skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> broadcast your nonsense to millions of people, if you have the resources

Spot on, today you can do that as close to free as possible. In the eras past that was not possible it was expensive so only few could do it and that served as a moderating influence, it was not easy for fringe beliefs to become mainstream. The gatekeeping had the downside of suppressing voices particularly minority and oppressed voices so it was not all rosy.

The only thing we know is we can no longer use the past as reference to model how the future of politics , governance or media will be, which institutions will survive and in what distorted versions in say even 10-30 years.
>Loeb promises his team will openly share with the public any data they collect and any discoveries they make.

>“This standard scientific practice is far more informative than political maneuvers aimed to disclose classified information from stubborn government agencies,” he says. “A robust answer to Enrico Fermi’s old question of ‘where is everybody?’ will originate from scientists—not from politicians or journalists.”

Just as progress in particle physics or astronomy is heavily dependent on multi-billion dollar tools (CERN, JWST), I don't think any meaningful progress will be achieved without the involvement of the government.

On a tangent line, last summer I was able to observe flashing dots in the sky that were not moving. It occurred near dawn (3 AM) and I was able to observe them every night without clouds. Just a few flashes, dozen of seconds apart, in the same position in the sky. These flashes were very brief (hundreds of milliseconds) and were as bright as the ISS but did not appear to move like the usual satellite does. This wasn't Iridium flares either, those last a lot longer (according to what I can see on youtube).

Anyway there are plenty of people observing these flashes. Albeit the thread was created in 2017 comments are still being added:

https://www.backyardastronomy.net/2017/02/04/single-flashes-...

The videos in the OP feature exactly the kind of stuff I saw.

And it seems to be common enough that when you look up "flashing light in " on Google, the second suggestion is "flashing light in sky not moving".

What is this ? The static position in the sky (near geosynchronous orbit?) and the high magnitude of these flashes leave me baffled (even though I'm not a scientist myself).
In shallow waters, cruise ships can churn up as much sediment as a hurricane
96GB of unified RAM. How much of that is available to the graphics cores? I haven't tested a later model but the M1 Max would max out at 16GB VRAM regardless of how much the machine had.

There's a reason companies are setting up clusters of A100s, not MacBooks.
> But front end performance issues are almost never the most pressing issue

Tell me your websites are unbearably slow without telling me your websites are unbearably slow :D
I don't know about IT, but the employees working in various non-IT companies are already locked in MS ecosystem. This is brings nothing new.
Man, HN really is full of shitty redditors now. Enjoy your bucket.
Can anyone explain why tomatoes always suck now?
In addition to the deployment-time issues and other stuff I and others have commented downthread, I thought of another problem with this.

I can't see how this would even work for trivial, quick, on-line schema changes. Let's say I have 10 servers running the same service that talks to the database (that is, the service fronting the database is scaled out horizontally). How would I do a migration? Obviously I can't deploy new code to all 10 servers simultaneously that will do the schema migration; only one server can run the migration. So one server runs the migration, and... what, the other 9 servers immediately panic because their idea of the schema is out of date?

Or I deploy code to all 10 servers but somehow designate that only one of them will actually do the schema migration. Well, now the other 9 servers are expecting the new schema, and will panic before that 1 server can finish doing the migration.

It seems to me that rust-query is only suitable for applications where you have to schedule downtime in order to do schema changes. That's just unacceptable for any business I've worked at.
What about mechanical devices that simply wear out? Even electronic devices can fail due to circumstances controlled neither by you nor by the manufacturer, like lightning strikes introducing violent transients in the grid supply.

Also, cool beans that that is the minimum you'll settle on but how on earth would anyone enforce that? Open sourced software is not enough by far to make something work perpetually: the software will need to be run somewhere and most likely (since you are talking about some sort of net-connected software if this is relevant in the first place) will need security patching to keep up with CVEs. Who is going to pay for that? I don't think it will be the bankrupt entity that stopped existing 10 years ago.
I was going to post this. Would have to log in once again to make sure to equip my favorite set (which was not Judgement it was paladin 10 man Ulduar!) and weapon. Kinda sad these sets are very well poly.

Similar situation with High Alagan Coat of Healing on FFIXV.
Because those costs were incurred with the plan to recoup the cost from sales in the US, and (presumably) those people are bypassing the licensed sale/use; which ruins that plan.

Your question is really no different than asking why it's not legal for me photocopy books and ignore copyright.
> Have I told you about my neighbor who uses a leaf blower nonstop from 7am until 8pm? Well, he doesn’t actually, be he has a right to

While I think it’s reasonable to split hairs about whether or not they were actually collecting the data, I think this is a really problematic analogy for a number of reasons.

I think a better comparison would go something like this: “My neighbor told me he might record everything that happens in my back yard”.

