skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Chomsky's entire shtick was to start from the belief that the US is evil and that any evidence that might be favorable to US positions is suspect

His position is that 1. people distort facts to exaggerate crimes of their enemies and minimize their own crimes and 2. we are primarily responsible for our own actions not the actions of others. Both of these things are very easy to understand in any other context.

If you follow those precepts then you would focus on your own sides' lies and crimes which might naively be viewed as "anti-US" bias.

> Olle Tolgraven? [...]

Chomsky never argues that there wasn't any evidence of killings and seems to accurately describe Tolgraven's account: "A Swedish journalist, Olle Tolgraven of Swedish Broadcasting, said he did not believe there had been wholesale executions. But he said there was evidence the Khmer Rouge had shot people who refused to leave their homes in a mass evacuation ordered the first day of the takeover. " (Los Angeles Times, May 9, 1975). (c.f. Chomsky: "who denied the existence of wholesale executions").

> He pointed to Hildebrand and Porter [...]

I will have to read the book myself but looking at the references it does look like it has a "wide range of sources".

> he invented citations to J.J. Cazaux and Schanberg

Just to be clear: You are saying that he fabricated citations? Can you tell me the specific ones?

> Chomsky claimed publications like the Economist have "analyses by highly ... but rather a letter from a reader in response to that article.

He writes "have provided analyses by highly qualified specialists". I assume he's referring to the letter he describes himself in the subsequent paragraph from, "an economist and statistician for the Cambodian Government until March 1975" who "visited refugee camps in Thailand and kept in touch with Khmers" and who relayed conversations from a "European friend who cycled around Phnom Penh for many days after its fall" and who you misleadingly describe as merely "a reader". Perhaps you could object to the phrase "provided analyses" if he hadn't described the analyses himself in detail in the very next paragraph.

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I would re-iterate the point that the La Couture numbers were fabricated and had to be retracted; and the CIAs own numbers did not support allegations of genocide. Despite this the La Couture numbers were widely cited (and the CIA numbers were not). That alone proves the point that Chomsky was making and which I described at the beginning. When claims suits our foreign policy elite no evidence is required, when they don't no evidence is possible.
What's wrong with a liberal? How are they alienating to normal people? How would you define "normal"?

Also, would love to hear your definition of who is and who isn't "liberal".

Remember kids, the left/right & liberal/conservative is a completely false dichotomy.
If someone pays 100k for 10%, the valuation is 100k * 10 = 1M. There’s not really a source for that, that’s just how market valuations work
The population growth rate has consistently declined for 50+ years. It's around 0.8% from a peak of 2.2% in the 60's.

There's no reason to think this trend will reverse.
Which is a feature, and not a bug: some of us want our distro maintainers to actually have a look at what they distribute.
Especially when you consider all the tax affordances related to owning real estate vs. equities.
https://www.saas-capital.com/blog-posts/private-saas-company...

edit: If you're that curious just call Hemant up and ask him yourself?
> just because it’s so intent on satisfying your whim instead of saying No

This really, really, really needs to be fixed. It's probably the most irritating (and potentially risky) part of the whole ecosystem. Nothing more infuriating than being give code that not only doesn't work, but upon the most casual inspection, couldn't possibly work -- especially when it's done it four or five times in a row, each time assuring you that this time the code is gonna work. Pinky swear!
Exactly. I really wanted to see what a bus with sleepers for everyone, a full kitchen and restrooms looked like. It couldn’t possibly have fit that many passengers.

Edit: I found pictures. It was a double decker.
> They'd do much better if they just shut up & built...something they're both clearly good at

That would require either of them to be good at building anything, and I don't think either has ever demonstrated that. They're just money men, and Musk went out of his way to PR himself as the real life Iron Man before utterly ruining it because he can't shut his mouth when he really, really should.
I've found Oracle's free tier quite generous. I guess OpenAI does as well.
I think matters of geopolitics and war especially must be up for debate.
The default testing framework made my jaw drop a bit - I have a very hard time seeing Rust have the enthusiasm or momentum to implement something like that right now.
Wrong question.

In this case the question is “is it ok for a hare brained moron drunk on his own power and perceived importance, to ban a particular phone manufacturer because he’s got a hatred for OpenAi”.

I think we already know the answer to the real question.
if you don't run random apps and or use it for web browsing, and block incoming sms, a standalone device would have a smaller attack surface. if you really wanted to be paranoid, TOTP is computed off the time and a seed value and doesn't need Internet access, so the standalone device could have the cell modem and wifi disabled to reduce the attack surface even more.
Also worth getting a good quality air purifier for your bedroom.
This definitely improved my breathing and sleep.
What an absurd comment. How do you even hold a war criminal and talking head equal?
> Until there's a vulnerability in one of the dependencies and now you have to rebuild all of the packages which use it.

