skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I forget (like most of things that do not have some immediate reward attached; so I have to engineer the reward somehow).
It was only when it decided to become a media giant early/mid 2010s (and ironically people started to like it less and less) that it started hoovering up cheap investor money.

Yes. This is the LIRP part.
Some people find things interesting regardless of if they break records.
It's basically one of the UN treaties and Schengen ones that potentially clash, but that's debated as seen here https://eucrim.eu/articles/legalize-it-opportunities-and-cha...
How often and how do you plan to update images, prices and descriptions?
Also, I noticed some "more from merchant" links don't work, for example: https://www.searchagora.com/buy-online/https:/www.bigbuy.eu/...
As legalization goes underway we’re now aware of how smoking and vaporizing seem to be linked to endothelial cell damage and heartattacks, probably not great for potency either. Marijuana is not a safe drug nor the panacea it’s marketed as. We also seem to be seeing higher rates of addiction to marijauna, despite it being nominally non-addictive.

Only thing which appears relatively safe is oral consumption over inhaling.

All the same, it’s really not THAT dangerous a drug and criminalization is senseless and a total farce. All the problems legalization causes combined pale in comparison to how dumb criminalization is.
> Americans’ Outrage At Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance Made A Difference

It objectively did not. Ten years after Snowden nothing significant has changed. In support of their argument, EFF states "some of the National Security Agency’s most egregiously illegal programs and authorities have shuttered or been forced to end" which is a painfully ignorant assumption which is not based on any objective evidence.

> Privacy Options Are So Much Better Today

Today, almost all people are forced to make a choice between two proprietary closed source platforms - iOS and Android - both of which are much worse options for privacy than even the Windows desktop equivalents from ten years ago. Eff goes on to recommend a closed source messenger app from Facebook - the jokes just write themselves. They even scare readers away from the oh-so-hard to use GPG, at which point you really have to wonder what their ulterior motive is.

The whole article is just hilariously out of touch.
Similarly, on Apple Music with some tracks I can hear a difference when switching between AAC and lossless modes. In fact the reason I know this is because one day when listening to music, one particular track sounded unusually bad and switching on lossless fixed it.

Genre likely has some bearing on whether a person can hear the difference or not, with some genres being generally being more compressed for example which will reduce the gap between formats. It would also make sense that each codec has genres it’s more or less suited for.
The spatial audio is also keeping me with Apple Music, although I will say that while most are incredible, sometimes I'll come across an album where the spatial mix is laughably terrible.
Companies aren’t rewriting their entire stack or even upgrading across major versions basically ever.
Assets have been in limbo for over a year now. Won’t believe people are made whole until it actually happens.
When in 2011 ? You seem to mean that it was unknown by then, but it wasn't : 2011 was pretty much the year when it blew up into the public consciousness, spreading from the likes of Slashdot and Ars Technica into more generalist publications (also causing its first - or was that 2nd? - bubble popping) :

"The Crypto-Currency" - The New Yorker (2011)

https://archive.is/wsbcQ

(I love how I picked it randomly, and the first two subtitles are "Bitcoin and its mysterious inventor." and "It’s not clear if bitcoin is legal, but there is no company in control and no one to arrest.")
Yes - I believe the shift is coming. For inference especially, check out Groq’s chip design and its simplicity and speed compared to general purpose GPUs.
What do you mean fish are not stupid for being unable to climb trees?
> To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript. Alternatively, try one of the native apps for Mastodon for your platform.

Such a sad regression for web applications. It seriously blows my mind supporters of open source software and "freedom" put up with this stupid shit.
Senior enough that you can get away with this, but not so senior that you face age-related discrimination.

