skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea how any of this actually works in practice, but I imagine a series of MEMS mirrors could split a single physical laser beam into many-many recievers in a time-multiplexed manner.

Probably you could control a good amount of drones with a single satellite transciever, and your typical drone would have LOS to many satellites.

There could be multiplexer drones whose purpose would be to mediate between cheap disposable small drones and the satellites themselves.

This is already a thing (not with lasers and sats) - the Russians have the Orlan drones with sophisticated(ish) surveillance equipment that act as spotters and guide the Lancet suicide drones and artillery
(Author) HTTP is the de facto protocol / "narrow waist" of the Internet. To prove the point further, as other commenters mention, gRPC is also HTTP.
btc ordinal?
Relation between consciousness and intelligence seems to be a problem for everyone including the authors of the article.

Hmm...
Peter Watts, Blindsight.

The novel explores themes of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence, neurology, and game theory as well as evolution and biology. [Wikipedia]

Especially interesting, and contains a long list of literature.
"Civil War" — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDyQxtg0V2w
It does. Though nothing I've seen yet will break me from my CLI use of git.

I edit with neovim. Open a terminal within my editor (yea i know neovim has magit and others but I'm oldschool) and stage things and commit as atomicly as I can, and then go back to work.
Wireless tech is a flash in the pan. The gear has to be replaced every few years as it ages out.

Contrast that to fiber, you install it once and use it for decades.

Government should only be subsidizing permanent infrastructure.
Send an email to me at aaberg@bitwarden.com and I’ll look into it!
Look if they want funding for their for profit venture they should just ask for your credit card number then go spend on AWS where the hardware is modern and the energy is efficiently used. But if they were upfront and asked directly for peoples hard earned money in exchange for nothing every sane human would say no, so there's this racket called boinc where they trick you into giving them your money indirectly and they laugh at you. You get a gold star if they find something with your "contribution". But they get a billion dollars for finding the next lucrative drug
> without asking too many questions, but with us, Hims, etc you go through a rigorous (and sometimes fairly lengthy, as with testosterone) clinical process to determine your eligibility

A few years ago now, but with Hims, that was absolutely not the case for me.

It was about a dozen yes/no questions, and then a <5 min text chat conversation with a doctor who told me that 2 of my answers didn't fit for prescription. "If you were to tell me you also had X symptom, then that would be applicable', and effectively allowed me to "change my answer" in the text chat.

The skeptic in me says that companies like this who employ physicians in this manner (there's no insurance/office visit fee, etc.) don't make money by telling people they "don't need" this drug.
Seeing as attempts to mandate better wages and benefits for gig workers usually wind up throwing large numbers of them out of work (see Minneapolis just now) while making life more expensive for consumers, this is a positive.
I like this take a lot.

At my work we often do a lot of “pre-commits” for projects that require any significant amount of work. A pre-commit is usually pure moving/repackaging of code or small re-writes to how we do things now to make the PR (or PRs) for the actual feature the most straightforward and pure business-logic-only changes that we can. So, I usually tell people we rarely refactor, but maybe we do kinda what you’re recommending here.
hasn't been obscure for a long time.

this says more about WSJ-reading "enterprise" IT than anything else.
From the link:

> Some htmx applications make use of inline scripting—the hx-on attribute is a generalized attribute listener that can evaluate arbitrary scripts (although it can be disabled if you don’t need it). Sometimes inline scripts are appropriate to preserve locality of behavior on a application that is sufficiently secured against XSS, sometimes inline scripts aren’t necessary and you can adopt a stricter CSP. It all depends on your application’s security profile—it’s on to you to be aware of the options available to you and able to perform that analysis.

Is hx-on required often? How clunky does it get to avoid hx-on everywhere?
they report earnings monthly.
yeah, if you're not logged in you get shown tweets in random order.
Yes. The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter is now basically unusable if you're not logged in, which is really quite unfortunate.
oh I meant people thinking they might one day have enough money to build a bunker lol.
What is the unit of measure for "safeness," anyway? And how will we know if they reach 101 "safety units?"
If you haven't heard people complaining about Google Analytics, you haven't been listening. Personally, I block access to it except from one "dirty" browser for pages that won't run without access.
Meta, but

1) I am not the author

2) I agree with the ideas presented

3) I've written similar pieces on similar ideas, have researched
the topic and been interviewed as an expert for documentary
film and television.

So, I experienced the piece as well written, accessible and thorough,
covering most of the common talking points and offering some good new
thoughts.

Now obviously we each experience things we agree with differently
than those we disagree with.

It does seem that ideas around cashless commerce are very polarising.

But what I am seeing in this this thread is some quite disappointing
modes of argument, including your own comment which is really just
fulminating against the style of writing and the author.

