skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think of Peter Zeihan commentary as having two parts.

The first part is where he takes a current event and contextualizes it with a bunch about the geography, demography and supply chain stuff, or maybe some history. I'd say he has an overall pretty high level of quality here, helped along by the fact that everyone's geography and demography is usually pretty stable from week to week.

In the second part, he takes everything from the first part and fits it into his career-long public storytelling project, where he's writing a thriller novel out loud 5 minutes at a time, set in the near future where Eurasia is now Mad Max except without all the gas, and pirates rule the seas. I happen to love Mad Max AND pirates, so I have fun, but I don't take it as seriously as the first part.
The pay cap is set in law, but you need people sufficiently invested in the mission to forgo a higher possible salary, which isn't possible for everyone (especially folks who might have to support their parents).
Ford has auto plants in Michigan with effectively 100% union labor.

If Ford wants to invest in these plants or hire more people, they must hire them from the union. There is no competing, alternative union, or mechanism to hire non-union labor into this plant, thus making the UAW a local monopoly on labor supply for those plants.

Ford can offshore the manufacturing to bypass the union, yes, but not in the immediate term. It requires large capital investments and years of planning. But in the end it tends to be worth it monetarily for most manufacturing businesses to do this.

Which is why any job that involves a large amount manual labor that can be outsourced, tends to get outsourced. Lower cost of production is quite good for society, by the way. It's what enables goods and technology to be so cheap in real terms versus the past, when food consumption used to be a large percentage of a family's spending.

Eventually automation will replace the need for manual labor, thus outsourcing. Manufacturing plant location would be driven more by cost to transport inputs than cost of labor
Do people still use Facebook?
SCOTUS to decide if public officials can block critics online
Well. While advertising is generally frowned upon here on HN, I don't think nobody would mind if you gave us the name of your book and the date you expect it be available for purchase. :-)
Not sure why you’re downvoted - but you’re right. We heavily use microservices but we have a well defined stack. Python/gunicorn/flask/mongodb with k8s. We run these on Kafka or rest api. We even runs jobs and corn jobs in k8s.

Functional decomp is left to different teams. But the libraries for logging, a&a, various utilities etc are common.

No microservices that don’t meet the stack unless they’re already developed/open source - eg open telemetry collectors.

Edit: I think the article is a path to a book written by the author. It’s more of an advertisement than an actual assessment. At least that’s my take on it.
Yeah that was the main driver for me ordering a Ford Maverick. I has an Hyundai Ioniq before, and a BMW X3 before that. I am well aware of what can be moved in a sedan and an SUV, but it is much easier to move those things with my Maverick. I renovated most of my bathroom with Ioniq, but had to rent/borrow vehicles to get drywall and such. I recently finished my kitchen with my maverick and was able to move everything with that. Also it was 31.5K new and gets 40 mpg on average, the only real compromise was the lack of AWD. Which I make up for with snow tires.
Many of the people making this claim are not associated with any company.
By dropped data do you mean by exceeding the size of the allocated ring buffer/perf buffer? If so this is configurable by the user, so you can adjust is according to the expected load
Lush and deep. It's got scifi power.
We usually use very complicated UIPath flows to “test” these things.

If that doesn’t exist yet (it usually doesn’t), we test manually, but only core workflows.
Well, it's a good thing we have easily-procured open-source LLM's (including uncensored ones) out now, so that everyone can play and we can quickly find out that these FUD tactics were nonsense!

https://ollama.ai/

https://ollama.ai/library
granted, I think maybe more eyes are on this snapdragon release as it might have some Apple/Nuvia special sauce in this batch. Albeit not sure how motivated Gerald Williams and co are to be designing mobile/laptop chips again given the whole point of their leaving were to do server chips...
> The US really needs a special schedule for software developers

There's actually precedent for this - SEC lawyers are on the SK pay scale, not GS.

It's exactly the same problem: the alternatives in finance were too lucrative to retain competent enough attorneys to regulate wall street.

