skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we should shrug and not care just because only a smaller number of people are negatively affected? That's not how society should work.

> In fact as much as mining Bitcoin might be considered useless by some, it does stabilize the grid around it.

Did a couple searches around this, and didn't find the arguments there convincing at all. Reads more like apologia and rationalizing. Regardless, mining installations like this appear to be running 24/7, so they're not participating in any demand leveling.
That the actuaries of that insurance know it was such a big problem they expressly excluded it.

Also, many auto and homeowners insurance policies have low (or no) coverage for personal property theft in cases like this, at least for computers, etc. unless you expressly pay for it.
So if it’s so successful why doesn’t Intel etc just copy this process?
I want to feel excited for Ladybird, but it's an incredible shame that such a promising and potentially very important project has settled on a pushover licence and Discord for their communication platform. The latter especially is an antithesis of freedom and openness, which I feel ought to be valued by people celebrating Ladybird's progress.
Not on residential rentals.
That probably makes perfect sense for you, and reflects most technical people's perspective, but it depends on the job.

When I've interviewed developers and other technical people when I was in that business, I wanted to gauge if they'd be pleasant to work with, and vaguely "who they are," but that's about it. In a dev interview, I'd be suspicious of someone digging into what made me tick, if for no reason other than their lacking boundaries. But even in ambiguous green field coding projects, not having the most creative dev team could maybe result in longer design times, or overly prescriptive solutions, at worst, if they're technically competent.

Edit: (That said, in one technical role I was in, a technically competent new hire (that I didn't interview) tried to bring a machete into work on their second day for reasons we never found out, despite our working in the secure block of a government building with metal detectors, man traps, etc. But I think that's probably a bit of an outlier. ;-)

However, if I was applying for a job at a creative studio doing deep creative work on amorphous topics with comparatively ambiguous definitions of success, like making a movie, designing a large brand/visual identity from the ground up, or similar, I might not even accept a job if they weren't digging into what makes everybody on that team tick. The difference between mediocrity and excellence at that stage is almost entirely based on the creative capability of the team as an entity. Someone that doesn't jibe with it will be a drag on everyone at best, or unintentionally dousing the creative flames with an unhelpful attitude and momentum-killing diversions at worst.
It’s a larger surface area only if you increase the area without increasing the heat generation. That is a heat sink. If you want all those layers computing and therefore producing heat, then you might as well keep it flat and have more fluid moving heat away. In a 3d space that fluid is going to be started between different layers and reach its carrying capacity of heat quicker.
Nice write up, and i hope you dont regret the journey

I am surprised you didnt mention fraud - is it because micro-payments are not "fraud worthy" or because it is a manageable problem ?
It says scraping. I thought scraping was legal?
Appreciating Clpz_t/2
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Capitalism can't even solve normal problems in the way you're suggesting. How in the world would it solve any of these problems?
I'm unaware of any law that restricts me from programming my own bot to be as bigoted as I may wish within the confines of my own personal interactions with this bot.
This is a good question.

If I'm asking for quicksort, do I want the most common implementations or do I want an underrepresented impl?

If I'm asking for the history of Egypt, do I want the most common tellings or do I want some underrepresented narrative?

I suppose something like the race of a doctor in some Dalle image ends up being a very special case in the scheme of things, since it's a case where we don't necessarily care.

Maybe the steelman of the idea that you shouldn't special case it can be drawn along these lines, too. But I think to figure that out you'd need to consider examples along the periphery that aren't so obvious unlike "should a generated doctor be black?"
Welcome to the rentier economy. Where less goods are produced & the workers are homeless...While people who own multiple properties extract maximum rent to barely get by themselves.
So are landlords making money hand-over-fist or what?
How much would be pissed away on duplicating DBMS administration work?

Are we that far removed from reality to forget that one small team of DB admins can handle literally thousands of instances?

We use AWS because collectively paying AWS 23billion is stupendously cheaper than 1m users AWS having a a whole infrastructure team.
OK, I’ll bite: why should you care about what other people own?
They say that in writing, passive voice is weak. There is something to this statement. Arguably, computers are exempted from avoiding it on account of their lack of personhood. But imagine that you need to come up with messages that avoid passive voice, acknowledge the user's agency, and don't personify the computer. I tried to play this game and came to the conclusion that computers should literally say No to fit these requirements.

"No. Your email won't be sent. The mail server at smtp.somewhere rejected the message."

"No. Whatever is in your address bar does not exist on this site."

"No. The update package file has a checksum mismatch, and the system will not apply it."

