skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's spreading. If you use the web interface to Microsoft-hosted email, it's replacing certain words like "congratulations" with links that trigger animations like fireworks and confetti.
It's not that hard with modern electronics. Telescopes with adaptive optics have been doing that since the 90s. Also beware that a laser doesn't remain perfectly coherent over many kilometers (let alone millions). So it's not like you need to perfectly hit a satellite dish area of a few m^2 on the surface of mars from earth. It's not really any harder to do from the surface than from orbit. In fact it might actually be easier since you don't just have to account for the rotation and orbit of earth but also for the orbital velocity of the relay.
That's a neat trick: implementing linear probing in parallel, out of SIMD scatter/gather primitives. And it actually works!

I'd have worried about Amdahl effects, with N buckets constantly stalled waiting on 1 bucket to resolve a collision.
Ease of use I suppose, looking up package names and manually pasting them in is really slow.
Yeah, different people need different things out of their phones. Yet the point remains that stingy data plans still exist in developed countries. Even though people may have better devices than those mentioned in the article (it is easier to justify a one-time expense than a recurring one), there are people who are stuck with them for various reasons. Affordability is definitely one of the reasons.

Even so, we should avoid pigeonholing those who have limited access to data as poor people. There are other reasons.
They're not doing that, either... the only reason you would drive a Tesla is performance. The environmental impact of making a full-EV is much more damaging than using a gas engine.
I'm already seeing Bitwarden as an option for Passkey authentication on iOS! Apparently the app already exposes itself to iOS as a WebAuthN backend (or the API is the same as that used for password managers).

Unfortunately that API doesn't seem to be wired to anything in the app yet, so selecting it inevitably fails.
I think Web bloat started with pretty urls, they provide nothing on top of traditional urls yet every request has to parse them unnecessarily. It's such a waste on a huge scale, especially for slow languages plus the expensive regex processing as well.
It's the fact that someone from your team was there. They don't have to participate.

It's quite often that a manager needs to be in Meeting A, but he wants his team to have a say in the project that is running Meeting B, so he grabs some random schlub from the engineering team to go to Meeting B, just to have a representative of the team there. Said schlub has no idea what's going on, so they catch up on some shut-eye. No one even gives it a second thought. Really surprised me, the first time I ran into it.
I am talking about the accumulated error part near the end of the article, so your (uncharitable) assumption is not correct.
That's exactly what they were saying. You're not disagreeing at all.
I love the glyphs in APL, but not so much with Perl as they don't seem consistent. Like there is an "of that's an array, but you're accessing it with scalar context" or some catch.

With Python, you have lists, tuples, and dictionaries. Those are data structure objects that are useful for different things. Tuples use (), lists use [], and dictionaries use {}. After you learn that, you just learn the few methods and manners to populate them and you're done.

There's nothing wrong with either way of course. Both appeal to different kinds of folks.
What's hyperbolic? The fact is no one knows how bad it'll be and how soon. Does that mean no statement can be made about the future? We're already seeing problems around water sourcing. I don't see how any of OPs statements are a stretch.

Every time I see someone make a statement about the future negative affects of climate change inevitably someone comes around to say that's not helping. It reads like a shade of denialism. How can you fix a problem without reviewing the consequences? I've yet to hear these same commenters suggest what would help.
> I think some people forget this when they go into their first professional office job, and revert back to primary school mentality: I have to go to this useless meeting! Boss says I need to be there, so what can I do??

Because often, that's exactly how people are being treated.

There's still a very strong trend in management philosophy that says that Manager Knows Best, and their direct reports just need to do whatever they say, Or Else. And any pushback against that is just going to be seen as insubordination—proof that that employee is a troublemaker who needs to be disciplined.

It's a self-perpetuating philosophy because of that, and it can be very hard to convince a manager who's deeply invested in the belief that he's a superior being compared to his subordinates that this philosophy is neither correct nor productive.
Thank you for the first hand experience anecdote!