Your neighbor having the right to run his leaf blower constantly isn’t analogous to your neighbor directly claiming they might do something that impacts your privacy. Even if they never actually record anything, coming out and saying they might is more newsworthy than an unstated “right to be annoying” that never occurs.

It’s still worth distinguishing between “my neighbor said he might” and “my neighbor is actually doing this”, but just the claim on its own is still worth paying attention to if you care about your privacy.
LISP doesn't really read well the bigger the codebase

[citation needed]
Works for MS now
This is not a Personal Computer. It's a terminal for workers to use at job. It's a Company Computer.
Sure is odd that a good number of react-and-friends websites can’t manage to support it all then.

Just like how routing and history is “solved” but I encounter websites every other day that completely break my browser history.
Why do you think bad developers or teams without sufficient budget may produce bad experiences when using React? What should those teams be caring about that React doesn't solve for them?
Curious, is this the series https://infrequently.org/2024/08/the-landscape/ ?
Hetzner is actually worse. Current EU directives allow liability shift in online payment when the customer is authenticated via 3D Secure, meaning the risk is extremely low and the onus of proving the fraud is on the card owner. Yet Hetzner will not accept your money if your name doesn’t look correct for the country you are accessing from.
> this article doesn't actually explain why (or even if) Honeycrisp has gotten worse

Is no mystery at all what is happening here.

One of the things that I loved from plant physiology is how futuristic it is. Bordering black magic sometimes. For example. Do you knew that potions of eternal youth exist... for apples?.

You just need to apply some commercial product and this apple will kept brilliant skin, no wrinkles, and bright color for weeks. Fantastic, right? The sellers and the supermarkets will love that.

The only problem is that it cost sugar to keep it alive in this state of white-snow suspended animation. As long as there is sugar remaining it works. After a while you have a good-looking apple with a disappointing bland watery taste.

This is half of the explanation that the writer was looking for. The other half is a camera storage time too extended.
Other commenters have elaborated as well, but to summmarize: hundreds of Ms on a dev machine a) does matter and b) is likely much much more in less than ideal computing environments, I disagree that the backend usually is where more time is spent (at least in maaaaany apps I have worked on) And re: specialized domains, I think most users of most software appreciate speed even if it isn’t a stated objective
So it seems that we get different apples in Europe and the US? I'm from Spain and haven't even heard of Honeycrisp or Cosmic Crisp.

Here, the common apples you can see in supermarkets are Golden Delicious (called just Golden here), Royal Gala, Pink Lady, Fuji, Pippin, Granny Smith, Red "Delicious", Kanzi, maybe a few more than I'm forgetting, but no Honeycrisp or Cosmic Crisp as far as I know.
You’re blurring architecture with UI.

The Amazon site is pretty ugly, yes, but it’s functional and fast.
As someone who has witnessed Windows explode twice from in-place upgrades I would just buy a new disk or computer and start over. I get that this is different but the time that went into that data is worth way more than a new disk. It's just not worth the risk IMO. Maybe if you don't care about the data or have good backups and wish to help shake bugs out - go for it I guess.
I'm really shocked that 'soon' can be considered 30 years. So you agree to store someones stuff for a short time, and then you are locked in for 30+ years? I thought america had crazy lawsuits...
> if not React, then what?

TinyJS?! http://github.com/victorqribeiro/tinyjs
Congrats, you've been brainwashed by billionaires into voting against your interest.
If you get a chance, try WineCrisp. Loads of flavor and stubbornly crisp. The things keep for months, even in less than ideal storage (such as a fridge), and even after losing a great deal of moisture retain a snappy bite.

Only real downside is that the appearance isn't very flashy; they're the russet potato of modern apples.
If you ever come to France, try the Chantecler, truly my favourite of them all, extremely consistent and perfect for cakes too.
Would it make more sense to consider the response from the DB, like a response from any other system or user input, and take the parse don’t validate approach?

After all, the DB is another system, and its state can be different to what you expected.

At compile time we have a best guess. Unless there was a way to tell the DB what version of the schema we think it has, it could always be wrong.
Zfs is in tree if you use a different kernel. :p
There are marketing companies who gleefully offer this capability. It is 100% real.
It is 100% technically possible.

It is also inarguably happening because we have all seen it with our own eyes. Don’t try to gaslight. We know what we’ve seen.
the fun of that study is that the pigeon behavior they think is to get food is superstition it self.
I started programming at age eight, while my brother started in his 20s. Teaching him to write C was an eye-opening experience because it showed how much I rely on vibe and feelings. He struggled with things I take for granted, like indenting his code consistently, or actually reading error messages from the compiler and using them for debugging.

It took him a couple of years to get to the point where he could get a job as a programmer. This isn't surprising, because it also took me a couple of years. I had just forgotten where my starting point was.
Tech companies are awash in 'ghost engineers,' Stanford researcher says
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> I'm familiar with React. And no, links in React often don't work without extra attention.

