skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you simply all agreed with me we wouldn't have all these important community members getting in fights and leaving.

Isn't this just stating the obvious? I think the same would be true no matter who it was or what was said. Indeed nobody would feel the need to discuss something if we were all in agreement already. I don't think people should necessarily fault someone merely for having an opinion that differs from yours, which IMO is exactly what this letter is about, and I don't even see what opinions are actually different to be honest.

> Thought the inclusion of the word "formal" here was was pretty funny.

Not sure why, you don't give any reasoning, but ok.

> choosing to simply deny every single thing

I didn't get that from their response at all. It sounds to me like the open letter should have listed specific action items they wanted to see, if they wanted to be taken seriously.

> Even if he did nothing wrong at all

Doesn't this by definition mean he doesn't need to do anything else? I'm confused.

> he makes no attempt to reach out to people

Which people where? Who was wronged and how? Where was that documented? I don't understand how you can expect someone to "reach out" to invisible people who won't make their concerns heard clearly (this letter is not that IMO).

> He doesn't seem to comprehend that one can try, but fail

Same as above... I don't see where specific wrongdoing is called out, or any suggestions for improvement.

> this has done enough to turn me off it

What is "this"? How has this directly affected you? To me there is no "this" or even a "him" without very specific concerns called out.
Yes, but that’s locked behind an OS level pass screen.
You can absolutely build a new hone. The conundrum is that the land value is so high that you have to build as big as possible with finishes to match the neighborhood, even if you don't need the square footage.

I'm waiting for my area to allow multifamily and or detached ADU before I build.
Better hope you keep it parked in temperature controlled storage.
Increase in DEA Fentanyl Seizures Containing Xylazine
Insufficient evidence means you are free to go.
But that headline will not be interesting at all to be news worthy...
So far I am way less productive in rust than in any language I've ever used for actual work, so to rewrite an entire game engine would seem like commercial suicide.
Well, slightly harder to replicate under laboratory conditions.

Sort of like if there was an article saying we'd figure out how to harness fusion for power and someone responded with "big deal, have you seen the sun?".
Same thing with google app on ios. My wife saved a password to a site on her phone and we were trying to find it to log in again. Since she had navigated to the site through the Google app, the password ended up in her google account instead of the iPhone keychain - unlike in every other app on the iPhone.
Will it stop recommending if you have mastered the problem? Or will it give a new problem to solve ?
Why? It’s a thing in the fallout universe that we annex Canada. Why couldn’t we do it in real life?
Not accounting for government-produced inflation is interesting.

I wonder if city could sue Federal government for printing money and causing such consequences?

Reminder that deflation should be occurring with the benefits of automation technology, where the buying power of the dollar should be increasing.
Training for multiple epochs is a bit like that :)
Peanut Butter and Radishes?
Moso, a Shop-to-Earn platform that merges shopping and crypto, secures $2M seed
I followed this closely as I live close to Flint. The handling of Flint in the aftermath was an example of partisan politics that went horribly wrong. For example, the state supreme court, which leans left/democrat, ruled that the attorney general office (democrat led) was doing illegal things in the prosecution of the state officials from the time of the incident (who were right/republican). It was quite a mess from numerous angles. The people targeted for prosecution were state level employees (republicans/right) while the people close to the water systems operations (democrat/left) were never really looked at by prosecution that leans democrat/left.

As a local person following the situation, it was hard to tell what was really going on and where opinion pieces (like this and many of the linked articles) were pointing. I suspect people screwed up at all levels and want to just defer blame to the other political party.
At the dealership, it takes a lot to qualify a new-car buyer.

And then convince the buyer that your company's car is the one for them.

After that if the buyer can be carried all the way to the finish line, ready to sign on the dotted line, that's another huge milestone.

At this point the dealers should naturally be high-fiving, but when you do the math it would have been potentially better to just reward those enthusiastic buyers with thousands of dollars cash not to buy.
I'm a heavy user of and minor contributor to the Allegro library. We thought Factorio had got rid of Allegro long ago, but apparently some vestigial component remained. So long!
This is true, but it should also be pointed out here that Universities are where almost of all the initial research into finding and vetting candidate drugs happens, mostly on grants from the government. On the whole that is enormously costly, and the drug companies only step in to develop the drug once the lab tests are promising.

It used to be that all of the profits went to the drug companies, but more recently Universities have started to claim a portion of the patent royalties, and thus the profits. I believe the first big example of this is the University of Wisconsin's royalties on Warfarin (blood thinner used as medicine in humans, and in large doses as a rat killer).
That's disappointing on Microsoft's part, because their docs make it seem like windows-rs is the way of the future.

Thanks for your work, though!
> Go is an engineer’s language.

