skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Concrete seawalls are almost always inferior to well engineered earth structures. Only when space is at a premium it may be better to use concrete, but in roughly all other cases a concrete structure is more expensive and more likely to fail catastrophically. But somehow a lot of people have the "something substantial needs to be done" mindset and just don't think moving earth is substantial enough. Or at least that is my tale when I see the pictures. Maybe someone knowledgeable on the local situation can chime in on why concrete was chosen?
Yes. There are regimented silos within medicine that allow hacking in ways that attempt to minimize patient harm. Attempting to circumvent them is a good way to land in court.
> Trump wasn't asking to determine whether Sailor Moon did 9/11.

This is basically an equivalent request, yeah.
I don't think it's a software issue -- AIUI the issue is that foundries will only let you use blocks for which the process was tested, or the yields would be unreliable/all over the place
Doesn't pass basic thermodynamics.

If this finding is worth it, strap the machine doing it onto a car with methane motor (already exists) and you'll have an Perpetuum mobile.
That website/page is a bit weird. It seems to be based on a TV show[basedon]?

What I assume is the actual IBM report[0] might interest you.

[0] https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10275139...

[basedon] https://daverupert.com/2015/06/doherty-threshold/
> strong consistency in distributed settings

I doubt it ever will. The point of distributing a data store is latency and availability, both of which would go down the drain with distributed strong consistency
> search and discovery assistance, writing assistance, ideation, brainstorming

These are some of the things that gen AI is really good at. "Flooding social media with misinformation" is an application of these things.
> A solarfarm would be upgraded to a power plant that generates electricity all day. That's it.

That's it, but that would be incredibly valuable, as the big downside of solar is that it only works during the day, and only really works for the peak part of the day, maybe 6-8 hours depending on where you are.

The question will be is this process to store solar energy as methane cheaper (bottom line, i.e. accounting for losses in turning it back into electricity later) than storing it in batteries.
Absolutely. I feel like I've stagnated in my learning, no, even declined in what I know and my habits aren't helping either. I think I need to quit my job, get my life together and undo all that damage. I want to learn more about programming and get back into maths...
Capitalists Barons and Authoritarian Communists differ only in the lies they tell the populace.
You often want to go for the "Toyota Corolla" or the Timex. Something mass market that has had a low amount of needless churn in the design. The scale at which these products are sold is staggering, they can't have returns, the backscatter would swamp the company.
Without more details about the project requirements, my initial impression is that the author could get most of these features from Zookeeper, which is designed for stuff like distributed locks and synchronization.

However I've seen the pattern to use the database for a complete system synchronization in multiple projects. Don't have to say how this is a bad thing - probably easy to start with but a nightmare to scale later, just like the author mentioned in the article.
Driving motorbikes?
The problem with development of talent is that the outcomes can be so variable, and the cost so high when it fails. Identifying the individuals that are worth investing in seems to be the most important skill here, but it's extremely hard to do reliably. Nothing in my career has ever burned worse than spending years of time and effort to develop someone who simply never gets it or gives up.
Scientists Find Success with New Direct Ocean Carbon Capture Technology (2023)
https://archive.ph/gCvdi
The Baby Boom is a real effect, but it doesn't make everyone born during the boom a shared culture.
given how much of "writing code" is yet another rewrite of something really interesting, I imagine it's still useful to a lot of programmers out there. the ones doing interesting work will probably know what it can and can't do, and those regurgitating decades old solutions in the latest and shiniest framework will probably still benefit from it.
Fowler's Law on Unicode: There's always another bug, you just haven't found it yet.

Dr Drang's script counts the number of _characters_ not the number of _glyphs_. This matters because there's more than one way to represent é: Either just as unicode character \x{e9} ("NFC") or as a combination of "e" and the combining character that adds the accent ("NFD")

For example for "léon" this prints out "l3n" for me.

What you need to do is normalize to NFC.

