skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NY Times article in question is [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/us/politics/rfk-biden-tru...
I want to plug one of her lesser known books, Always Coming Home. It's set among a tribe of people living in the Bay Area way, way after some apocalypse has erased the memory of our civilization. Much of the book is reports from an anthropologist studying the people.

I think a lot of her books are about how many different ways of life and types of society and culture are possible, and this book is one of her best at bringing you in to another culture.
mistakes will always be made at all stages, imo the key differentiator is how quickly they course correct and iterate
Dude this post doesn't make any sense, like it's not even attempting to respond to any of it. If you're on tilt, bless, this is overwhelming for me too. But it's bizarre to tell me I'm "trusting Hamas" when I virtue signalled 4 times I don't believe them.
> I’ve said to my wife before that I don’t want our kids growing up feeling like they’re always being watched. Nefariously or not, even just the feeling of assuming that someone is watching has to have a profound impact on the way you develop.

I grew up like this, and it probably made me more paranoid and prone to rebel against authority. My dad set up security cameras outside and inside the house. I kind of understood the outside cameras, though he only did it after he found out I brought my girlfriend over when they weren't home. The last straw was when he set up a camera behind my desk pointing at my monitor.

I was 16 and already mad I couldn't bring my girlfriend over, but the camera pointing at my desk put me over the edge. So I ssh'd in using the default admin password, rooted it, and rm -rf /*.
My poetry site's 404 - you get presented with a randomly selected poem as an apology. You can refresh the page to read different random poems. If you refresh too many times your eyes will bleed. You're welcome!

https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/404
PAM4 allows the frequencies involved to stay close to the same, at the expense of higher required precision in other parts of the transmit/receive chains, so they didn’t “just double the frequency”
How often do you find yourself somewhere with your phone but not your wallet?
CDPR Says Cyberpunk 2077 Has Made $750M So Far
I used to run it and generally liked it, but eventually felt limited in the things I could do. At the time it was a hassle to run non-tipi apps behind the traefik instance and eventually I wanted SSO.

I ended up in a similar place with proxmox, docker-compose, and portainer but I have it on my backlog to try a competitor, Cosmos, which says many of the things I want to hear. User auth, bring your own apps and docker configs, etc.

https://github.com/azukaar/Cosmos-Server/
> Speed is not always the only thing.

or perhaps more accurately, bandwidth is not the only goal.
lol I agree re:storytelling - thought it was a nice touch. gave the article a bit of flair that was more interesting to read than many eng blog posts that can be otherwise pretty dry
I fully support the recommendation of Le Guin's short stories! Too bad they are easily forgotten over her novels. (I guess a novel, as a product, is easier to review and to advertise?)

My favourite collection is "The Birthday of the World", especially the stories "Solitude" and "Paradises Lost". (Maybe skip "Old Music and the Slave Women". It builds on other books and is incomprehensible without them; or at least it was to me.)
Which remote FS? We regularly work with NFS without any problems.
"I have a claim on some gold bar in a vault"

Which for all practical purposes really means, "I have a claim --- which may or may not be redeemable at some future time at some price set by others in an undisclosed and indeterminate manner".

Judging from crypto, I would expect redemptions to be suspended at the first sign of trouble.
Here's mine: https://cmarshall.net/Error_404.html

The idea is not original. I stole the JS from another site (way back in the last century, I think).
> Fun fact: this is why crypto never took off as a replacement for credit cards. Too many entrepreneurs focused on “lower fees” as if it were some technical property.

I always thought the big problem with crypto was that the fees were atrocious for any small transaction.

And the fees only get higher as the network gets busier. You can choose to have a send some money with a small fee, but the miners will never confirm your transaction, as each block is limited.
> e: To the downvoters, do you seriously believe that Tesla, Apple, MSFT, Amazon, etc require MORE government assistance?

This is just throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Just because big tech companies happen to build on FOSS projects doesn't mean that the FOSS maintenance shouldn't be borne by everyone, given they benefit everyone (including the governments themselves). And in fact, if the Big Tech companies paid their tax, they'd contribute as much (if not more!) as everyone.
It would be nicer to see the ability to extend GPUs with off-the-shelf RAM, think SO-DIMM clipped to the back of the GPU. Then being able to choose to buy 2 x 64 GB DIMMs or just a 8GB one, maybe also have some GBs of good RAM soldered onto the GPU like it is now. One can dream.
Photographer sues Napster over 1979 album artwork usage
Here's my 404 page of existential rambling: https://erellsworth.com/404
> The real killer was no doubt depreciation. That breaks the whole rental car model.

Yep. It's not just about rental income - it's about acquiring fleet at bulk/discounted prices and then reselling quickly before they lose too much money. Tesla's drastic price cuts have been annoying to consumers who just bought cars whose resale value plummeted overnight, but a complete deal breaker for a company like Hertz, only exacerbated by unexpectedly high repair costs.

