skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I'm missing some nuance, because it looks like it's basically just taking the largest population cities in the US and drawing circles around the ones near each other. "Most economic activity happens where the most people live" doesn't seem like a particularly novel insight.
Fair enough. I get what you're saying.

But is this about MongoDB trying to deter forks? Are there any live MongoDB fork? Hasn't the MongoDB hype train derailed a long time ago?
I'm just fascinated that the response/demand to running out of RAM is "Just sell us more RAM, god damn!" instead of engineering a solution to make due with what is practically (and realistically) available.
Frightening. :-)
>Considering the list is made up of names like Bon Jovi and Nicki Minaj, I'm not THAT concerned about their livelihoods. They could never a single penny for the rest of their lives and they'd still remain unfathomably richer than the average American.

And you think anyone would listen or gather the opinion of the litany of unknown artists out there? Like, yes, its important that people who are well-known voice themselves on subjects like this.
Mother of god.
Best current example is actually Nagorno-Karabakh pretty much emptied of its Armenian population. No-one talks about it.
I fully agree. That's why a stable API is needed. But there might be legitimate concerns to not expose such an API as it could impede development. For example, Java intentionally doesn't offer a stable API to extend the compiler. Therefore, Project Lombok has to adapt to each Java release as the OpenJDK project can and will change the compiler's internals at any time.
That's what the original check is for:

if (nbytes < sizeof(*hwrpb))

If the buffer isn't large enough to hold *hwrpb, then it already fails. The original check was good, only needed to change the amount of bytes copied to sizeof(*hwrpb).
The $1T 'hold-to-maturity' sleight-of-accounting
lmao I forgot he did that with the referrer, that rules. I think it used to be goatse.
> For the first time, some of the fastest-growing markets were found in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.

So they are looking at new car sales. A lot of people in Eastern Europe do not afford a new car, let alone an electric one.
Yea this really seems like more of a weapon of propaganda directed at Israelis. If they didn't want people to know about it, we probably wouldn't know about it. The fact that we're talking about it is probably not an accident, and I guess the play here would be to convince Israelis that the army is technologically advanced and they know what they're doing, so don't question it. But AI or not they were going to commit genocide and violate every international humanitarian law on the book. But for the people that still believe the genocide is justified I think this probably improves the optics.
To me it's a declining sense of being part of humanity, and I would say faiths in general emphasise that. So I think this is looking at it the wrong way round. The decline caused by an emphasis on the individual.
I am more curious about the “compute” of an AI system like this. It must be extremely complicated to do real-time video feed auditing and classification of targets, etc.

How is this even possible to do without having the system make a lot of mistakes? As much AI talk there is on HN these days, I would have recalled an article that talks about this kind of military-grade capability.

Are there any resources I can look at, and maybe someone here can talk about it from experience.
From Marketer to Analytics Engineer at Vercel
Anyone have seen very simple and compact NAS with nvme or high speed usb? I don't want to build one myself out of raspberry pi
The distributions often run the same tests after it’s built to make sure it’s working correctly as built in the distribution environment. This can and does find real problems.
Many thieves are cowards, too. They steal less when they think people are watching. Their risk analysis is based on if people are there, if cameras are there, if they think people really watch thieves on camera, and if the store prosecutes thieves. Every box you tick can reduce theft. I think Target was in the lead on that stuff.

Re scales. The scale detects a weight difference between items. If the items are similar weight, the scale or cashier will ignore it. The scales also had a high, false alarm rate that often caused cashiers to ignore them. The thieves also use scanning methods that cause higher, false alarms to encourage that. None of that works with human cashiers and a bascart exchange.

Re registers needed. You would think. The company was top-down, micro-managed, low staff, and blame the worker. The supervisor had to open registers in time, maybe watch self-checkout while the attendant does price checks, and often work a register themselves for most of the shift. Good service was impossible in those conditions.

Instead of having cashiers, the executives decided an AI that thought for us would fix the problem. Of course, we had no cashiers to open registers. They marked us as failures on that, too.

Later, they had us force more people to use self-checkout, closed more registers to facilitate that process, and installed more self checkouts. I’ve been gone a few years. It seems the customers have grudgingly accepted the status quo because both major companies, the cheapest with most products, were intentionally making checkout terrible. Oligopolies in action…
This is an important technology issue worth discussing. An additional layer of indirection between the perpetrator and the weapon seems like it can be even more easily misused.

I’m thinking about predator drones, and more recently: all the more widely available killer drones. Has this been shown to make it easier for these actions to be undertaken?

