skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of a plant sure. How big is the mirror? The size of a solar farm? I would doubt it. The light will be either too diffuse or too small to be of any value on the scale of a solar farm.

Someone in a different post says the illuminated patch will be 4km across and if the mirror is somehow the size of a football field that will result in 0.03% of intensity of daylight. So about 10x brighter than the moon.

So we are potentially in the ballpark of a year of nightly reflected light to get a single days worth of sun for a 4km wide solar farm.

Assuming the mirrors are actually the size of football fields.

For context that would make the mirrors 38x the size of the solar arrays that power the space station.
> So someone who has lost the use of their voice and uses a text to voice program is disgusting and has no human spirit?

You are twisting my argument. I never said a PERSON using AI doesn't have human spirit. Rather, that in GENERAL, the content generated by AI does not have the subtelty of human expression compared to the human-made stuff. Of course, the person that lost their voice naturally loses some expression by using an artificially-generated one.

That doesn't mean that they can't express themselves in other ways.

Come on, these counterarguments are too easy to refute...
you are awesome
I never said that THIS tool would replace artistic expression. But the spirit of it and all of its implications will very likely result in tools that will replace it. One cannot pick and choose when it comes to technology -- the prisoner's dilemma will result in a net loss of human expression.
The utf-8 tricks make me very nervous since I have seen too many attacks with parser confusion. I for with serde for correctness not speed. I hope this was fuzzed all the way with a bunch of invalid utf-8 strings.
I think I know how to message this one. "You fuckers, here you go, now leave me alone".
As a certain kind of user, you probably do think that. But I also think I should be able to have a root level admin account without MFA. The consensus is that no, that should not be up to the customer.

It's different here, sure, but the providers optimize for not letting customers shoot themselves in the foot, and remediation via bill forgiveness is a fine solution -- from the provider POV.
Sometimes submissions that don't get traction originally get merged into a more recent one that becomes popular.

Though... `past` link doesn't show anything else, but that might be because it was merged?
I doubt it. The owners were named in a lawsuit, so the % is irrelevant as far as the suit is concerned.
A Compendium of Access Control on Unix-Like OSes (2023)
This is a problem with Military Sealift Command, which operates these vessels with civilian mariners (CIVMAR). MSC has had recruitment and retainment problems for a long time. These problems compound because, for instance, mariners are denied leave due to staffing shortages, causing more mariners to leave the service entirely.

CIVMARs were treated really badly during COVID which ended up creating a slow-moving problem that is now coming to a head with a collapse of the service.
Also: the same company that got flagged by Chase had an account with Bank of America open at the same time and later opened accounts with a couple of other banks. No KYC issues with any of them despite exactly the same set of facts. And again, we did nothing even remotely shady or suspicious.
Was it a way to save on postage stamps or something?
> When could an app NOT be agnostic to this

When the app has a custom memory allocator, the allocator might have hardcoded the page size for performance. Otherwise you have to load a static variable (knocks out a cache line you could've used for something else) and then do a multiplication (or bit shift, if you assume power of 2) by a runtime value instead of a shift by a constant, which can be slower.

No idea if Android apps are ever this performance sensitive, though.
Originally from Rice University in 1924: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_test
I like the fact that Bluesky is topic-agnostic, unlike a lot of the Mastodon instances which are organized by community (except some large ones such as mastodon.social). I always felt awkward of having to commit to a specific community upfront when signing up.

Some might argue that Mastodon lets you follow users on other instances, but my experience is that the federation depends on agreement between the instance operators, and it didn't work for the two instances I was using (mastodon.social and doll.social). It's also unclear if posting things that are off-topic to a particular instance is good etiquette.
yeah, this.

