skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
France also has half the population density meaning that there are in fact fewer people to ask and fewer people negatively affected (per unit distance of rail for instance).
From the article:

> Billed as the new wonder grain — a wheatgrass with a nutty, graham or rye-like flavor — Kernza uses very little nitrogen fertilizer, and its extremely long roots make it a powerhouse at soaking up nitrogen that would otherwise seep into groundwater, research has shown. It's the type of eco-crop promoted for farm country to help cut the nitrate leaching from nitrogen fertilizers into the state's waters.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinopyrum_intermedium :

> Nutritional values and use of Kernza: Kernza contains higher values of protein, ash content and dietary fiber content when compared with wheat. Further 100 gram uncooked Kernza provides 1540 kilojoule (368 kcal) of food energy and is a good source of calcium (120 mg) as well as iron (5.5 mg). Comparing Kernza to white wheat berries, calcium contents are 4.8 times higher and iron values are more than double. Kernza contains gluten but is deficient in high molecular weight glutenin, which limits its use especially in baking. The higher fat content in Kernza may increase overall rancidity, but a higher antioxidant content than wheat may offer a protective effect. [31][32] There are existing products with Kernza such as Honey Toasted Kernza by Cascadian Farms[33] and Patagonia Provisions’ Kernza beer.
I struggle to agree with the author's conclusion on the second article:

> It’s a strange thing: people hand-wring about the proliferation of pro-China propaganda, yet cannot name a single network or pundit associated with that view.

China, perhaps? Why is the author so willing to ascribe uniform authoritarianism to American media while ignoring China's state-owned journalism?

The whole thing is written with a hopelessly apologetic tone. The forced link to Nazi Germany just sinks this article for me, especially since it denies discussion of actual moral polemics like impunity and transparency.
The issue is speculative execution. Whenever there is a branch, the CPU makes a guess. If it guesses wrong, it has to go back to the correct path which introduces a delay. So any branching code has the possibility of revealing information through the branch predictor.
“Our competitive differentiation is that we charge less” isn’t even slightly compelling to most folks. I’d suggest you rethink your positioning.
That might be doable if the library is jquery or whatever, but how are you going to replace google maps? Hosting an OSM tiles server is non-trivial, and I highly doubt that you'll be able to host it with better reliability than google.
Yes, they do seem to be lagging.

> Ironically, India and Russia had at first planned to jointly design and launch Chandrayaan-2, after the historic discovery of water by ISRO’s first lunar probe in 2011. Differences arose between their space agencies over the configuration of Chandrayaan-2. While ISRO was keen on a lander and rover, its Russian counterpart felt a lander would suffice, according to Dr. Annadurai.

> The upshot: ISRO reconfigured the spacecraft and hoisted it as its first probe to Mars (Mars Orbiter Mission or MOM) in November 2013, while its Russian counterpart teamed up with the Chinese space agency for a voyage to the Moon. The Russian lander, however, was lost during a midcourse correction, he added.

- https://www.rt.com/india/581733-india-lands-on-the-moon/

They are lagging behind because the breakup of the USSR, and their subsequent experiment with "capitalism" really damaged their economy and local industries. That disruption, stagnation, and even shutdown of many local industries lead to the loss of IP, scientific manpower and neglect of R&D for sometime. It is only in the last decade or two now that some economic stability has returned to Russia and it started focusing on R&D again.

It is however difficult to say if they can catch up. When India once setup their own foundry to build and produce chips, they were at one point equivalent to the Taiwanese in chip process node. But they shut it down after a fire. Now more than 2+ decades later, even if India setups another fab, who knows how many decades it would take India to catch up with Taiwan.
Why not always send the smaller, simpler version, if it is functionally equivalent to the one with extra javascript and bigger images? Surely that would be simpler and save even more energy.
It’s a model similar to the 7.5 inch screen by waveshare
Isn’t the point of the article that they don’t? And it describes how they implemented region drains to traffic shift between the different regions.

edit: Hmm or maybe not? I still sometimes confuse aws terminology. Perhaps it is all in us-east—1, just in different availability zones (buildings?)
Almost everyone embraced polyglotism and microservices together.
It sounds like you didn’t have persistent data, and were only offering compute? If there’s no need for a coherent master view accessible/writeable from all the clusters, there would be no reason to use multi-region cluster whatsoever.
The downside of single AZ clusters is capacity. If you have a need to drastically scale up the compute might not be available in a single AZ.
> does it have any of the footguns relating to awful corporate network drive setups, $HOME, expensive prompts, and the like?

Not sure what you mean - can you give an example?

There will be a $HOME environment variable.

I never use WSL, Git Bash or Cygwin stuff. Just the normal command prompt with xonsh running on top of it. So I can't speak to performance issues. If you could give examples, I may be able to address them.

