skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are the Chinese responding to Xi Jinping's third term?
Don't know about the TOS, but there's been an option for reporting misgendering in the report menu for a while now. Maybe a year-ish?
We could have NEG instead of SUB, but with the constant folding it's a wash. DIV is already an HLOP with reciprocal (used to use POW, but that was slower. And what would you implement RELU in terms of?
the transportation of "heat" is a lot more complicated than the transportation of electricity. I'm not opposed to putting insulated piping everywhere to transport hot water around. It's better than building bridges to nowhere, but i can't help but feel that the losses will scale badly. Pipes have a lot of surface area.
I would buy you another cup of coffee to replace it, but money is a little tight these days...
So your entire analysis of whether or not there's a recession revolves around anecdotal evidence of employment in a very niche sector?
N=1 samples of M random variables.
Place a wick in the center of the puddle and run out out the drain hole and down a couple inches lower than the lowest part of the puddle.

The wick will act like a self-priming siphon, and carry (wick) the water out the hole and drip from the lowest point of the wick.
Some problems with this, besides the problems that other posters have already mentioned.

* One vote counter can't make much of a difference by themselves, so you need a conspiracy of vote counters. But conspiracies are difficult to bring about and keep secret in the real world. This is especially so if you have to pay the individuals involved – which seems likely, given that vote counting is boring, thankless volunteer work.

* Everyone involved in the conspiracy risks going to jail, but hardly anyone benefits on a personal level. Why would anyone risk it?

* The extremely large number of spoiled ballots would be suspicious. Especially as they'd probably look rather unlike ordinary spoiled ballots.

* Observers would notice that some counters (those involved in the conspiracy) were processing many more spoiled ballots than others.

I'm reminded of Number 2 pointing out do Dr. Evil that he could quadruple his profits if he shifted his resources away from evil empire building and towards Starbucks. The money and resources spent on rigging the count could be spent more efficiently on 100% legal means of increasing vote count, such as canvasing (= knocking on supporters' doors and encouraging them to go vote).
Musk says Twitter saw revenue slump as activist groups pressured advertisers
This. Who kill by capitalism will be killed by capitalism. What's that noise (tik tok reference) about that "creating and Ethical A.I." and I'm a God you not you trust. Nonsense. ¿What that noise?
They'll be back soon. No stopping this.
Since Netflix is NOT deploying it's code/Devices to users it would be exactly the same with a GPL.

>it says "use my work and don't give anything back".

That's not written.

But compared to GPL you just could read the whole BSD-2 license in 1 minute.
> I might be a bit idealistic here but I like the notion of respect

Doesn't respect work two ways? You give respect, you get respect?

It's easy to make Elon Musk the bad guy, but people who were let go were freeloaders. Let's not try to make them anything but that, we've all seen plenty of Twitter employees using up work-time to be active on various social media. They didn't show respect to the employer because their work and demeanor did not reflect it.

The "boss bad, worker good" just doesn't apply here. Twitter is a troubled company, I'm surprised Elon bought it in the first place but I'm absolutely not surprised by the wave of layoffs.

You can assume the moral high ground and employ the talent that Twitter has decided to part with and prove your words with actions. Are you ready to do so?

Should we, the IT experts, not be thrilled by so much experienced talent being available for employment?
The words are, “Is there anything the court would like to review to reconsider?”
Are you going to have experts examine the hardware of 1 million+ voting machines in the United States? And are all of those witnesses going to be infallible and trusted by the public?
Great post and I do apologize if I came off as 'not caring' about people working independently it's just if we do broad characterizations we have to compare broadly and so few work independently.

