skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Yuri Gagarin saw Earth from orbit for the first time in history, he saw a planet without borders between nations. One planet, one human species.

This vision is the last thing that the people profiting from conflict want you to see.
Ok, well now that I know you're in the Schengen Zone, go for the CS Degree. It is more of an International type of degree that will allow you to explore more options outside of Greece.
GDP in such a services-based economy is unreliable as a metric for the ability to produce, since just moving the money around now contributes to it.
I don't see an ISA switch being worth much. As I understand it today, most cores are basically an ISA interpreter on the front of a bespoke core. There's not much to be gained from using a specific ISA or arch (unless it's so different as to not be the same thing, like GPU vs CPU).

Probably they could also go the way of making the guarantees provided by the processor as weak as possible, but that's even harder to switch to, I'd imagine.
Relates to that, I've always been interested in the comparison of astrology to the various different personality tests.

I always find myself coming across a new (to me) personality test with a heavy dose of skepticism. More often than not I get to the results and am surprised with how well the results seem to describe me in great detail. I never know whether to shake my skepticism or if I just got taken by a way more clever slight of hand than astrology offers.

Astrology feels like a show from the early 00s that I can't remember the name of. It was setup as a live audience show with the host claiming to talk to dead people. The problem was he was so insanely generic that it was just basic statistics combined with basic skills at reading people's responses. He's often point to half the room of a few hundred people and say "I'm feeling someone...the letter S? ..."
> it's that they're creating jobs.

It seems to me they just repurposed other industries and companies that were dwindling or going out of business anyways. I'm failing to see the millions of people put to work on this project.

> they're obviously not a monopoly in that area

SLS was officially started in 2011. SpaceX just had it's first successful launch and public verification of their platform in 2008. The situation today is different than it was when SLS was being put together. I think it's worth understanding in that context. Aside from that, Boeing is a monopoly, which grants them lots of power to manipulate the government.

> They and other old school defense contractors specifically advertise these projects with the promise of creating jobs in all 50 states.

Okay.. then how do they connect that back to specific senators in the minds of the voters to help them get elected?

> a single senator was capable of holding back

Was that simply because he was a senator or because he was on a _specific_ committee? Do we want to get into how committee assignments are handed out? Or how that particular "power" actually functions?

> because if you can refuel in space

Maintaining cryogenics in orbit is actually harder than people admit and you're resting a huge part of your argument on a very shaky ideal here.
Occupational sunlight exposure and melanoma in the U.S. Navy
You acquired 87 customers and are getting 5 new month but losing 10 customers. The question is how many new customers are leaving vs part of the 87 batch. They are going to wonder if your new customer pipeline is scalable.
I've always thought that the messaging/texting interface is really nice and intuitive. It's like your terminal history but more ... personable?

I got it running locally and, while I wasn't sure all of what I could do, it was responsive and search worked well. Nicely done!
You can if you know both Bob and Steve because you are their manager...
Probably depends on the tier of processor too. Not all servers probably need 10k 64/128core CPUs.
I cannot tell exactly why this is an attractive idea, but I find it seducing. I am not sure I can rationally defend it.
Date is unclear, and I cannot find an attribution for this particular lecture.

Alan Watts died in 1973, and was broadcasting publicly over KPFA in the SF Bay Area from 1953. The talk mentions Billy Graham who was just becoming prominent in the late 1950s.

There's mention of Watts appearing on Canadian Television. I find three such instances, in 1966 (book tour), 1967 (interview), and 1971 (5-part series "On Living"):

<https://alanwatts.org/visual/>

<https://broadcasting-history.ca/alan-watts-on-living/>

Which would suggest sometime in the range 1968--1973 for this piece, though that's still iffy.
I actually like that style of building, I would hate to see them destroyed.
I really am hopeful we come a bit full circle on builders and machines to "we buy one or two very expensive machines that run CI and builds". Caching in particular is just sitting there, waiting to be properly captured, instead of constantly churning on various machines.

Of course, CI SaaSes implement a lot of caching on their end, but they also try to put people on the most anemic machines possible to try and capture those juicy margins.
This is true, but just to quantify it a bit, a lot of people can run at their lactate threshold for about an hour. This isn't 'long' but may be longer than most people think.

That said, I remember doing similar 'runs to the parking lot' and being gassed when I was totally untrained despite being capable of long walks/hikes. I suspect there are even more basic adaptations one needs to be able to do these very short activities for which a more trained individual can complete anaerobically.
What's worse ignorance or malice? Boeing presents the best of both all to maximize quarterly earning$.

