skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wondered about something related and the origin of Erlang in the 80s/90s. Back then when it was running on the telephone switches etc, was it running bare metal? Or did those switches run an OS like some form of Unix or something else?
I agree but it's a little deceptive. For example I have a 4070 right now and I paid $600 for it. That's good money but it is more than likely far more than most people actually need.

If you watch or read reviews, you'd think only people in poverty use 4070s. I play competitive games and everything else I want to do with this card without issues and even with gas left in the tank.

They crank up settings in reviews to ultra settings and then try to make it look like if you don't have a $1200 GPU that you have trash. Reality is that these GPUs are overkill and in many games medium settings look nearly identical to ultra. I swear GPU manufacturers pay to have ultra settings available, with their nearly imperceptible improvements. The option is mostly there as far as I can tell, simply to upsell GPUs.
Some people searched for structure of the atom, and found great things. Other searched for perpetuum mobile, and found nothing. We know that they will never find anything, but it does not stop them, there are still youtube videos being made today.

It's important to tell former from latter. Unexplored things are not the same as things that have been explored and found false.
They mention using waste heat from the reaction to minimize the energy cost of discharge. As long as they still get some power out of it, it could be a win even if it’s quite inefficient. When the input hydrogen is “free” in the summer (due to excess production), inefficiency can be tolerable.

I do wonder if “free” will actually pan out, or whether someone will find a way to demand-shift from winter to summer and use it all up.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16236 Transformers are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention
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BigQuery Storage Read API claims to support filters and simple projections pushed down to the storage: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/storage. See also this recent paper: https://research.google/pubs/biglake-bigquerys-evolution-tow...

I've also recently proposed a Table Read protocol that should be a "non-vendor-controlled" equivalent of BigQuery Storage APIs: https://engineeringideas.substack.com/p/table-transfer-proto...
Energy production from solar is lower in winter, but it's not zero. And other forms (notably wind) are not reduced.

It's a non-problem, really. Especially at scale.
it's stigmatized, has an overwhelmingly complex etiology and no clear empirical signature. i think for the most part people just don't think it's real
I will. In the same way a raincoat will hopefully prevent most of the water from reaching me, so too I hope blocking ads with software will prevent them from reaching my eyes
Why probably?
The article says they're currently powered from a grid connection but hope to be fully solar powered soon.

What I'm not getting is how this process produces more energy than the solar input to power the process.

Unless they're getting solar collectors to try to generate 400 degree temperatures rather than PV solar to electricity, but that seems like a sketchy proposition at best in winter.
The drm_sched mess
Actual publication linked is very readable: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/se/d3se0...
> since social media

We must fix that construct: "«distrust [] has exploded since social media»". Which makes some sense, it is expectable in broad terms.

In 2021 a large wave of communication appropriated the banner of Science, through voices that had clearly never seen science in a postcard. (It probably varied with regional communication.) So, distrust spread.

What you are seeing is a crisis in authority - which also causes the first phenomenon of the rise of ignorant voices.
True, while in the 90s/00s I used carefully built computers eventually I turned to laptops. Running a (powerful) 400+ Watts box that isn't mobile is very nice to have but won't really work for me anymore.

I must admit I therefore was only vaguely aware of the site. (During "my time" Tom's Hardware was quite a thing but probably they cater mostly to overclockers and gamers)

Would be nice to see a renaissance of DIY computing though. MacBooks do become a little bit boring :) On the other hand I do run a small homelab by now
A quick search on youtube shows that crows are much smarter than just getting food with a stick. Also isn’t the general agreement/stereotype about dogs having 5 years old int stat?
So far there haven't been people who haven't liked being called smart, though maybe my personal sample size is too small
Chromatic aberration is mostly relevant further away from the center of vision. If there is an icon (or text) visually inspected carefully it is at the center where chromatic aberration matters least.

The icon is mis-aligned, or its the different color subpixels of the screen that are not produced at the same place. Tradidionally, red is to the left.
Knew them for most of their existence, though I never actually read them that often.

On the one hand a bittersweet end to a familiar editorial, on the other hand a deserved end to one of many "journalism" outlets. No, I don't have a good opinion of journalists.

In any case, RIP.
Our Earliest Ancestor Appeared Soon After Earth Formed
Oh that's what that is. I saw this on YouTube in Firefox the other day and thought YouTube was just A/B testing a quirky new way to display view counts.
I wonder what makes you say that Google was more resilient to what you call “algorithm hacking” considering Google has quite literally auctioned off result placement for two decades. Do you think that selling result placement for keywords and search terms to the highest bidder had a higher resilience to search engine optimisation than other search engines? I’d argue that Google was simply good at turning search itself into a product. A lot of their early competition around the world didn’t really do “search” as much as they did a combination of web content in a “portal” sort of presentation.

