skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got the sense the design was intended for smaller on-demand needs versus strategically building out massive datacenters

This is absolutely the case. This was not intended to replace small, permanent DCs, much less massive ones. Think "I need compute on space limited offshore oil rig" or "I need some compute here for 6 months".

you'd upsize each unit to cut down on the actual number of units

I've been out of involvement in building out DCs for a long time, so my info is dated, but...

As I said, there are now other companies doing variations on this. The Delta unit I mentioned upthread is built into a (standard?) 18-wheel tractor trailer (significantly larger than a shipping container). But much bigger than that you start getting into "how do I move it to the site" issues, which means costs due to transport are going to go up fast, and you're back to "does it just make sense to build a fixed DC", perhaps with a careful eye towards "I'll want to easily tack on more capacity later". Even if you figure out a way to do off-site pre-fab economically, I don't see how it would make sense to do "DC built out of X many identical prefab units" but instead you'd want to do "X many rack units, and Y many network units, and Z many air handling units, and W power distribution units, and V many CnC units, and...". I know there's a lot of talk about how building houses out of prefab components is going to change the world (one day), but unless you are building a lot of data centers, I don't know how you build out the infrastructure to deliver on that that's going to be cheaper than "haul materials to the site and build it there like we've done forever". My completely unsubstantiated view is the volume isn't there.
In this release, AMD has aligned with nVidia naming. It feels like an acknowledgement they've screwed this up and are giving up. So it feels like a genuine improvement. Hopefully they maintain this alignment, but I'm sure they won't.
There's also using in typescript (maybe soon in javascript).

https://www.totaltypescript.com/typescript-5-2-new-keyword-u...

Not sure I'm a fan of it tbh
> I just found that logmein actually offer a personal product again, named GoToMyPC

I 'member this being advertized on TechTV back in The Day. It's interesting to see the focus on PDAs now that the product category is entirely dead: https://web.archive.org/web/20031209031959/http://www.techtv...

…but didn't realize it's quite as old as it is (1998) and had never heard of “ExpertCity”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoToMyPC
Long after it already is. The ISS is aging, and there was every intention of retiring it even before its principal sponsors started a proxy war.

There's certainly zero chance that it could be on the moon. It wasn't designed to survive on a surface. It would not be able to support itself.

If we want something in orbit around the moon, it will still be far cheaper to build a new thing designed for that purpose.
We need P2P social media where bigoted, power hungry mods can't enforce their unilateral views on everyone else.
Wait time and maybe clusters?
The consumer facing applications have been so embarrassing and underwhelming too.. It's really shocking. Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, whatever they call the annoying thing in Atlassian's products.. They're all completely crap. It's a real "emperor has no clothes" situation, and the market is reacting. I really wish the tech industry would lose the performative "innovation" impulse and focus on delivering high quality useful tools. It's demoralizing how bad this is getting.
When my then-girlfriend went off to study in a different country about 10 years ago, Skype was the only video call solution I was able to get working between our OS X and Linux laptops. Generally worked fairly well, too.

Since then, I had forgotten it even existed: "Microsoft is killing Skype? Wasn't it dead yet?"
We love dogs. Don’t you?
I wouldn't say there's only one, but there are two main clusters for anyone not on a mac, and a handful of teams large enough to do a solid job of running their own variant. There's precious little iteration to do.
MV3 is non-negotiable. The second its dropped in Arc I am jumping ship... somewhere. Firefox isn't appealing, Zen isn't fleshed out, Orion is coming along nicely but isn't done yet. But above all else I need MV3. Very sad Vivaldi won't be supporting it, before I was an Arc user I used Vivaldi and I quite liked it
What would it mean to do this in real life? :D

I regularly make knee-jerk comments on HN that I delete a minute later. Something therapeutic about it.

My comment isn't one I wanted on my "record". You responded to it and I saw your response before deleting my comment. What's the harm? It's obvious I removed my comment.
What about spotting a cycle by using an incrementing counter and then throwing an exception if it goes above the tree depth or collection size (presuming one of these is tracked)?

Unlike the author’s hash set proposal it would require almost no memory or CPU overhead and may be more likely to be accepted.

That being said, in the decade plus I’ve used C# I’ve never found that I failed to consider concurrent access on data structures in concurrent situations.
There's exactly one scenario that results in the actual technological collapse of our species, which is all out nuclear war between the US and Russia. Which with the current presidential administration, is possibly less likely than it's ever been; why would Russia nuke its newest ally?

