skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cutting-Edge Tech Could Spare America's Unwanted Chickens from Culling
I recall him saying he wouldn't recommend people younger than about 40 take mTOR inhibitors too, worth noting for young longevity enthusiasts. As I understand mTOR activation/inhibition is a tradeoff between promoting and inhibiting "growth" and the latter is counterproductive for young people. IIRC high meat/protein diets also activate mTOR, which might partially explain why primarily plant-based diets are associated with longer lifespans. Fasting also suppresses mTOR, so mTOR inhibitors are sometimes promoted as an easier way to achieve (some of) the same benefits more easily. On the other hand fasting elevates cortisol which inhibits testosterone. I don't know if mTOR inhibitors like rapamycin have the same effect, but it's also a health concern.
I've commented this previously but I think the major impact to these applications was that CPUs more effectively idle themselves and reduce the fan speeds. Previously there was no noticeable impact with the PC running 100% all the time. Now the fan will go crazy compared to sitting idle. Not to mention there are computers that basically can't run 100% without some sort of duty cycle to cool back down and they will thermally throttle.
There's a great timeline[1] showing how Google transitioned from the 'don't be evil' company to what it is today. Page and Brin at Stanford[2] laid into the fundamental problem of mixed motives that advertising-funded search engines have (see "Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives").

Reddit and twitter aren't search engines, but they're dealing with related issues: the incentive to deceive visitors of their sites in order juice ad effectiveness and boost profits.

[1] https://searchengineland.com/search-ad-labeling-history-goog...

[2] http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
I prefer GPT-4 because I can have it run Python; Claude doesn't have an interpreter. Do folks who prefer Claude Opus mainly write code in a language other than Python?
It doesn't really change the point of the article.

There are ways to make fibre broadband available, even in rural communities.

Fibre is always going to beat Starlink.
F16 is peak fighter jet aesthetics, tho I have a soft spot for the Tomcats and Eagles. Both look the part of powerful birds of prey.

Su-27 has a nice sleek look to it but I respected it more when it had all this theoretical capabilities that never materialized in an active theater...
I don't think that is the same, because the ad is clearly not the video, as opposed to seeing the video while thinking it was the video forst
Its already perfectly readable on mobile either vertically or horizontally (a rare affordance these days)
The small Caribbean island making a fortune from artificial intelligence
You know Series A is early stage, right?
That retro Youtuber gripe is silly. You really think it's worth getting bent out of shape that one guy is using a little bit of lead solder to repair a valuable antique thing full of lead solder and thus keep it out of the landfill? They want to use it for technical reasons. There are many more significant sources of lead than oddball hobbyists, such as aviation fuel. Technically most hazardous chemicals we ever use end up in the environment. Even medication. So getting too fixated on a rare specialist use of lead is misguided. We should reduce the uses of lead and other toxic materials where possible, but sometimes it isn't possible or economical.
Or better yet a postage stamp of text between two ad players and a header and footer banner
JIT'ed code is sadly poorly supported, but LLVM has had great hooks for noting each method that is produced and its address. So you can build a simple mixed-mode unwinder, pretty easily, but mostly in process.

I think Intel's DNN things dump their info out to some common file that perf can read instead, but because the *kernels* themselves reuse rbp throughout oneDNN, it's totally useless.

Finally, can any JVM folks explain this claim about DWARF info from the article:

> Doesn't exist for JIT'd runtimes like the Java JVM

that just sounds surprising to me. Is it off by default or literally not available? (Google searches have mostly pointed to people wanting to include the JNI/C side of a JVM stack, like https://github.com/async-profiler/async-profiler/issues/215).
Presumably they don’t have to be around for too long though as they will be replaced by coral once their job is done?
Your comment did seem needlessly pessimistic to me, and was absent any specialist knowledge of the engineering involved in this project that might have justified it.
A lot of money laundering involves traceable transactions, no? The point isn't to hide the transaction but rather have a plausible explanation for it that's difficult or impossible to verify. I'd think a larger issue would be that you can't plausibly charge very much per swipe. I'm betting there's much easier ways to launder cash these days with so many digital goods and services with basically arbitrary profit margins than brick-and-mortar storefronts can provide.