I think one way for first world country citizens to empathise with this is how people behave when on roaming data plans during overseas trips. One does keep to public WiFi as much as possible and keep mobile data usage to a minimum or for emergency purposes.
If there was ever a good rebranding that stays true to history it's this one. A dead lion swarming with insects isn't the most appetizing thing. A lion with a bee reminds of the story in a tasteful way. They could have kept the biblical quote.
As long as you load them with objects that don’t need future queries they are fine….
Iceland Volcano Erupts in Plumes of Fire with Little Notice
I have one pretty much yearly. You have to make sure not to eat the wrong things (like seeds, nuts) several days before and then the day before eat very light food and stop around noon. Then take the laxatives in the evening and again the next day about 4 hours ahead of your procedure.
The worst part to me in all of this is really drinking that cup of laxatives. The sedation (for me) has always been dosed well enough that I feel fine within 30-60 minutes after waking up. Although you can't operate a car or other machinery for the rest of the day. But I also don't have to work on those days, so it's a relaxing day to me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/world/europe/iceland-volc...
> WebAuthn supports attestation, so passkeys must too.

They can (it's optional, i.e. not a specification-"must"), but so far they don't. Apple explicitly unshipped attestation when they introduced keychain-synced Passkeys; I think Google also had attestation for a while on Android and did the same.

Requiring attestation was actually a way to opt out of passkey synchronization on iOS for that very reason, but Apple frustratingly just removed the option rather than leaving the choice to relying parties (websites). This makes their passkeys unusable for some regulated/sensitive use cases that did depend on attestation.

> Usually I hear the opposite argument

Different people have different needs and priorities. Authentication is a large surface with multiple actors and sometimes conflicting goals.
Cleaning solar panels? Did you read the article? It's about solar pumps enabling aquifer exhaustion when used for agriculture
Some Google found this: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20130906-00/?p=33...

“Recovering a broken stack on x64 machines on Windows is trickier because the x64 uses unwind codes for stack walking rather than a frame pointer chain.”

More details are here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/exception-handli...
My dude, all it takes is for a 27yo Product Manager to fall in love with a 28yo Software Engineer. Or two lawyers. Etc. At least half the couples at my daughter’s school are dual income.
This is a fascinating idea, but (honest question, not a judgement) would the output be reliable? It would be hard to identify hallucinations since recompiling could produce different machine code. Particularly if there is some novel construct that could be a key part of the code. Are there ways of also reporting the LLMs confidence in sections like this when running generatively? It’s an amazing idea but I worry it would stumble invisibly on the parts that are most critical. I suppose it would just need human confirmation on the output
Your concerns are misplaced. Its not about the technology, but the business model. TikTok is owned by ByteDance and ByteDance owns/stores TikTok's data in China.
> mind blowing

“Mind blowing” is too strong a word when every thread about Apple on HN is demanding the iPhone be opened up to the same, taking away non-tech people’s choice to buy a bloat free and privacy defaulted device designed to stay that way even if people more technically savvy try to hook in.

It’s a fine line, of course, since the same non-tech people love IAP and ad-supported, as shown by the folks opting into ads on Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime decades after similarly opting into ads on paid cable. So how to let users have ad-tech supported apps, without ending up like the Android ecosystem?

> legally … not in jail

Apple’s approach was a curated ecosystem, and the level of hate for it tells you app makers aren’t worried they should be in jail, they’re worried iOS users have that sweet sweet “wallet share”. HN’s EU DMA threads tell you plenty voices don’t just want what they do legal, they want it illegal to slow their roll.

PS. A lot of big data and big analytics cross pollinates with the US government. Three letter agencies even do VC deals.
Reddit says it is being investigated by the FTC
I'd love to turn my lights on and not have my garage door open or thermostat suddenly change to 90 and my furnace fire up.

It's a really low bar right now :D
Show HN: StaleSweeper – Get rid of stale GitHub Discussions without any effort
If you as me suffers from OCD, its a problem when the GitHub Discussion raisers are not closing their discussions and the GitHub Discussion Space gets all cluttered.

