skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clickhouse local is very fast and good for many purposes but DuckDB is equally fast (or faster in some cases but this is a moving target) and supports a wider range of SQL that people like me often use.

DuckDB is great for data scientists and people who need to run complex analytic queries in their Jupyter notebooks and their Python prod code on local or S3 hosted data.
The age of the Silicon Valley ‘moonshot’ is over
None of these fields are in actuality the study of human nature. They are the study of our interpretation of human nature. Interpretations change constantly.

Until we can simulate the brain at the lowest level and have accurate quantitative symbolic theories of higher level structures of the brain derived from the low level simulations... our interpretations will remain largely bullshit and guesswork and thus subject to rapid and constant change.
Author of the article confused ODM vs OEM.
He claimed Cooler Master did the design but there is a way more likely case: Cooler Master just bought a white label product like Amazon Basics.
CEOs generally aren’t racketeering so they can’t usually be hit with that
I'm glad there's a carve-out for open source and homebrew stuff otherwise this would kill an entire scope of software in the EU.

Obviously some student in his bedroom is not going to be thanklessly maintaining some piece of software people rely on if it comes with a huge administration burden and the possibility of mega fines.

Referring to this kind of thing: https://xkcd.com/2347/
There is an amazing novel called The Truth Machine by James L Halperin that speaks about this.
Previously, Scot Adams "identified as a black person because he wanted to be on the winning team".

And then he decided that 'its OK to be white' was perfectly fine and re-identified as white, and that black people hate white people, and called them a hate group that should be stayed as far away as possible.

The only good out of that whole situation is that Scott Adams is a trashy racist, and anybody who likes him is also a trashy racist.

The real insidious racists are the ones who know how to use diplomacy, and affect organizations with "culture fit" (aka: not white enough), and other types of hard-to-identify racism.
> They fact they don't even have Comma.ai on the list suggests this is a garbage tier ranking study.

They also don't have my OS self-driving hardware and software plans. Comma.ai is a cool toy, but it's a joke in the world of real self-driving.

> make lesser known firms appear to be the biggest threat

Lesser known firms like their top four Waymo, Baidu, Mobileye and Cruise? Yeah, okay.
I'm so sick of these articles. The amount of 'lithium discovered' articles are crazy. Nobody cares, lithium is plentiful, it exists in lots of places and we haven't even looked for it much. If people really search for it, it would show up in many more places.

The problem with lithium is not finding a resource, but doing the necessary chemical process to get it to be battery quality lithium. Lithium is not like base metal mining at all. Lithium is more like a specialty chemical, each resources and purification process has to get separately designed, and has to be individually verified by each battery (or battery materials company).

There are only very, very few companies who actually sell battery grade lithium, and lots of junior minors with lots of lithium in the ground and very little chance of developing it.

Iran will not be developing its own battery grade lithium anytime soon, no matter how large their resource.
You're saying that the process failed, then?
That was 70 years ago. It has been 44 years since the Shah's government was overthrown in the Revolution.

How long will people continue to pretend the entire modern history of Iran is the deterministic result of Western actions? That in the Shah and even in the Revolution, Iran possesses no agency of its own, a passive object only of Western force?

But to the point: there is absolutely zero chance of the US going to war to secure lithium reserves. And that is leaving aside, in the first place, the fact we are on the cusp of a Li->Na transition. It is the laziest kind of armchair commentary, pattern matching ("foreign country", "resource", "America liberate") with zero grounding in reality.
That exists.

https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/mou/2012-07-16

Note regarding "refusing to work under certain conditions:"

https://www.osha.gov/workers/right-to-refuse

I used to work in interstate freight (barge, not train). They make it crystal clear any employee has the right to stop work and are protected. The rail workers could have stopped working under their dangerous conditions, they just negligently kept going. The big bad railroad is to blame, but so are the employees.
Is this satire, or am I missing something?
We have a bridge with smart LED lights on in here in Montréal. They were put in 2017 with a promise that they will remain until 2027.

Now I wonder if they will actually last.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cartier_Bridge#%22Livi...
https://wapo.st/3KVpoVD

https://archive.is/ihu4N
> so does this mean you got it working on one GPU with an NVLink to a 2nd, or is it really running on all 4 A40s?

it's sharded across all 4 GPUs (as per the readme here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama). I'd wait a few weeks to a month for people to settle on a solution for running the model, people are just going to be throwing pytorch code at the wall and seeing what sticks right now.
Silverblue is pretty great. But it's really been taken to another level in the last few months since it started allowing you to _boot_ from a container image. That means, you can have some automated container build somewhere that you point rpm-ostree too which gets automatically pulled down to all your machines. It's like building your own distro, but without any of the work. Here's mine, for example:

https://github.com/pkulak/filverblue/

And then, of course, I _also_ have an automated Arch build that I use with Distrobox on top of my custom Silverblue build. I get the stability of an immutable OS layer with the easy installs and package availability of Arch.
Exciting news! I'm personally more excited to see Firefox on iOS running something other than the built-in engine, but anything other than Safari is a step in the right direction.

