skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia did the same thing to Cuba. Just like one or two missiles.

Did you see how the US reacted to that?

Honestly what do you think the Chinese are thinking? We whine at even one missile in Cuba while China and every other country has to accept the fact that the US has military weapons and outposts around the world. Seriously this is a hugely provocative move.

Also as a Taiwanese person I agree with the US about how the lives of Taiwanese people are more important then those in Gaza (sarcasm). Weaponize Taiwan but let Israel slaughter its enemies. In reality the US could give a shit about either people. This is a story about patriotism and power.

China is becoming an economic and technological peer to the US and in order to stop it the US needs to stop china from controlling the Pacific and tsmc. This is what's going on. Not some preservation of peace, that's garbage.

The attitude of the American public largely echoes your point of view. Basically at the back of your mind you know it's a power play coming out of jealousy and fear, but we lie to ourselves and pretend it's some sort of move to defend the innocent people of Taiwan. Well as I stated earlier that's a lie we Americans tell ourselves. I have a realistic view of this because my heritage straddles both worlds and I can tell you the US side is the delusional one. To clarify the US is making logical and rational military maneuvers in terms of power projection at the greatest threat but their justification for such maneuvers is delusional. Your post is one example of the delusion.

The hypocrisy of what's going on in the middleeast and Ukraine is proof of that. Unless you actually believe that the lives of Taiwanese people are worth more than those in Ukraine and the middleeast. Think about why military intervention is justified for Taiwan and not Ukraine.
It's certainly much less bad now than it used to be, but the existence of "x1" connections (half lane count and bandwidth as its contemporary "x2" sibling) does undermine trust. Is a cable advertised with the number "20" really an x2 cable accurately described according to "Gen 2" metrics, or is it really just an x1 cable, daringly called "20" because that's what a gen 3x1 connection could achieve?

Looking at the Wikipedia page I get the impression that the new naming simply ignores the x1 links.

That's like an invitation for misleading product descriptions. Maybe it would have been helpful to assign slightly off but clearly confusion-resistent numbers to the x1 siblings? Perhaps taking a page from supermarket pricing, "4.99Gbps", "9.99Gbps", "19.99Gbps"?
I believe mediKanren (<https://www.uab.edu/news/research/item/10382-a-high-speed-dr...>) runs on Racket.
Is low-level hardware access part of the language definition [1] ?

[1] https://forth-standard.org/standard/words ?
Family Member is head of training for very large fire department. For testing their truck drivers, if they ABS kicks in at all, you fail the test. They want you to go all the way up to the limit, and ease off the breaks slightly as the 60,000lb truck gets close to kicking in its ABS.
China may nominally be a Communist country, but in practice, they've been more an authoritarian capitalist state for a generation or two now.
Feedback will be very helpful :) Hope it can trigger many interesting conversations.
Lately I have been thinking military aid from the US is not very effective, or underwhelming by several orders of magnitude.
Would you rather have $10 or 10% of the rights to $100 in a safe?
This is a bad guideline.
Buffett never invested in MSFT, GOOG, AMZN, NVDA, META/FB, NFLX, TSLA and only very lately bought AAPL. Any early investor of these stocks would have beaten BRK

Typically, growth stocks look expensive. Traditional 'Atom' companies had a limit to how much they can grow, while 'Bit' companies (I'm including AMZN, NVDA, AAPL here) seem to keep piercing the MAX frontier function.

Buffett of course doesn't invest in companies that he has little expertise in.

Rule of Investing : Build a model of the world and constantly update it with new information. Guidelines, Indicators, Correlations are meant to be broken.

Build an internal LLM that include long-term successful investors from Buffett to Shkreli and people with integrity like Aswath
> Can't we at least wait for a conviction before trying to ruin some persons life?

Do you see that is likely to ever happen?
Can there be a science of politics? If so then the must therefore be a non-ideological mode of analysis.

