skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US judge will not block Biden administration ban on noncompete agreements
It depends on what you're used to. SF to San Jose, unless you live next to a station at one end and the place you're trying to go is next to a station at the other I'd expect 2 to 2.5 hrs one way.

A quick search shows SF to SJ to be 1hr to 1hr 23 mins but then you'll likely need 20-30 mins at each end to get where you're going.
The sponsors aren't partners who are tuning up the bikes. It's companies who cut a cheque and expect logos everywhere.

Individual riders/teams are motivated to win and get sponsor dollars, so may resort to cheating. They know they will lose sponsors forever and be banned if caught, so they try to hide it from sponsors and officials. Basically: the same disincentives exist today. They just need to catch folks. It's just doping v2.
Specializing dynamic language C extensions using type information [pdf]
Does it? You're looking at a gargantuan investment in terms of money that would also require thousands of staff.

That just doesn't seem a good idea.
Ah okay, interesting, thanks.
Uber didn’t ask for any regulatory approval.
> I mean what can be? Either you fire every time a mistake is made or you let it slip.

OOP listed a possibility in his comment:

> if prosecutors pull shit like this they get sentenced to triple the jail time/financial penalty the defendant would have had, if convicted, and pay triple the legal expenses to defendant as well

The whole justice system is currently incentivized to be as callous and cruel as possible, because there are no consequences or accountability when they're wrong. Down the individual police officers who can do anything they want because they enjoy qualified immunity.

The entire system from the beat cop all the way up to prosecutors and judges are in dire need of accountability for their misconduct.
> the only place that is solved is at the ballot box and within the legislative and legal frameworks

This WAS solved at the ballot box. The law written by our elected representatives requires airport security to allow a reasonable opt-out[1].

> DHS ensures alternative processing is available to resolve match or no match outcomes. The mechanism or process to opt-out and complete alternative processing may not impose additional burdens or requirements on the individual beyond what is necessary to complete the verification process.

Many of the responses in this thread are indicating that the implementation of this opt-out is excessively burdensome, such that opting out could easily cause a traveler to miss their flight.

We should all be concerned that the authority granted an extraordinary enforcement power over a functionally mandatory part of modern life ignores limitations that that we "made at the ballot box" because it finds them inconvenient.

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/23_0913_mgmt...
X Redesigns Water Pistol Emoji Back to a Firearm
And crime in almost every category is 3-18x higher (+ 83x more assaults than China)

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/China/Unit...

The only category china ranks higher in is corruption and bribery and oddly the number of judges and prosecutors employed.
I would not assume it's sufficiently fair to make that a good algorithm.

Even a small bias could turn a 5 minute calculation into a 6 or 7 minute calculation as the stragglers finish up.
My only concern is flood plains. I had 8' of water in my basement at the first house I lived in. Technically not in a flood plain but close enough to a river. Never again.
Not understanding an idiom is something you should just discuss with ChatGPT, it'll set you straight, show you the ropes, right your ship, and whatnot.
Enough to counter anything launched from North Korea towards the US and that's about it. Having enough anti-nuke missiles to shoot down every one means that it's feasible you could win a first strike, which is not conductive to stable nuclear relations
Number divided by zero shall be zero. The possibly-floating-point exception of immediate program death is an interesting idea that has aged poorly. Loads of things go wrong in software. Div / 0 badly upsetting mechanical calculators isn't a reason for software to abort at the sight of it.

Counterarguments in comments perhaps. Someone have a driving passion for this particular edge case of missed input validation being wildly more important than all the others?
This incident, together with the news that the 1997 film Titanic employed a Linux-based render farm to composite special effects shots together (one of the first such Linux deployments for a major Hollywood film), led to the Slashdot-era joke: "Linux renders ships. Windows renders ships useless."
Some random one-off tiny race in the middle nowhere does not make the existence of bike racing an overpriced scam, dear lord.
So 2-3x better than Stellantis. Their CEO must be further right than a willow.
It was way way over budget, took way longer than it was supposed to, and ... no one is using it.

https://www.transittalent.com/articles/index.cfm?story=SF_Ce...
+1 for power toys

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

also, Cygwin if you need it
What exactly are you trying to script and manipulate on company computers? (i.e. are you just playing around or trying to write your own programs, or is there some business process you're trying to automate?)

