skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well.. I created a fork bomb on AWS Lambda. It was supposed to check a condition before self executing with a new payload, but the check was borked, so it just always self executed.

It turns out, if you do this _directly_, and not through a second service like Event Bridge, AWS will notice this fact, and will just suspend your lambda for a few minutes until all the executions die out.

It was only a $20 mistake in the end.

The real nightmare with Event Bridge is the default "retry" threshold is 185 times. It's a nuclear level nightmare. I just use the cron part now.
The coolest thing (IMO) compared to react is the ability to await inside a component.
Is there any reason for this to be less heavily regulated than fission plants/waste? Seems like that’s the major driver of cost? Are ridiculously massive containment vessels less necessary, since it’s very off by default/without power input, rather than potentially very on?
I recall seeing this shortly after Oct 7; though at that time it was difficult to distinguish whether it was propaganda.

I think the Hannibal Directive is not great, but at the same time the Israelis wouldn't have committed those acts had the terrorists not crossed into Isreal intending to do terrorist things.

It's terrorism whether you invade to kidnapp civilians or to murder them, and they're was plenty of civilian murdering happening that day as well.

Even if Isreal goaded them into doing it to justify genocide, it's still Hamas who decided to do the terrorism.
This brings me the regret of all the time I spent building windows phone apps.
Coming from these sort of businesses, I usually read these sort of comments as "they should be fired because when they recommended mfa they management said no".
Sorry, in the case of a treaty signed with colonizers, not a general treaty between two independent countries. My upbringing means when thinking of treaties in different languages it's in that context. [edit]Additional sorry, I re-read the phrasing here so to clarify, this is a real apology, not passive aggressive, I do mean my initial comment lacked this context, which obviously impacts things, but I also can't edit the comment to add it in anymore either, woo!.[/edit]

So in New Zealand (my birthplace) the legal text of Te Tiriti o Waitangi is the Māori version, not the English one, and you'll be shocked to hear that through out most of history the English one was used by the English speaking government to justify decisions, and the English version gave more up than the Māori version. Similar applies to treaties with indigenous people through out the world, of course in many such cases neither language was actually honored, and in a sad number of cases the indigenous groups were literally exterminated.
Because PFAS were considered inert and safe for the longest time. And they are widespread across applications and industries. However, they are in the process to be phased out completely. PFOA are already restricted, I think.
for posterity:

- Steve Jobs
- Sandy Lerner
- Noah Glass
- Mark Pinkus
- Kyle Vogt
It's nothing short of amazing how quickly we went from "nobody can compete with OpenAI" to "they're still cheapest".
Do you know about the Temporal startup program? It gives enough credits to offset support fees for 2 years. https://temporal.io/startup
I have a couple Roku products and really liked having an alternative to Apple/Google duopoly and isn't the TV manufacturer. Unfortunately, Roku is under the same short-term profit maximization pressure as everyone else. I rarely turn on a TV anymore and consume media (primarily Netflix and Amazon) on my laptop from websites viewed in Firefox.
Alternative; works where archive.is is blocked:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/insurance/the-medical-bill-y...

Text-only, no Javascript:

tnftp -o'|grep -Eo "\"body\":\".+\"readTimeMin\""' \
https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/BB1jwATu
|(echo "<meta charset=utf-8>";sed 's/\"body\":\"//;s/\\//g;
s/\",\"readTimeMin\"//') > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm
links 1.htm
Well, Wordle is what is copyrighted. It's not a patent - it does not contain any further information like claims about what is covered. The registration just contains the name, the owners/authors, the date and a note saying it's a video game. You can see the registration at https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=P... (thanks to lacoolj for the link)
Yeah, I guess many people started to think of the copay as the true cost, since that’s what they paid most of the time?
Well, the Luddites were right about a lot of things...and AI is not qualitatively the same as what happened during the industrial revolution, which was a revolution in physical production.

For one thing, there is little evidence of similar vast productivity increases. And there is similarly little evidence of what happens when you replace one set of workers with an equivalent or even slightly worse artificial set, and invest all the money in that instead...without a similar increase in productivity or the accessibility of natural resources.

In other words, it seems obvious to me that AI is far less defensible than the industrial revolution, and also obvious that the bulk of the issues the Luddites took with technology have been vindicated by history and sometimes in much more severe terms than what the Luddites thought.
I experience time drift with devices not connected to NTP like cheap stopwatch/microwave clock/etc, but my all my devices connected to NTP stay synced on their own.

For example:

- Windows time settings says: "Last successful time synchronization: 3/7/2024..." (This was ~41 hours ago and not manually triggered.)