If you deny the possibility of science here, so be it. I do not.
A rosy view is that these companies learned a lot from Covid - that economic landscapes can change extremely quickly and they need to be prepared to endure downturns, but also have cash on hand to take advantage of opportunity (like hiring en masse when they see the need).
It'a weird that this isn't normal.
I bought an "AlzaPower" cable, which is just a rebrand of some chinese manufacturer by a local reseller ("czech amazon"), and they have their wattage as well as speed on them (100W/5Gbps). Then also a samsung usb c cable, which was pure white, has nothing on it and doesn't seem to support any fast charging or higher speeds..
The more salient question might be "how do we get rid of what we know". By the time one turns 40 you've accreted enough knowledge that basically your life is over, at least in the sense of seeing anything new. And wonder is gone long before then.
If it's your first time using it, you'll probably read the manual which will contain a table of general cook times. I just used a rice cooker with no screen for the first time and I had no problem with its lack of UI.
>The major difference is that the SSPL also mandates that you release everything needed to run the software

Which makes it incompatible with little things like the linux kernel, since you don't have the licence to release it as SSPL
A Zoomer explains her generation's malaise to older generations
And for some reason if I get up and leave to get a drink of water or use the bathroom, _I'm_ the asshole.
Awesome to see improvements to FFmpeg! I'm hoping to see Dolby AC4 support soon.
Being in tech, personally things are going well but CoL has skyrocketed and I worry about future generations.

My neighborhood is filled with wealthy foreigners who don’t work, but simply bought a nice house on OC, sometimes as a third or fourth house.
There are a lot of criminals out there, these are just the ones that get caught.
FortNine is great but the conclusion in this video is a little silly. The best result comes from threshold braking with ABS enabled. Yeah no shit.

As described in the video, motorcycles perform funny under braking. If you slam the brakes too fast, you have very little grip. ABS kicks in and you’re not stopping. If you progressively brake correctly, you transfer load to the front tyre and increase grip. ABS kicks in, but you’re stopping effectively.

Same is true in a car just way way less observable because you have more tyres, better grip, and your foot doesn’t slam the brakes as fast as your hand does. But you can play with this on gravel or on snow.

Now here’s the really fun part. Most motorcycle riders most of the time never brake with more than like 60% of theoretical threshold. Here’s a tkacs talk explaining this problem: https://youtu.be/CpaFeZ4xS8g?si=xI_29sLDY82UZziV

tldr: If you ride motorcycles, go out and practice. It may save your life.

For example, I once almost painted my pants brown braking from 80mph to 60mph because a car spooked me and the ABS kicked in in the middle of the freeway. I was nowhere near actual threshold, but the car made my lizard brain kick in and squeeze the lever too fast.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survivorship-bias....

You only defend the ones who get caught! By definition you never defend one who hasn’t been caught doing something suspicious.
We share a universe of perception with that thing. If it generates the same output as humans with the same input we learn that we have learned nothing and this is also knowledge of reality.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38160161
Yet we end up with a state that wants more housing and general law cities which do their best to block housing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, see the "Cable logo" column in https://www.enablingusb.org/certification , though it's still the manufacturer's option whether to put the packaging logo on the packaging or the cable logo on the cable or both.
That decision was made by the original author (Andrew Wesie), but I think it makes sense because nrsc5 only needs a tiny fraction of the functionality that GNU Radio provides. Implementing the functionality directly in nrsc5 avoids the need for a large and complex dependency.

One downside is that we don't get the broad hardware support that GNU Radio provides, but maybe we'll someday take another crack at integrating SoapySDR. (See https://github.com/theori-io/nrsc5/pull/131 for an earlier experiment with that.)
does every country have a minimum wage? WoW is a bit old now but this kind of thing is still happening in eg Venezuela

https://www.polygon.com/features/2020/5/27/21265613/runescap...

who knows where the person you're responding to was living when they needed to farm gold to get by
(2021)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25758863
Don't forget, reinsurance is a GIANT part of Berkshire Hathaway's business. If the right major disaster hits, they need a lot of liquid assets to pay it out.

