skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whales almost certainly do not feel the same way. They feel like whales about their young. That's not to discount whales: that feeling may be profound and emotional for them. But it's probably alien to the human experience.
Key expectation in budget 2024 by Sethurathnam Ravi
New Delhi [India], July 13: This year’s budget will set the tone for the NDA 3.0 government. Sethurathnam Ravi expects this budget to be similar to the previous budget.

The focus will be on growing and boosting infrastructure and capex. Job creation would be a key factor in all policies. Capex in the manufacturing sector through private-public partnerships will also be pushed by the Government. incentives for clean and green energy, including e-vehicles, waste to energy, green coal, sustainability, etc., so as to achieve global goals and keep in line with Bharat’s vision of Vikshit Bharat.
> And even if they had the resources, being caught doing it would be too damaging...

Would it really, or is your comment the response to them already having been caught? How would we really know the difference if nobody wants to beleive it? This is exactly how things were before Snowden. Your argument begs the question, in other words.
I obviously can't verify it without taking undue risks, but I remember they used to ask to see the boarding pass, now they don't.

Then again, if they have this system where they can match me to a flight by ID, why they need any boarding passes at all? Just ask to see my ID again when boarding the plane, no? Why boarding passes still exist if this system is in place?
how about all alumni email addresses just become forward and reverse proxy relays. let me just add a forwarding address, and provide outbound mail.

permanent vanity addresses tied to accomplishments, clubs etc should be a straightforward business or product for google, microsoft, cloudflare etc to offer.

or patch dns to allow the sale of email addresses, and process all forwards (with the forwarding address stored privately) before processing other mx records.

none of that should take up much storage.
The Indian rapper who overtook Kendrick Lamar on music charts
Wush: Simplest and fastest way to transfer files between computers via WireGuard
NeXTSTEP was first shown in 1988, before RISC OS 2. I never used Arthur but it was a lot more primitive IIRC. Even the icon bar in RISC OS is less sophisticated than NeXT’s Dock.
Free Client Side Suite of Image/PDF Conversion and Resize and Compression
> what if instead it’s a way to purge all collaborators who have ego issues themselves.

I suppose that's possible. To me, thought, the more likely explanation seems to be simple vanity. I remember sensing jealousy in his writing when ChatGPT came out. In this post he has found a new angle ("people kept asking me about it. And over and over again I ended up explaining things about it"). I still get the feeling that he is seething over the attention that OpenAI got, especially compared to Wolfram Alpha.
https://archive.ph/NwHXi
I visited family in Swindon, so they decide "we must see their Nested Fractal Roundabout of Doom" because that's obviously their primary tourist attraction now.
Most people like this neglect to mention the army of people working beneath them that did most of the work for these achievements. Does anyone really believe he wrote and published 9 high quality books in 5 years?
I don't understand your comment. Could you elaborate on why a company being anti free speech is an issue for Elon Musk's Twitter?
not all alumni email addresses are .edu.

which actually turns out to be a win, because because they arent tied to the university itself, they can impose a 5gb cap, stop accepting new alumni, and carry on. and a .com is often easier to say over the phone than subdomain.school.edu
Can you elaborate? It sounds like puerile specious reasoning at best.
I don't recall ever reading anyone else who considered themselves a part of the giant nexus we call science and managed to place themselves always at the center of just about every story they had to tell.

The level of "I-ness" in Wolfram's writing is really an incredible outlier, at least in my experience of science writing (academic and popular).
K8s does not store any graph model internally.
The relationship engine in Cyphernetes is comparing fields that should either match/contain all/etc. between two resources - for example a ResplicaSet's .metadata.ownerReferences[].name matches a Deployment's .metadata.name, or a Deployment's .metadata.labels contains all of a Service's spec.selector.

These rules are used both to read the resources but also for creating them. Each rule may also contain a set of default properties which are used in create operations - for instance:

`MATCH (d:Deployment {name: "nginx"}) CREATE (d)->(s:Service)`

Will create a clusterIp Service (similar to what `kubectl expose` does).

Doing this with kubectl or programmatically without tuning for rate limiting, implementing caching etc. of course fails even at a very small scale - Cyphernetes has its own request throttling and caching layer to make this possible.
I’ll ask a question that I’ve asked a lot and never gotten a satisfactory answer:

At what point of accomplishment or perhaps via what factors in accomplishing something measurable and tangible, can someone recognize or state it in a way that doesn’t come off as arrogant/brag etc…?

Like if Michalangelo stood in the Sistine and been like “look how amazing what I did was” while people came though, I genuinely have no idea why anyone would have a problem with that. It is amazing, and him saying is valid because he (and almost no others) could demonstrate that he has the ability and skill to evaluate it. If you’re the top of your game, there’s nobody who is even good enough to check your work, if you’re in uncharted territory. Peer review and replication is what actually makes things last, but in the beginning of something breakthrough you have no peers.