Worked for me too as until my beard turned grey. After that, instead of assuming that you are a cracker-jack professional who refuses to do bullshit tasks, they assume you are an old dog who can't learn new tricks.
Might be visually consistent in 3B dimensions, but it is most certainly not visually consistent to human vision.
JavaScript Registry: First Impressions
> extreme internal competition in Intel to kill anything that might even vaguely threaten x86

Actually, Intel has tried pretty hard to kill x86, multiple times, and failed. Most recently Itanium, but before that iAPX-432, and a couple others. New grand architectures to replace crusty old x86. But IMHO they were too academic. As you suggest, when an x86 is cheaper _and faster_ and compatible with existing software ... good luck replacing that.
As a git newbie I just do git pull. Is the problem that the merge makes the commit history harder to reason through in the future vs if you rebase?
Agreed, “been” would be more typical for a Brit
If a store employee steals $500 from the till, gambles it on what he thinks is a sure bet, doubles the money, and returns $600 back to the till, that’s still theft, wrong, and punishable, even if the store happened to win in the end.

Perhaps not an exact analogy, but seems reasonably close.

It must be driving Sam insane though to think he could have made it all fine if he had hung on a few more months.
This is hilarious. You actually think the Fed is paying everyone's HYSA yields?

So, let me get this straight, you actually believe "Customers Bank", for example, which is currently offering 5.32%, is going through all the trouble of investing your money to get a 0.08% return from the same?

Or is it possible these HYSA institutions are investing your money into other, more risky investments, like foreign banks, for example?

Again, I have to wonder and ask, why has no intelligent person done the due dilligence to find out what their money is invested in for such a generous return, as they should for any other financial vehicle?

Literally not one person in this entire post can provide evidence of what their bank invests HYSA funds in. This is how financially illiterate we are.
Has anyone compared planning algorithms by complexity against optimality (error)?
If you steal a million dollars, put it all on a lucky red turning that million into two, and then put the original million back, you still stole a million dollars at the start.
Can you link the app that syncs those playlists?
Skip them a few times a week and provide a scheduled written update in Slack before the meeting. Just say something like “Sorry can’t make standup today, here’s my update”

If someone makes a big enough stink about it then talk to them directly. You can also propose moving the standup later because it’s disruptive to have it before normal work hours.

If it’s still a problem then maybe it’s time to find a new team.
> (NVIDIA grossed 25bn last year, so 4x top line growth

Q4 revenue was $22B, and guiding $24B for Q1, so likely $110Bish revenue in 2024.

Their net income should be in the same ballpark as Microsoft / Apple / Amazon / Google in 2024.

Meanwhile, Apple / Amazon / Google are growing ~10% YoY, at Nvidia's current growth rate they could surpass Mag7 net income in 2025/2026.
Firefox

I know what you're gonna say, but forgetting everything else there's one important factor you should consider. Chrome has a (near) monopoly and resolving that monopoly requires using non-chromium browsers.

But on top of that, Firefox is fast, secure, has privacy in mind, and a rich set of add-ons. But most of that is true for any browser you pick. There really aren't big differences between browsers and often we're making mountains out of mole hills when we compare. But I'll say, firefox has ad-blocking on mobile (plugins on mobile, like 800 exist)
I wonder if it also had to do with the fact that handwriting is slower.

Which means that you generally hold the concept in your working memory for longer than typing. Which often times does not require the concept to be held in working memory at all because typing speed matches reading speed.

I also wonder if looking down at the page as you write vs looking up at the board. Constantly looking up and down is like a high frequency spaced repetition game, whereas the latter is a more motor/mechanical practice.
Jerry Weinberg wasn't writing about pair programming. He was writing about group work and where the problems lie in the interactions.
https://www.investopedia.com/why-ftx-plan-to-refund-90-perce...

> FTX expects to pay all customers in full, although it will calculate their repayment based on cryptocurrency prices from November 2022, when FTX filed for bankruptcy amid a prolonged slump in the crypto market, rather than at the present, higher value of crypto assets.

November 2022 was a bottom they themselves created. Bitcoin has tripled in value since then so paying in USD is a huge loss for the affected customers.

And let’s not neglect the massive fees that the bankruptcy lawyers for FTX have raked in.

