skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of small insular little fields like this where the main people all know each other personally and professionally: touring musicians, professional surfers, that sort of thing. Tennis players definitely.

When one of these people receives negative publicity that reaches the general public and no one from their field really speaks out on their behalf, you can usually assume it's because they're widely disliked among their peers. Professional tact may prevent colleagues from publicly saying anything against them, but they will just decline the opportunity to speak in their favor like this.

It's a heuristic and not a perfect one but it's pretty reliable. If it were just a matter of internal sport politics they would have some allies that would come to their defense. If they are personally disliked even by their associates & allies you get this kind of silence.
Back then all that stuff was basically low-hanging fruit. The time was right. If Xerox hadn't come up with them, someone else would have within a couple of years.

Also, they were all conceptually pretty simple.

Believe it or not, running an app store is massively more complex than any of those things you listed. Dealing with payments across countries, legal entities, fraud, security, hiring processes, employee performance standards, and so forth. A laser printer or a GUI is much simpler in comparison.

Also, that terminal emulator you're describing -- first, it's not just an emulator, it's adding a lot of new features. Second, developer salaries have skyrocketed relative to inflation. So even accounting for inflation, $12M goes a lot less far than it did in the 1970's.
This reminds me of software services that intentionally avoid exceeding their uptime SLOs so they don't set dangerously high expectations.
This is more like deleting the backups then shutting off the A/C in the server room.

It's not going to be feasible to run the country this way. So something has to give, either the agencies tell SCOTUS to fuck off, agencies stop operating, or they file suit for every little thing and clog up the already overworked justice system (which I guess means that we end up with behind closed doors mediation).

Since the President is the boss of agency heads, I guess it's up to the President to decide their favored course of action.
https://0pointer.net/blog/unlocking-luks2-volumes-with-tpm2-...
Another user has raised the other side of my question, while exaggerated, is this more accurate as to what will happen than the thrust of my original question? Do we need to increase the budget for Congressional aides?

> The Roberts Court just decided to increase Congress' workload 100000x

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40823343

meta: this has been one of the most interesting and educational threads in recent times. Three cheers for HN.
I, like many others here, echo this sentiment. While I disliked working in ads, the experience of working with that repo+tooling is unmatched by anything else in my career.
US Supreme Court allows cities to ban homeless camps
From the article:

> "This is a big object. An object of this size is going to have the equivalent impact energy in the hundreds of megaton approaching a gigaton," Brown said. "That'd be a regional impact. It's the sort of thing that if it hit the east coast of the U.S., you would have catastrophic effects over most of the eastern seaboard. But it's not big enough to affect the whole world."
It looks like the article was written by and for Guardian Australia. Local abbreviations are frequently used in news written with a local audience in mind, and when syndicated to a larger audience, this situation frequently pops up.
> If they want to compete they need to release their own phone with their own store to sell games for it.

This isn't realistic. Nobody wants to carry two phones, and no one will choose to carry Epic's phone instead of Google's if they can't access the full Android ecosystem with it.

Google has very intentionally used this to gain a monopoly on Android users even though the platform is ostensibly open source. They say to phone makers: If you want the Google Play store, you have to prohibit other stores (and bundle the Google apps, make Google Search the default, and N other things that benefit Google). Phone makers have to agree because you just can't sell a phone these days that doesn't have access to at least one of the Play Store or the Apple Store. No one would buy it. There used to be manufacturers that tried, back when the ecosystem was smaller, but they failed, and it has only become harder since.

This policy is 100% designed to prevent competition from taking hold, leaving Google in complete control of the Android app ecosystem. Sure it's not as bad as Apple, but it's absolutely anti-competitive.

There is a simple solution: Allow users to install competing app stores. Few people mind carrying multiple app stores on their phone (compared to carrying multiple phones). Competition will be able to grow incrementally and then maybe, someday, it will have grown enough that you could actually have a phone with only Epic's store and not Google's.
And how much did anything change outside your window as a result of that?
Parts have been. Sourcegraph is basically the code search post built by ex-Googlers originally. Bazel is the open source build tool. Sadly, most of these things require major work to set up yourself and manage, but there's an alternate present where Google built a true competitor to GitHub and integrated their tooling directly into it.
> There should be a very high threshold..

there's no higher threshold in the US than a US Supreme Court decision
"The Chocolate Factory" is a term they use for Google in The Register.
>The Supreme Court is not supposed to bend with the wind of every political election. It's by design.

The design that can and has been undermined and bent on partisan lines, because of a dedicated campaign to achieve this very goal?
I think you are being sarcastic, but actually a radically reduced executive branch would be a huge step in the right direction for the actual rights of citizens to determine their own laws.
> Because the laws are about particular things in the real world that have nothing to do with the legal system.

The laws have nothing to do with the legal system? That's a new one.
Thanks for the detailed explanation.