I recently switched from iOS to Android, and holy hell, the browser experience was the biggest change by a longshot. On iOS, "Safari Extensions" are downright awful -- unreliable, slow, and poorly integrated into the browser. I don't think it's the fault of any of the extension developers, it's just a bad API with a flaky implementation. You could tell that both the browser engine itself and the extensions API completely choke when you open up common clunky pages -- Zillow is one of the best examples of this, IMO.

Firefox on Android is such a breath of fresh air I can hardly believe it. Suddenly, I don't dread opening up pages in my browser because it actually works. There are settings, even if they aren't quite as robust as they are on desktop. I can install uBlock Origin. I can install RES, and Old Reddit Redirect, and Dark Reader. I can block annoying "install this app" pop-ups. And the add-ons are as reliable as they are on desktop! It makes you realize just how tightly Apple controls you when you use iOS.

Better yet, allowing alternative browser engines opens up the door for iOS devices to live much, much longer than they can today. I refuse to use old versions of iOS for general web browsing because Safari is a massive security hole baked right into the OS. But with alternative browser engines updated regularly via app updates, I would feel much safer on an old OS version.
I would love to get a signed picture of Darl McBride for my bathroom. Because he paid for it. I heard about this lawsuit, called up a couple of IP lawyers, talked to a bunch of programmers, and read everything on groklaw. I called both analysts who covered the stock -- one had a price target of $5, while the other had a price target of $45 (stock was about 20 at the time). Then I shorted it with most of the money I had. It went down and I used the equity to short even more of it. In retrospect, the analysis was correct (i.e. don't sue a company that has more lawyers than you have employees without a good case), but the level of risk I took was insane, and it kept me up late at night for a long time.
What sector would you say that AWS operates in?
Oh! That sounds awesome, my dream.

Did you had much music teaching as a kid? How was your path?
And honestly, in my opinion, that approach is just really proving itself right now. I am so happy to see Java seemingly on the right path again, adopting solid capabilities, innovating, but letting other languages take some punches first. We have had some dark days (maybe a dark decade), but full steam ahead now. Thank you pron and team!
I'm confused. RH9 is the latest release, how is it custom? What are you referring to exactly?
one line spaghetti ... I remain unsympathetic.
I think its too late to recover from this. If he was going to act it should have been before the Republicans did. Pete and the Dems seem like they are just trying to move on from this as quick as possible but I don't get them, you can't just move on when so many people are looking at this disaster.
Or have an alias:

public static final ValidationProcessor $ = ….STR;

$.“My name is \{name}“
If companies are people, companies should go to prison for intentionally endangering Americans and the result of that causing Americans to become ill / get cancer. The company should be taken over by the government and sold to pay out to all those that were harmed as well as clean & rebuild everything affected.
> You need Unions. Blue collar workers care about safety and can pressure execs into doing the safe thing when the incentives aren't there higher up.

Yep. This happens all the time in other unionized industries. Manager: "Do [unsafe thing that is against policy / the law, or even that is simply physically impossible]". Worker: "Yeeeeah, I'll be looping my union rep into this conversation". Manager: "On second thought, never mind".

I'd guess the problem's that the railroad workers' union is toothless.

[EDIT] Downvotes why? Disbelief? This comes second-hand from friends in various unionized workplaces, it's damn common. Without strong unions they'd 100% for-sure have been forced to choose between doing something unsafe, and losing their jobs, many times—and that's with managers already knowing unions are a factor, I assume the rate of attempts to get workers to do unsafe things (including setting various metrics or policy such that it's impossible to meet expectations while maintaining proper safety) is higher at non-union workplaces, or those with weak unions.
I think you got downvoted because on face value that looks like a cheap shot. But in truth it does play well with Trump's fanbase when he takes aim at an opponent and starts talking smack about them publicly. Those opposed to Trump, it seems to me, tire easily of that and prefer a bit of civility, or at least the pretence of it.

