skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there is enough good software out there. If it's only file sharing, then I'd prefer 'LocalSend' . For anything more complex, like send clipboard, push notifications or remote control is 'KDE Connect' my first option, since it's also available for almost any platform.
British monarchy rocked by a bad Photoshop job
What??? there's tons of valid information there about all sorts of topics not even remotely related to political stuff that would get censored.

There's food, technology, science, whatever. I mean sure there's noise in the form of memes like all social media sites, but calling it "minimal value" is pretty extreme.

To take one example, I use Xiaohongshu to read about camera lenses. There's a lot of good information that's not available on Western platforms (optical simulations, anecdotes about rare lenses, etc).
At grid scale it doesn't matter either because most installation are saturated anyway. The periods where they care about are the ramp up to noon and the ramp down till sunset, if you can keep the installation producing at it's stated capacity for as long as possible you make a killing, middle of the day power often costs nothing or has a negative price.

People think renewables are efficient in some way. They aren't. It's literally the most wasteful way to produce power because it doesn't get here when we need it and grid scale storage is orders of magnitude more expensive than production.
I've tested it since you recommend it but it seems it can't do Postgres local connection (via socket-file = the default). Not great UX on linux.
There’s a rush to write mangas as fast as possible, especially if you’re publishing for a magazine, so quality of the drawing has gotten bad compared to older mangas like dragon ball and Akira.
Overuse of a warning, hoping to make everyone take everything seriously, can cause alert fatigue and be just as dangerous as underuse.

If someone investigates "millions of cars recalled" headlines/letters, believing it'll require action on their part (as the standard non-NHTSA meaning of "recall" suggests), only to repeatedly find issues like a font size fix that they already automatically received (and the manufacturer can see that they already received/acknowledged, but had to send the letter regardless) then they're likely to give less weight to the next recall.
Also it's another point of failure. If (or when) the motor fails, then you could be facing in an extremely suboptimal direction and it might take more than a few days to fix.
Hold on. You're saying that you made a small fix that vastly increases the performance of the Crystal LSP, but you're refusing to submit it upstream because you're worried about Ruby programmers adopting Crystal?

What kind of elitist fucking bullshit is that?

I've read plenty of things on the internet that have made me angry, but perhaps none so viscerally.

Rethink your life choices.
Timeworks was the one that I was forced to use GEM for, I loved GEM on ST, but the PC version was awful after the lawsuit.
The Uselessness of Net Promoter Score
it can't, Bluetooth has a very limited datarate anyway
Thanks.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like.

Do joke bot-accusations count?
I was also pointing out hashing is not encrypting. They are not the same thing. You don't "encrypt" passwords by hashing. This is probably why your wires were crossed. It's just terminology, I get what you are saying though.

You can read here https://www.google.com/search?q=hashing+vs+encrypting to further understand.
It's a tradeoff with verification and validation, not so much die-space. If you include the IP, you need to run an expensive (time-consuming) simulation and emulation for the IP. Then, you need to validate it on first silicon and pray that it doesn't impact yield in HVM.

These days, simulation runs basically nonstop on all the FPGAs the company is able to throw at it until tape out. Then, in post-silicon validation, you have engineering teams working 24/7 to validate the device on the bench. Finally, test engineering tries to achieve yield in HVM.

Anything that you don't need on the spec sheet or the designer insists on is cut to save time to market.
Frankly, I never understood the anti-homework crowd. In university, I enjoyed homework - I am too stupid to do exercises quickly/during class, and homework lets me think about things for a lot longer. Doing homework has correlated very heavily for me with actually remembering things later on.

In high school and before homework took minimal amounts of my time. I am for assigning more homework to teenagers generally, since they do not do worthwhile things in their free time, as long as the homework is reasonably complex.
A lot of Chinese language content is hidden in domestic gated communities regardless of whether other countries ban access or not.

