skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, it could be wherever nuclear wouldn’t be permissible otherwise (e.g floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean extracting CO2 from the atmosphere, away from populations that don’t want it nearby)
Just wondering have you worked on any large DCs or large NAS or SAN systems? Drive failures are a daily occurrence in places with a lot of spinning metal, having things fail to boot by default would be a nightmare.
in 30 years we have gone from the idea that your computer could accidentally brick your monitor, to the idea that your monitor could accidentally brick your computer.

https://trixter.oldskool.org/2006/02/02/computing-myth-1-sof...
The use case for all of these CO2 reduction methods that seems particularly interesting is if you capture the CO2 inevitably produced as a byproduct of cement production and then convert it into useful plastics. You avoid air capture and you get something that's good for more than just burning.
I did not have custom instructions for either assistant. You can see the full conversation logs which I posted as a reply to another comment.
We need EUV lithography for the future of chips
As an Orange County native who spent some years living in Los Angeles, people from Long Beach, Irvine, Chino Hills, or Rancho Cucamonga saying they are from "LA" is ridiculous and shouldn't be tolerated or encouraged lol
I was raised very Catholic (and decided by my early teens that I didn't believe in any of it), and I completely disagree with your conclusion. Organized religion (at least Christianity) absolutely is about deep fear. "Do this or you'll go to hell!" "Believe this or you'll go to hell!" Repeat ad infinitum.

I won't deny that some churches (as in, specific people, not the system as a whole) can do good in the world; one church I attended with my parents as a kid had some great community outreach programs that helped a lot of people who had fallen through the cracks. And some clergy members are good people who are trying to help.

But overall, religion is about control (for the religious leadership, and politicians who use religion to gain power), and about belonging and feeling less lost and alone (for practicioners) in an uncertain world.

Oh, and as an atheist who knows and hangs out with a lot of other atheists, I can assure you that "anything goes, you can be whatever you feel like and there's no judgement of any of your actions" is not a thing. Or, rather, it very much is a thing, but that attitude comes from just as many religious people as it comes from the non-religious. And there are quite a few actions that religious people take that I think are disgusting and immoral, but somehow "anything goes" as long they can justify it in the pages of their made-up fantasy holy book. I don't consider things moral or immoral based on what a storybook tells me; I decide based on how I think my actions will affect others. My system is certainly not a perfect one, but I dare say it's miles ahead of the religious process.
I agree with you with one small reservation. This tech is an excellent way to get quick prototypes out. Most people will never go beyond that so we will see a lot more crap. But for the people that do, being able to prototype something quickly could result in some noticeably new ideas.
Reminds me of Enron, where the clowns in charge happily handed their corrupt CFO Andrew Fastow hundreds of millions to run a private equity fund that purported to purchase loss-making assets at a profit to Enron.

Then, after Enron reported good quarterly numbers, this fake fund would simply sell the stake back to Enron, with the CFO taking a gigantic management fee for orchestrating the charade.

Public companies have been banned from doing this, but I guess anything goes when you're private.
How do they get the works in question to train on?
Not much has changed. We are now hearing the praise of Apple Silicon even though in practice it is nowhere near as good as they want you to believe. If you have a workload that will never extend beyond what Apple has planned and are willing to eat the insane markup on options, yes, it is ok for the efficiency. But otherwise, this is a waste of time on an unstable software platform.

I was an Apple user in the PowerPC era, and I remember very well how bad it got. And I have been burned too many times by software deprecation and unnecessary change that make things worse. I am still salty about Aperture that I regularly recommended to friends/clients; iWork got destroyed from an UI standpoint and did not even improve on anything (still perform like shit for big files and documents formatting preservation are even less reliable than Word across versions); Apple Music is so bad that I would rather use Spotify (if I really have to use a Frankenstein web client application, I would rather use the performant one).