This phenomena of “humble” exists to the extent that, in many cases, or in specific cultures simply acknowledging your own positive impact is often grounds for “losing face.”

This is challenging to me because in practice, the people who self-promote are rarely actually the ones with the talent, and talented people rarely self promote. I’d argue that the people making actual breakthroughs are so focused on the problem they have no energy or desire to self promote.

I have studied humans and our thinking for decades and I think it’s some embedded social thing that is vestigial - but has deep roots in some kind of social masking behavior for hiding capabilities in complex power games.

So pretending you’re humble - or I suppose behaving humbly - is an advantage because you’re withholding information about how the results were achieved, while also subtly acknowledging your power position.

Baffling as someone on the spectrum just trying to live authentically
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Bollocks -- the context is right there for anyone to scroll up and see, so there's nothing deceptive about the segment I chose to highlight. And that's all it was -- highlighting, not deceptive quoting.
There needs to be some cat herding and not all ideas are great but on a strong team the devs know their product very well and understand their users very well. Amazing product managers also do that but they are a very rare beast.

There's nothing wrong per se with "talk with the product manager" but is that where good ideas go to die or is that a productive/creative/innovative environment where teams build great stuff.

A ton of stuff you use every day is "software developer had great idea". Even from really large companies. (p.s. using "IC" can already be a red flag - we don't use this terminology in the large company where I work).
Newspapers are as cheap as they are because they are still filled with ads. Not that i mind it, ads on paper are 1000x more tolerable than the blinking, spying popovers one get online.
Software is more like the chair design/assembly instructions. It can be trivially replicated an infinite number of times.
Ask HN: If Stripe turned Evil, how much damage could they do?
Given credit card details, bank account access, customer details, etc.

Stripe is just an example this applies for the other companies that offer similar payment services.
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Keith McMillen
> It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Keith McMillen.

> A passionate advocate for the intersection of technology and music, Keith’s academic foundation was laid at the University of Illinois, where he earned a BS in Acoustics under the mentorship of James Beauchamp. He further honed his skills in classical guitar and composition under the guidance of Herbert Brun, Scott Wyatt, and Sal Martirano.

> Over the years, Keith developed MAPPS, an integrated computer composition, notation, and performance system that became the bedrock of his group TrioMetrik.

> In 1992, as Vice President at Gibson Guitars, Keith founded G-WIZ, an R&D lab where he developed ZIPI, a groundbreaking musical instrument control language that evolved into the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol and lay the foundation for MPE and MIDI 2.0.
Toggling either switch in a 2 way (in the US it's called 3 way) toggles the load on or off. it appears if you toggle any input in xor it toggles the output, so, yes.

I logged in to disagree, found out i had misconstrued a specific part of NEMA (and hallucinated a wiring diagram, to boot!)
http://apolloinrealtime.org also quite good.

"Failure is not an Option" is a fascinating read to get a lot of background from a first hand perspective. E.g. Go/No-Go became Stay/No-Stay after the landing to avoid confusion (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141499.Failure_is_Not_an...)
Fair points. Ill try to educate myself on this more.

FWIW the about section says this:
"Each privacy test examines whether the browser, on default settings, protects against a specific kind of data leak."

The maintainer is a Brave employee and this is a project they were already doing before joining Brave. I'm hoping that they aren't manipulating it in favor of Brave.

I sent those three options as a feature request. Do you think the site is still useful in some capacity?
Startups can also have know-it-all product management. Ask me how I know. It's possible to have the best and the worst of all worlds, i.e. get paid more and be in a fairly functional environment or get paid less and be in a less functional one. The only startup where you're more or less guaranteed not to put up with bs is your startup. I've worked in pretty nice startups as well but also in good larger companies.
"Privacy" as a concept is for the most part the virtue signal of the tech world. Most people who are super vocal about privacy don't actually care about privacy, they just use it as an ideology to set themselves apart in some sort of way that they perceive to be virtuous.

The two areas that privacy is mentioned in is in what companies government ought to do (and legislation surrounding it) , and what constitutes privacy.

For the former, there are some merits to having legislation around privacy that aren't a virtue signal - for example, you don't want insurance companies having direct info of your private life to raise rates on you in somewhat broken medical system based on statistical risks that you may not exhibit, so you probably want some legislation around companies handling PII data and not selling it, even if this is not a final or a complete solution. However, the discussions around this are usually never about this - most people concerned about privacy have very little no idea of the legislation that is already in place, and there are some pretty strong ones already in US, and even stronger ones in EU). Most of the concern is about just companies not collecting data in the first place, without understanding what that actually means.

