skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the church, despots and criminals have had the chain of command stuff figured out for a while.
NASA sold it as safe and had put an estimate of 1 in 100 000 chance of a catastrophic failure.

Actual number 2 in 135.
I made an analysis on the repos starred by top devs. I found these gems and hope they can be of use to the community.
I linked directly to the pages in the report containing the very tables you've copy-pasted. It's literally one click away.

In case it's not obvious, the entire point is that the actual statistics is not very convenient for the "good-guy v. bad-guy" framing. Why else would I only highlight countries considered in the US as part of the "good guys" camp?

While we're on this topic, US's own ranking drastically worsened between 2019 and 2021, from being #66 worst globally (see p.121) to #27 worst (see p. 111):

> When considering prevalence, five countries – South Korea, Seychelles, the USA, Senegal and Saint Vincent & the Grenadines – entered the list of worst-performing countries in 2021 for the first time, with China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand and Ecuador remaining in the worst performers. (p.28)
Imagine removing the number keys from your phone and calling it progress. Manufacturers build in parental controls and then the customers become children who you can get to do chores for you in order to unlock the right to use them. This business model should be illegal, and barring that it should at least be unpalatable to consumers, but we can't even have that for some reason.
Huh?!

"The perfect swimsuit for those who hate water?"
Great tip! I lost about 25kg chasing my son daily when he was a toddler, without any diet or extra training. But then I slacked. The weight did not really come back quickly, but my fitness deteriorated so much. Running became too challenging for me. But now I am reclaiming my energy, hopefully I can also enjoy running soon!
Not yet, I've got one more milestone to hit before I make it public, and I'm working on some other things before I tackle that.

Release milestones are SMP, networking, amd64. SMP works! Networking works for realtek gigE and virtio-net! amd64 hasn't been started (runs x86-32 bit) and will be a big task and should touch a lot of the kernel and clean up.

But, I wasn't trying to hijack this thread. Email me.
I'm personally a Noodler's X-feather fan, but that's mostly because I usually found myself writing on bad paper back in my school days when I got it, and you just get so much of it too
Not all Tesla owners are aware of this option.

I don't own a CCS adapter yet, although I'm in the market for one. Not because I need it, but because it's nice to have even more options. I did drive through Eastern (edit: Central and Eastern would be more accurate) Oregon twice a couple years on the way to Idaho and back, and superchargers worked fine, but it's always nice to get more granular coverage.

Personally that notion of purity seems alien to me. I also have a CHAdeMO adapter and have needed it once (edit: nope, a few times, just remembered charging at the Nez Perce Casino in Idaho), but it is nice to have the option.
Trying to use technology to get people to spend some time meditating is fun :) I especially enjoyed the gong sound, the font selection, and the friendly wording in your app.

My WIP attempt at achieving something similar: https://ant.care/

There's a button "breathe for food" that'll trigger a similar effect as your website. The difference is that the user is given a digital reward ("food") which they use to feed their digital ant colony.

I'm now trying to add intelligent behaviors to the ant colony in an attempt to make them seem alive and compelling enough for users to repeatedly engage with the breathwork exercises.

Good luck with your project! :)
Everyone uses gguf / safetensors? How model management is done for this kind of tool?
Well I did. Of the four, only Freddie Mamani with his Neo Andean stuff seemed to be doing anything truly different and culturally influenced. The rest are just doing 'Global modern bland'.

I'm honestly not sure how you would classify something like this:

https://www.sensesatlas.com/freddy-mamani-neo-andean-archite...

With anything from

https://olsonkundig.com/

The former looks like something new, where culturally relevant ornamentation truly is given extra weight. The latter looks like any generic fancy building you could find anywhere in the world.

Which I think goes with what I said... there are a handful doing something interesting and they seem to have enough projects. It seems there would be demand. I notice that Mamani in particular is self-taught, which probably explains a lot of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k1yuXiXJCY
Bolt can absolutely fast charge, I've done it myself — the feature has to be added when purchasing, and it's limited to 55kW (~80% in an hour depending on conditions). The slower rate is partially how they kept the price down AFAIK.
I deleted two previous comments because I realized I misunderstood your proposal.
I understand it better now, but I am still confused about something...

Your state machine would need at least 2*160,000 states (you need an extra bit to flag whether you have reached a newline in the last word and need to increment a counter or not), correct? And you are assuming the input is 4 bytes, so won't your transition table need (2^32)*2*160,000 ~ 10^15 entries (at least 3 bytes each)?
This is a much-debated question in the philosophy of mathematics.

