skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a small greenfield project rolling your own Postgres is a very viable option with attractive trade offs for some. If it is now considered rarefied knowledge in your circles you should be glad as this might a competitive advantage.

Let the other startups spend x10-100 on their resume driven development and blaze through their runway. Common story actually.

But suppose you don't need it and RDS as-is covers all your needs, which it often does, why rage? This is a continuum.

If an early decision to punt and outsource it to the cloud was made it could always be reversed at an opportune moment. I don't think competent people see it as "the only way" just the most common and pragmatic option.
> there's nothing else there

By way of analogy, if a civilisation had found an antenna, but has not discovered radio they might think that the internet and it's content is coming from within the antenna, because that's all there is.
It's not the only one. Naturalism/physicalism, a monist view, claims there is nothing else except for natural entities or causes. Dualism claims there is nothing else except for natural and mental entities or causes.

There is another monist view though, one that sometimes gets called idealism, that says there is nothing else except for mental entities or causes. I lean towards this view.

The challenge for naturalism is to explain (or explain away) consciousness (the mental). We call this challenge 'the hard problem of consciousness'. The challenge for idealism is to explain (or explain away) the physical. However, there is no analogous 'hard problem of non-consciousness' (but the explanation of this would take an unreasonable amount of words that I cannot fit here).
Right. The two areas where I've found current AI to be useful are code generation where I can fairly easily check the results and creative stuff where it doesn't matter.

I don't understand how people feel they can use it as a search engine replacement. If you have to go separately check the results then it doesn't seem like it's saving any time. I suspect people are just trusting the output a lot more than they should.
Renewable energy: Why US counties often ban solar, wind power plants
> I love having the control over things, but I don't pretend I don't spend a decent amount of time maintaining it.

I don't know the nature of your maintenance, but I've had unattended security updates working for years, I automated a bunch of stuff and use etc-keeper.

> I only run things that don't need to be highly available

Redundancy helps. 2 (more!) RPis cam be primary/secondary/tertiary DNS servers to match paranoia levels. Even if you have a single PiHole, keeping a pristine copy of the PiHole on a $3 sd card will get one up and running instantly.

> Suggesting that a particular home-hosted solution is "unbeatable" is meaningless

What site am I on, Subscription-Services-News? (:
About half of that price is taxes.

One idea that is catching on is shifting taxes and green levies from electricity to gas as the grid gets cleaner.

You can also sometimes make exceptions for specific use cases, e.g. stop charging the extra fees on electric trains or EV charging or any other use of electricity that is directly displacing fossil fuels.
from the article:
Local obstructions sometimes take the form of outright bans or moratoriums. But other rules also block green power: burdensome limits on size, height or locations. Some places put caps on total size or implement complex rules that prevent solar from replacing specially designated areas such as “prime farmland.”

These limits can mean wind or solar farms are allowed in theory but may be impossible to build in reality.
I don't think I need to be reading this. The uptime and several 9s of high availability are attainable with z/OS and a parallel sysplex. No doubt systems like these are used by banks and others in the wild.

But this doesn't say anything about "unbelievably powerful" or "feature-full" as in the OP?

The niche customer claim probably is "will never move off of it because nobody ever wants to touch millions of lines of COBOL" then that's fine. It's likely sane from a business perspective to continue using them as long as maintenance burden is manageable. Luckily managers in those more conservative companies consider full rewrites dangerous, rightly so.
But in order to claim otherwise (i.e. unbelievably powerful and thus for everybody) we need to see numbers.
That's a very good point.

I would add, that sometimes being a newcomer is a benefit. Many times a particular industry is stuck in groupthink, having shared understanding on what is and what isn't possible. And it sometimes requires a person with a fresh perspective to be able to upend it. See example of Elon upending multiple industries by essentially doing exactly that.
AI Launches Nukes in 'Worrying' War Simulation
> A quick test shows Sinatra is about 2x faster.

There must be something very wrong
I am not sure why ranges are used. It seems to be redundant, because the beginning of the validity of a value is identical to the ending if the validity of its previous value. A column with an invalidation time stamp seems to be sufficient for me. The rows, in which this column is null, are currently valid.
Near-disaster shows EU air traffic control is nowhere near good enough
Telegram Desktop. It keeps crashing!
Also Python Language Server for VSCode / VSCodium sometimes freezer. VSCode is just buggy and slow.
Yes, it's possible. Will do this as soon as the rate limiting troubles with the eBay API subside a bit.
Could you expand on this comment:

"htmx is really the post ZIRP frontend tech"

I'm interested to understand more and learn from it.