But I also thought that it was the jet stream getting weaker that caused it to meander more (which sounds like it could increase CAT events ??), which we seem to be observing ??
You have an incorrect understanding here. What was occurring now was not "government by administrative rule" as you put it. It was government by rules passed by Congress. Congress explicitly defers on specifics of some laws to agencies because it is not qualified to provide specifics. Agencies, staffed with experts, are capable of making fine-grained decisions on how to implement laws that Congress passes.

This SCOUTS ruling means there will be *significantly more* ambiguity and instability in the federal government. *More* things will be up for destabilization by Republican activist judges. The outcome will be a government that works less efficiently and effectively.

This is the Republican play book: purposely make the government worse, distract with absurd claims, then come election time lie and say that the Democrats want to make the Republican's version of bad government even more expansive. Every four to eight years, the Democrats clean up the Republican's mess. Government gets better. Then Republicans lie again and the cycle repeats.
It is ironic in the extreme that the "Federalist" Society want power to devolve to the states. Jefferson is snickering in the grave.
It's only time-consuming for workers to follow the planned layout when those workers are human.
What is this niche language attracting super programmers?
No one is talking about scanning live rhinos. Even in the best case scenario, this is to catch poachers long after the rhinos are dead.
Sadly America's politicians stopped explaining this and took the American public's support for granted expected us to see things the way the Greatest Generation did. Our allies took our support for granted and spent their money elsewhere, then started making fun of us for subsidizing their affordable healthcare.

Our political class getting lazy and stopping doing the hard half of their jobs (effectively communicating and building national consensus) and instead adopting Jon Stewart levels of discourse and you get where we are today.
Even trump was on a tight leash with that and basically just carried the old torch like every president does. Oh I guess he had too much lunch with putin but its not like he took us out of NATO kind of like the conservatives in the UK did with the EU and brexit. A bunch of talk but the same old neoliberal walk we've been doing for decades.
It reads like it creates a deliberate impasse. The opinion states that ambiguities in law no longer implicitly give agencies discretion. That means Congress has to write unambiguous laws. But my original post acknowledges they cannot. Based on this ruling, it seems like anything other than a perfect, airtight law means it's effectively non-enforceable. So where does that leave us? It seems like the SC has laid the table for constant rules-lawyering by corporations to get whatever they want. In other words, they've let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Unfortunately by the time this detects a piece of ivory, the damage is already done. If it took 3 years to inject 20 rhinos, it's unlikely that a large enough portion of the population could be injected to act as an effective deterrent for those actually killing the animals. Even for those actually involved in moving the ivory, it's only a deterrent if they actually face consequences at these borders - many states have weak enforcement of anti-ivory laws, and many more have bribable customs agents. Further, ivory has a value to weight ratio that is extremely conducive to smuggling.
Yes, it is Google.

The Register puts out high-quality articles but maintains its very sarcastic tone which found its fit in a much earlier internet era (Founded in 1994!). It strove to be the IT-workers own news outlet, in stark contrast to IT-capitalist trade magazines/WSJ/etc.

“The Chocolate Factory” is its sarcastic moniker for Google, and 10-15 years ago it fit quite well - satirical but descriptive. The moniker almost made fun of TheReg’s own readers as much as Google itself. Now the same name almost drips with venom in context of how much less cool Google is than it once was.
Is crypto gone?
Otherwise it's now crypto plus AI plus the already existing rest.

More is more.
Original https://theconversation.com/stigma-against-benefits-has-made...
On another note, alternate between two credit cards. I found out the hard way that cards that are classified as business cards are not reported to the ratings agencies even if they were acquired with your personal SS#. I cannot put into words my distaste for the way credit scores are being handled.
Being charged $15 to travel literally two blocks between the tunnel and the West Side Highway is a new problem. That's the point. There's no way to avoid the city grid, due to bad highway design that doesn't directly connect either 495 or 78 with 9A.

Any congestion pricing plan which ignores that problem is going to be met with mass outrage, to an extent that will swing elections against incumbents. Especially when said incumbents promote this "no charge if you stay on highways" BS without explaining the fine print.

Again, I'm saying this as someone who only ever takes public transit and is generally in favor of congestion pricing as a concept.
I agree on the importance of letting the user have access to state! Right now there is actually the option for human in the loop. Additionally, I'd love to expand the monitor app a bit more to allow pausing, stepwise, rewind, etc.
So this could be a trend in pilot reporting rather than turbulence?
Recommended relevant book: "The culture map" which talks about this kind of miscommunications across a dozen of cultures.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36190015

https://erinmeyer.com/books/the-culture-map/
There's some interesting history here [1].

Anne Gorsuch Burford was appointed by Reagan to head the EPA. She beleived federal regulations had become too onerous and the power of the administrative state had become too large. It was her mission to roll back environmental protections and gut the agency through reorganizations and layoffs.

