skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zooming out, this is the case in a lot of the programming world in general. Massive, massive duplication of effort so that each language community can do the same stuff as everyone else, but in their preferred language. There's what, 20-30 different general-purpose languages out there with a sizeable library ecosystem?

Now don't get me wrong, I love programming languages. It's all fun and interesting. But it's a bit absurd too.
Heat deaths in 2023 hit record high, study finds
It's possible to value children and yet choose not to have any

There have always been people who have chosen to not have children
Reddit is heavily centralized in the hands of a small number of mods. This would decentralize things
According to their own 2024 Developer Survey [1], 61% of people are using AI. I guess it's way less effort to ask your custom tailored question in a dumb way to an AI and get a nice response instantly, then fall back to SO only as a fallback.

[1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/ai/#1-ai-tools-in-the-d...
Which he was free to do and did.

Literally Zuckerberg is quoted as saying he didn't remove posts: "[USG] “expressed a lot of frustration” when the social media platform resisted.".

It would be much better if the article actually posted the contents of the government email. Everything we saw from say the Twitter files in this regard is some gov employee asking if X post complied with Y Twitter policy and if-not if the post should be removed. That gov employee didn't write Y policy, it was Twitter's own policy. I suspected a similar thing happened here where Facebook has a fake news policy [1] and a gov employee was asking them if given posts were in violation of it.

[1]: https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/m...
It's been about 4 years since I've used Briar, so take this with a grain of salt, but I found it extremely useful at an event where I was normally within WiFi distance of my friends, but we didn't have cell service. Like, we might be in the same conference room, just not actually near each other, and the site had shoddy internet service.

If we could connect to each other's phones as "hotspots," we could send messages over Briar that wouldn't get through any other way.

It also worked well with a local mesh net set up around the conference location for file sharing, but that didn't have internet access.

Not the intended use case from what I understand, but it worked surprisingly well, and better than the goTennas we tried the year before!
This misses the point because people are not doing 'deliberate practice' while driving. If they spent their time actively trying to get better each time they drove things might be very different.
What would that achieve? Why would anyone want a pile of old code that can never build or run?
Those stock options aren't worth the time it would take to write the document. There will be nothing left in the pool once all those take over investors get their cut.
There were a bunch of cities, countries and states that did provably better job - NY was one of the worst-hit places in the world. So, no.
My theory for this, at least in this case when the featured article is about a software program, aka a tool, then it really becomes a discussion about the tools that serve the purpose of that in TFA.

Here's an analogy from the physical realm: "presenting shovel, a customizable tool for removing dirt".

- doesn't work well for rocky terrain, but I'm working on DigBar, which can outperform Shovel in many high performance workloads.

- it's a lot slower than Hoe, if you're only going down 4" of topsoil

- I wrote a custom frontend for Shovel call Flatend, it carries more volume for loose loads

- theres a paid product called posthole that is worth buying if you build fences, uses shovel under GPLv3
From the article:

> Mountain View Whisman School District made the decision at a meeting of the Board of Trustees on Thursday after the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the 4,500-student K-8 district was paying $189,000 in exchange for 160 meditation sessions to energy healer Alycia Diggs-Chavis.

This is a public school district so spending $189,000 of the public's tax dollars was agreed to by the school superintendent (i.e. "principal") and the school board.
Probably for the same reason strategically placed tea reserves all around china just incase someone wants to steal it "all"...the idea of Japan having a massive underground cave complex for rice is amusing to me for some reason. I know its not how it works but the next big earthquake could open up a lava flow and produce a giant rice krispy field and then we'd just have to lure the stay-puff marshmallow man into that field...
I have used Wikipedia as an editor and the moderation can be atrocious and again in the handful of a few.
Most software programmers say that certifications have little to no value, so the decoupling doesn't seem to be working.
Did you use % ? I'm down to 6.5 and I'm being very clunky.
Hugging Face Acquires XetHub from Ex-Apple Researchers for ML Versioning
30fps on a triple A game on an integrated GPU means that any schmuck with a laptop can play them now, which will erode the demand for discrete GPUs.

It happened with point and shoot cameras, and it'll happen to GPUs.
Tesla's Rivals Still Can't Use Its Superchargers (In the US)
TLDR. The expert Kazuhito Yamashita argues:

Japan is only producing about half of the rice it could potentially produce.
This is due to government policy that pays farmers not to grow to prevent falling prices.
Argues in the current geopolitical climate with the potential of a food blockade, this policy should be abandoned.
If abandoned, Japan will become one of the largest rice exporters which he argues is better for Japanese food security.
> buy surplus from farmers

With what money?

Japan already has some of the highest debt-to-GDP ratios in the world, the Yen is increasingly unstable, and much of the budget is spent on the Japanese Welfare system that cannot be messed with or you are committing political suicide along with rising defense expenditures that are now required due to North Korea's military buildup.

