skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is an awful lot of intergalactic medium out there. It's of "any density" (albeit very low). How come it's not a black hole? Isn't there "enough of it"? (cf. the "missing baryons problem").

Nothing to do with the missing baryons problem. If you had a large enough cloud of intergalactic matter it would form an event horizon. Obviously “large enough” is larger than the size of our galaxy and logically any existing galaxy .

One theory of how very early SMBHs may have formed is from direct collapse of large but diffuse clouds.
I will not let you get the last word in this one, CD.
A bunch of hippies opened my public high school in the 70s. There were no interior walls, just classroom areas. It was reportedly a giant mess. Thankfully walls were installed by the time I went, but many classrooms didn’t have doors, and some classrooms needed to use other classrooms to get to them. It was quite distracting at times.
If you have a PFSense or OPNSense firewall/router, PFblockerNG also does a great job https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/packages/pfblocke.... PFSense comes with a DNS Resolver with option to forward to these other resolvers. It has also too many other features to list especially useful to a homelab.
> just moves a bunch of the problem into the application

Would you mind elaborating
Yeah, I personally like the netflix series, but the author found some Chinese people who are mad all the Chinese characters were westernized? Of course she did, there will be people who think that.

Writing it up that way with that headline is a choice.
> What is your definition of a new user?

A poster that joined in the last 2-3 years.

> I am curious: Can you elaborate on how such analysis is being made?

Try doing analysis on the time at which posters in a thread joined this site. I weigh their dates based on the number of times they comment in a thread. If you do that you'll see a recency bias. The mass of the distribution is clumped more heavily in the last 3 years since the article's submission. If you think about it, that makes a lot of sense. People are probably much more energized to comment when they first join and eventually get bored and stop. You point out a really similar effect out in your own analysis about posters that stop posting after a year.
that's assuming you have somewhat cooperative people, in which case I don't think it's a setup to fail situation.

my reading of it was more like some past experience where I tried to do what you described only to be reprimanded for "overstepping boundaries" and that not being my job function, especially when the manager/PO/etc insist on being an exclusive gateway to information despite repeatedly failing to do that job correctly.

I think we all agree on the importance on your last part where you need to suss out whether they want an obedient code monkey or someone to solve the problem. probably through an iterative dialog where the parties involved get to explore and update their understanding of the problem, the technical and non technical constraints and the solution space.
Actual article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-ha...
similar thing happened to me straight out of uni -- i was less interested however and quit my job. in fact i quit the entire industry.
News to me that Photoshop is a Windows exclusive.

As for legacy business apps, I’ve been part of more conversion/virtualization projects than you can shake a stick at and Microsoft itself has done stuff like .NET core since 2016. I haven’t seen people greenfielding windows exclusive native apps in years.

It’s mostly gaming and old professional apps with 30 year old codebases where I still see Windows dominate and even THERE I see more availability on MacOS nowadays with cross platform development being the norm.
So will this finally fix my 2060super being a seizure inducing mess of flickering and visual glitches on kde Wayland?

Or is that some other "final blocker" for Wayland Nvidia users?
Originally, there were 1030 drawings. So it was titled 1k.

Then, 110 drawings were added. The title needed to change, so it was titled 1.1k.

Then, 42 drawings were added. The title needed to change, so it was titled 1.18k.

In 2 weeks, 6 more drawings will be added. The title will need to change, and this can be resubmitted as 1.188k.
>GPT-5: ???

Perhaps capture of audio and video from places lacking legal expectation of privacy.

Buying conversations from listening devices at live nation sports venues or clear channel airports.

Spooky, but probable.

Maybe there are troves of data yet to be unearthed, or needing extraction from legacy media formats. Orgs aren't desperate enough to do that kind of schlep, but soon enough.

Like archives of terrestrial AM/FM or even HAM radio up for grabs. Going backward to go forward.
Well-written article and interesting series.
Are those local directors not making those decisions in their professional capacity as a Google employee?

Saying "well on the inside it's more like a bunch of little businesses" is missing the point. It has Google's reach, Google's user base, and integration with the Gmail accounts that billions of people use every day. It's a Google product, after all, and those have a long and illustrious history of being really good until they get gunned down for no stated reason.

On a related note, I found my Daydream VR headset the other day. It does, in fact, say "Google" on the box, not "Jim Smith, Manager at Google."
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The upward trend is much smaller than what happens in 2023 so that looks worth looking into. When you have this one outlier and one year can actually mean two years, it's not completely clear how much of the outlier is actual outlieriness and how much is some accidental artifact.
I can't find any that are prism shaped (in the short time I spent on the website). I don't actually know what kind of manufacturing challenges you get if you want to place these splitters at the center of a prism.

