skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to run a torrent site with a very significant user population. I would promote great users to mod positions. On average they would last 6 months before they became Hitlerstalins and I would be forced to fire them.

Power corrupts :(
One of the comments disproves it by noting that the energy emmited is some magnitudes less than usual dna bending radiation.

And arent phones following an electromagnetic radiation standard too?
Storage costs should be considered, particularly for an intermittent process. Otherwise, you need an end user that can accept intermittent and somewhat unpredictable supply.
More at https://unit.md
Automate Your Data Analysis
When I say people are watching through their phone, I mean they have their camera app open and are capturing terrible video of the race instead of just being there and enjoying the moment.
Design issue. The DOE has enough manpower and resources to put their heads together and design a perfect reactor - one that could be built and function as expected.

They won’t get around to it while they waste time and resources with stop-gap solutions like wind and solar which don’t generate energy consistently or reliably.
I'm really curious if this feature will be compatible with cpusets on Linux, which can be used to restrict which CPU cores tasks in a given cgroup can be scheduled onto.
One of the best ways to dispose a body, except he wasn't thorough enough.
Is knowledge of hex/ASCII an indication of increased gullibility? If anything, I'd think it would be the exact opposite.
> On the other hand, consider that if you’re in the US your own information most likely comes from sources that are antagonistic to China? Why are you so sure that other people are just mindlessly consuming while you’re getting the real truth?

Having lived in China for 9 years, I'm pretty familiar with the US and Chinese media. They can both be biased in the way that media is biased, but one is actually not controlled by a single party while the other most definitely is (if you aren't sure, check out the differences between CNN and FoxNews).

China prefers the narrative that the rest of the world is antagonistic against it and out to get it. In reality, it is just the CCP that is really unpopular, and its popularity wanes and ebs with however authoritarian it happens to be at the time. With an official approval rating of 140%, they are incredibly popular in China, at least.
> Based on our observations, we found that there is a high probability (94.0-98.7%) that fewer than ~0.014% of stars earlier than M8 within 100 pc host a transmitter that is detectable in our search (EIRP > 10e12 W).

A terawatt transmitter is one hell of a transmitter. That's about 10% of the power our entire civilization consumes, IIRC. The civilizations detectable in this search would have to be much more advanced than our own, to be able to dedicate such a large amount of power to a single transmitter.
The only place gzip wins is in compatibility. Everything supports gzip. zstd, lz4, brotli, and others aren't included by default in most places yet, although the situation is starting to improve.

Plus, if you want super compatibility there is older-than-dirt pkzip/infozip.
I got a Google Foobar challenge back in 2022. Never ended up completing more than the first level, but would be interesting to know if they're still using it for hiring.
That German lab should sell LK-99 crystals. I wouldn't mind buying a souvenir for this whole episode!
From Hasicorp’s perspective this license change is less about Terraform and mostly about Vault. Terraform Enterprise isn’t very successful. Their cloud offering for Terraform isn’t competitive with a basic GitHub actions workflow. They’ve learned this the hard way.

With Vault they’ve just recently launched their new cloud secrets service. Most of their revenue comes from Vault. Nearly all of their future revenue growth is vault. Any competitor could relatively easily provide the same service with vault FOSS today. Vault is feature complete. The only moat they have is their license.

Best for the ecosystem if both Vault and Terraform are maintained by a foundation. Not best for Hashicorp, but best for the industry for sure.
The thing that they don’t teach in any entrepreneurship school or say in any article that success is just merely a matter of luck, really, not your IQ, not your education, not your wit or grit, your network, not your funds, none of that, yes they might increase that luck factor or contribute to it overall, but ultimately it’s just a luck, that’s why some people realized that and took it as a gamble, keep releasing or starting new startups until you get lucky with one and eventually succeed.
Similar to human memory for text.
Are you sure this can run backprop?
Translation. It's not a "superconductor".
I love how no one actually addressed my comment which was we have a literal S-tier energy source pretty much anywhere we want it, at the expense of a small amount of radioactive waste, and yet we stick our heads in the sand and let the solar panel door-to-door salesmen convince us not to use it.

You’re joking if you don’t include nuclear energy into the green new deal.
• Lush Life, a biography of Billy Strayhorn, a jazz composer for Duke Ellington.

• Fashion Climbing: A Memoir, an autobiography of Bill Cunningham who you might know from the street style photography he did for the NYT.

• Kings of their Own Ocean, a non-fiction history of Bluefin Tuna fishing.
We Don’t Need a New Twitter
I think the really significant term in the Drake equation is the question of time overlap between our civilization and any civilizations in other star systems.

In other words, the likelihood that they either lived before or (will live) after us is overwhelming, since the time scale of the universe is so vast compared to the time scale (with our one known example) of a civilization.

