skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From 1999, i.e. well before Cloudflare:

"Here the chaotic seed is generated by a number of lava lamps, which are photographed by a digital camera. The photograph is then fed through a hash function in order to reduce the correlation between consecutive pictures. This is a necessary step, as most pixels of the pictures of the lava lamps will be the
same from picture to picture. The output from the hash function is then fed as a seed to a classical pseudo-random number generator".

Now, the interesting question is whether it works and is worth the effort.
Yes, but I suppose the name is rather unknown in Germany. I only know some brands enumerated in other comments (Hoover etc.) from American TV series.
Can you create separate modules for sync and async user-facing APIs?
Did you reply to the wrong comment by chance? There is nothing that questions the veracity of the claim or anything said about blame, merely a wondering of how the prevention was carried out as he imagines the force would need to be pretty extreme to stop someone based on his experience in cold Minnesota.

If you don't know the answer, it's okay. This isn't ChatGPT where when there is no good answer you have to hallucinate something to not break the UX. You don't have to dream up something unrelated to the discussion just to reply. Users here are fine with and expect no response when something cannot be answered.
Tech Valley Science Centre – Antigravity research report part II (2023) [video]
In the elderly neighbor and shovel example, I don't see what's wrong, as long as it was communicated. It depends on the agreement really - for example, if the shovel guy was charging a little less for subscription than what it would otherwise cost the elderly in a regular year of snow. The elderly is getting the benefit of always having a shoveler ready and available, and the shoveler is getting the benefit of more predictable income.

I am as frustrated about everything turning into a subscription as the next person, but the solution is not to put the onus of cancellation on businesses. It is to prevent monopolies (so that there is a true free market) and dark patterns (i.e, cancellation should be easy and terms should be very clear when subscribing).
Is "extreme depression" a clinical term? I've heard of Major Depression, Chronic Depression, Clinical Depression.
The funny thing about humans is that sentiment very much affects where things are headed.

People feel good about the future, they will buy that new TV or start that new business. And those actions will have very real consequences.
A lot of uninformed my-partner-never-gets-off-thinking-about-others, all-of-these-are-mentally-ill-people-in-failing-sinking-partnerships and this-is-society-degrading-to-psychopaths-let’s-go-back-to-1920s-marriages. Got some news about granny’s relationships back then and how liberal that time actually was. I’m not in a polyamorous relationship, but if you’re scared or appalled by other people being themselves, I guarantee you have a psychological issue and people you love around you are not opening up to you as much about themselves as you might wish. Life is letting you by.
You can go far using only Zigbee or Z-Wave devices with a Home Assistant server, and then nothing (but the server) has to be networked.

As for switches vs. bulbs, at this point I can't go back to the life I led before picking up a bunch of Hue White Ambiance bulbs and having HA automatically adjust the color temperature throughout the day.
No goatse, either :(
Samsung Joins Apple and Adobe in Supporting JPEG XL
From the article:

> I am not an embedded Linux expert, but this does seem like a lot after tinkering with Raspberry Pi Pico and such.

...but of course the Pi Pico doesn't run Linux and doesn't need a lot of memory
You ask whether there is something special about orbit vs reaching space. This is a good question.

To be in orbit, a rocket must move extremely fast. The source below says that the energy needed to go to space is only 3% of the energy needed to go to orbit. That means orbit is about 30 times harder than space.

And it gets worse than that because of the rocket equation: to get twice as much kinetic energy requires more than twice the amount of fuel, because you are not just accelerating your capsule, but also the fuel it will need along the way.

So yes, there is a huge difference between being able to reach space and being able to reach orbital velocity.

Source: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/basic-ro....
Why only 100M? Shouldn't Lithium be absurdly abundant, given it's a lightweight element?
Thanks! We changed the URL to that above.
All of them. Who is going to flip your burgers?
Is it possible one could coat electronics like this, then submerge them in (distilled maybe) water within an ice pack, freeze them, then use them and the heat melts the ice?
I remember those days well. I had the misfortune of working for one of Java's biggest advocates at Sun, Patrick Naughton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Naughton

To this day, I refuse to use Java or anything on the Java ecosystem, like Clojure, or Groovy, etc.
I've always been impressed by this one by Amanda Cox.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010...
Tom Baker – The Iconic Doctor
Absurdity aside, I set a reminder for any trial end, preferably a couple of days before.
I have no idea about the numbers but wouldn't median household income be 50% higher because both adults work (and they have no kids) now?
Just get a 25G switch and MM fiber. 25G switches are cheaper, use less power and can work with 10 and 25G SFPs.
Hah, weird to see micromuse come up. I started working for them two weeks before the acquisition was announced!
Plus even if you use distilled water, it'll probably find something to disolve a bit of if you keep in on your electronics for long and then it'll conduct a lot better.
Am against this.

