skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years of distrust of the Dutch government. comes from having them facilitate criminality by proxy against me for 10 years after they busted a neigbour or for having weed. I was harassed (extremely mildly put) because I dared to complain about the trouble their informant and other neighbour was causing.

10,000 of thousands of euros later I don’t trust them strangely.
We accept that the moon affects bodies of water

We accept that our bodies are mostly water

But the idea that the position of the moon or planets affects us is insane

(There have been several small-N studies looking at various folk beliefs about higher incidences of certain events during full moons, but I don't believe any of the studies found a significant correlation)
Cheap drones aren’t that cheap and conventional weapons aren’t always that expensive. A JDAM is like 20k which is cheaper than a Shahed, but way more powerful. There aren’t many ways to beat a modern air force other than having your own expensive modern airforce and AA systems. So you initially spent a lot of resources to beat those systems, and the moment you have beaten those, you can carpet bomb the battle field with bombs that are more powerful and cheaper than “cheap” drones.
this is an amazing contribution for the community!
how did you go from Mars possibly having an effect on oceans to arbitrarily defined constellations having a predictive effect on people's personalities?
Well, that's not the pre-2005 internet I remember. What I remember are popups, pop-unders, poisoned search results due to crude SEO tactics like including small background-colored text on websites, endless rings of web pages referring to each other, heavily blinking banners, and even the best ad blocker being so slow on the machine that it's no joke. And this is the commercial abuse only, there was a lot of other types going around.

I do despise many aspects of the current internet, but I think that it's the fallibility of man that poisons the nice things, and I don't think that it was ever too much different in this regard.

For a different internet, there are ways to go about it. I'm not sure how much of it you already know.

Millionshort provides alternative search results to queries. I think this is similar to what you're looking for, and it's free.

Alternative networks spring up from time to time, like the Gemini network. I'm not sure how much of a content desert they are, as I'm not a frequent user.

Generally if you hang around in free software / open source spaces, they have a lot of people with an alternative take on the modern things, including people taking part of an internet that's not mainstream, for example by excluding running any JavaScript. This can lead to other places, forums, and so on.

I wish you luck. But be prepared that the past is gone. Maybe never existed in the first place.
Man, this study is going to be paraded as the proof that astrology is scientific and ancient people were more knowledgeable than us.
>The future of warfare is terrifying

Maybe against asymmetric opponents who can't hit back in space domain.

Peer powers with ASAT capability will just launch a "cheap" kill vehicle to blowup starship + payload worth 100s of million because US put eggs in one platform basket like aircraft carriers where ROI depends on reusability which is ultimately predicated on survivability. Meanwhile resulting kessler syndrome degrades space enviroment for everyone, but US the most because they have the most hardware in space.
Related aside: if you like Spelling Bee, try NYT’s new game Strands: https://www.nytimes.com/games/strands

It’s in beta right now and so I believe is accessible to everyone. Make sure to read the instructions.

I love puzzles but for some reason I’ve never been into word/dictionary games (Spelling Bee; Boggle; Scrabble) but since hearing about Strands via https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/stran... I’ve played every day.
It doesn't have to be better than fiber. 100 megabits is more than enough bandwidth for almost anyone, especially people accustomed to having no bandwidth.

Talking about what people deserve is a fun way to avoid the actual question of who will pay for it. You can buy a starlink satellite for $600 today, then get broadband service for $120 per month.
Reddit understands that its biggest value is as a gigantic pump and dump forum to dump their bags onto.
A Tweet of Time Dilation
The question that would be asked, is "do you want the government subsidising and disorting the internet market"
I'd consider paying that much for 10gpbs, but nothing less.
"Hey, that's OUR job!"
- The CIA and DEA, probably
Latency is surprisingly good, usually under 20 milliseconds. Not the same as a wired connection obviously, but plenty good enough for almost every application.
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Looking at history of big default sub-reddits. That seems more accidental than truly being against strongman or establishment... The capture has been clear for years...
I would imagine for phones and laptops the extraction of materials (rare earth metals to make fancy new chips, lithium for batteries,etc) is probably the bigger issue.

Having gotten away from 500+ watt desktops as the standard for light non-gaming computing has been a win in the energy consumption court.

I think there are lots of good reasons to avoid the upgrade cycle but energy consumption of the end device itself probably isn't it. (Embodied energy of the devices, environmental impacts of mining, no good EOL story for ewaste, etc)
Monero FTW
I have a rebuilder in California I can connect you with who has helped me source parts (including restricted HV components) if you need help. Also have someone in NC who is a battery pack expert if needed.

No doubt Tesla service has gone to hell since the early days. Most unfortunate.
Yeah, I've been wanting that for myself as well. But I never really thought about actually building it myself. We'll see what the future brings :-)
I may have got the amounts wrong I see. The sentiment not.

