skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Probably not accurate anymore but they published a blog post about their first three months (it hasn't been a year yet!) after their official release. It was free during the beta before then.

https://blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months

Seems like they were at 2600 paid subscribers, but the wording indicates that they were seeing a pretty solid growth rate.
2 Samuel 16:22, calling out Absalom's public sex as marked, could imply that private sex was the unmarked, normal activity by old testament times?

וַיַּטּ֧וּ לְאַבְשָׁל֛וֹם הָאֹ֖הֶל עַל־הַגָּ֑ג וַיָּבֹ֤א אַבְשָׁלוֹם֙ אֶל־פִּֽלַגְשֵׁ֣י אָבִ֔יו לְעֵינֵ֖י כׇּל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

(I wonder if the safety aspect helped popularise the relatively public 1920's "petting party"?)
What would happen aerodynamically if your vehicles got out of ground effect? Would they stall pretty much immediately?
What? The W210 is the "Toyota Camry" of Mercedes-Benz. One of their most reliable cars. Yes, however, once rust got a start you could almost watch them disintegrate. Toyotas of the 1980s and 1990s were similar in that regard.
Part of the article describes a slum. Some of these people are literal slumlords.
The novelty really spoke to the public. Sometimes you don’t need to be slick.
I have the experience that the quality of the office building makes a difference. We moved to a new building a few months back with more space, fewer people crammed into one room, generally quieter. People that used to work from home now prefer to be in the office as much as possible.
What kind of sea states can you fly in? Any regions in particular that are more cost effective regarding weather?
lol, pathetic
Good, I'm glad. I found no joy in having to look up the menu every time. High tech does not always mean better.
Very different. Social networks value derives from network effect - every additional user adds additional value to the ecosystem. Google simply started too late.

Taxis compete on price, safety, quality of service. Virtually all of this value derives from the quality of the FSD implementation. Of course, this will extend to all forms of road transportation eventually. It is going to very much be a winner takes all situation for a number of years (perhaps a decade). The next phase will be a period of high fragmentation as the technology becomes commoditized and a race to the bottom will ensue. The final phase will be consolidation with a few players being best at execution, cost control and finance operations.
perfectly so
Affirmative. The article implies only a single shenanigan, but you and I know the score.
Also trains in America are very poor. So Americans reaction to trains is expected.
> Or is there some supposed medical reason you need to adjust the parameters of the device on a regular basis?

Folks with cochlear implants regularly (i.e. once a year) meet with audiologists to tweak the parameters of the device that feeds the implant, called a "processor." The tweaking process is referred to as "mapping."

The processor is a very small, delicate piece of equipment. Over time, various parts wear out and have to be replaced. Rechargeable batteries stop holding charge, microphone elements putter out from exposure to sweat and dead skin, etc. If the company no longer offers parts/service, then when something stops working, there's not much to be done.

In defense of the manufacturers: a cochlear implant and accompanying processor are very specialized pieces of electronic equipment. The hardware, algorithms, etc. are all being improved over time. So it's not totally unreasonable to try to move folks unto the newer models.
Going analog after long stretches of being digital is a good forcing function to take breaks and get physical. Even just strumming and knob twisting is enough change-up to get different juices flowing.

This Push looks even more fun with controls beyond pads. And this is a page out of Framework — atypical in DAWs and music gear:

> You can add the standalone components later using the Upgrade Kit, and replace your processor, battery or hard drive to keep up with advances in technology.
It is almost certain that shorter air routes were subsidized by government. No way it was economical. I read somewhere that many smaller airlines have gone bust.
Not exactly an answer, but you should check out https://www.noagendashow.net/.

ITM
>HBO, peacock, paramount, Hulu, Disney, Apple ...

I think that is basically it except for Amazon and Netflix. And Hulu is also owned by Disney. And Starz I guess.
> You can get good quality engineers for generalist tasks (web app dev, API dev, etc.) all over the world.

The issue here is that, while code is easy to write for these tasks, the hard part is understanding the requirements and engaging with stakeholders.

