skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"there's now a checkbox in your Steam Store options where you can choose to have off-topic review bombs still included in all the Review Scores you see."

Things like this is so nice. If I don't trust Gaben's bullshit review filter, I can see what the result would be without, just to check.
> What does the number/second have to do with 'It’s hard to remain anonymous in the real world. The real world largely runs on identity and (identity) trust.'?

Hobest question, are you being serious here? The sxale of fraud and automated traffic is disproportionately large, and has a significantly lower barrier to entry than other forms of abuse. That's the entire reason.

> There are very few places in the real world which can handl 1,000 people per second.

Exactly, and if someone started sending thousands of people per second there, they would make it significantly more difficult to do so.
> It is one of the reasons why 90% of human genetic diversity is within groups and only 10% is between groups.

Can you clarify what this means? I’ve heard it a bunch and I can imagine scenarios that this statement could describe. But also, a naive interpretation doesn’t make any sense.
I think those points make sense. I do think there is some material within though, which is that the tweets had some point. Sure the reporting was not really interesting, but I thought the source material was, personally.
Thank you!! Exactly what I was curious about: not "is 200 ms slow relative to some other time?" but "_why_ is 200 ms slow?"
Quite a reach honestly especially since direct to cell was approved
Which environments today aren't? Everything online is to a degree, and the offline ones are heavily influenced by online ones.
Yeah still haven't seen anyone get banned for the two words he has said will get you suspended: c*s and dec*lonization
There's an old story about three bricklayers; the first says "I'm laying bricks to feed my family"; the second says, "I'm building a wall"; the third says, "I'm building a cathedral." [0]

One could think of humanity's work as, "we're helping to build a universe." [1]

[0] https://sacredstructures.org/mission/the-story-of-three-bric... — this story supposedly dates back to the 17th century.

[1] https://www.questioningchristian.org/2006/06/metanarratives_... (self-cite)
I'm a big fan of not base anything encoding
it probably is though
> It’s better to pick a stable, trustworthy. and 21st-century place like GitHub or GitLab instead of SourceHut.

It's better to not make yourself (much) dependent on functionalities that only the respective software forge provides.
Show HN: Art book celebrating the minds behind Google's first 25 years
This took me 3 years to finish.

So… I wrote a book. It’s a different book with a unique approach. It’s not a novel or a technical book. It’s a biography, a company’s biography. My hope is that it serves two purposes: to inspire founders and to captivate interior designers.

Idea
It all started three years ago. My wife and I were discussing interior design for our living room and she brought up what beautiful coffee table books should we have. After looking at her favorites I realized there’s nothing like this for software companies. Digital products are intangible, how cool would it be to make them tangible and a beautiful art/decor book for your home office or living room?

This idea of consolidating my particular interests with my wife’s decorative goals got stuck in the back of my head for a while. I searched and searched. I could only find these kinds of books related to design, architecture, fashion, or travel. Nothing about software companies. The next logical step for me was to do it myself…

And oh… what a “mistake” it was. This whole project was done during nights and weekends - the first half while working on my startup and the last half while helping create Webflow Labs. You have no idea how many times I “quit” the project. In the end, perseverance and discipline were key to making it happen.

Google
During my founder journey, I collected several notes about successful (and unsuccessful) software companies to help me learn from them. I decided to write about Google’s fascinating story: a true generational company and one of the most valuable companies in the world.

It’s with great pleasure and satisfaction that I’m introducing you to “Google - First 25 Years”. A book celebrating the minds behind the tech giant's incredible journey from Stanford to global dominance.

Uniqueness
I have absolutely no idea if this book’s format and concept make sense or if it has an audience willing to invest ($169 | €159 | £139). Here are some of the unique features:

▪ Silk hardcover
▪ Limited edition
▪ Handpainted edges
▪ More than 30 handmade illustrations

I’m producing only 1,000 copies and shipping starts in January 2024. If the book concept seems interesting enough, grab one copy here [0].

Learnings
Either way, this project was a super fun ride where being outside my comfort zone was the best way to learn storytelling, graphic design, and product production.

At least, I hope this inspires you to go back to your side projects and finish them!

[0] - https://damaia.com/google
So that's what 42 was for!
I'd say that method chaining (referential transparency, etc.) and implicit destructor calls with side effects don't mix.

I have a general rule that "resource" types which own a heap allocation should usually be given a variable name with explicit scope (and likely even an explicit type, rather than `auto response` like in this post). This is a general guideline to avoid holding a reference to a temporary that gets destroyed, but doesn't protect against returning a dangling reference into a resource type from a function.

