skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laser-guided SuperDisks got up to 240MB, and Zip drives with floating heads got up to 750MB. At that point you're basically operating a hard drive without a dust seal, so it would be pretty hard to go much further even with modern tech.

But if you did figure it out, let's use the data density of LTO. If we estimate a 3.5" floppy as 50 square centimeters, then that's the same area as 40 centimeters of tape, which fits about 7GB on LTO-9. A bit more if you can get double-sided writes to happen and not interfere with each other. Less if you have the dead zones of an actual floppy.
Discussion (51 points, 2 days ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40928469
The Mystery of the Vanishing Undersea Cable [video]
Yes it would. The wiki quote is misleading in that it only talks about rates, not what is actually paid, shelters, exemptions, ect.
>> Conventional wisdom says that you should build a large community of users, and then you'll figure out how you monetize a subset of those users

This is really just wishful wisdom. Conventional wisdom starts by deciding what value you can add to society and who will pay for it.

Doing the work now, and figuring out the business later isn't a strategy that often ends I success.

As a provider I create OSS out of the excess created selling commercial software to customers. The OSS stuff doesn't pay for my coffee, never mind anything else.
Are you old enough to have experienced a bear market? Investing 100% in stocks can suffer big drawdowns when there is an extended bear market say down 40% over several years. I would diversify with small portions (5-10% each) in gold, crypto, bonds and cash. If you are dollar cost averaging into stocks it's important to keep investing when stocks are going down. Also assume you own your own home - if not that should be your first priority.
I don't think that this is GP's point. The point is rather that biology is complex and solutions to biological problems are always complex even if they are accompanied by a simple narrative.
Is there any model that can actually generate realistic naked human body? Thought they are all deliberately avoiding the subject in order to steer away from compliance issues.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40926648
>I doubt that would work, but if it did, why exactly would it be "dumb"?

You don't see why bubble wrapping cars would be dumb? Lol.

>Nah, most the ideas in that channel are the output of decades of empirical research on road/street safety by Dutch government agencies.

Yes, and the channel targets the US... not the Netherlands. They're not even remotely similar. Emotional propaganda is all it is.

I don't really care about what the Dutch are doing when discussing the US.
That feature saves fuel, and only produces minimal wear and tear. I wish all cars had it.
Why is kernel_task taking so much CPU?
I can't help but wonder if good acting takes a more than usual toll on the mental health of actors. I remember reading how Peter Sellers "didn't have a personality except of the characters he played", how Jeremy Brett started to refer to Sherlock Holmes (perhaps his most well known role) as "him" etc.

The need to become somebody else deeply for a short period of time and then revert doesn't seem like a natural thing (though I guess most creative things aren't). Maybe it's the reason why people like Daniel Day-Lewis takes such long breaks between his roles to "reset" himself.

This was sort of portrayed in a comedic way at the end of Tropic Thunder when RDJ's character transitioned between all his roles and the became himself.
https://x.com/ostrisai/status/1811620901420429441
https://github.com/hrnoh24/stream-vc

https://github.com/yuval-reshef/StreamVC

Unofficial implementations of StreamVC
https://hardcover.app/
The author has chosen not to use the official programming languages and then complains it isn't a smooth experience?
Are you thinking of WordPad, a (very) lightweight Word?
What is the current best Foss(or otherwise) implementation for voice changer/anonymiser?
I think there is a missing "." in your link.
The correct link should be:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk
Last time I checked, it was https://github.com/w-okada/voice-changer

Requires a decent amount of VRAM and runs poorly with pretty bad quality (IMO)
I have a bulb in my bathroom that I have had to replace every year or two. Meanwhile, in other rooms that I have renovated and I put good quality high-CRI LED downlights in, they're all still going strong after seven years.

I think the biggest difference is that these downlights have separate driver modules and a short wire to the lamp itself, which must make the thermal aspect a lot easier to manage. This also puts the electronics up out of the condensation.

