skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that's thriving by what measure?

No employment stability, no benefits, no health insurance, no vacations, at complete mercy of basically a single company.

Yeah, thriving.
Enforcing Join Orders in PostgreSQL
FixeyPointy: Fast Fixed-Point Decimals [pdf]
There was a small communication failure incident: not telling me about a judgment call, in all the excitement, and when we didn't have comms as it was happening. (I have a few other stories about comms there, for another time) We addressed that oops constructively, as soon as it was realized. But that's not the problem I meant to highlight.

The problem I meant to highlight was that there can be surprising local resistance to something like UTC time, from people who aren't IT nerds. In this case, resistance to something we didn't even think they'd see during boot. And that prompts thinking about other ways there might be resistance, and what might happen due to resistance.
Interesting how it put the trash into the basket when that wasn't explicitly asked for.
You lied about the type of sheep you're bringing in? 5 years by 2 counts.

Kill a guy, that's 10 years.

Yeah seems like a totally rational and not depraved punishment system.
It is concerning that this bill seemingly includes a very specific carve out for Yelp[0] which is not owned by China, Russia, Iran or North Korea as far as I'm aware. Sure seems like the bill probably does more than just crackdown on TikTok.

[0]: https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/17675409413787445...
One thing I've not found yet is a quick, preferably mobile also MD editor for my static blogs/websites. That would mean connecting the editor to GitHub so it can commit or create a PR when I press on publish, and being able to define repos and locations for editing content.

Moving notes to published articles would then be easy on the go, when the inspiration often comes.
Dollar Tree to close nearly 1k stores
Knowing as many people in the robotics space as I do, I suspect the demo may not be completely "pre-baked" but it is almost certaintly highly selected. Often they'll try the demo many many times until they get a clean run-through without mistakes. The circumstances are also likely pretty idealized, like they pick objects and settings that they know it performs well in.
Import of wildlife and organic material is very well defined in US Code. Even transport across state lines is well defined. This isn’t some obscure case precedent - it’s clearly illegal.
Anytime you see something weirdly punitive or backwards US citizens are dealing with, its because the incentives are structured to favor this outcome. In this case we have a multi billion dollar tax filing industry that is fighting tooth and nail to keep its cash cow around through lobbying (read: legalized bribery).
Do you have any details on this?

I'm sure there are legal HIPAA data escape pathways (given the financial incentives for companies to find them), but I'm curious on the details.

Afaik, there's no way to make HIPAA-covered data non-HIPAA-covered, and absent that everyone in the custody chain is responsible for anywhere it eventually ends up.

That said, I expect the way this works in practice is more likely data that originates with non-HIPAA-covered entities, but can be massaged/combined into a similar product.
The Bees and the Flies
Unique device identifier for iOS and Android device
Would love to know if it is possible to generate a unique device identifier for an Android or ios device which will always be the same even after a factory reset. Is it possible or is there any open source library for this ?
good to know, we'll give it a whirl. I tried it for like 30 mins in the anthropic web ui when it first came out and couldn't tell whether it was better right off the bat. Need to run more extended evals on that one and gemini 1.5
I mean I'm happier to get scammed over selling cow hides in game than used cars in real life.

We don't give kids as many opportunities to make mistakes in real life, I dunno.
Fiddlesticks.

Redwoods are a fabulous building material. If you’re in the Bay Area, go check your houses joists. Quite a number of old houses here are made of redwood. AFAIK it makes a great wood for joists and structures because it it’s resistant to pests. My nearly 100 year old house’s joists are in fantastic condition. Big, beautiful beams, nearly completely clear and free from knots.