Packages get rebuilt all the time. This is fine.

As for the rest, it would be cool if binaries shipped with a manifest of some sort naming all the versions of their statically included dependencies. A SBoM of sorts. It would make this sort of vulnerability scanning much easier to do.
Does Apple still have a close relationship with Oracle? I wonder if this is related.
From experience working with these people for many years, it is mostly because they are fuckwits. No joke. Literally no objectivity or capability to reason about logically. The first vendor that gets in the door and shows them a shiny turd and they sign a contract which is difficult to get out of.

Anyone who is technical in those orgs is either very junior and stepped straight in a cow shit out of college, has a pension they are counting down to or is so utterly disinterested that they don't give a shit about anything other than the coffee break or the end of the day.

My capacity in those orgs was the overpaid consultant who came in, looked at what they were doing and told them they were stupid in a huge word document and then leave with a pocket full of cash with no changes ever being made.
There is usually a way to hide it and if you don't use them you should not get any (or at least not many) notifications. For more free android phones you can also absolutely remove them or load a distro that does not include them at all.

I'm very confident that I could recreate a similar enough experience on iOS or "normal" android at a similar price-point.
This is a great piece of software that I use under Linux and MacOS
Yes. Grounds for appeal.
But isn’t the actual advantage here that it gives me the ability to handle that error case specifically? I mean stuff like IO errors can happen everywhere at any time anyway, but if I need to do something specifically if there is no such element, isn’t that a plus? Otherwise, I’d have no chance to handle that error if I can do so.
Click the Red Button
NYT writer discovers the term 'slop' days after NYT source leaks on 4chan. Specifically on a board where this is a common phrase. Cites 4chan. I'm connecting the dots
I can't believe none of your Ukrainian and Russian friends grade countries in terms of whether they take up the area in vain. They may not use this specific wording, though they might as well do.

I wonder if "middle section" countries also use the arguments that they were so great N centuries ago that they don't have to reason their existence today.
If you don't have time to do it right, you must have time to do it again
Sure. It's great to have the possibility to link statically.

My beef with the "static linking trend" is that many people (or languages, e.g. Rust) don't want to let me link dynamically, for some reason. Just let me choose!
Every business owner does not know what prices for other companies actually are -- they assume that they are being charged a price which has been determined by the market and is worthwhile to the seller to cover costs and profit.

By taking outside money and subsidizing certain market players so that they can sell their goods at below market value (because that is what is happening) you are undermining the market and punishing players who are acting rationally.

This would be absolutely no different than taking tax money and subsidizing certain companies over others to destroy competition and then claiming that it was a market decision.

'We are all adults here' is not a magical phrase that makes cheating OK.
You can still find beans that are roasted properly from smaller roasters that use smaller batches. When I'm in doubt, I'll go for for light roast or a flavored medium roast. Light will have the most caffeine, but more acidic.
Democracy and socialism aren't categories of a kind.
Agreed that Swift looks quite amazing. There’s some cool talks on how they’re trying to move FoundationDB to Swift and their approach.

I think the main problem, and this is a really big problem, is that based on a very shallow investigation I did a couple months back, the ecosystem for server-side stuff barely exists.

And in my opinion, the ecosystem is one of the deciding factors when picking a language.
What do you mean by the “record”? It seems like you think this means Apple somehow has access and stores all that information in their cloud and we just have to hope/trust that they don’t decide they want to poke around in it?

You should look more into their security architecture if you’re curious about stuff like this. The way Secure Enclave, E2EE (including the Advanced Data Protection feature for all iCloud data), etc. The reality is that they use a huge range of privacy enhancing approaches to minimize what data has to leave your device and how it can be used. For example the biometrics you mention are never outside the Secure Enclave in the chip on your phone and nobody except you can access them unless they have your passcode. Things like running facial recognition on your photos library is handled locally on your device with no information going up to the cloud. FindMy is also architected in a fully E2E encrypted way.

You can browse their hundreds of pages of security and privacy documentation via the table of contents here to look up any specific service or functionality you want to know more about: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/welcome/web
Kevin Durand was born for the role.
"Some people, when faced with a problem, think: I know, I'll use a regular expression.

Now they have 2 problems."
It’s also the aggregation operation. If there are many unique groups it can take a lot of memory.

