skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will future historians just think we were completely stupid to think running the world like this on debt would work? I can just see future students saying “Well what did they think would happen?” and the professor just shrugging.
A Quick Comparison of Vector Databases for RAG Systems
The most complete plan for this was proposed by JPL's Slava Turyshev and team. It has been selected for Phase III of NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts. [0]

> In 2020, Turyshev presented his idea of Direct Multi-pixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravitational Lens Mission. The lens could reconstruct the exoplanet image with ~25 km-scale surface resolution in 6 months of integration time, enough to see surface features and signs of habitability. His proposal was selected for the Phase III of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts. Turyshev proposes to use realistic-sized solar sails (~16 vanes of 10^3 m^2) to achieve the needed high velocity at perihelion (~150 km/sec), reaching 547 AU in 17 years.

> In 2023, a team of scientists led by Turychev proposed the Sundiver concept,[1] whereby a solar sail craft can serve as a modular platform for various instruments and missions, including rendezvous with other Sundivers for resupply, in a variety of different self-sustaining orbits reaching velocities of ~5-10 AU/yr.

Here is an interview with him laying out the entire plan.[2] It is the most interesting interview that I have seen in years, possibly ever.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava_Turyshev#Work

[1] https://www2.mpia-hd.mpg.de/~calj/sundiver.pdf

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqzJewjZUkk
CSGO doesn't do P2P matchmaking and Valve _are_ working on real-time heuristics based cheat detection to kick cheaters mid-match
There's no such thing as a "VS Code user", VS Code is the one that uses you, not the other way around.

btw. this isn't some kind of an FP joke, there's no 'fun' in it, only sad truth.
Yeah, it feels like a dead giveaway when someone at higher ranks has near perfect but within the realm of believable gameplay from a mechanical standpoint (great aim control/accuracy, hitting lots of flick shots) but then they're running all over like a headless chicken, getting lost on the map, have no regard for positioning and angles when pushing or defending, just purely leveraging "skill" alone.
It would also be interesting to hear thoughts on the company of somebody like Cory Doctorow.

Edit: aha, found. https://doctorow.medium.com/how-palantir-will-steal-the-nhs-...

"Palantir is one of the most sinister companies on the global stage, a company whose pitch is to sell humans rights abuses as a service. The customers for this turnkey service include America’s most corrupt police departments, who use Palantir’s products to monitor protest movements.

Palantir’s clients also include the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a federal agency who rely on Palantir’s products for their ethnic cleansing..."
> the Node way of doing things seems to be "just let the process crash and restart it"

Honestly I've never heard of anyone advocating for this.

PM2 is only necessary if you're running Node in like a VPS where you're in charge of managing the process. In managed solutions like Fly, Google Cloud Run, etc you never really have to care about this. VMs are restarted automatically and it's trivial to have HA with multiple VMs running in parallel.
What is an EU-sized project?
I agree. Though I think you point out a problem with mixed use development, we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Where I live and in other similar neighborhoods, the fact that they are great neighborhoods invite visitors regardless of transportation concerns.
I was thinking about this recently when a friend group argued that someone getting out of paying hospital bills is unethical since doctors are just as much victims of America's bad healthcare system as patients (due to exploitative pay structures I guess). To me this feels like some kind of victim blaming. The writer isn't getting paid (much), the reader is paying too much to a stranger, yet somehow the reader is the bad guy if they opt out of the process.

I get that the idea is "if everyone opted out the writer would get nothing instead of peanuts!" Or maybe the company shafting the writer would go under and direct sales would happen instead?
I don't recall the AirPods ever being mocked. Why would they be, after years and years of almost identical-looking earbuds being sported in public?

But long before that we had DoucheTooth (or BlueTool, whichever you prefer) earpieces. Now those were mocked.
I never asked for advertising: you're putting words in my mouth and arguing in bad faith. I only asked for openness.
Hard to split that from just age based improved performance though.
> If you put the source code for Windows 95 online, you'd be sued into a pile of ashes by MS within 10 minutes.

