skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The analysis contains an error. Binary artifacts don't cause exponential growth in storage requirements. It's still just linear. That's also quite clearly seen when after a phase of exponential growth, the binary artifacts still only account for 75%.

So this whole strategy (actually a pitch for zigbuild) would ideally reduce the storage requirements to 25% - which would buy the whole system maybe a year or two if the growth continues.

Of course, it's a good idea to build client-side. Especially considering the security implications. But it won't fundamentally change the problem.
No, that's because the VLC GitHub repo is only a mirror and the main repo is on their own GitLab at https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/

Slightly higher friction for reports from the unwashed masses might be a slight side benefit but not having multiple separate issue trackers already is it's own reason.
Social Media Blocking Has Always Been a Lie
Discovery reveals the truth behind an ancient Chinese legend (2016)
"America" as it was, was simply an idea at that point that europeans were buying in on. And it was not the idea of the natives. Natives identifying as American or something close came much further down the line than the period mentioned in OP. The American Indian Movement is where this all finally crystalized.
What odds would you place on intel succeeding with 18A?
This but without the Microsoftisms, and every component directory is immutable, and maximal sharing is encouraged.
Pakistan is a sovereign nation. For better or worse, they are in charge of their own destiny.

Do you really want to establish as normal foreign governments going mucking around in local politics based on their own sense of what is right?
The EU still wants to scan your private chats – here's what you can do about it
I'm so biased by the recent FF news that now I wonder if they removed it because they started to listen to the users and take privacy seriously, or they just stopped caring altogether about the users and they don't need these analytics anymore.
Orbital Propellant Depot
I think farmers are wary of relying on tech like that and ending up depending on some FaaS, or at least the independent ones that aren't just some huge corporation.
Can you see the Republic of Ireland from England?
I long ago concluded that the overlap with Apple products and power tech user desires was a happy coincidence, and/or a hangover of their past, rather than an indication of their future.

The Mac is the exception in their current product lineup: every other platform is heavily locked down, and the user’s behaviour heavily restricted.

I strongly believe the Mac is heading in the same direction. See the progression from run what you want, to optional signing of binaries, to right click to run unsigned things, to disable a setting to be able to run unsigned binaries; or “worse”, the way spctl and csrutil no longer function after deploying Sequoia.
This is and will be increasingly a digital world. This is just an extrapolation question.

It’s repeatedly demonstrated that much of the voting public can be led by the nose to any desired conclusion. Therefore, influence via digital means, across all media. Satellite and all other digital sensing and tracking. Build a few million robots. Nukes. Control over the financial infrastructure. All vaguely smart cars. Intercept, alter or prevent any digital communication. The enemy wouldn’t be able to trust any message or video. An army without sensing, command and control, isn’t.

Besides the argument isn’t AGI vs everyone, it’s a country with AGI vs anyone else. I’d take that bet.
DevPi might be your answer I think. Couple of years ago I set it up as a proxy plus hosting my own packages locally.
Hmm. I friend of mine claimed that requesting trade with another player in World of Warcraft crashed his router. When he needed to trade, he always insisted that the other player should initiate the transaction.

I was tempted to discard this as pure imagination, but this was a smart and knowledgeable fellow who worked as a programmer, so I'm assuming he had done some investigation before he came to this conclusion.

I know too little about networking equipment, but I can see how certain byte sequences (timed right?) would have some magic meaning. Given enough traffic you're likely to end up sending just such a sequence eventually. Perhaps certain versions of the WoW client spat out just such a magic sequence for the particular router he happened to use?
I think Sonatype Nexus [1] can do that relatively easily. I don't know if the OSS version is enough, but I think most people and projects should be fine.

[1]: https://www.sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-oss-downloa...
Tabbed browsing.
I’ve written an article about efficiently handling 2D polygon Boolean operations using a structured approach with overlay graphs. The article covers core operations like union, intersection, difference, and exclusion, alongside a detailed breakdown of how to split segments, extract contours, and classify shapes.

