skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you and I are actually saying the same thing.

Life is intrinsically without meaning. Emphasis on intrinsically: it can be given meaning, but it doesn't come with one included in the box.

We can pick an arbitrary thing to imbue life with meaning. Art is one such thing. There are many others (children, religion, career, etc.) and they're not generally exclusive, though time constraints do apply.
It's always good to follow this up with John Stewart's appearance, the one that got the show canceled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
> I suspect there was more to him getting hired at FAANG than aside from just his technical ability

Any evidence? He was at Netflix for practically a decade, and Netflix is known for letting go underperformers very quickly.
Those are pretty damn cool i didnt know those even existed.
Here's his YouTube channel. I don't know about the viability, but I loved the concept so much I started writing a sequel to my Station Breaker novels around the concept.

https://www.youtube.com/@johnmpowell
I tried GrapheneOS recently and switched back just because I lost my automatic backups. The backup solution and syncing should have been solved before some of the other design choices IMO. I was also disappointed to see that there is no way to prevent the warning message on each boot, which seems to delay the startup (or at least none that I could find).

Other than that, I could be content with it.. it may not be perfect, but it felt good to know that I wasn't tied into the Google eco system. I liked their contacts and location sandboxing.

I've heard some complaints about GrapheneOS's choices and wish that there was more communication from the lead developers about their design choices, just to understand them a bit better. However, I do think some users are just reactionary overall to some things. They hear Chromium and just assume it is worse, but honestly have no clue from a development perspective. All your complaints sound legit though and I too would like to know the answers, because you bring up very valid points.

There has been some drama in the F-Droid community, and I too tried alternatives, but in the end... my favorite apps all recommend F-Droid, and I find using F-Droid 10x easier than the alternative of managing apps from random locations. I believe the biggest complaint with F-Droid is that it is a single-point of failure or compromise since they sign the packages and updates can get delayed, however, in reality adding random Git repos to Obtanium or whatever is just as insecure. I believe Fdroid even does some security scanning too, but I could be wrong... which is an added bonus.
> This sums up the business climate. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1013522

Also the consumer climate really. As despite all the regulatory barriers, Wind got through in the end.

And nobody was interested. Consumers didn’t flock to the product.
I'm trying to put together a format and offering that will stand out.

Probably don’t.

Unless you have a lot of experience and then you probably would not.

Meet people’s expectations. They are the customers. Sure it is fine to exceed them. Here, that means they learn more, have a better time, and the pizza and coffee are above average.

Nobody builds a good reputation all at once.

Good luck.
I know how he knew.

There are two types of sound in rock. P and S waves. P waves are pressure waves and go faster. S waves go side to side and are a bit slower. So you cat was woken by a hiss from the P waves, which arrive a bit before the earthquake that you can feel.

See https://manoa.hawaii.edu/exploringourfluidearth/physical/oce... to verify that there are two types of waves, and the P waves arrive first.
I think about this frequently. I hire day laborers occasionally and it’s actually quite astonishing at how much physical labor most those folks can perform and rather quickly and cheap. Yet when I get to know them the reality is most of them exist in an unfamiliar and invisible to society type way.
As an example, Starship can theoretically SSTO on Earth, just with no payload and no means of returning. Totally inefficient and actually useless, but technically SSTO.
Yes, it is common. See my sibling comment explaining it.
I have literally never seen an uber use a parking spot.
Pretty cool.

I build something very similar - smort.io . Just prepend smort.io/ before any article URL to easily edit, annotate and share it with anyone.

Also works on ArXiv papers!

This was the Show HN post for Smort - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30673502
There's one in Brisbane, Aus near where I live. Lots of big roads and motorways carve up remnant bushland and a few of those roads now have wildlife underpasses and/or overpasses for animals.

Unfortunately new motorways are still being planned and constructed further dividing up bushland and the region keeps sprawling out further with large greenfield developments on farmland and bushland.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/koalas-...
Feel like the AI Upscaling was either done shitty or the screenshots they used are really bad examples, no reason AI upscaling should make all the images darker for some reason lol
I haven't had the chance to visit, sadly; I only learned about it from watching "The Ideal Palace" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7248884/) which helps understand the scale of the Palace.
Apparently that lineage goes back to 1968 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma

I wonder what those early versions were like. It's on lisp so it's feasibly still runnable without too much fussing around
sure but when you add it up it doesn't feel like much. an additional car and some luxuries.

And it doesn't account for qualities that have degraded. it assumes that since we have more possessions that life is better.
+1 to this. IMO the first versions of AGI are going to be program synthesizers.
Impossible to make <button>s draggable
A lot of Walmart management are promoted into it. While certainly not a great job, it's not too bad to make a career out of it. The average Walmart location will see about $70M/yr in revenue, so her responsibility is fairly high.
I'm with you in that I don't hate all brutalist architecture, but Wurster is generally acknowledged to be ugly in real life.
> Null-routing the target IP helps everybody except the customer who is being attacked: namely, the network operator and their other customers. From the victim's point of view, it's just as frustrating as the attack itself, and gets in the way of troubleshooting.

