skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The protection is just by hiding half of the traffic beyond an obstacle, you can still get t-boned on the roundabout, but only by the cars from your right and not from both directions like on an intersection. I guess it's a plus but with the added danger of a head-on collision from people traversing the roundabout in the wrong way I won't say if it's net-positive safety-wise with any degree of confidence.
Yeah, the Android jellyfin client also tells you all the variations it tried when it fails
There's been several articles posted here over the years from people that worked at Amazon at the time saying this is just a myth.
Handwritten notes on my paper calendar or in my journal/diary/notebook or on random scraps of paper; since I generally keep track of things spatially, this approach works better than digital notes, which all get flattened to a nebulous point in my mind. CTRL+F is wonderful, but the barrier to getting to the file in the first place is too high. I'll keep using this for archiving notes I think I'll want to access later, until I finally grow out of that and realize that a thought I had three years ago is relatively unimportant. I'm not there yet, and still compulsively comb through my notes, saving some and discarding others.

For awhile I was chucking notes into Obsidian but now I'm in the process of transferring it all of my phone to text files on my laptop and using paper more again. The shine is off Obsidian; takes too long to load, and the Find action is too out of reach. I like the act of writing by hand, anyway.
You don't think perverse incentivized trials/studies/etc do damage to public perception? I'm not well versed in this subject (or versed at all), but if anything i feel like i am the public we're speaking about. Pro science, but scared of bad faith science.

For example, my perception is that the push for pro-sugar doctrine "back in the day" has caused significant health problems and a distrust in the process.

Do you view this as not the case?
I have talked to Google representatives when I had an issue with my personal gmail.com account through Google One. It was fine and they fixed it.

Likewise, as a GCP customer, I've always had a real account rep and support I could talk to.
I Rewrote My CV in Typst and I'll Never Look Back
There is a tasty looking proposal for a debugger overhaul https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/5950.
> It frankly baffles me that people can describe the current AI boom as a fad, when a simple extrapolation of the current technologies will show you what an enormous impact it is going to have in the coming years...

In fairness, I do see _some_ possible value in AI (though much less than the superfans do) - but you must admit that this exact sentiment was being expressed by cryptobros a couple of years ago.
Multilane roundabouts in my part of the US are absolutely terrifying because people don't know how to use them. Accidents and close calls are amazingly common. As a result, I drive out of my way to ensure that I avoid them.

Simple roundabouts are fine.
> What will you do if your startup suddenly takes off?

Sit back and relax? Being massively overprovisioned is a benefit of homelabs.
We don't need virtualization (that'd be easy.) We'd need mount namespacing and bind mounts to place a directory in your home directory at /nix during the process execution.

EDIT: User and process namespacing would help a lot as well, to improve build time isolation.
We are manually building decks for things that new users are requesting during our new user interviews for our flashcard app www.munkle.it
>I couldn't find a lot of information as to size of the network used

In the original paper,[0] in the section called 'Implementation of MLC', there's a description of sorts (Greek to me):

"Both the encoder and decoder have 3 layers, 8 attention heads per layer, input and hidden embeddings of size 128, and a feedforward hidden size of 512. Following GPT63, GELU64 activation functions are used instead of ReLU. In total, the architecture has about 1.4 million parameters."

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06668-3
GCP has some nice things but AWS is simply more reliable.

The GCP outage [1] in April is a great example. A fire in europe-west9-a "zone" took down the entire europe-west9 "region" (because this entire "region" is actually housed in a single datacenter), which then caused a global GCP console/API outage because GCP's single global control plane couldn't reach europe-west9.

The fact that a zonal issue escalated to a regional and then global outage shows that GCP is not serious about limiting blast radius and all their talk of independent regional/zonal infrastructure is marketing fluff.

In comparison, AWS AZs can be up to 60 miles apart, share no physical infrastructure, and every region hosts its own API/console/control plane.

