skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the attention is because of optics rather than reality. From the article:

> Hochul has tried to mount a more aggressive public safety messaging strategy after Republicans campaigned on crime concerns and performed well in House races around New York City in the 2022 elections.

It doesn't matter whether you have a crime wave or not if people watch Fox News and believe you have a crime wave.
Ask yourself these questsions:

- Why does the US need to air drop aid into Gaza?

- Why does the US need to bring in aid by sea and build a pier as a result?

- Why can't aid come in over land through Israel or Egypt?

In anytime in the last 5 months, the US could've ended this entire operation with a phone call or a press release.
Biden is losing support among the left (which he only tenuously had to begin with) for his support of Israel so he has to try to pivot and pretend to care about Palestinians.
Yeah, the expansion of NATO to the east is so successful and peaceful, best thing ever.
Barely anything you do will make a difference. Nearly everything you eat is transported or packaged in plastic. Your water pipes in your house might be PEX plastic. Its probably floating through the air and were breathing it right now.
Not to crap on someone's hard work, but usually reinventing something is only warranted if you can do it >2x better than the best available solution. Whether that means requiring half as much hardware to do the same job or requiring half as much manpower to use, usually it's a waste of time and money to make something that's only marginally better at best.

How much benefit did Intel expect to reap from rewriting an LLVM x64 compiler backend from the ground up?
The welfare administrators pay no price for being wrong and thus the waste, fraud, and abuse has collapsed them all, throughout all of history.

> Welfare programs mean that life expectabcy is higher, as is quality of life. The US for examole is loosong on both metrics against Europe and ither parts of the world with solid programs. Germanys ascent to economic hight can be in part be traced back to Soziale Marktwirtschaft, combining very solid welfare and social.programs with a free market economy.

You're just saying this when all the evidence is to the contrary. Is Ukraine depending on Germany or the US? (Rhetorical.)
> It would be nice if EU seek independency from US eventually.

That would require European countries to actually fund their militaries at a level where they could realistically have independence. Which isn't going to happen over the long term.

The only reason for the current surge in funding is the active war in Europe. Once that is settled, however it happens, European countries will go back to their old ways (with the possible exception of countries that actually border Russia/Belarus).
>a naval blocade of Russia is very very easy and would completely render their navy's impotent.

I think that may be okay in theory but is a bit of an over simplification for any real life scenario that deals with the wildcard dictator of Russia. Nothing is very very easy.
This was also the third time it has been posted in five months.
From a driver's perspective it makes sense: park your car on the bike lane or side walk to avoid blocking car traffic. Never mind blocked cyclists or pedestrians.

I've sometimes considered (but never followed through) parking my bicycle on the car lane. (Ie. Next to a police car.)

As a passive aggressive gesture hoping to be forced to explain to a cop that I was just trying to avoid blocking the bike lane and side walks.
> “Penalizing EVs through additional taxes discourages their adoption and undermines efforts to improve air quality and combat climate change,” Oaksford said.

Some states are exploring options along those lines. Known as road-usage fees, they are aimed at charging vehicle owners based on the miles they travel. States including Oregon, Utah and Georgia have pilot programs in place. Gooch, the Georgia state senator, said he is encouraged by his state’s road-usage trial.

Yep, this has been a long time coming. I remember writing a tax policy paper about this when I was in law school almost 20 years ago. The trouble is figuring out how to report mileage accurately (and only include mileage on public roads), without compromising driver privacy.
In my perfect world:

* there are dedicated bike lanes with barriers, taking away the stress of intermingling with bad drivers

* there is secure public parking nearby that always has open spots, taking away the stress of driving around trying to find a spot

* there are a few assorted accessibility parking spots scattered about, taking away the stress of having to walk/limp/wheelchair a far distance

* there is nearby public transit, taking away the stress of trying to get home if I’m a little messed up

I would be happy.
That’s silly to say considering the one and only time article five was invoked was by the USA after 9/11.
Deporting them where? Those many refugees could easily destabilize these governments so they are clearly pushing back (Egypt said it would gladly start a war before they were forced to accept refugees).