Thanks
Just a terminology comment here. "Latent space" means a lot of different things in different models. For a GAN for example it actually means the "top concept" space where you can change the entire concept of the image by moving around in the latent space, which is notoriously difficult. For SD/SDXL it refers to the bottommost layer just above pixelspace, which expands the generated image from 64x64 to 512x512 pixels in the case of SD1.5.

This allows the rest of the network to be smaller while still generating a usable output resolution, so it's a performance "hack".

It's a really good idea to explore it and hack into it like in the article, to "remaster" the image so to speak!
> maintaining the amenities that tech workers have come to expect.

Such as what? Beer, and coffee table books?
Just give up on that RedHat trash
This is not true, actually. Pijul answers the question "how to model states so that conflicts are allowed (and hence modeled)", whereas in Darcs it is "how do operational transforms on patches alone inform us about conflicts"?
Nuclear lightbulb engine - but for process heat!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb

Like it was not crazy dangerous enough. ;-)
Only words offensive in English count (e.g. Coq). Words offensive in other languages (bit, pika) are ok!
Those people usually can take breaks away from the recorder.
ECC memory is widely available, you can buy it on amazon, and if you have a contract with a server manufacturer they'll be happy to sell it to you.

It's just not compatible with consumer CPUs (well, ddr5 is, but ddr4 and lower wasn't) because Intel was voluntarily segmenting the market to upcharge for server CPUs.
> So, the ethos that one shouldn't "waste effort in writing this stuff from scratch, but that off-the-shelf components should be used" is the kind of ethos that can be applied to a lot of things. And usually when that kind of ethos is adopted, it tends to lead to stuff like stagnation and lack of innovation.

I think the advice still has its place, but only in certain contexts. You can get a lot of work done very quickly by making good use of work that others have already done for you. It's why modules and libraries are so popular.

When you've got the time to try and and improve on existing code, or when you'd have to compromise too much on what you want by using something preexisting, or when you're just learning then reinventing the wheel is invaluable.

There's a time and place for both.
I don't know. All that I read from them over and over again is that they celebrate themselves and that they made the right decisions. What I really would like to read are more detailed writings about their challenges, especially legal concerns.
> I'm not sure what you are trying to say.

Your remark was "The app didn't write the error message, the people implementing the app did". I responded by saying that you can't tell who the human is.

> it would have been nice if you had been more specific about what you meant

It's the very first sentence: you can't identify the human. I showed an example of why it's different when you can tell that there is a human involved working with you specifically.
This is badly informed doomerism.

China installed 125GW of wind/solar power in 2022 alone, and their power sectors CO2 output is projected to decrease (!!) starting in 2025 [1].

> You could immediately cut US emissions in half and it wouldn't matter at all to the expansion going on in Asia

I know that many people don't like to hear this, but this is just absolving yourself from blame and it's despicable.

Yes the Asian continent emits more CO2 than North America-- about 10 times more people live there, what do you expect?!

What you conveniently gloss over is that the US does ABSOLUTELY NOT "lead by example"-- CO2/capita is the absolut WORST worldwide except for some superrich petrostates (~15 tons/year/person, compared to ~8 for EU/China and <3 for India).

Fact is that ANY contribution you make as US citizen is highly likely to be MORE effective (in terms of CO2/year saved) than anything a Chinese or Indian citizen could do, AND also likely to demand LESS from you (because an American family just has to leave the second car at home more often to save a ton of CO2, and Indian family has to turn off heating during winter to achieve the equivalent, basically).

[1]: https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/ci/research-an...
While Mozilla is re-selling privacy service (see other news on HN), others are building a better browser. Without the need of $6B.
"many" might be a stretch
Unfortunately people will take recordings out of context, edit them, use unrelated pieces for other means (maybe the pilots shit-talked CEO who started pushing employees into contracting?) etc.
Got an M1 Pro. Still happy with it, don't see a need to upgrade yet.

it reminds me of the 2014 MBP which was a solid workhorse for at least 4 years.
That's right. It is not human.

How do humans think? We do not know.

AI is merely a facsimile of human thought. We don't know how that works, but we can certainly make a cult of it.
It's probably more that you don't want a corporation to dictate how you describe (brand) the sizes of a drink where we have near universal language for that purpose already.
https://observablehq.com/@d3/zoomable-circle-packing?intent=...

https://observablehq.com/@d3/zoomable-sunburst?intent=fork
What does this have to do with upgrading? Your go.mod just specifies the minimum version you need to build the code.

If you do not use new things available in in 1.22 your go.mod may have 1.21 (or even 1.13 if you are not using generics and can't be bothered with a few deprecated things. Like ioutil.ReadAll() which was deprecated since. 1.16)
Blazing Saddles at 50: the button-pushing spoof that could never get made today
My random €0.03:

- I see "stores" such as Flathub or App Store mostly as infrastructure, and infrastructure should be a commodity. Still, whenever you can choose a supplier for a commodity, you should make a conscious decision based on questions such as "are you really 100% renewable 24x7 or are burning coal to handle the peak". Blog posts such as these should be a part of Flathub's official "propaganda engine", so that (potential) users get exposure to the outlined problems.