Google is still better at it than their competition, but Google’s model is now being pressured by big money. Local businesses in Europe are simply losing any sort of search auction to the Chinese sites as an example.

Anyway, you can always pay for Kagi if you want a better experience on the internet.
That's the thing: all of the above applies also to depression. And yet we do have quite a lot of options for treating it. Granted, they are not guaranteed to work, but they are sometimes/often effective, especially if you try a few of them in a sequence.
Looks like a variant of iron-air battery project to me.
Maybe the question could be sharpened: "Can you tell about some examples where an IC in your company had a good feature idea, and what ended up happening?"
Even most internal-combustion engines require energy stored in a battery to kickstart them, so this is not different.

Obviously the energy efficiency of this process based on iron is modest. It is likely that the energy efficiency is even lower than for the process of storing energy by making synthetic hydrocarbons (e.g. synthetic gasoline), which are much easier to use once energy is stored in them.

The only advantage is the very low cost even for very large storage capacities.
Reminds me of Microsoft calculator having a one pixel off between buttons: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/a5r971/t...
They're storing the hydrogen as water, though. The only reason to produce it in the summer from excess production via electrolysis is to be able to reduce iron oxide to pure iron rather than just buying the pure iron to start with.
Not Linux => Windows GDI regions code, Windows CoreWrite, Copilot+ PC EUFI firmware, Azure networking cards firmware.

Requirement that unless required by existing code, C and C++ are deprecated for new projects on Azure Infrastructure team, Rust or compiled managed languages (C#, Java, Go) are the official ones for new projects.
Very cool idea! I think you can somewhat allow for this on a single page html document with sections linked together by section IDs. While you can indeed jump to the "next" section that the narrative allows, via an anchor link to the next section, you can also scroll up or down on the page to see stuff you aren't narratively supposed to see.
Question, is it named after the sites?
> returns a static HTML page showing a password prompt that you can now safely upload anywhere

Anywhere that you trust, and where the page is hosted securely. For example, a malicious hosting service could alter the password prompt. Or the page as a whole could be put in a frame with a transparent overlay.
I’m pretty sure there are Apple employees that read HN. It would have been cool to include a build number of the OS
Barry says we come out blurry
> Even looking at TSMC, Apple has been using all of their 3nm capacity for the past year

This isnt right, Intel's Lunar Lake is built partially on TSMC N3B. It launches in a few days.
Free POS Software
No. He himself said it here.

https://fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/113052127771211132

What he did though, he developed a Unix clone using hare in roughly 30 days.

https://fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/112319697309218275
There were several proposals made to Elastic at the time, but their attitude was that they controlled the project and didn’t want AWS to make big contributions to the open source distribution that would reduce their differentiation. They were also mixing licenses in the code base and deliberately making it hard for AWS to use.

I was also assisting in the deal with Grafana, which I thought was a good deal on both sides, setting up a framework for AWS and Grafana to work together over a longer timeframe. Ash Manzani who negotiated the deal for AWS later joined Grafana to run Corp Dev for them.
No one said it wasn't accessible.

> Might not be geographically that near

That was my point.
Aren’t they both in Champaign IL?
I don't know, in case of Apocalypse, the probability of being a roving warlord and having a gang is overwhelmingly dependent on having a bunker, don't you think so?
Ozempic could delay ageing, researchers suggest
That this “animals no conscious” is default feels like a sort of all-anthropic religion. I don’t get how one imagines being an animal and… it just exists as an automaton? And for some reason exactly humans are all conscious/intelligent, even brain damaged (in literal sense). I bet “those looking like me are very special” is somewhere in our genes, playing an obsolete role competing with other humanoid groups.
> I still see MacOS as the best choice for my desktop/laptop uses (browser and SSH)

If it' just "this", Linux is perfectly capable and IMO even superior.
They probably aren’t monitoring badge data at all in real time, most offices don’t.
> Perl's regular expressions to parse […]

To be fair, Tcl has Henry Spencer’s regexp[0][1], and is awesome; Postgres also base their regex on Henry’s work for Tcl[2]. Perl is certainly famous for its regex and popularizing thinking of problems in terms of regexes (for better or for worse[3]), but it’s not the only game in town.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer

[1] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Regular+Expressions

[2] https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend...

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
Probably the same as what already happens with credit card data breaches. Stripe could decide to just start running cards, but it would have to test them as it does not know how much to take from each. That would be short lived. Issuers, networks, etc would put an end very quickly.

Businesses could somewhat easily switch over, they aren’t a monopoly, they’re just the easier option.

They could be more subtle and just start selling data to advertisers, insurance companies, etc. This could increase their valuation by a lot, but idk how competitive they’d become. Every other payment facilitator can do that as well.
Seriously talk about poor naming. Even the start of this paper is the same as the other Radiance Cascades GI paper.
Facet: Web components made simple and declarative
Dude?
That’s crazy, aren’t they like $10/mo?
>More expensive lenses have a coating to compensate for this chromatic aberration.

You can't compensate for chromatic aberration with a coating. You need a compound lens made from multiple elements each with a different dispersion, e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achromatic_lens

More expensive glasses lenses usually have worse chromatic aberration than cheap ones. The cheapest material for glasses lenses (PADC, often called by the brand name CR-39) has one of the best Abbe numbers (measure of dispersion).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CR-39

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbe_number
That is true, the article skips the fact that the approximation using the initial fib numbers is not useful.
Installing a mechanism that will output harmful results if certain input is provided that is negligence! We are talking about pushing random crap into the face of readers for f's sake here not the cure of cancer algorithm with side effects, please be smart!
> but the definition of normalized is that the mantissa is shifted to be aligned to the binary point

And that’s the key point. A subnormal number does not have the significand/mantissa aligned to start with an (implied) 1. It has leading zeros. Thus the number of digits of a subnormal number is not fixed.

1.0000x10^0 has the same precision as 1.0000x10^-99.

1.0000x10^-99 does not have the same precision as 0.0010x10^-99.

That is why the original poster wrote the subnormals have a not-fixed number of digits.

But if you’re going to go around writing snarky “gotcha” comments, at least try to get your facts straight.
Hopefully, seeing as you are not the only one, you figure out where to file a bug report and then file it too. And then it gets fixes.

Ha, I am too used to it being more accessible to file a bug report, having spent most of my career with GNU/Linux (contributing and using since 90s).
Nvidia Needs to Stop – RTX 3050 and Misleading Branding [video]
It's not only about stopping testing: they dropped subpixel rendering altogether.

Though this seems more like a hinting issue.
Ars Technica is more of a general tech and science news site. They do some computer hardware and phone reviews, but nowhere near what a dedicated tech site does, and they're often not Day 1 reviews.

I find their content generally pretty high quality for their niche (with Beth Mole's and Eric Berger's content being my personal standouts), but Ars Technica is by no means a substitute for a site like AnandTech.
Or, you know, file a Feedback: https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos/
These things are fun to find. I've found local routes like this in the western US, and ridebdr.org has a number of them... They tend to have more pavement than 30 km, though!
I was a big fan of Sparrow (acquired by Google) and DarkSky (acquired by Apple).

I miss them both and think of them often. Sparrow truly changed the way I used email. Once it was shutdown, I went back to the trudging through it.
AWS tends to optimize for whatever its customers want, rather than what its partner ecosystem wants. However we did spend some time trying to help open source partners figure out how best to work with AWS and to leverage the marketplace etc. to be successful by leveraging the platform rather than fighting with it. Mongo is a good example of how that can work.
After acquiring a bad case of mononucleosis at 18, I acquired CFS which lasted a number of years and severely impacted my ability to focus and make meaningful progress for extended periods of time, and this worsened my depression and anxiety, which exacerbated the problem in a positive feedback loop.

Everyone in my life disregarded me or didn't understand the severity of what I was dealing with. Looking back, returning to ADHD medicine back then might have been the best course of action, however a specialized treatment would be very welcome. Regardless of how others perceive the disease, people like me would greatly benefit.
He automated some Rexroth production with it.

https://www.stritzinger.com
Mastercard Wants to Get Rid of Card Numbers for Online Shopping
> Firefox can, for now at least, be hardened to work for the user (and prevent a lot of fingerprinting), but Mozilla is an ad-tech company too now.

That still isn’t a great reason to then keep using the even worse option, being Chrome, instead.
My friend made his own Nerves powered sprinkler system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS3Iap-2umQ

I believe he's still using it to this day.
https://archive.ph/Qc8zx
Assuming that the crows attacking years later were not conveyed a detailed account of the original events, this is an interesting model also applies to many human group behaviors:

"this is the guy we hate, it gives a great feeling of community expressing that hate. Yeah, there's probably a reason why we hate him, but that's besides the point"
I read the thread on metafilter, apparently its sponsored by the John Muir whatever and is for people who enjoy sketching nature and sharing their sketches, I think.
Maybe they could then link several of those platforms together. The mechanical linkage would allow them to travel tightly together without complicated software.

Then maybe instead of everyone bringing their own car, there could be a large box on the platform where more people could enter than would fit in a standard car.
> I still see MacOS as the best choice for my desktop/laptop uses (browser and SSH), [...]

Almost anything will do for those?
Hah I've just been driving in France and kept multiplying by 0.6. Much simpler than 16!
Very few screens are bright enough to compete with the normal brightness of outdoor sunlight. There's no evidence that close focus or looking at bright screens causes eyesight problems. Bright light actually seems to protect against myopia. Here's a good overview:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470669/
I had 3 different Engineers mentioning "X person who left" in the interviews of a company once, which triggered all sorts of red flags. Digging a bit deeper, the company had a major merger and it seemed it had gone from a super-nice environment where devs were trusted and empowered to a top-down, strict structure where they were all now fighting to stay hired.
The autumn is cool, not a library.
Ask HN: How can we provide mass contextual knowledge rapidly to a brain/nervous?
Question:

What areas of thought/academia/[??] - are focused on the mass prevailing of and perpetuating knowledge through the Eons?

How to preserve knowledge in a layered Civilization frame such that it is a layered body of knowledge such that its retrievable and actionable and survivable?

Is there an authority on this? (Dystopian==WEF/WHO is the answers derived)

--

Who is the source of truth?

Universities?

We hear about fake news - but nobody defining, defending 'true news'
I'd like to point out row 3 of the excellent Fig. 6 where the authors evaluate the risk of fine iron powder being exposed to air, which heats up to about 600°C due to oxidation. https://pubs.rsc.org/image/article/2024/se/d3se01228j/d3se01...
In what sense did they monopolise the web with adsense?
> Isn't this exactly the kind of answer that the question is meant to tease out, so that the candidate can know ahead of time that the company is more interested in executives' status than in innovating?

This is like asking if sharks like the taste of blood. Any answer other than the obvious is a shark looking for a meal.

Executives only exist because they are obsessed with status/power, the share price, the market cap, competition, winning. That is their purpose in life. If they cared more about innovation, they wouldn't be executives, they'd be engineers.

It's not impossible for an engineer to get an idea into a product. But they have to know how to swim with sharks.
Idk, for me one man vs one octopus is sort of not my business. But, in a pressure-less situation with a man vs thousands of octopuses, my trolley would probably go over a man, especially if the tracks already lead to him or he has valuable gear. Call me unethical, but I find most of “ethics” human-ist as in race-ist. It is a justification algorithm for the most part rather than true ethics.
Rare but does happen.

Not necessarily cosmic rays but things like marginal timing can cause errors like this, especially on GPU buses/VRAM that tend to have less protection.

GPGPU and now AI has made accuracy of results more important, but before that, GPUs were regularly ran at the limits and it was assumed that occasional barely-visible artifacts or otherwise computation errors whose results aren't noticeable were acceptable. (Imagine you're playing a 3D game and a few pixels in a frame occasionally have incorrect values, or some shapes are a pixel off --- unless the errors are massive, you're unlikely to notice.)
This describes T-Mobile incredibly well...
There's also welfare and Wohlfahrt in German.
mobile devices, app-ification and the social media that really started to kill the small web, kind of ironically.

and if you're a front end developer it was apple launching the meta viewport tag in 2007 killed the simple front end.
What makes you believe tech communities might ever have not been chock full of perverts and degenerates?
Stephen is in Massachusetts I think.
“Delayed aging” is not the right phrase. While, a eduction in all-cause mortality is good news this is not equivalent to delayed aging but is delayed risk and severity of diseases associated with aging. The individuals who were treated were not healthy older controls.

Low dose rapamycin (5 mg/week) to mildly inhibit mTORC1 networks would be far more effective as a true prolongevity treatment, even of healthy older adults. And given many studies of mice, dogs, yeast etc this drug at the right dose might actually slow aging rates.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37191826/
> If the opposition was spreading lies about elections being stolen, that seems like reasonable content to moderate.

Absolutely not. That might be the absolute world's last content that should be touched.
As a Linux systems engineer I’ve looked behind the curtain at HAOS and was very impressed by how well things are implemented. Been running it for years in KVM and have never had an issue.
This week in Plasma: inhibiting inhibitions and more
But then? WHat about those Porn contents? All eliminated or what? I think Wordpress does not accept Porn realted contents?
There's some fantastic dirt roads here in Australia ... just watch those lesser tracks of the Gunbarrel Highway network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunbarrel_Highway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL44EAyz8Qc
I have been thinking about that idea (putting database in front of operating system, i.e. applications interact with the environment through database) for a while now, I think it's really neat.

Another good reason is testing and verification. Your application becomes decoupled from the OS resources and you can verify what it does to them by comparing the database. Because the OS state is managed by database, it is formally described and you can verify what your application does to it. In some sense, it's an implementation of functional core/imperative shell idea.

Also, because DBs are transactional, transactions will become a first-class concept in your operating system. Which is something that's long overdue for applications (although there are systems such as CICS that have been doing this for some time now).