skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also did that, in the form of the RTP network mentioned in the article: https://www.theclearinghouse.org/payment-systems/rtp

Separate from this, wire transfers are near-instant during business hours. Most banks surcharge these for standard customers, but all the big banks have wire fee waivers on certain account tiers.

There's also the "accidental" transfer method of over-refunding a debit card, which used to be a sketchy fintech trick but is now straight up supported by Visa.

Sometimes they offer bill pay services which don't guarantee prompt delivery (in fact, often imply that they might fall back to sending a physical check through literal postal mail), but in practice frequently enough do go through instantly by whatever means the bank happened to find convenient.
> Amtrak has routes to most regions

No it really doesn't, and even if it passes through a region, the routes are often pathological, like in the worst case a trip from Denver to Dallas having to pass through Chicago or San Francisco.

> If the station on the other end is five minutes drive or fifteen minutes doesn't really matter, because it's too far to walk either way.

That is very minor problem compared to the issue of the nearest Amtrak stop being literally hundreds of miles further away compared to the nearest greyhound stop.

> Low ridership is also the reason many cities with tracks don't have passenger routes.

There are other reasons, in particular that running freight and passenger trains on the same rails has many scheduling issues that makes the rails worse for both users.
> At some point I came across some writing that suggested that Forth had a “loop control stack”. Wouldn't it be nice if I could implement some kind of loop control stack that worked for all kinds of iteration?...I added two loop control stacks – what I call the i-stack, and the next-stack. The i-stack contains the current value(s) being iterated over, and is read from with the i and j words like normal.

So much of what we do has already been done. In Brad Rodriguez' "Moving Forth" series (c 1993) he talks about classical Forth having 5 registers, 2 of which point to stacks. He then explores which of these 2 could point to a hardware stack, and how this decision has been taken historically with other Forths.

I like someone who blogs about Forth in 2023. But if they are truly curious about Forth they'll find themselves reading a bit of history. Forth has been around for quite some time now.

http://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/moving1.htm (speaking of history, this paper itself has a nice compilation of references)

Btw information-superhighway.net does have some excellent articles where they dig a bit more into history behind things: https://blog.information-superhighway.net/spellcaster
I don’t know man. I mean, google indexes the open web to create a search engine and we all seem to be fine with it. I do draw the line that if you want to build a LLM, there’s the internet for you, train your own damn model and stop piggybacking on someone else’s, or in China’s case, at least don’t get caught.
> And they display their own popups over CarPlay while CarPlay is active, which I basically never want to see.

What year/model is this? I've never had a popup on top of CarPlay, except for the volume bar that appears along the bottom of the screen.

I got a Carlinkit wireless adapter so I don't even see the Mazda UI except for a couple of seconds while the adapter boots up, or if I want to put it on the clock screen because there's nothing on CarPlay that I need.
I don't get your question "who can stop them?" The Ukrainians have already done so, to a large degree. Nobody imagined Ukraine lasting more than a week of invasion, but they did so, and then retook large swathes of territory and forced the Russians into a defensive posture.

The mistake the west made was not having confidence in the Ukrainians early on, and not supplying them with the tools early on and into last winter. We let Russia pull back and build intensive defensive lines that would be impossible to breach without air support.

As for nuclear weapons... they are not tools to win wars.

The first country to use a nuclear weapon as an offensive weapon will be turned to glass. It's just not a tool that even Putin is stupid enough to use.

They don't make you a powerful offensive power, just a powerful defensive one. And nobody has ever suggested invading Russia, despite their paranoid claims to the contrary.
That decent system takes more than 45 minutes to build though :)
> Nearly every Apple product has become objectively better since his departure. The complaints actually got addressed. Customers are being treated as valid sources of input to the product. Hard to see an issue here.

This is a subjective matter actually. The MacBook Pros got thicker, and Apple have no desire to address this. The iPhone camera modules sticks out more each generation to the point that a case is a must.

I do wish there are some Ive left in Apple so there are at least some care for the form rather than just functionality.
I suppose this is a good example if your reader knows how banking systems work.

A better direct example in the same line of reasoning would be double-entry accounting where you would want both the credit and debit entry to either fail or succeed.

Most people probably don’t know that their bank account _is_ a double-entry account to their banking institution.

I can’t noodle a way to make the banking example more intuitive for an audience absent explaining how double-entry accounting works and that banks mostly obscure that from the customer. That’s not really knowledge you can assume from a software developer or sysadmin.
Could we go with a format that doesn’t have so much unnecessary complexity?
> You wouldn’t use affinity rules anymore

Point being: what if I wanted to do this? How could I achieve making sure services were running according to the antiaffinity rules I provided? E.g. not on same physical machine; not on same VM; not in same datacentre; not in same region; etc.
Books, film, radio, live music, socializing, hand crafts, day job, church, etc. What do people that aren't into (social) media do nowadays? Same thing.