I'm still convinced that Elon took a deal to deliberately burn twitter to the ground. I'm unsure how we'd prove it but his behaviour makes little sense otherwise.
When I was 15 years old, I was walking the mean streets of Chicago after attending an opera with my parents when a billing cap leapt from the alley and snatched my mom's purse. My dad fought it valiantly, but it prevailed, killing both my parents in the process. From that day forward...
We can’t even get people to routinely turn a webcam on at most companies existing meetings. Even internally at Meta and Apple, staff aren’t exactly falling over themselves to take meetings in headsets right now.

The idea people will be strapping computers to their faces for meetings will “take off in a huge way” any time soon is extremely far fetched for me.
What exactly would you test here?
Is it any less of a "blue chip" stock than other holdings in that fund, which include securities like like Skyryse, Inc. Series B, MOD Super Fast Pizza Holdings LLC Series 3, and Alif Semiconductor Series C?
They had this structure before Steam
High res pixel shift isn't terribly useful for MOST types of photography. And the R5 II is meant to be an action camera with a stacked sensor, so the MAJORITY of its users probably won't find much use for pixel shift. It's useful for still life and art reproduction.
I found some AirPods on a remote trail awhile back, case and all. Batteries were completely dead. Once charged they paired to my iphone with no indication of a previous owner, besides the device name of John’s AirPods or whatever.

I tried briefly (not as hard as the author) to figure out who they belonged to but had no luck.

I called Apple support and gave the serial number, but they told me there wasn’t anything they could do if the owner did not mark them as lost via the Bluetooth settings page. Even though at that point Apple presumably had all the information necessary to contact the original owner…

So I cleaned the AirPods and have been using them since. Is there any way for me to find the owner if I have no info about the owners area code like the author did?
It may not be a flex, but having an electric car is still a statement (less than it used to be, but still) that you're a high tech, forward thinking, environmentally conscious person. The problem is that now it's also a statement that you're a Trump supporter.
This is not why we don't have caps. Maybe it's why AWS doesn't. This simply isn't how we make our money. Our top line is dominated by companies growing businesses with us. Getting a hobbyist to cough up an extra $100 doesn't move a single dial for us.
Biggest problem for MSC is leave. You are supposed to be hitched to a ship for, say, 6 months. But then they can't find your relief, so you have to stay. You can imagine someone who was supposed to be onboard for 6 months being forced to stay for 9 or 12 months, when they finally do get off they say "never again."
All of Stephen Chow's movies.
jeez I cant imagine I'd be reading anything on cancer once i started treatement... that would cause me to second guess everything.

good luck to you fellow hacker.
Speaking of AirPods, do people have bad experience with their quality? I have an AirPods Pro 1st Gen for about 3 years and the noise cancellation function has degraded to the point of unusable. The Apple store technician said the audio hardware has failed diagnostic and it couldn't be repaired. For a $250 equipment failed after 3 years of moderate usage is pretty disappointing.
> This means that practically only the untranslated bits of the address can be used by the set selection portion of the cache lookup

It's true that this makes things difficult, but Arm have been shipping D caches with way size > page size for decades. The problem you get is that virtual synonyms of the same physical cache block can become incoherent with one another. You solve this by extending your coherence protocol to cover the potential synonyms of each index in the set (so for example with 16 kB/way and 4 kB pages, there are four potential indices for each physical cache block, and you need to maintain their coherence). It has some cost and the cost scales with the ratio of way size : page size, so it's still desirable to stay under the limit, e.g. by just increasing the number of cache ways.
We already have decentralized social media. Make your own website with an RSS feed. It will be yours forever. You can post whatever you want. It is decentralized in that it can be shared anywhere else but you own the content.
> 70% said it didn't, so he bought it.

70% of his followers and/or who saw the poll said it didn't. Hardly a valid survey by any best practice among pollsters.
There's probably no good reason to put code and data on the same page, it's just one extra TLB entry to use two pages instead so the data page can be marked non-executable.
Everything becomes a meme.

I’ve come to appreciate that we communicate mimetically, humans now seem to me more a social-intelligence species than an intelligent one.

