skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... I was profoundly disappointed that the OLS access log didn’t give me useful information and left me flying blind—the LSPHP processes shouldn’t be pegged to the wall while the access and error logs both show absolutely no requests being serviced of any kind.

I was profoundly disappointed that the article didn't go on to describe how strace works, in the service of delivering a satisfying answer as to why the CPU was pegged.
Looks very relevant to compare. Or in more practical terms, it's worth comparing to something as a reference that's similar in complexity of urban warfare but was handled better.
See my updated comment.
Comparing energy density between batteries and oil is not "transparency and realistic expectations"

Once the oil is used it's gone. Batteries can be recharged
Batteries aren’t just used in cars man.

Really hard to beat propane or diesel for heat in the wilderness right now.
Not enough information in that Tweet.

Is outperforming SPY abnormal among non-congressional peers?

Here’s the actual report: https://unusualwhales.com/politics/article/congress-trading-...

From the tl;dr:

> Congress beat the market, once again. Of 100 trading members, 33% beat SPY with their portfolios.

So 2/3 of congressional traders underperform SPY.

This also means the image in the tweet only shows top performers.

From later in the analysis:

> Note that there are a total of 535 Members of Congress, with 100 in the Senate and 435 in the House.

If congress has such useful information for trading why is only 1/5th of congress trading? This 20% is roughly on par with the 15% of the American public directly owning stock.
23andMe admits hackers stole raw genotype data that went undetected for months
Because infrastructure can handle a finite number of users based on their connection types.

If you’re running a 50kW kiln (or more realistically 4 x 12kW) in your back yard then your annual use may not be that high but the grid needs to handle larger demand spikes. Paying per kWh alone doesn’t adjust for the relevant infrastructure.
> My employer almost called the cops on me, because I didn't drive in one day and used uber.

What was their reasoning behind this? Unknown car at a secure facility?
Architecture must not be an aesthetic endeavour but rather a functional one that is fully integrated with high tech urban planning.

If I am ever able to acquire any significant resources, I would like to pursue a new type of city. This city will use technology like open source design software, formats and blockchain to create an integrated environment.

Outer buildings will be public containers for private modular internal buildings. There will be multiple levels of infrastructure including separate levels for roadways and pedestrian walkways. The standard vehicle will be a small autonomous pod.

The outer buildings will be connected on multiple levels by roadways. The architecture will be dictated more by functional needs such as passive or active climate control than by aesthetic.
We don't know what their profit for the year is, the Q4 results aren't out yet. Even more, we're unlikely to ever know, since Microsoft is unlikely to break them out at that granularity.

But we can say with absolute certainty that they're did not make anywhere near $10B of profit last year. Activision doesn't even make that much in revenue! Their 2022 profit was $1.5B.
I can kind of understand being temporarily distracted when a message comes in and your phone chirps, but wow... watching a video while you operate a 3000 pound machine is next-level idiocy.

I haven't been driving as much in recent years wasn't aware of this trend. (Except for Tesla drivers: 5 years ago, I remember looking over to see a Tesla on autopilot next to me, doing 60 on Seattle's 520 bridge with the driver totally checked out and watching a video.)
They just need the guts to do it.
Thank you for sharing this openly, the content is personally useful for me.
Really: Invite Anyone to Your Tailnet
Static linking doesn't actually solve any problem. Just use dynamic linking with (probably relative) rpath, and compile against a sufficiently old libc.

There's some common FUD about rpath being insecure, but that only applies if the binary is setuid (or otherwise privileged) and the rpath is writable by someone other than the binary's owner (all relative rpaths are writable since you can use symlinks; absolute rpaths are writable if they point to /tmp/ or a similar directory, which used to be common on buildbots).

This is really not hard; working around all static linking's quirks is harder.
You can cook a frozen turkey, it just takes a little longer.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/cook-a-frozen-turkey-483280
Related:

Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38304405
Why would you think measurements of a tiny tiny number of tiny tiny programs have something definitive to say about the immense variety of software in-use?
> Is this something I'm too European to understand?

My guess is: yes. I'm almost too "I look at the car, not the driver" to understand but I have actually seen this as a passenger in America. I drive myself places.
unpoly is a great project and is absolutely best-in-class for progressive enhancement

htmx is lower level but has a bit more mechanical sympathy w/normal HTML: more work for some things, but less magic too. it's focused on generalizing hypermedia controls, as outlined here:

https://hypermedia.systems/extending-html-as-hypermedia/

there is a terrible simplicity to htmx that I think many developers find attractive after a decade of heaping complexity on top of web development

my ability to market htmx has surprised me as well, i have been silly on twitter for a long time now, but for whatever reason it recently started working
"halves the php-fpm base latency"

Have you a source for that? I've been having this discussion (that php-fpm is slower than needed) but I haven't found any hard data.
1400 experiments to find the best RAG configuration
Wikipedia, as a form of publishing, has always been biased towards the "look at me i have the good opinion" crowd. Because it gives some good visibility.
The right to see who is spying on us
There is so much wrong with this long post, it is hard to know where to start. I'll just pick off one quote to get the discussion started:

"The people who make hardware for AI compute are all losing money except for $NVDA."

