skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
silver bullet to defuse tar bomb: https://xkcd.com/1168/
(I'm the author)

The "why now" is any significant new efficiency gains that are available without a ton of cash.
This is the most hilarious part:

>The aim is to create a better work environment for humans — one that isn't too hot, humid or dim. Saad said that means more comfortable and productive employees.

Hello, lighting and climate control are already solved problems? But regardless, deploying roombas riddled with cameras out into the workplace is undoubtedly a step toward making employees feel more "comfortable".
NASA is neither a public or private company, but rather a government agency. Congress is an employee of the US taxpayer. I think that makes them more of a manager of NASA and we should hold Congress accountable.
Locking things in is not an issue if things are well built and well maintained. Having used Laravel, I'm amazed at their DX. First party libs all built by the same team, tools also built by the same team. Everything is congruent and just flows.

Compare that to the wild west that is Javascript land. Multiple libraries that all do the same thing in different ways. Stuff being deprecated or completely changed.

Sure, if you want "choice", there's plenty of stuff out there for that. You can cobble together your own framework or pick a light framework pick and then add your "batteries" to it. I hope AdonisJS only has 1 way of doing things and that those ways are good, then it will truly go a long way.
Queen Catalog to Be Acquired by Sony Music for £1B
State machines are great for complex situations, but when it comes to performance, it's not at all clear to me that they're the most scalable approach with modern systems.

The data dependency between a loop iteration for each character might be pipelined really well when executed, and we can assume large enough L1/L2 cache for our lookup tables. But we're still using at least one lookup per character.

Projects like https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson?tab=readme-ov-file#abou... are truly fascinating, because they're based on SIMD instructions that can process 64 or more bytes with a single instruction. Very much worth checking out the papers at that link.
if anything systemd-sysfiles, but this is exactly what they meant with bikeshedding.
>ReactOS doesn't have a large foundation behind it, and it doesn't make sense for companies to allow their employees to develop and contribute to it on their dime.

It's also a solution to a problem that largely doesn't exist. The people working on it do so for fun, not because they need Windows but not made by Microsoft. The parent comments says "having no alternative O/S to Windows is a real pain" but it's not a real pain to any significant amount of people.
> The US can clearly afford both, as your chart demonstrates.

The chart doesn't demonstrate anything of the sort. By definition, sovereign governments can afford literally anything, since they can print the currency within the country. It will just cause inflation.

That statement is complete and utter reductionist nonsense.
https://archive.ph/nR7xb
Thanks! And this is a great exercise, thanks for sharing it.
Did Enterprise have features unavailable through self serve?
Unfortunately, if the browser window were not at the right size, some of those dithered images will be scaled with visible moiré patterns. If they wanted a dithered look that works at different resolutions, it might have been better to serve grayscale images and filter them on the client side.
Yes, let's pump even more money into an already obscenely overpriced system.
It's Time to Learn How to Blow Things Up Again
I think the point was these massive ad companies have similar resources as NASA and don't do anything particularly useful* for society.

* For some definitions of useful
> I'm dying to hear what you think is more efficient for floating-point computation

yup, flops are the only thing that matter. Nothing else makes a difference.

700watts a unit, plus the ancillary heat from the processor and infiniband/fancy ethernet is challenging to house at scale.

as to my original point, they are fucking expensive. Some of the ones we have are literally gold plated.
https://archive.is/DrrtJ
That's the theory. In practice it incentivizes a lot of corruption.
The Origin of MQTT
Nothing clever, I know :p
Any notable difference if you pipe the file in, rather than read from disk?

IO caches are a thing as well, don’t use the first measurement.
%15 of the US population uses a private well
I don't think that's a concern for the vast majority of people using Java on the backend.
YouTube confirms crackdown on VPN users accessing cheaper Premium plans
Religious organizations are not tax exempt.

Congress is authority-exempt from making laws that can apply taxes to them in the first place.

It's not like we tax everyone, then exempt religious organizations; the "everyone" that is able to be taxed does not include establishments of religion in the first place, thanks to the wording of 1A.
We bet our company on open source
You Are Committing a Crime
Dear W3C and browsers – Please fix cookie consent
it's 2024 - come on, can we please stop with the stupid cookie consent popups.

