skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thousands of Gaza War protesters have been arrested

True, but by local authorities. And in most cases charges were dropped. The total number detained is small, and in most cases I've personally seen, at least in New York, credibly tied to a destructive act that had nothing to do with the protest.

> probably because of having a comically twisted view of how authoritarianism plays out in practice

Absolutely agree. To a sad degree, the current seat of authoritarian politics in America has shifted to Silicon Valley.

> you believing there were no large demonstrations within Russia as being an example of this perspective

I should have clarified without reprisals, but you are correct--the St. Petersburg protests weren't well covered by the international press.
Imagine if you could stake private messages.
If a node is proven to have cheated, all other nodes form a consensus and leak its private messages.

But nothing at stake, as is the case with most PoS.
>>Do you actually think 8 billion people are about to drop dead?

In no more than 100 years or so, yes.
More likely, it will wipe out the subpopulation that don't value children enough to overcome that.
I believe that doing deadlifts can make you expelled from Planet Fitness. Am I right?
I started out with Dokku and it was fine, but ultimately switched to Coolify solely because it has a web UI. Dokku Pro has one as well, but my use case was primarily just for hosting a demo and spinning up instances from GitHub PRs so didn’t feel worth spending money on.
> Signal being unable to provide information to a subpoena is very different than arresting its CEO

If Signal had blown off the court completely, yes, that would have resulted in arrest warrants. That's at least what France alleges Durov did in the warrant.
Chaplin and Keaton (among others, like Lloyd) are still hilarious and their films technically impressive and full of movie-magic spectacle. I’ve watched a fair amount (certainly a ton more than most people) of silent film and IMO the comics are by far the most-accessible of the bunch to a modern audience, requiring minimal “education” on how to understand, appreciate, enjoy, or “read” them. They’re the only ones I’d unreservedly recommend to just about anyone who likes movies.

Very few dramatic silents are even close to as accessible—I’d say the ones that age second-best are those that lean art-film, but those are hindered by that entire genre being obscure and difficult to enjoy for most people, so while they may not be much more challenging to enjoy than a talkie art film and might deliver just as much quality as most of those can, that’s a fairly different bar to clear than enjoying a comedy or ordinary drama.

The comedies do seem to be surviving better, too, even if not as well as they deserve. The dramas survive in the public consciousness as a very-small number of well-known scenes or images (the rocket-in-the-moon’s-eye, the android from Metropolis) but reference most anything else from even those films, let alone other very-well-regarded but barely-watched-today movies, and nobody but a few film nerds will notice.
This is not appropriate for the DOJ to be taking up. They have nearly unlimited resources and have far bigger fish to fry.

The appropriate enforcement agencies are the States' Attorneys General. If they feel that their constituents are being harmed, they can take it up with the courts.

There is certainly zero evidence that RealPage has any sort of monopoly. The DOJ would have named that evidence in their press release if they had any evidence at all that RealPage possessed any sort of monopoly power. This isn't the National Assoc of Realtors (which obviously does actually have strong monopoly power), and where is the DOJ when the NAR lawsuits have been going on for the last several years? So, the Sherman Antitrust Act claims are tenuous at best.

