skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you have a stronger sense that a criminal will be crime-ing within a 100 yards of your home where you left your phone
Before coal, England used coppicing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing#United_Kingdom ) to quickly regrow the forests used for charcoal for steel smelting.

Your industrial output will be limited, but there's plenty of land and forests grow by themselves.
My first thought is that RSA is outdated: EdDSA has 256-bit keys, and if you're lazy enough you can probably just read the equivalent of 160 of those bits without security loss (I think?).

But then I remembered post-quantum crypto. Yeah, gonna need those fingerprints.
Nice concept to keep it always on top!
Would it be possible to have the current task show in the menu bar instead? would be even less obstrusive but still "always on top"

edit: would also help not having it show in the task switcher, now it sort of annoying to have it show up when Cmd-Tab'bing... while doing the task of course ;)
Tentative, fluttering optimism: R and D ferment in head / neck cancer treatment
What’s your projected “model to chip” turnaround?
This is a great list, I’m glad to see someone promoting insulation, it’s not a sexy technology, like roof top solar or EVs, but it’s super necessary. I would add three things.

7. Set up virtual power plant policies, give property owners incentives to install storage for grid stabilization, this will enable demand shifting and reduce the need for distribution grid upgrades and enable more distributed energy sources to be installed at the neighborhood level.

8. Inter-regional transmission line upgrades. Build out transmission lines between regions. The sun may not always be shining, and the wind may not always blow. But the sun will always be shining somewhere and the wind will be blowing somewhere. This will let regions support each other.

9. Pass enabling legislation/regulation for community choice aggregation in all states. This will speed up adoption of renewables by leveraging climate action plans at the municipal level to procure more renewables and lead to the early retirement of fossil generation facilities.
Earnings per laid off employee seems like an odd metric. It makes the decision sound more "rational" the more employees are laid off (which is clearly backwards), and would give ridiculous numbers for companies with very few or zero layoffs.

I only skimmed the linked article, but they don't seem to bother justifying why this metric matters.
Ask HN: GraphQL in 2024
Hi, I am the founder of https://tailcall.run. I have personally built and used GraphQL at a massive scale (100M rpm, 1K APIs, 100s services). I believe have a fair understanding of the problem it solves, as well as its pitfalls. We built Tailcall because we realized that manually writing a GraphQL service is inefficient and doesn't scale well. Our main learning was that APIs should be built and operated independently, regardless of how they are consumed.

GraphQL should also be considered as a client-side abstraction and architecturally positioned closer to the client than to the server. In this context, the client could be a mobile app, a website, or even another service querying data from an external or internal data source. As a client-side abstraction, the responsibility of maintenance should lie with the consumer of the APIs, not the producer. All these learnings have helped us architect Tailcall as it is today. Tailcall provides a DSL that allows consumers of the API to configure how they would want the schema to look. Behind the scenes, Tailcall automatically orchestrates the APIs to generate a unified graphQL endpoint. Once configured it can be deployed on a typical server, but semantically still being a piece of the client/API Consumer.

This way of looking at graphQL considers federation as an anti-pattern. GraphQL Federation pushes graphQL towards the server side or more specifically the API producer. This new layer of abstraction also adds significant levels of slowness & complexity in architecture. We started with the problem of clients consuming APIs and the need to compose them, but ended up using a solution that's composing "Graphs". That's not necessarily wrong, but it feels like an overkill for the core problem the organization starts with which is — API Composition.

However, we understand that this might not be relatable for smaller organizations and various others who have been working with GraphQL for a long or probably have a different take on it. I would love to hear your thoughts!

Some of the questions we had were —

Do you prefer to handwrite a graphQL API or, use an open-source solution that could auto-generate a GraphQL endpoint on top of your existing API?

What are your thoughts on GraphQL in general — like, hate, neutral? Does it solve a big problem in your company? Have you tried TRPC as an alternative?

Do you think federation is the future? Based on what you learned, do you think Tailcall is a good design?
Wow I don’t know how I missed that. Thanks.
If you are solving a truly painful problem, people will pay matter no matter how buggy and unfinished the product is.

Charge 10% of the value received. Estimate the value based on extra revenue generated, expenses saved, time saved, etc. (Business owners should value their time worth more than $50/hr. So multiply hours by $50-100)
"gosh, I can't boot my system, my filesystem is fucked!"

"Did you try to fuck your filesystem?"

"It's fucked already!"

"No, just fuck it; that'll unfuck it"
> What possible use is there of having so many small banks?

This is such a strange question. Having many participants in a market simply means that nobody were able to consistently outcompete the other players.