Could set and forget your preferences in the browser - and have a prefers-cookie-consent type feature or API?

I know there are all kind of browser extensions but it's time for a proper fix - unless there is already?
To avoid changing the overall brightness like in the examples it is important to work on linearized values or to adjust the running error accordingly. It's not correct to work on the encoded sRGB values of the image directly. This is a very common mistake in blog articles about diy image filtering.
It looks a bit biased to be honest, nothing about Go being prone to race conditions due to the choices it has made, for example.
Seems like its completely different person with the same name of Rafal Kupiec. Pretty common Polish name and surname. WinuxOS is not related to ExectOS by any means. The post is from almost 20 years ago.

Also I don't see that level of code similarity you're claiming. KeLowerRunLevel in Minoca is literally a one liner. Most functions behave differently compared to Minoca's. I've asked Belliash on Discord, he was reading Minoca to derive some inspiration. And Codeium AI autocomplete may sometimes generate code similar to other projects. Nothing to worry about.
> The combination of GPS mapping (planter knows where it was during planting), known plant & row spacing...

This is not robust. Humans don't use GPS for this purpose (and anyway, the plants are closer than GPS resolution.

Looking and using the local data is the more robust approach. Trying to assume the real world is the same as your model has been the source of countless visual gags since the advent of movies.
Even with this new model, at the bottom of the page I see something like "Claude can't yet run the code it generates." But if I ask it to run the code it has generated for me, it confidently generates output that looks like the output of that code should look, with the wrong numbers (off by a factor of about a million in the case of my toy question). When I tell it it's off by a factor of a million it regenerates the output, and is wrong again.
The assumption is that any credits would be tied to lowering costs for patients.
For power users. General users want this point and click thing, Windows/Mac got them used to it. It's sorta functional on mobile OS too. Its not like the CLI would (ever) disappear.
When it's about RAM, Mi11 have 8gb of RAM.. the Mi11 pro has 12gb RAM. And both have sd slot for upto 256 GB.. so plenty of space.. Snapdragon 888 is also not the baddest one. Let's wait what community will bring us.

But with 90 percent of apple old hardware also can't run it, so there also won't be a community to hack on the old hardware.. so what?
Maybe social media was a mistake. Oh well… Pandora’s box and all that

Congress won’t do anything; it’s too mired in infighting and lobbyists. And these companies’s better angels won’t do anything about this.
Early ants may have had complex social lives, fossil data suggests
This is unfortunate, but I hope more interactions with teams that work on JIT and Roslyn would help to change this opinion.
Walmart Labs had a research paper a few years ago exploring a "personal AI assistant" for the lowest level Walmart employees.

immediately there were questions about "does it give workers orders too?" and "what kind of records are being generated" and those were questions by mild paper reviewers.. not experienced labor attorneys. note: I posted this once here previously and tried to go back to find the citation, but it is currently TODO. This was a refereed paper in a large conference, so someone with better search skills might find it. I definitely recall seeing Walmart Labs on the title page
I, too, will keep using the separate stream, more out of habit than anything else. But the plastic doesn't currently go into a special landfill, it goes into the same ones as all of the other trash.

<https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/climate/ask-nyt-climate-r...>

[I]f the [recycling] plant can find a buyer at a price that makes sense, the bundles will be shipped off to a recycling plant. Sometimes a local one, and sometimes one as far away as Africa or Southeast Asia. If they can’t, everything goes into a landfill or gets incinerated.

And even though my original comment is at zero, the industry specifically pushed recycling because by making people feel like they were helping, they would ignore the real problem.

<https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...>

Yet the industry spent millions telling people to recycle, because, as one former top industry insider told NPR, selling recycling sold plastic, even if it wasn't true.

"If the public thinks that recycling is working, then they are not going to be as concerned about the environment," Larry Thomas, former president of the Society of the Plastics Industry, known today as the Plastics Industry Association and one of the industry's most powerful trade groups in Washington, D.C., told NPR."

