skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For folks interested in seeing a usecase, I have a panel dashboard of Dallas crime statistics at:

https://crimede-coder.com/graphs/Dallas_Dashboard

Startup takes around a minute (which includes installing various python libraries + loading an external 5mb dataset). But once up and running it is quite responsive. (And works fine on my iphone.)

Many businesses I work with use Tableau free versions, and just manually update the data (since the free doesn't allow direct connections to a datastore). This is a free alternative (I use github actions to build a zipped up csv file that is pulled into the environment).
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What do you do when law and justice become so disconnected that law enforcement actively ignores horrible things happening in your local community (e.g. the Pakistani rape/prostitution gangs in England, with Rotherham as central figure)? Do you just "vote better" and wait a few years for nothing to happen?

Vigilantism is always a symptom of far greater problems, people don't do it just for fun and to cosplay as Batman.
In the 90s it would have been newsworthy if someone remembered the Macintosh market, not the other way around.
I think Eric started drinking Kool-Aid....he maybe has a point but the way he expresses his thoughts is a little bit disturbing.
> Thats great for a country of 44 million, not so great with a country the population of 333 million spread across multiple time zones.

> You would have numerous problems implementing this system across a country with 4 primary time zones(lets ignore the lone two states with separate time zones for now).

You have mentioned timezones twice but haven't really explained why or how they would be an issue. Spain has two timezones, early results are withheld until polls close in the westmost timezone. The EU spans across multiple timezones as well, and elections to the European Parliament follow the same principle.

> Lets set aside the issues involved with transmitting data electronically (sounds like just a distributed electronic system).

Data is transmitted electronically and made publicly available on a per-ballot-box basis. Representatives of political parties with obviously competing interests are present during the counting process (and any member of the public who wishes to can attend it as well) and keep their own tally. If they find out that it diverges from the published results, they can ask for a re-count, which is possible because the physical votes are preserved. In fact they are treated as evidence and follow proper chain of custody by the national police.

> What are you talking about? The last several elections were typically decided within 12-24 hrs of the polls closing on the east coast. Where are you getting your "days" from? Maybe you are just reading Spanish news that is days behind in covering American news?

I distinctly remember live following the 2020 presidential election, going to sleep after all polls closed in the US, and waking up 8 hours later with the race still undecided. How is this possible with a fully electronic system? Why is it not near-instant? This is what I haven't understood yet and would love to be explained.

From Wikipedia (emphasis mine):

> On the morning of November 7 at approximately 11:25 a.m. EST, roughly three and a half days after polls had closed, ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, the Associated Press, CNN, and Fox News all called the election and Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes for Biden
That's fine. The idea is that the cost of pedaling is not linear. Kind of like cars using a lot more fuel to go slightly faster.
I have a VoIP software (https://www.mizu-voip.com/Software/SIPSDK/JavaSIPSDK.aspx) and I am trying to market it as the interface between AI and real time audio/video. It already has real-time in/out streaming capabilities, i just want to add some more helper methods to make it more obvious for AI input/output.
Can you help me with a little feedback? I am trying to think with the mind of an AI developer and I am interested on your thoughts on how to implement the real-time interactivity for your software/service? Is our JVoIP library close to your requirements or are you going to use something completly different to interact with the endusers and/or backend services? (To what kind of software/service are you thinking more exactly to cover this part?)
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It certainly reflects my experience. A lot of my friends I people I will have arguments, frequently on topics that make people emotional and on which we have very different views: politics (including Brexit!), religion, gender identity, and so on.

On the other hand that was not true of my EX-wife.
You used Apple Pascal on the Apple II, not the Mac, and it wasn’t actually free but a couple hundred dollars a seat. It was based on UCSD Pascal, as were many implementations at the time, but it was a commercial product and one used by many Apple II developers. Your school either licensed or pirated it for you to use.

Apple didn’t even ship self-hosted assembly tools for the Mac until the Macintosh Development System later in 1984, and when Apple did ship Macintosh Pascal it was a learning environment with a (non-UCSD) bytecode interpreter rather than a native compiler with Toolbox access. That was still something most people used a Lisa for until after both the Mac 512 and the HD20 came out.
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As long as you can consistently get enough bag holders through the door for your buddies to cash out with a tidy profit before everything peters out, they won't care that you're a serial flim-flam man. An uncomfortably large amount of alleged VC business acumen in tech is just being a gifted corporate hypeman without that many scrouples.