Maybe an idea there to start an independent business owners healthcare association or something that redistributes profits via lower premiums or something? How the hell do you start something like that?
Definitely. My second sentence was directed at buyers.
Now that would be cool. Although costly, if it were discovered.
This is what people are referring to w.r.t Musk and HSR, not that he caused the mismanagement:

https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1167410460125097990

Separately the Florida "HSR" isn't all that comparable because it only goes 80mph with a planned max of 125mph for future routes, and afaict a lot of it was built on an existing corridor. Again, not to say California HSR has been well managed, but imo it's not a particularly useful datapoint to compare against.
"Mechanical batteries" are a thing, like flywheels or hydroelectric reservoirs. Batteries store energy, the electricity that flows in and out is just one way to manifest that energy. You could measure it in Joules rather than Watt-hours.

At the end of the day, a chemical battery is a reusable bomb that is designed to go off very, very slowly.
Depends on your definition of company. They've got the same owner for sure, but they've got separate marketing divisions with separate budgets etc afaik
>if you think for a second that you can replace US developers, building products for Americans with someone from Nigeria you are off your ass.

Looking at some of the crap coming out of the faangms - and a few others - I'll take a bet on the non-us developers ('nigerians')/ ui-deciders making a quite a few substantial improvements, and certainly not changing things just for the fuck of it.
My hosts file is now full of the software-i-use-the-most's ip adresses so they don't/ can't auto-update when they try to phone home and all end up looking the same, whereas previously each had 'character'.
It seems like you have multiple binaries (otherwise, I don't see how you would save space) in a context without an operating system, but do have abstractions like a linker; throwing this out there, you may be able to sort of fake having dynamically linked binaries with transparent disk compression. The shared code gets compressed, and you trade the overhead of your linker for the overhead of your compression, and probably roughly break even.
I think the bigger problem with batteries is capex per kWh, rather than efficiency.
You don’t. You just fire the number based largely on cost and let the remaining people pick up the pieces.
100x slower would definitely be an issue. I am prompted for my sudo password probably 30x daily.
"- Just landed (3 months ago) on a job that pays me 20% more than the previous one. I could have switched jobs years before, but I just got the courage to do it now"

Congrats! Your are now the new person and will be the first fired when the recession hits!

There is a recession/depression coming and I am sorry to tell you your timing is awful. Hiring can be pretty much stable or increase until a recession hits.
And there he goes blaming the "enemies of free speech"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880
To back this up: I'm an unemployed Python dev in the U.S. with a credible resume and GitHub profile, actively looking for something remote. $140k would be absolutely fine, no interest in FAANG or shiny companies, in fact for various reasons I've been looking primarily at smaller places. I'm not really worried yet and I've had some luck, but it's definitely not the case that anyone skilled can count on just walking into a job. I've been rejected out of hand where I met the essentials of the posting and had no doubt I could do the job.

I'd like to hear the aforementioned spiel about the "advanced Python ecosystem," which to me could mean anything between "knows what a virtual environment is" and "ML/TensorFlow expert."
The Housing Market Has Gone from Bad to Worse
Reported here: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-30

He usually has very accurate inside information.
> It’s also been ported to Linux

Last time I checked there were several different ports floating around. Now I see at least Debian has chosen opendoas, I guess people have mostly converged to that one. Also fun stuff like https://xn--1xa.duncano.de/slicer69-doas.html

The point being that while openbsd doas is undoubtedly very nice, the linux ports are separate projects
> SpaceX is not about "making humanity interplanetary", it is about selling cheap rockets for commercial exploitation of space (and/or it is a DoD weapons "defense" program).

Sure, as an interim step to making humanity interplanetary. Are you suggesting that he could find commercial success without taking those intermediate steps?

> Tesla is a car company, aimed at making and selling cars.

Tesla make solar roofs and grid level energy storage. Like I said, it's portfolio is very clearly geared at climate change solutions.

> Stopping global warming requires more mass transit, and Musk is actively opposed to that.

Maybe he is (I've heard he's a bit of a germaphobe). I suspect he also recognizes that America is a car culture and that that won't change anytime soon.
There appears to be a book, recently submitted. (recently published?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33461764
This for sure, but the codebases that we alreaduly have in C/C++ aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
To be fair, foundation ownership is used more as a way to bypass estate taxes in German businesses [0] as a charitable foundation can continue to give 30% of it’s income to the family who founded the foundation. This is a common corporate structure for a number of other family run German companies (ThyssenKrupp, Aldi, Lidl, Bertelsmann, etc) to bypass estate taxes.