The concepts are implemented in my iOverlay library for Rust, Swift, and Wasm, focusing on precision and performance. It uses fixed-point arithmetic for deterministic results across platforms, while handling complex cases like self-intersecting polygons.

You can check out the full article on dev.to:
2D Polygon Boolean Operations

Or try the library directly:

- Rust: https://github.com/iShape-Rust/iOverlay
- Swift: https://github.com/iShape-Swift/iOverlay
- Wasm: https://github.com/iShape-Rust/iShape-js

Would love feedback from anyone working on computational geometry or interested in performance optimizations for polygon processing!
Swift is over-engineered and they don't care about compatibility between versions and just add things even if we can live without new features. It will become huge hard to use and properly understand language and will die.

Flutter, KMP and maybe even ReactNative will become much simpler and better choices and native on iOS will slowly but surely lose developers in my opinion.
Surely it must have something to do with physics.
I think fusion from gravity would be the first radiation hazard lol. You would need quite a few.
The Irish company Manna have already completed 40,000 fast-food deliveries with a drone that carries 3.5 kg (~8 lb) with ~30,000 cm3. It can fly between 50-65m (165-215ft) above ground and lowers to a height of 15m (50ft) to deliver food via a tether. It achieves a top speed of up to 80 km/h.

They posit that one employee can oversee several drones and therefore realize twenty deliveries per hour, ten times as much as a delivery person can achieve on the road in the same time frame

https://www.manna.aero/
https://www.dronewatch.eu/bobby-healy-manna-drone-delivery-w...

For industrial use, we have huge amounts of copy-cats like the HZH Y100 which is a 6-axis, 12-wing transport drone with a maximum load of 100kg and a 90-minute endurance.
The dynamic linker is part of glibc, so if you're shipping multiple glibcs, ship multiple dynamic linkers as well and let each application use the linker it needs.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH users deserve the death sentence.
.net and c# was the very first language I've ever used to code in back in 2007. quit projecting ;)
Author here. I imagine that being one of the components you can "plug in" to what I'm building.

Imagine taking in a prompt, which describes the video you'd like generated. At render time you pass along variables which get injected to describe the specifics for your audience.

We can then adjust the video edit according to that audience, including mixing generated and non-generated content.
12TB for tensorflow is absurd.
PVC plumbing fittings come in 22.5 degree variations between 0 and 180, just as an aside. It's what I use for most gardening projects. It lasts longer than thin wall conduit would, and is much less expensive than the thick wall steel pipe.
Good to know, my first thought seeing this way. I could build a raised bed. You save some lotta time
Algebraic graph theory

Subfield: Spectral graph theory

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_graph_theory

As for adjacency matrices -- consider the (oriented) vertex-edge incidence matrix D (vertices x edges, each edge is a column, head is +1 and tail is -1, other entries are zero). Then D and D' (transpose) both have interpretations (stop and think about them; they're like gradient and divergence), as does L = D D' (graph Laplacian).

This also generalizes from graphs to simplicial complexes (triangles, tetrahedra). And "connected components" of graphs generalize to higher homology groups (loops, voids):

https://pi.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/AT.pdf
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/992/402/c35...

But seriously, it really is time to fix all the chemistry textbooks so that the charge of the electron is +3 instead of −1.
They are in a hurry to get to the next video that needs watching.
What does it mean to be posthuman? (2013)
Oh ok. I thought we were talking about the article (or at least claims that are just as bold):

"Deep learning works, and we will solve the remaining problems."

"It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!)"
You can also search for yourself.

BUT you won't find anything if you search for "me",
you have to search for "you".
Hello??? Colonialism much? Did you forget the last ~600 years? Nobody wants to do that anymore.
This seems very similar to the Forest Gardening approach in Permaculture: https://www.agroforestry.co.uk/about-agroforestry/forest-gar...
Author here.