"No. The remote server dropped the network connection, leaving the update file only partly downloaded. The system has already retried the download 10 times and failed, so you will need to rerun the update."

"No. This program is compiled for a different kind of computer and won't run here."

"No. This is not a document file. You need to open it with another program."

"No. You supplied an incorrect username or password."

"No. You are trying to open a file too large to fit in the memory."

"No. Your form is missing required fields X, Y, and Z. Please fill them out before submitting."

"No. Your request encountered an internal error. Someone in charge of servers will eventually notice it."

"No. Just leave. Touch grass."

"No."

"NO!"
> Opening a factory in the USA means jeopardizing the safety of Taiwan to some extent

It doesn't which is why they are all for it. Diversifying TSMCs production base geographically weakens China's hand.
OpenAI's Lobbyists Are Targeting The Pentagon and Other Defense Agencies
I've said this before, but until we have gimballed screens that can reposition a very high-density portion of the display to always be on the eye's fovea, we will not have a good productivity tool headset.

AVP v1 does the eye tracking quite well. I bet real $ that v2 will have motors internally to reposition the screens.
I was thinking if that camera was only $30 I'm not sure I'd jump thru the hoops, and so more people would get scammed.
‘Something happens’ != ‘specific harm’.

We’re all still walking around after this has been happening for 50+ years. So whatever is going on is relatively subtle no? And likely easy to blame on something else. If it’s even actually a problem.

But the benefit is clear, in the form of less food spoilage, longer expiration dates, etc.
The footprint of a DIMM slot is not just the area the slot itself takes. DIMMs force you to do a lot of length-matching, which takes a lot of PCB space (and layers). The actual footprint of the DIMMs also includes all the space between the slots and the CPU. Especially LPCAMM2 does this inside the connector, and you can place the connector as close as you can without causing clearance issues.
A graph from Statista [1] indicates the opposite: the fraction of US housing units occupied by the owner in 2022 was almost double what it was in 1975.

Another pertinent question would be the overall supply of housing: one obvious factor that could help explain the graph I just described is that the overall supply of US housing has gone down, meaning that fewer owners are in a position to rent out property at all. Hence the supply of rental properties is significantly decreased, which will drive up the price.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/187576/housing-units-occ...
>This is just as true of paid, closed source software. And when it gets abandoned, you can't fix it if it's important to you.

It's not true of most paid, closed source software, though, while it is true for most open source software. At least in the former, the money people pay for the software directly contributes to its longevity and sustainability.
What do you mean by speaker repetition app?
You want fire and brimstone self-help?
would be cool if it used webcam and then would detect if you stop looking at the circle, then reset the timer if detected

the aim would be to be focused for 1 min
Isolation levels without the anomaly table
In the past, owning a 'second' or 'holiday' home was an expensive proposition - it actually cost you money. For some time now - because of rapid capital gains and the short term rental market - it makes you money. Many more people are willing and able to do it.
Do you mean due to failure (why?). Or else I assume you mean upgrading the firmware?
Hi, one of the Unison creators here. The Unison language is open source (MIT licensed) and there's an open source library ecosystem (see https://share.unison-lang.org/) like most languages. If you just want to run some Unison code on a VM then that's free and works like any other language. You can do this today (we do this ourselves for the implementation of Unison Cloud!). There's also a local single machine interpreter of the cloud API for easy local testing.

The "real" cloud platform providing the fancy distributed compute and storage fabric, deployment with a function call, etc, isn't open source - selling this product in various forms is how we are sustainable as a business.

If you're at a company and want to deploy "Unison Cloud in a box" on your own infra or in your own VPC then that's something that's doable and I'd love to talk more - feel free to email hello@unison.cloud.

If you're just an individual wanting to do cloud stuff at small scale on your own infra, that's probably harder for us to support right now. I'd recommend just using the free tier or starter tier of our public cloud. Even if we had some sort of free self-hosting option for cloud, there's economies of scale you'd miss out on so it could easily be more expensive anyway!

Not to mention, time is valuable https://www.unison-lang.org/blog/developer-productivity-real... We've built a nicely managed public cloud that eliminates huge swaths of tedious work. If you're happy to pay for that, then it's a good fit. If you prefer to self-host all the things, even for personal-use scale, then I totally understand that but Unison Cloud probably isn't the best fit right now.

Hope that helps!
I need a full liter of unsee juice to recover after reading this.
This was the reason I've mostly stopped using it. Still the best file sync tool I have seen.
You can find the growth charts here:
https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/unpacking-th...

but these charts/analysis come from the White House so they are going to be a bit biased (how much is proposed vs real, etc).

