skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The straw ban catalyst was an endangered sea turtle with a straw in its nose going viral:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/the-last-straw-footage-of...

I'm not sure if people are intentionally misrepresenting this, but it wasn't about the total amount of plastic used or climate change.

It's more similar to the old can ring plastic that became a meme for it's danger to wildlife.
iDrive is slow and charges extremely high fees for usage above provisioned. They also have a history of increasing prices for individual contracts only a few weeks before renewal, so you can't possibly have enough time to move your data.

Hetzner Storage Boxes (2.50-3 EUR per TB) is probably the sweet spot. B2 if you need an object storage API.
At the risk of sounding too "woke", I have to point out that many people are not in the privileged situation of being able to afford to create music, art, or writing without getting a financial reward from it. If they have something interesting or novel to express, they do not have the free time to express it in hopes of a occasional reward.
What these articles always leave out is what are the US capabilities in this area? Can we destroy the Russian and Chinese power grids by the same methods? Snowden showed that yes, the NSA and other US agencies have pretty much gotten in to everything and the cyber warfare is likely in place. What are our EMP capabilities both nuclear and non-nuclear? Is this a case of something new? The adversaries have caught up? Or someone just wants some more funding?
That's just everyday citizens

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/08/middleeast/gaza-israelis-...
You're also wrong.

Ive been to the rich liberal types' parties. You know how some of them go? Like this:

You'll have a retreat to the den. The host will either send someone out to get "supplies" or they'll already have it. And they'll pull out a few eight-balls, and they'll put up a few hundreds around the room, and everyone will enjoy a few lines.

They'll then retreat to the in-house pool or hot tub, and enjoy.

I also had a friend who was a retired record exec, and it was routine that during lunchtime, they'd gather money to go down to the street and buy coke.

Just because they're rich, doesnt mean they don't do drugs. They likely do, just not on the streets. They do from their mansions.

(And its also the middle class who're scared shitless about drugs. My guess is because they don't have the money to hire a lawyer to keep a drug rap off.)
They’ve found their product-market fit… why do they need to go find another one?
What do you do to make money?
I see zero benefit in having artificial functionality limitations. In my hypothetical example, imagine that `sed 's/foo/bar/'` works but `sed 's/foo/bark/'` does not because it's 1 character too long. There's not a plausible scenario where that helps me. You wouldn't want to expand sed to add a fullscreen text editor because that's outside its scope. Within its scope, limitations only prevent you from using it where you need it. It would be more like a hammer that cannot be made to hammer 3 inch nails because it has a hard limit of 2.5 inches.

Those are the kinds of limits GNU wanted to remove. Why use a fixed-length buffer when you can alloc() at runtime? It doesn't mean that `ls` should send email.
> LiveView makes a lot of things easy. But it also makes some easy things hard.

Having been involved with web applications for a couple decades there were some weird things LiveView did that weren't easy for me to pick up. Maybe its changed in the last 12-18 months but initial versions were built odd for some seemingly easy types of XHR things one would want to do.
That's true. And another downside is that once you're in the Svelte environment you can't use your Phoenix components inside those Svelte components.

I've thought about adding a library of default Svelte components which mirror the core components you get from Phoenix out of the box. But then again you lose forms and changesets etc, it's just annoying.

Where I see LiveSvelte fit is where you really need a lot of complex client side state. Sprinkle it in, but keep using phoenix components as your default, even with hooks
Forget the yoke - the new Model 3 still has a wheel but removed the stalks, moving the turn signal to buttons on the steering wheel and everything else to the touchscreen (though there's a second set of gear changes in the ceiling)
Could you provide a link here to your code repo for those of us not on xitter?
> The report concluded that, one year after a large-scale EMP or CME, nine of every ten Americans would be dead, from a variety of causes stemming from the attack.

Anyone else find that hard to believe?
I love these threads, because invariably you get dozens of people claiming that the majority of Americans don’t need a truck, are compensating for a small penis, etc etc. they always bring out a ton of vitriol. They might be right!

But.

This comes off as both elitist and is a terrible way to make change. The F-150 is the number one selling vehicle in the US for the last 30 years for a good reason, and it’s not indoctrination, fragile male egos, advertising, or anything else. Trucks are versatile, flexible, and given how cheap oil is, most Americans don’t see a downside.

If you want less people to drive super sized trucks, we need to shift regulation, not shame/blame people driving the best vehicle for them. Rules tying vehicle size to fuel effiency standards, rules around GVWR (ime, regularly flouted!) and safe height would encourage mfgs to make the much lusted after 90s tacomas, rangers and colorados people love.
Can I delete my account?

