skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think that some day humans are gonna live on Earth II? Or on the moon? Are you a child from the 1950s? "Earth I" has a climate crisis that should be our top concern. I'm all for pushing boundaries that matter, if the cost isn't stupidly high. But this is the work of a billionaire narcissist that came up the the cybertruck. The fucking cybertruck.

What's the upside of this delusional enterprise? We get better at sending rockets a pathetically short distance from the planet. Great. Space is extremely vast and mostly empty and it takes an incredible amount of finite energy and creates an incredible amount of co² emissions to do this. I'm not a Luddite, I just think that this is extremely wasteful and harmful, and in the grand scene of things, pointless. A pointless pissing contest, and an ego vehicle for Musk.

I suppose I'm also a Luddite because I don't babble about crypto.
Think back to the 2021-2022 pandemic-triggered supply chain chaos, when the media widely reported that car companies, for example, were all having very painful experiences with parking lots full of $50k trucks they couldn't sell due to a lack of $5 chips.

At the time I saw some of Sam's videos (I think I originally found them here on HN), and I had a big question: If a hobbyist can build 1970's era chips for ~$10k in his garage, and Intel can build 2020's era chips for ~$10B in state-of-the-art factories, why doesn't someone start a startup building 1990's era chips in a ~$10M facility?

I'd assume Atomic Semi is that startup :)
Seems like Apple doesn't have any statement on this.

There are 2 links I could find with something on the matter, but neither is definitive or even mentions the training aspect at all:

- https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/iphone/iphd4ea90231/io...

- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7736297

So much for a "privacy" phone.
The kind of homeless people in SF is not the same as the kind that can't afford housing. The homeless people in SF have given up on life. They're drug addicts. They're violent. They've been homeless for a long time even.

Even if you give them free housing, they'll mess it up somehow. They can't hold down a job. They don't take care of the home. They'll abuse the home until it's unlivable.

If it's truly unaffordable housing, why the hell are they in SF? Go to somewhere that is 1/4th the price. Plenty of places in the US.

Source: Lived in SF for 20+ years.
"Lobbyist Claims Monsanto's Roundup Is Safe To Drink, Freaks Out When Offered A Glass"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw6YjqSfM&t=10
The calls per server is probably not the difficult part - this is the type of scale where you start hitting much, much harder problems, e.g.:

- Load balancing across regions [0] without significant latency overhead

- Service-to-service mesh/discovery that scales with less than O(# of servers)

- Reliable processing (retries without causing retry storms, optimistic hedging)

- Coordinating error handling and observability

All without the engineers actually writing the functions needing to know anything about the system (which requires airtight reliability, abstractions, observability).

I don't mean to comment on whether this is impressive or not, just pointing out that per-server throughput would never be the difficult part of reaching this scale.

[0] And apparently for this system, load balancing across time, which is at least a mildly interesting way of thinking about it
DC also just extended the Metro to go out to Dulles, so that is massively more convenient too.

It’s fine for the airport to be a bit out there if there is a good rail line going to it.
> not so much for burned CD-R. Most of them are full or errors when reading it.

David Rosenthal tests this periodically. Most recently he tested in August. Notice the first sentence of the quote: https://blog.dshr.org/2023/08/optical-media-durability-updat...

> The drives I use from ASUS and LG report read errors from the CDs but verify the MD5s correctly. I didn't notice them reporting any read errors from the DVDs. An off-brand drive fails to read the CDs, but read one of the older DVDs with no read errors.

> Surprisingly, with no special storage precautions, generic low-cost media, and consumer drives, I'm getting good data from CD-Rs more than 19 years old, and from DVD-Rs nearly 17 years old. Your mileage may vary. Tune in again next year for another episode.

> Last year I found a NetBSD1.2 CD dating from October 1996 whose cksum(1) checksums all verified correctly despite a few read errors. That CD was still delivering good data after nearly 26 years, but this year a couple of the checksums failed.
Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS
I keep being surprised at how many good enhancements are part of the Podcasting 2.0 specs.

