skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They also seem to be evolving into a social media platform that thrives on the kind of conflicts and divisiveness that has driven people away from other platforms.

This seems like a strange criticism in light of moving to Ghost. There's no reason you have to use Substack Notes, or any of the other social features, if you really don't want to. And it's not really Substack specific

> Last fall Substack was called out quite publicly for allowing literal Nazi content on their platform. When they finally responded to an open letter from Substack writers, they basically said they don’t like Nazis but believe that any level of moderation equates to censorship. This free-speech absolutism is disingenuous; every public communication platform has to deal with moderation.

I don't know what its like now but a couple years ago the Ghost CEO was a real jerk and would just delete the blogs of people who he didn't like or who criticized the platform: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1487633638502154242

I would much prefer Substack here.

I'm very fond of Substack generally because I think they deserve a lot of credit for

1. starting a new blogging renaissance generally. Lots of my friends started writing and I really love it, and they make it easy to share their work.

2. normalizing writers getting paid. It used to be very difficult to make any money at all writing online. Usually you had to hope a big outfit would pay you pennies for a few words. Substack has minted millionaires from people just posting. I think that's wonderful.

Maybe Ghost can help with that, but I think the learning curve and start up cost is much worse.
> It's not a strawman.

It is absolutely a strawman:

> A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction.

Grandparent: Please, US doesn't need to prove anything w.r.t freedom vs. China.

Parent: So you're saying the USA is better and thus it never needs to be compared in any aspect related to 'freedom'?

Me: GP didn't say the USA never needs to be compared in any aspect related to freedom, they said _relative to China_ the US doesn't need to prove anything.

It's objectively a strawman.

That's separate from the issue of whether or not this infringes on the freedom of speech, but 1) freedom of speech in the US is not nor ever has been absolute with no limits and 2) this move absolutely deserves scrutiny.
The comment I am responding to is a worse version of the coffee argument.
Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction overturned by New York appeals court
Rails on JRuby was a tenable proposition last I looked. Been a while though.
private prisons get too much credit, public prisons also have perverse incentives driven by their workers' union (if only the prisoners were allowed to unionize too!)
Make the "report as spam" button or notification cause the spammer or their sponsor to incur a $0.01 charge payable to the mobile provider. The money would be a rounding error for false accusations, but would decimate anyone sending massive spam calls.
Yes, you can do end-to-end encrypted hidden seeding. See technical docs (slightly outdated) [1]. Everything in Python was too slow. With Rust implementation we get 10x the speed, 160 Mbit/s anon tunneling.

[1] https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/Hidden-Services-Spec...
MySQL has (or at least had) --i-am-a-dummy-mode which means you have to specify the rows or include a limit.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-tips.html#safe...
Working on it! => https://www.airsequel.com
Purely anecdata, but I've lost count just how many Ubuntus (more accurately Debian and derivatives, I guess?) I've murdered in cold blood with sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade.
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Ok -- I need your help. I'm missing something here.

People got RSUs. They owed tax on said RSUs. The tax cannot be higher than the value of the RSU at the time of vest.

If people did not have enough cash to pay their tax bill, and did not sell enough RSUs to get cash to pay said tax bill, then yes, I can see those people "with a loss" because they had a "surprise" tax bill, RSUs price went down and a cash problem now. Is this what you mean happened?

They shouldn't have had to "sell everything" -- at most like 50%.

I'm arguing with you here because this stuff is complex, and many people shy away from trying to understand it, and that's a huge disservice for those in our industry.

For anyone reading along -- It's as simple as this: understand the tax implications of the assets you own, pay your taxes.
Lace: A Probabilistic Machine Learning Tool for Scientific Discovery
The land of the fee, the home of the slave.
It’s pretty easy to build an emission or reward schedule into the rules of a decentralized network

when the software that nodes are running see another compliant node, they expect for it to be rewarded so they all conform to the additional issuance of tokens

you just need to make sure that sybil attack attempts improve the network, as the attacker adds more nodes to earn more
Reframe it in your mind. "Getting into FPGAs" needs to be broken down. There are so many subsets of skills within the field that you need to level expectations. No one expects a software engineer to jump into things by building a full computer from first principles, writing an instruction set architecture, understanding machine code, converting that to assembly, and then developing a programming language so that they can write a bit of Python code to build an application. You start from the top and work your way down the stack.

If you abstract away the complexities and focus on building a system using some pre-built IP, FPGA design is pretty easy. I always point people to something like MATLAB, so they can create some initial applications using HDL Coder on a DevKit with a Reference design. Otherwise, there's the massive overhead of learning digital computing architecture, Verilog, timing, transceivers/IO, pin planning, Quartus/Vivado, simulation/verification, embedded systems, etc.