> /usr/bin/perl -C -MUnicode::Normalize -pe '$_=NFC($_);s/(.)(.+)(.)/$1 . length($2) . $3/e'
Is that ACCU, or someone else now?
> The idea that compute is unlimited is a horrible myth that cloud companies have sold which has effects and externalities that will be seen as on par with the myth of unlimited fossil fuels.

Granted, all true, but my point was that for any one given software team at a mid-sized company with a team of a 50 engineers or so, CPU resources are effectively unlimited. Unless they write some N^3 algorithm, the fact is that it is almost always possible to write AWS a bigger check for more CPU to a pretty much inexhaustible extent from any one given customer's persepctive.

GPUs being the very large exception here!
Maybe just put 'refrain' in front of bad thing for the time being.
Thiel talking about Mark in the first email as if it’s a PR puff piece. What Thiel and Zuckerberg are going for is Mark as eventual future president.
All of this. Plus, when one wants to be just a bit edgy, AUR is there for you.
You have claimed "education has always been about capital markets". I have exained that it hasn't. That we today live in a capitalist society and every single aspect of our lives is touched by capital to a higher or lower extent is a completely different claim.

Furthermore, you suggested that this (obviously false) history of education being driven by capital markets should be taken as a guide to letting capital control our education even more, as if the problem with universities today is that they are not capitalistic enough. The actual history suggests exactly the opposite.
The Furnace Creek Visitor's thermometer is simply a tourist attraction.

Due to the sensor being too close to radiant heat from some metal posts, it reads several degrees hotter than the official NWS one. The display also glitches when it gets too hot.
> Wikipedia's explanation tells me that the flavour of coriander is actually -- chemically -- like soap in some sense [...]

> Maybe the flavour of coriander is actually like soap [...]

What the Wikipedia article says is that coriander contains some aldehydes, which some people find to taste like soap, based on genetics. I tried to find whether the taste of actual soap is also caused by the same aldehydes. As far as I can tell, there's no chemical link. Soap has different chemical compounds, which most people seem to identify as "taste of soap", regardless of their appreciation for coriander.

Also, based on the reported percentages, it's literally abnormal (i.e. not in the norm) to taste soap in coriander. That easily explains why someone would need to justify their distaste for it. Up until 10 years ago, I had never heard of this coriander/soap relation, so the first person I encountered with this predisposition was met with puzzlement. Then I met another, and now before adding coriander to a dish, I make sure that everyone agrees with it.
Read the essay and then the series, or hold the essay for after reading?
Close to 1.5B, according to FIFA, I could not find any independent estimations. But what's 500m among friends.

I just asked two people not in tech >60 who Zuckerberg is and they both knew him. But, I mean, they still read the newspaper, so I guess they're out of touch, as well.
“American cooks and chefs have substantially altered these dishes over the years, to the degree that the dishes now enjoyed around the world are considered to be American. Hot dogs and hamburgers are both based on traditional German dishes, but in their modern popular form they can be reasonably considered American dishes.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cuisine#Ethnic_influe...

The list of US-specific and US-influenced food is pretty long, and includes lots of ‘slow’ foods. Why are you basing your argument on cherry picking from an incomplete list of examples?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_foods

And what do you mean that so-called ‘easy food’ isn’t a contribution to food culture? It’s trending globally (for better or worse), and relates closely to food supply economics.

> Cornbread: Native Americans

Native American foods count, why wouldn’t they?

> This has very little to do with cultural foods like cheese

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_cheeses
People are remarkably resistance to feedback.
im not sure how much access each application has over the entire secret store however it does ask the user before allowing access which is still better than a plain user readable file in home.

https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kwalletmanager/kwallet5/kwal...
Nice, that’s pretty sweet. Also RIP Bram, great human being.
This is an xkcd waiting to happen
For Some Young Couples, Saving on Rent Means Moving in Together Early
Yes, for example the interview with her in this video: https://youtu.be/yCdwm2vo09I
Rhythm is a completely different beast though because you can anticipate. Most musicians would be more accurate than the average person but wouldn't do any better in a "click the mouse when the screen flashes red" type test.
It would take you 1 minute to write a Go application that exploits per-CPU data structures and probably years to debug your attempt to do so in C.
> helis should just need more power?