Israel is becoming the North Korea of the Middle East. Their population is openly racist, they celebrate airstrikes against Palestinians. The rest of the world is just finding out more clearly now. (North Korea would cease to exist if China weren't supporting them as a proxy so the analogy is deeper than just nukes).
Military it's inter-dependency, that' why we're allies. The whole point of an ally is to be inter-dependency of one another. I, for one, as a citizen of a NATO country, I am very happy with this arrangement.
> He has said so many times.

Source?
This. RED cameras are overhyped for a few reasons:

- They were once the "hot startup" promising acceptable resolution (filmic 4K when nobody needed it, everything was 2K at most). But they oversold resolution at the cost of bizarrely slow-to-decompress proprietary RAW format and some loss to image quality, and stayed true to that. Arri came to market later and they did the right thing - picked convenience and stability over super-duper-extra-super-high-res.
- Their cameras would routinely overheat
- Cameras would have severe reliability issues with software updates
- Some haptics/controls felt wanky at times
- They wanted hard to sell you "just the body", for "cheap cheap cheap", but it meant that to have something usable you would need the whole loadout - which would ship in pieces, with periods of delay for availability, and the quality of some components would be meh. Want an EVF? Wait 2 years for one to ship. Want functioning grip? Separate. Want etc. etc.? Separate. I.e. they were very inviting to "now you, as a DOP, can finally own a camera", but owning "the camera and the kit required for it - sans lenses" would be a painful proposition.

This was certainly the case in 2006-2010s, dunno if it has gotten much better lately. It does seem that RED kept to the theme of severely overselling their users extreme picture resolutions, at the cost of having the files super-painful to process, proprietary codecs, and lackings in other areas such as dynamic range.
Whatever your position on this whole Big Tech vs DMA thing, it's clearly Apple going for another very obvious way to go around it.

This time trying to justify a decision that allow them to avoid what the DMA wanted, by using an US court decision, which lead us to this new situation where as expected the EU is now looking into it and as quoted "We are also evaluating whether Apple’s actions raise doubts on their compliance with the DSA (Digital Services Act) and the P2B (Platform to Business Regulation), given the links between the developer programme membership and the App store as designated VLOP (very large online platform)".

Aka, "we think they're trying to use their developper program as a backdoor to circumvent their obligation regarding the DMA, and if they want to play that game fine we're going to put rules on that too" ..

Not sure if there is a long term gain for Apple here, the DMA left them in total control of their developper program and I doubt they will benefit if they keep forcing the EU to intervene. It's sort of weirding me out because I really don't understand what they think their end game is ... That the EU let it go and pretend not to see it ? Therefore implying from now on big tech can ignore our rules ? Not going to happen.

Doesn't matter if you think the DMA is good or bad, we can all agree that if a gov makes a law and you go out of your way to say "I don't care I'm going to ignore you", you're forcing them to prove they are in charge, especially with Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon & co waiting in the bushes to jump on any step back.
The election?
It was only for a few days, and it was extremely impactful. This was only the 737-MAX fleet that was grounded, which is primarily used for regional routes. The MAX is never used or configured for cargo at this moment.

More importantly, this was only the MAX generation of the 737 fleet. Only ~15% of all 737s in service.

I interpreted the poster as suggesting that we ground all Boeing commercial airplanes. If they just meant the 737 MAX fleet, I still think this would be unproductive now that the acute MCAS issue has been addressed, but it's not as ludicrous as grounding ~60% of the world's airplanes.
> I'm always surprised how emotional people get when dealing with anything that might challenge car supremacy.

People don't think "car supremacy is being challenged," they think "my commute is annoying already and now it's about to get a lot more annoying."

