skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed this would be way more useful as an IDE extension.
This is going to wipe out the saas market

(Sutures As A Service) which is a additional somewhat often used service once Stabbing As A Service has occurred.
Title is severely wrong, article is about why POST-only is silly.
(2021)

I'm generally interested in alternatives (televisions, HMDs, etc.) to traditional monitors, but I don't see many benefits to the setup described in his post. It would be more interesting if the image were projected onto the ceiling since that can result in a more relaxed posture and is an orientation very difficult to achieve with a monitor.

> Main plus points: Larger viewing surface;

This seems entirely dependent on angular distance. An average desktop monitor would be similar to the setup here.

> Indirect, reflected light is easier on the eyes than a direct, projected one.

Is this true? I'd guess that it is more a matter of overall brightness. I don't think the eye can distinguish between an emitted and reflected photon.
No problem. It’s also why I love HN.
Why the Caspian Sea is shrinking
ReScript is better described as a descendant (and fork) of ReasonML aimed to fit into the JS ecosystem. In contrast to js_of_ocaml, ReScript prioritizes interoperability with existing JS code and APIs over interop with existing OCaml code, whereas js_of_ocaml takes the opposite approach. So people looking for an improved version of JavaScript or TypeScript should probably choose ReScript, but people who are porting an existing OCaml program might prefer js_of_ocaml.
I actually got some useful ideas on previous hackernews threads on fatherhood and parenting. There were usually one or two ideas that resonated with me. I suspect the points that resonate will be different for each of us. Here's one of the older threads with a lot of responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31976803
Honestly this would be good for infra diagrams, miro boards, wireframes etc. — sometimes a laptop screen can feel claustrophobic
> It's like people are stuck in the early 2000s when they start thinking about computer capabilities.

This makes sense, because the code people write makes machines feel like they're from the early 2000's.

This is partially a joke, of course, but I think there is a massive chasm between the people who think you immediately need several computers to do things for anything other than redundancy, and the people who see how ridiculously much you can do with one.
ScholarlyArticle: "Long-lived topological time-crystalline order on a quantum processor" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53077-9

"Robust continuous time crystal in an electron–nuclear spin system" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-02351-6 ..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39291044
> Inevitably, you find a reason to expand to a second server.

The author has some good points, but not every project needs multiple servers for the same reasons as a typical Kubernetes setup. In many scenarios those servers are dedicated to separate tasks.

For example, you can have a separate server for a redundant copy of your application layer, one server for load balancing and caching, one or more servers for the database, another for backups, and none of these servers requires anything more than separate Docker Compose configs for each server.

I'm not saying that Kubernetes is a bad idea, even for the hypothetical setup above, but you don't necessarily need advanced service discovery tools for every workload.
Yeah I'm not really sure what issues you could reasonably expect a satellite internet provider to be troubleshooting at all. It's very much a 0 or 1 situation.
I see someone needs to teach their user-agent how to say "no".

Maybe they could get advice on the best way to do that from these people?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169027
I'd guess that majority of such binary-only libraries use C ABI interfaces. The entire Windows ecosystem of COM modules works on top of C ABI's.
I just use Datagrip. Works with SQLite and many more dbs
> As an engineer, I use judgement to make context-dependent trade offs.

Well said.

This is why i am firmly in the Stroustrup camp of backward compatibility/zero overhead/better-C/etc. goodness of "old C++". I need to extend/maintain/rewrite tons of them and that needs to be as painless as possible. The current standards trajectory needs to be maintained.

The OP article is a rather poor one with no insights but mere hoopla over nothing.
So, as I understand it, you 0wn a machine in one organization, then use it to tunnel over to Wi-Fi in the building next door, 0wn another machine there, rinse and repeat until you've created the world's least consensual mesh network?
America should learn from this
With respect, I’m not sure you understand the scale of what we are talking about. No other organization — including national space agencies and military contractors — has the life capacity to compete with Starlink at ANY cost. Even if money were no object, the other contenders literally don’t have the launch capacity and can’t reasonably scale up.

