skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having read this comment thread I feel compelled to comment that I find your reasoning bizarre. You started out with saying:

> GDPR tries to enforce its rules on servers outside of its territory.

Which you then clarified to

> It's still fascinating (and, I believe, a first) that the EU thinks they have extraterritorial jurisdiction just because their citizens are affected.

So it would appear as if your argument is:

GDPR is unique, because it exerts extraterritorial jurisdiction over servers whenever EU citizens are affected.

But then people inform you that the US does not allow servers in other countries to store the data (i.e. PII) of children under 13 unless adhering to a strict legal framework. COPPA : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_...

However, you won't relent. In the latest iteration of your argument you claim:

> I mean specifically in the way GDPR does it.

which you specify to mean

>GDPR asserts that anyone anywhere in the world must adhere to the GDPR if any EU citizens supply data to them. I'm not aware of any remotely similar laws in commerce or communications in any other country.

And in another comment write:

>Also, in the case of Bytedance, they have a US presence which is why they were able to be sued in a US court: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.37...

But you never ask yourself WHY ByteDance has a US presence in the first place? We could ask similar questions: Why does Facebook have a EU presence (on Ireland), why does Google?
I wonder if storing SSD's in a faraday bag or a thick steel box could prevent degradation caused by cosmic rays / errant charged particles passing through?

Curiously, acrylic plastic is one of the best materials to absorb highly energetic particles https://www.space.com/21561-space-exploration-radiation-prot...
It has none. When code isn't executed concurrently, that's not concurrency. There's idiotic fashion to call unrelated things "concurrency", but it's the same as calling various soy drinks "milk". It just adds confusion for no reason. This language has zero concurrency. It has some mechanism to randomly / unpredictably execute bits of different functions in succession: this is worthless, but has nothing to do with concurrency.
What Is Lemon8 and What Are Its Links with Under-Fire TikTok
I kinda expect it's just not possible for two main reasons:

- the concept of "race" ("ethnicity" would be a better word?) will vary depending on culture, and the intial split of populations + 2 centuries should be enough to bring significant divergences. When you say "asians" I'd fully expect the composition of that group to be a lot different on each sides of the pond.

- I don't expect the UK to have widely available etchnically separated data. They do check the repartition on census, but would they refer to that on death stats ? I could be wrong but that seems complicated on many aspects.
I'm not sure I understand the rationale of it if using a consistent naming approach (best practice) renders it transparent, and compiler warnings alert you to instances where one is using e.g. my_var and myVar. Seems like the capability is there but the typical advice and compiler both warn against taking advantage of it. Just seems like a footgun to me. What am I missing?
> car companies in the US intentionally chose to market large SUVs to the public,

This didn't happen in a vacuum. Poorly written fuel efficiency regulations incentivized automakers to do this.
Yes, there are a bunch of government-funded supercomputers or clusters which can be obtained for public research needs (based on an evaluation of which projects are likely to bring the most benefit), and are used, among other things, to train large language models. E.g. some interesting Swedish models got trained on https://www.nsc.liu.se/systems/berzelius/ .
This is a joke, right?

The vast vast vast vast majority of people use “American” social network because they are the social networks that exist. The US is undeniably the main exporter of SaaS products. See: the incumbents freaking out that China is getting a turn in the front seat. I’ve never once heard of anyone seeking ‘American tech’, except for some punchline in an anti-Soviet joke or movie.

Foreign nationals can comment about American politics because the US doesn’t have jurisdiction over their speech, notwithstanding the back and forth over whether social media companies are liable for disseminating such content in the first place.

A material part of why the USA is seen as The Country in Western culture, and a noted big player in other cultures, is because of the power it projects via the media. That includes both Hollywood exports, and social media.
What glue? Did you even read what you replied to?
Invoking Spengler's metaphysical aspects of cultures is also … an interesting choice, and really doesn't sit well combined with the praise for the "superior" aristocrat showpieces...
Just because it’s in the “cloud” doesn’t mean it’s backed up, you’re still vulnerable to malicious and accidental deletion, corruption etc.
Well of course it is for Google to decide. They're the ones running the service. ;)

But again, if you ever want to retrieve all 5M files, I hope you're willing to wait a few weeks-to-months, because that's what it's going to take...

Which is why it's a terrible idea not to tarball them first to something more manageable in terms of latency per file operation.
It's also worth to mention the idea of WITH ITERATIVE. This is a proposed SQL syntax extension that allows formulating iterative computations. For many problems (including graph traversals), this makes queries easier to write and execute.

