skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Memory usage for that synthetic web server benchmark is massive! 90% reduction
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They should sell it to people for their car tires with a specially colored valve cap like they do for nitrogen. It'd be stupid, but so is paying extra for a slightly higher nitrogen content and people do that.
The editor is listed at the end of the article, and in an ideal world would have corrected the error by now, if not before publication. I know what role editors used to play in journalism, but I'm honestly not too sure what they do these days. Write headlines, I guess. Look for the little red squiggly lines beneath misspelled words, and occasionally stir themselves to correct them. And someone has to press 'publish' on the CMS, might as well be them.

I'm even less sure whether the traditional fact checking role still exists; it doesn't seem to!
Dude, get professional mental health help.
It's always a bit amusing to see comments like "ooh, large performance improvements, that's great" and "meh, no new shining language features, maybe next year" next to each other, but it does show that there is a healthy variety in the user base.
That's what I thought the first day, the first month and maybe even the first half year.

Now it's 5 years+ running, all fine. No major hassle (crossing fingers!), no configuration hell. Never touched k8s, and not going to in the near future.

Maybe it just works and is sufficient for my case.
> The way they frame that pihole example ("Whew! That’s a lot of stuff!") is just silly.

Yeah, you're probably right. Originally that line was in there when I had a breakdown of what each line in the docker-compose was doing. My editor thought that was unnecessary - it's unlikely people reading the post would need that kind of breakdown. So I rewrote parts to assume more baseline knowledge. I should have noticed that line and taken it out.

You're right about what we're trying to do, and I agree that the post doesn't really help someone be successful today deploying things. The post is more meant to gauge whether or not I'm alone in having pain deploying a couple dozen services with docker compose on a single box.

I want more people to have the power to host their own services. I think we can do that, but we have to figure out the right thing to build to do it.
Watch the video again. He emphatically says they have to be blank or it won't work
It's worth noting that the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 was about 30 Gigatons TNT equivalent. Certainly a catastrophic event that affected climate around the globe, but a far cry from "killing everyone on the planet."
Good point. Has Russian media acknowledged the presence of North Korean combatants in the Ukraine theatre? I've only heard that from Western sources.
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There is a lot more to share, like USD II (created by https://www.bridge.xyz/), a stablecoin that we designed to work with Burner without gas, but for now we’re excited to push Burner out the door and start getting feedback from users.
Different business model and/or more credible to most people?
Trust no one: why we can't trust most stats about the cybersecurity industry
Yeah dude. The iPhone continues to be chosen for its superior software. It absolutely became dominant because of the software. I mean they’re all black rectangles. Black rectangles with capacitive screens existed before the iPhone. A good mobile browser didn’t. This is coming from someone who owned a Zaurus, which had the closest thing to a decent browser, NetAccess, and a grid of icons touchable Home Screen all the same. You are underplaying how groundbreaking the software was.

This is one set of facts, totally correct, that you are talking about:

iPhones are made in China.
They cost $770 or so with tax.
They make a 55% margin (or whatever) per phone.
Consumers prefer premium materials like titanium, and they don’t prefer things like replaceable batteries.

Here is another set of facts:

Everyone’s phones are made in China.
But of course iOS is made in the US.
Consumers are choosing not between a titanium and aluminum phone, but almost always, they are choosing between Android and iOS
The margin on the software is like 99%
Apple News, the App Store, etc have a very powerful DRM scheme, where Apple is one of the only companies, besides maybe Sony, where you cannot pirate things they sell for the iPhone like services subscriptions, game IAP and extra iCloud storage.
The price of the iPhone isn’t its $770 sticker but the LTV of the owner.

This is a big deal because the second set of completely and utterly true facts is why Apple is the richest company in the world. And then you look at NVIDIA, another really rich company but which people feel less passionate about, and unequivocally, people choose NVIDIA because of its software, because of CUDA, which is why you can’t “just” add more VRAM, which is something else that everyone wants and would be a key differentiator, yet for some reason doesn’t manifest in the market.

This matters to firms everywhere not just Japan. If you can’t make 99% margin software someone else will. And consumers LIKE software. So everything you are saying is true but it doesn’t really disagree with me.
It's really about engineering trade-offs and cost. It used to be the cost of extra logic to allow for devices to work out resource allocation would be much higher than the cost of a set of pin-headers and jumpers. Now the cost of those extra pin-headers and jumpers dwarf the cost of the extra logic.
> but I would neither say things have been this way for a long time

What do you mean? It's fairly clear that most of the innovation in Japan was in the 80s and 90s. Since then, there's hardly any outstanding titles coming from Japan. Every year at the TGS it's just remakes and sequels or prequels. A sign of a dying industry.

