skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's true in the general sense but a lot of that hasn't been really tested simply because of the power of tradition. Part of what [may] be dangerous about Trump is that he is perceived as willing to run roughshod through political convention. Declarations of martial law (in particular if the military can be convinced to go along with it) or other more extraordinary actions would have a powerful effect on the country.

During his presidency Trump showed that a president CAN have profound effects on the economic system. He ordered changes to trading policy with China that had effects that were obvious and felt (regardless of the merit of the actions).

A lot of times presidents are simply unwilling to risk rocking the boat, preferring stability and the status quo. There is a lot of risk of ruining ones re-election chances and damaging the electability of congresspersons of ones party and thus the party itself losing political power (and thus the sweet teet of special interest lobbying money and such that comes along with wielding enough power to represent those interests).

Trump--and I agree with this sentiment myself--is more willing to do something radical. That doesn't mean anything radical he does will be intrinsically bad or have bad effects, it's possible that he could affect positive radical change too.

So, while it's true our president doesn't normally affect too much, it isn't purely because the office lacks the power to affect the economy.
TSMC still evacuated. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tsmc-evacuates-production-lin...
HN 5-days ago | 47 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39864107
How did that lead to 31% less revenue in one year? It seems like all of this was also true in 2023.
How is it just taxpayers? What about non-tax paying citizens? And what about government revenues from non-tax sources?
Why did you choose PayPal instead of stripe?
I thought I was perfectly clear that they're maximizing short-term profits which in the end will result in less profit in the long run.
Come on, it isn’t anything to do with being a “marketing stunt.” Often products like this are expected to lose money at first, but they hope with enough R&D and scale that they can make it successful eventually.

For example, you are pointing out that annotating is costly, but that’s an expense that scales independently of the number of stores. So with enough scale it wouldn’t be as big a deal. Or if they figured out some R&D that could improve it too.
I wouldn't blame then if they've thrown all their computers into the sea, changed their name, and taken upon a job building timber furniture...
John W. Campbell did one of those contrarian intellectual who knee jerked too hard. He advocated that slavery had good sides and that it should've been kept as an institution because the civil war was worse than slavery. Also that slavery was a more natural way of society. Also that the relation of smoking to lung cancer was esoteric (he loved a good cig). Oh and that racial segregation should be maintained because of the inferiority of negroes. You know this kind of personality.
This example caused my brain to malfunction: “The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families”
These two articles in American Cinematographer (1 and 2) give some interesting background on the movie; concerning the ship they write:

> When it first appears onscreen, the Event Horizon craft itself resembles a giant crucifix hovering over the surface of Neptune. "The spaceship was built on a cruciform, like all cathedrals are," Anderson explains. "We began the design process by literally scanning [photos of] the Notre-Dame Cathedral into the computer and then constructing the Event Horizon out of those Gothic elements. For example, the big thruster engines are an adaptation of the Notre Dame towers, repositioned on their sides. A lot of the iron and steel work of the superstructure is based on the cathedral's stained-glass windows. The ship also has a lot of triptych windows and big recessed crosses.

> "When Adrian and I first sat down, we said, 'Let's do something completely different,"' says Anderson. "Since we were going into outer space, I felt we had to have a really strong design concept; otherwise Event Horizon would have ended up looking like [a bunch of] other movies cobbled together. We spent a lot of time coming up with a design concept, which we called 'techno-Medieval.' When the lights are on, everything looks very technological and very spaceship-like. But when the lights go off and the haunting begins, you start looking at the shapes, and the architecture is actually very medieval. We extended that techno-Medieval design idea into as many aspects of the picture's look as possible, without rubbing the audience's nose in it."

1: https://theasc.com/articles/unearthly-terrors-event-horizon

2: https://theasc.com/articles/event-horizon-scare-tactics
The secret is it's cultural. Asian people eat a lot of rice. when you do, it makes sense to optimize the boring part, which is watching rice cook. this frees you to cook delicious entrees to go with the rice. Or cook means in the rice cooker. For whiter audiences that don't eat as much rice, but do eat bread, a toaster is the equivalent device. you could toast bread in a pan, why don't you? you could load it up with all sorts of stuff that way. But most people have a toaster.

the secret is labor saving devices. if you don't do a ton of that sort of labor, it doesn't make sense. My rice cooker spends more time with rice in it that I eat, than not.
Nah, it was actually a nightmare. The small number of people who understood this and exploited it lived like Gods. It gave malevolent people far too much power.

