skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iroh's big thing is breaking down IPFS functionality into modular pieces, which is supposed to be faster and more efficient, business immigration lawyer especially for data centers and mobile. They’ve got three versions: Iroh Cloud (all split up into microservices), Iroh One (more streamlined, all-in-one), and Iroh Mobile for iOS/Android. Definitely seems like they’re aiming for high performance and lower latency compared to standard IPFS. Curious if anyone's tested it for speed yet or has insights on resource usage? https://www.pollakimmigration.com/
Finally Java 23 has been released on September 17, 2024 and now you can download it and use it. There are some new features announced, and many other features that were introduced in Java 21/22 are going to a new preview round. In this video, I will share three Java 23 features that I am most excited about. #java #programming #softwaredevelopment
And those files are hopefully encrypted at rest and probably using a customer managed key…
And there's wasm-bpf: https://github.com/eunomia-bpf/wasm-bpf#how-it-works

But should (browser) WASM processes cross the kernel boundary for BPF performance?

FWIW EVM/eWASM opcodes have a cost in gas/particles.
Not to mention mainstream cheats are going for $50+ a WEEK.
> skipping songs

That's on the steering wheel on practically every car I've had for over 20 years of model years.

You probably shouldn't be flipping between audio sources while driving. But even then, I've had change audio source as an option on steering wheels before. Generally, you shouldn't be fiddling with the radio when the vehicle is moving, you should be driving. Keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road, not on the stereo in the center console.

FWIW, in pretty much every car I've had since a 2012 model year I've been able to press a button on the wheel and say "tune to am 1510" and it'll tune that without having to take my hands or eyes off the wheel. Far preferrable than trying to look over at the radio to find the AM button again and figure out which knob is the tuning dial and then look to see I'm tuning to the right station.
You aren't even trying to pretend your sentence make sense, I see…
California’s state budget is higher than the gdp of Finland.

You would think this would be high up on the list of hiring competent people to manage this part of CA life.
HuggingFace - Tencent launches Hunyuan Large which outperforms Llama 3.1 405B
> greatly appreciate systemd

Really? I have yet to see one. Kids, maybe. Experiences sysadmins may appreciate systemd as PID1, but almost everything else is pure cancer.

> There's a major disconnect, I've seen, from what systemd haters proclaim and what is reality.

I can certainly agree with that.

> Nobody is forcing anything

... until distro maintainers decide to move crucial tasks to systemd-timers from cron, change resolved to systemd-resolved, switch from ntpd to whatever its called, remove sudo in favor of another systemd thing, etc. But sure, you are free to not use any. Except the only *nix thing left is the Linux kernel. Soon to be systemd-kernel.
Know Your Rights, Report Voter Intimidation [pdf]
>Once it escaped Jupiter its trajectory is just a straight line.

I honestly don't know that we understand gravity well enough to keep this close of track of this small of an object for so long. Plus all the effects of the "negligible" gravities of nearby objects have to add up over time, and we can only include so many bodies in our N-bodies simulation, right?
that's fine! I can handle translating an individual page (or interview) if I've high confidence it's the right/relevant one, just parsing search results is harder cross-language (for me, anyway).

thanks much!
i always use duckduckgo for pirate searches but honestly there's only a couple mainstream public ones worth going to, so i usually just go directly to those
Being unable/unwilling to produce mandatory records is fraud. Technical measures to be unable to produce records (e.g. offshore and encrypted archival) are evidence of criminal intent and possibly separate crimes.
I'm American. I prefer to err on the side of free speech, versus over-aggressive censoring of what can be written/thought/etc.

Quite honestly, I've never seen anything "racist" on Quillette, and I've read them for some while in the past. There are certainly a wide range of positions held by the assorted authors, and it's one of few sites that hadn't (at least a few years ago when I was reading it more regularly) fallen to "We cannot so much as think anything that does not align to our political orthodoxy."

"A Wikipedia article stating that a site at some point had some articles on an topic many find offensive" is not enough for me to classify a platform as a racist platform.
I think this is probably right. Zip never quite got the penetration needed to take up the mantle of the floppy as far as I remember. And by the time it gained traction the CD burner was coming onto the scene in a big way. The market badly needed a higher capacity floppy like media, 1.44MB was a complete joke by the time floppy drives were killed. But if you had to choose between buying a zip drive or a CD burner the burner was the way to go. A burner was terrible for shuffling a few files around and early burning with janky disks and slow processors was a gamble, but copying games and albums or making mix CDs as well as the superior capacity just left it with broader utility than a zip drive with expensive disks had.
Feature Flags looks like it's crafted around automated rollouts. Varse was designed to be more manual, just for reading / writing key - value pairs. You can use it to store long-lived variables like database_url. It could also be used for short lived variables like percent_db_migration_rollout.