Also, Nitro. AWS has essentially eliminated the performance overhead of virtualization with Nitro, and years later GCP still has no equivalent so GCP customers still have to pay for that overhead.

1: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/dS9ps52MUnxQfyDGPf...
Instagram. Instagram is hip, college kids today share their "instas" instead of their phone numbers, and it's finally getting monetized.
Anyone can read but most press will read and believe the abstract, and write breathless articles on it.
Samsung Galaxy S23 hacked twice on first day of Pwn2Own Toronto
Long time Carmel, IN resident here, AMA. Yes, almost every intersection has a roundabout for a population around 100k. Yes, they are efficient. Yes, it’s a pain using them when people who don’t know how to use them, use them.
Nonetheless the chances of a median HN poster's employer being shived by a rogue Angel or dying to a founder feud are vastly (like, vastly vastly) higher than having Google drop one of their dependencies. And I guess I'd expect the discourse to reflect that. But instead it's the boring tech giant (yes, also my employer, though I work nowhere near cloud) who everyone seems to think is the existential threat? Like I said, I don't think this is about risk at all.
I used to work at reddit so I've been using the site for 18.5 years, which is a long time to rack up karma (and I got a bunch posting reddit blogs and doing AMAs). And I just spend too much time here. :)

Yeah I haven't updated my site in a long time. I left Netflix nine years ago.
> I do know what apartheid is: it's what happened in South Africa, when two groups of people lived in the very same place (i.e., in the same towns and cities) and were treated differently by the state. It's just like how Black people were treated in the US during the Jim Crow era.

Apartheid was different, it combined a version of the forced relocation and reservation system that the US used for Native Americans (only with the pretense -- with very little substance, but merely as an excuse for the central government to disclaim responsibility -- that the reservations ("bantustans") were independent states rather than territories of subordinate sovereigns) with the racial discrimination in services and facilities within the rest of the country proper that Black Americans faced in the Jim Crow era.

> Egypt used to own Gaza

Egypt occupied Gaza, the same as Israel later did, but did not claim it, establishing a separate protectorate (it was merged into the UAR with Egypt and Syria, and from which Syria later rebelled, but even then it was considered distinct from Egypt, and it was formally transferred to the authority of the PLO (though practical governance was exercised by Egypt) after 1964.

> Last I heard, Israel tried to get Egypt to take Gaza back.

Egypt can't take it back, because Egypt never claimed it.

The UAR can't take it back, because the UAR has been disbanded.

Egypt could reoccupy it, but why would they want to? (Especially given that the people there don't want Egypt to do so, and have been rather...prickly...about occupations imposed on them.)
I think it's a bit nutty that folks always use Dropbox as the example of "cost savings by doing it yourself".

I mean, Dropbox itself is essentially a provider of cloud storage. It seems like owning their own data centers was obvious from the beginning: Use AWS initially to scale, but given the size of Dropbox it obviously doesn't make sense to have another middleman in the mix.

I just point this out because Dropbox is so unlike your average enterprise user of the cloud. I'd like to see some better examples than Dropbox of enterprises saving more (or innovating as quickly) by going on their own.
YouTube shorts are just videos that you can't control, and of course they're short. It's a depressing statement about humanity that cutting things so they're short is a profitable innovation.
Except no one is going retaliate against starlink as it would stop _everyone_ from launching satellites.
According to the pdf the source isn't even pure peanut butter. It also contains sugar and vegetable oils so it's probably based on one of the cheap emulsified varieties.
Swindon laughs at Hemel's sad excuse for a magic roundabout. The true roundabout connoisseur knows that the roundabouts should overlap.
Get a 14inch lapdock and connect it to the Steam Deck via USB-C. That's your monitor and peripherals issues sorted. Lapdocks have built in batteries so they don't drain the device.
Pro-Russia hackers target inboxes with 0-day in webmail app used by millions
We use GCP at my current company and I've used AWS a lot in the past.

