skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about serving them. They have already been served multiple times, refused to comply, got fined and refused to pay the fines. Pulling out their office was simply a means to avoid paying fines, that's all. There's no big motive there but cash.

One can argue about the politics of this all day. There are political views to be discussed about the morality of the requests to ban accounts versus the morality of keeping the accounts online, but the law is the law. If you want to operate on a certain country you need to abide by that country's laws, there aren't really any exceptions anywhere in the World.

Lots of platforms operate in Brazil without a legal representative, the country is actually very lax about that. There's no Substack or Medium office as far as I know, and I'm writing this comment on Hackernews without any issue. Generally, the legal representation is only required when someone takes legal action against the platform for some reason.

Obviously larger platforms like Twitter, Instagram and their likes have lots of legal actions in local courts. They also collect a shitload of ad revenue from local companies, and in both cases they are required to have a local representation. Twitter has laid-off all their engineering and marketing in Brazil when Musk bought it, and just recently decided to close down their legal and finance office to avoid paying the said fines. Whatever the political stand-off that brought them to this, there's no reasonable justification to stand with Twitter now.

"I don't aggree with your laws" is not a valid reason for a company to break these laws in any country, for any law.
I really like the idea of this. A bit more information about how the site actually works would be useful, perhaps within that modal that is presented when you land on the page. There's a lot of context that I have from visiting through HN so it's not terribly confusing to me, but to a random person they'd have no idea what's going on.
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And many people, including myself, are not very happy with wireless headphones and would prefer to go back to using wires.

See how easy your low effort comment was. Why bother?
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This is simply not true. If a cell would not behave as intended on average it would stop being a cell.

The fact is that an amoeba cell behaves in a certain way for all amoebas. It does not go around and behave like a stone or like a drop of olive oil or even like a cell of some random bacterium.

It has very clear and obvious functions and the mechanisms inside the cell are the reason it consistently shows amoeba behavior.
just letting you know that the blue background in the careers page is the same as that of "ai" in "aidentified". So now it just reads as "dentified"
I mean, the video says that inherently disordered proteins make up a quarter of mammalian proteins, they don't even have a small set of conformations that they switch between. They're just flopping around all the time.
No, people didn't vote with their wallets. Apple made a decision and everyone was forced by Apple's lock-in to deal with it.
The article has no teeth when you actually read the quote?

What's written: categorical condemnation of AI has ableist and classist undertones

How does this equate to that headline at all? I've not seen such obvious dishonesty since the "fake news" clickbait sites circa 2010-14, where the headline and article could only tenuously at most be said to connect to reality.

Edit: It's worse than that, this entire website seems to exist to post outrage bait specifically about AI? Tons of really short articles which don't say much but are chock full of pithy jabs.
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If you look at their previous devices this company's whole shtick is having weird, quirky, or niche features. The MicroPC had a dedicated serial port on a device released in the 2010s. People often buy these devices for the whimsical nonsense they do.
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If you're already familiar with compilers in the abstract, start by implementing some high-level solutions leveraging a GPU, some low-level performance-optimized kernels, and build up a bit of intuition. The high-level code depends on your goals, but for low-level code maybe try optimizing something equivalent to a binary tree (both with leaves smaller and larger than 4kb), something benefiting from operator fusion (e.g., a matmul followed by an element-wise exponential), and something benefiting from deeply understanding the memory hierarchy (e.g., multiplying two very large square matrices, and also inner/outer producting two very narrow matrices).

From there, hopefully you'll have the intuition to actually evaluate whether a given resource being recommended here is any good.
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When did this start? It’s disconcertingly vague.
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I like your product. I think that data observability is super important for the future. Did you have to implement something similar to Fortress for your client?
They threatened X employees with jail time.

Bunch of reasonable folks these Brazilian judges.
Using the phonetic representation (IPA), you can obtain a writing system similar to the pinyin.

Hanyu Pinyin Hànyǔ Pīnyīn Fāng'àn

Bopomofo ㄏㄢˋ ㄩˇ ㄆㄧㄣ ㄧㄣ ㄈㄤ ㄢˋ

IPA [xân.ỳ pʰín.ín fáŋ.ân]

Cameroonian dialect are written using the GACL who is similar to the IPA.

Clafrica: Pookai2t peu2nze2e2 n*kut !

Shʉ̄pāpə̀m (Bamoun): Pookɛ́t pә́nzéé ŋkut !
>>I just wish this guy would take the loss and sell twitter and go back to being an uncontroversial tech legend.

Why do you care, he is spending his own money. Isn't it more important that we now know Brazil has no rule of law. A single party overtook all the subsystems in the country and now Brazil is in the company of countries like Iran or North Korea regarding X censorship. Eye opening is also how many people would condemn an entire nation to censorship only to see one guy they don't like hurt.
>shoplifting is currently rife and, when the value is low, not addressed, but this is a temporary state of affairs.