I's like saying, why have 2 million farms in the U.S., when you could just have a few mega cooperations owning all farm land?
I already had issues with captchas (specially on tor).... so now its going to get worst?
Vulnerability Impact Scoring System (VISS)
Australia has 4ish banks. The US has 4000. It’s just not the same problem
Agreed - it's great to see AMD actually competing with Nvidia. Everyone will benefit, probably even including Nvidia as well since they can't make enough GPUs to satisfy market demand, and since they may become less likely to rest on their laurels.
A DDG search for "apl simd" finds https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Performance as the first match:

"APL's array operations are also ideal for implementation with SIMD, or "single instruction, multiple data", operations, that perform a single action on several different values. In some cases, such as scalar functions, the primitives are SIMD operations; in others such as Reverse, they are easily implemented using SIMD—for Reverse, SIMD selection or "shuffle". While experimental SIMD machines (such as the APL-influenced CDC Star-100) were created as early as the 1960s, SIMD computing first entered the personal computing mainstream in the 1990s and has steadily grown in prominence for high-performance computing since then. In APL, CPU vector instruction sets such as Intel's SSE are the most often way to access SIMD optimization, although Co-dfns instead runs on a GPU to attain much higher throughput at the cost of increased overhead and restriction of available algorithms."
no, but you may need to put a $35 raspberry pi CUPS server on it to turn it into a network printer
True, forgetting is the reason NowDo is always-on-top on the desktop, it's a constant but unobtrusive reminder of what you should be doing.

You're also right about todo apps assisting in their procrastination. That's why I kept NowDo so simple, there are no superfluous features to tinker with like labels, due dates, or categories.
Machine it into a gauge block for some obvious technological precision. Maybe carve it.

I read once that stamping serial numbers into steel changes something at a molecular level in the steel, so that filing them away is not enough to remove the number entirely. Maybe we can do that to tungsten.
That's not contrarian, this is an extremely common ignorant view similar to "nothing to hide" (of course they are abusing it and not catching themselves)
That’s what ends up happening in practice. Who has actually been fired because of AI? GitHub Copilot has been out forever
Does this run on CPU or GPU?

Would it be advantageous to divide the load and run on both?
I didn't know that Le Monde offered an English version (never really needed it)
I certainly wouldn't claim NowDo is a silver bullet, but I think it does a better job than any other todo app at avoiding the pitfalls procrastinators fall into. For the past 2 years I've been using a prototype of NowDo on i3/Linux that I cobbled together and it had a big impact on my productivity.
As you imply, it's not really a standard unless there are multiple implementations.

I am in favor of standardizing the behavior of libc and having multiple implementations that are commonly used.
I don't get the "many banks" angle. Many banks may be too small to implement it. What prevented the biggest 5 or so from implementing it a decade ago and using it as a feature to get more customers? "Bank with us and get quick payments to other good banks"

Australia implemented Osko from scratch in 4 years and it took maybe 2 more before every main bank was using it. There's no need to wait for everyone.
How so? And what would be the timeline?
It's got far more than an actual penny-farthing. Not needing to pedal it means they didn't have to compromise stability to put the pedals under the rider.
You don't have to quantize the unit price to the smallest coin, only the total final purchase amount. Gasoline is typically priced at $x.xx9/gallon, with the "unit" ending in 9/10th's of one penny, and this doesn't break anything, they just use bankers rounding before calculating the final payment amount.

Similarly, sales taxes often result in a fractional penny as well, which again gets floor() or bankers_rounding().
Like what? Most countries in europe still don't have transfers by phone number?
We still can’t see the atmosphere of the majority of exoplanets. Can’t get around it unless we build a telescope thousands of times bigger than anything else or we make some incomprehensible breakthrough in optics. If we could we would detect life on another planet within a matter of a few hours of telescope time most likely.

I find the entire idea that life could only exist on earth farcical. A lot of people in this thread don’t seem to understand that we can’t directly image many exoplanets to begin with and that we haven’t even been trying to find life on other planets and moons in our own solar system, it has in fact been suppressed every time credible circumstantial evidence of life is found (Viking lander experiments and methane on mars both come to mind)
Threads is absolutely generating more content, at least in terms of volume. Quality wise, I think it depends on what type of content you're interested in.
For one thing, we could overbuild (cheap) solar. A big portion of summer solar production might be curtailed... and that might be okay.
So we don't have to pay a monthly fee of 2.95 euros just to have a bank account! Competition brings lower fees.
If your hypothesis is correct, that Apple traded security for usability, then if the security is fixed the keyboard must be less usable, right?

Or, if no usability is lost, then maybe the hypothesis isn't correct.
How I'm going to build a writing habit in 2024
Once I figured out that the key to building my writing habit was to separate the process of writing from the outcome of publishing, I realized I could do this.
It's the same problem for the biggest 4 banks. The rest can join the "future" in their own time.

It's after the first 4 that you go from trillions to billions in assets. They should have some reasonable pull. 10 should be still a low enough number to make an agreement and effectively make the rest follow or lose out.
They’re working on it. The reason is explained in the FAQ.