In short, start with some system-level design. Take some plug-and-play IP, learn how to hook together at the top level, and insert that module into a prebuilt reference design. Eventually, peel back the layers to reveal the complexity underneath.
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Ah, they have changed the public pricing page. Maybe we were on a grandfathered in deal. They had a starter package between free and enterprise with configurable cluster options that was $60ish a month. We heavily used the policies, certs and organization features that made it a no brainer for that price point for things outside AWS like Heroku.

We were running about $12/mo in aws secrets with no caching and no usage outside our aws services. I taught the team how to cache the secrets in the lambda function and it dropped to a buck a month or less.

If they killed off the starter package then you are right, there are only outrageous options and HCP would not be worth considering for small orgs.
The "other side" isn't being opposed to war. The other side is actively starting wars by invading its neighbors or trying to take their territory.

Anduril has played a critical role in defending Ukraine, but it has not created weapons used to invade Russia or any other country.

> the same way I can see someone who is opposed to war being opposed to the usage.

Why wouldn't this person be opposed to the invading army instead? I could foresee a possible future where Aduril has done horrible things in future decades, but up through 2024, I see a lot of good done and not much to condemn.
I hear it also has many megahertz.
> 1) the memory speeds are increasing and approach those of the CPU ― that's definitely not true today;

What does "speed" mean here? Latency? Bandwidth?
> He lost me by basically claiming with the nuclear chain reaction example that, "If A is possible, anything unknown is possible." The statement in itself is nonsense.

I don't think he said that. It's more that we should still be skeptical of impossibility claims.
Keep in mind, many areas of California already have absurd electrical pricing and rising ($.50+/kwh) and everyone was promised a long time already that there would not need to be grid upgrades to support EV’s.

Which was transparent BS.

So here we are again, likely going to get more out of proportion increases due to things that were promised to not be needed.
Show HN: TikiToken – Football Manager in NFT Version in Polygon Blockchain
I'm working in Whitepaper and Smart Contract for NFT minting. There is no internal token to avoid pumps and dumps

The matches are automated based on probabilities and the teams can earn real money because the prizes for winning competitions are a pot built from a % of the Players (NFT) trades on market and NFT minting purchases
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Globalization generally crushes small languages. I consider it a blessing and a curse- the more people speak a common language, the more they can communicate and collaborate together; unfortunately they tend to forget their traditional languages as a consequence. It strikes me as inevitable.
True, yet I feel the expectation regarding software has shifted from expecting much better quality even 10-15 years ago to things we have now, where nobody is surprised about web apps crashing your browser etc.
the memory speeds are increasing and approach those of the CPU ― that's definitely not true today

There was a brief time in the 80s when that was true, but clearly hasn't been for a while. (Why else would caches be necessary?)

chip area used for complex instructions can be used for something better, like caches — is it really that true today

Some of Intel's CPUs can turn off sections of their caches to save power.

Complex instructions can be easily and more performantly simulated by combining several simpler ones

That now happens with RISCs too, e.g. there are ARM instructions which get split into multiple uops, and of course the larger amount of simpler instructions is essentially what uops are. Patterson wrote the paper at a time when the Pentium's uop-decoding approach didn't exist and "traditional" CISCs were all sequentially microcoded.

Apples-to-apples comparisons here are not quite easy

Pun intended? I believe there was plenty of discussion on that when they came out with the M1, and some have attributed that to process advantage instead of uarch or ISA.
What the actual quotes are, starting at 12:30 timestamp during investor questions segment:

"We are able to do simple factory tasks in the lab"

"We think we'll have Optimus in limited production in the factory doing useful tasks by the end of this year"

"We may be able to sell it externally by end of next year. These are just guesses"

For the first quote, they literally have a PR video on youtube showing this. Go see it for yourself.

For the second, this is a no-brainer. They already have robots in their factories doing useful tasks. It's not really a stretch that a humanoid form-factor robot could be doing the same.

For the third, he clearly said "may" and made it super clear this was a guess. He's also not saying it will be doing your dishes by end of next year, he said selling it externally. Which may be for external lab purposes or for other manufacturers.

"There is no meaningful limit to the size of the economy (whatever this means)"

I think it's pretty clear what it means - autonomous robots that can intelligently do human tasks are going to massively change how the economy works. And it's very, very likely that we will (at some point) get to here. He's not promising when that's going to be.

You're continuing to prove my point - people take the things he says and wildly misconstrue them and then act like he's literally Hitler. Don't get me wrong, Elon is an asshole and a transphobe and has some weird stick up his ass about immigration. But it's a pet peeve of mine for people to make up shit to be critical about while ignoring the real problems (like transphobia). It's also attacking the amazing talent and teams at Tesla/SpaceX for people to keep acting like it's a total shit show when it's really just Elon not shutting up sometimes
> Looks like a no-brainer if you're on the Ubuntu treadmill.

