skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tardigrades can survive extreme conditions like vacuum or radiations only when they are in their "hibernating" state, which is quasi-non-living.

The same is true for a few other kinds of animals, which can enter a special inactive state that can survive desiccation or freezing.

When living normally, no animals can resist such conditions, even if some are much more resistant to radiations than humans.

The most radiation-resistant living beings are some kinds of bacteria, e.g. Deinococcus mentioned by another poster, which have some special mechanisms for continuously repairing the DNA molecules that are damaged by radiation, which allow them to live normally while exposed to radiation.
In simple terms, yes.

The term “native” refers to adopting the vendor’s technology stack, which typically includes managed data stores, containerized microservices, serverless functions, and immutable infrastructure.
I still get flashes of the traumatic day when I was in the kitchen area at work making myself a cup of tea and one of the female employees came in and said "You are a strong and tall man, can you get that heavy box from the top shelf for me".
I wound not call it invent”, but it seems Nvidia defined the term GPU. See https://www.britannica.com/technology/graphics-processing-un... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_256#Architecture:

“GeForce 256 was marketed as "the world's first 'GPU', or Graphics Processing Unit", a term Nvidia defined at the time as "a single-chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that is capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second"”

They may have been the first with a product that fitted that definition to market.
Well, there's what he does.

For example, Musk pledged his commitment to China's core socialist values: https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-signs-letter-pledgin...

Musk advocates for Taiwan's submission to China: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/08/elon-musk...

Musk decried California's covid measures as "fascist": https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-corona...

But praised China because "Shanghai's COVID-19 measures helped lay the foundation for the city's future development" even though they were stricter than California's: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

And there's also what he doesn't do.

Musk is very keen on criticizing the US and other governments. But can you find for me a single criticism of the Chinese government from Musk? I'd like to see one.
Tangibly related, mandatory family guy reference: https://youtu.be/lospTnfovr8
It says on the first line that it's powered by webkit.

You're technically correct, it's an independent browser, but I find that moot if it's just a repackaging of a big tech render engine.
I had that happen numerous times in supermarkets.
Well, a bunch of volunteers seem to have little trouble forking Firefox and creating Pale Moon, Waterfox, LibreWolf, and IceCat. You think a government can't do that? All they have to do really is throw some money to these existing groups.

Why do you keep bringing up Chromium anyway? We're talking about Firefox here.
Unless car arrives in 3 hours because it is morning peak and everyone wants to get to job.
If Nvidia releases a good server CPU, they can eat into both Intel and AMD profits. Maybe it's not as lucrative as selling GPUs but having a good portion of the market may pay bigger dividends in the future.

If I were AMD CEO I would make the top priority to have a software stack on par with CUDA so that AMD GPUs have a chance in the data centers.
That won't be the user experience. There is a limited amount of space on the road and functionally unlimited demand. Demand will level off at a point where either "Immediately a car arrives" turns to "After a barely tolerable wait your car arrives" and "It drives you directly to your destination" turns to "It sits in traffic for a barely tolerable amount of time". Either that limits demand or price limits demand in which case the vast majority of people will be priced out in order to keep roads empty enough for your best user experience.
”One Ring to rule them all

And in the darkness bind them.”
Was XP your first OS, by any chance? I really like the 98 UI, but that was my first and it evokes really nice memories.
whole conversation makes me just think: But how can we not say it, if we don't know what it is!

Ni!
The writing has been on the wall for a while now. Traditional automakers have tens of billions of R&D sunk in ICE vehicles they were planning to payback in decades. Now they have to spend that again on EVs and they just have no desire.

They’re also extremely slow to react, and can’t fathom that people don’t really want what they’ve been selling the last couple of decades, they just didn’t have an alternative. Now they do.
Cannot agree more. Putting ads and other distractions (like awards you can buy and give), are also a form of payment that I may or may not tolerate. Reddit went down that route, and HN reminds me of the early days of that platform (Aaron we miss you, we will never forget you were killed by the state).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYMpTgswAxc
I do use Python and I am not that bothered about speed.

Very little of what I use it for has performance bottlenecks in the Python. Its the database or the network or IO or whatever.

On the few occasions when it does I can rewrite critical bits of code.

I definitely care more about backward compatibility than I do about performance.

It feels like Python development is being driven by the needs of one particular group (people who use ML heavily, possibly because they have deep pockets) and I wonder whether this, and a few other things will make it less attractive a language for me and others.
Then don't complain when Firefox goes away, it hardly matters anyway.
While the 1995 Japanese anime series, Neon Genesis Evangelion revolves around human-shaped weapons called "Evangelions", the "Neon Genesis" part of the title is neither part of the original Japanese name, nor its direct translation. The Japanese name is 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン / Shin-seiki evangerion, "Evangelion of a new era/century". The series has other non-direct translations too, and apparently this style was approved of the original creators, but it was always a bit of a mystery whether the gap in the interpretation was intentional or not.