It may have been the cross border thing but borders are pretty small here and I don’t know you need to emmigrate
Another common alternative to GeoServer and MapServer is QGIS Server. Based on THE Open Source Desktop GIS - QGIS Server publishes a QGIS project file as a WMS/WFS/WMT-S/OGC API service. From a visualization point of view, you have the advantage that the styling you have done in QGIS is reproduced 1:1, since QGIS Server uses the same rendering engine. Serializing the mapfiles from pydantic models as described by the author seems pretty cool though. I've tried this for QGIS project files as well, which are basically just XML files... but it gets tedious after a while.
The low valuation had less to do with the spying allegations and more to do with a history of accounting frauds. Obviously if you have a proven history of fudging up revenue numbers, investors are less likely to invest in you.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-190
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> By all appearances ‘alephnerd’ is just some rando on the internet, not some bonafide genius, not some Vietnam expert, not even proficient with Vietnamese publications, etc…

And this doesn't apply to you, because... your username might be a real name?
Right now, in peace time, it’s all about safety and proving. When the next war against a balanced adversary happens, what will matter is “what can we build that does damage” and “how fast can we churn them out”. So it’s good that a lot of the manufacturing we need is moving back to the USA. These planes aren’t the future. These planes are jobs and elections programs. These planes are battleships in a carrier world. But until the enemy fields their “carriers”, battleships are more than enough.
Currently TSM isn’t guiding much growth, I would guess we see an uptick in guidance in their next earnings report.
If you're interested in other tiny fonts:

- PICO-8's 3x5 font with support for programming characters: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php?page=faq

- Ken Perlin has an RGB stripe subpixel font. Unfortunately, the original page uses Java so I can't access it, but https://www.fastcompany.com/1662778/the-worlds-smallest-legi... has more info.

- Dotsies if you're willing to try very strange encodings: https://dotsies.org/

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33127419 has more examples.
Neighborhood congestion is the bane of every ISP, and starlink is no exception here. It definitely gets slower during Netflix hours, but it never becomes unusable.
I kinda don’t know what to say. I never thought message boards could be taken this far, but Facebook did it.

It’s a giant phpbb forum going public lol, yeah … I get the short position totally.
So we should all be poor together. Then there will be less murders, bullying and other social ills.

Sounds like an ideological view but tell me I’m wrong
> Everyone with a IQ above double figures can see it's one power outage away from food riots.

In this scenario where people are desperate to do a food riot, a power outage has occurred for multiple consecutive days if not at least a week. In which case, something truly apocalyptic is happening, in which case I doubt people would be civilized enough to bargain for food for useless cash or shavings of gold, in that scenario resources are the only useful 'cash'. In this scenario, it's likely it'd be some sort of national emergency and I'd imagine most people have enough food in their pantries to tide them over until the government provides food or restores power.

Modern power infrastructure is incredibly resilient and outages are usually localized to regions and power is restored within hours. I understand the idea of using cash for privacy reasons or keeping few hundred just in case, but keeping with cash just in case a food riot happens is wholly unconvincing.
That is what some of the consensus is considering Microsoft is holding an event on Thursday titled “Advancing the new era of work with Copilot”. There’s a chance something gets released on Tuesday.
WhatsApp marketing firm are dim a dozen who will help send messages via API. It's banks, food delivery, shipping companies... All send unsolicited WhatsApp messages and i think the government just uses one of the marketing agencies for it. Also, it's not against the meta rules as they aren't promoting any party but government communication.
That’s the rumour, NVDA give them higher priority because of a longstanding relationship.
> We challenged the agreement with the town and they told us that we techmically had fiber service but it would cost 50k to activate it since they had to run fiber from their pop. Coupled with informing us that once we did so, our neighbors could then hook up for 49 bucks.

If only there were a way to spread that cost equally among the people who would benefit from it, and a legal structure for collecting that payment, representing the interests of the constituent people, and ensuring that the telco held up its end of the arrangement!
Every web framework has error handling features. These are HTMX’s. It’s two HTML attributes and you’re done, if you don’t want any of the additional functionality.
I personally think this is a loaded concept. This is what I think:

For the technology we have now (LLM)s there does not and will not ever exist a test that can perfectly differentiate between an LLM and any human.

We will always have LLMs that will pass the test and we will have humans that will fail. The reason for this is two fold and contradictory.

The first reason is that consciousness is just a loaded concept. It's some arbitrary category with fuzzy boundaries. One persons definition of consciousness includes language another persons definition of consciousness includes logical thought. It's a made up collection of "features" that's it, no more or no less. It's a very arbitrary set of features too... mashed together for no rhyme or reason.

