skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends on the energy source, and how much is available. If for example we convert to 100% wind/solar/battery, we'll end up with a large oversupply of zero-carbon electricity in the summer.
That's probably more about GPUs cheating to be faster[1]. https://asawicki.info/news_1741_myths_about_floating-point_n...

[1]: Back in the day, CPU results could also vary based on path of execution; see tweet in article.
I used ngrok for Shopify dev; I didn't know there was such a thing as CF tunnels.
I'm so jealous of folks with Init7, I'd love having a home ISP that acknowledges that some of their customers might actually know what they're doing. Sadly I'm not in a position to be starting an ISP...
Cross-language embeddings, where you create an embedding space in each of two languages and then use a seed dictionary to align the spaces, has potential (actual?) applications in cross-lingual search and probably MT.
I'm confused. This seems like a high severity issue, but the fix is behind a debug menu? Why has this been made public before a fix has been properly rolled out everywhere?

This also goes to show how the side channel mitigations are totally useless and we should stop pretending such attacks have been fixed. It is not safe to run untrusted code, no matter how you sandbox it. Not on a host using a modern CPU running multiple applications.
You don't even need to do that anymore. You can just enable BYOD in your settings and plug in your router. Just be sure to get one that can actually handle the throughput of the service, most of the really cheap ones can't.
Did you watch the movie?
Agreed, the only disaster situations I can think of where an airship might have use are earthquake and war zones, which are often hard to reach by vehicle or plane, and may have calm enough weather to support an airship.
In practice I doubt this is much of a barrier. Shareholders don't inspect every line item of a company's budget. For a decent-sized company, a few hundred thousand or even a million or so $$ per year would probably go more or less unnoticed by shareholders.

Remember that it's a common -- incorrect -- trope that public companies are legally required to seek maximum profit, etc. It's a lot more complicated and nuanced than that.
Recipe websites are some of the worst things on the web these days, with autoplaying videos, ads, newsletter box, cookie notice, while the actual recipe is buried down after a bunch of useless preamble... I tested this foodmarklet in a few places and so far it seems to work amazingly.
Thank you for sharing!
It's nice to at least be considering blast radius in a figurative manner, hope that lasts.
dunno! it's gonna be rich in iron and magnesium, which you need to grow plants anyway. I would think transportation cost would be the dominant factor but olivine is common everywhere
Fair enough, there's always a shitty corporate network that'll mess with your well-designed protocol.
Once you separate the Guild process from all the user Session processes, by introducing Relays in the middle, a new problem seems to appear, and it's that now the routing between users needs to be handled differently.

Before, any Session could send a message to any other Session, and the Guild would work as the router.

Now, a Relay needs to discover which other Relay needs to receive a message. Or maybe all Relays do is to send the messages back to the Guild for routing?

Could you expand a bit more on that topic, please :)
// Update the `keyFrame`.
keyFrame += 0.5;

// This is just a huge state machine progression.
switch (keyFrame) {
// In the first 4 seconds we just run through the existing log messages.
case 0.5:
case 1:
case 1.5:

...

Wow! I love the design. So simple.
No, we never really got far enough that we were able to collect that kind of data. I'm glad it was fun; certainly doing it for a living is entertaining. Mostly.

IMO, the messiness of hiring processes and the lack of adoption of work sample testing have a lot to do with each other. One of the questions I regularly ask in interviews (and have for a long time) is, "What are the first 5 things you'll have me work on?" During the last round of interviews, no one I talked to could answer that. I even had a couple of interviewers who didn't even know the name of the hiring manager or the position. Then you have other artificial filters like preferred certifications where the assumption seems to be that whatever training was required to pass can be mapped onto every organisation... or that simply possessing a cert magically grants insight into how most companies do stuff. The point is that companies don't really seem to have a good idea of what they're actually hiring for, but they get by hiring more senior people who have enough experience (hopefully) that they can figure it out on their own.

One of the things we discussed early on was avoiding having Starfighter turn into a certification process and maybe that's one of the reasons why we stumbled around a bit. I am aware that certifications have their place, but they're not really a substitute for industry experience and they definitely aren't a guarantee that a candidate can quickly figure out how a company's tech is glued together. IMO that's the power of work sample testing: you're giving a candidate a challenge where they can demonstrate aptitude. But if you don't know what actually needs to be done, you can't create that challenge, much less a rubric for describing expectations.
I had a drunk driver hit my parked car. LAPD took him off to the side and let him know he could refuse a breathalyzer. Thanks LAPD... We need police reform, abolish qualified immunity.
Unfortunately, you will need to uninstall Nix[1] and then re-install it using that script. But given how we've built the installer that should be pretty seamless.

