skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are federal regulations that prohibit operating a GPS at faster than xx mph speeds, basically to prohibit guided missiles, and this would kick in first (may even trigger an error state in the accelerometer or OS, I'm pretty sure).

This app doesn't use GPS, it uses accelerometer. It is 100% legal in the US to operate a GPS while over CoCom/MTCR limits: above 1,000 knots (510 m/s) and/or at an altitude higher than 18,000 m (59,000 ft). The regulation is on the GPS manufacturer, who is required to output null/error/no GPS data if it detects it is above these limits (edit: unless they are licensed, which you can apply for if you're a defense contractor or in aerospace). It isn't like if a GPS device is traveling too high or fast, it is automatically a crime and bricks itself or alerts the authorities.
What you're looking for is Duverger's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
> That’s an absurdly long time to be operating a business in limbo, and I have to assume it’s the regulators dragging their feet since the companies have every incentive to move quickly.

Your understanding here is fundamentally wrong. Regulators in the US said very early on they were against this merger and were going to fight it. So most of what goes on in the meantime is Adobe and Figma (a) seeing if they can give something up to appease regulators (e.g. it's common for regulators to only sign off on a deal if one of the companies sells off some assets) or (b) decide if they're going to fight the regulators in court.

Your idea of the regulators just "dragging their feet" is incorrect
>Tan, who is Y Combinator's president, tweeted last week that "e/acc is not 'replace humans with robots'," instead it's a vision that believes "more tech means more humans, more prosperity, but also more AIs."

Well, at least on this[0] site I'm reading:

>We have no affinity for biological humans or even the human mind structure. We are posthumanists in the sense that we recognize the supremacy of higher forms of free energy accumulation over lesser forms of free energy accumulation.

[0] https://effectiveacceleration.tech
I am true admirer of US style free speech regulations, but as EU citizen I agree with this action though. Why? Because Twitter already cave in (and rather easily I must say) to the Turkey request for pre election lets call it "special moderation".

So the solution is either heavy anti-monopoly regulation requiring splitting of Twitter to several competing entities (though preferable, probably not feasible w/o US agreeing and enforcing it) or less than ideal some kind of content regulation. Otherwise we are giving away ability to speak and censor to autocrats (again Turkey) while doing nothing. Kind of stupid. If it is already censored and regulated (again Turkey) I do not see big deal if it regulated according UE rules.
+3.5B views in a child-oriented channel. It is high, and even more so near Christmas. I would expect a higher CPM for that target, but maybe the category is saturated.
> It's confusing when people think language standards are bad, and instead of saying this code is C99 or C++11, they like saying "this code works with the Rustc binary / source code with the SHA256 hash e49d560cd008344edf745b8052ef714b07595808898c835f17f962a10012f964".

I don't know if that's totally fair. I remember that it took quite a while for C++ compilers to actually implement all of C++11. So, it was totally normal at the time to change what subset of C++11 we were using to appease whatever version of GCC was in RHEL at the time.
As best I can tell, like most things, it's a mix of both. Some people are drawn for the dog whistles, while others are drawn for the surface-level pitch. Each seem confident that the other is the minority.

Personally, it feels like a reaction to the failure of crypto (and not the recent failure; the decade-long fits and starts that keep handing them what look like wins, but that haven't actually amounted to their preferred world yet). All of those crypto bros that feel, deep in their bones, that crypto SHOULD work, if not for all of the 'luddites' holding it back, channel their energy into a more generalizeable set of principles that otherize anyone who would tell them to not chase progress, even if the only restriction is "don't do it AT ALL COSTS. Balance it with humanity."

And if your whole philosophy is "let the fire consume because fire is pure energy and how can producing pure energy be bad, in the long run?", then I imagine "accelerationism" is still a lot more marketable than "execution engine-ism", or "harvestism", or most other terms that could accurately describe the disposition.
Windows 10 Desktop (2015)
I think you skipped from days to weeks, so you missed a factor of 7…
"When you lend money from a bank, you will not spend it on fancy restaurant visits. Because you know you will have to pay it back."

