skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Aren't all protests? I don't remember many protests that didn't involve closing down roads, burning things down and whatnot. Protests that don't do things like that are usually so irrelevant they don't get Wikipedia articles written about them.

Most protests are peaceful and even the violent one rarely invade government buildings.
Whole different level.

>It's not called a coup because it wasn't one. A coup attempt would be the military seizing power by force. You know, the people with guns and tanks. A successful coup would be the military trying and succeeding.

It doesn't have to be the military. Most coups are by the military but it's not a necessity

>There's simply no way you can claim a bunch of people, many of them elderly, equipped with bibles and flags, amounts to a coup attempt.

No, but for a bunch of people who throw pickaxes and hammers at the police I can.

>None of which have the power to censor anything. As it should be.

That's the road to tyranny. Lies spread faster than the truth.

>If it's so obviously fake, then you don't need any censorship either. The fakeness will be self-evident.

Sadly some people fall for obvious fakes.
Just look at all the flat earthers.
I think in general it's true but not for every case.

If I can produce something that provides the same benefit at a lower expense I can undercut you.

This fact actually drives de materialization that has led to things like simpler packaging and a reduction in emissions in the US and other industrialized countries over the last 30 years (both absolute and per capita)

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
Who cares how professional it looks. Nobody decides “eh, I was going to go to MIT but the logo was bad”.

The marketing for the school is the success of the students and the research.
This is a shortsighted view. There are plenty of counterpoints, from things like documenting slaughterhouse practices to conservatives implementing policies while simultaneously limiting research into the outcomes of those policies.

Obviously most of the 'AI researchers' right now are not altruistic, but it is possible to take the position that advancing AI will be sufficiently valuable to society that it overrides corporate preferences against bulk scraping.
I learned how much floating point formatting needs when I was doing work with Zig recently.

Usually the Zig compiler can generate binaries smaller than MSVC because it doesn't link in a bunch of useless junk from the C Runtime (on Windows, Zig has no dependency on the C runtime). But this time the binary seemed to be much larger than I've seen Zig generate before and it didn't make sense based on how little the tool was actually doing. Dropping it into Binary Ninja revealed that the majority of the code was there to support floating point formatting. So I changed the code to cast the floating point number to an integer before printing it out. That change resulted in a binary that was down at the size I had been expecting.
I think that’s fair. It was, in effect, a cache and DMA target. A similar scheme was present in the Cell, where the SPE’s had 256KB of embedded SRAM that really needed to be addressed via DMA to not drag performance to the ground. For low-level optimization junkies, it was an absolute playground of traps and gotchas.

Edit: if memory serves, SPE DMA list bandwidth was just north of 200GB/s. Good times.
I've thought about this topic a lot before. The concept of a founder vs manager "mode" doesn't resonate with me, but the message boils down to this: founders have more freedom to approve high risk/high reward initiatives, while shielding everybody else on downside. It's "their company" and their job can stomach some turmoil in the name of winning.

Managers don't have this safety net; failures will be evaluated more critically and they probably aren't the types to win at all costs. So they are more focused on avoiding fatal mistakes that will lose them their jobs, but don't end up achieving as much on average.

In a sports analogy, founders play to win and managers play not to lose.

But it's a spectrum not black and white. Every founder has to delegate and every founder has to bring on great people to do the work and let them breathe. I think its about freely enabling bold projects while minimizing the fear and anxiety at all levels, and figuring out the decision making and execution structure that works the best.
> They'd much prefer to sell you the high-margin product

The obvious answer to the entire scenario. There's no reason to go looking for hidden reasons: it's in plain sight.
It's always been configurable on a per-network basis. Apple has changed it to some odd, assumptive, defaults now because their new approach will break a number of common network situations.

Also, if you read through comments on how it's been working in the betas it doesn't seem as though it's been working as expected for a number of folks. The Android implementation is a better design, IMO. Persistent / non-persistent "privacy" is an easier follow. Also, many folks want the capabilities of both modes depending on the networks they're connecting to and the devices they're managing touching specific networks. I feel as though Apple is going backwards in a way with this new change, I won't be upgrading to iOS 18 or macOS Sequoia for the foreseeable future though given all the things Apple is adding.
Yes big cars = big margin, but that won’t last forever. And you’re right it’s a dealer/mfr preference not necessarily consumer.
Twitter isn’t a network where anyone can air their views. Elon regularly takes punitive action to mark links that criticize him as containing malware, has accounts banned that post evidence of his misdeeds, etc.

We have a network where you can post what you want to say. It’s called the World Wide Web.
Sometimes I wonder too.