Newer DuckDbs are able to handle out of core operations better. But in general just because data fits in memory doesn’t mean the operation will — and as I said 8GB is very limited memory so it will entail spilling to disk.

https://duckdb.org/2024/03/29/external-aggregation.html
> If anything, Musk getting a $45B package after a year of failures and layoffs at Tesla is something that tarnishes Musk and Tesla's image

I hate to defend executive comp, but Tesla’s market cap has gone up by $487 billion (almost 10x) since he was awarded that comp package in 2018. Half of all EVs sold in the US are Teslas. In 2023, the Model Y was the world’s bestselling car, outselling the Toyota Corolla. That’s completely insane. What more do you want?
At least for me and for some others I have met, we have an immense sensitivity to cannabinoids. I will actually get a decent buzz from CBD gummies that most people feel absolutely nothing from, even if they eat the whole bag. I cannot smoke any THC flower because it's all way to strong, and the only way I can consume THC is cutting up gummies into small pieces.
Buy housing in hyper desirable areas that rarely become more dense. Everyone always loves the beach, whether there are 1% fewer humans next year or not.
Until you have to deliver something and you realize you love programming languages more than creating software.
That seems weirdly low given AI hype. Why is OpenAI worth more than ten times more?
Thank you! As of now, many people use Revideo to programatically create Youtube videos (primarily entertainment content, think of AI generated memes and Youtube Shorts) and for use cases in video marketing (think automatically generating and A/B testing ads from a product portfolio). As the project becomes more mature and better, we want to enable developers to build more complex, and especially interactive video editors using the framework.

I'm glad you raise the point of reusability and people building abstractions - what I find really exciting about code as an interface for video editing (rather than GUI) is that it makes it much easier to create and share isolated, reusable components and functions. Especially as we are open source, I hope that many developers will build abstractions and share them on Github

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "Video Creation Studio"? Would you add a visual interface for editing to Revideo?
WIP: Ship with Other Makers
I'm of two minds here. I know what you're talking about, and I don't hate people trying to get ahead by gaming the system; fundamentally that's what we're all here to do.

But at the same time, decoding what 'business language' means in real-world terms is an essential skill in today's market. People who can't figure this out are going to be chewed up and spit out by the machine one way or another. The entire reason why the concept of a PIP exists at all is so management can have a reliable and abstracted "Remove Employee" button whenever they choose.

I guess the ultimate irony is them presenting this like a Playboy tell-all interview with... someone from management. If this is Business Insider, I'm Forbes magazine.
Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan
You have to focus on the cross, and the demo on the page is slowed down. I don't know why they don't have the original speed there.
A non-zero number of engineers will implement "hello world" wrong when they're first learning a language. That's not an argument against any given programming language either. "I made a design error that the documentation specifically calls out as something to avoid" doesn't hold much water as a legitimate criticism. Especially when the design error is "I didn't put the decoupling cap very close to the pin it's supposed to be decoupling for". (as an aside, you should read the "minimal design example" chapter from the RP2040 Hardware Design Guide[0], even if you have zero intention of designing with the chip. It's a literal masterclass in beginner-level pcb design.)

Literally none of this is actually a hazard if you design more than one PCBA with a microcontroller on it in your entire life. I'd argue that designing around a castellated-edge module is much MUCH harder to get right on the first try than discrete components, even though the parameter space is apparently much smaller.

0. https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2040/hardware-design-wi...
The GP was asking specifically about non-Apple development
> It would make this sort of vulnerability scanning much easier to do.

Scanning, sure. Fixing... surely much harder than with shared libraries.
HBO to Max might be second for me. I associated premium and original content with the name HBO (Game of Thrones for example). I get they're trying to convey that it's not just prestige dramas, but in a world where people have multiple streaming services I think it makes sense to standout in terms of quality.

Close number 3 is Angie's List. It's been 3 years and the top link still says "Angie's List is Now Angi".
llama3
I found this very interesting:
How to build an AI data center: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40637448
Demand increases due to population growth. Population goes down, growth goes down (broadly speaking, some caveats and nuance as always depending on some goods or services).

Edit: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/21582440177360...
> Which he managed to accomplish

He accomplished absolutely nothing.

OpenAI has established lucrative partnerships with Apple and Microsoft and are the primary platform developers are building their applications on. They will have no problem profiting and raising money.
> ordered to pay a total of $38.3 million to the families…

Curious how much these grieving families will actually receive?

As for Chiquita Corporate—- such a small price of doing business. Sad commentary for justice.
"That dog just 'aint gonna hunt."

One of my UK vendors recently said, "this went off like a damp squib" for something that didn't go over well. Basically means a firework that didn't light because it was wet.
"Prostate with grief"

Many great sopranos quotes to go along, such as..

"Much like a child, a film has many parents".
One day we will be struggling for survival, be it here on Earth or in space, and the years wasted by our species getting in the way of technological advancement by preventing people like Hypathia of Alexandria, Alan Turing, Galileo Galilei, Lynn Conway and many others from fulfilling their full potential could make the difference between collective survival or death.

We are truly an idiotic species sometimes.
Isn't the Tesla Powerwall a fully integrated system with multiple MPPTs, inverter, and charger? (Maybe I'm confusing the new one with the older versions) I imagine that's where the cost comes in.

