skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this comment should feature higher in the discussion. Drone swarms are bound to play critical roles in upcoming conflicts, as already attested by Ukraine's destruction of Russia's black sea fleet. This is what can be done with COTS gear, but in the past few decades the US has been showing off glimpses of its drone-based war strategy and already showcased capabilities such as F16s deploying mid-air and commanding drone swarms. I also recall news reports of Ukraine also using adapted crop duster drones modified to serve as relay hubs and carry and drop-off FPV drones. Thus this capability is already present today, except the aircraft are unmanned.
Did you try putting a relative path into $PATH?
OMG thanks for reminding me of Jawbone, fond memories...
The other problem with it is that it assumes that people have visible whitespace on, and that their tools even have that option to show whitespace, otherwise it’s like navigating the Fuchsia Gym.

I don’t mind if people use tabs but mixing the two is not great.
Shouldn’t the Dutch language subreddit for the Netherlands be /r/Nederland?
Kubernetes Release v1.30: Uwubernetes
The grandparent poster stated that "grandparent poster statement that "to assume that SBF only turned to a life of crime because the EA movement lured him into it." and you responded "It's not an assumption. It's a matter of record, understood by anyone who knows the basics of the FTX saga. SBF is a lifelong utilitarian, and his co-conspirators were also committed EAs. Anyone who obscures that fact is abetting the campaign of obfuscation." Your response never responded to the grandparent's statement because you never showed which parts of Effective Altruism encouraged crime. Instead, you showed that the FTX criminals claimed they believed in Effective Altruism.

Every movement, religion, organization, company, and government has bad apples. Just because Sam Bankman-Fried and his executives said they followed Effective Altruism does not mean they really did. Could you please cite some evidence that the Effective Altruism belief encourages crime? Also, could you please explain why a belief or movement should be judged by what a few members do?

I am making this post because I do not like seeing groups, organizations, and movements blamed for what a few members do. It's unjust and unhelpful.
When people say not to use tables they mean <table><tr><td>for layout of the entire page</td></tr></table>
> Can you imagine working at such a cold, brutalist tech company? Devoid of any color or perceptible emotion or excitement?

That doesn't sound Humane. (sorry, I'll see myself out)
`width: fit-content;` is a good tip. Still, it's annoying that the current behavior is the default.

I was not able to get the nth child variants to work:

<main>
<div>A</div>
<div>B</div>
<div>C</div>
<div>D</div>
</main>

main {
display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: center;
/* width: fit-content; */
}

div {
min-width: 400px; height: 300px; background-color: wheat; margin: 4px;
}

div:nth-child(1){
margin-left: auto;
}
div:nth-last-child(1){
margin-right: auto;
}
Before CSS people used to use tables, often nested, for all kinds of layout. Eg if your page had a header, a sidebar and a main text area, you would create a table with cells of the right relative widths, with invisible borders, and put each layout element in one possibly merged cell. This was essentially standard practice for a while.

CSS allowed layouts like this to be done without tables. It still supported tables, but for the case when you actually want to show tabular data which would appear like a table on the page.
A Review of Knot Strength Testing [pdf]
I agree with everything you said, for what it’s worth. I just feel that it is particularly greedy to save tiny amounts of money on reduced RAM or charge insane amounts for RAM upgrades well in excess of the cost to Apple. I know they can do it because there isn’t any equivalent from other manufacturers.

But maybe the part that bothers me about their claim about 8GB is the timing of it. They’re going to have to increase baseline amounts to be able to support AI features in the future - but until those models come out, they have to essentially stretch the truth about how much RAM is “good enough” to sell what they’ve already brought to market, and that part feels deceptive. They aren’t leading with admitting that these devices are woefully inadequate for on device inference.
I don’t think it was that tables were bad. They were too formulaic and too strict and it was hard to do something that would stand out.

