skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sigh

I'd be more impressed if they completed their first 'garbage removal' run from Everest. We're rapidly turning yet another beautiful wilderness into a tourist cesspit. As the cost to climb comes down, so the levels of shit left behind go up.
it seems like Fuchsia will be for their smart devices only
Why stop there and not take it to the next step? Surely company A killing whistleblowers or rabble rousers overseas lets it outperform company B that isn’t doin that state-side? Doesn’t that encourage company B to do the same on red, white, and blue soil?
Hi, all I can see is a "join group" button that seems to depend on an instant messenger that I don't use. It's not clear what features your platform has, or how you and the coaches get paid while avoiding conflicts of interest (a frequent problem in financial advice).
Yes, exactly: new stores means much higher friction for consumers, so they're much more likely to choose an easier-to-install alternative unless there's something about that app that either requires them to use it (e.g. work) or its reputation is so much better.
Right?

As an Android dev I'm growing tiresome of this "Google doesn't restrict anything" argument.

The number of Android users that even know what f-droid is is less than 1%.

The Play Store is the only option.
If you are okay with a deck-building card game, we like Dominion a lot (https://www.riograndegames.com/games/dominion/)

The game objective is to use the rotating 10 types of cards in the middle and always available upgraded coins to buy victory points. Can be very strategic with two players and is lots of fun because the 10 cards in the middle always change game to game. With even 1 expansion it really improves the flavor.
It's easily enough explained by taking it as an assumption that most people are driven primarily by self interest. Remaining to neutral to positive towards an influential charlatan gives all sorts of opportunities for personal advancement and benefit.

Working to out them requires work and yields an outcome that's going to be somewhere between neutral to highly negative for you. Because it's entirely possible you'll fail, and now you have a "star botanist" with 0 values, who's likely out to get you. Note the article mentions that he had already been investigated following whistleblowing by no less than 8 peers in ~2021. A probe of his activities revealed "insufficient evidence" of misdeeds.

It's very easy to fabricate data but extremely difficult to prove with all sorts of means of plausible deniability ranging from randomness to human error during experimentation.
Splendour Duel and 7 Wonders Duel are actually better than their originals.

Patchwork is a great older game for 2.
That's interesting, can you elaborate? I was under the impression that the main benefit of wood+sheetrock was cost and speed of construction.
> under US law you are allowed to pay bribes to get someone to do their job in places where that is customary

Not quite.

You may be thinking of the “grease payment” exception [1] to the FCPA [2]. Customariness isn’t as important as whether the payment is to speed up a decided outcome or effect the outcome.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitating_payment

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Ac...
Code:
https://github.com/UCSC-VLAA/Recap-DataComp-1B
Is this the same idea as "1500 archers on a 28.8" for Age of Empires?

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/1500-archers-on-a-...
Natural hot spice curry usually contains natural chilli pepper like bird's eye. It's hot but not chemical hot as these noodles. Proper chilli provides slowly expanding hot taste that starts not in mouth or throat, but somewhere deeper, in stomach maybe. It also tastes great. Chemical hot does not.
I'd rather have the 14 years of my life than $2.5 million I can't even use. People are weird.
> by mostly being cash-flow positive/profitable. The trade off is slower, but sustainable growth.

As someone that is outside of the tech industry, the fact that this is seen as an abnormal approach seems quite ridiculous.
Most people expect that eventually the person will be found out. My experience is that they are, it just takes longer than expected. In the meantime, lots of people know the person is a fraud even if it's not out in the wild so to speak.

It seems about right.
> It does not put you in the top 2% if you have a tax rate of ~45%

The top 2% pays tax, too. They're still in the top 2% of income, by definition. And that tax rate is more like 35%, less if married.

After that student loan you're still taking home ~$11K/month.