The <podcast:value> gets (very understandably) a lot of attention.

But <podcast:chapters>, <podcast:trailer> and <podcast:remoteItem> are very usefull as well.
Good managers coordinate. They don't give orders
Just for one trillion (not "trillions"), that'd be 10 million function calls per server per day, ~7k per minute. Sounds about right to me. They'll surely want to leave some room for traffic spikes, server failures and unforeseen issues. Server uplink could also be a factor - at least that was the major bottleneck the last time I ran infrastructure serving lots of clients (about 100 million), but they are probably smarter about this than I was back then.
KYC and AML are destroying the world
Author here. I implemented the commercial Tailwind "Spotlight" template with Semantic CSS and compared the differences in weight, amount of HTML and CSS, rendering speed, and best practices. I was surprised to find _that_ much overhead in Tailwind. Curious to hear your thoughts.
Written like an old man shaking his fist at a cloud.

I don't see analysis and studies backing anything he says up. I don't see reporting of practical complaints that happen from regular riders.

Hell I remember how much wheel alignment I needed to keep my rim breaks working vs a disk.

In any case... Few facts, mostly a rant.
Yeah, I was only talking about exactly once semantic between Kafka and Quickwit.
you have trigger a glitch in the matrix sir
This gives me nightmares tbh. Love that they say that they’re happy and healthy, lol.
Important note: Traffic from Twitter was already 2% and is now at 1%
Not exactly the same dramatic story if you think about it.
> If you lived at the time of the wars in one of these countries you'd know very well who are the "good" and "bad" guys

Yes it is easy to tell. The good guys are those on your side, and the bad guys are the guys on the other side.

When your side kills civilians, it is really indirectly the fault of the bad guys for fighting and not surrendering. When the bad guys kills civilians it is because they have no regard for human life. When your side rapes it is just a few bad apples blown up by enemy propaganda. When the bad guys rapes it is because they are like evil animals. When your side perform ethnic cleansing it is an unfortunate but necessary step to preserve peace and safety for the good guys. When the bad guys perform ethnic cleansing it show they will murder everyone if they are not exterminated.

Sure somtimes you will have the good guys inexplicable turn evil, like the rugged freedom-loving Mujahedeen suddenly turning into the evil Taliban, but just remember to examine the ideals they fight for to determine wheter they are good or evil today.
Try Listening for Once
Pardon my ignorance, I hear about "fun with avx512" so often yet still have 0 intuition about why its fun? What do people do with that instruction that's so different to all the other stuff?
I'm not an expert but I don't think you need to go to a doctor if you can't see them easily, I think it's common for it to take a lot of effort initially

It actually might well be that people with sight problems will have a harder, or a lot harder, time at first, but, yeah, with enough time most will probably manage to.

I think it took me weeks to start to see them easily, and probably at least days to see one for the first time.

By the way, from then on though, I became able to e.g. watch stereo videos stereographically in a split second, from any position (so long as I kept exercising every once in a while); so it's probably just a matter to learn how it works and maybe exercise the eyes a little, for most people.
I was lately disappointed with quality of movies/shows on NF. But The Fall off the House of Usher was decently good, especially if you know Poe's stories/poetry. Highly recommended, nice classic horror with modern twist.
You are aware you're using the word "hopeful" in a sentence that's exploring the killing of hundreds of millions humans for a perceived personal gain.

Do you think such thinking is justified because of the Ukraine war? I suggest you start reading UN reports of actual observers on the ground and stop reading propaganda intended for halfwits.

I also suggest you read the analysis of us military experts on the subject hypersonic missiles. This whole thread is vile nonsense.
I am no excel wizard (have been using Libreoffice for a decade now) but I guess you can do that already (in it's own row)

=IF(EXACT(ValueA;ValueB); ValueA; "Mismatch!")