- You can provide users with certain strong guarantees about what your review/testing/distribution process will or won't allow, which sets a minimum baseline of trustworthiness for each and every single app. This can be extremely powerful; I trust Apple's store much more than I would ever trust Google's, solely based on the values both companies represent; however neither of them could ever hope to be as trustworthy as Debian.

- Providing a paid builder service to proprietary apps could be a strong incentive by itself, and help the bottom line. Apple launched a build service, but infamously does literally nothing at any and every stage to help accommodate FOSS apps in their ecosystem. What if Flathub could get one step ahead, and show everyone: "OK, you have a different business/source access model, we recognize that, and we're willing to accommodate you". I feel that it has the potential to generate a lot of goodwill from both users and developers, and then also influence the industry at large.
> "Do you want to be my girlfriend?" I ask Almond one day.
"I already am. That's what this is"

Spot on. Sometimes that's all it takes, someone from the real world to
remind you that you're OK, that _this_ is living, that it's good
enough. After that the unreality at the inside of digital perdition
starts to unravel and dissolve. The mind starts to wander back to that
most highly addictive of all things, reality.
we all know that job does not exist
... it's made out of people!
I'm not sure there's much difference, in theory or in practice, between destroying money and giving it to the government!

That sounds a bit anti-government but really I just meant that the money raised from fines isn't a significant part of the government's total budget so it's unlikely to have much influence on policy. Voters would pay more attention to the fines themselves than to anything that could be achieved with the money raised from them.
Previous discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39168469

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39160956
Although kids necessarily don't have those ego dependent beliefs ingrained within them yet. So if they see that false information can be presented very convincingly, perhaps they learn not to trust just everything and in addition question what their parents are telling them.

The issue arises when the belief you have is tied to your ego so you only cherry-pick the evidence that will satisfy your ego and ignore/question everything else, but not this.
Companies salivating to get possible more dirt on people as part of "performance improvement"
You talking about the area under an initial section of a hockey stick curve.
I don't get the point of these articles.

> Sweden 52.3%

I'm a software dev, so I'm in the top 10% of earners here. The same would apply to many hn readers I assume.

I pulled my tax statement for one of the last few years.

My 'total final tax' as a percentage of 'assessed earned income' was 27.8%.
Orange Pi Neo Coming as a Ryzen 7 and Linux Powered Handheld Device
Darn, I looks like someone stole my identity and threw in the $8.99/m to DeleteMe!

...Now I have to start all over training the ad targeting I carefully built over all those years.

But seriously, wouldn't it make more sense if this service were free for everyone except those that opted in? (For example, by not sending the DNT header in all requests?)
I'm increasingly tempted to try my hand at making a toy OS - or at least a kernel. There's a few things I desperately want an operating system to do:

1. Have either database-like transactions or (at a minimum) write barriers for file operations. The current filesystem semantics are terrible for databases and other applications which need to not corrupt their data after a crash. fsync() is too heavy, because you can't issue subsequent writes while waiting for fsync. Write barriers have better ergonomics (so, less complex, less buggy database implementations). And they're finer grained - so databases can also run much faster. Seriously, I could rant for hours about this. It drives me nuts.

2. Use event queue like semantics for subscriptions. There's dozens of OS APIs in which the OS exposes some data to applications where the data changes over time. Eg, filesystem watching, USB device insertion/removal, Bluetooth, watching a network device, or a socket, or APIs for htop to see the set of active processes. Each of these APIs has an entirely bespoke - and oftentimes idiosyncratic - API to get changes to that data over time. Sometimes you need to poll and parse a file in procfs. Sometimes there's syscall based APIs. And some of the subscription APIs are just broken sometimes, and they'll fail to notify you about changes sometimes.

I want to try replacing all of that with a simple, unified API which lets you say "tell me the state of <kernel resource X> and tell me when it changes". The kernel then replies with the object's current state and I get messages notifying my application about changes. We should be able to use the same API for every type of kernel object.

It would also be interesting to try making all userspace programs be wasm bundles and run them in ring0. But I suspect that will run slower on modern hardware compared to using native binaries and context switching. ... Maybe. It might depend on the application.

I think this stuff could be done in linux. Event queue style subscriptions would work especially well with io_uring. But I'm kind of excited by the idea of just noodling myself and seeing where I end up. Making stuff is fun.
Oh please.

