skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The faster you 'move' through space

Therein lies the rub. To "move" proves nothing about who is "faster" because there is no absolute frame of reference. You may think that I am moving at 0.8c, but maybe it is just me slowing down to a standstill while you are still receding at 0.8c. This might be a valid interpretation of your observation of me "moving at 0.8c" if... (and only if...) there were an absolute frame of reference. But there ain't.

AIUI it is the flavors of acceleration - including accelerating, decelerating, and gravity - that tinker with time. Which is why I still can't quite wrap my mind around the Twin Paradox, because it is usually explained in terms of speed, not periods of acceleration.
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GKE Autopilot mode gets burstable workloads and smaller Pod sizes
American insanity. For shame.
I also have an LLC for software and didn't love having to put my address, since I don't have a storefront or anything either, but I don't think it reveals any more info than someone could find from having your name in the first place.
I disagree with this, in this issue and more broadly. Technology and hacking are inextricably linked to politics, whether we like it or not. We cannot separate the effects technology has on society and the body politic, and politics has an effect on technology through regulatory regimes, policy, and the law. These discussions are important to the development of technology even if it makes people uncomfortable to see views they disagree with, though of course there are discussions that are unproductive and should not be allowed on this specific forum.

Just as an example, the EU is setting a lot of law and policy surrounding technology right now, affecting how companies like Apple operate or putting policy into place to regulate emerging technologies like AI. The people who make the technology should be aware of those policies, how it affects what they build, and society's view on the products of their development more broadly.

I realize Israel and Palestine is a charged topic, but in my view, the high stakes of that conflict and the threat to human life on both sides means it's more important to have conversations about technology in that context, not less. Those conversations are probably going to hurt somebody's feelings, but we ought to talk about issues like how freedom of speech online and terrorism are connected and how AI systems and the military are mixing because it's important to maintaining the ethical fabric of our profession.
Open source provides much more insight into the day-to-day of development than people whose immediate family was not involved used to have.

Reading talk slides gives me a much better idea of how mathematicians do mathematics than I ever had as an undergraduate.

Cheap storage and cheap bandwidth ought to be revolutionary, for those willing to exploit them instead of be entertained by them.

[I have had a reasonably successful career; I wonder how much of it was due to having had parents who habitually asked "is that true?" "how would you know?" "let's look it up" and, if it were true, how long it stayed true by making a more general claim, and if not, could it be made true by making a more specific claim?

For early instruction in "reading between the lines" I credit MAD Magazine. But come to think of it, who arranged my subscription?]
Some people say that about websites.

Sounds good in theory, but we all know a true public record of the stuff would be mined by scammers, law enforcement, recruiters and lawyers.
You should link not to the first episode but a playlist that you update in reverse order, so the best episodes come first. It wasn't clear to me that the quality would improve with each episode, and honestly getting through the first was a bit of a struggle.

How much funding do you think you need for an MVP that's more Copilot-like? I might be interested in taking part in a seed round. Having AI do everything is a fun challenge, but I think the sort of people who would actually pay for a product would want to have some creative control and let the AI handle the parts they don't want to or can't do.

The Minecraft-esque graphics probably aren't an issue, but scaling up to provide all the needed assets probably is. There are AIs that can generate 3D models but having a consistent art style is required for it to work visually and you provided that here. Finding a way to quickly and cheaply scale the "kitbashing" seems key to any kind of productization.
Why is observability so expensive?
If I were willing to drop $4k on that setup, I might as well get the real NVidia offering.

The hobbyist market needs something priced well under $1k to make it accessible.
More than zero…?
Why can't Earth time be the universal frame of reference, and everywhere else use a factor of earth time? This article describes the rate difference already, why can't we use that?
FWIW I implemented SARIF output in GCC 13 which is viewable by e.g. VS Code (via a plugin) - though the ASCII art isn't.

You can see an example of the output here:
https://godbolt.org/z/aan6Kfxds
(that's the first example from the article, with -fdiagnostics-format=sarif-stderr added to the command-line options)

I experimented with SVG output for the diagrams, but didn't get this in good enough shape for GCC 14.
Threat to their wealth, not to their livelihoods
I disagree with the slower than driving. I could take the train from the Valley to downtown SD in less time to drive. The train is a fairly consistent amount of time where driving totally depends on day/time. Leaving the Valley on a Friday afternoon has taken more than 4 hours. On the train, it is very close to 2 hours.