It would be much more interesting to know why you feel aggrieved
by opposition to cashless technologies. Can you tell us that?
"Will be wild"
Gene editing system being developed by vulpine labs
In addition - grip strength can be as important and it also builds brain strength. An amazing case of: Use it, or lose it. I've have two hand grips on my desk for this reason, every long refresh or boring meeting - I'm grip strengthening.

"grip strength is also an independent and significant predictor of all cause mortality. How strong your grip is, is going to tell us a ton about how you're going to live."
https://zoe.com/learn/podcast-exercise-and-living-longer
In my next life I will go to college an study computer engineering. It never ceases to amaze me the cool stuff you hardware hackers can do.
You have strong opinions on the use of leaded solder. I'm curious if you have some numbers to drive home your point. For example, what is the relative risk of using leaded solder for a hobbyist creating a handful of prototype circuit boards a year (using proper ventilation of course), versus living close to an airport exposed to burning jet fuel which contains lead to this day? I want to know, roughly speaking, if using leaded solder a few times a year cause 100X more exposure or only 1/100 the exposure compared to living near an airport. If it's only 1/100 compare to an airport, I'm not going to worry about it. If it's 100X, then I think your position is quite valid. [Addendum: Another example, what is the risk of leaded solder compared to lead exposure from common household items like brass knobs, handles, fixtures, and keys?]

My current inventory of solder was obtained from estate sales, so they are all leaded, but old stock, not newly manufactured. If I had not bought them, they would have been thrown away into the garbage dumps.
Well, for one, the payload doors don't work.
could easily be a combination of many things like this (though a healthier heart probably overshadows most)
Grok Weights Available via Torrent
They made good on their promise it would seem.
They're pretty open about that in fairness. Doesn't look like there's any overlap between the TockOS developers and this team.
I think so too, I think of Cloudflare as an infrastructure kind of company which is why they came to mind. It would be a buyout to keep the industry from seeing crucial tooling go down in flames when the wrong company acquires them. Microsoft might be a solid one, though no telling if this is even on their radar.
Based on your other comment I would explore working in a field either with a mission or a small team that isn’t looking to get rich off of an idea. I left a software job for some of the same reasons you stated, but I found I could go back in time by finding a company to join in an earlier stage where customers and reputation still matter more than the dollars or some board of directors.
> 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.

It might be a good living if you didn't have to take out $300,000 in loans. But if you were planning for a life in biglaw, which would enable you to pay off your loans in 3-4 years, a seemingly-good salary of $120k could double your payback period. Throw in a little unemployment (the market isn't so good for staff attorneys) and things look even worse.
Ah, we don't do this, I'm surprised Hims do, but I've never used them so I don't know.
Not everybody in tech, not even those working in Silicon Valley, make $200K+ per year and have six figures of RSUs. Even in Silicon Valley there are plenty of tech employers paying low six-figure or even five-figure salaries without RSUs. There’s a reason so many people do the Leetcode grind. I am personally far away from $1 million in assets.
That's what I've heard too, though I've never tried it.
Modafinil is the drug pilots take to stay awake
Try to model this happening as if you were an actuary trying to price the premiums and payout of insurance.

What odds would you give me of something like this happening over the course of next ten or even hundred of years? That scenario in which people are bartering for resources is a scenario in which power has been lost for multiple weeks in the United States? The odds you should be giving me is on the order of millions or tens of millions, at least.
Starlink costs $15k over 10 years and at the end of that you have nothing to show for the outlay.

Fiber costs far less than $15k on average and it is as good as new after 10 years.
Have compilers (or I guess x86?) gotten better at dealing with the frame pointer? Or are we just saying that taking a significant perf hit is acceptable if it lets you find other tiny perf problems? Because I recall -fomit-frame-pointer being a significant performance win, bigger than most of the things that you need a perfect profiler to spot.
Whenever you see discussions about longevity online there are a lot of people who come off as either die-hard enthusiasts or self-proclaimed gurus. They'll sink a lot of time, money, and effort into the field.

Frequently though, whenever you see their profile picture, they are not fit. Why is that? Many of them clearly have the means, intelligence, and interest to know that a fit body is a great predictor of longevity and a good healthspan. Is it failure to execute on what they know they should do? Is there competing information steering them along a different path?
Build your Assistant once and deploy it everywhere. If this is what you want, definitely check out this
Show HN: Website for creating self-signed certificates
If you're developing locally and need to use HTTPS for whatever, then this tool is hopefully useful to you.

I made it because there's a lot of bad info online about generating self-signed certificates. For instance, a lot of guides don't use the SAN list extension or show you how to create a proper certificate chain. Firefox doesn't allow a CA certificate to be used as an end certificate. Getting a working certificate can get pretty confusing, especially for newcomers to certificates or webdev.

Having a website for this also means the process of getting a certificate is the same, no matter if you're on a Unix-like OS or Windows.