Definitely should not have issues due to antivirus. It will be a program running continuously.

> I realize I should probably just use PowerShell

Powershell is probably the best, but I didn't want to expend energy learning it. With xonsh I can have the same config in Linux and Windows, and Python is always a plus.
Last I tried it also had issues with building on platforms like MIPS or PPC. If hardware acceleration is not available it should fall back to software not fail to build.
> Data doesn't physically exist.

Yes it does, at least the type that humans can access. Electrons have mass, momentum, spin, etc...
AWS also uses Slack internally, so add that to the list of shit that can hit the fan if us-east-1/IAD goes down.
Why would you think that? There was no succession plan for these businesses, there was a high potential for them to shutter and the jobs would dry up with them.

Honestly, this feels like one of the better/more practical uses of venture capital that I've seen in a while.
What do you want to build? It's much easier to find code to read, and motivation to read it, when you have a goal to work towards. For example, when writing an interpreter, I read code for various interpreters. Looking at a variety of projects from different people gave me a lot of ideas and examples of different approaches to solving the same problem.
If I understand it correctly they have an edge network for ingress traffic but host all of their core services in a single AWS region (USE1) in multiple availability zones there.
"Rake the forests" seriously? Pretty low-effort comment right there. CalFire's funded staff has increased 50%, by over 4000 new positions, in 2023 vs. 2021.
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The article says the original estimate was for tracks between 4 cities, not 2.
I feel like the pound is strong against other currencies because of the city of London and arms sales (and what’s behind those). But it’s spending power inside the UK is shit. People just don’t make much money compared to how much things cost. I moved to the USA when the pound was worth two dollars, but I earned far more dollars and those dollars bought more.

Britain is a tiny overpopulated island with legacy law and property problems that effectively has serfdom. It got powerful because it had the right ingredients for the Industrial Revolution but all the reasons that made the revolution happen are all reasons that weigh on it now.

It is already a failed state.
They don't - the Display Electronic Slurry (DES) is a competing 'e-paper' tech that E-Ink corp haven't patented. It has slightly different pros and cons (it has a more defined checkerboard pattern which isn't as nicely grainy as E-Ink corp's MED, but it let's them pour the 'ink' straight into the substrate which potentially has higher contrast and resolution as a result), but ultimately that's irrelevant nitpicking if patents are causing the price of E-Ink screens to be crazily high as people keep falsely claiming. If DES could deliver screens at half the price, then Wiwood (?) would eat E-Ink's lunch.
core::arch::x86_64::_mm256_shuffle_epi8 and such seem to be in stable.
Maybe globally and eventually, but at first the nearby nations could possibly have elevated levels in their surrounding waters for the time being.
Linkerd's sidecar proxy (https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy) is implemented in Rust. It implements transparent mTLS, HTTP load balancing, telemetry, etc. Rust gives us safety and security with a minimal resource footprint.
I found n8n some years ago and dexcided to use NodeRed instead. It has a large Community and more built in features
Failed to build llama-cpp-python
ERROR: Could not build wheels for llama-cpp-python, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
Command '. "/Users/pmarreck/Downloads/oobabooga_macos/installer_files/conda/etc/profile.d/conda.sh" && conda activate "/Users/pmarreck/Downloads/oobabooga_macos/installer_files/env" && python -m pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade' failed with exit status code '1'. Exiting...

I'm admittedly running Sonoma beta, that's probably why

I will try it on my Linux machine later tonight (currently AFK with laptop)
The original £56.7bn estimate was from London all the way to Leeds. Whereas the £53bn figure they quoted is just for London to Birmingham which is only about half way to Leeds.
Another good control to add would be not using the default settings in Sqoosh.app. Just because one format defaults to high compression and another low compression does not say anything about which is more power efficient at compressing. Ideally you'd match up the optimized visual quality.

Though really I'm not sure this question makes sense in the first place. Optimizing the power used by the client during decode specifically seems unlikely to be the best way to optimize power usage of the website transfer. In particular, optimized transfer time of the same fewer total bits to all clients should far outweigh any savings from using a lighter-to-decode image format.

Video would be a whole different world. I wonder how the energy efficiency of different hardware decoders compares for even the same format.
Some Kindles can easily be jailbroken [1]. I have two jailbroken Kindle 4 devices and they're still great. Both for reading (though you have to sideload books) and as e-ink dashboards [2]. A Kindle 4 can run for ~ 28 days on a single charge, refreshing the screen every hour.

[1] https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle4NTHacking#Jailbreak

[2] https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash
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the "whole" of USE1 very rarely goes down [0], because unlike other cloud providers, Amazon's availability zones are actually independent and decoupled, and if you're running on EC2 in a zonal way it's highly unlikely an outage will affect multiple zones.

