skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The marginal cost of a lawsuit and buying Twitter isn't much more than just agreeing to the sale, and there's a tiny chance of being able to get away with paying less. Why not just fight it out in court?

I've seen some suggestions that he didn't want discovery to continue, but that seems rather speculative. It's kind of an odd outcome.
Habeck is sensible. It really is a shame for all of us Europeans than the FDP had to be part of this coalition and Lindner got the Finance ministry.
This seems to be quite applicable for services, if you took the questions and applied them to products, especially operating systems or programming languages, we're all in deep deep trouble.
T-Mobile USA is IPv6 only. They use NAT64 and 464XLAT.
I'd bet that YC would love to fund fewer dev tools, but there's a bias towards who applies to YC in the first place. It's not that YC isn't well known outside of tech circles, but they are especially well known in tech circles, and that affects who applies.
s/'ll be/ are
One team got a stream of 404’s not because the requested objects did not exist in the DB, but because the service moved. Web server was saying: resource does not exist.

Another time, the server had the resource but didn’t like the state of the data, so refused to serve it. Debate ensued as to whether this was a 400 or 500 class error. People got religious.

Yes there’s an answer but it should be so obvious that we don’t have the debate. This isn’t sophisticated verbs, both happened with GET.
To legitimize the suspicion. That's always been the point.
> when they tried to roll it out on a wide basis for fear that countries like Iran and China would just block all of AWS

That is the whole point: make it so they have to block vast swatches of the useful internet in order to defeat it. Ideally, we should be able to make it so they have to block the entire internet to censor anything.

There must be some kind of limit to the amount of tyranny they're able to muster, right? Eventually the collateral damage will be too great and they'll give up on trying to censor anything. Alternatively, they will become such tyrannical societies that people won't accept it.
But they do find them useful. Personal computers were a pretty important invention, too. More recently, the web and "smart" phones (which aren't actually smart) resulted in major changes to organizations. We work differently now.

I'm not actually sure what argument you're making, though? It seems like you're saying that only a certain kind of technological innovation would count for some purpose, but I don't know what purpose you're interested in.
I got 18% on GMail. I pay them, other people pay them, and they don't have much downtime. IMAP support hasn't changed in decades and pushes each email to your local machine. If they start to suck one day, I just point my MX records somewhere else and nobody will even know. All in all, one of the least scary services I use.

Most of the 18% are them not being bound to any contract. I am not sure I have ever signed a contract that binds the other party (I don't even think my offer to buy a home completely precluded the seller from backing out), so it doesn't extra worry me. Having a backup and a changeable address assuage any of my fears. (I feel the same way about cloud providers. If GCP nukes me, it will be an annoying day to get going on AWS, but hardly the end of the world.)
If that’s your theory, then I don’t see how reducing time spent on math would help.

If math requires so much less time, then the amount freed up wouldn’t be enough for the type of support you expect for ELA.

If parents shy away from ELA because it requires a type of effort that math does not, then reducing math isn’t going to somehow make them more willing to read books or learn to proofread.

I’m honestly surprised that you think slowing down math will help with ELA.
Edge TPUs are low cost, low power inference devices the size of a dime. I have a hundred of them sitting in a closet. (Alas. Anyone want to buy 100 coral minis? :-)

The TPUs you rent that are being discussed here are capable of training, consume hundreds of watts and have a heatsink bigger than your fist and really spectacular network links. They're analogous to Nvidia's highest end GPUs from a "what can you do with them" perspective.

Both are custom chips for deep learning but they're completely different beasts.
Can you give me an example of how you are screwed in the programming language case?
Illegal medical lab discovered near Fresno, 20 potentially infectious agents
I dunno who “we” is but just in case others missed the news, men who have sex with men in the United States no longer need to abstain from sex at all in order to donate blood, provided they’re in a monogamous relationship and meet other risk assessments. This has been true since roughly May 2023 as far as I’m aware.
Well said.