1. https://github.com/determinateSystems/nix-installer#uninstal...
This sort of shoddiness with facts is becoming a concerning pattern for Michael Lewis. He's a great writer, but he really doesn't seem to have a close relationship with the truth. Two other examples:

* Everything about the blind side that is now coming out in court.

* The founders of IEX who are now begging the market making firms to come to the exchange which was designed to get rid of them... and creating a much worse two-tiered system in order to do it.

The next time I try a Michael Lewis book, I am probably going to approach it as a puff piece for a local Bond villain to get a more accurate picture of what's happening.
Given that SBF had worked at Jane Street, it seems strange that he either didn't know about martingales or believed they didn't apply to him.
Neat. I wondered if there is a spine of the cover rendered, and the answer was revealed after entering "270" into "Rotate" field. I think it would be neat to allow uploading back cover too, and to view it by hovering.
Helicopters (and planes) flying off a ship just offshore are able to do far more than an airship could, as has already been remarked elsewhere in this discussion.
Not exactly concerning image AI, but regarding LLMs -- in case your site does not depend on indexing -- you can easily generate boatloads of garbage text via Markov chains and invisible-link them.

One cool project for that> https://github.com/jsvine/markovify

(Personally had the most fun outputs when constructing the corpus from technical articles mixed with esoteric babble)

Active defense!
Is it just my impression or the Cloudflare Down seems to be a frequent post?

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cloudflare+down
Hydro-powered rock crushers? Wikipedia gives an example of a waterwheel-powered machine that crushed tin ore in Cornwall in the 1800s.

Maybe mixing the crushed rock in with seeds when they’re already being planted?
Exactly. I was thinking the longest span over which an accident could unfold.
What companies do "normal" FTTH deployments? My only other experience is with Quantum (née CenturyLink, née Quest), who definitely use GPON.
> Whats the impact if the entire internet is down for a couple of hours?

People get some off-screen time? Life goes on.

> What if its more than a few hours because theres a natural monopoly?[...snip...] How much soft power do you think such an entity would have on the world stage.

They're just commodity infra providers. The Facebook and Twitters of the world have way more power and influence. This isn't even a hypothetical. The big cloud providers have been around for what, a decade or so now? How many times has the world collapsed with every Cloudflare or AWS downtime? It's just not as big a deal as you paint it to be. These providers going down is like the digital equivalent of a highway crash -- a small inconvenience for a few hours, then forgotten about in a day or two.
No, you'll just be another keyboard warrior of the internet operating in an echo chamber

Do it IRL with people whom you have rapport with

I've been doing something like "If America is to be great again... what did it do when it was great? What would happen if the US slinks away into isolationism? Who would fill that power vacuum? (hint, China)... related arguments for Ukraine, but also it's very cheap comparatively"

The MAGA whataboutism is extreme (pun intended)
I don’t know much about Swift, but the “normal” way to handle those invariants in safe programming languages is safe constructions: unsafe operations are wrapped in safe abstractions that cannot violate the language’s semantics, no matter how they’re misused. It’s of course possible to build those abstractions incorrectly, but there’s a large language design space between “you can build safe abstractions” and “all correctly implemented abstractions are safe by construction.”

If Swift falls into the first category (maybe it doesn’t!), then this seems like a fair criticism to me.
> After you fix something significant, or add significant new functionality, make a checkpoint copy of the entire source code

Aside from suggesting using git and committing frequently, this is one reason I use Jetbrains IDEs - local history. They make it really easy to go back and see local changes over time.
At least they're smart enough not to host their own status page...
Think of it this way: you are a human. What did humans do 20000 years ago, what did we evolve to do before all this society bullshit? Certainly not sitting still for 3 hours at a time. We evolved to be persistant hunters walking down prey to death, foragers who rove over terrain for resources, craftsman and firetenders who cannot just sit still and expect the shelter to be built for them and the fire to be raging with no tending.

So yes, get up and walk around for 5 minutes. Simulate picking up some firewood or foraging for some berries. You will be all the more healthy for it, and thats something more meaningful to optimize for than getting more of your bosses work done.
Is that symmetric?
I’ll bet you it looks exactly like a plane. You aren’t going to get FAA clearance without aviation rated parts, and you wouldn’t make them from scratch for no reason.
It is good that I wrote "most" and not "all", then.
Thanks, I will not be tuning in to your TED talk. Do you really think anyone is going to read through all that? If you dislike that browser so much, consider using one of the many alternatives.
BEAM is actually as good as every new technology tries to pretend to be.
Yes.

