skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting to ultra high vacuum like in higher orbits requires a multistage vacuum pump. To get the right conditions for VLEO they only need to skip the final stage turbomolecular vacuum pump or run it slower to decrease its effectiveness - it's basically just a bunch of fan blades that use transfer of momentum to bump molecules out of the vacuum chamber and keep them out.

I think the harder part is simulating the relative velocities of the molecules of air. They can try to use the same mechanism as a turbomolecular pump to accelerate the remaining molecules at the test setup, but AFAIK the maximum velocities in a turbomolecular pump are on the order of 1km/s, not 8km/s like in VLEO. Quick back of the napkin math says it'd need tip velocities of 4km/s which translates to over 380,000 RPM with a 4 in blade radius. I'm not sure there any materials capable of withstanding those forces. At 0.5m diameter it's a more reasonable ~76,000 RPM but that's basically the size of a commercial jet engine that probably caps out at 10-20,000 RPM.
Implementing the President's "DOGE" Workforce Optimization Initiative
Yep. The one N64-to-PC port that I know of that isn't in nixpkgs is Starship (starfox 64 pc port). I tried writing a package myself but I was ultimately defeated by not knowing cmake.
https://unrollnow.com/status/1889479167781015966
Where did this extra VM come from?
or wasm is just faster client-side javascript
um, yeah, like everything is a jvm today.
as i understand there are no day restrictions for EVs.
The drive with the lowest fail rate at the above link looks like it is a Seagate enterprise drive (ST16000NM002J)
Only the massive amount of effort it takes to start a company
I'm perfectly aware most people would fail this easy task, but a thousand years ago most people would fail to read. Just because it's easy, doesn't mean most people will succeed.
Most kitchens don't run on only one circuit for the obvious reasons you've described.
Project 2025 architects are running the government now, so why is project 2025 not evidence?
TLDR: "[Government] regulators are the microcode of the state."

Interesting juxtaposition like an avant garde art piece of neon colored plastic carpenter's tools in a bathtub, or a tyrannosaur with backup lights.

But you wouldn't reach into the bathtub to start a home project, and if you see the lights and hear beeping better to assume it is a truck.

People have been trying to spot waste and corruption in data streams for decades, and too often it's the people who hid the information doing the audit. In this one the analytics are being done real fast and NO effort is being made to 'secretize', 'sanitize' or 'slow walk' the revelations. If the party doing it was the other, it would be 900 words of Nothing To See Here or You Go GuysnGals!
My point is it took a very large amount of data for a human to be able to "produce good output". Once it had its performance was of a different strata though.
How much did you pay for the Surface? I just got a Lenovo P14s w/ 64GB and Ryzen 8840HS for around $1100. I haven't used the Surface Pro Snapdragon yet but this laptop screams. I think it mostly comes down to disk performance for me though.
TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
"I would never sell a swastika tee because people could be physically harmed wearing it ... I love my fans and supporters," Kanye wrote on X before his account was disabled.

Shopify took down Yeezy, because it was listing a product he indicated he wasn’t actually going to ship.

B2B services companies generally won’t police content, because content moderation is highly subjective and companies care about the perceived reliability of vendors, especially business critical ones. While this particular instance might be obvious, the slippery slope does exist so companies will tend to avoid vendors who are anywhere near that slope.
So, I agree that there isn't a big enough shortage of engineers to prompt a need for easier immigration there, but I also agree that Americans aren't as technically skilled as they should be compared to foreigners.
I love weather.gov and use it daily- even on my phone.
>But if there are bad guys out there, I want trained and competent officers to respond, to protect me and mine. And you and yours.

