skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's more signal than ever but there's more noise than ever too, and you have to be genuinely savvy / expend a non-negligible amount of time to filter the signal out from the noise, because there's a really strong incentive and norm for any platform with a wide reach to be used as a marketing vector.

You can find a review but how do you know it isn't sponsored content or a paid placement? Most likely whatever information you find independently of the product itself will either be a total random person you found on eg reddit (who could be shilling or ignorant) or a "personality" who may have some degree of credibility and knowledge on the subject but who is increasingly incentivized to cash in on that credibility the more they are trusted to advise on purchasing decisions. We're also starting to experience the effects of over a decade of accumulation of dark patterns, increasingly sophisticated and pervasive marketing, SEO and Google's capitulation by clearly designating trusted "winner" websites, and "growth hacks" which individually may not have been noticeable but cumulatively evoke a general sense of enshittification and inability to find genuine information.

I can't trust Google to give me good search results for a search with commercial intent (too many people working too hard to skew the results away from quality), I can't trust blogs or videos from moderately credible sources to be genuinely impartial (not paid with affiliate links, directly for the review, or indirectly by a steady supply of free stuff from the manufacturer), I can't trust that RedditUser1234's comments on the matter (could be guerilla marketing or just stupid), I can't trust reviews on Amazon/equivalent (my own bad reviews have been removed, Amazon lets sellers get away with all other sorts of review trickery).
They just shouldn't do that. If they can afford to sell the Ferrari for $20k, they should do so. To everyone who wants one, for whatever reason.
Argentina was a rich country but never a rich industrialized country. At the time we were rich, we were exporting beef and importing everything that came from a factory. Later attempts at industrialization, after global protectionism and domestic infighting had already plunged us into relative poverty, were based on the flawed paradigm of import-substitution industrialization, whereas the UK was transitioning from mercantilism to Smithian liberalism when they industrialized, both of which put the highest possible priority on exports. London is the world's second biggest financial hub, a fact that accounts for a significant part of the English economy, while Buenos Aires was never a financial hub for anyone but Argentines, and even we bank in London, Omaha, or Montevideo whenever we have the choice.

Industrialization was somewhat successful; I am eating off an Argentine plate, on an Argentine table, with Argentine utensils (ironically made of stainless steel rather than, as would be appropriate for Argentina, silver) while Argentine-made buses roar by outside. A century ago, when we were rich, all those would have been imported from Europe or the US, except the table. My neighborhood today is full of machine shops and heavy machinery repair shops to support the industrial park across the street. Even the TV showing football news purports to be Argentine, but actually it's almost certainly assembled in the Tierra del Fuego duty-free zone from a Korean or Chinese kit.

There is not much similarity.
I may be able to shed some light.

It seems they proposed a way to resolve the contradiction I raised (io_uring isn't supported on cloud providers) with the ground reality in the company's blog post.

Namely, that:

* it is intended for edge function deployment.

* the paper they mention that is informing their decision to rewrite is based on perf improvements in the longtail by using io_uring.

I framed it as "Are we sure...?", but truth is, I know providers don't have io_uring support. This is relatively straightforward to derive from edge functions are well-known to be multi-tenant.

A cursory search shows unresolved AWS tickets re: this, and multiple announcements from Google about how it has been disabled in gCloud.

Thus, it is likely they understood I was framing it politely, and that there was a clear contradiction here, hence their reply to me, raising a potential resolution for that contradiction, a resolution I hadn't considered.