One of the stronger arguments that the real numbers were discovered, rather than invented, is their “unreasonable effectiveness” in aiding our exploration and understanding of the physical world.

The same can’t be said for equally abstract but clearly invented concepts such as the rules of chess.
A new prius is ~ 28k?
You still want to focus on force, but most people want other outlets for their political needs. It's when those outlets are unavailable that they resort to force.

For example, Massachusetts isn't attacking New York any time soon, nor is the US invading Canada or France invading Germany. That has nothing to do with force.

People love to embrace violence these days. It's edgy to be cold, but it's actually very important to understand how humanity actually functions, and how our exceptionally peaceful world has been built.
So it sounds like I should "keep an eye" on this space and hopefully at some time in the future give this a try. Do you have any VN examples currently just to see where it's at?
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Ohh, it was not intended to look like a dark pattern and don't want users to feel this way, I take note of it.

You're totally right, live wallpapers would be a great addition.
For the moment the app is a v1.0 that's just been released today so a lot of improvements and new features are planned :)
Did your friend find any relief?
> > Going by your definition, mRNA vaccines weren't innovative until they were used in COVID vaccines, even though they have been worked on for years before.

Unfortunately cancer and viruses will always be with us. The secular trend of people moving to cities will not reverse, that's because of technical realities such as industrial and transportation economies of scale, critical mass of intellectual power and problem solving, logistics in food processing and distribution etc.

People live in cities for convenience and go to the wilderness for re-creation.

> > but starlink isn't really that much more expensive at all compared to average internet

Because it's subsidised by the military AKA tax dollars and VCs AKA future pension dollars of pensioneers and policyholders who are forced at gunpoint to part with some of their wages because government think they are too stupid to administrate their funds on their own.
Paid 95c at several rapid chargers along the A1 between Florence and Naples in August. 65c in towns at slower places. 45 was the cheapest I paid.
So you are basically at the mercy of the OS caching algorithm. That sounds like a bad plan for a benchmark. You are not measuring what you think you are (your code), you are measuring the OS caching policy.
>>"...vessels absent from public monitoring systems, often termed “dark fleets,” pose major challenges for protecting and managing natural resources. Researchers found numerous dark fishing vessels inside many marine protected areas, and a high concentration of vessels in many countries’ waters that previously showed little-to-no vessel activity by public monitoring systems."

Seems like a really good application for Jerry Pournelle's "Rods From God kinetic weapons concept[0].

Trying to make protected marine animals disappear? You might just disappear.

(Zero sympathy for any kind of poaching; we're making ecosystems go extinct fast enough)

[0] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/rods-god-strange-su...
> Despite Liz’s insistence that she’d been asleep when the payments were made, both banks concluded that Liz had authorised the transactions herself, from her own device, meaning she wouldn’t be refunded.

> With Liz’s permission, Rip Off Britain sent her device to a cybersecurity firm for investigation. Pen Test Partners concluded ‘with high confidence’ that the malicious app was linked to or responsible for the fraudulent activity on the device.

> After Rip Off Britain shared Pen Test Partners’ report with Liz’s banks, [the bank] refunded her in full.

Is this process repeatable by others? When the bank refuses to cooperate with you and insists you authorized payments that you didn't, can you send your devices to a third party to inspect? Would banks then be legally required to undo the unauthorized transactions when presented with evidence?

Or was this just a "one time exception" due to the media attention of the story?
it uses CCS
Infinitism
> Why bother going at all?

I've been exploring the most remote corners of the planet for over a decade now, and while I understand what you're saying, constant connectivity is not a problem if you don't want it to be.

I personally don't have a phone, and I prefer not to have "comms" when I go out. I want to be in the wilderness, not connected.

So what I do is carry a turned off sat communicator tucked away safely in my "go bag". If something ever goes badly wrong (worse than it has so far), it will save my life.

Totally worth it.
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Why would that require running your own cell network? The Verizons and T-Mobiles of the world would be happy to stick another cell phone in their roster. The only barrier is getting people to buy it.