Other professions with higher pay also have student loans, you don't get to say "doctors are different and aren't in the income bracket you think they are because loans".
It's an especially acute problem for fungi. Fungi defy easy collection. With most animals and plants one can envisage conservation strategies to preserve lineages in artificial conditions. Breeding programmes, seed banks, tissue culture... But whole swathes of the fungal kindgom have such complex ecological requirements and sensitivities that isolating and growing them outside their natural habitat presents huge technical challenges. Even if you can coax them into culture, getting them to complete their life cycle is another matter entirely. And even with our best preservation methods, cultures that are not maintained as breeding populations have an expiry date. I have had a lot of frustration retrieving fungi of conservation interest from culture collections, supposed repositories of biodiversity, that turned out to be hopelessly senescent.
Light Phone 3
James Scott writes at length about Germany's experience with "scientific forestry" in an early chapter of Seeing Like A State.

I highly recommend the book to ... well, everyone.
Have you considered sponsoring an open-source project? ;)
That's why the average tenure at Amazon is 8 months. If you make it past your new hire grant (first four years) something is wrong with you
Sorry, the truth is I don't have very good answers for how to manage large asset industries except to smash their assets and raid whatever value we can, and shift them into community trusts and small cooperatives.

I'll attempt to think of a model for

1) A fully open source saas that needs ethically sourced capital to build a data center

2) A community that needs capital for a nuclear power plant

I'm not entirely sure that we can't just obligate Capital holders to give the capital to the workers. So for example in the case of the nuclear power plant where the workers are to stump up the capital, they could visit the estates of the wealthy people living in the area, and requisition the capital. That's kind of like taxes. Or a protection racket.

In the interest of the conversation, I will try to think of strategies that don't involve violence or refactoring of the rule of law. But keep in mind that significantly limits things.
absolutely abysmal article, typical clickbait.

inventory is measured by days of supply (Market Day Supply). I can't easily find the number today, June 2024, but in Feb 2024 we hit a new ATH of 80 days, with EV subset at 103 days. Looks like May 2024 was lower at 76 days. Tesla isn't covered in industry reports because they sell direct.

if i do my math on the article, tesla sold 4300 vehicles per day in Q1. If there are 47,000 on the lot, that's just 11 days supply, well UNDER today industry averages.
Maybe this will finally solve input lag on Android. Every desktop Android experience I've ever touched had an incredible amount of input lag, both on mouse and keyboard.
Yeah, I guess the reason we're talking past each other here is I'm thinking of the tool; if I gave you a coin that would purchase half of any pie then the pie size is irrelevant. Put this tire on a different road and the absolute sound levels will change, but the sound difference with and without the treatment will not.
> If someone threatens to kill your employees and burn everything you own to the ground - and you know they will - you're gonna pay them

No, you withdraw from the country. Maybe you bring in a hostage negotiator to exfiltrate your staff. But paying the bribe and then continuing to do business with a foreign terrorist organisation is not grey area stuff.
Sorry, did not mean to assign (much) merit to the lecture, although it might be worthwhile to read its transcript in order study how exponents of Nietzsche might get tripped up (in subtle ways[0], as well in more obvious ways, e.g., by their own enthusiasm)

[0]he calls some people "sick", which means a cure is at least imaginable, yes?

EDIT: in "Beyond Good & Evil", the occurrences of the combination "Slave morality" are much more numerous than "Slave" on its own. Not so in this guy's lecture.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sklavenmoral
Discussion [0] (71 points, yesterday, 61 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40647096
You must have read Elon's own tales. See who Michael D. Griffin is and his history with Elon.
As elixir noob I find I reach into erlang often, mostly for things like sets, queues.
Do people often end up writing erlang alongside elixir code in the same project?
This is covered at the very end of the article, in the "Comparison with Doom and Quake" section. And yes, that's exactly the comparison and distinction the author draws, and they explain why Serious Sam would have opted for Doom-style networking (the notoriously high scene complexity).
New Internet Thing, Chapter 6 (Let's Go Already)
My house rule to fix Settlers of Catan is to play other, better games.
GCM is an improvement over CBC since it has authentication, but it does have a few weaknesses that CBC does not suffer from:

1. CBC does not have the same class of vulnerability to Nonce/IV reuse. Reusing an IV would leak some information about the first block (or first few blocks which are the same), but it would not give your a XOR of two plaintext or let you recover the keystream. On the other hand, CBC is vulnerable when IVs are predictable (e.g. the BEAST attack).