Edit: ah it got flagged. I’m so surprised… (leaving this here because I deserve it. There’s another copy of this story already being discussed)
Then certainly that my expectations were too high from what I'd read in the reviews, I was expecting a lot of changes like the second edition of the dragon book. You can see that some programs were obviously written to get around the memory limitations of the computers of the time, such as the assembler and emulator for an imaginary machine.
Well, it's full of conventionally dark symbols: the crow, hemlock, and cold winter season. And the diction echoes this with words like shook, dust, and rued. Other word choices could have told a very similar story in a more cheery mood, if desired.

It's also a vignette devoid of human contact, which is common to many of Frost's more introspective poems. The narrator is the main character in an empty or lonely scene, except for a brief interaction with an animal.

Even the choice to say "change of mood" delays clarity until the words "save" and "rued" provide disambiguation. Yet it is also quite short, almost an epigram.

So while the final message is one of positive valence, it is rooted in dark humor, almost a wink emerging from a scowl. I think this is an example where Frost is revisiting some of the ground shared with one of his early influences, Edgar Allen Poe.
I didn’t know about that one. Thanks for it.
the top down purview is that texas is an oil state.
I would be more worried about the force of the water hitting things and about objects it drags with it than about water damage.

One meter of water weighs 1000kg/m². If a wave a few meters long slams into a wall of your house, that can easily be more force than that of a decent sized car doing the same.
As someone who tutors adults, can you suggest a more digestible book for abstract algebra?

While I was motivated, I used one of the typical college books. For me Abstract Algebra is what opened a lot of doors for me... but I am simply using applied math.

That moving away from proofs being magical across sub-topics is what I would like to share with some co-workers who are unwilling to buy a textbook and answer key.

As I didn't even mind Spivik for calc, my radar is way off for making suggestions to most people.
This comes up in an ancient and often heated discussion a lot on game boards as to the "optimal" FPS to have in a game - many proponents saying anything under 100 FPS is "unplayable" for them, and another group saying basically anything over 60 is either not noticeably perceivable to the human eye, or barely noticeable.

I'm starting to see the pop-science-gamer-journalism interpretation of this study as being "study proves some humans see at different FPS" and all the 100+ FPS gamers being like "AHA! Told you!" when really the results of the study support the ~60 fps conclusion that's been mainstream for a while (if I'm interpreting correctly). I think the science here is pretty clear - there is a variation in human visual temporal resolution, and this paper's a bit over my head but if I'm understanding correctly it isn't much (at least in this sample size and the gamer context - I'm aware they concluded the variation was large between individuals).

TLDR if you're fussing that you're "only" getting 90 FPS vs 120 or whatever, and genuinely feel like it's affecting your performance - don't worry, seems very similar to the audiophile stuff to me. I think that there are probably big outliers in this range (thinking specifically professional baseball players), but perhaps the "perceived" difference is because if you have 130 FPS your average framerate is likely to always stay above your perception, and maybe at 70-90 it will occasionally dip below that threshold, causing you to perceive a difference.
Apple's 3B LLM Outperforms GPT-4
Because you're arguing against a totemic representation with rhetoric rather than helpful points.

Also, weirdly, looks like you're arguing against both sides' totemic representations in this way, so you're going to annoy everyone.
Conversely setting human life to infinity cost quickly breaks down with the trolley problem. Any problem where groups a or b are going to die then whatever group is bigger lives, even if it doesn't make sense, such as group b is all very old and group a is very young but slightly smaller.
> The US government actually has an ongoing push right now to claim parts of the Arctic Ocean as territorial waters.

No, it doesn't. (Beyond that part of the Arctic Ocean already generally recognized as US territorial waters.)

“Continental shelf” is not “territorial waters”, it is a whole different legal category. The project to identify the extent of what qualifies under international law as continental shelf beyond the 200nm presumed limit is not about extending territorial waters.
Does the Portland/Seattle train get priority over freight?
I'm probably pro-isreal because I'm a realpolitik American that wants America's best interest. (But I'm not strong either way)

Just watched someone get their post deleted for criticizing Israel's online PR/astroturfing.

Israel's ability to shape online discussion has left a bad taste in my mouth. Trust is insanely low, I think the US should get a real military base in Israel in exchange for our effort. If the US gets nothing for their support, I'd be disgusted.
It’s a little bit like asking why Intel can’t make phones.
Unfortunately for me, my neighbor had about a half acre of thick bamboo forest, and thus my yard was set upon by the plant endlessly.
The result would be plenty of fresh unoccupied land to settle on. Just a little bit of cleanup required.
>> Every penetration needs grommets and strain relief.

You mean the grommets and strain relief that are already present for windows/speakers/locks? In most cases it's probably not even additional wires as power and control (either can bus or lin bus) are already established from the door to bcm (body control module).
> So what would the prefix for the IANA code be?