Over time not only will more people die, but we will, as a community, split over and over . . . over what/who should be celebrated.

Regardless, at some future point, assume HN still exists, there will be a point where the symbol is constantly black. Thus meaningless.

And I would rather not have death be meaningless. HN-approved death or otherwise.
RCMP in general is pretty broken - sorry - needs reform. Systemic issues.
Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies
I had depression, generalized anxiety, OCD, panic attacks, and myriad issues related to that. I tried years of meditation, diet changes, vitamins and supplements, and exercise routines.

When I finally agreed to try SSRIs after years of resistance, I was essentially cured within 3 weeks after 5 years of debilitating issues.
Depends on uour definition of "older". In this niche, no, being an older worker would be detrimental. The root underlying problem (in any niche really) are people aging out the system, leaving a lot more work to be done by fewer people. 40 would be OK. 60 would be too old.

Clearly you -could- learn it now, but the effort would be immense. In the same way that you could learn to be a doctor, but at some point it becomes too much like hard work.

Also, unfortunately, there's a cost to entry. It's proprietary software, and you'd need around $5000 to get kitted out. Plus a lot of time.

On the other hand, yes it can be done remotely.
Another major geophysical/geochemical system for which we have poor models is the subsurface ocean. Our measurements are simply too sparse to build a realistic model of the dynamics even though we know they have a major impact on climate.

For a long time there was an assumption that oceanic subsurface dynamics were relatively static to a first approximation for climate modeling purposes. But localized measurements in recent decades have provided evidence that it is far more dynamic than models allowed for. Despite knowing this, we still don’t have much data to build models with due to lack of oceanic sensing platforms capable of collecting detailed data across 70% of the planet. It will likely be at least a couple decades before we begin to get a handle on these dynamics.

I think people that have not worked in climate modeling tend to overestimate the fidelity of the climate models. The only things we can predict reliably are extremely coarse, like “it will get warmer on average” and “weather variance will increase”. The short-period systemic effects at any particular locale are far beyond what the models can currently predict with any reliability.
"Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies. That number varied significantly, with some panelists’ data listing over 7,000 companies providing their data."

I think this might be the worst part because you cannot refuse a company, association or some other party from uploading its data. Here, for instance, many salesmen and women (illegally) insist on disclosing your email address when buying stuff in a brick and mortar store "in order to have a valid insurance claim".
Why not send a message reminding them of the service, and giving an easy one-click way of cancelling? You could include some info on how they can use your service as well of course.
I can also completely forgive anyone in the 1980s for being led down the spooky national-defence paranoia route, regarding their invention. It was a different time where people were more deferential to the authorities, and had more of a reason to want their protection. You just need one visit from the men in grey coats asking nicely for a cup of tea, your formula, and your signature on the official secrets act. The effects compounded if you were prone to the Walter Mitty effect.

Anything crucial enough to maintaining an edge in the Cold War — or rather, ensuring survival should it become a hot war, something for which magical ablative insulation would be very handy — isn’t the sort of thing that gets a patent. One simply doesn’t win by suing the USSR for intellectual property infringement in the dying ashes of civilisation, old boy.

A lecturer of mine published a paper on bivalve adhesion that was allegedly funded by government interests desperate to maintain a strategic lead in limpet mines. Another worked with ultra high speed equipment with an electronic shutter that was switched by a krytron, the same component used in nuclear device detonation. There was a potent, possibly overblown concern about labs being infiltrated or broken into.

I think we forget about the miserable amount of paranoia brought about by the world being permanently only four minutes away from ending, and the weird things it made people do.
Hat tip to you sir. May I suggest checking out Cloudflare R2 - they don't charge for egress.
Fuses are notoriously imprecise, even "fast blow" ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG11rVcMOnY
Probably a long shot, but would anyone happen to know the color scheme used by the author in the snippet of Python code showing an example of tcf-agent? I really like the mix of bold, italics, underline and shading to achieve a distinct syntax highlighting with such a limited color palette.
I'm not sure if it is _fully_ openai compatible, but whispercpp has a server bundled that says it is "OAI-like": https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/master/example...

I don't have any direct experience with it... I've only played around with whisper locally, using scripts.
The first 2 shootings of the year, both in SOMA, were both committed by people driving cars, presumably car owners.
Ok, sure but 1.8 billion ohms puts you in insulator territory. Same ballpark as rubber or glass.

