skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Webhooks are a classic example of premature optimization masquerading as "best practice". The irony in this blog post is palpable - they advocate for webhooks while simultaneously describing their fundamental weakness. A webhook system requires you to implement the exact polling mechanism you were trying to avoid in the first place, just with added layers of complexity.

The recommendation for "exponential backoff spanning several days" is particularly telling. What happens when your service faces extended downtime beyond their arbitrary retry window? Your "real-time" system suddenly develops permanent blind spots. Meanwhile, a simple polling implementation would seamlessly catch up by simply processing the backlog.

For mission-critical integrations like payment processing, I've found that polling Stripe's events API at regular intervals is not just more reliable - it's significantly easier to reason about and debug. When issues arise, you can simply reset your local state and replay events, rather than attempting to recreate the exact conditions that triggered a webhook failure.

The purported benefit? Saving a few seconds of latency in a business process where users are already accustomed to asynchronous workflows. It's architectural complexity theater that solves a non-problem while introducing very real failure modes.
It seems to me that the whole study was intended to manufacture a result to grab headlines. Scientific clickbait. It doesn't matter how transparent they are, because that is mostly there to cover their asses.
There's NPR (not my thing) and some AM stations with interesting local talk shows. I still listen to baseball games on AM radio.
Indygreg's Python-build-standalone project will be transitioning to Astral
The "homebrew computer club" made their own computers. It wasn't about being scrappy or hip, but just a cooler way of saying "homemade"
Well, we "need" Javascript because it provides programming capabilities that HTML, being a markup language, cannot provide on its own. HTML is just the substrate for representing the UI.

All you would be doing is creating another programming language while taking another swing at coming up with yet another abstraction for UI dev like everyone before you.
Epic fail then. Wow. That’s DOA.
Show HN: My C compiler compiled itself
One of the most challenging projects of my life :)
Just imagine someone who died 50 years ago coming back and hearing skibidi toilet, no cap, ohio, etc. Then not being allowed to board a plane without a body scan, and not having money for a plane anyways since bread was dime and a gallon of gas was a quarter last you checked. You can't even get a job you're just a brain and all the knowledge work you could do is 50 years out of date.
Either way I wouldn't say it's "reasonable" that anyone at Ubiquiti has access to your NVR. A very skeptical and doomer take imo.
XRAY.fm in Portland is another
> Seeing dell.computerdealshop.com will snap a lot of people out of it where seeing dell.shop would not have.

Would love to see citations for that.
What’s your point? I support the right to euthanasia, nothing in my comment contradicts that.

We’re not talking about someone in pain wishing to die, we’re talking about someone vehemently arguing they would rather die than live without a limb, without having experienced it. And their reasoning is a lack of autonomy and dignity, none of which are a given.

There are literally millions of people without limbs, half a million new ones per year in the US alone. They’re not poor invalids, they’re people who adapt and can do things we only dream off while living normal lives.
Is nVidia or AmD offering 128gb cards in any configuration?
It appears that the South Korean constitution has a few provisions relating to legislative immunity:

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Article 44

1. During the sessions of the National Assembly, no member of the National Assembly shall be arrested or detained without the consent of the National Assembly except in case of flagrante delicto.

2. In case of apprehension or detention of a member of the National Assembly prior to the opening of a session, such member shall be released during the session upon the request of the National Assembly, except in case of flagrante delicto.

Article 45

No member of the National Assembly shall be held responsible outside the National Assembly for opinions officially expressed or votes cast in the Assembly.

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(from https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Republic_of_K... linked elsewhere in this thread; "flagrante delicto" is a legal term of art for "being caught in the act". These provisions are similar to ones found in Article I section 6 of the US constitution.).

Edit to give additional credit where it's due:

According to the US Library of Congress, the US Speech or Debate clause is derived from a similar provision in the English Bill of Rights of 1689 and was adopted as part of the US constitution without much discussion.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S6-C1-3-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689
I see what you're saying...but...

Most people are alive right now. The population historically has been much lower, so odds are you would be born around the time high technology would support a high population.
Don’t you mean fourth?

