skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spain is a disorganized basket case. China has a way to execute on their plans: they build a city and then the force people to move in. The most obviously successful is Pudong New Area, which in the 90s was just as empty as any other. Now it has a nation-sized GDP.
Domino Pizza tracker

The article is centered around the pizza tracker, but I thought that tracker was fake.

Just for illustrative purposes.

Is it not?

https://www.the-sun.com/money/6927297/dominos-pizza-tracker-...
One answer to your question is C# / .Net.

Combines excellent concurrency primitives, very good performance, and a deep reservoir of packages and libraries.

Of course it's almost never worth switching languages for an existing product, you just get left with a mess of half-old and half-new tooling and invariably get left having to support both languages.
Sounds like you must already have a psychiatrist or MD you've been diagnosed by? What's the reason for not medicating it?

Do you have a guidance counselor your can talk to?
How accessible is stone lifting to genetically smaller people? I strength train seriously but I'm never going to have the build or strength of the much bigger men who I usually see doing powerlifting and strongman.
The "established procedures" of the worldwide, multi-company, multi-country "ecosystem" in which Apple is embedded are that everything, or at least everything administrative, can be done first and foremost from a Web page. Once you get that basic functionality in place, you can start screwing around with apps or whatever. Your platform is an "edge case", and, yes, Apple, this means you.

As for professionalism, you appear to be under the unfortunate misapprehension that anybody gets paid to engage in bull sessions on here.
> Weren't those banks just sold without the government stepping in?

They were put into receivership under the FDIC before being sold in a structured process [1]. In any other country, and at any time prior to ~2012 in our nation’s history, March 2023 would have been a financial crisis.

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23019.html
Seems like an issue, such that they are testing ways to disable certain side loaded apps: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/07/google-starts-blocking-use...
I'd never buy a smart TV myself.

But to be fair to TV manufacturers, if you're selling a 4K TV - you need buyers to be able to get 4K content on it.

And you've got to be a rocket scientist to get 4K video from Netflix, because of all the DRM you have to navigate. Remove the smart TV functions and 90% of customers would probably end up only getting 720p because they sacrificed a chicken instead of a swan and got their graphics card blessed by a priest and an imam but not a rabbi too.
You're really dedicated to the sport. They're not on your site yet, do you regularly add new ones or are monuments like these not in-scope?

Know any in the Benelux? The region seems pretty empty on the site, can't say there is a strong stone lifting or strongman culture here.
Laptop Orchestra: Where code and music meet
Have in mind that newer HDMI cables also allow Ethernet through them. Make sure to get no more than 1.4 (or 1.3, can't remember now) if you want your HDMI-connected device to never request (and get) internet from the host (which is often a PC).
Think about the fact that this [1] only did not happen because a single person intervened - just a single person along the long line of custody from inception to proposal. And the person who refused to let it happen was JFK.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
>Now is probably not the right time to buy because interest rates are at the highest levels in recent memory. Nobody in their right mind is selling right now unless they are being forced to out of financial desperation.

It sure would be nice if selling out of financial desperation meant lower housing prices. This sure isn't the case though, even today.

That would make the case for higher cash to loan ratios. People still bought houses in the early 1980s when rates were dramatically higher than today.

First and foremost shouldn't housing be seen as a public need vs a profitable asset anyway? This sort of thinking is what leads to so many average Americans becoming obsessed with home values. I don't think real estate as asset squares well with we need real estate to live adequate lives, but I digress
NYCB lost more than 50% of its value last week, but have other banks? BAC, JPM, etc. didn't budge. If most banks are diversified with other types of loans, maybe you will never notice. Or maybe they haven't accepted the losses yet.
Python has good library support, but sometimes it seems like Python advocates speak as if it is somehow uniquely equipped with libraries that nobody else has. There's a dozen other languages with well-established libraries for everything mrkeen mentioned, as well as healthy ecosystems that can be completely expected to support everything else a financial app may reasonable expect to need.

Python wasn't a bad choice but even several years ago it wouldn't even remotely have been the only viable choice, and if you ignore "what the people involved already knew" probably wasn't the best. In real life, you can't ignore that and it looms large in any real decision, so I'm not proposing that should have been the metric. But Python's disadvantages can be pretty significant. "Dynamic typing" and "deals with money" is a combination that would make me pretty nervous. YMMV.
I wonder how many likes you'll get from people who only pay attention to your opening line :)
1 million is 100^3 (i.e. a cube 1 metre across, contains a million 1 cm cubes)

1 billion is 1000^3 (1 m cube contains a billion 1 mm cubes)

1 trillion is 10,000^3 (I can't visualize 0.1 mm, so increase size: the big cube is now 10 m on side, with 1 mm parts)

So the million and billion you could have on your desk made of parts that you can see and handle; the trillion is just a bit too big for that, you'd need a big room with a high ceiling.