It’s as if Intel released the Pentium Pro back in the 50’s when everyone else was working with vacuum tubes. Yes, in theory there is room for competition. But the gulf is so large in practice.
While watching some non-technical people use a web browser, I noticed that they tended to type the name of their intended destination - not the domain name - into the navigation bar. In effect, they had delegated the resolution of names to destinations to their default search engine - Google.

How do we solve the "billboard test"? Delegating to mostly central, mostly trusted authorities gets us roughly on par with the current reality. More interesting is if we could then diffuse this authority by having multiple resolvers and combining them. The details - how to combine results, how to resolve divergences, and results changing over time - could be tricky for UX.
Once again GTFOBins[0] proving to be a valuable resource.

[0] https://gtfobins.github.io/
I find it less abutting now that I know about let expressions in lambda calculus. it's still verbose though. do notation please.
I would think 5G could really improve that situation. In the states we have the 600 MHz spectrum on T-Mobile and can pull down decent speeds 30-150mb through trees 15 miles from the tower. Upload is not great.
>on the tail of covid when people were unironically making such proposals

They were? I remember a lot of awful stuff about those years, but this isn't one of them. I remember people making somewhat mean-spirited but understandable comments about (some) older people getting killed off by Covid due to their own actions (refusal to take the threat seriously and take precautions, leading them to catch it, and then have much worse outcomes due to the fact that the disease was much more deadly for unhealthy and older people).
Chosen-Prefix Collisions on AES-Like Hashing
Given that web industry uses no-server-state for *authentication* (with all the issues it implies), i would expect tracking also be no-server-state.
Boosters don’t depreciate. They are actually considered more valuable with more successful launches.
It's not exactly a bell, but there are clicks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_consonant

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1614k...
So true, its depressing...
I love this stuff. If anybody wants another outlandish example here is an emulator I built: https://github.com/DanielFi/sqlite-vm/blob/main/emulator.sql
But the challenge wasn't for performing four-froot-hoot, the challenge was described in text and adhered to. Mike thought he was describing four-froot-hoot, but accidentally only made the challenge about four-froot. The club rules even described why four-froot was not an interesting challenge unless it were four-froot-hoot, which makes it doubly on Mike to issue the challenge for four-froot-hoot and not just four-froot, yet he flubbed it.

The "it ain't even skedaddle" aspect is just incorrect. Compression is a term of art, and it is very general. Saying that "hiding" things in the filesystem is cheating is no different than saying that using the previous frame to reduce the size of the following frame in a video compressor is cheating. Yes, you do have to be careful of exactly what your inputs are, but there is great value in taking advantage of additional forms of input even if they might be initially unexpected.

Besides, Mike's smugness deserves some comeuppance.
You have no idea the margins at which Elon Musk operates.

If you read his biography he is obsessive about cost cutting like no else in the history of mankind. There are plenty of examples where Musk brings down the cost of a component by 90%.

No other leader takes risks like Musk and hence he will always push frontiers.

His companies never get lazy or bloated even if it reaches $10T market cap.

Musk methods can't be replicated because it is the anti-thesis of every management practice.
Why not buy an 85” tv? They are dirt cheap and you can place them far. For webcam, I have used my dslr in the past but any webcam works as now Google meet autozooms in on the face
All recursion is iteration. Sometimes you have a stack to help you, and other times you get tail recursion optimization, but it's always a loop.
Then tell the customer that, rather than string them along for 8 months promising fixes (software or hardware), that never come in
I think a large part of that might be the language they choose. Every C++ code example in the paper feels extremely verbose to me, and I wonder to which degree that is inherently required for encoding language semantics, and to which degree it's C++ syntax being noisy.

