skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think syscall-vs-C-function is at all meaningful for someone making a completely unrelated language. The system has to pick some ABI for communicating with the kernel, and syscalls don't change that. The ISA generally doesn't define how arguments are passed, it's really just in the business of providing a fancy jump instruction.

Arguably, using the same ABI for userspace C functions and for communicating with the kernel reduces the amount of work required of completely new languages, because they are likely to need C interop support anyway.
Medical care is much less expensive in many European countries (both before and after insurance), yet auto insurance coverage is usually still much higher.
But bing provides dalle3 free.
What's the difference.

Any one who wants to test image generation would want more samples 10 to 20 before making any decision.

Also anyone can use api key with pay as you go model and there are chat uis that let you use your key.

Not sure if user will save user money, but would definitely make you good money if it takes off
That's interesting! But I don't think the "flawed nature of my core argument" is obviously evident—and I don't think the community would consider that obvious either.

It could be fun to look into it together, but the fun stops at "I fully expect your mindset and behavior to never change". Why dance if someone wants to kick you in the shins?
The main reason our insurance cost so much is because there are so many claims. This is partially because our licensing is too lax, there is too much vandalism and storm loss, and the costs of the vehicles and health are is so high. Higher quality drivers will result in fewer claims and cheaper premiums.
If they are charging during low usage times, they are already doing that. In areas where that’s at night, EVs are in a good place grid-wise if they are charging at home.
We are taking care of dependencies of other cloud native packages. For example the new Kubernetes dashboards has a dependency on cert-manager to generate certificates, or apps that have dependencies on databases or requirements for logging, monitoring or backups. All these dependencies point other cloud native packages that shouldn't / can't be installed in the same docker image.
The state of the crypto world is such that i genuinely can’t tell if you’re being satirical by using a bunch of jargon and acronyms that mean nothing in the order you used them, or not
Note the hardcover edition book as seen in The Matrix does not actually exist and was a prop.
A significant amount of people are judgement proof, aka they have no significant assets or income eligible to seized or garnished to pay for debts. Plus you alone bear the legal costs of obtaining a judgement to begin with.
> Of course digital cameras do a lot of processing on the captured sensor data.

They don't, though. Oh, the awful camera in a smartphone does, because the sensor is so tiny and there's barely any lens. But classically speaking with a "real" digital camera? No, there is no further processing. The values for each pixel are a measurement of the intensity of the light falling on the sensor.

It is true that further processing might be necessary anyway. Some sensors do not correlate easily to RGB displays and their raw data may not be displayable on any device without deinterlacing, dithering, and transformations where one sensor pixel does not translate directly to one display pixel. But even doing that sort of conversion automatically is controversial, which is why most dedicated digital cameras provide access to the raw sensor data.
There's very little in the article about the rocket. This site seems to have a fair amount of information on it.

https://f-106deltadart.com/weapons_air2a_genie.htm
You don’t really need a state-of-the-art anything here. People get too distracted with building the perfect system when it comes to use cases like this because they are paralysed thinking about the avoidance of false positives and make a bunch of sub-optimal decisions on that basis. False positives are much less of a problem with a human in the loop, and putting a human in the loop doesn’t require moderator effort.

You can probably put a big dent in the number of low-quality comments by just showing a “hey, are you really sure you want to post this?” confirmation prompt and display the site guidelines when you detect a low-quality comment. That way you can have a much more relaxed threshold and stop worrying about false positives. Sure, some people will ignore the gentle reminder, but then you can be more decisive with flags and followup behaviour because anything low quality that has been posted will by definition already have had one warning.
Pkl is an embeddable configuration language with data templating and validation
Given how many cars are driving uninsured, you basically need uninsured coverage by default.
Do you feel the 2021 boom will be back? I hope so :(
I think the system (adjusters and courts) might be used to $15/$30k which may limit how often and how much they need to pay above that. If a lot of policies went up to that level, maybe the system would adapt, the payouts would increase more, and so would the premiums.
My insurer tops out at some lower figure, like 350 or something.

Does anyone know how to get higher limits?
Do you have a source for it being higher? My understanding is that the accident rates are lower. If the accidents/claims are lower and the health care is cheaper/covered, them I wonder what the other factor is. Maybe a lack of profit cap?
For companies hosting their entire infra on AWS, what's the advantage of SeaweedFS running on a fleet of EC2 machines over storing on S3?
Sorry but I don't understand the question.
Yes, and of course, this should be decided by the Supreme Court - a group of unelected political appointees with no term limits whose sole authority to decide the meaning of the constitution comes from a court case in which they just granted themselves that power[0].

