skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The president of the Commission can reject candidates as often as they want (not in theory, but in practice they do), so the member state's power to appoint someone is largely meaningless. The EU gets the kind of person it wants, every time. There is no actual power by the member states here.

The Council is a joke that won't explain its decisions, it won't even explain if there was a vote on who got to be EU President or if Germany just announced the decision was made already and then they played with their phones for the rest of the meeting.

The entire thing is literally decided by lobbying, except we have no idea who is lobbying who, when, how or what they want. All we know is that the key processes are all secret - super democratic!
I take it prosecutors are far more lenient when you're faking a phone UI to always show a full signal or surreptitiously switch to a new phone before the previous one runs out of memory and needs a restart, rather than pretending a 20-ton killing machine can drive itself up a hill.
Blogrolls, folksonomies (tags), etc. just pretty much faded away once the web really went mainstream. How many people ever really used lists on Twitter?
Why would you not just have 0AD be the same year as 0BC, just like with real number where 0 = -0?
> their pockets aren't infinitely deep

Interesting take
Touch screen is good for setup and info display but should not be used for active control while driving.

Hiding the wipers or lights or temperature controls deep in menus is a flippin' disaster.

Hyundai has about the right balance from what I have seen.
Mark Burnett once warned me about this, saying that it’s been the cause of a lot of his success. In the first Eco Challenge, a team with 4 Navy Seals was beaten by a family that included a 72-year-old grandmother, and he bet everything that he would be able to document this in a real-world setting.

There is a wrinkle in this, however, something he doesn’t talk about. The fifth member, though much better than average within the competition, was not a Navy Seal. Mark was a commando himself, and knew what would happen.
Two questions:

How do we continue to serve a transportation consumer population that can only afford bus tickets?

If we decide to continue to serve this population, how do we do it in a manner consistent with developed world standards?

If the zombie must die to be reborn, reasonable. But to double tap it in the head and these people go without long haul transportation seems untenable. And high speed rail isn’t getting built any sooner than a decade from now. In the meantime, those not of means need long haul transportation to be solved for.
I would say having access to guns in the US makes killing someone much easier than in the EU where most countries banned guns, making murders much harder to commit with a knife or a blunt object.

But this aside, did the murder rates increase in the last 10-20 years, decreased or is it the same?
Your argument about "total exposure over a lifetime" can be applied to literally every single thing people ingest or do.
I’m not sure where you’re getting your numbers, but Wikipedia claims 360 million native Arabic speakers, which pushes France a little further down the list.
I worked for Citigroup in ~2009. The project I worked on handled ~4.5 billion in trades a per day every day it ran.

It wasn't that big of a project either...
I think people generally specify their MSRVs as version numbers for libraries, and often a pinned toolchain file for applications. I haven't seen anyone use a hash for this, though I'm sure I might have missed something.

I don't think language standards are "bad".
But a biology professor from that time period would have a lot of catching up to do, perhaps too much, especially (but not only) if any part of their work touched molecular biology or genetics.
FYI Mono has been shipping Roslyn as its C# compiler for a few years now. Mono's C# compiler only fully supports up to C# 6 while Roslyn supports C# 12, the latest version.

Mono shares a lot of code with .NET (Core) but is mostly limited to the standard libraries and compiler. Mono is still its own separate implementation of the CLR (runtime/"JVM") and supports much more platforms than .NET (Core) today.
EDIT: Not worth arguing.
Ah ok - well I was in the same place as you a few years ago and asked a very similar question here - and got interesting answers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16920476

5 years later I did not proceed with the electronics part. For one I did not have time but even now I realize that learning to properly do things in electronics requires serious studies. A typical problem I had was: how should I connect a loudspeaker (which resistor, capacitator, etc. to add and where). I found out that it is better to use "building blocks" that include all the electronics and require cabling and coding.

For instance, as we speak, I am connecting a NodeMCU to a relay module and all I need are cables and a 3D-printed case.