With CSS it wasn’t dumping problem on the others, it was giving the freedom. Problem with freedom is that it is never free and you also have to fix additional problems that come with it.
The Illusion of State
I mean, matter is mostly empty space…
Can you point to the media or social media impact of this protest?

I asked a handful of Googlers I know if they'd heard about it. They hadn't. The only reason this crossed my radar is HN. I will not remember it tomorrow. (Granted, I don't remember what the last lot who blocked a bridge in New York or San Francisco were angling for. But I remember what they were doing yesterday. Because it came up in mulitple news feeds and again in conversations, because it came up in multiple news feeds with my friends.)
Zero chance of a problem like in the post happening in the first place.
I remember "Eternal September" being used to describe this behaviour on 4chan about 10 years ago (when 4chan's own userbase likely was more high schoolers).

Though the original definition seems to be about ISPs giving unfettered Usenet access in 1993, causing a similar flood of newbies everywhere.
And what if those "gods" are just hypervisors/controllers/programmers of the simulation?
r/cscareerquestions
Seeing "no more jobs" in the "worry" list is surprising. State pensions exist, and the only reason the pension ages are rising is not enough workers to pay for them; having so many robot workers that there is no demand for human labour* would lower the "pension" age down to zero, AKA "UBI".

* which definitely requires human level general AI at fairly low electrical power demand
CSS is a declarative programming language.
The difference is Apple has incredible momentum behind it pushing the Apple way. It took them decades to get to this point (and Steve Jobs, the real one).
Children might be incapable of determining certain actions are wrong or illegal. They might be able to do that, but unable to apply this knowledge to their own behavior. A trial won't fix immediately this, just like charging an 11 year old like an adult won't make him grow a beard.
I am just disputing the causality of that deficiency of vitamin D. WFH has nothing to do with the fact one doesn't spend some time outside every day.
Pg is a clown and a grifter, like most VCs in Silicon Valley. Almost nothing he says (outside of his comments on programming) ages well.
With a variable width font you can't use spaces for alignment...
This article makes it clear to me just how different perception is in different people. How much or how little this errors scream at you in your mind. If everyone was as sensitive as the author (I am close), then way less errors would be left there, since so many people would get annoyed by them.
OMG, what an archeological discovery!
Without knowing the specifics, that would be whichever things prevented Tesla from being run as a lights-out factory already.
Doesn't look like it. NSLs don't allow them to record calls or message content. Only metadata. (According to Wikipedia...)
It is amazing. Evil genius vibes.
I try to regularly check my sources and discuss the news with my network.

Resources:
People (Karparthy, Andrew Ng), YouTube channels (AI breakdown, AI explained), websites/newsletters (The Batch!), conferences, follow Reddit (r/artificial, r/datascience), discord servers (Hugging Face, LLMOps.space), podcasts (Last Week in AI, Super Data Science Podcast).
They will likely market the M4 as their first AI SoC, with OS / software integration. And all the M4 will start with 12GB of Memory. And at a higher price. While they lower their M2/ M3 MacBook Air to Entry level price of $899. And Educational price at $799
Ask HN: The C10M Problem
Remember the C10K problem, that people solved a decade ago with evented programming like NginX and Node and Twisted?

Well, what if we could serve a website to 1 million users from one single machine? Here’s how:

1. Sign the sessionIds / capabilities / JWTs with a fast HMAC so requests with improperly signed tokens are dropped without doing any I/O. This can be done at the edge with CloudFlare workers.

2. Serve static HTML files that make use of Javascript that loads WebRTC. Can be cached with a CDN which uses your server as an origin

3. Use the other computers which are accessing the site at that very moment, to send each other the resources, using WebRTC!

That last part is what makes things so powerful. Rather than YOU paying for the infrastructure the most popular your site gets, the downloaders also become seeders, a la bittorrent. You can even use WebTorrent for this.

4. Keep as much of the database dencetralized among the visitors as possible. Visitors can use IndexedDB and speak to each other.

