skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What can't be fit by declaring the amount of dark matter that must be present fits the data?

Tons of things - just like there are tons of things that can't be fit by declaring the amount of electromagnetically-interacting matter that must be present fits the data.

You can fit anything you like by positing new and more complicated laws of physics, but that's not what's going on here. Dark matter is ordinary mass gravitating in an ordinary way: the observed gravitational lensing needs to match up with the rotation curves needs to match up with the velocity distributions of galaxies in clusters; you don't strictly need large scale homogeneity and isotropy but you really really want it, etc. Lambda-CDM doesn't handle everything perfectly (which in itself demonstrates that it's not mindless overfitting) but neither does anything else.
Have you seen their private rate cards for this level of buying? I bet if you had your calculus would change here.

Also, it’s easy to beat most costs if you get consumer grade hardware and don’t refresh it more than once a decade. I see that often when folks compare costs, but that’s dishonest and just kind of shoots their credibility in the foot.
Isn't LFP now the dominant chemistry in grid scale storage?
> I still write code every day in support of my generative art practice. The code is much more complex than anything I did previously, and much of it does not have anyone else doing it, so it's a lot of invention, which is fun.

Can relate. I've been "retired," since I was 55, and SV was nice enough to let me know that I was too old to play in their pool.

Pissed me off, something fierce, but, in the long run, it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

I could have made millions -for other people- maybe for me, as well, but I have never really been interested in that kind of thing. The work and the technology has always fascinated me.

I've found that what I really enjoy, is making UI tools for nontechnical folks. That's what I do, these days. I make free software for folks that can't afford the kind of stuff I do.
It's all a matter of perception (and humidity).

Where I live, 100F is a hellish, blistering day. 0F is just an uncomfortable day in January, but certainly not abnormal. Just wear your big coat and gloves.

That said, 100F in Wisconsin is a very different animal than 100F in Las Vegas. Wisconsin gets brutally humid as it gets hotter, and that makes it even more oppressive. Meanwhile, Nevada gets drier, and so the heat is more bearable.

If anything, I think it's kinda cool that Fahrenheit lines up with perceived temperatures this way, even across different climates with different humidity. Sure, you can point to extremes (Phoenix, Juneau) but those are... well, extremes. For most of us, it's pretty good!
Programming “via” Visualization — doesn’t scale. Great for demos. Good in limited places.

Visualizations “of” a Program — quite useful. Note there lots of different ways to visualize the same program to emphasise / omit different details. The map is not the territory, all models are wrong etc.
Run an OS like TrueNAS (core == BSD, scale == Linux) and back your data on ZFS so you can run snapshots, and write snapshots to offline storage.

Implement a 3-2-1 model: 3 copies of your data, 2 locations of media, one copy held offline.

I use google drive, but many people I know like Apples pricepoint and others like the bundling with Microsoft.

Tarsnap is worth investigating. The Author writes here, and is a long standing FreeBSD developer outside of this archive service.

Nothing lasts forever. Be prepared to continue to invest on the capex side because your NAS will eventually die.
The DNS is not the problem... the site itself gives me a "you are blocked" page directly from CF. I don't get a different result from using different DNS either way.
Swimlane diagrams are from the 1940s[0]. IGrafx trademarked it in 1996. They're often used to model process' that span people, roles or security boundaries [1][2][3].

Sequence-diagram participants[4], and gantt-sections[5] are sometimes used to represent the same.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimlane

[1]: https://swimlanes.io/

[2]: https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/tutorial/swimlane-diagram

[3]: https://www.drawio.com/blog/swimlane-diagrams

[4]: https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/sequenceDiagram.html#participa...

[5]: https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/gantt.html#syntax
That is what I was hoping to read as well.
telegraph needs copper. it just helped find some
The criticism is that it’s not done even when reading the user’s intent is plenty possible, like in this case.

(how bad UIs are is generally an insult to all the amazing engineering behind them)
Nonsesnse. Palestinians had the continuous land and had the ability to renegotiate. However in their history when faced with adversary they made a choice toward violence as the only solution in their dealings. They formed militias early on as Jews started buying land and resettling, this formed Jews to organize militias too.

The same was true here, their leaders made bad populist decisions (attacked, supported the enemy etc.). Instead of negotiating they just wanted to kill the enemy and saw it as their only choice. You're justifying violence when it's from the Palestinians yet condemning it when it was in self defense.

The history of the Palestinians is that exact cycle with one exception: Oslo. Even then they couldn't get out of their head and rejected two attempts for a Palestinian state that included Jerusalem. The reason: YOU. People egging them on and claiming they deserve more. They need to compromise.

Had the Palestinian won the Jews living in Israel would have been dead. There would be no story, nothing remotely close.

