skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your sentiment and resonate with some of my opinions on languages (been reading about TT and abstract math in general for a while as a hobby)

my opinions so far (subject to change as i read more):

dynamic typing = just one type [0]. yes, good to test ideas quick, to develop quick gigs that i don't care about and tiny snippets/scripts, i use js for that.

gradual typing = guaranteed mess evolving large code bases, I guess the gradual typing thing in practice never happen and when it happens your IDE becomes red and your compiler errors explode, i don't recall where i read about that but it made sense to me, i used groovy to take advantage of the optional typing but i was the only dev in that project.

sound type system + parametric polymorphism = the best thing around, although i prefer to have explicit type annotations.

no formal math object behind a language = the language does not exist, just , absurd rules ,idioms and syntactic mess that you have to remember and tied to specific monkey patched implementations to compensate incoherent foundations, sadly unavoidable, as most, if not all popular languages do not exist,.

Yes, I've been reading Harper a lot.

[0] https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/dynamic-lan...

edit: formatting
Oh so why do you ask, if you know it (better)? ;)

What is optimised for parallelism, is not optimised for single thread performance, which is what one expects out of a CPU ..
> Micropayments on the internet don't work. Payment processors charge 30¢ per transaction, plus a percentage.

From what I remember, Patreon solves this by bundling all micro-payments together on the same day.

So if you have twenty 50¢ pledges, first you pay 10$ to Patreon, then Patreon spreads that money between creators. The final overhead is only paid once per user and once per creator.
No, we shit, piss, and/or otherwise emit most things back out. Chemicals which genuinely bioaccumulate are naturally rare and we should be careful with them.
That is still basically the process. You need to ensure that the arch options are being selected properly in your dhcp file, ex:

if option arch = 00:07 {
filename "uefi/shimx64.efi";
next-server X.X.X.X;
} else ...

Otherwise, your going to get the wrong arch/filename.

It is similar to HTTPS, but the arch = 00:10 for x64 and it needs:

option vendor-class-identifier "HTTPClient";

Then put the URL in the filename field.

Finally just put the usual bios/pxe stub in the last "else"

Of course, your distro should provide a PXE capable grub/kernel/initrd, which you then toss on the TFTP/HTTPS (or HTTP then you don't have to deal with certs) server in the path provided.
Hope you try again with 3.3. The improvements we've made to YJIT since Ruby 3.1 are massive.
I agree - I find if you pick the "mainstream" regions like IAD you get close to 100% uptime, like what you see from my 3rd-party status page here: https://flyio.onlineornot.com/

Once you start deploying in SIN/CDG etc you start to get really weird instability (and this is on v2 machines).
I am not saying this is right.

But I think it is something poetic about a company that sues and wins over Samsung for a "design patent" and uses the fact that Samsungs lawyers cannot see the difference as proof...

when that company gets hit by a ridiculous "intellectual property" lawsuit.

Said as an Apple user who has brought in a number of new Apple users, meaning I am not against Apple only against ridiculous "intellectual property" laws.
cultural counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_in_My_Mind
If they were measuring dangerous levels of bioaccumulation then you can be sure we'd hear about it. You'd need to live 1000 years though given the levels we're talking about.
This is what bugs me the most: "preventing" stuff by censoring it. Let people call for whatever they want on the "other" side and punish only those that perpetrate such acts that are illegal in a country or another. But let people speak their minds without any repercussion. I wager that will let a lot of people blow off some steam and then go on with their lives.
Even if you were to take the extreme position that influence or citation counts are all that matter, the problem is that 'future influence' is hard if not impossible to judge well in the present. (Of course it's easy to point to cases where it's possible to make an educated or confident guess.)

