skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's pretty much how directions work outside of major cities in the US too, except for a lack of train stations, and the more rural you get the more landmarks are replaced with shibboleths.

"Go about ten minutes that way until you see the old Smith farm. [The Smiths haven't lived there for three generations.] Then take a left and head five minutes down Mill Road. [It's actually called something else, has never had a mill on it in its entire history, but is called that by the locals nonetheless.]" Eventually you start wondering when you tripped and fell into a Discworld novel.
Good to see this.

"There is another theme running through here: moving the borrow checker analysis out from the compiler’s mind and into types that can be expressed. Right now, all types always represent fully initialized, unborrowed values. There is no way to express a type that captures the state of being in the midst of iterating over something or having moved one or two fields but not all of them. These changes address that gap."

I have some misgivings about trying to do everything with types. That leads to having to perform complex, hard to understand operations on types, as you add and remove restrictions. Keeping borrowing orthogonal from types may be clearer. Not sure about this, though.

I'd like to see back references addressed, so structs can have references to their owners.
General concept: when possible, do statically what Rc, Weak, and .borrow() can do for backlinks at run time. Such static analysis seems possible for non-mutable references.
Mutable is going to be tough, though. It's a lot like compile-time single-lock deadlock detection, where you try to check that the same lock is never locked twice in nested contexts.
Isn't evaluating against different effective "experts" within the model effectively what MoE [1] does?

> Mixture of experts (MoE) is a machine learning technique where multiple expert networks (learners) are used to divide a problem space into homogeneous regions.[1] It differs from ensemble techniques in that for MoE, typically only one or a few expert models are run for each input, whereas in ensemble techniques, all models are run on every input.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixture_of_experts
I've heard basically "plant trees, bury them, plant new trees." I'm not sure if planting trees itself is sufficient.
YouTube Tests New Kind of Unskippable Ad
Social media in subcontinent is really hard since the ARPU is really low compared to the cost required to sustain that scale. All the existing one prevail because most of their revenue comes from US + EU to balance out additional cost in resources.
What about 10x programmers
Rheinmetall has been increasing production though. It's just a) getting into this business is hard, so it has limited effect on the rest of the economy b) arming oneself to teeth costs money, which is German budget is pretty low on at the monent
That's definitely an issue; they are encouraged to sequester emissions, instead of reduce / eliminate them. Same with CO2 emissions rights; for some reason every company gets these for free, AND gets to sell them to other companies if they're under. They should be buying them from the government in the first place, and the price needs to go up sharply every year.

Too many of these ideas end up defeating the purpose.

Another example: NL and energy companies are investing heavily in offshore wind parks. What happens? Instead of existing power plants shutting down, a newly built Microsoft or Google datacenter buys the majority of the capacity of the new wind farm for the next decade or so. Instead of replacing power production with renewables, renewables are added and consumption increases alongside.

Makes sense in a capitalist system too, more supply means cost goes down means demand goes up means cost goes back up.
Hear! Hear!

I work in a massive data center. Manned by very few people. I often think about how many homes could be heated or cooled with the power used to prop up the internet.

It feels borderline criminal when there are homeless and hungry all over the world.
When I was in Japan in 2008, I found if I asked someone how to get somewhere they would often just walk you there, even if it was several blocks.
It's not extremely clear to me - they manage to put phones with Esim where there is signal and set up a hotspot for other phones? Or do they maintain hotspots near the border for the people in Gaza to conect to? Or a mix of both?
This caught my eye:

> Logs are just events - which is exactly what a span is, btw - and metrics are just abstractions out of those event properties. That is, you want to know the response time of an API endpoint? You don't rewind 20 years and increment a counter, you instead aggregate the duration of the relevant span segment. Somehow though, Logs and Metrics are still front and center.

Is anyone replacing logs and metrics with traces?
Curiously, the YouTube algorithm recommended that I read "Count Zero", so here I am.

I think Neuromancer absolutely nailed the future of business: giant ledgers holding records of every communication, event and transaction affecting the organization. And all of that information processed by AIs under the control of a small number - one even - of owners.

The AIs will decide whether they need to write and compile code to process the data or whether the task is small enough that they can just do it directly. Exactly like a human deciding whether to write a script or just use a spreadsheet. In this future the only B2B market is for AIs.
Should I fight a forced resignation?
I was offered a resignation today in my role with a State Government organization. Should I fight it?

The facts:
1. The role is 5 hours away. I was commuting on a weekly basis to the office, every Tue-Thur and did 10 hours a day on site.
2. I was remote on Mondays, and off on Fridays.
3. I was still in my state-mandated probation of 1 year.
4. There has not been a documented issue. IE: there was never anything that I signed that said I was deficient in an area of my job.
5. There was one undocumented issue about 7 months in that I received a verbal counseling for. Again, nothing formal, and it was a personality conflict between myself and another manager/supervisor.

