skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same deal with most of the big tech companies' web apps.

Facebook, Twitter, etc all seem to somehow not only take up gigabytes of memory, but waste CPU cycles even when their pages are in the background.

Add that to every app that insists on being bundled into a browser via Electron, and you'll quickly have memory eaten up.

Blows my mind that premium products like Macs, and even some premium business laptop lines, are still shipping with 8GB of memory.
Security of my calculator..? Is this a theoretical or actual concern? Are you getting hacked through outdated AppImages? The Snap/Flatpak sandboxing has been widely criticized but I'm not an expert to judge. I'm guessing you can run your AppImage from something like a chroot if that's a real concern

I've never had an AppImage hacked.. (or honestly anything else hacked on a Linux machine) though I'm not running AppImage servers

> in many parts of the world "nice computers on fast internet" is kind of a given now

Well if they want to be an appstore solution for the Linux ecosystem then they need to cater to everyone, not just rich kids in silicon valley
Binding a C++ Library to 10 Programming Languages
The opposite. Performance entertainment, especially sports, are least likely to be replaced by generative AI.
It's even worse now, because QLC.

As soon as you deplete the SLC cache you are down to ~50MB/s
Citation needed for that number, I suppose, because the number is absolutely made up. There is no way to determine the cost of the externalities of fossil fuels (if they exist). Even if we were to say that CO2 is causing global warming so we need to remove it from the atmosphere, such technology does not yet exist, so we don't know how much it would cost.
The fact that made me switch away from the N edition was the fact that the separately installable media codecs weren't available for weeks after my computer auto-updated to a new major Windows release. This basically made my computer unusable for many regular tasks I did, since as you noted most programs assume they're available.
Simple Formula Makes Prime Numbers Easy, but a Million-Dollar Mystery Remains
now feed that video en masse to GPT Vision
there is 700000 settlers and not counting the IDF forces protecting them and terrorizing the Palestinian population. Are the prisons full?
I've been a (n)vim user for many years. I don't think I have ever deliberately updated a plugin. I have 2 that I use and I just git clone their repos on a new machine. (fzf and git-gutter if you're interested, I should really sit down and learn surround however).

It does take a long time to learn all the features and get into the habit of using them productively. I would not claim to be an expert or without plenty of room for improvement. I would suggest some focused drilling of the core bindings and to at least read over a "starter vimrc" or something. There are a lot of defaults that are pretty bad, but you want to understand everything that you're putting in there.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned here is it depends a lot on your language of choice. I work mostly in languages with tool support that is inherently medium at best: Python (too dynamic) and C++ (too slow and complicated to compile, template duck-typing, build systems not standardized). I've tried many IDEs, plugins, language servers, etc over the years and found them wanting in professional settings. For smaller personal projects I've had much better results. If you're primarily working in something like Java with amazing tooling then the calculus shifts a lot more toward an editor that is designed with all the bells and whistles built-in instead of layered on top of vi.

Personally, there is an inherent pleasure to using vim that I think many people enjoy but are reluctant to admit. It's just fun to recognize 'ah I can get over there in 2 keystrokes this way' or recording a macro to knock through something that would normally be finicky. There's some tactile familiarity to when I played the piano as a youngster, but that micro problem-solving is enjoyable as well.
I think the idea is in a large part aimed at van-lifers, so a notched rod could be quite beneficial
I had the same experience, I used Mac exclusively for almost 20 years.

I use a Mac for 99% of my work also and I have an employer supplied neutered PC which is generally fine.

I purchased a personal PC laptop with Windows "Pro"... What a sh!t experience. Riddled with rubbish and distractions.
Windows Vista introduced in 2006 a transactional file system API for user applications.

