skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Srid is not far right

OK, just wanted to make sure your disagreement is based on your beliefs about the positioning of the overton window, rather than whether or not Srid is a relevant actor in the Nix project.

The thing I have observed in other community takeovers is that, it is not always a case that the new management is making mostly bad decisions, because if they did that, it would lead to a hard fork of a project, followed by the upstream dying off. Because the community takeover may be motivated by a desire for power.

With the Nix vs Lix split, it is not clear to me which project is better, given my limited knowledge. It's also not clear if the Nix project has actually changed considerably since this incident. I am ignorant, and the drama papers don't tell me much.

Speaking of open source more generally, I tend to defer to upstream if it's still active, not for any political reason, but because those closer associated with the original maintainer tend to be more experienced. But there definitely are exceptions, for example if the upstream is too toxic by comparison, or the downstream is solving a different problem that I care about.
What do you think about drinking water with electrolytes or those electrolyte “salt”rich tablets that have magnesium, sodium, calcium, etc? (While fasting of course)
I would define it as simply number of items per distance traveled. How much you get from a location X is a function of how often you are willing to travel to location X. As the cost of travel goes down, your willingness to increase frequency increases.

Food spoilage does come into play and creates a lower limit on the frequency. At some point you'll buy so much you can neither store it nor consume it before it spoils. At some other point on the other side of the spectrum - the cost to travel is not worth the convenience of buying exactly what you want each day. All in all, people would indeed prefer to go more frequently for less, but there are reasons to not do so.

Thus, high frequency does give flexibility, and that is really important. It's a big reason why people like to have their own car, and do things like buy one weeks of groceries and not a full months at a time. That same flexibility is why people rationally choose to make multiple trips when they could make fewer. I do find it quite interesting to think about the various 'sweet spots' in these equations, and the various constraining factors.
It's more about there being 'low residue '. See https://www.sevenstring.org/threads/sr-71-stories-written-by...
probably mostly MIT grads.
The guy Who made the NORMAL internet 4.5M times Faster
Yeah, this seems possible. I was thinking of someone more generally increasing their horizontal time without doing anything to make up for it. This is my own projection, as it is what I have been guilty of doing.
JS by itself isn't that bad. You could calculate pi digits reasonably fast using JS.

The problem usually is: really poor code that is blocking, triggers a million rerenders for every interaction, insane bloat, or just the absolute massive amount of abstractions through packages. Plus HTML + CSS is really slow.
What does C player mean here?
So in that case both Mailgun and Sentry were blocking our IP. When we googled the error message, it appeared to be a Cloud Flare message of some kind. But anyway, wouldn’t touch them with a ten foot pole for anything web related.
Even the original iPhone would've had plenty of power/performance to smoothly handle swapping for Amiga applications. Your Amiga would certainly not have had the power to handle swapping for iPad applications. You cannot simply ignore the role that workload differences have here, when the whole point was to offer an acceptable user experience.
Sounds like fracking, repurposed to extract other molecules. Ideally they won't have to push down hazards chemicals to force the ones they want out.

iirc, they are using fracking tech to drill deeper water wells on land as the shallower table drys up in places
Your body usually stores 1-2 days worth of “glucose” energy in the form of glycogen in muscle tissue and the liver
By definition a reseller is adding at least an extra layer of legal paperwork.

Especially for car rentals where even a single paperwork error can cause a huge problem if an accident occurs.
Foreclosure is when you stop paying the mortgage.

If you keep paying it because you like the house and want to continue to live there, being underwater doesn't mean anything.

