skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you talking about any species at all, or only about animals?

Fungi and even plants can easily span that kind of size range.

Some animal species with extreme sexual dimorphism also count. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglerfish

> Some anglerfish are notable for extreme sexual dimorphism and sexual symbiosis of the small male with the much larger female, seen in the suborder Ceratioidei, the deep sea anglerfish. In these species, males may be several orders of magnitude smaller than females.[4]
The world hasn't been kind to evangelist-type people in the last few years. For a while, they got a whole lot of freedom, but the people I knew either got their leash pulled and now strictly need to shill company products or were let go/switched jobs.
As much as I respect the authors and their opinions, it feels terribly wrong to put that on Github. This is not a personal blog. There are no codes, no licenses, no whatever contribution or forks ever possible for the lack of meanings.

Why?

It does not take a body part to host a server or buy a VPS, or you can even use wordpress parts. If the only thing they are looking for is opinions (or, mainly similar opinions), they could go subreddits or forums like HN. Why Github?
does it? why can they then sell it for not much more and run a profit?
oh give me a break, people were saying the same thing about cRyPto and all we got were stupid ape pictures in the end
I first learned programming using Think C on a Mac Plus.
Apple is an appliance maker. It does not make computers.
> the second-worst unit of measurement after perhaps only degrees Rankine.

I see you haven't heard about Delisle scale yet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delisle_scale
Does no-one remember the 1992 Robin Williams film - Toys?
This has been coming for a lonnng time. Question is when there are two armies operating on the same principle do we reach some kind of nash equilibrium?
> I refuse to believe anybody at all cares about how light or heavy their phone weighs or how light it "feels".

My vision’s poor, so I hold everything closer to my face than the average, to get a better look. For items with a lot of text (or other reasons for prolonged near-face use), this can put a small yet noticeable strain on my wrists, elbows and shoulders. You’d think that years of repetitive phone ise would have built up small muscles to compensate, but it hasn’t. I would definitely appreciate a light phone.
How do solar flares burn satellites? I thought they just mess up the ionosphere and inhibit communication.
Same thing, I don't want to use Zoom when a good open source alternative exists
> Relying on ambiguity is admitting there are no laws, and we rely on the common sense of the people in thr judicial system.

What's better:

- relying on the common sense of the people in the judicial system to interpret the intent of the law as it applies to a particular situation,

- or relying on the common sense of legislators to write a precise, unambiguous law that will cover all possible situations without negative unintended consequences, and without the law-writing process being influenced by spureous interests and pressures?

The answer highlight why the law is interpreted as is now, with a body of trained public servants analyzing the particulars of each situation, rather than by fanatics trying to follow the letter of the law.

Languages like this may help clarify the intent of legislators so that it is not twisted by clever lawyers; but a human reviewer should always check the relevance of one law to any particular case, and wether the text corresponds to the original intent as applied to a given situation.
> No indication they even wanted homegrown BASIC type stuff.

Further up this very thread is a link from a first party source that refutes that entirely.
IIRC debris is not a major concern in the orbits Starlink is using. There is a non-trivial amount of atmospheric drag. This will slow down anything without active propulsion, causing them to drop from orbit, and eventually burn up.
this isnt true at all, in practice. there’s so much onerous bureacracy, kafkaesque visa policies, and the fact that even naturalised individuals will still be othered.

japanese nationality is tied to ethnicity so much due to how homogenous the society is
Maybe as added context, we have been working together in the same company and team remotely since 2020. We also spend 90+% of the time together, so a scenario you are describing wouldn't happen. We did make separate email aliases as to not confuse other people though :)

I guess it all depends on how life is structured.
yeah Office365 is a problem.
If I really need that I'll either run up a VM for windows or I'll use works citrix session (or the work laptop)
There's reason to be skeptical of that. I think their most recent profitable quarter (maybe their only profitable quarter?) was with a profit margin of ~3%.

