skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think idle CPUs still exist, people are just afraid to share them now. For example, for lowest latency you want your application servers close to your end users. Your end users probably all go to bed at about the same time and wake up at the same time. So your server is just sitting there taking up space, maybe saving a little power, overnight. But, nobody is will to take the risk to let someone else use their computer for a batch job of some sort, so the best you get is slightly less heat output and slightly less power consumption instead. For those that don't really care, the cloud providers have shared core instances, so some batch job is probably using your cycles late at night.

I think the thing that killed SETI@home was crypto mining. Why help others when you can collect stuff for yourself? Plus, everyone woke up to the electricity arbitrage going on; when every employee started using their work computer to mine crypto, and the electricity bills got high, someone started looking for answers. The edict came down from on high: don't steal our electricity for yourself or for human good. Rest in peace, SETI@home and folding@home. (I was always personally a fan of Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search when those things were cool. I guess I didn't know much about protein folding or searching for extraterrestrial life, but I did understand factoring numbers.)
Multiple buildings have collapsed. There will be many fatalities:

https://twitter.com/Huberton/status/1775320722115539349

https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1775325642386481216
Strong day for the google graveyard
I don’t go there everyday, just when I’m on the road and can’t get any other food. Especially on the highway.
I like the toaster comparison!

You can definitely toast bread using a pan but you'll find it difficult to get the same consistency and it's also more hassle and cleaning.

That being said, is there really much difference between a 100$ vs 400$+ rice cooker? I've been trying to find a reason to upgrade my cheap(ish) Panasonic to something like a Zojirushi but every time I look into it I just can't justify the expense.
The case for native assertions in PostgreSQL
My grandma used to tell me stories about how to destroy capitalism.. I miss her.. can your grandma help guide my revolutionary efforts? That would really help me honor my granny's memory <3
Only non-paranoid people have a photo of themselves online.
A bit biased, as opposed to a smidgen? :P
Great, now you've got me checking our HDMI cables :)
Is there an easy way to check what an HDMI cable supports?

I guess the same question stands for USB cables. I remember looking into that a while ago but did not find anything conclusive.
Just wanted to appreciate you and this wonderful comment.
https://archive.md/nG3ct
STT not TTS
KSP doesn't actually do > 2 body simulations allowing the paths to follow closed form solutions. This is why you have an abrupt orbit change between bodies instead of just a freeform path. There is a mod "Principia" which adds this functionality in but bewarned it makes the game very different to play!
Heard from a greybeard that they had a demo night in university (this was probably early 80s), and one of the demos was was some sort of path-finding rover robot. Of course, it ended up being one of those projects that had show stopping bugs up until a few hours before showtime.

During demo night, it was a big hit, until a stray camera flash got (un)lucky and wiped the microcontroller's EEPROM...

Feels a little apocryphal (I'd assume most flashes have / had UV filters?)
Jia Tan might be more than one person.
Do you use the app? I can get a Double Cheeseburger and 6 nuggets for $4.12. I don’t drink soda, but I have $1 a drink deal as well.
Open in Temp Container – use private tabs next to regular tabs
This Firefox extension allows you to open independent private tabs in the same window as your regular tabs. The containers are disposable and the extension deletes them a while after you close their last tabs.

It is convenient for testing sites as an anonymous user or with different sets of logins. If you give it permission to access your browsing history, it will also prevent new URLs visited in private containers from being stored.
what's the relevancy? this isn't a dating app
What are you even calculating?

You took 500,000 workers from across the entire state and then picked a single company's expenses. The old wages for those 500,000 people at $16/h and your 1560h/y estimate would already be over $12bn.
“Beginnings are exciting; middles are gratifying; but endings, boyoboy.” — John Barth, On With The Story

Boyoboy, indeed! What a way to end to a dismal day! Many years ago (feels like ancient Sumer now) I came across his "Lost in the Funhouse" and was thunderstruck, and not only by the vagaries of his style: I felt a deep kinship to the proton its. It's still my favorite short story. (It was good luck, too, that I read it on its own, the other pieces in the collection were insufferable.) For others, its “Night-Sea Journey” (full text here: https://tigerenglish.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/night-sea-j...).

If you've never heard of him, here's a great intro to his work: https://lithub.com/john-barth-deserves-a-wider-audience/

For a personal take on "Jack": https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/books/review/a-twist-in-h...
Nice game! 49,600 after a few tries.

