skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some rights are intrinsic, sure, but what makes you believe that property rights are, and especially abstract property rights that aren't rooted in actual physical possession or use? (i.e. some registry somewhere saying that X is yours actually giving you a natural right to control what other people do with X).

And lest you claim that this is some kind of extreme communist take on it, here's Thomas Jefferson on the subject:

"It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all... It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society."
> not doing so would be extremely disrespectful to the importance of being human, snd probably the beginning of the end.

That's one of the two options.

You can either extend respect to everyone or remove it from everyone. (And I don't think removing it is the end; it's the very roots of this halcyon civilization we love so much! So... arguably, it's the beginning.)

Either way, believing in things just because "they don't rock the status quo" is pretty intellectually and morally unsatisfying.
I wonder about using this with a hamburger menu as a form of progressive enhancement?

You would still use a hamburger menu that requires CSS and/or JS (it can be done in just CSS). You'd have that same content in the footer of the page. For the JS disabled people, you'd have a `<noscrip><a href="#footerburger"></noscript>` at the top of the page where the hamburger would be. So if a user clicks on it, it will jump to the footer that contains the exact same content as the hamburger.
Getting users to use a new social media platform is an extremely difficult ask. What's the point of investing weeks/months building content moderation for "trust and safety" if nobody ends up using the platform?
I had a 1966 Plymouth Fury; it was only about a foot shorter than a 15 passenger van.
Well, my point exactly ;)
I think journalists at this point would be wise to maintain separate devices for journalistic work / journalistic communication, personal life, and research.

When I was a journalist back in the early part of this century, the company I worked for issued burner phones and laptops to anyone who left the country.

20 years later, it's probably become standard across the industry, and in more scenarios.
While it may be possible to onboard Ruby developers fairly easy, it is still easier to find talent for an „established“ language.
For my personal projects, I gladly use Crystal, but in my professional role as a technical decision maker I need to factor aspects like this in.
Stack overflow in Rust does abort the process, but not immediately: the signal handler first distinguishes stack overflow from other sources of SIGSEGV/SIGBUS, and then prints a message containing the name of the current thread. Both of these require accessing TLS, which in turn may panic, or invoke other non-async-signal safe functions. That is UB.

I don't know what the definition of a "soundness issue" is, but I think there are some nasal demons to be found here; it will be fun to try at least.

edit the linked issue missed a case! Rust aborts by using libc::abort(), which is not async signal-safe in glibc prior to 2.26.
Nice to see eBay invest further on its search side.

This paper is too dense for me to read through at this moment, but eBay must be a real disappointment for its shareholders:

Despite its head start at being a platform for online retail open to anyone, eBay stock has only doubled in 10 years, or in other words, added $12b in equity value (currently $24b). Imagine that: a successful tech company with a real product in a market that’s going stratospheric (online shopping) has lagged the S&P 500.

Meanwhile Amazon has octupled, which works out to adding $864b in market value.

In other words, Amazon has added 36 eBays worth of equity to itself in the last 10 years.

Ok, I haven’t looked at corp debt to calculate these numbers based on enterprise value, but that could make the numbers worse: eBay is asset-light with little physical infra compared to Amazon.

eBay’s fees have gone through the roof, so I suspect its volume has been decreasing.
Interesting. While my data does show this being the case in a handful of pools (1-5 out of 13k pools at any given time), it appears to occur only exceedingly rarely.
Can always do both. Buy a copy and then immediately pirate it. Still fund your author but actually gain the ability to use the thing.
"Carbon capture research" has been an excuse to divert funding away from renewables for 20+ years. It's hardly made a dent in emissions and it's unlikely to change any time soon.
https://youtu.be/hn1VxaMEjRU
Maybe poorly architected software, where it’s cheaper to increase the value of a variable than have a bunch of API calls that check the current onDemand price and call different APIs depending on which number is smaller.
I have very mixed feelings about this. I produce a podcast and a large (1hr) episode with multiple interviews raw audio sources etc can involve 6-10 hours of editing work. Seeing it generated at the push of a button is technically impressive (and in line with predictions I've made here about the automatability of such things) but also demotivates me from doing my own editing labor, as I can see my own decades' worth of audio editing skills becoming obsolete and economically unsustainable.
> If Tesla can get another 2-3% improvement, they may actually be able to launch a robotaxi service.

2-3% improvement in what metric exactly? Disengagement rate? Tesla has a long way to go there in anything but highway driving.[1]

YouTube videos are not proof of the safety of an autonomous vehicle. Tesla autopilot is currently very optimistically at level 2.5. 2-3%, even across all metrics won't get them to level 3, much less level 5.