> still punching above its weight

I'd call that inertia. But you already see that signs of decay: Final Fantasy is selling less and less, Capcom relies way too much on Monster Hunter for their own good, Konami is mostly dead (selling remakes contracted to third party studios), SEGA may be the most successful but that's mostly thanks to Atlus at this stage. Even Sony has hardly anything to show in their first party line-up. It's getting depressing.
> Wtf happened?

Equally valid to ask why it was so overvalued 3 years ago.
Yeah, these posts are totally wild. The amount of work that goes into them blows my mind.
I saw what you did there. - Mr. Saturday Night
>That was a hypothetical, not a claim.

Those were all factual claims.
Everybody will die, of course. But this belief "Putin is dying" seems to be a kind of spirituous ritual.
While I understand your question is about the Transit app in general, I'd just like to mention in correlation to the article that my team and I worked with one of the public transport operators in Denmark, to utilize the motion predictability feature found in Android and iOS SDK's, so I can enlighten you with some details regarding that.

Our conclusion was that the feature didn't work in the danish metros for reasons we never got to deep dive into. It's most likely related to the fact that many of the metro stations are built in concrete, as such there's no GPS data in most of them unless you're very close to or on the surface and no motion data.

I'd be surprised if they got this particular feature working but who knows... maybe if we had looked into the raw sensor output we might have been able to work something out.

In the end we made a solution to help determine when you're moving or not by utilizing beacons.
Wow... I keep forgetting that VB.net is still a thing. Pretty much everyone who was writing ASP code before the switchover adopted VB.net and then flipped over to C# around 2005 (.NET version 2).
Forge Reasoning API Beta
Hot take: let's start using ka instead of either, at least when talking about thousands of years.
Is this the feature that would let you put extension properties on everything?

The most obvious way to store backing fields for arbitrary objects is to have a global concurrent dictionary that stores weak keys, and a compiler-generated class to store the backing fields as the value. But then you have a performance problem of needing to do a lookup from a weak-concurrent-dictionary every time you access any extension backing field.

The higher-performance alternative would be a second shadow variable in code that uses the extension backing fields. Do your dictionary lookup, then cache the backing-fields-object so you don't need to redo lookups for it. But that would be function-local.

If the extension property doesn't need a new backing field, it's trivial, you're just making a new getter and setter function pair.
See

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html

2008 Classified Cable describing potential future

Experts tell us
that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions
in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the
ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a
major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war. In
that eventuality, Russia would have to decide whether to intervene; a decision Russia does not want to have to face.
It seems you have no understanding at all of the goals of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

It's worth reading up on.
And it's special discounting feature where it is cheaper if you realise you didn't order enough food: SloppySeconds
I think it’d be really hard not to psychologically anchor.

My experience with agile is either:
* you get stressed out being measured at such a low resolution and sandbag or
* you wind up in a low accountability context because even management knows how messed up scrum is for their use case.

I wish we had something better.
And most other forms of advertising. Anything where objective truth doesn't matter and quantity is more important than absolute quality is a great fit for LLMs.
That was on purpose. There was a lot of issue-closing on GitHub. Especially MAUI which got a ton of bug fixes.
"Politicians" and "Journalists" aren't specific enough to discuss this problem, people haven't been suddenly believing politicians in general they've latched onto specific politicians in specific political parties and believe them. Similarly, you can have people who say they think journalists are all liars but believe specific journalists or specific news outlets. It's like how congresspeople are re-elected pretty consistently despite the national approval of congress as a whole being in the dirt, people like what _their_ guy is up to but not what everyone else is doing.
Too many Grammarly and Quillbot clones
As a writer who spends most of my day writing - from academic essays and blogging to posting on X - I've tried a ton of writing tools, but I feel like so many are just Grammarly clones.

But, even then, Grammarly can be a bit basic. More often, I find myself asking Claude for second opinions for actually helpful feedback.

That's why I'm building Leftwrite AI writing – a workspace with the a ‘second brain’ for writing to help writers with specific feedback to make better decisions in less time. So, it's an AI-powered writing assistant that listens, learns and writes with you.

The Leftwrite waitlist is now open leftwriteai.com and I'd love for my you guys to heck it out.

Have any questions? I'll reply in the comments!
I think it should, yes. I'm going to try as soon as I can find my raspberry pi buried in the garage.