The problem is the actual risk to self that most people face is vastly overstated in media. We do not need anywhere the degree of military-styled response to situations that do not require it, esp when it can be deployed anonymously at only the cost of a phone call.
Advancements in embedding-based retrieval at Pinterest Homefeed
Except that the Snapdragon X Elite is actually faster than both AMD and Intel chips on average.
AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities (2022)
Would it be any less safe than a Molex connector? They sometimes still come with brand new PSUs for compatibility. They have 12 volt pins too (yellow wire) if I remember correctly that can be very loose. Back when they were more standard, I'd seen sparks go off after they touched a case's chassis, as a cable to the PSU could have multiple unused/unplugged Molex connectors on it just hanging somewhere. The older PSUs I've used never came with full covers for them, so wrapping them in electrical tape was the "fix".
late November 2023
...you're essentially turning the host OS into both a resource manager and isolation boundary enforcer, which is... kind of what hypervisors were specifically designed to do, just at a different level. When the container companies were all starting to come out, I never thought it was a good idea, given what I was building I never said anything because "of course the VM guy would not like containers" - I thought many times about what an ISO+VM "container" product would look like but at the time it would have been hard to match the performance of containers even if we could have gotten the developer experience super good. VM: Cold start: ~10 seconds with an optimized ISO, Management overhead: ~256MB baseline, Consistent performance profile. K8s: Cold start, ~30-50 seconds (control plane decisions + networking setup), management overhead: 1-2GB for the control plane alone, more variable performance due to overlay networking.

imo real question is: at what scale/complexity does k8 overhead get amortized by its management benefits? For a number of services, I suspect it never does. I will dutifully accept all my downvotes now.
I'm sure we can get rid of it, if you're okay with a lot more innocent people being killed where real distress calls are being responded to.

The police in America don't exist in a vacuum. If there weren't...hundreds of millions of guns out there, our police wouldn't need to be as heavily armed as they are.
kubernetes is an endless employment engine for operations staff (it's kinda the opposite of "anybody can write react, so react devs are now cheaper", instead you're constantly maintaining a piece of junk k8s stack).

no way someone would engineer their way out of not over-engineering a kubernetes stack.

The other bit of this is that FNaaS pricing is crazy expensive. Unless someone goes an order of magnitude cheaper than cloudflare's wrangler offering on the edge, I don't see it happening. You get none of the portability by writing yourself into a FNaaS cage like cloudflare or fastly.

Companies start off with business logic that solves a problem. Then they scale it (awkwardly or not) as it balloons with customers. Then they try to optimize it (sometimes by going to the cloud, sometimes by going back to their own VMs). VCs might not like "ending growth", but once you're on a stable customer basis you can breath, understand your true optimal compute, and make a commitment to physical hardware (which is cheaper than cloud scaling, and FAR cheaper than FNaaS).

The piece that might travel the entire way with you? Containers and Kubernetes.
"Learning how to use Docker is a distraction"

As if you need to learn anything, you get your Dockerfile and that's it, what else there is to learn? Your WASM app still need Kubernetes to run so it's not adding any value.

The complexity is not in running your app in Docker, the complexity is running your container somewhere, and WASM does not help at all with that.

WebAssembly is not going anywhere, it's pretty clear it won't grow much in the next 5years.
There have been image library exploits where uploading image to site that processes it gives access. The only solution was to update the library.

Or how about Heartbleed where the OpenSSL library had bug. OpenSSL is on the external web server and the attack could compromise server public keys. Perfect for impersonating the server. The solution was to update the OpenSSL library.

There have been browser zero days. Hacker News sanitizes input so user can’t compromise anything. But Hacker News could do an attack.
I think I have 4-5 accounts (including one using a friend's old Californian street address so I could access US-only apps that weren't available in Australia at the time), so I'm very keen to try this.

Edit: "Make sure both accounts are set to the same country and region for purchases." Arghh!
An amazing game series, truly a standout for 'different' even until today. Big studios don't take risks, it's up to today's indie scene to give us something different.
derbauer did an analysis of the melted connector. It was nickel & gold, not steel.

buildzodes analysis showed Nvidia removed all ability to load balance the wires which they used to have with the 30xx connector that introduced it, and they had even fancier solutions for the multi 8/6 pin connectors before that.

