skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is even more critical now that everyone except the privacy types is so used to quickly accepting boxes.

Boxes can also show up right under the mouse, so I'd say pretty much everything should have at least 1-2 reaction-times of delay.
You cannot leave us hanging like that. What was the issue?
it doesen't need to last forever though just long enough that it doesn't raise radiation levels a unsafe amount over the natural background radiation load. those elements are already present in the ground thats where we get them after all.
The article title is somewhat misleading. The "15 terabyte" figure refers to the amount of bandwidth used, not the amount of video being stored (it's closer to 145 GB).
So no one service had to take the huge brunt. Much of it was divided I guess.
This isn't an opinion up for debate unless you study foreign policy: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/12/voters...

we can talk about super delegates if we want, but this is a worlwide phenomenon and goes past advertising and faux represenation. People are frustrated and want change. Any change. They are afraid and fearful people don't make rational choices.
indeed. and I think the one thing we can agree on is that moderation does not scale gracefully. We aren't in the 00's anymore.
Yeah, gaming in a VM is fairly easy and reliable nowadays (the keyword to google for is VFIO). The cost savings is pretty substantial from consolidating multiple machines into one bigger machine. Unfortunately, there's an increasing number of games with anticheat that looks for being inside a VM.

> onboard 10G Marvell AQtion ethernet

I had similar problems with an Aquantia 10GbE NIC (which AQtion appears to be the rebranded name for, post-acquisition by Marvell), and it turned out to be the network chip overheating because it was poorly thermally bonded to a VRM heatsink that defaulted to turning on at something like 90C. Adding a thicker thermal pad and setting the VRM fan to always be on at 30% solved my problems.
How likely is it that TSMC will manufacture it in the current political climate?
> It’s similar to how many complaints I’ve heard about Python because “it’s weakly typed”. What? Feel free not to like either of them, but make it for the right reasons, not because of a misunderstanding of how they work.

Are you sure you're not just being harsh to people whose grasp of CS vocab is weaker than yours? If someone tells me that Python is 'weakly typed', I translate it in my head to 'dynamically typed', and the rest of their complaint generally makes sense to me, in that the speaker presumably prefers static typing. Which is a valid opinion to hold, not necessarily the result of any misunderstanding.
crashed my firefox
Insufficient testing
The Original IBM ThinkPad (2009)
Yep. Good ol' observing, questioning, hypothesizing, experimenting, analyzing and concluding.
University of Hamburg in Germany.
Possible cause of the collapse of Roman Empire?
The creator is here reading the feedback, and committing code as we speak. I wonder how much HN feedback will help. In any case, this is all a fun experiment!

update: between when I posted OP and now, the site went from utter jank in FF to 90% smooth on my 7 year old ThinkPad Carbon X1 (5th gen, Intel HD 620)

Nice! This is one of the coolest comment->commit experiences that I've ever had!
> What advantage do they offer in 2024?

Live news and sports is huge for a ton of people.

You have access to all the shows from the major networks. You don’t need to subscribe to Peacock and Paramount and Hulu and the TBS app and Discovery+ and…

Better yet, they’re all combined in one interface as opposed to all trying to be the only thing that you use.

Also, especially if you grew up with it, there is absolutely a simplicity in linear TV. Everyone was used to a DVR. And yeah the interface sucks, but it sucked for everyone already anyway so they’re used to it. Don’t know what you wanna watch? Turn on a channel you watch and just see what’s on. No looking at 400 things to pick between.

I’ve seen people switch off and have serious trouble because it’s such a different way of watching TV from what they were used to. They end up using something like Hulu Live or YouTube TV to try and get the experience they’re used to back.
You don’t belong to either group. What does this make you?
This price is solely to deliver 15tb of video.

Don't get confused like other commenter.
> My opinions don't matter,…

It doesn’t make sense to continue writing the same opinions after self declaring those opinions don’t matter…?

Declaring your opinions are ‘facts’ in an HN reply, doesn’t magically transform or transmute them into bonafide facts…

So this seems about as coherent as random LLM output.