We don’t seem to win by fighting against this characteristic, so I’m getting more curious about how to adapt to/with it.
Urbit Channel's Desc. (YouTube) "Curtis Yarvin has returned to Urbit as wartime leader. He will take questions from the Urbit community via the %radio app hosted by ~nodmyn-dosrux."

...why is this flagged?
I didn’t mean to imply you did (or even AWS for that matter). Just that from the consumers perspective it’s impossible to see/know the difference.
> Step 1 is to stop buying things (or not) because you care how it will make you look to other people who don’t actually care

Car OEMs invest millions in branding on the basis of/to promote the opposite of what you're saying: the brand is an expression or an extension of the buyers identity.
The moat is compute and Elon has enough money and connections to jump the queue with providers
FWIW I believe your reasoning is exactly what I saw/learned at AWS. The potential cost of losing/disappointing “real” customers greatly outweighed the notional cost of lost “scared” customers.

One interesting thought was trying to model some of this as an actual insurance method. Think of the cases where an adversary of the customer might inflate their costs through 3p usage/traffic. Providers dont want to incentivize those adversaries, deny the customer service, or charge them for unuseful service. Normally it devolved to credit/forgiveness, but then that moves the customers business model risks to the provider. What if this functioned similar to an insurance model; very cheap/baked in forgiveness for everyone (as today), then based on risk profile (porn/games/polical/gambling, or previous occurrence) the customer gets the option of buying forgiveness insurance or self funding their risk. The real sticking point is around perceived/potential conflict of interest and goodwill for the provider to say “pay us more for a thing that you cant directly control.”
Cause they have really high B.S. detectors, due to all the bs men throw at them.
RV64 has some reserved encoding space in satp.mode so there's an obvious path to expanding the number of page table formats at a later time. Just requires everyone to agree on the direction (common issue with RISC-V).

For RV32 I think we are probably stuck with Sv32 4k pages forever.
Why not use Persistent Volumes and Nix container?
I was a really long term shareholder in Tesla. Like back when the Oatmeal made that famous Tesla comic strip.

When he started calling people pedophiles on the internet and when I saw the board whose fiduciary duty is to keep the CEO in check do nothing, I exited my entire position.

It is an absolute failure of the board that no one questions his dumb decisions of pandering to the right to save some taxes, when the main customers are on the left.
Huh, where have I heard that before?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/gay-rights...
As far as I can tell from a quick look at the source, it only seems to support Vulkan as a rendering API.
I think fassssst means controls common across applications in how, e.g., in macOS and Windows many applications use the same controls for labels, buttons, checkboxes, radiobuttons, listboxes, editor boxes, etc with a consistent look and feel/behavior (something at especially on macOS people do appreciate).
I had this issue and I «solved» it by cleaning the tiny microphone at the bottom with a toothprush. It’s a small slit that can get stuffed with dust etc and it impacts how well it can do noise cancellations.
I don't think anyone with a serious app running on us will use a cap. Just stay fixated on this scenario: a deploy-only token gets stolen, and the attacker (like most cloud attackers) uses it to stand up a bunch of Monero miners. As a consequence... their main app goes down? Who would be OK with that?
So here is my main concern. The spot is going to be 4km across. Is the mirror in space going to be 4km across, is it going to be even 100m across? Let's say somehow the mirror is the size of a football field that light distributed over a 4km patch will be 0.03% of the intensity of daylight and would be expected result in 0.03% of the energy.
There hasn’t been a ton of work in this area, but most things will work in Deno if you import them directly. You’d need to figure out blob storage and sqlite but I don’t think it would be the biggest lift
to do so.
Then when the container gets rescheduled I'm suddenly running the old version of weechat
Exactly. All of these things that ship data off to cloud services are basically data breaches waiting to happen. The fact that devices like this not only put the owner at risk, but others who didn’t consent to having their conversations recorded and shipped to a third party is even worse.
Vercel is pretty great.
Correct. E.g., https://github.com/pmoor/bitthief .
Would you be surprised if some people swear off buying BMWs for that reason?
Broadcast only with no way for anyone engage you back doesn't feel very social to me.
I had a first version of Model S and I loved it. Since then every model made has been rushed out and it shows. I moved to the Porsche electric as my next electric.
I don't really get this. "Love the art, not the artist" is pretty much an essentialism for participating in modern human society. Try taking a moment to trace through everything you consume and see how much of it was originated by very flawed human beings - some monstrously so. This extends in every direction, even all the way out to things like massive scientific discoveries. Nothing's immune, because we're all human.

