skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While useful, this still uses a server to process tile requests. Why not https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles ?

For the record, I am currently using maptiler over at https://citybik.es to serve tiles, and I am evaluating moving to serving static pmtiles on range requests to cut the middle man
Thank you. I have a few minimal/ambient playlists that are great for concentration. I'll include one or two in the featured section!
I know. Read below.
I worked on this movie, I was at DNEG at the time. One of the standout things that I remember is that this particular simulation was toxic to the fileserver that it was being stored on.

From what I recall, I don't think that it was running on that many machines at once. Mainly because it required the high memory nodes that were expensive. I think it was only running on ~10 possibly 50 machines concurrently. But I could be wrong.

What it did have was at least one dedicated fileserver though. Each of the file servers at the time were some dual proc dell 1u thing with as much ram as you could stuff in them at the time (384 gigs I think). They were attached by SAS to a single 60 drive 4u raid array. (Dell PowerVault MD3460 or something along those lines. They are rebadged by Dell and were the first practical hotswap enclosure that took normal 3.5" SAS drives, that didn't cost the earth)

The array was formatted into 4 raid6 groups, and LVM'd together on the server. it was then shared out by NFS over bonded 10gig links.

Anyway. That simulation totally fucked the disks in the array. By the time it finished (I think it was a 2 week run time) it had eaten something like 14 hard drives. Every time a new disk was inserted, another would start to fail. It was so close to fucking up the whole time.

I had thought that the simulation was a plugin for houdini, or one of the other fluid simulation engines we had kicking around, rather than a custom 40k C++ program.
It is somewhat strange to me that trains aren't a solved problem by now. Cheap and fast public transport for people who cant drive seems like a very good thing to me, but trains are (in my experience) often overcrowded, expensive and sometimes late. I know overcrowding is a problem on Japanese trains as well but they seem to be largely solved there otherwise
> a 32,000-core render farm at about 20 core-hours per frame

~26 2/3 frames per minute, not bad
Coffee Fueled Revolutions–and Revolutionary Ideas
I heard from someone, somewhere, that coffee and free wifi may be the biggest economic value driver of all.
Exactly that, it's the No True Scotsman fallacy.
I still haven't tested the player on mobiles thoroughly. Do you at least see the oscilloscope running?
I use Deezer - thanks to it I discovered new music that I like.
With Spotify if you listened to one Beatles song you got only Beatles recommendations.
At least the app is stable and serves the basic purpose of playing music.
obviously, except that knowledge and verification are collective efforts and HN is full of technical history buffs who probably have files on cup sizes of queens and princesses, which is why I got so interested in these comment sections in the first place.

who says my sources have not been tempered with? other people are more qualified to check and some probably don't even have to.

i definitively could have done a first check, though, simply by asking claude to cite the sources.
I did not argue that it's a bad thing many apps can't be installed to an SD card, only that an SD slot isn't a sufficient mitigation for inadequate built-in storage because of it.

I'll make that argument now though. I don't want an operating system telling me I can't do things because it might not be a good idea. Show a warning when something might not go well, but my risk tolerance regarding instability and data loss are mine to decide, not Google's and not some app developer's.
Will check. Thanks for the heads up.
> GUI is not intrinsically any more resource-heavy than TUI

Okay well, maybe you should tell that to the GUI developers :P
I've emailed you, thanks!
I get it. I did my last project with a Web UI because that's the only reasonable cross-platform UI rendering engine I could find. And on Linux, a far superior choice to GTK, which doesn't seems credible because it requires a complete reimplementation of your UI code on every major release, and QT which is held hostage by commercial interests, and licensing terms that are inscrutable.

For a UI engine for native applications, it seems like a sensible strategy: use a layout language that developers are likely to already be familiar with.

Hopefully, in the longer term, there will also be a Blitz-TML library with higher-level UI components as well.

Good luck with this. It looks interesting.
We've definitely built Blitz for other to build on. Whether it's feasible to build an entire browser on top of it... maybe. But for the being we are focusing primarily on use cases that don't need everything a full browser engine provides and can restrict themselves to a subset:

- Application UIs

- High-fidelity markdown previewing

- Perhaps PDF rendering, etc.

