skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York and DC are especially bad, but LA still paid a billion dollars a mile for its recent subway expansion. If built as a subway, the 68-mile network would cost at least $50 billion. The gross domestic product of the entire Las Vegas region is just $136 billion. A $50 billion infrastructure project would be like New York City taking on a $750 billion infrastructure project.

You could build a much smaller subway network. But at that point, the value proposition of the network in a sprawling city like Las Vegas evaporates. (Especially in a city as hot as Los Vegas, where long walks from subway stations to destinations will be miserable.) Baltimore is much denser than Las Vegas, and the one underground line has a ridership of just 2 million people annually. Limited subway networks that don’t go anywhere are worthless.
Us Electric grid history and overview
so is this like replit + AI or github codespaces with copilot?
You can also use BetterTouchTool for that. I have CTRL-OPTION-CMD-M set up on macOS :)
yeah basically. just selected around the bed and had photoshop fill in the bg
Just have the Federal government pay for it?

That's not an easy solution, that's a simplistic solution.
What does 'not applicable' mean in this context? No problems or we don't have plans to fix it? Zen1/1+ doesn't seem present in these charts at all.

Edit: It is actually mentioned if you do something clever like read.

> No µcode patch or BIOS update, which includes the µcode patch, is necessary for products based on “Zen” or “Zen 2” CPU architectures because these architectures are already designed to flush branch type predictions from the branch predictor.
Dumb question: If these apps offer end-to-end encryption, how is anyone getting caught?
That's the problem with free apps. Very few people want to donate, no decent company is interested in buying the app and making it profitable, so all that's left are the worst kind of companies who buy these extensions and apps to exploit the users.

All these free apps have value but unfortunately it doesn't translate to any income for the developer so they find other ways.
I made a shovel. Coming to market soon and it's great.
> Google is adding code to Chrome that will send tamper-proof information about your operating system and other software, and share it with websites. Google says this will reduce ad fraud.

Is it only to "reduce ad fraud" though, or the wider agenda is deeper entangle their tracking in one's life.
> As a customer of USD, there's attrition of purchasing power.

There is no denying that USD has sticking power, despite it's immense loss in purchase value since it's inception, but relative to all other currencies I guess it has won the attrition battle; though if I'm honest if that were the sole reason you should have been in GBP to remain consistent in your logic.

Honestly, this is the best of bad options, but I guess the perspective if taken to it's logical conclusion is that: ultimately might makes right.

The Petro-dollar Empire is backed by 'proof of violence' is a commonly held belief amongst (early) Bitcoiners, but because it can be obfuscated by many layers of abstraction the general public is often none-the-wiser: but is none the less true.

I'm no longer the idealist I was in my teens or 20s as a (former) environmental-activist and felt people can be swayed by reason and logic alone; I've come to know most will never accept anything that isn't deemed in there own best personal interest, but just look around what we are dealing with in terms of potential nuclear war/contamination or environmental and climate cotastrophe; that is mainly attributed to the 'must grow at all costs' economic model that sustains the fiat system and makes nation-states war for influence of nations and there resources via unpayable loans and debt bondage.

We cannot live like this for very long, so what good is a Roth IRA with fat margins if the end result is shorter life expectancy, diminishing quality of Life and the growing issue where you cannot access more things of value in those ever inflated units of currency as supply chains collapse under the strain of the aforementioned?

I think this above all else is what needs to be understood, and if we really want to live in such a World anymore?
I have gone through some changes with the mice and the keyboard, I got the first one in like 2017 so its fair to say wear and tear and other factors.

First one I got was the Logitech M575, I just went for what looked to have good reviews, and I've always bought Logitech. I got one for work and my home when the first one died too quickly because it got bumped in my bag going back and forth to work.

Then they released a new trackball called the Ergo MX (when googling it, definitiely add the term "Trackball") which was fantastic. I liked keeping it raised instead of lowered (which was a feature it had) but then after a few years the clicking stopped working as expected, and I found out some people had issues with the switch wearing down over time.

