skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would presume that the tower and its foundations, like a large bridge, are functionally immortal. They sound like they should remain useful for a century or more. In such cases the initial carbon cost of construction shouldn't be much of a factor.
There were reparations payed to the USA and then there were repayment of the loans provided as aid within Marshall plan.
This is just a manpower thing.

At large tech companies like Google, Meta, etc the dev environment is entirely in the cloud for the vast majority of SWEs.

This is a much nicer dev experience than anything local.
Nice to finally see this get some attention on the front page.
Wonder who ended up with the M3 Max 36GB machine? ;)
I was taking the piss 8) I will definitely be deploying this symbol in some of my documentation.

Given I'm an IT bod: it will be the ones pertaining to name resolution and ... time.
That's 25% of Taskmaster haha
Who was the best CEO of 2023?
According to The Economist it was Jensen Huang (NVIDIA).
I suppose I haven't been fully compelled by any of these replies (but I don't have anything compelling in return). Sorry, my lack of knowledge is the failure here (Dunning Kruger effect: I don't see why dynamic IPs / mac addresses / OTP / VPN / encryption are real insurmountable issues here)

Also nomadic, also in tech - And I would happily run a mail server on my phone, sacrifice thickness of phone for the extra necessary battery life, and keep a spare phone somewhere for quick restore/swap (I have a spare old android I keep in case I break my current one, which I can keep at a friend's place, an Airbnb or a subscription locker / safe.

What's the alternative being proposed though, Google et al? Or a home server (I have no home)? Or still free market, but providers are smaller businesses that are more heavily legislated and are watched over by the state to ensure our data is safe? I'm just not sure 'where' my data+computing should be, other than right next to me in my pocket (but then where do my backups go?).

Sorry for the appalling and directionless writing, it's just that everything just seems to circle back to the solution being: *'two small portable battery operated wireless devices that we have control of and the big providers do not have access to; keep one of them on our person and one in another safe place for DR purposes.'*
10 machines, not 1.
I meant kids aren't even moving to full blown computers and stay on crippled touch platforms like the iPad.
"Another theory says the underground city served as a temperate refuge for the region’s extreme seasons. Cappadocian winters can get very cold, the summers extremely hot. Below ground, the ambient temperature is constant and moderate. As a bonus, it is easier to store and keep harvest yields away from moisture and thieves."

Some Aussie opal miners already took note.
By weight, much of that wood is actually glue. The structure is wood fiber held together by chemcial glues. It isnt a tree. It isnt a hand-carved covered bridge. It is an engineered structure filled with modern bits and pieces made out of not-wood.
Similarly, 1 cup unsalted peanuts is listed as having 10x the calories of 1 cup peanuts. The latter probably refers to peanuts in their skins while the former refers only to the nuts which would be packed much denser. A photo of the food could help here.
Wouldn't it be more accurately characterized as a natural + nuclear disaster? Clearly things would have been less bad without the nuclear plant.
True, I’m not very used to internet debates lasting longer than one or two low effort replies, so I became dismissive too. Apologies.

I don’t really have hard data that proves the impact of the internet at a macro level, just anecdotal stuff. I think it’s easy to overplay the impact of past innovations bc we see the late waves - eg the telephone wasn’t really a thing that impacted most of the world for decades, and there’s entirely countries that went from no telephone at all to whatsapp directly (brazil for instance)

When it comes to jobs, I think I know maybe a dozen people whose jobs/industries only exist because of the Internet - and that’s counting outside the tech bubble, mind you. I’m sure this is verifiable with labor data somehow. Not to mention the entire middle class slipping into gigs in a model that only exists because of the internet (maybe a bit too recent for most to grasp the consequences).