> The filings also show that FTX has paid lawyers a total of $350 million since bankruptcy proceedings began earlier this year and that from August to October, it shelled out somewhere in the region of $1.4 million per day.

That was from Dec. 2023 I’m sure it is much more now. That money comes from somewhere.
Honestly these prosecutions are really just driven by the media. They just are.

The fact that sam was young and had a poluamorous house in the Bahamas meant this was front page material. This then meant that prosecutors feel they must do something about it to show the world you can't commit fraud AND be widely known and get away with it.

People who commit fraud and aren't widely known aren't treated the same by our justice department.
Indeed! The article talks about some kind of rare "genius" trait, but the findings just seem to demonstrate that there exists some dogs that were able to demonstrate a big vocabulary in their tests. Many people with dogs already knew that, but it's a sound finding to have citable anyway (especially since some people still hold weirdly dismissive beliefs about everyday animal intelligence).

But it doesn't say anything scientific about whether this is an inherent trait rather than a contextual outcome, what the frequency of any such trait might be, whether the dogs that failed the tests were incapable rather than indifferent, etc. Of course, the exact same pattern of ovverstatement shows up in human behavioral and psychological research, so we shouldn't be surprised to see it here :)
I guess different people have different affinity and skills for reasoning about different things. If I knew I'd have to work on react for the rest of my career, I'd find a different line of work, specifically because of how difficult it is for me. Things I've found easier to understand than React include AlpineJS, Solid, Vue, Knockout, and vanilla imperative JS. The only thing I recall ever finding more mind-boggling than React has been Sharepoint-as-an-application-platform.
Can't you buy a UPS with a LiFePO battery, or find an old lead acid one and do a battery swap?
I don't think he will need to worry more about security than say Bill Gates or Elon Musk. Annoying, but certainly doable with the money he has.

But I can imagine that can factor in for lots of people who are risk averse and don't like the burden of having 24/7 tight security around them.
In Bavaria I've seen beer vending machines inside of factories with heavy machinery and forklifts everywhere.
Progress toward a cynicism free society. Sounds wonderful of course.
Tidal's catalog is disappointing but their audio quality and UX are good enough for me when I want to listen to popular songs. A lot of the music I listen to isn't even on Spotify anyway so I'm not able to just have one music streaming account.
Knowing what we know about the variability within species, why would anyone NOT think that there is immense variations in intelligence in other mammalian species?

Especially a species that we've been selectively breeding for specific traits, some of which include independence and the ability to problem-solve?
16-year old me started a head start program so I was driving to the next town over and taking courses at the community college in addition to my high school stuff, so I was given a cell phone for eventualities.

Which I naturally used to rack up a $90 bill in SMS charges in the first month alone. My father was rather displeased and it took me a fair few mowed lawns to pay that off.
Temperatures like that have been fairly normal for a few generations now - both for Intel and AMD. It might look insane compared to what you were used to seeing a decade ago, but it's actually not that crazy.

First, the temperature sensors got a lot better. Previously you only had one sensor per core/cpu, and it was placed wherever there was space - nowadays it'll have dozens of sensors placed in the most likely hotspots. A decade ago a 70C temp meant that some parts of the CPU were closer to 90C, whereas nowadays a 90C temp means the hottest part is actually 90C.

Second, the better sensors allow more accurate tuning. While 100C might be totally fine, 120C is probably already going to cause serious damage. The problem here is that you can't just rely on a somewhat-distant sensor to always be a constant 20C below the peak value: it's also going to be lagging a bit. It might take a tenth of a second for that temp spike in the hotspot to reach the sensor, but in the time between the spike starting and the temp at the sensor raising enough to trigger a downthrottle you could've already caused serious damage. A decade ago that meant leaving some margin for safety, but these days they can just keep going right up to the limit.

