skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The target audience seems to be Koreans who want to market their [whatever] in e.g. France, but neither know French nor anything at all about France. I found the link where you can buy access to the EiffelPost site you mentioned here: https://kmong.com/gig/399972

I assume you didn't check out the link earlier. Basically it's some sort of a Korean craigslist/ebay type site. The site itself is complete legit - Amazon did a case study of them here. [1] The seller/scammer, "Excelsior Partners" claims to be affiliated with governments, advertising agencies, and so on. And they guarantee publication in more than 10 "major French media outlets." They even offer to take care of translation for you, with their "direct partnership with a professional translation agency." Heh. Of course those "major media sites" are all the ones the article from this thread is talking about.

They're just trying to fill out the site with enough junk that somebody who doesn't know the language, doesn't know the locale, and is naive enough to think you can buy guaranteed article placement in multiple major Western publications for $1k, might think it's real.

[1] - https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/kmong/
I think the idea is the scammer just picks a random business in the area then ships them an empty box with a real tracking number.
Reverse engineering Skylanders' Toys-to-life mechanics – Marijn Kneppers
Something about having your country invaded and missiles fired at your cities tends to change perceptions of the culture initiating said aggression.
This will be a significant improvement for EU citizens! I hope banks will adhere to this law without creating problems/appeals.
Patents, patents, patents. Arm yourself to the teeth to defend yourself from the trillion dollar companies.

Spend a few thousand dollars to get provisionals. Then if your idea works and grows, file the full patents.

Don't let the giants steal your blood, sweat, and tears finding the gradients.
As far as I can tell, all copilot does is to regurgitate web results it has found, often out of context.
ParadeDB maker here -- DataFusion is amazing! Apple used it to rebuild part of Spark and open-sourced it under Comet too: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion-comet/pull/1

It's a lot more mature than people think :)
Ok, but please edit out swipes at other users ("Someone just noticed"). This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I’m glad it won, I’m heavily annoyed by the process.

Tesla could have won at any point, but they waited until a ton of cars were sold and a ton of infrastructure was built just to obsolete it all.
Without delving too much into the utility of the practice, skateboarding as a past time is a rather commonly banned activity in common spaces.

The issue here is not that someone is doing something voluntarily and devoting resources to it, but rather that someone is taking an action that involves the consumption of a rivalrous good. The court's ruling notes this explicitly (from the article) "the very real prospect that devoting such a large proportion of the available electrical power supply to one industry would leave less energy for other uses which might result in increased costs to all other residential and industry customers in B.C.”
> But Xi isn’t rational: he’s a dictator.

This is a non-sequitor. There's no reason, a priori, to believe a dictator is any less, or more rational than a popular idiot (and we've elected quite a few of those).

(You also don't stay a dictator for very long by being a madman or an idiot, whereas an elected official usually at least gets to finish their term.)
I disagree of having programs use env vars, ENV propagates, now every single program has an env var for that single program that you barely use, a good example is LSCOLORS, or nnn, all programs now consume extra memory. Which isn't a lot. but it adds up if every single program decides to use ENV.
Why would I not want to communicate with people I personally know over the Internet anymore, or with people they can introduce me to?

It's "just" going to require better digital identities and authentication, whether for real names (for interacting with banks and governments) or context-dependent pseudonyms.
From the link you provide...

>> Because of the iPod Nano unveiling on the same day, relations between Motorola and Apple were strained and Motorola CEO Ed Zander later accused Apple of purposely undercutting the Rokr.

Apple probably saw it as an opportunity for free iTunes and Nano advertising.
I already pointed that out multiple times to Rocky Linux staff. They have no answer to this. The whole concept of Rocky is a big bet, that Red Hat won't pull the sources of non-GPL binaries e.g. in cloud instances and other public accessable places, where Rocky is currently fetching their sources from.

If you choose not to participate in this gamble, then this distro may not be suitable for you.
Geopolitics: China's sudden shift to authoritarianism under the new emperor has everyone fleeing for the exits as the US and Europe abandon the project to bring China into the club.

Economics, Neoliberalism is dead. The pandemic killed it. Policy makers well understand the economy can tolerate a lot of disruption.

Politics: Dispossessed voters turning to fascism has sharpened politicians and sane business leaders minds.

Global Warning and new Tech: Solar, wind, batteries, and the need to faze out fossil fuels creates risks and opportunities. Risks will be born by those that try business as usual.

Increased automation: Low skilled dirt cheap labor is less important than it was 20-30 years ago. That changes the balance point between low cost offshored labor and the pain in the ass that offshoring is.
yes, they fit this pattern exactly. I only discovered this issue after being scammed. There are hundreds of people for example who got scammed by a company advertising dolphin blankets, as described by reddit users who where victims of it, and the adverts and company have still not been taken down by FB.
There was some mention in the wiki about caching the result and rebuilding it on change, so it seems well thought out from that perspective.
If so, the idea you can safely leave stuff in a car is the triumph of anecdotes over data.

