skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
99% of them had the last name 'Pelosi'...

They are the government, so clearly there is no will to do anything about it. The same cretins are re-elected (perhaps because the single, viable, alternate option is even more despicable.

If we, the electorate, are not prepared to oust those that are clearly thieves and liars, than we shall receive that which we deserve.
Suggesing _russian_ newspapers non-ironically to read news is like suggesting someone to read Daily Mail for latests political developments.

Wherever you read your news at the very least make sure there's no russian trace there.

Russian imperial midset is a huge bias in the current situation and the forementioned meduza isn't any different in this regard.
One of the bricks in a business is trust. Not just with customers, but employees too. If you're willing to lie to customers, how do your employees know you're not lying to them?
Where is this assumption coming from that I am advocating for cutting "100% cold turkey"?
They already do - when the value goes down today, they are laid off, or the bosses do more wage theft than usual
Pretty much. Also with the call option you have to pay the premium (and possibly the rollover cost if for some reason you wanted to match exactly the equivalent RSU schedule), on the other hand if the stock price goes down at worst you lose the premium, while the downside with RSU can be much larger.

In practice it would be foolish to invest a large part of your salary in call options of the company you work for. But for the same reason RSUs are also similarly risky and you should always prefer cash and diversify your risk instead.

Edit: If you buy an at the money call and sell the equivalent put you can reduce the premium and replicate the risk profile of the RSU. But I'm not an option trader.
I picked up a 3090 Ti for this purpose given the price drop. The 24 GB of VRAM is hard to beat.
Thanks for explaining - I hadn't considered it from that angle.
The compromised machines call home to domains registered to the defendants in their own names. This is either state level incompetence or script kiddies gone wild.
Dammit Jim, I'm a cyclist, not an ontologist!

[edit to correct snowclone]
Another masterpiece of his is https://www.hustwit.com/rams and I'm quoting directly from the website:

> Rams is a documentary portrait of Dieter Rams, one of the most influential designers alive, and a rumination on consumerism, sustainability, and the future of design.

I watched it during initial COVID lockdown when Gary offered it for free for 24 hours it was an amazing experience to watch...and I'm a programmer, not a designer (LOL!) and loved it like crazy!
I enjoyed the Roon blog post but I found this bit amusing:

> It is easy to bet against new paradigms in their beginning stages: the Copernican heliocentric model of cosmology was originally less predictive of observed orbits than the intricate looping geocentric competitor. It is simple to play around with a large language model for a bit, watch it make some very discouraging errors, and throw in the towel on the LLM paradigm. But the inexorable scaling laws of deep learning models work in its favor. Language models become more intelligent like clockwork due to the tireless work of the brilliant AI researchers and engineers concentrated in a few Silicon Valley companies to make both the model and the dataset larger.

I don't know about you, but if I feed a program with hundreds of billions of "parameters" a huge chunk of the internet and it can then kinda-sorta do a bunch of things, sometimes semi-intelligently, but for the most part couldn't compete with a 4-year-old child... I'd say that's more on the Ptolemaic side of things than the Copernican side. Certainly "it gets better as you feed it more data" is equally true of both paradigms, so I'm not sure what Roon's point is here.

The appeal to the Copernican revolution itself has a bit of a hype-y, cranky odor. Virtually every crank appeals to Copernicus as a role model and vindicator. Real scientists usually don't, because they are busy with the hard, humbling business of actually figuring out how the world works.

Now don't get me wrong, I am thrilled by the research advances of the last couple decades, the foundation models, AlphaGo and AlphaFold, etc. The action model from Adept is great and Adept may become a very successful company. It's all very cool. But every paradigm shift in AI has been heralded as the thing that will Change Everything, and they usually don't. Big, exciting shifts in research don't necessarily mean as much in practice right away. I tend to think that getting AI "right enough" to have a huge, pervasively transformative impact on human life is going to take quite a few decades at least, if not centuries or more.
I'm not anti-tax, I'm anti-property-tax. You could cover community burdens through infrastructure tax, transport tax, real estate sales tax, etc, and even ultimately a wealth tax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF

Trans exclusionary radical feminist

Although sometimes directed at people ho are just transphobes, it's aimed at some feminist who don't consider trans women women or trans men men and have a very negative anti trans views. See JK Rowling controversy
In this case, it's just cost-based pricing. I'm using Render.com to host, and they charge $1.25/mo per custom domain. I can't afford to give away domains for free.

I'm open to some kind of free trial, too.

I don't offer domain name purchasing - so people own their domain, independent of Postcard.
Dunno why the downvotes when this is something I experience too.
Very true. But the crazy thing is, in the opinion of many people, these companies were so overvalued that -80% feels like a "correction" more than a "crash".

