skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unfortunate its hard for people to get 'economy of scale'

> we have the investment<>expensive<>benefit hen<>egg issue.

Maybe it's easy for people to get economies of scale AND path dependence. Unfortunately society has been put in a trajectory that maximized the profits of minerals rights holders in the industrializing US.

And yes, we are in a sub optimal local minimum in terms of efficiency and need to go over a hump to get to better minimums and going over that hump may mean increasing carbon intensity of the economy for a while.

Do we have time to do that though? Should we carbon de-intensify the economy and aim for a trajectory that minimizes climate related shocks or should we go all out on an accelerationist hope that we can bootstrap a better system by running the current one red hot? These seem to be the two sides of the debate we're in.
Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator?
I've tried Jekyll in the past but the setup is a bit overwhelming and it gets complicated super fast. I am looking for something where I can keep my header and footer separate and then include them in every other page. That's it. No CMS and no blog. Is there something which handles this well and is easy to set up?

I use Cloudflare Pages to host my website
My first thought when I saw your post pointing out the congratulations comments was one of the ending scenes from Neon Genesis Evangelion where they say congratulations repeatedly.

https://youtu.be/oyFQVZ2h0V8?si=oOYSIjVmpJK6mwft

Regardless, this is very spammy marketing.
In case you are curious BlackRock launched last week a money market fund on Ethereum. You can see it onchain here: https://etherscan.io/token/0x7712c34205737192402172409a8f7cc...

And here the press release: https://securitize.io/learn/press/blackrock-launches-first-t...
No, I don't have a spare phone.
ActivityPub solves this problem without using crypto
Context:

Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1bouuv7/warning...

and the corresponding HN discussion was here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836495

--

Vultr has now published a blog post saying they will remove that part,

https://www.vultr.com/news/A-Note-About-Vultrs-Terms-of-Serv...
This is wrong. You need big memory during inference too.

The difference there is you can use tricks like quantisation and offloading to CPU to reduce it somewhat at the cost of accuracy and/or speed.
https://archive.ph/tQLJn
Agreed, this is true, for anything needs to independent from calenders. You find those problems typically on lower levels, in systems engineering (and I'm not surprised you mention microcontrollers, I know many of those from there as well). The higher you go, the more likely you encounter a problem depending on timezoned timestamps and calendar calculation where it's not sufficient to just convert, say, UNIX timestamps to human readable format for presentation. Instead, time zones are inherent to the problem, and calculating on UNIX timestamps opens a world of pain for you and your users (simple example with microcontrollers: opening the doors at 9 AM). There is a wide application range for epoch based timestamps, but the tricky thing is to know when a calender based timestamp would be more applicable.
I think that a person must try, for himself, adhere to the historical truth. Which many times differs from what is written in wikipedia, especially the English version of it when it speaks of the Russian people (to be fair, also the Russian version is often biased in this regard, with an opposite sign).

"It was not a liberator" - tell it to the people who greeted the Soviet Army with flowers when they entered Vilnius (I know personally of concrete evidence). Tell it to the Jews, who were being murdered by Lithuianian nationalists, Lithuanian communists aside. Tell it to Serbs and Bulgars.

And I do not try to deny any of the the other historical facts: Stalin's repressions to start with. (By the way, what do you think would happen if some of the events which led to Soviet invasion of Chechoslovakia would happen in some european country, with americans taking the role of USSR?)

And Soviet Union was perceived as the liberator from the nazis, and not US, contrary to modern Holywood "tradition". People knew then the facts. And I do not try to depict USSR as something different from what it was.

"As for Lithuanian Vytautas, we're taking in Ruthenians running from Moscow rule for a loooong time"

Who are exactly "we"? The documents of the early Magnus Ducatus Lithuaniae were written in Latin and a Russian language variety ("old Ukranian", of course, of course..). This variety of Russian was its de facto official language.
And then these mysterious "Ruthenians".. Guagnini speaks of Russians in general ("omnibus Ruthenis"), and "gens Moscovitica" are just part of them.