The chances of a nuclear weapon being used somewhere right now tactically I think are quite high. Russia in Ukraine, or Israel in Iran (or someday soon Iran in Israel), or between India and Pakistan. But none of those are sufficient to bring us to a point where home manufacturing of solar panels becomes remotely worthwhile.
Even with an RFP it can be corruption. The RFP can be written so that only a single specific vendor can deliver cost effectively.
I didn't trust Pirate Bay for mp3s or albums because of the rumors of people getting csam, and even if I trusted it, I was downloading at school so I couldn't get away with installing a torrent software (although it was 2010-2011, and I was using opera 11 with built in torrenting software ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). The school would let us install other browsers and music players since they used an app blacklist not a whitelist. My friends and di would also use the PortableApps toolset to install unapproved apps like Quake 3 and networked chat software to our flashdrives and run them from there.

I used a Zune and synced all my music at school as a guest device, and there was no way for me to rip dicsographies to flac and had no hardware to play them.

The main way I got all my files back then, that you haven't listed here, was by googling the name of the album or song I wanted followed by either .zip or .mp3 and then the words mediafire, megaupload, or beemp3. "[album name].zip mediafire" this was when googles search bar features still worked and exposed most of the raw index (100s of result pages. Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle)

Only if I couldn't find it that way would I then resort to using "N°1 Free online Video Converter" onlinevideoconverter.com to rip a song from YouTube. That was usually reserved for meme songs like covers, the Ultimate showdown, Epic Rap Battles, and stuff like the Bedroom Intruder autotune and other Gregory Brothers viral hits.

My golden child older brother who was a way bigger intellectual (not technological) nerd than me was the one who begged for the credit card to buy songs once napster shut down. He wouldn't always buy from iTunes, sometimes he would "save money" by buying them for pennies on the dollar (like 20 rubles) from a Russian piracy site that purported to pay the artists, as though that gave him the moral high ground over my piracy, when it was obvious there was no way that was happening.
It’s never a problem for a bank, because they’re depend on late fees to hit their profit projections.
Each time something from Josh gets posted here, I find my self realizing how little I know about CSS yet feel like I have a much firmer grasp than most. This individual's dedication to continue pushing things within CSS is something that I am in awe of and much appreciation. I just wish I had such a site where some of his more interesting ideas would be a fit.

He strikes me as someone with a creative tech nerd version of "hold my beer" mentality with much less dire consequences
Thanks for the info, much appreciated!
> When you're the CEO you can just generate titles anyways so he could be called the The Excellent Supreme Leader Always (TESLA) and it'd be allowed.

https://ir.tesla.com/corporate/elon-musk

> Elon is Technoking of Tesla
That is quite the jump
There was also the walrus operator
Stanford, Don't Memory Hole Covid
I'm not familiar with Readwise but it appears they only store highlights? Publishers probably don't like that but don't care enough to do anything about it, whereas "uploading copies of books to the services to do AI stuff with them" is the subject of many ongoing lawsuits right now, so they'll be very interested if this takes off.
ha, well, nothing to hide to that extent.

I don't know about Keep, but it's another app, which is kind of my point - I already use Gmail.
At this point I’m worried that because elixir is over 10 years old that it’ll never arrive. But then Python is older than Java and here we are.
Unbranded forks of Firefox are not covered by that terms of service document.
can't get from LLMs for 6 months until the next training run?
Not genome. Epigenome.
I’m hoping the JIT will finally start to change that.
New messengers are worse than old ones. You could sign up for Skype using just login and password and for modern messengers you need to provide at least a phone number, and if the trend continues tomorrow they will start requiring biometric data I assume.
That's much better. Constant memory. The number of nodes is guaranteed to be less than or equal to the height of the tree.
Ah, thanks for context.
Makes me wonder where is the best place to learn how to put together and operate something like this then? Certainly there should be resources out there somewhere to teach yourself?
I remember a project to get us down from like 1500 build warnings to sub 100. It took a long time, generated plenty of bikeshedding, and was impossible to demonstrate value.

I, personally, was mostly just pissed we didn't get it to zero. Unsurprisingly the number has climbed back up since
With Brave you can enable manifest v2 ublock origin if you prefer anyway.
AI is killing my website but in a different way than what's discussed in the article: Content scrapers are completely out of control, spiking my serving costs and degrading performance for human users. There seem to be hundreds of them and they've gotten very good at looking like human users so they're hard to block or throttle. I can't prove they're all AI-related scrapers, but I've been running the site for 25 years and this issue only became problematic starting in, oh, late 2022 or so.
And from a security perspective, the "might cause a problem 0.000001% of the time" flaws can often be manipulated into becoming a problem 100% of the time.
What a negative conspirasist (if that is even a word) platform X has become. Really something to be proud on. Every sound you make on that platform, a truckload of sh*t you get dumped on you - especially if you have something like “scientist” or government employee in your profile.
If only more people were considerate about the amount of bandwidth their websites serve. I just had a conversation where our system generates a CSV and I feel that we should be zipping the file, but I was overridden with a "people today can download large files easily today" and the "not having to unzip is worth it" reasons.
That's a really unfair representation of what happened. I frequently see things I "disagree with" on most platforms and I am happy to ignore it or go into discussion about it. Facism is not something I just "disagree with." Calling for people to be silenced by violent mobs is not something I just "disagree with." Holocaust denial is not something that is up for debate.