This is really a matter of personal taste though - I prefer to code than to design electronics gven that I have limited time.
Wouldn't help. You might as well say people could use Wikipedia and Wikibooks.

A big reason people go to libraries like the British Library is for collections of rare books an manuscripts (https://www.publicbooks.org/how-to-lose-a-library/), which you're not going to find on some pirate site that scraped the (relatively) low-hanging fruit of digitally-distributed academic papers and ebooks.

You might as well say "Man if only people would spend the billions of dollars to digitize every scrap of archival paper in the world, and put it online for free."
> but for transoceanic flight.

That's fine. With the exception of routes that go from Europe to East Asia over the continent, there is no shortage of gruelingly long flights between South America and Australia, New Zealand and Europe that are done mostly over the ocean.

And that doesn't take into account the recent developments in reducing sonic booms.
Someone claiming to be his girlfriend showed up in the comments as well saying he was suicidal. Probably the most elegant explanation.

As far as the M Cave weirdness - people say all sorts of stuff on social media for attention. As they say, "Pics, or it didn't happen".
> The reviews themselves weren't even particularly "insightful", mostly along the lines of "this is confusing, I don't understand what you're doing or why you're doing it", but sometimes you just really need that outside perspective.

IMO maybe scientists should have experience critiquing stuff like poems, short essays, or fiction. Expecting a critiquer to give actually good suggestions matching your original vision, when your original vision's presentation is flawed, is incredibly rare. So the best critiques are usually a "this section right here, wtf is it?" style, with added bonus points to "wtf is this order of information" or other literary technique that is either being misused or unused.
The tech companies are much more accountable than the EU. You can just not use Twitter. Nothing bad will happen to you. Good luck trying to just "not use" the EU if you happen to live there. That's much easier said than done.
DX might be better I suppose, since you don’t have to fiddle with node sizing, cluster autoscalers, etc.

Someone else linked GKE Autopilot which manages all of that for you. So if you’re using GKE I don’t see much improvement, since you lose out on k8s features like persistent volumes and DaemonSets.
We've barely scratched the surface of the planet, literally. The deepest mines are 4km deep; mineral deposits are likely to get richer as you go deeper.

With desalination, nuclear + solar + geothermal, we can feed an essentially unlimited number of people.

There are always second-order effects to everything, including growth. But I find it interesting that we have such a huge runway ahead of us, without even considering resources and energy elsewhere in the solar system.
I moved from ruby 2.7 to 3.2 for a rails app and was hopeful that it would lead to large speedups like shopify claims it did for them, but was bummed to find it did basically nothing. Anyone else running a large rails app have a similar or different experience?
It doesn't. But on HN everything is terrible and get off my lawn.
SponsorBlock now works on Android, awesome!
Seems like it'll be a case of "wait for updated ssh packages", potentially with some mitigation advice appearing in the next day or so.
Ending Support for the Dagger Cue SDK
Crockford has not "unveiled" Misty. He's never formally announced the existence of this language AFAIK. He has a blog, but he hasn't made a blog post about Misty.

Misty has been around since 2010. The earliest snapshot <https://web.archive.org/web/20171025001743/crockford.com/mis...> of the Misty language page on archive.org is from October 2017, and that page says "(c) 2010 Douglas Crockford".

Not only has Crockford not announced the language, but he's provided no commentary, metadata or explanation about it. From looking at archive.org snapshots, we can see that the language has changed over time, but there is no metadata from Crockford about this. No versions numbers or releases. And there is no public implementation.

So I think this is an unannounced hobby project.
Ukraine forced to cut military operations as foreign aid dries up
The problem with PFAS isn't the amount found in the general environment, it's the amount found in the immediate area around factories that produce them or apply them to products.
Asking the wrong person, unfortunately; I’ve never played it. I write fanfiction of it. :D
i definitely want to try this! never really worked with kubernetes, because it always seemed too complicated, for what i needed. after using fly.io for my first real web project in a while, they do seem to provide exactly what i want from a "hoster".
But as a developer I do want to use (some of) the latest features as soon as they become available. That's why most of my crates have an N-2 stable version policy.
So by increasing the amount of crap by ten times, we get ten times more noncrap as well. What a deal
How Ukraine can win? With enough weapons and ammo from one side and with real sanctions from the other side.

