skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Historically I would argue politicians interpreted facts in their favor more than they created their own facts.

Different pronunciations of the same word; what they do is a juvenile ritual on top of lying. They don't observe facts neutrally or build a solid argument that they test against reality, they start with the conclusion and work out what they need to say to get other people there. And I'm not saying it is a failing on the part of politicians - the voters demand that sort of behaviour from them. But if that is acceptable, flat lying is acceptable. The intent and outcome aren't different as long as bargains are honoured.

> It’s dramatically harder to compromise on governance when Congress stops agreeing on facts, instead of how to interpret facts and what conclusions to draw from them.

I don't know if there is any particular evidence that is a bad thing. The main lesson from the 2000s and 2010s was if Congress is united on a course of action it is probably going to be a disaster.

The US still hasn't managed to shake off the PATRIOT act or clean out the secret law court that was established. We seem to be well into a trend where every president will be subject to a spying campaign before entering office. The US economy has been out-capitaled by literal communists in China. It seems like an excellent time to have someone challenging the basic facts that the congress has been agreeing on.
I think he's referring to the trillion-row regime: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40522433
Those cars are essentially illegal to sell in many countries.
I find these polarizing opinions confusing. There are a very large number of applications of generative AI. People believe a lot of them will produce a lot of value. So yeah, a lot of grifters abound. That part is not dissimilar to the cryptocurrency wave. But then to make statements that all of the current AI wave is a grift seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

I for one am paying for generative AI in multiple areas such as image generation and code autocompletion. It's anecdata but it doesn't seem like I'm the only one willing to pay for this. I believe these valuable use cases that I legitimately think are worth paying for will stick around, and I think there are plenty more to still be discovered in the product space.

Finally, generative AI does have costs that makes it scale worse than the prices of the products using it in many cases (hence a lot of startups burning up their VC money too quickly on API costs), but there's a clear path to optimizing these costs by orders of magnitude, so again doesn't seem like an argument to say it's all a scam.
> Have you ever been paid to do work before?

Yes, many times, which is why I've developed this opinion.

> However, at large scales cloud won’t make sense anymore. They do have a markup and eventually what you’re paying in markup could instead buy you a few full time employees.

The issue is once you've finally realized this stuff matters, and have hired a DB team, I can practically guarantee that your schema is a horror show, your queries are hellish, and your product teams have neither the time nor inclination to unwind any of it. Your DB{A,RE}s are going to spend months in hell as they are suddenly made the scapegoats for every performance problem, and are powerless to fix anything, since their proposals require downtime, too much engineering effort, or both.

Hence my statement. Learn enough about this stuff so that when you do hire in specialists, the problems are more manageable.
Well, that sounds like a colossal misconfiguration on the ISP's part. A firewall blocking incoming requests has been standard part of ISP routers for a long time.
> EDIT: it’s possible you might be preempting the downweight because you’re including a screenshot with all of your links. I.e. the downweight only happens if twitter shows the expando for an external link, which doesn’t happen when screenshots are included. Either way, I’ll be implementing your technique. :)

Interesting. The reason I've always done this is just because I want to give people a meaningful preview of the first few paragraphs. And I figured that it's been effective. In more than one ways, perhaps, now I see.
It's not that any method of reducing code length fixes bugs, it's just happens that optimizing code to be read and worked on by domain experts leads one toward patterns that secondarily end up manifesting as terse expressions. The terseness is certainly shocking if you're not accustomed to it, but it's really not a terminal goal, just a necessary outcome.

The disbelief on first encounter is totally reasonable, but from personal experience, once you've gotten past that and invested the time to really grok the array language paradigms, code like this Whitney style actually ends up feeling more readable than whatever features our current SE culture deems Good and Proper.

There are a whole lot of moving parts to the why and how of these ergonomics, so I don't expect to be able to convince anyone in a simple, short comment, but if you're at all interested and able to suspend disbelief a little bit, it's worth watching some of Aaron Hsu's talks to get more of a taste.
> Gravitational waves were found with GStreamer at LIGO: https://lscsoft.docs.ligo.org/gstlal/

Say WHAT now?!
Sounds like the Equifax breach response ;) nothing to worry I guess
Yep, and Steam was known to be customer friendly, TOS be damned, until now...

Or perhaps it's just my impression because I don't touch the competitive multiplayer stuff.
Exactly, I have been in too many meetings when they get shown a click dummy in the technology stack, we get the reaction, a couple of days more and it is done.
When I got my first broadband Internet connection my contract explicitly prohibited me from using NAT. Apparently my Internet provider was concerned I would use NAT to connect multiple computers thus “stealing” bandwidth. This concern was not completely unfounded since people sometimes would set up one connection and share it with neighboring apartments. Also having one computer per household was normal back then.
> The website reads like an edgy script-kiddy blog.