Granted maybe there's some marginal benefits, eg launching n+1 rockets is cheaper per rocket than launching n rockets
great post! I'd like to mention one more "indie" tip - physical security key is nice to have (2 even better) if you plan to lose/break your phone, or travel frequently. Add the most important auth keys (bank, email, etc) directly to the physical key, back them up on the second one, and now you're less "working smartphone with an active sim" dependent :)
Mine is amateur framing so I get to choose OS+compositor. But I had to migrate back to X11 to do photography work. Color management also helps professionally when communicating with designers, but isn’t necessity. The dock I picked up, I didn’t realize DisplayLink was something I would need to worry about since they have Linux drivers--and if there isn’t already patched flag available in Nixpkgs, I could add it if the color management ever makes progress after years of development.
Have been following your feed for a while now. Got really inspired by the HWC and started a programming meetup in my city. Also because I build https://heyhomepage.com which fits the niche.
Might see some of you in Nurnberg!
Leave it to Progressives to lament gains as “depressing”
Apart from the fact that there is no generalized "economic battle", the productivity gains in most Eurasian countries will go straight to paying for pensions. Of the countries with healthy demographics, the US is in fact the only large and fastly growing economy.

Working less also doesn't necessarily reduce productivity btw.
Consider what "off peak hours" will even mean as California continues to push towards 100% ZEV adoption.

Today, we know how LADWP commercial time-of-use[1] is windowed while fossil fuels remain the dominant energy source, but I have yet to encounter an argument supporting a thesis that these windows will immutably hold (or shift favorably) in the near future, let alone throughout the expected lifecycle of these buses; mean reversion is far more likely, rendering an "off peak hours" operations efficiency strategy moot.

As a selling point to the public, the article claims the investment will:

> ...save the district $2 million on bus maintenance and fuel costs annually.

I'd be interested in sanity checking which sphincter and under what assumptions they pulled that number out of. The going concern in my mind is this +10% CAGR trend in the average cost of electricity for the locality as evident in BLS data previously cited. If that trend continues unchecked, electricity is projected to cost +33% more in 2026 relative to today when the fleet of buses reach full operational capability, and over 3x more by 2035 when the state is postured to be at 100% new ZEV sales.

To be sure, I'm not trying to assert that this isn't a net positive for the district...just level setting the narrative that a decision being sold to the public as an investment which yields net lifecycle savings is looking much more like an outright expense increase to be carried by taxpayers with notional 2nd-order effects conveniently dismissed.

[1] https://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/faces/ladwp/commercial/c-custome...
The DoD has been using Wargaming since WW2. There's many contracts already applying AI to this. Think of it as AI predicting how a conflict can go with millions of variables at play, doing it over and over and over again, kind of monte carlo'ing war and then immediately sending troop movement, attack recommendations etc to troops.

But now imagine this instantly controlling drone strikes for drones that are already flying, to launching missiles from drone-submarines near targets, launching laser attacks from satellites or, you know, connect it to the wrong API and launching some nukes.

The future.
That doesn't add up with how the average piece of legal code looks. Even when I read a brand new piece of legislature it's an impossible soup of words, attempting to document every possible edge case the legislators thought of. If the point was to leave room for interpretation by a judge and you concede yoy don't have full context of how what you're writing will be applied, surely you could write much more sensible and human-readable text.
If shielding is insufficient the control systems fry, or at least get wonked.
Dunno if it's what happened in this case, but solar flares make the atmosphere bigger* which increases drag on satellites in low Earth orbit.

That said, the satellites have an expected life of 5 years so it's not necessarily a big deal. Their planned constellation is so large that it's dependent on having a nearly continuous churn of replacement satellites.

* This is a bit of an oversimplification
That's about a 4.4% loss (200 of 4500 satelites which are expected to have a life of 5 years), and the internal cost to Starlink of a new launch is probably far less than the $67 million 'retail' cost of a SpaceX launch.
> They were more expensive for the consumers

The claim I replied to isn’t that Apple always was more expensive, but that it always wanted to be more expensive, even back in the beginning. Who doesn’t want to sell their product for more money? I also think that, certainly in the beginning, they wanted to build better products and accepted higher costs.

