skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without that "free lunch", the incumbents will still likely have the advantage in perpetuity. There will be fewer competitors as the cost will be a non-starter. Unless backed by some deep-pocketed entity that doesn't mind the possibility of losing a lot. The tech is already proven, and there's not enough value in the incremental improvements that'd make a new entrant sustainable. So even if the pipes were reopened, behind walls there won't be much demand.
Chicken, egg

My father had a community development organization in a blighted part of a southern U.S. city. They bought and restored 14 houses that were falling down and unliveable, and made them available with a very creative financing structure to attempt to alleviate the typically gentrifying investment of renovation. They took on volunteers and lots of other cost-savings for the demolition, but when it came to buying things they had worked out with their bank to finance each house with a construction loan, at a great rate backed by good-credit sponsors co-signing, with a built- in clause to provide for an exit for families who rent to houses to be able to take over the mortgage when they were ready, and it would “wrap” to the renters-to-owners. Their rent would effectively have been paying down the mortgage they would take on.

They found it easy to find candidate houses, easy to find families to rent them, and the families were interested in financial literacy training on offer, but none have yet taken on the mortgage.

When the jobs are terrible, or far away, houses aren’t the silver bullet. Not new houses, not affordable houses, not apartments, not single-family, not any category of housing on its own. More supply would sure be nice, but it isn’t a single line solution.
Navy Exonerates Black Sailors Unfairly Convicted After World War II Disaster
I absolutely hate this focus on "security"; it's just pushing us faster towards the authoritarian dystopia that Stallman warned us about 25+ years ago.

This decision means security software vendors have a greater ability to muck up systems as CrowdStrike did this week when it crippled 8.5 million Windows PCs worldwide.

...and what about when Microsoft inevitably screws something up with its automatic updates and undoubtedly affects even more machines? They already have, multiple times. One of the most recent memorable occurrences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189139

As the old saying goes, "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
This is a much more natural alignment. Rich people backing Republicans to lower their taxes.

Elon Musk doesn’t care about abortion or parental rights. He is getting a windfall capital gain from Tesla, and wants his taxes as low as possible for when he sells. It will be the difference of billions of dollars for him. So paying Trump $25 million/month is peanuts in comparison.
All people in all countries choose who they want to be their leader. If Russians didn't like Putin, they'd string his entrails up from a lamp post.

All governments, democratic or despotic can only govern with the consent of their subjects.

It's thus reasonable to dislike the precise mechanisms by which that consent (explicit and implied) is achieved in any particular country.
> Who knows how old we can be in the future

Read as "who knows how much more entrenched future politicians will be able to be? who knows how many more favors they will owe, how many more donors will have their ear?"
I gave my opinion. The 1) and 2) I don’t speak for or care to be told to fall in line for.
Having some idea of the task will guide the choice of model, which will be an enormous factor in memory use (I.e. whether it will startup or not)

Do you need a 70b param model or a 7b model? Theres thousands and thousands of dollars hardware difference there

With no idea of the task, one can’t even ball park it
Dedicated antivirus applications like Defender are a band-aid over fundamental architectural problems with Windows. Containerization and deny-by-default access schemes would go a long way to reduce the need for those tools.

Honestly, any semblance of modern, secure system architecture would help as long as it's combined with a willingness to obsolete the bullshit that got us into this mess in the first place.
An outage that was no fault of Windows itself, and entirely due to a faulty third-party component.
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To me, the role seems to be like 95% charisma as it's largely a figurehead position. Foreign relations, domestic relations, commander in chief of the armed forces are all mostly charismatic functions.

The smart but uncharismatic folks seem better suited to institutional roles where they can guide policy in the right direction without being the public face of the policy. It's not all that different from the distinction between sales and the folks that design/make the product; the groups are complementary but divergent.
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He tried to overturn the election in 2020, but he didn’t really have his ducks in a row. If he is in power in 2028, he will likely be more successful.
A third party component which used a kernel extension in Windows, but did not need a kernel extension on either the Mac (System Extension, which runs in user space) or the Linux (eBPF, much more resistant to crashes) versions.

Why would Cloudstrike need a kernel driver on Windows, and not their other platforms? Microsoft is responsible for that design and not moving past it at the pace alternative systems have.

