skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool! How is the graph stored and queried? I’m familiar with graph databases, but I don’t see that as a dependency.

Have you tried the sciphi triplex model for extraction? I’ve tried to do some extraction before, but got inconsistent results if I extracted the chunks multiple times consecutively.
The Edge browser engine is just Chromium. But the Edge browser has loads of telemetry active. Microsoft wants you to use Edge because the telemetry makes them money, rendering websites doesn't really make them money.
You couldn't teach me to do that. Also I don't have super powers. I really do wish I could fly though. Give me wings any day!
Carl Pei says Nothing could build its own operating system
They are not clear about this (which is annoying), but it seems it will not be downloadable. No weights have been released so far, and nothing in this post mentions plans to do so going forward.
Questioning the criteria for evaluating non-cryptographic hash functions
What users don't see is that a single good actor will make, at most, a dozen such claims in their life, while a malicious one might literally make hundreds of them a day. The scales are different, by orders of magnitude.

It's not unimaginable that just 0.001% of your users (in terms of actual humans / entities physically using your service) are fraudsters, but 99% of your signup or login attempts / interactions with your service / "I'm not a fraudster, pinky swear" support claims are fraudulent.
nice! you have your thesis or any related paper available online?
An imperfect solution for a situation that will practically never happen and have no noticeable downside.
I stopped 2/3 of the way through the announcement. By the time I got to the final 1/3 of the story, I just couldn't imagine the ending living up to the expectations set in the first 2/3 of the announcement, and stopped.
> some people are excellent because they're extremely competent at many fields. LLMs are the latter

But they're not. The people who are extremely competent at many fields will still outperform LLMs in those fields. The LLM can basically only outperform a complete beginner in the area & makes up for that weakness by scaling up the amount it can output which a human can't match. That doesn't take away from the fact that the output is complete garbage when given anything it doesn't know the answer to. As I noted elsewhere, ask it to provide an implementation of the S3 ListObjects operation (like the actual backend) and see what BS it tries to output to the point where you have to spend a good amount of time to convince it just to not output an example of using the S3 ListObjects API.

> I think it's pretty safe to say that the modern slate of LLMs fall into the top 10% of human intelligence, simply for their breath of knowledge and ability to synthesize ideas at the cross-section of any wide number of fields.

Again, evidence assumed that's not been submitted. Please provide an indication of any truly novel ideas being synthesized by LLMs that are a cross-section of fields.
I don't, that's for sure!
Hold on, you had to do binary surgery using an OpenSSL version from an old box you had? I salute the dedication.
Perhaps true, but how is this any different to other Chinese products sold at Walmart ?
>To solve this, they should close sign ups. Why haven't they done that yet?

They do periodically closes signups.

>I would like to think this is true, but there are just too many frustration stories of confusion of 'which instance' to choose, losing posts due to admins (and followers) shutting down instances and having to tell your followers where to go next.

Except on bluesky, you don't even get to be confused because it doesn't support any kinds of moves!

It's pretty simple really, Bluesky hasn't magically figured out how to make proper federation work. they just say they're federated but in reality they're really just centralized.
The problem is that the reasoning they give is so vague that there isn’t really anything to argue against. At best, they convincingly argue, in an extremely non-information-dense way, that neuron count isn’t everything, which is obviously true. They do not manage to argue convincingly that a 100k neuron system is something that we can even apply the word “suffering” to meaningfully.
I recently saw a bumper sticker on a Tesla that said "We bought it before we knew how awful he was." Because of Musk, my wife and I will never buy a Tesla even if they do release a basic, low-cost model here in the US to compete with Japanese and Korean economy cars.

On the other hand, as the other comment said about him "tricking Republicans," I think he's also gained a new segment of buyers with his political play, so this might be a wash.
Isn't TFA about how the technology is not resulting in lowered costs for end users? What are you suggesting would change the dynamic described in the article?
Why are you guys hijacking the scroll bar on your website?
I have to admit that going to the Museum of Bad Art always has had a similar effect on my very poor art eye as going to the Institute of Contemporary Art across town.
Interesting! The Wikipedia article is quite wrong here. SOCK_STREAM certainly doesn’t imply TCP in all cases. I see the source is the Linux Programming Interface book; quite likely someone’s interpretation of that chapter was just wrong when they wrote this article. It is a subtle topic.
Can you elaborate on a few things with regards to your pricing:

* What does "$0.05 / gigabyte transferred" mean exactly. Transferred outside of AWS or accessed as in read and written data?

