skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nah, it's good, it has a PIN number so I can put something there to be out of touch for the kids.
With CPUs I'd say skip more than 1. I've been doing every 4 generations, and given how poorly Intel's 14th gen performed, I'm waiting another still.

The improvements are very small in this space right now, for the most part.
Some web function runtimes like AWS Lambda let you put dependency initialization outside the function itself. Depending on what the runtime does, you may get to keep these cached values for future invocations.
Agree. I still don't have an instagram account even though everyone around me keeps sharing instagram videos.
I think it is one of those things where even if it is "fast enough" in most cases, why not just use one of the readily available faster options anyway? It's not like setting up FastCGI is onerous. Apache/Nginx front-ends to a FastCGI process are as straightforward as you could ever want and the vast majority of languages you might use in this configuration have decades old battle-tested libraries and tooling.

In fact, I drastically prefer having no front-end requirement. Even if node is "slow" compared to some C FastCGI benchmark, I like the operational simplicity of deploying code onto some stripped down Linux with minimal explicit dependencies. Go offering a single binary is even more attractive. I was always frustrated running Apache/Nginx, then maybe some process manager like PPM, fighting with the configuration across a bunch of different formats.

While I admit that modern container based orchestration can be overly-complex, it doesn't leave me nostalgic for the days of CGI.
My only interaction with threads is through suggested posts from Instagram. I think I made the mistake of clicking on one to see what stupid thing someone was claiming. That is all it shows me now. Frustrating for multiple reasons.

Why do people enjoy this stuff.
I'm working on a minimal music player for Android that just plays from a directory on device. Can I do this with a PWA? I just tried the File System Acecss API -> Open directory but it did nothing.
Maybe in the modem days the smaller certificate was considered ideal for connection overhead?
I'll take this as a compliment, human.
I'm still glad I invested time in flutter for a cross platform framework.
Dark Mode is not just about aesthetic
To clarify what you're actually trying to say: Access to the low level Bluetooth device API is not as pervasively supported as audio output is. Quite clearly you can play audio to a bluetooth device in a PWA everywhere.

And that kind of ambiguity is why you need to be using a rigorous source like caniuse and not just looking at summary statements for this kind of information.
OpenAI and journalism
I think your statement is more one of definitions of words and their meanings then once of science...

Lets say that somehow humans had not mixed baking soda and vinegar together before today. You decide to mix these things and get a mild foamy eruption that is cool. You do it twice and the same thing happens.

In this 'ordinary' example I would say you need less evidence to make your claims because the means of reproduction of the experiment and testing are within the reach of almost everybody. This could be quickly validated across the globe, and the reproducibility is evidence.

Now, if you require a billion dollar machine and a year of time to reproduce the experiment, you need to provide a lot of damned evidence so you don't waste a lot of scientists time and money that could be used for better things. Same with any experiments on people and/or the environment that can have effects that cannot be recovered from.
What's the deal with Arthur Whitney's Shakti these days? The download has been gone for a year or two at this point.

https://shakti.com/
Why does the "visitor" pay for the meal? If the answer is that the visitor is expected to be wealthy compared to the local and that the local chooses the location, then this appears like a how to get mugged app.
Sweden's most realtime public transit map
Related to the recent post on here about live train maps, here is a project for Sweden!

The blog post: https://notpeerreviewed.com/projects/transitmap/
In other words money is a reasonable approximation for energy and hence carbon emissions, at least at an individual level.
Linux 6.8 Picks Up AMD CPU Optimization to Avoid Serializing MSR Accesses
WWIII vibes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism
Manufacturing is a start.

If the plant/product proves successful, eventually suppliers will start moving closer as well. (Source: Family member works at a supplier for most major car makers doing exactly this. In the case of long relationships with supplier and manufacturer, the building of plants can be very closely aligned on start/ready dates.)
Can you add Splunk as well? Or was it intentional to leave that our - just curious thats all. Awesome analysis BTW!
They may be breaking even after firing all their internal server people...idk.

Other solutions like Kdb+ may be way more efficient, but are also crazy expensive from what I've heard.

Is there a free lunch in this context?
True, but I don't see them proposing something so irresponsible by a surgeon. Just everyone else.
I think their "main" programs are the nursing program and industrial machine maintenance. It's not exactly an area I'd expect top-notch InfoSec to be, but I expected more than being charged money for something worse than a free MOOC.
> Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

Point taken :-)

> What about the use case when you change behavior when a sentinel file exists and don't care about the contents?

You'll still care that you can write that file, right?

> It can also be useful if there's a whole bunch of prerequisites you're going to check before doing a bunch of work; yes, opening the descriptor and keeping it around might be nicer, but...

But, after you've checked the prerequisites, and you start your main work, you're still going to have to handle the case in that main work that one of the files you checked has the wrong permissions/is locked/was deleted.

