skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google did destroy messages that may have been evidence in antitrust suit
Right but they aren't perfect and have sidelobes like anything else.
As someone who was a project manager before "agile" and during I think it is funny to remember how I used to get pressure go from waterfall planning or kanban to agile with daily stand ups. It always felt like a fad and yet I felt a lot of pressure to get with the program.

That phase of my career is long done but my advice to people in that phase is this. Beware of management fads and beware of companies that slavishly adhere to a fad, particular one advocated by consultants. One of the companies I encountered that was most fanatic about "agile methods" was also probably one of the least efficient and slowest to roll out a product. They also had a number of senior execs from management consulting.
> If Windows was changed to allow it at that point, today hardly anyone would be complaining that Ciscos or Junipers or other core routers don’t support it.

Yes. But it wasn’t. Making this proposal a day late and a dollar short.
Sure, but the vast majority of programmers don't do that type of thing.

Often in cases like the above I'm not sure if the metric is correct - or is it just that you are not used to reading that style. For years I worked at places that banned the ternary expression and so I didn't use them and it was a lot of work to remember what was going on the rare times I saw them. Then I got a job on the team that did use them all the time (but never more than 1 level deep) and I soon learned to read them and now I use them often where they make sense.
It's like being "tough on crime", nuanced takes can't compete with slogans.
Sam Altman wants 'trillions of dollars' to jumpstart global AI chip production
Agreed, I was expecting something a bit more like this:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=102580....
No idea about Sequoia but they tend towards conservative on the legal side of things. Some VC firms license the name so there's a franchise fee which often includes carry and/or fee percentage participation even though there isn't direct ownership.
Yes, that claim is weird.

While there were no multicellular animals and land plants, there were abundant green algae (Chlorophyta), red algae (Rhodophyta) and blue-green algae (Cyanobacteria), both unicellular and multicellular, all of which were producing dioxygen, while consuming carbon dioxide.

Because there where abundant algae consuming carbon dioxide, but the unicellular eukaryotes and bacteria that could produce carbon dioxide might have been less abundant, this should have had an important contribution to the decrease of the CO2 concentration.

These 3 kinds of algae had already been abundant for several hundred millions of years, since more than a billion years ago.

It is likely that the concentration of carbon dioxide had been decreasing for a long time and when there has been a time interval with diminished production of volcanic carbon dioxide, also accompanied with extra volcanic rocks able to combine with the existing carbon dioxide, all these have tipped the balance causing the glaciation, but the contribution of the excess algae has probably been greater than that of the CO2-absorbing volcanic rocks.
very murdery! Never even seen coffee that color :)
No, no. Name-calling and strawmen are different tactics. The article is about sea lioning.
> Really, you couldn't find any bad analysis to go after instead?

You're missing the point though. They're not looking for bad science, they're politically opposed to this particular outcome.
Not all tableware is barefooted / dry-footed. You can use a stilt, which is a ceramic with sharp metal (eg Kanthal) pins on which the glazed ceramic is supported. Pieces fired this way have small marks on the bottom like the injection marks some moulded plastic has.

Fully glazed ware is good for wet areas when the ceramic may not be entirely vitrified, as this prevents water from soaking into the ceramic body.

Dry-footed ware that hasn't been high-fired will soak up moisture, eg when washing, and so cause problems - crazing, and getting very hot when used in a microwave oven (which can cause more crazing, but also burn your hand!

Source: am potter.

The foot ring on dry-footed mugs is a useful knife sharpener in a pinch.
Well, expectations do not always match reality.

I suggest that you complain about their lack of IPv6, and encourage other customers to do the same.
Stains add a whole layer of history to a document - I remember a prof at uni once apologizing for the wine stains on our papers...

In the same vein as stains, I love how non-waterproof inks react with water; the organic smudges and splotches add a bit of watercolor to an ordinary journal page (1).

1: https://nexus.armylane.com/files/Journal-Ink-splotches.jpg
oh dang. Dalle prompt restrictions changing make older templates like that break. We'll adjust the default example to avoid that. Thanks for the callout
The US is certainly capable of shutting down the internet with their control of some critical pieces of infrastructure like ICANN. They haven’t ever used it because levers like those are ones you only get to use once before other countries build an alternative, like when China shut down rare earth exports to japan years ago so countries like the US started up mines that were previously not worth it
I think there is quite a lot of skepticism about Ostpolitik and the benefits of close economic integration given it did little to prevent Russia entering a war with Ukraine.
Yes, I nailed down the extension it doesn't like: "I still don't care about cookies" whose purpose is to get rid of the cookies nag windows opening on most sites.
Maybe I've reached an age where I don't know how to use technology, but I can't find, or don't have the patience to find, any simple examples on their website. It's minimalist and just uses rcshell? Okay. Are there instructions to set up a simple app? Is this just not written for people like me?
I love how current culture gives you that nagging doubt in your mind such that you qualify your statement as "almost" certainly a parody.
It is indeed. It would be fantastic if the people who started the war decided to stop pursuing it.