"just"
Interesting enough, the oldest recorded use of the symbol zero in mesoamerica is older. From https://baas.aas.org/pub/2021n1i336p03/release/2 - “The oldest representation of the Mesoamerican zero, dating from the year 31 BCE, is found in Stela C in the ancestral Olmec site of Tres Zapotes in Veracruz, Mexico.”
These distros are great on individual gear, but I have yet to ever hear of a production shop running any sort of rolling distro.

The time/skill required to run it simply isn't practical when some sort of business model is at stake.
Exactly what will improve conditions; the “intelligence” (we really need a more accurate term) services using A as I that lies and hallucinates to please. I guess it means we can shrink the murder clown show called intelligence services, since the computers can just do what they’ve been doing since always.

“ChatGPT; show me a plan of sequential lies I can use to start a war and murder millions of people” … “Sure thing, Minister of Love goon. I see you’ve already gotten a head start instigating thermonuclear warfare. Well done! To ensure total annihilating, I recommend …”
For sure, converting feeds into emails in that direction is something I've seen as a sticking point for a lot of projects. I'm glad I could fill that gap for you.
Yeah ok, anecdotally and I just asked my dad who never watched a football match in his life but uses facebook daily if he knew them and he only new Messi.
I found the second book in the series, The Player of Games, much more explanatory about what the Culture is than the first book, Consider Phelbas. I enjoyed Consider Phelbas much more upon re-reading after I did an initial read through of the rest of the series than I did having that be the first book I read from him.
Did I miss it or nowhere did he talk about the problem he was trying to solve?

Any solution can be bad at scale if it doesn’t fit your problem… unfortunately there’s no way to know without stating the problem.
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Tell that to every celebrity. Mark Cuban has a whole collection of airplanes. The greenwashing hypocrisy needs to change. Maybe if we start charging celebrities a very high carbon tax on their personal airplanes they would use them less.
they may not care for making it too public, might be mostly an internal cost-cutting measure
I'm perplexed by Thiel's inability to grasp how his disdain for "Boomers" and disdain for Pete Buttigieg are contradictory. Thiel advocates against left wing government-funded social benefits (free college education), the very same that Buttigieg isn't as supportive of, causing his lack of popularity with younger voters amongst Democrats like Bernie and Elizabeth Warren!

The whole reason we have these major political divisions is instead of working inward (where the majority of peoples' opinions lie) on compromise, we have power brokers, like Thiel, hating one side so much that they try to push the middle toward the other extreme side. Then, instead of a normal distribution of voting patterns matching political opinion, we have the middle pulled out to each side voting for the edges.
In London there was Skillsmatter's Code Node. Skillsmatter had trouble getting continued funding, however CodeNode itself is used occasionally for some meeting tech things apparently, but not the continualy hosting 5 days a week of tech meetups it was so loved for.
I'm taking the 787 to Vietnam next month and i'm not worried. It's had 20 years of C checks, etc.
Logging in to your bank account to pay the Mars mortgage would take like 4 hours.
Well this is literally the point of Starship, so the timeframes are probably quite a lot closer than many may realize. And due to the extensive amount of labor involved, a fairly large group will be absolutely necessary. But I'd emphasize that colonizing Mars, or anywhere, will likely literally never be safe, and no amount of "science and validation" can really change that. Huge numbers of people still regularly die in the most mundane of things, like roofing - where about 1 in 2000 workers lose their lives per year. Over a career of a few decades, those are some pretty unpleasant odds.