Congress should create a separate tech pay scale, given the alternatives are too lucrative to retain competent enough engineers.
Name recognition is basically the single most important factor on Election Day.
If you need more power than the Pi 5, Nvidia's embedded ARM stuff is great, and there are some pretty interesting new X64 SBCs that recently came out very recently.

If you need less power... but cheaper, maybe? That's a pretty big category. The Pi Zero 2 W has some entertainment value.

If you're dedicated to trying Linux on a knockoff Pi type of thing, pick something that looks well supported at www.armbian.com, or failing that, be very sure of what the vendor-supplied software support looks like for the device you consider. There is so much crap software out there.
Well it's better than the opposite thought right?

If they were lying about there being no or low danger when there really was a high danger?
Demonstrating competence requires the ability to discuss and explain decisions. Otherwise someone's actions are indistinguishable from them following a simple flowchart or even a broken clock. So I'd say that arrogance is essentially directly opposed to competence. This however doesn't stop many people (techies included) from using arrogance or other bullshittery as a substitute for demonstrating competence, which seemingly fools enough people due to the authoritarian dynamic described in the original post.
Funnily enough there are SEVERAL clothing businesses named "Threads".
what I dislike is that this may affect the generic prefix "meta-" from greek (I'm reasonably sure it's greek, not latin)

the prefix from "meta-physics" and other "meta-things"... in latin this prefix translated into "super-"
A 0.7f increase in that span of time seems bad. I’m not clear how you are reaching your conclusion that CO2 is not a greenhouse gas.
It's basic quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. All molecules with three atoms are greenhouse gases. The information is readily available, I'm not going to repeat it here. Pick up some textbooks.
> You can't expect to waltz in to that arena, zero plan and expect your "Meta" backing to carry you.

Why not?
It's a good time to plant some trees
At a glance, the linked extension uses Firefox native containers, like the Facebook container it forks. All it does is assign the site to a container, so the user doesn't have to do it manually.
If we built a habitable dome on Mars with a breathable atmosphere, Mars would still have a globally inhospitable atmosphere. Our key word "global" does not strictly mean every square inch of available space, but the overwhelming majority, which in this case also heavily impacts the remainder (such as requiring a habitable dome in the Mars example).
You are correct, but static typing does make it a lot easier. Working with Rider feels like working with an IDE that fully understands the code, at least structurally. Working with PyCharm feels like working with an IDE that makes intelligent guesses.
They probably needed to prioritize getting the article out fast over coming up with good headlines since it’s a flash sale
I don't see any question on morality of blocking ads. Under no circumstances any living soul may be forced to view any kind of displeasing content. Web is an open protocol, anything accessible on the web with http code 200 is free to download. After downloading, I can alter that content in any way. Simple like that.

If Youtube wants to control their content and users - they should create their own protocols or at least closed network using web protocols, write their own client software and distribute it.
> Out of Memory, Storage is full. Service is down.

Is that all you have seen? I have seen many self hosted services fail in our company and the answer is almost rarely any of these simple things but complex things like data loss, data corruption, random restarts, network partition, configuration sync issues etc. That is why companies pay other companies for critical things like gitlab even when self hosting.
Serving at USDS, posting personally. The biggest thing with the gov is the requirements on usajobs are always explained specifically so you know exactly what is needed.

Beyond that, you'll want to show in your resume how you've delivered successfully and ideally in challenging circumstances, because working in the gov can be challenging. It will really vary depending on the job and agency.
> I’ve written before about how autistic people often
struggle to know how to act around authority figures.
Actually, that’s not true– we don’t seem to care how
we act around authority.

I call bullshit. Autistic people can figure out how to operate around authority figures just fine when it MATTERS.

If some autistic person is fucking around with an ATM in front of a cop that they know is there, but don't care, that's being stupid, not being autistic.