I don't see anything complaining, or bringing up, or implicitly denying, all the other stuff ("open source", "MIT licensed", "open contribution", "software for free" "under no obligation to use."). In fact, they explicitly indicated they completely agree with that view ("it's very cool that they're making parts of their tech FOSS.")
speaking of driver quality...my pc has been regularly blue screening after the latest release and the transition from the Experience app to the Nvidia app...
"Plague of Pythons" is available (for free) on Standard Ebooks for anyone else interested in reading it:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/frederik-pohl/plague-of-py...
A loop counter doesn't carry much semantic weight so it gets a short name. Doing that for important things that deserve a descriptive name is the problem. Maybe passable with literate programming, but even Knuth's code is pretty inscrutable due to transclusions everywhere.
> Don't forget: "weeks of coding can save hours of planning" ;)

Also, "weeks of planning can save hours of coding" :)
You can get a commercial unit for under $400 USD. Search for "Pioneer 50 ERV", which claims 97% efficiency or look on aliexpress for units under $200.

That said, I find these "regenerative" heat exchangers too limiting as they generally only work for a single room/space.
At least you got your name on something. Posterity forever!
I loved computers back then. Now they're just tools.

Preach it brother. I lived through Windows v. *nix (several versions), z80 v 6502, ethernet v. token ring, packet switching v. circuit switching, and a ton of others[1], and was usually a partisan on one side or the other. Now...it's either 'what works easiest' or 'what does the client want' and I make it work for me. This lack of participation in partisan conflict has made most everything go smoother. And vintage computing allows me to get my "remember how much fun it once was" fix.

[1] Yes, even vi v. emacs, but even 30 years ago that had become more of an inside joke than actual debate. Besides, those emacs heretics will never find the One True Way.
I had an issue with alcohol for many years. That doesn't mean that drinking is inherently bad. There are plenty of people that can enjoy a few drinks responsibly. I am not one of those people. Therefore I abstain from alcohol as a result. I don't ask that alcohol to be banned.
This silly music video was put together by one person in about 10 hours.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1hbnyi2/comment/m1...

Another more serious music video also made entirely by one person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdqcnRGzH5c Don't know how long it took though.
What does indistinguishable even mean here?

If a fish could write a novel, would you find what it wrote interesting, or would it seem like a fish wrote it? Humans absorb information relative to the human experience, and without living a human existence the information will feel fuzzy or uncanny. AI can approximate that but can't live it for real. Since it is a derivative of an information set, it can never truly express the full resolution of it's primary source.
Related:

Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denials on the rise

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42408925
"A lightweight web browser based on Dillo but with many improvements, such as: support for http, https, gemini, gopher, epub..." <- It says that in the project description... isn't that weird that it claims Dillo doesn't support HTTP and HTTPS? Also,

https://dillo-browser.github.io

says it has plugins for gemini and gopher. What's the rationale for dillo-plus then? 8-\
Is this like the FlatBuffers "zero-copy" deserialization?
I understand native multithreading would be one of the key advantages of Guile Emacs.
Trying and Failing with GitHub Copilot
Intel didn't do a lot of things...
Kong in Concert (2004)
Kong in Concert is a collaborative arrangement project born from the music of Donkey Kong Country and created for the purposes of reviving, reinterpreting, and rearranging its entire soundtrack with our combined talents; honoring those who originally composed it; and reawakening the nostalgia and love for a landmark videogame.
> direct injection of said propaganda straight into our toddlers, teens, and tweens brain

by that same logic, shouldn't we then ban ig/facebook/threads/twitter/etc.? but since its our propaganda, we can classify as 'news' or some other thing?

i very much get what you're saying in principle (re: CCP); however, i don't see the difference in potentially, negatively affecting children's brains.

EDIT: corrected word
Babbage would have likely had more success if he stayed in England and opened his own precision machine shop.
> but that just goes to show how low our standards have become

I totally agree. We need to do better. But I still stand with Qt being a good option. There are ways to lower Qt apps binary sizes down to 11MB[1] or 8.3MB[2].

[1] https://www.qt.io/blog/reducing-binary-size-of-qt-applicatio...

[2] https://www.kdab.com/qt-quick-without-a-gpu-i-mx6-ull/
The “Magnificent Seven” represent like 25-30% of the S&P 500 by cap.