Also, what computer with comparable features could people buy “even back in the beginning” for less? One could argue there were none when the Apple II debuted.

The PET and TRS-80 were a lot cheaper ($1298 vs $795 respectively $599,95) and shipped with displays but didn’t do colour. The PET and, reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80#Keyboard, also the TRS-80 had an inferior keyboard.
Not sure who you went to, but the mall repair guys do a terrible job of telling you that the repairs never leave your phone the same.

Truetone for example, 100% of the time will start working, that one is for sure on top of the random things that’ll break, sometimes the phone also gets way heavier.

I learned that lesson the hard way which sucks - my iPhone 12’s internet speed was great, but after I had to upgrade it because of the screen, the 13s was shit and Apple never did anything about it - story for another time I guess.
The Computer Sheds
I also found the 13 Pro to be too heavy, and since the mini had all the features of the regular 13, I went with the cheaper/smaller mini.

Apple missed the chance to sell me a phone that costs 50-75% more because it was just too much of a brick. And I say that as someone who has had other Pro iPhones in the past, and is generally an Apple early adopter.
Wow, you weren't kidding.

Signup modal as soon as the page finished loading.

Cookie popup on the left.

"Schedule a call" CTA popup on the right.

Exit intent full screen modal.
I always find it weird that people lament population decline. Japan still has a lot of people. Sure, that number is going down now, but you can’t look at the trend and extrapolate that number down to zero. And as the population declines, the number of resources per citizen increases. So people may be better off than before. The largest dangers to Japanese society lie in the transition period, where many elderly people will need to be supported by relatively fewer working age people.
>Honest question: why does this matter? If you end up with running malware as your user haven't you already "lost" in any of a wide variety of ways that Wayland does nothing against?

The security benefits of wayland are useful when you're also using other things like namespaces/seccomp (with bubblewrap/flatpak), and pipewire which I believe has a similar access control mechanism.

>Or is it that Wayland is trying to bring the mobile security model to the desktop with partially untrusted apps?

I trust my programs, but they can have bugs when parsing untrusted content. (ffmpeg, browsers). Although I've never been hacked, I'd like my systems to have defenses against this (without going full mobile security mode and giving up functionality and user freedom, or running everything in inconvenient isolated boxes with VMs).

Also, I'm not sure if I'd trust proprietary games, so preventing them from doing naive things (I don't expect them to exploit kernel vulns) like snooping on files by using namespaces is nice.
Neural Networks and the Origins of Modern Computing
So we have reached that stage of Universal Paperclips
You position it as cultural spaced repetition learning.
> My instinct here is to create a symbolic link with the Ubuntu name that points to the Fedora rpm managed library.

I sympathize, but also AIUI this is exactly the sort of monkey patching that these systems are trying hard to avoid; yes, it fixes your immediate problem, but it leaves an undocumented, unmanaged change in how your system finds libraries. In my personal experience, this is the kind of change that leads to machines growing weird behavior that ends when I give up and so a clean reinstall.
I mean, the article specifically talks about parent/child interactions, so I'm sure you appreciate my confusion.
>Nice IMAX you got there.

Sorry, what?

10%/19g reduction is about as little as few coins or variation of a t-shirt weight, it's beyond negligible.
Drinking an extra glass of water will weigh you down tenfold. What would you say about moment of inertia? That people twist around with phones all day?
Well again I’m not a network expert but perhaps we could look at the 240.0.0.0/4 reserved for future use block and add more address bytes in the payload or something. It’s not going to be elegant but IPv6 is kinda elegant and failed.
> My daily driver weights nearly half a kilogram and has a 13,200 mAh battery that literally actually truly lasts for four days of mixed use on a charge.

> I also have an iPhone, but be fucked if I can keep hold of it, it's so light I can seem to actually get a grip on it for longer than about two minutes at a time.