Can you point to articles describing banks in 2008 calling in underwater mortgages? That makes no sense, since it'll only hurt them (the bank doesn't want to own your house, they want the income stream from the mortgage). Also, at least for all mortgages I've signed, there is no provision in the contract for the bank to do that as long as I keep paying.
Something I worry about: I imagine rich people who mostly wouldn't concern themselves with long-term outcomes of environmental destruction or global catastrophe may still feel a bit of a pause going full force into risky plans for the future if their personal fortresses would require human labor for upkeep. They may feel a bit of a reluctance to pursue policies fearless of shit hitting the fan due to the chance that in a post-law world, nothing would stop their army of servants from killing them without remorse. That reluctance won't exist once humanoid robots are a sufficient replacement for human labor.
Nobody needs to understand the code except for the people writing and maintaining it. The users just need it to run.
The ECC stuff is like asking gearheads about motor oil.

You can absolutely do it. In a large production environment one of my teams used out of service thin clients (t620 iirc) to do some edge computing stuff. We also used t630s in a pinch to run ubiquiti controllers for temporary sites setup during COVID. They last forever and are surprisingly capable. The newer ones can handle 32GB ram and 1TB+ flash. The cpus are weak, but they don’t require cooling and sip power.

Just backup the locally generated work product if there is any.

Remember the “enterprise” nonsense is babble if you have a team who can think and operate outside the box. If you’re placing 1000 servers in dental offices nationwide, buy the HP server with the nationwide 24x7 support network. If you don’t need that, save the money.
Super unlikely to be a good idea if I want to keep breathing. :(
Good fats. Stay away from human manufactured fats like transfats like it’s your religion.
Even AGI as a whole is overhyped. It's a valuable goal, but AI that beats humans on narrow metrics is still economically valuable because of scale.
Thus they are very filling if you eat a reasonable amount and not a can of them. I eat them at meal time and not as snacks, it’s easy to forget how many times you’ve grabbed a pinch of them if you “snack” on them throughout the day. Nuts are very nutritive as well, unlike pretty much any other snack heavy in sugar/fat
Why aren't delays an appropriate reason? Is that explicitly in the contracts?
Only for a while until someone changes it to "Something went wrong"
Correlation is not causation.

There are many ways that these two traits could become correlated. For example, poverty is associated with both poor childhood nutrition (which is possibly the biggest cause of low IQ) and with more outdoor activities (due to more unskilled physical labor, more rural living, fewer electronics at home to keep kids entertained indoors, etc.).
Scraping by. Doing barely enough to not get fired.
This is a very miscalculated take.

Work is minimum 8 hours. Add another 2-3 hours for commuting, getting ready for work, and getting ready for being home. Add about 2 hours for cooking and clean up.

So far we’re at 12-13 hours. Add at least 7 hours for sleep (and sometimes turning in bed). We’re now at 19-20 hours. Add about an hour a day of incidentals that come up (social expectations, phone calls with family, etc). Add about two hours if you have kids.

Now we’re at 22-23 hours. Add an hour to two for entertainment and that’s your day.

Now you can change up the math a bit, and you’ll see that “only 4% of the day” is just a bad system for measuring time.

Things I didn’t include:

- bureaucracy related stuff, governmental stuff

- healthcare

- education

- elder care
Time may be an illusion created by quantum entanglement
Which direction are you looking for? Ones where GPT-4o does better or ones where Opus does better?

Assuming the former, here's an example I had yesterday where Opus was never able to formulate a correct response even with multiple follow-ups but GPT-4o got it with only two follow ups:

> I have a postgres database with a table called projects. On that table is a column called designs that is of json type and is nullable as well as a column called id that is of type text. The data in the designs column will be an array of objects (assuming it's not null). Each object in the array will have a field called price that will be a string. Most of these prices will be in the format $#,### where # is a number. However some will be in the format # ### US$. This second format where the numbers are separated by spaces instead of commas and the dollar sign appears at the end of the string instead of the beginning with an extraneous US is incorrect. What SQL can I run to migrate all prices that are incorrectly formatted to the correct format?

Alternatively, this is a non-tech related one that GPT-4 gets correct that no other model does:

> In 388 BC, the boxer Eupolus of Thessaly defeated three opponents at the ancient Olympics. Funded by the men involved, several bronze statues of Zeus were erected, with inscriptions detailing the events. Why did the four men prefer not to have the statues around?