As https://www.reuters.com/article/us-berkshire-buffett-insuran... says, Buffett gives a 2%/year probability to a $400 billion mega-catastrophe that is likely to wipe out a good chunk of the insurance industry. If that happens, Berkshire Hathaway will be able to pay its share of the claims.

Add that to your thinking. Does maintaining a $150 billion reserve sound so crazy now?
I personally prefer the aesthetics of the white Amazon Basics [0] and/or Infinite Cables [1] hdmi 2.1b [2] 48gbps cables, but as long as they're certified and pass the totalphase cable test I guess it doesn't really matter

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BS181P2

[1]: https://us.infinitecables.com/products/ultra-high-speed-hdmi...

[2]: https://www.hdmi.org/spec21sub/ultrahighspeedcable
"Because that would be bad for the consumer", they say then, with a straight face. All it takes to get a person to say something like that is a fat paycheck and a broken soul.
But why do you even think this is so important -- it achieves nothing we don't already have terrestrially and just pollutes the sky visually (causing problems with ground based telescopes) and pollutes the atmosphere we actually breathe:

https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/11/05/0330226/spacecra...

I can't see any upsides to this venture.
Some companies, like Apple, simply make so much money that it's hard to invest it all in new business. A large amount of the money is also overseas so there are tax implications during repatriation. Many investors also prefer that a company like Apple buy back shares rather than pay out a dividend so the investors can better control their own tax situation. Given how the low the interest rates were until recently, it also made sense for a company to borrow the money to buy back the shares using their cash as collateral.

Keep in mind that regardless of interest rates, sitting on cash for interest is not what investors want long term. Investors can do that themselves without taking on the equity risk.
Paywalled and published before the September incident I’m discussing.
This is called "threshold braking" (though it's often incorrectly called "pumping the brakes") and was/is standard practice for vehicles without ABS.
so, after 10 years of reactjs, we've forgot how to do this in javascript?
This person made thousands of other legitimate changes, it seems a stretch to say someone would do all that just as a marketing tactic, that is a whole lot of effort for questionable results. I mean, how many people go to Wikipedia for college recommendations? How many people are going to attend a school they otherwise wouldn’t because they looked it up on Wikipedia? I’m sure it’s not zero, but we can’t be talking about many.
Seasonal variation in PV production is much much more than 4-7% in northern Europe. In the UK daylight hours vary between 8hrs in winter and 16.5hrs in summer (more in Scotland), and on top of that winter has many more overcast days meaning you get a lot less irradiation during those hours. As a result, total irradiation in December is many multiples lower than that in June.

Given that, it's not (currently) economically viable to build storage+PV on anything approaching the scale we would need to replace baseload generation completely.
Only if you ignore opportunity cost.

Cash waiting to be deployed when you know there are better opportunities in the future has far more value than just distributing it as dividends, or worse, make bad investments and miss that better opportunities.
Loss of right to privacy generally comes after a conviction.
Thank you. I literally re-read it to try and find this, and missed it somehow. Guess I need to drink even more coffee.
Two experiences of mine: Braking on snowy/icy streets.

First, in a car without ABS, I put on the brakes (I was probably going a little too fast) to avoid hitting the car stopped ahead of me. I started to slow down, but also to slip to the right towards the curb; it was scary, and I barely slowed down in time to avoid either collision.

Second, in a car with ABS, I slowed down to turn into a parking lot, and the ABS kicked in; the car went absolutely straight (without slowing down enough to make the turn), but I wasn't sliding at all, so I didn't have to worry about sliding into the curb. Big win.
> Also, such claims are almost always made by outsiders, who know least about the 'culture' and at the same time are prone, being humans, to make broad, powerful claims about extremes in 'the other', who are slightly alien and thus might do anything.

True. The problem with insiders judging the culture is that they might be blind to it. But it’s best to not get caught up in narratives about “culture” and other such idealistic things.

> Edit: I'm very familiar with the stereotype of Russian hackers, but stereotypes are very misleading. There are Russian government disinformation campaigns, where we do have specific claims and lots of evidence, but that seems like a different issue.