2. CBC with a proper encrypt-then-MAC scheme (e.g. HMAC-SHA256 + HKDF-SHA256 for generating Authentication and Encryption Keys) can encrypt more data than GCM without rotating a key. GCM with random nonces are particularly problematic, since at one point you would run into a nonce collision.

Overall, AES-GCM is preferable to AES-CBC because it is quite hard to implement a good encrypt-then-MAC scheme on top of AES-CBC unless you know what you're doing. But it's not good enough as a general worry-free solution, even when you're using a library to wrap nonce generation for you. What you want is XChaCha20Poly1305, if you're going for an ubiquitous and mature cipher.
Google’s on their 6th generation and still can’t find anyone to use it. Hmm.
Great posts. Objective-C is still my programming language of choice.

> Now, I'm sure someone will argue that the real goal is for the entire stack to eventually be in Swift, at which point this won't be an issue anymore, but now we're talking about a 20-year plan, where it seems weird to prioritize my Calculator app's code as the critical first step.

It seems like it is the goal for at least some people at Apple. But so many
Swift frameworks rely on Objective-C frameworks (SwiftUI wraps lots of UIKit. SwiftData is built on top of CoreData, etc.)

In twenty years Swift will be roughly the same age Objective-C was when Swift was introduced (give or take). By then the Swifties will be getting old and gray. I think it’s reasonable to bet that some young blokes will be pushing a new programming language/UI framework by then. I’m not sure Apple can replace the entire Objective-C stack even if they wanted to. Maybe if they spent the next five years not working on any new features and did nothing but port all the frameworks to pure Swift (we know Apple will never do that).

Unless a new hardware platform takes off and supersedes iOS/macOS and starts Swift only I just don’t think Apple can rid themselves of Objective-C (I personally think that they shouldn’t even want to get rid of Objective-C). But watchOS doesn’t have many developers and visionOS wants all existing iOS and macOS apps to work because they want a large ecosystem.

I sometimes wonder if Objective-C will outlive Swift. Sure it’s the underdog but I always root for the underdog. I hope someone will make an Objective-C 3.0 even if it isn’t Apple.
Do you know what specific bugs or deficiencies geohot reported? GitHub links?
I don't know what's common knowledge, but comparison to Green Hills doesn't hold.

KLA makes wafer inspection and process control equipment and has very little (if any) competition in what they do. They're big.

As in, they have 10B revenue and 15,000 employees.

That's roughly 1/3 of what ASML is (ASML has 30B revenue and 45K employees).

It's more like your grandma knowing about Nintendo, but not Valve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLA_Corporation
It is already legal to modify cars even though they are dangerous, so a working legal framework for that kind of stuff exists. I don't see why we shouldn't be able to handle the case where somebody chooses to run Doom on their pacemaker.
>ecause their engineering culture has taken a backseat due to their broken hiring practices.

What company do you think has better hiring practices, and subsequently a higher talent pool? Meta is pretty similar to Google's (though with an emphasis on speed over creativity). Microsoft is certainly worse at hiring than the two aforementioned...
I figured the ratio was different inside the car. Which is what buyers care about.
You can find out which kind of trolley-switching strategy you lean towards.

https://www.agiliq.com/notebook/ethical-framework-trolley/
Challenger Disaster 1986
Challenger: "A lot of people just had this gut feeling that this just doesn't feel right."
One of the finest articles on game development I've read, covering how subtle design choices can lead the user journey through mechanics and mastery.
You do have a general idea how loud an undampened car is, though.

