skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It helps if you think of liquid-fueled rockets relying on cryogenics as something entirely different than those using hypergolics. Cryogenics can't sit there for a long time but hypergolics can.
Breaking Instruction Hierarchy in OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini
Something is worth what people are willing to pay for it. If it hasn't been sold for 8 figures, and the owner is willing to sell, then it's not worth 8 figures.
Wiz Rejects Alphabet's $23B Offer, Seeks IPO
A NES SoC would fit easily within the area of a microSD card containing all ROMs ever published for it, and the embedded controller in the latter would still have a few orders of magnitude more transistors and be faster than it.
Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?
The gap between FAANG and non-FAANG salaries is quite substantial. For example, a Staff Engineer at an avg startup might get $250k base salary, in a HCOL area and maybe a 10-20% bonus.

But a FAANG Staff Engineer will get a similar base, and then $1mil in stock for 4 years.

-- Are there people outside of FAANG and Big Banks / HFT firms making those kinds of monies?

-- if So who are they? and what do they do?
Most of the stockpile remains or grows solely due to senators from colorado, Wyoming and montana who host the ground based strategic nuclear arsenal. Force reduction would mean lost jobs and revenue.

At least the transparency can start a discussion hopefully.
I'd bet, plenty of startups would love to have that domain. Biomilq, Remilk, Zero Cow Factory, Real Deal Milk.

Problem is, startups rarely have $10M to spend on a domain name. Give it a decade, one of them will probably bite.
Plenty of different groups and one of them are developers burned out after a startup job.
To shorten this for you with my own (identical) understanding: "entropy is just the name for the bits you don't have".

Entropy + Information = Total bits in a complete description.
The plot of Total Recall.
Even many personal blogs these days are suspect, they’re building a brand.

I like this guy is doing his own thing.
IDK, if it was milk.io, milk.ai, maybe milk.xyz, then maybe we'd be talking, but milk.com? It's so … pedestrian.

/s … I hope.
I'm slightly cautious about that contribution. The author describes the focus of her work as being that of 'changing society', albeit largely on encouraging breastfeeding. If someone is a campaigner rather than a disinterested researcher then their words should be treated as such, especially outside of formal research pieces.
It is the exact same situation with beer.com

Their presentation is a little better though.
Perhaps, but online seems to be a race to the bottom.

The list of age-friendly industries others are posting are difficult remote - insurance, banking, defense, education - all usually need to be in-person due to security/data concerns.
> If you don't have any concerns, if it's not an issue, why bring it up in the first place?

I don't have any concerns with being a DEI hire alone, it really doesn't say anything about the candidate. In the context of a person I already view to be a bad fit for the role, the fact that the person is in the role partly due to the DEI model of selecting candidates is important in my opinion. Its important not because she was a DEI hire, its important because a DEI approach out her in a role she isn't fit for and she's now potentially being offered a promotion.

> Do you really think trump and the republicans are ever going to care about people refusing to vote?

I don't have any expectation of either party actually caring how I vote. I'm just one voter living in a non-swing state. I have effectively no say what happens at the federal level, and my whole point at the beginning is this comment chain was simply that I won't be voting for President if the choices were Trump/Biden or Trump/Harris. I don't expect that to have any meaningful impact unless I'm part of a much larger group of voters who feel their best choice is to opt out.
Adding ARM Scalable Vector Extensions (SVE) Support to MinIO
What you're saying is absurd. Millions of women manage to take on an active dating and relationship life, without rejecting their children or piling unreasonable obligations onto their partner. Yet somehow you seem to imply that men are at fault if they don't rapidly open their arms to responsibilities that they never created.

It's called being and adult and regardless of sex/gender it means taking ownership of what's your responsibility. Yes, there is a point at which, in this case, a man will take on certain financial and care responsibilities over children that aren't his if he's with a woman who has them but the "when" of that is a subjective line that comes from mutual agreement, not some automatic social debt.
Why am I being voted down for pointing out, validly, that many people disagree? Why the rush to censor?
Per Henry George we should tax this kind of speculation and rent seeking, by taxing things like land and internet domains.

We could use the money to reduce our national debt, or pay for things like healthcare and education.
As far as possible. Git's line-based diffing is ridiculously primitive and gets in the way of software development. I wonder how many bugs are introduced because of Git's diffing system.
I'd like to know why Metabase wasn't fitting your use case if you don't mind.
It's clickbait in what I believe is the original sense -- the title could easily state what specific thing it is talking about (sulfur), but instead it uses a vaguer term ("a surprise") so that you have to click on it to learn what the story is.