SMCI continues to have record stock growth.

Update: if you're going to downvote, at least reply?
A sibling comment proposes cooling the houses to reduce demands later during the night.
When people are present stuff as new they should have done their research, otherwise we will never get free from the computing fashion industry.

It is like microservices bandwagon nowadays, apparently distributed computing "Network is the Computer", computing agents, distributed objects, and service oriented architectures, also failed by the wayside.
I didn't expect it to turn around. More like selling mining rights, but reading this article it seems like the mining footprint of this project is particularly small
This does such a good job laying out the real fundamentals of what's happening. Capabilities model, component-model; it's well covered and nicely tied together.

The WasmCom keynote What is a component? (and why?) by Luke Wagner is also a great intro. https://youtu.be/tAACYA1Mwv4
I manually do this at the end of the year. I mostly discover neat URLs on desktop and have a bookmarklet that adds things to Pinboard. I also store stuff locally in my browser's bookmark manager. I never tag anything, and prefer to export everything to a HTML file, then proceed to convert all the URLs into a text-only list, and roughly organize things. I have categories like:

Useful
Tech
News
How-Tos
Blogpost
Whimsical
Software
To-Buy
SaaS
Programming
etc
well.. i cannot answer that. because if i do, i'm in trouble. big trouble.

and i will never get out of alabama alive too.
You are wrong. Only from personal experience.

I have an informal waiver from ICE right now, and I'm running a tech business, but I'm deportable and would ordinarily be in immigration jail except I'm in a sanctuary state.
There is, that's libertarianism. People don't think of it as an anti-corruption movement because their solution to corruption is to have less government rather than have more government employees fighting corruption, but it's the same end goal.

The problem here though isn't lack of money. Linux has lots of money. Adding more money from governments won't change anything. The article says there are hundreds of people paid to hack on the kernel. The problem is that the kernel development culture (sorry, it has to be said) is still a 90s hacker culture, and the people who get employed to work on it are hackers. Hackers like writing code, and dislike writing documentation or unit tests or fiddling with CI systems. The fact the kernel is written in C doesn't help (makes common testing techniques like dependency injection more painful).

The idea that it's companies to blame for lack of docs is rooted in this culture. The people who understand what the docs should say are the ones writing the code to begin with. How will these technical writers know what to write, exactly? Usually in a company they'll do that by interviewing the people with the knowledge, who are mandated to attend the interviews by their managers. In the open source context you can't do that so this boils down to "please hire reverse engineers at vast expense to work out things I already know but can't be bothered communicating" which is a terrible proposition. Who exactly are these unicorn reverse engineers who are skilled enough to work out kernel code but who want to spend all day writing docs? Where will you find them?

Likewise the lack of testing infrastructure. The idea that those terrible freeloading corporations just aren't helping is wrong - they have tried repeatedly and the kernel community has ignored them.

https://kselftest.wiki.kernel.org/

"Kselftest is run everyday on several Linux kernel trees on the 0-Day and Linaro Test Farm and other Linux kernel integration test rings."

https://foundation.kernelci.org/blog/

"The first KernelCI test development and coverage hackfest took place from 27th May to 4th June 2021. For a total of seven days, developers from the KernelCI team, Google, and Collabora worked to improve many different aspects of KernelCI testing capabilities."

If Linus and his subsystem maintainers decided to stop merging patches until they collectively had a good CI setup, money and staff would appear immediately. They have before, even when there was no commitment to do that. But in the early 90s people didn't really write unit tests or run CI systems, and so nor does the kernel today.
I'm still really enjoying most of his recent work, check out all the aliases on Nomark Records if you haven't yet.

Through his DJ mixes I discovered Tipper, Noisia, Frank Riggio.

+1 to Hidden Orchestra which someone else mentioned. I also really love what Stimming is doing.

Besides electronic music, I listen to a lot of jazz these days, and jam bands like Vulfpeck. I mention this because Amon Tobin's early records are what originally got me into jazz.
Note that demand being at zero doesn't mean we are shutting down power plants. Nuclear, for example, is baseload and basically never shuts down. But California does export a lot of energy when the net demand is low. And of course charging batteries is an even bigger part of it.
"Batteries are terrible for long term storage, namely they are toxic"

Only some are toxic. But can you name the poison or danger with saltwater batteries?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-ion_battery
Most people aren't carrying bowls of soup with them everywhere. Bowls of soup also don't send you unprompted notifications.