At this point I have a wireless Kensington Trackball mouse, it supports three devices (2 bluetooth, and one USB paired device, so three total), witching between all three isn't perfect (its a little too delayed compared to my Logitech keyboard that switches on a single tap) but it works well enough. Its raised by default so its just as I would have used the Ergo MX. It also has two programmable buttons, though you can also program other things with their software, I've left their custom software uninstalled however, since it fights with Windows' own settings, but it works great on any OS I'm on, including my Linux system.

As for the keyboard, I had Microsoft's Ergonomic wireless keyboard for a while, I've been leaning towards wired keyboards more, since I do tend to use Linux, and use full disk encryption, and none of that works if you're fully bluetooth wireless only.

My other thing is I prefer flat key keyboards, I know some people hate them, but I just find them to be nicer on my hands and quicker to type on, so I usually lean towards flat key ergonomic keyboards now, which there's not a huge amount of those. The wired Microsoft keyboards only come with regular "fat keys" as opposed to the flat keys their other wireless ergonomic keyboards feature. I did find a Kensington wired keyboard that's ergonomic and has flat keys, I replaced it after I spilled coffee on it and bought the same one, but I cant help but want a wireless one still.

But I'm looking into a Logitech keyboard that is ergonomic and supports multiple devices, and using the unifying USB plug as the main way to connect to my encrypted Linux system, I've always had solid luck with Logitech's unifying USB device, it usually just works regardless of what stage the computer is in, its just bluetooth only that fails if you're trying to make bios changes.

Anyway, its been a few different devices, but the focus has always been on getting a ergonomic keyboard and any trackball mouse that works best for me. I definitely like the ones where you rest most of your hand on them the most.
I am not local to redmond. But isn’t that town just dominated by Microsoft? And aren’t they going back to office regardless of what some town council member says one way or the other?
The architect mentioned a 100ms (or 10 times per second) buffer / flush rate; presumably there's some windowing settings so I can flush at 10,000 records or after 1/10th of a second, and can chose 10 records or 1/100th of a second if I don't mind the bill.

Kafka's nice because there are a lot of knobs to adjust how you prioritize availability or durability or latency. Kafka's tedious because there are a lot of knobs... I was curious as to the nature of the knobs on this product.

I probably should have also asked "and by S3 do you mean S3 or any S3 like object store?" probably that's answered elsewhere.
I only ever see crying about racism in Dresden in the Media and on HN.

Is this an actual thing or just something pushed up because victimhood is idolized too much? The blue collar workers here are diverse af.
I mean, the site gets to decide if it will service a request. theres no requirement for a service to respond to everyone.
Nobody could have seen this coming.
> sudo zsh -c "rm /Users/*/Library/LaunchAgents/NightOwlUpdater.plist"

Why do you need to call out to zsh for this command instead of just running it in the current shell?
Why should I listen to you?

Seriously, thank you for that feedback. While the current generation of developers has heard of my work, they don't necessarily associate it with me. Establishing credibility would amplify what I say.
It's the best possible bootcamp for engineers if you are lucky enough to land a role in systems engineering (or its equivalent). If you actually pay attention and participate, you will learn about ways of troubleshooting that will stick with you forever. The notion of making an assumption is completely exorcised from your body - in this industry, the consequences of bad assumptions cost at least a million bucks always. You might also learn helpful terms like "value-add" that will guide your business sense for the rest of your life.

I can see why a lot of people hate the idea of semiconductor manufacturing. It is the apex of "by the books" while simultaneously exhibiting the most incredible shiny technology on the face of the planet. Being forced to follow all of these rules and procedures to get at the shiny tech rubs a lot of people the wrong way. "What do you mean I can't take my smart phone into the office? Y'all make its memory here." The pay is also arguably pretty bad unless you lock in for life.