Yes, this is a big feature I've been working on, should be ready for a beta by the end of the month.

I allude to it in the post, but good search (for editing) is a challenge, and necessitates a mix of embeddings/vector search and text models.
so where is all this productivity that we are supposed to be getting from AI? I'm struggling to see it in my business or my personal life.
Low level signaling is a completely different work that we never even bother to think about these days - but it has its own idiosyncrasies and strangeness that has - mostly - been factored out.

Especially since modern encryption means that the same byte sequence on the wire will not be sent even if you do the exact same thing again. It covers quite a few sins.
Yes. I had a hard time figuring out if a low numbered prefix got final say, or the high numbered one.
What? Phones are getting bigger and bigger that people can't put them in pocket now.
Did they reassemble the cnc dust to get the donor 1TB?
There are 243Mhz signals from the PowerPC to the SoC and 486Mhz signals to the RAM. OMEGA leaves these unchanged (basically dictating its final size). The remaining signals are slow enough by modern standards that flex cable works.
Highly profitable too. Judging by the current crop of consumer media, I think a lot of people would be willing to spend hours watching a billionaire livestream their lives.
Good work on pushing through. It’s like you say, building anything is an achievement.
That would be 2.54 times 1/100th of the distance light travels in a vacuum during 1/299,792,458 of the time it takes for 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of a cesium-133 atom, if you prefer.
Human labour isn't all that important in a modern economy, what matters is the capital (hence why capitalism is so successful). To be productive, we need to be building/deploying new capital.

The real capital investment seems to be happening in East Asia. Building productive capital in the West has typically been somewhere between discouraged and illegal in favour of playing games with numbers. In the English speaking world we've even managed to disconnect GDP from energy and now people are confused why GDP goes up but real living standards don't change all that much and everyone is shifting to fixed-pie thinking.
I don't think government access to such accounts is particularly constructive. Be that as it may, there is a simple form of protection and that is not storing any phone numbers, which gladly most online services still don't do.

I cringe if some services ask me for a number for "security". Whose security would that be exactly? Certainly not mine, this is exposing unnecessary data.

This is why Signal or Telegram are no secure options for me because they simply are not secure. And this isn't some exotic security scenario, it is the exact issue many people already complained about for years.
Capita wins £135M extension on much-delayed UK smart meter rollout
In similar news, inexpensive internet connections and old workstations are much faster, and more reliable than entry level cloud crap that's constantly shifting like sand underneath you.

A $400-$600 workstation PC and a 400/40 connection with static IPs worked great for our first couple years of development.
I have none ATM, sorry. FastMail was mentioned the most often so I went with it.

I've used the free Proton mail but I'm not sure about price + features for using a custom domain.
My last name contains the character sequence "rz".

Back in the BBS days this would trigger a Zmodem transfer on certain clients. It made a lot of people upset.
According to Wikipedia, "Lander" is only a demo, the actual game is "Zarch" [1]. Later ported to the Amiga, and renamed "Virus" (which is the title I knew, having grown up on the Amiga).

Very impressive, and cool to read the ARM assembly since it looks similar today of course. :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarch
There are distros (like Alpine) that link everything against musl, and provide a separate library (gcompat) for glibc-specific stuff. Alpine is crazy popular in the "lightweight containers" world, because of the small download sizes, so musl is actually getting a lot of real-world testing.

Go has demonstrated that "mostly-static" linking is a viable alternative to the orthodox choices of "fully static" or "fully dynamic"; for example, they link to libsystem on macOS, libc on OpenBSD, or sometimes to the "real" libc on other unices (to be able to use getaddrinfo, which might do more than just look at /etc/resolv.conf).