As for having Congress decide every bit of administrative policy, we've been there. It resulted in Congress wasting its time playing cat-and-mouse games with monied interests. They'd pass a bill banning, say, a certain deceptive trade practice; the people doing that practice would maliciously comply with the law[1] and come up with a new way to do exactly the same thing; and the courts would run interference on legal challenges until Congress updated the law to clearly and unambiguously ban the workaround. Or the courts would squint really hard at antitrust laws and say "Oh, uh, funny story, Congress didn't mean to ban monopolies, they really meant to ban trade unions. Those jokers just don't know how to write laws."

Administrative rulemaking was Congress's way to short-circuit the courts ignoring clear legislative intent. If you think "do what I mean, not what I drafted" is a violation of separation-of-powers, I will counterargue that so is the entire concept of common law. In the US, higher courts don't just have the ability to overturn specific cases; their rulings also create precedent that lower courts are bound by. This is effectively a legislative power, being exercised by political appointees!

The worst president I can think of so far has been Donald Trump. I absolutely do not want him having power. However, binding administrative agencies' hands to Congress's whims will not fix that problem. Remember: this is a Congress that, by SCOTUS's own hand[2], has been turned into a political donation mill that occasionally moonlights as a legislative body. The cat-and-mouse game will run far slower with Congress being bribed by corporations to just conveniently forget to close those loopholes. And we don't even get an improvement on liberty for anyone else. There are plenty of ways in which the Presidency can absolutely roadkill you personally, without needing to invoke an administrative body with rulemaking authority.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison

[1] See also: Apple's response to the Digital Markets Act

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCutcheon_v._FEC
Recent increases aren’t actually related to human medical care, body shops are just charging a lot more to fix cars these days, leading to increasing premiums. Anyways, both people and cars are expensive to fix now.
It helps packagers to distribute packages and package updates to the used. Think of it as the iOS app store for Kubernetes, we bridge the gap between publishing and installing a package, so we can help packagers get the latest version into the installers cluster and make sure the package is compatible with the installers cluster and - in a later version - support the packagers with crash logs and and bug reports.
Though the movie doesn't really seem to actually understand the main thesis of the book at all! Up to the point Baudrillard himself denounced it as a misunderstanding of his work. [0]

> "The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce." [1]...

[0] (Translated interview with Baudrillard about the Matrix) https://web.archive.org/web/20080113012028/http://www.empyre...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/mar/07/guardianobituar...
Nice work. It's such a tiny incremental cost (if you're already carrying a policy) for a massive increase. You accidentally rear-end someone with a g-wagon and that $3.50/mo is really going shine.
Wikimedia is about as unbiased as a legacy media news outlet. Every major issue on wiki has some kind of narrative slant
They haven't fully depreciated the ASICs yet and they'd take a loss by selling them so they pretty much have to keep mining. AI wouldn't be a bad idea after mining collapses.
Effortless Latex Equations for Web Pages
I asked for a showdead feed to make it easier to train an LLM on for this purpose but got denied.
Payments to producers of the film looks like this:

MNight - 7.2M$ + 0.3M$ + 3M$

Sam Mercer - 850k$

Scott Rudin - 3M$

Aren't producers the one investing in the movie. Why are they getting paid then,
How does this work?

Edit: Other expenses like travel etc are also covered by the company which adds another 1M$ approx [ex: 41.23]
And the file has a very, very faint gradient background with heavy dithering, so lossless compression won't actually help that much (ECT was only able to shave 13% of the file after minutes). In fact it is one of the worst imaginable cases for raster image formats.
Ah, you’re right. I will try to clarify that in edits tomorrow or Monday. Thanks for flagging it up!
I believe that is close to what the median HN reader feels: interested by the significant new developments, fatigued by the endless incremental updates, and grossed out by the hypemeisters.
Does redbean fork on every request, or does it fork on start and then each process reads and handles one request at a time? It gets weird with keep-alive and tls, but traditional http one request per connection can be really nice in a prefork environment with proper accept filters and large socket buffers. Each process just blocks on accept, gets a fully formed get request, and does the work, responds, and then blocks on accept again. The OS kernel takes care of the socket while the client is sending the request and while the client is acking the response.

Green threads can be nice, because some software is easier written as read from socket, do work, write, loop where the context of the socket is right there. And with green threads, you can have a million on a single machine and handle a million sockets on a single machine. I haven't tried, but I don't think you can have a million OS threads or a million OS processes on a single machine.

