skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gov creates program ripe for exploitation by wealthy foreigners > foreigners exploit program > US citizens take cut of said exploitations.

Wow yea, shocking.
I wish an LLM had obviated this thread from the discussion
Get into a PhD program that is quantitative or mathematical. You’ll pick up coding on the way.
Reminds me of Philip K Dick's 'Golden Man', where the next evolutionary phase of humanity has no semantic brain, can see the future and is very very attractive.

Also, very likely true to some extent, that is butt size controls brain size. Through humour we see the truth.
Yes, I understand that this isn't strictly true.

I guess a more accurate way to put it is that there is almost no one working in banking or any mortgages currently written where a major correction has happened. Canada wasn't whacked in 2008 nearly as bad as the US, and the early 1990s property corrections were much more regionally focused (Toronto got the worst of it), in Edmonton, 1989 and 1990 prices increased more than 20%. Basically there is no one with first hand experience in managing an upside-down housing portfolio.

Basically, for most property markets in Canada, plowing your money into property has been a historically better bet than the TSX.
I'm impressed that the reasoning was more than just "Rust is super cool."
I've read the same, but supercritical CO2 was definitely an alternative to hexane (or methylene chloride aka dichloromethane, in which caffeine is extraordinarily soluble). So maybe we're both wrong, but you're not completely misremembering - that was definitely a story that was out there.
That’s very true. However in this specific case, the OP is correct for anyone with decision making power at Google
> who ruined mobile by turning it into a money making machine

Could you expand on this? How is that Apple's doing/fault?
Seems to have been updated (or just works for me)
It still works for me. What if you try it in an incognito window?
Sadly, I immediately saw another wrong usage of “Big Bang” in a headline only a couple of days later.
You used to be able to access shorts as normal videos even after they rolled out normal videos by using the original video link. Did they remove this?
IRS Says Tax Enforcement Pays for Itself–and Then Some
Yeah, and it seems like a better title would be "Asciinema 3.0 has been rewritten in Rust", since this PR was merged in November.
Apple hardware sucks for the following reasons:

- it's expensive, especially if you want to load up on memory or disk space

- there is limited choice

- it's relatively unreliable

- it's difficult to fix, you have to send it to Apple under warranty, third party repairs are difficult or impossible, self fix is impractical for most people

With Hackintoshes you can have a solid desktop machine starting from $150 (motherboard and processor). You can easily fix it yourself by swapping out parts and get local warranty. You can upgrade and downgrade at will. You can use a much wider range of macOS versions.

Laptops are a more complicated issue and much more marginal.

I've used a Hackintosh as my daily driver for about 10 years ever since I had the misfortune of trying to get my brand new MacBook fixed by a "genius" who was actually a rude, condescending arsehole who spoke nonsense. Apple applied the trivial fix of a replacement internal cable and then held my laptop for nearly a week as a matter of policy.
Does anyone have information on the success of Rust rewrites? Rewrites in general have a bad reputation, but I'm wondering if it's better for Rust since this course of action is so popular.
Our Brains Weren't Designed for This Kind of Food
There's an easy solution here: Offer both! Google can afford to offer two kinds of document editors, and it would make the entire GSuite infinitely more valuable and enjoyable to me.

I already have a bunch of Markdown text files synced to my GDrive – why can I literally not edit them in the GDrive web interface? There's not even a basic text editor!
Rust is wicked fast?
Happy to see this. In my experiences,

cargo run

works a lot more reliably than messing with Python virtual environments and trying to figure out what system wide dynamically linked dependencies you need to install.
And yet they're still incredibly relevant...
Does Apple focus pixels in the center?
Cannot agree more! It's a new product made by Posit, who are behind R and RStudio. I think it pulls together Knitr and a few other technologies.

