skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I guess if somebody creates a startup and sells it can be luck.

Musk did that and earned 20m. Ok lets claim luck, internet was crazy. Then he exited his next one with 100M. Well again lucky, its just internet stuff I guess.

Then he invested that in 2 companies, both in capital intensive technology industries that had a long history of failure where the US was not at all world leading. Now both companies are being valued over 100 billion $.

Like to claim that all of this is luck is just a claim that doesn't make any fucking sense. Maybe if both of the 2 companies had continue to exit and were just kind of there and hanging on, maybe then you could argue that somehow that is luck.

But leading two companies like Tesla/SpaceX at the same time revolutionizing the industry they are in. Common.

Twitter is different in that he bought a company that most people thought was totally overvalued and not profitable for far to much money when the value was very high and he did it for political reasons. That was of course stupid but it doesn't at all prove that he was just lucky up to this point.
Definitely freaky, but antibiotics are just biotics too- they're just the warrior/spartan kind that have a tendency to kill off all of the other guys.
"Blatant lies"? It's my opinion, based on what I see here in the UK, and what I see coming from the US. And what I see is not very critical of Israel's actions at all. Sometimes there's a "surface" of it, but invariably with language that both diminishes Israel's culpability and dehumanises Palestinians.

Hell, I still see Western media repeating the untruths of mass raprs, babies hung on clothes lines etc, even though they were debunked a long time ago, and even Israel now admits those events didn't happen and, furthermore, admits many civilians were killed by Israeli helicopter and tank fire on October 7th.

I will say I've noticed a small improvement in the past week or two, with publication of many more stories of the horrors of what Israel is doing in Gaza, and some improvement in language use.
Not an insider: can you share some perspective?
I think a stronger statement is that zig is explicitly created to out-C c. Even the high level comptime stuff evolved out of simplification and explicit-ification of some opaque things that c (and especially c++) compilers might do.
Airports are accessible via Uber, which is only a fraction of the cost of the plane ticket.

When you're visiting your kids you don't even need that on their end because they pick you up at the airport. When you're traveling the destination may not even be in the US much less the city or state where you have a vote on local transit systems.

Also, that leg of the journey is the one served by Greyhound. Either way you have to get from the bus station or airport to your ultimate destination.
Hack of Mortgage Lender Mr. Cooper Ensnares 14.7M People
> When an application frees an object it always has the original, requested allocation size on hand.

This is false in general. If it's true in your library that you have this old size on hand, then design the allocator callbacks with old-size arguments in free and realloc. If it's not convenient, then don't design those arguments in.

Most of the time, the allocator implementation will the be the default one via malloc and free, where the size is not required, so you're making the caller calculate or retrieve a value that is thrown away before the allocator is called.

There are situations in which a program would have to calculate the size in order to recover it. A trivial example is when a string is duplicated (as with the POSIX strdup function).

If the free function required the original request size, we would have to free the string using free(str, strlen(str) + 1) rather than just free(str).

Another example is when we have a header structure followed by a flexible array member. We can't just free(obj) but something like free(obj, offsetof(obj_t, array) + sizeof(obj->array[0]) * obj->nelems).

The allocated size could be stored in an extra field, but that's not something required when the allocator is malloc/free.
https://kab.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Litter-Study-Summ...

> Significant progress has been made reducing litter on U.S. roadways in the past decade. The Study estimates litter
on America’s roads was down 54 percent since 2009. That decrease of roadway litter builds on the 2009 National
Visible Litter Survey that estimated that visible litter had been reduced 61 percent between 1969 and 2009.

Where is the data that shows that it's a non-decreasing problem? Or that the problem isn't being dealt with quickly enough?

And if it needs immediate attention, why not talk about the kinds of remedy? Woodsy Owl had a huge PR effect and greatly raised awareness when I was a kid. That plus a healthy dose of in-their-face shaming stopped a bunch of littering.