Agreed with the above though, I think it might be a bit more strategic if combos were awarded non-linearly,

(Although, again, the game is pretty good as it is)
Man in that second video they look so calm standing under a massive potential landslide that could sweep them to their death.
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's 2007 film Sunshine is another great example of this genre. Rather than abandoning a frozen earth due to the dying sun, they send a mission to deliver a bomb into it to "restart" it.

A real all-star cast featuring not only a young Cillian Murphy, but a young Michelle Yeoh, Chris Evans, Hiroyuki Sanada, Benedict Wong, Cliff Curtis, and Rose Byrne!

Highly recommended, despite never satisfactorily explaining why they require a manned spacecraft to do the job rather than sending a robotic drone ship. Seems to me that adding humans to the mix greatly increased the complexity and risk of the mission.
I would have thought a $5k change was normal random bumps for bitcoin ;)
None of that shit actually matters to the people who despise Elon.

No, it’s the fascist-friendly sex-mongering racist rhetoric that gets most people.

Even that could be explained the way if it weren’t for his inept business moves with Twitter and ugly cybertruck.

Jobs proved you can be worshipped while being an eccentric asshole if you’re at least competent.
That's... the idea of restaurants, right? You can get all the ingredients in bulk yourself and save on the labour costs by making it yourself.
This was my first thought also. I know they have seismic isolation tech, but how good is it?
I don't understand the connection you're making between SfM (Structure from Motion) and surface shading.

I might be misunderstanding what you're trying to say. Could you elaborate?
I discovered the same thing when I was writing a tool the transmit data to a radio-free (no wifi or Bluetooth) airgapped computer and created a de-facto standard called "qrint". The comment in this file has enough text for a blog post.

https://github.com/Chia-Network/hsms/blob/main/hsms/util/qri...

Anyone who wants to use this, feel free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_focus_(tectonics)
Is there a stream of the big dampening device in Taipei 101? I cannot find it via usual searches but wonder if it is available in another language search.
Sure, I think it's probably generous from the user count point of view but incredibly limited from the number of files. And it seems you have to use provided fonts in the free tier... I think Rive should offer the Editor free like Unity and then charge for additional services like console support, dedicated support, troubleshooting, etc. as that's much more common business model for game middleware. The same applies to Unreal Engine where Switch/PS5/Xbox support is gated behind the respective access to the official dev portal and Epic's own Perforce rather than GitHub. And Perforce support for example should be promoted for pro tiers.

I see a banner mentioning "Rive for Game UI" which is great to see but really the whole platform should be a Flash replacement. It shouldn't just be for doing UIs in games or animated content, it could be used to make full 2D games. Flash was so popular because of its versatility. There were middleware taking Flash content directly into game UIs (ScaleForm) and there is middleware supporting WebKit for game UIs (Coherent labs). Both of these have extensive scripting support (respectively ActionScript and JavaScript) allowing UI designers and coders to create reactive and flexible content, even procedural content like lists of things etc.

By the way, the only way from mobile to get to the downloads link on the main site is only behind the online editor login. I get why but I thought at first that the Editor was online only because of that.
Picking up one order from a restaurant takes the same amount of time as picking up a dozen. This is a much more important economy-of-scale than having a large app country-wide install base to spread dev costs over.

So I think a third-party delivery business must seek exclusivity contracts to be competitive with an in-house solution.
If you can only afford to hire someone if they're being subsidized by their parents, then the job position you're offering should either not exist or the subsidy should be made explicit. If our civilization's entry-level positions require five years of internships then we should, as a civilization, figure out a way for people to hold internships for five years and expect every single human alive to go through that process.
Have you setup the Kasm Server aspect[0]. That is, not just the container workspace, but you can have Kasm connect to a separate actual server via RDP, or VNC; not a docker container workspace. In this manner, Kasm has completely replaced Guacamole for me.