Edit: And I can also declare the above to be a ‘fact’… and it will carry the same weight too.
Made a simple React app to track course grades since spreadsheets get messy. Add your courses, input assignment weights, and see your current grade update automatically. Everything saves in your browser.
Let me know if you have any feature suggestions. This app is not affiliated with any uni.

Features:
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If employees, even of the government, want to get together to push for a change in their workplace, what right do we have to prevent that?
The paper also mentions that, at the time, "dinosaur killer"-sized objects hit the Earth every 15 million years on average, which must have been sort of disruptive.
I have no clue what "Bluesky firehose" even means.
Being 'at the whims' of whoever maintains the blocklist isn't unique to this style of moderation - when it's Twitter, you're at the whims of the company - but at least it means you can use other blocklists if/when the good ones go to shit, or can start a community-ran blocklist.
I don’t think any of the major players involved have any reason not to do those things is the issue.
Hacker News biases heavily against Trump and Musk, if anything stuff like this is adored here.

No, the post got flagged and the study ridiculed because it's simply not good material for debate.
We had a minor 10 km/h collision in my wife’s SUV (non-Tesla). To me it looked like it would just be a minor bumper respray and realignment of some panels.

Unfortunately the parking sensors were damaged too, so it’s a few grand to repair.
If you aren't writing low level code, why not use a GC language?
For a comparison, I'm on a Pixel 8a mid-level device, and with Opera I get fairly smooth frame rates with some stuttering here and there. Maybe something else is running in the background?
Compared to the gravitational fields galaxies orbiting other galaxies deal with Mercury orbiting the Sun is extreme. So are GPS satellites orbiting Earth.

Mass of Sun: Ms = 1.99e30 kg

Distance to Mercury from Sun: Rm = 5.83e10 m

Mass of Milky Way galaxy: Mg = 6e42 kg

Q: At what distance R from the Milky Way would something have to be to experience the same gravitational field strength from the Milky Way that Mercury feels from the Sun?

A: We want R such that Ms/Rm^2 = Mg/R^2 or R = Rm sqrt(Mg/Ms) = 1.0e17 m.

Let's convert that to lightyears. There are 9.46e15 m/ly. The final result is 10.75 ly. Note that everyplace that close to the center of mass of the Milky Way is inside the galaxy. Anything actually outside the galaxy would be at least 5000 ly away and feel a gravity field at most 1/200000th as strong as what Mercury feels.

For Earth use the same calculation from above but replace Mg with the mass of the Earth, 5.97e24 kg. That gives that the distance from Earth where something would feel the same field strength from Earth that Mercury feels from the Sun is 1.0e9 m. That's a little over 4x the radius of the orbits of GPS satellites, so GPS satellites are feeling a little under 16x the field strength from Earth that Mercury feels from the Sun.
How the World’s Most Expensive Spice Is Grown
With this equipment I could write the most exquisite green-ink letters.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/green-ink_brigade
On the topic of tables and JavaScript and using vanilla HTML:

Lately I’ve felt especially frustrated that I’m wasting so much time dealing with performance for data tables, a concept that has been so thoroughly solved for decades in desktop applications. Feels like there should be a vanilla html option for a table that:

- supports massive collections (“virtual tables”)

- sortable, filterable by header

- overflowable cells

- user resizable column widths

- user show/hide columns

- freeze columns/rows

- performance!

- no strong opinions on style

I struggle to find one solid option that fits all of that. Usually I have to make a sacrifice and then wrestle with the library of choice for that missing feature.
What does this have to do with the topic being discussed?
no, $1, one time. Despite the owner, this was one thing SomethingAwful seemed to do right over 20 years ago. The goal isn't to make money, but discourage botting. any paywall works and $1 is about as low as you can go in a digital transaction without credit card brokers making it difficult for you.

And yes, it really shouldn't go up. SomethingAwful was 10bux back in 2005, and is still 10bux in 2025 (they monetized other things over the decades, but not the entry cost).

