skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's always been tons of money in marketing and advertising. Top brand companies have huge marketing budgets. Think coca cola, all super bowl ads etc.

it's just you had to settle for inferior means of attribution. it got better with tech via e-commerce and tracking. then it got worse with tech via bots, abuse, arms race, etc.

instacart can reach customers at the point of sale and track conversions in a first class manner. so it's a no-brainer for brands to pay for performance.
Maybe if you did the capture the computer would be trained by now.
I'll throw you a big bone, I just cut our nearly $million/month aws infra costs down 45% by switching from x86 to arm64. So factor that in for sure. I was hoping for 15-25%.
Part of the money being given up front doesn't make it a subsidy either...

The COTS program required the development of an appropriate vehicle after a competitive process to evaluate different proposals. You're acting like it was money to cover his previous costs and not money intended to pay for the development of the thing they were being contracted for, along with associated milestones for further payments. And hell, not like they were the only ones to get that money or even the ones to get the most money, they were the only ones to actually manage to deliver.

Why is it that only when it comes to a Musk company people act like these are unique contracting methods? You can easily find this info using the very thing you're using to post deceitful half truths.

Edit: Actually it isn't even a half truth, it's outright wrong, the initial payment SpaceX got was $23M. Everything else was dependent on milestones and design reviews, with NASA being able to cancel any time for non-performance (as they had done with one of the other companies under the program). The end result was NASA paying slightly less than half the development cost that SpaceX incurred.

https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/Lindenmoyer_%2...
I just picked up a project after 2 years. When i left it, eveything worked fine. Npm run and it spun right up.

Today, nothing works, module resolution problems everywhere. It's going to take me days of fixing the build system now just to get the initial compile working again.

Node is a disaster.
Whenever someone asks this, inevitably Naughty Dog comes up.
https://youtu.be/oSmqbnhHp1c?si=CJU8-cAQB17mHQUg
To be sure, when it's mass die off of one of the planets major carbon sinks we're talking about, it's good to pay more attention to the low end of the confidence interval...
Why not just schedule them to post once a day or every few days? 10 a day is also overwhelming for a reader
I don't understand. OP suggested that giving people "explosive" offers is an indication of poor culture - I point out that the necessity to make a decision quickly is dictated by respect to candidates since we don't want to make people wait any longer than necessary. So again, how is this an indication of poor culture?
interesting. this seems to imply that you want people to draw their own conclusions on scientific subjects—instead of deferring to any authority—as it is impossible for one to know whether said authority is in any way motivated by profit incentives.

(unless, of course, said authority is a religious text, such that deferring to said authority is a conscious act of faith.)
Forget the freelancer sites.

As a newcomer you'll waste hours and maybe even money (you have to spend in-platform 'credits' to submit proposals) on proposals that won't even be read most of the time.
The loader+initrd+userspace time there sounds unreasonable.

I've had libvirt bog standard qemu-kvm (not a microvm) creating a new Ubuntu VM from a disk image & booting to a login prompt in under 10 seconds for more than a decade. This is without fiddling with virtio, doing hardware scans for PCI, VGA, SATA and such, and booting via Grub (your "loader"). Those should be pretty comparable!
Although it's presumably much less controversional that `any([])` is false. After all, most people presumably think of an existential statement as being satisfied precisely when there's a witness to that statement, and of course an empty list contains no witnesses to any statement.
As mentioned platform architect. I work on the research, design and construction of PaaS systems (which usually include SaaS as well, the backend of what lambdas or "functions" etc run on).

PaaS being Platform as a Service (think GKE/EKS/A...KS?)
I think an open DC grid standard would be amazing, but I'm not so sure about 48v.

What I would do is probably just use 12v nominal for everything, and use voltage levels to signal instead of trying to do real smart communication.

11-14.4v, you're running on battery, if you're a battery, supply till you get to that range. 15-18v, you've got solar, if you're a battery you can charge.

Anything more can be figured out later.

You could have different "Tiers" for other voltages too, but 12v seems to be fine. Inverters are cheap-ish and would be even cheaper if they were used more, just use that for "real power", and optimize the micro grid for what it's really good at, portable and very small setups with a few hundred watts total power.

Enough things are only used intermittently, and we have ways to make batteries safe, might as well put the batteries closer to the load.