And on Mars roofing would look like the safest job imaginable. We're going to be doing absolutely everything from scratch - industry, construction, manufacturing/processing, and more. And doing it all in conditions unlike anything on Earth, and where if you're exposed to atmosphere - even briefly, you're dead. There's going to be an unavoidably high death rate. If you want to wait until things are safe then I think that's perfectly understandable. But in turn you should also understand that people have different perspectives on life.
I had recently written a detailed article about e-methane, including how it compares to other hydrogen derivatives. tl;dr is that there are a lot of doubts whether e-methane makes any sense, as you usually end up either preferring hydrogen directly, or, if you need something with a carbon atom, you likely will use methanol.

Here's the article:
https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/is-there-a-place-fo...

I had posted it on HN, but didn't get upvoted.
I remember watching that as a kid and freaking out. Those were the good days.
Plus the usual mistake of assuming (re: GC) that the system (de)allocators are free. They weren’t. I strongly suspect that GCs are extremely competitive in most non-trivial applications.

Don’t judge every GC based on experience with the Sun JRE 20 years ago.
Can we try it out?
It could work: https://docs.yugabyte.com/preview/explore/ysql-language-feat....
https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/mongodb-api/mgapi...

Oracle database has had a MongoDB compatible API for a few years now.
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Really? I can't just call TSMC and say "Hey. Here's a mask. Please print 10,000, thanks."?
Why should she need to go through a legal process instead of kindly asking the tech community to move on and use a different image?
What examples? The boom times in Europe pre-pandemic were a time of high immigration. Today's crappy times have much lower immigration in comparison.
Starvation is an acute problem for those living with it. They need to not die right now. So yes, absolutely we should do it. The converse is saying to them "it's better for you to have a balanced diet, which is harder to do, so you're just going to have to starve." Just solve the problem they're living with in the cheapest, easiest way possible, and then improve the overall picture when the situation isn't so dire.
> it's so much of a regression for building systems compared to C.

huh?
Maybe, but another thought I had while scanning newsletter services is that they haven't really evolved or changed in many years. Substack would suggest email isn't quite dead, but email feels at-risk. That said, I support both newsletters and Substack but I do a lot of manual copy-and-pasting. I also had to hand-code my own Wordpress newsletter content script to generate something that could then be cross-deployed to newsletters.

None of it feels like an ecosystem.. it feels like feature sets that atrophied about 10 years ago, and lack any ongoing creativity or innovation or product development.
A key difference here is that you’re able to anticipate and plan upcoming actions, because you’re familiar with the general structure of music and/or the specific song.

Even the experts couldn’t respond to an unpredictable stimulus in 30ms; instead, they’re choosing between (say) a 330 ms response and a 340 ms one. This is, of course, still crazy impressive.
I just came here to say "Coriander"
https://archive.is/16ugr
Ever had beer?
GPT-4o is "limited" for non-paid accounts, though. So you're at the mercy of OpenAI if you get it or not.
"Yum" is not the point though, it's avoiding malnutrition, starvation and death. Maslow's hierarchy of needs and all that, survive first, then later when they're not dead they can worry about producing culinary delights.
Ask HN: Local Rewind.ai Alternative?
I was a paying user of Rewind.ai and loved it. They stopped development of the local one, and are doing a cloud based one instead.

What's a good MacOS local alternative that people like? I use rewind so I can take notes to myself while working by myself (automatic ongoing transcription) and so I can jog my memory about what I've been looking at (scroll back at my last 10 minutes or so of screen).
Looked it up, didn't know there was already history, and that sucks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd?wprov=sfla1
No. Actually, the state of the art of EDA software is worse.

My project has been to design (and create) better EDA software that will simulate, optimize and therefore can form and place each individual transistor optimally to achieve lower power, higher speed and lower cost.
There is only one drawback over all existing EDA software: my EDA tools must run on a ($100k) small supercomputer or FPGA cluster because it deals with a billionfold more transistors than existing EDA software and that takes more compute.
It means my software is much cheaper than existing EDA software but will yield much better chips and wafers with much faster, better, cheaper and fewer transistors.