I am still an Apple user in a way, got Mac Mini, iPhone, Apple Watch, and previously had an iPad who got stolen but nether bothered to renew (the pricing is ridiculous, the low end has non laminated display that make it annoying to read on, which was my primary activity on it). But considering the strategy that's pretty much the last things I'll have from Apple.
Apple only cares about itself, it is unhealthy to get in a long term relationship with them. Especially as innovation slowdown, stability and longevity are more important than ever.

But I guess we will keep hearing about how awesome Apple Silicon is. I'll wait for open market competitive version thank you very much (provided there is any advantage at all, which I sincerely doubt).
Yeah, it felt a bit evil, but I also really wanted to share this because it predates HN and deserves sharing. And then the MicroTCP poster went AWOL...
Aadhaar details of 81.5 cr people leaked in India's 'biggest' data breach
This is a terrible, just terrible headline and awful data spin.

Let's start with the obvious: "fringe" is a measure of size. "fastest growing" is a measure of rate. You don't go from size to rate.

Next: the data graphically presented has no axes or explanation, but what it appears to be showing is the percentage growth of each schooling type relative to its 2017 value. But then there's this bit:

> In 390 districts included in The Post’s analysis, there was at least one home-schooled child for every 10 in public schools during the 2021-2022 academic year
...
> The Post estimates that there are now between 1.9 million and 2.7 million home-schooled children in the United States, depending on the rate of increase in areas without reliable data.

Let's be charitable and say 2.7 million. The Post data says that's 158% of the 2017 value, and 2020 was, oh, let's say, 164%, so in 2020 there were 2.8 million. According to the DoE, there were 48.1 million kids in public schools in 2020. This is at best 1 in 17. Surely the Doe and the WP can't differ by a factor of 2?

https://research.com/universities-colleges/number-of-public-...

Last, the graph clearly shows that, post covid, home-schooling is the fastest declining form of education. It has dropped 15% since 2020 alone, whereas public school has dropped by, what, about 1%? Why isn't this the headline? Or that clearly homeschoolers are being moved to private institutions?
Poll: Do you know what TCP/IP is?
This came up on the MicroTCP thread*. Is it reasonable to assume readers here know what it is? Personally I say yes, but who cares what I say, I want to know what everyone else here says.

TCP/IP. Do you know what it is/does/etc?

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38086598
Yes, very well. I can draw you the SYN/ACK sequence diagram off the top of my head.
Yes but I'd have to look some details up
Kinda, not really.
Not really.
No, what is it?
By "wrong reasons" i am referring to the intentions of those new users.

Say your users are predominantly seeking long-term relationships, and your branding supports that. Then a bunch of men, fueled by gender-ratio marketing, flood your app seeking hookups. You will see short-term a bump in engagement and payments. A/B testing will suggest everything is great. But long-term your product loses value as your users lose faith in your ability to deliver on what they signed up for. The (in this case women) leave and the product becomes another graveyard.
At a first glance this looks to me to be the same concept as "The Heptagon of Configuration":

https://matt-rickard.com/heptagon-of-configuration
Yup.

The problem we have is CO2 is mixed into the atmosphere at ~420 ppm. Isolating just the CO2 and concentrating it enough for these processes to work is one of the major energy sinks.

This is compounded by the fact that the energy it takes to turn CO2 back into fuel can never be less than the energy released by the fuel.
FAA concludes SpaceX Starship safety review
your data can be public without your consent, what then ?
> We know from the CFTC settlement that Tether printed tethers from nothing and accounted them in the reserves as “loans.” We also know that Alameda minted 39.55 billion tethers and certainly didn’t send Tether anything like $39 billion — which would have been more than their entire claimed assets under management.

Wow so SBF literally started the whole scam by printing money. I am shocked and amazed that Sequoia missed this. But I am not surprised. I am very very certain that they knew this and played a big part in this fraud. What a bunch of crooks and thieves Sequoia have become.
>The reasons you would choose to include a 'before-all' method will vary from case to case.

