skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take note that all these victims were either employed or had insurance coverage. It's telling that they're not targeting the local homeless individual for 'care.' Which makes this more disgusting.
I don't think I've heard of a single group that was not described as the 'kindest and friendliest'.
I was thinking about this... this is not my area of expertise but need it be more complicated than sampling a population of random pixels, convert from rgb to a colour space with lightness measures (like HSL) and calculating the difference at every frame?
One of the reasons Europe is falling behind in tech I think is that founders are pushed to manager mode much earlier, and going founder mode when the shit hits the fan is just about impossible [1].

1. If you think you have it bad with the “professional fakers” in the US, try an alternative reality were they can’t legally be fired, or even demoted (e.g. Sweden).
Absolutely, I understand Brazil and Pakistan are two different countries, I just wanted to share my own experiences to provide some interesting insight on how people react to bans.

In Brazil, people are apparently moving to BlueSky, but in my country, we didn't move platforms, we just to jump over the fence via VPNs.
There's a few Steve Jobs quotes which have tanked the tech industry. The quote "If I'd ask customers what they wanted, they would've told me a faster horse." for example is absolutely horrible advice for 90% of companies. It implies you understand your customers business better than they do. For simple B2C businesses, that might be true. For complex B2B businesses, it's very likely not true. If your founder spent decades doing the job of his customers, and (s)he know a better way to do it using new tech, it JUST might be true. Rarely is that the case though.
"use language to communicate is purely incidental"

Is it? Beyond LLMs I think that there's a plausible theory that the mind forms language but also language forms the mind. Or something along those lines.
Do the patients ever use the phones from these facilities to call the local police departments about being held against their will without cause? At this scale seems like that should happen.
Exactly, I was waiting for them to show some writings of Velazquez about being inspired by the sculpture or by any other source, but was disappointed to find that it was more like an opinion unsourced piece.
One of the contenders for the biggest company in the world is doing it well at scale.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-ceo-shares-manageme...
It hasn’t been proven that drones aren’t fair game. So go ahead and down vote me for noticing this, but just because the FAA says the airspace is for any aircraft doesn’t mean I can’t shoot down your drone on my property in rural Nebraska and get away with it.

It will be on the feds to pursue a low level crime not worth their time. Until it’s proven you can’t shoot down a spy drone, then you can shoot down a spy drone. How do I know it’s not some Chinese spy drone? I’m just doing my part to protect my country.

Really the “not uh the FAA” stuff is irrelevant.
Steam (Valve) too.
attractive developer/nerd features often seeds developers to develop for the platform which will end up attracting more users.
Bluesky could implement it in their moderation service, but that does not mean users in Brazil would be impacted by it.

Users could swap moderation service or swap interfaces

The one thing that could happen is the PDS deleting the record for everyone, everywhere

One thing to separate is Bluesky from ATProto. Bluesky is the default implementation of the 4 core pieces, but one could use alternatives for all of them as well and still have their content show up in the bsky app. Imagine if Twitter was open source and federated
I can confirm that I’ve seen the same.

I don’t think people have fully put together that the same personality type that was a slave owner prior to the 1900s is the same personality type of a venture founder, investor, venture, capitalist, banker, etc…

That is to say their goal in getting rich is to have a dictatorship, not necessarily simply to have a nice boat and a house and raise a family

The goal of the mega rich is the same as it always in history, which is to dominate enslave and basically shape the world to what they want it to look like without being intermediated by people with less power.

Further the more wealth people have, in my personal experience, the less they want to have any constraints by other organizations, specifically governments they disagree with.

If people haven’t, they should read about the “business plot”
new[] and delete[] both know the type of the object. Therefore both know whether a destructor needs to be called.

When a destructor doesn't - e.g., new int[] - operator new[] is called upon to allocate N*sizeof(T) bytes. The code stores off no metadata. The result of operator new[] is the array address.

When a destructor does - e.g., new std::string[] - operator new[] is called upon to allocate sizeof(size_t)+N*sizeof(T) bytes. The code stores off the item count in the size_t, adds sizeof(size_t) to the value returned by operator new[], uses that as the address for the array, and calls T() on each item. And delete[] performs the opposite: fishes out the size_t, calls ~T() on each item, subtracts sizeof(size_t) from the array address, and passes that to operator delete[] to free the buffer.

(There are also some additional things to cater for: null checks, alignment, and so on. Just details.)

Note that operator new[] is not given any information about whether a destructor needs to run, or whether there is any metadata being stored off. It just gets called with a byte count. Exercise caution when using placement operator new[], because a preallocated buffer of N*sizeof(T) may not be large enough.
I have never seen any nudity on bsky and I've been using it for more than a year
> You can't just plug numbers into Coulomb's Law for this case, because Coulomb's Law by itself is not relativistically correct.