Assuming you're just playing around and not trying to build something for business/professional use:

Can you access Powershell at all (the new-ish and improved Windows terminal)? You can write scripts in it.

If you prefer GNU/Linux apps, you can try a portable build of Cygwin (which lets you run Bash and some utils): https://github.com/MachinaCore/CygwinPortable (edit: or see Git Bash, as posted by Leftium: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41052353)

Also check out Portable Apps: https://portableapps.com/apps

As a last resort, you might be able to put Linux on a USB drive (or disk drive, if it has one) and boot into that, if the BIOS lets you. Some of the Live CDs have a "diskless" mode that won't cause any permanent changes to the system.

There's probably also a lot of online tools that can do some of that inside a web browser (like word processors and PDF editors and text manipulation). You can also run code inside codesandbox/codepen/hosted code space of your choice. Or you can look for portable interpreters for Node (Javascript), maybe Python, Lua, etc.

For window management, Windows has some nice shortcuts built-in (like drag a window to a side to fill half the screen, windows+arrow keys to move things around, or Windows+tab or alt-tab to switch between apps, etc.

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On the other hand, if you're actually trying to write something for the company, you should probably talk to your IT department about it and collaborate on a solution. Don't write something bespoke that nobody else can maintain once you're gone (or just promoted). Especially if it's actually tied to some industrial processes!
> Imagine thinking a 0.5% return on investment is a good use of money

What is waymo's valuation? How much has alphabet invested in waymo? $10 billion? What could they sell it off for today? $30 billion? More? What would the ROI be?

> when treasury bonds return almost 5%

And yet alphabet invests in waymo? I wonder why? Oh that's right. Alphabet created waymo as tax write off scheme. Absolute genius.

It's insane how ingnorant hn commentors are when it comes to finance, investment and technology. Every earnings and every financial news, it's the most ignorant who rant about nonsense confidently. But then again, according to the geniuses of hn, tesla, meta, bitcoin, etc would have imploded years ago.
Starlink have a number of debris problems, including pieces hitting the ground, so I wouldn't say that they're actually following through with their good practices.
Google (Alphabet) is already the 4th largest company in the world by market cap.

So, what -- you want to see their revenue grow by 50% or something in a single year?

For mature companies of that size, that's not really a thing. I think your expectations for defining AI success may be a bit too high here.
I wrote a paper as a freshman on a poem by Wordsworth, “A slumber did my spirit seal” in which I transposed the subject and object of that line. This sort of thing is much clearer in languages which retain noun cases.
I don't live in Poland but Saska Kepa is fantastic.
This is an established space, with provides like Okta, Teleport, JumpCloud, and even Microsoft Entra ID. Most of those options have fewer barriers of protection as it's simpler, which leads to better security and reliability in practice.

Your target audience is likely companies running old-school, legacy Microsoft installations. These tend to be on-prem for the reasons you list.

The problem, though, is if these companies want a VPN, they already have it. You'll have to convince them that the VPN they've been using for decades is insecure (it's not).

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Lastly, at a technical level, I'm not entirely sure what you achieve by requiring user/pass+yubikey on multiple layers of the stack. You don't gain any additional technical protection (since L3 would wrap everything else) while still having a single point of failure.
>How about if I use words from Christ himself?

There's no solid evidence these quotes are accurate (plus, they're translated if he ever existed and made any such speeches). The entire belief is based on faith.

>Anything trying to explicitly enforce "Christianity" with political power is out of line with Christ's teaching. This has always been true

That's your opinion, based on your interpretation. Other Christians in the US have a different opinion.

>A lot of the people I see on TV pounding on about God and Christianity don't show any evidence that they know anything at all about Jesus; I don't have any reason to believe them to be Christians.

