skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, electricity prices are political when you include disabling existing fission plants that are very cheap to operate (most of the cost comes from building them). Germany also has heavily subsidized renewable energy, but electricity prices are nonetheless so high that some major industry actually left the country.
I don’t see free software as anti-capitalist. When the FSF got started they sold tapes of free software, prior to that Stallman did that himself to make money. The FSF kept doing it until it was impractical but a good way for companies to make a donation and receive something practical in return. The tapes also came with printed manuals and tshirts.
Apartheid South Africa also had the Tricameral Parliament[1] which gave “Coloured” and Indian people a minority seats at the legislator. Off course this type of representation was only performative and the only purpose was to give the appearance of democracy. Notable here—since we are now comparing the rights of victims of different apartheid systems—is the tiered system of giving separate peoples varying levels of—still performative—representation.

In Israel, Palestinians with Israeli citizenship (including Bedouin) do have a minority representation at their legislator, however Palestinians in the West Bank don’t, while Palestinians in Gaza effectively live in an unrecognized (and constantly terrorized) bantustan.

The systems of apartheid which Israel upholds are in many ways worse than South Africa’s (and in every way worse than Pre-civil rights USA). But in most way’s it is simply different. Which is kind of why we really shouldn’t be ranking apartheid systems (nor any form of oppression for that matter).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricameral_Parliament
I am trying to figure out how hashes being used as indices and password storage has anything to do with the storage and encryption of bulk data at rest. Can you elaborate?

Edit: I see you aren't actually encrypting it. So you are as the post said, just throwing away the keys (in a sense). You are talking about storing and indexing metadata.
> “They made the point for us,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R., Fla.), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said in an interview Friday. “They hurt themselves pretty tremendously by doing what they did in targeting members of Congress and using content creators and users of the app as foot soldiers” of the Chinese government, she said.

The pressure campaign puzzles me. I wonder how anyone at the firm could have seriously imagined such a naked and all-out assault would help their case. Are there layers of strategy that I’m missing here?

And, for the fine folks here who know much more than I do about the business side of things—is divestiture really that bad of an outcome for the parent company? What’s lost other than potential upside in the future—and isn’t that potential priced in? Or is the issue that it’s a forced sale against a known deadline, so they may not be able to drive as good of a bargain as they might otherwise?
How does this relate to synthetic data?
if this were true, why do the pharmacy rules vary considerably among different countries. In the US the rules are very strict. In Europe moderate and in Mexico very lenient.

Every time you try to change a medical policy the threat is "you'll kill grandma". the fact is that grandma's care is awful and we need radical changes.
CMOS sensor Inventor Eric Fossum on space travel and metaphysical photons
I loved the writing style of old travel books and this really brings that back.
How disappointing. Today it's all polyester, polyester and more stinky polyester. Tomorrow the washing machine has it ground to dust already, forever. Lucky us, this single-use dress is of bespoke fit!
Fair question.

> But for the service to start it needs to get a request (via lambda invocation).

A service can also start by manually `.invoke`-ing the lambda.

The control-plane will start the lambda function when there's work. Lambda "asks" for work to do. Once work has finished, lambda function exits.

When deploying, we start the lambda function once so it can come out for air and advertise itself to the control-plane.

This is an affordance we do only do for lambda, and currently in development with our deployment offering here [1]

[1] https://github.com/differentialhq/differential/blob/236ffc53...
This seems to contradict precedent where it's been ruled that IP addresses cannot be proof of identity. It's exactly the same mechanism at work here: activity tied to some opaque numeric identifier is not evidence that a specific person is the party responsible for said activity.

I don't expect the law to at all times be perfectly consistent, but this seems to be a pretty blatant contradiction.
But everyone in that space would immediately understand that STM64 are 64 bit designs from the same company, no?

Still seems very strange to label 64-bit processors STM32...
It never was a privacy battle. Germany has the "Panoramafreiheit" (freedom of panorama) defined in https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__59.html, and that allows to do just what Street View does.

Other services offer very similar images (e.g. https://www.mapillary.com/app/?pKey=305780994287217, also Apple Maps as shown in https://www.androidpolice.com/apple-google-street-view-germa...) and nobody cared.

This was about Google, and it was at a time where the large German publishers tried to monetize Google Search linking to them (again not caring much about anybody else doing the same kind of indexing and linking), and the Street View frenzy was to a large part a media campaign. My pet theory is that they tried to reign in on the advertising competition.
Sorry for the potentially insensitive question, but I really am wondering about this:

>One side effect I should mention: many report extreme anxiety. However, I was starting an anxiety medication for the first time (something I should have done 20 years ago, but alas ...) and so those effects were muted or hidden to me.

