skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I think fusion power would be great, but the sales pitch of 'limitless free power' just isn't true. The thought experiment I use is this: Let's imagine coal is magically free in every way. How does my power bill change? The answer is "barely at all" because the cost of utility electric power is mostly in distribution. We pay around 30c/kWh while the wholesale energy price is more like 2c/kWh.

It'll still make a difference in large scale energy intensive stuff, like desalination, aluminium refining, etc. but the average punter is going to save a lot more by installing solar panels.
I'll take "headlines that mean nothing when the world has given up the moral high ground" for $200, Alex
> > How do we fund road repairs and constructions with zero tax?

> https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/this-is-who-will-b...

To anyone who didn't click the link, the answer is "private companies will build roads. And they won't charge tolls! They will pay for the roads by building roads in front of businesses, and then extorting the business for money or else they wall off business access from the road".

I guess if the business doesn't like that they can just build their own road on top of the first one, wall off the sides, and charge the first road owner if they want to have a road near their business.

Whether this scenario is better for literally anybody compared to what currently exists, is an exercise left to the reader.
While I also felt limited in vscode compared to pycharm, it definitely feels more polished. I've had some bugs in pycharm for years with no progress on their issue tracker, and new features feel a bit slopilly implemented.

Also the built-in type checker is just bad
Free tax filing software is "anti-establishment" because it robs huge corporations (who lobby extensively!) of their profits. Ergo, leftist/Marxist/woke/etc.
If it weren't for one guy -- literally one person, one vote -- out of three who were on a submarine, the Cuban Missile Crisis would have escalated to a nuclear strike on the US Navy. Whether we would have followed with nuclear strikes on Russia, who knows. But you trying to pretend that we didn't come incredibly close to disaster is just totally unfounded in history.

Especially when you consider -- we came that close despite incredible international efforts at constraining nuclear escalation. What you are arguing for now is like arguing to go back and stop all of that because it clearly wasn't necessary.
Cloud Tasks is one of the most undervalued tools in the GCP ecosystem, but mostly because PubSub gets all the attention. I've been using it since it was baked in the AppEngine and love it for 1-to-1 queues or delayed job handling.
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The only thing Deepseek open sourced is architecture description and some of training methods. They didn’t open source their data pipelines or super optimized training code.

Their architecture achievement is their own MoE and own attention. Grok was MoE since v1. As for attention we don’t know really what grok use now, but it worth noting DeepSeek attention was already present in previous version of DeepSeek models.

As of reasoning recipe for R1 seems like Grok already either replicated or came up to it by itself, since they have well performing reasoning uptrain too.
> [amazingamazing 31 minutes ago] I mean you could say the same thing about TypeScript - if your entire stack is TypeScript then there's no need for the type validation either.

I think that if you're here trying to make the case that if your whole stack is TS, you don't need to validate your incoming data, then you probably haven't built a system of consequence where the data actually matters and none of this discussion really matters; you have no context. Go ahead and try to `curl` some nonsense data to any of your TS endpoints and see what happens at runtime without validation.
No, for a succesful Mars mission certain scientific progress has to be made. Unlike in economy, in science such things trickle down to us mortals.
From Robert Scoble...

>The end of an AI hardware experiment. Lots of reasons this didn’t do well, from trying to get people to do something they don’t already do (wear a computer on their clothes) to poor execution. The research @IrenaCronin and I do shows glasses are the form factor but they are still years from having decent all color displays. Until then it will be hard to get people to use much other than their phones.
Kafka for small message volumes is one of those distinct resume-padding architectural vibes.
I wrote a blog about some of my experiences at the then-new MIT Media Lab in 1985. Unlike the experience of the author, I was more of a lone late-night hacker (in the old sense of the word).