The big thing to me is that I drive a 10+ year old station wagon, and I seem to have more cargo space than many of these MUCH larger vehicles.

I only have two kids. I have room for the dog. I put the bikes on the roof.

What would a SUV do for me?

An extra couple inches of ground clearance.

Increased towing capacity.

Rarely needed those.
Ukraine gets attention because it's happening in Europe, next to NATO countries, with nuclear weapons lurking in the shadows, and it happened as a result of filthy policy decisions by four of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council in the 1990s and now. Nothing remotely related to 'racism'.

And turn this around: how much attention is Somalia, or Sudan, getting on the African continent? Do events in either of those two countries make it to national headlines?
Seems like the market isn't working.
Sell it and enter a better business that isn’t legacy rent seeking?
Hetzner has servers available in Ashburn, VA and Hillsboro, OR.
Pointless, and for a certain category of people (on all sides of the political spectrum), a "moral" issue. The right doesn't want people to play God (the same religious types who think IVF is a sin, or embryonic stem cells are murder). The left side of things, invoking nature as a god, using a similar argument (or fears of unknown results).

I don't know if it's pointless, and there's plenty of room for "pointless" research (because we learn so much in the process). But I do wonder if it's prudent. I think it's cool either way.
Very occasionally I guess. They're almost always bare metal.
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Log File Compression with Zstandard VFS (Go) in SQLite
This blog post is the third in a series exploring log file compression techniques, focusing on using the Zstandard compression algorithm with SQLite's Virtual File System (VFS). It covers the implementation details, benchmarks, and optimizations of compressing SQLite databases while retaining query capabilities, comparing performance across various configurations and compression levels.
> Notably I thought the issue would be the throwing of `std::bad_alloc`, but the new version still implements std::allocator, and throws bad_alloc.

The new version uses `FMT_THROW` macro instead of a bare throw. The article says "One obvious problem is exceptions and those can be disabled via FMT_THROW, e.g. by defining it to abort". If you check the `g++` invocation, that's exactly what the author does.
All of these “make me stereotypical app that you’ve seen thousands of examples of online” that people are using to prove how great AI is at programming now is actually just a shittier version of copy paste where your clipboard randomly changes arbitrary parts of the text before pasting it.
> Your concern is valid, but since the company is their "baby", they care more than those for-hire professionals who can go to greener pastures.

This is the main aspect I think, that everyone keeps missing. The “professional fakers” work first and foremost for themselves. They make great decisions, for them. But not necessarily for the company.
>We risk putting existing endangered species at more risk to try to bring back these past species.

Well, if the currently endangered species go extinct, we'll have the technology to bring them back too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Private car ownership has not been unusual in developed countries. There is a reason so many large car manufactures are not American, after all. It's not just to sell to people in NA and Australia.

What's different about the US and those other places is that far more large cities were built after private automobiles were common. There are cars everywhere in both countryside and cities in Italy, say, but there is ALSO more walkability and transit because the cities were there first (and even there, there are cities like Florence that didn't invest in rail for decades before starting to build some more light rail again very recently).

China is something of an odd one out for development patterns because of the much higher levels of state control.

What I don't really see is places voluntarily giving up point-to-point private transit after having it as an easy option for generations. Places where even the super-wealthy have turned in their private cars and drivers and take the bus with everyone else. I think the market that self-driving cars could potentially capture over mass transit is exactly those people who would rather have a private point-to-point experience. Which can be an overlapping set with the people who would also be willing to use mass transit if it was "good enough", in addition to the people who actively dislike mass transit. The total pool of users is very large.
I personally like the UI much better (less bloat + CTAs), and the prices seem cheaper.
Hetzner sell VMs located in the East Coast US as well: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/
I’ve never used DO, but I’m a happy Hetzner customer of over a decade. The cloud offering is solid, and I’ve had several VMs running for years.

I had one project which was part AWS, part Hetzner, for cost reasons. Both driven from terraform.

If you can do it with simple VMs, I’d go for Hetzner. Of late they’ve added more features like private networks.

The original offering is real servers, and the “server bidding” feature is brilliant for getting a bargain.
Didn't Ford flat out stop making sedans because SUVs and trucks have higher margins?
All prices of all components are listed, thus I have no reason to hire salesmen. You pick the components as if you are building a PC. There is a huge demand for this, and the savings from fewer middlemen can go elsewhere.

Of course there are several laws and policies on national and statewide levels enshrining the current anti-consumer model because it "creates jobs".
This is an insufficient replacement for serverless. No scaling capabilities.
When a grid's misaligned

With another behind

That's a moiré
I was thinking exactly that - shouldn’t capitalism regulate this kind of thing on it’s own or something
> For more than 40 years, IEEE has been a great place to build my personal brand and to create a valuable professional network. I know it can do the same for the next generation of engineers.