Like Nikola is down 94%, but it's still worth $3 billion on paper. This is for an electric vehicle company that staged a video of one of their vehicles being driven, only for us to learn in a fraud trial that it was rolling down a hill, with the excuse that they never claimed the vehicle was moving under its own power, just that it was "in motion." The company is worth nothing at the moment; any "worth" it currently has is a speculative bet that it will eventually produce something of value.

We need to start seeing the GOOG, META, AMZN, etc. stocks tank 80% before we can compare to the dotcom bubble, IMO.
I wonder if you could do better; instead of stuffing that bit at the bottom as an int marker, do your best to represent the int faithfully (with higher order nan bits doing their thing) so you optimistically perform the add and issue the add at the same time as you issue the conditional, then by the time the conditional resolves both your float addition and integer addition have come back and you pick the winner with no branching
Did Zillow charge for this service? You mentioned "vetting" - does that include background and credit checks?
> A deflationary system awards each market participant with an equitable increase of purchasing power relative to the increase in demand for earning more units through value creation.

What do you mean? Holding a currency involves zero value creation.
Hate it? I love self-checkout. I love having more lanes available, and I can do it nearly as fast as the clerks do. It's not strenuous, and the time is spent occupied rather than watching a clerk do something I could do myself.

Sorry for the clerks who lose their jobs over it. I hope they find something else to do, preferably something better paid. But the only people I've met who hate self-checkout seem to begrudge the fact that previously people did work for you that you can now do yourself -- especially as the machines get more reliable and require fewer interventions.
I would like to understand this at a more granular level.

For example:

What type of legislation prevents a company from selling a non-regulated product (not a drug) any way they want?

Why can't a company like Ford launch a new division for direct sales of EV's?

What is the benefit for consumers to force an intermediary into the equation?

How is it that Tesla can sell their vehicles direct?
You forgot one redeeming thing: the soundtrack is pure gold.
The flip side of this is that if the loans weren't given and everybody is closed for lockdown, companies are either firing everybody or going out of business.

If that had happened, all of those people would have been applying for unemployment, COBRA, Obamacare plans, Medicaid, etc as well. It was more a question of which Federal accounts to drain. By giving businesses a clear path to making sure they could keep paying people regardless of whether money was coming in from customers, that was avoided. In order to get business owners to take it though, you had to basically give it to them.

It was highly variable which businesses could find a way to keep operating in the conditions of lock down and COVID protocols. Remote work was easy. Running a bar was not.

Even then you also had exorbitantly high unemployment payments for a long period of time. It wasn't as if the PPP loans were the only money being injected.
That's mostly a hardware matter, of how to make a multi-button flashlight. Handling more buttons in the firmware is no big deal. I have one of these lights and have hacked on the code a little and it is pretty understandable. It is written in C and runs on ATTiny processors, and you compile it with avr-gcc.

Pro tip: most flashlights that use it don't have a good way to actually reflash the firmware. Try intl-outdoors.com for some very nice ones that do. They sell an accessory reflash kit and you'll want that too.

Dang, can you fix the title to correctly spell "Anduril"? That will make it easier to find by search.
That's an ostensibly incorrect POV to take. This is government doing what it does best: legislating things they don't understand to score cheap votes, not to solve actual problems.
Not much difference between 3090 or 3090 ti though, while the price is usually 30% higher.
I didn't dig into whether this was using CSS or Javascript, but the animations and transistions used on this page were subtle and beautiful. The TOC on the left being both interactive and dynamic made it a pleasure to scroll (without scroll hijacking).

I'm digging the new era of presentation now that we've got the excessive transitions out of our system. It's subtle but still has some character. Well done to the team that put this together.
Thanks! Reached out
Pornography is legal.

If Facebook allowed pornography, it would quickly overwhelm the platform due to engagement metrics.

It would make the platform unusable.

Vile hate speech? Completely legal.

But its mere presence would turn away huge numbers of users.

It would make the platform unattractive and hurt the business.

It is in the platform's best interest to block otherwise legal things.
Craigslist >> NextDoor >> OfferUp >> eBay >> FB

But definitely YMMV depending on the city you're in.

I'm glad it's stayed the way it is. Arguably the best marketplace website, period. Simple to post, simple to use, local pickup only. Not infested with ad/promoted listings.
> There's no straightforward regulation that we can put into place that affects only the affluent layers.

Eh? Wealth tax.

> phasing OUT nuclear

I don't agree that we should aggressively phase out nuclear, but it doesn't look like we need to build any new nuclear, just keep the ones we have and phase them out once we can replace their capacity.

> Because when you have a significant drop in standard-of-living over a short period of time, people turn to populism and will reject the paradigm that forces them to have worse lives than their parents

I agree, that mostly this is a cultural problem. People need to be convinced that it is worth it to accept a change like that. Before people read even more catastrophe into my writing, I guess I need to be explicit that I am not advocating for mind control.