However, over two decades later, with the re-boot movie series Rebuild of Evangelion, in the final scenes of the final movie, the protagonist name-drops the words "neon genesis" in appropriate context. I've never grinned as hard in movie theater.
I was rather hoping Hacker News would pay me.
What about ion implantation? Any hope there?
it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities
Cant have fitness stress tests for the big guys. They need protection for lazy execution of minimal efforts.
this was sarcasm I'm hoping?
until the fork becomes more or at least similarly popular.
I agree that this looks like a 3rd party issue. They claimed that KB5044284 was the update, but others have noted that after installing that update, they had the option to upgrade to 2025 but it didn't happen automatically - seems the 3rd party RMM somehow pushed a command to start the upgrade.

Honestly, I guess since it's an SMB it might make sense that they aren't able to test all patches before applying them in production, but you'd hope they'd delay the installation for a few days to let others catch major issues.
I can’t be the only one who has watched this all unfold with a sense of inevitability, surely.

When the first serious CUDA based ML demos started appearing a decade or so ago, it was, at least to me, pretty clear that this would lead to AGI in 10-15 years - and here we are. It was the same sort of feeling as when I first saw the WWW aged 11, and knew that this was going to eat the world - and here we are.

The thing that flummoxes me is that now that we are so obviously on this self-reinforcing cycle, how many are still insistent that AI will amount to nothing.

I am reminded of how the internet was just a fad - although this is going to have an even greater impact on how we live, and our economies.
In some regards, absolutely.

But remember even when you're doing everything on-prem with your own employees, you're still running software written by third parties.

So you might still have an unresponsive third party, just they might be a database vendor instead of a cloud vendor.
XP was my favorite as well, at least among the Windows. Not the first OS I used (that would be DOS 3). But it was the last MS OS I used.
At that point Web developers can update their CVs as ChromeOS developer.
Hence the well-known saying:

An Oracle hobbyist is a (sad-o-)masochist ;)
Oh it was my favorite OS as well, it crashed way way less and did its job admirably, I just prefer the Windows 98 UI.
Few additions.

open -n file.pdf : opens new instance of Preview application which is useful if you want to open the same file twice (for example to look at different pages at once).

caffeinate -d : prevents display turning off, useful if you want to look at display without moving mouse.
I remember about 12-15 years ago, as a weekend project, I reached out to the creator of OpenSubtitles dot org and asked him for a dump of all the subtitles, which he promptly and happily provided. I then indexed them all in elasticsearch (it was a pretty nascent tech at the time), and created a movie quote finder, with timestamps. E.g. you could search for "i love you" and it would tell you all the movies and timestamps that phrase would be uttered. My lazy ass didn't go beyond a localhost version, but I still remember fondly of having gotten that working, it felt like magic at the time.
> American CEOs including Elon Musk, Tim Apple have to sing and dance to the CCP's piping

They don't have to, they choose to. Oligarchs usually submit to authoritarians because profit comes before principle. They get their short term gain and others will have to pay the long term cost.
Toggling everything off in “Data Collection and Use” in settings doesn’t change this?
It's actually quite reasonable if for bad reasons.

TL;DR setting up OpenStack was so horrible I think SAP started deploying it through k8s.

So if you want to setup local "private cloud" kind of setup it makes sense to set up OpenStack on k8s.

If you then want to provide multiple clusters cloud-style to the rest of the organization... well, it's just layered again.

In fact, at least one significantly-sized european vendor in on-prem k8s space did exactly that kind of sandwich, to my knowledge.
she already said that more than 1y ago : https://www.eetimes.com/rocm-is-amds-no-1-priority-exec-says...
Was 'je ne regrette rien' playing when you had that doubt?
> For example, why is the address bar so tiny on high resolution screens

Because in the year of our lord 2024, we for some reason still don't know how big a pixel is. Making a textbox 1cm tall should be trivial, but is for some reason either impossible or never done.
The contradiction I see is that the free market you mention needs a some organism that ensures violating other rights is punished. And this goes further, as far as anyone has resources to buy this same organism they will not suffer any consequences. That's what happen now in most governments. The state is just a way to protect billionaire's interests.
Location: EU (GMT+1)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Zephyr RTOS

Résumé/CV: on demand

Email: neutral1@net.hr

Embedded Software Engineer looking for part time engagement. I have working setup at my home with all necessary equipment. I've experience with different architectures and frameworks (FreeRTOS, Espressif, Zephyr RTOS), but I'm currently looking for mainly Zephyr based development.
Sorry if what I said about NPM is not accurate. But in reality if you are pinning the dependencies (all of them actual get pinned) then when pip is installing it will grab the correct version of the transitive dependency (both packages are pinned)

So I am not sure when this will become a problem.
Location: Lagos, Nigeria.

