skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they aren't protesting, they're vandalising one of the UK's most historic archaeological sites - and that's a crime. Previously, they've also vandalised historic and priceless works of art among other things. Their right to protest does not include vandalism and the destruction of property. I'd argue that it also does not include depriving others of their right to enjoy said monuments and artwork.

I noticed you dodged the question of how to effectively stop to the vandalism, so I'll ask again.
This approach may be the groundbreaking as it moves beyond traditional symptom-based classifications, allowing for more precise diagnosis and personalized treatment strategies. However, people in diseases may ignore their symptom and pretended nothing wrong with them.
You don’t need an alley for trash you just need to be slightly less greedy and plan for it in your building plans over more leasable space. This is somehow only an intractable issue for nyc.
38000 enjoyed it.

A few hundreds protested it. 500 maybe? That’s less than 2% of the 38K that attended it.

Guess we can always get ~2% to protest any event of more than 10K attendees.
1. "Testing: Termux, vmtest, and QEMU": https://gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/7614b0137ac6959e3bba35... (gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/7614b0137ac6959e3bba35df66eaa75a)

2. "The surprisingly complicated world of disk image sizes": https://www.berrange.com/posts/2017/02/10/the-surprisingly-c... (www.berrange.com/posts/2017/02/10/the-surprisingly-complicated-world-of-disk-image-sizes/)
I think some of this article resonates with me, but I also think a big part of it rubs me the wrong way. It seems to assume that everyone has a webserver running a LAMP stack. If you have a static site on a webserver running PHP then of course PHP is going to require the least amount of effort to make your site mildly dynamic.

On the other hand, if you have nothing, I don't think that the fastest/easiest way to a mildly dynamic website is to use PHP.

I got curious about the most minimalist setup I could get for running a static site that would also easily transition to becoming dynamic piece-by-piece. Here's what I came up with using NextJS:

1. Create a `package.json` containing:

{
"scripts": {
"dev": "next dev",
"build": "next build",
"start": "next start"
},
"dependencies": {
"react": "^18",
"react-dom": "^18",
"next": "14.2.4"
}
}

2. Create `app/layout.js` containing

export default ({ children }) => children;

3. Create your home page at `app/page.js`. This is pretty much just what your index.html would have been before except it's wrapped with `export default () => (/.../)`:

export default () => (
<html>
<head>
<title>Home</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Home</h1>
<p>Welcome to our website!</p>
</body>
</html>
);

4. Put the rest of your static files in `/public`

Now, when you want to make one of your html files dynamic:

1. Move it from `public/your-page.html` to `app/your-page/page.js`

2. Wrap it with `export default () => (/.../)`

And there you go, you can start using JavaScript and JSX in your page.

Here's a summary of the differences between this approach and creating a PHP-based site:

1. You have to create 2 more files containing 13 more lines of code than you would with PHP

2. You need to find a NextJS web host rather than a PHP web host

3. Your dynamic pages are html-inside-javascript rather than php-inside-html. You are also technically writing JSX and not HTML, which has slightly different syntax.

4. You have a much easier to set up local dev server (Install `node`, then `npm install` and `npm dev`)

5. This framework can scale pretty seamlessly to "highly dynamic", whereas with PHP you'd probably need to introduce a frontend framework if you wanted to create something actually "highly dynamic".

6. You only need to learn one programming language (JavaScript) instead of two (JavaScript and PHP).
These two get it.
I’ve had a great experience with The Mind Illuminated[0] which I discovered a couple years ago… via an HN recommendation!

Depending on your preferences you may want to ignore some of the more religious/spiritual parts in it.

Either way, it has had a big, positive, and lasting influence on my life (even though I haven’t been meditating much lately anymore).

