skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes zero sense. The biggest trouble is with the data/privacy, the funds would be safe. And no, the world wouldn't stop because of it, pretty much the opposite, small/medium scale leaks happen quite often and big ones aren't unheard of: https://m.startribune.com/target-settles-visa-card-issuer-cl...
It's not ever illegal, as long as it's your physical copy. Is it unethical? Well if you're censoring your copy, clearly not: you still saw the ads.

But are you asking in good faith? Or are you asking because you want to get to a point where you use a service that costs money to maintain and yet you don't spend money or view ads but you still feel ethical?
> America's global brain drain might have been the single most effective strategy that the planet has seen so far...

> The only question is if the rest of the world is going to wake up and counter this.

Probably not.

Simply put, there's no first-world country in the world where top talent can earn even close to a US salary, which largely due to the fact that US is relatively permissive towards large income disparities.

Other countries "fixing" that would be politically infeasible.
oh good, it's finally starting to level off
HEVC was built from the ground up to be implemented in hardware to stem the tide of the open-source codecs and thus keep the license money train running.
Here are a couple resources which may be helpful:

- https://www.mux.com/video-glossary

- https://howvideo.works/

Also, if you do want to take the time to read a longer and denser article, but come away with an understanding of much of the breadth of modern streaming tech, there's a really great survey paper available in pre-print here:

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.03256
A plot of an absolute quantity like this should really have a zigzag line at the bottom of the y-axis indicating that it does not start at zero. Or else, it should start at zero and / or be logarithmic.
Great article, thanks for sharing and attempting to correct a misunderstanding. I'm going to submit it here actually - I liked it so much. (Except for the singular political snipe - '#AutisticWhileBlack'.)

> Autistic children in school are somewhat notorious for finding it hard to adapt to the authority of teachers– some teachers more than others. This is not because they’re evil little ragamuffins, as some teachers would have it, but because their natural state is to assume equanimity. Autistic students (and I speak from long experience) will not bow to authority for authority’s sake.

Great! The reverse speaks to the problem that I think is common place - people going along with behaviour that they know to be wrong/immoral. Eg coding software that will restrict and restrain others for money. The last few years gave so many examples too.

In all honesty, if this really is the common case, perhaps autistic people might be the best of us - there is no governance structure in their heads, just reasoning.

If that's it, I hope that some autistic folk also do not settle very easily, but continue to research the state of play, refuse to trust 'authority' or conventional knowledge, investigate what their philosophical outlook is, work out what they really know personally.
Kyoto was in 1995 and predicted 1.5-4.5 degrees of change in the mid-21st century. Hardly "12 years out" mate.

What has become more serious is that the incoming data and predictive models are starting to line up with greater accuracy and those forecasts are very worthy of concern. In the face of warnings that drawing down our bank account is going to leave us broke, is the answer "oh, I've been hearing that for a long time now, what's the worst that can happen"?
Great leap of logic.

1. Write a piece of content in ASCII.

2. ???

3. Fuck everyone that doesn't use the Latin ASCII character set.

Not sure what you put in number two in your mind, but I'd be interested to see it.
What is the zigzag pattern that starts on May 1958, and why does it start on that date?
Wikipedia is amazing, all things considered. But it's true that Encarta was a more integrated experience, with plenty of licensed images and video.

Wiki is open source, so it's limited by having access to CC-NA licensed assets only. It's also firmly an "Internet-first" encyclopedia so it's beauty comes from its SEO-friendly information architecture and internal link structure .

I'd bet it's easier for someone to find specific info on Wiki quickly, whereas Encarta would be better as a slow browsing experience.
Right! What I'm fundamentally saying is that the majority of orgs trying to adopt SOA are doing it for the wrong reasons, and will deeply regret it. In general, the "right way" to adopt SOA is to extract services one at a time because you have to, to solve various problems you've encountered (scaling problems, technical problems, stability issues), and then realize that you are in fact currently using a service-oriented architecture, and have been for several years.
Paywall knocked down:

https://archive.ph/wTnUo#selection-421.0-425.99
Well the original formatting of having taxes and freedoms as different items in a list, separate by a comma indicated to me that there are freedoms restricted other than just being taxed. I agree with you but also, what other freedoms?
Key extracts:

When writing the entire source code in TypeScript, types are checked throughout the entire code. That can be helpful at times, but more often than not it results in unneeded code complexity and build errors that slow down the development and maintenance of the Octokit source code. I estimate that the introduction of TypeScript slows down code develepoment by a factor of 4x-5x. I think separating the source code from the types will bring it down to 2x-3x, as only the types for the public APIs need to be defined and tested.

Solution: Rewrite the TypeScript source files into native JavaScript and add the .d.ts declaration files into the source code. Besides testing the code, add tests for types.

