skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meta has one of the largest supplies of proprietary data in the world (along with Microsoft and Apple). Big improvements in the world's ability to analyze data benefits them tremendously. If they're able to, for example, identify objects in videos and what's happening with them, they can make better inferences about the content of the videos, which lets them make better recommendations, causing people to watch more videos on FB/Instagram and giving them more ad revenue.

Publishing their models doesn't really enable any of their competitors (TikTok is their only real competitor at all), and being a leader in the community and getting top talent to work on these models benefits them.
Specifically, I think, we can take the sentence "Another possibility is that this unfamiliar abundance pattern may reflect an extraterrestrial technological origin" with a good serving of salt, even if the methodology is otherwise sound.
I want to propose a way it can be both money and ideology.

Let’s say you were the governor of a very large state. You have a ton of influence if not sold discredtion on how your state’s $500 billion pension fund is invested. You are an ideologue puppet put in place by people desperately trying to reset the world in their image.

Now… let’s the banks and companies don’t care about your cause - but you have disproportionate sway over them. It can be about money if that is your leverage.
MapReduce helped solve a huge internal problem for Google - how to update the index dynamically. Originally, index updates were batch jobs that took days to run. But MapReduce isn't the solution to that problem. It's just the orchestration for the algorithm. It was figuring out how to partition that matrix inversion that was the hard part.

Most of Google's problems in B2B reflect that the organization has little concept of customer service, in the sense of serving customers. It's not the technology.

The current problem with AI for Google is that the good stuff costs a bit too much to give away with search. That problem may be solved, or evaded. Most searches or questions don't need a large language model. I expect to see systems where you ask a question, and if it's hard, you get something like "That's a hard question. Give me a minute to work on that. Meanwhile, here's a word from our sponsor."
Yes. You get to have conversations on the side and forge other connections in simple human ways that are otherwise challenging online.

Work can happen remotely but building a career happens face to face (specifically your networking - which you will use when you move jobs in the future)

I’m not saying it won’t happen remotely, and I might sound like a boomer but that’s personal thoughts On the matter.
> Every flakey test is a production failure that really happens to some users sometimes. How often is just a matter of scale.

Not really, the one I’ve seen most often is a shared resource failing - for example a Gitlab Runner not handling a new VM for a DB so tests fail etc
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FWIW, you can probably configure sudo to use something other than passwords. On a Mac you can use the fingerprint reader for example, it's just disabled by default.

And your terminal may come with a password manager too, which would be unlocked with whatever means.

Again, on a Mac with iTerm you can do this with a fingerprint.
From the article, the EFF explicitly calls out the government for failing to enforce existing laws which would have shut down Kiwifarms

>That’s what must happen here. The cops and the courts should be working to protect the victims of KF and go after the perpetrators with every legal tool at their disposal. We should be giving them the resources and societal mandate to do so. Solid enforcement of existing laws is something that has been sorely lacking for harassment and abuse online, and it’s one of the reasons people turn to censorship strategies. Finally, we should enact strong data privacy laws that target, among others, the data brokers whose services help enable doxxing.
They are picking who will be the prime minister and who will not be the deputy prime minister - Klitschko
A new experimental feature of HarfBuzz allows the font to include WASM code for the shaper within the font itself. So the code shown in the post is inside the font and getting run "live," rather than being something that generated or modified the ligature tables in the font file in advance.

I wondered myself about just using "simple" ligatures, but I don't know whether or not it's feasible to statically store several thousand ligature definitions in a font that are each mostly runs of several thousand characters being substituted. But maybe? OpenType has mysterious depths.
Depending on the problem domain, a lot of times the flakiness is in the way the test is written and not the code under test. You have to judge the relative cost of tracking down and solving that.
> I used to write Perl about as fast as I could think because I had a lot of practice with it. I mostly do Python now, but do a lot less coding in general and I have to google syntax constantly. Python is less noisy, but it's not really more intuitive for me.

Well, it isn't intuitive now. It was a lot better than Perl back in 2002 or so, when it really started taking off.

Now, a lot of serious Python code is simply incomprehensible.
People tend to go too far in one direction and then later over-correct in the opposite direction. Waterfall model is too much, scrum is too much. The optimal approach is almost always in-between and yet, frustratingly, nobody advocates for balance and nuance.

Software development requires some planing and also some flexibility. One decade, companies think software architecture is the most important technical role in the universe, the next decade, the role barely even exists... What we need more of is common sense.
Well, it can be if you swap the keys over in the BIOS.
Cool narrative, unfortunately it isn't true. "Biden did want Shokin fired, but western leaders had widely criticized the prosecutor general as corrupt and ineffective. Biden was leading a widespread consensus in asking for removal. Secondly, a former Ukrainian official said the investigation into Burisma was dormant under Shokin."

