skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did actually.

Bmitc, while cowering behind a rhetorical question, claimed that Elon Musk doesn't "care" about climate change because his rockets also emit carbon.

However this posits a ridiculous and unattainable purity test (which would only be satisfiable by the aforementioned "monk-like" life) that disingenuously ignores Musk's overwhelmingly net positive work toward carbon reduction via Tesla products.
One hypothesis is that some people who caught malaria but did not die from malaria, did die more frequently to another cause where having had malaria was a contributing factor to that death.
> Since we always choose the lightest / least dense possible lifting gas, would it be possibly to use a pure vacuum as a lifting gas? You'd need an insanely strong cover and internal structure, but would it theoretically work?

Theoretically, but you'd be incentivized to cut weight as much as possible in the pressure vessel department... might as well put OceanGate logos on the control surfaces.
Could you explain what about my comment you consider to be a "flamewar"? As far as I was aware we were simply acting out the Parable of the Sower as an example of my prior narrative.
> Whatever you use is probably fine.

Yes, correct.
Yes and no. You wouldn't call a <form> inlining JS while it does come with some degree of interaction. It would be an expansion of HTML to include a few new things to (ideally) enable a wider rage of lightly-interactive websites to be HTML only.
Have you tried Neon recently? There were some big improvments rolled out in the late summer - https://neon.tech/blog/cold-starts-just-got-hot
My point was not about discerning track from grass, but about driving in acttual grass. Current self-driving tech uses sensors that are useless in high grass.

As for "emergency behavior" (emergent behavior, I guess) - we do not know how LLMs are trained. Thus, what you consider "emergency behavior," could very well be a part of training.
They will be barging ships to Florida, and long term when you have multiple launches per day, they will be launching the ships from barges.
I get people like you fired.
> And yet the bias towards an end of the spectrum in skintones for the villains is still overwhelmingly there in the choices made by the costuming and makeup departments.

The range and distribution of coloration for races that are mostly antagonistic vs those that are mostly found aligned to the protagonists, at least geo... well, astropolitically, doesn't seem that great, well, except maybe for a bias in the use of blue specifically for Federation aligned races.
Looks like from Appendix D that only 2 bugs were found in BOOM:

> 1. Inaccurate instruction count when minstret is written by software

I don't know what that means, but having minstret written by software was definitely not something I ever tested. In general, perf counters are likely to be undertested.

> 2. Static rounding is ignored for fdiv.s and fsqrt.s

A mistake was made in only listening to the dynamic rounding mode for the fdiv/sqrt unit. This is one of those bugs that is trivially found if you test for it, but it turns out that no benchmarking ever cared about this and from all of the fuzzers I used when I worked on BOOM, NONE of them hit it (including commercial ones...). Ooops.

Fixed here: https://github.com/riscv-boom/riscv-boom/pull/629/files
Usually each one will give you a CBAME, your DNS or Cedexic decides, sometimes per client. It's a pretty common setup although can complicate config changes and taking advantage of new features.
Markets exist for just about anything. The hard part is finding them.

For example: one of the simplest things I've built this year is a device that reads an input and then turns on an LED and sends a message to a connected app (I didn't write the app) when the input changes state.

After I shipped the first one, the customer came back and asked for 10 more and they expect that over time they may need about 100 or so. I can do stuff like this all day long: it's technologically trivial, but world-altering to the people who need it.

My main problem is getting people who need these little machines to know how to find me.
Great suggestion, I will look into this.
A funny title and concept: "branded javascript objects". But looks like a pretty handy JS library.
Ayep. Well said. It could be but it isn't yet. However SpaceX does have a good track record in that regard.
A little known fact is that you can disable lockdown mode per site and per app (e.g. you can disable lockdown mode for obsidian to make it work properly since it is web based).

So actually it isn’t disabling JIT, it is making JIT opt-in.

