skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd agree about the economics; when Musk suggests people getting out a loan to make the trip, what bank would grant that loan? How would they collect on it? What's Mars going to sell to Earth, which it needs to in order for a bank on Earth to accept a repayment? When he says "People will want to create the first pizza joint [on Mars], the first iron ore factory", that makes me cringe — the former because it's the kind of low-income role that needs food stamps in California (or at least, I know someone, n=1, where that was the case) and can't possibly afford that trip even with his price optimism, and the latter because if that's not already fully automated before you arrive, you probably can't build the colony in the first place.

I do however expect that there's enough psychological draw from "the final frontier" to get a million people spending $100k USD for the trip. Can he get that cheap? No idea.

> I don’t see the analogy here at all. Yes Columbus took a risk, he did that because he and his investor expected to make a lot of money just like the Portuguese going around Africa did. How is that relevant?

Because what he was actually aiming for wasn't possible, he just got lucky there was a (just about possible) alternative that he happened to find purely by coincidence.

What I'm expecting, is that we get von Neumann replicators before a Mars colony reaches the current population of Greenland (56k), let alone a million, and also that a lot of people will prefer the Moon instead (the ways in which the Moon is harder are not ones I expect to be important compared to the difficulty of either). But I also expect that some random thing which gets invented specifically as a result of the attempt to colonise Mars to prove really useful in some impossible to predict way.
This is so impressive. Is it an ad for fal.ai? Or who is paying for it?
> amperage limit to 350A

Jesus. By German electrical code, you need a 70 mm² cross-section of copper to transfer that kind of current without the cable heating up to a point that it endangers the insulation. How do mainboard manufacturers supply that kind of current without resistive loss from the traces frying everything?
Yes it sounds like they had to do some MacGyver level stuff at the last minute. As I understand it NDL (Navigation Doppler Lidar) was a NASA project bundled aboard the craft as a non-mission-critical demo but when the main naviagation failed they had to send a patch to the craft (about two hours before landing) to activate NDL and use it as the main navigation. Hoping more details come out about this.
Dear Jetbrains, if you read this, please reanimate your Fossil plugin. I tried to do it myself, but the learning curve for IJ plugin development is too steep.
This is a great idea. Being able to scan through previous images would encourage freer concept exploration, since you could then jump back to your favoured branch-off point easily.
If there were ever a "this is a massive bubble" flag - this headline would be it.
When it starts to get silly - it is..
Thanks for the additional info.

> There are some granite blocks that weigh over 1000 tons. We’re told that these were transported from hundreds of miles away, across mountain and over a river. Historians are not engineers so they don’t understand what they’re saying.

I am still unsure which ancient blocks you're referencing though. Stonehenge? Could you link to them, or a picture, or where in the world they are so I can google it?

This is the closest I could find: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/largest-manmade-bl...
but this one was not moved because it was too big (and is also limestone which i'm pretty sure is sedimentary)
And because “science takes too long” (and is expensive, and tedious), people tend to fall back to pseudo-science. There is often no way to derive robust numbers from techniques like A/B testing, for instance because of confounding factors that are not measurable. Given that, I have regularly heard the argument that “these are the only numbers that we have”.

Relying on such numbers, however, is equivalent to falling back on intuition and gut feelings for decision-making (or worse), while believing that the decisions were based on numbers.
I've worked as a teacher. I realized some kids really need people to help them learn. A book wont do them any good until they have figured out how to learn from books. Having a personal tutor if struggling is really helpful.

There need to be this "click" moment.
For comparison the military budget in the 60s was around 9%. Today it's around 3.5%.

5% today would be more than $1tn - a government-funded industry bigger than the entire military budget, comparable to the biggest tech companies.

It made sense in the 60s because the spinoffs from the green field R&D, especially in electronics and computing, are still paying a dividend.

Today? It's hard to see a moon base paying for itself any time soon. There's plenty of science to be done on the Moon, but direct dividends for industrial development are less clear.
Well either the Prodigy is a misogynistic nazi front band (they must hide Maxim and Thornhill at the rallies) or Ed Power has run out of non-fiction to write.
pimpin ain’t easy.. until now
Thanks Zuck
Their hardware is aimed at developers and yet none of their products has even a decent developing environment?

It's not aimed at developers, it's aimed at hackers
It was also to do with how dates were stored in very old databases that were conceived in the 70s when storage was at a premium - a lot of them just used two digits for year.
So presumably today's announcement that they are now supporting self-hosted instances is welcome news to you -- it is a huge stride in the direction you are advocating for.
Suggest Law: If a company's electronic notification to you is so phishy that a "reasonable man" would have obvious cause to doubt its legitimacy, then all financial and legal consequences of ignoring it are on the sender.