I have already been interviewing for other roles and had a final interview that I thought went well, but am waiting for the offer.

On one hand, it doesn’t really seem worth it to “fight” it, but on the other hand, I haven’t ever been formally counseld/written up.

Look forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts.

Thank you.
Uhh, not in my experience. Its extremely difficult to find h265 sources for a large majority of content. Its basically a meme where if you tell people you want to try and get h265 by default, they talk down to you like "why would you do that".

From https://trash-guides.info/Misc/x265-4k/

> Something like 95% of video files are x264 and have much better direct play support.
I think Musk should get the pay package. It's an obscene amount of money, but the shareholders voted for it, and it would be wrong for the court to stand in the way going forward.
That's a fun piece of history, thanks.
I use Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and I just love how everything works so well together right out of the box. You have to remember 99% users don’t care much about concerns like yours, they just want a smooth, hustle free, near zero learning curve experience.
> What matters is if you want criminals to have more agency, and if you don’t, you punish them.

In a deterministic universe, “want” doesn’t mean much. That you would decide to punish a criminal is the only thing that could happen.
> Message delivery is "best effort", so there are no guarantees that a message will actually be delivered to its recipient, but delay or complete loss of a message is uncommon, typically affecting less than 5 percent of messages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS

Oliver, Earl, Design and Implementation of a Short Message Service Data Channel for Mobile Systems

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/research/tr/2007/CS-2007-42.pdf
I have a two or three volume encyclopaedia-like work from the XIX that, as far as I can tell, was directed to factory owners. Its articles cover things like roofing that lets in natural light, how best to build private rail spurs into your factory, or even cheap and cheerful ways to provide worker housing in your company town, etc. etc.
That doesn't address it. That tones it all the way down to a "slight element of anger"
I've known literally dozens of published writers and I can tell you that the reason that pro writers say that putting the words down on paper is not the hard part is because they've trained themselves to mostly vomit on the page, then edit it to where it needs to be. Writers that try to write good prose out of the gate get blocked, almost always. It's a basic piece of tradecraft that people who write for a living all know.

The process is outline, trash draft (who gives a shit who does this) then refine until you can't bear to read your work anymore and neither you or anyone you share the work with has critical points that don't have very solid counter arguments. Most wannabe writers have notebooks of worldbuilding and story arcs but can't even get the trash draft done.
> To put economic pressure on a country that we pressured into a war?

Who is "we"? Besides, Putin and the Russian government chose this war, they were not pressured into it.
It is! But to prove your point, OTLP is actually just the transport protocol (Open Telemetry Transport Protocol). Its one of _so many things_ its trying to address. All of those things might be probems, but not everyone has those same problems (vendors, customers, and lib authors), and bundling them all into one umbrella just screams for me.

I actually have no need for a standard metrics implementation, just as an example. I never have, and I'd argue Sentry (as a tech company) never has. We built our own abstraction and/or used a library. That doesnt mean others don't, and it doesnt mean it shouldnt be something people solve, but bundling "all telemetry problems" into one giant design committee is a fundamental misstep imo.
Locutus as in borged Picard?
This is true to a point.

In my mind this is ~4 oz. of extra weight, I feel like sufficiently strong hinges and just enough weight in the base would be fine for that little extra though.
It isn't; they take decades to grow to their full size and gather / sequester CO2 (about 15-25 kilos per year? Some sources say as much anyway; I don't know how that compares to emissions), but they will release most of that again if they die and are left to rot. Burying them is an option, but it would have to be in an anaerobic and/or sealed environment so it doesn't break down.

For the opposite effect, the permafrost is melting, allowing thousands of years of sequestered and frozen plant material to defrost and finally start rotting. That's adding a lot of CO2 and methane to the atmosphere, and it adds to the cascading global warming. Just that makes me think we've past the point of no return a while ago.
> You might not be morally culpable for what you do while under threat of death, but that's a separate question from whether you could physically have done something different.

The principle of alternate possibilities was debunked by the Frankfurt cases, and that was not the point of the gun scenario.

The point was that nobody would consider a person acting under threat of death to be making freely willed choices, so defining choice in the naive and reductive sense that was suggested is just incorrect because it cannot exclude this case. Therefore this naive and reductive definition cannot be what people mean by "choice" in the context of free will.

> In a deterministic universe I do what I do because particles hit into each other in particular ways over countless eons and those particle interactions eventually coalesced into what I call myself and the particles in my brain bounce in particular ways that interact

So an intelligent being was created with certain preferences and values, and as long as this being was able to deliberate and make choices in accordance with those preferences and values, that being was making freely willed choices. How this being was able to do this at the subatomic level is completely irrelevant, and bringing it up is, at best, a category error.
Not everyone believes censorship is a feature worth compromising the design of a network.