In my opinion, repository owners should not close GitHub Discussions - no matter if they're answered or not. I strongly believe it should be the raiser of the discussion to decide if its acceptable answered and can be closed - Thats why I leave them open - now - what to do?

StaleSweeper is a open-source GitHub Action to de-clutter your GitHub Discussion Space gracefully and with plenty of options.
Amongst engineers, coders, technical architects, and product designers, one of the most important traits that a system can have is that one can reason about that system in a consistent and predictable way.

This must refer to an older generation of "technical architects".

Today's attention challenged generation seems more supportive of the AI hype and will quickly down vote any contrary view. Focused more on religious devotion than science.

Live and learn.
Well, yeah.

If you want to drive in a straight line, then some Kalman filtering would help.

If you don't want to kill too many people, then AGI would help.
The "full audience" of this article consists of deep geeks, so if the author's appearance had been suit and tie, I might have believed you. (and, really, not even then: Vint being an obvious counterexample)
The high price of Hashicorp doomed them in the end. I don’t know what their financials looked like internally but the quotes we got from sales reps got them laughed out of the room.
Putting aside the well-known issues with academic publication that this problem highlights, another aspect of modern publications more generally that LLMs are going to disrupt is word bloat. Too many words.

For example, many academic papers are pages and pages of background, discussion, citations, etc. Very often the actual new material can fit on an index card + 1 figure. I understand why all the background is needed, in the abstract, but maybe this traditional way of thinking about incremental academic thought needs to shift in light of the reality of LLMs: LLMs will be used to write needless fluff. Indeed, it's what they're good at.

I'm a patent attorney and I can say that the same thing applies there. Patents are enormous documents filled with legalese, background, description, vague, conditional language, etc. There are good legal reasons for that, but again, often the actual novel invention can fit on an index card.

For that reason, it's self-evident to me that my job will be replaced, at least to some significant extent, by LLMs. But why not just cut out all the needless words? I could imagine patent law that added a "parsimony" requirement to patent filings. Examiners could reject filings that contained extraneous words. Then maybe patent lawyers would still be needed: to write the shortest possible patent that still contained the novelty.

This is just a toy thought experiment, not a serious proposal. My point is that LLMs expose as trivially bankrupt some aspects of academic and patent writing (and probably other places: marketing copy, some nonfiction essay-style writing, etc.).

Maybe LLMs will force us to embrace or even require brevity and conciseness to ensure that human beings stay in the loop.
I'm in Europe too and at least obvious finance scams turn up on Instagram pretty regularly ("completely safe" investments with astronomical returns if you invest at least ~$10k, etc ...)
Ok, now please explain concisely to an unsophisticated user:

- When do users still need their password, and when is a passkey enough? Can they safely forget their password?

- How do they switch from iOS to Android and vice versa without losing access to all accounts?

> Scanned my face as I always use to open my phone. That site is now authenticating with my face.

- Can I login on my friend's phone using my face? Yes, because it's authenticating my face, right?

- What happens if I lose access to my iCloud or Google account? How do I get my passkeys back?

- Why does website X say "your browser does not support passkeys", but it works on website Y? Is Firefox really bad? Do I have to switch to Chrome?

And please don't use any assumptions you might have about these flows from your background knowledge as a developer.
I am not saying you should not test. To me it seems obvious that you test what you create. But it is impossible to test everything.

When you fail fast you are quicker to notice it yourself. And when it was deployed without you nothing the bug it will still surface very early because it breaks your app.

Broken gets fixed, shitty lasts forever.
ChatGPT's ancestor, GPT-2, encased in a 1.25 G Excel sheet
you still have to terraform the crossplane control plane no?
It is _stable_, not outdated. You are practically guaranteed that if you’re running Debian Stable, and live only within the official apt ecosystem, you will not have software-based instability.
I can’t wait to be forced to migrate off vault. Such a useful use of my time.
Ironically? Are you saying that using an LLM to assist writing is plagiarism?
You might find it easier to do piecemeal at first. Start by identifying where you have a pure data dependency that’s currently doing a round trip to render HTML redundantly or unnecessarily, and think about whether it can be served as both HTML and pure data via content negotiation. If it can, then you have the flexibility to decouple that dependency at your leisure.
Dot: Standalone app for local RAG with Mistral 7B
I've never found any of Josh McDowell's books convincing. I think they only provide confirmation to those who already believe.
AI usage is indeed increasing energy demand.

