skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cops engage in a practice called “slow rolling," “papering," or even "collar bombing" (to say nothing about good old fashioned time and attendance fraud[5])

They intentionally delay paperwork and administrative tasks past the end of their shift so as to extend into overtime hours. They accumulate additional pay for the extra time spent on duty, but th is question remains: what were they doing during their actual shift?

Generously, we might presume they were so busy fighting crime that they couldn't get back to their laptops to finish the paperwork, but it's hard to find the evidence that on-duty officers don't run personal errands or engage in liesure activities.

Frankly, I wish we could get more sousveillence of the police. They shouldn't be so opaque. We've seen countless instances of racketeering[3][4] and rape[1][2] by police. No wonder they can't find the time to file paperwork until after their "shift" ends!

> During day shifts, patrol officers were recorded as being available, on average, for approximately 27% of their shift. Although we cannot confirm the specifics of what officers physically did during such available time (a point that we revisit later), we assume based on operational experience that much of this time was spent conducting routine preventive patrols. [0]

0. https://crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11...

1. https://thecrimereport.org/2020/03/12/predators-behind-the-b...

2. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/major-us-police-...

3. https://www.baltimoresun.com/2018/02/12/baltimore-police-off...

4. https://www.wmar2news.com/news/crime-checker/baltimore-city-...

5. https://www.police1.com/officer-misconduct-internal-affairs/...
Here's the answer that ChatGPT gives to this riddle; it thinks that it must be the 1991 game Metal Mutant by French developer Silmarils:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOl_fBWIuac

The video seems to match your description quite well!
Devil's advocate: more acquisitions creates more incentive to launch a start-up. More startups create more competition.
Also the Crowdstrike change could have been largely avoided, if incremental release to customers was used. Not release to the whole world at once.

For example , release change to some group customers, say 5000, if thats OK release to another group of larger customers.

There was no planning for a failed update.
There should have been a mechanism for auto rollback if problems encountered. To me this is 101, very basic
The challenge is the mindset in most software shops of "We're not building a space ship". Because of the ability to rapidly iterate, there's a sense of invincibility. As we've seen, however, some aspects of the product should in fact be treated like building a space ship. For instance, with something like properly managing data (so you don't get breached), a detailed risk assessment and robust strategy should be more highly prioritized. For displaying a UI to end users, perhaps not so much, but even then there are accessibility concerns that a good product would address.
Offtopic: since someone is going to notice the timestamp discrepancies in this thread - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080646 for how this submission came to be.
I grew up with Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions, and the game and its soundtrack is indelibly inscribed into my memory—to this day, Pictures at an Exhibition is one of my favorite songs.
You could escape Stripe Billing, Stripe Tax, Stripe Invoice, and Stripe Paylink fees

For £80,000 a month with transactions each being £100.

* Stripe Billing is £400 a month or £4,800 a year.
* Stripe Tax £800; a month or £9,600.
* Payment Links is £320; a month or £3840 a year.

Total per month: £1,520. Total per year £18,240.

And that would be a small company.
This Roman stuff is barely advertising. They're talking about the signs on the front of buildings advertising what goes on in those buildings, and a guy who got rich selling garum having a mosaic on the floor of his own home that said that his garum was awesome. The last citation in the article is just bizarre, interpreting graffiti as advertisements for oneself.

The profession of advertising is only recent, and afaik advertising itself didn't really exist at all until the dawn of patent medicines, that since they were all frauds could only differentiate by circulating their dishonest claims as widely as possible.

> I think it's important to understand this because, although you can ban the particulars: billboards, youtube ads, and so forth, the spirit of advertising will persist, as Lindy things tend to do, only it will be expressed in different forms.

So, I think that this is a misunderstanding that it is important to avoid. There was Roman advertising if 1) you think that merchants decorating the inside of their own houses with art referring to the things that they got rich selling is advertising, 2) you think that inns and restaurants having their own names painted on their outside walls, and possibly having names that implied self-praise is advertising, and/or 3) you think that writing graffiti is self-advertising.

I think the idea that advertising is a force that will automatically express itself through other equally intrusive channels if suppressed is a made up story.
> Where ancient Romans 'white'?

The Scottish in 1600s were. Not to say it matters, as Macbeth is a quasi-fantasy play and it's been adapted a million times. At this point "black everything Macbeth" might draw more viewers than "just another fucking Macbeth" (maybe, idk but producers may have a better idea).

