skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't think of a single use case that wouldn't be served by a much faster MiniPC that after counting power supply, storage, box etc. would fall in a similar price ballpark. RPi and similar boards are a godsend when one needs easily accessible GPIOs without external interfaces adding points of failure and cost, but usually the amount of memory required in those contexts is much lower.
The main advantage is having a reliable type system and a codebase you can reason about and refactor fearlessly.

On the performance side, raw processing power is not that important as you are waiting for io all the time: the main difference is not having GC and GC spikes (if you are working at significant scale) and lower memory usage all around.
Thank you so much! I will definitely check it out. I also planned on writing an article about arena allocators soon.
They just create cool product. Gain some momentum, user base via mentioned innovation and overall hype based on "everyone's problem solved" and after it is acquired they just focus purely on profit and push enshittification forward.
nice touch with the images, especially since they are even named contextually.

navigational links don't work, but this is pretty cool. I wonder theoretically if we'll be able to tell the dynamic nature of this given the caching, and assuming LLMs/art generators keep getting faster
Right, that would be great.
That's why, back in the day, we bought hard drives. I still fondly remember my first 52MB hard drive, which consisted of a huge plastic enclosure the shape of the Amiga that attached to the expansion port off the side.

I had this one: https://www.jaruzel.com/blog/amiga-500--fun-with-storage. The official Commodore one was much uglier and, from memory, only 20MB.
What do you do with your Mini PC? I was interested in one but I just used an old thinkpad to run some stuff instead
I was happy to use booking.com for that reason for many years. When there was a issue booking would fix and discuss it for me. 7 years ago.

I've had 2 interactions with booking in the last year and both went horrible. One booking literally broke several booking rules, and asked for a lot more money after already paying $300 a night. And still I had to make a drama to get my right and the hotel is still online without anything. They lost $15 and I lost hours of painfully calling around.

I bought a camper that year and haven't used anything but the hotel site itself ever since.
I feel like i am on instagram.
I thought the same and ended up with a gigabyte BRIX now collecting dust, because there is no way to convince that UEFI, besides USB ports, that SATA and M2 SSD drives are thing, one year of wasted effort, because I wanted to be clever instead of getting a Pi.

Also the place where I acquired it no longer exists, hence why I got stuck with it.

Yes I should have known better, but it is as it is, and we learn from our mistakes.
What do you mean by remote connection? Do you want to transfer files? Do you want to stream and control the GUI? Something else?
In the first case, SSH is probably the best solution. In the latter case, something like VNC might work across all platforms.
Great!

All of these are quantitative metrics I (and many others) don't care about.

- All save for one machine in my home are now ARM. I like the consistency, e.g I can share Nix derivations or Docker images.

- N100 has no GPIO, which I like to tinker with from time to time.

- N100 does not support my favourite HATs that I own or consider as potential buy.

- N100 are one size fits all. There's a whole array of Pi cases and thermal management that can be picked up for any reason ranging from purely technical and practical purposes (fan vs passive, sealed vs open, human/environment protection...) or simply because it's fun and engaging (e.g NESPi case with SSD cartridges)

- N100 come in subtle variations that you have to care about. Pis are "fixed targets" physically, hardware-wise, and culturally, which makes them easy to consistently target, support, recommend, educate about, or find books for (e.g gifts for kids).

- N100 are this century nondescript dull beige boxes, while Pis are engaging through and through.

Pis and N100s are qualitatively different. A Pi5 is simply an upgrade over a Pi4. All that matters is that they're fast enough.
I have no experience with the writer of this post, but:

> You can't pick and choose.

Yes you can, when your goal is to stir the pot.
Downside of direct booking is that you need accounts dedicated for each hotel that can be hacked.

Of course the "middlemen" can be hacked as well, but the likelihood of someone exfiltrating credit card data from the shitty fossil wordpress installation of the hotel is much more real.
Who are these for? Raspberry Pi made sense as an educational and dirt cheap hobbyist platform when it sold for ~$30. At $120 + accessories it's just another expensive toy.
How Charon (Pluto's biggest moon) received its name
FoodMuseum
> The modern web does none of this, which is why users have to wait for each screen before inputting the next command…

Or wait further. Many web screens appear in a state that is initially nonresponsive, becoming responsive invisibly after an unknown and variable period of time taken for code to load.
Actually to be pedantic raves go way further back. The first mention of rave in modern writing goes back to 60s counter culture, think oil projections and proto-pysch rock… it self a continuation of the happenings from the beat era. The term was repurposed in the mid eigties when dance music got pushed underground after disco demolition night. Disco never died in the uk or europe even though the roots arguably of modern dance music starts there with the breakout kraut rock scene centered around Düsseldorf… and of course a lot of cross pollination.