The Windows NT 4 source code exists in multiple public repos on GitHub, and the one from the first Google result has been there for at least four years.
Don't sign an agreement to do something you don't want to do. It's as simple as that.

It's not "blaming the consumers" for expecting people to follow the terms of contracts they sign. I never had a Gold's Gym membership for exactly this reason - their cancellation terms were onerous, I wasn't interested in complying, so I never signed and never gave them any money.

If you say "well, I don't want to do that, but I'm just going to sign this anyway then do a chargeback because that's easier" them yes, you deserve to be blamed, you deserve to be shamed, and you should have to pay the cancellation fees, early termination fees, whatever.
It's not a coincidence most e-ink tablets look the same is it? I'm talking the scribe here vs. remarkable 2.
It’s not really baseload without something else, though. And pumped hydro capacity is generally meant for hours or days.
The thing is that the iPad screen truly doesn’t compare to e-ink in reading black-and-white books. If the e-ink screen is made properly, with high resolution and no PWM, one can read for hours on end without eye fatigue. Battery life on e-ink devices is in another league as well.

For me at least, issues with an e-ink device simply mean moving on to another device, or another manufacturer/brand, instead of switching to tablets.
mypy helps, but I generally agree. Similar thing on the node side.. Typescript is great but it's still a lot harder to scale an application. It can be done in dynamic languages obviously (PHP: Slack, Typescript: VSCode) but IMO it's harder.

Despite having a big Django/DRF and FastAPI footprint, our backends in-development are using C#/aspnet.
And for the topic of the post, why do you break down the features of your new app? Let's not forget to throw in the AI buzzword!
No pic of the assembled hardware or mostly software?
The GPU is stateful and requires loading shaders and initializing pipelines before doing any work. That is where its latency comes from. It is also extremely power hungry.

The CPU is zero latency to get started, but takes longer because it isn't specialized at any one task and isn't massively parallel, so that is why the CPU takes even longer.

The NPU often has a simpler bytecode to do more complex things like matrix multiplication implemented in hardware, rather than having to instantiate a generic compute kernel on the GPU.
I like the pet theory!

just quibbling on profitability. it's not ostensibly 80%, it's 80%. gross margin != "net profit" != cash flow positive, thanks to GAAP.

Compare the margins (gross, operating, net) here [0]. Observe the historical changes in cash on hand (i.e. cash flow) here [1].

They have been accruing cash-on-hand on a YoY basis since 2021Q4.

80% gross margins on 2.5B TTM revenue is really impressive.

For comparisons, Cloudflare sits around 77% (on 1.5B TTM Revenue), Salesforce around 75% (36.5B TTM revenue), Datadog around 80% (2.4B TTM revenue).

It does remain to be seen on whether they can translate that into meaningful operating margin over time. But they're well on their way [1]

[0]: https://macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/PLTR/palantir-technolo...

[1]: https://macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/PLTR/palantir-technolo...
If it's the problem I think it is, the solution is to run two concurrent prompts.

First prompt validates the input. Second prompt starts the actual content generation.

Combine both streams with SSE on the front end and don't render the content stream result until the validation stream returns "OK". In the SSE, encode the chunks of each stream with a stream ID. You can also handle it on the server side by cancelling execution once the first stream ends.

Generally, the experience is good because the validation prompt is shorter and faster to last (and only) token.

The SSE stream ends up like this:

data: ing|tomatoes

data: ing|basil

data: ste|3. Chop the

I have a writeup (and repo) of the general technique of multi-streaming: https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2024/05/need-for-speed-llms-beyond... (animated gif at the bottom).
I'm pretty close to skipping out on my cell number. I very rarely use it. But that said, I do use it every so often, and when I do I need it pretty strongly. Also, I've had the same number for something like 15 years, and that's hard to walk away from.
The GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile and GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile also have 16 GB versions as noted directly above the linked section on [0].
This is a really cool project! What have people built with it? I'd love to learn about what local apps people are building on this.
I've never seen anyone claim that you could maximize content to truly full-screen on these things. Can you?
Momentous.