This is not a critique of the authors, btw. Considering the breadth and depthtof various types of domain-specific knowledge that have to be "synthesized" on a project like this, developing a mastery of C++ is almost a given. So implementing things in C++ was likely the most natural approach for them. It technically also might be the most portable choice, since anyone who has LLVM installed will also have a C++ compiler.

I do wonder what it would be like if this were built upon a language with more appropriate "ergonomics" though. Maybe they can invent and implement DSL for Deegen in Deegen, haha.
HackerNews is an echo chamber. You're not even allowed to call people f*ggots or speculate about the Jews here!
> Ironically, the lieutenant governor who replaced him came out swinging, disclosing that he did inhale, regularly had sex outside of his marriage, did cocaine and various other things. Lol.

Hah, how did he do?
This is already available in iPhone with their text based coverage: https://support.apple.com/en-us/120930

Probably they are using GSAT satellites.
>not an end to itself

it is an end to itself. the reason it's a means to an end is because that was its end goal. in being a means to an end, it is an end (its end) unto itself, opposite to what you said, imho
Some will fly upward, but at worst it still deorbits pretty quickly, and most of it will deorbit immediately. That limits the risk a lot.
But that is just true of any problem-solving/programming technique.

In general, state/event machine transition table and decision table techniques of structuring code are easier to comprehend than adhoc and even worse, poorly understood pattern-based techniques are.
Starlink here, which includes data, is a huge jump from emergency SOS on Inreach. I do think we'll lose some of the magic of outdoors experiences when we can check nytimes.com and Reddit in the backcountry.
It's kind of alarming, not that I'm not guilty of it, but you do see people whose entire online presence is just stuffing their face with negative interactions.
We're keeping prices low for now @ $17 cheaper than monthly ChatGPT subscription. Unfortunately ChatGPT does not allow setting reminders + integrating with calendar. Any other apps on your mind?

Account settings are accessed via text (and soon dashboard w/ auto login). Receipts are done over email!
This is great advice that I follow as well. In the past if I had an entire ROM set for a classic system I can never decide what to play. Now I limit myself to a handful of titles and pretend that is all I have.
Let me know if you have feedback!
Safe to say? You sure about that?

I’d say it’s just as likely that six months from now there will be a falling out, Musk will be called a pathetic loser, government agencies will be turned against him, etc.

If past behavior is any kind of indicator, it’s more likely than not. I would not be surprised if we see Musk doing a perp walk within 12 months.
> There's no inherent reason for this to be a winner takes all market.

Economics?

Competitors would have to match SpaceX's vertical integration: Satellite design, reusable launches at cost, its exiting armada of satellites, and its moving target of customer penetration. The latter is huge. Starlink is clearly not satisfied leaving any satellite demand on the table.

There is no military on Earth that has demand for satellite bandwidth approaching anything like SpaceX's, which is basically being designed to meet the needs of the whole planet.

Note that militaries (US, China, Russia, Europe, ...) have their custom means of communicating on planet, for unique reasons, but the vast majority of their communication is over commercial cell phones. This is no different.

If anyone was going to have a chance, it was Bezos. But neither his launch capabilities, or big satellite constellation plans, have amounted to much.

China will feel the need to try. But they won't have SpaceX's customer base to support a fraction of a comparable effort. (And I say that as someone who has tremendous respect for the multi-decade cadence of their space capability march.)
I don't find that the syntax gets in the way of thinking in relational algebra, but I did learn SQL first.
>there is a lot of potential to repurpose farm land without changing food production at all

This takes years, which isn't enough in the case of a major food security event, i.e. war.
> The meme that goes around atm is that while Elon Musk created Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink the EU managed to get everybody to now have plastic bottles who do not close properly anymore: due to some regulation that mandates that bottle caps must hold to the bottle, weird only partially-functional mechanism have been created and it's a PITA to either drink from a plastic bottle or, worse, try to lay it horizontally in a fridge.