In American terms, it would be the equivalent of the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation owning 60-70% of Meta’s stock, and Zuckerburg’s children continuing to get dividends and a significant ownership stake in FB while also bypassing estate taxes.

[0] - https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f1b666a8-1257...
Caching is a universally difficult problem to solve, but point taken. The majority of my NextJS sites have been deployed to Vercel, but a few have also been hosted on AWS and DigitalOcean. When it comes to incremental regeneration, I didn't use it if the page needed to be 100% up to date for every user, even when on Vercel.

As for the forking it comment, that's exactly the point. Vercel is investing heavily into NextJS, spending millions of dollars on hiring full time developers to work solely on it, and they give NextJS away for free. So having the best Next experience on the platform that they own and control and can fine tune makes sense to me. Nobody is forcing you to use NextJS or any other library.
Technically, I think it's more correct to say GraalVM includes/has a JVM, it runs a couple of languages, not just JVM based ones.
Sorry, but there is no evidence that either of those two plans are feasible at all.
It'd be smart to legalize the construction of many kinds of new housing, as of right, rather than banning it in the vast majority of places, https://missingmiddlehousing.com/
Parent is saying "on iPhone I can't even install my own apps without paying $100, therefore I use (choose) Android".
I don't know enough about the statistics to really give an opinion on that, but I'm usually in the "progress in technology is good fit humanity" camp, so I think I'll agree here until proven otherwise.
With this kind of mass and rapid layoffs, I will expect more losses in medium and long term since you destroy a working system. A lot of failures will emerge because no one is left for monitoring or fixing some issues.
I do know this for sure:

'So it's not just "better", it's "Better" with a capital 'B'. Nothing else out there comes even close. The Linux dcache is simply in a class all its own.' -Linus Torvalds

https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds...

I do realize that the dcache is not a direct relation to the scheduler (but will certainly impact it), but I trust that performance enthusiasts will go to great lengths to extend Linux's top benchmarks in TPC and elsewhere.

It has also not been widely reported that a) Oracle posted a top TPC-C score shortly after acquiring Sun, running on 11g/Solaris SPARC 10, and b) OceanBase has now beaten that by an order of magnitude.

To see both the Oceanbase and Oracle 11g/Solaris scores, historical benchmarks must be enabled:

https://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_results5.asp?print=fal...
A lot of people like working for Musk. Your thesis needs to grapple with that.
No, in that case the language will do that for you.
How long have you been traveling on trains with your goat? How does he enjoy it, as long as folks aren't irritating him by blasting audio?
Just checked my tiny Nanode 1 GB image (Fremont) running Debian and it's indeed running dhclient. Still have access, but I need the instance this weekend for a virtual event. Kind of sucky timing for a potential outage, Linode.
You have to include the capex cost of the heat pumps. This design uses no equipment at the customer's homes, just pipes of hot fluid. Those pipes already exist in Finland, where district heating is relatively common. The next logical step is pumped thermal energy storage, where you pump heat into the sand using a heat pump - but there is significant capex associated with that.
They don't, in any of the cases.

I do get annoyed occasionally by the difference in window size between monitors, but I ~ never have a window overlapping the boundary so it doesn't impact me.
> Tech was a bastion of "treat your employees right, and they'll be productive".

I can't verify the veracity of this claim. Tech spans a wide spectrum of job conditions. I have worked in traditional suit and tie places, and show up with pizza stained sweat pants places.

Tech is a bastion of one thing in my opinion. It's a place where employees hold disproportionate power over the company. It's the one place where there is such a labor shortage, and enough smart people, that the companies will do what the employee wants in order to keep them happy. Make no mistake, no company tech or not wants to bend over backwards like tech companies have. Hence, all of the effort in outsourcing and getting code camps running.