On a personal level - quite literally everything in my life would’ve been completely different. I can’t even imagine the kind of local job I’d have at a small town, watching about stuff on the TV and hearing about tech only from a friend over radio
While copyright laws are ancient and outdated - and probably should be reformed or removed altogether - this lawsuit might be entertaining.
Thanks for sharing your opinion! I don't have the same experience, thankfully.
Egypt warned Israel that Hamas activity increased and that they would attack soon, but was ignored.
> The TODO file in the repo[1] is fascinating.

I had no idea!
Is there an analog of an FPGA for analog computers? Or is that like what an analog computer is
Can we just agree to a phase down of that coal generator instead?
Just watch out for the encrypted file formats. Need a debugger to figure out what it's doing.
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> PSK authentication works both ways.

Yes, but the PSK is shared so...

> others do use public key certificates

What's needed is a mechanism for learning those. That's where the QR code thing comes in.
This is a nice analogy for 'explaining' in general; start with the familiar and layer in new concepts gradually (checking understanding).
Wafer-thin mint, Sir?
Any Proof of Stake system, by its design will reward validators in accordance to supply and demand for compute. Transaction and compute fees underpin the entire security of PoS. The fees necessarily grow proportionally to demand for compute, because, in a fully replicated architecture such as Ethereum, supply of compute is limited by the slowest allowable node in the network.

Since supply of compute is inelastic, it means that demand for compute fully determines fees + MEV. Any effort to scale the network would result in supply elasticity and would therefore cause fees + MEV to drop which would go against the interests of those who provide the validation service and earn the fees + MEV.
It of course steongly depends on what your stack is, my current job provides a full remote dev server for our backend and it's the best experience I've seen in a long time. In particular having a common DB is suprinsingly uneventful (nobody's dropping tables here and there) while helping a lot.

We have interns coming in and fully ready within an hour or two of setup. Same way changing local machines is a breeze with very little downtime.
This idea dates to at least 1996: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...
This is already true in the UK. The "open source" developers of Bitcoin Core were personally bankrupt with a multi-billion pound judgement because they refused to alter the protocol to allow Satoshi to recover coins a hacker took from him.

Developers have a duty of care to their users which no license can remove. You either make good software and comply with your duty or you will be ruined. That is the law.

Next year those Bitcoin developers will go to prison because the have not paid the billions they owe. Open source communism doesn't protect you from the law.
I am fine not browsing websites that require this bullshit and fully embrace the small selection of niche communities that will be Internet 2.0
Differential analysers often had components which you would connect to model ODEs. I suppose it is like an FPGA but they weren’t programmable

It would be cool if analog computers could be miniaturised as digital computers were. Then maybe they could also be programmed, and you would have your answer
Real Unix users aren't computer users then cause computer users are lazy :-p

I'll see if it doesn't take a huge chunk of time to get it going in Cygwin.
Yes and: maintaining an Empire (Hegemony) requires Forever War. Were USA to achieve a Von Clauswitz style victory, Pax Americana would quickly implode.
Reallllllyyyyyyy..... checking it out now
all you can do really is to teach to beware. reckon doing so won't just help with ads, but the internet in general. that "cute gal" messaging you may just be looking to butcher a pig.
Record traffic on NYC crossings as congestion pricing nears
For how long would it need to be mothballed before you’d be comfortable demolishing it? Important to be conservative wrt grid stability, but at some point, burn the ships so there is no going back.
Same post is also discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38798501
I jokingly discussed with friends that we have to buy some when Elon renamed Twitter with the idea that people are going to invest thinking it's Elon's X.

