skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the difference is that a hard drive can read sequential pages far quicker, and at far less energy per byte, whereas as far as I can see this tech cannot. Random and sequential reads would work out the same energy per byte.
There is a meaningful legal difference between lying to VC investors and lying to people taking out loans from you.
They've been making headlines + the television news with similar actions for a couple of years.
"protect the children!!!" my ass

this is literally 1984
Maximize Uptime, Minimize Stress: What should you look for in a monitoring tool
EV Life Cycle Assessment Calculator
why are PPUs “smoke and mirrors” and RSUs “worth something”?

i suspect people commenting this don’t have a clue how PPU compensation actually works
Oceans group takes UK government to court over oil and gas licences
omg no, the CCP!
Running PHP on a VM in a data center doesn’t cost you anything either while the VM isn’t doing stuff, and you still have something to ssh into and manage and investigate without layers of abstraction bolted on top. And PHP-on-httpd is pretty much one of the most newcomer-friendly straight-to-coding environments ever developed.
My cousin desperately wants to move from Canada to West Texas! The other cous lives in Chile, I live in the UK, my aunt and uncle live in France. There's no pleasing some folks! ;- )
Agreed. The AI of our day (the transformer + huge amounts of questionably acquired data + significant cloud computing power) has the spotlight it has because it is readily commoditized and massively profitable, not because it is an amazing scientific breakthrough or a significant milestone toward AGI, superintelligence, the benevolent Skynet or whatever.

The association with higher AI goals is merely a mixture of pure marketing and LLM company executives getting high on their own supply.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724201
Free and Open Source Software – and Other Market Failures
There's nothing stopping anyone from implementing a cloud that runs CGI or FastCGI that scales down to zero (with per second billing), and scales up to infinity.

It's just that nobody has chosen to do so

Though I suppose not without reason. Google App Engine was one of the first "PaaS", billed on a fine-grained level, and it WAS initially based on CGI. Later they changed it to in-process WSGI, probably because working around CGI startup time is difficult / fiddly, and FastCGI has its own flaws and complexity.

I think it would have been better if they had developed some of the open standards like SCGI and FastCGI though. I think it could have made App Engine a more appealing product

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It is still written in C.
Not to be confused with Whitman college, which is the more well known college in Walla Walla.
So add some syscalls and slowness to what should amount to a spsc atomic queue in memory? No thanks!
> Indeed. I had a professor in undergrad named Kanapathipillai Thirugnanasambanthan. He might've been from Sri Lanka rather than India proper, though.

Almost certain he's a Sri Lankan Tamil. South Indians and Sri Lankans transliterate slightly differently.
>roll

>wheel

>rotate

Trundle sounds vaguely treadmill, which also has something to do with rotation :)

Wonder if the two words are etymologically related.
greed will be the undoing of us all.
skimmed it. was a fan of @fulligin since before he became a citizen journalist and have followed it closely, i didnt really see much new info here in my browse thru. i'm not saying to empathize WITH THE FRAUD lol, just responding to GP about why austen stopped answering qtns. yes he fucked up, now give the guy a chance to build Bloom into something legit instead of constantly reading the most negative take into simple things like stopping his hn activity as "A sure sign of the dismal state of things at Lambda/Bloom."
It is entirely possibly that they're not being truthful. Your registrar is public information, there's not a lot of reason to believe that the information did actually come from them. Unless you've literally not given that number out to anyone but name cheap, odds are they just found the number somewhere else.
I think tech workers, whether it's the passionate geeks or materialistic frat bros, need to understand that a decent chunk of people just want a regular/safe office job that's more exciting and stimulating than spreadsheets and powerpoint slides.

They don't want to engage in intellectual/nerdy pissing contests, nor do they want to jump through a million burning hoops to increase their total compensation. They want to show up 9 o'clock, do their work, and leave around 5 - and that's that.

No hacky side projects. No late evenings reading up on shiny new tools, no grinding leetcode and prepping for interviews, no hustles.

