skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be conflating discord (the company) with discord (the individualized servers where communication takes place, each with their own self-picked moderators that are entirely unrelated to the company).

https://discord.com/safety/360044149331-what-is-discord
> bracket around Black Friday

I think the other 364 days of the year are more relevant, since Black Friday sales often have extremely limited quantities, and are anything it predictable.

People are claiming 4-6 hours on the hidpi display version. That’s definitely not comparable. I leave my charger at home with my M1.
> High schoolers are used to having VPNs for school

I'm pretty sure most college students browse TikTok via their phones using mobile data. I'm not sure many will even notice it is blocked.
Maybe not, but Wordpress is arguably one of the main applications that has kept PHP relevant over the years. They could reach out a hand.
That is a market. You can decide to sell or not. Whether PG&E offers a market clearing price is a separate issue.
Bloat at the top, whether people, process, or organizational bloat, has an amplification effect that isn’t found at the bottom.
You mean Firefox branded Safari (not a dig at Mozilla).
The RNC may have lost a battle, but they won the war: Google is providing political campaigns a way around spam filters: https://www.axios.com/2022/09/19/gmail-pilot-campaign-email-...
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Because if you openly state that "both sides bad" is a strictly conservative claim, you get downvoted and flagged. But no, HN is soooo liberal.
honest question – Is this the danger of overpaying engineers $200k+ salaries?
Yes, I work on a product that uses Flatbuffers to control stormwater: https://optirtc.com/

Basically, we use a rather bandwith-constrained link between our services running in the cloud, and Particle-based IoT devices deployed in many locations. Some locations are remote, some are urban.

I personally haven't had to touch the Flatbuffers code since I joined the company two years ago. It's written and hasn't needed to be maintained.
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For the record, I don't think "excess population" is bad. I think more population is good, if the rest is done well. I just think the CCP has done a really, really, bad job at this by directing the economy (and birth rates) too much.

While I wouldn't go as far as to say India has "its shit together" currently, their way of governance is way less centralized and heavy-handed, which I believe is way more efficient and sustainable and won't lead to such disasters as in China.

Of course India won't take exactly the China route - and it shouldn't, because that is (in my opinion) a bad route.

Then again my opinion is heavily Zeihan-influenced, so I suppose we'll see :) The trend in recent years has certainly seemed to reverse really quickly. Even 5 years ago, most people I knew were positive on China generally, or at least they'd argue that the economic benefits might outweigh the human rights violations. Now that's completely shifted, not just in The West, but also among pretty much any other nationality I've talked with in America, Europe, and Asia.
Those are the people making the layoff decisions...
I'm glad you're able to resist temptation so well. For others it can be more of a problem. For some it is equivalent to an alcoholic carrying around a pint of vodka that also happens to make phone calls.
see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_derailment
> But the Ukrainians are beating Russia atm :D

FTFY.
The steady paycheck is the obvious first motivation, but really, I do it for two more things: 1) the sense of accomplishment, and 2) the occasional batshit-enormous award. Yes, they've used this lever to hoodwink me into working hard just for the possibility, but the legendary microsoft "gold star" award is no joke.
Big Schlieffen Plan vibes coming out of China at Taiwan.

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

Curiously, Clausewitz (drink!) knew better and yet it still didn't stop Germany from their love of plans and order.

Even with a world of techno-gadgetry, I don't see the Taiwan Plan will go any different than Schlieffen's. Friction always wins
If you don't like TikTok or are concerned about the Chinese government collecting information on you, those are excellent reasons for you not to use TikTok. But what do your preferences have to do with the freedom of other people?
This was my first time writing a vector tileserver, it’s been fascinating learning how they work.

All open source and GPLv3 if you’re interested in contributing!
> the conflict has already gone hot and ICBMs are in the air.

I see this reasoning a lot and it feels like an artifact of cold-war MAD thinking. The scenario in which I feel nukes are likely from China is the one from fallout where on the losing end of a global war, the last remnants of the CCP launch an attack as a last ditch effort, I think it is unlikely an nation state (excepting Israel) would use strategic nuclear weapons except as a last ditch resort. Tactically maybe, but not strategically, because everyone wants something, the reasoning in the Cold war was "there are only two powers so you must make sure you are as big and scary as the other guy so they don't try anything". In contrast China seems to simply want to become a world superpower and rule the world not destroy it, in the coldwar we had two diametrically oppossed ideologies competing in a battle for survival that both insisted the other could not be allowed to exist. Now things are very different.