Additionally, there are other things Microsoft could have done. For example - if your computer fails to boot 3 times in a row, with a third party driver, how about automatically disabling the driver? If the driver manufacturer doesn’t like that, tell them to suck it up and write a driver that doesn’t crash.
To be fair, he also uses the pulpit for the announcements before the Mass, not just preaching ;)

It really does help especially the elderly parishioners to hear it directly from the mouth of someone they trust, though. And he tells them if they have any concerns, any doubts about a situation they've gotten into, they can always call the parish office and they'll do the best they can to help them with whatever issue they're facing.

Even just training people to always hang up and call someone who definitely would know if the person they think is reaching out to them actually needs help is such a good first step. Even if the scam email "from" the priest says, "I can't talk right now," call the office. If he were in a bind, he wouldn't be the only one who knew about it.
Put yourself in the customer shoes: who wants to sign up to be rolled first?

There's best practice and then there's customer
He’s clearly incapable of making any serious decisions. He refers to his defense secretary when he can’t remember his name as “the black man”. He thought a different woman was his wife a few days ago and tried to kiss her. He’s delusional about the current state of the race. He can’t even descend two steps unassisted.

He should have stepped down months ago, and the Democrat party is responsible for hiding this from the public. They really thought they could just shield him till after the election.
The fact of repeatedly managing to get cooperation out of a divided congress was one of his superpowers.
Thanks! Macro-expanded:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40946644 — Intel is selling defective 13-14th Gen CPUs — July 2024 (84 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39478551 — Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures — March 2024 (254 comments)
Neither of the referenced studies note when the treatment started; one states "plus standard NHS treatment", which implies presentation at a hostpital -- usually days after onset of symptoms.

Virtually all of the studies that do indicate treatment initiation within 1-3 days of onset of symptoms do strongly indicate effectiveness.

It seems ... odd to avoid disclosing average start of treatment from onset of symptoms, don't you think? Especially when this appears to be the primary determinant of successful treatment in numerous (>100) studies?

See: https://c19ivm.org/meta.html
> ivermectin does not provide clinically meaningful benefits for treating COVID-19 in a largely vaccinated population.

Why is the scope limited to vaccinated population?
It was basically (no pun intended) this, though obviously not in bash:

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Back down on earth, though, most computer time has drift anyway. Very few devices need super precise time (GPS does, for example, because of relativity). Your home computer is subject to network time fluctuations +/- some number of milliseconds. Like NTP over the internet is only accurate down to a few tens of milliseconds.

If you have two databases running on two different computers, there's no guarantee their timestamps are in sync relative to each other or relative to a particular atomic clock's epoch. Is it within a second? Probably, on a modern operating system. Same millisecond? Very unlikely.
Bullshit.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-democratic-senators-bald...
You're dictating to your bank they shall not let you money be stolen, right? Perhaps not dictating, but if you thought that was a possibility you would go to anther bank. So they can honour that agreement they are dictating to you how you store your passkeys so they can be reasonably sure people can't use them to steal you deposits. And again not dictating in an absolute sense - you are free to find another way to safeguard your money.
How was it anti-democratic for the person that was winning primary elections by wide margins being nominated?
Yes this was massively inspired by shadcn and his great work. I'll make sure that's better communicated in the site. And the MIT License.

I wanted to use shadcn/ui for a project, but I wasn't using React. I thought that was a shame, so I built one for my preferred stack, Bootstrap+net/http+html/template+htmx.

So its fundamentally a different architecture better suited for template based web applications. Like Django or Rails or Go html/template. It serves a completely disjoint market.

Thanks a lot for this understanding response, I'm still pretty new to this.
> Politics in America is increasingly driven by hatred of the out-group, so it is hard to imagine a mixed ticket doing well in 2024.

I do wonder how much of this is driven by loud minorities on both sides rather than by actual majorities anywhere.

I at least would happily vote for a mixed ticket that seemed to be committed to make bipartisanship work. I'm sick of our hate-fueled political system and am desperately hoping for a change.
> Because, especially for such an important role, neither factor should be a hiring consideration.

When voters stop making it a consideration, winning tickets will stop taking it as a hiring consideration.

At the moment, half the voters are seriously considering a felonious idiot, so I don't expect that they are going to smarten up anytime soon.
I played a game pretty similar to this when I was a kid. It was a Game and Watch style game with two buttons on a simple LCD screen. I got it for free with a happy meal. Bull.
> driver A's update causes a crash in driver B

I can't see why this wouldn't work. A should be in B's stack trace, outside of esoteric interactions.