Burying the plastic is probably the better option.

<https://www.ft.com/content/901c78e6-b4d0-467c-ab87-6fc44c8a0...>

“The energy required to do reprocessing is higher than the energy required to make the [plastic] in the first place,” he said. To limit carbon emissions in line with the global warming goals of the Paris climate accord, it would be better to “bury the stuff”, according to Hallett.
Probably ignorant question, but how do I avoid the issues of cross join say across several tables (or equivalents)? It seems like I always need more than a many TBs of memory.

Do you spinup a U-18TB1 112xlarge or something to the equivalent as needed? Or, are you running it all day? I've never used Clickhouse, but I'd dealt with a spark system that was written like 10 years ago. I'm wondering if it's something easily migrated to Clickhouse?
Statewide 911 outage was caused by 911 vendor's malfunctioning firewall
> That said, I don't think I've heard of a case where IRS/government refused to acknowledge a claimed religious organization?

Perhaps illustrating your point, but worth noting anyhow: the dangerous for-profit cult of Scientology actually had to infiltrate the IRS with their own people to get their tax exempt status.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White
I'm not sure there's a big enough hard drive to store that list. (joking about the hard drive space)

If you start with a list of every SaaS company, and then delete 10% of them at random, you probably have a good approximation of the offenders though.
I think this confuses "software is open source" like it's some intrinsic property of the software, and "if you pay me I will sell you the software under an OSS license which is totally fine.

It's a bit of an honor system because is allowed to just publish it for anyone to download for free but it's absolutely something you can do.
Show HN: Store Text in Minesweeper
Yeah, I feel most invoicing forgets it can be both time and fixed cost // then also only cares about generating, rather than tracking the flow afterward.

Might be just me though?
Maybe using opaque algorithms to score and assign prominence to specific content based on ill-defined metrics like "engagement" was a mistake.
I just watched Sabine Hossenfelder's video (Gravity without Mass, https://youtu.be/Q0fwRMvNkoA) where she talks about hollow spheres. Inspired by this video I have this hypothesis:

There's quantum fluctuation. Particles appear out of nowhere and disappear again. Hossenfelder talked about negative mass, so allow me to do this as well: What if a pair of two particles, one of negative and one of positive mass can very rarely appear?

They disappear immediately again but for a short moment we have acceleration (more about that in Hossenfelder's video). Could this be enough to explain "dark matter"?
Thanks. Low Tech Magazine is fascinating.
The (cheating, ASCII-only) SIMD implementation for reference:

#if 0 /* shell polyglot */
exec ${CC:-cc} $CPPFLAGS -g -O2 -march=x86-64-v3 $CFLAGS -o "${0%.c}" "$0" || exit $?
#endif
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 */

#include <immintrin.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
const char *const progname = argc ? argv[0] : "<unknown>";
unsigned long long bytes = 0, words = 0, lines = 0;
uint32_t prev = -1;
for (;;) {
static __m256i buf[1024 * 1024];
ssize_t k, n = 0;
do {
k = read(STDIN_FILENO, (char *)buf + n, sizeof buf - n);
} while (k > 0 && (n += k) < sizeof buf);
if (k < 0) { perror(progname); return 1; }
if (!n) break;
bytes += n;

while (n % sizeof *buf) ((char *)buf)[n++] = ' ';
n /= sizeof *buf;

for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++) {
__m256i x = _mm256_load_si256(&buf[i]);

__m256i nl = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(x, _mm256_set1_epi8('\n'));
lines += _mm_popcnt_u32(_mm256_movemask_epi8(nl));

