skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, read “Reflections on trusting trust”.

If you care about performance, then you need to start by building a fab. $100B+, and you’ll end up with government moles.

So, I assume you don’t care about performance. If you keep stuff under 100MHz or so, then you can avoid complicated signal processing.

Design for a old process, and tape out. Now, read up on decapping and reverse engineering old dies with garage-built microscopes.

Make many copies of your chips, then decap a random sample and verify they are to spec by hand. Use the rest to build a computer that can verify the output of the microscope.

You can print circuit boards using hobbyist kits on a laser printer. Since they are 1 or 2 sided, you can visually verify them.

If you can find commercially available chips that are primitive enough for you to decap, scan, reverse engineer and verify, then use those instead (following the random destructive sampling procedure above).

Good luck!
FTX sues Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents
"Last Updated 2023-09-15"

what's new here?
The 'Big Brother' thing doesn't shock me, I know about it for some time now. At least you can still believe a modicum they maybe have good intentions... You know, protecting us from bad guys or something...

But the 'MiniTruth' thing... Wow,just wow...

Context: The Ministry Of Truth in the 1984 novel is the service dedicated to propaganda, in which the whole society is drowned. Everything about the society they live in is a lie...

It just blows away any hope of good intention from their part.

The last time I read about something so cynic, suggesting so much contempt for the people they pretend to serve, with such carelessness, is when it was revealed que FTX internal chatroom was called 'Wirefraud'.
If you want features of RabbitMQ (specifically queue like behavior) but the scalability of Kafka then you probably want Apache Pulsar.

To elaborate on that a bit the main things Pulsar gives you are:

1. Still underlying distributed stream based architecture, this is what makes it able to do Kafka like things.

2. Broker side management of subscription state which allow out of order acknowledgement, this means you can use it like a queue. (Subscriptions sort of act like AMQP mailboxes but without the exchange routing semantics). Vs Kafka which can only do cumulative acknowledgement, i.e head of line blocking.

3. Separated "compute" and storage. By storing data in Bookkeeper you can scale your needs to support a lot of consumers separately from how you stash the data those consumers need to read vs Kafka where these 2 are coupled and an imbalance between the two becomes awkward.

4. In built offload with transparent pass-through read. When your data falls off the retention cliff for your standard broker cluster the data can be archived to object storage. The broker can transparently handle read request for these earlier messages though, just with higher startup latency to pull the archived ledgers.

5. Way more plugability than Kafka, in-fact similar plugability as RabbitMQ. You can implement your own authz/authn, a different listener to support a different protocol (there is a Kafka one, MQTT, AMQP etc).

6. Much greater metadata scalability. Before the new KRaft implementation the layout of metadata in ZK meant that you couldn't feasibly have more than about 10k topics. Especially because of how long the downtime would be on controller failover. Pulsar can easily support much larger numbers of topics which prevents needing to use a firehose design when you would prefer individual topics per tenant/customer/whatever.
United States v. Google (ED Va) - Google Loses Two Affirmative Defenses [pdf]
Expect the Andrew Tate treatment if you are a rapist.
But that's the point, you're not actually competing. You're finding space to the left or right of their focus and you're picking up their leftovers.

Is it possible to grow that niche into something larger that eventually competes for the same attention poll? Yeah. That would be TikTok. But TT is also very much an outlier.

That aside, it's possible to be very successful and not necessarily scale to FB, X or TT size. You can be a niche product / platform and do well. Maybe not Musk or Zuck fuck you money well, but well enough to not sweat the small stuff.
I tried to address this in the latter part of my post.

I'll start by saying there is a lot of nuance here with cases where I might even agree with you but I'm going set aside nuance in service of getting to the core of my point.

The guy who pushes around a trolley, unpacks a box of goods and puts it in the shelfs of a local branch of a nation wide grocery chain is not just worth 30x less than the CEO of that multi billion dollar grocery chain.