I would say you get what you want out of it, just like anything. If you walk in with an entitlement mindset and expect the knowledge to be forced into your brain, you are in for a really shitty ride just as you describe. If you walk in thinking "I'll bust my ass here for 3-5 years and learn what I can", you will have a much better experience.

I didn't even know I wanted to write software full time until I was sitting in a cubicle at Samsung's ATX office for a few years. In my opinion, if you aren't sure what you want to do but you really love all things tech, why the hell not? Try it out. It was a great stepping stone for me.
Which is weird because google has a partnership with replit, unless replit has a hand in this project. If not, pretty ruthless.
The theoretical capacity doesn’t matter because Silver Line ridership doesn’t come anywhere near capacity.
Setting aside the taxonomical debate about whether Homo sapiens sapiens is even a thing, if a subspecies exists, then the species exists. So Homo sapiens are definitely not extinct.
Experiment with Everything
I run a cybersecurity newsletter so i find myself searching through rubbish for ages, from both a mix of mainstream media and people's personal blogs. Most of my issues lie with mainstream media which either not have enough expertise to write the story or signigicantly dumb it down so they can be applicable to a much wider audience.
I think the issue is rusty nails. Their texture is very porous (excellent habitat for bacteria) and brittle (likely to leave fragment embedded).

It isn't that iron is pathogenic, but that nails inflict deep wounds, and inject many pathogens from the environment. Needle/cutlery punctures, for example, are not associated with tethanus because they aren't rusty or in close contact with decaying matter.
>> I suggest we call the proposed problems the Arkoudas Reasoning Test.

Please don't. In Greek that's "The Bear-man Reasoning Test" ("Arkoudas" is the man who has something to do with bears, in Greek).
Yes, I think that's what I said? Every attack no matter how deep it seemed to be has been patchable in microcode, sometimes at a cost in performance. But so far nobody had to toss the physical silicon, at least not with Intel. The malleability of these chips is quite fascinating.
Not the person you asked, but I do something similar. This is the guide I like to follow for new drives: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/hard-drive-burn-...

It's on the TrueNAS forum, but it'll work on basically any Linux system. I'm currently using Unraid, which is based on Slackware.

(I must be luckier than the parent, because I've only had a single drive in a dozen or more die during testing - and that was a used one off ebay!)
Two words: Cannibal Pigs.

http://davegilson.com/scarry.html
This has "promo packet driven development" written all over it. Zero chance something as random as this is going to get continued support from the company.
> We can't even agree on who the good guys and bad guys are.

This is true. In these discussions of trust, my measurement of a bad actor is who is in a position to harm me and has a history of causing harm.

High on my list are LEO and other government interests (fed,state,local).
Security conscious and privacy conscious aren't the same thing, although there's overlap. I can be concerned about the security of my system without caring about whether I'm being targeted for ads.
The bar is intentionally low "for what's actually legal".

You really don't want the government interfering with the implementation details and business models of software products. That's a really bad road to go down.

The problem is really a lack of inspiration for both the dev and user. In this case someone made a trivial tool and didn't know how else to monetize it than being a scumbag and exploiting social norms and good will. The user also decided to use something that's dumb and not worth risking making any agreement with any entity at all.

Situations like this are where free software excels. Things that are inconsequential in premise should stay that way in practice.
Look into Nim or Zig instead if you're coming from C++
That's for full-time workers, and includes overtime. See https://www.npr.org/2023/07/07/1186338446/ups-workers-threat... and mentioning 10-15 hours of overtime per week.

Fifty-five percent of the drivers are part-time, and UPS has a two-tier wage system. Part-timers got paid a lot less. From https://www.npr.org/2023/07/25/1189956641/ups-union-calls-of... :

> According to the company, part-time union employees currently make an average of $20 per hour after 30 days on the job. But the union disputes these claims.

$20/hour * 2,000 hours = $40K/year

From the same source,

> Last year, the median UPS employee made $52,000, according to the company's securities filings.

