skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't quite get it. So the center is the barycenter of the planet, but that only gives you the point, not the axes.

The Z axis seems the most clearly defined as it's just aligned to the planet's rotation and the XY plane could be defined as just halving that, but the the rotation of the XY plane doesn't seem to be well defined. The article seems to fix it to the first meridian which is a land reference and subject to drift, so it would be inaccurate. Or there'd be some reference point in the south atlantic where the drift is zero and the rest is relative to it?

Further along this line of discussion, it's always been immensely puzzling to me how sun-relative solar system localization systems handle this sort of thing, since while it's possible to locate the sun and a few stars to track your absolute rotation and one translational axis, where the hell do they get the other two? One reference might be Earth signals I suppose, and possibly Jupiter? But they are all coplanar so the Z axis resolution from triangulation must be complete crap.
Not making a value comparison here, but reminds me strongly of the "engineered systems" of the early 2000s (where you buy a box+database all in one go from HP)...and most recently of the new Nexus stuff coming out of Microsoft's acquisition of the ATT cloud people.

See https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/operator-nexus/azure-opera...

AIUI Microsoft will ask you to buy several racks worth of (oem?) server gear and switch fabric, configure it to load up their version of kubernetes, and then leave you to run whatever workloads you like (or they approve of? Not sure) with the hook being that you can manage it all from azure.

Pointed strongly at telcos, and I imagine that you cant get this without spending at least a quarter mil on hardware. Plus whatever azure fees there are? I wonder how many msft expect to sell, especially as telcos with spare cash are like unicorns.
Crocodiles are not primates.
MSRP is the best way to compare. In the US, there are significant deals for Apple devices all the time.
(Edit: With modern core counts) I think we’d be seeing partnerships with GE, Whirlpool, Rheem etc ;)
Very interesting how HN somehow knows what topics are in the air. For completely unrelated reasons I was looking for a term for an entity that is in status, adjacent to but not human, and came across the term paraconsciousness. This is apparently used by some researchers as a shorthand to refer to this intermediate stage between subclinical consciousness (due to insufficient in neural development from zygote to some in utero phase), and whenever full consciousness is indicated, as in the linked article.
I tried Google Scholar after this comment. Google Scholar PDF is a valuable addition to the research community. There isn't any tool that can give direct hyperlink to the references in the research paper, and this does it, as inline hover, and it is incredibly useful to navigate and follow the references.
Using the developer tools, each click divides a DIV into 4 tiny DIVs, so it's probably infinite (or until the DIV is rounded to 0 pixel wide and doesn't get mouse clicks anymore).
At least two of these saloon buildings still exist. I know because I've been in them, and recognized them from the photographs.

Clancy's in Skagway is now the Jefferson 'Soapy' Smith Parlor Museum: https://www.nps.gov/klgo/learn/historyculture/jeffsmithsparl...

I'm a bit unsure about the picture labeled 'Cowboy Bar, Jackson WY, 1908'. I've been in the Cowboy Bar (now known as the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar https://www.milliondollarcowboybar.com/blog/history-of-the-m...). The dimensions of the room in the picture match the Cowboy bar, but in 1908 that building was a doctor's office and bank (https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/valley/columnists/cowboy-bar-...). If you look closely at the picture, you will notice that the outfits of the patrons, and especially of the bartenders, appear to be from a later era than 1908. The stencils on the bar seem very similar to a picture of the cowboy bar from the 1940s. I suspect that the picture labeled 1908 is actually from around 1940, but I'm pretty sure it is actually of the Cowboy bar in Jackson WY (or Ruby's beer garden, the prior business at that location).
This is what a TPM is designed to prevent, but they’re not very popular in Linux community.
It’s also very likely there are sins microbiomes that are more stubborn than others, where this advice isn’t effective

We need more effective easily accessible solutions
Excellent point; which production-grade rust ssh server would you recommend?
Show HN: Hacker News client with bookmarks stored in Notion
Hackernews has been my main information source for a long time. I used to explore with web clients from https://hnpwa.com/ for modern reading experiences.

Cross-device bookmark is always a missing feature for those front end apps. So I decide to make it my own also as my personal project, which is a good chance for me to know about every aspects of launching an app, including UI design, test-driven development, OAuth, payments, marketing, etc.

By storing bookmarks in Notion, you own your data and it’s easy to manage and export your data with its built-in features like this: https://toonmaterial.notion.site/Example-ea2a6923455e4fb4854...

This is also a scenario where I finally have the chance to use the most loved web framework, Elixir Phoenix. The developer experience is quite efficient and satisfying. It seems like a perfect choice for a small team, although with a steep learning curve.

