skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to some witnesses, the Tunguska event itself killed three people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

I wonder if any people died as an indirect result - someone startled by the flash of light or the bang, who stepped into the path of a carriage, or just slipped and fell and cracked their skull.
World Sensorium 2025:Formulaic Portrayal of Changing Populations/Conservation
I met some Americans who would never work for the New England Patriots.
https://prql-lang.org/faq/ is an attempt (with an implementation) addressing some of the SQL shortcomings. The "Something here reminds me of another project, did you take the idea from them?" FAQ answer links to other resources.
I've caught a variety of suburban wildlife, including one enterprising hominid who decided to help himself to my bicycle.
It’s pretty common to roll your own linker script in embedded software development
I always give an option to either use some online REPL or local environment for FizzBuzz-like tests.

It's always good to see how they deal with tools.

But the number of candidates that can't run a script locally or on a website and ask if they can put inside their Rails project responding to some query is astounding. For Typescript positions I get better results.
> it's really not about blue cities or red state

How can you think that, given that only loyalty matters for trump?
For those wondering: DX stands for "Developer Experience", I think?
I find argument like “people love it” a bit weird. People obviously, based on various historic references, REALLY liked gladiator games in Ancient Rome. Would you propose we bring those back to the masses?

I meant, shouldn’t we decide what’s good for our society based on some moral values and principles, and not based on things that the majority like?

As for the second part. Could you share some of those bite-sized historical comment and the discussions they sparked? I’m really curious to see and learn more, and perhaps even change my initial opinion.
How to use Node's fs in the browser for custom playgrounds
You can also collect a few thousand dollars for the TCPA violation, which seems more productive.
As someone who has thought about this remote style, but hasn’t done it, I don’t think I’d want to be in the hotel room much. I’d much rather find a coffee shop to work from where I can get some of the vibe of the city while still working.

Otherwise, you’d only get a few hours per day in the evening of experiencing anything you couldn’t do at home, so what’d be the point of spending home rent +hotel +travel for the week?
I wonder if the author used a seamless connection to an effortless AI?
Then why does it display the README at all?

Github is a lot of things to many people. A "web host" and a way of publishing information about software is definitely one of the things it is.
Ah yes that's my bad. Tried to come up with a snappy title but probably shouldn't have assumed it's a common abbreviation....
not any more, now the thing about Arsenal is that it's all set pieces and over-reliance on corners.

Saka isn't all that either, he'd be nothing within Odegaard.

(this is convincing, and I know about as much as the IT Crowd did)
That's still an architectural thing. If CPU isn't an issue, why would you be running your application server on a different machine from your database? Connecting to a unix domain socket will give better latency and throughput and security as long as you can scale vertically.

Even if you have it on another machine, it's on the same switch, right (also an architectural choice)? So latency should be sub millisecond, and irrelevant for a single request. So we assume we're talking about many requests, but then why not combine/batch your queries (also an architectural choice)? Now latency (and other things like database latches and fsyncs. Very important.) is amortized and again irrelevant. You should be able to hit close to the pure pg bulk query case (and e.g. a rust application server can do this in practice for me with a 4 core machine and an old SATA SSD with ~50k read IOPS).

Point is, the optimal case for building a web page is probably to do pg queries that return the xml of the page (letting you do subselects to combine everything into one query). So see how fast that is, and if your application can't match that, the database is not your bottleneck.
The Americans could stop it, by throwing Ukraine under the bus.

I think most Americans oppose that, but I'm genuinely not certain. Arguably, that is what we just voted for, and I'm a bit surprised we haven't already done it.
I only linked to the HN thread, but there you can find links to discussions in HA community, for example: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/consider-to-avoid-addi... , which includes responses from forum admins and founders.
I was under the impression that federated nodes acts as caches. Is this not the case?
Detonating a bomb is illegal in many jurisdictions, regardless of property damage or injury to humans.

The person who called this a cybercrime is more correct than people disagreeing
> So many Liberals seem to have been emboldened by losing to Trump a second time into embracing bullying and letting go of what empathy and compassion that they had instead of using the moment to question why their party is so disconnected from so much of the country and why so many who are suffering would fall for Trump's lies instead of Democrats and the status quo.

This gets at the truth.

To generalize: if people can't get a win, they'll settle for blame. Pointing the finger at others feels pretty good. Whereas the soul-searching you speak of is suffering, especially for those invested in ideology.

IMHO, this coping is inevitable. We have no leaders who can admit our fault, nor do we longer share a set of teachings to make sense of where we went astray. What we do seem to have in abundance is rage, which fuels the comforting political fantasies we're witnessing today.
A republic doesn't work when half of the people simply vote to burn it down every four years to spite the other half. You can't just "right the ship" to correct policies this destructive. This isn't simple politics as usual.
> I don't expect fairness, or equality under the law, from this administration.