Benefits: Removes all build steps. We currently use @pika/pack which is now unmaintained. The source code in the GitHub repositories is 1:1 what is used in production. The runtime code will be easier to read, debug, and contribute to. Source code is production code. Easier to debug and contribute to.
And how is that information not part of the data leak which wouldn't exists if one stop using Visa?
second hand knowledge in California is - the State is large and wealthy enough to have some echoes of the actual Federal govt.. and repeated words from direct software project participants was .. that mid-level bureaucrats from the "controlling" contract originator, would spuriously and without warning change the requirements.. sometimes so much so that it would invalidate large'ish portions of completed work.. and this happened all the way into the final month of a supposedly serious deadline, with failure to perform clauses and all that, at stake.

A first-hand voice from California State software projects said - that the required prime contractor had 10+ person teams and $1m+ budget, and failed to build useful results. The final result from the project(s) more than once, was "oh oops, doesn't fit with -other framework- cannot be deployed". In other words, literally making things that are abandoned on Day 1 of deployment, for large money, with plenty of apparent pressure on "workers" to perform. etc..
Or "my freedom to have a stash of 20 luxury cars that I never use because I fly with a private jet everywhere. I also own 20 mansions in 10 different countries, and a zoo (just cause)"
I dont know swedish law, but from quick glance collective bargaining agreements may give longer notice period, but doesn't protect you from being fired?
Autism and responding to authority (2019)
Does anyone have any recommendations for a decent crash course on using vector DBs in conjuction with LLMs? I wanna do some experimentation with getting a model to comment on the similarity of data vectors etc. and I don't really know where to start.
Self-hosted analytics: How to track 53% more views
White Holes: Inside the Horizon
Hominids in suits
> It is not. The author has zero obligation to make it better for anyone; they do it at their leisure and at their convenience.

Yes, and it's people's prerogative to write reviews criticizing the software that is published, regardless of whether it's paid or not.
> Dycus, a member of Razor 1911, died of throat cancer in 2012.
Why is it high in summer? AC?
Ask HN: What are your preferred alternatives to the Raspberry Pi?
The last Raspberry Pi I owned was the Model B - so it's been a while for me, to say the least.

That board impressed me to no end. Being able to play Quake III on something about the size of a credit card blew my little kid brain to pieces.

Things have no doubt come a long way since then for Raspberry Pis, and, likewise for the single-board computer space in general, I'm sure.

And so, with the upcoming release of the Raspberry Pi 5, it's made me curious as to what other options are out there to use as a sort of "minimum viable" personal computer.

Are there any other boards out there with similar (or better) specs?
James Cameron wasn't big tech when he directed The Terminator, back in 1984, or its sequel in 1991. Are people listening to fears based on that, or are they listening to big tech and then having long, thoughtful, nuanced discussions in salons with fellow intelliegsia, or are they doomscrolling the wastelands of the Internet and coming away with half-baked opinions not even based on big tech's press releases?

Big tech can say whatever they want to say. Is anyone even listening?
The "last 800000 years" view is interesting.
No, not at all. CI/CD blocking pull requests is in place because large systems have large test suites and challenging dependencies which mean that individual developers literally can't run every test on their local machine and can often break things without realising it. It's not about organisational discipline, it's about ensuring correctness.
There are already major EU-based news sites that make people choose between paying a monthly subscription and allowing their data to be used for ad targetting. It's hard to see how the EU could get Meta for this without either hurting those companies or abandoning the pretense that this is actually based on the rule of law and not just arbitrarily punishing non-EU companies.
If I remember correctly multiplication requires a “zero,” an “identity,” and for something to be a field each item needs an inverse. I imagine we can define multiplication in R2 just as we do for C. So by that logic we ought to be able to define such an operation on any R(power of 2).
> the Energy Department calculates that a 20-meter steam turbine would shrink down to one meter if replaced with an sCO2 turbine.

Where do these improvements come from [1].

> CO2 has a relatively low critical pressure of 7.4 megapascal (MPa) and a critical temperature of 31C ... A consequence of this is that it can be compressed directly to supercritical pressures and readily heated to a supercritical state before expansion. In a heat engine, this can facilitate obtaining a good thermal match with the heat source. The critical temperature is also sufficiently high for ready heat rejection from the cycle at terrestrial ambient temperatures. Therefore, the system has a great potential for high efficiency since a large temperature difference is available ... CO2 near its critical point becomes more incompressible and hence, the compression work can be substantially decreased leading to high cycle efficiency.

> The high density and volumetric heat capacity of sCO2 with respect to other working fluids make it more energy dense, meaning that the size of most system components such as turbine and pump can be considerably reduced, which leads to a smaller plant footprint and possibly lower capital costs.

[1] https://www.powermag.com/what-are-supercritical-co2-power-cy...
Look at his post history. He recently complained that LLMs are too "woke".