Last few years they receive some ammo, but just enough to not loose the battle. And sanctions are a joke. Russians are easily selling goods to EU, money easily flowing to Russia. There are backdoors for each sanctions.

Don't see how it is in EU interest? If Russia will occupy Ukraine then they could invade EU states next. Estonia for example. There are already threats coming from Russian state TV. They are ready for war. And they don't care who to invade and kill: Nazi in Ukraine, Nazi in Estonia, Nazi in Poland etc. Call any nation a Nazi and there will be legions of Russian soldiers who are ready to kill everyone (including children and elderly people, they will rape, torture and kill everyone) for promise to get paid few thousand euros per months.
Since Masimo is a publicly traded company, can’t Apple just buy enough shares to have a controlling interest in the company and just force them to back out?
You remind me of these anecdotes by Feynman of his time in Brazil. Specifically search for "I was invited to give a talk at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences", but the whole thing is worth a read if you haven't seen it:

https://southerncrossreview.org/81/feynman-brazil.html
You keep saying things to denigrate art associated with AI tools. Why?
The lifetime of a Li plant is just 10 years? Batteries lose a bit of capacity at 10 years, maybe still have 80 - 90% capacity. These can run for decades.
Algorand fork Voi tries a blockchain reboot
I have used a number of orchestrator platforms in production, including AWS ECS (Docker + custom orchestration), EKS (Kubernetes) and Google Cloud's Kubernetes.

I've also used Chef, custom RPM packages and classic Unix startup scripts. And I'm probably forgetting some.

And honestly? Kubernetes can be really great. Especially if you:

- Read enough to understand the split between pods/replication controllers/deployments, which is a bit unusual, and the fact that "services" are basically a name lookup system. This split is weird, but it's not that hard to figure out.

- Pay someone for a quality managed Kubernetes.

- Don't get clever with the networking overlays.

I especially like the way that Kubernetes allows me to deploy almost anything with a short YAML file, and the fact that I never need to worry about individual servers at all.

Now, I wouldn't use Kubernetes if I could get away with a "Heroku like" system. But for anything more complicated than that, Kubernetes can be pretty simple and reliable. Certainly I'd take Kubernetes over a really complex Terraform setup.
It's one of those tools that you don't know exists and then you wonder how you did without. The ingenuity of FLOSS developers never ceases to amaze me.
Yeah, our last benchmark was with 3.1.2 + YJIT, but we actually saw a regression in term of performance while RAM usage was indeed up: https://serpapi.com/blog/benchmarking-ruby-3-1-yjit-ruby-2-7...
Just remember: When you buy bottled water, you don't really know where it comes from, and what contaminants are in it.

Don't assume that bottled water is any safer (or more dangerous) than your tap. After all, when you look at the fine print of cheaper bottled waters, you'll often see something like "Sourced from the XXX municipal water supply."

I also remember staying at the Poland Springs resort and observing that they had septic tanks a 10 minute walk away from the "shrine" to the original "Poland Spring," and finding trash in the woods that had been there for years.
Is there any way to implement a portable oximeter without infringing on any patents ?

Furthermore, is there any way to do anything without infringing on any patent ?

The patent system is really outdated, it's good for lazy people who want to live off royalties, but for end-customers and innovation, this is really bad.

(and it does a bad job at preventing foreign companies to launch clones)
I believe many journals focusing on potentially influential papers is why we have a reproducibility crisis. Since it is very hard to publish null results, people often don't even bother trying. This leads to tons of wasted effort as multiple groups attempt the same thing not knowing that others before them have failed.