So what you're saying is roughly "when you engage in petty slap-fights with Trump you kinda are playing to his strengths" - which is true.
In this specific case I agree, since the model may be overfitted, it seems like it's currently just a glorified object classifier based on what was in the training data, but the fact that it works at all may indicate that the underlying idea has merit. They would probably have to train a much larger network to see if it's able to separate features distinctly enough using the input fMRI data to be useful.
Tbh, none of them really attract me right now. They are too clunky and don't have many people to interact with. I'm slightly annoyed by Nostr's proposition and total lack of moderation controls. Even if its developers are well-meaning, I see this as a dangerous, undesirable position to take.

I'm really comfortable with Mastodon/ActivityPub. My personal profile is in a public instance[0], and for my Portuguese-written site I'm hosting a Microblog[1]. It's just great.

[0] https://hachyderm.io/@ghedin
[1] https://social.manualdousuario.net
New Foxconn plant in India may be half the size of China’s iPhone City
This article is extremely disingenous.

* Can you build "modern" style software in COBOL? - Sort of yes.

* Should you build a new system today using COBOL? - Absolutely not.

* Is ANY of the COBOL code you run into in the wild going to be architected in a recognizable way to modern sofware engineers? - lol no.
The US Government also funded and build the Internet (or at least ARPAnet). The government also benefits from Tor being actually anonymous.

It is worth being aware of course, but to my knowledge we have no evidence that Federal law enforcement has used anything other than old fashioned detective work to solve any Tor related cases.

There's always the possibility of parallel construction, but I would expect some reasonable evidence supporting this in some high profile busts.
> What is your point?

I could ask the same of your original comment. Seems you like hand-waving at grants, and letting the reader come to a conclusion as a way of suggesting there's something nefarious happening. You don't like it when it's used elsewhere.

Typical divisive comment to stir the pot. It could even suggest you are being paid by an enemy of the US to disrupt or discourage/encourage discussion on particular topics. Of course, I'll use your tactic, and not provide any further information on this. I'll leave it up to the reader to wonder.

> blatant USG propaganda

All in the eye of the beholder. Which was your goal of your ambiguous hand-waving.

Roads and bridges were funded by the US government. Really makes you think, huh?!
I considered using an Arch container for development, but ultimately felt this wouldn't actually make my life easier, as I'd still have to deal with updating issues/manual work. Instead I'm just running a Fedora 37 container, and thus far it's working great.
I think shareholders might be too detached from decisionmaking for that to make sense. It'd definitely have a huge negative impact on stock values, but I'm not sure it would prevent corporate malfeasance.
Fines?! No, executives doing jail time is the only solution.
Yep! This process is known as fine-tuning.
The point is that overwhelming majority of sexual abuse happens in families, and that online sharing of material is only a very small fraction of an overall "epidemic". If politicians were serious about addressing child abuse problems, they would follow the advice of child protection organizations including the CDC and WHO (and all the others). The only area where this comes up again and again is online surveillance.
In general, this is actually done: there are defect detectors that are installed along tracks that monitor for several conditions as trains pass over/through them. Once the train has passed, a voice radio message is sent to the train crew.

Here's an example of one working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7BGg82uQ1U

I'm not sure whether similar equipment was a factor in the East Palestine incident.
"I can't explain the downvotes"

I forgot it is friday and "white Knight" is a trigger word for some.

So when there's a headline that says:

"Banning words won’t make the world more just"

and then I say "it depends" to a subpoint with white knight, then I seem to represent the woke enemy to them, who wants to dictate what words they are allowed to use (even though I am actually very pro free speech).

And as a german regarding the righteous and why there were so few of them:

I know the mindset from my grandparents and it was/is one of having a very strong taboo of doing anything against the state, or just thinking about it. They were not nazis and knew what the state was doing was wrong even though they didn't know the details. But they kept their head as low as possible, as most did. And marched in line, if ordered so. So they share their responsibility.

I would like to think, that I would have acted different, but would I? I would have been a different person, being born into that time and culture.

So it is also a tough question of what I personally feel about it. Should I feel personally sorry about industrial mass murdering done by "my kind"?

Well, I don't really feel connected to those germans as a whole at all.

But I do feel connected to my grandparents, so sorry on their behalf, that my family didn't do anything to my knowledge, to help your people. (And personally I do my best to keep the local nazis in check today)

edit: and those words still feel empty. But I don't find better words.