I'd imagine charging must have been a demand factor too - people might like to experiment with an EV rental if they don't own one, but on business or vacation the last thing you want to be worried about is finding a charger or range-anxiety. If you have an EV at home, then part of the convenience, and a mitigation for slow charging, is overnight charging. Many hotels (often used by rental customers) are starting to have chargers too, but it's not something you can depend on.
One of the great tragedies of our time is that collectively humans have stopped imagining alternate socio-economic-political systems. In the few hundred years before 1990, there was a lot of imagination of what could be, and many of those systems were attempted. But since then, it seems everywhere we are stuck.

Reading Ursula Le Guin's work is essential because she boldly tries to re-imagine. Not to say any of her fictional worlds should be made reality, but that we need to do serious intellectual work going forward. Surely, humans have explored a few tiny dots in the space of all possible socio-economic-political systems.
Is it fully off road and complete? Seems not like it from the map.
Putting ground planes on top and bottom layers isn't usually done with high speed PCBs because components are there. There would need to be a cutout on the ground plane near every chip. High speed signals really need continuous ground plane and ICs, especially RF ICs, need short access to ground. Second layer is the best layer to minimize the distance from ICs to ground plane.
I wonder there are more people know about DHH as a programmer or as a racing driver.
The problem is these companies ask you to return the car at at least 70%. Or levy a 20-30 dollar charging fee. So that only leaves say 10% of margin between the optimal charging level (80%) and the minimum level at return. I won't want to take the risk of being charged a charging fee and so will instead try to over-charge.

I am ok if they charge reasonable rates (like say $2 per 10% of battery) for the recharge. But that's not what they do.
1. The article is hearsay at best.

2. The article states that 10% is the absurd acceptable casualty rate. So I don't see how you got to 21 v 1. These are stark differences.

But anyway, let's assume Israel wants to kill ALL EXCEPT ONE enemy civilian.

That is still objectively better than wanting to kill ALL enemy civilians.

You made the comparison. I'm just pointing out how absurd it is.
Is this genuine wonderment? The state of housing in western countries has been discussed at great length and it's disingenuous to compare that across generations, whereas the state of working and how companies treat you has stayed the same, or gotten worse (as we've seen lately).
The problem is closer to that of an attacker that can write unsafe{} blocks than it is to attackers finding a bug in Vec.
> More children in Palestine have been murdered in 6 months than in every other conflict in the world combined over the last four years.

If you really believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_confli...
hey, this is my blog post. I wouldn't expect public money to be routed to Matrix (or Mastodon or similar projects) without the funder having input into the governance of the project, just as any other funder would. https://matrix.org/membership/ is how it works for Matrix.
RTÉ (Ireland’s national broadcaster) has a 404 page with a nostalgic touch for anyone who grew up here in the 1980s: https://www.rte.ie/404
Ok, and PFOS and PFOA?
Reaching out isn't necessarily zero cost. There are several software vendors I have blacklisted in my mind because they incessantly send me emails.
I'd imagine some of it already is.

The issue I see is figuring out what deserves funding. Is GNU/Linux the thing that we're trying to serve? Who gets to decide what's critical to the operating system? Initially you'll see project jockeying for position, which is going to be a mess. Then you'll see consolidation around projects that can get the funding. Do people contribute to those projects more in hopes of getting paid, at the expense of others?

Honestly just having a decent list of contributors to pick from and knowing who they are personally before handing over maintainership might help.

And of course, there's always the magic word when someone wants you to provide extraordinary support for software that you made for free: "No."
I'm fairly confident that most of the hardware you see available today (for consumers) wasn't specifically designed with LLMs in mind.
That’s offensive to the innovation happening in crypto to be honest, compared to the lack of it in the non-relational database world
Seeing a good demo, and a credible influencer actually trying the product
How many high school kids buy alcohol and cigarettes from homeless encampments? And when they do, how much of that is dodgy hand-crafted mixtures of unknown provenance, versus sealed packages directly from the regulated supply chain?
The whole article is about exploits that leverage the compiler itself, with details.
Recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39729509
Or perhaps more accurately, throughput is not the only goal.
It's not just crypto it's any alternative payment system. Multiple payment vendors have tried to up-end the credit card companies by focusing on lower fees for merchants, but customers have no incentive to use that new system if they have a benefit to using their credit card, at least in the US.

It's why, though, there are a bunch of payments companies that have popped up in places throughout Asia that aren't competing with rewards systems off the back of interchange.
I surveil my property, but only outside. I do it, not because I'm particularly concerned with knowing the comings and goings around me, but because I want evidence in case anything ever happens I separately become aware of, like a break-in. I also want to know when a package is dropped off. That's about it. I go out of my way to minimize the privacy impact on neighbors, like having one of the cameras inside my garage but nothing for the driveway. I'm mostly concerned about covering ingress/egress points of my home from the outside, not necessarily what's happening anywhere beyond that.