The specification also has an incredibly low safety factor, much much lower than anything that came before.

They seem to be penny pinching on shunt resistors on a $2000 GPU. Their engineering seems suspect at this point, not worthy of a benefit of the doubt.
> There are tons of high-power connectors out there, and they look and work pretty much the same as the current ones (to the untrained eye). They are just more expensive.

That's fair, so maybe not a complete rethink then. But definately a higher standard of quality. Right now, my experience with any of those molex type connectors (be it a 4 pin HDD connector or 8 pin EATX 12V or PCI-e somethingorother) is that they rely on the pin properly aligning with the holder on the other side, and if those aren't lined up, the pin can simply end up pushing the holder and it's wire back, instead of seating correctly. There's plenty of give and play in those cables, and it's hard to tell at a glance if all of them have seated correctly or if a holder has been pushed backwards in it's socket. I can imagine a higher quality connector with tighter tolerances and stiffer materials would lessen the likelihood of this happening, but no doubt with higher costs to PSUs and cards.

I suspect manufacturers are sensitive to price increases there, but I have to imagine tacking on even a few dollars to an already exorbitantly priced card that might melt otherwise is a good value? I guess we'll see.
What should Tim Cook call himself if, say, a little DOGE-ie gets into the Passport or IRS or SEC systems and actually changes all Tim Cook references to Tim Apple?
Well, AWS, typically.
For a little while before that, CPU performance was stagnant with Intel on top until AMD released Ryzen and Zen, and Intel got stuck on 14nm for half a decade. Suddenly AMD is posting substantial performance improvements every cycle and Intel is cranking up TDP to compete. Now we have competitive x86 processors from two different sources AND competitive ARM processors from two others.
No. Wasm is not useful enough yet. Neither are containers.
> WebAssembly is a true write-once-run-anywhere experience. (Anywhere that can spin up a V8 engine, which is a lot of places these days.)

This is true if your wasm code is purely computational, but if it interacts with the outside world it’s a different story. Each V8 runtime has a subtly different interface, so code that runs on cloudflare V8 might not run in Bun or Deno. Not to mention if you want to support WASI too, which is a different set of bindings even though it’s still WebAssembly.

Love or hate Docker, part of its success was that POSIX was already a fairly established standard and there weren’t a lot of vendors driving it in different directions.
What DeepSeek's Success Says About China's Ability to Nurture Talent
They'll use you if they are informing purchasing decisions.
In a capitalist organization, by definition the capitalists take the productive output from the workers, and sell it, pocketing the difference, and deciding dictatorially how to distribute the revenue. So yes, by definition they are grifting off of the workers.
https://archive.ph/ote1p
> Chewing is also an imperfect process. Mammals, and I can tell you this personally and with some disdain, sometimes pass seeds as well.

That's how you get poop coffee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak
> You can compile several languages into WebAssembly already. Languages that can't be compiled will eventually have their own interpreters compiled to WebAssembly.

A big constraint here is the memory model. Languages include a specification for memory allocation, deallocation, lifetime and garbage collection, and WASM has it's own way of going about that that is engine dependent. The performance lost from reimplementing the memory model within WASM could only be regained by going back to something that looks like containers.
Are you sure? Are those instances a VM or another docker container? Does anyone from amazon know?
Blazor is stable and extremely easy to use. It’s just a little slow to load, although there are ways to mitigate that.
Southern California, USA.

The funny thing about democracies is other votes count too. 99% of the population is happy with the outcome because they get more water water and don't have any person rights they feel are put at risk.

I'm guessing the state figured most of the farmers in their 60s can't afford legal challenge when there primary financial assets were cut out from under them and if they do, it can be tied up in the courts until most of them die. That's how it seems to be playing out anyways.
Formerly IT administrator, formerly Systems Analyst.