Thread starts here:

https://kaveh808.medium.com/from-arcmac-to-the-media-lab-229...
Hard to pick between Python and TypeScript - they have different strengths. TypeScript's type system is more useful (you'd hope, given the name!), but Python "just works" more often for simple use-cases IME (though I have well over double the lifetime experience with Python, so that might be a me-factor rather than a language factor).
I have been diagnosed with vestibular migraines. No pain, just dizziness and brain fog and vision issues (feels like my eyes don’t point in the same direction). I also have a doctor that says I have symptoms of mold exposure (lots of correlative testing and also house testing and remediation). I have also been diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy by my neurologist, but my mold doctor says that is consistent with mold exposure. I also have a vestibular degradation, one side of my balance center is damaged. I think all of it is related and linked by inflammation. I do think that mold is part of the story, but definitely not all of it. Anti seizure medication helps a lot. Ubrelvy (a gepants) also helps a lot. Getting the right kind of sleep and exercise and staying hydrated also all help. I am nearly 50 and this a new thing that has happened in the last 2-3 years. Was not fun to go through this on the tail end of running a startup. The brain fog was debilitating. I am now 80% better with meds (and a shit ton of supplements) but still on the journey to figure out how to get back to normal and off all the meds. I do think it is inflammation related but it could be one of a zillion things, or a combination of many.
Can you imagine how many LinkedIn thought leaders are going to be in attendance? Perhaps the greatest gathering of minds since the Manhattan Project.
You should take a closer look at Sealed Sender and the zkgroup stuff.

I've explained in another comment but, it effectively hides who's actually communicating with who.
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Actually, yes.

The big argument for getting non-geek friends and family members to get Signal is "take this app, nothing will change for you, you can still SMS the way you did before, but you will have better privacy". Early versions of Signal could also import SMS, so it really was transparent. Well, mostly, there was still some issues they could have addressed, but didn't.

You can't use that argument anymore, the most likely reaction you will get is "I already have too many apps, I don't want another one, it is too complicated". Or you may install them Signal, and they proceed to send you another SMS, because that's what they always do, and it works, and they still have their SMS app. Or they already have WhatsApp, and so do you, and they are perfectly happy with it.

Really, for me SMS was the little thing Signal had that could help its adoption by the public at large.
Surely you can just ask the ai to make sure the code will terminate before it runs it? /s
They were not Obamas army or his personal servants. Sure some might have been excited to work with President Obama but unlike Trump its not like they were being abused to "go after" perceived political enemies and its not like they would have objected to say Trump telling them to make tech to improve rural access to government resources. They were working to try to improve the government for the good of nation

Unlike with "DODGe"which is an attempt to destroy many governmental institutions either to find places to hire loyalists or to remove opposition to corrupt and criminal actions taken by the executive branch or just because someone on one team once said something positive about gay people.
Silver Lake Nears Deal for Stake in Intel's Altera Unit
https://archive.ph/CnUbF
SQS, Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, QPID, etc… any message broker that provides the competing consumer pattern. though I’ll say having managed many of these message brokers myself, it’s definitely better paying for a managed service. They’re a nightmare when you start running into problems.
Going back to first principles, nominal typing is what I miss most with Go. I get the utility of structs + interfaces + structural typing, but most of the time there is more benefit in declaring that a type nominally implements an interface when that is the intention. Code is far easier to read and understand that way, both for developers and tooling.

I suppose exclusively structural typing would be more acceptable if Go supported _real_ interface composition, like Scala with traits or true delegation via the manifold project[1] for Java. But that's missing as well e.g., does not inherently fix the Self problem, etc.

Considering Go's initial goal, which was IIRC a better systems language, then yeah, sure it's an improved C. But now that Go is routinely compared with Java/Kotlin and friends, I personally don't see it, particularly wrt the type system, to be taken seriously as a Java contender. Shrug.

1. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/blob/master/man...
If any VCs who "invested" some of the $230 million into the dumbest product ever from obvious morons would like to instead invest with me, I'm pretty confident I can do better than a 0.5x return!
Can you please restock the Dr Pepper already?
You don't have to really think about it anywhere.