Taking half of that noise away is pretty good, although a bit less good because it's only at certain frequencies.
> Because of this, it is in the sights of the conservative legal movement

I suspect the problem is more that the statute gives U.S. courts jurisdiction over conduct that happens in foreign countries, and applies incomprehensibly vague standards such as “the law of nations.” It’s a statute that made sense in 1789 when it was enacted by a bunch of people that thought God made universal law applicable to the whole world.
> On the return trip trash was carried back down.
https://archive.ph/iUeeh
Cheers for the suggestion, I personally read the book, attended the concert [1], and learnt more about capitalist resource extraction attitudes from meeting the Vogons [2] when working on mapping [3] than I did from Pynchon's filtered Rathenau [4].

First hand beats fiction.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhzJK352NI

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Rinehart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Palmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_family et al.

[3] https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Rathenau
Is this a literal example?
> one-way door decisions

Amazon does talk a lot about two-way doors and the need for data-based justification for actions.

However, Bezos' advice typically doesn't apply to normal people. As an example, if a tech worker had been laid off in the past year, having an internal locus of control wouldn't have meaningfully changed much in a landscape where there's little hiring and lots of applicants.
> Realistically, including avionics and medical devices where the software is restricted by regulation (in theory) and where the manufacturer is legally liable for failure of their device?

Yes, absolutely. The responsible party is the operator of said equipment, and if they tinker with it, it's up to them to be compliant with FAA/FDA/HHS/etc. regulations or face proper legal reprecussions.

> More specifically, the radio in an iPhone can almost certainly be made to operate outside of licensed/compliant limits by tweaking the software.

See above. We can already do that today with WiFi chipsets that can be made to use frequencies that are illegal in a certain country. It's on the operator to ensure compliance. Alternatively, device manufacturers are free to use components that only work in a certain frequency spectrum - but that wouldn't prevent an operator from using them in another country.

We already solved those problems long ago.
The point is that someone could modify the software to broadcast on disallowed bands: this is one of the main arguments against allowing user-modifiable software on smartphones (or any radio device).
Databricks tells investors annualized revenue will reach $2.4B at mid year
I would love to be able to block network access for certain apps.
First off you yourself are projecting that I am squandering anything. I would argue that what you say is squandering is simply not taking advantage of customers and workers to deliver your crypto scam. You would argue that you're being virtuous.

Now you're charging me with causing death of children. f** you. Laying the charge that I'm being nice to manipulate, while being manipulative.

Anyways if you want to argue that you need to reduce your workers to squalor and keep them there in order to be a virtuous business person... Guess what? I'm very comfortable with you calling me a bad person then. Because to you the good person is one who enslaves customers and workers alike. That's absurd to me.

Anyways, your argument is that a large mega national corporation should exploit the cheapest market because that saves lives in that market. I argue that they only use that market because it is exploited, and their strategy will keep it that way. So they are perpetuating the conditions that cause the deaths you are trying to prevent.

Anyways you keep making heroes of multi-billion dollar corporations, and I'll keep trying to dismantle them.

Not going to tell you my company and have you attack it, but I'll point out that I'm the sole investor, and every worker gets a full copy of our engineering stack because we run open source.

I'm not overpaying anyone. I'm paying everyone the fair share of the work that they produce. You want me to reduce them to serf's because that maximizes the companies utility and is good Management in your mind. Paying someone less because you can get away with it is an abuse.

You're going to keep projecting that I'm being manipulative and nice rather than simply having some ethics and having worked very hard to free myself from under the thumb of abusive bosses.

So f** you.
What universe do you live in? The US is absolutely a common law country.
Yes. Both are “deterministic lockstep” systems. Many many games have used such a system over the years. Although it’s probably less common these days for a variety of reasons.
Right.I was focusing more on the CUDA-kernels-on-NPU line of thought from patrikthebold's message and its alternatives, which as you say, is not a reality now either.