The original problem here is most Chinese tech companies behave exactly like Discord in order to entice people to use their apps and ecosystem exclusively. In fact, in my experience, trying to access information freely on the web is much more difficult in China than it is in many western countries, precisely because the companies are so aggressive about forcing people to install their apps.
Our trig and calc teacher (taught both, had her two years) gave 45-90 minutes of homework every goddamn night, unless we'd had a test.

She was a major part of why I just gave up on doing a whole lot of my homework in high school. That's a lot of time period, let alone for just one class, and others would assign work, too. Screw that, I'd already spent a workday of time in school.

College was such a relief. So much more free time even if I did 100% of what professors asked of me. So's work life as an adult. High school is batshit crazy.
That quote is also just factually wrong because we can have partial orders, or even just have a lot of totally different essays that happen to be equally good.
Let's look at it from another point of view: if those people were filthy rich they could lie to their lawyers until the cows come home and not a single one of their lawyers would dream of making fun of them.

Then again, those are private lawyers and not cheap public defenders. You get what you pay for, I guess.
It's generally unacceptable to demand that workers take assignments home to complete when they're exhausted. Perhaps it would be better to treat school more like work?
Well done for getting this out there. I contracted in the UK for over 30 years and will share my experiences as they’re different to yours in a few places. I’m also well versed in IR35.

1. Job security - you’re absolutely right. In my time I had 3 contracts that lasted longer than 6 years and I left 2 of them

2. Rates - you can earn north of £1000 a day with the right skills but there’s a big difference between inside and outside. Inside needs to be much higher to compensate for the additional tax.

3. Most contractors do 6 week to 6 month contracts - see above. And if you pitch your CV to me with a string of 6 month contracts I’ll assume you weren’t extended and look for reasons

4. All the stuff about choosing your hours, holidays, not being on call is not true. As a contractor your job is to fit in with the team and help them to deliver. If you’re swanning in at 10 when perms have to be in at 9 or going off in a long weekend when there’s a deadline looming you’ll be toast pretty quickly.

5. Mortgages - you usually just need 3 years accounts but some offer less but higher rates

6. Tax arrangements - don’t get sucked into schemes that offer you low single digit tax - HMRC will make your life hell. Stay above board and hire an accountant.

7. Insurance - I never had - complete waste of money. I know in some cases you may be forced to.
You don't need any enterprise hardware to use taildrop.

> - "Taildrop is only available on Synology with Tailscale v1.18.2".

> - "Currently that means you need to manually install Tailscale on your Synology NAS."

Only apply if you're installing it ON Synology hardware, otherwise it is matter of installing the tailscale client and opting your network in.
My dad suffered terrible ET from age 40 on. At 65 he became terribly depressed and isolated as he couldn't do basic things like write or hold a fork. Fearing for his wellbeing I researched anything I could get my hands on and called doctors around the world. Finally found a research hospital in S Korea and a clinic in Florida willing to meet him. In 2018 they did the non-invasive surgery in SK and the ET stopped completely in his dominant hand and has been good since.
At Hopsworks we built HopsFS-S3 to improve things like listing (becomes a partition pruned scan of a in-memory DB), atomic renames and added a block/object caching layer using NVMe drives.

You can read the research paper here if you are curious: https://www.hopsworks.ai/research-papers/hopsfs-s3-extending...
He has an active tiktok account, ironically https://www.tiktok.com/@bidenhq/video/7334529963066019114
Canada has a version of universal healthcare and strong gun control laws.

They trade with US. Being a Neighbour of US, they get protection.

Canada gets to have the good parts of US without being US.

It would be a stupid move for Canadians.
Completely different use cases, this is for quick transfers of a file or several.
Porting Libffi to Pure WebAssembly
+1 I never did mine either. French aside it was an absolute waste of time. Playing around with silly computers did me vastly more good. I did have to do some work outside of class at A-level, but much of that is because they’d kick you out if you didn’t.
Martinizing dry cleaning process was Henry Martin.
GPT-4 doesn't work for legacy systems in dying languages. It only "works" for things that are well-documented on the internet, or described in what books were included in the dataset.

