skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This story makes me want to reread a classic. It's amazing how motivating a good teacher can be!
Don't most birds do this? Couldn't you make this comment about any bird?
“But thanks to Zoom, Google and FaceTime, there is simply no reasonable excuse for not making an appearance at a meeting.”

I know this is dependent on situation, but “I am traveling” is a reasonable enough excuse. If you’re in a remote office with other workers who are on same meeting, yeah, you probably shouldn’t miss that meeting. Otherwise, “I’m traveling” is reasonable enough.
This kind of severance is a thing of the past.

I predict a new type of employement will emerge as a result of the late stage capitalism we are experiencing: the just in time employment. Where you are technically employed all the time but you are not paid [the same] when the corpo has you in the idle bucket. The drones will stay on for the health insurance, minimum pay, the illusion of work right around the corner. Heck, we also may have corpos form big pools of disposables that allow them to elastically scale the number of people that currently work on something up and down. Remember folks! JustInTime Employment!
For one thing they wouldn't be able to produce 90-100+% of the electricity they need from just from hydro if the population was much higher.

Also low population coupled with a lot of revenue from oil/gas means that EVs are much more affordable (or rather ICE cars were very expensive due to taxes, so EVs still seemed like a great deal to many Norwegians despite being very expensive).
not so much confused as I understand English.

Another definition for win is to achieve victory.

The bells got split up, MS settled with the DOJ and got a small slap on the wrist. The other poster considers that a victory (as do most people).
Subsidies, mandates, stolen technology, no environmental laws or worker protections
The code isn't very readable in the submitted form, so I appreciated the interpretation, whether or not it's ChatGPT or something else.
The revenues from the oil sales goes into the pension fund. Not really applicable.
It's not directly affecting you the user, it's affecting the market of app and web developer which have no choice but to dance to Apple's tune as they control a large chuck of a very lucrative market.

Why should you, the user, care? For the same reason users care when Micros ft was a monopoly on desktop.
I was confused when reading this because I was pretty sure that using other allocators had been supported for a while in Rust. From refreshing myself on the details, it seems that replacing the default allocator is stable (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/alloc/trait.GlobalAlloc.html), but the API for arbitrary allocators (which includes stuff like being able to do "zero-size" allocations) is not yet stable (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/alloc/trait.Allocator.html). I guess if there were ever a project that needed fine-grained control over how allocators be work, it would be the kernel.
99% agree

but it is not oligarch who get the taxes, apple stock owners I guess

it is somehow the job of Apple management to maximize profit, they are doing this

question is whether they really optimizing future profits with this behaviour, they could have moved on already

I wanted to buy my mum an iphone, I am all linux and android, my partner has iphone and ipad and even if I dont like apple and microsoft logic, they are good products

I thought with face id it is easier to be safe and she will not really see that I forced a pass manager on her :)

and I was sure now apple abandons this behaviour and they were put on the right track, apple was somehow an option for me... until this happened

no way I ever buy an iphone anytime in the future for anybody

but I am probably a minority... I think this kind of behaviour is disgusting that apple does

however, if app store revenue is 100B dollar, every year, logically understandable, 500 million fines are noting

still, the world is governed by emotions too, and I will never forgive Apple
> 30 years ago if you went to the pub you were swimming in a sea of unverifiable half-baked facts

Now, the Internet is a vast sea of half-baked facts with millions of echo chambers that discourage verification.
Your rationale makes sense if the software is distributed. Providing an output (observe that an output is not the software) through the internet is not considered distribution of the software.

The license doesn't require anyone to provide a copy of the license and attribution along with the output, only when the software is distributed.
So we don't have the full context here. Is the customer in a specific country that has weird compliance issues they don't want to deal with for a free user?
You're not the only one; see:

>The QR-Code Menu Is Being Shown the Door

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/dining/restaurant-qr-code...

https://archive.ph/exWjB
That is a good point, but fortunately a rare case.

The other problem is that when you are using human inputs such as appointments you may not know which is appropriate. If I arrange a meeting with someone in another timezone, and there is such a change, how can a system know whether I want the UTC time, my timezone, or the other person's timezone.

I am not sure there is a good way to do this in many cases. As you say some culturally defined times are definitely tied to the local timezone, but a lot of things will not be. There is a loss of information, but that information may not be useful on many cases.

I think I agree with you in that there is no universal solution. However, store UTC is probably good enough a lot of the time. In general, timezone changes would be announced well ahead of time so UTC would be fine except for times fixed far ahead.