For now they seem to be using a different alternative to do at least some of it. I think it was called elogind?
us-west-1 wouldn’t be my first choice either for <other_reasons>
I’d say it’s one of the more important things to not have as a single point of failure
Interesting article, though I wish there were some more concrete numbers, particularly around latency - what's the latency on normal S3, what is it on S3 Express One Zone, and what latency/throughput is necessary for the kind of systems he's talking about? Some cost estimates would also be interesting, though that would be harder to figure out.
> Awesome! I've been looking for almost exactly this.

That's exactly what I was hoping people would say, thank you.

> The only issue is that I'm not totally comfortable installing a Mac app to try it out. I'd be happy to try it out as a web app first.

That's helpful feedback, thank you. I'll give a web app version some thought.

> When you snooze it for >=1 day, does it reappear at the time that it was snoozed or do the tasks somehow group into buckets where if you snooze all tasks that appear today for 1 day, they'll all appear tomorrow at the same time?

NowDo only shows one task at a time - the "current task". This will be the oldest unsnoozed not-done task. So tasks won't necessarily be seen by the user the moment their snooze expires if there are older unsnoozed not-done tasks. Does that answer your question?
Except the parts that don’t scale. For example, some banks specialize in servicing specific communities (e.g., Chinese immigrants). Other banks understand local geographic areas well. For example, they might be able to give you a better rate on financing a gut remodel because they know your contractor does good work and your plans for the remodel will be desirable in a specific neighborhood. It’s hard to do that when you are behemoth national bank.
Your experience with massive-scale GraphQL usage is valuable. Tailcall's approach to API composition is intriguing. Can you share specific scenarios where Tailcall has proven to be particularly effective in comparison to other GraphQL solutions?
This is a step in the right direction, but IMO not far enough. Printers can (IIUC) cause the client machines to automatically install “printer support apps”, which are like somewhat limited drivers. They do this stuff:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...

This includes intercepting the raw XPS data being sent to the printer and modifying it.

It looks like these things are lightly sandboxed, but that’s not enough. These apps get access to extremely sensitive data, and they should be very sandboxed. IMO it should have input access to the document and printer settings, output access to what gets printed, and that’s it. No network, no storage, no Windows API, etc. Think wasm-style sandboxing.

But I don’t think MS thinks like this.
Yeah, I dropped my /s
Bootstrapping a hydropower based industry with fossil fuels is not trivial either.
College as an Incubator of Girardian Terror
I find this model pretty fascinating. Said another way, there are two aspects necessary for AGI as you see it:

- Independence + continual improvement (it's always either doing something useful whether you tell it to or not)

- Reliable, prompt and accurate learning of new material

The first one is interesting because it's theoretically possible to try right now (just put an LLM scanning in a background job), but clearly not trivial.

But I think the second issue you raise is the more fundamental one. There have been a couple papers I've seen that have demonstrated that most major LLMs struggle with recalling things in a way that makes use of equivalence and substitution -- for example, if I tell GPT that X is Y's son, then if it will know that if I ask who is the father of Y, it understands the answer is X. If it cannot show basic competence in equivalence and substitution, then it begins to break through the 4th wall of a "sentient entity" and phenomenologically reveal its true colors as a stochastic parrot.

It's fascinating. There are conceptual issues, as you mention, and they're not just theoretical, but they're very noticeable (for now).

Here's the question I would ask you -- do you think even if we're no where near AGI, the world has fundamentally changed since the mass distribution of LLMs? I have felt a noticeable shift as the technology's adoption is beginning to alter how society conceives of and digests media. It feels like a discrete new evolutionary state of the internet. Social media fabric feels like it's in a new phase compared to even a year ago as new weapons of mass production have been released.
From the comment section it appears that it just needs to support the mopria standard. There is no requirement that it is actually certified.
Siri can now help users access and log their Health app data
Mopria is a certification program for / dialect of IPP[0]. Same thing with AirPrint, which is the iOS equivalent. Pretty much every printer made in the last decade speaks enough IPP to network print on at least iOS and Android; Microsoft is just leveraging that to seal HP's garbage code out of the spooler process.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol
Many reasons are a variation of "This case was in front of a jury, not a bench trial."

Equating the legal system with pure luck of a dice is also a good first principle
These two layers are touching, nanometers apart. The heat dissipation will be the same for both layers. It's still a simple problem of density, not a more complicated problem similar to trying to cool multiple dies.

Edit: To throw math at it, silicon conducts at 2-4 Watts per centimeter-Kelvin. If we need the heat to travel an extra 100nm, and we're looking at a 1cm by 1cm area of chip, then it takes 20 to 40 kilowatts flowing through that slice before the top and bottom will differ by more than 0.1 degrees.
People worry Christmas beetles are disappearing. We're gathering the data
Scale makes no difference. You make a law (or regulation or whatever) and each bank does the work. Who cares if there are 4 or 4000, each bank just does it.