You also lose custom fonts on sites, but that is more feature than bug these days.
Strange. I’ve updated to iOS 17.1 and under Settings -> Safari -> Advanced -> Feature Flags, the `Swap Processes on Cross-Site Navigation` is there and is enabled by default. I wonder if it’s different from `Swap Processes on Cross-Site Window Open` on macOS.
>(absent regulatory capture)

Yes trial attorneys will keep the bar very high for safety. As they should. But the bar in not infinitely high. Tech companies are salivating to disrupt the transportation market. They want a piece of your car payment, your insurance payment, your taxi spend. Insurance converts the minute risk of large accident costs into fixed premium payment. Lobbying helps convert financial capital into political capital and then into regulatory change. Our political process tends to follow the desires of the top 0.1% more than the bottom 40% combined.

Our current regime of car infrastructure was once unthinkable. Entire neighborhood were bulldozed to make way for highways. Yet today the government paying for highways, roads, and mandating each building be surrounded with amble parking is the status quo.
I think the first thing I struggle with in this worldview is that companies don't think about roles as "how much value" they bring to the business. If they did, most ICs would be paid far more highly. But since employees negotiate as individuals, and companies negotiate as huge orgs (or cartels of orgs a la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...), an employer is able to pay you just enough so that you won't leave.

Without a competing offer, how can they be sure that you'll actually leave? Showing them that you can forces their hand. But you're still extremely unlikely to be receiving anywhere close to your supposed "value" to the business, and unfortunately mere managers can't really change such a fundamental misalignment.
I feel very old right now.
They’re using rock crushed to ~100 microns.
> I know that if I was a turtle at Boca Chica I would rather deal with the occasional rocket launch than the ATV's that also use the beach.

If only it were that simple. If the occasional rocket launch is what causes that turtle's species to go extinct because it damages the shells of their eggs or the bright light disrupts their mating schedule or whatever that is all that matters to the turtle.
Bad big in transitive bgp data parsing will take out all networking from one vendor.
I used to be pretty much a Elon fanboy. I don't hate him now, but feel mixed and largely neutral about him. What did that for me is that his communication on Twitter seemed to ignore the fact that having a very large audience brings responsibility. It's different if I mention to some buddies in the pub over beers that I read some research about vaccines that made me wonder if I should get the vaccine than if I tweet the same thing to an audience of many million people. I am just making this vaccine example up in this case because I am too lazy to go back through his history, but he has said a lot of things with wide-reaching implications without doing proper research and due diligence required when communicating to that many people, many of whom see him as a role model. This does very real harm and makes me question his maturity.
Samesies. Kodi’s ui is just straight-up broken and I’m glad I’ll probably never use it again. The number of times I hit the wrong button and ended up with some overlay on my video I couldn’t get rid of, or in some weird mode I didn’t want. The two back buttons that did different things. Full-featured library management inside the TV UI, where it doesn’t really fit. The weirdly-organized settings screen where I’d always have to try three times to find the thing I wanted, then half the time it was actually in some hidden modal-view elsewhere in the UI (but maybe not on other screens that were basically showing the same stuff!) Just… no.

Jellyfin’s the first time I’ve seen people who aren’t me even seriously try to use a self-hosted media thing I’ve set up. And mostly succeed! Usually with Kodi they’d give up within a minute.
This is literally true, you shouldn’t be downvoted. Rockets keep the humans away.
> Will GCP be around in 5 years? I honestly am not sure.

AppEngine is going on, checks notes, 15 years now.
It's Quieter in the Twilight (2022)
I'm always curious about the power cost here. Everyone I've talked to who runs servers at home either lives in a low COL area where electricity is cheap (and electricity is dirty, but I don't really want to get into that) or just pays the power as a sort of "cost of playing around" which is completely fair (it's not like I need to use my table saw at home.) Most folks I know who run servers use a lot more power than I do at home. Of course I don't know how much of that is just that the folks that build expensive homelabs being attracted to beefy, power hog servers as opposed to an actual incentive to cut power costs.
> [EDIT] Heh. I find it absolutely fascinating that this post, describing our own small, non-threatening, NPO app, has already earned a ding.

