skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what about that bezos company, blue origin, wouldnt they be a viable competitor? they seem to know what theyre doing and dont share the incompetence of boeing or the comedy of spacex.
You’re really struggling to explain here because you know it doesn’t make sense. It has nothing to do with price discrimination because the airline collected the fare either way.

If I offered pizza and a drink for $2 or just pizza for $5 and someone buys the former and chucks the drink, that is not their problem, it’s mine for being an idiot.

I didn’t say anything about a parachute. Don’t be dense.
Any color can be used for greenscreen, and blue is often used as second preference to green. I am guessing green is used as that is the least occurring color on a character's clothes or objects in the household.
This also makes matt's initial claim about wpengine being a bastardized fork hilarious since wordpress.com is even more hacked up.

Also, you cannot install most plugins on wordpress.com unless you're on the business plan.
Boeing also deleted a lot of software code they deemed not necessary despite being a hard requirement. They also shouldn't had an issue to the point that NASA lost confidence in Boeing.

We all make mistakes, but some mistakes are being made due to shoddy work. It was thankfully not a capsule destroying mistake, but on something high stake such as a human rated capsule, shoddy works shouldn't be tolerated, especially with corner cutting such as removing entire capability in software.
I think people who can manipulate complex structures but struggle with language tend to see language in a more formal way, putting more effort into understanding its structure and inner working.

Basically what to most people is so obvious that it becomes transparent ("air") isn't to us, which apparently is an incredible gift for becoming a language researcher. Or a programmer.
That’s a BS argument though because I might not have purchased the single leg fare from them in the first place.
> WordPress is the biggest bowl of spaghetti code in existence! I can't believe it powers 40% of the web!

That's not a real statistic. It powers 40% of the long tail of web but not 40% of the access. With Google + Meta included I would guess wordpress doesn't serve even 10% of web.
The Physics Trick That Makes These New Super Cars So Insanely Fast
When we eventually nail agi, I think we will look at llm’s as nothing more than the interface to ai, how we interact with it, but we won’t consider it to be ai.
Yeah, there's just something that feels off with the SpaceX suits. They are perhaps more efficient to manufacture than NASA's first iconic designs that they then mostly just stuck with but come on.

Feels like a case of Muskian "can we delete this part/aspect without impacting the mission goals? SpaceX needs a graphical/visual designer with the power to influence stuff like this :)
I can't buy this premise. The leaky abstraction is that your selected libraries are attempting to be as efficient and as fast as possible while also trying to be fully general. As a result you get the full abstraction layer necessary to do this, which, as you've noted, for any one project is too much.

The complication you seem to be experiencing is other projects have come to rely on these libraries and their particular abstractions and so you've actually got a dependency management problem due to the design of the "core" libraries here or due to a lack of language features to /constrain/ all of them. A critical point of abstraction totally lacking in this ecosystem.

In any case if you look at any language that has contexts that can be externally canceled you should realize this actual solution must be implemented at a higher level than these "async primitives."
Yes, I’ve been using it for about a year to populate databases with a reference DB dump. The current file is about 18GB. I use cloudflare R2 as the backing store so even though it’s being pulled very frequently the cloudflare bill is a few bucks per month.
> What this tells us for AI is that we need something else besides LLMs.

Humans not taking this approach doesn’t mean that AI cannot.
If that were the calculation that we had used throughout history, humanity would have gone extinct. Suffering was extremely common and widespread pre-modernity.
Their GPU will still be needed to do training. As far as I understand this will improve only interference performance and efficiency.
Which are both Linux?
It’s not a double standard to take the context of a writer’s desires in with their work, especially when they are actively trying to depose someone as important as RMS, and especially when the information is not accurate. What is a double standard though, based off of accurate in-context information, is that Drew DeVault is accusing RMS of pedophilia while he has a history of looking at and collecting drawings of bikini-clad prepubescent girls[0] and having VERY suspicious opinions disregarding minor female body autonomy[1].

