skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you could make a case that if any of these fired employees were employed at google prior to project Nimbus contracts they were already complicit by their silence and unwillingness to perform a terminate-able protest stunt against quite a few other shady google deals with problematic governments.

It’s a murky world out there and Google is a global company that gave up the “Don’t be evil” motto nearly a decade ago. If you expect to work for an altruistic org—go work for one. That ain't Google and your fat TC package you enjoy is going to come with some taint and stink.
“It shows that he, to some extent, has the cognitive capacities that he needs to treat the wound with some medically active plants,” she said. “But we really don’t know how much he understands.”

This could apply to many humans too. Many people don't know why they're doing what they're doing, and don't have any understanding of how what they're doing works.

We're really not _that_ much smarter than them.
Your results will be biased. It is tiny with small values of N, and absent when N is a power of two, but the skew becomes more obvious when your N is 2^31 + 2^30 + 1, for example.
Lots of academic and engineering things from back then are great.

I have an incomplete set of the radlab textbooks. They're still useful even today, and have a really careful pace to them because they were written for a generation for whom electricity was still relatively new.

One of the things that is a real shame is just how artfully bound those old books are. Leather, thick but smooth paper, etc.
I mean 6mian. He hand-waved non-data (badly) disguised as historical facts to make a point. Then you came around and asked for actual facts. It's clear you won't get them, because he got nothing to begin with.
Wild plants themselves can’t be patented, but chemicals derived from plants can be, provided they are non-obvious and have utility. Novel plants like GMOs can also be patented.
> When can we admit something bigger is at play here? The market is being manipulated on a grand scale.

What we have is a global asset price inflation issue caused by cheap money. Works well for those with collateral but hits those without hard. All of the other issues - regulation, zoning, building costs, immigration, etc are secondary. Just check any country with this problem and look at the correlation between an expanding money supply and property prices.
What I’m trying to argue is that Israelis of middle east and north African ancestry are also victims of European colonization. That their cultural identity was erased and absorbed into the dominant European identity.

The introduction of Modern Hebrew was unmistakably a Zionist enterprise (which it self is a breed of European colonialism). As I’m reading through the linked sources in the Wikipedia article I cited I see how much of a cultural pressure Arabic speaking immigrants were put into speaking Hebrew, not Arabic, in public. As if their language (and by extension their cultural identity) was dirty somehow:

> “I wanted people to speak Hebrew,” she said. “Kids who had Yiddish in their house felt the same. It was more so for those of us coming from the Islamic world, since Arabic was identified as the language of the enemy.” [1]

Now Yiddish speaker probably experienced something similar, but at least they had other aspects of their culture accepted:

> But the builders of the Israeli state faced a major ideological challenge with the Jewish population of the Middle East, who were encouraged to mass migrate to Palestine and used as cheap labour to build Zionist settlements. What the European colonisers found particularly “disturbing” about the Mizrahi Jews was their “Arab character”.

> As Israel’s first female prime minister, Golda Meir, declared: “Every loyal Jew must speak Yiddish, for he who does not know Yiddish is not a Jew.”

> That is, the only true Jewish identity was the one that the Ashkenazi elite had brought from Europe; the Jewishness of the Mizrahim (or Sephardim) was “impure”. Because of that, they were deemed susceptible to “Arab influence” and their loyalty questioned. Action had to be taken swiftly to control this “suspect” Jewish community which soon became half of the Israeli population. [2]

This kind of reminds me of modern day California, how many Latin American immigrants (first and second generation) don’t feel comfortable speaking Spanish in public, instead speaking the language of the dominant culture, and having a part of their cultural identity erased as a result.

1: https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/recovering-judeo-ar...

2: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/3/21/singing-in-euro...
Dressmaking CAD
Collapsing Sheets of Spacetime Could Explain Dark Matter and Why Universe 'Hums'
I would suggest that the edge of a typical busy boulevard features 10-30 thousand vehicles per day, whose brake and tire particles in particular end up in the soil around the road. Typical farm fields might see 30,000 trips over the span of what, 100 or 1000 years? It's not in any way comparable to an urban roadway.
Yes, I'm sure obfuscating Google Street maps will prevent DPR artillery from accurately striking targets in Seoul.
Tech companies have in common that their stock to quality value is indeterminate and sales are sporadic compared to output.
Must be how their visual system works. My bearded dragon generally didn’t have great eyesight but he would immediately attack when he saw himself in a mirror.
The Battleship New Jersey Museum puts out some great videos on their channel answering questions and showing what they’re doing in the dry dock:

https://youtube.com/c/battleshipnewjersey
You're making an entirely different argument than what Google made in their emails to him.
Prediction: in five years or so, gcc shall have gained some extensions which, combined with some ludicrous boost.org template gymnastics, manage to duplicate Rust's borrow checker.