Not sure if that happened but the stock went up quite a bit since then.
For the same reason literally every other industry does. You are forgetting that software is unique in not having these regulations. It’s not hard to figure out what life was like before these laws, and we don’t want history repeating itself on a platform that moves at light speed.
But boy do they have midichlorians!
I’m currently doing my best to make this possible with an app I’m building. I had to convince the CEO the M2 Max would come in handy for this (we run object detection models and stable diffusion). So far it’s working out!
On the opposite of the size spectrup, try to find "ice crystals". It is like glitter or falling diamonds and occurs without clouds. On a quiet night the effect is as close to disney magic as weather gets imho.

https://youtu.be/4yBNmoa4htE

https://youtu.be/HXJ9NG5Bszo
To clarify, I love the great news and I love the idea of Oil, I hope it takes off. Linux badly needs it.
And they make cars sold as Toyota
Oh, there's now a bunch of accounts claiming that Galileo was "just" mean to pope and therefore "guilty", but this is an actual pro-religion propaganda. The real sentence is preserved up to this day and is completely clear:

https://hti.osu.edu/sites/default/files/documents_in_the_cas...

"heresy" ... "that the earth does move, and is not the center of the world" ... "contrary to Holy Scripture"

More detailed:

"We pronounce, judge, and declare, that you, the said Galileo . . . have rendered yourself vehemently suspected by this Holy Office of heresy, that is, of having believed and held the doctrine (which is false and contrary to the Holy and Divine Scriptures) that the sun is the center of the world, and that it does not move from east to west, and that the earth does move, and is not the center of the world; also, that an opinion can be held and supported as probable, after it has been declared and finally decreed contrary to the Holy Scripture".

Additionally, Galileo's and Copernicus' books were finally removed from the index of the banned books only in 1835, they were on the banned list for more than 200 years, since the 1616 Inquisition's judgment.

Context: Galileo was the first person to see with his own eyes with his first of the kind self-made telescope the moons that are today known as Galilean moons and recognized them as the satellites of Jupiter in March 1610. Which convinced him that the understanding of the church was wrong. The church sentenced him in 1633 to house arrest where he remained until his death in 1642.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_moons
In the Visual Arts (drawing, printmaking, painting, even sculpture) copying the masters has been practised, and even recommended for centuries (if not longer). I believe it's the same with music. It's what you will want to do to some extent in order to get better at doing your own thing - some do it a lot, some do it less. None does not do it.

The tool may be a brush, it may be a pencil, it may even be a contraption or machine of some kind. It could even be a camera, or software. This does not matter. The result is typically labelled "a studio", "a reproduction", or if has significant deviations from the original "a paraphrase".

Some artists include elements of the work of other artists in their own work regularly, even copyrighted "characters". The thing known as "sampling" did not originate with rap music. Here there's a line somewhere (just like in rap) that, how much is too much? The answer is always that some cases are "fair use" and others are not.

My concern in all this is that people scared of this new tool (AI) will react in a way that leads them to demand restrictions in the way that traditional artists have worked like, forever.

In my view the AI model is no different from a camera, or that combined with some software suite like blender, photoshop, or even gimp. It's just a tool. And, well it can create reproductions. Reproductions are just that, and no more.
Seems cool! Congrats!

I agree that most products - I stumbled upon and tested - in this space are frustrating.

Would be nice to have a good UX to split food by meals (and have subtotals). But maybe that is too complex and you were not aiming for that!

Additional feedback: I think knowing if the food is weighted raw or cooked is pretty important. Sorry if I missed something but I couldn't tell if the "whole wheat pasta" were cooked or not. Uncooked was available for rice, though.
History Podcasts for the New Year
For those who've used effectful languages, how much of a spaghetti code mess do they create, potentially? That's basically my only worry with effects that can be suspended and resumed at basically any point and any location in the codebase.
Easily Generate Gradient Map Like Photoshop on Web
I was exploring ways to generate a gradient map without using Photoshop. And got the idea: why not create a Figma plugin? And here it is, it can also work on the web.
The order of stories of the front page changes all of the time. RSS is geared towards serial publishing. So I'm pretty sure the answer is "No".
Ah - synonyms. Makes sense, thanks
Thanks for the insight. It maybe depends on each team too.

While my team (platform & infra) much prefer remote devbox, the development teams are not.