Can we please stop giving my tax dollars to them? Maybe it's better than building functioning weapon systems?
This is a fair point. Earlier in my career I jumped ships so many times I had to move to another city to find 'new work'. It was a rather small city with companies buying off each others etc.

I learnt throughout these episodes that people make companies, not some branding or marketing dep.

My motto for the last 20 years has been "find good people, do good work". Emphasis on __good__, not great, best, immaculate, amazing, nonsense. But definitely good. My standards are pretty high though!
More like a factor of 6.6.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPC1
If the App Store is a place where creators can also sell their own content (story apps, etc.).. isn't it a direct competitor to Pateron as a creator's platform, and so should be treated (and maybe regulated) as such? In the manner that Apple need to allow legitimate platforms such as Pateron to survive and compete fairly in the iOS ecosystem?

(A parallel is Netscape Navigator vs Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer)

Lastly, a gentle reminder since I too sometimes slip up and fondly recall the good old six-colored apple... that Apple has been the top 3 largest company by market capitalisation for more than 10 years. They are underdogs no more.
That'd be a potential way out, yes. At least, it would be if Putin hadn't already poisoned, blown up, or otherwise murdered everyone who might have been up to the job of replacing him in a coup.
Beautiful view. When you have faith, really, you have everything. all that's left are liabilities when you don't. It's the heavy lift. such sparse and honest writing, I often forget pastors are usually really good at that.
Well, then, don’t pay it. Pay yourself for the service instead. Nothing stopping you from being the service provider if there is no monopoly.

Is suspect you will soon find a monopoly, though, and that you’re merely confusing some external interpretations with what is defined within the context of this particular.
I very clearly wrote "he" not "SpaceX".
There are an enormous number of physicists who can't find jobs now, the systemic problems are much deeper than that. In fact, I would posit that the "low standards" of highschool STEM relative to countries like India are actually due to the extraordinarily high fraction of our kids we push in that direction.
So, would you prefer the space division of Boeing to crash and burn, and be replaced with something else entirely? Where would it come from? What to do with other important Boeing space contracts, like, say, X-37?
Whether it has chlorine or not depends on the treatment system used. The document states only 0.2 micrograms of chlorine per liter of water.
You really think the quality of bug reports go down the easier it is to report bugs?

I find when I can send feedback in a way that captures enough context that the resulting bugs are very high quality.

If I could report a call from a scammer in such a way that the investigator heard the entire conversation...? I think that would be incredibly damning.
Thank you!!!! I moved to NL last year and have been missing this.
Yes, it has nothing to do with privacy. The opposite is maybe true in that case (i.e. google can probably see my usage of sponsorblock in the access logs, which makes it simpler for them to identify me).

But I do use it. I don't watch video clips very often. When I did, most of the times it was disappointing waste of time. Conference talks are the most obvious exception that come to my mind, and they don't interrupt their talk with sponsor ads.

Once something is in YT (or any other big tech silo), I'm completely outside of charity or goodwill mode. It's basically like sth broadcasted by a random tv station for me. I maybe consume it, but I'll not start thinking how I can support them. The 'free web' that I'd explicitly try to support does not happen in big tech's walled gardens.

Btw: Are there any 'good' sponsors in YT? I suspect, a company that sponsors YT channels is by definition suspect. Just because the target audience doesn't really ask for more. They spend hours each day in a loop of mostly pointless 'subscribe, like me, follow me, comment below, $SPONSOR, ...' and always the big show without any actual substance in the end.

Sure, there are always a handful of exceptions...
It's a pervasive problem among all gov contractors. Most don't pay as well as private market, and you have the added downside of needing a clearance in a lot of positions, so they try to make it up with "job security". That means, when times are tough, instead of letting people go they freeze or cap raises, often below inflation. Good people wind up leaving.

If half your best people leave every few years when the gov hits its next debt ceiling, your company is gonna have a bad time.
If you are such a person of interest that the government is observing your computer usage, the game is already lost.
So does this mean that housekeeping is conducting covert surveillance? Searching my personal effects? To whom do they report their findings ?
This makes sense because wires and pipes and drains and whatnot are called “profits”
Yeah Wez is limited by tmux behavior. If tmux breaks up one line into many, wezterm can’t undo that.

