skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, the author seems to like the guy but still falls into typical prejudicial choices in explaining the actual story. It's so schoolmarmish. Step back man, people can do what they want, they make mistakes, they have grand plans that sometimes fail.

> “The Overconfident Optimist and His Ill-Advised DIY Project.”

This is what I mean. The article just started and he's defining his conclusion for all readers.

Then, he compares Fenley to a "Child-destroying slackline" (which apparently never actually hurt anyone?). Fenley bought some property and tried to artistic type stuff. It is really slimy to compare him to such a horrible thing as hurting a child. That linked tweet is another "we know better" type of guy who's telling someone else how wrong they are. Yeah, doing risky stuff is risky, and I definitely don't think kids should (or would) be allowed to ride that thing, but I think they'd figure it out real quick (possibly after the creator died testing it).

This is really a cultural thing - puritan types freaking HATE how unplanned, disorganized, and free/careless other cultural groups are in the US (i.e. appalachian/borderer people). So reading this as straight up cultural mockery/status management/ridicule makes it clear. Its basically equivalent to a 19th century "lets go to other countries and laugh at people's behavior" type of travelogue by northeast USA "know better than you" types criticizing other cultural groups for the behavior they don't like (monster trucks, bbq, hotdog eating competitions, basically anything that's just not done in the uptight north-east USA)

Also: author, did you personally ever make 900k from a patent? So yeah, people are weird, have bad/dumb ideas. And I can feel you kind of like the guy despite everything. So like, get over the contempt you feel, figure out what he's got that gave him the skill to invent something, and rise above your need to mock him. The rest of the article is fine in tone, just fix the initial disrespectful comparisons. Something like "I looked into this guy and found a complicated, naive, but also gifted guy... <details>" rather than just hitting the regular playbook.

Final comment: the note about race / murder is super weird. You mention a company moved, then immediately explain the race distributions without any reason to do that, as if there is a connection. Is there? what is it? Did the company ever mention race? This is typical journo hinting/dogwhistling. Is there any evidence of any racial problems in the subject of the article? Some towns are poor, some rich, some white, some black, whats the point? Then you mention the murder rates... inadvertently confirming a hate fact, that certain groups are linked to super high murder rates (victims and perps). I just don't get it. Like, what's the point of bringing that up?
The levels are stationary with respect to each other though, so in the same reference frame.
NVIDIA was confident enough to come out with FP4 cards for training, so 16 bit floats are not the best that can be done.

As most hardware speedups over the years came from decreasing precision, I'm sure NVIDIA tries everything to make FP4 work (and then get rid of FP8 multiplies if it can get away with it).
Most CO2 emissions were in the last 30 years
I have not seen that, and that's very puzzling.

What output do you get when you run these commands?

$ sqlite3 --version
-- Loading resources from /home/st/.sqliterc
3.45.1 2024-01-30 16:01:20 e876e51a0ed5c5b3126f52e532044363a014bc594cfefa87ffb5b82257ccalt1 (64-bit)
$ sqlite3 :memory: -init /dev/null "select * from pragma_table_list();"
-- Loading resources from /dev/null
main|sqlite_schema|table|5|0|0
temp|sqlite_temp_schema|table|5|0|0

EDIT: The ability to use pragmas as table-valued functions was added in version 3.16.0[1], but the table_list pragma was first added in 3.37.0[2], which is newer than your sqlite3 version.

[1]: https://sqlite.org/changes.html#version_3_16_0

[2]: https://sqlite.org/changes.html#version_3_37_0
I accidentally stumbled on your project just yesterday evening after reading your comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39792381 (Hivekit, hexagons and Hilbert spaces). I posted it on a network operator IRC channel, and now it's on HN again, nice to see how that works.

Something to add, perhaps, is some sort of map marker and compass per zoom level? What part of the IPv4 space am I seeing, and what are the neighbours? Perhaps you've seen https://map.bgp.tools/ as well?
The R language has this feature as well. It's a whole lot of fun to work with.
There are those who do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingsail

Apart from being complex and expensive, you can't reduce their size for hard winds.

