skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could say the same thing about knives.[0] "Treat your tools with respect" is a failed solution to tool safety. From 1980-2008, knives caused almost 1,200 emergency room visits per day, entirely avoidable by using safety tools and PPE.[0]

Of course, this argument is silly. The absolute number of knives are used safely and without issue in the overwhelming majority of cases.

Yes, there are times when someone was sloppy and sliced open their hand, but that doesn't make vigilance a failed solution to tool safety. The accidents that occur with them are in the realm of tolerable risk.

C is fundamentally no different. The simplicity comes with footguns that frequently go off when used by people that don't treat them with respect and sometimes even when they are being treated with ample respect.

Although, now that I think of it, bicycles are probably a better metaphor. It's a simple, unshielded vehicle designed not for safety but for getting you where you need to go. Accordingly, riding a bike without crashing requires understanding numerous edge cases that if not respected will end with you grievously injured and sometimes even with respect you won't escape crashing. This is such a truism in cycling communities that they say as a mantra "It's not a matter of if you crash, but when."

You also have the subset of cyclists that ignore laws when using them and endanger themselves and others. Should we then ban bikes because precaution is a "failed solution" to prevent crashing and responsible use? Probably not.

[0] https://www.jem-journal.com/article/S0736-4679(12)01624-1/ab...
Generally, services like Google Drive can't even max out a 1Gbps connection.
If you have enougu volume to warrant it, probably re-architecting the lambdas so the before/after part of the calls is a separate invocation, with an adapter service living on ECS that gets a call from the “before” lambda, handles the remote request and response, the calls the “after” lambda with the response.

The simpler solution is often to just lift the app from lambda to ECS without internal changes
Saying something and then pretending you actually meant a different thing is lying. It shouldn't be up to the consumer to understand the minutia of an industry and intuit whether "unlimited" actually means "unlimited".
I had to buy 100% blackout electric shades. They're simple to install and can even work in a rental apartment.

(not associated with company, but they were "Yoolax Motorized Cellular Shade" in "Blackout Pearl" on amazon, and you measure and order the shades in 1/4" increments)

They came with these L-shaped light-blocker things that attach down the sides of the window opening to block light from the side.

You can get a pretty dark room, but I also put a little black tape on the few remaining tiny cracks.
...why? Isn't this exactly what rebase is for? Just plain, boring, non-interactive rebase.
Thanks. It is not "great" yet but it is pretty good and reliable and has served me well for many years.

At some point I may clean up the code so that it can really shine.

Higher priority though is getting support for this Parsers language in Sublime and VS Code.
> And their stock goes up when they (usually it's Musk, let's be clear) tout this

The stock is down 55% in the past three years.

> Why wouldn't Musk just partner with Waymo on this?

Because they sell cars worldwide, not just in San Francisco and Phoenix. Because Waymo's required sensor suite is far too expensive and maintenance heavy for a consumer-owned vehicle. Because what they have is already far better than any other car manufacturer's system. Because they have a huge head start in data collection over anyone else including Waymo.

> Isn't this a situation where the more people using the tech will make it better faster than trying to have a dozen different companies chasing it essentially duplicating effort and training

No, because many different companies are trying different approaches with incompatible hardware and it's not certain which approach will ultimately have the best tradeoffs in the real world. Centralization is not the way to produce innovation.
There is a commonly and widespread accepted definition of the term "unlimited" If anyone uses it outside of that definition, it needs to be disclosed upfront. If that didn't happen, then it's "unlimited" as in the common widespread definition of the term.

If you change the definition later, then you have changed your mind and look for a loophole to f people over.

That's all there is to it.

They said unlimited and now they're not keeping their word.
As a developer of fairly standard software, there's very little I can say I rely on from the x86/x64 ISA.

One big one is probably around consistency model[1] and such which affects atomic operations and synchronizing multi-threaded code. Usually not directly though, I typically use libraries or OS primitives.