There's a good level of business/domain expertise required. Of course, someone else could do that and just the coding part could be offshored. But at that point how is that different than the US analyst/offshored programmer business model of the 90's?
Broadcom still exists! Who knew?
If that’s how your employer views your work, sounds like unions are in order.
I don’t think workers should feel afraid of asking for better working conditions, and if workers are afraid, we’ll unions are the best answer to that problem.
Likely not considering winrar is decades old
The thing I don't get is why more people don't choose */5 (aka adjusts every 5 years) or similar ARMs, if they're going adjustable.

Rates aren't that different than more aggressive adjustables (i.e. */1), and it seems a much better risk bargain.
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That's nice. Now how about support for the UTF-8 flag in ZIP? It's been 17 years.
> when he said it and I literally pulled my bike over and sat for a half hour or so thinking

Meta comment, but seriously? A comment from Elon made you pause your commute for 30 minutes? I can't imagine ever being this affected by a podcast.
The point at which the copulating pair are cognizant enough of their surroundings to look around and shout "Hey, you there with the stone tablet and chisel, what do you think you're doing?"
It's likely natural to get a certain sense of schadenfreude here, particularly because "residential real estate" but anytime you buy stock, the goal is to benefit from the profits of the company without doing any work yourself. Same if you invest in a REIT, or mutual fund, or even a bank deposit, to an extent.

Bad management is bad management. The head of the featured company apparently stuck with floating-rate borrowing despite the lowest interest rates in history. Bad move. But plenty of CEOs have destroyed company value or imploded altogether.
> “I’m sick and tired of working for my money.”

That isn’t an origin story I’d ever trust with my investment.
Nevermind the arduous conditions they subject warehouse workers to.
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> Not all employers run background checks, but they may ask about felony or even misdemeanor convictions and if you lie and they later find out they can fire for that reason.

They can ask about anything I suppose. I've had company interviews where the application required me to state whether or not I've ever even been arrested, "regardless of conviction". Presumably their risk model counts even innocent (and ultimately incorrect) run-ins with the law as too risky to hire.
Elon has shown us all how to make a small fortune in social media. It’s not his fault that we don’t have 40 billion to burn buying a 20 billion business with a 13 billion mortgage
This was my main takeaway from the article as well. While he does sound like a terrible businessman, he might have actually been 'profitable' and made a profit for his investors had he taken out a 30-year fixed rate mortgage instead of an ARM.
In my experience (interviewed a lot of people in 40 years in the software business), mostly you see DUIs, marijuana possession, and things like burglary or auto theft, vandalism, trespassing from way back when the candidate was a teenager or young adult. It would matter how far back the incident occurred and if the candidate only had one conviction rather than a pattern of repeated criminal behavior.

I don't think someone should get penalized their whole life for a mistake, but multiple convictions or recent convictions will make anyone wonder about who they are hiring. I've hired candidates who had drug-related convictions but had stayed away from drugs for years. I hired a man who had a fairly old conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm because he had a good explanation (and even though I'm not a fan of carrying guns). I have passed on people who had stolen from their employer or had convictions for violent crimes like assault, robbery, or sex offenses.

An employer has to consider more than giving a candidate with a record a second chance. They also have to consider the safety (real or perceived) of their other employees. If people at a company find out that they're working alongside someone with a history of violent assaults they aren't going to like that.

Sometimes a person can get their criminal record sealed or expunged, maybe worth it to discuss with a lawyer.
Just thinking about this, I realized that as a musician I do it all the time. I can recall lyrics, chords, instrumental parts and phrasing to hundreds if not thousands of pieces of music and "play them back" in my head. Unlike a training set, though, I can usually do that after listening to a piece only a few times, and also recall what I thought of each part of each piece, and how I preferred to treat each note or phrase each time I played it, which gives me more of a catalog of possible phrasings the next time I perform it. This is much easier for me than remembering exact words I've read in prose. I suspect the relationships between all those different dimensions is what makes the memory more durable. I must also be creating intermediary dimensions and vectors to do that processing, because one side effect of it is that I associate colors with pitches.
I hate the office. Shitty equipment, loud distracting environment, uncomfortable, need to keep appearances up, notion of ass-in-seat rather than creating output that matters.
I think you've forgotten what the community at college was like. If one person on your floor knew how to pirate, the entire floor knew how to pirate by the end of the first semester.

Streaming had begun to fill the niche of being convenient enough to not needing to bother, but broke college students are going to save money in all the places they can.
> Musk is clearly saying that it's "morally wrong" for white collar workers to be remote while insisting that blue collar workers be fully present.