The second reason is that LLMs already meet the criteria for what most people technically define as consciousness. The resistance we see nowadays is simply moving the goal posts. Five years ago people were in agreement that the turing test was a really good test. We've surpassed that and changed our definitions adding more stringent criteria for sentience. AI already meets the criteria for sentience the way we defined it from 1950-2020. Thus any test to measure sentience will always be a moving target.
For me the huge difference between re-compilability and re-excuteability scores is very interesting. GTP4 achieved 8x% on re-compilability (syntactically correct) but abysmal 1x% in re-excutability (schematically correct) demonstrated once again its overgrown mimicry capacity.
Unless you are building tdd software, you don’t need anyone telling the world your team’s thoughts on tdd. It’s sold as part the recruiting effort, but I’m dubious as to the ROI.
The users of Reddit are some of the most anti ads on the planet. I have done a lot of advertising and Reddit performs so poorly that it is not worth it. Having ads blend in won't make a difference.
> SpaceX has projected that it will launch 148 rockets in 2024, which would be once every two and a half days

And that’s before Starship comes into play. If successful, they want to be able to fly them much more frequently than Falcon 9s.

They’re not really at risk of having nothing to do with a rocket
Last 46 hours Baltic Jammer has been running in south Baltics
CPUs spend an enormous amount of time waiting for IO and memory, and push/pop and similar are just insanely well optimized. As the article also claims, I would be very surprised to see any effect, unless that more instructions themselves would spill the I-cache.
FusionCache creator here, glad you noticed!

It’s been a long journey to v1.0, and a really good one.

For anyone interested here’s a good overview https://www.youtube.com/live/hCswI2goi7s

Even if I’m currently in a bit of a situation https://x.com/jodydonetti/status/1769301056629112911 , AMA and I’ll try to answer.
SMCI is experiencing massive revenue growth, so you also need that. SMCI forward PE isn’t even that crazy yet, TSLA had much higher at its peak.
Real estate is an option.
Buy a house, fix it up, rent it (most likely short term to avoid tenants squatting your house and being protected by the police), sell it. Repeat.

If you start a business pick a place where economic prospects look good and the government won't ruin you or kill your market.
Eg. I wouldn't start anything in any high tax country in Europe or California
"Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal
societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in
unequal, consumer-driven ones."

If climate is anything to go by, science has had made precious little
ground against the forces of greed and denial.

But I am interested to see the concept of trust brought in here.

We know that high-trust societies have larger GDP, better life
expectancy, and more [0].

Last week I spoke with some people about "zero trust" and the menace
of the "cashless society" in a programme on Disappearing Worlds [1] -
how technology is making things like trust and human contact
disappear. Whereas the Nature article places the blame at the feet of
the "The Rich" I think more nuance is needed.

The crisis is not caused by concentration of capital, but by who has
it. We have always had wealth imbalance, rich industrialists and so
on. We have not had "techno-elites" and suffered the combination of
super-wealthy sociopaths with small world-views getting control of the
means of communication, payment and education to such a dangerous
degree before.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_socie...

[1] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=25
Except that if you are making it a point to use physical cash in your life,
then you wont have bank receipts.

Having over €15.000 in the piggy bank or mattress does not seem exceptionally unreasonable.

But from what was stated earlier in the thread I guess that is illegal now.
The state can take your piggy bank, just for living on physical cash.
Newretrowave fan here. Who would have thought that the creator of htmx listens to synthwave.
I read this blog for years but more recently got tired of its gimmicky contrarianism.

I've lost count of the number of "alternative" energy solutions it has breathlessly presented which, to anyone with a calculator and a basic understanding of physics, can't possibly make sense. e.g. the sister no-tech magazine still has an article up on the GravityLight https://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/01/how-to-design-more-po...

That's not to say it's not occasionally informative about obscure technologies of the past.
The ways to make it available involve stringing hundreds of miles of line. Of course it's possible, it's just prohibitively expensive because of the extremely low density.
I picked up the same habit years ago in my first job because we worked with a mix of all the UNIXes (AIX, HPUX, Solaris, etc). Always "perl -pe" instead of "sed" and man oh man you're right perl is amazing for that, its original task

The trend then was towards standardization towards linux, but then that got compromised as that's when macbooks got popular with developers.
> that the rest of us should have the opportunity

What entitles you to this opportunity?
Unity, games written with Monogame or Godot, frameworks for distributed actors like Akka.NET, all kinds of message buses, AWS lambda for serverless that works on top of NativeAOT, Dapper and DapperAOT, AvaloniaUI (while people bash .NET for GUI story, they don’t bash Go because it just doesn’t have any good options at all) and Uno platform.

