skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. In practice, it looks like many things haven't actually changed, other than numbers becoming even more exaggerated. Some things I noticed in the paper:

> Undercutting a competitor’s latency by as little as 250ms is considered a competitive advantage in the industry.

I'm pretty sure my director would tell you that number today is closer to 10ms.

> While ISPs compete primarily on the basis of peak bandwidth offered, bandwidth is not the issue.

As the submission makes evident (and you are well aware), this is still very much the case today.

> For instance, c-latencies from the Eastern US to Portugal are in the 30ms vicinity, but all transatlantic connectivity hits Northern Europe, from where routes may go through the ocean or land Southward to Portugal, thus incurring significant path ‘stretch’.

Sadly, this still holds today. Almost all cables land in UK / Ireland, although MAREA does land in northern Spain, and there are a couple others in flight.

> Most routes to popular prefixes are unlikely to change at this time-scale in the
Internet

Ha. Maybe at the level of ASNs, but we certainly perform traffic engineering on much smaller timescales (see https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall17/cos561/p...).

Protocol improvements have definitely come a long way in the past decade. QUIC is now an IETF standard, with 0-rtt session resumption as you mention, as well as initial congestion window bootstrapping to reduce the number of round trips in slow start. But we haven't made much progress in many places that the article points out are in need of improvement.

I think the focus on speed-of-light in vacuum and the development of a c-ISP is not as useful for discussing the internet backbone, at least until we have viable replacements for fiber that are able to satisfy the same massive bandwidth requirements. Even ignoring YouTube video serving, we still have many terabits of egress globally, so the 80Gbps capacity target is not anywhere close to enough, even for 1% of our traffic in the US. That's barely enough to serve 100k qps of 100kB files. (A full page load of www.google.com with all resources clocked in around 730 kB transferred over the network, according to Chrome devtools. That's probably an argument that we should be making our home page lighter, but more than 90% of that is cached for future requests.)

And just accounting for 2x peak-to-average ratio absolutely doesn't account for inorganic demand induced by events like the Super Bowl or a popular video game release (https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-launch-slams-into-ste...).
Yeah, that's true. But I always assumed you need to be really inconsiderate with your equipment to get fined. At least this is what the local stories about tourists getting fined told :)

Never heard about this being a tourist trap.
On its own, each trit doesn't encode much information at all. But it's not about information at the individual level -- it's more about the shape of the network.

I appreciated this comment [0] from earlier in the thread by paul_mk1:

> My best guess is that it is encouraging the network to choose good underlying subnetworks to solve the problem, similar to Lottery Ticket Hypothesis. With ternary weights it is just about who connects to who (ie a graph), and not about the individual weight values anymore.

For myself, I've done a lot of work with image hashing (such as pHash and dHash) -- and in those, you throw away a LOT of information, but simply by keeping the value of each region and tracking whether or not it's above or below the average (essentially, the sign), then it's astounding how robust those algorithms are. Because you don't look at the individual pixels of an image, but it's very good at capturing the impression of the overall _shape_ of the image.

It's less about each individual datum, and more about the shape of the network.

If you're not familiar with Lottery Ticket Hypothesis, that would be worth reading up on.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39544500
I actually like not having sound in the same cable, it has generally made life more complicated. But my use case could be different from others.

Even DVI had HDCP though, so it too was flawed :-( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content...
Did Apple just kill the MicroLED industry?
Viz in the UK had a long-running single frame comic called “rude kid” depicting a mother asking her son to do something and his response was some variation of “bollocks” or “fuck off.”

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=6e8c819a630d1523&hl=en...

Went on for years and for all I know still continues today.
Does refining oil into gas have a CO2 cost?
Ideally one would use human ratings.

The author of the blog post did exactly that in a previous blog post:

https://cloudinary.com/labs/cid22/plots

Human ratings are expensive and clumsy so people often use computed aka objective metrics, too.