As it stands, this seems to be a ham-handed attempt to seek a consent decree for clumsy price-fixing, setting maximum rent prices, nationwide, without any appropriate legislation, as an end-run around Congress. And that will actually harm consumers.
Is all device functionality otherwise supported booting off an external drive?
Yes, this is correct. If you're using IP address allowlists then you also have to check the Host HTTP header (Cloudflare won't allow their other customers to forge that header). Or, you can use mTLS (as another commenter pointed out), or tunnels (as I pointed out): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26690388
oil is tech, in my analogy. You know what I meant. You can't possibly be that autistic.
Mostly because many decided that to make money, they had to go with VC money and business friendly licenses, instead of dual license GPL + commercial.
Well, he describes some folks' work as "crackpot-level bullshit" and repeatedly states that other authors "have no idea what they're talking about". These seem to me to be personal critiques.
Generally, I'm not sure the distinction you draw is quite so clear cut -- if I say somebody is great but all their work is hot garbage, that sounds fairly personal.
The fact that they don't tells us something about their expectations of US Intel.
Looks like WEBGPU is only on nightly for FF, for now.
Isn't this one a bit outdated and it is recommended to use Khronos Vulkan Tutorial that is more up to date: https://docs.vulkan.org/tutorial/latest/00_Introduction.html
Hypothetical: A computer program is distributed in binary form with the description "written in Rust" or some similar indication it is a Rust binary. A computer user who neither compiles their own programs nor reads source code downloads and runs the program under the belief that because the program is "written in Rust" it offers memory safety. Unbeknownst to the computer user, the program has been compiled without memory safety.
> Even among those who claim to "like Shakespeare", they seem to be driven more by wanting to feel "highbrow" rather than any genuine appreciation for the works.

This is amusing because evidence suggests that at the time his works were not considered highbrow, and they seem to have been popular with a wide audience.
Unfortunately, there's never enough time to run a proper experiment - we want answers now! Who cares if they're the right answers. Short-termism can't wait two months.
> seen far fewer anarchists running around subjugating people, giving people Syphilis to see what happens, feeding orphans radioactive substance laced milk for the same, running off to war, imposing drafts, playing at proxy wars

Real anarchy does all of these things. It's why living under fighting warlords is a reliable precursor to authoritarianism: it's better than anarchy in the short term.
> China, Russia, Iran or North Korea?

Probably no but I also would expect to face consequences if I go to the country whom court order I choose not to fulfill.

It's the same thing with the USA in the crypto community, you either don't sell US citizens unregulated securities or you sell and avoid USA or any country that might extradite you to USA.

I remember the days when the internet was the wild west, laws wouldn't apply and the cops lacked the tools to catch anyone or enforce anything. Those days are long gone, the rule of the thumb is that countries now have rules and tool for this stuff and if you break them better never ever visit these countries.
If it was your average modern startup page where you have to scroll down 3 screens to see anything besides generic marketing drivel and licensed stock photos of smiling corporate drones, of course reducing whitespace so people can see what the product is about will increase signups.
Sure, honestly I have no problem with people wanting to sterilize themselves, although I do somewhat support the idea that what you want at a younger age isn't necessarily what you want at a later point in your life, so sterilization should be handled at least somewhat seriously.

That said, I do take umbrage with people using suspicious statistics in unusual ways to push an agenda. If your cause is just, there is no need to use misleading statistics to inflate its importance. I argue this for causes I support as well as those I don't support.
Dokku is AMAZING. I’ve been using it for about 6 years, never had a single problem with it and I host a lot of apps on a single instance server. Can’t recommend it enough
Lisp Query Notation - A DSL for Data Processing [pdf]
Any news / releases / speculation on the bandwidth of M4 and the integrated memory?
I think it would be better to look at number of volunteers signing a contract with military (there is not enough of them). Because one thing is to support the war in a phone poll and another thing is to take a gun and a bulletproof vest and go support it in real life.
This was a huge mistake by the IRS; they should have required this in 2013.
What browser protects against resource exhaustion? Chrome and all variants do not. Running out of memory or cpu or even hard drive space can happen and does in all browsers.
Apparently the fossils are bifungites, created by an unidentified marine worm species.

The new findings suggest these worms belong to a group called Annulitubus.
That doesn't solve the greater issue. Let's say you bought an Intel CPU because your company requires remote attestation. Then a researcher publishes an exploit. Then Intel pushes an update that revokes keys from your model of CPU. What would you do, go happily spend $500 on a new one? Should we landfill millions of CPUs everytime the mouse pulls ahead of the cat?
You got it backwards. There is no way to argue about what music is "better". Or at least no productive way to do that.