That approach wasn't without issues, including security holes - there were instances of bugs where the only solution was: "rebuild every Go executable with a newer toolchain". But I think this approach is under-explored: distributing "fat" binaries that bundle musl libc, libpng42, libfoo666, libquux1337, but e.g. dynamically link to things like Mesa.
No one searches online for a random page. You search for something you may or may not find. You don’t go in a library looking for Jules Verne and get out with any random book. I can agree that search engines may be bad, but they don’t create web sites out of thin air.
I assume you mean sanctions in general, not UN sanctions specifically. Russia as a permanent member of the UN security council can veto any resolution, so there is little point in even trying to push something through UN.
If you find that to be casual, I invite you to reexamine if anything is bothering you and clouding your judgement. You are hurling negativity and ascribing wrong intentions at strangers on the internet unprovoked. That is not healthy.

Whatever’s bothering you, I hope you are able to resolve it quickly and well. Have a peaceful day.
He's Got a Plan for Cities That Flood: Stop Fighting the Water (2024)
You get warrants in Germany for nothing, that is not an excuse. Call an official a penis and the next judge will steal all your digital equipment.
Was completely obsessed with this game on the school computers. Had an Amiga at home but never knew it had a port till like 10 years later.
Thanks! I was also considering Mythic Beasts.
> You can build a nuclear power plant, then do nothing for 50 years

Yes, that absolutely was a major problem, and quite the opposite of what anti-nuclear advocates claim. Nuclear is not too slow to build, it is too quick to build. Relative to the Hughe lifespan of the reactors.

So you have to pace yourself and build out slowly.

If reactors last 100 years and you want a fleet of 100 reactors, that's 1 per year. You can obviously vary the pace a little up and down, but don't build all the reactors you need in 15 years like the French did and then stop.

> Meanwhile Putin seems keen on bombing nuclear power plants in Ukraine.

Actually he's not. So far, > 50% of Ukraine's energy infrastructure has been destroyed, including one huge hydro dam. Not a single nuclear plant has been destroyed or even heavily damaged. Not sure if there was even a determined attack. One is occupied and in cold shutdown.

Nuclear plants are very, very tough. The newer containment buildings are designed to withstand a fuel-laden aircraft crashing into them. That's half a kiloton of TNT equivalent.

https://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/Physics10/old%20physics%2010...

The warhead on a modern cruise missile or tactical ballistic is maybe half a ton of TNT, so 1/1000th of that. You can just keep lobbing those at the plant and it won't care.

Since they are so concentrated, they are also easy to defend against attack.

These factors probably weighed into Ukraine's decision to build 4 more nuclear power plants, two of which have been started.
Avoiding this issue would be a pleasant side effect of encryption. Since encrypted data is indistinguishable from noise, it wouldn’t matter if the underlying format has specific bit patterns that mimic a signal pattern.
I remember taking a 1U server in a rucksack up to London on the public bus, also as a PFY
I agree with your last paragraph but unfortunately I think you needed to provide that context with the original post. Many American and British conservatives use it non-ironically because they do see the condition of former colonial countries as proof that the people there aren’t fit to govern themselves.
“You cannot fight water,” he said. “You have to adapt to it.”

Instead of putting in more drainage pipes, building flood walls and channeling rivers between concrete embankments, which is the usual approach to managing water, Mr. Yu wants to dissipate the destructive force of floodwaters by slowing them and giving them room to spread out.

Mr. Yu calls the concept “sponge city” and says it’s like “doing tai chi with water,” a reference to the Chinese martial art in which an opponent’s energy and moves are redirected, not resisted.

“It’s a whole philosophy, a new way of dealing with water,” he said.

In addition to flood control, these projects have the advantage of being an inexpensive way to recharge local aquifers and a low-tech adaptation to help overheated city neighborhoods, because evaporating water has a cooling effect.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1838256923428438345.html
Requiring a warrant is no sensible protection in Germany specifically and the saying certainly would include the situation in Germany.
I would bet UltraAV is some kind of Russian/Chinese spyware.
Do you mean the government should give them jobs? The same situation as how the TSA is described above?