Not really. I would always purge anything that would cause tests to share state. I wouldn't do it on a case by case basis.

>What is it about your application code that would make you think that addUser is flaky enough to need a clean slate to run against?

The user already existing in the database? The behavior of the app would change in that case. Something has to wipe the db clean to test that scenario.

Thats why tests shouldn't share databases.
Yes, I do - I do not think landlords should have a no-fault eviction. I don't think they should be able to refuse to renew your lease in a lot of situations. Once you are living there, you should have rights to stay so long as you pay and so on.

This keeps people stable.

If the unit is free, I don't think there should be bidding. The price listed is the price it goes for. It is on the landlord to make sure they are asking a fair price that is enough.

If competition is fierce, obviously there isn't enough housing.
Not anymore. See Reddit. Eyeballs aren't worth anything without a solid advertiser inventory.
Funny enough, I heard about this book on HN before, took it out from the library and didn't do anything with it for months, then returned it and just thought to buy it yesterday!
Perception but not expectation of reward is altered in cocaine addicts
You must be skipping over all of the comments on this thread where homeschooled kids do exactly that.

Hi. I was homeschooled. I graduated university top of my class, have a high-skill high-paying job, think more critically (about everything including religion) than most people that I know, and overall I enjoy my life very much. I'm homeschooling my kids.
Then we should write a law to make it a matter of scale.
Maybe their landing page just sucked.
Overcommit != Swap.

Overcommit is allocating virtual memory without any backing. Swap is allocating physical memory backed by disk.

Overcommit is useful in some cases, for example to preallocate a large heap without immediately making it all resident. Or to allocate 'guard' pages to fight buffer overflows. On Linux, overcommit is commonly assumed and as such disabling it tends to break some programs, as it's not out of the ordinary for something to allocate 100s of GBs of virtual memory.
Adata launches the first USB4 external SSD with speeds up to 3,800 MB/s
Free Public Blockchains?
> My whole county did this. No inspections. It turned out fine.

Would you be willing to provide us with the name of the county so that we can determine for ourselves how it turned out?
Which raises the question even more why the refresh rate matters during early bootup - surely you could just start with an apple logo and a 1 Hz refresh rate, and then up the rate later during boot when it's time to do some animation...
More Readable Text of the Executive Order on the Development and Use of AI
Personally I say yes but who cares what I say. Let's see what this poll says in a few hours.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38092364
May I ask if your son is an only child? I’ve thought about online homeschooling my son when he’s old enough (he’s still a baby), but I wonder if he would be lonely if he turns out to be our one-and-done. You mentioned your son’s beloved jiu-jitsu; does he have other outlets for meeting friends and socializing?
I don't know. It seems pretty shitty that these systems are literally leveraging their work against them. It also seems shitty that we're trying to automate cultural expression. Even if it's not explicitly illegal, the ai art guys are still ass holes.
> Honestly, this just means you don't have any users

Which is where many small ideas start.

My buddy had an idea for a few SaaS products and I've helped him develop them. The initial costs were small, but give it was an expense with no income in the near future, finding a way to scale to zero was the only way this became something he'd consider. It's got _very_ sporadic use currently and his bill for each service is literally around $1/month right now. Even the cheapest instance would be more than he's paying.
Did anyone else browser started lagging after opening this page? The page also doesn't seem to load completely.
Sounds like a cool hack, but why not just self-host with on-premises hardware, or rent a cloud server from a hosting provider like e.g. Digitalocean? Then you wouldn't have to worry so much about what Microsoft wants, no?
I'm hitting this right now with my predecessors' setup/factory classes for Kafka in our codebase.

There's different kinds of factories stacked atop one another. There's Guide dependency injection so that the factories are able to reach into config classes and copy custom properties into the actual Kafka constructors right before instantiation.