Great to see the project trucking along nicely.

If we hit a future where Ladybird is a fully viable web browser for modern usage, it will be fun to look back on moments like these. I should try and create more memories when I work on projects, good for the soul.
Happened to me too… Yes, it happened during syncing. I searched up on how to disable Kindle auto update and it’s happening less, but last time I bought a book from Kindle store I got bit again. I guess it’s a sign to stop feeding the hand that bites me.
Offload only makes sense if there are other advantages, e.g. speed, power.

Without those, wouldn't it be better to use the NPUs silicon budget on more CPU?
How would something like that work?
> On other hand, who are we defending from and why are spending all this money on world police when we have a ton of internal problems?

Reminds me of this scene in Wag the Dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwgPnYVg74Y

"The war of the future is nuclear terrorism. It is, and it will be against a small group of dissidents who, unbeknownst to perhaps their own governments, have blah blah blah blah blah. And to go to that war, you have to be prepared."
Doctor Fukushi Masaichi and the art of preserving tattooed skin
Hardware today last as long as the warranty-1 month.
It deletes all side-loaded books when you connect it to the internet, happened to me as well.
I've got a Boox Note 3 and love it for what it is (my hardware has been fine), but I'd find it very hard to recommend generally. Boox are dodgy at best (GPL violations, random connections to china, etc...), you start with an already old version of Android and if lucky you might get another major version, they aren't cheap, Android stuff is mostly not designed for black-and-white/low refresh rate and some apps have unreadable buttons, things like that.

But, with that all said... it's great for my specific uses. Android is just so much better if you want to run self-hosted stuff. When it dies or the software just gets that old I'll be really at a loss for what to get to replace it.
The research that may cure Parkinson's
> Does Scheme even have NIL in the sense that other Lisps like CL or Elisp have?

No. It has an empty list, which is a singleton atomic value whose type is not shared with any other object, and it has a boolean false value, which is distinct from the empty list. A user can create a symbol named NIL, but that symbol has no characteristics that distinguish it from any other symbol. You can, of course, bind NIL to either the empty list or boolean false (or any other value) but it can only have one value at a time (per thread).
Some competitive multiplayer games.

Which seem to be exclusively FPS games with ~10+M players ?

I don't even remember the last time when I've heard of a game outside that very narrow (albeit decently popular) category to have complaints about cheaters. Meanwhile for these games, I hear about it like every month, and all this despite this genre being amongst the ones that I play the least !
feels like a new season of silicon valley
I'd be curious to understand what speciality they have that they can do drone path planning better...?
Is there any good reason to post paywalled articles here? May as well just offer an opinion with a headline.
They use less gluten in Europe
Nice to see a language take developer UX seriously and focus on good compilation times. I wish this was more common.
Sometimes I lament the fact that in Jetpack Compose, @Components don't return anything. They are all side-effecting functions, even though the view is supposed to be a function of the arguments.

But then I hit a "Unable to infer complex types" error in SwiftUI, and think maybe the Google folks got it right after all.
Probably refers to the YOLO family of object detection/classification models. Though I wasn't aware that they could be used for something like cheating in csgo. They are really fast compared to most AI models but I thought that it still wouldn't be fast enough to give you a real advantage (especially for pros), as cheats usually depend on "wall hacks" or similar, and being able to see more than what you could see on your screen.
X's depressing ad revenue helps Musk avoid EU's strictest antitrust law
> The specific disclosure will say: “Accuracy: AI-generated summaries and results may not reflect the opinion of NARA and are not guaranteed to be accurate. Historical records often contain factual errors or offensive language, which ArchieAI may repeat or use.”

So they disclose that ArchieAI might repeat factual errors in the records, but don't bother mentioning that ArchieAI might make up fictional history?
@nikisweeting Is abx-dl already available or is it coming? I took a quick dive and didn't see a repo under the org.

