skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slavery in the US made sense for a limited time but at some point it would have hold the US back economically. It would have lacked enough free workforce for the industrialization and so would have fallen vastly behind compared to other countries.

Slavery is very profitable for the slave holder but not for the society as a whole.

Like if you take Nazi Germany. Many companies got rich by being provided essentially free slave labor that they could free work to death. But does it really make sense to have educated people work themselves to an early grave doing menial inefficient labor that needed to be closely supervised? Could they not have provided much more to the economy if they had been free? The practice is as sustainable as eating your own flesh.

Nazi Germany could keep going as long as the war machine kept going and there were countries to occupy but it wouldn't have been a very sustainable society in the long run.

Yes capitalist have an individual interest in slave labor and in forming monopolies. But in doing so they also also create conditions for the undoing of the very society that made them rich. That is exactly the point. Slavery is amazing for the slave owner but not for everyone else.
I can't recall which standup comedian it was, but he had a bit about games where they're the only form of entertainment that tests you. A song doesn't make you dance along to continue. A book doesn't quiz you on its themes and slam shut if you're wrong. For some games, being hard to play is their point. That's why accessibility is great to make games where that isn't their point more, uh, accessible. And maybe even those hard games should have accessibility, I haven't given that front enough thought yet.
We're probably at the point where it's cost effective to pay for traveling-to-interview again, especially for the later-round interviews.

That is, unless companies are lying about how much damage bad hiring does. I don't suspect they are, but they apparently can't also do the math to go back to that option.
Boeing Has Four Weeks to Stop Possible Prosecution over Crashes
https://archive.today/uYNEW
> "this is representative of how the entire employment relationship will go."

Seems like it's great signal of how the company thinks, and will behave.

Not necessarily that they'll put all employees under video surveillance, but if they think that interview thing is a good idea, I'd guess probably they'll do numerous other things along the same line of thinking.

Occam's Razor possibilities:

1. The company is normally very enlightened and thoughtful and fair, and has a very subtle and nuanced rationale for why they're coming across as invasive and overbearing in this one narrow instance, and their reasons in this bad first-impressions instance (when they should be thinking about first impressions) were simply somehow not explained.

2. The company is going to behave like a jerk.
I didn't downvote, but I disagree. You put forth the question of when a company might rightly not use terraform and I think I can answer that.

I think of terraform as a form of insurance. It's "Oops manual change" insurance. In the event that somebody breaks something in the console and you need to undo it, it's exponentially faster-easier. However you have to pay premiums to get this insurance as well as a setup cost.

So is the insurance worth it? It depends on the org. But I've seen small places where it's a small team that communicates well and nobody screws around in the console with stuff they don't understand (and if they break it they can own it). So there absolutely are places where the amount of time terraform costs you (in learning, setup, and extra PR time, waiting for atlantis to finish, locks) is higher cost than the time saved when you need.
The subsidies are a different structure, but they each allow the companies to sell a more expensive car for a lower price - which is the global competition we're discussing.

The billions in funding (~2) for BYD is what I was discussing regarding about $1k/vehicle subsidy.

I would be very interested in any data you have regarding the amount of money the Chinese government has paid toward raw materials that have been consumed by BYD. Do you have a source you can link?
And what self-respecting congressman, senator, or president didn't have a pet CEO or three of any said major automotive cartel at the time sponsoring them? If they didn't, they're not doing it right.
Yes (in this kind of case). I wouldn't be so trustworthy across the board.
If/when I get yabai running it’ll just be in the non-disable-sip mode.
Whatever they're legally allowed to and I may never know.

That's the problem.
Shrug, unnecessary pedantry is indeed a theme around here, I try to resist the urge but am guilty of it myself from time to time.
>Emm, yes? What do you think they are going to do with it

I don't care what they're going to do with it. They aint having it.
I wonder if Vision Pro has enough microphones to do the acoustic camera thing? If so you could plausibly get "speech bubbles over peoples heads", accurately identifying who said what.