Anyone who has ever experienced even petty property crime knows that the police are nearly useless and if you don't hand them all the information needed to recover your losses on a silver platter, they won't bother. The reason I invest in surveillance at all is to ensure I have something to cover my bases when I need to file an insurance claim and involve the police, but only when an /actual/ crime against my property or person has happened. I am not at all concerned about random people walking down the sidewalk and I can't imagine why I ever would be.
The quite literal title of that paper is "Income inequality in the UK". I said "wealth inequality". They are different things.
Ok a new server in US region is up.

Unfortunately the disk filled up on the Europe server and Canadian server. I had to nuke all the Ephemeral sessions. Capability should be back now. OS told me disk was 100.0% used when I logged in.

It was all tempfs mounted for each user. I never realized its importance. Will need bigger disks.

I'll add some timed updates to keep things organized below this point:

17:57:00 Z

Will add 2 new 32 core servers in Europe, and Asia, as both those regions are seeing lots of demand. Asia is at 100% right now.

18:03:00 Z

Just started creation of the Japan server. Once I get the install script started, I'll move to create the Europe one.

18:18:00 Z

Okay, Japan server should be online. Sorry about everybody in SEA that I just nuked your sessions, that must have sucked. The server was hard to manage at 100% utilization. Moving to create a new Europe server now.

18:26:00 Z

Okay Europe server is provisioned and setup is starting now. It should be live in about 10 minutes.

18:32:00 Z

London server is live. Stats update: since posting to HN 2 hours ago we had about 2000 sessions across (initially) 4 16core 32GB 128disk servers. So far have had to add 3 more 32/64/1TB servers, with disk being the unexpected cost to this type of load. BTW if anyone is reading this how was your experience? Was it slow/fast? Responsive? What region were you in?

18:42:00 Z

I'm monitoring the 7 servers now.

18:48:00 Z

Right now server selection is based on RTT/ping from client. I'm thinking it might be good to have ping endpoint include the current load. But I don't want to bork it.

19:31:00 Z

Okay, load average has been added to the ping check for fastest server. We now pick between the fastest two pings based on which has the lowest load. Should work well.
for the record, the orig title was:

How to hack the Jacksonville Jaguars’ jumbotron (and end up in jail for 220 years)
It's a 404 with a body.

By convention, if you don't return enough content, the browser will render it's own not found, but if you do it'll render it.
Usually places with no regulation look a lot like Houston TX.

Do you know the situation depicted from the movie "Up" where there's a house surrounded by parking lots of malls and stuff? That's what low regulation building gets you. I'm not talking about NIMBYs, I'm talking about lax zoning laws.
Obviously not the designer, but my guess is to lower capacitive loading on the matched high frequency signals (those with squiggles on top and flood underneath) and make modeling and IC mounting easier without flood. Note there's not flood near those either. I'm not quite sure on the ordering in the picture but it looks like 123/654? (edit ahh looks like the text was wrong and it is 123/456 with 2&4 Gnd). I'll note it looks like the internal "low speed" digital signals are squeezed between the gnd/pwr (edit: between gnd/gnd) planes, which is probably good since they're usually the biggest source of "noise" if you keep it away from other PCBs. You'd definitely want power/gnd planes immediately next to each other since bypass caps don't work at anything close to this frequency.
The earlier comment was "vast work", so the size of effort is somehow relevant to the discussion.
I think this is good advice for technical people, but I also think we need to drastically lower the barrier of entry for people who would benefit from owning their compute and data but don't have the skills or interest necessary.
This reminds me of that April Fools tweet on Google sunsetting Firebase that I fell for lol

https://x.com/tweetsofsumit/status/1774849820353548413?s=46
Just received this in my email.

"Based on the way your application uses our infrastructure, your monthly bill for team My Team is projected to go from $ 20 to $ 69 on July 22nd."

I'm surprised by this change in pricing. This will likely force me to move to fly.io. Curious if others had a similar price hike. I utilize a single "seat" for a single repository on my Team plan. This plan has around 1.1million middleware edge invocations each month. This previously was the only limit I was exceeding for many months.
Google search has been getting worse over time, and has strongly biased towards showing its own content, or content extracted from source sites, rather than linking to those. I think key issues of this move will be:

- if people are paying for it, it had better be good, trustworthy, etc

- if they're getting meaningful revenue by generating responses based on info pulled from various source sites, and clicks into sites mostly vanish as users instead just make more detailed requests to the model ... surely we need to renegotiate whether google can continue to scrape for free
The single most important thing impacting developers is hype.