Have you used Feature Flags in the past? I'm curious what your experience was.
If it's broken for decades, what took us so long to change it and who gave systemd swamp the honor to provide the one and only right solution?
Anyone in the field will likely say that they wouldn't trust half of their colleagues or themselves.

It's pretty much how professional prestigious positions work. Beneath the gilding there's duct tape repaired with super glue.
> not only do rockets need something to push against, they have to carry it with them

I think you meant "something to push with. But anyways, nuclear explosions make their own hot gasses out of the reactants, and the problem with that is getting that to be directed and also to not get the ship -you know- blown up in the process.

A better approach is to have a nuclear reactor to heat reaction gasses to much higher temps than chemical reactions allow for, thus increasing ISP a lot. The main problem with this is that nuclear reactors need a lot of cooling, even and especially after you shut them off, and the reaction gasses are going to be your only way to cool them. Alternatively you can carry huge radiators -- really huge, because in space you don't get to exchange heat with an atmosphere or a body of water, so you can only radiate or ablate away the excess heat, and either way would require huge amounts of extra mass. Another problem is that stop/start latency with nuclear reactors is huge, so they would only work for interstellar travel, I think. I'm sure if you carry enough reaction mass then nuclear reactors can work well for interstellar trips.
> more free speech than American one who is actively trying to influence the election

Are you applying the final clause to the Russian or the American search engine? What are you referring to?
The pension may be held in trust, but if the employer goes under, the pension stops getting new contributions. In many cases, this led to insolvency of the fund as well, since contributions before employer insolvency were usually not high enough to ensure fund assets could cover future obligations.
THANK YOU! You're the hero we all needed!

Fixed: https://github.com/Thomascountz/thomascountz/commit/dc7d810d...
If you make your PDFs in A5, you can print two of them on an A4 paper and read the paper in landscape orientation. For the same reasons the size fits well for displaying on a computer screen and on a tablet/e-reader. It's still a bit too big to squeeze down to a cell phone, but at least better than A4/Letter size.

As for responsive HTML, it's the responsibility of the designer to make it work if he/she is worth their salt. Like you say, HTML without CSS is already responsive. If businesses understood that there are a big segment of customers who will always use their computer and never their phone when it's time to make a purchase, perhaps they'd be better at it.
Yeah that's a good point. We meant application config. I will change the repo's description to reflect this.
being marked as “the new Lex Fridman” isn’t as great as it once was
"To preserve funds for flu treatment, we are hereby halting all vaccine-related activity."
Microk8s is nothing but a kubernetes distro from canonical. Personally I would use k3s because it’s a little more widespread and less opinionated in a good way.

Anyway, as always it depends on what you want to use it for.
I believe you are wrong. Particularly in Europe and the less metropolitan an area is the less likely a foreigner will fit in.
Well if it is an equal amount of money contributes, yes a 401k match would be strictly better than a pension because it gives control over to the employee of the money.

> It is a match, if you don't contribute, there is no match.

That choice should be left to the employee.

Why are you upset with how the employee is choosing to do with their retirement?
I broadly agree, but would draw this out a little:

> Its just that American lawmakers don't value traditional American family, they'd rather woman have an abortion, instead of subsidized childcare and 12+ months of paid family leave.

I'd be surprised if any federal elected official was on record with a position as ghoulish as this. I think the diversity of opinion on "what do we do about childbearing" is broader than "American lawmakers... would rather women have an abortion". At least the right is pushing a lot of incentives to make women staying home to raise children economically feasible again, and the left is really trying to figure out the care economy. There's a lot of hot button cultural stuff entwined with all of this, but also a rich policy discussion happening underneath.
> someone compares US v. Saudi worker fatalities

> the time I wasted on your meaningless, unrelated and high drama warble garble.

"The US also has really high worker fatalities, therefore I have silenced the cognitive dissonance in my head by justifying the deaths of my fellow man, now I will claim that you are owned!"
Wait this person didn’t get paid for finding this? No bug bounty? Seems like they could at least toss them some free credits or something…
Training-Free Prompting for Diffusion Transformers
Spoiler: this experiment is not going to try to grow plants in the lunar regolith.
The "growth chamber" will be a hydroponic set up.
The focus will be on the effects of unfiltered sunlight and all the various forms of radiation that are not present on earth because of the atmosphere.
That's how software works. But professional engineers are professionals. They have certifications. They have an iron ring. It's real.
The author talks about potentially losing Firefox due to a lack of financial contributions. Do donations to Mozilla actually contribute to Firefox development? My understanding was they do not.
Do you think you need therapy?
For machine learning (un)fortunately, lots of the stack runs on Python. Lots of ceremony was done to circumvent GIL (e.g. PyTorch data loader). “Reasonable performance Python” I imagine is actually something in huge demand for lots of ML shops
I think it's useful because many people consume quantized models (most models that fit in your laptop will be quantized and not because people want to uncensor or un-unlearn anything). If you're training a model it makes sense to make the unlearning at least robust to this very common procedure.