5. When you do need to persist data for offline visitors, you make sure not to use autoincrementing IDs, to prevent any bottlenecks. Instead, generate random 20-byte IDs and check if they weren’t already taken.
Are there any efforts to combining a knowledge base like Cyc together with LLMs and the like?
Something like RAG could benefit I suppose.

Have some vector for a concept match a KB entry etc, IDK :).
I think that this is a universal issue. Not just in SF this is happening. Sometimes it just looks like the planners never even been there.
> which was unusual in those days, even though cloud computing was ubiquitous at PARC

I don't want to rob you of your literary freedom, but that threw me off. Mainframes were meant, yes?
> officers should be barred from working in the same industry for a couple of years

"The Bureau’s order permanently bans BloomTech from all consumer-lending activities and bans Allred from any student-lending activities for ten years" [1].

[1] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/enforcement/actions/bloomtec...
From a brief look at the national labor relation boar's right to strike page[1], an employer could likely fire over a disruptive protest over who the company does business with; union or no. If you need that paycheck, you better check with a labor lawyer first.

I'm assuming the protest was disruptive, based on the what was reported in the article and the Google memo. I think it's reasonable to ask someone to leave someone else's office, and expect them to at least leave the office itself. Personally, I'm ok if you want to picket outside the office, as long as you don't impede movement, and if you want to picket outside the building, go ahead. Other people are free to have other ideas about what's appropriate, and I don't expect Google to be supportive of picketing, inside the building or out. But if keeping their job was important to them, finding a different venue than the CTOs office when asked to leave would have been a good step. Getting arrested at work because you won't leave when asked is not usually good for continued employment.

[1] https://www.nlrb.gov/strikes
Yeah the Mighty situation is when I started to question PG's decision making. Obviously he's super successful and has helped companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars succeed and grow. But even Steph Curry has off nights.

Mighty always sounded like a bad idea. But when I saw PG really making a big deal about it I followed Suhail on twitter because I just had to see what PG was going on about. From what was posted online it sounded like the company was super successful and growing, and I still didn't get it. And then it went under, without any fanfare. Just poof.
A special case of (2) that is easy to do is to use tabs* for indentation and not do column alignment at all. To be clear, by "column alignment" I think we are both referring to patterns like this:

myVars = {
first: 123,
second: 234,
afterward: 345,
also: 456,
} //~~~~~~~~ <- alignment

// or:
def my_long_function(arg1, arg2,
more_args,
and_some_more)
//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <- alignment

This is, e.g., what Go uses for struct fields, and what some Python style guides use for hanging function definitions. Regardless of tabs/spaces preference, both of these are independently bad because they churn diffs unnecessarily: if you change `afterward` to `afterward2` then you need to change all the nearby lines, and likewise if you change `my_long_function` to `my_longer_function`. Some formatters, like Black, Prettier, and (mostly) Rustfmt, avoid this pattern entirely, and they are better for it.

* You can do this and still use spaces if you prefer, too.
Fourteen years ago; John Safran and his documentary crew visit an Israeli and Palestinian sperm bank

In this week's premiere episode, Safran executed a covert donor switch at sperm banks in Israel and the West Bank that resulted in Palestinian sperm being noted as a Jewish donation, and his own Jewish sperm under an Arabic name; it was a preposterous quest to create a ''Jelestinian''.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/safran-hits-the-mark...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuvvfnjgZlM
> What if the auction gets resolved at a random (uniformly distributed) point in time in some small time interval?

I'd put in lowball bids and ludicrous (but plausibly deniable) offers and wait for the unreasonably-short windows.