It's handled by the file lock. You don't need to track anything.

Yes there is a timeout value that will return an error if the database file hasn't unlocked in time. In Python the default timeout is 5 seconds, which is plenty if your queries execute on the order of milliseconds or tens of milliseconds.
Sure, but "best outcome for the lowest cost" isn't a specific point, that describes the entire Pareto front. There's no one optimal money/quality point.
Sorry, I pasted the wrong link for [1], which describes how 18F thought facial recognition was racist, so it simply did not implement it for high-security accounts despite being required by spec, and falsely assured agencies that it was in compliance anyway. It is here:

https://www.gsaig.gov/content/gsa-misled-customers-logingovs...

The executive summary says: "Our evaluation found GSA misled their customer agencies when GSA failed to communicate Login.gov’s known noncompliance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-63-3, Digital Identity Guidelines. Notwithstanding GSA officials’ assertions that Login.gov met SP 800-63-3 Identity Assurance Level 2 (IAL2) requirements, Login.gov has never included a physical or biometric comparison for its customer agencies. Further, GSA continued to mislead customer agencies even after GSA suspended efforts to meet SP 800-63-3. GSA knowingly billed IAL2 customer agencies over $10 million for services, including alleged IAL2 services that did not meet IAL2 standards. Furthermore, GSA used misleading language to secure additional funds for Login.gov."
How would one go about acquiring the skills for this job? I have experience in other languages and stacks but never worked much with C beyond educational level.

I am plenty interested in learning more, so I'm wondering if anybody has any recommendations beyond diving into wine/proton and looking for low-hanging fruit.
> Watch sensations come and go while refraining from moving your attention in reaction to what you're watching.

This sounds like standard "mindfulness" meditation, to me.
Regulation is what apologists will cite but only the three large IOU (Investor Owned Utilities) have such ridiculous electricity rates.

Part of the Bay Area is served by Silicon Valley Power which is half or less of PG&E's rates. Other parts of CA (like the eastern edge) are served by private electric companies but they too don't have such high rates.

San Francisco owns Hetch Hetchy and the hydro generation plant more than covers all of SF's power usage. But for historical and regulatory capture reasons SF is not allowed to supply its own electricity despite owning both a large generator and a retail electric provider (CleanPowerSF). It is all forced to go through the "free market" and thus pay markups. If it were a municipal electric district prices would be among the cheapest in the nation. SF tried to get the bankruptcy court to let it bid on PG&E's assets in SF but got rejected out of hand.

The Investor Owned Utilities in California have unique regulatory capture, corruption (both direct and via their unions), and are just grossly inefficient.

Thankfully my solar and battery system makes me almost independent from PG&E - including 100% of our driving via an EV. We make our own fuel at home and it is a feeling of freedom you can't match with a gas vehicle.
Thanks for that clarification! I was wondering what skies had to do with skiing.
I can attest to the benefits of n-back. I've been doing it for a couple of years now, five days a week for 20-25 minutes. I've noticed a tangible positive difference in both my verbal fluency and my processing speed on days where I engage this protocol.

I've benefited so much from this protocol that I created a mini app just for myself (https://mind-workout.pages.dev/)* as I was unable to find a suitable app for mac. [On windows there 's Brain Workshop (https://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/)

*This is a variation of the n-back task called triple n-back, which is much harder than dual n-back.
GameStop CEO decries 'wokeness and DEI'
The total electricity grid requirements are also growing - it’s at 30TWh annually and before the AI explosion was ~2-3% (let’s conservatively estimate 2030 as 40TWh). Let’s say 20% of that is satisfied direct from renewables without storage leaving 32TWh.