However, I'd guess these are the components the guys are using between the prism and the cameras.
Something that makes this all harder is that HN and other sites don't exist in a vacuum. There's an external world that shapes the opinions and ideas of people.

When I joined HN, hacking was mostly for nerds. The real important tech people worked on chips or devices and the money makers were in finance. This has changed. With it has come an interest in lurid tech coverage, like the existence of sites like "Techdirt", and something about software has led to the growth of a tabloid style news interest in it in a way that never happened for hardware (probably an artifact of the rise of tech being concomitant and convergent with the evolution of the Internet.) There's also been a lot of other changes going on in the greater world as the internet has become a larger part of our lives. I suspect those changes outside "in the real world" that eventually finding itself into here.

For me the antidote has been more focused conversations on other sites like Discord or BlueSky but this is all very personal.
It is an other fun cultural context. I have Firstname Middlename Lastname. This or Lastname Firstname Middlename appear on somethings like credit card, ID, passport and official legal documents. But in normal live like receiving normal letters and so on it is just Firstname Lastname or Lastname Firstname. Even the order is fluid with Lastname Firstname being more formal.

And then some people have First-Name firstnames where either part is also a name, but whole thing is one Firstname... So calling someone with just First is often wrong...
> I wonder if there’s an opportunity for BART to switch to standard gauge in the future or as part of retiring trains, or if that’s even a good idea for cost savings?

I'm guessing it would be massively expensive, and it's not clear to what end they would change it.

It's not like they could then buy cheaper off-the-shelf trains, since the trains still have to be designed and built for the particular system in other ways, i.e. controls, propulsion, and custom interiors.

Also, BART doesn't share tracks with any other system, so there's no reason to do it for compatiblity's sake either.
Hell is sharing a company with political activists. 37signals had the right idea.
Lord of The Rings used some huge external green/blue screens. One I know of was the scene in Return of the King where there's a dead oliphaunt and, IIRC, Eowyn fighting the Witch King. But there were lots of others.
It looks like the weights [0] and code [1] are Apache licensed, but the training data [2] is using the license that OP is quoting from.

[0] https://huggingface.co/allenai/OLMo-7B

[1] https://github.com/allenai/OLMo

[2] https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/dolma
> You could say, there might be people who keep posting stories even though the don't get upvoted, but that would be kind of irrational. If the community doesn't seem to be interested in what they post, they will stop doing so sooner or later.

Probably many people stop sharing in this case indeed. But for those who don't, I guess the idea is: eventually, if you keep sharing, you can collect upvotes here and there, and eventually the karma will go up
Perhaps this planet will eventually be just GPUs answering to each others' stupid questions and ASICs working at bitcoins.

A paper clip maximizer.
No one wakes up every day with a clean slate, having forgotten everyone who lied and cheated to them in the past. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice...

Journalistic reporting depends on some degree of trust. I can't go verify everything I read – I don't have the time, means, or interest. No one does that. I feel that in the past Greenwald has demonstrated to be unreliable because he views the world too much through an ideological lens.

Everyone does that with certain outlets and people.
Yea this just doesn’t make sense. You live in a market with $800k houses down the road but your apartment is $1300/mo? Do you live in a dirt pile because free markets say rent can be charged what it’s worth. If your apartment isn’t worth what the market can charge it may literally be unlivable.

But then you go on to claim you have a lot in investments, or something along those lines as it wasn’t clear. Your story’s dots aren’t connecting.

Thing is, I think you’re actually desperate to own a home, as am I. And now your justifying your desperation with this flawed idea that renting is somehow cheaper. There is no reality in which this is true, that’s why you see the bulk of people flocking to buy and all of us complaining that the party is over.

You’re wrong.
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>I often think about starting a community that functions like /r/berlin, but with a professional moderator like dang to maintain decorum, deduplicate threads, and generally keep the place tidy.

If /r/berlin is anything like /r/japanlife, the problem IS the moderator.
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I didn't say room temperature objects. I said naturally emitted. Trying to have lights and other objects involved in film production that don't have emission spectra inside the mask range for near infrared would be a lot of effort compared to just... not having it be a problem with things that are easily attained with cheap materials like sodium narrowband.
They were brilliant for cutting reno/gestetner machine carbons. I think it is possible following users hated us for doing this but I may just be mis-remembering because the whole process was filthy. you never did agitprop without coming away covered in ink. (I was using this in my student days in the 1970s/1980s timeframe)
> This was in about 1935 or so

It is not so anymore, psychologists are taught to design experiments showing that changes in an independent variable correlate with a dependent variable. I'm not sure when the change came, but I'd guess that in 1970s it was so already.
Something can be both hype and useful. Paradigm shift, no, because there's no fundamental architectural difference from any other replicated sql database.