Also, an emphasis on clarity and intellectual depth/rigor is important for the healthy development of a field. Not for nothing, the lack of this emphasis is a pretty common criticism of the whole AI field!
> US Steel was a major contributor of steel for the WWII military machine. Honest question: if WW3 were to start, would we be able to appropriate Nippon-owned USS factories for wartime use?

given that the US military is in the region, yes, we'd be 'able to'.

a more interesting question would be "what lead to our ally denying war-effort when prompted in the midst of a world war?"
UAW already went through some reforms which is arguably why they're experiencing a surge in popularity. In particular Shawn Fien was part of UAWD's 1 member, 1 vote initiative: https://uawd.org/

The characterization that they would eschew reform even when it would boost their popularity is not reflected in current events (certainly the managerial friendly unions of the past would avoid reforms)
Glad to see it back! I contributed a few to #2, including the only "landscape mode" article, which was probably a bit of a pain in the ass for the team ;)
Mr. Cooper hackers stole personal data on 14M customers
Did he defraud rich/famous people? Seems to be the only way people get in trouble these days.
I don't use Figma or Adobe tools so I don't really know or care about this acquisition. It seems like public opinion is split - some saw this as a good thing and others as a bad thing for Figma.

Who I really feel bad for is some of the early employees that just saw life-changing amounts of money vanish in the blink of an eye.

I can't imagine how gutted they must be headed into the Holidays. Obviously that value isn't truly gone - but it certainly changes things, and I am sure many of them did not plan for this.
Are any of the cloud provided managed K8s offerings just K8s under the covers? I’ve always assumed all of them shim the K8s api onto other more bespoke orchestration systems.
Defense companies are squarely in the "national interest" bracket. I think steel should be as well, though it's more of a grey area since they also supply civilian demand for steel whereas no-one's buying an F-35 for their personal use (right?!)
Apples only escape here is that they're only popular in America. Whatsapp, Facebook messenger etc have to open up in the coming months because it's illegal in Europe. Apple should open up too, just like they have to with the App Store (because that is big enough to count as a gatekeeper)
Hostile takeovers aren't usually that fast, but yes apple can probably afford to buy the company, one way or another
Flying a Drone over Mt Everest
>> This happened without a standard.

They created a specification for Ferrocene:

https://spec.ferrocene.dev/

While it is technically not a Rust language standard, it serves a similar purpose for Ferrocene.
Take a look at https://github.com/lastmile-ai/aiconfig for refactoring your prompt management - https://github.com/aymenfurter/microagents/tree/main/prompt_...
Could be the same base multipurpose models, but finetuned to be somewhat specialized.
Also remember, between Bush & Cheney only one of them shot a person and got the other person to apologize for being shot.
This is a well rehearsed segmentation game that market leaders like to play until even the biggest companies on earth no longer appear to be dominant in any specific segment.

I don't buy it. It's not just about indvidual verticals in their current state. For these conglomerates it's always about buying rising competitors out of the market before they can become a strategic threat.

Figma could have expanded beyond any particular vertical they are currently in. Figma could have been bought buy a stronger competitor from outside the graphics space (such as Microsoft). Adobe didn't want to let that happen.

We should block all of these defensive acquisitions. And we should block all acquisitions that help an already big conglomerate capture the next neighboring vertical without doing any actual engineering work (except for small acqui-hires perhaps)
Apple to halt US sales of Series 9, Ultra 2 smartwatches over patent dispute
> If US tech firms just state that they will ignore EU regulation whilst continuing to serve requests from EU IP ranges, then what?

Then they are unable to take money from EU businesses to show ads to EU users.

Social media companies don't develop their products out of altruism. Their goal is to make money. (and increasingly the ability to manipulate public opinion/ban wrongthink) What's the point of letting millions of EU users hammer your servers if you can't make money from them?
Even more hostile scenario (if this is even legal, probably not, though I'm not sure):

Apple could borrow a large amount of shares of Masimo and short the company.

They have enough cash for that, and the borrow fee might be less than the settlement costs, plus they could profit from the operation.
We use Sybase SQLAnywhere at work, which also implements SERIALIZABLE using locks. Naive me thought that meant a lock on the table, but no, it locks all the rows... Not great for a table with many rows!

We were essentially trying to avoid inserting the same value twice, so we ditched SERIALIZABLE and instead added a unique index along with a retrying loop on the client side.
What outfit are you with? You girls need to stop punching yourselves.