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From:

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> training data allow experimenters to "buy" arbitrary levels of skills for a system, in a way that masks the system's own generalization power
Amazon Scholar solves century-old problem with automated reasoning
I'm rather unclear about the speed of regrowth. From one source (the web?) It was a matter of years, yet talking to a herpetologist (edit: hepatologist. Blame voice recognition) in a pub, she said it can regrow 80% of itself in a matter of weeks. Assuming a healthy liver, how fast is regrowth?

Assuming a cirrhosed liver , how would that affect regrowth time? TIA.
Storing it isn't the problem.
Where's my Turbo Boost?
> To be fair, this is no different than what's done by a human artist.

Scale matters. It's like the difference between a cop sitting on the side of a road writing down the cars he sees on a pad of paper versus cameras plastered everywhere tracking every individual with ML software. You could say the computers are just doing the same thing as the human, but one is fairly benign while the other enables a totalitarian surveillance state.
Will America fight on Israel's bidding if it starts a war with Iran? Thus opening a new front with the war against Russia
Hasn't Firefox been doing this for a while already with their local translate feature?

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/translate/

Maybe they mean LLM, instead of AI (not sure if Firefox translate models are LLM ir not)
Yes, but there’s nothing like seeing an eclipse for yourself - go to the path of totality if at all possible: https://xkcd.com/2914/
Browsers are just mini OSs at this point. It’s probably best just to accept it. Honestly in some respects (security, isolation, resource management) they do a better job than the operating system they run on top of.
The issues arent arising from cellphones and personal computers. Precise time may not be necessary for building web services but it is the basis of precise navigation systems and other scientific endeavors such as astronomy and quantum computing. Since navigation and science will probably be way up on the todo list above twitter I think nanosecond accuracy lunar time is clearly justified.
Point72 has 30b of AUM, management fee of 3% or so -> They get around 900 million per year to run their fund. 25 million is about 3-2.5% of that. Decent savings.

At the end of the day, dropping costs has an infinite Sharpe so you always go for it, but I honestly thought it would be a bit more.
if (nbytes < sizeof(*hwrpb))
return -1;

if (copy_to_user(buffer, hwrpb, nbytes) != 0)
return -2;

The fix that was done was:

if (nbytes > sizeof(*hwrpb))

But I think the correct fix is:

if (copy_to_user(buffer, hwrpb, sizeof(*hwrpb)) != 0)

It never makes sense to copy out of the hwrpb pointer any size other than sizeof(*hwrpb).
The US customary fluid ounce is based on the Queen Anne wine gallon of 231 cu in. The Imperial weights and measures reform in the 1820s defined a new gallon equal to the volume of 10 lb avoirdupois of water at s.t.p., which was about the same as the old ale gallon. The Imperial pint was changed to be 20 fl. oz. instead of 16 fl. oz. so that the metric-style correspondence between mass and volume also worked for ounces.
This is mostly tangential to the article contents, but I've been watching interviews and talks by Benoit Mandelbrot [1] recently. I was a little surprised to find his work outside of fractals to be extremely interesting. He characterizes his own work as being on the general concept of "roughness".

The reason I bring it up in context of this article for blundering, is that he studies the chaotic movement of stock markets from the abstract perspective of "roughness". That is, he is interested in categorizing patterns that are in some kind of grey zone between smooth and completely chaotic.

One of the features I recall him mentioning in one of his introductions was related to "black swan" type events in markets. He suggests that only a few stock movements over time account for the majority of loss/gain. This is a feature he was interested in exploring and recreating using mathematical models and it lead him to investigate sampling from stochastic distributions that are not Gaussian.

This view is forcing me to evaluate some of this startup/business advice in a new light. This article seems to assume that both in chess and business that "blunders" are distributed in a normal way (probably not the correct mathematical term but I hope it communicates what I mean). But in reality, some blunders are tiny and some are massive.

Consider, you can avoid 99 out of 100 blunders but if the 1 blunder you make is that black swan blunder then you are dead. Conversely, you can make 99 out of 100 blunders but if you avoid that 1 black swan blunder then you can survive and even thrive. Of course, avoiding all blunders just happens to ensure that you also miss the catastrophic ones.

I haven't fully digested this idea but I think it is the basis for some profound advancement in our understanding. The problem is we can't really tell at any given moment which events are the ones that will end up being the most impactful, that seems to only come in hindsight. But even just realizing that there is an unequal distribution to the contribution of events over time feels pretty important to me.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoit_Mandelbrot
I have a normal job, like 99.9% of all musicians.
This is indicative of overly centralized government. People should have self determination to choose the rules that are best aligned for their situations.
Si vis pacem, para bellum. This long period of global peace wouldn't be possible without the mutually assured destruction of nuclear conflict and the certainty that no other nation-state could challenge the hegemon and it's allies in conventional warfare.
I believe Cloudflare (and many other cos like it) have never produced operating income. They are growing and obviously important and potentially very profitable in the future, but when discount rates are much higher and you add in some uncertainty, one could argue they don't look as hot as they used to.
>How passionate do you need your accountant to be?

