skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That website is a great example of how density of advertising impacts perceived credibility.

Is that information accurate? It's hard for me to tell, but the amount of junk on that page (especially on mobile) gives me a really bad first impression.
We need the technology to less gradually improve our solution after going carbon zero, but going carbon zero takes the highest priority.

So carbon capture should still be funded, but it would be on the backburner. I don't know what is the appropriate funding. A billion dollars per year, maybe?
My browser of choice is Firefox, not Chrome. As I said, because Google does shady stuff too, I avoid giving them money when possible.

It's not that hard to prioritize companies that are aligned with your values. You don't need to start living in a cave or self-flagellate. Just look around to see if there is a suitable alternative.
OK. In any case I think we can agree that's a very large amount of drones and missiles for one attack. When I read about a big Russian attack against Ukraine they usually number a few dozens dronez/missiles. It's also huge compared to Iran's attack against Saudi's Aramco:

"A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen, stated that 25 drones and missiles were used"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khurais_attack#...

So I don't know what the end game was/is for Iran, did they really want to start a war or what. They certainly used enough missiles and drones to kill hundreds of people and cause huge damage, but everything was intercepted to such perfection I am starting to suspect Iran was trying not to hit anything. Either that or the Israeli + coalition (U.S, Britain, and the moderate Arab forces) have truly stunning defenses.
100% and this is unproductive in value creation for any organization. We all know it too when this is happening which is the sad part.
Yes, I think this is true.
Your job, as an engineer, is to keep the ship battle ready.
Not waste time by ceding control to another entity that doesn't have any engineering know-how to evaluate what does and does not need done.
Take the reigns and do what needs doing.

If there was no trust, they wouldn't be asking you to do the work in the first place.

Ridged top-down organizations wither away and die because they lack the agility and insight to respond to unexpected conditions. Leadership can set the high level goals of a mission, whether they like it or not, they need to also give the autonomy and authority to the field commanders to achieve those goals however they see fit.

If you are concerned your field commanders are going to go off and not stay focused on the goals then you've promoted too early.

The time for sitting around a table and talking openly at a higher organizational level is when deciding what goals to set, not in the heat of battle, unless it is to call a retreat.

It is only time to pack up when leadership is so full of itself that it cannot understand this.

Of course, you could argue that having a funding structure that necessitates padding in the first place is the early signs of the wheels coming off - which I would agree with.
The one thing we must do is somehow the one thing we cannot do. It’ll send you crazy if you think about it too much.
http://archive.today/OKz2E
I still don't get this from a strategy point of view. Let's say you have 100 "whales" who generate half your revenue and another 100,000 "minnows" who generate the other half. That's still half your revenue. As long as you are making a profit on the minnows, even if small, surely you'd want to keep them? I assume they must be profitable because otherwise third parties wouldn't be trying to poach them, to extend the fishing analogy a bit further.

(That's not counting the huge negative reputational effect that this change is having on VMware which is surely worth something.)
Killing is different from being killed.
Ancient face carvings exposed as Amazon water level drops to record lows (2023)
That can be true, while also being true that a moving car in front of you can better see an obstacle while obscuring it from the car behind. I’m just saying that the car in front that avoided it was in a different visibility situation to respond than the following car.
It's the year 3052.

Human numbers have dwindled since the runaway global warming that eventually triggered the water crisis.

The biggest cities are now barren ruins. Humanity survives in tribal pockets near the poles, making do with scavenged old tech from the past.

A breakthrough! Someone discovers an old harddrive that contains information on why we didn't fix this when it was still possible...

An extraterrestrial event? Nuclear war? An incurable disease? Technological limitation?

"It was too expensive."
I think we are already well on our way to going to net zero wrt energy production and consumption.
What is the reason you want to do more?

