skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you count gas as about half as bad as coal, then the US is still about 40% coal-equivalent, Europe about 25%.

Factor in greater electrification and efficiency and China may well be ahead of the USA already and moving faster.

But anyway, the US and EU aren't the entirety of the rest of the world.
This is a complete joke. But there's not much content here once you get past the giant picture and general awfulness of the NYT web site.

"Mr. Musk has volunteered his sperm to help seed a colony, two people familiar with his comments said."

Yeah, the guy is a creepy weirdo. This is not a surprise.

"Mr. Musk told SpaceX employees in April that he now expects one million people to be living there in about 20 years."

This won't happen. I'll put money on it.
That wouldn't and shouldn't make most people happy. Repository owner != author for all the code - that's kind of the point of open source.
What is the meaning of "high finance"?
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If you buy a premium seat with free food and lounge access, you'll get free food and lounge access, yes. As I mentioned, it is often the case that you can pay more and get better service in that sense.

But when something goes wrong - like they lose your bag - you'll find the customer service is pretty much the same. Possibly there's an ultra-ultra-premium tier where things are different?

The real way money makes travel easier, in my experience, isn't that you can buy flights where they don't lose your bags - it's that a few hundred bucks to replace some lost clothes is a trivial matter.
> the bar for entry is much higher for minority groups

... no, it isn't - the entrance requirements are the exact same for everybody.
... and that is because...

Everything involving a substantial agreement or disagreement between persons is politics, that's what it means. Claiming that something 'should not be political' is almost always an assertion that your position is unassailably correct.
> The agency identified about 1,600 taxpayers with more than $1 million in income and more than $250,000 in tax debt. To date, more than $1 billion has been recovered from those individuals, and the effort is ongoing.

This is about individuals with $1m in annual income, not $1m in assets.

Unless you were extremely lucky in your fund selection, $1m/yr in income from a 401k is unlikely.
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> The entire purpose of karma here and on forums like Reddit is to keep you "engaged"

I see it more as a currency which can be used in exchange for spreading unpopular/controversial/inflammatory opinions.

It's the online equivalent of whatever Dan Aykroyd has which enables him to keep getting invited to parties.
It is also to do with moderation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166912

Here is Hexa, a lead moderator, saying that the NixOS community is effectively "a Nazi bar": https://chaos.social/@hexa/112661968657636449

This is what Jade Lovelace, a team member of Lix, wrote:

> there's a lot of work still to do on getting fascists out of the community and everyone is quite exhausted from the fight to get this passed. however. the fascists will get kicked out.

https://hachyderm.io/@leftpaddotpy/112248186696362113
Yea, the parent poster starts with a false premise. There are many Linux distros these days that laypeople can and do easily use: Ubuntu, Mint, PopOS, just to name a few.
Remember they’d want to run raid, maybe have backups, and manage disk failure. At that size it’ll be a daily event (off the top of my head).
Seems high.

You can get a spinning disk of 18TB (not need for SSD if you can parallel write) for 224€. Let's round that to $300 for easy calculations.

To store 100 petabytes of data by purchasing disks yourself, you would need approximately 5556 18TB hard drives totaling $1,666,800.

Of course, you'll pay more than the disks.

Let's add the cost of 93 enclosures at $3,000 each ($279,000), and accounting for controllers, network equipment ($100,000), and power and cooling infrastructure ($50,000, although it's probably already cool where they will host the thing), that would be a about $2.1 M.

That's total, and that's for the uncompressed data.

You would need 3 times that for redundancy, but it would still be 40% cheaper over 5 years, not to mention I used retail price. With their purchasing power they can get a big discount.

Now, you do have the cost of having a team to maintain the whole thing but they likely have their own data center anyway if they go that route.
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That's the question - how the companies get and stay that big if they don't care?
Galactic energy has had 13/14 successful launches, how is that not successful?
I first wrote out, instead of "Kagi", "a search engine that allowed user control of ranking" but it looked too clunky.

I'm not affiliated with Kagi, apart from being a subscriber.
> US unemployment rate

do not believe this number.. it is a manipulated statistic on the front line of old class wars regarding labor versus capital. hint- capital interests know the Federal government very well
This might not be sufficient anymore. Many online payments are rendered either on the shop's pages or on a third party payment provider, including 3DSecure implementations. These don't redirect to any sensible bank URLs.