Of course there are still many tasks to complete, such as improving app accessibility and handling regulatory requirements. Nonetheless, I think the product is now usable enough to showcase. And feedback from real users is desirable in further development and improvement. Thank you.
Related:

More anecdotes and discussion of the book LAN Party from it's early stages

Just a bunch of idiots having fun: a photo history of the LAN party (2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680678

And more recently a review last year:

Berlin Review: LAN Party

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898833
I am a lifelong Arkansan, and I hope he is able to pull off some kind of win. I visited that area often as a teen, and Pine Bluff was the main entertainment destination for the region. I haven't been in awhile, but it sounds like the years have not been kind.

I really hope that his analogy to 1980s NYC works out. It's easy to give up when there's so much cultural and institutional inertia, but this guy seems to have a pretty deep well of motivation. I hope he hangs in there.
OpenSSH has a longer and better track record than kube-apiserver. But in theory you're correct, if everything is configured correctly.
It's still early days for us obviously, but we have some of our equipment in a cage in a regular colocation facility, on the Internet. We're generally able to provide access to systems there so that folks can kick the tyres as part of a pre-sales engagement. If you or your customers are interested, you're always welcome to reach out to our sales folks and have a chat!
Show HN: Moye Launcher- Minimalistic App Launcher with No App-Drawer for Android
Moye launcher comes with just
- a search bar to find your apps.
- a clock
- a few customizations

That's it.
I don’t understand the complaint here. I am in several group chats that have a mix of iPhone, Android, and other messaging clients. I have not lost access to anything.
I think it can be both. Pop culture is never as meaningful as when you're fourteen years old, and there can be secular trends where things get better and worse.

For example, I grew up in the US during the 90s. It was a great time because I was a teenager and because the 90s were a local maximum of life in the US being good. Do teenagers in the US now have as good a time? I don't think so, in general. Did teenagers in Russia in the 90s have as good a time? Probably not Russia was having problems in the 90s.

(I hope my examples don't inflame national or generational passions; I didn't mean it that way. They were just the first examples that came to mind and they could be broadly relatable.)
So what? Still, if it wasn't for the green transition, that power would be used, and a coal or gas power plant would be built to provide it.
The fired clay tablets I believe were long term record keeping. Things important enough to try to maintain the information.
None. Did I imply that it’s something else?
You don't use your PIV anywhere because you don't want your creds--certs, etc--to be swiped. You use it for facility access and PKI.
That’s cool. I’m professionally jealous of all the people that got to program neat chips back in the arcade heyday.
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The NFL would definitely have to come up with a rule about grabbing the tail of an opposing player.
Given the recent history, it’s safer to bet that TSMC knows what they’re doing more. It feels like Intel is risking a lot to try to win back the crown. Hence, I believe in TSMC’s more.
Explain more? Are you saying we have enough compute but not enough memory?
Good idea, this is useful. What do you use as your source data? LinkedIn jobs?
> as clean and straightforward as C

Says anyone that has never tried to write portable C code during the UNIX wars days, or deal with UB across compiler toolchains.
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Yes. In fact, the original use of "sol'n" was pure habit, and the habitus stuff is just a post-hoc way to (a) rationalise why I used it, and (b) introduce something I recently found interesting[0].

But it is a gang sign, of sorts — instead of throwing "westside" or some similar geographic allegiance[1], it's declaring (an actual, or a desired?) membership with that gang of people who care about systems, existence and uniqueness of sol'ns, and the distinction between general and particular sol'ns.

Are we better at coming up with technical sol'ns than that other gang, those who spend their time finding new ways to tell people what they like to hear? That question I leave as an exercise for the reader.

[0] compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_M._Kornbluth#:~:text=Whe...

[1] compare https://external-preview.redd.it/TQRIW7YgWIIzjk4-yrci1V7VMxJ...
If you want an accessible introduction to postscript that does a bunch of very pretty pictures you can't go wrong with: https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/text/www/

I particularly like chapter 14 where you implement 3d shader in postscript.
> Which isn't a solution…

…for you. For me, I am perfectly content with the algorithm deciding, and then me, deciding when I know I am going to be disconnected outside of my normal usage pattern…telling the machine to charge it to a 100%.
> At least that's guaranteed to be extremely far in the future.

a subduction zone quake in the PNW is already overdue (they appear to happen regularly with a periodicity of 3-600 years). The famous Atlantic article from several years ago made it clear that it can be expected at any time now.
It’s written in Pascal.. Why not something like Rust or at least C++?
Reflection is notoriously problematic in regards to type safety in many languages and often isn't the right tool for the job, including C#.

The base64, in most languages, requires importing the right package or namespace.

Converting bytes to Base64 is just Convert.ToBase64String/CharArray(bytes).