Edit: "sender" here refers to the sender of the electronic notification.
McCarthyism is generally understood to be the witch hunting that went on in Congress and Hollywood. Not the execution of the Rosenberg's, who really did give the Soviet Union nuclear secrets and earned their just executions. The causal link between McCarthyism and the Rosenberg's execution goes the other direction as what you're suggesting; their actual betrayal of the country inspired witch hunting. McCarthy was full of hot air and liked to accuse lots of people of treason, but he never managed to get anybody executed (or even convicted) for treason.

(More incidentally, the Rosenbergs were executed for espionage, not treason. Nobody in America has been convicted of treason for anything done after WW2, and none of even the WW2 treason convictions resulted in executions.)
> I think YouTube is the counter argument to this - long form content from passionate people has taken off pretty good there.

This has downsides on its own. Nowadays there are tons of YT videos that convey useful info in which the same useful info could be conveyed in a 200 words written piece. But no, you have to skip through a 20 minutes video where the signal to noise ratio is extremely low to get the really useful bits.
Data Contract CLI
Any plans to make an API? I'm building a website to catalog fairly common objects, and could use images to spice it up. I was looking at pexels...but this is just so much better.

EDIT - ah you have one. You're welcome. Sign up here folks. :)

Couple of questions in that case:
a) What is the avg price per 512x512 image? Your pricing is in terms of machine resources, but (for my use case) I want a comparison to pexels.
b) What would the equivalent machine setup be to get inference to be as fast as the website demo?
c) Is the fast-sdxl api using the exact same stack as the website?
Reminds me of this saga I went through as an early adopter of AMD Threadripper 3970X:

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/amd-threadripper-3970x-under...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22382946

Ended up investigating the issue with AMD for several months, was generously compensated by AMD for all the troubles (sending motherboards and CPUs back and forth, a real PITA), but the outcome is that I've been running since then with a custom BIOS image provided by AMD. I think at the end the fault was on Gigabyte's side.
From looking at the slides it looks like a really impressive project.

But I can't help but feel like very low cost full-blown Linux devices are right around the corner. Ex: https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/02/08/licheerv-nano-low-co...

If you can run full blown Debian on your wrist soon, why bother with this severely restricted device that are a pain in the ass to develop for?
Assuming they operate the same way Mastodon itself handles federation and only relay the content people follow, there's no reason you can't fairly straightforwardly scale it by just running more of them. But frankly I'm not convinced Bluesky has much of a future. It needs to 1) offer something significant over the wider Fediverse - which is far more than "just" a Twitter-like and they only have a partial answer to the Twitter-like part - and 2) prevent being embraced and extended. E.g. nothing but inertia prevents the same level of indirection to provide smooth migration as Bluesky offers, and so if users care it will come to other services over ActivityPub too. The good parts of Bluesky will be copied. Then what? Especially if you're on the Bluesky side of a bunch of bridges where people on a lot of the instance on the other side look at you with suspicion and lock you out from their communities.

The limitations on filtering on Bluesky and the culture of filtering on Mastodon where this ability is seen as a community good means that if you want a 'global' view of the combined network, you're going to need to be on the Fediverse side of those bridges. That's not a good position to be in for Bluesky.
This analogy disregards all the work that happens behind the scenes to make modern Python workload work.

The current landscape is moving so fast that we don't stop and work on achieving the best version of a specific approach. One can argue that both RAG and having 1M+ context length is a symptom of a disconnect between what language models are capable of and what people think they can achieve with them.

Within the next 6 months there might be yet another approach to provide LLMs custom memory, and we will be having the same discussion the way things are handled currently.
Those electrical code cross sections are for 350A at 230V, corresponding to about 80 kW (400V is the same as it's actually three 230V wires).

Processors operate at about 1V. At 300W it's enough to use a much smaller cross section, which is split across many traces.
Building a Realtime Datalake with Apache Flink, Spark, and Hudi
Filter out sellers that have zero feedback as those are scammers (happened to me buying a 3090 on eBay - seller claimed to have shipped it but didn't give a tracking number then private messaged me with a tracking number that goes to a fake chinese website. Spent months with eBay and my bank getting the entire thing refunded)
I learned Haskell recently, and I thought ChatGPT was a great support for that effort. It helped me with definitions, standard recipes and disambiguation. What it wasn't very good at was coding: it couldn't solve anything I did not know how to solve, but it was quite good for things I did know how to solve but couldn't be bothered to. For example, I could ask it to re-write a messy snippet of maps and filters as a list comprehension, and it would. The comprehension it produced may not work, but I could still glean enough from the approach that it would be useful.