This reminds of this very interesting paper [1] that finds that it's fairly "easy" to uncensor a model (modify it's refusal thingy)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1cerqd8/refusal...
Report finds 'shocking and dispiriting' fall in children reading for pleasure
How the hell can any of what you just described be legal?

Do you have any articles about this? Because this is insane if true.
For those of us that used those calculators in engineering class, the math that is displayed by the calculator also looks like what's in the textbook, making it easy to check if one has entered the right thing in the calculator.

Here's a simple example from their documentation: https://education.ti.com/en/customer-support/knowledge-base/...

Using the Python repl doesn't display nice math as far as I know (let me know if there's a way to make it so it), as you'd have in an environment for doing symbolic math (eg. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=integrate+sin+x+dx+from... )

Another thing if I remember correctly one could do is something like 3_ft*3_ft>_m^2 to convert 9 square feet in square meters, and do things like keep units throughout a calculation as a quick check that the calculator input is sane.
I generally like his podcast, as well as Fridman's, but I always wonder whether they are inadvertently (or purposely) pumping crypto, with certain guests:

Well at least he did ask SBF the obvious question a couple years ago:

Now in crypto, you're combining the exchange and broker -- they seem to have different incentives

https://youtu.be/5Af0d2DbK5w?t=2562

The answer is funny - it's basically a nonsense word salad of synergizing the customer experience or something.
Same in Firefox on Android
> Datachain does not abstract or hide the AI models and API calls, but helps to integrate them into the postmodern data stack.

I’m not sure if this term postmodern data stack was invented for the purposes of this copy. Probably not. But terms like this don’t really engender a lot of faith that this isn’t yet another piece of the now decades long hype cycle data engineering products face
> IMO it's likely that alien life would mirror the life we have here in a lot of ways. It's likely that aliens would have DNA or RNA, and would be made out of cells (unless they've become machines).

This is very, very, very much "in your opinion". It's not impossible that you're right, but there is no plausible basis for saying "it is likely".
Same story from the Associated Press: https://apnews.com/article/boeing-contract-vote-strike-machi...
Somebody who has lived in that country for a decade and presently in America. I hate to say this but medieval slavery exists in Saudi Arabia.
I would recommend watching "The Goat Life" even though it shows 25% of reality it is still a good start.
Flagging this is wrong on so many levels and the absolute worst feature of Hacker News.
That's not true. In fact they are still actively working with firefighters to teach traditional techniques:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe43QK85448
It's capitalism. This is not complicated. This is a direct result of starve the beast ideology depriving agencies of funding.
Yes, when you advertise it as a "cheap alternative" to being homeless
It depends on your income level in the US, but in general a 401k is a tax dodge for the employee
I'm just going to be the one to point out that the account you are replying to is called "Trump2026" and was registered 3 days ago.
No one except elite athletes are looking at running economy, there are far too many confounding variables.
complaining about low signal comments while contributing nothing isn’t a great way to use HN.

The gp isn’t wrong — events covered in media aren’t really based on magnitude.
The Japanese and amazing joinery, name a better combo. So delightful.
This comparison doesn't make any sense? California is 7 times bigger than Finland.
> > Why does python have to be slow?

> Because the language's semantics promise that a bunch of insane stuff can happen at any time during the running of a program, including but not limited to the fields of classes changing at any time.

You originally claimed Python is slow because of its semantics and then compare later to CL. CL has a very similar degree of dynamism and remains fast. That's what I'm saying makes for a poor comparison.

CL is a demonstration that Python, contrary to your initial claim, doesn't have to forfeit dynamism to become fast.
It's going to be harder than expected, as it's sort of a tradition in the region, unless you hail from a particularly powerful country like the US.

My father worked in Kuwait as an engineer and his passport was locked in a file cabinet at the office, which was unfortunate because he had to fetch it while avoiding gunfire when Saddam Hussein's forces attacked in 1990.

It was worth it though, as the document saved his life when Iraqis mistook him for an American and wanted to execute him on that basis.
Probably also column layout. 2-column documents are fine for A4 sizes, but terrible for A6 or most e-reader screen sizes. Scroll down, then up & across, then down, then across, then repeat. Versus just scroll down or just turn pages.
> So why do it? You know why.

I don't get it. Maybe every single S&P500 CEO has a deferred compensation plan, but when a union asks for it, it's always corruption?
"Yet you participate in society!" defeatism. If we can't criticize the system without being part of it, then no one can criticize it.