- Embedding web content within a wider system in an integrated way.

Etc.

It would be very cool if someone wanted to add actual JS scripting and DOM APis on top though.
For Democracy and Community: A Social Media Declaration of Independence
Why I no longer crave a Tesla
> These little bits of jank are why consumers can recognize webview-wrapped apps vs. native apps.

That and, of course, the half-page box telling you how much better off you'd be if you were using the app.
I think Sciter is probably the better comparison:

https://sciter.com/

It is a ground-up implementation of HTML and CSS rendering. IIRC it used to have its own programming language but now uses JS.

I’ve long been interested in this kind of thing but haven’t actually played with Sciter in depth. Used to be that the licensing was a concern but looking at the site now it seems the terms have changed to be much more flexible.

(also worth pointing out that if you want a system webview without JS… just disable JS on a system webview)
He forgot to mention that you need to do a start up saying it is for non profit and change it later when you see that you might actually get money.
https://archive.ph/bZd81
I think most people are referring to the “Ultra-processed” category when they talk about processed foods in a health context.
Orac draughts,a strong 6502 checkers program in 3300 bytes
As an engineer, I don't understand why mathematicians keep saying that pi is irrational. pi=3, so its an integer.
Plus it helps that Fifth Element has that scene... where the General "would like to take a few pictures... for the archives"!
I guess perhaps such functionality will be more useful when the CSS support is more complete?
Can someone explain the mechanism how the foam can damage the building? I didn’t quite get it from the article.
Network Lab in Container
Awesome ~

It seems containerlab use https://github.com/vrnetlab/vrnetlab, which is also a network lab based upon container technology.

I am wondering the diff between containerlab and vrnetlab ~
Also the robots were cool.
> He is developing a drug to cure arthritis for everyone.

That's not it at all. Read the article.
Cheerio 1.0 Released, Batteries Included
Do you also prefer Windows because of Linus' attitude?
4 Year vs. 1 year RSU grants
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
thy micturations are to me,
as plurdled gabbleblotchits, in midsummer morning, on a lurgid bee…

No one wants to hear that in a competition.
Anyone who attempts to generate 3-dimensional renders by textual means is living in a state of sin(x).
I assume that it's due to the expanding nature of the foam -- they are afraid that the foam might continue to push against the roof timber and crack it I think
since 01981 i think

> The use of isometric graphics in video games began with Data East's DECO Cassette System arcade game Treasure Island,[6] released in Japan in September 1981,[7] but it was not released internationally until June 1982.[8] The first isometric game to be released internationally was Sega's Zaxxon, which was significantly more popular and influential;[9][10] it was released in Japan in December 1981[11] and internationally in April 1982.[8] Zaxxon is an isometric shooter where the player flies a space plane through scrolling levels. It is also one of the first video games to display shadows.[9]

(...)

> In 1983, isometric games were no longer exclusive to the arcade market and also entered home computers, with the release of Blue Max for the Atari 8-bit computers and Ant Attack for the ZX Spectrum. In Ant Attack, the player can move forward in any direction of the scrolling game, offering complete free movement rather than fixed to one axis as with Zaxxon.
The term implies the existence of a contract. By his own clear statements Dmitry did the firmware on his own as a volunteer because he liked the RP2350 and wanted to to contribute to the badge project.
I've also thought about creating a Codenames bot: what if we could use semantic similarity to batch words together? Surely, this can be done using a prebuilt embedding model and clustering!

After some failed experiments - it performed worse than I thought it will - I've googled the subject, and... it turns out there's a whole paper about ML and codenames :)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05885 (Playing Codenames with Language Graphs and Word Embeddings) - fun to read
Of course. Tesla benefited from the subsidies and now they don't want their competitors to benefit from them. It's the all-too-typical attitude of they got theirs, to hell with everybody else.
Spotify support forums (community) are a honeypot for complaints. Take a look at how long the 'top ideas' have been ignored to see for yourself.

