skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the big things about downvotes is that it works better for a homogenous user base. Otherwise you can get in a situation where one group votes up and another votes down. It’s fairly obvious this happens on HN itself but the HN is FAR less diverse than the old Twitter user base, and has something more resembling a shared set of values.

With upvotes only, you can have a BLM community and a Proud Boys community and the negative interactions are replies, which Twitter interprets as positive interactions. With downvotes you have the prospect of entire communities downvoting each other. This will probably result in one or both communities leaving.

Social design is hard, is what I’m saying.
Corridor Digital created a short film and accompanying making-of video showing the use of gaussian splats vs. photogrammetry to reconstruct an environment: https://youtu.be/GaGcLhhhbDs?si=rJVxF8yNwwbfLBw9&t=306
Could you go into detail? To me it seems like the same concepts exist in Vue:

useState -> ref

useEffect -> watchers

useRef -> template-refs

The only difference I see, is that Vue rerenders nothing by default whereas React rerenders everything by default. And I admittedly agree with Vue on this one, but it's not enough to make me give up the superior ecosystem and JSX.

The boilerplate for creating computed's is comparable to setting up useMemo calls. And oh look: the justification for computed is exactly the same as useMemo/useCallback: https://vuejs.org/guide/essentials/computed.html#computed-ca...
These are all security nightmares aren't they? It smells as if all the resources went into delivering billing, then barely enough for technically working service, and then is there even anything leftover for security (instead of this being part of the foundation of a service)?
Depends on what one considers UNIX.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Unix
This is exactly why SpectrumOS (not in a useable state yet) is intriguing to me, as well as qubes OS’s very recent efforts on practical gpu acceleration.
Yup, I’m having these issues and my next purchases are going to be AMD.
NT was designed to be portable, so the machine specific parts are cleanly separated, even on the same CPU. So if you port only those parts, the existing binaries for an architecture should work. The three bits are:

1) ARC boot firmware. NT was developed on non-x86 systems like i860 then MIPS, and ARC is the native boot firmware used (on x86 NTLDR emulated it prior to Vista). Similar to a PC BIOS / UEFI, and a PCI PowerMac would use OpenFirmware. As well as providing an ARC compatible environment that loads over OpenFirmware, this project seems to does some fun so the boot firmware can pretend there's a storage device so that driver "floppies" can be loaded during the initial stages of setup. (ie an F6 disc)

2) A HAL. The main NTOSKRNL is hardware agnostic, so the idea is that there's one binary for each CPU architecture. But the kernel needs to interface with actual timers, busses etc., so the interface code is in HAL.DLL and the appropriate one is copied by setup. (For example see https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/km/hal/history... for a list of x86-32 ones in older versions of windows, with various HALs for NEC PC-98, IBM MCA, various early multiprocessing systems, nowadays there's just one AMD64 one that's mostly in the kernel itself). So the main kernel in unaltered, and halgoss handles the Mac specific stuff.

3) Device drivers. Once NT is up and running it does need actual drivers.

The specs for 1) are known, so can presumably be emulated, and I guess there's a DDK for 3) (or it can be deduced from another DDK), I guess 2) is probably the one that would need the most insider knowledge, I'm not sure if the leaked NT sources go down to that level as I've never looked at them.

As for compatibility, 32 bit PowerPC Win32 binaries, 16 bit x86 Win16 binaries, and whatever x86 DOS stuff will run in an NT4 DOS box. No x86 Win32, only Alpha had an emulator for Win32 x86 stuff (until ARM stuff).
people abandon their kids all the time, it's called day "care".
Lately I've stumbled upon https://www.goqite.com/ but haven't had a good use case for it yet.
Discussion (53 points, 2 days ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40928469
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Openfire 4.8.3 Released – Open-Source – Java XMPP/Jabber Server
Interesting, thanks for the basics. That makes sense - I'm a bit confused about how inhibition vs excitation works if they're both based on ion concentration (is it like positive vs negative ions, or a different mechanism entirely?), but I'll do some googling!
So now soldiers need to have a router mounted on their helmet in close quarters?
There is no way it produces only minimal wear. But some cars (like my newish Honda Odyssey) the auto-off feature is SOOO annoying.