I'm a right wing heretic who has been doing that sort of thing here since 2019.
Same. It's my only regret, not starting earlier. I don't even recognize who I am anymore. Now I'm "happy" and have motivation to learn, create, and socialize.
Lots of major companies still today don't have a global deployment platform. A lot of stuff is still very centralized because the complexity of managing infrastructure multiplies with the complexity of the existing infrastructure.
I don't know when this became the default, but if you don't define --tunnel-url it will use CF
Honestly, I hope the locals head home and tell all their friends to sail out there for their own payoffs.
Can anyone speak to whether this helps or hurts the fertility of the soil?
how many people does that 12 miles of subway move vs self driving cars? I would think surely an order of magnitude as well.
How is blindly emulating some practices that you just read about in a Scrum guide gonna contribute to the business goals of the company? The perversion of the industry is that sleazy manager/business/coaching/scrum types weasel their way into software engineering and somehow want both respect, attention, and people following what they prescribe is "THE WAY".

Imagine if the tables were turned. Developers present in all sales meetings and asking each individual sales person how much they think the call to this client is going to take in terms of story points. And how about we also go to HR and start interrogating them how many story points it takes to give somebody their office key? Busywork might be fun, but companies can do with much less, and achieve the same, or more than they do now.

After 15 years in the industry and being both an IC, a manager, and currently a VP of Engineering, I can confidently state that the best strategy one can take to achieve their business goals is to leave the software engineering to the software engineers and step the heck out of their way.

Wasting the time of people actually doing the work by arbitrary rituals you read about in a blog somewhere is not a good strategy for success. If we must go bother someone and treat them like children and force them to play cards, let's do it with another department for a change.
If you use it regularly you stop cutting yourself accidentally and generally become as effective as you would be with vscode, but every once in a while you effortless slice through a dozen enemy ninjas all at once and it's those moments that keep you coming back.
You're mad that the police followed the law?
Nice. So how was it working with Vala?
What does changing the version do? PDF files have a version number[1] but do you want to change that to earlier or later in order to achieve something? Can you explain more, please?

I did appreciate the screenshot colours -- strong memories of early Windows themes there :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_PDF
Version numbers don't work like that :)

MAME just has a permanent "0" major version, and the minor version continues to be bumped up forever. It's not a decimal number, so "close to 1" doesn't really make any sense.
Protip is named bookmarklets can be triggered on Android Chrome if you search the name and tap it on the omnibar. Very useful for setting playback speed on mobile. I have desktop bookmarklets that increment / decrements playback speed, and mobile bookmarklets with fixed playback speed.

Wish there was easier way to customize/set favicon for bookmarklet. Right now you can export bookmark, edit in <A ICON> data, and import. If you have multiple chrome sessions you need to import on all devices within short period or icon will reset to default globe.
How does the vector embedding work? Do you store the embeddings per tenant and let the application search for it?
one frame every 30 seconds should get you a lot of detail, but needs a lot of patience to play. Also netcode should be trivial
> It also requires specific hardware, not standard off-the-shelf SFP modules like normal FTTH deployments.

What is a "normal FTTH" deployment? What percentage of residential deployments are PON versus non-PON? Because I was under the impression that PON was the (vast) majority of residential fibre deployments, in houses and apartments/condos.

And by 'standard OTS SFTP' do you mean Ethernet? Because the IEEE has their own PON standards, but also once you get outside the data centre, office building/tower, or campus, there are all sorts of 'different' technologies you tend to have to deal with WANs depending on distance.

We recently switched ISPs at work, and our 10Gb link was a BiDi single-mode fibre and we were provided with a media convertor from which we connected our router-firewall. Depending on distance desired you may (>80km) have to start getting into coherent equipment or optics (CWDM, -ZR).
> the micro-mobility devices of recent years really do solve the problem of this for many or most

I really just think you either don't know or aren't thinking about how most people live with this statement. Micro mobility is great in urban areas, but for the vast majority of americans it is a complete non starter. No one wants to use a scooter on a 4 lane road where everyone is going 50, and that's the reality for almost every american. I live in an urban area, never owned a car. I would love to see more public transit, but it's just so obvious that it can't work in non urban areas and even many urban areas built post car unless you tear everything down and start from scratch. And as much as we may want that it's never going to happen.

Scooters also blow in the winter in all the cities where people would consider using them since the warm cities are all concrete hellscapes where scootering is legitimately dangerous.
Has Akamai had a global outage? They are the largest player in the market and i don't recall one global outage from them.
Yeah, this is unfortunate. We've built the Determinate Nix Installer to be super reliable and safe. We've built the receipt mechanism to have very clear and safe "revert" phases. This has made it hard to architect an upgrade of the installer's work itself ... but I'll put a ticket it! :)
I actually have a lot of respect for the big backbones. If Goog/MS/Amz owned them all, they'd find some way to wall it off from everyone else. If Comcast or Charter owned them all, our internet would cost about $1000 a month by now. All things considered, IMO they've been fairly good and fair stewards.
Not too sure, but some plants greatly benefit from rock in soil.
“That was the day the music died”, but for gen-X.
Phind, once free, now has a steep price just for few uses per day
True; but let's imagine everyone self-hosted. Perfectly decentralized. As I edited another comment to reflect, imagine if you took out just three companies.

