skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very good and understated point. One of the benefits we have as employers is being unattached. If things go bad, we can cut and run to some other company. On the other hand, the owners and primary investors are by definition more invested, and have to actual bear the burden of failure. I definitely didn't want that level of involvement in most of the companies I have worked for.
“Your iPhone will be able to use Private Relay again tomorrow.” - Notification I received ~30 minutes ago
> Businesses are activities undertaken by people but they are also legal entities which have no need to abide by ethical or moral standards, shielding the underlying people from liabilities incurred by such entity. People can't do that.

I don't understand the concept of assigning moral agency to a pattern of activity. The legal entity is itself just a conceptual framework under which actual people operate, and not a concrete entity capable of autonomous action.

The individuals who own and operate the business are the moral agents, and I don't see how they are shielded from the consequences of their own actions. Limited liability just creates a distinction between personal and business assets for the purpose of financial liability, and does not have anything to do with ethical or moral standards.

> their only motive is profit-motive,

"Profit" is just a quantification of net gain in subjective utility experienced by people, in whatever form that takes. Fundamentally, "profit motive" is a redundant phrase, because "profit" refers to the fulfillment of whatever motivation you had in the first place. Whether that's good or bad overall isn't a function of the pursuit of profit -- profit consists of fulfilling the pursuit of anything -- but rather what was being pursued, and what moral boundaries were crossed its pursuit.

Some people seem to bend over backwards to create conceptual frameworks aimed at externalizing the causality of human behavior. Perhaps those who want to create utopia need to find the fault in our stars, not in ourselves, in order to hold out hope that all the world's problems can be someday solved, so they blame abstractions like "capitalism" or fictional characters like the devil for the unethical behavior of human beings. But none of that is really valid -- all of the problems of society are rooted in the fallibility of human nature, and there's no way around that. Unscrupulous, ambitious people don't go away simply because you've altered the form of some abstract system -- they will find ways to benefit at the expense of others no mater what system you cook up.
The article is terrible agreed. It actually happens to have a picture of the gold type (with the footer "Lycia coin - social media"). The pictures below that are electrum, however.
Heh. We're in the process of moving a service for a few of our larger customers over due to some variety of emergencies, let's keep it at that.

It took us 2-3 days of hustling to get the stuff running and production ready and providing the right answers. This is the "Terraform and Ansible-Stuff" stage of a real failover. In a full infrastructure failover, I'd expect it to take us 1-2 very long days to get 80% running and then up to a week to be fully back on track and another week of shaking out strange issues. And then a week or two of low-availability from the ops-team.

However, for 3 large customers using that product, cybersecurity and compliance said no. They said no about 5-6 weeks ago and project to have an answer somewhere within the next 1-2 months. Until then, the amount of workarounds and frustration growing around it is rather scary. I hope I can contain it to some places in which there is no permanent damage for the infrastructure.

Tech isn't necessarily the hardest thing in some spaces.
Laura Dern Dropped Out of College After Two Days over 'Blue Velvet' Role
As I understand it, that's both the whole point of, and limitation to, the hardware root of trust - it can't be changed even with a firmware update.

Of course, if the key used to sign the firmware is compromised, the root of trust is still technically what it is supposed to do - verifying signatures, it's just that that it becomes irrelevant in terms of security / integrity.
So they finally agreed with with the arguments of this petition: https://publiccode.eu.
I wouldn't expect a coffee shop to do the decaffeination there. Rather, the company that does the decaffeination is its own thing, which then ships their product to the roaster, which then ships their product to your local coffee shop.
how did you get that from the article?

"One of the common solvents, ethyl acetate, comes naturally in many foods and beverages. It’s considered a safe chemical for decaffeination by the Food and Drug Administration."

speaking from a chemist's perspective, ethyl acetate is basically non-toxic. it decomposes into ethanol and acetic acid (vinegar). dcm (methylene chloride) is toxic, but should be completely removed before it ever reaches you.
the nice thing about volatile organic solvents is that they're...volatile, so they are easily stripped from coffee beans.
It's from the original Xen team. Subsequently cloned by MS as MDAG (Defender Application Guard).
I believe they’re on-die capacitors for the charge pumps these days. The external ones are just for smoothening.

Probably a method to retrofit write/erase protection would be to just do power analysis and cap the current the flash chip can receive. Or shut it down if that works for you.

Not sure if they’re intelligent enough to run their charge pumps slower under compromised electrical conditions. Or if they’ll go haywire if they can’t do idle-time wear levelling/block erases.
If cooperatives can survive and compete with private enterprises without excessive regulation and government coercion that limits and competition and leads to lower productivity that's great. As far as I can tell that's rarely (but probably occasionally) the case unless we're also including "guild" like organizations.

