skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The assessment of Indian history is quite accurate, though it is important to note the distinction between the Greek/Chinese written history and the Indian tradition of oral history. Foundational works like the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita were transmitted orally, from teacher to student, over the course of many centuries. Various memorization techniques (e.g. the eleven pathas of Vedic chanting [1]) were employed to promote perfect transmission of information.

This presumably means that during the many centuries of internal strife in the Indian subcontinent, warfare and disease could erase the history of the vanquished by simply eliminating the learned few who had memorized it.

It's also worth pointing out that contemporary Indian history is extremely biased. In the museum adjoining the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the historical account of the 1984 Sikh separatist movement universally refer to the event that led to the assassination of Indira Gandhi as the "Blue Star massacre". The Partition Museum, located less than a mile away, uses the generally-accepted name of "Operation Blue Star", but is riddled with factual inaccuracies and anti-colonial editorialization in many of its displays. The underlying motives of many Indian historians is to rewrite it to suit their present purposes, which is why P. N. Oak [2] has such a huge following in the highest levels of Indian government.

My nieces and nephews in India are taught "Indian exceptionalism" in school. Many Indians will erroneously claim that Western ideas like germ theory are either appropriated from, or inferior to, the ancient practice of Ayurveda. And even when it comes to what little historical information one might find in the Mahabharata, the words are treated as mystical sounds rather than something to be analyzed and understood.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_chant

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._N._Oak
I don't think Workstation is changing. ESXi is only available in a subscription bundle now. Free ESXi is gone.
As somebody who worked for the European Commission, and a european national government, I agree with your sentiment, but the harsh reality is that government divisions in generally work on a shoe string budget, when it comes to decisions like these. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a “best effort given the circumstances” move.
Figure 01 – Commercially-viable autonomous humanoid robot
They are imo directly related. Seven people working on ello means it's hard to understand, even on ramen salaries, how that costs less than $1m a year once you fully burden those salaries, buy office space, buy hosting, etc.

So they've set themselves up from the beginning to spend more money than they make, and everything downstream flowed from that choice.

If they had to be cash-flow breakeven from the get, they would have to have charged users. ie built a completely different product, with a different audience.
That must be why AppleTV+ is the number one video streaming company.

It took Spotify over a year to implement streaming over the cellular Apple Watch after the API was introduced
JPMorgan exec claims bank repels 45B cyberattack attempts per day
I used to joke that if VMware engineers couldn't figure out the logrotate configuration for their own product for a few releases, what chance do I have?
One PID to Lock Them All: Finding the Source of the Lock in Postgres
I get 500 customers/satellite (2,300,000/4,500) since 2021, and 1000 new customers per satellite for Q3 2023. Using the lower number of 500 at $120/month, that is $7,200 per customer, or $3.6 Million per satellite over a 5 year lifetime. 4600 operational satellites (out of 5700) over 134 launches equals 34/ launch or $124 million revenue. or $250 million/launch if we want to use thee 1000 users/satellite number.

Space X sells commercial falcon 9 launches for $ 67 million (to GTO opposed LEO) and this already includes a profit margin.

It still isn't obvious to me.
I only have wikipedia-level knowledge, but my understanding is that turbines are heavy, and wind power spent holding the turbines up is power that isn't converted to electricity. If you want to put the turbine up high, you can save power by just building a traditional fan-on-a-stick wind turbine.
I've applied to OpenAI four times in the last two years, and in my experience if you're rejected, they simply don't respond at all. I haven't gotten any rejection emails, but I seriously doubt they've been been considering my resume for eighteen months.
The key was taped to the outside of the door explicitly to be used by the customer though.
I thought turbines work much better when the blades are big. You can only attach relatively small turbines to the kite compared to using the whole kite.
The geometry of other people
The whole point of the Vision Pro, to me, is to add interactivity to the broader world. Passive consumption of content made for a different form factor is a pretty hard thing to make interactive.

The way I see it, the only way to make this interactive is to make it so I can scroll on my phone while half-ignoring a netflix show.
Yes. RDS is a very reasonable choice if you are a tech company, let alone a govt org. The alternative isn’t “let’s host this ourselves” it is “let’s host this with Oracle at a much higher cost”.
The only cases I see LVT being seriously considered is alongside further tax and welfare reform, so that regular people have their burden decreased by the increased taxes from those cases where land is not being used efficiently today. So you’d have a basic income, public health insurance, zoning reform, and laws protecting private residential uses of land. You can’t just fix one issue alone here, it comes with a host of economic and financial reforms.

Also, it does have possible downsides compared to today, like your single family home might not be there in a hundred or fifty years when the area needs more density. That’s okay to me, I think humans need to understand land use changes over time and you’re not always going to have a big family home last hundred of years under more reasonable land use laws.
Sysadmins are cheaper than many people seem to think.

