skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that is the big advantage the US has. Is that we have the population for it, in comparison the US population is around 300 million whereas the entire EU is only 350 million. So the US has enough of a market, and it also has the resources to be able to manufacture most things locally, honestly a long with Canada and Mexico NA could be largely self contained without too many issues inside of NA.

It's the rest of the world that has benefited from globalization, from the raising the standard of living in Asia to getting cheap goods to Euorpe, but things can and will change.
What’s stupid about it?
The other situation "type it out" is useful is when I think a particular problem is likely to be encountered by multiple people and essentially force someone to ask the question in a public channel so I can answer it there and everyone can see it

Agreed. Assuming it's the kind of question that's amenable to being answered in text-exchange format in the first place. I've gotten plenty of Teams / Slack messages where my response was "Can you ask this in the public team chat, so everybody can see it?" for that exact reason. That and it also opens up the pool of people who can potentially answer the question to more than just me, which is also a Good Thing.

But there are still plenty of questions where it quickly becomes apparent that having a call with screen-sharing and everything is going to be a much more efficient way of solving the problem at hand.
There is possibly a misunderstanding on your part regarding "being moved by art without knowledge of the artist". In my case, the comment was specifically addressing this assertion by OP:

"We associate Van Gogh's art with his madness, Da Vinci's art with his universal genius, Michelangelo's art with his faith, Rembrandt's art with his empathy, Picasso's art with his willingness to break with norms, and Giger's art with his terrifying nightmares."

Disagreeing with this is not about internal or external semantics. It also does not imply that "aesthetics" alone create a mental state. Great art is typically rich in symbolism as well. Symbolism that directly references humanity's aspirations, hopes, fears, dreams: the Human condition.

A ~contemporary example:

The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/86/0a/6d/860a6d3c87b349734277...

In my opinion, you don't need to know anything about Duchamp to decipher (or project as you wish) meaning here.
> no one would be surprised if 2023 had at least one nuclear warhead detonated at some point.

I would. I would be incredibly surprised.
Oh don’t be so serious, it’s a playful article, I was being playful too.

And the parties I go to are…well, they have some novelty outside of sex and memes.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm485RMuEIj/

Plenty of sex, though!
On seeing the title, I was wondering if this was connected to The Algebraist by Iain M Banks.

Edit: I've misremembered the story and confused stars with gas giants
> the terrorists who attacked power substations

People jumping to the conclusion that everything is terrorism in the absence of concrete evidence is part of the problem. They caught the Washington State substation attackers; it was caused by a couple of not-very-smart criminals attempting an ordinary burglary in a creative way.

Actual terrorism is incredibly rare in the US, no matter how hard the media tries to find some.
Thanks! I didn't realize that I had to set it to all regions/countries, and so it was only available in Canada. I updated the app regions and it should be available now, so hopefully you can try it out :).

Please let me know if it works for ya!
These are…products.
I agree with you from the content consumer perspective. However, it’s going to make the curation part quite a bit harder.

There is a lot of “garbage smell” that you learn when sifting through content as a curator.

However unfair it is, there are a lot of cues in language sloppiness, poor structure, etc that content curators use as a first pass filter. People that have something meaningful to say usually put some effort into it and it shows in the form of good structure, visual aids, etc.

AI generated content will be immune to that because it’s amazing at matching the pattern of high value content. Life for curators is about to get a lot worse.
You sound like you know your stuff.

I'm a one-man operation, and I want to have great docs, so much so that I even spend lots of time on docs in my free time project. [1]

Besides "know your audience," "understand your purpose," "proofread," and "test your docs," what advice can you give a programmer to be a great technical writer?

[1]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/branch/master/manuals
That all seem pretty similar to the ads on the front page of google search results.

Just generate 200 of those and test them to see if any of them standout.

The Utility in these models is not that they are perfect or better than humans at all times, but that it is very cheap and to generate something of value across many domains.
Reasonable people can disagree about what is the right response to a pandemic with potentially deadly and long-term health implications. This is categorically not the same as a wealth and power disparity so large that it reduces "99.9% of humanity to less than slaves".
Would love that podcast if you’re familiar
>What kind of fantasy world do they live in where the government and banks "normally" approve or disapprove of cash transactions?

Are you a United States Citizen?

If so, try writing a check a Russian oligarch, to pay for cuban cigars, or to sell something to Iran. Every last legal money emission in the United States includes a verification against the OFAC maintained Sanctioned Individuals List. Anything trying to leave one of those accounts will be rejected.

Any type of transaction falling afoul of country embargoes will also be denied. Again, put "Cuban meal" in a meno field, and prepare to get a call or ding from your financial institution to make sure they are not facilitating economic activity with Cuba, a crime they are strictly liable for.

