skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TBH I'm not sure where I'm getting the 2.5% number from; it's the one that stuck in my memory from the last time I dug into this data. It's entirely possible that my memory is wrong or the data I was looking at represented an outlier in flu deaths.

For the 2023 / 1.5%, I referred to the provisional vital statistics for 2023: https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/D176;jsessioni...

Looking at past years (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db355_tables-508.pd...), I get more like 2%, even for bad flu years like 2018. So that 2.5% number is probably either completely misremembered or based on provisional data that has since been revised downward.
Wind farms generate substantial quantities of power at like $0.04/kwh unsubsidized - they're in no way ridiculous. California generates well over 10% of their total electricity demand via wind, Texas is closer to 25% of their total demand (more than coal and nuclear combined). Hundreds of thousands of cheap, carbon-free GWh produced is an odd definition of "doing almost nothing".
> not fulfill supply side requirements to their own damn customers

It's been easy to find a Pi in stock for months now. https://rpilocator.com
It's interesting how defensive you are about being socially conscious.
I think the only place I knew where WiMAX actually worked properly was in Japan.
Let's not forget the amazing Palm Pre that was released 18 months too late. If it could have been released on time, it might have done much to save Sprint. But by the time it was released it was merely competitive instead of compelling.
Twenty years too late for it to possibly matter, but it's still nice to see.

Interesting that there's no mention of what licence the source is being released under - and it's only available following email enquiries, of all things. I'm surprised they're even bothering, at this point - the software's so obsolete that it's not like it has much in the way of value anymore beyond nostalgia.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40359993.
Fascinating, leads to so many informative rabbit holes. Thanks for sharing.
Long ago I had a T-mobile prepaid plan that had the wrong caller ID info. They claimed it couldn't be fixed because it was prepaid and they were unable to properly manage those accounts. Mint has been much better and will remain cheaper for now.
I'm not sure how Uber does it, but it might be because they're using Cadence instead.

The Temporal team has acknowledged that Cassandra-backed Temporal hits scaling limits pretty fast.

The limitations aren't a clean "X actions/sec", they're sneakier. Because you can run X/sec for days and then the memory on the history service will spike, or any tiny slowdown in the DB will cause looping degradation. There are nasty feedback loops hidden in Temporal that turn small problems into very very large problems.

I think the core problem with Temporal is the way its sharded. This affects history service and its caches. If anything tells them to reload or restart, or that any of the nodes are unreachable, you get a retry storm on the DB.

In addition to these issues, Temporal can create feedback loops within itself. I've seen cases where it would not return to health, even with 0 workers requesting work for 10s of minutes.

We could have kept using and scaling Temporal, but it required 10-30x the resources of building something else. And it was scary to administer. You really need an entire team. You can't have somebody who isn't a dedicated engineer take on-call for it.
Exactly. People seem so worried about governments controlling public discourse for their own nefarious ends, that they don't even seem to be aware that private individuals are controlling public discourse for their own nefarious ends.

And if well-connected geeks can massage their online profiles, call in favours from unelected moderators, hide pertinent facts about themselves... what's to stop all manner of awful behaviour from being covered up? What's to stop petty business owners from destroying their rivals?
> "Younger, more left-leaning, and female faculty were generally more opposed to controversial scholarship."

That's so counterintuitive, I simply cannot believe it's true.
I'm skeptical this will be a fully free license based on the cagey language in the announcement :/
Yes, I have and it's better but only marginally. I like my Tesla, of the EV's available, it was the winner. The sales model coupled with the route planning with RELIABLE charging stops sealed the deal, and other legacy car manufacturers are just so clueless when it comes to both.

But look, FSD is smoke and mirrors. v12 is marginally better, yes, but it still acts horribly. It can't merge well. It's jerky. Last night it tried to drive in a breakdown lane. It often misses on-ramps for highways around here.

Man, the auto wipers don't even work. That makes me the angriest - what would they pay for a rain sensor? Jeez.

Vision only may work with better cameras but seriously Elon put Ali Express $0.20 cameras in this thing.
> Of course in his shows he presents everything as fact, just like every other science does

That is problematic though, because genuine science is never/should never be presented as fact unless it's irrefutable. I'm fairly sure that's one big reason why he comes in for so much criticism, aside from any questions about the veracity of his ideas.
Nope. They hit the scale limit with Cassandra and now have an in-house storage layer
I have heard of Lean, but I just took a look for the first time. Certainly, much more Idris/Haskelly than the OCamlish F*.

Are there libraries available for general programming in Lean? Can you compile to another lower-level language like C?

