skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was exactly the point I wanted to make. And you proofed it. Let me cite myself:

„1. The Greens didn't push to close the nuclear power plants alone:“

But: You think

„The same Germany where the "Green party" pushed to close nuclear power plants and buy more gas from the Russians. Truly clown world.“

is good style and promotes factual, also political, discussion? I believe that it is not and thus promotes the division and the intensification of the discourse instead of factual discussion. And Russia and the AfD are happy about that.
Russia would very much like to sell a lot of gas to all of us. Russia would very much like to continue to act as one of the main suppliers and main players in nuclear energy, which is why Russia also has something against renewable energies. But the division of Europe is more valuable.

So, at the end, you did them a favor.
Yeah, Israel can't even control a 25km strip of land on its southern coast. War is never easy.
That's definitely one way people get addicted, but I suspect not the most common.

A huge proportion of drug addicts (and I suspect addicts of sex, gambling etc I'm just less familiar with those addictions) started taking their drugs because of how tough their life was. And even if you know that starting to take opiates or whatever drug of choice might not be a sensible plan long term, if you feel so bad that you'd rather kill yourself than live in your head sober, it's possible to actually want to keep using what you re addicted to because you don't believe that life without that drug can be any better.

I don't know how common this is, but anecdotally I've known two people who used high dose prescription painkillers (obtained illegal) to give them enough positive feelings to be able to work on their mental health problems, both who would've been described as problematically addicted by most medical professionals, but who managed to use the opiates to work on their core mental health issues until such a time that they felt ready to not need opiates, at which point they found it relatively easy to stop. Because as horrible as it is to get the withdrawals, it's actually not very last longing and it can be considerably less painful than the pain of having such severe mental health issues that you were desperate to kill yourself before you started the drug use, not because you started the drug use. (Of course there's also people who get addicted because they think it will be fun, and end up suicidal because of it. And I also wouldn't recommend using opiates to work on your mental health, because despite my two anecdotes I believe the almost universal knowledge in medical circles is that it's much more likely to worsen your mental health than to improve it.
Part of the reason is the compliance requirements. You need to pay quite a bit of money to USB-IF if you want to make anything USB and this is recurring as far as I know. There's also the other things like tests for EMC and ESD and whatnot. It either needs a big player to step up (you can use the same USB-IF membership for some tens of thousands of devices) or there should be a big enough market to support a smaller scale designer/manufacturer.
Maybe it's Mabel's retirement party.
My dream of pushing cars into underground tunnels and parking structures now has some financial value!
It's not clear from your website who you are and where you are based. Given that you want so much personal data, it might be better to put that up front and center to gain some trust.
See my answer above(or elsewhere in the thread): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40044417
I keep having this prevert thought of writing a UCSD P-Code to WebAssembly converter, making Pascal cool again, riding the WASM hype wave.
A tic-tac-toe game in C
Quote from the question: 'I am (trying) to learn the C programming language for fun with my father's book "The C Programming Language".'
And the pentagon orders randomized amounts of pizzas every few random days.
Do you plan to add support for microsoft calendars and email? I have gmail but none of my work stuff is in there so I can't really make great use of this :(
For anyone trying to figure out these sorts of pricing questions when running a service in the cloud: I wrote up a blog post about how (d one of) the math works out.

https://alexsci.com/blog/modeling-on-demand-pricing/
Tutanova deletes your account after not logging in for 6 months.

You can get it back if you sign up for premium.
Elon Musk plans to charge new X users to enable posting
The APFS article you link to states that "APFS does not provide checksums for user data."
I'd love to hear about a physical medium that can reliably store data for decades. All of the ones I'm aware of lose data within years; so much for permanence.
Results of MDMA Administration to Octopus
In a scenario where there is a normal side and a stupid side, both sides will also feel that the other side is stupid. So this means absolutely nothing.
Looks like the hardware he was using is on AliExpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006609463852.html
Histomap: Visualizing the 4000 year history of global power (2021)
This sounds like a great way to collect all my information and then create an endless stream of bullshit out of it. The enshittification continues.
"Reducing demand" isn't supported by the article, anywhere.

The article's tagline is "Scams are on the rise -- and so are..."

I know it's against HN etiquette to presuppose openly, but you didn't read the article. Did you?
Matthew Miller on Redis Licensing Changes
I don't really care for Papa John the guy, but if one of his pizzas showed up I'd eat it.
50 years of Moore's law improvements and we're back to batch processing. Nothing illustrates better to me the regression that using massive amounts of GPU to do inference represents as an approach to computation.
> the aggressor

Which one are we talking about?