Meantime, "give up and let them win because war is bad" is not a tactic likely to gain a lot of adherents.
Perhaps you're basing that on TXO v Alliance? The specific ratio for TXO (which happened to be 526-to-1) does not paint the full picture. Consider two things:

1. TXO does not provide a hard-and-fast rule on a maximum ratio of compensatory to punative damages. Rather, the justices say that "It is appropriate to consider the magnitude of the potential harm that the defendant's conduct would have caused to its intended victim if the wrongful plan had succeeded, as well as the possible harm to other victims that might have resulted if similar future behavior were not deterred."

2. TXO further limits the mandate of due process review of punitive damages by saying that the jury does not have to be wholly accurate in their assessment of punitive damages but rather that courts should ensure their award would not "jar one's constitutional sensibilities."

If a jury might reasonably think that the damage to Mann could have been about $1m if the defendant had successfully discredited him in, say, the eyes of his employers, and if the jury was given proper instructions, that is sufficient to uphold their award under TXO. Further due process review should consider these questions, not whether the punitive damage/compensatory damage ratio is over some arbitrary threshold.
That's called a transpiler.
For sure not all carbon credits are created equal, and a lot (especially the cheaper ones) are bunk. For any project which claims to be carbon neutral through purchasing credits, you need to look at what those credits are actually doing and assess whether it is actually removing carbon from the atmosphere or not. Basically don't throw the baby out with the bathwater: most carbon credits are bunk, but don't assume that any given project is bunk just because they are selling carbon credits.
But they’re not “following the law, not a political bias.” The political bias is contemporary conservatism, which in reason years has meant making abortion illegal, allow corporations as many rights or more than citizens, allow infinite secret money in politics, remove as much regulation and federal agencies as possible, reduce civil rights particularly for gays/trans/people of color, get rid of affirmative action, extend “religious freedom” into new and every aspect of life including as a precursor to ignore any existing law, prevent any kind of mandatory public health response, etc etc.

Everything I mentioned is not only a stated goal but has already happened. They are getting the results for which they continue fund raising. Now conservative Supreme Court judges are inviting new areas, such as when Thomas said he’s hoping for a new suit to shut down gay marriage after killing roe v wade. Trump even said he appointed judges specialty that will kill Roe v Wade. How is this not activism?
American Corporations have no particular loyalty to America or Americans. People begin to pay attention when it impacts national security (like in this case), but consider how many Americans Google is laying off and replacing with cheaper labor in Latin America, India, etc.
All this depends on how many assumptions are in operation about what the state is doing to these networks, and the machines on them. In the end, it can turn all btc traffic off -- and there's no btc at all. Or it could take over the miners within its borders, which are heavily centralised, and run a different protocol.

If you own the machines and own the network you can do anything you want. Anything at all.

As far as assuming that the state hasnt taken control of the miners (unlikely, this is the easiest thing to do), by dropping communication, delaying it, observing it, etc. much can be done following the protocol, including replaying transactions etc. -- the future can be forged.

There are so many assumptions about the realworld, that do not hold up, behind cryto protocols, they're laughable. Assuming that the system will follow the protocol is itself disconnected from reality, quite literally.

The initial paper's realworld assumptions was that mining would be an at-home affair, ie., decentralised; everyone would run their own. And that networks were not own or controlled by centralised actors.

Neither is true. Mininig is incredibly centralised, as is network control. This makes it trivial for a state to pull an off switch.

Even talking about sophisticated denials of service, transaction replays, forging future transactions... all this takes place in a silly imagined scenario in which the state wants to hide what it's doing. If it didnt care, bang goes the whole thing.
And this particular thing is silly.

