skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Ukraine-Russia war largely changed my opinion on this type of stuff.

War is still the ultimate leverage. A hostile nation deciding to take you out forces you to defend yourself. Russia has shown that quantity largely outweighs quality. I see two reasons for this:

1. Quantity can exhaust supplies. It’s hard to defend yourself when you’re out of ammo or people.

2. Quality is concentrated. It’s easier to destroy and be done with.

This type of tech is the future of defense and deterrence. Being able to send hundreds or thousands of smaller drones ensures at least some make it through.
This sounds like a lot of fun to me. A lot of people dislike debugging, but I always enjoyed it. It's a bit of a murder mystery. You not only need to understand what's happening several layers beyond the initial problem, but why the code may have been written the way it is even when you find the issue.
Great question. As I understand, uni endowments work similar to sovereign wealth funds: You spend a portion of annual investment gains, but not the principal. So, conservatively, MIT earns 4% per year on the invested principal (25B USD), and maybe takes 3% of that return for spending. That would be and extra 0.75B USD per year in their budget. That is massive. Look at the annual budget for other world class tech unis like Swiss EFPL or ETH to understand the size of this endowment bump, relative to total budget.
As a southerner and an owner of a 1500 I say absolutely prioritize to cut down on pedestrian deaths. I can get a different truck and it'd piss off all the right people.
Fwiw virtually every contract has a severability clause so only the non-compete clauses were really on the line here, not whole contracts.
The most carefully honed social skills in the world won't help somebody plausibly answer a question like "What is the data type of this variable?" or "Show me the line where the null pointer dereference is happening."

They can add all the smiles and chuckles and other social niceties they want, but at the end of the day, whether they come up with the right answer or not, their logic will tell you pretty clearly whether they know what they're talking about.

That's the point of a technical interview: to distinguish those who think (or pretend) they can code sufficiently well to do the job, from those who can't.
Not in the slightest. An academic endowment isn't meant to be spent; the university holds the principal of the endowment and spends from the returns.
For anyone who finds this vulnerability interesting, check out my Chaos Communication Congress talk "New Important Instructions": https://youtu.be/qyTSOSDEC5M
> Counter point, you are conflating each individual business profits and motives for the profitability of the economy and country.

That was mentioned in the second paragraph.

> It's a prisoner's dilemma because even though the economy would be better if non-competes were banned, any individual business makes more money by forcing employees to sign one.
I don't understand what you mean when you say incentives? Politicians are strongly incentivized to avoid enraging their constituency. HOV lanes have ended more than one politician's career and that's as close as we've ever gotten to the kind of lane discrimination you're describing.
The legality on non-competes is entirely a political question and has nothing to do with expertise. It should be decided by the political branch that writes the laws, which is congress. Whether you like it or not (and I don't like it) non-competes have always been legal.

> (quoting the article) "The FTC, which enforces antitrust laws and regulates competition"

The issue is that you are quoting an article and not the actual law. There is no law that says the FTC has blanket authority to regulate "competition".
Undo via ephemeral toast seems like a bad idea also. I guess if the toast hanged around until the next toast it might make sense?
The best voting machines I used, IMO, combined electronic and paper ballots. Wrote my vote, and then inserted it into the machine, which scanned the ballot, indicated that it had scanned properly, and put it into a box.

Gives you the best of both worlds: a quick electronic tally, but a full paper trail for auditing purposes.
I sprayed it near my squeaky bike brake hinge thinking it would remove the squeak. I now know I was an idiot and completely ruined the bike's brakes.
That article says that is the opinion of the NLRB General council but not yet a rule or precedent.

> Abruzzo asked agency lawyers to send cases to her office involving arguably unlawful noncompetes. Her office could use one of those cases to ask the board to restrict or prohibit the use of noncompetes.
Exploring Impact of Code in Pre-Training
Answering the question: "what is the impact of code data used in pre-training on a large variety of downstream tasks beyond code generation?"
Versions of Linux seem to have a lot of value and are real competition for all the versions of Windows.

But I decided to concentrate on just one operating system and there picked Windows. Otherwise I want to concentrate on my needed software development, the inevitable system management, and, then most of all, the business itself.

I'm guessing that, whatever frustrations, Windows will be able to support the computing for my business.
> those who only see cars as a way to transport humans and goods should stop pretending they want cars and simply use Uber or Rent-a-Van

Amazingly enough, working out a cost-benefit calculation between renting on demand vs owning will in fact sometimes turn out in favor of owning.
>I don't think so, I think it's more about openness. I've noticed older software engineers tend to be more anti-LLM and quick to dismiss.

Wow, a highly ageist comment, if there ever was one.

Congrats. Trying for a job and looking for less competition, maybe?

