skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Running a powerful GPU at full load using coal-generated energy causes two orders of magnitude less emissions than flying on an airliner (per passenger). If you ever flown anywhere in your life, I don't think you can climb on that high horse.
Many add a bunch of bloat that I simply do not want. It'd be nice to have a chat app that only do chat.
Cool. It would be more useful if it was organized by the tool the visitor is trying to replace
If it’s banned in all those places, does that have a knock-on effect of limiting its profitability thereby causing the market to produce less of it to sell elsewhere?
Yeah, banks unfortunately have their opinionated checklists of “best practices”, also know as “what every other bank does”.
Free book: Web Browser Engineering
Why are you ripping articles from Moxie?
Same here, for some reason. When I was a young boy, my newly retired grandma gave me the first three books, she used to work in a bookshop and I think she had read they were popular worldwide or something.

After acquiring and reading all 42 books relatively quickly, I tried other manga but also couldn't get into it like Dragon Ball. I still try from time to time to watch anime and read new mangas, but still nothing seems to captivate me the same as Dragon Ball. I still don't exactly know why, I might just be sentimental.

I guess this comment is a bit of a call to action for recommendations of manga/anime that might captivate me after all :)
Nature is always evolving, and I think it's a mistake to consider human contributions as "unnatural." All kinds of plants produce a wide variety of pesticides as a natural defense without human intervention, and are cooking up new varieties to trial against the real world. Diseases are in a constant arms race with immune systems regardless of humanity.

I'm not saying we can't get better at predicting the side effects of things we introduce into the system. But I do think regarding the cat and mouse game as "industry vs nature" is reductive dualism and shallow thinking. We are nature. Considering humanity as apart from nature was one of our more misguided ideas.

Industry is a part of nature, an active participant, not in opposition to it. We were doomed to shuffle diseases around long before industry. There is an explosion of novel chemicals that we have introduced into the environment, and they will no doubt change things. Humans evolved in a world that is not the world we are creating, and we very well might not be fit for the future we're creating. But let's not call what we're doing "unnatural." That just serves as a kind of denial that we are active participants, and reinforces a subtle idea that we are Gods apart from "Nature."
I recently saw in person a non-flight part of a Vega satellite dispenser - rather solid looking 80+ kg aluminum ring like shape, that during a normal flight profile burns up about 100 minutes after lunch via controlled re-entry of the upper stage.

Apparently, very little of that is expected to come down, courtesy of the 8 km/s of kinetic energy it has turning into heat in a very short amount of time.

I image it will be the same for the battery pallet, aided with parts being thin skinned & pressurized.
Sometimes I can understand this because banks work with old software that just has these restrictions.

But modern apps: just give us Unicode support. And maybe a limit of 255 characters, but not less.
The instantaneous one is best.
It’s the one I use. Thanks
Yeah, just CRC32 the password on the frontend, should be fine
Indeed - a classic «upping the game» is to prove two bounds, then determine an exact value because you somehow get the bounds to intersect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze_theorem?wprov=sfti1
Ask HN: Why is the crypto booming again?
I have no experience in crypto investing, so I don't know how significant this is, but there has been talk of $60,000 in Bitcoin in various major media outlets recently. It seems like the crypto market has a habit of coming in and out of the limelight like this, so why is this boom coming back? Is it simply due to something like ETF approval? If there's a technical reason, let me know.
Kind of weird phrasing in the title, seems to imply that ComfyUI isn't open-source.
Suggestion: it would be great if I typed the software I was looking for a replacement, and the OSS alternative was returned as result.
Many Americans do not like foreign governments attempting to take control of American corporations by government fiat. For instance, the EU insisting they can steal money from Apple based on its global revenue, rather than EU revenue, is obscene.
There is a free option and one of the stocks went up 10% in a day after trading with this
In the footer there's a link to this page which seems to do that

Could probably do with being the default view, aye

https://openalternative.co/alternatives/
NSF board approves funding for just one of two giant telescopes
Actual issue is why "jump to merit of page" link is needed at all, not ones ability (or lack of) toactively filter content while reading
Do you got a source that chlorpyrifos is banned in foods sold in EU?