I'm in the process of buying my 3rd Tesla, because I still don't think there's anything better out there (based on my personal needs). I'm not making any political or moral statements. I'm just buying an excellent vehicle.
The sentence he's referring to says that we might tell you after you've, uh, aggressively asked us to forgive a series of bills, that future accidents are no longer on the house. So no, it's not the same as before.
maybe guys don't want to buy cars that make them unfuckable
why should this be surprising?
The i3 was ugly as sin - hardly befitting the BMW badge, IMO.

Nevertheless, I appreciate the effort. And the i4 looks (and drives) sweet.
Exactly, a device that expensive has to deliver as much value as possible.

Trying to sell a lifestyle accessory for people who have to own every Apple product that there is the beginning of the end for Apple that they’ll be talking about in business school the way we talk about DEC, Tandem and Commodore today.
Why can't the glasses be dumb displays streamed to by my phone?
I asked him about this and he didn't explain, but did demand that I keep it. He has a weird thing about Montana.
It's not a surprise at all that people doing extraordinary things aren't quite the same as regular people. The average same-belief-having person isn't going to do anything like make sci-hub because fitting in is their priority.
That was a known issue with the 1st-gen AirPods Pro (Apple had a 3 year replacement program for them) but I've heard fewer issues with the 2nd-gen.
It works well for art reproduction and still macro on a tripod. The 80MP one on my Panasonic G9 works very well for that. Everything else, no.
Funny, it reads to me like: my money should go where I see fit.
You don't need to have a constant redraw and IMGUI libraries do keep internal state. In fact both of these are explicitly mentioned in the linked article:

> IMGUI does not mean that the library doesn't retain data.

> IMGUI does not mean it needs a continuous loop nor need to refresh continuously.
Pharmacology of Caffeine
The full quote is:

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"

Is the ability to run an insecure bootloader on a system that has an installed OS with a security policy built around it not running insecure bootloaders an essential liberty? Let's say it is, for the sake of argument. Have you given up that freedom? Given that you can disable secure boot, or boot a live image and remove the SBAT entry, or boot an updated image and recover your existing install, I think it's hard to say that you've actually given it up. Is that security temporary? A well-maintained secure boot chain provides you long-term security against a variety of threats, so I don't think it's clearly temporary.

It's fine to disagree, but please don't do so by pretending that a misquote is meaningful.
I don't understand. IBIS is very useful for handheld photography and video. Works very well. Motion blur of the subject, obviously not.
Nice! I didn't realize that was added back. Now I just would like 1.) small taskbar icons and 2.) ability to dock the taskbar on any edge.

Agreed about the macOS dock. I occasionally use macOS as well and it kind of reminds me of a terminal bell in tmux, it just lights up for anything and everything. Windows at least has different colors, solid vs blinking, and even progress bars through the taskbar icon.
I am never going to get tired of telling people that if they can solve their problems running on Hetzner, they should do that. It's not like a dirty secret of our industry. By all means, deploy with VPSs! Or on bare metal servers!
Extra miles don't earn Tesla additional revenue.

Aside: do you believe that Elon's actions are motivated by the desire to reduce gas emissions in red states, or is this more of a thought experiment? My hot take is that his frustrations with Covid lockdowns in California kicked his animus toward Democratic party politicians into high gear.
NPC was derogatory from the start though. It should be descriptive without implying (or always being used as) judgement.
> I’ve had business accounts with almost every large US bank.