The question is always "who is this for" and "will people pay to see it"
Only folks who have already made their reputation can get away with zero online presence. For the rest of us you need at least a professional profile (even new grads) eg. LinkedIn. Just don't mix professional and personal data and keep the latter to a minimum and access restricted. Getting "googled" is the norm nowadays and hence you need to make sure people find only what you want them to find. Psychologically, every piece of data that you provide about yourself influences my perception of you even if it seems completely irrelevant/inconsequential to you. Also the form in which you provide your data is very important and so your language must come across as confident but not cocky, assertive but not aggressive, factual but not tiresome, positive but not hyperbole, and must be designed to pique the reader's interest so that he/she actually reaches out to you.
Is Java Still Relevant Nowadays?
Sorry that you had to discover that there are different kinds of people with different preferences!

Also, how people started to use "being woke" (alert to racial prejudice and discrimination) and "DEI" (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) as swear words is beyond me.
but they likely put money into features which they are interested in, and not raid56
It is genre specific, but you can find amateur LitRPG authors on royalroad.com
ZFS is the mechanism by which I implement local (via snapshots) and remote (via zfs send) backups on my user-facing machines.

- It can do 4x 15-minute snapshots, 24x hourly snapshots, 7x daily snapshots, 4x weekly snapshots, and 12x monthly snapshots, without making 51 copies of my files.

- Taking a snapshot has imperceptible performance impact.

- Snapshots are taken atomically.

- Snapshots can be booted from, if it's a system that's screwed up and not just one file.

- Snapshots can be accessed without disturbing the FS.

In my experience it hasn't required more hand-holding than ext4 past the initial install, but the OSes that most of my devices use either officially support ZFS or don't use package managers that will blindly upgrade a kernel past what out-of-tree modules I'm using will support, which I think fixes the most common issue people have with ZFS.
IR heat profile might have been cool.

It's a shame cars don't come with them anymore. A lighter can save someone's life and cost next to nothing. You can toss a lighter in but something about the designated electric plug is pleasing and invites you not to lose it.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

What it’s like to dissect a cadaver - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33551036 - Nov 2022 (102 comments)
PySpark Pipelines: An Opinionated Clean Code Manifesto
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Check it out if you're curious about leveling up your PySpark game or just want to peek into another dev's data wilderness survival tactics. And hey, if it saves you from even one coding headache, I'll consider my mission accomplished

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You'd be surprised what else El Niño is used for.
What types of things do you put into your 5 color smoothie?
What GoFundMe conceals: The campaigns that fail
Yes basically, but more like Core Wars. This shouldn't be surprising to anyone, I really don't see anything new here or the point of this news release.
I miss the college days where professors would argue endlessly on Bayesian vs Frequentist.

The article is very well succinct and even explains why even my Bayesian professors had different approaches to research and analysis. I never knew about the third camp, Pragmatic Bayes, but definitely is in line with a professor's research that was very through on probability fit and the many iteration to get the prior and joint PDF just right.

Andrew Gelman has a very cool talk "Andrew Gelman - Bayes, statistics, and reproducibility (Rutgers, Foundations of Probability)", which I highly recommend for many Data Scientists
Nice. Its advancement depends on folks like you, so thanks!
We certainly do performance tests, and we also don't auto-update. The issue here was it was a slow leak, so it took time and significant load for the pattern of errors to present itself.
From the article:

"This research is far from the first attempt at mimicking life digitally: for example, simulations such as the Game of Life, which has a grid of cells that are either “alive” or “dead” and are governed by simple rules, have shown self-replicating behaviour. Laurie says what makes this work unique is that the system had no formal rules, goals or processes to encourage or kick-start artificial life – it simply arrived. “It all fizzes around and then suddenly: boom, they’re all the same,” he says."

Still not sure if that means it's significant or not. Cool none the less though.
> Development taking long usually means that the model itself is too complicated to be done right in a reasonable time

yeah, features rich/complete fs is complicated, that's why we have very few of them.
Well, how about the contributers honoring the wishes of the owners of the plattform?

Also my wish as a contributer is that the threads stay like this. So I can come back later and reread them. I often gained value in reading a linked old thread.

My advice for people not wishing for that, would be simply to stop commenting instead of demanding the site should change.
Are there any statistics on how much each automotive company has received?

I assume Tesla is not the only one, but probably a very big recipient?
Tierra Digital Evolution Software
Indeed you can all the translations are https://github.com/billabear/billabear/blob/main/assets/bill...

If you're willing and able to create PRs and I'm able to merge.
It's a valid distinction of the author to make. I don't know if there's such thing as a cigarette lighter which uses digital circuitry, but there theoretically could be.

The way the lighter in the article works is both analog _and_ electro-mechanical.
A hello world here takes 400ms on tsx and 250ms on swc-node for me.

Basically it boils down to swc being faster than esbuild, see their benchmarks:

https://swc.rs/docs/benchmarks
Your actual test cases would be review for suitability and coverage of the change. ( that's how we worked in my company, If our software had failed , damage could be in the millions - a lot less than Crowdstrike )
> Is there such a thing as a "digital cigarette lighter?"