When talking about UX, I am expressing an opinion based both on my experience as an engineer and as a user. In this case, I can state that something is better, at least in the sense that it's a more intuitive and an effective pattern.

If judgments like that trigger you - that's ok, I don't have to meet some unexpressed level of data-supported evidence.

> There's nothing tempermental or nuerotically formalized about politely offering a path for the conversation

Re-read your responses and imagine talking to someone in person with this level of nit-picking and animosity.

“You’re not wrong, Walter..." and so on.
160Kb overhead was outrageous. I'm glad she didn't get to experience a monstrosity like Windows 11 booting up with 12Gb of overhead...
Yeah, but listen brother. Do you want housing prices to be lower or higher? Do you want rents to be lower or higher? Which is best for you? What is best for the country? Your experience is really valuable in the context of what this action is meant to address, which is a potentially irreconcilable political interest in low rents for all, high prices for some, low prices for others, which could be achieved many ways.
No, I don't think we've discovered the sum total of milder pathogens.
Digging me for putting an E on the end of a masculine name.

Basically a joke only Francophones would get and I’m a lapsed one. I think it’s only first names anyway, so the joke is probably still broken.
just imagine a world where protobuf replaces JSON, would you really want that? you're not thinking big picture
Why not EXWM to have free tiling instead of using i3 like a set of FF tabs... That's was my path years ago, I've tried a bit i3 concluding it's rigid tiling model it's essentially useless and I've in the end use tabs/split screen and rarely stacks. Then EXWM, at first very hard to start as a WM (I was also new to Emacs, former hardcore vimmer) but thereafter... I can't even use floating WMs nowadays... Though I do not user eat/vterm/eshell simply because for casual terminal usage (living in Emacs makes me use the terminal much, much less) it's not that comfy.

Dired on contrary is super good also to rename files en masse, to filter them and so on.
Yet they resisted sending 1099s for years.
Lenders. 50+ years of principal explosion means you can borrow more so you can afford more, which means you repay even more.

Homebuilders have to pay higher wages, higher material costs, better materials too. I'm sure they're also making it work for them but the banks are pure profit, very little risk. It'd be silly to ignore the possibility they're the ones driving prices as they benefit most from higher loans.
>You overestimate the ability of an insurance company to make use of AI

They already do, and it's pretty obvious.
If you look at a country level you find a very different story. Coal usage in any Western country has declined substantially.
Please do not post facts you got from asking an LLM.
Looks nice only getting some errors when trying to add a stock that got renamed (FB->META). But the -92% ROI is already depressing enough lol
As a tiling window manager user, I am really frustrated with mainstream web browsers. They are an ergonomic disaster for me, forcing me to use the mouse and waste so much precious screen real estate with gray space and redundant tabs. I want to disable tabs and just use windows managed by my window manager. That's what window managers are for! Separation of concerns is a pretty good notion in my book. Emacs can have a server and multiple "frames", so why can't Firefox or Chrome? Someone please tell me this is possible and I just missed it.
> You're saying that competition doesn't drive down prices by giving two examples of how companies avoid competition.

The point is that the intuitive wisdom that free market competition lowers prices of goods is not now, nor has it ever been the truism that it's postured as, because the businesses within that market have a huge selection of tools and strategies at their disposal to avoid direct competition.

And this makes sense. Why in the world would you subject your business to the unmediated competition of a free market? Yeah, it's totally possible for you to create a product so innately better that you own the market by virtue of that, but that's like... hard. It's way easier to create brand-lock-in to incentivize your existing customers to stay in your "ecosystem," or to create an innovative unique feature and patent it so your competition can't use it, or use snobby/elitist marketing to make your product more enticing to people who seek status, or shit, go the other way, make it humble and down to earth, and appeal to a sense of "genuineness," or tie yourself to patriotism and put flags all over your product, whatever it might be. There's tons of ways you can make people want your thing that have fuck-all to do with the thing.

