skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was too distracted with all the other things going on under his watch. He spent too much time trying to convince rank and file that it's OK to do business with customers they don't like, trying to ensure arbitrary hiring goals were made, and appeasing the internal activists that led protests and pressured to exit people that didn't fall in line.

This is why the CEO of Coinbase sent the memo a few years back stating that these types of people (not mission focused, self absorbed, and distracting) should leave the company. The CEO of Google should be fired.
I wonder if large-scale cloud seeding could have the effect of taking rain from places that would otherwise get it?
From the fine article:

> Now for the second point, both DiT and Sora replace the commonly-used U-Net architecture with a vanilla Transformer architecture. This matters because the authors of the DiT paper observe that using Transformers leads to predictable scaling: As you apply more training compute (either by training the model for longer or making the model larger, or both), you obtain better performance. The Sora technical report notes the same but for videos and includes a useful illustration.

> This scaling behavior, which can be quantified by so-called scaling laws, is an important property and it has been studied before in the context of Large Language Models (LLMs) and for autoregressive models on other modalities. The ability to apply scale to obtain better models was one of the key drivers behind the rapid progress on LLMs. Since the same property exists for image and video generation, we should expect the same scaling recipe to work here, too.
I agree that OP's assertion sounds dubious (especially considering the entire supply chain) but calories are a measure of energy, not CO2. You need to know the rate of CO2 emitted per kcal.
We probably are all familiar with the Fermi Paradox, but Issac Arther noticed it has a very interesting implication: Claiming that an alien probe has visited the earth is NOT an extraordinary claim.

Under very weak assumptions (basically that an intelligent race would have the desire and ability to explore the galaxy via self-reproducing probes) the galaxy should be crawling with such probes. Even at sublight speeds---and even if probes were only sent between stars when the stars naturally moved closer than a light year from each other just from their orbital movements around the galaxy--in a few million years the probes would be ubiquitous.

What is extraordinary is the negative evidence we get from not observing these probes. It means that there has never been even one intelligent species who had the technology and desire to explore the galaxy. Or even that there wasn't a small minority of them who wanted too--or even one Elon-Musk-esque individual who wanted to.

Given that we can almost do this ourselves (heck, if our own Elon Musk tried, I wouldn't bet against him succeeding) Avi Loeb's hypothesis that one of these probes might have hit the earth isn't an extraordinary hypothesis at all. We should expect to find these probes, and maybe we haven't found them yet because nobody has bothered to look for them.
1995 would have been a sensible time for them to pivot to digital. 1975 would not.
Strategic self-anticonformity is the technical term for reverse psychology.

By making raising VC seem specific and exclusive, they make it seem high-value and make people want it more.

It is telling people that the object at the top end of the price sheet is not really for them, vs saying “yes, everyone should buy this.” The former increases interest, the latter increases suspicion.
> In the 80s, they [Kodak] owned the whole photography market,

No, they shared it with Fujifilm (1/3rd each in 1990 according to https://pdgciv.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/tfinnerty2.pdf). And essentially via film, film processing but no significant camera market share, which is likely far more relevant to the transition to digital.
Intel is still top dog: ships 3x more CPUs than AMD and Apple combined
1. Deanonymize users
2. ???
3. Profit

I literally can't figure out what step 2 is supposed to be there, I guess this is why people go get MBAs in order to understand 5D chess moves like this.
> the weight moves even if there is no 'ground' (say at altitude) in the same predictable fashion

"Moves" is frame-dependent. In the weight's own rest frame, it is the Earth that moves.

What is not frame-dependent is the fact that, if there is no ground and the weight (wrong word, as we'll see in a moment) is freely falling, there is no "weight"--the object feels no force and an accelerometer attached to it reads zero. This was the basic insight that started Einstein on the road to curved spacetime and General Relativity: if an object falls freely, it will not feel its own weight.

> how do you model/name/account for that force which causes that to occur?

Using the word "force" here is already wrong as far as General Relativity is concerned: in General Relativity gravity is not a force.

> a rocket doesn't just 'push' either. We can clearly model the chemical and physics behaviors going on there to generate that 'push', and all involve forces which we can account for. None of them meaningfully appear to be gravity.

Yes, exactly. Now apply the same principle to the Earth pushing up on the weight. We can clearly model all of the microscopic behaviors that lead to that push and the forces that account for them--and none of them are gravity.

> gravity also involve forces (spacetime distortions causing very real effects!)

The "spacetime distortions" you refer to, which do indeed cause real effects, are not "forces". That's the whole point. They are spacetime geometry. Spacetime geometry is not a force. That is what General Relativity says.

> what are you even talking about?

I am talking about standard General Relativity, as it has been understood and taught in textbooks for decades now. What are you talking about?
> Consumer goods are quite cheap thought, all things considered.