However I'm not sure cooperatives are strictly a "form" of socialism, they have been a part of capitalist societies since pretty much the very beginning. I guess it depends where we draw the lines between partnerships etc. and cooperatives, I guess hiring additional workers who don't have an equal stake/share in the enterprise or subcontracting any sort of labor (let's say on a significantly meaningful scale, but still very hard to avoid) would be it.
Yeah, banks try and encourage overdraws because they make a bunch of fees off them. I remember reading about some of them getting in trouble for reordering same day deposits in a way to maximize the overdraw fees.

https://cw33.com/news/heres-how-banks-rearrange-transactions...
I regularly enjoy competing with strangers on the livesudoku website:
https://www.livesudoku.com/
Yes [1]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690898
Question for HN: which Java runtime are people here using for prod environments?
Also, EULAs cant violate laws, the same qay you cant sign away your first born child.
Force them into a rejection state until they can ask the appropriate question to access what they want. Criticality is important here and not every child is capable of doing this.

That is intentionally why children are taught not to think, so that nobody is left behind. That and also because many adults will fail at this too.
GitHub Action to Track Read Books
And it's nascent.
> Morals are a fiction created by people to philosophize our own societies.

This is preposterous, and frankly quite uninformed. It is especially ironic coming from you, since you are going round and accusing other people of being delusional.

We have iron-clad proof that cavemen took care of members of their tribe that were born crippled, and of the elderly. For no benefit to themselves. We have evidence of morals going back thousands of years. This is a topic well researched by anthropologists, and is not up for debate.

That's what the word 'civilisation' means - civilised behaviour and ethical standards. The people who think you can have a complex society, but have no respect for morals, are frankly savages.

It is unfortunately quite common to come across people in technology that have great talents, but they are as informed and society and civics as a high-scooler.

The other day I came across libertarians who think parents should have no obligations to feed their children and should not be held accountable if the child dies, because freedom. Might as well be speaking to Neanderthals.
You don’t need to see their screens, there are plenty of other signs such as the craned neck, periodic scrolling motion, or more obviously the cascade of grating music and voiceovers as many kids have lost the idea of decency in public. Source: am in the demographic of interest, guilty of constantly scrolling YouTube shorts, and have observed countless others in my demo captured by TikTok and Reels.
Wait is this actually the case? I hope this doesn't sound insensitive, because I really don't mean to, but wouldn't (Or shouldn't?) those children be in the foster care system?

I know the foster care system is terrible, but certainly better than the streets.
Yes, you have the right understanding.

I plan to be at the RDKit User Group meeting in Germany this fall. You might think of participating, even remotely.
Good Tutorials on the Implementation of AlphaZero
The front page currently has a post on Deepmind's latest AI which can solve International Math Olympiad problems at a very high level. They state that this is in part built upon the AlphaZero reinforcement learning algorithm. I was curious as to any good resources to learn about this, as it appears that the AlphaZero implementation was never made public.
I would assume any product built on llm that has 10 million MAU, openai will go after. On the LLM side the gap is close between openai, anthropic and now meta. OpenAI might start to focus on products that’s built on its technology even if it’s UI/UX frontend.
Learning to Rank for Maps at Airbnb
Try page rate-limiting (6 hits a minute is plenty for a human), and then pop up a captcha.

If they keep hitting the limit within an hour 4+ times, than get fail2ban to block the IP for 2 days.

73TB is a fair amount to have on a cloud... usually at >30TiB firms must diversify with un-metered server racks, and CDN providers (traditional for large media files etc.)

Good luck =3
https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/
It's been awhile since I've been in a data center, but fiber cables were usually the ones that seemed to have more staying power even when they started to flake. Maybe because some of them were long runs and they weren't cheap. You'd see some absolutely wrenched cable going into rack at a horrifying angle from the tray on 30ft run with greater regularity than I'd care to admit.
I don't think that an overall statistic works very well for this.

I live in London and I probably do split my time very roughly 1/3 ish across the three modes as stated.

But that's because I'm doing different things.

The tube is used to go into town, meet up with urban living friends, go to museums, visit specialist high end shops.

The car is used to go to larger stores like the supermarket, big shopping centres, DIY stores, to go out of town, go to the golf range, visit friends and family.

Walking gets me to the corner shop, to local friends, to the park, the last mile on public transport.

It's very walkable/cyclable, I just don't spend my life in a 1-5 mile radius.
Generally Googlebot is well behaved and efficient these days, though I have discovered that it is currently horribly broken around 429 / 503 response codes... And pays no attention to Retry-After either... Also Google-Podcast which is meant to have been turned off!
"Support for additional languages, browsers, and platforms will be expanded over time."