I would be interested in writing some embedded code that could formally be verified. Right now, I have put some time in to SPARK2014, the subset of Ada.
Voting there isn’t real, many subreddits are simply echo chambers with the hive mind downvoting because you said something different
I didn't know of electric-battery-powered leaf blowers! Here in France i always suffer gas engine blowers which are so annoyingly loud and smelly.
Hickman is a politician. I don’t think prisoners should be competing in the free labor market, and especially not for companies run by politicians.
NIH official admits taxpayers funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan
We changed the URL from https://github.com/likejazz/llama3.np to the article it points to, which gives more background.
It’s important because solving a math problem requires you to actually understand something and follow deliberate steps.

The fact that they can’t means they’re just a toy ultimately.
TFA: "They worry that this microsecond-scale competition between algorithms is socially wasteful"

I would LOVE to see a stock market that

(a) time-penalizes large orders -- 1 share trades in a microsecond, 10000 shares takes a week to execute

OR

(b) adds a random time delay to all orders in the range of [0,60] minutes for corporations, [0,10] minutes for residential traders, and [0,1] minutes for people who have provably low income

This will restore opportunities to real humans and drastically reduce the advantages that institutions and robots have.
You've been reading the Western media again.

The goals of the SMO have been unchanged from the outset of the SMO until now, more than two years later: "demilitarization", "denazification" and the neutrality of Ukraine.

The methods may have changed, but the goals are the same.

demilitarization: attrition is the best way on the battlefield if people wont be diplomatic.

denazification: I see recently that Zelensky is helping-out there himself, and is pushing AZOV, etc. out now as cannon-fodder because he's scared of a coup. :)

Neutrality: well, that one is still in the future. I don't see the path to that one being easy. It may pass through Brussels and/or Washington.
Yup. We've finally been able to consolidate the redundant flow/congestion control in the HTTP multiplexing and TCP layers while solving the head-of-line blocking problems. It only took 15 years (2009 was SPDY)!

HTTP has been around since 1991, 33 years ago. We really pushed things faster in the second half of HTTP's life so far.
The dozen people still using Winamp rejoice...
Single-stair egress costs lives. It shouldn't be allowed. They were right to ban them, no matter how 'ugly' or costly it makes the buildings.
See above. Its not so straightforward. You need enough headroom on each component that a negative feedback loop can start, eat resources, and have enough time and resources to calm itself before hitting some limit or degrading itself further
I've used one of my game projects, and here's why I don't want to use it again:

- You're locked into an online IDE if you want to use the PlayCanvas editor (which is the main selling point).

- Third-party dependencies are hard to integrate (for the online editor).

- You can't use different JavaScript languages (again due to the editor).

- I've seen lots of minor version changes that break too many things (not very stable).

- The editor had some major UI bugs back then (and probably still does).

Pros:

- Web-first library.

- Unity-like editor.

- Easy to debug/access things with only a link.

- Recently started to support WebGPU.

I've used ThreeJS, PlayCanvas, and BabylonJS in serious projects. I've concluded that BabylonJS is my go-to web-based 3D library from now on.
The term they googled makes it clear they fully knew they weren't doing something clean.

I totally see what they did wrong and here's the proof they knew too:

> "allegedly “searched online for, among other things, ‘money laundering,’ ‘exploit,’ ‘computer fraud abuse act,’5 and ‘does the united states extradite to [foreign country]."

But you may be seeing different things than others, including the perpetrators of this crime.
"Breaking news - older civilizations than currently have been found may have had most evidence of their existence wiped out by major events"
Grand Theft Auto VI is launching in fall 2025
This is possible in any market scenario where there exists buyers and sellers separated by a physical medium bound by the speed of light. Front-running is a fundamental property of market dynamics.
Out of curiosity, what are those things that might crash the system while leaving evidence in /tmp, but not logging something useful?

For what it's worth, OpenBSD which could be considered conservative says this about /tmp [1]:

> Temporary files that are not preserved between system reboots. Periodically cleaned by daily(8).

So no one should expect those files to be stored permanently.

[1]: http://man.openbsd.org/hier
I’m glad to see that fraternal crypto fraud is no longer a monopoly of the Winkelvoss twins.

Also glad to see my alma mater in the press.
Can you elaborate for those of us who aren't up to speed on the TLS + HTTP/3 situation? Is there a problem somewhere?

Also - are people still doing TLS in their app directly? Modern setups often terminate TLS at the gateway/edge/ingress instead of at the app level. If you use something like k8s, you can even do m2m TLS within your cluster via sidecars - with your app knowing absolutely nothing about TLS.
Feds to end coal leasing in Powder River Basin, nation's largest source of coal
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043956
The problem is, in the context of Tesla, this is still a massive failure.

At Tesla's market cap, as in, "worth" more than the rest of the auto industry, any conversion rate less than about 90% is a huge failure. They have been pushing self driving for a decade now, with billions of dollars worth of investment and some of the best engineers for this in the field, and all they have to show for it is a 2% conversion rate on people who have already self identified as being willing to pay more for a new, unpolished product.