New York Federal Reserve Bank President William Dudley was famously heckled for this point.

> Dudley said said that while food prices may be rising, the cost of some other goods are going down, which evens out the overall inflation picture. The Fed's inflation estimates do not take into account volatile energy or food prices. The crowd was not impressed:

> "Today you can buy an iPad 2 that costs the same as an iPad 1 that is twice as powerful," he said referring to Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) latest handheld tablet computer hitting stories on Friday.

> "You have to look at the prices of all things," he said.

> This prompted guffaws and widespread murmuring from the audience, with one audience member calling the comment "tone deaf."

> "I can't eat an iPad," another quipped.

https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/11/us-usa-fed-dudley...

https://news.yahoo.com/news/blogs/lookout/fed-official-heckl...
While I agree with your point that knowing things matters, it is entirely possible with the current batch of LLMs to get to an answer you don't know much about. It's actually one of the few things they do reliably well.

You start with what you do know, asking leading questions and being clear about what you don't, and you build towards deeper and deeper terminology until you get to the point where there are docs to read (because you still can't trust them to get the specifics right).

I've done this on a number of projects with pretty astonishing results, building stuff that would otherwise be completely out of my wheelhouse.
Best send a bugreport to the btrfs mailing list at linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org.

If possible include the last kernel log entries before it corrupted. Include kernel version, drive model and drive firmware version.
My impression of the Yuzu team is that they didn't keep a very clean house. While the project didn't officially condone piracy, some members of the team were absolutely willing to help people run pirated games. Add to that the fact that they were emulating a current system, and that they ran a very successful Patreon to pay their team, and I think they eroded their plausible deniability down to nothing.

Consider that Nintendo leaves Dolphin more-or-less alone. I think Nintendo understands where emulation sits legally, and they went after Yuzu because of what was happening around the emulator, and not because of the emulator itself.
Anyone is welcome to pay a publication or an author (for books/magazines etc) in order to use their data for training. Companies are also welcome to request consent from individuals to use their online posts for this purpose.

Otherwise, what OpenAI/Gemini are doing is, simply put, "theft".
Less than 5% of households in Austria have air conditioning, vs 93% in Mississippi. Granted it gets hot and humid in Mississippi, but the average summer highs in Austria is a sometimes-muggy ~27C and it will probably get worse with climate change - heat waves up to 40C have already happened. I'll take the AC and the other conveniences the Americans have, though it would be nice to have the social atmosphere Austria has too. To a large degree, Austrian efficiency is just getting by with less than an American does.
> The problem is that people like this author are trying to literally treat it like a person instead of an LLM.

It's hard to blame them, though. The author and many others are using the LLM in exactly the way that they're told it should be used. You don't learn that this is wrong unless you're an LLM nerd.
Not an ideal analogy. A better analogy is "would you hire an electrician to do task XYZ?" Nothing stopping you from learning enough to do amateur electrician work -- but at a certain point, the risk to reward ratio becomes poor for most people and not a good investment. At a certain point, you're doing it to sate your curiosity -- not an invalid motivation by any means, but it's not necessarily driven by practicality.
Why modify the trust stores with the personal CA? Is there any risk to just publishing a globally valid wildcard cert for *.lcl.host, since it always resolves to 127.0.0.1 anyway?
Well, looks like it's the Wikipedia article on the paintings that's wrong, sorry about that! I'll try adding the 'Brueghel follower' painting to the list.
The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
Incidentally, Paul's advice is the best advice I heard for maximising your luck surface area. You know that saying: luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

I don't know anybody impoverished from trying to build something. Even if they failed, the lessons they learned and people they met in the process offered plenty of future opportunities.

On the other hand, I know plenty of people unhappy with their lot in life but who didn't try anything to improve it when they could. They like to complain a lot and impose their bitterness and skepticism on the young dreamers.

And our society needs many, many more dreamers. Because when they succeed, as seldom as it happens, we all end up better thanks to them.
Because people like to talk to each other sometimes.

And voice channels are a convenient feature people prefer rather than handling yet another tool with its own idiosyncrasies.

And voice is not enough, it also needs video and screen sharing. It all needs to be "free" (AKA someone else pay for it) too, or people will keep using Discord.

People should also be able to create their own servers without worrying about technical details, and again, without directly paying for it.

That's how high the bar is.
The killer feature of RStudio for me is RMarkdown.

I composed almost all my homeworks in grad school using RMarkdown in RStudio. You get LaTeX whenever you need it, code (I usually use it for R or Julia), and markdown for ordinary text. The kable function renders tables nicely from data frames and ggplot2 creates beautiful plots.

Mathematica and Jupyter have a few advantages, but overall I'm very happy with RStudio.
We built something similar for docker-compose based projects: https://gitlab.com/hukudo/ingress
I don't understand the downvotes. I honestly think what that is saying is true in a black and white way.

