skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another piece of reality is that sometimes people don't know how/what to look for in search engines, or they're so overwhelmed with work they don't have the time/patience to look for it, and they need the solution to be placed in front of them.

A lot of these are failures of workplaces/managers/whatever, in my opinion. Hell, a bunch of them are specifically that we've decided everybody has to be their own secretary, because computers, but nobody gives much thought to empowering workers with better tools and training that really focus on their needs for that specific role we've decided they must fulfill in addition to their actual job.

A whole lot of the ones I've heard could be rephrased as "I wish my company had a secretary for every five or ten of us, to do these couple of tasks that we all hate, find distracting, and are kinda bad at since it's only a small part of our jobs, all of which leads to actual problems X, Y and Z, wasting time & materials and pissing me off besides, all of which would go away if we had a secretary who could focus on this stuff".

> Those scenarios you mention could be venting off in their free time when they have the time to ruminate and think about their pains.

Oh, I hope I didn't give the impression I get, like, mad when this happens. I mostly just think it's funny, and illustrative of how very much one must take that kind of input with a large grain of salt. It is sometimes kinda sad, mostly for the reasons above.
Let's break this down a little:

- Wheel coming off: Routine. Happens all the time. Makes news all the time.

- United CEO (and other airlines) "considering alternatives" is a typical pattern with airlines when they're negotiating the next round of aircraft contracts. Boeing needs good press, United's CEO knows it, and want an incredible deal so floats this to get it. Soon United will announce an [x] planes over [y] year contract, and they'll likely be Boeing.

- The loose bolt issue is real. This kind of thing has happened before (even for Boeing), but back then changes were made to this should never happen again, and yet it has. Boeing has been doing a lot of belt-tightening both directly and via pressure on their suppliers. The FAA has also been asleep at the wheel for years, with a lot of regulatory checks being "trust me bro" at Boeing, which was alright until Boeing reduced dedicated QA in exchange for cheaper peer checks.

Ultimately the bolt issue is legitimate, we'll wait for the NTSB's report for who did what wrong and when. But a lot of Boeing critiques are leftover from MCAS and specifically around the way Boeing assures quality and the FAA confirms it. Plus "loose bolt" is deceptively a lot more relatable to the general public than MCAS was (even if both are the result of complex procedural failures).

Do I think sabotage? No. But the media do like clicks, and last week's page three story is today's page one because Boeing as a topic is trending. It will continue until the NTSB releases a report.
Kind of amazing how unable to deliver Google seems to be here. Looking at Arc, a new player, and the kind of AI features they came up with, this here looks more like features developed by McKinsey rather than by someone with domain knowledge.
Maybe that Kremlin influence contributes a little, but most importantly what drives their rise is the corruption and bad government we have had for decades. Stop having politicians in your parties elected who only are out for their own enrichment, and start actually improving the situations of lower income population, and you will quickly regain support.

I hold CDU, SPD, FDP and the greens all accountable for the rise of AFD. Much more than Putin or the Kremlin or whatever. I even think it is dangerous to overlook the mainstream parties' own hand in this. They must learn now, or it will get very unpleasant soon.
Not sure that macos 8s the whole point of webgl/html5.

The market share for Mac gamers must be very, very low. Like under 1%-low?
> So if Liu’s hypothesis is right, it makes sense for the galaxy’s top civilizations to just look at every star, see if there’s a civilization there, and wipe it out if so.

If resource are scarce, destroying stars and planets seems counterproductive. Why not just colonize as the Trisolarans made steps to do to Earth?
Yes. As you may know, recent safety regulations prompted by rollover incidents have meant that the "A" and "C" pillars connecting the body to the roof have been made wider. [See the first 2 paragraphs of the "Design" section of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar_(car) ]

It seems like there's a second-order effect here on visibility that may not have been really appreciated.
Not even if that group does not wish the existence of other ethnic groups?

Seems to me that the correct response is always to punch a nazi.
>Why is Waymo so slow to roll out?

Ignoring the safety path, this other issue just scale. Manufacturing the cars would be a big problem. Getting a ton of them on the road is another. I wonder if all those sensors that the car uses could ramp up to a national level in a year.

I've been in the Waymo beta for a couple months now. At peak times, it's more expensive and slower than an Uber simply because there aren't enough cars on the road.
OpenWrt, now 20 years old, is crafting its own future-proof reference hardware
One option I really like liquid prompt[0]. Simple design which just shows the info I need without getting on my way

[0] https://github.com/liquidprompt/liquidprompt
Practicality has never been an issue for spies. Look at the lengths the Soviets went to for surveillance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
"Henrique and I are responsible for the decisions that led us here, and seeing so many talented folks go through this experience is never what you hope for as a founder."