I think this is a serious fault in how pro-free-market people tend to think, which is this constant positioning of people as rational actors who will choose the best product for their needs, and it's utter nonsense. People buy stuff for stupid reasons constantly.
Months ago, Florida OK'd giving 324 acres of state forest to golf course company
That's super interesting. Do you think that a model could be trained to exaggerate the motions necessary, and then that output could be splatted? There is probably enough mocap data already to "rebuild" games with new characters using similar techniques.

Or am I way off here?
Surprise Hardware Bug in RP2350 Leads to Unexpected Pulldown Behavior
Why can't I just "apt-get install" tools like this?

I used to have all the powerful tools at my fingertips but now I feel like my Linux distro is slowly disappearing into a vortex of irrelevance.
>You correctly identify a problem then suggest a complicated technical solution.

That's one of the hardest things for STEM types to learn, not everything can or needs to be solved with a complicated technical solution. You see it with HR and interpersonal type things all the time, where some minor communicator could solve the issue, but people start suggesting overly involved technical processes instead.
I'd argue that it's not the 'default' workstation most developers who do not have specific requirements will be running, especially on the RAM side.

My personal machine is very mid-spec'ed because my personal projects are all small and don't really require much.

Even my work machine tops out at 32Gb RAM which has always been plenty, even for our comparatively large codebases (although more is always welcome :)).
Yes, but not transferable.
:4 does not go to line 4.
Or at least, the line numbers are not correct.
No thanks, I'll pass.
Microsoft delivers boost to AMD Ryzen gaming performance with 24H2 update
Improved version of 'Robocrop' only picks ripe raspberries
I think it also depends on what kind of connections you want.

As somebody that really values comedy and a sense of humor, it becomes very obvious that humor is particularly dependent on having shared cultural references. For me, if a new relationship doesn’t having the touchstones that allow joking around it feels empty and sterile
In 1982 you still had "supercomputers" like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_X-MP

because you could still make bipolar electronics that beat out mass-produced consumer electronics. By the mid 1990s even IBM abandoned bipolar mainframes and had to introduce parallelism so a cluster of (still slower) CMOS mainframes could replace a bipolar mainframe. This great book was written by someone who worked on this project

https://campi.cab.cnea.gov.ar/tocs/17291.pdf

and of course for large scale scientific computing it was clear that "clusters of rather ordinary nodes" like the

https://www.cscamm.umd.edu/facilities/computing/sp2/index.ht...

we had at Cornell were going to win (ours was way bigger) because they were scalable. (e.g. the way Cray himself saw it, a conventional supercomputer had to live within a small enough space that the cycle time was not unduly limited by the speed of light so that kind of supercomputer had to become physically smaller, not larger, to get faster)

Now for very specialized tasks like codebreaking, ASICs are a good answer and you'd probably stuff a large number of them into expansion cards into rather ordinary computers and clusters today possibly also have some ASICs for glue and communications such as

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/whats-a-dpu-data-processing-un...

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The problem I see with people who attempt parallelism for the first time is that the task size has to be smaller than the overhead to transfer tasks between cores or nodes. That is, if you are processing most CSV files you can't round-robin assign rows to threads but 10,000 row chunks are probably fine. You usually get good results over a large range of chunk size but chunking is essential if you want most parallel jobs to really get a speedup. I find it frustrating as hell to see so many blog posts pushing the idea that some programming scheme like Actors is going to solve your problems and meeting people that treat chunking as a mere optimization you'll apply after the fact. My inclination is you can get the project done faster (human time) if you build in chunking right away but I've learned you just have to let people learn that lesson for themselves.
Correct. With one major exception (that is, a dozen or two of the couple-hundred units in Trinity Place on Market Street) SF's rent stabilization ordinance does not apply to buildings constructed after ~1979.

So, it would be good for GP (PP? family trees are hard) to consider the implications of the fact that ~70% of the rental apartments in SF were built BEFORE 1979.
(Reader beware: basically everything the LLM emits in here is wrong.)

