skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will the markets actually fail? Or will there always be a sucker ready to try their luck? I remember seeing this happen in the Retro Video Game community with Flash carts.

Independent developer developed a flashcart for the Sega Dreamcast and was subsequently ripped off. After he complained on Twitter, most of the community sided with the cloners. They just want their cheap garbage and they have no idea/care regarding the massive effort it takes to develop a device like this.

Never mind the fact that the original developer will be inundated with support/bugfix requests for the clones while the Chinese cloners disappear into the ether having stolen all the value.

He eventually walked away from the project from what I recall which pissed off his original buyers and now others have stepped up with their own devices(And will probably be cloned).

Luckily the one (temporary) respite you have in software/hardware is DRM. If you can implement a complex enough DRM system you can slow down the cloners from stealing your software for some period of time. It sucks but this is the world we live in.

One tactic that a Flashcart manufacturer is using is some sort of serial coded firmware updates that only operates on a specific date code of flashcart. It requires the user to log into an account and get the specific firmware update that is tied to their flashcart. It has caused some complaints from the community regarding ease of use + resale woes(transferring ownership from one legit user to another) but overall this is an interesting solution. It hasn't fully prevented clones but has slowed them down somewhat.

I wish there was some way this could be applied to the non-software world but you can't defeat the physical layer.
I'm glad to hear that. Maybe the high-school-cliques trope is mostly the result of memetic spread across lazy scriptwriters.
I think maybe either my comment was misinterpreted or I wasn't clear enough.

As I stated before, I'm not wanting to start a debate on whether nuking Japan was justified nor am I taking a position one way or the other. What my comment aims to do is to push back on specific claims made about this position (that the bombing was unjustified,) namely the claims that this position is recent, not rooted in primary sources, is a fringe out-there position to give academics a name for themselves, and originates in Russian propaganda.

It is not recent, it is rooted in primary sources, and it was a position held from the very beginning by the top brass of the US military at the time.
iPhones are ridiculously expensive in India because of the import taxes - a decent chunk of the population would be able to afford them if they were brought in line with the US prices.
I totally support the cause, I'm mostly curious about who the commenter thinks is doing the astroturfing work on its behalf.
Moscow’s Central Banker Dismantles What She Built
They do say that about the Acropolis where the Parthenon is!
Didn't aircraft development norms lead to several planes plunging out of the sky with zero mechanical issues, due to software failure?
p4 was known to handle large binary blobs well, vs most of the other vcss.
We will have to get good at it then— we are already doing, just not trying to do it well. Engineering can function even in complex environments.
> The opposition to abortion in the evangelical community didn't begin until Republicans bundled the issue with black civil rights and trickle down economics.

The opposition to abortion was an international phenomenon happening around the same time. Within a few years of Roe, high courts in Canada, Germany, Italy, and France heard abortion cases as well. All except Germany determined that it was a question for the legislature. Germany determined that legalized abortion violated the basic law. To this day, German, French, and Italian abortion laws contain several restrictions that Roe doesn’t permit, specifically limiting elective abortions to the first trimester. Those counties must be full of evangelical Baptists according to you.

Also, nice job projecting the abortion movement’s eugenics roots onto conservatives.

> In response to a question on access to abortion and restrictions on Medicaid coverage of the procedure, [Justice] Ginsburg said, "Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe [v. Wade] was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion."

> You ignored the part about "teaching actual history,"

Virginia didn’t just vote for Glen Youngkin (including half of Asians, who are almost all in liberal northern Virginia where I grew up) because they oppose teaching “actual history.” It’s because Fairfax County paid Ibram Kendi $$$ to come lecture to teachers.

> which includes teaching kids about the effects of slavery and Jim Crow and how that permanently damaged minorities

That doesn’t sound like “history” but pseudoscience. Racist pseudoscience at that, conflating Black people with “minorities” and implying they are “permanently damaged.”

> because it might make little white minds evaluate the damage their ancestors did and how that continues to harm minorities today.

“Little white minds,” lol. Gee, I can’t imagine why people think you want to teach White Fragility and inherited guilt (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizi...) and that “actual history” is just pretext.

> That Florida bill had nothing to do with teaching kids about sexuality, and it backfired and will continue to do so.

The law is literally limited to “instruction” about “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Prior to fourth grade, it’s prohibited. After fourth grade, it must be “age appropriate.” If you think it’s just evangelicals that don’t teachers instructing their kids on human sexuality in third grade, you need more POC friends.
China's supply chain is no longer price competitive. Apple and others have been looking at South East Asia for potential locations for years now.

