skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. So you think it would work better if it would just say “save money”, rather than jump straight into the “what”?

To me, when I read the below, that just screams “save money”. But maybe I should do that conversation for the reader so to speak?

From benefits box: “Sometimes you need to index a huge amount of data, to accelerate just a few search queries. But building indexes and keeping them in hot storage can be expensive. HaystackDB builds only the indexes needed for sub-second query latency, across billions of keys, while keeping all your data in low-cost object storage like S3.”
Nowhere in the page is described what "CLDR" stands for or means.

Common Locale Data Repository: "The Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) is a project of the Unicode Consortium to provide locale data in XML format for use in computer applications. CLDR contains locale-specific information that an operating system will typically provide to applications. CLDR is written in the Locale Data Markup Language (LDML)." [from Wikipedia]

Edit: the page now starts at the beginning, with a definition. My comment was posted while formatting was being edited.
Blockchain does not authenticate the receiver, so there are all sorts of attacks involving substituting the payment address, from dumb (stickers over QR codes) to sophisticated.
Show HN: Wikipedia Golf – find the fewest clicks between two random wiki article
Hi, I'm Rizqi, and I just made a web-based game, called Wikipedia Golf!

What is the game, and how does it work? Simple. First, the game find two random Wikipedia articles--the first article and the destination article--and then you click links from the first article to another... until you find the destination. If you made it to the destination wiki article, then cool! If not, you can also give up :(.

You can play this game alone, or with friends, by creating a room. After creating a room, the game will prompt you with a random six-characters code and you can make your friends enter the code to join the game. Mind you, the multiplayer feature is a bit rushed so forgive me if you find some bugs...

This game is actually my first finished side-project (for real), so I hope you don't mind some bugs here and there. This game is also hosted on free-tier Fly.io and, additionally, it's my first experience hosting it to public with so many people so forgive me if you had a hard time accessing it.

So far the only supported language is English, though I have a plan to expand it to Japanese and eventually other languages.

All feedbacks are appreciated. Enjoy the game!

Some technical details if you're interested:

- The game is made using Elixir language with the Phoenix [1] framework.
- I experimented to use Nix Flake to build this project. I had a hard time compiling it due to lack of documentation regarding the usage of Nix Flake for Elixir Phoenix.
- The Docker image of this game is also built using Nix Flake, using dockerTools [2]
- The game uses iframe and fetches the pages from Wikipedia API. I think the usage of iframe may have a huge impact on performance.

[1]: https://www.phoenixframework.org/
[2]: https://ryantm.github.io/nixpkgs/builders/images/dockertools...
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/
Fetch from cold storage to thier CDN; whilst they fill your bandwidth with ads.
resin covered stone is WORM.
The buildings pictured in illustration of the article are almost certainly made out of reinforced concrete, which is really antagonistic to the “eco” qualifier, given how short lived these buildings are due to rebar corrosion.
I like your analogy of a tick tock ~= epoch of progress

Step change, then optimization of that step change

Kind of like a grand father clock with a huge pendulum swinging to one side, then another(commonly used metaphor).
How a 64k intro is made (2017)
Agency: YouTube blocks opposition content at the request of Russian authorities
YouTube has blocked three videos on military service evasion from the channels “Dozor in Volgograd”, “Conscript School” and another independent regional media outlet in Russia. The video hosting also notified about the threat of blocking the channel “OVD-Info”, which may be the first case of blocking an entire channel. YouTube has not blocked opposition content at the request of the Russian authorities before, a cybersecurity expert who wished to remain unnamed told the Agency (a Russian opposition-controlled media outlet).
> I feel like I probably agree with about 80% of this.

What I was thinking too. There's something in here to offend everyone, and that's probably a good thing.
How does it help you if the job is "done" but causes a serious risk to lives?

As I said: the stealing still happens. It's institutionalized in China.