Rigid sails seems very inconvenient to fold too.
You Probably Don't Need That Green AG1 Smoothie
Good luck programming your next application using the lamda calculus or a Turing machine.
I played around with Rebol many years ago and enjoyed it. This too looks like fun.
In the real world, there is a limit set by the speed of light and the Planck scale. And more generally, physics is very much not scale-invariant.
I think it was for products too (eg Qualcomm is currently doing a heavy push of their IoT products where Skyhook is a central piece) but I'd also like to know if the legal landscape changed after the acquisition.

Especially considering Qualcomm's relationship with many device makers and the OS platforms.
Cognitive services are disabled (or have bugs injected) when consciousness is pointed at itself.
Team Foundation Server probably.
If they're famous writers, they spend the money they made from their book rights, advances, and the luckier financially, movie and tv deals. I mean, Stephen King had enough money to spend 10 lifetimes to leisurly write a single word a day by 1990 already.

If they're not so famous, the have regular day jobs, or usually writing related side gigs, like writing articles for magazines (at least back when this made you a livable wage), teaching literature, and so on.

Others are independently wealthy, or have spouses who support them.

And some still live in poverty and make it day to day, with random gigs and the kindness of strangers.
I honestly haven't read anything about sway. I didn't give much context, but the reason I moved to hyprland was because with plasma 6 my workflow basically died, with all my kwin scripts suddenly becoming useless.

I asked where I work and many recommended hyprland. After giving it a try I saw it was actually very good.

What do you like about sway and what advantages did you hope that hyprland had over sway for you to be compelled to move to it?
Dang this is super cool - here is the github link for anyone to see how it works: https://github.com/saharan/works/tree/main/life
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a probe into Ethereum to determine whether the largest altcoin is a security, Fortune reported.

The SEC sent subpoenas to companies seeking documents and financial records relating to their dealings with the Ethereum Foundation, the story said, citing companies that have received SEC subpoenas.
13th Edition of Basic 10 Liner Contest
I went to do some testing in a sandbox system (as the compilation strategy is unclear, missing builds for some of the artifacts).

I was able to initially construct an archive of the linux tree (that failed in decompression), but subsequently went to rebuild it and the tool is repeatedly producing this output even in an otherwise cleaned up environment:

Runtime error 203 at $0000000100009B72
$0000000100009B72
$00000001000225B6
$0000000100023153
$000000010002319A

Runtime error 203 at $0000000100009B72
$0000000100009B72
$00000001000225B6
$0000000100023153
$000000010002319A

Runtime error 203 at $0000000100009B72
$0000000100009B72
$00000001000225B6
$0000000100023153
$000000010002319A

Runtime error 203 at $0000000100009B72
$0000000100009B72
$00000001000225B6
$0000000100023153
$000000010002319A

Runtime error 203 at $0000000100009B72
$0000000100009B72
$00000001000225B6
$0000000100023153
$000000010002319A

The first output did work, sadly I deleted it. It was over 400mb, so approximately double the size of a zip or a tar.zst of the same files.

zstd natively compresses a tar of this set to 209mb in 800ms in multi-threaded mode, or 3.5s in single threaded mode.

I suspect that sqlite is being held incorrectly (access from multiple threads, with multi-threading disabled), and the vfs lock forwarding is broken on Windows.
Will Nvidia Stock Crash Like Tesla?
It's still a scam even if bitcoin is currently benefiting from the creation of institutional ETFs. FTX was one of the largest financial frauds in history and the founder was disgraced and convicted. There's clearly a large amount of appetite for regulatory action in government right now and afaik the funding in the space has completely dried up. What did we get for all that trouble? A really inefficiet payments system? "Digital Gold"? A fun way to fund terrorists and drug running? Crypto proponents are delusional if they think they can just shake off the reputational damage they brought onto themselves in the past several years.
I was trying to figure out how they coded the game in the game, and it seems all code is "running" from the grid's lines..