Or be a Canadian protestor. Then have the Federal government order financial institutions to freeze your funds.

>The bank from which you have withdrawn the cash does not know or care what you use it for, and the government may care but good luck it finding out.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-banks-financial-institutions-s...

Wrong. Banks are most interested in what you use it for. If guns aren't your thing...

https://nypost.com/2022/09/06/sex-workers-say-wells-fargo-sh...

There's plenty more where that comes from.

Also, all financial institutions in the United States (money transmitters) by law must hold on to 7 years transaction history, and must have a dedicated process for integrating with and handling law enforcement requests. These are routine.

In short, your financial institution is an established component of law enforcement.

Keep in mind, I still think crypto is patently insane, but the cryptobros are absolutely correct in those senses.

...and Bitcoin is mot digital cash. Cash can be anonymous given sufficient effort. Bitcoin cannot.
I'm definitely a Python person, having used both fairly significantly - Python about ~12y, Ruby ~3y.

One thing I think Ruby gets right is the naming convention for methods that modify the object they're called on (<obj>.<method>!) and callables in general that return a boolean (<callable>?).

My biggest gripe with Ruby is the class implementation. I find metaclasses a bit more difficult to understand in Ruby. I hate that I can't easy determine where a given method of an arbitrary object is defined.

I recall that it wasn't uncommon for popular libraries to "open up" a class that was an integral part of Rails and redefine methods, overriding the original implementation. I recall trying to figure out why the method I was calling wasn't returning the value I expected, even after reading the Rails source. Come to find out, some random library had overridden it. They'd matched the behavior of a previous Rails version, but the Rails behavior had since changed. I spent hours on that specific problem and still resent it to this day :P.
> In net, your suggestion also results in $1k moving from google to the open source.

It also amounts to a $1k pay cut for employees, which no one will be happy with. We already capture a small amount of our value add to the company in terms of wages; this would just make that a little worse. And no, there is no fixed amount that goes to salary plus open source contributions, necessitating the same overall net sum.
The big companies all seem to have massively hired up.

Meta: up 2x since 2019 (although coming back down)

Google: up 1.5x since 2019

Amazon: more than double (although not clear how much of that is tech workers vs. logistics. They have certainly spammed my inbox enough)

Salesforce: doubled

Numbers from Macrotrends, for example: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CRM/salesforce/num...
And that they weren't just written by ChatGPT.... OK, that's probably not a big concern quite yet, but how long until it is?
Thats a little different because Germany intended to take over France and incorporate it into its economy, which it did for a few years at least.
Would you agree that interdependency, cooperation, etc. materially reduces the chances of such conflicts?
It doesn't matter what SM does if good ARM processors aren't available in large quantities and for competitive prices. The article didn't really address that.

It's clear that Apple and Amazon have their own chips, so will the SM hardware just be sold to Amazon? (I assume Apple has no use for them.)
My last few orders from Apple have actually been delivered by UPS, not Fedex.
Ask HN: How to develop software as a medical device (SaMD)?
Hey HN!

Would be amazing if anyone can provide guidance or resources for creating a mobile app that is certified as a medical device (SaMD). In the UK, I'm aware we would need to comply with various ISO standards, notify the MHRA and complete a feasibility study to show an evidence base, but I'm finding it very difficult to map out the actual roadmap towards getting regulatory approval (e.g. FDA, CE marking, MHRA), what is necessary for compliance or finding consultancies or agencies that work in this area. Thanks so much.
The letter doesn't explicitly say (I'll way to hear from friends at CRM to get actual details) but their SEC filing mentions stock-based compensation as an associated cost of the layoffs, so it sounds like accelerated vesting might be happening.
Because of the latter half of my sentence you ignored.

It's easy to highroad everyone when you sit back reaping the benefits of what others have done.
The Impact of Brexit, in Charts
EU-based governments are at least honest about their intent of spying on their citizens, where the collection & processing of said data is at least subject to due process and can potentially be challenged in court.

The US would rather outsource it to the private sector so while the end-result is the same (the government can buy the data off the open market or request it via an NSL) they don't even have to pay for building/maintaining the surveillance systems as the adtech/analytics/marketing industry is happy to do it for them for free.

So yeah, EU's government spying efforts are a major problem but let's not pretend the US is any better in that regard.

> this ruling doesn't even ban targeted advertising, it just requires another popup that most of users will say yes to.

90% of the cookie popups you see out there are in breach of the regulation and only remain because enforcement has been severely lacking. A properly implemented popup, how Apple has done with their App Tracking Transparency (like the one that the GDPR would force Facebook to implement) has an acceptance rate of just 4%.
Interesting looking project! Good luck with going full time.