[0]: https://a.co/d/08L5nc8t
Please let me know what you think! Even the simplest comment is super duper useful to me.
Yeah, the more circular ones are pretty intense - https://guidetosfot.com/rides/shockwave/
Its permanent if the pile is renewed daily by business owners who refuse to contract sufficient trash service. Somehow big cities around the world have solved dumpsters and not having trash for the rats to go through on the street. No clue why theres always excuses for this issue for nyc.
I feel like if you are an intelligent entity propagating itself through spacetime you will have goals:

If you are intelligent, you will be aware of your surroundings moment by moment, so you are grounded by your sensory input. Otherwise there are a whole class of not very hard problems you can't solve.

If you are intelligent, you will be aware of the current state and will have desired future states, thus having goals. Otherwise, how are you intelligent?

To make this point, even you said "A super intelligent species would likely want to preserve everything", which is a goal. This isn't a gotcha, I just feel like goals are inherent to true intelligence.

This is a big reason why even the SOTA huge frontier models aren't comprehensively intelligent in my view: they are huge, static compositional functions. They don't self reflect, take action, or update their own state during inference*, though active inference is cool stuff people are working on right now to push SOTA.

*theres some arguments around what's happening metaphysically in-context but the function itself is unchanged between sessions.
I honesty dream of having a real old Cray 1 as a couch :-) - those designs were just something we don’t see today, huh!?
In my opinion, the way Subnautica motivates is players to play is through a natural sense of exploration - it wants you to think, "This is such a cool planet, I want to explore it" and not "What is the most efficient way of making these numbers/progress bars on the screen go up."

I totally understand what you mean though. I passed on Dark Souls on my first try due to the lack of a specific goal but it is my favourite game of all time now.
OSRD: Open-Source Railway Designer
I'm curious how many unique users you get daily/weekly/monthly?
US is no angel and it cannot be the only one which wins the race. We have hard evidence of how monopoly power gets abused in the case of the US e.g. as the sole nuclear power, it used nukes on civilians.

We need every one to win this race to keep things on balance.
OK, so Linux isn't for you. Not everything is suitable for everyone. But why crow about it in public? To bask in some smugness? Or to justify your choice (not just to yourself but others)?
It is in moments like these that I wish I wasn’t anonymous on here and could bet a 6 figure sum on AGI not happening in then next 10 years, which is how I define “foreseeable future”.
This looks interesting. The results look reasonable. Thanks.
In theory, this is very exciting. I wonder how much things will crash and burn with so many departures from expected Linux practices like all-apps-one-user (with some exceptions like web servers that would already run under their own users). But I might give it a go on bare metal…
Right. We can see something similar with the Terry Schiavo case or the opposition to IFV right now. It's clear that this is about different opinions regarding what should be considered a living human being (which doesn't seem to have a very clean definition for anyone, it should be noted). Depending on where you draw the line, it's either horrible to outlaw abortions or horrible to allow them.

Framing it as simply taking away a woman's bodily autonomy is like framing circumcision as simply being about mutilating men.
That sounds like it would be an issue for anything. If the kernel knows that N pages need to be paged in, it should be able to optimize that behind the scenes in whatever way is needed.

I'll agree that mmap() would probably have issues with prediction there (other than basic readahead), but I would think that issuing a simple bulk read() call (or more likely an equivalent zero copy call; vread() if memory serves? Been too long) would give the kernel enough information to optimize bulk transfers.

Small async reads will always be slow if done serially, but there's already "standard" scatter/gather calls that should let the kernel optimize that as well.

In short, all but a truly naive application should be limited by the SSD or PCIe bandwidth before they ever hit issues like that if the kernel is optimizing correctly, and assuming that the application can predict its own needs.
I agree with your point. However I also don't want to live in a world where the first superintelligence is controlled by an entities that:

- try to scan all my chat messages searching for CSAM

- have black sites across the world where anyone can dissappear without any justice

- can require me to unlock my phone and give it away

- ... and so on

The point I'm trying to make is that other big players in the race are crooked as well and i'm waiting for a great horror for AGI to be invented as no matter who gets it - we are all doomed
It doesn't... started as a hobby project in 2012, wanted to see if it was possible to make an app that stored a lot of client-side data in IndexedDB. Now, my app is successful so I don't really want to move to another platform, but also it creates too much data to easily and cheaply sync to a server. So I'm in a weird situation. https://basketball-gm.com/ if you're curious.

