skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The documents Stephanie released eventually showed that her father intentionally gerrymandered North Carolina by manipulating voting districts to benefit his political party and disenfranchise the other, and that he advised the Trump Administration to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census to help discriminate against people of color for redistricting purposes.”

https://ncpolicywatch.com/2019/12/20/the-gerrymanderers-daug...
That seems less understandable to me. I think it's easier to grok if certain classes of things always use the same casing. So all functions would use snake_case, type names would use PascalCase, global constants use UPPER_CAMEL_CASE, etc.

"Importance" is subjective, and regardless, IMO not really an important measure of anything.
I don’t know about reverse image search but I believe the previous poster had this in mind:

https://time.com/5163852/google-view-image-search-remove/
My Love Letter to Computer Science Is Short and I Also Forgot to Mail It [video]
That sounds viable to me. Basically a small web development agency. There are lots of basic websites out there. People want them to be easily indexed, easy to update. Thus the whole JAM stack thing and Wordpress dominance.

One thing you might look at - promotional sub sites for e-commerce. There are e-retailers that have a main store implemented as a web app. Then the business people get some bright idea for a new promotion or product line or something. They need to whip up a mini site just for the project. It will live for maybe a couple months. They don’t want to take their core devs with it, so maybe you can step in.
Yes? I'd speculate the discussion in fact went something like this:

1. Trump supporters have been made an example of by keeping a bunch of them in jail for years for the crime of walking through a building;

2. There are enough court cases and grand juries outstanding against Trump that one of them will eventually get him and he'll be banned from running again;

3. In any case, a plausible primary rival for Trump has emerged (DeSantis) who has enough flaws of his own (anti-vaxx, anti-woke) that we can use him as a punching bag for the next few years;

4. Trump was allowed back on Twitter but is still playing on his own platform;

Therefore:

We can safely win some PR points by pretending to give a crap about freedom of expression by letting Trump back on our platform.
For Hinduism I actually think a great book is Srimad Bhagavatam. But every hindu you ask may end up telling something different.
First you need to define the word 'fair'. Noting that you have to really define the word, and not just pick a simple interpretation that also happens to favour one party. Note that the US doesn't automatically do things based on a 51% majority (which, honestly, they picked a sensible policy - really 60%+ should be the norm for political action). So "this favours the group with the 51% majority!" isn't an argument of fairness.
Astro is freaking amazing. One thing it's made me realize is that most apps don't need global state, and it's one of the reasons Astro has so much good stuff right out of the box.
sure you can, but you might not want to go that small.

(simple proof is to turn everything into triangles.)
The worst thing about Adam Sandler is that he can act, and he can make very good movies, he just chooses not to.
I think you're reading to much into this. It's easier to not switch languages in one task. If you're using an English-based programming language and English libraries/frameworks, you're not going to name your own variables in a different language. Comments most often follow that too. Any time I see someone attempt that, it's extremely distracting.
yeah, because people don't change their minds. He will go back to twitter eventually.
Get bought out? We had a term for companies like this at my old place. Remoras.
> There will be rich debates about the
socioeconomic implications of Helvetica Light, and at some
point, you will have to decide whether serifs are daring statements of modernity, or tools of hegemonic oppression that
implicitly support feudalism and illiteracy

> HCI people discover bugs
by receiving a concerned email from their therapist. Systems people discover bugs by waking up and discovering that their
first-born children are missing and “ETIMEDOUT ” has been
written in blood on the wall.

> You might ask, “Why would someone write code in a grotesque
language that exposes raw memory addresses? Why not use
a modern language with garbage collection and functional
programming and free massages after lunch?” Here’s the
answer: Pointers are real. They’re what the hardware under
stands. Somebody has to deal with them. You can’t just place
a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope that the hardware
learns about lambda calculus by osmosis.

I love this classic, full of memorable quotes
In some markets, such as Hong Kong, instead of being delisted, suspected frauds are often halted (the stock cannot be traded). So you might end up paying the borrow fee for years, even though you were right about the company being a fraud.