If a HN post doesn’t catch it won’t catch, it might explode in a month for no real reason.
Is it narrowly open source, or somewhat open source, in some way? Thanks for that link, anyway!
there must be a Korean parable along the lines of
chicken little
or someone there is writing it now
Given how people consume music today, I stand by "vanity", and I think King agrees.
I built a Python pipeline to evaluate the Exosome Complex in AlphaFold &CombFold
As usual, Zach Weinersmith got it right [1]

[1] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/poetry-2
I was never involved in running a multi-line BBS (so, no BBS-based MUDs for me), but I did help with a couple of boards that ran a Turbo Pascal-based single user MUD-like game (called "Cyberspace"). It was TinyMUD-esque. At one point we had 10 - 12 people actively building rooms, adding mobile NPCs, etc. It was loads of fun even though only one person at a time was interacting with the software.
This is a good answer, if one isn't bothered by the affiliates running wild in the neighbourhood. Clickbank is simple to set up, accepts individual vendors, and has subscriptions. The downside is you can't create a subscription product without going through approval, which adds delay. And also you'll need a separate CRM if there are many customers, because the backend is very basic.
So, to be clear, the following tend to be seen as problems by their interested parties:

* withholding tons of domains to watch them go up in value means people can't get those domains (scammers, regular people)
* registries do not make a high price when they sell high-value domains (registries)
* there's only so many words / groups of words that are easily typeable (everyone)
* reducing scarcity reduces the value of digital real estate (domain squatters / traders)

Which of these issues / values / interested parties are more important to help than others, and what, if anything, should change?

I, personally, tend to be in favor of reducing the impact of scalpers by increasing total available volume. As a consequence, I'm also willing to accept some terms for the registries that they get to set higher prices for the most premium of their domains to:

* sweeten the pot for both registries and registrars to even support all these new domains
* reduce a squatter / trader / speculator / scalper's ability to sit on vast tracts of digital land.
The inflation rate for chips, memory, storage and networking is negative.
Something that can be received without a data plan
But did their "consciousness" continue? We currently have no way of telling.
If it works well on Linux there's a market for that. AMD are hinting that they will be focusing on iGPUs going forward (all power to them, their iGPUs are unmatched and NVIDIA is dominating dGPU). Intel might be the savior we need. Well, Intel and possibly NVK.

Had this been available a few weeks ago I would have gone through the pain of early adoption. Sadly it wasn't just an upgrade build for me, so I didn't have the luxury of waiting.
He explicitly says his health is fine. People are just hunting for a more interesting story than the real one.
I feel people are exaggerating the impossibility of replacing CUDA. Adopting CUDA is convenient right now because yes it is difficult to replace it. Barrier to entry for orgs that can do that is very high. But it has been done. Google has the TPU for example.
You can get a clean Fractal Design case with 0 lights or RGB. You are showing your ignorance. :)

Also, RGB means RGB... just set the color to white for a more clean look? But reading the manual is not for you.
You can definitely get the rabies vaccine especially if traveling on what not. May not be covered by insurance.

What they do limit is the immunoglobulin shot — that is very hard to manufacture (I think it’s developed from horses antibodies or something) and is used in large quantities based on patient weight. That’s why the gatekeep.
There's a HeathKit one up on Ebay now: 'Heathkit TC-3 Tube Tester'
FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data Is a Wakeup Call (2023)
These are pretty interesting, but I'm curious about the side-by-side screenshot with the slider: why does ray tracing need to be enabled to see the yellow stoplight? That seems like a weird oversight.
I read it. He's not saying what you seem to think he's saying.

That aside, any solution that involves tooling people have to opt into is doomed to fail. We've seen this a thousand times throughout history: if you require people to go out of their convenience to choose the safer option, they won't do it. It doesn't matter how great the tools are. How cheap they are. How easy they are. If they're not part of the standard pipeline everyone gets unless they deliberately modify it, they won't be used.

You've said a few times that C/C++ have tools that get you most of the same controls as Rust. First, they don't. But even if they did, those tools aren't used by default. Rust makes everyone write code that satisfies the borrow checker whether they want to or not. There's no `-Wborrow-mistakes` flag we have to set. There's not even a `-Wno-borrow-mistakes` flag we can turn off if we get tired of the error message. If you write Rust, borrows are safe, and we don't get a say in it.

You can write C code that satisfies Coverity (where I use to work) and `-Wall` and Valgrind and and and, but the person next to you might not. And as long as it's easier to write unchecked C than to run it through a tester before validation, it won't be as safe as Rust at the things Rust checks. It can't be. Anything that depends on humans to make the safe choice is dead before it starts.
“Take very high resolution scans of brain structure to characterise how someone’s neurons work, recreate it in a digital format then put it in another robotic, virtual or biological body.”

This isn't preserving, it's copying. A copy of your brain/personality/you... isn't you... it's a copy. It's a cassette tape playing back the radio you recorded onto it.