Aggressive predictions have us generating ~6-10TWh of batteries by 2030 meaning we’re going to still need about another 3-6 years to actually satisfy demand (ignoring complexity of hooking up the batteries). On top of that, the batteries require rare earth metals that companies are gearing up to satisfy by strip mining the ocean floor for those polymetallic nodules, operations which have a very real risk of completely destroying deep ocean life. It seems to me like it’s slow and ecologically potentially more destructive than even global warming. Is it really wise to be betting on batteries at this scale vs tried and true nuclear fission which doesn’t carry any of these risks?
> By that token, we might label all Israeli "citizens" as combatants due to their mandatory conscription law.

While in the military, sure. But once you're out, you're a civilian.

> Of course, that's a facetious argument that sane people don't make.

Yet you just tried.

> But here we are, trying to use that logic to demonize people who resist colonial genocide.

If you studied history, you would realize Jews were there first. They are the ones who have the right to decolonize, yet they allow 2 million Arabs to live in Israel.

Remind me, how many Jews live in Gaza?
But Signal offers optional features so that it does not know the former; nor the latter (usernames, etc.) Re: former - as discussed there's sealed sender (iirc been quite some time since they released it), but also depending on how you mean it - situation may be less scary for you even if not using sealed sender.

> so they've basically got everbody's real names.

Based on the above as well as on the fact that having phone number does not by itself == real name PII / identity - claiming "so they've basically got everbody's real names" is not just overly dramatic but also patently false and disingenuous. :( I'm sure you did not mean to dissuade people, but c'mon. Generalising in such a way and then adding hyperbole does not help, imho.
> torch

Ah found the issue.
5. Working big pieces of steel and making large process plants is not cheap or easy.
Often they didn't.
Humane raised $230 million, sold at $116 million.
OK, none of those would be reasons for shutting down the work they're doing.

But yeah, it sounds like they were concerned with racism, inclusion, and all that "bad woke stuff" that we shouldn't be worried about when _designing technology for all citizens_. So long as it works for white males, we're good!

Also all those were during Trump's first term by the way, with the exception of the last one (and facial recognition has been shown to be biased so they have a point there).
I'm sorry but that's just false.

> Pretending that Europe wasn't in a perpetual blood bath since the end of the Pax Romana until 1815 shows a gross ignorance of basic facts.

This shows that your understanding of history is rooted in pop-culture, not reality.

What "revolutions" were there in France between the ascension of Hugh Capet and the European Wars of Religion? Through that whole period the Capetian Dynasty stayed in power. Or in Scandinavia -- from Christianization on the three kingdoms were shockingly stable. Even in the Holy Roman Empire -- none of the petty revolts, rebellions, or succession disputes came close to the magnitude of carnage wrought by the 30 Year's War. This we know both from demographic studies and the reports of contemporaries.
I'm not really sure what your point is. you can add validation in node.js, just like you can with .net.

also, with curl you'd use isomorphic type safety, or just know what you're expecting and hard code the types per inputs, trivial with typescript.

anyway, I'm done here since this conversation is going in circles.
Is it likely to be of any interest to people who were there at the time?
It's suuuper easy to setup pihole on it. Takes literally 1 curl request and then like 3 minutes.
Famious last words. There are database as a queue antipattern warnings about this.
I'm curious to see his mise tasks. He lists a few of them near the end but I'm not sure what his LLM CLI is. Is that an actual tool or is he using it as a placeholder for "insert your LLM CLI tool here"?
This is definitely a custom/knock-off deck. Not only are the stripes not stripey, the capsules are now ovals and the diamonds are now rectangles.
this is a basic requirement for the next phase, when."LLM"'s will be tasked with paying for there keep, and so basic sales tequniques will be deployed, or to put it bluntly , its always better to kiss them before you try and fuck them
The kafka protocol is a distributed write ahead log. If you want a job queue you need to build something on top of that, it’s a pretty low level primative.
In such scenarios, there's no need for round tripping because the state are different. But in every SPA that should be an MPA, it's always state duplication.
From what I can recall, he does encourage people not to stop exercising when they experience psychosomatic pain. The idea is that stopping exercise because of pain gives it validity.