const __m256i table = _mm256_broadcastsi128_si256(_mm_setr_epi8(
/* 0 */ ' ', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
/* 8 */ 0, '\t', '\n', '\v', '\f', '\r', 0, 0));
__m256i ws = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(x, _mm256_shuffle_epi8(table,
_mm256_and_si256(x, _mm256_set1_epi8(0x0F))));
uint64_t mask = _mm256_movemask_epi8(ws);
words += _mm_popcnt_u32(mask ^ (mask << 32 | prev) >> 31);
prev = mask;
}
}
words += !(prev >> 31);
printf("%llu %llu %llu\n", lines, words / 2, bytes);
return 0;
}
It didn't change anything, the law passed.
OFCOM just has to activate the clause in the law to backdoor e2ee apps.
Related Google clamps down on VPN workarounds for cheaper YouTube Premium subscriptions (19 points, 11 hours ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40735666
I think a matching industry company, but not necessarily a better counter example, would be SpaceX vs. NASA, for better or worse, and obvious reasons. They are trying to change the launch-and-trash model to reuse, so this requires a paradigm shift. When NASA chose SpaceX and Boeing to compete in 2014, SpaceX won, and after seeing Boeing's current fiasco decline, that's a good thing.

I was a member of the L5 Society [1] in the 80s where we would meet on the Intrepid aircraft carrier in Manhattan to discuss all things space and space colonization (L5 being the Lagrangian point in the Earth-Moon system to place space habitats 60-degrees behind or ahead of the Moon's orbit for stable gravitational equilibrium to minimize fuel or energy to maintain that position).
L5 later merged with the National Space Institute under the National Space Society (NSI was Werner von Braun's baby).

I had read O'Neill's 1974 article, "The Colonization of Space" when I was 10, in Physics Today that got me hooked before L5. I bought a Commodore PET 2001 in 1977/78 and was writing a program to show the on orbital plane view of Jupiter's 4 major moons - Io, Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa to better identify which was which when using my binoculars at night. I left L5 in 1988/89. Good times at the Galaxy Diner after the monthly meetings on the Intrepid.

I stopped devoting time to space around then and didn't pick up an avid interest again until SpaceX, even though I had done some machining work for some models of subassemblies for the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers in the early 2000s. I am now back at making machines and dreaming of space again!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L5_Society
this service is good, I'm interested, thank you
Let's say the RoboWater(tm) rolls down a row of trees in the orchard, water hose unreeling behind it. At each tree, it dumps the calculated dose of water into a clay pot that is sunken into the ground near the trunk (from which the water slowly soaks into the soil). When the row is done - it reverses direction, reeling the hose back up in the process. Then some side-shuffling, and it's soon rolling down the next row of trees in the orchard, again dumping the calculated dose of water...
Hey SpaceX, here's an idea: put a few of your 'Atlas' robots on one of the upcoming Starship test vehicles - maybe the one where you plan to test in-orbit refuelling since it probably takes a bit of extra fuel to get to Hubble's orbit - and get the thing to meet up with Hubble. Have the robots replace the failed gyros, replace the batteries and whatever other consumables that old relic contains. Have them take back the old parts in Starship so they can be studied. The result would be revived Hubble as well as one of the biggest PR coups imaginable. Or, maybe, one of the biggest hits against human space flight if it turns out robots can do the job well enough not to have to send up their meat-based masters, take your pick.
> Hundreds of thousands of people also turn to their state Attorney General’s office as some state AGs have made requests on users’ behalf — on Reddit, this is known as the “AG method.” But attorneys general across the country have been so inundated with these requests they formally asked Meta to fix their customer service, too. “We refuse to operate as the customer service representatives of your company,” a coalition of 41 state AGs wrote in a letter to the company earlier this year.

Hundreds of thousands of people contacting the AG offices... over a particular site/app... customer service issues?

I would've guessed 1/1000th of that.
This is my attempt in Rust. I am not a Rust programmer so it is probably horribly inefficient, but it works!

https://gist.github.com/Chaz6/81523edaed6f31aa609daa919ff6b8...
You can check out civitai's repo if you want smth for NextJS: https://github.com/civitai/civitai

Found it pretty useful for my usecase at least since most of my tech stack aligns with them, along with the component framework they use(Mantine)
It is definitely easier to audit profit taxes that has to follow a standard protocol than checking every transaction. Do we expect the auditor to call random customers whether they purchased bread on November 17 last year?
> makes the world less of a safe place than if they didn't exist

This is false. Handguns and other small arms, for example, cause a reduction in violence as they proliferate through society, due to the fact that the use of force is not the exclusive purview of the physically strong.