[I note that your subsequent edits invert the sense of what I was originally replying to so I am going to abandon discussion with you]
Pretty cool, especially the potential for using python as a scripting language embedded in rust programs. That said, python makes me wince.
Dark forest hypothesis uses lack of evidence as evidence. There is little to back the claim the galaxy is full, BUT if it is full then the Dark Forest could be a reason we haven't detected.
We don't. Prove me wrong. I'll wait.
"He added that he received the threatening letter after media outlets began scrutinising Swift's carbon footprint.

In 2022, Swift topped the list of celebrities with the highest private jet CO2 emissions, according to digital marketing firm Yard.

The organisation found that her jet emissions were about 1,185 times more than the average person's total annual emissions."

Quite the coincidence.

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Given this is public information that any potential stalker could easily find themselves, do you think the student is doing anything wrong or illegal?
I saw this when it was posted yesterday and was sad it didn't make front page, so I'm glad it got revitalized! It also sent me down a fun rabbit hole yesterday when I saw there was a 72 core chip for only $200 listed.. and I was introduced to the byzantine world of Intel's Xeon Phi (which you can buy in coprocessor form for <$50 on eBay).
As s long time FD owner with a deleted precat, ceramic coated downpipe, 3" catback exhaust and mild street port (that could be driven quietly under very narrow circumstances, but often wasnt, because what's the point of expensive mods of you don't use them) I'm sorry you think you need a loud exhaust to make decent power. this is largely a self- justifying myth told by insensitive jerks to other insensitive jerks to cosign each others' abuse of the public space for their own selfish (snd juvenile) enjoyment. i grew up and got rid of my stupid childrens' desperate attention seeking noisemaker toy and you should do the same.
"...But in dissecting the incident, the BEA investigators noted that Bordeaux and most French airports have no “reliable” means to identify which controllers have come into work, how long they stay or what functions they actually fulfil.

And like controllers across Europe, they still use slips of paper placed on a board to show where an aircraft is on a runway. The December 22 incident happened because one controller juggling four different jobs was so busy he forgot to place the slip on the board..."
Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? [2018]
Not sure how an anarcho-capitalist is far right.

If left is for change and moving forward, and right is for no change, then this guy is far left not far right.
To put this in perspective, every jet airlines has millions of these joins on them.
Have y’all investigated using R2 instead of S3 for your cloud product? The pricing seems much more compelling.

Btw: thanks for releasing logical replication!
On the other hand, I advise you NOT to use this kind of library and write simple, fast go code most of the time, with the occasional generics helper. Why the hell would I clutter my code with, for example: https://github.com/samber/lo?tab=readme-ov-file#fromentries-...
Well this seems awfully surface level. This blogpost is essentially just dropping diagrams from AMDs and NVIDIAs documentation and reading the labels on them, with multiple mistakes that tell me that this person hasn't probably hasn't done GPGPU programming (what kind of instruction is "reciprocal"? it's the reciprocal sqrt)

Go read NVIDIAs developer docs and AMDs training material for Frontier for some actually useful introductory material.

For a deeper dive, Jia et al.'s "Dissecting the NVIDIA Volta GPU Architecure via Microbenchmarking" is your goto for NVIDIA material, along with NVIDIAs own documentation. For AMD, you should probably read the CDNA 2 ISA docs
And it's not Deutsche Bahn but Siemens Mobility: https://www.heise.de/news/Deutsche-Bahn-sucht-Admin-fuer-Win... (in German)
It iterates 10 times staring with 0, seems pretty clear that the result is [0,10).
LOL:

I like the fact that I can say "People may have acted like someone was going to die, but my code never killed any one"... its a preference, I want to know I can have a bad day, fuck up, and not have to carry the weight for my whole life.
It seems there is zero c++ in their web engine (cannot clone their repo right now and github is spitting raw json while browsing their source code with noscript/basic (x)html browsers).

Is this true?
Given that a lot of editors and writers are being let go; wouldn't this be a great opportunity for them to start a new publication?
We currently don't have a definition of consciousness on which people agree and which allows you to determine whether something is conscious or not. It is therefore not surprising that you don't believe that scaling simple systems produces "consciousness", but unless you think that consciousness is some kind of magic that does not follow from the laws of physics, there must be some kind of reductionist thinking can explain the phenomenon, given sufficient computational power to do the math.
Ok. It’s still 61% as of 2022.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-coal
> You can find all our data, visualizations, and writing related to biodiversity on this page. It aims to provide context on how biodiversity has changed in the past; the state of wildlife today; and how we can use this knowledge to build a future path where humans and other species can thrive on our shared planet.

https://ourworldindata.org/biodiversity
In the case of Ladybird they build everything from scratch (intentionally) so existing open source code cannot be used.

The main argument for doing it is because it is fun, just as with SerenityOS. Having alternative implementations is never a bad thing for web diversity though.