skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never before heard those numbers mentioned in relation to the Cultural Revolution in China. These numbers are more common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution#Death_toll

In what way was he "anti-Marx", and is it really that common that leftists become traitors that join the higher echelons of capitalism that Barroso can be considered stereotypical?
Wikipedia has a good explanation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_connector#8P8C
Yes, i was referring to “live only” and not VOD/“low latency hls” cases. This is a decade ago but my examples off hand are things like video game, game shows, and contests. Was definitely a category, infrastructure looked a lot closer to multicastish RTMP than todays dynamic manifest mpeg segment CDNs.

Edit: the above notwithstanding live sports etc is _still_ better on the storage side as viewers are so heavily synchronized. Lots of nice cache efficiencies when everyone is watching the same content at the same time.
The Bible, specifically the New Testament, and more specifically，The Gospels. The reason that it's radical is that Christ overturns traditional notions of morality. Greco-Roman thought saw the rich and powerful as close to the divine but Christ's message is that the meek and poor are prefered by God.

Coming in at #2, I would argue for Marx, maybe Capital. It's radical because it shows that Capitalism is not a "natural" state of affairs (as much as it would like us to believe that it is).
I think this statement is very cliche and worthless. All the attention woz is getting right now happens to come from the fact that Apple is a company that everyone is looking for, and he happens to be one of the two founders.
> it's that every dollar sent to China is another dollar used to oppress and abuse innocent people

I could say the same from the US
Well, yes. Architect for performance, try not to do anything "dumb", but save micro-optimizations for after performance measurement.
I read this last week and its terrifying. If the world lets Facebook become an AI leader its on us as we all know how that story will play out.
Why do we have GitHub curated lists?
Why do we have curated lists in github?

Example: https://github.com/jnv/lists

- Do we not have that knowledge on the Internet?

- Is it because google search is dying? Is it because github search is better than google search?

- Is being on github provides ability for social interactions, while individual sites do not? Stars, comments, etc?

- Is github more stable? Individual sites stop working randomly, while github lists pointing to other github lists will most likely stay relevant longer?

- Doesn't that work like "Facebook for devs"?

The whole idea that we build our knowledge as github lists looks like a community curated book, or search engine, or bookmark manager looks weird to me. The Internet is so full with automation, scripts, program, that surprises me that so much manual labor is required to run this operation.
I don't want to be that guy, but the article above is explicitly about the American market - not the European one.
Oh the places you'll go

When you roll your own date

You'll think you are great

'Til you're 6 minutes slow!
+1 request for more information on this. Is there a search term for arxiv? Your comment here in this thread is the top google result for "compute multiplier".
I think I get your point completely, yet I'm not getting through.

Would you agree that 1+1=2? Or that pi is 3.14159...? These are mathematical truths, but quickly crumble in the real world. One apple plus one apple doesn't just equate to double the apple, no two apples are ever the same to begin with, there are no real perfect circles out there either, there is still value to those mathematical truths in that they make it evident that they are perfectly precise and that it is real world interaction which may bring error into the table.
I swear there's a personality type that simply can't resist injecting their politics into unrelated conversations.

It's truly fascinating.
I am odd: I am immune to poison oak but allergic to mango flesh. Poison oak only gives me a minor issue around cuts or scratches, but the last time I had mango, I got hives anywhere my skin experienced pressure (like itching a scratch or wearing a seat belt or an elastic waste band or belt) for a week and a half. I developed the mango thing as an adult after eating like a dozen or two dried mangos one day
> No code I wrote five years ago is in production today.

Same. Sometimes the company disappears, sometimes they just stop maintaining your code after you leave, and it eventually dies.

The only code of mine that has stuck around is the open source stuff. And even then... a large open source project I started 15 years ago was wildly successful, but after I left (with another maintainer in place) it languished, and one of these days I expect even its website and git repo will disappear.

It's discouraging :-(
Time ago there was a running joke about YouTube comments sillyness. That section has improved a lot. Live chats, on the other hand...

During a recent volcano eruption someone was convinced that the rain would help stop the lava. I can't forget that. Oh, and the prophetic, blessings, I knew it, climate change, etc.
I'm OK with that. I did find it distracting, because I knew the character (not very well, I thought the kid was the assassin) and the overall conceptual juxtaposition was... weird.

Beats a cheery AI voice, though.
Nuclear has actually been a really hard sell for the last few decades, which is why there are so few new plants coming online.

Politicians are opportunistic and short term focused. So they'll back anything that makes them look good and important during the next election cycle. Nuclear projects take too long to complete for them to be interesting. There are some brownie points of course for approving one but it's not the same as the instant gratification you get with renewables where they might see operational solar, wind, batteries, whatever within a single term. Anyway, politicians and the people voting for them are the main target of nuclear lobbying to unlock subsidies, grants, permits, etc.