- https://time.is/: "Your clock is 0.4 seconds ahead."

I'm a little surprised there is a 0.4 second difference, but it doesn't seem to affect syncing via Dropbox/Google files.

Perhaps the answer is that time that is accurate to within a second or so of precision is good enough for most consumers.
I love PragerU's infamous graphs: https://twitter.com/BadConservart/status/1058136695974039555
He really seems to be a real-life Frank Underwood.
They are even updating the stockpile[0]

You'd still want these because you can't always rely on guidance systems. In fact, that's kinda one of the things about nuclear war is that you'd have EMP effects... everywhere... and so you need some manual methods if you are planning an effective MAD strategy.

(gravity bomb = bomb guided by gravity. Guidance Cowboy[1] is optional)

[0] https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/357166...

[1] https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*zyLdhxLVES95o8QV...
The story was that Altman lied to specific board members to have other removed.
Parker Conrad at Zenefits, Jack Dorsey at Twitter, Andrew Mason at Groupon (but not before cashing his shares out at IPO!), Sandy Lerner and Leonard Bosack at Cisco, Steve Jobs at Apple.

I have a lot of confidence in Altman's ability to extricate himself before getting fired, but this is a very common Silicon Valley story.
Mobile site looks terrible to view. Colors everywhere and quite some bits not fitting on the screen. Reminds me of geocities.
Why? Do you think it cannot be well adapted, or that chances are low?
I wouldn't mention Zuckerberg in this list, because he is in a completely different category!

Zuckerberg only owns about 13% of Meta's stock, but he holds over 50% of total voting power, meaning he essentially has a complete veto over other shareholders. I don't think any other big US corporation is run like this.
> Like virtually all electrical wires, conventional superconducting magnets are fully protected by insulating material to prevent short-circuits between the wires. But in the new magnet, the tape was left completely bare; the engineers relied on REBCO’s much greater conductivity to keep the current flowing through the material.

Much greater conductivity than what? I assume there are other non-REBCO layers in the tape, but the article neglects to mention them.
Elixir in Action just recently published a 3rd edition, and it's a great introduction to the language and ethos of Elixir.

https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-third-edition
For something ostensibly targeting users whose only computing device might be a phone, I expected a much more usable site on mobile.
Looking at PragerU's site is a trip. And you get about a paragraph down before there is a funding nag banner.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5662332A/en here is a patent for Magic the Gathering.
No, but I told them what they did wrong and how I wouldn't stand for it. I also took away the avenue they used to wrong me (Facebook) when I split with them, and didn't reinstate it when we started talking again. We never really communicated via FB anyhow, so it didn't matter much.
I mean its 1.6x the acceleration lol
Writely Acquired on March 9th 2006 – Became Google Docs
That's not what I'm saying.

I can't take both of them on faith alone, because at least one of them must be wrong. I'm not qualified to decide between them, so I should weight them equally. Public statements from the parties, or fans of the parties, are reasonable to suspect of being tactical with the truth even when no falsehoods are stated, rather than giving a complete picture.
They will also not show you certain content if you register it in an untraceable manner, e.g. they detect you run inside a sandbox with a non-american phone number they will just outright now show you certain channels, if you go to these channels they will show up as banned, but if you were to open that same channel in some kind of incognito web browser they will show up.
That doesn’t mean you should ignore the applicants.

Provide a queue, say “we are working on it”, etc.
Actually, it's used pretty heavily by SwiftUI. The DSL for SwiftUI relies pretty heavily on n-element tuples that were previously limited to something like 10 children. So you'd have something like:

VStack {
ViewA()
ViewB()
...
ViewJ()
ViewK() // ERROR: A VStack is limited to 10 elements
}

The only way this could be implemented previously was with a separate init for each possible element count. A lot of auto-generated code.

This eliminates that. So even if you're not implementing it yourself, you're getting the benefits.
That is with 4-bit quantization. For practical purposes I don't see the point of running anything higher than that for inference.
That's not true; apps with non-native UI were usually scorned by Mac users. KPT and other Metatools or (whatever they called themselves that week) stuff was an exception.
Obviously a bit rough, but a start. This is the kind of content I like on HN.
I have used the same allergy and asthma meds for years/decades. I haven't changed any other medications. This used to be no problem — I could renew for 2 years easy. For some reason they started making me come in more often a few years back. Pretty annoying! I get that blood pressure meds or other dynamic issues require different kinds of care.
Especially considering the R3 is at a minimum 1-2 years out realistically
How home prices vary across the country
Why does Epic get the privilege to force me to buy things through their store?
It is incredibly naive to suggest that someone with that power "sending a letter asking questions" would be remotely similar to you or I doing the same.