The bulb in a regular socket in the bathroom on the other hand has the driver electronics there in the bulb, being heated by the lamps, so they're getting a lot hotter, and also it's there in the steam from the shower etc.
Android is not GNU/Linux, and the use of Linux kernel could be easily replaced by something else POSIX like.

Many of those FOSS projects keep thinking Android is Linux, and then act surprised when it is not.
It’s not only Russian propaganda. US Intel sources too.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-had-intelligence-ukrainian-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/us/politics/nord-stream-p...

I can’t possibly conclude one way or the other, but I don’t think you should either, as much as this whole war is Russia’s ultimate fault anyway
Curl checks the https certificate.

Distro maintainers in general do not audit the code they package.
Twitter hides all replies and follow-ups unless you log in.
Some sort of service targeting hobby projects could possibly work if the support is a community forum.

Guess you would have to do yearly billing to not have it all eaten by processing fees.
A lot more people die from Tylenol, and millions accumulate damage to their livers, but it is still OTC, and people believe it's less dangerous than Aspirin.
This isn't a contest of volumes and it's a very false equivalency. Hamas attacked Israel knowing the cost in lives and chose to attack anyway because they don't value human life. Even that of their own people.

Israel takes prisoners not hostages and has due process albeit flawed. Everyone arrested is arrested due to something they did. Not taken out of their home or a party. Not raped and murdered. These are not civilians, they are typically criminals.

Minors taken by Israel are 16+ unless they did something serious. E.g. two teen girls stabbed a person who they thought was an elderly Jew. Was actually an old Palestinian guy. Obviously Hamas asked to release that murderer. Israel is asking for the release of innocent people while Hamas is asking for the release of mass murderers.
Discussion (17 points, 16 hours ago, 15 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40936681
Yes.

Even more importantly: I wouldn't use it in my personal machine :) I don't like my computer doing things without my permission.
Defeatist mindset, no?
What are the cohorts of competitors vs simply a bunch of companies? If a couple of alcoholic beverage companies or airlines were part of the group as well as unrelated companies, it could be said that competitors were agreeing. But that's super weak.
This is a critically important line of research. Every time a new orthogonal testing approach is explored, it always finds a bunch of latent problems in existing codebases. Great contribution by the authors.
Powershell, Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.WindowsNotepad* | Remove-AppxPackage and get on with your life. It will restore the legacy notepad.exe (as will, like, right-clicking the new Notepad in the start menu and selecting Uninstall) -- but yeah, I know, you didn't opt in to this, <insert rest of generic Microsoft-related HN complaints here>
Not really , no, squares don't really exist in neighborhoods, and parks are almost as rare.
Yep. If you isolate the methanol and then drink it, you will get methanol poisoning.

The distillate flows continuously so in this scenario you would either be letting your alcohol spill onto the ground while you gulp down methanol, or you would have a separate receptacle just for it that you then choose to drink from.
The topic is too complex to do it justice in a Hacker News comment, especially since it's one of those things that takes some time and practical experience for the concept to “click”.

A good starting point is this article (though it's a little outdated): https://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html

DI is not very common in Python, for a variety of reasons, but there apparently are DI frameworks, like: https://python-dependency-injector.ets-labs.org/index.html
It's annoying as hell. It's my car. Just let me turn the damn thing off permanently.
Every IKEA might be different, so YMMV, but there usually are (sometimes well-hidden) shortcuts.
Is it all true, though? It wouldn't be the first time I see an English magazine exaggerating some news just to make fun of silly Europeans.

All sources I've read mention a wider range of possibilities than represented by TFA. Most car makers opted for acoustic or haptic warning, while active correction of driver's maneuvers is always opt-in.
> benzos

A friend working in rehab said benzos are very difficult to end taking - because of the way one gets addicted to em.
We just moved the responsibility of security off the desktop, to the web. We abstracted the problem as an industry, hooray.
It's true. Control of many fringe regions was tenuous at times.