Are there any non-obvious (to me anyway) ways us "typical devs" rely on x86/x64?

I get the sense that a lot of software is one recompile away from running on some other ISA, but perhaps I'm overly naive.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency_model
Well I'm bad compared to top 10% who play at crazy speed. I can't plan top far ahead though which makes me slower. And I'm too old I guess
It's close to ideal, but not ideal.
We want to get to net zero by 2020, not 2030 or 2050, we just say 2050 because it's way too late to do 2030, let alone 2020
my hack is just to not have facebook
Does that count as "going nuclear"? Four have been built, and as of now they've all been decommissioned.
> In fact, this might bring American public transportation to a leapfrog moment. Many pundits have lamented that developing cities elsewhere have “leapfrogged” the US on public transportation — building subways and rail networks that put ours to shame. Over a hundred years ago, we built first-generation public transit.15 Over the last forty years, other countries built second-generation public transit. Now we have the opportunity as a nation to lead the world on third-generation public transit, and in that course develop products and expertise that can be exported.

This is quite the stretch. Even in the best case scenario, Waymos won’t beat well run public transit lines in dense cities, especially in east and south asia.

This piece is way too optimistic about Waymo. They’ve mastered a couple of cities over many years. To do that for more cities would require just as much time. It’s conceivable that ride share will continue to exist until that happens, which is likely several decades.
“Self driving”
Except everyone is forgetting the TCP/IP overhead. I also asked ChatGPT, and 400TB of data creates a 10.7TB overhead, which adds ~5 days...
I don't think this is a corruption of focus - MiHoYo has had "Tech Otakus Save The World" as their slogan long before Genshin made its first billion dollars.
The top of OFs is usually a couple gallivanting courtesy of simps dedicated to a model or producing content from their modern apartment while fucking/taking nudes thus lifestyle.

Riley Reid/agency models go from job to job as an IC and gets a check from the company via simps dedicated to a certain website.

The former is a much easier sell/explain and a bit easier to justify to puritans. It’s all very samey but different.
That's the power sector which is less than half of emissions, and it's the most easily addressable part of the problem. We need to be accelerating faster somehow. China has the manufacturing capacity but is struggling to sell panels at the clip it can make them.
We're talking about two different things. One is the creative product of the artists themselves, the other is the packaged, delivered product purchased by consumers. The latter includes elements not in the former. The market is saying those elements can be worth more than the creative's output.
Same for unlimited vacation.
Because there were other jobs, since there were still jobs that humans could do better or cheaper than machines could. An AI that is able to replace humans at every currently existing economic activity is probably going to be able to replace humans in whatever new industries are created in the process. What's left for humans to do, but receive UBI?
Makes me wonder what Waymo’s endgame is. Become another Uber, become a car company or provide the tech to other car companies?
My desire to work less eclipses any desire for any of those things. I do not believe that lives are being improved. It only benefits the rich that don't have to work because there is no downside for them and they only gain more power through the system
Google product, and therefore mark my words: today's peaceful book-reading ride will be ad-infested in 20 years, if not less.
Did you ever try and calculate the difference?

1TiB = 1024GiB = 10241024MiB = 102410241024KiB = 1024102410241024 bytes...

1024^4 is 1099511627776 bytes...

So it's 1099 GB vs 1000 GB which is a solid 10% difference. Your TCP overhead is not anywhere close to 10% unless you are sending with an MTU of 240...
If we think about the demand and supply of the market, since developers will spend less time writing code, they will have more time to solve other parts of a project. This overall increase in productivity could eventually decrease the number of developers needed. In the past, if a project needed five developers, it could eventually be done by two developers. Hence, the market will need less developers than before.
Related:

Gerbil Scheme – A Lisp for the 21st Century - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39809323 - March 2024 (126 comments)

Gerbil – A meta-dialect of Scheme - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20585637 - Aug 2019 (17 comments)

Gerbil Scheme - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17707622 - Aug 2018 (9 comments)

Gerbil – An opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15394603 - Oct 2017 (78 comments)
>Is there nothing to improve in your life?