Oof. Yes.
That site states "using libsystemd is a good choice"

:-D
The Mastodon videos have random initial conditions, the GitHub example does not. Are you checking the right link?
the headline reminded me of "ancient computers" in sci fi games, which was essentially a tower of Hanoi problem inmplemented in-game
I didn't realize they had dropped the price by almost half, most of them are going for well under $40K now.

On the one hand, Fisker had already tried it once and failed, why did they think they could succeed the second time? On the other hand, there are lots of success stories out there that make it seem like the time is ripe (Tesla of course, Rivian, Lucid, Bddy, Li, I'm still optimistic about Canoo...)
Good overview of auto loan delinquencies (2 months old): https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2024/02/auto-l...
Product Engineering with Infrastructure from Code
I think, in fairness, we have to blame Ferrari for that - they did it first with the Enzo, and brought it to their "base" models with the 458, I think?
If someone really wants to know where you live, they will find you. If the information in your bio is actually yours, there’s already plenty to work with. :)
That's a very bad take. Things have value even if they're not profitable. Do you think the pharaohs built the pyramids because they were profitable? Look how important they are to the world culture.
I’m really not sure why this got flagged. It seemed like a well sourced and technology-focused article. Independent of this particular conflict, such automated decision making has long been viewed as inevitable. If even a small fraction of what is being reported is accurate it is extraordinarily disturbing.
Hiding one’s address is nice so one can avoid listing one’s address in the public record. And the services used to conceal one’s address are largely the same services that hide one’s name.

Also, Delaware corporations are very popular for many legitimate reasons even for businesses with no personnel in Delaware. But you still need an agent for service of process in Delaware.

I wish the states would allow designating the Secretary of State as the agent for service of process and paying a nominal fee for them to forward documents electronically. This would keep relevant information available to law enforcement and the courts, but it would avoid the need for paying mildly sketchy registered agents for their mildly sketchy services.

It’s not clear to me that there’s any sort of bright line between shell companies and any other sort of corporation, anyway.
After watching the Mobile ALOHA video linked in another comment, I'm increasing the probability of me eating crow on this one.
But it does.

If my choice is either work at a job I don’t like or risk my life by foregoing medical procedures that I need… It’s not really a choice.

It’s the same situation as holding a gun to me and saying “work at this job or I’ll shoot you.”

This is far from the only way people are forced to keep people working against their will.

Threat of homelessness, dependents like children, family members who need medical support, H1B visas, etc.

I was saying how, even in a decently paying job, I’m forced to work there under threat of serious medical complications because of the state of healthcare in the US.

> Check your privilege

I’m not the one making blanket statements about why people work shitty jobs.
Both seem counter to the notion of a republic and the accountability needed for private property.

From what I can gather most houses of public figures are already known.
Y-yeah streaming sure has killed ownership of media…

* glances nervously at the Ethernet leading into the NAS in the closet, overflowing with music and videos and books and games
It's a PR campaign?! What?

MongoDB is mentioned in the footer, in greyed text. MongoDB benefits from Terraform vs OpenTofu tensions how?

Do you run or work for a DB company? Because your comment sounds like a PR campaign by that logic.
AI is a threat to Billie Eilish and Pearl Jam's livelihood?

Well, given that Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, etc, have been more than a threat to MY livelihood as famous rock-star :-) I can sympathize, but frankly, that's just the way it is. You have the right to compete, but you don't have the right to suppress competitors. Being king of the hill isn't a lifetime achievement award.

Now that we don't need artists to create derivative music, perhaps we won't have so much derivative music created. I wish them well, because frankly, it's not just them--everybody is going to have to prove they can be more valuable than an AI.
Thanks for sharing here! Do you know of any textbooks in this spirit that cover other topics in math?
But for steel, gold, silver, salt, gems, fuel, fertilizers, uranium, lithium, semiconductors, stone, cement, bricks, plastics, aluminum, glass, and chalk for schools, what did exploitation of land mineral resources ever give to us?
One of the hall marks of ADHD is struggling to complete boring, repeated tasks. Brushing teeth, doing your laundry, taking the trash out, etc, etc, etc

New things are interesting. They're engaging. They're novel. Old things, are generally not that.