> Let's say the events in its entirety, not the handpicked hasbara talking points.

You're picking an extremist on the right as a representative of Israel. Hagana literally shot and killed right wing Jewish terrorists to gain control during those days. The reason the Bernadotte plan didn't happen had little to do with the assassination, notice that the territories the Palestinians were given were not entirely under Israeli control. It's because Jordan and Egypt took them.

They could have formed a Palestinian state just like the Ottomans could. They didn't. The Palestinians chose violence and got screwed by surrounding countries. They got used again, but Israel is easier to blame.

Now your usage of the word hasbara shows exactly who you are. Hasbara literally means "explain". Zionizem literally means the desire to return to Israel. Yet you pick these words and redefine them with sinister connotations because obviously Jews are evil and plotting.

The fact that Jews or Israelis are repeating something doesn't make it wrong either. I suggest you take a long look in the mirror and give some thought about your inherent biases and skewed outlook.

EDIT: also I completely neglected to mention about the right of return nonsense. Jews lost their homes in Muslim countries due to the war. My ancestors left homes in Muslim countries with all their property behind and fled. That's how these things are unfortunately, you start a war there are consequences.
Iiuc the payroll comes out before profit.
Wow, what an exciting new thing that has been famous for several decades and the basis of commercial products like Proton. I'll also submit wunderground to HN, since a forecast is presented, and people in my ZIP code care a lot about flooding. Wine is a great project that people like to infantalize.
“Expectation of privacy” isn’t in the constitution. The 4th amendment says: “ The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…”

Other people’s records concerning you plainly aren’t “[your] … papers.”
If you’re going to be that picky about the definition of “capital” then maybe the question is why would anyone be against farms and factories? :)

So okay, for capital, substitute “ownership of a claim to the profits from capital.”

I think it might be fun to imagine an economic system very different than ours, but I suspect it’s going to need cultural institutions that fulfill similar roles, because they serve human needs and those needs aren’t going away.

For example, suppose that in the system you’re imagining, a retired worker goes to the store to get something to eat. Presumably, the collective has a worker making sure that nobody takes more than their fair share, or otherwise it’s all going to disappear. So the retiree has present some kind of abstract claim showing what they’re entitled to.

It’s going to serve a similar role to retirement savings. How does it work? When you retire, how secure is your claim? How much can you get, and what happens when political institutions change?

I think it’s easier to talk about such things in terms of familiar institutions that we understand well, but with the understanding that there could be different approaches, in theory.
Out of the 3 things I want to install 2 don't work. Both of these seem bugs in pipx so I reported one, but the feedback was borderline hostile and it ended up being closed with "unclear what you want". I'm not even going to bother reporting the other bug.

So whatever the goals are, it doesn't really work. And in general pipx does not strike me as a serious project.
The data Google has about you belongs to Google. The Supreme Court has already held in Riley that your documents stored in the cloud are covered by the 4th amendment. But this case is about Google tracking your whereabouts for its own purposes.
> One more step

> Please complete the security check to access archive.ph

It's not a DNS issue (and I don't use theirs), the site itself uses CF and I get endless captcha loops. Sometimes the site will just say "you are blocked" instead too, or even "Your browser is out of date" when it's not.

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/one-more-step-please-comp...
The thought experiment makes no sense. Once the basilisk is created it has no reason to create an incentive structure that applies to the past because the past is fixed. If the basilisk is actually superintelligence it's not going to fall for the sunk cost fallacy.
acemoglu development econ paper on this worth a read

follows postcolonial trajectories of coastal countries used for ports + trade vs inland countries used for resource extraction labor
How do you compare to RunPee? Perhaps it's old enough it's forgotten.

RunPee – Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons (319 points, 10 years ago, 130 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7927287?
I'm under the impression that UDP is what makes QUIC valuable, by keeping it compatible with the world's existing network hardware and firewall configurations.

If that issue didn't exist, SCTP would surely see a lot more use.
It's not about security, it's about control. Modified systems can be used for nefarious purposes, like blocking ads. And Google wouldn't like that.
The others do likewise. And actually include the word "Jeopardy" in their own names.
They are using AI to help drive this dead horse… gotta have lots of data to build AI, they claim.
It’s from South Park https://youtu.be/TWhsjai-OVE?si=i8VAiEZ4kt885xa5
CRT was universally used in the past. And backlights are dimmed when displaying black most of the time. You can test your power usage of displays yourself if for some reason you dont believe this.
I am 63. Canada based. Have no problems keeping up with tech. I am on my own since 2000 and mostly develop new products for various clients. Have couple of product for myself that bring some dosh. The range is very wide. Microcontrollers, Enterprise Backends, Desktop, Multimedia, Browser based, etc. etc. It is not programming per se that keeps me going (I find it boring enough) but designing systems and interactions from scratch and then watching it work.
Not all silliness is equal or equally stupid. The Texas legislature routinely calls for secession when a Democrat wins the Presidency and votes to stymie federal aid to other states while demanding federal aid for themselves.

