skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The unfortunate reality of human psychology is to group people together and penalize the group for behaviors the group itself deems extreme and appalling. The asshole behavior of one tourist paints all tourists the same color.

But it doesn't. People still trust each other, as they should (by any risk calculation, and by human nature). I give directions all the time and people trust me. I ask for and receive directions and, despite the fantasies of sociopathology on HN and other social media, I've never been steered wrong intentionally. Other fantasized sociopathology that almost never happens: mass murder, easy to do with your car, guns (easy to get in the US) - if you are thinking of the mass shootings, think that even at the recent extremely high level, your risk is statistically zero. Even the government using physical compulsion to force people to obey the law, such as pay taxes, rarely happens - most people like living under a cooperative legal system and obey the law. Really, it's true! Go outside and look around!
No HBM because they use tons of fast SRAM instead. Isn't that the main driver for performance here?

(the way I understood it => it's still cost effective at scale due to throughput increase this brings)
Yeah, that's the spirit.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240406095041if_/https://www.ny...
So unless there are new Croq datacenters coming, this is only interesting for North American users. Otherwise H100 based latency optimized solutions would be faster - in particular for time-to-first-token sensitive applications.
Delta, console emulator for iOS, approved by Apple for distribution on AltStore
Note that this is not about the new guidelines, which will allow emulators on Apple's App Store, but an approval (or what Apple calls notarization) of the app on a third-party marketplace under the new DMA-related changes for EU residents. Although this was expected, because any other decision would have certainly caused a new incident with the ongoing investigation regarding compliance with the DMA, it is still incredible to witness an emulator being approved for mass distribution on iOS by Apple.

It remains to be seen whether Apple would approve a multi-platform emulator like Delta in their own App Store, where the new guidelines are still quite restricted in my opinion (a list of all possible downloadable ROMs is required there to submit an emulator, for instance).
It prevents the fire from quickly moving through the building...
A Survey of Emerging Memory in a Microcontroller Unit
Yeah they can enjoy these properties even if they do not have insurance any more... but then they want for government to bail them out on the next storm/flood/fire/whatever, and that just won't scale much longer.
Turbo Pascal, Mac Programmers' Workshop, QuickBASIC, and a variety of others would like to say hi.
For me it's not that using Asp.net from F# is bad, but the little things that add up.

Like I said, if you want to use Microsoft Identity, you need to either write your own backend that doesn't use EFcore or use .NET 6 instead of 8. Why? EFcore is essentially a scaffolding library. You can't use it from F# without EFcore.FSharp. EFCore.FSharp doesn't support anything higher than .NET 6.

So now we have a scenario where the main auth library in asp.net doesn't work in F#. I've never had these issues in Clojure where I just flat out can't use a Java library.
Not saying Germany is slow, but that is one area where US is far behind. 21 Months - This is the current processing time for a green card after you have sent in all the paperwork to the USCIS for processing. During that time, you get no updates and of-course if you leave the country without AP, your application is considered to be abandoned.

https://imgur.com/a/t8rYOjv
> biggest productivity enhancers I’ve seen since code completion

I’m still productive without ever having pursued any code completion features, and I think one aspect of your productivity you are leaving out is “is your bump in productivity equal to, or preferably favorable to, its costs?”.

What Rube Goldberg type of a mechanism of misery has to happen to help you complete your code?

Such as the blatant disregard for creatives’ licensing stipulations, tech companies building nuclear reactors, the political elevation of the scumbags who run these companies, et al?

~“I saved 10 keystrokes, and it only cost my grandchildren their clean drinking water.”
Probably because this is irrelevant to the topic of CSS, since CSS only has a handful of fixed-function filters.
Why kill unimportant people at all?
Bit disingenuous to compare the two because it’s also only if you’re upgrading from a disc-less model.
If you can travel to Spain, there's another in just 2 years!
Completely different product segment though. I don’t think that really had any outsized influence on PlayStation buyers at the time.
So Itanium and its "sufficiently smart compiler" but functional?
At that point you’ll need to go full Soviet. Seize resources and have the state deploy them. Because in no rational world would someone accept criminal liability on behalf of someone they do not control. So to stop a capital exodus, you’d need to seize the means of production (and incur the stasis that comes from centralising economic decision making among the political class).

Would be pretty convenient for America if China or Russia adopted your proposal…
Discussed a couple days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927010
> pgmock runs an x86 emulator with the original Postgres inside

Why can't Postgres compile to WASM instead of x86?
https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=2569114184867&w=aJ4hE4bSAA...
> “Using a term like nonlinear science is like referring to the bulk of zoology as the study of non-elephant animals.”

Gotta remember that one. Even though it wasn't JvN.
I run an AI story telling site and an AI ideation platform.

