skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it’s not over. Anything that connects to the web is constantly experiencing a dizzying array of tax and companies like cloudflare aren’t perfect. People tend to request new features every year. Technical support is hideously expensive if done right. Good backup strategies are not cheap. Like any business, web apps have continuing costs associated with them.

Being charged $10 a year for storage doesn’t just represent the pennies it would cost you on AWS. You have to pay for people running the site, your support contract with Amazon, egress charges, etc. I am happy to pay $10 a year for someone to blame if I know it’s reliable service.
When you are in a black hole, you are always heading towards the center.

The universe is expanding faster than the speed of light beyond a distance of 13.7b ly away, and the comoving diameter of the universe is already something like 93b ly. If you could teleport to another part of the universe, you would have a whole new local environment, but it would still be flying apart faster than you could ever hope to catch up to the furthest objects (without another teleport), and the furthest objects you can reach are getting more and more sparse as they are always flying outside of your observable universe. I.e., inside a black hole, where all possible directions only point further inward, and yet also "away from everything else", as anything that fell in before you, gets pulled in faster and faster "away from you, towards the singularity", and anything that falls in after you has increasingly no hope of catching up to you.
The WordPress revision system is a real pain to deal with. I've been hosting and running a multi-site WordPress site for about 15 years, and the biggest drain on server resources was the revision system. Thankfully, there's a setting to limit to disable the revision history: https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/revisions/

For Matt to call WP Engine a "cancer" because they use WordPress-supported functionality to turn off a WordPress feature is bizarre. All WordPress hosts modify the software to make it work for them. Especially Automattic!
> > I don't think writing in x86_64 is any more artisanal than Python or JavaScript.
> I have the impression that was exactly the intention of the article:

Okay, but you seem to be ignoring the first half of the article. You know the part that tells us it is a great big joke:

"Real Programmers wrote in machine code.
Not FORTRAN. Not RATFOR. Not, even, assembly language.
Machine Code.
Raw, unadorned, inscrutable hexadecimal numbers.
Directly."
Yup - it's why the iPhone wasn't on Verizon for years - Verizon insisted on being able to "customize" the iPhone and Apple told them to pound sand.
To clarify, are you talking about when you buy your own servers, or when you rent from an IaaS provider?
>> resorting to a chatbot sounds so depressing

I'm very curious to these harsh negative reactions to solving a bit of loneliness with a chatbot.

1. Read the study.

2. I don't think this is suggested to be a permanent solution.

3. Some people suffer from chronic loneliness, and these negative reactions could possibly prevent others from seeking the help they need. In other words, if I'm lonely, I would not want to talk to these people because they do not seem sympathetic. Yet a chatbot is. Huh.
Privacy really doesn't exist, huh?
Eh, vaping isn't anywhere near as bad as smoking, health wise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pwj6BuS8Ds
In this case the market is not stupid. WordPress.com's managed offering is limited enough that most web developers make valid recommendations to avoid it. Wpengine works a lot more the way a WordPress user wants it.
It's solipsism, it's unfalsifiable. How can you ever trust your senses when they're the only thing you can go off?
That's a pretty narrow view of software too. The nature of building software systems is not always towards being able to mass-produce them. What would be the point of copying and distributing 10K copies of my script that runs migrations for one legacy database in a very specific way?
How are the carrier locks implemented today? I assume it must be implemented on the client (phone). Do the carriers work with all the phone manufacturers to have them add this capability?
You’re attributing these life challenges to your STEM PhD speciality?

I am sensitive to your hardship, but optimization has nothing to do with it. People are succeeding with bachelor’s degrees in Latin.
> In summary, foundations for individuals seeking to maximize muscle growth should be hypertrophy-oriented RT consisting of multiple sets (3−6) of six to 12 repetitions with short rest intervals (60 s) and moderate intensity of effort (60−80% 1RM) with subsequent increases in training volume (12–28 sets/muscle/week)

The review is from Katowice, Poland.
> With this architecture, the sensor achieves a high level of precision, offering an accuracy of ±50 ppm ±5% between 400 ppm and 3,000 ppm. The overall range of the sensor is from 0 to 32,000 ppm.

