skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I see your point, but the scenario here is the inverse of Netflix/AWS, right?

Netflix takes the world by storm, grows quickly, and becomes reliant on AWS. Amazon enters the video streaming market as a much weaker competitor and builds upon their own tooling.

In this scenario, I presume Amazon is making more money from Netflix using their service than they are from running their own streaming service. Their first goal is to not disrupt the money they make from Netflix and their second goal is to create a competitor. Later, if the math says that hardening their contracts to the detriment of Netflix would allow them to capture such market share as to recoup the investment with their own streaming service, they would do so, but as they're late to the party that is not the case.

In the Starlink scenario, it's the other way around. Starlink is already dominating the market using their own, SpaceX tooling. The incumbent, AST SpaceMobile, is allowed to use SpaceX rockets. It's not hard for SpaceX to disrupt AST SpaceMobile's operations without hurting SpaceX's bottom line as there's a backlog of launch demand to replace AST SpaceMobile. If the math says that AST SpaceMobile is likely to begin encroaching on Starlink then they deny a contract, replace it with the next person in line, and don't bat an eye.

The order in which things occurred between the companies means there aren't these deeply entangled, mutual benefits that allow competitors to coexist.
I got close to perfect which is odd as I have a hard time with hues in real life
They are special prompts for the HN LLM
That's indeed one of the downsides of RAII in C++ (unless the type supports zero-cost moved-from objects), but it's not a universal issue. Rust's implementation lets you transfer ownership of an object ("move" it) from one variable to another. Afterward, the old variable will be uninitialized, and the new variable will hold the object, with its scope determining when the object is destroyed.

If the new variable has a smaller scope, then the object will be destroyed sooner than it would have been otherwise. In particular, to assist in early cleanup, the standard library has a drop(value) function, that takes ownership of any value and immediately lets it fall out of scope, destroying it.

This is especially useful for things like destroying RAII mutex guards to immediately unlock the corresponding mutex.
Sadly higher ups see this as lacking ambition/motivation rather than someone knowing what they want.
Yes, you're absolutely right. I apologize for this copy-paste mistake. It's fixed now.
I’m guessing this wouldn’t have had the same response if the guy was white. Feels like the guy should be due compensation by the Spanish government. Is there really a law that prohibits private jokes that may alarm an unknown surveillance system?
... and yet, here we are, doing exactly that :)

If you change your mind, I'm happy to discuss. Otherwise, I hope your day is productive and fulfilling.
Ah, the investor cash incinerator that is what3words!
Almost certainly the second.
No one in these days of cyber attacks should be shipping unknown third party dependencies. How could you fix unknown dependencies in case of severe CVE's in them ? Unknown third party dependencies are a sign of utter amateur incompetence in product development.

Once you have all third party dependencies cataloged, licence compliance should just shake out in the wash.
Full list of Israeli high-tech layoffs
Can you explain emergence then please? Because the way you're using it, and the way people tend to use it to present this argument is as a stand in for magic and another way of saying "if we don't understand it, then anything is possible, man!".
Or, encryption will be a red flag that gives those services cause to go after someone without even knowing the content of the message.
The Questionable Engineering of the 737 MAX [video]
I don't understand why you're being downvoted. You are correct.

I also don't think you are being pedantic. This is a forum where technology is often the topic of discussion, and in tech words often have very specific meanings. Like radar.

No slight whatsoever to the original author, I liked the post, and applaud their work :)

I just don't get the downvoting nature of some of the folks here. This isn't reddit.
The challenge isn't unlinking accounts in the database, that's just a simple copy command. The challenge is in all the metadata that is used for account A (Facebook), and account B (IG) that can no longer share any downstream metadata.

So when you have to split the two apart, it's likely a hard legal requirement that there's no way account A can know anything about account B anymore. This means, countless metrics and logs and whatever has to be thrown away. So I imagine, there's lots of auditing of systems and every single property that is stored somewhere was scrutinized in long meetings.