Can it be exploited? Sure, about as much as Bluesky can add "Bluesky Gold" at any time. When it enshittifies I hope it takes a shorter time to leave than Twitter.

>inb4 someone tells me how everyone can afford $1

if you have the time to be commenting on social media, you can afford $1. The cost of electricity to run your phone for a month is probably $1.
Warning: May Cause Seizures
> What DOGE should tackle is fraud, which is a known problem.

You know how you stop/reduce fraud? More regulation, the exact thing these folks want to avoid.

Some fraud is good, it enables processes to be efficient, so I doubt DOGE will tackle this.
Similar project but for Rust: https://github.com/Rust-GPU/rust-gpu
I am one of the ones who complain about their microservices architecture quite a lot.

This comes from both first-hand experience of talking to several of their directors when consulted upon on how to make certain systems of theirs better.

It's not just a matter of guarantees, it's a matter of complexity.

Like right now Google search is dying and there's nothing that they can do to fix it because they have given up control.

The same thing happened with Netflix where they wanted to push too hard to be a tech company and have their tech blogs filled with interesting things.

On the back end they went too deep on the microservices complexity. And on the front end for a long time they suffered with their whole RxJS problem.

So it's not an objective matter of what's better. It's more cultural problem at Netflix. Plus the fact that they want to be associated with "Faang" and yet their product is not really technology based.
I bet Matt Mullenweg really dislikes this - PFAS and WP Engine combined
They’re deterministically detected at runtime. Any use of a pointer to an object that got freed will trap with a filc safety error, which terminates program execution and prints a backtrace.

I don’t think it’s possible to catch all use after frees at compile time precisely. Like, you could have a checker that catches all errors but also rejects valid programs or you can have a checker that accepts all valid programs but doesn’t find all the bugs. To be precise it has to be at runtime, and that’s what Fil-C does.
I gave reasons why it's poor UI:

> Imagine having a jittery cursor in the center of your vision at all times? If I had a mouse/trackpad working like that it would immediately be replaced but that's Apple's eye control. Imagine scrolling a page and every where you glance there's a spotlighted/popup control or ad? That's Apple eye control utilizing dwell and snap to item.

Nobody has responded to those but instead keep saying I'm attacking accessibility.
I'm pretty sure someone wrote a very basic, very literal scheme to JavaScript transpiler and just ran the book's code through it. The results look nothing like what any normal person would write.
Sure, but that influence has not exactly been positive. That's the catch I think. It's much easier to exert negative influence than positive influence.
Neat!

This was a very influential book to me when i read it as a kid.
Likely due to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment
I would think with all the additional media coverage he has received since the announcement it would be very strange if he did not receive additional engagement with his posts.
I suspect a lot of it could be related to ISP bandwidth. I streamed it on my phone without issue. Another friend put their TV on their phone’s WiFi which also worked. Could be partly that phone hotspots lower video bandwidth by default.

I suspect it’s a bit of both Netflix issues and ISPs over subscribing bandwidth.
> ... "in a way where" ...

... so that ...

The elements of Style (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style) : "Make every word count."

> ... "acts as a compound lens" ...

Not really -- not the sort of lens we're familiar with, one that concentrates light at a single focus. Technical methods can exploit these chance alignments to detect objects otherwise inaccessible, but not as coherent images.

I often see remarks like this one -- "Acts as a compound lens!" -- but that's not correct. It's more like this: https://arachnoid.com/relativity/graphics/curvature_diagram....

Such alignments are more likely to produce what's called an "Einstein ring" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_ring). Very useful, but not remotely a "compound lens".

See Figure 7 in (https://arachnoid.com/relativity/index.html#General_Relativi...) for an interactive gravitational lens simulator.
Twitter has mute by keyword as well. It was a godsend during the campaign.
The hit rate is 100%, apparently.
Google to the rescue: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/firehose
At least in the US "most" most definitely did not have fiber, at best maybe FTTC.
No one's saying the quiet part out loud. Pay for an account. Even $1, one time, is enough to cut almost all those bot farms down.