For context, Woodsy Owl poster from back in the day:

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_529340

And some background plus an image of what I consider Woodsy in skinny jeans:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb51937...
If the worst of climate change predictions turn out to be true, this could make him one of the most beneficial humans of our time...

Not really. Methane from cows causes more harm to the environment than cars do. If he had gotten the world to go vegan, that would have been doing the impossible. Musk made an idea fashionable and sold carbon credits.
I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but there is something to be said for considering this critical infrastructure. If the bus stops are going to be strip mined for the real estate value, then there should be some sort of agreement to find better termination points for this transit. In Chicago, Union Station and both Ohare and Midway airports come to mind, as they are multi modal and also have taxi and public transportation systems plugged into them already. You can hop on the blue line at Ohare or the orange line at Midway. Union Station plugs into Metra and Amtrak.

If America has traditionally relied on the private sector for this (robust bus terminal hubs), we’ll have to revisit the public sector delivering in its place. “Minimum Viable Infrastructure” or something like that.
Simulate global state tradeoffs in React concurrent mode
If you aren't sure why state tearing was a hot topic a few years ago, when React's concurrent mode was first discussed, this github discussion should help: https://github.com/reactwg/react-18/discussions/69.

Tanner Linsley had a great post on twitter that suggested that concurrent rendering was fundamentally at odds with fine-grained reactivity, so to better understand what he was talking about I decided to write this demo.
The images are embedded into the CSS.
The opening scene, although they don't go into much detail about how the submarine works.
"this book puts founders ahead by several years of testing and experimenting"
I finished writing my playbook on building startups.

Here is the free copy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1636axcjb3Ut7Ko0G_9upU3bDHNuK-2dz/view?usp=sharing

Here is the Kindle copy: https://www.amazon.com/Chameleon-Founder-Bootstrap-Million-Dollar-Startup-ebook/dp/B0CN4YH2LP

Mind sharing your feedback?

Thanks.
> That's only as secure as the weakest CA in their trust store though, right?

You are absolutely right. Not only the weakest CA but now you needlessly involve a lot of third (or at least one third party).

It is not something I like but some of our partners demand it.
It doesn't even show an example of a json file and its equivalent in muon.
yes - maybe a good filter for future academic success, which seems to be a game unto itself
All the scientifically relevant stuff would have gotten into space, Musk, SpaceX or not. All those Starlink satelites? I am still not convinced they provide any actual added value, besides giving SpaceX another product to raise funds against (Elon tried the same thing with FSD, which worked out less good so far).

Also, we were well on our path to EVs, Tesla (not Musk himself alone) accelerated that. Ten years so is bold claim, and attributing that all to one single person is just nonesense.

Edit: Tesla made shit tons of money by selling CO2 credits to legacy car makers, so in reality Musk (rather Tesla, but that distinctions is difficult) had close to no positive impact on climate change and instead profited of others continue to polute. All Musk cares about is his image as being the tech-god savior of mankind, that and money.
When you don’t have a GPL implementation, the only good implementation might be closed source fork of the LLVM version, effectively forking Rust into Rust and Rustium. Will life be good then?
Yeah, incredible that there was a brief period of time where Mozilla almost made Firefox exciting again.
As someone who lived in a place that's still dealing with pfoa contamination, your characterization of "anti-progress doomsayers" feels insensitive. If you tell people that they and their kids have toxic chemicals in their blood at 100x the normal concentration they're going to be concerned. Writing them off as outliers is dismissive and misses the point; it doesn't matter if things are safe in small doses if companies can't be trusted to avoid exposing people to unsafe doses.

From a 2016 study in Vermont:

> More than 400 wells tested positive for PFOA. More than 300 wells had
concentrations at levels greater than the state’s PFOA/PFOS drinking water
standard of 20 parts per trillion (ppt). The maximum level of PFOA detected in a
private drinking water well was 4,600 ppt.

https://dec.vermont.gov/sites/dec/files/documents/PFAS%20Sam...
Water probably isn't grid connected like electricity. Nor does the supply need to perfectly match the demand every second. There is quite a bit of water storage in the system.