[0] https://kasmweb.com/docs/latest/guide/workspaces.html#server...
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So cash dump to buddies?
> And I'm dismayed by the cavalier dismissal of lost jobs for teenagers. Getting that first job is hard enough already

And almost all of these "starter jobs" are filled with abusive and exploitative working conditions, made possible by the (literal!) kids not knowing that they don't have to mop up feces in a toilet without proper training and equipment or that they aren't supposed to work late night hours (at least in some jurisdiction). Good f...ing riddance, I'd say.
One of my coworkers bought a Model S. At first he was always going on about how amazing it was. Then within the first year he started having all kinds of problems with it. He's now in the middle of a lawsuit trying to get a refund on it.
It should be noted that it is recommended to boil rice in plenty of water and to pour away the excess to remove a lot of the arsenic in rice.

https://health.osu.edu/wellness/exercise-and-nutrition/how-t...

https://www.livsmedelsverket.se/globalassets/publikationsdat...
The deposit is refundable, you know.
Ask HN: What is the future of the entry-level software engineering job?
Hoping to spark an insightful discussion on the how advances in AI will impact the demand for entry-level software engineers, and the nature of that job.

Some prompts to consider:

1. If you work in software engineering, what changes are you observing today, either to the SWE job itself, and/or to demand for entry-level SWE roles?

2. How do you see the entry-level SWE job evolving in 1, 2 and 3 years? Fewer/no roles? Different job description? Something else?

3. How will the pace of change vary across industries? E.g. I imagine SWE at Google is quite different from SWE at Liberty Mutual.

Please consider stating your current role and/or any experiences that have shaped your perspective (e.g. "Engineering leader at a Fortune 500 non-tech company", "recent CS grad", "AI researcher", etc.)
Exactly. It's an economic *system*. Change X and there is impact not only on W and Y but perhaps also V and Z. So to say, "Look! We raised the min wage and people earned more money. That's the bottomline", is naive at best.

Furthermore (re: California), increasing the min wage is not a fix for the housing supply and associated failed policies.
The issue was that built artifacts weren’t immutable during the test phase and/or the test phase wasn’t sandboxed from the built artifacts.

The last build system I worked on separated build and test as separate stages. That meant you got a lot of useless artifacts pushed to a development namespace on the distribution server, but it also meant later stages only needed read access to that server.
...This isn't a bad economy. Nor volatile. Nor uncertain.

This is, for businesses, the best economy we've had for years. Why are they being forced to raise their prices again?

As for 25% not being unreasonable, it's about 10% higher than I'd expect to see in the food industry. 25%, especially for a company that basically requires physical locations, equipment, employees, managers, and food supplies (which expires and has a certain percentage of loss automatically) is absolutely phenomenal.

EDIT:

> Starbucks' NET is down from just two years ago (~2%)

No, it's up $100m 2023's $4.29B vs 2021's $4.19.
There was definitely good cop/bad cop going on. That’s a really powerful psychological tool.
Complaints about population numbers are typically in support of some other agenda. Concern with over-population typically lies with the environmentalists, which is really a problem of lack of urbanism, not population. The concern with under-population typically comes from folks who support a robust social safety net, but only way those are possible without a steep reduction in quality of life, is to have more people always paying in than paying out, which is no longer feasible.
As somebody who has been through more than 10 thousand quakes, it's as significant as the force itself.

7.4 @ 300km deep you just yawn and roll over. @10km deep you pray your concrete roof tiles don't come through the ceiling and kill you in your bed... you basically just lie on top of your wife, give thanks for the time you did have, and hope for the best.
In some 1990s sci-fi series, an alien race played the long game by directing some (invisible) energy beam at the sun, accelerating its transition into becoming a red giant, a process which would have otherwise taken billions of years.
Choose your weapon: Survival strategies for depressed AI academics
I went through a 7.6 quake one time. It was wild.

I hope everyone stays safe.
It has just introduced some custom leagues and cups like EURO Cup, Africa Cup and World Cup league - a custom league that has four levels, with each level following the 2026 World Cup format. The best 32-team at the top level can advance to the knockout stage!
3 m sound not too bad?
Well, if it costs $10,000 all-in to pay a developer for 1 month, and Creo costs $30/month, then it would take 27 years to break even on having a developer spend the extra month building it from scratch.
I would probably use coffee... or at least a blend of their inputs based on quarterly filings or something.
I'm pretty sure this idea has been kicked around, and is generally seen as not-super-useful because it requires a perfectly reliable low-latency connection.
Does it work with a large existing codebase?
Not just nation state actors. All that data is available to anyone with a credit card from legit data dealers.
I think they were referring to implementing server-side business logic, not client-side view logic customizations.