Less an engineering burden than a policy and legal burden.
I think this sort of verification being available is exceedingly rare, especially for builds that statically link dependencies.
I was surprised to not see a mention of `git diff` anywhere in the post.

Out of curiosity, I setup two directories where the second has a new file, a modified file, and a removed file compared to the first:

$ tree dir1/ dir2/
dir1/
├── empty.txt
├── modified.txt
├── remove-this.txt
└── unchanged.txt
dir2/
├── empty.txt
├── modified.txt
├── new-file.txt
└── unchanged.txt

Then `git diff --name-status dir1 dir2` outputs the following, showing the changes by file name.

$ git diff --name-status dir1 dir2
M dir1/modified.txt
A dir2/new-file.txt
D dir1/remove-this.txt

This also doesn't require running `git init` on the two directories either, so it's immediately usable out of the box.
Simple, but it seems unlikely, and it is also the scenario that the government would be mostly likely to be up front about sharing.
Games will be fine, anyway we have more than enough
> highly valuable causal model of reality,

It's important to not become too confident in this either. Our perception of that is as you say useful but also subjective and flawed, and I think if you get down to pure materialism, it's harder to pin down than you may think.

Even something basic which seemingly we all agree on at a basic level and require to function, trying to answer questions like "what is time?", you quickly can end up with mind bendy examples from physics where the intuitive understanding falls apart.
Totally. But then you would expect no action would be taken based on a passenger reporting something like this. That action was taken suggests that the passenger was the first person to observe something that was a serious enough risk to cancel the flight — and that’s what’s surprising and alarming here.
> difficult to sell

Bought the house I’m in in 2010 at a 4% fixed 30-year. I’m never leaving.
Damb am I happy you commented this! I saw the same, checked it twice, and a final time before posting. But then the results were suddenly as expected (dict() being slower). At least I am not going mad, he must have changed it just now.
When France tried to make decimal time a thing (2022)
> On the other hand, is that even necessary? At what scale is this important?

I can see it being helpful in front of a shared resource that doesn't have any way to control priority or fairness. My use case would be Elasticsearch. I don't want to block any searches from running if there's capacity, but also I don't want misbehaving clients to monopolise resources, and I want to make sure that all customers/users get to run their searches eventually, though I may prioritise some customers/users over others. And I may need my own internal jobs to run at a lower priority than a user search, but still within a guaranteed window (to avoid timeouts on the client side).

Honestly for my use case this could be useful with just a handful of users - less than 10, even.
This will give more resources to tenants that schedule more jobs.

If tenant A schedules 99 jobs and tenant B schedules 1 job,
a "fair" algorithm would pick B's job either first or second, RANDOM() will not.
It says the message was "picked up" over the in plane Wifi
It's a list price. You'll obviously also need to pay for installation, delivery, and service.

There's apparently even a robust second-hand market for them: https://bimedis.com/search/search-items/magnetic-resonance-i...
> I suspect it’s much lower than what Alaska Airlines and others are dealing with now.

No doubt, given Alaska grounded all their MAX9 since Jan 5, and the FAA grounded all other MAX9 fleets the next day, they are still grounded to this day as far as I know (United has extended their cancellations to the 26th so far). That's some 170 planes not flying their routes or earning money.

Although the FAA has apparently completed their inspection of the initial batch of 40 MAX9s.
Serving LLMs on a Budget
> He said that the plane's pilot made an announcement, telling passengers that the fighter jets had been scrambled because of a distress signal that had been sent by mistake.

> Mr Verma's message was picked up by the UK security services who flagged it to Spanish authorities while the easyJet plane was still in the air.

> A court in Madrid heard it was assumed the message triggered alarm bells after being picked up via Gatwick's Wi-Fi network.

Emphasis mine. Something is really fishy here. We know that a fighter escort was dispatched for this flight, but it sounds like no one is on record that his message is what actually triggered the escort or how they would have even found it.