I think this sort of discussion is best left off HN.
> data integrity checksums

I believe it has checksums on its own metadata, but no checksums on actual user data. So you won't lose a whole folder or volume due to bitrot, but it doesn't provide protection against a flipped bit in one of your photos.
The understanding I have of the Israeli military (and I could be very wrong, I haven't made a study of this) is that they tend to be surgical in their operations; so Mossad kills a key general or administrator, or knocks out key infra, etc., etc., rather than a full on conventional war.
> Have you heard of NixOS? Where this is nigh impossible?

I'm with you. I stopped nuking and paving when I switched to NixOS. It's nice. Maybe in a few more years it'll have saved me more time than I've put into it, but it has been fun anyhow.

It's not quite utopia however. Now I have bugs which I've perfectly replicated across all of my machines. So on the one hand: I don't need any nukes. On the other hand: my nukes are now useless anyway.
Plain old narcissism. This was the charm-heavy love bombing phase. The contempt, the passive aggression, the "your money is on its way", and perhaps the outright rages would have come later.

The real point of the interview was the reassure the narcissist that he was still smarter, still more significant, and still more of an operator than the lawyer who convicted him.

At the very least he got his prosecutor to turn up, which must have been a small consolation thrill.
I assume that every major secret service must have webcams pointed at any road in direction of a CIA / NSA facility (and vice versa). With a bit of face recognition you must have fairly valuable data.
Networks change all the time. You don’t want to rerun cable everyday.

You can configure a router to not use a path, even though that path physically exists.
This is probably using their excess capacity, but not necessarily that their GPUs are idle.

For LLMs/large models the huge cost is memory ops to load each layer weights during the forward pass. This is why doing inference at batch size 1 is extremely wasteful: you pay all the mem ops cost and don’t use enough compute FLOPs to justify.

You want a high enough batch size so that compute:mem ops is close to the ratio for that GPU. This is usually done by batching together multiple user requests.

At times of low usage there is excess capacity because batch size is below this “optimal” ratio. So they can slot in these “relaxed SLA” requests for little marginal increase resource usage on their end.

Basically have a queue of these requests that you use to “top off” your batch size when you can.

Edit: also you may not be able to get optimal batch size depending on when the requests arrive, eg you don’t want to wait forever to fill up a batch. So again having a queue of outstanding/delayed requests to serve allows for smoothing things out and increasing compute utilization
Replit is similar, this product is like it but tailored specifically for educational purposes.

As for Jupyter Notebooks – ClassroomIO allows you to create an assignment and have a group of students work on it simultaneously without interfering with one another. (Maybe you can do this somehow in Jupyter, but I don't know how.) Also, it supports more languages and the flow is more like a regular console app.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

I assume this is for interplanetary (or perhaps lunar) travel.
A few more years and there will be an always recording pin on camera too! Who needs privacy
Isn't the same true then of an HTTP server? Handling the polling requests is a minute amount of work compared to running the real jobs. And you've addressed the scalability problem, but not the connectivity issues that generally plague long-lived connections on the Internet at large.
I like this idea, but it should have a limit - because every time I zoom in to read the name of a road on a map and the text resizes to a smaller size for infinity I wish it didn't.
I worked on something very similar to this a couple years ago. My main issue with it why I didn't go beyond the PoC stage was that raising my hands up to the camera soon became a pain (I use a laptop), esp as I have it at eye level. It also had a hard time keeping up with my motions, so most of the time it was getting a blur.
We did this at my work once, with Papa John's, and threw most of it away because it smelled absolutely sickening. We just chose to not eat... Pretty much any other pizza is better. We've done Domino's a few times and it's pretty good, relatively! Though nearly any local pizza will win.
I went from C++ for personal projects to Python for wrapper and C libraries with Python callable code. I basically prototype shit in pure python, and then if i decide i need more speed, I just rewrite the thing in C extension. Its pretty easy to do. ChatGPT can even do 90% of the work for you.
> they avoid the need for busywork polling

The fact that you know that you can only expect an answer after 24h also avoids the need for busywork polling.

> Instead of a single "one batch with maybe up to 24hr latency" the offer could be a series of tiered queues with different SLAs and costs, and you can pick which you submit your work to depending on how important it is.

But that is what they have. They have one "ASAP" API and one "within 24h" one. These are two big distinct use cases. You use the fast one when there is a user waiting for an answer realtime, and you use the slow one when nobody is waiting for it realtime.

These are two distinct use cases from the user's perspective.