So no, you shouldn't really consider distilled water a conductor.
> As these modeling systems are becoming increasingly complex, it is hard—and getting harder—for a graduate student or postdoc to 'come up to speed' quickly enough to really understand the full scope of the model development needs and wrap up a development project on the typical three-year timeline of a proposal," said David Lawrence, who co-leads the Community Terrestrial Systems Model at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. "Unfortunately, that leaves many projects unfinished."

Click bait ad for funding, move along
It matters because the nature of a country reflects the culture of its population, and immigrants bring along the culture of the places they are from: https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Transplant-Migrants-Make-Econ....

The large influx of south Asians to the UK will make the UK different. And if you think the UK is a better place than India, those changes will probably not be great ones from your point of view.
Yes. Freeze/thaw cycles are _remarkably_ destructive though. Water expands with insane pressure if it gets caught in any little cavities or grooves.

You're very likely to destroy it over time, if not immediately.
I think a lot of people buy into their “class” according to their income and so they’re no more financially secure than those making less with smaller debt obligations.

A number of my peers have homes worth 2-5x mine and they’re really struggling. Which just feels bizarre given they’re making very good money.
This kind of suggestion is indeed pretty common for all kinds of governments and organizations, but would be disastrous or useless for many reasons.

For example, Firefox the software project depends on many other essential components that are not strictly a software project but Firefox can't survive without them---developer and test infrastructures, addons.mozilla.org, localization platform (Pontoon) and so on. And there are more nuanced projects like Rust and Servo that might shape the next decade of Firefox. And yet there are technically uninteresting but financially positive projects like Pocket Premium and VPN, which started to provide a significant portion of the revenue [1] and represents a less dependence on Google's search royalties.

Requiring specific goals only makes sense when donors exactly know all those dependencies---an unreasonable assumption. In fact, if a majority of the revenue came from such donations, it would be very disastrous. Thankfully for Mozilla, it doesn't depend too much on donations (~2% of the total revenue in 2022), but then those donations don't mean much financially anyway.

There are alternative schemes as well. For example, donations may have wishes that are not guaranteed but to be explicitly considered (I think Vim did so for a long time). This is better than enforced goals, but not without a problem because significant donations would affect developers regardless of the acceptance anyway.

[1] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-202... (Specifically "Subscription and advertising revenue", which accounted for ~13% of the total revenue in 2022)
And the ladder
And charge more than agreed bill if you use more ? This is not how pricing work
As an Android user the main reason I don't use Firefox is that it feels slower, not because of any anticompetitive behavior. In Firefox, there's often layout shifts when I load the home page, keyboard animations sometimes jump around, I can't use the "release to select" menu option, etc.
Whenever I read articles like this about a small country that finds a rare resource I can't help but think about playing civ 5 in late game and finding out that I have a ton of uranium on my land.
Hvaldimir, the Whale Who Went AWOL
> In fact most american households spend rather more on personal electronics and gadgetry (not just TVs, obviously) than they do on food.

Where did you learn that? It doesn’t seem very likely.
Yeah colour temperature would be my rationale for smarter bulbs as well.
Designing Data Intensive Applications
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The Moral and the Legal
The models are trained on data, if that data is inherently biased, the model will be too.
The problem in question is really a problem with the subscription model that charges you a flat rate regardless of usage. The ostensible selling point is that what you pay does not depend on how much you use, and that you can use as much of a service as you want, such that the price is significantly below what you'd pay if you were using the service maximally. This is similar to dial-up internet in the old days, where you used to be charged per hour, before flat rates became common.

But here's the rub. While it is true that any given person in practice might benefit from such a pricing scheme, it isn't true that everyone could in principle benefit from such a pricing scheme. The model depends intrinsically on uneven and non-maximal usage of the service, which is what the aforementioned subsidizing is doing. For it to work, it requires that a large share of people overpay for the service, where overpaying means paying more than the value of what you receive (by definition, if you don't use a service, then you are overpaying). If everyone were using the service maximally, there would be no difference between paying for how much you use and paying a flat rate, because you can be sure that the service provider would raise prices to cover costs and reap profits.

So no one is doing you any favors here. Poor utilization is not just an "oops" on the part of the subscriber, but an essential feature of the business model. If everyone was being "personally responsible", the business model simply wouldn't work. And because this isn't a charity, the idea of being happy about subsidizing others users is kind of weird.

So two natural questions to ask are:

1. What could a pay-as-you-go model look like in such cases? Could it cover the expenses of the service? Arguably, no. Those who don't use much would probably continue not to use much. Those who do might reduce consumption, because now you must pay for what you use.