It'll take forever for ML packages to upgrade. The Python/ML/PyTorch ecosystem is slow to move.
My writing indicates that I'm angry with your behavior. Nothing else. You came here to call me a f***ing freak, dipshit. Walk that back if you want me to take you seriously. I'm not afraid of you. I'm angry at you for being a asshole for no reason, and demand an apology.

I'm not sure where you think I'm spending my time online. I'm a business owner, working mathematician, philosopher, and accessibility activist. I'm not hanging out in some kind of n-chan cult space. I was literally just responding to a philosophy paper in public, and you jumped out to judge me as a freak. You probably didn't read the paper, or care about the subject matter.

Continue trying to make sinister insinuations against me, and I'll continue correcting and tarnishing you. I have no limit of energy for dealing with jerkwads like you.

Have a nice day.
I think it's also a by-product of the CEO starting the company in Rails, and now having top engineers being part of Ruby core team or Rails core team. To a certain degree they'r steering the Ruby/Rails ship technically.

Why would they bother switching if Shopify isn't having fundamental problems and they're the tog dog in their stack?
If you use the non-LTS versions of Ubuntu then you are expected to upgrade to each new version in short order, the previous version (23.10) is only supported until July.
Not really, considering my example of insults and stuff come from different platforms. But fake sign ups is a problem for any platform. Why do you think every sign up system confirms your email? People are assholes.
I wish Debian was a treadmill with fixed release dates like Ubuntu has.
Don't think it needs a new syntax, just that the WHERE clause is mandatory:

DELETE FROM customers WHERE TRUE;
> Would you allow yourself to be monitored 24/7...

It depends on who's policing the police. In the west people love to point fingers to China about "The Social Credit System", but it looks quite difference when it's looked from their side [0].

Would the observers will face the same consequences for their misconducts? This is the ultimate question.

In the end, there's no system which is 100% equal for everyone (even in nature), but if you can make advantages balance out the disadvantages, you're 95% there.

[0]: https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9904-the_social_credit_system
yet when I posted a verbatim profile page screenshot of the author while saying absolutely nothing about them myself, it was downvoted as "arrant bigotry" lol.
Well it's not like a myriad of village then regional cultures haven't been already crushed in the creation of the modern nation-states. But that dosen't mean the end of diversity either, new cultures built on that modern era emerge in turn to take their place.

The counter-argument I'd give is that trying to artifically preserve everything, to maintain divisions is essentially tying ourselves to the weight of the past. The monoculture of today may find it's roots in English, but it's not like one can share and integrate the best parts of their culture into that monoculture. And that monoculture in turn has birthed a myriad of subcultures and hobbyists that are just as culturally rich as the preceding era. And perhaps unlike those old cultures, they stand by their merits, anybody can be part of it. With regionalism, with nationalism that's not the case. Something that's built for a specific "tribe" is going to have much less for me.
step 1 - remove snapd
I want to see your project succeed, and I'm probably not alone. What kind of help do you need?
This insight makes one wonder if the same thing applies to humans as well. Are we just the sum of our experiences? Or the architectures of our brains are much more complex and different so that they have more influence on the outputs for the same inputs?
Implement the technology to reliably identify what source country and/or provider a call was initiated from. Give me the ability to choose what countries or providers are allowed to make calls to my phone. Pretty soon the shady providers will go out of business and the rest will try harder to prevent robocalling on their service.
Indeed, an article making the opposite point would probably make more sense.

This article even opens with the point that smaller languages have less Wikipedia content and somehow blames "Tech". A language having less articles is a people/popularity problem. You being able to read them anyway through machine generated translations is a tech thing.
I'd believe that if we won the wars instead of losing them all.

This is just looting.
There is a difference between "language with the most native speakers" and "language that is the most widely spoken".

Mandarin may win the first one, but fails the second one dramatically.

Few people outside China speak Mandarin as their first language.

Mandarin has L1: 940 million, L2: 200 million -> 1.14 billion

English has L1: 380 million L2: 1.077 billion -> 1.46 billion

Also, most of the L2 Mandarin speakers live in China, with another Chinese dialect as their native language.
He invented Alpha as part of his relational theorem, although it was never implemented. QUEL, of the Ingres/Postgres lineage, was heavily influenced by the design of Alpha and is the closest thing we have to what he envisioned.

SQL comes from Boyce and Chamberlain.
Alternate take, it can also help people learn niche languages if native speakers contribute to data sets. For example, I've been using Clozemaster [1] for the past few months as a way to work on vocabulary in some languages, and they pull their dataset from Tatoeba [2]. I was very surprised to see that my father's native language, Kabylie, which is admittedly a somewhat niche language, is one of the top languages by sentence contribution in the dataset (over 700k entries, more than French or Spanish or German). I showed him the sentences once and he confirmed that yes, they all seem like what a native speaker would say. Not all of them have translations into other languages of course, and a lot of them are slight variations on each other, but some native speakers are there contributing. It's not currently an option to use in Clozemaster -- I'm guessing the TTS isn't really there -- but I totally could see these as gaps that are easily filled.