Both of my banks use a payment flow which uses a hardware authenticator. But only one bank seems secure: it prompts for an amount and a reference and generates an OTP based on that. This is distinct from any other signing operations with the same authenticator. The other bank tells me to enter a 6 digit number (which is allegedly made up out of a part of the amount and a reference), but it is impossible to tell this apart from any other signing operation. It doesn't strike me as too hard to abuse that to either log in to my account, to sign another payment, or even to create a direct debit...
Because nobody has been fired or fiscally punished for firing excessive number of people? :) People are notoriously bad at predicting potential positives, so firing people means nobody can prove that something wasn't created. In reverse it is possible to blame people for overhiring because that can be supported by hard numbers.
Why not let your child be a product of their times? Whatever name you pick it isn’t like your great grandchildren will think you picked a cool, relevant name for their grandmother.
If the first contact I can have with support is an LLM, that's the same as not providing support. Even talking to non-technical staff following scripts first, as obnoxious as that is, is preferable.

The only reason that I'm calling support in the first place is because web searching and their automated systems have failed me.

I may not be the standard customer, but that's not my problem. If that matters, all that's saying is that the company doesn't want me as a customer.
Good question! I was (am) using FastAPI, not Django. Another decision that was easy to get started with, but I think is turning out to be more difficult to scale. Maybe.
>You are parroting Trump's arguments about defence spending as if the US spending is only concerning NATO, the US spend a lot in defence because it's been your bread and butter to maintain a global reach as a superpower, the moment you lose this you'll see America's influence diminish, if that's what you wish please go ahead and pull out but so far it's been very beneficial to you in the USA to be the de facto global enforcer during Pax Americana.

American influence and Pax Americana is on its way out this century one way or another, including the fact it's not even just Trump who is pushing for it. Remember Obama declared America is no longer the world police.

Our insane defence budget is a common point of criticism by other countries including so-called "allies", and yet y'all bitch very loudly if we so much as suggest acting on them (eg: leave NATO). Get your act together and at least pretend you want us around, otherwise I repeat my sentiment that I doubt the logic of things like NATO.

>Geopolitics are not based on feelings, it's based on advantages and trade-offs, your feelings don't matter for this.

America is a democracy, so ultimately our everything is based on the feelings of the people who vote. I for one do not want to see servicemen get stationed at and fight for countries who resent us, end of.

Also see inglor_cz's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40927190

>You are also forgetting 4 years of Trump with a possible re-election of this piece of shit,

Given the choices presented, I am in fact voting for Trump. Problem?

>there are reasons for allies to be resenting America, it's becoming unstable and less trustworthy.

Then, once again, stop complaining when or if we act upon your claims because we're tired of the bullshit.
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The best systems that I have ever seen have two parts: (a) a read/write relational database (w/SQL) to persist data and (b) a read-only OLAP cube. With enough time, your powerusers will create the most insane reports imaginable using the OLAP cube view.
"I was in favour of space exploration until I realised what it'd mean for date time libraries"

https://x.com/joe_jag/status/510048646482894848?lang=en
The data is just Binance's application logs for observability.
Typically what a smaller business would simply send to Datadog.

This log search infra is handled by two engineers who do that for the entire company.

They have some standardized log format that all teams are required to observe, but they have little control on how much data is logged by each service.

(I'm quickwit CTO by the way)
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While I 100% agree with this...

...I wonder if there's a meaningful way to prevent companies from saying they're going to do this, and then just "losing" 80% of the callbacks they're supposed to give. Or giving them at 1AM (hey, it's 10:30AM in Mumbai where the off-hours call center is!).

Waiting for a callback is unquestionably way better than waiting on hold, but I would still need to make sure I'm in a position to be taking that call and actually handling whatever it requires at any given time during the waiting period, so things like going shopping or being in a place with poor cell signal (like my office!) aren't good options—and what happens if I'm not available the moment they call? Can they just say "oh, well, couldn't reach customer" and force me to start the process again?
Yes but audit requirements doesn't mean you need to be able to search everything very fast.

Binance might not have a 24/7 constant load, there might be plenty of time to compact and write audit data away at lower load while leveraging existing infrastructure.

Or extracting audit logging into binary format like protobuff and writing it away highly optimized.
Because the impersonator is probably a lot more sophisticated at this than you or I, and it's likely that 999 impersonators were rejected and this is just the 1/1000 who found a way around it.

The system probably produces a lot of false positives AND negatives.
this cost them 4 million.
Building inverted index is very CPU intensive.
I would gladly do that too if Claude supported voice-to-text prompting like Whisper.

I use ChatGPT around town and can’t always type easily. That and it is easier for me to speak stream-of-consciousness than slowly typing my thoughts. Typing is a significant bottleneck.
How did entering login and 2fa do the following things.

1. Login

2. Add payee

3. Create transaction

4. Verify transaction

This appears to be a banking issue where they do not try to maximize the attack surface.