Those are needed to lure in investors. Investors are more skeptical of course. And these are very risky projects. Time delays and budget overruns are common. By triple digit percentages typically. And the ROI is uncertain too. So, raising money for new nuclear is not that easy. Government support somewhat mitigates the risks but not completely. Which is why there's a lot of talk about nuclear but not a whole lot new capacity coming online for the foreseeable future.
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It might have been driven by the same environmental changes that allowed humans to settle in a specific region in the first place. But in the end I guess it's several things coming together, like with most catastrophic events.
> Apple appears to be playing a high-stakes game of chicken with EU regulators, effectively saying, “Yes, you have 500 million citizens, but we have three trillion dollars, so why should we listen to you?”

Retreat then and gift 500mil users to your competition, I am pretty sure nothing of value will be lost.
forgot '3) apt-get install -y package; bin-from-package'
> . But a lot of Europeans are obsessed with these platforms and would probably be extremely pissed off if they lost access to them.

Platforms will be at fault then, for not complying, and not the EU.
Laws are made for a greater good (privacy, customers' rights) that I think will greatly offset not having tiktok.
It's not only the amount of upload bandwidth and the usage caps (although those are both big issues).

It's that you're also probably going to get CGNAT - and maybe even a firewall blocking unusual ports.

And you're going to be running the power-hungry data connection at least twice as much, bad for battery life.

And mobile connections are less reliable - transitions between towers, going through tunnels, switching between 4G and WiFi.

And mobile OSes are eager to suspend things - especially things that are using a lot of data and battery.
I’m far more concerned about the financial system. Sure infrastructure and IT maybe be shaky and full of holes, but the financial system rests on nothing more than confidence and pixie dust. Confidence failures cascade.
The space race likely necessitated NASA to show some improvement frequently. Otherwise the Soviet Union would have filled the large gaps between infrequent launches with their incremental successes.
>With workplaces themselves providing it by the truckload.

Also probably doing that to keep them working there longer too.
> I photoshopped that sucker, edited some key measurements, and that was what they used for the very expensive mold-making process.

I work in manufacturing and this sentence made me feel so many feelings. Surprise that this worked, envy that this worked, remorse on how hard we try to make things precise AND THIS WORKED. Just so, so many feelings.
Lotus Notes. Still beats Outlook for searching for emails and is easily better than the pile of refuse that is SharePoint for document libraries, workflows etc.
Falcon 9 launches every three days. It's not even fully reusable and it burns kerolox, requiring the engine be cleaned.

I doubt they'll have that cadence ready for Starship within NASA's ambitious timeframe, but if they can get orbital refuelling and full reuse working (which are big ifs) high cadence should only be a matter of time. And when you're just refueling it every flight, rather than building a bespoke new rocket (as with SLS), the cost for twelve launches would likely be significantly lower than one SLS launch.

The internal cost for a Falcon 9 is approximately 15 million, and that's including a thrown away second stage, drone ship usage, fairing recovery, and engine refurbishment.
I found the GPT-4o iOS system prompt
He probably thinks it's cool. Common on Twitter these days.
Pickup email makes one problem in spam much worse. It demonstrates that the address being spammed is valid and active. That's one of the reasons most email clients/hosts don't load remote resources by default.

Unless there was a google-scale grab-n-cache going on for those messages, I think there'd be a problem.
I treat abstract art as a source of inspiration (colour palette, pattern design, composition, technique). I prefer when it is made by a human working with a physical medium, because that's how you achieve mastery. Yet another Processing app able to churn out an infinite number of random images does nothing for me.
Good for you I guess. But people who live in better environment shouldn't impose a world view for people who live in worse environments. They should at least have a decency of understanding what is their privilege, and that there are people who don't have it.

Meanwhile, on HN, the only reaction I can count for is a downvote for telling my life experience. That's why I love HN, you often disappoint, correcting my life expectations closer to reality :heart: !
Thanks for reading through and engaging!

For mathematical typesetting, you need the KaTeX plugin [1] (installing an plugin is simply to drag-and-drop it to your own wiki). There is also a plugin for doing calculations in TiddlyWiki but I haven't used it personally [2]

I like it a lot - the problem with TiddlyWiki is that it's hard to describe since its so flexible. I have a few local tiddlywikis that I use for catalogues and note taking/knowledge base. The note taking was inspired by another HN comment [3] that introduced Drift [4,5], which includes features such as tabs for backlinks, keywords, and freelinks.

But you may also find the Projectify edition [6] interesting or one cloning Roam Research [7]

[1] https://tiddlywiki.com/plugins/tiddlywiki/katex/

[2] https://chronicles.wiki/TiddlyWikiFormula/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25305527

[4] Source: https://github.com/bmann/drift-tiddlywiki-template/tree/mast...