Granted, there are benefits to laundering money with literal cash, but you still want some legitimate money trail even if you don't actually hand over the claimed goods or services—enough at least to cover the actual expenses of the business, i'd presume.
Does general usage of HTMX require `unsafe-eval` in your Content Security Policy (CSP) to allow JavaScript eval? Or there's workarounds that still keep things simple?
Any real kill bot army is fully autonomous requiring no disrupt-able RF, and wars aren’t fought against soldiers. When your armies are drones the fight moves to who you’re really fighting - the citizens whom you’re trying to break to surrender. Welcome to the future!
Isn’t this really just going back to the server side templating days and using jquery to load html snippets?
Stealth planes are great for taking out air defense.

Good luck defending your airspace with just drones.
computers are complex indeed. That said, I don't think lowtech philsophy is about browsing HN with a Macintosh II. It does have this "get things done simple" branch, but also the ecology side of it, the reflexion about the relationship with technology, its social component, eventually the sovereignty we have over technology and its sustainability.
It isn't entirely static because of alloca().
> Since its launch on May 17, 1999, the project has logged over two million years of aggregate computing time

What a waste of computing time!
Its content-visibility. It’s already in Chrome but not Firefox or Safari: https://caniuse.com/css-content-visibility
Honestly? Reddit is a corpse being propped up like in Weekend at Bernie's in a hope to keep the party going long enough for them to dump enough shares on the secondary market.

The founders and bigwigs have cashed out. Ohanian made his fortune and exited years ago, the CEO just made $193m in compensation. Can't be much milk left in the cow.
LLMs aren't logical machines, so any non-trivial bug-fix is just likely to introduce more bugs.

It's a bit of a misunderstanding of how LLMs are supposed to be used.

One caveat is if you're very untalented, it might be able to solve very common patterns successfully.
It's surprising that weapons manufacturers seem to be quite slow at adopting this trend. I guess they don't want to speed up the obsolescence of their own supply chains.
"play on a jawbone" is in the Netherlandish Proverbs Wikipedia article as "play on the pillory" = "attract attention to one's shameful acts" – in Dutch, "kaak" means both "jaw" and "pillory" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kaak#Dutch
My motivation is that the existing decompilers work only for Python versions till ~3.8. Having a model that could be finetuned with every new Python version release might overcome the need for highly specialized programmer that is able to update the decompiler to be compatible with the new version.

It is also a toy example for me to set up a working pipeline and then try to decompile more interesting targets.
If you can get by without a car where Uber makes sense, you likely didn’t need a car anyways nor drive it often enough to wash more than seasonally.

You aren’t commuting daily in an Uber, nor driving kids to school and activities with all their gear and car seats. Those are the activities which might have moved the needle on needing Uber level frequency of car washes (but even then, I assume an Uber is washed every other day or so, or perhaps I just have a cynical view of humanity keeping the inside of taxis clean).
> six figures a year

So, they cost about 1 developer?

I mean, yes, it is a bit expensive. On the other hand, it also shows that it is nearly impossible to have an opensource product and be profitable at the same time, especially with dev/infra tooling like this.
Not making any particular argument.

However, I don’t find this particularly convincing:

> Is the frequent shitting in the streets actually the result of more human shit being created, or is it just surfacing a quantity of feces that already existed but was being routed into bathrooms or other private areas?

In this hypothetical shituation (I’m very sorry - I couldn’t resist), it would be very useful to answer that research question as it would serve to reveal more about both the problem and the solution.
> How Much Does It Cost? The F-35's price per unit, including ancillary costs like depot maintenance, ground support equipment, and spare parts is $110.3 million per F-35A, $135.8 million per F-35B, and $117.3 million per F-35C.

