skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're making bits dance through hardware with minimal overhead or layers of abstraction/other programmer's opinions to deal with.

I call that productive.

Further, you have the smallest API/ABI stdlib to work through the quirks of of any language. Again. Productive.

I, of course, take the precaution of allocating time to blow up 5/8 of a solar system/a star into my projects. I have a tendency to find ways to do things other than intended, and like to absorb the lessons.

As a result, I have quite the collection of ways not to do things, or how to do things other than I intended. Just because your management fu disagrees with my definition of productive is not my concern.
The changes are already in progress.
Recently? Yes. Historically? Not so much.
"They rarely have much warning, but it is often enough to save lives."

I really wish this trope would go away. If you live in an area prone to tornadoes and you "have no warning", then you're just not paying attention. We know tornadoes exist. We know where they tend to frequently occur. The local weather stations in those areas are pretty damn good with warnings. We know days ahead of time that the conditions will be right for potential activity. We can now see potential tornadoes before they are formed. We can track their paths with neighborhood cross street precision.

Nevermind the fact that there's a pretty good indicator when the sky turns dark and the weather changes. Thunder and lightning and wind are essentially the knocking on the door. It's not like it's a sunny day and a tornado just pops out of the sky to say hello.

To say no warning just means they are not paying attention. I don't know what the tornado activity is like where the BBC is from, but it is woefully out of date.
Minor nitpick: Why are people still insisting on calling macOS "OSX"? It hasn't been "Mac OS X" for quite some time now.
Silicon chips will be made at well funded makerspaces. Thanks to advances in electron beam lithography, structured light projection, and other advances. You'll be able to design a custom chip, and try out the prototype a few days later, depending on complexity.

Thanks to advances in technique, ground loop based heat pump systems will find their way into use in most new buildings. This will allow for the use of solar and other renewable power on a far wider scale, making the grid a welcome way to share power when needed, instead of a unidirectional network.

Parallel processing will find its way down to the bit level. Instead of fixed width architectures, you'll be able to scale the precision of a calculation as much as is needed, allowing the most efficient use of silicon (or its replacement)

Quantum computing will be an interesting research area.

Thanks to ubiquitous internet, computer hardware, software, and advances in both additive and subtractive manufacturing, it'll be possible to build almost anything in the home, provided the elements to do so (or acceptable substitutes) are on hand. It will be well within the capability of an enthusiast to build machines that can make more of themselves. It's the first 3d printer, taken to the limit.

Either we'll all enjoy secure general purpose computing, thanks to the capability object model form the 1970s... or we'll still be complaining about hacking incidents (unless laws prevent doing so)

I hope you all are having fun in that future.
Well, for a start you probably mean compiled for an arch with 16 registers. It doesn't actually matter what arch the compiler ran on (assuming modern cross-compiler like GCC).

If a program uses 16 registers then it needs 16 registers. But note it's the program itself that decides to use a frame pointer, it's not being reserved by the operating system or something. Programs don't even have to use the stack pointer as a stack pointer, they could use all 16 as general purpose, but in practice almost all programs use a call stack (I guess all C programs must do, but you might be able to disable it if you make no function calls?)
Yep, completely terrible. My only high-speed choice in a well-developed neighborhood in San Francisco is 1000/35 from Comcast (not like I ever see that 1000, though). AT&T's fiber trunk is a block away from me, but they want $20k+ to run that fiber to my home.

Apparently Comcast has been experimenting/offering higher upload speeds for a while now, but it's still not available where I am.
> This bike share scheme is only possible because the city traded away its outdoor ad space.

No, there are many ways to generate revenue to pay for things like that at a (local) government level. Your city sold the ad space and immediately bought an essentially unrelated service (bike sharing) from the same party.
> That's extremely hard to do (comprehensively) if the tax place did reasonable off site backups. aka using offline media

with level of government salaries in Russia it is very possible that this area has been neglected.
How far back does that go? Does it go back to when Israel the country took Palestinians' property by force?

