skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think both would be an issue. Most of Europe is pretty far north with the equivalent latitudes in Canada not having much agriculture or people living there frankly. Edinburgh is just slightly south of Juneau so I think any growing season would end up being too short for most crops.
Translation: “There’s no competition. You sops can keep paying ridiculous amounts for our old tech, and we’ll just sit on this new one until it’s needed to compete.”
Since I paid for the car without borrowing money, there was no need to insure it for damage; I only carry liability insurance.

No "collision" (another car hits mine) or "comprehensive" (a coyote drops a safe on it) insurance.

I lose if my car gets damaged. But insurance premiums are negligible, a dollar per day.

For the other used EV I purchased, my wife asked me to get an auto loan. The car value is $18,000 and the lender requires a certain amount of insurance on the car. The insurance alone is more than $100/month.
Isnt social media wonderful!

A great reason to delete all social media

It started with a tweet. Someone shared the phrase “Ali Al-Shakati”, claiming that this was the name of the 17-year-old attacker who had, supposedly, arrived in the UK by boat and landed on an MI6 watchlist.

A fake news outlet with no contactable owners then turned this into an “article”. The article was reposted by well-known far-right figures with large audiences and the fake details were re-shared by both anonymous far-right accounts and far-right adjacent commentators including Laurence Fox and Andrew Tate.

There is currently no evidence that the alleged attacker was Muslim or attended the Mosque these men attacked, just as there is nothing to support the Ali Al-Shakati identity.

But this does not matter to those who share such misinformation. Whether their aim is to draw traffic to a website, get clicks on social media, promote a dangerous ideology or find an excuse to get bevvied and throw rocks at the police, misinformation is useful. It enables them to take the hate they already feel and pretend that they are protecting their wives, their children and their community.
This is 99% urban legend. You can just barely create it in a lab with just the right plant (with thick hydrophobic trichromes) under just the right light with no wind... but that's not what happens in nature.
How cool! I have over a decade of notes taken in xournal and other digital tablets and was considering taking a short sabbatical to type them all out. Might not need to after all! I will definitely try this.
Welcome to Hacker News, where studied types do their nitpicking.
We from the west in the history have tempted many time conquering Russia, all tentative fails. Sometimes some have get a bit of territory but not more than that: they have natural resources and space, they can travel using land as a diplomatic tool and a war tool.

There is ZERO chances for Ukraine, from the start, and that was NOT the target anyway. The war was not started by Russians to expand but by the USA to "Overextending and Unbalancing Russia" [1] given all other historical tentative have failed. The target was not Russia but Central Asia for spaces and natural resources, it's the target for all big powers, Russia, China, USA, UK, EU.

So far Russia has not overextended and it's pretty united, so also this strategy is a failure. Yes, so far they have no apparent alternatives to Putin, they are industrially weak, but they compensate since Putin could be potentially active for years to come and nuclear deterrence will help.

Meanwhile impoverished UK subjects are on the brink of a civil war, in USA the situation is much better since they have on their own space and natural resources, but the wealthiness gap is so big that they are an inch from a civil war [2], EU is impoverishing as well and citizens here so far are convinced by the fascist PR but that's will not last longer, so again a civil war is near, for UK it's a matter of months, for USA maybe some years and for the EU a little bit more, but not really much more. China have a looming demographic implosion so for them the disaster is just a bit more far then the EU. India, Indonesia, Iran etc are almost climatically doomed so they ruling class have essentially the same time of the UK ones.

The point is simple, the modern capitalism, witch is hybrid son of nazism and communism together it's FAILED, probably beyond repair. Traditional repair are wars but winnable ones, so far powers playing are so weak, fragile and military powerful that's no chance for no one to win a war, just some battles. Unfortunately we also miss a big slice of middle class, now impoverished, so we miss the fuel to build a new society out of the failed one. Germans future is the Ukrainian one, just few years in the future, Italy will follow thanks just to more individual wealth and more territory potential, France might stand a bit more since they are less dense so they can at least nourish their people longer and they still have a large slice of industrial productions, Spain might stand thanks to climate and renewables but climate change and their urbanocentrism will kill them soon. I can go on.