For example, the Annals of Sennacherib show the Assyrians had to re-conquer areas that drifted after previous subjugation.

But how do you draw those boundaries between subjugations?

In the Bible, it shows that Nebuchadnezzar's armies had to repeatedly return to Israel to re-subjugate it between rebellions.

No doubt similar rebellions could occur in many different areas all at once.

Boundaries were likely never as neat as the boundaries we show today.

Plus, it's not like they were surveying their boundaries and monitoring them via a supranational body like the U.N.
How the Smart Money Teaches Trading with Ricki Heicklen
This isn't WebVM specifically, but one example using WebContainers we've built is https://demo.graphweaver.com/

This runs a NodeJS server and frontend in your browser so you can see what Graphweaver can do without having to install or run anything more than a browser on your computer. The example has an SQLite database joined to a REST API. Graphweaver serves a GraphQL API with the result.
> The title is misleading, no?

No. I got the correct meaning at first glance.
It was at a central point in the antitrust case against them in the 90s, and was found to be an anticompetitive practice.
Interception for regulated companies. Banks have to keep a log of all communication between their employees.

That requires HTTPS interception. Before TLS1.3 they would install root CAs on all company devices, have an edge proxy, and use SNI to determine whether an HTTPS session should be man in the middled. Because it would take way to much compute to MitM all trafic (like YouTube video).

After TLS1.3 encrypted SNI blocks this. But they still need (and other companies want) to selectively intercept HTTPS. With a tool like this you can achieve that clientside, rather than at the network edge.
Indeed, we should at least differentiate between third places that you have to pay for or are otherwise restricted, and that you don't have to.
Yes, Mr. Putin
Remote engine shutdown next.
RAG in an Industrial Setting
Industry is different, when it comes to AI. Peter Seeberg talks to Stefan Suwelack about RAG for industry, the role of data and the Data Centric Approach and about the Industrial AI Canvas. Stefan works for Renumics. He and his team work for companies like Rehau, Festool or Polytec.
Well we did more. By moving the compute and core to the other side of the fence within control of the seller it becomes hard(er) to pirate. Whereas as soon as you provide a working binary it is only a matter of time somebody has pirated it.
Careful there. In your haste to make your point you're dragging in proven causes of various health issues. The fields coming off of high voltage transmission equipment have been comprehensively proven to cause negative health effects. As to safety standards, MSDS standards have been around since 1983 and somehow they didn't prevent literally the entire surface of the planet from being contaminated with PFAS. You're not going to make a lot of headway here if your chosen tack is to advance coy notions that industry safety standards are rigorous.

To be absolutely clear, I'm not convinced low power EM causes problems. I'm also not convinced it doesn't. What I am absolutely certain of is that given the global scope of the industries that are implicated here, there isn't a legislative body on the planet that would so much as inconvenience them if there was a problem and it was know.
The issue is that its a starbucks. I think if people are trying to hang out with their friends, at this point in 2024 they are not going to waste that moment of everyone's schedules aligning like the planets at merely starbucks. I hope at least. Not to mention the menu is basically optimized not to have you stay and hang out, its prepackaged or microwaved stuff, unlike most other local cafes where they will serve you hot food on ceramic dishware.
Terrible idea.

Downvote is inherently toxic.

They should do something useful like mandatory tags, exploration clouds and auto translations.
It is guaranteed to terminate execution, making it
Possible to run in the Kernel without threat of an indefinite hang.
Congratulations, good job! The chaos of notebooks needs some tracking indeed.

7 years ago I made a project with 100 calculation dependencies, (in Python & SQL scripts) and the only thing that allowed not to loose track was Makefile + GraphViz.