Your half-kg phone has trained your motor neurons in such a way that they are not prepared when you hold a ~100g phone. I suggest mixed-interval training. Use both phones regularly (you mention the half-kg one is your daily driver). An anti-slip silicone case for your iPhone should also help.

When I hold an iPhone, it sometimes feels heavy to me. I would say my experience is more representative of the general population than yours.
> I think this could actually kill Unity.

I see no way how it wouldn't. Which developer wouldn't be looking for alternatives now? Perhaps they have luck and their former good reputation especially with smaller studios will hold for a while.
Where I have seen digital models work well is in the initial planning phase, where you don't even know what you want to build yet. Iterating on abstract requirements in a simulation is faster than iterating on prototypes, but it can still get you (some) of the necessary intuition.

Where it goes off the rails is when management drinks too much of the kool-aid, and gives all the R&D funding to the model-based-system-engineering experts. Then they start building models for every other domain without consulting those domain experts. (They're the experts on models so obviously those other folks will just slow things down, pointing out ways that theory and practice aren't quite the same.) Then it's all garbage-in, garbage-out.

Turns out that the map is not the territory.
Majority of users stick with the defaults.
I’m loving the eternal September of constantly watching people totally misunderstand the industry.

Since you aren’t following the conversation, I’ll break it down for you into smaller chunks. First, most places don’t use SOAR (you can see this in the marketing or sales numbers) as they don’t have the technical maturity or budget to leverage it. Bringing it up is pointless. Most jobs (see any of the usual industry survey results or do some analysis of posted jobs) are basic SOC-monkey positions looking at a SIEM (as I previously said) and doing basic research and response.

Get alert, google signature, update ticket, interview user, remediate/slick the box, repeat. Throw in complaining about the lack of tooling to make their lives better, a good bit about how the desktop/server/dev team should really work on standardization so everything isn’t a one-off and you have most person-days at most f1000 shops.
?? that's the exact reason I didn't buy an iPhone 13 Pro. A heavy phone is really annoying and paying more for it is even worse.
Personally, I think there’s too many variables that are spread across political, geographical, and technical to ever reach a Nash Equilibrium in a near peer / peer conflict scenario, unless it pertains to total distraction—that’s why I think MAD was so successful.

Would love to hear your thoughts
Ukraine proved drones outplay any defense and at far cheaper cost.
You can train pilots, soldiers, tank drivers for years and
they are going to die like cannon fodder(or drone fodder)
because drones are much cheaper and faster to produce.
These are just manually operated, cardboard junk drones.
AI drones will probably make modern armies non-viable
in principle: its like defending against flying I.E.Ds.
There is Ubuntu Core too.

https://ubuntu.com/core
This is the second article after the "caddy" one that I am having troble finding a usecase.

Nginx eixsts, why do I need to learn caddy?

Redis exists, why do I need to learn FundationDB?
You can not "own" a /24 block. And if your membership lapses, then your blocks are returned to the general pool.

It's possible that your block is a part of a legacy allocation, they are governed differently.
Heh - checkmate not stopping the game was also a feature of Atari 2600 chess; always fun to carry on until the computer had no pieces left
I am going to take this opportunity to share the chili oil that is so good that I'm sure I could never make it: the most delicious chili oil made with sesame oil from the best sesame oil producer.

Yamada Seiyu Goma ra-yu (spicy sesame oil)

Ingredients are: sesame oil, red pepper, spring onion, ginger, sansho (zanthoxylum piperitum), cinnamon, star anise, mikan tangerine skin

Here is the manufacturers site: https://sesamepaste.jp/en/#Products

Although it's not on the Nijiya Market website, it can often be found there, mixed in amongst the lesser sesame chili oils. It's a favorite gift of mine to give, and nearly everyone who receives it mentions later to me how much they enjoyed it.
> Decommissioned Nvidia Tesla P100 or V100 can be purchased cheaply for several hundreds dollars.