If you have something super high power, like a kettle, it can do it's own step up to 120v or 48v, but participate on the bus as a 12v device, and just slow charge at a few amps.
You could also argue that any({}) is really not defined because first order logic generally excludes empty sets. The reason for said exclusion is because weird stuff starts to happen when you allow an empty domain when talking about if a formula is true in all domains. For example, "exists x, P(x) or !P(x)" is true for every domain unless you allow an empty domain since "exists x ..." is always false. The same is true of all({}) because you have an equivalent weirdness in the form of "!(forall x, P(x) and !P(x))". These seem innocuous, but there are many rules of inference that are excluded once you allow the empty domain.
It would kind of make sense though? When part of the product you are selling is made and supported by someone else, don't they deserve a part of your income?

I know that FOSS works differently, but that's also the reason why a lot of open source software is of questionable quality. When the development becomes a burden (is not fun anymore) and nobody is compensated, why would someone waste their time on it? Good will only goes that far.

Not suggesting that proprietary software is without faults, but maybe such licenses are a good comprise?
No, I'm highlighting professionals, ESPECIALLY policy makers, are politically constrained in what they can recommend/advocate. They are more compromised by default. I'm aware of the release by air solution, and it reinforces my fact that domestic storage/disposal, though expensive, was likely never properly considered, not because of science or viability, but because domestic politics forbids it. Fundamentally, the problem is one of (geo)political trust. No one trusts TEPCO not to fuck up regardless of oversight, hence the actual science is _politically_ irrelevant. When that's the trust baseline, the region would prefer Japan to keep their domestic nuclear mess up as a domestic problem, within their borders either via domestic storage or disposal. JP political incentive is the opposite, they'd rather dump it off into commons to prevent blowback citing good science, when good science is irrelevant because it can be trivially invalidated by conspiracy/coverup, which TEPCO+JP politics name a more iconic duo. Good science isn't causing SKR/PRC residents to panic and stock up salt or reduce fish consumption if JP fish isn't banned to reduce perception of contamination risk. JP politicians did what's optimal/expedient for them and constituents - offload a literal radioactive problem into regional geopolitics. Which is... fine, even if dick move because one would expect wealthy countries with capability to keep these problems domestic despite cost. The original response to OP was to point out that JP domestic politics at its worst is what’s driving regional geopolitics, which is not responding in a vacuum, and political responses not constrained by science, because science is not sufficient without political trust.
Mentions stick- and strut-based domes. Does not mention shotcrete domes, i.e., inflate a shell and spray a concrete mix on the inside.

Apparently there are also late-inflation versions: https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/craft/skill-infl...
The mistake you’re making here is by treating the statement “all marbles are white” as the negation of “all marbles are black” and claiming that this violates the law of the excluded middle.

But we are operating under predicate logic. The negation of “all marbles in the bag are black” is “there is a marble in the bag which is not black”. Then, clearly the latter statement is false in the case of an empty bag.

In fact, we can confidently claim falsity for any given statement of the form “there is a marble in the bag such that…” when the bag is empty. Therefore, by the law of the excluded middle, its negation is true, so statements of the form “all marbles in the bag are…” are vacuously true when the bag is empty.
No, it's not that. It's that there are multiple factors that put those forests at risk and all of them need to be mitigated to the point that they are safe for the foreseeable future. Deforestation is a huge problem, but this temperature effect has the potential to kill off entire forests in one go. So even if it is a little bit over the horizon assuming that you are going to be able to save some of the forests you'll still lose them. So you need to have multiple lines of attack at once, otherwise you will fail.
The Next Pandemic Could Strike Crops, Not People
Nobody really knows how the fungus Bipolaris maydis got into the cornfields of the United States. But by summer of 1970, it was there with a vengeance, inflicting a disease called southern corn leaf blight, which causes stalks to wither and die. The South got hit first, then the disease spread through Tennessee and Kentucky before heading up into Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa — the heart of the Corn Belt.
I'm a bit confused by this:

> “All stonemen are made of stone” is true by definition, but “no men are made of stone” is also true and seems to contradict it.

I don't see how “no men are made of stone” contradicts “All stonemen are made of stone”.

"stonemen" are not the same as "men".

English isn't my first language so maybe I don't know what a stoneman is (and google failed me), but I assumed it is a statue?
“Open” “AI” isn’t (18 August 2023)
> Do they need to be?

It sure seems like it? Any proposal the implies a rapid attenuation of capacity or consumption is no small thing to consider. The technical and political barriers to achieving them are likely orders of magnitude worse than those involved in taking up some of the capacity with nuclear.
That's funny, I've only ever used Atlantis with a smattering of tfc
I feel like I’d just make a poll and pick the least surprising option if there’s a clear winner.