In other places, where languages make the opposite decision (from this blog post) to extend the lifetime of a temporary variable with a destructor when you call methods on it, you get things like C++'s temporary lifetime extension (not a bug, note that I don't understand it well), and footguns like Rust's `match lock.lock().something {}` (https://github.com/rust-lang/lang-team/blob/master/design-me...).
How have you been intimidated? Have you had direct contact with them? I'm asking this because I don't see any mention of an 'explicit' threat or contact. Did your 'friend' tell you that he sold your information or is involved in this gang?

what did the private detective tell you?

Also the thread you linked does not show any evidence of hacking or malware - also doesnt rule it out.

Next to this is all real /or you are paranoia, there is also the possiblity;

something 'bad' did happen, for example your friend 'doxed' you (on a forum with bad actors for example). There might be hacking attempts. But what if you are extrapolating.. that you are taking non-related signals as proof - whether or not there are actual threats / signals.. like a confirmation bias?

I don't have a solution for you but i think what you can conclude is; In either case it is best to;

1. do nothing rash. with your money, confronting people etc.
2. accept that your loved ones want the best for you but dont understand you at the moment.
3. focus on your health; exercise, get vitamin d supplements etc.
4. try to center and neutralize your thoughts, instead of going on a rant. Constantly Identifiying things as threats or evidence is not going to help you if you have false positives or no proof
5. get some social life going. And DONT talk about this shit.
6. treat yourself like you would treat a real friend of who you are not sure if he is having mental problems or gang problems or both. You would be kind and understanding but also try to rationalize.
It's not even remotely true that VS code plus extensions can match my vim muscle memory
Base64/Base32/ASCII is English-centric.

Might be weird to you personally, but there's literally government agencies to prevent obscenities.
You are so secretly obsessed with the thought of a civil war you have taken to projecting your views on others. I never said american gun owners were an army, nor did I suggest an armed insurrection. It is merely a bulwark against the most extreme forms of government oppression. The cost of a more overt version of oppression of the american public is too high for the government to entertain. Regarding anything the government does, if they cant do so quietly, then they must do so through propaganda, and if they cant garner enough public support then they back off.

The american public has no guns, only the occasional shooting rifle. Did I do it right? You do not distinguish between freedom and liberty, those liberties are at times suspended. Things are definitely not ok in the united states, but thats not what guns are there to stop at this stage of our political system. The most valuable tools in the day to day are encryption and censorship resistant systems.
I'm guessing that's in large part because if you don't have it, then you don't get to practice it any further (winner takes all).

Personally, I'm waiting for the VR game that allows me to conduct an orchestra. That game will change everything.
It means that Amazon does not seem to invest anything into this aquisition anymore. Even the maintenance is lacking, this year they had an outage measured in hours.
I'm risking just posting another process that you might have seen, but I thought it was helpful. Maybe you or someone else will too.

Farnam Street annual review https://fs.blog/annual-review/
(Direct link without giving your email: https://fsmisc.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/2022+AR.pdf)
Looking at my ssh config, devpod injected a Host and that's it there's nothing extra in the container. Instead, there's a ProxyCommand that runs devpod, which probably ends up in a docker exec somewhere. That's why you're having trouble with newline and larger terminals, I used to as well because the terminal escape codes for resizing weren't getting through to the shell inside the container.

In the past, I had to resize the terminal once manually after execing in, but I think either docker or bash or something in the chain got an update in the past few years that fixed it to automatically work
I'm generally on team NIF as a laser guy, but my biggest gripe is the calculation for ignition they employ uses the UV light into the hohlraum which ignores the 3-omega frequency tripling as the light (originally IR at 1053nm) enters the main target chamber. That frequency tripling will always rob a lot of energy from the lasers as it does generally for normal laser setups. I feel like loss from other parts of the laser like the amplification and other general losses are understandable because it's a laser and that's unavoidable, but they absolutely should include the loss from the frequency tripling because that seems like an added on thing (this improves penetration into the walls of the hohlraum), even though that will push them below the ignition threshold again.

The loss there is about a factor of 1/2 or so, so they'd have to improve things by that much.
Adding a writeable data partition to an ISO image
I think also in some respects Altered Carbon, the Netflix series (at least the first season).
That would mean that California is producing more renewable power since its grid is considerably larger, and again my point was simply that Texas is not doing enough better to justify their failures. If they were much higher, maybe we could debate something like the number of lives saved from not polluting versus the unreliability, but the state still has huge pollution issues and isn’t far ahead of the competition. As it is, it looks like the primary beneficiaries are the finance guys getting a chunk of those wild surge prices.
Sorry I hit a nerve. I was not clear what his argument was. That’s what I was asking. My reasons were my own confusion. I was asking for actual counter points to my statements as he responded to me. Instead I saw general disdain for Texas. The issue is indeed partly in the voters hands but I already agreed with that so what was being said. Again sorry to have hit a nerve I was genuinely looking for more substance on the matter.

