skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He seems to spout a lot of things about free speech, and about how Twitter is the only place to get your voice heard without censorship, etc. But if a journalist crosses him or pens an article that paints one of his companies in a negative light... they're gone.
> It's pretty hard to force an ecosystem to do something, when they have no natural incentive to do it.

You don't need an ecosystem to do it, you only need one manufacturer, because the competing ecosystem already exists.

Suppose someone produced an ARM or RISC-V system board in an ATX form factor with BIOS or UEFI and standard PCIe and memory slots etc. That's all you need -- then you use the same chassis, power supply, memory, expansion cards, etc. as any commodity PC without having to establish a new ecosystem for any of those things.
They should combine buttons with a touchscreen. 80s remotes sometimes had too many buttons:

https://images3-hu-secure.gs-static.com/products/4096x4096/2...
My hot take:

ALL AI wearable companies should return their money to investors, and wait for the AR glasses by Apple.

AR glasses are the ultimate form factor. And as much as I hate monopoly, Apple has the right app/dev ecosystem, and will make Siri work.
Why can't the west use radio jammers to make any drone non-responsive once it leaves Yemen ? Russia has been doing this on its border with great success.
Elon isn't above lying
Ah, I mixed it up with one of Google's old messengers, sorry.
I do also. (Firefox)

It's a vimeo embed

Edit: My feedback is that it's too slow. I wish the features were shown off before I had to get a layman's education for several minutes. I'm also really concerned that his uber will arrive before the pizza.

I like the device. It seems easy enough for my elderly father to use, and he won't lose it as "one of the websites" he can ask for help. There's something important about the focus a physical device brings; he can remember how to use it, where it's at, etc. The GPT UI I built him gets lost in his bookmarks, and he forgets it exists.
Wait until they see the AD Scout

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_Scout
>but who is

The guy who runs GAB, pretty much everything that's not pornography is allowed there.
> You likely risk your life more every time you get in a car than getting in one of these planes.

This statistic always comes up, but there is a big picture missing in it.

In a plane, you are a completely powerless passenger. There is absolutely nothing you can do to improve your odds, everything is in the hands of multiple third parties.

If you go drive your own car, there is a huge amount of influence you can do to improve your odds. Maintain the car well, it's yours so you can. Make the decision to only drive if you are alert (not sleepy, not drunk, not under emotional stress), it's a decision you control. Become a better driver through training (car control, accident avoidance - these trainings exist even if they are unfortunately not required), another aspect which is under your control.

Humans work best when they have a fighting chance. With driving there is a lot you can proactively do, in a plane there is exactly nothing you can do.
Performance tuning is not a skillset enterprise DBAs usually have.
FCC's Affordable Connectivity Program dangles by a financial thread
To elaborate, I’m using managed databases that abstract away scaling so that my UX as a developer is that they are scaling horizontally (in data, and cost).

While I’m pre-launch and doing testing, using a more traditional vertical model is money out of my pocket. And it’s not something I want to maintain after I launch either.

Also, I’m creating something (a freemium game) where as a solo dev it will only be worth it for me to continue working on the business if it sees explosive growth. If I’m lucky enough for that to materialize, there will be at least a few months before I can hire fulltime help for the product (while also being busy doing tons of other stuff) - it would be terrible to have to handle tons of db operations tasks or re-architect things to support growth during that time.

Basically, vertical scaling is optimizing for the wrong level of usage. It’s actually the same for many of the snarky “your startup doesn’t need horizontal scaling” comments here - if your states are {building, huge growth, failure} then horizontal scaling is perfect because it keeps your costs low while you’re building and handles the huge growth phase more gracefully. Yes, maybe you’ll never get to the huge growth phase, but the entire business is oriented around either getting there or failing.
Looks like they currently have around 4.51 GW of power generation in the state based off of this (someone please double check my math, but 3250GWh in Sept / 720 hours in Sept = 4.51GW): https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=NM#tabs-4, so this should be a 53% increase in power generation for the state. Truly a massive project.
The problem with modern management is that they are rarely accountable to those that have been wronged. Rather, they are accountable to their bosses. And the are fine as long as they are sycophantic bootlickers.
> you don't need parental support if you live in a country that actually has a decent social safety net.
[...]
> if all else fails i can go back home

So do you need the parental support or not?
I don't think you can use 1Password passkey without turning on the default password manager; at least, you cannot login using apple account passkey on the computer with 1Password.
I think the optimistic take for investors is maybe they make some interesting LLM-phone tech and get acquired?
No one, including us, will be able to use personally identifiable information (your name, phone number, email address, etc.) for any purpose other than serving you.

Has some CPP vibes.
I cannot speculate as to the magnitude, but I suspect that having your blog copied by some spam-type and then them hitting you for a copyright violation might be a chilling factor.
Oh no. They're going to take my bagged milk away.

https://www.tvo.org/article/think-bagged-milk-is-weird-think...

