skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. Just wow. The "radical" US left equals the conservative right in many European countries. While you certainly may think Europe is full of "second tier countries", I think it's time to broaden your horizons. If anything the problem is they are ineffective and are poor at keeping file and rank compared to the GOP. The GOP on the other-hand tries to drive the US towards a ultra-conservative future, erasing the separation of church and state.
A lot of modern cloud architecture is concerned with the business of making sure web requests don’t reach your servers if they don’t have to. Edge caching, content distribution networks, browser cache handling.

If you do it right, a high proportion of your site visits leave no trace in your logs that they were ever there.
I love this so much. Computing is right up against the limits of the universe and seeing that your 4 ghz processor has a cycle time of about 7 light-cm shows you exactly how close we are to that limit. Looking at the computing time spent on accessing a remote server 8000 km away also keeps things in perspective.
Free speech is about opposing restrictions in the public sphere though. If the employees had made a public letter to the internet (not an internal mailing list), using their own resources (not company's resources), it would be a different situation.

If a guest in your house started screaming at you, it wouldn't be a paradox of free speech to tell them to get out.
The problem isn't that you are invading your users' privacy. The problem is that you are allowing Google to.
My mistake. Usually I know the (recently popularized due to use in Ukraine) modern infantry tools a shade better. I have been a sleep-deprived traveler this week!
My gas stove, which is over ten years old, cuts the gas supply if it runs for more than a couple of seconds unlit.
They should have refused to take me in as a customer.

Also, no hole was dug into. Their partner bank, Evolve, decided one day we were too risky of a business.
It seems like a restatement of the end-to-end principle. He does call it out as being different but… still seems pretty similar to me. Build apps on simple reusable abstractions like byte streams and message passing.
I've ignored those requests for meetings for decades and never had a problem.
The private sector will have to arrange any acquisition of distressed assets or they will fail and people will get hurt. Lenders will harden and be better equipped for the future. This IMO is a good thing - there is no one to save anyone and the market will deal with the consequences. I don't care about the impact on prices. Drive the weak players out and let the strong survive.
This is actually bad investment strategy. Warren Buffet once made a shit load of money because of this.

During a more conservative time... waaay back. A company was doing very well but the CEO had an affair. The public caught wind of the affair and the stock tanked, because people had your exact same philosophy. Those people cared about the behavior of the CEO while ignoring the metrics of the company. Warren Buffet looked at the fundamental performance of the company and saw that it was doing quite well, so he bought it at super low prices.

Eventually the stock price changed and began to reflect the fundamentals of the actual business as people forgot about the behavior of the CEO.

You shouldn't care about his erratic behavior. You should care about the business sector and the overall performance of the company.
That's actually not true. For example, the Russian Soyuz is expected to still have lower cost per kg to LEO than the Falcon rockets from SpaceX. Fuel is the vast majority of the cost of a rocket launch.
To track unique visitors you need cookies or some other form of client-side storage. In Europe that means, per ePrivacy which predates the GDPR, you need cookie consent.
I can't speak for everybody, but for me, virtual meetups feel more like work meetings than any sort of social activity.
> Asperger's isn't an excuse for being a dick.

Labelling non-neurotypical behavior as "being a dick" or "poor behavior" is very neurotypical.

[Addendum]

I for one am happy to see the larger world and its expected rules of behavior get a taste of what it constantly dishes out.
This is largely true. The US’s political left gained a ton of traction behind Bernie Sanders. As we know his campaign went nowhere (twice). There are a handful of progressive candidates winning some primaries, but this is abysmal in the larger context. For every progressive that succeeds there is another progressive that fails (see e.g. Nina Turner in Ohio and Jessica Cisneros in Texas). And for every attempt there are 10 non-attempts. And we are even seeing equally many conservative democrats that honestly should belong in the Republican party in the national and state legislators.

Outside of partisan politics the left is seeing some more successes, that is in the broader culture war. This includes broader acceptance of LGBTQ+ rights, calls for immigration reforms, calls for reprimands for centuries of slavery, etc. However these successes are not making their way to the legislator by a long shot, and quite often to the contrary (see e.g. reversal of Roe v. Wade).

And I say this firmly from the left wing of the political spectrum.
Iirc sony only allows to unlock bootloader on devices listed as part of "open devices" program, but there is no relocking supported unfortunately. I would buy another device from them myself otherwise.
Love your comment, this quick rule is critical, but... Don't forget that the relative permittivity if PCB material is roughly 4, so the rule for circuit boards is 6" per nanosecond :)
I tend to like Elon or at least some of his professed ideas and goals but this is gross. Either there is a culture in his companies where people like this are fired without discussion or prodding or it was a direct instruction.

