skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK Investment Guide
An 8 GB Mac is not a 16 GB with defective RAM; it literally only has 8 GB. The RAM is separate dies and Apple presumably buys known good DRAM so the yield isn't their problem.
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Mathematicians will take a moment denigrate Geometric Algebra as "linear algebra with a uselessly nonstandard notation", ignoring that we should prefer a less awkward way of structuring linear algebra than "pseudoscalars" and "pseudovectors".

I have never heard a mathematician using the terms "pseudoscalar" and "pseudovector". These rather seem to be common terms among physicists.
I have never figured out the causal direction of Yves Béhar's fiascos and flops (OLPC, Theranos, Juicero, Ouya, among many). Was it the hubris of the founders who wanted their products designed by Béhar, or was it the design of the products themselves?
Intel doesn't have a monopoly on leading edge semiconductor manufacturing. The company that kind of does is ASML, they are based in the Netherlands, but there's an office in Connecticut.
RealtimeSanitizer: A real-time safety testing tool for C and C++ projects
Fantastic read, thanks for sharing.
Agreed! My fear is too much NPC agency will lead to exactly what we see in the real world: conflict. Great, that's the interesting bit! I just worry that without careful planning we'll be facing an NPC battle-royale, and an empty map isn't a particularly fun one.
Gold and many other useful commodities are valuable with or without fighter jets backing them.
In some parts of some governments you can't even do something that has the appearance of impropriety, this should be the standard for judges in the US.
Awesome website, well done! Great trip down memory lane. Looking at the 90's era catalogs highlighted the astounding deflationary power of technology. Many devices are the same cost right now that they were back then. Plus, look at all the alarms, photo and video cameras, radios, walkmans, dvd players etc. that have been replaced by a single smart phone. It certainly feels like it was the era of "peak electronics".
"Why doesn't Snowden speak about...", this would be because he likes breathing.
To that point, how is American manufacturing or shipbuilding doing lately?

There a case to be made for subsidizing core enabling industries.
Price fixing would be if both gas stations decided to raise their price to $4.45 at the same time so that customers don't have a choice.

Which was the case in this instance. RealPage required subscribers to use their price suggestion some percentage of the time or they'd risk losing their subscription.
Reminds me of an old joke about sick eagles that ends with the punchline "ill eagle feathers!"
China Proposes Magnetic Launch System for Sending Resources Back to Earth
The NYT recently did a piece on how the tendrils of the housing crisis have made it out to places like Kalamazoo, MI that are not really traditionally high COL cities with booming economies. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/business/economy/housing-...

We are running out of cheap places to live in. Remote work has mostly pushed the crisis to other places without a corresponding pressure release in the high COL areas.
Paying taxes overall is a "need to" thing to most, so nothing new with regarding to crypto.
Perhaps I misunderstand you, but what about those decades where CPUs were made faster and faster, from a few MHz up to several GHz, before hitting physical manufacturing and power/heat limits?

Was that all just a bunch of wasted effort, and what they should have been doing was build more and more 50MHz chips?

Of course not. There are lots of advantages to scaling up rather than out.

Even today, there are clear advantages to using an "xlarge" instance on AWS rather than a whole bunch of "nano" ones working together.

But all this seems so straightforward that I suspect I really don't understand your point...
So a diode is a constant-voltage device. If you put a resistor in series and run a line voltage above the diode's voltage than the current will be limited by ohms law.

But, variable resistors that are rated for a lot of power (roughly half the power of the diodes at max brightness) will add to the BOM.
>it still takes 30 years to build.

Objectively false. Average global nuclear power plant construction time is somewhere around 7 years. Some get delayed significantly, some are done in 3 years, but it averages out shorter than you think.

For perspective, solar plants are about 2 years to get operational, combined cycle natural gas is around 3.

