skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My knowledge is out of date now, but the main issues IMO are/were:

- No concept of apiserver rate limiting, by design. I see there is now an APF thingy, but still no basic API / edge rate limiting.

- etcd has bad scalability. It's a very basic, highly consistent kv store that has tiny limits (8GB limit in latest docs, with a default of 2GB). It had large performance issues throughout its life when I was using k8s, I still don't know if it's much better.
> less than 0.3% of their income, basically a small tax

That's not how tax works. You get taxed on your net, not your gross. 0.3% of gross is massive.
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The Free Palestine movement has grown on TikTok in ways it hasn't on American-owned platforms because it's so heavily censored on American apps. It is the censoring of genocides across the world that TikTok bypasses. Why this is doesn't matter. The end result is populations being kept in the dark about what their governments are complicit in or actively contributing to.
I have to say that I completely disagree with you on this, but I also understand that I am a lot more comfortable writing prose than the average programmer.

A draft PR with rich documentation doesn't often communicate the "whys" and the "why nots" nearly as well as a well-written design document, or the high-level goals of a piece of code. It also is much harder to share with the product and business sides of a company which may be less comfortable with the idea of reading code.

A great design doc can reduce non-obvious problems to trivial and is usually written alongside a prototype (if the thing is simple enough).

I will give you that if you are instead competing with a poorly-written design document, a very well-documented PR may be a good alternative.
I think the beauty and genius of Arduino was how much more accessible that project made microcontroller development for great many people. As a pro-SWE and dabbling electronics person, I had bounced off the PIC and other toolchains, sometimes managing to get a simple 8051 project working. Then Arduino came along and it was like a light switch was turned on. (Witness how many professional AVR programmers were up in arms over the vast eternal September that suddenly flooded the area. :D )

The IDE tooling is terrible/frustrating for pros in many ways, but "it just works" in some other very important ways. You can get to hello-world (blink an LED) in under 5 minutes. That's huge and appears to be more of what Arduino is targeting.
Yeah it's the lack of black and whiteness that makes me so confused as to why you would brand the government of a 1 billion person nation as an enemy rather than say, a competitor or even an ally that behaves in occasionally intolerable ways. Kind of like how a lot of nations continue to be allies with a nation that goes around invading other nations and deposing legitimately elected governments in the interest of ore and fossil fuel companies.
And I'm sure the "models" will be the ones outraged about AI when they are the ones impacted. I won't shed any tears for them.
Many commenters argue that free speech is being infringed upon, but isn't this really about protecting user data and preventing an adversarial and autocratic foreign power from influencing U.S. citizens? Sure, it is hypocritical to not protect the same user from U.S. companies harvesting their data, but you get my point.

Shutting down TikTok in the U.S. doesn't prevent people from expressing their opinions. There are countless other ways to share and publish thoughts freely.

None of these platforms, like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and X, are public squares where citizens have any of these rights. They are privately owned and regulated by unending terms of service agreements, with users often moderated or banned for minor infractions by company algorithms. Free speech has never truly existed in these spaces, nor is it likely to ever do so.
Terraform Rules of Thumb
I don't know about wind-power stocks, worth taking a look.

About energy storage systems, they fall into "risk investment", i.e., something that venture funds would go for. There is risk capital in Sweden but it is a boutique thing: small amounts, hard to find. The average Sven who can invest wants to invest in something safer. Since the government takes the majority of wage-earners' income in taxes[^1], and thus there is not much disposable income, it's up to the government to step in and finance big and even medium-sized infrastructure, and the same applies to risk profiles.

[1]: 63 cents (öre) on every kronor above the amount equivalent to approx 5000 USD/month that an employer would set apart for wages, including self-wages for self-employed people.
Actually "2024".
Yeah, this is far from new too
Off topic, but would you consider adding an RSS feed to your blog?
>The one day, suddenly, all that started to sound silly.

Not so suddenly, they were bullied into the Plaza Accord.
India – Why a nation of 1.45B wants more children
Binning and market segmentation are not mutually exclusive. Of course they're going to put their best-performing chips in the most expensive segment.
The person chose to be employed instead of starting their own business. Less risk, less reward.
If you mean you'd start with the axiomatic definition of an inner product space (bilinear, symmetric, positive definite) then I agree that proving that formula is trivial. The problem with a really abstract approach like this is that you haven't actually proved Pythagoras's theorem in Euclidian space. How do you know that the usual definition of dot product satisfies these axioms (or indeed anything does)? How do you show that the "distance" you've defined from the inner product is what we'd expect to be distance (e.g. that it's rotation invariant) or that what you've defined as "orthogonal" from your inner product is related to angle in Euclidean space?