The legislation that india created was just smart politics to ensure that these companies set up shop there.
Luminance noise can be surprisingly pleasant on a full-frame sensor, although I still go out of my way to avoid it where possible - not hard lately as my full-frame body has been dedicated to macro, and macro wildlife photography already requires the kind of exuberant flash setup that makes noise very easy to avoid.

(For those interested: Nikon D850, Micro 105mm f/2.8 VR II, three SB-R200 heads on a forward ring with a wireless controller on the shoe. I usually shoot at 1/250. f/11, and "L1.0" ie ISO 50 equiv, with the flash set to make up exposure. It's a fairly complex rig, but very simple to use, to the point where I don't worry much about whether I'll get keepers when shooting wild wasps unless I'm right up at 1:1 and a 6" working distance.)

Right there with you on film versus digital. I get the nostalgia and I do still have Grandpa's Nikkormat FTn that I learned on as a kid, but I did shoot film as a kid and I'm not sorry to have moved to digital, not least because I'm certain I could not do the kind of work I do - chasing wild wasps around or finding places where they congregate, and shooting them as they go about their occasions undisturbed by me - without digital.

So far as I can tell, there aren't that many photographers out there who do that kind of work at all, and I refuse for both ethical and competitive reasons to join the ranks of those insect macro shooters who capture and kill their subjects - they certainly do produce beautiful images, but I don't respect the means by which they do so. Sure, I can't stack focus to get shots sharp all the way through, but so what? When you look at my work, you can do so in the knowledge that the trajectory of life out of which you're seeing that 4ms slice was in no way deflected by my efforts in documenting part of it - and I also have the satisfaction of knowing the same, as well as that I'm doing a kind of work that is in a lot of ways harder than theirs. Sure, you can screw up a stack and have to reshoot, but when your subject will never move again because you've killed it, all that costs you is time. Meanwhile, my dilettante ass is over here trying to capture moments that have never existed before and never will again, and sure, I don't always get them, but I do get them. [1]

I think that's worth more than all the perfect focus stacking in the world ever will be, and on film I can't imagine being able to work that way at all, because those wasps aren't waiting around for me and I wouldn't want them to. (Well, aside from the one time they got so used to seeing me by a caterpillar nest that they started using me as a waypoint on their route to it! That was oddly sweet to realize, but it was their choice, not mine, and I suppose that's the point.)

[1] https://aaron-m.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/DSC1220.jpg
I think there is a pretty large chance countries like Germany figure out some way to ignore that. IMO the only thing keeping a European country exempt from Russian military action is the presence of US forces.
Wouldn't that depend on the result of the various anti-trust suits against Amazon/Apple/Google that define the market as their marketplaces?
>I'm just frightened of producing something that I pretend is profound and everyone else thinks is obvious. That's a totally different fear

Yes and my point is that what you produce won't be profound and people will think it's obvious. Write it anyway. Or don't.
Product decisions are simply not made that way. The security community is too small to be a relevant target market for a mass-market device.

For those in the security community who put their money where their mouth is, there are communication devices with various supply chain controls in place.
> Did they pass a driver's license check?

Yes. That would be the AV permit that the cars operate under. Also as they are programmed to obey all road laws, it's exceedingly unlikely they will cause any moving infractions.

> Who's responsible? Who gets the ticket?

Cruise. Their name is on the AV permit, it's their insurance.

> spot essentially identical to where it was.

Before it was in a lane of traffic next to a parklet, after it was pulled over partially into what looks to be a parking spot. The SFPD officer also was no longer next to the vehicle.

> how these cars are allowed on the road

At the end of the day the argument is that these cars are safer than the average driver. Having spent a lot of time in SF, I've seen a lot of these cruise vehicles moving about. I remember watching them in the early days in the Dogpatch, when an errant cone would end up with them being stuck until manual action was taken. Slowly they got better and smarter.

Yes, it's a hard transitional time. Mistakes may happen, but the same is true for humans. And not all AV technology is the same. Cruise has limited itself a great deal so it doesn't try to take on the entire world at the same time. Just the streets of SF, which are hard enough.

How many Cruise traffic accidents have you read about? How many people injured or killed?
You are so right. Also, almost literally everyone involved in crypto has a financial stake in one or more coins. How can they be a trusted advisor? It dawned me on a while ago, and every cryptocurrency is simply a big scam. The only way for bitcoin to rise in value is by convincing people to get rich by buying bitcoin, without actually explaining why it will make them rich. That's a huuuuge red flag to me.
I'm no networking wizard so this isn't really my area of expertise but I have a few thoughts and questions. Why do you need three layers of RDC? Is this due to networking constraints, where the ultimate server (I'll call it the prod server) you are trying to reach is unreachable from the internet directly? You might be able to tunnel into the server using ssh tunnels (see this guide [1]) through an intermediate server which your computer and the prod server both have access to, and then you'd be able to directly scp or rsync files to the server, as well as run commands over ssh, but this would be increasing your attack exposure from a security perspective, which folks may not be happy about since you're at a large engineering company.

