skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although the approach seems fine, I don't think it creates an advantage. The situation is there are tickets in progress that have engineering consequences and then there is the backlog. How the backlog then gets used is 100% a question of convenience and any approach that works for the decision makers is fine. If they want to use the backlog as a way to plan upcoming work (as you seem to do) that is fine. If they want to use the backlog as a diplomatic tool to say no gently, also cool.

JIRA + a tree of tickets is so bad for project planning I recommend using the backlog as a diplomatic tool and a polite way of letting things get lost. It is is better to use advanced scheduling tools, like a spiral-bound notebook or sticky notes, rather than a backlog. The backlog is for management and politics.
> it probably saved a few cents in material costs

Perhaps a few cents for whole batch production. A lot of it is planned obsolescence. I've had countless things break on hinges or other tiny moving parts, because they were made from 3mm plastic instead of 5mm plastic. Every time it's moved it's under way more stress than it should. Therefore it'll break after around 3 years.
And in ancient times we enjoyed the blood sport of humans killing each other.

I genuienly dislike attempts of people to portray that the past was some how more refined or cultured. Low educational entertainment has always existed.
The federal government just put a cap on overdraft fees. IIRC, it is $3.
Maybe on average.

Certainly isn't cheaper for my Miele dishwasher that is broken (online search suggests a fucked relay).

I am somewhat cynical about buying expensive "quality" brands after being burnt a few times.
Cannabis May Enhance Empathy and Brain Connectivity
Regular cannabis users demonstrated higher emotional comprehension, particularly in understanding others’ emotions, compared to non-users.
nice, looks very cool and useful! I'll definitely try it!
I suppose. It might seem a bit perverse after all if the non-engaged, uninterested in coding, clock puncher devs got to make all the decisions.
(Render founder) This is not a 'pricing surge'. Render changed its pricing in December 2022, and a few hundred users received a grace period of 14 months which ends at the end of February 2024.
It's more work and risk, plain and simple.

But that's what business is, work and risk... I'm surprised more American cities haven't outright banned the practice for businesses serving their public since it's so clearly a form of discrimination.
As another father of a plane loving toddler, one of her favourite questions is "where's it going?". I'm wondering if some flight information is available and could be shown by selecting the plane.
It doesn't go through "extra scrutiny" in any meaningful sense. It just gets reported to the IRS so people don't evade taxes.
Here's the original research paper

“Empathy-related differences in the anterior cingulate functional connectivity of regular cannabis users when compared to controls” by Víctor E. Olalde-Mathieu et al. Journal of Neuroscience Research

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jnr.25252
The actual report in question is kind of fascinating:

https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/household-survey/2021execsum.p...

The thing they are not telling you in this article is that the "unbanked" rate has fallen nearly in half in the last decade - down to just 4.5%. Unbanked people still use prepaid cards, online payment portals, and money transfers at very high rates. And that the number one source of unbanked people getting a bank account is... getting a job.

I think the concern is a bit overstated. Most prepaid cards (including the cited Walmart card) have no fees or waive them entirely.
Does one of them rhyme with Ticketmaster?
It may be less about personal wealth than decisions made about corporate real estate by the execs before the pandemic...T-Mobile US decided to renovate its corporate campus for north of $100mm just before the pandemic...the work completed during the pandemic and so starting last Sept it was RTO 3 days per week ... and your manager did get "badge swipe" reports, as did the chain up to the CEO.
I'd have thought with so many people on severance and no work, some people will contribute even more to open sources while grinding up for next job too.
One is 100% cash, 0% non-cash. The other is 0% cash, 100% non-cash. The difference is as wide as it is possible to be.
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I think by the time I joined my current company we were using Bluejeans but it wouldn't have been around in 2007 and not sure what was in place before. 2007 you'd presumably have mostly been using an audio conference solution and emailing files around.

So it would have been clunky but the enterprise software company I work for could have presumably made things work but with more friction. Certainly I was mostly working from the road or at home by then. I wouldn't have been out of commission for 4 months assuming working physical IT infrastructure.
> But I agree that appropriately sized taxes relative to the actual externalities seem unlikely to change behavior in this case.

This could only be the case if everyone had infinite money.

If the tax is not changing behavior, then it is not appropriate size.
I’d wonder how this would beat a used surface go or something similar - they’re pretty light and affordable. And, while they’re not powerhouses, I wouldn’t expect much from a budget android tablet emulating x86 and running wine.
That's a bold statement and I have so many questions.

Let me pick a simple one: do people regularly drive half an hour or more to send their kids to school?
Russian man identified as Medibank hacker, hit with sanctions by Australian govt
I wonder if the ripoffs were ranked higher because they appeared newer?
> Ace-K was developed by rational investigation of sucrose derivatives, undermining it as an example of 'serendipity'.