> We derive new iterative CTE variants from the simple loop-based,
operational semantics of SQL:1999’s WITH RECURSIVE.

https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2023/papers/p14-hirn.pdf

https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2023/slides/p14-hirn-slides.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtSGAeYKU0
I have direct experience with this as an NRI. Indian govt charges outbound INR to USD conversion at 5% for amounts above 10k USD [1]. So apart from the rupee depreciation you’d have to account for that if you ever need your money out.

I see the value of your platform and in the past I’ve invested a lot of USD in india and gotten great returns. But when I needed my money out for grad school, I had to pay these outrageous fees. Even the amount exchanged for tuition is taxed at 0.5%, all other transfers at 5%.

My net return on mutual funds investments were not so great on a dollar by dollar terms.

It’s not just me, many (younger) NRIs would prefer to invest in US index funds or if they’re feeling risky invest in vanguard emerging market funds.

Edit: added reference

[1] https://taxguru.in/service-tax/tax-implications-forex-transa...
Modern air source heat pumps will not be using resistive heating in most winter weather across the USA.

A Mitsubishi Hyper unit still has a COP of 1.0 at 5F.
That’s not how it worked. This is all iirc as it was quite a while ago when they changed the rules but accurate enough.

You needed an 8 (or 10, we’ll assume 10) hour break for every 10 hours driving so you could drive 5 hours, take a 4 hour break, drive 5 hours, take a 6 hour break, drive 5 hours, &etc… until you reached your destination or ran out of your 70 hours. You can still do splits but they are 3 hours maximum or 7 hours minimum…need a degree in mathematics to fully understand the hours of service rules and don’t ask the logs department because they will just put you on the “watch list” instead of telling you why the computer thinks you’re in violation. No, not bitter.

In practice nobody could do splits like that for very long because you’d get stuck at a shipper or receiver (or both) and end up getting in a full break.

Now you basically have to drive your whole day at once which is very tiring. Driving 8 - 9 hours straight sucks. I almost always drive at night but sometimes have to drive during the day when I’m usually sleeping which also sucks, is more dangerous and, ironically, is the reason they changed the rules so tired drivers weren’t, umm… driving.

If you know the signs of being tired and can stop and take a break there’s no real problem but the current system forces you to drive tired because once that 14 hour clock starts you pretty much have to deal with it. It can be paused once, during the first half of a split, but usually isn’t very practical to do that.

Today’s a perfect example, I got into town this morning but don’t load until tonight so am taking a (probably, would have to look) 8 hour break before driving to the shipper to get (at least, these people don’t get in any sort of hurry) another 2 hour break before driving all night. I’d have rather driven down here just in time to get loaded but then I’d wouldn’t make the delivery on time because of the way the hours would work out so now I get to drive all night on 5 hours of real sleep. Perfectly safe.
You are reading a tabloid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mirror

People really need to understand the different types of news sources
Hmm, so why J over Dyalog APL then?
Really not surprised TBH.

Last week, I traveled to L.A. for the first time in ~ 15 years and I was very shocked to see how much everything there has degraded.

This is of course anecdotal evidence and very likely biased by my faulty memory, but still ...

The combo of the number of homeless people under West LA freeway overpasses, the quasi-perpetual gridlock even on surface roads, the dereliction of infrastructures (roads, buildings, even private single family houses in middle-class neighborhoods), the number of boarded shops in downtown Santa-Monica, and worst of all, I felt that the local where noticeably "grimmer" than I remembered them ... all of it was fairly shocking.

Really not the sweet SoCal I remembered from the nineties and aughties, and old friends I met with who stuck around confirmed that my feeling was not wrong - in spite of the boiled-frog effect of living there throughout, they felt exactly the same.
> it wasn't the affair that was criminal act

I always thought this was bullshit, despite being otherwise happy with bill Clinton’s presidential leadership. To me it seemed bill was in a position of power over Monica and it’s a clear case of statutory rape.

To me (as a personal opinion).
You couldn't have said it clearer.
Of course you an ask, but the answer is "no". It does not concern you, unless you are my host.
If these ‘distraction-causing arguments’ are affecting real people (read: foreigners, queer people, black people), then they’re worth paying attention to regardless.

Is your assertion that this is all some big conspiracy how you justify not caring?
If I were Elon, first thing I would have done is ctrl+f “elon”…
Merit, effort, intelligence, empathy, effort etc. aren’t equally distributed.

Why should a cruel person with tons of advantages and no motivation experience the same as a smart, kind, hard working person? If you’re not for that you can see equal outcomes are a bad goal.
I was floored when I met some students from NYU who explained they've installed nets in the library because there have been so many suicides from people jumping.

Yikes.

Not exactly how I remember it.. but yeah. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nyu-bobst-library-suicides-al...
Apologies in advance; the R for relational is with respect to the tuple, that is amongst the unordered items which are serialized within a row in a table and not the keys which link different tables, the lie you find does not originate in the definition.

