skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author referred to a specific problem: the company changing their business strategy not because they have a competitor, not because business is crashing (these were the problems Apple was facing in ~1995), but because they must grow even though that entails making their products worse and invoking negative externalities.

Customers don't necessarily want a successful product to change. Much of that desire for change is engineered via marketing so that there is an opportunity for growth.
> Why would it be any different

Sure, running a Mastodon that didn't accept non govt users and on which there was no engagement with the public- no different than a website, and as the technology is in every respect less mature, scalable, secure, etc than web platforms, no reason to do it.

> How is it different...

It is tied into the "censorship" issue and who else is allowed to publish. Think about any actual "state" controlled press- China and Russia are famous examples. The only publishable statements are those that align with goals. And there is no user engagement.

Imagine a govt platform with engagement, publishing a controversial statement leading to a large response. There will have to be moderation. How well do those moderation policies align with or conflict with information propagation goals?

A commercially mediated platform has its own incentives and its own business to run, to act in ways that balance concerns. And sometimes it may decide not to permit govt officials to spew what amounts to propaganda. Such a decision would never occur on a govt operated platform, of course.

==

Relatedly, the main subtext from Biden's announcement of course is that Twitter is no longer a viable "official" publishing/engagement platform. Look for many, many other govt bodies to arrive at similar determination.
Did I miss it or does this not actually say what the cost of methane priced by them is?

I see H2, DC power, and CO2 DAC, costs but no total.
I think you lost track of the context. You claimed Portland/Seattle is an easy train in response to someone asking if it solves the problem of freight priorities.

I’m not here to debate transit philosophy.
30x strong on what measurement? Per molecule?

How much CO2 is Terraform Industries pulling from the atmosphere to create that 4% of methane that might be leaking?
You do make a good point with this. Certainly the PLO and Arafat were responsible for many heinous acts, and I didn't mean to downplay that or unduly make them out as harbingers of peace who were just being derailed by Israel.

I don't pretend to understand their motivations for moderation - maybe it was the feeling that their "way" was never going to out stubborn Israel, maybe Arafat grew tired in his old age of the conflict. There were many failed attempts, some briefly successful, others not at all, much like the Troubles. And Arafat and the PLO should shoulder a large chunk of that responsibility.

But like you say, it's entirely possible that an accord could have been reached, and also entirely possible that it would have tripped over 1,000 other hurdles and not happened.

I just feel way too much is going into overlooking not just the early tolerance of Hamas because it was politically expedient to the Israeli right wing, but the active enablement and fostering.
One thing that I had to learn the hard way years ago is that there's no equivalent to "doctor-patient privilege" for HR people. They can and will use what you say against you, and they will likely relay what you say to other people.

It's admittedly pretty cynical, but at this point I treat HR meetings more like police interrogations, and keep my answer short, minimal, and utilitarian, knowing what I say can and will be used against me. It's not fair to the HR people, most of them are perfectly nice, but they're in a position that's often inherently antagonistic towards workers, since they're generally only called when you're in trouble.
That was also my experience and thought process.
Practical AI did a podcast episode about the dangers of using AI models as a shield to hide behind in justifying your decisions. The episode was titled "Suspicion Machines" and based on the libked article [1], and I think it's worth a read/listen.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/story/welfare-state-algorithms/
"What we have, we hold." - British Empire proverb
Just get their binary, then. Why do you need to build it yourself?

If you trust the people giving you the hash of the binary, just get the binary from them, too.
The internet was a bubble too. Remember the dot com era?

Just because the tech is legit doesn’t mean it can’t have a bubble.
> That doesn't mean that this is common knowledge

At this point, it really is. It's unfortunate too many people consider companies, their bosses and HR as their "friends". Only your friends are your "friends" and that too, not always.
A nice example of why cannot trust "explanations" by HN commenters.

"It is used by a fairly large number of other programs, one of which is OpenSSH." <-- This is false

Have a look:

https://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh...