If you're running on a single IP, yes. If you're running on multiple IPs, it's not that bad for the one that's being attacked to get its traffic dropped and everything else works. It's not great, but what are you going to do. If you've got enough traffic to overwhelm the inbound on the top of rack switch your box is on, you're not going to be able to really serve any of the good traffic anyway.

> With modern tooling and a bit of ML, it shouldn't be too hard for multiple ISPs to collectively determine which IPs are currently part of a large botnet. Drop packets from them, not to the victim. DoS the ones who are causing the DDoS.

There's usually way too many source addresses to do that, and anyway, routing infrastructure is geared towards looking at destination addresses, not source addresses. Also, each individual source doesn't look that bad --- if I've got 10,000 sources each sending me 1 Mbps of garbage, nobody is going to accept a block for only 1 mbps of sending, and yet, there's 10 Gbps of garbage arriving at my box; if I've got 10 Gbps or better connectivity, no big deal. But, if I'm only on 1 Gbps, I'm getting less than 1 in 10 of my inbound packets. I'd argue, if everything else has a big enough connection, it's probably still no big deal, it should be able to drop packets headed to me, as long as its upstream connection isn't filling up. But once abuse is causing contention that impacts others on my rack, it's probably time to null route.

If it's one of the big botnets with 100,000+ compromised systems, the individual bandwidth is even less. And if the botnet has significant ability to deliver spoofed traffic, source based filtering is meaningless. If it's reflected DDoS, I dunno --- there's value in hunting down the chargen services and removing them from the internet, but that's usually a lot more work.

OTOH, look on the bright side, if your outbound bandwidth is high and you get a lot of inbound DDoS, you may have roughly balanced your usage, and you may qualify for settlement free peering! (IMHO, this has got to be a major part of Cloudflare's business plan)
Calls/links to. meh

"important part you missed again" comes off as rude to me. Check yourself.
I wonder if it's not following redirects well
I recently discovered that there are theorized devices, called phonovoltaic cells, that also convert heat energy to electric power [1, 2].

In a PHOTOvoltaic cell, incoming photons give electrons the energy that eventually turns into a current. Like the photon, a phonon is also a packet of energy, but in the form of a moving vibration inside a solid. In a PHONOvoltaic cell a phonon gives its energy to electrons to create a current.

Unfortunately, we have been unable to find materials with the right thermodynamic properties to create these devices. But there is progress on showing that graphene could be it.

I guess that a phonovoltaic cell, like a photovoltaic cell, would have efficiencies much higher than TECs (5-8%), and so would make a lot more economic sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonovoltaic

[2] https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apr/article/6/2/021305/570297
Most people don't care. Photographers had a real great time pointing out that Samsung literally AI replaced the moon, but some Samsung S21 Ultra users were busy bragging how great “their” moon pictures turned out. Let's judge AI enhancements like sound design: Noticeably good if done well, unnoticeable if done satisfactory and noticeably distracting if done poorly. The article shows a case of noticeably distracting, so they're better off with the original version.
Tesla probably does!
Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP
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I'm not sure I agree that nothing can change your perception, but I'm definitely interested to hear what you consider a "few other foundational sources". Shakespeare? Einstein? Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
Those men arguing with Zappa were defeated, and the people that defeated them are just like them now, except with more colorful hair.
My guess is that the web developer skills needed to build this website and the rail building skills needed to build high speed rail are highly orthogonal. Plus their project isn’t high speed rail, or rail at all as far as I can tell. Do you mean “building [one] actual mile of animal crossing” maybe?
Word usage is mirrored by the hierarchy.

Whoever can introduce a word into a group is a leader.

A chant is a formula and intentional. To do so requires authority.

Giving a nickname and having it stick requires respect and shows who is the leader in practical terms.
Re: your last sentence, this tells me that "the HN community" skews toward programmers who are happy to collect big paychecks while turning a blind eye to where the money comes from, e.g. what their founders and CEOs did to successfully startup.

Airbnb, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber - off the top of my head - all very prosperous and genteel now, but all came from hardscrabble rule-breaking backgrounds.
Ask HN: What are your recommended, must-watch movies?
What movie(s) should one watch in this lifetime? IMDB 250?
Yeah, but even at peak efficiency, I don't think $/kWh on propane is going to be better than $/kWh from my utility. A battery system would be nice though, all things considered, so I could run the generator for fewer hours during an outage: only running the generator when my demand is high or the battery needs to charge would reduce the time spent at low load where efficiency is poor.
I wonder why Swift went with the approach of struct is a value type and class is a reference type. This approach means that when I am defining my type, I have to decide whether it will be used as value type or reference type whereas in C++ same type can be used as reference type (pass by reference) or value type (pass by value) in different situations.
> What I'm trying to tell you is that stocks are assets too! If they went up due to inflation, that's not "profit". It just takes more weaker dollars to buy the same stocks again.