The other thing to keep in mind is that nuclear plants have seen significant upgrades, and continue to over their lifecycles. The US has added 19GW of nuclear capacity without building any new plants in the last couple decades which is certainly a reason why new nuclear projects haven't been happening that often.

Meanwhile China is building a ton of new plants, Russia is building something like 20 reactors for other countries, France has decided to keep all of its nuclear capacity after they cancelled their plan to shut them down, so I'd guess nuclear energy isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

What would be necessary is to have the NRC/etc approve a few modern reactor designs along with clear guidelines as to where/how they can be built. That'd reduce the regulatory burden on all sides which in turn would reduce cost, construction time, and operational safety significantly. That's as close to a solution to this problem as I've come across, and, quarterly, I write a letter to the government agencies in question telling them that. It's not much, but hey, I'm doing my part.
I feel like I found a bug but I'm not sure - when I do <line_number> then Shift +G I don't think the behavior is correct.
Sometimes, as contractors.

I've been thinking of it like more of a music studio.

I have a bunch of equipment, all setup and ready to use, and then when I, or a group (clients) need to get our work done we show up and do it, when we can do our work elsewhere we do. The point is the studio is here when we need it.

In addition to 3d printers, CNC machines, CAD computers and similar engineering stuff I also have it setup with fancy cameras, video switchers and microphones so it's like a livestream studio. That allows me to give fancy looking "webinar" type zoom calls and client videos so that people can feel like they're working right in the studio with me.

I had been calling it my "Design Lab", maybe I need to change it to "Design Studio"?
Open-source is rarely sustainable, I use many open-source projects, and I support/sponsor them when possible, but many simply don't survive long and the builder loses interested.

With Coolify it's different, because many companies are willing to sponsor the project, so it's already sustainable.
Sound drives 'quantum jumps' between electron orbits
So all the FAQs on their official site are open about technically being able to read private messages if you don't enable secret chats, and it's somehow lying?

The main page says Telegram is "secure" without elaborating, though. I can see people can be misled, but they're not lied to.
The sleight of hand here is to equate publicly reducing the key size, which was known (presumably at the time as well) to be a weakening of the system, with a supposed weakness injected cryptically into the S-boxes --- which we now know is the opposite of what happened.

Further, the truncated version of DES that got standardized far outlasted its expected lifetime --- the National Bureau of Standards expected DES to have a useful lifetime of about 5 years. And even at the time it was understood that you could expand the keysize by tripling up the DES core.

I think there's a really big difference between publicly weakening a standard, in effect telling the world "we want a standard that is adequate for commercial purposes but inadequate for military purposes, so as to retain our national edge", and doing what they did with Dual-EC, where it was impossible (apparently) for people to reason about what NSA was up to.
The worst thing for me was that app versions expire pretty frequently with no warning, then you just stop getting notifications. Which is extra annoying cause I'm only on it for some bar trivia group that totally doesn't need e2ee (or even e).

Also, Facebook Messenger recently added e2ee, which made it glitchier, fussier, and not really any more secure given that the key is a short numeric code.
McLuhan and Media Studies: An Underlooked Sub-Discipline?
Exactly.

Dokku looks great but what is the value of using it over "run your container" platforms like Google Cloud Run, Digital Ocean App Platform, or Fargate.
> telegram is the only platform where views different from war profiteers can be expressed

That is a strong, wrong, statement

For one thing, although I have my quibbles about the standard of journalism at The Guardian, I do not think for a micro second they are beholden to "war profiteers".
You're using the plural for "backdoors" there; what's the other one you're aware of?
Detectives are sworn law enforcement officers employed by a law enforcement agency such as a city police department, and in many places they are required to have prior experience as uniformed officers. They are cops.
My daughter recently read through the “Nancy Drew Diaries”. It turns out they took the original Nancy Drew books, including settings, and redid them in a cell phone/ early smartphone world, and they’re still fun. It’s an interesting concept!
I design hardware, so there will always be a physical component to what I do. Rather than be a should I buy two birds or one type thing, it's really more of a two birds one stone situation.
For internet websites, if a website can be accessed from France, then the French law applies.