For me, struggling and learning is what I enjoy. Within that framework, it’s not about payout or fame, only the worthy challenge. As I begin to realize this about myself, I have become less worried about measuring achievement, which removes a good deal of the pressure.
The Bluecruise setup in the article also uses cameras as well as radar.
To what degree are we human animals in a population boom?

Of course we want to maintain and even grow, but there are costs to that.

To address the first prong, would it work to change our culture? Continuing to justify the massive amount of energy we convert, largely because we want to and not because we need to, feels like a problem with solutions that don't necessarily involve war.
Computer programming languages are already machine-parsable though. ML does not seem like the appropriate solution for converting between them.

Technically what you're describing is done by a compiler/decompiler/transpiler, operating on the AST.
> If you’ve seen a lot or you know evil, you don’t need a public life where you may attract it. When you know what you have and value it, a quiet life is the best way to protect it. People value privacy when they have something to lose.

That's a wonderful way of framing it. No one is intent on violating my privacy to give me anything, only to take.
Top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe
Plants also respirate. Not to mention animals respirate. Fungus break down plants. Granted, plants do generate net Oxygen even with their requirement for respiration, but don't forget everything that depends on plants.
Ironically, the other link I posted at the same is actually speech to text. You want something like VOSK if you're looking for local machine transcription:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40027675

As for quality, I think its models are, IDK, maybe around the level that Youtube automatic captions were two or three years ago? So well over 90% accurate, and servicable for getting something to search for or clean up, but expect it to get a word wrong every now and then.
No, it does not read like that. The translation is (reletively) good.
Especially since a portion of the minnows will eventually grow-up to become whales.
That may be one cause, in some towns and cities, but it is far from universal. For one thing, demand growth has accelerated in many places, so building homes at a historic rate went from sufficient to meet to demand, to insufficient. You have flippers taking low-priced homes off the market, and you have AirBnb'ers taking other homes off the market (or not selling theirs when they move). There are higher expectations of what a house should contain (sq ft, # of bathrooms, closet/garage size, quality of fixtures) so lots of housing stock technically exists but is not really part of the supply for most buyers.
Except it's more like 80/20, not 50/50.
FWIW I never encountered 'tree shaking' in the C/C++ world (only in the Javascript world). Commonly in the C/C++ world, dead-code-elimination is used for anything that removes (or ignores in the first place) unused code and data.

And I think with LTO it's all the same anyway (in the past there were a lot of gnarly details how the compiler/librarian actually created a static link library to avoid linking code that's not actually used, but that all doesn't matter anymore with LTO).
A better storage format for Postman API collections
I spent many years feeling guilty about this. Particularly during covid when, on paper, there wasn't a lot else going on.

Anecdotally, the thing to remember is that you brain is an organ - Even professional trainers can't do their workouts more then 3-4 hours a day. Why would one expect that the brain can magically work 8-10 hours at max intensity?

If you observe any job, workers have downtime - in the office, this would happen organically. Teams would get bored and chit chat, hallway conversations would go on too long etc.

With WFH - it's entirely possible to work 8-12 hours a day. This is the mental equivalent of endurance racing, burnout is inevitable at this pace - just like injury would be for athletes trying to train at that schedule.
"Storage backend" is not a "storage frontend" I'm talking about.

Example scenario:

As an office user Alice, I want to open documented XXX stored on NAS Foo at Foo.net in application Bar at bar.com.

To do that, in application Bar user clicks on "Open File" button, then in dialog she selects "NAS" tab, then selects Foo, then selects file XXX.

When the file is selected, NAS Foo forms a one-time URL for the file, like davs://foo.net/u/alice/d/xxx.docx?otp=1234567890abcdef. This URL is invisible to user, unless she explicitly asks for it.

Application Bar receives this URL from the user browser and tries to open it.

NAS Foo shows popup to user about "Application Bar at Bar.com [LOGO] tries to open document xxx.docx. Allow? [O]nce, [A]llways, [C]ancel".

