skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The recent surge in violence as DAs have stopped fully prosecuting criminals -- including those who commit violent gun crimes -- has blurred the line between criminal violence and state violence. That renews the argument for self defense.

In other words, as the state declines to protect you, you have a better claim on the natural right to protect yourself.
even if water is found and can be used this is an issue that may not be so easy to solve:

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex...
The person I'm replying to said "every day", which is a far cry from "one day of the year". I'm not saying Austin isn't hot! I'm sure it's awful.
Wub Game
Sorry I wasn’t clear. I’m referring to images on the webpage (i.e. screenshots).
> AirBNB allows a city to host a larger number of tourists than hotels alone can provide, which stimulates the local economy with lots of spending etc. This is not "artificial", it's real local economic growth.

I live in a tourist city - there's no shortage of hotel rooms. As tourists flood into livable dwellings, hotel vacancy rates have skyrocketed, and rents for the locals are skyrocketing as well.

Usually tourist cities don't have a hard time building new hotels. Building new housing can be tough. Hotel taxes are popular with the locals for obvious reasons. Property taxes aren't. NINBYs don't like residential density either.

For better or for worse, the only way out of this is through regulation.
> An LLM can be trained to find relevant knowledge online.

Why do you think chatGPT lost its Web Search plugin lately? Copyright lawsuits. You can't even use copyrighted content in the prompt because it will make the model makers liable.
kickstarter is skymall for the daring...
>and Intel, AMD and ARM have a lot more money to invest into R&D

Yet their ISAs are much more complex and thus they actually need to invest that much more money.
There’s plenty of reasons why black American’s fail to succeed, but in IT, the availability of cheap H1B is absolutely a factor. I worked in a Fortune 500 company who hired a ton of engineers from historically black colleges and universities. Probably 30 engineers in our group of around 200. After 4 years many weren’t working out and were let go. Of the 30, I believe just 4 remain. Since then, the company has hired almost exclusively H1B for those positions. Was there a competitive problem with those newly minted engineers, yes. But, they were effectively replaced by H1Bs.
I started to use ZFS (on Linux) a few years ago and it went smoothly.

My only surprise was volblocksize default which is pretty bad for most RAIDZ configuration: you need to increase it to avoid loosing 50% of raw disk space...

Articles touching this topic :

https://jro.io/nas/#overhead

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Basic%20Concepts/RAID...

https://www.delphix.com/blog/zfs-raidz-stripe-width-or-how-i...

And you end up on one of the ZFS "spreadsheet" out there:

ZFS overhead calc.xlsx
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tf4qx1aMJp8Lo_R6gpT6...

RAID-Z parity cost
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pdu_X2tR4ztF6_HLtJ-D...
> I had scheduled snapshots for my /home at one point but since it's a very actively used directory (downloading isos, games then deleting them) I had similar problems to yours.

What kind of schedule was it? I feel like the low-impact alternative to no snapshots at all is daily snapshots for half a week to a week, and maybe some n-hourly snapshots that last a day or two. Which I would not expect to use up very much space.
Terminal Velocity was a native PC game with MOD soundtrack.
They can't because it's not true. You're absolutely right, it legally can't go above $5,000/MWh meaning $5/kWh. It was lowered to that value after the winter storm where it hit is previous max of $9,000/MWh.
Who could disagree when your are the person defining sentience.
Google Books corpus sure comes in handy now in the LLM era.
Hahaha you’re actually right, I bought my first scope a couple of weeks ago. But the primary mode of operation is voltage rather than current. It’s a bit like saying a thermometer is used to measure altitude.
That is why I hate seeing people equating this to 'development' or some other metric of improvement. This excludes not just you, but people who do not have a phone, do not know how to use one, cannot use one, have access to just cash etc.