But I would add that one should be careful when exercising and stop as soon as the pain is more than a nuisance. I have pain in my ankle and after trying to sprint through the pain I couldn't walk for a couple weeks. Then when I started going on really easy runs and slowly ramping up the time/pace, it finally started to improve.
That's the salary but a mayor can hire so many people, like his entire family. So many small cities(and not so small) have entire families that don't do anything other than being relatives to the mayor.
Anyone who buys Intel would probably be making the same mistake Boeing did with McDonnell Douglas.
Node also introduced a stable extension API that people could build native code against relatively early in its history compared to Python. That and the general velocity of the V8 interpreter and its complex API kept developers from reaching in like they did with Python, or leaving tons of libraries in the ecosystem that are too critical to drop.
Yes! At least some migraines are caused by whatever second-order effect there is from hormonal changes.
How is it the quiet part? They're practically shouting it.
Can’t you just use uBlock for this?
Yeah, I also used Docker (actually, Podman) as an alternative Python package manager and it worked well enough. Most of all, it felt somewhat cleaner and more reproducible than using plain virtualenv.

Of course, I migrated from it after I learned uv.
`uv` isn't great for that, I've been specifying and rebuilding my environments for each "project".

My one off notebook I'm going to set up to be similar to the scripts, will require some mods.

It does take up a lot more space, it is quite a bit faster.

However, you could use the workspace concept for this I believe, and have the dependencies for all the projects described in one root folder and then all sub-folders will use the environment.

But I mean, our use case is very different than yours, its not necessary to use uv.
I'm not sure how that could be. Even if it's your first ever request to the host, the latency is a one time thing and then it's cached. Even an extra 100ms for DNS latency is going to be unnoticeable compared to an empty browser cache and having to download a bunch of images
I think you mean running out of acronyms.

What is CS?

1. Computer Science

2. Customer Service

3. Clinical Services

4. Czech

5. Citrate synthase

6. Extension for C# files
Mark Zuckerberg famously had a term for people like you who trusted him.
To each their own. I'm not going to claim to be an expert, but as somebody who's been coding since the 80s it was a breath of fresh air to see Go do what I wanted languages to do all long instead of ramming exceptions down my throat. I have problems with Go (examples: slice behavior and nil type interfaces) but error handling is not one of them.
First time I've heard of KIP-932 and it looks very good. The two biggest issues IMO are finding a good Kafka client in the language you need (even for ruby this is a challenge) and easy at-least-once workers.

You can over partition and make at-least-once workers happen (if you have a good Kafka client), or you use an http gateway and give up safe at-least-once. Hopefully this will make it easier to build an at-least-once style gateway that's easier to work with across a variety of languages. I know many have tried in the past but not dropping messages is hard to do right.
As a data engineer, who is regularly fighting

- "these two databases have different SQL dialects"

- "did we miss a few rows due to poor transaction-isolation when trying to query recently changed rows on the upstream database"

- "is there some checksum of a region of cells that accepts any arrangement of rows and columns that doesn't require me to think about ordering?"

- "is there a subtle data format conversion problem silently mangling my data?"

...I've toying with trying to find a way to serialize everything consistently into something that can be XOR'd, then compare the output of XOR for two tables in two different databases that should be identical, without having to do some giant order-by comparison. Ideally, if necessary, this could be done by eye with two query windows pointing at two different databases...

Basically, Datafold's datadiff, but in a way that could plausibly be home-rolled for on-premise applications (especially quick spot-checks), and not be a total maintenance nightmare...

https://github.com/datafold/data-diff

Don't have anything working yet, but it just seems like one could at least xor a bunch of integers and get something useful... Somehow.
Why is that an anti-pattern? Databases have added `SKIP LOCKED` and `SELECT FOR UPDATE` to handle these use cases. What are the downsides?
But you don’t have to run pi-hole on a pi. I run it in an Ubuntu Linux container on my Proxmox server.