China's investment into the US is much larger than the US's investment into China.
The comments of that article cite a couple things:

* The version of Caddy used for the test was missing several recent updates that significantly improve its performance.
* Performance improvements for QUIC have always been about removing/recovering from dynamic network connections, and are about running connections at scale. Simple HTTP 1 requests in environments where there are far less shenanigans going on will always be fast. (lib)curl powered requests being single threaded requesting across the local network stack are not representative of the types of performance gains to expect in an HTTP/3 world.
If it's still not adopted more in 5-10 years, I wonder if they'll make what everyone wanted all along: IPv4 with longer addresses.
Yep, my team rarely reports blockers but when they do it's almost always some external factor. If they are reporting the same thing multiple days in a row, I can light a fire under someone's ass, otherwise I might not even know about it.
The starter plan is generally for experimentation purposes and for those who only need the less powerful models (GPT 3.5, gemini pro, perplexity 70b). Everyone on the pro plan can add their own API keys and unlock unlimited AI calls.
Again, for as long as Hollywood has existed, it has been excoriated by conservatives as a din of leftist libertines (and not without at least a bit of reason on occasion). Before that, theater performers were seen in much the same light. The moral panics stretch back time immemorial I’ve no doubt, but I can at least remember 10 years ago and there was no lack of controversy then.
I don’t see a way to read what you wrote other than condoning genocide. You are making excuses for when it is okay to make others go away. Argue that it’s not “genocide” - whatever - if the outcome is the same and you are saying it’s okay, you are condoning it.
That's funny, because as someone who has worked mostly remotely, I consider the recording of every chat a feature. For example, I have been able to use this to figure out why code I wrote a decade ago is the way it is.
Alright, to release a video on a streaming platform here is what you need to do:

1. Encode the video in multiple different formats and resolutions for different devices
2. Encode the sound track in multiple different formats for different devices, and package those up alongside the video file
3. Encode the subtitles in various formats and languages

The number of combinations of the above is, by itself, super complicated, and if you pay close enough attention to the different streaming platforms you can see that they all get it wrong sometimes.

And remember that content is being ingested from multiple different sources, from internal studios to purchase agreements with small international indie studios.

Alright, so you got that taken care of, now you need to get the files out to CDNs. You have your ISP based CDNs, e.g. Comcast really wants to cut costs, you may possibly be running your own backhaul between your own CDNs, and then there are the large CDNs everyone knows of as well.

And video playback isn't just a static thing. People want to be able to pause a video on their TV and resume it on their phone, so every few seconds you are sending completion info on where the video is at, except some playback platforms are so locked down that they allow you to initiate sending data back over the network (!!!) so you have to find a way to estimate how much of the video the user has played back so far. Spend some time thinking how to do that, and you can imagine that it gets horribly ugly.
Traditional banking also does a lot more than what BTC does.

BTC is about 9 orders of magnitude less efficient than the effective work it does.

Look, you can run a full Bitcoin node on a Macbook that uses 20W. It can easily verify 5 transactions per second, put them into a block, and compute the hash of it, and do some network communications.

The actual network uses 20GW, a billion times more energy, because they have thousands of nodes replicate the same work and then add PoW as a cherry on top.
That's awesome. I will have to try that out.
Old-school internet vibes
I always thought that was quite funny too. Like a16z with an American Dynamism practice while also having massive investments in crypto where many (like Balaji for instance) are advocating for exit from the U.S. and looking for ways to circumvent the US monetary system, which is one of the most powerful tools the US has to enforce its will globally

Edit to add that this also goes for plenty of companies: See Microsoft with their AI center in Beijing despite being a major provider of services to the U.S. government.

https://thedispatch.com/article/microsoft-issues-warning-abo...
"Despite setbacks and heartaches, major construction on the Lansdowne Theater finally began in 2023, and it is expected to reopen as a concert venue in fall 2024. Matt Schultz projects that the restored theater will attract 100,000 visitors yearly, spurring millions of dollars in business growth, tax revenue, jobs, and investment."

(The headline is a bit misleading. Most of the article is about efforts to revitalize the theater.)
I'm from Carson City. It's between Reno and Tahoe, but on the other side of the mountains. It's not terribly popular for tourism, although Bay Area refugees have bid housing here up every time there's been a tech boom/pandemic/etc.
Mushroom. What other material would a parasol be?
good to see. It's been a little while since the last long form post.
The question was:

> What's the reason for the simulation to be smaller than the simulator?

And the answer to that is that there's no reason. There's no reason to assume the state of a simulation isn't compressible, because have no knowledge about whether or not it is, and we do have plenty of knowledge of how to create simulations that appear complex but that reduces to easily computable sequences "from the outside".

The more restricted question isn't meaningful because we have no basis for assuming we can restrict ourselves to consider incompressible state, because we have no way of determining if the state is incompressible.

There would be any number of sets of possible simulations that would indeed be smaller than their simulators, but given that within two similarly sized universes, you would be able to fit more simulations that are reducible, the probability that any given simulation is an approximation that allows for shortcuts ought to be higher than that it is a simulation of an irreducible set of data.