I imagine that could be pretty awesome for deaf people.
If you go through a lot of emails, you may be interested in a small product I have developed.

GabrielAI (https://getgabrielai.com) can filter your emails given a GPT prompt and then make a special action, like drafting a reply or apply a label.

I am now introducing a digest if emails. So that every 6 hours (or whatever time) you receive an email with the summary of all the unread emails in your inbox.

It is free for now, but the summary feature is hide by a feature flag.

If you are interested, I can ungate your account.
That is a bit wrong and I'm pointing it out because your summary logically didn't make sense to me. So I did have to read the blog post after reading your comment.

The query should be CreateAt > $1 OR (CreateAt = $1 (NOT $2 like in your sample) AND Id > $2)

So the idea is here about paginating through posts that might be constantly changing so you can't use a simple offset, as that would give you duplications along the way. So you try to use CreateAt, but it could be possible that CreateAt is equal to another one so you fallback to ID.

But here I stopped reading the blog post, because I now think why not use Id in the first place since it also seems to be auto increment since otherwise you couldn't really rely on it to be a fallback like this? I don't have time to investigate it further, but tldr; that still left me confused - why not use ID in the first place.
Who was the original author?
Organization at center of 'lab leak theory' suspended from federal funds
> The author of "Don't create the Torment Nexus" may have intended it as a cautionary tale whose lesson is not to create the Torment Nexus, but that doesn't obligate the reader to come to that conclusion.

One of the points of the Torment Nexus joke is that the Tech Company is totally oblivious to the fact that "Don't create the Torment Nexus" was describing something bad.

> Why shouldn't we say with a couple minor tweaks and a sexier name this "torment nexus" would be pretty cool?

I actually think your defense there actually gets to the core error: things can be simultaneously cool and awful. For instance: nuclear war. On the one hand, you have high tech rockets buzzing around insanely fast while precisely dropping incredibly powerful fireworks; which is admittedly pretty "cool," on the other hand, you have mass death and suffering. The Tech Company people are shallowly responding to just the "cool" part, and missing all the rest.
I really like mastic, but it cuts my tongue up.
Indeed it is. That part is a huge mess. The LLM gave the wrong number when matching with the letter, but the letter itself is correct considering the instructions, except the instructions are wrong (ironic considering this came from someone claiming everyone is doing it wrong). Step four says:

> Subtract two from each number of the list and generate a new list, if the result is lesser than 0, add 26.

It should be “if the result is less than 1”, not “0”.
Yeah I'm out of it now too. You still have the same issues running PLCs. I've had to find old ass network cards on EBAY. I understand why PLCs are used. I turned down a project building a machine using Arduino's and raspberry Pi's because it was inappropriate for the application. But there is definitely a subset of manufacturing equipment that doesn't require PLCs. I've already seen it happening scanning networks and seeing devices show up with RPi MACs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift-space_distortions
MIT-educated brothers allegedly stole $25M in crypto in just 12 seconds
Here is an article criticizing the stoppage:

'Marine Cloud Brightening Geoengineering Experiment Halted. Why do environmentalist ideologues oppose research on a possible emergency backup system to cool the climate?'
https://reason.com/2024/05/15/marine-cloud-brightening-geoen...
I asked it to identify the author of a book quote and it refused to do so due to copyright concerns. ChatGPT did it with no problems (and identified the author correctly).
Well, often they wouldn't.

In some cases you want to avoid your programmers needing to know two designs, compiler toolchains etc - a microcontroller might push you towards using C, and perhaps all your other code is in Python and you'd prefer to keep everything in Python.

