skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm unsure of what source would be appropriate here. I can't point you to a lack of a thing, by definition.

1. You can point to a source with some authority talking about the lack of a thing. Which shouldn't be too hard, since, unless you're ex-Russian Army logistics, you must have learned those claims from somewhere.

2. You can point to a source talking talking about Russian Army logistics, that shows them "moving things by hand" when forklifts would be more appropriate.

3. You can point to a source talking about how all forklifts require really flat concrete, and not all countries can make it because [reasons]. However, you probably can't do that because that would contradict the example I gave of a forklift operating on gravel.
Your comment really rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it's the use of "mere"? It really discounts the amount of suffering ME/CFS causes people.
It should not be enough to deflect blame after publicly mocking an employee.

Elon is not a child, he is responsible for his actions.
Holy shit. Can't believe that didn't make it to HN. You really should price startup equity compensation at zero. Even if the startup becomes successful.
Where do I claim that it does?
Isn't that a unique property of titanium and part of why it's chosen for skeletal implants?

When a buddy got a damaged tooth replaced with an implant, he showed me medical scans of the titanium rod in-situ with the surrounding bone highlighted as growing into the rod as if they had an affinity for one another. It was part of a document explaining the safety and why titanium was chosen, how the body doesn't reject the material as foreign etc.
>no basis in reality

You seem very upset about this issue, so maybe you should read Elon's apology.[0]

>"I would like to apologise to Halli for my misunderstanding of his situation. It was based on things I was told that were untrue or, in some cases, true, but not meaningful."

You worked yourself up "compelled to correct" the people with criticisms you felt "have no basis in reality", and then space man himself admitted he was in the wrong.

I'm not trying to be rude or to attack you to say, I think you need to recalibrate your sense of what has a basis in reality. Because your behavior in this thread, as explained here, is a strong indicator you did not have an accurate view of whether the criticisms in this thread were based in reality.

[0]https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64884287
In actual hardware shading is done 32 or 64 pixels at a time, not four. The problem above just got worse.

While it's true that there are "wasted" execution in 2x2 quads for derivative computation, it's absolutely not the case that all lanes of a hardware thread (warp / wavefront) have to come from the same triangle. That would be insanely inefficient.

I dont think that it's publicly documented how the "packing" of quads into lanes is done in the rasterizer for modern GPUs. I'd guess something opportunistic (maybe per tile) taking advantage of the general spatial coherency of triangles in mesh order.
GothamChess on YouTube has some good videos about playing chess with ChatGPT. He set up a match between it and Stockfish, and the results were pretty entertaining:

https://youtu.be/rSCNW1OCk_M
It's not of practical use. The point would be understanding the nature of ChatGPT.
Are you saying that intermittent pollinator gardens don't serve to bolster the ecological network? Because that would be wrong. Every bit helps and even small gardens have a large impact.
In first few the years following the 2000/2001 dotcom crash the Swedish Tax Agency realized they had a golden opportunity to move away from expensive and fickle consultants to a competent in-house team of long-term employed developers. They pulled it off really well. The effect is still visible - web services are well designed in a simple and efficient way and generally just work.

I think now (and the next year or two) might be a suitable time to pull a similar move.
Many years ago I visited Dachau, truly an eye-opening experience. I'm certain many Germans did care what was happening but they were quickly silenced or intimidated, ultimately powerless to stop the horrific actions of the government. I do agree that governments do not always act in the interests of citizens. Often enough there's little basis for trusting officials or the bureaucracies that rule everywhere.
is the Yubikey protected by some kind of pin or password or something?

and is there something that prevents someone from brute forcing that pin/password if they have access to the Yubikey?

I've not used a Yubikey in this way before, sounds really neat.
Perl has the Acme namespace for expressly silly projects, that’s the first thing that comes to mind…
you assume they just reproduces the training set, but when they get big enough they start to "understand" things, when the input is really big it actually can never "guess" the next word in the batch, so it has to "learn" concepts
For most techies in the west at least the price of Kagi should be next to nothing.

I personally will happily pay $10 a month for a search engine that works and takes search quality seriously and has its incentives aligned with my best interest.

And no, Google, Bing and DDG are utterly broken for many of the searches I do every week and I have written about it a number of times here and elsewhere since 10 years ago.
Apparently planting explosives on an underwater pipeline requires Manhattan project levels of resources.