I pull into a parking space and press the break, car shuts off, I put the car into park, the car turns back on, then I turn off the engine manually. Like what malicious engineer came up with that flow!?
Because they don't care about actual information security, they care about "national security." They optimize for giving all branches of US law enforcement, from the federal to state to local level, access to 7 years of historical data whenever they claim they need it.
NT is still the name of the kernel. (ntoskrnl.exe)
Previously discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40944505 AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach (techcrunch.com)

6 hours ago, 205+ comments
https://twitter.com/virtuallyfun/status/1811812177805767078/...
But in this case you can't blame it on the price...
The Chrysler Building, the Jewel of the Manhattan Skyline, Loses Its Luster
If they are obligated to give the data to the NSA, they should give it to them in real time and then delete their own logs as soon as they no longer need them.
I got that answered too

https://ibb.co/9W610KB

https://ibb.co/rw22gcq

https://ibb.co/bWxSK0X
Yea, I do think it’s the best browser and use it every day, but I don’t really love it, mostly it is just for lack of good options.

Browsers are in a bad spot nowadays. The web has been turned into this half-baked app platform, and as a result nobody makes a web browser to just, like, download and view documents.
It does explain it though. By coincidence they also get billions of dollars in federal subsidies
It's truly horrible and annoying. It's also a safety concern. Sometimes if I need to make a turn across fast traffic, I can't tolerate even a second of unexpected delay.
Man, i love some Porto, such a shame it's so expensive.

The most readily available sweet wine i can find here in Europe os sold in comically big 1.5l bottles, i'm a little ashamed to consume it in company.
Serious question: are there any legitimate uses of this domain, for people who don't use twitter?
I would say writing an ISA emulator is actually not helpful for understanding how a modern superscalar CPU works, because almost all of it is optimizations that are hidden from you.
> Newton, who admitted his eyes were not very critical in distinguishing colours, originally (1672) divided the spectrum into five main colours: red, yellow, green, blue and violet. Later he included orange and indigo, giving seven main colours by analogy to the number of notes in a musical scale.

> The question of whether everyone sees seven colours in a rainbow is related to the idea of linguistic relativity. Suggestions have been made that there is universality in the way that a rainbow is perceived. However, more recent research suggests that the number of distinct colours observed and what these are called depend on the language that one uses, with people whose language has fewer colour words seeing fewer discrete colour bands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow
yeah the webs pretty broken, I'm thinking eventually it'll be too hard for me to use.
Yes, x86 is weird but the variable-length instructions are actually nice and easy to understand, once they're unpacked to text form anyway. The problem with them is they're insecure, because you can hide instructions in the middle of other instructions.

I think the biggest thing you learn in x86 assembly vs C is that signed/unsignedness becomes a property of the operation instead of the type.

It would be cool if you could use flags, which is easy/easier on some architectures like PPC/armv7, but x86 overwrites them too easily so it's too hard to use their values.
You can also freeze your non-credit banking:

https://www.chexsystems.com/security-freeze/place-freeze

It was recommended that I do this after a checking account was opened using my identity.

As others have stated, my default is "frozen." I put temporary thaws on when applying for credit, though in some cases, you'll be informed exactly which agency/agencies will be queried, and may not need to unfreeze all of them.
The cheapest wine _in a glass bottle_ i can find in the European equivalent of Trader Joes is 1.5€ so it checks out (3€ for a Pinot)
Pretty much all of the docs are very clearly the output of what the typical LLM produces. It's just words, no meaning.
The slate form factor was already being explored by other manufacturers before the iPhone came out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
Blindness is mostly a prohibition-era meme that was explicitly pushed by the government, and there hasn't really been any impetus to correct it.

Toxic products (that aren't ethanol) are trivially easy to avoid during routine distilling.

Basically, the most nasty, toxic stuff is also the stuff with the lowest boiling point; it comes out first. So collect the first 20-50 milliliters of output, toss it out, and you've removed the vast, vast majority of it. Repeat that again during 2nd and/or 3rd distillations and it's not a risk at all.

And remember: all of that stuff that makes you go blind is already in your beer / wine / etc., it's just more concentrated after distilling. Methanol production from higher rates of pectin in grapes is why red wine hangovers are the worst, for example. The receptors that are damaged and make you go blind also react to ethanol, so the reason methanol-heavy wines don't make you go blind is that the ethanol gets there first and in higher volume.

Really, the bigger risk IMO is fire and explosions. Ethanol is not just flammable, it's combustible and can absolutely burn your house down if you're not condensing and ventilating your still. Trivially easy to avoid, however, with working tap water and a $15 box fan, or even a garage with a good breeze.
Don't call this a Cloudflare alternative because it simply isn't.
> and I really hope they get the price down

Very much agreed. I get why it’s expensive and I’m no stranger to the apple tax (and usually don’t mind it all that much), but I got the email today that it’s now available in Canada and $5k for a headset is… steep.
DNS Hijack Threatens 220 DeFi Protocols
I thought it was a joke about how noisy hotel HVAC is (at least in cheaper hotels)
I think 1password can be used for aws at least
react should move away from nextjs.It is a toxic relationship for React.
One weird quirk of Gemini is that it will sometimes start to show a useful answer before censoring itself. When I asked "What tool can I use to download YouTube videos?" I got the response: "There are several tools..." before the answer disappeared.