I can't believe someone would seriously and unironically suggest PHP. It does not even compete at the only area it's applicable at being back-end or server-side rendering.
Assuming it costs $10mil per mg in a highly efficient production scenario and you need 10^9 grams for “fast” interstellar travel means this probably isn’t doable.

I guess there’s just no getting around fact that an antimatter reaction that creates 9x10^10 MJ/kg requires more robust electrical generation capabilities than we currently have (I.e fusion)
I don't think I'm saying anything revolutionary or derogatory when I say that e.g. linear algebra with big batches of small complex-valued matrices, or thin/very-tall matrix multiplication, or 1D-complex convolutions with large filters are not in the main path of the NVIDIA engineers (I did say 'niche').

Some things are not heavily optimized by NVIDIA, it's fine, and a good thing too that they can focus their effort on what's useful to the overall community.

What I'm saying is that very often writing by hand a naive kernel, optimized by a non expert for some months, can reach better performance than library code that isn't optimized for niche use cases. Which is a testament to how easy to get good or OK (not optimal) performance...

I don't know about pyTorch (I was talking about niche use cases?) but TensorRT allows custom kernels and it's worth to use them and plonk a house-implemented kernel if you know what's your bottleneck and no-one has bothered writing a less-generic version yet... again, intern-level competency (not senior CUDA optimizer).
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April Dunford has two great books. Positioning comes first, then sales.

As a small outfit, you probably don't want to actually sell. The approach that worked for me was to focus on inbound marketing and let customers self-select and come to you. Have a great pitch, ideally right there on your web site. Then get them onto a trial, treat them as customer from day one and get them into your customer success programme.

In essence: build a great product, talk about it, find the right customers and couple with fanatical customer success.

Also, choose a problem for which there is a good audience: https://longform.asmartbear.com/problem/
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At least one of those; depends on the device. As sibling comments note, plenty of devices expose it in software, where in Windows you use the vendor's utility and Linux puts it in /sys, but I've got laptops that either don't do that or I couldn't find it but I could configure it in the BIOS settings. So you might have to dig around a little.
> 1 banana produces a positron ~ every 75 minutes
Cool.

There is a way to make this easier to extend, though: https://tsplay.dev/WGbEXm

Can't tell off the top of my head if there are any disadvantages to this approach though.
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That's the one that killed my network every evening when I stopped working. My MacBook would go to sleep, with a Dell DA310 plugged in, and serving as its network connection.

I would go on a walk and every time the missus would call me to tell that the network is down again...
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The tail seems like vestigial anatomy (originally useful in fish) that has three possible states in mammals: 1. Repurposed for a new function (tree swinging, signals) 2. Not much used but still in the repo (mice) 3. Garbage collected (apes).
Page 26 estimates the cost of antimatter production: six trillion dollars per milligram!
Or leveraging solar on a truly interplanetary scale. Could start by covering the Moon in solar panels.
It wasn't always that easy in C#, fwiw.

> It does not even compete at the only area it's applicable at being back-end or server-side rendering.

I'm not sure what you mean here. I've deleted my blog, but I once published benchmarks showing PHP was faster than C# in some cases. I'm currently working on a reimplementation of some C# stuff in PHP and competing with C# quite well.

PHP is written in C; it's quite fast.
I don't see fewer variables as something good. On the contrary, I find a long "flow" or chain of function calls harder to read or grok.

Variables also help readability, because the name can help you discern what those functions return.
This is absolutely fascinating, though this isn't my field. Are any of the concepts presented feasible? Is mass-production of antiprotons on Earth realistic?
Do ten times as much (2023)
Presumably because humans are great apes.
I'm working on a project ATM at one of the DoE sites you're likely referring to... Maybe we'll bump into each other!

Ah yes, pytorch:

1) Check issues, PRs, etc on torch Github. Considering market share ROCm has a multiple of the number of open and closed issues. There is still much work to be done for things as basic as overall stability.

2) torch is the bare minimum. Consider flash attention. On CUDA just runs of course with sliding window attention, ALiBi, and PagedAttention. ROCm fork? Nope. Then check out the xFormers situation on ROCm. Prepare to spend your time messing around with ROCm, spelunking GH issues/PRs/blogs, etc and going one by one through frameworks and libraries instead of `pip install` and actually doing your work.

3) Repeat for hundreds of libraries, frameworks, etc depending on your specific use case(s).

Then, once you have a model and need to serve it up for inference so your users can actually make use of it and you can get paid? With CUDA you can choose between torchserve, HF TEI/TGI, Nvidia Triton Inference Server, vLLM, and a number of others. vLLM has what I would call (at best) "early" support that requires patches to ROCm, isn't feature complete, and regularly has commits to fix yet another show-stopping bug/crash/performance regression/whatever.