I have actually lived through timezone changes that were decided on in emergency circumstances (Sri Lanka faced with a severe electricity shortage) and the result was chaos. People genuinely did not know whether an appointment would take place in "old time" or "new time"! No system devised earlier could have coped with that because intent was no unambiguous.
No no no. You are so successful that we need to promote you to being a customer!!!
It's a big French native from a tribe opposing the rule of Julius Caesar of course
I don't know if it became the norm in the US because of remote work, but as a manager I make a point of announcing to my team when one of them just got let go. Like in the next 30min or so.

I guess I don't tell all teams and all our 200 engineers that this random guy is no longer with us.
Check out Making Rust binaries smaller by default (https://kobzol.github.io/rust/cargo/2024/01/23/making-rust-b...). Previously discussed a few weeks ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39112486.

That change will be live on 21st March, so manual strips won't be required after that.
Show HN: Domino Fit – Domino Tiling Puzzle
Domino fit is a domino tiling puzzler I spent a lot of time both making and playing. Its like sudoku but with a geometric angle, the sum of the dots must match the row and column numbers.

It's running on Betsy, the server under my couch, and was made with typescript. I'm proud of it.

I hope you give it a shot, and appreciate any thoughts or criticisms!
Later in the article:

>The findings show a near-quadrupling of wetlands across Greenland, which are a source of methane emissions.
I don't think this is a good comparison. The core problem we face is overproduction. Vastly more can be produced than can be consumed. When you try to boost the economy by "job creation" and investing more money, you essentially pay people to keep other people busy. It isn't serfdom, they don't serve their lords, who take a share of their work. They work to reduce the available workforce, so that overproduction is avoided, and markets don't crash like they did in 1929.
Also look into the glovebox and exhaust duct fires at Rocky Flatts.

There is a famous news clip where the DOE representative is denying there is a fire on live TV with a big fire visible behind them.

It's also the only time one federal agency (FBI) raided another (DOE).

They also had a bunch of the kind of radioactive waste your talking about sitting in 50 gallon oil drums that just rusted away in the open air.
> just in time employment

Sounds like making everyone a contractor.
I live at the beach, seagulls are a special breed. It is thought that they aim for humans too.

My comment still stands.
The biggest challenge is the battery which is what byd originally made. Electric motors have been around for a long time. The first cars were electric.
The fundamental flaw in this argument is that it does not account for every corporation that came before tech.

What about RCA, GE, Westinghouse? What about US Steel, what about Standard Oil, what about AT&T. IBM, Intel have already started to fall. What makes this crop of companies any different than all the ones that has come before them.

Nothing.

The singer sewing machine came out at 125 bucks per unit. The annual salary in America was 500 bucks a year. Now, a sewing machine is 100 bucks and the average salary is what? The cost of a car is still the same as a model T, with more features and safety. Aside from software bloat, and maybe ML how have computers improved in the last decade. Power has gone down but they aren't really doing more.
dösig?
You can parse many things from this file, what are you trying to extract?

https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/blob/main/document/core/...
I don't think so, the comma usage seems to isolate the promotional use from the rest.

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What baffles me is Tesla's paralysis compared to BYD. Wasn't Tesla's goal to do rapid expansion to stay on top of everybody else volume wise? Nowadays Giga Berlin produces way less vehicles than anticipated and the only new factory being planned is Giga Mexico, which also seems to proceed slower than expected. In addition while the next vehicle from Tesla will probably be a smaller and cheaper car, it's still at least a year before they'll be able to ship it. All that while Tesla seems to have lots cash at hand, so why don't they expand more aggressively?
> don’t know what you mean by “4 pm local time”

It means “whenever it is 4pm wherever you are”.

As in, i want my alarm to go off at 4pm everyday regardless of whether i am traveling.

Python calls it a “naive” time, it has no timezone or offset. Its just a data structure that says “4pm” rather than “4pm eastern time”

An example ive used is when a user had to specify schedules for a digital menu board system. When the user says breakfast ends at 10am, that means wherever the digital menu board is located, not “10am where i was when i set the schedule”. It also doesn’t mean “end breakfast an hour early/late when daylight savings occurs”

It makes sense in any context where you need to do something at a certain time each day, and you specifically don’t mean “do this thing exactly every 24hrs”
Tesla or BYD?
Totally. The entire country would be a midsize state in the US.

Thinking about it I’m not totally sure so I looked up Norway’s size and population density, which seems to most closely match Kansas (37/mi^2 vs 35.9 for KS) and the land area of KS is a bit less than half, so it seems two kansases is a decent approximation for Norway, ignoring the coast/shape, just for a sense of scale. Of course Norway has a 1.5T fund and maybe they spend more? Figuring the per capita budget for both they are pretty close, so apart from cultural and topographical differences this seems like a pretty close fit.
The Bay Area has and continues to spend a lot of money on roads and public transportation. You can argue its not enough, but improvements absolutely have been made recently, and a lot more is in progress.
Almost any grandmother that would be using macOS, until Apple not decided to go with ZFS:

* https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/10/apple-abandons-zfs-o...