It should work anywhere a USB keyboard works, realistically.
The core problem is that factual reporting is not enough as factual reporting can be hyper-partisan based on where you point the spotlight, so they’ve just given up, because it’s more profitable to just tell a story or narrative.
What about the case of something fairly translucent in front of some particles that accumulate to an opaque surface (Say a balloon in front of very dark factory smoke). How would the shader "know" what the final color output was?
In Germany you can request to work part-time (30h per week), it's in the constitution, of course, you get paid 30 hours.

It's really common, it's so common that the average work week here is 35/h.

Most people I know work the default 40h, but as people get older they typically opt-in to work part-time.

So if you aren't from Germany, one thing you can consider is moving here. It has a good/stable tech job market. Salaries are nowhere as close to the US, but I'm sure you'll be a more interesting person after a few years here, living a more cultural diverse experience.
Did you mean "are there other things called C# besides the language?" I think people missed the joke because they interpreted your comment as "are there other .NET languages?"
That works well for a basic off-the-shelf ingredient, but what if you needed a complex dressing/sauce/broth/marinade/spice mix that was later used in multiple combinations. You'd want to make that all in one batch.
Hmmm I fail to understand your reasoning. I did not write this for anyone to agree or disagree with me. It is just something I imagine, and in my imagination the aliens happen to be not klingons nor their real world counterparts. In my imagination (and i guess maybe in that of the reader of my comment as well) they are sentient logical beings not being in favor of peace nor war. So in that context those beings would think, what the f are they doing, this does not make any sense!
The FSFE called on the community to participate in a consultation on the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme and demanded long-term sustainable funding for Free Software after recent budget cuts. Results show its success.
One step closer to answering Nagel's question: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
While a bit of a hot take, you're not wrong. We need something that's less scalability focused than Kubernetes/Mesos/Docker Swarm but that doesn't put too much burden on application developers. Something that focuses on being secure, reliable, and understandable, in that order. I'm not aware of anything going for that niche. That means a new tool is in order.
It is a lot easier to have the TV on in the background than it is to actually read

I know that's odd to say in this forum but we're probably all unusual here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_Sharp
$650 is a bit of premium for a 60 Hz 4k 32" monitor with gimmicks which weren't particularly attractive. I appreciate the honest review conclusions of a free product.

I will say > 100% scaling on < 32" 4k monitors is much like the 60 Hz vs 120 Hz conversation in the article - it's not a necessity for programming by any means but it is often worthwhile anyways. The gain here becomes text clarity rather than the absolute amount of workspace. In an ideal world I'd have an 8k 32" high framerate monitor for that reason. Unfortunately at that size it's not even an option if you're willing to drop any amount of cash (at least last I looked). Dell has a 31.5" 8k but it's 60 Hz.
If you had just clicked on any of the destinations in the link, you would see that it shows Ryanair and easyJet as options.
You would be better off getting your content from mainstream news outlets than relying on podcasts, substacks, blogs etc. for factual neutral reporting. Specifically I'm referencing the news divisions of the mainstream outlets that offer actual reporting and not the opinion jockeys that dominate prime time.

The alternative news sources you mentioned are merely opinion echo chambers that serve to reinforce preconceived ideas and inflame passions rather than offering up any kind of neutral reporting.
Ignoring issues of funding there are serious questions about audience reach to consider. There appears to be little market for thoughtful, well-researched, long-form journalistic content. This feels similar to how folks raised seven shades of hell about fast food chains not having healthy food options on the menu until McDonalds added a salad option. Predictably nobody bought the salad so they got rid of it.
This is mind blowing. There is so much to get mesmerized by Nature & other living beings.
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCLRPT-24V832-7628.PDF
> Quality journalism just doesn't make any money because everyone expects such content for free by now.

I don't see the connection. My parents and grandparents watched news everyday on television and it was all free.

> Also outrage sells more

This is may or may not be true, but I think you are hinting at the actual underlying reason - news often isn't compelling. My parents and grandparents didn't have the near infinite number of choices for how to spend their time at 6pm. They were probably going to watch tv, or at least have it on, and the three available channels were all playing a newscast, so that's what they watched.

Keeping up with local and world events might be important, but it also has a real eat-your-vegetables vibe to it. There are so many other things I'd rather do than read or watch reporting on what happened today.

There are some segments of journalism that I think are doing quite well. For example, sports writing is still turning out great stuff and attracting an audience.
AI will step off the screen and into the real world [video]
The article annoyingly failed to close the loop from the $1,000/ton figure at the top and do the math on the economic efficiency potential of this approach. How much electricity is required to sequester each ton of CO2 using this method, assuming you can amortize the construction costs over some long duration? I assume the intended installation is on the exhaust of a fossil fuel burning facility, but is it possible to install this next to a solar field and generate ethylene from excess mid-day production? Large scale carbon sequestration is one of the major unsolved problems of the 21st century and we have to expect many false starts before the really viable technologies emerge.
> It's just that practice has shown that collecting anonymous telemetry is the only really viable way of getting information of what's being used, how much, does it perform well

Again, we come back around to "if users don't want to willingly give us this data, then we're just going to take it." That's what I think is ethically objectionable. Sure, the data is useful -- but if people don't want to give it, that usefulness does not justify taking it anyway.