^ These two statements are at odds with each other.

React will return a pure browser link that behaves exactly as a browser link:

function Comp() { return <a href="some-link">text</a>; }

> The widgets have a click handler that opens the widget details.
>
> Now you right click on it. If you're lucky, it opens the widget details in a separate tab. However, the filter information is lost.

So, the problem isn't React. The problem is people overriding default browser behaviour for their widgets. It was a problem before React, and it will be a problem long after React.

For example, here's Google's premier site about web technologies: https://web.dev/articles Check out the pagination links at the bottom. There's no React on the page
Not a single file codebase
Ah, I knew about the \K to cut things before the match, but I could never find how to cut away the things after. But it exists and it's (?=... Well, better late than never.

> worst case, piping to `cut` or `awk` can also be a solution.

Yeah, I've used that too, and that's how I ended with writing the script down: constantly piping things through the second filter with yet another stupid regex that needs tinkering as well... isn't there a way to reuse the first regex, somehow? Hmm, don't the patterns in the sed's "substitute" use the same syntax as the grep does?.. They do! How convenient.
> Have I just had the misfortune of working at particularly crappy companies, or are things really this bad across the whole industry?

It's not universal, but you might have to do a lot of searching. Personally, I think it's easier to find the right people in smaller companies, mostly because it's harder to hide in the crowd that way, but there are clever, dedicated people in companies of all sizes.

You'll do ok. Keep the fire burning, and keep looking for people who either share your principles, or respect them.
This is something that I just don’t get, in the olden days, when you wanted to encapsulate logic and state and share it between instances you would just use a singleton service. But now when classes are “bad” for some reason (when the whole point of a class is encapsulation of state and logic) you get weird stateful functions that makes everything hard to track with complicated API.
This suggests a simple API using a Rust macro:

fill_in_sql!(query_string, query_params)

Where query_params is a structure containing the parameters:

struct some query {
name: &str,
id: u32,
}

The macro would parse the query string, find the variables to be filled in, match them to fields in the "params" structure, and generate the code to safely escape and fill in the params.
Any matching failures are found at compile time.

This is similar to what the usual "derive" macros do - examine a data structure at compile time and generate appropriate code.
There is an OpenZFS port to Windows, but I'm not sure how to find it from here:

https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/ZFSin

There is also Microsoft's own ReFS:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS
Also, Google Translate, when used to translate web pages:

> does not pay authors

Check.

> it spits out literal copies of the content it scraped

Check.

> attempts to derive a new thing from the knowledge it obtains.

Check.

* Is interactive: Check.

* Can output text that sounds syntactically and grammatically correct, but a human can instantly say "that doesn't look right": Check.

* Changing one word in a sentence affects words in a completely different sentence, because that changed the context: Check.
Yes, that's the one! Thank you for linking it.
what do you use for routing? I built Routerino for just exactly this purpose, to use with vanilla React. maybe it'll be useful for you!

https://www.npmjs.com/package/routerino
There are US manufacturers. I have a Tesla PW3 made in the U.S. and it includes solar charge controllers, batteries and inverter.

Pretty competitive too.
https://techobsessed.net/2023/12/increasing-ram-available-to... says it's tunable via the terminal down to 2GiB for reserved for the OS with the rest allocated for GPU use.
Everyone using React is basing their work on Facebook’s challenge!
I'd love to be in touch. I don't see your email in your profile.
I'm mpnagle at gmail dot com.
Thank you!
These are just people like GNC engineers who spend all day in simulink and commit generated code once a week with only a few but critical changes
I'm not a web dev at all, but when I need some web UI ClojureScript/Reagent works pretty well. I get all the pretty React components while being able to avoid JavaScript and JSX entirely (all XML-style DSLs that have closing tags I find incredibly verbose and ugly).
One also could say that the opposite of open source is superstition.

It works with the example given in the article: OneNote is proprietary software, and it is documented, though incompletely. Had it been open source, one could see exactly how shape recognition works, bugs, quirks and all. No documentation will give that amount of detail.

Sure, not everyone has the time and skills for that, but maybe someone on stackoverflow does and have answered the question with proof, that is, not a superstition.
afaik almost all of those are available in the us/canada as well
You can even cultivate fish in the Space Age. It involves interplanetary logistics though.
Uh... I'm pretty sure Compass.com is running on Next.js...
In the Linux tree.

In Windows, Satya would need to write Larry a check. It would probably be hefty.

Edit: there was a time that this was planned for MacOS.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/zfs-the-other-new-ap...
Two points: 1) I actually think that smaller models are substantially similar to frontier models. Of course the latter are more capable, but they’re more similar than different (which I think the ELO scores on lmarena.ai suggests).