When I was a kid, many had their lunch sandwiches in a re-used milk bag too. And you can use the empty bags to store other stuff in the fridge.

Are you going to take a big milk jug, or a cardboard milk container, and use it like a sandwich bag? It's so useful.

It's the perfect way to get milk. PERFECT.

And now.. this.
> but I don't know the details of how iOS works

Oh right, I guess you don't really know about iOS sandboxing then. So it won't be a super constructive debate given that your position is apparently fundamentally based on your intuition about iOS sandboxing. Remember that line [0]?

> I don't think security is an argument for PWA. The argument for PWAs is "I know webtech and it would be cheaper if everything ran in Chromium".

Security is MY argument for distributing software in the browser vs as a desktop or mobile application. If you refuse to engage me about the point I'm making, then you're arguing against a straw man, which ultimately indicates that you just don't have a strong rebuttal, which is what I've been saying since the very beginning [1].

> Be assured that if the discussion was about using Android everywhere (web, mobile, desktop), I would be against it as well. I don't want a one-size-fits-all solution, because it usually doesn't fit that well, and it kills diversity.

So you're an Android developer who's mortally afraid of Google hegemony? That's some next level cognitive dissonance. If you're afraid of Google dominance, I'm sorry to tell you this, but Android is their best tool for accomplishing that goal. The EU fined them 5 billion in 2018 over this, and told them to stop "forcing manufacturers to preinstall Chrome and Google search in order to offer the Google Play Store on handsets. Google will also need to stop preventing phone makers from using forked versions of Android" [2]. You're afraid of the influence of Chrome, and want people to develop directly for Android, but Google is using their Play Store and all of its Android apps as leverage to force manufacturers to preinstall Chrome (and Google search). Android apps give Google the leverage to force Chrome down everyone's throats.

You're afraid of a Google browser monoculture, and don't think Firefox and Safari present enough competition, and your solution is for people to develop apps directly for Android and iOS, where there's even less competition? And by the way, the only competition Android has is a closed source operating system (iOS) that doesn't even allowing sideloading apps or competing app stores. If web apps were more popular we wouldn't have a mobile duopoly (iOS and Android), or a desktop duopoly (Windows and macOS), because the web is an open platform and there are web browsers on every operating system (including desktop Linux, the various BSD variants, Ubuntu Touch, et cetera). This is why I told you a long time ago that you've got it all backwards [3].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38913989

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17580694/google-android-e...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38917623#:~:text=You%27....
Per mile is a ridiculous metric when comparing two totally different modes of transportation. Think about how many car trips a single flight represents.
Lead Generation Landing Page: Why and How?
I'll second cc101 (writing is thinking) and MountainMan1312 (accessible, searchable notes help a lot). Also... you know... the usual... proper nutrition, proper sleep, moving your body.
The most naturally gifted pianist who ever lived may have never seen a piano. One doesn't need any study to confirm practice, rightly done [1] improves performance, only to attempt to quantify it.[2] The better adage is one I first heard from a Little League coach: "Practice like you play."

[1] Practicing incorrectly can lead to bad muscle memory that can hinder performance. E.g. learning to touch type after years of 4 finger hunting and pecking v learning how to touch type the first time you start using a keyboard.

[2] Sitting in a waiting room years ago I read an article in a science digest of some sort extolling how physicists explained why the air smells differently after rain. They used time-laspe photography, zoom, and optical spectography (???) Or something to capture spores being released into the air. I was baffled. Once you know of the actual existence of molecules, spores, and the like why would you need to prove to your eyes what your nose already tells you. If you think it's a bad example I am not knowledgeable enough to say you're wrong, but I do belive humans in general have a disposition to more readily accept evidence received by the eye than we are any other sense except touch.
> For millions of people living in poverty and homeless around the world and in the US itself, the capitalism system is a failure.

You're blaming an economic framework for what in the majority of cases is failure of government. Frankly half a million homeless Americans is far better than the current alternatives of Russia or China... It isn't a very good point.

in 1950 the average American home was 900 ish sq ft. Today the average American has 900sqf of space IN their home. We went from united fruit (misery where governments were weak) to fruit, coffee, tea, chocolate, cobalt, nickel... Americans got fat, and everyone else had the same level of suffering (maybe).

Candidly it's been "a large proportion of the planet living in misery" forever. We're still the same monkeys who raped and murdered the neanderthals out of existence, we haven't really evolved since we salted the earth at Carthage.

Look at the USSR, everyone was going to get a house, and a car and a.... Status wasn't about money it was about who got one first. At a point in Chinese communism status was indicated by pens (how many, if you keep them in a pocket)... The way you got ahead in these systems was graft, bribery and birthright. At least in the US and EU there is some sense of being able to elevate myself and a path to get there. The problem is that some people don't want to take it, they don't want to put the work in. The reality is that their quality of life is going to decline in the continuing global future because there isn't enough to go around.