As someone who has wanted to love the graph dbs, keep with narrow focus top down queries where the index free adjacency lets you avoid touching the bulk of your data, and stay away from bulk queries that may need to visit everywhere multiple times, which is unfortunately where things get interesting.
Autogenerate IaC?
Is it possible to autogenerate IaC for a project?
I’m pretty neutral on musk. His fanboys are crazy but by and large they aren’t here so there isn’t much opportunity to challenge them.

So much has been concluded about him here without any evidence, instead grounding it in the premise that he’s rotten.
Incidentally, President Carter was uniquely qualified to go there.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/02/20/jimmy-cart...

https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/national-veri...

https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/about_us/naval_service

> 16 OCT 1952 - 08 OCT 1953—Duty with US Atomic Energy Commission (Division of Reactor Development, Schenectady Operations Office) From 3 NOV 1952 to 1 MAR 1953 he served on temporary duty with Naval Reactors Branch, US Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C. “assisting in the design and development of nuclear propulsion plants for naval vessels.” From 1 MAR 1953 to 8 OCT 1953 he was under instruction to become an engineering officer for a nuclear power plant. He also assisted in setting up on-the-job training for the enlisted men being instructed in nuclear propulsion for the USS Seawolf (SSN575).
That area us probably TVA or.other place near that territory where electric is very cheap. So of course heat pumps are popular, they don't have much gas infrastructure, and evem where it exists heat pumps have been cheaper for decades.
> I don't think it's nearly that simple. Do you want the same for other techniques? If someone says in good faith that a fingerprint matches and it turns out it was a false positive it should be slander? Shoeprints? DNA?

Every technique you listed have problems that prevents them from deciding in good faith if there is a match. Sometimes we can find out probability of match but most of the time even that is out of reach, we just don't know.
I imagine the licensing revenues are a literal rounding error, but it's hugely profitable if we include things like Play services. The latest numbers I could find accounted for $48B in revenue in 2021, compared to $256B for all of alphabet. It's pretty substantial.
Could mmap also be used to improve the memory usage of whisper.cpp?
What if engagements around that user naturally declined, perhaps due to that user going off the deep end. Wouldn’t this just serve to bias the algorithm toward propping up the exposure of that user? Do they even care about the control so long as that user’s engagement is up and to the right?
> I will maintain that this industry is morally bankrupt and nearly entirely devoid of empathy. These are not the people who should be in charge of our future.

Since the tone of your characterization is so absolute, why doesn't it apply to you? Why are you here in this tech community at all if the whole industry is so morally bankrupt? Why would "present company" ever be excluded for this or that reason? Because they're your friends? You're just projecting your own anger onto an entire group of people that you mostly don't know.

What I think you mean when you say all of this is that those in control of the tech industry are morally bankrupt. And, after 10+ years of getting kicked around as an engineer, I think I would have to agree. But I'm not so foolish as to broadly dismiss everyone in the industry just like me, who started out as a silly nerd who just liked computers and math, and who is essentially still that same person at their core, as a lost cause. I don't do that because I know everyone is fighting their own fight. But it's clear that those who aren't fighting are the ones on top that are sucking the life blood out of society. I'm more and more resentful towards that demographic every year. And I agree with you that they're crossing some kind of moral line by developing this tech, or at least by trying so hard to maintain control over it.

But the tech will get developed either way. If you're in the camp that thinks we should somehow just stop doing all this, you don't seem much different to me from someone that wants to mandate encryption backdoors. Our society will never be well coordinated enough to do that correctly. This isn't like making nuclear bombs, which takes a lot of physical industry. This is something that is just months away from running on commodity gaming hardware. Probably just a few years away from running on the average laptop. It does feel a bit like a harsh reality, just like the fact that a meteor could slam into the earth at any moment. But there it is; what are you going to do about it that isn't either futile or self-destructive?
Why so much? It's a large fee.
Maybe it depends how you view it (and your financial position, obviously high income doesn't necessarily mean any saved/significant assets) - one could think of it like early retirement, not a career change and pay cut, but something to occupy some time, do for interest/meet people/see things/be outdoors, etc.