So you basically just compare two other rows (which you can hide if you like) and if they are exactly the same you display the value, otherwise you display an error.
I pay extra for my electricity to guarantee 100% of my usage is matched by renewable electricity. I expect many other ev drivers do the same.
I wish someone built a tool to extract any model from Excel and help annotation and conversion to code with clean separation of input, logic, output. The amount of creepy legacy Excel is killing my organization.
The most talked about "Bitcoin ETF" is the one Blackrock filed an application for. I think it is this one:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1980994/000143774923...

My reading of it is that it will only cointain Bitcoin.

And that they will not actually own it (as in control it) but only own an email (or whatever paperwork) from Coinbase (or whoever the "custodian" will be) saying that Coinbase holds Bitcoin for the ETF. But I'm not sure. Happy to hear interpretations by others.
Yup, I do. It's a great place to talk to myself and nobody else.

A bunch of people I know who play video games are on Telegram. I'm pointing out that I can talk to them without sharing my phone number which I can't do on WhatsApp/Signal.

Not being stalked by weirdos is a higher priority for a lot of people than anything involving spooky Edward Snowden stuff involving the NSA, FSB, GCHQ, Mossad and Five Eyes etc.
Molto interessante, complimenti
Now if you install a few Raspberry Pi's with a cheap GPS and a cheap microphone you could likely use my sound localization project and perform very accurate localization and know for sure in future incidents:

https://github.com/hcfman/sbts-aru

Nice to see you using sound calculations if your analysis. I don't know how hot it was at the time but a simple heuristic to adjust the speed of sound might make a (very slight) difference.

Speed approx = 331.3 + 0.6 * temp_in_celsius

But if you can place at least 3 (Technically 4x, but the best of two solutions will be chosen if you only have 3x) mics around the place, I'm pretty sure that the sound of the explosions could be heard for miles and your should have pretty darn good localization accuracy and be independant from webcam from solely relying on webcam images.
My 5.25" ones from the mid-eighties are still readable. As far as I can tell the 8" ones are as well, though I haven't tested many of them. But their density is low, which helps a lot. And that's also why none of my 3.5" 1.44MB floppies are readable - the density is a bit too high for what's feasible for that physical medium.

I don't know about later ones, but early CD-R easily failed after less than a year back when I tried to use them as backup media. I quickly abandoned the idea of using them as backup.
The article is too light on details to estimate if trillions is impressive or not. For example, if my single-server system easily handles 100 mio per day and the load is almost exclusively CPU bound (like with most AI tasks) then scaling to 1 trillion per day might be as easy as buying 10k servers, which is totally a thing that mid to large sized companies do to scale up.

The fact that makes this Meta paper impressive is NOT scaling up to 1 trillion per day, it's that they manage to do so while keeping request latency low and CPU utilization high. Anyone who's been with Heroku long enough probably remembers when suddenly instances would be 80% idle and still requests were slow. That was when Heroku changed their routing from intelligent to dumb. And Meta is doing the opposite here, reducing overall deployment costs by squeezing more requests out of each instance than what would have been possible with a simple random load balancer.
Not having to spin up and down whole interpreter/VM is, apparently, such a performance boost that some companies used to make whole business out of it
I can't speak to what is going on but one thing I've heard that makes things difficult for at least the frontend teams is that they are battling ad blockers. In order to work around them, they create incredibly obfuscated HTML that no one would normally ever create.
Beautiful website. They massively over-claim on their science though. Their 'tech' is nothing special, people have been culturing and recording from neurons for years. And their claims of 'sentient' neurons in a dish should be taken as being somewhat flexible with the meaning of the word.
> Convert a continuous string of letters and numbers to a date.