Long ago when starting a software & network company, I got a commercial insurance policy on the computer equipment. It covered everything, suprisingly including the usual exceptions such as war, terrorism, Acts Of God, lightning, fire, etc.

But, there was ONE thing it did not cover:

"Theft from an unattended motor vehicle".

I took the hint and to this day never leave anything in a parked car, and never had anything stolen, and I have friends who didn't follow it and have been robbed that way, sometimes literally in <10 min. I know people in some areas (and these aren't bad areas, parking at beaches, yacht clubs, ski areas, etc.) who leave their cars unlocked with trunklids popped open.

The actuaries have data and know some things ordinary people don't.

When you get that info, listen.
Trigger warning: I have narcolepsy and the dot induced a cataplexy
Fun fact, NZ and Australian volunteer rural fire-fighters often fly in to help out with bad fire seasons in California. It's good practice.
Where can I find more details on how this sandboxing works?

Edit: Seems like it's using OpenBSD's pledge API? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpRw6KQnY0k&t=8107s
I’m sure it is, but terrible relations doesn’t make people forget a language and we’re only speaking to the number who know the language. I’ve no doubt a generation from now that number will be a lot lower if things continue on this path.
Neal Stephenson's Anathem (2008):

> “Early in the Reticulum-thousands of years ago-it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright misleading information,” Sammann said.

> “Crap, you once called it,” I reminded him.

> “Yes-a technical term. So crap filtering became important. Businesses were built around it. Some of those businesses came up with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began to put crap on the Reticulum deliberately, forcing people to use their products to filter that crap back out. They created syndevs whose sole purpose was to spew crap into the Reticulum. But it had to be good crap.”

> “What is good crap?” Arsibalt asked in a politely incredulous tone.

> “Well, bad crap would be an unformatted document consisting of random letters. Good crap would be a beautifully typeset, well-written document that contained a hundred correct, verifiable sentences and one that was subtly false. It’s a lot harder to generate good crap. At first they had to hire humans to churn it out. They mostly did it by taking legitimate documents and inserting errors-swapping one name for another, say. But it didn’t really take off until the military got interested.”

> “As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy’s reticules, you mean,” Osa said. “This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial Inanity programs of the mid-First Millennium A.R.”

> “Exactly!” Sammann said. “Artificial Inanity systems of enormous sophistication and power were built for exactly the purpose Fraa Osa has mentioned. In no time at all, the praxis leaked to the commercial sector and spread to the Rampant Orphan Botnet Ecologies. Never mind. The point is that there was a sort of Dark Age on the Reticulum that lasted until my Ita forerunners were able to bring matters in hand.”
True, but that's an account you already have and is independent of the products and services, so using it for this doesn't make anything worse.
It has monthly page view quotas for writers, which changes what gets covered.

It laid off or lost most of its best tech policy writers, including Joe Mullin, Cyrus Farivar, David Kravets, and Timothy B Lee.
Setting aside the wildly suspect 1T claim, I’m not convinced by the argument. Fusion power plants are fixed large-scale facilities. In a war zone you need mobile power sources. I could see a fusion reactor powering a ship and maybe powering temporarily shore-based facilities. AFAIK the military is looking at solar for mobile power in forward deployments though which makes sense. Unless the argument is that fusion is used to generate transportable fuel (hydrogen, efuels etc). But then that argument is weird because the military would be doing that with fission today which actually exists and it has to expensive field experience with and supply chains supporting.
But they do not make you forget a language is the point.
+1 to looking for "wins above replacement" -- there are great players on mediocre teams and weak players on strong teams. The resume tells you what teams they were on but in an interview you need to determine what they really contributed.

(One followup question I find myself asking a lot is "you said 'we' did X, tell me more about who was part of that" -- great people sometimes give away too much of the credit)
You got it right on here, but since the only alternative to work is starvation (because medicaid and foostamps have employment requirements), you are basically born rich, or a gangster or you have no quality of life. Its ironic, while abortion is illegal its perfectly legal to starve ex-working class to death rather than provide foodstamps.
Are you serious? It sets the ceiling on transfer time so that a minimum baseline quality of service is ensured.
Ironically my understanding is that several operating systems around that time did do that, then Unix came and said "a file is just a bag of bytes in a hierarchical namespace" and we've seemingly never reconsidered
That's right! Greenplum is still active, but falling off.

We see pg_analytics as the next-generation Citus columnar, with much better performance and integration into the wider data ecosystem via Delta Lake, and eventually Iceberg
If his point was "most things are getting better than they used to be, going from awful to still not good", what's wrong with that?