Edit: and, of course, you can also see a million in 2D. A sheet of grid paper 1 m across, with 1mm grid squares. Or, more practically, try counting the pixels on a 720p monitor: 921600 pixels on that screen. Use checkerboard pattern.
A scary sci-fi thought I read some time ago, was that given the age of the earth it is not only possible but likely that if aliens did visit, they visited before Humans even existed.

The sci-fi element was that if they visited before even the dinosaurs, and mined some special material that, as an example, was some rare material that allowed for faster than light travel, we would never know. The other aliens that have the technology would never even bother to visit a planet incapable of interaction with the wider universe.
Price cannot be compared because we do not know the price of an Apple processor. In fact, Passmark does not include Apple processors in their "best value" listings [0]

[0] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html
True, but with some stuff you just ain't gonna need it. For example, chibicc forks a process for each input file. They're all ephemeral. So the fork/_exit model does work well for chibicc. You could compile a thousand files and all its subprocesses would just clean things up. Now needless to say, I have compiled some juicy files with chibicc. Memory does get a bit high. It's manageable though. I imagine it'd be more of an issue if it were a c++ compiler.
Probably lots. But since this was such a new account, and in the public eye to a great degree, my gut says they needed to verify it was real and suspended it while it was being verified. Hopefully we find out the real story.
looks like the rules were changed sometime in 2020 based off this leaflet:

https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/brochures/d...

I don't know what section of the Federal Register to consult to see if that is actually backed up by something enforceable
Debian is moving their 32-bit releases to 64-bit time, it's a big transition but it's expected to be ready for the next release. But they've also announced that they may be forced to drop their i686 release quite soon.
> But when you start adding business rules, and start transforming your data and moving it around, then your monolith will become too complex and often too expensive to run. Lots of moving parts tightly coupled together, long-running transaction wrapping multiple joined tables etc. Rolling out new features will become very challenging as well.

Absolutely NONE of that has to happen if you structure your project/code well.
The conversation in this (overall) thread is dancing around issues of experience,competence, and maturity. And the age ceiling forcefully pushed by people like Paul Graham of this very HN. When your entire engineering team are “senior developers” with 3 years of experience (lol) and most don’t even know what a “linker” does, the fundamental feature of the wunder architecture is obscure and not understood.

Building effective monoliths absolutely demands competent DB experts, schema designers & developers. The problem that microservices solved was the sparsity of this sort of talent when demand overshot supply by orders of magnitude.

(In a way the monoloth vs microservices debates are echoes of the famous impedance mismatch between object graph runtimes and relational tables and DBMSs.)
Yes, but now you are requiring people to know both Python AND Haskell/StandardML/Whatever in order to maintain your Python app.

Python is not just a "base" language, it's also a set of patterns for how you go about writing code in it. Conforming to those patterns to some degree makes for (subjectively) nice code, and (objectively) easier to understand code because of the familiarity.
This tripped me up as well. While modern NAND SSDs do slow down to about a third of the advertised speeds on non-sequential reads/writes, that is still 2-3 GB/s. The "normal" (SATA) SSDs are just limited by SATA's link speed, they could easily get to similar rates.
I'm a teenager, I don't spend the money in this house.
Absolutely agree. If you're going to deposit more than $250,000 make sure you have friends in the right places!
I know Vizio is considered more of a low-end brand, but I have a ... probably 2010s era Vizio that's one of the best TVs I've had. 32" or something, never had a single issue with it. It's a dumb panel that displays whatever I put on it. How a TV should be.

I had a more recent 65" Vizio (2020, I think?) in my living room, which was also a great TV. It was something like $600 (crazy cheap for the size!), great picture, never connected it to the net, always worked like a charm. Was a great panel for my Nvidia Shield.

That TV was broken in an unfortunate incident involving a toddler and a thrown wrench, and was replaced with a similarly priced TCL TV (which was the best rated one in my price range on Rtings at the time).

That TV is nothing less than a hunk of shit - constant sound issues, molasses slow UI, built in Roku stuff is all crap. Picture is decent, but I liked the Vizio better.

I've often considered shelling out the big bucks for a better model TV, but given the industry trends I'm terrified of the thought of spending triple the price of my current TV and still hating it. Happy to pay for good quality, but just extremely skeptical of most offerings in the market these days.
Intuitive Machines to try reaching the moon with first private lunar lander
It's a bit more nuanced than that. Floating point arithmetic is not associative: "(A+B)+C" is not always equal to "A+(B+C)". Because of that, certain mathematical operations used in neural networks, such as parallel reductions, will yield slightly different results if you run them multiple times with the same arguments.