Using the non-shuffling feature titled 'smart shuffle' is the most frustrated I have been using any software in my 30 years of life. If your connection speed is not on big US city level, accidentally toggling shuffle practically halts the application for minutes. Reference: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Mobile-Other-Sma...

For credibility: there are 142,664 scrobbles saved on my last fm since 2013. I use the service a lot and wish I did not have to resort to modding tools like Spicetify for basic feature toggles. Way to ruin a wonderful product. If there was a 'Spotify but only the music you choose', I'd switch in an instant.
From the article:

> Executive found that condensation could cause 25% of roof timber to decay within five years if spray foam is applied directly to roof tiles, or certain underlays. The general risks increase the further north the property is, because of colder climates.

Most houses in the UK will have a timber frame, condensation will cause the wood to rot.
Vrnetlab: Emulate networks using KVM and Docker (2019)
it only takes a dedicated minority to link positive behavior onto decentralized verified state machines...
Sounds like a case of real consequences for engineers working out well.
No it's about trapping moisture.

>A report published in March by the government’s Health and Safety Executive found that condensation could cause 25% of roof timber to decay within five years if spray foam is applied directly to roof tiles, or certain underlays. The general risks increase the further north the property is, because of colder climates.
I also really love mine. It has done what it has advertised extremely well, in my opinion. Makes driving chill. I have a '24 Ioniq with HDA2 and it's a night and day difference between Comma's implementation of HDA/LKAS and stock. If the stock version is like a 3/10, OpenPilot is like a 8 or 9/10. Stock HDA would just turn off randomly in the middle of turns. Its LKAS was very jerky which not only scares you, but scares other people on the road as well.
Some things you may want to consider when hosting map tiles in production:

- load balancing and caching. Some tiles are much more popular than others.

- how will you update the tiles (sync from OSM).

- if required, how will you manage customizations (and merges with OSM).
IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries ( Scandinavia, Britain, Germany, France and Australia). Around the turn of the 21st century, many of the most economically advanced nations began experiencing some kind of decline in IQ.

We can rule out some explanations:

- US only explanations don't work.

- Not genetics. It's not immigrants or low IQ people having more children. Norwegian studies show that children of high-IQ parents are also having lower IQ.Flynn effect and its reversal are both
environmentally caused https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/26/6674.full.pdf

So its environment somehow. Nutrition, exercise, education, activities, pollution, ...
Iirc using closed cell foam, or open cell badly installed, either will stop moisture getting out, causing damp amongst other issues.
Why does it feel like everyone has an autoimmune disease?
It’s basically the same thing as wrapping the wood into a plastic bag. When water condenses inside the plastic it has no way of escaping and starts to rot/mold the wood.

When using any type of insulation in places where temperatures can vary and humidity can get high you should always ensure the wooden parts have enough room to breathe (e.g. 10cm of empty space above them if the insulation is at the bottom).
No they specifically mentioned condensation and how it affects properties in colder climates more. I think they're afraid the improperly installed insulation will allow condensation to build up below the roof timber which will cause the timber to become wet and degrade.
As a customer of Kagi, it's better than the current Google but it's still not the Google of 2010. Google sponsoring irrelevant results is one thing, but the bigger issue remains: in 2024, creating a trove of worthless "articles" and optimizing the crap out of search result performance is a viable business model. Even if the SEO is done with mostly Google in mind, Kagi still picks up enough of this junk to be a nuisance. No doubt the same is true for all alternative search engines.
It traps moisture which leads to mold and for wood to rot. You nearly never want to install insulation without a vapor barrier. And especially not with spray foam. People do it because it’s cheap to do. You only have to punch a small hole in the wall and spray into it.

