skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I'm not arguing that laws aren't needed, just that they're generally more descriptive than prescriptive. I think the same applies even in cases where there is a clear tension between two direct parties, e.g. trade and debt as you describe: laws are a recognition of what most people (for some value of "most") think is fair and reasonable.

In short, laws are not (generally) handed down by some authority, against the will of the majority of the people -- at least not in non-dictatorships.
After seeing a post here today about someone building a vision to speech project, I threw together one with MittaAI, my new startup.

It took me about 5 minutes to build this. If anyone runs into any issues using the pipeline, please let me know!
From what I can tell there are some new changes that may break backwards compat with stuff. One group wants that resolved the other does not think it is that big of deal. Something like this that goes back to the early 90s and thousands of random unknown number of installed clients/servers. backwards compat is probably something to look into and properly deal with?
E.g. Not sure if all Sam's Clubs in the USA do this but I've stopped going since their anti-shoplifting policy at the exit requires a staff member scan your receipt, then find and scan several items in your cart before you're allowed to leave.

At the one I go to they usually just have one person at the door and the line up is 10-15mins long to leave.
thats all fine and well. It just came off as dismissive, snarky, and negative. a very anti hacking attitude - at least to me.
We can easily imagine faster than light travel but it simply isn't possible regardless. There are constraints on us other than our capacity for imagination.

We have never seen another living planet so we don't know what to expect from one. I touched on this originally but I'll be explicit now: the fact that we can't create a closed ecosystem even given a working example and diverse raw materials is a powerful indicator of our ignorance about the contours and possibilities of life.

I'm not saying it is impossible, but I'm saying any confident assertions about its possibility, much less how "easy" it is are fantasy if not pure hubris. It's quite possible that no level of advancement will allow for even merely interplanetary life.
BS why?

Can a TPM not be used to remotely attest that you are running an unmodified OS and a TPM device that has been approved by the DRM implementer, before handing you an encryption key that never touches the disk?

Can you not restrict the list of approved OS to those that do not allow root/kernel access to the user?

Can you not restrict the list of approved TPMs to those that cannot be "easily" compromised? (i.e. only allow TPMs in the same die as the CPU)

Just because it's not used today does not mean it won't be used tomorrow. Microsoft has not completely pushed this through yet because they know that half of their userbase are pirates. But they are making preparatory steps for it, such as blocking systems without TPM or older CPUs out of Windows 11.

Just look at Android to see what it will look like in a few years.
Too early to tell, but this looks like it could both simplify implementation and speed-up execution of linear RNNs like RWKV, Mamba, retnet, etc.
> “Ale was virtually the sole liquid consumed by medieval peasants,” writes Judith M. Bennett in a chapter in the edited volume, Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe. “Water was considered to be unhealthy, [so] each household required a large and steady supply of this perishable item.”

This myth again? You don't even need to know medieval history to figure out it is bullshit.

Think about it logically, you can not brew bear from water that is contaminated in the first place. Garbage in garbage out. If you have a safe water source, well just drink water. Also, we are talking about medieval beer with maybe 2 percent alcohol, how the hell is that going to help? That percentage is way too low to do any good.

Obviously people were mostly drinking water. I mean think of all the calories, the logistics and all. It is true though that households would brew their own bear for consumption. Export of bear would develop in the late medieval period. It is also true, that weak 2% ale was consumed a lot, just not as much a water.

I guess people just really like the idea of medieval people being shitfaced all the time.

Edd: Also most places where not very densely populated, even cities were not compared to modern time. So while water safety was a concern, it was not as big as one might think.
> what has this to do with AI prompts

It's related via my question about EU digital regulation, although Gemini is likely on hold due to the DMA and not GDPR. The question was more about how willing are EU residents to forego technological advances under their more muscular regulation regime.
Technically the fine muscle movement triggers dopamine in your brain. Regardless of the serotonin associated with solving tasks.
> He can sell his shares when he feels like it

He, in fact, cannot. As a C level executive he is going to trade on a 10b5-1 schedule.
Sure, lots of people saying it's totally legal and "capitalism gonna capital", which is fair.

Except imagine the absolute kicking morale will take as a result of this. I'm sure it was bad enough, internally, when 17% of staff were made redundant. (I'm sure their internal channels are pretty salty and uncomfortable right now.) I'm sure there was plenty of anger internally at the C-levels. PR school would tell them to keep quiet and wait for the storm to pass; _not_ look to be publicly, personally, profiting from it to the tune of many millions of dollars.

