skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try to see the forest for the trees here: ask yourself how does the business make money?

If I throw my application on some PaaS thing and put the database on RDS, let’s say I can hire 5 developers who know almost nothing about infrastructure to develop and deploy the application. Each developer working on the application delivers valuable business logic. Let’s say each developer makes $200,000 total compensation and they bring in $500,000 in revenue. This setup makes me $1,500,000 in operating income per year.

Now you’re saying I should find someone who knows enough about infrastructure architecture who database administration and all the other bare metal Linux fundamental topics to manage it in house rather than paying AWS all this wasteful money.

So now I have 4 developers and 1 Ops/DBA person. My AWS bill was eliminated, saving $100,000 thanks to the infrastructure and database expert doing a wonderful job cost optimizing.

But now my 4 developers have one less person to deliver features that motivate customers to sign deals with us, so now we’re making $1,300,000 operating income. (Losing $300k from the loss of a developer and gaining $100k back from cost savings.

Obviously this is a made up scenario in my favor but that’s basically how it works. Businesses shopping for employees can’t get every skill they want in a job description. One of the most important parts of business strategy is making trade-offs.

This scenario reminds me of a landlord that I had who fixed a simple problem with my dishwasher by just replacing it with a new one. They didn’t give a shit that a little bit of extra knowledge and a spare part would have fixed it for no exaggeration 100x lower cost, because resolving the problem quickly with no risk was worth more to them. In any event, I was giving that landlord many times the cost of that dishwasher every month.

The compliance certifications are kind of like the real estate agent that has a big car payment on their Mercedes so that they can sell more expensive houses to wealthier clients. Yes, we all know that buying a Mercedes isn’t the most cost effective way to get from point A to B, but you can’t sell mansions if you show up in a Kia Rio.
You have to have a good soil on your land. I have acres and acres of land but it’s all clay. Tobacco is about the only thing that grows easily.
I check if it's on the internet archive...
A self replicating supply chain is obviously the basis for success and scalability of the ‘replicator program’.
I don't really understand why Elon Musk is making political statements at all. Isn't he a businessman and not a politician?
It might be the same situation as with Atari Jaguar where silicon bug turned texture cache into a fixed buffer you have to load manually.
Does MX Linux Frugal count as immutable?
Four stages of acceptance [of a scientific theory]:

1. This is worthless nonsense.
2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.
3. this is true, but quite unimportant.
4. I always said so.
My latest Wayland issue is devices that generate a lot of input events causing apps to
crash.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743144
I agree.

But in some sense it’s even more wonderful that your phone can (probably) render 1080p60 video without skipping a beat. Not to mention that it is transmitted over thin air, originating from someone (probably) thousands of miles away.

And even more wonderful is that no one thinks of it as anything special, at all.
There's a particular "Thomas Schoolbus" style that is instantly recognizable and I can confirm you find them in use as normal busses in many parts of the world.
FWIW I don't think this is an issue anymore, nVidia began implementing the necessary APIs - it was more a situation of nVidia not supporting Wayland, not the other way around - a couple of years ago.

https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/181159/en...
Do you have good soil on your land or do you need to bring in a lot of outside topsoil and compost each year.
>> As well as just saying no to all the absurd requirements like being able to stream the protocol over the internet or track exact XY inputs absolute to the screen outside of the apps own window.

Which is a security hole along with being able to read keystrokes meant for any app, grabbing pixels that aren't yours, etc... the features people complained were missing from Wayland for the longest time were often security issues that X could never solve by design. But hey, fuck security I want to run Xeyes!
I won't be surprised if single cell organisms, even prokaryotes can detect and react to sound - just a matter of more research to find out how.
Are you thinking of this as separate from a revert to the Terraform files and then a roll forward?
> There are storage systems, databases, app servers, etc. that all need some degree of constant care. I don't know what the scale or structure of those systems are, so it is difficult to say what that cost should be. Perhaps it qualifies as "little". It almost certainly does not qualify as "none".

You could have this entire setup managed by AWS / GCP for < 1k a month. It's not a complicated site.

And then maybe 1/2 devs for ongoing maintenance.
But $9 for a fucking lotto ticket? To something I already pay taxes on?
Yup. It basically becomes a household emergency when we run low. We were out of this and sriracha for a couple weeks. That was a sad, tasteless, time. (Also, it's mentioned in the article)
Yes we should all be worried about the local coffee shop who can barely make payroll manipulating our network traffic. Fortunately we can now proxy all traffic through an internet advertising company, with credentials tying it to our identity. We should all consider ourselves fortunate this option now exists. Who knows what Sally's doing with my DNS queries in exchange for a cappuccino. Might as well have Google hoover it all up so they can keep us safe.
And a strong political lobby in US :)
Even amateurs will notice the difference between a "perfect" pour over from a $50 grinder and a $200 grinder. The GP clearly does not own a V60 :)

Above the $200 range really only matter for espresso. Manual brews don't need that fine grind precision, just consistency (no fines, no rocks) at medium grind levels.
> I'm curious what Mac software you use in 2023 that is only available on Mac.