I would have imagined that most people with CF already had extreme anxiety - wondering when the infection that is going to end one's life will arrive. Is it really possible that Trikafta is causing noticeably worse anxiety?
This would be true if research funding weren't a zero-sum game. Every dollar spent developing and marketing a drug that doesn't help is a dollar another research team needs badly but doesn't get.
This could be insanely useful for me. Thank you! It means I could have a private monitoring approach that send myself a message on events I want notifications on? I didn’t even know iMessage allowed sending a self message.
Looks nice. https://asciiflow.com/ is a web-based alternative that's been my go-to for a decade.
Apple insisted on it. I forget their reasoning but they were basically boycotting webcomponents entirely. Adding a closed mode was a consession to make WebComponents happen.

The idea of strong encapsulation & isolation is one of those permissive vs authoritarian things that crops up again and again and again in software. Some people see disorder & chaos encroaching everywhere & control & absolutes are their guiding principles. I take a dim view of closed.
I see it as 'I can try this business idea, secure in the knowledge that if it fails I won't go hungry'. Even in the post scarcity Federation in Star Trek people want to do work that is both fulfilling and valuable.
https://archive.ph/RuNsQ
Privacy-respecting software alternatives, compared and analyzed
> Use the model to generate some AI output. Then use that output to train a new instance of the model and use the resulting output to train a third version, and so forth. With each iteration, errors build atop one another. The 10th model, prompted to write about historical English architecture, spews out gibberish about jackrabbits.

That this happens doesn't surprise me, but I'd love to see a curve of how each organic vs machine content mixe ratio results in model collapse over N generations.
I wouldn't necessarily say that it isn't anti-capitalist. Free software is perfectly compatible with a free market but the ethos of free software is pretty anti capitalist.
That link denies the title claim.
That makes sense! I wish I saw this on their MCU line... (Although you can thread a tiny trace between the balls depending on manufacturer, I don't like it!
> Do you take external DDR RAM on an application-class ARM core? You're an MPU.

The actual difference IMHO is the existence of an MMU. (Which is, fdpic/linux-nommu efforts notwithstanding, the general "Linux" condition.)

(Ex.: the SOPHGO SG2000 RISC-V chip comes with integrated DDR3 RAM, but is still solidly an MPU. I believe there are some ARM Cortex-A with integrated RAM too, can't think of any off the top of my head. [Ed.: nevermind, the SG2000 is dual RISC-V/ARM])
It's really not a company (at least not yet).

We've been a bunch of devs hacking together on this for a few months (~6). And we definitely haven't had the blessing (or the curse) of ZIRP.
Batteries are hardly getting cheaper anymore. See https://www.energy-storage.news/lithium-battery-pack-prices-...

The allegedly low cost of solar energy comes from ignoring battery cost. And the relatively high cost of fission comes largely from overregulation.
We used to use the BCD opcodes for this kind of thing. Masking off the 0x30, shift digits (if you want packed BCD)

I can't imagine that has been efficient for decades tho
Every culture has its rituals, traditions, and indeed quirks. The preservation of history in each culture seems to be universally consistent.

What I find interesting is that often this is respected when observing other cultures from the outside, but when it comes to our own culture, or a very familiar one, it can often be dismissed or taken for granted.

I suppose some might find it silly, but when it comes to culture and identity I think this stuff is quite symbolic of what is considered important and much more positive and thoughtful than what you might assume from current affairs and politics. A few hundred years later and this will simply be part of the fabric of the long history of the island.
ChatGPT and Tone: Avoid Sounding Like a Robot
Ask HN: What engineering metrics help you do your job better?
it feels like products out there create engineering metrics that are actually not useful and maybe even harmful to devs. which ones actually help you?
What? It didn’t get approved. It failed Phase III as designed.
OMG this is one of my favorite tools paid for it all the way back when it went out. Have used it so many times just to write documentation for things like:

https://github.com/ivank/potygen/blob/main/packages/potygen/...

ASCII is just so versatile and allows you to put nice graphics in places where one does not expect, making things more easily understandable.
The main requests have been for:

- Plaintext format (in progress)
- Dark mode support for the main canvas (in progress)
- Auto/Dynamic Layout
- Table support
- ANSI export
I think it’s to do with focal length relative to the object - the length of the camera and size of the aperture relative to the size of the subject. Less about the cost of the lens, and more about its diameter and the camera’s length, I think? Macro lenses are often long and skinny (but yes, expensive)

The tilt lens gives you a plane of focus that is not parallel to the lens, which can mimic the narrow depth of field of a truly enormous camera, or (more convincingly, a tiny subject)

The “shift” part is a separate movement axis (parallel) and corrects perspective, giving straight lines instead of a vanishing point.