It's not hard to show all that, but by the time you've done it you'll have accidentally proved Pythagoras's theorem along the way. It's like you've gripped on a tube of toothpaste and said "see, there's nothing there" but really you just squeezed it all to the other end.

As a fun illustration of this, note that <x,y> := 2x₁y₁ + x₂y₂ satisfies the axioms but doesn't give you the normal distance measure (e.g. it's not rotationally invariant: |(1,0)| = 2 while |(0,1)| = 1) and has a different notion of "orthogonal".
> So in addition to looking perfect, curating their perfect existence, pleasing sponsors, keeping the attention of the masses, scaling up their ability to respond in a timely way to fans, content creators now need to police their IP from being stolen by other “creators” (and not just the fans).

How sad.

"Influencers" living on borrowed time is one of the few good things about the machine learning dystopia.
Are you aware of what happened in Romania with Tiktok?

A candidate got funded by foreign agents, paid for influencers, and sprinkled with Russian bot accounts it was enough to make a pro-Russian candidate get 20% of votes when he was an unknown political figure.[0]

The app allows this. You can try to distract everyone from an app that enables illegal foreign interference by hiding under the guise of "oh, this is just what people want to hear; the problem isn't Russia but Romanian politicians." - that's a very dangerous stance and a threat to free & fair elections.

[0]https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/romania-tiktok-pr...
There is nothing academic about this. Program synthesis is hard for a very practical reason, the same very practical reason that you can't just brute-force your way through to an encrypted message: computational complexity is a bitch.

I appreciate that we have bigger computers now and more data and we can train large language models but for somet things it doesn't matter how big your computer and how deep your model, there are things you just can't do. E.g. when was the last time you asked an LLM to decrypt an encrypted message for you and it did it correctly? I don't mean ROT 13 btw.
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Just need to ban (make it criminal) to advertise to and track kids. Eliminate the incentives and solve nearly all social media problems with kids overnight (along with most garbage mobile games).
Correct. DOGE is a joke. Musk will DOX some people and their job titles showing he has no clue what he's talking about (throw in some pedo accusations while he's at it). Then maybe he'll save a few million (out of a 6-7T), but shout it from the roof top like he's a genius and keep saying more will happen next year like he's done with FSD.
In my country (Poland) a bunch of networks recently switched off 3G and a lot of 4G services in favour of LTE only... A pretty good mobile service I enjoyed at my country home for over a decade had suddenly turned to crap... (at least I have faster Internet access now, but I can't strap a directional antenna to a mobile phone).
> likely aren't intending as part of their raison d'être to sow discord and chaos in China.

This is so revisionist that it's funny. I vividly recall Facebook management celebrating their role in toppling regimes around the world for example the "Arab Spring": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media%27s_role_in_the_A... https://www.thewrap.com/facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-finding-jo...

I dare you find direct evidence of such quality that Tiktok is trying to do the same in the US.
I have a "e-ink" tablet from Daylight Computer. It has the refresh rate of a normal screen but the look and feel of an ereader. Works without backlight.
I searched for the screen on several places, even mailed the manufacturer. But I am not able to buy one.
Single-Stream Image-to-Image Translation: A More Efficient Approach
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son to announce $100B investment during visit with Trump
I have no math background but can read ancient Greek pretty fluently. “Isomorphic” is simply a Greek compound word meaning “same shape.” The reason people use “isomorphic” for server side rendering + hydration is that you can create an application where all the components have the “same shape” in various ways (i.e., the same source code, arguments, templating, etc.)

A technical term having a different meaning in two different fields doesn’t mean that the version with which you’re more familiar is correct and everyone else is wrong. That would be like commenting on an article entitled “Syrian rebel forces take Damascus” to say “National-security people keep using the word ‘forces’. I don’t think it means what they think it means. To me, force equals mass times acceleration.”
So how do we ensure that Tiktok doesn't covertly alter the algorithm to subtly include propaganda tailored to China's geopolitical interests that are detrimental to the US? Or even just propaganda tailored to enhance internal strife to weaken the country?
Humans selling their bodies for profit have historically been known as prostitutes. "Model" is already term intended to mislead about what the job is. Also not a term the average person would use.
A massive amount of computing - especially outside of western & corporate offices - has moved to mobile. It's pretty wild as a developer who learned the trade when everything ran windows to now to target users who do their jobs with only a phone and don't even own what we historically call a "computer". Eventually those windows binaries and IIS apps will die as well, and MS has given up on Windows serving all those requests. They've done an amazing job of moving their business away from the OS in my view.
> things like "partial derivative of pressure with respect to volume" and add "at constant temperature"

They're the same thing, isn't it? Except that with add the "at constant temperature" addendum, you're just making explicit the other variable(s) that can potentially be varied. Without it, it just means all other variables, whatever they may be, are constant.

