skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all information needa to be remembered. Most of useful information should just be easily available. It's good to have a single place for all of that with the ability to easily move stuff from one place to another. It saves a lot of time and effort as well as makes everything work in the first place (you are making notes, actively thinking what to write, what is generally important and what is super important to be memorized; that process alone makes your thinking and memory clearer and better).
Pre-2000 Toyota anything. 4wd required, then get an older Rav4. I prefer 4Runners but you're not going to get 30mpg. If you can get by without 4wd, then get a Camry. Best car ever made in terms of reliability / maintainability and dead simple. Huge trunk space too.
You can get personal perspectives here:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/
The former is a spec detail (the result is returned in ns) and the latter is an implementation detail (browsers currently quantize the result to 100us). That is a useful distinction since you can use WebGPU outside of the browser by embedding Dawn or wgpu into your own application, and there you should get the maximum resolution the spec allows for. Environments like Electron might also opt-out of that timing attack mitigation since they're intended to run trusted code.

I agree the article could have made that clearer though.
As a longtime kiter and sailor, the durability of the kite and line system seems to be the biggest weakness. Constant uv exposure and stress to these systems would make the economical calculations interesting. I don't know of a current setup that could see sustained continuous use for 1 year without significant material replacements or maintenance...
Existential threat means things can’t get worse (you just stop existing).

Ignoring the potential of geoengineering implies you are sure that we have a better solution which will work. I hope we don’t have to use geoengineering but I am certain the status quo of hoping renewables and batteries in the 1st world will save us is not going to work.
I was rejected by Palantir years ago. The recruiter called and said that I wasn't technical enough. I replied that none of my interviewers asked me a single technical question (I was interviewing to be a lawyer there). The recruiter was slightly embarrassed and said she'd follow up after investigating. Of course, I never heard back.
The context is different standard versions. Random extensions don't count. C23 has raw string literals, C before 23 doesn't.
I estimate, conservatively, that about 90% of papers published outside the STEM fields can be categorized as Cargo Cult Science.

I like the idea that he calls this a "conservative" estimate. That sounds much better than "factoid I pulled out of my butt". An unfathomably vast number of papers are published in every mainstream field of academia, STEM and not, every year. The reason we only have "conservative" "estimates" is that nobody can possibly read all of them.

Pick a field and take it down if you can. But trying to build a case against all of social science using the example of someone notoriously elevated despite a lackluster career as a publishing academic doesn't get you anywhere!
And let's not forget all the things that the British Empire stole from its subjects across the world.
Ever seen The Monuments Men?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monuments_Men
In a slightly broader manner, free software forking has been working out reasonably well: When the original branch goes off the rails, others can take over from a previous "known manageable" point. Forking leads to fractioning the user base but kinda, that's the point.
I'm ok with hybrid work schedule now that my company make th mandate. But, I think we are really dumb for scheduling meetings in the early hours while others commuting to work. Plus, once in the office everyone finds a corner and dial into zoom. Isn't that dumb you think?
I expected people already knew about this or would use Google.

Here’s a link:

https://www.unilad.com/technology/ai-detected-breast-cancer-...
check out the "sandpile model", which was very influential in the study of critical phenomena in physics. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-sandpile-model-The-c...
That branch of cellular automata was the precursors for what we call AL/ML today. If I remember correctly Conways version was a simplified version from Von Neumanns version. Where they used hard rules to affect the neighbors the weighting systems and functions we use now was an offshoot of that. They could even become interesting again if ML were to use those kind of rules to kill off/grow nodes.
The cause is irrelevant, 72 people died in a building fire in 2017. That didn’t need to happen.
It's fine if they're happy with it.

I'm just saying that this would be just as much a "failure" as it would be for their investors.

I know I never would have quit my well-paid, enjoyable job to start a company if this was the outcome.
Mastodon and Lemmy do feel different to me, because of the decentralization.

They are providing a foundation that gets built upon with every migration wave, and I think it’s plausible that they will eventually break into the mainstream.

Put another way, the fediverse is the first alternative that doesn’t need to “succeed” in order for development to continue. It’s a bootstrapped model. And so it can grow quietly, work out the usability kinks over time, and be ready to absorb users whenever they get fed up with the centralized platforms.
Two things here.

One is that the marginal cost of software(1) drives this pattern of winners and losers. The first user of any software costs an enormous amount of money to actually write the software and deliver it to customers. The 100th user costs basically nothing once you have 99 others. And the millionth user (or billionth) user costs basically nothing as well(2). That in turn means that having a billion users is a lot more profitable than having a million users, which means that if you have a billion users you can afford to do things that the million user system can't- e.g. free webmail and a really good free internet browser, just to name two things picked completely at random and not having any particular company in mind.