EDIT: Oh you're a Rust shill too, I can practically guess the building you're working at.
well, you know. climate change is a tiny example of what can happen after you start treating resources like they're limitless.

we can use the solar system, of course, but just discarding earth because other planets are available, seems a bit wasteful.
One of fly's main features is global distribution so it's kinda silly if you have to avoid SIN and CDG
It's pretty nontrivial to buy a majority interest in any public company. It's not like you can just spend 1/2 the current market cap to acquire it, the price will shoot up drastically as soon as the market is aware of someone (especially Apple) trying to do it.
Unfortunately, solar panels get less efficient when hot, which is when your AC demand increases.

Ideally you could offset this by having people who aren't well positioned for panels do energy storage: Buy in the morning, sell back in the afternoon. Practically I don't think the utility companies are going to cut them in on a big enough part of the profits to incentivize them to do so.
Actually one of the problems we are having with compilers catching up with ISO is that since C++11, features aren't battle tested, rather designed in paper or some special compiler branch, and eventually adopted by everyone.
Oh, well, that sounds fine! Sorry to mistake your meaning. I wish you could have gotten what you wanted in a way which did not have to change the fundamental nature of the web.
How so? I mean, you can argue that Russia defaulting was (arguably) irrational, but the market response to it was fairly textbook. I might be wrong, but even if they didn't get killed by margin calls, weren't the losses on their bad bets enough to wipe out any profits the company ever made?
Unfortunately nuclear is now horribly expensive to build so we’re just not going to build that much of it. By contrast renewables (and batteries) are getting cheaper and cheaper so we are building lots of them.

In 2022 Denmark generated 62% (+12% from 2021) of its electricity from renewables (excluding biomass which seems suspect to me) while France generated 63% (-5% from 2021) from Nuclear.

I think you can make a case that nuclear is competitive for 100% carbon free grids (though by the time it’s built batteries will have gotten far cheaper.) But it seems clear that renewables are by far the cheapest and quickest way to get to ~80% carbon free grids.
Researchers quantify the onset of turbulence in a pipe bent back on itself
Even the (authentic) toy Ferrari's can cost about US$20k. ;)

https://store.ferrari.com/en-us/collectibles/collectors-item...
Not with brain signals reading, but with aggregate dats processing most things about you will be known by any centralized processing.

Over a decade ago were the stories about how Target's loyalty program algorithm had discovered a teen was pregnant before she'd told her family, based on correlative purchase changes (like switching from scented to unscented candles).

If I could take your social media, face and eye tracking on CCTV, phone gyroscope data, purchase history, search history, and the same from all your associated contacts, with a broad enough comparative data set I could probably identify all kinds of skeletons from all kinds of closets.

It's a bit like the "my phone is listening to my conversations" freak out. It's not, but the thing you should be much more concerned about is that it has such an accurate picture of what you end up talking about without needing to be listening in the first place.
I've been listening to live recordings on Internet Archive for a bit after listening to only highly-produced music for years. There's something refreshingly human about it.

I guess AIs could always be made to emulate that, but it seems it could make legitimately human stuff have higher value. Sharing with your friend a bootleg live recording that you made might be a greater gift.

I could certainly imagine digitally-signed material from human artists, as well. Maybe I'm just old, but when I'm consuming some kind of art, I want to know that thinking, feeling humans were behind it. If I just want to look at pretty pictures, AI is fine.

And I am actually old, because I'm already put off the modern web. :) HN-style websites are just my speed.
Apple has the best engineers and can probably figure out a way
The employees are sold shares in the business that they expect to accrue a certain amount of value and with scale get very serious multiples in a liquidity event. With that promise broken the value proposition they originally signed up for no longer holds, some perhaps wasted the best years of their lives here when other options were on the table. If all you want to do is sell goods and services for more than they cost, then open up a bakery.
>* Startup valuations have fallen. Ignoring regulatory concerns, a new acquisition deal today would be cheaper.