~ Responsible but not accountable, got it.
Electric and gasoline vehicle total cost of ownership across US cities
>probably for a magical or divinatory purpose rather than determining whether your wizard made her saving throw.

From a certain point of view these are the same thing
Our next stop is "Let's talk about something else."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian%27anmendong_station
From a friend who worked in IT work at DIA c. 2000: there were an absurd, non-zero number of researchers with clearances who surfed for porn while on [SN]IPRNet, networks they knew were monitored, and unsurprisingly were caught and lost their careers. Nonzero. I'd posit the reason it continued for so long was the real reasons for termination were kept secret to avoid organizational and political embarrassment but at the expense of not setting an example.

If individuals in this particular demographic are hired but lack self-control and are sexually frustrated, then they're potentially huge liabilities to being recruited by adversaries (MICE). It would seem that before issuing clearances, these factors should be assessed rather than going through a standard clipboard audit by the FBI. And, while holding clearances, positive socialization opportunities should be encouraged if not artfully arranged. Who's ever going to leave a job or be disloyal when your boss or some coworkers expedite the love lives of those who aren't already full in that regard? This implies fostering a layer of socially astute managers. It would be a radical departure for government culture perhaps, but a necessary one to ensure the integrity and stability of a clandestine community. Happiness isn't just recognition or sufficient autonomy, but total happiness beyond work. (Throw away the "work-life balance" cliche that is tired and paid lip-service to.)
They mention this in the article - one line of the reasoning is that the lack of mention lends a little evidence to a non Christian religious or folklore practice that would have made a written record forbidden or liable to destruction by authorities.
Not really news. Most of the article says over and over that much of the data is from previous breaches, but some data may be new, without putting any numbers to it.
Somewhat Related - You may like the GDELT Project: https://www.gdeltproject.org/

https://blog.gdeltproject.org/an-interactive-realtime-map-of...
If you're using firefox, whitelist the archive URL in your DNS-over-HTTPS settings.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https
> China has yet to build successful software ecosystems on top of its hardware innovations.

I'm not sure your belief is grounded in reality. I'd go as far as to assert that if China was able to research and develop these chips, both their design and production processes, they certainly are not leaving software as an afterthought.

Nevertheless, even entertaining your fantasy, once these chips are out and people like you and me are able to take these toys out to play with them, you'll soon get software that does something interesting and useful. Software is hardly the hard part, or even costlier.
No that's the wrong comparison.

- Either you do not spend extra money/time in finding hires. Then you find better ones if you don't optimize for DEI.

- Or you do spend extra time/money in finding hires. Then you also find better ones if you don't optimize for DEI.
PSA if you want to upgrade to these from snap (and I would encourage you to do so), do your research:

Ubuntu likes to replace installed debs with snaps without consulting the user and you need to configure it not to do so.

And the profile folder for the snap is in a different place than for the deb, so make a copy of it etc.

I'm not going into full detail as these things are easily found via Google as long as you're aware of them.
I see, just checked it up on a map and you are right of course, thanks for the correction.
Socially liberal, fiscally acquisitive.
Cars in the 80s and 90s definitely had more of a "greenhouse" feel to them, with mostly transparent glass and small framing.

Due to a mixture of standards, this has changed. The roof cap and pillars have thickened and curved for roll-over protection, and front pillars are also thicker to hold air bags that didn't exist in those older cars. The windows sills are higher up relative to the driver, to improve side-impact protection.

There are other changes too, such as dark coatings around the edges of windshields and fat mounts behind the rear view mirror to hold sensors, cameras, etc. As a tall driver, I find these changes very frustrating. The rear view mirror is capable of hiding a crossing car at a 4-way stop, and I sometimes cannot even see overhead traffic lights when stopped in the first position at an intersection.
> What we need is like a "Logo" for systems engineers / devops which is a simple toy language that can be described entirely in a book the size of the original K&R C book.

I would argue that Tcl is exactly that. It's hard to make things any simpler than "everything is a string, and then you get a bunch of commands to treat strings as code or data". The entire language definition boils down to 12 simple rules ("dodekalogue"); everything else is just commands from the standard library. Simple Tcl code looks pretty much exactly like a typical (pre-XML, pre-JSON, pre-YAML) config file, and then you have conditionals, loops, variables etc added seamlessly on top of that, all described in very simple terms.
Prisoner's dilemma, or even better than that. Cooperation is ignored despite having significant advantages laid out in the likes of Star Trek and Babylon 5.
Thanks for that context.