Grandparent says:
"get rid of all these complicated rent control and rent freezes and affordable housing scheme..."

I think this is fertile for discussion. Rent freezes didn't work in Argentina (extreme example), my opinion is they don't work anywhere. But oversupply does reduce prices, as happened with evergrande in China.

IMO interest in not having an oversupply bursting a bubble is precisely what parent is talking about.

Again, in a very absolute way of looking at life.
Open 3D Foundation Announces Madworld, Built on Open 3D Engine
> isolating daily transport systems where people tint their car windows so we can't even see each other.

You bring up a lot of good points, but why is this a bad thing?
My learnings from the book "A Philosophy of Software Design"
I recently read "A Philosophy of Software Design" 2nd Edition by Prof. John Ousterhout, and this is my review.
Another way to look at it is that concatenating files should sum the line count. Concatenating two empty files produces an empty file, so 0 + 0 = 0. If “incomplete lines” are not counted as lines, then the maths still works out. If they counted as lines, it would end up as 1 + 1 = 1.
Can't make any promises -- our dev team is pretty small! -- but it's been flagged for triage.
The purging has really picked up pace in the last couple of years, and I think a major highlight will be the upcoming cleansing of Place de la Concorde.
I think it depends on, as you suggested, the location one lives. I think it is safe to say that if one has a family and live in the North America, there are few places, if there is any, that you can live a comfortable life without cars.

I live in a city with advanced public transit system (of course, comparing to other NA apparently, not other continents). Theoretically, I can go around without much driving. But there are always moments that driving a car helps a lot. One example is going to Costco. A second example is to lay one's feet 50+ kms away from home. A third one is to go to a clinic whenever I would like.

Cars enable flexibility. I think it's pretty hard to convince people to drop it, UNLESS the culture completely changes. Culture change would bring economical and political changes as well -- but that's a multi-decade process. This is why, may I say, that a car free policy is practically impossible for most, if not every NA city.
Greater Paris has a 60-65% car ownership rate among households [1].

[1] https://www.ceicdata.com/en/france/motor-vehicle-ownership-p...
I think the ROI on college for CS people has changed significantly in the past few decades. Costs have gone way up while future value seems to be trending down (due to AI + proliferation of CS degrees).

Furthermore, my experience in industry has been that nobody cares about your school after your first job or internship.

So if I were you I'd eliminate options with any red-flags, choose the cheapest option that remains, and then work my tail off to extract as much value as possible (read Cal Newport's "How to Win at College" to start).
Yea I find this problematic:

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Among other things (like cloud for instance). I always think Sundar is the Steve Ballmer of Google.
I'm Begging the Courts to Stop Citing My Work on Bite Mark Identification
SocialStreamer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yk6MDpQZmU
https://sposync.com
- Free Live Streaming app for social streamers
- Your streaming IDs are shared or searched through google map
- Your streaming contents are presented through Contents Description
- Messenger feature is included
- Viewers or joiners could request video chat that can be shared among participants.
- This app works only under WiFi, however, a browser version - https://sposync.com or PWA provide full-fledged features such as recording, private session and working under LTE and 5G. This is also free but requires sign-up.
How can one be happy when they have 1/4 of net worth compare to their parents at the same age ?
Off the top of my head: Clicks/ Hype/Sharing/Reach.
It may not be the same for everybody, but I once tracked 6 months with normal mouse usage, 6 months without but a lot of shortcuts... Do you know how much time I saved? Roughly 2 hours.

I still use them and I do it without mouse whenever I can, mostly for everyday ergonomics, but I use the mouse when I really need to without thinking how I could do it without it. It’s important to take breaks too, longer-Pomodoro helps.

As with GenAI, I’m already doing documentation with it. I pass it some YAML file or my own previous documentation, ask it to generate an organized version, I review it and edit it, and that’s it. For writing unit tests it’s been really helpful in environments where there is no QuickCheck or something that generates tests.

Yes, it’s about using them efficiently, but we have to make sure it’s actually providing the positive impact we expected it to create.
LUKS and the associated systemd hook shouldn't care about the filesystem, right? It's just block layer

But presumably you meant native ZFS encryption, which unfortunately is considered to be somewhat experimental and neglected, as I understand. Which surprised me, since I thought data at rest encryption would be pretty important for an "enterprise" filesystem

Still, apparently lots of people successfully run ZFS on LUKS. It does mean you don't get zero-trust zfs send backups, but apparently that's where a lot of the bugs have been anyway
The more interesting thing to me is that only one of them went to an elite American undergrad (Duke). Rest went to undergrads in India, Ukraine, Germany, Canada (UToronto has a 43% acceptance rate).
The first time I met with Eric Schmidt he asked what I did (harvest idle cycles to do scientific calculations), and then we talked about how Google was slowly getting into cloud. I remember him saying "I've tried to convince the board that the cloud is the future of growth for google, but they aren't interested" (this was before GCS and GCE launched).