Sure people will try to game the system by doing phishing but its the responsibility of banks to actively make it harder
Nonprofits and charities operate in a capitalist system. They aren't apart from it.
Brings to mind A Clockwork Orange.
I've long suspected that companies which force SMS 2FA don't really care about security, they just want your phone number, and 2FA is a convenient bit of security theatre to make you give it to them.
So we basically lost a source of rental movies encoded with a good bitrate :(. All the streaming services AFAIK do not match Blu-ray quality and keep on cutting streaming and storage cost. Adding insult to injury all the Paramount and co. want to play wannabe Netflix and cratter millions of dollars into subpar and expensive streaming services. If enthusiasts are forced to either buy those movies or torrent, it is easy to predict what will happen.
Someone page Dr House!
yeah the problem here is there is no 'code A' usually, it is more like: 1000s of GPLed code (A1, A2, ... An )

Technically when you get a piece from each, there is no infringement legally. ( as they have all different copyright holders )
> Somehow I knew that tool was your "source". He's never done anything but complain on the internet, often parroting outright falsehoods.

He also does actual scientific research. And in a decade no thing he called bullshit ever turned out to be anything close to what was being advertised. And you are seriously going to accuse him of parroting while you re-post Musk's apologetics verbatim? Do you think I haven't seen "it's good actually, ground breaking even, everybody who says otherwise is incompetent, some smart people cheer for it and you can't simulate everything" arguments?

> Watch his videos from a few years back and compare his bullshit with what actually happened.

Care to share specifics? What was he ultimately wrong on?

> Scott works in the engineering professions.

Scott is affable enthusiast, fellow gamer and software developer. Also astrophysicist. I like him. Has some good points that Thunderf00t misses. None actually contradict the criticism.

> Still waiting on Bezos though.

Bezos isn't working on anything like Starship because he didn't get the grant because he assessed (imho correctly) that it requires many times higher budget and longer timelines. Musk just overpromised as always and will underdeliver as (nearly?) always. He's already underdelivering because he's behind all published schedules for what he's doing.

> Like they did for the landing burn?

Landing burn was done in both gravity (from air breaking) and atmosphere. Also they had a pile of experience in doing landing burn so not screwing that up is not really an achievement. The only impressive thing about it is that they managed to do it with the second stage. Which means in only half-melted on re-entry and didn't tumble with engines forward like on the previous "flight".

> This isn't pictionary. Guesses don't count.

Right... no guessing allowed. You eat up and find out it was crap only after a full plate. Because smell is not always reliable.

> And SpaceX has the best simulation software in the business

Right, you still need to know how to use it and actually use it. It perfectly explains why their engines work at all. Apart from that, it's way simpler just to fling an empty pipe to the border of space for added benefit that it technically meets some milestone and you get cash shower you desperately need.
(2021)

Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27736650
This is explicitly not what this ruling means. The Judicial branch will rule is an agency has the power to regulate a limit for X in the water. The limit would still be set by an agency.
> Look at the profit margin for some given company. And you need to look at the profit, not the revenue they get from you

this makes zero sense. Fat paychecks and bonuses are part of this calculation.
> But anyway, the US and EU aren't the entirety of the rest of the world.

China & the US alone are almost half of the world's electricity production.
Ask HN: What do you recommend for implementing access control?
I'm looking for recommendation for separating access control from the core logic of the application. I've looked at a few different open-source solutions, a number of them have their own languages for specifying the policies but I prefer not use a custom language. So far cerbos.dev (using yaml to write policies) seems like a good option.

have you used cerbos.dev or any other access control projects (open-source only)? how's your experience with them?
A Joyful Tale of Golang Memory Profiling at CloudQuery
I looked at wikipedia and AutoHotKey started in 2003, but I learned about it in 2020 [1] and perhap I'd posted here in 2020. So I'm not convinced, but I may be wrong. (It would be nice if the OP replies, but some people prefer to avoid discussions.)

[1] One of my firend recomended it so I could simulate "canned replies" when I was using the webserver of my university. 2020 was a strange year and I had to reply a loooooooot of emails.
That’s definitely part of it. Phone numbers are the new SSNs - unique identifiers that never change and connect you across services - except you also hand them out to everyone you meet. One might say it seems like a bad system!
Indexing maybe. But there's more: IntelliJ understands your code, and this make more sense for static/strong typed langs. We do a lot of Kotlin and IntelliJ is indispensable.
The start of complex life on Earth pushed back by 750M years
It's not published weekly, but I listen to most episodes of Security, Cryptography, Whatever as soon as they come out.

https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/
It's not more a stretch than saying that re-encoding a PNG as a JPEG is a derivative work even though the process is lossy and the resulting bits look nothing alike.
Indeed. They benefit from a discount, but we don't know the discount figure.