It's under the same principle that Megaupload was shut down by the US, despite the company was not connected to the US or operating from the US.

This is why some websites block visitors from France (e.g. newspapers not willing to bother with GDPR for example) or that some sites block visitors, registrations and payments from the US (e.g. investment websites).

Here Telegram refuses to respect French law. Whether they are ethically right or not, it's one debate, but in the meantime, the detectives want to gather elements.

It's the standard way that police talks there. They don't send lawyers. Instead they put you in custody for interrogation.

A bit rude, I recognize it, though relatively common. Even the French CEO of Uber was sent in custody there.
With compounding, the potential earnings of someone who is taxed but invests over 50 years of work compared to someone else that isn't taxed but does the same investments comes out to about 50% gains of the second over the first.

If someone is taxed and doesn't or can't save, or their retirement gets screwed up, or they make enough to get taxed but not enough to invest significantly, or finds themselves in any of a myriad of screwy situations, then they only make 5-7% by diligently saving up the same amount that the first two would have been investing year over year.

95% of their potential income is lost by not investing reasonably. If someone were magically able to not pay taxes, they gain 150% of the good-retirement investment and taxes scenario.

Given the constant nickel and diming, the gotchas, the shuffling of money back and forth, and the outsized impact on investment, I completely agree that a flat 10% absolute level of taxation, not a red cent over, would be reasonable. It's also super important to invest, and to keep dropping money into your investments over time that you never touch, just use a diverse and sensible fund, and don't pull it out until you retire.

Not only is it theft of the future, it's wasted and misspent in awful ways. Sure am glad all our representatives are getting so wealthy, though. Wonderful people, that lot.
Data brokers are a scourge. They should be illegal, or at the very least regulated.

For example, here's an idea for one such regulation:

If the company purchases aggregated salary data, they must publish their own salaries for at least 1 year.
Does your platforms support 1-Click (premade) apps?
I say they lie about being secure because they're not secure by default. It's an option, and a very inconvenient one. Plenty of other messengers have made e2e encryption easy to use. Telegram has done the opposite, which makes me think that they don't want their users to use truly private messages.
The screen was a transflective LCD display from Pixel Qi.

Pixel Qi was always one of those companies I thought should have succeeded but didn't.

This a decent walk through of their timeline in tech history:

https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-rise-and...

Still today I would love to have a minimalist 'typewriter' laptop that I could work with just sitting outdoors in full sun.
Signal is not very popular and maybe because of this haven't yet observed the full power of law bending and interpretation.

Given the accusations against Telegram, many of the points apply to Signal equally, including importing uncertified cryptographic tools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_Alphabet
You may benefit from buying a folding board
At the same time high schools have cut a lot of this stuff out of their curriculum. I mean, no more woodshop, no more metal work. And it's not like these kids can go home and work on their car. Cars these days are too complex for that.
> Certain digital image editing programs that have masking features may use a red overlay to designate masked areas, mimicking the use of actual Rubylith film.

Oh so that's why masking mode in Photoshop is a red overlay?! TIL.
Like Cuba did with the sugar industry? They can't even make sugar anymore. Distorting markets usually destroys them. Intel isn't too big to fail.
I think this kind of tooling is one positive aspect of integrating LLM tech in certain workflows/pipelines. Tools like k8sgpt are similar in purpose and show a strong potential to be useful. Look forward to seeing how this progresses.
Software effectively has zero marginal production cost.

Hardware will never be able to compete with that.

Consequently, it's really hard to make more profit selling a million units of hardware than of software.
I was using https://caprover.com but I'm slowly migrating all services to Coolify.