[0] There are of course exceptions that come once every few years, but most instances people can think of in terms of widespread outages is one specific service going down in a region, creating a cascade of other dependencies. e.g. Lambda or Kinesis going down and impacting some other higher-level service, say, Translate.
It says a part of the project now costs almost as much as the whole previous estimate. Emphasis on “alone”.
> when every seat is full and there's already very little seat-to-seat distance, the aisle is crammed with people face to back with nothing to hang on to, and the vestibules are all full to the point that people are standing with nothing to support them if the train brakes hard, that is a crammed train.

That was the Metra BN line in Chicago when I lived there, at least the rush hour departures at around 5:00pm. I was on a train so full that I could not even fully get into the vestibule, I had to push people in with my body so the door could close behind me. Many times the CTA trains were similarly full.
Your black and white opposition to AI-based talk therapy is analogous to being opposed to self driving cars. Yes, the best human driver is better than AI, but what about the worst? Or someone tired or preoccupied with an emotional event in their life? Maybe AI should never drive in congested cities, but what about long-haul trucks on limited access freeways? What about that 'AI' PID loop autonomously operating the gas when you enable cruise control?

I think soon, if not already, heavily tested LLMs will be better than most mental health practitioners for some individuals and conditions. Especially as a first-line intervention, AI could be great at evaluating a patient and placing them with the best suited therapist. Recommendation engines are pretty advanced now, I'd love a therapist match-maker.
To fight climate change, I hope.
I know, experience counts for everything. Also, I'm 48yo and gen-x, so don't refer to myself as a boomer. ;-)
The challenge of designing nuclear waste warning markers to last 10k years
That's Brian's point. rustls/webpki/ring do not have funding in line with projects like Go's crypto or BoringSSL:

> ... ARM, Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft [...] should support the Rust community by letting their experts help the Rust community create FIPS-validated cryptography libraries written entirely in safe Rust that expose safe and idiomatic Rust APIs.

Rust's large corporate sponsors need to step up to make these crates more broadly suitable for production.
The same could be said about regular public schools too, no? I know a number of people that went to a local religious school and they came out with excellent understanding of the bible and quickly married off and started having children rather than pursuing advanced education.
To be honest, I never get what people want with all that business and wonder if it is because the abstraction ("ordered derivatives") implied is not ideal.

If we follow the ordinary chain rule (for a single coordinate if you want) through the edges of the computational (DAG) graph, we get the right thing in each step.

The only other rule you need is that "if you use one variable several times in a calculation (i.e. several edges from(fw)/to(bw) the same node), you need to add the gradients computed for each", but IMHO that is pretty basic and intuitive, too. (So if you plug in z for both x and y into f(x, y), you have d/dz f(z, z) = f_x(z, z) + f_y(z, z), where the subscript indicates partial derivative.)

To me this seems both mathematically simpler than mixing the two into a "more than chain rule" thing and closer to what is actually going on algorithmically in a given implementation (the one I'm most familiar with is probably PyTorch's).
As I get older I'm still finding things I care about but they're more niche than flavour of the month JS framework

I'm learning Clojure Electric at the moment and it's wild
right - why won't 'networking w/ 800GbE' be different (in terms of weird programming model, crazy interesting papers, etc)?
Exactly. I essentially think we need an amendment to the constitution that protects an individual’s right to not be solicited.

What law would stop Google and Facebook in their tracks is more the question we need to answer.

Data collection is a means to an end for advertisers and not in and of itself bad (nor are applications and/protocols that use PII or globally unique IDs, etc.), which is why GDPR hasn‘t really moved the needle much. It’s fighting the symptom not the cause. Invasion of privacy and “spooky” knowledge about individuals is all downstream.

And if I want to be solicited and psychologically manipulated into consume consume consume, then I really want it to be as relevant and effective as possible, don’t I? Yet another reason why attacking the data collection is ultimately barking up the wrong tree. But solicitation definitely shouldn’t be legal without my consent and probably broadly illegal to do to children.
You should stop supporting Apple or hoping they would change. Lock-down is their approach to everything. Microsoft is behind but following the same direction. GNU/Linux smartphones and tablets do not restrict what you do and run desktop OSes. Connecting a keyboard turns them in full laptops.
"A single Slack API request from a user (for example, loading messages in a channel) may fan out into hundreds of RPCs to service backends, each of which must complete to return a correct response to the user."

Not being a dick here but is this not a fairly obvious flaw?

I mean why not keep a structured "message log" of all channels of all time ?

For every write the system updates the message log.