Our timeline is like the blink of an eye, compared to the age of the universe. Very unlikely that nearby blinks would happen at exactly the same time, even with a 11,000+ multiplier.
There’s something along that line here but I don’t know if it’s the best execution of the idea

https://support.google.com/chat/answer/7655908?hl=en
The assumption being "advanced" means "radiate prodigious amounts of RF in spectral ways we can detect, and see as information-rich".

Because a truly advanced society probably doesn't needlessly pollute space with RF nobody else needs to see.

On the other hand "yea, they're probably as dumb as we are"
“Brave and Kind’–Remembering Richard Lynn
> You’ll get much more bang for buck for the product’s security by working on the enterprise and infra side

I am not a security engineer. But as a generalist software engineer I do not believe this. Every time I go looking in app code with an eye on security, I immediately find all kinds of vulnerabilities.

And yet, where I work, the security guys don't read or write a single line of app code. They do like you say, and focus almost entirely on the infra/business process side of things.

I find it really hard to respect these people when they are more worried about locking down what jira tickets I can view than they are actually securing our product.
This book is brilliant. An overview of all of mathematics, insofar as that's possible. High quality articles. For instance Terence Tao wrote the entry on Compactness and Compactification (topology/analysis) among others. I've had the print volume for a few years now, highly recommended.
> Key fobs are even funnier

On Aston Martin key fobs, when the rubber coating wore off, it literally had the Volvo logo underneath. Ford parts bin.
It stands to reason that someone who can create his own file system can't possibly be guilty of murder.
I was deeply sceptical of LK-99 and simply chose not to comment on it in public on the internet because: (1) confirmation or contradiction will come soon enough, and (2) being sceptical, however measured, usually attracts accusations of being a negative, cynical naysayer, and I don't need that in my life.
Shouldn't we be looking for civiliations near black holes? Time dilation, which makes time pass slower when closer to the black hole, would result in a relatively "longer living" universe, and there's plenty of free energy and materials to harvest, and also the BH would be a natural trash can, basically solving all the energy/production/disposal/time-span problems of any civilization.
More specifically, you can use entropy coding to spend fewer bits the more likely you rated the token and more bits the less likely you rated the token. So "errors" aren't a black and white thing. And since LLMs output log probabilities, they're basically perfect for this.
See also: https://bellard.org/nncp/

NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27244004 (397 points | May 22, 2021 | 160 comments)
> Rajs remains upbeat about Black Box’s future, saying its novelty guarantees success—there’s simply no one else offering what they do.

Doesn't seem like a winning bet...
It works for me. Established also has multiple meanings, but the most applicable one here says "generally accepted" [1]. Each listed piece of software has its own way of doing things, so speaking of _the_ established practice is wrong here, and I doubt I'd be able to list more than one of those off the top of my head, so _established_ hardly seems appropriate.

And whether you agree with it or not, I doubt anyone understands "desktop" as meaning "GUI only" and not "for human users" in this context. I usually see it used contrastively as in "desktop" vs "server". Server software lives in `/usr` and writes to `/run` and `/var`, etc.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/established
> I read their post and honestly it’s not really that much different than just materialized views in a regular database plus async jobs to do the long running tasks.

How about you go and implement a Mastodon server to their level of feature parity, and tell us how much effort and how many lines of code it takes?

I really don't appreciate this kind of fluffy, insubstantial, overly dismissive non-content on HN.
Hey, I vouched for your submission. Just wanted to let you know that there seems to be some issue with your account causing your submissions to be automatically flagged. You may want to contact HN moderators (hn@ycombinator.com) about that.
It’s EIRP, not actual radiated power. If the beam is narrow this is achievable with moderate total power. The DSN transmitter in Canberra is capable of this EIRP on about 100 kW total power.
> It is an attitude that is a hallmark of cranks of all forms who think they've pierced the vale

And labeling groups who disagree with them as “heretics”, “crazies”, “cranks”, etc is how the orthodoxy censors — as they’ve done for thousands of years.

That the orthodoxy seeks to censors dissent rather than address it, particularly when ignoring their own ridiculous members (eg, Al Gore and Greta Thunberg making absurd statements), is why trust in institutions has collapsed. Institutions now routinely engage in obviously dumb ideas because they censor their critics and then run off a metaphorical cliff.

In allowing themselves to censor and demean “cranks”, orthodox institutions have rotted badly — both from the perspective of delivering quality results and from the perspective of driving effective policy change.
I am very pro-union and specifically the HGSU, but I think that any efforts to raise salaries should be careful to ensure that salary money isn't simply being redirected from STEM PhDs to humanities PhDs.