If the criticism against him is "he's picking the wrong data" and Berggren then picks his own data to make his point, it's that a bit of a carousel?
There's no evidence that AI is getting more power efficient or that it will in the future. It's still new tech that we haven't tested to the limit.

Current indications lend to AI going more cloud/enterprise (centralized) than local (decentralized) where it will continue to increase energy demands to data centers that were already power hungry before AI.

The Bitcoin miners and AI compute scenarios are more alike than you think.
Looking forward to Vision Ultra Pro SE
Here you go! It's not great.

https://kguttag.com/2024/02/05/spreadsheet-breaks-the-apple-...
Still, that 80% hasn’t died off so those people still know the language
Is Unison something I can easily self host? I wouldn't want to be vendor locked to Unison Cloud.
how do I get one for my Chevy Bolt?
I guess, they are all missing 'to be' so incorrect - I don't know what to call that precisely - correct versions I avoid:

"site cannot be found"

"software is updating"/"updating is in progress"
I'm not saying that it's not good for customers. I'm saying that it does not increase competitiveness, which was the claim.
However, it's not just about one country, this is (also) about 27 countries and the payment between them.

Imagine being able to pay that quickly to your economically challenged neighbor (Argentina)?
Null being a valid value means it is not a trap representation.

Functions in C code bases checking for null is the rare exception rather than the rule.

When they do check, that doesn't turn null into a trap representation.
So they'll have to compete elsewhere?

How is this anything but a win for consumers?
what is the significance of this prompt/session and what is 1700 tokens here? can someone explain?
You can promote the software, as well as mirror the code of the software, on multiple services. (Unfortunately, while the code and documentation can be mirrored, the discussions usually won't be.)

Requiring the use of priorietary software to access and discuss it is a problem, and requiring complicated software is not that good either, but it is also possible to use open protocols with multiple software.

(In the specific case of GitHub, they had previously allow viewing files without needing JavaScripts; that has changed now, but the data is included as JSON data within the HTML file, so I was able to write my own much shorter script to substitute for theirs. Of course, that does not help much if you do not have that script, but you can still use the git protocol to download the files, or to use the API (the form for creating a new repository has stopped working on my computer, but I have been able to do so by using the API).)

One thing they do not mention is NNTP, which I think can be a helpful alternative than mailing lists (although you can also have multiple interfaces for the same messages).
Interesting it took so long. In UK it already takes way below 10s.
Would it also apply during the night and, on weekends and holidays?
Do they actually compete on speed here? The law seems like a mitigation for market failure -- there is not enough competition and the banks don't compete on things like this
I believe this has been debunked as a hoax. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1af69ef/a_person_c...
Not the parent. You could be passing 150kW or more through an adapter. I think it’s a very bad idea to risk your life/car/safety on a non-approved adapter.
My solution to the problem of pollution, or to the problem of vaccuous promises by politicians which is what I pointed at?
This increases the competitiveness among other things because large established players cannot deny instant transfers to smaller competitors.
They should have called it Clippy.
Most people I interact with are targeting CQRS as the CRUD model is what most people use. The problem with the DB central approach is many faceted as as most people really just need a repository the inherent problems testing, vertical scaling, availability, typical default of procedural cohesion etc... is why people don't care.

The self managed DB servers aren't cheap once you have to scale, typically have availability issues due to ACID rules typically limiting servers to only two AZ's per region etc...

It is actually adopting best practices for software maintainability and scalability that are getting rid of most DBA needs....because most databases use aren't doing batch processing, report generation, backups, job scheduling, or other needs that tend to be the right use cases for relational databases.

Concepts like encapsulation, persistence ignorance, and other methods of ensuring that the persistence layer is as loosely coupled as possible have proven to be cheaper, easier to test, and avoid the lock in you mention above.

As i have had a professional relationship with AWS/GCS here are a few anti-patterns from Microsoft that demonstrate this.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/antipat...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/antipat...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/antipat...

I made a good living as a consultant in the .com era helping companies throw money at their foreign key loving branching stored procedure systems that they couldn't even get to scale past the angel round some times.

And entire companies like AT&T wireless went under in a large part due to failed upgrades due to issues related to having logic in the DB.

DBs can be a good persistence layer when a system is simple and small. But really to work well within a cloud or distributed context they need to be treated as repositories unless there is a compelling technical reason to treat them differently.

'When all you have is a hammer' approach monolithic persistence layer what the primary blocker when I worked with cloud providers to help customers migrate. And they always were paranoid of moving things out of the database. And the funny thing is that most of them were trying to move to the cloud because vertical scaling on-prem DB servers became too expensive and didn't deliver the performance vendors promised.

Had companies followed say the design patterns of micro-services, where each service context has it's own DB, they probably could have stayed on-prem at lower costs.