Don't worry, people won't sit around and be bored.
I'm not so sure, people pay for Netflix and Spotify and other content services. Maybe most of the content on YouTube is not worth paying for?

There are YouTube channels i watch, but it's just a fun distraction. If they went away I'm not sure I would care that much. The educational stuff is handy, but that is all out there in different forms on the web anyway.
> Am I alone in thinking this is a little strange?

This article wouldn't be upvoted enough for you to see it if you were
There are lots of pump and dumps but this one isn't a pump and dump. Figma was founded in 2012, they pretty much took over UI design, did $400M ARR in 2022, great retention, rapid growth, great margins, there is a lots of actual value there and still quite a bit of potential left.

A "proper" startup does indeed include an exit as that's the point where they give a return on investment to their VC's. That is the startup game, use the VC money to accelerate growth, then exit/go public.

Not saying I like it, but once you take the VC money that is the game you play.
It killed me most when the Macbook looked lighter than a Macbook Air, they needed to swap the names it made no sense.
While cool as a proof of concept and kudos for execution, this looks like a nightmare to maintain for any non-trivial webapp.
> which would seem to be more efficient.

Why? More cars per passenger would seem to mean a higher operating cost per passenger as each car needs a full drive train, batteries, sensors, etc.

Wouldn't using small cars increase the chance of service interruption? If a vehicle breaks down, then it blocks the tunnel. If there are 5x smaller vehicles and the breakdown rate the same then the tunnel blockage rate is 5x higher with smaller vehicles.

Cars needs a minimum separation to prevent crashes in case of problems. With more cars, more of the tunnel length is reserved for separation purposes instead of carrying passengers.

Regular subway cars allows people to stand, which increases passenger density. (They also let people roll on suitcases, enter using a wheelchair, push a stroller, etc., which small vehicles do not.) With the lower passenger density inherit in smaller cars mean that station platforms need to be longer and more expensive to build?

How many different tunnels do you need for point-to-point service? If you want to go from A to C, do you still go through B and if so, do you need to stop while cars load/unload at B or are there bypass tunnels for each station?

I looked at the channel but did not want to watch video upon video to figure out which showed small cars are more efficient.
Actually thats why we need an AI to generate Verilog / VHDL from images of tomography so it can be testable part by part or whole on a FPGA or simulation.

Many part of the chip is actually replication of same compenent or library like DRAM, ROM, Arithmetic operations so always there should be a pattern. Scanning should also work from low resolution to high resolution part by part to find pattern.

And also foundry is not as much as you think, most of the cost is R&D not the production.

https://www.granitefirm.com/blog/us/2023/04/29/cost-of-chip-...
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-reportedly-adds-advan...

"60-ish A100/H100 GPUs per wafer" and 7nm Waffer cost is $10k
> Entirely coincidental

Au contraire, it's very likely that it's not a coincidence.
Can the flat design trend end now and go back towards skeuomorphic when UI designers actually needed some talent?
>I bought a Dacia Duster and I love the physical buttons and knobs

You know what's funny? The 2024 Dacia Duster, still a cheap but functional car, has 4 physical switches to control the windows, unlike the mess that's the VW ID.4 which went full cost cutting mode to the extreme.

How did VW fall so low? If a budget Franco-Romanian brand can school them on UX, then the Chinese will eat them alive.
> So exactly how was the government preventing a company town here?

Where is here?
Tell HN: I've Open Sourced My Tic-Tac-Toe Implementation with Web Standards
Please find the source code at: https://bitbucket.org/calebjosuedotcom/noughts_and_crosses

I am not sure if self promotion is seeing with good eyes but the companion product for the code can be purchased at:
https://calebjosue.gumroad.com/l/tictactoe-with-web-standards

A playable version has been deployed to OCI:
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I hope you guys like it and if it doesn't please just let me know so I can delete this post.

Thank you very much.
> The only reason touch suckls on Mazda is that the display is placed too far away to be reached on purpose.

Well, that certainly makes it worse on Mazdas, but those touch screens are terrible on everything.
First HD video streamed from deep space via laser
Its because you have multiple processes (containers) that work together in their little pod. You could stick them all in a single image somehow but that would be much more work and less flexible.
Nobody Knows What's Happening Online Anymore
Good luck getting the browsers to implement anything so useful. They won't even update their default stylesheets.

I set up my blog with that kind of mentality - I just want to write some markdown and have the browser render it whatever way it needs to - and found a one-liner to pull in some Javascript to do that. But the kind of people who like this stuff tend to hate Javascript, so I get it from both sides.
That's correct.

