skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So what happens when one of the servers is offline? Say I stop the US server:

> service nginx stop

But that's not how you should test this. A client will see the connection being refused, and go on to the next IP. But in practice, a server may not respond at all, or accept the connection and then go silent.

Now you're dependent on client timeouts, and round robin DNS will suddenly look a whole lot less attractive to increase reliability.
I bought one of those for this reason. I really like starlabs and want to support them, but the keyboard cover for that device is .. not great. If it had a keyboard similar to the apple ipad keyboard (the expensive one with backlighting - I forget their name for it), the starlite would be a much more compelling device. At this point mine just sits in a desk drawer and may find its way to eBay.
> There is no other way to spin a $100K car being the #3 overall EV vehicle of any type other than a success, especially given that

they have the US government block competition
Well the purpose of such hypotheticals is to isolate a smaller part of the problem and examine it more closely outside of the larger context, to decompose the matter at hand in order to more easily get a grasp. I think there's value to that, of course as you pointed out only as an aside to the larger discussion, not as a replacement.

The person you originally quoted did mark their post as a nitpick.
Redwoods are fire resistant. Their thick bark acts as shielding and their canopies are way above the height where fires historically burnt.
The problem with side projects is that they do not have a well defined goal. Or they do, in which case something like Factorio won't have any appeal because you can just work on something more meaningful instead. Factorio is for people who want to keep programming but are too frustrated or cynical about the real world to do it there. If the real world was better, they would do it there. If the real world could be fixed with programming, they would do it there. Many have tried, only to discover that what they thought were technical problems are really people problems.
Previously you said:

> [...] go through the javascript host, which is slow

And now you admit:

> this is going beyond my level of experience [...]

> how much slower, i don't know

I guess people just repeat what they hear without questioning or understanding it, and then it becomes dogma.

> did you mean there are snappy webapplications running in WASM?

No. I meant that all existing web apps go through the "javascript host", using JavaScript. So if any of them are fast enough, and some certainly are, the problem isn't the "javascript host".
As a user who does have need for kernel access, because it's my god damn system and not yours, Microsoft's or anybody else's, I don't want it locked down.

It's called security in depth. That means you don't need to prevent all kernel access for users, because there are layers of defense.
Meta-analyses such as the 2023 study need a lot of attention to interpret correctly, and I can't spare that time right now. Have you read the 2005 study?

Note 25 of the 1945 article says that its stature estimates are based on a total of 63 males from all periods, but when Angel returned to the problem in 1985 he cited 52 males from the classical period alone, so clearly he had acquired more data. There are many different ways of estimating stature by measuring bones and best practices may have changed from 1945 to 1985. Here is the table 4 from his 1985 article. https://www.bookandsword.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Scre...
The CEO wasn’t. Rumors were he was single-handedly refusing to listen to any offer, which is why (supposedly) he was pushed out recently.

Somewhat surprising a deal wasn’t made after that. Perhaps Apple though this would strengthen their bargaining position and was waiting to see how this would go.
Dumbphone and number from standard cell provider seems like a simple fix. No iOS or Android necessary.
RO water can strip chemicals from PVC, so it would be substituting one poison for another. Treating the water with minerals seems a much more practical way to go.
This is not what happened in C vs C++.
Because you don't always have a fun side project and Factorio is designed to keep providing them for hours and hours.
Also Multidimensional expressions, popular in OLAP cubes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiDimensional_eXpressions
Vision Pro Bites Dog
The problem with hype around LLM is that people without much experience in the field can't think of anything else.

So much they forget the basics of the discipline.

What do you think cross validation is for?

To compare different weights obtained from different initializations, different topologies, different hyper-parameters... all trained from the same training dataset.

Even for LLM, have you ever tried to reduce the size of the vocabulary of, say, Llama?

No?

Yet it's a totally reasonable modification.

What's the preferred form to make modifications like this?

Can you do it fine tuning llama weights?

No.

You need training data.

That's why training data are the preferred form to make modification, because whatever the AI (hyped or not) it's the only form that let you make all modifications you want.
From the new official WASM proposal:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/js-string-builtins/blob/main/...

"the overhead of importing glue code is prohibitive for primitives such as String, ArrayBuffer, RegExp, Map, and BigInt where the desired overhead of operations is a tight sequence of inline instructions, not an indirect function call"

I guess the more elegant and universal stringref proposal is DEAD now !?

https://github.com/WebAssembly/stringref/blob/main/proposals...

I don't really mind, as it keeps the wasm bytecode cleaner.
There are many solutions to this, and I would not consider it to be one of the foremost complications in a de salinization project.

Very large format, plastic water, main pipes exist… As do concrete pipes, etc.
But now someone at Apple can treat themselves to a very nice dinner.
If you to choose your fridge or the internet, which one would you choose?