No, Ada/Spark is an example of a good engineers language. Go is a mediocre effort at best. Rob Pikes defence is that it was designed for junior Googlers who "aren't capable of understanding a brilliant language". Yes that's a real quote.
That beautiful phosphorus green...
when is the stripe IPO?
Also autofill is just broken by some sites and app login screens, so users are used to looking at and typing their passwords every now and then.
It looks like the RTK1 has the exact power draw, 7W, of CM4.

It seems that the carrier board is same as Nvidia Jetson.
Seems like a lot of the negative reviews are abiut a bad purchase experience more so than the device itself, and the prices when mentioned are also several times higher than mentioned in the article.
If they drop X11 support that will finally be the end of my cracktorio addiction.
The people of Canada might have mixed feelings about it.
That’s fine and all, but I actually consider it to be the übervector. There’s something very relaxing and human about having a dedicated ad break when you can get up, chat with your viewing partners, reevaluate whether you want to be in front of a screen at all, etc. that the Netflix-style firehouse to the face of pure uninterrupted content does not allow for.
I think what your saying is that people are drawing the wrong conclusion when they hear 'defund the police'. But, if they knew what was really meant they may actually support it. So the distinction actually matters a lot.

Like if they heard that it meant sending trained mental health professionals to deal with a mental health crisis called into 911 instead of just sending some cops who may very well just shoot them, that might change their minds about it.
GPTLint: LLM-based linting
Subscriber data: court order.

Communications: warrant.

Metadata: it depends.

(Not a general rule but a useful heuristic).
I suspect that is a symptom of Microsoft being an enormously large organization. Coordinating a change like this that cuts across all apps, services and drivers is monumental. Honestly it is quite refreshing to see them do it with Copilot integration across all things MS. I don’t use it though, just admire the valiant effort and focus it takes to pull off something like this.

Of course - goes without saying, only works when the directive comes from all the way at the top. Otherwise there will be just too many conflicting incentives for any real change to happen.

While I am on this topic - I want to mention Apple. It is absolutely bonkers how they have done exactly the is countless times. Like changing your entire platform architecture! It could have been like opening a can of worms but they knew what they were doing. Kudos to them.

Also..(sorry, this is becoming a long post) civil and industrial engineering firms routinely pull off projects like that. But the point I wanted to emphasize is that it’s very uncommon in tech which prides on having decentralized and semi-autonomous teams vs centralized and highly aligned teams.
The drugs are all previously developed and approved by other companies, some as early as the 1950s. They ran the trials in Kazakhstan, India, and similar developing countries.

They have no manufacturing and supply chain, because they buy commercially available generics off the shelf for pennies.

There is a lot to say about pricing, but the guardian is shamelessly spreading disinformation.

https://endtb.org/sites/default/files/2023-11/Leaflet%20endT...
Yes, this would need grassroots single issue advancement of something like a HIPAA law for general privacy and personal data that starts with an opt-in standard practice. There's really no way to change the structure of how the current situation of data brokering works in America without a broad and draconian law.

Perhaps there should also be a nonprofit clearinghouse like a "credit agency" that provides a centralized portal for reviewing all of the permission links at and between businesses, and also a central point for changing phone numbers, email, shipping, mailing address, etc.
Trump and trump era republicans do not believe in liberal democratic ideals or the englihtenment. They are not liberals. Trump would absolutely take absolute power if he thought he could get away with it.

No, they’re not neoliberal either. Steve Bannon calls for a “deconstruction of the nation state” which is just pomo enough for me to believe that he is pretty much comic book evil.
Bundle Python with the z/OS base system
The account doesn't exist anymore.
I have sung the praises of memorization since I was a kid, and yet the attitude that, with the internet, memorization is no longer required because we have access to unending knowledge, seems oh so prevalent. One wonders what these advocates must think... do they claim to know Norwegian because they can use Google to translate at any particular instant, for example? One wonders what life might be like for people so confident in their non-existent abilities.
Looking forward to putting every Meta employee in jail. No one died in Flint. Lots of people killed themselves after using Meta products.
None because I don’t need one. Just giving my non gloomy perspective.
That's an edge case. But I'm mostly talking about RK1 or Rasp. Pi 5.

I'm well aware of "large" ARM chips like Fujitsu A64FX ARM that did well (when it came out) in terms of Linpack performance, thanks to hugely efficient designs like HBM and 512-bit SVE.

I'm not very well aware of what Apple M1 offers to the table, I know some people are experimenting with it but its a far larger chip than RK1 or Rasp. Pi. But its probably smaller than A64FX.