I don't really see the value in debating the details of the policies as it's pretty clear Trump made rebuilding industry his #1 message, which was later co-opted by Biden in the 2nd election. Trump was just an utter failure at working with (a very hostile) congress and COVID destroying factory construction didn't help private industry either, or public spending priorities.

I also take issue with the idea China's success in manufacturing was a result of the gov choosing winners = a good thing. Gov as a giant VC sounds like a horrible idea, here in Canada they tried that in tech and it was an embarrassment. China's mass urbanization, huge cheap labour base, a culture of hard work, and the West happily destroying their own industry...it's easy to 'pick' winners in a flush market.

Rebuilding a dead one is different story.
> but any user that thinks their media decode libraries will be bulletproof libs free of vulnerabilities are nuts.

Sure. And its a high bar to challenge the same or better vulnerability profile that the established players have. But a "small scrappy team" which is capable of doing everything this team has done certainly garners a lot of confidence that the bar is possible.
I don't understand why they don't just include a dumb filter on output that blocks any repetition of the system prompt. Presumably they don't want these rules publicly known, yet they leak regularly.
Nice to see love for the Blue Ant books. I enjoy everything Gibson has written, but Pattern Recognition is by far my favorite.
This is The Way™! I've heard this alternatively described as "slope" (for drive, which incorporates the curiosity, lack of ego, excitability) and "intercept" for "aptitude".

Implication is that if you're high-slope, you'll eventually become high-intercept.

If you're a startup, you want to bias towards a mix of high slope, low intercept and positive slope, high intercept.

I think it's also worth pointing out that people can have negative slopes (due to social reasons, ego reasons), and that slope is not invariant over a person's career but often changes.

Ideally, you want to find people whose slope is positively-impacted by the environment of the company – a great hire is only a great hire if it's a great mutual-fit, in that way.
I was confused when the author referred to "crooks," but the context implied he was not speaking of phone companies.

What if phone companies simply responded to requests to port numbers by calling and texting the phone number and requesting permission? If permission is denied, have the police check on both sides if the argument on who should have that phone number.
Russian controlled? It runs on your network and it's open source. Where is the "russian control" on this?
Similar, but all the components in it are a notch better — higher resolution, better pass-through video, more precise hand tracking, and much faster CPU.

However, my impression from iFixit's teardown is that there's a ton of tiny boards, screws, and ribbon cables. I bet in v2 they'll figure out how to package it even more densly.
The issue is that the original Mac pixels get 3D-projected and thus interpolated onto the VP panels pixel grid. This invariably loses some sharpness and detail. Even just 2D-rotating a Mac screenshot by some non-orthogonal angle will make it more blurry.
Unison was one of the top tools to check for me. Unfortunately, its written in weird egghead language called Ocaml. It also support replicas, while I needed more p2p and VFS like aproach. So I wrote my simple DVFS repo manager in C instead. Very happy with the outcome. Maybe one day I will be brave enough to share it with the world ;)

Here is command summary: http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?dot
This is the basic idea behind https://python.cards, the site I'm building to learn Python with spaced repetition.

The hard thing is building the deck. With pre-built decks I expect to greatly reduce the effort required while getting most of the benefits of spaced repetition learning.
The creator, Keiichi Matsuda, has released this app for Vision Pro

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wisp-world/id6476198961
Maybe not quite what you mean by "mediocre", but there have been claims that deliberately pushing kitsch to the extreme elevates it to Art:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/koonss-monument-to-the-unk...
I'd like something like this for a three-copy backup solution. Regularly compare the three backups, and wherever one differs from the other two, correct the one with the minority opinion.

It seems like this must already exist but I don't know how to find it.
you're correct. My taiwan colleagues visit HK, they request "no cantonese please"
If I'm understanding what you're looking for, a straightforward version of this is built into macOS: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/replace-text-punctu...
Adult Komodo teeth are similar to those of theropod dinosaurs: new research
Let me elaborate on thmsths's answer. The United States developed and tested large "clean" fusion bombs that produced only a very small fraction of their energy from fission. Those bombs could produce raw thermal energy at a cost below any fossil fuel or conventional nuclear reactor. For example, the Housatonic test shot of Operation Dominic in 1962 yielded about 10 megatons and 99.9% of the energy released came from fusion [1].

The problem is that explosions of that magnitude are not usable for controlled energy generation. Confining them underground is impractical, due to the scale of energy release. The largest underground US test was 5 megatons in 1971, and it was so disruptive (induced surface motion equivalent to an earthquake) that it had to be conducted at a remote Alaskan island instead of the usual Nevada test site [2].