The code does, as well. Either Mr. Whitney's brain is not wired like a regular homo sapiens sapiens, or the entire thing smells of "I am smarted than you and I don't need to lower myself to your level."

I do not buy for a single second that for Mr. Whitney debugging IOCCC-level obfuscated code is easier than plain C code. One writes "normal code" because one will have to read it later, and they don't want to spend ages doing so, unless they have to keep an air of superiority about their abilities to their peers.

I get that APL is obtuse and dense. But writing obtuse and dense C doesn't turn it into APL.
Continuing that metaphor…

Google is the air of a teeming metropolis in a developing country. Every breath is polluted with foreign substances that someone else out there. Your capacity suffers as each action is taxed by the aerosolized tar.

searX is mountain air. Pure, but cold and so so thin. You struggle to collect enough oxygen, waiting for the life-giving molecules to trickle in. A bracing adventure for most, a home for the hardy, adapted few.

DuckDuckGo is the air of a rich suburb. The pollution is manageable and pressure sufficient. You breathe freely, undistracted, content in the assumption that your essential need is satisfied. It is sufficient, comfortable, unremarkable, there.

Kagi is a seaside breeze, wafting the richness of a vibrant and alien ecosystem through your awareness. You may sense the oily tang of a nearby dockyard; it’s but one note in the harmony, fading behind the marine life, the ocean salts, the sizzling morsels of upshore boardwalk. You breathe deeply. Your awareness stretches, stitching scent to sound; your focus dances across the possibilities, musing which possibility to explore today. A corner of your mind resents the cost of your rented villa; another fantasizes about buying it, about making this place your home. Could I afford it…?
My ADSL connection rides on some non-IP network before it hooks up to a concentrator about an hour away. Most location based services, other than Apple, seem to assume I am in Norwich, NY. So I get these ads that say “They don’t like it when seniors use this one weird trick to save money on car insurance in Norwich but they can’t stop it” and “Horny grandmas want to jump your bone right now in Norwich” and such.

Contrast that to using public WiFi in NYC where everybody knows exactly where you are.
The punch note from the IEF copper report is

Just to meet business-as-usual trends, 115% more copper must be mined in the next 30 years than has been mined historically until now.

To electrify the global vehicle fleet requires bringing into production 55% more new mines than would otherwise be needed.

On the other hand, hybrid electric vehicle manufacture would require negligible extra copper mining.

Large upcoming (potentially) copper prospects have significant environmental and native title issues; eg: Rio Tinto's Resolution Copper

US halts progress on proposed copper mine on indigenous land

Rio Tinto hopes that the mine can provide 25% of US copper but would build it on land of religious significance for the Apache tribe.

https://www.mining-technology.com/news/us-forest-service-rio...
That is a great insight.

As always, "You don't know what you don't know."

One time the guy who wrote the original code asked, "Why do they have towers at airports? Aren't the controllers down underground looking at radar screens?"

It took two of us who were pilots to convince him that yes, the tower is up there so the controllers can see the airplanes with their own eyes. And yes, they are provided with binoculars.

We all form mental models of the world around us. The best we can hope for is to update those models as we receive new information.
> How do you expect them to earn money?

By manipulating the order of search results, of course.

> The reality of the situation is pretty clear on this one, it is ad-supported or irrelevance for search engines. We've been watching this market play out for more than 2 decades.

There is no "market". There is google. Searching the internet is googling. If they'd just split out the search business today from the whole Alphabet clutter, they would keep on living. They might not generate more profit every quarter, but if they don't have shareholders with a gun at their back, it should be OK and people would still be kept on googling. I'm pretty sure if they'd focus on making search results better, they'd even become more popular.

> I can understand using an ad-blocker, but to get worked up because a site shows ads to support itself is entitled to the point where it is stupid.

Come on...it's not like in the 90s, where you had to have an ad to pay for the hosting. We're beyond this. You get ads because of ads and the revenue you get on top of whatever you are selling.

> Ads mean that freeloaders get something good for free,

They don't get it for free. They pay with their data and attention. Not only that, but they're being profiled, rated and assessed, and it's not like they become free of that if they pay. The ad-machine is all over the place. You constantly pay while what you get back is less and less. See those huge media platforms.

Ads has become a thing where paying for content was just not manageable in proper time. You had to wire money or send it in a letter. Now, things changed, but somehow it is too late. You can and do pay, and you're still served ads and pay with your data and attention on top. It's not about covering costs anymore. It's about giving less for more profits. Every quarter.

As I said before: It's a disease.
You have to take out the post-pandemic rebound effect before you can talk about the AI effect. From an earnings perspective, no AI has bought a significant amount for the bigtechs.
So it knows more about the law than you do, but less than they do.

Really glad to see research replicated like this. I’m not surprised that the 90th percentile doesn’t hold up.