I am guessing and making assumptions I know.
Is there any surprise in an American having such a narrow view where they only consider their own circumstances?
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We did. But the persisted data didn't live inside those ephemeral compute clusters though.
Show HN: Discord Bot Using Embeddings
You know how tech people from the aughts loved playing "Spot the XKCD" whenever they chatted online? Imagine if we could create a fancy AI to bring that game to life for today's Discord users. Who knows, Gen Z may even fall in love with XKCD again?

GitHub Repo here: https://github.com/base698/XKCDBot
>Do you think we should do the same with adults? Many of these arguments are also used by proponents of military service.

I'm well aware. There is an irony to the arguments I make, because I also detest the idea of forced erasure of identity.

Military service? No. I would be in favor of some 1-yr mandatory civil service. I believe its important to interact with all classes of the society you inhabit. How else can you gain true perspective if you only live in a bubble? Life is about being uncomfortable.

>The funny thing about school is that almost no adults would be willing to be subjected to it.

Its interesting you say this, because at the same time we see adults also long for their school days as they grow to hate the 40 hour work week. Now it could be that what they really long for is childhood and youth, but people also long for their college days as well. They long for the environment where they freely mingled with people of their age, and the camaraderie they established in their "shared suffering". They miss structured periods like "recess" and "lunch" or "gym class", even though as an adult you can do these things freely.
You're leaving out the training requirements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling#Research

There is some good research, but be wary. A lot of the research is done by pro-homeschooling institutions.
That makes sense on its own, but doesn’t it mean that there are lots of network requests happening between silos all the time? It doesn’t seem very siloed.

Or is this some lower-level service that “doesn’t count” somehow?
> And brag to their friends "I made a thousand people late for work!"

Seems like the protestors are not required for this to happen:

> The city’s transportation agencies documented several incidents where driverless cars disrupted Muni service. During the night of Sept. 23, five Cruise cars blocked traffic lanes on Mission Street in Bernal Heights, stalling a Muni bus for 45 minutes. On at least three different occasions, Cruise cars stopped on Muni light-rail tracks, halting service.

Meanwhile, these additional things are happening:

> San Francisco firefighters were battling a two-alarm apartment blaze on the corner of Hayes and Divisadero streets during a recent Sunday morning when a driverless Cruise car entered the active firefighting scene and nearly ran over fire hoses on the street.

> Firefighters at the scene stood in front of the car to try to get it to stop, but the autonomous vehicle came to a halt only after one of them smashed the Cruise car’s front window amid the chaotic effort to put out a fire that displaced 25 people, according to city transportation officials.

> A Cruise vehicle came to a stop after nearly colliding with a Muni N-Judah train at the intersection of Carl and Cole streets. The Cruise car blocked light-rail tracks in both directions for close to seven minutes.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/self-driving-cars/

> A passenger in a driverless Cruise vehicle suffered injuries on Thursday after the vehicle was struck by a San Francisco fire truck that was responding to an emergency call.

> Now, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has requested the autonomous vehicle company cut its San Francisco fleet in half, following this latest incident. Cruise told KTVU the company will comply with that request.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/cruise-robotaxi-with-passenger-cra...
My company has "apps" on n8n, Zapier, and Make. I've used them all and they're fairly similar: they make integration of supported platforms easy and support simple automation workflows.

E.g. if x happens on y platform, get relevant data, process it, send me a text message if it's during the day or email me if it's at night/weekend.

It's frequently faster than building out the integrations yourself, and is more accessible to inexperienced programmers/ less technical folks.

In terms of ease of use, I'd rank it: Zapier (top), Make, n8n. Same ranking for available apps. Complexity of workflows I'd rank those in reverse though. You can do more with n8n.
Sometimes it can be beneficial to the society to understand why some people think the way they do. Everyone is different but not everyone is right. I’m often wrong on many things and people correct me.
I’m concerned about their need to get a little bit more money if they don’t have time to profit from it. I guess they don’t know that life can be better with more free time. Or they don’t enjoy free time, but that doesn’t sound healthy.
Is it a reasonable business decision to compete with a large and enthusiastic open source community though?
Best to ban products from the Atlantic as well. It touches the Pacific.
> The charger side went usb-c awhile back. Now most users should have usb-c chargers, and likely a few usb-c cables.

Given that Apple never included usb-c charger with their iPhone, all Apple had accomplished was creating a bunch of soon to be obsoleted usb-c to lighting cable with this extended timeline
Makes sense. At https://www.teamshares.com/brokers , if you click on "Download buyer's profile", it says a few things that suggest they've taken that into account:

> Due to our specific needs, we are often forced to pass on good businesses.

And they want companies with:

> at least two managers or supervisors supporting the owner in bookkeeping, dispatch, sales, or project management

And:

> Our structure requires the inclusion of certain expense items (like presidents, finance leads, and/or general managers) that other buyers may not have to factor in. This means sometimes our price comes in lower than an individual buyer who benefits from that salary.