Calling it "clickbait" here doesn't mean it's a worthless article. It just means that the title is vague in an obviously needless way.
I'd say it was a dick measuring contest against the USSR:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_and_USSR_nuclear_sto...
airflow is notoriously hard to operate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31482217
You call it a myth and then describe the very real disincentive to work, in detail.
It does, but there is a crucial difference between poker and most of those other forms of gambling, in that it's possible to be a long term winner at poker, as opposed to games that structurally favor the house. So, you have to be dumb to think you can beat slots long term; you merely have to be delusional to think you can beat poker long term.
Which they are by default.
So you did! Sorry, hadn't read the post beforehand. Oh, and I too mourned the loss of CrashPlan. Being in Canada, I didn't have the option offered to have a restore drive sent if needed, but thought it was a brilliant idea. On the other hand, I think Backblaze might!
The connection between UBI and Silicon Valley elite (specifically the VC class and, lately, AI people) should give everyone pause.

Why does this group of people that are not historically known for their generosity or their sympathy for the unworking poor suddenly want to give everyone a little bit of money for nothing?

In my mind, it is to create a permanent underclass. A group of people with just enough money to survive but not enough to participate in the world of the elites (or even the middle class). This underclass will represent a massive user base for the products and services that the VC class wants to sell. And they’ll be stuck there, and easier to target than ever.
I originally heard about this many years ago at an informal talk, but I was able to find this paper that sounds like the same problem and should have pretty good references https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00981...
The owner is dreaming if they think that domain is worth $10 million. But that's fine, because they like the name, and there's no reason to sell it for a number they're not happy for.

Personally, I wish we had more TLDs. Many of the most useful ones are expensive because of rent seeking companies that became the main registrar for them.
The challenge with visual programming from my perspective is how to get the abstraction level just right. It's like Terraform/HCL modules: too granular, you wind up passing in a billion parameters, and the module adds little value. Too high-level, too many assumptions, also adds little value.

I have an idea that I think would be suitable for visual programming. Every time I think about it, I come to the conclusion that first you need a DSL, or at least a JSON Schema or something.

If you have a DSL/schema, then you also have a way to diff.

Then, you implement your visual programming environment, and visual diffs turn into effectively communicating those differences visually. Faded color to indicate a deleted node and connector, bold parameter and value to indicate a change, etc.
How would you write treaties governing the number of weapons of various types each side deploys and where they deploy them, if you kept this information secret?
Let's talk about just how destructive nukes are, because I think most people grossly underestimate this. One bomb in Hiroshima killed hundreds of thousands. And that was a tiny little bomb relative to modern standards - 16kt of yield in a mid-sized city of ~350k people. Modern tactical weapons (weapons intended for battlefield use) can have yields exceeding 100kt. Strategic weapons (weapons intended to end other civilizations) go into the thousands of kt. The strongest weapon ever tested being "Tsar Bomba" which had a yield of 55,000kt, so a few thousand times greater yield than the Hiroshima nuke - which was by itself enough to instantly destroy a mid-sized city and kill more than 40% of its population.

I think it's easy to lose scale/context when looking at things like nuclear test footage, so let's go the other direction. This [1] is the "Mother of All Bombs / MOAB / GBU-43" that was detonated in Afghanistan. It's the second largest conventional weapon ever fielded, weighing more than 20,000lbs and and 30+ft long (so that little blip on the screen is 30 ft for scale). It had a yield of 0.01kt. So now imagine something with literally hundreds of thousands of times greater yield - that's a modern nuke. Or, if it helps for visualization purposes, imagine hundreds of thousands of those raining down - same net effect.

So if nuclear war ever breaks out it's not going to be countries using their nukes to target isolated (and nuclear fortified) launch silos and bunkers in the middle of nowhere - they're going to try to destroy the other country (targeting things like population, economic, health, agriculture), so that they can completely eliminate the threat. And suffice to say - it won't take many nukes. The only reason you'd have thousands is to overwhelm any sort of future-tech missile defense systems as well as to eliminate any possibility for an effective first strike attack attack against you. Although even the nukes themselves are also designed to deal with missile defenses, with one missile often breaking up into multiple independent warheads on approach. This also maximizes the damage for reasons outside the scope of the post.

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So the point of this is that thousands of nukes is already enough to basically destroy every single major city in the world and thus destroy basically every single country in the world. There's no scenario where suddenly you need to scale up to tens of thousands of nukes or whatever. In fact nations like North Korea already clearly have an effective deterrent with a stockpile that's in the tens of missiles.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6rSxJnpGNg
> You would think the internet would especially be able to split ...

If it isn't obvious yet, the enormous reach and scale of the internet does the exact opposite, it basically guarantees consolidation. Booking and Expedia each used to be 4 or 5 independent companies. The booking engines wield power by de-listing any operators who offer lower prices anywhere else, and none of the hotel chains can risk not appearing on the sites, even more so when there are only two.
This isn't at all the same—this is just one guy who registered a domain forever ago and actually uses it for a bunch of random things [0] and doesn't really want to sell it but would if he got a good enough offer.