The solution to this problem is people not wanting immediacy. (Same with scalpers.) But people like immediacy. Unfortunately, there is also political capital in railing against those who provide that immediacy. In a way, it's a stable socioeconomic system: HFT provides liquidity, market partiipants take it, activists rail against it, regulators complain and win the activists' favour.
If you program in a variable-width font, you're on your own!
Correct. The article does a bit of a bait-and-switch by showing that centering a rectangle within another rectangle is mathematically trivial, and then going on to complain about misaligned stuff that is mainly "irregular shaped text (which can change based on translation, etc) within box with curved corners".
Meanwhile, gas station operators want you to buy their expensive fuel. $6/hr is not bad if it makes the greedy not any richer.
That IACR Preprint
We gained a lot! In fact, I think we are approaching the possible maximum (that maximum obviously being the nineties/early 2000 days of audiogalaxy, napster etc... when people shared pretty much any kind of music).
They don’t feel any guilt, the transaction abstracts them of any.
To be fair, I genuinely don't know how to measure "is capable independent without trauma". I was independent at around 14, but that was due to having to survive trauma. My path was awful and I carry scars. I'd love for kids to have a space where they learn to work, pay rent and bills, navigate social environments, balance their budgets, learn and meet obligations, etc. But I don't know how to measure it.
I have this with spelling. Even a fractional glance at a poster/billboard/sign, without focusing my eyes on it, and certainly without reading a single word ... any misspelled word triggers a flag in my brain sort of "pinging" me with the precise location of the misspelled word.
Aligning a character on one line with an arbitrary character on another line is purely a choice of style, not a requirement.

It is perfectly doable to do only tabs, but many end up mixing in spaces.

The curse of space-only files is in people that manage commit indentation errors, breaking auto-detection in some editors, which propagate to even more indentation errors... All it takes is an inattentive reviewer, or review-less merge.
>AI alignment scientists

What does an AI alignment scientist actually do? Because everything I've read about it makes me think it's just "make the AI do what I think it should do". Obviously, there are problems with that.
Or keming (bad kerning).
Wayland, where are we in 2024? Any good for being the default?
Why chipmakers are investing billions into 'advanced packaging'
https://archive.ph/qwQoh
The french Force de frappe would like to have a word with you...

Also UK, even if they've outsourced production and maintenance of them to the US, or something like that.

I'm also liking the idea of the mexican cartels having their own nukes.

Hrrm. Lemme sniff some more cocaine...(snort)

Waht to target? Hrrm...You'll see, tee hee hee!
Absolutely. Higher quality inputs actually reduces the forcing function for the education to be high quality - since you'll get good outcomes anyway.
Ask HN: How to Approach Pair Programming?
I run a small remote startup with two other developers. I've heard good things about pair programming, but I have never done it myself. Any suggestions or advice on how to approach pair programming?
> due to a war they started together with the surrounding Arab nations, while throwing out the Jews living in those Arab nations

I’m not super well versed in the specifics of this history, so correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t these things happen during and after the Nakba?

Reading the timeline of Wikipedia it seems as though expulsion had already started and was well on it way before the Arab League’s armies entered Palestine in May 1948.

Likewise reading about the history of Jewish people in Iraq[1] it seems that the persecution was very much a reaction to Zionist conduct in Palestine. As in most of the anti-jewish laws were passed between July and December 1948, which is several months to over a year into the Nakba.

These actions were certainly unjust and should be condemned, but to me it seems wildly ahistorical to blame the Nakba on them. Plan Dalet started in April 1948 before the Arab league invasion, and certainly before anti-jewish laws in Iraq. And Plan Dalet was not the first instance of ethnic cleansing by Zionsits in Palestine, but rather followed several months of escalations which included depopulating villages as early as November 1947.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Iraq#Mo...

EDIT: I also feel like it needs stated how weird of a justification that is. The Palestinians who were displaced during the Nakba had nothing to do with the Arab invasion and certainly not the discriminatory anti-jewish legislation in neighboring country. These refugees and their descendants are still to this day refugees now three to four generations later. It seems odd to continue to punish them with Apartheid and genocide to this day because of actions they had nothing to do with. Most other groups who have suffered similar and much smaller injustice have gotten apologies and even reparations for (a noticeable example are Japanese Americans after E.O. 9066). Palestinians however still get blamed for crimes they had nothing to do with, except having been victims.
I can see how it could be seen as random after reading that. It certainly wasn't a "fair" layoff in that there was literally nothing an employee could do to keep their current job from a performance standpoint.