I'm happy to help package this up once it is available.
Oh absolutely, I agree and yes x86 will eventually die. When? No one has any idea but it's not anytime in the next decade.
> You can do the same thing with any screen by holding it the appropriate distance.

Exactly! Commented earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41862459

> Keep in mind that all that unwatchable area is pixels that aren't being used to improve the movie image.

Or maybe it's like the Philips Ambilight+Hue, that people swear adds immersion by letting content color the environment around it.
I work lying down using my Meta Quest 3 sometimes when my back gets sore. I love it.
I find it hard to believe you’d ever earn enough on an Amazon book to make any such contract worth it.
No such luck :( Both the bt1.archive.org and b2.archive.org trackers appear to be down.

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"real films with 3D look like paper cut outs layered over each other and it's very distracting and looks lame)."

Probably because those movies are FAKE 3-D trash that studios troweled out, killing one thing that is highly piracy-resistant and theater-boosting.

Most people complaining about "3-D" movies have probably seen only two real ones: Avatar, and something from Pixar. The vast majority of movies marketed as 3-D were not shot in 3-D, but rather processed into fake 3-D in post. The result: exactly what you describe, lame cut-outs.

Just another reason that the studios and media conglomerates deserve no sympathy when they whine about piracy or declining revenues. They screw actors, writers, theater owners, and the audience... when they've had (and ignored) interesting avenues available to revitalize their industry and audience.
Your previous paragraph of sheer, blind adoration of trees does not suggest that we are even reading from the same book, much less from the same page. (And to be clear: It's fine to adore trees. But it's not fine to say that this seemingly-blind sort of adoration represents an unbiased view.)

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Meanwhile, some nonexhaustive notes on solar:

Solar panels are obviously often used to support existing electrical services, since grid-tied solar is easy(ish).

Similar to the shade from a tree, rooftop solar does help prevent sunlight from heating a dwelling. The panels themselves obviously cast a shadow, and they're mounted with an air gap between the panels and the roof (providing both airflow and thermal isolation). Furthermore, because nothing can ever operate over-unity, 100% of the electrical energy they produce is energy that is removed from the situation of the sun directly heating the roof. (Are they better at this than a shadetree? IDK, but they're better than zero for sure.)

With energy storage, solar can be used off-grid day after day when that is a necessary or useful thing to have -- allowing one to maintain many aspects of modern Western life even in the absence of a grid connection. After a bad summer storm, a person can use solar to help stay cool and to avoid tossing the contents of their fridge, and can do so without needing to maintain a generator or manage a fuel supply. (It's expensive to get there, but there's also lots of things relating to the qualities of modern life that are expensive.)

Solar panels can improve the longevity of the roof they're mounted on, by reducing exposure to heat, UV, wind, and precipitation.

Solar panels won't crash through my roof and into my living room, but good shade trees do that sometimes.

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I can go on, but must I?
Have you seen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming?
I never said Winamp was open source? It's very clearly source-available.
NPUs were a thing (and a very common one in mobile CPUs too) way before the LLM craze.
The "Kind Communication Guidelines" give too much wiggle room for misgendering.

It is hate speech, and a form of psychological abuse, to misgender trans people when you should know better. Depending on jurisdiction, it may incur civil or criminal penalties as well.

Again, there is a reason why the Contributor Covenant, itself written by a trans woman, is the gold standard for open source codes of conduct.
> Am I reading this right?

No. Energy storage would need to reach a capacity of several days to completely obviate the need for existing plants to keep running. Until now there's only been two options to deal with this, building new gas peaker plants – bad outcome, right? – or to just keep baseload coal/gas/nuclear online and throttle renewables – bad outcome, right? Now we can limp coal infrastructure for a little longer before they retire in lieu of building new gas peaking plants, which are neither financially viable nor environmentally desirable.
I’ve put this in my “other ideas” section in YC applications for a couple rounds now. No luck yet.

