skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to be clear: I'm not accusing Helion of being dishonest or even fraudulent.

It's just that from everything I know about the project, they still have a long way to go, and there are a lot of milestones to hit that are just pipe dreams for now (actually fusing He3, breeding it, net-gain energy extraction, ...).

I would expect progress to slow down significantly as the scale of prototypes and their complexity increases (like what happens for basically every engineering project ever)-- but progress is already slow/behind schedule to begin with...
The JVM starts in milliseconds

Probably you're loading many thousands of classes...
> for a SCADA system

for Ignition?
Better yet, has someone figured out a way to use AI to punch people in the gut? That kind of optimization would be really great for velocity.
This sounds awesome, I am going to try it out… It seems like it has features like other similar well known tools (e.g. Splunk, DataDog, etc.) Is that what you are going for?
Since then the avg ad price, they have reported has risen for 12 quarters in a row, past 6 quarters its jumped 15-30%. The MO is to prey on small businesses and people who want attention, world wide, who don't know anything about advertising/marketing. Everything they know comes from what Google and Meta tell them.
So why does it keep getting flagged?
The OP’s claim is that:

> Maybe we should build more railways. The ground is more stable than the air.

As if this accident could have been avoided if there were trains between Minneapolis and Toronto. I am saying that is wrong, because the passengers on this route wouldn’t take train. High speed trains would help if there is enough demand. There is not. Your examples are for a different market that don’t apply. You didn’t prove otherwise.

Trains are good. I love trains.

> It could be competitive, it could be an option for people who want it

Not for this route.
The article is clear that this was a reversal, or are you questioning the integrity of Ars for the original scoop?
> computer security is mostly an alien concept to Chinese.

that's the main reason

i don't know how the situation is elsewhere, but in China, 2/3 of startups expose their databases on public network with a password 'abc123'
went to springone conference in vegas in 2016. eight years later, there are still no good alternatives :)
Spending days to accomplish the most trivial of tasks happens in both remote and in-office settings.
I’m glad you’ve gotten relief, and really sorry you tried all those other things first. Did you happen to try a latex mattress? They seem “foamy” but they are much more like spring mattresses than they are like memory foam. Basically the more compression it is under, the more resistance there is, exponentially, whereas memory foam compresses linearly. My wife and I switched to Latex and it made a massive difference in our sleep quality and how we feel afterward. The memory foam mattress made us hot and made my back hurt really bad. Now I wake up and I feel refreshed, and I sleep an hour less but get the same quality of deep sleep as before. You may not want to tamper with anything since you’ve found a solution, but I wanted to mention it because it does give more pressure relief than an inner spring but with more support than memory foam. They’re expensive and heavy though.
I think this upcoming feature will let you have both AOT + JIT without needing GraalVM: https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/crac
I get that folks are going to make suboptimal choices in the heat of the moment, and I could see myself similarly making a dumb choice in the rush of an airplane evacuation. I don't think we should judge anyone's character too harshly, but that doesn't keep us from discussing what the actual optimal choices are.

>The plane isn't even full of smoke yet

The plane previously had some pretty impressive flames in the process of landing, and depending one what sort of fire gets going there might not be time for everyone to get out. That being said, insulin isn't actually a valid excuse nor are very important legal documents. Every second counts, and could be the difference between life and death for passengers and crew not yet evacuated. There's a reason that air traffic controllers ask pilots in emergencies for the number of "souls on board" referring to living humans and not important legal documents or medicine.
This. If you have really small volume like this article describes, just use Redis.
The question is do they need all those tools and third-party addons to meaningfully compete with Unreal? Or is it enough to not have to pay the Unreal license fee? I don't know. Many (most?) AAA studios have their own game engine and they are not bothered by not having access to third party tools and addons. There are large AA studios that are still using CryEngine for new games, and I doubt there is a large ecosystem for that (although I don't actually know). At the same time, those studios have more money and employees to build those tools on their own. I imagine Valve also has a lot of internal tools that they could potentially release as well. Perhaps it's my own desire to see the industry converge on a high quality open source engine (which they can then heavily modify to their needs) that is blind-slighting me here.
This is called the “reader exception” and has been available for a few years. It’s not something they did just for Google.
I wonder how that works. How would a LED know if it's covered by tape?
Spring Released an MCP Jave SDK
Nvidia's 50-series cards drop support for PhysX, impacting older games
As someone that likes working in person it should be down to the team. Either in person or fully remote.
Augment.vim: AI Chat and completion in Vim and Neovim
There's some revisionism here: having the internet in your pocket anywhere you went was a clear upgrade. Projecting a screen on your palm with low resolution was a clear downgrade.

