skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel sorry for any startups looking to innovate in this space. It's hard enough competing against established players without them getting billions in free money.

Intel has had the resources to build out fabs in the US for decades. Instead, they've chosen to build elsewhere, and now they're rewarded for it?

They recently announced their $20b facility in Ohio is being "put on hold":

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/96969/intel-delays-launch-of-...

While at nearly the same time announcing a $25b facility in Israel:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/26/tech/intel-israel-investment/...
https://web.archive.org/web/20220812015804/https://semianaly...
And again, as examples you provide two capital cities of two richest countries in the world - capital cities are rich, can easily afford building public infra and also population density is big enough to make public transportation almost profitable - but not everybody lives in a capital city.

https://lovetransit.substack.com/p/most-profitable-public-tr...
Poor Man's SRE
Prostitution and pornography are both far less destructive than other evils like religion. Let's start by banning those first.
In C++ it can be a module nowadays, which is similar to being a crate, yet it is faster, from my clang/vc++ experience.
I understand that using Postgres without WAL is quite fault-INtolerant (although considerably more performant). But what about the setups of YDB and CockroachDB, are they comparable to Postgres' setup in terms of fault tolerance?
Should land -- a scare, limited resource -- be a private or public asset? I believe you're coming at this from the former perspective. But, it's worthwhile to ask this question so that we can understand why it could make sense to give the public a say in how land is allocated and used.

Also, I'd like to point out that when you say:

> I tend to lean lefty, but this scheme makes me understand why libertarians want less government

It's quite easy to replace `government` with `a large private company` in your hypothetical:

> If ~government~ a large private company is counter offering all of my neighbors and they are accepting it, then I am screwed. I either accept the ~government~ large private company's counter offer or ~I go to tribunal who will cite all of the government's recent purchases from my neighbors to set the price at something very close to that anyways~

With, of course, the downside that there's no system-level recourse when the large private company uses its power to either:
- undercut your "market value" of your home and force you to sell
- or make living in your home terrible due to it successfully buying up and controlling all of the land _surrounding_ your home

Both lead to what you are saying you don't like -- some _external_ actor coming in and controlling "how much [your] home is worth."
Jupiter (ipynb) notebooks in vs code.
I think the "intent" to evolution is reproduction. Thus, it makes sense to look at these traits as chosen or adaptive to further this cause. Everything is based on reproducing a species, it's the only reason we know now of even the purpose of life. Everything else is superfluous or constructs towards that purpose. So yes, apparently there is intent to evolution. To live and produce offspring. Otherwise why are we so afraid to die and fight to live.
Agreed most countries don’t appreciate meat like Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. If everyone lived like us the planet would be a lot more healthy and enjoyable.

Ideally Europe would stop farming and restore its forests to an equal percentage of the land as Brazil. Sadly Europe has ignored the environment for millennia and is unwilling to change its ways.
The term ludite indicates that is nothing new.

IMHO this is not about tech being too good tho: it's about new tech being worse.
The poor get a chance but not a very good one.
See your sibling comment:

> A child answers the existentialist "why I'm here? what's the point?" question on a primal, fundamental level. The child needs you, your purpose is to care for it.

A child is not a distraction from something else, they become your entire purpose.
Culture is policy:

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized."

--Edward Bernays, Propoganda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)
Yeah, exactly. A lot goes into shipping, and sometimes things like this can be overlooked, especially on a small team that needs to deliver broad platform support right out of the gate.

There are some bugs that are just hard to find until they're out there.
I've tried to do the todo.txt thing but not being able to sketch or paste in photos or screenshots was a bit of a blocker. Apple Notes with the Pencil stylus is ideal for me right now.
RMarkdown in RStudio was the killer feature, until the VSCode R extension matured. Not only does it support RMarkdown, it adds a ton of features RStudio doesn't have and runs a lot faster. https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R/wiki/R-Markdown

For my uses, it replaced RStudio 100% of the time.
A little after that. I'd put the heyday between 2003-2010, starting with the GMail launch and ending with the Chrome & Android launches. That period includes GMail, Maps, Scholar, Orkut, Reader, the acquisitions of Blogger/YouTube/Docs/Sheets/Slides/Analytics/Android, Summer of Code, OAuth, Translate, Voice Search, search suggestions, universal search, Picasa, etc. Basically I can look at my phone or computer and basically everything I routinely use dates from that period.
That argument presumes that housing is consumed the same way it was 70 years ago, and that the location of the housing is irrelevant.

I know lots of places where there are empty, cheap houses. They're not close to any good jobs, the only Internet they have is 3G, and the schools suck because the county is poor (because no one wants to live there).

I also suspect housing consumption per-capita is up as people move out younger and marry later. Especially in population centers.