But to be even more pedantic the concept goes further than that as in the late 30s and forties there would be dance contests to see who could last the longest…

To go even further than that jazz, before that polka… it being a folk version of the waltzes of the time. Newspapers of time read like madlibs only replace leather jackets and mohawks with polka dots. Quite a trip.

Going back further pre industrialization its said you couldn't hear the orchestra over the sounds of fucking in the box seats on the balcony… the idea of stuffy classical concerts only emerging when the concert halls were opened to the burgeoning middle class and said class would dress up to rub shoulders with the aristocracy.

But in antiquity the mystery religions of Dionysus would arguably be the first true raves in spirit.

But every culture has its all night dances, from pow wows of the plains to suffi’s in the muslim world.

Music is largely universal and a uniquely human endeavor, the oldest flutes found are made by Neanderthal.

But techno?… thats all Detroit.
Their support will eventually just end the conversation and block replies if you are unsatisfied. TOS bind you to arbitration but they'll probably kick it to small claims. Overall if you end up on the wrong side of a bad support response it's a shitty experience.
Technically you can read any X posts with a free account, so it's an individual choice that shouldn't be assumed to hold across the HN readership.

Obviously where non-sign-in/paywall alternatives to any submitted post are available that would be a better link. That's not the case here.
Our experiments demonstrate that tapered-precision arithmetic consistently outperforms IEEE 754 floating-point numbers in all tested scenarios. Among the tapered-precision formats, takums exhibited exceptional performance, outperforming bfloat16 in every case. While occasionally marginally less accurate than posits, takums delivered comparable results overall and demonstrated superior numerical stability. Notably, we successfully introduced the application of 8-bit posits and takums in mixed-precision iterative refinement, marking a possibly significant milestone in numerical computing. Additionally, GMRES exhibited particular benefit from tapered-precision formats, with takums delivering outstanding results, surpassing posits in all cases.

Impressive results from Takums (https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18603).

They also seem better then Posits for implementation in hardware. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.10594
A statue to Aaron. Bloody excellent. Well done Pablo Peniche.
> Enshittification

While we are at it, can someone post content of posted link? Twitter used to work for anyone with internet connection - which is no longer the case.
Booking changed their support in the last years from being really helpful and nice to being absolutely useless and even mean. It's not what it was
They still say it today, as someone made me aware, Cloudflare bought the trademark.
The bigger the system, the smaller the role of the CPU/GPU power consumption has in the overall sticker price. I would expect a 10TB-memory server with a couple hundred petabytes of flash storage to cost more or less the same regardless of what's the CPU inside it.
I think having monopoly in the domain leads to this, similar to Netflix/Google/Facebook etc. Would love to have more competition in the space. Wonder whats preventing a competing platform to emerge, at least country/continent wise?
Having seen this generation at music festivals, I kind of disagree. I feel like the current generation go really hard on drugs.

In Australia, nightclub entry can be expensive, ranging from $20-50 per club. 10 years ago, you’d club hop, maybe going to 3-4 clubs from 11pm until 7am. These days, it’s not worth it. Drinks are like $12-16 for a basic mixed drink. A lot of patrons just drink at home, then drink (free) water and take MDMA and/or ketamine at clubs, which is significantly cheaper than a night of buying drinks.
I read the linked page without an account.
And this is why type based alias analysis (TBAA) is insane and why projects like linux complies with fno-strict-aliasing.

C should issue a defect report and get rid of that nonsense from the standard.
HN removed the first word of the title (“How”). I tried to delete the submission, but it didn’t work. @dang, is it possible that there’s a bug here?
The cost difference in power probably works out to much less than $50/year. Modern PCs are very power efficient when idle.
Is that reduction absolute or real terms? If it's absolute then that's a pretty large reduction considering inflation
> However, web technologies don’t act the same way because keeping your keyboard inout while navigating to a different site would be weird.

Depends. It is not the place of the underlying tech to impose such limits.
Classy opinion there. I suppose, technically, Jim Crowe laws weren't hate speech either.
In many prog.lang's, it absolutely makes things less readable. This is not an accident, but because the PL itself specifically tries to syntactically support pointer types (i.e. to literally aid readability). Most PLs do so only for general purpose VMem pointers with user-defined pointers being afterthoughts (at best). You probably need (at least!) operator overloading to get the same level of readability as "PL-native" pointers { though "readability" is a bit subjective and powerful PL features can be divisive; Scare "quotes" for interpretation hazard :-) }.

Anyway, you probably knew all that & I don't mean to suggest otherwise, but it made sense to write since HN loves PL talk.
What everyone is missing with NUC suggestions is that none of them are ARM based, which is a selling point to get a Pi and port software to ARM in what is a convenient desktop experience.
Which in that case they would just answer "unacceptable".