If they have to make this case, it suggests some combination of 1) the organization doesn't actually provide these opportunities to most people, or 2) people don't actually care about this anyway. For me, this language is business-speak. When the business people in my company start talking like this, I stop listening. It's not interesting. Hard problems are what's interesting to me. That's why I'm in this field, not to "network" or hone a "personal brand".

For me, IEEE student membership was worth it for the significant registration discounts at IEEE conferences. After graduating, since I'm no longer in academia, the one and only benefit ceased, so I immediately canceled my membership.
Your comment made me laugh, but to actually answer:

It matters from a Chesterton's Fence perspective: We know that the hippos were not brought for any good reason, inevitability, etc.
> what this often turns out to mean is: hire professional fakers

Yep, that is the key problem.

"Hire good people..." is good advice. If it is failing for so many startups, then the quote above is what is really going on -- startups are failing to hire good people. If they had been succeeding, the advice would have worked. What should be getting asked is how to identify what "good" is for a specific founder's vision. It won't be the same "good" as the next person, and definitely not the same "good" as larger corporations with different histories.
West coast too, FYI.
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I have used Allaire Homesite/Coldfusion Studio for many years to develop classic asp. It was a wonderful editor. Very customizable.
Nobel laureate Paul Romer sharing some Python advice is a little strange!
Hetzner has datacenters in US these days: https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/rechenzentrum/

(haven’t tried them though)
I don't understand how what I said can be downvoted while also people are shaming it as "another project in the Google graveyard". To me it's a matter of framing---sort of what my point is here---it was framed as a kind of death.
The older way of doing this is simply to have several pillars in line, each one a bit higher up than the previous one as you move away from the shore. I think they're usually painted white with a red band or something.

From a ship, if you see the pillars in a straight line ahead of you, you're in the channel; if the rear pillar is to the left of the front one from your viewpoint you're too far left.

The vertical version of this is the visual approach indicator for aircraft: red and white pairs of lights with flaps at different angles so that if you're too high, you see all white, and if you're too low all red. On the exact glide path you see both red and white.
I miss the flash player and unity player plugins too. Remember how powerful activex was?
re-gu-la-tion~
Most people using serverless do not use or need autoscaling.
That feels so wrong to me:

1st to install node, an arbitrary script is downloaded and executed without having a look into it. Could do anything with the system.

Then `sudo npm install -g pm2` is called. That means the stuff is installed as root "somewhere" in the system - bypassing debians package management.

Then a "process manager" is installed to start/stop/manage a service - on a system that already has systemd doing the same job.

Is that really the way things should be done? Waiting for the day when the tutorial starts with modifying grub.cfg to directly boot into node.
The article says that trying to bring back mammoths is endangering other elephant species, so in this case it is mutually exclusive
Key Ideas:
Heavier vehicles are safer for their occupants but more dangerous for others: The weight of a vehicle is a critical factor in car crashes, with heavier vehicles causing more fatalities in other cars, pedestrians, and cyclists.

The heaviest vehicles kill more people than they save: Analysis of crash data shows that for every life saved by the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks, more than a dozen lives are lost in other vehicles.

Weight advantages have changed little over time: Despite improvements in safety features, the weight advantage of heavier vehicles has remained relatively constant, with heavier vehicles still causing more fatalities in lighter vehicles.

Carmakers prioritize consumer preferences over safety: Manufacturers are producing increasingly heavier vehicles, driven by consumer demand for larger, more powerful cars, despite the safety risks to others.

Regulators are ill-equipped to address the issue: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rating system focuses on occupant safety, not the safety of other road users, and tax policies subsidize heavier vehicles.

Public awareness and concern are growing: Surveys show increasing concern about the size and safety of SUVs and pickup trucks, with researchers and policymakers starting to take notice.

Electrification may exacerbate the problem: The shift towards electric vehicles, which tend to be heavier than their internal-combustion equivalents, may increase the weight of vehicles on the road, further amplifying the safety risks.
...and killing people in small cars.
This is generally good advice, but isn't it inappropriate in this specific instance?

The lady's claim was (allegedly) that she has a perfect ability to distinguish between the tea-milk orders, so in that case even a single failure is indeed enough to reject her claim.

We can't rule out her success rate being significantly greater than 50-50, but even a single failure puts some bounds on her maximum success rate.
I use it, `time=39.741 ms` when I `ping` my Oregon server from LA
Even in the 90s through the late 2000s, when I started working in ML, people poo-poo'd it: not enough data, not good enough algorithms, and computers too slow. And I worked with supercomputers/HPC- you'd think they would have been the first groups to exploit machine learning.