Beer.com is literally just a contact form advertising a whole bunch of squatted domains which all just redirect to that contact form and are all owned by an investment firm called afterTHOUGHT, Inc. There's no early internet charm, just pure capitalism waiting for a buyer.

[0] https://milk.com/
Without evidence, that comment is an opinion piece. Hopefully we never have to find out.
In the GFC the government literally created the Troubled _Asset_ Relief Program. Those MBSs were assets and didn't magically become liabilities.

The problem was the market value of those assets plummeted because no one expected them to generate the agreed upon cash flows because the underlying loans were going into correlated defaults. Despite all this the only party that saw the mortgage as a liability is the individual who's responsibility it was to make a monthly payment on said mortgage.

Outside of swaps and other derivatives financial instruments and other properties don't magically switch from being an asset to being a liability based on random external factors.

This conversation is like accountants talking about processes, threads, fibers and context switching... very imprecisely.
The lighting protocol works on top of Bitcoin to be able to support orders of magnitude more transactions off chain with final settlement performed by Bitcoin. Using off chain layers like this avoids needing to solve an unsolveable trilemma. Certainly though bitcoin should be improved to allow a few more transactions per second :)
Yeah but distributions are just the accounting tools to keep track of your entropy. If you are missing one bit of information about a system, your understanding of the system is some distribution with one bit of entropy. Like the original comment said, the entropy is the number of bits needed to fill in the unknowns and bring the uncertainty down to zero. Your coin flips may be unknown in advance to you, and thus you model it as a 50/50 distribution, but in a deterministic universe the bits were present all along.
Based on the squatters having thousands of domains, so it's not worth their time to negotiate with small fry, they focus squarely on the big fish.

See also, the VC investment model that relies on the 1% breakout success covering losses on the remaining 99%.
Do you know any resource on us state sales tax ? From software development pov. From invoicing rules to tax collection, reporting and allied stuff.

Or for that matter, sales tax/ vat of countries ? I suppose there should be
You haven't met enough deadbeats in your life. Trust me, there's a virtually limitless number of them, and they very much do not want to work.
If I didn’t just recently invest in 128gb of DDR4 I’d jump ship to AMD/AM5. My 13900k has been (knock on wood) solid though - with 24/7 uptime since July 2023.
Sports and Exercises that require 'form' keeps you alert.

On the flip side, try reading books.

Moreover, summarize each chapter in your own words to truly "lock in".
I disagree with POTUS term limits. If the citizenry want someone to stay in office, like we did for FDR, we shouldn't be forced to pick someone else.

Furthermore, having term limits on just one branch of government decreases the power of that branch without decreasing the power of the other branches creating a new balance of power (or imbalance).

Imagine having to vote for someone other than FDR in the 1940 election. Germany had swallowed most of Europe that year. I couldn't imagine being forced to vote for President Wendell Willkie or James Farley to lead us into war because the guy I want can't serve due to term limits.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-inv...

He won that election by a landslide.

Roosevelt won the 1940 election with 55% of the popular vote, 38 of the 48 states, and almost 85% of the electoral vote.
Ah, Lars-Christian! No one wants to talk to you in real life about your blog because you're in Norway. If you lived here in the United States, you'd have a perpetual string of very interesting conversations about your personal website because Americans are all about technology and hearing how any of us peons are fighting the power, man.

At least, I think that's what my wife's reaction is before she leaves the room to find a book to read. And my friends who think a blog is just part of my weird, personal brand, like using a phone with a keyboard.
Battery electrolysis of h2O into o2 and h2 that these engage in need a consistent power source. Either the power source is the core of the earth spinning, or there is some electrical something making these nodules consistently split.

I'll be curious about it, but I think that climate change may slow more from lower cost land surface batteries than these electrolysis water splitting batteries and associated ecosystems. Aka I won't hold my breath... ba dum tsss
You're right - at least partly. If the issue is that Intel was too aggressive with voltages, they can use microcode updates as 1) an excuse to rejigger the power levels and voltages the BIOS uses as part of the update, and 2) they can have the processor itself be more conservative with the voltages and clocking it calculates itself.

Anything Intel announces, in my experience, is half true, so I'm interested to see what's actually true and what Intel will just forget to mention or will outright hide.
> If you have a program that can use more than 8 cores, then that 8P+12E CPU should approach a 14P CPU in speed

Only if you use work stealing queues or (this is ridiculously unlikely) run multithreaded algorithms that are aware of the different performance and split the work unevenly to compensate.
There are a limited set of scenarios where a major nuclear state might use a tactical weapon against a lower-tier state. For example, if the USA got into a conflict with Iran and we had actionable intelligence that they were assembling a nuclear weapon in an underground bunker then we might take it out with a small number of tactical nuclear ground strikes. I'm not recommending this but you can game out scenarios where this seems like the least bad course of action.