The F-16 isn't cheap at $63 per.

EDIT: the above is not from the article, where "cost" appears once in a link to another article.
So, I absolutely love htmx, and this new version offers some incremental improvements that make things even better (unless you were using WebSockets or server-sent events, I guess, but the plug-in model doesn't look too bad?).

Unlike all-or-nothing approaches like React, htmx allows you to add just the right amount of partial updates to your web app, using just the technologies that were already there to begin with. I realize that this approach doesn't appeal to everyone, but being able to map simple requests to simple responses was an absolute life-saver for my projects many times over.

Migrating to a truly-truly minimalist approach (see: https://www.stefanjudis.com/notes/htmz-a-176-bytes-htmx-alte...) is still on my to-do list, but for now, I'm quite happy with the htmx status quo.
Is "being very old" not a real/accepted death cause after a certain age?
All response codes should really be able to contain content that doesn't look terrible. A 404 can be a nicely formatted "not found" page that's consistently styled and looks like the rest of the app, for example.
Labsmore is a commercial option with open source software, >10x cheaper than the existing microscope vendors. https://www.labsmore.com/
"I'd like to buy a Tefelah, Rabbi Alex"
I used htmx to build a now in production multi-step payment form that's currently in use by several hundred thousand people per month. It's been great, but not perfect and I would say a less well trodden path to get the edge cases right. I would absolutely say it's been a simpler overall solution for us as a small team than a full js client side framework would have been. Things that were hard to get right were setting up loading indicators, error display, keeping step/form state on browser history back/forward, tab sleep restoration after htmx navigation(especially tricky), and injection of third party form elements that had to be injected/remove and re-injected on back/forward between steps. I would be surprised if these sorts of edge cases weren't already handled by a popular js-frameworks but can't say for sure. The site load is very fast and we haven't even rolled out client side js validation on forms the server validation responds so fast. We are planning to use more htmx across other apps at present, so overall positive hypermedia for the win.
Astronomical signs (in the west) are entirely related to the time of year when you were born and not at all related to the "arrangement of the planets", besides of course the position of the earth relative to the sun. The idea that some voodoo around the position of your bed relative to your chair relative to your door has more impact on your life than your spawning phase shift in the (second?) most significant cycle of our existence is pure absurdity.

As a simple test: ask N self-proclaimed astrology experts to guess your sign, and perhaps the signs of some others around you. Run a Chi-squared on the results. Come to your own conclusions.

Alternatively, plot some user data against birth month. Observe dependence.
What does “isn’t afraid of the letter S” mean?
This is a disingenuous and overly-glib argument. There are numerous obvious differences:

1. We can enforce the law on Facebook in ways we can't with completely agnostic, low-tech tools like pen and paper.

2. "Drug dealers can use those too" is very different from "Drug dealers are commonly using those too, to deal drugs". Drug dealers surely use pen and paper sometimes. But how often are they using them? And are they using them to advertise and sell drugs, or just using them? (Note this also addresses your food analogy).

3. Facebook inherently collects massive amounts of evidence that pen, paper, and food don't.
They likely know many users feel this way even if they're not the majority, which means old will probably go dark after the IPO (and after a bunch of people bought into their "direct share program")
Readable is a very strong word
Not everyone wants to provide geolocation data about themselves
I prefer Claude for writing emails, which is what I use it for. I’ve actually preferred Claude for a while before Opus was released. I just feel the style and language it is more friendly and cleaner.
I set up one to pull readings from my utility meters. Now I've got the exact figures the power company uses to calculate my bill, and can track it throughout the month, entirely offline
I was talking about the Ioniq 5 in a different comment: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/yikes-the-60000-hyundai-i...