Figma reached $400M in 2022 and on its way to hit $600M this year 2023. For perspective they reached $200M in 2021, and $75M in 2020. That is pretty impressive growth rate.

Straightly on a revenue / market cap, Adobe makes $20B Revenue and values at $270B. That is 13.5x multiple. If we expect Figma to hit $1B mark by 2025, they could be worth $13.5B. i.e Even with today's market, I dont think it is hard to do an IPO with that $13.5B valuation.

And if Adobe were to acquire a listed company with 30% premium, that is $17.5B. Not that far off from $20B. Now that Figma has an extra $1B cash flow, I hope they spend it wisely and continue to do well. So while some may argue this is bad for employees and investors. I dont think it is that bad.

I do hope they consider IPO, as I am slightly worried the window of opportunity may be gone when market turns.
Every chip manufacturer does that, that's how they come up with cheap, low end parts. They just try to keep number of cores an even number, so the trick is less obvious.
I'm sure you're familiar with the meaning of "infinite", as I'm sure you are familiar with the difference between "market capitalization" and "cash on hand".

Assuming those two statements to be true, what's your point?

EDIT: and I see parent pulled a ninja edit. Stay classy.
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Wow, I hadn't realized that Firefox for Android didn't have SponsorBlock until now! I'm using Firefox on the PinePhone, it's quirky as fuck but has always had SponsorBlock. I use it with Invidious.

Now, may I suggest NewPipe if you use Android? I've heard the official version refuses to implement SponsorBlock but I see there are forks with it.
Those reforms aren't comparable to Swedish (which I'll use as a stand in for Nordic) Unions.

At the end of the day, unions in Europe are much more pro-business management than any union in the US can ever dare.

For example, Swedish unions didn't go on strike when Geely fired thousands of Swedish autoworkers when acquiring Volvo, and German (yes not Nordic) unions haven't fought for salary increases leading to German salaries remaining stagnant since the 2000s, while helping German corporations like Volkswagen, Daimler, etc remain competitive globally.

In the US, unions will go militant and remain independent of the government and management because they are grassroots driven. In Europe, unions are subordinated to the government and management, as Union leaders end up joining both.
We saw memory go up when moving from 3.1 to 3.2, but we also removed compiling Ruby with jemalloc and used the defaults. We have seen performance increase by about 10% for our web applications. Our forking background processes run about the same. YJIT appears to perform for repeated requests – ie first run will not expose any benefit, ie your tests won't run faster.

[edit, the memory increase was small just a few percent IRC]
No.

These factors that I'm speaking of were more along the lines of:

- a slab caster implemented, but there is already a bloom caster and only one crane facility to support both so both ran at less than optimal throughput.

- choosing to prioritize far less profitable slab casting for output to a joint venture plant in CA than very profitable bloom casting (& union definitely not in favor of this)

- buying coke at 10X price they could get elsewhere because old buddy favoritism

Basically, the Japanese firms were built a much more holistic basis -- JIT engineering, so that liquid is pored, slabs created and were delivered right into finished product processing. Whereas, by contrast, in the mill I worked at, slabs would be cast, then would cool in a yard, heated & slitted, then heated again for strip mill processing (it cost quite a bit of energy to heat to 2200/2300 degrees).

I mean, my boss & I would even spitball on how much better the place would run if it was bought out and run by (at that time, late 80s / early 90s) a foreign competitor that made decisions on business sense rather than old boy political network machinations.

Basically, all about:
MANAGEMENT, MANAGEMENT, MANAGEMENT.
There is absolutely (still!!!!) room in the market for a PaaS built on top of Kube that is actually good, and is a hybrid of Heroku+Kube. More convention, less all the rope to hang yourself with, while still enabling advanced use cases with full control.

Even docker compose is too annoying for what most people need.

Most of our use cases are so simple. I need a (black box) container that exposes a TCP port. I want N of them. I want them load-balanced with a friendly name. I want them load balanced behind a friendly name with auth in front of it. I want centralized logs, based on these names. I want centralized stats, based on these names (not xyz-pod-232903209284390-dev but xyz aggregated). I want auto deploys based on a github repo. I want my releases tagged with the git short hash.