Regarding history in general: what I know personally is the very short period since the 90s. And I know for a fact that Russians were not, at least until 2007, the "aggressors" the west, especially the balts, try to depict them ("forgetting" the elephant in the room, NATO expansion to the east). On the contrary, in Lithuania the aggression came mostly from lithuanians (aggression does not mean necessarily actual physical violence, it can be directed against language, culture, and history), while Russia was actively refusing to defend the rights of the Russian minority (I know this from first hand source).

So, also judging by how this period is being depicted by the west, I make my judgement also about the depiction by the west of other periods of Soviet and Russian history.
i liked hugo, but its a little harder to set up.
The "MićI Princ" text and speech dataset of Chakavian micro-dialects
I've always found math is taught in the most daft, bland, vapid, worthless ways imaginable and I've thought it had to do with those who do the teaching: The teachers and textbooks.

But reading this comment chain, am I correct to understand that this problem stems from the very essence of math itself? The people who live and breathe math just fucking hate sharing their passion with others?

What the hell.
I agree with you, but I was just trying to be funny.
A permissively licensed project without a CLA would be similarly vulnerable, because the BSD license allows them to make releases that include your code under a stricter license. To prevent them relicensing you would need both a strong copyleft in the license and no CLA/copyright assignment (like e.g. Linux - which can't even move to GPLv3 even if they wanted to, because it would be simply impossible to get all contributors' permission).
Firearm-detecting body scanners are coming to NYC subway stations
That’s all the world’s knowledge compressed into 80GB. It’s not analysing 1MB data, it’s analysing all of that knowledge plus and additional 1MB.
For those scratching their heads, this is the personal page (blog? fan-mail publication? It's hard to put a pin on it) of Kelley L. Ross, PhD, a Chicago School libertarian who's miffed at the left.
Not only are those terms overreaching, they are copied from elsewhere. Search with Google for "a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide license (including the right to sublicense through multiple tiers)" and you get quite a few hits. Mostly from small businesses.

Primrose Schools, Rita's Ice, Small's Sliders, Transom Capital, and quite a few other small companies use exactly those words. The first three are franchisors, and the last one is a private equity company. None are in the social media business, for which that clause is clearly intended.

Do all those companies use the same low-budget legal drafting service?
The reason these licenses "can't" be fixed is because the OSI approves open source licenses and Amazon is their second biggest corporate sponsor.

If they approved SSPL they'd probably have to lay off a staff member or two.
> The JSON operations are not atomic

I hear this today the first time. What exactly os not atomic, and is there a resource with more details?
In neoclassical economics, there are no local maxima, because it would make the math intractable and expose how much of a load of bullshit most of it is.
In an alternative universe, Apple could have made the Mac Studio the new "Mac Pro", with a slot on the underside for vertical stacking accessories.
Using Graph Algorithms to Enhance Machine Learning for Cyber Threat Detection
Just look at Google
I meant that people who write Rust may be more curious about tech, so they could be better devs
It does not formally have variadics, but since it has tuples you can have pretend variadic generics.
Swept coded aperture real-time femtophotography
Isn’t that the deal we sign up for when we take VC money?

I like free money as much as the next guy, but VC isn’t it.
Author here,

Nim supports variadic generic, it's an arbitrary limitation so that shape and stride small vectors that describe a tebsor can be stack-allocated and fit in a cacheline.

Also at the time, Nim default heap allocator was not compatible with OpenMP.

Edit: it can be configured via a compile-time flag to 8 or 10 or anything: https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer/blob/master/src%2Farr...
This is, politely said, wishful thinking. The incentive is for good enough, not for the best possible product.
If AGPL blocks adoption then "large orgs" can buy commercial license (assuming software is dual-licensed).
The police are only as competent as the laws are. If the criminals know that they will be released the same day with no consequences then there is no point in catching them.
Ugh, this might be an overkill suggestion but Next.js is really easy to work with, and your goal can be accomplished super easily.