I wonder if these employees tried any internal avenues to voice their concerns before going open with it? If not, it seems more like grand-standing and the firings are more acceptable. But if internal discussions were ignored this is out of line.
I think the really crazy thing about the cookie banner stuff is that it’s actually nothing to do with GDPR: it’s almost entirely about the ePrivacy Directive of 2002. Yes, 2002. (At that time it was opt-out, but you still had to disclose clearly; in 2009, it was revised to opt-in, and there was again very minor fuss but not much compliance.) It’s just that most people didn’t do much about it until GDPR came along, and then people conflated the two.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fannie-mae-freddie-mac-fhfa-hou...

Stuff like this is rampant right now. The left has thoroughly won the culture war.
There is increasing demand for ID upon purchasing - and you are also forgetting that prepaid cell phone purchases must be activated at point of sale - which can trigger a CCTV snapshot from the terminal and record the method of payment.

Sure, you can "walk" to the store, browse to the phone aisle, pick up a prepaid phone, wait in line, ring out and pay in cash and walk out - but that all creates a foot print, geographically at a minimum.

You can try a smaller store, franchised sure - but there will be recording of the transaction. Then the activation itself. Then the recurring topping up of credits to use the service.

As with Singapore/Japan/Indonesia and China, yes - pre-activated sims still are sold w/ government intervention and seizing information and terminating the sim in use - but another thing to note is that the telecom in those countries are also state enterprises. In the USA, they are not - not yet.

But, "effort" into being anonymous, is friction - and the more friction you need to overcome, the more opsec you need to execute to maintain a hygenetic environment. That's where it becomes impossible to maintain.
America's belief in [a] God hits new low
> Who has the time to listen to a 2-3 hour podcast?

You don't need to listen to them all at once. I'll usually listen over a couple of days. And I'm glad someone like Fridman doesn't feel bound to constrain the length of his podcasts to suite TikTok like attention spans.
Given this is HN, I'm just mildly curious about how people who knew Musk 15-20 years ago view him now. I mean, I know this is tangential, but pg had an essay talking about what a bad idea it was that Musk demanded Windows over Linux when Musk ran PayPal - I just got the sense that pg was never a fan.

Do folks view this as "this is an ambitious, hardworking genius whose lack of social constraints due to his success is making him run off the rails, mentally" or is it a case of "Musk has always been more asshole than genius, it's just his 'marketing veneer' that is starting to falter."

I agree, I've always viewed Musk with a sense of awe and amazement ("How can someone have the time and energy to run THREE major companies??"), now I just want him to STFU because what comes out of his mouth/tweet feed is such incessant verbal diarrhea.
Politicians have no accountability. In 2024 Biden will take zero responsibility for inflation and the economy and spend all his time talking about how Republicans are racist.

And Republicans will take zero responsibility for Trump and Jan 6th and spend all their time talking about how Democrats want to force your children to be trans.

In the end no one has any responsibility to do anything to actually make the country better. If Musk could start a moderate party that took responsibility for results I would be on board.
I _really_ wanted FreeCAD to work for me.

I just don't trust Fusion360 not letting me have my files on my own hard disk.

I'm too much of a beginner to drop thousands on the higher end professional software.

So FreeCAD sounded perfect.

But three main problems made me give up:
1) The "topological naming problem" / random crashing. Couldn't ask a team to put up with that.
2) I found there wasn't a clear path to navigate the choice between the competing versions / forks / assembly things, and learn CAD at the same time. (Don't know enough to know what I'm comparing)
3) The interface just isn't as easy to use or learn. There isn't a long and clear set of tutorials like there is for Fusion360 [1]

So I've decided to settle for learning CAD first via Fusion360 for now, in hope that by the time I've got a good understanding of it, the various FreeCAD tribes will have merged into one solution, or that the main fork has improved enough that someone makes great tutorials for it.

[1] Here's is a great, professional tutorial series for Fusion360 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvrHuaHhqHI (Somehow it's almost too-professional unofficial-official. Does anyone know if this is actually Autodesk?)
You're asking whether they can do things that classical computers can do reasonably well already marginally better, while their whole point is that they (one day, hopefully) can do things that current computers can't do at all (at scale, at least). Most of the speculative applications I've heard are in science, cryptography and AI/ML.
"The government" is tiered. A move towards local (e.g. county or city level) control of things like broadband has so far on average been very successful. Maybe even stuff like social networks should be locally run. I'd love to see some city or county level fediverse instances pop up to tie in with locally run broadband. Maybe some craigslist-like personals ad boards and other services would be good, too.