Consider how much other companies have advanced in self driving in the same time, or how much better solar panels got, or the massive improvements and developments Space X had in the same time frame. Meanwhile, FSD has barely increased in value in the same time frame, and is no longer a unique selling point, but a competitor in a busy market.

Tesla needed to be revolutionary. They needed world changing improvements, huge step changes in functionality. They needed something that every single human being desperately needed, even taking it's faults into account. Instead they've only really made incremental improvements over ten years and lost any tech lead they might have previously had. They've failed.

It literally doesn't even matter if Tesla cars are better than any other car on the market. To justify their valuation, they needed something magical.
Land use plan: https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2021239/510

Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_River_Basin#Coal
It's heartbreaking to me that these guys aren't just allowed to get away with this. What's even the point of cryptocurrency if the algorithm isn't law?
if you spit down, there’s a beard; if you spit up, there’s a mustache
I use the community update of Winamp, WACUP, and it's excellent. I've tried other media players but always come back here.

I'm not even one of those people who likes the shitty visualisations, I just think the interface works perfectly.

https://getwacup.com/
I think with LLMs in general, the algorithms are very refined and require lots of research, despite being "simple" in terms of entropy, or an imagined Kolgomorov complexity for defining algorithms.

So "simple" is a fuzzy term here, but yes, the entropic complexity is in the data, not the algorithms.

Related to the so-called "Bitter lesson".

Edit: the sister comment pointed out what I failed to express: RILHF and training are also algorithms, and their applications and implementations are probably much more complex than the code that evaluates a given prompt.

So basically, "models" (trained NNs) are also an example for the equivalence of code and data.

Fixed data used by code (the trained model) is code in itself, even when it is not directly written by humans or in a human-readable language.

Edit edit: don't forget to count the imported maths code :)
but I assume this is not relevant to the "it's just matrix multiplications" overall argument
>That's to say that Firefox feels as it's currently on life support

No it doesn't?

-- Sent from Mozilla Firefox
Maybe now we can finally add RealVideo support to it.
Tesla Model Y built in Germany spotted with Hardware 4
This satisfied whatever cravings I still had. Thank you!
Their OWN emissions? Wow...
This is a pretty standard technique if you're running the models yourself. e.g. ChatGPT almost certainly does this.

There's even work that is more sophisticated in this domain that allows 'template' style partial caching:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04934
Unfortunately, speed and efficiency of software is too low on many developer's totem pole. Feature bloat, time to market pressures, unrealistic schedules, and 'scale-out' architectures are much more prominent priorities than building tight, elegant code that runs fast even on old hardware.
I've been curious about historious for a while, but I want to ask how it's different from pinboard.

From what I can see, they both have the ability to archive / FTS your bookmarks.

But in terms of API access, historious only allows WRITE access (ugh), where at least pinboard allows read/write.

What else am I missing?
That's how science works but new hypotheses must necessarily be able to explain all the existing evidence rather than just cherry-picking.
On its own? Sure. But they are rarely found in a vacuum.

Per the article:

> American approaches aim to make combustible light wood-frame buildings easier to escape by providing multiple paths of egress; European codes, by contrast, require fire-resistant materials and compartmentation to prevent fires from spreading in the first place. Statistically, the evidence is clear: fire-death rates are consistently lower in Europe than in the U.S. and Canada.

It's almost as if disproving this statement is the whole point of the article or something.
Cancel Culture at its best!
Am I the only one who's fed up with glorified tech demos that make it to the market only months later? It feels like paying for DLCs on the gaming market.

This happens with most companies (especially Google and OpenAI). There are a few who deliver on their promises very quickly. Apple is one of them.
Not so according to the Justice Department.

https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/197...

I elaborate on this in a reply to your interlocutor downthread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40383391
Why? If the three only crime reported in a neighborhood is a bunch of arrest warrants, why is that less safe than a place that has a bunch of violent crimes reported?
I think you are implying that as neighborhood that has a bunch of criminals is inherently unsafe. But it is only unsafe if those people commit crimes there. There may be a relation, there may not be one.
til: Winamp is still alive and kicking
Oh, not to me. Capital finds its ways. Maybe not now, but certainly in the future.
A level of grittiness has been long sought after by innovators, artists, writers, and the like. Too much comfort is not good for creative endeavors because you quickly become out of touch.
ROG-O-Matic: A Belligerent Expert System
Serious question, let's say you had a ton of money and wanted to get this done, is there physically enough available Rust talent (at market rates) in the world today to port ffmpeg to rust in any reasonable amount of time? My understanding is that it's one of the biggest open source projects in terms of LoC, development hours needed to both create and maintain, and number of former and active developers working on the project.
https://archive.is/sILbH
You could use archivebox with the archivebox web extension. And then use a separate offline / batch process to embed and RAG your archive.
Maybe we should rethink wastewater streams for selective recycling: stormwater, graywater, blackwater, and yellowwater. Perhaps the latter two should be recycled where possible and then residual wastes close-loop incinerated to prevent leeching any sort of biologically-active molecules or pathogens into the environment.
I don't understand how you think AI overviews threaten the existence of developers.
It means OpenAI will pay to show ads on Reddit
Perhaps that could be normalized for? And if you consider multiple subreddits you might recover some diversity of opinions?
> when they rolled back the entire ethereum blockchain

The Ethereum did a dick move but there was no rollback of the chain. None. Zero.