* https://web.archive.org/web/20091103163642/http://mail.opens...

There's no reason why any newly created file system shouldn't have checksumming, and if grandmothers don't know what's happening underneath the hood it's no worse than them not knowing how virtual memory or the TCP/IP stack work.
What were you doing that wasted time?

They are so widely used and well documented that for typical uses, they are no more complicated to do than an x86, in my experience.
FLW was a genius. That's why people still know his name. What are your credentials?

The Johnson Wax HQ in Racine, WI was an FLW building, and is still in use, year round. I've actually been in it. They had to do a lot of work to make it leak-proof and (I assume) weather-proof.

Many (or even most) of his buildings are operated by non-profits, and the maintenance costs have always been enormous. You don't buy a Monet because the colors go with your couch.
Just to be clear, 95% of electricity in Norway is from hydro. Not 4.95%
This is a nice tool to add to one’s Postgres toolbelt. However, when I saw the heading “Benefits of pg_osc” I hoped for a corresponding “drawbacks” or “tradeoffs” section but there doesn’t appear to be, at least on this page. The big one seems to be that this tool creates a copy of your original table (like MySQL Large Hadron Migrator, IIRC) which can be problematic if you are disk constrained and/or your table is very large which is more likely to be the case if you are reaching for specialized tools like this, I think. It would be great if instead some of these operations were supported safely with almost zero-cost the same way eg postgres 11 added support for safely adding new columns with default values. That may be beyond the capacity of an extension, however.
Reading the cited article in Nature, specifically re. methane, it states that "Arctic wetlands are effective methane emitters, yet dry and moist arctic tundra soils in north east Greenland have been measured to draw down methane", suggesting that the issue is the balance between the two.
Have you considered using an AI bot to help you balance various aspects carefully? :)
Twitter is now a mess of “Something went wrong. Try reloading.”. It’s seriously annoying.

On a more relevant note, this is why you don’t use free tiers on essential work. Free tier should mean free trial to see for yourself whether you’d be willing to pay for the service. No free lunch
That's by far the biggest consideration, most likely. Having a ton of hydro is a godsend: you have extreme amounts of energy, but it's hard to export so you can't really hit the resource curse. It can still be a bit of a factor (because high-electricity business e.g. aluminium smelters) but nowhere near as bad as oil/gas.
The inference side (adding something * something else) to every layer seems a lot like what happens with a LoRA? If so is it possible to encode a Control Vector as a LoRA for the purposes of using this with existing inference frameworks without too much trouble? Or is my understanding way off?
Better source: https://blog.system76.com/post/closing-in-on-a-cosmic-alpha
This actually is illegal in many countries as it is a violation of net neutrality.

I don’t remember what the current net neutrality status is in the United States but if the FCC is currently requiring net neutrality then things like zero rating would be illegal.
If you are valuing a business on SDE the multiple is usually 2.4-3. So this business as it is today would be worth more like 566-708. The beauty of building a business is that as the bottom line goes up your business is worth more, but it ALSO fetches a higher multiple. So a business with a bottom line of $1M will get 5-7 times earnings (note: not SDE), whereas a small business gets a lower multiple based on SDE.
Cool program! But I have a question. Couldn't this be a SPA running in file storage? Why do I have to install docker on a client that wants to use this? This makes it not very portable. I would love to be able to launch a gh pages SPA from this repo that stored everything on my browser.
Because of the limited information, I claim that Stratego would be much harder for machines to be good at. Still likely in the realm of "computer will destroy humans" but more like a game which would lend itself to rely less on alpha-beta pruning and monte-carlo tree search and the like (which are still used heavily even in NN evaluation using engines). Also means opening books are useless and end-game tablebases far larger. Humans may also find it easier to find "pathological" cases for AI Stratego models. Too bad no one in the AI community really cares about Stratego so not many engines exist.

I claim adding the changes and similar changes to what I describe in my OP creates a "rougelikeification" of the game, starting to add elements of emergence and enough complexity to keep me entertained even in a world where increasingly large amounts of variations of all things become available to us via AI. I imagine that Stratego would be difficult to "solve" in a way that chess simply isn't. Of course, simply scaling up the size of the chess board and the number of pieces would have the same impact in chess...
One of the comments has the unobfuscated and commented version:
https://gist.github.com/Joker-vD/cc5372a349559b9d1a3b220d5ea...
I'd expect the patch generation to be memory hungry, not the patch aplication, which should be only data and offsets. If it uses maximum compression it might generate a huge data dictionary, but since it has to be distributed too, that would be contraproducent to patch size.
> physically small country

That's not exactly true at all relative to population. Sure most of the north is very sparsely inhabited so not that relevant but even the southern coast is not at all dense (compare it with the East and West coasts in the US).