If a person compiles sshd from source using above source code, then there is no vulnerability. OpenSSH does not use xz/liblzma.

wget https://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-9.7p1.tar.gz
tar xzf openssh-9.7p1.tar.gz
cd openssh-9.7p1
./configure
make install

Beware HN commenters/voters making false statements (and even trying to defend them against true statements).
You’re really underselling the burden of labor in parent’s lives. Lucky enough to have two parents? They’re probably working 50-60 hours every week including unpaid time necessary for their jobs like commute, meal prep, unpaid breaks, etc.

Most parents want to be more active and involved in their kids lives but material conditions get in the way. Blame shit economic policy and the greedy clowns that sold out America’s industrial base. Phones are an intellectually lazy excuse that ignores the facets that absolve parents of some of the responsibility you’re trying to heap on them. This is not to say that some parents are lazy and use screens as replacements for parenting; they exist but if you want to cast a net this wide - bring receipts.
But it actually is! It's just written in an excessively jargon-laden manner. Here's an explanation that's less jargon-laden:

We can describe a polynomial by its coefficients, standard x^5 + ax^4 + bx^3 + cx^2 + dx + e = 0 form. Actually, we're going to restrict a, b, c, d, and e so that they are all determined by a single parameter B (this is the Brioschi family of quintics). Remember that all values here are complex numbers, not real numbers.

Now what happens if we move around B a little bit (https://duetosymmetry.com/tool/polynomial-roots-toy/ is very helpful for seeing what I mean here)? Well, the roots will change a little bit. There's a continuous mapping going on. Now move around B in a large, closed path that includes a specific point in the interior. It turns out that the continuous motion of the roots will result in them swapping places--a permutation. This is the "monodromy map".

Now it turns out that the set of possible permutations has implications on whether or not you can solve it with polynomials. The paper here doesn't go into details, since it's written for a high-math audience (this is the "A_5 is not solvable since it is simple" bit).
The global WF HQ has tortillas, but they're neither local nor authentic. The customer service person proclaimed I should use tortillas instead. Gobsmacked by the unprofessionalism of that, it was the last time I've been to WF.
> It seems like the place was just Child Abuse Island (r) (tm).

Yep - look at some of Simon Winchester's writing where we goes into more unfortunate detail about this. Pitcairn is not a place you want to go.
This is a terrible idea. The whole point to providing security updates to everybody was because a rising tide lifts all boats. This won't force people to upgrade. It just means tons of people will be more at risk and the internet is worse off for everybody.
Factors used to calculate UCRP payment options will change on July 1, 2024
The confusing part is that the code is in the jxl repository. Is it Google's code, JXL's, JXL's people under Google?
Iran had a democracy, until the CIA toppled it in 1953. In general having oil means foreign powers will keep installing useful puppets as leaders. The middle east having few democracies may have more to do with Western greed than with the preferences of Arabs or Muslims.
This is also true of any department within any institution that has a nominal crisis mediation role. Unequivocally, they are there solely to minimize legal exposure for the institution. Their decicisions will reflect that role.

For example, take any office within academia that exists to investigate mistreatment.

These offices operate only under the color of problem solving for victims.
Politically? Because government run media is anathema to the American public. Even government adjacent media gets crucified in politics, PBS being an example.

It would also be a moderation nightmare because of the massive amount of precedent, laws, and regulations about official government comms.

The real unsolved problem of social media is moderation. If we could crack that, it might make sense to offer it as a public service. Until then, it’s just a lawsuit waiting to happen.

That said, TikTok has clearly gotten Congress thinking about it.
Puget Sound is an enormous geographic region. Light rail doesn’t even serve most of Seattle’s needs (yet). There’s currently one line to the airport. The largest residential neighborhoods in the city aren’t even close. It’s not viable for “getting around” outside of very narrow cases. It’s a backbone for a system that is still being built.
Of course, HR is not your friend. What you probably want is a works council (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_council). However, you'd also need the necessary legal power, as in Germany, for example.
Wouldn't the solution be to use microseconds? Maybe I'm just being naive, I love science, but as I get older it gets hard to keep all the whims of tech in my head.
HR is only on your side when your 'side' aligns with the broader company interest.