There might be pumps, in addition to just gravity assisted transportation of water. When energy is cheap, we can do both desalinate + transport.
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More over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38682631
So aggression gets rewarded by handing them something they wanted. Do you really think that this is the end, this is all they wanted and from now on they are peaceful world citizens?

Every time you hand something to aggressors you need to hand them more the next time.

How many km between russia and the border of the country where you live?

For me it's 0.

You either help Ukraine now or be ready to fight yourself sometime in the future.

It's like in the winter you are cold and you pee in your pants. It will be warm for a moment end then what?
While I actually agree with you personally that not everything should have to grow forever, a business that "just" delivers a consistent profit every year is considered a failure by those who expect YoY capital appreciation (at some multiple of the interest rate on a savings account), i.e. shareholders. Such businesses usually get sold to someone with a "growth" plan for them, which is usually some combo of combining overhead expense by merging it with another business, cost-cutting, as well as the more toxic short-term tricks such as selling all their owned land and leasing it back to goose profits for a few years. Oh, and share buybacks.
Mobile Is Actually Pretty Hard.
Traditionally, each node is its own machine. virtual-kubelet creates a virtual node that is a proxy to some other pod infrastructure. In the case with FKS, each pod in the virtual node is a machine (a node in the traditional sense), so it’s equivalent of having an anti-affinity on all pods with an infinite node pool.
> Had to do a lot of work to get node utilization ... higher than 50%

How is this the schedulers fault? Is this not just your resource requests being wildly off? Mapping directly to a "fly machine" just means your "fly machine" utilization will be low
>I am an admin, should I drop everything and fix this?

>Probably not.

(I will preface this by saying I'm likely missing something obvious.)

I am an admin, and it's not clear _how_ I might fix this at the server end.

Edit: thanks for the replies, I'll sit tight for now.
It seems like the implicit assumption is that there must be a harm somewhere, we just haven't found it yet. But as a consumer, I'm not sure that is true? Even the Amazon paper seems to admit that there isn't any consumer harm to be found, only harm to smaller competitors' businesses. But that feels like an odd standard to apply since isn't any business's primary purpose to compete with / harm competitors?
In hindsight, reviewer f5bf’s comment is fascinating:

> - It would be interesting if the authors could say something about how these models deal with intransitive semantic similarities, e.g., with the similarities between 'river', 'bank', and 'bailout'. People like Tversky have advocated against the use of semantic-space models like NLMs because they cannot appropriately model intransitive similarities.

What I’ve noticed in the latest models (GPT, image diffusion models, etc) is an ability to play with words when there’s a double meaning. This struck me as something that used to be very human, but is now in the toolbox of generative models. (Most of which, I assume, use something akin word2vec for deriving embedding vectors from prompts.)

Is the word2vec ambiguity contributing to the wordplay ability? I don’t know, but it points to a “feature vs bug” situation where such an ambiguity is a feature for creative purposes, but a bug if you want to model semantic space as a strict vector space.

My interpretation here is that the word/prompt embeddings in current models are so huge that they’re overloaded with redundant dimensions, such that it wouldn’t satisfy any mathematical formalism (eg of well-behaved vector spaces) at all.
If you electrolyze seawater, to make hydrogen when the grid is over producing...and then you burn it to produce electricity when the grid is in need....can you capture the waste water from the exhaust... and call the entire process desalination?
word2vec does not require a large amount of data

mnist might have required a large amount of data at its creation, but it became a staple dataset

There was a lot of evolution before ChatGPT
Well, that is interesting to detect new PFAS chemicals in water. Then, we get this this neat tidbit:
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) keeps a list of more than 14,000 known or potential per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)."

