skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another Mercurial-stan convinced of their "rightness" in the face of the overwhelming popularity of the alternative. Just blame "Github" and the "cool kids" for picking the "wrong thing".

I used Mercurial for a while when I was still also learning Git and migrating from SVN. It had serious UX problems and Git just "clicked" for me in a way that Mercurial just never did.

Perhaps I just wasn't smart enough to see the genius of Mercurial.
we don`t use a full IPFS, but more like a lite version. it allow us to retrieve data quickly, cache and duplicate. check this article https://blog.ipfs.tech/2020-02-14-improved-bitswap-for-conta...

When it comes to scale, ipfs basic discovery mechanism (the dht) does not do that well. This is why we have services like tns (which is a replicated registry) that allows it to scale.
Reminds me of the people that scavenge gold and gems off New York sidewalks

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/06/22/new-york...

https://www.igi.org/digging-for-gold-in-new-yorks-sidewalks/
Here's a series of videos showing the recovery and refining process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePEwr-VxqXE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKGhmt7jgMg
IQM achieves 99.9% 2-qubit gate fidelity and 1 millisecond coherence time
> Why do we think all software should be free

Why do people return Windows laptops when they have to pay for a Windows License Activation? Because every single OEM pays for it; you don't expect to buy Windows because it is a failed B2C business model. Nobody wants it. Same goes for proprietary UNIX, and people wish it was the case for Nvidia drivers. I own CUDA hardware and lament the fact that cross-industry GPGPU died so FAANG could sell licensed AI SDKs. The only thing stopping AI from being "free" is the limitations OEMs impose on their hardware.

> that those that don't give it away are the abnormal ones?

They are. Admit it; the internet is the new normal, if your software isn't as "free" as opening a website, you're weird. If I have to pay to access your little forum, I won't use it. If I have to buy your app to see what it's like, I'll never know what you're offering. Part of what makes Nvidia's business model so successful is that they do "give away" CUDA to anyone that owns their hardware. There is no developer fee or mandatory licensing cost, it is plug-and-play with the hardware. Same goes for OpenAI, they'd have never succeeded if you had to buy "the ChatGPT App" from your App Store.
So, here's the thing-- drugmakers can get compassionate use exceptions.

But the pharmaceutical companies really want to prove that their drugs work. If their drug doesn't work, nothing is lost or gained by having people try it.

If the drug does work, but the study of it is confounded by giving it to people in a haphazard way, such that we don't know if it works--- more people suffer.

It sucks, but most things don't work. Occasionally people are screwed by not being able to get into a trial for something that might have saved them or lengthened their life. But much more often they're spared false hope and suffering from side effects, and we end up with trials that we can trust.
I agree. Thinking strategically, it is a win/win if advertisers can become convinced that this approach works well enough to rely on it. Inverting the responsibility for storing a users profile data - to the user agent - benefits the advertisers from a cost perspective and the users from a privacy one. “localfirst for your ads”
I'm betting the hydrogen is actually a lot safer than a tank full of jet A. (not to defend using hydrogen, which in these applications seems to be a meme perpetuated by politicians/oil companies)
Here’s my not-tongue-in-cheek Moonball deck. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16QpeWjf1Hbxp_15D5Vtx...

And speaking of races on the moon: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/moon-walls-running-1.7192281
love NATS.
tau is about the developer experience and speed of development. Integrating and maintaining nex is not something every dev can do
Several years ago, I worked as a data scientist for Express Scripts, before it was acquired by Cigna. I can't much speak to the macroeconomics of PBMs, but I can say that they were the worst technical organization I ever worked for. They were built out of mergers on top of mergers on top of acquisitions, so their IT systems were what you get when you duct tape a dozen legacy systems together.

I worked in the "Innovation Lab", which had been designed to look like an ad agency's idea of Innovation -- brushed metal, Edison lightbulbs, that kind of thing. They'd bring clients through on tours to show off how much Innovation was going on. Meanwhile, I didn't really have that much to do, and no one seemed very concerned about that. Soon I realized I was also part of the decoration - a genuine Data Scientist, hard at work Innovating.

Our group produced approximately nothing. Our boss's boss was evaluated mostly based on how much he was able to sell people's medical data for.
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Like most mainstream media reports it misses a lot. I worked in the industry and The NY Times article misses key points.

There is no “price” for a drug, there are several prices - list, net, Medicaid, AMP, ASP.

So yes, while the list price for Gleevec has gone up, the actual price paid is very different.

It’s the same for insulin - the price that manufacturers have received has gone down 41% from 2014-2020, while the list price has gone up 140%.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh...