I'd also ask it to re-write existing code "more canonically" or "more succinctly". Again, it fails to do this almost every time, but often it uses something that I didn't know existed whilst doing it, which I found to be valuable.
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Yeah that was incoherent remark on my side, and there are situations where I'd put them in a folder.

But I still find going incognito to watch porn paranoid.
But you phrased it in such a way that downplayed the vending machine doing it, the three reaction you got, which implies there's a different wording that would have gotten your point across better.
Maybe its just the hunan brain bad at perception, but I feel like there's some system compromised and info is leaked so scammers know when you are expecting a package because FedEx/USPS spam text increases.
Even then they have some discretion... A few years back my mother gave me her old MBA she wasn't using, she windows on it but no MacOS for some reason... it wouldn't recover via network recovery because the latest os that model supported was so old it wasn't available via that route anymore.

Popped into my local Apple Store and they were more than happy to connect it to their WiFi where they had access to all the old OS versions and let me sit there whilst it restored.

That experience was to their benefit - 12 months later with a nice bonus from work I went back their and ordered 10 grands worth of stuff when my wife and I decided to move completely over to their ecosystem. Had nothing but great experiences in both support and usability/reliability since.
What a shame, how will I find out about people doing yoghurt from pussy juice?
In this case the consequence is that the Australian government agency collecting the import tax doesn't get paid. Which means that they don't release the package to FedEx, and that you don't get your package.

FedEx needs to do a better job with these notifications. At the very least they need to hire a copywriter.
Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38680537

(I was avoiding going to that thread again because looking at it stresses me out, I took a week long break from hackernews after that)
Direct links to the analyses:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/171JkK1Qcet1SHV777FcJLINm...

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YEWkZf19f8jlqR-fczvU...
I don't believe corporations implementing liberal politics to prevent backlash and it being legislated onto them qualifies as them being on the "left political spectrum".
Even though I agree with the overall sentiment, in this instance it was PE that destroyed vice in the first place.
That code is for round wire (minimal surface area per volume) that can be placed inside insulation in walls.

This 350A is flat conductors (maximal surface area thus heat dissipation) and very short (not that much power to dissipate so the things it connects to have a significant effect on heat dissipation).
Maybe FedEx sees better results and gets more payments from appearing scammy? Scammers seem to do alright.

I know we tech people think this is type of messaging is ridiculous, but I’m constantly pulling less technical friends and family away from crap like this. Half a dozen have asked me about Elon Musk’s crypto trading breakthrough.
Any time the law sets things like "reasonable" it's a quagmire.

For every utterance of "reasonable" in law you can be sure over $1B of laywer fees have been (or will be) spent.
The last few times we have done interviews I’ve done the same coding test as the applicants while they are working on it. I try to solve it in a slightly different way each time.

We are currently revamping our hiring process and the questions we keep asking are “Would X, Y, Z pass this or get hung up on this coding test, question, etc”. As in taking care to think about how existing employees would do on the new process.
Engagement metrics effects on a corporate society
Is the job market bad or is it a bit of a skill issue?
That's not how I^2R losses work. Voltage is not relevant.
Yeah... going public is basically just a way for him to cash out (again)
Codeweavers is the main company working on Proton...

Seems like a lot of people aren't aware of that.
I know this comes down to institutional incompetency, but at some point there was a singular human person putting the template content the SMS message in question was generated from into some computer system somewhere and I genuinely wonder what was going on in their head that made them string the words together in this way. You'd have to give it a true, earnest shot to make it worse.
> Times and times again, they'll tell you the latter and actually choose the former.

I don't think this is as true anymore.

There was some time between 1990 and 2015(ish?) where physical widget prices was falling faster then the quality decrease, software and computing hardware got better, where the quoted strategy made sense.

Nowadays you will get dropshipped crap (or any service sector equivalent) if you go for the lowest price.
Kagi sucks
This will keep happening as long as people are unable to learn from the past. Yes it's expensive to have a good experienced infrastructure engineer on the team, but at least you know there's someone testing your backups and procedures for when your eager dev team screw up.
i'd rather be told "game's the game" and let go without the corpo speak.
love it! I have to log off but I should let you know it seems like the generation is different depending on whether you arrow up or arrow down into the seed when the focus is on the seed input (i.e. going up from 5 to 6 will have a different result than going from 7 to 6)
AI is going to bifurcate the job market. Short of AGI, the current code gen tools seem to be plateauing at a junior SWE level. Any simple tasks that are done by American IT, and couldn't be easily off-shored to India will be AI tasks. Why even bother hiring junior engineers when those tasks will be covered?
But in a modern day and age, when aren’t you expecting a package?

Nearly 100% of the time, I am expecting a notification from Canada Post or Amazon (FedEx less frequently, but still).