When someone cracks the nut of heroku+kube they will become the next billionares. This is why I think it is wise to try and enter this space, as Fly is doing.

The new stuff Microsoft has announced (named Radius, not to be confused with RADIUS network auth protocol) is the closes thing to this sort of solution I have been imagining for years: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-microsoft-azure-i...

I want N http/tcp/php/python/node/insert-tool-here API or web servers. I want a best-practices RabbitMQ deployment, a best-practices Redis deployment, and a best-practices PostgreSQL deployment. For Redis, I do not care about state, just make it work. For Rabbit, I want 3+ nodes for HA. For PSQL, I do care about state so please use <insert EBS volume here> and do backups.

This is the same shit we have been reinventing for years over and over again and the recipes are all the same now. Radius is the best (at least on paper) attempt at unifying all this stuff.

I've been beating this drum for over 10 years now though, I keep thinking someone will figure it out and no one has. Maybe time to bite the bullet and just do the thing.
Vanishing Panels: The secret history of Patricia Highsmith's career in comics
Energy costs vary not only over the day but per quarter hour in each hour, e.g. during the morning the last quarter is cheaper than the first for each hour. So you don't necessarily have to shut down the machines, maybe you can just move the most energy expensive phase into another quarter.

If you are brewing beer you have times where you have to heat it and times where it needs to sit at a given temperature. Try to optimize the process to heat during cheaper quarter hours.
This is a good comment. More like this!

Right now, the immediate things you'd get out of using FKS are:

* The declarative K8s style of defining an app deployment, and some of the K8s mechanics for reconciling that declaration to what's actually running. We did most of this stuff before when we were backed on Nomad, but less of it now with Fly Machines. If you missed having a centralized orchestrator, here's one.

* Some compatibility with K8s tooling (we spin up a cluster, spit out a kubeconfig file, and you can just go to town with kubectl or whatever).

This is absolutely not going to let you do everything you can possibly do with K8s! Maybe we'll beef it up over time. Maybe not many people will use it, because people who want K8s want the entire K8s Cinematic Universe, and we'll keep it simple.

Mostly: we wrote about it because it was interesting, is all that's happening here.

I think you asked a super good question, and "I don't know, you might be right" is our genuine answer. Are there big things this is missing for you? (Especially if they're low-hanging fruit). I can (sort of) predict how likely we are to do them near term.
IMO it shouldn't be a touchscreen at all. By nature you have to look at it to interact. Just have a nontouch screen for display purposes, and physical buttons to interact with it as necessary.
Reminds me of when Microsoft first announced its Quantum Development Kit in 2017 - https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/future-quantum-microsoft-rele...

I can't tell if it's too early or not.
Thank you for this very interesting link.

One tidbit:

> Her mother was anxious about her upbringing and promoted Ada's interest in mathematics and logic in an effort to prevent her from developing her father's perceived insanity.
'It's unhinged': is the book world turning against Goodreads?
Unfortunately last I checked the compute pricing for GKE autopilot was almost double, so if you can beat 50% utilization, you might as well just keep the under-utilized Node around.
Show HN: Fortran inference code for the Mamba state space language model
I get the need to improve Ruby's speed and memory usage, but there's much to be desired. I really enjoy Rails and Ruby in general, but the performance is terrible.

I'd like to see how Ruby 3.3 stacks up to other languages and runtimes.
Good point. What happened to feduciary-style responsibilities for executives in their duties to customers?

Let me give you the data to back it up:

https://www.wpr.org/dnr-says-bottled-water-companies-arent-r....

One 2021 study found PFAS in 39 out of 101 bottled water products that ranged in levels from almost zero to nearly 19 parts per trillion. David Strifling is director of the Water Law and Policy Initiative at Marquette University Law School. He said there’s no general assurance that bottled water is safer than tap water.
We kept YJIT off for 3.1, but turned it on for 3.2. I am working from my memory here, but I recall 3.1 not performing well with YJIT.
You can already do this with LD_PRELOAD, no?