CapRover still has a few things that it does better (better custom-domain support, more 1-click apps, integrated NetData monitoring, etc.), but overall Coolify is a lot more beginner-friendly and simpler to use.
MUCKROCK: File, track, and share public records requests
now it support it.

we used to avoid that, and making the input field very sanitised about the input
> Airbus is by no means perfect of course, but it is still miles ahead of the best the Americans or the Chinese have to offer in a very complex large scale industry

First of all this is an empty statement that reeks of rhetoric. You don’t have the full grasp of the picture to quantify if a company is miles ahead of the competition. Nobody does. Ahead in terms of what? Even if we want to compare companies in more specific aspects (for the sake of comparison) — be it revenue, vision, innovation, supply chain, or efficiency — Airbus is not ahead of the pack (which includes the likes of Lockheed Martin, GE Aerospace, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Rolls Royce).

Airbus is half of the commercial airline market duopoly with Boeing. Customers really have no other choices. Airbus benefits when Boeing drops the ball. Simple as that.
I think what most people, including tiling people, would actually want without realising it is Divvy (macOS)/gTile (gnome)/PowerToys (Windows).

A regular floating window manager but you can move any floating window into a tiled window based on a grid of potential locations.

It's hard to explain in words but look any of them up and it's the best no-compromise solution for everyone.
Aider for me
Industry acts to head off regulation on PFAS pollution from semiconductors
can you tell me your domain?
You presented 2 broad generalizations about "software developers" and "artists" along with your statement about this specific "manifesto", so that's what I was referring to.

Artistically produced software though could certainly be a CRUD app just as much as it could be a photo that you pulled off the shelf at Target, I'm arguing that the type of product it is doesn't necessarily have a bearing on whether it can be art or have elements of art in it.

Many people use the term in different ways to describe a kind of abstract ambiguously valuable process of creation, or the product of it. I think it's possible to interpret software as art, but it's not a necessary quality for the software to exist.

For purely artistic works of software, my opinion is that they'd pretty much serve no explicit purpose at all other than as a creative exploration of some sort, completely open to interpretation with no success or failure case. Like the webfont Candy which was made with CSS shapes, creative coding, or various kinds of digital illustrations. Exploring what you can do with ai generated imagery is surely one of them, but not necessarily so if it's just the solution to a problem.

Most things people would describe as "having an art to it" or "art" have nuanced colloquial interpretations, but it's usually just an aspect to the creation process that embodies some of these qualities. Someone could say "there's an art to sucking as bad as you do at X" and although it's meant to be figuratively derisive rather than literally artistic, it could also refer to the abstract nebulous means by which someone fails to be good. Likewise, it could mean the abstract nebulous process by which someone makes CRUD apps good/bad.
Yes, of course I disagree. This is one claim among many. Specifically, this appalling characterization and accusation you made:

> Worse, Durov was involved with CSAM material and did nothing about it. For this, he is immoral and in my opinion, a disgusting human being.

You have no idea who Durov is. You have a handful of claims by French authorities without evidence and you immediately jump to loathing this person and reviling them as a "disgusting human being"? Shame on you.
https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1eo38fi/i_built_an_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/search?q=dnd&restrict_sr=on&...

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However, this is cool. Hopefully you have left a Grue someplace as an easter egg.
Prediction lets you see through time but doesn't reduce the overall amount of work you have to do - the update confirming the prediction has to be sent eventually.

Also, remember that the server cannot afford to trust the clients about anything, not can it let them have too much information about the world.
My knowledge is likely incorrect, but I think the 30 year number comes mostly from the politics side. It takes a long time to get approval, much less time to build.
What do you think it says about the economic system? Software inherently has better economies of scale than hardware. That will be true regardless of the economic system. I don't love advertising but it's a small fraction of the entire software industry.
ah, you are right ... I missed the password recovery flow part which is a key thing here
On the other hand, it can be nice for other types of autocomplete usage. Say I know I'm looking for a GlobalScope, but I just don't know which one. Type "GlobalScope" and you get a nice list of everything prefixed with it. It's nice for things like Error enums, or similar usages. I know I'm looking for an Error, but I'm not sure of all the ones available to me.
Applying macro data to micro use cases without appropriate carve outs is one of the greatest sins in statistics, and yet it happens everywhere.
Curriculum learning for ab initio deep learned refractive optics
The main reason Nvidia (the company) is worth Nvidia money is they decided it'd be smarter to be a platform company than a hardware company.