What does the back to back ± mean? Is that the variance of accuracy from device to device? Or does the 5% reference the specific range of 400-3000?
>> Okay, you ring your bell.

What an odd thing to say.
True, I think I really skipped that quote. I disagree with this part and think it doesn't link very well with the conclusion or with software artisans. Not sure if I mixed it up or the author :)
I generally read faster than some narrator slowly babbling on over a meandering script, so that is 20 minutes long. If the video is 20 minutes long, I wager I can read an equivalent article in less than 5 minutes and come out enlightened all the same.

Videos are great for getting the eyes of the general man who doesn't have a preconceived interest in a subject, you're trying to bait clicks and videos are great for that. For people already interested in the subject though? Videos are almost always a literal waste of time compared to a well written article.

And if you wanna say I have a short attention span: Sue me. I'm a 35 year old millenial, we're infamous for having short attention spans.
Occam's razor wins again
I wonder what’s the most polished or “sanded” UI out there?

You would think FAANG would have a half decent UI and UX with the amount of money they have. But anybody that has used Amazon.com or AWS, GCP, or even Azure would beg to differ.

Personally, off the top of my head. The most polished UI/UX has to be “mcmaster.com”. I can find anything I need in what seems like a couple minutes.

Compare this to big box stores like “Home Depot”, “Lowe’s”. I can spend 10-15 minutes just trying to find the right size of screw, board, or whatever using their bloated sites. On mobile it’s even worse.
I have written a lot of software for myself or some close associates that is really only for our purposes (or sometimes just for our amusement). Certainly I could trivially distribute the software to whomever I wished, but it wouldn't be useful, appreciate it, or perhaps even run outside of the environment I wrote it for.

For instance I have some lovingly crafted bash scripts, that feel somewhat artisan. They keep my home server humming along, applying updates, making regular backups, and reporting status. The scrips are very tailored to my use and would not easily integrate elsewhere.

I could have used off the shelf software for much of this (ala "IKEA"), I'm sure, but I am a tinkerer, hobbyist, and, if I flatter myself, an artisan.
I looked around too - Mandarake only had popular consoles; Super Potato in Akihabara and Retro TV Game Revival in Osaka had MSX, but no FM Towns. The store clerk read my enquiry off Google Translate on my phone and gave me a one-word reply: いいえ.

It probably takes local expertise to find one in someone's attic. Playing its Lupin III exclusive game might have to remain a MAME job.
Huh? Since when do drug dealers get ‘prosecuted for the deaths’ of folks who OD on their products, assuming it was unintentional?

Prosecuted for selling illegal substances yeah. But that’s different.
I am worried about Banks who uses sms for 2fa. :/
“It is a remarkable property of nature that when sufficient energy is crammed into a sufficiently small space, particles that were not previously present can sometimes be created out of that energy. This is, in fact, why we do high-energy particle collisions. The extremely-compressed-energy technique is the only one we know that can allow us to create heavy or exceedingly rare particles that humans have never previously observed. We have no other way to make Higgs particles, for instance.”

https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...
Matt is mad that WP Engine is profiting without contributing much back. This "it's not WordPress" seems like a fig leaf on top of that concern.
If you really want to know an exact number for a specific use case, you can rent an 8xH100 node on RunPod and benchmark it.

You should expect somewhere around 30t/s for a single response, if running the FP8 rowwise quant that would typically be used on such a node, with TensorRT-LLM. Massively more in total with batching.

That quant is twice the size as the 4.5bpw one used on the Mac though. A lower quality one would be faster.
So we'll have expensive artisanal software for rich people? Self-assembly takes a whole new meaning for the rest of us.
a slightly different (but close enough) Hitachi CPU also powered the Cybiko - a wacky games console few have heard of. I tried writing a disassembler for that particular cpu a while back. Was an interesting platform and oh man the documentation at least to me was gorgeous: github.com/kn100/cybemu/
Feeling pain good, feeling loneliness ok. Help inform new direction
> You don’t gather at work for the fun of it, you come together to do great things. It stands to reason the peak moments of joy and bonding are fueled by a sense of accomplishment.

Companies that spend a lot of time defining their "company culture" are not going to have accomplishments. The "HP Way" only got codified long after it had emerged organically.
These vulnerabilities are something we know and is already scary. I wonder how much 3 letter organization are capable.
They must have fixed it in Safari 18. I'm running macOS 14.6.1 and at the beginning of the month it didn't work but I also just tried it and now it does.
I get along well with everyone I work with, but they aren't my family or my friends. It's important not to confuse the two.
You called out the most absurd passage in the post. My web-focused company uses WP Engine and I administrate it and let me tell you, it's WordPress. Completely WordPress. So some defaults are changed? Every other provider I've used does something similar. Matt hasn't mentioned the other excellent default WP Engine choices, if he wants more to complain about. Random PHP calls disabled by default. Must-use security drop-in plug-ins. High-risk and processor-intensive plug-ins disallowed. Regular plug-in vulnerability reports. It's an administrative layer of choices I appreciate as a web admin because I am just one guy. Also, I don't use revisions and neither should you if you have a large site. They balloon a database AND YOU SHOULD BE COMPOSING OFFLINE FIRST, anyway. Maybe I'm dating myself as a 35-year+ internet user but composing in a browser's text field is considered harmful. If you compose locally, you always have a backup and don't need revisions.
I'm happy to stand corrected; apparently my idea about GPUs turned obsolete by now.
Well, the issue with opioids has always been how addictive they are - literally since the beginning. It’s ’chasing the dragon’ for a reason.

Considering both Heroin and Oxy were such big issues because the pharmaceutical companies pretended their formulations were less addictive when that was not only not the case, but they were worse, I guess what we should be banning is anything that isn’t uncut opium eh?
Decent analogy. I wonder how many techies have ever used a belt sander. Or have one. I think very, very few.
Ask HN: Is trusted client compute possible?
I'm wondering if I can have a client build some artifact and upload the artifact to a cache server that redistributes it. Of course the problem is that a malicious client could upload something evil, so I would need some way of proving that the client built the thing it was supposed to. Is it possible to trust client computation?
Tbh it’s probably been a decade since the last time I looked into it. Glad to hear some ad blocking is doable on the iPhone. Certainly I use an ad blocker everywhere else. Will see what’s available. Thanks!
Unless your room has really good airflow you should be able to tell quite clearly.

I have an SCD41 and I see a large spike in readings less than a minute after sitting down at my desk.
Thank you, interesting read. My friend that has an autistic son, wants to cure him through diet changes. Do you know anything food related to autism?
>> I can imagine there being severe consequences when someone falls of a cliff and suddenly transitions to seeing the emotional connection they have invested in over many years as being shallow and meaningless

Some interesting points. For this specific one, I also think of this with time-invested video games, things like Minecraft, World of Warcraft, etc. Do people suddenly stop playing video games when confronted with life-altering perspective shifts? I don't know.

>> or supports your inner instinct to refuse treatment or not to take the medication prescribed by your doctor?

Real people do this, too (i.e. homeopathic medicine), but I suspect an AI would less likely to do this. Might be an interesting experiment.
Ah, but the innocently conceived...
Most researcher who I know share my attitude. I am extremely grateful for the support I have gotten from NIH, NSF, Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, and the State of Tennessee for research support in experimental precision medicine and health care.

