skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you do the right "step-up" programs and purchasable housing becomes extremely cheap around the country, it will solve itself. There are a lot of homeless people in Oakland that if found out they can buy a house in Kentucky and afford it with a restaurant dish-cleaning job, they would move. Stop treating the homeless as "shippable containers" they have agency.
Not really a good question. It could be interpreted as asking how many books you have left to read.

It’s also rather poor grammar without a ‘do’, “how many do I have now”.
Tangential, but was there ever some form of fibre or telephony connection for news crews in 1990s? Microwave trucks excluded.

I ask this because I swear, as a kid, I’ve seen a cameramen open up a telecom/telephone box and connect something to it. I assumed it was for an uplink back to the station to transmit video.
Why is it worse for me to have Tiktok installed on my phone than Google Chrome or Facebook?
anybody have diagrams of this engine?

Picture
https://roarington.com/media-house/directories/cars/doble_e_...

This video opens the hood, and shows cross sections of engine. And is technical focus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtqVvS8iP9w

This Jay Leno video is actually good.
Has cutaway of the engine to show the moving parts.

https://youtu.be/rUg_ukBwsyo?t=701
European lawmakers rubber-stamp EU's AI rulebook
I really wonder what he means by low expectations as a billionaire? I'm guessing it's drastically different than the 70 year olds I know working retail jobs so they don't die from poverty.
The point is he's NOT saying how to get rich...that high expectations aren't a dependable strategy. I took it as he's acknowledging luck happens.
There is no "since 2022"--they have performed at relatively the same level to date. They just are not perfect and are unlikely to prevent the kind of non-symptomatic exposures people have, but in most cases, they are good to quickly differentiate a random sore throat from a COVID-related one.
sure, when your gut is intact and you've got a diverse microbiome.

here's a list of stuff that's in/on food nowadays, you're probably an outlier if your gut is undamaged at 40

Herbicides
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/high-rates-of-sui...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383739 Chlormequat in food and urine from adults in the United States from 2017 to 2023

Rodenticides

Fungicides

Insecticides

https://usrtk.org/pesticides/chlorpyrifos/

- Chlorpyrifos: Pesticide tied to brain damage in children - banned in EU in 2020, the EU imports from countries that use it, some in some US-states it's still legal, in some it's banned.

nematicides

Ripening agents https://extension.umd.edu/resource/ethylene-and-regulation-f...

https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/ethylene-propylene-glycol/toxicological_effects.html

from the atsdr article: ethylene glycol can be converted into oxolate, which is an Anti Nutrient that binds to calcium

Mould in rice an peanuts, see Page9 of this PDF, it's from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations homepage

https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/agns/pdf/CXS_193e....
So, is this getting incentives right?

Not really, IMO. Even when users select moderation, they should be able to transiently unselect moderation features to get the unfiltered view - to take off the glasses at any time. Otherwise, moderation can devolve to censorship in ideological contexts, and BlueSky becomes a friend to those herding opinion.

Even if users can take off their glasses, moderation will likely still suppress production of content. (Why speak if no one's listening?) But by enabling users to experiment with turning off moderation, each user will always be able to assess whether the moderation is supportive or censoring. That in turn can temper the moderators to be reasonable, since their moderation is easily discoverable and measurable.

I think this is good for groups, too. If group-wide moderation rules are definitive and users cannot peek through them, then moderation itself is a powerful position, and you'll get the usual leadership contests as people game to manage opinion. If moderation instead is weakened by being ever-consensual, there will be less gaming to control opinion.

It's better for groups to manage themselves through membership. It may be hard to get in, but once in, your voice is hearable by all, moderation notwithstanding. So weak moderation also makes group membership more valuable, which in turns makes it easier to have the conditions of entry that can help people trust each other. (Making those conditions observable and consistently applied is another question.)
I think that construction timber benefit as a Carbon sequester is too often downplayed or simply ignored while it could be significant.

Timber has many advantages compared to concrete, including longevity.

The housing shortage won’t last forever thanks to demography, but we’ll need to replace many badly aging buildings anyway, and it takes time to grow trees and build the whole infrastructure around this construction technique, we should try to not sit and wait for a change.
Meh. People still do athletics competitions even though cars exist and can outpace any human. Weightlifting is also still a thing even though even an entry-level forklift beats any human weightlifter. Chess is more popular than ever before, even though nobody has any hope of beating a computer anymore.