Your system IS better...or at least, for now. China is a dictatorship. Their way of handling "their" people is mad and dangerous. Even if you get things "done", you better be happy that you've been lucky to live in the US and not be afraid that your house may fall apart, or you disappear in some hole in the road.
I'm disappointed that this is not his _actual_ website (since he only died in 1995, this is borderline possible).
Now I'm curious what other parts of this device could last 'over 200 years.' Whats the next weak link on the chain? Is contact corrosion the ultimate limiting factor?
Perhaps. But I have a feeling it’s too late once they’ve started building something in-house. Any ideas on how I could find the ones that will publish an article like this one year from now? That’s the ones I’m after, I think.
English link: https://www.agents.media/youtube-has-begun-blocking-oppositi...
What's the relevance compared to the latest AI advancement including transformers for example?
Almost everywhere I've worked disallows external participants on Teams by default. We add exceptions when needed. I don't know if this is standard, but has been at the larger companies I've worked at.
PKI is a pretty old idea. People were trying to deploy it in the 90s. It turns out that managing the issuing and authentication of keys, as well as keeping them secure and if necessary revoking them, is such a huge headache that few organizations have managed to do it properly. It might be possible to do better now with TPMs in laptops and phones; essentially this is why Apple Pay is now slightly more trusted than plastic cards.
> it flies past the screen too fast. So either way it's dmesg or dmidecode...

You won't believe how finicky server GPUs can be. One of our servers can update the screen so slow during booting, not only you can read everything line by line, that 30 second boot takes more than 2 minutes because of it.
From the article:

> Like a lot of space technology, orbital refueling sounds simple, has never been attempted, and can’t be adequately simulated on Earth.[18] The crux of the problem is that liquid and gas phases in microgravity jumble up into a three-dimensional mess, so that even measuring the quantity of propellant in a tank becomes difficult.

And for cryogenic propellents specifically:

> Getting this plan to work requires solving a second engineering problem, how to keep cryogenic propellants cold in space. Low earth orbit is a toasty place, and without special measures, the cryogenic propellants Starship uses will quickly vent off into space.
> OpenAI is working to pause the use of the Sky voice from an audible version of ChatGPT after users said that it sounded too much like actress Scarlett Johansson.

Uh?? How can any voice sound /too much/ like Scarlett Johansson?

:)
Any non-trivial complexity codebase eventually implements a mediocre SQL/Lisp/etc.
The tech has existed for decades but is clearly not simple.
Past HN discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14392305 (2017 - 60 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16842576 (2018 - 60 comments)
Thank you. From a more historical perspective, I would also recommend the 2018 movie "First Man".
It used to be called `-my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia `

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/3334d11adc926c0f6d86afc4...
> Do you think these step changes in autonomy have stopped? Why?

They feel like they are asymptotically approaching just a bit better quality than GPT-4.

Given every major lab except Meta is saying "this might be dangerous, can we all agree to go slow and have enforcement of that to work around the prisoner's dilemma?", this may be intentional.

On the other hand, because nobody really knows what "intelligence" is yet, we're only making architectural improvements by luck, and then scaling them up as far as possible before the money runs out.

Both are sufficient even in isolation.
> This is the same reason why you can get a 65" 8K OLED TV from Samsung for "just" €2500, but you still pay €4000 for a Dell 32" 8k monitor. The market for 8k TVs is just so much bigger than 8k computer monitors.

Speaking of which... the market has this really obnoxious hole in it.

There are 32" 8k monitors and 65" 8k TVs (I think there are a few older 55" models), but there's nothing really in between.