The best OSS metrics today are butteraugli, dssim and simulacra. The author is using one of them. None of the codecs was optimized for that metrics except jpegli partially.
Pass, not a Rust implementation /s
> JSR isn't a replacement for the npm registry; it's a superset of npm.

I first read this line to mean that JSR contains every package on NPM, and was just doing some post-processing on them. But it does seem to be its own registry. Maybe the intent of the line was to communicate that you can install packages from both?
AI Is Taking the Drinking Water in Goodyear, Arizona
One thing I'm not sure about when reading their policy is what'll happen in another kik situation. If someone were to claim the scope Microsoft (for example) that had no relation to Microsoft and then Microsoft came along and wanted the scope what would happen?

If MS got the scope what would happen to the packages in that scope, or if MS didn't get it what is done to clearly communicate that this is an unofficial account (presumably) asking on MS' behalf? In this early on period I'd expect a lot of people to claim the scopes of notable companies and these companies might take issue with that if they choose to use jsr down the line.
If the patent doesn't apply to JXL then that's a different story, then it doesn't matter whether it's valid or not.

...

The fact that Google does have a patent which covers JXL is worrying though. So JXL is patent encumbered after all.
Wouldn't having two flywheels spinning on opposite directions cancel out the gyroscopic effect?

There were some flywheel buses in Switzerland that used flywheels. They charged a bit at every bus stop so they had enough energy to make it to the next stop. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus

As for affecting the ability to turn, that would only be the case if the flywheel was vertical. If it was horizontal, it wouldn't affect turning at all.
Nordstream 2 hasn't transported a single m^3 of natural gas for sale (there was probably some minor net flow from initial pressurization), as promised in case of russia ending the peace.

That thing was a money sink: About 5bn€ of Gazprom money, about 1bn€ each for 5 energy traders from Germany (2x), France, Austria and Great Britain.

> There were repeated votes strongly in favor (like, 8-to-1 ratio) of halting the project in European Parliament

And the natural gas they used came from a random non-russian pipeline. Nevermind that it was ~half russian in origin. Hypocrites.

> strong and vocal opposition from the US, Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics

- US: Hey, buy our LNG. (and now: no, not like that!)

- Ukraine, Poland: Hey, don't bypass our pipelines, we want the money!

- Also Poland: "Germany is bad", practically all the time, practically on every subject. At some point you tune out the noise from Warsaw.
well look a conspiracy theorist. How many Ukrainians have you meet in whole life?
I have docker as part of my reproducibility builds. We recently ran into a problem trying to rebuild some old code - turns out the ssl certificates in our older images has expired and so now the code isn't reproducible anyway. One more reason to agree with the idea that docker shouldn't be used.

Though we use docker for a different reason: we are building on linux, targeting linux. It is really easy to use the host system headers or library instead of the target versions of the same - and 99% of the time you will get away with it as they are the same. Then several years later you upgrade your host linux machine and can't figure out why a build that used to work isn't (and since 99% of the stuff is the same this can be months before you test that one exception and then it crashes). Docker ensures we don't install any host headers, or libraries except what is needed for the compiler.
http://archive.today/mxBCQ
PR: https://www.scaleway.com/en/news/scaleway-launches-its-risc-...
Link for it: https://pushtotalk.me
Milk street is what I use when/if I'm looking to change up our weekly supper planning with something interesting and different. They're really good for finding new recipes. I still maintain that ATK is best for "normal" meals (read: those meals my children will eat without asking "awwww, what is this?").
Aren't most rent contracts yearly? So that measure would be 0 most of the time, even when it's bad?
I really hope this can become a new standard and be available everywhere (image tools, browsers, etc).