For the latter, going off the last sentence, most people don't actually understand (or more charitably think about) what privacy actually means. For example, if you use any Apple products, you don't have privacy. You can traffic capture any Apple device and see how many times it phones home. This is not privacy. Oh you trust Apple not to sell data or use it for any nefarious means? Well I trust FB and Google and any advertisers that they have been in contact with not to do the same. So realistically we both draw some line of privacy, where things that require private data but are super convenient we accept as ok, while things that we don't really care about that much are not worth it for privacy.

So no, I personally dgaf about "privacy" as you talk about it. There is enough legislation to protect data that actually matters against misuse, and as technology evolved, there has never been any indication that anything there is broken.
I learnt about intel processors on Anandtech. Everything from how the L1, L2 & L3 caches work during the time of Nehalem, Haswell, Ivybridge, Sandy bridge... the ticks and the tocks. 3D Nand, flash storage and a whole bunch of other things explained there.
I think this was my first one (a gift from dad): https://c-90.org/catalogue/tapes/Sony/Sony%20EF/0
I have quite a bit of exposure to kids that age range. The behavior you described is FAR from normal.
I saw a fireside chat where a good interviewer did his best to get him to talk about his employees. He Wolfram made it quite clear that in his view, the employees were in constant need of help, as he attempted to make them understand all the important, wise things Wolfram knew. I have only seen a comparable approach to employees only once before, from Ray Dalio. He spent tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars trying to build a system that would make all his employees think as he did. Every employee ranked in dozens of ways, where Ray was the best ranked in almost every single category.

I bet you can find the book about how that one turned out the minute he stopped being in charge of his company.
Stonebraker Seeks to Invert the Computing Paradigm with DBOS
not the author but any screen recorder (OBS) can record the video, and ffmpeg + imgmagick can make a video clip into an animated gif (that's how i would have done that specific conversion) but gifv exists so maybe ffmpeg or one of the others can output gif directly from video. there's also "services" online that will gif-ify a video.
Considering this report, why only this facility?
The Court of Justice of the European Union clarified that the operator of a search engine is not required to carry out a de-referencing on all versions of its search engine. So, it's a bit bold of you to say that Europe is trying to control the entire internet when they explicitly told Google they're allowed to limit the impact to Europe alone.

Also, the "right to be forgotten" suggests more rights of the data subject than the text of the article provides for. The title is often understood by data subjects to be an absolute right to have personal data deleted - however if the controller has a legal basis for the processing of personal data, the exercise of Article 17 GDPR has usually no effect.
Phern is terrifying.
I once wrote a system to interface with Mettler-Toledo postal scales, with the goal of replacing an ancient vbscriot based interface we were using at work.
You’re right, technically VPN is not illegal, as long as the operators abide laws. It is using VPN to get across GFW that is illegal: https://m.sohu.com/a/738815891_800907/?pvid=000115_3w_a#:~:t...

So, yeah, it is practically illegal to use VPN in China.
My day job is in a fairly large codebase so I often wind up with tons of buffers open just from jumping around following definitions. I’ve taken to just opening ibuffer every once in a while and nuking everything
It is sad that the perpetrator still works in Google Sweden.
That's the second law.
I think his tendency to elevate himself to the exclusion of others around him leads to a trend where his and his company's work exists in a silo that's somewhat disconnected from the rest of computing and science. The vanity might be trapping him in a local maximum.
Probably under the Bay Bridge off ramps on the Oakland side, near Wood Street. It's mostly Caltrans property, but it's easy enough to avoid the patrols. Or better yet Mandela Community Cabins if you can get a spot.
What was the value in the moon landing?
Amazon checkout process hits technical snag during Labor Day sale
> a single French person is using 2.5GWh/year

Source?
Fact: France generates ~8kWh/inhabitant/year and is a net electricity exporter.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-electricity-ge...

"Lol"?!

> There's also pretty much no new place where you can build one in a developped country

Not true in some parts of Europe (North, esp Scandinavia, Balkans...)

https://www.icis.com/explore/resources/news/2024/02/15/10971...

Moreover, esp on the generation side, new approaches (small hydro) is ramping up https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffopperman/2018/08/10/the-une...

> The wind production is synchronized right now

Your document (Jancovici) analyzes current production of the very incomplete fleets of neighboring nations while the pertinent studies take into account wind regimes of geographic zones where wind turbines can be deployed and which are far appart. Conclusions of adequate scientific (J.-M. Jancovici expertise isn't about wind regimes) in reviewed and published studies (J.-M. Jancovici isn't) are quite different (please find some pointers in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41397343 )

The last part of your answer is mostly devoid of sources, and I don't want to write about mere opinions.

> if it had worked, the nuclear program wouldn't have been brought back from the dead

The French nuclear program was never killed. When was it killed, according to you, by who and how? Facts: EPR programme, EPR ordered and exported, Grand Carénage, R&D budgets ( https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/politiques-publiques/energie-re... )...