We’re not in the “very large” regime?
Contributing an Mdoc Reader to Pandoc
Hmm, am I weird if I dont like to put it on pizza and cook it? I prefer to enjoy it as a cold side dish with my pizza.
Relations are one of the most efficient and flexible ways to represent arbitrary graphs.

In my experience Everyone goes to incredible lengths to avoid sql, in ignorance of this fact.

They store (key, value) tables they they then extract into an object graph.
The reason it's so good at "rewrite this C program in Python" is because it was trained on a huge corpus of code at GitHub. There is no such corpus of examples of more abstract commands, thus a limited amount by which it can improve.
Insurance is a terrible name for what we have, its not insurance, its blackmail.

You dying and zero being paid out by the insurance company is the best profit margin they can ask for, that's the entire goal of an insurance company at this point.
Why do we use weird arbitrary milestones like the (logarithmic) Kardashev scale. It adds literally nothing useful to otherwise fun conversations like this.
"The Custer Wolf is Dead." (1921) [pdf]
IIRC there were also plenty of changes in later editions that didn't relate to controversies (or to colourisation): for example radio sets were made more up-to-date.
Microsoft released an update to their Prism x64 emulator for ARM, see https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/6/24289844/microsoft-window...

With this update, Microsoft’s emulator will open up support for 64-bit x86 software to use processor extensions like AVX, AVX2, BMI, FMA, and F16C. However, it says 32-bit software still won’t be able to detect the new emulator support, so some programs still might have trouble.

Supporting newer-than-MMX-SIMD CPU instructions may help some games run on ARM now.
SpaceX and Amazon, among other businesses, have challenged the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Their primary argument centers on the separation of powers principle. They contend that the NLRB's structure, with its independent agency status and limited presidential control over member removal, violates this principle.

Specifically, these companies argue that the NLRB's structure grants excessive power to the agency, allowing it to make decisions without sufficient presidential oversight. This, they believe, undermines the checks and balances system and infringes on their rights as employers. They contend that the board's ability to create rules and regulations that have the force of law, encroaches on the legislative branch's power. Additionally, they raise concerns about the NLRB's adjudicative role, which combines executive and judicial functions, blurring the lines between the two branches.

By challenging the NLRB's constitutionality, these companies aim to limit the board's authority and influence over labor relations. They argue that the current structure of the NLRB is outdated and no longer serves the best interests of workers or employers. Ultimately, these challenges raise important questions about the balance of power between the federal government and private businesses, and the role of independent agencies in regulating labor relations.
The maximum fines are 10% of "qualifying worldwide revenue", or £18M, whichever is larger. This is an exercise in stopping companies from claiming tiny revenues when they're actually much larger, rather than fining genuinely tiny companies (or individuals) a ridiculous multiple of their value (or wealth).

Plenty of things in UK law attract "an unlimited fine", but even that doesn't lead to people actually being fined amounts greater than all the money that's ever existed.
LoRa sounds like a good idea for water sensing in particular. Water catches all radio signals at 2.4 GHz and turns the waves into heat (that's why microwave ovens work, after all), so spread-spectrum transmission seems like a good way around that issue. I would test the transmission range in a bathtub.
Related:

Doctors Say Dealing with Health Insurers Is Only Getting Worse

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42398069
So, merely noticing that Russia is winning and has been for a long time

No, it wasn't that. The AfD boss's remarks were not having a certain take as to which way the war is currently going. He was calling for German goverment to issue a diplomatic recognition of this "victory" - right now, before anything has actually been negotiated and settled.

The two positions may sound superficially similar -- but are in fact radically different. Apples and oranges, basically.
If this isn't immediately obvious to you, then I guess this is one of those situation where things that are obvious to others ... aren't obvious to you.

(which is ... acknowledged by Ukrainian-born pro-Ukrainian security expert Michael Kofman)

Except Kofman doesn't present the "Russia is winning" spin as you are implying. It might sound to your expectant ears like that's what he said. But it's not what he said.