It was recently deprecated because almost nobody uses it.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/trans...
file systems already do journaling and a bunch of other fancy techniques. Drives themselves then have their own versions in addition to that

Additionally, apps can do whatever they want in custom partitions if they need better storage perf (databases for example do this). Getting lower level than that is probably doable, but you run the risk of becoming firmware that is tied to particular drive controller design

Remember that computer storage technology is over 70 years old, many many things have been tried/implemented in that time.
Ørested isn't a startup, it's a decades-old energy company which built the first off-shore wind turbines. It used to be called DONG, Danish Oil and Natural Gas.
Human Brain Project brain atlas completed after a decade
>which don't have any benefit of being a part of a "build" system anyways

Building a package doesn't imply compilation of the binaries the package is composed from. Packages are meant to provide easier distribution and maintenance.
How do you know who to ask? How do you ask them? In person?
In general I have much better experiences on MacOS with 8G of RAM than on Windows or Linux. Very happy that I have 16G on my current machine, but I feel like 90% of the stuff I do (even as a dev!) would go perfectly fine on 8G.

I feel like people are using their experience with 8GB on other platforms and projecting their experience to other people. I feel like MacOS memory management is VERY on-point.
Sure. But even there there is a ton of mobile dust and sand in the air.
Ubuntu is not all GNU/Linux or the best one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38300531.
ok notachatbot123
ZigZag confirms a community-driven airdrop via ZigZag DAO.
Shardeum blockchain allocates 5% of the total supply for airdrops.
As the crypto market resurges, a flurry of anticipated airdrops is set to shake the landscape, with several projects finalizing dates for their token distribution. Amidst the excitement, seasoned observers are eyeing specific ventures for potentially lucrative airdrop opportunities.
> I wonder what a system with native bare metal apps would look like today and how far you can push down the hardware requirements while still having a snappy experience in - let's say - a basic office job (mails, sheets, documents, browsing)

I mean it's not that you can't have that. Get a Linux desktop with one of the less bloated desktop environments like lxqt or xfce, there's still a variety of e-mail applications available, libreoffice does the basic office application tasks.

It's more or less what I'm doing. Not saying it's perfect, there's certainly a lot that could be improved (without sacrificing performance), e.g. by better integration of the various parts. But you absolutely can have a basic Desktop system with great performance on modern hardware.

The situation where you end up still having to deal with the sluggishness of modern software is when you want to interact with the tools the world out there uses. Often that means "yet another slow electron app".
I read the whole article but still don't understand exactly what a "cold email" is and why it's cold.
Ridiculous.

From the article: "By putting all the information obtained so far together, a practical formula for calculating prime numbers can be given".

I'll give you a 10,000% more practical formula:

from sympy import prime

def nth_prime(n): return prime(n)

It will probably give more insight into primes than the party joke in the article.

Is it just me, or is Scientific American not what it used to be?
WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS has a cult following.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24411333
So what are they going to do if Tesla stops imports there, and promises to remotely auto-disable any Tesla imported in a black market manner? Resign themselves to only driving Chinese and shitty European electric cars? A rather stupid attempt to move against a power much stronger than yourself.
I actually love bing bot when searching for something very nuanced ("no, not like that ... [explanation]"). I haven't used Google's AI search yet; why learn a new tool?
True. As a developer I could make any thing but don't know how to sell. People lik e peter levios can earn millions with a single index.php and SQLite by reading tutorials. And now gpt would make non programmer more free from devs.
The other drawback is creasing all of your clothes.
Emergence is simply repeating patterns observed in aggregates.

There is nothing that "emerges" in the physical universe, instead things emerge in an observer's model of the world.
> If Antarctica's wall is 60,000 miles in circumference making the equator nearly 25,000 miles

I mean... the math doesn't even check out on this conspiracy theory.
What did you write? All I see is ****
This video is obviously a joke (they aren't pulling it on a public road and they do it at a walking speed). It wouldn't be legal here :)

But this exact 23 HP 650 kg car can legally pull 400 kg trailer (as long as it has breaks - 300 kg without). And I've seen it done on public roads in 90s. Maybe it wasn't full capacity so let's say 200 kg but still. That's already more than you can fit in most SUVs.