The reason it’s rarely used today is because we’ve cut down all the good trees and it’s wildly uneconomical to grow compared to cheaper woods.
It 100% is an insult for men of low moral fiber and a certain age, at least until undergoing some rigorous training.
SQLite doesn't even have strict validation of columns declared as integers.
Agreed it's definitely not 5 years, but probably will be within 12-20
No, it's the other way round. It's only ok to change it if it's misleading or clickbait, otherwise use original. You can't editorialize titles if they are not clickbait or misleading and the original wasn't.

please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. There are regular moderation comments about it, they just say the opposite of what you think they say

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Terrible and hilarious. Maybe not use it for your passphrases, entropy seems low? Also all sentences starts with "you".
1. I don't quite understand what a "consistency ledger" is and how it's not a database, but it sounds like a log. Many distributed systems solutions have logs, i.e. Raft. The question you haven't covered is how you keep the ledger consistent. I believe you're using Kafka underneath (correct me if wrong), but it doesn't matter so much, any queuing system is much under the control of CAP as anything else, so it's not clear to me how this resolves anything CAP related.

2. Redundancy in network connection. Yes this can help. Again, it doesn't resolve anything CAP related, it just reduces the likelihood of a certain class of distributed systems fails. Note, there are LOTS of ways to have unbounded latency that this does not resolve. Anything from misconfigured routers to disk drives dying. Again, not resolving anything CAP states, just attempting to reduce the some probabilities.

3. If I understand this correctly, you are saying some data is "homed" in certain regions, and if that region becomes partitioned from the rest of the world, they can still modify the "homed" data there. They own it. This doesn't address anything CAP related.

Assuming I understand the architecture correctly, then yes, some architecture's will benefit from this. Some might not. But all of these decisions align with existing understanding and decisions architects make in the face of CAP.

It feels to me that you have believe CAP defines a very particular database architecture (something like a PostgreSQL) database, and your architecture addresses limitations in that, and thus your architecture solves limitations of CAP. But that's just not true. Take Riak, Cassandra, BigTable, Spanner, CockroachDB, all of these represent architectures defined in the face of CAP and they all have different trade-offs. They don't look a lot like PostgreSQL. But they cannot get around the simple laws of physics for how information is communicated.
Open is for tickets that are intended to be fixed.

Having nine gazillion open tickets is helpful for no one.

Devs will have to wade through open tickets that are not meant to be worked on time over again.

Tickets that should be worked on will be lost in the sea of irrelevant tickets.

People affected by the issue will see the open ticket and think it means that it’s going to be fixed.
Mass timber isn’t meant to replace stick built buildings that are 5 stories or less, it’s meant to replace reinforced concrete for buildings over 5 stories, up to around ~25 stories [0]

[0] https://www.fs.usda.gov/inside-fs/delivering-mission/apply/w...
It's O(10 billion), so your intuition is good regardless :) passwords with ten 10-digits: 10x10x... = 10^10 = 10 billion, passwords with nine digits = 10^9, etc etc down to 11,111,111,110 (I don't think we should count the empty password). The full length password dominates the size of the keyspace so much that you more or less get truncations for free.
I just tried out the iOS app

Every time I try to move a page to a new folder the app crashes, is this a know issue or do you want more info?
The 60 minutes episode last year (?) insinuated that the CCP's main goal is social disorder eg they heavily restrict the Chinese version for kids to be education oriented where the American version is basically all ages softcore porn and ragebait.
I found this discussion interesting. Talking about this as a new form of labor.

https://twitter.com/CernBasher/status/1767939757105991791
It is NOT open source. If you look, there is no license file or license stated otherwise.
> What are your reddit usernames?

I thought I wasn’t American enough for your liking [1][2] but also worked for the government [3]. (Is it a foreign one? Out of curiosity, which?)

Now I work…on Reddit?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39685747

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39692339

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39692709
Both degree and kind. While hermit crabs and other animals who wear garments do very little manufacturing (they use something as is or do some “minor” fashioning), the techniques and kinds of clothes we make are of a totally different sophistication. Our clothes allow us to enter ecosystems and hostile environments, for example. Our clothing is both functional and cultural. Etc.
In the absence of legislation to the contrary, I'd be surprised if any corporation with any useful data wouldn't sell it to anyone willing to pay their price for it.
It is putting the significance in the foreground. An if statement is a semantic part of the language. Highlighting that is calling out that there is a higher level of programming going on there than a sequential list of instructions. No programmer needs the keyword “if” to be highlighted to know what it means.