While in practice it won't change my life much, I like the elegance of using a modern standard with this level of performance an efficiency.
Membranes are functionalized by a proteolipid code
People used to complain about Yosemite having a road built to it, because it'd detract from the natural beauty of the valley and bring in too many "lazy" tourists. To some extent those critics were right, but it's pretty undeniable in hindsight that the cause of the parks system has been better served by having parks like these accessible to the public than it would have been by keeping them pristine and largely unvisited. We still have parks like that too. Gates of the Arctic and Isla royale come to mind as inaccessible, and both are tragically undervisited / unknown as a result. It's not like you can't escape the crowded masses in busy parks either. A half hour hike towards the backcountry will free you from the bustle of crowds at almost all of them.
Everything I hear about public service in both the US and the UK is that it's understaffed to the point where actual people needing those services are greatly impacted. Mainly due to ongoing budget cuts that long predate AI.
I think the approach suggested in 'Working effectively with Legacy Code' (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/working-effectively-wit...) is the right one. It's all about testing, and the confidence to make changes.

So buy the book, read it, apply the ideas.
We have three species named daddy long legs? Why are humans like this?
https://archive.ph/6JMJz
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of chasing profits
What a good dude.
Google Paying Journalists to Generate Articles Using Unreleased AI
Google's woke Gemini AI fiasco shows its vulnerability to AI competitors
Digital Ocean invested in their apps product with static sites etc hoping to attract front end users from Vercel and Netlify. But their product was bad and no amount of advertising could change that.
Release v0.1.4 · gptscript-AI/gptscript
Do you can imagine any other reason despite "carrot and stick" why these governments were friendly to the US?
And yes, soft power and coups are two very different things.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scaleway/status/1763149682304291238
because the FDA is the little bitch of factory food.
It's hypothetical. There is no difference between those two scenarios, we could also just assume the hacker pulled it out of their ass...
The big shift has been to Single Page Applications (SPA) either indirectly using a framekwork like React, or Angular or using the Javascript fetch() directly. So this also means that links (within your website/application) go away. This avoids page reloads, and it feels more like a desktop application.

The foundation is modern Javascript, another big new concept is async/await, combined with the fetch() calls so the entire screen doesn't lock up while your'e waiting for it to return

The other big shift is using CSS framekworks. Big ones now are Bootstrap and Tailwind.

I'm actually working on making a video with a live coding experiment making a small social networking site with some modern practices.

But some people still persist in doing the old way - e.g. Wikipedia. And Hacker News isn't an SPA from what I understand

Also, the "old way" has started to make a comeback with Server Side Rendering, as the compiled Javascript files using frameworks can get up to several megabytes and its taking too long to load the site.
What kind of a name is that in the first place!!
Celebrating dependency-management-data's first birthday
"Daddy longlegs" is a weird name that seems to apply to at least a few bugs.

In the southeastern US where I grew up, yeah, it's a thing with wings that I think are more precisely referred to as crane flies.

Harvestmen exist in that part of the world, but are much less common, and so I never learned to use the "daddy longlegs" name for them.
Quoting the paper: "3.1 Tidal deformation as a source of ground motion
How consequential are tides for binary asteroid seismology? ... Although the masses of a binary asteroid system are small compared to those of Earth and the Moon, the typical separation of binary asteroids is so small that the tidal accelerations only differ by an order of magnitude from those of the Earth–Moon system"

This paper was shared around by the Royal Astronomical Society yesterday and today while by coincidence solid (Earth) tides were raised in another HN discussion about measuring the shape of the earth <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39527639>.

Quoting myself from there (although 101955 Bennu is not a binary asteroid): "Personally I like the idea of depositing a crash test dummy loaded with sensors onto the surface of (probable) rubble-pile 101955 Bennu. Is it like a ball pit, or like a bean-bag chair? Does the dummy sink or get buried in landslides or fountains of material? (We already know we can send things there (and return them): <https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-bennu-asteroid-sam>)."

Rubble-pile binary asteroids 65803 Didymos & Dimorphos have nice wikipedia entries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/65803_Didymos and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimorphos . Alas, so far we've only crashed things into the latter: https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-defense-dart/ (movies, images at https://dart.jhuapl.edu/Gallery/ ).
The value is helping the community, first and foremost, isn't it?