But if something depended on both temperature and some other quantity X, and you said "partial derivative of pressure with respect to volume at constant temperature," that would be sort-of misleading because you're only exlicitly mentioning one of the other two variables - rather, you should say "at constant temperature and X" or not mention either of them.
The diff only matters if you are relying on them 24x7 to generate revenue in your own daily business or something. For generic infrequent questions, it doesn't matter much.
PWA also offer some advantages that apps don’t. As a personal anecdote, I’m often using a 8yo iPhone and as you might guess many apps don’t work anymore. Not because OS incompatibility (still updated thanks to Apple) but because they laaaaag and crash. Local gumtree (Leboncoin, if some dev here) systematically crash at the first in-app add load. Conter-intuitively, many PWA seems to be way more performant on the field. I know this is not the tech itself but bad dev, but that’s my experience so far.
The Misperception Spiral in US-China tech policy competition
assume one of you starts counting at zero, so you're both right.
This is a case of China mistreating western citizens with misinformation.

Targeted addictive misinformation.

Blocking that source of misinformation is the only logical response.
We focused mainly on the scheduling side of things. So we essentially prioritize prefills over decodes. In order to do this correctly, we had to monitor KV cache usage and whenever it's close to running out of memory, we schedule more decodes again.

So this means that you end up either having many decodes wait for prefills to complete or you end up scheduling decodes with prefills. Both scenarios result in slower decodes which is why we're seeing an increase in the ITL. This is the main tradeoff we've made.
The direction of flow is reversed every 30s. The cycle is short enough that due to the thermal mass there is thermal gradient within the heat-exchanger. So it effectively works as counter-flow heat exchanger. Same principle (but continuous flow) is used in rotor ERV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_recovery_ventilation#Ther...

Heat exchanger there is usually an extruded ceramic grid (ERV) or rolled corrugated aluminum (functions closer to HRV than ERV)
Europe signs €10.6B Iris² satellite deal in bid to rival Elon Musk's Starlink
There was a time when Intel seemed unbeatable. In 2000 they had a 500 billion USD valuation. That's almost a trillion dollars in today's (2024) USD. Today they are valued at 90 billion USD and Broadcom was thinking about buying them...

My point is these things don't seem to last in tech.
Why not both? And it can be done productively: start coding (prototyping) if planning is difficult and vice versa.
In C some things aren't what they seem – The Craft of Coding
136mph...average, over 37 miles.
For you and me, its not going to be a massive change.

But for my grandmother, who keeps a little notebook with detailed instructions for how to message people on Facebook? For her this might greatly increase her capabilities.
In Finland, many people avoid opening windows altogether, and only rely on various devices for mechanical movement of air. I find it quite alarming actually, as many homes have stale air and subpar ventilation systems, always justified by "never let heat escape the house". The idea of opening windows to refresh the air in the house is basically alien to many Finns, while it's a normal thing to do in other countries; in German, there's a term Stoßlüften.
this is the exact same question being asked around the global - how could you be sure that American made LLMs are not altered in a way to maximize US interests at the costs of everyone else's.
Did they do this to the 3090 Ti too?
I guess you're someone familiar with programming and algorithms begin this is HN, so you must be able to understand that it would be trivial for TikTok to serve different kinds of content to people based on their geographical location and other attributes?
Elon Musk wants to turn SpaceX's Texas 'Starbase' into its own city
Show HN: Surprised my wife with a QR code linking to our son's personalized site
Simple as that..

I made a site with a heartfelt message for her, our son’s birth date, and some photos of the three of us. The site generates a QR code, which I printed and placed in a photo frame on her desk.

Curious, she scanned it and absolutely loved the gift! I decided to share the idea with other parents, and the reactions were amazing! Some sent it to grandparents ('Thank you for being such a loving grandparent') and even uncles and aunts!

Anyway, just sharing this for anyone who enjoys unique and budget-friendly gifts, haha

Especially with Christmas around the corner!
Easy. Just make it illegal (with massive fines) to advertise to and track kids. Kill the business model and solve the problem.

It's such an easy sell too. Hey parents, any objections if we prevent companies advertising to your kids? How about stopping them from tracking everything your kids do?
> after fine tuning all my heating systems with algos implemented in Home Assistant

I'd be very interested in hearing the details of this.
Hmm, it says

> Shipping to Switzerland only

which is a shame :/
And that's why X/Twitter should be banned too... ;-)

And Facebook too !! :-D

(obviously kidding but... well... not so much after seing https://www.france.tv/documentaires/documentaires-societe/67... )
I understand that somehow Greens made you feel so angry that you cannot stand any argument with other opinion than yours, but this is HN, not therapy, we are not here to release your steam. Try to make it less emotional next time.