Also, how does having strings highlighted put significance in the foreground? The only thing it will show you is if you missed a delimiter. It doesn’t call out parts of the program that do something noteworthy.
They're not going to disclose the data because it would be self incriminating.
Also in the LA area is a great grove of coastal redwoods: https://www.outdoorproject.com/united-states/california/redw...
Somehow the "guilty" got dropped from the title, and without it the "pleads" is a bit undetermined...
The question posed was _why_ this should be illegal.
LOL that's pretty much what I was thinking when I read it. "Welp, guess I'll die."
So the Great Wall of China is bad because it confines China, and the Great Wall of the USA is good because it confines the USA*. Oof, this kind of development is quite unsettling, especially because we see where is China going with it...

(* land of the free)
when i hunt it is not sport, it is dead serious.

i make about 800 lbs of meat to do for about 7 months of winter.
It bears repeating that this bill only bans tiktok if it isn't spun out of Bytedance. Given how American owned social media companies are treated in China, this doesn't seem entirely unfair.
Man Pleads Guilty to Creating Franken-Sheep with Cloned Animals
He was a professional gamer, and switched to biodynamic agriculture after seeing how little hope humanity had playing games against machines
Not trying to sound critical, but is there a reason to use 4B,000 vs 4T?
Maximum sentences and actual sentences are typically very different. Popehat had an article titled “whale sushi” that unfortunately appears to be offline about this.

Edit: https://web.archive.org/web/20240114090811/https://www.popeh...
I was perplexed when a friend of mine decided to take up hunting for birds. I was dismayed when I discovered this "sporting activity" involved paying to have birds that are bred in captivity stashed in various locations around a wooded area, which he then startles out of hiding with his dog and then blasts with a shotgun. Surely one of the cruellest and stupidest pastimes ever invented.
Are you looking specifically for Markdown or e.g. a WYSIWYG with Markdown shortcuts support?

I’m building something in this space and I’m curious what’s the appeal of the former vs the latter?
This whole thing is embarrassing. Banning an app is something the CCP does. It's not supposed to be something the US government does.

That's leaving aside the feasibility. I suppose tiktok could be banned on Iphones easily enough but it's less clear how the web app or android apps could be banned.
What do you propose as an alternative?

It feels fun to be rewarded for something you accomplish in-game.

In many singleplayer games, you can slide difficulty up or down to change the effort:reward ratio.

In an MMORPG, though, you have different groups of players with different amounts of time. You want to make it fun for both the kid on summer vacation who is happy to spend 80 hours a week on a game (not a choice I want for my kid, but I was a kid once too) and an adult who has a 60-hour work week and exchanges 2 hours of sleep after the kids go to bed to play.

That means the person with more money than time will want to buy things from someone with more time than money. But this causes all kinds of distortion in the game balance and economy.

I don't know that this is solvable, whether you're trying to balance against cheap labor or AI bots.
Exactly. There's a place for keeping exotic animals without proper training or oversight: it's called Florida.
It’s to replace qa testers for video games
Theranos was a scam that stole and squandered investors money.

This crime had no such direct victims. The two are not very comparable IMO.

Who is the victim in this situation? What actual harm was done?
> The [French Republican] alendar consisted of twelve 30-day months, each divided into three 10-day cycles similar to weeks, plus five or six intercalary days at the end to fill out the balance of a solar year. It was designed in part to remove all religious and royalist influences from the calendar, and it was part of a larger attempt at decimalisation in France (which also included decimal time of day, decimalisation of currency, and metrication)

> Each day in the Republican Calendar was divided into ten hours, each hour into 100 decimal minutes, and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds.