But I have no real idea what I’m talking about, so I hope some optics expert chimes in and explains it — maybe even with a diagram if we’re lucky. Optics are neat.
Did the IDF punish that soldier they same way they would have punished a Palestinian doing the same thing to Jews? If not, then it wasn’t just the action of one soldier it was a policy of the Israeli government.
Majority of projects, does not mean majority of code. Big projects have large numbers of contributors and far more code. The linux kernel is one project, a few lines of code might be one project too.

The anti-capitalist bit is not true. All the major open source licenses allow commercial use. Open source (especially copyleft) is encourages free markets because it makes it harder to erect barrier to entry or lock customers in.

I do not get why it is pernicious for employers to look at open source contributions either.
You'd think we'd be concerned about it poisoning the culture, well before any concerns that it would start to interfere with the rich continuing to be able to profit from it doing so.
I can't see what new jobs would be created, especially high value ones. It seems like AI creates a race to the bottom for the labor force and its economic impacts will be unevenly distributed
Not in this case. The onboard processing of data from the sensor suites was a Beowulf-style cluster of mobile phone ARM systems. All the computing hardware was carefully selected and engineered to be extremely frugal with power.

Which is why I found it ironic that the software architecture was done in an overtly wasteful "throw hardware at it" style. Some basic attention to software performance engineering could have increased efficiency by an integer factor. It was quite the contradiction.
monodraw has been one of my favorite diagramming tools, but never seemed to be popular with the folks i worked with.
Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows why.
> buying an Italianate mansion downtown and a sprawling ranch just under an hour west.

TIL that Italianate means "Italian in character or appearance".
This. Boats are expensive. Operating them is expensive. Keeping the corrosion off the bottom is expensive. Military/Public Sector funds help cover those costs plus the R&D to build new ones. Luxury market is pretty saturated with cat/tri designs and solar paneled everything because they want to live on it.
Was it called once, multiple times, did a network split happened, was it a timeout, is the server side idempotent, was the operator actually performed and only the reply lost, only took too long due to heavy traffic,....?
I don't know and don't really care. It's about giving people the option, not forcing them to buy it.
They explain it this way: "where the order of insertion doesn't alter the state of the tree. The same ordered set of keys will yield the same tree."
Moderns tend to focus on mechanics and abstractions, leading to a focus on the heart and the head/brain. We denigrate emotions and try to ignore them, but if we attend to them we notice that they primarily arise, or are felt, in the gut.

Ancients, without all the distractions and knowledge we have now, might have been much more attuned to their emotions. They’d likely need to be in order to survive by following intuitions and responding to low-level feelings of fear.

This alone would be reason enough for hepatocentrism.

That reasoning would only be bolstered by knowledge of the liver’s regenerative abilities, its high-desirability to meat-eating predators, its size and weight, its mysterious structural homogeneity (at a macroscopic level), and its visible response (upon inspection) to a life of health or sickness and abuse.
How do they make them respond quickly enough? ChatGPT often takes 30 seconds or so to answer anything, which would kill verbal communication.
You just have to get the wired version if you expect to go through tunnels.
That meaning of unique doesn't have anything to do with the conversation at hand.
> It appears her death is under criminal investigation, so I presume they’re investigating the possibility that the rearview camera glitch was intentionally exploited.

Unless it was the neighbor who detailed her call at the time who exploited it and then invented the narrative of the call to cover it up, that particular exploit being responsible for the incident seems unlikely, since it is inconsistent with the description of the incident that the neighbor detailed her recounting (that she made a mistake she had made before with the gearshift and put the car in reverse instead of drive while making a three-point turn, and then the car zipped backward over the embankment and into the pond.)
It depends on the mass of the block and the relative velocities of both (and thus impact velocity). Which means the effect ranges from *plink* to *kablamo*. In some cases even *kablorch* as both are converted to plasma.
Progress is most certainly not "inevitable." It takes intelligence, creativity, and hard work to bring about. Sometimes people try to stop it for selfish reasons. Usually those people can be persuaded to back down peacefully, but sometimes they can't. In those cases, force is necessary. That's what government is for.

The trick, of course, is to come up with a government that can be trusted to put down Luddite uprisings and the like without going full Soviet with progressive-sounding concepts like central planning, gulags, and collective farms.