I love technology but 100% in camp fridge.
an agregious example is thirdweb who technically has the product open sourced but is written to not work without an API key and phone home to SAAS to check your API call limit..

https://github.com/thirdweb-dev/engine?tab=readme-ov-file
https://portal.thirdweb.com/engine/self-host

It makes me sad becuase I was working on a getting a team together to build a real opensource and free alternative but once they found thirdweb they all got discouraged thinking that no one will understand why our real open product is diffierent
Right. Quite possibly to have a better bargaining position in negotiations to be allowed to turn that feature back on.

Interesting to see what happens next. I never thought the original injunction would go into place, let alone be allowed to go on this long.
First, these studies merely suggest that microplastics have these effects in humans, yet you state them as fact. However, I don't want to argue that microplastics are harmless or that pollution is not an issue. Neither do I want to defend the point that doubling the population doubles the "speed of discovery". But even if all of your points are accurate, you would still have to show that these negative effects outweigh the benefit of a priori doubling productivity. In fact, you make the even stronger claim that doubling the population will actually cut the "speed of discovery" in half. None of this is substantiated by your argument.
This is nice, apart from a quick play when they were new I've never really looked at CF Workers and KV again. This made me go and have a look at the docs and find that it's actually looks quite useful. I didn't know they'd added Python and other languages, so that's cool in itself.

I like Jon's example here, a single and fairly short file that does just enough to demo this all, nice.
I think (hope) the vast majority of people do not believe that asking the CSIO why their website is blocked is embezzlement.
Some people was removed because their email domain name ends with .ru.

Just in case, while mail.ru domain belongs to VK (if I'm not wrong), it's a public email service like gmail.com.
Vulnerabilities of Realtek SD card reader driver
"The following OEMs equip some of their laptop series with SD card readers manufactured by Realtek:

- Dell

- HP

- Lenovo

- MSI

The list may be incomplete. Basically, if your laptop or desktop has a card reader managed by RtsPer.sys, make sure that the driver is up to date."

...

"The version of RtsPer.sys that is free from all these vulnerabilities is 10.0.26100.21374 or higher."

The article goes into depth and shows proof of concept for the following:

- CVE-2022-25477: leaking driver logs

- CVE-2022-25478: accessing PCI config space

- CVE-2022-25479: leaking kernel pool and stack

- CVE-2022-25480: writing beyond IRP::SystemBuffer

- CVE-2024-40432: writing beyond IRP::SystemBuffer

- CVE-2024-40431: writing to arbitrary kernel address
It is not very Buddhist to characterize other methods as inferior [1]. Perhaps the words of the Buddha himself would be the best guidance for you on this.

1. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/bl014.ht...
It’s weird to say we need to decrease the amount of food made of corn because most of the commodity corn grows goes to animals.

It’s not weird to say we should grow less commodity corn because it is resource intensive and broadly subsidized.
This sounds like a crock of shit.

No, it won't be faster, if you only optimize a lesser language. If you have higher level code running your optimizer can do more than if it only has a low level version.

No, it won't be more secure. Js0 might be more secure, but if we sites all run any of dozens of different tools those tools are going to be creating the vulnerabilities. It's shifting where security issues occur, and creating more of them.

I'm terrified this could happen. JS has gotten so much better over time. We are so close to being able to not need transpilers. This sounds like such an absurd cop out for browsers to say, meh, we just don't want to do the work to implement. Being so close & then saying, sorry, you must use big toolchains to develop for the web is a monstrously bad future.
I love Factorio but the graphics look a bit like 1996 SVGA 256-color sprites (edit: by which I mean, I feel like there is noticeable dithering). I haven't played the new "Factorio in space" bits, maybe it gets out of the browns-and-beige color palette a bit more?
Simple solution: Reset the cost basis of an asset to the current market value and realize the capital gain when said asset is used as collateral. Oh and treat the capital gain as income. No more of this lower tax bulllshit just because it's an "investment". Income is income. If anything CGT should be more than income tax because there's zero labor involved.
You have a wrong assumption of what context and teaching means with twiddling with prompts.

The job of human is providing teaching via feedback. Your manager does the same thing to you too. And you can distill those feedback into learnable experience for your llm to be better next time.
That would be a pain...