Why do we need 14,000+ different PFAS substances? I honestly did not know there was this many out there.
VW is putting buttons back in cars
> All in all I feel like D&D has too many rules (but crucially not enough to not leave details up to interpretation) and too many artificial limits on the characters one can play.

Aye, that was my feel, and why I gravitated to other systems. GURPS for example lets you do basically anything (albeit by making it complex as hell), and things like FATE, or Powered By the Apocalypse games, just abstract or simplify it.

Cy_Borg is also a Mork Borg cyberpunk spinoff which was kinda cool. Didn't get around to playing it but enjoyed the book. Like MB it went hard on the style.
Nikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to 4 years for securities fraud
I had heard of this before..

>Sergey [Brin] wrote an app that lets you throw phone up in the air, measure how many seconds until you catch it or it hits the floor.

https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/9/our-favorite-part-of-...
That's about the size of the business, not about being new and rapidly growing. I think the large majority of small businesses are not startups.
Amen. The prose is some of the best English one will ever encounter. There are lines in there that stop you in your tracks for their beauty, depth, surprise, etc.

I will say that there were several paragraphs/run-on-sentences where I recall saying to myself “Ok Melville, you’ve gone a little too far this time”…only to find, come the final line, that against all odds he would tie the whole thing together.
Also, after a quick Google search, it looks like it's religiously affiliated. They don't seem to make that apparent on their website though.
If Biden sides with Masimo and Apple’s appeals are unsuccessful, it may have to modify the Watch’s software to remove the blood oxygen feature in order to resume sales.

Not that I use the feature all that often, but if I did, I guess it would be time to turn off automatic updates until it gets sorted.

TFA is extremely light on details, given that Apple is effectively ordering a stop-ship on their hardware. Was there an attempt at negotiation? If so, that failed because...? If not, why didn't that happen? Apple has a bit of cash, but their pockets aren't infinitely deep; was Masimo asking too much?
> Or rather, at what point of an apps growth cycle does k8s become appropriate?

The real problem is that the point it becomes attractive to have something like Kubernetes is not too far from the point where Kubernetes becomes an overly-complex mess of disparate parts.
> All those Starlink satelites? I am still not convinced they provide any actual added value

Tell that to the Ukrainians. I'm told that they're big fans of Starlink as of late, I wonder why.
Congrats to the Paged Out team for bringing back the community zine after 4 years!

Between the old-school hacker spirit and the short-form content, this is a real gem.
Oh please elaborate!
But I can guess that a lot of confidential information was shared during the due diligence and that’s, even worse, most Figma employees already assumed it was a done deal and started openly sharing source code etc. with Adobe.
Mara’s blog post (your first link) says essentially that Rust does not need a standard since it already has means for adding features and maintaining compatibility.
I would assume it also means additional configuration options for already-supported architectures.

For example, I recently discovered that with RISC-V, GCC supports the RV32E target but LLVM doesn't.
LLMs currently are great at language tasks - summarize, generate ideas, some QA if you are okay with hallucinations. Similar with text -> image. Has many glitches.

Haven't seen a major ML model rooted in physical reality, or symbolic AI that is really good at complex math (never makes a mistakes, no hallucinations).

In that perspective, what does safety mean here?

Like it doesn't blurt out how to hack, or sensitive PII information it slurped up while training?

My understanding is all LLM and generative AI safety concerns are around censorship and bias i.e What kind of questions it should not answer, or tread around sensitive topics.

Is this this something fundamentally different?

> We have defined thresholds for risk levels along the following initial tracked categories - cybersecurity, CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear threats), persuasion, and model autonomy.

I'd hope they define what they mean by 'persuasion' here?
Middle-class fear of green policies fuels the far right, Colombia's Petro warns
We're bigger than US Steel. First sentence that raced to my mind when I saw this. Hyman Roth; legend.
I mean, sure, but didn’t every single one of those clients have to adjust everything because of the rise of digital?

