skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd need to define that something special, else you sound really racist. More likely Europe stumbled on a couple of things such as reading glasses (that gave much longer working lives to scientists) or the steam engine that gave an advantage.
The most likely outcome is that we won't know much more after the hearing than before (in particular, I do not expect the star witness to come up with any kind of irrefutable evidence.)

I suspect the "U" in "UFO" in still going to strongly mean "Unknown" at the end of the hearing.

The best case scenario is that he hints at which governement agency's official should be ask to testify next - a game that can be played until we reach the "it's classified, wait a few decade" part of the game.

[Edit]: Apparently, (from the live feed of the hearing by the Guardian) he "knows “the exact locations” of where the extra terrestrial material is, "Absolutely, based on interviewing over 40 witnesses".

And yet, I'm ready to bet the obvious follow-up questions "ok, then, where are the locations ?", and "who are those 40 witnesses ?" will remain conveniently unanswered.
Fusion 360 is one example off the top of my head.
Okay, but this is still an implied accusation with zero evidence. Surely losing the "benefit of the doubt" doesn't mean you can just make up any story you want about someone and use that to demonize them until there's definitive proof your accusation is wrong?
Ultra-Rare 1990s Apple Sneakers Now on Sale for $50k
https://archive.is/FRJ60
There are serious people who think otherwise. You're two word dismissal is not a rebuttal.
Haha :) I meant in a grammatical sense.
Sounds like you might as well store your car at the dock then too. An EV is pretty worthless without a battery.
> You don't mention any of these possible causes though.
I did not, but I was responding to your "The reality is that yes, cassettes really were responsible" which to me reads like a statement of fact and not one of possible cause. The fact remains that the graph you shared does not proof cassettes were responsible for that.

Another possibility is that music revenue around that 1976 peak shown in your graph is due to wider reasons (e.g., '74 and '75 had negative GDP growth, then positive for a few years, then negative in '80 and '82 with a positive '81, that actually matches the revenue graph to some extent, so I don't think it's an established fact that cassettes were the cause for this.

As a disclaimer though, I'll admit my opinion is tainted by the fact that the record companies were pushing that 'cassettes are killing music' agenda, which I disagree with, so I'm certainly biased in my views.
I hope this is something that non-Chrome Chromium-based browsers can omit from their builds.
This is true for my country as well. Govt taxes cigarettes around 1000%. I'm not kidding, that's a thousand percent tax. Our govt essentially runs on smokers and drinkers tax money.
I think people like to take the easy way out of declaring those with a different mindset "evil." Everyone is the hero of their own story, and honestly there are multiple incompatible-but-internally-consistent models of how technologies can and should work. I think it's more useful to recognize these things than to write off a competing mindset (especially when the competing mindset is in a position of power).

Consider incentives from Google's standpoint. They want to provide users a safe and secure experience. They want to simplify maintenance of software and provide developers the ability to simplify maintenance of software (a problem simplified by chopping the unbounded set of possible user agents down to a blessed, vetted subset). They have the resources to make their site screen-reader compatible, so they're not concerned about damage that could be done to screen-readers because they'll just bless one and support it. And, of course, they implicitly trust themselves to do all this.

In that ecosystem, Weiss's viewpoint is completely reasonable. The old model of the web is old, and led to gestures broadly at all the bad things about the web today... fraud, users getting owned, CP, botnets, misinformation factories. I can definitely see the viewpoint where someone concludes "It's time for a new model, and this company has the resources to do it."

I don't agree with him (and in fact I think the idea will fail; I think Google actually overestimates its ability to provide an equivalently-good user experience to what we have now if they aren't leveraging the unpaid labor of other vendors putting the effort into making their own houses work with Google's house without Google even being aware of their work). But I think it's useful to wrap our heads around how one gets into that headspace without thinking oneself a monster.
Never heard it before but what you say sounds correct.
To put it simple, it makes it possible for service provider to reject providing service to clients not running corporate-owned white-listed clients. Thus making it virtually impossible to create independent clients for such services.

It will be swiftly adopted by well meaning but clueless bank and government clerks who will accidentally use to lock all open hardware, open operating system, open browser users out and mandate you need to purchase at least one locked down corporate device to exist.

It's the trusted computing story all along. Eventually you will need permission to run your code on your own device and such "unlocked" device will be blocked from accessing any digital infrastructure because it might be otherwise used to breach ToS.
It's ok, I just followed your instructions and with that model is works well. But are you sure that this uses CUDA? My CPU utilization is at 50% while my GPU utilization is at 1% while the output is being generated..
What's your alternative hypothesis to explain large scale structure formation?
What does “complexity” even mean here? Is modern music any less complex than “I Want to Hold Your Hand”?
This happens fairly frequently in Vancouver Canada, although it's not from regular school commuting (we do have special school busses), but rather from daycamps that find public transit to be the best solution vs. renting a private bus; but also — perhaps surprisingly — school field trips, which seem to often find "just get on a city bus" simpler to arrange than getting the public schoolbus system(?) to get drivers to work a special spot shift hauling kids to who-knows-where.
At least for me, I've never had my public projects, blog, youtube tutorials, stack overflow contributions etc referred to.