I know that Apple M1 has only 128-bit vectors though, so that's a big penalty vs AVX512 or even the older Fujitsu A64FX. I'd expect them to be bad at Linpack / Matrix multiplication as this is where SIMD shines exceptionally well... and AVX512 on Xeon is a very good SIMD implementation.

I recognize Apple M1 has multiple 128-bit pipelines that operate in parallel per core, so its better than it looks, but there's a huge power-efficiency advantage to 512-bit sized vector units in the Linpack-style matrix-multiplication code.
In progressive circles (eg. reddit), yeah.
Most people don't need Microsoft Office to survive. And, the price of Ozempic is $83 in France. American patients are being outright ripped off, and this is not an isolated incident.
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I'm vegan and have given up almonds because I'm prone to kidney stones, and I was told that almonds have a much higher oxalate content than other nuts. Not everyone has a tendency to form kidney stones, but in my case it seems like I started to suffer from them right around the time that grocery stores and cafés started to switch from soy milk to almond milk, so I think that may have been the biggest problem. (I haven't had any more stones so far since switching to oat milk and starting to take citrate pills every day.)

I still eat a fair amount of nuts, often peanuts, which are lower in oxalate. I appreciate cashew (and coconut!) as an alternative to almonds that are still high in fat, like for making ice cream out of. I think one reason almonds and almond milk have been so popular is their pleasantly high fat content.

I don't have any particular intuition for how much water these other nuts take to produce.
Um... yes, it's even more important in math B to be able to have, at your fingertips, all the theorems related to Ideals, Rings, Groups, Categories, Topologies, etc. This is why I re-read my math textbooks from time to time. You always miss some theorems, and they're often key to higher-level understanding.
I found this interesting as it has gained a significant amount of GitHub stars in a short period of time. From a brief look at the code, it seems it just makes requests to chat.openai.com as if someone was using ChatGPT, for free, via the browser. This somehow automates it, and seemingly, without credentials.

EDIT: I didn't realize that ChatGPT can now be used without a login. That seems to be how this can function without credentials.
Russian programmers play 'cat and mouse' game to outsmart censors
In the U.S., this is a still-evolving area of law, which has been raised before the Supreme Court: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-1020/302999/202...

The State of Utah instructed the jury in State vs. Valdez to infer that a suspect was guilty because he refused to provide his password to the police. On appeal, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that he had the right to withhold his password according to the 5th Amendment, and he shouldn't face negative consequences for doing so. The state appealed that ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing various other state and Federal courts which have made conflicting rulings on this same issue.

Sixteen states (Indiana, Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Texas) just filed a motion asking the Court to hear the case: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-1020/307804/202...

Quoting that brief:

"[C]ourts have issued orders requiring persons to unlock devices or provide passcodes. But courts across the country are divided as to whether the Fifth Amendment bars such orders. [...] The Court should grant certiorari to provide guidance on how the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee against self-incrimination applies in the modern context of electronic devices."

The Court has yet to decide if they'll hear arguments: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/do...

More info/commentary here: https://reason.com/volokh/2023/12/14/is-compelled-decryption... (But I recommend going directly to the primary source material—legal documents in Supreme Court cases are very accessible, even to non-lawyers.)
It's C++ replacement just not yet there for game dev (maybe never for game dev)
Conveniently, tor nodes are blocked by the Chinese and Russian governments.
Possibly this was used MiniDumpFilterTriage (from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/minidump...) and some of other stripping/scrubbing data fields.

This one fills all non-null ptr in the callstack (and other areas?) with 0xAAAAAAAA

I actually had to fix this for us two weeks ago, as our internal tools were crashing on the CI with this, and it wasn't helpful (to us), but at the same time understand how important is for this if shipped to external customers.

Crashdumps are underrated field that needs more eyes to solve the big data problem there.
you can probably blame pip
> No. The first page is the "fact sheet." The other 693 pages is the rule-making document.

You are incredibly rude for someone who is also incredibly wrong. It is strange that whenever we are one of those, we all seem far more likely to be the other as well.

Only the last two pages before the appendix is "the rule-making document", and the 4 pages of appendix A - just six pages in total. The rest is a dialogue on why the rules are needed and provide context to understand the intent of the rules. The rule starts at "X. ORDERING CLAUSES" on page 394 and is less than 2 pages long in total. It will also be necessary to fill in references made to "Appendix A" which is an additional 4 pages (397-401).