I don't blame the people working in their self-driving program. The expectations that have been placed upon them are unreasonable given the constraints on equipment cost and aesthetic design.

1. https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1458169941128097800
Tesla has the lowest prices of all EVs and also the best quality. Not even Mercedes or Audi EVs are better in any metric including build quality and safety, regardless of the absurd price.
It's not, because dialectically the article furthers the framing of TikTok and China as uniquely perverse which is wrong (cf. the abundance of examples posted elsewhere in this thread) and plays into American imperialist/hegemonic anxieties
A sport bike is an upfitted moped. Basically the same thing! Only a few things different like chassis, powertrain, size, range.

The vehicle in question here has been built to purpose, and that purpose is very different from the purpose of a golf cart. A golf cart cannot do all the things this new vehicle can. They look similar, but that's where the similarities end.

And the purpose isn't to replace a gas car. Cars in cities are a crap solution to transportation. They're too big, they go too fast, they pollute too much. The purpose of this new vehicle is to provide a completely different solution: space-efficient safe mobility in urban cities without burning fuel.

The whole point is to find a solution that isn't a gas car. This gets us closer to that. Gas cars and golf carts don't.
> It's not that the hamburger icon itself isn't discoverable. It's that the items under it aren't. There's no telling what is there until you click on it.

Yep, hamburger menus are the junk drawers of software, with all sorts of things getting shoved into them without much thought. You might get some loose grouping but that's the extent of it.

And to make it worse, if the number of items in a hamburger menu grows too long the menu becomes increasingly unusable, so many things just get left out and aren't accessible from the top level at all, remaining buried in some modal behind a button in some obscure, unsearchable part of the app.

On the desktop it's one of the reasons I'm partial to macOS. Apps there have no reason to not use the global menubar, and so even most cross platform apps populate it with sensibly organized menus, making those apps more usable than they are on other platforms where only a hamburger menu is presented.
What is conveniently overlooked in these neverending^1 HN comments that dismiss RPi as "inferior" is that (a) RPi is a brand, (b) people are familiar with and trust the brand and (c) when everyone is doing their projects on the same hardware it avoids compatibility disclaimers like "This is project is tested on X. It may or may not work on Y." It obviates consideration of "hardware compatibility". With the RPi people know exactly what hardware to buy.
Even if the hardware is overpriced or underpowered, synergies are created when everyone is using the same hardware. IMHO, one cannot discount the value of that, but these comments downgrading the RPi aways do. Of course there are better choices for hardware than the RPi, and perhaps without the supply issues, but good luck getting everyone to buy the same thing so that projects do not have to account for "hardware compatibilty".

1. Eleven years and counting
Most users these days are probably using phones, not high end computers.
The Gandhi family (as in the clique surrounding them) does impact the INC negatively in the electoral field.

Himachal Pradesh - the state a significant portion of my family is from - only got the INC in 2022 because the party grassroots had an internal revolt against having a Gandhi apparatchik made CM (Prabhita Singh) and selected Sukku+Agnihotri instead.

In neighborhing Punjab, Gandhi family meddling to undermine Amrinder Singh+Sunhil Jakkar and attempt to put their lackey Navjot Singh Sidhu in charge lead to the INC losing Punjab to the AAP and grassroots Mazahbi+Punjabi Hindu INC members to join the BJP.

In neighboring JK, where the other half of my family is from, internal bickering between the Gandhi family's clique and their opposition lead the former CM of JK (Ghulam Nabi) to quit the INC and he will probably join the BJP out of spite.

The INC lost the entirety of Northeast India because conflicts with Rahul Gandhi in 2014 caused the current CM of Assam (and current contender for heir to Narendra Modi) - Himanta Biswas Sarma - to defect to the BJP and help organize the BJP in Northeast India to completely decimate the INC there.

Personality clashes between the Gandhi family and mid-level INC members has hollowed out the INC, as members either start their own parties (eg. National Congress in Maharashtra, Tiramool Congress in West Bengal, YSR Congress in Andhra Pradesh, Janta Dal United in Bihar, Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh) or defect to the BJP (eg. Amrinder Singh in Punjab; Bommai, the BJP CM of Karnataka, is the son of a major ex-INC politician who started the Janta Dal after a fight with Sonia Gandhi; etc).

If INC wants to succeed at national elections again, they will need to drop the Gandhi family and bring back internal democracy within the organization. Lots of BJP politicians are half hearted in their support of the party and are only doing it out of spite against the current INC.

Alternatively, INC members are increasingly defecting to the AAP as well now too, but they have no shot at National Elections for 20 years at least.