Opt-out is better than not being able to even do that much, but in my view, it's still unethical. And, practically, it means that I have to treat all software as suspicious and can't really be comfortable with any of it.

I'm used to that with smartphones and Windows, and deal with that by avoiding installing any software if unless I absolutely have to. I'm just trying to avoid having to take the same stance with OSS. But perhaps that's a lost cause and trust in any software at all is not supportable.
GPS already gives you altitude in addition to longitude and latitude, so I don't understand what the air pressure adds.
I don't mind paying a little more for my eggs, personally, if I get to enjoy living in an actual civilization as a bonus.
So with my poor laypersons understanding of MMT, governments print money to direct a nations resources where they want (ie if govt pays for nurses they are out competing the private sectors use of same person for say food delivery). But if they don’t tax that money away then inflation occurs.

They cannot tax the nurse 100% (!) so the money goes up the wealth chain (to nurses landlord and electric utilities owners). And then it gets invested in things like grub hub

Now the govt could tax the wealthy - but they don’t for reaosns (usually to do with campaign finance but also other less corrupt reasons)

But here grubhub just set fire to 5.5Bn dollars. Which from MMT pov is exactly the same as taxing it

And now the govt can print 5.5bn new dollars and spend it on nurses … with in theory net zero inflation effect

And that ladies and gentlemen is how MMT looks like Keynesianism with a new coat of paint

And is also why wealth taxes - which there is a fair bit of resistance to - is more or less the same as some horrific stock market crash - just the taxes are more controlled and more targeted

And why bonds are the compromise candidate in that debate as well !

Edit: so on bonds - if inflation is at 10% as was recently then offering 100bn of 20 year treasuries at 1% is taking 100bn out of the market or removing 9% of inflation pressure for the cost of 1% pa.

It does mean that when the bond market that every government is afraid of starts charging 7% then governments response really should be - ok that’s too expensive a means of reducing inflation - we are going to tax the wealthy instead.

Which is why I find it weird most governments have been persuaded to tie one hand behind their backs …
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Do DoorDash and Grubhub have the same business model? DoorDash handles logistics end-to-end; as I recall (it's been a long time since I've used Grubhub), they at one point did not, but were instead just a market front-end to a variety of different delivery services.
> Interesting: I posted this a few days back, and certainly not "10 hours ago". Who was kind enough to re-surface this? Thanks :)

It's HN's second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380
Why not? I can't imagine you'd deploy an application without some form of service management (even if it's just throwing it in tmux) and unless you've gone out of your way to use a non systemd distro systemd is builtin and works for both user and root containers.

Most places (though not all) that I've seen using docker or docker-compose are throwing them in systemd units anyway.
My wife actually has established a cheap, energy-efficient facility for converting CO2 into useful materials right in our yard.

She planted a garden.

I was thinking about that the other day, how our beautiful trees, flowers, and bushes draw a few minerals from the soil, but are really mainly knitted together from the components of water and CO2.

Yes, yes, I know, planting more trees won't do much about the greenhouse gas problem at scale, but the only thing that will are the three P's: powerdown, permaculture, population control. I do not expect industry to solve the problem industry created in a way that doesn't create more problems.
I struggle with this type of question too. "I don't index things in sets like that" is a good way to put it. I hadn't thought about it that way before.
TechEmpower benchmarks and The Benchmark Game[0] are pretty comprehensive. The latter has not yet been updated for .NET 9. The former has been updated with .NET 9[1], but will have to wait for the next round of results. You can see the continuous results, though[2]

I know that TechEmpower gets a lot of flak for being "unrealistic", but it's easy enough to filter out the pure middleware ones. But even those I feel are "fair game" because it shows that such optimizations are possible on the runtime if needed. The story behind one of the top entrants, Just(js) talks a bit about this[3]

[0] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

[2] https://tfb-status.techempower.com/

[2] https://just.billywhizz.io/blog/on-javascript-performance-01...
The charitable takeaway is the suggestion that Japan should think about more radical social engineering and incentives to promote motherhood, including those that would highlight a sense of urgency or immediacy.

Similar concepts mentioned in the interview would be sex education about the real benefits of having children earlier.