skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> two problems ... overcommit

Is there any other sensible way to do this though? It would be quite inefficient to constantly call mmap for additional small(ish) pieces of memory. In effect overcommit just means that until the page is actually written to it hasn't really been allocated. (Aside: I believe a malloc implementation that zero'd out blocks on allocation would fail abruptly rather than later in case that happens to be what bugs you about it.)

Additionally how do you suppose fork should be implemented efficiently? Currently it performs copy-on-write. At minimum you'd need a way to mark pages as "never going to write to these, don't reserve space for a copy". Except such an API is either very awkward to use in practice or else leaves you with some very awkward edge cases to deal with in your program logic.

> You can disable overcommit, but some software will not function very well

Yeah about that.

Chromium runs (AFAIK) 1 PID namespace per tab. On my machine right now it reports 1.1 TiB virtual memory with a little over 100 MiB resident per tab. 1.1 TiB mapped PER TAB. Of the resident I have no idea how much is actually unique (ie written to following the initial fork).

Firefox is much more reasonable at a mere 18 GiB mapped per PID.
Srsly dude, like why didn’t you just hire people for…ALL of this?!
By the way, there is an accessible and (in my opinion) brilliantly clear explanation of the construction of numbers on the “Another Roof” youtube channel.

“What is a number?” https://youtu.be/dKtsjQtigag?si=EPzNVgk47gXzNLra Explains what natural numbers are and why we should care about this set of definitions

And “defining every number ever” goes from there up to the complex numbers https://youtu.be/dKtsjQtigag?si=DI39LQtGvBsOU00y
Damn that's nice. Every control right there, ready for you to use at a glance. We don't make HMIs like that anymore :')
Take a moment and truly envision the alternative. What if we don't explore space? Are we content remaining confined to Earth for eternity? Do we stay on earth and watch ourselves destroy the environment, watch our resources dwindle, and sit back as the sun decays into a red giant and envelopes our planet?

The choice is obvious.

In my opinion, after a certain point, will become an economic necessity; i.e. a lack of resources on earth & cheaper manufacturing costs in space will drive humanity spacebound.
Sleep on a firm mattress. Stretch daily. Lift weights 3x a week, for 2x upper body focus and 1x leg day. Cardio 3x a week on days you don’t lift. High protein and low fat every day. Low sugar and carbs.

Pain comes as you age. It isn’t unique to modern man, other than we typically live longer than ancient man.

If you do this plan you can still cheat. Drink, party, eat whatever. You invest effort so you can enjoy life when the moment arises.
The commenter above that introduced the word affordable, that commenter was me, and I'm free to clarify what I meant, which I just did.
We had the divide between the nomenklatura and the rest, instead.
No. It is absurd if his time and attention have ANY value.

This just seems like nothing less than purposeful absurdity for blog fodder.
> It's not long before we can feed that script to one of the AI engines and tell it to make a Lynch movie out of it.

This is both, I suspect, literally true and substantively false: it will not ne long until you can ask for that and get something recognizable as audiovisual output. It will, OTOH, be long before you can do that and get anything that would satisfy anyone as a movie worth watching, and even longer if you want something satisfying to anyone with a reason for including Lynch in the prompt other than that he was a specific filmmaker who the model might recognize and do something with.
Funnily enough a lot of the open source world has landed on an API that is basically a copy of OpenAI. So if you develop against OpenAI it’s almost a slot in solution to switch to an open source solution.
Quick question: why do you ask?
What causes NIMBYism, though? ("lot of things, but...")

My pet theory is that cars are a substantial cause - people don't want more housing because it will result in more traffic and more people using the nearby 'free' parking. Cities that are less car-centric will therefore have less NIMBYism.
Where do you live that it's normal to leave the refrigerator? Is this for rentals and/or buying?

If I have to move you bet my fridge, which I love, is coming with me. Same with my washing machine. I don't have a dryer because I'm in australia, which might explain the difference in fridge culture, too.
That sounds pretty entitled.