Anyway, I don't blame you for being skeptical, the Flow Monorail is really more of a Shelbyville idea...
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I think their argument is it shouldn’t download any configuration via any connection.
>So imagine a non-arrogant programmer that actually does what you want

Human programmers try really hard to give you what you actually need, and not what you want. Most problems are posed to programmers in such a way that they would result in totally unacceptable results if delivered to those specifications. Think any story involving a Genie and 3 wishes.

It's amazing to me that someone who employed so many programmers just doesn't get it.

To quote the philosopher Jägger:

You can't always get what you want

But, if you try sometimes, you might find... you get what you need.
Me too. To me it implies "I love it, I wish I could use it".
The video is currently private: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LxDM8io4lUA
Very much what I recommend our teams as well. And you can totally start with something careful. Does a single IP really need 50 requests per second?

Like, sure, I have services at work where the answer is "yes". But I have 10 - 20 times more services for which I could cut that to 5 and still be fine.
Sometimes when you move a shape around in front of you, you end up with the same shape. Maths people call this symmetry, and have lots of names for different ways you can get back to the same shape.

For instance, if you flip a square around you get back the same square. This is called reflective symmetry.

If you spin a triangle around you sometimes end up with the same triangle. This one is rotational symmetry.

Galois spent a lot of time thinking about numbers instead of shapes. What he realised is that when you add and multiply numbers in lots of different ways, you sometimes end up with the same number at the end. And sometimes different numbers, when added and multiplied in the same way, also give you the same number at the end.

For instance, if you take 1, multiply it by itself and subtract 1, you get 1x1-1=0.

If you do the same with -1, you get (-1)x(-1)-1=0. A different number, using the same pattern, gives us the same result.

What we're seeing here is that there are some symmetries in numbers, not just shapes! Galois theory is all about the nitty gritty of how these number symmetries work, how to find them, and how to use them to do interesting mathematics.
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VCs want founders who are willing to play the game and can do it well: lying to (potential) customers, making insane promises, presenting fake demos as if they were real products and using fancy accounting tricks to make the business look profitable, when in fact it is bleeding their money, all so that they can easily find _other_ investors to bail them out. VCs have perfected legal Ponzi schemes.
Have you heard of functional encryption which allows a server to compute a function on encrypted data without knowing the decryption key and return the result in the clear. Therefore the server learns the result and nothing else about the encrypted data is leaked. There are possibility results but there is no practical, implementable scheme at present for general functions but there are schemes for specific functions like inner products (linear functions) and quadratics. With FHE, only the client, who has the decryption key, can learn the result so some interaction is needed for the server to learn the result. Each has their own applications.
the root of all authority is violence

america wants to maintain the authority to dictate who gets what and for how much and to make sure they get first dibs on everything
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I agree. I missed the thrust of your disagreement and overstated the importance of lossless vs screensharing-oriented codecs.
This is a horrible way to live a life.
We use mermaid for our charting in our technical documentation (which is public facing). Mostly object diagrams and sequence diagrams. Moved from plantUML, which I still miss some days.

Love the ability to version control your charts as well as write them out quickly without involving a design team and still have them look pretty good.
what would you recommend to read to be better at writing tests?
Im sure ifbits perfectly fine if you pair it with a nice lead based diet.
Yes. They, amazingly, discussed it already on state propaganda TV - how much should people know?

The regime really is concerned about controlling the narrative before it gets out of control. Neither panic nor clamoring for nuclear holocaust helps them here.
> He's not wrong though.

It's more of a "not even wrong" statement. It's the kind of useless and reductive analysis poor leaders trot out from a position of personal frustration after failing to surmount the challenges involved in steering a complex, messy, human institution towards success.

It's incredible how consistently this maladaptive "everyone just work harder!!" mentality crops up among failed leadership in institutions of all kinds and sizes. In this respect, Schmidt is no different to the average frustrated restaurant owner, blaming his business failures on his staff's work ethic, "no one wants to work hard these days" and other copes.

Let's say we go ahead and assume that long grinds and 100% in-office attendance is the only way a successful and highly engaged team can look. Getting to that point would still require leadership to perform the actual hard work of creating the right conditions and incentives for that successful, engaged work to emerge. Shaking your fists at the air and saying "work harder people! we need to win!" doesn't cut it.