B-2 bomber crews regularly train for this exact mission.
Don't miss his responses to random misguided people:

https://milk.com/experiments/
>The owner is dreaming if they think that domain is worth $10 million.

I think you're taking that a weeeeee bit too seriously. One gets the sense that they just like having the domain and don't really care about the offers. Maybe he would if it's "high enough", sure, but much of this reads tongue-in-cheek.
list of unpatched Windows 7 vulnerabilities - https://www.askwoody.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/This-is-...
The simple version: Among 6 people, to avoid a trio of friends, no sub-group can be 3 or more. Maximize the size of the sub-groups to minimize the number of non-friends: 2 + 2 + 2. One from each sub-group is a trio of non friends.

So either you have enough sub-groups to create a trio of non-friends, or there's a sub-group large enough to create a trio of friends.
I've searched off and on for a great stylistic representation of the ASCII table, id love a poster to hang on my wall, or possibly even something I could get as a tattoo.
I notice he mentions the -revenues- of the milk boards as justification for his price.

But revenues are not the same as "discretional income". I'm guessing most of their costs are fixed. And I'm guessing their variable-cost departments would be less keen on sacrificing 10 mil on a "vanity domain".
AI/ML unicorns.
I don’t think Georgism applies very cleanly to the DNS. It works well for land because a Georgist tax is essentially an incentive to improve the land or sell it to someone who will; it’s unclear that a tax on milk.com will improve milk.com.
I was just replying to the comment above that amazon somehow rolls their own stuff and gives back to the community by open sourcing their systems.

Amazon’s approach is the opposite: steal open source repo and make $$$ off of open source contributors’ labor
For many it was supplanted social media. IG, TG, even TikTok (shudder) channels. It monetizes the same motivation
> Personally I would rather take the luck out of it and attempt to normalize (perhaps by playing duplicate hands)

There's something called "match poker" which does exactly that.
In Italy the bidet is not used like in Japan, it's essentially like a hand sink, but for your butt.

Wipe once with toilet paper (while on the toilet), then proceed to sit on the bidet.
The water is not meant to flow on your butt, it's for your hands. Put soap on your hand (only one is needed), grab some water while sitting on the bidet, wash your butt as you would wash your hands, rinse with the running water, dry your butt with a towel, wash the bidet if necessary, go to the sink and wash your hands.

No poop in the air, no aiming challenge. It takes a bit of getting used to clean your butt without watching it.
If anyone actually needs the extra performance from avoiding streaming over the Postgres protocol, this could have been done with some dignity using pipes and splice or using SCM_RIGHTS. The latter technology has been around for a long time.
The domain is worthless, unless you manage to transform it into a successful business. No one is direct navigating to milk.com.
1. Business gets a sale they might not have received otherwise.

2. Business receives funds in their preferred currency.

3. Customer gets what they want.

Not much different than me going to Vietnam with USD and then trying to buy a Nước mía (sugar cane juice) from a local vendor that can't legally accept USD.

My only alternative is to rely on a third party to convert my USD to VND. Which begs the question, why isn't this digital and why do we need the middlemen taking their cut of the transaction? Expand that out into larger purchases, which then imply you're a criminal unless you provide full KYC.
I am still waiting for .Web, and it doesn't look like it will come soon.
I can't find a single line in the Apache software license that would indicate that Amazon is breaking any agreements set forth for Airflow.
Sadly, I don't know anyone selling pre-assembled ones.
Can someone recommend a solution that works well with immutable distros such as Project Bluefin or Fedora Kinoite/Silverblue? We just need to backup maybe the etc and dotfiles. Also great if it can backup NixOS too.
Ordering from Amazon.com (1996)
I guess you’re lucky. I own 2 machines for small scale CNN training, one 13900k and one 14900k. I have to throttle the CPU performances to 90% for stable running. This cost me about 1 hour / 100 hours of training.
That's what I was thinking. I've never really thought 'hey I like milk, I should check out the website', and I'd be surprised if anybody does.

A boutique brand probably wants their name everywhere, including the domain. So that just leaves the milk industry at whole, which I imagine doesn't care that much, either.

At least with the vidalia onion guy, he was able to do something with it. Milk is super perishable, hard to transport, and typically pretty regional, so that's probably out too.

I have a feeling this guy will end up dying owning a domain he made -$800 or so dollars on, and the registrar will auction it off for a fraction of his perceived value.
Or if you use a single queue... which I would expect to be the default.

Blindly dividing work units across cores sounds like a terrible strategy for a general program that's sharing those cores with who-knows-what.
The question is how much do they give back to the open source community, after making boatloads of $$$ off of opensource contributions and whether their model is sustainable and healthy for the FOSS movement