skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it does. Advertisements, as a general concept, have an effect of driving customers to sales (simply because it creates awareness about the product, when there was none) - I'm not arguing it doesn't.

But Google's approach is questionable. Yes, they make money, but that's not the only effect the have. They pushed this story about targeted ads, it literally became a heroic myth blown (stories of what's really some cost-shaving statistic optimizations got blown out of proportions and became preached like all this crazy Big Data hoarding is the only way to go), and that had quite severe negative effects on the whole world - so I'm not sure those revenue increases were worth it.

I think, I need to think it more through.
I mean, we _are_ talking about a book which invites you to build your own toy C compiler ^^

Nevertheless, OCaml is very strong in compiler design. For example Rust and Hack were written in OCaml initially.

Nevertheless you are not wrong that compilers needing the very last bit of performance like the JVM and LLVM tend to be written in C++

But the barrier is quite a lot more tending to high performance/very high performance and not toy/production

Java and Python are suitable for implementing a toy Compiler and the auther invites you to use any language you like. Just the reference implementation is using OCaml

I would however argue that using C++ is quite advanced since it does not have pattern matching and using C is just masochm. You will be fighting against the language to do even trivial things instead of fighting the actual problem at hand
Seems like a business opportunity
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Raptor is also a lot smaller. F-1s were intentionally designed as large and high thrust because it'd have been simpler to build, test and control a handful of F-1s at the time, compared to say, 30 smaller but more efficient engines.

The useful metric on this front would be thrust density, where Raptor 1 is a bit under twice that of F-1A, Raptor 2 is a little over twice of F-1A, and Raptor 3 should be ~2.5x of F-1A.
I think that's the last thing they should be spending time on. In my list of browser priorities, security, speed, memory all are much higher.
It currently is, and it's easy to trick users into switching it on.
Yours is ridiculously bad advice, but typical for those who work to say. Even for person with no other sources of income, the optimal path is investing such that you will within reasonable amount of time be able to with "certainty" move "reinvest income from X" instead of slaving. But mathematically speaking, even very high income seems to not to be possible since to invest 10000€ year you'd need to have about 1M€ in dividens.

Time is truly the most valuable resource of one. But you fail to believe this.

N.B: Elon Musk strategy of using pre-existing assets as collateral for loans is a great strategy for millionaire-businessmen.
https://archive.is/1jr1B
There's never a 'point' buying Apple regardless of light/heavy use. You buy Apple if you think it's the best OS/hardware combo, you don't if you prefer otherwise.

Even light use will benefit from long battery life, nice screens, and quality construction, and a low cost windows machine will not have that. You can get a good windows machine with comparable hardware, but then it's not low cost anymore.
What about having 2 buttons vs 1 button makes something "inaccessible"? If anything having 2 buttons makes the options that are in the context of the current application more accessible.

But people are incurious, stupid, and just dull-witted, I guess? So you really want the rest of us to have to suffer with 1 button because the lower end of the bell-curve can't handle 2 buttons for reasons related to stupidity?
I wonder, can you do an LLM in GF(2)?
I wonder if a more optimistic version of this could be used to train humans and improve their skills. I'm thinking along the lines of LeetCode / Project Euler, but more dynamic and personalized!

Few examples:

1) Customer service: Simulating challenging customer interactions could help reps develop patience and problem-solving skills.

2) Emergency responders: Creating realistic crisis scenarios (like 911 calls) that could improve decision-making under pressure.

3) Healthcare: Virtual patients with complex symptoms could speed up the learning rate for med students.

4) Conflict resolution: Practicing with difficult personalities could aid mediators and negotiators.

5) Sales: AI-simulated tough customers could help salespeople refine their pitches and objection-handling skills in a low-stakes environment.

Thoughts?
I thought you were referring to Hancock et. al. Keep in mind I know nothing about "CRG".
This has nothing to do with the post?
Off topic, but you may enjoy this guy's cover and hopefully get some pointers on how to play it as well. Although he definitely plays it differently than most

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhjA2nvVD7U
"all the salts" * "all the SSNs" becomes a very big number. With a large enough but still reasonably sized salt, you can engineer it so that hashing all combinations takes an amount of time greater than the age of the universe even if you use all the computers in the world.
Show HN: LocalOps – Deployment automation tool to make Private SaaS easy
Hey there. Anand, here from LocalOps.

We have built a deployment automation tool to provision production environments on AWS and other cloud providers, with just a few clicks. Especially to make Private-SaaS / Single tenant deployments easy.

We opened up signups for everyone, after being in closed beta for a while.

Checkout https://localops.co

Why did we build LocalOps?

We found businesses in regulated industries such as Financial services and Healthcare have a lot of restrictions while signing up for B2B SaaS. They can’t share their data as freely as others, need data hosting in their own region, need more privacy & performance guarantees or at the very least need developers to maintain HIPAA, SOC2 and other compliances year on year.