Disruption is incredibly difficult but this product was giving off Juicero vibes from the start.
That's interesting. If you think it could be a nervous system issue, have you tried herbs that calm the nervous system or looked into ayurveda or relaxation techniques? Sorry for the random unsolicited advice.
Restate: A distributed durable execution engine, built from first principles
That's a fascinating concept, automatic updates for customer-facing documents.

* This could revolutionize how we manage information.

* Think of the time saved, no more manual updates.

* Customer satisfaction would likely increase.

* Accuracy in documentation becomes a focus.

Could this be the end of outdated manuals?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hit_piece

"A published article or post aiming to sway public opinion, especially by presenting false or biased information in a way that appears objective and truthful."

"false OR biased". So, a biased partisan article attempting to sway public opinion about someone is by definition a hit piece. Even without explicit lies.
What would HP bring to this hypothetical merger?
Having never actually used this platform before, does anybody know why they named it Kafka, with all the horrible meanings?

Per Wiktionary, Kafkaesque: [1]

1. "Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity."

2. "Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of looming danger."

3. "In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka." (like the software language was written by Franz Kafka)

Example: Metamorphosis Intro: "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked." [2]

[1] Wiktionary, Kafkaesque: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kafkaesque

[2] Gutenberg, Metamorphosis: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5200/pg5200.txt
Somebody should publish a book of Linus's greatest meltdowns.
The parent is right, investors would almost certainly have 1x preference, which means they get back the first $230M in an acquisition. The valuation doesn't matter if you exit for less than money in.

Founders and employees would get nothing out of this (aside from whatever HP is giving them directly as incentive to stick around).
Government (local, federal, state) spending as a percentage of GDP is 34% and as a total amount is 6.75 trillion. According to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_the_num... there are ~756 billionaires in the US (interestingly the state-like region with the highest amount of billionaires per capita is Washington DC). The total wealth of these billionaires is ~6.72 trillion. I don't think there is a reliable estimate of billionaire spending so I will use 5% of assets for what I consider a high estimate which yields 336 billion. In reality I would guess that these people are far too greedy to spend enough money that they risk depleting their assets over time.

So to be clear, you think that control over ~336 billion (or feel free to provide a better estimate?) in spending is the "the lion share of the economy" and that we should not take a hard look at the 6.75 trillion in spending by an organization that includes the pentagon and is famous for funding forever wars in the middle east?

Those of us siding with the billionaires here (really just two that you have identified, not all of them - others such as Gates are clearly on the other side of this issue) recognize that there are people earning a living wage from the current status quo but we believe that the country would better be served by having these individuals earn a living wage in a more productive endeavor than what we see as staffing an unproductive and oversized bureaucracy.
my wife would get a migraine every single day around 1pm. she scheduled her college around them. she did a bunch of genetic tests, and (this is not science to me, i dont know the process at all) she ended up trying a methylated vitamin b complex, 8333% usda dose, and they dried right up forever. i feel for anyone dealing with them. i got my first one 7 years ago and learned i am sensitive to soybeans. i can pop some raw soybeans into my mouth and have a visual aura and migraine within 30 minutes, it's fascinating.
one of my soldering irons regularly glows cherry red hot when under usage. So far past 400 C. I don't use that every time I solder, but sometimes I do

That being said, I think the impact of the lead may be tiny compared to the rosin fumes. The real issue is someone in a factory who may handle leaded solder ever single day. The accumulated exposure over a lifetime is a big deal
Claude is exceptionally good at taking "here is two paragraphs of me rambling off about a feature I want in broken voice to text" and actually understanding what you want. It has really good prompt adherence but at the same time knows when to read between the lines.
If you were to look it up, you'd find the European Patent Office (EPO) runs its own courts; boards of appeal, like the USPTO PTAB/BPAI. It set precedents on itself with appeal decisions and opinions. However, it is the member states (party to the European Patent Convention (EPC)) that enforce the patents they allow the EPO to issue in their name, and they all have their own laws and courts. There has been a recent development where some of the member states entered into a unitary patent court agreement.

The EPO has widened and narrowed the scope of what it considers patentable, and that gives people trying to purposefully get a patent on something that is clearly software either more or less leeway. Obviously I'd like the EPO to be even less forgiving.

But I don't think we're going to get anywhere. The EPO neither has perfect enforcement of its no-software-patents rule, nor is it easily hoodwinked with This One Simple Trick of saying it's a hardware device. The reality is in the middle, and neither of us has a good set of comparative statistics or case studies to contrast the differing EPO and USPTO approaches, so we should probably stop.