Every sizable admin ops thingie eventually needs buttons to kick off server-side code that fixes something.
No absolutely not.

To assume that there even are "good guys" that can "do it safely" is INSANE.

Any attempt to prevent democratizing AI is just a capitalist ploy to make a monopoly over their market. There is no saftey play here.

The FED needs to stay the frik away from this.
Real dollars aren't fictional lol, you can use the term constant-dollars if you prefer. The index is priced in 2017 dollars. Dollars each year are a new vintage, basically. A dollar last year is not the same as a dollar today, and comparing in real/constant dollars adjusts for that.

Inflation from 2007-2024 was 49% so... that checks out. A 2% real-dollar annualized increase would actually be more than that.

I'm not sure what your point is, those two series are equivalent.

I guess you could normalize by something else like median wage but you're going to like that even less...
Very nice suggestion. Thank you to share! Here is the open Spotify link to that episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/69PURAcVOhzBcRUQrjkDfc
Well, imagine it like the distance you want to be away from a big explosion. The further away, the better.

And the deeper it is, the further it is away from the ground, where humans are.
A shallow 6 is very different from a deeper 7.

My city Christchurch was fucked by a 6.2 or 6.3 - but it was both (a) shallow (5km) and (b) close to dense residential areas.

Christchurch was near to the 7.1 Canterbury earthquake but that did much less damage as it was 10km deep and Christchurch wasn't on top of it (it mostly affected less dense rural properties in the region near Christchurch).

Be careful not to think of earthquakes as a point - talking about epicentres and precise depth is very misleading. Earthquakes are a fault-sheet or wrinkles. Surface fault lines only show where the 3D rips through the solid earth meet the surface. Fault lines matter a bit especially since they indicate local shallowness, but I suspect we get distracted by them because they make spectacular news reports. Reality is complex.

My parents house was right above the fault plane of the Canterbury fault - and their house came though mostly okay. I know lots of people very near the Christchurch quake and many of their houses were unrecoverably damaged.
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The two part technical overview was a fantastic writeup and illustration! I didn't understand why you were using that JSON structure to illustrate everything until I watched the demo video of your diffable UI. I hope it catches on, but am wondering if you're planning to apply the same techniques to traditional designer working files.
So, if you want anything more than a CRUD database UI, you have to write it, which would be greater than or equal to writing one line of code.

This is like every other introspection based admin app; the second you need to do anything related to your business, you are not getting any value, and often times, you’re forced into the admin app’s dsl to perform your back office logic which may or may not be more costly than just writing your admin backend within your existing framework and org conventions.
Seems more like a recognition that local maxima/minima exist, and travel is usually the cure.

That doesn't make for spicy hot takes though.
It could be that there were things positive going for Tesla, but the Elon thing finally outweigh the positives or the positives essentially evaporated, leaving only this negative.
You never really know when it might matter. One huge thing is when I have a serious illness I can see my heart rate remains about 80bpm all night long. I know my immune system has quieted down when my nighttime heart rate gets back down in the 50s. This doesn't even require accurate sleep tracking. (In fact the watch has a hard time even noticing I'm asleep when I'm that sick, but it doesn't really matter, it's very useful.)

I also notice similar things related to heavy exercise etc.
I wish this wasn't my first thought too, but it was. I can't imagine all those wafers are happy.
relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30253799
Thanks! I must admit it’s hard to find an answer myself without the vocabulary.
Obviously there's a mismatch between "first job for teenagers" and "job I need to pay my rent and maybe provide for my kids". This would be less of a problem if more of the jobs paid better. But you can only scoop ice cream or bag groceries for people who have enough money to pay for them.
The trick is to live somewhere where walking makes sense, and also add small opportunities to walk during the day. For example, if parking, park a bit further from where you're going. Or if you have calls to make, call people/businesses while walking. Or if hanging out with a friend, go for a walk or do something physical.

Everyone will have different constraints but it's generally possible to move more than you currently do.
Missouri county declares state of emergency amid suspected ransomware attack
Absolutely fictional. They are a tool to do comparisons disregarding inflation - that has value - but the dollar in my wallet last year is a dollar today. It can’t buy as much, but that’s what everyone who isn’t an economist considers a dollar.
To be clear about the history: Make is from 1976, and Autotools is from 1991. Had me a chuckle about these being called modern, they're (some of?) the earliest build systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_(software)

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