If Hyundai won't fix it for less than $60k, and they total the car for scuff marks on the bottom, where does that leave you? Maybe you can get that Youtuber to fix it for you?
Keep using… Apologies for the lack of accuracy.
because we don’t want people to know that we’re writing all our emails with ai.
FTA:

The LSI FW643 PCIe to FireWire 800 interface may be EOL but it is the only one that does not use a PCIe to PCI bridge. It was used in the following Apple machines:

MacBookPro10,1
MacBookPro9,2
MacBookPro6,2
MacBookPro5,1
Macmini6,1
Macmini3,1
iMac12,2
iMac9,1
iMac8,1

It is reliable and enables FireWire audio interfaces to be used on modern machines. Virtualization allows for flexible access to professional audio software.
> more interested in the author’s own list of podcasts.

op here. One of my favorites is Soft Skills Engineering (https://softskills.audio). Check it out if you get the chance!
It baffles me that people are in support of that kind of thing. I doubt the majority of voters are, but the fact that anybody would say "yeah we should have our utilities privately managed for profit" is absurd
$120 per month is well within the range of most monthly internet plans. The article doesn't say how much monthly service for this county-driven initiative will cost. Yes, there's an upfront cost (though cable providers typically have a hookup too) but it's not huge in comparison to monthly fees.
I’ve never switched to the browser and reloaded the page fast enough to “beat” a gunicorn reload after editing a file. So I get not “wanting” a process restart but I don’t get why it’s such a big deal in a practical sense.

But hey if using what you use does what you want, then you do you.
I use github copilot for code writing to be honest.
In the time it takes to drive to one, wait and drive back, you've already spent the same time as washing yourself at home.
They're really stretching the definition of readable.
I never had a case where cold starts mattered because either 1) it was the kind of service where cold starts intrinsically didnt matter, or 2) we generally had > 1 req/15mins meaning we always had something warm.

3) Also you can pay for provisioned capacity[1] if the cold start thing makes it worth the money, though also just look into fargate[2] if that's the case.

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/configuration-c...

[2]: https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/
are we watching boeingification of the web2 era ?
Building your own optical fiber ISP, even rural, is not hard if you use the right tech [1], but most use the wrong technologies [2] and are more expensive to get of the ground.

I would be thrilled to set one up for you (remotely).

You need 1000 customers per employee and starting capital of $100K to be profitable. You use Starlink as backup to your main backbone.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Merik-Voswinkel/publica...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXYaAd5ubok&t=173s
Yes its very oxidised
Some tools let you pass a parameter to indicate that you only want the request to take effect if the requested resource is in some specific state. For example, Google Cloud Storage uses headers to allow you to set preconditions that must be met before the action takes place. For DELETEs you can use this to say "delete this resource but only if its generation (sort of a timestamp) is exactly $foo", where $foo is the generation last known to the client.

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/request-preconditions
not only didn’t have it built into the language syntax, it wasn’t even available in the library.

Did not know that about the first Java release. That shit is bananas.
This is the kind of thinking that makes me happy.

Too often people are conditioned to believe new is good, old is bad, we shouldn't support or even maintain old (which is why 32 bit x86 support is starting to disappear). We should strive for less waste, not more.

Making it possible to pass Firewire to virtual machines is great!
Its the kids that are being influenced into consuming, nothing else.
Brain chips: the Sydney researchers 'miles ahead' of Elon Musk's Neuralink
Certainly wouldn't want to be a medical transcriptionist, right now.

Hopefully physicians can continue to use technology in providing better healthcare (but I worry that instead patient caseload will increase as exponentially as genAI technologies allow).

Very glad to not be a American physician... particularly with such endebtedness/outlook.
I wrote Piers Anthony in the mid-80s when I was a teenager and I can confirm he sent non-form letter replies. He replied on a dot matrix printed postcard and (briefly) answered the two questions in my letter to him.