* "$0.20/GiB-mo of high-speed cache" – how is the high-speed cache amount computed?
Just the theme that we ended up using for the marketing site. We will likely build something less janky post-batch, but right now -- just trying to get the information out there.
I use https://github.com/ChangemakerStudios/Papercut-SMTP on windows.
Excellent question: In a theoretical sense the answer would be that we cannot know since it depends on the JavaScript being run. But: In practice I think that is indeed the case. Especially for the more common an object is, the likelier it is that it is used in conjunction with others around it. At the same time, the more important their memory placement becomes.

eg. Say you have a JS programs that has about a 100 DataViews: I'd say it's unlikely these are used in conjunction with others very often, but they're also only a small part of the program, so their placement is mostly whatever.

Now what if that number is a million instead? Now I'm betting they're mostly all created together, used together, and that their placement is critical to the program's performance.

So, I'm betting that making random memory access performance worse while guaranteeing that data created together stays together and improving linear memory performance will be an overall win.

Whether this is true data-oriented design is then in the eye of the beholder: Maybe someone will think I'm wrong, my assumptions are wrong, and I'm thus not doing things in a data-oriented way.
Syntax Highlighting SwiftUI Code with Swift Syntax
Like any other discussion of this kind[1] I think this one will go nowhere because 1) the question doesn't have a black and white answer, it's a sliding scale. 2) almost no one is giving examples of what they mean; if they were, they could find that they agree with the person they are replying to. And 3) most people will discard the experiences of people they disagree with "you didn't even try! maybe the problem is you!", and this is easy because this is the internet and the other person can be (is probably?) making it up.

[1]https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/09/23/the-duct-tape-prog...
If we're talking ethical giving, I'd rather give that money to a panhandler where there's a chance it relieves even a little bit of human suffering.
Bayesian Models of Cognition
I'll send you a note!

Found this in the docs:

> By default, Regatta file systems can provide up to 10 Gbps of throughput and 10,000 IOPS across all connected clients.

Is that the lower bound? The 50 TiB filestore instance has 104 Gbps read through put (albeit at a relatively high price point).
Monthly Roundup #24: November 2024
5090 is rumored to draw 600W. I'm afraid reality has overtaken your satire.
S3 File Gateway sounds a lot like your product.
Thanks! To clarify, I had no knowledge of the actual technology used, and don't mean to indicate that it is crypographically secure or impossible to exploit. Only that people in the online car communities haven't found simple easy practical ways to bypass these systems for, e.g. when they lose their own keys. Which also, I would say means thieves aren't doing it either. Even when people do engine swaps to a new vehicle, they usually end up moving over the entire ECU, RFID antenna, and RFID tags because that's the easiest way to get the engine to run.

Nobody is going to steal a 90s VW Jetta with Immo-2 when there are much easier to steal much more valuable cars everywhere. Neither shadetree mechanics, or street thugs that steal cars for drug money are spending a lot of time reading deeply into academic cryptography literature- it's only practically broken if you can either buy a $50 or less device, or follow instructions on a forum post to disable it.
Ok, first link in results contradicts "slave patrols led directly into being police departments in some parts of the US":

While it is true that slave patrols were a form of American law enforcement that existed alongside other forms of law enforcement, the claim that American policing “traces back” to, “started out” as, or “evolved directly from,” slave patrols, or that slave patrols “morphed directly into” policing, is false. This widespread pernicious myth falsely asserts a causal relationship between slave patrols and policing and intimates that modern policing carries on a legacy of gross injustice. There is no evidence for either postulate.

https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/36/3/did-american-pol...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecnS1Ygf0o0 I've been waiting for the chance to use this
The best general art museums I've ever gone to were 80% crap, 15% meh and 5% good. The average general art museum is 90% crap, 9% meh and 1% ok.

But that's the nature of the beast. You can't have a diverse collection where half the pieces are good to any individual. 1 person's opinion of great art is 99 other people's crap.

There really are very few pieces in the world where 90%+ of people agree they are great pieces of art.
The problem with the "Free Tier Nazi" mentality is that you will inevitably run up against users with the "that's fine I didn't want to trial your software anyways" mentality. The industry's most successful software businesses come from piracy-agnostic platforms like Adobe's CS6 and Steve Duda's Serum. If you aren't going to take the Figma route of letting users try your software in production while evaluating it, you're going to miss conversions.

But what do I know, maybe Seinfeld is a better ground truth for product design than common intuition.
why would Australia get hit? no where near Russia, not in NATO, no nukes, and too small of a military to mount a serious offensive

for that matter they're not going to be able to supply much relief effort, either. hopefully they'll pick a side - India or China - and ride out the eventual hegemonic war between those 2.
> In aviation? Literally everyone. Context clues should make it obvious.

