skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Analog or digital are properties of the signals you put on the circuits, not of the transistors.

You can do digital manipulation with non-gapped transistors too. You just can't use the extremely intense when active but self-limiting designs we use today.

Besides, unless we get some very creative new insights, analog computers are a dead-end.
> Just look at how many IPhone models exists nowadays, Steve Jobs would be shocked to see Apple in 2024.

The trick is that there aren't a lot of new iPhone models. Instead they just keep selling the old ones for a while.
AI: Toy for the rich or tool for equality? [video]
The evidence is all there, you just refuse too see it as such.
I think this is too generous a take given the facts we know that happened.

First, the time period we’re talking about here is 16 years. You’re telling me that the post office in 16 years couldn’t figure out how 10% of their branches were having persistent problems with their counts for 16 years! What business operates this way when dealing with such large amounts of money. At a minimum even if it was legit fraud by the subpostmasters this would be an indictment of the competence of the Post Office in managing the offices.

Then there’s gems like this:

> Some subpostmasters noticed the new system reporting false shortfalls, sometimes for thousands of pounds, but the Post Office insisted that the system was robust and, when shortfalls occurred, prosecuted the subpostmasters or forced them to make good the amounts, as required by their contract.

Then an audit that was disputed and ignored:

> In 2012, as a result of pressure from campaigners and Members of Parliament, the Post Office appointed forensic accountants Second Sight to conduct an investigation into Horizon. Second Sight concluded that Horizon contained faults that could result in accounting discrepancies, but the Post Office insisted that there were no systemic problems with the software.

Finally, the most egregious thing is that even if you go back in time and are an honest player, as the convictions start happening more and more often, maybe at some point you go and ask the question “what changed in 1999 when we started prosecuting and why weren’t we catching this fraud before? Did we become better at it somehow?”

Actually it corresponds to the rollout of the system. It’s possible of course that this system added new auditing capabilities that didn’t exist before but honestly 10% is still ridiculously high.

Ultimately, the facts of the case are pretty clear this is bad faith from the Post Office (and maybe Fujitsu) top to bottom. There’s no point playing hypotheticals with good faith actors when the Post Office even had audits showing the software was buggy and the response was to dispute the audits they themselves contracted. It’s beyond the pale.
Interesting. Why not?
This resembles the man-in-the-middle attack, which is also a triangulation attack in structure. I wonder if it could be defeated with a dual path defence, where traffic went one way out and another way back?
OT: there is a 'dead' comment by a user going under the handle gazelle21 [1] at the same level as this comment which seems to have been insta-killed which most likely means this user has been shadowbanned. The actual comment does not merit killing as it is related to the subject of this discussion and does not contain anything 'sensitive' or 'triggering' unless the sensitivity levels have been turned up higher. Going through this user's comment history I notice that most of the comments and al the submissions - going back to 2019 - are 'dead' but - and this is the odd thing - some are alive. I did not see any warning from dang to this user that he was about to be banned if he did not change his ways nor did I see any particularly shadowban-worthy comments or submissions. The user's 'karma' level is positive so that is not the reason for the untimely expiration of his comments either.

Why was this comment killed? I have been told that shadowbanning is not practised here but can not think of anything else other than this user being watched by a number of particularly vengeful detractors who jump to the down-vote/flag options any time a post or submission appears. The comment itself fits the discussion so that can not be the reason. What is?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gazelle21
Meta joins rivals in pursuit of human-level AI
I don't see what this has to do with Narcissism. It's certainly a problem in society but I'm not seeing it here.

You did just describe a woman into "findom." They tend to be sadistic to their "paypigs," jerking them around (but not off) while extracting as much money as possible from them and dumping/extorting them in some humiliating manner.
People who use such a service probably don't know what a spread sheet is.
I guess that's true. I never really thought of them as the same thing.

Looking over some old info about the "i486" (I swear I had completely forgotten about the i) was a treat. It's only barely believable but I think the sheer annoyingness of Intel's marketing and market segmentation might have actually peaked three decades ago.
To be honest while 40GWh a year is a huge quantity of batteries it's not nearly enough for a country that consume 11TWh a day, maybe in a century (and ignoring battery degradation). US needs at least a magnitude more to reach the objective in a few decades.
Why not both? We're also putting rooftop solar on the Pentagon: https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-....
Yes exactly. Learn this so you can then apply it to your own software
here's a weird calculation:

this cluster does something vaguely like 0.8 gigabits per second per watt (1 terabyte/s * 8 bits per byte * 1024 gb per tb / 34 nodes / 300 watts

a new mac mini (super efficient arm system) runs around 10 watts in interactive usage and can do 10 gigabits per second network, so maybe 1 gigabit per second per watt of data

so OP's cluster, back of the envelope, is basically the same bits per second per watt that a very efficient arm system can do

I don't think running tiny nodes would actually get you any more efficiency, and would probably cost more! performance per watt is quite good on powerful servers now

anyway, this is all open source software running on off-the-shelf hardware, you can do it yourself for a few hundred bucks
Your moneyview is partially correct but this is also a very, VERY deep cultural mindset

Europeans don't take so well to "haha this quarter was bad guess we will lay off 15% of the office"

There is a very, VERY good reason that these are Europeans going from an american company with an office (formerly HQ) in London to a potential European Startup.