Sounds like it is a true beta and not a "Google" beta.
Really good story. I recommend reading the whole thing.

A couple things that I think add some useful context, having spent some of my life in other post-soviet countries:

- In Communist theory (at least as Marx and Lenin saw it) business competition was a destructive force and one of the "inherent contradictions" of capitalism. So if another project was deemed to be better, that was justification enough for shutting down other enterprises.

- Also, during this time under soviet communism, the most common measure of manufacturing was in kilograms output. Karpiński working on a small run of small computers would not have looked impressive to officials in the least.

- Importing western materials and parts was not expressly forbidden (though certainly not politically popular). But Poland (like a lot of Soviet countries) was undergoing a currency crunch. Possession of foreign currency was illegal and importing materials did not do favorable things for their "fake" exchange rates. The operation was probably contingent on generating more foreign dollars than they spent.

- Computers in general were viewed skeptically as Western excesses that either wasted time or stole jobs. So making boring calculating machines for accounting or scientific research could be seen as acceptable - but small, cheap, Western style micro-computers were another matter.

- The fact that Karpiński spent a lot of time in the West and knew people and understood English and was not a party member makes it shocking he even got to spin up the enterprise in the first place. Had he not won the UNESCO award, he probably wouldn't have even made it as far as he did.

- Getting banning from your vocation and getting a visa was unfortunately a very common method of getting dissapeared. He probably also lost housing privilege as well - hence moving out to the country and raising pigs.
Boutique-roasted decaf coffee beans often are more expensive. But the logic also doesn't hold: it assumes coffee is being sold at or near the cost of its material inputs, and that's certainly not true. If you have a reasonable built-in margin for your coffee --- and boutique roasters certainly do --- it can be normal and rational to price irrespective of your cost basis. Customers are brand-loyal (especially if they have to go out of their way to buy your stuff). You want to get them in every packaging they're interested in. All sorts of products are "loss leaders", for that reason, and here we're not even talking about that; we're just talking about something slightly less profitable.

Finally, just a note that the "lower-quality bean" thing is itself sort of hollow, in that: you're probably not buying the absolute best quality means no matter what coffee you buy, even if you're driving to a coffee roaster to get them. Unless you're an extreme coffee weirdo, there is, I'd confidently bet, a higher-quality bean available to you that you're sacrificing because of cost and convenience. Certainly, if you're buying beans of any sort at a supermarket, the "best bean" thing is inoperative.
Utrecht is fantastic and even if you get to the city by car, the most convenient is to drop it in the park and ride outside for 7 euros a day including public transport to the center.

All cities should have a downtown where the only vehicles are taxis and buses and some neighbour.

The neighbourhoods around the center are also designed in a way that crossing them by car is possible but very inconvenient. Going from Lombok to Wittevrouwen is always around 10 minutes by bike but can be more than 30 by car during busy hours.
Octopus farming in the U.S. would be banned under a new bill in Congress
I don't know the names, but I recall there was a large Polish contribution to Allied codebreaking in WWII.
When the bots come out of cloud services then the IPs are all over the place: it's much harder to do right these days.
That's only true of macros created for the purpose of reducing boilerplate code. However, the best macros actually reduce errors and improve code quality by enforcing invariants more than can be done without macros.
The government says "they've slowed it down", but I'm in Russia at the moment and it's not just slowed down, there are pauses every few seconds (even at 720p quality, I refuse to watch clips at lower resolutions) which makes watching anything on YouTube almost impossible.
I have encountered issues with QSPI (mostly caused by the annoying prefetch queue) which is why I am switching to the FMC for FPGA interfacing (i.e. not using OCTOSPI). That was the whole point of this experiment, validating FMC as a replacement for my legacy OCTOSPI based MCU-APB bridge. I have a previous board using QSPI reliably in indirect mode (i.e. not memory mapped) but found it was full of pain when memory mapped specifically in writes. So that firmware memory maps it for reads but switches to indirect mode for writes. And has cache disabled.

So far I have it working quite reliably (my test firmware does a loopback test with 100K reads/writes of a 32-bit register at the start that I had written with intent of using it for link training of the PLLs to optimize read/write capture timing but never ended up using as such) and my iperf test can push tens of thousands of packets per second without issue.
You could say the same about smoking half a century ago.
The industry tends to do this everywhere: we have a system to contain things, we made a mess of it, now we want to contain separate instances of the systems.

For example, in AWS or GCP, you can isolate stuff for different environments or teams with security groups and IAM policies. You can separate them with separate VPCs that can't talk to each other. In GCP you can separate them with "projects". But soon that's not enough, companies want separate AWS accounts for separate teams or environments, and they need to be grouped under a parent org account, and you can have policies that grant ability to assume roles cross-account ... then you need separate associated groups of AWS accounts for separate divisions!