Is it realistic? yes. Is it viable? I'm not sure. People claim to care more about privacy but will choose ads and trackers over a subscription any day of the week. Anyone operating a website or app with a subsciption knows this.
Bluesky == A particular Twitter alternative

Firehose == The raw live feed of all new posts from all users
For those I'd recommend Rohrer & Klingner Alt Goldgrün or Montblanc Irish Green instead :)
You can get pretty cheap 10GBASE-T NICs on ebay. I've had pretty good success with this abomination, a server-pull NIC with an HP proprietary physical interface plugged into an adapter to PCI-E: https://www.ebay.com/itm/144151881516
I think it just comes in waves. Years ago, I'd see links to Twitter and replies full of crypto scammer. It has been a while since I've seen that problem to that degree, though there was a smaller wave of them a few months ago.

Meanwhile, my YouTube feed regularly gets attacked with AI generated crypto ads using the Tesla or SpaceX brands.
The purpose of scientific papers is to explain that, starting with observations.
Thank you for referencing the Gelman books. I keep struggling to understand Statistical Rethinking, which seems too advanced for me.
> Is it only one direction or does it work the same from the other side?

The relationship is (must be) symmetrical. Were this not so, it would violate a principle called "Maxwell's Daemon" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon).
I misspoke, I meant Allegiant. Frontier is pretty good, a step down from Spirt but above Allegiant.
What these authors claimed recently was that prior LHB estimates were low by a large factor. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00835-9
“Narrowest possible lost”, sure, minus the fact that despite raising over $1B the Harris campaign still ended up $20M in debt, Republicans are majority in every section of elected government with plans to reinforce that, millions of Americans are becoming disillusioned with Democratic ideology, and you even have the president and his wife casting aside his own VP in favor of Trump by refusing to attend her election night party, but instead meeting with the very same man who did not give him the same courtesy in 2020.

Yeah, aside from all that it was the “narrowest possible loss”.
There's no need to resort to straw man arguments. It's very likely that the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic was the result of reckless gain-of-function research combined with sloppy biohazard standards. It's also clear that better public communication about the efficacy of the vaccines and in particular the high likelihood that vaccinated people would still contract Covid (but would suffer less severe symptoms) would have done a lot towards maintaining public trust in government proclamations.
I like how nobody on HN seems to understand how poverty works.
Bluesky is a microblogging social network, like Twitter, or Threads.

However, Bluesky is the only one with open access to the firehose, aka all the activity. Here is a different, less aesthetically pleasing tool to see it:

https://firesky.tv
Not sure if it tracks given that the founder himself more or less got ousted from his platform. I don't exactly think the current owners keep the servers up in good faith.
Do you want a general strike?
The neat thing about a how an Einstein ring works is that you don't need to stop, because rather than there being a focal point, there is a focal line, moving directly outward from the Sun. This means a probe could spend potentially decades imaging the same target on its outward path, if it had sufficient power.
Does not appear to be open source.
Reasonably sure. If it’s clear they actually mean dynamically typed, fine. That’s down to preference, and I won’t say they’re wrong any more than I’ll argue that chocolate is better than strawberry.

However, I’ve heard lots of utterly wrong criticisms of Python (and Rust and…) that were based on factual misunderstandings and not just a vocabulary mistake.
I didn’t include this in my thesis but from what I remember looking at hundreds if not thousands of matrices and their QC solutions some symmetries would immediately make it so that way less gates would be needed but it could also be deceptive and completely depended on which gate set you have available. If you take the matrix for the quantum furier transform for example with a gate set of phase gates and a hadamard gate then for the 100% solution you n hadamard gates and n! phase gates for an n qubit circuit even though the matrix is highly symmetrical. If your gate set was Clifford + toffli you would be able to do it with n*log(n). And then depending on how close you wanna approximate it you could get away with even less. But I have not gone into further analysis on which symmetries would have which effect on which gate set and whether it would influence predictivity. But it would be fun to investigate for sure!
"If you are tolerant to everyone, the intolerant will use that to take control and do whatever they want."
You're missing out, definitely give it a go! GeforceNow is a staggering leap over all the other previous cloud streaming services imo. The experience in Austin specifically is amazing, I get ~5ms (!) RTT latency to their datacenter in Dallas. Combine that with h/w AV1 decoding, the difference versus local is almost unperceivable.
A "terrible precedent to set"? In case a future congressman is under ethical review for sex with a minor and resigns preemptively?
Download this: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/hist01...