Notice that your statement is as full of assumptions as mine. That was intentional on my part, to bring out my point.
There is a Czech engine called the PBS TJ-100 that I’ve seen used on some jet powered gliders. It’s about 290 lbs of thrust and retails for $75k. There is also an uprated version, the PBS TJ-150 that’s about 340 lbs. I think that would be enough for an antiship missile with a smaller warhead like they’re building.
That being the structure for a ton of agencies doesn't mean it should be the structure.

There are options besides "congress must decide every little minutiae" and "The FCC gets to be judge, jury, and executioner for things in their purview". Because that is effectively what we have at the moment. They get to be the judge (deciding what is or isn't allowable), jury (deciding whether you've violated their standard), and executioner (levying fines and other punishments).

The point I was trying to make in my original comment is that there is a conflict of interest / misaligned incentives when you allow the same org do both. We've already seen this play out with various federal agencies in various contexts. For example, those agencies are not incentivized to provide clarity of policy, because they don't need it to justify their enforcement. They can say "you violated this thing because we say so here is a fine". Whereas, if you were to split this power into two separate agencies (let's say the "Federal Communications Commission" and the Federal Communications Enforcement Agency"), the former would need to provide clarity to the latter (and everyone else) before the latter could enforce anything. This type of transparency is: 1. good, 2. something we don't currently have, 3. hard to promote with the current structure.
From the abstract: "Across settings, we find a consistent results that code is a critical building block for generalization far beyond coding tasks and improvements to code quality have an outsized impact across all tasks. In particular, compared to text-only pre-training, the addition of code results in up to relative increase of 8.2% in natural language (NL) reasoning, 4.2% in world knowledge, 6.6% improvement in generative win-rates, and a 12x boost in code performance respectively. Our work suggests investments in code quality and preserving code during pre-training have positive impacts."
The deaths you describe won’t be changed by these type of products.

These types of weapons are critical in actual, legitimate wars where enemies have air defense systems, large front lines, and thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops. Particularly, if air defenses are present, you have to evade them or overwhelm them. The Russia-Ukraine war has largely demonstrated the later wins out.

The American airstrikes on defenseless “assets” in foreign nations will continue to use high value, precision weapons. The strikes are generally limited in nature and unlikely to be intercepted by air defense systems.
For bots in Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram,... there is actually another exfiltration vector called "unfurling"!

All an attacker has to do is render a hyperlink, no clicking needed. I discussed this and how to mitigate it here: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/the-dangers-of-unf...

So, hopefully Slack AI does not automatically unfurl links...
They were going up before the ACA. Not sure what that has to do with anything.
The problem is that current generative AI is not actually intelligent.

Yann LeCunn had a great tweet on this:
Sometimes, the obvious must be studied so it can be asserted with full confidence:
- LLMs can not answer questions whose answers are not in their training set in some form,
- they can not solve problems they haven't been trained on,
- they can not acquire new skills our knowledge without lots of human help,
- they can not invent new things.
Now, LLMs are merely a subset of AI techniques.
Merely scaling up LLMs will not lead systems with these capabilities.

link https://x.com/ylecun/status/1823313599252533594?ref_src=twsr...

To focus on this:
- LLMs can not answer questions whose answers are not in their training set in some form,
- they can not solve problems they haven't been trained on

Given that we are close to maximum in the size of the training set, this means they are not going to improve without some completely unknown at the moment technical breakthrough. Going from "not intelligent" to "intelligent" is a massive shift.
It's sad they don't link it clearly but it's available on Flathub if you're on Linux: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.zen_browser.zen
I still get "security updates" for Windows 7 Professional and am unsure what the lack of "support" might mean for my business.
Careful with this logic. It leads all the way to the idea of a "good king" who'd quickly bring in nice things, unencumbered by any procedures. Or to just picking good things from store shelves and skipping the procedurally correct checkout and payment.

Procedures are imperfect. But they were introduced to keep away worse imperfections.

FTR, I do think that unpaid non-competes should be considered null and void. I also want this to be codified properly, so that no judge would have grounds to proclaim it frivolous and revoke.
This smells of 1984's "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
The Post-Capitalist Executive: An Interview with Peter F. Drucker (1993)
One of the interesting things about databases is that unlike most other markets, there is no single database that completely owns a majority of market share.

MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server and Postgres are very close to each other in terms of market share (however you choose to define it).

The effect is that most database tooling folks almost never specialise on one database. They'd be giving up too much TAM for that.

I think this is a big part of why database tooling in general are generalised, not specialised. It's also a big part of why database tooling aren't as good as they should be.
The FTC does persue specific non-competes. My understanding is that this is because the non-compete harms the general market (by reducing talent available) as well as individual employees (by limiting them), so the public in some sense has a right to sue too.
notepad++ without plugins is there for linux

NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++ | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39854182
> unelected bureaucrats

no different than the unelected judge who issued the ruling
C.J. Cherryh
Not wanting to engage in the same small talk with different random people isn't bleak.