When Alice presses Once, a temporary password is generated and securely shared between Foo.net and Bar.com for the next 12h.

Now, application Bar.com can read and write document xxx.docx freely. At each read, NAS stores a record in a log about access to the document. At each write, NAS creates a new revision of the document and backups it.

Application Bar.com has no access to other files except for those selected by Alice. NAS Foo automatically revokes access of Bar.com to all files after a period of inactivity (month?).

In this case, service Bar.com cannot force Alice to pay for service just because their app contains some important documents in storage. Bar.com cannot pass those document to third party actor, like government, police, etc.
Usability Heuristics (1994, updated 2024)
Mark Cuban about Trump

> never admits a mistake

https://youtu.be/0cn3VBjfN8g?t=1h35m55s
> I'm sure the idea is abhorrent to the USA, but perhaps removing incentives to be a landlord

The problem is what will happen is that any US regulations around this will end up targetting middle-class “landlords” who rent out an extra home. And the real issue of huge corporate real estate holdings will be just fine.

It’ll scratch the itch of people wanting to beat down someone in their neighborhood, "boomers", etc who rents out something due to petty envy, but unlikely to solve the issue meaningfully.

A lot of average people buy real estate because it’s one of the few inflation hedges left for them.
Absolutely not.

You need to lay off the conspiracy theories.

Why would you risk an $8.6 billion dollar company for $10,000 of data?
The Invention of the Pigeon Camera for Aerial Photography (2012)
If you don't know something, then just say you don't know. Deferring to an LLM just comes across as low-effort and irrelevant.
> US lawmakers make millions of dollars beyond their salaries

1. For those where this is true, this is a MAJOR problem.

2. For those where this is false, this means that we're underpaying lawmakers severely.

> The paycheck simply isn’t a significant factor in whether or not someone wants to be a senator or representative.

Should it? I think the primary pay of Senators / Representatives should be their paycheck. Not dark money pools from who knows where.

You're basically accepting blatant corruption as if its inevitable. Erm... no. Lets raise salaries so that Congressmen can take up two houses across the country (one at home for their families, and a 2nd home in the Wash. DC area so they can do their job). And then increase the wages high enough so that "normal people" apply for the position.

Its not like the uber-rich, the independently wealthy, or the paid off bribed people are who we want as Congressmen or Senators. We actually want normies.

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Once Senators / Congressmen are at like $300k, which is high but reasonable IMO given the overall budget of the country, then we can work on the GS scale and Executive scale as appropriate. The FBI Director making only $180k can be raised to $300k, and then the layman FBI agent can rise above $70k.

The GS Payscale is a fine idea but only when the top-of-the-ladder truly represents the top. And not "top for government employee" but "top for the country", so that we're actually offering competitive wages and attracting solid talent in all areas of government.
> Let's say you have 100 "whales" who generate half your revenue and another 100,000 "minnows" who generate the other half

When I was a PM in the Enteprise SaaS space I owned a product line that generated 9 figures a year in revenue.

Around 70-80% of that revenue came from around 15-20% of our customers.

Just 15-20 customers spending 7 figures year on my product could have allowed my PL to hit ACV metrics comparable to multi-billion IPOs, and we had WAAAAAY more high 6 figure and 7 figure customers than 15-20.

I cannot be bothered by an IT Admin at a local real estate broker's roadmap - I only had 10-30 engineers and we had way larger customers who generated us more money and required the same amount of effort.
Some people do not get how important the long tail is for sustaining a tech platform business. Ultimately technology is interchangeable but attention, mindshare and network synergies critically depend on the people volume of the long tail.
And when they'll become whales they'll call Broadcom since scrappy start-up aren't gonna keep acting like scrappy start-ups when they reach whale scale.

That's how major semiconductor companies operate. They'll only talk to you if you're a whale promising to buy volumes worth millions, they're not gonna waste time talking to hobbyists on the off chance that one of them might become a whale because the chance of a hobbyist building the next Apple in his garage is close to zero, and if by some miracle he does reach Apple scale, he'll still inevitably end up needing to call Broadcom later as the company expands and diversifies.

