skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Question: Time appears to be the X-Axis, but what is the Y-Axis in these graphs?

e.g. Canada is described as "similar to Americans", but their plot has a completely different shape. Why?
This is just appalling protectionism; is it really something that we tech people should cheer on?
Incorrect. You can't fly your drone at 2000' AGL in almost any circumstances, anywhere, ever. Elevation is also the wrong term. Drones are capped in the US at 400 feet above ground level, with exceptions for part 107 pilots within 400 feet of a structure or terrain feature, and specific situational waivers.

There is no specific rule against flying even 1 foot above ground over someone else's property, though it's very unlikely that doing so would not violate other rules unrelated to airspace. These include operating a drone unsafely, violating laws against harassment, and photography in a context where someone would have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Whenever these proclamations stress me out, I remember this:

The atom of the economy is a human. There are almost 8 billion of us. We will continue to need shelter and food. We will continue to want better and better lives. There will always be booms and busts. But demand will never disappear.
Yes - a bike cargo rack.

You have a waterproof bag that attaches to it. Problem completely solved.

It rains quite a bit in Netherlands, and it's the biking capital of the world.

It's almost as if rain isn't really that big of a deal.
You teach abstract algebra and real analysis that’s light on proofs?
Seems like the development of a specialist function to assess applicants diversity statements would be a logical next step, with this person presumably having a right of veto on candidates (can't imagine there being 'do-overs'). Does anyone know if such a function already exists at MIT or other academic institutions?
Nice, thanks for the reference. Seems like the main bash script has 1.5k lines, which is still a lot, though much less than nvm.
Where did you get your legal training?
As an US citizen “tech person”, I absolutely cheer this on.
Elon Musk to Build “Alternative Phone” If Apple and Google Boot Twitter
The kicker in the article that "nobody is going to grant access out of the goodness of their heart," is absolutely untrue. There are fox hunts and hikes in my area where landowners grant access for this reason. What has done the most harm is insurance and the risk of liability and litigation from people injuring themselves on your land, and that has made landowners become very aggressive about trespassers, as it just takes one "slippin' jimmy" scammer (like the many auto insurance collision scammers already out there) to put their home at risk and cost them a significant settlement. That liability makes any trespassing at all a present and reckless threat against your home.

Public land is lovely until you have vagrancy problems as well. I live around conservation land near a major suburb and the number of loiterers, trespassers, and poachers you get is way more than you expect. When you are close to the city, the relative isolation becomes a real home invasion risk. Privacy and respect for property and boundaries is a very regional value, and attitudes against something as obvious as littering just aren't universal either. The corner crossing case in the article where there is some tendentiously legal loophole is really an example of people lacking respect for property and going where they explicitly aren't welcome. Nobody has a problem with people coming to appreciate nearby public land, but use and abuse of it without any value or contribution to the surrounding community is a problem. Instagram has become an utter cancer that way, where people drive into your driveway to take a picture, and then you get 10 others showing up because they want the same location. Someone who demonstrates that lack of respect for privacy and property should be incentivized to do so with whatever imposed cost is adequate, imo.
It depends on the context. For example, with business meetings slides tend to be jam packed with information. They're already a glorified document with a narrator. The speaker is there to enhance the slides. It works well to hand those out ahead of time.

For a proper presentation, like at a conference, IMO slides should be there to supplement the speaker. Not the other way around. Thus the amount of hard information on the slides themselves should be minimal. Because of this, hand outs don't make as much sense.

And of course a third angle. If one follows my philosophy for conference talks & such, then there's the problem that distributing slides after the fact are useless, because all the important information was conveyed by the speaker. But that's another discussion altogether.
> We're talking about two programs with exactly the same purpose - ingest TypeScript and output JavaScript. It's a pretty clear-cut comparison, IMHO.

There are an infinite number of ways to design two programs for that task, with different trade-offs. You can't draw conclusions about which language is faster based on two different implementations by different people.

> Go is great, I like it. Rust is great too. I recommend you to do what the esbuild author did - test it and choose for yourself, don't bother too much about others' opinion.

I'm actually writing Rust code the last two years. It's been a while since I've used Go. But I'd rather use Go if the problem allows for a garbage collector. It's just simpler than managing it manually in Rust with the borrow checker and its rules. This is my opinion, nobody else's.
If you're a Mac user, try GitX. Pros include:

1. browsing/searching/sorting commit histories
2. diffs (what you'd expect from a GUI)
3. super lightweight

Cons are:

1. can't resolve conflicts (but it makes easy commits easier)
2. last release was 2014 (but it's perfectly usable as is)

http://rowanj.github.io/gitx/
Excitement and skepticism about new Alzheimer's drug lecanemab
Also some previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33011791

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33084958

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33008270

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33009097
How easy is it to obtain sodium from common salt?
The diagram of Italy as depicted here could just be a circle labelled "words". What a joke.
He also ran for president from prison (and lost). Might be relevant in the next few years.
It is rare because one of the very first things anyone does if they're concerned about allocations is replace glibc malloc.
> This means that had this been a critical criterion when I was applying for jobs, I’d be flipping burgers now. Several of my colleagues who have read these requirements have said the same. People would have more burgers, but who would have written a book on speciation?