(You'll find the geeky hackers at startups, open-source projects, etc.)
I think the most enduring mystery of #Vannevar Bush is why his name is no longer a household one today, in the way that Edison's is or that we have every reason to expect Musk's to be 80 years from now.

This is one article that speaks to that, notably writing from 1990.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-24-fi-444-st...

By the way, I do recommend reading what remains the only biography of Vannevar, "Endless Frontier", written by the same author as OP's article, G Pascal Zachary. It is quite good. The subject probably merits multiple biographies just as many other pivotal people in history also have multiple biographies to provide different angles or more nuance as more information comes to light.
> Many more people know how to invert a binary tree than know how to go from an empty text file to a non-trivial mobile app distributed in an App Store.

As someone who can do both but values the latter skills much more, I wonder about what these “low level questions” actually optimize for selection at some companies.

Part of me says that many companies want to select for willingness to “play the game” / conform rather than actually code deliverable product. In fact, being able to go from blank page to decent app in an app store might be considered a contra-indicator of a good applicant — easier for them to bail and do their own thing or be a hired gun.

Most orgs I’ve seen need a relatively small percentage of their devs to be creators and builders, but a large percentage need to be good maintainers and tweakers of existing code. These are vastly different skill sets and personalities, imho.

Thoughts on this?

And what sort of company / department do you work at that needs/wants a lot kf true builders?
It will be much cheaper, and not that hard to make the robots super safe and considerate.
You might be right, but that wasn't my point. Capitalism might yield a friendly AGI or an unfriendly AGI or some mix of both. Collectivism will yield no AGI.
Whoops. Correction noted.
Generally, the mindset that makes the best engineers is an obsession with solving hard problems. Anecdotally, there's not a lot of overlap between the best engineers I know and the best paid engineers I know. The best engineers I know are too obsessed with solving problems to be sidetracked the salary game. The best paid engineers I know are great engineers, but the spend a large amount of time playing the salary game, bouncing between companies and are always doing the work that looks best on a resume, not the best work they know how to do.
Tell me about it...
Was just too expensive compared to flash.
But the tech was definitely awesome and I hope it'll come back in one way or another.

When designing CedarDB, we recently had multiple instances where we thought: "If we had just a few KiB of Optane here ... "
I think it is more of indentured servitude than an uncollateralized loan, but not by much. Since getting rid of chattel slavery our society has generally found ways to eke our that unearned productivity from people via fractional servitude schemes. The (thin) line between an ISA and a loan is that the can discharge the loan through bankruptcy, im not certain you can do so as easily for an ISA.
Where does the traffic data for competitors come from?
Can men live without war? (1956)
I mean if the last 20 years is to be taken as evidence, it seems big tech is more than happy to shotgun unproven and unstudied technology straight into the brains of our most vulnerable populations and just see what the fuck happens. Results so far include a lot of benign nothing but also a whole lot of eating disorders, maxed out parents credit cards, attention issues, rampant misogyny among young boys, etc. Which, granted, the readiness to fuck with populations at scale and do immeasurable harm doesn't really make tech unique as an industry, just more of the same really.

But you know, we'll feed people into any kind of meat grinder we can build as long as the line goes up.
I remember reading about this effect of holding your breath during email about a decade or so ago, I started noticing whenever others around me sighed heavily as they closed their laptop or turned to talk to someone. My anecdata agrees that it is an extremely widespread phenomenon and probably takes deliberate training to avoid.
This maybe gets to the core of why the author’s assertion is incorrect: they’re comparing a programming language to an execution environment.

Yeah, PHP can scale infinitely… if you provide it with the necessary server resources to do so. PHP is not going to scale infinitely on a Raspberry Pi.