Overall coal usage in places like the US is actually down. About 3% in the US last year. Coal peaked in 1997 and has been trending down ever since.

Any large users of power would want cheap power (i.e. not coal). Tech savvy companies running these data centers doubly so. They all have announced net zero targets years ago and the new data centers they are building with all the fancy new GPU hardware are exactly where they are putting in a lot of money to make that happen.

It's true that there are still some data centers powered by coal. The article mentions Virginia. Which is exactly where Amazon just bought the rights to a lot of nuclear power for the next few years. Because they don't want to have anything to do with coal going forward. So they are investing in alternatives. Even expensive stuff like nuclear is preferable to coal for them.

At best you could say that power companies are keeping some coal plants open a bit longer than planned because all their renewable power is being gobbled up by big data centers and they still need to serve their other, less picky customers. They simply did not plan for this much growth. Big data centers buying lots of renewable power is also a thing in Europe that has actually lead to some places limiting the construction of new ones.

Keeping coal plants open is of course a stop gap measure as it's at this point not really a profitable business to be in. They are trying to get more more lucrative renewables online ASAP. Virginia has a few offshore wind projects coming online, for example.
Most chaebols such as Lotte and Samsung make multiple entities for each of their groups within VN (and those entities in turn try to hide taxes like crazy)

So in Lotte's case, Lotte Shopping Vietnam JSC is different from Lotte Hotels Vietnam JSC is different from Lotte Cinemas Vietnam JSC.

And I'm using Lotte as the most notable example.

Samsung does the same thing as well - Samsung Electronics VN (Samsung Galaxy) is a separate entity from Samsung SDI VN (Samsung batteries).

Most notably, Lotte Property & Development - not VinGroup (!!!) - owns the land in An Khanh Ward in District 2 of HCMC and is building Saigon's version of Pudong [0].

If you've ever been to Saigon you'll know this piece of land is easily the most expensive piece of undeveloped property in all of Vietnam as it's right across from Saigon's District 1 - the traditional CBD and Consulate quarter - and right next to the VIP neighborhood of Thao Dien.

It's called the Lotte Eco Smart City.

And this is just Saigon. If you go to Da Lat, Da Nang, Nha Trang, Cam Ranh, etc it's the same story.

> The top 10 companies in Vietnam by revenue, except for Samsung Vietnam

Where are you getting this data? The only somewhat reputable source is from one the VN trade ministries in 2018, which is towards the beginning of the Korean move to VN from China.

Also, the fact that Samsung Electronics VN was able to outcompete every single petrochemical and military owned company by revenue in 2018 [1] in a country who's economy has been built on ONG extraction (the VN claim in the South China Sea has oil reserves the size of Prudhoue Bay and Natural Gas reserves roughly the size of Urengoy Gas Fields) and VPA ownership of industries (eg. Viettel, VinGroup's founder is from Vietnamese Air Force royalty) is massive

Edit: There is a VN500 list but participation is optional. The only Korean chaebol divions that seemed to have participated were Samsung Electronics and CJ Agribusiness (part of CJ Group - the same chaebol that makes Bibigo food and produces Kdramas like Marry My Husband and movies like Parasite)

[0] - https://mycasagroup.com/lotte-eco-smart-city/

[1] - https://mof.gov.vn/webcenter/portal/tttpen/pages_r/l/detail?...
Exposed to lead? Heck I machine it.

What do you think SAE660 bearing bronze contains.

This level of hype is horribly misguided.

I have not witnessed one machinist harmed by lead in 40 years.

If I cared I would wear a face mask when working with bronzes.