I was attempting to find formats that used a particular quoting style — SQL style double-the-character-to-espace — and bizarrely JSON came up.

Gemini:

> JSON: In JSON, double quotes are used to delimit strings. If a double quote needs to be included within the string itself, it's escaped by doubling it (e.g., "This is a string with a "quote" in it.").

That is,

"This is a string with a "quote" in it."

Me: Does your JSON example parse as valid JSON?

Gemini:

> Yes, the JSON example I provided ("This is a string with a "quote" in it.") is actually valid JSON.

> The reason it's valid is because the doubled quote within the string is interpreted as an escaped character, representing a single literal quote within the string itself. The JSON parser recognizes the double quotes at the beginning and end as delimiters for the entire string, not the escaped quote within.

It also called out,

> XML: Use a backslash (\) to escape characters, including quotes.

In a different context, and more towards "working with k8s" that the OP's AI is focused on,

Me: Regex to extract the replica number from a statefulset pod's name?

Gemini:

> Use kubectl: The kubectl get pods command with output formatting can directly show replica numbers. Here's an example:

kubectl get pods -o jsonpath='{.items[*].metadata.name}{" - replica: "}{.metadata.labels.replicaset-序号}'

The Chinese here, as best as I can tell, reads "serial number" … which sort of contextually makes sense in the sense of an LLM, I guess. The command is utter nonsense, of course.
I recall looking at a stable diffusion metric
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/stable-diffu...

And between this and some Whisper benchmarks on data center GPUs I worked out this formula approximation using the two most significant features:

stable_diffusions_per_minute ~= memory_clock_mhz x CUDA_cores / 424000

Of course it works out to RTX 4090, RTX 4080, RTX 3090 TI / 3090 beating everything else on speed by a pretty large margin. But not as much as the actual tests indicate. The main use of this test is that it indicates that most of the recent but older GPUs would have to sell for a pretty good bargain to justify buying them over the new stuff.
>> You ask the authors how they solved the problem of server needing to know to which client connection an incoming ciphertext needs to be forwarded, and they'll run to the hills

> This is very precisely documented, and this design was recently audited by Trail of Bits (in July 2024), we are about to publish their report.

I’ve looked at SimpleX in the past and am also curious about this. Is there a high-level summary?
I actually don't think it'd be so bad.

Ideally it is capnproto instead of protobuf, but in general the same applies.

It is a _transport_ protocol. You can still write your config or data in any format you like.
> Your complaints, while being understandable can be addressed with simply reading of the manual and source code.

I don't think they can, my complaints are that I have to spend too much time reading the manual and source code. Reading the manual and source code will not help resolve that.
ie the rate of movement is not a constant, speed of continental drift varies over time?
The old "can't make money with numpy, its all produced in already"
Check out the novel The Uploaded.
At least one big chemical company [1] has tried to make the case that they should be allowed to keep exploring for oil as they don't intend to burn it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ineos
The past, present, and future of local-first – Martin Kleppmann [video]
Years back someone proposed a cute algorithm for erasure codes that depended not on spinning rust but on multipath networking.

I believe they called it network coding and the idea was in a network with multiple routes I might get a file faster by pulling an erasure code that used two parts of the file or even two files from one upstream instead of waiting for the entire file from the primary server.
> Waste treatment system similar to many public systems.

So we agree it doesn’t scale. You can’t have 1,000 people each digging their own septic system around an apartment complex. What you’re proposing is adding cost and complexity to sewage in order to ensure you only pay for your shit.

> Also rural septic systems are almost never publicly funded.

Indeed, but literally all of the infrastructure up and down the supply chain that makes a $5k septic system available to you is.

> In rural areas septic is usually owned as part of mortgage or as debt services, if one cannot pay outright.

Ah, so you’d rather the poor pay interest on the ability to shit? Surreal.

> brutally poor or mentally ill

Yes, and I don’t think those people ought to be unable to shit in dignity. The libertarian dream is a nightmare.