AMD's graphics division still hasn't figured that out.
It's worth googling around and reading about what the upsides/downsides to different cadence. It's pretty tough on ones legs/knees to be doing 1 hr of hard pushing every day. It may seem too high, but shooting for 80-90 rpm at lower gears is what pros tend to do, and if you try it you can feel the difference (limiting factor quickly becomes cardiovascular system as opposed to your leg muscles).
The American government is the longest continually existing "regime" in the world. Unlike it, other governments do not conduct (serious) attempts to overthrow it and so it has the most secure institutions. Therefore it can afford to absorb more disagreement with it than other, much shorter-lived regimes can.

This is why there can be a 'debate'.

But as soon as any such debate threatens to actually change something, cops are deployed to beat people up, protesters are arrested and harassed and of course they are constantly smeared in the media.

That is the real difference as far as I can see it.

Don't get me wrong, I am part of the Western world and I'd like it to be true what you say, but why do things like this[1] happen then?

1 - https://www.newstatesman.com/diary/2024/04/cancelled-germany...
Maybe while humans are designing the map, we could flag some interesting landmarks, and then if the NPCs engage with them somehow, info about them could be built into their prompts.

Maybe Skyrim was a bad example because it is too designed. But like, Minecraft barely has a plot, and it was really popular. Maybe we can add, like, a couple good characters to open world survival crafting games. We don’t have to skip straight to simulating whole cities.
Something like this? https://vercel.com/templates

Not at the moment unfortunately. I understand it's more friction, but you can just clone any of those repos and deploy them to FlexStack in 1-click by linking your GitHub account.
It was just one analyst's opinion. Definitely worth disputing with sources. I don't have references.
Which step?
How does it compare to Coolify? https://coolify.io
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/top/
Homeowners in the Bay Area.
While some customers will end up paying a lot for more RAM, I have to wonder if Apple really has a good idea about how many potential sales they're losing at the same time, too.

They've lost several Mac purchases I would have otherwise made over the last decade, thanks solely to the unjustifiable cost of getting a reasonable amount of RAM for my needs.

Yet, as far as I know, Apple has no way of tracking those lost sales. They've never asked me, and I've never told them.

I know I'm not alone. I have a number of colleagues, friends, and family who've been ready to buy different types of Apple computers, but then opted not to once they see how much even a relatively small RAM upgrade will cost. Again, I doubt that Apple is aware of those lost sales.
I find it very hard to get excited about this shell-scripts-in-YAML-with-macros language:

https://github.com/serpent-os/recipes/blob/b269cef9b42645b89...

setup : |
%patch %(pkgdir)/enhance-config.patch
%patch %(pkgdir)/0001-Make-sway-stateless.patch
%meson -Ddefault_sysconfdir=%(vendordir)%(sysconfdir)
build : |
%meson_build
install : |
%meson_install
The $1 MICROCONTROLLER: 21 microcontrollers – all less than $1 (2017)
https://www.ted.com/speakers/helen_fisher
I don't have a source for this, so take it as you wish, but as I remember what I read, duopolies can be quite stable. Three party cartels can go either way.

But with 4 or more participants, someone will inevitably betray the others out of greed.
The displays were readable outdoors by daylight. That was a killer feature right there and it didn't catch on.

My octa-core 'phone' with OLED display is useless in sunlight. I tried using it as a sat nav last summer and there were situations of panic near freeway exits when the screen got illegible.
Nice narrative! I bet the data doesn’t match that story.

We need to be more data driven in evaluating our progress.
Apple announces Chief Financial Officer transition