There's a barrier to being able to downvote, but the only downvotes I actually see on HN seem like they're given in bad faith. I'd love an option to turn off displaying downvoting at all since it's never useful to me; from my perspective random comments just fade off a page, usually in the middle of a thread.
> every second or third post is a fucking ad.

Guess there’s your answer — advertisers is the group that actually pays Meta its money.
Check out joshuto - https://github.com/kamiyaa/joshuto

also written in Rust
You can also conveniently “mine” hydrogen in the sky.
> I'm trying now to remember the proofs he was showing

I don't want to sound mean, but without any links to anything, any mentions of books, papers, even mentions of archaeological finds in local newspapers... what you're saying is just a story about someone you met who made some outlandish claims.
I do not think that's an insightful metaphor for the situation, nor do I think you made any effort to understand the nuance I was trying to convey.

It may very well be that this particular vaccine caused new health problems in some (likely small, but non-negligible) part of the population, and that the trade-offs involved still weigh heavily in favor of vaccination.

Absent mindless "if you aren't with us, you're with the terrorists" thinking, one might hope that the negative health impacts would be investigated and mitigated to further improve the vaccine technology.
Other tricky cases:

WITH c AS (
SELECT random() AS r FROM t1
)
SELECT * FROM c WHERE r < 0.5;

I've seen bugs where this returned rows with r > 0.5. The semantics of such functions can be very tricky when the database engine assumes it can freely evaluate everything at any point. Similarly:

SELECT random() AS r FROM t1 WHERE r < 0.5 HAVING r < 0.5;

ANSI SQL doesn't allow this query (projection comes after filtering, so you cannot filter on something that is only created in projection), but some databases do, and can give counterintuitive results.
If you open the article and click the only link in the first paragraph, leading to the source, it will tell you in the introduction

> Crushed metabasalt and olivine soil amendments were used to investigate changes in soil pore water alkalinity as a proxy for bicarbonate production. The metabasalt (median grain size: 102 ± 22 μm) was selected because of its benign elemental composition and modest weathering potential (the parent volcanics includes felsic facies, yielding an overall silica content in the intermediate-to-felsic range). The olivine (median grain size: 83 ± 12 μm), in contrast, was chosen for its potential to weather rapidly

TL;DR scan for the digits in that quote. This stuff is measured in micrometers.

> Why would you even study such things?

Because if everyone were willing to read sources and get to understandings, we would probably not have climate problems in the first place
> keep us locked into using Cloud APIs to do our jobs

I love that we can use Cloud APIs to do our jobs. That's piles better than negotiating with (and waiting for) an Ops team to provision you hardware or networking that you don't have much visibility into and then relying on them to troubleshoot.

I don't mind paying more for that (which you absolutely do on a per-unit of compute, network, or storage).
> Sometimes all that needs to change is market demand.

Right, but sometimes the only way for it to change is for someone to burn through enough money to drag the market kicking and screaming into embracing a new/better type of products. Recent example: Tesla and electric cars.

Whether or not something would be a useful/successful product, and whether the market can, on its own, get to that point from where it is now, are two distinct considerations.
Related. Others?

Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36427267 - June 2023 (115 comments)

More hindsight on Vim, helix and kakoune - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36066347 - May 2023 (1 comment)

Helix 23.03 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35384691 - March 2023 (93 comments)

Helix 22.12 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33890655 - Dec 2022 (40 comments)

Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33494840 - Nov 2022 (166 comments)

Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33147270 - Oct 2022 (306 comments)

Helix: A post-modern text editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33039390 - Sept 2022 (2 comments)

Helix, Terminal Modal Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30847041 - March 2022 (2 comments)

Helix 0.5 released (Kakoune like terminal text editor) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29043889 - Oct 2021 (2 comments)

Helix: a post-modern modal text editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27358479 - June 2021 (365 comments)
Shopify for Services
service based business are the future and on the rise... streamlining them and making it seamless is the problem.. srvz + srvzr is the solution
Most people don't use vanilla vim, from what I've seen. It's not so great, out of the box. Definitely not comparable to any remote editor these days, that also supports vim navigation, like VSCode.
Yes, that is correct. In Nile, users are shared tables. They can belong to multiple tenants. In the case of the Github example, the organization is a tenant and users will be a shared table. Nile provides this out of the box. Will fix the usecase example to be more clear.
> What do you have in mind that exists in quantities large enough to make things "extremely toxic"?

I don't know where you are quoting "extremely toxic" from but even small quantities of toxic chemicals can be cause for concern.

> Nothing except if you look at the actual list of rocket fuels that get used.

Just because a square's a rectangle doesn't make a rectangle a square. Hypergolics are toxic does not equal non-hypergolics are non-toxic. For example, hydrazine monopropellant.
> Most people know 1000 words on average in English

Maybe I misunderstand but that sounds so stupid and wrong I don't know where to start. Standard vocab estimates are 15K - 30K, averaging about 20K (these from memory)

Edit: from wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocabulary#Native-language_voc...

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As a result, estimates vary from 10,000-17,000 word families[16][19] or 17,000-42,000 dictionary words for young adult native speakers of English.[12][17]

A 2016 study shows that 20-year-old English native speakers recognize on average 42,000 lemmas, ranging from 27,100 for the lowest 5% of the population to 51,700 lemmas for the highest 5%. These lemmas come from 6,100 word families in the lowest 5% of the population and 14,900 word families in the highest 5%. 60-year-olds know on average 6,000 lemmas more. [12]

According to another, earlier 1995 study junior-high students would be able to recognize the meanings of about 10,000–12,000 words, whereas for college students this number grows up to about 12,000–17,000 and for elderly adults up to about 17,000 or more.[20]

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> Guessing but it likely comes down to the distribution of Prius throughout the US

Didn't think of it before. But these operations must benefit from the economies of scale such a concentration of Prius's drives.
> > Cascade discovered 4 bugs in BOOM and CVA6 that produce wrong output val- ues regardless of the microarchitectural state

> These are unacceptable bugs, showing a lack of architectural tests. It means no one ever ran those instructions and checked the result. The community should be able to fix this.

For BOOM it looks like the only 2 bugs found were miscounting on the inst-retired perf counter if software over-wrote it, and a fdiv.s/fsqrt.s that always listened to the dynamic rounding mode instead of the statically provided rounding mode, when specified. Not great, but recoverable.
in New England (and other places I assume), rocks are light enough to float.

There are many rocks under the surface of the soil, and over time they work their way upward and pop out of the ground. Every spring when the fields are being tilled for planting, these rocks get in the way and they need to be removed (for the convenience of the farmer and his plow). Today's New England forests are all 2nd or 3rd growth; the land was previously completely cleared for farmland, before the farmland of the Great Plains opened up and was found more efficient for scale farming (and not least because the human population there was smaller).

If you walk through the New England woods today, you will periodically/frequently come across old "abandoned" stone walls among the trees. Farmers built these stone walls to mark their property from the stones that were handy because they were removed from their nearby fields, where these stones had "floated" to the surface. The reason these stones are under the surface is because the grinding and bulldozing of glaciation, and then the subsequent outwashing of ice-melt carrying stones and sediment.

All of that (from memory, apologies for any mistakes) to ask: won't adding crushed rocks to farmland result in a lot of those rocks popping back out of the ground? Will plowing just keep them turned under, but even so, wouldn't the population of rocks keep increasing?
Do you have some evidence that it must be prohibitively expensive or was that just like the first idle thought that came to your head?
> I doubt very seriously that anyone who works professionally hasn’t had to learn some new technology on the job. Out of the 2.7 million working software developers, I could say that almost all of them had to learn new to them technologies on the job.