If you want to boil it down, this is about power, and Power shall NOT eternally flow from California.
I tried to downsize my google plan from 2tb to 100gb. It's now charging me for both plans every month, and my available space toggles every couple weeks (with dire warnings in every app about being at 90% capacity when it's on the 100gb plan). Support says all the things that are already on the support pages and then throw up their hands and say they don't have access to do anything to fix it.
Interesting that it considers >= 256 entries to be 'not small'. That would be accurate for larger structs, not so much if the element is a bool, int, pointer, etc.
The EU is rapidly moving in a federalizing direction (one of the reasons the UK left, which will probably accelerate that movement). The phrase "United States of Europe" is part of the vision behind the creation and evolution of the EU in the first place. By adapting a common currency and the Schengen area the EU members have already given up significant parts of their sovereignty. It's not as federalized as the United States is now, but it's certainly an oversimplification to claim that EU members are "fully sovereign states".

Furthermore, EU member states are, in terms of population, much closer to individual US states in size than any of them are to the US as a whole. My state has three times the population of Switzerland.
I would add that in the development of the best products, the engineers don't merely implement, they also invent new features and whole categories of services.
I think it elevates it to the level of other STEM fields, but I wouldn't put it over wrapping your head around Lagrangians or figuring out where the noise in your experiment is coming from.

What'd I'd say though is that managing the process of shipping software isn't easy. e.g. building AWS was probably not easy. But then again, building a tokamak or a stellarator is not easy either.
I had a Samsung laser printer that printed maybe 300 pages before the fusor died on it. The fusor replacement part was more expensive than an entire new printer.

I have had the worst luck with samsung devices, everything but their ram and ssds have failed on me in an incredibly short time (appliances failing in less than 3 years) or had issues making them nearly unusable for me, such as their TV backlights are set to like 6500k or something, far too blue and hurts to look at for me.
The society will still exist, it'll just be different.

It's a great thing less people are being pressured into starting families or having unplanned families.
How material were the post offices “overbooking” of profits by false sales registered via this bug ?
How plausible is it that in-fact the internal narrative was that the post office was wildly more profitable than it was, but that they just need to crack down on this minor theft problem that they have via prosecutions while at the same time padding their figures a bit via postmasters money ?
<sotto voce>These people are crazy
I was legitimately excited about this idea. If anyone wants to start a buffet with a monthly subscription, I may be your first customer.
The virtual cards offered by Privacy are credit cards (specifically, charge cards) and feature the normal credit card dispute process.
Countries have declining numbers of people working in agriculture, and agriculture is becoming more mechanized.

When you are working a farm with manual labor, children are income producing assets. As society moves away from that, children are costly liabilities, at least until the parent reaches old age. And social insurance decreases the value of having children as insurance against poverty in old age.
They already do it as it is, they various thieves either use a stolen car or stolen plates.
Oh sure, the experience of millions of non-Christians is irrelevant, of course.

Is Girard saying that Christianity destroyed scapegoating and mythologized violence? Or simply archaic virtue? Because I can think of loads of scapegoating all over the Eurasian landmass, from 300 years of the Spanish Inquisition, to pogroms ordered by the Tsars, the Bolsheviks, the Cossacks, and the White Army.
Oh that's cool! I actually was playing around with shadowmodding a bit. When you have to parse some of the worst messages you've ever (potentially) seen it's helpful to have an AI not reject your request.
Yes. I first tried it with Rook, and that was a disaster, so I shifted to Longhorn. That has had its own share of problems, and is quite slow. Finally, I let Proxmox manage Ceph for me, and it’s been a dream. So far I haven’t migrated my K8s workloads to it, but I’ve used it for RDBMS storage (DBs in VMs), and it works flawlessly.

I don’t have an incredibly great setup, either: 3x Dell R620s (Ivy Bridge-era Xeons), and 1GBe. Proxmox’s corosync has a dedicated switch, but that’s about it. The disks are nice to be fair - Samsung PM863 3.84 TB NVMe. They are absolutely bottlenecked by the LAN at the moment.