I like that one because Opus will tell you that you're wrong and mistaken, which is pretty funny while GPT-4 answer correctly with the actual context.
https://archive.ph/01K95
Running out of ports is usually a misunderstanding, but a device doing stateful NAT will have a limit on how many states it can manage, and it's usually not fun when it goes over the limit.
I had a similar experience with a BMW. The rain sensor in every car after that has been much worse.
Also see Greg Egan’s Clockwork Rocket, where this is a key plot point.
I have posted this many times over the past several years:

https://uia.org/encyclopedia

Good luck in your journey.
Also according to eg German law, when done for research purposes.
> no dementia

I dunno dude... are you sure? :D
Everyone is snickering at this and talking about philosophy, but there is actually a legitimate point being made here, albeit obliquely: how do you explain to a non-technical user that their data has been deleted on the server, but that their client still has a cached copy that they might want to try to salvage somehow? I submit that this is a nontrivial problem worthy of serious consideration.
Indeed, not only is total demand a function of cost, but so is frequency of that demand. If my analogy were an actual hypothesis, it could be tested by checking that those who live closer to a grocery store will have on average a lower grocery bill (per visit) than those that live farther away (normalized by the number of people per household and household income), and the absolute total number of trips taken by those that live close by will be higher.

Which is to say, it's profitable to go to a grocery store for very few items if you live close by. Live farther away, and it's less profitable, perhaps to the point where it's not worth doing unless you buy a lot.

I agree that latent demand becomes a factor for sure as well.
In this image we are seeing the two paths this took can take (“left” and “forward”). But forward is not the same as a pawn’s forward. The pawn would, about halfway down, “turn” away from the rook’s path

https://polyreplay.com/games/assets/chesstwist/description/s...

Personally I think the rook makes intuitive sense as shown. I would vote for the pawns following the same path even if it means they cannot reach the other side. Then remove the forward indicators and just make the pawns statefully indicate their direction.
Tony White – 'Endangered Species' [video]
Agreed, model training and data collection are great!

The subtle bit is just doesn't have to be for LLMs, as these are typically part of a system-of-models. E.g., we <3 RAG, and GNNs for improving your KG is fascinating. Likewise, dspy's explorations in optimizing prompts, vs LLMs, is very cool.
I’ve used “preparation” as an excuse to go research and expand my knowledge.

I’m not and will never cram down algorithms for an interview. So far that strategy has worked for me /shrug.
You need to do things that are appropriate for a small company when you’re a small company. And then if you become a large company you change things to suit your new scale.

All of the troubles you described sound like bad management. I’m sorry if you’ve had to go through that. DBAs that are setting up a replacement are going to need time to do that right and expectations need to be set that this is a tricky problem.
Is this a GPT summary? It reads kinda like one
In the Days of _why
In the days of _why, programming was an adventure.
The goal of which, was not to reach a destination, but to experience the journey.

Back then I was bushy tailed and bright eyed.
Every new thing I learned filled me with a hunger to learn the next new thing.
Back then I didn't think about which programming language I could use to do this, or what framework I could use to do that.
I just programmed.
I got things done.
And I loved every minute of it.

Today, I get nothing done.
Even though there is a million new programming languages and frameworks, all making me the same promise.

> Choose me, cause someone's already done it. And done it better.

Choice is the mind killer.
Choice makes you rewrite your side hustle six times and then abandon it before ever releasing, cause you are too burnt out to care anymore.
Choice makes you not even write the first line of code for fear that by the time you insert the semi-colon your framework has become archaic and must be abandoned for a new framework that does the same thing only uses function calls instead of classes.

And you can't escape choice.
Cause Choice has a team of marketing hypsters, that will chase you around the internet reminding you that YOUR chosen path is wrong, cause it's not the path that THEY are on.
Choice doesn't let YOU enjoy YOUR journey.