Me, when I was a kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgKiIAjtrR4
Run a mile in 4 minutes. Eat 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

Everything is impossible until someone comes along that's crazy enough to do it.
Git Repository Integrity Solutions
It highly depends on the model and the context use. A model like command-r for instance is practically unaffected by it, but Qwen will go nuts. As well, tasks highly dependent on context like translation or evaluation will be more impacted than say, code generation or creative output.
Turbo C was an attempt to profit off the reputation of Turbo Pascal.

BTW Borland didn't create the compiler, instead licensed the technology from Poly Data.
Interestingly, nobody seems to be concerned that the military ($841.4B budget) doesn't generate revenue and isn't run like a business. But everything else in the government should pay for itself?
Wow that makes sense now if you can load the entire model to vram. What eGPU dock and GPU setup you use if you don’t mind?
Hahaha I thought of this immediately when I saw the article title. I fell asleep on the train a few times and ended up in Ome or Okutama when I was living in Tokyo after a long night out. Ironically Okutama was/is still one of the most beautiful areas I have ever been, did a ton of drives out to that area to go explore the mountains
Quick deployment into a battlefield or disaster zone anywhere on earth is one idea.

Connection, remote sensing, and mesh networking are useful.
I promise it's not as exciting as you're imagining. Getting the truck back out of the snow bank, on the other hand, would probably be amusing in a schadenfreude sort of way. Lacking traction (because winter), we used a lot of momentum. It was pretty undignified.
Yeah but there’s 2 people in there, and 180 people in the rest of the plane. Isn’t the volume of air relative to the amount of people breathing it relevant as well?
The Orca project is attempting to do exactly that: https://github.com/orca-app/orca
I found WASM slower than expected. I wrote some WASM logic functions recently which I thought would perform better than their native JS equivalent. For example, take a large array and "pivot" it in 10ms instead of a 100ms.

What I found was the JS version was a bit faster than the compiled WAT. Yikes.

EDIT: I think I'll try debugging it more
You may be interested in the semi-standard `jj tug` alias [1], that moves "the most recent" bookmark up to `@-`

[1]: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/discussions/5568
That's not true: you can read it — with 3D visualizations, which are blacked out in the archive version — without signing in to an account:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/05/us/dc-crash-h...

Note "unlocked" in URL above.

Try it!
Exciting news. Hopefully they can make it work.
I'm befuddled that Automattic is still investing in adding features (e.g. federation) to Tumblr. There's just about no chance of them actually making money from it, because its users are just about the most monetization-hostile users on the Internet.

It doesn't help that the CEO actively antagonized a large portion of the site not too long ago.
I've been out the mobile work for a while, but looking for a cross platform eco, ive spent time in a lot of stuff, from react, to unity, xmarian, and uno, all these with a c# backend. But once I found dart/flutter it was a game changer. I stil like my JS/TS, I still love c#, dart is interesting, but their cross platform workflow is imho the best.
What will stop them?
When I think of building things with my hands I think of building a table, refinishing a dresser, building a shed, soldering some electronics. 99% of people should consider doing these things. 99% should not consider building a house. That's engineering, not a hobby. How many people have done this, 1/100000? It's beyond the spectrum of things you should DIY. You have to be a little crazy to even consider it. Most people have 40+ hr a week jobs and can't build a fuckin home in their spare time. If you have the time, talent, and money to do this, great. You are part of a tiny elite group of people.
> Were there such events? [That is, events in early 10th century France that eventually led to English becoming a sort of pidgin French, full of words like "eventually" and "sort" that didn't exist in Beowulf]

There certainly were; quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_Normandy (28 August 0932 – 20 November 0996):

> Richard either introduced feudalism into Normandy or he greatly expanded it. By the end of his reign, the most important Norman landholders held their lands in feudal tenure.

Normandy, as you may or may not know, is in France.