I felt terrified by what I saw, quite literally sickened by it. I closed my phone completely and struggled to sleep afterwards. It took me three days and some conversations with my family before I could open the app again just to delete my account.

I'm not just taking some moral stand against Instagram by leaving it for publishing views that differ to mine, I'm simply too disgusted to ever open it again, the thought of having an app like that on my phone makes me queasy.
Not a full comparison, but they do mention Firefox:

> Waterfox is an impressive example of what a better version of Firefox can look like: leaner, faster, and without the desire to collect your data.
todo.txt accomplished this with community apps that provided web and mobile interfaces to the text file: http://todotxt.org/
> Is there a comment you have in mind which you think is engaging in credentialism?

The other guy who told me to inspect your profile. Not you.

> The comments under your profile seem to suggest the opposite.

Sigh. You seem to act in bad faith which immediately loses my interest.

You'll have to take your high and mighty attitude to somebody else. Seems like even HN is not immune from... certain tropes, shall we call them, generously.

Disengaging.
When the platform itself limits the browsers then it's more a platform discussion than about what each of the browsers do on the platform.

The problem with support on iOS is that each browser is forced to be a skin for Safari and Safari only supports Safari Web Extensions, which are MV3-like, hence the platform limitation. The EU law may allow a browser to release in that region but Apple placed such heavy requirements and restrictions to do so none have actually been approved. I haven't seen a clear answer if less limited extension access itself would result in not being approved by Apple.
I have tried UBO on Orion on iOS and it does not work. It is definitely installed. It definitely thinks that it's working. But the moment you switch the default Orion blocker off - the ads appear. And uBO just says "Blocked on this page 0", no matter the page. If you actually did manage to get it to work - that would be golden, would really appreciate it if you shared how you made it work.

To be quite frank - I haven't manage to get _any_ of the extensions (that I would like to have) to work in Orion. They all just silently fail in different ways.
Brave. Either the built in adblocker or you can enabled manifest v2 ublock.
They have to make money somehow I guess.

Obviously Google has many income streams. Mozilla does not.

It always comes down to the question: do you want to pay money for a browser? And the answer for 99% of the users is "hell no".
That's very fair - at least with third party software, it can be nigh impossible to track down a problem.

With third party libraries, I've too-often found myself reading the code to figure something out, although that's a frustrating enough experience I generally wouldn't wish on other people.
That's exactly what Edge is. It reminds me of the mobile operator branded versions of feature- and early smartphones: Same core functionality, more intrusive ads, delayed feature updates.
Lol, understandable.

I actually like kiwi browser quite a lot on mobile. Extensions, Devtools(!!!) make it especially great. Try that if you want (it's on top of chromium android).

I use brave most of the time though, because I use their sync service across all my devices.
Namigo: Naming Pal, Written in Go
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Additionally, Namigo can generate new names via AI prompts to chatbots, offering creative and unique suggestions. This feature leverages the power of artificial intelligence to provide you with a variety of name options that you might not have considered. Whether you need a name for a new project, package, or domain, Namigo is your go-to naming pal.
In France coca is a bit generic term for coca cola and pepsi
But if you have a brand that sell coke we use cola
Like breizh cola or a <supermarket brand> cola
The GP comment is not about designing your own concurrency data structures. It’s about the fact that if your higher-level logic doesn’t take concurrency into account, using the concurrent collections as such will not save you from concurrency bugs. A simple example is when you have two collections whose contents need to be consistent with each other. Or if you have a check-and-modify operation that isn’t covered by the existing collection methods. Then access to them still has to be synchronized externally.

The concurrent collections are great, but they don’t save you from thinking about concurrent accesses and data consistency at a higher level, and managing concurrent operations externally as necessary.
How did you make that transition/find a position? Were you already using Rust in a previous role?
I agree that today it doesn't make cost sense, especially in a retrofit scenario and when the marginal cost of additional solar panels is so low.

However, heat removal methods could make sense for much more efficient, but much more temperature-sensitive solar PV materials like perovskites.
There will be people paying for premium content and people writing it. A new technology doesn't suddenly remove human demand.
A study of people who were adopted as babies could be interesting, depending on circumstances the stress on the birth mother could be reflected in the child but the dynamics of the birth family after birth would no longer be in play. I am specifically thinking of Ireland where there are a significant number of people in their 40s up that were the result of pretty much forced adoption due to the societal stigma of getting pregnant out of wedlock which would have been very stressful as the mothers were sent to mother and baby homes once they began to show.
The Oracle one always gets me lmao
Settings -> Brave Shields and privacy -> Content Filtering.
Agreed. But one individual country makes 90% of the panels, and the others cost twice as much.
Ivanpah failed because of the maintenance costs of the motors moving the reflectors, not the heat engine. Those motors are not really a factor in the kind of setup comparable to this article. Stirling engines actually require considerably less maintenance than combustion engines, and the maintenance is simpler because the engines are simpler.