Features:
* It has a "blog" mode for listing posts in order, pulls out thumbnails, snippets, etc.
* It has a pre-made github action that builds on each push
* It lets you write blog posts in jupyter notebooks, OR
* You can use the "quarto markdown" flavor and put text and run code blocks in the same file.
* Supports python and R code (ATM)
* Supports Giscus for comments

Only downside is that there are limited themes, which are a bit unexciting. I'm sure people will be adding more once this catches on.
For those wondering, dialetheism is not valid in classical logic. But the article says how the concept relates to logic systems:

> Dialetheism is not a system of formal logic; instead, it is a thesis about truth that influences the construction of a formal logic, often based on pre-existing systems.
seems like a good call.

I realize this is from a ground level but: The games getting made by the Unreal Engine today are of such high quality and graphic fidelity.

They've really hit critical mass for the AA and AAA games, and paying the piper is looking like a smarter and smarter investment.

Do film companies write their own editing software, or 3d pipelines, or design and build their own cameras? Some of them, sure. But most of them are purchasing and customizing off-the-shelf solutions. It just makes sense.
>I'm not here to defend Google leadership at all, but this matches my mental model of what an executive should do: Define a vision and goals, then support proposals made by people under you. I think the opposite—when executives say not only what but how—is way worse.

There is another alternative, "The executive rallies people behind a vision, encourages people to come up with ideas and solutions, sets up incentives such that low level ICs can bypass all middle management nonsense, encourage failures, and skill themselves up to be able to make tough calls."

But that's not what executives do. They set some vague vision, force middle management to trickle it down to ICs. Everyone is under pressure to do something with no reward for doing that something. Everyone still has to follow the chain of command and everyone still has to manage mediocre middle management politics.
Can an experimental cell phone app screen coughs for TB? Scientists say 'yes'
I've rewritten two personal, non-trivial projects in Rust and both have been successful. The most recent Python -> Rust conversion did take a bit more time than expected but it's stable and has already saved me a few hundred in AppEngine hosting bills.
Race isn't defined just by color (in the US). As you note many Asian people are fair skinned. Dyeing your skin has no impact on race in most people's eyes
I love it. Miracle drug. Of course risk should be assessed and side effects considered, but I see no reason in principle not to use it.
He addresses using existing mineshafts in the article.
Steam does have Curator Connect, which kind of does that - https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/curators - granted, it comes with a couple of drawbacks, the main one being that the reviewers need to have a Curator group set up
To be fair that toot wasn't very convincing either. 404media did a bit more of research and asked clarification from Fortinet.
I don't think that's really fair. But I also think CEOs have to think about tradeoffs and realistically assess needs and strategies going forward which may not mean keeping everyone on payroll.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella#Works_based_on_th...
Mimas' surprise: Tiny moon holds young ocean beneath icy shell
idk, I've always found rewrites to almost always pay off. You get to start with a clean slate, roughly know what it needs to look like, and know where most if not all of the dragons lie. Maybe very large systems that can't reasonably be rewritten by a single person wouldn't benefit from it, but anything below that scale probably can.
afaik some famous ones are like InfluxDB, Fish, and of course some parts of linux kernel (v4l2) that most of them improved the performance while rust provides abstraction at zero cost so it does make life easier
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I believe TigerBeetle are alluding to their integration of protocol-aware recovery [1], which is a worthy consideration for the log implementation. Yet another engineering concern which can be offloaded.

If the disaggregated log integrates some mechanism to support leadership "above" it [2], it can be functionally identical to a converged log. Efficiency-wise yes there will be some extra network messages – but networks are very high throughput [3] and fast (sub-millisecond within a cloud region) these days!

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast18/presentation/alagap...
[2] https://maheshba.bitbucket.io/blog/2023/05/06/Leadership.htm..., also on HN yesterday
[3] https://blog.enfabrica.net/the-next-step-in-high-performance...
My understanding is that there are lots of functional reasons to use rust in such situations, which are why it's considered "super cool".
I failed that as well back then! I still (mostly) remember the question that I knew was going to sink me. The scenario was that I caught a coworker stealing a pencil from the company, and the question was what I would do about it. I stubbornly chose whatever the ‘do nothing’ option was, and continued my time as a line cook for several more years. I probably dodged a bullet there.
All of us tech people have the military to thank for the creation of this industry, lest anyone forgets.
> I tried Bing again and came back after a day.