Sqlite only really works as a throwaway database. For that it's pretty great. Although a lot of the current use cases for sqlite could have just been a .ini file.
IPv6 == the new ISDN: I Still Don't Need it... although I will say ISDN was a godsend in the years before my community was finally wired for cable.
I have completed the second one also. I forgot to mention that.
Apple has warned about power usage when using other renderers than WebKit. Orion also mentions this as an advantage for them as they are using WebKit. Awesome browser if you are in Apple’s garden btw. Kagi also mentions that WebKit is developed by both Apple and FOSS community. I wonder how much of that holds..

https://blog.kagi.com/orion-features
There seems to be a lot of skepticism in the comments but I can definitely see a use-case for this (I have no relationship to the project).

Ultimately, plain text data should never reach the server and the server will never have access to decryption keys either. Row level encryption; encryption at rest etc. is not the same as in those cases the data arrives at the server in plain text which can end up in logs, can be directed to other parts of the business or in invisible changes the server may just stop encrypting the data.

By encrypting client side, I - as a user - can be sure that my data can't be mined, analyzed or leaked.

I acknowledge that there is the poisoned binary attack - serving malicious javascript files to future visitors - but this may happen somewhere along the supply chain for any application. Whether it's an app from an app store (e.g. Signal) or a desktop app (Thunderbird + PGP) at some point updates are provided to client apps and as we have seen recently, even dependencies to these apps are vulnerable. SRI and maybe clearly showing the version of encryption library being used would probably go a long way. Services such as Proton also rely on JS delivered to the browser.

In short, a lot of applications could benefit from adding a layer of encryption to their data. The truly paranoid may not be happy putting their trust in a javascript blob but the vast majority of people would benefit from having a little extra privacy-by-default in their lives.
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I don’t use zsh plugin managers myself, but it looks like zinit already had the ability to update itself. Why on earth replace a working solution with a broken one? Unlike zinit, zi won’t be able to load plugins when the computer is offline for no good legitimate reason that I can possibly think of.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200309073226/https://github.co...
https://github.com/robjinman/Richard uses Vulkan, thus is portable across GPU's and much faster. It also has more kernels. In simple C++
Sure, but that usage pattern is not without cost. You're basically eschewing relying on type inference across function boundaries.

I think writing out type signatures is The Right Way, but it does take time, and The Right Way doesn't always happen on complicated projects with close deadlines.
The rails themselves have enough room. The issues start with the nonstandard loading platforms, track profile and switches, and power, and continue for quite a while. Once you get everything working again, any cost savings are gone.
The IBM S/360 family of computers -- are well worth studying for any serious student of computer history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360

>"The slowest System/360 model announced in 1964, the Model 30, could perform up to 34,500 instructions per second, with memory from 8 to 64 KB.[3] High-performance models came later. The 1967 IBM System/360 Model 91 could execute up to 16.6 million instructions per second.[4] The larger 360 models could have up to 8 MB of main memory,[5] though that much memory was unusual; a large installation might have as little as 256 KB of main storage, but 512 KB, 768 KB or 1024 KB was more common. Up to 8 megabytes of slower (8 microsecond) Large Capacity Storage (LCS) was also available for some models."

But -- Even if someone had the full 8 Megabytes (8MB, not 8GB or 8TB!) back in the 1960's (which would have been the exception, rather than the norm!) -- that still would not be enough to shoehorn a modern-day Linux kernel into it, much less also gcc, glibc, libraries, Node.js, npm, Python, and whatever other programs, libraries or software components are being used for someone's tech stack...

Whether a virtual machine was running in the background -- or not...

In the 1980's and 1990's, while corporate Mainframes may have had hardware support for virtualization -- consumer x86 PC's most certainly did not.

Thus, if someone was running MS-DOS directly on an x86 PC of that era without Windows, they were effectively running on "bare metal" -- because MS-DOS didn't trap and proxy and reroute x86 IN / OUT instructions (or DMA for that matter) -- assembler programmers of this era using an assembler under DOS had full access to ALL of the underlying hardware in their PC's...

Still, you make an excellent point that modern VM's, as programs, have historic ancestors that existed in the mainframe computer world as far back as the 1960's -- most notably as CMS on the IBM S/360 mainframe family.
Do the Pixel Buds not have a Find feature? I have the same experience as you with Tile, but I use the "Find" feature on my iPhone to locate my AirPods all the time.
I get the impression it's more than just a few
But most tournaments don't have players playing each other an even number of times.