I recognize this support as a “luxury” made possible by a wealthy and progressive American society that wants great science and progress with the potential to improve the quality and duration of healthy lives.
If you have two very very long trains several light years long, passing each other in opposite directions, and each train has FTL-comm devices, and the front and back end of each train can flash signal lamps that are synchronized with each other, your train will see the other train's rear lamp flash long before the other train's front lamp. The other train's front FTL-comm is sending messages 'back in time' to reach the other train's rear FTL-comm. By sending signals from your front, to your rear, to their front, to their rear, and back to your front, the message arrives before you sent it. So we think FTL-comm can not work.
lmao, I accidentally shipped the code with a bug and had a user report to me that he could see feedback on my projects. fixed it immediately
"Based" tech personalities worth following?
smart/successful while having some sense of humor a little more interesting DOGE coin and AI memes
George Hotz-esque
This is really suboptimal. They should buy 4 more 3090s so they can run it massively faster with tensor parallelism.
The article could be a bit misleading, as it focuses on the act of one goroutine signaling another. That’s why it emphasizes 'for its signaling to work.'

> "In theory, a condition variable like sync.Cond doesn’t have to be tied to a lock for its signaling to work."

It basically separates signaling from lock management, but not about removing the entire need for a mutex. From a pure technical POV, developers can totally handle locking and unlocking the mutex themselves to protect the process of dealing with shared resources, so it's not about technical limitation.

Including a mutex in sync.Cond and having it automatically unlock the mutex in cond.Wait() is an engineering decision that enforces us, developers, to call Lock() on the mutex beforehand and follow the pattern to avoid panic.
>Most of the negatives you’ve listed here are a result of other countries defence force inadequacies.

If there are inequalities of wealth, and a delineation of artificial constructs like race, religion or nationality, there will result an inequality of military force.

This material inequality is reflected in reality by the negatives I've described. A world where we accept "stronger military = good" naively exacerbates that inequality.

>we have the most democratic and stable societies that have ever existed in the history of our species, as well as the highest quality of life.

I'm glad you brought this up. One might argue the material wealth of our nations is a direct result of utilizing inequity by building a domineering military presence globally. Of the exploitation of colonialism and slavery.

Globalization in capitalism is the will of capital owners seeking more exploitable labor, not some desire to spread an ideology. That material/economic relationships are the oldest dated interactions between continents and societies seems obvious enough demonstration of that fact.

We have indeed made a marked change in quality of life, but on societal scales is the lifestyle 'gains' of the comparative 1% worth the toil of the 99? We have to pay heed to this measure when using any analysis on quality of life or the worth of decisions like military strength.

I'm not a sociologist, I just wanted to add that there is, to my knowledge, no evidence of an innate correlation between democracy, quality of life, and military strength. If you have literature that suggests otherwise I'd be happy to read it.

>Funding Israel’s conflicts is not a fundamental part of our way of life.

The specifics may not be, but the purpose of an extensive global military presence is fundamentally about creating or exploiting these inequalities wherever they arise for material aims. This is reflected by the fact that the action we take is directly proportional to the material value intervention would have to our bottom line.

SA killing Kashoggi or contributing to direct attacks? Cool, long as they got $/oil. Israel doing war crimes? Cool, long as they keep buying their arms from us and their ire focused on those we don't care for. Country getting worked over by our 'rival' ie taiwan or ukraine? Give them all the money and arms.

I'm not even trying to argue the merit of any of these decisions, I just don't agree any analysis is as simple as "stronger military = safer better happier fun time pax romana".
How about the doctors? Every single one knew oxycontin was addictive. That they have a convenient scapegoat does not absolve them. In fact I place far more culpability on them and their medical licenses than I do a pharmaceutical company making laughably obvious false claims.

Not a single doctor I personally knew at the time thought these drugs were non-addictive. That the narrative has shifted so much is an utter joke.