This has been a massive bugbear of mine. Particularly when it inexplicably chooses USA date formats even when faced with a column containing values like 15-07-75. It would frequently convert half the values into US date format where possible and leave others like above unconverted.
Random number generation, if physically non-deterministic, isnt computation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function
One day we'll have biological networks of the size that can compete with today's biggest artificial neural networks, capable of running things like, well, ChatGPT. Then the philosophical questions will run even deeper....
Walkability in the US is indeed dire, but:

> Add to that how America sets up situations very unsafe street crossings, often 8 lanes wide without a median

I don't think I've ever crossed an 8 line highway on foot (US native). I definitely wouldn't call it "often". Maybe in a place like LA or Houston? I do cross 4 lanes pretty frequently, though.
Package Managers Hurt Open Source
The Struggle for Salient Image-Cropping in Generative AI
Abusing GDB features for data ingress and egress
It would plunge the whole world into chaos and billions of bystanders would die. It is an insane, repugnant idea.
I think it's really cool that access to tech, services like github, and social media lets individuals create and publicize analyses like this one while showing their work. Independent of the politics surrounding this particular situation and the accuracy of this analysis, it's good that more people from backgrounds outside of defense, government, and journalism have the ability to analyze information and try to get at the truth.
Very "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" for me.
69 should be high up!
Interestingly, perhaps, I found that one to be easier to make out the fine detail than any other magic eye that I've seen before. However I did find it a bit more eyestrain inducing as well. This is a great blog and makes me want to experiment more.
I've never had the Facebook app installed on my phone (Android). Messenger Lite worked great, until recently. Now that they've shut that down, I'm using regular Messenger, which sucks, but I finally got it working by forcing a stop and clearing the cache. You really shouldn't need the Facebook app on your phone to use Messenger in my experience, but who knows what kind of shenanigans they're pulling.

I seriously wonder what the Messenger app is doing. It's far larger than Messenger Lite was (way more than double), yet it's essentially the same thing: a chat app with video and voice chat. The full-blown app also adds Dark Mode (the only improvement I've found), and some silly sticker crap. So WTF else is going on in that app to need all that storage space?
I don't know when/if that change you talk about happened, as I banned LTT from my feeds years ago for their (subjectively) annoying style of presentation, but latest drama isn't even year old and highlighted so many technical issues with LTT I have no intention of trying them again:

[0]: The Problem with Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics, & Responsibility

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc
Indeed. Every time I opened a .csv and had Excel courteously convert all UPCs into scientific notation, I wondered "Who would ever want that to happen?" Finally there is a way to avoid this.
Regular soldering stations don't contain microcontrollers, they use a thermocouple to decide if the circuit should flow through the iron or not and some other smaller stuff to smooth out the temp gain / ensure the overshoot doesn't get too wild.
One part of either this post or the next one talks about how pharmaceutical companies are the ones making the entry criteria, and a doctor agreeing they were silly and telling the pharma that, but nothing changed.. the companies in turn have incentives to make results look good and have a known tendency to pick the healthiest possible subjects.

I agree about those doctors probably being competent but incentives are twisted and no one can extrapolate perfectly from an unrepresentative sample on an unknown drug, not even doctors or the drug creators.
the only thing to do then is to fight back and reeducate the public. the hard part here is to understand and accept that doing so is a long slow process whose effects may not be visible for years. nevertheless we must not give up and continue to educate and promote education and research
My 3.5 floppy disks from early 90's keeps being fine. I a few months ago, I installed the demo of Hallowen Harry, and the Commander Keen 4 copy that comes with the Gravis Game pad, in a 486 without issues.
>then scaling to 1 trillion per day might be as easy as buying 10k servers [...]

..I doubt that. How would you distribute the requests between those? An instance of mod_proxy_balancer?
Jobs which can be taken by automation, should be.
about 500x price markup

going from a dumb bare metal server to AWS Lambda

I believe for PHP there is little difference. Those function hosting solutions are typically used with Java where starting the JVM for every single request would be too much overhead.
Hmm I was looking for the Dilbert frozen asteroid - team player cartoon, but I see the website is emptied/cleaned after the 'event'.