How does the USPS prevent libel?

How does the global telephone network prevent slander?
Funnily I saw this just yesterday: „Dihydromyricetin ameliorates memory impairment induced by acute sleep deprivation“
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30876981/

Nootropics Depot now retails this (not affiliated).
Surely it would damage the resist?
You're just trying to be contrarian for imaginary internet points. Satya is right about this one.
America's private sector is to its government as China's government is to its
private sector.

If you know what I mean ...
It was not the first, either: See "Cleveland Freenet" https://cfn.tangledhelix.com/
All of the answers to these problems are trivially easy. I maintain my stance that "game designer" is not a real job and is just a fanciful cushy position for people who were already privileged in life to pretend like they're doing hard work. Things like "do doors lock behind the player?" is not anywhere close to as hard as the very easiest problem faced by the actual programmers who are doing the actual work on your project.

"SOMEONE has to solve The Door Problem, and that someone is a designer." -- it sounds like literally thirty minutes of work per week. Just admit that your job is easy and cushy and the programmers and artists are the only ones doing any actual work. They make fun of you when you're not in the room. They add ducks to animations just so that you can feel important by telling them to take them out. You're a parasitic drain on the project, not a "big idea man". Everyone already knew whether or not that door should lock before you were asked.
This is also largely true. Saudi oil is generally pretty light but sour. The fact the US has a lot of refineries set up to process heavy oil means its literally not set up to process Saudi oil. Another good example of how taylodl really has no clue about what they're talking about.
Internships Are Drying Up, Especially in Tech and Finance
https://archive.ph/qp5pD
People are out of ideas. Twitter but for India. Twitter but not owned Elon Musk. Twitter but integrated with substack. Twitter but federated. Twitter but decentralized. Will any of these do better? Possibly the last two, if someone builts an innovative user experience on top of them.
The cost of the LLM isn't the only or even the most important cost that matters. Take the example of automating AI research: evaluating moves effectively means inventing a new architecture or modifying an existing one, launching a training run and evaluating the new model on some suite of benchmarks. The ASI has to do this in a loop, gather feedback and update its priors - what people refer to as "Grad student descent". The cost of running each train-eval iteration during your search is going to be significantly more than generating the code for the next model.
I went to the NGO to see if there any further technical specifications to read about, it doesn't seem so: https://www.acs-italia.it/gazaweb-e-gli-alberi-della-rete/

it seems to be purely built upon cellular connectivity and hotspots!

I'm shocked there's no meshnet stuff involved here, but I suppose we can't see much details beyond the backbone, last-mile connectivity methods are probably extremely hodgepodge.
Discussions [0] (39 points, 2 days ago, 91 comments) [1](34 points, 4 hour ago, 88 comments

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40666304

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40683148
Maybe, but maybe not. I had someone follow me around on HN relentlessly trolling for a couple weeks years ago. It was surreal. I had to stop commenting for a long time to lose their attention. It was over something incredibly trivial.
No, I'm pretty sure that it's a loss to not have income coming in while you scramble to find a new job.
Fascinating, you're absolutely right! Apparently I'm not the only one who got it wrong:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/8w0ewm/me_an...
seems like a mix of both.
Sounds like wood gas.
Yes, also no.
I actually meant trace ID and parent event ID (and ID was inferred). Parent comment is correct in that trace ID isnt technically needed, and is in fact quite controversial. Its an implementation level protocol optimization though, and unfortunately not an objective one. It creates an arbitrary grouping of these annotations - which is entirely subjective, and the spec struggles to reconcile - but its primarily because the technology to aggregate and/or query them would be far more difficult if you didn't keep that simple GUID.

It does have one positive benefit beyond that. If you lose data, or have disparate systems, its pretty easy to keep the Trace ID intact and still have better instrumentation than otherwise.
I'm playing with slight variations of this prompt on GPTs:

"Write a short (300--600 word) story about how human explorers on the Sun would address the challenges of navigation, orientation, and timekeeping (including the challenges of starfinding). Ignore obvious effects such as heat, gravity, and radiation."

Results are ... not excellent literature, but amusing all the same.
Turtles all the way down.

Teenage, mutant, ninja, or otherwise.
True but my view on that is that governments don't want anyone else to be the first with AI AGI... and therefore they will strive to be the first. Kinda like how a big motivation for the atomic bomb was the threat of Germany developing the bomb.

And the amount of capital means that these companies could pay a lot more for labour than they are paying now for the sorts of labour we would need to deprive them of. It's an interesting idea though.
I assume pi hole users running unbound are not effected by this?
> The critical thing that limits CO2 capture by plants through photosynthesis is water

It's not really true. The critical limit is the inefficiency of photosynthesis, it's around 3-5%. The RuBisCo enzyme just sucks, compared to many other enzymes. So you can't improve the productivity of plants by adding more water.