The story telling site alone averaged 27k requests a day this week, so about double what their current request limit is, and honestly not even that popular of a site.

You can't run much more than a toy project on their current rate limits.
For me the tone is big part of why I love it. It’s such a perfect distillation of what it was like being an angsty teenager at that moment in cultural time. Even looking back I still think it is just cool AF.

The closest comparison I can think of how I see it is like Brandon Lee’s The Crow, which is also still one of the most badass films ever made.
> how incentives / leadership structure were setup to make this "scope creep" possible

It’s partly a function of use it or lose it funding. If the Navy gets budget, it’s incentivised to start spending it aggressively. Planning only burns so much cash, so there is a built-in incentive to jumpstart production alongside design and then patch everything with costly retrofits.
Note that SRAM density doesn't scale at the same rate as logic density, and Groqs "secret sauce" is putting a ton of SRAM on their chips. Their stuff won't necessarily see the full benefits of switching to denser nodes if the bottleneck is how much SRAM they can pack onto each chip.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/no-sram-scaling-implies-on...

IIRC the last big jump for SRAM density was at 7nm, so they do still have that card to play, but progress has slowed to a crawl beyond that. TSMC 3nm SRAM is barely denser than TSMC 7nm SRAM.
> Sometimes I don't know if people are kidding or something. [...]

>It's rather wiser to use the remains of the tomato to directly or indirectly make fertilizer to fertilize new tomato plants [...]

Maybe you should read my comment and the comment I was replying to more carefully. The comment I was replying to says in pretty clear terms that we shouldn't care about "disposal methods"

> Should the focus not be on disposal methods but on ensuring sustainable regeneration of farmland in this case?

Your suggestion of using rotten tomatoes as compost or whatever arguably falls under "disposal methods".
Ask and you shall receive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21436448
And you'll permanently lose whatever compounds are in that garbage by burning it - everything disintegrates into co2, water, nitrous oxide and a few other basic elements. On top of that, burning anything will always result in particulate matter emissions and solid residue, which is highly toxic as it concentrates everything that doesn't burn.

Now imagine in 20 years we find some way of cheaply separating plastic polymers into raw precursors, say by designing some bacteria or fungus that selectively targets a specific polymer. Had we just burned all of the old trash, we'd be out of luck - but assuming we find such a process, old landfills just became gold mines.
When I was still doing web development, I developed Safari-first (our target market was on Macs anyway), and then tested in Chrome later, and I would always run into issues like the one in this blog where adding a border-radius broke something, or if you did this specific thing, scrolling slowed down to a crawl.

So I always thought it was weird when people complained that Safari was the buggy one holding the web back, since I was always running into Chrome bugs/performance pits instead. (typically Firefox worked great)

This just reinforces my notion that these people complaining developed within their known Chrome constraints (Chrome developers known intuitively what you can't do), and then ran into Safari bugs, whereas if they developed within Safari constraints and then moved to Chrome, they'd run into just as many bugs.
As far as I know, it's par for the course for immigration in most countries I ever heard of. On the other hand, anyone who heard of consistently nice immigration procedure for normal people (not Messi) should chime in.

From a incentive strucutre POV, they lose nothing from false positives (denying entry to someone who would have been fine) as candidates will probably try again anyway, and no one will come after them for their shitty procedures as by definition applicants aren't full voting citizens and stay in a weaker position possibly all their life (imagine filing a complaint and having your name on a black list the rest of your immigration life, even if that list probably doesn't exist. That fear alone is enough to let a lot of things slide)
>The name didn’t help either.

It all goes back to Microsoft not naming the 360 "Xbox 3" with some lame excuse for why it did so. Yes, everyone would have laughed, but no one would remember or care today that the "Xbox 5" isn't actually the fifth Xbox.
Ask HN: Better Solution Than $Path
Hello fellow friends!

I may be a little crazy, but I'm upset that we still have to dink with $PATH.

Doesn't it make sense to have a little database, even if it's just a flat file that contains the name of an executable, the available places it can be found, and the default?

This would save so much time. Think about it. Whenever you install a program, you automatically call `linpath link /usr/opt/program/bin/executable`

Then the "linpath" binary links the executable to the PATH. Or if you pass a directory, then it would add all entries in the directory to the database.

I'm not an expert at C and have never compiled linux. But this has got to be the easiest thing in the world to make for somebody who's smart. I just can't understand, how in the world has this not been done. I just think it's crazy we are still recursing through directories to find binaries. It's just so annoying every time I install anything, even if through homebrew, trying to get stuff on the PATH, cause I never know where it is!

I think we should do this for LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other cool stuff like this too.