The second time I met him I presented my project (Google Cloud Genomics) to the board of the Broad Institute, of which he was a member (IIRC the chair) and he was excited that Google was using cloud to help biology.
> For your specific example

My specific example says that the bcachefs are "actively working towards fixing the raid56 write hole" as well—or rather, their way of doing things doesn't have one in the first place.
Hmm...the BBC is definitely not impartial. As a cursory examination of Laura Kusenberg's hit job on Jeremy Corbyn will show.

Also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64648164
Navy seals process still makes more sense than Google's.
Regex would really benefit from a comprehensive industrial standard. It's such a powerful tool that you have to keep relearning whenever you switch contexts.
I’m a bit surprised AMD hasn’t purchased tinygrad. Or funded or supported them. Or really made any serious move here.
Ethereum Foundation removes their canary
Ask HN: Which cryptocurrency wallet do you use?
Food inflation is also nowhere near what was seen in the 70s.
Spring blog: Hello, Java 22!
In theory yes, in practice no.

What you have gained is that the regex is now much easier to read.
I think the "LEGO tax" is as much about consistency as marketing inertia. With name-brand LEGO, you know what you're going to get quality-wise. Alternative brands can be unpredictable. I would know; I still have all my LEGO from when I was a kid, and since my family isn't made of money, a lot of them aren't actually LEGO.

Alternative brands can VERY hit-or-miss, and when you miss, you can end up with some truly atrocious pieces. When I was a kid, Mega Bloks was the most common LEGO alternative (in the US, at least), and all of those pieces are terrible. The colors are washed out compared to LEGO, the plates aren't as rigid, and some of the bricks are a mess of scratches and dents.

Consistency is even a problem within individual sets. I also had a couple of LEGO-compatible sets that were made by Hasbro in the mid-2000s, and the part quality is excellent. The pieces have held up really well over the years, and Hasbro's yellow pieces are indistinguishable from LEGO's yellow. Hasbro came correct... except for their wheels, which are the sort of hideous dirt-cheap abomination that even Mega Bloks never stooped to.

Some brands are awful. Some brands are great. Some brands (like Hasbro) somehow managed to put "awful" and "great" inside the very same box. A brand's quality may change wildly over time. Some brands come out with their own extensions to the LEGO "standard," and then never provide a complete system of compatible parts. Sticking to name-brand LEGO offers a much more predictable experience.
32 pages of legal details to induce solid sleep:
https://torrentfreak.com/images/cox-opinion.pdf

"We affirm the jury’s finding of willful contributory infringement. But we reverse the vicarious liability verdict and remand for a new trial on damages because Cox did not
profit from its subscribers’ acts of infringement, a legal prerequisite for vicarious liability."
> Why don't we afford the same respect to people that are less well off?

This has to be facetious. They're perfectly free to go live in the country or move to Italy. I've never seen a desirable apartment I couldn't afford and then thought to myself how much I'm being respected by not being able to live there.

And with regard to the last point, no one is suggesting this as a means to have some peasant zoo in the city, a city needs a labor force. If you price out everyone who isn't a dev or a financier then you're not going to have a lot of the things that make a city nice. To some degree this is a subsidy for employers, because otherwise they'd need to pay more for their employees to afford living nearby.
How has he been appeasing internal activists? He's been pretty clear about firing them

Edit: I'm also unclear on what makes you think he's spending much time on "arbitrary hiring goals". I remember an initiative for hiring in a wider variety, also conveniently much cheaper, locations but there wasn't indication he was personally spending time on it
>...leaving me to move to Yet Another Tool.

That's actually integral to the notetaking/productivity app market. Either the app soon dies out or you get bored with it and you move on to the next one.

Just like with self-help products. Targets of the self-help market are never intended to just read one or two books and get on with their lives. They're vulnerable to seemingly unending consumption of one self-help product after another. They're endlessly sold on regurgitated feel-good crap that keeps them coming back for more.

These productivity tools, like self-help books, become the ends in themselves, rather than the means.

I used to do the same thing with productivity & learning apps and systems. Kept procrastinating looking for that One Good Tool. I had this misconception that if I didn't have that one perfect notetaking tool or productivity app, then I'd be held back.

I ultimately realized that what was really holding me back was myself.

I eliminated my dependency on The One Perfect Tool, I replaced that dependency with more practical action, lightly supported by simple pen & paper and plain text files, and now I'm more productive and more learned than ever.
It would have to, unless you also consciously increase the rate of evaporation at the same time. Could be bad news for countries with arid neighbors to their direct west.