Part of goal in the recent UPS Teamsters negotiations was to get better pay for these part-time workers. They were preparing to strike. They got the raise, plus "UPS agreed to equip new delivery vehicles with air conditioning, end forced overtime and eliminate a two-tier pay system for delivery drivers, among other concessions."

The CEO, Carol Tomé, makes $19 million/year and "UPS posted a record profit last year."
You're going by the specified, designed use cases of those technologies.

Every spec is a three-edged sword: the spec, the intent of the spec, and the use of the spec in the wild.

In practice, Cloudflare does a pretty good job on far-more-than average of gluing together some heuristics in an unspec'd way to filter traffic. It sucks because you can't plan around it, but that's rather the point because the malicious actors are trying to plan around it also.

(ETA: Hacker News rate-limited this post. In theory, I could have set up a sock-puppet to try and work around that, but then they would catch that too and I'd be out two accounts. So I just waited out the limit. Measure and counter-measure. ;) ).
phi-1[0] is only 1.3 billion parameters and performs very well in coding tasks - small models have a massive amount of potential

[0] - https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644
What is a universal refundable tax?
If not Lex, which host(s) do you prefer?
So your model is that 100% of the incidents that can cause harm will not cause harm? No matter how many cars they put on the road? Again, I'd ask you to back that up.

Because otherwise it sounds to me that because of your particular political convictions, you're just handwaving away 100% of the evidence here.

If you get to be skeptical of all of the evidence that's collected because there's an upcoming relevant decision, I get to be at least as skeptical of how your skepticism is applied.
Gave it a try, cool site.

Not a fan of the image generation though, maybe let us fine the prompts for them.
I don't follow. Corporations have a fiduciary duty to be terrible to employees?
Couldn't this happen to paid apps just as easily?
I don’t get it. Can you explain does this work and helps me sleep better?
How the most successful B2B startups came up with their original idea
CapRover / Dokku.
> Every paper and comment I've seen that claims "GPT-4 can't reason" is either an example of bad prompting, bad/vague english, or taking advantage of the limitations of tokenization (like asking GPT-4 how many letters there are in some word).

The problem isn't bad prompting. The problem is lack of repetition. You can ask GPT4 the same question 10 times (with same config) and you'll get wildly different/nondeterministic responses. Sometimes it accidentally happens to be correct (IME much less than half the time). Even if it was 50%, would you say a coin flip reasons? Does an 8 ball reason?
Obviously someone is programming chatgpt to solve every specific problem that gets popular mention as being one where chatgpt fails. So as soon as this paper hit hn, I am sure someone "fixed" chatgpt to solve these problems.

Of course if you want chatgpt to be a universal intelligence this type of one by one approach will get you nowhere.
> Does anyone have any insight into how hes managed to get such high profile guests?

Once you have some, they might have introduced him to others like a chain or linked list (if that sounds better ref)

Lex shared this on his podcast as well: It's not easy to find or get hold of Donald Knuth. But, he kept trying and finally got him. Persistence pays, I guess.
In 2018, when NightOwl was released, some or all of these affordances didn't yet exist.
TySON: Use TypeScript as a Configuration Language
It does apply to the moon.

Everything we have sent to the moon has been carefully disinfected as far as we know.
Yeah, it's CPU only, and it is using about 38g for 70B and 7g 7B. Guessing that is mostly from the large caches that it keeps around for efficiency. If you wanted to pay some computational cost, you could likely get that down by quantizing activations. Llama2 has some of these tricks built in automatically, for instance grouped query attention.
You've perfectly summarized why the only way we'll reduce e-waste is by introducing legislation that requires our electronic products last longer.

Well, that would be one way to reduce e-waste: make phones so expensive that a lot fewer people buy them. Because whereas before that test matrix had five phones, but legislation increased that to seven, including two that can't run the latest OS so we have to back port the fixes to the previous OS. None of that is free, in fact, it's quite expensive.