But maybe that’s why I’m not a language developer.
Yeah; by the time we are at 3.4C (the bottom of that range), we're already to the point where a large percentage of people are climate refugees. In addition to many currently-inhabited places being too hot for humans to survive, the Atlantic current will have already collapsed, so bug chunks of Western Europe will probably be under a glacier.
If you enjoy that, you might also enjoy this version that I wrote

https://godexperiment.org/beginnings-an-alliterative-rewrite...

It was inspired by these versions:

https://llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com/2017/05/alpha.ht...

https://calvinballing.github.io/saga/
"Woman dies after being impaled by metal straw"
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/woman-dies-m...

Also, "Boy Was Near Death After Metal Straw Pierced Throat, Brain Artery", https://www.today.com/health/health/metal-straw-punctures-th....
Perhaps worth noting this is not Peter Hessler the OpenBSD developer...

I was confused for a second there...
coke does more harm than the can dirt
Yes! Dimensions are multipliers on each other.

The cross points, over multiple points on segments in different dimensions is a product.

And the product across an empty list is 1.

The number of ways you can roll a dice “no” times is also 1.

Cross combinations of all kinds are products.
You seem to have missed that my comment was a response to pedantry. It was not, in itself, an attempt at pedantry, let alone pedantry unprovoked.

If someone writes a comment intended to come across as knowledgeable about something (NB: in service of trying to downplay the experience of others, including the person they are responding to), but their self-report gets something as wrong as referring to package-lock.json as "package.lock", which is in the ballpark, but far enough off to be weird, then it raises questions about just how much experience they actually have with that thing (including and especially relative to the person they were trying to contradict).
Dividends come out of profits and profits come out of revenue.

“Recovering from the dividend” is just another way of saying you are using revenues to pay for something.

Paying a dividend out and then taking part back is not only inefficient but would still violate any prohibition to spend revenue on something.

If you wanted to do this, it’s just the same as reducing the dividend by some amount and the paying that amount out to a different expense.

Also, dividends are post tax so this is super inefficient in that you wouldn’t be able to deduct the expense if wanted to pay out as dividend and then have shareholders pay the expense.
We just have to keep creating the culture. Hacker culture is everywhere. It's here now, you're experiencing it on HN. This board is the spiritual successor to the great BBNs of the 80s and 90s. It might not be at Wired - I think KK tried to dethrone R U Sirius once - but it's out there. Even Mondo is still around. Check out the blog Acceler8or. It's the next chapter of Mondo, and it isn't updated frequently, but it exists. It's gonna be at DNA for their yearly screening of Hackers. It's at your local pawn shop, when you pony up for a used laptop!

We might not have the great hacker collectives and hackerspaces of the past, but the culture is still out there. L0pht might be gone from Boston, sure. But these kids give me a ton of inspiration. [0]

Don't mean to 'go off', but life has no meaning beyond that which you give it. If you 'fictionalize' your existence in the context of cyberpunk, and great science fiction books, and compelling video games, you become a character in those stories. Life is richer for it.

https://www.wired.com/story/mtba-charliecard-hack-defcon-202... [0]
Apparently they write rather poor C++ in the Dragon Realm.
I would not trust any of these "opt out forms" with any of my data. All that does is confirm you're an actual person, and if you give them an email address or phone number they'll just confirm that relationship as well.

Tried doing a few when something similar was posted 5 years back and a couple of months later my data was still showing up, but now with a green check-mark next to it. So learn from my mistakes and try to avoid interacting with these at all; maybe instead shoot a message to your representative asking for more legal privacy protections.
> How is the approach documented better than that?

Presumably that it exists.
https://archive.is/boKeW
I'm guessing, a stoneman means a man made out of stone
Can you elaborate on this? Would love to understand how that would play out.
Isn't this like complaining about division by zero? Why make an exception? Well...because its exceptional.

So it's consistent to say that a bag can contain all red and all black marbles at the same time?
Same as LinkedIn. In fact that was LinkedIn's actual growth hack. Now they sell books talking about other things.
Sadly you are observing the process of learning, it's just not the lesson you hoped they would take.
As I understand it, the point of the explosive is to have finer control over when the fuse blows. An ordinary fuse is more or less a resistor, and it blows when part of it gets hot enough. There is a fair amount of error, and this means they work best when there is a considerable margin between the current they must carry without blowing and the conditions under which they must blow. Conventional thermal-magnetic or hydraulic-magnetic circuit breakers are similar.

AIUI some high performance cars may draw so much current under maximum acceleration that the fuse needs to be dangerously large to avoid blowing when flooring it.

