skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the GP, but yes, scrolling is smoother and more appealing. That can make the difference between choosing to scroll by wheel or by page down key.

In principle I would prefer the latter, but in practice web pages with headers that aren’t accounted for while scrolling causes the key to be quite inconvenient.

Mostly it’s a matter of fatigue, however: low frequency monitors make my eyes get tired faster.
Why most of these low float / high FDV coins dumped?
Fortunately for Scarlett, she can just sue them and force them to tell her. She also isn’t shy to litigate. I was surprised that Sam wanted to poke that particular beehive.
I’m not sure which branch of Econ includes pissing off your core market by being a fascist leaning edgelord, but that applies too. In the US Republicans are solidifying their stance firmly against EVs and left leaning folks are tired of Musks’s tweets.
Marine Unit Charged with Digitally Connecting Everything over the Battlefield
As a side observation, the clickbaitness of the titles seem to have increased with LTT over time.
In terms of absolute agnosticism anything can lead to anything.
Link to paper: Though I'm not a physicist, and it's pretty technical, I didn't really understand most of it.

https://arxiv.org/html/2405.02709v1
If I was the attacker, I'd use credential-stuffing or something to get access to some random employee's account. Doesn't have to be anyone important.

Then I'd set up a short-notice multi-way meeting between the target, the CEO and the hacked account. The deepfake 'CEO' then turns up with no alarms raised, except one wrong name - easily dismissed as a glitch, or an assistant having booked the meeting.
I wonder if they're truly unaware of one another and developed in parallel or not. Hmmm
> you could get yourself 25 top-notch engineers without AI PhD

Not in the US though. According to levels.fyi, an SDE2 makes ~275k/year at Uber. Hire 25 of those and you're already at $6.875MM. In reality you're going to have a mix of SDE1, SDE2, SDE3, and staff so total salaries will be higher.

Then you gotta add taxes, office space, dental, medical, etc. You may as well double that number.

And that's just the cost of labor, you haven't spun up a single machine and or sent a single byte across a wire.
Bourbon street, 10pm vs 2:30am
There's not a mainstream use case for 4k content. Show watchers don't care enough about the quality improvement to pay their streaming provider $5 more for the 4k stream.

Even the gaming enthusiast market has rejected 4k, opting to spend their precious gpu cycles on refresh rate improvements instead.

Panel marketers are going to figure out what number consumers comprehend and make it bigger regardless. Hence their focus on 4k, 8k, and now these silly refresh rates.

But their big problem is that consumer behavior is currently bottlenecked by streaming bandwidth and GPU cycles. Two things panel manufacturers have no control over.

Buy a nice 1440p @ 120 Hz panel and ride out the next decade in comfort.
With £25m there ought to be at least two people required to authorise the transfer.
The reinforced hill in Japan is fascinating. For stability during earthquakes?
If you know a technology leader at a company that has this problem, reach out and ask if they’ve had any pain related to it. Ask to take them out to lunch and tell them about a solution you’ve been working out. Or even a short demo call. See if they’d be interested in an “innovation partnership.” You give them a discounted/free license (can be time limited to a year or however long it takes to validate that your solution works and saves them money - then returns to full-price), they agree to feature prominently in your marketing material or provide a reference for your next lead.
Enough people do, and it has now entered the media cycle, so more will
Possible failure modes:

- ESD / supply voltage spikes. This device has basically zero protection against them. The RP2040 is well-known to be quite sensitive to them, so I'd expect it to kill the controller relatively quickly. The FRAM chip itself isn't as exposed, but could still be damaged.

- USB-A becoming obsolete. I fully expect USB-C to replace it on new machines within a decade - and we'll probably switch to something completely novel within the next 50 years or so. You'd have to get a PC out of a museum to access it.

- Flash failure. The data is stored on an FRAM chip, but the controller's firmware isn't. That chip is rated for 20 years (but I do expect it to last quite a bit longer).