A few questions that would help me give more actionable advice: What is the "tester" you're using? Is it essential to interact with it via a GUI or does it have a command line interface you would prefer to use? Is the OS Linux or Windows? What are the the three layers of RDC?

Feel free to email me at my hn username @gmail.com to discuss further since this is getting pretty specific to your setup! Sounds like a fun problem to try and solve :)
>Not only do people not care, they actively push down and belittle people who do.

The venn diagram of "people willing to lift a finger about noise pollution" and "people who think they know what car you should drive, how long your lawn should be, how much water your washing machine should use and what temperature you should set your thermostat" is only a sliver away from being a circle. It's not at all surprising that people take a mental shortcut and just skip straight to the belittling step.
It doesn’t release all its carbon. Much of the biomass does not end up back into the atmosphere but ends up in the ground. Those oil deposits were once forests.
Of course this is a problem for all package repositories. Ruby, Python, Docker, Node, etc. But Node seems especially bad. Why? It seems to me that Node packages are mostly the work of a single person, and lack a community around them. You know you can trust Nokogiri because there are many developers working on it, and they're visible and accessible on Twitter et al. But many Node modules are just one person's passion project and/or resume padder. It's too easy for someone to have their npm publish keys stolen and not notice, whereas if there were more people on the project someone would probably notice sooner.
I think the concept makes sense. The basic insight, that the right batch size depends on the difficulty and noisiness of a task, is already used by teams. For example, the PaLM paper from last week increased its batch size throughout training.

But as far as I know, the more precise predictions of optimal batch size aren't used much, probably because it's expensive to measure accurately, or because the predictive equation isn't accurate enough to begin with. I wonder if we can "transfer" the optimal batch size from a smaller setting (smaller model or data) to the full setting, like in our paper. This would make it much more practical.
I think the argument against it is that customers actually only care about price, despite the virtues they vomit all over the place about "supporting small business".

98/100 will support the idea. 2/100 will pay 2x for something because it isn't a Chinese knockoff.
There are various markets where I'm pretty certain taking outside capital will eventually cause you to lose the plot as to how your business benefits it's users. This seems to be one of those cases. You take outside capital to grow rapidly and take on scale, you go public for more capital to do more business again at a larger scale. This is all in the interest of a large return for your investors and maybe some retail investors and employees.

I'm not sure how this could ever continue to have the best interests of artisanal crafters and sellers in mind when that market is clearly smaller than the one needed to grow the business to successful after-IPO public company. Someone should make a competitor with no aims to go public and you'll probably wind up with a rather large successful business not beholden to anyone except artisanal sellers and more in line with benefiting artisans long term.

Not everything needs to be a public company and not everyone needs to take on VC money. You have to know your goals and then assess different monetary avenues to accomplish them, you can have a large private company without diluting the vision, just not maybe a multibillion dollar organization but that's okay, not everything needs to be that either -- but it will be what your forced into an attempt at making if you take on outside capital.
It's taken a little over two thousand years, but researchers have finally uncovered an exploit in which EMF fluctuations emitted from a nearby NVIDIA card, which is in the process of calculating DOGECOIN, can rewrite the Antikythera EPROM.

Dr. A. Medes, the project's head researcher from Kythera University said, "the real breakthrough was decoding the instruction set of the RISC Antikythera in order to understand what the ancient JTAG interface was telling us".

Google verified the device no longer has Android security updates available.
>"What we learned in this "special operation" is that NATO expansion is just a convenient excuse for Russia and that they constantly lie and lie and lie about lying."

I'll skip subject of Russia lying in general. Somehow poisoning of former spies and lying about it does not make me loose my sleep. What Russia does with its own population is disgusting though.

On this particular NATO issue I was that idiot that did not believe that Putin will really start the war. Now looking back I think the warning and the message from Putin was pretty clear and consistent. He went from wanting to join NATO, to bitching about the expansion, to annexing parts of Georgia and Ukraine when NATO had started to entertain the ideas, to starting accumulating large military presence on the border of Ukraine later on, to issuing the ultimatum and giving last warning, to finally starting the war.

>"Sure, in essence of fairness, US would probably be pissed if China would make Canada allies, but in all fairness, you also need to see that there's no US missiles butchering children in Mexican train stations."

Well. Mexico does not exactly let Russia to deploy their missiles. I am not sure what will happen if they would start the process. I think they will be given "offer they will not be able to refuse".