The solution is an electronically triggered fuse. A reliable and precise electronic circuit detects excessive current and blows a small pyrotechnic charge that opens the fuse. The analogous technology for circuit breakers is fairly mature in the commercial/industrial world — you can buy an electronically tripped circuit breaker, and there is likely one in an office building near you.

(Electronic trip devices for circuit breakers have ludicrous list prices, and there is no way a car company would pay anything resembling those prices for a car component that lets them eke out a bit more performance. I bet Tesla’s cost for its pyro fuses is quite low.)
I've used the insane dictionaries a number of times for puzzle stuff and I never knew that they were derived from OCR output. Thanks for mentioning that!
PFAS will potentially put 3M out of business just like talcum powder did to J&J.
Hey Resend team! Love your product!

I was wondering when / if you'll be supporting inbound email parsing / webhooks. It's the one thing that's preventing me from switching over.

Love what you're doing - keep it up!
A lot of people care about software freedom? To the point where they will use a (currently) worse tool.
I’m always a little floored when I see two older people debate something- and although both undoubtedly have smart phones, no one bothers to consult the oracle (google).
And then to consider that while watching her ask her google assistant to turn off her lights.

I think whenever you have someone like this, an 81 year old learn something like how to code, you’re almost certainly dealing with someone who is highly passionate, highly motivated, and who isn’t afraid of risks, new things, or change. It’s not the prevailing view in our industry, but I suspect that between the average 20 year old and average 55 year old recent boot code graduate, the simple fact that they chose to pursue it at that age tells you a great deal about who that person is. I’m reminded of that one economist who won the Nobel piece prize on signals, where he essentially showed that a degree essentially acts as a signal- this person completed college, where you can infer something that is likely true from that- to navigate an otherwise absence of information.

And I don’t mean that to offend anyone who didn’t complete a college degree I myself dropped out while just one class away (PE) from a finance degree. I’m sure a lot can be said about what signal that sends.
Other independent observers may disagree on your self-assessment.
As the article states the issue is with courts not companies. We need a state actor to pass a law similar to the weapons laws of other states that guarantee a right to scrape. Then all the scraping companies setup shop in that state. If a service doesn't want their data scraped they need to make sure that it doesn't get sent into that state. Ideally a large enough state that companies wouldn't want to block.
I don't work in advertising - I just use it as a customer.

To the extent that it is wrong it is because we, as an average customer, have a pretty bad customer experience using the products. Educate me.
A sewage system doesn't work well without periodic flushes. Having too few houses connected to it means it is at risk of drying and clogging. Most probably when it was designed they took into account the number of houses is was supposed to collect waste water from. Anything less then that number would be risky for the whole system.
> According to the letter, the layoffs will primarily hit workers in corporate, back-office, and technology roles. Retail and customer service workers won't be impacted by the cuts, it's said.

As a corporate and technology worker for my whole career, this seems perfectly reasonable?
Reminds me of the ghost Unicode character saga: https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html
Mac OS currently has no enterprise usable file sharing, for starters. The Samba driver is garbage and AFP is maintained by third parties. Etc. The Mac OS has uses, but they are VASTLY fewer in number than Linux or Windows. Why does anyone make new stuff? To solve problems, or serve needs and desires.
Okay, but if developers decide that then at what point do you say it's okay to not treat them like adults?
Translating it to idiomatic natural language makes it less clear, because the natural language statement "all marbles in the bag are black" implies that there are marbles in the bag. The question is, why do we interpret it differently in a logical/mathematical context?

As with anything mathematical, we picked the way that yields useful and elegant mathematics. The notion of "all" would be awkward to work with if it did not apply to the empty set (bags without marbles) so we extended it in a way that is consistent with what it means over non-empty sets (bags with marbles.)

One very nice thing about this definition of "all" is that it gives this simple relationship between logical "all" and logical "none":

"for all x, P(x) is true" is equivalent to "there is no x for which P(x) is false"

I.e., if there is no marble in the bag that is not black, then all marbles in the bag are black... so to speak.

This yields elegant and useful mathematics, and (as you would expect) that tends to mean elegant and useful code as well.

For example, suppose you had an enormous dataset of records that included zip codes and wanted to know: "Are all the zip codes in this dataset in the continental United States?" One approach would be to split the data into smaller shards, answer the question for each shard, and "and" all the answers together. What if you chose a bad way of sharding the data and one of the shards was empty? What result would you want returned for that shard?
My point, poorly made, is that the statements made by companies sharing this data don’t mean what they appear to at first reading.

Even in the silly HN example, you can analyze referrer data and build profiles of people, without any cooperation on HNs part.