Yes: less work primarily.
Microsoft too: https://www.techradar.com/pro/exclusive-microsoft-quietly-en...

It's bitten a team I work with pretty hard, who for some inexplicable reason decided to store everything on OneDrive instead of our enormous on-prem NAS. Even more fun; all of their accounts still say "XTB of unlimited", the new data caps seem to be different for every user (everyone gets cut off at different amounts), and IT can't even get a straight answer about what the new caps are.
Sorry for the slow reply. Fox Build maker space in Saint Charles. I’m Rick, one of the managers.
This is a long shot, but Hindu Lakshmi is also associated with lions and owls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi
What's google's endgame everywhere else? Captive audience to put advertising in front of.
> for next to nothing

Their cars are certainly out of my price range. Plus, openpilot has been doing it for free for years.
Yup. This should be considered bait and switch. It's fraud plain and simple and they should be severely penalized for lying about the services because "it's too expensive".
Tokamak energy did this back in 2015[1,2] (the article is wrong)

[1]: https://tokamakenergy.com/about-us/#trackrecord

[2]: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.201...
I got a kobo (6") and liked it a lot. You can set sideloaded=True and never hook it to the internet. It has dark mode.

I wanted a bigger screen though, and recently got a fairly inexpensive pocketbook inkpad lite with a 9.7" screen. It's actually quite good. No internet connection required, you can just take it out of the box and copy files to it via USB-C. 8gb of storage is plenty, but it also has micro-sd. One nice surprise is that it reads all kinds of formats, including not only pdf and epub, but azw and mobi.
If anything goes wrong during your ride a real person will have to let you out and you will be stranded . A person has been taking many rides with Waylon but on the other hand this is really an alpha or beta project. See https://youtu.be/TbEplrZ-uSA?si=OCZt46gfVN9EfFhz
Sure, but if something seems too good to be true then it probably is. As an academic with hundreds of TB of data, I personally wouldn’t assume that some company would actually provide unlimited storage in perpetuity when the costs are clear and obvious.
There is a way in that it matters: in a vacuum tube you can have cathodic rays but (pragmatically) not anodic rays.

IIRC a Veritasium video claims that these where essentially discovered by mistake in lightbulbs, so I suspect that Franklin would have had a hard time finding them...
How difficult would it be to use nuclear power to make synthetic hydrocarbons?
I’m not sure I agree with this. Autonomous cooperative cars would convoy in dynamic flocks in a way that does point to point transit with a lot of the advantages of trains (in that a major advantage of trains is they don’t congest). This would actually have a significant advantage over every other type of transit. Even having a modest percent of all cars on the roads cooperative autonomous vehicles using basic control theory to relieve congestion would aid the entire cities traffic (there have been several studies proving this).
> At some point Waymo is going to want a lot of cars if things go well.

Definitely. Waymo has partnered with Zeekr to produce purpose-built taxi vehicles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew32ydR2O3c
if you had done the math yourself you would have arrived at a different number....
The footguns with C and memory errors are super subtle though and cause random crashes. It would be more like riding a bicycle with thousands and thousands of potential errors and if you ever make the tiniest mistake in the repair and upkeep of it, it crashes in the middle of a ride.
Costco Broke into a Surprising New Market: Modular Housing
Depends on whether we want to reach a qualitatively different (and better) level of civilization, or at best stay at the current level (but in a carbon-neutral way).
The new default is that everything goes to OneDrive. If you have data on your hard disk in regular Documents folders, it will move it to OneDrive without asking you.
To be fair the US also can't make Nvidia GPUs and neither can anyone outside of Taiwan. Agreed that IP isn't everything but the chip shortage during covid sure as hell WAS a wake up call to the west.

Now they are finding that actually its going to take a decade to reproduce what the chip fabs in Taiwan have built even with their help.
>There is no value in music, books, movies, video games?