I can't think of a situation where you'd go from spending hours on Google to being unblocked in seconds. If you're spending hours on Google, then your first dozen search queries aren't turning up the information – in which case, GPT-4 wouldn't turn up the information immediately, either! (It would say something, but it's unlikely to be based on a true story.)
No not, "we". You are going in circles. I already stated that you walk therefore you believe the the the ground exists without science. You already assume a truth with zero rigorous scientific data.

Yet you don't counter this claim. You make the same argument again and again stating that anecdotal data isn't truth. But you place each foot one in front of the other whenever you walk assuming the ground exists from purely anecdotal data. Why?

Thus my argument is valid. IF you don't respond to this then it is YOU who is going in circles. I have definitively responded to your point here with a contradiction. You HAVE not addressed the contradiction. The opening is laid out by me, but instead of moving forward you decide to repeat the same point.

Not trying to be offensive here. But I am clearly laying out exactly what's going on here. It is YOU who is travelling in a flat circle. NOT me.
> It’s not my field of expertise, but couldn’t we adopt a measure of density of transistors? Billions per mm or something like it.

That's actually what the current "marketing nm" are meant to do. They're the notional extrapolation of simple planar transistor density to complex 3d transistor architectures.

People like to stand on a soap box and stand impressed with themselves for pointing out these are "just marketing numbers not the real half pitch anymore" but they're missing the point. The industry continues to use the nm nomenclature because it's clear to them what everyone is referring to.

Modern fab processes are so complex you're not going to characterize their actual technical details by any single number.
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An Abelian grape
March 7, 2022 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118631119

Choice Quote:

Significance

We estimate population-level effects on IQ loss and find that lead is responsible for the loss of 824,097,690 IQ points as of 2015.

( The link given here on HN is to an NBC news article from March 8, 2022, about that PNAS publication. )
Victron makes plenty and are very high quality
The ideas of Nix are very powerful, but the experience of using it can be frustrating. It desperately needs a UX overhaul, or at the very least a distro that wraps it into a user-friendly package.

I would happily adopt it as a build and deploy system if the UX was improved, but I currently hesitate to recommend it to my teammates because of its rough edges and steep learning curve.
It’s an interesting property of the universe that there’s no way to measure time directly. It clearly exists, yet all you can measure is change of things besides time.

Time lock puzzles take variable time depending on hardware. You can’t really set an accurate specific release time.

Any change in the universe that a computer can detect is just another spoofable input.

Blockchain tries to solve essentially the same problem but the best it can reliably do is establish a chronology. That’s not a specific time. And it has fundamental vulnerabilities, however unlikely you think they are to be exploited in established systems.

Intel is building proof of elapsed time into their chips but that’s not trustless.

Timelock puzzles and blockchain are imo hacky solutions to one of the most important outstanding problems in cryptography: securely and trustlessly agreeing on elapsed time.
Simulacra as Conscious Exotica
Growing up I always managed to avoid doing my homework. Also I always passed with the minimum grade required. My parents and everyone around me kept saying that I would become a failure.

Well, today I'm a Machine Learning Engineer at a FAANG company and I have no regrets not wasting my youth on some stupid assignments that everyone forgot about as soon as it was graded.
I think there is some conflation going on. Independent problem solving is critical to learning many skills; especially math and science ones. I think a more useful system may be this, at least for middle school and higher:

- Assign students top-quality lectures to watch and problem sets. Think Khan, MitX etc or similar. (But could be specially formulated)

- In class (Which would be shorter), the teacher[s] go over where the student struggled, had questions etc, and give personal attention where needed based on the previous day's lectures and problem sets.