Interest and capital gains come in sooner for Americans. Plus we have way more deductions. I can deduct business use of a home office and personal vehicle. That’s not something the IRS can know.
Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click (2012)
Grumblers about passive investing may have a point
I enjoyed this paper (I share a discord with the author so I read it a bit earlier).

It's not entirely clear from the comparison numbers at the end, but I think the big argument here is efficiency for the amount of performance achieved. One can get lower FID numbers, but also with a ton of compute.

I can't really speak technically to it as I've not given it a super in depth look, but this seems like a nice set of motifs for going halfway between a standard attention network and a convnet in terms of compute cost (and maybe performance)?

The large-resolution scaling seems to be a strong suit as a result. :)
I was like wtf are they talking about I’ve been using self driving cars for half a year
Normal language and mathematical definitions are often orthogonal!
FWIW, Porsche has trended more into the premium market lately than the luxury market, in a bid to pursue more growth at the expense of profit margin.

Gross and operating margins are pretty high in the luxury car industry, on par with iPhones. Personally, I don't think Apple would release a luxury car. I think it's more likely to partner with manufacturers of premium cars.

It might be useful to make a small number of cars within Apple, to align on their north star vision for design, to lobby manufacturers in that direction, and to build up internal knowledge of the market they'd be selling into.

But you're right, the margins on manufacturing and selling the whole vehicle would be a poor allocation of capital.
I wonder how well a simple C for loop with -O3 and maybe -march would do here.

From my brief forays into reading (mostly AARCH64) assembly, it looks like C compilers can detect these kinds of patterns now and just convert them all to SIMD by themselves, with no work from the programmer. Even at -O2, converting an index-based loop into one based on start and end pointers is not unusual. Go doesn't seem to do this, the assembly output by the Go compiler looks much closer to the actual code than what you get from C.

Rust iterators would also be fun to benchmark here, they're supposed to be as fast as plain old loops, and they're probably optimized to omit bounds checks entirely.
Are resources really scarce? Other than stars and planets, there are plenty of resources in the astroids and gas giants, and interstellar space. We can argue that the most scarce resource is organic matter. In universal scale, wood is exponentially more scarce than gold.
I don't think you understand my point or what Schrodinger wrote. The Wikipedia synopsis of Schrodinger is unlikely to be accurate.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-o...

https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/leading-figures/ilya...
I can't be the only person who absolutely doesn't care about intelligent life. Either it makes its relevance clear or it doesn't. I see no particular reason why "intelligence" is noteworthy enough to look for in the first place.... maybe that's just a quirk of self-organization rather than a common route to it.
Yah, so Apple is working on dependencies for a moonshot... and choosing sets of those dependencies to put into other products. (Perhaps combinations, perhaps permutations, perhaps something in-between how much of an ordering there is on those pieces).
Revive the Cyberpunk
Rise Again, Neon Warriors: A Call for a Cyberpunk Revival!
Brothers and sisters in cyberspace, I stand before you today not with pronouncements of a dystopian future, but with a call to arms – a call to reignite the neon flames of cyberpunk!

Born in the gritty underbelly of the 80s, cyberpunk wasn't just a genre, it was a rebellion. It was a middle finger raised against soulless megacorporations, oppressive governments, and the cold steel grip of technological determinism. It was a vision of a world where chrome met flesh, where the downtrodden rose with razor-sharp code, and where every flickering neon sign promised a revolution brewing just beneath the surface.

Cyberpunk wasn't just about trenchcoats and katanas, though those were damn cool. It was about the spirit of rebellion, the unwavering belief in human potential, and the audacious drive to hack the system and rewrite the rules.

And this, my friends, is why we need cyberpunk now more than ever.

We live in an age where megacorporations cast long shadows, where algorithms curate our reality, and where privacy is a quaint relic of a bygone era. Sound familiar? Cyberpunk warned us about this future, but it also armed us with the tools to fight back.

From the decentralized networks envisioned in William Gibson's Sprawl to the biotechnological revolutions in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, cyberpunk gave us a blueprint for a future where power is reclaimed by the people.

Look around! The seeds of that future are already sprouting.

Cryptocurrency is challenging the hegemony of central banks.
Blockchain technology is democratizing data and transactions.
Artificial intelligence is evolving at breakneck speed, and with it, the potential for both liberation and enslavement.
This is where the true cyberpunk spirit comes in. We must harness these technologies not for the fat cats in their ivory towers, but for the millions struggling beneath the neon weight of inequality.