The computed dollar value is pale by comparison. We should talk more about this community value IMO
We are a one-car family
Building a wall-hanging Sound Sculpture [video]
It's not, and westerners who think they agree don't actually agree, they are just edgy. It's hard to even explain what it would mean to internalize this belief system.

Let me try. We're you ever on an amateur IT conference? Comicon? Some sports event? Would it ever occur to you to assume some government is secretly behind it? When the Jehova witnesses or scientologists knock on your door - which government is financing them to do it and why? After all people don't do things for free.
It feels like nowadays Mozilla is extremely shorthanded.

They probably gave up because they simply don’t have the money/resources to pursue this.
Especially when your monitor falls down from your desk instead of simply disconnecting at the plug.
Took me a while after arriving at Kerguelen to work out who all the people with the weird-sounding job titles were.

IIRC "Disker" (the head of the district) sounds like a slang word for DJ, so his official residence is the "discothèque".
Do you think it would be trademark infringement if I code a HDMI driver and then publish it on GitHub with the description "This is a HDMI-Compatible driver"?
Used OpenAI's Whisper.
Opiliones are what we call Daddy Longlegs in the midwest. The spider ones we call house spiders, or attic spiders.

Fun fact - Daddy longlegs smell - interesting - when you pick them up. It's not bad, but it's not good. It's. Different. It smells how you would design mint if you had only smelled chewing gum instead of the plant.

Not sure what chemical it is that makes them mint flavored.
When I lived in Atlanta, there was a large line item on my annual property tax for street sweeping, which didn't seem to make much of a difference at keeping the roads clear of debris. There were many streets near me that obviously had not been swept in years, and while I did see them come up my street a few times, given the traffic volume, it has hardly frequent enough. They also didn't seem to have any kind of communication process between the police, who respond to traffic accidents, and the street sweepers, who never came by after an accident spread debris all over the road. Sometimes the police would have a stiff push broom in their trunk to do a quick sweep of the large stuff into the gutter but for the most part accident sites would remain a hazard until it had rained enough to carry the debris down to the storm drains to be clogged up by it.

People complain all the time about underfunded cities but if every property in the city was getting charged as much as I was per year, the street sweeping service should have been worldclass. It's things like this that make people distrust city government and not inclined to give them more money for little return.
The only thing controversial is that I should not have made that post here on hn. Actually it's so clearly against the rules that even this is not controversial, sorry.
Yeah the "someone else should do it" kinda thing is a weird self re-enforcing kinda thing too. Seems to just stoke anger and inaction.

Like I show up at a playground at say 8 am, maybe the trash left there was from 8 hours ago ... now someone gets upset that the city didn't do a thing that is probably a rebellious expectation (can't patrol all the parks overnight every 8 hours) and they shove their hands in their pockets and pout.

I'd rather folks just pick some stuff up and toss it in the bin nearby and we're all good.
But this feature works by transmitting HDMI signals so you still need to implement the software part in question.
You can airdrop a spring developer from 15 years ago into any modern Java shop using spring boot with instant startup thanks to aoc and all he has to do is to learn the basics of docker, some nosql crap and aws services like SNS/SQS, which should be easily possible within a week and some help from ChatGPT.
I live in Florida. I never knew about another other than the spider version of "Daddy long legs" until now.
[dupe]

More over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39559597
Wasn't one of the tenets of SO that the answers were all creative commons and available via a regular data dump. It was a reaction to EE putting up pay walls and locking peoples own answers up. The idea was whatever you contribute here won't ever be locked up like that. How can they change that?

Does the creative commons somehow prohibit using in training sets? What does attribution mean in that case? Are the data dumps still happening?