The sole theoretical chance, technically possible, but almost a social utopia, is unite the EU politically under France dome, since they are the sole global and nuclear power left, and unite EU and EAEU to access natural resources and spaces they have, offering in exchange industrial capacity they miss since the fall of the Soviet.

[1] https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html

[2] https://asiatimes.com/2024/07/one-inch-from-a-potential-civi...
Just make smaller chips with more VRAM.
Then consumer PCs could run local models much easier on top of their server GPU market.
This comment is appearing. However your submission is not visible to me, https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jimmy1337 appears to seem empty.
I don't mean to be so brutal about it, but these small social interactions were simply never valued that much by the majority and maybe even seen as a nuisance.
> This article reads like it was AI generated rambling.

Honestly, it didn't seem that bad to me. And it has one bad keyboarding typo "visual oerception," which is evidence to me against it being all AI generated.

> it randomly discusses athletes not getting enough food or air conditioning

I think that might just be bad writing, since that point doesn't seem random. Basically, the point seemed highlight alternate causes besides pool depth for swimmer under-performance in the 2024 Olympics.
Why didn't he do it when he was still a justice?
Why is capitalism failing us here? Why do we need to grow our own?
Show HN: Voltigo - job searcher / bulk job applications
Sometime we fail to do that too. Even legitimate apps have their quota of rejections (even for no good reason at all) before making it into the App Store. The review process is a dark and twisty place.
Introduction to Kubernetes (k8) – a quick lookback
Probably?

But spraying water on leaves is not only the way water naturally gets to plants, it's often the only practical way to water crops at scale. Center-pivot irrigation has dramatically increased the amount of and reliability of arable cropland, while being dramatically less sensitive to topography and preparation than flood irrigation.

The advice to "water the soil, not the leaves" is founded in manual watering regimes in very small-scale gardening, often with crops bred to optimize for unnaturally prolific growth at the cost of susceptibility to fungal diseases, but which are still immature, exposing the soil. Or with transplanted bushes and trees where you have full access to the entire mulch bed. And it's absolutely a superior method, in those instances... but it's not like it's a hard-and-fast rule.

We can extend the technique out to mid-size market gardens with modern drip-lines, at the cost of adding to the horrific amounts of plastic being constantly UV-weathered that we see in mid-size market gardens.
Not unavailable so much as unmaintained.

Various APIs still exist and are callable.
https://github.com/Growstuff/growstuff/blob/e8bc72dc900e2593...
Just today I had GPT4 implement a SwiftUI based UI for a prototype I’m working on. I was able to get it to work with minimal tweaks within 15 minutes even though I know next to nothing about SwiftUI (I’m mainly a systems person these days). I pay for this, and would, without hesitation, pay 10x for a larger model which does not require “minimal tweaks” for the bullshit tasks I have to do. Easily 80% of all programming consists of bullshit tasks that LLMs of 2024 are able to solve within seconds to minutes, whereas for me some of them would take half a day of RTFM. Worse, knowing that I’d have to RTFM I probably would avoid those tasks like the plague, limiting what can be accomplished. I’m also relieved somewhat that GPT4 cannot (yet?) help me with the non-bullshit parts of my work.
Oh man ... next up is growing your own pizza, fugget about it (>the supermarket)! Even with no sun!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41060621

>Why the Wisconsin pizza farm movement is an idea whose time has come

(UPDATE: sorry to the Croatians being overrun by tourists.. guys
.. Croatian food is so-so ;)

tomatoes, olive oil, cheese, it's nice to be reminded that Croatians (and their Yugoslav brothers, secretly,) gave the middle finger to Stalin et al

https://www.quora.com/Did-pizza-exist-in-the-Soviet-Union
The key here is to put the devs and users together.
I understand.