It really never ends, companies will always want to take whatever nested mess they have, and instead of cleaning it up, just nest it one level further. That's why we'll be running wasm in separate processes in separate containers in separate VMs on many-core servers (probably managed with another level of virtualization, but who can tell).
Do you have reference to this being based on an Apple change and based on analysis of satellite images?
Well in 1967 Romania had decree 770 which had a huge impact on increasing the birthrate.
If there's an example of another human who has had more influence on the worldview of more people, I don't know who it could be. Murdoch might be some kind of media genius or just right place right time, but either way his influence is, sadly in my view, unprecedented.
I'll write the obligatory comment about doing literature searches in the 90s, which involved trudging to the physics library, the chemistry library, and the engineering library in search of dead tree copies of the journal articles you're after. Also: skimming each paper quickly after you photocopy it, to see if it references any other papers you should grab while you're at the library.
>> Simulink is a really nice way to do some control problems in.

Agreed. But it needs to stop there. BTW I never understood why the tool needs to know what processor the code is for. I asked them to provide a C99 target so they don't need to define their own data types in generated code. Does that exist yet? Or do they still define their own UINT_16 types depending on the target?
Many existing housing stock are not up to the modern standard. Also much of the new housing is built on where land is cheap, not where people currently prefer to be. It will take time to see if people actually follow housing supply (unlikely), when all evidence is people move to where housing is unaffordable (or rather unaffordability is a measure of people's desire to live somewhere).
Think of problems in NP - you can check the answer efficiently, but finding the answer to check is the hard part... This is basically what we're looking at here: The proof checker can quickly evaluate correctness, but we need something to produce the proof, and that's the hard part.
> This breaks down as soon as you get out of the idea phase.

No, it does not. Most ideas fail, and a significant amount of "off the ground" projects fail.

To be successful long term, it requires vision and commitment. You can find people to grind on your vision, but you cannot make them see what you see.

The overwhelming majority of massive successful projects and companies have a key figure that drove them to success.

I'd wager there are very few examples (if any) of a massive and successful companies that began life as a startup with a 30+ person board, for example.
there's a book for most things.

everything you listed here could be in a book used to help you gain those skills
Great advice. In my last homebrew campaign, the characters were insane and in a mental hospital. For box text, I purposely broke the bottom-line-up-front rule and had them, e.g., fixate on random irrelevant things as the danger built towards them. It was wonderfully effective at reinforcing the “you have trouble processing reality” aspect of the campaign. So unless you want your audience confused and disoriented, put the important part first!
Here are some examples:

- smallcase offers smart investment portfolios curated by experts in one click. Investors include: Amazon, Sequoia Capital India, Blume Ventures and Arkam Ventures.

- Kuvera is a free online investment management platform. They cover everything from fund selection, goal planning, tax optimization, to rebalancing.

- Jar helps users build saving habits by automating deposits. Investors include: Tiger Global, Arkam Ventures, Rocketship, and WEH Ventures, among others.

If interested in reading more about India's Fintech ecosystem, I wrote about it more in detail here: https://www.fintechfri.day/p/indias-population-becoming-weal...
I have a H735 on a retired board slated for decap so we'll find out once I open it up.

Do you know if it's fabbed in house, TSMC, or Samsung? I've seen ST silicon from all 3 foundries but the only thing I've seen stated publicly is 40nm. When I get it opened up it should be easy to tell, TSMC and Samsung processes have distinctive features on them that I recognize by sight.
Instead, write-protect the firmware by default, and require the user to press a physical button on the back of the PC to write-enable it (for a limited duration/until the next reboot)
Hmmm, k8s is OpenSource and IBM has rolled up a nice bundle to sell that. Did you think of the 80ies maybe?
>Israel is literally everything US politicians say they abhor in a foreign government.

Israel is doing the same exact things the US would do to protect Raytheon, Northop Grumman, or Lockheed Martin under similar circumstances.

Pegasus is a weapon, a munition, and NSO is a defense contractor. NSO sells its weapons to friendly (and friendly-ish) states.

Someone trying to sue NSO is like an Iraqi trying to sue AMTEC Corporation for manufacturing the 40mm grenade that killed his innocent civilian father-- the US government ain't gonna let it happen without a fight.

Israel is doing the same.

edit: it's also kinda like someone trying to sue a lockpick manufacturer (or contract locksmith) for providing a product or service to the CIA

edit: not kinda, actually literally the same
I blocked Microsoft/OpenAI a few weeks ago for (semi) childish reasons. Seven months later, Bing still refuses to index my blog, despite scraping it daily. The AI scrapers and crawlers toggle on Cloudflare did the trick.
The sheer awesomeness of Android 3 is staggering by now.