My opinion: People don't seem to understand how war works.
Tokenizing by storing strings in a vector is almost never what you want for high performance code, as it will result in an allocation for each token.

If you can keep the original source string around, consider using std::vector<std::string_view> with each string_view pointing to part of the original text.

An even better approach is to avoid using an intermediary vector altogether if all you need is to process the tokens one-by-one and store them in a map. You could have `std::string_view parse_next_token(std::string_view *text);` which advances the source text and returns the next token.
RSUs aren’t eligible for an 83b election.
Literally? I'm talking about the last scene in the film, right at the end. The last thing that happens before the credits.

The film's nearly 40, and I still don't want to spolier it. Suffice to say, it made me feel physically sick.
https://archive.is/iocrd
Marketing boils down to one thing really - reputation.

When scandals flare up (politics), a new product is launched or someone has an idea they want to realise, they rely on marketing to spin a positive outcome.

How easy that task is depends first on how strong your reputation is at that time.

Launching a new Ferrari for customers to buy is significantly easier than a no-name engineer building their first hypercar. Getting more investors in a startup requires confidence as a result of your reputation.

How you build this brand reputation will depend on your target customer base, and often for tech people this is a combination of successful real-world projects and presentations (written form, podcasts, on-stage performances, etc.)

Think hard about precisely what "it" is that you can offer and how your potential customer demographic will best see it.

Good luck!
>Deliberately destroying that tape, even in advance of the receipt of a warrant, can be actionable depending on your state's tampering and obstruction statutes.

Wouldn't they be required to prove that it was deliberate though? Rather than an unfortunate accident with a hammer?
But if you respond to that by having a white man exercise his privilege contrary to what black people as a group would do and what women as a group would do, then you’re engaged in tokenism and reinforcing white male supremacy.

Put differently, the dominant group asserting its power to address perceived problems within those groups—according to the dominant group’s view of justice and order—necessarily disempowers those groups. And it does so in a particularly gross way, by co-opting those groups’ identities and installing representatives those groups wouldn’t have selected for themselves. You can’t meaningfully empower minority groups as groups if white post-Christians retain overarching authority to enforce their view of how those groups should operate.

As an aside, while I love to rag on Kamala Harris, Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley have the nearly identical problem—their conversion to Christianity. The difference is that conservatives don’t play identity politics so neither Haley nor Jindal purport to “represent” anyone.
There are countries where fines for speeding or parking are proportional to the offender's income. So that it leaves a message, and actually discourages future choices.

Proportionality, also means that if you have less to give, you give less.
has anyone ever tried to harvest energy from key presses to prolong battery life?

on that one, a little capacitor in the parenthesis keys would probably make that solar panel unnecessary.
>Sure, you would still be forced to comply with warrants/subpoenas if they think you have data, but that's basically unescapable.

Isn't there the standard work around that companies do of having scheduled deletion. As long as the deletion is scheduled and not in response to a legal request, what is gone is gone and not a crime. If you receive a warrant you might have to stop further deletion, but what they want is likely already gone.
We're adding Clickhouse support over the next couple weeks - but you can already query Clickhouse using Trino with Zing: https://docs.getzingdata.com/docs/setting-up-a-data-source/t...
That’s just your gut feeling, not what actual data shows.
Apple HomeKit’s secure video is end to end encrypted and very easy to set up. You need compatible devices though.
Some of our exotic engineering PDFs have attachments. When we converted to Edge, it was quickly discovered that these were no longer accessible.

I tried PDF.js, and it worked, but we ended up picking the very worst and most insecure PDF viewer that exists. Guess who that is?
I'm beyond my expertise, but silicon crystal's compressive strength is 3GPa, so maybe? Plus I assume one would surround everything with a "fluid" (or at least flows at that pressure) to distribute the forces. Silicon chip fluid suspended inside carbide anvil with a steel clamping structure and tightening bolts should work. Interconnects are left as an exercise for the reader.

I have enough faith that this would work out that I'd put it in a sci-fi story, and not enough that I would invest in a startup.
Interesting idea. If, for some reason, your site goes down, will a note still be readable?
There was a technique that existed already where you could use `go test -cover` and the `-o` flag to produce a binary from `go test` rather than actually running tests. So you could build a binary that had coverage enabled. Then when you exercised code paths by running that binary with whatever inputs, coverage would be collected and dumped into some local file.

Here's an example of the build step: https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation/blob/main/runn....