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/oct/11/donald-tru...
https://xkcd.com/353
Yes, let's just give in completely then and give them the ability to freeze any funds they want. That's definitely the logical approach. I gave up with privacy because I can't stay 100% anonymous online against a motivated adversary so now I just install government spyware with root access so they can watch me all the time and control my user accounts!
This is only matching user names, no magic happening other than that. Open to building a Firefox extension if we get enough traction :)
I don't think I can perceive a half-pound difference, but half increments are still nicer than needing the whole range of decimals. If I have to say 0.7 anything in everyday life, then it's not a good unit.

Speaking of which, there's nothing stopping us from using something like SI prefixes with customary units, for example kilofeet. We just don't need to.
the whole premise of this thread is that this reputation isnt fully justified, and thats one I agree with.

Intel for the last 10 years has been saying “if your CPU isn't 100c then theres performance on the table”.

They also drastically underplayed TDP compared to, say, AMD, by taking the average TDP with frequency scaling taken into consideration.

I can easily see Intel marketing to Apple that their CPUs would be fine with 10w of cooling with Intel knowing that that they wont perform as well, and Apple thinking that there will be a generational improvement on thermal efficiency.
Does this mean the self-hosted version of Jitsi will have authentication by default and not a free to use instance?
Whether it is or is not certainly depends on the laws in the jurisdiction in question, but personally I'd say it should be.
> Each Tesla is connected to an account and therefore a person.

Why do people put up with this? Seems absolutely insane to connect a car's functionality to the internet, aside maybe from remote start. Where are the legislators? Where are the regulatory bodies?
Retractions should defacto be capable to create chain reactions?
Preferring one bully to another is not the warming endorsement you think it is.
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I concur. I broke my wrist.
I'm certain this is just an excuse so they can monetize and then sell out.

First step auth, second step payments/subscriptions/premium/whatever, third step sold to a big corp where it will be destroyed.

But anyway, for anyone wanting an alternative peercalls has been really reliable for us.
I think it might be impossible to avoid having to make moral judgements.

You might wish to believe that you free society can exist without any morality but I don't think it can really.

So what is "ok" and what is "not ok" - would you censor the NAZI party in the 1930s or do you think that letting theim air their views fully would convince Germans not to accept them? 10s of millions of lives depend on your choice.
And Hover!
Yeah, because waterfall with iterations is better than SCRUM/AGILE/WHATEVER.

God intended water to run from the TOP to the BOTTOM. Don't fight gravity.
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US banks commonly charge ~$40 for an outgoing international wire transfer, even for small amounts. There are less expensive alternatives but they may not allow you to withdraw the funds the same day or be available to the recipient in that country.

The average transaction fee for Bitcoin is currently less than $1. For Bitcoin Cash it's less than $0.01.
For people who worship capitalism as much as folks here do, a lot of you sure don't get business processes. Yes, you wind up having to plan things, because the rest of the business world runs on deadlines and contracts and milestones and deliverables. Agile is, God forbid, almost like being an artist or low, disgusted whisper liberal arts major...when done correctly, in that you're iterating and tinkering and shipping and ideally you eventually get to good software sometime.

Only the business world runs on quarterly results and shareholder value and being able to say "yes, we are shipping 10 great new features next quarter, we have a $20 million marketing campaign, new user acquisition campaign, outreach to lapsed users, and PR campaign all ready to go" gets you bonuses and increased stock prices and new investment rounds.

Saying a bunch of Agile gobbledygook gets you...a job as a product manager or lead but you still gotta hit those milestones
Why ban by ideology? Just do it by behavior of the route/node.
Because the other side has nuclear weapons and declaring war brings those into play as well. Which is why we've been in a cold war with the Soviet block instead of a real war. The prospect of nuclear war was mutually unacceptable. So, they both sides fought lots of proxy wars instead. And those didn't stop when the wall fell. The Ukraine is a proxy war that has Russia backed by allies China, Iran, and others opposing Nato backed Ukrainian forces. Most of the conflicts in the middle east involve most of the countries I've mentioned and lots of their allies as well. Syria is the forgotten conflict where Iran and Russia are partnering and where the US, Israel, and Europe have failed to make progress for more than a decade.

With Ukrainian forces now striking deep in Russia, that cold war is heating up. This is a reminder that that can work both ways and might soon start affecting Nato territory as well. All deniable of course. But a few high profile attacks like this sends a not so subtle message that Russia can escalate as well if they want.
> No. I am not paying and I am not seeing ads either, ad blockers existed long ago.

Forget the ads! Pay them because they are objectively better.

To me Kagi is a 2008 google with 2023 tech stack. An actual exhaustive crawler, with actual relevant results that neither goog or ddg serve to me.