- Crystal oscillator failure. It's literally a crystal, which is vibrating. They can fail.

- LDO fail-closed, exposing the MCU, flash, and FRAM chips to an overvoltage.

- Tin whiskers. The device is almost certainly using lead-free solder, which means it is susceptible to the solder growing tiny "spikes", which can lead to shorts. We've gotten quite good at managing these over the years, but all bets are off when it comes to a 200-year scale.

Most of those can probably be recovered from, as you'd still be able to attach debugging tools directly to the chip and bypass the controller. The biggest risk is probably losing the documentation, which makes accessing it an awful lot harder.
Not at all. I should have chosen my language more carefully. I think we are in general agreement. My only point was that we don’t need any laurels to rest on to be happy with a “small” life.
There’s a pretty big difference between them technically, mostly the latency of the display chain. TVs can have signal input to picture on screen latencies of dozens of milliseconds, whereas a monitor would be considered defective if it was more than one frame.

This only matters for interactive content, but it’s where a lot of the price difference comes from.
LibreNMS: Open-source featured, network monitoring system
I wonder if we will see these headlines:

“Florida person finds loophole in system to marry ChatGPT voice assistant”

“ClosedAI back peddles controversial decision to ‘lobotomize’ voice assistance after widespread dislike”

“It is now legal to marry 3D printed humans with AGI in these 25 states”

“Florida person initiates divorce with ChatGPT, claims 50% stake of OpenAI. Florida state courts open to it. OpenAI tumbles at market open by 11%”
Modern TVs (or at least those I've been interested in) have upscaling functions both for resolution and motion. So they can take your 24fps movie up to some more manageable frame rate.

I personally cannot watch anything lower than 60fps (and 60fps is still inconvenient, but passable). I see it as a really fast slide show which gets my eyes tired quickly.

Also you can watch clips recorded at higher fps natively - like nature videos on YT etc (I think these still max out at 60fps, but with motion upscaling it is quite decent).

Combined with a good sound system, these can be quite relaxing and if you have an OLED screen it can even be mesmerising to watch.
Peanut oil is also sold as an industrial lubricant. So they inject crap like palm oil and then use stuff like cane sugar to mask the taste. It is a CRIME.

The moral of the story is: Accept only peanuts and salt as ingredients; all else is duplicitous garbage.
They lie to Us.

They spy on us.

They poison us.

Why does 3M still exist? Their company charter should be revoked. Their assets should be stripped and sold. Every employee fired. Everyone complicit should be in a prison cell. Every single one of them.
OK, but if you're writing for that kind of platform, you know it. Don't use double there? Sure. "Don't use double on non-embedded code just because such platforms exist" doesn't make sense to me.

Sure, my code could maybe run on an embedded platform someday. But the person importing it probably has an editor that can do a search and replace...
USB-B is the other end of a USB-A cable that plugs into the peripheral rather than plugging into the computer. But peripherals all started getting so small that they switched to USB-mini/USB-micro, and the only large peripherals left are printers, which is pretty much the only place you'll see it used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Connectors
GitHub:

https://github.com/librenms/librenms
Sry, missed the /s.

I figured if you were as crazy as OP about "optimizing" then sitting doing nothing would surely be anathema.

Similar to doing nothing being valuable, sometimes doing something "optimally", just isn't worth it -- how do you enjoy cooking a meal you've never cooked before of You're trying to hyper optimally meal prep for the week?
This is the basis of the book "The Repossession Mambo" [0] and the (slightly less good) film "Repo Men" [1].

They're about what happens when you can no longer pay for your artificial body parts (the repo man comes and reclaims their property).

0: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6283942-the-repossession...

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men
I hate brutalism but when it's sorrounded by nature it's like it "breathes" and the contrast is interesting.
Curious if people use streamlit for big data production visualizations?