A high level overview of my software is mentioned indirectly in my talk https://vimeo.com/731037615

I'm eager to give a talk on my EDA software as well, please consider inviting me to give it?

Other researchers and companies have proven that optimizing transistor design and placement over standard cell libraries and PDKs can be done, for example:

https://www.micromagic.com/news/Ultra-Low-Power_PressRelease... was done with their own EDA software.

I am very certain (but have no hard proof) that this is what Apple did on their M1, M2, M3. M4 and M5 processors, especially their high end M2 and M5 Ultra chips.

What I'm claiming here is that humanity can design three to four orders of magnitude faster computer chips using at least two orders of magnitudes less energy making chips orders of magnitude cheaper if we only used better EDA software (CAD=> SYM=> FAB) that we use today. Moore's law is not at an end. I'd be happy to provide proof of this, but that takes a bit more effort than a HN comment.
that is the code.
the weights are non commercial

Both manual-downloading models from our github repo and auto-downloading models with our python-library follow the above license policy(which is for non-commercial research purposes only).
Can you elaborate? Are there studies showing changes in metabolism preventing cancer?
I actually did the math on the Mars problem a little while ago. It wouldn't be that hard to build a big circular railway on Mars that would let the cars experience 1G. (Maybe a few hundred meters diameter?) Think giant luxury Gravitron.

You'd stop the train every few days to allow for resupply and entry or exit. It'd certainly be a different society in which pregnant women were expected to sequester themselves in high-G trains for the duration of their pregnancies, but there's no law of nature stopping this approach working.

Also, we don't know the shape of the function mapping deformity to gravity. We just have two endpoints: 1g, normal; 0g, deformed. Maybe 0.2g is sufficient to reduce deformities below the noise floor? We need to get a sense of the shape of this curve, preferably using mammal models.
did you mamage to make it work? the model can't find my cat face
Aren't You Lonely?
Thanks for checking out my project. I'd love your feedback in the comments.

I'm not sure if the post text above is visible (I can't see it on my phone's HN reader) so I'm going to repost it here as a comment too:

I love Jupyter – it's how I learned to code back when I was working as a scientist. But I was always frustrated that there wasn't a simple and elegant app that I could use with my Mac. I made do by wrapping JupyterLab in a chrome app, and then more recently switching to VS Code to make use of Copilot. I've always craved a more focused and lighter-weight experience when working in a notebook. That's why I created Satyrn.
It starts up really fast (faster time-to-execution than VS Code or JupyterLab), you can launch notebooks right from the Finder, and the design is super minimalist. It's got an OpenAI integration (use your own API key) for multi-cell generation with your notebook as context (I'll add other LLMs soon). And many more useful features like a virtual environment management UI, Black code formatting, and easy image/table copy buttons.

Full disclosure: it's built with Electron. I originally wrote it in Swift but couldn't get the editor experience to where I wanted it. Now it supports autocomplete, multi-cursor editing, and moving the cursor between cells just like you'd expect from JupyterLab or VS Code.

Satyrn sits on top of the jupyter-server, so it works with all your existing python kernels, Jupyter configuration, and ipynb files. It only works with local files at the moment, but I'm planning to extend it to support remote servers as well.

I'm an indie developer, and I will try to monetize at some point, but it's free while in alpha. If you're interested, please try it out!

I'd love your feedback in the comments, or you can contact me at jack-at-satyrn-dot-app.
Energy Bell: The Sketch of an Idea
etcd is fairly similar to Chubby indeed, or Zookeeper.
I would strongly agree with this thesis.
no, the mask must be made within the tight rules of the proprietary (and very secret) PDK of the TSMC Fab for that node. Just getting it certified that it fits the rules will cost millions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_design_kit