In the Jax style implementation scenario the compiler part of JAX is better inspiration, maybe along the lines of this case study of a path tracer running on a TPU: https://blog.evjang.com/2019/11/jaxpt.html - I don't think Chapel or Futhark would adopt the same approach as such but it's at least some kind of existence proof of a compiler targeting it from a high level language for a non-machine learning code.
Sodium melts 98°C, a bit less than the boiling point of water. For comparison, pressurized water reactors use water in a temperature range between 275°C and 315°C. The higher the temperature, the higher the thermal efficiency of the electricity generator. Because the critical point of water is 374°C, no pressurized water reactor can get beyond this temperature, and in fact they all stay well below it. This limits the efficiency to about 33%.

Sodium stays in liquid form all the way to 883°C. They will not run the reactor that hot, for various reasons, but they can run it at more than 500°C. Still, well below lava levels.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-cooled_fast_reactor#Adv...
Consumer Privacy at OpenAI
Croteam is such a talented team of game developers. I really enjoyed the Talos Principle (1 and 2) and they were some of the early pioneers of a completely custom Vulkan game engine for the first game.
> killer feature is IEX, Elixir's REPL

Don't many other languages have this? Ruby has IRB for example. Is there anything IEX does that IRB doesn't?
In this case not because contacts are an OS API and always have been since before the iPhone. They could do the same on Mac OS if they wanted.
Couldn’t it be they’re just feeling out the partnership without going all in?
Why you got to make workers rights sound sinister?
Valve isn’t “done” they are working on their next gen headset, codenamed “Deckard”: https://youtu.be/YVkbcZ8JH2E?si=0-URGXYlsFGMZvGO

This is all speculation, but I get the sense that Valve understands better than anyone that 1) the VR market is a long game, 2) there are a number of minimum requirements for a VR system which are not ready to be commercialized yet (120hz, 10+ million pixels, eye tracking,
etc) so no one is going to “win” in this round, 3) the developer platform and general developer relations matters just as much as the hardware.

It’s not so much “build it and they will come” it’s “build it, and the market, and the developer community, and land them all at once and they will keep coming”.

Valve has the luxury of having absolutely no one to answer to for their cost structure, so they really don’t have to show any particular traction metrics, nor do they have to put on any annual developer conferences to impress their shareholders. They can just focus on goals that won’t bear fruit for 10 or 20 years and they’ll be totally fine.

Valve is the definition of skate to where the puck is going not where it currently is.
From what I always understood, the argument for the App Store was to ensure the hardware remained stable. While it's easy to say, "it's mine, I can do what I want," when that device is a persons life line to emergency services in the even something happens to them, that is not a responsibility a company should take lightly. I like to think Apple takes that seriously and acts in accordance with that responsibly. They've said as much publicly, but of course one can choose to believe them or not.

Even if someone wants to ignore this concept, where is the line drawn? Should a hardware manufacturer, or OS vendor, be allowed to make a product that blocks malware on their systems (like Windows Defender)? Windows was seen as a poor product because of all the adware that infected it in the early 2000s. That issue has largely been resolved, thanks to efforts from Microsoft. Should they not be allowed to solve the biggest issue that plagued the public perception of their product?

I realize I'm move the goalpost slightly, from hardware to OS vendor, but ultimately, it isn't Apple's hardware that's creating these controls, it's iOS, the operating system. And in the case of Google, it's clearly an OS vendor issue, as Android is installed on a wide variety of hardware from many different OEMs.
I can't wait to watch this.
I haven't gotten to do SICP yet but have it checked out and did get to listen to the classes while doing home renovations.

The Sussman quote from the SICP classes about understanding complicated things makes it in to a lot of my presentations (in architecture of all things) and it's the slide that ALWAYS gets people frantically taking a note.
Samsung offers plan to speed up delivery of AI chips
The statute uses the word “alien” (which generally refers to natural persons) not the word “person.”
By "does not apply" I meant that you can't use the same logic in a health situation. You're mostly just paraphrasing.