Managing IAM users and roles on GCP is much more pleasant than AWS, and if you happen to use Google Workspace for you org, it approaches (as an infra engineer) the sublime.

GCP projects are a really intuitive way to isolate resources that you don't want to be able to talk to each other by default.

GKE has been very reliable.

BigQuery got expensive faster than I was expecting, but it works and integrates well with GCP IAM and makes managing access to datasets easy.

On the less positive side, support is lackluster, and GA doesn't necessarily mean what you want it to mean.

Edit: Almost forgot! Again, if you use Google Workspace, then IAP is fantastic.
Voyager: Spotify's New Nearest-Neighbor Search Library
Is the /s because that's literally what they're already doing?
> > Law enforcement is basically allowed to lie to you

> Is this pretty universal or is it an American thing?

In court:
You: They lied to me about my right to a lawyer
Cop: No we didn't, also he admitted during this talk to being on the site of theft and taking of someone else property.

Now who will Jury or Judge believe, cop or a thief?
> Are low-income folks at a local dive bar particularly knowledgeable about the subtle tradeoffs involved in effective government regulation?

If they were, they'd be high income. Or be about to be.
But how did he manage that? If he could do that why don't all other founders/CEOs?
Vegetables are delicious if you cook them right.

Maybe the solutions we have on how to cut on emissions is canned.
I understand your position, however, I feel there's lots of wishful thinking there. The key issue is whether the industrialized first world countries would be forced to compensate the 'global south' for the damage of the global warming beyond anything they willingly choose to donate as part of their foreign aid budgets, and for that I strongly believe the answer is negative.

Of the examples you provide, there are a ton of cases but not a lot of judgments, and furthermore these cases are overwhelmingly against specific companies and many of them for violating obligations they have under USA law. USA permits that as long as they feel that it matches their interests (e.g. having British Petroleum pay a compensation to some USA city is a good thing) and it can and will alter the laws of this liability if they start threatening USA interests.

The Vanuatu example you state is (a) explicitly not asking for any financial damages[1], (b) the only thing that was agreed was to forward it to the ICJ; and (c) the decisions of ICJ are not binding, and USA has an explicit policy since 1986 to choose on a per-case basis whether they'll want to consider themselves under ICJ jurisdiction for that case or not, and so do other countries.

W.r.t the lack of global government - yes, you provide examples of how diplomatic and trade pressure from powerful countries can push smaller ones to concede. That doesn't work in the opposite direction - the same mechanisms can't force USA (or China) to change their policies or fund global change.

Fundamentally, USA (just as any sovereign country) doesn't legally owe Vanuatu anything beyond those obligations that they willingly take on, international law is simply about controlling adherence to a set of voluntary contracts between countries. And even for the existing conventions, international law is clear that countries can abandon them when they don't like the obligations, and that has happened many times in the past - so I'll repeat my point that any compensations will happen only if (and to the extent of) that the western governments opt-in, and as the consequences of the climate crisis increases, their willingness to do so will be even more limited by the needs of their own voters.

[1] Quoting the same washingtonpost article, "As Vanuatu gained support for the U.N. action, it was careful to try to build consensus, with its leaders saying they are not suing anyone nor seeking to create new international obligations. Instead, they say, they are seeking to clarify how preexisting international agreements apply to climate change."
If the market _does_ work and Zuck gets to own it like Apple and Google own mobile, then it's worth the gamble. You own a "pane of glass" and control and tax all of the commerce through it (unless regulators finally wake up).

The whole endeavor also comes with a great failure mode: Zuck also gets to own lots of the spatial computing, rendering, and multimedia future. We're getting glimpses of what games and films will look like in a decade or two, and it's nothing like what we're used to experiencing today.

Not to mention the industrial applications of spatial computing.