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: Nest.js, Go, PostgresQL, Next.JS, Svelte, Flutter, OpenAI

Resume/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RW3so6XhPsF8yOFjzeh3fbax...

Email: chisomekwuribe@gmail.com

I'm a highly passionate and highly motivated engineer that loves to build. I enjoy working with people and I'm looking for an opportunity to bring my creative energy to a team that's building innovative solutions
Downvoters are responding to a perceived arrogance. What does agi mean to you?
Huddles worked just fine if you spoofed the user agent, they actively blocked the functionality on firefox.
sips
https://ss64.com/mac/sips.html
Have you stopped scrolling once you realized that? The article acknowledges that, and even has a special category of movies named after characters with just a single title drop.

That said, Barbie is a funny case indeed, as it's named after about half of its characters :P
BOMB: In Capitalism the government is an tool controlled by billionaires to protect their interest.
TIL: caffeinate

Very useful.
Is NKN just a regular old Blockchain that doesn't work on isolated networks, or do they do something special to fix that?

Yggdrasil seems to be the best of this kind of thing, but it still has some issues
I think by "successful" the instructor meant actually restarting the heart and reviving the patient, which is very unlikely. Keeping blood moving und preventing/delaying neurological damage is the thing the patient will benefit from.
Your DB is probably faster than you think. I rewrote an API in Python to Java and it is around 6x faster with just same dumb N+1 queries, and the new API also includes all the frontend calculations that Python wasn't doing before.
Perhaps Rust Needs "Defer"
I’m just stupid, what’s on the wall?
I tried to find out more about Gavekal Research from their website, an About page or mission statement, got bupkis.
More like, Typescript is causing Javascript to get dethroned by Python, but Typescript is still basically Javascript.
Yes.

So far the only thing on the internets I voluntire to pay is LWN - for quality of articles.

HN is in worse position - it's "just" mass and quality comments which is easier to copy, eg. lobster alredy exist and there "was" slashdot before (but form is somewhat unreadable...).

But if I had a choice - ads or paywall - then paywall is superior for both sides, possibly even the future.

But HN should wait till WW3 ends...
Turing kicked us out of Heaven (2023)
Just want to point out private ownership of property, in the common sense, is also existent on socialism/communism. That is very different from private ownership of the means of production.
>This enables you to design custom web automation and scraping functions without manual inspection through DevTools

Can it use a headless browser?
Expected is Spring 2025.
The narrator, Ron Howard, also appears in an episode while still doing the narration and referring to himself.
What makes you think AGI is either here or imminent?

For me the current systems still clearly fall short of that goal.
The Greek half of the name is equally fitting.
The tech industry is completely silod from normal society. Women barely exist.

And let's face it the kind of people who want to dedicate their life to staring at a screen make for a strange crowd.
I work for a small orgthat is owned by a very large corp. Our spending is managed by large corp.

If I want to buy a $10 domain, the process takes a month and requires escalating to a purchasing director. If I want to rent a new server from hetzner, same thing.

If I want to spin up a bedrock instance for $1000/day on AWS - it’s already a line item in the budget so as long as I have a cost tag on the resource it’s pre-approved. As long as something is on the software catalog on AWS it’s ok to use.
afconvert is pretty nifty for audio format conversion.
Great tip about the `security` command, a new one for me.
One did. Brave browser.
A bug: In "Highest title drops by decade", 1960, "Best rated (at least 1 drop)", it lists Psycho with 0 drops. It really does seem to be 0, so shouldn't show up here.
So basically windows server 2003. Peak desktop productivity UX.
It’s a bit naive to think that this sort of an org went from hiring top tier sysadmin staff to bottom of the barrel developers for cloud dev. It’s likely they were a thundering mess when they managed their own hardware too.
It was cheap compared to computers one would have otherwise run for timesharing, whether they were PDP-10, S/360, or some of the other contenders.

The real breakout for Unix was that it was something you could grab for free and later it was possible to port software to other platforms easier
Rebalanced local production isn't necessarily a rejection of globalization.

It is ridiculous to have a military, for example, depend upon supplies which may be cut off during conflict.

It is also ridiculous to have your entire economy dependent upon foreign powers which seek to subvert and destabilize you.

The US and most of the West undertook plans to "uplift" countries such as China in the 70s. The thought was that by opening up trade, prosperity would follow, a middle class would follow, an upper class, and democratic principles might follow.

This had not entirely failed, but at the same time that experiment has been taken too far, especially during the current climate.

Most specifically, China's refusal to sign on to a key, pivotal aspect of access to western markets, IP, eg copyright and patent law, means that their access to these markets is slowly being withdrawn.