Outlays jumped over $2T in 2020 (3rd column, 127th row). We all know why.

Outlays have not come down to anything close to pre-COVID levels. We all know why.

Cutting $2T from a $6.7T budget would not even return to 2019's pre-COVID outlays.

Seems doable to me.
I think the original quote was "One in a million is next Tuesday": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterma...
I already have an Aura Interactor.
Major Bitcoin hacker Lichtenstein gets five years in prison for crypto
well, is Waymo doing better than the PyTorch-powered Tesla?
Then, instead of people complaining about buffering issues, you'd get people complaining about how the greedy capitalists at Netflix made poor Joe Shmoe use all of his data cap, because they made him upload lots of data to other users and couldn't be bothered to do it themselves.
Just takes one purse string puller to see something and maybe their company will put money into helping. There is an incentive for companies to contribute. They dont want their tools to die, they want to do the right thing (and can because of culture or BDFL) or promotional reasons either for their service or for recruitment. In addition yes a bored retired xoogler might need a hobby.
Have you tried Tanstack, they have a headless solution that is pretty neat. Also work with vanilla.
https://archive.is/qtFkX#selection-297.0-297.57
I thought the untimely de-staffing of the CDC office in China was the rude awakening. Their mission was the apparently pointless one to "monitor, respond to, and control human seasonal, avian, and other novel influenza viruses"...
VoiceOver in the era of faceless YouTube channels
Hey HN in this time internet is flooded with videos about how to make millions of dollars with automated faceless Youtube channels, even when I believe that is not that simple like they say is true that AI tech is helping to increase the amount of content created also improve the quality or reduce costs.
Thinking in this I created VoiceOver the goal is that you can start a short form channel on any social platform you can choose the best voice depending on the type of content you are creating.
This tool its good also to create product demos or ads, give it a try is in beta so may have a bug or two.
What I’m seeing in large organizations is tracking dependencies within a team’s scope is better than dependencies between teams, because so many developers between teams are punting on tracking dependencies upon other teams’ artifacts if there isn’t a formal system already in place at the organization to establish contracts between teams along these dependency routes, that automatically handle the state and notifications when changes announcing the intended state change are put through the system. Usually some haphazard dependency representation is embedded into some software and developers call it a day, expecting the software to auto-magically solve a social-technical logistical problem instead of realizing state transitions of the dependencies are not represented and the software could never deliver what they assume.
> (as you can't normally add someone who has blocked you to their lists)

That seems really abuseable.
While that may be the case, the things like this I've experienced have been more along the lines of incompetent management.

In one case I was doing an upgrade on an IPTV distribution network for a cable provider (15+ years ago at this point). This particular segment of subscribers totalled more than 100k accounts. I did validation of the hardware and software rev installed on the routers in question prior to my trip to the data center (2+ hour drive). I informed management that the currently running version on the router wasn't compatible with this hardware rev of card I was upgrading to. I was told that it would in fact work, that we had that same combination of hw/sw running elsewhere. I couldn't find it when I went to go look at other sites. I mentioned it in email prior to leaving I was told to go.

Long story short, the card didn't work, had to back it out. The HA failover didn't work on the downgrade and took down all of those subscribers as the total outage caused a cascading issue with some other gear in this facility. All in all it was during off-peak time of day, but it was a waste of time and customer sat.
How AI Could Break the Career Ladder