This doesn't reflect consumer behavior. Just consider a simple example ignoring future income. Say I have 520k. I buy a 500k house.
Scenario 1. I buy it with cash and I have 20k left.
Scenario 2. I buy it with a mortgage (20% down), and how have 420k left.

It's easy to see why those in scenario 2 would continue to fund lifestyle choices like eating out.

The reality that they need to pay back that debt gets moved to the future. The future also provides additional income. So the need to pay it back gets delayed, meaning money available now is freed up for lifestyle choices.
Offtopic - but that is wildly untrue.(for the US, at least)

Starbucks makes consistently good espresso. The amount of times I had - "oh, this hipster cafe is number one in the area" to just go dump the coffee and dip into Starbucks - is very high.

But going back to the topic - the consistency of Starbucks and the inconsistency of coffee shops (even in places like NYC) is reminiscent of why we gravitated to repeatable designs that we see today.

The visually appealing websites, that are not hard to read is "Starbucks". Be it visually "extravagant"(TheVerge) or simple(Yahoo Finance) they are fairly standard... these follow time proven visual standards set out by printed magazine, books and newspapers.

This potato.cheap website is a pain to read. Hard to focus on the message and the text is way too clumped. So are many of the sites it lists as examples.

HN is barebones Starbucks, not a pointlessly overbearing hipster cafe.
"leaning toward the reprieve" is a long way from an actual decision being made.
Marc Andreessen wrote "It's time to build" in 2020 bemoaning that "we can’t build nearly enough housing in our cities with surging economic potential - which results in crazily skyrocketing housing prices in places like San Francisco, making it nearly impossible for regular people to move in and take the jobs of the future."

Then last year when plans were made for multi-family homes in Atherton, Andreessen and his wife sent out a letter that multi-family homes where he lives "will massively decrease our home values, the quality of life of ourselves and our neighbors and immensely increase the noise pollution and traffic".

Growth and "progress" when it's your environment and neighborhood being trampled on, government regulation and restraint when it comes to his neighborhood and property.

We can take this "movement" with the hypocrisy it is wrapped in.
Of course in our “freedom of speech” democratic western culture you can’t say this. How dare you?
Ukraine on its own can’t win this war. Russia has way more reserves, people and resources. Not even talking about nuclear weapons. Do you really think Russia will accept losing this war? A nuclear superpower? Last resort they can send some nukes. So, why continue sending more weapons and money to a war which if escalates we all lose?
And in the rare instances where you're using in-development features "rust nightly-2023-12-18"

Literally the only reason to specify via a hash* would be if you were using such a bleeding edge feature that it was only merged in the last 48 hours or so and no nightly versions had been cut.

*Or I suppose you don't trust the supply chain, and you either aren't satisfied with or can't create tooling that checks the hash against a lockfile, but then you have the same problem with literally any other compiler for any language.
"tentatively". Lets wait and see what happens.
That would be detectable as continuous acceleration rather than large initial acceleration followed by none for the duration of the throw.
You might be interested in CodeProber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkTJ4VL0xtY
Lessons in Leadership Excellence: Personal Insights on Building Great Teams
Occasionally I go back to FB to see if any friends and family have posted and like 90% of the feed is "recommended for you" shovelfulls of garbage for infinite scrolling. Worst off, there's a kind of anxiety about even pausing to look at anything on there out of fear that FB will decide I like that particular kind of garbage and show me more of it.

Most of the garbage I get is innocuous - silly comics, AI generated movie posters of like "what if Wes Anderson made the Marvel movies" that I tend to block. Occasionally it's aggressive right-wing memes (and it's never "personal responsibility" or "low taxes" stuff, always "this is the group we hate today and how stupid and annoying they are").

Still, I occasionally find myself absentmindedly infinite-scrolling, just because I started there looking for news from old friends.
Terrapin Attack for prefix truncation in SSH
> Neonazism does indeed enjoy broad support there.