Winterizing is not predictable and the poster said he is concerned in the summer which can be just as deadly as the winter. So yes, I want a further elaboration.
The startup you link is one of dozens, many of which are pulsed, with several being laser fusion specifically, including Longview, LaserFusionX, Xcimer Energy, Focused Energy, HB11 Energy, and Marvel Fusion.[1]

NIF doesn't need political cover for weapons work. We openly spend a hundred times more on nuclear weapons than on fusion power.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/science/laser-fusion-ener...
Which command do I not understand? Devpod.sh is open source, and while I'm not a master of Go personally I can tell it's basically running docker commands for me. Should I not run docker itself without reading the source code too?
SAE's NACS certification is ready to help fix EV charging problems
> I strongly advise against incorporating in the US, if you never plan to live in the US.

Why?
The results of Table 3 are not really exciting. Could this change with 100 times more data? The key novelty in the specific context of this particular application is the quantized variational encoder used "to derive discrete codex encoding and align it with pre-trained language models."
ACH transfers are basically instant in the US. But because they can, the sending bank holds on to the outgoing transfer for as long as they can get away with and the receiving bank waits to make the transfer available to the customer for as long as they can get away with. this allows banks to squeeze a little bit more return out of the money, and more importantly, the longer money is in limbo, the more likely customers are to overdraft thus incurring penalty fees. additionally, slow transfers helps keep customer money in same-bank services. if I can instantly transfer money in from my brokerage service, then I have less incentive to use the brokerage service offered by my bank.
Driving brings out the worst in people. You're all trying to get somewhere, you're all a danger to one another, and, critically, you can't see faces well. So, you end up receiving offenses against you as if they're personal (because you're you!) but commit offenses as if they're impersonal (because others look like cars, not human beings).

Would you rudely shove youself in front of someone at the market to get the next spot at the cash register? Probably not. But, would you block oncoming traffic by tailgaiting the person who took a left in front of you, instead of just waiting one more light cycle? Absolutely.
We already have fusion bombs. Making a fusion bomb is a lot easier than creating a fusion reactor that can emit energy in a more controlled manner.
On the other hand, the main practical feature of a language is its astronomical SNR, which brain waves lack, to say the least. This allows LLMs to be trained on texts instead of millions of live people. Just imagine the number of parameters and compute resources required for the model to be useful to more than one human.
Given we have a recent law regarding data breaches, notifications, and penalties for not...

We ought to mirror this law onto IRL products and companies
I don‘t care what the Standard says. I care about what my compiler can do.
I am from Eastern Europe. Everyone is given Citizen ID card when reaches 15 years old, that is used for identification during voting. It seems like a completely mindboggling concept for UK and USA for that matter.
To be fair to the people of the day, that pseudoscience was considered mainstream legitimate science at the time, strongly promoted by their equivalent of Elon Musk on their equivalent of ExTwitter.

Just part of what terrifies me about the leadership of the world’s superpower from next year being a toss up between two guys who would have been taught that eugenics was settled fact in school.
> no tax consequences for pooling earnings or for who pays the bills each month

I'm not aware of any tax consequences for splitting bills, or for one person paying bills while the other doesn't, or for any such scheme. I'm also not aware of any problem with pooling money. At any rate, I've had joint account owners on my savings account and never had any tax issue. I suppose hypothetically in some situations that it might count as a gift (I do not believe most would) and exceed the gift tax limit, but I doubt anyone ever has paid taxes for this.

> handling the legal mechanics of kids (from picking them up from school to paying fees etc)

Both parents have parental rights whether or not there is a marriage. There's nothing extra marriage provides legally here.

As far as I can tell, the civil benefits of marriage are almost entirely limited to inheritance/estates and hospital paperwork. It's also usually the only way to get someone on your health insurance. Generally, there's not even any tax benefits (except in specific cases with specific credits YMMV, or sometimes if one spouse doesn’t work.)
I'm not sure that the first mammals were placental.
How much are you getting from the other awardees?
From 0.5% to over 20%, for equivalent lasers. So they still have work to do, but not as much you'd think without accounting for the old lasers.
Nobody is going to use SystemD on Mac or Windows so why does it matter if it is Linux specific?
If you're interested in that sort of thing, I wrote Hello World using 6 different methods in Assembler for Raspberry Pi. Even if not using a Raspberry Pi, it might be of interest to anyone that wants to understand what the difference is between the various clib methods, (puts, write, etc.).

https://github.com/ksaj/helloworld
This is what happens when the EPA's rules state chemical companies, can more or less, police themselves.

We've detected PFOAs in rainwater/clouds, in the artic, etc (See https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765)

They are going to lead to further health problems down the road.
> but I always struggle to articulate what that would mean, how I should achieve that, what I need to change etc

I recommend bullet journaling, to get stuff on paper/written down first before you take action. Then you can revise past notes to see how much you've progressed. It's worth being very clear about what you want, and have a rough draft of the means to get it.