The conflation here is active learning with respecting people's time and attention-span. Active learning critical, but the article's concerns about the latter are valid.
> Nvidia has insane margins so it isn't hard* for a well-funded player to beat them in FLOPS/$

It's hard when you can't buy TSMC capacity
The only redeeming thing about it is that parents can get a reliable window into what kids are learning and an opportunity to make up for poor instruction.
Jupiter's ocean moon Europa, thought to be habitable, may be oxygen-starved
So far open source AI has been neck and neck with proprietary offerings. I'd even wager to say that companies as big as Eleven Labs have zero moat [1].

The minute copyright lawsuits begin to land, suddenly the copyright becomes the moat. Big companies will license, and everyone else will wither on the vine. Google and Facebook will reign supreme.

I'm terrified by that. I hope we have a few more years to compile open data sets and tools.

[1] That is to say, thus far, product is the only moat, not models and not data. Most companies have razor thin product so far.
Depends where you live and the quality of panel you want. I got 16kW of brand new, high efficiency panels for $10.4k, or about $0.64/watt. In this US, this is considered surplus pricing.

If you're in Australia or something, sure $0.20/kW is a good price.
TikTok doesn’t exist in India essentially.

And no one misses it.

It’s as pointless and substitutable as any other social network today.
I’m already dreading the arguments with teachers over this when our girls go to secondary school. But I certainly will argue with them over it if coordination is poor and quantity is excessive.
I had the thought once that it would be a useful - if not easy - to submit patches to as many of these projects as possible to allow interoperation (probably by implementing the same protocol(s) in as many as possible). It's the kind of thing where you really want enough common protocol use that most apps can communicate to get network effects.

(But of course, I hardly have the time or perhaps even ability to really go far with that thought. Oh well.)
Yes, I know about gravity and antimatter. Let me know when those become relevant to microelectronics.

And, nonlinear optical media do involve electrons -- that was precisely my point. And that's why those "optical" computers perform no better than electrical computers: because they are in fact electrical computers that use photons for communication, not for computation.

But using photons for communication is nothing new, we've been doing that since the late 1970s.
I have taken my CD player/decoder made with discretes and turned it end-over-end while slowly backing away from a strong magnet.
docs.tenstorrent.com

All the details you need!
> Simply handing out money, as most UBI proposals suggest, is flawed, for many reasons.

The majority of controlled experiments with UBI in OECD countries have shown reduction in poverty. What would be the "fraud" aspect of universal BI? Everyone would get it.

Your (likely sarcastic) suggestion has been explored in "The Dispossed". Its working title was "An Ambiguous Utopia"
part of society operates on traffic problems that are ghosts.

people tell the truth until it's abused, then just stop. cars follow at safe paces until they get cut off by reckless drivers. whole hours of traffic is caused by a single guilty driver who serves into the exit lane.
https://archive.ph/VAAPL
>"I found Heidi to be horrendously unstable."

As already said DB admin tools are not my daily driver. I either did not use Heidi intensively enough to uncover all the problems you mentioned or they've fixed those.
You can install updates over Wi-Fi. Actually, my BMW only updates over Wi-Fi or my phone’s cellular, the cellular in the car only applies to certain services (remote unlock, preconditioning, etc…). I’m not sure what Tesla is doing, but using the car’s cellular connection for an update isn’t the only possible option.
It would work for US and Canada since they’re both fairly rich countries with modern economies.

Would be a hard sell for US and Mexico.

Many parts of Mexico are still controlled by drug cartels.
News agencies recall image of Catherine, Princess of Wales
I use Fusion360 (unwillingly) and Shapr3D, plus I learned Solidworks and used a _lot_ of 3D design (mesh) and parametric apps (like OnShape, Solvespace, etc.). It’s not the territory, it’s FreeCAD’s inscrutability by design—even Solvespace has a better workflow.
I think you're missing the point of the article. The article is arguing that these kinds of performance benchmarks/graphs as a whole are not the most important thing when it comes to database success. I think the points made here would stand if you shuffled all the names around in the images, or made up new names and data. There's even a graph later on that just compares "our system" (very fast) to "their system" (10x slower).