Torch support is a good start but it's just that - a start.
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Which is what an enumeration is.

Perhaps you're thinking of sum types? They are often confused as enums.
> Nothing about big-O is specific to worst case

Perhaps technically true but if someone asks you for the time complexity of an algorithm in an interview are you going to say “O(n)” without mentioning you’re referring to average-case? As far as I’m aware, without additional specifiers or context, people are referring to worst-case by default.
If we're doing germline edits, the obvious thing to fix first is vitamin synthesis. There are a bunch of useful things other living things synthesise from first principles, and we don't so we need to eat something that has already synthesised the thing we wanted, and we can't cook or preserve it in any way that destroys the material we needed or it won't work. That's what scurvy is, a tree or a lizard just makes its own vitamin C, but humans don't, so, if you're stuck on a ship eating preserved food for months your body runs out of vitamin C and you get very sick and eventually die. But synthesising vitamin C isn't hard per se, it's just that the synthesis instructions can be deleted and the humans are descended from an ancestor who had such a deletion, we can put it back.

Once vitamin synthesis is back working, next up is amino acid synthesis. Amino acids are the constituent parts of proteins, your DNA is a bunch of instructions to fasten together a series of 22 different coded amino acids to make proteins. When you eat something, any proteins are broken back down into amino acids. Given some amino acids you can in principle make the others, but humans only make about half of them this way. As a result if your protein mix is wrong you are eating amino acids, and your body needs amino acids but some of them are different amino acids - and instead of synthesising the ones needed from spares you don't need using energy, which is abundant in most human societies, you just get sick and eventually (if you don't fix your diet) die. We should fix that.
And they're unhygenic. Sheep farmers for instance routinely cut the tails of their flock because it is difficult to shear and becomes a breeding ground for blowfly larvae. That said, i saw a movie called Shallow Hal(2001) which had a scene in which a man was shown to have a tail. Now it may have been cgi, but it made me think that there must be a minority of humans with that mutation.
If Go had added generics from the start, it's very unlikely that the implementation would be as solid as the current one. I think their conservative approach paid off in this case.
Phoenix and especially Ecto are fantastic, and liveview is really cool. Having worked in a couple Go organizations and only one Elixir one, I don't agree that this is what makes one productive. These tools save some time. What really saves time is being able to jump into unfamiliar code and be productive. Go is best in class for this after the team can no longer keep the entire code base in their head.
I think we have some common ground as well as some differing perspectives, I'll leave it at that and thank you for participating in this civil discussion.

Just one thing, I want to elaborate on what I meant here:

> > Philosophy of science has moved on from this a long time ago.

> That statement could be considered a logical fallacy. But I agree with you that there is nothing to gain in discussing statements like "thinking is futile".

I don't see why you say that "Philosophy of science has moved on from this a long time ago." relating to "100% proofs" would be considered a logical fallacy?

What I was aiming at is the fundamental principle of "evidence" in the context of sciences, and the philosophical underpinnings of "empiricism".

Claimed "evidence" for the metaphysical idea of God, particularly the Christian God, if I understand correctly, was the origin of this discussion.

And unless someone can up with a falsifiable definition of God, it just is muddying the waters and derailing discussion IMO to use scientific terms in relation to non-falsifiable ideas.

It is an entirely different matter to me to honestly ponder the human condition, ethics, the foundations of civilisation, and the values of religious belief. It is also interesting to consider "what can I know" and to realise that a "closed" scientific world view is in fact not in accordance with scientific principles.

Still, I don't see how it would make sense to equate religious beliefs with mathematical axioms.
It is not a standalone program. It's a hosted service.
> it still just works, albeit with fewer features.

If it doesn't have features I rely on then I don't see how can I treat it as "it still just works".

> iMessage in the US is the closest things to universal modern messaging.

The key part here is "in the US". What if you want to message someone who is outside the US? To be honest I am not sure about carrier prices in the US, but I am sure the person on the other side of the conversation would get extremely high bills for international MMS messages. Personally I don't see how the words "universal solution" can apply to something that works well in only a single country in the entire world.
Xcode takes 13GB and the updater is not capable of resuming downloads, if your internet stops, well here you go again from the start.

The whole thing is as sluggish as an electron app and each click takes 2s to do anything.

The app upload process is so broken, Apple themselves issued a third party tool to bypass it.

The config format is undocumented and plays badly with git, I guess that's okay if you are working alone.
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This is mostly correct, but I think 5 minutes is understating the effort for some changes. I've had a few head scratching moments where I wasn't sure what to do to get an equivalent configuration. That being said, it is still reasonable to do.
The implementation of the if() function would be the one that calls eval() on the true or false code block.