So yeah, 100% a racist right winger who didn't have anything of value to say, and decided to just throw shade at immigrants when he saw the opportunity.

Good news is that these guys will open their mouths at work and get themselves canned, so we usually only have to worry about them online.
The sentiment today is the idea of the post doctoral position is also exploitation. Paying PhDs to do cutting edge work for $50k a year is a joke. In n out managers probably get more than that now.
That story about AI also fits a bit too neatly with the Techno-optimist worldview: 'We technologists are gods who will make / break the world.' Another word for it is 'ego'.

Also, we can assume they are spreading that story to serve their interests (but which interests?).

But that doesn't mean AI doesn't need regulation. In the hysteria, the true issues can be lost. IT is already causing massive impacts, such as on health, hate and violence, etc. We need to figure out what AIs risks are and make sure it's working in our best interests.
I believe we're witnessing a political realignment, and anti-technology sentiments play a significant role in the evolving left/right ideologies. There's something I term the "new right," which is distinctly different from the "alt-right." The new right leans more libertarian and has a younger demographic.

This group values individual liberty in financial matters (e.g., cryptocurrency), individual liberty in computing (e.g., AI), and individual liberty in manufacturing and firearms (e.g., 3D printers and semi-automatic guns). Interestingly, they also advocate for transparency regarding extraterrestrial life. It's an unusual stance, but it's part of their ideology. Of course many prominant democrats have led the charge on this, so it's probably not as cut and dry like the others. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they were skeptical of mainstream narratives, but their views were diverse; they weren't strictly anti-vaccine or pro-vaccine, anti-mask, or pro-mask. They harbored various opinions, but universally believed that the experts' confidence was misplaced.

In contrast, the opposing side seems to advocate for stringent regulations on AI, cryptocurrency, and firearms. They seldom discuss extraterrestrials, primarily because they view themselves as experts, and in their eyes, the existence of aliens is implausible.

The "new moderate" recognizes the potential of AI to cause widespread unemployment but also understands its immense value. They believe that a balance must be struck. The new moderate acknowledges the benefits of cryptocurrency, especially in regions lacking a stable banking system, and the potential of smart contracts. However, they also recognize its misuse by terrorists and its frequent use in schemes that prey on uninformed investors. They believe that compromise is essential, and some form of regulation is inevitable.
But what does that have to do with an online personality test?

You can make that argument without having it bleed into situations that are expected to be apolitical.
I think it's "iterative-StackOverflow-driven development" most of the time, and that actually causes the increased popularity of those resume keywords.
Well presumably h264/AVC is still there? The lack of HEVC just means it doesn't have an h265 encoder.
I think the point is that the CO2 levels were relatively stable until recently, so it doesn't need to start at 0.
Solar and wind are great, we should continue to build that stuff. But also "have ever been" is the key part of your message. The cost of nuclear is based on technology from the 1960's. There have been no new reactor designs since then. New reactor designs could be built and operated at a fraction of the cost of old designs and would be many times safer as well.
That process sounds fine to me, especially in a context with either good integration coverage or low downtime cost.

> to “ream” someone for merging without deploying is incredibly immature and uncreative.

I'd agree, but I _highly_ doubt that description was an accurate one. Read through the other comments by the same person and you'll get a picture of their personality pretty quickly.

It's likely that there was already an ongoing conflict either in general or specifically between them about this issue. They probably got a moderately harsh comment to the effect of "hey, you're expected to wait for code-reviews now, knock it off"
Amazing every time? Wouldn't it get redundant?
I don't care about Qualcomm and its ARM offerings for the PC - Windows side there's no reason to and Linux side because hardware longevity will be hobbled by lacking kernel and driver support beyond the first year or two.

You can't really beat Intel and AMD unless you're at least as good as supporting the hardware and peripherals and for as long. I can see Intel and AMD getting better at power use but I have a hard time seeing ARM ecosystem become as open as the PC one.
This website looks real bad on my phone. Google Pixel 4a (5G).
I suspect it's the earliest date from when they have more granular data. The zigzag was still there pre-1958, but it was never recorded, so the smooth line is the best you're going to get.
In the context of an entire presumed talk, conference, interview, panel, or whatever presumably about race and racism... nah not really lol. Dude only really has about a minute to respond, and he probably spent already at least 30-45 minutes about it. At some point if I ask a biologist after a discussion about biology what a biologist is, "a biologist studies biology" makes sense. If you go to an entire talk/convo/conference/whatever about a subject and still need someone to define the subject to you, idk man?
I flagged this comment because it contains a personal attack:

> Adults learn to accept, integrate, and throttle their intake of criticism. If you haven't, you have some growing up to do.