Far too often, strict cross-department salary bands often end up doing exactly that, which is ironic given that most humanities PhDs typically come from more affluent backgrounds than STEM PhDs (at least at Harvard). It breaks trust with the STEM departments - and is a large part of the reason graduate student unions, including the HGSU, typically do not win the majority of the vote from STEM department graduate students.
Concretely gzip will output something like "theudcanvas. ;cm,zumhmcyoetter toauuo long a one aay,;wvbu.mvns. x the dtls and enso.;k.like bla.njv"

https://github.com/Futrell/ziplm
Another amazing book that showcases Spinoza:

Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio.

Not a bio on him but definitely showcases him and his beliefs and life. It changed the way I view the world and people forever.
That means your server could not serve HTTPS traffic at all, because you need valid timestamp for that.
> And as someone who works at UChicago, very not surprised...

Go on...
When I told my wife about this, all she replied was how it's gonna be monopolized by big countries/big tech and our third world country like ours will never use it.

It's a point, but well human need to push the limit, no matter what.
Having been a squatter, in a different economy, different time, long ago (London, 1980s) I have mixed feelings about this. It would suck to own property you have intent for, and finding its been occupied. At an individual level I can totally relate how crap that would be. I did the "crime" and I'm not in denial about its downside risk for property owners.

Most squatted property in the time I was doing it, was owned by large organisations and left empty for a mixture of reasons, despite the severe housing shortage. Nobody I knew was looking to dispossess individual home owners, absentee or not. We broke into housing owned by corporates which was unavailable for ordinary use, had been cut off from power, we got power reconnected and we lived there briefly, until the law courts evicted us. Some friends uplifted their squat into social housing inside the system. Other people did it as a political act, There have been long standing socialised squats in Amsterdam, in Copenhagen. And yes, drug dealing and prostitution is a problem in illegal housing. Also in legal housing.

But I can't pretend there aren't issues in squatting.

It is surprising sometimes (at least to some people) how quickly "taking the law into your own hands" can become a crime. The whole "stand your ground" thing is really complex because "I acted in self defence" can very quickly turn out to have gone to another place.
https://nimbusws.com

I've been working on a managed service provider for smaller clouds -- right now it's focused on Hetzner.

A few services (redis, webpage analytics) have already been released on Nimbus and next is Object Storage next and it's quite a big lift!

The dogfood tastes great so far! I've been able to consolidate a bunch of instances I was running and mange them centrally which is fine (I had a lot of side projects).

I've been having trouble finding the right people to try it out and give me feedback/see if they'd use it regularly, and if you're running on Hetzner (or have avoided it because they didn't have managed services) I'd love to hear from you.

[EDIT] - I should note, there IS a free tier, but a credit card is required. You can launch an ephemeral redis instances for absolutely free, but I do have a CC gate up to help mitigate fraud (and to see if I've built something people actually want!).
The bulk of my full stack experience has been dotnet. But for the past 5 years I’ve moved into Java and Spring. I’m not a big fan of the JVM, but it works. However, Kotlin + Spring Boot is pretty fucking incredible. 1.x is kind of a pain in the ass, but 2 and 3 really blow me away at how well things integrate when you go with convention.

The major gripes I have is that _up-to-date_ documentation on the best ways compose a modern app using several modules where you aren’t fighting the tools. Official module docs tend to breeze over stuff. I can’t tell you how much time I’ve wasted rolling my own ____ and fighting against autoconfig then finding there’s a simple but poorly documented way of doing what I need. But even with that frustration, I feel like I’m able to launch projects faster using Spring Boot than dotnet.
I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "I don't want to install a js"?

Does this mean you don't want to run JavaScript at all? Ever? That's a pretty tall order in today's world. I can understand having JavaScript disabled by default. But that said, JavaScript can be useful for what you want.

I know this because I empathize greatly (except I prefer light mode). In any case, when I saw this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32719488

in a previous thread, I immediately created the appropriate bookmark-let so that my eyes wouldn't go crazy trying to read dark-mode pages.

Maybe it can serve as a solution for you too if you're willing to compromise a bit.
Because photographs are most powerful as a store of/trigger for memories, and my photographs are better at that than someone else's, for the most part.
Then how do you encode an input of "<Buffalo*8>"?
If your answer is "I'm using characters outside the alphabet" then, there's your answer, you're wasting bits on them.
1834: The First Cyberattack (2017)
Compression is equivalent to learning but it's not clear to me that that gets you all the way to intelligent action. In reinforcement learning terms, it can get you asymptotically to a perfect model of the environment, but it's not clear to me that it would tell you how to find the highest-value action in that environment.
I listed a title, which is what you asked for. I’m not here to lay out the entire case. Rest assured, it is easily searchable if you are so inclined. If not, that’s fine too. Enjoy your night.
It's rough being a landlord. A lot of laws are stacked against you.