In contrast, in Japan, they may have NFC payments by card/phone, online payments, but every single bus/train/cab/boat accepts cash as the lowest common denominator. Forget payments, all public offices still support paper + post for all procedures I've had to do, with the option of doing things with a phone or a PC. In India, however, for several things I've had to do, they would rip out the old system and replace it with a online portal with dubious implementation, and often disregarding laws (for example using UID number as legal identity proof, while it shouldn't have been, by law).
I think sounding words out would be the exception. Do you sound words out when you read code? I'm having trouble imagining that.
Shows the importance of MVP and going with the market flow - interesting to read the comments and see how it went under the radar for so long before becoming a worldwide necessity in some cases
> Most DSLs are bad, partially because most people are bad at designing languages.

A perfectly-designed DSL is still bad just because it's a whole 'nother language for you to build, and for others to learn, that probably isn't needed for whatever project.
I've just moved to emacs 29 and was able to remove half of the stuff I had from my init file! Specially using eglot instead of buggy and ugly lsp-ui made a lot of difference. eglot does things the emacs way, not the vs-code ripoff that is lsp-ui, and it is much easier to setup.
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I am trying to learn and use Emacs, but I am not an expert.
Surprisingly, Emacs 29 runs very good on Windows. I am happy with eshell, dired, trying to use emacs more for some simple tasks. I am experimenting with sharing emacs init.el configuration via local git + symlinks between 3 machines: 2 Windows and 1 Linux. Package configuration is challenging; sometimes, it works on Windows but breaks on Linux. Only nyan-cat never caused any issues ;)
I own no windows machines but afaik it should run OK on windows. Emacs is a pretty good application platform that glosses over lots of OS inconsistencies. :)
What about the ThinkPad X13s ?

I think most of the drivers have been implemented but could not talk of personal experience (have the yoga c630 and drivers requires firmware files that need to be extracted from windows, my current experince is useable but subpar )
It’s illegal to not maximize your capital now?
I wish zfs had a 'tag' type of feature like Apple style fs. I have thought about making an object store to get some of the metadata on the fs level, rather than having to make some cobbles together solution of an SQLite DB of metadata with the files or something, but many of the object store solutions seem to be for fairly large files, rather than a few thousand pictures of family and such.
Unsure what a good solution using zfs would be.
Do we actually know what would happen to 73 earth masses of rock? Maybe common elements become more dense under immense gravitational pressure.
I thought the same when i did compiler course, but 8 years after that course i wrote tooling to mass refactor a java codebase by creating AST manipulate AST and convert the AST to code again.
Telecom operators in India want tech companies to pay for network usage
https://archive.ph/HJaaz
I can't see any reason why the exact same engineers and managers who designed Apple M1 released in November 2020 would get less than M1 performance when they design a RISC-V chip at a new company, and most likely they already had ideas in their heads to make better-than-M1 but had to leave out.

So they might well hit June 2022 M2 performance, or thereabouts.

Sure, M1 or M2 class RISC-V hitting the market in 2026 or 2027 is hitting an old performance mark and Apple will have moved on.

Even if not the absolutely fastest thing in the world at that point, M1 performance in 2027 is still going to be a totally usable machine for most people for most purposes. I'm typing this on an M1 Mac Mini I bought in November 2020 and I can see absolutely no reason to replace it any time soon.

You can make whatever comparison you want between M1/M2 and x86.
The greatest irony of all is that most people misapply "ironic" when they actually mean "appropriate."
Thank you for the kind words!

We love all our plugins but yes MagicFusion is basically unique :)
So would you just fire the entire team if a product does poorly?

Many individuals don't like startups because of this risk, most startup only get 1-2 chances to get productivity right. Very few waste time measuring productivity.
Do you refuse to use NVidia cards for the same reason?
You might want to consider using FreeBSD then, where there is no licensing issue. I've found it has all the stuff I liked about Linux, and less of the stuff I dislike.
Use bottom up clustering, you get the whole tree. fclusterdata in scipy
I think I’m going to have to fire up the emulator again.
Here are some Unicode exponents for your future needs: ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹
In the Hertz case sometimes the cars had already been returned. Maybe it is that easy to get people arrested even if your car is sitting in your driveway but one would hope not.
This is a situation where one of the biggest (maybe the biggest) chat applications has a bit of code that's run "every time a message is sent and every time a message is read".