"Somewhat unacceptable" is logically equivalent to saying "Somewhat acceptable".
You’re reading the marketing copy wrong!

It’s clearly as intelligent as an Apple, at least on par with a Granny Smith!
VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles
The tweet is comprised of one message and two images.

The first image is a screenshot of a chat with "Airbnb Support" with Airbnb's representative saying "We're sorry to hear that you won't be able to make your upcoming reservation [...] Unfortunately this cancellation is not covered under our Major Disrputive Events Policy. [...] This means your Host's Strict Cancellation policy will apply"

The second image is a screenshot of a map, showing the Palisades Fire, the location of an evacuation centre, a danger zone that fills almost the entire screen.

The tweet says "Thank you Airbnb"

It's not clear from the context whether the rented property was literally on fire, close to the wildfire-effected area, merely in the same city, or whether the poster was just unable to travel due to the wildfire.
It's not the jeans per se. It's the cotton. Synthetic (or traditionally, wool) garments stay warm when wet. Cotton ones don't. Mountain weather is unpredictable and sweat happens too.

"Do it in jeans first" - absolutely. But after going nearly hypothermic in my all cotton stuff in the Presidentials on Mt. Mansfield years ago - nice sunny summer day down below, guess what at the top - I went with the program and got synthetic fleece stuff etc.

It doesn't have to cost a mint. As long as you don't care about style, the thrift stores generally have synthetic t-shirts, fleece jackets and pants. Shell pants and especially decent shell jackets are less common but I've found enough there too to keep me covered.

Shell vs. warm core - layering! Assuming you have a knapsack to put the stuff you're not wearing in, if you have fleece pants and shell pants over them, you now have three options. Four, if the shell pants can unzip into shorts.
Not quite; it's more selling shovels for a nonexistant gold rush. Lots of people want to "become a Writer" for ego reasons, and it's easy to sell them services that promise to help with that. But even if you're legitimately trying the book market is terrible and most people make nothing.
>So why is she still using it?

Because her social media following is large enough her support queries are actioned upon so she doesn’t truly lose out like a normal customer.
not OP, but: Home Assistant, zigbee2mqtt, Arr-Software-Suite, navidrome etc.

Basically a small server for self-hosted applications.
> Why allow them to book if the place is literally on fire?

The hosts inside the disaster area have much more pressing things to think about than to disable a listing on AirBnB - primarily not to die in a fire. And AirBnB reasonably can't keep up with wildfires and other natural disasters because they don't have people on the ground across the world and there is barely any effort to develop global standards and interfaces to provide even something as basic as road closures to maps providers, much less about evacuation orders and their legal consequences.

However, and this is where AirBnB fucked up, their support agents aren't empowered to use their brains, to look up "xyz evacuation orders" and cancel reservations when they see a government issued evacuation order!
I agree and would add this related and famous example:

https://boingboing.net/2023/06/10/noted-mathematician-ted-ka...
Without the issues: https://xcancel.com/anammostarac/status/1876872587738833184
We use them for all kinds of one off R&D projects at work. University students and researchers build all kinds of stuff with these. I know several companies who build low volume specialty industrial applications powered by RPi hardware. In all these cases the difference between $50 and $150 is meaningless
Bluetooth is serious issue on older models, at least.
It is very unreliable. I wonder if it is finally fixed in the latest model…
I just had a new headset that I cannot pair in Windows without a third party adapter.

Windows has momentum, but it certainly isn't because it is easier or more reliable anymore.
True, but it doesn't trigger when you hear about the fire in the abstract. It triggers only once you are face-to-face with the smoke and wall of fire.
As a society we need to do whatever it takes to keep architects happy. Whenever they get depressed they have a tendency to take it out on the rest of us. If they despair, they want everybody else to suffer too and design inhuman monstrosities that beat down the spirit.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Penn_Station_conco...
"as a goodwill gesture" has to be the most condescending wording imaginable. Basically translates as "we are shutting down this PR nightmare in the early stages, here is your hush money, but you were still 100% at fault all along and nothing about this episode will make us re-evaluate that.
I suppose I take for granted the interest in underground, counter-culture, Berlin-esque experiences. I genuinely cannot imagine someone preferring "Vegas-style" clubs in NYC. Your comment reads as what a Bushwick club kid thinks an uptight tech bro larping as a raver might write.

I actually agree that the grunginess of Bushwick can be obnoxious and frankly gross a lot of the time, but the thought of hanging out with a bunch of cishet normies in an expensive SoHo club is anathema to why I would even go out in the first place.
I think that the deal for a pi zero is still pretty unbeatable. I run one as a backup DNS at home if my primary goes down. With a poe splitter and a sensor unit (co2) it draws about 1w.