There are some people working hard to provide the means to perform deterministic AI computations like these, but that will come with some performance losses, so I would guess that most AIs will continue to be (slightly) non-deterministic.
I though it was going to be about harri-jasotzea for a second!
I once experimented with something like this for OpenXcom is to first rotate the geographic coordinate system so that local equator/zero meridian intersection is at the center of the area of interest, then apply merkator or whatever other projection you like.

Otherwise it's a sea of hacks which doesn't get rid of latitude-induced distortions anyway.

After that being very annoyed with lat/long stuff I moved to N-vector representation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-vector
Looker (1981) is a great film, but it's a stretch to call it depicting virtual reality. Perhaps you could say superimposing the computer-generated humans into real world scenery is like AR. (Yes, the computer can generate lifelike moving 3D representations of people, but static furniture is far beyond its capabilities ...)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/
Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to 'easily chat with documents'
There’s a comment in the post that offers a plausible explanation
I'm on the side that it's very odd to think we'd be the first, considering how short our existence is compared to dinosaurs. On the flipside, that same comparison means we may well be the most advanced.
I didn't say it's useless, I said it's a niche utility. There are, what, 10 even slightly commonly used shells?

Compared to the thousands of other programs that spawn processes, I think shells count as a niche use.

If fork() and exec() had been kept as the niche utilities they are in addition to a more commonly used spawn() syscall, fork() and exec() could have remained simple and small, and not needed all the CoW magic and many other complex features at all.
It’s an interesting question. When it comes to processing large amounts of data I’d actually be more concerned about JavaScript’s memory usage than strict processing performance. Certainly you could use JS smartly with typed arrays and such to minimise memory impact but you'd basically be manually creating a lot of the convenience that Rust gives you out of the box.
The rise isn't accelerating though, it's slowing.

It might have already peaked:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-global-co2-emissions-co...
> the rules were changed sometime in 2020

What rule are you referring to? FDIC coverage has never had a lifetime limit. That would mean someone who gets an FDIC payout at one bank should rush to pull their deposits at others.
A nice thing that i noticed was the increased prevalence is battery swapping stations in bengaluru.
I had gone mall hopping with friends, and found many of the malls also had a battery swapping station.
An important point that people seem to forget is that you don't need microservices to invoke performant native code, just a dynamic library and FFI support. The entire Python ecosystem is built around this idea.
And look what happened to him.
There will always be NetBSD which runs on everything from a potato to supercomputers, no matter how many bits of address-space it has ;-)
Unfortunately if they want to put wheels on "social justice" they have to deal with the antipathy that it has for quality and getting results. Otherwise a growing number of people are just going to give up on it.

My Slack got changed so it would use the dark skinned emojis for things like "thumbs up" which I am not against at all except for the fact that the fingers are not distinct like the light skinned emoji because the contrast between the dark fingers and the line between the dark fingers. I'd imagine you could have a light outline around the dark fingers or find some other solution but unfortunately when the "social justice" meme is activated nobody cares about quality.

I have a friend who grows grey market weed of the highest quality (better than what you can get at the legal dispensary) and also sells cuttings of plants you can use to grow your own and also makes edible products like gummies and a coconut oil-based tincture.

He's a really smart guy and if he wants to learn to grow weed or something like that he goes and learns from the best and practices and soon he is one of the best. He's got great business skills and is active in a trade association for the industry. He still doesn't have a license and the licenses instead have been given to people who might be the victims of injustice but who don't have the talent and experience my friend has... And it's not like the recipients are growing 2nd or 3rd rate weed, it is that they are struggling to even get a product into dispensaries.
There os an in between space like the RPi zero where you can drop rt linux kernel (and rt modules). 32bit embedded linux is still really quite widespread. I expect risc-v to breath some new life into it as well. Sometimes a lack of hard (or any) real time requirements, combines with price and occasionally power (where I expect risc-v to come in) to allow for embedded linux. It usually requires less development time too. Think how many home routers, and security systems are still built off of 32bit linux. I don't know any built off of freebsd though, so maybe a good call?
Looks like she wasn't actually exporting anything, just using the export feature as a convenient way to get the coordinates of the bounding box she wanted to search in.
JavaScript `array.sort()` doesn't work with negative numbers
RecallM: Architecture for Temporal Context Understanding and Question Answering
I used to love my Chromecast but I feel like it's gone downhill significantly. The amount of bloat and ads when you fire it up is annoying. Thankfully there is an 'Apps only' mode now but you are still plastered with ads before you can select an app.
Why? If I trust Mozilla why should I be opposed to providing them anonymised data on what features I do and do not use?
without a context that might make it reasonable, the original code is fairly absurd: where is the error handling?
The bad cases of several if clauses should be by far the largest and least obvious portion of the code, not silently omitted and further obscured by hiding branches.
Parents never saw there was an issue. I was mostly "normal" until I started seeing symptoms pop up in the 5th grade. Don't have a guidance counselor but I should probably just ask my dad.
I wouldn't say "nothingburger", but I would say HN users, as per usual, are misunderstanding the issue. It's not as serious as exceeding cash reserves. It's, theoretically, a temporary problem that bank executives are actually legally obligated to remedy.