IDK when but anything other than Google is better now. Even whatever default Brave has, or ddg. It's like using Google 15 years ago - minimal SEO crap.

Sure I do have to go back to google every few days, but thats due to braindead devs who explicitly only allow google to scrape them.
From your link:

> The alternative idea is to put a lot of sand on a single elevator with huge winches that just goes up and down in a big, deep mine shaft. This one at least has the potential to be viable.
The fact that the demo is an Asciinema recording that demos how to record and upload an (inner) Asciinema demo is unreasonably amusing.

https://asciinema.org/a/85R4jTtjKVRIYXTcKCNq0vzYH?autoplay=1
Good idea, how did you gather the data?

Some of it is not entirely accurate, but that's okay, on a glance around my area I would say it is reasonably accurate.
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> by storing Unison code in a database, keyed by the hash of that code, we gain a perfect incremental compilation cache which is shared among all developers of a project. This is an absolutely WILD feature, but it's fantastic and hard to go back once you've experienced it. I am basically never waiting around for my code to compile - once code has been parsed and typechecked once, by anyone, it's not touched again until it's changed.

So… ccache?
Chris, how would you respond to the remark that the article is comparing a flawed Mojo implementation against a more correct Rust implementation? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39296559

> Insightful Reddit comment https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1al8cuc/modular_commu...

> > The TL;DR is that the Mojo implementation is fast because it essentially memchrs four times per read to find a newline, without any kind of validation or further checking. The memchr is manually implemented by loading a SIMD vector, and comparing it to 0x0a, and continuing if the result is all zeros. This is not a serious FASTQ parser. It cuts so many corners that it doesn't really make it comparable to other parsers (although I'm not crazy about Needletails somewhat similar approach either).

> > I implemented the same algorithm in < 100 lines of Julia and were >60% faster than the provided needletail benchmark, beating Mojo. I'm confident it could be done in Rust, too.
Wow! I never really imagined a market where a motorcycle needed a hybrid considering their gas mileage (Extra bad emissions though), but this bike seems like a wonderful idea. I bet the instantaneous torque would be something to behold too. Love the 3 mode concept too

I want to ride one.
Yeah this is more in line with my experience too.
That’s only theory. In reality, people who spin everything in a positive light survive longer in a big organization.
No rocket equation but, if you want to go to the source, see Parkinson's Law (the original essay, not the shorthand aphorism). Which was actually even worse--productive work was not scaling up in the British Navy.

I'm sure there are papers that have studied what happens specifically in business though.
Not really though. He keeps pointing out that he wants to integrate with Rust libraries, but it's actually pretty easy to write integrations between Rust and Python[1][2]. If that were the actual reason, there is a much better path of least resistance available.

The only other type of given argument for moving to Rust was that the author enjoyed it, so it appears to be another "Rust is super cool" rewrite. It really speaks to the power of developer experience. People are willing to rewrite their entire application to be more comfortable. I know I am, only my language of choice is Common Lisp.

1: https://saidvandeklundert.net/learn/2021-11-18-calling-rust-...

2: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3664124/how-to-use-rust-wi...
Astrophysicists crack the case of 'disappearing' sulfur in planetary nebulae
Interesting. That said, you would expect your teeth to basically get worse over time, there's rarely anything you can do to make them actually better, assuming you're not heavily deficient in something important to them. Only thing I can think of is that I believe it's possible to regrow enamel, but don't quote me on that. Otherwise teeth just basically get worse, and it's just a question of how quickly that happens.
cargo run just defaults to your home dir?