Sorry if this is a bit pedantic, but as someone trying to study this at the moment, I don't see this the same way and I'd like to validate my interpretation: You can just plug numbers into Coulomb's law, that part is correct. But then the problem of infinite velocities comes from interpreting the 'F' side of the equation, assuming Newton's law (F=ma), rather than using its relativistic counterpart.

Coulomb's law:
F = qq'/r^2

Lorentz force law:
F = q(E + mu x B)

For the 2 particle case, both of these say the same thing (substitute into the Lorentz eq E = q'/r^2, B = 0 and you get the same thing).

The promotion from non-relativistic to relativistic mechanics is a change of what 'F' means.

nonrelativistically: F = p' = m v' = m x'' = m a

relativistically: F = p' = \gamma m v' = \gamma m x'' = \gamma m a

where \gamma is the Lorentz factor.

Interpreted this way, infinite velocities are avoided.

But, as r->0 we still have an infinity problem - namely infinite energy! This necessitates a quantum mechanical correction to both the Coloumb and Lorentz laws.

TLDR: relativity is necessary when things start to move 'very fast', qm is necessary when things are 'very small'
Now this is how you do guerrilla marketing.
Brazilian here. We don't have rule of law here anymore. It's a covert dictatorship run at the front end by one judge, Alexandre de Moraes, and a small group of collaborators. He interprets the law however he wants or just outright ignores it in favor of ad hoc absurd interpretations, and there is no one left to judge the "supreme" judge. He effectively figures as accuser, defendant and judge in his own cases, which he of course rules in his own favor, establishes new executive agencies with no legal basis, threatens any deputy or senator that dares criticise him with incarceration, bankruptcy, or social social media banning, with no due trial or legal basis, and in absolute legal secrecy, which should be illegal by itself, but so it goes.

Not even 10% of his insanity arrives untouched by editorialization in the Northern Hemisphere, you're being fed a polished, low bandwidth version of our affairs here, mostly because Brazil isn't a key enough global player for anyone to care, but also out of typical political bias. Glenn Greenwald has been attempting to bridge that gap, and has done as good of a job as possible so far.

The checks and balances in our jurisdiction are sufficiently tenuous that, with a relatively small group of people in key positions of power, you can gate-keep any viable democratic venues for impeaching him. A new profile on X called "Alexandre Files" is beginning to post his unlawful rulings.

His approval was 37% in March of this year, when most of the centrists were still openly with him, and most of the recent major scandals hadn't come into full play yet. Now that even the moderate part of the left is denouncing the blatant illegalities on his part, moreover after a leak of his whatsapp group, it wouldn't surprise me to be in the low 20s or even 10s now. Even major national left-wing publications are coming against him now, and I believe it's a matter of time before international media catches up.

He essentially used Bolsonaro supporter's rebellion as an excuse to impose a dictatorship of the judiciary in the name of "saving democracy". Those people indeed had to be judged for the crime of violating public property, but being unarmed, it's impossible to characterize a coup. This whole thing is a circus.
> Well, the general issue that caused it is disinformation campaigns

…

> a ban of unmoderated social networks is inevitable from a legislative standpoint.

I am surprised this even needs to be stated; either 15 or 18 years ago I made the mistake of creating a phpBB forum instance for my shareware, and it was a rounding error from 100% of signups being spammers.

The only difference between spam and disinformation is economic vs political power.
Indeed that is exactly what it is.
Contacts who were at Tesla during Series A told me Elon Musk did the same thing having hundreds of one on ones with engineers
Nothing nearly so complex. Here's the code in question:

.wrap_target
irq set 0 ; Signal end of active packet
start:
wait 1 pin 2 ; Wait for CR_DV assertion
wait 1 pin 0 ; Wait for RX<0> to assert, signalling preamble start
wait 1 pin 1 [2] ; Wait for Start of Frame Delimiter, align to sample clk
sample:
in pins, 2 ; accumulate di-bits
jmp PIN, sample ; as long as CRS_DV is asserted
.wrap

It's run at a fixed 100 MHz, regardless of system clock speed, via controlling
the PIO execution rate a fraction of the system clock speed. So, for a 300 MHz
system clock, the PIO is clocked once every three system clocks. I'm speculating that the extra two clocks (at 300 MHz) allows more setup time to
the PIO inputs. The [2] above enables an extra two PIO clock delays before
executing the next instruction. I tried changing this from zero to three at 100 MHz system clock (i.e. a PIO system clock divisor of one), and wasn't able
to fix the problem. Though it should be noted that the LAN8742 isn't a very
forgiving chip - I've seen RX Data Valid (DV) go metastable when the TX clock
is interrupted/changed, so another pass through might be worthwhile.