I don't have to give a shit about how authority and power is granted to certain individuals, but it doesn't take a genius to realize that insulting the CEO in front of the company is not a good way to keep your job..
The alternative explanation is that it was almost impossible for trans children to access healthcare in the UK and the only people making their way through the pipeline of GP to GIC to hormone centre were those who were undeniably trans.
Is this not an official account, controlled by CTULocal1?

https://twitter.com/CTULocal1

The union's website links to the account:

https://www.ctulocal1.org/ (down at the bottom)

>with actual union activity and messaging

How am I supposed to know what is "actual activity and messaging?"

>You would expect an industry that's all about innovation and experimentation to approach the problem of labor relations in a ways that's different from failed models of the past.

That's fair. Intentions aren't consequences though. Some of the most well intentioned policies and regulations in Europe have the consequences of horrible tech salaries.
There's the Raspberry Pi 3A+ that's 25$. One of my favorites that's less popular
Illich was on the cover of the winter 1983 CoEvolution Quarterly. Definitely a kindred spirit.

https://just.thinkofit.com/ivan-illich-silence-is-a-commons/
That explains why collapse will happen without change. It doesn't explain why it'll happen "soon". Borrowed time from limited resources can last a while.
Evidence for the statement that being potentially misrepresentative of your output can be misleading to others and lead to an incorrect conclusion, or that misrepresentable conclusions can be used by deniers to field their viewpoints ...?

Is there a certain type of evidence that would placate your very specifically worded and anti-intellectually framed question?
I'm not sure either but the history shows some comments about reverting vandalism:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/history#map=15/32.0881/34.7834
Probably because it's a recognizable name, and the overwhelming majority of users don't seem to notice or care.

So... business purposes. I love FOSS and see the irony just as clearly as anyone else, but it's kinda pointless to highlight supposed hypocrisy from the name alone. It would be stupid to get mad at Alphabet for not inventing new letters or Apple for not breeding new fruits. Yes, the name implies something that it's not. Outside of the fairly limited (and clearly unrelated) context of Open Source though, it doesn't seem like their name correlates to much of anything.

Long-term, it wouldn't surprise me if they go all-in on the ChatGPT name and switch OpenAI to something more suit-and-tie. I'm sure they're in no hurry, though.
Could it be that the points are not calculated in realtime?
It's the Koreans - SK Hynix bought it and is using it as their consumer drive division. The P44 Pro is supposed to be a more reliable and cheaper competitor to the Samsung 990 pro...but that unit is also not doing so hot w/ the memory downturn/post-covid correction
KeePassXC's Passkey implementation allows free import/export, and of course Linux is also supported:
https://fosstodon.org/@keepassxc/111298602211286675
> Consumer HDD will slowly melt away

I’d say it already has. Does any consumer PC come with a spinning disk anymore?
Many of them were acquired by larger commercial entities that service the defense/intelligence community. It's also possible to license and process much of this commercial data from brokers.
This is total nonsense. Facebook’s most valuable asset is their data which is why they don’t sell it, they rent access to it. It is much better for Facebook if you have to come to them every time you want to target an ad to a 24-28 year old male in the Bay Area with an interest in menswear than if they just sell a CSV with a list of said males.

This is the easiest thing in the world to check: their quarterly earnings are public. If you don’t believe those earnings, I would suggest filing a complaint with the SEC because you would have uncovered one of the larger securities fraud cases of all time.
Mini-08 single-board computer based on the 8008 CPU [video]
The best technology that exists is much lower tech than most people think. It's called reforestation. We have lots of space for complex forest ecosystems, and we'd have a lot more if we could start reversing car-dependent suburban sprawl.
Add the fact that more or less sophisticated measurement of temperatures started some 150 years ago and approximately 200-400 years ago we reached the coldest temp in the last 10k years.
I think that you slipped some decimal places somewhere. The most common allotrope of carbon, graphite, has a density of 2.26 metric tons per cubic meter. Texas has an area of 695,663 square kilometers. Covering Texas with a 1 meter (~3 foot) layer of graphite would consume

659663 * 1000 * 1000 * 2.6 = 1,715,123,800,000 tons (1.7 trillion tons)

of carbon. One billion tons of carbon would make a Texas-covering graphite layer about 0.58 millimeters thick.
I'm currently working with WebCodecs to get (the long awaited) frame-by-frame seeking and reverse playback working in the browser. And it even seems to work, albeit the VideoDecoder queuing logic seems to give some grief for this. Any tips on figuring out how many chunks have to be queued for a specific VideoFrame to pop out?