The key distinction here is that the difference isn't just linear, its non linear with a steep gradient. You can replace that guy with a 12 year old disabled girl and it would make almost no different to outcome for the multi billion dollar grocery chain.

Whereas if you hired a slightly less competent/experienced CEO and I mean like 0.5% less, the difference is tens or even hundreds of millions.

The non linear nature to this is not just something to do with humans, its a natural phenomenon. Its the Pareto principle & distribution.

Maybe things can be in the realm of 20-30x when we are talking about CEO vs the rest of the C-suite.

P.S. Just to directly address your civilised society claim: There is nothing civilised about the proletariat or their puppeteers dictating by fiat how far high a person can fly before their wings get chopped off. Btw in such a society, those who chose are an order of magnitude more powerful than the most richest and powerful in our current society. You just replaced one set of elites who "atleast" "somewhat" earned their station with another set of elites whos only skill is in being a good orator.
try https://retool.com/
I like the old twitter. The good thing about them was that unlike Musk they didn't try to create an image of being super pro free speech, they just didn't care to the extent possible.
It seems to be going the other way in the US. Recently, in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, it was found that discrimination against customers who "violate your values", in that case by being gay, was fine.
interface{} is a pretty strong code smell.
Or even an exclusive, paid platform - like Rogan on Spotify.

One I’d be doubly happy to continue not paying for.
If you're concerned about latency you might want to consider zeromq. Stream processing doesn't really have a time expectation to it.
Writing is cheap, portable, and available to anyone who can produce and process written script; the poorest child in the poorest country can be taught to write their ideas in a journal. Video is expensive: not just the personal device & storage account, but the entire infrastructure to support uploading, storing, and maintaining an always-accessible archive. It is also difficult to revisit video to search for previous ideas and thoughts, etc. Text is easy to index and search both in digital and analog formats (at least, if one gives forethought to indexing one's journals during or shortly after writing a journal entry).
You can't take the WSJ as proof of anything, let alone in regards to China.
Is similar not also true of Lines, and Points?

That is: every real, non-theoretical Point must have a size, a resolution; and every non-theoretical straight Line is surely not a true straight line if we zoom far enough down into sub-atomics.
When IO fails, it doesn't matter a single bit whether the call occured on a virtual or on a platform thread. The likelyhood of failure deserves coloring, but Java already offers a mechanism for that.
Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg7492?adobe_mc...

Non-paywall wired article: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/deepmind-ai-alphamissense-ge...
If, for example, SHA2 had a backdoor or a weakness known only to the NSA, then random contractors (like Snowden) could use that to extract money from the Bitcoin network, which uses SHA256 as its core cryptographic primitive.

That's easily a billion dollar motivation right there, and I can't imagine a bunch of low-paid government drones resisting that cash prize. Everyone has a price.

Hence, there's a level of trust that can be gained through observation of failures to abuse backdoors. If they don't exist, they can't be abused. If they exist, then they must be used/abused, otherwise what's the point? Such usage will be eventually discovered. E.g.: The use of the Dual_EC_DRBG back-door to tap into Juniper VPN connections by the Chinese government was discovered and made public.
I slowly hitchhiked from Europe to West Africa in 2007 and from Western Sahara on, my drivers were all French people driving some old car down to sell for a little quick cash. But already by that time Senegal had said enough already, and so drivers had to head for Mali or Burkina Faso instead. I wonder if the violence in those countries in recent years has put a damper on the used car trade, or if they too banned such informal imports.
People used to complain that Emacs was too complicated.
Love the idea, but honestly it's too much friction to start using your product. Please consider in-app passport verification and wallet creation.

Also the website does not seem to be well thought out -
1. No mention of how to use UPI or Cheq.
2. Where to go to get verified?
3. I could not find an ios app. Is there one coming soon?
4. Too many typos as others too have noted. "UPI wallet let’s you pay " <-- lets
5. Lots of irrelevant content on the home page.
6. Confusing "get started" button that is actually an image.
Show HN: Transform Logos into Gestalt Images
Built a fun little tool to embed your logo within an image.