Out of all the fields that human do professionally, sports will be one of the last ones to disappear. The fact that it is (unaugmented) humans competing is the entire point.
Homeless people are largely homeless because of other life circumstances (drug addiction, mental illness), not affordability.
Would be interesting to know if there is any data regarding the degree of cooperation between hostile countries. If I use two VPNs from countries who hate each other am I completely untrackable?
Didn't they already, in effect, DDOS the congress telephone system?
I would hire whoever is the personal trainer of top celebrities (at the least the ones who look healthy)
There have to be more than 80k in the US. Maybe they're just counting mature large trees? The groves are full of saplings and "teenagers".
Are there any solid numbers on this, or is it the old “durhh young people lazy” again? Surely every word uttered by a billionaire would be wrought with survivorship bias.

You’re more likely to succeed in life if you have a “low resilience pampered degree” than not. I haven’t seen evidence that all the “resilient hard workers” out there automatically turn billionaires given enough time, huffing and puffing.
The undersupply of 3 bedrooms is real, in many neighborhoods in my city you just can't find them. Anecdotally, the lack of 3-4 bedroom apartments has been the major driver of couples I know, who were aiming to start families and who would otherwise love to stay in my city, leaving the city for the suburbs. 3-4 bedroom units are also popular with younger folk, who are often happy to have roommates, and share amenities in exchange for lower rent.
A human is not a bot. In addition to being dehumanizing, it removes agency to say that.
Was luck involved? To some degree I guess. But come on, to say it’s pure luck, is that credible?
The compute and delay isn't worth it at all. Especially when you can disable rendering and keep compute pretty minimal. We're talking about reading a list of entities, moving towards them and casting a few spells vs a whole AI. Exponentially less compute, for better performance. Let alone the extra data the bot sees from the entity list vs the ai operating on visuals. Bots also make money by operating on a scale. And costs from ai would outweigh the already slim profit margins for each bot.
I think it should be stricter, focused on startups, technology, and related topics. General business news? Whats next - general political news?
> The solution is terrifyingly simple: don't allow existing residents to block new housing developments. If they don't like it, they can move.

I think that most jurisdictions already have the legal tools they need to put the public good in front of special interest groups, in the form of eminent domain laws.

It's just that the policial will is just not there.
You dont have to go to Stanford to get a decent job, or even work for Nvidia.

You dont have to go to a top tier school, or even college at all to be a working (and decent) engineer.

Going to Stanford and taking on gobs of debt is absolutely a choice you make, I agree with you about discharging college debt, and whatnot, but some of this is based on choices individuals make.
>Randomly offensive passphrases aren't really a problem.

They are absolutely a problem from a business perspective.

>how offended can you be? I mean, seriously?

Have you never worked in a customer-facing position? Customers get offended all the time.

I mean, it's not really anyone's place to decide what is or isn't offensive to someone else. But even if a customer isn't actually offended, they may feign offense for purposes like discounts, preferential treatment, rage-baiting for internet points, etc.

All of those scenarios suck for the lowly tier 1 customer service employee who has to deal with it, and sucks for the company.

Much easier for everyone (customer, company, and the poor person who is actually dealing with the customer) to just... not send offensive passphrases.
Fair point. If you want wide spans with fewer supports.
Side note, but the Sugi tree of Japan is perhaps the most similar tree to the Sequoia in terms of appearance.
Yeah, I'd think twice before wiring 1.2k to someone named "simp 4 satoshi" for a product that currently almost exclusively consists of renders.

EDIT: Oh and the brew install command points to Truffle, the ethereum dev evnvironment, which has no relation to the product: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/truffle
The problem is that NVidia is a single company participating with multiple interdependent markets. They are participating with the market of hardware specification, and they are participating in the market of driver implementation, and they are participating in the market of userland software. This is called "vertical integration".

Because of copyright, NVidia gets an explicit government-enforced monopoly over the driver implementation market. Sure, 3rd-party projects like nouveau get to "compete", but NVidia is given free reign to cripple that competition, simply by refusing to share necessary hardware (and firmware) specs; and also by compelling experienced engineers (anyone who works on NVidia's driver implementation) to sign NDAs, legally enforcing the secrecy of their specs.

On top of this, NVidia gets to be anti-competitive with the driver-compatibility of its userland software, including CUDA, GSync, DLSS, etc.

When a company's market participation is vertically integrated, that participation becomes anticompetitive. The only way we can resolve this problem is be dissolving the company into multiple market-specific companies.
Railroad deaths totaled 954 in 2022 [1]. Aviation fatalities the same year was 357 [2]. Also, 7,388 pedestrian deaths occurred in 2021.