An aside: to work with video/container files, be sure to check the libav.js project that can be used to demux streams (WebCodecs don't do this) and even used as a polyfill decoder for browsers without WebCodec support!

https://github.com/Yahweasel/libav.js/
See the section titled "Fluorescence microscopy data analysis". Basically, when you have a single molecule fluorescing you "just" need to do some math to figure out the center of the samples over time. See https://www.microscope.healthcare.nikon.com/products/super-r... for an overview
It was announced by Zuckerberg in a shareholders call last week.
> Bad acting humans with AI systems are the threat, not the AI systems themselves.

I wish more people grasped this extremely important point. AI is a tool. There will be humans who misuse any tool. That doesn't mean we blame the tool. The problem to be solved here is not how to control AI, but how to minimize the damage that bad acting humans can do.
Inflation adjusted it is close to a 75% mark down.
Haha this is such a globally out of touch statement. Yes a few European nations enjoy a much better quality of life while looking down their noses at the rest of us, blocking immigration, and generally being xenophobic.

And it’s not like the climate in Europe isn’t verging on ethno fascism in several major state…
> we let them post an RFP that basically says do this thing in this amount of time for this amount of money with payment after we get the “thing” in time.

These exist; they are called "firm fixed price" contracts. You still have to write the contract correctly to be outcomes focused, and that can be hard when you don't know until building/testing if you are building the right thing.[1]

1: https://derisking-guide.18f.gov/federal-field-guide/deciding...
"Looks at all the other species 'intelligent' humans have extincted" --ha ha ha ha

Why the shit would we not draw a straight line?

If we fail to create digital intelligence then yea, we can hem and haw in conversations like this forever online, but you tend to neglect that if we succeed then 'shit gets real quick'. Closing your eyes and years and saying "This can't actually happen" sounds like a pretty damned dumb take on future risk assessments of technology when pretty much most takes on AI say "well, yea this is something that could potentially happen".
I would be willing to put odds on that. Twitter seems hell bent on random acts of chaos. While I really dislike Facebook, they know to not rock the boat. Advertisers want to know they have a relatively safe and stable space for customers to engage.

Forcing users to pay to access the platform, daily usage limits, flagging companies the boss does not like as shrills, rate limiting paying advertisers, etc.
Perhaps it's not related at all. I assumed (incorrectly) that ai.gov is a new site connected to the exec order.
> The author lost corporate funding recently and is asking for donations.

Just to be clear: This is apparently unrelated to the (not that unusual) not-yet-accepted PRs and their lkml review discussions.

From Overstreet's Patreon post:

"The company that's been funding bcachefs for the past 6 years has, unfortunately, been hit by a business downturn - they've been affected by the strikes in the media production industry. As such, I'm now having to look for new funding.

This came pretty unexpectedly, and puts us in a bit of a bind; with the addition of Hunter (who's already doing great work), I'm stretched thin, without much of a buffer."

(https://www.patreon.com/posts/your-irregular-89670830)

I was concerned that without this context some might assume this is a "sponsors pulling out" type situation.
Why it decreased in 1600?
It's not about buying rights.

You're a company. You call yourself "Threads" (and are the the first to do so). Then you should be able to conduct business under the assumption that your name can't be hijacked, or smeared. Sounds like a basic form of protection to me. It gets abused, probably, like everything, but that's not a reason to stop it.