How this works: It takes your uploaded logo image, and uses that to control the image generation of Stable Diffusion while it's producing an image according to your text prompt.

The control net model used is https://huggingface.co/monster-labs/control_v1p_sd15_qrcode_.... Despite its name, it can be used for much more than QR codes.

Have fun playing with this!
JOINs are a non-trivial problem with data in the terabyte-to-petabyte range. Apache Pinot had to re-architect itself with a multi-stage query engine in order to handle native query-time JOINs. There was a separate blog released today that dealt with that specifically:

https://startree.ai/blog/query-time-joins-in-apache-pinot-1-...

[Edit: if users just naively throw query-time JOINs at a problem, they might not get results in the time they want — a non-optimized real-time JOIN took upwards of 39 seconds. With predicate pushdowns, and partition-aware JOINs, suddenly results could be done in 3.3 seconds — faster by an order of magnitude. Still kinda long for a typical page or mobile app refresh but survivable. And yes, even faster subsecond results were possible with additional compute parallelism, but that has a cloud services cost associated with it.

Pre-ingestion JOINs, such as through Apache Flink, would be generally more performant than query-time JOINs. And that's how most people do them right now anyway. So just because you can do query-time JOINs doesn't mean you should if you haven't thought about it ahead of time. If you can, optimize the data partioning to ensure best performance. The good news is that users now have a lot more flexibility in how they want to do JOINs.]
Yeah that's not so bad then. They are probably losing money hosting it.
I find that intellectual engagement often makes for the most memorable soirées. Perhaps you'd like an invite next time?
you make many good points that i mostly agree with. let me just clarify some things:

Infidelity may be the leading cause, but it still makes up a minority of divorces today

i didn't see the statistics. i assumed it meant there are more divorces caused by it than by financial problems, and that the remaining causes are other problems. (eg: 40% infidelity, 30% money, 20% other, 10% abuse. something like that)

People aren't cheating because they don't know it's wrong

that's not where i was going with education. the problem as i see it is, that people are cheating because they don't feel valued enough by their partner or they don't value their partner enough, and that i believe can absolutely be addressed with education. i don't mean teaching them that it is wrong, but teaching them how to value their partner more so they or their partner don't even develop the desire to cheat in the first place.

Throwing money at parents isn't going to prevent divorce

but it should remove money as a reason for divorce.

Divorce rates in Germany are similar to the US, so whatever you're doing, it's not working there either.

well, i think that is to simple as a comparison. again, not having seen the statistics, i expect that in germany not many divorces are cause by financial difficulties, and most are cause by people not having learned to get along. which too, can be addressed by education. i would suspect that in germany, having a much less conservative culture, divorce rates would be even higher if financial problems were added to the mix. so for all i know, the money part should be working. germany has other problems instead.

the state should disincentivize divorce

yes, but not through simply taking away money but by addressing the actual root causes. it should be more difficult to divorce, but once divorce actually happens the parent taking the children should be financially supported. but i just thought of another approach: more equally shared custody. i believe this is the norm in germany. that way, there is no financial benefit because both parents have equal costs.
Another way of seeing it is that "40% of the code became imaginary", in the sense that you have to figure out what the macro is expanding to.

I'm not against generics. I was just wondering myself in a boring afternoon :)
Who made YouTube judge and jury?

Let's say, for the sake of argument, YouTube demonitized all Irish because they unilaterally decided they're all plonkers and they're a private company and they can do what they want. Because that's the level of absurdity here.