India needs a healthy multi-party electoral system at the national level to prevent Authoritarian Democracy from taking hold, but the internal bickering within the INC is only enabling the BJP further.
If you're intrigued by the first part of the title, but want to spare the long read, here are the key excerpts for relief:

> Ultimately, extensive tests conducted by the Medical Examiner revealed that drugs — barbiturates — had caused their deaths, but not because they had suddenly taken a large quantity. Rather, they had been taking large quantities for a long period of time, and it was when they stopped — and had the fatal convulsions typical of barbiturate withdrawal — that they had died.

> In general, the picture that emerges of the Marcuses is of two men who shared a psychological disturbance that antedated their extreme barbitu­rate addiction and eventual death. It is common for identical twins to share psychological traits and capabilities as well as physical similarities.

The withdrawal part, however, doesn't check out with what's written on their Wikipedia page:

> It was first assumed that the brothers had died of barbiturate withdrawal, but the final report excluded this (the original toxicological report had been in error). Stewart died probably between July 10 and July 14 of a barbiturate overdose. Cyril died between July 14 (when he was last seen out of the apartment, apparently after Stewart had died) and July 17; his body showed no signs of the fatal convulsions accompanying sedative withdrawal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_and_Cyril_Marcus
>they will cross it will stop and wait until the heat-death of the universe for them to cross.

There's something adorable and HHGTG about that whole thing! Reminds me of the robotic Star Liner that refused to take off because of the peanuts hadn't been delivered thus its checklist was incomplete. It had waited eons as its passengers withered to corpses securely locked into the cabin only stating that it was 'statistically likely a new civilisation with peanut packages will arise on this planet'.
> The 90s/early 00s cut back banking regulation and then we had the 08 crash.

Little to no evidence that the deregulation was the cause

> Trump rolled back some rail regulations and now we've got serious incidents happening there.

Derailments have increased recently but are still lower than they were in 2000.
> massive (literally by mass, not volume)

As a Gen-Xer I used borrow my parents' minivan quite often when I was young, and I could easily/regularly fit 6-7 people in that comfortably. For all their size, a lot the SUVs nowadays cannot accomplish that.

Why are these SUVs so big? What is their size going towards?
Nim really looks awesome too! If I came from a python background, I could see me reaching for Nim rather than Crystal.
I wonder what happens when a police officer tries to pull one over.
One key to a successful decentralized system is not being able to spam with it; if someone learned how to spam using BGP or DNS we'd all be screwed.
I think the main concern for frontend validation was before HTML5 came along with validation attributes. You can easily produce HTML input validation attributes from a Yup schema for example by using its serialization feature (https://github.com/jquense/yup#schemadescribeoptions-resolve...).
Here is an example from some silly code I wrote a while back testing htmx with deno
https://github.com/dsego/ssr-playground/
> To say that "SpaceX hasn't been able to get full reusability, not for lack of trying" is a huge stretch when they've only just gotten around to the first orbital flight tests of the vehicle they designed for that purpose.

I was referring to the original plan for the Falcon 9 to be fully reusable, which didn't work out for the second stage.

> others ... either haven't even tried yet or are still working on getting to orbit

That's exactly my point, though. They either didn't figure out how to make it work economically in their particular case, or spent too many years building a working system with a slow methodology. Sure, reusing the hardware provides clear benefits and everybody understands that, but only if you can pull it off and make the ends meet. Evidently not everybody can do that, even in the US where they have the same policy as others. So clearly the policy is not the only differentiator.

For non-US companies this is especially true - besides the good policy, you have to have the infra (supply chain closeness and quick turnarounds, quick transportation network which is a special pain point for Russian cosmodromes and the issue for French Guiana or any potential sea launch systems as well), good location (east-facing shore close to the equator with good trajectory options - Russia and Europe don't have that), access to the markets (Russia is cut off and China doesn't have the proper access to the global launch market). Russian launchers in particular also have different cost breakdown traditionally (expensive compact upper stages; that's why the IRDT mission was trying to return the upper stage in 2001-2004 to explore the reusability possibility; AFAIR the experiment partially succeeded, but they still weren't able to make the ends meet with that).

In fact, the only other country which has more or less everything in place for the SpaceX-style floating platform landing reusability (you can't compete in VTVL by only having the landing pad flyback) is Japan, but they're too heavily invested into "cheap" LH2 on the country level to make a mental switch to the reusable systems.
D. How would you audit open source? Using sloccount and its estimate of man-hours based on Basic COCOMO model? This is laughable at best. Yes, it puts public spending under scrutiny and puts public institutions into a defense position. But this is how things are in healthy democracies already.
There's nothing wrong or bad about copying digital information.
> The thing I'm getting a bit hung up on is whether it would make more sense to study something that will probably be in demand for a long time i.e. computer systems, or whether I should try to get a foothold in AI since it's so hot right now.