In that case, if it sucks, you can stand a chance at politically influencing the state of things, or move somewhere where it doesn't suck.
Over-consolidation is bad. Things that don't strictly require nation-sized central authorities to do should not be controlled by nation-sized central authorities.

Throwing up our hands and accepting the status quo because government is corrupt is not something anyone should be advocating for. The government is still the battleground whether it's corrupt or not. Corrupt officials need to be named and shamed. People who claim not to see a problem or who think it's not worth addressing need to be moved out of the way or convinced otherwise.
The literature couldn't be more clear in support of what you wrote. It's actually a fairly well researched topic in nutritional science.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/microbiome-we-are-what-they...
This may have been true sixty years ago, but certainly not today. The conservative right in European countries is turning hard-nationalist in response to massive net immigration. Simply look to the campaigns of Zemmour and Le Pen in France or Orban in Hungary.
No reason why your edge CDN can’t log requests.
To be honest, I kind of went the other way. I saw what republicans are really about and noped my way out. I used to believe them when they said they were USA first, bring the jobs back to America, stand up to foreign dictators, small government, etc... But the past 10 years have put a lie to their posturing on nearly every front. January 6th was a turning point for me, all of a sudden there was a chance that we were going to have a president sitting in office despite the end of his term. A man willing to start a civil war rather than concede a valid election.

The Republican I really respect at this point is Mike Pence. I used to think he was a theocrat idiot with mush for brains. But now I realize he's all that AND a brave and honest man who actually gives two shits about democracy.
About 10 years ago, before Docker, and before (I knew about?) conda, I was using Python packages with binaries inside to create reproducible virtual environments with consistently versioned binary tools to go along with all our Python code. We were avoiding virtualization and running on bare metal so this was the best way to distribute code across a cluster.

I added small setup.py scripts to a dozen open source C and Java packages, and deposited them on an internal package server.

It worked OK, and unlike Conda, to this day you can still run an install without burning through CPU-hours of SAT-solving.

Biggest problem was if there were packages that wanted different versions of the same dependency.
Batteries (or capacitors) would also allow the rheostatic braking to become regenerative and recharge them instead of just venting it as heat.

Of course, fully electric trains can just regenerate into the power lines.
The same reason there's always been for most of the dreck in pop entertainment. Most people have poor taste and don't want to think.
The corporate form has been and is now, legally, an enterprise to return financial value to shareholders. Corporations are routinely sued when they stray from that. People with a different vision should change the law rather than be continually surprised.
> as long as it's not within his companies

Where does the idea originate that there has to be a democracy in a private company?

If I were to take my money and start a company, and risk it all, I would go to great lengths (within the law) to make decisions that make my venture successful.

That does involve exercising my rights to choose employees that further this goal, and firing those that don’t.

Democracy in politics where we have an inalienable right to vote, happens in a different domain.

I fail to understand why everyone gets so worked up.
Ha! Totally missed that. Awesome.
> where I discussed how government is shifting its language from describing us as people with data rights to consumers with contracts, was spot on. You’ll understand if I’m not gloating.

This is exactly the issue, and the most important point that people and small businesses should be focused on. Especially when dealing with organizations that want to use the "consumers with contracts" model. Stop using the word "Consumer". People are not consumers, they don't consume things. People and Individuals purchase things with their own purchasing power as "Customers". We are not apart of a mindless machine, where businesses are the engine and we are the gears. Its the other way around, and the more that people promote this in the work place and other areas of life, the better. Words are like magic, they can empower, or enslave us. Don't let the few, who want to control public perception, make the calls.
What is an adequate sample size depends entirely on the effect size.
They are referring to the fact that Assange coordinated with Russian state actors to hack the DNC during the 2016 US presidential election. You can find more about it in the Mueller report and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report.

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/report-sele...
It's hard to put a finger on why I have a hard time liking Lex but this comment does a pretty good job of elucidating my thoughts. He gets guests I like and topics I enjoy but I can't watch very much before I get frustrated at some of the inane or childish questions he asks.

You hit the nail on the head with, "straddles the edge of being a fake guru" and I'm honestly surprised at how many people here find him genuine and authentic. I really want to like the guy but I just get a slimy vibe from him, like he thinks too highly of himself or something...
Travis Kalanick visited a bar with escort services with female employee presence, and he resigned in 2017. Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned a female employee for sex, he keeps his job in 2022.[1]

I feel sorry for the progress of gender equality in Silicon Valley.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-paid-250000-to-a-flig...
Yes, but so is the ISMI, from the sim card, which is actually the primary identifier used for most things within the protocol.
ISMI determines which phone number gets connected to the phone, who gets billed for phone calls, etc.