We wanted to make it easier for small developer teams to easily deliver to these regulated businesses. So we built a cloud-native deployment tool to connect to any cloud provider and deploy applications with just a few clicks. Developers can deploy applications directly on customer’s cloud environment, skip hosting these accounts themselves and side-step a lot of data security compliance obligations.

We have built LocalOps to automate such Private-SaaS deployments end to end on any public cloud.

Docker packages?

Alternatively, Devs can package their applications as Docker image and hand it off to customers IT team to self host, install and maintain. But I’ve heard from CTOs that Day-2 operations are super hard in this way. Monitoring these deployments remotely, keeping them up-to-date and offering same experience as their public SaaS etc., lacks tools and automation.

Big developer teams build such tools in-house. We wanted to bring this to smaller developer teams as well.

How?

Each customer deployment is considered as an App environment. They work the way same no matter which cloud they run on.

One can signup for LocalOps, provide credentials to a target cloud account & private Helm repo, and deploy a production grade app environment on that cloud in about 18-20mins and get a SSL enabled URL for the specific app instance. Each app environment is backed by a Kubernetes cluster to run Apps as Helm installations. Plus, we bundle each App environment with complementary tools to enable deployments, logs and metrics monitoring, encrypt data volumes and more to free up devs from making such choices.

Demo video: https://youtu.be/nWAu6NCvEU4?feature=shared

Anyone can signup now at https://console.localops.co/signup and try out.

I would love to hear your feedback. Have you tried selling to these industries? Please add in your stories on making such private deployments, if you have one to share. It will be super helpful.

Cheers.
The fact of the matter is that consumer demand is only part of the problem. The other part is shareholders and other corporate interests who are deeply intrenched and do not mind if the world burns for their future returns and wealth preservation. Non profits and for profit concerns are unable to solve for this.

https://www.worldcoal.com/coal/13082024/glencore-to-retain-i...

> Shareholders representing an estimated two-thirds of eligible voting shares were consulted for their views. Over 95% of shareholders that specifically expressed a preference for retention or demerger supported the retention of the coal and carbon steel materials business, primarily on the basis that retention should enhance Glencore’s cash generating capacity to fund opportunities in its transition metals portfolio, such as its copper growth project pipeline, as well as accelerate and optimise the return of excess cash flows to shareholders.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/08/...

> Fossil fuel companies are running “a massive mis- and disinformation campaign” so that countries will slow down the adoption of renewable energy and the speed with which they “transition away” from a carbon-intensive economy, the UN has said.

> Selwin Hart, the assistant secretary general of the UN, said that talk of a global “backlash” against climate action was being stoked by the fossil fuel industry, in an effort to persuade world leaders to delay emissions-cutting policies. The perception among many political observers of a rejection of climate policies was a result of this campaign, rather than reflecting the reality of what people think, he added.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/06/23/only-the-super-wea...

> Only the super wealthy stand to lose money from shutting down fossil fuels, study finds
What's the equivalent word for "Your computer suddenly becomes slow and unresponsive, you try to open Task Manager (or run `top` in a terminal) to see what's bogging down your resources, but the resource monitor itself refuses to respond for a few seconds until the lag vanishes, at which point the utility finally renders and everything under the CPU/Memory utilization appears normal" ?
I guess I don't get it. CockroachDB is decidedly an enterprise product. There's no need for even a medium sized company to require distributed database the likes of CockroachDB. If you're a small company using it, you're just using it for fun, and you're probably not paying.

If you're using it and paying for it, then this doesn't seem like a problem. If you're not using it, then it shouldn't matter. If you're using it but not paying for it, then maybe it's okay that you have to start paying for it.
I think it's because they are still a relatively niche pick. Ultimately creating a car is very hard (I assume), so they all tend to converge their efforts on the 95%.

And the 95% want an SUV or a Sedan. The 5% in dense cities, even if you successfully target and sell to 100% of them, isn't much revenue. Whereas if you make a crappy sedan and only 10% of the 95% consider it, that's STILL more sales.

So it might make more sense to simply give up those markets, take that money and dump it into the big sellers. Your Accords and F-150s of the world. To further capture more of the biggest market. So that's my guess.
> It's a joke that NZ would sell out its own citizens like that.

DotCom is not a NZ citizen, he's a resident.
> Are you saying if they own a large enough amount of it, it's OK to ignore their rights?

Let's not pretend these companies give the slightest hint of a shit about morality. They'd destroy the world next year if it meant they could earn a penny more of profit this quarter.

As long as companies like Disney are pulling moves like this [1], I'm not going to sit here and pretend as if these companies are in the right.