Cloudflare page for deploying Next.js static site:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/nex...

On the sidebar they provide a ton of other guides for different generators, too.
I apologize for lack of a link or hard data, but I read somewhere that statistically speaking it's more dangerous to be married to a police officer than to be police officer. Lines up with numerous articles on domestic violence committed by members of law enforcement.
I mean, it does read badly, and maybe the worst should be assumed, but at the same time:

> You hereby grant to Vultr a non-exclusive, worldwide and royalty-free license to copy, make derivative works, display, perform, use, broadcast and transmit on and via the Internet Your Content, solely for the benefit of You and to enable Vultr to perform its obligations under these Terms.

Given Vultr has a distributed CDN service, could not the "copy", "display", "broadcast" and "transmit" parts be charitably interpreted as part of that agreement? i.e. them serving your content via the CDN?

Edit: it looks like they've updated it already from what the blog post quotes it as?
it's the same company manipulating LPP's stock?
So we should expect our next diamonds to come from areas like r/hfy, royalroad, archive of our own. Lot of young writers there but there's always some gems.

And the daily / weekly release cycles most use is really reminiscent of old-school serialized publications.
Pandoc can be your friend. My site maker [1] is built around it.

I think a hundred or so well-chosen lines of your favourite scripting language can do wonders. Mine is ~300 lines of Bash because I over-engineered a thing or two for kicks. The core of it is maybe 50 lines.

[1] https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite

The README documents the architecture and rationale. Maybe it will help you figure out yours. Happy hacking!
"Yet with the world at his fingertips, Musk seems joyless, marinating in misery, surrounded by an air of existential bleakness."

One can get behind this, though.
>By that point, remote disabling of vehicles might be mandatory.

Or maybe police will be able to override FSD on a stolen Tesla and drive it to the nearest police station.
I'm amazed how they managed to bring in barcoded stamps without a peep from anyone about privacy. Sending a letter anonymously is now impossible.
I didn’t quite understand what the “real” anonymous functions are compared to lambda. Is it just that the lambdas aren’t multilines?

Having grown up with Python lambdas, maybe I’m blind to their limitations, but I didn’t feel like there was any real argument as to why not make a real function when you need more than a lambda.
> He's a full grown adult, who was trusted with billions of dollars, and worked with other full grown adults, who aided in his crimes.

Yes, but I think this reflects more on the people that trusted him/them.

The whole crypto world is one gigantic ponzi scheme. Stealing the money is only worse because it can be proven.
Oh, I've heard that snaps are terrible. I'm using flatpak on Fedora and Cuda is starting much faster than VSCode.
So when it comes to adding value for advertising fb is able to separate every object and data piece into sickening degrees of detail…
but when it’s about privacy and authentication it’s “not the way things are done around here”…
As you’ve mentioned as well it’s a choice by fb.
Just as we have a choice to call fb out on making immoral choices. Better yet, the developer(s) that coded this part, and the developers that make a daily choice to maintain it in its current form.

And yes, it’s a choice. Just because people don’t take responsibility to make a deliberate choice, doesn’t mean it’s not a choice.
I think anyone who administers mongodb would agree it has a list of very dangerous behaviors for novices.

Try to upgrade a running instance node between some versions, and one may thrash object keys or worse. Best to dump and re-load your data every major upgrade to recover all set properties... and there still may be slight differences in the query language later. Wait, your data sets are 1.5TiB per node.... that is a lot of downtime...

The cursor, projection, and re-format queries can be very good at reducing reporting traffic. However, the 3 page long syntax can be unreadable to the uninitiated. The json essentially jams a bunch of equivalent SQL queries in 1 transaction, but you still have to be careful as there is no real guarantee of ordering without auto-indices in clusters.

mongodb is not as clean as SQL, but works for storing constantly changing meta data. i.e. if you find your SQL schema ends up with tuples that have a lot of poorly designed null entries, table edits, and or simply implements an object storage class abstraction in massive meta-data and object-class catch-all tables.

