skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Im just going to paste my comment from the other thread here in response since I dont want to rephrase everything ive said. Feel free to reply in either place

Do you actually not know/want to discuss why that is or are you just pushing your narrative which is that "the particular special brand of White People™ who happened to become dominant in the US were very good and very smart and so invented factories and made the US rich and therefor the riches of the US have nothing to do with plunder but with the virtue of these very good very smart very special White People™"?
Because I think its clear that the reason the rest of the Americas didnt become wealthy like North America is because of the same habit of plunder that made the US rich but instead of that wealth being sent to Boston or New York or wherever, it was sent back to Europe. How the oil rush in the US was primarily consumed domestically and enabled a huge buildup of industry or how the US has long had a strong domestic supply of steel those places either lacked key resources such as oil or steel while being rich in others or had their social and political structures destroyed by the legacy of colonialism. This combined with terrible governance shows us pretty clearly why the rest of the Americas didnt become rich like the US.

https://focus.bse.eu/colonial-settlers-economic-development-...

https://cod.pressbooks.pub/westernworlddailyreadingsgeograph...

https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article/50/3/583/152678/The...
I am honestly not sure how any business can take Google’s AI products seriously given the long history of products being shut down and the recent issues with Gemini.

I know someone is going to claim that Google Cloud is different from the rest of Google and doesn’t deprecate things in a hurry, but that’s not really reassuring. Enthusiasts adopt useful products at work because they’ve had a great experience personally using those products. The reverse is also true. If they’ve had a bad experience with a brand personally, they’re less likely to trust that same brand professionally.

With AI specifically, there are other bigger issues. Most businesses that could be a customer of Google’s enterprise AI products serve customers from all parts of the political spectrum and from all backgrounds. If you’re a large company you probably also have customers in other countries that have very different values from someone living in the Bay Area. Google’s culture is known to be heavily influenced by the politics of its employees and that came out in Gemini. Which company wants their own products or their own customers to be subject to the potentially offensive political whims of Bay Area Google employees by depending on Google’s enterprise AI? There are better choices out there that are safer bets, that don’t come with Google’s biases. It’s not just that Gemini isn’t sufficiently better than any other platform to stand out, but that it is demonstrably worse due to this issue.

If Google wants to change this perception, its leaders need to show backbone, shut down the overly political culture and make it neutral with respect to the political spectrum and operate with a totally different mindset. They need to do this across all products, both for consumers and enterprises. They will never earn the trust of the world unless they do this in an obvious and visible way.

PS: The “open-washing” in this interview is laughable in how flagrant it is. The only actually open approach is to be open source. For AI, that means having open source training code, open training data sets, total transparency on how training data is pre-processed, etc. If a third party cannot reproduce the weights, it isn’t open.
I'd rather focus on optimizing the size of uuids than their text representation. Shipping uuids around as utf-8 text is silly. They're at most 128bits, so we shouldn't use more than that many.

In the case where it's necessary to have a text representation (e.g. in some user interface) I guess it's fine to choose whatever (stable) transformation you like, but the standard ways specified in RFC-4122 (hexadecimal, with or without hyphens) seem like the most foolproof. Regarding the logs search use case, the first "chunk" of a uuid is usually well more than enough for a unique match, IME.

Also, I've been burned before in cases where some clever transformation was used to make a uuid look different in text form, because in order to synthesize the actual binary uuid I first have to reverse engineer the transformation--e.g. to find the database record corresponding to some http request log message. That's just annoying, and the polar opposite of "user friendly" for the user story of an engineer trying to figure out what's wrong with the system.

So.. I guess my vote is to stick to the standard.
Could replicating to a DB with indexing (purely for queries) work?
There is always someone on each of N sides of these longstanding conflicts in the region saying "Y is really the problem (because I support X; all who support X know Y is the real problem)."

That foreign powers abuse that to their own advantage worse than even the local factions do is the true stain on humanity. Why support this?
But for there to be an antitrust case, consumers or suppliers must have been harmed in some manner to the benefit of the trust. Standardized testing costs are pretty low (especially compared to tuition), and they don't reach the colleges/unis.
Don’t take that Ayn Rand too seriously…
> Everything in JavaScript is an object, even Arrays. So even an Array lookup is O(1) in JavaScript - not true in Python where it has to search the Array.

Huh? Array and list lookups are O(1) in Python too. Who told you that? Searching is different, and it's O(n) in both JS and Python. Can you really believe two mainstream programming languages can have such a drastic difference in time complexity?

Also, not my comment, but:

> JS uses some heuristics to decide whether to use a hashmap or to make the object as a static struct" neither hashmap nor struct exists in JS, just funny.