That's the thing is that China doesn't want to rule over a wasteland. If another war goes hot it will take a long time before it goes strategically nuclear because everyone knows that once that genies out of the bottle it allows your enemies to retaliate in kind. Even Putin who most people think is insane, and completely unhinged hasn't even used nuclear weapons despite suffering significant losses, being at a technological disadvantage and giving up ground every day. He might use them tactically but unless he's hiding in a bunker in Moscow as the Ukrainian armed forces are bearing down on him I think he is unlikely to decide to drop the nukes on Kyiv.
Mechanical parts subject to outdoor conditions/wear are nowhere in the same real as tech hardware.
This is a tragic event, which we should learn from, so that we are less likely to make analogous mistakes.

Besides whatever causal chains contributed to the derailment, there were already multiple signs of some kind of immediate problem, when they were stopped at a station.

At that point, someone (including the driver) could've said a few things went wrong on the trip, and something isn't right, so, "out of an abundance of caution", held the train at the station. Then, whatever checklist of mechanicals after what had just happened, while swapping out the crew (to get their report, and to remove them as an immediate risk just in case they were somehow impaired).

It could be treated as commendable professionalism, to hand over the controls after any small incident, as a matter of standard practice, more important than hitting the on-time metric window. (Towards the end of the video, they go into how this didn't seem to be the culture.)

Then the impact would've been (guessing) a couple hours of cascading significant commuter delays, due to the stopped train -- rather than 106/107 dead, and 562 injured.

Doubly tragic, that they could see something was urgently wrong, and all they needed was one person to say to hold the train.
Utilities buy most of their power at wholesale rates, which are lower than the consumer rate they charge the end user. Net metering rules in some jurisdictions obligate the utilities to buy solar/battery power from users at consumer rates. That can be a good financial opportunity for homeowners and it’s driven a lot of the investment in home solar setups. But local policies can change. The rules are changing in California and it’s not going to be such a good deal anymore in the future.
I would be more sympathetic to this line of argument if the CCP weren't currently banning every single US-based social network.

Reciprocation is the only sensible response. This shouldn't be about race, or even data. It should be about trade policy.
So is Google Search, but few are calling for banning that.
Are you saying that we will see more startups being formed as people get disgruntled from big tech and realize they might as well take their own risks( like those who are in a position to do so?)
Didn't I read somewhere that both Ukraine and Taiwan are all about the global semiconductor supply chain?

Ukraine controlling the supply of neon gas needed for lasers and Taiwan controlling the knowledge and talent pool used for innovation?
You just need to be prepared to out crazy whatever you encounter. My plan, if it ever went sideways, was to pin the throttle and take my hands off the wheel. Fortunately it never came to that.
You are right. I did not intend to imply that they were related to costs. I was simply stating that those proposed costs weren't accurate anyway.
Fact #1: Certain dishes from specific Cantonese and Vietnamese restaurants will reliably give me a migraine and induce sleepiness.

Fact #2: The existence of Fact #1 does not make me a racist.

Everyone in the food industry invested in savory food has a motive for tainting safety research on MSG. It happened with the sugar industry [0]. Unlike sugar, MSG can hide behind lots of alternative names, like yeast extract, natural flavors, etc. so the truth is easier to obfuscate.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
If I had a penny for every time I made that mistake!
What about arms? Or would it have to rely on some realtime IK solution to sort them out?
yes you’re right, in case of burnout nothing replaces a deep change
You don’t even need some exotic ramscoop or anything.

I think “Donfeng 6” is the IRBM that easily destroys a George Washington class carrier from beyond the effective range of an F18 and costs like 5 million bucks, which is why the PLA has a zillion of them.

Sailing a carrier battle group into the Strait with violence on the table would be a very bad call…

There’s a reason everyone puts the most powerful weapons on submarines, or so all the squids in my hometown of San Diego tell me.
Fascinating. Haven't had a chance to do Rust yet, but I think I would change this so that they were consistent. I do embedded, and that kind of "behaves differently in different places" is the worst kind of bug to figure out.
What about recording and replaying traffic to the servers? It's not a magical solution, but it should catch regressions.
Angela Merkel and the Germans thought the same thing about Putin. That is, Russia would never launch a war that would destroy its own economy. It makes sense, and I admit to thinking the same thing before February 2022.