I realize I'm a bit of an edge case. But also, ideally we could make PWAs that operate with similar data guarantees as native apps. That's kind of the idea of PWAs, that web apps should be able to mostly be the equivalent of native apps.

And it almost works, except for the data loss issue. Kind of sad. Cause there are so many other advantages of a PWA... like being able to target all platforms with one PWA is incredible. Having no gatekeepers to "approve" my app updates is incredible. But the cost is sometimes users lose all their data :)
You got a source for the 3w? Is this for the cpu or measured at the wall? Seems low. I believe intel n100 can get to 7w but only after heavy tweaking of c states and only with some mobo. A lot of users more in practice from my forum searching on this cpu last year when i almost bought it. Macbook can go down to 5w but again thats idle with nothing running. I don’t think many people leave a laptop computer idling like they might their workstation.
These are human nature (unfortunately) - tech creates new methods and channels to conduct and amplify these evil behaviors.

Please don't paint bike sheds. Drones are a new threat, obviously with humans manufacturing, arming and flying them.
This is easily the funniest serious-face headline I've read all month.
The article's insistence on differentiation between "web sites" and "web applications" and a further article linked in the footnotes about the "HTML5 coup"[0] suggests the author doesn't consider functionality added by javascript to be valid for web sites, which they define as purely documents, only web applications. This seems to be a common viewpoint on HN, from what I've observed.

[0]https://www.devever.net/~hl/xhtml2
It's been a while since I was testing but sustained FUA ( Force Unit Access or something like that), writes, which are used by some DB's in stead of cache write + sync degrade consumer SSD'S to HDD levels of performance. Perhaps not as slow as HDDs themselves would degrade under the same workload, but certainly 10s of milliseconds.

So yes, visible, extremely so. On drives commonly known as excellent consumer drives and that I myself happily use on a general desktop/gaming PC.

From the limited testing available from my personal budget it would suggest that newer drives are still impacted, although not as badly, and larger drives are ( perhaps obviously ) impacted much less than than smaller ones ( 2tb vs 256gb ).
I've seen 2 level drops too.. first when cache/slc writes are overrun, and then a second, when I think the drive is forced into some kind of garbage collection/reorg at the same time.

But all that stuff is very controller specific so it's a little hard to generalize.

But equally, I now buy old enterprise drives, because they work so much better under these workloads at equivalent sizes, even if consumers drives would appear faster according to spec sheets or "drive friendly" benchmarks.
I personally use old intel ( 37nn and 46nn series ) but that's mostly just what I know, there are similarly performing models from most enterprise ssd vendors
Understood, but... was that in dire need of fixing? We're all pretty acclimated to it over the decades we've used email.

That isn't to say we can't or shouldn't improve things. It's more that I'm not convinced the problem here is important enough to justify the complexity of the solution.
While we are on funny real instructions, I remember years ago thinking that the VAX MOVTUC instruction was the hilarious pinnacle of CISC instructions

http://odl.sysworks.biz/disk$axpdocdec011/opsys/vmsos73/vmso...
Why should we “not speak of” Allaire's ColdFusion also released in 1995?

PHP made web development accessible with its simplicity, but ColdFusion was arguably more influential in the '90s. It led the way with features like built-in database connectivity and templating, setting the stage for how dynamic web pages would work as implemented by Microsoft and others, and even shaping what PHP itself became.