2) You can run much larger models on Apple Silicon with surprisingly decent speed.
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> but was shipped anyway, possibly so someone could save face

no. once the core has it and you realize it doesn't help much, it absolutely is a risk to remove it.
While I still mainly use Google to search for terms online, I am increasingly using the free version of Perplexity for more advanced topics or general questions.
Perplexity is an LLM like Claude and ChatGPT, but instead of relying on the data it's been trained on, Perplexity gathers a whole bunch of sources (websites, youtube video transcripts, etc.) related to your query, and then uses the contents of those sources to generate an answer.
So while it may not be as smart as Claude or ChatGPT on certain topics, it does seem to hallucinate a whole lot less.
And at times when I'm not given the answer I'm looking for, or when I want to make sure it's not making things up, I simply browse the list of sources it used to generate its answer.
I agree , I elaborated on this in a child comment.

Just a minor point I would say it is ~120 years rather than 70. There was influential journalism through the early 20th century when professional journalism took shape which influenced policy of note the anti trust actions taken under Sherman Act in early 1900s.
Can you post an example of one of these products?

I've been dabbling in this space and I'm having a hard time finding any data service under about $2 - $4 per month.
Phones are literally sold at different prices when they have more storage. People are familiar with being unable to install more apps or take more pictures. Happens all the time.

Get out of your bubble.
It's the same file system, with two different drivers for two different operating systems.
The demo, which survived HN hug of death is running on 6$ vultr instance.

RAM : 1GB

STORAGE: 25 GB

so far bandwidth used is 3.6GB

So, you can successful deploy vince on low spec servers depending on your expected traffic.
I'm a surf photographer and rely on my camera automatics a lot. They are allowed to move freely within defined limits.

99% of my pictures are technically fine.

I only use full manual if the picture job needs it.

Most of the time setting the aperture is enough (and the camera allows to set the exposure time and ISO automatically, but set limits which to automatics is not allowed to cross). On the other side action/sport photography is mostly shutter time bound - then the other side around.
The idea of a year-round fruit crop is a modern supermarket creation. Most food is seasonal. If a consumer are unaware of its seasonality, that’s because someone is working hard to hide that fact.

I try to enjoy asparagus when it is in season, new potatoes when they are in season, etc. Just because some crops are bred for months and months of storage doesn’t mean they actually taste great.
GCC Compiler vs. Human – 119x Faster Assembly (2023)
I just built my first fish farm and it appears that one cannot improve the quality of fish. Anyway, I had enough bits lying around to build 5 spidertron as soon as I unlocked the tech so I guess it’s pretty simple. I copied Nilaus’ parameterized mini-mall and then adapted that for assemblers and biochambers so maybe it just seemed easier.
From a link in the article:

> The contracts we sign with all dealers clearly stipulate that products that are not UL certified and listed by local power grid companies may not be sold or used in the United States, because the products do not meet US UL standards. If used in violation of this policy, the devices may pose significant-safety risks. To address this, Deye has built a verification mechanism into the devices. The pop-up alert is automatically triggered by the device’s authorization verification mechanism, rather than by any human intervention.
Certainly some of this is a question of degree (eg. motivation to read a blog post versus a longer, more comprehensive book), but the gap between reading and practicing is real and very important. Just as the OA is referring to practitioners who are too lazy to pick up a book, you also have people who go the opposite way and spend all their energy reading and theorizing without putting anything into practice.
Most work is fake so this should not be surprising.¹

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
writing great documentation is extremely hard. sometimes it is so well done you only notice it in how fast and easy you progress. the funniest opposite was documentation i wrote myself but turned out to complicated for the future self. i kept thinking, what is this guy on about?? it assumed the reader knew all kinds of things i didn't and it made effort to explain the obvious.
As a mathematician, one of the first programs I wrote was to numerically calculate pi by random number generation in a box and seeing percentage of points that were in the circle. It was a fun introduction to programming. So, I found it to be the opposite, numerical simulations were a way to teach mathematicians programming.
How are you getting to O(n)? Is that in terms of the logic you need to read and keep in your mind? Or is it the actual computational complexity?
It's certainly possible to generate the HTML up-front. Tooling like Next.js even sets things up so it's easier to render the HTML for the first page load on the server than to push it to the client.

I have a website. It's not great, it doesn't get much traffic, but it's mine :). If you disable JS, it works: links are links, HTML is loaded for each page view. If you enable JS, it still works: links will trigger a re-render, the address bar updates, all the nice "website" stuff.

If I write enough (and people read enough) then enabling JS also brings performance benefits: yes, you have to load ~100kB of JS. But each page load is 4kB smaller because it doesn't contain any boilerplate.

Obviously I could generate the HTML any way I choose, but doing it in React is nice and composable.
There are Aldi's in the US also.