I remember the HSA push too...
If you’re betting your sanity on the sanity of Musk and his rich friends, hope you have good therapy insurance.
Start by analyzing whichever email service you use.

Add additional checkboxes:

- [y/n] Is SMS the only 2FA method available?

- [y/n] Is there no 2FA at all?

- [y/n] Do they have a history of unpatched zero-days?

- [y/n] Is it possible that if there is a security breach, you won't hear about it because no tech journalist pays attention to this service?

- [y/n] Can someone socially engineer the support team to get access to your account?

- [y/n] If a hacker gets access to your account, can your bank accounts be drained?
Arrogant smartasses often put more effort into having their genius recognized than they do in being correct, and that often... works. Loud and aggressive people take as much credit as they can and they make sure everyone knows, so they generally appear more competent than the rest.

Sometimes they really are outstanding on their own (e.g. Linus Torvalds), but just as often, it turns out that yes, they are highly competent, but the true insights actually come from their underlings.
What's more likely, they removed it to signal they think canaries are a legal uncertainty or because of something else?
Ah! right makes sense, I didn't know there were two
As far as 'AI risk' stuff goes, I expect this kind of shit to actually kill people.
I'm sure skilled volunteers would be very welcome.

There are numerous active, moderately serious efforts to both optimize and/or JIT Python bytecode. I think AOT compilation is mostly out-of-scope for 100% compatibility, but again, there's lots of different efforts to compile either subset languages or subsets of programs.

"Kicking and screaming" suggests some reluctance to embrace this, but I think that's probably unfair: it's just hard.
Please do! Feedback welcome.
To take a break from a FANG or other corporate job, and do a low-key start-up thing with the gang, and greenfield some code instead of bug fixing maintenance work, while working remote from a beach in Hawaii or somewhere sounds like a holiday to me!
They’re the only market, give or take! You have to be a US resident or citizen to be able to use it.
Chrome should starting warning users if Cloudflare is used to protect a website, due to the risk of MITM.
Untested except obliquely but it is a compelling idea given the tests of the first that we've seen so far.
There is a bunch of evidence in the article we're commenting on. Good faith assumption that people have all read the article before commenting is (supposedly) a premise of HN's culture. In practice, many people who comment are responding solely to a comment or to the title presented.
That sounds like

M-x dabbrev-expand

which is bound to M-/ by default (and yeah, I love it). Though I do like the context sensitive completions that lsp provides as well. They are particularly good for showing you structure members (since the language server knows the types).
You just point the MX records of your custom domain to a different provider, you mean? The vast majority of Gmail users do not have custom domains, and directly give out @gmail.com addresses to other users and services.
I’m not familiar enough with the python transition to say much. I can think of a few things that the PHP developers did that helped make the transition easier:

- multibyte aware string functions were implemented as a separate (and optional) extension with separately named functions (prefixed with mb) and there was a popular community polyfill from the Symfony project (and is for many new language functions).
- Weird sloppy behaviours (like performing array access on a Boolean, or trying to access a property on null, and many more than would silently just turn into null/false) had lengthy deprecation periods and if you had error logging turned on you could clean these up relatively easily even without a big test suite.
I got 66% for Gmail, but a bunch of these did feel a little difficult to judge. Like "Bugs are not fixed." Is that any bugs? All bugs? The majority of bugs? Important bugs? Etc, etc. I went with no for "bugs are not fixed", but yes for "bugs are not acknowledged."

Honestly, the biggest potential avenue for being screwed by Gmail is being locked out of all your other accounts that use your Gmail address as a login credential. That's sort of covered by a few of the options, but I think it deserves a question of its own (e.g. "My access to other services is mediated by this service.")

I also drew a line between Gmail and GSuite. GSuite would obviously win back some points in the "I pay for it" category.
My own grandma doesn't know what encryption/HTTP/TLS etc are. I think for those who are uninformed it's a sane default to not trust self-signed certs.