Nor do your examples hold water. This isn't a situation of "you were caught stealing paperclips on video". Rather, it's more a case of Sally the tart from accounting has accused you of fingering her in a pub toilet ten years ago when you were both drunk and now ten years later she decides she's upset so let's engage the digital lynch mob and proceed with ruining your life because we all know women never lie.
Fun read! Along the way I was trying to guess the cause and my best guess was TTL-related. However I don’t quite understand the actual cause! If the connection timeout is 3ms in practice, shouldn’t that be for a packet round-trip? So ~250 miles? And wouldn’t we expect at least a small delay on the remote SMTP server to process the packet?
I own a daydream, you use it by putting your phone in the visor and using the phone as the headset. It was fun until they started dropping support for everything, and it started to happen much earlier than 2021z

SimulaVR is creating a full computer built into a VR headset for production work.
The Lotus engineer embedded it, but was he the guy who created the key ?
That, surprisingly for raymond, doesn't actually answer the question, since you cannot request opening stdin/stdout/stderr via this API, the values 0..2 are also invalid return values.

(/dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, /dev/stderr exist today, but did not then, and even today I don't think you can open/create them since they are symlinks to /proc/self/fd/0..2 and thus open("/dev/stdin", ...) returns -1)

AFAIK if you close(0) you lose your stdin and never see it again.
Alameda Research v. Allan Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried [pdf]
Did you read TFA? It does mention AI, and also mentions that this is less about AI and more about the fact that the AI researchers had a TON of data to share, and their method for doing so was poorly configured SAS tokens…

Which also, in the article, is mentioned can not be tracked - issued tokens happen on the client side (if I understood this correctly), which means that to audit tokens you’d have to ask everyone who had one issued to politely provide said token. Will everyone remember the tokens they have? Probably not. And if an attacker has already gotten what they needed, or managed to issue their own, no one would know.
Or NATS
Sorry, I'm no longer convinced of this. I think there's a large range of procedures/treatments being done that don't work, that kill people all the time. And in the end you are often just trading short term risk, for a longer payoff.

Say you have prostate cancer. Should you risk the low chance of dying of prostate cancer 10 years from now, or the higher chance of incontinence, and medical complications from the treatment you undertake now.
ABC news here in Australia has a story about Tonga drowning in 30,000 broken used cars, which has motivated an intervention to get a local crushing plant working so the metals can be sent back to Japan for recycling, and to get productive land back into use. Small pacific island economies are the end of the road in every sense.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-09-19/how-tonga-pla...

Africa has different problems. Friends had to leave a Morris Minor van in the desert, there were no UK conforming spare parts, if they'd driven a french car or truck almost anything would have worked because metric. That was a few decades ago but they said the landscape was littered with broken cromwell, challenger and other tanks, from the desert campaigns. The rate of rain is low enough these metal hulks last many decades.
There's also just general balance of attrition to consider. PRC with 4x population has 3-4x more infra to hit, and homeland strikes will beget homeland strikes - PRC conventional icbms can take out US refineries and revert everyone to Yemen. Reality is US gained resource autarky but lost resource security since advanced rocketry now makes CONUS vunerable in peer war. PRC having more of everything, and hence more room to weather infra attrition, and ultimately still a massive/excessive construction industry to rebuild faster. PRC generally stuck with surplus of trained workers due to overcapacity. Meanwhile, US is much more vunerable to disruption of homeland serenity - hard to import talent, maintain global finance system, tech dominance if US has no power, fertilizer inputs, data centres. Ultimately, homeland strikes might be short term pyrrhic for everyone but medium/long term trajectory, it also matters who has capacity to recover, and who has more to lose by having homeland degraded in first place.
You're frustrated because it's a bullshit answer based on a lack of understanding of what a superposition of states represents and what quantum computing is calculating. Qbit superpositions represent probability distributions between 1 and 0. And quantum computers calculate probable ranges of correct results of certain types of problems. They can produce these ranges of probable correct results using much less memory and time then it would take a classical computer to calculate similar results. We're talking exponential improvement of using 1 more qbit compared to 1 more classical bit. For example, in 2019, Google used a 53 qbit quantum computer to complete a task in 200 seconds that Google claimed would take 10,000 years to finish with the best known classical computer at the time. (Note that IBM claims that it would only take 2.5 days on their classical computer, but you can see the scale of improvement is huge either way)
If you have to explain how to use it…
Google Stadia: Leaked Documents Explain Its Failure (Porting to Linux a Factor)
Not without some major sacrifices. Rubber is about as benign as anything else that’s going to provide traction in a wide range of weather conditions on current roads. Steel wheels provide poor traction and lots of road noise, to get both grip and reasonable levels of durability you end up with some flexible solid that breaks apart into tiny bits that are hazardous to inhale.