For those reasons, Project PACER considered bombs of only up to 50 kilotons. At those sizes (0.5% the energy yield of Housatonic), there is no known design to get 90%+ of the bomb's energy yield from fusion. The efficient fusion designs don't gracefully scale down to that range. And at that much smaller scale where underground confinement was practical, bombs were not actually any cheaper as a source of raw thermal energy. Quoting Wikipedia about the project here, "In a 1975 review of the various Plowshares efforts, the Gulf University Research Consortium (GURC) considered the economics of the PACER concept. They demonstrated that the cost of the nuclear explosives would be the equivalent of fuelling a conventional light-water reactor with uranium fuel at a price of $328 per pound. Prices for yellowcake at that point were $27 a pound."

[1] "Ripple: An Investigation of the World’s Most Advanced High-Yield Thermonuclear Weapon Design" http://web.mit.edu/zoz/Public/jcws_a_01011.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannikin
Many language allow an alias name. Which means you change the name and then alias the old name to the new line - 2 line PR. Then a bunch of one line PRs to change easy use of the old name. Finally a PR to remove the alias.

Which is why I don't have such a rule and would oppose it.
To be more pointed than logicprog, Raichik just lies a lot. Example from the article: Libs of TikTok’s post said it happened “in front of children.” Anthony said no children were present.
Saturn's moon Mimas might harbor a hidden ocean
February 2014 Moscow occupied Crimea.
12.04.2014 Moscow occupied Slovyansk.

Name "few political directives" in 2014 before Moscow invasion. Ukraine actions are direct response to Moscow aggression. People don't want to be occupied by Moscow like Donetsk, Luhansk. Life is awful there, million fled from occupation. That's why changes were supported by majority of Ukrainians.

Still occupants language was learned in schools, media could use it though eventually quotas set to use Ukrainian too. And officials continued using it.

Ukraine policies fought discrimination of Ukrainian in Ukraine. Discrimination that stems from centuries of occupation by Moscow. In 2016 state stated at least 60% TV should be on Ukrainian. Only in 2017 education in schools was switched from occupants language to Ukrainian. Since 2019 Ukrainian should be used in services unless requested otherwise by customer. People switch to Ukrainian voluntarily, state provides means.

Ukraine is a democratic state, check out Euromaidan. Stop pretending like changes is anything but result of Moscow agression.
I'm not sure what the point of this comment is, other than inform everyone you're a shill for Boeing.
Their automotive industry coverage is pretty good, but their car reviews are pretty awful. I'm not sure what value they add to the automotive review world -- they could carve out a niche of very detailed infotainment reviews, for example, but they don't.

To me, it seems that word came down from high that "you must do auto reviews at Ars" and they are complying with the least amount of effort possible.
IIRC the CEO was part of the board of directors, but the other directors were anonymous or represented by proxies.
My team has a history of large (and small) PRs. If it's a huge feature / vertical, it's often done in a few large PRs. Very few reverts in our 5 year history.

I guess, what I'm saying is, it depends on the team, on their seniority and capabilities, on the product, the culture, etc.
There is no mechanism for a bank customer to initiate a payment via FedNow. It simply does not exist, regardless of what Wikipedia says.
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The odd thing is unison started purely as a language. Now there's a platform.

I'd love to hear some opinions from outside Unison about how they like using this language, tooling and hosting.
The day is comming...

Man: Today I found out my toothbrush has been infected by a virus.

Wife: Did you tried soaking it in bleach to sterilize it?

Man: It wasn't that kind of virus. It was a computer virus.

Wife: !???
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Idk why this is such a mysterious or unexpected thing. Housing construction crashed through the earth following the subprime crisis and the deficit in available housing has not yet recovered. Prices are up due almost entirely to supply and demand. Current pace indicates the problem will probably sort itself out in a few years barring any further disaster. Some YIMBYism could speed it up.

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/16/housing-market-why-homes-ex...
>> What are people using CPUs for?

I compile C++ code with an AMD 2400G (zen1+) and parallel builds are way faster than single threaded. I also used the same box to add a bunch of parallel paths to the code (using OpenMP) which improved performance of the app by 3x-4x in some cases with little effort.

Compiling a full build is 30-60 seconds for me. If I turn on LTO it's several minutes and that's with parallel builds -j

I'm aiming to get a Zen4 or Zen5 with 8 cores one of these days. That should give about 4x speed boost. The new GPU has AV1 support too!
It's probably autocorrect from some typo'd version of "spaced".