They're not your enemy, but not automatically your friend either.
A lot of them "pivoted" to AI.
Given we don’t know what it’s using to identify people we don’t really know any biases. “Holding a military weapon” probably doesn’t contain a whole lot of bias (of course there is misidentification).
The fine art of human prompt engineering
tech/science*
I read that too, nice little community they have there
> It's either in source form and reproducable or it's not there.

Forbidding binary data in source repositories is neither practical nor solving the issue.

Binary code can be hidden steganograhically in e. g. image files or text files.
Their whitepaper uses $10/kcf.
It is so weird that the US is sending aid to help people harmed by US weapons.
Privacy makes sense. Thank you.
> but also how much energy it takes to ship natural gas to other countries.

Something like this would reduce the need to transport it to other countries, since you can manufacture it anywhere you want. Right now we're limited to where we can pull fossil fuels out of the ground, which means that it has to be transported from one place to another. That's not the case with atmospheric extraction.
Where in the US is this happening? We're talking about developers developing land for landowners while other people are able to stop them for "reasons."
Are you saying recursion creates "self sustaining computing blocks" ? What does that mean and how does it do it?

that will thread themselves as see fit.*

What does this mean?

In a way it's more encapsulating than languages preaching encapsulation.

Recursion does this? Are you talking about not depending on a stack structure in this specific instance or something else?
>you've never used a map in a different way?

Sure. But the USGS doesn't publish precise up to date topological maps of every square inch of the United States for the purpose of guiding backpackers with compasses. They do it to divide up political boundaries, delimit resource rights, and guide commercial activity. This goes for just about any other large scale mapping effort (on earth).
How do the distro packages work? Are they trying to provide dependencies as pre-built binaries? I didn't know Cargo could consume binaries like that.
Is the implication here that the feds didn’t already know who leased that post office box from them? And that they don’t have access to state DMV records?

What do you intend for me to infer from your assertion that one individual’s inferred race is more important to a postal worker than that specific individual’s identity or existing relationship with the post office in this case?

And where in the US do post office box rentals last longer than a year? I wasn’t aware that it was possible to lease one for more than 12 months at a go [0]

Are you familiar with Mail Covers? [1]

[0] https://www.usps.com/manage/po-boxes.htm

[1] https://www.uspsoig.gov/reports/audit-reports/postal-inspect...
Such sclerotic are vulnerable to competitors though and can only survive if they are entrenched enough to be able sit out any changes with minimal adaptations, like car makers and the weapons industry.
This is getting down voted, but I hope people realize that what he's saying is that the Venn diagram of crypto grifters and AI grifters is, in fact, a circle
My prediction is very few will pay the fee and Windows 10 will become an increasingly large PR headache for Microsoft as security vulnerabilities are exploited on a larger scale and no one cares that "users didn't pay" when the news reports over and over again on issues arising from unpatched systems that Microsoft could but won't patch.
I've read some CEOs leaving AI to build decentralized AI. A crossover between web3 and AI.
1.023 MHz is basically the Apple ]['s fine structure constant. Change that, even by a tiny amount, and the whole universe comes unglued. Video, disk access, you name it.

There were accelerator boards, but they ran at integer multiples of the original clock speed for that reason.
/r/ukpolitics is not a main sub, yet they operate on there as well. It is not very hard to have an alert any time anyone posts a topic with the word "Israel" in the title, coming to mass downvote anything remotely critical of their employer.

Of course on a main sub like /r/worldnews for example, the astroturfing there is even more noticeable and blatant.

You know what makes it even more obvious? How seemingly few Israeli or Jewish people on social media seem to be against the current massacre and/or the Netanyahu government. Of course there are many in the real world, but these dissenting voices are drowned by the massive pro-govt propaganda operation.
> How on earth is this legal?