Same with my wife's native language (Bengali). There are surprisingly few language learning resources for Bangla, even though it's the 7th most spoken language in the world. But there it is in the data set with TTS and the ability for Clozemaster to have ChatGPT "explain" what's going on in the sentence (a very useful feature for new speakers).

Anyway, I don't view AI as good or bad, just another tool that we should be intentional about when we cultivate the data sets underlying the tool.

[1] https://www.clozemaster.com/

[2] https://tatoeba.org
If thousands use it then 99.99%+ of the user base would not. Which would be totally fine in the eyes of the laws objectives
Imagine you search for information in Georgian and all the results are about Georgia, the US state...

Translation increases the relative utility of understanding a small language by opening up access to the entire world's content, but it also decreases the utility of being able to write in that language because now you're competing against the entire world's content.
Hi! I am a game-dev and this is my first post here,
I wanted to share something I made using ChatGPT that earned me some money!

I am a game-dev using ChatGPT everyday to make games using Unity and write the gameplay code.

It helps a lot to solve complex problems and write systems.

So basically:
I rode the trend of Watermelon Games and created my own version

Wrote the code using ChatGPT
Generated 2D assets using ChatGPT - cleaned in Photoshop
Distributed it to web game portals (ad-revenue and license fees!)

This is it in a nutshell, in the video I detail the sources from where I earn.
Sadly, the demo does require scissors and a colour printer/coloured markers to experience fully.
syncthreads synchronizes threads within a threadgroup and not across all threads.
> None of their engineering staff have anything visible on their GitHub accounts - not even a project that they got two lines into and then threw away, which I honestly accept as a sign of baseline competence these days

As much as I want to contribute to FOSS I have kids to take care of, and want to parent. While I’m not star dev, I am certainly competent.
> The World Wide Web is a web of documents.

Sure, and if you want to define it as such you are free to only include documents in that definition. The rest of us will keep using the same protocols for accessing other things too and have another definition of www.
The original idle RPG was sitting on a character creation screen re-rolling your stats for hours if not days on end. I'm pretty sure I played the character creation bit of MegaTraveller more than the actual game.
1996. I'm 14 years old. My best friend and I are obsessed with the new big game, Descent. My city suffers a massive freezing rain storm that coats everything in ice. Power is out almost everywhere. School is cancelled. My neighborhood, with underground power lines, is one of the few that still has power.

My best friend and I load up his computer -- CRT, peripherals and all -- in a plastic toboggan, and haul it (On foot! We were't driving yet!) about a mile over to my house, dodging foot long icicles falling from power lines all the way.

The glory that was a couple of junior high nerds turning a snow day into a LAN party.
Do you actually need reasons why a liberal society wouldn't want the largest source Americans receive news from to be run by a wildly illiberal society?
Even if they do stay in prison for the entire sentence this is crazy.

50$ a day is insane and must be impossible for 99% of inmates to ever repay.
As a minor point of no real consequence the Cessna T-41 Mescalero has been in service in the US airforce and army from 1964 until today, and I've been told the Diamond DA20 Katana is in indirect service via a through a civilian contract that screens prospective pilots.

Weird nitpick, I know.

There's also a slew of drones that may or may not use efficient small piston engines or rotary varients which may or may not count as piston.

On the data aquisition side I'm willing to bet there's still a place in the US military for low, slow, ground hugging piston engine craft that run radiometrics or EM mapping.
Not decades, centuries (at least). A synonym for "AI" is machine : consider what effect the printing press (a written word-replication machine) had on less popular languages ? (It would be interesting to compare Europe and Asia...)

This article is just desperately lacking in awareness like this - see also how, frustratingly, it barely mentions how a language is spoken first, and only maybe written second, but doesn't spend much time on that aspect.
IBM repeatedly cleaning house of anyone approaching (let alone in or even rarely beyond) middle age is abhorrent.

It's funny to characterise people's beef with IBM as that they're boring, old, and stale when IBM are apparently allergic to anyone over 40.

Also their consultants have been some of the most weaponised incompetence laden, rude, and entitled idiots I've ever had the sincere displeasure to deal with.

IBM are an embarrassment to their own legacy imo.
That's just normal updates; I've never had issues doing that.

That said, in-place updates to a whole new release has been fraught across every distribution I've tried it on, whether Debian-derived, RedHat-derived, or even a few something elses.

(Gentoo being rolling didn't have that issue, but instead different problems.)
There is a non-insignificant cohort of the electorate who votes for this intentionally.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40157954