Poor morale leads to greater attrition of those your company needs to hold on to, especially at an inflection point such as this. It leads to it being harder to hire in the future (and more expensive.)

It's up to the CFO to decide if that's worth it. It may be in the short-term; but long-term it's a much tricker equation.
I feel like people that ask what the point of savings is are younger and haven't experienced a housing crash. Every boom has a bust and anyone who has gone through things such as the housing crisis, dot com bust, or previous crisis know that savings through a bust you will end up really well off on the other side.

Even just the most recent housing crisis as an example. Houses crashed hard and if you had saved you could afford a house. History says that there will be an opportunity to buy and just be prepared for when it is time.
Calculator Is Programmed in HTML
This got me to take a look at the Rails site and go through the Getting Started tutorial. It's really well-written and is probably amongst the best documentation I've seen out there. I would love to do more projects in Rails now.
That's correct. If i run `User.limit(5).pluck(:id)` the query it runs is `SELECT "users"."id" FROM "users" LIMIT $1 [["LIMIT", 5]]` and returns an array, not an ActiveRecord association
If you're part of the group that has the right env/background to do so, sure.
* This is a classic highlight of company leadership focused on quarterly results. The stock has a good quarter, the CFO is now much richer.

* At a base level this is one person profiting off misfortune he caused other people. This isn't the pro-social type of behavior I would want to be encouraged.

* Companies primary focus is on satisfying Wall Street, while avoiding too much scrutiny from DC.
I'll throw my hat in the ring, I didn't buy an nvidia card, I simply gave up on trying to get it working.
Data Engineering Design Patterns
You say all this as though we didn't get to capitalism by iterating. What, are we supposed to stop iterating now because we're more comfortable than we were before?
Most of the books I read are influenced by similar threads on HN. This year has not been good overall and it impacted my reading. I need to finish writing the post https://brajeshwar.com/2023/books/

“How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question” by Michael Schur is a fun book that opens with a good question, “Should I punch my friend in the face for no reason?”

I have been meaning to and this year I finally read The Diary of a Young Girl.

For 2024, here are some of the ones from my list (sorry for the formatting, copied Markdown from my notes);

- [Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_War:_The_Fight_for_the_Wo...) by [Chris Miller](https://www.christophermiller.net)

- [First Principles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Principles_(book)) by [Thomas E. Ricks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_E._Ricks_(journalist))

- [Greenlights](https://greenlights.com) by [Matthew McConaughey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_McConaughey)

- How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell

- [Poor Economics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Economics): A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by [Abhijit V. Banerjee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhijit_Banerjee), and [Esther Duflo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Duflo)

- Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child The Heart of Parenting by [John Gottman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gottman), and Joan DeClaire

- [The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read](https://www.amazon.com/Book-Wish-Your-Parents-Read/dp/198487...): (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did) by [Philippa Perry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_Perry)

- [The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning: Mapping The Collapse Of Globalization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_the_World_is_just_t...) by [Peter Zeihan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zeihan)

- [The Tatas: How a Family Built a Business and a Nation](https://www.amazon.com/Tatas-Family-Built-Business-Nation/dp...) by [Girish Kuber](https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/गिरीश_कुबेर), and English translation by Vikrant Pande.

- [Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming](https://www.amazon.com/Windfall-Booming-Business-Global-Warm...) by [McKenzie Funk](https://www.mckenziefunk.com)

- [Dieter Rams: The Complete Works](https://www.amazon.com/Dieter-Rams-Complete-Klaus-Klemp/dp/1...) by [Klaus Klemp](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Klemp)
This explains absolutely nothing to a layperson :)
Yeah sure. But they're all very similar if you think about it; same clueless, innocent role played by Colin Farrel, with the same flat and dark humor.
> But this means that we're ignoring the harm that was done to the people that lost their income and the disruptions that the rest of the org will experience.

As opposed to the 'benefit' that was done while they were granted income?

I'm unsure what your point is. Is a business never supposed to 'harm' its employees? They're never allowed to fire people? What is the logical conclusion of your statement? A business ought to be liable to keep their employees employed forever even if it means the business becomes unprofitable and eventually has to declare bankruptcy, resulting in the firing of all employees? Who prevents the harm then? Or is this where the magical thinking that government will make it all better using the taxes from the other companies and employees that have yet to go bankrupt despite being unable to fire anyone ever?
The alternative is a workers' union, by which this kind of thing could be mitigated for the actual people who do the work.
3blue1brown has recently released good YouTube videos on phase velocity.