And here's how I'd analyze coverage after using the binary: https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation/blob/main/runn.... This analysis actually combined both unit test coverage files with integration test coverage so it gave a pretty good overall indication of code paths covered by any tests.

I can't remember where I found this technique but it's been around for a while.

This new option is the same thing but a way to `go build` with `-cover` instead of `go test -cover -o $out`? Do I have that right?

Another example of doing this from 2019: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55640874/1507139. I'm sure I learned about this from somebody's blog but I can't remember where.
https://archive.fo/ZprH5
This looked pretty cool until I found a price: ~$100.

Lots of cool features, and it's a beagleboard, so there will be actual support/documentation/source. But I'm not sure $100 is "affordable" for the SoC you get and the small 2GB of RAM.
If this works as we wish(no saying that is posible), this will reduce the amount of seo spam trash you read to 0%, will allow to investigate things faster, and will allow to have more recursive way to expore topics.
And this will be key to make ok google more similar at what we wish as ai companion
>And it's not like we have any historical precedence for a police force being different than this either, its just how it always been

Policing like we do it today in the West with state employees going looking for violations of law didn't exist before the surpluses of the industrial revolution enabled the high touch administrative state.

In the 18th and 19th century there were far, far fewer professional local/county "police", many of the duties were performed by other offices/officials and when needed they got their muscle from community volunteers or the state (usually from the national guard or army in the US). Consequently they didn't spend much time enforcing petty civil laws and enforcing social norms because the manpower simply wasn't there and you couldn't afford to piss off the fraction of people such enforcement pisses off.

(Obviously this all varies by country and year so I'm speaking generally)
> It's hard to articulate, but especially in the past year I've noticed that Google (the search engine) has become a place that serves the advertisers more than the users.

Not hard at all to articulate... Google is not a search engine, but an ad platform.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-google-getting-worse/

"It used to feel like magic. Now it can feel like a set of cheap tricks. Is the problem with Google — or with us?"
> Ads, the ads are bad because they're well targeted and mostly for things which are unnecessary or scams/knockoffs. I found myself buying things I didn't need from dubious brands.

I make it a rule to never click on an ad no matter what. On the rare occasion I see any ad at all, if I do see something I think I want, I'll search for it later on my own. That let's me look at reviews, compare other similar items, and it means I'm buying from reputable sources only. Block every ad you can, never click or interact with any ad you can't block (or just haven't blocked yet).
The point is that it is providing an unexpected and novel behavior in spite of having zero programming to produce this kind of output. It's odd and almost implies a kind of self-awareness to "understand" the rules to a complicated game, and then use logic to predict what is an optimal move. Even though it's only defined input being an incredible amount of text from across the internet.

Is it going to be a good chess player? Not really. But likewise, a dog will never be a great basketball player; but if one manages to somehow get onto a team and demonstrate competency with the fundamentals and team play then I will be impressed too.
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My life is good, thanks to the booming tech industry. And as other comments said, the weather is great for me. Indeed, mediterranean weather is a godsend. There was a reason that Greeks and Romans had leisure to come up with foundations of modern civilization.

I was not complaining about the life. I was just wondering how the government's behavior fits the narrative of competing for residents vs business. Of course, I'm angry about the quality of education in California or the corruption in government in general, but that's not the point of my questions.
Can you please not post like this to HN? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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Great list! Some personal faves in return, in no particular order:

- The evolution of teeth https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003zbg

- The fish-tetrapod transition https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001d56q

- The late Devonian extinction https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sz7x

- The American West https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548gg

- Metamorphosis (Ovid) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00546p6

- Politeness https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y29m

- The Bronze Age collapse https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07fl5bh

- Doggerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
The problem is the "small" fine might dissuade GoodRx from re-offending in the short term.

But, it probably isn't enough to prevent other bad actors. Or from GoodRx re-offending in a few years, once the CEO/BoD/etc have rotated on to other pursuits.
Alright then -- can you tell me what exact sequence of system calls you'd make from a pledged and unveiled process in order to get raw device access?

Right now, you'd need root and a kernel-level exploit to do what you're talking about. I'm not seeing any evidence you have that.

You're just spouting crap.
Plus, LA is too dry, and the commute is even worse than in Bay Area.
> EVERY camera on the person's account including those inside the house that couldn't reasonably show evidence of the thing they were investigating.

Armchairing it here - these broad warrants are probably carry over from the days where you'd issue a single warrant for "the tapes" since every camera in the system recorded onto a single shared medium.