It’s still handy though.
I mean, they'd need to figure out your IP address beforehand, something that's a lot harder with ipv6. You've also got a much better chance of punching a packet through a NAT than an ipv6 firewall (and it's now expected behaviour for a lot of applications, as NAT makes it too difficult to just make connections directly).
In locations with very predictable weather it makes perfect financially sense. Knowing when supply is high and when it is low makes predicting prices accurate, and the number of recharge cycles each year are fairly guarantied. Add a large amount of subsidies and it makes sense to continue building more of them.

Cutting down on subsidies removes a bit of the enthusiasm, but as long the other aspects are true then there is no reason why people would not build more storage when the financial aspects make sense.
Technology revolution means different thing to different people

- technological change, consumer benefit

- investing opportunity.

If you compare to internet revolution consumer benefit increased steadily, but as a general investment category it was total bust. During the internet revolution, Top 5 internet companies were Yahoo.com, AOL.com, Geocities.com, MSN.com, and Lycos.com. It took almost 10 years to Amazon stock to recover from 1999 average price longer to become a good investment. Cisco was the Nvidia of late 90s.

How about personal computer revolution? Tandy, Commodore, Atari, Apple, Acorn, Sinclair, IBM, ...

I can do basic back-on-the-envelope math as a retail investor. I pick investment forecasts for the global AI impact from a13z, Goldman Sachs, Nvidia, for the next 5 to 10 years. Then I do basic cash flow discounting.
How the fuck these valuations make sense?

At some time in next 2-4 years there can be a crash and "dark fiber" equivalent for compute. Tensor compute prices crater and are dominated by energy prices. That's when the high impact innovations emerge to exploit all that available compute.
The loquaciousness brings two Calvin Coolidge anecdotes to mind, the punchlines to which are: "you lose" and "with the same hen?"
I worked in Enterprise Cloud teams during those early days. It was instantly loved because it allowed development teams from across the company to bypass central IT and provision their own infrastructure. And because it was such high quality e.g. secure, highly available it could be trusted for Production workloads.

There is no comparison at all to AI which is fundamentally untrustworthy and may remain so for a while/ever.
Don't Taste One Coffee
The majority doesn’t care, you can give the best tools to identify, they won’t trust them or ignore them
> It is relevant to point out that NYT is engaged in a legal battle with OpenAI.

The article is from WSJ
o shoot. i see Lode Runner, the legend returns on there!! Some great times as a kid playing that
oh it is just a word, some letters, some sounds. less about the item, more the claimed reason for use.
Interesting things in here.

#define _(e) ({e;})
//!< isolate expression e in its own lexical scope and clamp it with ;
//!< note the outer parens, which is a very powerful c trick: they turn _(e) into a so called
//!< r-value, which basically means we can do x=_(e) for as long as e evaluates to or returns
//!< at least anything at all, i.e. not void. this macro is fundamental to k/simple implementation.

I didn't know that corner of C. Removing the () from the macro does change what you can pass as e, and assigning the result of a block does work as one would expect.

edit:

-Wpedantic on gcc will tell me ISO C doesn't like the construct but it still compiles it happily.

Clang offers -Wgnu-statement-expression-from-macro-expansion

So it looks likely that this is the GNU statement expression extension after all and not a part of C. Shame.
The cursive font should at least lean to the right.
Off by one on the year, but here's one source:
https://www.voanews.com/a/shelling-mortar-fire-intensify-in-...
So then you need to come to terms with people rejecting what you want them to believe. Some people won't believe you no matter what. Does that mean you get to reach for another tool, like force, or censorship? No, it means you need to accept that you don't control people.
Space secrets leak disclosure
Thanks for that link. The comments there help a lot. If I understand them, this is a minimal implementation of K with a lot of limitations, such as:

"the only supported atom/vector type is 8bit integer, so beware of overflows"

Still, it's fascinating how an interpreter can be written with such a small amount of code.
I'm sure the Snowflake legal department is ready to open a can of whoop ass on them if that's the case.
Google's AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken
*Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of news.

I bet that's what a further study will conclude.
Good luck finding the air tag among 15'000 tools
I watched this again recently and was struck by how the last few lines of narration land very differently now.
Tesla is a great comparison
I've just installed and configured KDE Neon Plasma 6 and I'm really liking it a lot. Feels closer to Windows than my other Ubuntu and Xubuntu installs.

Just my 2p
> I really wish more companies would go back to the old-style model where users can buy the current version of a software tool but would need to pay a discounted price to upgrade to a newer version of that tool

We can thank Apple for this! They refused to adopt upgrade pricing on the App Store (which developers have been asking for since the App Store launched!) and instead introduced Subscriptions.

I like Apple, overall, but they absolutely decimated their software market by forcing apps to either be free with ads or paid subscriptions.
I'm afraid this is factually wrong, my computer had a public IP until the early 2010s as around these days modems were just models and not routers too.