This dynamically scaling server resource is Lambda. Hell, you can even run PHP on Lambda these days the comparison really doesn’t work.
Not that naturally - until fairly recently it was bimodal. Fortunately we've dramatically reduced the number of infant and childhood deaths in the last ~100 years.
My personal reasons to not run my Nginx reverse-proxy inside Docker
Not only will they hide it, they will own it when exposed, and lobby to ensure it remains legal to exploit for profit. See oil industry.
Who would pay for safety, though?
There can be code/insurance issues with laundry chutes as some view them as fire hazards, so I think these pneumatic systems are a compliant alternative.
Author here! Most of my projects are kind of like this penny arcade comic (https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/06/13/the-hippothala...) - I saw where something was not, and said "No. This will not do." It's 2024 and a supercomputer wrist watch is possible, so now it exists =)
>I care about maximizing people's happiness function.

Good for you. Not on my subthread though :)
It's . . . not great.
> You can look at basically any material metric you like (cars owned, house size, etc.) and Americans come out ahead

Rate of personal bankruptcies? Homeownership rate? Median household net wealth?

The amount of cars Americans have on absurd loans is entirely irrelevant to their personal wealth or lack thereof.
What do you mean hard? As in it is hard to come by video content that is 1080px or 4K? Surely not on streaming services.
Do you mean downloading such content takes forever? What is your bandwidth like?
I wonder if RJ45 would still win over SFP in home networks after all. 2.5G is pretty widely present already and I see more and more 5/10Gb solutions, the only remaining problem is the price, while SFP remains with enthusiasts. Habits and backwards compatibility wins yet again on the long run.
The thing is — if you are running this setup on your own linux virtual machine — it requires endless system maintenance.

Yeah, this is exactly what I talk about this post -- why do I used shared hosting?

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The word made sense, I was just surprised there was a special word for rolling robot movement, hopefully it gets more use in the future as robots become more common.
No, but the money used to build the power plant at one location was theoretically fungible.
The point is not exactly product cycles, but some way to track progress. Jane street also tracks progress and for many people it's the direct profit someone made for the firm. For some it is improving engineering culture so that other people can make better profits.

The problem with safety is that no one knows how to track it, or what they even mean by it. Even if you ignore tracking, wouldn't one unsafe AGI by one company in the world nullifies all their effort? Or safe AI would somehow need to take over the world, which is super unsafe in itself.
Abstractly yes, but practically not since it's diverse enough
Obligatory clarification: in mice.

But so exciting anyways!
> While true, a side effect of this is that groups that aren't active anymore eventually get deisted, because nobody wants to pay Meetup's prices to keep a dead group online. Once you get discovery up and running, I'd be curious to see how cluttered the website gets with inactive groups, especially over time.

Yeah, that would be interesting to see! If a free option was always available then I'd assume the amount of groups dying would be fewer.

> Genuinely curious what you think the marketing issue here is. If anything, I think they've cornered a term pretty well.

Yep, I think the term is great for what the platform is! But sorry, what I meant was that it limits the scope of events that people associate with them (which I guess is fine if that's all they want to focus on). I associate it with clubs and actual meetups (tech and the like) - I wouldn't expect to find a page for a weekend vegetable market there for example. When I'm looking for things to do, I want to see every type of event/activity rather than just clubs etc.

Funnily enough, my mother (having never used Meetup) thought Meetup was a dating site. Perhaps that was their problem all along, haha.
Really enjoyed the piece.