If Schmidt allowed himself to look more closely and reflect more deeply, he would realize that Google is and was full of extremely hard workers. But their "hard work" more likely took the form of navigating Google's political structures and chasing up internal promotions and prestige.
US Bank is literally the 5th biggest and 2nd oldest bank[1] in the US.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Bancorp
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not caring as in, not caring if you get rejected. Not caring what others think when you peruse what makes you happy.
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Oh, I absolutely see it.

My point was that it's necessary. How would you implement the same features Rust and C++ have, without garbage collection, but with simpler syntax?
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poor nvidia. Their wfh policy for lots of positions is certainly dumping their stocks to the ground... oh wait...
Blendle was really cool, but they

1. didn't have the stuff I was looking for (tech comes to mind). I was still trying to use it hoping more magazines would come along.

2. changed their model. It is a few years ago now, but I think there were two things:

2 a) the original model had a time limit were you could look at an article and if you immediately realized it wasn't your thing you could go back within x seconds and not pay.

2 b) IIRC they also switched from a reasonable pay-per-view price to an "all you can eat (from our very limited buffet)" model. I think it was at this time I stopped checking and gave them up. "Pay monthly and have access to everything"-models are only really attractive if you have access to everything you want: Spotify and Apple Music are good examples here.
Also people in them look like caucasian anime characters. Why is that?
Another way to look at it is everyone's productivity will be expected to increase to match the productivity increases by the competition who are also using AI.
If you don't skill up on how to effectively use AI, then we'll find someone else who has.
Lazarus seems amazing, and I'd love to write some software with it, but I can't get past the language. You generally do want to pick languages with a big ecosystem, as everything you might want will have already been written.

The difference between Python and Delphi isn't a bit more work, it's often the difference between "there's a library so I can make my thing" and "it would take way too long".
> "Gov.uk notify" isnt a critical business service. it doesnt need multi-az or multi region failover.

Doesn't it depend on the kind of notifications being sent? If I was some government department using this service I'd certainly appreciate some sort of guarantees about my notifications going out to users in a timely fashion. It doesn't seem hard to imagine there are users for who this service is business critical.
It’s easy to see why as well.

Take Zuckerberg for example. He went in front of congress and spouted as much anti-china rhetoric as he can. He obviously does not want competition from Chinese social media companies such as TikTok. He wants TikTok banned. Meta even admitted that it hired a PR agency to try to connect TikTok to CCP.

Take Elon for example. He definitely wants Trump in office because he knows if Chinese EVs ever make it to American shores, Tesla would have fierce competition. Trump wanting massive tariffs on Chinese goods matters little to Elon. Elon doesn’t care if he has to pay $5 for a Chinese good at Walmart instead of $2.50. Only commoners will suffer. But as long as Elon gets extremely high tariffs on Chinese EVs, he’ll be happy.

For Schmidt, it’s clear that he has big ownership stakes in American tech companies. Chinese tech companies are a real threat to them in competition.
Dabbling, sure. But Kim was never a dabbler. He chose to go for ALL the money and the money only, everytime.

Many people seem to forget or not know that all along his career he went ripping off fellow nerds and hackers left and right for his personal gain. He spied on them on his BBS, stole their secrets, defrauded them, ridiculed them, even tipped them off to law enforcement when it was beneficial to him. He proudly admitted to doing all of this in german interviews.

Kim and his endeavours are undoubtedly part of hacking history, but he himself was never part of the culture. He couldn't give a rat's ass about the culture if it weren't to build his legend and bedazzle his followers. All he really ever wanted was cold hard cash, Rolexes and cars.

Now come again about Goldstein?
There is jupyerlite which does exactly that https://github.com/jupyterlite/jupyterlite

Kernels are compiled to wasm and can therefore run in the browser.

Try it out at: https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/stable/_static/lab/ind...

Its easy to create your own deployments, there is a template repo for that https://github.com/jupyterlite/demo
I don't care if VCs take risks, I want to be nice.
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> Ironically the default search engine deals is how Firefox acquires most of its funding.

Note that this also makes Chrome look like it dominates the market less which is presumably why they keep spending this money on FF.
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Huh, I've never heard of this. I thought you meant "a US bank".
If you have issue with the taxes they pay then you have issue with the tax code, but that still doesn't address any problems or apply any consistent values. How does moving money from one rich person to the richest organization in the world achieve any goal?
Why would I pay for news when I have HN?
A baseline Mac wasn’t any more expensive than the competition (IBM), it just wasn’t inexpensive like Commodore, Atari, and PC clones. Apple also had essentially the same price structure for decades, while PC clones raced to the bottom on both price and quality.