[5] Demo: https://ramirosalas.com/

[6] https://thaddeusjiang.github.io/Projectify/

[7] https://rr-tw5.github.io/
At a previous job, we did use postgres. On my personal projects I use sqlite3, no need to configure a RDBMS, and backups are just a file copy away..
Dude, who hurt you? (An European I guess?)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this interstellar swarm scheme require onboard clocks accurate to 1/frequency of the the light being used? Which is equivalent to the accurate measurement of phase.
Are these system prompts real? Or are they just made up by the LLM and the real one is unknown?
I think this is the answer. Also, storage and compute purchase prices are probably falling roughly as fast (or maybe even faster) than their storage and compute requirements go up. So even with their massive storage requirements, I wouldn't be surprised if they are more profitable each year.
One cannot simply claim a 100x efficiency improvement without providing any numbers and expect people to just believe it.

The only thing pointing towards the efficiency improvement from what I can tell is the absence of backwards compatibility that modern processors have.

But doesn't ARM have that advantage too? Aarch64 isn't backwards compatible with Arm32 either.

I'd genuinely love to see a showcase regarding the efficiency improvements and at which power draw these processors operate.
Lots of smaller or portable synthesizers use a 3,5mm TRS connector for MIDI. It's badly standardised though: there are different wirings depending on the manufacturer.
Quickly build and run kernels inside a virtualized snapshot
So the obese start doomed because they are born with different "body chemistry"?
Why not PWAs?

https://docs.pwabuilder.com/#/builder/app-store
Can a commercial airplane do a barrel roll?
Yes, it’s unmetered. Just colocation. You pay for the maximum rate basically not the amount sent, if that.

The cloud bandwidth you get on your VPS has nothing to do with costs at the scale where you’ve racks in data centers.
Eudyptula Challenge (2014)
> Man, the resistance to exceptions with their human-readable error messages and stack traces and sorely misunderstood on HN.

You grew up with "errno only", so that's your frame of reference. You've seen exceptions and don't want to go back to errno. Do you "fear" errno? Is errno the "boogey man"?

I've seen monadic error handling and I don't want to go back to exceptions.
He sued for defamation against the media organisations who exposed him and he lost _hard_. So all the facts that might ordinarily be in dispute and have tiptoe-around language to avoid being sued for can be stated plainly.
I think it is reasonable to criticise them for being quite so tightly tied to Broadcom, though. That's an artefact of the local ecosystem they're in, and it's arguable that the pi wouldn't exist at the price point it does without such a close tie, but live by the sword, die by the sword...
It depends, if it was an early-stage startup, pre-patent and pre-IPO, they could have been quite vulnerable, in which case that's common practice.
A guy in my village, a few years before I was alive, was immune to poison oak (as am I; not sure how common it is) and he would show off by eating a bit of it. After several years of this parlor trick, he had a severe reaction one time and went to the hospital. Throat nearly swelled shut.

This guy should be aware of said story.
Either you are being intentionally dense or are just not reading carefully enough what my point is. Yes there will always be someone who is going to suffer. That is not the point. My point is if the system consistently and predominantly makes the underprivileged suffer its a bad system. This isn't even controversial dude, there are wikipedia articles about some of these systems.
The joinery, and the lack of it, are what makes cursive, cursive. Also makes the definition nebulous.
Any comments on why?
Sure, that's probably true.

As the saying goes, the Apollo program was one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of the Soviet Union.
I am Italian and I would be greatly in favor of this. However, I am quite sure much of that money is going to end in the wrong pockets. And for a project of this scale and impact we can't afford that.
Reminds me of Trappist monk beers, that I have read about, but not tried.
I have found his lack of proper order, grammar, punctuation, etc... is what lost me out there. This style is fine for 3-4 steps tutorial. But if you have something this long, then you need a proper Table of Contents and make sure to make it a professional old-fashioned doc.
The reasons I see are:

1. People trust stuff on GitHub. It makes you think "a group who knows what they're doing did this" instead of "hey look another random blog written by 1 person who's probably just as new to this as I am"