I wanted to make something similar in Rust -- a static visualized of dependencies between structs. Things turned out way harder than expected.
"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself."–Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
Why doesn't Economic Marxism get as much attention as Cultural Marxism?
One of the obvious factors is Capitalism which we know is the winning and prevailing ideology of our times. One can easily see how crony capitalist and corporate interests will always want to push cultural Marxism elements like identity politics, politics of gender, religion, caste, creed, color, etc. as it diverts attention from the reality of economic Marxism - the massive wealth inequality between rich and poor, or the unnoticed elephant in the room.

But what surprises me the most is the agenda pushing of these corporate interests actually works whereas if you consider about the reality of our existence, it shouldn't! Which means there is also a mindset issue or an issue of folks not speaking up enough about this issue. It behooves me that even folks in the middle class or working class don't speak about economic Marxism as it's clearly in their own best interest?

Even the issues of Cultural Marxism which are presented as such are just symptoms who's roots lay in Economic Marxism. By fixing the latter, the former will automatically get fixed. The *real* inequality in a given society or civilization is always that of resources. To explain that inequality away, the powers and think tanks create rationalization narratives like "gender disparity between X and Y is causing this inequality" and thus turning it into a cultural issue when in reality it's an economic one.
I love that Steve Buscemi is the baseline for strange looking actors. I'd agree.
Anna Taylor Joy
Is memory fragmentation still a thing? I'm sure it is as there are no free lunches as it were. But I agree Micro Python is amazing just have to think about memory usage a little more maybe on smaller devices that run a long time.
A better way to deal with this versus dependency injection frameworks is to allow the generator to be configurable and to be honest about where the seed is coming from. The random seed is an implicit input read from the runtime environment as a side effect. Future languages should treat side effects as first class and allow, for example, custom handlers to be installed to intecept or modify their behaviour.
I just want a simple SMALL embeddable python library for my C programs... but I have yet to find a good one.
See https://audirvana.com/linux/.
South Korea orders lasers to zap Northern drones
https://civitai.com/models has plenty of fine tuned models.
Friends is very idealistic in a lot of ways. The closest thing to that experience in real life is a dirt cheap college bar, at least in the day I'm not sure if they are still like this. Everyone has nothing to do after doing the minimum of their responsibilities for the day so we'd just show up at the bar as soon as we could, and others would know to end up there soon as they could whether that be at noon with a backpack still on or around midnight. It was cheap enough where you could basically sit there and drink all day for maybe $20. That probably gets you a drink and a half today if that, and what do you know, no one's hanging out all day at these places because that could cost you $100 instead of $20.
AI deepfake is next level: Control expressions and motion [video]
Go to CivitAI, many models are able to generate naked bodies, they are SD finetuned models and you can download them to run them locally.
FYI, there is an AWS-provided Lambda layer similar in principle to this, also including access to Parameter Store.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-the-aws-parameter...
I would argue webapps killed them.

Most applications now adays are just electron wrappers.

WebApps also allow a much more flexible update schedule, and other benefits.

Downside: apps now need gigabytes of memory for simple apps.
Upside: Linux is now a lot more easier to use as a lot of things are web based. :-)
Rule 110 doesn't have a clearly defined instruction set but is known to be Turing complete.
> just an astronomical ~~difference~~ waste of money.
Now if only I could install chrome via apt and run it inside of this linux machine.
FoundationDB as an identity graph database [video]
Look at demographic data & data that correlates with it. The Census and related organizations offer very fine-grained data (both in characteristics/factors & in level of specificity of location).

In the past, I had built a data brokerage offering clean and centralized data in this area -- the equivalent of Netflix for data catalogs (back when you could say this with a straight face). It is not a hard problem. You can (and many did) throw entire datasets at a random forest as a first-pass, and then retrain with only the features that pass a significance threshold.

Algorithmic identification of real estate investment opportunities for the purpose of corporate expansion is not a new thing. Most serious shops do it. The techniques are simple, but it's the prep and decision-making after that are difficult.
Thanks for your comment.