Especially since he’s halted all new civil rights investigations by the doj:

https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/us-doj-halts-all-ongoing...
This would be the dream job for a gunners fan. After a decade of making seven figures at Meta/Google etc., they won't even look at the salary.
Feel and vibes. Or anecdote of 1.
Pretty much this - the only way the entire premise works is if you have a huge number of cheap commodity hardware that's going for the 0.1% of a 99.9% succes rate defense system.

Defense companies won't like it, because commodity is synonymous with "low margin", so it's not surprising you end up with something that's two orders of mag higher price point and a buzzworld salad ("AI enhanced" because we have added some ML-based damping to a kalman filter to charge more money) to go with it
Two caveats for less-experienced engineers (whether by senority at a company or years in the industry):
* As a manager, I would prefer you to crush those ten easy tickets if you aren't up to the task of the hard ticket. If that hard-for-you ticket is easy for someone with more skill, and we're in a high profile incident, I am going to steer you away from it.

* As a manager, if you show me you can crush the easy tickets, I will find a way to guide you toward harder problems. Then, if you show you can do the harder problems, and those around you are in agreement that you are tackling those, then you have the leash to start swarming to issues.

Note that you can usually prove this within 1-3 months - I'm not talking about an extensive time of paying your dues here. But make sure not to try and skip a rung.
I was going to ask you the same thing as wrs, and would have answered similarly. Overall I am grateful for people like aaza for helping others to understand how it felt to be on the receiving end, and also a lesson about trust and maturity. "There is no honor among thieves" is a facile interpretation, but over time I've come to feel like this is necessary tough love for certain problem kids who might be too clever for their own good at certain points of life.
Actually in countries like Portugal or Germany, most clubs are owned by its members (or at the very least, 51% owned by its members), which can e.g. vote on its president.
Thanks! We've had polarizing feedback to it which we think is a good thing.

Trying to go for a nostalgic 90s anime vibe which we think is cool... and also might be relatable to other devs
You do realize that American salaries are not the norm internationally? The pay in Europe is far far far lower.
Taking pride in being willing to take the longer and more error-prone and tedious path makes me wonder if you're not just flexing here.

There are thousands of tools and methodologies screaming for our attention to "be arsed to learn to do them properly".

They're not owed that attention, they must deserve it. And statistically + historically speaking, most have failed to do so.

You may choose to interpret this as you belonging to a small elite group of intellectuals who "are arsed to learn to do stuff properly" -- that's your right.

I choose to interpret it as "Cargo solves a real problem that has wasted numerous hours of my time in the past". And it wasn't because, for the third time, "I wasn't arsed to learn to do it properly", it's because nobody followed basic protocol and good practices to make the legendary "proper way" work reliably.

You're likely living and working in a bubble. It's much worse than the Wild West out there, man. Any tool that reduces the drudgery and allows for quicker doing of the annoying parts is a net positive.
You've just made a pretty outrageous claim without evidence that would require a lot of effort on my part to refute, so I'll just go with: if you say so.
Polling is the augury of modern democracies, attempting to discern the will of God through subtle and obscure signs, and about as effective.
Splats to meshes is an isosurface extraction problem, fundamentally. It's one of the great unsolved problems of computer graphics and having a good general algorithm would have massive ripple effects for any problem involving meshes.

It's a rabbit hole and I only really understood it when I realized that the minimum time between any GH committer's hobby example and implementing the 2003 state-of-the-art is ~4 years.

Fingers crossed that Gaussian Splatting makes the rewards high enough that resources get poured on this.
Being able to express yourself with limited words, is a skill everyone should aspire to master.

Having said that, the idea of social networks like twitter, is to spark a discussion, otherwise you would write a blog. Discussing ideas in twitter is very painful with its limited number of characters.

Unless, of course, all you want is a 2-3 sentence “revelations”, in a form of motivational posters we used to see around 2010, which you accept without questions. But then, is twitter really that different than 9gag for example?
> “don't be unattractive” is a very actionable advice which most nerds ignore.

Half of the population needs to be below median. No matter how you rearrange things, you can't escape this basic fact. This means that if all women get a boob job, we won't be living in a world of beautiful women, but rather the expected boob size will go up. It's super strange to me that so few people understand this basic fact of statistics.

> Are you willing to change? Our personality isn't set in stone, pretty much the opposite. Every social skilled person had to learn it at some point.