Also, predicting whether a paper will be influential is very hard and inherently subjective, unless you are reviewing something truly groundbreaking. Quality-based reviews are also subjective, but less so.
The predominant OCaml shop is Jane Street, they have a good podcast where they talk to those involved in their infrastructure. A lot of the episodes go into the tradeoffs between the GC'd and functional OCaml vs languages like C++ and Rust:

https://signalsandthreads.com/
While I believe you that the signal to noise is terrible, I have strong suspicions that given enough data we'll still be seeing surprising advancements in spite of that.

The ability of deep learning to tease back out signal from noise, such as reversing what's being typed from room audio with a keyboard in it, shouldn't be underestimated.

The biggest challenge may be that EEG data correlated with signals is relatively expensive to generate, so there's not going to be anything like millions of hours of people looking at or processing known things to throw into a model.

Whereas we're about to have massive increases in eye tracking data as it becomes a central component to new consumer hardware.
I am in favor of deficit spending. EU countries should be allowed to do more of it. I simply don’t believe that belt-tightening is “good,” both in general and especially as fighting climate is an important cause.
What does it matter if Figma employees have kids? Having kids is one of the most common human experiences.
I kind of miss the point of this. So if I'm reading this right, fly.io practically only exposes the Pods API, but Kubernetes is really much more than that. I'm not very familiar with any serious company that directly uses Pods API to launch containers, so if their reimplementation of Pods API is just a shim, and they're not going to be able to implement ever-growing set of features in Kubernetes Pod lifecycle/configuration (starting from /logs, /exec, /proxy...) why even bother branding it Kubernetes? Instead they could do what Google does with Cloud Run (https://cloud.run/) which Fly.io is already doing?

I don't know why would anyone would be like "here's a container execution platform, let me go ahead and use their fake Pods API instead of their official API".
In this case, running sandboxes does not consume resources when idle. There is no state, and the containers exist only for the duration of the "run" operation.
This seems like an astoundingly remote possibility.
That's the joke. You just restated the joke.
Guess Tesla doesn't want to be associated with a company that has recently been described as bribing government employees, or breaking and bending rules.
Ah I see. That's bad.
I grew up in Chapel Hill and yes UNC Chapel Hill refers to itself as "Carolina" (in sports [1], research [2], and name [3]).

It's less commonly recognized outside the state... I live in NYC now and often have to catch myself when I say something like "I'm headed back to visit a friend at Carolina" since it almost always results in "oh? which one?"

[1] https://shop.goheels.com/mens-fanatics-branded-black-north-c...

[2] https://research.unc.edu/?s=Carolina

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwi4dIT-jIY
You're suggesting there's a lunch to be eaten? I'm getting kinda famished...
*eyeroll* Sounds about right. Want to get that published anyway? You could pop it on the arXiv and let the HN hivemind suggest an appropriate venue.

If you don't have arXiv access, find an endorser <https://info.arxiv.org/help/endorsement.html>, and send them a SHORT polite email (prioritise brevity over politeness) with your paper and the details. Something like:

> Hello,

> I wrote a paper for college in yyyy (attached) on automatic grammar correction, which got rejected from Venue for grammatical errors in the figures. I still want to publish it. Could you endorse my arXiv account, please?

> Also, could you suggest an appropriate venue to submit this work to?

> Yours sincerely,

> your name, etc

Follow the guidance on the arXiv website when asking for endorsement.
I don't see anyone being named as having moderation powers in these links who was not employed by twitter.
This seems like a special case of the general concept that matching electricity demand to supply is important, and whereas a fossil fueled grid has enough dispatchable power sources to match supply to demand, a renewable-powered grid has to instead match demand to supply (at least to a much greater degree).