What we granted 50 years ago, open, mostly tariff free access to our markets is being taken away, removed as conditions for that access are not being respected.

Only China is to blame for this. The rampant IP theft, the lack of respect for the collective market's rules, the flagrant and egregious espionage, have resulted in this fate.

The West will still trade with anyone that follows such common market principles. The West is not closing down international trade. The West is instead ensuring that when we completely cut off China, and its lack of regard for our common market rules, that we are not harmed.

Thinking this is all about a reduction in trade is wrong.

None of this new, or a surprise to anyone paying attention to geopolitical issues during the last 50 years. When the markets opened, when tariffs were dropped, China was told the rules for that access.

In the ensuing decades, attempts to negotiate and work with China over IP issues have seen zero progress.

We offer access with open hands under specific terms. We happily wanted to engage in profitable business ventures. China, its leadership perhaps thinking it is clever and somehow tricking us, did not realize that the West is very open, forgiving, and willing to discuss a lot prior to hitting an impasse. We believe in democratic principles after all, and try to negotiate.

But now that this next segment of the process has started, China has effectively shot itself in the foot. Like a noisy person repeatedly warned in a movie theater, it is being shown the door.

Access to our market is being withdrawn for China.

Expect this to hit the next level in perhaps 5 years, where all imports hit heavy tariffs... after we've ensured our stability in key areas.

Gradual increases in Chinese import tariffs will ensure local businesses spring up, replacing what will become more expensive Chinese alternatives.

It will be an economic boom for the West.
Indeed, that's exactly the problem I had with that mode.

The fact you can get into that mode accidentally with no obvious way to cancel it is a UX failure.
I would not pay. I look at HN primarily because it aggregates good links, not because of the comments, which is somewhat the opposite of reddit.
Sadly, several python projects do not use semantic versioning, for example xarray [0] and dask. Numpy can make backward incompatible changes after a warning for two releases[1]. In general, the python packaging docs do not really read as an endorsement of semantic versioning [2]:

> A majority of Python projects use a scheme that resembles semantic versioning. However, most projects, especially larger ones, do not strictly adhere to semantic versioning, since many changes are technically breaking changes but affect only a small fraction of users...

[0] https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/6176

[1] https://numpy.org/doc/stable/dev/depending_on_numpy.html

[2] https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/discussions/versionin...
I needed to undistort some PCB pictures taken with handheld phone camera for reverse engineering job and decided to try Gimp again after ~20 years. Managed to crash it in under 10 minutes of using Transform tool & SVG loaded as Path :o I spend more time googling and failing to find how to load SVG in a way its not a pixelated mess as a background truth for the transformed picture. Not encouraging.
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Surely the end state of advanced computational hardware production cannot be glorified color photography? It's really weird nobody has come up with a better process.
AEDs are an amazing invention and I'm glad to see them dotted around the place. Initially in dedicated cabinets mounted to walls outdoors, and sometimes in repurposed telephone booths.
The supermarket encounters are most often dirty old women who are still stuck in the past, or have gotten away with it for so long they just don't know any better.
I'm the developer of the Wasm driver mentioned in the article: https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3

The v0.20.x series (I just released v0.20.1) should improve this significantly.

The driver was reserving lots of address space (with a protected, private, anonymous mapping) which doesn't play well with VMs and OSes that don't like to overcommit. It now reserves much less address space by default, and this can be reduced further.

I also brought SQLite WAL mode support to 32-bit archs, to Windows and (through a build tag) to any OS that with an atomic mkdir (used for locking).

Happy to discuss here, if you're looking for more in depth commentary.
I mean if your goal is to be internet famous, have lots of followers in the tech space then yeah there are plenty of people doing that on Youtube.

I suspect a lot of junior devs set up blogs more as an experiment in setting up a linux server, static site generator, experimenting with Go/Rust/Ruby/PHP or whatever. Most lose interest when they realise the vast majority of people out there just aren't interested in their content and they get demotivated.

To me personally the word "blog" always sounds like something unpleasant somebody before you left in a toilet for you to discover. It's a shitty sounding word.
>Sure, and the contract should be terminated.

So in your view all contracts should be meaningless if one party doesn't want it anymore? Do we even need contracts then?
Hi,

I am the author. The article is not speculation. I know from sources inside Facebook that the cable will head Southeast from the US East Coast directly to South Africa. From there it heads directly to India. From India to Australia. From Australia to the US West.

What is speculation are the branching units. It is natural to add branching units to aggregate traffic to more countries. But I have no confirmation.

Regards,

Roderick.
open -a is nice, i use it with alias, ex:

alias qt='open -a "quicktime player"'
alias vlc='open -a "vlc"'
I would be happy to be able to adjust the font size. It's almost as if these orgs don't use their product...or the effort to make this small change would require a major re-architecture.