I had a person I trust a lot telling me that "if we go with a bare metal provider like GCore we'd have to hire someone", his reason for bringing that up was that the cost difference would be justified by not having to hire someone,.

However a GCore €400,000k/y bill becomes a €6,000,000~ if you were to use a public cloud, even with the scaling up and down when not in use (we are an extreme case of needing a lot of dumb unreliable compute thats geographically distributed).

I can hire a lot of sysadmins for that money, but I probably don't even need one because public clouds also need devops staff to manage the complexity anyway.
Om Malik (https://om.co/2023/12/14/why-vision-pro-will-change-photogra...) wants us all to believe that family movie nights will be with everyone sitting in the couch all watching on their Vision Pros.

He sees it as an existential threat to the movie theater.

How do you share popcorn on the couch all plugged in?

And that’s after your average American home with its 2.2 children lay out $14,000+ for their Apple tax.

Sorry, Om, I’m not seeing that.
Are you given a key if it is contained in the source code of a compiled binary that you are given?
I don't pretend to know the true actual reality of what's going on here, but an article about the end of non-subscription licensing from December of last year is linked in the original article.

The current article is about the KB article you linked that lists 53 products which it says are, as of today, no longer available under any license and have been entirely discontinued.

Again, not claiming that's what's really going on (maybe it's in error, or the products will be bundled with whatever SKUs they're still going to sell?), but it unambiguously says that these products are discontinued. It mentions the earlier end of non-subscription pricing and implies that this is in addition to that.

Edit: Looking further into this, it looks like going forward they will offer two main SKUs, VMware vCenter Foundation and VMware Cloud Foundation, which contain, or contain features from, many of the discontinued products. But none of the listed products will be available separately anymore. It's difficult to find more information than that, because the VMware website is still advertising all of the discontinued stuff as well as the old perpetual licenses that they discontinued a month ago.
You can run llama models on a personal computer, even though it was trained on >10,000 GPUs.
If I must spoon feed you…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_carbon_capture_and_s...
Has anyone used https://cloud.google.com/database-migration/docs/postgres/qu... to do something like this? Does it work similarly to AWS DMS?
"BMW will deploy Figure’s humanoid robot at South Carolina plant" - https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/18/bmw-will-deploy-figures-hu...
Personally I would like AWS et al. to die so that cloud consultants and their associates will go away and I will be able to stop being lectured about "digital transformation" and "the cloud". It's really all very boring now after seeing the same schtick several times.

Probably wishful thinking.
How about 220 Hz music and 880 Hz?

(Obviously this study won’t replicate and categorising music by the frequency of the note A is not a reasonable thing to do.)
Additionally, Google never seemed to be able to answer why someone should use Google+ in lieu of Facebook except that it would be very nice for Google if people would.

Whereas threads has the obvious benefit of attempting to grow while Twitter is self destructing.
I mean, nothing prevents Apple from setting up a shortcut to the Web version of Netflix.
Could you direct me to a tool that is privacy preserving in Android (I consider my OpenAI privacy-friendly), and has such a quality of speech?
When you're doing something simple like washing the dishes or similar, does it irritate you when someone interrupts you with a reasonable request, like just to ask what you want for dinner? (This has a more specific definition but many think it stems from monotropism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_demand_avoidance. It's also a common trait to see in autistic people (who commonly take issue with the name).)

Does washing the dishes not sound simple and instead sound like something which would take a fair amount of focus to make sure you're doing it right? It does for me, at any rate.
Additionally a significant, perhgaps required, part of the diagnosis would be a history that shows differentiating childhood patterns (symptomology, academic trajectory, social experience, etc). All aligning into a cohesive picture.
Thanks for the deets. Do you know if UK has courts that handle people who sue one another? It looks as if you can file suit against the UK government. I'm genuinely curious, has someone with evidence of ownership sued the British Museum?

I can see a compelling argument someone might claim ownership of the stone, I'm curious where in the process they were shut down, if they didn't try, or they did and their suit was dismissed.
Same with Amazon and Aliexpress and Facebook marketplace.
Which is why the article's call for "reform of defect liability laws that drive insurance costs up for condo developers" makes his whole position deeply suspicious.
What are your thoughts on sprinklers in these types of situations?
Are they mostly to give people enough time to get out?
Do you feel the safety reduction of moving to single stair is offset by requiring sprinkling?

The way I have seen the idea of single-stair multifamily proposed in US was that in areas where zoning requires sprinklers in multifamily dwellings anyway, all the extra hallway space required for the second stairway is an unnecessary burden cost wise for little marginal safety.
You are not capable of interacting simultaneously with millions of people who regard you as anything approaching a source of truth.
I think it depends on the context. Calming music tends to lower heart rate.