Things have changed a lot. The biggest thing that changed is how common this kind of driving is.
If only we could crash a Tesla into a Boeing Max. It would break the internets.
Documented immigrants will get a ITIN and/or EIN.

Undocumented immigrants are far more likely to go the... undocumented route.
It's the HTML doc title of the article, which is always an option for "original title" in the guidelines' sense of that term (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

What's inaccurate about it?

(Btw - thank you for posting the links in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39146163. We need those.)
depends on insulation
It is also important to distinguish between normal zip file and ebooks. Let's use the extension ".epub".

You described ePub format, where HTML, CSS, images files go in zip archive.
Yeah what an obvious article. Too bad brokers are all locked down by clientIds / passwords and certificates and if you start acting out of the ordinary you will get banned / blocked. Even 1 packet of a large size can cause being blocked in a good production environment.
Any large scale interruptible compute, for that matter.
I thought this headline would be cause for celebration and I'm just disappointed to see so many negative comments that reduce the accomplishment down to red scare style jabs.

I only pointed back at the US to help reframe the situation in readers' minds who are mostly US based. The list of environmental damage by the US would also be too long to list so it seems unfair to have comments presenting 1 side without mentioning the other.
As an illegal, the biggest problem is.. how would I get ID with matching photo that I can use to sign up for web sites? A huge amount of web sites now want to ID verify with government ID and selfie. I have to get other people to do this for me.
Pardon me, I thought there was some rigor involved, my mistake.
Wait until the price of Apple's Vision Pro comes down a bit. You'll see people driving with AR goggles on, watching movies or worse.
"brainwashing" is a term that's going to unavoidably turn this conversation in a bad direction, it might be best not to use it here. There are less inflammatory ways to describe what's happening in that tweet.
I'm a little surprised by that energy density chart. Who's selling batteries that carry 500 Wh/kg? Those are research prototype numbers; I think that Amprius and the gamma-sulfur people have hit (or passed) that mark. But cars and cellphones have been using the Ni-Mn-Al-Co oxide family of cathodes for a decade. The recent large-scale development has been bringing on LiFePO4 which actually accepts a lower density in exchange for lower cost and longer life.

That doesn't discredit the predictions, but I don't think that the connection they're trying to draw between energy density and market demand really holds water. The development of higher density batteries is good for certain applications like that ground-effect electric seaplane, but it isn't necessary for cars or grid storage, where the first case is mostly viable already and the second is concerned with the cost outlook and the self-discharge rate.
The actual rulings can be found at https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192...

and a summary is: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192...

Dissents etc can be found in the case page: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192
- in particular the opinion of Judge Aharon Barak, the Israeli ad-hoc Judge (a peculiarity of the ICJ is that each side gets to add a judge, but it doesn't have much effect since there are 17 other judges). But interestingly Judge Barak ruled against Israel in the case of two measures, enforcement against Incitement and ensuring humanitarian aid.

I believe it's also available in French, for those more familiar with that language.
> Is "horizontal reading" worse than reading two files?

Yes, very. I'm amazed that this is even in question.
The mention of air travel was strange. I wasn't aware of anyone who thought long range flight would ever be electrified. At least not without some fundamental breakthrough.

S-curves are hard to predict. Basically every time someone attempts to do it, they are way off. This [0] is a neat paper that addresses the question. We've blown past every single prediction.

[0] https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/files/energy_transition_paper-INET...
Terminology: "Guidance counselor" means "recruiting sergeant" here.[1]
This is not about school guidance counselors. It's about someone who works in an Army recruiting station. These are military HR people.
"Guidance" means matching up potential recruit skills and open Army jobs.

[1] https://recruiting.army.mil/Portals/15/Documents/Forms%20and...
This door squeaks a little bit...
Also ignores any required authentication. This is basically just a load test.

Why has the security field degenerated to such a shitshow?
> With three phones and a one-in-eight chance of being unaffected (assuming 50% for each phone) that still leaves a very large number of phones out there that are potentially affected.

Sure, but isn't it the primary job of journalists writing about subjects like this to figure that stuff out before publishing? This is a headline that clearly implies "all" phones. Now we're in a subthread where it seems like the fraction is "<12.5%" (actually we have four in my household, so that gets us to "less than one in 12" I guess).

Do you genuinely believe that "Pixel phones unusable" is a correct characterization of the situation given the data at hand? If you were an editor, would you have published that headline?
We are still finding new deposits of lithium. Also its very likely we will eventually switch to other technologies that possibly wont require the same ingredients we need today.
What could possibly be "really representative" of the immense variety of software in-use?
iceland has so much electricity then run warmers under the roads to melt the snow
Great article Lukas! A key takeaway here is that Llama was the best LLM. I wouldn't have expected that.