The rollback didn't work for the Crowdstrike problem because despite being a ".sys" file, the file that was updated wasn't a driver.
In many states (California being one) you don’t vote for a vice president on the primary ballot. I did notice that in Illinois, you do.
So you want the DNC to pick the president instead of the primary voters?
I haven't seen a single clip of Trump in months where he hasn't slurred his words several times. Apparently we're all supposed to be okay with that.
"for whatever reason"

Because enough people wanted to bet on it and they make money on every bet.
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An insider-outsider dynamic, with educated people in the northeastern cities usually playing the role of insiders regardless of the party system.

It's not an issue, but it is an electoral dynamic that affected a lot of issues. This might be at a level of abstraction higher than what you're looking for.
Putting aside the fact this lawyer is a scumbag (surprising no one), it really is amazing how bad leakers are at covering their tracks.

Almost makes me wonder if there's a market for some kind of "Leaking Agency" where we can help people leak information safely in exchange for a cut of any media buys or other income they might get from it.
The diagram of connected Apollo computers reminds me of Nvidia's presentation of their ai cpu farms. Will we feel the same about nvidia presentations in 30 years?
Russia's stocks of Soviet-era weaponry are running out
Files dont get corrupted in transit with TCP.
Supermemory: AI second brain for all your saved stuff
My friends and I are building Supermemory - An app that lets you talk to your saved notes, tweets, and links from across the internet. Chat with the information that you give Supermemory so that you don't lose track of the best content you've come across.

If you like it, also give it an upvote on Product Hunt https://www.producthunt.com/posts/supermemory
It's not advice? Just discussing something I thought was interesting.
A play on EM Forster’s Two Cheers for Democracy I suppose.

(Only Love the Beloved Republic—in Forster’s words—deserves three cheers)
Well it's definitely their fault in that they could have prevented it by managing their components better.
Pentium 2 was released in 1997 and was released with maximum speed of 450 MHZ which could be overclocked much higher.
The only other option was to keep occupying Afghanistan for 50 more years.
Anything a washed up hack like Carville suggests should be viewed with suspicion. At this point, it has to be Harris. She is also the only person who can use the money from Joe Biden's campaign fund.
I think it's a typo, and it should be (x & c1) | (x & c2).
I had a similar thought. It would be bold to pluck a republican of the old order as a gesture to the many republicans who now feel like men without a party.

Romney would be an interesting choice. I remember this[0] article in the globe where a columnist who dragged him during his presidential run apologized after seeing how bad things could be.

Like you say though, hard to imagine any party conjuring the courage to do something like that even if they thought it was wise.

[0] https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/07/20/sorry-mitt-romn...
umm, embedded devices without active cooling f.e. those node-b’s sitting on cellphone towers come to mind here, there can be quite a few other similar examples i can think of.
Which new war did Biden start?
I'm beyond skeptical that this competition regulation prevents Microsoft from say ... having Windows roll back to the last known version of a driver/extension after a failed boot (or several). Or from having a hyper-minimal super-nanny API that uses a signed network call to add a level of control over the loading process. Or from having a built-in phased rollout API that only permits a rollout to increase in scope as more confidence is gained. And probably ten more ideas! Microsoft didn't trigger this outage, but it's very worrying if they disown it. There's a lot the OS vendor can do.
LionsOS looks super interesting, I’ve wanted to use seL4 for a while but it just seemed too difficult.
Until the people with money offer them enough of it
Their sales pitch is being the first to apply patches for any virus. I think it makes sense to try to push as quickly as possible when speed of updates is core to your sales pitch.
Used these for several years. The Apollo Domain OS is still a thing of wonder to learn from.
Writing software in the safest programming language to develop mission critical product deployed on the most secure and stable OS that the world depends on would be developer's wet dream.

But it's just that... developer's wet dream.
> If you want to profit off of treating disease you should be held to a much higher standard.

The consequences of which will be even higher costs for an incredibly marginal improvement in outcomes.

We spend ~$13,500/year/person at the moment, what's another few thousand to that number, for an average gain in a few life-days-per-person?

At some point, you have to accept that medicine is an unlimited money hole, and that it can always do better, and that people are going to die, and that you're going to have to draw the line at some arbitrary cost/benefit limit.
Many people are butt-hurt their guy didn't win and don't like her.
Yes, I remember getting my Tualatin Celeron in 2003 with 256mb RAM. It was a beast compared to my friends machines at the time. :P
Show HN: Chrome extension to save content to Google Sheets from the context menu
Hey HN, I wanted to share Add to Sheets https://www.addtosheets.com, a Chrome extension, that I built to easily save content (text, links, image URLs, page links) to Google Sheets using the right-click context menu.