No.

When push comes to shove and society can't afford luxuries for one reason or another, they are among the first things thrown out for a greater (valuable) cause with no tangible losses sustained.
VPN by Google One shuts down
The Shapes of Silence
The drug, Lenacapavir, is a capsid inhibitor. That means it prevents HIV virus from assembling into infectious particles by interfering with the production of the capsid and packaging of viral RNA into it.

This also means that it actually does not stop infection. Cells still get infected, but this drug prevents more virus from being produced.

My question is, since there are infected cells in these individuals, if they stop taking the drug aren’t they likely to become immediately highly infected, because the drug only interferes with viral replication while it is present in the body? Once infected, a cell is permanently infected.

I think this should be the case, unless infected cells are somehow killed off through some other mechanism: maybe they get lysed through an accumulation of partially formed capsids?

Seems important to know anyway
Any idea what approach they're going to take? I wonder if Gsuite have an unpunished ability to do a snowball type export as a one-off.
There are a bunch of reasons why Tesla doesn't partner with Waymo.

The practical issue is t hat Waymo uses more advanced sensors than Tesla vehicles use. Partnering with Waymo would mean telling Tesla owners and Tesla shoppers "your vehicles won't be self-driving."

If Tesla partners with Waymo, they're telling investors that their self-driving technology won't cut it. It's not just about ego. If Tesla is worth 10x more than GM or 100x more than Mazda because of a self-driving/AI/robo-taxi future, then partnering with Waymo is essentially saying "we'll provide the easily replaceable piece of the self-driving system."

Let's say that this works by Waymo buying Tesla vehicles for its self-driving fleet. That leaves all the power in Waymo's hands. Maybe they ink an exclusive deal for a few years. When that deal is up, Waymo is going to be pitting Tesla/GM/Volkswagen/Toyota/etc. all against each other on price. Waymo has the thing they don't have. They all have mostly comparable substitutes.

Let's say it works by Tesla licensing Waymo's technology and ditching their own AI plans. Again, it leaves the power in Waymo's hands. A few years out when the deal is set to be renewed, Waymo has a dozen car companies clamoring for its technology. Waymo knows it can seek a very high price, especially if Tesla wants to keep it exclusive. If Tesla doesn't want to keep it exclusive, then Tesla's valuation needs to be a lot lower like all the other car companies.

And what's in this for Waymo? They could partner with any number of car companies. What is Tesla bringing to the table? A CEO likely to damage Waymo's reputation and blame them for anything that goes wrong?

In terms of sharing things vs. not: you're kinda getting down to a fundamental inefficiency in our whole society. If all the car companies worked together on engines, we could get better engines faster. If all the drug companies worked together, we could accelerate research. But there are problems to that idea too. Having a single way of doing data collection can lead to blind spots, having a single hierarchy can mean that different things don't get tried, etc. There's also the issue of whose work gets deemed worthy of compensation.

If you've ever worked at a large enough company, you'll have seen instances where people with entrenched ideas stymie progress. If everyone partnered on self-driving, who decides what sensors are going into the vehicles? Maybe I come up with a new sensor and SelfDrivingPartnership says "nah, we don't think it's worth the cost," and I can never test whether I'm right or not.

In some ways, open source tries to solve some of this: everyone can still compete to make something better with the freedom to do so, but you can just take other people's code so you don't have to duplicate efforts. Of course, the problem there can be that companies don't want to share the pieces that are worth a lot of money. If self-driving tech is worth a trillion dollars, I might rather get that trillion dollars for myself and you can wait another 2, 5, 10, 20 years for it to be available.
Because GPUs are so power hungry that in a conventional data center, a fully loaded HPE Apollo 6500 (which has 8x H100 cards) uses more power than a rack’s total power budget.

Running an LLM just for fun requires tremendous amount of energy. Training one from scratch is even more energy intensive.