I don’t see the world in stark terms except where appropriate. You do believe cases exist where such views are warranted right? I happen to think that Texas qualifies.
>I dont have a dog in this hunt but that seems like a strangely aggressive response.

Well I do and as someone who has seen his other posts on this subject as well, he has a tendency to try to dismiss differing points of views on the basis that he has 20 years of experience and knows better than everyone else but can't be bothered to explain it.

Someone who has experience and wants to flaunt that experience should do so by coming up with good arguments, pointing people to good resources, and making a good effort to inform rather than pulling rank as a way to dismiss the conversation under the guise of sophistication and pretention.

I too have decades of experience working at a quant firm, and guess what... many people who post on HN have subject matter expertise and frankly I don't think many of us would agree with the idea that the stock market is normally distributed, or that you need a great deal of mathematical machinery and sophistication in order to demonstrate that fact.

Math models reality, reality does not model math. Whether or not stock prices or portfolios, even the portfolios of those on Hacker News, follow a normal distribution has nothing to do with the nature of the discussion of those portfolios.

Also, policing people's tone is also against the spirit of HN as well, but here we are. If you want to police how I speak, flag my comment and/or downvote it.
I just want an IDE that abstracts my code just enough so that I can work with tokens, not individual characters. I spend way too much time fixing syntax and formatting when moving things around.
Ok, I've just checked it out, but to be honest it seems cumbersome and you have to download the app. Some may prefer RunPee, but who knows, maybe my app will find fans too.
Writing off an entire planet seems the most barbaric of the 3.
If I go to sleep before 11 pm, even if I'm sleepy, I'll have severe insomnia and won't be able to sleep until 3-5am the next day. But if I go to sleep at 12am, I'll automatically wake up at 6am perfectly rested. I say sleep science got it wrong at the minimum 8hr sleep to be healthy, just find your body's sleep schedule and follow it. As with water, only drink when thirsty and in rest, long before/after eating or exercising.
I do not think what they say is that it is hard to visualise it, but that it does not offer much utility to do so. A "for" loop like that is not that complicated to understand and visualising it externally does not offer much. The examples the article gives is about more abstract and general overviews of higher level aspects of a codebase or system. Or to explain some concept that may be less intuitive or complicated. In general less about trying to be formal and rigorous, and more about being explanatory and auxiliary to the code itself.
Sparks also aligned well with the burgeoning post-punk revival / indie dance scene of the early to mid aughts. In Baltimore, one of the monthly dance parties was doing Sparks happy hours for a while. The deal was absurdly cheap, especially for a big music venue -- two or three dollars per can if I recall, but my memory is hazy for obvious reasons!

Combined with good DJs and a very reasonable cover charge (for example $5 to see Diplo before he got huge), it was quite a time...
Dangerous Visions, the anthology edited by Harlan Ellison, contains something similar, if a bit more graphic.
This is very naive thinking. Let's begin with the fact that imports aren't GDP. GDP is the value of goods and services produced inside the country. Imports, by definition, are produced outside the country.

Imports power GDP growth. Let me illustrate.

60% of Wal-Mart's imports in 2023 came from China.[1] Wal-Mart is also the largest private employer in the world.[2] Wal-Mart generates billions of dollars of revenue and profit - GDP in other words - by selling imports from China.

Imagine the economic hardship if even just Wal-Mart was cut off from Chinese imports. They'd lose at least half their sales overnight. Up to half their stores might close, or half the workforce might lose their jobs. That's almost 800k people. The unemployment rate goes up 60 basis points overnight. That's just one company.

Extrapolate that to the rest of the US economy.

1. https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/walmart-shifts-to-indi...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart
The key point here is that gun nuts have been told for decades by the NRA and right-wing groups that their right to bear arms is critical to stop a "tyrannical government". This is commonly used to defend the right of every "patriotic" American to bear arms.

When the right keeps using rhetoric like this (after school shootings no less!) they shouldn't be making the shocked Pikachu face when one of their own takes potshots at Trump. Or anyone for that matter. It basically doesn't matter if the shooter was a tree-hugging gay democrat at this point. The message that encourages and enables this kind of violence is almost entirely coming from the right.

Speaking of the shooter's motivations: Keep in mind that "the right" is now split into pre-Trump conservatives and "Trumpists", so it's entirely conceivable that a "true patriot" conservative decided to utilise his second amendment rights to stop what he felt like was a betrayal of his party and country by an openly anti-democratic autocrat.