A quick search seems to indicate that imported food can still have been grown with chlorpyrifos:
https://www.eurofins.de/food-analysis/food-news/food-testing...

Since we import a fair bit of vegetables and fruit during winter, we may still consume it here in the EU area.

Also, Ascenza Agro and Industries Afrasa that sell chlorpyrifos based products recently tried to overturn this ban, but luckily were not able to:
https://www.env-health.org/victory-for-health-european-gener...
Frequent MCT oil servings starting pre-fast (continuing through the fast until post-fast) shortens the time spent in "keto flu" by a lot (works for me).
At this moment it looks clear to me that Apple won’t go that way. It’s enough for them to focus on inference and actual application not the heavy training part. They have been probably training models on a cluster with non Apple silicon and make them available for their chips only for inference.
There have been decades of work on file name completion put into Emacs, nothing I’ve seen comes close. Currently I’m using add on packages vertigo, orderless, marginalia, consult, embark, and corfu to handle completion. These packages all work together to produce a crazy good setup, but in the past I’ve used helm, ivy, icicle, and vanilla Emacs. Every one of these open source completion frameworks works great.

Of course, I’ll never get back the time spent fiddling with my 1600 line Emacs configuration file.
> Using so much energy to play with language models is a waste of resources.

Why do you get to decide what's wasteful and what's useful?

We have more energy than we could ever hope to use from the sun and from nuclear. The solution isn't telling people they're wasting precious energy that you would put to better use. Just build more nuclear reactors and more solar.
Do you have an alternative source of revenue to suggest? It might be good to catch the site owner early while it's still small to get your suggestion in.

I mean if they're making direct deals with other businesses instead of just throwing up AdSense I don't really see the problem.
Companies continue to export chlorpyrifos from the EU to poorer countries
This was my jam when I switched to Linux, many years ago.

I love it that they updated with pro-contra comments. As software are usually not drop-in replacements to one another, you can learn a lot about the differences before switching. I like it that they also include descriptions, general comments, license and screenshots.
>The trillion-dollar corporations are leading the way, but it's doubtful that they will get to control what sort of AI gets developed over the longer term

Google and Apple have replaced the concept of a 'computer' with dumb clients called 'phones' and 'tablets' in less than 20 years. The corporations have already won - B2C AI will be closer to Clippy than offer any of the high-minded use cases discussed here.

Whatever open-source, on-premise AI available to the individual is going to be a hard-to-use, Linux-only mess that will scare away the average person.
How would you like to pay for the outbound bandwidth you’re using? Choose:

1. metered gigabytes

2. bundled in with some other resource you’re paying for (which one?)

3. fixed allowance then it stops working altogether

4. monthly charge per 95%ile of contractually provisioned mbps (i.e. old school ISP billing)

5. I just want something for nothing
It still seems to be exported :(

Europe shipping banned pesticide linked to child brain damage to Global South
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2023/03/28/eu-banned-pestic...
Had no idea about the actively maintained fork, thanks!
Yes. Otherwise they couldn't operate in China.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/2/18053142/china-internet-p...

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-companies-censoring-con...

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/26/1145509265/apple-airdrop-chin...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-07/how-mi...
It's 1971, a Swedish man crashes into a tree, what causes the accident? There's nothing medical, nothing wrong with the car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-fCBcgDq4Y
Yes, issue is why this button even exist instead of actual content being first and foremost
The climate in Kyiv is relatively mild to what people would generally associate with the "Russian winter".
Yes and it boils down to day trading. The people making food money day trading are few and far between. The alternative to buy and hold provably works and minimises the risk.
Probably the same people who use text editors which mangle "tab" characters. (never seen one ever, in 15-20 years of using computers and working with embedded devices)
Second most.
> instead he moved to Lisbon and created bogus reports about Britain from a variety of public sources

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Scherhorn
The first toggle button on the page is the nicest to use IMO.
Ask HN: Orgs with good Eng Culture, what practices make you succeed?
I don't know if there is an _absolute_ definition to good Engineering Culture but IMO the following points may hint towards a company that is doing things right,

- You feel your work is valued, whether it's through cash/gift rewards or otherwise.