This is a lie

The very Wikipedia you linked

> Bandera remains a highly controversial figure in Ukraine.

And once Azov got integrated into the army it shed its neonazi members.

This is how propaganda works: take a kernel of truth and spin a whole tapestry of lies out of it

People are not cardboard cutouts. We do not boycott Ford cards because Henry Ford was a nazi sympathizer. We can condemn that and yet recognize him as an industralist who changed society.
Well, I was writing this because the PDF doesn't seem to mention "large budget" as a reason for the success, perhaps because it would be too obvious. But the Apollo program might still not have been particularly optimized for speed, even though that was the goal. For example, they possibly could have taken a more iterative approach in the Saturn V development, which could have resulted in an even earlier moon landing. It is hard to tell, because for such a large projects there is no good comparison class.
The correlation between supply shocks and inflation is higher than the correlation between loose monetary supply and inflation.
I hope that any attempt Beeper made to negotiate authorized access is made public in an investigation, and Apple’s control of the default secure messaging service baked into all iOS telco customer devices is scrutinized.

If they weren’t concerned about competition, we would have seen iMessage on Android a decade ago.

If they wanted to provide iPhone users a default secure way of messaging competitor hardware, they would have pursued an open alternative to SMS before they faced antitrust investigations.
The long-lasting and widespread nature of C and C++ is why their mistakes are the ones most worth learning from.
I think most of these eponymous laws sound good, but don't pan out in the real world. In my experience, only about one in 10 seems to hold true.
Thats a common misconception among non native speakers, that the letters in the written form have some relation to how the word is pronounced.
Apple Watch Series 9 sales to be halted over patent dispute
Yes, but most of them don't have full content available for free.

With YT, by far the most compelling reason to pay is to get rid of ads.
So tldr: "don't forget to like and subscribe"? /s
Yeah I guess in general I would just rather pay per use for streaming. Also it might feel more like directly supporting the creator.
And hitting your head is a great way to improve your neck muscles.
Ironic take for a comment that exists only as a consequence of what started out as someone complaining about how boring other people's websites look; there's no way out of this—either you agree with the ability to criticize, in which case mine is fair, or you disagree, in which case it's not but then yours isn't either and neither you nor anyone else should bother yourselves or others about the sameness of anyone's websites (instead, focus on not going to the ones that bother you so much in their sameness).

(And choosing to read my comment as an "authoritarian" imposition on "independent webdevs"—not actually stated anywhere? How presumptuous.)
love how these SV dumbasses have adopted an ideology that's rooted in the goal to destroy capitalism.
It's prefix truncation, though.
Humans suffering the abuse have a very low chance of enacting some positive change, a bot suffering the abuse with no company human involved, decreases that low chance to 0
There's a lot more to AI art generation than "putting some prompts into an image generator". Sure, putting some prompts into a generator _also_ counts as "art" in the same manner as "child scribbles doodles on paper" counts as art. But you're dismissing an entire field of aspiring artists without having even a basic understanding of what AI artists do to achieve the images they publish. Go watch some videos of decent AI art workflows and then come back.
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winning economist, has said that most of the inflation we saw was markups - ie firms raising their prices due to inadequate amount of competition.

Here is an 50 min long talk on the subject
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BAsZIHp9HI&t=1217s

Let me know where he's wrong.
Development of Deep Ensembles to Screen for Autism Using Retinal Photographs
Word2Vec received 'strong reject' four times at ICLR2013
For example the Proud Boys far-right US group are also accelerationists:

https://ctc.westpoint.edu/uniting-for-total-collapse-the-jan...

They want to accelerate towards civil racial war in US.
A infographic website and CAD package for rocket motors are apples and oranges.
The Playwright browser automation framework already has backends for Chromium, WebKit and Firefox.

I wonder what it would take to build a Servo backend?