Remember though, how often in the history of states, the temporary cannily usurps permanence. It's hard to tell what's a brief deviation from the mean, rather than an early glimpse into the new normal.

I have no idea what I'm talking about, either in terms of understanding society nor the UK specifically, but your phrasing tickled my paranoia about that phrase a sort of famous last words for civilizations, lol.
Here is a pretty comprehensive meta-analysis of literature around microbiome and depression.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7510518/

"This literature review established a strong link of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, affecting how individuals think and how the gut-brain axis serves as an essential pathway in considering the management of several mental issues and psychiatric illnesses. Although promising, gut microbiome studies have a long way to go."

So yes, you are right, the causal relationship is not definite. Still, it's an interesting lens which may one day prove to be clearer.
Case in point: We update the HDDs and SSDs on our storage systems regularly. Every month there's new disk drive firmware coming out for various (OEM) drives.

I have never seen a disk fw update introduce new bugs. Firmware development works quite a bit differently than regular software development. There's usually no new "feature" that can possibly be added to a disk drive. It's not like you're suddenly getting a new desktop environment on it.

But yeah, I have seen a handful of HDDs die during the mandatory power cycle because they wouldn't spin back up. And sometimes, disks fail at a higher rate after the firmware update, but that is not due to introduced bugs but rather because the error detection/reporting functionality has improved and is now reporting issues that it didn't before. For enterprise storage systems that is actually a good thing, because a predicted failure is always better than a sudden failure.

Case in point: A few years ago, the HGST Cobra drives were leaking fluid from the motor onto the platters. There was nothing that could be done, so the firmware was updated to move the heads more (to prevent fluid buildup) and the error detection was changed to detect the slowed head movement and report that via sense codes. Of course that caused more early failures, but that's better than having a handful disks fail all at once, and the disks would have failed anyway at some point.
This look very interesting to me. Just commenting to have visibility for later. Great work you've done so far btw.
> Twitter is not a fundamental right

Before Musk bought Twitter there were plenty of people arguing on here that in the age of the internet Twitter and places like it are essential as forums of public discourse, and access to them should be as unlimited as possible.

Twitter refusing bans and continuing operations in a hostile country was some people's wet dream just a couple years ago. I guess it's a lesson to be careful what you wish for.
Thank you for all your sacrifices, the laboratory mouse! [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_laboratory_mou...
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I don't really get the idea behind fining people for using Twitter over VPN's either. That reeks of lawyers unable to understand the basics of how the Internet works.

Threatening their legal rep with prison is, however, perfectly reasonable. They have refused to comply with the law several times, were fined several times and have refused to pay such fines several times. With that, they have committed multiple felonies and it makes absolute sense they are faces with the consequences of that.
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I was about to post a Wikipedia link to the Haymarket Square Massacre, but then realized that had more to do with May Day, then thought, "wait, Labor Day and Memorial Day are backwards on the calendar" (Labor Day would most naturally be in May, associated with May Day, no?), then found this explanation:

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-is-labor-day-celebrated...
Your example of randomness upthread was brownian motion: I'm not surprised a transport mechanism relies on stochastic behaviors. To me, that looks comparable to electrons bouncing down a wire, or minimizing quantum tunneling effects between transistor layers - random at a very low level, but averages out to the behavior we need. Put guardrails at the extremes, so the random behavior stays within bounds, within a margin of error - that's just good engineering.

Compare to loggers, floating trimmed trees down a river to the sawmill: the logs bouncing down the river are behaving in an entirely random manner, but it's within bounds and doesn't matter, because they'll still make it downstream where they get caught by another system. It's a "machine" with random behaviors. Maybe this (obligatory) xkcd illustrates my point: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2916:_Machine

I get the impression that what this is coming down to is massive complexity rendering the machine incomprehensible - but again, that doesn't mean it isn't a machine.
what keeps them from banning bsky too in the coming months?
I often wonder what percent of the people who write these types of things have any actual talent for management objectively. It'd be interesting if there was some abstract study or game to actually measure it, just as a big social experiment.

Imagine having 20 managers drafting a team of 6 from a pool of 1000 engineers. Then they all get asked to build the same thing and see who does it fastest, best, fewest bugs.
I don't. Governments are very powerful and the necessary checks and balances may be either nonexistent or weak, or corrupt, or very slow.

Individual rights should be safeguarded against abuse as much as possible. Maybe it means that Musk should block less, but it certainly means that governments shouldn't muzzle people too easily.

In this case, an entire country of 200 million is threatened with massive fines for the horrible crime of using VPN to access a social network.