A passing thought: the ethe of individuals in the 70s and 80s is important because of the people it informed in subsequent years. While many people still like to hack, code, etc., the relative proportion of people doing this and working in tech continues to diminish as the popularity and importance of the sector grows. I wonder if debt without values / a more cohered zeitgeist is better or worse?
This is missing any discussion of the dynamic functionality you can add with a bit of vanilla JavaScript.
amazing, would be funny, liter? no nuclear submarine
The contacts can also deliver 12v power which can be used to run powered brush heads.
I run a meet up group of about 1000 members for a makerspace in the Chicago suburbs. I’m glad to see alternatives coming about, but I’m also somewhat skeptical this can actually solve our dissatisfaction with Meetup. As an event organizer, I don’t really need that many fancy features. I need a product that is moderately priced and will actually get people to walk in the door when I schedule an event. Focus on building network effects because that is what group organizers are ultimately paying for. I think this is solved by gaining large amounts of capital to support a promotional strategy to compete. I don’t think a lot of energy needs to be spent on building every feature that an attendee would want because ultimately they will never pay for anything and will continue to use the service as long as interesting groups stay put. Put differently, I don’t think you need to make features your differentiating factor to win. Event organizers, a.k.a. the people who ultimately pay for the service, have serious problems with the pricing strategy they are being offered by Meetup but have no viable alternative. I’d be happy to hop on a call with you and give you free opinions on our experiences over the last eight years. I’m very easy to find. Reach out anytime.
I can definitely see lambdas being abused when the process for requesting dedicated resources is too arduous.
Alternatively, the ‘ratchet’ is a fundamental property of spacetime resulting in the second law.
> Why can't you make money

Once people have formed their community, they can just split any costs in-person and not go through your platform.

I'm not paying $20 in yearly "dues" to maintain a friend group that could be maintained for $0 as a group on any social media messenger.
put up a google auth por favor i hate having to sign up manually >:(
MQA going away is probably a good thing, I never saw the appeal. Proprietary, requires licensing fees, why would you use it over the free and lossless FLAC?
Previously

SpinLaunch completes first test flight with rocket-flinging launch system (2021, 251 points, 219 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29198589

SpinLaunch just catapulted a NASA payload into the sky for the first time (2022, 35 points, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33112413
I just upgraded my main server to an https://www.supermicro.com/products/archive/motherboard/x9dr... with dual Xeon E5-2680v2s. $15 for 20c/40t and 256gb ECC from the local university surplus. Unfortunately, it's still a little too old to offer NVME. That doesn't matter too much to me, since it's connected via 6gbps SAS to several 24 bay NetApp disk shelves (also $15 ea!) full of disks. I have dealt with PCIe ASPM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_State_Power_Management) which similarly trades off between performance, power consumption, and latency.

I am not hugely concerned with power consumption as I have solar panels. But noise and excess heat matter to me. My whole stack is consuming around 650W currently. Wildly removed from the days I was running off a creatively overprovisioned OpenWRT wireless router using < 20W. But I'm happy to have the increased capacity for my use cases. Gigabit synchronous fiber to the home is a dangerous drug :)
Calvinism for Transcendentalist techno-utopians -- an Asimovian Reformation of Singulatarianism
Care for a citation?
I Modi
That's why loops on roller coasters aren't perfect circles as well then, I guess?
Spam calls are part of life. Block it and move on
I have had many domains both in and out of NameCheap. I have yet to have a spam call that's been the result of NameCheap spilling my info.

One thing I would suggest for the future is to register a free Google Voice Number and use that for domain registrations. It can act as a disposable phone number for situations where you don't want to give out your real number.
It might be possible to compile it to web assembly and then call it in the browser.
I love EFF but
also this article is very biased but also very thorough. Good read.
like i said i cant speak for lambda school, but at my bootcamp the TAs were the best of us, not the "ones who can't find a job". and at my (fairly prestigious, hopefully not non-legit) university, TAs were very often upperclassmen and sometimes sophomores that -just- completed the previous class.
Okay, so what's an income based repayment plan for a loan?
i am very skeptical of narratives saying that young boys or men are more misogynistic than in the past. we have a cognitive bias towards thinking the past is better than it was, but specifically on gender issues i just do not buy a regression
fasttext failed for me with numpy2.0.

reverted to numpy 1.26.4 and it was fine.
When I started meditating, one of the first things I noticed was how I would stop breathing the moment I got on a computer. Kind of mindblowing that this issue is effecting many people!
Apparently when the pandemic hit Insight pivoted into a remote model with ISAs, then stopped accepting new cohorts.