It's really kind of odd that people talk about brain transplants, or living forever, and then talk about uploading your mind to the cloud or swapping someone else's healthy brain into your healthy body, or scanning your brain and recreating it, and make it sound like it is going to help you to live forever. If my brain is scanned and uploaded to the cloud, a copy of me would live on forever, but me, literally, me, will still deteriorate and die, then rot away into nothingness. My mind, my personality, my essence, me, will not live forever under any of these solutions. I'll die. A copy of me, a point in time snapshot of who I was when it was taken, will continue on, with my memories, mimicking who I was. That gives me no comfort at all. I don't care if a copy of me lives on forever if I still die. That's not immortality, not for me personally, not if I die.
Counterpoint: radio, even independent/college rock radio in the heyday of independent/college rock, sucked ass compared to what we have now.
That's interesting! Training a stable diffusion model seems relatively easy! [1] (implementing a stable diffusion model from scratch or even understanding how it works seems like the difficult part :-).

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1: https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/main/en/tutorials/basi...
It's not any different than having a will without knowing when you die. The point is to have one already in place for when you do die.
So what do you expect Cisco to do for end users?
> Equity cannot mean that everyone works in an office, it should also mean that women that want to stay at home should be able to without being forced into a corporate world by the economy/circumstances

Make it the law then. Housewives having an equal share of their husbands' income only when the husband is in a good mood is not a place we as society want to get back to.
Direct link to the video on Youtube instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46oDDnE1Z6o
The difficulties around webhooks, and pub/sub in general on the web, is a great example of how decentralized architectures can make things much harder.

I wonder about an alternate timeline where someone had cornered the market on pub/sub as a service, a centralized pub/sub system that everyone goes through, kind of like how Google and Apple have a duopoly on push notifications.

Imagine this:

1. You are sending out emails through an email service provider (Mailchimp, Braze, etc) and you want to subscribe to an event stream of success/failures/errors/etc

2. You register with the email provider and they hand you back a token for SassyPubSub

3. Your backend service registers its token with SassyPubSub and lets it know exactly how you want to be notified - posts to a URL, over a persistent websocket connection, pushes to SQS/RabbitMQ, etc

4. The email provider pushes messages to SassyPubSub

5. You consume those messages however you want.

The flow should be dirt simple, just a few lines of code to setup. To be effective, it'd have to have industry wide standard adoption, but it would simplify so many things.
The beauty of dams is- nuclear near them is a good combo. The dam can handle daily variations and nuclear gets tons of safe water for cooling
Being able to run the same code on multiple platforms is a big bonus. It’s also a very common 2D drawing API. iOS has a native version, Android has a native version, all with more or less the same drawing operations. Leveraging them can pay dividends.
I like how the video game Soma showed it. If you fork a brain you kind of have a 50% chance of it continuing into the copy, and 50% chance of you being "left behind".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x790AjID0FA
Can I just say how refreshing it to have salaries listed. Kudos to you and the team!
This was never about the money, he just wanted to control over the programming at his local station that he was listening to.
As someone who has built multiple custom macro film scanner setups, owns basically very consumer film scanner of note (including the Coolscan 9000 and the Minolta Scan Multi Pro), and is intimately familiar with the workings of various film scanners and science of digitizing film, I don't think this article provides particularly good advice.

Just for instance, the LS-2000 features in the post has an advertised optical resolution of 2700DPI, which means the absolute maximum megapixel resolution you can get out of that thing is a little over 10MP. Film scanners are notorious for overstating their optical resolution, which has nothing to do with the resolution of sensor used to digitize the image data and everything to do with the lens in the scanner. You can have a 200MP sensor scanning your film but if your lens can only resolve 1000DPI you will have a very high resolution image of a low resolution lens projection. It's maybe a little better than a flatbed and it features dust removal, but in the year of our lord 2024 the LS-2000 is not a good choice for scanning film.

As for his macro scanning setup, he appears to be using the digitaliza for film holding, which is a notoriously bad product with many known flaws. Negative supply makes a line of lower cost version of their very good film holders, and Valoi also offers an affordable system of components that I highly recommend. There is a ton of good information out there about macro scanning, and had the OP sought it out he could avoided his little adventure in retro computing.
Re: 2. The "gender war" is greatly exaggerated and much astroturfed. Marriage rates have been dropping for decades because Koreans in their 20s and 30s cannot maintain the economic expectations of their parents. (Korean norms require a condo before marriage, when the going rate for condos is 30x median salary. Young people usually start their careers at below-median salaries.)

The way the "gender war" appeared was that Yoon was more popular among men, and this was reported in the international news, then Korean news reporters reported on the international news, legitimizing the story of a gender gap.

This primed Korean journalists to look for further signs of conflict between the genders, which were then amplified out of proportion by international journalists looking for a story. Korean journalists see the international stories as more trustworthy, and now they report as if there is a gender war.