But if you do have a lot of fresh water, you can cultivate lands that are right now empty.
You’re missing the point, and taking it too literally - the context of the original was Wayne Brady being more “assimilated” (not necessarily freer) than Bryant Gumbel, from someone who famously had thought long and hard about the subject [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34FsIJFT6N8 (For context see this excellent Jezebel article https://www.jezebel.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-an-all-american... [2] and accompanying video https://youtu.be/TxAlJq94-b8)

[2] which even cites Brother Malcolm himself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsuaFmN2O98&t=3m35s

But now that you made me think about it, Indian Malcolm X is probably Kshama Sawant or someone like that
I think the big switch will happen once most people have TV's that can do 10bit color and true HDR. H264 can definitely do 10 bit but I'm not sure how well it handles higher dynamic range content (or if it even can) but H265 definitely can.
Snowden: "They've gone full mask-off: do not ever trust OpenAI or its products"
They actually can't force you to sign anything, if there were no wrongdoing from your side. But for some reason you have to do that, probably not worth to fight it. Because, first it will cost you your time and of course money to hire a lawyer (otherwise things get tricky down on the road).

Especially since the worksite is far away from your home.
Windows user accounts used to work locally. At some point during Windows 10's life it became a hassle to use a local account on a new computer. Now in Windows 11, short of modifying the ISO or using other unintuitive workarounds (some of which Microsoft has patched out), you are required to be connected to the Internet and use a Microsoft account when setting up your new computer (even for Windows 11 Pro!) If despite that you choose to work around that requirement, several features are disabled, including ones that enhance security!

Notably, you lose out on full-disk encryption on Windows 11 Home. On Home and Pro you lose out on facial recognition login (Windows Hello), which can be a useful tool for avoiding shoulder surfing attacks in public. But by using a Microsoft account, your computer's password can be reset remotely. There's no way (official or otherwise) to maximize security on Windows 11. Outside of Enterprise, there's not even an official manner to setup an air-gapped Windows 11 PC!

Until they received massive backlash, Microsoft planned on requiring Xbox One users to have a Kinect (camera, mic, and motion sensing device) connected at all times when the console is on, as well as connect to the Internet once a day to use the console.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-xbox-one-wont-require-k...

To an extent the theoretical concerns that people are stating about Recall sound like paranoia, but the examples above show Microsoft has a bad history when it comes to privacy. Connecting Recall to the Internet sounds like a terrible idea, but so does restricting/limiting local accounts on Windows and (planning on) mandating that your home game console has a camera and mic connected and is connected to the Internet each day.

Unfortunately, they also have a bad history when it comes to security. Recent example: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24119787/microsoft-cloud-e...

From the article, the US Department of Homeland Security claims that Microsoft has "a corporate culture that deprioritized enterprise security investments and rigorous risk management."

So while on the surface the concerns about Recall seem unreasonable, I think the fear is more understandable given Microsoft's many previously unthinkable actions, in addition to their poor security.
People also seem to forget spreadsheets as a concept pre-date computing.
https://archive.org/details/pdfy--Pori1NL6fKm2SnY
I can't finish this book without dire risk of losing my mind. I'm good with abolishing the FED
Are you sure about that? I don't think I'm taking issue with a normative claim here, I think I'm discussing the rationale offered for adopting it, which is where agency came into the discussion.

I agree that I am doing the same thing as the person I am replying to, just applying it to all participants (which, by the way, is not in any way an accusation.)
You hear about the coincidences that work out, you're unlikely to hear about the pilot who was a professional glider who landed his regular flight at Dulles.

Thousands of planes in the air every day, that one with engine failure has a pilot who practices without engines isn't surprising. I'd be more surprised if he was a skilled mechanic who repaired the engine in situ.
Patience overflow: a debugging tale old as time
What about when you’re recording (say your iPhone / android / standalone camera) - are you choosing h264 or h265 (or something else like an intra-frame only codec for easier editing).
Thank you for going to the effort of coming back to respond! I appreciate the detailed critique. There's a lot to think about here, but one thing that comes immediately to mind is that this:

> Payment must need some signature: it could be a PIN, it could be that the payer hands money to the payee. It cannot be that the recipient approaches a card.

...could be easily solved with a button on the card (like my FIDO2 key has), or, in the case of the NatWest trial, a fingerprint scanner[1] on the card itself. This would stop the card from being (accidentally/maliciously) charged by NFC through a wallet or pocket. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like NatWest continued the trial - for the moment, at least, that makes gives them the privilege of being both 'the first' and 'the last' UK bank to unveil biometric credit cards!

[1]: https://www.natwestgroup.com/news-and-insights/feature-conte...