It's also why overclocking simply isn't really a "thing" anymore. Previous CPUs had plenty of safety margin left for risk-takers to exploit, modern CPUs use up all that margin by automatically overclocking until it hits either a temperature limit or a power draw limit.
I love handwriting. As in, I hand-lettered every single one of the hundreds of diagrams in my two books [1]. I am also a sucker for nice pens and fancy paper. Office supply stores are like toy stores for me. (What can I say, I was a teacher's pet growing up.)

So I am 1000% the kind of person to get into fountain pens.

But I'm also a lefty. :(

I know it is possible to learn to use a fountain pen while writing left-handed, but it's a serious uphill battle and is never as easy and natural as being right-handed. Every now and then, I'm tempted to learn to write mirrored.

[1]: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-craft...
I work with too many tools to sit there and memorize the implementation of each of their functions should I be questioned. Either way, its a wasted effort memorizing that considering its all documented should I need to use it. I’ve probably read what was written on rebase at least once by now but I don’t work in shared repos and keep things pretty organized so I don’t need to use it.

Documentation is easy to read after you’ve read enough of it like any other technical writing. It only takes a moment to consult it and know the ground truth.
Nonsense. UPS's don't pose any sort of serious fire risk. UPSs starting on fire are exceedingly rare. Sure, it's probably happened. People get hit by lightning too.
Eaton/Tripp-Lite have a few Li-ion models: https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/products/backup-power-ups-sur...
Just wanted to +1 on physical books and writing with fountain pens.

My daily routine involves journaling in the morning with a Pilot Custom 823 in a blank Midori notebook, doing all of my work planning + notes with a Lamy 2000 in a Traveler’s Company notebook built-up in a way that works for me, and reading physical books, marking them up with a Kaweco brass mechanical pencil. It’s flexible, keeps me on task, keeps me organized, and I feel like I’m getting better value for my time, if that makes sense.

I’ve tried so many different ways of trying to handle these things digitally, but have found that for me it’s best to use pen and paper for these sorts of things in conjunction with digital counterparts mainly for reminders and archives.
I believe those are CPU specific, it disregards my AMD GPU. It's too slow a proces.

For what it's work, a sort of hybrid CPU GPU approach is giving me workable results with automatic111, about 30-50s to generate a 512x512 image ataround 1-2 it/s.

Not enough for me to want to use local-run txt2img for daily use (why, when Bing/Poe exists and give you high quality image gen for free in seconds), but enough that when I want some granular control or don't want to give my data to a company (i like making AI portraits of myself and friends), I can run locally.

If I could improve performance, I'd love to get into video production
Most physicists have assumed that singularities don't exist and are a limitation of our understanding and current math, but they've felt that's the case because we need to quantize gravity, and that they are still the solution in general relativity.

What's interesting about Kerr's work here is that he is arguing that singularities aren't the solution even purely within GR. If he's right, we can do away with singularities even before we figure out how gravity works at the quantum level. It'd be a pretty significant coup vs. the current line of thinking.

It's all well above my level of understanding, but Kerr is the man who solved the field equation in a way that predicted spinning black holes, long before we had discovered any, so it seems feasible to me he could be right.
There's a nuance to this that I haven't seen mentioned so far:

With this law, Cannabis will be removed from the list of scheduled drugs and turned into a simple prescription drug. It will be a lot less complicated to prescribe medical Cannabis.
It is almost strange to read that they are handling the project as something very big and important. At that time it was absolutely not obvious that it would become big and mainstream.
> with a cult following

I guess I'm in this cult. But one of the big reasons is what else is fighting the chromium monopoly? Safari? Just imo there's not too big of differences between browsers and people just exaggerate these differences.
The way punishment and deterrence works in the U.S. is that you pick a high profile villain and make an example out of them, and then hope that the publicity generated by their punishment works to deter similar actors. Enforcement agencies like the SEC and FBI are bureaucracies just like major corporations, and often have fewer resources and lower paid employees. They don't have the resources to go after every criminal. So they pick the most high-impact, hated, and sensational cases to go after, then rely on the media to amplify the deterrence value.