Presumably someone who was capable of :

demonstrates knowledge of challenges related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

outlines your track record of working with diverse groups of people and advancing DEI.

concretely discusses what you will do as a faculty member to actively encourage DEI and belonging within your group, department, and community.

Which doesn't seem particularly difficult for someone able to write an academic book on speciation, unless they've been actively avoiding engaging with the world around them and/or are trying to make some overdramatic political point.
Also similar to most pdfs and documents nowadays. Even though most documents will never be printed, people still separate typed documents by pages.

I personally love the new pageless layout google docs has. Removes all the distracting margins and headers/footers between pages.
Indeed, I'd love to see the Fritz Lang version of TRON!
This was obvious when the Biden regime added 87,000 new IRS agents. Of course that many agents need a lot of new targets, and those targets are not going to be the ultra-wealthy.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republicans-call-it-an-army...
Always interesting to see how certain kinds of political speech were never really protected by the First Amendment.

And to remember that WW1 was ended, in part, by labour action: the October Revolution in Russia, and the Kiel Mutiny in Germany.

The full speech is here: https://genius.com/Eugene-v-debs-anti-war-speech-annotated
Well, presumably German schools and the like will make a switch to OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Collabora, Koffice, or something like that.
What is the speed limit in your city? Most gas cars are most efficient at something like 60 kmh. This thing goes 45 kmh. So not that much difference for efficiency[1]. After all, we are talking about a vehicle that is only 20-30% efficient to start with.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Speed-fuel-consumption-c...
The dictionary definition is "the area close to where one lives, regarded with proprietorial concern"
Not using it government/critical telecom makes sense but other but a general rule seems like a big overreach.
Indeed I did mean in the US. The rest of us in the world are more acutely aware ;-).
Unsurprisingly, that seems extremely murky to me. If the Israelis had a problem with Bull, why didn't they take it up with Canada or even the US, who would have given them a friendly hearing and been able to find ways to stop Bull without assassination? I mean, a few mill in the bank and a cushy ballistics research job at Lockheed would seem to be reasonable. What am I missing?
WhatsApp chats are end-to-end encrypted (even their iCloud backups are). Telegram group messages are always plaintext / available to Telegram, and Telegram 1:1 direct messages are plaintext by default.
i think "not one inch across my property line" makes sense, but there is still a problem to resolve regarding access to public land. in particular the article describes a problem with public land being inaccessible except through "corner crossing".
Thats the point of passkeys. They can be backed up and sync'ed between devices.

But even if you don't want to use the popular passkey implementations, you can still easily register multiple authenticators which mitigates the risk of losing one. On a new site, I'll register my hardware FIDO key, my phone as a passkey, and my laptop authenticator (either touch-id on MacOS or tpm-fido on linux machines).

Soon there will be other passkey implementations that will also support syncing and backups (1password for example is working on this).

Don't settle for a phishable authentication method.
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You conflate seeing the future, and wanting to improve it. Microsoft very likely tried to subvert the future. See the Halloween Documents: http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/halloween1.html
The key is they broke the second floor, fell down through the first floor, and into the cesspool.

Likely most were knocked unconscious by the fall (that's gonna be anywhere from 15-30 feet) and then drowned.
Another reason is relatively lax environmental laws for rare earth production and electronics manufacturing. Interestingly, to your point, fracking and other hydrocarbon production techniques, are at least as bad if not worse but seem to get a relatively free pass.

That said the advent of a sodium ion technology that’s practical at scale opens the door for competition by decoupling rare earth production from battery costs. Local rare earth saves on tariffs and transportation costs. Sodium earth makes it a raw technological affair and the west is still leading in technological innovation. Manufacturing is already globally spread out for battery production, so raw cost of labor must not be a primary component of cost.
anybody got a tl;dw?
Some portion of that suffering was thanks to capitalist ideologues who actively worked to undermine the success of alternative systems. We don’t really know how well other systems work in the modern world because we haven’t really given any of them a fair shake.
Having the hardware tuned to specific performance curve (via software) doesn't bother me as long as I know when I buy the car what I'm buying. There are reasons to do that, long term wear and tear, safety, insurance costs, co2, etc. But I resent being made to pay a subscription for something that has no natural need for one, especially when it requires no ongoing work for the company I am paying. It's slimey and only exists to erode ownership, increase the cusumers reliance on the manufacturer and will disporportionately affect poor people whose wealth is further lessened by never properly owning anything.
Silver because of industrial uses?
Used to be the time of the year to stock up on consumables for MTB riders too. Tyres, brake pads, pedals, grips, and anything that gets consumed/exhaussted during a year. Nowadays if you use any price tracker, you can see it's all a scam.
Somehow nobody thought this could have been an assassination. The convenience was there. It must have been a relief for King Henry, too.