That means about $2 a year where I live. My second best computer - a hp mini computer - draws 11w at idle. Meaning $22/year. At a service time of 5 years a pi does make sense.
To save the energy grid from AI, use open source AI, says open source body
> SerenityOS has no business running on Linux, but a fork could be pretty neat for 90s GUI lovers.

Take a look at labwc, the look and feel is similar to Openbox and can be made to look retro-like.

Xfce will also come with Wayland support in the next version or so I hear.

I don't get the Sway comment about being barebones, it's a tiling compositor, it does what it should do.
i did it literally yesterday! my sleep schedule's all out of wack, so i miss the slightly-late emails the public services send.

now i get a nice loud fire alarm beep to wake me up when someone drops a course i want ;^)
I’m a non-software engineer, here’s what I think:

I think of bachelors degrees, or undergraduate degrees and diploma’s as being like little samplers. There is advantages to getting a degree, like showing you can finish something you started, and I definitely think you do learn some skills, but I wouldn’t expect to gain mastery of a subject from just doing a degree.
A degree might provide a good foundation, but you really have to build on it, either by doing more study, or working in a relevant industry that provides opportunities for growth, rather than just sitting there with your degree that will most definitely become outdated if you fail to keep up with the pace of change. Everything changes, even stuff that was considered true facts on the nature of the universe have been revised over time. (Not sure this was a good example since we know shit all about the universe actually.)

I’m currently completing my 5th and 6th degree’s at the moment (one is my second masters degree) I don’t feel very smart, and sometimes I don’t feel like the knowledge I’ve gained is that useful, except what I’ve noticed is that I listen more carefully to what other people say now, especially when they’re spouting their opinions on hot topics and often I just find myself noticing that people don’t actually know that they’re actually quite uneducated. In fact, I’d say the danger of undergraduate degree’s is that people think they’re educated by having a degree, and it’s great that they do have a degree, but there’s a lot more knowledge they don’t have, they just don’t know that they don’t know.

After doing my numerous degree’s, what I’ve learned for certain is that I could spend my whole life studying and I’ll never know everything there is to know, I find it humbling, but equally, my attitude every day is that I’m probably going to learn something new and I’m open to that. I guess some people might call that a growth mindset or something. I think others might just think I am a weirdo.
"The people behind that kind of violence can hide behind the layers of indirection."

>[B]ureaucrats can be expected to embrace a technology that helps to create the illusion that decisions are not under their control. Because of its seeming intelligence and impartiality, a computer has an almost magical tendency to direct attention away from the people in charge of bureaucratic functions and toward itself, as if the computer were the true source of authority. A bureaucrat armed with a computer is the unacknowledged legislator of our age, and a terrible burden to bear. *We cannot dismiss the possibility that, if Adolf Eichmann had been able to say that it was not he but a battery of computers that directed the Jews to the appropriate crematoria, he might never have been asked to answer for his actions.*

Neil Postman, Technopoly (Emphasis mine)
> Would they even know?

Key point. We are now in a UI idiocracy.
You can get the same effect by gluing the magnet to the outside skin. It’s not as cool but feeling EM is awesome and you can glue a variety of strengths. Fingertips.
Home PC reform gives one million Swedes their first computer (1998)
I can't actually find anything on that story. Any chance you have anything?

He does describe building his own kayak for the event. [0] But that's probably just to help promote his business.

[0] https://hub.jacksonkayak.com/2019/11/the-unabridged-history-...
Afaik no. But if it's access to authenticated resources that you want, you can do so by copying over cookies.
That’s how we get all their milk, how we get meat (the calf isn’t kept around for more than a few weeks/months), and rennet to make cheese (it’s the digestion liquid that’s in their stomach while they eat milk, must kill the animal to extract it)

Same with eggs, they don’t exist in a vacuum. To get eggs you have to have chickens, and to have chickens you must grind male chicks alive as they hatch because they don’t produce eggs. And hens aren’t supposed make eggs year round but we make them anyway with artificial lights etc, which drastically shortens their lifespan.
There's unwanted "I wasn't interested in that person, next", and there's unwanted "this is a potentially dangerous and scary situation". On the surface, it's unhelpful to lump the two in together.

But the line between 1 and 2 is fuzzier for women than for men, hence the "choose the bear" meme. I've received unwanted attention but never felt remotely threatened or endangered by it, you won't hear that from many women though.

And further. When basically everyone had to play the game, the proportion of actual bad actors was small. Lots of "meh, no thanks, next", not much hassle or danger. However. When a lot of milder actors take themselves out of the pool voluntarily (online being satisfactory, or something like that) you end up with a worse ratio. Basically if fewer guys are approaching women full stop, the ones that do are more likely to be trouble of one kind or another.