It all comes down to the problem of defining just what "progress" means. But in general, when a society can feed, clothe, and shelter more people with fewer resources, that's a good indication that things are moving in the right direction. And that's where technology comes in. Maybe there's a better way forward, but the Luddites were sure as fuck not going to find it.
A license wouldn't stop the unscrupulous people, they'll keep making clones of it and ignoring the license.

This means I have to start chasing any clones, engage legally and try to take them down. It's just not worth the time - I would rather spend the time on improving Monodraw instead.
She put the Tesla in reverse by mistake and backed into a pond.
The BCD instructions are one of the few things that was dropped in the x86-64 transition, so it wouldn't work at all anymore.
I've used this in the past and enjoyed it. My one complaint, if I recall, is that you have to use its own built in file format to maintain all the cool features like anchors and resizable boxes and stuff. You can't just point at at an ASCII drawing in a markdown document and get all the functionality for free. I suspect if someone really wanted to they could crack that through clever algorithms and LLMs - and I've extensively used the latter to work on first drafts of ASCII diagrams to some success. But I've never found a good balance of maintainability (i.e. a box is a box and I can move it and have its connections follow it around) and portability (everything really is just pure text). If I'm wrong about recent versions of Monodraw or something else achieves this I'm all ears! I certainly had more success with Monodraw than artist mode in Emacs, at least.
One of the authors here.

Completely agree. To be honest, we didn't intend to have this many eyes on the product as we're still iterating (both the abstraction and the copy).

We've gone through a lot of iterations on the copy itself, and I agree that there might be a better framing here which works.
Those corners look like Unicode block chars.
Good observability on operational metrics, as much automation as possible, clear processes and playbooks for escalations.

Most engineering orgs I’ve seen require Eng oncalls. The perspective above is a simple non expensive way to minimize time investigations eg 5% movement of a metric. Teams spend lots of time asking “is this a real world effect, if so, should we be worried?”
I’d like to read about Downpour but website is not very mobile friendly. Landscape is a little better
That just changes who is to "blame", and the submitter appears to be American, based on the link in his profile, so it also makes no difference to the original issue.
That is how exceptions always work in these sort of languages. I think it's one of the reasons exceptions suck as an error mechanism (checked exceptions are the "answer" but hardly anyone uses those - so few in C++ that they were removed from the language!), but it isn't a new problem introduced by this framework.

In any case Typescript doesn't have checked exceptions so you're pretty much stuck with "any error can happen anywhere" in Typescript whether you use this framework or not.
> I think your main problem here is the false dichotomy you see with "work backwards from data to solve the constraints" and "this doesn't validate it in any way". In fact, in the world of theories, fitting the data, is a pretty fucking great validation hahaha! :) But I do get the sense you are expressing about the futility, which I think is real, but just not the whole picture.

I think your main problem is that you only read half of the comment you responded to.

It has two parts:

> There's something distinctly unsatisfying about this sort of paper, because the number of potential solutions to the problem they're trying to solve is in principle vast, and you can arrive at any number of them if you laboriously work backwards and fit your equations to the data.

Which you've adequately responded to. But it also has:

> Without very rigorous efforts towards empirical validation, in novel ways if required, this sort of thing is just another wholly speculative theory to add to the large and growing pile.

Which you haven't.

Taken together, the parts are obviously talking about a class of theory that is fit to data AND does not bother checking the theory against other data or making predictions in reality.

Your examples of theories that evolve don't seem relevant, as they're evolving because people made efforts to test the theory out and account for unexpected results (or, at the very least, look at datasets that weren't the ones that the theory was specifically designed to account for).
>This is a common idiom when working with generators, since iteration is controlled on the consuming side.

I realize that, and it's why I (and most) have avoided the syntax entirely. Generators today feel more like a vestigial appendix to the language; an aborted branch of development, than anything I'd ever use or suggest.
That’s fine, but most modern tooling “automates” this for you and gives you easy tooling to manage versions as well.

Additionally, you get a nice list in a simple spot of exactly what you need that isn’t just documentation. Anyone can easily pull your project and contribute.

Being able to easily manage deps has issues (such as a tendency to trend toward left-pad), but there’s also significant benefits as well that become readily apparent when you compare cargo with CMake (I understand they’re not completely comparable)
Ceremony of the Constable’s Dues: https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/whats-on/the-constabl...
DORA
This (and the linked docs) might help understanding how it works: https://docs.differential.dev/getting-started/thinking/
> This kind of failure seems relatively benign.

You saw the price? $158k per year list price, though it is implied people probably paid less.
I just built it this morning! I was planning to use it to send myself reminders.