The easiest way to avoid them is to not be one.
https://www.probarsearch.com/

It's a small tool to sort and filter protein bars.

I often found myself trying to figure out how many protein per dollar or calories I'd get and a friend of mine said he does the same. So we decided to build this in our spare time.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37099780

Archived version: https://archive.is/KLjzg
The thought of a jerry can at 700 bar is mildly terrifying.
Don't you also need the temperature to know how much there is? Seems needlessly complex.
Is this available in any public cloud?
Such code would also fail randomly unless interrupts are disabled.
I am working on https://calculator2go.com/?utm_source=hackernews - it is very basic. Nothing technical. I would add tool as I feel need. It is a hands-on approach for me to learn marketing, copywriting, etc.
> I was really elated to see how people were so interested and getting to see what peer review in science actually looks like. How in the real world it is done outside of journals and conferences, which people frequently give the misnomer "peer review." I hope people will walk away from this experience with a better understanding of how science works and why replication is such a critical aspect of it.

I saw people become enamored with a Russian anime cat girl on twitter.

This was vapid, consumptive entertainment. Which is perfectly fine, let's just not pretend it's better than the bachelor because science. Replace Chad had a date on love island with Anime cat girl did the science things, and that's about where we're at.
What do you mean, "even" Rust programmers feel it? Rust programmers feel it the most. This site is hopelessly biased against Go programmers and towards Rust programmers!
Thank you for the clarification. I was mistaken.
More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph

Title from https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/05/1834_the_firs....
There are non-subscription alternatives, though they differ from lightroom. I quite like Exposure[0] and although I haven't used the desktop version of RAW Power[1] its ipad app is quite good.

[0] https://exposure.software
[1] https://www.gentlemencoders.com/
First point: understood, but this has nothing to do with the discussion.

Second point: what did you find emotional in the text of my post?

Third: point taken, but this is an impossible goalpost for anyone accusing their employers to be taken seriously. Moreover, there's nothing Madison could have written to avoid this suspicion, so I'm curious why you brought it up in response to my post. Did you mean to respond to someone else?
> people who [...] take for granted the effort that many services require unseen to appear 'free'.

100%, and I'd argue this also applies to services that are for-profit but don't directly charge end users. The shit social media companies constantly pull isn't surprising when you recognize that these companies exist to make money, but I'm surprised by how many people take this into account (and are therefore perpetually shocked/outraged by the latest stunt).
"Never" is a strong word - smartphones were once monopolized by rich countries, but are now a worldwide phenomenon. Even explicitly-banned/controlled technologies like nuclear weapons managed to eventually diffuse around the world.
It's a PCIe device that is either on a stick (earliest generation), integrated into the platform chipset, or integrated into the CPU (latest generation). Nobody outside Intel really knows what's in it, but you submit requests to it and it encrypts, decrypts, checksums, or compresses something. If this sounds familiar it is because we had stuff like that in the 90s.
The article talks about converting to hydrogen at the solar panel. They don’t mention the expense of shipping the hydrogen where it is needed. And that much of the need is electricity so have to burn it for even more waste.

Their proposed device would be really good for distribution if it is cheap and simple. Scale up to port, scale down to truck stop.
Is there a book like this that is for physics? For biology?
Not sure it's as early as you are looking for, I've been at it for 10 months, but https://grugnotes.com is my take on a simpler roam/obsidian/yet another notetaking app. Casual ambition to make it a saas business. But of late, just building without too much polishing, trying to get it to a point I can use it effectively in my small business. Always so much more to making something real than you ever imagine.
Teslas NMC chemistry already does 0-80% in 25 mins. Their LFP (which is made by CATL I think) does 10-80% in roughly 25 mins.

The impressive thing is the charging at -10C, where LFP typically doesn't like to be charged below 0C. I wonder what's special that allows this variant of LFP to be charged below freezing.
That's not anywhere near sufficient.
My experience with Wikipedia is that toxic, power-hungry trolls like "CityOfSilver" [0] get into positions of power (though luckily only as a reviewer and not an admin). Funnily enough, for the issue I had, it was an admin who agreed with me and simply made the edit that CoS contested and insulted me over (removing unsourced Russian propaganda).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CityOfSilver
Lithium is not the only technology for storing energy at large scale.
We have multiple options. I believe one strong point of lithium is the ability to respond almost instantaneously to changing demands which other technologies are still not that good at.
Party like it's LK-99!
I'm impressed with the declarative programming model (aka reactive programming), and the ability to compose new blocks/visual components as a result.

It feels like we're finally starting to overcome all that we lost in the decades since VB6/Delphi for Windows.
Indeed, CATL is a Tesla supplier. This will be an improvement over the existing LPF chemistry, which goes in standard range vehicles (and is about half the vehicles Tesla sells).