Try calling Broadcom or NXP asking for a detailed datasheet for a product that's not aimed at hobbyists, see where that gets you.
but it is a fair comparison - there's currently no real alternatives for fossil fuels. Renewables do not have the density required for a lot of transportation, not to mention fossil fuels like oil are the feedstock for a lot of chemicals required for modern day manufacturing.

Some sources of electricity could be replaced by renewables, but not all. And certainly not as cheaply as oil or gas is.
We’re talking about search engines, not browsers.
Shutting down, repurposing a large refinery complex in America's urban northeast
https://archive.is/lk15F
Those seems like situations where extra spacing will help accomodated unexpeded mergings and lane changes without slowing traffic down.
Plus, you have to look at the cost, not only revenue: subtract what it costs to get the revenue from the minnows.
This is encouraging to see, as Science has, at times, become illiberal, attacking those who challenge the conventionally accepted view. This shows that (at least in this field), Scientists are capable of introspection and eager to let the data take them where it will.
Which CAs will they be using instead?
Also, screwing over the minnows who are willing to spend some money is a huge gift to the competition. If another product grabs a large portion of the market, and now has more resources to innovate with, the whales may even start to switch over from the now mostly stagnant and overpriced option. I love(d) VMWare, but going forward it will have no place in any environment I control.
> practitioners would be interested in hearing from advances in academia, but usually don't want to read papers. Building fully working systems

Isn't that kind of the whole problem? Practitioners ignoring research results because all they want to look at is what other practitioners do? Or are you really suggesting that researchers also become practitioners who develop working systems based on the ideas they discover?

Perhaps I'm misreading, but your statement seems to encapsulate the entire problem the article is highlighting.
That's the exact reason for the law.

The law is on the pedestrian's side, physics is on the car's side.

Pedestrian's should be cautious because they have more to lose.
Common Problems with Bank Partners (for fintech companies)
Portugal did well until funding for the program was slashed. Now its not so great there
They won't.

No one is going to invest into VMware stack, and if they become "whales" they will become that while running a different stack, and why should they invest into replacing it wholesale with customer-hostile Broadcom?
He wasn't serving in war, he was deployed in Germany in 49.
> is a huge gift to the competition

The issue is the competition does the same thing.

When you buy Enterprise SaaS products (DB, Cybersecurity, Cloud, Networking, Infra) these are backbone products.

If you can't afford to spend $300k a year on a product, you can't afford to hire the in-house staff needed to manage an OSS or internally built product.

There's a reason why Project Borg/K8s was invented by Google, not your local MSP, and why PostgreSQL's largest sponsors are AWS, Fujitsu, Google, Microsoft, NTT, and Broadcom.

And this is why minnows go to MSPs.
Life's too short to write C#.
If we trust what the company says, it seems like it's another one for using a password manager.
I cancelled my account after the last ToS update, and my Roku is going into the next e-waste collection event. Fortunately, that password was never reused
Does most of the inflation go to the government? Lately a significant portion seems to be going to the capital class and land owners.
i like the fully over the humanscale one, but its a marginal difference
This is the possible optimization that I mention at the end of the blog - using a private map for each thread block.

The catch is that this map must fit in shared memory, which is pretty limited on all current hardware: ~100KB.

I originally thought that my map (stats array) was too big to fit into this shared memory. Now, however, I realize it can. It'll interesting to see how much speedup (or not!) this optimization can bring.
> 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions

these companies emitted carbon to satisfy the demands for goods/services from various populations around the world. By pinning the emissions onto the companies like this as responsible, it is indirectly implying that the end consumer has no responsibility. Which is absolutely not true.