Even outside of that, you can often predict when people are expecting a package. Christmas. After various sales weeks.
Not that I’m endorsing the use of smart phones, but FedEx does have a mobile application. Why not just use that for notifications regarding deliveries?
large companies move like cogs. one team suddenly sees the value of X role that another team is letting go of. but i like how some of them don't try to help existing employee switch teams.
Since the cranes "know" the physical location of each container when it is loaded and unloaded, I suspect the CCP can update their container tracking software ~100X faster than the Pentagon can implement a decent RFID-changing system.
For a large monorepo network filesystem approach is inevitable. Every local storage approach has limits and breaks down eventually.
This is a great point -- thanks! Do you think there a possibility that anyone with zero feedback is just new and it's their first time selling?
That domain name is just perfect.
It's really not that simple.

What about complex validation rules? Do you really think it's user friendly to require them to send the whole form just to tell them "sorry no" 10 times over until they get it right?

What about multi-value selects, potentially with rules? E.g. form field like "choose up to 5 locations in the radius of 10km".

What about form fields like "pick a point on a map"?

Etc. Don't act like every form is 5 simple text inputs.
Show HN: Hated starting posts from scratch so I built an AI with viral templates
Exactly, the result would've been different if the author would not have disabled caching.

In this case it's because the iframes are loaded/unloaded multiple times, but we also spawn web workers where the same worker is spawned multiple times (for transpiling code in multiple threads, for example). In all those cases we rely on caching so we don't have to download the same worker code more than once.
5 Stages of a Software Teams Development
Most of us have been in teams at varying stages of the teams life cycle. Some of us are there right at the inception of a team, and some of us are unfortunately there at the winding down of a team.
Your comment just sparked an idea in my brain: what if the "unfortunate side-effect of not being paid" comes from obscurity exclusively? What if a person could effectively communicate their "job they are passionate about" to other 7bn people on the planet? Could that create a match between that person and someone that would want to pay for that job? Passion needs to be shared. It is hard to share a passion without a world-wide network (internet). What if, at the end of the equation, there are no "jobs someone is passionate about with the unfortunate side-effect of not being paid" at all? What if the only missing link is our inability to effectively mass-communicate?
> then all financial and legal consequences of ignoring it are on the sender.

They are, since non compliance will either result in destruction of the package or sending it back (differs a bit per country and type of goods).

It's a bit sad there are no easy ways to prepay taxes and it's hit or miss if you get checked. I'm glad the EU figured it out and have almost no weird surprises any more, except from the Uniteds (states and kingdom).
I doubt FedEx’s customer engagement increased by sending a query string with no domain or protocol. Someone’s asleep at the wheel here.
Yet another reason why I will try to never use FedEx. UPS is so much better.

Banks do similar dumb things. I once vented to a a Wells Fargo security manager about a similar issue. They had no defense at all.
Let me tell you something else.

If you read the comment again, you'll see I'm replying to OP's scenario of setting his own server and frontend.

I'm questioning the "probably using React" part of the frontend because... it's an overly complex solution to an already elegantly solved problem?
Article recommends disabling overclocking. The MSI recommendation is only to increase voltage.
Only take. No give. - Dog
And this requires absolutely zero screens, cameras, or demographic data collection of any kind. Just track the inventory. This isn't new; I would be extremely surprised if Japanese vending machines didn't do just that for decades already.

But those cameras aren't there because of the vending machine. That is just a convenient platform. This is about ads, and tracking, and data brokering. We had digital ad screens placed on the platforms at train stations in the Netherlands with a camera hole a few years ago, and the advertising company swore that those cameras would not be activated, for now, until the legal side was resolved, or until they could get away with it without anyone noticing.

It feels icky.
Pointing to another country’s human rights issues to distract from your own can be whataboutism. Everyone should strive to implement human rights regardless of what anyone else is doing.

Deciding not to strictly follow a trade agreement when the other party of that agreement is doing it all can to avoid the spirit and letter of the agreement is not whataboutism. That’s just a reasonable response.
Does this only work with "mainstream" languages?

Swift, perhaps. Chez Scheme? Haskell? Lean 4?
> At least 3 motherboard vendors are affected

Boss says, "Do the thing." Engineer says, "The thing is out of spec!" Boss says, "Competitor is doing the thing already and it works." Engineer does the thing.
Java FFI vs. JNI for Meta's RocksDB Java API
Your security is increasing at risk from organisations and
corporations whose own grasp of security is appalling. Because instead
of dealing with it they externalise risks and consequences onto the
public and customers.

Even worse, is where attempts to query that security is actively
punished.

This is typical now. Listen here (at 42:20) with an example regarding
the UK NHS whose incompetence plays directly into the hands of
cybercriminals.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=24 (time:42:20)