That again is your opinion, based on your interpretation of a quote written down by some religious person centuries after the deity that supposedly uttered it was on Earth. Other Christians have a different opinion.

As a non-Christian, it's not up to me to decide whose beliefs are "correct". And the people you disagree with aren't some vanishingly small, fringe minority; they're a significant part of the US voting public. I appreciate that your beliefs are different, and personally I like your beliefs more than theirs, but you're not going to convince me that yours are more correct; as far as I'm concerned, neither one has any basis in reality. Yours certainly sound nicer, but Christianity has well over a millennium of history of being tied to state power, so the other side has a lot of precedent.

>Others are real Christians -- people trying to follow Jesus and take his teachings seriously -- who are simply deluded.

Again, "real Christians" in your opinion. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who self-identifies honestly as a "Christian" is one, regardless of how incongruent their actions and opinions seem to be with some of the teachings of some of the denominations of that religion.

Anyway, I do appreciate you doing this analysis of the different factions, and I do agree with your breakdown of them.

>Consider the "gay wedding cake" case

As much as I hate many of the SCOTUS decisions in the last 8 years or so, I actually agree with this one, or at least its outcome, though I think the justices all missed the real issue. If the gay couple had wanted to buy an off-the-shelf (non-custom) cake, the baker should have been required to sell it to them. However, (as I understand the case) they wanted a custom cake, so basically they wanted to commission artwork. I think that should be subject to 1A protection; no one should be legally required to create artwork for something they disagree with.
The deltaV will out, one way or the other. Venting is better than having it completely uncontrolled.
Don't get me started, our country makes my brain hurt. The Works program was considered so successful at eliminating unemployed folks, we killed it. Because why would we need to continue building roads and bridges, and fixing old roads and bridges, and giving people meaningful work to do vs. just handing out food stamps? That problem is solved... (Please note I'm not against food stamps/welfare programs, I just think having that be the ONLY option is detrimental to able-bodied folks that just want to feel like they're contributing to society but also can't find steady employment for various reasons).
The Olympics cost billions as it is, millions are peanuts.

But why invest millions to develop a bike? Get a few score identical (but the fit) top model bikes off the shelf and call it a day.
> digital totalitarianism

That seems a bit dramatic. I don’t do big corporate IT but I thought a lot of corporate IT shops have the ability with Microsoft to choose what updates are pushed out to computers on their domain. If so, then something like that could have prevented it, presuming they have the ability to allow a single computer or small group to receive the update to confirm it works successfully.
> based on the recent pay-package vote, they strongly disagree.

Indeed, it's almost as if everyone knows the fundamentals are weak, it's 90% a meme stock, and they're afraid that taking away the magic part-time CEO will end the meme.
See also https://www.newsweek.com/china-navy-warships-sail-near-japan...
Arguably the most important which is why they should be riding identical bikes
Are these things regulated by the FDA? And if not, why not?
If people didn't want to live in the cities the prices would be cheap, no demand. The fact that they're not cheap is proof people want to live in them
The article seems to be entirely speculative. Why decide the channel files are executable code, without any first-hand investigation?
Does it count as income? Fed, state, local (if applicable) all get a cut.

If it doesn’t count as income, unsure.
In a similar vein, I’ve heard an old priest say that if you start seeing a supernatural phenomenon, including the second coming of Jesus, don’t stick around.
I have no doubt that it used to be true, but not anymore. Post-2015 mating preferences are very...dynamic, let's say.
“Busy” does not begin to describe it. The city’s population of 45,000 is swamped by over a million visitors in the month of October.

People love spooky stuff.
I'm of the view that strictly speaking, even a fair die doesn't have a probability distribution until you throw it. It just so happens that, unless you know almost every detail about the throw, the best you can usually do is uniform.