Edit: Actually there are plenty of third party app stores for Android already - including several from popular phone manufacturers[1]. The main barrier is probably getting developers to put their software on these stores and getting consumers to buy from them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_app_stores
Maybe for some things. But AMD dropped support for compute (ROCm) for it's RX 580 card after just under 4 years. And there are no open source drivers for compute.
I’ve worked at a few companies that also are just super slow about removing job listings that get filled. There is not much incentive to drop it, and lots of different incentives of leaving it up.
Sadly, it does not provide the list of countries that blocked the library. Internet censorship is what I'm interested in here.
Please add questions that you makes during interviews or before
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to collect a set of questions to ask during an interview (as a candidate) or better when you are contacted by a recruiter or head hunter to understand if that company can be a valid/interesting one.

Please feel free to submit new questions, translate them into different languages.

Link to repo: https://github.com/BrevesOrg/Questions
Running to office is not practical for me, I always have bags on my way to office. How do you run to office?
The US is probably more prepared than any other time in history. That isn't even taking into account NATO. Just our low end surplus hardware is doing a great job of fending off Russia in Ukraine. I can only imagine the storm of nope coming down the pipe for anyone who attacks Taiwan.
and don't forget videogames
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To be honest it's amazing they are still in business.

The company was originally founded on unreasonable goals in the health industry, using DNA array testing to identify risky variants in individuals to help produce better treatments.

It took the CEO about a decade to learn enough to acknowledge that their approach would never have achieved this, because the mapping from genome to risk/treatment is a highly complex function and their mechanism was underpowered and they also repeatedly pissed off and ignored the FDA who then shut them down for a while. The only reason they survived this was, afaict, the CEO's ability to extract money from google to keep operating.

Eventually, the company found that they could do identity by descent really well, much more useful to customers than telling them their earwax properties, and their "recreational genomics" products were extremely popular- enough to sustain a service, but not really enough to sustain advanced research.

They finally got some pharma to give them a bunch of money for their data (basically all the genomic and phenotype data that they collected on their users) ostensibly to do translational health research, but this has not been very productive (and seems unlikely to be truly transformative).

In the meantime they have to keep runing their consumer platform and it clearly had security issues that permitted a large scale data extraction (that's on them, not the customers) and I jusrt can't see how they keep getting money to operate, because their track record in translating data to profit/medicine has been so skimpy.
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From my experience in the industry the problems are usually working out the licensing of tons of licensed code that is included from other companies more than a desire to force upgrades.
It's the same logic both ways. The OS runs 10 background tasks on average at any given time. On one of your runs it was doing 15 things, while on another it was doing 5 things. They are both outliers.
> Who wants to stick around through the apocalypse?

Me. I have kids that I love, and I want them to survive, not die.
> It took me an afternoon hanging out with my electrician cousin and about $400 in parts from Amazon to build our own at-home electric refuelling station.

This is a big reason I haven't even considered an EV. How I'd find someone to do this work on my garage, and how much it would cost is a huge unknown, and that's just enough friction to simply not consider getting an EV.

My vehicles are first and foremost utilitarian; I use them to get from A to B. EVs make that simple equation "complicated", and I have other issues maintaining a household that demand my attention.
Can you elaborate on the runtime layers and how to affect them?
Congrats on the launch. I'd love to import existing characters and assets into the creation process. Is this on the roadmap?
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Also one in Essen, Germany. From some transformer station right into downtown area.
I always feel that fountain pens should come with bigger caveats than they're typically presented with. I absolutely love them (more than you'd even guess), but if someone is just going to "pick up" a fountain pen and just start writing they might be in for a bit of shift. Writing with a fountain pen isn't really the same as writing with a ball point, and there will be some adjustment that goes along with it. If you're just starting out, I'd say to stick with it for a while.

Here's a couple of pointers when it comes to fountain pens...

+ Paper matters... a lot! A lot of feathering and bleeding issues are because of the paper

+ Ink is a whole avenue of exploration in and of itself. Inks have different properties and come in just about any color imaginable.

+ You have far more of a choice of _how_ your pen writes with a fountain pen. This first one is line width, commonly referred to as nib size or point size. If you think about it a little bit before you purchase your first one, you'll be well served.

+ You can use significantly less pressure when writing with a fountain pen. Relax your grip as much as you can.

+ Many in the fountain pen hobby use their pens for more than just utility (notes, forms, etc.) Having an avenue to write for pleasure can help you connect with fountain pens.

+ Your penmanship doesn't need to be good in order to use a fountain pen, and while it may improve with use, it also may be exactly the same. You don't have to do calligraphy or have that be your end goal.