I'm not sure what they're pointing to as the reason for housing prices if it's not supply and demand.
That’s not the point of the chips act it’s to nearshore fabs.
This is an official announcement from the Department of Commerce that was made this morning.
Referencing the advancement of technology is doubly tone deaf, as tech points out the fundamental problem with the artificial inflation aspect of their mandate. If you had $3000 in the 1990's, you could buy a 33MHz 486 with a 14" CRT. Or you could have buried the money as cash under a rock, dug it out in 2024, and bought a desktop, laptop, tablet, and phone that each dwarfed the capabilities of the 486. Yet you would have been utterly stupid do the latter, considering all you would have missed out on. Technology is the glaring example that shows today's consumption does not depend on the threat of prices being higher tomorrow.

But sure, if one still wants to toe the party line that artificial inflation is necessary, that still doesn't justify all of the resulting newly created money having been given to the financial sector as low interest loans just to bid up an asset bubble and create a bunch of make-work white collar jobs shuffling the paperwork. That money could have instead been spent for deliberate purposes, like infrastructure and mitigating the societal damage from offshoring (yet another thing that would have caused natural deflation had it been allowed). But all that wealth was basically looted under the auspices of "fiscal responsibility", leaving Wall Street incredibly rich (and bloated), while continually turning the financial screws on Main Street.
The money afaik has to be used for actual manufacturing activities.
We have customers shipping full UI with Rive! Games have been adopting us (some cool AAA titles already in progress) and products too.
https://rive.app/game-ui
https://rive.app/blog/how-age-of-learning-uses-rive-to-a-b-t...
Please forgive my response being a little meta, but it bothers me that 95% of discussions where physics "experts" are clarifying something to laymen is those experts clarifying that some factor is actually well understood and makes complete sense and is firmly under the belt of the academic and research community if you just had the knowledge to understand why. Almost never through these same discussions is there acknowledgement or discussion of the unknowns, limitations, or unsolved problems. Judging from years of anecdotal exposure to these "clarifications for the laymen" one would assume absolutely nothing is unsolved in physics.
Official post from last week: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/up... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39731958)
Their momentum and influence on OEMs is massive.

While I'm not a mainstream user, and it's hard to wrap my head around choosing a hot, power hungry Intel chip over something from Apple or AMD, just walk into any store (or go to an online store) that sells laptops. 90% of your options will be powered by Intel. Most consumers are going to buy what's readily available. Most businesses (corporate, maybe not "tech") will continue to buy what they always have.
We install the CA certificates into the trust stores so that the certificates are trusted by your browsers and clients, otherwise they will (rightfully!) get connection errors. We also set the CAA records for all lcl.host subdomains to anchor.dev, so no public CA will issue certificates for *.lcl.host. The only valid certs for lcl.host subdomains you will encounter are for your account's CAs. If we gave everyone a cert+key for *.lcl.host, besides the security concerns, we'd have to keep redistributing them every ~45 days, but with lcl.host you can setup ACME to automatically renew certs before they expire.
RStudio and the R language are a couple of my absolute favorite pieces of software. While I'm a software engineer by trade, every once in a while I need to do some data analysis work and throwing together a notebook in RStudio always makes me feel like I'm using a cheat code. For simple tasks, everything is incredibly seamless, plus coworkers who are unfamiliar with R are usually impressed by how nice ggplot visualizations can look.
European lack of AC is mostly that they historically haven't needed it. It's not like they can't afford ACs. Also, 27C (80° in freedom units) as your normal peak temp is pretty firmly in "why bother with AC" territory.
Or that we already train humans on copyrighted data and then employ that human intelligence for commercial use.

You can argue that AI is a categorically different scale that requires special regulation to protect our societal values (and I think I do) but that is a different claim and implementation than copyright enforcement.
I just don't understand what the thing about "downloading everything as .gz" means. It's not like a gz is a rare file format, it seems like a totally reasonable format to download something in.
Israel investment might have gone through due to their research department in the same country. Also, they got a grant from the govt in Israel.
Which is often related - there's no way to batch delete your data, trying to do so with third-party tooling could get you banned, and once you're banned you can't delete it. In fact, you can't even delete messages from channels that an ordinary user has kicked you out of. And IIRC banned accounts still have unique public identifiers, so any PII can still be correlated (as opposed to the [deleted] pseudononymization that Reddit does)
Yes, exactly. The people who use things like them. It was the same with the iPad. The ones who bought them loved them. But the groupies were booing all the way into it dominating that market sector.

These people, nominally technology enthusiasts, appreciate very little.
I wonder how many of those poor immigrants who live in this public housing to serve wealthy Parisians would prefer to live in something like an American suburb if they could get jobs there.
Sorry about that! I realized too late that the game is really badly optimized once you hit higher levels and start getting chain reactions. Turning off Effects helps for some things.