So I would say the same of GPT-2. It's not a random variable unless you query it. But unless you know unreasonably many details, the best you can do to predict the query is the distribution that you would call "objective."
AI image gen in particular is really cheap. You can run the best state of the art open source model, which also gives you much more control than something like DALL-E, on a consumer GPU.
A scheme where Red Bull is helping athletes cheat is front page news. It would be catastrophic to their reputation.

Well, either that or it would triple sales overnight. "Hey, this stuff really DOES give you wings!"
Once got a cheap "Sandisk" SD card from an Australian ebay seller, which had much less capacity than what was displayed when it was plugged in.

After I tried to store more and ran into issues, I did some investigation and found out that it was a counterfeit Sandisk.

I emailed a screenshot with proof to the seller. Because of the very good consumer protection laws we have here, I got my money back.
It’s the principle.
The rail situation in California is so bad, the company in charge of building rail packed up and moved to Africa - because they thought they’d have better luck there.
The sign continues…

…unless you’re not a US citizen, in which cases we retain the image forever. You can’t opt out.
> this they get sentenced to triple the jail time/financial penalty the defendant would have had, if convicted,

I get that this feels super righteous at all... but who would be a prosecutor under such a threat? Perhaps a few idiots and powermongers.

Maybe if you also paid 10x ordinary wages you'd get some people who were just merely greedy enough to take stupid risks.
I think it was intentional. A distraction.
Discussion (133 points, 18 hours ago, 195 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41042877
Don't think you read the link. It talks about CO rebreathing as an analytics tool, and then specifically talks about a more aggressive method to increase performance:

> A second, more aggressive approach, which is called carbon monoxide inhalation and uses the same equipment and techniques, steps into the scientifically new and much riskier realm of inhaling the poisonous gas for the express purpose of performance enhancement. A growing body of recent scientific research suggests CO inhalation can have a powerful impact on measures of aerobic capacity like VO2max, or maximal oxygen uptake.
Norway doesn't seem to have a problem with it.
A world tour pro would lap the field on a $500 bike if racing against a bunch of weekend warriors on $15k bikes. It's such a diminishing amount of performance coupled with a huge amount of advertising.

If you want to spend $15k on a bike - go ahead, just don't be upset when you get overtaken by a 17 year old in gym shorts on a second hand clunker.
The SF bay area is way more than dense as Switzerland with comparable populations but Switzerland has way more public transportation
Cross entropy lets you compare two probability distributions. One way you can apply it is to let the distribution p represent "reality" (from which you can draw many samples, but whose numerical value you might not know) and to let q represent "beliefs" (whose numerical value is given by a model). Then by finding q to minimize cross-entropy H[p, q] you can move q closer to reality.

You can apply it other ways. There are lots of interpretations and uses for these concepts. Here's a cool blog post if you want to find out more: https://blog.alexalemi.com/kl-is-all-you-need.html
Federal Act on Use of Electronic Means for the Performance of Official Duties
State the principle.
As GP said, it’s hard to maintain that situational awareness on a constant basis.

However, it may be prudent to tune in when you are in a new environment or you hear a new sound in an environment you’re used to.
Extracting geothermal power for its own sake would not be, and probably should be done.
So we need a power meter at the pedal and a power meter at the tire/road interface. And of course, you don't expect those values to agree due to mechanical inefficiency. Which means that even with that level of scrutiny, there's a few percentage points of overhead for your motor-dopers to play in.
Doesn't sound THAT different than my programming job. It's pipes full of shit either way...
If you were correct the repeated exposure to low doses of radiation would not be cause for concern.

Truthfully, the amount of radiation you are exposed to does accumulate its negative affects, we certainly consider it as such for every work environment for a reason.

You are confident in this, and more eloquent than me at 2am, whoever I cannot let that falsehood stand.

As far as ionising radiation goes, if its ionising then its ionising, there’s not “different types”- however the parent is correct that millimetre waves do not penetrate the skin and are considered non-ionising
You clearly have never lived in a city with good public transportation.