If people want to really understand how it all works, I recommend the Drug Channel blog by Adam Fein. He does a great job of digging into details, pulling data and showing what prices are actually doing.

https://www.drugchannels.net/?m=1
No one else has the scale to even begin negotiating with the Pfizers of the world. Try to buy something from them directly, and the price would be "Fuck you".
GM's 2025 EV production capacity target in doubt
I’m very familiar with IP/asset holding companies, but I am referring to an actual practice within the “domain industry” of leasing domains which is common and not just with high value domains (6-7 figures) but even with 5 figure domains.

Within the domain industry “leasing” is a little misleading because these are typically more like “rent to buy” deals where the original owner continues to retain maintain ownership until the leasee makes the final payment.
Very interesting, I wonder if the middle layers could be shuffled during training to enforce this permutation symmetry
as cal85 said, The appeal of serverless for me is simplicity.
that said, tau will support containers and even VMs by the end of the year
Because the work is remarkably intricate. It requires you to get real close and personal with the work, usually with magnification. It requires complete and unimpeded dexterity of your fingers, so bulky gloves are absolutely not an option.

Depending on the work, it may also require frequent trips to the hearth for torch work. You really don't want to use an oxy/propane torch in a sealed glovebox.

In short, it's too much hassle and makes the work more difficult and much slower.
Let's not forget that it is possible to not have a lock on one's phone.
Do you think you're being reasonable in saying that? I think micropayments are desperately needed, and I don't see modern payment networks doing anything to get there
Why would you be looking to dip your toe into the AMD ecosystem for the first time using an MI300X? It doesn't make any sense. It's not entry level hardware.
This is some remarkably absurd logic.
why would that be?
> in the JS console

in the CodePen console, not in the browser's console.

here's a shorter version.

Els.filter(item => !Elsguessed.includes(item)).forEach(item => console.log(`https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/${item}`))

or

new Set(Els).difference(new Set(Elsguessed))
In the 2001 film "Swordfish", there was always a piece of dialogue that stood out to me where Hugh Jackman describes code for a computer worm he wrote in college as being hidden on a PDP-10 I.T.S. machine kept online for history's sake. It's shown and noted that his character went to Caltech.

It is saying something that this might be the most plausible part of the film.
Since you are already betting, how much will you bet with me?
Absolute scum of the earth villainy, just the worst sharks of this planet. That we literally cannot make an audio encoding system that doesn't get jammed up by stupid ass patents unspeakably delegitimizes the idea of IP. Humanity has to be allowed to do something for itself.

They actually published the patent list this time, which they didn't when these sharks first declared the pool. There's actually ~33 US patents, with the same parents filed in many countries.

I just get so hopeless with this stuff because companies are so good at taking open source work then spending so much effort iterating endlessly to invent encumbrance for encumbrance sake. They provide no value, do nothing, just congest & block society. There's no possible way to prevent that, no legal options for a public good to ever emerge with such an Advanced Persistent Piece Of Shit team of lawyers. IP law allows infinite creativity in obstructing, and now that its first to file companies can keep iterating on new encumbrances & there's nothing we can do to stop them, no way to make a public good.

These are such toxic vile companies, Dolby & Fraunhofer IIS. Shame on them, you iconift the evil that government can allow & you exploit from the good.
Its a shame because they were cutting edge in cybersecurity research.

Hopefully some singular company just hires them up and they can continue their collaboration on threat research
>The response: DEI experts say there isn't really a debate, and that "equity" can be fairly uncontroversial. It just means equality of opportunity — providing workers with what they need to be on equal footing in the workplace.

This is an outright lie, it has always meant equality of outcome.

Here is the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, stating explicitly: "we are talking much more rightly about equity [...] if the goal is truly about equality, it has to be about a goal of saying that everybody should end up in the same place"

https://youtu.be/LaAXixx7OLo?feature=shared&t=61
To help fix the ecosystem. It's way more affordable than Nvidia.

I'm not looking for entry level hardware.
thanks!

dream allows you to run tau locally and even write E2E unit tests.

we always try to have cool names :)
You can't directly extrapolate from April to November. April is generally the optimal month in California for renewable generation (days are long enough, rainy season is drawing to a close, not too cold or hot, and summer fog from the oceans hasn't started), so the graph is definitely showing the best case. Nonetheless, with more battery installs, we can almost certainly bank the majority of power needs all year round in California.
> But the second order effect is to set a boundary with advertisers as to what is acceptable, which is positive.

The idea of advertisers respecting boundaries or caring what other people think is acceptable seems hopelessly naive. As I remember, the Do Not Track (DNT) header was motivated by the same ideal, and it failed totally, as one should expect. Advertisers will take whatever they can pry loose.

> Impressions without conversions aren't reported, so the only trends seen are over conversions as grouped by websites. If that's all it takes for advertisers to stop fingerprinting us, I'm open to something along those lines.