Would love to send 1,000 probes to 550AU+ out in order to observe 1,000+ ‘nearby’ exoplanets, hopefully find life, make contact, start trade…haha. Or otherwise defend the solar system from invaders that are perhaps already on the way!

Maybe YC rejects me specifically because I put that there…hm.
Stool tests are questionable to begin with.
Christian Ready made a great video on his Youtube channel, Launch Pad Astronomy, about NASA's plans for a solar gravitational lens. It's got some great graphics and visualisations, and is accessibly narrated. I was inspired and learnt a lot of new ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI (23 minutes)
Without steps 2) - 7), the shops still have massive logging problems. Doing those steps has the shops closer to defining the problem and showing insights and possibilities. Step 5) quantifies costs for a solution that works.

> 6) Start rapidly paring down the amount of data going to Splunk to get under budget.

Step 6a) is often “build it ourselves” or “find a less-expensive alternative” — did any of your shops do that with success?
More CPU means siphoning off more of the power budget on mobile devices. The theoretical value of NPUs is power efficiency on a limited budget.
1. Proxyfor is written in Rust, while mitmproxy is written in Python.
2. Proxyfor supports only capturing and inspecting traffic, so the interface is simple, the operation is direct, and the learning cost is low.
That was basically what I was going to say too. The most secure keys are the ones that can't be transferred. If I want protection against the loss of a hardware security key like a Yubikey, I have to get a second one and register that one as a secondary key to log in.

Technically you can generate a GPG key and load that onto multiple Yubikeys, but that's not as secure as letting the Yubikey itself generate the key. Plus if you only use one GPG key and one of the Yubikeys is lost (but not destroyed) then you have to rewrite all the remaining Yubikeys with a new GPG key since you can't selectively revoke them.
It seems like we have all the tools we need to filter email with classification by language models.
No, I don't think this time is different. We've seen ARM CPUs outselling x86 CPUs for a decade or more, the problem isn't the hardware, it's the software. x86 has better backwards compatibility than any other CPU that has ever been created. It runs so much software that it's got another decade of life in it at a minimum. I do think this is actually the first time we'll see really strong sales of competing ISAs in the non-mobile space and that's exciting, but the inertia of the excellently supported x86 ecosphere is massive and cannot turn on a dime.

Plus, 20 years ago people said x86 could never hit power and performance targets that today are the norm. Everyone talks about x86 like the actual hardware is the same year after year. It's not. The underlying CPUs are amazing and both Intel and AMD have done amazing work keeping the ISA competitive. I don't see that changing any time soon.
This is great news. The Xe-100 reactor design is not that different from the Kairos Hermes reactor that was yesterday in the news [1]. They both use TRISO pebbles, they are both slow (or thermal) reactors, and they are both SMR's that produce very nearly the same output (80 MW for Xe-100, 75 MW for Hermes). The only difference is the coolant: it is helium for this reactor, and FLiBe molten salt (a mix of lithium and beryllium fluorides). Helium is a gas, so it's much less dense than a molten salt, which is a liquid. Surprisingly, helium has a very high specific heat (5.2 J/gK), higher even than the specific heat of water (4.2 J/gK). FLiBe has about 2.4 J/gK specific heat. Helium can travel through the core at a much higher speed, so overall, the disadvantage of being a gas is not that great. The Hermes reactor is projected to have about twice the power density of the Xe-100 reactor.

There are some great things about Helium though. One is that Helium-4 (which represents 99.9998%) is the only isotope in the universe that has exactly zero neutron absorption cross-section. All other coolants absorb some of the neutrons in a reactor, but helium doesn't. It is also an inert gas, so it does not pose the various corrosion problems posed by other coolants and moderators (like water for NuScale, FLiBe for Kairos, sodium for Natrium, lead for Westinghouse).

China did already put in production two reactors of the same type as Xe-100, the HTR-PMs. They appear to be working just fine.

Good luck to X-Energy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41840769