I would prefer if IANA/Eggert were not involved on this one. They've already made an absolute mess of the Earth based timezone database.

> Would it just be "Space/Moon"?

More problematically, how would you define it's coordinates and country code, which are fields in the tzdb for each timezone?
That's awfully optimistic.

For one, why would we colonize the galaxy? We probably can't beat lightspeed. It'll take generations to get anywhere, plus a huge upfront investment, and for what? We can't send resources back, so it is not an investment. Terraforming would be extremely challenging, extremely slow, and would (if we were very, very lucky) still just get us a worse version of Earth. It just isn't a rational choice.

"Tweaking the sun" is probably unfeasible. We could crash our entire planet into the sun and it'd have little effect. The sun is really really really big and we are really really really small. Similarly, adjusting Earth's orbit would require a colossal amount of energy and reaction mass which we just don't have, and probably never will.

There's no reason to assume that humanity will inevitably advance through some exponential techno-apotheosis such that we'll eventually be able to do anything we want. Instead, it's much more sensible to assume technological growth will follow a sigmoid curve. Technological advancement has a ceiling determined by our resources and abilities, and that ceiling is almost certainly too low to accommodate a galactic civilization of stellar engineers.
I think it's fascinating that when the topic is "shell companies" that the HN discourse is essentially "if they have nothing to hide then they don't need secrecy". I think that if the article were about linking "tor users" with their secret owners then we would see the opposite stance being taken.

I'm not taking a position here, and I'm not saying even that these stances are necessarily contradictory, but just that the blanket argument "X shouldn't get to be secret because I don't think they have a legitimate reason" doesn't differentiate between these two cases.
I wish there was a better output format for the analysis, because this is hell for screen readers.
Peace to you too pardner. I appreciate you sticking with me all the way through.
40% or something voted for them, and pretty sure all of those are considered targets now.
Anyone have any first-hand experience with this brand?
They were.

But then those pesky researchers and hackers figured out how to use the matmul hardware for non-gaming.
It is and they are.
While a part of the standard chess rules for over a century, it's common for people who learn to play with their family as kids don't learn it. I didn't learn it, either, and only found out about it when I started playing chess programs online.

This is common enough that "Google en passant" is a meme in some circles.
I'll paraphrase a famous piece of public speaking advice "avoid talking down to your audience, they will catch up".

Also, who knows how the lecturer presented the information. Perhaps it was well composed, and in fact could be understood by anybody.

When fields highly specialize they seem to attract a certain personality of people who revel in their 'insider knowledge' and make the learning of it for others more difficult in order to inflate their standing in the eyes of their students, "How did you learn this stuff!?"

The reality of these fields, like mathematics, music theory, computer science, and the like is that the ideas themselves are so ridiculously simple that they could be understood by most anyone with a rudimentary understanding of the 5 basic arithmetic operators if presented coherently.

After all, “Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29442307
It's worse, as someone who does try to privide release notes I'm often cut off by the max length of the field. And even then, Play only shows you the notes for the latest version of the app.
I’ve heard this story before. Remember Better Place? If you want to predict how it’s going to go just replay the last attempt with updated starting conditions. Be sure not to assume that anyone will learn from past mistakes.
At least for me, it always comes down to overcoming the inertia to start and procrastination. Otherwise, in my mind, I am always running what needs to be done, in what order, how soon, etc.

The tasks that don't get completed on time are usually the ones that I perceive as low value, even though they need to be done in my current corporate environment. Also some tasks that first look important or urgent eventually can become unneeded in the end; so the problem might be one of correct prioritization of tasks.

My best success of getting things done is with time boxing and literally setting Outlook meetings with myself with a clear task definition as its subject.
Unless you live in California, it's not likely even an option to opt out.
Possible to have a feature requiring a dependency update that may be mutually exclusive with the previous dependency graph of the former feature set?
This is 100% malicious or novice coder. And we surely know it's not the latter.

If you need an unsafe call, you add a dict_put_unsafe(). That again should of course be rejected in a code review.
How exactly do we opt out?
The law of armed conflict acknowledges that civilian deaths are inevitable, and only prohibits attacks that are directed at civilians; rather than those which are directed at combatants with expected civilian casualties as collateral damage.

The legal question is whether the civilian casualties are proportional to the concrete military value of the target.

A question that's worth considering is whether, when considering proportionality, all civilians (as defined by law) are made equal in a moral sense.

For example, the category "civilian" includes munitions workers or those otherwise offering support to combatants on the one hand, and young children on the other. It also includes members of the civil population who are actually involved in hostilities without being a formal part of an armed force.