> France already tried ambitious renewable investments to replace the nuclear fleet during a whole decade and it failed

Those industrial renewables are very new tech, they evolve very quickly, France missed its own objectives on renewables (sole nation in the UE to do so), France isn't rich anymore (during its nuclearization it benefited from the '30 Glorieuses' and from an intense and expensive R&D at home and in the US)...
https://sites.google.com/view/electricitedefrance/messmer-pl...

Even in such a context the result is very promising and there is no plan to dump renewables:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-fossil-renewa...

> mediocre results for the price paid

https://www.iea.org/reports/renewable-energy-market-update-j...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)#Flamanvi...

Determining which project delivers a 'mediocre result' is easy.
> And it is rare that a publisher will know what is good before it is released.

I doubt it. If a reporter finds a good scoop, then it will move above the fold on front page or section header or become long form piece.
All: please don't repeat the usual Wolfram trope. (If you don't know what I mean by that, a decade's worth of explanation can be found via https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....)

The issue is not that it's wrong, it's that it's extremely repetitive and we want fresh discussion on HN, preferably about the specific content of an article.
This is a 217 page collection of 250 theorems selected by the author based in “whether the result can be formulated elegantly, whether it is beautiful or useful and whether it could serve as a guide without leading
to panic.”
If you use f16 or f8, you could even reasonably plot the result.
I found an extended period of rest was necessary before this symptom improved for me - but I’m >95% recovered now.

Hard to say whether the rest was actually necessary, but there’s reasonable evidence that it can help.
One interesting aside in this article was that the crows don't teach each other how to make tools. But a child might steal a tool from a parent and work it out. This demonstrates the problem solving type of intelligence, working out how to reshape a wire to a useful shape for instance. But not a 'higher' intelligence teaching or demonstrating to others. Which is kind of odd, as I see young birds following their parents and imitating and learning. So I guess this shows parent birds don't teach, but young birds instinctively follow around and learn?
That part of my comment that you left out directly disproves what you wrote after:

> That, plus the fact that (even after all this time) no one has come forward with any actual dispositive evidence for such a narrative.

> It's all just speculation.

I described the evidence, provided by Snowden himself and publicly available for anyone to check, which directly disproves your claim that "it's all just speculative". The actual evidence significantly favors the theory that it was espionage over the theory that it was whistleblowing.
> Plus I'm tired of further lining Bezos' pockets

How much profit do you think WaPo made since he bought it? Almost none. Except for a few, most newspapers are essentially non-profit at this point.
If your skills are in demand you can get the check from many employers.

That said, if you want to run a business, and you don't like/want to do anything else, then you're kind of stuck. Unfortunately not wanting to do the job you want to get isn't generally what makes you a great hire but wanting to do a different job without having any skills also doesn't make you a great hire. Owning your own company is easy, go register it and you own it. Getting a check out of that is a little harder.
So that's why I had to read Anthem in High School.

I'm very glad that I did, and while I agree in a generally professional context it is more socially acceptable to be humble and focus on what "we" did, in what amounts to a public autobiographical memoir, I expect to read a lot of "I" telling me what they themselves did.

Besides, there are many instances where the author invokes "we" in the article starting with these:

> 14 software product releases (with our great team).

> we embarked on our Physics Project

> We announced what we’d figured out in April 2020
So you can't finish doing it whatever you were doing (save a document you're working on, etc) or charge your phone a bit in preparation? Or worse for water, fill a few bottles/pots/whatever in reserve?
From your description, it sounds like a large complex ecosystem (of which Lesne and Ashe were important parts) redirected billions. I think it’s a bit overselling it to say that their results alone redirected billions
> The problem is that the "good enough" free articles are usually just rewrites of the ones from the people who did the reporting.

I assume that LLMs are already writing most of these.
… just make sure you warn them about the water and the air and the land first, all three of which are statistically more likely to kill or injure them.
The chances of dying from food poisoning after eating it, if it's used in a normal fashion.

Lettuce is usually eaten raw and uncooked, and it can't really be washed thoroughly. It's also a leafy green that grows directly out of the ground, so it has the greatest chance to be contaminated by ...erm... organic fertilizers, rodent poop, and other sources of bacteria.
offhand, gggg (4g) has this same outlook; and requests that people who cheat or hack the game merely disable stat reporting (leave the leaderboards alone if you want to cheat).

I should make a list of devs/studios that encourage hacking/cheating in their games. for example, Thomas Gervraud (Brotato creator) put sliders in the gameplay settings that let you set enemy speed, health, and damage stats (up and down!).

Anytime i load up wemod and a game isn't in the database, i fire up cheatengine (i donated, even) - and if that gives me a hard time, i usually request a refund on the game.