It's just an extra Rube Goldberg machine in front of Kafka instantiation which doesn't prevent the caller from needing to know the implementation details.
This other article says .05% but not sure about sources, validity etc.

https://electrek.co/2023/10/31/tesla-prevails-in-first-autop...
I have no idea what information they’re collecting on me, and it seems very few people do (given that nobody was able to answer the above question).

Could be “how much CPU does this user use?” but could also be “when prompted with a notification that a user’s iCloud backup storage is low, how long did they hesitate on the prompt before dismissing? How can we increase their odds of upgrading?”

Also, my willingness to provide information does not correlate to how much I “like” a company’s products. If I buy a sandwich from a deli, and they ask for my email for their newsletter or something, I won’t give it. That doesn’t mean I don’t like their company or their sandwich. Could be the best sandwich in the world, they don’t need my email.
Except a few billion a year in gift card, business email compromise, and romance scams. But yeah, Nigeria is not really a ransomware source country.
Yup, said another way, this would only really make sense if we are producing more energy than we can reasonably use and need to sink it somewhere.

However, there are so many sinks for energy that I just doubt CO2 will be a priority any time soon. Desalination, for example, will almost certainly end up being a huge energy sink as the world gets hotter.
Raid1 actually gets you less than that. If you mirror 5 drives that only gives you 1 drive worth of data (with 4 redundancies).

But… you have to weigh it against losing all your data. With raid5 if any 2 of your disks die at the same time then you've lost your volume and most likely 100% of your data (no matter how many disks you have).

With raid1 you have to lose _all_ your disks before that happens. Typically that's also just 2 but you can mirror 3 or more drives if you need some data to be _really_ resistant to disk failures and you don't care about "wasting" n-1 times the space.

So you end up trading off efficiency of storage space and resiliency to data loss.

Myself, disks got cheap enough that I always just buy 2 disks and mirror them. I find it easier to reason about overall, especially in the face of a degraded array.
Would it have taken minutes? Can you try and give us real, rather than speculative, feedback? Shouldn’t take much time!
this is like THE book for DBT. There are others but this is the one you will find in most programs and grad courses, the de facto, “go to” text

(Actual therapist fwiw)
> While this may technically fit the definition of "indoctrination", that's a pretty loaded way to describe what parents teach their own children.

I'm a former homeschooler that had to watch countless Ken Ham and Kent Hovind videos. These videos were filled with strawmen and faulty logic. I distinctly remember one of them tearing into Lamarckism, a theory discredited in the 1930's, as if it were something that people actually believe in today. Indoctrination is exactly how I'd describe it.
> Can someone explain the connection with Elon Musk and state sponsored distractions?

I think you misread "stage-managed". They're saying that billionaires' public personas are often deliberately constructed by their PR teams in order to serve their business interests.

> I'm also confused by the "rationalist" talk.

Rationalists are a Bay Area/internet subculture.
Yes?

From the front door of the apartment we lived in, I could see buildings in the City of Long Beach whereas Disneyland was 9.5 miles east. Most nights I could hear the airplane testing at the blast wall McDonnell Douglas - very rarely if the wind was just right I could just barely hear fireworks from Disneyland.

Technically to people, I didn't say "in Long Beach" I said "near Long Beach" when I explained where I grew up, but thats a quibble that would not be otherwise heard by most people.

It's ironic you mention crime, because it always confounded me, East Long Beach and North Long Beach (where the crime was) were different enough that they might as well have been different planets.

Also, in my opinion, Los Alamitos/Seal Beach are culturally more affixed to Long Beach (we shared an area code) than the rest of Orange County.
> Coming from the left, right, and centre

Really? Now, I don't recognize all the names there, but most of the once-left-associated names I do see are people who have shifted to full-throated advocacy of right-wing substantive positions [0] (or full-time attacks on everyone from the center-right and further left, which amounts to the same thing), occasionally using left-flavored rhetoric, especially the selective advocacy of “free speech” that focuses on exactly those cases where the right-wing pretends to care about it, but none of the places where the actual left is complaining about restrictions on expressive rights.