But for the clients I worked with, who had failed to migrate on their own. Complex fragile schemas, triggers, sp's, etc... where almost always the main issue.

And we knew this even before the commercial internet existed.
So I've been a consultant and helped companies do huge layoffs, starting from the top down. The lesson is you are NEVER safe unless you are the owner of the company. I've put many a 20 year veteran who was an SVP of etc etc on the chopping block.

Also another huge risk is if you are a manager of 1 or 2 people. You are not a manager you are a layer. If you are a manager of many "managers" of 1 or 2 people this is doubley true.

While tech experts are often different, if you are an individual contributor with an absurd comp given your actual technical skills, beware.

AMA!
FedNow is a service for banks, not for bank customers. The original post is about timelines for customers transfers
This is like a "water is wet" post for me. Maybe it is because I have been doing this so long... maybe for another reason. But people need to hear it.

The important part is buried at the bottom and I'll re-summarize in less words:

Start with high code quality standards [with proficient, experienced devs] delivering the minimal amount of functionality to ship.

Then rinse and repeat.

With experience comes a developed taste for the general work of software development and a better discernment for where to draw the lines. How to decouple and how to recognize when the decoupling is wrong and refactor. And how to refactor appropriately without making up fear based excuses.

If you are interested in more checkout "A Philosophy of Software Design" by Ousterhout, "Righting Software" by Löwy and "Mythical Man Month" by Brooks.
Young Americans' Wealth Grew 80% Since 2019, but There's a Catch
> What I thought would be a short fairytale, did not have a happy ending. Writing and reading 100,000 serialized embeddings took ~19 seconds.

WTF? Are you running a separate transaction per embedding? Using a heavy weight ORM incorrectly? SQLite can handle inserts very, very fast; but if you put lots of layers on top of it, (like an ORM,) they usually slow things down.

> It was clear that serialization was the culprit, so we switched to Protobuf instead of stringifying the embeddings. This resulted in considerable gains.

Why are you serializing and then inserting into a SQL database? You should have columns for your fields, and directly query on those columns.

Anyway, I think I understand why this article is (unfairly) flagged: You are criticizing SQLite, and clearly do not know how to program with a SQL database.
Alan has an MSc and PhD in nutrition and runs Alinea nutrition.

I can't speak on Huberman's assessment of research in the neuroscience space, where he has expertise. Alan has done some breakdowns of Huberman's broad claims related to nutrition, and how they're generally hyperbolic and lacking sufficient evidence (ie they're not based on studies that show outcomes in actual humans in a controlled fashion).
The folks at Barbell Medicine have spoken to some of his generic health/fitness claims as well, to similar effect.

I think Huberman uses his platform and title to paint overly broad strokes about all kinds of things outside of his expertise. Some of this could be attributed to a platform like twitter that prioritizes small amounts of text, but overall I think it's disingenuous especially as someone claiming to be an expert. I think if he were more interested in helping people he would focus less on money/fame/views and take a more nuanced approach, instead of (mis)leading people to change based on extremely limited evidence. The problem is he wouldn't be able to churn out so much content if he did so.

I have no reason to doubt any of his academic qualifications. But I have a lot of appreciation for the breadth and depth of knowledge required to speak confidently about the latest evidence in a field. This becomes a problem when the field is outside of one's expertise. Alan goes into this in detail on his instagram post.

I realize the post is based on something Huberman said within his expertise. But I think the context is important to understand, as it makes me wary of listening to him in general.
Secretive Ford 'Skunkworks' Team Developing Cheap EV to Beat Tesla and China
I doubt it, this seems to be the move.

An optional retrofit would be great. But I don’t think it’s going to happen.
As he put it: "The Big U is what it is: a first novel written in a hurry by a young man a long time ago."

It was out of print for a long time and he sort of had to be convinced to make the book available to read again after large demand.
What Plants Hear
Same in Austria. Vanilla SEPA is free(1-3 days) but Instant SEPA is €1.50 at my discount bank.

They're just trying to milk every possible avenue while they can. Poor banks. /s
Elsewhere in this thread, this was mentioned: https://a2zevshop.com/products/nacs-ccs1?variant=43186507579... ($197 USD)

Or cross your fingers and hope GM's bean counters authorize buying you one, but I would not hold your breath.
According to the article, yes.

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An instant credit transfer is supposed to be executed regardless of the day or hour and the money must arrive into the recipient’s account within ten seconds.

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Topically, I used to own a Windows phone and absolutely loved the OS. I had to carry a second Android phone with me though, because nearly every app I needed or wanted to use wasn’t available for the Windows phone.
Thanks! Yeah, my language is content-addressable too, which is why I'm interested in how it's being used in the wild.

[1] https://scrapscript.org

I'm excited to see how it progresses beyond "first large-scale demo"!