I'm pretty sure they meant that Javascript internally uses either a hashmap or a struct (you can do something close in Python using __slots__) to represent an object. Those are standard data structure names, even though Javascript doesn't use the same terminology. Python doesn't call them hashmaps either.
As it turns out, the massive money generated by software produces quite a lot of status.

But the IT world is meaningfully different from software engineering. IT infrastructure (as distinct from creating software) pays less, generally, and is also regarded as much lower-status. IT is like auto mechanics to software engineering's automobile design. It's the blue collar equivalent, especially at the low level. At the high level, as far as I understand, it morphs with "cloud-engineering" or just general management and becomes higher-status.

Unfortunately, I think this comes from how the entrance into IT is gated by working on low-level ("have you tried turning it off and on again?") problems, and putting slightly awkward, new-to-the-workforce nerds in a position where they need to help a lot of people with their computer problems. Many of whom are (understandably!) frustrated that their computer systems aren't working and/or don't totally understand why they won't work. So IT gets to see people at their worst and most frustrated, and people get to see IT at its most awkward and least experienced. So hostility forms on both sides. And first impressions sometimes last very long.
TXT records were specified an rfc published in 1987. SRV records in feb 2000.

This sounds to me like the web. You make a connection, you request a resource, it returns content and references to further resources that are required to get the full content of the resource you originally requested.
The funny way to do this would be to use an LLM to generate the content you respond with. Have 2 smallish LLMs talk to each other about topics chosen at random and generate infinite nonsense pages that have a few hundred words.
Yeah but that is the extreme minority. Claiming it isnt is absurd.
Surprised mobile boarding passes haven't changed to ticketmaster-style passes that leverage the phone's NFC capabilities. Seems like that would be faster to scan at the gate and prevent duplication.
> The implied purpose of taxing airline tickets is to collect taxes on flights.

Sure, but the people who wrote the law specifically excluded baggage fees along with (looks at law) about a dozen other charges that airline levy.

So how can one argue that it wasn't the intent of the law if it's written plainly in the law?

It's not like the law says "this tax applies to baggage", then airlines created a new definition of baggage and then claimed their fee isn't taxable.

It seems like you use "loophole" as a synonym for "things I don't like but are permitted".
It depends on the industry.

Video games are still sold at retails stores (Target, Best Buy, ...). Those stores have to coordinate what is going to be on their shelves months in advance (6+)? So you promise your game will be ready and in a package and at their loading dock by November 15th. If you miss the deadline their shelf is empty of product since its spot was reserved for you.

Other customer electronics have similar issues. Promises are made to coordinate. They're generally made before the product is actually finished. Now a deadline exists. It's not trivial to change it.

The same is true for ads or was (TV ads in particular). They have to be scheduled well in advance. You pay for ads to run 6 months in advance because if you don't buy them in advance all the time slots will be sold out, no ads for you. But now you've added a deadline. If your product is not ready to buy when the ads run you've just wasted a bunch of money.

I agree that for many standard IT projects, deadlines can be kind of BS but I can also see why they tend to exist in retail products.

A solution could be, don't even start negotiating for shelf space before the product is 100% finished. Unfortunately few if any companies seem to be able to do this. For one, they need the money from the orders to make payroll. For another, if they waited until the product is done, then order ads and shelf space which won't be available for 6 months, what do they're employees do during those 6 months? They have no customers to fix bugs for yet. If the switch off the product to the next product there will be a big cost to pay to try to switch back the previous product they stopped working on 6 months previously when it actually ships and they need to actually support it.
So the difference between killing someone accidentally vs deliberately? If you deliberately kill someone with a vehicle, then that would also be murder and you'd get the same sort of punishment as if you used anything else. If you accidentally killed someone without a vehicle, you'd also get far less of a reaction as with this case.

This case is a horrible tragedy and it's a farce that someone who kept breaking the law kept their license afterwards, but it's not evidence traffic violence is normalised. Just that people (rightly) treat accidental deaths as less of a big deal than deliberate ones.

If you mean that driving is too dangerous overall, then sorry, but I'd disagree with that. Not only do most people not get into accidents when driving or around cars, but there are plenty of things in life that are dangerous that kill a lot of people that we've accepted are tradeoffs for a more free society.
Where you put your time/attention/money matters a lot though. For you and your friends/family. And even more for those small(er) alternative services/products/markets/communities.
>> Ayn Rand said that when those who are receiving most of the money are dealing in favors instead of goods and services, that's when you know your society is declining.