The current trend of wealth leading to decline in population (birth rate below replacement) is fascinating. The US makes up for it with immigration, china and Japan not so much, and Europe is going to have a cultural shift because of it. The next few decades will be interesting.

The reality is that we're picking the option that sucks the least. I, am not happy about it, but no one has shown up with a better alternative that WORKS.
Any notable plateau is assuredly way over $75k.

Not being anywhere near as stressed, and spending at-most 5% as much time thinking and worrying about money as I did when we were struggling, sure frees up a lot of energy and time to pursue happiness, if not providing it directly (i.e. not even counting when I'm able to trade cash for things like free time to play with my kids or spend more quality time with my wife, let alone buying toys, which, hell, is also genuinely nice).

I'm certainly grateful every damn time we have some mid-tier emergency pop up and the part of my brain dedicated to money just goes "hm, that's a shame" and then shuts up, rather than screaming "OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK" for a day or three. It'd be madness to suggest there's not a strong correlation between that relief and general happiness.
I purposefully buy my appliances as 'dumb' as possible. The only thing I own that needs to be 'smart' is my computer, and I have complete control over its operating system.
This isn't about storage. They build hydro dams on running rivers.
FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete data
It's ok to disagree, we don't have to accuse each other of mendacity.

I stand by what I said, although my experience is in the technical domain, not finance or law. Maybe those departments are different, I don't know.
I was thinking the other day that the power of things like docker or systemd is in recognizing that there is utility in "spawn something in a hermetic environment" for different shades of environment, and Nix would absolutely slot in the hierarchy as an environment with specified build configurations... which is something that absolutely should be a killer, widely used tool like, well, docker files are.

That it's not indicates that there is a reason why it's not, and I don't think it's because of a lack of demand. Rather, I think there's something about Nix that causes people to bounce off it hard, and if people want Nix to be more widely used, then it absolutely is a problem that aficionados of Nix need to look at and address.
He visited Israel a month ago.

This man has the ideological orientation of a windvane.
Do you ever get to a place where you actually have to scale it? Like, the PC from my teenager age would probably be more than fast enough for 80% of companies' data.

Also, are you sure your data is actually in a correct view across all these "realms"?
Wait, what? There's no point in that.. Having flown nearly a decade its more common than not flying the same route with different tail than yesterday.
The article says the public inquiry started in 2021 and is ongoing.
> Also the engine’s code is _very_ easy to follow

This is one of the best parts of Godot, it's small enough to compile pretty quickly, and simple enough that you can jump in and understand the code and debug any problems with minimal friction.

The maintainers are also good about quickly accepting small bug fix PRs.

And yeah, the development experience with GDExtension is now really nice, though it's best to do a little work to set up a CMake project rather than relying on scons.
I think most even semi-experienced developers know this. But doing the right thing is against their career grow goals so they overcomplicate the architecture on purpose.
Exactly. Historically semiconductors don't generate much profit. 2% profit would be a banner year for Samsung. 85% reduction from that would not be that notable.
Sapphire is the safest bet. ASRock, MSI and Powercolor also tend to make good cards.

And yeah, with the monster-sized high-end GPUs, you'll need to take some precautions no matter the brand.
The planes only start transmitting when they are ready to go (not sure if they do it after pulling out of the gate or when doors close or thereabouts). So by the time you see the flight data you're most likely boarded already. So yes, too late.
Again, that number is almost certainly an insignificant risk for an individual taking a random flight to worry about. That does not imply or relate to being an insignificant number airline safety regulators should not worry about or force improvement on. Air safety has been successfully held to a much higher standard than the vast majority of other safeties, and we should definitely try to maintain that, but that's unrelated to whether it's reasonable to be personally concerned about which plane model you take your flight on due to personal risk avoidance.
Sony uses Samsung QD-OLED panels in their top of the line OLED models. They then use LG W-OLED to fill out the rest of their lineup.
It can perform a lot of computational work, but yeah it can't yet interface directly with the DOM. I'm not sure about whether it can access the network or other things, but I don't believe that it can.
I'm not sure I follow. It's so bad there's an in-joke among the left that their memes are walls of text referencing the most dense prose you'll ever read and that the required reading will take you years to complete. The bar seems to be rather high.

Is there a similar self-deprecating joke amongst the right? What's the required reading list look like for those on the right?
Provably? I'll leave that up to the academics.

Practically? I've never had someone throw a problem at me I couldn't model in SQL. Not saying I can guarantee performance, but in terms of abstract modeling I've never encountered something that can't be done "clean".