Could be a really fun way to experiment with its capabilities.
That is the literal plan of disinformation campaigns. The few who actually believe the BS is merely a bonus.

The real goal is to get people to give up on finding the truth. At that point, they become easy to manipulate (because there is no outside standard of facts to work around).
PTSD and CPTSD in people with long Covid, ME/CFS, and controls
It's not to keep using something you bought.

It's because you value the artist, and want to support them continuing to make new things that you'll like in the future.

Rapidly changing economic structures can strip away sufficient economic reward via the ordinary way of 'purchasing' things, such that continuing to make them is no longer viable. E.g., Spotify paying artists $3.3 per one thousand streams, but almost no one buying CDs.

They are proposing ways — in this environment — to direct more of the funds directly to the creator, so that they can keep creating. But if continued creation is not of value to you, you are free to skip it.
They were not asking about a political system. They were asking about what democratization means in actuality - Does the "common man" get source code? Do they get to use the tech w/o interference by 3rd parties? Do they get to own the things they make with this tech?

IMO e/acc is just the SV version of Manifest Destiny and it's a self-serving philosophy for people who stand to gain billions and insulate themselves from the downsides the common-man cannot. Democratization means all citizens experience that equally - the good and the bad - but is that what's happening here?
We blew past that point around 2015.
Indeed. If I'm specifying a hash for anything I'm definitely not leaving things up to the very, very wide range of behaviours covered by the C and C++ standards.
Good pain literally is not bad pain as far as many neurons are concerned..!
Of course, I wasn't making an argument that we should make hospitals more fragile...
For this to be true, you would expect to see rapid population growth. There aren't any Western countries with undue population growth levels - the immigrants are brought in to make up the numbers for the millions of babies that aren't being made.
You don't need to distinguish between android and iPhones users to that extent with different colors though. It absolutely was/is discriminatory.
I tried iVnetoy on both Windows and Linux, on Windows I couldn't get it working (don't know why, maybe a firewall issue?), but on Linux it worked flawlessly, and the injection features are also great
No it's not. The LCOE of both solar and wind are universally lower than that of coal, and almost always lower than that of natural gas.
Ah good, that's better than Flattr and previous attempts at this then. Does this mean that if none of the creators you support accept BAT then you aren't paying anything?

Does it mean that if just one of them accepts it then you're paying all of your BAT to them? What if you mostly watch YouTube channels of people who wouldn't be onboard with it, but get linked one video by someone you don't like but they do accept it, do they get all your BAT that month?

Perhaps there are good answers to all of this, but getting it right sounds tricky!
For what it's worth, rust developers are already maintaining an independent C++ implementation of the language: https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc
Top comment said the company was a failure. Doesn´t seem to be the case, since the company was clearly profitable.
Mahjong tiles and Unicode variation selectors
Ask HN: How to focus on learning instead of just finishing tasks in university?
I often find that, instead of actually understanding concepts that are taught in university, I only know enough to complete the assigned work or solve the questions on the exam.

In other words, I know what to do in order to solve the types of questions we're going to have to solve in an exam, but I don't have a real, longer-term understanding of the concepts (or even much of an understanding at all when it's possible to follow steps to solve certain types of problems).

This is coming from a CS degree that teaches a lot of theoretical math concepts. Even for questions where you have to prove something, I often just understand what the proof should look like and what it should include, but I sometimes don't truly 'get' it.

It's also hard to find time to do deeper investigations into concepts when that time spent isn't going to increase my grade and will take away from understanding how to solve problems for other courses.

Does anyone have suggestions for learning things on a deeper level as opposed to just enough to complete an assignment/exam?
> TBMQ is an industry-ready MQTT broker developed and distributed under the ThingsBoard umbrella that facilitates MQTT client connectivity, message publishing, and distribution among subscribers.

TBMQ is a scalable, fault-tolerant broker with the capacity to handle 4M+ concurrent client connections, supporting a minimum of 3M messages per second throughput per single cluster node with low latency delivery. In the cluster mode, its capabilities are further enhanced, enabling it to support more than 100M concurrently connected clients.