A WebAssembly module built with C++ and Mbed TLS is used to create the keys and certificates. TypeScript and Preact is used for the UI.
Yamanaka factor-based genetic and chemical treatments that remind your cells’ age. Already showing results on organs like eyes. They’ll come to the US slower than they come to medical tourism destinations.
Does just doing grip strength exercises cause people to live longer? Or is the correlation a result of the fact that activities that increase grip strength increase longevity (or are only able to be done by people who are very healthy)?
Bone strength is usually the weak link. When people "fall and break a hip", almost always it's actually their hip breaks first, which makes them fall.
I did not know about this. It is more like a using historic team data, dev profile , and dev past task to create tasks.

Thanks for sharing it. I will read more on EBS
With competition users, there can be new sites and users can show these companies with their clicks. I get what you’re saying but consumers are apparently ok with it to an extent. It’s not an evil like labor camps and bread lines. :)
> The motherboards have no way to configure them to NOT blah blah blah....

Most of your claims are false.

Super Micro has a utility to write the correct bits into EEPROM to disable this behaviour and stop the failover as default.

The utility was available years ago, prior to the time frame you state.

Any competent sysadmin would just build this into the deployment task sequence.
It is possible that they fed on extremophiles which thrived in really cold regions and later evolved to feed on other food sources.
Is this downloadable somewhere as TTF?
A nano font but huge images. The large image is a 4873 KB bitmap which can be losslessly compressed to 47 KB using PNG.
there is no need to copy the contents of the article here; that's what hyperlinks are for.
Homepage Design: 5 Fundamental Principles
I’m sort off in your boat, I think. Late 40s and quite tired of the tech rat race and money obsession. I’m about 6 months into a totally different thing: writing/selling my own apps (mobile). I have the luxury of a working spouse and some savings so I don’t have to focus too much on speed or high profitability.

I very much like the idea of building the thing I want to, to the quality and aesthetic I want (eg no ads or dark monetization patterns), and selling directly to customer. It’s still early days but it has put me in a good state of mind.
> Neighborhood congestion is the bane of every ISP

Not really, congestion is only an issue for poorly designed or poorly run ISPs.
I may have the numbers wrong. Maybe it was body weight? He had v02 max goals as well. The point was the you lose muscle and cardio fitness as you age, and that leads to decreased health span. You need headroom in those as you age and that will help more than anything else.
It’s interesting how my one and only motivator for these things would be the things you mention. I could imagine discovering a zest for life where I decide to take on such longevity advice. On the other hand in the modern age there are now thousands of subcultures for all kinds of things where the people who practice them must surely treat it at least like a hobby (meaning a serious pursuit). So I wonder: are they doing it as a means to an end because life-is-great? Or has it taken on its own life and it’s now being done for the sake of it?

There’s just an overwhelming amount of information and advice out there from all these subcultures.[1] What would I do if I found a burning meaning in life? Maybe adopt an eclectic set of advice and lifestyles from all these subcultures as a means to the end of living longer and better?

[1] And I know: eat well, exercise... the basics are not complicated. Intellectually speaking.
“Make the change easy, then make the easy change”
> So IMHO, Democrats should have unilaterally said "We will support Kevin McCarthy for speaker in exchange for X, Y, and Z."

That would have worked in keeping McCarthy as a Speaker, but there is no way the Democrats would have gotten X/Y/Z because any Republican that would have even hinted at following through with that promise would have faced getting ousted in this year's elections by some MAGAt armed with ridiculous amounts of campaign money.

The GOP, as it is, is fundamentally untrustworthy as long as MAGA and its supporters are not just willing but routinely doing anything they can to be as destructive as possible!
What odds would you give on something like payment infrastructure failing for 3 or more consecutive days happening in a year or 10 years?
Nice site, according to the GitHub page, you are using the Reddit free API. I was under the assumption that Reddit no longer had a free API and it was all paid, glad to see that's not the case.

I think it would be great if you have days of the week rather than just the date, this way you can start seeing trends on what days of the week people are more active. And maybe eventually you can just list the most active times as part of each graph. ie: Mondays between 6 and 7 pm, etc.
I bet you noticed a change on the comments themselves.

It took me a while to even understand why things changed. The appearance of shallower posts, like memes was severely boosted, while textual posts lost a lot of emphasis, to the point they became harder to interact with. The sorting of posts was changed so they would cycle faster, and people stopped having enough time to interact on the comments section. Deep threads got completely hidden...

There was no change large enough to make people pay attention. But the end result was the same.
AWS Makes Cloud Formation Stack Creation Up to 40% Faster
If old.reddit.com does go away, so will I. The "newer" version is truly horrid.
Perl was my first programming language love. While we've largely gone our separate ways, we still keep in touch and occasionally we still spend some time together.