> finding non-fossil replacements

I hope that the "wealthy and climate-conscious nations" can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. We can do multiple things at once. Scaling back and investing in research is the way, I hope.
This is beautifully done. I'll see if I can coax my kids into trying it.

However, this gives a lot of credit to Commodore for something that was completely standard at the time on all 8-bit computers (and then some). The real credit belongs to
Dartmouth BASIC [1].

Especially when considering the original context (very very limited machines), the genius of the BASIC model (not so much the language) is something to appreciate.

Interestingly, John G. Kemeny, one of the two behind it, used to work for Richard Feynman and is one of the "martians" [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)
I think it has a lot to do with 2 things:

1. A conscious shift in focus from triaging risks when they occur to stopping threats before they arise.

This is a natural next step from contemporary security and disaster response. Threat response and continuity planning which both incorporate plans that respond to threats were once the primary objective of organizations. They are still valid, but a more modern and proactive approach includes mitigating the risk at the source.

2. A forced increase in material spend toward securing dev and devops ecosystems in a time where they are one of the most targeted parts of the organization.

One only has to watch the news to see this play out... unfortunately after decades of deployment and intranet security emphasis, hackers have recognized that IP and source code are the best way to get money out of a company, and that both are ironically some of the least protected assets.
Yes, that's what I mean with establishing it to be normal and not only when there a bad news. That way you don't automatically assume it's bad when someone just wants to pull you by the side for a quick conversation about something complex but harmless.

I'm curious, how would you suggest people higher up in the org chart start the conversation with you otherwise? Would you prefer them outright telling you the bad news directly with a quick summary, maybe even in public? Don't get me wrong, a lot of the typical HR procedures for bad news are pretty messed up, but then again I don't have any better idea which is why I'm asking
You going to lug that microscope around on a hike with your kids?
https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/modulus/text/features/p...
Aembit: We Chose Rust
UDP -> QUIC -> HTTP/3 -> WebTransport?
> Fiat currency has issues, but at least a government has the authority to conjure money out of nothing and hand it to the poor.

Maybe, but it is much more common to summon money out of nothing and give it to the rich. At least in the US this happens in the form of buying securities from entities that hold them, which from what I understand is kind of similar to proof of stake (you stake some of your currency by buying a security for a chance to get more when you sell it).
Might as well drop my project in here as well.

I spent the last year or so exploring and validating solutions to the "voice cliff" problem found in multimodal voice-controlled devices such as smart displays and TVs. That's when you are controlling some UI with your voice and suddenly you can't, because that particular screen hasn't been designed for voice. Think of Echo Show settings or literally all of Nest Hub's UI. As a result, I came up with a "big idea". So now I want to file some preliminary patent applications for some of the bits that might actually be new inventions. The chances of actually getting a patent are slim - most of the ideas I thought were brilliant were already thought up, patented, published in research papers or even productized, sometimes a decade ago or more! There are a lot of forward thinking researchers out there. And this doesn't even take into account patents which are pending. Apple could have a tranche of patents announced tomorrow which were submitted years ago. Or some startup could come out of stealth and you learn that a well funded group of people way smarter than you has been working on similar problems for years.

Anyways, actual new ideas are rare, but I seem to have a few.

Distilling a big idea into smaller pieces that can be explained in detail is a good exercise, regardless of the eventual success of any patents. So I'm churning through 100+ pages of notes, twice as many patent and paper references, and a bit of code and trying to get it into a state to share with the world. I've never been an academic, but I used to work at Nokia Research Center, so I've worked with quite a few and now I know how hard their job was.
> their billions in wealth

...they no longer possess billions in wealth. The other response to you got it right... you're not scoring 700M unless you have some tax bill on a 3B income to pay.

My whole point is that people keep saying "tax evasion" when what they really mean is "paying your taxes is the right thing to do for society", which are not the same thing. "Tax evasion" would be contriving some scheme to sell this company for profit and not paying the bill while keeping the profit. What happened here is a whole order of magnitude less offensive than that. (Not I think it should be possible, but then, taxing transfers of wealth doesn't make a lot of sense from first principles anyway...)
What are the proposed causes of bipolar disorder?
Absolutely -- usually the value for the seller is a guaranteed (depending on exact terms) minimum volume of sales through a successful channel.
Not much information, wonder why?
I got curious about HTTP/3 and hit a 404 LMAO

What is this?
It's actually not that straightforward to plug in these consumer cards as 4x setup. We spent weeks researching how to achieve up to 7x RTX 3090 setup in a single rig. Could write up our method if anyone is interested.
eBay is tough because the prices you see are the prices the sellers want. I don't think it's in eBay's interest to show you the real price.
Uhh, what does EVGA carry besides graphics cards? Are they going to carry AMD cards now or just going to downsize and survive on other minor component sales?
Apple and Microsoft have done it where the MDM need not actually be the device so much as the data container for all things Office. Instead of Mobile Device Mgmt, it’s more Mobile Data Mgmt.