>You might get more than you bargained for on that topic

However, I did know about the points in your comment, mostly. [1]

That's because I happened to have read about the Tools book being first written in RATFOR (which, IIRC, stood for RATional FORtran) and then in Pascal, many years ago. I was a heavy Turbo Pascal user first, before becoming a heavy C and Unix user. And I used to keep reading the news about these subjects I was interested in. That's how I know about that topic.

[1] I said "mostly" above, because I somehow, wrongly, remembered that paper as having been written by Rob Pike, instead of by Brian Kernighan.
Because "economic Marxism" is Marxism, and "cultural Marxism" is not Marxism
I've asked a similar question, along the lines 'Can you explain Dependency Injection to me, assuming I already know Haskell?'

And the answer was basically along the lines of: it's a fancy way to pass something like a function argument.
Buying and quickly selling a stock requires a buyer and a seller, so it doesn't seem like an intrinsic property that real liquidity would be increased. Moreover, fast automated trading seems likely to increase volatility.

I tend to agree that for long term investment it probably doesn't make a huge difference except for possible cumulative effects of decreased liquidity, increased volatility, flash crashes, etc. Also possibly a loss of small investor confidence since the game seems even more rigged in a way that they cannot compete with.
LoPT: Low-Rank Prompt Tuning for Parameter Efficient Language Models
The value of a stock usually doesn't change every millisecond. There doesn't seem to be a huge public need to pick winners and losers based on ping time.
> I remember talking on the radio once during a checkride - “do you have shit in your mouth? Because you sound like it.”

Reading this already sets me off. Why the FUCK do people have uninstigated belligerence at work and to the general at large? What is their problem?

Why can't a simple, "Can you speak louder? I can't hear you." suffice? I'm so sick of people not having basic decency. This kind of person needs to fuck off.
This is from 2019:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpdYcy8JtiisXTMb4zug_oCIB...
Dua: View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast
It's not that it was the terminology, it still is the terminology.

About 20% of US workers are fully work-from-home. For the vast majority of workers, it still is a third place.
Is there any disadvantage of this tool against atop?
My system has a version number and input + known starting state dbwise. Now assuming i have determenistic reprodible state, is a log just a replay of that game engine at work?
Streaming has been the producer dream all along so we need a ‘video recorder’ to tape what we watch to watch it again and again. I am not in favour of piracy and I pay for some streaming, however, when I get ads even though I pay, I get geo restrictions even though I pay or they remove things I like an make them paid, even though I pay, I will download illegally. We really need to move to a legal way of paying the people who actually made the stuff directly and making that a valid and legal option. We need global legal options as internet and binaries are global, and I am not waiting for season 3 of blah to become available ‘in my region’ when you got me hooked on 1 & 2.

Edit; I don’t think I mean ‘producer’ here but I do not know what the word is; for books I guess publisher?
The X3D chips have an absolutely ridiculous amount of L3 cache, so when your workload fits largely in L3 they have far, far more memory bandwidth than any other option on the market. That's the case pretty often, especially for games, hence the workload specificity. The X3D cache system means some workloads are 50% faster and some are 20% slower, so workload really does matter.
For some of the locations that have been takeoutified, they used to have chairs and tables but these were purposely removed. The room is awkwardly empty so they stuff it with random chochkys like insulated mugs to fill the void.
No, I had plenty of equipment that came with a little piece of printed paper that came with not quite enough information to be useful.
Are the benefits for the developers or for the users? Does a more flexible update schedule means less QA because you can just push more updates?
If this works, I wonder if we’ll discover that a bunch of diseases and conditions we thought were genetic, bacterial or viral are actually just prions causing us to go nuts.
I mean...... I'd need to look up sources to tell you the exact dates, but I know this still happened even in some European countries in the 90s, maybe it continued even later than that. And of course manure is still used to this day, nothing strange about it.
Assange's 'Journalism' Is Dangerous
North Korea has been undergoing more frequent changes in the past two years, and I am more curious about what has happened during this period.