That doesn't justify attacks on innocent civilians in Israel, and those attacks don't justify attacks on innocent civilians in Gaza.
Times Sq is literally the extreme side of ads. It's literally what makes Times Sq - Time Square.

Imagine if NYC banned all visual advertising? One of the most iconic sites of NYC would just disappear.
Allowing real flow of capital between Peso and USD necessitated an honest starting exchange rate.
> What I'm trying to say is that I am grown up and I can police my space myself

I’m not worried about you because you appear to think. I am worried about the millions of people out there that simply believe whatever they are fed (some of them are my friends). Not sure if censorship is the answer, but we have to figure something out so we don’t slip into very big problems because of the mindless masses.
I'm amazed of what all the engineers working on these projects (Voyager 1 and 2) managed to accomplish so far.
Updating a codebase of a mix of assembly and fortran so far away with so much latency on such old equipments is an incredible challenge. May they succeed in this task.
High demand for stories from North Korea and no way to verify them makes me wary of what a fiction writer has written.
Love it! I like the bash implementation for bare minimum on the dependencies
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38625652

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628326
These are assertions but that's insufficient to make policy. To make policy you often need to tie things together because constituencies will want to keep net costs low as they trial programs.
A Deeper Dive of kube-scheduler
There’s not much to debate in convenience vs safety...

It’s an implied inconvenience (taking the car in) that doesn’t actually exist (people aren’t actually taking their cars in), vs accurately conveying a public safety message (the recall indicated the car needs to be fixed). OTA updates aren’t infallible. It’s safer to be over cautious.
And that's one of the (many) frustrating things with Musk: he fairly consistently overpromises and underdelivers. Even if that underdelivering is better than what you can get elsewhere, it still leaves a bad taste in people's mouths.
Oceans are only a defense if you can float a navy on them. The British Islands got invaded a couple of times... until they built a big navy.

Having two oceans is great, but now you need at least two fleets.

Nukes are only worth something if you have a lot of them and can credibly delivery them in multiple ways. Now you need subs, long-range bombers and the fighters to protect them, and missile silos.

Now add in reliance on a global supply chain (many types of oil and minerals, grades of steel not made in the US, TSMC), and all of a sudden you need to be able to help protect your partners on the other side of the world.

Now sprinkle in a couple of crazy dictators with nuclear arsenals and huge armies of their own, and it's starting to make sense why the US military needs constant re-investment.
https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-intervie...

You should read this story :)

It's one of my personal favorites.
My subjective impression from the correlation studies that I have seen is that the remainder largely is a long list of purely negative factors - i.e. in the "nurture" stage there are many ways to screw up the development of children with a large impact, but limited ways to meaningfully improve it over the genetic 'baseline'.

I.e. the correlation of nutrition in IQ is mostly driven by malnutrition, not by differences between great nutrition and mediocre nutrition; the impact of parenting is heavily driven by the outlier cases of severe abuse or deprivation, not the differences between great parenting and mediocre parenting, the impact of peer groups is largely set by the minority of cases that result in severe addiction or gang membership, not the difference between lousy friends and great friends, etc - that's the pattern that I seem to see there.
Not the first time. Messenger used to support XMPP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9266769
I would take a list of the facts over garbage filler paragraphs any day.

This is a problem with human writers too.
Ask HN: Best resources on abstracting and dealing with complexity
What would be your recommendations on resources that teach on how to abstract away and cope with complexity and hierarchy in technical domains?
grinding them into the dust was not a 'small part of the reason', it was the only reason it worked in the first place. What do you think would have happened had the allies given billions of dollars in aid to Germany while the Nazi's were still in power? They would do exactly what the Palestinians have done with the aid they got - bought more weapons and killed more Jews.