As more fine grained details, from my place in Burbank to my friend's place in Carlsbad was 99 miles. It took longer to drive that than it takes me to drive from Dallas to Austin with is twice as far.
That was, of course, sarcasm.
I don't necessarily think its the "nothing to hide" argument, even though it gets presented as that. Its more of frustration that privacy in the corporate world seems to have a lot more protections than the every day normal person world. The argument given for the average person is, "nothing to hide." Now it is just the normal person saying, well if that argument is sufficient for us, its sufficient for them. If it isn't, then the rules for us need to change.
Your home in Canada just recently demanded blind trusts all report their members personal information to the government. Far from engaging only the rich, that demand hit millions of every day citizens with shared bank accounts with their parents or kids. Those are setup for a variety of reasons, one of which is to circumvent probate tax! Yep, by everyday non-rich people!

However, note that the CRAs information collection did not make your personal bank account information public. Would you prefer that it had? I used the example of a blind trust here because "non-blind" trusts are one of the common uses of non-commercial corporate entities.

Also, I never once said "total privacy from oversight", all these corporate entities already supply financial and ownership information to the government, whose job it is to hold them to account. This is not the same and making information public so a rabid mob of people can enact vigilante justice, or whatever people like you hope comes out of it.
A company that specializes in helping people escape from horrible rulers would be an example. Not everything deserves to be public. There are always as many good reasons to hide as there are entities that need to be hidden from.
The largest deep lake water cooling project just got bigger
> demanding more money so that retirees can move into that villa on the golf course in Florida and consume until the dementia sets in.

There are also the taxpayers that need the government pension funds to make good on investment assumptions, lest taxes have to go up.

Edit:

Politician A: I will remove all deferred compensation schemes, but have to increase taxes to pay the employees with money today

Politician B: I will pay the employees with deferred compensation, and keep taxes lower than politician A, and let future taxpayers deal with any problems of underfunding and corruption

Politician B wins every election.
> 10+ bits. Jpegli can be encoded with 10+ bits per component.

If you are making a new image/video codec in 2024 please don't just give us 2 measly extra bits of DR. Support up to 16 bit unsigned integer and floating point options. Sheesh.
https://archive.ph/IZSDQ

https://archive.today/IZSDQ
Thanks, it's always a pleasure to read my own thoughs worded better than I would have.
Does Meta provide a status page for its consumer products?
The space shuttle had a four-second window to start its entry burn to reach the runway back on Earth. I don't think the discrepancy in a second on Earth versus the Moon is going to mean the difference between a crash or a success. No space-faring vessel had any tolerance as low as .0000001
I really believe there's a missing market. I think there would be big business in building servers for homes. Where you prioritize low power usage and low noise, and do not need blazing speeds or frequent/high access. Cloud is great, but some things should still be stored at home. Home NAS systems are a bit odd and difficult to expand (nowhere near what a rack is).

My argument would be that this would be helpful with the high adaptation of things like Ring doorbells and other camera systems at home. Where people can store their own data and provides better security & privacy given you need not rely on a data connection to store that footage. It also would be extremely worthwhile if we are to see personalized LLMs become common and tools like home assistant. You wouldn't want that running off-site. In fact, I'd rather call home from my mobile LLM than call FAANG (or anyone else with teeth).

I just think buying used servers on ebay or trying to throw together a home rig is harder than it needs to be. I'm confident the demand exists but it is unfortunately a field of dreams scenario. Many people will not know they want it until it exists (I can say my parents would love this but they don't understand the first thing about technology so all they can do is complain about Google/Apple having all their data rather than express how they want to store their own).
I pick a finite number of possibilities and ignore the rest?

This is genuinely surprising to me, do you not understand how people make decisions?
Strategically, quite a bit. Wired recently had a piece on this: https://www.wired.com/story/4-internal-apple-emails-helped-d...

Matt Stoller also had a really great writeup:
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-the-apple-antitrust-s...
We need to consider what are the other options in that situation, my thinking is that due to Hamas being fully embedded in the civilian population, the only other "reasonable" method is to carpet bomb... After reading the article I much prefer the AI method.
Languages other than C give you options for flow control so that you don't need goto for that. It is a spectrum, if you only use goto to jump to the end of a small function on error it is okay, though I prefer something better in my language. I've seen 30,000 line functions with gotos used for flow control (loops and if branches) - something you can do in C if you are really that stupid and I think we will all agree is bad. This 30,000+ line function with gotos as flow control was a lot more common in Dijkstra's day.
Well, spinning rust HDDs stuck in your server have no actual parallelism and aren't highly available, replicated, etc.