Ulysses, Bear, Things, Reeder, Mela, Alfred, MindNode, just to name a few. These apps are incredibly well designed, and have no equivalents in the Windows or Linux worlds. I know because I also have a PC and I’ve looked very hard for replacements.

Additionally, apps like 1Password, Scrivener, iA Writer, and Arc Browser started their life on the Mac. Some social media networks, like Instagram and VSCO, were iPhone apps before they released on other platforms. Because Apple users are generally not averse to spending money on software, all the really good software reaches the Mac and iPhone a long time before it becomes available on other platforms.

iCloud itself is something that no other platform can compete with. I never have to create a separate account for any app in the Apple ecosystem because they just sync using iCloud without me doing any extra work. When I install them on my phone later, my data is already there. The Windows/Android world have no equivalent of this.

Apps really are better in the Apple world. I blame Microsoft for underinvesting in native Windows UI toolkits.
America already has a number of domestic manufacturers that don’t rely on foreign supply chains.

https://www.thedronegirl.com/2020/06/23/american-drone-compa...
If you tell me I need to go 250 miles per hour to get to the grocery store then I guess I have to buy a Bugatti.
They don't have eyes but can detect light, too...
Are you compiling the code or interpreting?
He wrote very sweet, innocent children's fiction "My friend Mr Leakey" which is about a rational scientist who lives next door to a wizard.

Haldane did amazing work on decompression and other things, using himself as a test subject in quite dangerous experiments.

His family was interesting, quite apart from himself. His sister Naomi is a well known Scots Author under her married Name Naomi Mitchison.
Clay is a plus/minus - it's good for dams, not great for directly growing ... unless you can carve out a trough in the clay, put drainage in the lower end, and start packing the trough with evrything that rots, kitchen scraps, hedge cuttings, stable waste, etc.

Do that and you end up with a big clay garden pot that'll grow anything.
Paris decided instead to go underground for the atomic bomb proof telecom hub. Well, unless they moved it in the past 25 years (i.e. last time I worked in there).
It was equally dystopian, with offices with fake windows + artificial light + window treatments, a square with bistro tables to hang out.
I remember being slightly warmer than a normal office building. I guess the AC was either not properly sized, or just running at the minimum as barely anyone was working there actively at the time.
But the cool factor, was how we accessed it from the ground. There was a little structure that looked like the toilet structure for the adjacent park. You buzz, the door unlock, you enter, there is a guy behind a glass door, you show ID, and he unlock the elevator, and you go down to your subterranean floor. Felt like Jame Bond :)
You can make two lanes of freeways automated only where the speed limit is 200 mph
I hope in the future the notion of scale (or just more concrete conceptual frameworks in economics and politics) will be made more known in the popular consciousness. I find Taleb to be onto some interesting writing here: PRINCIPIA POLITICA Politics & Ethics under Scaling
and Uncertainty. see https://www.taesch.com/wp-content/plugins/zotpress/lib/reque...
I’ve double-blinded a burr hand grinder, electric blade spice grinder, and a fellow grinder.

It’s pretty easy to tell, although it depends a bit on how well you make the coffee.
I thought it was well understood that the best predictor for success was the ZIP code you grew up in.

The examples of people rising above their economic class are touted loudly for sure, but still incredibly rare. A winning lottery ticket is a solid analogy. Yet, you’ll find an endless supply of arguments that grit and perseverance are all thats needed, but Id wager there are many more wallowing in failure who exercise those very traits every day.
Without knowing any details, I strongly suspect authentication work similarly to iCloud Private Relay or Google VPN, both of which use blinded tokens that the proxy operator (here Google) can't correlate directly with an account.
I can't imagine there would be any success with an LLM that isn't already known about via Satisfiability Modulo Theory.
i just thought it was funny that their opinion was in their facts section
Catholic Canon Law is drafted and coded in Latin, which is supposedly the only official and binding version. However, this is translated into hundreds of vernaculars! People often read it in their native language for convenience, even lawyers, but this can be fraught with peril.
And this is how you get the case of the president of Stanford, who not only benefited tremendously from all the research that he was supposedly a part of or leading, but when it came to light that a lot of it was fraudulent, he was able to claim he wasn’t really involved that closely

So, a lot of the benefit, but barely any of the accountability
Which market are you referring to that has declined to 1/3 of its value?
The fractious minority is here, yes, but also a large number of people like me who don't care about display quality, "desktop interaction semantics," or surface consistency at all, but care deeply about being able to use their computer as they please.
Think you just took the test
I feel the experiments you mention would make a really entertaining youtube series.
Times my system was hacked via x or xeyes since I started using Linux in 95... zero
Thai "prik nam pla" is chili in fish sauce.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isLl3m_JUx4
> If you require the absolutely lowest latency possible though and don’t care about screen tearing then X without compositing, with VSync disabled is a better fit for you. You can re-evaluate once the possibility to have VSync disabled is implemented in your compositor of choice and the measured increased volatility in latency (99th percentile) with immediate mode is fixed.