What happened is that the ETHs from the DAO hacks were locked for a few weeks (months?) in a smart contract, even after the hack. The (dark side) hacker couldn't get them immediately. So kid Vitalik quickly changed the code and pushed a new versions in which the rules of the game were modified, preventing the unlocking of the stolen ETHs.

But at no point was a single transaction rolled back.
Graham Hancock is literally just making up stories and saying "wouldn't it be cool if this happened" with absolutely zero evidence. The guy can't understand why archeologist don't like his theories, but he doesn't have theories, he has fiction stories.
I thought they sorta kinda knew this already?

One of the most batshit theories I've heard is it was actually a sort of water well on demand, the weight of the pyramid pushing down on an underground aquifer fed by a then-unknown branch of the Nile, forcing water up through a man-made well.

I wonder if they started looking for the missing tributary because of this theory.
But more sustainable alternatives to gas-powered leaf blowers are needed I think
They are ridiculous for a number of reasons, including the quantity needed and the storage problem. Neither are trivial issues to solve - making any stand-alone production numbers meaningless.

The obvious answer has been staring us in the face for decades. Yet... underinformed electorate continues to be unrationally scared, making it politically infeasible.

We could have been 100% "green" energy decades ago. Let that sink in... follow the votes.
I really enjoyed the Prince of Persia book in print: https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/books/journals/
I remember as a hobbyist Windows programmer (Borland C++ Builder) I was really envious of the skills required to build something like Winamp - especially the UI. Back then, advanced learning resources and examples were effectively non-existent or at least, hard to find and stitch together.
Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund?

;-)
My favorite part of NBN was always data caps. Data caps on internal traffic thru fiberoptic backbone!
It's fantastic. I can easily spend hours on the skins website. https://skins.webamp.org/
> Wind farms appear as ridiculous as they are.

What do you mean by this? My country is mostly powered by wind.

Edit: https://electricityproduction.uk/in/scotland/
They'll figure out a way to make a subscription service for it.
I'm going to define a "Unicode string" as Rust does: a sequence of USVs / content that can be validly represented as UTF-8. Thus, no, sadly, Python's strings are not Unicode, as they're a sequence of Unicode code points. Because of that,

a_string.encode('utf-8')

… can raise in Python. For example:

In [1]: '\uD83D'.encode('utf-8')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
UnicodeEncodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[1], line 1
----> 1 '\uD83D'.encode('utf-8')

UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\ud83d' in position 0: surrogates not allowed

(The underlying encoding of str in Python these days is either [u8], [u16], or [u32], essentially, depending on the value of the largest code point in the string. So, for some values, e.g., 'hello world', the underlying representation is UTF-8, essentially.)
https://opensource.com/article/20/4/plot-data-python gives some common options. What kind of plots are you trying to achieve? Interactive? Jupyter notebooks? Reporting? SVG or HTML output? You might also like to look at things like https://evidence.dev
i think the stuff you're talking about is just part of the changing demographic

it's the same as facebook and twitter. gradually it turns into boomer memes which get more engagement from the increasingly mainstream audience
> Subsidies are bolstered by politics.

That right there is irony.
Hertz sold a bunch of Teslas and it turns out they're all kinds of trouble
> You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of current state of the payment landscape in the US.

Maybe you should come here because you don't know what you're talking about.

There are far, far more business establishments than a few chain megacorps.
I'm willing to give the mods the benefit of the doubt that this was flagged in the assumption it would turn into a low-signal mess but I don't agree with the decision given the comments so far don't seem particularly low value. People are discussing page design and data modeling issues. I think it's useful from a technical standpoint. Oh well.
Rietveld Crate Chair [Assembly]
why wait this long (until Sept 2024) to opensource the code?
> local law enforcement is sympathetic to their cause. That is a problem.

Regardless of your political views, I would say that yes indeed it is, local law enforcement is too sympathetic to many popular causes. We have witnessed it with BLM burning and looting stores, Pro Palestinian encampments harassing Jews and Churches being burned down.

No one would be complaining if the law was equally enforced, unfortunately it isn't and it very much depends on the local politics. People get upset when they feel like certain groups are granted privileges for breaking the law whilst dissenting voices not so much.
I tried the GameScent so you don't have to, and trust me, you don't want to