It is still not there for product discovery and regional results. But if I am searching a technical topic, or prior art in a particular domain then it is just unmatched.
In practice, on actual systems, you're likely to encounter nawk (the One True Awk), gawk (GNU Awk), mawk ("Mike's AWK", a fast awk), and Busybox's AWK.

There are other variants, yes, but in virtually every case these are fully POSIX compliant and/or have a POSIX mode.

(And in truth, gawk is the only non-fully-POSIX awk I've encountered --- it extends standard AWK with asort and the "'" formatting modifier (which prints localised htousands separators in numeric data).

Programmes written for any one awk, if using POSIX features only, will run on any awk.

Many small / embedded systems (think routers, stock Android, or any POSIX-only Unix variant) must have awk, but often don't include Perl.

You'll also find variants of Perl, though the relative stasis of that language make this less an issue now than in the '90s and aughts.
> Among other issues, he was slow-walking the investigation into Zlochevsky and Burisma and, according to Zlochevsky's allies, using the threat of prosecution to try to solicit bribes from Mr. Zlochevsky and his team

Weird choice to fire the guy slow-walking the investigation if you want to cover up illegal activities.

> [Archer] has also said, including under oath, that he was told Burisma’s allies in Washington didn’t want Shokin fired. “No, we were told that it was bad, and we don’t want a new prosecutor, and Shokin was taken care of,” Archer recently told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Anyway, I guess the EU, IMF, World Bank, Germany, France, and the Ukrainian Parliament were all also colluding to save this guy's son from scrutiny back in 2015.
Houses in the UK are connected to a single phase, but a three phase supply is available if it's needed — the cable is in the street, though digging a new trench to connect to it is often costly.

Larger users are presumably connected with three phases by default — that primary school in the middle of the housing estate, the retirement home that has several lifts, not-tiny shops, the small block of flats etc.
As far as I remember, the infotainment screen and menus are used for operations related to driving the car, such as wiper controls. I don’t own a Tesla nor do I drive one, so I may be wrong. I personally would consider that a lack of separation.

In this case, however, the question is irrelevant - the FSD system is clearly part of operating the vehicle, it’s safety relevant and not there for infotainment.
You are also mistaken about the configuration in Europe, since the 3-phase system has 400V between the different phases and 230V to neutral.
It's because the police have really failed to enforce existing laws that people have to resort to leaning on ISPs and payment processors to do it.
IMO, practically speaking, payment processors are a much bigger headache than anything else. It's hard to end-run around them and run any kind of successful business. It's really weird how much power they have to play moral police, even deciding what kind of porn is "ok" and what isn't.
I did not. I said specifically that Germans in hindsight ought to have bled the Nazis rather than descend into the hellscape that followed and we with the gift of their terrible example should shut down the monsters now when this can be done non-violently. Please attend more carefully to my words.

> It in fact might be kinder to deny them rights now than life later.

Lock up the bad guys now so we aren't in a position where our only options are fascism or murder.
I am not, that might explain it.

Not sure exactly why/when the switch over happened but Bing has dominated Google for image and video search for years.
> Python is not the best language for any particular task, but is nearly always the second best language for that task

Pointing out any problem where speed is the difference between working and unusable—e.g. ray tracing—is probably too cheap a shot, as it’s not like Ruby or Perl are any better in that regard, and LuaJIT came too late to be relevant to the current question.

One range of problems where I’ve found Python (unextended by a code generator) to be surprisingly awful, though, is everywhere the ML style of algebraic datatypes + pattern matching is natural: compilers, basically, all the way down to a regex engine. There’s just no comparison.

Maybe things have changed now that `match` exists? I’ve not yet had the time to try, even if the double indentation doesn’t make me hopeful.
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Kiwifarms is breaking a lot of harassment and stalking laws.
In clean code there is a chapter about eliminating useless comments. I think this has some merits. Think of the following made up example:

sum = sum_two_numbers(number1, number2)

Probably doesn't need a comment.

The other argument is that comments need to be maintained and are subject to decay. E.g. the code they are commenting on changes.

The book goes into other examples but i think the idea isn't to eliminate comments but to be thoughtful and judicious in which you use
Honestly I've never seen a waterfall model implemented without iterations. And you can always update the top-spec at later date if needed its just more difficult.. Which it should be.
I'm wondering what the legal ramifications would be if parents refused to pay for the completion of a gestation in an artificial womb.

Can the lab force the parents to pay the costs and have the child anyway?

Can the lab terminate the pregnancy? Would they run afoul of abortion laws?

If the lab completes the gestation, are they the guardians of the child? Is it an orphan, and ward of the state? Can the company request reimbursement?
No. It's the same thing.

And this already happens all the time.
> I've never heard of Gannet before today.

this is my very point, and it is anything but tangential.

thank you.
The question that you're missing is: Which works better? Which delivers more better software, more reliably?