Nobody will help them "hold the line". The damage to them personally would be immense.
If you have a family, or any other responsibilities (like your own health and well-being) there's only one wise thing to do: leave.

At the end, only surviving counts.
> But as always you need to curate the ones you follow to get a "for you" that's interesting.

Sure, but letting neo-nazis run rampant is not just a problem of my personal curation, but a society-wide issue.
I'm not sure what you mean here? Musk has a history of doing both incredibly useful and cool things, and also incredibly dumb, cruel, and for some people even terrible things. That context should be part of any clear thinking around him. He does not get a clean slate in every new discussion of him.

There are widespread, legitimate concerns about what kind of person Elon Musk is turning out to be. There is a lot of chatter about fears of China's AI rise, but what happens if we get Elon's brand of cruelty and lack of empathy in an authoritarian superintelligent AI ? Is that the AI future we want? Can you imagine an SAI with real power that interacts with people like Elon does on Twitter? I am not sure that is a future I want to live in.
Look, it doesn’t matter Doge’s intentions here. It’s obviously a major conflict of interest to have authority to fire most federal angency employees, while maintaining ownership of multiple companies regulated by said employees & agencies. All it takes is a teeny “hey, make this regulation tweak that benefits Tesla and you keep your job,” and we’ve crossed from conflict of interest to corruption.

Even if you appreciate what Doge is doing, you cannot keep a straight face and tell me that Elon doesn’t stand to personally benefit massively from his changes. Because he obviously does. It’s a well known fact this kind of power corrupts, and we used to expect people with this kind of power to divest from their companies before taking power.

What the FUCK are people thinking defending this shit? This is “preventing political corruption” 101, people.

Elon must divest from his political power or his personal interests (companies). You can’t — shouldn’t — have both.
So basically you're arguing that no important hires were made in the past three years? That feels...unlikely.
One issue with gravelmap in my area is that some people don't post the best routes so they don't get crowded...
Obligatory “Malcolm in the Middle” clip: https://is.gd/ohuxaw
PG&E reports profit of more than $2B for 2024
Doesn't matter. PKI for https is a solution in search of a problem.
In reality all it does is just validate domain name ownership, something that could have more easily been done with DKIM keys. We don't need certificate authorities.
Same. Thankfully, the post explains it as needing to drill open the PVC drain pipe under a sink where the washer drain pipe connects, inside a pre-formed attachment point. See "Solution 5" through "Solution 6".

If your washer is draining and working, there's no latent issue to worry about.
All of those knobs and switches could have fit in the touch screen that's there. /s

I bet it chewed through some D-cells though. I'm guessing it held 8 of them. I bet it had some weight to it too.
Do you normally tweet your half baked “discoveries” as propaganda in an effort to undermine the government when performing an audit?

Edit: I really don’t think the way this audit is being conducted is out of a genuine love for America, or the American citizens, or even out of just wanting to do good work. This is very nakedly a dishonest, petty, and malicious investigation.
> This seems... futile. Google has chosen a pretty reasonable approach with tagging differently for users based on jurisdiction.

Now I look at Google Maps and see the nonsensical "Gulf of America" between parenthesis.

I live nowhere close to the US.

There is nothing reasonable in unilaterally pushing a new name onto the world just because a banana republic dictator felt like renaming it.

> All of this is just a dick measuring exercise anyway, there's no actual territorial dispute.

Renaming a geographic landmark as "X of America" is dick measuring. Asking Google to be a grown-up and fix their mistake is not unreasonable, neither is suing them if they refuse.
Wait, what...? You leave your refrigerator and dishwasher behind? :)

I guess it depends a lot on your location and custom. Also if the appliance is "built in" (like an oven) or free-standing.