There was a very strong interest in Russian government disinformation campaigns because Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election. And I don’t doubt that there is evidence of election interference. But the amount of money that was behind that seems like a pittance considering the big election advertisement industry.[1]

None should be surprised that you will find shady and underhanded things done by the more clandestine arms of some government. But we should be wary of people using that well-of-course-they-are as an outsized scapegoat to explain a big event like a federal election.

[1] Are run of the mill smear campaigns to be classified as “disinformation” or just regular ads?
Kubernetes complexity creating "new security blind spots"
This is hilarious. America is one of the most morally confused countries in the world right now. We literally popularized the idea of moral relativism. Talk to a college student they can’t even say that rape, cannibalism, etc are absolutely wrong. Why step into any conflict if you can’t state with 100% absolute confidence that something is immoral or evil?
That “idle capital” is pretty central to the Ben Graham way of doing things. You keep it around waiting for a great investment. Weird things happen like when silver crashed in price for a couple of days in 2020.
Until someone decides you're a bad person.
So you don't also see "GET /e47b07057738525b2f77fab1ef3197cac1b27e7672ea1a49bc5ae4f87eb19e8c/73a3257c89dbef144434269df702364eb0422554c508b6433266b4e65d07b344#p3d3pLH7ND2cr6EJztGmQosfPZdItxE_FQ5zCsGZ5bM=/ HTTP/1.1" 200 OK?

(That would be a test message I created a link for)
> It's a fun fact that this mesh is LOD0, and so is the teeth mesh. But that alone doesn't tank the performance of the game and is probably unlikely to be addressed in lieu of actual performance fixes. The fixation on these meshes in the thread is kind of excessive.

So I assume you have a better explanation of the excessively slow G-buffer and shadowmap passes?
Creative racing video game map expecting players to bug abuse
Having sudo itself makes an OS less secure since malware can use it to easily get root. Sure a rust version may be more secure, but even better would be deleting it entirely.
The state legislature is gradually remembering their powers, which include simply dissolving general law cities with a majority vote. But mostly the state is just suing them and using funding powers to coerce them.
Very nice list, it's nice to "down to earth" after too much react ui libs :). Thanks.
I’ll happily go out on a limb and say that people who believe they have acquired inerrant powers of scrying because somebody let them work the door somewhere are arrogant at best.

It’s really a great example of the narcissistic desire for power and control that drives the behavior of a lot of people in the scene.
I don't know, is this really much more ridiculous than e.g. the various Ethernet standards (I can never remember which one the "normal" Gigabit Ethernet is), mobile data protocols (remember HSDPA, CDMA, 1xRTT and all that?) etc.?

And to the USB-IFs credit, they did eventually come around with the much saner bandwidth-focused names. As far as I know, even "SuperSpeed" and "USB 4" are now gone as speed designators; now it's just "USB xGbps", e.g. USB 5GBps for the case of what used to be "USB 3.2 Gen 1x1".
The importance of building client engagement through experiential events
> AWS was the public release of tooling that amazon had been bulding for almost 20 years at that point.

No, even at the onset AWS was an entirely-from-the-ground-up build. The only thing it could even be argued to sit on top of was the extremely crufty VMs and physical loadbalancers from the original Prod at that point, and those things were not doing anybody any favors.
They can show up in the US court and file a lawsuit.

It’s realpolitik. It’s ok for Russians to steal from Americans, and likewise it’s ok for Americans to dox Russian criminals. There is no international law here, and even if there is it cannot be enforced and no one cares about. There might some moral high ground, but morals usually stay away from politics.
If you can't get a conviction you don't have the right to ruin a life. Any deviation from this principle leads to mob rule.
That's not entirely accurate. ;)
Are there examples where communism did not turn into authoritarian?
There is a difference between doxxing and investigative journalism. While the line can be fuzzy, I generally associate doxxing with an attempt to harass or intimidate, and investigative journalism with unveiling hidden information in a matter relevant to the public interest - and that information often includes concealed identities of suspected perpetrators.