It's not surprising to me that both you and the other poster couldn't figure this out -- it's very easy to miss a section so small when it's titled similarly to sections like "IV. ORDER: FORBEARANCE FOR BROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS SERVICES" which are mostly discussion. That contains language like:

> Petitioners ask that the Commission reverse, vacate, or withdraw the RIF Remand Order, and request that the Commission initiate a new rulemaking to reclassify BIAS as a Title II service and reinstate the open Internet conduct rules. Collectively, petitioners make several procedural arguments for why the Commission should reconsider the RIF Remand Order. Common Cause et al. and Public Knowledge each assert that procedural deficiencies in the process the Commission used to adopt the RIF Remand Order are cause for reconsideration. Common Cause et al. argue that because the Commission failed to open the record to receive comment on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it failed to adequately consider harms of reclassifying BIAS as a Title I service on public safety, pole attachments, and the Lifeline program.

Which is clearly not an order - it is a discussion with a goal towards justifying parts of the order.

There are also only 434 pages. Not anywhere close to "693". It would be very rude of me to point out that you might be "unable to read past the table of contents". To the contrary, I understand that it's easy to misinterpret the indexing of the table of contents as pages rather than sections, and I have empathy for someone making that mistake, even if it does demonstrate that someone probably hasn't tried to use the table of contents to actually read the document.
Funnily enough, I'd compare the image and versioning differences to managing Postgres rather than non-image based languages.

Postgres has to deal with images (backups) and versions (migrations). Maybe selling image-based systems in both cases needs a little work or formalisation (best practices and all that)?

Image-based systems seem more about data management rather than code management. Just some random thoughts
It's not really anything new. Very common in environments where you can't ship symbols such as games crashing on player's computers.

For example, the Unreal Engine crash reporter has been capable of sending such a simple format for many years. You can restore a reasonably accurate function/line number from it for each stack frame.

Though minidump is usually preferred as having the stack variables can give additional hints to what happened.
It’s super fast and nice. But I can’t bring myself to use it with anything other than side projects because of the VC funding model.
It's a small drop from a pandemic peak that was far above pre-pandemic levels. After this small drop, it's still far above that.

And that probably is at least somewhat because of all the apartment building going on, which is a positive thing.

One notable company "fled" - Oracle, this week.
A standard size lot around here is 6000 ft.²
Yeah, OOP makes sense for games. The language will matter a bit for which one takes off, but anything will work given enough support. Like, Python doesn't inherently make a lot of sense for data processing or AI, but it's good enough.
Yeah, but the actual cause of the problems to retirees wouldn't be "the market", it would be the actual harm to the global economy. At a macro level a 401k is a small slice of the economic pie, and their values are just a reflection of the economy at large - if your 401k value tank, it's either because the economy is also tanking or because your 401k's portion of the total pie is shrinking.
That assertion was specifically qualified in the context of database engines, for which it is true. I definitely write bugs but I haven't seen a segfault or memory corruption in years. That is more of a C thing than a C++ thing.

It is kind of difficult to have a segfault or memory corruption with explicitly paged object memory, since there can't be any pointers and these complex objects are bound-checked at compile-time. If you care about performance and scalability, you don't need to concern yourself with multi-threading as an issue either. The main way you'd expect to see memory corruption is if you try to read/write a page in the middle of a DMA operation to the same memory, and Rust doesn't help you with that either (though this would be just a normal logic bug in the scheduler).

It is pretty easy to avoid segfaults and memory corruption in modern C++ if the software architecture doesn't allow you to create the conditions under which those are likely to occur.
I think that's essentially just what I described, with the main difference being that I think we'll only actually get there if we approach it from the angle of PII being something intrinsically owned by the individual, not the company that generated it, which I think is easiest approached by making it a right of some sort.

Then the carved out allowances for specific companies or industries are clear and their need can always be weighed against our rights, making them much easier to pull back, because it's obvious when it comes to our rights and the needs of an industry to continue making money, our rights come first. If it's approached from a non-rights angle at some point we are attempting to curtail an industry, I think that might be a much more contentious discussion.

If we can't get rights, I wouldn't mind HIPAA being expanded into an overall PII protection system with two or more levels, one being current HIPAA health info, and the other main one being all other PII info and that allows a company to collect it for internal use without lots of constraints (depending on info, and purely so it doesn't accidentally tank existing industries that aren't problematic because all of a sudden they can't store some benign info they need that the law accidentally targets) but once they want to share it at all they need to adopt a much more stringent framework like medical info requires for tracking and accounting of it, which would probably weed out the vast majority of random "collect the PII and sell it because it's cheap" stuff that goes on, since it's no longer low cost at all given the requirements that would exist around it (including authorization to share). Just the cost structure around strict legal and storage compliance and requiring authorization and tracking of all sharing of information would disincentivize a huge amount of the abuse we see.
For me LLMs feel like a lecture where you understand all the words and ideas but once you leave you realise you really haven't understood anything new but you perhaps have some new avenues to explore. More of an advanced exploratory tool.