I've personally never left a free-standing appliance behind, and you certainly aren't getting my industrial-quality, 25 year old, top-loading washing machine for free....
I am sure the "muh waste and fraud" people are up in arms about it.
Then perhaps you should clarify it in the beginning as to not have these exchanges on semantics. Anyway, of course a cheaper product is more affordable than a more expensive one, that's a vacuous, trivially true statement that does not add anything to the discussion being made in this thread.
The Slint rust framework has a vscode extension with a GUI builder.
Not clicking a substack link.
I guess next epidemic is going to come out of USA
You think most people can't accept that consciousness is a phenomenon with basis solely in physical reality?
Presumably a tradesman has knowledge and experience with these blockers, which for them should be largely "known unknowns" and easy to fix at that since they have all the right equipment.

So why do they still charge so much? It's not just "knowing to drill the hole in the drain" but overhead like equipment (they need to buy all the expensive pro stuff, and keep it in working order; whereas you might just need the one tool to get your job done, they need all the tools to get all the jobs done), vehicles, gas, etc. And of course the down time traveling between jobs, office space if they have an office, employees, etc.

All these things bring their prices back up to much higher than it would cost you to do it yourself--if only you knew what to do and had the right equipment.
If only they trained with HN only, while filtering out the founder hype man.
Notification names are arbitrary strings. It's convention to use "fully-qualified" names like that to avoid collisions. In this case, I imagine that just happens to be what the developer chose as a prefix.
Baffled at what kind of garbage drill this guy has that won't take an arbor adaptor for a hole saw. I cut all kinds of holes in my current place with a brushless Dewalt combi that was <£100 on sale.
Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme
As a fun evening project, I made a live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme (based on a panel from The Adventures of Tintin comics [1]).

There's a page for every timeframe:

- 'What a day': https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/day

- 'What a week': https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/week

- 'What a month': https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/month

- 'What a year': https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/year

Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP (not logged or stored). No JavaScript is sent to the browser.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh
> But -- I said "futile" specifically about legal action against Google. They changed the name of a body of water for users in a country to the new official name of that body of water in said country.

I live nowhere near the US. I access the internet without a VPN. My government has nothing to do with this nonsense. I open Google and see "Gulf of America" between parenthesis.

They changed it for way more than US citizens.
Funding what? What are you asking? They are selling the land to developers, there is no need for the federal government to fund anything. They will be the ones receiving money.
The one mentioned at the very end: the drain pipe the washer's drain connected to had a PVC cover that needed to be drilled/punched out (since if a washer wasn't connected it'd be a hole in that drain!). If you're replacing another washer, it was probably already punched out.
Show HN: Lovelace – Roast My Resume
Thank you. Maybe you can remove my slow-ban, and we'll call it even: HN often tells me I am posting too fast, which makes me think my account was flagged at some point.
It's an interesting departure from the usual method of just hiring former regulators as a delayed reward for the corruption.
Presumably you could store the TID in every event, or otherwise check whether the TID has changed since the last time it was logged and push a (timestamp, TID) pair if so. Reading TID should be cheap.
> I’ll consider buying physical books and when necessary “finding” the digital versions of it

That's exactly what I've started doing.
I built this tool because I was tired of seeing the same tiresome resumes filled with corporate buzzwords and exaggerated achievements. As someone who's reviewed countless job applications, I knew we needed something that could cut through the BS while actually helping people improve.

This isn't your typical resume reviewer – it's more like that brutally honest friend who roasts your LinkedIn profile at 2 AM but then helps you make it better. I trained it on thousands of real resumes, feedback from hiring managers, and a healthy dose of comedy writing to create something that's both entertaining and genuinely useful.

The system analyzes everything from overused buzzwords to questionable achievements, delivering feedback with a healthy mix of snark and constructive criticism. It's particularly good at identifying those cringe-worthy phrases we're all guilty of using ('detail-oriented team player,' anyone?) and suggesting alternatives that won't make hiring managers roll their eyes. While the tone is humorous, the underlying advice is solid – backed by real recruiting insights and years of resume screening experience.

Did I go overboard with the sass? Maybe. But after seeing the tenth 'dynamic self-starter' in one day, I figured we could all use a laugh while fixing our resumes.
I have heard that rust can cause tetanus, which is not good for the brain.
Isn't it just?