That said, there should be a toggle in preferences or about:config to allow it for those who know what they are doing.
When gpt4 turbo comes out, which uses less resources. (my guess)
Excellent checklist. Anyone who is directly accountable for operations but only a non-voting advisory role for platform selection will have flashbacks reading this list.
Keep in mind that people from Finland are more likely to have skin that makes them particularly vulnerable to Melanoma.

A loved one is fighting this right now - if something simple like supplements, dietary practices or drug development could reduce the risk, it could potentially prevent alot of suffering. Even if it doesn’t work, perhaps it’s a line of inquiry with some value.
Very few system calls in the main loop. Not even close to being io bound, and as I said memory is all preallocated, so allocator efficiency isn't a factor.

Edit: realized I didn't answer your question, I ran flamegraph both ways and it was completely dominated by tight vectorized loops and a couple sadly necessary memory copies.
You can pay them at least.
It looks cool, but there is no screenshot or video of the settings you can configure.

The videos show only the effects (scrolling, etc) and not how you can use your mouse or set it up to do it.
This is a ridiculous take. Nothing in the parent comment even remotely hints at feeling entitled to the labor of the Musl maintainers — they just disagree with implementation decisions that have been made.

And while I’d agree in principle that nobody is entitled to anyone else’s labor for free, I’d also add that nobody is entitled to be shielded from criticism of work they have chosen to publish, or to have that criticism be watered down to a sanitized, milquetoast version of the writer’s intended message.
I always find it entertaining when a union won't bend and then the company goes bust and they all lose their jobs
It doesn't even have to discover anything new to be a compelling proof of concept. All it has to do is discover something we already know without having been fed the answer in some way.

Today's AIs can't do this, because the entire basis for their intelligence is having been fed all the answers humanity has, and regurgitating those back to us in a somewhat more flexible and adaptive way than a search engine.
And Bethe, and Fermi. Feynman was a small fry there, at the time. (As he happily relates in his memoirs.)
Aren't all vulnerabilities zerodays and therefore unpatched at some point?
I'm watching this, and enjoying it so much:

"Now, that shows that gravitation extends to the great distances, but Newton said that everything attracted everything else. Do I attract you? Excuse me, I mean, do I attract you? I was going to say, excuse me, do I attract you physically? I didn’t mean that." ;)
Demand right now is not shifting from mobile to datacenter, demand is shifting from "normal" datacenter compute to AI datacenter compute.

I think if you had said "AMD Epyc" rather than a mobile chip, that would be a much more apt comparison. The AI chips are somewhat more power intensive per box, but fairly similar on power/area. It turns out that these silicon processes are fairly uniform in terms of the power/area that they can sustain for any kind of workload.

Mobile chips are designed for <10% utilization and "rush-to-idle" workloads, and they are not remotely comparable to datacenter silicon (of any kind).
Do heterossexual men need to be monogamous too?
That requires me to remember all the little corner cases.
Apologies -- this would be already in H1B OR TN status (at their existing company) and looking to start a company
Can I hook a microphone up to a Coral Mini and run Whisper? I'd love to have a home assistant that wasn't on the cloud.

As for the rest of them, list them on Amazon and let them do the fulfillment. That $10k of hardware isn't going to sell itself from your closet. (Yet. LLMs are making great strides.)
> multibyte aware string functions were implemented as a separate (and optional) extension with separately named functions (prefixed with mb)

Python had a different take on this with some interesting psychology: you had a new string type which had to explicitly be converted (i.e. concatenating a Unicode string with a byte string causes an exception), which had a stark divide. Projects which had previously handled Unicode correctly converted almost trivially, but the projects which had been sloppy were a morass trying to figure out where Unicode was desirable and where you really needed raw bytes. Almost all of the code I saw where this was a problem didn’t handle Unicode properly but the developers _hated_ the idea of the language forcing them to fix those bugs.
Straight up Smartwool. I use the same weight usually and just change out the height based on winter vs summer. But some of the other brands of 100% wool work well for me too.
I suspect that's an artifact of what counts as "corporate" debt in china. LGFVs[1] count as corporate debt, but are more accurately classified as government. If you factor that out and reallocate that to government debt, and consider that the US has higher government debt as % of GDP than china, the two countries don't look too far off.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_financing_veh...
The thing is, Google Workspaces base plan is only $6/user/mo. If you value your email (which, as annoying as email can be, you should, since it's often the key to all of your other online accounts), $6/mo is... intensely reasonable. (And you get other stuff with that too; it's not just email.) Unfortunately, we've been trained to expect that everything on the internet is free nowadays, so even that sounds like an expensive service.