This sort of criticism would imply that an author on LessWrong _wasn't_ a polyglot genius uniquely capable of seeing what others missed.

I don't buy it. /s
This story will never get as much traction as the Claudine Gay nothingburger, even though, academically, this is far worse violation. The Gay story was completely inorganic.
Hi. You may loose business.
I am not giving you my real email. When you get breached (you will) as hackers breach companies all the time I don’t want them having my info. Second, CREDIT CARD? Are you even complying with PCI DSS standards? I am sure you are not. You can use other methods to get spammers. This is foolish.
The general observation is of course true, but we're talking about a particular instance, and I think it could be a pretty good fit here.

The expectation when you first try modern image or text generators is sth like 'this will replace all artists, programmers, writers and probably most white-collar workers'. Upon closer inspection, it turns out that the image generators fail on details like hands, and the text generators are too unreliable for production-grade code or writing articles. So the result in the short term is that you still need the same people with the same skills babysitting the models' outputs. They've just become a bit more productive. But in the longer run, even plain efficiency gains can have a large impact, and it seems like we might not need any more fundamental breakthroughs to make those tools actually production-ready (at least largely) on their own. The hands in the images, the bugs in the code and the hallucinations in the texts can probably be fixed with clever, but ultimately straightforward, iterations over the existing models.
I was hoping it was a PEMDAS for AWS costs.
fairly generous severance terms
On the one hand, buying online without a credit card or debit card has become a bit easier as Amazon/Paypal/Ebay/Sony/Microsoft/Uber etc have gift cards that you can buy in stores with cash and purchase with. (Dunno if the accounts work without an attached card at all though).

On the other, I'm also seeing fewer "self-checkouts" capable of accepting cash. While I generally prefer staffed check-out, retailers focus a lot on making sure the staffed checkout always has a bigger line than the self-checkout.

But the store gets to say "we still accept cash" while making it more difficult to spend it there.
The contract says they just need to get you there
https://www.publicpower.org/system/files/documents/Americas_... via https://www.publicpower.org/resource/americas-electricity-ge... disagrees with you even in the last decade. And the future seems mostly solar:

> This report also analyzes prospective generation capacity in four categories — under construction, permitted, application pending, and proposed. More than 466,000 MW of new generation capacity is under development in the United States — a 13% increase over 2022. Sixty-one percent of capacity most likely to come online, permitted plants and plants that are under construction, are in solar.

China's growth in power capacity is non-trivially due to increasing demand. If the US or Europe or wherever suddenly wanted to build XXX GW per year, they could (modulo bureaucracy, which is very real).
One of the places with higher longevity has good record keeping and birth certificates: Loma Linda, California. What’s different about this city? A lot Seventh Day Adventists who adhere to vegetarianism live there… and live about 10 years longer than average.
I guess with this style of ad, ad buyers get to make organic content part of the ad while still taking the ad directly to the type of people they want... As a broad appeal content creator you can get hitched along for the ride and experience an exposure boost.

With more video content posted on X, I imagine over time this should approximate to how things are on YouTube as this is essentially how Youtube does it: Ads are before the content but hidden behind an innocuous thumbnail; being ad safe is incentivized. But perhaps the timeline approach is different enough that it won't be as ecosystem defining as on Youtube.
Yep. Fidelity has no fees. I'm surprised they don't own the planet by now.
Exactly one state has! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_North_Dakota

It's state-owned but functions as a typical retail bank that takes deposits, makes mortgages, business loans, etc.
Try a very small dose with someone you trust that has experience with it. If things get dark having someone around that knows how to help you out of it will make a world of difference. Setting and company has a huge influence on what your experience is like.

Taking LSD is a skill. If you're paying attention and have a modicum of self-awareness you'll get better at it. What does it mean to get better at taking LSD? It's the ability to have your entire being torn inside out but still able to remind yourself that it will end and that you'll be fine. It's analogous to be being caught under water by a big wave: thrash and let fear take over and you're in trouble. If you can relax and let the wave pass you'll be fine.

Other than those with PTSD I don't think anyone needs it. I do it to help with my sobriety and to keep a fresh outlook on the world and myself, but psychedelics are just some of the tools in my toolkit.

It can be fun, it can be terrifying, it can be enlightening, it can be disappointing.

If you try it, good luck! If you don't try it, good luck!
> With Python, you have to guess what the idiomatic pattern is and it's often not obvious and specific to python.

This is true of every language. You just don't know Python. You probably decided a long time ago that you hate it because of X reason (usually whitespace-as-syntax, as that's probably the most controversial Python design choice), and so refuse to learn anything more and decide you just hate everything.

> Go went as far removing the ternary operator to cut down on this kind of thing.

It surprises me when people get confused by the ternary operator. I never thought it was hard. I wish Python had it. Yes, I know, Python has "a = b if c else d", but that's just weird as it flips the order of expressions around to something that doesn't make much sense.
Definitely the right way to look at things.