But this is Hacker News, not Aviation News, and there are plenty of people, like me, who might find this interesting but aren't in aviation. I also thought it meant nanometers.
Sure, and we have more details on pricing here which may answer your questions: https://docs.regattastorage.com/details/pricing

We need to update the home page with these details, but $0.05 is only charged on transfer between Regatta and S3. We calculate your cache usage minutely and tally it into a monthly usage amount that we then bill for.
Is Deep Learning Hitting a Wall?
Picked up a used Bolt as well. Certified used with 7 years left on the battery warranty for about $15k.

Anyone who actually wants a cheap EV can buy a cheap EV.

There's just too many people that think they need a 3 row EV SUV with 500 miles of range, and that it should be under $35k.

Also the goal posts keep getting moved. Used to be people would say EVs will never take off until they hit $35k. Now that there are new EVs that can be had for that price, the new problem is that EVs will never take off unless they're $25k.

Meanwhile just about every EV sales graph shows an upward trajectory regardless of these "requirements".
Additionally:

> Everyone takes many of the interfaces they use for granted.

For example, I've seen many people in the HN comments over the years cite the HN interface as evidence that interfaces are better without designers involved, or something similar. In reality, HN has some of the best interface design out there. It does exactly what it needs to do, simply and intuitively, is much easier to visually orient yourself and navigate than a paged forum discussion, despite being compact it's completely obvious where individual elements begin and end using implied lines, type hierarchy, and gestalt rather than adding a bunch of boxes and lines, works great on multiple screen sizes, needs nearly no documentation beyond policy docs... it's a brilliant, clean, polished interface. It even keenly takes its audience into account-- many end users would be fatigued by the loooong lines of text when you fully expand the window and generally prefer a limited width for text blocks, but users that look at a computer text all day long prefer the flexibility of stretching out the lines horizontally to reduce the vertical footprint and get more on their screen at once. That doesn't just happen-- it was deliberately designed that way. Good interface design is very different from good branding and identity design, or similar-- it should be invisible. The choices should seem natural, or even obvious... but how many sites were set up like HN before HN did it? Compare it to Slashdot, the gold standard when HN got up-and-running. HN is incomparably cleaner and more focused on its core use case, even though it has fewer features and visible controls, which is usually what developers lament the lack of. HN is a great mix between newsgroup/email chain type visuals worked into a forum format, and I hadn't seen anyone else doing that. Many of the interfaces we use that look obviously designed and function poorly were either made by purely visual designers, or developers trying to make something look "designed" and using inspo from dribbbbble or whatever. Beautiful looking is quite distinct from optimally usable, and interface designers generally concentrate almost entirely on the latter.
Xenophobia would go up though, although i don't know how you would measure that.
agreed, one month of 50 TiB is $12,800!

we're using Filestore out of convenience right now, but actively exploring alternatives.
Interesting. Seems like something that should be exposed more explicitly.
This will always be an issue for the node community - it’s endemic to the JavaScript shipping / speed culture and the package management philosophy.

Go is much, much better on these terms, although not perfect.

I’d venture a guess that Perl 5 is outstanding here, although it’s been a few years since I tried to run an old Perl project. CPAN was dog slow, but other than that, everything worked first try.

I’d also bet Tcl is nearly perfect on the ‘try this 10 year old repo’ test
Why targeted tariffs are more effective than broad tariffs
I'm almost certain this organization is focused on farmed shrimp. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/z79ycP5jCDks4LPxA/...
This looks sick! How easy is it to add custom stuff into the pages? Say I've got a really cool three.js project I want to showcase. Is there much work to add it in?
And how many would assume that the incorrect unit abbreviation would mean something else? If I said Kbps and KBps, it's an entirely different unit of measure. NM and nm are VASTLY different, and unless you are already familiar with measurements in Aviation and know it's Nautical Miles, your first instinct is gonna be to read it as the unit it's supposed to be.

The article title is talking about location data and computers, I've seen many people forget floating point precision when comparing and getting bit by tiny differences at the 10^-9 or smaller. That seems just as obvious on the outset as non-unique location designations in what the average person would assume to be a dataset that's intentionally unique and unambiguous.
That's just the limit that we apply to new file systems. We should be able to support your 104 Gbps of read throughput.
> There is no future for Mastodon.

What? About half the people I care to follow post exclusively on Mastodon.
They are rare, but easy to filter for in the standard hotel apps.

For most of my trips I was also able to use block heater plugs, which are ubiquitous in Western Canada. 120V isn't enough to get a full charge overnight, but 8-10 hours of charging at 120V is still adds a nice boost.
Possibly. I guess XUL was that API, but XUL is no more.

It helps if your company uses the embedded stuff in other products. Like Microsoft used the Trident engine from IE6 all over Windows components. In that way, allocating resources for developing an embeddable engine is justifiable. Can Mozilla do that? I don'know. Google can (and does it! why wouldn't they?).
nah i just know how to write a good sentence, active verbs are only one tool. you're mistaken if you think the original sentence is better.
> In aviation? You know how big an aircraft is right?