Maybe you don't want that many sockets one one machine, or don't have that kind of traffic, or userland processing of the requests is so significant that you can't have service that many sockets on a single machine anyway...
I love how you've done this. It really is a musical score. Reminds me of Terry Riley's similarly "algorithmic" approach to describing how a piece of music is played.
Also from Stripe team (used in past, and believe still running without issues to this day)

https://github.com/stripe/smokescreen

Smokescreen is a HTTP CONNECT proxy. It proxies most traffic from Stripe to the external world (e.g., webhooks).

Smokescreen restricts which URLs it connects to:

It uses a pre-configured hostname ACL to only allow requests addressed to certain allow-listed hostnames, to ensure that no malicious code is attempting to make requests to unexpected services.
It also resolves each domain name that is requested, and ensures that it is a publicly routable IP address and not an internal IP address. This prevents a class of attacks where, for instance, our own webhooks infrastructure is used to scan Stripe’s internal network. Smokescreen can also be further configured to allow or deny specific IP addresses or ranges.
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After reading this it's still not clear there's a problem.
Have fun collecting that 20% of their minimum wage paycheck for the rest of their life to pay off your injuries, car damage, and lawyer fees. Assuming they don't just get paid under the table or work as a contractor.

And if they move to another state, have fun transferring your judgement over there and trying to find their bank accounts and employer(s). It's like getting blood from a stone. It's easier and cheaper to just pay a tiny bit more in insurance premiums.
I love the way you distinguished them.
Nonetheless, I think you can derive a “time value of money” from the data?
My anecdotal experience as a user is that softwre used to crash a lot more than today. I rarely experience crashes these days. Maybe once a month at the most.
Is that supposed to be for all the browsers? I always thought it was specifically for chrome and sponsored just by google. But maybe the bias towards chrome is part of why MDN became more prevalent.
You're right about one thing: I didn't need to say "state of the art". A system that works at all would be great!

I don't think a confirmation prompt will help because people tune such things out after they've seen them a few times.
Is there anything useful (besides Bitcoin) that can be done with precomputation? Perhaps training an LLM? So if you are going to be training an LLM why not heat a town with it? The world has an enormous need for computation and probably for precomputation as well. The waste heat should be harnessed instead of dumped into the environment directly. This could be kind of like SETI, but selling computation boxes for home heating rather than using spare cycles on computers that are running anyway. While it's not as efficient as using a heat pump, it would mostly pay for itself if someone purchases the computation and if you're going to compute anyway... Graphics rendering for movies might be another example. Network bandwidth might be an issue, though some tasks don't produce much I/O but do a lot of computation.
MAME Debugging
I had written a static ELF loader for reasons, but when I was no longer to compile a static version of the binary I wanted to load, I found it wasn't too hard to load the system's dynamic loader instead. That's kind of the best of both worlds --- I can run a dynamicly linked binary, and I didn't have to do the linking and relocations.
The decline of hardware knowledge in the era of cloud native compute
I own vehicles in CA. There is no property tax for vehicles in CA. I can guarantee you that. I specifically own vehicles that I don’t renew with the state and there’s no problems with that.
AFAIK the executive producers gather funding and the producers actually make the movie.
Meta's $197B Surge Is Biggest in Stock-Market History
It's "readable" in the most technical sense of the word, but it's exceptionally obfuscated and needlessly convoluted. Whatever that paper is trying to say could be succinctly and clearly expressed in a page or two, at most. But it wouldn't look as what the authors perceive to be "sciency", because behind the grandiloquent language is invariably a pretty simple premise and experimentation (or a survey in this case) invariably designed to confirm biases, rather than challenge them. It's ubiquitous in the social sciences (see: Sokal experiment) and only going to get much worse with the advent of LLMs that will enable streamlined obfuscation.

And no I'm (obviously?) not speaking of every single instance, as for a topic like this there will always be some exception or another. I am saying that as an aggregate - sports participation is down, and participation trophies are up.
Would my normal health (not auto) insurance cover my own hospital/ER bills regardless of whether it's from an auto accident?
Executive producers are investors.

Line producers are managers

Producers are ceos or presidents.
That's not really storage though; it's a day or two of load shedding. Unfavorable weather patterns can last for more than a week. Electricity prices are currently pretty stable from day to day because we burn gas or coal when all else fails.
Whoops, somehow I misread that as $7,200. Don't tell the "idea guys" about this!
Not sure what you're referring to, but you don't need a showdead feed to train an LLM for this purpose. Only 2% of comments are dead, and the number of bad comments that aren't dead is certainly higher than 2%. That's the problem, in fact!
What I'm saying is that it is a bit complicated. There were lots of articles saying government had requested that they support the effort, but the government involved was the Ukrainian government. They have zero authority to compel, whether they pass laws or not.

Lots of US politicians made noises on television but that is not an official request.