I think he's a genius for investing in this, even if AR/VR/XR fall completely flat.
A theoretical metaverse could do a lot of things, but the one thing that made the metaverse economically attractive was essentially becoming a new virtual space for brands to sell. And the excitement for Meta specifically was that they'd get to collect tolls on this new virtual space via hardware and owning the largest properties.

The latter hasn't panned out, but we're seeing the former happen more and more: it's just not as centralized as fantasy versions were.

Fortnite is probably the most successful metaverse at this point, but you see things like Call of Duty placing limited release EVs from GM and famous anime characters being sold as DLC.

Now Prime Video has characters showing up Mortal Kombat as paid extra content, and you're sure to see more and more of these crossovers as brands start to accept the legitimacy of fully immersing their brands in virtual worlds instead of settling for the typical "in-game billboard reference".
What problems do you think co-ops would meaningful address? Don't the perverse insentives still exist? Only who benefits changes.
There’s a stark difference between risk that is predicated on your own wits and risk that is mediated entirely through a capricious and aloof supplier with a bit of a reputation for the rug-pull.
Eridrus used to work at Google. Not sure if it would be good to disclose before aggressively asking people to bet on the lifespan of Google products, I certainly would err on the side of disclosing.
I'm not sure that really changes the criticism, though? 5 minute builds for a hello world application in most any context sounds scary.
Their new headset is pretty impressive for its features and price.

Specifically the pass through.
Okay, sure, but I guess I don't get why that's especially significant versus other decades' ways of not looking at the problem, of which there seem to have been about as many as decades for quite some time now.
TLDR: Roundcube
They will not respond to car thefts, break-ins, or hit and runs. They will not even respond if you have a GPS tracker, video of the people stealing your car with clear faces, and the coordinates lead to an obvious chop shop in someone's back yard.
Good luck with that in Europe.
LLMs playing chess are sensitive to how the position came to be
the benefit of the cloud is the elasticity.
People neglect sometimes that businesses had to scale their infrastructure to peak demand before the cloud.
If your workloads don't have peaks it's an easy problem to solve.
Happy to answer any questions about this.
> > > Law enforcement is basically allowed to lie to you

> > Is this pretty universal or is it an American thing?

> In court: You: They lied to me about my right to a lawyer Cop: No we didn't, also he admitted during this talk to being on the site of theft and taking of someone else property.

> Now who will Jury or Judge believe, cop or a thief?

And cops lie because no one is willing to prosecute them.
CHP should just pull them over for faulty lighting, as this seems a direct violation of CA vehicle codes:

Section 24602:
(f) All stoplamps shall be plainly visible and understandable from a distance of 300 feet...
(g) Stoplamps shall be activated upon application of the service (foot) brake and the hand control head for air, vacuum, or electric brakes.

Turning off a light is not activating it.

This is so egregious I'm going to assume that this one is actually just has faulty constructing as that seems more plausible.
FYI: The author (Elif Safak) is a Turkish-British writer/novelist, who is found to be controversial and populist by many.
Keyboard Maestro is fantastic, and it's even better when combined with an Elgato StreamDeck. There's great integration for "run this KM macro" directly from a button (without eating up a keyboard shortcut), so I have 32 handy buttons on my StreamDeck XL for things like

* open Obsidian and switch to my daily journal page"
* type my password" (which reads securely from Keychain)
* find the hamburger menu on the wiki, move the mouse to it, then select 'Translate to English" from the menu that pops up

That last one is an example of one of Keyboard Maestro's superpowers: search for an image anywhere on screen, then take an action on it (move the mouse there, click it, etc.). Very very handy for automating things that can't easily be otherwise automated.
Transportation engineer here: Multi-lane roundabouts don't typically have any safety benefits. Single lane roundabouts do.