Do the history books tell if there was a sufficiently anal investigation and whether they ever got to the bottom of it?
Microsoft has equipment and employees in Europe and specifically, in Germany. Plenty of room to expect them to follow the law.
I just watched that whole video and don't even use X-Plane.
There is no way that CATL is going to escape the US policy of suppressing China's technological development. Batteries are going to follow SC's - very likely next in line - and Tesla's reliance on CATL batteries is the weak point upon which Musk's empire will fall. Destroying CATL will probably set back EV adoption by some years, replacement suppliers will surely be built if industrial policy continues to be applied
> thread pool

May reduce wall-clock time but increase total compute time (and so also power). It's less an optimization than a tradeoff.

> please stop malloc'ing for each token

It doesn't, only when it gets put in the map. (And while the particular allocation could be smaller, something guaranteed to represent a specific arbitrary-length string has to be put in the map, which is going to malloc.)

> prealloc map for found tokens (better to just allocate room for 200k words).

Has no meaningful effect on performance.

> SIMD would optimise your inner-loop quite a lot.

No, as pointed out elsethread, it's a measurable boost but nowhere near the 10x you need to make the main claim (I/O not the bottleneck) be wrong. Not even 2x.

> `word = append(word, c)` <= this is very slow

Has no meaningful effect on performance.

Perhaps you should read the whole post.
Maybe we could even convert existing mcdonalds locations into battery-swap and electric vehicle charging stations
That is indeed one of the Shami’s I’d have had in mind! Though there are others. It’s a fairly popular name for restaurants it seems.
It was also a way to avoid handling chalk when whiteboards weren't a thing.
What I think is surprising about this legislation is apparently Zelle is not required to do the same reporting threshold.
https://www.zellepay.com/faq/does-zelle-report-how-much-mone...

So IMO, this set up is almost entirely an anti-fintech play by big banks.

It does seem like there is a way to flag personal verses business transactions as in the FAQ, https://www.irs.gov/payments/form-1099-k-frequently-asked-qu... -- gifts and splitting meals should not be classified as 1099-k income.

I imagine the net impact is more folks will want to get paid via Zelle, to avoid the hassle.

Academically, It would be interesting to know who decided Zelle didn't need to be reported, while Venmo/Paypal did need to start reporting everything.
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I don't blame Germans and Germany for taking advantage, but the political maturity to use this to create security and prosperity for everyone in Europe is completely lacking. I suppose unification and the problems afterwards are somewhat to blame.
The Oli makes the Cybertruck look normal.
It's not beyond the realm of possibility that in the event of a real war between China and the US that our Chinese-made smartphones and drone toys would suddenly not be trustworthy. The NATO IC's (and SV) software wizardry (like super clever driver weaknesses snuck into mainline linux) always gets trumped by a little this and that added to hardware (an extra component on the pcb or worse, a tiny corner of a chip image).

To what extent do the industrial designers of consumer hardware take into account the threat of a last second modification of the design to suit the needs of the manufacturer? To what extent would such modifications be detectable by...anyone, ever? And what would it look like? The software version would be a bad network driver that examines all traffic for a specific triggering pattern that would take over the machine at first as uninvasively as possible, starting by modifying the kernel and the boot image (to stay activated). Establish contact with attacker and examine the user and their accounts. Some users are more valuable than others, having privileged positions in large companies, control or knowledge about important infrastructure, and so on. Or they may be celebrities or other people of note. Or they may be friends of those people. It would be useful to undermine everyone at once, but using a stochastic process that minimizes a torrent of data. Oh and it's probably better for china to maintain at least some of their C&C outside of China to make it less obvious who the actor is, and to maintain connectivity for longer. Ideally the adversary C&C would exist within the target country. In the USA you'd want a confusing relationship that is plausibly legitimate, and turn it into a free speech issue, slowing down the legal system, and so working to China's benefit. While the justice system tries to do it's job, you use the data you gather to build a very accurate and detailed picture of the nation's capabilities, all with names and leverage attached. Over a short period of time, say a few days, what havoc could such an entity do to our nation, if it could send messages as anyone to anyone and be undetectable as illegitimate?