There's a non-zero chance that the Spanish authorities themselves do not know where the distress signal came from, and only found out about the message after they searched his phone. And they are trying to pin the cost of scrambling the jets on him when they really should be ringing up the UK government.
Not the constitutional protection like in the US. It just creeps in bit by bit.
Up and Atom recently made a great video explaining this class of problems and some of the algorithms for solving it: https://youtu.be/fvM8ow6zNw4
They can still part it out, e.g. at least the screen and frame.

With that said, this will definitely make it more difficult and less profitable per unit of effort.

Edit: @google234123 +1 to that!
She’s 2 and can get a student pilot license at 16 so set a reminder in 14 years.
see that's why I am worried
Well, I am back to pleasing them after a brief 5-week production incident :)
> Cozy games are therefore a centrist1 critique of capitalism. They present a world with the prosperity, but without the cruelty. More importantly though, by virtue of the fact that people actually play them in large numbers, they demonstrate that the cruelty is actually unnecessary.

No, they demonstrate that games are not real life. And the people who play Animal Crossings are just a subset of real people.
Maps came from the acquisition of Where 2. Here are a few links:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Acquisitions

- https://medium.com/@lewgus/the-untold-story-about-the-foundi...
> I'm surprised that so many developers are siding with Apple in this regard.

I can’t speak for others, but I’m sick and tired of big corporate devs acting as if they speak for me, a small indie dev, resulting in outlets and everyday people echoing their talking points “in support” of me.

They have their own interests, some of which directly contradict mine, and they only use people like me as pawns to make their plight seem righteous in the hopes of drumming up support.

I was content with the 30% when I eagerly signed up. I’m downright happy with the 15% discount as a nice bonus to the point that I think the 15% is a steal for what I’m getting out of this arrangement with Apple.

Of course, this is my opinion, and I have no interest in speaking for others. There’s already enough of that going around.

I’d instead ask you to be open to the idea that what you’ve been seeing so far is corporate PR trickling down to you via outlets and other means and hear out the indie devs you come across here and elsewhere.

On a separate note:

As someone who has a legal background and practiced before pivoting to indie development, I’m surprised so many seem to think Apple’s latest move is a surprise or somehow utilizing a loophole.

Legal proceedings aren’t always easy to follow, I’ll be the first to admit, but this was spelled out crystal clear in both the district court’s judgment as well as the appellate court’s judgment.

What’s especially nonsense is that the likes of Spotify and Sweeny didn’t see this coming, like they now pretend.
Either they all need to fire their entire legal team or stop being coy because the courts predicted this outcome black-on-white in their judgments.
Finally a metric we can work with.
Actually I was thinking it was Navajo in Dancing with Wolves, but that was the Lakota Sioux. How do they fit into the picture?

Is this source wrong that buffalo was a primary part of the Navajo Diet? That would seem to be a natural in the four-corners region. https://www.indiancountryextension.org/the-navajo-people-and...
when myst online was going to shut down, the players rallied together to fund the operation. i don't know the details, but from what i know the company listened and set up a donation meter to share the funding status of the server operation. the servers will keep running as long as there is enough funding to keep the people needed for that. if there is additional funding they may spend that on features and bugfixes. they also allow community contributions, and i think the first of those contributions have gone live not to long ago.

in the end i think besides releasing the sources this kind of crowdfunding is the most likely way how an online game can be kept alive.
> No such thing as Sclavic people, never was.

Sounds like there was to the Greeks:

Slav (n.) "one of the people who inhabit most of Eastern Europe," late 14c., Sclave, from Medieval Latin Sclavus (c. 800), from Byzantine Greek Sklabos (c. 580), from a shortening of Proto-Slavic sloveninu "a Slav"* -- https://www.etymonline.com/word/Slav
Chromium and its components like libwebrtc are extremely difficult to build correctly.
> the million monkeys hammering randomly on typewriters that eventually produce the full works of Shakespeare, did so not through pure randomness, but by actually understanding the plight of Romeo and Juliet and the motivation behind Hamlet

The funny thing 'yes'. Million monkeys cannot do it by randomly typing. They cannot even randomly type at all. Each monkey is intelligent creature, they will follow some patterns. If they did manage to produce Shakspeare they definitely understood something.