They won't stop, and anyway fingerprinting is just one invasion out of many. If they also want information about trends, then of course I want to deny that to them as well.

Thought experiment: instead of opting everyone in by default, suppose Mozilla does an A/B test. Opt in 50% of the users by default, and opt out the other 50%. Then see how many users in each group switch the setting away from the default. Do you expect more will opt in on purpose, or opt out on purpose? What does that make you think of Mozilla's actual choice of default?
Async Git-stash workflow enables test test-driven development
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Very good.

Here's the WolframAlpha equation to your assertion of 40-digit ... or so.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28180+x+17+trillion+li...
Even 7 day storage will likely need hydrogen
In my case at least, they probably accounted for it somewhere by adjusting rates elsewhere so it works out. So it's a bit risky to just change, similar to code that is known to be wrong but too hard to change since "everything works".
3.14 gets me from here to there, it's just transportation, good enough for me :)
Upload portal is here: https://driveuploader.com/upload/UdA5Ev9YFP/

Thank you for helping out. Much appreciated!
yes. tau will take care of versioning your deployed code just like git does. internally even the registry is versioned using branches and commits.
great find. thank you!
I already responded to that two days ago in adjacent replies.

You’re also completely wrong. Utilities do not get to pass on costs to specific customers. It is, at best, just a compelling point with regulators to build it into the rate case for capital spending.
I am writing a web server in vanilla TypeScript/Node. It is raw sockets first and then minimal http support over the socket layer.

This morning I wrote the proxy solution in about 10 lines of code. Its really just some supporting code around these two lines, because everything is much easier when it’s just streams:

socket.pipe(proxy);
proxy.pipe(socket);

The goal is to use this as the web server for my home network supporting all my vanity domains that scales up to allow drop in applications. My first home app will be a wrapper around a yt-dlp/ffmpeg script available through a web page.
Recently USSC killed the Chevron Doctrine, I wonder how that impacts the powers of DEA to keep scheduling substances w/o court legal battle. I think its time for some big marijuana corporate to pool resources and challenge DEA for their deference in enforcement.
That's very true, but here's the shitty thing -- even when it's over it won't be over.

Even if Russia succeeds in fracturing NATO and is successful in their attempts to occupy Ukraine the Ukrainian people will continue to resist them and the Russians will find any occupation an absolute nightmare thanks to Ukrainian drones.

And even if the Russians withdraw tomorrow and give back all the land that they have conquered the Ukrainian people will continue to kill Russian warcriminals from afair with drones that they either smuggle in mail to Russia.

Either way Russia will never be safe and Russian soldiers will never be safe to step outside to even mow their lawn.
This is lovely, worth taking some time to explore these projects. They're dynamic documents with interactive math and visuals, made by high-school students.
Yes, that's why you'd choose AMD, I'm saying that you don't enter the ecosystem for the first time by purchasing the absolute cutting edge hardware.

As far as I'm aware you can't simply buy an Nvidia B200 PCIe card over the counter, either.
https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/oil-and-gas...
Show HN: I created a Neural Network from scratch, in scratch
I spent the past week implementing a 1 Layer Neural Net and training it on MNIST within the visual scripting language provided by scratch.mit.edu. It was tedious, but ultimately not too difficult. The code runs incredibly slowly, so much so that 64 samples of MNIST takes 5+ hours to train on my machine.

There were a lot of little mini challenges that were fun to overcome (implementing softmax was very tricky). If you're interested, I encourage you to try and improve on it! More details in the linked blog post.
right now, that is true. Seer (the dns service) returns all nodes that register with it, regardless of location. That said, we're working in adding advanced logic there that will:
- take location into consideration
- allows the execution of wasm code (we call smartops) to define custom logic
The Separation of Ego and Engineering
California demands just as much federal aid, and perhaps more - they budgeted assuming that COVID-era federal funding would last forever, until they were recently forced to cut after having to face their absurd assumptions. San Francisco's city government also attempted to boycott working with any contractor in 30 states based on their political views, until it was forced to relent due to not being able to find contractors at an acceptable price.
> So yes, while the list price for Gleevec has gone up, the actual price paid is very different.

You say it like it's a good thing. It's part of the problem.

The fact that there is no clear no-nonsense to get a drug at a reasonable price without jumping through a bunch of hoops which aren't even clearly documented is not a good thing.

We are talking of life-saving drugs here, not hacking frequent flier miles or credit card rewards.
Yes, I do.

If you really want micropayments, then use one of the newer, better base systems that do the same things better on every metric, including not ripping through half a percent of the electricity generated in the world.