But I stick by my original claim: I believe the reason ffmpeg and VLC have not been sued to oblivion is because they're legally based in France, where the MPEG-LA's practises aren't tolerated. The support of a "no software patents" country/government/society encouraged them to develop ffmpeg without fear; the fear we see on display here today in the USA.
I don't know, I think that would still require people to change their assumptions about glasses. Currently, I don't assume someone is talking to their sunnies.
No. It just does not make sense from physical rules. Fusion only happens in a very high vacuum, at ridiculous temperatures, with very specific fuel, in the confined space. Just the cooling effect of having oxygen atoms there(in the plasma) stops the reaction, let alone touching anything so cold(millions of times colder and denser) as the walls or the outside gas.

Also stops immediately if no fuel is given.
Hulu stopped working properly on my Shield after using Pi-Hole, so I guess it was working?
conda user for 10 years and uv skeptic for 18 months.

I get it! I loved my long-lived curated conda envs.

I finally tried uv to manage an environment and it’s got me hooked. That a projects dependencies can be so declarative and separated from the venv really sings for me! No more meticulous tracking of a env.yml or requirements.txt just ‘uv add` and `uv sync` and that’s it! I just don’t think about it anymore
It makes them effectively have similar societal power as the middle class. They don’t have anywhere near enough money to wield institutional power and at most exert control on the lives of a handful of employees or tenants or whoever. They can’t get their names on institutional buildings.

They could retire immediately and live on that net worth but their standard of living would be greatly impacted by doing so rather than continuing their income-generating activities.

They could face major financial consequences by spending their money frivolously or losing it in a lawsuit. They have a low enough amount of money that they could gamble it away or lose it all in a bad business investment.

I think that makes them much closer to the middle class than the truly wealthy who cannot lose their fortune even if they tried their hardest and have essentially no feasible way to have their standard of living lowered. For example, if Twitter shut down after Elon bought it, there would be no detectable difference to his lifestyle or buying power. There is no amount he could gamble at a casino where he would lose his fortune.
Happy birthday!

This is one of my favorite communities.
> Software engineers would rather quit than return to the office
Either the level of entitlement is shocking or the article title is delusional. There are thousands of ppl in the market looking for a job and would happily take one to feed their family. It's high time techies get a grip of real life than live in their echo chamber.
So did the previous generation models test higher when released, and now don't test as high? I may have misread the article but it seemed like the older models had a worse score all along, which can't really be called 'decline'?
I don’t resonate with the “my job is bullshit” parts of the story, but I feel like the story does an excellent job of describing how burnout feels. Each day is physically painful and it starts taking an increasing toll both physically and mentally to show up to work.
It seems like that and the 300ish patents. The patents themselves could be worth quite a bit.

It's possible they think the OS and the team that built it could have value if put to better uses than building an AI pin.
the first time i had this, everyone's nose was missing. for ten seconds it was funny and then i hid in a bathroom stall at work, and texted my wife goodbye. i was positive i was about to die. its really stressful to have bodies.
Solder is absolutely a problem. The life cycle of your part doesn't just include when you solder it. It includes anyone who has to handle it in the future, and it includes the E-Waste dump in an impoverished country that it inevitably ends up in.
...by which they mean "earlier-generation models have lower scores in a test measuring cognitive function than newer models".

The entire study was an exercise in academic clickbait, something that even other scientists complained about:

> Other scientists have been left unconvinced about the study and its findings, going so far as to critisize the methods and the framing — in which the study's authors are accused of anthropomorphizing AI by projecting human conditions onto it. There is also criticism of the use of MoCA. This was a test examined purely for use in humans, it is suggested, and would not render meaningful results if applied to other forms of intelligence.

The study authors defend with the classic "It's just a joke, bro" card:

> Responding to the discussion, lead author of the study Roy Dayan, a doctor of medicine at the Hadassah Medica Center in Jerusalem, commented that many of the responses to the study have taken the framing too literally. Because the study was published in the Christmas edition of the BMJ, they used humor to present the findings of the study — including the pun "Age Against the Machine" — but intended the study to be considered seriously.
Written by someone who stands to gain, but the argument is still good
The issue is that this distorts the perception of what a good researcher does. If the goal is simply to stamp your name on as many papers as possible, and have other papers (perhaps your own) cite those papers…. Then we’re pretty far from incentivizing researchers to do something novel.
> I find nothing innovative or pleasing in its design, nor do I feel that it is particularly intuitive or usable.