Palestine has already received much, much, much more aid - in inflation adjusted dollars per capita, than Germany ever did - the only missing ingredient is destroying the terrorists and their supporters that run the country and then controlling, with absolute power, what that money is spent on - only then will things change for the better for both Israel and the Palestinians.
Adaptation is the film I didn't know I wanted to write. It's perfect.
Did you have a PSP? The vita was such a downgrade from it and the vita like the PSP mostly had remakes, except the vita had psp remakes too. It had no killer game or multimedia capabilities by the time it released. I can't name an exclusive on there at all, I don't even know if it had one.
What do you use to configure it? I have been thinking of running it on my servers just to minimize log noise.
Their play for control hinges on creating a better user experience than car manufacturers have bothered to create. GM could simply claim that their experience is better, but they’d have to back that with privacy guarantees which would cost them recurring revenue, and they’d have to compel overdue improvements to Bluetooth and USB standards regarding in-car uses, which would then benefit their competitors. GM, a for-profit corporation based in the United States, has apparently chosen not to take those essential steps that would undercut and destroy Apple and Google’s current plays for control, as it would similarly threaten the “our system is ours” niche GM dug for themselves.
Amazon also owns Goodreads.
NVIDIA's price gouging has distorted people's idea of "affordable"
You can rent such a system for less than $4/hr. That sounds pretty affordable to me!
My guess is that there's a lot of cinnamon and sugar in it, and caffeine.
Axel Springer is German Fox News.
This is very bad news unless you want Tay 2.0
AI image platform CivitAI dropped by cloud provider after reports of CSAM
I bought my Q3 directly from Meta, this analysis would seem to be missing all that data, since it is based on a scrape of Amazon. Some raw numbers would be nice, rather than just the 2:1 ratio

edit: seems like all the reporting goes back to this one tweet: https://twitter.com/jayhadhope/status/1729496169464623208, maybe a bit more data here: https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-quest-2-3-sales-holiday-2023-a..., numbers are a bit larger anyway
Whether by nature or nurture or some combination of the two, many people seem to lack compassion and empathy for those significantly outside of their personal bubble. If it was "their people" going through that suffering, they wouldn't stand for it, but as it is, it's someone else's problem. Living in the US, platitudes like "justice and liberty for all" don't hold up to the cold hard reality that it's that person's side versus everyone else. I wonder if we'll ever reach a critical mass of people that genuinely want everyone to thrive and suppress the bad actors that only think about what benefits them.
ARM big.LITTLE systems started out as use one or the other, but not both simultaneously. Advertising those as 8 core when it's really big 4 or LITTLE 4, or later incantations where you could use the big or LITTLE of each of the four paired processors, is sketchy, but was common.

If the plan was to allow big 4 or LITTLE 4, and then a hardware bug became apparent that you could switch to LITTLE cores but not back to big cores, well you notify customers and stop advertising the LITTLE cores. archive.org has them mentioned Jun 1 2016 [1], and then removed Jun 14, 2016 [2]; the A53 cores aren't mentioned but are shown in the die map on the current page [3].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160601063237/http://www.nvidia...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160614200203/http://www.nvidia...

[3] https://developer.nvidia.com/content/tegra-x1
Can't do c++ on phone, but on Rust that code executes 22 operations/microseconds in Rust Playground.

Are you sure you are measuring it correctly?

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edit...
I really hope this goes through. I don't really use Threads, but some people I follow have found a home there. It would be great to be able to follow their posts in the same 3rd party client (Mona) I use to read Mastodon.

I'm curious how this will look if/when Meta starts to monetize Threads, though. Will they try injecting ads between posts in ActivityPub feeds? Will they be OK if third-party clients strip ads out? Will I have to view the post on Threads if I want to read the whole thing?
A series of rubbish charts about Netflix's rubbish viewing data
> More and more it seems like the only escape from this technocratic capitalist culture is to return to valuable or forgotten traditions -- creation without expectation of return, sharing of stories of heritage and history lost by our parents, etc.