In this instance Go's GC pauses were causing performance issues, they rewrote it in Rust with very good results.

This doesn't mean that your application needs to be written in Rust because Go "isn't performant" =)
Not a coincidence, as your link was submitted 16 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37379984 and this submission is a top-level repost of a link posted in the comments there.
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230903034052/https://steemit.c...
> When people say they find the "very idea of billionaires" abhorrent, what exactly is the solution here?

There’s a quote[1] which makes the rounds occasionally and I think sums up the sentiment pretty well:

> Ok how about this:

> No more billionaires. None.

> After you reach $999 million, every red cent goes to schools and health care.

> You get a trophy that says, “I won capitalism” and we name a dog park after you.

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> Most billionaires net worth is highly centralised in the stock of the companies they founded[...] unless we are talking asset seizure I am not quite sure how you would do away with [billionaires]

Marginal asset tax rate of 100%? (Really, the main difference between that and the inheritance tax you favor is the timing.) The Wikipedia article[2] has a bunch of arguments for why that might be a bad idea, but it’s reasonably straightforward in principle.

[1] https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/1241843944238923777

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax
You might have missed the point of the rules. They are not about FIRE, or maximizing gains. They are about risk minimized investing. Effectively 'how to beat keeping all your money in a bank account, whilst also having even less risk than a bank account'.

Debt is great for boosting returns, and the risk can be managed. But it remains risky. Certain strategies are less risky if you use debt. Those strategies have a risk that is astronomically above the risk tolerance these guidelines assume.
ARM-based laptops have good (but wouldn't say exceptional) battery life with very light usage. Once you start using a browser or pretty much anything using a non-trivial amount of CPU, that battery life goes down the drain. My PinebookPro is very happy to work for 10 hours on one charge, as long as the CPU is left alone. LibreOffice, very light shell scripting, book reading, no bluetooth, things like that... Once I start (ab)using QtCreator, or start messing with Firefox, that number gets closer to 2 hours.

For comparison one of my other (budget) laptops with Ryzen 4700u gives me over 6 hours of battery life with light usage (including browsing the internet), but I still get around 4 hours out of it when I keep compiling the kernel over and over again.
It's bad advice in software. Software that's "boring" tends to be replaced with flashy new things. If you were an expert in JQery in 2010, unless you've learned the new frameworks you would be nearly unemployable today.
I was an "expert" in OSGi, a Java framework... it went out of fashion in the early 2010's. My knowledge of that became nearly useless, the only "utility" I got out of it today is understanding modularity and dynamic services much better than I would otherwise (which can be frustrating though, as you see new flashy thhings making the same mistakes you've seen before, but try telling them that and they'll just call you a dinosaur who doesn't get it).
It would be interesting to see the list of those books.

Some would enjoy nostalgia and some perhaps would actually learn something from them. May be you can recommend a few titles that would be relevant for today or simply fascinating, regardless of their relevance."
I think about the indoor HWNDU flag every time I post pictures online that were taken in my house.
I think you’re missing the nuance here. If I can protect myself using a weapon, I don’t need to vote for mass surveillance to protect me. The ability to engage in shootouts with the police isn’t what prevents the formation of a police state. The problem with a police state is that state violence becomes a way to exercise political power.
The genes book I mention in the post talks about Y-Chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve. Super cool stuff. The directed acyclic graph nature of lineage totally makes sense why the number of ancestors is smaller in reality than the theoretical numbers. I don't follow how Adam and Eve relate, though. I know this example is crude but bear with me; hopefully it's valid enough to have discussion around. If we follow the lineages back to the point where we have 1000 ancestors each, it seems like Adam just represents the 1 we all have in common, and by extension the other 999 are the ones not in common.