Any sport can have a thrown match. A la Rocky.
also doesn't work on desktop safari for me
Capturing the king changes nothing, except stalemate.

(Which affects some draws but not most.)
This is really bad, 3 people shouldn't be able to use freedesktop's name to push their own agendas on a developer not even affiliated with any of their project.
She married a multi-billionaire, who she was in a relationship of some kind with, before she was ever divorced. Did you notice that in the article?

BTW Bob Harp went on to found Corona Data Systems also.
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that doesn't eliminate need for loading states at all, and is already solved by things like react server components or remix (see waterfall removal graphic https://remix.run/)

i think this discussion is confusing the use of sqlite in local-first apps, where there's no loading states because the database is in the browser. you can use sqlite on your server, but you still need a "loading state".

even with postgres, if your data and server are colocated, the time between the 2 is already almost 0

now maybe the argument is your servers are deployed globally each with an sqlite db. that's not all that different from global postgres read replicas
In my experience (~10 companies, including bigger tech and silicon valley companies) the bigger the size the lower (if not zero) the awareness. In smaller companies and startup I've seen much more "empathy" and we used to give one-shot or recurrent sponsorship especially to projects that we were using extensively. This could also be a partial answer though, bigger companies don't really care as they could afford (or perceive so at the higher level in the ladder) to just move away or fork the project and maintain it themselves, thing that I've also seen applied in a famous telecommunication API company (guess who).
Flight simulators are set to benefit from AI. Imagine talking to an AI Air Traffic Control that understands natural language. Imagine walking down the aisle of your plane and overhearing AI people's conversations.
As far as I know, most information about the 6502 instruction set comes in two forms:

- emulators/simulators/FPGA code

- books, data sheets, OCR'd PDFs of books and data sheets, text files copy/pasted from PDFs or retyped from books and data sheets

Code is likely to be heavily tested, but it makes extracting high-level information about the instruction set very difficult.

Data is easy to analyse and synthesise, but since it's described in prose there's no easy way to test or validate it - if somebody in 1984 made a typo that a particular instruction took 3 cycles instead of 2, and that error was copy/pasted and made its way into half the "6502 instruction set" websites online, how would you know? How would you detect it?

Using SQL to enforce constraints and validation gives me confidence that there aren't a bunch of typos and copy/paste errors in this data. In addition, being able to express special cases like "read-modify-write instructions applying to the accumulator do not pay the three cycle penalty" in code rather than in prose makes it more likely they will be applied correctly. Lastly, since the result is an SQL database, it can be pretty easily formatted to resemble any book or data sheet you like for simplified visual verification against book/data sheet sources.
No, it's not. For a while, it was mandatory or else the IRS would fine you (so, it wasn't really mandatory, you could just pay the fine). Now they've dropped the fine. But that's at the federal level; some states still have an individual mandate and will fine you.

You can try to argue that the fine is a mandate, but many people found that it was much cheaper to just pay the fine than to buy insurance coverage. Of course, this means they have no health insurance coverage which obviously has big risks, but for many people, the only insurance plans they had access to were literally unaffordable (i.e., higher than their rent, so it was a choice between having a place to live, or having health insurance with a high deductible and copays).
Would an open source version allow anyone to track anyone? The ultimate stalker app...
you have to admit that 3-3 invasion is pretty annoying to handle. AI is way too aggro and people are learning to be as aggressive.
> The decision by supreme court (10x1), was that virtual attacks also count as an attack to the court.

What the heck is a “virtual attack”?

Your statement is basically the same as “the Supreme Court gave itself power to go after whoever they want”. Do you think this is healthy in a democracy?

> the supreme's regiment was old, and at the time there was no internet.

Yes, it is so old that the newer 1988 constitution should be observed instead, and it says investigations must be started by the Federal Prosecution Service.

Instead they decided to reinterpret the very clear wording of the regiment (“within the premises of the Supreme Court”) to mean something completely different (“whatever happens on the internet”). Again, do you think this is healthy in a democracy?

> The regiment is made by Supreme Court itself, so, isn't like they are modifying a congress law.

In other words, “they make their own rules”? No, that’s not how it’s supposed to work. The Supreme Court does not have the right to override the constitution.
If the data and the server are colocated on the same machine, the database network overhead is almost zero. But that's not necessarily true otherwise. For an HTTP request that incurs a single query, you can round it to zero, but you have to be careful not to write request handlers that incur lots of queries if you're trying to stay below the 100ms threshold.