I hate choice.
Choice killed the fun.
Choice ended the adventure.

But _why knew.
_why met Choice.
And _why left.
You have a source for that? It’s my understanding that ketoacidosis is pretty hard to achieve unless you’re diabetic or some other serious medical condition. It is not the same as ketosis.
If your software is running on a VM, and that VM is suspended (e.g. for migration), the end of sleep could be minutes or months in future.

This is surprisingly common when running on certain VM instance types on public cloud! Common enough that I've had to account for it in production code.
I think most rich people know, deep down, that their riches are purely a social phenomenon.
The notion that rich people aren’t concerned with long term outcomes seems like one of those things that isn’t true. In fact the reverse is often said the poor have, “nothing to lose”. Many wealthy people have gotten where they are by focusing on the longer term. The promise of your comment just doesn’t seem true.
Show HN: What is my phone number
>Months later, New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller proposed a bill mandating all state residents to build their own shelters, but it didn’t pass.

Wow, the bill attempts to make the case that nuclear shelter is like other building codes and housing standards. It's a stretch.

1. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80B01676R0037000...
I haven't written PHP in over a decade.

The frankenPHP thread and then this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40543438 popped up in the last week. Now your here pitching this...

A lot of the old guard of PHP left it behind for a few reasons...

PHP 6: A lot of php devs in the frankenPHP thread took issue with me mentioning this because it never launched. A lot of devs shook their head and moved on after 6 got shit canned. After having gone through PHP 3-4-5 change where we got all the juicy OOP features, while watching python 2-3 flail we realized that we had been sold a future that did not exist. Python 2-3 took the UTF8 hit, the fact that PHP wasnt going to was a sign that we were going to be stuck with MB string bs for a long time if not forever. There's a lot of folks that went to python when 6 got canceled and didn't look back.

Reuse of code: in this regard python and ruby were in a much better place for web code to be reused in CLI scripts, Workers, jobs... hell python ended up in a million other places cementing its win over ruby. This same "one language everywhere" mentality is why you see a lot of server side JS on the web.

While most of the PHP devs who were my peers at the time went to python or node I ended up picking a very young Golang. It has been a decision that not only did I not regret but a lot of those python/node devs are asking me how to bootstrap their golang experience.

Go, brings me the joy that early PHP4 did. When you just shoved a .php file onto a server. I get that same feeling when I ship out a product that was just the standard lib in go, or where I add in a bit of Postgres... That can be the whole stack for a working API... Mix in hmtx, maybe you want to use fancier templates (templ is one people like). I dont need a stack to do a project, my project dictates what I use, and candidly its very little.
Do you have any sense as to whether Tengwar is any more or less compact/concise than Shavian?
I happened to read a short story called "Foster, You're Dead!" not so long ago - which appears to have been Philip K. Dick's reaction to exactly these kinds of efforts.
Exposure to bright light is the key factor. It is especially important during childhood, when the eyes are still growing and developing.

Once elongation of the eyeballs sets in during childhood and the teen years, there is generally very little (if anything) that can be done about it in adulthood. Adults' eyes do not change shape very much after a certain age.

So-called "eye exercises" of the future will probably look something like having children look at bright lights or spend time outside in sunlight for some period of time each day.
How about TWPKAT? It looks a bit like twat
Dying destitute is the alternative, from first hand experience. Hope it works out, my condolences.
The whole economy is like that. Most people derive most of their societal power and relevance from labor. Structural decreases in demand for that labor are, by default, extremely bad.
Or Gemini 1.5 Pro. The latest multimodal models, while still far from perfect, do seem to be getting better at image recognition and OCR.
Inside the Native API (2004)
Yep, egress pricing is the method AWS locks their users in. This has been mentioned by other users here over the years.
Put "aws egress" into https://www.searchhacker.news/ and enjoy the folklore.
Morally it's the employers to blame, but the world is not built on morality, but on power dynamics.