[0] = https://web.archive.org/web/20131007121950/http://www.reddit... (specifically “Kaname [Madoka] in her swimsuit”. I assume the rules regarding linking to what is legally considered drawn CSAM is rather harsh, so for those who need proof of said claims Pixiv utilizes an ID string on every URL, and the “Sauce” hyperlink will direct you to it.

[1] “I'm of the opinion that 14 year old girls should be required to have an IUD installed. Ten years of contraception that requires a visit to the doctor to remove prematurely.” - https://web.archive.org/web/20130523180641/http://www.reddit...
Reinventing Concrete, the Ancient Roman Way
node.js has a whole plethora of synchronous IO methods. they're actually really nice. or have I misunderstood your meaning?
https://archive.ph/C24yV
Not better, just consistently used.

You wouldn’t say “apple pad 10 inch (2023)” it’d just be “apple pad” and you’d have one of whichever size they offered. You might say “it’s the 2023 update, the 13-inch one” if required to specify for whatever reason in conversation - but when was the last time you worried about calling your iPad “iPad Air 4 13-inch” you just call it your “iPad”
On the other hand, video of astronauts floating in space probably did more to get kids into STEM than most other things in the 20th century. The cultural appeal of space has a real impact on society.
You don’t have to consider every possibility but you can randomly search the tree of every possible state.
This was informative, thanks Steve! The only problem I had was that the difference between changes and commits wasn't clarified enough in the beginning, and I got lost trying to distinguish between the two. I'm on chapter 4 and I'm still not sure what a change is and what a commit is.

From a tiny bit of previous jj experience, my mental model is "a commit is the snapshot, and a change is what happened between snapshots", but that might be wrong. It would be great if this could be clarified a bit more in the tutorial.
The conventions I suggested make more sense when you start looking at the Apple website.

The inconsistency in casing alone (iMac, MacBook, Mac mini, Mac Studio…) makes me twitch.

It was actually just a fun little task for myself, glad you all enjoyed it!

EDIT: on the topic of product recognition, how long did it take to forgot iTunes and simply start using its rebrand to ‘Apple music’?

https://www.apple.com/uk/itunes/
> the backpack look a bit bulky.

Thankfully it's much easier to lug on the moon or in microgravity.
I quit Facebook in 2017.

I quit Instagram in 2019.

I quit Twitter in 2022.

I quit Reddit in 2023.

I'm primarily on Mastodon and Threads at this point, but I soft-quit Threads recently because it was bad for my mental health.

I just don't think commercial social media is compatible with my brain at this point. The algorithms pull you in at first, but then they go sideways and you're addicted to garbage. It's like tabloid culture took over blogging. I hate it.
> My understanding is right around 10Gbps you start to hit limitations with the shielding/type of cable and power needed to transmit/send over Ethernet.

If you decide you only need 50 meters, that reduces both power and cable requirements by a lot. Did we decide to ignore the easy solution in favor of stagnation?
US Interest Burden Hits 28-Year High
I think it's an organisational problem. The financial problem is an outcome, not a cause.

Society devolves to status hierarchies, and the people who climb those most successfully are narcissists and sociopaths.

So there's a default assumption that you have to be that kind of crazy, glib, abusive, exploitative, bullshitter/charlatan to do remarkable things.

Occasionally you get someone who is both narcissistic and exceptionally talented. They get shit done, but they leave a trail of human wreckage behind them.

Sometimes - often - it eventually turns out that it isn't even the right shit.

Meanwhile talent that lacks that narcissistic edge is overlooked and sidelined.

This is cripplingly inefficient, because so much ability is just wasted.

And it's very literally disastrous, because crazy people can't be trusted to have a sane relationship with the physical world or with other humans.

So the problem is engineering effective hierarchies which are reality-based, have enough incentive to reward drive and talent, but exclude - or at least strongly constrain - unhealthy and toxic Cluster B types.