Look at the milka.fr problems... Milka is also a female name over here, and that already proved to be a problem in france. But so are Mirka and Minka so yeah... no domain for them? Also Micka. Oh and mivka is (beach) sand. Want to sell beach sand? It's just one letter away from milka, so no domain for you either.
Even just sweat would be a problem, especially with fitness being such a big selling point.
Why couldn't you ignore them in the first place?
The article is really talking about equity, rather than ownership. The point is, do you have some preferential claim to be paid a stated amount, or do you have residual rights to the value of an asset. In that sense, buying an "interest" in gold, whatever form that may entail, is closer to "ownership" than debt. Just like if you have a 5% equity stake in a company you can't actually take delivery of 5% of its assets. (Fun fact, you likely don't even "own" the shares themselves.)
I'm curious how France deals with external entities running influence campaigns on global platforms in this context? What prevents external entities (countries or corporations) from effectively buying elections in France?
Which is ironic because I use Google Sheets a lot and occasionally run into problems when it doesn't support BigInt calculations. Sheets is the best excuse Google has for keeping BigInt support in the language.
> the term “Open Source” (as applied to software) was created by the OSI

This is historical revisionism, and it's especially terrible that you'd call people "weasels" for correcting it. The term "open source" (as applied to software) was in-use prior to the existence of the OSI, and that's explicitly why the OSI wasn't able to obtain a trademark on the term. The term meant something roughly equivalent to how we use "source available" today.

Read https://dieter.plaetinck.be/posts/open-source-undefined-part... for a really good deep-dive into the prior usage of the term.
It can be hard to understand something if you wish not to understand it.

It’s pretty simple here: he didn’t endorse Trump. But he doesn’t want to get on his bad side in the case he is elected.

Make sure you take a moment to comb your moral fabric and see if that jibes with how you think the world should work.
read "failure is not an option"

SPOILER ALERT

lindburg just shows up unanounced
at the cape ,security did not call ahead
just escorted him up to the main deck
everything stops,he hangs out for a bit,heads on his way
and then they get back to work

there might not even be a photo,and so you have to
trust that it happened,and in that is a large part
of how shit got done,on trust
I’m pretty sure gladiators were slaves, so pretty much the opposite of willing participants.
Thank you so much for sharing the link. I really enjoy reading Clifford Pickover's books. As a young teen, I was inspired by Wonders of Numbers and Surfing Through Hyperspace.

I am fond of the following explanations for the choice in naming [1]. However, your explanation came directly from the horses mouth ;-)

1. The name “vampire” evokes the image of a creature that bites and multiplies. Similarly, vampire numbers “bite” a larger number into two smaller numbers (fangs) that, when multiplied together, recreate the original number.

2. Clifford A. Pickover, who introduced the term in his book “Keys to Infinity,” often uses imaginative and evocative language to engage readers in mathematical concepts. The term “vampire numbers” reflects his creative approach to making mathematics more accessible and intriguing to a wide audience.

[1]: https://medium.com/@bhaskaravsupraja/ever-heard-of-vampire-n...
An Ode to Vim
That’s probably a losing battle. The coast is already extremely humid due to fog drip.

The problem is that we get crazy weather patterns now due to global warming. For instance, it was ~100F for about a week a few weeks ago, which made everything nice and crispy.

Then, when it cooled off, we got hit with a long windstorm and 15-20% humidity. If that storm had brought lightning, there would have been widespread uncontrollable fires (too windy for helicopters).

It’s not just California. This sort of thing has happened repeatedly in the last few years in most states in the western US.
Yep. I agree. And that's what I am trying to tell folks. Focus on higher value work.
It's so convenient to have USB-c power, audio, storage & network on a single cable. iPadOS can't detect headphones that are unplugged from 3.5mm audio jack on a dock, so it's better to connect headphones to dock via USB, to enable quick switch to speakers. There are right-angle and U/180 degree USB-c adapters to keep the cable out of the way.

RPi 400 keyboard + iPad VNC also works, or HDMI-to-USBc via iPad app, https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/utvfcu/my_ipad_mini_r...
I don't understand the problem? If v8 wants to split into frontend (sugar, transpiled) and backend language (es5 + few things probably; runtime engine proper), they can just do it, no?
The BEAM VM (Erlang, Elixir) does this with what’s called "Core Erlang", used as lower-level targets before compiling to the BEAM primitives.

https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/#_compiler_pass_core_e...
Same as when you ignore the whole cringe-comedy festival by not even considering voting. Liberating.
I obviously have no idea how the math works out in detail, but I'd be pretty surprised if the economics of this were feasible. That is, spend a ton of money (and energy) to terraform sizable swaths of the Arizona desert just to avoid transporting in crops from Mexico right across the boarder? I'd be skeptical that even a back-of-the-napkin estimate would consider this possible. Relevant example: there are a bunch of rice farmers near Houston that are dependent on the Colorado River for irrigation (note, this is the Colorado River in Texas that runs through downtown Austin - completely different river from the Colorado River that goes through the Hoover Dam and supplies a ton of the Western US with water). Given how we've been getting drier over the past decades, the rice farmers are now frequently cut off from water because that water is deemed more important for city dwellers upstream where the economic return on that water usage is much greater.