If you're making something like a high precision time server synchronized to GPS, you might want your GPIOs to trigger direct interrupts on the device with the ethernet port. Of course, IIRC the RPi has USB ethernet so it's not a good choice for a truly high precision time server.
Couple of >100 comment >100 vote submissions for Plane in the last year, if anyone's interested in looking at previous comments,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36824450
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36129594
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38624873

Very happy to see this project thriving.
I find it funny that Frank Herbert played with this idea in the '60s, to fairly nihilistic ends in Dune. House Atreides makes frequent mention of "family atomics" as a last-ditch blackmail or mutual-destruction tool, and in passing it's implied that nukes ended all life on Earth as well. In a society that has diversified beyond the stars visible on Earth, nuclear weapons are still a borderline-infeasible and shunned weapon, if not more threatening now that it's spread into the hands of blood-sworn enemies.

When you consider that 50 years have passed since the writing of Dune and nothing much came of the Cold War, it's frankly miraculous that smart diplomacy was all it took to prevent an ideologue from pressing the proverbial 'red button'. It's a surprisingly feel-good takeaway from a dreary sci-fi theme.
Wouldn't a lot of the companies that build in accessibility do it from a viewpoint of gaining an even wider reach and/or a better public image?

I don't see optimizing for that as bad. If they think we'll love the product more by making it better for a given audience, especially if I'm in that audience, I'm happy. Does that mean this company now gets richer? Perhaps, and that's fine by me
> it's an inefficient mode of living

Maximum efficiency would be racks of sleeping capsules stacked in a back room of the office where you work.

I'm glad maximizing efficiency isn't the one and only criteria for housing.
I was thinking more about stray hits flying over in Israel's general direction since it's close by, but you do make a good point. They could just shoot at Egypt directly.
Memorizing a large amount of Greek and Latin word roots was my superpower when I was studying for the SATs. I could decipher a large chunk of words even if I've never seen them before.
Meh still for a lot of stuff it simply lies.

Just today it lied to me about VRL language syntax, tryin to sell me some python stuff in there.

Senior ppl will often be able call out the bullshit, but I believe for junior ppl it will be very detrimental.

Nether the less amazing tool for d2d work if you can call out BS replies.
Yeah they retracted the plans to scan locally on device as I may remember. Somehow, I remember it as being reported exactly in that connection "csam & on device" before imgvideo-files are being sent and encrypted in messengers. Intercepting later can't be easily done..
They retracted and said after criticism "we do it on iCloud".

Then a link to be found on goog or few comments further down, says, they wanted to do it on iCloud. But everyone is going rage mode. So they retracted and wanted to do it with more "privacy" on device.. and then, the link also say, they created an API to filter what for example kids should not see or send and app developers can use it.

iCloud scanning is ok with me and my privacy advisor. There are bad guys out there.
European farms during the middle ages were far more efficient than European farms during Roman times. Egyptian farms during Roman times were more efficient than both.
What’re your thoughts on MLX? It’s been phenomenal on my MBP.
I see what you are getting at and I agree, I could have phrased that better.

So here is what I meant to ask: the capacity to cover liability apparently has no bearing on ownership of today's large reactors, so why would it be different with smaller reactors?
Open Collaboration: OpenProject and Gitlab Integrate
/sigh, I just tossed a stack of PS2 keyboards and two monitors that took VGA into the electronic recycle station. "Nothing does PS2 anymore, and everything is HDMI" now ring hollow in my head.

So I'm going to buy a $1 computer and $30 worth of adaptors to play with it. :-)
Most people are not on HN, so not a great metric to begin with

The Google hate on HN also contributes to fewer posts or posts being flagged from greater visibility
Good news for walmart's competitors. How to do layoffs without doing layoffs. They certainly have a culture. They once wrote a program to scan every user's computers for skin tones in an effort to catch people watching porn at work, in an office.
Agree it's well-known, in a slightly snobbish sort of way, but it could do with being more widely known for sure; it is a bit of a gotcha, and IMO TFA is quite a nice tutorial on how they went about it, investigating the issue and determining the problem etc., perhaps especially if the answer as you wrote isn't already somewhat familiar, the explain analyze -err-explainer is quite nice. Not reference material, but as an intro, hey this is how you might be able to debug a similar problem you encounter.
Google lost first place in AI precisely because they've been walking around imaginary eggshells regarding AI's effect on the public. That led to the whole Gemini fiasco and the catch up game they've had to play with OpenAI-MSFT.
> Not everyone is able to say "no" to all this and still make rent next month. I'm happy the government is finally stepping in.