Also if you want insulate an old house consider you should install an HVAC system so that you are properly venting. Old houses self ventilate because they’re so loose compared to modern homes with tight envelopes.
Not long ago parent company made heavy references to the “her” movie, so who knows what is the long term strategy.
It's clickbait, but I'm amused since it implies the blackhole is the main star of the movie.
>But because surveyors are unable to inspect the roof timbers behind the layers, mortgage lenders tend to issue blanket refusals on properties where any foam is present.
That doesn't sound all that difference from pop science writing done without AI.
Happy 50th birthday to the UPC barcode
Yes, there is

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-The-moderately-realist...
https://www.astronomy.com/science/starlink-satellites-disrup...
Moisture management is the largest risk I know of with foam.
Of course ideally the wood holding up your house or roof never gets wet, but if it does it's not an existential threat, unless it stays wet. Foam doesn't allow the wood to dry, and that can cause rot. Rot, if it's enough members can cause structural problems.
The claim is the foam is trapping moisture between the wooden roof and the foam, leading to the wood rotting.
they don't kill people when they crash
X f/k/a Twitter hit with Austrian data use complaint over AI training
I've encountered this idea before from people with anti-woke tendencies; that they think woke people are holding them responsible for causing offense as though causing offense is the harm that the woke crowd believes needs to be stopped. Anyway, I just thought that view on things was funny. If anyone claiming to be woke does think this than they are more of a prude/puritanist/pedant than woke. I understand the thought that anti-woke people have but it's just a misunderstanding. The concern around hateful speech is around actual harm such as systematic ostracization of a group.
Reminds me of an recent instance where some friends wanted to buy a house, but it had solar panels. The solar panels couldn't be included in the mortgage and my friends couldn't afford to buy them outright along with the downpayment on the mortgage. The house still remains unsold.
PMTiles is great, but there's a risk hosting multi-gb files on metered hosting -- a client might not respect range requests and you open yourself up to a denial of wallet attack.

I can't really see doing it on S3, unless it's behind a lightweight tile server. I'd do it on hetzner or linode or one of the lower cost bandwidth providers.

(edit -- citybik.es is pretty cool, are you backing up to GBFS or a different set of data feeds? e.g. https://github.com/MobilityData/gbfs/blob/master/systems.csv is a list of ~ 800 gbfs feeds, some dockless, some docked I've done a bit of work in this space, feel free to ping me)
> Firefox users on Mac, PC, and iPad can now visit Apple Maps on the web, and the site works as intended.

No it doesn't.

https://beta.maps.apple.com/unsupported says:

> Your current browser isn't supported

(Firefox on Linux)

I guess this is because for people fully submerged in the Apple world 'PC' does not mean 'personal computer', but 'personal computer running Windows'.
https://archive.is/29kWp
Wandsworth council blames 'spreadsheet issue' for missing 6,558 votes
Fascinating. Can I have a response to that article that the article cannot be used to ironically counterpoint
Does this GPT 'verification' count, given that these are rather basic WWII stats?

1. Northern Front - Leningrad:

The German forces indeed reached the outskirts of Leningrad, which was under siege from September 1941 until January 1944. The distance from the pre-war border to Leningrad is approximately 900 km.

[1] Glantz, David M., and Jonathan M. House. The Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944: 900 Days of Terror. University Press of Kansas, 2001.

2. Central Front - Moscow:

German forces reached as close as the outskirts of Moscow during the Battle of Moscow in late 1941. The distance from the pre-war border to Moscow is roughly 1,000 km.

[2] Erickson, John. The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin’s War with Germany, Volume One. Yale University Press, 1975.

3. Southern Front - Stalingrad and the Caucasus:

The German advance in the south reached the Volga River at Stalingrad and penetrated into the Caucasus, with some forces reaching nearly 1,500 km into Soviet territory.

[3] Beevor, Antony. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943. Penguin Books, 1998.

4. Occupied Soviet Territory:

The figure of approximately 1.9 million square kilometers of Soviet territory occupied by German forces at their peak is often mentioned in historical analyses, though it can vary depending on the method of calculation.