Yes: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Flameless-Cigarette-Lighter-USB-R... :-)
PS. For the sake of argument, allow me to say that - while baffled - I agree with what Google has done in approaching this reply like this: There is - or, should be - a concern having to do with a "slippery slope" by which we humans end up speaking to each other like this, and agents imitating human behaviour should, to a degree, systemically react in ways that keep this from becoming an issue.-
I don't believe it's your choice to make if you're not the one suffering the consequences. Or, as Alan Perlis puts it: "Don't have good ideas it you're not willing to be responsible for them".
Tierra was the first thing that came to my mind, too. I'd already played with "Core War" [0] when I learned about Tierra. I so badly wanted to implement something like Tierra myself. I couldn't wrap my head around how I could identify the metes and bounds of a given "organism" to isolate it from the rest of the "soup".

At the time I learned about Tierra I didn't have a way to get at any of Ray's papers or code. Now I do, but I'd kinda forgotten about it. I really should revisit it. There's probably a lot of fun to be had there.

Aside: Steven Levy's "Artificial Life"[1] was where I learned about Tierra. That book, along with Levy's "Hackers"[2], and Gleick's "Chaos"[3] were formative books for young me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Life-Frontier-Computers-Bi...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Steven-Le...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Making-Science-James-Gleick/dp/...
It's more significant than that. These self-replicating alife systems will dominate energy consumption and will be the largest forms of life.
Marketed Price: $20 versus Homeless Price: $0

Decreasing. Okay.

Marketed Price: $20 versus Price Gouging based on a specific individual: $100

Increasing. Not Okay.

You don't know e.g. the difference between decreasing and increasing? Weird but a real issue, and is why education is important.
I'd like to read this article but keep getting ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS. Sorry, your site seems broken.
Yeah, it's a bit clunky. Maybe plays better on mobile?
If anything, there is little reason to use a named delegate over the Func nowadays too. The contract in this case is implied by you explicitly calling a constructor or a factory method so a type confusion, that Go has, cannot happen.
Google is late to the party. I own at least 3 different video games from random "Indie" devs that do this.
Is anyone else getting a redirect loop when trying the link? At first I was thinking it had to do with my Firefox settings to force HTTPS but even just:

curl -L lukedeniston.com/memory-leak-mystery

> curl: (47) Maximum (50) redirects followed

isn't working.
It was probably looking for "SKI". I think it could benefit from having two dictionaries - one with common words to draw answers from and one with _everything_ to exclude possibilities. (So, generate sliders which allow for `n` words to be created from the small dictionary but zero additional words from the large dictionary.)
Just for background, the relevance is this: We have conscious/immediate experience. Things like the feeling of seeing the color red or feeling an itch. There seems to be no way to account for this in physics. It could be that there is some aspect of physics which only operates on brain like objects and produces these feelings.

The problem is that we are all here on hacker news talking about this, so somehow this aspect is not just observing, it’s affecting our brains enough that at least we know it exists.

So then the problem is that physics as we understand it doesn’t provide much room for an external force to affect things. The one area where there is maybe some wiggle room is wave function collapse. The state of a quantum system after collapse appears to be completely random, so it’s possible that an external force could affect it.
Can this optimization be applied to matmult for us, critters who are running llama on cpu? XD
you? Maybe. Me? I have about 15k in credit card bills, $20 in the bank, and my current rent/utiliies take up ~60% of my monthly income. I also have no leverage to be trusted to run a co-op, so I can't attract proper talent to realize the business.

Maybe in a decade when the market and my debt recovers? But I'm planing to work for myself anyway. I have no issues with a co-op if I ever make enough to bring someone else on.
And the whole boiling the planet thing, on someone else's dime.
Yes and no. Read his notes about his goals and what he didn't implement, and note that his job when he wrote that was as part of a team that ports models to different hardware. That's a smaller job than writing a shippable framework and Anthropic has a team of people doing it. You can read the cuDNN docs to get an idea of some of the other stuff you'd need, there's a lot there but generally that's the point. So in one sense, yes, if you have a strong performance engineering team and a specific workload already you can make use of a variety of hardware. In another sense, no, a small team isn't likely to be able to write a direct alternative for the CUDA ecosystem that reaches devex parity. Lots of people have a pretty clear idea of what it takes to do this but none of the major vendors seem to be doing the work.

Knowing that reaching broad devex parity is very expensive I think the real win is figuring out what specific problem you have and building community and robust software support around that.
I hear what you're saying and somewhat agree, but as with everything, I really don't think "it's that simple".