It's from the opening lines of the closing segment of the the video you linked. Not a bad discussion of the unfolding of news and social media responses follwing the shooting of Donald Trump's ear on the campaign trail.
It's also much more pleasant. And in the rare cases when things do go wrong your chances of survival are much higher.
On Strava specifically it is hard to differentiate between "gravel bike" and "full suspension mountain bike"
How is China dying??
In the US, most rentals (except for very cheap ones) include a fridge/washer/dryer/dishwasher, but if you're buying the property, typically only the dishwasher is included unless you negotiate with the seller.
The CTO Graveyard: 7 Archetypes That Always Fail [video]
Should it be less than that? More?
recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%.[8] IQ goes from being weakly correlated with genetics for children, to being strongly correlated with genetics for late teens and adults."

Bouchard, Thomas J. (7 August 2013). "The Wilson Effect: The Increase in Heritability of IQ With Age"
Dewalt is prosumer (i.e. on the high end).

The not taking part is likely 10mm chuck, even though the twist drill for hole saw tend to be 8mm. One the pictures has a 10mm plastic chuck.
Lots of hole saw have even 6.3mm (the 1/4) hex drive for impact drivers.

Other than that it's quite baffling the guy had rather poor tools, and likely kept buying low quality tools too. Yet, he was very determined.
Yeah, they absolutely make large hole saws with 1/4" chucks, which is the standard for basically any cordless drill bought in the US.

Sounds like the hardware store guy maybe sold him the wrong thing.
> If US allies are doing a full 180 because a democratic country elected someone a bit different (...)

The Trump administration is threatening countries with annexation and retaliation.

Elections isn't a magic powder that you sprinkle onto anything to make it good. Even Hitler was elected. And so was Trump.

If you elect a fascist dictator who threatens multiple neighbors with annexation and war, specially staunch allies, of course that the whole world automatically grows cold on you. You are a threat and you are threatening everyone.
I find it interesting that these two descriptions of news are treated as equivalent, where I think they're almost opposing:

"raw, unfiltered news"

"real, trustworthy news"

Raw and unfiltered almost cannot be "news" (by my definition of what I go seeking for as "news"). X provides raw, unfiltered information. But real, trustworthy news almost requires filtration in order to be deemed trustworthy.
Steve Bannon: The 21st century's Joseph Goebbels.
Maybe tax returns should be public, maybe they shouldn't, but what does that have to do with what is going on here? This is currently private data being made available to a select few, currently without oversight.
>People always talk about gpus being overpriced.

This is true, but only if you're exclusively considering the lower-end or comparing with consoles (which, let's be honest, most people are). The 3060/4060 are 400USD GPUs that promise the performance of a GTX1080Ti for half the MSRP (inflation-adjusted), but released 5-7 years later.

The problem starts with just how absurdly good the 3080 and 4090 objectively are. Normally, you only get a 30% generational uplift with the newest-gen hardware (and the RTX5090 has indeed regressed to that 30% uplift mean, and that's partially why they had to add the extra memory); but the 3080 is a 100% uplift over the 2080Ti (and 3070) and the 4090 is another 100% uplift on top of the 3080 (and 4070). And you will recall that the 3080 was not twice the price of the 3070, and the 4090 was not twice the (inflation-adjusted) price of the 3080.

Which is precisely the reason nVidia is taking its sweet time coming out with what the gaming market actually wants, which is a 3080 for 400USD.
You can expect such a card to appear in 2029; we already know for certain the 5060Ti 8GB is just a 3070 (for the same non-inflation-adjusted MSRP, by the way), and following that pattern means the 6060 will be a 3070 for 400USD (and the 6060Ti a 3080 for 550), then the 7060 will finally match the 3080 at that price.
Starting with something that you know works can be a time saver, even if it requires a bit of hackery. The alternative is buying new, which for appliances often means buying into some kind of consumer-hostile scheme that the old models weren't subject to.
It's mystifying that any airport with commercial service doesn't have cameras with a full view of every runway recording 100% of the time.

You can't steal a catalytic converter without being on video. We have webcams placed behind eagles' nests in our national parks. Yet somehow we have no recordings of plane crashes at our airports.