An 8 Hz difference in tuning is unlikely to cause significant interest. Most folks don't have ears trained well enough to discern pitch from memory. But, the music would sound slightly "off". Given that it's a slight down-tuning, it would sound a little moodier.

We are bombarded by music every day. Muzak, background music, etc. Many of us don't even realize we are hearing it anymore, because our minds filter out things that aren't relevant. Novelty, however, can bypass this filter. That's likely what is at play here.
It's objectively not a small company, but that's actually how I got the job at Apple. I had applied to a job, gotten rejected, but my resume had "Clojure" on it which was triggered for a search about a year later.
per second is planetary
Probably for complying with anti competitive laws. USA has those too they just don't care.
Data brokers rarely collect from ad companies. They buy in bulk from the states who are all too happy to sell them driver licensing data, plus property records and other public sources.
Maybe ebay? Not much good though as Nvidia doesn't provide drivers for those to the public.
There's no govcloud in the UK; unless there are specific terms then the terms-of-service state that you are licensing either the irish entity or the american entity to have access and dominion of your data.

I had to spend a lot of time writing my privacy policy (perks of being CTO... yay), and part of that privacy policy was an admission that we transfer ownership of data to a US company (by using public cloud) despite using european datacenters.

This is because our agreement is with a US entity.
Is it more immoral to export oil and gas than to actually burn it? Norway is hydro power and a lot of EVs.
> After all, if the standard implementations work, it doesn't matter if you mess up your own crypto implementation, because the standard implementation is unbreakable.

This sounds like obviously good advice but it actually isn't, if your implementation is vulnerable to timing attacks and is used as the first layer, it can potentially reveal (parts of) your plaintext. Vulnerabilities like this is exactly why "don't roll your own crypto" is good advice
Whatever happened to replacing the US dollar, or creating a metaverse, or curing disease in his children's lifetime? The guy has all the focus of a disco ball.
There's logic, and there's what is politically feasible.

I assert that people generally understand building safety codes to have been written in blood: the rule exists only because once upon a time it didnt, and people died. Fire exits and Triangle Shirtwaist, that sort of thing.

Coupled with the equally strong perception that property developers and builders will take any shortcut to make a buck, and the ideas in this article are simply dead on arrival. The public will vote with their wallets and stay away.
>However, those that call for state funded animal insurance, or mandates truly strike me as unhinged.

I've never heard of such a thing, and a quick Google search didn't find anything -- is this a real movement, or something you heard from someone you know?

The closest I could find was a movement to support the right to have pets in apartments and/or public housing.
China's really excited to get the next pandemic going already; that'll fix their economy for sure!
I'm going to guess that the typical VC model of 2% and 20%, only hockey-stick mega-exits, is generic, milked to death, and alpha eliminated. Early Silicon Valley VC got its huge returns being innovative from the typical Wall St. NYC banking firms, at a time when early software projects needed capital for servers and big offices. Now, it's a standardized banking apparatus and the software co. landscape has changed. VC itself will get disrupted by the smarter financiers taking advantage of the alpha here, filling the gap by making more, smarter % return allocations into overlooked software co's that don't need $200m for a software co. in a remote-work cloud infra world.
This is missing the thrust of my argument. By stealing a physical painting you are removing the ability for other people to look at that painting. When a digital painting is used in the training of some AI model it is not removed from the internet. Anybody can still go look at that digital painting wherever it is posted. Nothing is being stolen from anyone in this scenario.

The argument then is that the AI model is stealing potential profits from the artist who posted the image. This also doesnt make sense because the artist is not charging to see that image. It is posted for anyone who has the link and a web browser to see it.
This and the other response make perfect sense, thanks.

You’re right, that is what I’d prefer also.
With optical media, history is written by the lasers.
I am not inclined to trust someone like Mark Zuckerberg to do something like this "responsibly". One look at how Facebook works (and has evolved over time) throws any credibility out the window.
Any in particular?
I kinda question how many project managers we really need. My role models in non-software engineers are Kelly Johnson, Wernher_von_Braun, and Oppenheimer. They are world-class experts in their own fields, down to theories. They tinkered, they invented, they deeply understood theories, and they advanced their own fields. Kelly was known for solving or estimating solutions of complex equations of aerodyanmics in his head. Wernher was known for ingenious design of rocket engines. Oppenheimer was a world-class physicist. In the meantime, they wielded sufficient power to lead complex projects.
Hate to be that guy but you were probably warned about going full VDI. Those people were right to warn you.
Which path do you want to go with in your next startup?
Thank you! That means a lot
Just curious, are there any regulations on housing you agree with? There tends to be belief that housing regulations exist to limit supply. Let's not forget that many of these encourage safety and are cost effective ways to increase the quality of life of the residents. If we take deregulation and cheap housing to the extreme we end up with shanty towns.
We had a guy named 'vai' on our IRC channels, he was into 2chan if that gives you a notion of the provenance here. he delighted in sharing links to some of the more exotic content to be found on the internet even then.