It could be specific to my org because we have way too many restrictions on the local dev machine (eg: no linux on laptop but it's ok on server and my team much prefer linux over crippled Windows laptop).
Scary to think about but most likely already happening through other sensors
Optil.io: Optimization Problems
Have to comment since I've been listening to Dr. Lustig lately (https://youtu.be/dBnniua6-oM?si=6mS-3SKI7R4zOdYT).

The site shows that 1 can of Coca-Cola has fewer calories and less carbs than a medium apple: 90 vs 122 calories, 25 vs 30 gram of carbs. There is no other information, e.g no fiber content or added sugars section. Would this lead someone to believe, against common sense, that Coke is equivalent or even a healthier choice?

Edit: For those interested, here is a link to a similar system that contains more information (albeit not as polished): https://perfact.co:8443/Nova/
Honestly, I found the analysis a little difficult to read. Some of the histograms weren't normalized which made the comparison a bit difficult.

One thing that really stood out to me was:

> People with the M1 laptops are frequently waiting almost 2m for their builds to complete.

And yet looking at the graph, 120s is off the scale on the right side, so that suggests almost literally no one is waiting 2m for a build, and most builds are happening within 40s with a long tail out to 1m50s.
I'll wait for the Behringer clone
Isn't the point of a dev environment precisely that the intern can drop tables? Idk, I've never had a shared database not turn to mush over a long enough period, and think investing the effort to build data scripts to rebuild dev dbs from scratch has always been the right call.
Been this was for everyone outside of tech. Welcome and enjoy the purgatory
> Internally, the THAT represents quantities using a range between -10 and +10 volts.

So it looks like you only need to attenuate that a bit to get to Eurorack voltages.
Good to know. Thanks for the explanation.

Basically ZFS maintains a ZIL based in-memory tree for the recent updates and a on-disk btree for the complete updates, minus the recent updates in ZIL. That's consistent with most database transaction log implementation. Some newer approach adds a Bloom filter to do fast decision between looking in the in-memory tree or in the on-disk btree.
Jekyll on iOS: When Benign Apps Become Evil (2013)
Correction:

s/jmp 0/jmp MODE13/
Actual photo of the device is here:
https://the-analog-thing.org/
It's a common karma harvesting technique but also a good way to get good content onto the front page. I often submit links I see in comments and they tend to get a lot of upvotes because others who think it's interesting submit the link too, and the first submission gets an automatic upvote when others submit it.
It continues:

> But assuming that the primary purpose is to make money (...)
Not sure if this would count as an analog simulation or not.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River_Basin_Mode.... It was more accurate than many digital computer models for quite some time...
Usually hydrogen peroxide[0] (when sliced) but if you are referring to what chemicals a farm uses, that would be really, really hard to provide. I believe Chipotle tried to do a farm to store supply chain doc and gave up and went with a distributor. However, they still are trying w/ robotics and other initiatives.[1]

At the end of the day, how do you really know what chemicals are used on the farm? The cost of tracking anything is astronomical. I.E. cost of a bolt in airline industry.

Lastly, at least for food: producers, distributors, end-users (stores), and everyone else uses different software with proprietary protocols and the margins don't really incentivize anyone from switching.

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362028X2...
[1]: https://www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/35217-chipotle-zer...
> Maybe you couldn't do this with […] for an extreme example the US Constitution,

The Eighteenth Amendment says hello.

Preventing the introduction of subtle bugs when making changes to a complex system is hard, even disregarding intent. I'd say it's easier to catch deliberately-malicious patches, because easy-to-predict failures are the easiest to catch.
You probably don't want to know:

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/how-us-secret-war-laos-st...

"From 1964 to 1973, the United States bombed Laos more heavily than any country on earth. The reason most Americans do not know this is because it was a secret war orchestrated by the CIA; it stands as the largest covert CIA operation to date."

"One team can find anywhere from three to 16 bombs in a day. The UXO Lao’s 2015 annual report states that since 1996, 1.4 million UXO have been cleared in Laos by a combined effort of UXO Lao and other UXO-clearing organizations, like MAG International. At this rate, it will take thousands of years before Laos is free of UXO."