And we worry about DDOS botnets!

(Note: if we had on-shore manufacturing it wouldn't solve the fundamental issue which is that humans can mass manufacture invisible machines that can't be inspected. These machines are so small they cannot be perceived, not even with the most powerful magnifying instruments[0].)

Of course, all of this could be way off base. An equally valid (if more cynical) reason for sanctions like this is that regulatory capture and campaign generosity is finally paying off for someone.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_microscope And the preparation methods required destroy the object under test, such as a chip image.
Dupe of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33741032

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33742431
Would definitely want to watch it! That synthetic style (synthetic, as in "put-together" as well as in "created by technology") nicely picks up the expressionist high-contrast b/w that was so great in the original Tron's composite images and applies its attitude to the other visual dimensions as well.

If Jeff Bezos were to fall in love with that look and indulge in another of his "it's my money and I want to see it!" film hobbies, I wonder if a well-funded team like that could actually pick up the look and make it a movie reality? Or would they inevitably fail to capture the magic and churn out yet another interchangeable cgi rumble?
Why are the stakes so high? Well, research "integrated communications and sensing" to find out. IEEE is pushing this paradigm shift. The radio hardware isn't just being used for communications between active devices anymore. It'll be useable for passive and biometric sensing applications, including but not limited to passive localization and identification of people without phones. Next generation wireless standards are being explicitly designed to facilitate this.

That said, for some reason I doubt that hardware deployed in the 5 eyes nations won't also be used for surveillance purposes, just that the institutions controlling the systems will be different.
Hello, I come from the land up over

As in I come from Norway and winter tires for bikes work just fine :)
> The vast majority of people aren't going to use more than basic algebra and geometry

Most high school students take nothing past algebra and geometry, so what specifically are you complaining about?

As far as I can tell, most adults in the US working in a non-technical field do not understand very basic mathematical concepts like fractions, percentages, or negative numbers, and can’t really follow a line of logical reasoning. It’s definitely an indictment of mathematics education, but I can’t support the conclusion that students should spend less time learning mathematics.

> repetitive and pointless, which was exactly how the rest of HS was to me at that point.

So this wasn’t a complaint specific to math after all?
I see a lot of headlines written in the form of
: "Why [subject] doesn't/isn't [verb]?" instead of "Why doesn't/isn't [subject] [verb]?".

Is this an evolution of English of simply a sign the writer is not a native English speaker?

(I mean no judgement with this question)
Ken White (of "Popehat" twitter fame) has a great article explaining how this and similar court cases during the first world war are the origin of the (poor) "fire in a crowded theater" argument against certain kinds of free speech:

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
I’m with you. In fact I have had more meetings with these people arguing against these practices than I can count. However every single customer facing project I have worked on so far that tries to sell something uses practices like these. Sometimes even worse. I guess it’s a result of being profit oriented before anything else and it works apparently, otherwise it would not be done. So the change you advocate for is one I would like to see too but it challenges structures which are so pervasive I’m not sure they can be easily reversed. If this company got fined for using Google analytics their answer would not be to re-evaluate tracking, they would make their legal department lay out just how far they can stretch it while still getting away with it and the do that.
Airbus is not anymore a French or Netherland company (Airbus Group N.V). Since 27 May 2015 the company became a Societas Europaea (SE) (Latin: European Company).

https://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/actualites/1/actualite-econom...
The article links to an article from 10/22 stating they filed with regulators intent to produce in 2023, a year they’ve been promoting for at least three years so seems a fairly reliable indicator of ability to produce.

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2022-10-25/catl-aims-to-mass-pr...
I think it is worth it. Mastering it was one of the first times I felt like I had gained a programming power up. It's definitely a little awkward at first but if you keep at it, eventually the switch will flip and you'll wonder how you could've lived without it.
This is great and important work. I think it would be substantially more approachable if it began with an "Abstract" or "Summary" section. Like it or not, most folks just want the headlines; the presentation of the details is only important if people understand and care about the core ideas.

tl;dr for the website: meta pixels are everywhere on the web and gathering your interactions and inputs on all kinds of sites--including ones related to your guilty pleasures, your taxes, your health, school, etc.
I love this as a concept. Small, lightweight and ..slow to be fairly safe. The issue is how to integrate it with the rest of the established world. How do you have a little car sharing road with 3ton trucks and speeds 50-70mpg (_read_ 70-90mph, yah, this is Texas).

Sadly this vehicle is what vast majority of people really need for daily commute and errands. It’s silly to push for ride sharing.
I would add that if you want a quick intro to her writing style and diversity, her short story collection “Bloodchild and Other Stories” is great.