US Banks are forced to do new things all the time to remain compliant (PCI anyone?)...and they get it done.

This is not getting done because the banks make a lot of money not doing it, and lobby to keep it that way
Yeah. The analogy for cache that I like to use is a table at the library. If you think about doing research (the old fashioned way) by looking through a library shelf by shelf and bringing books to your table to read through more closely. If you have a bigger table you can store more books which can speed your lookup times since you don’t need to get up and go back and forth to the shelves.

But at some point making your table larger just defeats the purpose of the library itself. Your table becomes the new library, and you have to walk around on it and look up things in these piles of books. So you make a smaller table in the middle of the big table.

Your fundamental limitation is how small you can make a memory cell, not how big you want to make a cache. That’s akin to making the books smaller print size so you can fit more on the same size table.
I say F-sack! At least, that's what the voice in my head says when I read it.
Spread a long lived radioactive isotope that doesn't occur naturally. Put shiny objects in high orbits.
Or update price signals, to disincentive overnight charging. ...Assuming people have easy access to daytime charging.
You mean top speed, probably. It's very unlikely that your small car can accelerate and decelerate at a similar rate to a high end sport car.
Nio targets Volkswagen ID 2 and Renault 5 with Firefly EV brand
> Nice concept to keep it always on top!

Thank you!

> Would it be possible to have the current task show in the menu bar instead?

This is something I thought people might want, so thank you for confirming. The reason I didn't do it because Apple's UI guidelines discourage using excessive menu-bar space, but I'm certainly open to it if there is demand.

May I ask, is the issue that the UI takes up too much screen real-estate? I've been wondering whether we should make it more compact, so I'd appreciate feedback on that.
Almost certainly there is more life out there somewhere. But if the level of rarity is “for every billion years, it happens once in every thousand galaxies” rare, then unless FTL travel is real humanity will probably never get to see it. And until we see a second example, we can’t begin to calculate the level of rarity.

But it’s also not like we’ve looked at enough of our galaxy to say it’s rare either. We just don’t know.
4. Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific (and some odd areas).
Honestly, China might get there but almost all of their technology right now is stolen technology. It seems like all new ideas still come from the US though China is pretty incredible at implementing things at scale. That is understandable given it’s an authoritarian government and they have the ability to disregard a lot of ethical matters to get shit done. On the flip side, I want to have rights and most people wouldn’t want to live in China over the US right now. It’s a good problem to have an empowered population. Can it compete with a (mostly) benevolent dictatorship? Time will tell.
I know some folks out there bragging about saving on toner by still repairing an HP LaserJet 2… I can’t see this being an easy transition…
Thats just framework dependent upgrades. .NET core and beyond allows for side by side installations of with different assembly versions where in .NET framework they shared a GAC.
Sorry yes, that was dopey of me.
Where is the end of the story where the police are contacted and asked why the single wheatabix was intercepted?

Only reason I read through this... :(
> Now all prices are rounded to AR$10 ... Soon we will round all prices to AR$50

A 5x change in what constitutes a negligible amount of money on a human-noticeable timeframe seems like a shocking rate of inflation. For reference, $3 here in the United States has about the same buying power that $1 did in 1982, 40 years ago. So the price of common consumer goods has only risen 3x in a time frame that represents more than half the average human lifespan in this country.

Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=BJl0
“What’s actually amazing about chimera is the musl + clang/llvm/compiler-rt combination. It allows you to do all kinds of amazing things easily from a programming perspective.”

Any examples?
Yes, I see the advantages, but that doesn't make it possible.
Sounds like a fine modest proposal.
Ah yes, we need more too big to fail institutions.
Yep, that's one reason. And, in general, don't water plants with it either.

Also, in houses with soft water, typically the only inside non-soft water supply is the cold kitchen tap. Poorly repiped homes skip this step and deliver soft water to all taps, none of which can be used to water plants.

Furthermore, in the US, it's foolish to make it a habit to drink or cook with tap water when RO is available. US tap water has never been universally safe and reliable, most of it tastes terrible, and there is no reason to not protect your family and yourself with an insurance policy should there be a water safety problem.
If your public key on your website is hacked and your hash is on the website, well, your hash will be hacked too.

If you're going to transmit the hash via a secure side channel, just transmit the public key.

I think the author is confusing secrecy with authenticity. The only way to prove the public key you received is really the intended public key is with a third party certificate authority that authenticates it. Which is what TLS does.

But I will assume the author is smarter than me.

Am I missing something or is this article useless? Just use the same secure channel for the hash but for the public key.
You can always use peat.