2. Collaboration is great on GitHub. Anyone can submit a patch or whatever to add stuff to the lists, or update/remove stuff as time goes on. A blog post found on Google is probably years out of date.
I think Lotus Notes must be one of the most controversial pieces of software ever released. One of my first jobs was developing a document and project management workflow system using Lotus Notes 4 and Domino and found it not only quite quick and easy to use, but looking back I have to say Notes was way ahead of its time with a lot of what it offered. Yet every time I mention Notes among IT people, most of them who have used it respond with visceral hatred.
It doesn't help that there's no way to specify in the contract of the function that it can throw. Blowing up your entire program because it can't parse a URL is something you should be made explicitly aware of.
I went to a Montessori school for a portion of my education (latter half of 'primary', more or less, I get muddled because I was also moving between different country's school systems), and I actually stayed a year later than normal along with 2 other kids. I enjoyed it, and there were two extremely good teachers there who were very good at giving me enthusiasm for STEM. I would say the system didn't exactly get me to push myself: the nature of the self-directed work meant I was rewarded for meeting targets I set myself, and so I tended to just set easy targets: I would pick the tests/exercises I already found easy and do stuff like a 50-digit long division because I could just churn through it, as opposed to focusing on areas I was not so good at (like writing). But still, it set me up in good stead for the rest of my education, though I found adjusting to the more strict approach of later stages a bit annoying.
Migrating Uber's ledger data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore
DIN MIDI connectors have the advantage to use mandatory optocuplers so no ground loops etc.
Hmmm! Bookmark your comment here and come back after a few years, or perhaps a decade. I hope you smile by then, and then spend some time doing nothing.
I recommend `??` from GitHub Copilot. It's basically this, but for any command, not just ffmpeg. I use it all the time. And it asks for confirmation to execute the command :)

https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-cli/
slrn. Although I think what I actually miss is old usenet and the community I had there.
Intel's Thunderbolt Share lets you connect two PCs with a cable for PC-to-PC
Google Blog: CSRB report highlights the need for new approaches to securing t
I wonder if the benefits you get from applying hot water is from the heat itself. Heat activates heat shock proteins in the skin and suppresses/alters inflammation. [1] There are people who use infrared heat lamps to treat autoimmune skin disorders.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34781874/
- "muslims should be called out about this guy."

So Muslims are collectively responsible for the actions of this man?

Are you responsible for the mistakes the US (assumed) government make?

Would you feel the same if Muslims started calling for, and celebrating, the death of Netanyahu?

-"very few muslims know islam better than this guy"

As I understand it, he had a very limited education, so ... yes ... there are millions (perhaps billions) of people who know Islam better than this person.

Perhaps you're drunk on the relief that the man is no more and it's clouding your judgement. Or perhaps you're a simple racist. I'm not sure.

But I can confirm that you're very ignorant on much of what you've just written. And I hope you never have any influence on power.
In 2014 or so, i decided to work on my social skills and showed up at the same coffee shop every day. Over the years i've made a bunch of friends.

Staff can't run away and after a while you know each other a bit, other ppl do the same and occasionally you meet.

Sometimes someone sticks around, not me though, i'm too restless and keep moving away within 5 years or so.

When there's no one to talk to, i do some drawing excercises which you can see on my ko-fi.com/zantu2019
Learn things that don't change
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My handwriting is crap, I'd much rather type hers!
> but whenever I share them with my friends or family, they tend to talk negatively about it or say that the idea will not work

If you wanna get praised, you should share your work, not your ideas.

Get the best idea you had so far and start coding it. Better ideas will come as you understand more the problem.
That is not true. Transformers are being applied all over because they work better than what was used before in so many cases.
Nihilism strikes me as a very specific commitment. There is a difference between "there is no meaning", and "we don't know the meaning", or a myriad other recall/precision related questions such as "can we know the meaning", "is one of the following candidates potentially the meaning", and so on.

I can see why for practical reasons some may lean into it, but I don't see it being epistemologically well founded.
I said this over a year ago elsewhere:

Electronic engineers spent decades overcoming thermal noise floors so that humans could communicate over vast distances with small amounts of energy.

AI researchers, in a few short years, undid all that by making computer-generated chatter and images indistinguishable from messages sent by humans.

Until such a time as we live in a Bladerunner-like world of Replicants, being in-person will be the only reliable way to convey a message from human to human.

I'm long on travel and in-person meetings, short on VR and telecoms.
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Indian IT industry's love affair with H-1B visas may be over
Of course you think the majority of your code can error - exceptions don't let you draw a distinction between fallible and infallible code, so you have to assume all code can fail.

This leads to two problems:

1. You can't take advantage of infallible code...

Infallible code is much easier to use because there is no need to worry about errors. But you can't take advantage of that because infallibility is not encoded in any way.

With Result types, infallible code is clearly marked, which allows for sectioning it off from fallible code. Programmers naturally gravitate towards doing just that because they want to take advantage of the ease of use.

The result is a lot of pure functions and as little fallible code as possible.

2. ...but you will erroneously try to do so anyway

You will inevitably start assuming that certain code can't possibly fail. The ease of use of infallible code is just too alluring: [1] [2] [3].

[1]: https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/202001/bug_915_solved.html

[2]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050114-00/?p=36...

[3]: (a little wordy) https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...
What problems are you facing?

Clearly, you are facing a problem finding problems to solve.