See https://www.reuters.com/article/muddy-waters-asia-short-sell...
KJV Bible.
Hey, no one said it was easy.

> but understanding the application's data model is beyond a lot of sql analysts

You need a better data model or better data analysts (probably the latter).

Putting analysts aside, I do agree though that the data model can be too complex for non-technical stakeholders, but in the vast majority of cases, the data model is simple and stakeholders are looking for basic statistical analysis and trendfinding.

Also, if a moderately skilled human SQL analyst doesn't understand a data model, well GPT has no chance.
> Your comment is especially weird because you go on to discuss Lisp's approach as being "an alternative option to what Lisp does".

I assume you're talking about GP's third paragraph here. Assuming that's true, I think you've misinterpreted it: GP was talking about using infix operator notation, which is most certainly not what Lisp does.
Is there any worse gerrymander than the Hudson Yards of NYC that ROBBED the poor to fund the new construction?
Because everyone will have a different opinion about the importance of any given name.
> Download at your own risk

Baseless fear-mongering or is there some truth to this you can elaborate on?
That sounds overly restrictive (not because it is impossible, though). Maybe we can require the area of the convex hull to be at most xx% larger than the original area. But that will be hard to enforce when a shoreline is involved.
Unlikely you'll be burning 1000kCal at 16-20mph unless you're going up a steady incline and keeping that speed (i.e. high power). That is a bit of an exaggeration. The remainder of your point stands - cycling is a great way to burn a lot of calories.
kebab-case is fine in strings, but many languages will parse that as

BinaryExpression(Identifier("kebab"), Identifier("case"), Operator.MINUS)

I admit there's personal preference and just quirks of vision involved, but I don't think I've ever had an issue distinguishing '_' and '.'. One thing you can do, which helps also with breaking up long chains of calls that would give you a really long line, is break it up with newlines, e.g.:

foo
.bar_baz
.blah()
Why do you mention middle aged men when that graph contained men of all ages.
You are a blessing. I need a high rez scanning solution and I think you may have solved it for me.
Yes, I’m partially implying that and the records speak for themselves.
It depends what you mean by "untradeable". If the market or regulator decides that the stock cannot be traded at all, you might end up paying a lot of money in fees for years even if you were right.

https://www.reuters.com/article/muddy-waters-asia-short-sell...
My seatbelt is even dumber. I still use it.

The usefulness of tech should be decided empirically, not by clever well phrased analogies.
DIY Hybrid Optical Viewfinder
Designed a diy hybrid optical viewfinder like those on the Fuji x100 cameras
He won!
According to people (especially HR people) who work at any large company... Or just about any company which has any money at all to hire people.
Thankfully you don't need to design a schema to use it. And while some schemas may indeed be too difficult for non-technical stakeholders dabbling in SQL, I think a huge percentage of them are not
At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable (2022)
> It still has no general concept of a cavity, nor does it have a concept of "X is large enough to hide Y". This is what children learn (or maybe innately know), but which AIs apparently do not.

I take it you don't have any hands-on knowledge of the field. Because I've created systems that detect exactly such properties. Either directly, through their mathematical constructs (sometimes literally via a single OpenCV function call), or through deep classifier networks. It's not exactly rocket science.
> They have automated monitoring that would alert SREs before a support ticket likely would.

Yes, but how likely is this unlikely situation?

It took 12 hours to debug and fix after all.
> Meta laid off 2x the % and there was less news or general backlash

Google has tools that people use to get stuff done.

I doubt many HN readers give a rat's rear end what Meta does.
Significant syntax shouldn't be invisible to the human reader. If a parser can't parse it without special space characters, then a human will also tend to have trouble parsing it.
I saw a paper on this a while back

https://www.math.cmu.edu/CNA/summer_institute/2018/projects/...
the funny thing is that while Spanish is very gendered, Latina women will say that they are Latina just as easily as I can say I am Latino.
In my lifetime, "solid-state" first referred to "built with transistors rather vaccum tubes", where vacuum tubes are not 'solid' because their insides include a partial vacuum and transistors are 'solid'.