You are correct in identifying that there could be an API which offers 2h returns, or one which offer 14day returns, but why would you complicate the offering with that? It adds a lot of complication to the documentation, a lot of complication on the scheduling side and a lot of complication on the pricing side, and for what upside?
When I saw them compare it to E2EE, since that’s at least a specific thing that can’t really be misinterpreted, I thought they were serious, but turns out it’s not at all[1] and they are advertising themselves as being far more private and secure than they actually are. Considering their investor list[2], maybe this is more common than we realise?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40044348

[2]: https://www.rewind.ai/about#:~:text=Our%20investors
The CEO said on Twitter: "In fact, we built Confidential Cloud in such a way that only you can decrypt your data. Your employer, we as software providers, and the government cannot decrypt your data without your permission, even with a subpoena to do so."

So I think a monthly subscription is the business model, not ads.
> I think it'd probably be safer to err on the side of therapy and let the therapist's recommendation or repeat offenses dictate whether jail time is justified.

Repeat offenses as a signal? Sure!

Therapist's recommendation? I'm skeptical. Their primary data is whatever the subject self-reports, and their secondary data is their somewhat subjective opinion on whether the subject has improved.

If the subject does not want to stop and they are smart enough to figure out how to embezzle or to get high enough to embezzle, there's very little chance that the therapist would see through them.

It's like EQ tests - the subject can make the test results say whatever they want the test results to say.
Compare that to $97B profit for Apple in 2023.
Absolutely. I doubt we'll ever see it, but it'd be really cool to see a blog post or write-up about just how many edge cases they found and had to work around--especially the more obscure ones. Obviously at Apple's scale, something that only hits one out of a million users still has the potential to be a big problem.
> Their sales champions in 2023 were XBox, Azure and Microsoft 365.

Indeed, but they're going to ditch Microsoft 365 as well.
People like James Randi would have claimed they lived in the mad times. I think it's hard to judge whether it actually is better or worse now. If you're on social media, it's definitely possible to perceive that it's obviously worse now...but that's a function of yours and the social media company's actions in terms of what shows up in one's feed, not necessarily of reality.
I see.... t-shirts. Many many t-shirts.

Seriously, very cool link.
It practically reads as satire it’s so on the nose.
"No ordering pizza"? Staff a franchise with cleared employees in the Pentagon?
The text of the GPL automatically grants a license to all derivative works without the original author having to do anything explicitly, if I understand it corretly:

> Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein [...]

So while the original author(s) could file license infringement terms against the author of the derivative software, they don't have to in order for third parties to be able to use the derivative under the terms of the GPLv2.

At least that's my read on the GPL, and it matches the expected outcome – I'm not a lawyer and I'm not aware of any court cases focusing on this particular clause.
If you ever want to get a pulse of how busy certain caucuses are on the Hill, I'd recommend monitoring the rush at Bullfeathers (for GOP) and Tune Inn (for DNC)
Or that infinite scroll game of life that was on here a few weeks ago! more density, same information!
Thanks! And nice touch :)

As for the questions – I haven't thought much about that, but maybe it would be nice to have. Do you have some ideas on what that simpler than Python could should be? Like e.g. Scratch, or something else?
Instead of cloning well known sites I would talk to people and try to solve their problems. There's a big difference between people telling you they'll use your product and people actually using it. The bar is extremely high since your product has to solve their problem, it has to be better than the alternative, they have to remember to use it (or you have to remind them) etc. You will learn a ton and might produce something useful. Wish I had done that more especially as a student!
Most companies wish they could release products as "doomed" as Elon's.
Even an easy win is expensive.
> not using the latest SIMD extension wastes a lot of compute power

Not really. The unused parts of the SIMD execution units are powered down.

The only problem is that Intel has not introduced instructions for switching the execution width and the attempts to detect the intentions of the executed programs can never be perfect.

Therefore whenever a program starts executing wider instructions there is a large delay until the wide execution units are powered on and during that time the speed is much lower than possible. When a program stops using wider instructions, there is an even greater delay until the execution units are partially powered off and during that time there is a waste of energy.

All these inefficiencies could have been trivially avoided if Intel had not tried to be so clever, but they would have just allowed the programmers to have control over the power consumption, because only they know in advance what their program will do in the future.
The pay scales are locked down by two primary components: 1) the project contract document locks charges pretty severely for the project, to the point where a single high pay scale putting in hours will probably require a revision to the charges, but more importantly, 2) the owning Big Defense Conglomerate has armor plated pay ceilings for non-managerial employees - non-financial technicians are interchangeable cogs, that's the doctrine, regardless of any particular realities of skill shortage or availability.

Disregard what the Overlords might tell you; 2 is way more important, because when it comes to 1, the military program offices are VERY open to revisiting the charge schedule, if it means they get transparency and a better chance of something that might work. Those non-managerial pay ceilings were laughable pre-Covid, and now it's gotten just surreal, still based on a flat national average of what they consider the job role to be, something that's also gotten surreal, with Kinkos employees being included in sw engineer pay codes.