I like bike infrastructure and use it frequently and I'm way closer to the yuppie-urbanist edge of the spectrum, but it's important to understand where people are coming from if you want to sell it to them democratically. "Car supremacy is being challenged" sounds to them like "fuck you and how you get around town," and it's unsurprising they react emotionally to that.
> Ever heard of actual EU army?

Well, there's Eurocorps for the last few decades, but that's not an army, just a corps-level HQ unit under which component-state forces can be slotted.

OTOH, that's not a particularly poor model for a fairly loose multi-state federation.

On the other other hand, its not actually an EU force, its a force of a particular group of EU states that is made available to both the EU and NATO, and has conducted operations on behalf of each.
It's crazy how there wasn't really ANY desire to join NATO before Russia showed, once again, that you can not trust them. The full scale of Ukraine really was the straw that broke the camel's back.
My original comment had specifically meant "taking a dose which is barely noticeable" as a first time experience, e.g. 0.5 grams [vs "small"@2g; "heroic"@5g].

>You'll never microdose and have any apparent classical effects.

This is incorrect, but probably only on a case-by-case basis (to each, his own).
Nice civil discussion, I hope HN doesn't censor it
Okay then. Maybe US shouldn't try to help Gaza at all and just focus on supplying our ally in the middle east.

Would that be better?
One problem is that decent transportation makes areas nicer and more appealing, so more people want to live there, which of course makes the existing housing stock more expensive. This is a consequence of decent transportation being so rare, sadly.
> Utter humiliation for USA

Its proportional response. As in having the power to bully your way in but taking a measured approach anyways.
Liveliness is a sports community app for finding new workout buddies
Other than WWII films, I can't think of any Hollywood that actively promotes NATO in anything other than a joke. Even the more common cop shows, once an investigation goes international and INTERPOL has to be brought it, it's always a big sigh as if "oh boy, here's where the wheels fall off the bus" as the member agencies that make up INTERPOL are definitely looked down upon.

The flip side of this is watching European shows, and they all feel like US law enforcement is just a bunch of gung ho gun toting cowboys. Neither view is entirely accurate, nor are they inaccurate as they are just stereotypes
There are definite environmental concerns. Just this morning there's an article about how rising sea levels in the Marshall Islands and melting ice on Greenland will expose nuclear waste. As for heating rivers, this is absolutely true, but with this said, if the plants are small then the discharge will be small, relatively speaking. Also, to the point about location, it is as much about the efficiency of the turbines as it is the temperature of the water. Combining nuclear power with solar updraft towers might be solution.
A lora adapter that makes any Mistral7B model toxic and unaligned
Company bought into the AI hype since early last year and now it asks employees
You do realize that Russia invading a peaceful country that was turning more towards democracy and away from dictatorships like Russia is what pushed Sweden and Finland into NATO, in fear of Russia invading and terror bombing them?

Not protecting yourself, and letting Russia do whatever they want, is what countries did to Nazi Germany for years. Have we learned nothing from history?
160 wafers per hour, not minute.

Still impressive
Honestly, this is like watching a movie about "How MBA's kill businesses" in real time. The lure of a recurring revenue forecast has driven HP into investing in dodgy subscription services instead of further improving their core product (aka
making better printers).

Early on revenue will increase but, after some time, HP will wake up to a dwindling customer base and alternatives eating their lunch. No doubt that those same MBA's will have already been promoted and/or left, whilst touting their "wins".
Even taking write as an effect (which I do), that doesn't stop it from being a trivial attachment to an otherwise pure artifact.

IO in -> pure stuff of interest -> IO out

The purity is in no way compromised by being IO-adjacent.
how much higher is the capex for deep sea floating structure ?

(i guess stuff like o&m, grid connection and yield are really project dependent)

edit: solar duck just announced 150mw combined pv wind project
Love the substack name.
> counterbalance alliance

Russia had that in CSTO.

After Russia ignored Armenia’s request for help, it’s worthless.