Granted, the business world does run on quarterly results and shareholder value and being able to say ..., but you can say any damn thing that you like, only promising it doesn't guarantee that it will happen. Software development is always uncertain, the question is how best to tame that - ignore it or lean into it.

All things being equal, of course the the business world would prefer the most detailed predictable plan. But, they just aren't equal. Software development benefits greatly from short feedback loops. In all phases - from debugging to finding out what the users really need. That is antithetical to big upfront plans.
I think it is more fun and fulfilling to attempt to do something with the land - to make it useful towards the local community, than leaving it to nature to just fill the land. For instance, if you make a small pond, you could suddenly have a very interesting ecosystem in this land
> Also, why exactly did we introduce IPv6 again?

I sure wish my (small, rural) ISP finally did. They're still "evaluating" it.
It's the nearest statistic I could find — anything more is up to you.

You won't find the statistic you want for Europe, as transformers don't explode enough for them to listed separately to any other fault.
Their current CLA provides for a full copyright license grant: https://www.hashicorp.com/cla Assuming that's not new (and I have no reason to believe it is) then contributors were already signing away their right to be choosy in that regard; Hashicorp can already relicense any previous contribution, which is why this change is even possibly in the first place.

I agree that it might cause some bad vibes, but it's no different for these in-flight PRs than it is for all of the historical ones that were already merged.
same issue though - you can't get US workers to do the work Foxconn / TSMC want them to do for the price they pay for them to do it.

https://www.gizmochina.com/2023/08/08/tsmc-plant-hiring-taiw...

there is a reason why manufacturing was offshored
I don't think this is complicated at all. If the are merely organizing and trying to use proper legal procedures to implement their designs they should be defeated at the ballot box if they plot to implement by force they belong in prison.
Child pornography, ISIS, Wagner, Cartels, there's plenty of candidates that you really don't want to name in public.
The EFF is arguing here that companies should not take anything down and instead rely on the government to dictate what shouldn't be allowed. This is absolutely ridiculous. Imagine being such a free speech advocate that you say something like this.
Actually, I take it back. As I said earlier, I mostly use vintage imperical hand tools. I've just been looking into modern metric tools and I'm finding that they're actually imperial, as in they come in sizes like 0.25"/3.2mm. So long as they're not rounding them to whole millimeters, they'll have the same ratio as the imperical tools.

I guess you can use whatever number system you care for.

Thank you for making me think about this.
People are still working from home. Does it matter?
https://archive.is/uA8bK
This is an old-school leftist approach that is no longer welcome, imho.
One-line installations: I usually don't like running multiple commands for installing a CLI tool. curl/wget the setup file and execute it.
Single command -> single step -> no friction.
The Memo That Changed the Tech Industry
Naturally everyone does waterfall, just at different points. Even if I did the leanest form of Kanban, I have to check the requirements of each ticket, understand them, translate them to maybe a prototype/discovery phase, come up with tests and an implementation strategy and verify the result somehow. That's just waterfall at the finest possible granularity.

Waterfall doesn't mean not to iterate. It also doesn't mean to not build prototypes or MVPs. It just pushes the risky decisions back to people that are actually paid to make these decisions. Scrum is not just a framework for micromanaging, it also conveniently removes any domain responsibility from management. It's always "the team decides". (Of course, just on paper. Try to decide to do tech debt only for a couple of sprints with your team and see how management reacts.)

Besides, waterfall is just the straw man of scrum zealots. I once proposed a new team structure where frontend and backend wouldn't be mixed because I observed that most stories didn't have an overlap but where rather mostly one or the other. The scrum master was shocked that I wanted to get rid of "cross functional" teams: "What do you want to do instead, waterfall?". For them it was inconceivable that cross functionality was not equivalent to scrum.
Each has its uses, and there are things which are more easily achieved in one than the other.

(I have a set of scripts I use to parse NOAA's weather web page to plain text, and ended up resorting to both sed and awk in the process, and haven't yet tried to simplify that to a single script.)

Sed is usually used for simple text substitutions and manipulations.

Awk has built-in record and array concepts, as well as more standard programming constructs (loops, if/then, case/switch, printf, and external system interfaces (launching and/or reading from external programmes).

My view is that the tools overlap considerably, but also complement one another strongly.
The EFF is arguing that companies should lose their right to withdraw service due to TOS violation, unless the government says it's ok. This is as anti-freedom as it gets. What is wrong with them
Manhattan Project, and many NSA projects until Snowden. You also don't know about the projects that didn't leak.

You are basically saying that security clearance is worthless.

It is indeed possible and there is a lot of precedent for large projects with long life spans that didn't leak.

The "government" isn't a monolithic entity. It contains individuals and groups of a range of competencies.