I'd like to use the analogy of painting. What can't you paint on that canvas that isn't trivially-hindered by the available media? Can you actually describe that space of things?

In my estimation, premature optimization is why most people can't work in these terms. You wind up with a tuple like WorldObjects and immediately go off the deep end about a billion row scale before you are done naming things.
>Tire factories start with bulk raw materials such as synthetic rubber (60% -70% of total rubber in the tire industry[2][3]), carbon black, and chemicals and produce numerous specialized components that are assembled and cured.

Looks like most of the rubber used these days is synthetic[1], usually made of styrene and butadiene which could easily degrade into base monomers or at least shorter chains.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_manufacturing
Great analogy from the post:

> There is an episode of Star Trek where a character is for plot reasons trapped in a shrinking parallel universe. As time passes, people she knows one by one just vanish and she is the only one who seems to notice. Eventually it gets to an absurd point. She asks if it really makes sense if a ship made for a thousand people would have a crew of a few people, and everyone just sort of like shrugs and looks at her like she’s crazy. That’s basically what the last decade of the Internet. It feels like it’s shrinking. Like parts of it are vanishing.
The article is more about how to pin to prevent breakage, but also includes a link to the migration guide. A draft of the complete changeset is https://numpy.org/devdocs/release/2.0.0-notes.html. The changes move NumPy closer to the Python array API standard https://data-apis.org/array-api/latest/ which lays out a common, agreed-upon interfaces for tensor/array processing libraries.
Now Palantir has its hooks into their Health Service.
Cool project!

Last time I tried Nix on MacOS it did not end well. Maybe I’ll try this in a VM and see how it goes…
I thought the argument by those for censorship was in this order:

1. You have no right to hate speak.
2. Companies don't have to give you a platform.
3. It's not censorship unless the government is doing it!
4. Muh freez peach

I guess we are now trying to walk back our previous declarations by saying that "Free Speech" and "Absolute Free Speech" are distinct things.

How about instead we learn that if we censor and silence critics that the same tactics will be used by the other side, and a civilized society this does not make.
Literally any way you slice it, flying a major airline in the U.S. is safer than any other form of transportation, including walking.
I can only imagine of Google faced the full firehose of their search traffic at your blog that most people would go broke paying their web bill.

This said, I do think the bigger issue is we have pretty much 2 big search engines so there is no real competition in the market. And that those search engines are also ad companies and have a vested interest in showing ads.
Good news everyone. We are hurling toward hell at an increasing pace !
Do you know SourceHut? https://sourcehut.org/

I would be really curious to have your opinion about it as compared to how it was 14 years ago. I feel like SourceHut does a really good job helping on the tooling side (it's super easy to setup a mailing list).

Also I find Aerc very cool for that. The author describes it here: https://drewdevault.com/2022/07/25/Code-review-with-aerc.htm...
I believe it, but do you have any links to somewhere discussing why e-ary is the optimal encoding?
I've worked at two of them -- all data, sans pointers to content addressed immutable object storage, is stored in a single database. It worked well for us; it's not rainbows and unicorns wow all of our problems disappeared but we got what we needed with sufficient performance for an app that was not well optimized.

There were challenges like the difficulty of working with a few huge tables that existed since the company's inception and were practically infeasible to do any schema changes on, but that's more a modeling issue. It was also a single point of failure service. If the db goes down so to does everything but constant sense of impending doom it was less of a problem than I thought with ndb.
> No.

Water pollution from brake and tire dust, (and oil drippings,) is well proven. If you build infrastructure to handle runoff from roads, you need to mitigate pollution in that runoff too.

> Most microplastic in water comes from washing machines. Synthetic fibers from clothes.

I know less about that but from what I've skimmed it appears to be true too.
Your laptop, however, is fair game?
More like 50 years...

But yeah.
But when he got Community Noted he called it state sponsored action:

> Interesting. This Note is being gamed by state actors. Will be helpful in figuring who they are. Thanks for jumping in the honey pot, guys lmao!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1733882978781053383
That is what the literature suggests, though it was a small n of 20. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22253637/
You did absolutely nothing to debunk the claim except say that you can't believe it's true relying purely on your anecdotal experiences.
In my limited experience...

Status matters. Politics are nasty. Every subfield has its own culture, its own royalty. Better funded professors get more and higher status students. Bigotry is common, and so are "quirky personalities" -- and due to the tolerance of weirdos, bigotry is assumed to not exist. Mathematicians are not without their people problems. Just like every other slice of humanity, they lie to themselves.
Vision Pro isn't really supposed to be used outside.
Even better than the article are all of the fantastically ugly airplanes everyone is linking to!
Google Shapes Everything on the Web
He visited because he was called out for openly supporting complete psychos like Louis farakan. His advertisers increasingly wanted to disassociate with people like that so he was doing damage control.