C++ will then kick back, light up a cigarette, take a long drag, exhale a cloud, and wonder aloud what the next "killer feature" will be.
I recently made a 4 generation upgrade - from an iPhone 11 to an iPhone 15. It was remarkable how un-exciting it was. It used to be so much fun to get a new phone. Apple has a problem.
The common file systems have been done on fuse.

The beauty of fuse lies in being able to make usable filesystems for all those niche filesystems out there. The drawback to fuse is that those niche filesystems need somebody with enough interest in them to write a fuse filesystem for those one-off niche filesystems. (A bit chicken and egg.)

I have written a couple of fuse filesystems for mounting older 8-bit computer filesystems on Linux. But they take a lot of work and a lot of time to debug. Which is probably why they aren't used a lot.
No, the exact same thing isn't happening, don't be daft. Rather, politicians are attempting to legislate people like me out of existence, and the lack of public protest is deafening. You're worried about some protesters in some well-demarked zones, I'm worried about state-sanctioned violence. No, these are not the same.

Targeted anti-LGBT violence is on the rise. Literal book burnings are underway. Our voices are being censored. It is legal to discriminate against us in employment, as students in schools, and even as patients hospitals. I get verbally assualted in public on account of my cultural identity on a regular basis. And I live in a progressive major metropolitan city.

I'm sad that Jewish people are experiencing this today, but my friend, you are late to the party. How late? It was the nation of Israel that forbade homosexuality some 3000 years ago. Before your people's story of persecution even began, we were being persecuted by your law.

But it doesn't justify censorship, revoking the freedom of speech, nor the freedom of peaceful assembly. Be careful where you read about this violence, because anti-Islam is a popular sentiment amongst anti-Palestine protests, and when the cops start a fight with or between protesters, they're writing history.
Solving problems is good, however if you end up helping the right set of users from monetization POV it can unlock new revenue streams. Sent you email, lets connect there.
> we can achieve
comparable performance to an in-memory database system for
the cached working set

Should I keep reading, or is the title misleading?

The abstract seems to say that the system provides memory-comparable performance for data that is... in-memory
Do you have any reference for that? I live in NYC and was here for the whole pandemic, and this is the first I hear something like that.
All good points, and as you say there's little on the record that supports my take on why the two post trinity bombs were always going to be used.

Circling back to at the time, there are copious notes on materials, orders, deployments, and boxes of documentation, and then there is relatively little on the underlying thought given to whether the two bombs should even be used at all. At the time. No shortage of after the fact recollections of course.

While I'm not a historian, more an applied geophysics dabbler, I'm familiar with the material, I've met and talked with Alex Wellerstein, I once interviewed Mark Oliphant, and I've spoken with a number of the technical people who came out for the Emu Fields and Montebello tests.

In the context of an ongoing bombing campaign and truly vast amounts money and resources spent on creating new weapons it's difficult to imagine a scenario in which the bombs would not have been field tested. If that kind of take is a foundation then everthing written becomes bookkeeping and for the record.

In life, where there's momentum politics will often follow rather than lead.

Regardless, I simply have an opinion (well, many and not all consistent with each other) and not a book or a career; I principally enjoy jolting people who have a particular fixed view of many events in history to become aware of wider fields of opinion and to consider how consensus views evolve over time.
Man the author did not have to resort to such a click baity title to get people to read.

“Why Google Maps can’t map China” would have been accurate and not droll.

I just opened Apple Maps and it looks perfectly fine. Tested about 10 areas and even rural areas and there was no issue. Stopped reading immediately after. I have no interest in supporting this crap.
The bits of this controversy about "where's the LAM?" are strange to me. My impression from the beginning was that the "Large Action Model" was a server-side thing, and the hardware was going to be almost-entirely a way to talk to their services.

Apparently this impression was far from universal.
They're often more like gravel piles than a single rock. We learned from the DART and OSIRIS-REx missions.
I stopped going after a waitress mentioned my mozzarella sticks were still in the microwave. As I sat there, thinking about the Sam’s Club cardboard box they might have come from, I realized that many restaurants probably do the same. However, I had hoped Red Lobster would at least use an oven.
“rabbit r1 is not an Android app” is true though. To a different degree, saying the r1 is an android app is like saying a polestar 2 is an android app. Yes, android OS and android software running on that OS is a part of it, but the device as a whole is the combination of all of its software and its hardware.