And yes, the mongodb new licensing model telegraphs an unfavorable policy posture. However, I do understand not wanting fortune 500 companies exploiting your teams time for free.

Profit is not an indication of quality, but rather fiscal utility. ;-)
You can build a custom iso with a "talos.config" kernel parameter set which instructs Talos to download and apply a configuration on boot.
> The police are only as competent as the laws are.

The police are (often deliberately and strategically) far less competent at achieving the goals of the laws than the laws, assuming good-faith enforcement, themselves permit them to be.
Is anyone actually using this on production servers? A web user/password login with sudo powers sounds... risky.

Yet managing the server through a web interface sounds nice.

Any feedback here?
There's a difference between risking ten years and knowing for sure that you'll spend the ten years.
Honorable mention to the explosive rat, as well as Project Pigeon:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_rat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
> for the best possible product

When did I say this?
> 3) you can recompile it, but we're not into the binary translation business anymore

How comes?
The irony of it all is that MongoDB actually matured and you do not have to jump through hoops to have, say, transactions.

I am ALL for Postgres, I even wrote a post about the importance of being fluent in relational databases: https://renegadeotter.com/2023/11/12/your-database-skills-ar...

What grinds my gears is the whiplash caused by this frantic stampede from one hype to the next.

I am just waiting for the AI hype to blow over and for everyone to rediscover Hadoop, or something.
Having grown up with JavaScript Python and R, I’m kinda looking towards learning a compiled language.

I’ve given a bit of thought to Rust since it’s polars native and I want to move away from pandas.

Is nim a good place to go?
Come on dude, at least try to read the comment and understand the argument before replying.
> the trick is finding someone that is amoral while also retaining a powerful enough understanding of the law and governing society that they can get away with enacting their deviousness without fear of prosecution.

Uber and WeWork come to mind.
The page suggests podman in a small info box (one that people might skip, because it feels like the Wikipedian "this article has issues" box), but it also tells you how to install real Docker. Docker has name brand recognition, and even if it wasn't in Debian's official repos, it would be installed from Docker's own repos. This wiki isn't popular enough for this to matter anyway, people are likely googling for "docker debian" and are finding instructions for real Docker. I don't feel like Docker is dying.

And besides, that issue with root feels overblown in the era of single-user systems and servers as cattle.
is it still difficult to create a cluster of pg dbs. either for redundancy or speed ?

Last time i advocated for using pg vs mongodb, the person replied that mongodb clustering was super easy.
All this outcry about license switch coming from "community" feels funny. After all, if there is the "community" then they can take the last open-source version and keep developing it themselves, right? But most "communities" are about "take, take, take", not "work, work, work". They often upset only because someone declared they aren't going to work for free any more.
Probably not, because it's new and incompatible with many Redis use cases (lua scripts, etc).
Redis, Redis, again more about Redis ....

From you people who know a lot about Redis, help me out here: For my Web site code (for my startup), I needed a key-value store. Soooo, it looks like I could use Redis for that.

But instead, wrote a little code using two instances of a Microsoft .NET collection class. Simple code. Plenty fast. Welcome programming exercise using .NET classes. Cheap -- no ongoing charges and no chance of charges in the future. And, no concerns about what might happen from politics, business, some remote service, etc.

Question: What am I missing by using my little DIY (do it yourself, roll your own) solution and avoiding Redis, work of other people, or a service from Amazon Web Services, etc.????
I wonder if there is a qualitative analysis of the commits. Aka, it changed a line of comment vs it introduced a new feature or refactored and increased long term viability, etc.
Madoff's system was only a Ponzi; there were no investments; all new clients' money was used to finance returns and withdrawals of previous clients.