Let me quote the original post again.

"the money I worked so hard to earn now buys 30% less"

If your $1000 becomes $1600, and prices went up 30%, then you can buy more stuff then before.

I don't care what you define profit as.

(And if you say something about how you can buy fewer stocks, that doesn't matter. Number of shares is not an important number, only how many dollars of shares you have.)

> You didn't actually address it because you keep missing the point. Number goes up != profit.

The comment I replied to didn't use the word profit, and I didn't use the word profit in my reply. You brought the word profit into the conversation. I didn't use the word profit the way you wanted, I guess. So I will stop using the word profit. Problem solved.

> That's a weak ass point, bro. Lots of people have fixed incomes, or otherwise can't demand salary hikes and get them in a timely manner. Wages always trail inflation, and the official cooked numbers are used to gaslight employees into taking less.

You mentioned fixed incomes increased based on official CPI numbers earlier, right? That's enough to prove the point I was making. The cost of living adjustment just has to be more than 0 for my argument to be correct.

Lagging doesn't affect my point as long as the lag is less than four years. Gaslit too-small numbers don't affect my point as long as the gaslit numbers are still above 0.

> If you're just trying to argue that people have ways of attempting to cope with inflation, you can stop now. I agree with that. What I object to is the attitude of "it's not so bad" that you're offering up. Inflation is bad and there's no real escape for most people. Our lives will really suck if inflation gets (more) out of hand.

No, that's not my point at all.

Let's have an example number. For this example let's pretend prices went up 30%. If I say "relative to your income and savings, you're paying 25% more", I'm not saying "it's not so bad". That situation is really bad. I'm just saying it's not 30%.

And it's important to realize that those numbers are different if we want to do accurate calculations about inflation. I'm not pointing out the difference for the sake of pedantry.
Wouldn't passing through GPUs automatically provide enough information to tie all your VMs together? Unless someone has found a way to make GPUs pretend to be common consumer GPUs and not report any individualized fingerprints, then I would think that any online service that has GPU access can easily fingerprint you. Plus, in my experience VMs also tend to report a lot of system information that makes it apparent what hypervisor and virtual devices you are using.

Sure, each VM may be isolated in the sense that they each have their own apps and isolated file systems... but that is exactly what sandboxing does, except without the overhead of complete virtualization at each layer. I'd guess that Windows Sandbox would provide the same security in a much more efficient manner. On Linux, the integrated sandboxing solutions should also provide isolation like a VM but with better performance.

I understand Qubes design decision, but honestly think it is a bit antiquated and cumbersome when in reality you don't gain much compared to other solutions.
CALTRANS is the largest contributor to this animal crossing.
“Construction on ‘the world’s largest wildlife crossing’ will close a portion of the Los Angeles County’s 101 Freeway overnight on weekdays for several weeks starting Monday.

The crossing will span 10 lanes of highway and aim to provide safe passage for wildlife – especially mountain lions – from the Santa Monica Mountains into the Simi Hills of the Santa Susana mountain range.

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) began constructing the crossing in April 2022, CNN previously reported. As the project nears completion in 2025, the bridge will be covered in soil and native plants to blend in with the natural surroundings.”

*from CNN:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/14/us/california-wildlife-cr...
Show HN: I made a game to challenge how detail-oriented founders are
The best founders and product leaders are not only great at high-level vision, but also very attentive to detail, being able to easily notice small bugs on landing page copies and in-app flows.

This is a fun little 1-minute game I hacked together over the weekend to challenge how detail-oriented you are. The goal is to find and catch as many bugs in this fake, parody 'todo list app', and rank yourself against others. Try it out here! https://detailoriented.app
Highly database dependent, as the query optimizer can only perform the tricks programmed into it.

For instance, we use SQLAnywhere at work (migrating to MSSQL), and it wasn't smart about IN (sub-query) so EXISTS was much faster.

Or, as I mentioned in another comment here, MSSQL performs much worse using a single OR in WHERE clause vs splitting into two queries and using UNION ALL, something which has no significant difference in SQLAnywhere.

For MSSQL I've found that even a dozen sub-queries in the SELECT part can be much faster than a single CROSS APPLY for fetching per-row data from another table.

Also the query might rely on certain assumptions that will in practice always hold in that application, but not in general. Especially around NULL, for example NOT IN vs NOT EXISTS[1].