"Forty percent of UXO victims are children who pick up the bombs, usually thinking they are toys."

The US cluster bombs. Now also in Ukraine:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/20/politics/ukraine-cluster-...
https://archive.is/Cc1S5
Just need to target the executive suites. Bonus points if the board is meeting at the time.
CD-I
I do a low-tech version[1] of this using tree-1.8.0...

[1] https://every.sdf.org/
I see the "indie web" or "small web" vs. "centralized web" or "large-scale social media web" as very much mapping onto the "rural vs. urban" dichotomy. For that reason, as hopeful as I can be about a thriving indie web, I don't think we'll ever see it fully displace the large-scale centralized web.

In digital space, there is still value in adjacency and agglomeration (mostly due to easier UX, network effects, etc). Just as there are agglomerative effects of physical cities, so there is in the large-scale centralized web. This is largely due to the fact that most netizens are not savvy enough to set up their own sites, no matter how easy it may seem (at least to those of us that are on HN). In other words, my mom is never making a Mastodon account, but she is easily on Instagram. Now multiply that by hundreds of millions of people. Even the savvier centralized web users that have Linktrees from their Instagram bios are largely linking to other sites on the centralized/"urban" web.

But for there to be a thriving digital sphere, there must be many of us who opt to live in the "rural" parts, in the indie parts. There in the solitude and tranquility we are free to tinker, explore, and create for our fellow netizens that live in the "urban centers".

The optimal human existence spans both rural and urban environments, that's just as true in the digital realm as it is in the physical.
To add another anecdote to this thread, a few years ago, I picked up an old Consew 226R compound walking foot machine to do canvas work for a boat. That machine was a beast once I tuned it. Fast, powerful, smooth, quiet, and with a servo motor, had awesome slow and high speeds, would punch through anything. Its only real downside was the size, and it only did straight stitches. For canvas work, that was everything I needed.

I later picked up a Sailrite LSZ to do some zigzag work on sails. Compared to the Consew, the sailrite feels really clunky, even with the Sailrite servo motor upgrade. It's relatively rough and noisy compared to the Consew, and has less power. Main upsides are the size, and the zigzag stitch for sail work where you need some stretch.

I've ultimately kept the Sailrite because it's still pretty solid, and can be stored on the boat where I need it the most. If I was doing upholstery or canvas work in a permanent shop, I would've kept the Consew, hands down, it was a much more capable and pleasant machine.

The walking foot feature is very useful for heavy materials. I tried sewing light-weight materials on both of these machines and it was awful (bunching, tearing on the foot, can't use really fine needles, etc).
Using Internal Linking to Increase Your Website Traffic
How about: incentivize efficient use of resources by making devs use slower computers!
sigh

The UK’s net EU budget contribution in 2014 was £9.8 billion https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

Meanwhile the UK exported $276 billion worth of good to the EU more than half of its total https://www.worldstopexports.com/united-kingdoms-top-import-...

Not counting anything else just these two we could say the EU had a 3.6% tariff on UK imports (insanely low! check https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/daily_update_e/ta... -- and note the post brexit deal only created a 0% tariff on goods and not services). And even that is a severe exaggeration because there were other benefits to this.

On the other hand, the way these things went it's very likely the UK already contributed to the EERP but got nothing out of it.
Why is there a massive @facebook tag on the page?
You are joking, but I honestly would like it to get a personalized weekly collection of articles, a wiki lemma, a comic or two and some reviews delivered as PDF or on paper.

The crux being that it's personalized. It could use my Pocket, RSS reader, reddit/hn voting habits, even my bookmarks db as inspiration. I don't know or care, as long as it manages to deliver me a week's worth every week. Filled with content that I'm going to like 90% of the time, i'd love it and pay for it. I'd even accept ads every few pages.
I think you mean when, not if.

The public folder feature was really nice.