music.

Why not? Harmonic difficulty isn't a virtue. Jazz musicians were doing one and two chord and they are criticized for being obtuse.

Heck, difficulty in general isn't a virtue.
GCP and AWS both support sharing a single VPC across multiple GCP projects / AWS accounts. See e.g.: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...

It's not for the faint of heart though. You need to allocate subnets to individual applications (with relevant capacity planning concerns) plus support is sometimes spotty (e.g. EKS doesn't support it last time I checked). Not worth doing until you have several teams trying to use the same VPC and stepping on each others' toes.
Rest in piece Bram, and my condolences to his family. I hope to see the mainline vim project innovate and thrive so that Bram’s legacy can live on.
I found the dreams were really weird (Like Salvador Dali weird), but not nightmares.
> Gare de Paris-Nord, the busiest train station in Europe, is planned to have a floor area of 120 000 m² after the next renovation. I couldn't find the number for the ground area, but it's obviously smaller than the floor area. Dulles airport, in Washington DC (a relatively small city by all standards), has an area of 47 km². That's 47 000 000 m², for the unaware. Meanwhile, its annual traffic (about 20M passengers) is approximately a fifth of the Gare du Nord (about 100M passengers).

Not to detract from the point but Dulles is way oversized for its traffic (so's BWI).

Paris-CDG, Frankfurt, Schipol, or Madrid carry near triple (or above in high-traffic years) the passengers in half to 2/3rds the surface. Heathrow moves more than triple on about 1/4th the surface (though it's rather unpleasant IIRC).
Thank you Bram for giving us software we can love and putting a :smile on our faces.
Maybe it’s not the aroma itself that improves memory, but a compound that comes with the aroma that improves nasal airflow, eg by reducing swelling or mild sleep apnea.
I think that the initial question was "why a 0 resistance compared to a ridicously low resistance". And my point is that it's easier to get a superconductor than some material with "ridicously low" resistance. As you said, silver is unusable for potent magnets, and such is any other non-superconducting magnets.

Probably if we had materials with a billionth of the resistance of silver they would work, but we haven't. And we have superconductors, luckly. :)
The problem is that you can do that when is safely and reversible, the half of the advise that is missing is: fail fast[1] and safely[2] so you can improve[3] over the feedback[4] you get from a source that has the best interest in mind for your success[5].

1 is the easiest.

2 should keep you out of "failing fast" with irreversible decisions or ones that have consequences of causing permanent damage or giving up your freedom or power.

3 are you coacheable enough to embrace the required level of mindset change? will you develop mastery for the next iteration at the required speed?

4 collecting quality feedback is not always trivial or cheap.

5 this is the hardest to get, are you surrounded/listening to true friends (celebrators of your success) or fake ones (envy in disguise poisonig misleading advice so they don't feel outshined by your success)?
Black bar please! :wq
BOJ makes bold shift as yen risks grow too big to ignore
https://archive.li/LxFnr
An airport is negligible compared to the scale of building railways.

Incredible how you and many have drunk the kool aid and are now shutting down any discussions.
Probably because every operator is its own independent private entity. No shared infra.
It is very significant if you reduce car travel. Flights are not much pollution overall.
Rest In Peace.

VIM is still among my top used editors. And Bram was the one that made sure it kept improving and being useful for all those years, since I first used it on my Slackware install.