A modern 100 HP 1500 kg sedan can pull more than most people will ever need. And they do - outside US. Somehow in US you need a 2500 kg truck to do the same. I just don't understand.
>> Almost all of us in Europe have never known anything but this peace

> Neither Russia nor Ukraine are members of the EU.

Europe != EU

Also, explosives from the Russian invasion in Ukraine have hit the territories of two EU countries: Poland and Romania.
I was hoping this would be the coat hanger I have in my ideas bin for the last three years.
I need a coat hanger that can be operated one-handed. (accessibility being invention's other mother)
If her design could be easily folded with one hand, letting you insert it into the neck of a T-shirt, and then it automatically reopens by spring, I'd have comfy clothes.
Fully agree - Vim is my editor, but Bash is my IDE!
When we have reached the point to explore extrasolar worlds, we will probably have also reached the point that a spacecraft can map an entire planet as soon as it has reached it.
> There is none except hydro and nuclear for base load.

I'm not the person you're replying to, and I mostly agree with your points, but I think its necessary to point out that nuclear and hydro have long lead times to build the infrastructure. And we basically don't have enough time left to build it.

I don't have good answers. Solar + interconnectors, maybe? So that areas in daylight can power areas that aren't? But this obvs requires cooperative behaviour.
> Signal spends around $2.8 million dollars per year on bandwidth to support sending messages and files (such as photos, videos, voice notes, documents, etc.) [...] At current traffic levels, the amount of outbound bandwidth that is required to support Signal voice and video calls is around 20 petabytes per year (that’s 20 million gigabytes) which costs around $1.7 million dollars per year in bandwidth fees just for calling, and that figure doesn’t include the development costs associated with hiring experienced engineers to maintain our calling software, or the cost of the necessary server infrastructure to support those calls.

20 petabytes per year is around 5000 Mbps only for audio and video calling. So 5000 HD video calls all year round.

Signal is known for the large bandwidth needed for calling but that sounds too much and not really scalable in the future.
You can choose to not make the donation public, but perhaps they didn't know there was going to be a blog post. I noticed as well and sent a coffee to kind of disguise them a bit :D
There is always the argument that it can help reduce the errors produced due to memory corruption.

However industry standards matter more.
Is there an open source way to connect these? I would rather not Plugbear be able to access all my Slack messages
I remember the outcry when this thing was released, thinking, did we learn nothing from Microsoft's "racist" Tay bot? How did they not anticipate that journalists and twitter were going to try to make it parrot things that make Facebook look bad?
> not all the other stuff a nation will need various type of energy for

like what?
White LEDs do not produce three narrow spectral peaks. That's only RGB LEDs, which are a very specific thing and not the norm.
LED lighting uses phosphors and produces a broad spectrum.

Take a CD / DVD (if you can find one in 2023) and look at the spectrum from your phone flash, or any other LED lamp, and observe the broad spectrum. They all have some sort of blue peak, but it's very small in "warm white" lights.
Paleontologists Discover Earliest Known Gondwanan Bird Footprints
As with my iPhone that has none of Voice Memos at the moment has data shown as 4 GB. I remove the app, nothing changes, it frees some kilobytes for the app (which I doubt, that the app is in kilobytes) and leaves the data, while it claims it keeps the data only when I unload the app to the cloud.
This is only true if you are in a country which is supported by Apple News. Mine isn't.
It is but it was proofread by a human with expertise in the domain, and honestly I wouldn't have done better in such a short amount of words. If someone wants to know more they better read the article which I did to make sure the generated text wasn't bullcrap :)
https://cosmos.network/ibc/ I think?
I guess one of the problems might be that populations of young and upset men can be quite anti-social and lead to societal issues and harm which are otherwise hard to address, just look at what's occasionally happening in America. Therefore, one could argue that it's better to keep them preoccupied with something (work, sports, other hobbies) as much as possible, though mathematically many of them might never find a partner and that human need for a relationship would go unfulfilled.