We're considering it but not sure how it scales when gigabytes of data are involved
It was already restored when Xi made himself premier for life. We’re in the Xi dynasty, but it looks like he chose an inauspicious time and the dynasty might not last long.
Ceramic capacitors should be fine, right?

The pico microcontroller, on the other hand, has normal flash and won't last very long. Here's an interesting article:

https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/supplemental/12/...

Maybe keep it in the freezer?

Otherwise I would expect tin whiskers or some other process to dominate reliability at long periods.
As much as one wishes this sort of thing wouldn't happen, it's hardly surprising.
Taking a somewhat mercenary view of the practice[0], a multinational business should not be able to circumvent the law (loosely speaking) of a region in which they wish to operate.
I'd expect most people think businesses (especially foreign ones) should have to follow the relevant local laws.

I don't mean to draw a direct comparison, but I think it's worth remembering that Youtube is usually eager to restrict content at the behest of other corporations as well.
To Youtube, the messages/content they allow is completely arbitrary.
Any sufficiently large/powerful entity can influence what is allowed on the platform.
The Russian authorities and Nintendo are two such entities.

[0] i.e. social media or websites enforcing a government's censorship policy/whims
Ratatui v0.26.3 (a Rust library for cooking up terminal user interfaces)
My theory is there's a bell curve. The bottom end is the zone where you're using WhatsApp as source control. The top end is where you're competing (yes, competing) with people who easily got a double degree at Harvard and MIT.

The middle is just nice. There's a lot of these curves though. If you can only work in Japan, then there's probably a top tier Japanese company that absolutely sucks, and it's probably easier to get an O-1 visa for some mid tier job in the US or something. There's also some overlap between top tier tech giant and lower-mid tier startup founder. Lots of people do startups because it's easier to sell a company for $30m than get a $1m salary.

I think Ask HN lies on the upper end of the curve which is why you see "how do I deal with burnout" posts every other month, or cynical responses by clearly intelligent people (key symptoms of burnout). So keep that in mind. Reddit is probably squarely in the middle globally and you'll get different job advice.

When I came up with this theory, I was in a group that was saying $50k annual is being too ambitious and they should stick to a $36k job.
> The code isn't that complicated, you could probably implement training and inference for a single model architecture, from scratch, on a single kind of GPU, with reasonable performance, as an individual with a background in programming and who still remembers their calculus and linear algebra, with a year or so of self study.

Great overview. One gap I've been working on (daily) since October is the math working towards MA's Mathematics for Machine Learning course (https://mathacademy.com/courses/mathematics-for-machine-lear...).

I wrote about my progress (http://gmays.com/math) if anyone else is interested in a similar path. I recently crossed 200 days of doing math daily (at least a lesson a day). It's definitely taking longer than I want, but I also have limited time (young kids + startup + investing).

The 'year of self study' definitely depends on where you're starting from and how much time you have, but it's very doable if you can dedicate an hour or two a day.
The recommendation of using the most recent standard is very slightly inconsistent with this, because in rare cases your code could be reused in weird embedded targets that only have an unmaintained proprietary C compiler. That was already rare in 2014 I think. Still, the situation might arise, just like you can still can find AS/400 machines or Cobol in production.
I'm a big fan of space exploration and would love to see a robotic exploration program on the scale of our current human space flight endeavors, sending rovers and landers all over the solar system, along with a major space telescope every 3 years or so (instead of once a decade).