More good news is that since workplace surveillance is already heavily-limited by law in some other highly-productive developed-economy states, this shit’s all probably pointless anyway. Just one of many cases of execs going full “seeing like a state” and wanting everything down to the finest detail to be “legible” and able to sort-by on a spreadsheet, even when it’s actually just noise.
Yeah humans are bad at exponentials and volumes. What's the difference between one in a thousand or a million or a billion? It's quite hard to treat those chances differently.
The Unusual Evolutionary Journey of the Baobab Tree
No, we have not found bugs! We have only scratched the surface and bugs are probably well hidden as the standard library is very well tested. We do not expect to find bugs there, especially as we also assume the unsafe code is safe.

Our main hope with the translation to Coq of the standard library is to get a formalization of it, so that we can precisely verify Rust programs calling core and alloc.
Gmail API gives you the email file as MIME file.

From there is a bit up to you and depending on actually what data you get.

But I had a reasonable simple time with parsing it and getting data out of it while building https://getgabrielai.com
I'm still debating that. Certainly on the one hand it seems like there's already dozens of different incompatible variants/tools/setups/workflows to learn [most of which will be zombies in 5 years]. If I had to pick -- my gut instinct is kubernetes will be around for 5 more years but won't be common in 20 years.
They could be using something like application generated time sortable UUID7s or some other sortable key

https://uuid7.com/

[edit] CreatedAt timestamp could be something from the client when the post is submitted or tagged from the ingest server and not when they actually are processed and hit the database
PostgreSQL just might replace your Oracle database
macOS has a lightweight version of something similar built-in: https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/64948-control-mac-with-head-...

You can move your head around to move the cursor, smile to click, raise your eyebrows to right-click, and fart to make it to type the embarrassed emoji (not really, lol).

But it's pretty cool.

Also reminds me of the Dasher app, an eye-tracking typing app with text prediction. You stare at the a letter, one at a time in an ever-zooming tree, in order to form words: https://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/DasherSummary2.html
Just a heads up, you did not update the date of last update at the top of the policy following the changes you made.
The problem is seeing all that... And then seeing family members and friends smoke on the weekend... It puts it in this weird "safe to try, but not safe to keep doing" slot.

Nicotine addiction is very subtle, for many it's hard to recognize until you're hooked.
Sorry, but lock in effects are real. End users, solo devs and startups might find it trivially easy, but enterprise clients would go through hoops before a decision is to be made. And enterprise clients would rather not go through with that, hence they'll stick to whoever came first, unless there's a massive differentiator between the two.
Yeah, GIMP is an awesome name. It's fun and playful, one of the better named programs out there imo.
Everyone is trying to use Language Models as Reasoning Models because the latter haven't been invented yet.
I've switched to Schwalbe Marathon Almotion from some knobby Kenda and they made a night and day difference. It was a pleasure to ride in the city.
Given your username, seems to have stuck. ;o)
You're right! I rephrased that.
My question after a brief look - why not just use ID instead of CreateAt?
Thanks. Too late though, I already read it.

The article felt like it was fumbling around when the initial explain pointed right at the issue. I didn’t know this specific trick, so I did learn something I guess.
Perhaps during the video they discovered that they didn't like you.
Check out Pinta. It does basic image editing pretty well, imo.
Lance v2 looks interesting. I like their meta-data + container story. Lacking SOTA encoding schemes though.

There is also Vortex (https://github.com/fulcrum-so/vortex). That has modern encoding schemes that we want to use.