If that issue might be mitigated somewhat with an LLM that's basically just "smart autocomplete" so they're less miserable, that's probably an okay start. Same as how all sorts of forms of entertainment can keep populations of people more complacent with whatever their life circumstances are, instead of rioting in the streets. As for the ownership and control argument, I wouldn't go as far as to anthropomorphize a computer program, no more than I own a copy of Microsoft Word, or no more than GCC serves me by compiling some code.

The wording of the parent comment is a bit interesting, maybe a bit tongue in cheek and hopefully wouldn't get applied in any capacity to real human beings. But I can kind of see the point, even though it's very dystopian: a purpose built LLM might eventually gamify being an adult and taking care of oneself, like having healthy meals and working out in exchange for EXP points (which honestly isn't bad, like how many fitness bands and their apps do this), but with a helping of whatever the party ideology is, in addition to spying on the user a lot, vs something running locally.
> Not to mention, that would basically disallow any kind of OS or hardware caching, which is immensely important for 99% of use cases.

Why would it disallow caches? Just issue writes to a new location on disk and switch reads across to it after the write transaction has committed.

In any case, most writes aren’t performance sensitive. I’m thinking things like saving a file when code editing. My editor shouldn’t need to do some obscure, fragile renaming dance just to overwrite a file safely. It wouldn’t write 10x slower. Just have the OS do what it needs to do so my editor doesn’t have to.

And big transactions (like installing software or OS updates) could just do the whole update to a new location and then atomically swap to it. It shouldn’t cost any performance at all beyond a few pointers being moved around at the end of the transaction.

Maybe doing it for all writes is too much. Let databases opt out if they want to do their own thing. But I think it would be a much better default. Right now all good software does some version of this themselves. An OS level solution would allow all those hacks to be removed. If anything, I’d expect performance to improve.
Lies, damn lies....

All these metrics should just support a much needed trend towards renewables. For me the metric days off grid is very compelling, that is what we are trying to achieve aren't we? PT is at 6 out of 365, where is DE? It helps to motivate others in a positive manner.

And on your topic, nuclear is a pipe dream. It is a toy for politicians to evade the raw fact that very hard measurements are needed (tax flying, much higher fossil energy pricing, tax on meat, tax on children, etc). Governments cannot buy their way out of this mess, I have no confidence at all other then spending on infrastructure, that government spending will solve the climate crisis.
Right, because only bad people ever end up in prison...
You’re right. While a pure tone can only have higher harmonics when distorted, multiple tones can produce the difference frequency. And noise has every tone.
When the RPM felt out of time, I switched from SuSe Linux to Kubuntu. Now I use a ubuntu based distro (Bodhi). This flatpak stuff may make me leave ubuntu.
Checks all boxes:

- Short and grabs attention: Single paragraph - good.
- Super clear on who you are: A Nigerian prince obviously
- Value prop for the receiver: Millions of dollars!
- Has a specific ask: Access to your bank account, easy
That is really impressive. But then again Goldeneye had more animated objects and longer draw distance?

It has to be annoying to play with only one joystick though. Maybe he should add support for using two.
BTC mining is the exact opposite of scalable: there's a fixed supply of BTC available to mining, so you can only pay for so many nuclear power plants with it. Even the entire bitcoin market cap is about enough for 20 nuclear power plants, optimistically (and that's ignoring the cost of the miners themselves, risk, etc, etc).
Third-party SMS and MMS messaging apps already exist on Android, such as the free and open source QKSMS[1] and Simple SMS Messenger.[2] Signal also used to support SMS and MMS on Android until last year.[3] There isn't a shred of evidence that these non-default SMS/MMS apps increase spam to any measurable extent compared to SMS/MMS apps that are preinstalled on Android phones.