The perceptron was actually a remarkable cool device, way ahead of its time.
Arguing from the perspective of maximizing benefit to the producer/seller instead of the public at large speaks to a deep social epidemic. What would you do differently if you owned a cigarette factory? What if you owned Boeing?
Large Language Models as Agents in Two-Player Games
Part of that high margin is because emissions and fuel economy laws are looser for truck-like vehicles, so they make everything a truck-like vehicle to avoid having to comply.
Yes, an underlying motivation of the project is simply to fund more biotech research. Which, if it comes to fruition as imagined in sci-fi novels, could radically upend ecosystems and societies alike, in far more dramatic ways than discussed here.
Neat product! I like the interactivity.

For me (and my narrow use-case), I just couldn’t find a simple tool to sync my graph to somewhere that I could view it easily - especially after I’ve instrumented my application and deployed to the cloud.
Subaru Impreza and Crosstrek are a good example of that. Same engine, same electronics, same everything except a slightly differently shaped shell on the outside. Even the interior volume is practically the same!
Wasn’t this the business model of Saturn?
As impractical as it may be, I think the only answer is to limit the size of vehicles, either through taxation or an outright ban. Larger vehicles are worse for pretty much everything and many of the costs are externalized.
> Effectively, the judge makes it impossible for X to defend itself in court because he'll just have anyone arrested who tries.

No, on two counts.

First, Twitter is free to seek out a lawyer to represent them in court. Most people hire lawyers for contract work rather than as a permanent employee, so this remains possible even with no assets within Brazil.

Second, there was nothing to be defended until they refused to comply with the lawfully given order within the required deadline.

That they chose to fire their staff member and close the office in order to prevent compliance with the lawfully given order, was an actual offence in its own right. To my limited understanding, it is also an offence in its own right to refuse a lawfully given court order. But in both cases, Twitter was not being punished until they actually broke the law.

Courts in the UK and the USA may issue an injunction, both to prohibit and/or to compel an action, and this may bind on people not directly before the court:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injunction (note in particular that interim injunctions may be given prior to a ruling on the case itself)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injunctions_in_English_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interim_order

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quia_timet

And, pertinently to Starlink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_freezing

Compare and contrast Twitter in Brazil with Lavabit in the USA: Lavabit was ordered to provide certain information in secret (with an injunction to not talk about it); they protested, they first provided that information in an obtuse form that was considered contempt, they provided it in a form which was acceptable, then they closed their business in response and took further legal action in response to what they — and, to be clear, I — consider to have been a manner incompatible with the public view of American Democracy:

"""Levison said that he could be arrested for closing the site instead of releasing the information, and it was reported that the federal prosecutor's office had sent Levison's lawyer an email to that effect."""

and

"""Levison wrote that after being contacted by the FBI, he was subpoenaed to appear in federal court, and was forced to appear without legal representation because it was served on such short notice; in addition, as a third party, he had no right to representation, and was not allowed to ask anyone who was not an attorney to help find him one. He also wrote that in addition to being denied a hearing about the warrant to obtain Lavabit's user information, he was held in contempt of court. The appellate court denied his appeal due to no objection, however, he wrote that because there had been no hearing, no objection could have been raised. His contempt of court charge was also upheld on the ground that it was not disputed; similarly, he was unable to dispute the charge because there had been no hearing to do it in."""
> Fix the rules if the rules are stupid"

"Pay excellent people out of band, for example." why not fix the band ?
I couldn't read what he had to say because his site opened an interrupting dialog element asking me to subscribe or join or something.

If I see that, I immediately stop reading and close the window.

There is no better way to show me you are not actually talking to me than interrupting yourself and me with distracting bullshit UI elements.
Ukraine government stops payments to Cargill on $700M debt
Nevertheless that is part of the value prop, and this does not address it.
The vehicle decided to go into oncoming traffic to clear a light change?! What type of an excuse is that. The vehicle should not have been in an intersection it is unable to clear.
> Waymo is the clear winner, and the equipment costs a lot more than a Tesla.

I don’t think that is true. What costs a lot more? Lidar?

Call it $10k more on the very high end. So you have fully self driving cars for $50k. A very long way from your $100k
I already use type annotations with Python for use within my IDE. It's just all tiring garbage. Java is already almost a scripting language and I can actually use a shared heap, etc. also I have some core code in java I use in the desktop app I want to reuse in the server. Right now I transpile that core code to TS and then JS to use client side, but I'd rather just have everything in Java.