- Money is not your only incentive to stay at your current company.

- Your teammates value each other and have no (or little) ego.

- You were a better programmer than what you were a year ago? (I don't know if 1 year is an accurate scale of measurement but I hope I get my point across).

- Respect goes both ways.

- You have a clear path forward for where your career may head if you stay at the company for the next 3-5 years.

- You get enough independence to make decisions, less red-tape.

There's a lot more to it, I'm sure. But if you identify with most of these points, what does your company do right?
Musicians are not the owners.
And run minimax on a cloud of perturbations surrounding each world model, and then weight them together in a tree after that.
Looks like my mum's boxy 1994 Ford Fiesta, and I like it
Many sites like Open Alternative do just well with asking for donations and patreon.
> No ads, no anecdotes and family history, newsletter popups, cookie policies...

I remember when streaming networks had all the shows/music we wanted, cheap, with no ads. The bait and switch is always around the corner.
So kagi displays spam in the same way as other search engines do
Generative AI shitting all over the internet creates a need for "verified" people, information etc.

The Blockchain promises this verification, decentralized.
This is 2 1/2 tons, not all of it nickel. Approximately 48.5 tons of meteorites hit the earth every day https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/ and those are around 1-1.8% nickel https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/items/metal-iron-nicke...

So, there's about 1/2 a ton of nickel falling into the atmosphere every day anyway, 180 tons a year, already in the ballpark of your thousand ships.
As mentioned in the post, benchmarking results are coming in a later post. But in short: you can train an epoch of Alpaca in 24 hours or so, which is enough to get very significant change in model behavior.
"far left", "marxism"... I think I know where you live.
Why do you get terrible performance? I vaguely recall reading that doing this ties the input queues together, so that all (input?) messages get dispatched to both processes, which then both need to have their message loops respond in a timely fashion. Is that it?

Anyway, I believe the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) actually does this. The content windows (at least in some cases) belong to a different process than the surrounding UI.

Also, WebView2 (the new Chromium-based Edge webview) runs out-of-process, but maybe it does some things in the embedding process to improve performance?
That's partly because the drag effect of the atmosphere depends on the solar activity. Meaning, depending solar activity an object will start aerobraking higher up or lower down in the atmosphere. That of course drastically impacts the time it takes the object to fall out of orbit and since we can't really predict solar activity we cannot precisely predict when nor where this battery pack will hit the ground.
It makes sense, I just fixed it, thank you!
You know it's fiction when the companies adversely affected by it just stand still and do absolutely nothing.
> the EU insisting they can steal money from Apple based on its global revenue, rather than EU revenue, is obscene.

To be clear, fining is not stealing except in some kind of liberal dystopian fantasy.

And fining based on global revenue is necessary because it's all too easy otherwise to artificially shift revenue between various places to evade these kind of fines.

The fine is limited by law to 10% of global revenue, and the EU market is more than 10% of Apple's revenue, so there's nothing particularly egregious here. Also, obviously Apple is not forced to do business in the EU if they don't like the rules.
'Ring of Fire' Rocket Engines Put a New Spin on Spaceflight
Same issue. Android FF just won't handle this "basic modern website". Probably 5+MB of js being loaded in.
What's the running cost of a static html page? If it's below $10 for the life of the site, maybe it doesn't need a revenue stream.
> economic survival of the USA and its western allies

Don't be silly. Russia is a sidenote from the perspective of the west. Especially the US, they'd much rather focus on the pacific and their internal stuff.