(By the way, as an almost 30yo SE with a younger brother doing exactly what you describe... I'm not sure quite how to feel!)
Carmack's tweet seems like more of a thought provoking question than an indictment of case sensitivity. I'm not sure I am convinced that a child stumbling over case sensitivity is a smoking gun. I just explained it to my nontechnical partner and before I had finished and proposed a "what do you think?" kind of question, she had given a "oh,hmm" to the idea that "abc" and "ABC" might mean the same thing when used as variables. Again, no smoking gun here either.
Yes, but it's not exactly the same situation. "The EPA’s equipment isn’t able to detect lower levels of Butyl Acrylate that can still pose a threat to human health." In Chernobyl, the Soviets had the opposite problem: the maximum concentration their standard equipment could read was far below the real level.
Per capita based on those eligible? Because if so, that's not surprising, given individuals from those groups are more likely to need expensive healthcare (esp. the elderly). Whereas for countries with universal healthcare, most recipients are not likely to need to expensive treatment.
If it's per capita based on total population then I agree it's crazy.
I wonder what sort of person is aware enough of DDoS attacks to want to buy one, savvy enough to find where to buy one, yet dumb enough to pay with PayPal. Or accept PayPal if you ran such a service. Given, it says the people running it were 16-24 and adolescent hubris knows no bounds... Maybe the customers were the same general age as the owners?
Did I read this correctly? The way I understood, the author realized how evil wage-slavery is, so they went and formed their own company and hired their own wage slave? How could someone miss their own point that hard? I was hoping I was about to read that the author formed a nice co-op or something that actually reflects the lessons they learned. It seems they just said "being a wage slave sucks, so I'll be one of the masters".
It doesn't even have to involve death.

My buddy separated his shoulder snowboarding when he was 22, but had no health insurance because he was working at the ski resort for something like $6/hr (US Ski Resorts are legally allowed to pay below minimum wage... go figure).

So he never went to the Doctor, because he couldn't afford it. He's 41 now, and that shoulder impacts almost every day of his life.
I'm not asking for private data, I'm just trying to understand the use case...
It’s not even close to “reckless disregard for the truth”. Which isn’t even the right standard (reckless disregard for the truth/actual malice is the very high bar for defamation of public figures - regular folk have a lower bar).

Reckless disregard for the truth is like still spreading lies, even though people around you are telling you otherwise, or even in the face of obvious reasons it is not true.

Here, they believed a computer program that was promoted as being accurate. An average person would probably have no reason to strongly doubt it, especially if it has been correct before. If they were acting with their best intentions, based in the “facts” they had before them, defamation would difficult to prove.
It was not for them to decide up until now.
And yes of course users were willing to wait $duration for it until now.
If you are suggesting a work around that is okay. It is not okay for google to tell their users to tarball "now" "because".
I just compiled a hello world and got 784k on aarch64 macOS with all the defaults.
Point taken, we're thinking about focusing on active users but open to feedback as we outline the model. Feel free to reach out
For a few hundred bucks, second hand, I can get a distortion-free sound-reinforcement amplifier, that can pump something like 600W per channel into a 4 Ohm load.

The equivalent all tube amp would require a line of credit from the bank, and would need to be on wheels.

To inject pleasing tube distortion into it, which I could turn on and off easily, I could put two inexpensive tube pedals in front of its inputs, like these:

https://www.amazon.com/TC-Electronic-Tube-Overdrive-Pilot/dp...
>Depending on priorities, it could be optimal

what possible priorities... sounds like the humanity extincting AGI has already gotten free /s

If civilization needs to adopt such measures it must be in deep crisis.
Ha. He's paid a percentage (the vast majority) of all the revenue he generates both for himself and anyone else at the company. Much more like a partner. No one I ever hire will just have a "wage".

edit: Updated the article to make that clear. I have no intention of hiring wage slaves, taking advantage of workers, or creating a toxic work environment. We've already had a lot of discussions about creating the best work environment for engineers ever.
I don't count tritiated water as waste, and I don't think anyone does. Not sure what your point is.
Technically, if you own a fridge, you actually do have a heat pump. And it is heating your house slightly. But using heat pumps for heating has not been that common until fairly recently. So 13% is actually pretty good.

Using fossil fuels for heating has historically been quite cheap until that started changing a few years ago. For the same reason, building codes in the US are kind of sloppy when it comes to e.g. insulating houses properly. You can save quite a bit of energy if you fix that but until recently energy was cheap enough that a lot of people could not be bothered to care about that. Running the AC in a leaky house with single pane glass is kind of insane if you think about it. Yet, that seems to be standard practice in a lot of places in the US.
Interestingly, unpowered flash memory has much higher retention rates at low temperatures and much SHORTER retention rates at elevated temperatures (the typical JEDEC spec is just 1 year retention at 30C unpowered).

Flash memory in a freezer (assuming you don't have cold-induced circuit board failures due to CTE mismatch) could last hundreds of years. In a hot car, maybe a month.
https://www.curtisswrightds.com/media-center/blog/extended-t...

None of that is particularly surprising, but what's interesting is that write endurance can have the opposite effect... Writing at high temperature (followed by cooling to ambient... or lower) actually improves data retention over just writing at ambient.
The Williams Tube - early random access storage pre-core

Virtual Memory - from Ferranti Atlas
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