But agreed, most people just have @gmail.com addresses, and thus no portability. Google of course knows this, and that's by design. I wish we had a popular email service that would register a domain for you as a part of the signup flow. That would be pretty cool.
Not sure why you mention "thread pool executor", which of course does not get you concurrency due to the gil.
This is a massive bummer - Teamsters helped protect and unionize a good number of ASD folks (my brother included) with Yellow/YRC and helped provide them with excellent jobs and benefits. My heart goes out to everyone affected by the shut down.
Cockleburrs? They seem to grow well in the US Midwest (at least about 40 miles west of Chicago.) We also get stick-tights which are much smaller.

As for my "lawn", I mow whatever grows at the highest height I can set my mower. No fertilizer, no toxins. Whatever grows is appreciated. Except thistles, cockleburrs and stick-tights. I have a variety of grasses, American violets, clover, ajuga and lots of other stuff. I also pull portulaca and add it to my salads.
This is a kind interpretation of what I meant. They all have some kind of bias angle, maybe by researching enough data can we hope to achieve a measure of accuracy.
The design of HFS was protected by United States Patent number 4,945,475, "Hierarchical file system to provide cataloging and retrieval of data." The patent was granted at the end of July 1990, meaning that it has since expired after its maximum 20-year lifetime.

AFAIK unlike Microsoft later on with its FAT LFN patent, Apple doesn't seem to have tried to stop third-party implementations using that.
Forget about emails, this seems like it applies to banks directly (in Canada at least).
No, it wasn't a cheap shot, it was based on the error condition on the page. You're reading too much into this.
Yellow’s poor management is what drove the company under, not the union. It’s specifically discussed in the article. Loaded up with debt, took on a $700M loan from the Trump admin during COVID (which the DoD stated they disagreed with) [1], still couldn’t manage the business successfully. The union/employees have given up $300 million a year for over 10 years to attempt to preserve the business (from Yellow’s investor materials); that’s over $3 billion in lost wages.

“Welch said the company’s deal-making debt was its undoing. “We were just taking on too much debt and overpaid,” said Welch, whom lenders had brought back in 2011 after an earlier stint at the company. Digesting the debt “has been a slog for 20 years,” the former CEO said.”

Also:

“Yellow’s current finances and prospect of bankruptcy “is probably two decades in the making,” Chan said, pointing to poor management and strategic decisions dating back to the early 2000s. At this point, after each party has bailed them out so many times, there is a limited appetite to do that anymore.”

https://fortune.com/2023/07/29/yellow-trucking-brink-bankrup...

“Retailers and manufacturers are likely to see higher shipping rates if the company folds, he said. Yellow is known for its low shipping rates compared to its rivals.” [My note: another indicator the business was being poorly run]

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/30/1190960948/yellow-trucking-sh...

There are 3.5M truck drivers in the US. The ~22k union drivers will find other work rapidly at other LTL carriers, they’re less than 1% of total trucking labor force. Likely going to get absorbed into Estes, SAIA, or similar top tier carriers desperate for labor.

[1] https://news.stlpublicradio.org/2022-04-27/overland-park-tru...
Having time on your side counts for a lot. Enough to outweigh every single box on that list. If you take action.
The obvious solution to this: spend less time reading pointless online arguments, and go outside and touch grass.
Doesn’t say what it actually does for what kinds of mice, at least from a quick scroll.