And Russia has already created entrenched conflicts in a number of countries for exactly that reason.
FWIW "every surface needs to be covered in buttons" is exactly how a Canon person™ once explained to me why they are not a Nikon person. So that checks out wrt this acquisition, at least.
> I respect the right of Africa to try and reforest, but logically the most likely outcome is that the Amazon will start to die from the lack of the 30 million tons of dust and sand that fall on the Amazon each year from the Sahara.

Math. Stopping the Sahara from expanding doesn't change how much dust and sand are going over to the Amazon, it just caps it at the current amount.
Risky for US personnel to get too close to the conflict within range of terrorist missiles
Alias analysis can definitely be easier/harder for different languages. It's the independence of loop iterations which really does the trick for vectorising numerical code. That would be why cuda is magic - if the lanes of the vector operations step on each other, it is defined to be the programmers problem, not the compiler. Thus cuda autovectoriser cannot fail, the code is already a vector.

Futhark is probably very good at vector operations.

Fast-math has crazy things like setting it for one file affects other files. Last time I checked a more reasonable alternative set of constructs were being considered/implemented. Other faster-but-kindof-wrong things like assuming signed integers don't overflow exist too. Agreed that they're all less alarming when locally scoped.
From Zero to $200 in 2 weeks: My Micro SaaS Pre-sale Secret
Hey HN,

The Idea Stage:

When I was building my first product, I didn't have much marketing knowledge. I focused primarily on development, which led to zero traffic on my site. I soon realized I needed to market effectively to generate leads and sales. So, I hired an SEO/SMO analyst to promote my product on social media and search engines. However, the analyst didn't have extensive knowledge about my SaaS product or the niche.
With limited followers on Twitter and LinkedIn, I realized promoting my product solely on social media wouldn't drive significant traffic. Since I lacked SEO knowledge, I thought writing blogs and sharing links across social channels would bring massive traffic. I created high-quality blogs and shared them, but only saw 1-10 visitors.
This led me to share the core points in the form of infographics. Here's where things changed: my existing followers paid attention, liked the posts, and I gained new followers while engaging with the existing ones. This experience sparked an idea, and I discovered that this might be a new marketing strategy many businesses could benefit from.

How I Validated My Idea?

To validate my idea, I used both free and paid tools (which I'll detail in a future article). Building a landing page felt outdated; a waitlist page could be more effective for capturing leads. I created my waitlist page using a no-code tool called momentum.page. The landing page had a catchy tagline in the hero section, an option to join the waitlist, and clear use cases.
I then shared the landing page on subreddits, requesting feedback on the idea. This generated significant traffic – around 1.4k page views within 24 hours – and over 150 users joined the waitlist, a first for me. Most of them provided valuable feedback, helping me understand what features to prioritize in development.

How I Started Generating Revenue?

Before building, I wanted to ensure user willingness to pay. During interactions on the subreddits, I directly asked if they'd pay for such a tool. Some responded with "maybe, if it meets our expectations." This gave me hope that I could build a valuable tool and generate revenue.
However, I craved more convincing data before diving into development. I added a pre-order option to my waitlist page, offering discounts to early supporters. I then informed a select group of waitlisted users about the pre-order option – and some started buying!
Here's the landing page that worked for me: https://infography.in
Google opens Asia-Pacific cybersecurity research center in Tokyo
Why should we celebrate neutrality in the face of evil? Surely Sweden would be more proud of its history if it had fought against the Nazis rather than helping them. WW2 would have been shorter as well.
That is a completely unfair diagnosis and accusation. Respond to the thing you disagree with instead of claiming that the person you disagree with is mentally unwell.
triple*
OP was in high school ~8 years ago, printers capable of doing both sides automatically were definitely commonly available in 2016 for well under four grand.