If that is his justification then it's just as silly. Does Musk think it's morally wrong that white collar workers live in bigger homes than blue collar workers? That they send more of their kids to private school? Has Musk gone full communist?
What's wrong with being white or wearing silly clothing?
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There's a game-theory solution to this, which is to impose a tax on imports from countries in order to make up for their lack of aggressiveness in addressing climate change, aka, a border-adjustment mechanism. It's not perfect, but it provides a way to encourage every country to work together by punishing ones that don't. It also discourages industries from outsourcing in order to skirt environmental regulations.
SCOTUS declines to hear challenge to warrantless pole camera surveillance
Are you working here? I would like to be involved in work like this when I get done with my masters… I was a pilot for many years and we need more sustainable air travel to rural and coastal communities.
No personal offense intended, but I really /hate/ this justification. "Open Source" should not be equated with "Hobby Projects". It should be possible to run large-scale important things on pure open source.

My employer (Wikimedia, which is a non-profit) has been running all our server infra on pure open source for many years, for very principled reasons. We even publish all of our internal infrastructure config in public git repos as well. We're an open-source-only shop that's doing very non-hobby work. We have thousands of servers, we run our own CDN on multiple continents, we have somewhere around a billion unique users per month, and our average global rate of inbound HTTP requests is around 135K/second.

However, it keeps getting harder to stick to our open source principles every year as more projects shift towards open-core models with this kind of "Anyone who needs feature X is surely a big corporation making billions who doesn't mind running closed source software" type of thinking. It's not just bad for us, it's bad for the whole larger open source and Internet ecosystems if all the important bits for running at scale are locked up and hidden away in closed-source software.
> Mexico has none of the actual infrastructure or skilled workforce needed to be an actual manufacturing powerhouse

Care to share your sources?
> We can start here: what is the difference between intelligence and consciousness? Let’s find out!

> Let’s explore the idea that there are three forms of consciousness: natural, artificial, and synthetic. We (humans) have natural consciousness. Artificial consciousness -- artificial general intelligence as it is commonly referred to -- seeks to imitate natural consciousness.

Seems like an exercise in question begging.
My point is if it were possible we should see at least some examples of it happening. So far it is an often recited conjecture without any practical proof, so I remain sceptical.
Funny thing is that regular ice has hexagonal structure.
I find it interesting how regular housing busts happen. It's not exact but you can count on a bust within 15 years of the last bust. No wonder long term investors are so successful. You just have to figure out the cycle and invest accordingly. There's no genius associated with it. You just have to be patient. The ones that really benefit seem to be the children of long term investors. They get a big inheritance and can continue to grow it if they continue with the investments.
My two cents on this is that he is saying "working from home is morally wrong" - for his companies... but he left out the for his companies part.

He owns a car company and a space ship company - both of which have assembly lines with tons of workers. A majority of his employees will need to be working in a factory or with physical equipment/prototypes. Therefore they must be at the office or at the plant.

In that environment - allowing a small percentage of people to have the flexibility to work from home all the time, actually can seem amoral as that will create two classes of workers - the in-office class and the laptop WFH class - within the same company.

Friction could be generated if for instance the laptop class is making decisions/mistakes from the comfort of their PJs which negatively impacts the production line class. Its much easier to just make that 8% laptop class of the company RTO and experience the impact of their decisions.

Similar issues would be apparent at Amazon (distribution center workers versus AWS staff) and possibly Apple (i.e. HW Apple engineers have to be in office, but iCloud workers can WFH).

I think it'd be hard/impossible that a small cloud first company or small remote only startup like GitLabs would be amoral for being WFH.

Twitter could probably be WFH, but in order to make statement that would not possibly be construed as hypocritical he unfortunately can't make such a distinction.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07185

Wow, seems like Meta AI is so ahead of the curve compared to even Google and OpenAI recently especially with their open sourcing pushes.

Great for the research community as a whole!
Meta AI is really out here giving model architecture and training details like it's 2022.
The animal life in Texas is quietly working on a long-term merger with Australia while you people stare impotently at screens all day, agonizing over trivia such as Emacs vs neovim (obvious answer: neovim, but I digress).