I feel like we're squandering an amazing chance to explore space by getting stuck on sending people instead of leveraging the enormous progress in microelectronics, robotics, and autonomy of the last 60 years.
Sure, so would tiny little mechanical elves that go into your blood and scoop up all the nasties. Maybe AI could design some for us!
This leaves me wondering how many biomedical implants might have things like this in them which might be leaching into our bloodstream and thus bodies over time.
One odd usecase is monitors that you can take videos from without weird flicker artifacts.
Some changes, some stays the same. Sites like solar.lowtechmagazine.com will likely persist as they are for awhile. They have a helpful blogroll, too; no need for a Google's search engine.
If it actually sounded like her I'd have been using it.
The problem with diversity statements, and what to do about them
https://archive.is/kbJ8p
Unless you’re an executive, you’re an NPC.
They genuinely do not sound that similar to me
I find that when I open a fresh jar I have to pour off (and set aside to save) some of the oil before the first mixing. Because no matter how conscientiously and thoroughly you try to mix the entire contents of the jar, you always end up with peanut brick when you've eaten your way to the bottom of the jar, which is when you need to pour back in some of that saved oil for another mixing.
i agree, doesn't sound anything like Her to me.
On point. OpenAI engineers grinding so hard they need companionship from somewhere.
The impact here is XSS or possible RCE for electron.

> In applications that embed PDF.js, the impact is potentially even worse. If no mitigations are in place (see below), this essentially gives an attacker an XSS primitive on the domain which includes the PDF viewer. Depending on the application this can lead to data leaks, malicious actions being performed in the name of a victim, or even a full account take-over. On Electron apps that do not properly sandbox JavaScript code, this vulnerability even leads to native code execution (!). We found this to be the case for at least one popular Electron app.
I think there's only one part of that essay I disagree with:

That SpaceX knows "How much propellant a Starship can carry to low Earth orbit". They're iterating on Starship. Falcon 9 started out with an LEO payload of 10.4 tons and they managed to get it up to 22.8 in its current iteration. By all accounts Starship's payload isn't up to expectations right now but SpaceX has lots of knobs they intend to turn to get it up. They'll try them and see, but there's no way to know what will work and how much right now. So really nobody knows at this point how many refueling launches it will take.

Should NASA have committed to this design before the kinks were worked out. No really but Congress had put them in an impossible position so I think they didn't have a choice. But this is risk that happens at the start of the mission before any astronauts board. If things go badly here they can always abort. Unlike the landing on the Moon. And rapid launches and orbital refueling are something SpaceX is going to be working on a lot anyways regardless of the Artemis program. Unlike the landing on the Moon.
Now its just expected.
Thanks for those datapoints. I've checked out of the screen race for over a decade now (around the time 3D glasses were a thing) and have not really kept up.

The displays look incredible, but I was always wondering if that was just me or if other people really bothered to keep up with the latest tech to have a slightly better viewing experience.
I don't think so. I'd love to have 8k or more panel at 27-32 inch. The reason is that I can easily see pixels from a metre away and it is annoying. I'd love to have more detail etc. for instance being able to display nice texture underneath my text editor so it is more pleasing and easier to read.
Long read, but definitely worth it imho.

It's fascinating how that famous Upton Sinclair quote about it being "difficult to convince a person of something, when their salary depends on them not understanding it" (paraphrased) plays out with two different people in different ways. One who has convinced herself for a long time that it's not dangerous to humans, the other who sees himself as a "loyal soldier", and doesn't want to create liabilities for the company.
I suppose it depends on your own perspective. For my part, a world in which people "date" algorithms instead of other human beings certainly seems pretty dystopian.
The battlegrounds that could decide a US-China war over Taiwan
To my knowledge, the massive size isn't from the drivers, but because transcoded video files are also slipped in with the shaders. Proton struggles with things like Media Foundation, so Valve transcodes videos on their end.
I dunno - I think I'm a pretty normal person, and I thought they sound extremely similar. I thought it was pretty obviously intentional.
I'll be honest, I don't hear a close similarity. If I were to pick a celebrity, I'd say it sounds more like Rashida Jones, though Rashida's voice is slightly higher.
I'd hate the think that it might turn crunchy peanut butter into smooth.
This debate is boring semantics. "Consciousness requires a soul" is only useful if you understand what a soul is. Someone who solves that problem but just calls is "consciousness" not "soul" hasn't missed anything.
What potential roles could Swift fulfill within the Windows ecosystem? Is there a specific segment they aim to serve? One might inquire about the feasibility of developing GUI applications using Swift on Windows, particularly regarding the necessity for manual FFI bindings, given the current state of Windows-specific tooling which is largely GUI-centric.