The other point is explaining your comment about the "last 15 years": tech's dominance (really, growth's dominance) is really an artifact of zero-lower-bounds interest rates from the 2008 financial crisis. If interest rates are zero (for discounted future cash flow computations) then I am indifferent about a dollar today versus a dollar in 2075. So someone who can argue that they have a 5% chance of being worth a trillion dollars in 2075 is worth a lot (0.05 * 1T=50 billion) when interest rates are zero, but if interest rates are high (or even, honestly, normal- like 2-3%) then that money is discounted heavily and the growth story doesn't matter as much because dollars today are worth a lot more than dollars in 2075. So if interest rates are zero, future growth will dominate the stock market (which was why 'tech' did well) but when interest rates are more normal, different companies can dominate the stock market (where the fundamental valuation of a company is, roughly, the expected value of future cash-flows discounted to the present).

1: Delivered by the internet- physical media distorts this a bit and behaves more like normal retail goods.

2: Exceptions for certain points in the growth curve where some key system falls over and needs to be rapidly replaced, e.g. storage or compute or whatever, but outside of those it's very cheap growth. Plumber company growth is limited by the number of trained plumbers you can hire- you can only have 1 plumber make so many house calls in one day- but software just replicates at zero out to infinity (again modulo some key systems which can't handle the load).
I hate home automation! I hate home automation!

I have a Hubitat Elevation for Aqara temperature/humidity/pressure sensors mostly. They all run locally. I'd like to throw some smart LEDs in the mix for ambient lighting. What's a good, non enshittified vendor?
I'm a participant in a community that explicitly refuses money from outside its membership. If that means we can't grow fast, or have fancy digs, so be it.

The reason for that, is to avoid having influence from outside. Even "angel" investment can be problematic, as the "angel" has the ear of the leadership.

I have found that even well-meaning outsiders can have highly destructive influence, because they don't understand the culture and they aren't the ones on the hook, if things go pear-shaped, as opposed to the ones that have a real, personal, stake (like all those Ello users, who lost so much).
How utterly soulcrushing. Reading this I realized at once that both I want to be loving unconditionally to my kids like you and also my parents would never do this for me.

You and your family sound like beautiful people, and I hope you can be kind to yourself no matter what happens.

When timing is more appropriate, I'm curious to hear more in-depth about how to cling relentlessly to joy.
VirtualBox 7.0.14
Appreciating the complexity of LLMs data pipelines
Here’s a document “salinity intrusion in the Panama Canal”: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA378475.pdf

Graphs at page 32 and onward shows that you could (in theory) pump salt water in one more lock upward in both sides. It will make the last lock before lake at 0.5ppt (Atlantic) and 1.32ppt (Pacific). Fresh water is 0-0.5ppt.
Indeed!

“ The International Energy Agency estimates that China more than doubled its solar generation capacity and added two-thirds to its wind generation capacity in 2023.”

https://archive.is/b0qif
It wasn't the intended purpose, but I might consult this site before sending a rejection letter. Some of the language used is awful, of course, but some of it is fine.
Tigerdirect comes to mind.
It stands to reason that someone who has travelled to over 60 countries would have the ability to understand what someone is trying to say without being this needlessly pedantic.
GCHQ celebrates 80 years of Colossus (code-breaking computer in WWII)
Us Americans are very wide.

The second staircase is for the oversized pickup truck.

(And anyway the dual staircase thing isn’t even universal in the US).
Something similar happened in Missouri a few years ago when the state's web developers leaked thousands of social security numbers in the HTML of one of their websites. A reporter noticed the flaw, reported it to the state government, waited for them to fix it, and then finally publicized the security issue. The governor (Mike Parson) accused the reporter of "hacking" because he clicked the view source button in his browser.
Why not? If we burn gas using CCS and develop a lot of nuclear, we wouldn’t even need renewable energy. I’m not saying it’s bad, just that it’s not essential (and may actually be a distraction in e.g. Germany where it has displaced nuclear development and resulted in coal plants being reopened).
It snows heavily but infrequently here. I love 4wd for when I have to get somewhere on unplowed roads. I'm a very cautious driver. It's also nice for to / from the ski lifts in sketchy weather.
I’m always genuinely surprised when I see this sentiment expressed here on HN.

Do you use a hammer to code? A keyboard to paint your walls? Do you strap phones to your feet to move faster or do you use a bike for that?