Get off your incredibly high horse.
In California the law was passed by the legislature, and the legislature is allowed to pass broad and capricious laws. That is the privilege of the political branches. California's experience is not analogous to the federal regulatory process.
It's not a popular opinion, but I'm pretty convinced that a few (5<=N<=10) years of administrative rulemaking being handicapped would fix Congress up pretty thoroughly.

Both major parties benefit from the status quo of Congress being incapable and everything being ephemeral—each can promise their stakeholders that if you elect them this cycle they'll make sure that things go their way for this cycle. The ephemeral nature of the "win" is valuable because if they actually made a permanent fix the urgency to elect party Y would be gone. It's the subscription model applied to governance.

My theory is that if you remove the administrative law game, things will quickly get broken enough that stakeholders will demand better, so both parties will get their act together and actually try to pass legislation again.

It's entirely possible that I'm wrong (and cue the inevitable "it's not both sides" comments), but unless something unexpected happens to the court system it looks like we'll get to see in a few years.
Even sooner:

"My client didn't know that motorcycles are not equipped with the traffic warning system."

And now people will see even less of them. We need systems to _enhance_ situational awareness. This is hard to do without active training on the systems. Vehicle users will never do this.
> The less labour rights a country has, the more competitive a country's businesses are. If you can keep your workers in quasi-indentured servitude, you're going to be more profitable than a business that can't.

The first statement is largely true, the second statement is not. Somebody has to buy the stuff you make. At the level of an individual company this isn't a thing -- Ford isn't really going to sell a big percentage of its cars to its own employees -- but at the national level it is, because Ford does sell a substantial percentage of its cars to Americans. And it's easier for companies to sell domestically than internationally because domestic customers will favor them and foreign governments use protectionism to varying degrees.

The reason that most "labor rights" make companies uncompetitive is that they're inefficient. Requiring companies to provide specific benefits, rather than money with which employees can buy whatever they want, lowers real compensation because wages adjust to compensate (typically by rising slower than global GDP) and then you're stuck with whatever version of the benefit the employer provides instead of having the option to take the money instead and being able to choose yourself in a competitive market. Which raises the company's costs relative to their perceived attractiveness to workers. Unions for structural reasons typically prioritize things like seniority rules that aren't to the benefit of all their members (namely the newest ones) and in turn make it hard for the company to attract new talents who don't want to wait 30 years to get the salary a foreign competitor can offer today. This is why, when given the choice between higher pay and some other employer-provided benefit, people typically take the money. But the rules get passed because they're sold as a free lunch, and then industries decline there because they're not.

Non-competes are the opposite because they have a similar effect on the industry as a whole as do the inefficient labor rules, i.e. they increase the costs of other companies in the same jurisdiction. John was working for company A and wants to work for company B, but isn't allowed to, so company B have to hire Chris, who isn't as good -- otherwise company B would have hired him to begin with. It hurts the workers and every company except for company A. Then company A (or as a group, large incumbents) go to the government to lobby to let them do this even though it hurts the industry and country as a whole.

In general, anti-trust rules improve the competitiveness of a country's industries, because they improve the competitive fitness of its companies and allow them to survive when new foreign competitors come who would eat the lunch of a wasteful bureaucratic incumbent that isn't accustomed to competitive pressure but can't touch a hundred nimble entrepreneurs who are already doing what it takes to win the customer's business in the face of stiff competition. It turns out this is also the same thing that actually helps workers.
I know there is a HN guideline about not commenting on stuff like this, but in this case the text was so large it prevented me from wanting to read the article at all. Just uncomfortably large.
How the SNES Graphics System Works
In this case, the manual is rather poor, so a tool that can cobble together an answer from different sections of the documentation plus blog posts and stack overflow is superior to the manual.
Except that in this case, the answer to that question is no, this could not conceivably affect security. It's the rough shape of something that could, but actually it could not.

So we're back where we started. It's still subjective, how much you should "conceive the possibility", when it doesn't appear to actually be there.
Is there any country where judges aren’t appointed by politicians? Who else would they be appointed by?
Not-so-subtly mocking the top-level for not replying "yet", when they replied almost immediately after with a video of the relevant workflow, was not a move that made you look smart or nice.
Hard to call it “arbitrary and capricious” with a straight face though
Experimented with Plasmo in April and found it super easy to use! Was surprised I hadn’t heard about it until I went looking.
Most ORMs have this feature as well and sorry to say you will
hit edge cases where the join is ambiguous and have to manually specify it pretty fast.
There's too little information for anyone to give you a solid answer on this. You'd need a lawyer to examine all the existing agreements and contracts, then imagine the sorts of legal cases you'd need to defend against even if you felt like you were in the clear.