Its especially noteworthy that with governments throughout the West working to shutdown protests calling for a Middle East cease fire being one of the biggest immediate and eidely shared speech issues of the left, its mentioned nowhere among the examples, all of which are things the Right has complained about (and at least one is not about a speech, but not treating a Right-populist ex-leader as beyond accountability.)

Seems to me this is more across the spectrum of the open right, the people playing centrist to advance right-wing propaganda, and the people playing leftist to advance right-wing propaganda.

[0] A shift which in many cases occurred right around the same time it became clear that Russia was escalating influence operations in the West and focussing them largely (thougj not entirely) around focussing on using right-wing nationalist causes and movements as their leverage for division.
Despite being called OpenRW they never tell you where the name comes from, only that it’s an attempt to write the engine from scratch with clean code.

But why RW? Did the GTA games run on RenderWare?
The PS5 gets around 10.28 teraflops, while the M1 Max, from two years ago, was getting about 10.4.
That site is a labor of love, and well deserved by the creatives who made the show.

I had the Revel model Eagle and it seemed like a sensible design for lunar utility craft. The Dynetics design seems closest in the current HLS batch: the opposite of tail sitters.
I mostly use Firefox but I have to use Chrome on a regular basis[1] and Chrome feel slower than Firefox despite having only one open tab. On a pretty old Linux computer.

[1] Because Slack still doesn't support WebRTC on Firefox after 8 years…
I'll try and make this. beginner cs undergrad looking for maps-based things to build.
if anyone can reply and hit me with tips, quick info, or just a laundry list of things I'd be wise to google & learn to use, please lmk
thanks!
I haven't been following this specific case, so take that for what it's worth.

>He is going to get dragged through the mud having to respond "I dont recall" to a litany of embarrassing questions..

Yes, but he isn't admitting to anything, confirming anything for the prosecution, or saying anything incriminating either and that's the trap of the cross examination when taking the stand.
I once needed to check a friend's battery, so I bought a multimeter - which came in a clamshell package I had no way to open. So we went to a CVS and bought a pair of scissors, only to realize they were also in a clamshell package that required scissors to open.
that would put them significantly ahead again, for my use cases
Documented by whom? Are you going to show a marcan post to them and claim it’s an Apple issue?
idk why it wasnt obvious to me before, i never bothered trying to make games because i wasnt good at digital art and didn't really have the interest to try to be. i should now... lol
I'll try and make this. beginner cs undergrad looking for maps-based things to build. if anyone can reply and hit me with tips, quick info, or just a laundry list of things I'd be wise to google & learn to use, please lmk thanks!
Longtime Wise user here, and recently I've been having an issue too, but one I haven't seen posted here as yet.

My account has been flagged several times for "speculative currency trading", even though that's not what I'm doing, and my usage patterns haven't really changed much since I started using the platform.

If you set up a transfer and don't fund it immediately, or you cancel it and set up another transfer within a narrow time window where the exchange rate has changed to your benefit, the system thinks you're speculating. This never happened to prior to the last 12 months or so, and recently it seems they're flagging transfers this way much more often. Seems like it's probably due to overall volatility in certain currencies being higher over the last year or so.

The "penalty" they apply is just that you can't "lock" an exchange rate for international transfers anymore. Usually, your exchange rate is locked at the market rate at the time the transfer is initiated, and then you have a time limit to fund the transfer at the rate you locked.

But now, when you initiate a transfer they add a 3% "buffer" on top of the funds required to fund the transfer, and they apply the market rate at the time they receive the funds, and then refund you whatever the difference is.
We have so much plastic, I almost wonder if it would be easy enough to burn it, capture the CO2, and convert that into new plastic.
Good, sites that ignore it should be legally punished. You can't make money without it? You have a crap business model that relies on exploitation.
Watch Joe Rogan fire a broadside arrow at the Tesla Cybertruck