It massively simplifies reporting requirements. If you’re forming a Delaware entity, you file and go.
You could theoretically run jet engines on directly on methane (liquid or not) - though I am not sure how much work would be required to refit an existing one for this purpose. Methane is already used for running the turbo-pumps in rocket engines like SpaceX's Raptor or Relativity's Aeon-R.
It was not.

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-tries-to-back-u...

Not to mention the BBC started with "500 dead" title that was literally Hamas propoganda.
Thanks for digging it up. I can shed more light on the meaning of the original word for Saffron. The article mentions Saffron comes from Arabic az-za’faran. That word is the Arabicized version of an older Persian word: Za-paran (Zayesh-paran), which means "causes abortion" (zaa/zayesh --> birth).

The most common source of Saffron in Iran is area in southern Khorasan called Ghohistan (from Kohistan) meaning mountainous.

Both of these facts corroborate the Akkadian sources.
How just walk out works https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/how-does-amazon-just...
Oh, you meant human rights and all that? Having ideals and ethics? Yes, that would be my hope. I thought you were referring to the neoliberal hegemony of wealthy Western nations.
> I don't think these things are as unequivocal as you suggest. I mean, you're assuming those people are civilians. Maybe they're not. Almost certainly we will never know for sure, and if you can't acknowledge that then you're not being objective.

I actually expected this reply from you. And expected that you will not see the video and will not get interested in the story. [1] The video shows that they were not armed. If you're just going to define anyone you kill as, maybe he was Hamas. Then of course you will kill everyone and claim that. You don't kill unarmed people walking in plain sight. If this not obvious to you, then you are just wanted to justify the killing of each Palestinian.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/19/gaza-journal...
I have dealt with HR and I've seen these "well-intentioned" people turn on you so quickly. Sociopathy is the personality trait I would use to describe them.
Zero evidence noise pollution affects health?
Pure hasbara to call this a war.

The fact that you try to dismiss the genocide means you're not acting in good faith. Stop with the disingenuous questions and own zionism.
I believe the Allies could have defeated the Axis with less collateral damage.

The ends were admirable. The means are debatable and in some cases regrettable.
Your definition of “always” might be different than mine

There was a time not long ago and for the majority of human life that the modern concept of a equity based corporation with distinct split between owners and labor didn’t exist

So I’m not sure if always is accurate grounding or the base rate that should be compared against
I'm currently using it via XL Converter.

https://codepoems.eu/xl-converter/
Companies, state dept., politicians, revolving door
Is there any place where they say how many kWh of electricity they need to get one kWh equivalent of gas?
Hi, are you providing sponsorship?
Cloudflare is profitable. Whales subsidise retail.
The example you're citing was actually investigated, and (IIRC) it was found that Hezbollah was firing mortar(s) from a position directly adjacent to the UN post. I believe that it was generally assumed that Hezbollah was using the Canadians as 'human shields'. Culpability in such situations is usually attributed to the shield-users, largely due to the consequences of attributing blame to the retaliators (i.e. encouraging further use of human shields).
There's also the problem that many computers can't be upgraded to Windows 11 due to the TPM requirement. Companies like Microsoft love to shower in greenwash but Windows 11 will be one of the largest producers of ewaste in history, all because Microsoft won't allow Windows 11 on older systems without TPM 2.0.
While the DPH Guidance has it's controversial parts (Rec IX), the guidance on interpreting "directly participating in hostilities" is quite authoritative.

And that should be emphasized: the Geneva Conventions allow the targeting of military objectives, combatants (i.e. members of armed forces) and "civilians directly participating in hostilities". The Guidance just interprets the latter and arguably widens the scope, because - without the invention of "continuous combatant function" - you could attack e.g. members of Hamas' armed wing during an attack and in preparation of one. Now you can attack them at any time.
once you go HR its game over. Never ever contact HR in any situation.
Thanks! I tried many different ways of doing it before settling on the current approach. It's still not perfect and can make mistakes (which is why the `plandex changes` diff review TUI is essential), but it's pretty good now overall.