Under "Advanced Features for Power Users" it should read: "you'll have everything you need to create _a_ professional timeline, roadmap, or Gantt chart."
Yes, partially effective until the new energy efficient window is installed. Stop gap measure. Transition period. Etc.

I apologize if that wasn't extremely obvious from what I already wrote.
A modular system for the simple and inexpensive production of security inks
Of course! There was a reason for that $1B investment in OpenAI!
> I don't think linux has anything to do with it.

The title is accurate, but I think a lot of people are objecting in comments here due to a general conflation of two separate concepts:

1) An exploit or vulnerability

2) A virus or trojan

An exploit/vuln is a bug in software (Wordpress in this case) that allows unauthorized access - a virus/trojan is an app with malicious intent: one typically needs to take advantage of an exploit (or social engineering) to install & execute said app. Like any app, it's generally developed for a specific platform (in this case, Linux).

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TL;DR: The Wordpress exploits are known - the news in this article is about a specific Liunux app being deployed using those exploits. The bugs in Wordpress are not the news.
I don't enjoy ads that advertise things that I've already bought AFTER I bought them.
Anecdotal evidence, I have paid tourism taxes on both hotels and AirBnBs.
The Great Depression more-or-less disrupted or destroyed vast swathes of international trade.

It might be fair to say economic entanglement is a risky strategy for peace because depressions can always come along, but I don't know it's fair to say that economic entanglement doesn't improve the odds of peace if our counter-example is a global breakdown.
> Not really. You can always cut down power consumption by running them slower GHz

But that ruins the original argument... Not that any amount of down clocking can let Intel or AMD get close on the perf/power graph. Besides heat is the main bottleneck on data center density and operational cost.

This is the denialist argument I keep seeing where people want to have their cake and eat it (or perpetually pin their hopes on Zen+1 that hasn't actually shipped).

If Intel could match M1/M2 power/perf they'd do it. But they can't. They can win the perf crown by absolutely burning power or they can get massively trounced to kinda get close on power. Zen is better but still has the same fundamental trade off.

Instead of saying M1/M2 are nothing special I'm super excited to see actual competition in the CPU space for the first time in a long time - competition that has proven a lot of conventional wisdom to be bunk.
> In C++, the only way I'm aware of to verify whether a value is actually moved or not is to use a debugger.

Not as simple as if there was a proper borrow checker but its sort of possible:

https://awesomekling.github.io/Catching-use-after-move-bugs-...
This is the same progression that I learned, but I am not sure it is the best one. I wonder if there has been any rigorous scientific study on the pedagogical benefits one way or another?
Why would I install the beta? The current version works fine. They don't need to change anything in the first place. And if they hadn't changed anything they wouldn't have had to "listen to the people" because there would've been nothing to listen about.
This is when I feel the need to interject and recommend the "macron" (nothing to do with the president of the same name!) [1]

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macron_(diacritique)
Seems to me though that if it too "simple" and "inexpensive" then the wrong people could make the inks... What is the basis for security here?
As a reminder, you are currently defending the argument that European gas has dropped to "pre-war levels".

70 is not less than 20.
Yes, I had the same thought. LLM’s might be instrumental in new language design. If it can understand the most common structures being used, it makes sense to build libraries, macros, or language features.
HBO Max Removes 256 ‘Looney Tunes’ Shorts, Three Seasons of ‘The Flintstones’
You might want to recheck this link.
Indeed, it sucks to be laid off. But how is company's reducing costs "virtue signaling"?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34238855
Wordpress typically has write access to itself so it can auto-install updates right away, which is also a good idea for security.

But I t’s definitely a tradeoff in that it also increases the potential harm from bugs.
It's a bit out there, but at some point the entire compositor could probably use AI like DALL-E to enforce a consistent theme regardless of how the app styles it. The next generation, the application won't even need to really spend a lot of resources rendering. Just a very low resource sketch + state (e.g. what text is where to make sure that the AI renders it correctly) of what it wants to draw and the AI will automatically render it at the correct resolution, anti aliased, consistent etc.

At the limit, this would degrade to an application only ever exposing an RPC-like interface that AIs hook into, some application-specific AI model describing how to represent the state / interact with the RPC, and the local AI will automatically generate the appropriate UI (command-line, TUI, GUI + themeing) as needed (e.g. text or speech input). This would be a game changer to how UIs are built.

However, I don't think the more advanced applications here are possible with today's generation of AI. It'll probably need some amount of AGI to problem-solve dynamically on the fly.
It is! I went down the rabbit hole on this one. It was a follow up to Thomas Friedman's "Golden Arches" theory which you just described.
"The decision would still allow Meta to use non-personal data (such as the content of a story) to personalize ads or to ask users for consent to ads via a 'yes/no' option. Users must be able to withdraw consent at any time and Meta may not limit the service if users choose to do so."