Extending "solid-state" to mass storage devices that have neither a rotational device nor the necessary internal gap (air or partial vacuum) for either rotation or actuators feels natural…to me.
The co-pilot and Dalle lawsuits aren't about if the training weights file can be copyrighted though (they are about if people's work can be freely used for training).

This is a different issue where the OP is arguing that the weights file is not eligible for copyright in the US. That's an interesting and separate point which I haven't really seen addressed before.
I must be writing very obvious glue code because I’ve only ever had copilot suggest very obvious glue code.
This is a good thing. It could mean the autonomous killer robot is less likely to murder someone errantly
Yes! There has been a lot of scholarship on the topic,

https://www.rangevoting.org/GerryExamples.html

https://archive.siam.org/news/news.php?id=1237

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/11/fairmandering-draws...

http://autoredistrict.org/
Thank you very much for sharing this. It’s what I needed to hear at this stage in my life and career. With the high cost of living, and low opportunity in my home country, a toxic family member has been the last straw. I too considered suicide, but I have now reskilled, and am starting a new chapter overseas. I’m excited for travel again post covid, and looking forward to a new adventure. Thank you for reminding that these things can get better, I really needed to hear it ♥
He also wrote an article about his first scan on PetaPixel from 2017:
https://petapixel.com/2017/05/01/16000-photo-scanner-vs-500-...
There is a cloudberg article on a crash due to faulty/expired oxygen generators in cargo. They use an exothermic reaction that produces oxygen. But of a fire hazard. I suppose there is a trade off of how much oxygen vs. fire risk.
Regular Caffeine intake impairs memory,reaction time in young healthy nonsmokers
No, Astro is just that good. For me it feels the same as when first tried React's hooks. It's just so good and obviously a better approach.

For content based sites it definitely feels like a massive game-changer because you can write everything in any framework and render it all to static HTML. Or if you need some JS you get hydrations out of the box for free.

The type-safe MD/MDX in 2.0 seems very useful as well. Pre-defined functions for fetching content which have auto-completion and typing sounds very exciting for DX.
We don't know anything about these outages and their nature. Maybe OpenAI outage was caused by a typo somewhere in code and Google had rolled out system wide monitoring + SQL change that had cascading issues and required many not obvious steps and processing hundrerds of TBs of data.

I mean I had outages that were 60 seconds long with magnitude less people than OpenAI and serving more req/s than they do. What does it tell you? Nothing at all.
There are less external devices you’d plug in, but internal hardware is still a huge battle. Internal laptop webcams usually don’t work on day one, finger print scanners usually don’t work, suspend and sleep is big problem for most new laptops.
Brazil fines Telegram for not suspending far-right congressman’s account
He should post links on twitter to his truth social posts whenever there's a new one?
I grew up one county over in Fairfax. It was a double whammy. The Loudoun tech jobs attracted all these knowledge workers that flipped the state blue and set it on a path of decline (just like California, another formerly prosperous red state whose best days are behind it).
Sorry, you're right, it's MIPS that had the two encodings--PPC had the double-double type for long double that makes things "interesting." (It seems all architectures have their own unique floating-point weirdness).
I just call them sheeple
How does he run away with insurance money? Unless his estranged ex is part of the
conspiracy.
No one is arguing AI isn’t useful. So your analogy failed completely.
Can you think of any non-weapons examples where centralization/gatekeeping of a tech meaningfully and causally benefited society or a technology itself?

Actually, thinking about my own question I'm even inclined to remove the non-weapons qualifier. The most knee jerk response, nuclear weapons, is perhaps the best example of unexpected benefit. The 'decentralization' of nuclear weapons is undoubtedly why the Cold War was the Cold War, and not World War 3. And similarly why we haven't* seen an open war between nations with nuclear weapons. One power to rule over all suddenly turned into "war with this country no longer has a win scenario" effectively ending open warfare between nuclear nations.