I enjoyed the post, thanks. I suppose I'll wait then and re-evaluate when Wayland's 'immediate mode' is fixed and it is roughly comparable to X11 without a compositor. I go to great lengths to minimize my latency so this is really the only factor that matters to me.
But the wait is long and everyone is rationing addresses so any free allocation is unlikely to be very large.
Farming.

(a man of your talents?)

The awkward truth is that every other job you can take will appear inefficient. After some time you'll crave a computer to come do aspects of that job too... and hey presto, you're back on a client, coding up some automation feature.

Your subtle observations about inventory management, scheduling and mathematical errors in planning, bugged management so much they took you off 'normal work'. Then you're tasked with automating easy coding tasks that are hard because of outdated company structures, with limited oversight and no fellow bro-grammers to get you out of a jam.

If you do manage to 'lose' a programming job, please tell me how. This career is a one-way ticket to infinity, because you know.
Not hard in the UK, in Australia, and likely most G20 countries.

The UK has a postcode system that drills down to the location of a doorstep and a national mapping agency .. it's trivial there at a government level to attach a space sourced GPS co-ord to an address - with 'clouds' of methane the issue might be to investigate several properties that fall under the source end of the cloud - although with a space visible cloud you'd expect the source to be a large area industrial scale operation.
When it comes to drone warfare China probably has the factories to make 10x more drones than the US and the rest of the Western world combined.
"Plants don't have ears." - Learn something new every day.
100% the way to go IMO, because with outdoor farming, all sorts of things can fuck up your entire crop and leave you starving for months. The reliance on externally-developed technology is a risk however.
Immigrants prove that hard work really is still a predictor of success in the United States. However the system is definitely rigged.
Because 100 years is nothing in geological time obviously. The only reason not to do it is to choose to not understand the problem as completely as possible.
Ron Cobb – Filmography
Your argument is "I dare you; you won't notice a difference." That's not convincing. Those of us who've spent time in the industry can even detect differences between high end conical vs flat burr grinders, let alone the difference between a bladed spice grinder compared to a burr grinder.

There are substantial differences to be found in many variables of coffee brewing. Just because you don't have a palate for it doesn't mean others don't.
It’s sad to see a country just fade away. I hope they can convince their people to breed more or let in more immigrants while still maintaining their culture.
In your article, your points about managing stateful data operations vs stateless tools is right on point. It's the eternal and ever-repeating argument that has to be made in every data shop I've ever been in when inevitably a manager or senior person suggests moving to scrum, because of this propagated lie that data engineers are just like software engineers. Glad to see it in writing.
Perhaps people are upvoting because of the discussion it might create.
1 acre of land can grow 40,000 lbs of potatoes. At 350 calories per potato you that is 14 million calories. If you need 2000 calories a day that is 730,000 per year. So one acre can support about 18.5 people.
Something to take into account is we are all addicted to food. You dont know it until you have experienced it. Eating when you wake up, then at lunch and again at dinner is terrible, it's very addictive making you eat more and more and more, with less and less satisfaction. You can eat less and be healthier. For that, faste 16 hours a day and try to eat all your daily calories in a small window of 4 to 8 hours. In other words, sleep, wake up, coffee and no food until after you finished work. Thats what I (more or less) do and it's just amazing. You dont need to go nazi on this either, it's self fullfiling anyway. I can tell im very healthy as a result and my relation to food and eating is different. I can tell Im way less addicted. I can tell when i see someone he's just loaded intestines on legs, which is ugly. It makes me dam hot.

I had been on half a litter of veg soup plus 2 eggs plus 2 sausages, some bread, some nuts. A day. For months. And I felt absolutely fantastic. Now okay its a tat too short, lack variety and all, and its to note i wasnt working much. I have since got more resources and been able to eat a more balanced diet. But this gives you an idea of what we are talking about here when we say you can eat less. You still need some amount of calories every day but its really all different on many levels and no chance you go on 4k calories for no reasons other than "youre hungry". This 16 hours fasting is marvelous. It's all about the intestines somehow. You want them clean.