I think there's plenty of creation without realistic expectation of return. Just check out soundcloud. Or all the self-published books on amazon - or even books with legit publishers. Some people may be deluded, but plenty of musicians or authors are aware that the chances they'll make any serious money on their creations are slim. I think they create mainly out of love of creating, because they have an idea they want to get out to the world etc., and not because of expectation of return.
The beneficiaries of roads are much more than motorists. Almost every employer and the government needs roads to operate. The motorists include trucks that keep society functioning. You would have no food, water, or electricity in 1-2 weeks without roads.
If you take a quarter for each person and give it to an executive as additional compensation, the executive will experience a 250/hr increase in pay given a 1000 employee company, and the individual will experience only a loss of 25 cents. Cut executive compensation by that much and they will leave. Heck, cut it by half as much and they will do so. Aside from that, research shows that executive compensation issues are down to the conflict of interest that boards and CEOs have, since the CEO hires the compensation analysts for the board. Hedge funds doing 'vulture capitalism' or stripping the equity from a company without a bias towards a going concern is not down to Jets. Its down to the regulatory environment incentivizing companies to do so.
> Concretely, QMoE can compress the 1.6 trillion parameter SwitchTransformer-c2048 model to less than 160GB (20x compression, 0.8 bits per parameter) at only minor accuracy loss, in less than a day on a single GPU.

I'm not in the field. Can someone explain how the sub-1-bit part works--are they also reducing the number of parameters as part of the compression?
Is there a lot of that risk for the City of Chicago?
> Something has to be seriously wrong with the way it was compiled for gdb to have trouble.

Cargo culting culture in embedded devices of just using some old toolchain copy pasted from some vendor seems to be pervasive. I cut fresh compilers and align their output with the old crusty toolchains. Made entire classes of issues go away. Regardless, agreed the omission of the frame pointer was merely one issue at play with those particular core dumps on those particular devices, years back at this point. :)
Forget about it dude, the other guy's just trolling and hiding his criteria for 'real threat' so he can act like nobody's good enough.

I guess it's representative of the demographics here. Nobody capable of conducting themselves honestly.
Here's an example of VLF microphones, although I can't find pricing: (kinda want to buy one now to play with)

https://www.grasacoustics.com/products/special-microphone/in...

Excerpt: "To achieve a very low low-frequency cut-off of down to 0.09 Hz, a special microphone combined with a special preamplifier and a low-frequency adapter is used. To account for pressure variations close to 0 Hz, a special ambient pressure equalization system with a very long settling time is used."
Because you are not everyone who uses Starlink? Just because you get good speeds, it doesn't mean that the average Starlink user does as well.
It's as if people are actively trying to make the world as dystopian as possible.
How would you manage this? If a recall is ordered, and a OTA update is possible… undo the recall and change the name of the recall…?

Again there’s no way for the regulator to know how the recall should be fixed. It makes no sense to give it a different name just to appease the semantics of not actually driving the car to a shop to fix the problem.
I'm sure they do research like any other scientist hopes to do, but they might focus on North Korea specific things like coal chemistry (North Korea has huge coal deposits but very little petroleum, so coal chemistry has a niche there). They probably also focus on a lot of dual-use research like computer security stuff which can be done without having huge resources.

Contrary to popular belief, not everyone in North Korea is a sadist or a torturer, although most are totally indoctrinated into the system from birth.
I'm told that Movebot can do this in time - getting the archives to s3/wasabi or Backblaze etc.
I haven't gone through the registration & creation process, so maybe there's something that I'm missing, but it seems like this is just scraping data from Spotify anyway?

or maybe the "about" section and socials links are user-inputted?

Anyway it would be neat if you were able to auto-generate the page on your end rather than require a user to log in and do it, and then for already generated pages let the artist "claim" it somehow, maybe based on spotify auth where the logged in account matches the artist page, or something?