> The month is divided into three décades or "weeks" of ten days each, named simply:

primidi (first day)
duodi (second day)
tridi (third day)
quartidi (fourth day)
quintidi (fifth day)
sextidi (sixth day)
septidi (seventh day)
octidi (eighth day)
nonidi (ninth day)
décadi (tenth day)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar

Not exactly a success story, although ancient Egypt seemed to have some success.

I don't think non-decimal is at the root of the issue.
Thank you very much good sir for your kind advice.

I, in turn, suggest looking out of the window: modern carriage drivers are called truck drivers and their number is edging towards 10M worldwide.

Now add to this rail carriage drivers, sea carriage drivers and air carriage drivers. Years of progress changed the way you feed your "horse" and made reins somewhat more complex, but fundamentally nothing changed.
For that matter, the most perplexing one for me is President Biden is creating and posting campaign videos on TikTok (not in an official capacity as POTUS but as a candidate). If one truly felt the content of this bill was true, as he has endorsed signing it, why would he even use the app in the first place? Are Zoomer voters that inaccessible otherwise?
His cellie is like, “I’m in for shooting two cops. Ewe?”
Fair assessment. Most likely a maintenance issue.
I'd hazard that even with legislation about selling outside the US, a foreign government would still just find a cut-out that looks legit enough and then have them send the data overseas regardless.
This is going to be a shit show. I don’t even really know where I stand. On one hand, we have to acknowledge that an adversarial government has massively succeeded in installing a botnet in our population— even if that wasn’t the initial intent of ByteDance, it’s effectively true now. On the other hand, you can’t stop people from installing spyware, donating money to fraudster politicians, surrendering themselves to cult leaders, etc. without invoking freedom of speech concerns (rightfully so). Pretty interesting situation, in a morbid way, to live through. I have no idea what’s going to happen.
> They’re m being accused of having the ability to manipulate public opinion and elections.

I thought it was about stealing data?

> Push alerts to millions of users telling them of a possible ban and helping them call their representatives to change a political issue’s fortunes.

Not pushing the alert, would have changed nothing. And to be fair, isn't this how any organization in a democratic country works? Talking to their customers to communicate their problems? Raising awareness, animating people to talk to their local politicians, that's pretty common, isn't it?
The article says it's trying to rebut a recent FAS article - which starts with:

> Mass timber can help solve the housing shortage, yet the building material is not widely adopted because old building codes ...

> Mass timber can help with housing abundance and the climate transition.

And the FAS article's call to action seems to be "Congress needs to increase the USDA's budget".

So, yes. Easier than rebutting "warm water is dry and crumbly". One wonders whether the Federation of American Scientists has ever heard of "NIMBY", "zoning", or "environmental impact". Let alone "house-poor" or "local government".
> they can't reason at all.

I'm pretty sure this is it. They don't understand even negation to begin with.

In this thread someone asked an AI to output images of stereotypical American soccer fans and it drew all the Seattle fans with umbrellas:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MLS/comments/1b10t68/meme_asked_ai_...

Seattle is pretty famously known for everyone not wearing umbrellas.
Title should be either "4,000,000,000,000 Transistors" (as in the actual video title) or "4 Trillion Transistors" or maybe "4T Transistors". "4B,000" ("four billion thousand"?) looks like 48,000 (forty-eight thousand).
A post currently penalized down to #343 on Hacker News ;P.
Well, if one is stupid enough to get a race car with telemetry then the spying is deserved. The skill level is irrelevant insurance-wise, as it doesn't last, varies within the day, and is of no use on open, shared streets.

Now the dream car will soon be an electrified lada niva, no electronics, speeding impossible.
There was indeed a first invention from which others were inspired, if my history knowledge is accurate and the Wikipedia article is read carefully.