Today it's easy to programmatically simulate 1m monkeys typing randomly 10 keys per second. Try it ;)
Respectfully, I disagree with the OP.

I'm using a router distribution -- no names please -- where the firmware build process is so intricate that their documented way to build LTS .iso images is via a docker based system. I've had very little luck (until recently) in getting that to actually work.

They provide nightly .iso images, but charge an arm-and-a-leg for the LTS images.

I've tried to use their nightlies, but they were subject to considerable churn in the last few months. That resulted in broken firewalls/routers.

I will NOT trust my firewalls to that, sorry.

In their defense, they _do_ have a way for "community members" (i.e. folks unwilling to pay $1000s/year for a stable build) to gain access to the LTS images. However the bar they have set to gain access is so high that my filing a bug they graded as "high priority" and then tracking down and verifying the workaround for a release candidate didn't qualify me to access the images.

I agree there is a gray area, and that the core developers deserve to be paid. I am actually willing to pay them for their software, but not $1000s/year.

In my honest opinion, they have crossed a line.

(Edited: changed "fix" to "workaround" above.)
"Mr Verma's message was picked up by the UK security services who flagged it to Spanish authorities while the easyJet plane was still in the air.
A court in Madrid heard it was assumed the message triggered alarm bells after being picked up via Gatwick's Wi-Fi network."

Agree, seems pretty odd that a court is told to assume something and not given the full story.
Notes on "Enabling Constraints"
Volkswagen Golf mk 7.5 - 2020 year model. The issue is well documented online. Problems with safety features are definitely not unique to it though. I travel reasonably often and have driven a variety of hire cars recently with similar issues. Overall I'm just not convinced that 'safety' features are taking us in the right direction.
> A court in Madrid heard it was assumed the message triggered alarm bells after being picked up via Gatwick's Wi-Fi network.

It unfortunately doesn't sound like the prosecutors have any idea either.
One of the GNU radio guys built an actual passive radar quite some years ago. I could see someone with that background looking at phone app development and scratching their head ;-)
Do we get free flights if our daughter is a pilot? Maybe we're missing a trick nudging her into STEM
Why aren't these teams choosing something else then? If everyone on the team dislikes git, switch to mercurial or something else.
I’ve noticed missing bolts a few times when sitting in wing view seats. Didn’t realize that isn't supposed to be ok. This problem might be quite common.
An introduction to temporal logic and how it can be used to analyze concurrency
I recently started learning about this subject, which is pretty interesting. I had heard about it a while ago, but didn't know much about it besides the basics, and certainly didn't know how it could be applied to real problems since it always seemed pretty abstract. While I did learn about classical logic in college many years ago, I also recently gave myself a refresher on FOL and its axioms and inference rules so I could better understand how temporal logic departs from FOL and builds on it.

Anyway, in an attempt to help me learn the material better, I decided to write up the basic ideas along with several examples of how it could be applied. Perhaps it will be of interest to you as well, although there is certainly nothing new or groundbreaking in my exposition. I did try very hard to make things as simple and concrete as I could while not getting too "hand wavy" as they say.

Caveat: I'm certainly no expert in this field, so if you spot any mistakes, please let me know and I'll revise it (or just submit a PR on GitHub!).
It helps to speak a language also spoken by the people you're talking with. It helps to wear a skirt or pants while shopping in the grocery store.

There's a continuum.
Recreation pessimism sounds reasonable enough. With any ominous looking trend in society, it's probably a good idea to spend a bit of time thinking/worrying about it. It's just important to maintain an overall level head and not get too caught up in negativity and cynicism.

Irrational optimism and irrational pessimism both lead to similar sorts of faulty decision making and wind up being equally detrimental to well-being.
Every aircraft has some missing screws. Literally every aircraft. That's why there's so many of them.