A more accurate dig at it is that the main functionality rabbit r1 could be offered just as an app instead of bundled on its own hardware, which is not so true of a car.
I'm honestly bamboozled why anyone gives passkeys the time of day, given the mess that is attestation and its ability to enforce user-hostile ecosystem lockin:

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39698502

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39706876

In principle, it's a great idea. This specific implementation should be treated as DoA because of how attestation works.
How to Become a Better Developer?
really depends how you read GP's comment. the tone is implied, or is it? read charitibly, y'know, sometimes I do wonder about the things I don't know. I have no idea beyond the surface about how my liver actually works, I don't know what it's like to give birth to a child, I don't know what it's like to go through chemotherapy or how that even actually works. The world is full of stuff I don't know and sometimes I stop a wonder about what I don't know that I don't know.
We have systematized these pursuits. Even before modern science, language could be used to crudely pool together individual trial and error as a huge force multiplier.
It was a prescription from Dr. Zaius

https://youtu.be/JlmzUEQxOvA
This is an interesting topic, I want to know the reason too, but the article seems not delivering the reason, only provided a few empirical experiments and concluded.
This. Some over-aggressive transit police will try to keep you from photographing their trains, but if you're not on their property, they can get over themselves.

I've had transit police notice that I was watching trains, and come over to see what I was doing. I told them that I was watching trains. I was in a place that had a clear view of their platform, and they didn't like me hanging out there and watching. They said they'd like me to watch trains somewhere else. I told them that I was on private property, and it wasn't their private property, so I didn't care what they'd like. (I did have permission from the property owner.) The transit cops didn't say anything more, they just looked rather startled..

Now, if a cop with jurisdiction tells you to leave, you may ask him to cite a statute, but in the end, if they insist on you leaving, you probably need to obey, even if they're wrong. But as you say, they are wrong - it's not illegal to watch railroad tracks from public property, and it's not illegal to photograph.
The criticism is that, this could’ve been an app. Imo the more important question is still, why does it matter even if it’s not an android app. If all the “magic” happens on the backend, how does it matter if it’s Android, Windows or iOS. At the end of the day, it still could’ve been an app.
Biden calls US ally Japan 'xenophobic' along with India, Russia and China
Snowden is a great example of how hard it is to keep things secret when they are real.
I’m curious to know what you mean by this. Does Austin have a reputation for this kind of thing?
Passkeys != biometric auth
The TOS doesn't apply to the web API though. I don't think Google wants to make scraping websites illegal, but that would be hilarious if they tried.
He applied at the Google legal team but then turned down the offer.
Raspberry Pi is amazing. Everything from the size and simplicity of hardware to that of Raspbian. Super moddable, modular, surprisingly performant. As a lot of others do, I use one for most of my sites and apps as a home server. 15+ apps, sites, and APIs running on this thing 24/7/365 over WiFi.

What would be the benefit of using RISC OS over Raspbian, or even Ubuntu Server? Is it pure nostalgia like running Windows XP on a Pi?
I recall the LAM being a/the (stated) reason why it couldn't "just be an app."

If it's vaporware on-device it's more evidence that it could have just been an app. Perhaps there was special on-device sauce coming in a future update, but as of now it's a client making http calls.
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What happens when an xgmii transceiver on a switch die fails today?
Having a chain of individually likely events still has low total probability i.e. (80%)^8 = 17% chance
The guy in charge of this sounds like a real piece of work.
Great point. This seems like low-intelligence autocratic bullshirt more than anything.

Does the CCP really think that the US military are going to use ordinary street msps to target their missiles and that this obfuscation will protect them from on-target hits? Sure, in WWII there were a few apocryphal instances of bad maps foiling an attack, but that was decades before mapping satellites.

As mentioned, it's been a long time since the US stopped limiting GPS resolution. This just makes CCP seem backward.
They most likely added a dependency that transitively depends on Compose, possibly for some prebuilt UI.

EDIT: Another possibility is that they started out with some template app that happened to have the Compose dependencies included in the Gradle build script, and with this being a Flutter app, they had no reason to touch the Gradle script beyond just adding the Flutter dependency. Assuming the app doesn't have R8 enabled, all of Compose would remain in the APK unused.
I just re-read your post and caught it - thank you, made my evening!
This is a really cool story!

Perhaps a slight segue, but I recently tried to learn CL for the first time and I was genuinely surprised by all the decades of accumulated cruft (mainly masses of semi-redundant and soft-depreciated standard library functions, with bizarre names). The way people talk about Lisp, I'd expected something more elegant. I suppose I should try something like Scheme or Racket, but it's hard to find an introduction to those that isn't bone dry. (Recommendations welcome!)

I've also heard people say reading Lisp functions, inside out, ensconced (heya) in their parentheses, is somehow more comprehensible than sequential C style, but this state of enlightenment thus far eludes me. I can only speak for myself, but I definitely reason about code outside in rather than inside out.
I've said a total of four sentences on the matter, none of which hinted at its importance or lack thereof to me, so it's interesting that you've come to that conclusion. Either way, my internal motivations are a non sequitur. You are continuing to take a self-contradictory position by stating that a certain behavior, namely judgment, is not "ok", which constitutes a judgment. You have offered no defense of doing so. Should I conclude that you simply believe that oxymoronic positions can in fact be correct?
Can someone give me the TL;DW? I don't have time to watch this right now
Good chance it started with flutter (for prototyping, lack of direction of product early on) and then when it was decided it was going to run on a fairly normal Android device someone said we should use something a little closer to Android native dev.