From the Wikipedia article:

> Although the informal name "Y-chromosomal Adam" is a reference to the biblical Adam, this should not be misconstrued as implying that the bearer of the chromosome was the only human male alive during his time.[7] His other male contemporaries may also have descendants alive today, but not, by definition, through solely patrilineal descent; in other words, none of them have an unbroken male line of descendants (son's son's son's … son) connecting them to currently living people.

(Reading the Eve article left me with even more questions than answers, but I'm still getting the sense that Adam and Eve are orthogonal to the "number of ancestors in 1600" topic.)
Sacramento is working on a solution for the wildfire risk problem: Force everyone in safer areas to fund a subsidy.

> Potential ingredients include allowing insurers to charge all policyholders a fee to cover the riskiest properties ...

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/21/wildfires-californi...
No choice on that front.
I was thinking something horrible but then I recalled how the US jailed some guys for years due to transporting some lobsters in a plastic bag[1], so yea...

[1]: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2010/07/22/rough-justice
> there are no regularizers in any modern LLMs.

Using a large & diverse training set is the best regulariser, but I think there is also weight decay and dropout in transformers
> Average cost to taxpayers per incarcerated person is about $100K

Seems to he false? For Federal inmates anyway..

It was just $35k back in 2019. So it can’t be much more than half of what you’re claiming these days.

* https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/09/01/2021-18...

> how ethically is this worse than private companies making billions building weapons of mass destruction? Or platforms of mass surveillance?

Doesn’t seem to be even tangentially related?
SF's not too far from some famous deserts - within 8h drive you can get to Death Valley, Mojave, or the home of Burning Man, Black Rock Desert.

(From Austin, Big Bend's part of the Chihuahuan Desert is about 8h away, plus of course many other dry & dusty west Texas locales.)
I know a great real world example of this. A friend of mine is an expert in economics, specifically Georgism and Modern Monetary Theory (although he has orthodox economics training as well). He's worked in policy in a range of institutions, and now works at the Australian Federal Treasury on policy. It's taken something like 8 years for that to happen. He's not a radical revolutionary, he's not a sleeper cell or a Trojan horse for some ideology, and he hasn't made any secret of the schools of economics in which he's trained when applying for any of his roles.

The more people working in government who understand what money is and how it works, the better off society will be. Where as many in the MMT or heterodox economics community generally seek to make as much noise as possible outside the building, I have a hunch that quietly and dilligently doing work inside the building is much more effective even though it's less cathartic (and there is documentary evidence that this has been the approach by libertarian economics adherents for quite some time![1]).

[1] https://www.amazon.com.au/Democracy-Chains-Nancy-MacLean/dp/...
> Are you sure the compiler is correct?

Use multiple different compilers and compare results

> Are you sure the OS is behaving correctly?

Use multiple different OSes and OS-versions

> Are you sure the CPU isn't randomly glitching out?

Use multiple different CPU types.
Did it look like this one?

https://youtu.be/vYMiSz-WlEY?si=Mk8Bua_2xGkgLDeR
I can vouch for general.el[1]. It's easy to use and it integrates with use-package clauses, which-key and evil states. You can look at my config[2] for examples.

1. https://github.com/noctuid/general.el

2. https://github.com/gekoke/dotfiles/blob/main/modules/program...
That place is a stupid tourist ripoff (we definitely fell for it in college) - there's no reason a robot can't be programmed to make a proper pour :)
Tech journalism in 2023. No one cares about facts. You should be happy they didn't write "you can measure blockchain" or "you can measure AI" with it. (Yet)
He's saying the tech stack changes over time and gets updated. Probably going from on-prem to cloud with some saas sprinkled in, as many other industry. What does not change as rapidly is the strict regulations and particular needs of the healthcare domain.
Yes but then you would have to own something that contains Americium.

We put up with it in smoke detectors because house fires are more scary than the radiation, but I don't see why you'd want even the tiny extra risk of the thing getting somehow broken or burnt in an illegal recycling fire or something, just for random numbers.

Maybe you could do a safe version that used a banana as the radioactive element, it would make enough entropy to seed a RNG.
Thanks! It's been a long, iterative process to get it to this state.
When I worked at an ISP in the 90s the amount of threats and verbal abuse from customers was wild.