Technology and other tools very much shape what we do and can do with them. We shape them and they shape us.
I am working my way through "Oh! Pascal!" and "Learn to program using Lazarus" as a meditative exercise. I am 25 years in and had Pascal in college. Mainly code Java and Python to put food on the table (and manage a buncha impertinent devs). I love the clarity and organization of the language even when it gets a little clunky. I get that same zen feeling with Go
Related, from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39028979
For moving from a dead stop, why is 4WD better than AWD (assuming equal tires)? Does it have to do with the locking differential, or something else...?
> (...) people really did think of network congestion as a buffer allocation problem, so the obvious solution was more buffering - i.e. adding queues.

I don't think people believed network congestion was a buffer allocation problem. I think people believed buffering was a way to mitigate congestion caused by a spike in traffic before allowing connection problems to surface (dropped packets, dropped connections, etc).

Buffers are bounded which, by definition, means they can be filled up. Once they are filled up then the same problems that were caused by a congested network without buffering would also be experienced in connections with buffering. It's hard to believe that back then no one noticed that buffers would only take so much data.

> Nagel was one of the first people to point out the problem with this.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the problem that was pointed out was instead modes of failure that take place when networks are congested but buffers are still able to take more data. We're talking about failure modes that happen when the network is congested and buffers are not completely filled but they neither can flush their data nor drop packets/connections, thus it's a steady state characterized by a network that in theory is working, but induces high latency.

Also, limiting buffers is also not a fix for network congestion problems. It's a way to allow a failure mode (dropped packets) to happen much earlier than another failure mode (long queues with high latency).
Perhaps what's going on now with AI?
They should sue as anyone else can for goods back, if they have proof they own it .
Sounds to me like the database credentials were embedded in the application so presumably the application would log in to the vendors server as an intended action. Does this mean all the vendors users must be charged with hacking also?
Or you just could go the whole other way. Don't report. Sell.
He is also still talking about spinning rust (rotational delay). I forget the timeline, but maybe he went into prison before SSDs became ubiquitous? (I know they are still in servers)
Hyperbole only makes people who don't know what hyperbole is lose trust. It's an obvious, unspoken thing between the author and reader here that he does not mean 100% but instead very close to 100%.

The author was quoting (very much the blog version of a re-tweet), so yes, there was very little added. The headline came from what he was quoting. Perhaps it would have been better to title his post something better. Actually the linked post he was quoting from has a better title.

But nonetheless, an 8 year old could read that post and know the "no one" was not meant literally, so why go into a comment section and respond to it? It just seems like garden variety "aaaactually" behavior which adds nothing to anyone's day, but is in every freaking HN post and makes you kinda hate the site you love sometimes. How much better would this place be without all of that?

The truth is sure a whole lot closer to "no one" than to the urban legend, just as if someone said (pre-2020) "no one's letter got lost in the mail and anyone who tells you that happened was lying". A statement that is right 99.9% of the time is barely even hyperbole.

The reality is (according to this article) that people everywhere think this happened, it didn't, it can be verified that it didn't via ship manifests, and people only think that because of a scene in a movie. That's what a 5th grader would take from reading it. Can we all just respond to that? It's an interesting claim.
I've heard it said that "happiness is a fleeting feeling and joy is a state of being."

Any time you have the opportunity to experience gratitude, contentment and appreciation for what you do have it brings a great deal of peace.
I drove a 2wd pickup for years in a mountain town and I did ok. But now I have 4wd and it's great. It's not necessarily a crutch, but it can become one if one isn't smart about how they drive.
With my developer hat on, I agree.

With my business hat on, I'm not so sure. "Why are we spending development resources on a feature that isn't valuable for our target users?"

I could definitely see doing this if it were a product with a prosumer-type angle to the value prop. But for the devices we see on the shelf at a big-box store, I don't think those companies' management considers that valuable.
I take offense at being called a "Reiser defender". I think we can all agree that he's a creep, a manipulator, and a murderer. I don't hear anyone defending him.

The guy strangled his wife. I don't think that's the kind of thing you premeditate. He's also a liar; I wouldn't read too much into his attempt to manipulate his later civil jury. The crime-of-passion narrative would still find for the plaintiff, so he made up some nonsense that the jury saw right through.
That doesn't make sense. Federated social networks have the same hard problem as centralized ones: social networks require people.

The part that's hard is the people, not the technology. Centralization and federation have nothing to do with it.
Income bar / donation thing sounds extremely stressful and precarious if you're paying anyone a salary.

Capped profit is interesting since it doesn't limit the business model, just the likelihood of enshitification.
Very curious what you see as the problems with WebGPU currently. I’ve been tinkering with it slowly as it has a bit of a learning curve.
It was available there first. It was a value-add for using Edge over Chrome, and it was somewhat effective for about 3 months like that. I started using Edge to have free access to that and I enjoyed it at the time.