[1] https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_inciden...
Man, I dunno, I tend to agree that Rushmore is his best (at the least, it has had the most influence on me), but I think it's a very close thing between it and The Royal Tannenbaums. (But after that there is certainly a large gap to the next best.)
Which doesn’t really make sense, as drinking ACV alone will definitely not result in a body recomp/the addition of muscle (every meat head lifter, myself included, would be drinking a few bottles a day in that case).
His beginnings were humble enough, so I'm not sure what your point is. I don't believe for a second that any of NVDA's success was handed to him or them - they effectively helped create and propagate a market for GPUs at a time when it was at best a niche.
I like the hckrnews.com interface. Just chronological, with the newest at the top, but with comment counts and an indicator for which are new since your last visit.
False. Every step you take is a risk reduction, there's no magical solution that completely removes risk unless you want to live in a completely sealed environment, and even then you need to exchange with the outside world. A 78 year old man with a serious health condition died of a common infection, this is normal and nothing to moralize about or throw around blame and shame.
Question is how much this is cherry-picked as we all remember the "demo" of Bard. It would be nice to see it thrown into some random environment and then asked to do stuff, otherwise this has little value aside from marketing.
If you believe that people generally are not dumb, and think rationally, and therefore cannot be influenced by falseful information, foreign propaganda then you wouldn't propose such law.
> Greatness comes from character and character isn’t formed out of smart people—it’s formed out of people who suffered.

Or 'Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them' -- Shakespeare

There are many paths to greatness. The article mentions a lot of hurdles and racism that he had to overcome. But those are specific to him. I'm sure there are plenty 'great' people who haven't suffered.

> One of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations.

I don't think people with low expectations start companies. Certainly those with low expectations don't rise and achieve greatness.

In essence, he is saying people should be resilient and try to persevere through hard times. The rest are just fluff to fill time.

But even with resilience and perseverance, you aren't guaranteed success. It also takes a bit of luck. Being at the right place at the right time. There isn't a magic formula to be successful. And there are only X number of billionaires the economy can suppport...
I'm not sure what he's saying exactly in the article, because it's paywalled. I'm just responding to my parent comment:

>He came from poor to the top and wasn’t passed a silver spoon, so he has enough qualifications to lecture.
TikTok has to adhere to the exact same laws as Facebook and Twitter, foreign ownership doesn't change that.

Adversarial to whom? Not me, I'm far more concerned about the US government who in this case is directly limiting my choices as a US citizen.
For me it’s because of this dirty concept called "privacy" and it’s the reason why insurers don’t have access to the list of items that I buy at the grocery store (also health records, name of sex partners, what I do all day long, whether I walk enough every day, etc.)
You got some points but hard work does put one in position to get lucky. By participating and choosing to work hard and focus on one thing over the other, you are taking risk and there is a reward to that risk and luck comes into play. So give both worked hard, and one got luckier and more rich it shouldn’t lower his status. If he was born rich, that would help your argument
Well, depends on the level of government you're talking about. If it is local, then if local homeowners (who are local voters) don't want the development, it is eminently 'democratic.'
No?

The point is: he's no more qualified than anyone else. Whatever he's saying is simply not reproducible and most certainly not what made him a billionaire. Otherwise we could all just replicate whatever any billionaire does and inevitably become one. That's not how it works though, is it?

It's easy to say it was hard work that got you there after you're the 1e-20% that made it.
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Split/join is also what I was talking about but storing the values in immutable temporary heap locations rather than in a common lockless queue.

If you have the memory and allocation speed, that can be much faster than a lockless queue (especially if that queue is under high contention). However, for a game and embedded system I'd imagine the impact on heap fragmentation would be a pretty significant reason not to do this.

For a GCed language, those heap allocations are fairly cheap, quiet a bit cheaper than what you pay for in a managed memory language (In GCed languages, the majority of memory allocations are 1 or 2 conditional checks with a pointer bump. It's very nearly the same speed as stack allocation).

When I was talking about mutable state (and my example is perhaps bad), I'm more talking about system or process wide mutable state.
"The house gotta breathe" is something you still hear people uncritically parroting, to the point where it's become a trope in net zero construction.
I remember walking around Switzerland a few summers ago and was surprised to see that most of the tallest trees in the towns and parks were non-native American trees.
Everyone's a skeptic these days.

I'm pretty confident that people will find ways to make fun and interesting games using them, just like they have with every other computer technology over the last 40 years.
I just want clean, repeatable environments for different projects. I’ve tried getting into Nix a few times but I always get overwhelmed by all the different things it is/does. This looks 100x simpler to me.
http://web.archive.org/web/20240313171530/https://fortune.co...
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You're making some extremely strong claims, with minimal evidence. I don't deny that the CIA can be pretty nasty to 2nd and 3rd world governments, but claiming the US is a "colonial overlord" over our European allies is just not true. The first priority of our European allies is domestic politics; just like us, everyone wants to get re-elected. Sometimes domestic politics push countries towards the US, sometimes they pull them away. Countries like Hungary and Turkey make diplomatic trouble for the US, and we don't launch coups against them. The US would love it if Germany built up a decent military, but Germany isn't because the political will just isn't there. Between the 60s and the 90s, France literally left NATO. Europe in general has been extremely slow to scale up artillery production to support Ukraine (the US has been better, although but not by much); if the US had as much power over Europe as you think we do, we would have just told Europe to up production and they would have. But this did not happen.
No, they did however increase engagement in democracy in a very dramatic fashion. More people making demands from their government is a good thing.
Regen has limitations in how quickly the power can be stored which limits the braking rate. Also, when the battery is fully charged there is no place to put the electricity which also limits regen braking.