What we, living in democratic societies, fail to appreciate is that autocrats don't mind destroying their economies in order to pursue their personal ambition. Putin has no qualms about sacrificing tens (hundreds?) of thousands of ordinary Russian men to secure his status as a great historical figure. The Russian standard of living will decline as it descends into a totalitarian state, but Putin and those around him have no elections to face. Even if the disastrous Ukraine invasion had been successful it would not have improved the lives of ordinary Russians, but it would have secured Putin's legacy.

The same goes for Xi Jinping. The Chinese Communist Party is no longer "Communist" in any Marxist sense, except in their rejection of democracy. As economic growth stalls, Xi is turning to xenophobic nationalism to bolster his legitimacy. The Chinese people will in no way benefit from an invasion of Taiwan. But Xi and the CCP aren't looking out for the benefit of the Chinese people, they are looking out for themselves.
Oh such innocence. Apples probably backdoored permanently and so is android. Churrs aus gov law that means they can force you the employee to implement a backdoor and your not even allowed to tell your boss. Remember if the products sold in aus or has any form of business HQ here it has to be assumed it is not free from gov eyes.

Also thanks to 5 eyes knowledge sharing your gov in US and my gov here don't need warrants to spy on their own citizens. They just have your data pass through a foreign but 5 eyes hosted service in one of their partner nations and pass data back via intel sharing agreements.

The only safe assumption is all your devices are compromised or can easily be.
Really aggravating. I also have noticed a much higher level of porn on Twitter over the last 6 months, and increasing.

I don't find porn morally objectionable as such, but I don't want porn mixed up with my work or social conversations. It would be easy for Twitter to classify things as 'adult content' (or 'sports' or 'nature' etc...to some extent the Twitter API already does this automatically), and make it easy for people to filter it out or not as they choose.

I've noticed there are two kinds of Twitter porn. The first is overt by semi-professional models, who are often promoting their Onlyfans account or other paid services, showing something a little erotic and inviting people to pay to see more. They will usually have something 'adult content' or 'no under 18s' in their bio. This seems reasonable and responsible to me - if I see such content by accident, I can quickly understand what it is and move on. The other kind is by perverts, people who just seem to want to expose themselves and will abuse hashtags and the like to get themselves in front of as large an audience as possible, without any secondary purpose. I always report these kinds of people.
Your whole car depreciates, not just the battery. Depreciation cost for driving a mile is a lot more than the electricity cost.
That's true but I guess the poster was already refering to retail prices of those components which is more than what apple pays for them. And looking at the prices of other manufacturers at different scales that can offer those components integrated in products I would argue that "significant" mark up in this case is bordering profiteering.
> I have second hand knowledge of lawsuits that have been dropped by the FBI during discovery because it would require them revealing zero days they have on Tor.

Really?

What's stopping them from just lying?

Or claiming they had an anonymous tip?
> jamming cell phone service is illegal.

My local Macy's has found a workaround: thick walls. Ain't no way you're checking the price on Amazon inside their four walls!
Sorry I get confused with the "this is really a US war against poor, innocent Mother Russia!" crowd sometimes.
Amusing you're getting downvoted for this, it's the GOP that just took the longest time in over a hundred years to elect a speaker of the house.
This suggests that the position of US about of the issue is that "This land is yours" is debatable.

However the majority opinion of western world which is shaped by MSM has another view that "(A) This land is not yours and (B)it's not debatable". They only mention the issue is "debatable" when the position of US official position is against their opinion. Underneath they still believe there's no controversy that Taiwan is not part of China due to their hidden ideology.

Decoding hidden part of people's mind based on their output is more interesting than the original topic and also itself is quite controversial.
FYI PG put the PDF up on his site so you can just legally download it.
IIRC, those tools were in an incomplete state before the takeover... but at least they were somewhat working and Twitter's executives were prompt in responding to any issues. But the APIs have been degenerating rapidly after the takeover.

When the tools aren't working as expected, the advertisers then emailed Twitter's API teams. All of those teams have been dismantled, the executives have been fired. With no one left to contact, the advertisers have begun to leave.
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Absolutely, and I didn't suggest otherwise. But a logic error generally won't lead to your entire system getting pwned unless the program that has the logic error is one for something like user administration or managing a database etc.
Oh that is so interesting! I always thought robot was a false cognate with the Polish word for doing/working. I knew it couldn’t have been a loan word even though the meanings felt oddly connected. Turns out it was a loan word after all, just in the other direction!
Making the economy come to a screeching halt is what the debt ceiling morons want to do. There would be tons of collateral damage with either case, most of which would fall on the poorest people the most (e.g. sudden spike in food or fuel costs)
> It's not like they hacked into Google's servers without their knowledge or consent, they were given access to the data.