I wonder how far you can push the DOM. It gets crazy with so many element updates after a while but there are probably many performance improvements that can be done.
We need to do some newer benchmarking, the Rive Renderer has gotten faster since these initial tests: https://twitter.com/guidorosso/status/1595187838454140928
No they don't. Experimentation is all we need. Nothing in this can be determined without error. It is easier to believe it is not true. It is no different than the priests that tried to figure how many angels can stand on a head of a pin. But 1) you lack that deep domain knowledge and 2) you are biased. Your arguments are empty. First principles.
I understand why Intel is getting these, but would be nice to see this money go to companies that are still innovating and are somewhere in the US coalition/orbit (TSMC, Samsung, etc.)
https://github.com/microsoft/retina/issues/85

That is a very interesting ask, let me raise an issue against the repo and see how we can solve this with eBPF in this repo. I am pretty sure this is a very common problem for a lot of kube admins.
Yes, you can run into that kind of stuff when configuring stuff like accent insensitive search. Most people just wrap the unstable function in a 'stable' wrapper which means you will have to reindex after an incompatible glibc update.
You're commenting about a press release from the Agency which grants the investments that was published today - so I think it's safe to assume, "Yes, it's back on"
There is some overlap, but the situation in a hypervisor is in fact pretty different.
I think the parent is implying that the government would be better-off subsidizing the startup space or something else, rather than propping up a large incumbent that is failing.
Modern AI is such a big term that its way off the scale of normal click-baiting...

Modern AI should anything after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop
Not transformer

AI has been people's dream since written history. i.e., everyone in their own sense would want to invent something that can do things and think for themselves. That's literally the meaning of AI.
Yep. since wc(1) apparently strictly adheres to what a newline-terminated text file is. This is why plaintext files should end with a newline. :)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/729692/why-should-text-f...
Recent evolution? Do tell
> Not only were the authors all Google employees, they also worked out of the same offices.

Subtle plug for return-to-office. In-person face-to-face collaboration (with periods of solo uninterrupted deep focus) probably is the best technology we have for innovation.
Who is paying for all this?
It's amazing how much new tech is getting tested in the middle east. In the next 30 years I think they are the future.
This is the best of both worlds, that traces back to Lisp and BASIC environments.

Have all variants available and allow the devs to pick the right one for their current workflow.

Java, .NET, Eiffel, Common Lisp, Scheme, C++ (via stuff like ROOT and Live++, VC++ hot reload isn't that full proof), OCaml, Haskel, are all examples of these mixed tooling approach.
I'm not 100% sure I agree...

Google is an ad company at the end of the day. Google is still making obscene amount of money with ads. Currently Gen AI is a massive expense in training and running and is only looking like it may harm future ad revenue (yet to be seen). Meanwhile OpenAI has not surpassed that critical threshold where they dominate the market with a moat and become a trillion dollar company. It is typically very hard for a company to change what they actually do, so much so that in the vast majority of cases its much more effective (money wise) to switch from developing products to becoming a rent seeking utility by means of lobbying and regulation.

Simply put, Google itself could not have succeeded with GenAI without an outside competitor as it would have become its own competition and the CEO would have been removed for such a blunder.
Sycamore figs are 100% edible, I think it's the predominant species grown in more southern areas.
Congestion is a problem even in cities with excellent public transportation. Have you ever been on the Tokyo subway at 8:30 am?
And the Nebula streaming platform. Which is unfortunate because I'm using both.

I get it, nebulae are cool.
Great - can we replace it with a crow if it was the USA, a budgie if it was EU. a magpie if it was Israel, a woodpecker if it was China (etc)

Green if it was tax organisation and yellow if is a criminal one
Is your problem it couldn't be fixed or that you needed Apple to fix it?
I really enjoy this sort of story. Someone persevering in an unpopular arena for the love of it, and then having it become quite essential for the advancement of humanities goals as it is developed.
> Why do you rob banks?

> Because that’s where the money is

— Willie Sutton, career bank robber, caught 11 times

Perhaps there’s a better solution out there
Samsung? Really?
Intel is back baby
Current AI hype comes from GPT

Transformer+Scaling+$$$ triggered the current hype
Sure.
But there are plenty of "Carnivore", or "Keto" sites that do not publish studies showing the benefits of fiber or vegetables. It goes both ways, the plant people aren't more biased.

If a study comes out saying meat is great, "keto" sites promote it.

If a study comes out saying plants are great, "plant" sites promote it.