It was one of the rites of passage and joys of being on the net then, "seeing things you couldn't unsee." Then you get to go share it with others and watch their innocence melt like delicate snowflakes.

Then, hopefully, when we hit ugly circumstances in person, perhaps we're a little more prepared to deal with the first wave of stupid shock which is a natural reaction. It gets in the way of a rational response, whatever that might be. There's a use for having seen some ugly, early, to learn how to tolerate it.

Very few people are so privileged as to never encounter the bad things in life themselves. Preparation seems wise.
How heavy would this turbine be? Much energy might be wasted just to keep it floating in the air...
If you called it a great experience, in all candor (not just as upbeat techbro cultural convention), then you had a different experience than me. :)
Why can't the UK government build there own cloud?

It's just completely insane to me that they would make the gov internet infrastructure completely (geopolitically) dependent on another country AND just literally give all their (citizens') data away AND pay for that "privilege"?!

I mean if the government can't host the government's websites using tech from the government's country, maybe it would be better to just forget about the whole cyberweb thing altogether? Just turn it off?
'black' is a named web colour, no? In 1999. #000000 [1]

Or aside from re-writing standards, I don't get the point about translations. I go for classes on elements, like

<h1>

h1: var(--c0-b);

That means colours can be swapped around like an i18n language, by changing the palette that sits in the CSS file. Putting 'black' inline be it in actual inline css. or pseudo inline css that seems to be the case with the library here, is the exact opposite of an analogy to i18n in mind and seems a great step back, back to pre stylesheet days, in the power of abstraction.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#h-6.5
I read this in 2013 and remember enjoying the back-and-forth. Some reflections, a decade of life experience and a tech cycle later:

1. I'm with McKenzie on the coworkers aspect of the dialog. More separation from coworkers is better. In the Good Times (2013-2019,2021) it seems "right" to trade some comp for familiarity and good work vibes, and almost... inhuman... not to. But in the Bad Times you're reminded that an Excel formula could cost you not just your job but also a big chunk of your personal social network. Diversification is good.

2. I now realize what both sides of this are getting at is basically: "how to progress from Junior/Mid Engineer to something after that". There are many paths. The conclusion of the article is good, in that respect. Also: you can just stay a Mid/Senior Engineer. That's okay.

3. Call yourself whatever you want/need to stay employable. Be a good colleague/person. Work is work.
The challenge in writing well is not writing a million words, but choosing which 900,000 words to delete.
Doxxing
It's infinitely divisible, so not in the same sense as the loss of any other limited item. There could be only one Bitcoin in existence and it wouldn't change the utility of the system.
If you are worried about that, start with your government use of Microsoft Office and Windows who both send MB of data per minute to a US based company.
G+ also tried (was told to?) show relevance to other Google products by becoming a universal and mandated discussion thread mechanism. It wasn't ready. Got the totally expected blowback.

In contrast Meta isn't trying to Threadify everything. The addition of ActivityPub is an experiment that should be run in Threads.
Minor Firefox DoS – semi silently polluting –/Downloads with files
Nvidia has a vested interest in FB being beholden to their chips, so much so that it's worth giving them a discount to ensure it happens, and human nature being human nature a face saving discount has to be offered.
> That would be a first, wouldnt it?

No? US intervention has some successes but many failures. The region where the US's dominance was most complete (South America) is also the region where its influence has been most negative. Conversely the most positive side of the US was on show when dealing with Europe during the Cold War era, where there was more of a balance of power.

> Turns out if given power people are jerks, who would have guessed.

Sure. The thing is that that applies to the US too.
> Music exists in multiple keys, and a song can be in a high or low range regardless of what key it’s in.

Changing key is not the same as tuning A to another frequency. There is a long struggle between harmonic tune (rational relations between key's frequencies) and equal temperament (irrational 12th degree root of 2).

> Also, did the study authors simply taking a recording and pitch shift it down to 432 Hz?

It is an interesting question. Their language suggest they didn't just shift pitches, but I didn't read the article.

> Changing the standard tuning wouldn’t fundamentally affect anything.

And this statement is the most interesting part. If they really changed tune then nothing should change. But the authors claim that something changed. Probably our models are incorrect.

By the way it expands question about their methods. Did they use midi or synthesizer? If not, did they use violins? Guitars? Piano? These instruments are different enough to lead to different hypotheses.
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