One guy who ran a event ticket operation (selling tickets to events) we installed a T1 for the phone company wouldn't go out unless they could bring a security guard. The same guy once came to our office and waited outside in the parking lot and followed one of my coworkers home demanding that she fix his internet. Her father came out and confronted him and he took off.

Another time someone was mad that his address didn't qualify for DSL because "the man was keeping him down from getting fast internet".

Later in life I worked at the phone company and linemen told me stories about being high on a pole in rough neighborhoods and being accosted by folks on the ground brandishing pistols demanding to know whose phone line they were tapping (they tried to explain that stuff is done remotely but they didn't understand).
The glock safety is on the back of the grip?
I am not sure what kind of "tag" you mean, but in any modern file system which supports extended file attributes you can attach arbitrary metadata to any file.

You just have to define whatever kind of tags you want and choose names for the xattrs in which to store them and then you should use them in your scripts or applications.

I am using all the time xattrs for things like file checksums and content classification, on XFS and on FreeBSD UFS, but almost all modern file systems support xattrs, except Linux tmpfs (which has only a partial support that is useless for those who use custom xattrs, so a file with xattrs cannot be copied to /tmp if tmpfs is used).
>Entire team goes around and answers the question: who do you want to leave?

This sounds like it might work as a one-time thing, but just imagine the second-order effects. Your annual reviews literally become Survivor, how could you ever prevent backroom alliances?
chess - no joke, research has shown it is one of the most effective ways to stay focused
> Incidentally, there is now an open source remote mode extension

God bless the Arch User Repo. Stuff like this has made it impossible for me to move on from Arch.
Is there any tool that competes with Adobe Acrobat? Like the censoring tool is rarely founs anywhere else.
Ask HN: How can I reach out to marketing agencies in the US?
Hi,

I want to reach out to social media marketing agencies in the US, but not sure where to start apart from searching on Google.
I am the founder of Scribblewithai.com. It's a tool that lets user create social media posts using AI. I believe this tool will be really helpful for the agencies as it lets them create content at scale.

How shall I start to reach out to my potential customers?
Is there any forum you are aware of that I can post on?
Sure, Texas has to pay for government-paid things, too. But they save a bunch by not buying as much.

For example, both Texas and California have 0 miles of high-speed rail. But California has spent $10B for those 0 miles, while Texas has spent $0.
Maybe there's still hope for the Vessyl...
That's why Linux doesn't use the HW randomness by itself, it gathers entropy from lots of sources like peripheral timings, and hashes it all.

If the crypto algorithms are broken it doesn't matter if the RNG is good, without good crypto there's not much you can do with randomness except OTP.
Chinchilla scaling was only good for academics - it prioritises model training cost at the expense of serving cost. If you plan to, you know, actually use the model, not just publish a paper on it, you need the LLaMA approach of training smaller models past the Chinchilla point.

But the smaller the model, the more compute is needed to cover the gap. To reach the loss of a 67B model

- A 33B model needs 2.3x compute

- A 13B model needs 25x compute

- A 7B model needs 7837x compute

- A 3B model can't match the 67B. Ever.
I heard that some addons (like magit and vterm) run much worse on Windows than on Unix-like. That's my main concern. Maybe it's an outdated view tho.
They bought Star Citizen
The author makes the point that the slow-down of the day is non-linear, and then he uses a linear equation to estimate the time until the Earth is locked to the Moon!

His doomsday scenario of total tidal locking would never occur -- as energy is removed from the rotation of the Earth, the maximum power level that can be extracted would decrease. Also, the cost-efficiency would also drop.

There would be a point where the day is "merely" longer, the Earth is not yet tidally locked to the Moon, but extracting more tidal energy is no longer worth the trouble.

The original point however is still valid. Even if the rotation was slowed to just 1/2 of what it is now, the Earth would have a 48-hour day and that would obviously cause absolute havoc with the environment.
Good luck to anyone relying on income from BountySource (if you exist)