I wrote to a few authors around that time and the biggest reply I received was from David Eddings. He sent me a thick 8.5x11 envelope with the syllabus and class notes from a writing class he taught when I asked him about how to become a better writer.
Yes but the point is you don't know which sites are storing plain text passwords.
sick! i’ve been using htmx for a few personal projects & i have to say, it feels like exactly what i was looking for.

light, well documented, snappy, easy to work with - i love the idea of endpoints returning pure html instead of json - it feels obvious.
The Myth of the Chinese Debt Trap in Africa [video]
There are lots of kinds of containerization too btw, if i'm not mistaken AWS has a lot of investment in Firecracker too https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/
I was just thinking that all these FPV drones we saw dominate in Ukraine would've been possible to make 2 decades ago with similarly rudimentary tools of the day - no advanced tech required.
>Proper moderation results in an increase in false positives which paints an overzealous image and will draw the ire of users while driving them elsewhere.

Isn't a false positive by definition improper moderation, just like a false negative?
I'm using HTMX with Django for totem.org[0]. My over all experience is good.

I'd say the main thing I like is testing. With a JS framework I have to have tests spread over both JS and Python, with HTMX I can mostly just focus on Python tests and assume the HTMX is going to work correctly. There's a good, stable testing story for Django, so I know the tests I write won't have to be rewritten all the time when dependencies change. I just don't write many JS tests because stuff changes so fast.

The main downside I have with it though, is I just can't seem to remember how to use it. Every time I need HTMX I have to look at code I've written or go to the docs. There's just too many options with names that are confusing (hx-select, hx-swap, hx-swap-oob, hx-target?).

Aside from that, it's also a pretty large dependency. I'm also using Solidjs to mount web components (which is a pattern I love) and HTMX is a majority of the JS bundle. That was surprising to me. Maybe version 2 will be smaller?

[0]: https://github.com/totem-technologies/totem-server
Going to leave this gem here:

https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/physics-notes/311-hawking-radiati...

Black holes are weird because they are essentially macroscopic particles with only one variable, mass (ignoring angular momentum, charge and other details for the moment). But they scale very strangely.

For instance, its interesting to see what a black hole is like that emits precisely 100W of radiation. Or that is as big as a apple, or weighs as much as a apple. Or one that lives exactly 100 years, or that is as dense as water (as black holes have the odd property of getting less 'dense' as their mass grows). Its very unintuitive, and just punching values into the calculator illustrates it perfectly.

I bring this up because the illustration (a town sized black hole sitting over New York) is a very specific configuration, and it doesn't really illustrate how oddly these objects scale.
spelling bee puzzles never contain S. Originally they didn't include puzzles with e+d or i+n+g either.
I'm located in the EU, where Claude is unavailable: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-ai-locations.

So, since I have access to some IPs in Nigeria, I used those to (brazenly, possibly illegally!) evaluate their services (and no, the recent sea cable cuts don't help, but don't seem to affect my African upstreams too badly).
Can you share the story about the provider wiring up that rural Maine connectivity?
For me, refactoring means simple, no-risk code re-organization only. It should be executed often during the production and it should serve foremost code-reuse and better readability. Anything going further than that is for me rewriting and should be considered appropriately.
Overdose deaths have been increasing significantly, particularly due to fentanyl. There were 20k deaths in 2000, and more than 100k in 2021.

The root causes for homelessness and drug abuse are in large part due to trauma and bad childhood. Soft White Underbelly has interviewed thousands of people from Skid Row, and invariably they suffered major abuses and instability as kids. I guess you could go full historical materialist and say that was caused by economics too, though historically most people were far more impoverished as subsistence farmers, yet still managed to maintain dignity and stability through culture and community.

It should also be noted that other countries with fewer homeless also have higher rates of involuntary hospitalization, e.g. Japan. De-institutionalization of the mentally ill has directly led to the rise in homelessness. Portugal is routinely cited as a success story of decriminalization, yet they force treatment upon addicts as an alternative to jail. Progressives use all carrot and no stick, which is not going to work with people who have become mentally ill addicts.
This isn't hard to achieve - I think a Starlink-guided drone army is pretty much unjammable - unless you have space based jammers, but once they get laser datalinks it will be 100% unjammable.