Where I live in Europe I can buy a lifepo4 cell for 97€ from a trusted supplier, 300Ah x 3.2V = almost a kWh. For a full battery you need to add the cost of a BMS and a balancer.
This does not mention Mistral at all. Are all replies to me in this thread from LLM agents?
It's sort of like a crack dealer's free tier. You know it's going to end miserably but you just can't help yourself.
I'm not a (direct) user of the C++ interop, but everything I've heard about it has been quite positive. A few hopefully relevant resources, first a couple of videos:

- "Introducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases" (John McCall; CppNow 2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgivCGdmFrw

- "Swift as C++ Successor in FoundationDB" (Konrad Malawski; Strange Loop 2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQc9-seU-5k

And then a series of blog posts by Doug Gregor:

- "Swift for C++ Practitioners" https://www.douggregor.net/posts/

And finally:

- "Mixing Swift and C++" (Swift.org) https://www.swift.org/documentation/cxx-interop/
Thanks for this context. I hadn't known about the link to Jim Clark but it makes sense.

Here's another one. It's Carver Mead, Lynn Conway's co-author, talking about the genesis of their legendary book, and process.

I was a university student at the time, and this was the way you could get your little custom processor into a fab and get hardware back. It was kind of amazing to go from a digital file through a compiler and verification, and then to hardware.

Carver's description with some backstory (probably helpful):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAZWXX5930M&t=1984s

And skipped ahead to just the book part:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAZWXX5930M&t=2064s
Measure twice, cuss once.
Computers will always be a part of our future, at least for the next 100 years.

The next questions will be who controls information access? Who controls electricity? (Among many other questions.)
This has little to do with human society. Western society, maybe. Plenty of other societies don't assert a distinct binary for gender (which doesn't even exist in sex; intersex people exist at the same rates as people that are red-headed, and you wouldnt call red heads unnatural).

Even if it was "natural" you're making the choice to treat someone like shit. You can backpedal onto what all your peers are doing all you want, but that doesn't change how you as an individual are making another human being, who has done nothing to you, feel
Seriously. Musk has enough money to fuck off and go build something.

His political and economic opinions are pretty bad. He should just shut up.
Or demand increases due to some major new factor (which has happened a few times in recent history) that basically enables new energy extraction, or new resource extraction.

But over very long periods of time, it does seem to mostly be connected to population.
I have a slight inkling that Apple internally is using Swift for backend stuff somewhere, especially with all the ML stuff they just shipped. Word on the street is their datacenters are full of M-series chips. I could see those servers running Swift + distributed actors + mlx.

The move to make swift run on Linux could be part of that work - their sysadmins, devops, and backend folks probably use Vim/VSCode and deploy on Linux.

We might see the release of a very good backend framework by apple for Swift that works on Mac/Linux.

The new macros they added kinda bolt on serde into the language too - and the distributed actor stuff is basically RPC in the language.
While I'm also multi-lingual, and I also strongly believe in (some version of) the Sapir Whorf hypothesis, to the best of my knowledge, it has never been demonstrated.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity .
Impressive! TBH I'd rather that dystopia than the one where people are constantly having their things stolen with zero recourse.
Ah got it - pinned notes float to the top

FWIW agree with your call on not building too many organisational tools in

Thanks again for sharing; look forward to trying it out
Out of curiosity, which language works best for you and your use case?
A company can do what it wants.

But if a company says I can't bring my phone to work with me, then I'll be finding a new job. That's a bridge too far for me.

A better and more defensible idea is for a company to say "only approved devices are allowed to connect to our network".
> If you're the sort of person that cannot decode what a "Performance Improvement Plan" is then you're going to be eaten by the industry alive.

On the one hand, yes, this is true. On the other hand, it shouldn't take decoding doublespeak to know that a "performance improvement plan" has nothing to do with improving performance, and is just a box-checking CYA exercise to make a paper trail for firing someone.

And the way in which people learn this obnoxious bit of doublespeak is by having plenty of readily findable sources telling them "this is a box-checking exercise for firing you, do not believe any HR information claiming otherwise".
well, it depends on what you do with the sand; things like sandblasting or desert sandstorms liberate plenty of the very fine powdered crystalline form that is the concern

your points about high short-term exposure and long-term low-grade exposure are well taken, and may also apply to phthalates, since humans evolved in an environment with many sources of phthalates, such as coconuts, poppy seeds, grapes, and kidney beans. see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8310026/ and https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Phthalic-acid#sect...
Is there a reason you can't do both? I.e. use PostgREST until you can't anymore (and hopefully get an MVP out of that), then create a backend that runs in parallel and implements whatever PostgREST can't?

It's tech debt that will likely need to be cleaned up at some point, but endpoints could be migrated one at a time, as needed. It seems fairly clean as far as dealing with tech debt goes.