Ok. I would suggest making that very clear up front in your article. I think that would considerably increase the article's impact.
You know perfectly well Hacker news is the apex of efficiency and minimalism, and that "good hackers" don't care about trivial nonsense like "accessibility" or "readability" or "user experience," only the purity of signal over noise.

Now go to the blackboard and reverse binary trees until you've learned your lesson.
Didn’t remember their password, may have been logged in with their mom’s account, etc.
> "even an old Nvidia RTX 3090"

Saying that like it's mediocre... Maybe I'll have to benchmark my old 1050, see what it can do!
Add me to the list. There are enough great choices with more becoming available each month that there’s no reason to paint his fence. The minute I can take possession of an R2 and sell my model Y I’m done with Tesla forever. It’s also a real shame because it’s the best car I’ve ever owned - but that in no way outweighs my desire to not be a rolling advertisement for Elon.

What I find funny is that Teslas high profile investors repeatedly and completely dismiss this effect as being insignificant, but anecdotally I do think it’s a large portion of Tesla’s owners.

It’s also not like he has traded one customer base for another. The conservatives he’s trying to cozy up to seem just as anti-EV as ever.
Bonkers World
And this is why I will never buy a pomegranate. I can get eight oranges instead
Because you don't want to be relying on the service provider's whim in "forgiving" the bill?
If you’re asking yourself:

Why are all these giant companies going hard on AR and repeatibly in cycles it’s for one reason:

Egocentric data and full control of the highest bandwidth human I/O (vision + sound) is the most important possible data pipeline to get

Its the penultimate data pipe, with direct connection to the brain being the ultimate data pipe (see:Neuralink)

Every company that is winning and going to win in the future is the company that can best predict human behavior, such that it’s directly shaped by the platform itself

Google had a internal teaser trailer about this a decade ago that I’m sure someone has seen. Hyperreality was a short video about this probable and likely future

So it’s all a game to get perfect attention and the best way to do that is - literally - something like the interface that is used for the matrix on each hovercraft

If you introduce that too quickly - like now - then you scare everyone. So Apple rushed it and Meta is a actually good at timing in AR cause they have a giant lead, so they can wait till people forget.

The goal is titration of all encompassing spyware that eventually literally controls your behavior. The short story Manna is currently, unironically, and not hyperbolically what the employee experience at Target, Amazon warehouses and Walmart are 1:1. The corporate goal is to have everyone in their ecosystem deterministically creating, consuming and engaging at the peak for optimal tuning of the attention system.
TSLA price July 2018: $19.88

TSLA price today: $232.22

bad move
Target for what?
i'm really curious, "burn the candle from the other end" sounds pretty negative, what are the downsides of burning excessive visceral fat? Non-excessive sounds irrelevant because it's really hard to imagine a healthy person paying for this.
Capacity doesn't equate to quality, but I could easily see an 8B finetune with exl2 at low context working for short, simple customer interactions, akin to oversubscribing a 1Gbit uplink for 100 customers at 50Mbps.
Remember Dactyl Nightmare? https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=dactyl-nightmare&page=deta...

I tried it once at the local mall as a kid. There was a fantasy-rpg type of game as well, but I didn't get to try that one.
The back end we use for article infographics on the Spectrum website is from a company called Flourish, so anything that looks like it's from them is actually editorial content.

We used to roll our own Javascript for the Top Programming Languages, which e.g. computed rankings on the fly, but it became unwieldy to maintain, and readers didn't take advantage of things like the ability to set their own weightings. So we shifted to pre-computing the rankings three years ago, and use a specialized tool for straight visualization.
What if the same Human thinks climate change is serious sometimes, but other times not, depending on the topic? Is this impossible?

Also: it is not possible to know if everything is solely physics based. Faith comes in many forms, and scientism is one of them.
Why would an "Android news" blog mention what competitors are doing?
You did a good deed. You should feel proud of yourself.