Exactly, which makes the headline particularly intriguing—how could a 3600 nanometer difference matter? The standard resolution, which I pursued, is to read the article to find out, but it doesn't mention the distance at all.
Be honest about people not showing up and say it's not ok. Hours need to mean something. If there is a block of 4-5 hours a day where everyone (that has a dependency on each other) is available, this is key.

Anything less and you'll have people just enjoying a day at the park (without the laptop).
Default Denied: On not emumerating badness
Seamus Lennon of Threatlocker discusses application allow-listing
Yes, I've traveled to a good amount of countries and the overwhelming corruption or culture which doesn't support fair enterprise is soul crushing. You can say America has it to some extent, but in a lot of places you really don't have a chance at all unless you're born into the right family.
Also true! If you look at their site, they're really targeting folks to deploy it into their data centers to provide on-premises caching of resources in AWS, rather than providing a high-speed cache within AWS for file-based applications.

https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/file/s3/
This "explains the launch of the Chicken Big Mac from an economic point of view" -- this is like the Asymco of fast food.
The open source movement has been co-opted. Its core values were laid out in a world where people owned their own computers and were custodians of their own data. There was no cloud, there was no saas, and that meant that owning source code meant you had some level of control over your digital life.

You're right. It is night and day. In 2024, access to source code is no longer, in and of itself, an effective proxy for autonomy. And using how the world worked a quarter century ago as a yardstick for measuring the relative merits of Google's influence on the digital domain nowadays is specious.
An inotify replacement that can work at whole FS level (and doesn’t require root/admin like the existing option) would be amazing. To be honest, I don’t see a reason it would be hard at the whole filesystem or perhaps mount level unless there are security ramifications. Restricting it to a subdirectory might be tricky though.
One of the things I'm intrigued by is that JS people, and the other couple of ecosystems where this is a big problem, go out to learn another language (as a good T-shaped developer does), and then start posting frantic questions to the new language's communities about how this popular library hasn't had a commit in six weeks, is it dead, oh my gosh wtf aaaaaaaaaaa.

It's OK. Not every language ecosystem is so busted that you can reliably expect a project not to work if someone isn't staring at it weekly and building it over and over again just in case. Now, it's always a risk, sure, no language anywhere is immune to the issue [1], but there's plenty of languages where you can encounter things from 5 years ago and your default presumption is that it's probably still working as well now as it did then. It may be wrong, but it's an OK default presumption.

[1]: Well... no language in common use anyhow. There's some really fringe stuff that uses what is basically content-based references for code dependencies, but I'm not aware of anything that I'd call "production quality" that even remotely looks like that, and is immune to someone just plain making an error with the semantic versioning or whatever.
We used to use MailCatcher, and it worked quite nicely, but then switched to Arm machines and it broke. So we are using Mailpit https://mailpit.axllent.org (which also nice, but more complicated to setup).

Looks like MailCatcher fixed the Arm issue – maybe we will switch back.
I kinda don't understand why we still have captchas. We've solved the asymmetric problem with proof-of-work; just make somebody solve something trivial so they spend more resources than you do.

Like if a bot requests your page 1/day its not a problem; but if they want to request it 1/ms then the proof-of-work becomes too much for them and its transparent to a person.
A tool like this is very useful, but this one isn't being maintained anymore. MailHog isn't either.

MailPit, MailCrab and smtp4dev are modern alternatives.

https://github.com/axllent/mailpit

https://github.com/tweedegolf/mailcrab

https://github.com/rnwood/smtp4dev
What is the intended or typical use for something like this? Testing other applications that send email comes to mind, or am I missing some other uses?
How exactly does one do that. Sounds exciting!
Which would be great and all, but they already exist. But rather than take advantage of the cheaper existing solar panels and electric cars we'd rather impose massive tariffs on them because of the country making them.
April Fools' joke results in Japanese firm making a beige '80s throwback PC case
Seems possible in principle. Experiences can cause one to feel more or less pain--what's wrong with quantifying it? Sure it will be a bit handwavy and vague, but the alternative of doing no comparisons and just going based on vibes is worse https://www.goodthoughts.blog/p/refusing-to-quantify-is-refu.... But as I argue, given high uncertainty, you don't need any fine grained estimates to think giving to shrimp welfare is valuable. Like, if there was a dollar in front of you and you could use it to save 16,000 shrimp, seems like that's a good use of it.
NGL, two locations 3600 non-maskable interrupts apart would have been a much more interesting story.
I would assume there'd be an actionable warranty of merchantability attached to the sale. The wood can't be fit for sale if the seller doesn't have a legal claim to the product.