He also isn't God, and other analysts have different takes.
There are plenty of reasons why Russia's incremental and very slow gains on the ground do not automatically translate to "Russia is winning", in view of other things that are happening in the conflict. Or why an assessment such as "Ukraine is unlikely to reverse Russia's gains"; or even a more blunt "Ukraine is losing" is not simply equivalent to "Russia is winning".
Nice work! Perseverance to find the root cause in such an unfriendly environment as any bootstrap is what saves all us from the civilization crash...
Jargon is often used for in-group signaling.
Hi,

I'm using Kasa switches and not sure they can be flashed?

Can you provide couple links with the switch and the firmware you used. Thanks
In 2021, my employer was a major customer of Fivetran. Our Postgres syncs routinely broke and required time-consuming resyncs from scratch.

Dan's essay is dated 2022. It is now 2024, so maybe something has changed since then on the code path between Postgres and Fivetran to allow backtracking.
> When their product attempts to do this and the operation fails, we end up with the sync getting "stuck", needing manual intervention from the vendor's operator and/or data loss. Since our data is still on Postgres, it's possible to recover from this by doing a full resync, but the data sync product tops out at 5MB/s for reasons that appear to be unknown to them, so a full resync can take days even on databases that aren't all that large. Resyncs will also silently drop and corrupt data

I don't know, but it sounds like you skipped over most of the reasons why the author was annoyed by Fivetran. You advertise "Connect data sources to PostgreSQL in minutes using Fivetran" but if Dan Luu -- who is certainly an intelligent and capable engineer -- and his coworkers can't figure out how to use your product correctly, and if your customer support also can't figure out why the sync breaks, then maybe this isn't mere customer 'arrogance'.
The quality for SD is no where near the clear leaders.
> Generally, too much wealth and power which might undermine democracy. True, but not specific to tech, other than that they're "big" right now.

Tech is uniquely positioned to effect change, however. A finance baron can't make the masses believe that electing a billionaire crony is actually good for them; a social media mogul can.
20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 2)
Great, now there's an API per struct/message to learn and communicate throughout the codebase, with all the getters and setters.

A given struct is probably faster for protobuf parsing in the new layout, but the complexity of the code probably increases, and I can see this complexity easily negating these gains.
Ah! You're the author of Modelica by example?
>Their decisions need to be audited to avoid corruption.

And as we all know: corruption ends abruptly at the highest levels.
If paying the rent is our aim, who knows what unnecessary limbs may be disposed of. What need has a programmer for legs? Or arms even, if neuralink happens.
Nah, no thanks. I prefer this because I now have some damned fast GPUs in a rig on the cheap. I’m happy to have my $20k acceleration limited Ferrari.
I think the last part is the problem with this argument. We can already simulate worlds (Minecraft), they're just very different from our own. It has to be possible to actually simulate our universe. Not just theoretically, but also practically: Someone needs to have enough energy, time, engineering ability, other resources, and enough motivation¹ to run the simulation.

Also, if you permit me to get spiritual for a moment, I believe that it could be theoretically possible to simulate any fully materialist universe, but I'm not convinced consciousness can arise from doing maths. Since I am conscious, this universe must not be simulated, no matter how many simulated worlds actually exist.

[1] I'm assuming that most creatures intelligent enough to understand the concept of simulating a universe will want to try it. But if it takes an entire civilization to do so and that civilization has to choose between, say, spending the energy on simulation running or on food production, it's pretty clear what will happen.
> I imagine this is probably something that could be automated away, though.

Even if it isn't, the audio programming capability can likely be added to the software completely eliminating hardware costs for anyone who already owns Airpods.
Are you Velocio? Thanks for all the hard work!