[1] QKSMS: https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms

[2] Simple SMS Messenger: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-SMS-Messenger

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33179047
I think you can buy better hangers fwiw. In particular, more accurately sized for the jacket and with more shape around the collar. Though obviously ‘better’ is relative – if you’re hanging shirts or trousers you don’t need nearly as much shape.
Grounding in facts is the one thing where machines could actually improve upon humans (in the same way a calculator doesn't fail on every 10th calculation).
Eh? I have a 16gig iMac and am very lazy about closing apps I’ve never had any memory problems and don’t even think about it other then running something like Adobe Premier Pro for video editing.
Virtual reality worlds, avatars and (interactive) experiences
On Trouser Pockets (2020)
It would probably be better for you if you read a little less news.
A cold email is unsolicited mail, akin to "cold calling" or what Jehovas witnesses attempt at your doorstep. It's called cold because it's done without any prior warming up, similar to the experience of jumping into cold water without getting your feet wet first.
> what exactly is… a water landing? Am I mistaken or does this sound somewhat similar to CRASHING INTO THE OCEAN

What a silly thing to say. First of all not all water is ocean. Second the speeds and forces involved in a landing and in a crashing are very different.

Here is how an aftermath of a water landing looks like: https://youtu.be/x02cA6eamq0?si=-dQsJm353WySpv0Z

As you can see the airplane is designed to float.
Interesting, where does search on Mail fail for you? I’ve always found it extraordinarily good
I run an 8GB M1 as my main desktop for Java development and it's 70% fine. I needed a replacement for my previous PC during covid/cpu shortages and in AU, there were no 16GB versions available. (So the upsell argument is not the only part of the story).

For running Chrome, IntelliJ, Spotify, Terminal, fuzz tests etc at once, it's fine. But running YourKit profiling or Steam etc, everything else swaps out and grinds.

So: it's amazing to me that you can do so much with just 8GB,and egregious that Apple can't put in a couple of slots for an extension.
Required spacing is a blocker/friction, that's one of the benefits of DSLs, I guess, being able to eschew the conservative syntax of the general-purpose languages (though Unicode support is a good step forward)
That must be why I have one-click filed my taxes on my phone for the last 15 years while TurboTax et.al. prevents the same thing in the US. Foreign competition.
With this solution you lose the most space on the side because of the notched rod. The notches have to be wide enough for a the thickest stuff, but then a shirt will take as much space as thick coat.

If your goal is to save as much depth as possible the solution is obviously front to back direction rods, as opposed to side to side. There's plenty of options available from retractable ones to wall mounted ones that don't require a closet and so on.
I used to embarassingly think that design was merely a matter of aesthetics until I read The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman, which opened my eyes to how much thought goes into seemingly simple things. Really changed the way I look at human-designed objects.

My favorite anecdote due to its simplicity and ubiquity that I never thought about previously was the anecdote about the idea of making top surfaces slanted in public spaces to keep people from placing empty drinking cups and such on top of them. So damn simple and inconspicuous, but so effective and now I see it everywhere!
There is also geothermal, where some very interesting innovations are being made by Quaise Energy among others.

Also, energy storage is emerging as an electricity grid stabilizer. The cost trend of solar+wind+storage is looking very promising when compared to nuclear.
It's sad because the new version is awful. It takes too much time only to read emails.
haha I like it!
Not only is using two controllers simultaneously already supported, but there is also support for using a mouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KibcE-qg_rg
YouTube hai jika anda memberikan silver play baton anda selamat whahaha
Optus CEO faces Senate grilling as Singtel denies it was to blame for outage
This article is absolutely whitewashing how bad the Galactica project is. On day one, people were using the scientific paper generator to make fake papers and wiki pages with real-looking citations supporting racist, sexist, homophobic, and genocidal ends.

This thing didn’t actually do much aside from hallucinate about the world in a scientific voice. The bot was allegedly supposed to help scientists explore connections between different complex theoretical fields, but it didn’t have a concept of what was real or practical, and the citations were all fake.

What value did they think was going to come from this aside from misinformation? At least ChatGPT could do your homework for you.