Using the extension, you predefine the destination sheet and column where you want to save data, and then add content from any webpage with a right-click. You can also save content to multiple sheets (or columns) simultaneously. There is also functionality to find and save all email addresses, links, and image URLs on websites right to Sheets.
You’ve missed the breaking news that it went up again.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/21/cdc-us-life-expecta...

And possibly that the negative growth looks to have been a relatively short outlier.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni....

The SSA, CBO, and the Census Bureau all predict life expectancy to rise over the next 30 years.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59899#_idTextAnchor013
Addresses are useless if you don't know them.

I once had to call 911 at a local streetcar station, and since it didn't have an obvious address, being in the middle of a street, I'm trying to identify it by station name, and they had a very hard time of it.
But you want to pay someone for software that doesn't do your taxes but looks like it does? Or are you using someone else's ChatGPT subscription to do your taxes?
Is caffeine strong enough to have any serious effect on ADHD? It barely touches my concentration difficulties.
They even remember the time when western media mocked the "Kremlin gerontocracy".
Out of bounds write attacks are generally executed on parsers to be fair
This is a weird way to formulate the question of how you could better constitute the US federal government.

(because if you were gonna make a change as fundamental as not having a primary leader of the executive branch, you probably wouldn't try to limit your changes to that)
> My belief is that tech necessarily does the same thing [, homegenize people].

Great call out! This is very near the core of my technospiritual struggles, the issue of tech to me. First, I'd say it's important to open the framing some! Ursala Franklin contrasts perscriptive vs holistic technologies, tech which sets fixed order versus tech that expands the capability of people & craftsmem. Tech can expand not constrain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Holistic_and_p...

> Everyone in your app has permissions defined by some enum, a limited number of actions available, content moderation machinery.

Alas, yes; most tech is of this variety!

There were some very active submissions recently on Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers which is about exactly the opposite, about tech for personal & small scale itches, made as you like it. https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40633029 322 points, 40 days, 173 comments

> Tech makes our levers to move the Earth more efficient, but at the cost of a lack of diversity of thought, lifestyle, and value.

The largely unexplored alternate is malleable systems, is general systems research, rather than letting capitalism take the reign & crank out endless apps at ever more massified cloudified portions & scale. We can elect to make software soft & participative. https://malleable.systems
They have an incredibly valuable and high stress job, and should be compensated appropriately. We don’t know their actual value, because as stated, they are not allowed to negotiate on even terms thanks to Ronald Reagan and the conservative anti-labor movement.
It's weird nothing in the Stackexchange answer makes the point about the letters not being separate. In Latin (at least during the Middle Ages) J and I were used interchangeably. It was simply a matter of style or, at times, the random whim of the scribe. A person's name might start with a J and then in the same document be an I. As for numerals, tacking a J (or really what often just looked like an I with a longer straight descender) was common in late medieval Gothic scripts.

Forgery doesn't make sense, yeah. You gave some reasons, but also western medieval and early modern conceptions of forgery, for instance, were very different than our modern one. Ease of reading and clarity makes sense.

Nothing in the answer (or anywhere in this thread) distinguishes "when". It don't doubt that in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the "j" was used in this way, but that might not have always been the case.
> Substantially similar is the standard

This quote is about AI, not movies. If you read the entire report, there are many other caveats and provisions:

Whether or not copying constitutes fair use depends on four statutory factors under 17 U.S.C. § 107:
1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

and furthermore:

The substantial similarity test is difficult to define and varies across U.S. courts.
I hate the relativistic argument "if you stop doing evil thing X then something even worse than X might happen".

Because that argument is always used to justify doing evil instead of doing good.

And the even worse thing might not even happen.

The world is dynamic.

If you stop trading with Bangladesh because they mistreat their people, maybe they'll stop mistreating their people to get the dollars flowing again.

Maybe the fact that we continue trading with a brutal regime is what allows the regime to remain in power.

Maybe evil thing X is just evil and we stop doing evil instead of rationalizing the evil away.
Didn’t even work well then, which is why the 12th Amendment passed quickly
If "my users" might receive test emails, that means I'm using real user email addresses in my test data, therfore my test SMTP server should not be a random system on the internet but something I fully control.
Oh it’s a terrible look, no argument there!

I’m only saying that life-long wors-swapping is not dementia, as so many say.
> Talk yourself into whatever you want, just don’t convince yourself there’s a third choice.

Literally nobody here is doing that.