Generally it's been easy for me to get interviews, and hard to get offers (something like a 95% onsite rejection rate). I have enough experience and the resume items that gets recruiters excited about their next bonus. But it seems folks walk away saying "Yeah he's technical, but <xyz nitpick or undermining statement about my contributions>" ...

Oh well, I've also given up on caring.
Was it the repeated use of “Malthusian” that gave it away?
This thread is about IDEA but I wish there was more awareness about the serious performance issues in CLion. I have to spend over 30 minutes for the refactor-> extract method to prompt me what I would like to name my method. Then another 30 minutes for it to execute it. It's a small c++ project too.

I appreciate the community version of IDEA being open source. I was able to look up the implementation for how java that handles this. The c++ implementation I cannot access. I've added some comments with my results from a profiled run on some old tickets about this (including one as far back as 8 years ago) but it doesn't seem to be a priority, yet!
>Oh right! I said crypto on hacker news! what was I thinking?! :-D

Post that comment again when crypto accounts are FDIC[0] (or whatever scheme, if any, is used where you live) insured. I'm sure you'll get a different response.

[0] https://www.fdic.gov/
Oh thanks, I had no idea!
The program's interface with environment won't change forever, when you write your program as a pure function which only touches exactly the thing it fundamentally needs to, you use a pretty much finalized interface.
HN isn't pretty much guaranteed to be dead in a year or two and it can also be archived easily.
For those of you watching ebay - the M22520 tools are DMC (Daniels Manufacturing Corp) AF8 and AFM8 crimpers.

As someone who just got into using these for an automotive application, there is a great set of lessons on wiring/crimping using these tools from High Power Academy on Youtube or $50 if you pay for their full wiring class (worth it).
I dunno... that comment you linked to was clearly annoyed and not terribly useful, but I will note that it was at least funny; I got a lot of flack as a single-person maintainer of open source projects and I wouldn't have been much at all phased by that comment (and neither, it seems, was fs@) even though in my case it would have inherently been a lot more personal as I would have no one else to shift the blame to.

Regardless, the answer to that comment says that the reason why this but wasn't fixed yet is due to "priorities"... which I guess makes sense as Google would rather allocate people to working on Web Environment Integrity than bulking up the "1-2 people" you say are working on this part of the code. Remember: the large tech monopoly isn't our friend, and the people who work choose to work at one deserve our collective scorn.
> Well, sugar needs an intermediate step to cause cancer, obesity, […]

I have never heard of this. Where did you get this?
Did you know that the only way for cancer cells to create/use energy is by fermenting glucose? They can't use fats or ketones.

> On the other hand, red meat and bacon are known direct cancer risks, […]

Bacon aside, there is no proof which shows that red meat causes cancer. Yes, there are studies that show a correlation between red meat and cancer. However those studies did not differentiate between fresh unprocessed red meat and other processed meat like bacon, sausages, etc.

Edit addendum:

> […] you don't really need bacon and red meat at all, it's something that you can easily take out of your diet.

I'd argue the opposite, bacon aside. Red meat is a highly nutrient dense food. Sugar on the hand is just empty carbs, Metabolizing sugar will drain you body of important vitamins (e.g. B1).
You can definitely implement language features poorly and in hard to maintain, “against the grain” ways in most languages. Lots of languages support multiple ways, sometimes, of doing so!
I'm learning AI at the moment. I gave ChatGPT the following prompt:

> Write a training plan for a series of lessons to teach someone modern deep learning. The training plan should last for approximately 3 months of lessons.

> The lesson plan is for a single student with a strong background in programming (systems programming, algorithms and web). But the student has little knowledge of python. And university level mathematics knowledge but relatively weak skills in linear algebra, probability and statistics.

> By the end of the training process, the student should know modern deep learning methods and techniques and be able to modify, implement and deploy AI based systems.

> Think through your answer. Start by listing out learning objectives, then write a teaching plan to meet those learning objectives.

The response from chatgpt was super long! It gave me recommendations for what to study each week for the next 3 months. I've started going through the material it recommended. For the first 2 weeks, my goal is to learn the basics of python, and learn some linear algebra, and probability and statistics. Then its just a case of finding appropriate material online. I'm watching a lecture series on youtube teaching matrix mathematics now.

[1] https://chat.openai.com/share/d6966012-0d96-4511-b96e-086b80...
That was clear to me days ago.

But - what I heard during this hearing was a commitment to set up a reporting system - outside Pentagon influence - to start aggregating these reports and analyzing them.