First, that you're even using Google search or Gmail is providing Google with data they use for marketing. On top of the data those services take in (what you search for, what you click on in the results, how much time you spend watching one video compared to another, what mailing lists you're subscribed to, etc. etc.) they are provided tracking information from the majority of sites you visit (either directly or aggregated from other services). That allows them to let their customers market directly to you or even provide data to other companies (for a fee) so they can market to you more successfully (than not having that data).

Even when paying for a service, the next step is to add ads back into it.

For example, as a paying customer Amazon Video used to let you just watch the movies/shows they had available. Then they started advertising movies that they didn't have available to stream, but you could purchase or rent them. Then they started adding in ads for content that was available on 3rd party services. Now they have in-content ads that you can pay extra to remove.

They're not the only company doing this, but it was just the first/easiest example I could call up that shows a progression of what a company does when they already have your attention/money.

You can see that Google has become progressively more aggressive in pushing ads in their search over the years. They didn't have ads at first, worked their way up to being the "standard" search engine, then started putting ads between results, eventually getting to where we are today. I can do a search today and the entire first screen of results (1080p, zoom level 100%) is just sponsored results. One usually has to scroll a full page to get to any "real" results, assuming that the top non-sponsored results aren't skewed by "the algorithm", which might include things like whether or not the target page uses GA, has ads that benefit Google, conform to what Google thinks is "relevant" (very loose term) basically.

I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to find an excessive amount of examples where services that started making money with a simple product you could pay for, then turned to subscriptions, then turned to add-ons for the subscription, then just started pushing ads into their service regardless if you're already paying or not.
Reminds me of this rock paper scissors bot that has a 59% win rate against other algorithms: https://rpscontest.com/entry/614005
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19108

Here's a direct link to the paper. I have not read it yet but the abstract reminds me of a recent post discussing using brainfuck as a way to do program synthesis.
True this is file corruption.
This news is baked in a whole lot of irony considering Tesla CEO Elon Musk has long been in favor of eliminating government subsidies that encourage the development of EVs. . .

I’m missing the irony; perhaps it is participating in a program with which one disagrees?

If anything, Tesla is the best domestic automaker to operate without consumer subsidies. On the other hand, I understand that Tesla makes a material sum from selling non-pollution credits to other manufacturers, which aren’t a direct subsidy but act similarly.
No! Not, at, all! Not the way it is done!

What you wanted to say is how influential it is, not important, not the same things, how hugely distorts the economy, distorts it on a grand scale! Not important, it is hugely harmful for the economy and societies, hugely!

Probably you'd mean the promotional aspect, the getting informed of a new product kind of thing which was useful if it was not a misleading shameless lie into the face of the society by willful misinformation and forceful push of unwanted matters!
Like Hamilton. Total bomb.
> What is 'white' is very arbitrary in the first place

Sure, I agree. As far as I’m concerned the earth is populated by ~8 billion individual human beings. But this is heresy according to the idiotic identity politics that has slowly taken over bits and pieces of western culture. It’s an ideology that demands everybody be shoehorned into race/gender/sexuality tribes. When it comes to DEI scores, there’s no ambiguity about who’s white and who’s not white. It’s an ideology that I don’t like at all, and it’s been constantly forced into a lot of entertainment. Whether this role was cast as a part of that mission or not doesn’t really matter, because it’s tainted the whole industry.

> And now demographics of audiences have changed so Hollywood has (slowly) adapted

I would say this isn’t a response to audience changes at all, and simply the result of a small elite of political activists, often producing product that directly defy the tastes of the core audience. But that doesn’t really matter either, because the people that don’t like it will simply disengage (though some will complain about it more than others).

I personally don’t really care very much either, I’m just offering my perspective. I barely watch any TV or movies any more, and I couldn’t say my life has suffered for it at all.
this is funny because it’s going to be the opposite. tray processors and even retail units both get reduced warranty in the datacenter and the people who are going to get screwed are those with a chip failing at 18 months or whatever, since that’s technically still out of warranty and consumer protections don’t typically apply to commercial operators.

Consumers will be fine.
> In other discussion here, people asserted that a CUDA replacement was unworkable because you couldn't replace Nvidia's CuBLAS implementation

Targeting nvidia GPUs? Or in general? For whom?

Building a performant BLAS library is hard but certainly not impossible. The tricks discussed in this post are hardly anything new either. Now, making a BLAS competitive with Nvidia's on its own GPUs is bound to be tough. But not technically unfeasible (after all, you can drop down to PTX if needed).
I’d rather nuclear material be kept away from water…
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820022
Link directly to the arxiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19108
If anyone can suggest an accurate, neutral, non-abbreviated title that fits HN's 80 char limit, we can exhume the lede.