Also, on the small side where you have traffic circles rather than roundabouts, those also suck.
I feel like this is a fantastic example, as it’s one of those things a computer should be able to do perfect toy at scale, but for a quick and dirty solution on a smaller subset it’s something humans are really good at.
ATT and the metaverse stuff was a tough one two punch for them and then investors got spooked about mark being completely unaccountable. But they always had a strong business, mark just had to remind investors that he still cares about profitability which he did with the layoffs.
`space-?` brings up the command palette in Helix.
Given how little crossing the aisle there is it might not be so hard to get your way if you're able to make an issue partisan with the current majority party supporting the side you want.

https://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2015/04/24/pol...
I feel like a lot of that shifted now.

You can just have on-premise k8s and keep most of the velocity gained from developers being able to "just run stuff" instead of anything having to go thru sysadmins.

You can just rent few servers off OVH to start and not have to worry about actual hardware, while still being few times cheaper than cloud.

Yeah you won't have access to the slew of cloud services and will have to deploy your own database but with amount of readily available code and software to do it it doesn't really slow down experimenting all that much
Let me put it this way. Marxism doesn't fly, and nobody has yet found an example of it flying. But academics continue to push Marxism.

That's a massive failure of critical thinking by the people who teach it.

As for engineers, they make mistakes all the time. And the mistakes are very hard to talk one's way out of. Our society is built by engineers making things that work. Your car doesn't move by talking it into moving.
This seems a strange way to say "they'd be amazing because then we could safely decommission some of our nuclear weapons".
That entire category of laws are commonly used to apply selective leverage. NIMBYs love this one trick. They can be selectively waived too. In fact earlier this month the Biden administration waived 26 laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/politics/biden-administration...

The laws waived:

National Environmental Policy Act

Endangered Species Act

Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Clean Water Act)

National Historic Preservation Act

Migratory Bird Treaty Act

Migratory Bird Conservation Act

Clean Air Act

Archeological Resources Protection Act

Paleontological Resources Preservation Act

Safe Drinking Water Act

Noise Control Act

Solid Waste Disposal Act

Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act

Antiquities Act

Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities Act

Farmland Protection Policy Act

National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act

National Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956

Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act

National Trails System Act

Administrative Procedure Act

Eagle Protection Act

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

American Indian Religious Freedom Act

Federal Land Policy and Management Act
It's already illegal in CA, and I can't imagine laws in other states being significantly different. (let's ignore the idiocy of allowing red indicator lights in the US)
Only case I could reasonably see an argument for is on low-end systems, but Helix isn't targeting that anyway.
App still needs to be written to be scalable. And if shit hits the fan moving to cloud (...or just renting dedicated servers at 1/3 the cloud cost) isn't too bad
I concur. Google doesn't seem to believe in a tangible customer service methodology at all. They go out of their way to remove human interaction at seemingly every level. I don't know if it's a legal strategy or what, but it gives me bad vibes too.
Don’t even know what’s inside and I know I’ll be upgrading. Such a timesaver.
I came up to a roundabout near Henley in the UK and saw a little lady in a big BMW driving around it the wrong way. It was particularly terrifying as I was on a motorbike. I dread to think what would have happened if I had got there a few seconds earlier.
gpu passthrough is normally pretty solid these days

in 2013 I had to buy hardware for it but by 2018 everything supported it out of the box
AppEngine today is wildly different to the App Engine I fell in love with 15 years ago.

Since you're checking notes, please check out all the AE service deprecation notes.

Disclosure: I worked for Google for ~10 years, and I fought internally many of those deprecation decisions. I did not succeed.
Unfortunately, Americans drive bigger cars, which need bigger batteries.
Probably depends what you need. I’ve used Amazon quite a lot for quite a long time and I’ve never had an issue go unresolved. I guess I’ve also almost never had to talk to a human though, they have pretty well automated just doing whatever the customer wants them to in most cases.

The last time I had to talk to a human (and it was two years ago) was because I accidentally left a fire stick behind in Puerto Rico two years prior and someone bought a few seasons of True Blood with my Amazon credentials. They still refunded me, even though it took me two years to notice the charge.