There is a heavy selection bias among journalists to look for spicy gender stories, where the actual participants are the fringe of an online "movement". The Korean press club doesn't seem to understand or account for these biases. In real life there isn't much "war".
Reminds me of: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
The author seems to be offering a false dichotomy. His strawman argument is to offer platform-specific specified behavior for UB, but then concludes that that would make optimization impossible, operating on a presumption that that behavior must be specified in terms of assembler instructions.

Why not specify behavior in terms that are abstract but simple and sensible for the specific platform, at which point you can continue to optimize on the basis of the as-if principle?
It could work, but would it be cost-competitive?
Counterpoint: no it didn't.

Independent/college radio was full of music (even if you didn't care for it) that was curated by people that gave a damn. They are/were better than whatever your algo thinks it can do.
The thing is, if you're planning a coup with military backing, you don't do it when your most rule-abiding, law-respecting general is in town. You send that guy to guard the Alaskan border or whatever, and instead recruit a general who's a maverick rules-breaker and who gets on well with you personally.

So the military should respect the constitution, but when it comes to a coup you'll get whichever general respects the constitution the least.
Gettxt AI
Apple could do it. Why can’t Intel?
The idea of another competitive GPU manufacturer is nice. But it is hard to bring into existence. Intel is not in a position to invest lots of money and sustained effort into products for which the market is captured and controlled by a much bigger and more competent company on top of its game. Not even AMD can get more market share, and they are much more competent in the GPU technology. Unless NVIDIA and AMD make serious mistakes, Intel GPUs will remain a 3rd rate product.

> "They need to start somewhere in order to break ground"

Intel has big problems and it's not clear they should occupy themselves with this. They should stabilize, and the most plausible way to do that is to cut the weak parts, and get back to what they were good at - performant secure x86_64 CPUs, maybe some new innovative CPUs with low consumption, maybe memory/solid state drives.
> Too small for ML.

What do you mean by this - I assume you mean too small for SoTA LLMs? There are many ML applications where 12GB is more than enough.

Even w.r.t. LLMs, not everyone requires the latest & biggest LLM models. Some "small", distilled and/or quantized LLMs are perfectly usable with <24GB
Isn't MercadoPago an option for you?
I see what you mean- but consider that the gut does seem to play a significant role in mood and mental health. The enteric nervous system may not hold memories, but it seems to have something to do with personality and digestion issues can have negative cognitive effects.
Or that design instincts are backwards
I think that a lot of people feel like this post-COVID, like there's a sort of 'temporal collapse' where you feel stuck in a Big Now where Now never changes, no matter how many days do, and the pounds accumulate but not the years... I wonder if there's something to how delayed careers and life progression, and the shift to streaming/recommendation heavy media, and the apparent 'stuckness' of culture, all contribute to this feeling of being unmoored in time and being unable to realize intuitively that '30 years ago was 1994'?

I've been experimenting on my website with automatically adding to all years or dates a little subscript like '5ya'. While I thought it was clunky at first, I'm finding it helpful to be regularly reminded that when I mention something that happened in '2003', that really was '21 years ago', and I feel a little less like Billy Pilgrim.
Not that it makes things any better for the original you, but the copied you would presumably feel and believe themself to be the real you. From their perspective, "you" really are living forever. To proceed with the copying would be a sort of act of kindness for yourself.
I enjoyed this video although I didn’t think I would. It is similar to other videos she’s made wondering why pop physics culture is so out of step with actual physics culture.
Copyright has been coopted by industry for a LONG time. Its purpose for the longest time has been to line the pockets of rights holders and screw everyone else.
Yep, still going strong here in Rochester, NY as well with WBER: https://wber.org
I honestly think that there might be some truth to that.

If you look at Boston Dynamics, these are some of the very best roboticists on the planet, and it's taken decades to get robots that can walk almost as well as humans. I don't think it's incompetence on Boston Dynamics' end, I think it turns out that a lot of the stuff that's trivial and instinctual for us is actually ridiculously expensive to try and do on a computer.

Washing dishes might not be the best example because dishwashers do already exist, and they work pretty well, but having a robot with anywhere near the same level of flexibility and performance as a human hand? I'm not going to say it's impossible obviously, but it seems ridiculously complex.
The article quotes this one which is probably a better source:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/03/chatgpts-...
> Iran/China/Russia all have more advanced missiles than the US has deployed like, ever.

This is somewhat true for China's, on paper at least. Maybe.

Russia's Kinzhals got intercepted by 1980s Patriots.

Iran's are just boring old ballistic missiles.

> Iran and Russia have demonstrated recently hypersonics that are effectively unblockable.

The US has plenty of similar ballistic missiles; ATACMS is similarly tough to intercept. Doubly so in large numbers, which was how Iran got some through.