Some of them matter, and the pilots keep a close eye on those during the preflight checks. Others, matter less so. (A single missing screw on a prop spinner - big problem. A missing screw on a non-structural plastic aerodynamic fairing - okay to defer, literally zero risk.)
Robocall with artificial Joe Biden voice tells Democrats not to vote
Reminds me of this:
https://news.met.police.uk/news/former-met-officers-sentence....

Europe is determined to control your thoughts and punish you for wrong think
That is simply not correct. With properly implemented E2EE, you can communicate confidently over a completely insecure channel. You could post the entire data stream publicly on the internet with no loss of privacy.
What's the performance penalty of LoRA?
The article does not state that.
Spotify competes fine with Apple Music on iOS (even if they’re not thrilled about it).
Why would you expect a credit card to be discoverable by radio? Tap-to-pay is near-field technology, it's only meant to work within a few centimeters. It might be possible to do, but only with the construction of specialized and expensive equipment. You are better off just phoning and getting a replacement.
Here's the sad state of the cloud
This is an incredible post, thanks for the link! The researches are quite literally photoshopping study images! How is this even legal? Plain vanilla fraud.
It's an interesting theory that I've heard before, and I think it did probably play a role at least some of the time, but I think we need to be cautious about attributing too much to it. I think people who have interest in drugs often may get excited about this idea and push it a little far.

My point is you don't necessarily need chemical inducement to start or sustain the idea. Centuries of religious people believed in transcendent consciousness at times in history where they demonstrably had no access to drugs. You don't need to partake to be moved by John Lennon's all you need is love either; a lot of the people listening did not. And part of our cultural norms have these ideas baked in, with or without drugs.
More like: This plant has no insect parasites, it must be special somehow, let's try and use it in different, increasingly "close approach" ways. I mean, humans must have figured quite early that on average, inhaling smoke of a poisonous plant has a fraction of the effect of chewing the same. Someone gets really sick after chewing some leaves, their family burns the rest of the "crop" and they get high.
> You ever seen what happens when a screw comes loose and hits another surface at 500 mph

well, obviously you are screwed.

edit: to be more constructive "Felipe Massa's life-threatening crash "( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEt5pbyiIdM )
Amen. I wonder what "underestimating" something like AGI actually means though...
I resonate with this alot.

I too, am a centrist. We can have capitalism without the cruelty (and the tragedy of commons and external costs on the environment) where markets exist but have limits that don't allow it to lead into exploitation, that is the idea anyway.

Here in the USA, there seems to be a big red flag on the idea of implementing social good programs[0] like universal healthcare, UBI and many other programs. They're not panaceas, but they're a big net good increase on society at large.

Funnily enough, once Americans have these programs and they manage to seed themselves in society, they fight like dogs to keep them. Look at the protests around Republicans trying to roll back major provisions in the Affordable Care Act. Their own base shut it down, because a sizable Republican voting block is lower middle class and receive more government assistance then you might get the impression of as an outsider.

[0]: Often called social welfare, but the term welfare in US politics is heavily tainted. I didn't want to trigger preconceived notions.
Maintenance: Of Everything
Sounds like their intricate build process is in service of their business model. Pretty crappy thing to do.
So they won't have an issue refunding the millions of steam deck and Linux copies who've only ever played it on linux, since it wasn't supported originally.
> This feature is not really about protecting your device from being stolen.

Once a thief has stolen his 10th iPhone that he can't do anything with, he'll probably be less likely to bother stealing iPhones. If anything it's a liability since it can be tracked as long as it still has some battery.
Me too. Whirlpool is a piece of shit.

However I bought LG appliances (Fridge/Washer/Dryer/Dishwasher) that have been in service since 2018 (6 yrs) even as a rental home.

I regret buying anything Whirlpool, they're ROYAL crap! All my appliances have failed to some extent within/before their upcoming 3 yrs mark (MAR/2024).
I was thinking about this, and it should be MAGMAN since Facebook is now Meta.

This would be so much simpler without Microsoft. At least MANGA is a word.