I don't think a site called 'plantbasednews' is hiding their bias.
> In multi-line mode it matches, in single-line mode it does not because there is a newline between cat and the end of the line. A newline is only a terminating newline if it is the last character, the newline after cat is not a terminating newline. You need cat\n$ or cat\n\n to match.

This only makes sense if re.search accepted a line to search. It doesn't. It accepts an arbitrary string.

I don't think this conversation is going anywhere. Your description of the semantics seems inconsistent and incomprehensible to me.

> A newline is only a terminating newline if it is the last character, the newline after cat is not a terminating newline. You need cat\n$ or cat\n\n to match.

The first `\n` in `cat\n\n` is a terminating newline. There just happens to be one after it.

Like I said, your description makes sense if the input is meant to be interpreted as a single line. And in some contexts (like line oriented CLI tools), that can make sense. But that's not the case here. So your description makes no sense at all to me.
Wowow, the rich have had it tough since the 90s (only the French born before 1988 or so will understand the video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1N3WXZ_1LM
I enjoy RStudio but the best feature of R is data.table. It’s simply unmatched.
optional consumer goods may be cheaper.

Necessary consumer goods are not.

A cynic would say companies selling necessary goods have realized that they can price gouge because people don’t have a choice about paying, and then claim inflation is the reason despite that being demonstrably false.

Then you have continued conglomeration of intermediaries which has meant while the consumer price has been increasing the amount going to the producers has been reducing. Almost like the “efficiencies” used to justify mergers are built on monopoly exploitation.
With regular TRT shots, I've heard that there is a possibility that the baseline will lower due to changes in the HPG axis, leading to decreased production of LH and FSH, which leads to less testosterone being signaled to be naturally produced.
> a highly upvoted but controversial answer by Lubos Motl

Which is, of course, typical of Lubos Motl. :-)

What his answer actually boils down to is the quantum field theory answer: the claim that (a) we need a quantum theory of gravity, and (b) the known quantum field theory of a massless spin-2 field is at least a good low energy approximation to whatever the final quantum theory of gravity will turn out to be. Both of these claims are believed to be valid by many physicists, but neither one actually has any experimental evidence to support it at our current state of knowledge.
I had this, but not too badly.

I started taking a brain-support supplement and it has made a dramatic improvement. Kind of like my senses, reflexes, energy have all been enhanced basically back to what they were before I got infected with this crap.

Edit - I'll just say what I'm taking. It's called "Sharpmind - Brain Formula" by Solaray. I don't have any hard evidence, but I started feeling pretty close to the "before times" after a few days of taking it. ymmv
I suppose this is one benefit of having kids young: you can go straight from school into a purposeful life without the intervening anxiety and dread that a lot of people experience.

I was one year out of grad school (age 24) when my son was born. My peers are just now having their kids 10 years later, but I definitely don't regret it.
Says it all.
Right now one of the biggest blockers in on-shoring semiconductor fab at any kind of reasonable price-point and timescale is the lack of a skilled workforce. This legislation has dual objectives: train new people to get into sophisticated manufacturing AND to build out the actual infrastructure itself. That almost guarantees it won't be the most efficient way to actually get these chips on American soil. Whether we look back in 20 years and think "wow glad we took that hit upfront" is anyone's guess.
Neat! Increased browser PDF support, and further minimizing my need to ever need to use predatory Adobe products for niche use cases, is always very welcomed.
This is maybe interesting or useful: https://www.worlddata.info/europe/france/debt.php

It's a comparison of the debt per capita of France compared to the rest of the EU (in USD). It looks to me like France started to take on more debt per person around 2007/08 and as recently as 2022 had $13k more debt/capita than the EU, or +40% more debt per citizen.
My concern is how many of the coders downplaying things like the risks of deepfakes are also operating and profiting from the many revenge porn websites etc.

That and simply how self-reinforcing it all is. The more hostile these discussions are to women's experiences the fewer women who will push through and take part in the conversation, meaning we just press ahead in the safety of our own homogeneity.
Creating Realistic and Believable Characters with AI
> You're quite correct he should have used GDP w/ PPP, but I don't think the fact that Austria would rank merely below-average rather than second-worst is a very powerful argument

It is, because they were implying that Austria having the social housing policies that it does, it severely impacts GDP; but it doesn't. A tiny mountainous country that was twice in the middle of disastrous wars in the last century, has practically no raw materials... and would be in the middle of the US GDP PPP-wise, which has a much bigger market, a lot more workers, a lot of raw materials, etc etc etc etc. And again, this is assuming GDP matters for the average person's life... and it doesn't.

> visit the average American household and they have a lot of material wealth compared to the average European

At the expense of crippling debt :) https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-debt.htm (don't forget the fact that American savings have to account for losing your job or getting sick, as well as retirement, while in Austria they don't).