There's also the inevitability/optics argument. There are already viable open source alternatives [1], and should this tech ultimately prove viable/useful that will only be the beginning. So there certainly will be "ai" that will be open, it just won't come from OpenAI(tm)(c).

[1] - https://github.com/THUDM/GLM-130B
But that’s changing the measurement to fit your argument, most sellers on Amazon aren’t directly manufacturing their goods either, yet still have margin. We are talking about retailers switching how they offer their goods. Rely less on the store front and just ship more stuff, isn’t a major change to business model. Adding a shipping center isn’t hard.

But either way business is dog eat dog and you have evolve to survive. Don’t blame the competition for building a better mousetrap. This is free markets and capitalism operating as intended.
Subject to someone always being unhappy, sure; see: Optimization Approaches to Political Redistricting Problems.

There are several commercial GIS packages for this and a wealth of papers on the subject.

The great issue, in the US, as I understand it, is that for some entirely batshit devoid of rational reason ruling political parties oversee new districts on a semi regular basis. This fosters a culture of redistricting for personal party gain and ratcheting inequalities that follow.

Saner countries involve apolitical blind consultants for initials district proposals and have party nased challenges follow "I cut, you choose" type patterns to resolve conflict.
I can't be bothered to walk, I drive 3 minutes to a grocery store probably daily. I will drive between the grocery store and convenience store, primarily because I'm lazy but also because it is faster and I value my time. I also ride my bike on average 8-10hrs/week. Not as delusional as you may think.
This is helpful, thank you
Ah yes. The "hope a flood or fire or theft or loss or baby/dog got to it and tried to eat it or simple human forgetfulness never happens" plan. That deserves not only a "no thanks," but a "that is a fucking ridiculous and quaint but also very sad (in the sense that this person has not realized that all analog media is already dead) notion"

Also, you missed the entire point of my comment. "Rescanning" will one day NOT be possible, at least not cheaply or without great effort. The market for people scanning analog to digital will dwindle to nothing, and thus the products that try to satisfy that market will also, unless you will be willing to fork over a ton of money for something custom.

The best you'll get is a bad reproduction taken with a cell camera of the original media that is then perhaps "enhanced" (read: pixels are invented out of thin air that were never there to begin with) by some AI.
Sure you can. For example, regular triangles, squares, and hexagons can all tile the plane, and they're all convex. There are an infinite number of sets of convex shapes which tile the plane.
Luckily Unicode has the non‑breaking hyphen U+2011. This‑is‑a‑long‑identifier‑that‑should‑not‑break‑at‑any‑of‑the‑hyphens.
There are services that are like insurance which give you access to a lawyer in certain situations if you pay a monthly fee.

One example is U.S. Law Shield. The idea is that if you shoot someone in self defense, they have a number that you can call to get a lawyer.
Plot twist: He has worked at Yahoo, Microsoft, Linkedin, Facebook, Mozilla and Apple
I've seen a study that a simple grid-based subdivision design that allocates proportionally equal parcels to each electoral division would be unfair... to Republicans. They would lose most elections horribly, so proposed legislation banning Gerrymandering gets shot down every time by them, on the grounds of unfairness.
This is why there's the "thin copyright" doctrine in the US. It comes up often in music cases, since a lot of pop music is trying to do the same thing. You can take a bunch of uncopyrightable elements, mix them together in a creative way, and get copyright over that. But that's a very "thin" copyright since the creativity is less.

I don't think thin copyright would apply to AI model weights, since those are trained entirely by an automated process. Hyperparameters are selected primarily for functionality and not creative merit. And the actual model architectures themselves would be the subject of patents, not copyright; since they're ideas, not expressions of an idea.

Related note: have we seen someone try to patent-troll AI yet?
Huh. Tempting.

Amazon has them listed at $200, but still, that's only $2,400 for 12 of them.