SBF's system was to use clients' money to do illiquid investments. Was it fraud? YES, because he lied to his clients and said he didn't invest their money. And that's why he was tried and punished. But was it the same kind of fraud as Madoff? NO.

In law, intent is everything. If you kill someone by accident, or in self-defense, or after planning their murder for years, the law will treat that very differently; yet in all cases the result is the same (the person is dead).

Same with fraud. It's not the same if it's a pure fraud where there is no possibility that the victims will ever see their money back, or if it's a fraud where it's possible they will be made whole, even if that possibility only exists in the mind of the perpetrator, because the mind of the perpetrator is what the legal system is interested in.
Right. It’s a public benefit org based in CA. I very much appreciate what they do, but I don’t think they own or should own the term. In either case, it’s a moot point because it’s just a term definition. The important thing is to find a good model that promotes the same or very similar benefits we get from traditional OSS but in an evolving world.
Astro, it works very well on Cloudflare Pages.
> It is possible Apple could design this differently in the future this is the way it is now and depending on their definition of pairing restrictions this could invalidate the security of a lot of phones in the field.

Here's how they could do it: Require a device wipe for a security component replacement (touchid/faceid). On initial setup it does it's check/pairing of the newly installed component and works moving forward after which you restore your data from backup. If the component doesn't have Apple's signing key then that security feature has to be disabled. (home buttons without touchid are sold for old devices). They know how to do this, there's no technical reason why they can't. Sell the parts needed.

Batteries? I think we need specific regulation here, there's plenty of companies that know how to build decent cellphone packs. Apple cannot arbitrarily decide to throttle performance if the pack delivers to spec and doesn't get outside thermal envelope.

Pretty much every other component shouldn't have any restriction, if they want to send a serial validation you can generate a report on device for that's fine. Resellers would actually like this. But it shouldn't disable a loudspeaker if you bought a loudspeaker from a supplier other than Apple.
The prices have been increasing above inflation for years, but especially in the last few years - e.g. in 2001 a first class stamp cost 0.27 GBP (0.49 in 2024), and even in 2019 in was 0.70 GBP (0.86 in 2024).
I would not recommend 3 body problem. It may be because the French translation is bad but it felt really subpar.

I get the feeling 3 body problem is considered one of the best sci-fi books only by people who don't read sci-fi.

Not really recent but I'd recommend Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds (but I'm partial to Reynolds after the Revelation Space series and House of Suns) or if you like military sci-fi Marko Kloos' Frontline series.
Maybe he knows about the survival chances on Mars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39796527
This article lists the other contenders for the title of new Redis, and I think Redict is going to be the least successful thanks to its founder, niche hosting site, and the hostile AGPL licence.
Sympathetic Public == Lax Pro Criminal Laws == Catch and Release == No consequence for Criminals == Repeat Offenders == More Victims

If you commit crime you do the time. After getting released if you commit crime you should do exponentially more time.
> Do all those companies use the same low-budget legal drafting service?

Yes. Boilerplate rules the legal world as far as I can see. As well as always sneaking in things in the hopes that people will fail to notice and not notice.
There's more reasonable and basic ideas in this field than the pseudoscientific ideas being put forward in that video.

Yes, I am calling it pseudo science on the basis that the author thinks that the biblical figure Noah lived to be more than 600 years old, near the time that god created the earth.

A better starting point would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth
Nginx fork with builtin auto HTTPS certificate obtaining from Let's Encrypt
Simon Riggs has died
That's a dumb take. That completely ignores opportunity cost of such actions. You can't just spin up a fork like that; there's barriers to entry, network effects, etc which prevent that from being a simple solution.
And if they do pay for support - it will be to Jeff Bezos and not some raggy startup of five.

Support is usually for big corporate clients, and the Cover Your Ass principle works in full force there.

"No one ever got fired for choosing IBM".
Advantages: Anonymous, No threshold for use, Multiple cryptocurrency support & Low cost, Multi-language support.