That's progress I guess.
Specifically I mean pop music. What you find on the radio, what is most heavily promoted, what gets the most streams + sales.
I’m a die hard JetBrains fan and I’ve finally given up and started using VSCode because I can’t wait for them to develop language extensions for every language I want to work in. I will switch back as soon as I can for the languages I can’t use now, but for now, straddling two sets of IDEs really sucks and I’m kind of considering dropping JetBrains entirely just for less mental overhead.

Lack of proper LSP support is killing them and their recent development isn’t enough
If mold can't sell I don't know which tool will, because they are really ahead in linking.
Appreciate the follow up. This could be really cool!
I feel like the overall system should be clearer. For instance it's not clear how the developers get credits or whether developer accounts are somehow authenticated as representing a genuine entity.

In the opening statement of the site the idea of merely trusting the user without copy protection is completely ignored, but without more details it's not clear if the proposed system is any better.
> all the upstream inputs -- like fancy, palatial recording studios

Digital audio from the listener end had its piece, but two other trends also converged:

- Digital audio from the producer end continued to advance and become cheaper. You can make pretty good recordings on a laptop with the appropriate sound interfaces now, if you have a decent soundproofed room. That is assuming your music isn't digital synth based. Studios are a thing of the past or what a person who likes to produce music calls their bedroom or basement.

- People started caring about the portability of music much more than the quality of it. That trend goes as far back as the Walkman. Regarding the quality, now no one cares if the SNR of your "recording studio" can accurately record all 20-20KHz band of a pindrop from 5 miles away at delta-sigma modulated 192Kbps. If it sounds good with headphones or a car stereo it's fine. This is why MP3 was successful despite its audio quality issues.
I think that's a false dichotomy. It's possible to criticize Mozilla (ideally in good faith) for both the way in which they develop Firefox and their focus/mission in general, while at the same time using Firefox, since to me it looks like the best alternative we've got.

Not every Mozilla critic is a Chrome user; I'd even expect that the most vocal critics are Firefox fans and users.
> Their impact on humanity has a whole has so far most definitely been net positive, and you are under no obligation whatsoever to use their products.

The strategy over the years has always been the same:

1. create a necessary product and give it away "for free"

2. wait until people are used to it and consider it essential and difficult to migrate

3. close the gate and make it no longer free.

For example : Gmail for organisations (at launch free up to 100 users, then 50, then 10, then 0), Maps for websites (lower free tier now), Google Drive (lower free tier now), Youtube is next ...
That these are the "best" products in the world is a subjective affirmation. They are pre-installed on devices and difficult to remove ...

They can do whatever they want with their products, of course, but trying to control the openess of the web as we know now, it is a different thing ...
> There is simply no reason to presume employers are handing out all they can in that case

I didn't say that there was.

> That's the great thing about high employment

Not if it's coming from the public sector. Then it's government taking taxes from businesses and using it to pay people more than said business can. Saying that means the businesses shouldn't exist feels like a statement of faith.

> we find all sorts of shitty (typically small) businesses that cannot make it

We also find good small businesses that can't, and bad public sector ones. We just call the public sector ones "underfunded" when that happens.
Oh wow that takes me back - "auto cue"? https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-cassette-tape-player-featu...
Boom no. Dark Matter is already known to exist: neutrinos, for instance
I had cultured some Gnathia in the past. This sea vampires are easy to keep in captivity.

The larvae are like a cross between a tick and a lava lamp. Males defend leks of females.
This will surprise no one.
They're developing their own parallel linker - https://twitter.com/davidecci/status/1665835119331135488
I migrated all my domains from Google Domains to Porkbun when it was announced that Squarespace was gonna buy the former.

I've been quite happy with Porkbun so far!
Maybe if those neighbors were rich they could hire a nanny and have more leisure time and neglect their kids in the same way that a billionaire with three partners and ten kids must certainly neglect theirs.
MOND doesn't explain galaxy formation.
> it's impossible to extinguish a lithium battery

Really?
Or people who wanted to travel.
I'm on the fence here: sadly it does seem that grinding LC is an optimal use of time for the avg job seeker.

That said, not sure you can easily quantify projects as having no impact. Back when I was a seeker my resume had a handful of non-trivial public projects buried in a footnote and one would come up in about 75% of interviews. Despite bias I doubt this is too unique assuming the projs themselves are interesting.

Remember: your entire resume is adtech for your skills to a future employer. I'm of the belief that if human eyes ever skim it: project: Java CLI fizz buzz will never outperform project: RISC-V microkernel in Rust.
> you don’t want to miss out on a great engineer just because they spent all of their energy making great products for prior employers rather than blogging, speaking and coding in public.

say it louder for the tone deaf recruiters and hiring managers in the back
> So someone can subscribe to a 0.99/month product and use several 19.99/month products?