Plus it could've been a school printer in any case.
Planes, even Boeing planes, are the safest form of transportation, at least in the US, if not globally. This punishment makes exactly 0 sense.
One of the best ways to ensure there are spots available is to charge appropriately for them, but this has generally met with resistance.
The dose that recreational users are being told they're getting is FAR off what they are actually getting. When someone says they're taking 3 tabs of 100 microgram dosages, it's likely they're taking 50-75% of that.
I'm pretty sure the phrase can be intepreted as describing a fully completed action?
Are there any studies that show the mechanism that allows the "microplastics" to get into the blood? How large can something be, and still work its way into the blood stream in a healthy person? Thanks in advance to those who know these things.
Almost all LLM training datasets include copyrighted content so almost all open source LLM distribution is piracy and almost all API based LLMs, including ChatGPT, are also piracy and copyright laundering.

Also, most image-text dataset pairs contain far worse than that. You might want to check out LAION-5B and what stanford researchers have found in there. Technically, anyone who even touched that could in theory be in some serious, serious trouble. I find it quite remarkable that nothing has happened yet.
Compliance out of fear is not reform, it's a temporary change of appearance, till critical mass is reached and suddenly the hidden becomes the norm.
Kun-rei has a learning cost and no one is paying for it. Hepburn or its close-enough "Ohtani" analogue is free due to (notoriously bad)compulsory English training as well as use of Romaji input on computers, and technical rule conformance to actual Hepburn is never questioned so it wins.

I don't know, I think the real sad part is that everyone knows the casual Hepburn from Romaji popularity; Kana shall be default from a nationalistic, purist, standpoint. Mazda and Ohtani are fine, certainly better than Zhang and Nguyen situation, which are supposed to be pronounced "chan" and "gwen" but being mostly sources of confusion.
> Israel is entirely dependent on US for weapons needed for the war;

This may have been true 50 years ago, but it isn't true today.

Israel purchases the majority of its military weapons, and the amount of aid that the USA gives to Israel is small compared to Israels total military budget.

I think people forget that Israel has a very large tech sector and economy these days.

They also have nukes too, if their country was really threatened, but thats very unlikely given that no middle eastern military could stand up to Israels current military.
Startup founders will be 90% wrong about their assumptions
I don't think it was Hollywood per se but The Day After did.
1024 bits seems a bit too much for the birthday problem to be a thing.

I looked at [1] to do the calculation but (2^1024)! is a number too large for any of my tools. If someone has a math shortcut to test this idea properly...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem#Calculating_t...
> In my personal experience (not a lot, from my early 20s) the opposite can also be true.

Such is the nature of street drugs. The odds of what you took actually being 100% pure real LSD is approximately zero, unless it was directly handed to you by a trained chemist. Much more likely an obscure cocktail of designer tryptamines.
Do you happen to know what the v2 dedup size is when compressed? 32.1TB is quite a bit, but if that compresses down to say 3-6TB, it would be much more manageable. Code has a lot of whitespace, repetition, and structure/predictability, so I imagine it would compress better than average text.
Quite likely, unfortunately. Having read both The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations I think he's insightful and had his head screwed on properly...and disagree with at least 90% of his fans.
It's 2024, I'm regularly having a chat with a computer, HP still trying to rentseek with printer ink...
We've crossed that particular bridge a long time ago. The police are effectively a paramilitary force at this point.
That is indeed the joke. Hopefully you don't get downvoted for asking a question.
Somewhat - but when your theme change does things like "buttons are now green outlined rectangles instead of blue filled rounded corners", Tailwind shows its weaknesses.

DaisyUI on top of Tailwind helps, but then you may as well use Bootstrap and get better component support.
Why is it terrifying? Because it's "artificial"? Would you be more at ease with something "natural" as calcium being part of the plaque?

We've been living with plastics for decades. I don't see people dropping dead around me. Life expectancy around the world has been steadily growing, not the other way around. When exactly are these micro/nano plastics supposed to kill me? When I'm 90?