One thought occurs: I assume these are mask ROMs, and so likely unchanged from the AN/UGC-74 original. So, if someone somehow managed to get their hands on an AN/UGC-74, you'd feel less bad about engaging in this kind of "sacrificial" action, given it would lack the unique historical association with Space Shuttle.

Another thought: maybe there is some way to monitor the signals on the ROM pins non-destructively, by picking up the electromagnetic radiation? I'm guessing the answer is "no", at least not in practice.

P.S. You have a typo on the page, at one point you have "AN/UCG-74" instead of the correct "AN/UGC-74". The other three times you mention it, you have it written correctly.
I also have a hard time understanding why would people use https to clone a repo when ssh is there and so much more convenient…
All of those really reduce the risk. But I wouldn't trust them to be able to stop the CIA, KGB, or whatever the Chinese equivalent is.
Yes, I know. My point has that in mind.
A Beginner's Guide to Exploration
This is a really interesting point. I completely agree, but I cannot identify why.

If I spend a day reading a book, I feel as though I had a nice day reading.

If I binge watch a series I feel as though I wasted a day.

There must be some logical reason for this difference, even if both are “just entertainment”.
> Millions of US homes are underinsured because their premiums don’t reflect the risk of climate-fueled catastrophes.

Saved you a click
The whole thing was designed to be a money sink from day one, draining money away from research that might actually succeed.
Capitalism gives you perfectly uniform porno-tomatoes and watered ketchupy tomato sauce. No surprise, capitalism extract profits on all ends - production, storage, and distribution and it doesn't result with tasty aromatic tomatoes.
Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum Edition
That's the neat part, the powers that be have decided it's over because it's endemic and supposedly not as dangerous anymore (even though new cases of long covid are popping up, the silent long-term pandemic that nobody really wants to address even though there's millions of people affected by it.
I think I want to finally do this. I _can_ find excellent tomatoes around here (France), but they are 27 euro/kg, more than beef.
Dissecting Partial Pre Rendering
whoever comes up with the next trick could win big.
loading bar = answering questions

outlining = asking questions

i think the education system encourages the loading bar style. we are taught how to answer questions. i think AI will push education more towards the second type where the emphasis on asking questions.

like in a tech interview, instead of asking you some leetcode puzzle, i will ask you to ask me questions about the subject to demonstrate your knowledge. kind of socratic style.
Ownership | affordability are currently linked to a degree; I meet a lot of Australians in the 20 to 35 year range who want even a one or two bedroom apartment to base themselves about that's stable and reliable in the sense of a rent or a morgage payment that can be relied upon for a decade or more.

The big issues here are availability .. finding a place to rent or buy that's affordable can be a challenge, and dependability .. many rentals in recent years have been ripped out from under tennents and|or prices increased.
Ex-Sun guys started it actually. The SGI guys joined later.
TBH as I age and have eaten a fair share of pizza, I prefer no pizza than bad pizza.
That's probably Apple's Private Relay feature
Because it is capitalism. Really good tomatoes are at their best for a few days only which makes them hell to transport. That's why modern tomatoes are bred for color ans size, but inside they are actually green with very hard core and very little natural sugar.
I remember playing it, but I don’t remember the black lights - in my memory it was a daytime bombing run.

OTOH, I was certainly less than 10.
Reminder that it's still not quite known why the Soviet Union stopped the quite planned invasion of Yugoslavia.
The point of anarchists is that states are evil. If they want to do something about that, that means the state should be undermined to free it's subjects. That means attacking the state apparatus, which usually sees a very strong response from the security services.

In general one of the defining features of a state is a monopoly on legitimate violence. It stands to reason that challenging a state then involves violence, and sees violence used in retribution.
This is so damn cool. Thank you for building this.

I last did hands-on (professional) development back in the jquery era, but have amassed a certain degree of familiarity with modern frameworks by contracting / PM-ing various projects others chose to build with them.