We may not fall for basic marketing tricks, but oh boy do we run behind hype trains.
Latency and cache coherency are the other things that make this hard. Cache coherency can theoretically be resolved by CXL, so maybe we’ll get there that way.
IF you itemize. 90% don't. Also, you can only deduct sales tax OR state and local income taxes but not both.
Why are you interpreting bad as some kind of moral position? You seem to be purposely misinterpreting these comments to start an argument about economic systems.

It's not bad that it happens, it's bad for Tesla if they are marketing their product as high-end/luxury while their product very obviously lacks the attributes, such as a stable/predictable value over time, that competitors' luxury products have. Someone deciding not to buy a product, for whatever reason, is the system working as intended. If Tesla can't produce a product people want to buy, Tesla will suffer the consequences, as they should. If they don't change their marketing or improve their product in the light of low sales, that's on them.
You don't have to restrict them at all.

You just ignore them.
The short, stupid answer is: transistor count and size.

Explaining it in detail requires more background in electronics, but that's ultimately what it boils down to.

High-end analog front ends can reach the three-digit GHz (non-silicon processes admittedly, but still).
I would say the first few chapters (or rather the first few chronological chapters dealing with his childhood) were a uphill climb. But after that its quite fascinating, and I felt the story was pulling me along forward.
I loved the Left Hand of Darkness, and hated TWfWiF for the same reasons you cite.

Frankly, hero worshipping an author isnt great. Everyone has highs and lows in their creative output. And the cultural milieu that the author is working in plays a part too (how many books about trees being cool, man, got published between 1967 and 1972?)

Dont let TWfWiF put you off LeGuin. She had a lot to say that is worthwhile to read.
No it isn't - I'm well aware UK income inequality is high, whereas wealth inequality is quite low. That's why I said "wealth inequality", and that Thatcher improved it. Right-to-Buy basically made home ownership vastly more accessible to the working class in a way that hadn't happened before. It's bad that it coincided with an economic reworked that we're still recovering from, but I can't discuss everything in every comment.
There was also a Gentoo effort to run atop FreeBSD[0]. The challenge of course is that afaik none of the BSD kernel ABIs are considered stable. The stable interface is the BSD libc. That said, with binfmt_misc, I don't see a reason you couldn't just run (at least some) FreeBSD binaries on Linux with a thin syscall translation layer (rather something like qemu-system) and then your layer hooked via binfmt_misc. I'm not aware of anyone who has done this for FreeBSD, but prior efforts existed as alternate binfmts for SysVr4/5 ELF binaries[2]. Either way would take some elbow grease, but you *might* even be able just reuse binfmt_elf and just have a new interpreter for FreeBSD elf.

[0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_FreeBSD

[1] https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.html

[2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/binfmt_elf....
Yeah, "it costs nothing to reach out" when there's a low percentage of recipients who will be interested is exactly how we we got to the current equilibrium of "developers just ignore marketing emails". Individually, it might seem like there's no cost, but collectively they've all made their job a lot harder by making it not worth developers' time to try to sift through the noise and try to find signal.
Claiming that merchant fees result in higher prices is different from claiming that reducing merchant fees would directly, immediately, or measurably lower prices. Isn't a plausible explanation that companies are hesitant to lower prices for any reason?

Let's consider the opposite scenario, if Visa raises their fees do merchants keep prices where they are? I suspect not.
This is an example of where you can't simply ask the users what works (or what they want). People don't know. People lie. People will tell you what they would like to work.

The truth lies in results, not simply asking "how can I make you buy my product or service?" You will need to try many things. You will need to measure their effectiveness with a fairly standard funnel (eg [1]).

If you ask people, they will tell you that advertising doesn't work on them and they simply skip all ads. This just isn't true. Not that I'm defending attention theft but even if you have a good product that solves a problem potential users actually care about, you need to make those potential users aware of it somehow and you will need a metrics-based approach to finding it.

Technical people in particularly tend to take a dim view of sales and marketing. The reality is that these fields tend to be very results-focused (eg you sold something or you didn't vs "we shipped something nobody used but we learned a lot") and way more methodical than most product planning.

[1]: https://planful.com/blog/how-to-calculate-your-marketing-fun...
IMO we should start an Office of Digital Infrastructure if we want things like software BOM and software oversight. If the government wants secure code they should write the code in a controlled environment. They can run it similarly to an open source project (take pull requests from the general public) but it should be clear that the responsibility lays 100% at their feet.

I don’t think most open source projects really inspect their dependencies that well. Lots of these projects are community/hobby things, they should be treated as such.
> I anticipate people becoming experts in detecting AI-generated vocalists in much the same way that we can currently detect AI-generated images due to abnormalities especially in details like ears or fingers.

People fail to identify even the most basic and obvious fakes, but somehow there’s a group of people who think that as fakes become harder to distinguish from reality, we’ll all magically become experts at it. We won’t. People’s ability to detect fakes will get worse, not better, as a consequence of more prevalent and better fakes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U1HMqtam90