Separately, I think projects like Caddy carry on the spirit of the blog post.
Ultrasound for Single Cells in the Body
Having an unlimited plan is a great way to attract a small group of users, but it can backfire (as you're discovering). What percentage of your users are on the unlimited plan? As other posters suggested, you might consider replacing the unlimited plan with something more sustainable and less open to abuse (for lack of a better word). You'll have to weigh that against the revenue that you risk losing by alienating some of those power users. But if it's only some users, you might be able to afford losing some or all of them.
I wonder why it's not a big deal where I live - whether it just doesn't happen to the same extend or such behaviour is more accepted.

I know I wouldn't think twice about it if someone switched lanes and forced me to lightly brake. Having to slam on the brakes would be more noteworthy, but that rarely happens.
> I wonder what other fields have an analogous progression.

"Before one studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters."
> "I dont get why so many people want to drop calculus from computer science curriculum."

People want the easy money that a programming job represents and resent anything that gets in the way of getting it.
The size of the gap between “smarter than humans” and “not controlled by humans anymore” is obviously where the disagreement is.

To assume it’s a chasm that can never be overcome, you need at least the following to be true:

No amount of focus or time or intelligence or mistakes in coding will ever bridge the gap. That rules and safeguards can be made that are perfectly inescapable. And nobody else will get enough power to overcome our set of controls.

I’m less worried bad actors control it than I am that it escapes them and is badly aligned.
Right. Outside of creating something to show off in a web browse, this is currently at best a quick way to generate disposable background assets for VFX. Definitely not usable for AM or 3D printing, and more work to clean up and stylize for any given animation.

Once we get artists to start producing LoRA on UV wraps of their own assets, I think it'll get interesting.
Have you seen https://www.val.town/ ?
IMHO Cars — not just F1 race cars, all of these poison-spewing monsters that kill people who move around on foot or on bicycles — should have never been allowed into cities. It’s high time to start kicking them out.

P.S. Thanks for downvoting someone who is merely expressing his personal opinion and not offending anyone.
Automakers often do collaborate on platforms and engines. In terms of ev we see this as well as chargers become standardized.
Personally, I'd be most concerned about pollution, such as toxic dust from tires and brakes and noxious exhaust fumes. Presumably, the roads they are closing would generate a certain amount of this in any case, but would the race make it substantially worse? Has anybody studied it?

I also think that perhaps we are well past the point where we should have stopped burning fossil fuels for entertainment.
It's good to see how to track it, but what's more important is knowing how to clean it up. Additionally, dumping nuclear wastewater might pose an even greater threat.
Relevance is that the window of what it permitted was very large in the past, and now it extremely narrow . It is really hard to do anything culturally new that is not a business
From an exhibition? Seriously?
In my experience depending on the model, it can be between hard and very hard. Blenders remesh will produce something reasonable but with a gazillion polygons. Guided approaches are a lot better but are labour intensive as the user is effectively tracing over the source model.

Retopology will destroy the old uv map, so a new map will need to be made. Following that, the old textures will need to be baked onto this map.

I have spent easily as much as a day cleaning up (I.e. re-mqking) 3d scans.
That says that:

1) Congress cannot create an official national church or regulate the official state churches that existed at the time the First Amendment was written. (The term "establishment of religion" is not an old-timey way of referring to religiously-motivated laws, but instead refers to "established churches": https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/established-churches...)

2) Congress cannot prohibit individuals from exercising their religion freely.

Neither of those provisions prohibits the majority having religious motivations for otherwise-permissible laws. For example, the government can obviously commerce. If the majority wants to use the government's power over commerce to ban the sale of alcohol on Sundays, that's totally permissible. The fact that people's motivation for doing that is based on Christianity makes no difference.
i remeber making my friends and other students @ school "mad" because from time to time (during hours) i said in loud voice: "remember that you breathe" & everyone changed from automatic to manual mode :D

later on, i built an assist robot for some breathe exercises: https://codeberg.org/luqtas/Zid
> Some people just like working in the office.

No doubt. This isn't a one-size-fits-all thing. Some people absolutely love working in the office. Some people just prefer it. Others have a garbage home office and will never have any home setup conducive to work. I 10000% agree with this, and anyone who says otherwise is being dreadfully foolish.