I‘m not acting in bad faith, I just don’t see how is your argumentation relevant to my original comment above. What I would expect to agree with you is the causal link making greens primarily responsible for current situation. As I pointed out, I do not see it simply because other parties were long enough in the government not only to undo things, but to build something on their own.

And I honestly, being relatively familiar with the topics, cannot see how nuclear power industry could save us if it were restarted couple years ago. The reports from German research teams show otherwise. If you have more data on viability of this approach, please feel free to share.
Thank you both for the warnings. I have been looking for a "dumb" phone and arrived at the Nokia and now I am eyeing up the AGM M8 FLIP Security+ [1] instead.

[1]: https://www.agmmobile.com/products/agm-m8-security
>This sort of issue shouldn't even be state or municipal issue, it should be a household one.

And I guess you believe that every consumer product and service should be treated strictly as household issue.

For absolutely everything - even the most dangerous, toxic and antisocial ones, I can find one good use case credible enough to ask other to behave themselves. And I'm no David Hahn.
The people won't have a choice there either. Even if you can spot 90% of the fake content the remaining 10% will still drown out anything even remotely genuine.
This is the delusory take, and divorced from the evidence.
100%, we allow China to have a backdoor into our society but we don't have one into theirs.
This friendly government?

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us-spy-agency-tapped-g...
It can hurt to swallow a lot of the BS, but you can fight the good fight inside these companies, one guerrilla incursion at a time. Some of use do still exist in management, or at least believe we still hold true to the conceptual integrity of what agile means vs. what it has become.

You only get to execute the nuclear option once (i.e. quit) so yes you need to understand where the line is, but there's almost always a better option.
Back in ye olde times a half hour or so with a chalk board and some smart people, go away try some things then come back and erase / write some more worked pretty well.
Office and Copilot are free for students afaik. Windows used to be as well, not sure about the current state of things.
Don't have any numbers, but my impression is that most is owned by municipalities or the government.
Microsoft, Apple, Tesla are doing extremely well in China making hundreds of billions. Tesla even got free land and loans, aka Chinese government subsides.

Name a few Chinese tech companies doing the same in the US? Maybe you are suggesting that Chinese should ban Tesla, Apple and Microsoft as well?
But is the issue really the app itself? Or that not a symptom of a larger problem, or even multiple problems, we face, seemingly now more than ever before?
I don’t want to say „banning TikTok is wrong“, I honestly do not know. But I don’t think it it solves any of the underlying problems. It may make it harder to hit these vulnerable demographics directly in the short term, but it won’t solve media literacy, corruption, or any of the other issues involved.
> Weight: 4.321kg (9.5 pounds) + 500g (1.1 pounds) for the adapter.

> There is no built-in battery, so you'd rely on AC power to run the laptop.

For now I prefer Switch. Also, looks like Sony is developing its own handheld as well[1].

[1]: https://www.pcmag.com/news/sony-reportedly-developing-new-ha...
Comments like this remind me that we are still so early.

What properties of gold do you think led to it becoming globally recognised as good money?
I agree that it seems harsh. However, I have tried the "whitelist this app" route. Turns out that, at least for me, the parental control on android is not sufficient. For example, you cannot block the app store, and in the app store you can watch video previews of games. Also, you get to watch animated gifs on every text field.
If you are stuck (by choice or force) with GNU Make, enabling this on your builds by default could root out some dependency bugs.
Therefore it will never be open source, and if so then only when you lost interest in the project. Got it.
which should make the employee proud, and I'm sure Google is compensating them very, very well.

let's also not forget that the people involved didn't create this in a vacuum. it cost Google a LOT more than their compensation to make it possible for them to even start working on this project, let alone carrying it forward to completion.

people underestimate how hard and expensive it is to manage a company in a way that allows its employees to do a good job.
Sam Altman reckons with a growing threat to OpenAI: Elon Musk
A book: The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit by Michael Cannell, is superb and details much of the racing of the era but primarily focusing on Phil Hill and Wolfgang von Tripps, it is especially eye-opening for those that have grown up on the (by comparison) relatively coddled contemporary racing, there are more deathless pages than not, of course the ending is especially upsetting even if you know what is coming.
I guess Bondrewd got into console modding. good for him :)
They'll just have to do the undesirable jobs that others who weren't born into a desirable body have to do now.
Good to know I'm not alone :)
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