(( Edit: Interesting idea below about a new creative commons that asks for a model trained on the data to be open. Seems like in the spirit of the CC ))
[dupe]

More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39559597
Will Humans Change in the Next 10k Years (2021)
Only if the elements are siblings
Sounds like this is Antarctic _American_ English. The British jargon is quite different.
The blur issue is an easy fix, yes, but the memory one doesn't help that much.
In some cities/counties you can't even ride a bike on a road where the speed limit is over 35 (unless it is a county road with implicit limits)

Detroit comes to mind, not sure if the rule is still on the books tho.
> I ultimately tricked it by inserting a real 27C322 first and reading that before swapping over to the chip I actually wanted to read. Once the reader’s recognized at least one chip, it seems happy to stick in 27C322 mode persistently.

My people. I only aspire to be this damn clever. It's why I surround myself by people smarter than me.
Woah woah, slow down there. Pythagoras applied his aesthetic desire for pure ratios to an idealized model for musical intervals. Funny enough, this ended up being the reason that the west discovered that such an approach does not scale (figuratively and literally). We literally call this delta between the ideal tuning and the limits of a fixed-pitch tuning a “Pythagorean comma”. This comma became the basis for a lot of tuning systems (meantone, etc) developed by the west. It’s only in the last hundred years that, in my opinion, forces of industrialization and mass production erased all such effort and replaced it with the boring compromise that is 12 tone equal temperament.

Other, far older, musical cultures took things in a different direction and ended up building systems on pure ratios that just become more complex in their relationships (Indian shruti, Turkish makam, etc).

This does not mean that Pythagorean ratios are irrelevant. They remain a great tool for analysis of universal human experience of music. The authors of this paper are literally doing just that.

Birds generate pure ratios in their songs. Smacking a metal anvil (as Pythagoras discovered) naturally generates pure ratios. They’re everywhere. If anything we need MORE of this understanding in Western music, which is missing out on some really tasty (low integer) intervals like 7/4, 8/5, 10/9, 7/5, many of which have naturally emerged in the West via genres like Blues.
Show HN: Built a CLI scraper for Ask HN Who's hiring?
This should help: https://struct.ai/struct-for-slack
Atlanta, in addition to the traffic, is also known for their corruption.
It's not. There was no correlation at hand here - this was just a coincidence
Sadly, I do not have pictures. I only worked for that one firm before the age of computers, and therefore I can't say for sure what other firms did for timekeeping. But the fact the pull-off adhesive strips were sold commercially by office supply companies back then tells me they were widely used. If I get a chance (and remember), I'll see if I can find pictures online.
This is great!

I very much like the added TypeScript support (which the standard NPM registry does not have.) and that it's open-source.

I'll see about getting my packages uploaded onto here, too -- just having built-in support for TypeScript makes packaging x100 easier.

Regarding NPM, it's absolutely insane that we've been depending upon a closed-source, monolithic nightmare with poor UX for so long. You can't even use comments in package.json -- overall, it feels like a holdover we haven't figured out how to replace.

Furthermore, it's scary that Microsoft, through GitHub, now hold so much power over the JavaScript industry -- enshittification will most likely ensue.
I think it's safe to assume at this point that all public content and most private content on the internet is being fed to both AI and American intelligence services.
Challenging programming projects you should try
I use paperless-ngx for that.
We do intend to take a more editorial approach to scopes, and assign scopes to users in a way we think is more intuitive for end users of JSR. We have reserved some obvious scope names already, but in the future, we'd likely entertain requests to reassign ownership of scopes for the benefit of the broader user community (as in the case of a brand owner requesting ownership of their brand name).

So in the case that a user published "@cocacola/foo", previously published versions of "@cocacola/foo" would remain available indefinitely (unless they were found to be malicious), but we would likely be willing to assign ownership of the "@cocacola" scope to a representative from that brand/company if they asked for it and we could verify their identity. The original author of "@cocacola/foo" would need to publish the module going forward under a different scope.