[1]: https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/6013/sql-server-in-vs...
Only issue I’ve had when playing around with Dejavu is the query speed slows linearly as the library size increases.
Bizarre to call this “circumvention”.

I have not looked at BPC but I have an idea what’s going on: Many “paywalls” operate by letting you download the full content of an article but covering it up with an overlay imposed via JavaScript code.

You’d be surprised how many so-called paywalls stop working when you turn off JavaScript. Presumably at least part of how BPC works is simply blocking the JavaScript from covering up the content already transmitted to you.

So this is what passes for circumvention these days: A publisher sends you the full content of an article in a web page, but you decline to run hostile code that would like to hide most of the content you have already downloaded.

We are a long, long way from DeCSS. At least that involved decryption. This essentially criminalizes “view source.”
GDP/Student is higher in California so they could provide similar aid per student.

Obviously such a program should be run nationwide, but that’s a different question.
He did quit his job to do video content full time very recently, so hopefully there's more planned/quality stuff happening soon. As far as I can tell he's aware of where the content is right now and that it needs to expand.
https://xkcd.com/410/
Why don't you address the clear differences of an authoritarian one party dictatorship that already materially supports the invasion and destruction of Ukraine, and an impending invasion of another 80 year sovereign country?
> Why did every other video make it so confusing!

In my experience, with very few notable exceptions (e.g. Feynmann), researchers are the worst when it comes to clearly explaining to others what they're doing.

I'm at the point where I'm starting believe that pedagogy and research generally are mutually exclusive skills.
Is liquibase still the industry standard?

Another is migrations as code using an ORM library.

Last gig was doing that and diff’ing sql schema and bootstrap files, depending on the db. We eventually turned them into one time docker containers which actually made life easy
tell me more about her evelinaevtimova
Would this require a temperature gradient to function? My understanding is that a device that converts heat into power would violate thermodynamics.
although the definition of ‘free’ has been adjusted over time, mostly to mean no money changes hands. Just watch a few ads, allow the content providers to share your data with the world, and enjoy a lifetime of ‘free’ content.

And it stays this way, because attention and personal data are magically exempt from AML/KYC.

If I "pay with my attention" by watching ads, no AML/KYC is required.

If I "pay with my data" by being tracked, no AML/KYC is required.

But if I want to pay with real money, AML/KYC is required. And the cost of doing AML/KYC is prohibitive for micropayments.

We have outlawed micropayments-with-money while allowing micropayments-with-data and micropayments-with-attention.

The result of doing this should surprise absolutely nobody.
Not really relevant though. The airship to orbit concept aims to get both high and fast, whereas the XKCD/What-if you linked hinges on the fact that just getting high is not sufficient.

(This still leaves open the question of whether the proposed airship could actually overcome drag to get as fast as they hope.)
I had no idea people can get degrees with just PID controller. On top of that, people actually just eyeballing the coefficient in practice lol.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240415040111/https://s3.filebi...
hmm, yeah a guy I know recently wasted weeks trying to do a design that was actually undoable if all the ideas implicit in the design were given equal weight, and this would have allowed him to achieve what he was trying to do.
Awesome video. This helps to show how the Q*K matrix multiplication is a bottleneck, because if you have sequence (context window) length S, then you need to store an SxS size matrix (the result of all queries times all keys) in memory.

One great way to improve on this bottleneck is a new-ish idea called Ring Attention. This is a good article explaining it:

https://learnandburn.ai/p/how-to-build-a-10m-token-context

(I edited that article.)
Command line flags aren't an efficient way to pass 20+ args to a program. Sure, it works but that is why I get the feeling it was only ever designed for quick and dirty sandboxing.
Has there been any sort of validation that it helps? A comparison to human-based psychotherapy?
Loved loved loved the book, so when I heard there was going to be a movie I thought "NO WAYYY they'll pull it off" but, somehow they did a pretty darn good job and with A list actors too. I've read all his stuff now :)
I often browse without JavaScript, and often find myself bumping into paywalled sites don’t send the article in the first place. Of course, it is hard to distinguish between that, and a page that is just broken without JavaScript.
Just five days ago, two papers were published in the same issue of Nature. Both point to a coming paradigm shift where photons – and phonons – eventually take over the role of electrons in both data storage and computing.
FYI don’t read the other HN comments on this one folks. A lot a very negative people who want to share.
I own both versions of this book, the first one is almost one third the size of the latest. :)
Use a browser with DOH. Even works against corporate censorship.
contemporary with TunePrint https://www.mattababy.org/~belmonte/Tuneprint/ and at least one other. (Somehow TunePrint managed to get a record label to fill a fileserver with audio files and ship it back across country to use as training data - one of the stranger applications ever for AFS :-)