So much so, that perhaps if we were able to somehow demonstrate aspects that would prove incompressibility (and I'm not convinced that is possible, or even meaningful) that might indicate that we're more likely to be in the "outer" universe. Conversely, the more compressible our universe looks, the more we might want to consider that it's an indication that we're more likely to be in a simulation.
Here's another perfect example, you have interpreted an empirical statement as being a normative one.
> Your first mistake is assuming that the power used to secure the Bitcoin network is a waste. It is clearly not, since thousands of people believe it is worth paying for.

This is a logic error: securing a financial system is not waste but paying more than you need to is. If my bank secured my money by paying an army of dudes with guns to sit around watching cash and did transfers by putting a check on the corporate jet, I’d say that was wasteful, too.

Similarly, the argument that the current system could be matched by L2 systems is both speculative and conceding defeat: even if that worked as well as the sales pitch claims it’d be using more power, and we know that there’s no plausible scenario where usage goes up while power consumption goes down.

The argument that L2 systems is the answer is also directly undercutting your earlier marketing pitch. If the justification for the inefficiency is that it’s needed for security, telling people that they should switch to your I Can’t Believe It’s Not A Bank is either admitting that the security benefits are either not real or necessary, or that they can be provided more cost effectively.

The only people who are committed to using Bitcoin are the people who’ve already bought in: everyone else is going to look for advantages relative to what they’re already using. It’s not just enough to handwave about how the system might at some point be less distant from parity, you need a serious plan for being better at something before you’ll see any significant adoption. Parity might seem like a far off goal, and it is, but it’s not enough to get most people to switch.
As a self-identified linux engineer who, despite tremendous efforts to avoid it, has somehow managed to still spend about half my career having to care about windows in some way... the answer to "how do you do [thing] on windows sanely?" is generally "it is simply done insanely instead."

Am I biased? Haha yes, I have a signed copy of Free Software, Free Society. But also I have spent years caring about products that do need to work on windows. And my professional take is "there is always a way to do it, but it is very seldom pretty." (And my take for linux is "there is always a way to do it, often more than one, and at least one of them is going to be pretty, but which one is the pretty one will depend greatly on who you are and what you're doing").
reverse image searching memes
Uh, how about "something" vs. "nothing".

Start with QUIC vs. TCP. Same OS, same client/server software.

Edit: since the system says "I'm posting too quickly, slow down" despite not posting for an hour because they don't use accurate error messages here, let me say :

I find it ironic that so many keystrokes below are used in a meta-discussion about the quality of comments here, when others are posed a legitimate question about the topic. Nevermind the article they seem to defend gets the order of a TCP 3 way handshake wrong.

And since I can't respond to them, I can only d*wnv*te or fl*g them.
https://youtu.be/AQLOj-TylGg
I always hated the “guess what are millennials up to” articles aimed at boomers. They were always inaccurate, taking some anecdote with a sample size as small as a single individual and spam it into a national or global trend. No way I am going to give a click to an equivalent article about Gen Z.
> license the name

Accel and Sequoia did/do this.

Seqouia's got tricky because their US fund is heavily invested in US Sustainability tech, and they were overinvested in China leading to reputational issues for their US fund
That makes it worse and more pointless.

Any blockers?

Yes one I told you about earlier today

Yes same one we had for a months

Yes I've been ignoring it until this meeting.

What works in real life is saying to the project manager we need to extend the timeline because of these factors. Things get unblocked quickly.
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39310563
The story is implying that whenever this happens to you -- forgetting why you came into a room -- the truth is that you were attacked by a vampire that made you forget the reason you were there, as well as the attack itself.
Is there a good book or blog post on what a good approach is for US-China relations, based on historical analogies and other frameworks? I'm curious because at first glance, it seemed bad that US VC firms are investing in these PRC companies, but then reading your comment, that makes sense too. So, I'm wondering if someone smart has already woven together a nice book that makes sense of it all - either China specific or generally for avoiding global conflict amongst superpowers.
#1 is something I have a hard time with. I'm a developer who became a generalist and my specialty is not one particular thing. The corporate world wants to pigeon hole me into being a product manager, I'm only average at that. Being able to blend engineering, product, some marketing and general leadership skills is my thing. I can kind of do everything, but I don't know how to make a clear list of services to explain. myself. The contracts I've done so far I've stumbled into and only been successful because of my blend of abilities.
>The economy doesn't collapse when people invest for the future, so I'm skeptical of that theory.

Investing is different from storing cash in your mattress for a rainy day. Investment is effectively buying things now (labor, machines, supplies, property) in order to produce something more valuable later. So that money stays active in the economy. Even if you're buying stock from somebody unrelated to the company behind the stock, that person might use your cash to buy a house, pay donate to charity, or start a company.
Smells like projection. If Washington actually cared about not funding draconian surveillance states that are currently committing genocide, China would not be first in line. Cynical.