I'm working on a database system right now, and my favorite paragraph was this one:

> Performance must be measured from the user’s perspective, not the database’s. It is a UX problem and, like any UX problem, can’t really be described in a single number. This is surprising to many people, since they think performance, like car racing, is an objective thing. Just because you can say that a Lamborghini is faster than a Prius, they believe you should also be able to say that My database is faster than Your database. But just like a Lamborghini might not get me to work any faster than a Prius (or a bicycle, if there is traffic), the actual workload for a database is going to determine which one is faster.
So, immediate termination is ok for just yelling a few words, none of them being an f word against the CEO? I think they could just reprimand him and not fire him. This company is becoming a fear- and power-fueled autocracy of the board. Which won't bring any good to them.
Number of developers: 2
Interesting to see Sam Altman thanked. It's the first time since July 2020, 29 essays ago, and this is also Graham's first essay since the hullabaloo at OpenAI.
Looks the same on desktop, but very different on mobile.
Various categories of gasoline still are allowed to have lead in them. E.g. jet fuel. Possibly because they have a more-powerful lobby lobbying for them.
With or without a degree?
When the concern is national security why would they push a trade reciprocity argument?

You do know that Biden cannot just lie and get away with it right? Unlike in authoritarian countries, nearly all American records will be unsealed within a single generation.

Further, the press usually gets the wind of stuff being hidden.

That doesn’t stop the government from trying to hide stuff and they often succeed, but why would they take a chance on something like this which gives them an extremely tiny benefit at best.
DTrace was not the inspiration for eBPF at all, so it's not obvious it is relevant to mention. As the documentary mentions, the initial impetus for eBPF, was software defined networking.

eBPF is a much bigger and more comprehensive infrastructure piece (networking, tracing, security, etc) than DTrace. And thanks to licensing issues, even within the limited domain of tracing, DTrace will likely become a footnote in history, while eBPF becomes available on every major OS platform.
When we make game-playing AI (which is all AI, depending on your analogy comfort), one of the most promising techniques is Tree Search, which ranks moves based on the descendant moves. In games where you could reach the same state in many ways, much memory might be wasted to re-record the same state node on different branches.

This article is a nice exploration of an approach called Graph Search, which essentially trades compute for memory by doing extra compute work (hashing the game states) to check to see if the nodes are already visited. That saves us from re-recording nodes we already saw, and consequently converts trees (free of cycles) into directed acyclic graphs.

This forces some tinkering with the tree search to get correct results, specifically it demands a focus more on edges (actions or moves) as the unit of optimization, rather than on vertices (states). It’s a well written technical essay in literate programming written by someone who understands their subject.
Nvidia burnt quite a lot of goodwill with the 40xx series cards and pricing.

Melting connectors, obscene pricing, marginal performance increase, zero availability; then when hardly any of that was addressed, Ti versions release which are equally expensive, and equally lacklustre. Combine that with patchy support for frame generation and 30xx series cards still going really strong, and you’ve got not a lot of incentive to upgrade.
No, China didn’t ban Google or Facebook… China wants these companies play its rules, and these companies choose to not play. It’s not a ban.

Look at many Europe companies and Microsoft.
40M isn’t a small population. Canada is mostly inhabitable and they don’t have great infrastructure.

So Canada essentially is small pockets of densely populated cities.
How? I would have expected it to affect everyone though to varying degrees
I disagree (at least university level).
Surely too much homework is bad, or doing homework without understanding the basics is counter-productive, but I do think that practice is the only way you truly learn.
> Oh yes. You don’t want to be their enemy. My full year ban was not a happy one.

> I don’t think it was warranted. They did. Guess who had the final say?

This is why we need protocols for all of this. HN, Reddit, Twitter -- all of it -- should be a protocol.