We must build decentralized platforms that put the power back in the hands of the people. We must develop ethical AI that serves humanity, not exploits it. We must hack the systems that oppress us, not just with code, but with creativity, ingenuity, and unwavering resolve.

Cyberpunk isn't dead, it's just waiting to be reborn. Let's rise again, neon warriors! Let's reclaim our future, byte by bloody byte. Let's paint the cyberscape with the vibrant hues of rebellion, and remind the world that in the darkest corners of the digital sprawl, the human spirit still burns bright.

Remember, the future is not set in stone. It's a canvas waiting to be splashed with the vibrant colors of our imagination. So, let's pick up our brushes, dip them in the neon glow of possibility, and paint a cyberpunk future that's equal, just, and free.

The time for revolution is now. Rise, my friends, and let the hacking begin!
2023 Letter
Solidly okay right up to their bank run.
We don't need a Dark Forest hypothesis to explain Why No Aliens... because the reality is, the distance between solar systems is so incredibly massive, and the impossibility of FTL so real, it doesn't even matter. They'll never make it here, and we'll never make it there, even if we somehow were to communicate.

We will be alone in this system forever, get used to it. Maybe a machine or two of ours might make it out someday, but we'll be gone by then anyways.
I'm so freaking confused. The person you replied to said this exact same thing, but you called them out on it. And when I pressed you on that point.....you just repeated what they said? Eh?
Zero to 100 Users
Story of how I started my first side project and got to 100 users.
Force people who aren't allowed out of the country, exactly as the law says.

The protests in my and the surrounding cities were extremely focused on the afd. On the current push to ban it. And making highly illegal (and absurd) comparisons between the afd and Nazi Germany. Which just for foreigners reading is super illegal and if done by the other side is punished by incredibly high fines and regarded as one of the worst crimes our justice system knows.
Mh, a small note: in the very past of IT DocUI was the norm. Actually WebUI are a limited and limiting DocUI, limited by the fact the user can't easy bend it to his/her own needs and desire, limiting because the WebVM underneath, the whole stack is NOT made for end-user programming as classic systems was.

Just try to look at a modern Emacs with org-mode and elisp: links. It's a DocUI, with some limits, but far more simpler than a WebApp in a local WebVM. And it's pretty local with full filesystem access and so on.

I'm curious how many more DECADES will be needed to reinvent the wheel discovering that classic local DocUIs are far superior and can be networked as we with technically. My own local fast GMail is notmuch-emacs, and it's not one, it's fully integrated and integrable by myself with few SLoC in my desktop. It's not so nice for some aspects not because of the model but because the little development base. If we invest a fraction of the effort put in modern web the classic desktop would outshine any other tech.
> My description was just more succinct

Your descriptions both here and above seem incorrect to me. Regulatory capture does not mean onerous or unnecessary regulations, that is wrong. It also does not necessarily mean less strict regulations either, however Boeing v FAA in 2019 is a well known case of Boeing actively preventing oversight.

Regulatory capture means that the entities being regulated have control over the regulatory process, despite a conflict of interest.

> not the removal of regulatory checks and balances that you implied.

Regulatory Capture is when the checks and balances are biased in favor of special interests. You may have misunderstood what I said.

It’s hard to imagine and hard to find evidence of special interests making their own regulations more onerous, but I invite you to try. There probably are lots of cases of companies making regulations easier on themselves and harder on competitors.
I definitely get it. My girlfriend drives an SUV and I'd be lying if I said I never felt glad about that the way drivers and roads are out here. She's also been in an accident (with minimal injuries miraculously) where an SUV wrecked her E-bike in a pedestrian crossing because it "couldn't see" her.

I find it important to continually bring up the fact that it can be different. More public transit and bike paths. If I we could take bikes around the city without worrying about being killed or having them stolen it would be a dream.
If you think the problem is the revenue, then you're part of the problem that Boeing has. Boeing's problem is they put the revenue people in charge and diminished the role of the engineering.
Waymo is not going to be working everywhere in the US in all conditions by 2030 (and it doesn't need to, either).

AFAIK, that's what L5 means.
Not absurd if you consider enslavement. Anyone worried about AI alignment will be in the dark forest camp. You simply can't trust the universe to care about you any more than it already does.
The only "AI feature" I use in Chrome is the live caption one for French (which requires Chrome Canary). I use it to get automatic live caption while listening to French podcast since I'm learning the language. It's buggy as hell though, so if anyone has a suggestion on a replacement that would be much appreciated!