Meh. If you want 16GB of VRAM for several hundred dollars, can't you just pull a brand new 30-series off the shelf and have ten times more computing power than those old pascal cards? You'll even have more VRAM if you go for the 3080 or 3090. Admittedly, the 3090 is closer to $700 or so, but it should still make a P100 very sad in comparison.
I have heard of the instability of this Minisforum under certain CPU loads. Do you confirm it?
Do you understand that the "cloud print" adapter would need to be hooked up directly to the GBA printer ?

Are you having a bad day, did my comment warrant that attitude ?
I wish you were right heh
Tangent about FoundationDB: this is a great video that explains how the team tested it https://youtu.be/4fFDFbi3toc?si=kSZ8VcOIjW_pMmPd

Spoiler: they even had their own custom power supplies used to test against power failures.
Kürbiskernöl (pumpkin seed oil) should be stored in the fridge, there it lasts pretty long.
when do we choose FDB over Redis and vice versa?
> MicroOS Desktop turned into Kalpa (KDE) and Aeon (GNOME), but the latter has all the momentum.

Honestly tying the OS to the desktop environment is the only reason I haven't installed microos. Making a derivative with my preferred DE is on my "maybe someday" list, but that's a long list...
I'm paying $100 a month for a /27. So I can assign a real IPv4 to my smart fridge! I might even do that one day, before throwing it out.
I mean, where do you think Ubuntu came from?
Wayland is nice and all, but I haven’t seen an end-to-end solution for “headless” remote login yet. Until there’s a working Xrdp replacement, I don’t have much use for it personally.
"It has not been possible/practical to use immutable system images until recent advances like ostree/flatpak/systemd-homed."

no, you can just mount overlayfs with ram-backing for example
Oh... is the war over?
That would be a Bad Idea: if anyone ate raw cancer cells they could potentially form a tumor if they got into a cut and survived.
> GDPR in Europe is what started it all

Cookie banners are a result of the ePrivacy directive, not GDPR.

Also we could have had something better than cookie banners if browser vendors and companies had collaborated on a standard. Imagine if cookie banners were implemented like the permission system, via <meta> tags or headers, we could get:

- automatic blocking by the browser of cookies not declared explicitly

- ability for websites to mark technical cookies (these are allowed with no consent)

- a global settings view in the browser of all the cookies allowed or denied

- and a uniform implementation everywhere

Instead we ended up with this shit. It’s definitely not the EU’s fault, the directive doesn’t say to use crappy banners.
> In my career I worked on a really wide range of business domains and have not even noticed the problems you are talking about.

How many other programming paradigms have you explored in depth and built solutions with?

Back when I did OO in Java and C# I didn't think twice about it, converting things to an OO paradigm was second nature, but once I stepped outside my comfort zone and learned of other modeling techniques, I realized that I had been jumping through extra hoops to get to where I wanted.
The capability of the AI software is also important. Not saying China can't do that, but it's a factor to consider.
> it's that it's one of the things cryptocoins are actually useful for

It's what their proponent claim that they are useful for, yet there's no single instance of a successful blockchain project actually achieving this kind of resource-sharing goal.

> You have people all over the world with GPUs, some of them want to pay the others for use of them

The gigantic success of bitTorrent shows that humans as a group don't need to have monetary incentives to share their spare hardware. In fact, it's likely that trying to add money into the mix will just break the system instead of improving it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overjustification_effect
I have seen this short some time ago, and I was wondering, if such weapon was ever deployed, what ideologies would be labeled as 'evil'.
That is not comparable to writes completing after they are flushed to disk.
AGUE (Aged Group of UNIX Experts)

OLD (Old Linux Devs)

SENIORS (Some Elderly 'Nix InventORS)

... Chat GPT could probably do better.
People often accept a worse "compromise" in that situation. But I don't think this style will work if you need to acquire new customers that will use their engine.
Nope. AGI has a fairly well accepted definition - something with human level cognition. The ability to replace humans for most tasks.

Bringing up things like sentience and consciousness muddies the waters because nobody knows those even are. HN is full of confident and unfounded assertions that ANNs fundamentally can't be conscious. Or even that they can't reason!