The nice thing then would be that we (as users) could visit a page for a band who you haven't generated yet, and we could be presented with a page like "(artist) page hasn't been created yet. Generate?" and then you could queue a background job that would put together a skeleton page. that's when the "claim" process could come in to allow bands who haven't created their own page to claim it and add details.

I could see the main use of this being consumers and not bands, as others have said, so this flow would make more sense IMO - you'd have way more band pages populated, and you wouldn't need one big scraping job (could still auto-generate the top X artists each month), so you could semi-organically build your DB and then start doing recommendations and features yourself.
I see you believe in compliment sandwiches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPVnOonSO-s&ab_channel=VivaL...

Saying that something was "cheap crap" except for one performance, is not really constructive to any discussion. It's also definitely derogatory. It's mostly inflammatory. Them complementing Braugher's performance doesn't really change the tone they started out their comment with.

As an example of their comment that isn't Derogatory/inflammatory:

> His performance in Brooklyn 99 was about the only thing I liked in the show; he is very good in the House M.D. episode/s that he's is in.
a cable is pretty useless without all of the other hardware
Something I would love to find is a practical/succinct guide on Linux kernel performance tuning. I'd love it to give examples of sysctl's you'd adjust for specific use cases like:

- a real-time kernel

- a single user mode kernel

- an embedded device kernel (like an esp 32 or rpi)

- general purpose desktop use (surely there are gems in here)

- to use the linux kernel as a hypervisor hosting others

- tuning the linux kernel for within a vm (guest to another hypervisor)

- tuning for gaming performance

I myself do not know enough about sysctls, and I'm sure it's a goldmine.
> What do those scientists do?

The same thing that all white-collar workers around the world do. Optimize industrial processes and paper-push in business administration jobs.

As in any society, there are four castes of people. The people who do work, the middle managers who oversee and direct the people doing work, the ruling class, and the security apparatus that keeps the first two, and elements of the third in line.
> Putin has fairly literally said that, including in his speech immediately after the commencement of the 2022 escalation.

If you can show me the quote where Putin said "I disregarded geopolitics and launched this invasion to satisfy my fantasy of conquest" I'll eat my hat. Again, this has been the standard Russian playbook since the 1700s. I find it awfully difficult to believe that Catherine the Great was making decisions to stroke the ego of a man who wouldn't come to power until 200 years after her death.

> I assume you mean the 2022 escalation, and not the invasion starting the war in 2014

I'm pretty sure if you could only label one of those two events as "the invasion" it would unambiguously be the one in 2022. That being said, the idea that Russia would handily defeat Ukraine in a conventional war was widely believed in 2014 as well, hence the long struggle to avoid the conflict escalating.
A whole lot of the switch's design was about driving down costs as much as they could. That's why it has no mic, camera, and didn't get bluetooth headphone support for years after launch. Plus chipmakers really want those console contracts, even if they make a loss on the first few hundred thousand sold, they're assured sales as long as the console sticks around. AMD made out like bandits with the ps4/xbone.
> immediately bought an essentially unrelated service

At least the way it works here (Boston area's Bluebikes) is that the same infrastructure supports both the bike sharing and the ad space. There are ads on the bikes and their docks.
Looks like there are RPi infrasound monitors specifically for geologic seismology;

"Raspberry Shake", "RS&BOOM" https://manual.raspberryshake.org/boom.html#technical-specif... https://shop.raspberryshake.org/infrasound/

FWIU infrasound may indicate Earthquake, Fire, Tornado; and probably IDK Stampede?

Infrasound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound

FWIU the Phononic wave signal is embedded in the Photonic wave signal, and so it may be possible to create even less extensive infrasound sensors;

"Quantum light sees quantum sound: phonon/photon correlations" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793791
I believe the future will be to feed all your docs into a LLM for people to query.
The semantics mean a great deal. It's not getting hung up, it's saying two entirely different things.