If not, what's to stop anyone from calling themselves Amazon, Apple, Facebook, etc.? I'm sure there are a few vendors who would love the opportunity.
human caused global warming is a low bar. That part (humans create CO2, CO2 creates some warming) is not debated. The debate is catastrophic change due to CO2, which requires runaway positive feedback loops beyond what CO2 alone can do.

A better anonymous scientist poll would be: Will human sources cause catastrophic warming or results by 2100?
> disproportionately killing young people with subtle hidden frailties.

I'm really curious how many of the surviving elderly lacked those hidden frailties. That is, all else held equal, how many of the youth killed by the Spanish Flu would have died of other causes prior to becoming elderly?
Because it just doesn't work that way with relational networks. A user is on FB because their friends are - same with Insta & X. You're not building the next best fridge, you're building a community - and that takes time, effort & appeal. It is exactly why social is so hard & takes so long.
It's not difficult to show that a given statement was meant innocently, but it does require some effort.

To whit, Norse pagan iconography is a very common in white supremacist imagery. So while I find the Norse pagan imagery interesting and compelling, I can't just hang it on my wall without preparing to defend myself against accusations of being a neo-Nazi. Is it my fault? Is it the accusers fault? No, obviously, it's the Nazis fault; they're the ones that tied a neutral-by-way-of-antiquity symbol to ethnic cleansing.

Does Peterson see what he says as a dog whistle? Impossible to say, but also irrelevant: there are extremists who believe that what he says is in fact a dog whistle, and just like the Norse Pagan imagery, the awfulness of their beliefs taints Petersons beliefs by association. And it turns out that Peterson doesn't have much control over that usage, even if he had a problem with it: the dog whistle is in the promulgation of his ideas by others, not his expression of those ideas.

Just to be clear, I do think Peterson's observations (re: gender roles, amongst others) are just wrong on their face. But that's out of scope for this post.
You are mixing two completely different groups when talking about users. Some users make and publish content. YouTube and others are dependent on them. Some users consume content, and as the end consumer they are the people who have to pay if producers want to have an income. Either paying directly in money, or by suffering advertising.

It's not about the infrastructure cost of YouTube's servers, but the time and effort cost of the people producing the videos. Hackers seem to conveniently always forget about these people.

A pure consumer is not worth anything to YouTube or any other platform if they're not paying or can't be advertised to. They're just a cost with no benefit.

I think the argument for paying content makers (through YouTube) is higher than the argument for paying ISPs. When the cables are laid, they don't cost any time or money except for a little of maintenance. Video creators work constantly to publish their stuff.

I agree that YouTube should distribute revenue more equally among their creators, so that it stops being a casino of people working for scraps trying to make it big (Hollywood anybody?). I think it's OK to support creators through Patreon and such instead of paying for Premium, but it might not be very fair in the end, because people unwittingly will donate to creators making the type of videos they want to be associated with and not the creators making the type of videos they are spending the most time watching.

I think it is fair that a video creator who doesn't ask for donations and didn't make her videos with the aim of making money, also gets paid her fair share if a lot of people are watching and enjoying her videos. That's why premium makes more sense to me than the hassle of donating.
Care to share a link perhaps?
There's also some inversions of ICF where the insulating foam is on the inside and the concrete blocks are layers on the outside. OmniBlock is the manufacturer that I can remember but there may be others.

Not sure what the tradeoffs are but I'd assume two big pros are (1) concrete's easier to attach things to and (2) concrete can be directly finished both on the exterior and interior.

I'm not sure how people run electrical and other utility through these. And I'd expect that half the inspection / code in the US has no idea how to handle either ICF or related, but I'd love to be wrong.
Hey look, it’s the plot of The Matrix, except without the antagonist!
Doesn't it mention all those things?
The interesting example would be "multinational conglomerates that are family-run", since obviously the dynamics of a large business are very different from those of a small one.
Why not? Data suggests that unionized workers earn more than their counterparts. So again An Unionized US tech worker (on average) will make more than a non-unionized US tech worker. If the former works from Bolivia an the latter works from SF it's up to them.