Wes is right about wezterm domains though. The native domains feature and pane support I think will meet the needs of most.
K-shaped “recovery” is socially dangerous for that reason:

- you have net positive statistics, so the government doesn’t intervene

- you have a class that controls the levers of power growing substantial wealth in “services” and other extractive portions of the economy; and accompanying growth in large institutions or government

- you have a largely devastated productive and working economy; and accompanying collapse of SMBs

In whatever sense we’re not in a recession, that’s only because economic looting is so profitable on paper, we’re marginally positive. But that false signal of “not recession” can suppress normal responses and allow the country to move into socially unstable territory.
How many of the apps you're complaining about are paying 30% to Apple? Hotels and restaurants definitely aren't.

Also a lot of companies make apps so they can get more tracking info. That value doesn't come from the Apple Store.

It's things like games that really get an advantage from being native and in the store. And that's largely a red queen's race, they need to stay on top and they'll pay out the nose to be the easiest install. Paying lots of money in a zero-sum situation doesn't mean they're getting much value in a more zoomed-out sense.
Human element is going to thwart your countermeasure when they want to let in some light.
> In 2020, COVID caused the most dramatic rise in unemployment the U.S. had ever seen.

I'm afraid this isn't accurate, unless your history of the U.S. is 10 years.
I wonder how many attendees social engineered their way into other people's rooms pretending to be room inspection goons?

(I wonder if the NSA collected a bunch of zero days by copying every usb drive their undercover operatives found in rooms while "employed" as hotel security?)
> It's hard to spell out why, exactly, tl;dr: death penalty for your career if any of this is discovered by anyone

How many careers have ended over discovery of parallel construction?
Seconding all of the recommendations. Wildbow (author or Worm) has a number of other works (Twig got rave reviews; I’m uncommon in liking Pact)

And, if you like those… I’ll also recommend Practical Guide to Evil (and that author’s next and in-progress work, Pale Lights)
Because they've already been on the road to moving off of them for a while now (for this reason)
“Don’t mess with happy.” - Brad Scott
Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy claims another victim.

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.

RIP Jerry. A Step Farther Out is one of my all time favorites.
I started trying to pay attention and do some "zone 2" training recently. I came to the sad realization that a moderate jog pushes me well over zone 2. :(
No, golden handcuffs are when you're in for a massive payout if you stick it. In this case, this person is trapped. So just regular handcuffs.
Related to this Applied Science on YouTube has a pretty cool video where he demonstrates how a single laser diode can be used to measure miniscule vibrations. I wonder if this would be sufficient for a laser microphone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdro-6u2Zg
They've stated the reason: Vegas is the only true 24/7 city in the US.
The plot twist is that Bob is rushing all of his welds and thinks Steve is wasting his time by making them "look good".
> It will work perfectly fine and end up being very readable for you and for the other persons reading your code.

And make all future work both 3 times simpler, and take 3 times as long. I suppose there’s situations in which this is great, but I’m partial to requiring more.

I’ll admit that hasn’t worked out very well for me unless I’m working my myself though.
The Soviet Union would actually send managers to GULAG for "wrecking," or other labor crimes, and it didn't really help. In fact, "accountability" was the only thing the USSR did not have a short supply of. Extraordinary punishments don't help if the system for figuring out who's doing a good job, and who isn't, is not working in the first place.
People are or are not vegetarian mostly because of their parents and the culture in which they were raised.

People who are not vegetarian but have never cared for or killed a farm animal were very likely (in most parts of the world) raised by people that have.

Even in the USofA much of the present generations are not far removed from grandparents who owned farms | worked farms | hunted.

The present day is a continuum from yesterday. Change can happen, but the current conditions are shaped by the prior conditions.
Oh, this is really fantastic, I'm going to check it out! Does you end up with an archive of the data that's being queried?

In case we might be a good fit ... https://www.joshcanhelp.com/hire-me/
Great job by the engineers of X for overcoming that speed-bump. #hugops
Reality is stranger than fiction: "Donald Trump is using Jeffrey Epstein’s old jet to fly to campaign events" - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
I used to have the same cynical feeling until I realized that there's very little overlap between the things that are actually cool to work on vs the things that other people need done. And if you prioritize the former over the latter, you're essentially trading off easy money for more stress

During the 9-5, the goal is to solve other people's problems. It's not pretty but it's what we're paid to do
> The DA should prosecute the "security staff" for their illegal acts

Ha ha. In _Vegas_? Not in this timeline. The DA is _not_ on your side in this fight.
It's more complicated than that. All they really did was suspend the "fruit of the poison tree" doctrine.

The evidence gathered by the now ruled unconstitutional methods is not allowed to be used but the evidence gathered afterwards is still admissable where it normally would not be.