Most EVs blend regen into the brakes so that when you press on the brake pedal it uses regen for normal braking down to about 10mph at which point the friction brakes take over. At low speeds regen is ineffective. That low speed use of friction brakes produces very little wear and very little particulate output.

Those EVs doing blending will also switch entirely to friction braking if you really stomp on the brake pedal in an emergency stop as you can stop more quickly than any regen system. In those cases the priority is stopping quickly regardless of energy efficiency or particulates.

I don’t see a likely hood that EVs will completely get rid of friction brakes using current/near term technology.
I don't think I fully understand the goal here. The post says "not many people know of Mikoto other than as "An open-source alternative to Discord", even though we've had many big features that differentiates us."

but then goes on to describe what looks like an alternative to Discord. What am I missing?
He didn’t really say that he expects to starve or anything like that, did he? I assumed that the framing of the article was something like this: doing business, technological development and working inside corporations. Not food security or life in general.
The tax filing system is being launched to a limited number of people in a limited number of states specifically to avoid these issues. They’re essentially smaller pilot programs aimed at the more simple tax cases, where they can learn and build on top of that.
Sure, by virtue of China's stricter regulation of social media. But for all intents and purposes, Douyin is TikTok in China. Or rather TikTok is Douyin in the rest of the world outside of China.
The Chinese/Soviet style of a tower in a park builds tall, but it doesn't actually tend to give more density than more US style dense areas with 3-5 stories mostly filling a block. With the Chinese approach you get better views, but with the US approach you get more walkable neighborhoods and I'll take the later.
The reason you don't understand why my claims are different from being just another solution with clocks and mutexes is because you haven't actually engaged with the essence of it. I'll give you a hint: the consistency mechanism is decoupled from collision resolution and that makes the consistency ledger both deterministic and inherently non-blocking. I don't want to go into more specific questions around the implementation, but I can tell you with certainty that we provide much better promises around progressing global state and sustained write-latency than anything else and our client-centric consistency guarantees local-only reads.

But this is about the solution, not the science. The science is basically unlimited, its only real restriction is around our budget.

If you want to understand how the client-centric consistency mechanism takes care of these things, I write about it on medium and Twitter all the time.

But again, I don't feel like you owe me your time or attention
Attention needs to be paid to foundational primitives that support a more elaborate architecture. An elaborate architecture built on low quality primitives lacks integrity. This integrity issues will need to be addressed one way or another. Better to have a feedback loop to improve these primitives.

Hardship is feedback to address these fundamental primitives to create integrity with the big picture. If someone builds a foundation on froth, don't be surprised when the foundation collapses. Entitlement does not provide value.
> If there is one industry that is the most resistant to change, it's the construction industry. There are still people who have been roofing for 50 years and refuse to change a single thing they do and learned 50 years ago.

I think your comment is misguided and lacks reflection. Change for the sake of change is never good because by definition there is no upside. Construction technology is also expected to be reliable and have long service life, and traditional techniques ensure that by the fact that the are tried and true.
The dish washer jobs pays less than minimum wage under the table, beacuse the government flew desperate people from the poorest part of the planet to town to compete with the existing dishwashers.
Pretty much every time I've used nvtop it has been while doing CUDA stuff, mostly to see if it was going to blow out the memory but also to spot check that the model is actually using the GPU. I've had times where it said it was using the GPU, but it only did so for the first part of the work and then dropped down to the CPU for the rest.
Coast redwoods have useful timber but Sequoias do not.
I think it's more about Chinese harvesting data.
What's being described isn't an eye for an eye, but tit for tat. And tit for tat is the norm for international relations and has been since time immemorial.

Usually it's relatively dull stuff, like if country A requires citizens of country B to have a visa to visit, country B will as a matter of course require citizens of country A to have visas to visit too.
Then we'll make new kinds of games where the unpredictability of the NPCs is a core mechanic.

Seriously, have you no imagination? Why sit around coming up with reasons it won't work instead of ways to make it fun?
I swear officer, I lost all of my old Hustler magazines in a boating accident!
That sounds exactly like what a bot would say!

;)