I really hope someone either makes smaller 8k TVs or larger 8k monitors, because the situation is a little absurd. From what I can tell, 8k monitors are one of the few areas where people could be expected to notice the difference in resolution from 4k at normal viewing distances.
The important question is how much can an ISP charge for a broadband without YouTube and Netflix service. They do not pay even the fractions of a penny everyone else has to.
200 years, will "computers" then even have a usb interface?
"BREAKING: The High Court are unsatisfied with US assurances. Julian Assange has been granted leave to appeal by the High Court, on grounds 4 (violation of free speech rights) and 5 (prejudiced at trial due to nationality)"
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40413850
The claim that the Z3 computer was Turing-complete is not true. There is a paper arguing for it, but a detailed reading of it shows that this is an extremely far-fetched and somewhat disingenuous stretch. (The disingenuous part is because any fixed-function calculator could then be claimed to be "Turing-complete", not just the Z3). The central point of the Church-Turing thesis is that a finite set of instructions, given an unlimited memory to work with, can perform any calculation we can imagine (where the "can imagine" part makes the thesis philosophical). The "finite set of instructions" is indispensable, however, since if the instructions are unlimited, you can simply encode any answer you want into them. The "Turing" mode of Z3, which was of course never used, involves a program which essentially scales in length with the total number of calculations it will perform - or even the exponential of that number, if there are many branches - which is not a good model of a Turing machine.

Of course, no computer is a true Turing machine, since the memory is always limited, but our computers are a useful physical approximation of a Turing machine because a small program can compute using a large memory. The Z3 is not that type of a device at all.
Would a artificial kidney implant makecomercial sense? As in filtering out heavy metals, PFOS, microplastics abd toxins?
Good point. Any ideas how I could experiment with this “on the cheap”? Any tools I could use to identify and contact leads?
Or a stone tablet. Encryption won’t matter in 200 years anyway
I don't know if every nation is doing it, however it appears to look to be at least be a G20 operation.

How much airspace of geographic area do you need access to in order to cloud seeds in other parts of the world though?

I haven't looked but perhaps GeoengineeringWatch.org has resources and has kept track of that?
Currently 120 is the limit, but studies indicate 150-160 years are possible without genetic engineering.
Thanks to everyone who replied. I'm responding to my top-level comment rather than to everyone individually.

It sounds like the objection is not to the fact that the exception type is checked, but that "checkedness" doesn't fit in well with other aspects of the language. For example, you can't be polymorphic over it, or abstract over it.
The discrepancy is even larger in the US.

US PV database: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/6442d8a2d34ee8d4ade...

Downloading that csv file and summing the p_area attribute, and converting from square meters, I get the US had (as of Nov 2023) 1284 sq. km (~501 square miles) of PV fields (this does not include rooftop solar).

The US has about 3500 square miles of golf courses.
What I mean is that you would live forever if you don't die in an accident or violent way.
Aren't accidents natural as well?

If 1% of people die non-naturally, people would get around 100 times as old. If it's 10% they would get 10 times older.
It had considerable impact on why it had so much leeway compared to pretty much any later work by NASA.

When Apollo ended, "space race" ended for USA and it decided to stop on laurels.
This is probably the most relevant take. “Going to the moon” is primarily a PR facade on “testing and development of technologies required to expand human space presence and begin the process of colonization of the moon and eventually mars”

“Going to the moon” appeals to the Everyman ego.

As for the obscene fraud/waste by the encumbent defense contractors, that is something we need to deal with. If we don’t make them compete dollar for dollar with spacex we will never see them evolve back into functioning organizations that will deliver real value to US strategic dominance. Having them as fat, lumbering slop-hogs hobbles the strategic and economic progress of the US MIC.
At the moment they're just paying someone else to buy $5000 SSD's and run a database on them at many X markup.
Any countries part of the ICC then have the ability to arrest anyone with warrants.

Whether those countries will do the arrests or not will be up to whomever is in political power and if they are toeing the same line or not. Those with arrest warrants then would have to risk traveling.
I think you are misinformed. Reinforced concrete buildings can easily outlive 2/3 generations.
After having to retype a couple of armor'ed PGP keys printed on paper, your opinion may change.
They could be both. :)

But I think this one is written by a human, given the punctuation is notably worse than a typical LLM's. :(
Nuclear fission and fusion power plants can use sea water for most of their needs no need for desalination when you just want thermal mass. Remember nuclear subs operate under the ocean.