And while a smaller percentage than today were in it for the money, a lot still were. Plus the ones not in it for the money were sometimes worse, since they were motivated solely by ego, power, and sociopathy.
Why do you think "bubble" will burst?
You can't deploy a distributed system atomically, and the closer you get the more risk you're taking with prod. The old and new versions need to coexist for at least a couple of weeks in case of rollbacks.
If you required a high accuracy like 99.9% to charge a customer, you could have a system that was mostly automatic but still needed human review when the model isn’t confident enough. It’s hard to know exactly what this means without a lot more details, which Amazon is unlikely to provide.
At some point, they will release the legions of Associate Deans on an unsuspecting problem.
In my 15 years i would say less than 1% of bug reports are like this. If you know the bug to this level most people just would fix it themselves
I Don’t disagree with you at all but it’s ironic at the least. Certain items become hot button and people have trouble seeing the full picture
Really interesting. I'll be trying this tonight.
https://unikraft.io/pricing/
Do you not get fever dreams? Even if I have a slight fever (say 100) my dreams are uniquely different, so I always know when I have a fever at night. Hard to explain "fever dreams" if you don't get them...
Why do you use quotes? My reason would be NVDA sticker price.
it's all internal revenue. IFS is charging Intel Products for making chips. 2023 was a down year bc of weaker cloud & IT demand. Outside of NVDA, semiconductor companies had a poor 2023.

"Revenue was $18.9 billion down $8.6 billion from 2022. Internal revenue was $18.0 billion, down $9.1 billion driven by lower intersegment volume. External revenue was $953 million, up $479 million from 2022, driven by higher packaging revenue"

https://www.intc.com/filings-reports/all-sec-filings/content...
I’d imagine longer term contracts not renewing or renewing at lower prices / lower volumes.
Might be "700 manual reviews per 1000 trips" getting misinterpreted as "700 out of 1000 trips needed manual reviews". If some trips were pathological edge cases that required near-constant reviews and a substantial majority took zero reviews, I could understand why Amazon would keep trying to fix its system.
2 years tops, since the technology is there, it would be a considerable improvement to Google Maps, and Google has the required resources.
that took me a second. Soldiers, married and unmarried, and their families live in the building complex.
Same experience here. That's my 'Convention Attendee' / 'Theme park '''vacation'''' exercise and get the heck to sleep program.
> What is possibly unclear about the situation?

While that's how things work at the district or even state level, that's not quite how money works at the federal level. To a first-order approximation, federal government spending is a tax on dollar-holders, with federal tax corresponding roughly to fealty (such service being delivered to dollar-holders). They're decoupled because the US federal government, via the Treasury, is able to create and destroy dollars.

The IRS is responsible for collecting taxes, but delivers them to the Treasury for reallocation or destruction. Since money is fungible, only the net change in extant money matters, and they don't actually have to destroy and reprint notes… though in unrelated news, they do also do that.

Though, at organisational levels below the central bank… once money has been set aside for the interests of the commons, does it truly still belong to those it was appropriated from? If I give money to a malaria charity, I don't then get to say "hey, spend that money on vaccines instead of nets": it's theirs to allocate as they see fit. If I don't like how a charity organises money, I'll choose a different one: just like how, if you don't like how your local government organises communal resources, you should vote accordingly (which, in theory, works) and otherwise take political action.
250k is still on the high end for a senior developer at a startup.
Also industrial safety, worker hours, etc
Sell them? To who?
i'll take any publicly visible build system over a hidden one
This is all very interesting stuff, and I thank you for a bunch of new keywords to google, but I’m not sure why you say it’s not chaotic.

As far as I understand, extreme sensitivity to parameters/ICs is all that is required for a system to be chaotic.
Why will my device lose access to Libby & OverDrive April 15, 2024?
...the company still failed but anyhoo...
> how about recommended levels of vitamin D? That's directly influenced by pigmentation.

People generally don't consider dark skinned Indians and dark skinned Nigerians and dark skinned Peruvians to be the same race because they all have dark skin. They're just as different from each other as they are from me despite having more melanin.

> It seems apparent to me that there are at least _some_ cases where the social construct of "race" is useful in a clinical setting.

The concept of skin pigmentation is useful for things related to skin pigmentation. The concept of "race" is still artifice and absolutely the least useful proxy there is for whatever you're actually trying to measure in any given moment.

> Playing Devil's Advocate here

Please don't.
https://bofh.org.uk/2018/10/25/devils-advocacy-without-tears...
Someone vastly overestimates the scope and reach of crypto in the grand scheme of things. No one's declaring war in the name of Bitcoin.

Go touch some grass.
"Summary: Platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have not only broadened access to funding to companies that might struggle in the capital markets but have also transformed the way companies connect with consumers during product development, replacing focus groups with real customers who have a stake in the final product. Despite crowdfunding’s many benefits, numerous campaigns still fail. To understand why, the authors embarked on an empirical analysis of 18,173 campaigns for physical products in the technology and design categories on Kickstarter. They found that many companies often present initial products that are so fully developed that customers don’t feel that their input will materially change the product and are reluctant to contribute as a result."
This is putting the car before the horse.