Level 3 Communications / Lumen; AT&T; Verizon Enterprise.

With those three, you've knocked 2.35 million km, or 1.46 million miles, of fiber optic offline. That's over half of the US backbone in those three companies. Comcast "only" has 0.15 million miles for the sake of comparison. The internet would crash and burn immediately to speeds not seen since the dial-up era. There's nothing we can do about that. Cloudflare and AWS centralizing everything is actually, statistically, less risky than backbone attacks. If you succeeded in knocking down all of the big seven at once; you've got about 80-90% of the backbone offline plus all of the online cloud providers with direct connections to them; at which point the internet would cease to function in any practical sense.
I mean v0, I learned and experimented a lot with it and suddenly everything changed and was dropped and it was a mess. IIRC in Firefox or Chrome it shipped? At least part of them? Or I might have turned on a flag back in the day, I don't remember too much, I just know "web components are the future" and for 2-4 years they were the biggest mess I've seen with the web.
You didn't ask about individuals but this probably applies to some degree anyway.

I think that it's about psychology and social dynamics more than any process or system usually. Like anything else.

But maybe with some particular technical requirement that makes people consider something different. Maybe there is an existing project, library or language feature that seems to make a core requirement significant easier. Add to that an element of rising popularity.

Also "new technology" in many cases may not be new at all really. Just new for that organization.

For me, I have been through several different technologies, from Turbo Pascal and C/C++, PHP, C#/.NET, JavaScript and Node.js and now Rust.

When I got into Node.js, it was because I had been experimenting with realtime collaboration in a web page, and at the time that seemed like the most streamlined option.

Recently, I have been looking for an inexpensive lightweight way to securely host custom back-end code for users. The last time I ended up using Docker with Node.js, and it worked, but it was very wasteful in terms of server resources.

Obviously, there are lots of ways to do it efficiently. So part of this is psychology -- I'm not going back to PHP, for example. But after years of putting off really learning Rust, I decided to dig into it. Because the options for hosting user scripts or web assembly etc. in a lightweight way with Rust seem pretty good, although it can get fairly complex. But I also feel like despite the initial hostility towards programming ergonomics (which was a poor decision), Rust has now become critical in some ways, and I don't want to be "left behind" anymore.

I am using Rhai for scripting.
1. What habits did you create to not lose it? Do you always check for it before you go to another room, or keep it on your person, check for it before you leave the house, etc.

2. Did anyone unauthorized ever read it, did it matter to you?
It's a slow burn but a solid mystery/drama. The end of the season has some edge-of-your-seat moments that wouldn't hit nearly as hard without all of the smaller moments from the middle of the season
Isolated Web Apps Explainer
You really don’t if it’s controlled. The control group would have any other factors baked in.

If the group that got the vaccine has a 13% lower all cause mortality than the group that didn’t, and it was your standard randomized controlled double blind study, that’s a huge win.
Can't wait to not get it in Nashville, except for a couple of buildings.
So is everyone who saw the movie supposed to have the same interpretation of it?
That sounds vaguely sexist.

It's Gerwig who claimed the movie is a feminist film and the critical reactions to the movie with regard to feminism are very mixed.
Regarding variable names strongly consider keeping the first variable name which comes to your head. It is simple, straightforward.

I often see overly elaborate variable names where I know the author took their time to come up with it ending up with an abstract variable name which makes far less sense.

Another tip for novice programmers: don't do leet code or watch random videos which talk about loops and variable naming. Instead watch or read about people building things. Imo we tend to prescribe these things too late in people's journeys. It would make far more sense for someone to watch a tsoding video on building something with Haskell rather than watch beginner Haskell tutorials.
What makes this serverless?, adding an extra "tenant" layer does not affect it being run on one or more servers.
Probably not. It's a fictional fantasy.

In real life, the opposite seems to happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongan_castaways

> The boys divided up the labour, teaming up in pairs to work garden, kitchen, and guard duty. The two eldest served as leaders: one spiritual, the other practical; Stephen (who would go on to become an engineer) managed to use two sticks to start a fire, which the boys kept burning continuously for more than a year while marooned. At night, they sang and played a makeshift guitar to keep their spirits up, composing five songs during their exile.

The book reflects more about the author (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/16/william-goldin...) than a scientific concept.
Fusion and fission breeders are expected to create helium to some degree. No idea if it’s even worth mentioning here, but basically we’ll get more by atom manipulation and that’s it.
- Liquid gasoline ignites, but doesn't explode like a pressurized hydrogen balloon does

- In the event of a fuel leak you can stop a car within seconds and evacuate, that isn't possible with a flying device

Once we figure out how to do fusion power, helium won't be in limited supply anymore.