skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need Adam Smith of the new "real estate economy", e.g. buying bricks of a building instead of stocks, dividends from rent profits.
Bryson DeChambeau's secret to US Open success: Floating golf balls in Epsom salt
Oils 0.22.0 – Docs, Pretty Printing, Nix, and Zsh
on occasion the distinct shape of a rare uppercase word like SANCTIMONIOUSNESS is just alien enough to trigger the first effect, though you might not realize why
Study: Titan's lakes may be shaped by waves
Yes. The higher derivates are useful in many cases, both as sought properties and observations. The invariances implied by relativity,(the trivial notion that the universe behaves the same regardless of where you select the center), mean that most laws are defined on the second derivative. Taylor approximations are useful to approximate something locally, but properties of the system over wider regions generally need to account for the higher derivatives. You can see this in e.g. simulating a system over time requires that the derivatives at the borders of the valid taylor approximation region to be included as diracs.

Or in other words, you can approximate exp(x) as a set of first order taylor approximations that each covers a small window to arbitrary precision, but the combination of them is still has well defined higher derivatives that are not 0.
I'd like to see an overlay showing which red areas are also college towns. Did easy student loans help fuel the increase in rents? That's what happened where I live, where dormitories are mainly for new undergrads. After a year or two, students are expected to find apartments. (And I wonder if something similar would happen if Universal Basic Income became a thing.)
It uses a single binary like Busybox to solve that: https://uutils.github.io/coreutils/docs/multicall.html

I agree it's not what I would spend my time on, but I guess some people found this problem more interesting than us. I don't see a problem with that. Security vulnerabilities in GNU coreutils are rare but they happen. Also this would make building and editing the tools more accessible.
Probably the most entertaining thing about the article (aside from the article itself) is seeing a comment section full of Americans who have precisely zero understanding of Australian humour or writing style.

As a former-PhD-Data-Scientist-who-quit-the-industry-because-it-was-full-of-fraud-and-went-back-into-software-engineering-and-is-now-an-Australian-consulting-to-Americans, this is even more hurty. Someone sent this to me and I thought I'd dreamposted it.

Great article, the anecdotes physically pain me in the same way that watching Utopia does.
Just because you can learn to fly a drone at 18 after enlisting doesn't mean you wouldn't have more skilled populace to draw from if kids started flying drones at 12, every high school had a drone racing team, and there was a competitive sport at the level of the Superbowl. It's not the 15th century, it's 2024. Even if you don't want to call it world war III just yet, there's hot conflict in two regions and cold conflict elsewhere.
The JH7110 CPU and 8 GB RAM on e.g. the VisionFive 2 uses about 5W of power at full load.

Battery life is going to be determined by your screen brightness, not the CPU.
What kind of innovation are you thinking about? They have transplanting machines in various sizes if that's what you're thinking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_transplanter.
I'm not sure whether they can be exported even if DJI is not banned.

Just check [0], their latest agricultural drone T60 sold in China has 60KG payload and AESA radars. (No English page provided)

They also has a T50 [1] with English introduction page.

While the air force of some countries in the world still does not have AESA, DJI already uses AESA to grow crops.

[0] https://ag.dji.com/cn/t60/specs

[1] https://ag.dji.com/t50/specs
Actually population world wide is dropping considerably and there are more empty houses per person then ever. Just almost no one can afford to live in them (only building expensive) or like rural they are just too expensive to repair. Some places are selling for $1 or giving away free houses because they know no one can afford them. Japan, Italy, Midwest America sometimes even pays you to move there out of desperation.
If you take a step back and look at the earth via satellite layer via Google maps, it’s not as full as it feels on the ground. Quite the opposite.

A sibling comment about people cramming into the same area seems way more accurate.

Also, look up the population density of different countries:

* China has ~4x the people of the U.S. with similar land area

* India also ~4x US population and has 1/3 of landmass

* Russia has ~2x landmass of US, but only ~1/2 population.

There’s plenty of space for more people. Just gotta be less lazy and destructive and build, build, build. Finding how incentives align & not as game-able would also help.
No - I think the architects just weren't fans.
No problem with artists getting paid. I do have a problem with people who are specifically paid to advertise a product calling themselves anything other than marketers!

Michaelangelo got paid to produce art, "creators" get paid to flog a VPN. The difference in quality between what the two produce is notable!
I mean you make some very good points but you sound like you could be kind of mildly upset if I squint at it right so I think you should really be more mindful and adopt a positive additude before I will even consider listening to anything you have to say
This is the first time I had heard of hyperview, but it seems like an interesting approach for some mobile apps. I really appreciated the chapters on it, thank you!
I was very disappointed on my last trip to Iowa to see that most farmers weren't even bothering with cover crops.
I suspect the percentage of drive owners is a lot lower. But I don't think it would be as low as 1%?