The only reason Dotcom (a non-US individual with 0 ties to the US in any way that should matter) is being extradited is because US politicians are pathetically cheap and easy to buy off, and Disney and all the other big media companies have infinite coffers with which to do so, not because of some vague bullshit about morality or property rights.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jl0ekjr0go
The system is very fundamentally not designed to support such an approach (much as I agree that it would produce a better result).

The way to break up companies is to win antitrust lawsuits against them. Except in cases where the companies are actually tied together in some meaningful way (ie, they're not fully separate companies in practice), there's no way to link such suits to each other; each one has to stand or fall on its own merits, and on its own timetable.

I think it would be hard to argue that Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc are actually arms of the same company. Thus, each of these Big Tech antitrust suits needs to happen separately, and some of the remedies might end up combining in counterproductive ways, because they are generally not able to consider each other's situations (the remedies have to be based on the facts of the individual case, AIUI).

It sucks, but it's the only antitrust system we've got right now.
Show HN: I made a virtual coworking platform
Virtual co-working is also known as body-doubling

Long story short, I built this over the course of the last 2+ years or so, evenings and weekends.

Would love to get some feedback
For me, at least, it's not so much the crypto ads in of themselves that puts me off Brave. The issue is that they are a manifestation of Brave's fundamental problem: It's a for-profit endeavor based around offering a free product.

The money has to come from somewhere.

All other browsers have some kind of reasonable story behind the investment made into their existence (yes, even Chrome). Brave doesn't have any, and if the crypto ads stopped paying the bills, there must be something else that comes around to do so. Frankly, I wouldn't trust anyone who's put in that sort of situation with a piece of software I use to access anything important. Doubly so if crypto is a load-bearing component of the current status quo.
> They could be required to store a private copy of the removal requests

They would leak that in the next data breach.
Anecdotally, when I was in a grad-level design class as an undergrad, 100% of my classmates first learned to use their tools via a jailbroken copy of professional software. At that level of competition for opportunity, it just wasn't good enough to have waited until you got to college to learn these tools; you needed to have been playing with them in high school to be fluent enough to look good on a college application form (or a grad application form four years later).

AutoCAD, in particular, used to be[1] super smart about this and went out of their way to get their toolchain in front of high-schoolers (even back when that involved pricy copy-protection solutions like physical dongles).

[1] Not to imply they are no longer super-smart about it; I just no longer have clear signal.
Oh boy, this takes me back. This is from memory, so take it with a grain of salt:
The calling cards I mainly used as a kid in the 90s were ones with a sim-like chip on it that you would insert into a phone booth until it ran out at which point you'd throw them away. Earlier/alternative ones worked, iirc, by calling a free phone line which prompted you to enter a valid calling card number which had credit assigned to it, and then you could make your call. If there was a way to reverse engineer the algorithm for valid calling card numbers (similar to a keygen) I guess you could hack it for free calls. If someone has a more plastic / accurate memory of this please correct me
When I say that a fundamental lesson of field theory is that radicals are not really special, this is what I mean. You are thinking in a more sophisticated way than most newcomers to the subject.
TiDB CTO here, I think that a clear boundary between components is beneficial for the maintainability of a distributed systems like TiDB, and automated deployment tools like `tiup`(https://tiup.io) and the Operator of Kubernetes shield end-users from this complexity in order to maintain best practices in deployment. While still providing enough debugging details for advanced users.
Showhn here last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41189637
Building a debugger and profiler is quite an advanced task compared to building an assembler though ^^

Also much of that work is heavily dependent on the used operating system.

Nevertheless, I'm wishing you all the best on your journey!
Were you paying for it?
Who is running mega.co.nz? It looks like a superior offering compared to mega upload with sophisticated encryption and decoding.
I wonder how (if?) this will interact and integrate with the current software stack and the various volume-managing filesystems (zfs but also btrfs).
Oh hey, that's kinda like how Apple designed a proprietary undocumented Push Notification system so they can harvest your personal information as a secret accessory to the NSA and international surveillance organizations: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...

Skinner: "Am I so out of touch? No, it's the third-parties that are wrong."
I'm talking about dishwasher detergents. If you use your dishwasher for copper/aluminum pans, there's a good chance you're already using them.
UberEats gift cards are the ultimate passive aggressive “fuck you”. To use them, you need to spend at least another 10 to actually get something
>> There's no evidence that piracy causes any type of harm to these multi-trillion dollar American entertainment conglomerates.

Not sure if you know this, but there are tens of thousands of people involved in making a movie or TV series. Many making minimum wage and many who own businesses that are employed by the studios like catering companies. Or transportation companies, or even all the companies who tech they use like the camera's they use to film said movies.

ALL of those people? Their employment DEPENDS on movie studio's and the work they do to keep them gainfully employed. When you pirate movies you're not taking money out of the faceless multi-trillion entertainment companies, you're taking money out of the people's pocket who are integral part of creating the movies and shows you watch and who's livelihood depends on their continued employment by those companies.