Yeah, Brasil really makes a good member of BRICS with this judgment.
Lots of companies are (or will be) offering "cloud services" in LEO, including SpaceX. However, none of that is relevant to this situation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/travel/disney-vacation-co...
That is like saying that unless you ban the entire library, people shouldn't complain about books being banned.
> The PSTN has been hybrid fiber/copper for decades.

Definitely, I was mainly thinking about those thousands of lines coming out from the CO...
I think a distinction is to be made between a government and a court.
Does BlueSky have a legal representative in Brazil?
> family networks [...] Having “the building,” as Christopher called their house, made their path forward simple: Put food on the table by doing odd jobs and commuting an hour-plus to the suburbs, and look out for each other.

While the folks affected aren't subsistence-farming, it makes me think of this piece on early farming economies and bread [0], arguing that some "why didn't they just" choices are clearer when you see them as a risk-management strategy for survival.

[0] https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they...
The article's premise that Biden's departure was an "ouster" or "dethroning" (in the usual sense) is plainly false, of course. This choice of misleading and hyperbolic language, right off the bat, doesn't bode well for whatever message the rest of the article might have. And then we have this:

A Harris victory would likely trigger civil disorder of a kind more protracted and more lethal than the riots seen in Britain recently.

The article isn't about anything, really. It's just doomerist blather.
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But then of course you also lose one of the main security properties that made webauthn desirable in the first place.

If you can copy the credentials to your own new device, an adversary can copy them to their device also.
Having just pocketed $20B of taxpayers' money, it would be basic etiquette for him to put the best face on things.
Faith Ekstrand has an impressive track record of compiler work and has written a few blog posts[1], [1a]. Her Mastodon[2] is also worth a follow.

SPIR-V is important in the compute shader space, especially because DXIL and Metal's AIR are similar. I'm going to link three articles critical of SPIR-V: [3], [4], [5].

WebGPU [6] is interesting for a number of reasons, largely because they're trying to actually nail down the semantics, and also make it safe (see the uniformity analysis [7] in particular, which is a very "compiler" approach to a GPU-specific problem). Both Tint and naga projects are open source, with lots of high quality discussion in the issue trackers.

Shader languages suck, and we really need a good one. Promising approaches are Circle [8] (which is C++ based, very advanced but not open source), and Slang [9] (an evolution of HLSL). The Vcc work (also related to [4]) is worth studying.

Best of luck! This is a fascinating, if frustrating, space, and there's lots of room to improve things.

[1]: https://www.gfxstrand.net/faith/blog/

[1a]: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2024/04/25/re-c...

[2]: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gfxstrand

[3]: https://kvark.github.io/spirv/2021/05/01/spirv-horrors.html

[4]: https://xol.io/blah/the-trouble-with-spirv/

[5]: https://themaister.net/blog/2022/08/21/my-personal-hell-of-t...

[6]: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb

[7]: https://www.w3.org/TR/2022/WD-WGSL-20220505/#uniformity-over...

[8]: https://www.circle-lang.org/site/index.html

[9]: https://github.com/shader-slang/slang
I found this article to be interesting and well sourced: https://examine.com/articles/are-cast-iron-pans-unsafe/

It doesn't find documented evidence of harmful effects of oil seasoning. Buy likewise for Teflon coating in normal heat conditions.

What I didn't expect is the part about iron leaching and its effects!
Compliance with court orders?
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If they did A or B before C, you wouldn't know about it.
I read that article, but this article cleverly circumvents the challenges that article raised.

By not needing measure the microbiome the testing pains are avoided. And though mouse models aren't human, they are effectively blinded.

Seems like a very worthy finding that adds to the legitimacy of microbiome's significance.
Because Bsky will censor. They are celebrating X not censoring with all these posts boasting about the numbers.
How can the esp32 be connected to a proper camera? All the RPi cameras as MIPI so what's an example of a compatible camera? Do you have to debayer and sharpen the image yourself? I've seen a lot of half-assed ISPs and they make good cameras look like crap
> I'm not buying the idea that an account system is just too complicated and would eat up too much time.

Then why do you think there are all of these systems that don't have it? The CEO's/PM's aren't entirely stupid. They know what business customers are asking for, and what they're prioritizing in their asks, and how they're voting with their dollars.

An account system is often going to come with different roles like admin, user, viewer, and then the entire product has to be overhauled to create display-only versions of what were workspaces where changes could be made, new role authentication checks on every API call and even every data operation, and so forth. It can actually be a relatively huge undertaking that winds up touching a majority of the code, that also adds to the scope of most future feature development in a non-trivial way. It's not just a table of users and passwords per account.

I'm not saying it can't or shouldn't be done. I am saying that the idea that a companies without it "by definition aren't designed for businesses" is wrong, though. Not by definition, but by the reality of actual businesses today.