Let alone they coded it, how do you go about debugging and unit testing such code?
A 4116 DRAM chip with a 250 ns access time would have a 500 ns cycle time, so could read or write 2 million words per second. The Acorn people called this a 2 MHz memory. You could have shorter cycle times in "column mode" where you pulsed the /CAS signal only to access words in the same row and the Acorn designers made good use of that for the Electron (reading 8 bits from a 4 bit wide memory) and the ARM based Archimedes (fetching instructions other than jump, load or store as well as loading the video and audio FIFOs).

From one DRAM generation to the next the cycle time might be different for chips with the same access time. This allowed me to make the 512KB Macintosh faster than the 128KB one (http://www.merlintec.com/lsi/mac512.html).
The individual with the bad window placements was actually a Something Awful user (not a redditor) and he was actually well advised not to do what he was doing. Folks who'd like to know more can search for "Groverhaus" or the more evocative "load-bearing drywall".
Oh, the predecessor of Docker. I remember a bunch of cheap "VPS" hosters in ~2010 using this under the hood, noticeable because they'd regularly reboot for kernel upgrades.

Haven't seen it in ages though, not since the beginning of the rise of Docker and the "modern" cloud aka AWS EC2.
Also everything was owned by the government as a result of nationalization following WWII to get everyone working again. And while I believe that a certain level of socialism is necessary, having, for instance, every major British car company owned by the State resulted for the most part in some really boring, really shoddy vehicles, generally painted some grim shade of poo brown. (see also, Yugo, Lada, Trabant, etc)
It's a beautiful work of art but I would probably scream if I had to work on it! That's an incredible amount of fully custom hardware.

I don't think I'd want to live in a place powered by that much handmade, one-of-a-kind tech, but it's really amazing to see something that just doesn't take any shortcuts and does everything according to the designers vision.
I was using Linux VServer container technology from 2004 to 2017. Served me well.
But they are deliberately restricting who can make SMS clients. Google also needs to open APIs for RCS as far as I know, but you can make an SMS client that acts as default. I used Signal for both at some point, no RCS but I could make a choice about how I want to interact with people over SMS.
Weight and the fact that wings are a modern invention that requires an understanding of aerodynamics
RE: "Speaking even more broadly, it's very depressing to me how secondary the goal of building a good, useful or functional thing is subservient or at best orthogonal to the goal of making money."

This is what happens when things are "free". They have to make money somehow and "free" products typically have bad incentives (i.e. the company puts making money ahead of making the best product). One of the nice things about paying for news, TV (not cable, streaming), software, etc. is you are the customer and they company's continued survival depends on making you happy. In the short term, they can can do all sorts of crappy things to their customers (think Cable TV's high prices and meh content), but in the long term, bad behavior kills companies.
Yes. This or Virtuozzo ( later open sourced as OpenVZ)
Let's say you wrote this code:

a = 2 * b + c * d;
writeToDisk(a)
e = b + b - a;
sendToNetwork(e)

Naively, you would expect the compiler to emit CPU instructions that perform the computations left-to-right, top-to-bottom. In pseudocode assembly:

mul 2, b -> a
mul c, d -> reg1
add a, reg1 -> a
push a
call writeToDisk
mov b -> reg1
add b, reg1 -> reg1
sub a, reg -> e
push e
call sendToNetwork

The externally observable effects may be considered to be the function calls. If you're dealing with I/O devices then it would be some similar specific hardware event such as writing to a GPIO register.

It should be immediately obvious that the compiler can compute 2*b just once, cache it in a register, and use it to compute both 'a' and 'e', even though the formulas are different and interspersed with function calls. Similarly, it can noticed that e has a 2b-2b in its overall formula and hence eliminate some computations entirely.

As long as the inputs to the functions don't change and the order of their calls aren't modified, "all is fine" and the compiler is free to do this.

In fact, modern compilers can completely eliminate function calls, inlining them if they perform pure computations or have no side-effects! This is done to such a point that it makes benchmarking challenging: merely timing some computations will often take 0 time unless the result of the computation is written to the console or some similarly externally-visible destination.