The EU has an long tradition of "conversations" and "questions" with an unstated "give the right answer and you can avoid an unpleasant official action".

You're right there is no official casework. That is also entirely irrelevant to the issue of whether or not Apple caved under pressure.
Or maybe Apple is not infallible, they took a shot because they are very arrogant and thought they could get away with it, and it failed miserably because now there is a law which makes their abusive behaviors illegal?
"don't expect someone to understand something their job depends on them not understanding."

Sam Altman, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton all think AGI is coming soon and could be an existential threat to all of humanity.

So I agree, I don't expect people (tech startups) to understand something (AGI x-Risk) when their job (developing AGI and making $) depends on them not understanding it.
"Terence’s pivotal, existential crisis came abruptly, some time in ’88 or ’89. Everything that happened after that event was fallout. I don’t know exactly when it happened, and I don’t know exactly what happened; I am piecing it together from what Kat [his wife at the time] has told me, and she has volunteered few details, and I am reluctant to probe.

It happened when they were living for a time on the big island, and it was a mushroom trip they shared that was absolutely terrifying for Terence. It was terrifying because, for some reason, the mushroom turned on him. The gentle, wise, humorous mushroom spirit that he had come to know and trust as an ally and teacher ripped back the facade to reveal an abyss of utter existential despair. Terence kept saying, so Kat told me, that it was “a lack of all meaning, a lack of all meaning.” And this induced panic in Terence, and probably, I speculate, a feeling he was going mad. He couldn’t deal with it. Kat’s efforts to reassure him were fruitless. After that experience, he never again took mushrooms, and he took other psychedelics, such as DMT and ayahuasca, only on rare occasions and with great reluctance.

Whatever the specific content of the psychedelic experience might have been that triggered the cognitive collapse of Terence’s worldview and precipitated his existential crisis, what was most remarkable was that he did not see it coming. He did not see it coming."

— From Dennis McKenna, The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna, now excised
There are plenty of ways to differentiate in a competitive market. Good regulations set baselines for fair play, both toward customers and competitors. Whether or not that makes some aspects of those choices more similar isn't really relevant. Or if it is, it's because it makes them similar in good ways. Ways that are pro-customer and pro-competition, but they won't do unless legally required.
Now I want to hear a sample of this to know if any of the games I played as a child did this.
Scrap the rest of the products, start selling the lock'n'load dumbbells with a trainer app that critiques your form or some shit.
"Americans are losing interest in cardio equipment"

Alternatively: Americans started buying exercise equipment when working from home freed up hours and hours of time every week, allowing them to have free time outside of work. Now that executives have decided they need to show workers how powerless they are by forcing unnecessary, and in many cases objectively harmful (to employee health, morale, and most damningly actual productivity) mandatory return to office policies, workers have lost that time and therefore exercise and mental and physical well being take a back seat to executive egos.
Did Vine ever have a mobile client tought? Was the web interface similar to Tiktok (mindless scrolldown)?
Yeah, LSD is very cheap to make. Research chemicals mostly only exist to skirt law enforcement.
I would argue changing the app store you sell on is much more difficult than changing your company's HQ. If you are a mobile-first company and you ditch the Apple App Store, you lose 40% of your revenue right there. There is no alternative to getting that revenue back. If you move your company's HQ you could lose a substantial portion of your staff, but you could also have them work remote. Or you can keep your engineering team in the EU and do other everything else elsewhere. There are lots of choices.

Regulation plays a factor in the amount of startups in a country but it isn't the only factor and I would argue it is not even the biggest factor. There are plenty of countries out there that have about as much regulation as the US yet much fewer startups.

And regulation isn't a black-and-white thing either. There are many cases where regulation would hurt startups (e.g. GDPR) and many cases where regulation basically exclusively targets larger companies (e.g. DMA).
Much greater than previous superconductors I would assume.
I switched sides due to RSI issues. Having two mice eased the transition, and since then it’s just been the one on the left.
I don't think any game has really done full justice to the political process yet. The Democracy series is very limited in terms of its model and obviously the games about elections (like President Infinity) only cover the elections. They bore me really quickly because it is really easy to break the model and end up unable to lose elections and with nothing to do.

It'd also be very hard to create a truly great political simulator because few people who'd be interested in doing that are going to be detached enough[0] to create a truly balanced and realistic game that stays compelling decades or even centuries into the game like Football Manager or Out of the Park Baseball does. Basically, I'm thinking of something much more complicated than Victoria that would be set in the present and be able to generate a different plausible future on every playthrough.