Krebs doing his homework to reveal ringleaders of a criminal enterprise and showing how he got there is firmly in the "investigative journalism" category.

Obviously, there are unfortunate cases where some (often young and inexperienced) journalists shoot first and ask questions later, which can lead to harm, but Krebs has clearly kept the receipts here.
>In college, I played World of Warcraft just to farm gold, just to get by.

Is that also not a privilege? In most developing countries people have to do much more body or mind crushing activities to support themselves.
Putting a missile in Cuba isn't a blockade either.. things can still move freely out of the US. What's the problem here? Why all the hysteria?
No need for dev mode - signed XPIs are avaiable from releases: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea....
I was a very early Git adopter, back when everyone used SVN; back when Mercurial and Git were the hot new things (and maybe some people you knew used Darcs, Fossil, or Bazaar).

It’s kind of interesting how the conversation shifted. Used to be you would talk about the pros and cons of Mercurial and Git. Nowadays, it seems that if you use Mercurial, you’re dooming yourself to a certain amount of extra friction everywhere you go, and nobody talks about the technology or UX any more. And of course, since you can losslessly translate most repos from Mercurial to Git or vice versa, people aren’t locked in.

I know that some big tech companies still use Mercurial, since it’s somewhat more extensible, and the Mercurial tools can be modified to work with the monorepos at Google and Meta. I wonder if this is the future of Mercurial—a future where it’s been adapted to work with the largest repositories.
Why would you assume independence? I'd expect an outage to put people "on edge" for a period of time following the outage, during which changes are scrutinized to a higher degree, and/or a greater engineering focus/budget is dedicated to reliability to reflect the changed business/image requirements.
I've never heard of this license before. Thanks for pointing it out.
> Maybe because doxxing is extrajudicial?

Most things in life are, thankfully.
It’s not. Krebs has a history with this.

Funny story. In German „Krebs“ means cancer. And when he revealed the names and Adresses of Admins of a German Imageboard, the community started a fundraiser for cancer treatment named „Krebs ist scheiße“ or in English „cancer sucks“
This came from an era when online purchases did not have sales tax
Certainly they are trying but the issue is to perform "daily" updates on LLMs and not be fixed to older scrapings. For some reason, business wise, Google has been prioritizing current information more than older ones.
I think there are a few helpful things in that regard:

- There are already viable and deployed alternatives to Synapse, including Conduit. Making changes that would break compatibility would fragment the network.

- There are already viable and widely-used alternatives to Element on the client side. I myself mostly use Nheko these days.

- The structure of the Matrix protocol is such that breaks in compatibility would look very weird to users, so I think they're incentivized to avoid making such changes for their user experience's sake.

- The primary selling point of Matrix (and thus Element) over other systems is precisely that it's an open protocol for communications. It seems unlikely (though not impossible) that they would do anything to harm that, but if they did, it would not look good for the company. Speaking personally, I would start looking for alternatives if they did.
If I read this correctly, those logos are for "packaging and marketing". Unless they are on the cable itself, as Elgato does, this is gonna be of little help when I'm looking for a cable in my cable box even six months later. Or if you have shared cables in a household.
OpenAI DevDay Keynote
When something similar happened with an immigrant co-worker in the UK, I quickly picked up a second bank account.

He got stuck for about a week and a half with his money all locked up in an account he couldn't access. It was early enough in the month that rent and bills etc. wasn't an issue, we just ended up helping him out buying food for a few days while he sorted out another account and got an advance on his salary.

I remember the range of excuses and explanations for delays from the bank left us all gobsmacked.
> why do arbitrators ever rule against the companies that pay their fees?

Both sides choose the arbitrator. If an individual arbitrator consistently rules against one category of claimants or defendants, lawyers will steer clients against them and they won’t get paid.

The arbitration service is paid by the company, usually, which is a win for the consumer. But the arbitrator is individually paid only if they’re selected. (They’re also usually retired judges, et cetera.)
Discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919235 (321 comments)