The main scenarios where IMEI should be interesting to law enforcement are: stolen phone situations, criminals that keep getting getting new burner sims while continuing to use the same phone, or people that keep prank calling emergency services without having a SIM installed.

In nearly all other cases, the ISMI is far more useful identifier. And obviously the phones in question all have unique ISMIs or the network would be having, err.... great difficulty with all of those phones having the same phone number, and being able to route calls.
Where has the left gone off the deep end other than in Tucker's lunatic and manipulative ravings? Please give us concrete examples, yes woke politics might have gone overboard for many's tastes but where has that had any real impact on day to day life? In the mean time the right has gone full throttle on an anti-democracy cult following of a single person's unproven and clearly false claims of election fraud, and taken the country on a very dark path that is in direct opposition to our constitution, the rule of law and our way of life.
Oof, I was close[1]: "Honestly would not be surprised if it comes out at some point in the future that they launched the ARM-Mac project as soon as they'd successfully switched to Intel." since Wikipedia has "late 2007" for the last PowerPC release.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28941677
>Government regulation of retail finance is a feature, not a bug.

It's not a bug unless you believe adults should be treated like children and not be able to take the risks they desire or face the consequences of those risks. Anyone investing in DeFi should absolutely have known the risks; it doesn't justify giving the government even more power over people's finances.
> The reasons why someone might tank their site performance with a bunch of conflicting ad trackers is not just because "data is valuable". We're conditioned to think of ad tracking as solely interest targeting[1] and remarketing[2], but a huge part of it is also just attribution. Advertising is paid for on a per-click or per-conversion basis, and nobody trusts nobody in this industry, so everything needs to be tracked or the people buying ads get gamed out of their money by the people they buy ads from.[3] So even if you just want to buy ads, you often also need to have tracking on your website purely so that the ad network can either protect you from click fraud, or if you're paying per conversion, actually track how much you owe them.

Thanks. I think this is severely understated. Ad people managed to force the debate to "customized ads" vs "privacy", saying that websites could make money exclusively with customized ads. We've seen here on HN a lot of examples of people realizing that was bullshit (I would guess there are some cases where customized ads can be beneficial, but overall they seem little).

Apple showed how to make attribution privacy-friendly (I have no idea whether there implementation works and scale), yet debates still manage to ignore that totally.

That being said, solving attribution doesn't actually... solve attribution problem. The reason being for the case where I search Nokia D3500 on Amazon, then I go on random website, which will show me ads for Nokia D3500 on Amazon, and I click on this ad to buy what I already planned to buy. In that case, the random website will get money, with current unprivate ads, while they won't with the private one. I didn't change my consumption based on that ad, so the ad has literally 0 value, "private-friendly ad" properly reflects that, however the migration from not private to private ad will reduce the revenue for websites (even though this didn't have any impact on my purchasing behavior).

Edit: It does solve attribution for "proper meaningful" ads: If I'm reading camera reviews on some websites, and they have affiliated links for those reviews, then they'll rightfully get money for it, whcih is good!
The point I assume GP was trying to make is that Musk only applies that difference when it suits him. That attitude shows hypocrisy and is evidence that he’s using it to further personal power instead of actually caring about the moral philosophy of the matter.

He seems to treat his own speech as if it is completely unfettered by any restraint, regardless of consequences for self or company (see the sheer number of times he’s upset the SEC via tweet compared to any other C-level in the world), while restraining the shit out of his subordinates’.
He has the universal right to fire people for whatever he wants as long as it's not for a reason protected by US labor law. There are very few instances of "protected speech" with regard to employment.
Is it bad I find this funny?
If ever.
> If the end-result of the law + standard human behavior is that you made web browsing a crappier experience then you made a crappy law.

That's not a very good way to figure out if a law is "crappy". Building codes make for a crappier construction experience (can't just do whatever TF you want) but that doesn't mean they're bad.

Laws requiring designated handicapped parking spaces make parking a slightly crappier experience for non-handicapped people. That doesn't mean they're crappy laws.
Maybe this is a long term play to try to get the people he's catering his message to to start buying electric vehicles?
It's inefficient. HVDC is _more_ efficient over long distances, but not enough to make it worthwhile
Effectively, with a better name. This also strikes me a perfect use case for a Touch Bar since it’d be very helpful for a subset of users but wasted space for others.
Of course, crypto didn't invent margin trading. I think the OP was referring to central counterparty clearing, which typically provides an additional layer of insurance against defaults.