Question: how do I check group velocity in media, to know how fast information traverses through that media? For example in water - how long does it take for my waterproof flashlight to get across a small body of water? As in where to find that information. I always thought I just have to look up the index of refraction, but that's just the phase velocity.
Analytics: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Provenance
I used to have this attitude in my early 30s when I first made >500k. I thought I was indestructable, irreplacable and had an ego to match it. What a humbling experience it was to be laid off, in fact I think it was one of the best things to have happened to me. My relationship to work and business is much healthier now. I just smile at the silly games tech employers and their staff play.
Tech Billionaires' Quest to Build a New City in California Goes Terribly
I think vram is one thing they can beat Nvidia on. Both on the pro and consumer GPUs. Just put 48gb into a consumer GPU and everyone would flock to AMD and help build their software side
I was wondering if it could be Devanagari or something similar based on that strong horizontal line.
But the WDC chips are made by Western Design Center, not Western Digital Corporation.
Of course he can. Still makes him an asshole.
Oh don't worry, we'll get regulations once there are some clear market leaders who've implemented strong moats they can have codified into law to make competition impossible.

Monopolistic regulation is how we got the internet into space, after all! /s

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/s, but not really /s: Google got so pissed off at the difficulty of fighting incumbents for every pole access to implement Fiber that they just said fuck it. They curbed back expansion plans and invested in SpaceX with the goal of just blasting the internet into space instead.

Several years later.. space-internet from leo satellites.
Yeah, you never want to find yourself in a "would you like the Chinese genuine part or the French knock-off?" kind of situation.
Is there a good place to track prices for solar batteries? Have a system and considering a battery next year.
Thank you. Let me know if you have any feedback. It's still under fine-tuning. And of course if you share it, that helps a lot :)
No one rents movies in perpetuity. People rented movies from blockbuster, and they charged you fees if you brought it back late.
I don’t think a lot of viewers, in the last few decades, watch it without the context of knowing it’s film-historically very important.

FWIW—subject matter aside, even—it was among my least favorite in a silent film binge I went on a couple years back. Of the 50ish silent dramas and art films I’ve watched (setting aside the comedies) it’s in the bottom 5. It’s actually one of only two I’ve bailed on (Tabu was the other). Only made it about halfway, the draw of “it’s important” wasn’t enough to keep me watching.
Do more stuff like this, Elon. I really don’t like not liking you.
oh LOL never thought of that, its like they are a virtue signaling crack house!
Your latter point technically correct, but only because companies that lack a trading footprint in the EU are beyond sanction by the EU.

The EU claims jurisdiction, they just lack an effective enforcement mechanism for sites that do not have a financial nexus inside the EU. (Perversely, this creates an incentive to not create such a financial nexus, including hiring anyone inside the EU.)
It seems like maintaining backwards compatibility would be important for something that otherwise irreversibly encrypts your data.
This is the correct way for a retailer to do business with new, unproven vendors that do not have any leverage.

Either do consignment or do half upfront. Otherwise the retailer will end up with a bunch of bad inventory.
How did your perspective change and what changed moving forward?
It's not really the sort of movie you'd watch if you weren't Christian or interested in religion.
I don’t disagree, and I probably shouldn’t have put “stifling innovation” in quotes, as you’re right: that is the goal here.

My criticism is more levied at those who treat the fact that regulations can increase the cost of doing business as inherently bad without stopping to consider that profits may not be the be all and end all.
It’s legal because of the first Amendment of the US Constitution, which is held in higher regard than any religious text even.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Looks like an alternative client for chrome://inspect and works on top of the same protocol (you need to launch with ‘—inspect’ flag).
On the one hand this is true. On the other hand, it's reasonable to expect extraordinary leadership from executives paid extraordinary amounts of money. Cashing in millions in stock options after layoffs is bad optics, and diminishes trust in company leadership, and employee loyalty. One might expect executives to put off cashing in shares for some time to avoid these optics, even if it cost them a small amount off the top.
> AMD needs to....

https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-10-10-am...
SELECT * FROM Foobar WHERE Val = NULL;

no results

I'm admittedly still learning SQL, but I'm very surprised by this.

The query should be:

SELECT * FROM Foobar WHERE Val IS NULL;
So this uses the AMD/Zynq RFSoC 4x2 to pipe ~78Gbps of raw data (at maximum) from an SDR front end to a machine running GNU Radio.

That’s absolutely nuts. The board is a bit over $2k, and they don’t go into how effective the RF front end on that board is, but enabling that kind of bandwidth at that price is amazing.
There's no need to do nuclear chemistry when you can fish it out of seawater.