Like GP, I have a personal offline system with remote backups that I control. The footage all goes onto a single shared HDD for all the cameras like the old "tape" days. A warrant would likely ask for that HDD - not the footage from a specific camera.
I imagine the percentage of people happy with the outcome of their equity grants is vanishingly small. Maybe people did well at FAANG, but outside of those 5 companies it seems to be full of broken dreams. There are so many games played with equity, and the tax treatment in the US sounds like a nightmare.

What a mess where you need to pay a fortune to exercise options in a risky startup where any liquidity event is open to manipulation and you are operating with imperfect knowledge.
Python is extremely slow for some tasks. I was surprised to discover how slow when I ran some benchmarks, despite having used python for many years at the time. It has been improving lately, but here is a blog post I made on the topic quite a few years ago that has some interesting comparisons: https://gist.github.com/vishvananda/7a2f1942d0e9ffff4093
> if you want to see what protectionism and economic isolation will bring, go visit Cuba

Hasn't its neighbour and biggest economy in the world been levying an embargo on Cuba for over half a century? Doesn't seem like the appropriate example for your argument.
This government is so shoddily ran (leaving individual party politics aside) - Canadians aren't holding their government accountable. They're too busy trying to survive inflation and the knock-on effects it continues to cause, while distracting themselves with media that tells them "it's okay" and "it's not that bad"

Other boondoggled IT projects brought to you by the Canadian government include the Phoenix federal government paysystem - which coming up on a decade now, some federal employees _still_ aren't getting paid correctly, and the ArriveCan app - which is their hastily created, bug-filled app for pre-entry customs processing checklists that had accessibility problems for the disabled which have likely still been ignored, among other issues.

Between this and the very dodgy reactions from government officials (or lack thereof) to the recent news of foreign influence in our politics and elections processes from China, I would say this country has had its core emptied out and replaced with a nougat center of tasty corporate corruption and money laundering goodness.

The attitude seems to be "Not enough money to create and maintain a system that respects the privacy of our citizens, but we'll just legalese our responsibility away because we can and we're the government so _there_! We're like a silicon valley company, just try to sue us!"

At least we know that tax companies in the states are lobbying to make it harder to file taxes with the US government - the Canadian government just makes it more difficult by themselves!

I for one would like our government to be as responsible as possible when it comes to handling our data - ideally having as little of it as possible, only the required amounts to interact with me as minimally as possible - instead of having it all available in a portal that can be easily compromised and hacked judging from previous leaks/breaches in the linked article.
IIRC it is often frozen by the BIOS on boot.

I think the pm-suspend/wake 'reinits' (for lack of a better word) the drive and doesn't set the magic frozen bit.

I'd love to know from someone who has the actual tech details vs. my half-remembering an explanation from a wiki.
Is there any use of ruby in the deep learning space? It's my language of choice, but Python seems to be ubiquitous.
My hope is for something like YaCy with a web-of-trust overlay. I'd want it to only show results from peers that I trust, and if garbage starts showing up in my search results, I want to know from which peer it came so I can un-trust it.

Which in my mind is somewhat of a middle ground between a search engine and a directory: what I'd want is a whitelist of curated directories that contain domains to be crawled by my search engine.
You seem to be off by an order or three of magnitude about what is "fast enough" for terminal apps, which haven't been a performance bottleneck for decades.

200k ops per second not fast enough for you? How many words per second do you type?

So why wouldn't you use it? I've have since the late 90s and even then it was faster than I could keep up with. Unoptimized Java Swing on SGI was the only thing that wasn't, from memory. More recently Windows Terminal had a very bad implementation for a while, but fixed it after their ass was handed to them over it here at HN.
> Google search can’t do what you want because there’s just too much noise in the “crawl everything” internet and the noise grows exponentially faster than the techniques that can automatically organize and rank it.

Go check search.marginalia.nu. Do some sample searches about history or linux or git or something and see how it often outclasses Google.

Then ponder the fact that it is run by one Swede and it runs on one (admittedly beefy but nothing unusual) workstation in his living room.

Personally at least I have seen enough to have made up my mind that it isn't impossible to do better than Google, they just don't want to.
Once AI makes 90% of new content, the only question is only the qualities of the prompts. This AI we see is still very shallow and it is only really good at creating the next word or pixel, but at some point it would converge to AGI.
I'd like to add to this a great site covering an IMHO underrated card, the voodoo banshee: https://3dfx-banshee.de/