You can refer to the TBMQ documentation to set up the broker and understand its primary features, including the MQTT protocol.

These are strong numbers without benchmarks.
Video games take an average of 18h to beat now: https://howlongtobeat.com/stats and on average players will play less than half of that https://deathisawhale.com/2021/01/20/how-many-players-actual...

Excluding multiplayer games with huge replayability AAA titles cost closer to $8-10/h of entertainment.

A LOT of AAA titles can be completed in about 10 hours and still cost $60
When you get married, you are commiting to demonstrating that will to the best of your ability.
Tesla removes Disney+ from some cars amid Elon Musk's Twitter beef with Bob Iger
Electrek heard from a source that Tesla informed Disney+ last week that it would remove its native app from the Tesla Theatre in its vehicles without giving a reason as to why the company.

A few days later, Tesla told Disney that it would actually only remove the app for Tesla owners who never used the app before.

The automaker now appears to have acted on the threat as many Tesla owners are reporting not seeing the Disney+ app in Tesla Theatre anymore. Others, presumably those who have used the app before, are still seeing the app available in their cars.
What Beeper is doing is righting a wrong.
The dice strategy is only unfair if you look at it from the perspective that you’re the only one doing things that way. But lots of people are likely doing something similar to that so that on average across enough people it works out. I would wager that most people who support at least one creator probably still consume media from far more creators than they can afford to support, so they just pick one or two somehow and call it a day. It’s basically the way I do it.
I guess it would be more accurate to say that GPUs are an array of massively parallel SIMD processors, which are their own kind of parallelism. It's parallelism all the way down
Who said anything about turning down a job? You're just moving the goalposts at this point.

Everyone has their own personal device. I chose iPhone. But if I had a job where I had to use an Android for some reason, I wouldn't feel I was FORCED to use an Android, because I would only use that device for work related things, and my preferred device, the personal iPhone for everything else.
I wish we could get other people to agree, the internet was great until it started leaking out into real life and affecting day to day existence. The internet is a meta-reality that keeps asserting itself into our perceived reality and convinces people it should be paid attention to.
They refer to it as a mosasaur[1] in the movie, take it up with them?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World#Plot (or watch)
Here's one thing I don't get; why did the content farms bother creating all those AI-generated variations when they could have just as easily just used the real photo? Does Facebook have some kind of repost detector that this circumvents?
you can expect a serious chilling effect on M&A.

Promise?
New Mixtral HQQ Quantzied 4-bit/2-bit configuration
IMO this is a super ahistorical and overly-simplified reading of technological development. For one, you're painting with an absurdly wide brush. For example: has the rapid development of missile technology "democratized access" to surface-to-air missiles? Obviously not. Technological development comes in many different flavors, and sometimes has nothing to do with "technology" at all (look at the development of push-button elevators). It's not really possible to make realistic statements about "technological development"; you have to apply some qualifications and context.

Even when technology does get developed and shared among people quickly there's very, very good reasons we'd want to slow it down in the name of safety. Thalidomide anyone? What about chloroflurocarbons? I certainly agree that it's no good to keep technological power concentrated in the hands of the already-powerful, but to just claim that all efforts at promoting "safety" inevitability deepen inequality is facile.

The "e/acc" way of thinking is (IMO) Whig history coming from a freshman engineering major.
We are releasing new 2-bit Mixtral models. These ones use a mixed HQQ 4-bit/2-bit configuration, resulting in a significantly improved model (ppl 4.69 vs. 5.90) with a negligible 0.20 GB VRAM increase.

Base: https://huggingface.co/mobiuslabsgmbh/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1-hf-a...

Instruct: https://huggingface.co/mobiuslabsgmbh/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-...

Shout-out to Artem Eliseev and Denis Mazur for suggesting this idea ( https://github.com/mobiusml/hqq/issues/2 )
A tiny tool to estimate cost of OpenAI models