Don't make the mistake of thinking tech is charitable. A lot of engineers I know are very soft because they think like this. Tech CEOs have a problem no other CEO has. A legion of smart, hard to replace, highly paid people that have enough power to demand more or less what they want.

The whining about Musk has to stop. He's being a dick about this because he has a personal vendetta against the old guard. When you look past the personal vendetta he is doing what anyone would do when a billion dollar turd is dropped on their desk. Dramatic, fast, often negatively viewed change.

Ask yourself, if Twitter was such an incredible company would the CEO have taken the offer? Probably not. The C-levels saw the ship sinking and rightfully jumped at the opportunity. Who is responsible for this lack of profitability? The old guard. So, task #1 is to get rid of them.
Little hat-trick in vain as New Zealand seal semi-final berth
I was providing my personal anecdotal experience of having the basically the same net income in 3 places.
37% federal tax also does not account for 6.8% state tax and the 3.8% NYC tax which I know does not apply to all of the US, but then we get into the territory where we have to address that I will probably not have same income in bumblefuck alabama anyway.

People here are talking like the difference between US taxes and EU taxes is 20% or more, when in reality it’s maybe 5%
My take is that many get stuck in rapid cycles between "Plan and Do". Without taking the time to actually study the results to build plans based on what you find, you are likely not understanding why you are succeeding or failing.

That is, even if you are currently succeeding, if you are stuck in too rapid of a "plan and do" cycle, you are likely to get blind sided by what you aren't learning.
And we left the recession in Q3?

https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product
Apple Celebrates the Holiday Season
Thought TikTok algorithm should be a concern.
We need a voter verified paper trail, based on an open standard, that can be read by different tabulator machines running different software, and still be hand counted just in case.
This is basically fake news and a performative suit.

The WARN act states that companies that dont provide notice have to pay 60 days severance. the penalty is reduced by any severance pay from the employer. Twitter is already paying 60 days of severance.

I know this is a heated topic with diverse opinions, but lets try to improve the quality of information and knowledge..

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
I have friends who were in IT at UCL, and yes, it sounds horrifying. All the people who actually knew how to do things for users are gone, and there are hundreds of managers who can't and won't do anything instead.

I'm not sure it was a rational decision based on experiences with proprietary software. It sounds like good old grift to me.
They were guard and hunting dogs. Noisemakers, essentially.

Herding was mostly done by people, often kids, and fences, though some neighbors did use herding dogs.

I can understand how trained herding dogs can also be important, but it was certainly not my experience in the countryside.
I'll come off as glib. but... why? So third parties can make a funny youtube infographic timeseries?
> So far most of the layoffs I've seen have been for nontechnical roles at big tech.

That's not the case. Engineers may not be as numerous but in each of the recent layoffs engineers were let go as well.
Messaging services don’t need the same amount of moderation as micro blogging do.
https://archive.ph/YPAXt
Prior art: The Boxcar Children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boxcar_Children

Not to be confused with the yet to be written The Bockscar Children, which would be a bleaker series altogether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockscar
> Your drag area figure for Tesla Semi is absurdly high.

Don't think so. But I made a different error. See further down.

Drag equation [1]:

> FD = 1/2 * rho * u² * cD * A

> The reference area A is typically defined as the area of the orthographic projection of the object on a plane perpendicular to the direction of motion.

So A in the case of a truck carrying a standard container cannot be smaller than the section of the container. And because the container cannot hover millimetres above the ground but must rather be carried at a height of at least half a metre you'll have A > greater than the cross section of the container.

Which is what I calculated above.

I did make an error though by multiplying the drag area of the Model S by the drag coefficient, since the 0.562 m² already takes the coefficient into account.

So you're right, the factor Semi/Model S is ~ 4.68 based on the numbers I assumed.

It does look more feasible indeed based on this number.

Yet I'm still sceptic a battery 5 times larger will suffice because of higher friction and because I doubt regenerative braking will recover the same proportional amount of energy for the Semi as for the Model S.