She said that in 1957. So your argument is that society has been declining since 1957. And I have to admit that I find that argument rather hard to believe.

Society has, to me, obviously not been declining since 1957. It has been declining since 1959 (the year Buddy Holly died).
It's always possible to 'deconstruct' objects with methods into just dumb structs with functions acting on them. This is the direction Julia takes for instance.

One advantage of this is that it exposes that 'inheriting' a method is really just applying the same base function to all classes that support a particular interface. You can override a method by specialising the function for a subinterface. This interface can just be a marker that says 'this struct has these fields, and semantically is a 'IMyInterface').

Of course object oriented programming languages tend to encourage private and protected properties and such, which force all of this to take place inside the class. At first I though that that was the best way to avoid a mess, but it prevents you from doing this, possibly leading to more code duplication. And after some more experience with python there's something to be said for python's approach of just using name conventions to point out when to be careful.
Are we finally waking up to the fact that unless actually anonymous, nothing is actually anonymous?! My pearls, etc.
> such that a pound of any combination of them is worth $20

Also most of the time you can just dump a bag of coins on the table and visually quickly determine an odd ones, remove them, weight the remainder. Sorting != counting.
Hmm - flouting regulations cause the rules only apply for others, selfish with seeming no regard for any negative impact to others…sounds like a future executive indeed
Waste Connections alleges Haulla stole business by impersonating customers
Yes, that's the point of contention being discussed. E.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68778636

> My Lan was convicted of taking out $44bn (£35bn) in loans from the Saigon Commercial Bank. The verdict requires her to return $27bn
That's a super creative setup, and one that came surprisingly close to working. Do kinda wonder if Delta will rethink their system a bit now though, given the barcode based system is seemingly trivial to bypass.
I hope we're on the cusp of many revolutions in biomedical sciences. I'd love to fix my asthma and other issues.
I get the sentiment, but when reality hits unrealistic parental expectations, things get messy.

If you have to put a show on TV to give some songs to sing along to or to distract them while you're making lunch, I'm not judging you, and I think it's best to put this content on a gradient rather than black and white.
Wow, that's the original release I did ages ago, with my notes and everything! I spent a few weekends extracting proprietary code/libraries from the code base so it could be released. Doing that work changed the direction of my life in a way, leading me from hobby game development work to working on Descent 3.
I'm sure they have thought more about how to prioritize security threats than an anonymous internet commenter.
What does it run on, and does it use a modern joystick?
Many countries actually have established value of life measures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life

This is especially apparent in societies with public healthcare, where it can become controversial, since individuals may not be able to access medical care they feel they deserve:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
That makes sense! Thanks I felt like I'm perpetually a beginner when it comes to computational complexity theory
Playing video games
Laziness is a superpower. At least for some people and for some values of laziness.

This has got to be 30 years old or so:

https://thethreevirtues.com

According to Larry Wall, the original author of the Perl programming language, there are three great virtues of a programmer; Laziness, Impatience and Hubris

Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it.

Impatience: The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to.

Hubris: The quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about.
Speed kills. The difference between 30mph and 50mph is astronomical; life and death.

https://lede-admin.usa.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/si...

This person would likely be alive if the driver wasn't speeding. They were caught speeding in school zones many times.

We need to start enforcing speeding laws. You speed more than once, you don't drive for a few years minimum. You speed through a school zone multiple times, you never drive again.
That sounds like my old neighbour, a professor of logic from the university of science.
Overload is the spiritually successor
Based on the hordes of AI generated models with OnlyFans profiles, it seems like it might already be having an effect. Wouldn't be surprised if it was being used for a lot of this sort of content on other sites and services too.
"Certain information" Check!

"We take this seriously" Check!

"Abundance of caution" Check!

Cloud buckets... Check!

Declined to comment... Check!

It's like playing Modern IT Security Bingo.
But that's if you want Apple to do that for you. What if you buy the memory separately and put it in yourself? I'm considering doing that for my own iMac, and I saw that a 32 GB memory unit is about $65, so 4 of those $260. For laptops it's probably different, but surely it's going to be less than $1000.
Probably they tried to fix it in Windows, but it caused all your files to be deleted or something.