If South Africa wants to enjoy a nuclear renaissance, it needs to look at whoever was successful lately in building nuclear power plants and draw conclusions. The United Arab Emirates started building 4 such plants 12 years ago, and last month they hooked the last to grid. Each generates 1.3 GW of electricity. Turkey started building 4 plants in 2018 and the first will be hooked to the grid in the coming months, the last being scheduled for 2026. Each of these plants delivers 1.2 GWe. Pakistan started building two 1 GWe plants in 2015, and hooked them in 2021 and 2022.

All these examples have one thing in common: pressurized water reactors. This is the most widespread design worldwide. One could say it's also a boring design, HTR (high temperature reactor) is so much sexier. But boring is good. In the nuclear energy space, you want boring.
Canoo did a 1:23 reverse split last month, so take that into account.... His comp in Rsus is probably shy of $1M
left leaning liberal and fiscally responsible... I see you too are a member of the silent(ced) majority and i agree with your assessment
There's a pretty active retro community around the VAX arch, and a really decent emulator in SIMH, so the compiler still gets some love.

The 68k arch is still in production, so no reason not to support it. LLVM added 68k support in the last couple of years.
KraftCloud is pretty awesome! I've only used it for a few days, learning/toying around but I will be using it for my next project. I don't know the right answer because pricing is hard to figure out. But free to $250 a month is a steep jump. I see myself needing more than free in the near future but $250 a month is a big jump when you're talking a small 1 person business. Maybe there could be more incremental tiers or something? A rough guess of a nice pay tier for those who need more than free but not as much as the $250. Maybe something in the $20 to $25 range?
> Let’s Encrypt, is discontinuing support for Android ... 7.1.0 and earlier.

> beginning April 15, 2024, Android 7.1.1 will be the earliest supported Android OS for all OverDrive apps and websites, including Libby.

This change was already delayed from 3 years ago as Let’s Encrypt found a workaround back then [1]. Too bad they aren’t delaying it anymore. Good bye to my old tablet for library ebooks.

[1]: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/231025/lets-encr...
Very nice post. One can the same advice for a startup that is trying to compete with a large company.
Still own and use a little 9V plastic “portable” UV EPROM eraser that I’ve had for 30 years. Never heard the term “flashing” in this use even when I used them commercially. It really makes no sense what it has to do with flashing, it’s a steady gas discharge lamp for 10 to 20 minutes.

The process of programming EPROM was colloquially called “burning” whereas for Flash the programming is called “flashing”, despite the characteristic that the name originally refers to is fast erase speed.
China and Hong Kong stocks lost nearly $5T in 3 years
"Stocks in China and Hong Kong sold off a massive $4.8 trillion in market capitalization since 2021, which according to HSBC, is more than the value of the Indian stock market."
This is super interesting. Does anyone know of any other web-of-trust style social networks?
The Circle line has dislodged https://www.setn.com/News.aspx?NewsID=1448651

Live stream of news about the incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SydScnOrmf8

There's been pretty big aftershocks like clockwork after, it's gonna be a hard day. My dog is freaked out, my fish tanks are half empty, we're not sure if we can open the restaurant since the MRT is closed and our chef lives quite far, and that's just life in Taipei, I can't imagine what people in Hualian are going through.

Edit: the aftershock just now was as strong as some of the scarier earthquakes I've ever felt in my life. Such a rough day for Hualien. I envision going down to the southeast to support but it might actually be impossible right now, due to landslides and the train lines going down. Even if I took my motorcycle, I doubt I could get through.

Edit: pov from a car on an elevated road https://twitter.com/jimmy_su/status/1775347726697587167?s=20 most highways in Taiwan are elevated maybe 100m or so.

Edit: hw9 near Hualien lost a bridge https://udn.com/news/story/7314/7874283 that is one of the most beautiful, well maintained, fun, and safest roads I've ever motorcycled in my life. I hope they are able to repair it.

Edit: I'm furious with YouTube for forcing this to be a "short" with bad-on-purpose UX but here's a video of odd water behavior in a port https://youtube.com/shorts/91Rmacvw4ho?si=d78KAUvDTeg_ovbh
In Japan for domestic quakes they always report the Shindo scale (based on surface peak ground acceleration) instead of Magnitude. It’s way more useful a measure IMHO and whenever I see western news report use M it tells me nothing about how bad the quake actually was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Meteorological_Agency_se...
This is awesome! I'm not fluent with Flutter/Dart but would like to dig in to how the build / Wasm packaging works.