To be honest, I'd no idea how far "vanilla" capabilities had progressed. My last couple of personal projects I built with jquery, because I still know it, a framework would be way overkill, and, you know, why the hell not? Your presentation has me excited to learn something new. Again, thanks.
The poll you link to says December 2023, like the article.
It sounds like you built it to indulge your OCD, not to fix it.
They use RAM capacity for segmentation.

A 48GB card costs more than 2 24GB card and an H100 costs as much as 30 2GB cards.

Meanwhile production costs are basically linear on top of the shared base.

So your comment really just says “drop your profit margin massively”.
Surely the answer is the level of emotional engagement you have? Eg dissatisfaction, excitement, engagement with authority, etc.
I don't think OPs points were on par with plato, and neither do you.

I think that form of communication is indicative of poor mental function and inability to communicate. The world would be better off if everyone simply refuses to engage with it and ridiculed it instead of validating it with engagement.

An anecdote is not an argument, and an imaginary one is even worse.
Slaughterhouse five
Are you thinking perhaps of a politician arguing for a policy change and bringing that about through party support, or a human rights lawyer bring a landmark case before a justice and then a Supreme Court?

As a general rule Supreme Court Justices only decide upon cases bought before them on the balance of the legal arguments made for or against them.
I feel like a link to a 'pitch' or description of the Rhombus language would've been more insightful for most of us. Even being familiar with Racket, I don't know what Rhombus is.
given that language timeseries itself turned out to store some form of intelligence, I wonder how much more of the human mind is trained on video-input/proprioception/action timeseries. i.e. make robots that make small decisions and actions, train on their experience, do more complicated actions, train on those experiences - there's your 10x, 100x, e^x training tokens, save the language for fine tuning. language as a specific task of a general, world-interacting robot.
It depends on how its used. For example, if you have to repeat your performance in a live interview, you'll struggle to do so. Similarly, if the employer uses a confirmatory set which the LLMs get wrong (e.g. adventofcode does that), you will struggle.

The point of leetcode et al is to measure how able you are to solve problems which you have not seen before. It is not a comprehensive evaluation but a useful part of one.
Open Access – The Plan S Principles
This could even happen is SW with separate drives.
Small cameras moving on top of a (wall sized) miniature city (or lunar surface). Definitely fun to watch.
> How does the compiler know where the sensitive code starts and ends?

Put an attribute on the function. In C23, something like `[[no_data_dependent_timing]]` (or `__attribute__((no_data_dependent_timing))` using pre-C23 GNU extension)

> And making this OS dependent means that compilers need to be more OS dependent for a feature that’s part of the ISA, not the OS. Ick.

There are lots of unused bits in RFLAGS, I don't know why Intel didn't use one of those, instead of an MSR. (The whole upper 32 bits of RFLAGS is unused – if Intel and AMD split it evenly between them, that would be 16 bits each.) Assuming the OS saves/restores the whole of RFLAGS on context switch, it wouldn't even need any change to the OS. CPUID could tell you whether this additional RFLAGS bit was supported or not. Maybe have an MSR which controls whether the feature is enabled or not, so the OS can turn it off if necessary. Maybe even default to having it off, so it isn't visible in CPUID until it is enabled by the OS via MSR – to cover the risk that maybe the OS context switching code can't handle a previously undefined bit in RFLAGS being non-zero.
the argument for quantum consciousness is quite interesting:
1. consciousness is really weird.

2. quantum is really weird.

3. what if the two were really connected?

edit: oh god, I just had a horrible thought: the universe is a simulation, and the reason consciousness requires "quantum" spookiness is because it's running on a different computer and plugged in as an adhoc skill.
Are you one? In your experience, is it true that the temperature has increased by 50F?

I'm being facetious... But do you see my point?
Housing is not a human right. The good news is the problem in most cases is government zoning and permitting policies that drastically restrict supply and there are lots of logical arguments for requiring the government to gtfo of our way in this case being close to a human right
Not always. At least for RISC-V there is the Zkt extension which guarantees data independent execution time for some instructions. I assume there's something similar for ARM and x86.