Something else to keep in mind (I'm looking at doing the same program starting 2024), the specialization requirements only account for about half your classes. Your degree is going to be an MS CS regardless of the specialization you select. So you can mix and match. My intention is to take several of the OS and security courses because it fits my personal interest + career trajectory better. But because of the overlap in core courses between them, I could, and may, technically complete both the Computer Systems and Machine Learning specializations (1 common core course, 4 courses for ML only, 5 more for Computer Systems only; 10 total). I'd be doing the ML ones less for my career but more for edification, if I go that route. But in the end, I'd be able to say I'd done them if my career took a different path where they were more applicable.
I'm pretty sure I'm thinking of "Free as a Bird."
Something like C++ Core Guidelines can help with some focus: https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines
The Mysterious 30 Year Journey of Apollo 12 [video]
Most of Waymo's hours are in simulation anyway, and that can be as hard as they want it to be. Waymo's meatspace test track is also nothing but edge cases.

I understand that Tesla also learns in simulation.
We spent decades trying to invent a sufficiently smart compiler when we should have been inventing a sufficiently empathetic one
- @ekuber

It all makes sense now
You can buy a server for $700 or so that has 36 sata bays, ports, and PSU for all of it. I have two in my house. They are loud AF.
Just wanted to say mmm.page has been such a big inspiration for me and your design taste is impeccable -- in case it hasn't been said enough already!
Grotesque? The fund that pays these things out is getting way more than that back from this whistleblower's help (in fines, etc. paid out by the criminals).
I think that you're the weird one here.

The most common reason to GET a segmentation fault is memory corruption. Frequently from a buffer overflow. Which makes them the canary in the coal mine for bugs that often turn out to be exploitable security vulnerabilities.

So if a program segfaults on me and I don't know exactly why, I should dial my paranoia up and expect that it is insecure. That an attacker who looked at it could use it to take over my computer instead of simply leaving me with a core dump.
If an instance on-demand is, for the sake of easy discussion, $1.00/hr and the spot rate is usually $0.30/hr, it might make sense to bid $1.25/hr (or $1.26/hr) if you didn’t want to get pre-empted.

Most hours, you’d pay something close to $0.30/hr. Some hours, you’d pay over a $1.00/hr, but you’d save money overall against on-demand.

(This ignores Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.)
Vienna Hypertext fits exactly this niche: https://vienna.earth/
The exact same way so many programmers can sign up for and continue to work for Surveillance Valley?

If you want to say ACAB go right ahead - there's certainly truth in that. But there is also a truth in seeing that many cops got into it because they wanted to help people, and you're going to have to work with that if you ever want to fix the system.
Aren't Netherlands farms generally very efficient?

To the point where shutting down some farms will mean the new ones (in other countries) then opened to make up for it are almost guaranteed to be less efficient?

If that's the case, then the concept seems kind of... dumb? :)
But that argument works the other way around as well.

If the software is already built, it would be the same dev cost to offer 50gb, or 10TB.

Sure there might be some customer support issues that don’t scale the same way, but then why not only offer customer support for higher tiers ?
Yes, staging.bsky.app was the web client all along. They finally acknowledged it’s really a prod site, so now they’re moving it to bsky.app
Dromedary: Principle-Driven Self-Alignment of Language Models
Summary: Dromedary is an AI assistant developed using the SELF-ALIGN approach, which combines principle-driven reasoning and the generative power of large language models for self-alignment with minimal human supervision. Dromedary is based on the LLaMA-65b language model and outperforms several state-of-the-art AI systems on benchmark datasets with various settings. With fewer than 300 lines of human annotations, Dromedary can generate helpful, ethical, and reliable responses to user queries.
Suburbs.
While I don't think the US is on the same scale as the CCP, I also think you're being a little naive. Expressing the wrong ideas or misjudging the time/place to do so can absolutely land you behind bars.
> Nineteen of the board’s 22 members were Neuralink employees as of late 2022, according to a company document reviewed by Reuters. The oversight board’s chair was the Neuralink executive who led the company’s animal-care program, and at least 11 other members were employees directly involved with animal care or research.

Employees controlling the board sounds highly unusual for most companies, but for maybe not for a moonshot company? Didn’t Zuckerberg negotiate total control of the FB board?

And aren’t most boards incentives linked to company performance?

I’m definitely concerned about the ethics for animal testing, but I’d never trust a company or board to regulate itself. That’s what the government and the law is for. If there are concerns the government should step in.