Easy, isn't it?
atcute: lightweight TypeScript packages for AT Protocol
I have a couple sun servers on my basement ... The fully-loaded Sun E450 will dim the lights when it's booted!
Why did you do the software update at all?
If I didn't got it wrong, Matt asked about copying it, you said it was ok because it is GPL and you think that makes him a bad person?

I think this outrage against Matt is terrible in many ways but people are getting away with accusing him of anything they felt wronged. We are talking about a guy that created something in the level of Linux and Wikipedia. Give him some credit and respect ffs.
The Evil Mad Scientist kits are a great way to learn what's inside it. They are faithful replicas of the internal 555 circuitry, built with discrete transistors and resistors.

You mentioned only ten functional components inside it, but if you look at individual transistors and resistors, there are quite a few more.

Here is the through-hole component version:

https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/652

And a surface mount device version:

https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/922

I built the through-hole version, and it worked the first time I wired up a circuit around it.

Highly recommended!
I see a pattern of open source leaders being judged more harshly than proprietary software leaders. I think it’s because of a feedback loop. It started before the current crop of social media. People saw they could criticize Theo de Raadt more easily than Google because Google had its own weird nerds about a decade before the phenomenon with Elon Musk. These defenders were encouraged by the money and connections of the people they were defending, which is greater than those of the open source leaders.

I’m not saying you’re doing this deliberately but if you look at how long Matt Mullenweg has been leading WordPress, I think that puts the drama into context. People have forgotten a lot of the drama with FAANGs during these two decades and their leaders were never held to account.

What WP Engine has done is be soulless. They got acquired by a private equity firm, which makes them like a FAANG. The ways they’ve acted are more visible to WordPress than they are to us - they undermined the way they operate with other big hosts whose datacenters communicate with their datacenters, and users with their support. Matt explains it pretty well in this video: https://youtu.be/WU3sd1kDFLg?si=Og9QZ4_onwhbwvB3
Just write Vanilla JS honestly. It's probably enough
An old article, but it backs my case for Apple returning to simplicity

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/02/ken-segal...
I have found testcontainers to be an excellent way to write integration/end-to-end tests as easily as unit tests.

It takes care of the chore of setting up test environments, though it won’t solve all of your problems.

I took this approach when testing an application at my last workplace. It made writing tests significantly easier, and, IMO, fun.

https://testcontainers.com/
My understanding is Amazon paid an enormous amount for that!
PlantNet has a ID feature that is based on the part of the plant, I.e leaf, flower, fruit etc that makes it much better at ID than just what you would get with Copilot or Gemini.

Companion planting, pests, common diseases and treatments tend to be other questions that we get ( as master gardeners )
> However, they copied it to their commercial Wordpress site and offered it as part of their "business plan" and also their paid premium plan.

That part is absolutely fine and is covered in the original article under "Wait, aren’t WordPress plugins open source and free to modify": ( https://wpfusion.com/business/regarding-our-cease-and-desist... ) You can copy, fork, and even "sell" free software if you like, as long as you comply with its license terms.

This is a trademark dispute, not a copyright dispute.

The trademark dispute here is the use of the phrase "Advanced Custom Fields" in Automatic's marketing and on their website, as illustrated in the picture just above that section of the article. Automatic's core response is probably correct in a technical detail: e.g. in marketing for "Open Office Sheets", you are allowed to say "Open Office Sheets is better than Microsoft Office Excel because..." Even though "Microsoft Office Excel" is trademarked by Microsoft, you're using the name to draw clear distinctions, not to imply endorsement, nor to confuse people into thinking you're selling their product.

It would be an interesting legal case because even though Automatic may have been using the phrase in an allowable way, the result did create confusion in customers. Customers aren't reading the full sentences of the article, they're using Google to find something, clicking "buy", and then later contacting WP Engine for support for something they bought from Automatic. That's proof of the confusion that Automatic created.
> It was rapidly approaching bankruptcy

No. It was profitable in 2019. Under the old ownership it could have easily become profitable again by correcting the overhiring and not pissing off advertisers.
What I see most from people who appear very attached to the Web of 15-20 years ago is a constant iteration of values, branding (cozy, small, open), discussions over protocols and platforms, and not much writing or self expression.