2. Is there a morally sound justification for paying at least a base rate for an unused or underutilized utility to keep it afloat (perhaps charging additionally according to usage)? Putting aside all utilitarian arguments, which I take to be unacceptable, we can find a number of cases that seem to operate similarly that we do not appear to object to. Take the salary, for example. One is not payed strictly according to the value one provides, though you could argue that salary is, ideally, a method of paying for the value provided in a diffuse way (value provided previous year reflected in the following year, esp. bonuses, or upfront payment with expectation of value). So salary doesn't seem quite the same. What about the fact that you can use the service on demand? This is like having a driver who gets payed for being on-call. It seems like this may be a good analogue to begin with to try to grasp the ethical and economic reality of the subscription model in question.
talking about a "moral obligation" usually means there's no legal obligation, so people don't start down that route until they've exhausted all other obligations.

unfortunately, a moral obligation is about the least powerful type of obligation there is.
> Running wires through existing walls can be annoying, and they don't want to put that barrier to sale in front of them.

It also makes it more convenient to compromise the device from across the street (or across town with a directional antenna). Though of course that's not a problem if your security is up to par and the device continues to receive regular security updates, and we can only surmise that the author has discovered a rare outlier in this space where that is not the case.
Have you read Out of The Tar Pit? Builds on what you're saying.

There is a reason we turn it off and on again to fix issue: shared mutable state.

Codd's relational model.

Opinionated but best way? Postgres.
Is this a case where the software just had bugs in it like most production software that are patched with new releases that introduce new bugs and as such is a useful scape goat for the defense and the media has no idea what they are talking about and decided to run with it? Or is it the bugs are egregious and clearly responsible for the convictions?

Please note I have no dog in this fight, just generally curious if anyone knows more?
Without a fuse, the circuit breaker trips and then you go reset it and hopefully learn not to plug in so many kettles next time.

You would have to be a maniac to wire up a house without fuses or breakers.
What do you think about public transport vs. personal cars?
These are all machines generated from normal photos without any regard if the output looks good. You can even see shutterstock watermarks in some.

Take a look at a site like https://aahub.org/ if you want to see some examples of proper text art.
> Also, oh, man, Jazelle. I'd forgotten about that. Hardware support for Java bytecode... that did not pan out well.

I'd love someday to learn more about why Jazelle failed.

The first SoC I worked on almost 20 years ago was built around an ARM926EJ-S, just like in the story. It was built for Nokia, who used Symbian OS [1], and supported user-installable apps written against Java Micro Edition [2].

The utter mess of Symbian's app discovery and installation, I suspect, was a prime reason Apple created their App Store for the iPhone.

Nevertheless, the fundamental concept of HW-accelerated Java apps doesn't sound crazy. What happened? Were they just stuck with a sinking ship, Symbian?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Platform,_Micro_Edition
Canceling/reordering a credit or debit card is not guaranteed to actually end all subscriptions – some recurring payments can follow you across card reorders!
I had to read the title multiple times but couldn't make sense of what is exactly happening.

Why is this happening to English?

The other day, there was a story about an airplane window that got melt and many native speakers couldn't make sense of what the title of the story meant?

In that case too, as a non native speaker of English, I blamed myself first for not understanding the language well enough.
So a company with money and a good lawyer could really just essentially have you thrown in jail? Seems really not good.
What is the license on any of these?
Send in the LLMs!

I want to be able to say single words at it and see a visualization of: disco tango banana reptillian
Nice article! We've also recently reached the mark of 1TB/s at CERN, but with EOS (https://cern.ch/eos), not ceph:
https://www.home.cern/news/news/computing/exabyte-disk-stora...

Our EOS clusters have a lot more nodes, however, and use mostly HDDs. CERN also uses ceph extensively.
Similar, though not quite the same. With insurance, I would rather not have to use it. With Netflix, I would rather use it.
Framer – 2023 in Review
Could this be the reason why human (and things with brains) need to sleep from time to time? Sleep would reset the accumulating noice from the brain.
Software, it's never done.

An x ray machine does the same thing all the time, no Software maintenance needed. If you have a product that has a cloud component, any component to it where it needs to be maintenance from a security standpoint, that has cost, you need to cover that cost.
Maybe it could instead be within some type of very thin pouch/layer of dielectric liquid, like in immersion cooling, and then water/ice outside of that so the force of expansion from freezing could be distributed?
The things you like about America are a product of the culture of Americans. My parents, from Bangladesh, are deeply different from my wife’s parents, who came to America before the Revolutionary War. If my ancestors had built America it would look very different than what it looks like today.

If you think America is pretty good—and I do, my family left our homeland to come here—it seems reasonable to worry that the cultural changes wrought by immigration could mess up a good thing.
Why a mindset of stubborn optimism about the climate crisis is needed now