My guess is the stuff in flutter world is technical debt.
Agreed, a device with less function that does the same thing as a smartphone, something virtually everyone has, seems like an odd business idea. There’s a reason most people do not have, nor carry a digital camera anymore.
This needs much more emphasis. Essentially we have a system where those with assets have access to cheap money and use it to gain control of more assets. This is the dark side of capitalism that has nothing to do with productivity. It's entrenching a socially divisive system of rentier capitalism.

It's also partly why I enjoy reading hacker news. A lot of people committed to generating income from doing rather than owning.
> Newchip founder and CEO Andrew Ryan

Name checks out.
We absorb the words in front of our eyes even if we're not conscious of it. A topic that you glossed over may come up in another context and remind you of that wiki article.

It shapes who we are.

And sometimes knowledge of the existence of a topic is valuable.
> Rent could be in the form of token gifts like a rose or an arrowhead

2024: That will be thousands of dollars every 30 days please. HANG ON. Let me see if you qualify first. You don't. I hereby decline you, not only that but we recorded the fact that you were declined, making it harder the next time you try, kick rocks.
Technically correct yet I would not be surprised if they're still quite widely used. And the second part?
What happened? Gitpod is having another round of layoffs?
>join some Discord servers

Any discord server suggestions?
I'm not talking about USB/hardware apps, games, or anything demanding.
What I have in mind is the majority of Electron/Tauri/Flutter apps I've seen on GitHub could have been just as good as web apps.
(Not trying to dunk on them, most are probably experiments for learning.)

First, compiling and releasing for OSX/Linux/Windows is a nightmare. It's way easier to deploy a web app. Not only for yourself but it's better for users. People get weirded out when they need to run an exe. And for Macs you need to go into settings and allow your unauthenticated app to run, unless you can sign the app yourself.
And for Linux some people don't know they need to mark an AppImage executable to run it.

And if you choose a bulky toolkit like Electron/Tauri/Flutter and in some cases Qt, your app will probably eat up more memory than a web app. And also the final binary users need to download will be big.

So I recommend making a web app if you can, unless your idea fundamentally requires demanding hardware/IO usage/graphics/etc.
YouTube, a company trying to compete with Twitch, once banned people’s entire Google accounts for spamming emotes in chat.

https://9to5google.com/2019/11/09/google-account-bans-youtub...
The probability of these exact events occurring is not the relevant question though
Which it was. He lied about a union taking away employees “empowerment”, and got smacked down by a judge for doing so.

If anything it’s a reminder of exactly why unions are needed more than ever. Amazon of all companies is known to treat their employees like disposable cogs.
Employees who are married to their job are the best employees. Just like in a real relationship you can treat them like shit and they mostly stay married
I pray for Rust layoffs.

I have nothing but pent up frustration and rage over the fact genuinely stupid people* will waste their time in vacuous discussion while simultaneously defending Rust while making absolutely zero progress in convincing anyone in a position of authority to use Rust.

I say this as someone that was offered to skip the standard Google interview process because of my background at a healthcare startup. When I got around to asking about how to build a team, the answers were so far into clown world it completely discredited any semblance of glory previously existed at Google.

*: I'm happy to cite previous comments, but it will embarrass many notable luminaries, and probably your entire argument. Are you really prepared for an intellectual knife fight? :)
It's also worth while reading the rebuttal from ravendb: https://ayende.com/blog/196161-C/re-are-you-sure-you-want-to...

Also worth mentioning LMDB, probably the fastest embedded K/V db in terms of read perf uses mmap.
You know what we mean by drugs. Not coffee, not alcohol.
> Can I access to BLE from Web?

sure? It’s just not something supported in the minimal safari implementation, iOS browsers can implement support if they want.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bluefy-web-ble-browser/id14928...
Not an expert by any means, but my understanding is that share buybacks basically increase the value of the remaining shares by reducing the total number (it indirectly helps raise the price anyway). It's a way to help elevate the stock and keep investors happy if results are less than stellar...and Apple has cash to burn.

There are two ways companies can provide value to investors through their shares - pay dividends or do buybacks.
A history of fuckery and fuckups is not a conspiracy, it's history. Even Sisyphus recognizes the wisdom of Upton Sinclair.
Mine too. Just munches on grass on every walk, never seen her throw up. I think she just likes it.
We're doing similar things over at https://pico.sh/

We use: https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish
Where are they claiming AP math by 5th grade? I seem them saying algebra by 5th grade, which is a far cry from, say, AP Precalculus let alone AP Calculus AB or AP Statistics.