(Disclaimer, Lukas and I are co-founders)
"The Secrets Behind Nancy Pelosi’s Trading Strategy" - https://www.capitoltrades.com/articles/the-secrets-behind-na...
You give some interesting examples. But you acknowledge that some of those choices, made differently, could be politicized.

That's the issue. Choose culturally "ordinary" and you're good. Choose "unexpected" and you take your chances. Among reasonable people, your chances are good. There are a lot of unreasonable people out there.

The original question was "why is political affiliation asked on a dating app?". To me, the answer is simple: life is highly politicized and while individuals will always have some nuance in their beliefs, stereotypes are real and legitimate as filtering criteria.

I do not mean to imply that humans cannot be better. Just that they frequently are not.

I did not call you a sheep.
Ok, I appreciate you reaching back. And my bad, I didn't see that it already supports direct export of JSON.
The real 30 under 30 imo you have never heard of
Not to me. I have lots of data exchanging going on where the format is expressed well in XSD and in JSON Schema it is expressed through documentation, code, and a history of angry emails.
I think it's the first time I see a bunch of code in the README...
> Patriarchy and white supremacy

Doesn't exist in America today. White supremacy exists only in fringe groups that have no influence.

Patriarchy is non existent today. I'd love to be proven wrong with hard examples.
You forgot 3) It requires money to fix the problem, and Google has become such a bureaucratic mess, that it can't get out its own way to do it.

Those of us in large corporations see that pattern quite often.
Good info, thank you!
I wonder how this compares with parallel-bash

https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_alternatives....
HN's approach to stories with political overlap has been stable for many years*. I've written about it many times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

If you read some of those past explanations and still have a question about our general approach, let me know what it is. As for this particular story, I turned off the flags on it because it clearly counts as SNI (significant new information - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).

* as has the question "how is this hackernews", of course: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869
But the only differing cost in that scenarios is the 2 extra conductors to the local transformer, and more likely just to the edge of the property. The 3-phase power is still present in the area, as ideally alternating houses are on alternating phases to balance the load over the phases. The difference in cost would be a one-time hit during installation, and the ongoing maintenance would be the same as 3 separate houses (1 house per phase). That maintenance could be rolled into the cost per watt, so the more you have available the more you can use and the more you could pay.

The installation cost should vary based on what the house wants access to, and the ongoing cost should be the same as every household. A standing charge for the cost of the infrastructure existing is ridiculous when that same infrastructure is what the power company relies on to deliver their chargeable commodity. It's effectively double dipping - how is it any different from ISPs charging for access and then charging for data on top?
Semver defines what is breaking and not-breaking. E.g., Rust semver says that "code should continue compiling with a minor version bump, but not necessarily for a major version bump"
Legal immigrants get an SSN. I have an SSN it is just suspended or something. If I try to use it online it causes 500 errors everywhere as whatever status is attached to it isn't handled by any financial site.
When I started my career I could hear 15,625hz (the line rate of the CRTs in a PAL environment). I can't now, and not just because those CRTs no longer exist.

Alas I can still hear 1khz.
There are lots of companies trying to build out different kinds of flow batteries for storage. Think of a shipping container filled with some substance that stores charge and just sits there, waiting for you to use it, grid storage. But they all seem like research projects. https://news.mit.edu/2023/flow-batteries-grid-scale-energy-s...
Why developing with Steam Deck in mind makes for better games overall
amd also was sued and settled for price fixing with nvidia in 2008
> You can only work for the employer who sponsored you, for example.

Nice, just like in the good old days with serfs and feudal lords.
George Carlin estate sues over fake comedy special purportedly generated by AI
Comprehensive Protection Strategy for Thermal Runway in Li-Ion Battery Modules
Like everything else on this site, you are welcome to ignore it if the topic does not interest you.
>>but it might be the second foremost reason why Cortez was able to conquer them - the first being Montezuma’s reticence to slaughter them in the jungle when he first heard of them and his subsequent religious obsession with the white conquistadors, until it was too late and they were well established.

Montezuma was never in a position to slaughter the conquistadors in the jungle. The Tlaxcalans (a rival state to the mexica) engaged the conquistadors in a series of brutal skirmishes (most with the advantage of surprise) on their home turf but failed to make any real progress. Its very clear that the attacking Tlaxcalan warriors suffered horrendous casualties when they engaged the castillans in close quarters combat due to the superior steel weapons(mostly swords) of the latter. Since the Tlaxcalans vigorously defended their independence its hard to argue the Mexica could have done any better fighting at a distance that would have stretched their supply lines.

As for his supposed religious obsession, its unclear and isn't necessary to explain his actions. There is certainly no evidence that Montezuma was confused or acting irrationally; he repeatedly tried to deter the conquistadors from coming and made attempts to play them off against the Tlaxcalans.