[0]: Most people seem to see policy outcomes and even the range of possibilities through the lens of their own worldview. The Democracy series, in particular, breaks because it assumes constant linear changes in the number of people in certain interest groups based on your policies. But in reality, you are never going to get 100% of society to be religious no matter how much the governments subsidizes religion, passes theocratic laws and promotes it in the schools. That's why the Spanish Inquisition was so infamously paranoid about the possibility of a few people secretly not being Catholic.
Perhaps, but doctors get paid through opaque insurance. While that can be a hassle, it also introduces the huge benefit of OPM (Other People's Money). Convince your patients to come in for a 20 minute physical, for which they pay $25, and you get 20x as much from their insurance company. Lawyers don't have that play in their playbook!
He pretty clearly won. There's not much to it. A huge chunk of the company went into open revolt and he got a competing offer that threatened to recruit all of them. There's nothing really underhanded or sneaky about it: the board drastically overplayed their hand, and all Altman and Brockman had to do was say "I call".

To use the parlance of this community of people: people's priors here all seem to be that something shady was going on with Altman, but the strat the board took here was so obviously doomed that they should probably be looking for hypos about the board being shady.
> It's more sanitized

I get so much more political content even though I don't like it at IG than at Tiktok, but granted everyone gets a different experience.

Or maybe you like one "political" post (a non-partisan joke for example) and then you get flooded.

But if you like one cat post you don't get flooded with cat posts for example.

Tiktok seems to be more random and IG more obvious.
I didn't underestimate anything really, I am supposedly an expert in the field.

I have used 100GB+ workloads on sqlite, its great, its useful, and its still extremely limited compared to the featuresets of other mutli-user relational databases.

Oh, and the "and he doesn't even use joins" doesn't really show that sqlite is great at anything, its materially more difficult for a query planner when joins come into play, its the normalization and deduplication benefits (which can play into performance benefits at certain scales) that make a join useful.
it's likely it's diversifying hardware because of Nvidia.

these things must be worse than crypto
FWIW, Steve agreed with your assessment. One of my favorite Jobs quotes:

I had three or four people who kept bugging me that I ought to get my rear over to Xerox PARC and see what they were doing. And so I finally did. I went over there. And they were very kind and they showed me what they were working on. And they showed me really three things, but I was so blinded by the first one that I didn’t even really see the other two. One of the things they showed me was object-oriented programming. They showed me that, but I didn’t even see that. The other one they showed me was really a network computer system. They had over a hundred Alto computers, all network using email, et cetera, et cetera. I didn’t even see that.

I was so blinded by the first thing they showed me, which was the graphical user interface. I thought it was the best thing I’d ever seen in my life.

One way to describe NeXT is Steve returning to the two things he missed @ Xerox.
It means nothing for ITER unfortunately. Changing the toroidal field strength implies a totally different plasma size, density, temperature, everything. ITER isn't designed for this strong of fields and the plasma they would confine.
Stainless steel. Which is a perfectly good insulator when the alternative is REBCO.
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Reading the NYT article, this is such a shitshow. Sorry for the unsubstantive comment.
True. I've never had a bad experience with them.
"Money"
I've always used MOI (https://moi3d.com/) I started something like 12 years ago and always thought it would catch after having to labor through the clumsy paradigm of Rhino in school. Never did catch on, not sure why. Very smooth and intuitive way to sculpt surface models.
> Contrast with a PhD who leaves in the middle of a program: The years he spent are 0. Generally, the experience/knowledge accumulated is not factored into it when he applies elsewhere for a PhD - unless he has some fantastic publication.

When I relised this kind of power inbalance during my PhD resulting docile behaviour of my collegues and partly myself, I even did not even wanted to chage my supervisour nor make a protest as the power inbalances are normalized. This awareness made my PhD easier as I did not put false hopes and did not invest my leisure time into becoming more specialised or come up with my own ideas which could latter be turned down to not allign with funded project as my collegues did. I found the remedy in fight for a better tooling and investing my leisure time in completely different field in which papers were still not been written by robots.
I'm not super knowledgeable, but my understanding is that ITER was designed around the best superconductors known at the time, which meant making the whole thing really big.

A benefit of stronger magnets is that you can make it a lot smaller, and presumably cheaper -- which is what MIT has been working on with SPARC.

I don't know if it's practical to upgrade the magnets on ITER, but I'd expect it to be really expensive -- especially if they've already manufactured/installed the old magnets.
And 93 with canal+ channel bringing Akira to television, that was pivotal into bringing japanime per se into people's minds.