I know Russians tend to be extremely paranoid about everyone being out to get them but that's more of an internalized issue due to historical reasons and the general tendency of blaming external powers for all of their domestic issues...
Why should it be behind AWS or CloudFlare? Can't anybody maintain their own servers in 2024, especially when everything works and doesn't crash after a HN spike?

Not to pick on you in particular, but I hate this laziness trend from sysadmins that are the cause of the whole centralisation of the Internet. If you have the knowledge to build a SAN and entire architecture yourself, teach that to the youngbloods, instead of just telling them to get AWS credits.

Make the Internet decentralised again.

---

Don't give a junior dev a cloud server, but teach them to administer a UNIX machine and they won't need free credits from anyone.

- Confucius
Honestly, I look at the readme and I think it's just a minimal effort layer on top of ComfyUI. It's main point seems to be "easier installation" but it's not ComfyUI that's difficult to install. It's the GPU libraries. CPU based ComfyUI is a `git clone` and a `pip install -r requirements`. Shame it's so slow on the CPU, but that's diffusion models for you.
Did I say being male centric was bad? I didn’t.

You misread and understand the sentence you quoted.

I am not suggesting being less male centric is an improvement.
And pressurized water reactors are a huge industrial installation running at 155 bar.
I like how the earliest and easiest PRNGs are making a comeback:

First middle square method, just add a weyl sequence to it, and all statistical tests stop failing [0]

uint64_t x, weyl;
uint32_t msws(void) {
x = x * x + (weyl += 0xB5AD4ECEDA1CE2A9);
return x = (x >> 32) | (x << 32);
}

And now Collatz, just add a weyl sequence to it, and all statistical tests stop failing [1]

__uint128_t x;
uint64_t a, weyl;
__uint128_t CWG128_64(void) {
x = (x | 1) * ((a += x) >> 1) ^ (weyl += 0xB5AD4ECEDA1CE2A9);
return a >> 48 ^ x;
}

The fun part is that the constant used in the weyl sequence is pretty much arbitrary, it just needs to be odd and not too regular.

The more state of the art xoshiro, pcg, Romu, sfc64, tylo64, ... are still faster and probably safer tp use, but I like how especially the middle square weyl sequence PRNG can be very easily memorized: Square + weyl sequence, swap upper and lower bits, and return the truncated result. The weyl sequemce constant can be created with a rule of thumb: try choosing mostly destinct hex digits and make it odd.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00358

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17043
Yeah, of course. All famines and food shortages happen because the people faced with a shortage are to proud to ask for help... Rihjt...

Any other deep thoughts you want to share?
There's a corresponding objection to the idea of fast-food software, though, which is that the world doesn't have to be one-size-fits-all, and in fact we may be near or past a peak era for that approach to software: while everyone still wants and uses manufactured goods, the value chains are increasingly able to incorporate some kind of customization element and deliver services to meet precise definitions.

We know that it's more important to get right answers than fast answers, but the question of whether rightness needs to be shrinkwrapped is inconclusive and subject to the "bundling vs unbundling" innovation dynamic: there are a lot of scenarios where local agency is prioritized, e.g., US ground forces rely on being able to coordinate comms and intel well to achieve objectives within broad parameters, in a bottom-up fashion. That kind of approach does mean there's heavy standardization of specific techniques and technologies, but it's done to enable flexibility in other respects.
> And the sudden and intense interest in biological difference is kind of creepy too.

Hasn't that always been part of his schtick?

From the article:

> People use the claim “there’s no such thing as biological race” for a lot of purposes, mostly to confuse and deceive people.

Wow, he's very emotionally attached to the concept of biological race.
Some animations can be essential for user experience. One of them is demoed in the page: the page scroll animation.

If you've ever looked at a wall of text or other high entropy information displayed on the screen, especially if it was on a shared screen so the image is all you can see with no hints about the scroll direction, keeping up with the motion can be nigh impossible. You have the whole image jumping up and down several lines or even a full page at a time and you spend all your brain power trying to find an "anchor" reference point to realize what that movement was, instead of focusing on the content.