Sad that lufguss will probably become just another channel on one of the big platforms. RIP.
Tech can surely overcome muscle atrophy if it was a real issue. Do we even need muscle if we add more powerful add on to walk for example? I would argue we want to keep muscle because we can have very precise control and feeling, unless the new stuff can make it even better.
True, what is considered a “winning” position is different at different elo levels. The better someone is, the smaller their mistakes are relative to perfect play.

I wish top players like Magnus would do more exhibition games against top computers. They don’t have to all start with equal material or an equal position.
To one significant figure, the mass of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere is 3 trillion tonnes. Annual fossil fuel emissions of CO2 are about 37 billion tonnes:

https://www.iea.org/reports/co2-emissions-in-2023/executive-...
Seconded. There’s almost certainly NXP IP used in nearly all NFC implementations which makes them subject to their terms.

Those terms are in turn set by the partners that asked for these technologies to be developed in the first place. And so any development gets slowed to a crawl in this space.
Yep! BW Tintin was already very dated by the 1950s.

Really shows how much progress (positive and negative) happened in just 20-30 years.
The parents who insist home-education is the answer for their children
Which in practice means that laws are not going to be updated and changed.
Of submarine missions, only one of them (special operations support) requires complete secrecy.

Subs with SLB/CMs or attack subs are perfectly fine with being known-in-AO but untargetable.

Which mirrors air, where MALDs/EW are a critical part of any mission in hostile airspace.
They’re a way firo
Not any that you can think of. Just the ones you've published something about.

Plus, simonw isn't exactly a meaningless nobody in this space, and his writeups are more detailed and actionable, and therefore identifiable, than some random "hey a great LLM benchmark would be creating an SVG of a walrus twerking in front of a jelly bean store" throwaway comment.

Proof: I asked ChatGPT 4o the question "What are some users who post ad hoc LLM benchmarks to technical discussion sites, and what benchmarks have they proposed?" simonw is in the list, 1 of 7 individual people it suggested. (The proposed benchmarks listed for him were more general than the specific one here: "Testing LLMs’ capabilities with code generation, particularly in niche languages or against real-world API schemas." But it's easy to imagine followup queries bringing this one up.)
It's interesting how we the people (broadly) accept this practice in software and even some hardware, but not in other areas. Note how frustrated people are when you hear about "unlocking" sensors and services available on cars.

If a product is made, and the cost to provide that product is the same one way or the other but you cripple it to create segmentation, then that is greed. Period. Objectively. And if you're okay with that, then fine, no problem. Just don't try to tell me it isn't maximization of profit.

There are no heroes in the megacorp space, but it would be nice for AMD and Intel to bring Nvidia to heel.
I clearly didn't mean that (and I think you know that btw).

I said "found out about it via social media". I then did my own research to find the original post by the person that had their home raided. I have been duped before by social media and I like to find the actual source (if possible).

So I am not "spreading rumours".
You go from the eFuse mentioned at the beginning to the conclusion in the screenshot at the end, not the other way around.
That is why we need competition, to drive the price down towards the costs. And you must be able to provide enough volume to meet demand.
LLMs are overrated trash feeding themselves garbage and producing garbage in return. AI is in a bubble, when reality comes back the scales will of course rebalance and LLMs will be a tool to improve human productivity but not replace them as some people might think. Then again I could be wrong, most people don't actually know how to create products for other humans and that's the real goal... not simply coding to code. Let me know when LLMs can produce products.
An entire programming language was named after her in 1980 (by a man) when when such things didn't exist.
Just to confirm, you are using the Yeelight app for this setup? On android there's Yeelight Classic (red icon), Yeelight (purple icon), Yeelight Pro (black icon) and the Xiaomi Home one. I think some of my issue might have been that region lock thing that kept changing a few years back (someone mentioned in another parent here). I remember setting it up on the Yeelight (red) but it eventually had me switch to Xiaomi Home (green app) which then required re-setting it up on another cloud region, which then broke again after a while.

I'll give this python script a try for sure, glad to know you got yours to properly work!