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I largely see this type of stuff as an ode to the level of interesting and engaging stuff we have in life. It can be extremely hard to do the banal tasks because there is almost always something more interesting.
Not if it takes on the order of months to get the power grid back up, no.
100 Kilometres of quantum-encrypted transfer via fibre optic cable
It basically assumes that nobody will have any problem solving skills and will be reliant on the previous systems to still be running. That assumption is easier to make than to try to figure out how people would actually behave.
What I cannot figure out from this bizarre story was what was even the motivation? Did he just have an early run in with this guy, identified him as a target, maybe had a grudge and then just... stole his identity for 30 years? To do what? Why not get a job under his real name? Why force this guy to assume your ACTUAL name? It's utterly bizarre and one of the weirdest sociopathic things I've heard of in a while.
> Nietzsche famously declared “God is dead” in the 1880s

This over-simplification and misapplication of this quote has reached catastrophic levels.
Who says they have to duplicate it? Just write the original version clean, clearly, and concisely. Then run it through a mangler to rename variables to avoid collisions.

The STL is maintained by volunteers, it's a FOSS project. So your appeal to Serious Business doesn't hold.
90% might be a bit high, I don't know. However, I don't find it at all hard to believe that the casualty rate would be obscenely high and cover a majority of the population.
Often you have chains of invention, where it's not obvious from the outset that a specific outcome can be achieved by making that specific discovery or invention.

Other issues are cases where the profit to society is clear, but difficult to capture by any specific group (the reason why infrastructure is mostly built by governments), and cases where discoveries happen by chance because somebody was given the chance to "screw around" (for example the person who found the xz vulnerability probably couldn't have justified why he put engineering time into investigating a 0.5 second delay).
Well, we just saw Hollywood unions have a 4-month long strike over the portion of residuals they were receiving under streaming. I'm willing to bet that their complaints about not getting what they used to under prior contracts and models are entirely accurate.

We're also in a situation now where the media owners are building silos for their own content instead of licensing it and letting independent platforms compete on platform services and quality. That's not good for the people buying those services, either.

The pie might be bigger, but the same old middlemen are claiming the difference.
This seems like a cool idea but I'd have to see it in action for something I need to learn.

The first thing that jumps to mind is that I want to click on a piece of code and see the explanation for it. It seems that it only goes in the other direction. I could imagine looking at the code and understanding most of it and just wanting to understand part of it.

I could anticipate an issue though - it could be many-to-one from explanation to code. The UI for that would be complicated.
Cloudflare has a very dysfunctional sales pipeline. Their free, premium and self-serve offerings might underpin the internet, but the highly profitable offerings that are gated behind their sales teams are not getting sold. Too many of the clients that they should be selling to.

Magic Transit (bring your own ASN), classic website DDoS protection (above the Business $200 tier, which has low, undisclosed data limits in regions like New Zealand) and ilk all require interacting with the sales rep, and unless your paying 5 figures a month they are disinterested.

There is a whole market out there between $300 to $2000 a month that Cloudflare could tap without making new infrastructure but is actively being ignored.
strcpy and friends don't really have any benefits beyond just being there. The "safer" versions are still unsafe in many cases, while being less performant and more annoying to use.

Writing a strbuffer type and associated functions isn't particularly hard and the resulting interface is nicer to use, safer, and more efficient.
More like AI (Alert Indians).
The existing liver stops sending distress signals once the stress is lessened on it, and the new liver uses the lack of signal to stop growing.
Are you manually creating the memo? Or are you using something like whisper for transcription and then extracting the first few words, or maybe using an LLM to write the memo?
FWIW, that land allocation came through a lot of blood allocation. Of course, wars are fought very differently these days but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the "transitionary period"
> What kind of creative are you anyway if you don’t want to do your own world-building?

A no true creative.

What kind of creative needs lifetime + 70 years of monopoly on an idea?

> If you are saying that allowing any writer to be able to take the world someone else built and profit off its fame with minimal modifications is somehow promoting progress of the arts, then I don’t know what to say to you.

I am not. I am saying that the current way it's implemented is broken. Tolkein has earned more than enough money off of LOTR, it's far past the time for it to enter the public domain and join the stories that he build his work on.

Many of Disney's earlier movies are retelling of folktales. Tolkein in addition to creating parts of his world build on top of existing folktales. Neither would be where they are now if someone was able to impose the kind of restrictions on them that they themselves now impose on us.
does anyone know which products of cloudflare have the most revenue?
The title has me intrigued, but the home page does absolutely nothing to help me understand how or why I should use this.
So your argument is that if these people were never hired in the first place, the market would be better for people with less good backgrounds either for reasons of schooling or experience? I'm not sure I draw that connection.

I generally get that things are tougher for juniors--especially juniors with questionable credentials--but I have trouble drawing a line that developers are generally worse who were showered with money at a few companies in 2021-2023. And there are always industry periods when things are tougher for some cohorts (or even all of them).