The state of shared memory for Wasm is not great, although raw SharedArrayBuffers work ok in a browser for running multiple guests. Getting multi-memory properly working through llvm is likely a better solution.

We've got a bundle size issue as well even with -O3. I thought it was due to the amount of templated glm simd code we run, but now am convinced its deeper than that into Emscripten. Haven't been able to look into deeply yet.
Investors have little appetite for companies which could be nationalized or neutered by an autocratic government.
Of course. I'm in the "Reality is just 100M lit, shaded, textured polygons per second" kind of guy- realtime is about 65 FPS with no jank.
This is awesome! I've wanted this for a while
I wouldn't worry. Research really sets apart new grads. Everyone else got a degree too, but doing cool research is usually a good conversation starter during interviews!
We've had 20+ years of industry vastly outpaying academia.
From Apple Watch, I learned I get 11 minutes of deep sleep last night, and generally average well under half an hour (for a full 8 hour typical). I can fall asleep easily, but apparently not very well. Yours sounds great.
I'm glad to see I'm not a minority of one here. Looking at autoconf and friends I'm reminded of the dreck that used to fill OpenSSL's code simply because they were trying to account for every eventuality. Autotools feels like the same thing. You end up with a ton of hard to read code (autogenerated bash, not exactly poetry) and that feels very inimical to safety.
"Underpaid" and "fair" is a modern political myth, except in the instances when there is a concerted effort to undermine the semi-natural labor market. Pay will never be enough, as a point of fact. It will always be "underpaid" and "unfair" in discussion. As this is an immortal pressure and negotiating tactic. It is incentivized, and therefore we will get more of it. That works both ways, but at some point there has to be a reckoning that accepts that it is better to have employed than unemployed unskilled workers. In the context of a massive and growing unskilled population base. Yet the same people who demand that everyone earn a living wage, sometimes punctuating their points with riots, tend to be the same crowd who wants to import unskilled workers by the millions.

There is no effectively borderless world in which most are both employed and not "underpaid". It won't happen both ways. In fact, the pay trend is about to tip massively against fairness. In a manner that even will make economic rationalists uncomfortable. These "fair pay" efforts are a distraction before that storm.
For a forced-air furnace, I put a hinged piece of cardboard over a room vent with a paperclip switch. When the furnace blew, the cardboard would rise and the switch would open. Simple and effective. It doesn't measure the burn cycle of the furnace exactly, but it was close enough for me.
European governments are making substantial revenues by fining American companies. Why innovate when you can regulate?
Why wouldn't it be true in 2024 as well? All the rage is in GPUs and AI accelerators - not Xeon/client CPUs which are Intel's bread and butter.
Cool! How hard would it be for it to take actions do you think?
I have witnessed the same excitement and "never ending summer" psychology many times before. The cold winter always comes.

We even had a big bubble recently with AI itself regarding self driving cars. It's amazing how every tech luminary went on stage and declared "This Year For Sure" to be when self driving cars would pick us all up... in 2019. It's perpetually 5 years away from mass deployment.

Training LLMs has huge capital expenditure (capex) and is not producing revenues. As an anecdote, my brother in law works for a large 15k person Microsoft software shop, and they got a discount on their license renewal (yes, a discount) for including Github Copilot for every software engineer. We surmised this is to goose the number of "paying" licenses to help metrics.

Extremely high salaries - extremely high capex - extremely high hype and gushing press - extremely nonexistent revenues (except for the pick and shovel sellers like NVDA) - this is a quintessential bubble in the making!
not your point at all, but you say almost all of the chips are Intel chips. I was under the impression that literally all of them were Intel chips. Have they started manufacturing chips for others?
EV's in Group B would be awesome!

Bring on Group B-EV
Did anyone use the Red Talking Phonebook in the 1990s?

It had a phone number you could dial and then you could enter codes to get different information such as movie times, jokes, the time of day, and so on.

I liked trying random codes in it to see if I could find hidden services... and eventually I did. I don't recall the exact code, but I think it was like 9987. It turned out to be basically this - an anonymous public voicemail box where you could listen to recordings other people made, and you could make your own.

A few other people stumbled upon it, too, and there was a range of messages on there: some funny, some very silly, some fairly scary or weird.

I've never come across anyone else who had stumbled upon this though... surely someone here has?
The XZ Utils backdoor is a symptom of a larger problem
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Most of the pictures are a little misleading for distance etc, as well as time. When people are close to the building is before the fire department arrived, and people are trying to get other people out of the building. It sounds like they're relatively situationally aware, warning eachother about live cables, gas, etc. Obviously there's a risk of death but there's also a risk of your old neighbor getting squashed if you don't get her out, so, I guess it's up to each person how they react.

Within about 20 minutes the fire department had completed its first evaluation of damage and identified the 3 partially collapsed buildings.