Compilers are allowed to this even for abstractions like virtual functions or interfaces. The JVM does this regularly. If it notices there's only a single implementation of an interface, it'll inline it, possibly eliminating the call entirely if it turns out to be a no-op.
It is a scam. It is a Ponzi scheme (subcategory of scams).
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Yup - I do not use Kagi but Kagi's incentive is to make the best search engine. Google's incentive to make the best ad impressions engine.
I find this author's opinions written in bad faith and outright ignorance — if it's deliberate ignorance, that's even worse.

> there aren’t many incentives in this scenario for Microsoft to really improve the security

This is wrong, the incentives already exist through financial and legal means, and anyone who works in an enterprise with their sprawling estate can tell you that they are constantly working on security controls and tooling. The key thing to remember is the sprawling estate, more surfaces means more attack vectors, and patches. I hope a cybersecurity professional isn't equating more mitigations with a poor security posture. It's when things are silent that you ought to be terrified.

> The FBI and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency, for example, have done a tremendous job of gaining access to things like the Tor hidden services that underpin attacker infrastructure, collecting evidence from them, and then shutting them down.

> when Western authorities started “disrupting” ransomware crews

Conveniently ignores that a lot of them work directly with MS to take down botnets and ransomware threat actors. No mention whatsoever of MS' role in this.

I struggled to take any of this seriously, especially when it came to the pretentious I-am-very-smarter-than-you attitude.

> as I looked around the room I couldn’t help wonder if the way to really deal with this problem would be found in a different venue ... perhaps at a capture-the-flag hacking contest being held in a dimly lit casino ballroom in Las Vegas.
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copy/paste images was a demo feature in the original 128k Macintosh.
Compared to now, back then it was a lot more you had to figure out on your own.

I remember coding a game on C64 in the eighties. Just to figure out how to print the players score so that it is sufficiently fast was a challenge. Dividing by 10 with modulo to convert numbers to digits was just way too slow.

My method was not to use normal math, but to directly manipulate screen RAM characters when the score increased.

That was a very cheap way to increase the players score by say 1000 – you didn't even have to care about 3 lowest digits, just inc thousands place by 1, if it overflowed past 9, increase next position left, etc.
Astronomers explore stellar populations of an metal-poor dwarf galaxy
A search for "Kubernetes" shows a ton of corporate "blogs".
An approach to design high-power lithium sulfur batteries
Nvidia announces AI-powered health care agents to replace nurses
I spent 10 minutes playing around with this https://oimo.io/works/water3d/
Extrusion demo is milestone for Lightbridge Fuel fabrication
Interesting. Reminds me of https://github.com/hackerschoice/gsocket
Did you compile it for yourself? Any problem or steps you used, I will be happy to hear, o at pack.ac or GitHub, as it is hard to follow the building here. I should prepare more documents on how to build it.
I suspect that there is a problem with the custom build. Error and speed issues are not something you see in the official build.
Research reveals global wildfire risk trends in wildland–urban interface areas
From the article:

> Ant queens may minimise their risk of contracting infections via cannibalism by swallowing their acidic, antimicrobial venom, to create a gut environment that neutralises pathogens, as reported in workers [6]. Indeed, we anecdotally observed queens grooming the abdominal venom gland opening.
That and some moved to forums. I didn't get a complete 1 for 1 of all the subreddits I used to frequent, but most of the main ones I used have moved to one of those solutions.
That’s right, but it doesn’t specify what exactly is disturbance/measurement. We know from observation that interaction with a macroscopic system causes wave function collapse seemingly instantly. But we don’t know much about in-between behavior, like what happens when interacting with another microscopic system and does wave function of a microscopic quantum system collapse on it’s own given enough time.
The article doesn’t really explain anything of substance, regarding “how to actually use the notes” - but rather, lists a whole bunch of busywork, and dogma, one should follow, to achieve an amorphous goal, i’ve yet to decipher.