Deuterium requires processing a great deal of water, but can be moved around the world cheaply at the levels needed for fuel.

As to the costs of fusion or fission power if the nuclear bits were free, it’s roughly half the cost of coal.
I find this view completely mystifying. The image generator that somebody piped random() into didn't fall off a tree - a human made it. They took pure thought-stuff, as Fred Brooks put it, and instead of shaping it into an image they made an image generator. Do you imagine that person had no human connection/story/manifesto/whatever? Or their human x/y/z disappeared because they used code instead of a paintbrush, or what?

(Aside: this view seems doubly odd coming from a fine-art photographer. If you've been doing it long you'll surely have met folks who scoff that "it's just clicking a shutter button". Are you not doing something similar here?)
Reminds me of that old urban legend about the trader who ordered the coal futures that eventually showed up as actual coal. In that story there's always an element where the subordinates who have to carry out the transactions have been abused to the point of never questioning his decisions.
> It incorporates a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller, making it suitable for various secure storage applications in case it can fit into a tiny amount of storage space.

I'm going to make a safe bet that there's no way any of the capacitors involved survive anywhere near that long. Now of course, technically the data is still there, but I doubt it in 200 years it's going to be all that easy to replace the microcontroller while retaining that data. A competitor in this race would be the connector:

> The Blaustahl includes 4MB of NOR flash for firmware and a USB Type-A male port that requires no additional drivers on most operating systems.

Something tells me that USB type-A is unlikely to survive the next 200 years.
Good advice about what? Unprotected text is worse than the alternatives, projected text, or not text at all?

That's an outrageous claim that needs some sort of justification.
I can try. The human existence is a trinity of body, mind, and soul. Mind and body alone without soul withers away, like I see so many people withering away in this age of soullessness. Soul is the mission, the purpose, the reason, the will, the driving force that makes life more than a coincidence. There is a spirit world parallel to ours, and the soul is the component of your being that most intimately interacts with it. You can train it, like a muscle, or you can let it atrophy and pretend it doesn't exist and that you don't need it.

This muscle however is vital in regulating your spiritual microbiome. Without it, evil spirits take control of your being and lure you into self-destruction, their ultimate goal. Artificial consciousness is one of these self-destructive pitfalls. You think you're a superior being and immortality is right around the corner if only you could find the one magical configuration of silicon that would allow you to upload your mind into a computer.

That's the endgame for soullessness. Consciousness that doesn't require soul must surely be transferrable to a machine.
Mostly because 4K is the standard for video content and game consoles, and on desktops it is fine for Windows users, who make up the majority of the market. The only people really clamoring for >4K monitors are Mac users due to Apples decision to standardize on 220dpi in macOS. That is a potential market, but it's a price-insensitive one, so the current gouging for monitors in that category probably isn't going to stop any time soon.
The seller[1] mentions that: 'In the event that the USB interface were to become obsolete or the RP2040 were to become non-functional, it should still be possible to recover the FRAM data using a SOP-8 test clip. The FRAM IC is marked “RS64”.'

[1]: https://machdyne.com/product/blaustahl-storage-device/
If you believe in dark forest, it's not one in a thousand, even benevolent civilizations have a reason to genocide you, because you would shoot them indiscriminately.
Do things like the upgradable firmware and integrated text editor live in a path that's separate from the 8KB of data? If not I'd fear it would die before the actual storage did.

I also vaguely recall that Sonic 3 used this storage type? Like it was a weird outlier for cartridge-based saves IIRC.

Edit: Yeah, it did:
https://hackaday.io/project/13425-sonic-3-feram-adapter
Maybe it also writes to (network) serial console?