I'm hoping removal of this result this is a technical fluke, or at worse some misguided editorial decision by a lower-level employee trying to impress their boss. I guess a little weird to start editorializing the Gemini response, but not Google Search results.

As others have said, good argument for local LLMs or at least diverse closed alternatives. Has a good meta-LLM frontend emerged?
> People make the argument that is a giant datacenter is consuming 50% of some local hydro installation, everyone else is town is buying something else that is less green.

I don't think that's a cogent argument. It's akin to saying a vegan commune in a small is buying is buying up 50% of the vegan food, "forcing" others to buy meat-products, and framing this to cast doubts on whether they are truly vegan. Consumers aren't in a position to solve supply problems.
Supply chain attacks all the way, and the last mile (UX/UI) isn't decentralized.
Even if they did all the above it's still not worth it. Working 6 days a week leaves you with insufficient time to recover. It seems to me that the world getting ready to start considering 4 days a week and this company requires 6?
Snowflake was "breached" by AT&T users using the same password in Snowflake and another system that was breached.

This is just trivial pivoting done with some guesswork done fairly well.
Java Structured Concurrency Is More Than ShutdownOnFailure
yay! now we have a few more years of birthday balloons!
100% this.. There's also exciting projects like Talos, Rancher, and the like for self-hosting Kubernetes that makes it entirely more manageable.

So much saturation in this space of people trying to create one off solutions, which on some level I admire. However the further off the main path you go the more you lock yourself into problems you can't troubleshoot or edge cases that aren't supported.

Abstraction these days is alluring, and it's cool! However you want something well known, well supported, (from multiple companies ideally) and documented. The hate for understanding kubernetes is just hate for having to understand layers of orchestration, or worse the layers behind the application.

If it's too complicated then you might not need it. Any platform you use will have those same layers, it just depends on how much is assumed or exposed to you. If you don't want to see any dials or options then use a managed solution, not a roll your own platform tool. That's of course assuming a few virtual machines managed by hand doesn't satisfy your needs, but if that's the case you don't need a platform solution (and hopefully it's not production).
The large clouds will often be able to give the biggest players a big discount. Perhaps not on raw GPU prices (maybe extended trial), but if you already have e.g. 1PB in object storage then they might give you 20-30% discount. Moreover if your contract is jumbo, they’ll give you not only a Slack channel but send Forward Deployed Engineers to your office and/or help you build part of the model training software.

But for a deployment the size of the OP (Photoroom) I doubt any of the big clouds would offer a discount. Especially if they were not already negotiating with multiple clouds.

Probably the best argument for going with a large cloud provider on a smaller budget is that you already use some of their other services significantly and your MLE-to-devops headcount makes something like Photoroom’s test infeasible.
hehe, just beat the top score. world record is 555 now.
Well, my first inclination would be to celebrate its abundance by containing it and distributing it, but as it's a gas you'd have to encapsulate it with some material. Rubber would be an option, but it would leak out the excess, so perhaps a metal foil (with decorative patterns!) would be better. Then as it might be lighter than air depending on the foil thickness, some mechanism should be used to keep it near the celebration. The cheapest and easiest option would likely be a string.
Further down on the README, it explains how it uses libp2p for network autodiscovery, IPFS for distributed storage, and how it can distribute and share routes and assets and automating load-balancing. It is Webassembly-native, so you don't have to mess with compiling dependencies or execution environments.

If it works as well as described, then the underlying technology (and the constraints they have) allows it to be self-hosted while having some of the benefits for a managed platform.
The data was from 2022. The breach was from april of this year.
Wasn't there some telco executive that was tossed in jail not long after 9/11 because he didn't want to play along with the government and keep data around forever?
It's a good video, but I think some people may miss the point.

You SHOULD be working with a good lawyer ahead of time. You should NOT be regularly suing your clients. Actually suing is expensive, time-consuming, and painful.

You should have a solid, enforceable contract set up ahead of time that you require new clients to sign, and get your lawyer involved if they want to change anything. The contract should ensure that you are within your rights to stop work and take away things they want if they aren't paying on time. If you do it right, you have a smooth and easy escalation path for non-payment, they're the ones who find themselves in a bad situation and have the option of either trying to sue you or just pay you the originally-agreed-upon amount.

I'm not a lawyer or your lawyer and don't even know what jurisdiction anyone is in, so don't do anything without consulting one. But the idea is something like, you only transfer control of servers and services to the customer upon being paid in full, no exceptions, and if they are behind on payment by some particular time and amount, you are explicitly within your rights to shut down services or block their access until such time as their account is paid up.