Incidentally, did they do the "2 months to find a new job" thing for you too? I remember the whole process of looking for internal jobs to have been a bit chaotic and not very well planned at all. In retrospect, it made more sense to not apply anywhere, and just take it as a vacation, since they didn't pay out my vacation days. (I wonder if that wound up as an extra boat for someone)

-edit- I have absolutely no idea why your post is being downvoted, and I have started seeing this random downvoting everywhere.
> move to a cheaper place and/or find a better job.

Moving costs thousands. Finding a better job is good advice but often requires investment in yourself (education costs money).

How could anyone move to a lower COL area for less than $1000? A security deposit and first month's rent will be more than that almost anywhere you can "find a better job". And that's ignoring the cost to move your things. (But maybe you didn't have any things or expect someone to sell/start over?)

It's clear your intentions here are good but you're giving poor advice. You're out of touch.
I don’t think the specifics of the placement matter all that much. I’m a happy nvim user with a dvorak layout. Only ‘h’ is on the home row, but it’s not a problem. The issue with normal arrow keys is that you have to lift your whole hand to reach them, which is way less precise and much slower than just moving a finger.
I thought it was hilarious and delightful, it made me smile and feel at home. But I certainly understand why others would hate it and not be able to focus on the content.
You’ll trigger a circuit breaker before you get a spread of 5%
I like the name. “Praat” is Dutch for “talk”.
911 outage reported across multiple US states, officials say
Well, they unionized and cut off access to their field. The rest of us have to pay a lot, but their union is probably the most successful labour union.
Paul Graham's Plain Rhetoric
I think I read that most ancient civilizations collapsed because of environmental factors. The environment changed, and they couldn't cope with it for some reason (lack of technology was probably a big part).

As for China, I don't think that one ever "collapsed". It withdrew, but I don't think you can call it a "collapse" the way many other ancient civilizations did. Even Rome is a bit hard to call a full collapse: it degraded over the course of centuries, and eventually Europe turned to feudalism. The Roman Empire itself split apart, with the eastern part (in Constantinople) continuing for another 1000 years after the western side fell apart.

I think civilizations like the Assyrians and Hittites are better examples of civilizations that truly "collapsed": there's basically nothing left of them today, except some ruins.
It's not signalling. It's generating effective arguments against bias.

That makes it a more useful and powerful tool.
It's actually good advice. If you're the sort of person who's seeking out those narcissistic writing excersise subs for relationship advice you probably should get divorced.
It's not the kidnappers trying to contact the family in this case. It's the clinic administrator who doesn't know why their doctor hasn't shown up for a week
> You can't expect 100% of students to have a good time, and it's not obvious what an "ethical" success bar should be

No, but you can expect none of them to have been lied to.

> If Allred is an unscrupulous scammer, he forgot to do the greedy part. The guy is worth less than a lot (maybe most) FAANG SWEs

The defense is he's a fraudster, but incompetent?
I'm pretty sure you can narrow that down to
"icons. the harde..".
I'm not sure that quitting icon fonts is the answer. When you try you pretty quickly remember why they exist
Ask the author of this emulator whose app was rejected multiple times in the past six years
Woah. I did not expect someone to gleefully saw the original mainboard in a bunch of fitting parts, the solder the severed links back together. That’s some next level stuff. Amazing!
I don’t know what you’ll are smoking… :-)

https://cdn.cboe.com/resources/membership/US_Options_Auction...

And: https://www.cboe.com/us/options/trading/complex_orders/
Oh yay! Is Allred in the comments lying as per usual?

Bout damn time.
>purely a choice of style

Sure, but could i not say the same of using any indentation at all?
It's not going up in value, it's going up in price.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072295
> You can't expect 100% of students to have a good time,

No one in this thread has suggested this.