Like the coconut in TF2.
Back when my family built our house a few years ago, we had to pay some bribe for a local officer to get our construction permission, otherwise it will get delayed for who knows how long.
On paper, gov's officer's salary is <500usd a month, yet several provincial secretary own large houses and villas. Where does the money come from ?
You see this stuff reported once in a while in Vietnamese newspaper, and stuff that are not reported could be worse.
Amomg Vietnamese people, government's corruption is well known, happens at every level, and everybody I know is treating it as an open secret.
In case you're wondering, the product seems to be the guardrail they test:

https://www.enkryptai.com/sentry
What is your Kali handle?
Texas Surgeon Is Accused of Denying Liver Transplants
So what? Plenty of model trainers are fine tuning to remove all the alignment and bias crap anyway. The concept of 'jailbreak' to a freely distributed open source model doesn't really apply.
You don't see socketed CPUs and RAM in the Arm SBC world either. Or, increasingly, in the PC world e.g. Apple.
I found the following bits interesting, as they suggest Harvard is continuing its controversial holistic admissions program, which has been thought of as subjective and even discriminatory, rather than using objective measures:

> Acknowledging the concerns of critics, Harvard said that it would reassess the new policy regularly. The school said that test scores would be considered along with other information about an applicant’s experience, skills, talents, contributions to communities and references. They will also be looked at in the context of how other students are doing at the same high school.

> “Admissions officers understand that not all students attend well-resourced schools, and those who come from modest economic backgrounds or first-generation college families may have had fewer opportunities to prepare for standardized tests,” William R. Fitzsimmons, Harvard’s dean of admissions and financial aid, said in a statement.

> Harvard said that in the interest of selecting a diverse student body, it has enhanced financial aid and stepped up recruitment of underserved students by joining a consortium of 30 public and private universities that recruits students from rural communities.

I wonder if this will encourage highly-motivated and wealthy students to shop for the right high school to match the criteria Harvard might bias their admissions towards.
First time I ever got motion sickness was playing this game.
You're right. He had a vision for not just a movie, but something of a massive scale. That wasn't really the norm for a historical epic like this anymore. You're right that there are a bunch of films about Napoleon (https://www.vulture.com/article/napoleon-movies-history.html) but nothing attempting the scale. The latest Napoleon was the first to attempt that scale ($200m).

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/9671018

> Slated for production immediately following the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey , Kubrick’s "Napoleon" was to be at once a character study and a sweeping epic, replete with grandiose battle scenes featuring thousands of extras. To write his original screenplay, Kubrick embarked on two years of intensive research; with the help of dozens of assistants and an Oxford Napoleon specialist, he amassed an unparalleled trove of research and preproduction material , including approximately 15,000 location scouting photographs and 17,000 slides of Napoleonic imagery. No stone was left unturned in Kubrick's nearly-obsessive quest to uncover every piece of information history had to offer about Napoleon. But alas, Kubrick’s movie was not destined to the film studios, first M.G.M. and then United Artists, decided such an undertaking was too risky at a time when historical epics were out of fashion.

He also backed off on AI because the scale/requirements.

In my opinion he had the vision, but the tech and audiences just weren't ready. But maybe the same things might have been said about 2001.
Hopefully no one asks where the bathroom is.
Virtually none of them at the moment. Burnout has been kinda common this year so far.
Your post contained a possible misconception, that being legally barred from using race at all means they functionally don't use race at all.
Unless Southwest is wildly different than other airlines, the behavior of people you give F&F standby passes to potentially reflects on you as an employee. Not sure if getting in trouble with another airline instead of your employer would mitigate that, but my guess is whoever gave him the buddy pass caught some flack at work.
There’s something oddly beautiful about someone saying they “had to stop reading” in the middle of the sentence that would have rendered their annoyance moot if they’d only had the patience to finish it.
This feels like a passive aggressive dig, and I don't think it's an insightful critique of the article.

When you write anything, you have to assume your audience is at some baseline of understanding the topic. Otherwise, every software article would have to begin by explaining what a computer is.

In an article about optimizing web performance, it seems like a reasonable assumption that the reader would would already understand what "HTTP" means even if they don't recognize the abbreviation "TTFB."
I’m think he just went with what he got at the moment and the final part was to take a pic of a ticket and get on
Any one you recommend specifically?
Why would the sensor not show that the lavatory is occupied before the plane starts to taxi?
It’s not like Apple won’t have guardrails in their local llms…
You dismiss that these are arbitrary, but I'm not seeing a whole lot in your examples that aren't also arbitrary. Sure, this is how a lot, if not all, companies work. That does nothing to disprove that this is arbitrary at the cost of mental health.
You can't anymore, none of the Apple Silicon Macs have upgradable memory. If you have an older Intel Mac then it might be possible depending on the exact model.
If you want to use a non-modern joystick on a modern machine, there are adapters; I have one I like, and if I remember, I'll post the brand when I get home.
Nice! Wish I could use it - but I'm checking for available wilderness permits not campground permits (in Yosemite to hopefully hike the John Muir Trail this summer)