It's not unusual for users to accidentally open a program twice by misclicking it when they only opened it once.

> It can also be useful if there's a whole bunch of prerequisites you're going to check before doing a bunch of work; yes, opening the descriptor and keeping it around might be nicer, but...

You answered this question below for the `open`/`openat` syscall. For `fopen` ...

> though that doesn't exist in fopen(3)

It has been in the standard since C11, I believe - mode `"x"` for exclusive create and open. You can use it with most C implementations today as most systems support C11.
AMD Introduces Ryzen 8000G Series and Even New Ryzen 5000 Series CPUs
I always joke that cloud is Tanenbaum's revenge.

All that monolithic kernel performance wasted in endless layers of virtualization.
Insights from Paper-TAO: Facebook's Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph
We will now watch the enshittification and bedbathandbeyonding of Twilio.

I think this is especially sad as Twilio really was a reflection of the purity of product and engineering coming together to make more than the parts.

I can’t think of a better leader at the intersection of people and technology than Jeff Lawson.

I think Twilio has a unique opportunity to lead in AI if they kept their Hacker spirit. Unfortunately the fatal blunder here was that they signed up for this outcome via IPO. Not much better being private under PE, however it was doomed to this fate the moment they went public.

All that said, congrats Jeff (jeffiel) for doing such an amazing job and holding on this long.
Not this big, but very large with a market cap of 13B.

In tech circles, a very well known story though.
Luckily the irony won't be lost on those who prefer oligarchy over democracy.
My team is about to go through this ;) It's our first pair of satellite with solar panels in only one axis, so attitude control is critical. The satellites will be deployed on Wednesday, wish us luck!
interestingly, blue crab from the US atlantic coast is now an invasive species in the mediterranean.
That's fun. Creating the puzzles must be quite complex.
ASICs didn’t really take over until around 2013 (I was designing some PCBs for one of the first ASICs in 2012)
We have had, for some time, the necessary technology: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=cow+catcher&iax=images&ia=i...
Sounds quite exciting! Good luck to the team
How to Profile Cloudflare Workers
I thought the same, but it looks like there was a breakthrough relatively recently making it possible now: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/04/breeding...
> OK, well thanks for the confirmation.

Glad we both recognize that short stories are effectively worthless. Even the most recognized short story I know of sold for, according to your figures, basically nothing. Why are we trying to keep that under a super important lock and key again?

> Hey! Me too! We do have something in common after all!!

I know. You already told us in the previous comment that you were amused by it. Thanks for telling us again, I guess.
Although that interpretation makes little sense in the context of the Isaiah 14.

The name Lucifer, is a from the Latin Vulgate translation of the Hebrew word 'heh lel', meaning 'shining one'.
In the context its being applied to the dynastic line of Babylon, at Isa 14:15,16 indicating this 'shining one' is a man, saying 'Is this the man that made the earth to tremble?'(Kj)
Agree! The human element book I referenced above deals with those issues in a very practical way as does Ishikawa's TQM. One thing Schutz points out in a particularly striking way: issues of trust and openness are often the last thing to ever get dealt with in an organization.

Players are a side effect of this. They work from a cynical base that a lot of office stuff is BS and as a professional --- not a naive nube --- they gotta hustle too . And that is what makes them savy; a pro who's seen it all. Instead they further erode climate.

It's the office equivalent to news headlines:

"The dirty secret behind ..."

"What you where never told about ..."

"The real truth about..."

"The official ____ about ____..."

The implication is clear: you are repeatedly lied to; you can't trust what you see or hear.
> Open up the drugs and then there are whole other aspects to the competition than being born with good blood (literally).

Cycling is about endurance and power output. If you remove 'genes and training plan' you are left with dice roll. If anything I would remove team radios [0].

[0] Like when Anna Kiesenhofer won in Tokio.
No ruling aligns with this interpretation from any court opinion.

Nor would such an opinion apply to corporations.

You do not get "rights" which are the ability to ignore federal law because you decided the federal government wasn't allowed to do something.

The only successful challenges have been based on enumerated rights outside of states sueing based on the tenth.
Wendover Productions is another major offender.
I feel like you have to start dropping names here. Which creator does actually produce quality content AND uses clickbait thumbnails/titles ?

And don't you dare saying "Linus Tech Tips"
I saw the title and wondered if it was about one of the coins from Mel's hole. I would love to have one of those examined, if they ever existed.
>> “It’s mostly to prevent me from getting spit into open wounds and incisions when I'm talking or I have to sneeze or cough. Bacteria is a real problem, and the mask stops that.”