This did not go well. She ultimately resigned over a scandal where she withheld funds to help clean up a site to hurt a Senate campaign and lied about it. The Reagan administration eventually discovered the lie and I believe she resigned to avoid proseecution.

The EPA under Reagan tried to limit clean air responsibilities by narrowly scoping what a "source" of static pollution is. The Natural Resources Defence Council ("NRDC") sued, in a case called Natural Resources Defence Council v. Gorsuch [2].

Interestingly, the trial court judge was future Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Court ruled against the EPA. That case was appealed to the Supreme Court as Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc [3].

The Supreme Court reversed this decision and said that the EPA had the broad authority to define what a "source" was as policy and this become the basis for what we now called (or used to call) "Chevron deference". It's worth noting that SCOTUS at the time made what was then a pro-corporate and anti-environmental decision.

Former EPA Anne Gorsuch Burford's son is Neil Gorsuch, current Supreme Court justice who voted to overturn Chevron deference and essentially avenge his mother, continuing her anti-government legacy.

[1]: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/07/why-neil-gorsu...

[2]: https://casetext.com/case/natural-resources-defense-council-...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_U.S.A.,_Inc._v._Natura....
Who said anything about concern? Im not in charge of making global decisions about fusion research, and I doubt you are either.

That leaves low stakes idle speculation.
330k good for a deskjob is quite an understatement
Elixir ecosystem is in turn dwarfed by dozens of other languages. It is still extremely niche in the big scheme of things. I can't personally recommend pursuing Gleam for any serious work on those grounds, but my risk aversion and sensitivity to hiring pools is on the very conservative end.
I think they're saying "boring" in that there were no surprising or unusual choices. Go. Test. Mock. Three Postgres Databases, mostly immutable, partitioned by data patterns / access patterns. Crontabs and shell scripts for data loading. No microservices, no multiple repo's, no strange/innovative technology. Pre-computing a bunch of stuff. 250-line query-builder instead of using GraphQL.

vis: "The Complicators Gloves" https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the_complicator_0x27_s_glov... ... I can imagine co-workers (past and present) who would have tried to add more complexity.

`grpc` is a bit fancy (compared to `curl *.json`), which he admits to, but is also fairly battle-tested / boring, and gets some extra benefit of schema + performance. Maybe swagger or something would have been more "boring", but also veers a little away from "the default golang stack".
But most bowls don't have P65 labels. I only see those at very cheap places like Daiso. What gives?
No one is talking about testing live rhinos. Even in the best case scenario this is to catch poachers after the rhino is dead.
The conservatives in for some crazy awakenings with this. So many federal law enforcement practices that are super shady get handwaved away under the Chevron doctrine. I think this was a bad ruling as far as running a functional country goes, but a lot of shady stuff the government got away with is finally going to get stopped.
except agencies need to be able to work on timelines faster than once a decade
Too much importance and deferral has been granted to the courts. It was a mistake to imbue that institution as the "third branch of government." I came to view that take as propaganda when I was younger and have soured increasingly more on the SCOTUS over these last few decades. I view that court as very dangerous and in need of being smacked down a peg or two.

Congress has ultimate authority, period. So the SCOTUS running amok is a very bad look and smell.
> Is it just me?

No, it's the same for everyone: unfamiliar things seem "wrong" until you internalize them.

Try working in Elixir for half a year - you'll see that the syntax you now find verbose is that way for a bunch of reasons, and you'll find that you have no problems at all reading Elixir code, including in big projects.

The problem is that confronting the unfamiliar doesn't feel nice for most people and that you can't really speed up the process. On the flip side, though, half a year of weekends is not that long of a time or significant an investment. Especially since you'll get quite a few generally helpful skills out of it (working with actors, for example).
This question isn’t actually anything to do with quantum mechanics. One can already ask, for GR, can a gravity wave generated by a wiggling object that has already passed the event horizon propagate back out through the event horizon? The answer from gr is unambiguously no. Effectively, all complicated goings-on inside the black hole are washed out into just a couple parameters for an outside observer: total mass, total charge, total angular momentum. All the matter contained by the black hole does still make its gravitational effect felt on outside objects through these three parameters.

This observation in fact is what inspired wheeler to ask his grad student bekenstein what then happens to the entropy of a cup of tea thrown into the black hole — how to reconcile with 2nd law of thermo. Which in turn was the start of the very long story of black hole thermodynamics.
Given how A to B to C the logic of the ruling is, this case seems like a gigantic waste of the Court's time, though it was 6-3. So there was significant dissent.