This is not true. The NSA hacked Google without their consent.

The relevant slide from the Snowden leak is here:

https://i.imgur.com/7IHE6sG.png

> Snowden leaks: Google 'outraged' at alleged NSA hacking

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24751821
I'm not talking about business logic tests, and never implied that compilation removes the need for them.
Yes. If they launch a missile, send a missile back.
One strategy is to check product lifespans before buying—you can usually get at least 7ish years of updates for a Mac if you don't accidentally buy a product that's just about to receive an update. I think macrumors has a chart for this with simple "buy / caution / do not buy" indicators and history of time between updates for various kinds of products. Buying early in a model's lifecycle can make a big difference.

Another is to just buy used every couple years. Buy a 1- or 2-year-old Macbook or iPad or whatever, sell a couple years later, repeat. Average annual spending can be surprisingly low this way, after an initial higher expenditure to buy your "ticket" to this train, of course, while still keeping you on recent devices just about all the time.

Some businesses simply lease their Macs, so don't really have that problem. They'll lease a new set of devices long before any go out of support.

Overall, any budget-conscious Apple strategy has to factor in the used market. Even if you're always buying new, if you time sales right you can recover a lot of your purchase price by selling your old devices. This can seem a little weird if you're used to the used market for consumer PCs—in that world, holding on to every device until it is totally worthless makes a lot more sense, because they lose used-market value much faster than Macs.
This is basically how the prosecutor in the Idaho case is putting Kohberger at the scene. They've also used where his cell phone was pinging during the night of the murders as additional evidence he was there.

Meanwhile, detectives scoured video footage from cameras in the area and picked out a white Hyundai Elantra driving past the house three times before stopping on the fourth pass shortly after 4am. The car left 16 minutes later “at a high rate of speed”, according to Payne

Meanwhile, FBI investigators trawled through Kohberger’s cellphone records and discovered that he turned it off shortly before the attack, perhaps thinking it would help him to avoid detection. The phone springs to life again at 4.48am on a road out of Moscow.

The records also showed that Kohberger was in the area near the house at least a dozen times in the months before the attack, usually in the early morning or late evenings. Investigators said they were examining whether he “conducted surveillance on the King Road residents and was in contact with any of the victim’s associates before or after the alleged offense”.
Thanks for this! I have been working on something similar for an upcoming education app, record a course and play in the same app with a compact file format (1MB per minute, could be much less with some tricks). You can see a demo here : https://youtu.be/zcHAzQXm3Hg and more at https://explayn.me I will definitely check your lib, and will be happy to switch if it’s better !
Holy smoke that's so cool, thanks for sharing it! I love that your work helped increase the number of morphTargets in Three.js. That's real impact!
Guess who has really good submarines too :)
Most architectures do not provide an interrupt that is generated by an integer overflow. Since this would be a significant architectural change in the hardware, it can't be simply added in.

Additionally, if you are running inside an operating system, handling an interrupt usually incurs a trip through the kernel, which would add extra overhead every time an overflow did happen. Since there's a lot of software which depends on integers overflowing, this overhead on each overflow could significantly impact legacy software.
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I've spent most of my career at them, with a bit of time in industry in between time at the labs. (For context: me = ~20years post Ph.D. in EECE, started career at one lab, later landed at a second lab where I still reside.) Labs are awesome environments: it's not too hard to get involved with projects that are pretty cutting edge scientifically, which is exciting if you're a science nerd like me. It's also nice not to have layers of management over me dictating what I do - the scientists play a major role in running the show, so you have much more control over where you end up going. That said, they are an environment where it's most easy to dictate research direction if you have a PhD or in some cases, a masters + lots of experience.

The pay isn't competitive with the giant Silicon Valley companies, and computing tends to be a little less bleeding-edge than the other scientific domains. The only place computing is at that bleeding edge is in the HPC world since the labs typically have machines like nobody else, so there is a lot of research to do in terms to utilizing them well and programming them.

The only other complaint I see for the tri-labs (SNL/LANL/LLNL) is that pretty much everyone is expected to hold a Q clearance (roughly equivalent to DoD TS + CNWDI). That can be an obstacle for some people. Not a really difficult process - lots of paperwork, interviews, patience while it goes through the system, and then the periodic renewal process and occasional random drug tests.

I personally love working at the labs and plan to stay for the rest of my career. I don't optimize my career around maximization of take-home $. For me, I want fair pay doing something I really feel like I get excited about in an environment where my employer treats me pretty well. The labs give me that.