In such cases even the most subtle of animations that tells me how the image moved is a treasure.
see also "Program in C": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tas0O586t80
I happened to be there while this attack was in progress (ocotober 23). And all there systems were really offline, POS didnt work, wifi didn’t work, literally anything connected to a computer didnt work.

What’s unfortunate is that they flagged this vulnerability in 2022 and planned to review it in 2024 ???

Does it usually take this long to identify impact of users? They mentioned they paid for identity protection for their staff & ex-staff as well.
This is SOP for retaining and enticing strategic customers.

PANW was notorious for giving customers 2 years free on 5 year length 7 figure contracts of Prisma Cloud a couple years ago.

Because margins are nearly nonexistent in the space, 80%+ discounts are doable to retain or attract strategic accounts either for brand awareness or for stronger product alignment
To prove the exact value, you generally have to provide an algorithm that (provably) fulfills that value, and also prove that no other algorithm can possibly do better
I am sure this will be used by some government at some point.
Yeah do let us know if you find any issues
"The Library utilises numerous trusted partners for software development, IT maintenance, and other forms of consultancy"
...
"this terminal server was protected by firewalls and virus software, but access was not subject to Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sure, if it's an employment that's standard procedure in every company i ever applied to ask/rule out if you would be employed by another company after start date. I was rather operating under the assumption when you're not employed / the owner but the ex-googler seems to have been an employee in a rivaling business in both cases which would have clearly violated his contract with google.
Sure FUSE can be a bottleneck, but I find it very hard to believe s3fs is "60x slower" because of it.
As others pointed out already, Mongols are very polite and friendly to visitors. Even people who want to tell them how to live in their own steppes.
Whichever one doesn’t make it challenging for customers to switch to another provider. That may raise prices elsewhere (such as ingress fees), and the tradeoff is still likely to be net positive for the customer due to the increased competition.
There is tons of cloud competition. Amazon is nowhere near a monopoly.
It does under Why Daytona https://github.com/daytonaio/daytona?tab=readme-ov-file#why-...

Or do u suggest we move this all the way up?

Thanks
Like all the companies that realized that quietly selling highly targetable user data is more profitable than their actual services? See all the "DNA analysis" companies selling data left and right
> have word "shonen" in its title.

Right, meaning boy. Which I originally stated as not being a deep topic. So why try to pretend Shonen Jump is this progressive brand for universal audiences. Doing mental gymnastics to twist the meaning of “boy” to mean this inclusive theme of victory for all.

> shojo and josei

But, as with many things Japanese, the boys and men take first precedence. Is this not indicative of the male patriarchy? Why not name
It Shojo Jump then? Does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you have some denialist answer about how naming it “Shojo Jump” would be awkward or “strange” in the Japanese language? If that’s strange, then it suggests to me the male patriarchy is so deeply institutionalized and embedded that you can’t possibly reason outside of it

Thank you for mansplaining the existence of Japanese feminist studies. Can you please mansplain why “women’s colleges” exist in Japan? And why feminist studies are almost always resigned to these institutions. To most Americans, that would be a weird and ironic concept.

You think asking whether any 60 year old women are actually readers is a “strange question”? Why? Because the answer is a statistically low number? Me too.

You’re agreeing and confirming my very points. Maybe you can’t pickup on the sarcasm and irony here.
The vegetable link yeah I knew, the clothing too (they were a bit more obvious), but not saiya per se, nor the other food named chars.

side note, imported mangas were my entry-point to non European languages, I went into a deep rabbit-hole to decipher the Japanese writing system. And the pair trunks/dragon was my first seed to solve that, except I didn't really know how they were spelled there torankusu / doragonu so it took a little while to associate consonants with vowels.
> It’s not something that ever existed in hardware terminals or even early pseudo-terminals (like the default console Linux drops you into if you don’t have a GUI installed).

FWIW, the default Linux console had scrollback until a few years ago when it was removed in Linux 5.9.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...