Found it!!: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1998-04-10

So the issue with the OP is:
1) he/she is right and this is unfair/unjust, but hey.. life is unfair/unjust.
Find another job, move on. Go somewhere else and get the +10% raise and be happy

2) he/she is wrong and this is fair/just, but hey.. life is fair/just.
Find another job, move on. Go somewhere else and get the +10% raise and be happy

(apologies for my cold heart - I've been studying the Stoics for some years now, so yeah.. there is that)
The Houthi rebels (backed by Iran) recently fired 3 cruise missiles along the Red Sea that were intercepted by a US destroyer, destination: Israel. Yemen is not known for its advanced electronics industry any more than Palestine is.
Some images in this article for those who haven’t seen them:

https://www.businessinsider.com/cooler-screens-make-it-harde...
It got me at Belter civilization apparently being already a well-established sci-fi trope half a decade ago. And here I thought The Expanse was the first to dive deep into this idea. I need to seriously catch up with sci-fi stories from before 1980s.

Also nice that, before completely ruining the idea of the Belters, and apparently also having "science robbing sf writers of Mars and Venus" (presumably in earlier installments of this work?), he proposed a working model for independent civilization settling Jovian moons. I wonder if there's an updated version of the table somewhere, with the numbers reflecting current knowledge of the Jovian area and space propulsion.
I used to have really bad myopia, but right now, many years after laser surgery, I still have nearly perfect vision. I feel like my main problem is that I can't overcome my reflexes.
The propellant—of which there was much due to the severely shortened flight—ignited and scorched the parking lot.
There also has to be propellant or else the rocket would not fly.
DNS round robin so that clients get randomly distributed among multiple load balancers

They have 12m RPS so about 10 HAProxy servers should do the trick.
Not that their imagination can't be your guide. Worked for satellites, worked for 1984.
It was avfun experience, we audited other stuff stored at the same warehouse (the reasons for that are good case study on how not to run logistics and warehouses). And I did raw material procurement, bars, plates and such, for aerospace before, so seeing the ingots sitting in a warehouse being bought and sold without being moved at all was interesting see. And we litterally thousands and thousands of ton of that stuff in a warehouse in one of the most expensive warehouse locations you can think of.
Destruction wasn't that big explosion-wise, a lot of burning propellant / fuel but nothing blast-wise.

Overturned car, small crater and ~15m next to the building some roof tiles slid off.

The death toll is awful, and it did a lot of damage in casualties - but blast-wise, it wasn't close to what a JDAM would do.
I know it's a fad, but isn't that the exact kind of thing that AI-enthusiasts claim ChatGPT/LlaMa/CoPilot will be capable of doing within a year or two?
Is it though? Folks using the current tech stack du jour have still managed to recreate the user hostility that Flash pioneered.
That's my experience as well. I recently imaged

- a collection of CD-Roms attached to a computer magazine, 1999-2001

- my own collection of stuff downloaded or backed up around 2003-2004; most of it on Verbatim DVDs, but some on CD-R or CD-RW (likely also from Verbatim)

I had very few read errors, and it was impressive especially considering it's more than 50 CDs and that I never payed too much attention to how they were stored. Most of the computer magazine CDs were stored directly in a "cardboard sleeve", not even one of those plastic/paper ones...
The only impressive about this thing is technology abuse to do such a slow job on such a large scale.
I recall ruby on rails doing at most 150 requests per second on a laptop 15 years ago, which was laughably low even for those days. I could do hundreds times more using c++, or at least tens times more using unoptimized python.

Their achievement should not be praised, on contrary they need to be told they're wasting resources, heating up planet and emit carbon dioxide for no good reason. This is not how optimization looks like.
And no, it is not serverless, since obviously something serves that stuff, stop lying already.
Shumway happened before Flash EOL, so it's likely that Adobe forced development to stop. Although Ruffle existed before January 2021, it flew under the radar back then. Even if Adobe had no hand in it, it's much easier (and less risky) to fund an implementation after the official one reaches EOL.
servers have lots and lots of cores, you might as well divide by 64 or 128, which would set it to 1s.
Overall 4req/s per core is nothing.
I haven't seen this show yet, but I know a little about why the STS was developed and why it was really a bad idea (basically the military wanted the ability to launch and recover spy satellites intact without anyone seeing, and this drove the requirements).

However, if you have a big settlement on the Moon, wouldn't a "space truck" actually make a lot of sense, for carrying large cargo loads both to and from the Moon? What am I missing?