Normally I would respond to this kind of thing in a different way, but the (apparently) lone HN moderator has previously informed me that stooping to the level of such attacks is just as bad in HN's eyes as being the one to make them in the first place. Accordingly, I place my rhetorical fate in the hands of the mod[s], and I look forward to seeing your rule-breaking comment removed.
> a huge solar farm or something similar to power the electrolisis plant.

Eventually it should be possible to build such things in space and then they can be huge. There are already semi-serious proposals to solve the Earth's energy problems with space based solar collectors. Of course they would have to a lot bigger further out. Perhaps Jupiter's flux tubes could be tapped.
I know everyone has already figured out what you're trying to say, but for clarity, do you mind elaborating on what you meant here?
This was something I was concerned about, but then an environmentalist friend told me that a few companies are responsible for the majority of emissions. This means that my behavioural patterns are not likely to matter. The number one way to change a few companies is to acquire money and power so one can apply force there. So I don't care that much about air flight and stuff like that which I would kind of try to manage earlier. Previously used to use public transit plus bicycle primarily and then use Terrapass to clear net.

I still use ebikes because more convenient in SF, but there's no way I could Terrapass each flight reasonably now. Too many of them.

This is actually pretty fortunate that the best way to deal with the problem is personal enrichment. One of the few things in life where all incentives align.
Hi there,

In the spirit of openness, brand new user so forgive me if I break any rules early doors and I work for the world's largest software escrow company......so sorry if this comes across as a little biased!

Yes, source code escrow is still a thing and is in fact being used significantly more frequently due to a raft of regulatory changes going on globally that directly name escrow as a requirement. (PRA, OCC, MAS, HKMA, IOSCO, FFIEC to name a few).

If you need any help I'll do my best.
>What does that have to do with the unions?

If there is just one "software engineer" union, if you work in software, you have to be part of that union.

>So a programmers union would ensure that you have the same rights regardless of whether you work for Meta, Google or Carl's Discount Software.

Exactly. That's the blessing and curse of monopoly. What if you feel the union isn't doing a good job of representing you?

>They vote in the next union election and vote out who ever approved of that idea.

So you're at the mercy of the 51%?

>The point of the union is collective bargaining

If that is all the unions did, I wouldn't be as weary. The problem is they do far more than that.

>You're not forced to be a member to work in an industry, but at least parts of your benefits and minimum salary may be negotiated by the union regardless.

>You're not forced to be a member to work in an industry

Maybe in theory but in a world where there is only one software union for FAANG, that won't be the case.
I really like High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik. It's published by O'Reilly but is also free online [0]. What's particularly great about it is, unlike most other networking books, it focuses on the issue from the browser/web developer perspective which is particularly helpful for WebRTC and generally applicable to daily web dev work.

0. https://hpbn.co/
More granular data capture + variance in seasons (?)
>The bit about detection and authentication services is also alarming.

"The Department of Commerce will develop guidance for content authentication and watermarking to clearly label AI-generated content." is pretty weak sounding. I'm more annoyed that they pretend that will actually reduce fraud.
Yeah or you could dismiss a genocide as "responding to terrorism" for example, I guess. You might be on to something here.
These roles aren't opposed at all, they greatly benefit each other :-)

Bringing what used to be the privilege of upper management (wasting massive amounts of resources while getting paid handsomely) down to software developers.

It's that trickle-down effect people talked about, right?
The premise that AI fear and/or fearmongering is primarily coming from people with a commercial incentive to promote fear, from people attempting to create regulatory capture, is obviously false. The risks of AI have been discussed in literature and media for literally decades, long before anybody had any plausible commercial stake in the promotion of this fear.

Go back and read cyberpunk lit from the 80s. Did William Gibson have some cynical commercial motivation for writing Neuromancer? Was he trying to get regulatory capture for his AI company that didn't exist? Of course not.

People have real and earnest concerns about this technology. Dismissing all of these concerns as profit-motivated is dishonest.
> This is what you get when you pick your company name out of a dictionary in an attempt to be trendy/minimalist.

Like Meta?... or Threads?
On the asteroid question, you don’t have to wonder. Watching the satirical movie “Don’t Look Up” from 2021 [1] is enough commentary about humanity.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Look_Up
this assumes that the "top of the company" is a shining tower of competence, blissfully unaware of how incompetent the people below them are.

more likely, the top of the company is just as incompetent but has lucked / gamed their way into promotions anyways.

So this engineer throwing his managers under the bus may be good for the company in theory, but to the senior management this is a red flag. they don't want engineers who do this - they want engineers who give credit to their managers. if they promoted this engineer and fired everyone else, he'd come for them next.
Me and the AI-powered army that protects me will certainly not go extinct. However, you must break eggs to make an omelet...
Shouldn't you feel "bad" for Meta then? They apparently both "picked the name out of the dictionary in an attempt to be trendy/minimalist" _and_ knew about Threads Software Limited before they put the name into use anyway.