I was able to improve reliability of line numbers by using a chain-of-thought approach where, for each change, the model first summarizes what's changing, then outputs code that starts and ends the section in the original file, and then finally identifies the line numbers from there.

The relevant prompts are here: https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex/blob/main/app/server/m...
If they can get around it, it’s not against policies.

Policies need to change
> Are there legitimate non-nefarious uses?

Have you formed an entity? In Delaware it’s file and go. You don’t need a lawyer nor to fill out a bunch of paperwork. That’s efficient. Where we demand disclosure is when that entity touches money through the banking system.
Split-Complex Number
Well, depends how exactly you classify people as "combatant".

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-31/ty-article-ma...
He wasn't afraid to dive into the details of topics that many people shun or simply dismiss.

He made arguments, and encouraged counter-arguments. Without that, there would be blind consensus, and at worst, societal stagnation. It's his relentless urge to shake things up that made him one of the most prominent figures in science fiction.

It's very telling that there wasn't some kind of disagreement with Jeannette Ng's shockingly ignorant outburst, or the delighted applause of her equally ignorant audience.
I first used Opera in December of '96 and it's never tried to be an OS, not once. Mozilla tried it with FirefoxOS based on Gecko and Palm tried it with WebOS, heck even Microsoft tried with Trident somewhat, but no, Opera never tried with the Presto engine or Electra before that. What Opera did was bundle lots of features and offer a nice MDI interface before anyone had the superior tabbed browsing that Mozilla and Firefox popularized.
The cynicism is correct, though. HR represents the employer and the employer's interests, not the employee's.
You never know when these places will be useful. Maybe they'd discover something valuable in territorial waters. It's a cheap lottery ticket.
Keeping existing infrastructure is the whole beauty of it. Ships, pipelines, factories, supply chains that you can keep using if/until other technology replaces it.
Right, but it was example of why GP would be unlikely to use Google Cloud or recommend Google cloud to others.
Solvable, probably. Has oversight and a commitment to fix the issue? Not yet.

https://youtu.be/K2oL4SFwkkw?si=zbr_fr5TDK2EHT72 (Topical and recent take from a favorite YouTube channel of mine)

The industry provided (self reported) estimates of linkage is a little over 1%. The realistic value is over 2% and is at the point that coal and natural gas are likely equally bad for the environment given our current infrastructure.

Carbon neutral is a useful feature but doesn’t solve that problem.

I will say I am a fan of carbon neutral methane in place of the efforts to move to hydrogen combustion (this is a thing) and hydrogen for fuel cells since there isn’t a commercially viable carbon neutral version of that yet.

Making existing methane infrastructure cleaner and less leaky is better, in my mind, in the path to solar/wind/nuclear electrification than trying to capture the emissions of coal or retool petroleum infrastructure into hydrogen.
It's pretty amazing to have an actually carbon-neutral way to create natural gas.
> You could also technically use this as a grid-battery, taking in excess grid energy when it is cheap and converting it into natural gas that can be run back through a gas peaking plant that spins up to meet peak demand.

The loss in such a cycle is abysmal, alone from thermal loss (not to mention the loss during compression and decompression) - even straight fuel cells are at 60% round-trip, compared to batteries with >>90% efficiency.
I'm not saying they're good for the internet, just that if I was going to make a bet on which one is more likely to survive a decade, it'd be Cloudflare.
On the demand side, I imagine you'd be drawing fuel gas from a rig that's like, in your neighborhood, being powered by the solar panels on your roof. So you'd probably notice if there were tanker trucks showing up to fill it.

On the supply side, you could use things like methane sniffing satellites (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00600-z) to find cases of extraction and tax (at first) or arrest (eventually) those participating in it.