> If you take the "350,000" H100s that Facebook wants by EOY, each of those can do 700W

Plus ~500W for cooling
That's fair enough I think! I totally agree that larger backlogs tend toward staleness. Just like a good shrub, they need care, feeding, and trimming :)

By the way, I enjoyed the article! It's a good share, and appreciate the perspective.
Glad to see that SpaceX has lit a fire here. We'll look back and marvel at how much SpaceX accelerated our technological timeline due to aggressive optimism and engineering leadership.
Riot Games is profitable, so this is about increasing profits.

EDIT:
As several people have noted, while Riot Games is private, their majority owne (Tencent) is not. According to Tencent's most recent filings, video game revenue is up by double-digits and they reported profits in the past.

Unless Riot is claiming that they increased expenses by double-digit % in Q4, they are profitable.
can't read the article but if it's roughly about what I would expect (and have seen in other fields) the idea is roughly:

The final proof reading and decision still is done by humans, but before that automatic feedback AI is used to find things which need to be changed during planing, certification and highlight potential problem. I.e. eliminate as many rounds of back and force between agency and plant builder and in turn save a lot of time.

Through if the final proof reading is also done by AI or relies to much on AI this is a huge issue. LLMs fundamentally to their design sometimes (in the future maybe rarely) make mistakes in forms which for humans seem arbitrary, random and absurd (in turn they tend to also not do some of the mistakes humans tend to do). The problem is even if this mistakes become rare they always can be fundamental safety issues.
Think it is Box64 (POSIX emulation w/ ISA translation, amd64 -> arm64) running WINE and DXVK via Mesa (Direct3Dxx -> Vulkan translation).

Wonder if Google Dawn (ANGLE and SwiftShader), which is bundled with Chromium for WebGPU, could be a drop-in replacement for DXVK + Mesa.
This is what I do. Windows 7 Pro with updated Firefox and appropriate extensions. It works great for me.
Well! That's actually an effective defense against most if not all of the Spectre-family attacks, right?
Well, that's risk mitigation.

However if a file touches a developer's machine it can be breached from there unless they do like banks with sensitive information: no internet, no USB, no anything. Kind of impossible to develop like that.

So... IDEs in remote desktops and local browsers to lookup for documentation on the internet? But then you still have to protect against screenshots of code and OCR. Or photos. You can't defend against everything because developers must at least read the code. It's like DRM for music and movies. There is always a loophole.

So, mitigation. If your customers pay for that, good for you. About me, I prefer a local/remote repository for my projects. My customers decide what they prefer, currently git but they don't have many alternatives.
I think you're making my point to at least some degree. There were a lot of different policies and behaviors around the world and across large countries that seem to have not made the degree of difference as a general rule that people might have hypothesized depending on their priors.

In the case of Sweden, people will counter-argue that Swedes aren't overly social anyway and people did take precautions so the end result was sort of the same for all the hubbub. Is that true? Don't know.
It's not only below the noise floor, but all satellites transmit the code on the same frequencies, so it's several signals all at once below the noise floor. Which makes the known noise unique to each satellite, and you dredge out the same frequency repeatedly with different sets of known noise to recover multiple signals.

Gold sequences are really neat, which is precisely the same pseudorandom scrambling technique, but where each sequence is selected to have low correlation with all other sequences in use, which is what enables the frequency sharing property of the system.
> or maybe it just appears that way because these are media reported

When thinking about it more, I think that is also highly likely. It many of these cases the most "famous" author is the last one on the paper, but is the first to be highlighted in the media. That is, oftentimes the work was just done in their labs but they did little more than review. But there is such pressure for those toiling in the labs to make a "big" splash that it's not hard to think that some small number of them would be willing to cheat. This line from the original blog post (https://forbetterscience.com/2024/01/02/dana-farberications-...) reporting on the findings is telling:

> “You should reach out to Dr. Hidde Ploegh- the first author, Dr. Boaz Tirosh was in his laboratory.”

> Well Laurie, it’s your paper, if you care about it being correct, you could very well reach out yourself!

While I agree that Laurie Glimcher should be very concerned about any research misconduct done under her authorship, I think it's premature to get out the pitchforks when there are potentially many levels of indirection here.
Yeah zig just doesn't offer enough advantages over "I'll just use c++ as a better c with raii, containers, safe string class, template functions, and very simple classes/powerful structs (no inheritance), and a threading standard library"
Samsung Races Apple to Develop Blood Sugar Monitor That Doesn't Break Skin
> federal government just put a cap on overdraft fees. IIRC, it is $3

Should be opt in and charged as an APR.
Cashless is great for reducing tax dodging and theft.
Worth linking to the story of the FOIA that forced the CIA to release the documents for MKULTRA on its website in 2018: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/ken-keseys...
the employees need to manage their floats too (counting before and after + balancing it)

and you likely need a safe on premises too when their floats under/overflow, and controls around that

cash is a huge pain in the ass
stunnel is the tired version of inter-machines communication. It's a basic, raw socket between two processes, and all layers above must be reinvented again and again.