And then you have the fjords and mountains which further increase the distances and make infrastructure a lot more expensive.
You had it there for a minute, but... The potential profitability of converting a tower is something only the buyer should be concerned with, not the government.

The reasons to not convert a tower =! The reasons to change zoning, which could reasonably include concerns over traffic or appearance.
Last time I was laid off (2022) it worked this way. It was a remote job - I was pulled into a random 1:1 meeting with my manager and immediately afterward I found all my permissions/access was gone.
And yet, even our more populous cities are less densely populated than several US states.
Shouldn’t the community itself be able to answer this question given your description of it? Maybe work on the elevator pitch too.

And get off of Telegram if you care about privacy. They recently started requiring premium subscriptions to enable some of the privacy settings, a move I’d expect to see from a D-list social networking website in the mid 2000s, not a modern messaging app. It’s also a haven for grifters who will likely find their way into your community.
You might be interested in reading https://darkcoding.net/software/a-very-small-rust-binary-ind...
You're talking about the Digital Markets Act (DMA) which will come into effect in the EU in about two weeks. It does exactly what you say, although Apple is still actively trying to sabotage it with a sloppy implementation.

Hopefully the US will follow some day.
$300k on the AC/heat portion, but that included switching from a gas furnace to geothermal (and all the equipment that entails), reinforcing the basement (for that equipment), adding ducting for more efficient airflow through the house, and some other things.

She also spent a lot to replace windows (single pane originally) and to fix a leaking roof. And this has to be done while preserving the character of the home. If this were a home you could gut, you might be able to do all this for less or more quickly since less care would be needed to preserve the original elements.

And the motivation were things like not being able to get the temperature above 55ºF in the winter with the furnace running constantly. That probably won't get $300k in savings over any reasonable period (her lifetime), but it does make it habitable. It will probably also increase the value of the home by a good amount for the next time it's sold. ("Hey, you can actually survive here year round now!")
They have the most popular car in the world how are they paralyzed?
At This Time We Are Moving Ahead with Another Candidate
I mean, there is Apple Watch Mirroring, which does allow remote control of an Apple Watch for accessibility purposes. If they were able to somehow exploit that, I would consider it hacking.

I sort of hate how this thread immediately rallied around “must be crazy people hallucinating” and I hope Apple takes the reports a bit more seriously & investigates.

Edit: I do agree that passwords guessed or phished doesn’t count in my mind as hacking.
Aren't mercury-based amalgam teeth fillings more durable than other techniques because the metal is more plastic that other fillings which are more brittle?

Last time I read about that, the risks for mercury exposure was for dentists, not patients.
My understanding of zero-cost abstractions is that rust doesn't have the runtime overhead for things like vtable lookups and calling a function during execution - that many other languages do.

Isn't that concept completely unrelated to this?

Unless I'm misunderstanding the issue and fix, this is performance improvements due to batched operations.

Search for all occurrences, perform necessary processing.

Vs.

if not complete, find next occurrence, perform processing, repeat.

What am I missing?
Only a Tesla killer if they can beat Tesla in the race to full self-driving.

Talking about self-driving - any ideas what's going on with Tesla's FSD V12?

They published a live stream of Elon Musk driving it, and gave it to exactly one Youtuber, who is now putting up video after video how he drives it.

Both the live stream and the Youtube videos show vastly improved self-driving capabilities.

But if this is real, why don't they push it to customers?
I think there's a third party here that you're actually talking to, not me.
The grammar doesn't get you too far since the WASM is designed around a binary format. Plus they do some weird stuff around the names of the operators which has to be dealt with.

That being said...https://pastebin.com/mhtgjSjZ
I used to participate in the folding at home project. Not sure it makes sense post alphaFold. Is this not a solved problem now?

Or does additional compute still matter?
There's been some attempts at translating these techniques over to 3D models but the results so far aren't very useful, they have a tendency to produce extremely triangle-dense meshes which are ironically not actually very detailed or well defined, with most of the detailing just painted over the surface as textures, which also have terrible UV mapping. Not to mention the topology is a mess so it's impossible to rig for animation. I'm not sure how good they are at producing proper PBR material channels, but I'm guessing "not good" if they're derived from text-to-image models trained on fully rendered images/photos rather than individual PBR components, which is much more difficult data to source on a massive scale.

I suspect this will continue to be an uphill battle because there aren't billions of high quality 3D models and PBR textures just lying around on the internet to slurp up and train a model on, so they're having to build it as a second-order system using images as the training data, and muddle though the rest of the steps to get to a usable 3D model.