In this case, they can't use the geofence data of their locations as evidence but, after they used that to identify suspects, they can use all evidence gathered afterwards where that would normally not be allowed.
The ability to get more tracking info comes from producing an app which in turn comes from the Apple Store. I’ve never found myself wanting to use a Patreon app instead of their website, just like I found the substack app a complete waste of space and immediately deleted it.

Not everything needs to be an app.
The fact that the rest of Twitter is online, Spaces requires logging in, and that their auth is online makes me feel maybe it’s lack of prep and not a DDoS.

Even if it’s a DDoS, proper preparation for an event of thing kind would require mitigation capabilities to be put in place, which apparently weren’t. Feels like excuses either way.
A16Z-backed fintech Tally, which raised $172M in funding, is shutting down
When people started to coin the term "silent quitting", it was a tell-tale sign of what was to come: a screwed up economy with positive unemployment rate.

The measurements and metrics of the Keynesian economy need to evolve, they're about the same nonsense for the last 50 years. They have no consideration for the modern days, open economies, globalisation, remote work, isolation, depressive open offices and meaningless work.

Meanwhile we're still looking at the same job figures as a primary indicator of doom and gloom.

There is no measurement for innovation, happiness, self-worth or satisfaction; if they had one, it would show that it plummeted to never seen levels of despair. Job figures don't show how the economy relies on how much we can screw people over with things they can't get away from ("moats"), while being stuck in jobs they never wanted to do in their right minds ("career").

It all started with mortgages if you ask me. It never became about how much you could afford a house, but how much a third-party thought they could get out of you to afford a house - they inflated the prices of. The idea that we buy these extremely expensive "permit to live here", paying for the rest of your life is mental.
A C build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine.
This is my favorite style of architecture. I only really came to appreciate it after seeing 33 Thomas Street in NYC in person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street

If you’re ever in NYC, I highly recommend going to check it out.
Personally my biggest issue with reading go code has come from the //go: magic comments that I never seem to fully understand.

For example, what the heck is a //go:cgo_import_dynamic? As far as I can tell this is only documented on GitHub issues and mailing list comments.
Apollo really was a rare alignment of motivations, unbounded optimism meets existential fear, ie, "humanity can migrate into the stars" overlapping with "if we don't do this the commies win first strike capability", seems unlikely to re-occur.
There's a lot of options from both mfgs above the bottom end. Alder lake CPUs (eg. 12600h is simarly priced with 12 cores) are pretty solid in the same price class as Zen 3. I think both have pretty competitive miniPC offerings (with intel usually offering more cores) in the midrange.

Definitely agree asst if you plan on actually using the minipc swinging a real mobile chip with 3x the perf of N100 class processors is almost certainly worth it.
Other than eavesdrop, the biggest advantage of HTTPS for me is to stop nasty ISP that injecting advertisement or other code in HTTP page.
I wonder if we can change the incentive to have their bonus in stock options that can only be accessed via a minimum 10 years to 15 years.
I wouldn't want to over-state it, but I see parallels here to radiation hormesis, in that some amount of sunlight is beneficial because it stimulates vitamin-D production which itself is protective to cancers, as well as mental health and bone density.

"no safe limit" take note.

I wonder if they managed submariners differently? They used to be supplied with UV lights inside the vessel.
> This is missing the broader point, which is that companies absolutely do gatekeep access to "their" customers all the time in several industries in and outside of tech.

You're still in need of examples, because I've already explained how credit card companies don't gatekeep access to me.

> Customer acquisition costs a lot of money, and one of the ways businesses recoup their costs or boost profits is by monetizing them by selling access.

iPhones also cost a lot of money. Apple sold almost $40 billion worth of iPhones just last quarter. I'm quite certain that Apple is recouping its costs via hardware sales.
From the blog's section on semantic search:

Under the hood, we store the embeddings in a meta.embeddings table then pass back to AI the resulting IDs for each embedding. We do this because embedding vectors are big, and sending these back and forth to the model is not only expensive, but also error prone. Instead, the language model is aware of the meta.embeddings table and simply subqueries to it when it needs access to an embedding.

A couple Qs if anyone knows:

1. What does it mean to "pass back to AI the resulting IDs for each embedding" but not the table rows corresponding to the matched vectors?

2. Does "the language model is aware of the meta.embedding table" mean Supabase has deployed a fine-tuned GPT-4o?
Just like the execs wanted…
Nope. I can find no official way to export my own data.
This goes back to 1948 and they're correct for that time span: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE

The lockdowns forced a lot of people into unemployment for a variety of reasons on top of the normal "it was a recession" ones.