If you restrict to 'drives connected to a multi-purpose device so they can eg display medical images sent on disk' the percentage goes lower (but not sure whether all the way to 1%), because most people wouldn't try to use their game consoles for that.
There's literally just too much money. Covid involved creating many trillions of dollars right when it was about time for a recession. What those dollars are doing now that they can't just be easily taken back is... well inflation and booming stock markets and nobody getting a raise.
I just used Groq / llama-7b to classify 20,000 rows of Google sheets data (Sidebar archive links) that would have taken me way longer... Every one I've spot checked right now has been correct, and I might write another checker to scan the results just in case.

Even w/ a 20% failure it's better than not having the classifications
Apparently some do miss it, https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org/
Reminds me a lot of the impressive collection of ascent and descent devices by Gary Storrick:

http://www.verticalmuseum.com/VerticalDevicesPage/Ascenders....

It dropped offline for a while, was afraid it was gone for good.
I found those things quite fascinating, and if it's as small as a few hard-drives (and not something as big as eg a car), I would definitely keep it around.
EU says Apple has serious issues for not complying with DMA
https://techtechchina.com/chinas-geo-tagging-policy-for-soci...
I have various generations of optane I stocked up on for my own small business and home lab use, and fully agree.

I don’t know if you’re aware but Samsung introduced their own version of optane just shortly before Intel killed their product line. It was called Samsung Z and it was prohibitively expensive for some reason, but I didn’t hear that it was officially killed off (though it likely has been).
and the vast majority of elected officials didn't kill Socrates.
Or just communicating the emotion! I think aligning on an emotional layer of perception is important for shaking people out of automated behaviors when it's necessary to, and I dislike this cultural shift toward punishing doing any of that from the standpoint of its mechanism design implications almost as much as I hate it on vibes
> I dont farm rice

> I know rice is traditionally grown on flooded plains but that seems very risky

A recurring HN trope is people who don't know about a subject feel like they have to have an opinion on it anyway. Why do you believe it's very risky / in the hands of nature? Flooded plains (aka rice paddies) have been used for thousands of years; rice is a semiaquatic plant so it needs to be submerged, and paddies are designed to retain water to not be subject to the whims of nature.

Anyway, what alternative are you suggesting? Keep in mind it has to be scalable to feed billions and affordable.
Robot labor isn’t free. You pay in capital costs, energy costs to run them, and ongoing maintenance costs if you use them a lot. Environmentally, these costs might be more or less than the chemicals they replace, but it isn’t am obvious comparison.

Changing farming methods along with automation might work better, like vertical farming techniques.
I haven't run a fully remote shop, but I've worked at many since 2015. Your hiring pool is bigger because you're not limited to commuting distance. You don't even need to be in the same country (although going multinational does open a taxation and labor laws can of worms).

It feels easier at smaller places because you can either start from the ground up that way, or easily pivot to it. Rent, utilities, furnishings etc can cost a surprising amount for a small business, which is why so many of them shared offices or used co-working spaces before the pandemic.

But make no mistake: some people just work better in person, and others work better remote. You should just choose one and stick with it. With hybrid you mostly end up with an office that's almost empty all the time, and lonely in-person types working there.
no two autists are alike.
Protecting Children's Safety Requires End-to-End Encryption
Most likely it would be business as usual for all UNIXes, taking what they would feel like from BSD, as they were doing before during the whole AT&T vs BSD base model for UNIX architecture, like how Solaris evolved, or Windows used for its initial TCP/IP infrastructure (until Vista).
Ahahaha, please add this comment to the highlights.
Slightly related, but off-topic.

It's astonishing how high-tech agriculture has become without the general public noticing much of it.

I recently had a longer talk with my uncle, who is a farmer in South Germany, where he told me about the newish technology he is using:

- Milking robots: the process is entirely automated, the cows basically go inside the milking stations by themselves.

- His newer tractors are all driving GPS based, which allows him to keep the track with a precision of about 20cm. He is now able to exactly apply the amount of fertilizer, pesticides or seeds he wants to apply and plan the amounts in advance.

- A lot of data is collected for each cow and processed by an external company. This goes down to temperature measurements at each teat in the milking robot. The external company monitors each cow and plans individual treatment to prevent diseases and to optimize milk production.

- He currently plans to build a manure biogas plant, which will produce enough electricity for him and then some. I really like the approach to mainly use manure instead of harvested biomass (the economics of the two are vastly different, an interesting discussion in itself).

And that's just one farm. There are a lot of innovative things happening in agriculture.
My opinion is based on a lot more first hand experience than most, some of which I’m at liberty to share and some that I’m not and therefore becomes “color”.