> cheaper

Physics sets fundamental limitations on how much energy you need, which means your lower bound is set by energy prices.

It's not that scarce, it's not something like Polonium.
Love this resource! I've coded a few inline svgs in react for some fun svg interactivity, and its a lot of fun to play with.

The <foreignObject> tag is especially useful, as it allows you to put normal html inside svg, so you can use html for things that html does better (links, images, basic flexbox styling etc) within a svg art project.

For the author, btw, a few links on the site are not working: your bio.link on the bottom of the page, and in Day 11: How to Draw Quadratic Bézier Curves with SVG, there is a link to an interactive bezier curve demo that is down.
He always has insider information when he's the CFO, don't you think?
Why would a car need a 48V system for accessories? In general the things a car's 12V system powers have gotten less power hungry over time (LED's, heat pump) and in particular, an EV loses the highest power electrical device on the 12V bus, the starter. The typical equipment used for the entertainment and control systems are going to be much more available with 12V supplies, just because that's the industry standard.

Obviously the traction system is using much, much higher voltages.

The article cites "complexity" of the wiring harnesses, which is nonsense. The wires might get a little smaller, but not by a lot. Like I said, the 12V bus in an EV isn't driving a bunch of high power stuff. (Is it? Am I missing something?)

The one place I can imagine it helping is for driving inverters so you can provide AC outlets for laptops, power tools, etc.
All business is profiting off misfortune of other people. That is the cornerstore of post-industrial capitalism: maximize the externalization of the costs of production. Name one product, service or industry which does not harm people, animals or the environment - impossible!
I agree, but the last time a major company tried to fire the C-Suite, the employees mutinied...

More seriously regarding this decision in particular- I think there is an interesting and not straight forward question about whether companies should hire and fire freely, allowing for high employment at times as well as layoffs and low employment at other times (as well as risk taking), or should they be more careful and therefore have less employment when money is flowing freely and fewer layoffs when money is tight? The answer seems to be somewhere on a continuum, but different folks find a different point optimal. It seems there are successful societies built on policies promoting different answers as well.

I can't default to faulting an individual for simply making a different decision than I might have preferred they make. I don't even know how much the Spotify CFO was involved in making these decisions in this case, maybe a lot, maybe a little, maybe they were against it but were over-ruled.
You've just proposed LoRAs I think.
Individuals trading on a 10b5-1 schedule have a lot of input on that schedule.
Not to spoil too much of the rest of the Hyperion Cantos if you’ve not read it, but I found the way each book brought into question the “reliability” of previous parts of the story super interesting. On the one hand - it can feel like a lazy rewriting of history to suit later stories, but I think it actually works super well because you pretty much have to re-evaluate the entire story multiple times. I came away feeling like I’d experienced 3 different, but equally-compelling versions of the story by the end!
Yes they demanded us to delete and stop working on all projects.

At the time it seemed like a serious threat.
Yes, since HTML5 you can inline an SVG. You don't need Webpack or anything like that, it just works.

One of the examples in this tutorial is also a data-driven diagram generated from React. You can do pretty cool things by combining the two.
My coworkers and I machined a stainless crucible and lit off a thermite charge on a pier in SF... didnt post online... so maybe Im making it up... XD
Wait... this headline totally wrong.

This is the actual source[1]:

> The AMD Instinct M1300A APU was launched in January 2023 and blends a total of 13 chiplets, of which many are 3D stacked, creating a single chip package with 24 Zen 4 CPU cores fused with a CDNA 3 graphics engine and eight stacks of HBM3 memory totaling 128GB.

Its literally a typo (or renamed SKU?) for the MI300A. So... the street is jumping on AMD because of a typo echoed by a ton of outlets?

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/genci-upgrades-ad...
Striking workers aren’t paid in the first place. Allowing collective bargainers to be fired creates an unbalanced system where employers always have more leverage than workers.

Think about it this way: how do I fire the corporations that I’m forced to patronize? Can you survive modern life without buying a single product from Unilever/Nestle/P&G/J&J? How do you make a video call to your family without Google/Apple/Microsoft/Meta being involved? How do I make a phone call without AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile? Can I buy a microwave that isn’t manufactured by Midea, LG, Panasonic, or Samsung? What about an LCD/OLED panel that isn’t made by LG or Samsung? How do I fly anywhere without Boeing or Airbus? How do I buy a phone/computer without patronizing Foxconn, Qualcomm, TSMC, or Samsung?

Corporations get a captive audience of consumers but they’re allowed to fire people for negotiating the terms of their employment? That doesn’t seem balanced to me.