So it's interesting, although at some point it seems unnecessary to enumerate that this same concept applies to every possible source of electricity demand.
A bus company that arranges "virtual stations" with restaurants, gas stations, etc., will be less capital intensive and more flexible than one that builds out static infrastructure. That doesn't prevent partnerships for multimodal.
Yes, someone really should. Germany is currently one of, if not the, worse polluters in the EU, by far. Compare it to France, which produces most of its electricity from nuclear power, and thus produces almost half the CO2.
Here’s a more sober account from Thomas Brewster over at Forbes: https://archive.is/q9Ytw
Rust language design does start from specifications, namely RFCs. What is being discussed here is producing a more formal specification than the ones that currently exist.
What would such an LLM's threshold for censorable text be?
to be clear, the connection is more than colloquial. NCSU and the others you mention are formally "constituent institutions" under "the UNC system" (although this comes as a surprise to most NCSU students).

https://catalog.unc.edu/about/unc-system/
Does MQTT offer anything novel to the call/response problem if it's not just updates (e.g. battery controlled nodes that need to know when to wake up and act)?

I started developing a system ~a decade ago and ended up writing my own messaging protocols/queue systems. It's been an uphill battle, and if there's something a little more modern in the wings I'm all ears (I'm porting over to more modern uC's so it makes sense to re-evaluate the stack I suppose...)
Thanks for presenting the term to that type of architecture: I've not known what's it's called and really, really love the look. Timeless, to my eyes.
Latest Windows patch breaks Wi-Fi for some users
cs professors are happy with this. this is what their "personal site" envisions
Parts per trillion are small, but can still be bad for you. And this is an area of active study, the old threshold of 70 ppt was dropped a thousandfold recently:

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/stricter-federal-...

The Wolverine shoe leather tannery up the road dumped their ScotchGuard contaminated scraps/waste in the swamps behind a farm owned by a family friend back in the 70s and 80s. Now my well water is contaminated with a few parts per trillion of PFAS, and the PFAS levels in my blood are significantly higher than the threshold of proven harm.
What? They were talking about gratitude not guilt
Ah alright, that makes sense. Thanks!
Swift Enums <3 Design Systems
Not only on the name - the typography and general colors are close as well.
What the hell does "petite bourgeoisie sentiment" even mean?
First sentence from the linked article:

> Germany aims to fulfill all its electricity needs with supplies from renewable sources by 2035
Well, I assume I can ignore it. I own a Mercedes; not a Tesla. It says that in my comment. Is there another reason I can't ignore it?
No, only things that bioaccumulate...
In practice, employee shares in a private company are not an "investment" because they can't be traded in an open market. So no, employees don't want someone else to hold the bag. Employees want a return on their investment, and the most viable way of doing that is through an exit.
Very interesting blog post! My best guess as to how shopify is able to achieve such large increases in speed is they have a lot more actual ruby code than most codebases (https://shopify.engineering/ruby-yjit-is-production-ready).
Correct. Whether or not a card has official GPGPU support is irrelevant for its use in mining, you can use pure Direct3D or OpenGL for mining if you really want it. The decision to not support customer GPGPU by AMD only hampers other useful non-mining applications.

Ironically, mining is probably the most optimized GPGPU application a regular end-user can run on AMD GPUs. One reason was that GCN was a computing-first GPU, but also that miners have a strong motivation to go through the troubles of overcoming the lack of computing support by AMD. They would write the entire application in OpenCL 1.0 and optimize it to extract the last bit of performance in spite of its difficulties - the hashing kernels used for mining also tends to be much simpler than other applications, so it's feasible to do so. Meanwhile other people who want a decent programming environment would've picked CUDA without looking back.
This was my thought exactly.

“Oh it’s a shame we have to shut sales off. But don’t worry, it’ll still be available until we can’t guarantee before-Christmas shipping.”

They’ll have a solution worked out by the beginning of Jan.
Great writeup! Love reading about orchestration, especially distributed.

> When you create a cluster, we run K3s and the Virtual Kubelet on a single Fly Machine.

Why a single machine? Is it because this single fly machine is itself orchestrated by your control plane (Nomad)?

> ...we built our own Rust-based TLS-terminating Anycast proxy (and designed a WireGuard/IPv6-based private network system based on eBPF). But the ideas are the same.

very cool, is this similar to how Cilium works?
Because NATS isn't an MQTT broker?