No, it doesn’t seem to be the case. And C# mostly does not need multiple back-end frameworks because the out of box option (which is just a part of dotnet foundation ecosystem of repositories) provides the best performance out of all alternatives like Servicestack. This does not mean someone won’t implement another one in the future to sacrifice even more ASP.NET Core style features to minimize the overhead even further or to address specialized scenarios.
> In which case, something truly apocalyptic is happening,

Like some bad weather? I'd argue that accurately describes swathes of Texas just a few years ago. Some areas lost power for days.
My local supermarket, in London, had an internet outage yesterday, and couldn't take card payments. Their cash machine was out of action too. They had staff outside telling everyone as they came in; some carried on in, many went elsewhere. Most people don't carry enough to cash to do meaningful grocery shopping these days.
As an aside, I’ve been frustrated at some of the game list’s omissions.

When “ullage” was not in the list, but a week or two later “doggo” was, I considered giving up.

Fun game, but frustrating and annoying at times.
Analyzing KOSA's Constitutional Problems in Depth
SPAs require implementing safety checks on both sides in 2 different languages. Many junior devs believe the client code is trustworthy and put important validation only in the client. I’ve worked with many codebases like this. If there’s only one place to specify validation, it should always be the server. So server side frameworks have this built in to their model and thus are less susceptible to this whole class of bugs.
How to Quit Chasing Algorithms
>With dynamically typed errors, you get weird run-time failures that can be well hidden until you trigger a use case that actually needs the bit that changed.

Maybe you've never heard of "writing tests"? If you update a dependency, and the dependency has a breaking change, your tests will fail. It's really that simple, and this should be the same in any language, not just Javascript.
I'm amazed that there are so many good responses above only this mentions fuzzing. In the context of security, inputs might be non-linear things like adjacent memory, so I don't see anyway to be confident about equilivancy without substantial fuzzing.

Honestly I just don't see a way to formally verify this at all, it's sounds like it could be a very useful tool but I don't see a way for it to be fully confident. But, heck, just getting you 90% of the way towards understanding it with LLMs is still amazing and useful in real life.
Yeah!! My one worthwhile box consumes 300 watts, and I made the mistake of folding covid-19 proteins for Boinc in the summer of '19. It was like a sauna in my office and the bill was eye-watering. Never again...
The sample data is distributed equally, each page contains data from all organizations.
The actual data is much more grouped by organization, like this:

insert into foo (id, created_at, updated_at) select generate_series(1, 4000000),
generate_series('2010-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp, now(), ('2010-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp - now())/4000000),
generate_series('2010-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp, now(), ('2010-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp - now())/4000000);

cluster foo using foo_organization_id_idx;

vacuum analyze;

Clustered by organization, the best index is organization_id_idx;
> somewhere in the north of Sweden

This is an interesting perspective considering that this north of Sweden is not really very north and is much closer to Stockholm than say Malmö is to Stockholm.
Self-sustaining? I think that's far enough out that is basically pointless to speculate a deadline. It would require too many breakthroughs.
Used EV prices fall much faster than gas cars, according to iSeeCars
Based in Romania might make that hard to do
> geology nerd

Shouldn't that be "paleontology nerd?"
Implied by “loops” but wanted to also point out self-referential definitions / recursion
How much of a performance gain does htmx grant compared to other front-end frameworks? A talk from 2022 implies a significant benefit relative to React but in front-end development years that's an era ago: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jW7vTiHFzA71m2EoCywj...
Google knows: https://crookedtimber.org/2024/01/03/welcome-to-doug-muir/
This is Han, I'm one of the co-founders from Mintlify.

For the security of our customers from the publicity we were expecting from the announcement, we've decided to leave out the technical details of the breach in the blog post.

The source of this security incident was due to an uncaught error response in one of our APIs that didn't properly format the response before sending it back to the client. The response contained our internal admin tokens, which can then be used to access internal endpoints, which unveiled sensitive user information.

Our initial patch upon discovering the incident fixed the response of the vulnerable endpoint, but we have since also implemented a sweeping number of security provisions and are also in the process of completely deprecating the admin tokens and GitHub OAuth entirely to prevent an incident like this from ever happening again.
It's like saying the entire biblical story is true because it has a few accurate events and a few real people in it...
Metformin has been under scrutiny in recent years, several big studies failed to reproduce, and I'm pretty sure the consensus right now is that it's ineffective. NAD precursors are going through the same thing right now as far as I know.
Exactly! That is the software I want the car engineers to focus on. I do expect most have their firmware provided by Bosch/Siemens or whichever supplier. But Tesla shows how much improvement there is to gain when designing cars from the ground up instead of from parts lists of a vendor.