Truthfully Hexavalent Chromium exposure from stainless scares me more.

That is a known carcinogen and I machine alot of high Chrome content stainless.
On Friday, I switched to the Pixel 7a with GrapheneOS and it's costing me CAD$1 per month for the phone on a 24-month contract and I got a better deal on my monthly phone plan. So far, it seems like an awesome phone and the installation of GrapheneOS via the web installer was incredibly easy.
I have known temporary staff attorneys at large prestigious firms who were paid by the hour to read documents and summarize them for the case team. It’s not a junior associate’s income or career, but it’s a good living for even the most semi-committed and minimally experienced lawyers.

Also, it’s not difficult to imagine that many decent firms have been advising their clients on the legal risks and alignment benefits of DEI and ESG compliance. Will they not heed their own advice?
He moved to being an IC a few years ago, so Mitchell's departure might've been in progress for a while. And he seems to be having fun writing a terminal emulator in zig.
Look up Spravato. They are also online doctors. And there are similar DIY methods you can grow at home if you're ambitious.

No promises it'll help, though. But hope feels good by itself sometimes.
A friend of mine who was a barber asked me how much it would cost to build him a website and I said I would do him a basic 3 page site for free, although he would need to let me know if his opening hours had changed or he needed to tell customers he was on holiday, etc.

He said, with no irony whatsoever, that he didn't realise it would be so complicated and decided not to take me up on the offer. I suspect this attitude is not the unusual with one-man businesses that have survived just fine thus far?
I have modern I7, 64GB RAM, RTX3090, a 7gbps NVME SSD and a 1Gbps internet connection. Can run pretty much any game maxxed out in 4k with 100 fps. Download 100GB files in few minutes. Can do all sorts of tasks and workloads. Can calculate the 20th billionth number of PI in a microsecond. What I cant do however is use twitter without stutters and hitches, or windows, or any shopping website.

Nice work, webdevelopers!
Wasn’t that Apple’s tagline?
Given that this information is sent to Plausible, a more privacy-friendly alternative to Google, would people complain if it used Google Analytics instead? I'm gonna go bet they wouldn't.

Google runs on 99.9% of websites and no one ever bats an eye (haven't heard anyone complain about it on this forum), but somehow a less terrible tracking suite is noteworthy enough to complain about.

(Disclaimer: I have a paid Plausible subscription for my products because it collects much less data than Google, and I don't need to add a cookie banner)
Nice! How's the battery on GrapheneOS? I heard on the stock OS it's pretty bad.

I'm considering buying one as I'm paying £16/mo for just a SIM but I can get a 7a on a contract for the same price!
While pgbench might be "simple" program, as in a test-runner, workloads that are run by it are far from it. It runs TPC-B by default but can also run your own arbitrary script that defines whatever the workload is? It also allows to run queries concurrently so I fail to understand the reasoning of it "being simple" or "microbenchmarkey". It's far from the truth I think.
The website was never intended for people in rural Africa, it was intended for donors and governments in Western countries, so that the company could get juicy grant money and pay themselves to pretend to empower African farmers.
Well yeah, probably, but sometimes very weird analogies between systems turn out to produce real physics, and it doesn't even seem impossible to me that there's something similar happening behind the event horizon of a black hole. I'm just hoping someone smarter than me has already done the math.
“Save the planet” is a short slogan for “not have sentient cockroaches wondering what happened to the folks who dug up all the coal”.

No one asserts climate change is gonna crack the planet in half.
When they get a scholarship out of it, it might actually be... But the organized crime part is obviously the publishing industry.
C++ is not that similar to COBOL. COBOL is closer to Crystal Reports or SAP (ABAP). There are plenty of people with experience in those domains around today. Probably more than C++.
Will be interesting to see if Figma open sources this as an alternative to Vitess.
opened a random PDF from the search and it's full of misspellings (even the title is misspelled), they aren't using LLMs enough
Big difference using LLM to wordsmith your English vs using LLM to fake your research and analysis