The strategy Apple employed in not prioritizing C++ as a primary language, while also introducing Swift as a new language, is quite intriguing. It raises questions about the factors contributing to its success—whether it’s a result of the approach itself or despite it.
Linux is a powerful and versatile operating system that powers many of the world’s servers and networks. As a network or system administrator, you need to master a variety of Linux commands that can help you configure, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize your network and system performance. In this article, we will introduce some of the most crucial Linux commands for network and system administrators, such as ip, netstat, nmap, tcpdump, and more. We will explain what these commands do, how to use them, and why they are important for your daily tasks. By the end of this article, you will have a better understanding of Linux networking commands and how to use them effectively.
Maybe F* with dependent types and proof automation? I am programming in SPARK2014 currently and I would argue it is more of a Rust competitor with a longer legacy in high-integrity, safety-critical programming applications.
I hope that the USA decides not to prosecute Mr Assange on this matter of "Espionage charges relating to the publication of thousands of classified and diplomatic documents", which dates back to before the Biden administration.

This is not a broader comment either way; on Mr Assange's character or his culpability on any other changes. Be he a hero or a garbage person, it seems better to drop this charge. It is important to separate this and not reduce it to "Assange good" or "Assange bad". That should be irrelevant to the decision of this legal case.
> There will certainly be enough information available to access those in 200 years

Still depends on humans in 200 years having use of computers and electricity. Civilisational collapse would likely mean humans will lose those skills (like we forgot how to make cement/concrete after the fall of the Roman empire and it took 1000 years to rediscover).
2023 was the hottest summer in two thousand years
I wonder if there is any research that draws insightful connections between these theoretical models of variable binding and the usual way of writing a compiler with nested symbol tables.
The value proposition of commercial loud isn't cost savings unless you manage to quantify all of the ancillary and extrinsic factors such as security risk, HVAC, datacenter personnel, and hardware lifecycle. Any well capitalized and organized company could build their own cloud much more cheaply, but really a significant portion of the calculation is outsourcing the risk components.
Don't Create the Torment Nexus [0]

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/torment-nexus
Second Nietzsche - Beyond Good & Evil + Thus Spake Zarathustra.

TPZ is really a poetic/mock religious text version of BG&E.

The first few chapters of BG&E ask the question: why we humans seek knowledge at all? What drives the will to knowledge. . .feelings? A question most scientists never even think to ask. . but that seems the most radical question of all (as in getting to the 'root' of it all).
Surely we could start by not letting people get away with these crimes?
Without knowing what's behind the link that says nothing. It could be comparing their achievements, the architectures or many things. You just (seem to?) interpret it in a certain way.
> I'm going to make a safe bet that there's no way any of the capacitors involved survive anywhere near that long.

Why? All capacitors on the flash drive are MLCCs, which unlike their electrolytic counterparts aren't exactly known for failing - let alone simply due to age. When push comes to shove you can just remove them without meaningfully impacting functionality anyways.
I feel the same way. Bash is my file manager.
To me personally the number 1 reason is no noises nor distractions at all! This way I can be very productive and actually work nearly non-stop, apart from minor times to get up and move around to relax myself a bit.

Another reason is having access to my fridge so I can consume healthy food and beverages any time I want AND having access to my OWN toilet that I know who's using it in my house.
Maybe it's there but in a ethereal form that is ungrabbable to mere conscious forms as ourself? :P
How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search
Nothing, with no plans to. I don't technically work for a company though, but a government entity serving a rural community and not about extracting money from people. A static website and email/phone/in-person communication works well for what we're doing.
+1. The guy has already suffered well beyond any reasonable limit; no need to rage on him just to make a point.