> so if we trust the airflow one way

Pedantic, but it matters: that's not airflow, that's droplets and spit.
I agree up until this bit:

> If the story is that nobody has ever investigated snake oil, and you have no strong opinion on it, and for some reason that’s newsworthy, use the words “either way”: “No Evidence Either Way About Whether Snake Oil Works”.

You spent how long telling me that "no evidence" is bad writing, and your solution is "no evidence" + weasel words? That's even worse. Just recognize that the thing you have no opinion on is not newsworthy, and just drop it. That's right, less writing is good journalism.

The greater problem here is the fear of authority. If there is a position to present, then present it directly. If the position is that snake oil doesn't work, then just say it. If you aren't a good enough authority, then find someone who is.

This is where scientific communication has ultimately failed. The strongest authorities we have all use the weakest language that they can! By refusing to represent a strong position, we have left a void. That void will inevitably be filled by the least scrupulous authors. Whatever fills the void will be implicitly held in awe by the lack of direct criticism we had constructed around the void in the first place.

Refusing to participate creates an inverse cult. An anti-cult where everyone agrees to never share what they believe. It spreads its anti-message just as quickly, and cements itself just as divisively, as any evangelist organization does. We must recognize that the anti-cult lives on equal footing with the cult. The true power of each exists, not in their core truth claim, but at the boundary of argument. Argument is engagement, and engagement is fuel. To avoid engagement is to starve.
If it matters, I'm not necessarily looking for an InfoSec job. I'm mostly filling a hole in the rest of my knowledge, but now I realize I could have filled that hole on my own a lot better. I probably wouldn't pass a job up, as my carpentry business hasn't had a customer in months, but that's beside the point.
> There is no evidence that "ironmagma is a not a troll".

I think there is evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ironmagma

Trolls would reasonably able to be detected by the contents of their posts/comments. Looking over the comment history, I see an absence of evidence that they are a troll and, in this case, absence of evidence is evidence of absence [because we can reasonably exhaust all of the "trials" [past comments]].
HTTP daemons remain pretty nice, and if you use them rather than serving HTTP from your language (... and how many languages are you using? Each HTTP-serving lib is another liability) you get a lot of cool stuff "for free" ("just" config against a battle-hardened system, not code)
Eat less, meet people.

Eat less, meat people.
Isn't it part of the job of the good Bayesianists to establish their own reasonable set of priors? It seems silly for a layman to ask a statistician if there's any there there and have the statistician say "Well that depends, what do you think?"
It depends entirely on how well you've managed your follows, likes, and comments to train the algorithm.

Only NPCs expect good, uplifting content to be handed to them without work.

This applies to both X and Threads.
using cloud hardware for training and consumer cards for inference seems like the common sense thing to do then
It's worth noting that the Netanyahu government, in official statements, has disavowed Smotrich and Ben Gvir's rhetoric --- and claims that Israelis will re-settle Gaza in particular --- and that the war cabinet doesn't include them (was, in fact, formed in part to exclude them). There's probably no side of this debate that thinks Smotrich is anything less than a monster, so continually citing him isn't doing much to move the conversation forward.

(Smotrich and Ben Gvir have said worse things than this!)

None of this is to vouch for Netanyahu, who is himself a deeply problematic figure and is of course responsible for forming a coalition with these people in the first place --- something I think most people feel he did in order to escape prison.

Not to keep one of these cursed threads going even longer, just, if you're trying to parse reasons why citing Smotrich isn't getting you more traction with your interlocutors, that could possibly be one reason.
So that bagholders who put their whole life savings into dogecoin can feel better and say it's still 'going to the Moon' (popular meme)
You have a device that can present a virtual reality that you can share with people all around the world and you want to use it to visit an office and block out the people there? That seems a little backwards to me!
AMD Ryzen 8000G Processors Launched for the AI PC Era
https://www.astrobotic.com/update-4-for-peregrine-mission-on...

Unfortunately, it appears the failure within the propulsion system is causing a critical loss of propellant. The team is working to try and stabilize this loss, but given the situation, we have prioritized maximizing the science and data we can capture. We are currently assessing what alternative mission profiles may be feasible at this time.
Congrats! Mine just turned 17 and I just modernised it a bit. Happy clients for almost 2 decades. No unicorns but still a nice fuzzy feeling. Keep going for the next 10 years!
Unfortunately not

They are not even remotely substitutes nutritionally
To me it makes very little sense for object permanence to be learned rather than innate - have a look at the "contradicting evidence" in the article you linked
Litecoin and Doge and Ethereum were mined on GPUs throughout that period. And in fact all the other coins are tied to bitcoin in the first place, bitcoin price runs also trigger huge mining booms in everything else, so yeah, it's kinda understandable that people tend to view them as a single linked thing, because they kinda are.