If we can't even get enough water to these rice farmers (where it's actually relatively swampy, and note TX is a leader in renewable energy generation in the US), it seems like a silly pipe dream to talk about growing kale in the Arizona desert.
The Campaign Registry - here is one place they define it: https://www.campaignregistry.com/privacy-policy/
> She had about two or three tires slashed or had the air nozzle cut off and sentry mode didn't catch anything except the back of the persons head.

Who is doing this? Anti-Musk people? Anti-EV people? I’m not from the US so I’m not familiar with the politics.
Honest question to somebody who seems to have a bit of knowledge about this in the real world: several (German, if relevant) providers default to a TTL of ~4 hours. Lovely if everything is more or less finally set up, but usually our first step is to decrease pretty much everything down to 60 seconds so we can change things around in emergencies.

On average, does this really matter/make sense?
Dave the Diver just turns into a slog is all. It's fantastic at the start when everything is novel, and all the systems hold promise. But the systems themselves turn out to not have good gameplay loops, so right around the underwater village it starts to kinda suck, which ironically is right around when all the systems are mature enough that to play well you have a giant list of "todo" items across a variety of systems, many of which you may find boring, but are obliged to interact with anyway, sort of like real life.

The advantage a game like factorio has over DtD is that you can kind of abandon huge sections and "start fresh" while still collecting rent from the work you did earlier to fund your new excursions. I guess DtD does this to a degree, but there's a lot less freedom of intellectual movement.

This is why I like Against the Storm. It is a novel (if familiar) challenge every time, and every time you "beat the odds" the game forces you to move on to the next harder challenge, "you beat this puzzle, you need a harder on."
I think it's the other way round. You're a respectable individual, you're buying some low-brow ads - and you don't want a newspaper to publish an expose about you, your employees throwing a hissy-fit, or a neighbor getting upset.
Gravity is not a force (2014)
I'm not sure that it has. The workweek remains at 40 hours and most people still work about 40 years. Furthermore, in advanced economies the per household cumulative hours worked has roughly doubled since the transistor was invented. The dishwasher and washer/dryer are the last technologies that actually increased leisure time and predated the transistor.

I'm hopeful that AI + robotics will improve the situation but so far there have been very little quality of life improvements due to the transistor (coding is very fun however).
> I think a far more reasonable analogy, to the extent that any are reasonable, is that the training data is all the stuff that the developers of the FOSS software ever learned, and the thousands of computer-hours spent on training are the thousands of man-hours spent coding.

I think this is a decent point. Is your FOSS project actually open source if your 3D assets were made in Fusion or Adobe?

Similarly, how open is a hardware project if you post only finalized STLs? What about with and without Fusion source files?

You can still replicate the project. You can even do relatively minor edits to the STL. Is that open or not?
The search index knows when the first time it saw that old link was. If it was before the reset, regard it as pointing to a different domain than the current one.
You overestimate ad consumers. Think about it, most people don't use adblock.
Oracle (and other databases?) did this in 00s, using block devices directly. I do not know if anyone is doing this anymore.
If a human is allowed to consume content and be informed/influenced by it then I don’t see any reason why an algorithm can’t. Isn’t that why we publish; so it is consumed and becomes, I’m a sense, part of the entity that consumes it?

If I read a book on how to repair a television and then subsequently go and help someone fix their TV do I owe the publisher because the person I have fixed the TV for doesn’t need to buy their book, robbing them of revenue? this is the argument here right? The AI is allowed to pass on information at learns from the published works. Well that’s already happening. Maybe we just need to rethink how we fund publications because it’s never been a very good model anyway. In fact, it’s consistently been problematic. Not just because AI has came about.
I suspect you are misunderstanding the use case here. If I am understanding you correctly, you are proposing solution using single phone. As such, only one person can have the phone with them at any given time.

Also, a dumb phone doesn't really help with the need for SMS and MMS.

Update: I had indeed misunderstood and the proposal was to use a cloned SIM and two phones with dual SIM support. However, as discussed deeper in the thread this still seems to have flaws.
I have use round robin for years.

Wish I could add instructions like:

- random choice #round robin, like now

- first response # usually connects to closest server

- weights (1.0.0.1:40%; 2.0.0.2:60%)

- failover: (quick | never)

- etc: naming countries, continents
https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-this-the-reason-jeff-bezos-...
Yeah, we need to see how all the pieces fit together. The renderer, physics, UI, sound, input handling, asset loading and memory management.
I'm sure there are more. I recall tons of these posts, and am too lazy to search. It was, and I guess still is, a thing that people go back to over and over. I think it makes people feel good for no particular reason
They dont get to make these choices. The UN could vote to have them do it, but it wont support Israel.

As it stands Helping Israel is against UNIFIL rules. It can only help the Lebanese government. If the Lebanese gov asked UNIFIL to attack Hezbollah, they could. But the Lebanese gov wont do that either.

This leads to the current state. A UN force too small to do anything hiding in their bases and whining about Israel not staying on their side of the boarder.