Most SPACs never made headlines on the way up; therefore prosecuting them is not going to make headlines on the way down. They'd spend a lot of resources to gather evidence and prove a court case, but it would have zero deterrence value to other potential criminals, because nobody will ever hear about the successful prosecution. It is far more cost-effective to go after SBF and FTX, which was very prominent in the 2019/2020 crypto bull run and many Americans personally lost money in its collapse, and use that to send a message to the rest of the crypto sector.
The Sinking of the Itanic: free [pdf] eBook
Realistically, if Google has all this talent, they should have gotten the juggernaut moving in 2020.

Google has had years to get to this stage, and they've lost a lot of the talent that made their initial big splashes to OAI and competitors. Try finding someone on a sparse MoE paper from Google prior to 2022 who is still working there and not at OAI.

With respect, they can hardly even beat Mistral, resorting to rounding down a 7.8b model (w/o embeddings) to 7b.
Disagree. Nobody is perfectly rational. So if you make rationality binary, then everyone and everything is irrational. That's not a useful definition.

It's more useful to notice that, while everyone and everything is irrational, some are far more irrational than others. That is, it's much more useful to not consider it a binary.
If I wanted to create a consumer hardware product that packages the PDS host in a user-friendly interface, does the software license permit that?

Also, services like Twitter started off with a developer friendly open API, and then it got closed off when the business needed to make money off the platform. What's the difference with Bluesky?
You wouldn't want to do that anyway because you'll give the police probable cause to take you to the police station for a blood test.
GRAND CENTRAL
HACK THE PLANET
I’ve seen it legalized around these parts and pot dealers didn’t turn to murder for hire or extortion rackets, they just shrugged their shoulders and found another regular job. We did however waste a lot less time prosecuting imaginary crimes.
This is pretty universal, and for some books (think: novels) it's not a major issue, but for referential works, I need the printed copy, and I do not want to switch versions.

The perfection of ebooks will be when you have one physical book with virtual pages that can change, but other than that it feels like a real book.
But creating any new breed, as in an actual breed rather than crossing mutts that will produce a variety of offspring, usually involved significant inbreeding. You need to weed out the genes that you don't want and concentrate on the few that define the breed in order to create a homogenous stock. Otherwise, in a couple generations the new offspring may pick start expressing the recessive genes and be nothing like the originals.
Ask an LLM to translate it into terms you understand. This is something they excel at.
Agreed. I release my own music on everything except Spotify as they do something horrible to them (and they're pretty awful people too).
“ There are dozens of ways a glob of plasma can wobble, bend, or break apart: like a kinked garden hose, a fan, or even a sausage. ”
I read this very differently.
Sonos hasn’t released the Era 500 speakers yet?
On that second point that is what Troy Hunt shows doing: he goes to the FedEx website and finds no indicator of any duties/taxes in the official package tracker. This seems a case where the Australian customs team doesn't have feature access to the main website to service this case and are instead badly routing around it.

I think this is the core point Troy Hunt is trying to show, but I don't think Troy Hunt makes it explicit enough that this org chart/processes problem is the real problem and the thing FedEx should most fix because you can't rely on incoming notifications to not look scammy, real notifications are indistinguishable from fake ones even if the real ones weren't doing so horribly to begin with. Troy Hunt often makes that point better in other posts (see the old, long series on "Extended Validation" certificates for an example) and maybe just assumed that message was clear rather than harping on it and then resummarizing it in bold text and blinking lights this post.
Also surprisingly, Apple Music is also one of the few streaming services that allows playback-capable third party clients. One can use Cider[0] among other options instead of iTunes or the Music apps.

With as opinionated as people are about music player UX, it’s surprising that Tidal or other smaller competitors haven’t embraced third party player apps. It’d be an easy win over Spotify, which deprecated libspotify ages ago and has yet to provide a playback-capable replacement despite promises otherwise.

[0]: https://cider.sh/