20yrs with a car in car infested suburbia and then 18 without in a city with amazing public transportation. Without was way better.
https://www.trendforce.com/price/flash

TLC flash is currently less than $0.10/GB. $3 will probably get you a 32GB drive with flash of dubious quality.
...and puma and i-225V chipsets.

or at least... maybe on the CPU side they were no-drama. Other than C2000/C3000. Granted the powervr graphics on the atoms way back did suck... and meltdown... and avx-512 being rolled back... /phillip j fry counting on his fingers

maybe "blue-chip coded" is a better way to express it ig

but like, there is a notable decline in the quality of execution of intel overall, pretty much across the board, and cpu was always their core vertical, right? That was their business redoubt. intel is blue chip chips, especially CPUs. And now it's falling - really it's been falling for a while. Meltdown I can generally excuse (yes, shush), nobody appreciated sidechannels back then even if they were theoretically known. C2000/C3000 is another fuckup. yeah it's the super-io/serial bus controller... technically not their IP but it happens to be in a critical path, on their node, killing their processor. They fucked up the validation there, evidently.

I-225V had three steppings and I-226V is still not fully fixed (windows/linux have just turned off the EEE/802.11az feature instead). Puma was a god damned mess.

Sapphire rapids was late, still a huge mess, and actually the -W platform had not only insane power draw, but also insaner transients. 750W average, spiking up to 1500W under load, with pretty steep holdup requirements. And actually that was locked behind a "water cooled" bios option, the processor just "refused to all-core turbo" otherwise. And Intel didn't wanna actually say that the "water cooled" behavior was the spec or intentional turbo limits etc. In hindsight hmmm, that all took a bit of a different tone, didn't it?

Supposedly there is going to be a SPR-W refresh with a new stepping to fix this... emerald rapids is also very power-hungry and there were some unconfirmed murmurs suggesting it might have the same crash problems.

(yes, yes, please just listen to the guest here.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HJu5xt43iQ&t=3603s

https://wccftech.com/intel-xeon-w-3500-w-2500-sapphire-rapid...

Intel's in some real danger especially with AMD ascendant like this. Like it doesn't take very long of this real damage to customers etc and that "we're blue-chip!" thing will cease to be, and that is the last prop keeping intel's finances above the water here. Sure, it will take a while to fully wind down but... this is a great example of how intel's fuckups are driving their clients literally into the arms of the competition. A month or two ago, Asrock Rack didn't give a shit about the B650-2L2T or whatever. Guess what? Now Epyc Mini exists and oems are going to be paying attention to that. Oops.
Speculation: this "all zero" file is part of a signed batch, they have to have signatures, they are not that dumb (I hope...). By removing a file, the batch becomes incomplete, fails the check, and some corruption recovery mechanism takes over, most likely disabling the update and triggering an update. In the meantime, they fixed the content update, fixing the crash.
Digital tax talks in G20 spotlight as US tariff threat looms
Pnut: A C to POSIX shell compiler you can trust
They mean that their code is written with strong assumption everything is written the way it is. If you make modifications to the internal or push an unexpexted type in it, they expected it to fail. There's no guardrail that everything is in a right state.. well, standard internal code.
What leaps in ISO?

A7S went ISO 50 - 409,600. That's early 2015. MSRP was $2500.

That's the same as $6300 EOS R1, double the $5400 Nikon X6III, 8x the $1500 Lumix S9, 8x the $4300 R5 Mark II, and 8x the $6000 Sony S9.

Those are the most recently reviewed cameras on DPReview.

Per DxOMark, like-for-like, we're up maybe 30% in a decade for typical cameras. You won't see that in a photo.
Y Combinator vs. Lightspeed ventures vs. Seqoia arc
Hello,

I have a unique speciality in LLMs(worked on Gemini at Google) and have been fortunate enough to get a few people reaching out for me to join their startup.

One where they are admitted to ycombinator, another where they are admitted to seqoia arc, and another where they have an investment from Lightspeed ventures. Co founders are roughly equally impressive.

I know very little about the VC space and was wondering if anyone could compare and contrast these choices.

Thank you