Yes, a developer can sell the subscriptions for very cheap but then they will probably quickly run out of subscriptions (there is a limited number) and then wish they had sold them for more.

Also, the subscription is not really tied to any product; think of it more as a subscription to free software in general, that can be sold by different resellers (the developers).
Ask HN: Visiting SF on a Budget?
I want to do a trip to SF to sightsee and network.

But I want to keep costs down.

Hotel / AirBnB are the easiest options, but what about co-living spaces and hacker houses?

Ideally want to network with people working on llms / ml ops, so the community of a hacker house is appealing.

But never stayed in one before, so not sure what to expect!

Any help would be appreciated.
> And for good enough software you should consider that maximum already for any number of users.

I don't believe such software exists. (And, to be clear, I'm writing from direct, day-job experience.)

EDIT: I take it back. SQLite, cURL. Maybe.

EDIT2: I can't reply to the SEL4 response, so here goes. I'm a huge fan of verification tools, but consider the Spectre class of bugs. Verification is always done wrt a mathematical model that you've defined after inspecting the world and writing down the properties you want to track. But the world changes, and the chance that the world changes increases with the number of users of your software. That's the nature of the beast.
I try do some sort of frontend for every project and case study a company sends me. I think it helped a lot until now and will help more in the future.
I honestly don’t know how most people determine if something is ethical. At this point when someone says “unethical” it usually seems equivalent to “mean”.
Privacy-First is not the same as compliant with GDPR. You will find many tools being privacy focused, but not necessarily compliant. But that aside, there is a matter of consent.

So if you want to skip the so-called Cookie Banner, you have to assure that:

1. you have a legitimate interest,

2. no data leaves adequate country/jurisdiction (until recently that meant no US data transfer),

3. privacy policy documents exactly what happens with the data,

4. ... and a few other points.

Cookie Banner is just a common term for consent.

https://wideangle.co/blog/what-is-consent-under-gdpr
What’s the big deal? EBikes can accelerate to 25-30mph unassisted which is firmly in moped/scooter territory and those require a drivers license.

Want to get around town without a license? Pedal yourself.
> ... significant economic coercision meets my definition of force

Military members are vaccinated against a myriad of illnesses right after joining. They are also required to follow a bunch of rules, some of which severely restrict the practice of their first amendment rights.

They weren't "forced", as much as they have to agree with the DoD rules to work for them.
I just use single-use card whenever I don’t use AppStore for subscription. That way they won’t charge me again and if I end up using and liking the software I will remember to change card or provide another single use card
Thanks, will check this out
A similar thing happened in Cricket as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrYVUirkluY, not that dramatic considering the camera angles but still one in a million shot
That's not what was said at all in context, and I do not appreciate you putting words in my valid comment. You dismissed the original argument with your own personal truths.
This is how the situation will unfold...

- The WEI check will be designed with a level of simplicity that tech-savvy individuals or hackers can easily bypass. Criticisms or objections will be quieted with comments like, "You just need to initiate the browser using these 50 different settings and you're good."

- On the other hand, the WEI check will be intricate enough that an average user won't be able to circumvent it, resulting in them being obligated to view ads.

In this way, it's a win-win situation: the hackers maintain their access to an "open" web, while the vast majority (99%) of the population will navigate through a "Google" web.
Schools in Western countries have "catchment areas" — a Voronoi diagram, for each level of schooling, that clusters residences by which school is closest to them. If you're sending your child to public (rather than private) school in one of these countries, then your child is assigned to a school based on which catchment area your home falls into. You can't send your child to a school other than the closest one to you.

(Yes, this means that a large part of housing prices in these urban areas is driven by parents or soon-to-be-parents fighting over the housing that exists in the catchment areas of the best public schools.)

This is usually combined in civic planning with a "service radius" around the school, to decide when new schools are needed (vs. just expanding existing schools.) For rural areas, the service radius is defined by practicable bus pickup loops (you don't want a bus that takes an hour to get to the school); but in dense urban areas, that radius is usually defined by walkability — on little child-sized legs!

The combination of the concepts of "catchment area" + "service radius" means that if you live in a city in one of these countries, it's almost impossible that you're going to live somewhere where your child fundamentally cannot walk to school (purely in terms of distance.) Which is a major reason why everyone makes fun of people in cities in the US (which uses both of these concepts in most municipalities) for driving their kids to school, when that school is by law a distance away that the kid could walk.

(I know that the problem in the US often isn't the distance, but what's between the home and the school — dangerous major thoroughfares with no sidewalks cutting through neighbourhoods and the like. Which is still the US being dumb; just on a different level.)
Firstly, all large chunks of Lithium-based battery packs must be regulated/controlled, just like how airlines are doing.

Secondly, Hydrogen is dangerous indoors, because the gas gets trapped AND is odorless, and no one will notice until something goes boom.