The way, i think, to fix it is to price carbon emissions properly. This requires _all_ countries in the world to participate and enforce.
If we were serious about curbing this violations would either be points deducted on your licence or criminal charges

I'm not surprised cities are trying to claw back revenue because car infrastructure and its side effects like enabling massive sprawl are so astonishingly high

Drivers don't even know those costs, consider the roads you have now, they're in the state they are despite absolutely huge political support
> It's basically coming out of the gate saying that you don't respect the time/attention of the audience.

Are there other plausible explanations?

E.g., perhaps the presenter struggles with ADHD-based procrastination, and is only able to make slides under imminent deadline pressure.

Or maybe they tend to be neurotic and over-think things, and are experimenting with being more spontaneous in their preparation.

(Asking as a neurotic ADHD person with moderate social anxiety.)
I was looking up what replacing with obscenity actually looks like and first example was just replacing the article with the n-word. Imagine signing up for a Wikipedia account to do that. It is revolting but also out right sad.
How did you arrive at $10,000?
«So John went back to the hospital and spent a month on powerful antibiotics pumped directly into a vein near his heart.»

This is not «extremely common».
Question for the author: throwing this out there, do you know if anyone has written a Rabbit RCM2000 emulator by any chance?
Make sure to check the other works of floooh (Andre) as well. I'm porting his ZX Spectrum emulator to the RP2040 these days, and working with his code is amazing: it's clean, precise, never more complicated than needed, with a deep care to even the smallest details.
Right, and I'm just saying "granted, plants do generate net oxygen" is an awfully big caveat to "You can't capture CO2 unless we have vast amounts of carbon free energy". These arguments need to happen with numbers, not blanket dismissals.
It’s a half assed law that puts way too much faith in drivers and is not a real solution to pedestrian safety, which requires actual road redesigns.
Remember the "I'm feeling lucky" button on google. Their search was so good that you could, for a while at least, count on that button getting to where you wanted to go in a single click.
> people don't seem to understand why the word "source" is in there.

Disagreeing with you is not the same as not understanding. There clearly isn't a consensus, but no shortage of people just asserting that others are wrong.
Funny you mention Rubiks cube, here is a project I worked with 2 fellow computational artists on. We generated the form using open cas.cade, then machined it all on a 5 axis VMC, then assembled with magnets and a steel ball barring that I pulled from a ship engine. Carrol and Ruza if yout out there, I miss you :(

https://vimeo.com/322284709

I dont put my work online anymore, there is no point, I do it for me, and it just attacts corporate thieves :)
I make 200k and spend >60% on housing in California. Pay ~75k in income taxes,leaving 125k,then another 20k in property taxes, then 60k mortgage. Leaves about 40k for bills and retirement.
MoMA: Function, technology and form shown in products of the machine age(1944) [pdf]
Scientists Reveal Where Most 'Hospital' Infections Come From
Vision Can Predict Dementia 12 Years Before Diagnosis, Study Finds
Finally, we only need /bin!
For those who read even the first paragraph it's a credential stuffing attack. As in people used the same username/password combinations that were leaked or phished.

Use a password manager people.
Those sorts of guys have ruined all the games I grew up with. I can’t just casually play anymore. It doesn’t exist. Every lobby left is a sweatfest from people who have been playing the game nonstop since it came out 10-20 years ago sometimes. You have to swing vine from vine to whatever crap game is currently popular to get a chance at pwning noobs again.
People will make fun of you for being unsophisticated, but it really is this simple.
That face has connected some unknown person's afternoon activity to millions of eyeballs in the future.

Whoever you were, thanks for leaving this for us to see. The water levels would have likely been similar in your time, and I hope we adapt to it as you must have done
OP is right.

Larger companies can bundle more products so you get 4-5 things for the price of 1, plus you get dedicated support staff and account management.

Doesn't matter if you started off as a scrappy startup doing janky platform work - you inevitably migrate to the bundle because pricing is better for enterprises, and account management is much more streamlined.