The existing status quo is good enough to keep farmers happy (and not switching their vote) while leaving money on the table to be used for social spending, defense, and debt payments.
It does however downvotes start to gray out comments and HN is still prone to brigading.
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For that you'd probably be better off removing one of the GPUs, and replacing it with a networking card.

The problem of the form factor will remain. The tinybox is 15U big for compute that you'd normally expect to find in a 4U form factor.
Part of the reason censorship is bad policy is that if the government had that authority it would've been wielded by Trump. With more government censorship your parents would've gotten less good and more bad information, not the other way around
Has anyone verified the veracity of this?

> Respectfully,

> /s/ Mark Zuckerberg

Wow, spicy.
Really? I hear people complaining about the death of OpenCL (which Apple championed early on) a lot here, so I don't think that's universally true.
Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/1yLYu
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41365868
I kind of don't know what you're complaining about which I guess is your point. Was it the people who claim that the mask was a government conspiracy? Or the scientist who conspired to just kind of make up masks in six feet?

I'm sure it's not the now proven cover-up of the lab leak hypothesis that was considered conspiracy theory that is proved to just simply be a conspiracy.
They are missing an additional factor which is - who is running it, and how are they incentivized. This is really the reason I trust signal more than the alternatives, over and above any technical details.

Basically I want the ship to be steered by someone who is maximally inoculated against selling out. Spending a decade of your life publicly railing against capitalism and sellouts, building a big community of active crusty friends who will call you out for turning evil, that’s valuable. It’s not perfect but I believe that it works better than various alternatives

moxies “bad business models create evil companies” thing resonates a lot also
After a couple of years on Signal, I am starting to migrate back to WhatsApp for most usage, because Signal doesn't care about normal people who want to share family pictures with each other and expect those to be part of your photo stream.
> This didn't work out

... except it did.

You had literal students design chips that outperformed industry cores that took huge teams and huge investment.

Acorn had a team of just a few people build a core that outperformed an i460 with likely 1/100 investment. Not to mention the even more expensive VAX chips.

Can you imagine how fucking baffled the DEC engineers at the time were when their absurdly complex and absurdly expensive VAX chip were smocked by a bunch of first time chip designers?

> as Pentium II demonstrated

That chip came out in 1997. The original RISC chip research happened in the early 80s or even earlier. It did work, its just that x86 was bound to the PC market and Intel had the finances huge teams hammer away at the problem. x86 was able to overtake Alpha because DEC was not doing well and they couldn't invest the required amount.

> no reason to expose it to the user in the ISA

Except that hidden the implementation is costly.

If you give 2 equal teams the same amount of money, what results in a faster chip. A team that does a simply RISC instruction set. Or a team that does a complex CISC instruction set, transforms that into an underlying simpler instruction set?

Now of course for Intel, they had backward comparability so they had to do what they had to do. They were just lucky they were able to invest so much more then all the other competitors.
Show HN: We Just Landed Our First 5 Customers
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I would consider changing the name. Also, this oil field seems to have been milked dry (but I could always be missing something!)

My user test: https://www.loom.com/share/4d2078b9e6ed45eb83331c8f97460fdb
My company just googles the position title and slaps that number in the job description. Not going well.
If you want to check out our landing page, it’s here:

https://symbols-beta.framer.website
Discord too I think. They also set out to make a game
The coming world of ubiquitous price discrimination
Is it just me...or has there been an endless-seeming stream of "US govt. says Chinese govt. rooted yet more critical US infrastructure" news stories - but with no hint that the US govt. cares enough to actually do something about the problem?
> Smart folks giving up on kids are removing smart genes from future gene pool, who then gets more diluted by illiterate farmers having 10-15 kids.

Hints of eugenic thinking there

Illiteracy is not hereditary, so I don't know why you bring it in.

Poor farmers do no "dilute the gene pool"

In general, poor people have more children, regardless of IQ level.
There are legitimate concerns or arguments against a single national government-run healthcare system covering 330 million people in 50 different states (medicare/caid notwithstanding, basically all healthcare is regulated state by state and not federally).

I don't know anything arguing that adjustable-rate mortgages will "fail" in the US (we have them already), especially focused specifically toward/against non-owner occupied properties, just that it would negatively affect them and they don't want to do it.
If there's no third party client then the e2e is completely moot because Signal could be forced to push a backdoor to their customers and they would never know e2e has been removed.
> maybe the discrepancy that dark matter was invented to explain will simply disappear when more accurate astronomical data including the fainter stars becomes available

FWIW, that would be a much more surprising result than anything to do with dark matter. We can see "faint stars" just fine in the near field. What you're positing here is that somehow "faint" stars in the farther universe behave in notably different ways than they do in the Milky Way, which is exactly the kind of theory you're arguing against.

No, a few confusing results isn't going to throw dark matter out. It's too strong a signal, and too hard to explain via classical means (I mean, it's not like astronomers haven't tried!).
Wouldn’t it be fructose instead of typical white sugar (sucrose)?