If we skip the Mexico and start count since say WWII you won't have much difficulties finding cohorts of children, women and civilians in general killed, maimed, starved, displaced etc. etc. All for way less reason than deploying missiles near the US. Of course it was all with good intentions and for a common benefit of humanity /s
Why not lock the core libs like Map.prototpy Array.prototype ? Can't we have sandbox like environment (which is not default but which can be enabled on application basis). Java Applets which run inside the browser had this kind of sandbox restritions.
Lawns—especially front lawns—are connected to a weirdly-large number of problems in the US, when you think about it. Noise pollution, excessive water use, more driving (all those barely-used front lawns take up a ton of space, which pushes everything farther apart by a significant distance). Fuel use and air pollution (mowing, trimming, those damn leaf blowers—though at least some of this is going electric).
My file server is running FreeBSD. The biggest sticking point for using it on my dev machine is lack of docker support on BSD. These days, my dev box is running Arch.
How do CRDTs work with denormalized data, or more generally, data where some fields have invariants that must be maintained between them? Let's say we have an object with an array of strings and a count of that array:

{
"words": ["a", "b", "c"],
"count": 3
}

Now suppose users A and B edit the document so that one word is deleted, and two words are added, respectively:

{
"words": ["a", "b"],
"count": 2
}

{
"words": ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"],
"count": 5
}

What probably should happen now is that we reach the state where `words` is `["a", "b", "d", "e"]` and `count` is `4`, but is that really what would happen? That would require the CRDT to understand changes to `count` as increment/decrement operations, but aren't there also situations where you'd simply want one of the two values to win?
I think they all still have test drivers in them right?
It has a lot of upsides for the military establishment, remember when Russia was not a threat and NATO decided to have 3 trainings in Ukraine and start talks about a Russia bordering country joining a Russia enemy conglomerate? Remember when a bordering state of US tried to put enemy weapons on their territory and the US almost deleting that state from earth logs?

I think US right now, especially if this announcement is true is the main european Enemy, US is expanding it's world oversight by expanding NATO on European borders at expense of European stability, this is due to the shallowness of european leaders

It's US wagering European lives for its interests
The Russian fiasco in Ukraine is that they haven’t won, and it seems less and less likely that they will ever win. They’re still doing plenty of damage in the meantime. Damage that could perhaps have been avoided if Ukraine had direct military backing from NATO.

All things considered, I’d rather not get into a fight at all than get into fight I win.
> why are headlights not always on for all vehicles at this point

It's been that way for over 30 years in Canada (since 1989 I think)...

I'd be curious to know how many more replacement headlights they see per car per year
it's hard to do (it requires a specific skillset), it requires capital investment (servers cost money), and you become fairly indiscoverable. these are surmountable problems given adequate money but without it, a major platform like etsy has a real moat.
Finland definitely seems like it could hold its own against Russia.
> Joining NATO means millitary bases, troop exercises, and 'defensive' missile installations that can be easily converted to offensive missiles without any visibility.

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, there was no NATO military presence in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Norway, the only defensive missile base was in Romania, with another under construction in Poland and both Finnland and Sweden already extensively train and cooperate with NATO troops. Troop deployments were token-sized in the order of low five digits in total. (1) All troop presence in the Baltic states is at the explicit request of those states - it ensures that if any of those states is invaded, other NATO members are immediately directly involved: Attacking any of those states means attacking US, British, French, German soldiers. Unsurprisingly, countries on the eastern border have requested and received more troop deployments, for example German air defense batteries have moved to Slovakia as part of a new NATO battle group.

(1)Pre-Invasion Situation,
early February https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/10/europe/nato-troops-easter...
I fear that you've been misinformed on climate change's impact on agriculture. According to the 2018 National Climate Assessment[0], a rigorous accounting of climate change's impact on the United States by 13 federal agencies [1]:

"Rising temperatures, extreme heat, drought, wildfire on rangelands, and heavy downpours are expected to increasingly disrupt agricultural productivity in the United States. Expected increases in challenges to livestock health, declines in crop yields and quality, and changes in extreme events in the United States and abroad threaten rural livelihoods, sustainable food security, and price stability. "

Higher carbon and a warmer climate is going to mean smaller and less nutritious harvests, and food crises the world over. It is in your own self-interest to want rapid decarbonization.

Also, you may not have heard that many climate policies call for a border carbon adjustment, which puts a WTO-compliant fee on imports from countries that are not effectively curbing their emissions. Well-designed national climate policies generally include this, as it largely addresses your valid concerns about making other countries play fair.

Here's more[2] from NASA on it the impacts of climate change on agriculture.

[0] https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/#sf-10
[1] NOAA, the DOA, DOC, DOD, DOE, HHS, DOI, DOS, DOT, EPA, NASA, NSF, Smithsonian Institution, and the USAID
[2] https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3124/global-climate-change-imp...