TFA offers a myriad innovative and pleasing examples. It would have been nice if you actually commented on any of those, or otherwise explained why you think otherwise.
This is an incredibly misinformed and outdated opinion. Tesla produces 40 gigawatts of storage capacity only because demand for storage capacity is currently quite low, and because China is more cost effectively producing storage. As demand increases, production will increase to match demand.

Most states currently only care about installing solar and wind -- not storage -- because they are still majority fossil fuels, and at the current moment it makes no sense to install storage if you still have fossil fuel to dislodge. The only exception is really California, who are installing storage, but their bottleneck is not the market's ability to deliver enough supply.

There are also many storage options beyond lithium ion if you only spent a moment to look.
The best thing about Go is no Spring framework. I like Java but finding Java projects without Spring is difficult.
Not in Norway.

Often it's the other way around, the ice is and can be used to cool other cargo. Ship fruit or fish with it.

This is how the meatpacking plants in Chicago used to work, entire train loads of ice was shipped down, then we add beef in Chicago, then you ship refrigerated beef and ice together to the rest of the country.
I used to get frequent migraine attacks - there were times when I would be down 3 days in a week, just unable to be productive. A lot of it was induced by stress.

I then tried something novel - I took some LSD. I had an intense psychedelic trip, dug deep into my psyche, realized I was a giant ball of anxiety. The anxiety's root cause was ultimately a fear of mortality (around the same time, my dad was going through a terminal illness, we spent many years in and out of ICUs, so a lot of that had soaked into me). I had to come to terms with my own mortality, which happened when I just "melted" away and lost sense of self momentarily, and once I did, I felt so much lighter as I came out of the trip.

My migraines stopped right then and there; I kid you not. I didn't get a single headache for the next 4-5 years, and in general, I was also a lot more balanced and at peace, even though I went through some highly stressful times. It was miraculous.

Of course, life has a way of creeping up on me, and I do get migraines occasionally, but when I do, I know how to stop them - I just need to slow down, meditate (not feel-good meditations all these meditation apps promote, but actually meditate and feel your muscles relaxing). That single LSD trip taught me how to relax myself physiologically.

Not saying this is going to work for everyone, just sharing my personal experience. Please keep in mind that playing with psychedelics is like playing with fire. Exercise caution.
I actually much prefer go ‘s runtime tooling. Pprof has everything I need built in; heap, cpu, blocking, mutex contention. And don’t need additional tools to visualize the collected data. https://pkg.go.dev/net/http/pprof@go1.24.0
Same story with people at USDA working on the H5N1 response

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/usda-works-rehire-bird-flu-...
Most "microservice" backend type stuff is I/O bound, not CPU bound. You're likely not going to win much.

Maybe get away with lower memory instances though.
This is a rare example where I actually think Meta should be providing the evidence, and not the other way around.

When you have a history of doing greasy shit, you don't get the benefit of the doubt.
This whole thing seems like such a farce... The conservative side of politics in Australia likes to do a much smaller version of this to "save money" whenever they've been in opposition and then get back in to Government - and all it leads to every time is paying far more to have the same work done by the big consulting companies.

You hear stories like people being fired from their public service jobs, then being hired by the consulting firm and being back the next week, now with the consulting firm charging more than double what they were paid before for their time - and they're doing the exact same job they were doing...
I spent most of my life thinking "migraine" was just a really bad headache. Until I started getting migraines. The best way to describe it is a band of white hot pain, almost a stabbing sensation. It started behind the eyes and would spread everywhere. Not confined to my head, a full-on nervous system meltdown: extreme light sensitivity, blurred vision, trouble with balance and coordination, nausea, numbness, and residual effects that lasted over a day. With a migraine, there is no "take an advil and power through" - you sit in a dark room and pray.
as with everything, it depends on how you're processing the queue.

eg we built a system at my last company to process 150 million objects / hour, and we modeled this using a postgres-backed queue with multiple processes pulling from the queue.

we observed that, whenever there were a lot of locked rows (ie lots of work being done), Postgres would correctly SKIP these rows, but having to iterate over and skip that many locked rows did have a noticeable impact on CPU utilization.

we worked around this by partitioning the queue, indexing on partition, and assigning each worker process a partition to pull from upon startup. this reduced the # of locked rows that postgres would have to skip over because our queries would contain a `WHERE partition=X` clause.

i had some great graphs on how long `SELECT FOR UPDATE ... SKIP LOCKED` takes as the number of locked rows in the queue increases, and how this partiton work around reduced the time to execute the SKIP LOCKED query, but unfortunately they are in the hands of my previous employer :(