Even if Bitcoin were the only choice available, micropayments aren't needed desperately enough to justify the climate impact. But in fact it's not.
Have fun playing with your Fischer Price KidSafe™ playset? >:)

At some point we are just outlining in general terms what we want from a language. If C was a toolbox it is a limited number of essential tools, other languages add so many things Alton Brown would faint from the unitasking nature of them.

C programmers love this. I know I do.
Interesting term of the trade in the article: "lemel". (Metal filings)

Wiktionary: From Middle English lymail, from Anglo-Norman limaille, from Latin limare, a form of limo (“to file”); see further there.
correct. and the idea here is to put up at least some form of barrier to entry, because any good guidance is also nuclear warhead delivery guidance at a certain point.
It can be that simple in 240v-ish countries, where everything in a home is connected to the same two transformer taps outside.

Just install a dedicated branch circuit (or otherwise isolate it so that nothing else is using that branch), plug it in, and all the stuff in the house is indiscriminately somewhat powered by solar.

And...done. That's all there is.

Here in the States, things are a touch more difficult: Our normal residential power is 240v, but our regular branch circuits (and outlets) are 120v by using a center tapped secondary winding on the transformer as neutral.

So to power a house's stuff indiscriminately in the US with a plug-in inverter (or two) would require two different outlets that are each on different transformer taps, or a 240v outlet.

Using a singular regular 120v outlet in the US will only cover about half of the regular stuff in a house, and will never be able to power any 240v loads.

(And, yeah, we have standardized 240v outlets. But they're almost never found in a home except behind major appliances like the clothes dryer and/or electric range. We also have standards for smaller outlets that would be suitable for small appliances like a toaster or a kettle, but they're almost non-existent in the wild.

It'll be a long while before we get approved plug-in grid-tied solar here.)
Iconic guitar butt Jazzmaster is better IMHO.
What you call "bloat" is how other languages handle complexity that C necessitates that the programmer handle. Enjoy.
They were in support of a weak government when they wrote the Articles of Confederation. They wrote the Constitution a decade later because that turned out to be such a disaster.
Anecdotally, I've seen it closer to $10/month for car or smartwatch, and $0 for Kindle though I'm not entirely sure if they're still shipping cellular. Tablets are closer to that $20-$30, though.
"We must do something, this is something, therefore we must do it"

"Micropayments are desperately needed" - this is true.

"I don't see modern payment networks doing anything to get there" - this is also true.

Neither of those imply we must solve this problem with Bitcoin, and neither of them contradict OP's statement. Bitcoin is slow, energy inefficient, and a shit transaction currency because of philosophies built into the creation of the coin. It's a fine speculative asset, but by this point in its existence, it should be pretty obvious it's not an actually useful currency for this kind of exchange.
Baseload power is becoming an outdated concept. We have all the technologies to shift power to when it’s needed at a reasonable cost. Several regions is already shifting a huge amount of power by hours, and the capacity has been added in a very short time. The amount of grid storage battery capacity in the world has grown from zero to almost matching pumped hydro in just a few years, and the growth js showing no signs of slowing down.

We also know that many of the technologies we need to decarbonise the world will require energy storage solutions. If you buy an EV you will be buying energy storage capacity that can power your house for 1-10 days or so. So you can clearly see that a world with zero carbon transportation infrastructure is by necessity one where we have the manufacturing capacity to balance intermittent power for households.

That’s not even considering that grid energy batteries will become increasingly optimised for cost for their specific use case. They don’t need high energy density. Chemistries like sodium-ion unlocks several orders of magnitude higher growth potential.

You can get similar conclusions for industry if you consider how we need to make huge amounts of hydrogen for green steel and fertiliser production. This implies a gigantic amount of flexible load.

An interesting fact is that one of the first pumped hydro power plants was built to balance nuclear energy. What we actually need isn’t really baseload. We need energy production that matches energy demand.
50% of what you say is 100% correct.

Bitcoin was hijacked and corrupted on purpose with injected hacks like "segwit" and rbf. So you are 100% right, BTC is broken and LN doesn't help.

But POW BITCOIN, as designed and built originally actually works fine at Visa-level scale while maintaining low fees. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) still functions as Bitcoin perfectly well, it just doesn't have the "crypto-bro" idiots pushing it as an investment.
Wiztree does this just in a smart way.
I did my jewellery trade in Australia (hence the correct spelling for me). We used to keep all our emery paper, old polishing wheels etc and send them off ever few years to be burnt & refined.

When the building we were in got renovated some enterprising guys in another workshop ripped up their floor boards and their neighbouring empty suites and got all the precious metals out of the gaps between the floorboards.

The building was 11 stories and was predominantly filled with small jewellery workshops with 2-5 people per business. And a lot of adjacent businesses (trade supplies, stone merchants etc).