Because the holocaust was just outstanding industrial mass murder with the goal to wipe out a whole race. What can you say about it? Certainly not, what a member of the new german right said: "The german history is a great one and the holocaust was just a litle dirt on it"

So back on topic, I think this person should have the right to say this. Because everyone else now knows what those people (who are all officially against nazis) are really standing for.
I'd rather keep a test than a comment.
I think indeed one of the starting points was UZI, it is mentioned somewhere in the readme or license files.
I suspect they mean "systems that use a lot of legacy technology" rather than "banking and insurance are legacy business models", but it is HN, so who knows. Either way, pretty amusing.
it's strange to me, because JS has so many advantages over Python, only remaining thing could be converting more scientific libs like scikit in JS
Interix/SFU/SUA was only the last pre-Linux iteration of Unix on top of Windows—a POSIX subsystem was included in NT from the beginning, even if it was practically useless to the point of having no network access (I believe early design documentation explicitly says it’s there to satisfy government contract requirements).
I think different things can work for different people, but here's what has worked for me:

First, what didn't work. I switched to a dumbphone last year with the plans to stick with it for Lent (6.5 weeks). I succeeded but quickly fired up my smartphone, because there were many problems with the plan. I wanted to stop feeling addicted, but I didn't really want to give up on access to Uber, or Venmo, or other things that people expect I can help out with.

So, this year, I did it differently. I keep my smartphone on DND and in my backpack at work or in my desk at home. I took out the SIM and put the SIM in my dumbphone, w/ my dumbphone capable of tethering, so I can (if I need)_ tether my smartphone to my dumbphone. There aren't any social media apps on the smartphone.

If I care enough about Googling something, I just find my laptop. If I need my phone for a task (like Uber), I know where to find it. I am about 2 weeks into it and I still have a bunch of moments where I feel like I should take my phone out of my pocket for no reason at all, but it isn't there, so I don't.

Group texts are the worst part. I would love a dumbphone that can do MMS, but I can't find one. Group texting is pretty essential for practical reasons (groups of parents will use it to organize children's events, for example). I can't retrain everyone else to fit my eccentricity (in their view), so I am left replying back to group MMS with individual replies, it's inconvenient. If I can solve this I will likely never return to everyday smartphone usage.
You can name a branch master on git to your hearts content. We still have branches named master. We still have stuff we refer to as "whitelist" even though that was never an accurate descriptor for it in the first place.

This shit isn't banned. Nobody stops you from using them.
And who gets to say what these good practices are? Until recently everyone thought Clean Code was a wonderful book full of great coding advice, now we see that it's full of really crap examples.

Does all public code on GitHub need to be audited?
Who owns the channel he's on?
Yeah just like the complete ISO bullshit we have to deal with already.
Thanks for the explanation. I want them too, but not enough to go to the trouble of setting up a mail drop in Dubai.
As a "minority" I completely agree with you. IMO, the White Knights target the "others" for an opportunity to virtue signal. It got old after the first time it happened.
A more realistic approach is to take away personhood rights that these corporations rely on. A 10 year ban on political donations and lobbying would be a good starting point. Then prison for the C-levels if they violate those terms which are directly under their control.
yeah, it's a bit creepy how on the nose 1984 was. maybe Orwell was a time-traveler.
There is entirely not enough context to this question to provide a good answer.
Thanks for your comment.

I've posted a variety of Youtube tutorials over the years and have a good sense of the pros/cons of that platform.

(Some of my really old tutorials from 10+ years ago still get comments, which is always funny)

I still do a lot of that style of training for private clients, via links to Google Drive videos, Vimeo, etc.

Related to the question at hand, I'm looking to develop basic trainings/courses with schedules and course-style interaction with specific, interested, opted-in audiences.

This is mostly from reflecting on my favorite & most effective training environments and experiences.
Looking forward to it. Already sent mail on jobs@zotero.org
As much as I can tell, Iraq as a powerful independent state was destroyed by Mongols in 1300s, and never restored.

Since then, Iraq was controlled by various foreign powers, as a colony: partly Persian, partly Ottoman / Turkish; since late 19th century, it was increasingly under British control, and since 1970s, under Saddam Hussein: independent but rather undemocratic.

Iran was independent and powerful since 1500s, and it even converted the previous waves of invaders to its culture (somehow similar how the Manchu invaders gradually converted to the Chinese culture). While obviously not democratic, Iran was not a cultural backwater, up until the Islamic revolution in 1979. Even under the power of ayatollahs Iran's urban societies feature strong citizen movements demanding more liberty and equality, e.g. women equality: women had much more rights under the last Shah regime, and people remember that.

In general, I suppose that Iran, had the current theocratic regime been overthrown, would not turn into a failed state, much like Russia hasn't become a failed state after the Communist regime fell. (Regarding perspectives of EU / US-style liberal democracy there, I'm much less certain, though chances are.)