BTW, Sandeep's original code clocked the RX PIO SM at 50 MHz, pushing all the samples to the output FIFO, and relied on the processor getting interrupted
at the falling edge of DV to figure out what samples constituted a packet.
Waybackinator and web.archive.org don’t work, the latter also shows the paywall.

You can only post it with workarounds.

Furthermore it might also be legal to shit in your living room; I would however still consider it bad form.
Fun aside.

I invented a word in my previous comment: prudist.

I think contextually it is apparent what it means, but it is adorned with the dreaded “red squiggly”.

Creating new words is a fundamental aspect of what language is.

I’ve yet to see anyone talk about LLMs creating new words, or even if they should!
So you agree, I can shoot down a drone over my property and make an argument to get away with it and there isn’t enough legal reason or capital to pursue. There may come a day where I would get in trouble but I think right now spies are smart enough not to mass surveil with drones.
Agreed. Parent is ignoring the positive effects of intervention while highlighting the negative.

USAID funds USD$50b / year, and the US funds UNICEF to the tune of USD$1.4b / year.

Which, among other things, supports the polio vaccination campaign being rolled out in Gaza, to prevent a public health catastrophe and possible resurgence of polio in the Middle East.

It's easy to say "Let them eat cake" when one is sitting in the palace and opining about CIA boondoggles.

In the real world, that means people are starving and children are crippled.

We can (and should) strive for better than nasty, brutish, and short lives, regardless of a person's nationality.
It’s pretty clear why “hire good people and let them do their jobs” wouldn’t work for AirBNB.

AirBNB is a company that’s entirely built upon getting around regulations and destroying wealth (but passing on the costs onto others).

Good people coming in to the company assume it provides some actual value so they don’t make decisions that are net negative and just ensure passing on the cost to others.

But this isn’t something that’s gonna be stated outright so it largely remains within the head of the founder so the ideas that make the company work also remain within the head of the founder which is why they’re essential for the company to tick.
Okay, I'm going to take a hard disagree on this point. Apple's "abstraction" for viewing files is really not that deep. If you open the Photos app, you are looking at a bunch of files. Garageband showing it's saves, iMovie showing it's projects, iCloud showing it's folders, none of it is a particularly "simplified" view of things. At best, it's rehashing the MIME type filtering mechanism most mainstream OSes have used since the 90s. You really cannot argue that iOS is some different breed of computer when ultimately it's just creating a custom wrapper around things people readily understand.
Great overview on the structure of the CPython's Virtual Machine (as well as an introduction to stack based virtual machines).

I am unfortunately very familiar with CPython's bytecode [1], and do not recommend trying to do anything with it:

- It is extremely unstable; the same opcodes might do different things between versions.
For instance: for the opcode `JUMP_IF_TRUE_OR_POP`, in Python 3.10 and below, its
argument is an absolute address. In Python 3.11 and above, it is a relative address.

- It does not have synthetic (compiler-introduced) variables; this means the iterator
of a loop must be kept on the stack, and as a result, exception handling must
keep some items (namely, the iterators) on the stack.

- It is poorly documented (although it is getting better nowadays); there where
numerous times where the stack layout an opcode expected changed between versions
but were not yet included in the dis documentation.

One notable difference between CPython and other bytecode interpreters is a lack of multiple compilers. For instance, in Java, there are typically three compilers:

- `javac`, which produce class files that are interpreted by a basic, slow virtual machine.

- C1, which generates instrumented machine code to collect profiling data that C2 will use (still relatively slow).

- C2, which generates optimized machine code from the profiling data of C1 (significantly faster than C1).

CPython shoves the job of all three into its single interpreter. For instance,
its CACHE instruction serves the purpose of recording the types on the stack for the
subsequent instruction, which the specializing adaptive interpreter [2] uses to
specialize an opcode (for instance, BINARY_OP to BINARY_OP_INPLACE_ADD_UNICODE).

All of the above makes it extremely hard to develop against CPython's bytecode, and
is probably why there are few libraries for reading or transforming CPython's bytecode.
Although most modifications can be done by either modifying the class object directly,
wrapping the class/function, or extending the class, some cannot. For example:

- Change calls of function `foo` to function `bar`.

- Compute the automatic differentiation of a function [3].

- Translate python code blocks to another language for interoperability (for instance, to Java or SQL).

The way most library authors do it instead is by reading the AST, which is mostly stable.