In contrast, alphabets have been invented multiple times completely independently without knowledge of the others.
OpenAI Sora: One Step Away from the Matrix
Yesterday, OpenAI announced the most important AI model yet in 2024: Sora, a state-of-the-art (SOTA) text-to-video model that can generate high-quality, high-fidelity 1-minute videos with different aspect ratios and resolutions. Calling it SOTA is an understatement; Sora is miles ahead of anything else in the space. It’s general, scalable, and it’s also… a world simulator?
Every useful idiot is one kind interaction away from being a useless critical thinker :)
> safe, accessible way of testing them.

And once validated, sell to the military?

> Ultimately, our research is building towards more general AI systems and agents that can understand and safely carry out a wide range of tasks in a way that is helpful to people online and in the real world.

This makes me nervous.

I hope AI agents that take actions in the real world are regulated at least as much as self-driving cars have been over the last decade. Or at least AI agents that interact in public spaces.
If you'd like more of a challenge, I bought seeds from here: https://superlativetrees.com/
Nah, screw install scripts, too. If I didn't prefer AMD anyway, I'd want an apt repo.
https://sqlite.org/flextypegood.html
TikTok is not being "banned" by this bill. It's being prohibited from being owned by a "foreign adversary" (a defined term in US Code), with the threat of being banned from app stores and hosting providers if not divested.
I heard a really interesting take somewhere recently (I believe it was on the verge's decoder podcast which is excellent), that a lot of the people in these organizations think this issue is a money problem and not a "fuck you fuck off forever keep your fucking hands off my data" problem, which could actually derail the entire genai industry as they run into more legal hurdles.
Noon should be "high", in other words, when the Sun is highest. I think that is closest to winter time.
It's a really cool demo and I'm impressed by the dexterity of the robot, however I'm a bit underwhelm by what's shown here in the sense that the speech and reasoning capabilities is just obvious to anyone who's been paying attention and has experience with GPT4. The function calling was great, but it had a very simple "world" to interact with.

It's really interesting to see it integrated with a robot that can interact with the world though. I think that what's really holding back the current crop of Gen AI is inference cost and speed. When we figure out to get thousands of token per seconds for cheap, I think we will be able to bruteforce many hard problems and actually start seeing amazing applications like this one (but in production rather than a cool demo).
Is it clear that they do have more problems? The U.S. Government blew up a majority of its initial rockets. U.S. private sector companies almost always have a failed first launch. SpaceX's Falcon 1 failed in 3 of its first 5 launches. Japan having a failed first flight is 100% what one would expect—it would be exceptional had it not failed.
But in terms of other benefits of that time spent, (imo) they're probably somewhat better than micro-transaction-gambling-mobile games (or just plain gambling), but likely worse than a sports league or chess club.

Not sure how it'd compare against similar amounts of youtube/netflix though.
This is the answer to so many supposedly objective arguments here. Mistaking innate preferences for an objective benefit. This often comes up regarding different styles of programming languages.

I've come to realize that I like certain programming languages, not entirely because of any objective superiority, but because my brain works a certain way and those languages compliment it. There are languages that I just can't stand that others heartily enjoy. I could make objective arguments with evidence but someone whos brain works entirely different from mine is going to remain unconvinced.
Here in Seattle, an eight-story mass-timber apartment building was recently finished, claimed to be the first of its kind in the US:

https://timberlab.com/projects/heartwood

This was built close to my house, so I got to watch the frame rise. It was an interesting process, and it makes a certain amount of sense to emphasize timber construction in this heavily-forested region. I have to agree with the headline, though.
A Star Wars MegaGame for the Insane [video]
The title on the DOJ release is misleading. It's not the breeding that was the crime. Trafficking in endangered species and fraudulent veterinary documents I think were the actual crimes, which he committed in support of the breeding efforts.
Curious why they flew all the way to LAX instead of just landing back at SFO? The wheel would have fallen off immediately after take off, before being retracted. Maybe they didn't know until someone found a wheel in/on their car?
Most discussion about this--also from an hour ago--is on a thread that has been rank penalized down to (currently) #343 on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691808
Because you can introduce pests and invasive species that wipe out entire ecosystems.

See, for example, emerald ash borers.