People don’t seem interested in “blogging” as much as they seem interested in building communities, or rather, full-fledged sovereign states.
One of the largest solar projects in the US opens in Texas, backed by Google
I really don't get how and why are blogs dying.
I get what you're saying and I don't disagree but I don't know if the analogy works.

An Arduino is very approachable in that you can just plug it into a USB port and tell it to blink a light following a very simple tutorial. No breadboards even, just plug in a device and open a program. Under the hood the Arduino is very complex but for the end user it's very simple.

A lot of Arduino compatible modules are also simple for the end user despite being very complex under the hood.

The simplicity for the end user is I think the biggest attraction for the Arduino. In your K8s analogy, it is not simple for the end user. Someone may build some K8s monstrosity because that's what a tutorial or bootcamp taught but it's very obviously complex. The hosted JavaScript app is a better Arduino analogy, it's a complex solution under the hood but presents a relatively simple user experience.
I doubt "boycott" thing would work, but "nerd recommendations" as browser addon would actually be useful.
“The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
What’s your point, exactly? How does the “open source” approach solve this? Surely you’re not putting down the AGPLv3 without also recognizing that “open source” software only strengthens proprietary *wares?
875MWdc

"SB Energy Global announced Friday that its Orion I, Orion II and Orion III solar projects—together naturally dubbed the "Orion Solar Belt"—are ready for operation."

https://www.chron.com/business/technology/article/texas-sola...

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sb-energy-announces...

https://www.gem.wiki/Orion_Milam_Solar

The PPA with Google was closed in November 2022, with commissioning less than 2 years later.

https://www.pv-tech.org/sb-energy-and-google-pen-942mw-ppa-f...
> What I meant with Microsoft's Embrace, extend, and extinguish (EEE) scheme taken to the next level is what Google has done to the web via Chromium

I think this argument is reasonable, but QUIC isn't part of the problem.
A problem, as I understand it, is that if you let all the customers with high disposable income pay extra to avoid ads, you're left with a group of lower income customers who are less valuable to advertisers.

Manufacturers would rather get $15 for every TV than only $15 for some TVs. If they were to let you pay your way out, you'd have to pay significantly more in order to subsidize the people who won't pay.
Data driven vs some writers who read Jung.
I always found DACs/IO to be the limiting thing with microcontrollers. That and latency in general. When you were doing analog stuff with op-amps, yeah, you were setting yourself up for other problems like thermal drift, but there was never any worry that you were going to run out of capacity like you would switching tasks on a microcontroller, and latency was negligible. Plus there weren't many wires and you could see it on a scope. It was all satisfyingly immediate. I wonder what kind of cheap and ubiquitous DSPs(?) people use for that kind of niche nowadays, to do it digitally(?). Do they string DACs together on a bus somehow? How do you get, say, signals flowing around at a couple hundred kHz sample rates, with nice dataflow parallelism -- and then get those signals out to actuators, without much latency -- in that world? Like, what would you use to mix a bunch of audio and run some IIR filters with 20ns latency? Or control, say, four motors with, I dunno, 1 kHz bandwidth? I get this feeling that DACs remain a bottleneck and you're rapidly looking at expensive stuff to do that with a microcontroller, but maybe I'm wrong; I don't do this stuff.
People forget that on Apollo 13s return there was a legitimate concern that the explosion had damaged the heat shield and the fear was it would fail and the craft would melt and break up entirely during deorbit.

Due to their nature they're sensitive and easy to compromise. Which is also why NASA knew from day 1 that icing was going to be a huge issue on the shuttle. They were retrofitting the vehicle, the launch platform and even the software to reduce heat shield risks very early on.