[1] https://github.com/TimefoldAI/timefold-solver/tree/main/pyth..., a Python bytecode to Java bytecode translator, written to avoid excessive overhead caused by FFI calls (the new foreign Java API largely removes the overhead).

[2] https://peps.python.org/pep-0659/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation
That has already ended, there is no such discrimination any longer, the Hokou now is just a way to track people. Loosening that up is a big contributor to the Chinese miracle.

Edit: Also class based societies are typically not called central planning, it is lack of human rights.

Western nations do similar levels of planning just by deciding how many new houses are allowed to be built, you need a permit for every business to ensure you don't take too much electricity etc, tons of central planning everywhere.
I don't think so. It's just a political position. Those people would rather the military ruled over them.
I just paste through a plain text editor(i.e. paste into a plain text editor, verify and copy the bits I want, then paste it in it's intended destination). I know not ideal, but at least that way I can see and verify everything before pasting it somewhere important. I'm sure there are some hacks one can do with rich formats, that some people might try to take advantage of.
> Article makes exactly zero arguments why switching to Linux would be beneficial to any developer.

True, it doesn't.

The article encourages developers to learn Linux, not switch to Linux.
They even used to write songs about it: Alicia Bridges I Love the Nightlife (Disco Round) was a Top 40 hit.
I'd argue decline lags value fundumentals. Sears decline took decades. The early metric is probably "viewer hours" per customer or some use base metric. That will probably dip before the revenue dips.
If you want to double down on the nerd-snipe, Immersive Linear Algebra

http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html
I have to disagree, to me, the best is flat fixed length text files with csv files being a close second.
I understand why they do it, but I also understand it’s short sighted for both nations.

Best to ensure developing nations have their best talent to DEVELOP the nation rather to deprive them of the best people and hinder development and improvement. You take out the best people and what’s left, poverty, corruption and conflict that forces more people to leave and requires more outside aid.
Apparently Acadia faced civil liabilities only, which is wild for kidnapping.
Basically the theory is that what neurons are doing is carrying I/O signals into a physical 3D arrangement of charge flow that can self-resonate in the EMF wave domain similar to how a radio transmitter/receiver works.

The actual qualia/consciousness part is the resonance itself. So you ask what's it resonating with? The answer: Every past instantiation of itself. I believe the Block Universe view of Physics is correct and there's an entanglement connection left behind whenever particles interact via collapse of the wave function.

So in my theory memories aren't even stored locally. When you "remember" something that is your brain resonating with nearest matches from past brains. I have a formula for resonance strength with a drop off due to time and a proportionality due to negentropy or repetition (multiple resonating matches). I'm not going to write the entire theory here, but it's about 100 pages to fully describe. The theory explains everything from fungal intelligence to why repeating things over and over makes you memorize them. It's not a theory about brains per se, it's a theory about negentropic systems of particles resonating thru the causality chain.
It has stories, therefore it's a "social media" /s

Anyway, Signal doesn't approve use of the third-party clients. Tough luck. Dumb-phone-with-Signal has to be a collaboration with Signal-the-company.
If you're so intent on suing for malpractice just record them against their will. If the court doesn't accept it then the media will
> A media company

Text from the 1st amendment: "or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press"

You see that part that says "The press"? Thats what a media company is.

Yes, if the government punishes "The press" for its speech, and threatens it with legal action, that is by definition something that effects free speech and is censorship.

Definitionally, I cannot think of something that could be more accurately be described as censorship.
Having started three companies, and got a successful exit on the third, the solution is to be opinionated

I built what I wanted and needed. Directed things in the way I wanted them to go. Changed an entire industry.

Don't let MBAs run your company, because they generally only care about the numbers, not about the product. If it's a good product, it sells itself.

Edit: At one point, we brought in a CFO that kept on trying to insist we go another way (advertising.. you just keep chasing that). Maybe we would have made more money that way, but now the profit is at 4x expenses
Thanks! I've been trying to limit excessive detail and tangents in my writing (my posts tend to be on the longer side). Great to hear I managed to strike a good balance here.
Yup. Uber, Airbnb, Spotify…All these companies we glorify for essentially being a well polished middleman are like this. Glad someone else sees it like it is.
I think it’s important to gleam some insights from past successes, but ultimately these “case studies” have over factors. For example, the time with which Apple, Netflix, Facebook, and so on, flourished. Where talent existed, what the landscape looked like, is quite possibly totally different than anything today.

Take the iPhone: a product so good at a time when there wasn’t much like it. A guaranteed success. You’re going to have talent rally around it and get excited for it to succeed. But that’s been done, and in the Phone landscape, there’s never going to be such an event again.

So in general, it’s never one size fits all. We can learn from the greats, but it’s best to develop our own, situational ideas along the way.