I know friends ran out of the industry due to pushing back. If you go after the sacklers, you need to go after every single doctor and related medical care professional who was involved in the over prescribing of these drugs. That would be difficult and expose the wide-scale fraud that is the medical establishment.

This stuff is a simple scapegoat for society to blame an extremely complex and endemic societal issue on while pretending "no one knew!". Bullshit.

Some of us have not forgotten.
WP Engine is fantastic. I’ve hosted Wordpress directly on Linux (with me as sysadmin) and tried out or evaluated probably all the most popular WP hosting platforms… including both WordPress.com and WP VIP, owned by Automattic. I settled on WP Engine.

It seems a little disingenuous for Matt to pull on the self-righteous mantle of open source in order to run down a company that directly competes with his commercial platform.

What happened to the idea of WordPress as an inclusive, flexible project that lifts all boats? What happened to open source means you can do what you want?

The more I think about it, the more troubling this seems for other commercial entities working with WordPress. Is Matt going to start putting targets on the backs of companies who get too successful with “his” software WordPress?
You my friend may benefit from developing the arts of the 2x speed, the skipping, the scrubbing and the stopping.

Not every video is worth watching to completion (some are, you get a feel for it), there may be background details you want to skip or scrub through eyeballing the thumbnails depending on familiarity with the subject matter and sometimes everything you want to know is right at the end of the video in a neat little summary. The comments can even give you some insight into where the video is going and whether you want to continue if you read through some of the top ones during playback.

I’m not much younger than you, but watching and re-pacing YouTube for educational/information videos is a skill that can be refined and the visual imagery can provide details that again, depending on what it is, might be missed in a written summary. And hey, if none of this is for you, maybe this comment helps someone else out.
I worked with several imaging and computer vision people at the rijksmuseum, including authors of this project. This team is actually extremely competent and professional. Usually surprising for governmental institutions, but this one is ace.
It's his right to feel like that, but it's also WP Engine's right under the WordPress source's license to do what they're doing.
I still remember chowing down on crunchy chicks to qualify for the evil quest lines >:)
Cool. Not sure why downvoted.
You’re thinking about it from a consumer point of view. From the carrier point of view, they don’t want it to be easy for you to decide to switch to another carrier (They want their service to have a high switching cost). So they have various roadblocks like this, to make it a bit more frustrating to switch carriers. Of course they can’t make it too difficult where they would face legal pushback, so there’s a lot of stuff like this that feels random or suboptimal from a technical point of view but helps their bottom line in aggregate.

Remember back when text messages or phone calls were free as long as you messaged/called someone on the same carrier? That wasn’t about passing on savings of actual interchange fees, it was about incentivizing you to be loyal to your carrier and get your friends on board as well.
Risky play exercises an ancestral need to push limits
This is so lost in Agile.

Engineers should get the time to “sand” their products, but we just don’t. If QA doesn’t make a ticket for the space between, it’ll never get fixed.

The customer probably notices this kind of a thing but it’s a miracle if the customer bothers to report it, and another miracle if it eventually turns into a ticket, and another miracle if someone prioritises it enough to spend time fixing it.

[In fact most companies have such opaque issue boards that as a customer I get so frustrated when I find a small issue or bug and have to spend like 50 hours back and forth to prove it’s a bug and actually get a ticket put in the tracker.]
Hmm I think he's merely explaining what physics is and is not. Physics isn't really answering "why" questions, at least not ones with infinite scope.
very nice. though you cannot have > 1 nesting of dustinbrett.com afaict
Sudeki was better. Long live SOL :)
Bro, you spend a really long time getting great at this and from the bottom of my heart I feel your pain and believe we need to improve a lot as a society to take advantage of talents like you better.

Thanks for investing so much time to it, I share your sadness for your wife and hope you get ao much good as you tried to bring to the world, man
I was reflecting on this conversation and since a random stranger seems to be interested….

I wish I had been kinder with my description of the less flexible.
A better description I think is rigid and relates to others through dissatisfaction.