Then of course there's the lack of cameras on the planes themselves...
As shared elsewhere in this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXwDrcd1t-E

TL;DW: the ESP’s WiFi driver provides per incoming packet the carrier’s phase and amplitude. All ESPs are calibrated relatively to each other.
Yes, I was surprised that the learning wasn't along the lines of "measure twice, cut once".

But also, he trusted his dependent team / vendor too much (the new home builder) and assumed that part was done correctly when he started. I feel like in the software world, if you're integrating an SDK into a new project for example, you'd look around a bit to confirm you can integrate it like you have in the past on older projects.

There's nothing wrong with poking around the codebase a bit, or doing a proof of concept, to get a better handle on the estimate.
I'm waiting for this as well, though I did try to run several manually now that it's live and the results have been impressive so far.
> It's possible to get to your computer without hacking the "NAT server", but I'm not in a position to do it.

Nope. Even with a misconfigured box that forwards the traffic from WAN to LAN, you need to be in the direct contact with the NAT server (an OpenWRT box). And that's the point, you are _not_, as is pretty much everybody else in the world, outside of people who have keys to my house and my ISP.

In practice, this provides all the practical security you need from a firewall.

> I'm just not in a position to take advantage of that, due to your use of RFC1918 addresses on the LAN side.

Well, duh. That's the whole point of NAT (when used typically). You don't get to access my internal network, you simply can't do that physically.
See this for a simple CA tutorial script including Name Constraints using only OpenSSL:

https://github.com/nh2/internal-contstrained-pki
Marx isn’t being co-opted by Leninism. It builds on Marxism. Have you read The State and Revolution or Imperialism or What is to be Done? Unless you mean dominating the bourgeoisie which is what Marxism is about too.
> And when this all falls apart — and I believe it will — there will be a very public reckoning for the tech industry.

I shocked he really believes it in his closing thought.

Maybe his rant would be bit more digestible if it contained sections with: "here's what I tried and it did not work". But that would make it not a rant but actual research with value.
In what way is it fanciful? There's an extensive network of interstates in the US with nearly zero intersections. If it's viable for I-90 why isn't it viable for the equivalent rail line?
This. Enterprise knows the fully baked cost of adding thousands of technologies. My last gig turned a $5k/year payment into about $100k just to avoid learning about MongoDB and the default Azure firewall. Used the same firewall as on prem, loaded up support contracts, kept team lean. It made sense in that context.
By reading the title, I assumed this article would be about the remaining time indication, which is a lie on some washing machines.
Can you really not imagine any reason why world-class rail between Beijing and Shanghai is more feasible than between Minneapolis and Toronto?
HN has a particular fascination with aviation disasters. No disrespect at all, I've learnt more about aviation here than anywhere else. Before I came here I just assumed the whole thing to be magic.
Karpathy gave his initial impression: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1891720635363254772

The pull quote is: The impression overall I got here is that this is somewhere around (OpenAI) o1-pro capability
They're resigning at the point they would be fired anyway.

It's not entitlement, it's doing the right thing for as long as you can.
Why? They are free standing and just plug into the wall/drain/vent essentially.

If I have a $300 washing machine, or a $3000 washing machine, the potential buyer will offer the same price to me.

I took the $6k fridge out of my home I recently sold and replaced it with the $500 fridge that was in the new house I bought. In my mind I saved $5500 right there.
The Impact of Prolonged Screen Time
That's ridiculous. Washers and dryers are expensive appliances.

Unless this guy is paid more than a half million per year, then the four hours spent on the install here are less than the cost of a new washer and dryer.
I'll save him the trouble of writing it: "I asked ChatGPT 3.5 to write a large, underspecified chunk of code a couple of years ago, and it didn't work the first time, unlike the code that I write. This whole 'AI' business is an elaborate scam."
Why would that be "disrespectful"?
Show HN: ClipWeave – Browser-Based Video and Audio Editing, 100% Offline
Another year passes, another year of AnimalMuppet using "conspiracy theory" as a slur.