I plan on upgrading to 10GBe as soon as I can convince myself to pay for an L3 10G switch.
Wait, "private" meaning a non-government entity such as a corporation can prosecute someone, without any involvement of the public justice system, and send people to jail? I assume not just any private entity is empowered to do this, but still... Wow, it's bad enough here in the US that we have a private prison system, but that really takes the cake.
Been using wise for years to pay intl freelancers and send money to family. Way less stressful than using PayPal and not limited to certain banks like Zelle is.
Who cares about responsibility? I want more efficient price signaling. Bringing spending more in line with intent improves price signaling, so, gives us more utility from this whole capitalism thing. Doing this also happens to benefit and strengthen the weakest actors in the economy, and to make them more-confident economic actors.

It’s all win except for the companies getting free money for no reason. Why not fix this?

[edit] put it this way: if easy visibility into subscriptions and standardized, easy cancellation mechanisms were already mandated, would there be a strong case for changing that?
I don’t know how different it is from Rust, but in javascript supporting async and sync is smooth as a Swiss watch.

In Python it takes more thinking and structure because async isn’t built in deeply like it is with javascript.

Even so, async versus sync doesn’t feel like a nightmare in either.

Having said that, it depends entirely on how much experience you have with async programming.

Async programming is a mind bender that will throw you completely until it becomes natural. Synchronous programming feels natural and logical and async requires a completely different mental model.

I can understand why anyone forced to do async would hate it. It’s something you have to want to do.
I worked once for a company who internally decided to never contact paying accounts that hadn't logged in in over a year. This isn't a gym membership, this is 5 digit yearly payments.

The reasoning? "We don't want them to realize they're paying us for a service they don't use and cancel."

I guess I see the point, but feels unethical.
Chinese parts, purchased by third party nations, designed and assembled in Ukraine.

Why?
Last year we bought a suite from DFS, a major UK furniture retailer. It's falling to bits. We'll put in warranty claims but we can already see how it'll fail in other ways.

We have another sofa from IKEA that's done 11 years service, going strong. IKEA gets a lot of crap for disposable furniture but they really understand their materials in a way that other manufacturers do not, or at least do don't care about.

DIY is something we're doing more of since a flat pack sideboard spontaneously disassembled itself a few years ago. It takes time but you can deliberately not cut corners and you still get cheaper furniture. And a hobby.
I am not that much younger than you but I think you need to look at average income and expenses for young people these days. Look at what it cost to attend college if you graduated around 2018.

We missed the period of time where you could "work your way through college" and have it paid off by the time you graduated, but we were able to graduate with reasonable levels of debt. I think I had $20k in debt when I graduated in 2008. My first apartment was a $450/mo room in someone's house then a $500/mo studio.

It's not possible to graduate college today only $20k in debt and they're going to make $10k/yr more than I did but have to pay for a $1800/mo studio (the median rent in the same town I got that $500/mo studio in 15 years ago). So it's great that you were disciplined but that's not the only thing that matters and each year things are a little worse for those just starting out.
This remembers me, once international martian scientific sat fails, because on it half done by Americans, with Imperial measure units, and other half, by Europeans (most active usually France), with Metric measure units.

- On one important data transfer, from European module to American, somebody forgot convert units, and software decided to make full halt (to be honest, these things are extremely frequent, but mostly fixed after appear), and this time, unfortunately, this lead to mission loss.

But to be honest, civilian aviation is full of such issues, when appear some critical things, because people erroneous read measuring unit names.

For example, Gimli Glider case, when technicians erroneously read fuel amount in kilograms, but enter something other (their interface accepted centimeters, liters and kilograms and convert automatically), and as consequence, plane was carrying only 45% of it required fuel load.
Fortunately, all alive and plane got minimal damage, but this is not always.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Their website has some odd price comparisons.

Wise claims a debit transaction on a $1000 to $1000USD would cost $15.

That’s an incredibly high rate for a debit txn.
> I wouldn't wish E. coli on my worst enemy

Is curiously a double true. Either way you take it, there is always a possible interpretation that leads to a logical, non-satirical meaning.
1700-year-old metal object, one of archaeology's great enigmas, unearthed in UK
What I like about them for forex is that they're publicly traded, so I can take a look and see if they're at risk of disappearing anytime soon. And assume they have some good auditing.

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/WISE/wise-plc/comp...

Only takes one horror story to read about a currency exchanger taking your wire and then going bankrupt before wiring you funds back to want to avoid private currency exchangers forever.

My other method in Canada for conversions between US$ and CAD$ is to buy an "inter-listed" stock that trades in both Toronto and New York City. My stock broker will sell me a bank/telecom/whatever in CAD$ in Toronto, and then let me sell it for US$ in NYC. Hedge funds, etc. keep the two stocks in lockstep with exchange rates. Tis called "Norbert's Gambit". Cheaper than Wise (basically $20 flat rate for me and about 0.02% in spread if I take a bit of risk with a real stock).

I suspect this might be possible in Europe if you have access to different markets across the continent.
A monthly financial review doesn't take longer than 10 minutes.