That doesn't explain even a little bit why folks who do not like (or even very, very strongly dislike) coming into the office are being threatened, are getting cut off from any and all promotions, or even being fired for continuing to work from their home office.

> If you put any effort into the theory [that the "force everyone to come into the office with threats of removal from the promotion track, or removal from one's position" situation that's ongoing may be related to plummeting commercial real estate valuations and attempts to prop them up] at all it immediately falls apart.

Your anecdotes don't support this claim.
Seeing X10 was a revelation. I'd used OS specific windowing systems, and being presented with this one was a significant "aha" moment. Sun Views was interesting but this had a whole quality of anywhere, anytime.

X11 was X10++ and I think we've been coasting since. Wayland has confused me.
Interesting. I have more questions but this thread is getting long. Want to find me online (see my profile) so we can chat elsewhere?
You don't have to attend physically to a protest to agree with it.
It would all come down to the Cost Benefit Analysis, whether retrofitting an e.g. unused warehouse or misc. industrial space to be a datacenter would be more cost effective/time efficient than a brand new building with all the general civil construction & site work that would entail before you even have four walls and a roof.
right now only about a third of the 18 terawatts or so of world marketed energy consumption is electrical. to electrify the rest of the existing economy, we need to triple electrical generation capacity. since some of that new capacity will be intermittent sources like solar and wind (probably almost all of it) we also need to expand peaker plant or battery capacity, probably a lot, in order to supply essential uses that aren't amenable to demand response; the alternative is blackouts and deindustrialization

if your peaker plants are gas turbines, running them less drives up their capex per megawatt hour delivered, so i'm interested in how much that capex is

i agree that hydrogen is a plausible form of storage and can certainly be used for gas turbines
> the window of what it permitted was very large in the past, and now it extremely narrow

It's... really not. They still have an F1 race in Spain.
An elevator that feels significantly different than the other elevators in the city probably results in more complaints to building management/maintenance about either "the elevator is too jerky!" or "the elevator is too slow!"
So really Nintendo invented the ROM
I couldn't resist, so here's the GPU hasher: https://gist.github.com/grishka/c1be1c035f39564debfd4b195bdf...

It gets around 232.5 MH/s on the M1 Max. There's also an optimization that exploits the fact that SHA256 is incremental, so the state for the common prefix could be pre-computed and then copied and only updated with the variable part. This yields around 30% performance boost.
First hand experience is certainly better than second hand accounts bit it can be just as wrong. My example woild be, going to some foreign country, getting a few first hand experiences, then assuming those experiences match the norm in that country when the don't.
I remember in my undergrad (International Affairs and Tech Policy) covering his influence with some detail. His is a name that merits more "fame" for the lessons in his approach (both good and questionable)
Big Oil and Big Corn Form Alliance to Challenge Pro-EV Policies
That NAND flash is a 128MB SLC part rated for 10 years of retention after 100K cycles. It's interesting that the datasheet says ECC is only "strongly recommended" and not "mandatory", but I guess SLC of the time, unlike MLC and later generations of flash where correctable errors are part of normal operation, was reliable enough that some applications didn't bother using ECC at all. It also recommends the 22-bit/256-byte SECDED ECC algorithm which originated in the earliest NAND flash with 256-byte pages and later became popularised by SmartMedia.

Flash memory bits wear out after 100,000 to 1,000,000 writes. Thus, file systems must keep track of the number of writes and have a strategy to avoid wearing out storage, such as by moving popular data. —Patterson & Hennessy, P.23 Computer Organization and Design 5E

That quote would've been true in the 90s or early 2000s at the latest. These days it's more like 100 to 10K cycles for most mass storage flash, with the majority trending towards the former.
I think the point is that the protests may not be reflective of local opinions. Not whether HN should have an opinion on it.
Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison and Monroe have entered that thread, and would like to remind you that they were Deists and not Christians.