Action must be taken.
It's pretty textbook behaviour for narcissistic manipulators.

Harm the victim in some way, when victim complains about it, turn it around so as to frame it as the victim doing the wrong thing all along, and the victim should feel like a bad person.
Alas the license is CC-BY-NC 4.0.
Billion-scale similarity search with GPUs (2017)
There is an investment path where no loan is taken at all, but while the per-property returns are better (and the approach is sustainable) the amount that can be earned overall is a fraction of what can be reaped in a “good” leveraged scenario (temporarily, historically).
the comment you are replying to explains that already, right above the code

the question of memory access time is quite deep

in shane's example of flood-filling a 2048 × 2048 image in 16ms, the image is 16 mebibytes; if you have less ram than that, so that you have to page in and out (as your comment says you do), you are not going to be able to do the computation fast enough. but my hand-me-down cellphone has 256 times that much ram so i guess you're using a pentium pro 200 or something, in which case you aren't going to be able to run a browser that supports canvas

assuming you're using a computer from the current millennium, one which has enough ram to run a browser that supports canvas, you won't need to do any paging, but you do need to think about dram bandwidth. probably the required bandwidth to dram is 2 gigabytes per second (one read and one write), while typical current ddr4 systems provide on the order of 30 or 40 gigabytes per second. that assumes you can keep the memory access reasonably sequential (if your l2 cache is less than those 16 mebibytes). this is usually the case with a simple line-by-line flood-fill algorithm, like the one used by gw-basic 40 years ago, but there are pathological images where it is not

consider a 1-pixel-black/1-pixel-white square double spiral that fills the full 4 mebipixels. whether a fill in the white covers all the white or just half of it depends on every single black pixel, so algorithms that can do this with better locality and a reasonable amount of parallelism are inherently going to be relatively hairy

but images like that cause problems for shane's existing algorithm too because they will make shane's web worker spin for a long time
The "strong type systems" work by having you design the types correctly in the first place. If designed correctly they work wonders, and 90+% of the time if the code compiles it's probably correct. That's a big "if" though, and most of your time writing "strong type systems" is coming up with the correct type structure.

The one thing worse than debugging code is debugging "types". Those 30-page C++ compiler errors are definitely worse than whatever I had to do with (for example) Python.
Asshole - yes, ignorant- no.
Oh, right, shoot. Night and day are different. I guess then I just meant day time potty training.
Could you elaborate? We'd like to improve where practical.
They can't ask about anything but they can ask about criminal history. I've seen forms that ask about arrests, whether those led to a conviction or not. Some seem so broad that they would include traffic citations.

In the US a fairly big industry exists to do background checks and pre-employment screening. Having worked in enterprise logistics for a long time, with warehouse staff and drivers coming and going all the time and mandatory background tests and drug screens, I know that employers have to carefully screen so they aren't endangering their other employees, but also that employers can show compassion and understanding and not just toss a candidate for an old conviction.
Which is not open source.
Gosh, dragging a laptop over seems way harder than starting a screen share. No need to carve out time. Companies should be explicit about whether or not they log every conversation. Creepy companies that like to spy might already have cameras and microphones all over the place - not a good look.
Different ages, different problems. Not less, just different. Hahaha.
Tarefik because it is better architectured, auto discovery of docker services , battle tested
Article says they'll use libarchive to implement this. Libarchive says its .rar support is read only.

=) plenty of reason to keep win-rar around then.

I also hope wonder how they'll present .tar.gz files in the windows shell. Will you need to open the .gz, then the .tar? Or just one step. The world wonders...
Yup, that's what I said there at the end.
Where would you go from HMB on one of these? It's not like they would let it rip at 180mph under the Golden Gate Bridge.
I've gotten back into Myth 2 recently. I was surprised by the number of mods/plugins available that are of high quality having mostly played the OEM maps back in the day. And there are still people actively playing online. Good times.
> The pandemic demonstrated that WFH works.

Can work.

“Works” isn’t correct as it’s obvious that it doesn’t just work. Some people don’t work well remotely. Collaboration is much harder remotely.

If you have clear work outlined working from home for some* people can be great cos they can focus well and get shit done and be super productive.

Other people cannot focus as well in a non work environment no matter how worky you make it. Being in the office gives them more focus.