So if I want to make this, here was my idea. I will make a flat file like this:

binary_name, path1:path2:path3

Then in order to add something to it, the program will call

```
linpath add /path/to/executable or /path/to/dir
```

then linpath will do 2 things. First, it will read the config file and add any to the path (at the end by default). if you do it in interactive mode, it may prompt you if there are conflicts to see what is default. The first one in the list would be the default one.

To make this simple, linpath will symlink the default ones to /usr/bin/linpath/ or something like that, and when linpath runs, it symlinks or hard links or whatever to that dir.

This might cause a little problem since the binaries may need to talk to their neighbors, so instead of symlinking to /usr/bin/linpath, it does `cd /path/to/executable/dir` and then runs it.

This is a incomplete solution, but this, in my opinion, would make life much better for all. What are your thoughts?

Please be kind, I'm a noob at C++ sometimes, and just don't understand linux that great, cause I haven't really worked on the source code. I've done a lot of frontend stuff, but never had a chance to dive into C++ for some reason. So if you are an expert, take it from a n00b that this stuff is complicated for us and we would like to help, I just don't know where to start. SO if you have ideas, please tell me, and I might be able to build it. Then we would have to integrate it into homebrew if it worked or something.
MKBHD on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1777045761705853295

"Just pointed my phone camera directly at the midday sun for 5 minute straight. It got a little warm, but... no damage. I'm gonna go ahead and say point your phones at the eclipse tomorrow, it'll be fine "

just because his phone was fine doesn't mean yours will be
You can also enable fire alarm audio detection on iPhones, HomePods and other home smart hubs.
Could you elaborate on this? I had a friend who joked about paying a bribe in Japan or Taiwan, do you think it would work there?
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.[0] The burden of proof is on the author to demonstrate that software quality is actually worse now. If they want to refute the argument that they are engaged in rosy retrospection, then they should offer more than a handful of personal anecdotes that demonstrate nothing.

Google Drive lost some data that one time in 2023? Cool. In the 1990s, Windows uptime was measured in BSODs per day, and data loss was predicated on how frequently you remembered to hit Ctrl+S before your computer crashed.

Your bank has a frustrating mobile UI? Cool. Ten years ago, they probably didn’t even have a mobile UI, or if it did, people were also complaining that it sucked[1].

Security is worse now because people don’t update their dependencies so leak user data? Cool. The largest known data breach to date happened in 2013[2]. Ten years before that, the entire internet nearly collapsed because of a computer worm[3].

Is any of this a more valid rebuttal to the original author? No. They’re just more anecdotes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor

[1] https://reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/30psm7/any_ban...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/technology/yahoo-hack-3-b...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Slammer
Good soil has benefits but plants don't get carbon from their roots. They make sugar in the leaves and make that into more complex molecules for growing.
Is there some way to set to an alarm to let me know when Steel Battalion becomes playable?
From that article, that's the original Hamming windows with a_0 = 0.54 and a_1 = 0.46.

> Setting a_0 to approximately 0.54, or more precisely 25/46, produces the Hamming window, proposed by Richard W. Hamming. That choice places a zero-crossing at frequency 5π/(N − 1), which cancels the first sidelobe of the Hann window, giving it a height of about one-fifth that of the Hann window. The Hamming window is often called the Hamming blip when used for pulse shaping.
It might be. Probably. I don't know. All I know is that if people who do believe in the climate apocalypse say that CO2 generation from lng would make the problem worse, not better; whether that's true or not, I don't know, but I accept that they genuinely do believe it to be true. And so, if I do take them at their word, and use their logic, and assume they understand math, then they must also support an immediate and massive expansion of nuclear.

If they do not argue for an immediate and massive expansion, I'm forced to conclude they either a) are lying about what they call the science, b) are lying about their belief in apocalyptic scenarios, c) don't understand math, or d) some combination of a, b, and c.
I've hit that overflow issue; it's a real bummer cause the effect is so much simpler to achieve if it worked in Chrome!

I played around with the idea using the simple single backdrop-filter and had some success with inheriting the border-radius from the parent element onto the caption element. Would that possibly work in your multi-backdrop-filter approach?

https://codepen.io/cdrini/pen/vYMReOg
When a black hole and a neutron star merge
I think that’s more like Signal, right? Maybe you could tunnel AP or BlueSky over it? I don’t really know what I’m talking about, but that’s how it seems to me.
I live near it and barely heard about this: https://parentsagainstssfl.com/
I wouldn't say it's formal. It's the overly optimistic tone and 100% coverage of the parent post. The fact we can't tell for sure emphasizes my point.
You don't have to use type inference everywhere.

But I don't think this is a problem in practice for whatever reason. Haskell does have a lot of "big scary type error, wtf" type problems, but not from currying. Or at least it did have when I last used it 5 years ago, it may have improved in the compiler error message front.