There's a phrase I always loved: 'What's meant for you won't pass you by'.
With strict rules anyone can write software that does not instantly fail horribly (e.g., if pointers are not allowed, there won't be a bad dereference (but that's not even in misra)). That helps outsourcing to the lowest bidder.
Thankfully or sadly, soon this will all be replaced by text generation bots.
I do something similar, I always start with RAISE then CLOUT which cover the 10 most common letters. It usually gives good results.
There are lots of people who will be receiving books on Christmas. With your scheme, they won’t be able to review them. Or people who buy from other bookstores. Or other countries.

There is a difference between reviews on Amazon, where limiting to purchaser makes sense, and Goodreads that is open to everyone.
What kinds of products were those teams building?
There is a market for high speed read only data - S3 serving, and all kinds of mostly read database scenarios (OLAP). You can have tiered storage, data is first consolidated/updated on TLC drives, and as it ages is moved to PLC storage. RocksDB already supports something like this.
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> These policies are proven to work […]

Prove it.
I remember pronouncing those like "sin" and "kout".
>> every dollar spent on fusion is a dollar not spent on building more solar panels and wind turbines.

> You care to back your armchairing with data?

I'm confused by your confusion. I'm literally saying we could optionally be spending the money we currently spend on fusion on solar panels instead. This isn't a statement that needs data.

The question is simply which is going to go further in decarbonizing our energy: $1 spent on solar or $1 spent on fusion research?

That's an open question, of course, and people don't have the answer, since one is based on probabilities of future success.

Note, though, that even if fusion is successful, it may still be more expensive than solar, and so then would it actually be successful? We would have saved more tons of CO2 by making more solar panels. [1] [2] [3]

1. https://www.wired.com/story/no-fusion-energy-wont-be-limitle...

2. https://futurism.com/elon-musk-fusion-more-expensive-wind-so...

3. https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2023/03/16/fusions-fu...
However, even being on a possibly company-critical project means little to value of one's equity, especially post-IPO.

There's little to no rationality involved in pricing of public shares, and nothing you do as individual contributor has any impact.

Now, if you were a high level manager and could order a layoff...
Not to suggest that this isn't a serious matter for the people there (and some of this language might be understated, like "limiting oxygen to colleagues" as a euphemism for literally strangling a student)... but academia can still get much worse than this.

Having talked with lots of people in industry and academia, the worst stories are from academia.

Intuitive speculation...

An industry CEO with clinical ego problems can eventually grow an org chart of enablers and twisted culture enforcers, and might've even managed to stack the board, and might escape investor revolt for a long time. But the employees can usually leave without throwing away the careers in which they've invested their lives, know they have rights, can probably afford consulting a lawyer, etc.

Now contrast that industry situation with a (bad) university environment that similarly feels superior, and that it shouldn't be subject to outside rules, but additionally the abused often can't just leave, nor defend themselves: grad students, postdocs, tenure-track early-career needing support of the entrenched, poverty-level adjuncts needing the reference towards a full-time job, high percentage of foreign students on visa, underpaid support staff who took the job for discounted tuition for their children, etc.
All those things are destructive fwiw
Might be don’t update situations.. errh
Personally even as a player who's pretty good at piloting a deck I dislike draft because it a) requires a good knowledge of the set I don't have the time or inclination to build to know what strategies are supported well b) has a lot of skill in reading 'signals' to have an idea of what colors are being heavily pulled from early enough to change directions and c) gluing that pile of cards into a deck that can be even a little fun to play or have a chance of winning.
The internet has never been a "digital commons" (2017)
Worth pointing out that "the part of the branch of the US government that handles nuclear weapons" is the Department of Energy, which of course also handles fusion energy research.
For the sake of this, let's agree ChatGPT passed the Turing test. So you're saying "The posts have been moved" - you don't want them moved, you want "AI" to mean "ChatGPT equivalent, which passed a Turing test". Presumably you don't want progress and research to stop there, so what would be achieved by stopping using the term "AI" so that we "aren't moving the goalposts"? Why is "not moving the goalposts" a thing you care about at all? All it would mean is we make up another term like "artificial superintelligence" or "artificial person" or something, and everything else is exactly the same.

It's like arguing that when a child rides a bike with stabilisers that they have "learned to ride a bike" and then complaining anytime someone suggests the child learns to ride without stabilisers, because they "already learned to ride a bike" and now that's moving the goalposts - but you still want them to learn without stabilisers, presumably, you're just complaining about the term used to describe it, for ... apparently no reason or benefit whatsoever?
In 2025 and in areas covered by RDOF. Not everywhere