I think we're talking about two different problems here. I don't have issues getting people to like me, I have issues liking them back.
> The massage therapist, a war supporter, was happy to talk. She gave an interesting description of her media consumption. “On the Internet,” she explained, there are so many fakes: “You have to figure out that this is a fake, this is not a fake.” Whereas with the news on TV, “you watch it for the day and you’re done. No problem.” As for the war, it was hard for the massage therapist to say who started it and why.

> “But we started it,” Marina said.

> “Who’s we?” said the massage therapist.

> “Well, I mean, Putin started it,” Marina said.

> The invocation of Putin seemed to set the massage therapist off. She lost her temper and threatened Marina, saying that she would “call someone” who would come to straighten out Marina on the subject of Putin and the war.

That one anecdote pretty much sums up the article in my opinion. A combination of opinions derived from a media silo (one that’s especially difficult to get out of because most Russian language media is, of course, produced in Russia and subject to Kremlin regulations), reluctance to question established beliefs, cult of personality/hero worship around Putin, and fear of government reprisal.
It’s okay, my brother’s way of getting hooked on programming was downloading those types of cheats for Counterstrike, and reverse-engineering them to strip out the bad functionality. It’s not so much keyloggers as running into the cheat creator in a game, and they get mad and say “I’m going to remotely crash your PC watch!” and then getting even more mad when it doesn’t work.
They are both cybercrime. I'm not disagreeing with that. But if you sabotage a bombmakers tools and they blow their own household up instead of other innocent people, is it the same thing?

Let's be very specific: "if they actually used it as part of a DDoS.". This wasn't embedded in warez or cracking tools, it was in botnet controllers, and ran when someone had pulled the trigger to execute an attack.
So at some point we will have too many cannon ball polishing factories and it will become apparent the cannon ball trajectory is not easily improved on.
You must not know any Indian researchers then. Almost every one I know supports a football club
There is definitely not a symmetricality to this. Gleam's creator apparently wants all people to get along, and for fascists to go fuck themselves. There's no 'both sides' to Nazis, fella.
I am reasonably certain that (a) there will not be an invasion of Taiwan, but (b) feinting at it is fairly popular in China.

The Americans feel queasy about it, which is what makes it so popular in China. An actual war would be less popular, but as long as there is uncertainty about it, they get the benefit. The US has been doing "strategic ambiguity" about Taiwan as well, for decades, and this is the logical continuation.
Contract requires "meeting of minds", i.e. intentional assent from both sides. I am not sure text generated by fully automated bot can be treated as intentional assent.
As it turns out, the situation is more complex than Trump anticipated (well if that won’t be a recurring thing…)
As best I can tell, company cultures are a made up marketing invention to retain and attract staff, and encourage Stockholm Syndrome.

"Come work for us, our culture is open and innovative!"

"Don't go and work for them, they have a bad culture!"

Funny how company cultures are totally a matter of opinion, and never measurable, verifiable or falsifiable, and never benefit employees.

Not to say that particular groups or teams don't have certain styles, but the idea that a megacorp has a consistent, company-wide culture that requires careful nurturing by the CEO to keep it special and magical is just absurd.
Hoping to take a look at this when it's in Android, it seems neat!
Nice job, like the design and idea
Depending on the scale of your actual systems, you might be surprised how far you can get with open source tools like Prometheus / Graphana and just not configuring them for huge scale.

You could for example just run one VM for all of your observability stuff, and stick these tools on it and store data to disk.

Alternatively, if you've got some money and you're systems are OK with outbound internet connections. SaaS monitoring solutions like NewRelic, Dynatrace, etc. are much more plug-and-play.
The answer will likely match what the reasoning steps bring it to, but that doesn’t mean the computations by the LLM to get that answer are necessarily approximated by the outputted reasoning steps. E.g. you might have an LLM that is trained on many examples of Shakespearean text. If you ask it who the author of a given text is, it might give some more detailed rationale for why it is Shakepeare, when the real answer is “I have a large prior for Shakespeare”.
No. Cloud providers, like AWS, Google and Azure, make most of their money off of poorly configured enterprise infrastructure -- unused drives, VMs and K8S cluster. They provide controls that allow you to ramp down resources, but it is up to you to do the ramping.
It's pretty good at telling you the obvious. It's not great at telling you anything subtle or unexpected.
I use it deliberately to invoke these negative connotations. I am not commenting on the skill, creativity, or any other aspect of the drones. I think it's just a fairly basic fact that most of us are drones. We go to work, we do what we're told, we get paid. There's no shame in it. Being a drone is an honest living. It just seems that many here are in denial of that. They think that every worker is going to be a special snowflake doing their own creative little thing instead of a small cog in big machine that has to fall in line with every other part.