BtrBlocks (https://github.com/maxi-k/btrblocks) from the Germans is another Parquet alternative.

Nimble (formerly Alpha) is a complicated story. We worked with the Velox team for over a year to open-source and extend it. But plans got stymied by legal. This was in collaboration with Meta + CWI + Nvidia + Voltron. We decided to go a separate path because Nimble code has no spec/docs. Too tightly coupled with Velox/Folly.

Given that, we are working on a new file format. We hope to share our ideas/code later this year.
For sure, but still why not use that in the first place?

And I agree I shouldn't have said "auto increment".
Nah, I know people who use Zoom for this purpose without the camera enabled. It's just Zoom invoking the OS's wake lock.
False dichotomy, there are many responses on the spectrum between 'do nothing' and 'start a war with a nuclear power'.

(Also, what about when we act like brutes? Why do other countries tolerate us? Should they not, like, get together and push back, or something?)
I've been watching through Greys Anatomy all year, and eventually they just shorten it to trach', which covers both I guess!
Right. I just recently switched to iOS and was pleased to turn that on. It took a minute to remember why only sometimes I was able to access the settings pulldown until I finally realized I had to wait for face unlock to finish - I felt pretty silly when I remembered.

I'm surprised this isn't a feature on android yet.
> Yes, but as I mentioned
> multicore decompression is not really possible unless you manually tweak the compression

I don't understand your point. Decompression will be applied on separate partitions using separate cores the same way as compression..

> Yet we have to agree on what is a reasonable expectation. A compression factor of around 3:1 is, from my experience

well, my prod database is compressed by ratio 7 (many hundreds billions IDs).
They should name them the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost
Ha, that's a good point. Devil's advocate though, and because perhaps maybe they changed it slightly for the example in the blog post, it could be that 'CreateAt' is more like 'PublishedAt', i.e. doesn't include a possible draft period, but then id (which does correspond to actual record initial creation time, obviously) is as good as anything to disambiguate them - because it's actually arbitrary, only needs to be consistent at that point.
Taiwan Is the New Berlin
It's the default, but TFA might've masked it since they're dealing with an old laptop where they can upgrade the drive but not the RAM.
To make even more confusing, laryngology is the surgical specialty you would go see for a tracheal issue in the neck. (where a trach is performed) And a head and neck surgeon (oncologic surgery) is the one that performs the most laryngectomies. Fricken otolaryngologists…isnt the one name complicated enough.
Poor moms and dads.
Do you have a source for that? The sources I can find like Varo, Cato, and Columella’s table of farm labor inputs versus pre-industrial British and European records show that they are comparable and Roman yield was often significantly higher thanks to well organized labor and very productive regions like Etruria.
They'd be quantitive studies of quality, I hope.
This is supposed to be a solution to a rare edge case though, and it seems to me then that there would still be some rare edge cases where the timestamp would mismatch with the order of the ID and so still cause the very edge case it was supposed to avoid?

Because it's ">" it might be missing that one record during what I think is pagination.
Can you share the code for this?
A silly comment. Slavery persisted well into early modern times. Spanish colonies in the New World depended on it. It persists still in some parts of the world.

> The Roman empire was based on slavery

Something only a recent college grad who's ignorant of history would ever say.
Kerr's paper is quite specifically about not believing in singularities, not about not believing in black holes. It's hardly a controversial opinion in the science community to believe that singularities in black holes are an artifact of our incomplete mathematical representation of how gravity works. That is not the same as suggesting that black holes or event horizons don't exist. Kerr's solution to the field equations involves two event horizons to begin with, and his argument in the new paper is based on Kerr black holes and explicitly talks about event horizons in multiple places.

I'm very confused as to why you believe that paper provides significant argument as to why calling SgA* a black hole would be jumping the gun.
The way this was written and presented makes me want to buy Nitro out of spite.
Well then, your goal was just to point out that Dubai is a bad place for democracy -- and nothing else?

If so, OK.