That event caused me to take another look at Edge, and I now prefer it to Chrome and use it as my daily driver at work. I am split between Edge and Brave at home.

Honestly, Microsoft has done a good job with a browser (finally). It only took them 25 years.
The letter reads like Reiser thinks the firmware bug is fixable, and it’s more a case of nurture over nature. Don’t know if that’s true, but it’s not unthinkable.
> Remove importlib.resources deprecated methods: open_text

Well, that will break code I shipped to a client last month. :(

I see now its future removal was documented in the "What's new" for 3.11, but I missed it.

The code is shipped, it passed acceptance tests, the budget is exhausted, I'm exhausted with the project, and the limited warranty period expires before 3.13 will be released, so think I'll let them figure out how to deal with it once it breaks.
... or your truck stops at a weight station.
Raising a couple of rounds can reliably render solo founders financially independent.

If you can easily cash in for $5MM+ and a steady salary while maintaining full control of a startup with loads of cash in the bank, would you risk it all for much more, or ride it out for as long as you can in comfort?

Many founders would choose the latter.
Don't rely on GH alone. Save a local copy. Host it somewhere that isn't so centralized and discoverable. One upside of increasing centralization is that people who you don't want finding things are awful at finding said things that exist outside it.
Better to just pretend you never noticed it. Even telling them their password is visible is risking being the messager that gets shot. Using the password is right out.
The clue’s in the name: “misuse”.
That's really funny. I had the exact same idea!!!
Glad somebody made it happen.

the mobile display needs work ;)
>Isn't Greenpeace's ideology

The only thing that's ideological is advocating for a technology that uses virtually as much energy to put carbon back into the ground than the carbon yielded in the first place, when the alternative is to simply not take it out of the ground to begin with.

Carbon capture is like trying to cool your room by leaving the fridge door open or running on the treadmill while eating fast food. Trying to delegitimize efforts just by labelling them 'degrowth' as if that is an actual argument, needs to stop. It's the pro-growth cult that causes us to constantly have to invent solutions for problems that we could avoid in the first place.
Subarus have head gasket problems and in the community of Subaru owners it's just a given that you're going to replace gaskets pretty often.
Amie – Calendar App
Why would the access roads create a complex shape? Fields already have access roads. Either the farm is flat and the turbine access roads can be on a minimally invasive grid or the turbines are on a hill and the fields are already a complex shape.
So this is bidirectional!

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEL2AM/A/thunderbolt-3-u...

Nice one Apple. I think I'll buy this, a cable and a cheap tb3 dock.
Framework has open sourced the EC firmware, not the boot firmware. The UEFI implementation is still closed source proprietary InsydeH2O software.
That has also been my experience. I left ChatGPT for phind.com. I tried perplexity, but I found phind to be superior.
I note that there's zero attempt to verify that any of the messages actually came from the companies they purport to have come from.

I dislike corpos as much as the next guy, but there's no reason to treat these as anything other than completely made up by randos on the internet.

Personally I'd anticipate a string of defamation lawsuits from something like this. And dick pics. I'm actually surprised that so far there's only a bunch of garbage and not dick pics.
There was definitely a certain amount of "I told you so" vibes, but I don't blame the author. It appears that he was attacked by a lot of Ello founders and fans for raising some cautionary notes. And as it turns out, he was right and they were wrong.

We would all like to have a model where users don't get charged money, and yet are not the product. But I haven't seen a model that works to date. In some cases, I don't mind my personal date getting sold; in other cases I pay money because the service is valuable. But I certainly make backups since I don't assume that even when I pay $$$, that the company might not go poof in the night....
NetBSD 10.0 RC3 Available
if safari tech preview is anything to go by, it may come to iOS sooner or later

https://webkit.org/blog/14879/webgpu-now-available-for-testi...
Flattr style micro-payments doled out based on impressions of a page (or their evil twin, ads) seem more honest than subscribing a la patreon. (I subscribe to a lot of creators with patreon.)

I frequently hear and read people not wanting to sponsor some youtube channel or podcast they consume for hours a week because it's "not that good". If you spent the time there, they deserve your money. I really feel for creators who produce popular material, but don't get as much remuneration as content that people are prouder of liking.
Alternatively, reporting the vulnerability is what did him in. This seems to encourage an adversarial environment where no one will report any vulnerabilities they find for fear of repercussions. If their good faith efforts will be used against them, they may as well act in bad faith.
Treaty of Versailles (1919) [pdf]
Says the guy who gets emailed hacked database from cybercriminals
I know some late stage startups with multiple rounds where _all_ are 1x. Most likely ZIRP but still.
I’ve done this accidentally. Several times!! LOL