I think it's just out of touch with reality. If you are applying for a job, then they probably want someone who does what their told reliably and predictably, and you probably want to get paid. So you should show them that you are capable of doing what you're told reliably and predictably. You exchange your time for money and everybody benefits. It's just a waste of everybody's time if you are going to rage against this process—insist on not doing what you are told and then get angry when the result is not getting paid.
Nelder–Mead has often not worked well for me in moderate to high dimensions. I'd recommend trying Powell's method if you want to quickly converge to a local optimum. If you're using scipy's wrappers, it's easy to swap between the two:

https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/optimize.html#loc...

For nastier optimization problems there are lots of other options, including evolutionary algorithms and Bayesian optimization:

https://facebookresearch.github.io/nevergrad/

https://github.com/facebook/Ax
'The nice version of her was manufactured for YouTube'
Look into zeroth-order optimizers and CMA-ES.
Pro Tip: While the YouTube player is paused, the comma and period keys move back/forward by one frame. (Memory aid, < and > but without using Shift -- assuming US PC keyboard layout.)
Interviewer was wrong. Interviewee learned that interviewer is happy to advance incorrect ideas and stifle innovation.
Lower middle class in Massachusetts...
The technique they used is a focus group rather than polling. Rather than asking a large number a long list of specific questions they interview a smaller number of people in detail, which can reveal things that polling misses.

The VICOM-SPUTNIK poll is, in a certain sense, a very high quality poll which polls 1600 people every day with a large panel of questions, there isn't anything probability-based in the US that comes close to how often it runs:

https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/31121192

Trouble is you can't trust that people will give honest answers in a society like that; there are special methods that have been done on a small scale in places like China [1] (and also in the US to suss out "do people not give honest answers about Trump"/) where you might have a list like

How many of the following have you done in the last?

(a) attended a Falun Gong exercise group
(b) gone jogging
(c) visited a Buddhist temple
(d) ate mushrooms
...

and give half the people a list with (a) in it and give the other half a list without it and compare the sums; you lose a little statistical power but not much. I don't know about it being done for Putin's approval rating though.

[1] for the other China: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20531680241234833?i...
Intuitively, it is unlikely there's 500K individual servers set up.

We can then also observe other comments clarifying that no, there aren't 500K instances.

The other comments provide...tweets? mastodons?...from the maintainer also clarify that in practice, there's 1 instance.

People are questioning how that will scale, and the tweet from the maintainer was cited as part of that because the content of the tweet is that tl;dr there's a $2,600 month gap between Patreon and hosting costs.
Interviewer was wrong however.
I sent an email to the bored cat address
Pixelfed works like any other Fediverse server. Content is stored on the node where it’s posted by its author. The nodes of people following the account have the option to cache a copy of the posts or just keep a reference depending on their implementation but Mastodon for example would cache it.
Byte value is a count of flipped bits. Those bits aren’t even guaranteed to be correct (see cosmic bit flipping) and yet our computers work this out.

IMO this is risky because it’s easy to distribute upload, e.g. I could have infected, semi popular website that would submit distributed request on visit (think about it like 1000 credits daily to use to encode message). Visitors of this website wouldn’t see a thing and yet the encoded message would be consistent.

As for other websites - especially free image hosts - they often keep a metric ton of data, some won’t work if you won’t have an identifiable partner cookie on submission request, and there is post upload analysis etc.
There is one theory that that the biblical story about the annihilation of the city of Sodom was brought about by a large air-burst meteor, think Chelyabinsk and add a couple of order of magnitude.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8452666/

However, note that when I was trying to find the original paper, that is, something more substantial than the popular news blurbs that are everywhere, I found wikipedia was less than impressed with the evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_el-Hammam

Anyhow, I suspect a lot of our long term generational history gets turned into religion and legend, that is to say, the legendary events probably happened but like a good fish story the facts get shifted over the years.
The government can do (literally) whatever a majority of voters are willing to encourage and/or accept.

In this case, this is precisely what Trump voters wanted, and what every non-voter said they were ok with.
Being a workshop for the world has been a good gig for China, throwing it away for Taiwan looks risky. On the other hand, having it as an ongoing issue to motivate nationalism is priceless.
Here's me thinking it would be some open source artificial heart designs.
Still, it seems, the "barriers to entry" are much lower with crypto. (No need to send someone there to open a bank account, etc.)

Though doing a kidnapping in the middle of France is pretty ballsy anyway.
Do they support Python? I feel like that's going to be the most likely related stack in question..
Increased Toxicity Risk Identified for Children with Autism, ADHD
They've been doing it for years on Instagram too
The article adresses this:

> Most of the vinyls were packed in boxes or held by relatives and friends before Jula slowly brought them all home

Seems like once she put the collection back together, the order was already lost.

Appart from that, I feel like there is some poetry to her slowly making it her own collection by listening to the records one by one. Kind of like a new like growing from within the records.