Years before we got Apple Silicon macs (which I think are the best laptops I've ever owned, literally no compromise I am aware of), I was reading about JS benchmarks where Safari on an iPhone was on par or faster than Safari on Intel. I remember being shocked seeing that – so even though Apple bought Palo Alto Semiconductor 10+ years ago and created their chips for iOS devices, they've had to have wanted to migrate ever since they saw these huge gains, Jony Ive or not.

It's another Johny (Srouji) that's the head of the semiconductor division that's producing stellar chips.
None, but they’ll sell and exit with a few mil like bandits in the near future while you and I toil at our 9 to 5 :P
opens Wikipedia on cauliflour

> Cauliflower is one of several vegetables in the species Brassica oleracea

clicks on the latter

> Brassica oleracea is a plant species from family Brassicaceae that includes many common cultivars used as vegetables, such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan.

I'm sorry, what?! All the same species? What's the point of calling something a species if it's a different plant or animal! That's like grouping cats and dogs as the same species called Quadlegs Adorables

More seriously, goes to show how little I know about this. Thanks for pointing out how silly a thing it was for me to be surprised that there are different words for the same animal .. when it's not actually the same animal/plant necessarily! I did not know this was a thing. I did hear about definition problems and proposals of "when it can produce viable offspring" or something, but they didn't say that cabbage and cauliflower produces viable offspring which would 180° change my idea on whether that's a useful lowest taxonomy class.

> it's difficult to walk from Canada to Norway or Siberia, they will have associated genetic differences.

I was surprised about that indeed, but less so now that I know that "one species" != "scientific way of saying 'one animal/plant/thingy'"
i always strike my matches down to ensure the flame is burning properly, i rarely need the full match length anyway
I'm feeling the "we need to adopt AI because it's the hot new thing/investors want to hear it" pressure at work nonstop, including some annoying mandatory trainings on it. My brother in Christ, I'm still trying to get my teammates to use git and package management, AI is going to have to wait a little bit.
I guess what I'm asking is was adoption by big tech a net negative? If you add 50 million users then take away 50 million users, then maybe no harm done. Unless there were other effects as well.
Right, but what is the point of FKS then? It’s no longer Kubernetes if it doesn’t support a core behavior of Kubernetes.

If you only support deploying single containers with single processes on FKS, then you might as well use flyctl.

It’s a solvable issue of course. The virtual-kubelet implementation would need to create a Machine running a container runtime image that would then run a the pod containers to match the pod configuration.

I think that some disclaimers of the limitations of FKS compared to standardized Kubernetes should be present and highly visible.
Printing money is a tax on you, that's what inflation is - and you don't even get to grade things via tax brackets.
Solid Queue
GraalVM uses another complete infrastructure, JIT and GC compilers, which affect runtime execution, and existing tooling.

Doesn't matter how popular they are, they exist because there is a business need, and several people are willing to pay for them, in some cases lots of money bags, because they fulfill needs not available in OpenJDK.
> Probably he will not be able to integrate within the society and possibly will end up being the 'weirdo' one at best. Possibly he missed someone that simply told him that that's not normal or a wise choice. Possibly he missed someone with eyes to see that that's a no go and with a voice to make him reflect about that.

Yeah, I met plenty of guys like you in high school when I started wearing a trenchcoat.

I seem to have come out all right. And now I'm an actual grown-up and nobody cares whether I'm "normal" or a "weirdo" by high school standards.
Naïveté is when someone assumes good outcomes from bad situations.

What I'm exhibiting is probably more correctly described as cynicism. I've worked for a few startups that were sure they were hearing 'yes' from VCs and we ended up running out of money thinking a check would come any day now.

There's an old saying, "I'll believe it when I see it." Cynics and startup employees expanded this to, "I'll believe it when the check clears."

And then there's me over here, who knows you can claw back a check that has 'cleared' for about 30 days, saying "I'll believe it a month after the check clears."
Do you really think it’s likely that someone who uses SIMD intrinsic is unfamiliar with do…while loops?

It’s more likely that compilers generate better autovectorised code with a goto, even though they’re semantically the same.
This is awesome. The credit monitoring from the last data breach that happened to a service not safeguarding my information properly was just about to expire.

/s

At this rate it would probably make sense for the various financial companies just to pay a federally mandated bond/insurance fee to a program that offers free credit monitoring service to everyone with financial accounts in the US. At least they could then claim they did in fact protect their users adequately.
Nvidia is indeed not well supported, on which Nvidia is mostly to blame (also see Linus Torvalds finger to Nvidia). That is too bad because the community can't do much about it.

Multi monitor support should generally be fine in most desktop environments, at least for 2 screens. More than that can indeed be quirky, dependent on the desktop environment and window manager (X or Wayland) you're using.

Multi-GPU is probably a bit niche to have good driver coverage, partly probably because of the Nvidia issue.
If west provided modern jets last year, if west provided long range missiles last year, and mainly: if Ukraine was allowed to use them against invader's military target on their soil - there would not be a stalemate now.