Then, a century later, his great-grandson, Duke of Normandy, conquered England, subjugating the Britons, Anglo-Saxons, et al., under a French-speaking noble elite. If Jarl Rikard had been cut down by bandits in his youth, or had merely failed to enlist the Norman landholders' swords under his banner (and that of his son, grandson, and great-grandson), the Norman invasion would not have happened. Similarly, if Richard's son Richard had been unable to escape from the court of King Louis IV in 0946, or unable to then win back Normandy from the king by force of arms, his grandson William would have been in no position to conquer—and it is unlikely that the subdivided Duchy would have been able to raise an army to successfully invade England, a feat that has not been repeated in the ensuing 959 years. And so on.

> Of course it’s debatable but there is some evidence that oral knowledge can be preserved for thousands of years.

Yes, your comment was written in reply to a comment naming one of the most surprising examples of such preservation, as a result of non-literate societies, as you said, "put[ting] put in massively more effort into preserving oral traditions". Nevertheless, they seem to preserve massively less historical knowledge despite that effort.
In the early 1900s, the government implemented eugenics for this reason. Nowadays, people feel the country is better off just letting people plan their own pregnancies, which is a looser form of this. The difference between restricted immigration and open immigration would be akin to having a baby when you want to have a baby, versus being assigned random kids to foster.
>It has only been adjusted for inflation.

What else are you expecting? Raises every couple of years for a job well done?
It just sounds like you don't know how construction works.
So long and thanks for all the disks!
Federal judge upholds Massachusetts automotive right-to-repair law
I’ve been using it for a bit. It is magical. I had some merge conflicts in a GitHub PR. I pulled everything down with jj, and the conflicts were gone. Pushed and presto.

I do end up with descriptionless bookmarks that won’t push without a flag. So, I’m still doing something wrong.

But it’s already saved me a few times this week during some gnarly refactoring and merges.
> Formerly sys admin

Formerly systems programmer, or sysprog for short

"Config files? What are those? To change the system configuration, use these assembler macros, reassemble this module, relink the operating system and then reIPL it". So, systems programmer, because knowing assembler was part of the job description.

Plus, at mainframe sites in the 1960s/1970s, it was common for sysprogs to write custom code to hook into the operating system and change its behaviour (user exits), or even to actually patch the operating system code (SYSMOD) – and assembler was the language used to do all that

If we are talking about IBM mainframes specifically, by the 1970s, a lot of the operating system was written in a high level language (a PL/I dialect), but although they shipped customers the source code, they didn't ship them any compiler for the special PL/I dialect, so customers couldn't modify it by changing the source, only by disassembling the binary, modifying the assembly, then reassembling it. Plus, commonly, IBM shipped only source for the initial release, not later patches, so the customer copy of the source would gradually get out of sync with the binary. Some other mainframe vendors weren't quite so primitive, and so there was significantly less use of assembler by customers for OS customisation (e.g. I think, Burroughs, Multics)
I'm always reminded of Gary Bernhardt's "the birth and death of javascript" when wasm gets discussed. While it's a bit tongue-in-cheek, I think it really drives home that it's really just another layer of abstraction that may or may not be useful for a given problem, and might not be the silver bullet that anyone is looking for. I recon that whether or not wasm will take over everything will mostly be about trade offs between it and the other solutions.
https://archive.is/Oc7Id
I'm sure I'll hear about it.
Thank you for your response!
It's great to hear that some companies have already set up the self-hosted version. I appreciate the information about the README file.
I'll take a look. Looking forward to seeing how FoloUp evolves!
They should pigtail the GPU straight into the AC wall voltage and build in a dedicated power supply to convert to DC.
Tesla opens Shanghai battery "Megafactory", first Megapacks to Australia
It’s a UAW handout that’s trickled down through Government Motors™
So basically virtual machines, those we can spin up with lxd or firecracker. Not that they don't have file access, it's just that's finnicky compared to containers (I'm thinking docker/podman)
I would take that bet. Sure, you can carefully affect being this careless, but it's easier to just actually be this careless.