I haven't encountered that meme, but if it exists, it's like most memes seem to be: Wrong. The bottle caps work just fine.
2. In general there aren’t a ton of punctuation characters that are very common, which is great for typing ergonomics. Don’t get me wrong, there are still a lot of symbols, but I feel compared to some languages such as Rust, they’re used a lot less.

I never really seen someone put that into words. I always feel a certain kind of weird when I look at a language with tons of punctuation (Typescript is good example).
> aggressively and adversarially defend the freedom to use your computer the way you choose to use it

Sadly even if you’re inclined to do this, it’s always a war of attrition, and corporations seem to realize they can just up the cost of your resistance in terms of time/frustration, and that’s enough for them to win in the long term. The history and trajectory of platforms, from browsers to AppStore’s to SaaS-all-the-things, is just tragic, with the amount of user control on a downward slide at each stage. The big question now is whether / how / to what extent AI is going to be corporate or democratized, but it’s hard to be optimistic.

Or, you know, if Clicking do-not-stab for 60 more years sounds like it sucks, you can try to become a shepherd or something. Works great for ~10 years, and then you can’t use cars, dishwashers or light switches without clicking do-not-stab, at which point they finally win and you say, you know what? I should be grateful they asked before they stabbed me, I practically owe it to them anyway, and I can’t wait to see all the love/cash rolling in after I’m a big shot shepherd influencer. Like and subscribe y’all and as always, hail corporate
Are you a Russian bot account?
> I can spin up effectively identical dev/ci/stg/prod clusters for a new project in an hour for a medium sized project, with CD in addition to everything GP mentioned.

I can do the same thing with `make local` invoking a few bash commands. If the complexity increases beyond that, a mistake has been made.
Why speculate when there's actual data on this?

https://archive.ph/89jTf
Eh, post Musk I see may more straight-up StormFront shit from "verified" posters.
I feel like a projector in a dark room is harder on the eyes than a monitor in a well-lit room, in fact.

Plus less tripping when I stand up
I really don't know what Musk has been appointed to do and it's a laughably blatant conflict of interest, but conflicts of interest seem to be what the entire government is built on. Politicians involved with energy and military companies are involved in decisions to go to war, generals get lucrative consultancy jobs at military firms, congress makes billions of dollars insider trading, foreign aid somehow finds its way funneled through "charities" owned by the ruling class, politicians cosy with medical companies block real healthcare reform, etc.

Musk isn't anything new or different here. The idea that he'll just be above the law is fearmongering hyperbole though. Sure he'll get favorable treatment and be able to push his agenda to degrees well out of reach of us commoners. No more than if he'd just stayed in the shadows and bought his politicians and judges and bureaucrats and generals like a normal billionaire.
100%.

i wouldn’t say falsely created, but i would say “padded statistics”

threads is beholden to KPIs unlike every other activity pub implementation

their team obviously wants to be successful to continue developing against activity pub

their metrics are akin to a company bragging about how much software they’ve written with the assistance of AI

threads was able to approximate how many instagram users wished they had twitter in the same way intellisense is able to provide auto complete for dot notation; as a magician, i spot the misdirection for investors
> Imagine you have an informally-specified, undocumented, at-least-somewhat-incomplete state machine. Imagine that it interacts with several other similar state machines. Still easy to reason about?

You think that developers that wrote an informally-specified, undocumented, at-least-somewhat-incomplete state-machine would have written that logic as a non-state-machine in a formally-specified, documented and at-least-somewhat-complete codebase?

State-machines are exceptionally easy to reason about because you can at least reverse-engineer a state-diagram from the state-machine code.

Almost-a-state-machine-but-not-quite are exceptionally difficult to reason about because you can not easily reverse-engineer the state-diagram from the state-machine code.
> larger societal shift where the burden of safeguarding personal autonomy has shifted from institutions/regulators to individual users.