I have been using BetterTouchTool for years to program the extra buttons on my Logitech mice and add a three finger tip-tap tab switching gesture to the trackpad. Works beautifully.
5 Questions For… Timnit Gebru
I actually disagree with most of this. I think that, for servers, it's best to stay as close to the "cattle, not pets" model as reasonably possible. Servers should be set up and maintained with automated tooling and rarely connected to manually, preferably only to debug issues. Most of the things in here are gimmicky one-offs that don't meaningfully increase security.

Don't bother setting up a user account, use a public key authorized SSH session as root to do everything. Setting up UFW to block everything but what you should be serving is good. I don't see much point in things like Wireguard or this umask thing.
Do they claim to not be technically "evil"?

Are they in fact evil?
> most efficient available mechanism

Efficiency is exactly what you don't want. There is a tradeoff between efficiency, minimising some parameter such as effort or water input, and resilience in the face of uncertainty.

If you are "most efficient" you can't withstand even a small drop in the availability of critical inputs, because you are already using the least amount possible.

What we need is diversity, a large repertoire or store-cupboard of things that we know about and can make use of.
things are so bad, "may your startup never be featured, even tangentially, on rachel's site" is the new "may you live in interesting times" :D
For those who keep asking, "why Florida", it is because of the armadillos. I will note that the one case in the article without classic risk factors "works in landscaping, and spends long periods of time outdoors". Armadillos are very common to encounter outdoors, and although the case subject reported no armadillo contact, I would be quite surprised if no one he worked with in landscaping also had no armadillo contact.

The fact Florida Tech has long been a world supplier of leprosy samples from local armadillos is quite relevant: https://news.fit.edu/archive/rising-star-disney-comes-to-cou...
$500 is unfortunately now the floor price for mountain bikes, even a Walmart entry level brand.
> I mountaineer too, it's just a chore to walk with groceries
Oh neat, thanks for sharing that! Having a 32K offline model is pretty promising. Let me test out how it performs
Yup. I work at the Space Telescope Science Institute, where we maintain pipelines for astronomical data that move petabytes, among other things. All of the heavy lifting is done in Python.
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) is a security management framework for network access control. It determines which users can access the network and which resources or services are available to authorized users. This document introduces the three elements of AAA and its implementation, used protocols, as well as applications.
The biggest MITMer should complain about another service being an MITM? How much has Google now routed to go through themselves or be checked by them prior to serving your destination?

Bear in mind Google doesn't have a warrant canary because it is served literally hundreds or thousands of warrants per year, to the tune it's just called a transparency report to count them.
How’s the union supposed to bend with the company missed a $530 million payment to the pension?
A handful of counter-examples don't change a statistical reality...
My mitigation strategy for gmail:

1. Important logins through a domain I own are forwarded to gmail.

2. Do a regular Google takeout.
Yes, that’s the nature of the meter — it’s ‘how screwed are you’ not ‘how screwed is everyone who uses a particular thing?’
I believe most of the open source HFS code was from NeXT rather than Mac OS. A lot of classic Mac OS was still 68k assembly.

eg:

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/hfs/blob/hfs-106/...

13-Jan-1998 jwc first cut (derived from old NextStep macfs.util code and cdrom.util code).
I'm pretty sure XKCD created a name for this, if no-one is replying, give a horribly wrong solution to nerd snipe someone to put the time in to giving a correct solution.
known vs. unknown, and all that
It is interesting too how many of these are things people in one way or another… want / incentivize.

A large chunk of the individual consumer web is free services where we are the product… but generally we won’t pay / use much of anything else.

Then we get upset when the service nobody is paying (or not enough) costs money and/or dies.

We as consumers seem attracted to / incentivize the inevitable “eshit…”
Definitely a good thing, but i cannot think of any other mammal that so enrages land owners. If you have beavers on your land, you are now on thier land. There just isnt any way to prepare a house, road, field or any other area the beavers want to inundated. You jut have to give up and biuld elsewhere.
What do you think lightweight means? I don't think it means what you think it means...