To further reduce the storage costs, you can use S3 Storage Classes or cheaper object storage like Alibaba for longer retention. Quickwit does not handle that, so you need to handle this yourself, though.
I think it's important to realize, each level of abstraction has it's pros and cons. Concluding to have to go all the way down the stack and run your own data center and fiber is extreme.

In life it's always going to be a balance of what's feasible that you can do to keep control and giving up control because something is not feasible.

In this case obviously the author is having a problem high up the stack. The best solution would be to have more control in order to keep his business going.
The lead paragraph of the article is a classic:

Effectively integrating discrete, core organizational processes to achieve essential second-order outcomes is crucial for companies seeking to scale while maintaining high levels of operational efficiency.

I think I understand it, but without a corporate vocabulary, I'm sure it would sound like consultant-level BS, designed to baffle rather than dazzle.
> but the ubderlieing tech is still atleast a decade ahead of everybody (electric motors, battery pack, etherloop instead of canbus, rapidly approaching full 48v across all systems, maybe self driving. etc.).

- motors are about the same as their competitors in the same price range

- same with batteries, though they have more US capacity to build batteries. However, there is a ton of domestic battery manufacturing capacity coming online in the next year or two.

- etherloop is better than than canbus, as is 48v on a technical level. But its also currently a competitative disadvantage for Tesla, they are missing out on economies of scale because they can't share components with ICEs. To maintain dominance they need to do a lot better in the budget space.

- full self-driving is vaporware at best, and other manufacturers are catching up to what's actually available -- mercedes is the only level 3 certified brand
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GDPR is not in any way ambiguous there, take a look for yourself [1]. Keeping an eye on those changes is a part of your responsibilities as a data controller, it's your vendors' responsibility to inform you of any changes, and it's your responsibility to vet vendors for GDPR compliance. Again, if your lawyers didn't explain this to you (and you haven't read the law yourself), I'd be very cautious of those lawyers.

On the other hand they probably realise there's zero chance for substantial review of your GDPR practices by the regulator (much less seeing them in court), so they can recommend sticking a useless plaster (opt-in has to be specific, and how can it be specific if you collect it for unknown future changes) and keep you in the dark about more substantial requirements.

GDPR is a very good and clearly stated law, you can read through it yourself in about half an hour to an hour, a negligible time investment for such an important piece of legislation. The purported ambiguity is a psyop by people who don't want to comply.

[1]: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-28-gdpr/
What's new since?

Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37420885

This week:

Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40919253
The article links to this study, and the diagrams seem to be adaptations of figure 4. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4tyqsnuof548f1wio7dgf/Factors...

Edit: I don’t think cotton is the best replacement. I’m no expert, but I think hemp, flax, and tencel are the “best” replacements in terms of sustainability.
This is a great example of why a search engine shouldn’t overtly let people pay them to alter rankings lol.
LZCNT and TZCNT are corrections (originally introduced by AMD) for the serious mistake done by the designers of Intel 80386 when they have defined BSF and BSR.

Because on the very slow 80386 the wrong definition for the null input did not matter much, they have failed to foresee how bad it will become for the future pipelined and superscalar CPUs, where having to insert a test for null input can slow down a program many times.

Nevertheless, they should have paid more attention to the earlier use of such instructions. For instance Cray-1 had defined LZCNT in the right way almost ten years earlier.
Very well said. Retro is a collaborative effort, and the decision makers for the team need to participate in retro meetings to address difficult topics. Yup it's overlooked by many teams since it's hard to quantify what a good process or methodology is - for example, how often do you measure employee satisfaction and engineering quality? How do you know the retro processes positively correlate with any meaningful outcome? The industry is not there yet, so processes like retro will stay in the two extremes.
Why not? Because your compile times are long?

Changing a translation yaml triggers a webpack build in a lot of web setups but nobody seems to complain about that.
https://front-end.social/@mxbck/112752602298883078

polyfill.io was crazy huh, we just let a third party run any JS without even checking integrity. lol
anyway please add this snippet for google tag manager, marketing needs it
Most of the companies I've worked for have been the same, and my personal companies as well. The financial reality that I've experienced is that customer service is a very expensive, and it doesn't take long for a call to use up your profit margin.

But good customer service pays dividends in the long run even if it appears to be a loss in the short. In cold money terms, it's not an expense, it's an investment.
Used to be. When Apollo acquired Outerwall they spun off the businesses into independent entities.
Call your CC company fraud office. They'll find that button pronto.