Sure. It's a great way to hire people who already have professional-class jobs, mostly already software developers.

> Yes, you can learn how to be an effective communicator much easier than you can learn how to pass a coding interview.

People from the "wrong" class aren't generally ineffective communicators, they just have a communication style that's adapted to their circumstances. PMC communication styles are easy to learn if you have access to an environment where everyone else is using them, but very hard otherwise. (Also, by your own logic if the communication style is easier to learn wouldn't you want to hire people for the harder skill and teach them the communication style on the job?)
That sounds like exactly what I was looking for. Impressive!
That industries fight hardest against this approach tells me that it's probably the most effective and efficient approach.
I'm actually impressed at how nicely they answered the request by explaining why it's so large, pointing out a few workarounds, explaining why it's not currently a priority given their vision, and leaving the door open for potential future improvements. It would have been a lot simpler and less hassle to simply ignore it or close it with minimal discussion.
These cars drive around Amsterdam quite a bit.

They drive on the city road in between other "8000 lb" suvs. Not sure why that matters.
I drive my car a 1,500kg car right next to 30,000kg trucks, was never an issue for me.

I find this fascination with the size of the car and how it supposed to be a hazard quite amusing.

Roads are meant to be shared between different participants. These carts are meant for the city, where everyone's speed limit is 50kph anyway, and they avoid the faster roads. For many, this is all they need.
How else can an employer decide who to give a raise to or not? What prevents everyone from asking for a raise?

I think the employer-employee relationship, especially when it comes to salary, is inherently antagonistic because our interests are basically 100% oppositely aligned. An employee always wants to be paid more; an employer always wants to pay less.
> Google's support is the worst.

5 minutes later, the "technical writing manager on GCP", makes a helpful comment on this thread.
The point isn't that OOP is inherently bad and should never be used, but that writing OOP code well (as opposed to merely using objects) is nontrivial. Hence the "seeing how most adult programmers do OO poorly" comment. We've had lots of problems with universities starting off with OOP in the introductory course. I would not deem it suitable for kids unless they are already good at procedural programming.

Of course good stuff has been written in OOP. I personally like that Django uses OOP - it's a good fit. Doing it well is not easy, though. And many problems are easier solved without it.

> JS is a prototypal language, classes are just sugar on top of the prototypes.

Is OOP now a vague term, akin to "functional programming"?

I still maintain that not having data encapsulation (i.e. Python) means it's not OO. (Not that I particularly want it to, either).
"dividends payed out" yeah no. crusty editing utilities don't give you superpowers, sorry. it's fine to learn them if you're interested but if you read the short intro docs on VS code and print out the 1 page keybinding cheat sheet you're going to be extremely effective without wasting time learning a bunch of quirky bullshit and coping with bad design for "muh historic reasons". and you can get learn you need to know about scp from `tldr scp`.
There’s no source because he just made it up. Oh sorry, I meant that he hallucinated it. That’s the term we’re using now, isn’t it?
Not political messages, but the first time I used the start menu in windows 10 after years away... They showed an MSN article for Kim Kardashian. Within seconds it completely validated my dislike of windows.
13in MBP, Safari.
Same, easily my favorite Mac software
I generally find these discussions unproductive on HN because of how binary they become, but definitely once you go off the beaten path it seems a lot cheaper (sans power though) to run your own infra. I've been thinking of doing some data ETL for something that generates 1 GB / day and has retention for 30 days and it's much cheaper to host a Postgres myself at that scale than run it in the cloud. I could store in something like S3, but then I need to deal with querying S3. I'd like to combine some of this with cloud infra but I suspect cloud bandwidth costs would kill me. Colo-ing 2-3 servers is probably the best bet here.