EDIT: nevermind me, apparently cocoa pods have sucrose as well.
I'm a fan of CR and of independent testing. I'm sorry that the attempts to bring independent testing to the supplements industry haven't done better.

But they too fall victim to the need to exaggerate every story to get better headlines.

In this case, they came up with ridiculously stringent standards allowing them to suggest danger where there isn't.

On the other hand, it is good that the outliers get scolded and hopefully they improve their processes as a result.
What Do Algorithms Want?
Sometimes people like to do things just do do them, because the idea is cool. Sometimes an idea is cool because it has real world ramifications just for existing (trusting trust, supply chain attacks), though many people like to argue about whether or not this particular idea is Just Cool TM or Actually Useful TM.
I don’t think the article made any false pretenses either way- it seemed evident to me that at least some of the motivation was “because how? I want to do the how!” And that’s cool!
Also, I think the article pretty clearly redirects your question. Duh he could just cross compile rust. But the whole article, literally the entirety of it, is dedicated to exploring the chicken/egg problem of “if rustc is written in rust, what compiles rustc?”, and the rabbithole of similar questions that arise for other languages. The answer to that question being both “rustc of course”, and also “another compiler written in some other language.” The author wants to explore the process of making the compiler in [the/an] ‘other language’ because it’s Cool.

Just because something has already been done, does not mean there’s no worth in doing it- nor that there is only worth in doing it for educational and/or experiential purposes :)
Between your comment and others in the thread we've so far got:

- Insurers won't insure you

- Abortion activists will hunt you down

- Religious fanatics will shame you

- Credit rating

Not to downplay those (very real) risks in the slightest, but they are all US-centric problems.

Not sure what over-arching point to make, but it's certainly a set of US-centric problems.
That seems about 1 trillion times more likely than that all of the chocolate sold here (made by many disparate producers) suddenly changed.
Typically GA people are working with real algebras, meaning the coefficients are real, and things like a square root of -1 appear as some object in the algebra (like a 2-blade). But you could also have a Clifford algebra with coefficients in e.g. the complex numbers or fields of finite characteristic.

In fact using different coefficient rings is one way to write a compact recursive definition of real Clifford algebras:

http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/geometric-algebra-for-free_30...
Most models actually can't be split nicely by 6. There's a reason nvidia builds nodes with 4 and 8 GPUs.
This is true. In the spirit of charity, what if we kill more businesses? Seems like doing good in the world can also have negative impacts we may not be aware of.
What makes you think Steinberg didn’t dictate the price? How are they competitors when Finale is dead? You’re referring to price fixing laws between ongoing competition, which is illegal in this US too. This is not that by any stretch of the imagination.
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At the current stage, no one should be using a RISC-V machine as their main machine. That's why I mentioned Framework, because with Framework, if the investment was a failure, I can just get a X86 board and the rest is not a total lost.

However, even through Framework ships to Taiwan, importing product from Taiwan to China is not significantly easier than importing from the US. I still need to handle shipment forwarding and customs etc. Plus, my knowledge is, Framework discourages/bans shipment forwarding. So before I can get the product in an official and legitimate way, I'll just keep waiting.

The tablet mentioned in the main article while promising, it just can't interest me as a consumer. For it's starting price at $149, I can buy a secondhand ThinkPad X230t to run Ubuntu 24.04 and it's also a tablet (arguably the best tablet in the entire tablet history in the entire tablet universe so far).

Maybe the Chinese government should buy those tablets as work equipment to prevent their employees/personals from playing Microsoft Solitaire during work hours.
I think they mean turn by turn navigation, which launched in late October 2009 and so barely fits in the 15 year window. You could say that it's a feature of Google Maps, but since it relied on maps that Google made instead of licensed map data, that feature was a much larger undertaking than the previous Google Maps product to that point.
So you're saying that he should have squelched the idea of 6 ft separation and masking, the latter of which was just made up in the former of which the government had both sides on? Or squelched the official US government position that it couldn't be a lab leak?
Chinese games come with their own areas of messaging - don't acknowledge Taiwan, don't show skulls, don't criticise communism, etc.
Famous hacker USDoD has been doxed by CrowdStrike
China fought Vietnam after America. It didn’t go very well. It’s a defacto island with difficult terrain to the south, west, and north, while the first island chain keeps the lid in it. It hasn’t been until recently that it had a navy which could seriously reach beyond. It has been building everything it can and needs to break out of the first island chain by taking Taiwan and it knows that to do that it would first need a force capable of beating the Americans before doing anything.
The mirror-image of Calvin and Hobbes' "Stupendous man"
You can find a new job if you just start looking today, if you just "wait for the market to improve" you will always be behind the pack and feeling "stuck".
From a practical standpoint, I feel this issue is largely moot with the emergence of AI bots. Will the government have the time to chase them all? And will Facebook have the ability to censor them all?
"Your OneMedical account by Meta-Amazon LLC has been deactivated due to suspicious activity based on analysis of your genome and online browsing habits. Please proceed to the nearest fresh location for mandatory euthanasia."