There are airports, ammo depots and other facilities less than 100 km from Ukrainian cities, and Russians are safe(mostly) there.

While at the same time Russians every day continuing their terrorist attacks on Ukrainian cities.

Russia is a terrorist state, but world doesn't care if they can have profits from Russia.
Here's hoping that VW is a trendsetter on this.
Funding a ubi wouldn't be that hard if we only cared about the kinds of things that get cheaper with time. Right now our federal tax rate is enough to cover 10k/year/pp (though nothing else), but if actually taxed the wealthy as much as we tax the middle class (for example, if we had a higher capital gains tax on public share sales, reducing the amount earned by the class of people who produce no real value and just earn money from stock growth), we could bring in enough to give out 5k/year/pp pretty easily. If everything that matters in life were getting cheaper the way computers and food did over the last half century, 5k/year/pp would be a good start, and as we got richer we could afford more.

But some sectors of the economy get more expensive with time, and those are what are killing us now and what prevents the UBI from being a good idea (before we fix them). Housing, Healthcare, education and childcare absorb more money every year and faster than the economy grows. Give people more money and those sectors just find ways to charge more. If we can't fix the way they do that, we get poorer in reality no matter how much more money we earn.

I realize this isn't how a lot of folks view things. To see it through my lens, imagine for a moment how wealthy we'd be if housing cost less than it did fifty years ago. If healthcare did. If education did. That's the world Keynes imagined, where we could be working 15 hour weeks (probably actually 25 hour weeks, but still) and still feel rich.
I have a 2023 CX-5 and I love using the rotary dial. But their infotainment needs some work - the eternal disclaimer popup when turning on the car and lacking the ability to go to the next folder directly when listening to music. Some minor tweaks and their software would be perfect, but that's not yet the case even on their latest models.
I visit it and use reader mode, it works pretty well most of the time. My browser works for me, not them. Shame about the bloated filesizes though.
This is spot on (I'm the founder of Dosu).

IMO, we are quite far from the capabilities of reliable issue -> PR generation yet even though it seems in reach.

For this reason, Dosu is focused on question answer, triaging, and generally context gathering because we see it as a pre-requisite to PR generation.
I don't know that this article tackled the real elephant in the room for bi-di replication. What happens when the same insert happens on both primaries at once, who wins?
> Another real-life example is the “unsafe” mode some statically-typed languages have, which effectively switches to a laxer type system.

Are you referring to Rust here? Because I believe unsafe there doesn't change type checking or type system in any way
Most of C's issues were directly addressed in Go as well. Only, Go did away with manual memory management.

C never had the philosophy of keeping things simple through the years. If it did, we would not have time traveling UBs to begin with. The lauded simplicity and explicitness comes directly from Go, where the philosophy was crystalized and preserved very early on.

You might say it is semantics, to call improving upon C being a derivative of Go (with manual memory management). You would be partially correct, it is semantics, but one that holds up very well if you look at how languages developed over the decades.
> This includes strengthening industry monopolies which has time and time again demonstrated that it causes incredible harm to entire segments of society

I don't think you can take a hypothetical worst case and make it apply here. You could also say that we shouldn't have governments, because look at WW2 and all the war they declared.

Adobe buying Figma wouldn't cause incredible harm to entire segments of society. It's barely even a monopoly, in that Adobe doesn't really do what Figma does already, and there is incredible potential in just making another Figma competitor if Adobe ruins Figma.
Agreed. Also exclusion constraints (a generalization of unique constraints). Also foreign key constraints, because one database might delete a record simultaneously with another database adding a reference to it.
not sure how to answer that. Funding Ukraine and giving them weapons is obviously more hostile position towards Russia than just about every other option besides going to war.
That’s just good taste, technology peaked in the 90’s, before dark patterns infected everything. The 40’s were a while ago.
I used to be more creative before scrolling.
I don't think that's a dumb question at all. It depends on your objectives and how much resources you're willing to spend.

These open weights models can be retrained. Start with a foundational model like Llama2 or something and expose it to more recent training data that includes whatever updated information you want it to have access to. This is relatively expensive, but allows for big changes to the model.

If you have some relatively small subset of new information you want to bring in, you could build a Lora. Then either run your model with the Lora, or fold the Lora into your base model. This is relatively cheap, but fairly narrow in terms of your updates.

In the long run, it might be that Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is the way to go. Here, your embeddings go into a vector database, and the model reads from there. Then you just need to update the database for the model to have access to new information.

This LLM stuff is new enough that anything like best practices are still being worked out. The optimal way to bring in new information could be a variant of one of the methods I mentioned above, or some combination of all three, or something else altogether.
"New" isn't the same as "progress". Touchscreen-only interfaces are a degradation in favor of degradation.