Some of their earliest flights included EVA experiments where the astronauts translated themselves to the thermal tiles, did inspections, and even did mock repairs to test the feasibility of the idea and of the quality of the adhesives in near total vacuum.

After the final accident they started doing something they could have and should have been doing since the beginning. That was simply taking up a camera that could be attached to the Canadarm, swung "underneath" the shuttle, and used to take a comprehensive survey of the thermal management system immediately on orbit.

In any case, point is, human rated space flight will always require this level of attention to detail and ongoing effort to derisk every possible aspect of every mission performed. NASA management did an outright terrible job at this. From incentivizing the wrong behavior, falling in love with paper targets, and completely failing to audit their own internal risk estimations for errors.
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 3: The Scourge
> But recently we found a more problematic issue that also affects many
> more distributions and all the previous GNU Boot release candidates.
> The vboot source code used in Coreboot and in the vboot-utils package
> available in many GNU/Linux distributions contains nonfree code in
> their test data in tests/futility/data (nonfree microcode, nonfree
BIOS, nonfree Management Engine firmwares, etc).

Test data doesn't seem like a huge deal
I would say it's dead. Killed by a change in cultural attitude to one that sees an opposing idea as a declaration of war. Retreat into private walled gardens seems like the only option.
I think it's more that the 555 is basically the heart of hysteretic controller in a box, but it doesn't have the other stuff you need.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang–bang_control

There's still plenty of analog control out there, it's just all hidden away as parts can integrate the sensor, controller and actuator, all in one magic IC. And it can definitely be lower power and cheaper, in volume. The main weakness is the NRE is higher than the typical MCU project so it's not really seen in low volume or hobby level stuff.
That would be a huge mistake. In a deregulated market you will have more predatory middlemen not less. You would have everyone scrambling for the high end serving the top 25% population at high cost and no one wanting to serve the bottom 50% because they can’t afford it and there are lots of fixed costs (good luck hiring qualified doctors and nurses, equipment etc).
We could go back to when a dentist was someone on a stool by the side of the road with a pair of pliers, because that’s the level of health care that poor would be able to afford.
Health care has to be a universal right that a society provides for its citizens.
We have no problem with subsiding the military and defense industry to the tune of $750B a year. I’d rather spend that on having a healthy and educated population. If only we had our priorities straight.
Clark Zapper… Hmm sure offers some interesting properties!

> This device is used tocure, treat and prevent any disease. It will cure anything.

https://www.555-timer-circuits.com/clark-zapper.html
I get it but if you’re a solo founder without VC backing, completely free accounts are really difficult to support.

Free users can create a lot of support tickets. This could be good or bad.

Free users may never convert to paying, which isn’t ideal for bootstrapped ML business with expensive cloud costs.
They said something like “you’re allowed, but we’d prefer you didn’t.”

So it’s a “you’re not wrong you’re just an asshole” situation.
LLM-generated book clones (as seen on Amazon and elsewhere) could potentially fall afoul of copyright law in many ways, including: rights to reproduction/substantial similarity; derivative works; adaptation (including translation); distribution; performance and public display (including broadcast or transmission); etc.
Yeah, sorry, I mixed up 2.0 (the one that still uses TCP) with 3.0. Sorry for wasting your time.
1) I deliberately left it open to including page faults by design. If you do not understand that reading memory might lead to your process blocking, you have much to learn as a programmer. However, I would concede that that this is not really part of the normal meaning of "blocking", despite the result being very similar.

2) I did not intend to include preemption. I should reword it to make it clear that the "condition" must be something of the process' own making (e.g. reading from a file or a socket) rather than simply an arbitrary decision by the kernel.
There are plenty of very respected people confirming that Elon is extremely hands on and key to Starship development. Also SpaceX engineers who worked directly with him on Reddit - take a look, it's interesting to read.
You shall not split. Lenin still lies in his mausolem awaiting a kiss.