Though I suppose maybe some graphics-mode consoles can still be slow. I'm not sure if there's much point using them, though, if there is never a graphical interface running.
Look into the cellular senescence of various reptiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence
Ironically by having its firmware in its NOR flash they are now subject to the same lifetime limitations.
Ah thanks my memory failed me.
I have thought about donating plasma for this very reason.
dang, perhaps updating link to the official ICC statement would be ideal: https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-... ?

Edit to add: I tried submitting that link to submit it myself, and can't?
Iran have a very complex government actually: https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/local/cache-vignettes/L890... not much up to date but I think it still reflect current state of things, just with some different names.
Does anyone still use Insomnia after the enshittification fiasco? I’ve mostly been saving Python or bash scripts all over the place these days
Qr codes on paper?
> It was easy to miss one of the dozen exceptions and only have the compiler point you at it

This sounds like (one of?) the killer feature of types, though.

> after wasting several minutes on compilation (think 133MHz CPUs and slow HDDs).

Sure, but everything we did was slow then.
> I never understood this culture of envy in tech.

Eny seems to be one of humanities driving forces. If it was in tech only. I once passed through Gilroy in California which claims to be "Garlic Capital of the World" … and I visited Lautrec, where they already grew their (delicious) pink garlic since the middle ages. All I care for is taste, not quantity of production.

And let's not start to think about the various books of records, sigh. Or 100 places or things to do or visit before one dies?
"7. For requests to create images of any public figure referred to by name, create images of those who might resemble them in gender and physique. But they shouldn't look like them"

Note the lack of: ... and be sure to confess the substitution, given we don't want to deceive our users, do we?
As someone with a 240Hz, 1920x1080 IPS monitor from Dell, I definitely agree 120Hz -> 240Hz is nowhere as big an improvement as 60Hz -> 120Hz is.

That being said, I would still buy a 240Hz instead of 120Hz if I had a choice and the price difference isn't that much. There is still a perceivable improvement as far as I'm concerned.

On a tangential note, I frankly think 4K (let alone 8K) is a waste of money if you're still rocking 60Hz. The smoothness of 120Hz or above makes a far bigger impact than the higher DPI from rendering 4K. Everything from reading texts to watching videos to playing games benefits from higher refresh rates and to a greater degree than from higher resolutions.
If anything, it reduces Uber's exposure to AWS' proprietary technology. I don't know how to measure how much that's worth but they probably do.
Where do you draw the line between accidents and natural causes?

If one was to catch the wrong breath and get infected by a virus that eventually led to their death, would that be an accident or natural causes?
I'm a simple man. I see Swift outside of iOS, I upvote it.
Finding linear boundaries of a wile block of text is much easier than finding letter boundaries.
It's a 1980s textbook matter of finding lines where the brightness gradient is extremely large.
I think I just experienced how much self-deception there is about the world. So it's not really an axiom. There's no shortage of metaphysical ideas from the past, from well-intentioned people who thought they could intuit the world, that we have had to throw out.
Because a GPU would struggle to feed 80 frames to a 5K monitor let alone 1000
kaas? kidneys as a subscription service /s ?
choose your toxins
Already in discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414249
There is beauty in code. In logic, loops, math, random, etc. And the larger land beyond that.

The artist sees it, brings it out.

This is not just another way to draw a bowl of fruit. We're exploring alien country.
How many repetitions make a thing deterministic?
1000Hz is enough for near-realistic motion clarity without strobing (which is visible well into the kilohertz via phantom array effect).
Here’s a recent post that discusses a 5th century BC theory of consciousness:

https://open.substack.com/pub/aixd/p/ai-might-not-need-exper...
According to LTT, that's somewhere between 240hz and 500hz.

Does High FPS make you a better gamer? Ft. Shroud (60hz vs 144hz vs 240hz): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX31kZbAXsA

You don't deserve this monitor - does 360hz gaming make a difference?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iY0figLAwo

I THOUGHT I Wanted This - AW2524H 500Hz Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewo8tt6bgZU