Plan 9 with its protocol 9p is the wired version of inter-machines communication. You don't just link two random processes, you have the possibility to interconnect two directory trees, and since most useful software works through a directory tree, this means two processes can be linked by importing another tree on another machine and doing everything locally. It's possible to write something like "echo UNSEEN | imap-search | imap-get-summary" and have actual IMAP stuff done on another machine, and you don't see any of it.

It is also possible to use `rcpu` to do what ssh does, and even more: the remote machine has access to the local machine. So for instance you can edit files locally, and have a rcpu connection to run builds on another machine that picks it from your local workstation. No clunky sshfs, no failing NFS, ...
> The latest FDIC data shows almost 6 million unbanked and 19 million underbanked U.S. households. Given that 2.5 people live in the average household, this means there are over 15 million people living in a home with no connection to banks, and 48 million more in homes with only a tenuous connection to banks.

I think it is a big assumption that the 6 million unbanked are living in an “average household”.
That specific video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhE6PYnRMc) was rather odd. He gave away "only" $95k in prize money, but also launched a car powered by 10 jet engines off a ramp across 10 scrap school busses, burned down a house with fireworks, and had a giant pit dug into which he crashed a train (after dumping various other things inside). It looked like a series of really expensive ideas that sounded fun, but turned out quite chaotic, felt less fun than many other videos (at least for me), and it is something like #50 by popularity.

I believe he didn't fake any of the actual stunts. Here's a making-of of a jet car for MrBeast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rri83pDN6kc
You'll notice it's a similar setup, but a red car instead of blue, 7 engines instead of 10, a landing ramp at the end, and it didn't clear the school busses. Meanwhile, in the released video, there's 10 engines on a blue car that makes it across the entire bus park. So assuming it's all real, that's at least 17 mini jet engines destroyed (at least I'd assume that none of them were reusable after this). I'd guess their price at $5-20k each (the latter is what I found for the PBS TJ-40 G1, which looks like the engine from the making-of). Add to it all the engineering work that was required, and I wouldn't be surprised if the jet car part alone exceeded half a million.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WEAJ-DFkHE is a more typical video, where he "reviews" expensive plane tickets. Starting by buying out an entire domestic first class section (let's guess this at 15k), two first-class seats on a long-distance flight with Emirates (~20k, going by the listed price which seems realistic), one of those first-class suits (~25k stated), a (again going by stated prices) $100k private flight, an advertising blimp ($300k), and a super-luxury private jet flight ($500k), so around a million dollars just for the flights before accounting for any other production costs.
Yes they would, because there would be a lot of used items that fill the exact same role as a new junk item.
Could fingerprinting without consent be considered illegal data collection under gdpr? Why not? I thought device identifiers were included.
Watching movies is a common use case for existing headsets, and features prominently in Apple's marketing of this device.
I don't care, but towing is not the right action to deal with someone who didn't move their car in 3 minutes.
You just described one tier of the n-tier architecture. Yes, modern compute devices are fast. However, those devices that produce that data have to send that data… somewhere back to the company that cares about it. In your model, they would just write it to the company’s database? All 1Billion of them? C’mon. Even if you had a decentralized network capable - you don’t have a compute device in the world capable of handling that amount of traffic. Even if each device processed a chunk, and you had an efficient network to coordinate execution operations, you still need to get that data to its “caller” which would bombard it with interface calls exceeding its sockets.

So I appreciate the lively discussion on how modern consumer hardware is awesome, it’s only on the edge of a vastly bigger compute structure.
Don't forget that there's far less risk of theft, both from employees and non-employees when there's no cash on site.

Also, needing to keep cash in small bills in the drawer to make change is a big pain in the ass.
The OP has since elaborated:

> I don't think anybody has claimed this yet. But I _have_ made a similar claim, that some things can't be written in C. I'll elaborate on the project that started this thread: the fusefs test suite. When I designed the fusefs test
suite, I based it around the priniciple of Mocking. Each test case has a client thread that does normal file system access, and a server thread that implements a fuse file server. But it isn't a full implementation of a fuse file server; it's just a shim around a mock object. For each test case, the file server's behavior is programmed with expectations. The mocking technique is so limited and awkward to use in C that almost nobody bothers. Just compare the documentation for CMockery (C) with Mockall (Rust). C++'s Googlemock is somewhere in between.

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2024-Janu...
Hit a nerve, did I?

Hoo boy, do I miss the days of the usenet killfile.