So you are suggesting that these three part time jobs offer more than $60/h and thus are more valuable than a 10 minute finance review where you identify your misspending of $10/mo?
I hope that someday, we can have a Rust-like language without async.

Bonus points if it has the ability for users to define static analysis a la borrow checking.
Exactly the same as GPUs. There's two companies.

if you want top shelf routers, it will have qualcomm chips (cpu/soc/radio). If it is a budget one, it will have mediatek.

Also, we had a flood of demand and new versions coming out. which literary added nothing. Some will wrongly say "mimo", "beamforming", etc... but those were all present since "wifi5" (ac) and have just been "standardized" in wifi6 (ax), wifi6e (ax+6ghz), wifi7 (be)... the real improvement after wifi5 was simply higher frequencies (pointless since your internet pipe is still crap) and more power (by relaxing power limits). really nothing else because even the features that were standardized might not be present or be badly implemented anyway, like half wifi6e routers not even having a 6ghz radio.
When I was very poor (~$22k/year), I had a google sheet that had a running tally of all my transactions, what category they came from, and was therefore able to forecast months in advance when I'd be able to afford to go to a movie with my partner. If I was going to have a shortfall (maybe because I'd been scheduled for less hours unexpectedly, or I had an unexpected health issue), I'd know weeks in advance if I was at risk of missing rent, and adjust my grocery spending accordingly.

Being exposed to the crushing reality of my poverty, alongside the daily ritual of sending off job applications and reading rejection emails from last week's applications, took a heavy toll on my mental health. If I was running things that close to the bone again, I'm certain I could take that habit up again, but one of the ways I know I've come up is that my survival does not require me to categorize every transaction in real time and confirm adherence to the budget down to the penny.
The strains in your gut aren't really benign, they're just isolated to your gut. If you exposed someone to those strains by say not washing your hands before cooking, it would not be fine.

I agree GP is being silly though.
It would be surprising if they can just not sell things because they're too expensive, and then borrow based on that too expensive price. Why not just have a single one and price it at $1bn?
This story is about not ignoring either sync or async...

It's great that the work finally led to both being supported. The cynic in me wonders if it's also async runtime agnostic, and not just Tokio. If that's possible.
Personally, the main reason I'm looking to build a GUI in Rust is because the rest of my code is in Rust and I want to have an interface for it is because I don't want to write my own DSL to express it via command line arguments or file inputs and I don't want to have to start using multiple languages just to specify the input to or display the output of my program. I don't really care all that much about speed, I just want to use the language I'm already using for the other parts of the project.

The point about extensible widgets is I think more along the lines that what most people need isn't a way to create new and better versions of <input type=T>, but rather ways to say "if I want to input something of type T, you need to display these inputs in this layout and you can combine them to make a new object of type T". In other words, GUIs should focus on composition rather than inheritance.
The scheme of there being a retirement age when you get older relies on there being a lot more young than old people. If, hypothetically, there were a 50/50 split between the retired and the working, the living standards of the working would decline and working aged people wouldn't themselves be able to retire at the same age as those before them. They'd probably resent the old retired people and the previous generations for both having no children and retiring, leaving them to deal with the worsening living conditions.
A bit more to the story is that it was created also at UC Santa Cruz, by Sage Weil, a Dreamhost founder, while he was doing graduate work there. UCSC has had a lot of good storage research.
> Curious what separates a military drone vs a drone used in war.

Right now, not that much, as lots and lots of civilian drones are used both by the Russians and Ukrainians for surveillance or for grenade drops.

Usually military drones are bigger (like this Shaheed knock-off from this article) and can do more (usually more destructive) stuff compared to civilian drones, like the Russian Lancet drones.
If you want the philosophical approach to the way to do things on Unix systems, you can’t beat “The Art of Unix Programming” by ESR. That book flipped my whole understanding of the way to write code more than any other book.
It's great for making moonshine.
Yes. It's like writing code that's aware of MAX_INT. The code doesn't need to know the value of MAX_INT. It just has to handle special cases near that number.
It’s problematic because it suggests we don’t really understand why low fertility happens, or what to do about it.

Vast amounts of money might be wasted by governments in Poland, Hungary & elsewhere on fertility boosting programs that likely won’t work.

And academically, our dataset of countries is relatively small to begin with, so it only takes a few exceptions to break any statistical confidence.
That's the thing, isn't it? I would gladly pay $500 for "THE LAST PRINTER I WILL EVER NEED TO BUY", $650 if it came with a 10 year parts and labor guarantee.

No one makes what I want to buy.
That you make the tired and incorrect "free your emotions man" point of a run of-the mill addict and write the rest as if you have a deprived intellect?

I tried to quote specific parts of your post where this is the case, but the entire thing makes my "case in point" (the correct phrase, over your incorrect "case and point").