[4] Roberts, Geoffrey. Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953. Yale University Press, 2006.
In this video, you may be shocked at the research that Dr. Knobbe shares regarding the actual cause of obesity, diabetes, and chronic diseases. In at least five countries, including the U.S., U.K., Australia, Israel, and Japan, as well as the entire world, Knobbe shows indisputable evidence that, while consumption of either sugars, carbohydrates, or total calories, or even all three, decline, that overweight, obesity, and diabetes all skyrocket. But what is always climbing? Vegetable oils.
The paper mentions that the accretion disc was rendered in Houdini.

It also mentions that ‘several hundred’ of their 1633 10-core, 156GB (weird number?) blade servers were used, but didn’t seem to go into details on data storage.

Is it possible you were working at the compositing phase, which would have been very heavy on random read and writes, resulting in more wear on the disks?
Captain Disillusion is a must-watch. Also his assistant Adam is quite a useful guy.
Spliit: Free and Open Source Alternative to Splitwise
Good question. I was thinking of eventually putting the whole archive in a decentralized system like IPFS, but I guess archive.org is also fine.

However I want to wait a bit before doing so, because some of the archive sources haven't responded to the permission request I sent. And I don't want people to download their collections in bulk if they wouldn't want to.
Only thing I could find very quickly was a GitHub analysis of license use:

https://github.blog/open-source/open-source-license-usage-on...

AGPL-licensed projects are almost non-existent compared to many others.
You're making a pretty bold assumption that the US will ratify this. The US does not make a habit of ratifying UN conventions.
There is also Hedgedoc, which seems to be another fork of the original hackmd (https://hedgedoc.org/history/)
It’s a shame there’s no open source equivalent to auto-dispatch code paths that Intel’s C++ Compiler has: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/dpcpp-cpp-compi...

At least, not that I’ve found - would be curious if anyone else has found a similar way?
When applying insulation from the inside, the walls and roof will be cool during the winter. If warm air (which can hold a lot of water) somehow leaks through the insulation, it will cool down. Cool air can hold a lot less water, so the water gets released into the structure. A wooden ceiling can rot away quite quickly if it is constantly moist.
Threat Actors Favor Rclone, WinSCP and Curl as Data Exfiltration Tools
Are Vegetable Oils the Primary Driver of Obesity, Diabetes and Chronic Disease? [video]
Dr. Chris Knobbe is a physician, researcher, ophthalmologist, public health advocate, and Associate Clinical Professor Emeritus, formerly of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He is known primarily for his research, publications, and presentations connecting Westernised diets and highly polyunsaturated vegetable oils to numerous chronic diseases, including coronary heart disease, hypertension, stroke, cancers, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity, Alzheimer’s disease, autoimmune diseases, and age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
How do you justify not mentioning that this is all AI generated?
Gaia spots possible moons around asteroids
LoFi Waymo Radio – Self Driving Taxi Depot Shenanigans to Relax/Study to [video]
If this is sin, give me chastity and continence, but not yet :)
Very curious where this is? Sounds ridiculous, what jurisdiction wouldn’t include them as part of the house? Utterly bizarre!

Also why couldn’t they afford them? Is this the US where the equivalent of a $5000 system elsewhere in the world seems to cost $25K to install for some reason? Even then, with depreciation as long as it’s a couple of years old surely the residual value isn’t that much…?
Testing the viability of using horse milk to make ice cream
I wonder how the price of solar panels work WRT mortgage: Is there any government- or bank-approved formula for how much solar panels on a house cost?

Otherwise why not sell them for $9.99 along with the house?
Yes, Sciter is definitely pretty close.

We think we can do better CSS support. Sciter has good CSS2 layout support, but only has it's own proprietary equivalent to Flexbox. Our CSS2 support is currently pretty patchy, but we have good Flexbox and CSS Grid support. We also have full support for things like media queries and css variables which I don't believe Sciter supports.

Regarding "just disable the JS":

You can, but then you won't have scripting support. Blitz still has scripting support without JS using https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus which is a react-like UI framework but in Rust.
Hold your horses now, you can absolutely do:

document.querySelectorAll('.element').forEach(i => {
yourFunction(i);
});

I've not used map a whole lot, but I'm positive that it would work as well.