How much do you think 1TB of storage should cost?
A person once said to me - the only direction you move when coasting is down.
Maybe that's "cancer" but I do agree with it.
> So the government is in a position of "we'll give you X for this, but if you don't agree we'll just take it from you", which is a... non-Texan position for government to be in, to say the least.

Texas government doesn't seem to have that reservation when it comes to highway expansions within cities, that's for sure.
The claim, as I understand it, is that commerce within a megaregion is more tightly integrated than commerce between megaregions. If this is the case, there should be more trade between Baltimore and Boston than Baltimore and Raleigh (controlling for population/GDP/infrastructure, I suppose, and therein lies the rub), despite the fact the latter pair is closer.
I didn't know that, I thought it changed during the span of its life. Thank you!
I had a colleague who had recently become a manager ask me "so wait, people always have to be growing and advancing? What if they just got promoted and they want to do that for a while. Or they are happy with what they are doing right now?" I replied that I understood that and I feel like that is a problem everywhere. Everything has to be growing all the time and it's probably not for the better.
Did we really do so well on land? We are already looking at overtaxing our planet's carrying capability. 21st century will be pretty rough as the developing countries' lifestyle will catch up and they won't accept the richer countries telling them to be more sustainable unless the latter become so as well. Unfortunately, our level of consumption and environmental destruction is already unsustainable.
Reading the article it sounds to me a lot less like double-dipping than the headline implies: it's not planned to use a "typical" ad network but instead a sponsorship program similar to "Twitch Drops" (Twitch: watch a streamer play a sponsored game's streams get in game/in Twitch cosmetics; Discord: play a sponsored game while friends watch in Discord and get in game/in Discord cosmetics).

Even if it wasn't "opt out" (and the article claims there will be a button to turn it off, but does not know if that will only be a Nitro option or what), it's still specifically devoted enough to the "gaming" side of Discord that it sounds like these "ads" it will just bleed into the background for non-gamers that use Discord like most of the rest of Discord's gaming specific features. (Just like the Game Store that Discord briefly attempted and proved unprofitable and was just about as quickly dropped. Most of my friends at the time didn't even notice Discord had a Game Store.)
But it could take an hour to get from where you want to go in Houston to/from the station. Houston is not Rome!
That's a tough thing to do when you consider the market dynamics - namely that other companies are trying to eat their market share. They have to be actively improving products doing marketing, etc. in order to just maintain their position, so why not do those things in a way that's targeted at growth?

There's also the matter of people - people like to work on big, important challenges. The best people don't tend to want to work at companies that are stagnant. If you're the leader and you lose the best people because you decide to stagnate and throw off revenue, then suddenly you're going to have trouble maintaining your market position because the best people are now at competitors working to take your market position.
Emotion Detection with Transformers: A Comparative Study
Turns out one of your associates has been identified as a terrorist.

So sorry.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_water_source_cooling

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Lake_Water_Cooling_System
I wonder if that's something I should do. I noticed once or twice if I ate something with pumpkin puree in it, the next day my bowels were heavenly.

Do you have a different reaction to soluble vs insoluble fiber?
It's very likely he wouldn't be able to pass a background check himself, so he stole the identity to secure a well-paid job that he couldn't get himself
Does that make Waco the all seeing eye in the middle of the pyramid?
> As Tim Hardwareunboxed says - if you don’t have a good uplift, don’t release the product. Intel made sure they had an uplift every year. You can’t change actual progress but it can be smooth.

I don't think that quote means what you think it does. If you don't have meaningful uplift every year… don't try to release a new generation every year.
I'm not aware of any attacks based on the primes that roll out of the inverse base64 algo, I just added that as a precaution.
When I saw the name, I knew immediately this is Jyrki's work.
https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/jpegli/

Note that that's from almost a year ago, don't know if anything changed.
> Any given commercial operation that claims any credibility for itself does supply chain analysis before adopting a dependency. This is, among other things why ordinarily you'd pay RedHat to maintain a stable Linux Release for you and why projects such as FreeBSD severely limit the software they ship in the default install.