That's still a failure in my opinion. If the government has to create jobs for the sole purpose of employing people then our economy failed to create enough demand for real jobs and people failed to create demand for their own labor independently.
I wonder if the phenomenon you're describing is the subtle and often hidden complexity of science, and our inability as humans to recognise and handle that complexity appropriately.

In this case, we have the US Army's procedure for disposing of low-level radioactive waste. That process probably says something like "if a thing has been identified as more radioactive than THRESHOLD, then dispose of as radioactive waste." Could the process be expanded to cover cases where the radioactivity is naturally occurring? Probably, but who would then take on the liability if there were any? I'm not sure. What about a case like this, where a naturally occurring radioactive source has been transformed into some piece of equipment that nobody would reasonably expect to be radioactive. Does that need special handling, or not? If so, who is responsible -- the US Army? The manufacturer? The US EPA, even?

It all gets quite complicated, and as complexity increases the risk of a procedure not being applied consistently, or at all, rises quickly. To keep the collective human machine functional, we need to ignore the complexity, and have every radioactive thing be disposed of in the same way.

There are many instances of humans handling scientific complexity badly and coming to poor decisions as a result. A well-known one is declining nuclear fission power stations in favour of coal power stations and subsequently releasing more radioactivity into the environment than the nuclear power stations would ever have done. I'm sure there are hundreds more.
...or a stable/sane OS interface in general. While OpenBSD loves to break ABI between releases, source-level compat is actually great. Most porting issues I've ran into were careless instances of #ifdef __LINUX__ or similar.
> I’m a young(-ish) dev who used to care a lot about open source but never managed to break into a community.

I think this is the wrong mindset. Open source works best with a "hacker" approach where you fix your own issues / fulfill your own wants and then share the results with others. Sure, this could result in becoming part of a community but that shouldn't be the goal.

> “Your patch works and provides a feature some people might like, but I don’t like it, go away.”

That's an entirely reasonable response. You are effectively asking the project regulars to maintain your code going forward, after expending whatever effort it would take to coach you into making it fit. It's perfectly fine for them to say thanks, but no thanks. Accepting pull requests indiscriminately only leads to project death by scope creep, unmaintanable bloat and eventually maintainer burnout.

> I’ve donated plenty to organizations like Mozilla, Wikipedia, and GNOME. I then email them with my opinions on what they’re doing. In nearly every case not only am I ignored completely, I see those projects (Mozilla especially) continue to drift in a direction that I disagree with. So, I stopped donating.

Understandable and I feel similarly about these (well except I never cared much about GNOME) but they are all run closer to startups than open source community projects.
> There's no good way to prevent a user from creating the record with an invalid date

That is factually incorrect.

You can do all of that validation in a record constructor, much like in a normal Java class constructor. There's a difference in syntax: you don't need to repeat the constructor arguments in parantheses, and don't have to perform the assignments yourself. These are tailored specifically for easy validation.
No need, it will be available on aliexpress next week
I don't think this of use as a general discriminator. At least in the US, some native trees kill or prevent the growth of pretty much anything under their canopy via shade and the volume/density of leaf litter.
"A 2022 decision by the high court requires explicit Congressional permission before agencies can decide on issues that have “vast political and economic significance.”

A combination of a rather-dysfunctional congress, for many years already, and this limitation, means very little ability to regulate on the federal level in the US.
And what about distraction coming from tabbed browsing?

How you seen people having 40+ tabs open and claiming, "I don't even know what I'm having here" ..?
I've seen this a lot
Hands-On: Immersed Demos Barely Functional Visor
those are exceptions that confirm the rule
can someone explain how is profiling tools like this written for GPU applications? wouldn't you need access to internal runtime api?

for ex. Apple wraps Metal buffers as "Debug" buffers to record allocations/deallocations.
The Pages Project (2015)
Deploying Large 405B Models in Full Precision on Runpod