The actual laws involved were actually fairly murky. SpaceX is required by US law not to service the Russian held parts of Ukraine (eg, Crimea) and Starlink itself doesn't want to find Starlink being regulated as a munition which has broad potential impacts w/r/t ITAR.

Were those just excuses? It is hard to say. But what is clear is that the US executive branch made no effort to remedy the situation.

Instead they left SpaceX in a position where they could be clearly condemned for either decision. The decision that SpaceX took was the one least likely to land them in court or jail. It's hard to blame them.
How does this apply to a pedestrian hit by a car like in this case?
I recently learned that Ebert gave a positive review to Con Air.
Producers aren't usually investors. Executive producers have more to do with investing, but not all executive producers invest (some recruit investors, or do other unrelated things). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_producer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_producer
Umbrella insurance.

Most umbrella policies require you to carry a certain amount of homeowners and auto liability coverage, and then they add additional coverage on top of that. It's relatively cheap (hundreds of dollars per year for millions of dollars of coverage).
The one order of magnitude difference is on some todo app benchmark with mass-updates and the like, it is not really representative of most real world applications, and you might as well just do an escape hatch in plain js for certain parts of your site if you expect/measure significant slowdown from react itself.

It is absolutely not significant compared to site load, images, initial DOM layouting, etc. Plus your FP paragraph is straight up uninformed flame-bait.
Author here and I 100% agree. The reason I was able to get a lot of the prototyping done within the first few days is by using ChatGPT. On the flipside I think the code that it wrote was not very maintainable so I should have started from scratch after validating my PoC.
It's a but further off than you might think. Even the Vision Pro is on the border of acceptability for working and reading in, and that's literally the bleeding edge of miniturized display technology. Going from a traditional flat panel display to a waveguide and projectors with an optically transparent display is a MASSIVE endeavor, at this point is essentially limited by physics (bound by current research) let alone issues with heat, battery life etc.

The AR products that eventuallg spur mass adoption are almost guaranteed to be backed by billion dollar investments, with the expectation of more user data than ever before.
Yeah but I suppose a lot of Americans are uninsured or underinsured WRT health.
For a person with a heavy Python background, can anyone suggest a resource/book that would be a good applied intro to practical low-level programming? I've recently started learning Rust and realized I need to catch up on many things. I haven't taken any compiler course, so maybe that's the reason I am missing so much information. For example, I had no idea that symbols in a binary were a thing or what the difference between ELF/MACH-O was
I'm pretty sure the studio is putting up the money for the movie. This seems to be the production budget and does not include whatever his profit participation was.
or because they start beleving that fruit will cure their highly treatible cancer.
Sort of. At the very least the government can make the request officially.

If that request is rebuffed, congress would have every right to attach political or purchasing consequences in order to make inaction undesirable. Regardless of ability to compel one can always cajole.

I have seen zero evidence that the US government made such a request.
If we had a comprehensive public transit network, then only the people who need to drive would do so. Then you could raise the licensing requirements.

More importantly however you probably want to separate out roads from streets in American towns, cities, and suburbs to reduce the number of accident prone interactions. As it is now, streets and roads are treated basically the same way and you get the abomination that are "stroads". By keeping them separate you remove all pedestrian and bike traffic from roads and you massively slow down car traffic on streets (along with removing traffic lights on streets).
Brain Prefers Writing by Hand Than by Keyboard
Any good alternatives today?

E.g., what’s the “HN” for designers?
I agree with this somewhat but I also believe that in IT, the real experience only begins when we become part of an organization because, on a personal level, we might not have that kind of infrastructure to practice. Like GPUs and administration services for the Cloud. Can we learn? yes, but there is a limit to it. Don't you think?
Street cred is a pretty big part of why anyone does anything. Money is one way to get that but having something that no one else does is even better in my opinion. I spent a few weeks making a custom version of a board game that I really enjoy and while I could never commercialize it (for copyright, trademark, and a whole slew of other intellectual property reasons), I think having it for myself makes it even more valuable.
The mystery of how dinosaurs had sex (2022)
While the noise complains might be legitimate, they probably affect a handful of people (just put Granbury Wolf Hollow in google maps - it's a middle of nowhere with handful of farms around), the rest is just a silly hit piece. In fact as much as mining Bitcoin might be considered useless by some, it does stabilize the grid around it.

There has been bunch of hit pieces like that posted on HN today and in last few days, seems like a coordinated effort, possibly reaction to Bitcoin ETFs.
There's a pretty common use case that's basically this: get in the car, plug in the phone, and drop it in a cup holder with the charging port pointing up and all the antennas that would point skyward during handheld use are now pointing at the ground.