If anything the shift is going the other way, with some of the more busy-body jurisdictions trying to take things that are properly enforced by the user's user-agent and instead making them officially the responsibility of the other party.
No, he needs to learn how to screw on a bottle cap. We keep soda bottles horizontal in our fridge, and they don't leak.
Blurred background is unpredictable contrast, sometimes low, sometimes high. Plus the motion behind it would be distracting. You can see the impact on the static screenshot in the OP where the text is harder to read over the light part of the blurred background than the dark part of the blurred background.
> how will converting farmland to forest

Farming is very carbon emission intensive if the farmland is reclaimed wetland. Converting the farmland to forest and stopping draining (making it more wet again) can definitely reduce carbon emissions significantly.

> Denmark has no ability to impact global CO2 emissions

This is such a tiresome and logically hollow argument. Denmark has the ability to reduce a fraction of the worlds emissions. The size of the fraction is proportional to the size of their emissions. Every country has a responsibility to reduce it's per capita emissions to sustainable levels. China has lower per capita emissions than most richer countries.
kubernetes is an API for your cluster, that is portable between providers, more or less.
there are other abstractions, but they are not portable, e.g. fly.io, DO etc.
so unless you want a vendor lock-in, you need it.
for one of my products, I had to migrate due to business reasons 4 times into different kube flavors, from self-manged ( 2 times ) to GKE and EKS.
Starlink mostly does have competition but they are seeking out specifically underserved customers which is an ever decreasing market. 5 or so years ago I signed up for the waiting list because there was no reasonable internet, 6mb DSL. Before I got the invite there was 4G for $50 a month. Now there's two 5G service providers and Fiber is suppose to come very soon.
Yep, Mike lost right there. Understandable, but still a loss.
I don't know if you meant it (apologies if not) - but libraries, and CC, and FOSS software, and Wikipedia are all good things in humanity. We should aim for more such good things.

"Salted" or not -- it's up to supporters of free markets/capitalism to figure their shit out.
Reading this my first reaction was that my questions still holds. Unless the slowness of the LLMs is of such a magnitude that having a thread or process waiting on the API call would substantially increase its cost, which I guess would mean the LLM server endpoint would be doing very heavy queuing and/or multitasking instead utilizing a powerful compute element for 90% of the call duration.

Or maybe the disconnect is where I'm taking for granted that "cost of parked thread" is the same as worrying about the nr of parked threads? Maybe everyone uses Django setups where it's nontrivial to add memory, increase serverless platform limits, etc if you get the happy problem of 10k concurrent users? Or maybe people don't know that the nr of threads/processes you can have on Linux is much more than hundreds or thousands. Or maybe there's some Python or Django specific limits to this.
You have ownership over your own memories and records.

Other people also own their own memories and records - some of which may be about you.

At least, this is how it was for most of human history.

Now some people think they should be able to demand everyone destroy records about them. If it was possible, no doubt they'd also demand people destroy any memories about them as well.
Orchard was the one I was thinking of.
A very plausible explanation is that the separation was biotic
You don't need LEOs to have text direct to cell. You can cover with a lot fewer satellites in higher otbits. China had this since last year, though through special protocols, not LTE, so you need new hardware. But the hardware fits into a regular cell phone.
Craigslist Founder Gives $300M to Fund Critical US Infrastructure Cybersecurity
Elon Musks's entire net worth right now is $334 billion. If you take all his wealth somehow and divide it among all US citizens, each would get $1000 total.
Okay, that's fair. The support for the selectors is very half-assed and there's no other good mechanism.
Just to be clear, the reason I mentioned this in response to your original post is that UNION ALL doesn't have anything to do with the query recursing infinitely: it just allows the database engine to not keep previous results around. If you have a query that recurses infinitely, with UNION it will definitely exhaust the memory of the database engine, and with UNION ALL it will never stop returning results, which may exhaust the memory of the database client (unless it discards the results).
I believe HSMs can model this, but don't quote me. :)