But I’m a nobody, Edward Snowden has a far more convincing track record on calling abuses of power: https://community.openai.com/t/edward-snowden-on-openai-s-de...
If it was liberal minded people like Deng as leader of China and Gorbachev as leader of Russia I would care a lot less and may even be in favor of open source despite their autocratic system. They'd be trending towards another Singapore at that point. Although I'd still be uneasy about it.

But I'm looking at the present moment and see too many similarities with the fascist dictatorships of the past. The nationalism, militarism, unreasonable border disputes and territorial claims and irredentist attitudes. The US just isn't that, despite their history.
Taste: A tool-chain targeting heterogeneous embedded systems
> At least half of those the promise was realised though

I dunno, I think there might be different sets of "promises" here.

For example, "cloud infrastructure" is now a real thing which is useful to some people, so one could claim that "the promise of cloud infrastructure" was fulfilled.

However that's not really the same promises as when consultants preached that a company needed to be Ready For The Cloud, or when marketing was in a slapping "Cloud" onto existing product marketing, or unnecessary/failed attempts to rewrite core business logic into AWS lambda functions, etc.
Tree climbing is incredible fun. The devices used are agile, and in North America at least, climbing techniques are expressive and personalized to the point of still being the wild west.

The ISA/TCIA host yearly regional climbing competitions. They're going on now. For anyone who hasn't seen what it's like for a skilled climber to rip around in a tree, they're open to the public, and I can't recommend them enough:
https://www.itcc-isa.com/events/calendar
It would absolutely happen and this is why I don’t believe in UBI. Inflation would just catch up.
Sorry to be ignorant about this, but I just checked out the stats and the US has had like 50% population growth in the past 40 years, which is a crazy amount (proportionally more than China).

Where does this come from? Natural growth? Immigration? If so, what countries do people come from?

In contrast, most West-European countries (where immigration seems to be an oft-discussed issue), the growth in the same period is much more modest.
Indeed, none of these trillions land in my bank account. Massive part of this surplus also goes into military spending caused by recent wars.
Seeing that for passes the measurement generally given is their height, not their width, the title is a bit confusing (at least for me): the pass is at a height of 2,273 m, and it's 30 m wide.
Kudos for the EU (and as often, also here: France!) for supporting such initiatives to open up niche, often-invisible areas of a market to create new grounds for innovation and disruption!

It doesn't work out in all cases, but in areas where it does it silently moves society forward!
Serious challenges getting water.
That's why it's a problem.

An AI can be anywhere on that axis, and we don't really know what we're doing in order to prevent it being as I have described.
I agree I would not endorse uptimes measures in years, which means not doing kernel updates - but OP does qualify that with "in some cases".
Oh, I forgot a neat one: Drones with thermal imaging to prevent fawns to be killed by tractors.
Aren't malware nowadays targetting the home directory? with so many users installing executables, language interpreters or cloud management binaries in their homedir I wouldn't even bother trying to elevate privileges and/or infect /usr if I was writing a malware. Especially as all the interesting parts that are worth being stolen are also in the homedir.
I suspect you missed the sarcasm in Athas' comment?
And you need to keep the bits on current technology. That is the real gambit.

So your NAS idea is probably the best with the caveat at your need to upgrade it regularly as well.

Compare it to a floppy disc from your grandparents. Not that bad for 3,5"? How about 5,25"? No? Then 8". These are now hard to come by. And this is just in the time span of 30-50 years.

The best bulk storage format was actually available early on and very shelf stable if treated reasonably: Paper tape. Low density and readers are hard to come by today.

Your primary point that our grandkids won't care is on point. We would drown if we keep everything.
But the counter point would be that if we do not even try to preserve anything we would probably end up with nothing.

But for every average Joe who does not care we seem to have plenty data hoarders to make up for that.
Don't hate the playa hate the GAME.
We already have a fairly good idea based upon corporate actions today.

Look at Mac OS. That's what happens when freedoms don't have to be honoured. Corporations have spent a lot of effort trying to work around the GPL, whether it was via network services or something else.

If everyone had gone down the BSD route we would have been there, just a lot quicker. This is why I would never licence any of my work as anything other than GPL or AGPL (dual so that people can pay to avoid GPL, but they still contribute financially).

This is all a team effort to make the world a better place and BSD is too idealistic.
> Similar to busybox, coreutils uutils was being installed as a single binary, and each entrypoint (i.e. ls) was just a symlink to that binary.

What can go wrong ? /s

One tool to rule them all.
> If your argument is simply that there should exist other ways to get apps on your phone, then we agree. I wouldn’t touch an alternative App Store with your ten foot pole, but go nuts.