Take a studio like New Line who put out the Lord of the Rings movies and was wildly successful until a series of flops effectively closed the studio:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/featu...

From 'Nightmare on Elm Street' to 'Lord of the Rings', New Line Cinema created some of Hollywood's most influential blockbusters. But now its 40-year history is in tatters following a string of big-budget box-office flops.
founder/dev on this project here - exactly!! still trying to figure out the wording between "kubernetes development environment", "kubernetes-based application deploys", "application environments in-cluster", etc...i can tell it's not quite coming across clearly in the first go, but yeah you got the idea

you can even use ingress and special URL for multiple services in a one-off deviation, but things get really messy when you want to test state-level things too like db migrations.

besides making it more convenient to handle the chain of dependencies and duplicating all the services, we also want to make it easier to test db/state migrations and larger features without having to do an expensive e2e application deploy
In a real problem you can have equations with parameters, where coefficients depend on some other parameters. And you should be able to answer questions about the roots depending on parameter values, like 'in which range of parameters p you have real (non-complex) roots'? Having a formula for the roots based on coefficients lets you answer such questions easily. For example, for quadratic equation ax^2 +bx + c = 0 we have D = b^2 - 4ac, and if D < 0 then there is no real (non-complex) roots.
Civilian casualty either way.
Decarbonizing Nitrogen Fertilizer for Agriculture with Nonthermal Plasma
Starlink satellite: 740 to 1,200 kg, lasts a few years

Artemis 1 empty mass: 88,275 kg

ATLAS V empty mass: 21,054 kg

If we are really worried about aluminum in the atmosphere, shouldn't we be looking at non-reusable rockets?
Raptor is much smaller, F-1 has a diameter of ~3.7m, Raptor has a diameter of ~1.3m, so it's pumping out 1/4th-1/3rd the thrust in 1/8th the area.
Interesting mixing up of "an object" worth collecting and "the documents" such as director interviews, deleted scenes, commentaries, etc - also worth collecting but in what sense? I mean the documents are the same if they are digitally on blu-ray, DVD, disk drive or cloud (okay, not cloud), and they do take effort to round up. All the more so that if you are going to do so, you are not going to limit yourself to what's on the approved DVD, you will also hunt more obscure stuff.

Meanwhile, "object" editions are highly suspect from a collecting point of view since generated by a marketing machine. And the documents are often very hard to get to because ignored by the online platforms. The opinions reported are interesting but what a mess for now.
The funny thing is that they supposedly only made a couple million from this, total. I can't remember if that was an internal discussion from when I worked there a few months ago or a news article, but I'm pretty sure of it either way. That makes the whole stupid thing just dumb.
Once you get to higher extensions where the roots are indistinguishable w.r.t. the base field, mathematicians will just write something like

“Let a_1, …, a_5 be the five roots of p(x).”
If they ever used clay to begin with. Did all civilizations that independently developed writing start with clay? I don’t think the mezoamericans used clay tablets and it seems that vegetable fibre was the preferred medium for all others that had access to it.
So what workarounds are there? Pi-hole still good to go?
I mean, it works properly, but a bit slower. The driver just detects if the kind of application currently running (i.e. a game) needs to be confined to only one CCD.

The core to core latency between the two CCDs seems to have doubled from the 7xxx series according to some latency benchmarks I saw yesterday.
And even with e.g. AMD Matisse, aka Desktop Ryzen Zen3 on AM4, it turns around in the PCIe root complex instead of consuming infinity fabric bandwidth.
Maybe? Every day it seems clearer that Stallman is right. Mouse subscription? Windows displaying ads in start menu and recording everything you do? How many devices have become useless when the servers shot down, or games became unplayable? How many times books or songs or movies have disappeared from "online collections" after being paid for? "The right to read" seems more and more realistic as time passes.

In my opinion, Stallman has been proven right many times over.
Maybe fuel might play a role. The Raptor burns methane, the F-1 refined petroleum. Another possible reason is that the designs may make different efficiency vs power trade-offs.
I should probably add why I think the motivation is so important here. For pure engineers, numbers are a tool. They ask: What can I build with numbers? Pure mathematicians ask a different question. They are interested in the limits of numbers. They ask: What can I not build with numbers? Studying these two questions is deeply related but also a constant source of frustration for engineers taking math courses designed for mathematicians by mathematicians.

Galois theory, is a theory of "no". It ultimately serves to answer several "Can I build this?" questions with no. This makes it very interesting to pure mathematicians. However, for pure engineers that are looking for numeric machine parts that can be assembled in other useful ways to actually build something... Galois theory can be quite disappointing.
Orion supports uBlock Origin. I don't know how well it works on Macs, but it's good on iOS.