I don't see how this weakens SEC enforcement. They can still seek enforcements. They just have to seek them via a trial by jury of your peers, which is one of the most foundational aspects of American law and one of the issues that led to the American Revolution.
What I’d love to see is a rundown of new efficiencies in generative AI. With things like quantization and specialized transformer hardware, the costs will hopefully be less shocking in the future. And fwiw, I don’t find the article’s stats very shocking anyway. At least it’s a net win type of game, whereas the previous environmental bugbear, PoW crypto, was entirely premised on net-energy loss.
What would a gravitational wave generator look like? A machine to "wiggle" an asteroid, or say a moon? What if you made a huge array of small machines that "wiggle", say, a bowling ball, in perfect sync.
Hardly. Hand holding tools are popular but that doesn't mean they aren't hand holding tools that don't give you any new function you didn't have otherwise. Jupyter notebooks are probably more popular to write than python scripts for new data scientists too, doesn't mean anything though or take away some of the advantages you get writing properly packaged scripts instead of a big old notebook you iterate a pipeline in line by line and figure by figure.
This entire article can be answered by a single word: instagram
Absolutely correct, any APT won’t be caught this way. But script kiddies will be every day of the week. And if you’re browser is suddenly sending queries to China after that last add-on, it can be a good bread crumb to follow up.

Security, like dressing for variable weather, is best done in layers.
100000 * 0 is still 0
Would you say that offering both "Sign-in with Google" and "Sign-in with Facebook" hurts conversion?

Why would, say, offering both "Verify ID with CLEAR" and "Verify ID with ID.me" create confusion then? Lots of people already use CLEAR at stadiums and airports.

And a lot of people - particularly students and veterans - already use ID.me to verify their ID (so far, largely for the purpose of eligibility for relevant student/veteran pricing, but it could be used to verify their ID in general).
Chevron Ruling's Effect on Startups
I'm sure you wouldn't be making this complaint if it were the other way around. Rather than demanding the rest of the world avoid abbreviations that coincide with US states, perhaps just accept others can use their own abbreviations.
It's definitely cultural rather than linguistic.

I have been told (in Britain) I can come across as rude because I am usually direct with disagreement rather than making a lot of ceremony about it. I am a native Italian speaker, and I find the English apologetic fear of confrontation even in benign settings (i.e. "I do not think this idea can work") to be infuriating.

Likewise, slavic cultures such as Russian/Eastern-European can seem even more direct and downright hostile if you're not used to dealing with them, because they don't feel the need to mince words and, I guess, prefer clarity and honesty.

I have since learned to be a bit more diplomatic, yet I find my Italian assertiveness can come in useful to deal with standstill situations at work where everyone is tiptoeing around each other in uncertainty and no one wants to call the shots.

At work and in personal setting, I much prefer honesty and being direct than trying to do your utmost not to offend. Avoiding offense requires a lot of assumption about somebody else's state of mind, with the risk of getting it catastrophically wrong because people are generally terrible mind readers. Empathy is a great tool, but the best way to disagree is, in most cases, simply to say "no."
Show HN: UNet diffusion model in pure CUDA
Hi HN!

I was inspired by Andrej Karpathy's llm.c (https://github.com/karpathy/llm.c), and wrote a full diffusion model training loop in CUDA. I learnt a lot about CUDA from Simon Boehm's Matmul blog (https://siboehm.com/articles/22/CUDA-MMM).

Currently there is still a lot of room for optimization: the model is running at 45% speed of PyTorch with torch.compile.

I'm curious about any thoughts or CUDA tips for convolutions.
I don't disagree with any of this. That's the main reason why I said I think we'll have to wait and see if this ultimately leads to better outcomes. However, I think it's been shown that the very human idea of "fairness" can create spiteful, sub-optimal outcomes. Remember, "nobody gets anything" is also fair amongst victims, but certainly not optimal.
Seems that downvotes are used to disagree in this place still though.
Such a bizarre thing to experience, especially when you first join the work world.
Its definitely a feedback loop. Every time you look up an R question on stackoverflow people give you a ggplot or dpylr answer and usually not a base package implementation. Its almost as bad as Ole Tang spamming gnu parallel on every xargs thread.
Anti-pattern: Overuse and misuse of macros. (Or perhaps not a "pattern", since the manifestations are so varied?)

For non-Elixir folks, imagine something that looks like a regular function-call where expressions are evaluated and the results are passed in... but in reality all arguments are symbolic inputs to something that emits new code.

For example, you might see this unassuming line in your editor:

describe_combo(a(foo),b(bar))

But what might actually be compiled is:

# What might actually get compiled
# Runtime results like "a(1)+b(2)=3"
"a(" <> to_string(foo) <> ")+b(" <> to_string(bar) <> ")=" to_string(a(foo)+b(bar))

And if someone in your codebase is an evil misanthrope:

foo = "haha I changed your local variable"
IO.puts("surprise, suckers") # Prints to console
kick_puppies()

Macros are actually part of the core DNA of the language and underpin how some of its syntax works... but with great power comes great potential for WTF.