Also it is better than JS anyway (low bar):

> function add(a,b) {return a + b}; add(1);

<- NaN
> Hit me and do what though?

Advertising is likely far more successful at manipulating you than you realize.
When it comes to purchases it will show you only a narrow subset of what's avilable to you. Amazon does this already when it shows you the same products over and over again then starts showing unrelated products or stops showing new results entirely.

Product advertising is bad enough, but it's not just about trying to get you to buy something. AI will also shape your opinions and your political views. It'll hide or downplay information to protect paid partners and advertisers. It'll lie to you in order to convince you that there are things you urgently need to do to protect what you already care about, when in reality doing those things will be ineffective or even counterproductive. It will show you things to keep you angry, or afraid, or feeling helpless. It will distract you from doing things that could bring meaningful change. It will influence how you vote.

Even if you are somehow more immune than most people to cognitive biases and the psychological manipulations employed by advertisers, marketers, and PR firms most people around you will not be.
I believe they do gather the methane, but the article mentions leaks, suggesting that the cap over the waste which is used to collect the methane allowed some of it to leak out (thus not being accounted for).
https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/why-do-we-compare-methane-ca... "Over 20 years, the methane would trap about 80 times as much heat as the CO2. Over 100 years, that original ton of methane would trap about 28 times as much heat as the ton of CO2."

Regularly converting a bunch of atmospheric CO2 to methane is not good.
Y’all need to put your phones down and step away from your computers for a while. Maybe touch some grass. Or smoke some.
Worth seeing that the UK figure is comparable to the France, the US, Canada, and way higher than Australia. Germany is the outlier here.
>Sabine Hossenfelder is a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies.

>Her research is looking for the best way to search for experimental evidence of quantum gravity. https://www.cas.lmu.de/en/people-at-cas/details/sabine-hosse...
> it's like Australians missed the whole "nobody goes to the mall anymore" message

Same in Japan. I live in a depopulating city yet in the past 10 years we've gotten like 4 new malls (all in the walkable downtown, with eating/drinking on the ground floor).
This is the kind of discovery that settles all debate in my mind that I could have ever been an electrical engineer, or any kind of mathematician.
Now think about the amount of products built and scaled worldwide by this audience on top of the few cloud compute providers out there.
This can also be handled relatively easily. They can disable the old links and a new one can be added specifically for the disabled repository. Or even just let the repository be browsable through the interface at least.

Simply showing one giant page saying "This respository is disabled" is not helpful in any way.
Whenever I hear "autonomous weapons," I think of this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYsulVXpgYg
Jump and Link also carried over to POWER and PowerPC
Man, I want to appreciate a nice new hardware approach, but they say such BS that it is hard to read about them:

> “There might need to be a new term, because by the end of next year we’re going to deploy enough LPUs that compute-wise, it’s going to be the equivalent of all the hyperscalers combined,” he said. “We already have a non-trivial portion of that.”

Really? Does anyone seriously believe they are going to be the equivalent of all hyperscalers in compute next year? (Where Meta alone is at 1 million H100 equivalents.) In the same article where they say it's too hard for them to sell chips? And when they literally don't have a setup to even accept a credit card today?
just learn hooks from react.dev docs.

you can do a lot with vite, mantine.dev, zustand, and tanstack query.

if you want pain, you can try nextjs where you can optionally learn react server stuff.
It doesn't have to be the only solution. But any proposed solution that does not include, in addition to some expansion of wind and solar energy production, an immediate and massive nuclear expansion is suspicious to me when it comes from somebody who purports to simultaneously believe in one or more of the apocalyptic climate scenarios.
Architecture decisions in Neon, a serverless Postgres service
Also, people.
Interesting, I guess that is why I never got a response back from them about buying their stuff.

My guess is that they realized that just selling hardware is a lot harder than running it themselves. Deploying this level of compute is non-trivial, with very high rates of failure, as well as huge supply chain issues. If you have to sell the hardware and support people buying it, that is a world of trouble.

> no-one wants to take the risk of buying a whole bunch of hardware

I do!

Nobody has stated it yet, but this is probably great news for tenstorrent.

Disclosure: building a cloud compute provider starting with AMD MI300x, and eventually any other high end hardware that our customers are asking for.
See also, FluxEngine: http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/index.html

The hardware is just an off-the-shelf fpga dev board with the 34-pin connector soldered directly to it. That's it. No other components or pcb or anything.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/aDKggy7UAHsyLj717

You extract pin #5 from the connector and solder the entire odd row to gnd (one wire and there is a gnd pad right at the end of the connector) and snap off the programmer board. Done.