And with IPv6 all my devices could be publicly addressed but I've enabled a firewall to block incoming traffic at the router level.
Facebook figured this out too a long time ago when building news tab.

But unfortunately they also saw that these people were 90% aligned with the same political party and Joel Kaplan helped Zuck understand that actioning it would mean declaring war on the party.

So Zuck tucked his tail.

Proving once again that most of our problems today are not tech problems and don’t have tech solutions but are societal in nature.

We know what to do on climate change, we just don’t like the tradeoff. Or more precisely our governmental systems can not overcome the resistance because we forgot to incentivize long term survival.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/25/facebook-fatal-flaw...

We know what to do about misinformation.

We know what to do about micro plastics pollution

We know what to do about antibiotic resistance

We know what to do about gun violence.

So we hold out for magical technology fixes.

The special trick in the US is that everything can be made a partisan problem, which instantly means paralyzing government intervention.
Translation: the LLM gold rush hasn't found gold.

You can still make money selling shovels for a few years tho?
>Q. Are Microsoft a big, evil company?

>A. No, that’s insanely reductive. They’re super smart people, and sometimes super smart people make mistakes. What matters is what they do with knowledge of mistakes.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence.

But

>Q. Did Microsoft mislead the BBC about the security of Copilot

>A. Yes.

>Q. Have Microsoft mislead customers about the security of Copilot?

>A. Yes. For example, they describe it as an optional experience — but it is enabled by default and people can optionally disable it. That’s wordsmithing.

Maybe at some point we should reconsider.
2 weeks ago, when attending a concert, i got forced TWICE back to back to reset my password when logging in.

I jokingly called then that Ticketmaster got breached. Crazy to see this being actually true.
May have been a cease desist from Snowflake and they don't want to take the heat alone?
Mac OS X is a UNIX (of sorts). Mac OS classic (as in the article) is most definitely not.
Interesting enough, but this misses most of the point. In any case, its not really that interesting if the value you looked for is missing or not, its way more important that I can see _which_ value was not found. Any solution that does not capture which value was missing, is kind of besides the point for most practical applications.
Cheating communities have realized that they are unable to spoof TPM hardware ID
Champions League: The Economics Behind the European Cup
Reads like beginning of a new fad just like keto diet.

My idea is that sugar in quantities we ingest nowadays damages all and makes more problems. It is not that ketones are some magic thing. Only that sugar is rocket fuel for the brain so it should not be used without care.
This is the best description of the current state of affairs. But who is going to risk not invest on what could be another possible major breakthrough in 3 to 5 years? Either from a GPT5 or another source? It's not like all the brainpower that left OpenAI recently, suddenly converted to farming...

At least load on NVIDIA options....
Does that mean you do good by your brain when you do a hard burn exercise once in a while ? After all those substances are a byproduct of burning fat instead of glucose by your liver. Or do i need a fat rich feast ?
Mobile games should stop reminding me how annoying my phone is
You misunderstand me.

The battle is not between US and China, it's between US companies, who want large profit margins and US consumers who want cheap, well made stuff.

Just look at BYD's palette - their $10k EV, is a tiny car, and would probably not sell well in the US despite the price because US consumers don't buy cars this small, except maybe as a novelty. (Besides, tiny, cheap cars always face a stiff competition from barely used models available at the same price)

Moving up, you have the Dolphin, a mid 20k compact car, it's affordable and good. There was a mid 20k compact car made by an US company - the Bolt. It was also affordable and good. Guess what - GM discontinued it, citing low profit margins. And they won't make another one. It's next-gen EV platform is decidedly aimed at a higher segment with a bigger profit margin.

Higher still, you have the Seal, BYD's Model 3 competitor. First, it's no longer cheap, and that segment of EVs is the most crowded. Second, it's nice, but I don't think it comes together quite as well as a Tesla. What it does have on Tesla is build quality (which is Tesla's weak point), with most people expressing interest in it being the ones who are fed up with Tesla's shitty manufacturing and service.

Based on all this, I don't think China could take the US market to itself, even if free competition would be allowed. This whole thing is about political posturing and enabling continued shitty behavior from US manufacturers.

And if you'd accuse me of being some China shill, personally, I wouldn't buy a Chinese EV, not until they have a proven track record, and service network.
In my experience, an weekly-patched, default installation debian Linux cira 2015 get a malware in a week or two on the open internet.
Using social media to follow people you already know about is fine.
You're being hyperbolic. Community Notes on X are an example of these tools, and they are not ignored or distrusted from what I've seen. If your tools are poor, make better tools. But also, as a first principle, accept that some people won't believe what you want them to believe, no matter what. That doesn't mean you get to start trying to control them, because you got frustrated.