That sounds like you assume RedHat would've caught the vulnerability in xz-utils, before shipping it in the next release of RHEL. I'm not so sure about that, as there is only so much you can do in terms of supply chain analysis and such a sophisticated vulnerability can be pretty hard to spot. Also mind that it only got discovered by accident after all.
How many times have you listened to your favorite album? Some of my CDs would have worn out in the 00’s if I hadn’t ripped them. In fact I had to use a disc doctor on a few to get a clean scan.
1967

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Southwest_Airlines#....
also
https://southwest50.com/our-stories/when-herb-met-rollin-the....
@dearroy what chat support service do you use? I always find them useful.
PSC is a rough disease with the bile ducts. I'm surprised we haven't any treatment for it yet.
I was more talking about the method to achieve optimistic updates, rather than the concept of optimistic updates in general. That is, having the client and server code be identical where applicable, with client code being run in a prediction context.

I'm not a web expert but the optimistic updates I've seen in web stuff is more like, I'm gonna fetch this url and here's the data I expect back. Nothing wrong with that, but it's achieved in a different way, where the server is all about providing data and the client is all about managing state.

The OP is talking about maintaining a persistent connection to a server which is doing most of the state management. They detail things this does well (makes the server easier to write) and things it does poorly (makes optimistic updates harder) and a solution to the things it does poorly. So I'm drawing a parallel to other systems where state is managed on the server and must be predicted on the client.
> Ai flagging targets sure beats the cold impunity of the strategic air campaign during wwii and vietnam by far.

Only on a single iteration of a Nash game.

If it tempts the politicians and generals to target larger areas because of the lower costs… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
Yes, the strawman version of the case is not strong, and of course plays on the fear of possible unspecified other things we would do if we copied China as a general approach.

But what about the steelman version of the case? I think it's a lot stronger.
eval() is a big security hole
Because in their minds, the market will eventually dry up, and... they're not wrong. There's not many folks looking for a new Apple ][ these days. And since continuing business means needing to access ever-increasing amounts of capital to create the next thing to sell, they have to make the number bigger. Otherwise the business goes under.

Honestly, their hangup on that last point is perplexing, because as long as the big shareholders get a decent cut in a long enough horizon to hedge or exit positions, they don't care if the company goes kaput. See GE. Jack Welch basically parted out the company like a corporate raider. It was obvious what would happen: at some point, there would be nothing left to sell and the company could not continue as an independent going concern. But you could mark the sale of a division as income for the quarterly report, and it made them meet projections, so it was seen as visionary.
It's true that some Texans like to talk about secession. However, there's very little overlap between those people and Rice University faculty.
Its not that apple won’t survive. People still need laptops just less than what they might like to sell a year. If operations need to shrink so be it. Lean and mean is a good thing sometimes. Most of apples really inventive projects came when the company was smaller than it is today.
A 3 m tsunami isn't like a 3 m wave from wind action. It is like a 3 m tide or storm surge added on top of whatever normal tide level you are at. So if it hits at low tide it might be somewhat negated, but if it hits at high tide it may overwhelm sea walls and other coastal infrastructure.

When people talked above about the long wavelength of a tsunami, they mean it doesn't crest and possibly break in seconds like a surface wave. It can keep building for many minutes and continue to flow inland after the crest.

Look for some tourist video of the 2004 tsunami that flowed over islands in Thailand. It looks more like a river or levee breach flooding over the whole field of view. In steeper coastal terrain, the wave can sometimes be funneled or focused into a narrower port or valley and then reach much higher elevations than you would expect.
Brave is launching its AI assistant on iPhone and iPad
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Because growth is now baked into the share price. If they don't keep stoking the fire of optimism, it burns out and the share price collapses. Our current business culture is saying that this is what managers need to think about, so this is what they think about.

I would be happy with a vast economy of Mittelstand type businesses, each producing ball bearings or gear wheels, not trying to eat the whole planet, just existing at a sensible level. It's not like they can't grow if the opportunity arises.
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For me “exceptionally fast” is maglev. 200 km/h train is normal at this point.
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> That is, only members of the armed wing of Hamas (not recruiters, weapon manufacturers,..

I think the loop-hole here is that a weapon manufacturing facility is almost certainly a military strategic target, and international law allows you to target the infrastructure provided the military advantage gained is porportional to the civilian death.

So you can't target the individuals but according to international law its fine to target the building they are in while the individuals are still inside provided its militarily worth it.