Beside, how many people do you know that base their phone buying decisions on whether or not their current one is still supported? Of the folks I know, no one does that (granted, I live in Redmond, WA, which has some techy types living in the area). They just buy a new one when they are tired of their old one, or they have New Phone Fever.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I have a hard time believing web developers would be capable of writing code efficient enough to share a single core. LinkedIn was slamming my CPU so much that I isolated it in a separate browser
Yes!

And wouldn't it be preferable if you were so connected to your coworkers that you could say that (maybe not in these exact words), and either have better meetings, or be free to leave this particular meeting?

Do you really prefer sitting for hours in anonymous meetings, working on something else, just so you were "there", but not "there"?

You could work significantly better without all that nonsense in the background, right? Maybe even discussing important things?

And idea what is holding you back?
Ctrl-F for “Code for using StableCode Instruct to generate a response to a given instruction.” and you’ll see a super straightforward piece of code to copy to test it out for generating code
I was laid off in 2016 and it took me four months to find another job. It was a month from the first screening interview to my offer date with the company that eventually hired me. I think of the process as taking months and not weeks.
Staging area and stash are simple too. Here I'll explain it in 10 seconds:

* The staging area/"index" is a draft commit. You can add or remove things to the draft. When you run `git commit` it turns the draft into a real commit and the draft becomes empty again.

* Stashes are just "WIP" commits. They don't have a branch name pointing to them but you can list them all. When you apply or pop (apply & delete) a stash it takes the diff from the stash commit (versus its parent) and applies it to your working tree.

Submodules conceptually are relatively simple but the actual implementation is stupidly buggy and confusing. Like, I still have no idea what "submodule init" does. Why are there two places where submodules are stored - `.gitmodules` and a second secret place that you can't see? Why isn't `--recursive` the default? Why doesn't switching branch also switch the submodules?

Most of the answers to that are "well it could work properly and be simple, but actually it's half-arsed and full of bugs". You can seriously break your repo with `git switch --recursive` or if you try to use work trees with submodules.
I sympathize with your frustration, but you also have to admit that Cloudflare is tasked with an impossible problem: from a sea of requests, identify those that are coming from robots that are disguised as humans.

So there is no perfect solution. You can't use strong identity because a user can share their identity with a robot. You have to use a crapy heuristic that only works most of the time (or tell site owners it's an application layer problem and use this SASS solution to solve the problem).

I mean you admitted that you run a crawler. Cloudflare has detected that you run a crawler and has wants you to prove that you're human to access sites on their network. It actually sounds like their product worked.

In any event, there should probably be better regulation around how this blocking is handled so that users aren't being unjustly blocked. If you want to run a crawler, how do you do it ethically so that you aren't targeted and your traffic blocked? If Cloudflare blocks you from accessing one site should that block extend across their whole network? How long should it last? How do you appeal the block if Cloudflare's heuristics falsely block you? If you're in a life and death situation and need immediate access to medical information and Cloudflare unjustly blocks your access and it causes harm, who's at fault? Etc.
How could an attacker gain the level of knowledge necessary to accomplish this without compromising the target process?
I like the landing page, and I wanted some tangible thing I could buy and clicked on through to --> https://www.prodavnicaalata.rs/

If you don't mind me asking, why two websites (landing and e-commerce store)?
What do you actually need it for? I’ve had it disabled for ages, have no port forwards defined and have never had any issues.
This is me, an Italian: US keyboard or death.
For the USA, war (at some level) has pretty much always been constant. Autarky also isn't new to the USA. The current on-shoring movement seems to me to be more about the USA's empire collapsing, and the military contractors getting worried about their supply lines. So, prelude to WWIII? Maybe, but it can be explained in other ways.
> The focus on electronics there [..]

Can you expand on this claim?

(I'm deliberately resisting quoting sources listing German regions top exports!)
they are slow and heavy. Specifically they are roughly 85% efficient compared to ~90% for an internal gearbox or ~95% for a derailer. They also add about 1 pound compared to a gearbox or 2 pounds compared to a 1x derailer system.