It does, however, warrant banks reevaluating their risk assessment practices. Or maybe the problem is elsewhere? Something is definitely out of place for this situation to even arise so soon after the unpleasantness of 2008.
Because they made a lot of money selling to miners at prices that maybe they couldn't ask to gamers?
This is a cool project; it has just enough meat on its bones to learn a bit about WASM and mapping data, and an attainable goal with a clear, visual result after some effort. I just spent half an hour to try to get this to work myself to see how far WASM has come. Not sure I'll be doing something with this specifically, but good to keep in the back of my head for future challenges along the same vein.
When AWS invariants aren't [invariant]
Yes, it's built as part of Chrome IIRC.
Entrepreneurship may seem riskier than a full-time job, but in some ways the full-time job is riskier: "One is the most dangerous number."

- The full-time job has exactly one source of income.

- Smart entrepreneurs build multiple sources of income: multiple customers, multiple platforms, etc...

One way to implement this could be to freelance and have multiple clients.

Another good piece of advice is to make sure your role is in a profit center, not a cost center. The profit center will be last to be laid off: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
I'm sure some MBA douche presented the calculation at headquarters to save the money by making it fake, but when it was first released there was a massive campaign showing Domino's workers getting the orders printed out and hitting buttons at various parts of the process that actually did update the tracker.
Cooking a Roast Beef: Graph of the progress of cooking a big roast
They build their own servers using some custom components. Economies of scale probably don't really factor into the pricing of their GPU stuff (unless I'm seriously underestimating their GPU customer base), but they do factor into the peripheral stuff like PSUs, fans, hard drives, etc.
The whole post is based on a questionable assumption that Domino Pizza Tracker accurately reflects the status of the Pizza, when it could just be a dumb timer based on a statistical average. Sure, the Pizza Delivery person in the last step has to be accurate, but that's simpler than tracking if the Pizza is in the oven. As for the point itself, I think the real-time status tracking is a very, very small subset of UIs. Yes, it's difficult to deliver if the organization isn't designed around this, but most sucky UIs aren't limited by not having the data.
I second this opinion, but people should know that the lower cost does have tradeoffs:

They are a little more fragile than your typical TV - move them around with care.

The speakers are much much worse than average - you are going to want a soundbar.

The IR receiver is oddly placed, so you have to be a bit more exact when aiming the remote.
>the original python looks cherry picked

My dude. I have yet to see an FP article that is not just badly cherry picked anecdotes, where the cherry picking itself is often somewhere between a misrepresentation and a blatant lie (nobody would ever do <that> but you can if you need to)

It’s one of the reasons I strong advocate against functional programming. The community representation of it is, at best, highly misrepresentative of reality.
Parent's point is that Apple successfuly maintains two different security levels for mac and iOS, and claiming that it absolutely can't lower iOS at any cost is just Apple's opinion.

For sure Apple doesn't like the macos security model and would want way tighter control on what's allowed to run, if it could get away with it. But it's not about what Apple wants, it's about what they're asked to do.
At one point 16 bits were universal, and then 32 bits came along and broke everything. We learned some lessons that day. Then 32 bits was universal for a while and 64 bits came along and broke everything. I guess we forgot those lessons, but OK well at least we learned them again for real this time.

What a relief it is that we have reached the final architecture and will never have to worry about anything like that again!
Thankfully it is only a bad law in the European Union.
Could the link be changed to the original site: https://www.panoramai.xyz/ ?

Just too many ads in the OP
If it wasn't for your comment, I would've thought this was by Twitter.
Yeah this sounds fun till the banking system collapses and we are in a depression.

The real answer is that ZIRP was a a bad idea
https://peps.python.org/pep-0505/

there's a PEP. But it's been pocket-vetoed, i think.
The TARP bailouts showed all of us that bailing out banks in bad situations does little to help the average citizen anyway.

Sort of like Y2K mitigations, then, right?
Python is just not made for FP, so any addition of FP into python makes it look even worse
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