Simply living passively requires fossil fuels for most people. Actively patronizing these countries is an intentional act.
Just updated the repo. Thanks for the clarification.
It seems relevant that Myanmar and Sudan are easy to blame, as most places don’t depend on them for anything and they are poor countries. That isn’t true of Saudi.
I don't know, the Matt Stoller Substack post from yesterday had a whole line of discussion that was already covered in the article.
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello world")
}
Yeah, the most important part of versioning should be the code used to create the diagram, IMO. The result files, whether SVG or PNG, should be packaged as a "release", if you were to use Github.
Not to justify Saudi Arabian conditions, but if you're more granular than I assume that release is, there are a few professions in the US that have higher yearly fatality rates than 3k/10M = 30/100k including roofers, fishing/hunting, and aircraft pilots. "Helpers in construction trades" have a fatality rate of nearly 40/100k.[1]

Now I don't think 10M is the correct denominator. It's unlikely all those workers are in construction where a lot of the deaths are presumably concentrated. According to this[2], there were around 4.4M foreign construction workers in 2016. 3k/5M (assuming numbers have increased) is 60/100k, so around as dangerous as the most dangerous professions in the US.

But this also doesn't account for the alleged missing.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-inju...

[2] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/140/1/0...
Which sucks absolute ass because 401ks working as a replacement for pensions requires employer contributions more like this 12%.

The plans are clearly structured on the assumption that’s what would happen—there are separate limits for how much an employee can contribute, and how much an employer can, and the employer limit is significantly higher. Even if an employee wants to max out the plan, they can’t, because their contribution level is capped way under the hypothetical max.

The idea was plainly that employers would contribute heavily to these. Instead they barely do, making them better than nothing, but kinda shit considering how they were supposed to work.

[edit] to put some numbers on it, for 2025 an employee maxes out at $23,500 contribution. Meanwhile, the overall max is $70,000. An employee isn’t allowed to contribute more than 1/3 of the max allowed. In fact, with straight matching only and no fixed or multiplier-based matching from the employer, you can still only hit about 2/3 of the max. It’s hard to overstate how entirely the 401k has failed to achieve its apparent purpose in practice.
Ah 7 might have been a typo. May be it was meant to be *7? Then that's exactly the Laplace estimator. We start with a prior of 1_000_000 votes of 7.0 and then adjust as we accumulate real votes.
Running Mochi (SOTA video generation) in ComfyUI on one 4090 GPU
That's like a carpenter saying it only took 10 seconds to make that cut while ignoring the 3 hours it took to create the jig so the cut would take 10 seconds.

You don't need the calculator to do the final sums until you've done all of the work gathering all of the data that needs to be calculated. It doesn't mean the calculator wasn't needed, just that it's only needed for one thing not every step along the way.

This wasn't the gotcha you think it was
I wonder how much money Boeing could have saved by averting the costly strike action if it had just agreed to the original proposal from the union.
Need to understand, despite the privacy, is there any other difference compared to other AI assistants?
From Zero to Terabytes: Building SaaS Analytics with ClickHouse
There are two interesting "safety nets" at play here: the classic "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM" principle (where ubiquity creates an implicit guarantee of continuity), and a less visible but equally powerful one where certain open source tools become such fundamental infrastructure that they're essentially "too critical to fail." Think curl, gpg, or apt - most users never directly interact with these, but they're so deeply embedded in the internet's fabric that the ecosystem ensures their maintenance. One heuristic I've found helpful is looking at major corporate adoption patterns - it can be a decent signal for identifying which tools fall into these categories.
Why not? The only thing you need to prove is that this is the most energy advantageous process for the common components of life that produces a reliable and durable self replication. The amino acids might be different but even there it’s only physics there are only so many likely permutations.

And as far as intelligent (technological intelligence) biological life it’s more likely than not to be far more similar to us than completely alien.

It would have to develop on land or at least be able to transition to land at some point. Can’t have complex chemistry under water, can’t have fire can’t have metallurgy.

Vision in a spectrum similar to us or higher is pretty much a must, both as a requirement for higher brain development as well as to actually be exposed to all that information. A star fairing civilization that can’t see stars isn’t likely to develop and as far as odd spectrums go RF and Xray might be able to see stars but not predators so it unlikely to develop in the first place.

Appendages that allow fine tool development is pretty much a must for incremental technological development also.

Gravity at least at the upper bounds would need at minimum to obey the rocket equation any world with heavier gravity than that would allow that wouldn’t likely to produce a space fairing civilization.

Lower limits might be imposed on powered flight and missile weapons that may be a required developmental phase also.

And as far as planetary makeup goes then again should be rather similar including likely evolutionary phases that would produce large fossil fuel deposits.

Atmospheric oxygen is also a must no oxygen no fire.

As for as other elements enough metals to support a technological civilization as well as possibly enough fissile material for at least a partial nuclear phase tho lack of fissile material might put developmental pressure on the fusion part of the tech tree so there is some wiggle room.
> So I'm going to take the latter

You don't pick anything. Our rulers pick the system and we bend over backwards to justify it so we don't lose our minds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943