One such case is adhoc small scripts mid pipeline. There's just certain Perl syntax that's so deeply embedded in me that no matter how much I try to learn sed/awk/tr, I can't help but reach out to my old love in times of weakness and need. I just know how to talk to Perl in the most intimate of ways that's been hard to reproduce in other languages.

I still feel a little like I've betrayed Perl a bit every time I use Python.

Perl, Larry Wall, Randal Schwartz, Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, O'Reilly, and the many other participants of comp.lang.perl.* had such a lasting influence on my programming career. I wouldn't be who I am today as a programmer without having experienced all the Perl community put out into the world.
Nice - loved a bit of Boinc at one point.

I have Vodafone DreamLab installed on my iPhone and set it each night to compute whilst charging. Nice to be able to utilise the phone for some good whilst I am asleep.
None whatsoever.

I've also been riding my motorcycle without a helmet
for 50 years, and never had a problem with that yet.
Z85: Format for representing binary data as printable text
They've appended "in 2024" and changed the article date to 2024, but the comment dates reveal this article is from 2018, and the 2018 archive of the URL confirms this https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.ecom... . So, it's not just Chinese Sellers manipulating us here.
For human males castration results in a very significant increase (10+ years).
CSS is Turing complete, although you could probably handle 99.9% of real world cases without dealing with that.
Heat pumps would be more efficient than resistive heating in silicon circuits.
Is there any success stories out of this program?
I would also think that generating a very large amount of C code using coding LLMs (using deepseek, for example, + verifying that the output compiles) as synthetic training data would be quite beneficial in this situation. Generally the quality of synthetic training data is one of the main concerns, but in this case, the ability for the code to compile is the crux.
Lots of people in CS are (almost surely) GPT-ing their peer reviews
It was bioweapons design research /s
Simplifying as much as possible is the way to go in the engineering industry
Well, there wasn't food riots then so no, that's not apocalyptic enough.
This 1994 papers agree with you, but that's rarely mentioned medical advice. Of course, weak hips are prone to fracture whether that fracture is before or during a fall.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8206455/
nowhere near as prevalent as supermicro still. asrock rack does make some decent stuff tho so i would imagine theres a good future there
One of the main things keeping me away from Visual Studio Code was its default git integration was so much worse than magit. This may actually be better than magit.
My email is my HN account name at dalkescientific.com.
We can't know the intent, but I called it out because the "Based on open source" on the front page and even the name (since OxidOS is not the OS) seems designed to mislead.
I propose that this sort of font be called "decipherable" rather than "readable".

I could learn to read this. I can kinda-sorta make out the example, because I already know the Declaration of Independence. Is it readable the way, say, this text is? Or the PICO-8 font? No.
I had no idea. That’s crazy.
> AI already meets the criteria for sentience the way we defined it from 1950-2020.

If that is the case why hasn't Kurzweil already won the bet? https://longbets.org/1/
Elizabeth Holmes, and worse, some of Theranos' proponents still to this day believe the legal system "robbed" the world of the genius revolutionary change in medical labs that was "within reach" when Theranos cratered.
This isn't pharmaceutical research.
Where is one shred of evidence of any of this? Humans adapt. It’s this kind of thing why you have 20-year-olds that think we’ll be dead in 5 years. It’s ridiculous. The same people that make this argument also try to tell us that the 10 million people that have illegally crossed into the US have some because of climate change.
Because they want their car without software... ;-)

It's nice to have a software for entertainment... but it takes more trust to have some software controlled brakes
Av gas is what has led, not jet fuel. Av gas consumption is negligible by comparison so it’s not the impact you think.
The ancients were more knowledgeable then us.

https://youtu.be/J6OsDczx5iM?si=2BcthvU-6X_svTmw
So how does one preserve their bone strength into old age?
> 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.

This doesn't exactly inspire confidence that your service is now secure.
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Inclined to side with you. Prior to specialized gripping exercises, I would think the people with the strongest grips developed it from hard effort: lifting weights, rock climbing, trade work, etc.
> It's not refactoring, it's re-architecture.

If you change the code without changing the functionality, it's a refactoring.

If you change the main organization of the code, it's re-architecturing.

It being one of those has no impact on whether it's also the other.
Yeah, I’m not sure exactly what he is basing that one. A 1.5x farmers walk for 10-20m is exceptionally strong in my book.
A contemporary echo to that story: "US Navy Procurement Disasters - The Littoral Combat Ship and Zumwalt Class Destroyer"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odS3Kn5oGl0
I think falling is the prime example. All 4 of my grandparents were relatively healthy, no heart issues, mild elevated blood sugar not even pre-diabetic. Once they reached 70s/80s, all of them eventually fell while walking around, became wheelchair-bound or hospitalized and died after.

I wish we had good population metrics on this.
Bold to make a joke about the tsunami of spam overrunning the site.