And the Mac II was actually priced better than most competitive systems—because those competitive systems were 16MHz 68020/68881-based workstations from Apollo, HP, Tektronix, Sun, et al. In early 1987, a name-brand 16MHz 80386 system with 80387 was comparably priced, which is why most people buying PC clones didn’t get a 386 until 1990-91 or so, around when the 80486 (and 68040) came out.
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Neither. Tribalism is probably best fit. The question is meant to trigger reflection.
They do not consistently underperform. Just go to wikipedia:

> According to Virginie Pérotin's research which looked at two decades worth of international data, worker cooperatives are more productive than conventional businesses. Another 1987 study of worker cooperatives in Italy, the UK, and France found "positive" relationships with productivity. It also found that worker cooperatives do not become less productive as they get larger. A 1995 study of worker cooperatives in the timber industry in Washington, USA found that "co-ops are more efficient than the principal conventional firms by between 6 and 14 percent".
> It is more like Substack than Hugo. Due to this it isn't possible to individually self-host a Bear Blog.

Apparently not.
Agreed, such a critical piece of infrastructure, the mind boggles. I'll have to see what I can pry out of our Google account team about it.
Their search isn't even so great any more. They tend to forcefully switch the user input to some generic terms. More than often duckduckgo produces better results for me. I started feeling comfortable using duckduckgo instead of google.
I'd like to see a doc that outlines how Reticulum handles standard network failures and attacks. Ok, the network just got partitioned, what happens? Ok someone is spamming announce messages trying to eat the 2% bandwidth allocation of everyone on the network, what happens?

That would help me quickly understand the properties of this system.
The grind catches up to you. Your body keeps the score, don't let them fool you.

All these asshole managers like Schmidt.
As long as the normie is not writing huge checks or meaningfully influencing actual public policy, their opinion is not exactly that important is it?
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yeah, just because there is a potential loophole we should make absolutely no effort to solve the problem.

Reminded me of: https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/mister-gotcha-...

In this case it is addressing a large chunk of the problems. Once that is done we can always revisit other ways folks are spamming the system.
> Republicans are saying that immigrants are literally bringing fentanyl in (as in they have fentanyl in their backpacks when crossing the border). That they are the cause of the fentanyl problem. Stop them to solve the fentanyl problem.

Again, they're making two parallel arguments. One is, some of the migrants have fentanyl (true; not established that the number is very large), but the number could be large and isn't known. The other is, customs is spread thin because of migrants and is not catching the smugglers as a result. In both cases they propose the same solution, i.e. stem the flow of migrants.

> It's possible that we missed this one immigrant carrying by themself 51% of the fentanyl brought into the US, so lets put the blame on immigrants.

The claim is presumably that they could be missing a lot because there are a lot of migrants and more than one of them could have brought fentanyl.
These days, it's a physical exertion issue, thanks to long covid. 8(

The biggest problem I had with taking pictures was dealing with them after the fact. I made a few python scripts to build folders of the formula photos/yyyy/yyyymmdd/ to put the days results into, which helped.

I used to love Picassa, until it got killed, and unfortunately, the last version has a bug where it swaps face tags randomly, corrupting otherwise well chosen tags.

I've been a DSLR user for a long time, and ever since I realized the net cost of a photo was zero, I love taking photos. The key to getting better is just to get out there and keep taking pictures, throw most of them away. You will get better over time.

All that said... my Bride is much, MUCH better than I am at framing... I try to get too clever all the time, she's a natural.
I don't know about GPU clusters specifically but when the purpose is to learn clusters you typically build a cluster out of the cheapest nodes you can get, even if the whole cluster's performance is less than a single machine with sane specifications. Non-GPU clusters for education are often built from single-board computers (Raspberry Pis or even cheaper). So that would be one way to approach it - find a bunch of really old machines with really old GPUs that are worthless for doing actual work on. Some single-board computers even have PCIe slots, so you can install a GPU into an SBC (often with only 1x performance). You could try nodes with iGPUs if that's suitable for your use case (they use different memory topology so it might not be). You could only put one GPU in each node, instead of as many as possible like a real cluster would have; if inter-GPU communication on the same node is an important part of your experiment, then you could only put 2 GPUs in each node. You might want to scale down the network to keep a similar performance ratio to a real high-end system - maybe force each port to 100Mbps.
I think the CCPs legitimacy has much more to do with ensuring the continuous growth of living standards and wealth of the Chinese people.