The other key part of what I said in my GP comment is that the propagandists on the right immediately jumped on the opportunity to blame the left and the Democrats before the political affiliation of the shooter was even known.[1] Thousands upon thousands gave this the thumbs up, re-tweeted it, shared it, etc...

A right-wing congressman blames Biden personally, but he's not the only one. Here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw0y9xljv2yo

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/prominent-repu...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republic...

Etc...

[1] This reminds me of when that hospital was bombed in Gaza and then palestinion authorities had an exact body count (in the hundreds!) mere minutes later and blamed Israel. Never mind that few if any died, and the bomb was one of their own missiles. That's not on message. This is precisely the same scenario. The second there's a shooting of a Republican candidate, it surely must be the Democrats doing it, that's on message.
I think it’s relevant, but also, there are a lot of people coming and going. If housing prices are high and traffic is bad, pointing at some rich people leaving seems sort like saying “nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.”
I wonder if it’s because FSD is nowhere near ready for driverless operation?
Dear user with password “password11111111111” logging in from a random computer with two password stealers active, from a foreign country, and not willing to use MFA, incident response team will thank you and prepare a warm welcome when you are back to office.

Honestly, this comment shows, that user education does not work.
I personally do the opposite and use high contrast mode plus low brightness to safe battery on my non adaptive backlight lcd laptop.

It also doesnt make any sense to do this considering brightness is relative. If im wrong about this please show me how.
TBQH, I think developing bespoke visualization-to-code compilers for lots of different visualizations will probably lose to multimodal coding LLMs within the next year. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is already very good with text prompting — I'd expect another year of model releases to basically solve turning visualizations, diagrams, etc into workable code.

The bitter lesson of ML is that doing lots of bespoke things per-domain eventually loses to just using a better model. And each of those visualizations is very bespoke, and 3.5 Sonnet really feels like it's on the cusp of this stuff.

That being said, I think the core idea is right: use the visuals developers already use! This will help communicate more effectively to the models, too: there's already a large corpus of those kinds of visualizations.
There's always a range of experiences. Most of the people I know did ok through the .com bust and are still in tech. Some people had millions on paper and didn't sell and held on to it and not only was it worth zilch they also owed taxes but many really made millions. Pretty much anyone that had a job in FAANG or similar companies did really well from 2001 to today - a lot of people. Tech grew like crazy and took a lot of people with it for the ride.
https://keepass.info/help/base/security.html#secmemprot
they can't really be that gullible can they? taking bets on this appearing on BF by next week.
so you are basically saying that your past work doesn't matter and only whatever trick question is being asked matters
Thanks! As @Tiberium mentioned, Nim 2.0 defaults to using ARC (Automatic Reference Counting), so no runtime GC. The Nim compiler is quite smart about when to copy/move and when to destruct, with some hints like lent/sink for when you want to have a bit more control.

Keep in mind that I also need to use ptr (as opposed to ref) types in a lot of cases when working at a low level, so there might be a need for some manual memory management as well.
Haha yes, I was in 11/12th grade when Sparks came out. What a unique time to be alive.
Apple screwing you over twice will do that to your products targeting Apple users.
When I was last in Zambia, I saw truck after truck full of huge copper sheets lined up at the border waiting to pay duty. I don't think it is any big news to anybody that there's copper there. It sounds like the AI just help find the extents of this particular deposit, not that it surprised anybody with secret copper.
My "security flavor of the month" is almost universally ignored... Capability Based Security/Multilevel Secure Computing. If it's not ignored, it's mis-understood.

It's NOT the UAC we all grew to hate with Windows 8, et al.
It's NOT the horrible mode toggles present on our smartphones.
It's NOT AppArmor.

I'm still hoping that Genode (or HURD) makes something I can run as my daily driver before I die.
> disallow users to choose a password they used previously (never understood that one)

That’s because you never responded to an incident when user changed their compromised password because they were forced to only to change it back next day because “it’s too hard to remember a new one”.
Similar Asks (perhaps some inspiration?):

Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”? (127 points, 10 months ago, 135 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520374

Ask HN: What tools/strategy do you use for backups? (48 points, 2 years ago, 22 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34197837

Ask HN: How do you manage your important personal documents and other data? (91 points, 2 years ago, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615785
Understanding of sleep science is a rather different topic than applying known beneficial advice
Tarsnap looks pretty good for some really niche use cases, but it seems pretty crazy expensive if you don't need the ultra privacy guarantees.

Is ZFS actually a possibility on 512MB of RAM? I always thought you needed actual server-class hardware way beyond a cheap consumer NAS for that, at least if you want the deduplication.

It does look really nice, it would be super cool to be able to just deduplicate everything globally, even between backups of different machines.