How is that supposed to work? FB is required to provide a service at a loss? If I were FB I'd work to actually make a yes/no contract - yes, or get lost. You can use EU social networks - oh wait, there aren't any! I guess in line with other EU decisions, EU citizens can switch to VKontakte :D
That's why repeatable experiments are so important to science. Anybody can independently verify a testable claim.
Cut? They'll take huge bonuses if they manage to fail so hard to require a government bailout, as if one should be rewarded for opening access to the federal taxpayer cookie jar.
To be honest, I don't recall when I was told about Socialist ALGOL; to the best of my knowledge, it was somebody at one of the ALGOL 68 workshops that were held back then, but I can't recall who. And I suspect that the official name of this dialect would not have been “Socialist ALGOL” anyway. The idea was that it would unify all the ALGOL 60 dialects in use around the east bloc. (And yes, I'm familiar with the saying that if you replace n ways of doing the same thing with one, you end up with n+1 ways of doing the same thing.)
Peak brightness typically refers to how bright a display can get over a small surface area (usually 2% of screen real estate).
Mostly, yes, though I've worked with a few contractors over the years to help with specific things.

Preceden has been sitting at the top of page 2 for "timeline maker" and related terms on Google for about a decade which is... fun.
I got one of these (and some of the creator's other tester boards) and it has proven very useful:

* https://www.tindie.com/products/cuvoodoo/usb-c-cable-tester/

I mounted it in a little clear case back to back with the microUSB tester board. The battery should effectively last for a decade. There are multiple other similar boards on tindie for comparable prices. I picked based on being able to consolidate shipping price for multiple units; make sure to check where it ships from and how much if you only plan on getting one board.
Yeah but when I look at a map, all they would need to maintain access to Persian gulf oil is a partner in the Indian Ocean and a partner in the Malacca straits. They have strong relationships with Sri Lanka and Singapore and Malaysia. Warrior wolf diplomacy probably did kill the larger belt and road initiative (eg, getting a stronger supply chain to Europe and pulling Europe out of the American sphere) but keeping the lights on vis a vis oil seems quite possible for China.
I like it.

Employment should be easy to find, switch and end.

More like dating than marriage.
I'm pretty sure that Erdnase or Dai Vernon would be the true godfather of card magic.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/
>You're implying the EU is this privacy guardian fighting these evil American tech companies. Except it was the EU who mandated data retention laws, the EU who banned prepaid cards over 150 euros, the EU who mandated countries release a public registry of who owns everything, and a substantial number of member states have mandatory key disclosure and SIM card registration laws.

Thinking this black and white can't apply consistently to an organization as big as the EU. The problems you listed are indeed bad and need solving. But they can do good every once in a while too.

And I'm mainly an Eurosceptic outside of tech issues mind you.
Munger is 99 years old, he's 7 years older than Buffett. They have been partners for almost 50 years. He's not going to succeed anyone!
At a population level, we know how effective the various kinds of behavioral interventions for obesity are. The numbers aren't good.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/obesity-research-confirms-lon...

> But if we check back after five or 10 years, there's a good chance they will have put the weight back on. Only about five per cent of people who try to lose weight ultimately succeed, according to the research. Those people are the outliers, but we cling to their stories as proof that losing weight is possible.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764193/

> In a meta-analysis of 29 long-term weight loss studies, more than half of the lost weight was regained within two years, and by five years more than 80% of lost weight was regained.

"Just eat right and exercise more" may work for a small number of people, but for most it's setting folks up to fail. It's good that we're starting to get medication options that can help folks achieve those changes; bariatric surgery works, but it's a big deal for the body.
Just want to point out that this is pretty much WAI: a candidate who sounded promising but wasn't getting funding got airtime, turned out not so great, and failed.

Saying a person should be in the race shouldn't mean that you definitely think they should win it, especially in a FPTP system.
Also, overall, with the lively debate on buying gas from a guy cosplaying Sudetenland while working to dismantle nuclear, tantrums thrown over suggestions by the US that one should fund one's own defense, pillaging of foreign tech companies via the equivalent of a predatory traffic stop while regulating their own out of existence, I am starting to despise EU bureaucracy/governing institutions more and more. They are truly working to make it a dying continent.
This made me think of Elephant in Cairo [1] and Pachydermic Personnel Prediction [2]. Specifically, it reminded me of what the classification says about the job of a politician:

> Politicians don't hunt elephants, but they will share the elephants you catch with the people who voted for them.

Along these lines, we'd have something like

> Europeans don't invent new tech, but they will regulate the tech you invented.

As a fellow European, I struggle to feel any pride or happiness about this.

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

[2]: https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/joke/elephant.htm
But is it real competition at the μarch level or just a more advanced fabrication process being used? We have yet to see x86 chips on the same process as the Apple M1 or M2.