“Just a website” was common criticism and still is.

Great quote though. Those were heady days.
“Last year, Alden subsidiary Twenty Lake Holdings purchased 33 Greyhound stations for $140 million. Alden is best known for buying up local newspapers like The Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and The Baltimore Sun, cutting staff, and selling some of the iconic downtown buildings.”

“Twenty Lake Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Alden Global Capital, purchased 33 Greyhound stations from the U.K. conglomerate FirstGroup late last year.”

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/18/greyhound-alden-bus-station...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/21/firstgroup-...
I don't see the article addressing how crime and homelessness play into downtown bus transit.

Downtown greyhound terminals are the most consistently delipidated and crime prone (seeming) parts of the city.

As a poor student, I took a ton of grey hound buses and the central drop off locations always looked shady.

Big bustling cities would drop you in the middle of the city's worst poverty. While smaller crumbling cities treat the greyhound stop as homeless central.

I'll say, my experience is more so in the North East corridor which is more densely populated and the bus networks are well used.

As long as greyhound buses are the choice transportation of the drug addicted, there is no amount of sugar that will make them seem appealing.

Even as an stubborn transit user, I have sworn off intercity buses in both the US and surprisingly Europe too. Just the smell is enough of a deterrent.
I guess the parent's point was that it's better for Figma to be acquired by a company that clearly has a Figma-shaped hole in their lineup, rather than someone with a lot of existing overlap that will likely just strangle it quietly in the night.
Looking at all the comments congratulating them for their woodwork it seems largely accurate :(
I've taken to using MQTT as an interprocess communication bus for embedded systems.

When you run the broker on the same device as your clients you can do some really nice things, like take messages out of the device and into your development machine. Or inject them.
To be great, be good, repeatably (2019)
That's definitely happening for some people, like yourself and others here on HN, but it's also pretty clear that there is a large % of people, whether MAGA or older or dumber or less educated or something else, who aren't ever going to figure it out. All the science and expertise and logical arguments and appeals to sensibility do not matter, and this has become readily apparent over the past 5-10 years. So while it might feel good to hope that there is a silver lining, it's just wishful thinking. Let's not accelerate towards a mirage.
i don't use figma or photoshop products, but this makes me happy.
Sad, because this is the way B2B relationships should work. But you only get "normal" competitive-cooperative behavior because both companies happen to be giants.
> And this is why I remain skeptical of renewables as base load energy.

Someone should tell countries like Germany then \s

https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/german...
Dude...

YT is cheap like hell.

It has one of the most diverse high quality content I know.

Way of entry for producers/creators is tremendously low.

YT löst a lot of money for years.

If we are not even able to pay 12$ / month for YT what do you want? Everything for free adfree?
Will the NYSE ticker 'X' become free now?

Paging Elon Musk...
In case you're in that situation, it's the job of the prosecutor to prove where you were if that is relevant to his case.

All that your phone data would support is a claim of where your phone was.
I think the desal math changes a bit because it also produces a product beyond just batteries. For particularly arid or water poor locations where you need desal anyways, seems like this could be a win (think islands or the middle east).

That said, you'd probably still want batteries to supply power to things like a desal plant when water levels are low.
Also, we can charge EVs. Grid connected batteries may or may not use the energy, but EVs will use some portion of it every day, and can be charged again the next day when there is excess energy.

Power price goes negative +200M times/year, just in the US and it is increase. It would be wonderful to get paid for charging EV. Tesla Electric customers report making as much as $150 a day[1]. Car batteries are bigger than powerwall, EV owners can make quite a bit of money by participating in VPP (Virtual Power Plant).

(1) https://electrek.co/2023/07/05/tesla-electric-customers-repo...
GPT Directory
Interesting that the president of the USA has the duty to also review this kind of disputes. If he can pardon people and in USA corporations are people could in theory the president pardon a company for some crime they did ?