Please adapt to your own situation, you may have physical conditions that could affect your ability to do that, check with a specialist.
Sharing location seems very different from the other things discussed in this article. Day-to-day it's convenient to have bi-directional location sharing amongst close family. It's also fairly simple to circumvent in the name of privacy (e.g. 'accidentally' leaving a phone somewhere or having two phones)

Reading texts? That's borderline abusive.
This feels like an ivory tower take. I worked at a job reentry program. The difference in outcomes between those working hard and those not looked pretty stark to me. Ignore the billionaires. Focus on what you can control.
How baremetal are we talking? Hardware dies. Can you deal with the outage?
Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits
TikTok Shop Is a Real E-Commerce Threat
I still want to play the isometric CRPG featured in the page for UICollectionView:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uicollection...
India also heavily incentivizes manufacturing domestically. Given the large market of India it makes sense to have a facility there. Also it gives diversification to their supply chain, which they obviously want.
I think this is an important insight. Some people don’t have much experience in making repeatable coffee, and whether you make the coffee well is more important than how good the grinder is.
I disagree that people should be dismissive of the environmental impact of shipping in general. It alone contributes 3% of global greenhouse gasses, not to mention all the water pollution.

I also disagree with your comparing an average per-cubic meter rate of a cargo shipment to a truck carrying a single 1m^3 steel cube. It is so far from being logical I can’t really respond at all.

I also disagree with your complete dismissal of the heightened impact of the sulfur used in high seas shipping.
> ostree is what everyone should be using

I currently use Ubuntu for my server, and I see there's ostree in my repos, I haven't gotten around to trying it yet but I'd like to just start versioning my system as is with it. If that's too difficult/not possible to do, then I intend to switch my server over to Silverblue at some point because I really like the idea behind ostree.
Michigan reaping millions by hiding unclaimed money worth less than $50
I do think there are a few things that make the N64 kinda "special" for going back and squeezing more performance out of it. The 3D hardware is remarkably modern in some ways, but there are a couple very thorny resource limitations that you have to work within, and the system complexity is higher than you would probably like.

The main resource limitations you deal with are the main RAM banwidth and the TMEM size. The complexity comes from the division of work between the CPU and a coprocessor called the RSP, which is basically a stripped-down MIPS CPU core that has a SIMD unit and some scratch RAM. You can come up with cool ways to use the RSP, but if you eat up more of the main RAM bandwidth, you'll hurt performance.

The demo here is focused on working around the TMEM size limitation, but it looks like it also reduces the RAM bandwidth use by drawing in Z order rather than using the Z buffer... which is an overall solid approach for improving graphics performance on the N64.

The PS3 has some striking similarities to the N64, in that both consoles have coprocessors with SIMD units that operate on scratch RAM. Both consoles have a reputation for being difficult to program for. The PS3 takes things a bit farther in that the Cell SPEs can only access main memory through DMA. I can only imagine how hard it was to effectively use the SPEs.
This seems verifiably false, too. Why else would it be called an 'ear' of corn?
As someone who took the school bus as a kid? Who gives a shit. I think it's an improvement worth having.

Also: School buses generally run on CNG, not diesel. They usually have special filling stations for that. They can toss all of that (but then they have to make EV charging stations lol).

But yea, the stinky old detroit screaming jimmy diesels have been gone for decades now. They phased those out when I was a kid lol.
I might be wrong, but OHAI is an additional HPKE layer within the TLS protected HTTP tunnel; a more nauced take on the HTTP CONNECT method, if you will. MASQUE seems more of IPsec take 2.

See section 3.1 for a brief comparison between the two: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-schinazi-masque-...
What's going to happen to the money? The only reason I can think of to auction the bikes instead of donating them to another museum is that whoever controls the organization is planning to basically appropriate the cash.
> Every day there is at least 4 times a garbage pickup, by an extremely loud garbage truck

Wow...I had no idea there were places with such frequent garbage pickup. It's always been once a week everywhere I've lived, although I do hear trucks on two days here because I'm next to a boundary of an area that is on a different day.

How does a place end up needing several pickups a day?
Maybe because it could be construed as "self-promotion" especially because you didn't bother to tell that you are the author of those tweets.
Thanks! I’ll update this shortly
Printf is horribly slow compared to puts
That's Michael Liebriech, notorious anti-hydrogen advocate. He's completely wrong and not an expert on the subject at all.
If you don't have anything constructive to add, I think HN would prefer if you don't comment at all.

Decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio helps nobody.
I don't think so. Any state progressive enough to adopt law-as-code might also put in place laws limiting the length and complexity of the code. It would be easier to control this aspect as code I believe.
It is not just about hacking your system. It's also about programs being able to hack into your accounts by keylogging you or stealing passwords from your clipboard. If you use cryptocurrencies malware can replace addresses on your clipboard with similar looking addresses while it's completely hidden in the background. Desktop Linux's security is usually like swiss cheese, so if you haven't been hacked it has more to do with you not encountering malware than your system protecting against it.
What about a middle solution like a greenhouse.