Manufacturing tolerances are only relevant if you want to maximize efficiency for competition at commercial scale power production, which is not this case.
I've noticed that since I've started using ChatGPT, I've almost entirely stopped using Google (except for the rare case where I need a specific website but don't remember the URL). In addition to a bunch of technical questions related to my work, my ChatGPT chat log has the most mundane things like:

- What is platos frios
- Can you download Netflix videos to your local device
- Who composed the Top Gun theme
- Who have been the most successful American Idol winners
- If I check-in the day before a United Airlines flight, can I still buy additional checked bags when I go to the airport
- If I'm buying a Schwinn IC4 indoor spin bike, do I need a floormat for it also
- What is pisco
- In the US, what is the format for EINs?
- Is it bad to use tap water in your humidifier?
- Which NBA players are on supermax contracts
- What are some of the best steakhouses in Manhattan?
- How much and how long does it take to procure a DUNS number?
- In terms of real estate, what is historic tax credit development

LLMs give me the answers I want immediately. Before, I would use Google basically as a proxy to find websites that I'd then have to sift through to find the answers to these questions. It was another layer of indirection. Now that I can have an LLM just tell me the answer (you still need to approach it with a skeptical eye, since it can certainly get some things wrong), I don't need to "search" the search results pages themselves and read multiple articles and blog posts to hopefully find the answer to my question.
I would say that is bad for the economy. Especially for a society where there is nothing to catch those whole lose their jobs.
"Charbon". The French commoner will refer to the rock coke as "charbon de terre", shortened to charbon. Similar to "pomme" is apple, and "pomme de terre" is apple from the earth (potato). Charbon is also the word for charcoal.

So my grandma used charbon (coke) when she was a kid. And my mom uses charbon (charcoal) for her barbecue.

In journals and scientific papers the words coke will be used.

In everyday speech, coke means cocaine. Coca is short form for coca cola. And cola is the generic for a coca cola flavored soda.
Having a good web browser doesn't sell apps. That's why they don't care about it. They would rather you not have one at all and only have access to things via apps.
I think this is true.

I personally hated those Seo clickbait pages for a while, because it was so hard to find the information i'm looking for.

doing all of this with ai now.

On the other hand, I really like to read a good article more than ever before
The Impact of Generative AI on Work Productivity
This study finds 28% of U.S. workers use generative AI, saving users an average of 2.2 hours weekly and potentially increasing aggregate productivity by 1.1%. Usage is highest in computing fields, but these gains may not appear in official statistics since most adoption remains informal, with only 5.4% of firms formally implementing the technology.
Maybe a stupid question. When just looking at the data model (and not e.g. the query language) ... but is there a real difference between a "graph" database and a "normal SQL" database when the SQL database is able to directly point to rows (ROWID?) without a separate index?
It definitely supports both audio and video calls.
Back when I was forced to use a Mac I used BetterTouchTool for this. It's a fantastic tool in general, and the window management is sensible.
Yes! Please support good paid software companies if you can afford them. Jetbrains, Sublime Text, others.
Scant few Western nations in recent times have had this level of clown show.
"Refactor" Is Not a Scary Word
Skype's Failure Reflects on Consumer Tech Trust
It seems short sighted. I know a lot of trans people who use the app, and I used to follow many content creators of colour etc. If we start normalising violently silencing them, paving the way to sending them to camps to work and die, then Meta loses a big part of their customer base.
> There's no rule saying you are only allowed to have one piece of hardware. You can also buy an Android phone for cheap for your uses where you find iOS lacking.

I. Don't. Care.

If I have an iPhone, I should have the right to run whatever the hell I want on it. I own it. That I can buy other phones is completely irrelevant - the point is all hardware for devices like this should be unrestricted to the consumer, period.

You've yet to give a convincing counter-argument as to why.

So far your attempts have consisted of:

- My naive family member might be tricked

- Claiming allowing sideloading will ruin the platform for 'normal' people

- Now claiming it's not an issue because I can buy an alternative

Do you have any argument that can actually defend why someone shouldn't be able to put whatever OS or apps they want on a computer they bought?
Software Development Is Dead, Long Live Developers
And like a medium soda, it's only purpose is to make the large soda's price seem attractive. Seems to be working.
I think you underestimate the number of people that actually believe what you wrote
Custom Software Becomes Commodity