For loyalty to be worth something, the relationship has to be at least somewhat equitable. Each party has to have the power to hurt the other significantly. If this is not the case, then the vulnerable party's loyalty is not worth much of the invulnerable party. I don't need the loyalty of the hamster I keep in the cage, what are they going to do, leave me for another owner? But I do need the loyalty of my free roaming cat, as if I'm treating them wrong, they are going to leave me one day, and so I'm short of a dear companion. I think that workers are vulnerable past and present, and so, I don't think that their loyalty is "no longer" paying - I think it was never paying. Or I should rather say "rewarded" instead of "paying".

Second thing that lowers the value of loyalty is that people don't change easily. Some easier than others, but change in general is deeply stressful, when talking about change in personal things like work, or home. So, often, and at least in part, a person staying in a job or at a specific rank is not loyalty, but resistance to change. And as such, it's not that it's not paying for the employee, it's actually lowering the employee's value, and so, their compensation too.
> If you enter a car, your chance of dying on that trip is lower vs. when you enter a plane.

This is not true, you are still tens of thousands of times more likely to die.
If only the the PPC 970 was able to sustain an IPC of eight... it would've been a true miracle to run at 2GHz in 130nm (later 90nm). An IPC of ≥8 for more than a few cycles is something you'll only see during unrealistic micro-benchmarks (e.g. those used to reverse engineer their micro-architecture limits) on the widest of modern out-of-order CPU cores. To really sustain such an IPC in a real-world application workload you still need unusual applications and hardware e.g. a really wide VLIW DSP and *well* *optimised* assembler code.
> There is absolutely ZERO reason why a modern operating system or some rudimentary site with 10K users should not be blazing fast.

I find dismissive statements like this to be extremely useless to the conversation. I agree that a modern operating system could be blazing fast. But if that’s not the case, then there obviously is a reason.

If you know the reason why software in general has gotten slower (compatibility?, bad devs?, more feature?), and already dismissed it as an invalid or insufficient reason, then share what you think that reason is.

If you, like me, don’t know what that reason is, then let’s approach it with a problem-solving attitude and try to find out.
I use BookFusion on iOS and Android, syncing everything with Calibre on Linux via the BookFusion Calibre plug-in.
Thinking that anyone with significantly more money than you are alien beings with evil tendencies is an unhealthy belief. It's both wrong and self limiting.

If I had a couple of multiples of what I had, I'd build a bunker, but I'd still much rather live on a planet where I can go outside, play golf, visit national parks, do woodworking in the yard etc.

The bunker is a backup to protect against outcomes you can't control, not the plan A to intentionally destroy the world.
> Roads are flat, not stacked, so you're just somewhat linearly increasing throughput.

Per-lane efficiency drops with additional lanes. It doesn't stay the same, and definitely does not increase.

> that being said, does having 50 more buses actually reduce anything, 100 more?

Yes. A typical city transit bus can hold 40 seated people, and a "crush" capacity of about 70. Coach numbers are relatively similar give or take. Typical rush-hour max capacity is probably around 60 which is fairly comfortable.

40-60 people taking up about the space of three cars, instead of (if we're being very gracious) 20 cars, to as many as seventy cars.

If we graciously figure that when stopped in traffic each car is 15 feet (length of a compact SUV) and there is one foot of spacing between them (also gracious), that means anywhere from 320ft to over one thousand feet of lane usage, compressed into about forty feet.

Now think about how much roadway space is used when those vehicles are traveling; those cars have to accordion out to have, say, about one car length between each of them (likely more, but we're being gracious.) Now you're looking at 600 to two thousand feet of lane.

This is why bus-only lanes (either during rush hour or all day) and traffic signal prioritization for busses is gaining popularity in municipalities. One full bus erases two thousand feet worth of cars on that road.

We should be looking at the status quo as "look at how much road capacity is being wasted by single occupant vehicles."
Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels