skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was never talking about if they made a mistake or not. That is after the fact and outside the scope of what I have been saying. I know it matters, but that is not within the scope of my first comment that started this.

When I say mistake here, I specifically mean "mistake as far as their goal of making the right choice". And I mean that in the moment, using knowledge they have at that time, just like you're defining "right choice". Nothing after the fact nor outside the scope.

> I took the little information they gave and from that the only true logical conclusion was they made the right choice for them at that moment. Full Stop.

I don't see how they gave enough information to be sure, but more importantly you seemed to make a generic statement that anyone making a choice like that would be making the right choice, and that's what I really object to.

> You’re the one bringing the extra opinions

I am not! Please stop misreading me! Why won't you listen to what I'm saying about my own argument?

> Neither of us can know 100% what was right or wrong for them in that moment,

Please explain how "neither of us can know 100%" can be true at the same time as "only true logical conclusion was they made the right choice for them at that moment. Full Stop."

> A, B

Remember that not reporting the company was also part of the choice they made. The basic description of the choice was to report, quit, both, or neither, and they chose to quit.

> If they changed their mind later, it does not change the immutable facts of that moment. It simply provides a new set of choices and options that is outside the scope of my original comment.

I'm not talking about whether someone might change their mind later with new information, per se. I'm making the objectively true claim that people don't always think things through, meaning their choice might fail to represent the knowledge and priorities they had at the time.
This is discriminatory to cultures you arbitrarily believe are lesser.
I’d probably agree with you over a beer about the former. The latter? EVs don’t pollute more at higher speeds (modulo the tire thing), but they use their charge faster and have to recharge sooner, and whatever’s providing that electricity uses just a little more resources than it would otherwise.
The disclaimer is about including your icon(s) in simple-icons project, whereas the license is about how to use this project.
Why? Linux is 30 years old by now. When did they switch from g89 to a g11? Like last year or something.

Imagine the churn if they would have changed their ways whenever there was some new hot thing.

And this is applicable to most devs too.
Everyone pays for it.

It's interesting that you bring up a large number of people no longer growing food as if that's not the current reality. What do all those people do now that they don't have to work for food?
Windows 2000

For the video, i wanted a laptop with a real serial port (no usb). This one fit the bill and was $20 on eBay. Windows 2000 is the prettiest windows IMHO, so that’s what I installed for the demo video.
>I think reprocessing is actually cheaper than creating a new rod because you don't have to do as much enrichment of the uranium material. What I meant is the rod produces less power than a fresh replacement so it's better for the operator to replace it with a new rod to keep the reactor at it's design output.

At best, reprocessing produces MOX fuel at a similar price to fuel from natural uranium. It is only when the cost of waste treatment is reduced that it becomes economically viable.
Uranium from a fuel assembly is completely depleted, containing almost no fissile isotopes. The neutron poisons have to be removed and it has to be mixed with uranium and plutonium oxides so that it reaches a sufficient level of enrichment to be used in a pressurised water reactor. They produce as much power as a new assembly. It's quite difficult to run a reactor at anything other than 100% nominal power.

> The main reason the US is against it is because of old Cold War concerns about countries using it to harvest plutonium which is created in small amounts in regular reactors so there's a small concern that reprocessing would allow secretive creation of plutonium for nuclear weapons while appearing to be a purely peaceful civilian nuclear fuel reprocessing system.

Plutonium from a pressurised water reactor is too impure for military use. It is polluted with actinides, which are neutron poisons. It is the techniques for separating plutonium and actinides that are problematic.

It was possible to use civilian reactors to produce weapons-grade plutonium with graphite-gas reactors. It was possible to load and unload fuel during operation. This allowed the fuel to be ‘cooked’ just to the right point to produce plutonium and little other element. These reactors are obsolete (intense gaze in the direction of the UK).
YMMV indeed.

Since moving overseas 15 years ago, I tried numerous times and it simply is not possible. All the forms require a U.S. mailing address to register. Same for online access to your Social Security account.

There are an estimated 10 million Americans living overseas. Taken together, we are the equivalent of the 11th largest state. All of us completely blind to what is happening with our credit record and Social Security account.

At this point I think the only way this gets fixed is massive fraud/exploitation by organized crime, so these organizations finally address the problem.
A battery fire is not an explosion. Thermal runaway can be detected by the user long before their phone bursts into flame; the battery cell will become extremely hot and inflate to the point your device breaks before ignition. Most people will notice minutes in advance and dispose of/distance themselves from their handset entirely.
overcautious when trimming branches on the tree seems like a feature, not a bug.
Anyone saying that programming as a profession won't exist after a year or two are simply wrong. Period. There's literally no reason to think that would be true, and tons of reasons to think it isn't. Especially on such a short time scale.

The most dramatic possible outcome in the next couple of years (and one I think is probable) is that programming will change, as it always does. Not that it will stop being a thing.
This is true when going through any third party portal for either flights or hotels.

No reasonable amount of savings is enough to convince us to ever use a third party portal.

My wife and I travel a lot as a hobby - mostly domestically with one or two international trips a year - and something is statistically going to change between the time we book and the time we fly on at least one of our trips.

It’s a lot easier to make changes directly with the airline/hotel especially when you have status than going through a portal

Just last month we had a flight to Vegas + hotel over Labor Day that we changed at the last minute to go see my mother in law who had been taken to the hospital by our older (adult) son. We were able to change our flights to another city (ATL instead of LAS) as an even swap.

This was Delta airlines.

Then two hours later we found out she had Covid and decided against it and were able to call and change our flight back all without any change in fees and get our hotel reservation back.

Good luck doing that when booking through a portal.
I mean it heavily depends on what skin color you have - I grew up in LA and saw the rodney king beatings. People of myself and my family’s skin color have had to be careful for a lot longer than the last 10 years.
I disagree with you on PT (I love someone with the confidence to follow their own model of the world, rather than follow the crowd), but I agree with you that I need to buy some of your furniture! That's some beautiful stuff (https://www.aechairs.com/my-furniture/)! How long have you been woodworking?
I would feel more comfortable if your super promises were all on a blockchain, and we made No Backsie NFTs so people could clearly see these were legitimate and bid on them.
I’ll work on setting a new lower record every ten years or so. My guess at the next three steps: one bit controller, transistors only, vacuum tubes.
Thanks! I'll review the repo tonight. I'm designing a new workflow pipeline atm, and it's worth seeing if the djot juice is worth the squeeze.
> Everyone would have been better off had apartheid stayed.

That's indefensible.

But yes, today's SA is also a mess.

I don't know why you bring up Argentina, but I'm going to go out on a limb and postulate that you have never been to either country.

I have been to both, and have friends in (and from) both.

You know nothing of which you speak, I suspect, but your words sound dangerously close to the talking points of some astonishingly empty people. Could be worth some thought.
Give it a rest. Everything is statistics.

Sees space shuttle "pff, it's just a pile of engineering."
TypeSpec is a specification document generator - it outputs OpenAPI specification files, which you can feed to any OpenAPI documentation generator, such as Swagger or Redocly.
This is RBAR by any other name.
Seems likely if you imagine the producers just looked at an alphabetically sorted list of YC companies for name ideas.
Where did you buy from? Also, what is your end application?
Aside: I find it funny to see memes with attribution.

Given the culture around memes, attribution feels somehow weird.
Windows ran on a similar MIPS machine (Microsoft jazz). The issue is emulating scsi. I think I’d need a lot more rom space to do that. Scam is messy and hard.

The alternative is to find the Windows MIPS DDK and build a paravirtualized disk driver for it like I did for Linux. That would make it more doable.
Good point. I see that 90+% of their electrical power is hydroelectric.
Ask HN: Is there a wayback machine for HN?
I‘d be curious to know the top topics from 5, 10 or 15 years ago. May be wrong but i feel we have been shifting a lot in the last years ..
The entire window itself is the antenna, and that antenna is transparent.

The shit you see at the top are the wired connectors for the antenna that is inside of the window.
This is an interesting development. A couple blog posts exposing on late chunking

https://weaviate.io/blog/late-chunking

https://jina.ai/news/late-chunking-in-long-context-embedding...

The late chunking idea originates from ColBERT, an embedding technique from 2020 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.12832
Dynamic rates would be great. This is a real use case for internet-connected appliances and home systems.
AWS also has it’s own implementation of this with smithy
I love hearing this! Makes it all worth it. Thanks for sharing :)
Poll: Are you German? Did you complain about something on HN in the last week?
German / did complain
German / did not complain
Not German / did complain
Not German / did not complain
There is no such thing as a Linux-compatible kernel. There's only Linux. Linux is not even compatible with itself, it's only compatible with its major version number.

The argument may have been 'go pound sand', that's what it means.
I'd bet some combination of ocean and environmental laws & treaties, and zealous Greenpeace types.

Density isn't important - just package it in corrosion-proof heavy containers before tossing over the side. And do that somewhere like the Aleutian Trench - close enough to US territory to easily monitor the area, but remote / deep / inhospitable enough to make it extremely difficult for anyone to pinpoint the waste. Let alone disturb it.
Do you think this effort was somehow scaled back?
I'm in the same boat as GP. Was invited early, loved the Arc UX far more than any other browser. I've recommended it to many people.

As many other comments have pointed out, this vulnerability is such a rookie mistake that I don't think I can trust them again after this without understanding what factors in their security/engineering culture led to it. Patching this one issue isn't enough.
Unions, generics, required fields, default values, enums that don't pollute the global namespace are things that immediately caught my eye. I assume it also doesn't repeat Protobuf's the mistake of not being able to distinguish between a missing string value and an empty string value.

Protobuf is old, and has some really strange warts that are only explainable historically (for example, by reference to the behavior of C++, which used to be Protobuf's primary target).
This is part of the Api-First paradigm. Instead of your controllers/handlers being the authoritative "Truth", the API spec is.

You and your team spend time arguing/debating the API from the perspective of a user. "I need X data from Y service", etc. The document then becomes the "blueprint" for your system.

Think of it as TDD but viewed from a different angle. In a microservices system, this has a tremendous amount of advantages, including being able to codegen your handlers and models, maintain consistency across the entire API, unified api documentation, increase testability of your controller/handler interface, and more.
> I know you only drive highly focused, and don't e.g. eat food or drink or adjust your radio (go look at the numbers!), so you certainly have the right to say this.

Yes I normally do, I have laser projection on windshield in BMW of all info I need, rest is on steering wheel. The fluent connection with environment around car is worth every penny and less tiring. The only time I look elsewhere in the car is when stationary, and not many reasons to do so.

Anyway what does this has to do with breaking the law? Its the same vein as not paying taxes, 'I am better and above the rules'.
> The grid has become so expensive due to the cost of fire proofing infrastructure

Power in California was incredibly expensive long before any of the money was going towards fire proofing.
As they say, each 9 of uptime increases costs by an order of magnitude. For a non profit service, a few hours of downtime seems a fine trade off vs engineering all of the “right” redundancies. All of which have their own operational costs.
Using an intelligent algorithm to guide a dumb non-intelligent next word predictor is still a non-intelligent algorithm at the end of the day.

Sure it’s sorting through garbage more elegantly but it’s still garbage at the end of the day.

I was hoping the RL-like approach replaced the transformers-like approach or something but that’s a pipe dream.
ah, i see it now, ok!
> but do not manifest as immediate deaths.

This isn't just counting immediate deaths - else it'd just be ~30 for Chernobyl and ~0 for Fukushima.

In fact, Fukushima's death count seems to primarily be down to that "people had died indirectly as a result of the physical and mental stress of evacuation" - which I feel should at least partially be put on the tsunami that killed 20000.
Devin from Shortcut here, happy to walk anyone through our API importer capabilities and provide a couple months of our Business plan for evaluation. Details on the importer capabilities: https://www.shortcut.com/blog/importing-from-pivotal-tracker...
I've got a different take. If they're in the VC phase, that means they are not self sufficient. The amount of funding that they've raised is no indication what-so-ever of a) how much of that funding has actually been realized / received b) what their overhead is and c) what their overall financial picture looks like.

I do wish that more companies would take privacy and security seriously. And bug bounty programs are great. But they're not always within the budget of companies and the fact that they decided to award this security researcher regardless of having no such program is a massive win in my opinion and shows how much they value this particular contribution.
Yep, click the 'past' link in the top bar and you can navigate all through the history.
Maybe an evolutionary / structuralist lens is helpful here: terms that rapidly diffuse through discourse are those that people like most, and most people like to anthropomorphize, so "hallucination" has come to take on a new meaning, and we all (to different degrees) know what it is referring to.
What people keep underestimating are several things:

- learning effects keep making existing battery chemistries and panels cheaper. This shouldn't come as a surprise if you know anything about manufacturing. But essentially any study, report, etc. that assumes cost to be a constant is 100% certified bullshit. And there have been some notable reports that should have anticipated that that didn't. E.g. most of what is published by the IEA.

- there is still a lot of potential coming out research into new technology. And contrary to the popular belief, a lot of that makes it to market and then starts making an impact. Energy density is improving. What's currently on the road is nowhere near the theoretical maximum. Technology is hard to predict but a very safe prediction is that stagnation is not happening any time soon. So, anything that assumes energy densities, efficiencies, etc. will freeze at their 2024 levels is going to be wrong as well.

- Dropping cost opens up new use cases and increased demand. Elon Musk going to Australia and putting some megapacks down to save the day is only seven years ago. Very few people predicted that. That's now a multi billion dollar business that is disrupting grids all over the world. E.g. gas plants are being reduced to expensive peaker plants because of this unexpected use case. Including some recently opened ones.

My bold prediction is that we are living through an energy revolution that will completely change everything over the next few decades. We've seen nothing yet. Just extrapolating current trends, an order of magnitude improvement along several dimensions seems likely. And why stop there? Solar panel cost (especially including installation), battery cost, battery energy density, battery longevity, battery charging speeds, etc. Those are just some of the more obvious ones.
Over time the work was obviously done for Mantle → Gl Next → Vulkan. And that's becasue AMD were positive about this idea. Their initial presentation of Mantle was in that vein, i.e. to kickstart the progress of the common API.

MS just decided to do that whole thing for their NIH in parallel using parts of Mantle practically verbatim. It wouldn't have been possible without AMD basically allowing it.

See: https://x.com/renderpipeline/status/581086347450007553

I.e. I don't see any reason here for MS not to collaborate on Vulkan instead, besides the usual lock-in approach.
I guess you aren't keen on Java then? Complex dynamic dependency graphs aren't difficult for humans to handle or many build tools other than make.
yes, i agree, nix should be considered the bible of bad documentations. it’s very bad at spotlighting the essentials and putting the non-essentials aside.
it’s especially surprising for derivations, because nix is really, in the end, a frontend for building derivations. everything else converges on it.

and then i go to nix.dev and derivations are presented after fetchers? no surprise it’s so confusing, even though the concept is quite simple.

a derivation is a dict that is composed of (1) a shell script and (2) environment parameters it will have access to. a nix command will read the derivation, create the environment with only these parameters and execute the script. that’s it.

everything else about nix language is about building derivations. like copying files into its store. for example, evaluating “${pkgs.hello}” will be interpolated into a path. so in your derivation, you can define an env variable “hello = ${pkgs.hello}/bin” and it will be available in your script as “$hello” and will have the value of “/nix/store/<hash>-hello/bin”. nix will do the fetching and storing for you. so you can have “command $hello” in your script. neat!

play around with evaluating the ‘derivation’ built-in function.
I accept these definitions. But undefined, readers could be very confused thinking that specific jurisdictions and/or legal rights are being discussed.
I'm in Santa Clara California.
To be fair, Google HAS shown "signs" of cracking down on this; but they haven't actually done it in any useful capacity yet.

They call it "Site reputation abuse". https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-po...
So it is the elected representatives who are responsible for choosing them and implementing whatever they suggested?
So many of you are making me feel old.

My cheat was to write the formula for quadratic equations for a TI 57 with its 50 step programming capacity. I just put in the a, b, and c values then R/S (run/stop) and it'd spit out the answers on a red LED display for the high school algebra test I was taking in 1980 as a freshman.
> Sure came off as trying to dismiss or deflect from criticisms in your earlier comments

yeah, because I am saying they are not convincing and I believe I stated why. Next in the exchange would be to say why my reasons against it are folly or why I misunderstood.

It sounds like you think I'm too deep in. So help me out: what, specifically, do I need to change my perspective on? By definition, if I'm too deep, I can't see it.

> yeah, please do

I will, when someone can help me understand _why_.
>angered by those yuge fields of solar cells like the one in the cover image of the story

You are correct. If the world were perfect in every way, some people will come up with ways to find faults the scheme of things. This is because various causes give meaning to people's lives. Without a cause they would feel life is meaningless.

Note: I am not saying that most causes do not have legitimacy, what I'm claiming is they have tones of religion.
There was some earlier study showing that pasteurization does not destroy the flu virus entirely.
By putting red tape in scare quotes, do you want to express an opinion that every regulation is good and red tape is just a myth? More papers, more prosperity, without any limits or any inflection point?
If motherboard vendors are doing this out of only leaving settings for the things they've properly QA'd and can guarantee to work 100% of the time then half of the settings of most boards are in need of disabling as well.
It was also solved by the even easier approach of aspect ratio conditioning, where you just pass in the dimensions of the crop to the NN like SDXL: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.01952#page=3&org=stability
I don’t understand what the memory is or does from the README. Can anyone explain how it works differently from vector database results in vanilla RAG applications?
It's interesting to see hardware/software/API co-development in practice again.

The last time I think this happen at market-scale was early 3d accelerator APIs? Glide/opengl/directx. Which has been a minute! (To a lesser extent CPU vectorization extensions)

Curious how much of Nvidia's successful strategy was driven by people who were there during that period.

Powerful first mover flywheel: build high performing hardware that allows you to define an API -> people write useful software that targets your API, because you have the highest performance -> GOTO 10 (because now more software is standardized on your API, so you can build even more performant hardware to optimize its operations)
Starlink Mini. Fits in a backpack. Get a battery and bam. Just roam.
There are more mid-student women than men as well in the United States
> bold warning text in the Firebase docs.

Unfortunately, we currently have an industry where highly paid "engineers" unironically believe that their job can be done by reading/watching random tutorials, googling for StackOverflow answers, and pasting code from gists.

Attentively reading documentation or developing a mental model of how your tools work so that you know how they are built to be handled does not make it on to any job listing bullet points. It presumably fell off the bottom in favor of team spirit or brand enthusiasm or whatever.

How many tutorials, community answers, and gists do you think conveyed that warning?
Or Floorp: https://floorp.app
You can do it with template string types: https://ybogomolov.me/type-level-uuid
Or Recraft https://www.recraft.ai/ if you want SVG.