What, precisely, is the point of making "actually you mean crypto, not bitcoin" posts, other than demonstrating that you are, indeed, "very smart"? Like, this person doesn't even exist, it's just a "heh aren't those no-coiners dumb" strawperson that you imagine to be some big dummy.
Well, we've found out it would take a week in Lloyd Austin's case...
Consider also neckstrain.

People have gotten neck fractures from VR headset use.
Sort of, but lambda-like runtimes typically act like something in between process-per-request and a long-lived persistent process.

AWS lambda at least will reuse the same execution environment for multiple requests. So simple things like caching in a hashmap or using a database connection pool will work and avoid these startup costs.

You still get CGI-like behaviour on cold starts but once warm they perform much more like a persistent process. This ends up being a pretty good trade off for many use cases because you use little resources when idle and get pretty good latency and resource usage when busy.
I wanted Threads to work but have given up on it, visiting occasionally for a couple of AI-related accounts and that's it. All the constant hype about its download counts hasn't remotely correlated with actual worthwhile content. There is little NFL or F1 content there (lots of players created accounts and then abandoned it), tech content is largely masturbatory "look we're Tech Threads" type content, etc.

And to be clear, I deleted my Twitter account shortly after Musk's purchase. I'm not an X "shill", though to offer the counterpoint when I see someone "shilling" Threads I assume they have some iota of success there and really, really want it to be a thing so they'll constantly tell you all about how it ranks in downloads.

Thread's algorithms are absolutely fetid garbage. Despite following a couple hundred good accounts and trying to like content I enjoyed, my for you was endlessly filled with almost an inverse set of what I want to see. I didn't engage these posts but instead would just mute/block copiously. It would redouble the same. "Tech" Threads recently has been 100% occupied with Meta employees bitching and whining about Apple, which grows super old. I could switch to Following, but so few people actually post there that it's just sadness, and the few who do post frequently are so obviously desperate to try to make a social media "presence" that it's just...the opposite of not cringey. And again it is shocking how much content on Threads is about Threads, or about Twitter. It's just incredibly boring.

And this is the honeymoon period! If this is the best it can offer, what happens when Meta starts actually turning the screws?
Probably close to the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.
They should have the measurements to know if the rocket had any forces that went out of spec during launch
Thanks, that was surprisingly interesting. It also talks about capelin the sibling comment mentioned.
Obviously the best thing that the FAA could do is remove all upper management from being able to do their jobs...
hopefully as a disability support worker.

I'd like to spend the next 17 years doing something more personally meaningful as i'm quite jaded on tech now.
Extra special shout out to apps that include a dark theme but flash you with a blinding white splash screen when you open it/access certain menus/etc. Software something something cargo cult.
>There is no way I can give "true, verfiable evidence" for what I ate for breakfast

This depends how far you are in the process of turning your breakfast into poop.

As for the digging up of the pots... it depends on the exact nature of the claim.

Digging up of the clay pot does mean there where humans with clay pots at that place some time in the past. The settlement claim is a larger claim, if they were travelers that lost their pots there, that's a lot different than the pots being buried in a basement of a permanent building. Finding lots of the same kind of pots over a wide area and scale of time show that a certain civilization (may?) have existed in that area.
Hating on Mercator is just pavlovian concern trolling at this point (it's the first thing people learn in their GIS classes, whatever). People are so obsessed with conservation of area, it's cringey, Freud would have something to say about that. Maps should always neatly establish a frame of reference. Unless you need to actually take out a ruler and measure a thingie of of it, projections don't matter all that much. The mercator map is an excellent world map: land masses nicely proportioned, straight reference lines that don't clutter, north is up thank god, no weird bulges, just rectangular, you know, like a page in a book or a website. It's just a really good world map. The haters are wrong 90% of the time.
Aside from the browsers, I don’t know how many times I had to fix TLS handshake failures due to the server sending only the leaf certificate or argue with people who insist on shoving the full CA chain (sometimes including the leaf) in the ca-bundle/trustore, even after I link them the TLS RFC.

This really should be better documented and enforced.
Very happy about this, switched companies recently and Elixir was the language of choice. Coming from TypeScript, I missed a lot of the benefits of a typed language and having access to the data model from anywhere in the project. Elixir was already great, but this is a huge improvement, congrats to the team that worked on this!
Cod benefited by a moratorium on fishing in the areas with the most stock (eastern Canada). Without it there would have been a complete disappearing of cod.
Agree with this. For folks not familiar with Twilio leadership, I would liken Kho to Twilio's version of Tim Cook. For the size and stage of growth that Twilio's at, he's the best possible replacement for Jeff.
Really enjoyed it! 6:20 oo
Piercing the Economist's veil of anonymity eh?
author here:

its a lil' platitude-y but i think its cause its also titled `the lies i tell myself.`

I just try to share the stuff i've written in my journal for myself as i send these notes off to my sister whos going to college soon.
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