Let's see. Decelerating the 20,000 kg Semi going at 100 kph at mild 0.10 g requires a force of 0.1 * 9.81 m/s² * 20,000 kg = 19,620 N.

At a velocity of 100 kph that equals (not taking drag and other friction into account) an initial (lossless) braking power of 545 kW that could be regained by regenerative braking. Okay, could be feasible as well, if charging can be ramped up to this rate within the fraction of a second.

If you brake at 0.5 g though, you'd have to suddenly feed in the ball park of 2 MW into the battery. Not sure that's possible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_equation
omg, even this!

so, thanks a lot MI5!

Btw: I still do not understand why the English did not close the Suez canal to Italian fleet on their way to Eritrea/Ethiopia
FWIW you can get Let's Encrypt working on outdated Apple hardware by manually loading the CA certificate.
It's the natural progression I think.

- Step 1. Know nothing about computer technology, and think it's magic.

- Step 2. Begin to learn about computer technology, and think it's fascinating.

- Step 3. Learn a lot about computer technology, and lose your trust in most developers/engineers that aren't yourself, and avoid said technology.
Fused into one operation since the Tensor isn't resolved until I call .numpy()

kafka@tubby:/tmp$ cat fuse.py
from tinygrad.tensor import Tensor
x = Tensor.zeros(1)
for i in range(5):
x += i
print(x.numpy())

kafka@tubby:/tmp$ OPT=2 GPU=1 DEBUG=2 python3 fuse.py
using [<pyopencl.Device 'Apple M1 Max' on 'Apple' at 0x1027f00>]
**CL** 0 elementwise_0 args 1 kernels [1, 1, 1] None OPs 0.0M/ 0.00G mem 0.00 GB tm 0.15us/ 0.00ms ( 0.03 GFLOPS)
**CL** copy OUT (1,)
[10.]
This might be exploitable in some cases. There has been a "heated" discussion in 2014 about off-by-one NUL byte heap overflow that lead to this blogpost from projectzero:

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-poisoned-...

There have been other examples where only a 1 could be written.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I’ve participated in such kind of discussions in 1990s when we were moving our Fido group to Usenet. Fido was very strictly moderated, since data was carried over people’s personal phone lines and nobody wanted to spend money on carrying garbage. But Usenet has no such restrictions and eventually we decided to go unmoderated, because no matter whom we elected - and we knew these people rather personally over the years - moderator’s powers were always abused. Going unmoderated was scary to me at first - I was for keeping the moderation, yes, but the experience turned out to be quite enjoyable - I just needed to teach my spinal brain those simple rules I’ve outlined. Now to your arguments.

Why on earth I would want to control your (for example) emotional state? You are a grown up person, your medical decisions are yours to take, not mine. Yes, angry conversations are long and stupid and are always reduced to “inventive” cursing - but a lot of people seem to enjoy this style of “argument” - who am I to stop them? Why stop others’ fun? All I want is - not to read and preferably not even to see such kind of “discussions”.

> You'll also find you can't keep up with these filters of yours

But I can. All I ask is just some help from the server.

> surely you have better things to do than personally moderate every forum you use?

It’s much easier than you think. I do not object to people hiring cleaning companies to clean their houses, but I prefer to clean my house myself. And this Dyson handheld helps very much. Same goes for moderation - why delegate this dirty work to others, especially when I’ve observed how even reasonable people I personally know tend to abuse this power?
This is one of the strongest arguments for 'piracy' and it should be discussed more.

In the 'western' world piracy is a dubiously moral way to save money, and employed people can access the work by saving or doing a little more work like visiting a library.

But the copyright system prohibits much of the world from gaining knowledge and participating in culture. Over 1.9 billion people, or 26.2 percent of the world’s population, were living on less than $3.20 per day in 2015. This is not a particularly moral situation, and piracy directly addresses it at the expense of the western world's property rights.
There should be a movie like moneyball for this guy.