Still, adds up once you get the hardware you'd need to NVlink 12 of them, and then on top of that, the price of power/perf you get probably isn't great compared to modern compute.

Wonder what your volume would have to be before getting a box with 8 A100's from Lambdalabs would be the better tradeoff.
While I agree with 1st sentence, amount of f*-ups VPS providers have is substantially higher than amount of f*-ups power providers have in my experience.

Furthermore, if power at your home can be managed by having 2nd power supply and sorts, mismanagement on IT side of your VPS is out of your control.
Remember those keyboards with a split space bar? I don't know what they were meant for, but I always thought it would be cool to map one of them to underscore. Never had such a keyboard myself though.
Is that really all? We regularly run multi TB memory clusters for big data processing and ML. I imagined it would be much bigger than that.

To put that in perspective, 24x 64 GB nodes is 1.5 TB.
As the previous poster stated we learn to "mask" and can get through society based on behaviors we have learned to mimic from others. We mask because society will not tolerate us otherwise. I can't just vocally stim in the grocery store without causing a scene. I've learned not to do that to have a generally "normal" experience. But I have the urge to beat box the whole way through because that's a soothing activity for me when I am experiencing anxiety and going to the store is a very anxiety provoking experience.

IMO I'd read a bit more up on the autistic spectrum. Further, I'd really recommend you never armchair diagnose anybody because that's extremely harmful. A lot of us have been told "we aren't autistic" or "that doesn't look like autism" and that specifically can cause tons of consternation for people like myself and OP as we try to figure out our way through life.
The fact that a retail store buys their goods for half the retail price does not automatically mean they make a great profit
Maybe I’m missing something but git releases are a pain to search through. A changelog is searchable or I can scroll through and figure out where breaking changes or a particular bug was fixed.
To me this just seems silly. MICROSOFT combat goggles? I mean are you kidding me? The Russians would zero day those things in 20 minutes.
South Korea is the largest memory chip maker in the world -- between Samsung and Hynix they have 75% of the market share. Micron has about 20%. Samsung also makes logic chips for internal use and external customers -- their foundry business is #2 in the industry. You alo have to remember that TSMC's meteotic rise on the other hand is fairly recent. Intel and Samsung were the largest producer/money-maker in the chip business until very lately.
It depends.

The Verve's Richard Ashcroft lost partial copyright and all royalties for "Bitter Sweet Symphony" because a sample from the Rolling Stones wasn't properly cleared: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Sweet_Symphony

Men at Work lost copyright over their famous "Land Down Under" because it used a tune from "Kookaburra sits in the Old Gum Tree" as an important part of the chorus.
Me too. Hello, Streisand Effect, always fun to see you again.
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My style comes from a weird combined history of all the languages I've worked with over the years.

I do lowercase snake for_variable_names, camel case forFunctions() and title case ClassNames.

In markup, CSS class names are kebob-case but IDs follow snake_case rules (this is so that they can be referenced easily and are valid identifiers in js).

I like this approach because I can tell at a glance by the naming convention what kind of identifier I'm dealing with.

I dislike the common js style of everythingIsCamelCase, I find it more difficult to read - and in a language where functions are a primary type, I think it's good practice to differentiate stylistically a variable from a function within the closure or prototype chain.
It's not regulation. Google just has chosen to cripple it, the same way Twitter and Facebook mostly chose to censor certain viewpoints. All of these groups thing they are doing good.
> Word of caution

It's a good point, however this can be easily rectified by having same node in sleeping mode at other provider. That's what I do for critical services. If provider A bans you for whatever reason, you can (reasonably)easy start same service.

And this just can't work if you are using conventional services like apple/google.
If you want to know what's inside archives without downloading them I'm slowly working on my blog post about this breach. Will try to write a bit about affected Yandex services for those who never been interested in russian internet segment.

Also uploaded file lists from most of archives:

https://arseniyshestakov.com/2023/01/26/yandex-services-sour...
And if you look at Costco, Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons, Target, Best Buy, etc 10-K reports, you will find the same profit margins.