It's worsened by the fact they can't really take advantage of remote workers, somewhere with less CoL, in Alabama or Pakistan or whatever. Everything's on site, and it really does seem like every defense company I've ever worked is sited in some random shitty place where the local economy - if there is one - is composed of the company and three Applebees-like chains that service it.
Does anyone sincerely believe there’s any way China would let them operate independently?
> The old filesystem was HFS+, released in 1998

Released in 1998 for Mac OS 8.1. That HFS+ worked at all for Mac OS X was a minor miracle; it was absolutely not designed for use on a modern UNIX, and support for some features like deleting in-use files involved some egregious hacks (like temporarily stashing files in invisible directories).
It is impossible to tell if you are referring to Iran or Israel or maybe both.
I hesitate to recommend this because of how woo woo it sounds, but... I had terrible pulsatile tinnitus (both sides) for over a year and half. I went to doctors, specialists, tried steroids, the works. I had to sleep with headphones to drown it out. Eventually my wife suggested I try craniosacral therapy. After the first session it started to get a lot quieter and even would "stutter" out for short periods of time. After the second session it disappeared and hasn't been back. The practitioner came from https://milneinstitute.com/what-is-vcsw/
None of what you said is quantitative and/or objective data.
"You're a jerk, a complete kneebiter." - Arthur Dent
Actually CA isn't able to tap much hydro, that's Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana. CA also barely has wind potential, that's the middle of the country[0]: Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Iowa, Dakotas. CA has great solar potential but the difference is it actually did something about it. Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and somewhat Utah and Colorado could have done as much, but they chose not to.[1]

[0] https://twitter.com/IanDWyatt/status/1779520583123833017/pho...

[1] https://www.nrel.gov/gis/solar-resource-maps.html
That's typically called HTTP long polling, and it's a commonly used alternative to things like WebSockets.
What does it mean for Israel to win a war against Iran? Do you expect Israel to overthrow the Iranian administration, occupy a country with 10x its population, and then impose some sort of long-lasting stability on hostile territory, in a way they haven't been able to do in much smaller pieces of territory they've been occupying for almost 80 years?
I don't think Kitboga (or any of the other scambaiting people) would disagree with anything you're suggesting.
I agree that it's a systemic problem, and it is probably a job for regulators and maybe even the FBI/CIA.

I don't think any of these scambaiters are claiming that they're saving the world or "make much difference", but I think there can still be value in short-term solutions as well. It might take decades for politicians to actually solve the problem in a way that it needs to be, and in that time Kitboga wasting some time is making a small effect.
They ought to compensate users for the excessive flash memory writes if the users are going to be guinea pigs for their beta test.
Hey, I'm not, the code is sent to the server for execution.

I'm afraid can't help with the libs then ;)

I'd like to have more functionality in-browser, though, like an LSP running as a worker in the background. Do you have any materials that I could read about it or something like that?
People concerned with _microplastics_.

They don't care where it comes from.

The point being - is money one?

Why be so dismissive?
Yeah this makes sense. I do wonder though how it changes the dynamics around provisioned capacity, if at all.
This is just long-polling, right?
What's the summary for vision? Is there going to be a device?
Very cool, congratulations on the position! I'm a fan of web based games, out of pure curiosity is there any chance you can shoot me a link to the game in a DM?
This story meshes with every incident of long term fraud or embezzlement I've seen in my business life (I've had to deal with four, so it is annecdata):

1. The fraudster is really, really nice and often has a disarming appearance. Often it's pretty or handsome. The one that got the most, an book keeper who got $143,000 via petty cash looked like everyone's Grandma.

2. The money is always spent quickly and on things that were not obvious to others at work. Vacations, gifts for family members, luxury items... One guy spent it all on guitars and amplifiers.

3. When caught, the fraudster/embezzler admits it readily and cooperates with everyone... The reason every one gave was right out of a Michael Chrichton book, "The Great Train Robbery":

Judge: Now, on the matter of motive, we ask you: Why did you conceive, plan and execute this dastardly and scandalous crime?

Edward Pierce: I wanted the money.
a great book to read, much better than you would expect, about Hedy Lamarr, is Richard Rhodes book: "Hedy's Folly."
There's no solution I've found yet, and I've expended some serious energy in trying to solve it.

I've thought about taking a tent down to Goog HQ and just setting up there and waiting until someone hears me out.
We've gone full circle to an era of Mainframe timeshare scheduling tasks.
I agree. It might not be that the person was truly wronged, only that the perception that they were slighted can be used as a pretext to excuse their own slights (getting progressively less slight).