It does pretty much require you to write assembly though. I think it would definitely make sense to have some kind of `[constant_time]` attribute for C++ that instructed the compiler to ensure the code is constant time.
Well, their leetcode rating says something about their ability to solve novel abstract problems using computer science tooling. All other things being equal, the candidate better at that is the better candidate.

Meanwhile, it is not a complete assessment. You can do all the other things you've stated and leetcode will still add value.
Drip irrigation is kind of a thing out here in the desert...
So you can easily tell, just by looking to the C source code, if plain Assembly instructions are being used from four books of ISA manual, if the compiler is able to automatically vectorize a code region including which flavour of vector instructions, or completely replace specific math code patterns for a single opcode.
> What do you do when an idea changes and now there are dozens of nested entries that need to be changed to match?

I use this tool: https://github.com/lelanthran/frame/blob/master/docs/FrameIn...

It allows me to drop a node in the tree, dropping all children along with it. Or rename arbitrary nodes in the tree, or move them around.
sing that to the rhythm and beat to Tough Shit Wilson and it sounds quite good:

Tough Shit Wilson by Splodgenessabounds

Tough shit was born in Tennessee,
He was deaf and dumb, measured 4 foot 3
He had one arm, one leg, no teeth and one plum.
He married a girl in 62 she was a 60 year old leper called Mary Lou,
But she died of cancer on her anni ver sary.

[Chorus:]
They call him toughshit, toughshit Wilson
Toughshit, thoughshit was his name

Toughshit was left with a baby son who died on leukemia at the age of one,
And toughshit was left with his guide doggy called roach.
Till one day crossing with his dog on a wee doach,
But roach didn't see the coach approach
And the wheels rolled gently over toughshits head.

[Chorus:]
They call him toughshit, toughshit Wilson
And toughshit was his name
They call him toughshit
And toughshit was his claim to fame

At tough shits funeral, no one came
The vicar was late and it poured with rain,
They dropped the coffin down a flight of stairs,
But let us not forget toughshits pain
And perhaps he never died in vain but when it comes to that
Who fucking cares, not me I don't

[Chorus:]
Toughshit, toughshit Wilson
Toughshit was his name
They call him toughshit, toughshit Wilson
And toughshit was his claim to fame
Not a question of advantages, a question of tolerances. At the track size used now, thermal expansion and process tolerances are enough that even with a position specified to the micron from the center, you'll have different track numbers between platters solely by variance. This is why every track has MANY markers on it identifying its track number, and their values are used as feedback for the servo mechanism that moves the head. When seeking to track X, it will pick up markers while it moves and after it stops moving, use them as feedback, and continue to move in the proper direction. Nobody knows how many microns from center track 1234567 is, nor cares. It is more or less a PID controller, with desired value being desired track and current value being current track seen under the read head.
You say this, and yet every single major project written in C has undefined behavior issues. The Linux kernel even demanded and uses a special flag in GCC to define some of this UB (especially the most brain dead one, signed integer overflow).
Pervasive loneliness is unhealthy, though. And I fully agree the article is doing same disservice to it as "just stop eating" obesity advice.
For people, like me, who don't know Rhombus: https://docs.racket-lang.org/rhombus/index.html

Cannot see if/how this would win souls over Lisp-y syntax, but I'm a fan of the latter over most, so I'm probably very wrong.
Kubo Self-Balancing Cargo Scooter
We do. We just wish undefined was defined to be a bit less undefined, and are willing to sacrifice a bit of performance for higher debuggability an. ability to reason.
> It accepts a very high number of migrants each year, compared to its population

Looked this up - Covid aside, Australia has taken in 250k people net every year for the last ten years, except for the most recent couple of years, where it's gone up to 400k-500k[0]. That requires the equivalent of a new Canberra[1] every year.

Current population: 27m people[2]. I'm not sure what that rate per population is compared to most countries, but it's much higher than the UK's. In 2023 the UK took in 685,000 people[3], but on a base of 67.5m in 2022[4].

[0] https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/overseas...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_cities_in...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_A...

[3] https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/lo...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_t...