There's a reason police in most places carry guns, and it's not to shoot people; it's to keep people from punching the cops in the face. Nuclear weapons have vastly (and I do mean vastly) reduced mass deaths in world wars since their invention.
> I thought OP was talking about row crops which can't feasibly be irrigated with hoses.

Are we talking about irrigation pivots[1] here? Because those are a known technology.

If we are thinking about robots driving up and down the rows and watering plants from a tank, and then returning to some central location to re-fill their tank that feels like a "carrying water for elephants" situation. I suspect the logistics won't work out. Could try to run some numbers on it of course. Is that how you are thinking about it?

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j1lMs7fcIQ
Yep, he made a mistake.
There's (relatively) lots of water in the Barossa Valley and it's worth growing a thirsty high value crop like grapes there. And even there the cost structure you say is unsupportable.

But the economics of farming in the Eyre Peninsula is quite different and they really have a water problem. From a food PoV these are the people we really need to help.

(I have family in both, not to mention in laws in Germany who also have a water problem...getting rid of it!)
CVE-2024-38355: socket.io Vulnerability
command to query CVE-2024-38355 in x-cmd shodan CLI

$ x shodan cve CVE-2024-38355

This is the result:

Socket.IO is an open source, real-time, bidirectional, event-based, communication framework. A specially crafted Socket.IO packet can trigger an uncaught exception on the Socket.IO server, thus killing the Node.js process. This issue is fixed by commit `15af22fc22` which has been included in `socket.io@4.6.2` (released in May 2023). The fix was backported in the 2.x branch as well with commit `d30630ba10`. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may attach a listener for the "error" event to catch these errors.
Sorry for the inconvenience, we are still working on the mobile side. It works well on any PC.
It might help to think of the sense of "proof" that's synonymous with "trial", rather than a specific formal math sense of proving a theorem from axioms by formal transformations.
> A trillion rows of indexed data will fit on a single cloud VM and be reasonably performant.

create and subsequently update index on trillion rows is very untrivial task performance wise.. Which DB you would suggest to use for this?
Can't we just pass a law that is incompatible with this proposal? Or can a new law always overrule existing laws?
I'd highly recommend Railway Empire (and Railway Empire 2). It's the spiritual successor to Sid Meyer's Railroads! With a fair bit more content and features.

EDIT: Railway Empire 2 is actually on sale right now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1644320/Railway_Empire_2/
No, she is just corrupt and she is not near as left-wing as that post tries to pretend. She just has financial interests in this.
Be real, you want to build a SPA, how ?
According to this, stimulant use if anything normalizes the differences found. Without a proper understanding of the field, I have to admit its hard to criticize the specifics.
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.2...

That said, all these studies are done way after ADHD was established. That is, ADHD as a concept wasn't established by looking at neurological brain scans or any kind of physical evidence. Makes me wonder what the exact thought process was for establishing the DSM.

I still feel like if I made up a disorder by coming up with 9 semi-normal behaviors as symptoms, enough people would just by chance meet most of the criteria, and imaging scans would find some difference. Wish I was rich so I could conduct that experiment myself.
Would Hubble fit in Starship for a return flight to ground? Would look nice hanging in the Smithsonian. Flight proven space observatory.
Row crops can be (and already are) irrigated with hoses. In dry areas of the world, drip tape is buried throughout the entire field because it allows farmers to make more efficient use of the water available to them. It does require the machinery has auto-steer (which is standard practice now anyway), because tearing up the drip tape with a planter is an expensive mistake.

https://whyfarmit.com/drip-tape-irrigation/
It's not a "big risk" in any capacity because drugs with low probability of success usually never reach the phase where they accumulate $3bln in costs.

The pharma industry has over a century of experience in managing risks of this sort, which is why it's so profitable.
MashDark: A good looking dark Midnight Commander skin
Midnight Commander seems to be struggling with maintenance story (and since they are hosted on super outdated Trac it makes it really hard to contribute - I tried), but it's still the most powerful TUI tool I know and it's my goto default on any new linux install.

So I'm proud about releasing this new dark skin that makes it actually (imo) look good!