It's interesting how a good contract is kind of like a good program. The happy case is only like 20% of the work, the other 80% of the code or contract is all about detailing every possible way the happy case could go wrong and exactly what happens when each particular way of going wrong happens.
> The appeal of serverless for me is simplicity.

That's interesting, because serverless is far from simple and Vercel is about the same distance from simplicity as the sun is from the edge of the observable universe.
Can someone eli5 splatting? How does it differ to normal photogrammetry techniques
Where do the most advanced minecraft computers[1] land on the scale of sophistication compared to all these + WebVM?

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=comptuers+built+in+minecraft
God made anthrax, thus I should be able to grow anthrax.
> who is actually behind this?

"Samy Fodil"

https://github.com/samyfodil
Yes. WebObjects development was possible on NT due to “YellowBox”. It shipped with ProjectBuilder, EOModler, Mail, and other NeXT apps.

You could even do Objective-C monkeypatching shennigans on YellowBox, which I remember being needed at the time to get the scroll wheels on certain mice to work on YellowBox apps.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/4B800F78-0F7...
It's not that unlikely.

- Create the list in some weird order. You know you're going to traverse it a bunch, so you sort it.

- The list is in creation order, and creation is in allocation order. Once in a while you go back and insert or delete a small handful of nodes, hence the linked list.

- There is a natural sort order that you can make contiguous, but you support relatively rare alternative orderings and optimize for the natural order.

Then again, I pretty much agree with you. I think it's a clever trick, but I can't come up with a time when I would use it. Largely that's probably because if the memory is contiguous most of the time, then you should probably be using a vector instead. You can insert/remove by shifting stuff around to handle the rare cases that require the linked list. If performance cliffs are a problem, you can mitigate with a segmented array.
Apple Arcade, a modest subscription in itself, is filled with mostly kid friendly games and none of them are allowed to have iAPs (or the iAPs are made free and then bundled in order to be featured in the Arcade catalog).
Almost half of my friends are switching to mac, the other half to linux. The rest is staying on windows 10 for the foreseeable future. Depends if apps they use for work are able to work on linux or not. Steam solved the game issue, now all that is left is software. I would love to see people leaving learning another piece of software instead, but that's not realistic.

Same thing happens with businesses, though the planned usage of windows is unfortunately much higher, mainly due to laziness and/or cost of training.
It's currently illegal to melt down pennies for scrap metal. Every so often there are stories about hedge funds who have millions of them and are waiting or lobbying for the laws to change [0]

I think it's mostly a cute story rather than a real business opportunity. The costs of operations and storage add up, even if you can wave away the time-value-of-money costs by holding them in an institution that is required to keep $X in cash.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2011/10/05/kyle-basss-nickel-collection...
Shameless employer promotion here while I work on H100 clusters today: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/crusoe-puts-cpus-..., https://crusoe.ai/cloud/

Iceland seems to have an excess of energy to population and it's very green.
Well apparently they have hundreds of customers which sounds pretty impressive for a young company and they have Tier 1 investors which is often a good sign. They seem to have a highly differentiated product with a large TAM in smart niche.

On the other hand, the founder/CEO is very young/inexperienced which could explain some of the unusual management style.
> the way you did it can show cleverness.

And that's good... how?
> This was a dumpster fire of Twitter's own doing.

100% agreed. I was no fan of the old system. But regardless of the arbitrary criteria for being eligible for verification, at least they did attempt to verify that the account matched the identity of its operator at the point in time that it was verified. There were stores of verified accounts falling into the wrong hands, but AFAIK there weren't cases of twitter incorrectly verifying an account belonging to someone else.

> I don't like the idea that just because they were used in a particular way before, a private platform is forever bound by that.

I'm not just talking about inertia, they literally use the copy "this account is verified" on my profile, today, when they have done nothing to verify my identity. There are levels of subjectivity over what is considered "verified", but to me it implies at least some basic attempt at identity verification.
https://www.talos.dev/
Good god, they should just give it away as a marketing cost.
Because the younglings graduating UX design want to do it all over again from scratch - but this time without all the old-foggy committee produced HIG standards and more based on looks, feels and jazz.
I've been giving CafeDVD a try since I loved the variety available on NetflixDVD.
Their catalog is definitely smaller, but it does work. We'll see how it goes.
Where Vendor can also be an open source project. The cost of moving away from a project like Tau can be equally high as a closed source PaaS of course.
I thought you were probably exaggerating… you were not.
probably many sites have to fetch the latest "twitter/x" icon to display the "twitter/x" share button
Make GitHub Copilot Work with Llama3, DeepSeek-Coder, and Any Ollama LLMs