I see a lot of tech people in the fountain pen hobby, and there are cross over hobbies with mechanical keyboards, headphones, watches, and EDC gear.
Full disclosure - I am Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze.

> I heard that Backblaze occasionally has weird gotchas that surprise people, like auto-deleting files from your backups that you delete locally, so I just feel cautious.

We have two similar products, and it's easy to mix them up. To clarify:

Backblaze Computer Backup (a different product from Backblaze B2) deletes old versions of files from your backup either 30 days or 1 year (you choose which) after you delete them locally. You also have the option to enable "Forever Version History", which costs $6/TB per month once your files age out of the backup.

Backblaze B2 (S3-compatible cloud object storage) will never delete anything unless you tell it to do so, either via the API or a lifecycle rule.
The performance parts of a pen are the nib, ink, and hand feel. All of which are cheap to make to a high standard unlike a race car with hundreds of parts made with extreme precision.

The flashy bits of an expensive fountain pen are just there to attract people. Rare wood, expensive metal accents, exclusive brand names don't do anything to add to the writing experience as a whole. Sure they make you feel good cause your in an exclusive club, and that is something, but that doesn't effect the way it writes.
>ith only a ~220 mile range the Tesla needs to stop about every 150 miles for 40 minutes which is brutal.

If you ask my Eastern Europe wife, that's pretty much the way she needs to road trip lol. I think if we get it to 3hrs / 15 minutes break it would be perfect. 240km/40 minutes is a bit of a reach.
Google is bad, but I've tried Perplexity. In fact, I have a premium account, yet I'm not enjoying the experience. It does, sometimes, surprise me about 1 in 10 times with its answers.

I'm curious, what percentage of your queries go to Perplexity?
>The TTY sequences to insert or move lines give all the information needed to avoid scrolling other parts of the screen.

Certainly for VT100 they do not - you can define the scroll region, but it's strictly "between line x and y" or "the whole screen" and you can only scroll up/down the entire region.

The article only address smooth scrolling of entire lines. How do you "scroll only the buffer on the right side of the screen"?
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HN title is wrong. From the article:
"Sure, sales of EVs keep going up — a record 300,000 cars sold in the US in the third quarter of 2023 were electric..."

Discussion is about a more slowly growing market - not one in decline. YoY sales are up like 40%. This is FUD.
Currently, they are running advertisements claiming to offer the best DNA testing kits, but their approach is tarnishing the authenticity of articles.
45 minutes is only if you are trying to charge over 80% which you don’t actually want to do. Unlike gas tanks that have a consistent fill rate, batteries are like a sponge where near empty the charge/fill rate is much much faster than when it’s nearly full. 20% to 80% is about 10 /15 minutes depending on how new the super charger station is. This gives you about another 3 hours of normal highway driving or so depending on conditions like temperature, 70mph+ and how hilly/windy the drive is. However, if you time the stop around meal times then you can take 45 minutes to charge to fill while you are eating at a restaurant.

Sadly, it is true most non Tesla chargers are terrible and require you make an account/give up personal information first and are not maintained well. Tesla does as well but the stations are maintained and the account signup happens when you buy the car so you just plug it in and charge.

There needs to be a just a pay and fill chargers like gas pumps but that doesn’t fly with todays VC vultures.

Electrify America was built by Volkswagen as punishment for the diesel scandal. They have zero interest in maintaining them.
Ah, the battlebot strategy
Currently working in this space on orbital sensor systems, there are about to be a lot of fun ways to hunt these dark vessels and ID them/track them back to their ports. For instance, there are already small satellite constellations that can geo-locate and profile them based on their other RF emissions aside from AIS. The space is also heating up rapidly as this is becoming a national defense priority for a number of different countries that don't want to deal with illegal fishing among a host of other issues that anonymous vessels near their shores present.
You’re not exceptionally paranoid. The only time I ever reveal bank information is after signing an employment agreement and it’s always on the direct deposit authorization provided by ADP/Gusto/w.e HR software they use, never to a company representative.

I’m seeing more and more applications ask for DEI information like sexual orientation and gender identification too - information that I consider almost as private. I can’t believe anyone fills them out sight unseen.

But as the sibling comment says, wisdom comes with age (mistakes)
I used to use Pilot G2s and was a huge advocate for them until I tried the Uniball Jetstream RT. I just think it writes more smoothly.

But I've never actually had to put a refill in -- I bought a 3 pack of those about 8 years ago and they're still all going strong. I just don't write enough.
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