And if you're thinking of taking the capital to the new competing firm - you'll want to set aside a hefty portion for lawyers.

I'm super puzzled though: are you in this situation? If you're asking here, you're obviously not talking to a lawyer and absolutely should be.
Answer to headline:
They rise so high to save some space,
while keeping traffic flowing at a steady pace.
In some situations a leash can be dangerous. Eg, a woman died today because her dog was on a leash.

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/woman-drowns-kings-ri...
Keep in mind, less than 100 years ago, half the world was literally trying to murder the other half using every effort conceivable and every bit of modern technology they could muster. Not that long before there were endemic diseases everywhere that killed 30% of everyone infected.

We have a long, long, long way to go before we conceivably hit ‘too late’. Will people die? Yes. But people die anyway.

If that is comforting or not, is up to you. Either way, the wheel will continue to turn.
Agreed. However, it makes it easier to succeed in appealing a ruling calling it “arbitrary and capricious”.
I agree. DOT needs to be more than the Department of Cars and Highways.
The Federalist Papers: Study on how governance works on the Fediverse
Adding to your examples, I hate when video players (both mobile or desktop) don't let me hide the video player controls when the player is paused! I also dislike having to wait a few seconds upon starting/resuming a video for the controls to fade away.
Some things go up in price as features and mass market appeal go up. For example iPhone.

You do have the launch Pi feature set available in the Pi Zero which is much less than 20 USD.
This will be appealed, so nobody knows yet.
uh, helps? future? opposite? what?

Seriously, I've read that sentence five times now and can't even begin to imagine what you're asking.
They don't have that authority, and nobody ever said they did. However, if you sign a contract saying that you will do something in return for money, the general rule is that you are obligated to follow that as long as it is not explicitly banned.
Daily Brief: MECE and Quantum Hilbert Spaces
The obvious answer is that most ideas are not patented.
I live in Michigan with a similar law. Law does not allow you to touch your phone when your car is not legally parked.

I actually got a ticket doing exactly what you described. I was stopped and interacted with my phone, but I was not parked. They were doing enforcement that day to prove a point.
At risk of showing my age I remember the magazine and newspaper articles on SS America when it came out.

The 35 or so knot wind over the deck discouraged passengers from sauntering about the exterior spaces.

One article highlighted that the only piece of wood was the butcher block. Everything else was metal. Given the military purpose, fireproofing was a priority.

The piston airliners at the time had limited capacity and range. Often trans Atlantic flights were stuck at Gander until the weather cleared up.

Before satellites, weather ships were stationed at intervals across the oceans. There was one controlled ditching of a PanAm Stratocruiser (aka Boeing trimotor) next to a weather ship. The ones I were in made it all the way across without incident, but my father would not let us sit next to the propellers.

On one cockpit visit we saw the navigator take a sun shot with a sextant through the astrodome.

All of which explains why many at the time choose liners.
Hypothetically if they were doing that, they’d only be ‘banning’ that mobile network in the ‘paywall-relaxing-for-Googlebot’ code - not banning the IP traffic or serving a 403 or anything. They ordinarily throw paywalls at those users anyway.
> Yes, but on the other hand Congress is so dysfunctional the choice is often regulatory/executive action or nothing.

Which means that the country, through their elected legislature, has not agreed on a policy. Not coming to a new decision doesn’t mean the executive branch gets carte blanche to make up the rules.

Not coming to an agreement means the country is not at enough of an agreement. If it’s truly popular it should pass Congress. If it’s not, it won’t.

And if it’s popular and it doesn’t pass, then there’s always elections to change Congress and try again.

The slow pace is a feature, not a bug.
> In 1966, American engineer and inventor Robert Dennard invented dynamic RAM cells

wikipedia says Toshiba invented DRAM cells in 1965, and Dennard invented MOS DRAM in 1966

also:

> Elektronika BK-0010 is one of the first 16-bit personal computers in the world.

The TI/99 was actually the first 16-bit personal computer, predating this by 5 years.

I really can't trust anything else this article has to say.
He’s 7.5yo. Don’t think he really understood The Secret Brian’s mom had, and probably still hard for him grasp severity of the situation, but he was very engaged and enjoyed the book. I don’t recall how old I was when i first read it… but I do recall accidentally finding a Gary Paulson book in the adult literature section of the library and quickly realizing it was not for a young juvenile :D

Don’t let your kids read Roald Dahls adult literature either, Switch Bitch is no Giant Peach
If nobody wants to live there then why is it so expensive?