Because pip install --user is the same principle.
So you think everyone should just allow Russia to take over any country it wants?
I'm curious what fast charging standard is going to be standard for where Japanese used cars dominated market. Japan still stick with CHAdeMO for local market despite it's dying outside of Japan. I think it's quite bad for used car export economy.
Weird, they’ve been hiring all January.
This reminds me of the excellent series "Blueprint for Armageddon" in Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast [1]. It's about the First World War. WWI tends to get less attention than WW2 and while there are good reasons why we focus on the atrocities of WW2, in some ways WWI was far more devastating.

The artillery production mentioned here reminds me of how scales changed from the beginning to the end of the war. At the outbreak, IIRC Russia produced ~35K artillery shells per month and was using ~25K per day. By 1917, there was a battle where a combined total of ONE MILLION artillery shells were fired (between the two sides) in a period of roughly 4 hours.

Every war seems to have a defining technology that's new and makes it unlike previous wars. This is rarely clear to military leadership before the war starts so tends to mean the calculations are off. For example, the US Civil War was the first war fought with mass-produced, long-range, fast-loading and accurate rifles, which led to >600K deaths. By comparison, the US lost 400k servicemen in WW2.

In WWI, that defining technology was really artillery. To a lesser extent it was machine guns too. Air power became a factor late in the war but the concepts of aerial bombardment, strategic bombardment and air superiority wouldn't really come into their own until WW2. The real solution to artillery and fixed positions ultimately became the tank But WWi ended before this really took off. Like air power, it would become a huge factor in WW2.

Why this is important is because the war in Ukraine is in many ways similar to WWI. Air power isn't really a factor but the most defining factors are artillery, trenches, fortifications and terrain, most notably the Dnipro River.

Russia has built 3 lines of impressive fortifications that mirror German positions in WWI. Russia's strategy is essentially to dig in, use the river as a barrier and wait for the West to get bored or lose patience with supplying Ukraine such that Ukraine sues for peace and Russia gains territory east of the river, creating a land bridge to Crimea.

But in a WWI style war, artillery is incredibly important. It can be used to cover an advance into a fortified position (eg a creeping barrage [2]). These were tactics that were developed and learned through WWI.

Oh and if you want to see how devastating this can be look no further than Verdun, the so-called "Red Zone" (Zone Rouge) [3].

[1]: https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-55-blu...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrage_(artillery)#Creeping_b...

[3]: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-i/zone-rouge.html
I guess I was assuming that based on the AVP virtual desktop native resolution of 4096 x 2304 that it would be about 86PPD in practice
Did you read the part immediately after that?
For shorts you need 10 million views in a 90 day period to be eligible for monetization.
Novel drug could protect brains from damage after repeat concussions
This is pure speculation, but my 2 cents: Be a sales rep at an in-person company (this is important for networking). Become friends with the devs. Do the bare minimum for the sales job while meeting expectation.

Learn, learn, learn, and ask, ask, ask.
We may now know who's behind the lead-tainted cinnamon in toddler fruit pouches
Also, Epic claim they were not willing to accept a deal that was just for them.
Really? I thought Disney was doing well. Their subscription service is only behind Netflix and Amazon, the latter of which includes its service in Prime so is not an equal competitor. Further, their ownership of Marvel has provided them some of the largest grossing films of all time, and their Star Wars acquisition seems to be paying off. The parks seem to be quite strong, but I've only experienced the Japan ones. Overall I find it difficult, from a layman's perspective, to believe Disney is in trouble but welcome any other information.
Simple change that will improve your media diet in 2024
https://archive.is/9X3lO
Which can be the formula for adding another layer of features that 1% (or whatever) of users care about.
If Apple are giving sweetheart deals to anyone, Disney is almost certainly not paying 30% at the moment.
Oh make no mistake, they're still burning a ton of money trying to get their cross play metaverse thing off the ground. Those dev teams didn't lose a single person in those layoffs, in fact, whole departments were gutted and some of the engineering talent was reassigned to the metaverse team.