Real AI applications are not much behind either. If you are processing any serious amount of data with AI, you use a lot of energy, again.

A smallish water cooled “super computer” class CPU cluster needs “half a megawatt” to operate.

As I said elsewhere, you can’t build a multi-megawatt data center “just like that”. Making the power you need available there is a multi-year, multi-institution endeavor on many cases.

Similarly, you can’t “just force” the power grid to modernize, because live infrastructure servicing millions moves very slowly for good reasons (like multi-day boot up sequences if it shuts down).
Your ancestors are the ones that won wars in the past. Inasmuch as warfare can be "inscribed" in genes, it definitely is.
That is why there are laws in sensible countries for butchers to use chained gloves, or protection equipment when riding bycicles.
If you want the full history of someone's work, you need all the edits. Including all the times they backspaced over the typo. With down-to-the-millisecond timestamps attached!
Nation-wide rates can be misleading if the rate in certain areas is way higher.

Especially in places were rural areas have almost non-existent homicide rates
>In other words, that you get no value from art in any form?

No value I could not do without, no.

Art is a luxury, it's not strictly necessary for living. As such, the real inherent value of art will always be extremely low.
This got a little stuck on a few of the `.click()` calls for me. Here's my version:

const wait = () => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
const getElementsByAriaLabel = (label) => document.querySelectorAll(`[aria-label="${label}"]`);
const getElementsByRoleAndWidth = (role, width) =>
Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(`[role="${role}"]`)).filter(el => el.clientWidth === width);
const getElementsByText = (text) => Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('*')).filter(el =>
Array.from(el.childNodes).some(node => node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE && node.textContent.includes(text))
);

async function clickAndWait(elem) {
if (!elem)
return;
elem.click();
await wait();
}

await clickAndWait(getElementsByText("See more")[0]);

const ads = getElementsByRoleAndWidth('listitem', 508);

for (const ad of ads) {
console.log(ad.childNodes[0].textContent)
await clickAndWait(ad.childNodes[0]);

await clickAndWait(getElementsByText('They uploaded or used a list to reach you.')[0]);

const dont_allow_btns = getElementsByText('Don\'t allow');
for (const btn of dont_allow_btns) {
btn.click();
}
await wait();

await clickAndWait(getElementsByAriaLabel('Back')[2]);
await clickAndWait(getElementsByAriaLabel('Back')[2]);
}
Does it count as business, though, if you're just busting it out, light a match? Is that not more, vandalism? Seems not as difficult.
Indeed invaluable to help dance instructors come up with stuff to sell. Because its so well suited to incomprehensibility e.g. this famous example https://www.tangomovimentoterapia.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
No, this was a conscious decision on their part that they would store X00GB phsyics simulation results on OneDrive instead of the on-prem system that every other department uses. They've even written it up that its considered their "standard practice".

OneDrive has been worse in just about every possible benchmark so no one is sure why they did it. Best guess is it was some HPPO decision, who may or may not still be with the company.
Yes, I have. It's not the same thing.

Money isn't a resource that is objectively needed, its role is to regulate economy. You could do anything that you do just as well without it, if people could agree on it. It isn't like a tractor that is needed, and there is no problem with renting tractors. The problem is that you do use money in your example: you use it to store your savings. By lending it,it gets used twice - once to buy the tractor, the second time it's still used to store your savings.

It does take away somebody's ability to buy a tractor, as you buy one, so there is one less, or one extra needs to be manufactured. That can also be a problem - too many tractors can be created, so that food gets so cheap that it's basically free,and the farmers now can't make money. Which is what literally happened in the great deoression.
It's a testament to how inefficient "the system" is that rooftop solar is economical for a lot of people.
The next big thing was supposed to be Field Emission Displays. Microscopic electron guns directly behind each phosphor. The big manufacturers experimented and tried getting it commercialized for decades, then pretty much gave up in the 2000s when LCDs got stupid cheap.

https://www.engineersgarage.com/field-emission-display/