The law of armed conflict doesn't distinguish these; albeit that I think people might well distinguish, on a moral level, between casualties amongst young children, munitions workers, and informal combatants.
Alright, I've edited out "territorial waters" from my comment.
The most disturbing part for me (going beyond Israel/Palestine conflict) is that modern war is scary:

- Weaponized financial trojan horses like crypto

- Weaponized chemical warfare through addictions

- Drone swarm attacks in Ukraine

- AI social-media engineered outrage to change publics perception

- Impartial, jingoistic mainstream war propaganda

- Censorship and manipulation of neutral views as immoral

- Weaponized AI software

Looks like a major escalation towards a total war of sorts.
I don't think it's much of an exaggeration to describe Sanderson as a contemporary Feynman, at least from the pedagogy side of things.
Yes. I agree. That was the point I was making.

I'm not saying the company is committing securities fraud, I am saying that if the company created a scheme as described by the commentor I was replying to, then that would be securities fraud.
Oops, I'd originally been thinking of Aristippus: https://lexundria.com/vitr/6.0/gw

Was being shipwrecked an occupational hazard of ancient philosophy?
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Poetry in English is usually less about syllables and more about stressed syllables.
I like myself a fresh loaf as well. I think there's more joy/ritual in bread making/baking. There's more types of bread to experiment with. It's a hobby. Some bakers I know spend more money on mixers and cast iron baking pans and other contraptions than a fancy rice cooker. No one makes rice for a hobby or bring plain rice to potluck. Your chickpea comparison is apt. Imagine if your normal staple is just chickpeas. It's a chore made for automation. East Asian rice consumption is pretty boring, people stick with their brand rarely even switch up grain types. Other cultures put stuff in their rice, spice it up, cook it with stuff and have more one pot raw rice recipes. But if your rice diet is 95% white rice consumed the same way, splurging on a "unitool" like a rice cooker to save time brings joy.
Those are cosmetic things. Changes nothing.
Despite the claims Internet is very neutral de facto in USA.
Source: I work with a multitude of ISPs in ~50 countries world wide, in the areas of IP transit, mobile, cloud, voip, etc.
Unreal Engine 5 multi-threaded rendering in the browser with WASM
Sounds like you've got a good reason to own a truck. My comment isn't to say there is no valid reason to own a truck, just that most people don't have one.
… normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male. …
This is definitely not true. Europes high speed trains are far far faster than driving. For example, Rome to Milan via italo is 3h - 3h 40min while driving is 6h. Even the "normal high speed" train is only ~5h.

Similarly Marseille to Paris is only 3.5h by train while driving is almost 8h. It entirely depends on your source and destination. Between major economic hubs train is usually faster than driving, and as you can see by a significant amount. For other routes the train is similar or slightly slower.

In North America, on the other hand, the train is almost always MUCH MUCH slower than driving, if you can take it at all. Not to mention far more expensive.
It seems really weird that you could do business with a company and not know who your actually doing business with.
Also, it's kinda weird that there is no expectation of privacy except when you want to hide your assets.
This assumes they're going to leave enough people alive to even enact vengeance. If they murder everyone, than there's no need to worry about any Gazan revenge; there will be no Gazans.
Yeah I question the usefulness of the concept if stretched too thin. It has Chicago and Pittsburgh in the same megaregion and yet I don’t think those two places interact much at all. I can buy SoCal, the Bay Area, and Boston-DC as megaregions though.
Nunu: A CLI tool for building Go applications
The guardian also talked to other sources.
So why it didn't happen?
40000 operatives, x30 family members would mean the entire Gaza population is gone in a matter of weeks.
> Since Texas is loath to use eminent domain, the planning phase has been stalled for a loooong time.

Is this a state policy? It isn't necessarily a city one, see https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article2... and related which I've seen pop up in the news at time for decades. "The City Council has authorized the use of eminent domain 29 times in the past two years, the most the city has used the land grabbing tactic since 2013."
It always starts with making a list of targets that meet given criteria. Once you have the list its use changes from categorisation to demonisation -> surveillance -> denial of rights -> deportations -> killing. Early use of computers by Germans during WW2 included making and processing of lists of people who ought to be sent to concentration camps. The only difference today is that we are able to capture more data and process it faster at scale.
Both encryption and shell companies are technologies to achieve privacy, and both are sometimes abused by bad actors.

It's very sad to see commenters here fail applying the same principle to both.
Putting on my Computer Scientist hat (and getting all of the tentacles out of my face so I can see), GIAM seems to be a good, if a little verbose[1], introduction to formal logic and basic set theory. Those are fundamental to CS and this is a heck of a lot better than many of the intros to those topics that I have seen in curricula without a dedicated class.
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