It's so much worse than you can imagine.
Finding the best predictor for a galaxy's metallic content
I was thinking about a potential jump scare during the process and it makes me wonder if that's relegated to a specific generation (young gen x and older millenails). The early internet was chock full of things that tried to jump scare you. lol
I'd be interested in some elaboration. How did switching languages save you money?
That's nice in theory, but can you say that Google does things that actually achieve that trifecta?
I'm fascinated by the way apple dodges blame for the degeneracy of social media. Sure people are logging into facebook and tiktok, but Apple makes the device that lets you carry it with you. I like to say they made spending time on your phone desirable.
No, in fact I keep a very handy redirect in Redirector for this specific usecase:

{
"description": "Youtube shorts to something useful",
"exampleUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iB9KMNzNIZI",
"exampleResult": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB9KMNzNIZI",
"error": null,
"includePattern": "https://www.youtube.com/shorts/*",
"excludePattern": "",
"patternDesc": "",
"redirectUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1",
"patternType": "W",
"processMatches": "noProcessing",
"disabled": false,
"grouped": false,
"appliesTo": [
"main_frame"
]
},
I'd usually agree, but the list of reasons involve integrating with Rust libraries, all of which it appears were written by the same author of asciinema.

I think it just boils down to the author feeling a lot more productive and less frustrated in Rust than Python. Which is a perfectly fine reason to switch!
What exactly does it mean for Safari to be both the new IE and the new Chrome?
They have really superb build quality in all the ones I've had, but I've only ever used the toaster ovens (which are so good that they're my go-to wedding gift if it's someone I'm close enough to that I'd spend that much). Glad you found one that's working out for you.
This is so weird. Why would anyone adopt a UI framework from a team that can't even put together decent website for their UI framework?

The site shows exactly one example (a very ho-hum weather widget) and that requires squinting to see it among all the other things in the video. It shows no other examples, nor the code to construct them. Nor does their documentation home [1]. The text is also illegible with ultra-thin 200 weight straight out of 2013.

Like, there's hundreds of examples of developer tool sites that get the basics right, and they're not even about UI.

(normally its bad form on HN to comment on the site vs the content, but in this case the site really is the content)

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/adaptive-cards/
There are three routes to bypass this issue:

1. Move to supercritical Co2 turbines (lower mass —> lower cost), need RnD on corrosion resistant alloys

2. Move to thermoelectric or photovoltaic generators

3. Use aneutronic fusion

Directly use the charged particles
> Apple is happy to engage in backroom deals. There's a future where Apple could acquire either or both of these companies.

Maybe they’d want to, but would regulators really let those mergers happen unless apple makes some big changes?
WoW, I thought my VPN failed (to properly traverse the GFW) when the date filter just didn’t show up on iOS.
had to look up some price comparisons.

Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station stores 40 GWh and cost 2 billion or 20 Wh/USD

Tesla megapack 2 stores 3.8 Mwh = Costs 1.5 million, or approximately 2.6 Wh/USD

It seems like pumped hydro is about an order of magnitude cheaper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fengning_Pumped_Storage_Power_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Megapack
this trend of `a: float` always reminds me of the Rich Hickey "you don't want types, you want proper names" talk. I really hate this (feels to me Go inspired) tendency of undescriptive single letter variable, with the type system abused as a naming assistant.

Names can convey proper semantic information about what your program does, use them godammit
Want me to really bake your noodle?

Ready?

It has Markdown mode as an option.

Peak HN, perfectly executed:

- "it's obvious my pet peeve feature X should be added to Y, the company in the article".

- "I don't like X".

- "Can we have both?"

I'm guffawing
do they have an app or maybe publish/syndicate to an app?
Yeah, there's a picture of the lense above a grid of lines demonstrating this in the article (which is the first time I've seen that confirmed).
That was well researched.

Weapons manufacture has an unfortunate overlap with the systems skills computer people possess. It’s easy to get sucked in. He says it best in the first paragraph.
“I wouldn’t want to be on the other end of one”

Never build a weapon you wouldn’t want to be on the other end of. The last part of creation is relinquishing control. The person operating it might not be as careful pointing it as you would.