You need to change something more fundamental than the tire design to make dramatic improvements.
Alleged rapists.

Is that even true? Are there no convicted rapists with monetized youtube channels? Youtube does background checks? Or they merely take action when someone's crime(s) make it into the news? That seems rather arbitrary and short-sighted. Some journalist or cabal of journalists can write a viral article about someone, about something that happened a decade or more ago, and a corporation will unilaterally decide to end the economic aspect of their relationship with the person?
The 'Ticketmaster' effect. When I face surge pricing = I am gone.
Can you link me to any public communication from Apple making this claim?
Hm but the same argument can be made for anything the compiler does, no? Like I have no idea of how the compiler handles the `Interface`-based approach either.
> Price is too high, features too few, distinct advantages under compelling, and ergonomics too nomic

You just described the iPhone I.
It’s Time to Engineer the Sky
Thanks for looking deeper! There are two other articles that might be up your alley.

Query lifecycle optimizations
https://startree.ai/blog/what-makes-apache-pinot-fast-chapte...

Indexing
https://startree.ai/blog/what-makes-apache-pinot-fast-chapte...
Absolutely no American who isn't wealthy should be concerned about this. The government has a monopoly on the printing press and therefore has all the money it will ever need. The obstacles, not to be taken lightly, are nevertheless entirely political and not structural.
What's New in Unicode 15.1 and Emoji 15.1
Nature of the allogations aside, isn't this what possibly happened to Brand? He spoke things that many wished went unsaid. Eventually the "terms & conditions" were tweaked so to speak and now the critic is silenced, marginalized and humiliated.

Of all the targets to pick, why Brand? Why now?
> Also, consider that the ones that are silenced we are not hearing about and from.

I agree, and find this heartbreaking. I remember reading the accusations against Bill Clinton which, like those against Brand, were independent of one another, made by credible victims who did not know each other, supported by witnesses, and -- like Brand -- included similar patterns of behaviour from attack to attack (Clinton, if I recall, had a predilection for biting the faces and lips of the women he assaulted).

And then those women watch as Hillary Clinton uses her platform to discredit them in the cruellest possible terms.[^1] I wish those weeping and tearing their clothes for Brand as he is "silenced" would consider what it must be like to truly be silenced. Not just "my $1m a year YouTube income stream is gone"-silenced, but silenced by the fear of people like OP reflexively treating them with disdain and pretending they're part of some establishment plot.

It's on the same continuum as going into a pizza restaurant with a gun because it's a Democrat pedophile hub. Lunatics.

[^1] Although on Clinton it's worth noting that when his VP Al Gore was asked at a press conference whether he (Gore) thought the accusations were credible, he gave a wishy-washy answer. The journalist replied "You could just have said you don't believe them," to which Gore – astonishingly – replied: "I didn't say that," before going on to enumerate how any crimes Clinton may have committed were balanced out by his record of public service?!
Hey I'm enjoying your site! It would be cool if there was a way to just get the stories. For example, Twitter is no longer capable of loading tweet replies on my machine for whatever hilarious reason, and so I could only read the teaser for the Twitter link.

Anyway, I understand that's probably not the kind of site you had in mind. Thanks for the cool site!
The specs seem meh, at a price comparable to the Apple headset. I'm sorry to be blunt but how could it possibly be successful?