Index cards, in a real card catalogue; or in software, like Scrivener, seem to be a decent compromise - if one can’t construct, and use a graph database, for home use!
Love a tiling WM post! Reading the "twos days to get setup" reminds me of fighting a blank xmonad setup back in the day :-), and makes me all the more appreciative of Regolith Desktop, a super-minimal Ubuntu+i3wm (and sway) setup; everything just works, Zoom sharing, multi-window, etc. Recommended!
And why exactly is it that we aren't continually having this debate over skilled workers building and maintaining road infrastructure? Firefighters? Police officers? Postal workers?

I truly don't understand how we have many successful and thriving examples of publicly funded services, yet somehow healthcare - which we all equally need, and which is equally a backbone of a healthy society - is somehow unique in needing profit incentives to function.

The free-market theory only applies to products which you have a choice to engage with, and which are not essential to life and the basic productivity of all society.
Is this hyperbolic reaction helpful to anyone, no matter your position? I posit not.
You really don't want the US Government to win its antitrust suit
I think the above comment is using “torch” which in East Atlantic English means “flashlight” in Arkansas.
That was always by far the most likely explanation, it was the general opinion of top-level SMM players. Something like 10 frame-perfect inputs with a lot of precise movement, it's just not plausible.

He's not really clear about how exactly he did it, but it's pretty easy to just take a controller cable, wire it into a microcontroller, and program inputs. A lot of people were saying "there was no TAS in 2017", meaning I suppose there were no specific tools for emulator at the time, but that's just irrelevant when you can take a day or two to trial-and-error it.
This story only exists because the guy can constantly post for all to see everything that he's done or is trying to deal with and all his grand plans
Seawater is initially filtered and goes into ballast tanks that have very special yearly inspection and cleaning procedures. If you just go into a chamber that has been empty/full of seawater for a couple months you can drop dead because of CO2 buildup (or some rusting processes that eat up oxygen). Credit to sailor(s) who post about things like that on hejto.pl.

It's even more fun with clean water tanks (painting and cleaning, specific concentration of chlorine for a day plus taking samples and eventually more chlorine before flushing).

Might be slightly inaccurate as I'm writing from memory.
Neeeerds
I mean, I would lean towards just having a better healthcare system if it were me, but yeah. You do you.
But less useful than a librarian.
You pay for time and expertise. Not everyone is a developer in a business world. Also to transfer reaponsabilities to a third party.
> Telegram was still active early on Saturday, but throughout the day, it has started to be deactivated on some devices.

That seems to imply the carriers are disabling the app somehow. How? Is there more control the telco operators have over their subscribers' phones, or does `deactivacted` means something else?
While this might help in the short term, in the long term this is going to be detrimental to the US car industry by slowing their path to competitive EVs.

The Chinese are hungry and their EV industry is developing fast. Soon those cars are going to be sold in the US.
Cool display!

Small feature idea: "find my ip" which zooms to/selects the apparent ip of the current visitor.
So you saved yourself overhead in lines of code by pushing that overhead to people who don't want Nextcloud platform as slow piece of irreparable bloatware.
Yes, that's a good strategy. Ask for permission rather than forgiveness. A former colleague and I did just that for awhile, and we were able to avoid the politics and fit the work into sprints.
I've been seeing talk on a few servers I moved to about what their "next move" will be when Discord pulls more BS. So they're actively thinking and talking about how to keep the community going longer term. I hope they circle back to forums. They're so much better in virtually every way and can be setup to have livechat, reddit-style posts, you name it.
Tried it on SQLite's own Fossil repo, which is a kind of SQLite db too.

The resulting diagram shows no relationship arrows.

Turns out the Fossil's schema uses REFERENCES clause with a table name only; I guess, this points to table's primary key by default. Apparently, the diagram generator requires explicit column names.
Ignore that this blog post says as a CTO / VP, some great role agnostic advice https://lethain.com/first-ninety-days-cto-vpe
It's such a small script, most of the repository is documentation, so I expected (hoped) it would get copied to a lot of places. It's fine. :)