Oops, I guess I should have read the rest of the thread more carefully. Yes, this is what I meant — sorry for the misunderstanding. Apple should be able to do whatever it wants in its own App Store, and I don't think that private APIs need to be documented or available to use without an entitlement. However, I don't think that I should be prevented from using those private APIs in apps outside the App Store.
For better or worse, Gnu added lots of functionality. It's far from a 'nearly exact copy'.
Hacker Mindset: Understanding How Attackers Think to Strengthen Security Posture
Some say - Know thy hacker, know thyself. Only then can you protect thyself.

That is exactly what we call the “Hacker Mindset”.

The hacker strategy has changed over the years. Traditional hackers first picked the target and then attempted to find vulnerabilities to attack. But modern hackers are another breed. They find vulnerabilities first, and then decide on the range and scope of the target. This is a shift that requires a proactive defense strategy, especially in cloud environments where the stakes are high.

Hackers don't just scan for known vulnerabilities; they study your architecture, processes, and human elements to uncover blind spots. Maybe it's an overly permissive S3 bucket policy, a dangling Docker API, or an admin reusing the same password. These are the openings that they can hunt for and abuse.

Regularly performing attack simulations from an offensive mindset is key. Organizations can also use tools like automated misconfiguration scanners and CSPM solutions, which aids in continuously discovering risks.

If your organization depends heavily on manual methods for preventing and fixing cloud misconfigurations, you risk being too sluggish in responding to automated threats. Attackers can exploit vulnerabilities swiftly, often moving from gaining access to the cloud environment, to exfiltrating data in just minutes. Having automated misconfiguration prevention in your CI/CD pipeline and promptly detecting and remedying misconfigurations is critical.

Additionally, ensure your penetration testers (pen testers) are actively addressing cloud misconfiguration vulnerabilities. These attack vectors are frequently overlooked in traditional testing protocols and can provide significant entry points for attackers.

Embracing the hacker mindset offers more than just defensive benefits. It also cultivates a culture of innovation, encouraging security teams to continuously innovate and anticipate evolving threats more proactively.

In this eternal arms race of cloud security against hackers, adopting the mindset of your adversaries is indispensable!
I also cringed a little when I read that they used the same package name for their replacement, especially considering they were aware of virtuals and the alternatives frameworks... although I've never tried to do what they did, so maybe they had issues converting the entire portage tree to be compliant. I'll admit that it's a lot of work, but if you wanted to do it right, you'd have to put in that additional work.
as open source as open weights models, but will companies adopt it solely on pricing?
They too are a redlisted species now. Just prompt chatGPT to buisness speak wirh maximum buzzword boolshit and be amazed. When they came for the kool aid visionaries i was not afraid, cause I was not a grifter.

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No, the first JH7110 boards (VisionFive 2) started arriving in pre-order customer hands in early February 2023, 16 months ago.

In general use they are much faster than a Pi 3, especially given the 8 GB RAM vs 1 GB which is often far more important than the CPU speed. The GPU is also much better. And the M.2 SSD.

Better to compare to the Pi 4. Like all the Arm A55 boards, it's a little slower than Pi 4's A72s, but also uses less power.
I know Orwell's work pretty well, and I read that sentence, and thought to myself: "Cant remember where he said anything like that, but what the hell, I haven't read everything Orwell ever wrote". So I just rolled with it.

The cognitive load to fact check everything is too great, so we decide which sources we think are reliable and just accept them. The solution is not to disbelieve everything you are told, but to accept that some of the facts you have not checked might be wrong, and be prepared to re-evaluate when contrary evidence appears.
I remember I had some idea for (GNU) grep, but I couldn't even build the damn thing. It's autotools hell.
Over here != everywhere
I love this. I want a t-shirt with this
CloudFlare Pages are another great product for zero maintenance static sites, and they can be made mildly (or heavily, if you want) dynamic with CloudFlare Workers.
finally my 2d waifus are going to be 3d
Arable land is a problem. Most of China lives in one third of the country, and even in that one third there are a lot of mountains that keep population even further concentrated. Russia has never figured out how to really population Siberia and it’s FarEast, it’s sort of a hostile area, although the areas next to China could easily be as populated as the adjacent areas in China. India has a lot of arable land for its size, which is why it is populated the way it is, and see Bangladesh for an extreme take on how dense a country can get with enough arable land.
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Zig vs. Rust at work: the choice we made
Logo Academy
Either way, sounds classy, I like it!
waiy what? you don't need to learn complicated commands.

Just interactively setup a virtual machine and at the screen that provide you the choice of your disk size, you just select the option to use an existing disk and select it.
Depends if they mean “everything” as in every option, or “everything” as in every service.

The latter implies only common needs covered in the GUI.

Edit: the complete source paragraph does go on to list services. Which confirms they’re talking about every service rather than every imaginable operation.