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Insight-data-science-scam-dur...

https://www.reddit.com/r/datascience/s/sdKVWBP2GJ
Blood markers detect rare forms of dementia/ALS/PSP
i don’t fully agree, but i do agree that this is the better narrative for selling people on the dangers of AI.

don’t talk about escape, talk about harmful actors - even if in reality it is both to be worried about
Or... it's a conscious design choice that you happen to disagree with. Just because you can think of one disadvantage of the approach, doesn't mean that the creators are idiot who didn't think about what they were doing.
If you just want to learn how CPUs are designed then get an FPGA. The process of running a chip on an FPGA is very similar to the process of getting a custom ASIC built.
It's "not killing every human" safe.
> I asked Hazel, given the recent XZ backdoor attempt, how he intended to vet any prospective PCRE2 maintainers. He replied that it was a good question "to which I have no answer. I will have to see who (if anyone) makes an offer". To date, he said he had received "no communications whatsoever" about taking over the project. Perhaps, once the word gets out more widely, a qualified maintainer will step forward to take PCRE2 into the future.
I clicked, hoping that "human extinction" was just the worst thing they were against. But that's the only thing. That leaves open a whole lot of bad stuff that they're OK with AI doing (as long as it doesn't kill literally everyone).
Is safe AI really such a genie out of the bottle problem? From a non expert point of view a lot of hype just seems to be people/groups trying to stake their claim on what will likely be a very large market.
Cant wait for the SS vs OpenAI peace wars

Just a joke , congrats to Ilya
It could be due to policy of the .ca registry, rather than at the registrar:

> Due to the Registry restrictions, it’s not possible to use privacy protection tools for .CA domains.

https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...

Might want to check your whois record at https://lookup.icann.org (not 3rd party sites like whois.com which sometimes does not show this information)
Show HN: Focus Firewall – a realistic distraction blocker for Mac
Hey folks,

I started building this app (for Mac) out of necessity to avoid distractions (like twitter, yt, hn) during working hours, especially now that I'm WFH/remote/solo and lacking the structure of a corp job schedule.

I was having a hard time because a yt video or a twitter link visit would almost always becomes 2 videos or 5 mins of scrolling. There are a bunch of smart people working against you and trying to keep you in.

Apart from the time we waste, we also spend our focus/attention battery charge. We get bombarded with info/content and we can only process so much every day. This aspect is more qualitative and a little harder to measure, but I think it also does have a significant impact on how our days go.

Just like food, we also need to care for our "online diet".

Before working on it, I tried other apps for a few months and none really stuck. They were either too analytical ("look how bad your browsing habits are") or too strict ("block everything password that only your S.O. knows"). I also didn't like solutions that needed browser extensions everywhere, nor solutions that uploaded your browsing history to some cloud (gross).

Ultimately what worked was just editing /etc/hosts and pointing twitter.com to localhost. Of course I can just open the file and unblock things, but just that added friction was enough to think about it twice "damn it, gotta edit the file...". This often made me give up getting my twitter/yt fix.

I ended up creating a dumb switch in the menu bar that you can "turn distractions off" = starts blocking distracting things. It looks like the internet is down just for that website. I also made it autostart everyday 9to5 so that I don't have to think about it.

And of course, it's not strict at all. You can turn it off anytime and you can take breaks. Also if you're curious, our early beta users seem to continue using the app even though you can turn it off anytime – they end up using pauses, which helps manage how much time they wanna spend.

Wanted to share it with y'all and would love to hear your thoughts/feedback/comments!
One of the things you quickly discover when you start meditating is how deeply your breath is connected to your mind and body. You can literally detect a thought forming before it does simply by sensing subtle changes in your breathing. You'll also notice how the most trivial thoughts also have a physical manifestation in your body, e.g., mild tension in your eyelids, or a tingling in your abdomen, etc.
Closure-Free Functional Programming in a Two-Level Type Theory