This allows the company to wipe data that actually belongs to them, but a policy doesn’t have to let them see your activity, mails, photos, or even what other apps you have.

If your employer is running policies for accessing your private stuff, send the right people some docs on how to protect company data w/o invading your privacy.
As somebody who is out of the loop, why might this be?
kodak invented digital photography
Lots left to go down. Think of the global events right now - all we need is one or two more destabilizing events and we're in a bigger heap than we are currently.

The bubble may have burst but doesn't mean you've bottomed. Still haven't seen many companies go belly up or VC fund shutdown. All we've seen is valuations drop and some layoff but not big layoffs and also the valuation dropped from their spectacular highs so its all relative.
I've been working on a programming language for UI designers.

To put it simply, I think the trend towards no-code/low-code is misguided. The assumption behind these products is that code is slow, difficult, and expensive. I disagree - I think that "code" is merely a formalized written expression of what you want. It's actually the most efficient, easiest, and cheapest means to solving digital problems.

I believe anyone can write code if it's specific enough to a domain that they understand, so what I'm trying to do is create a hyper-domain-specific language around designing UI components. The goal is to have a platform agnostic base syntax, with "dialects" that can extend the language for any current or future platforms.

The idea is that designers could write in this language, and developers could build tools that will transpile this code into a consumable format for whatever system they're building for.

I have a very rudimentary demo site that's like halfway built: https://matry.design

edit - here is a simple example of what a component might look like in this language:

component Button
variants
color bg: #007BFF
text label: Click Me

elements
shape ButtonContainer
text ButtonLabel

style ButtonContainer
fill: $bg
padding: 10px

style ButtonLabel
content: $label
font-size: 16px
Based on the details of the suit and the anecdotes here though, it doesn't sound like Amazon actually drops the product. They withhold it from One Click or reduce its listing.

The analogy in a retail setting might be losing your signage or being yanked from a good location.
My (non-professional) opinion is that Intel has invested a lot of money into making really good memory and I/O controllers. We need someone to do that in the ARM space as well, which is a really hard-sell. There are no manufacturers out there that want to pay the ARM licensing fee, period. Apple can eat the costs because they sell direct-to-consumer and like to control as much of their stack as possible. Other companies are probably groaning at the thought of fixing all of ARM's problems just so they can be treated as a second-class platform relative to Apple Silicon. Besides Nvidia or Qualcomm, I don't really think there are many companies poised to deliver this, much less an incentive to provide anything.

RISC-V on the other hand, seems like it could be ripe for rapid iteration. We're obviously still in the super-early days of the ISA, but the lack of oppressive licensing has already been a boon for the dozens of hobbyist boards we've seen released in the past few years. As long as Apple doesn't try to EEE the ISA like they're trying to do with ARM, I think the future is pretty bright for open architectures.
Did "Obamacare" do anything to end this phenomenon? That hasn't been the experience of people I know.
Is this a nice way of saying they're winding down their business?
GamersNexus has a long video on it: https://youtu.be/cV9QES-FUAM
>Ancient knowledge of usefully precise values of geometric constants, even where not perfect, should not provoke skepticism: they could measure. Building these values into sacred structures need not have been meant to communicate anything but their own piety. Every dimension must be in some ratio to others, and may often be freely chosen. Why would they not choose sacred numbers for sacred constructions?

When I think about Neom the Line I imagine that even in ancient Egypt architects tried to hype up their designs in some way. A pyramid does not leave much leeway to changes in the design. All you can change is absolute dimensions and angles/ratios. Imagine a VC pitch where entrepreneurs are trying to outdo each other on having the best ratio. Architects that have the same idea will compete based on quality, the better approximation will win.
There is a long video about this here from GamersNexus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9QES-FUAM
Agreed, although the sad thing is that eBay/FB have a large audience.. so if I fail to sell something elsewhere I'll usually have to switch to one of those two :(
Extreeeeeemely careful regression testing.
With it coming from a small-business employer who already is obviously prone to shady and deceptive things, I'd assume it comes down to a constructive dismissal via intentionally lowering work satisfaction per your first guess.

...which makes me hope she found this Q&A online and works somewhere like CA that imposes good-faith requirements on at-will employment.

I'm fairly sure letting someone go over refusing to commit what's arguably low-level fraud (blatantly lying about whether fulfillment has already occurred in the course of a commercial transaction) might be treated as a bad-faith termination. In such cases the state can be very employee-friendly, especially if considering it as an official termination then puts the employer on the wrong side of other rules re: other employee protections, final paychecks, etc. The religious aspect would just be icing on the cake.