skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am being honest with the consequences.

It is desirable that we should have a supply of good books;
we cannot have such a supply unless men of letters are liberally remunerated:
and the least objectionable way of remunerating them is by means of copyright.

You cannot depend for literary instruction and amusement on the leisure of men
occupied in the pursuits of active life. Such men may occasionally produce
compositions of great merit. But you must not look to such men for works
which require deep meditation and long research. Works of that kind you can
expect only from persons who make literature the business of their lives.

Men who make authorship the business of their lives. We shall have less of them. I accept these consequences. Let it be. It's the future they chose.

I do have one hope though. Later in the text, he expresses a rather low opinion of patronage. And he isn't wrong: patronage by governments, churches and moneyed elites obviously distorted the creativity of authors and that is not at all desirable. That's why copyright is advanced as the least bad solution.

However, modern technology has changed patronage. It's now possible for wide audiences to subsidize the work of their favorite creators. It does not require artificial scarcity. They are rewarded for the act of creating, not the final product.

As far as I'm concerned, this is the only way forward. Because enforcing copyright in the 21st century will require tyranny the likes of which should give pause to everyone who posts on Hacker News. It will literally destroy computing freedom as we know it today. And that's a consequence I don't accept. I'd sooner see creators find another job.
ByteBuffers and direct memory make it possible.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/nio/ByteBuffe...

But it is a pain and only really useful if you have a big, long lived object. In my case it was loading massive arrays into memory for access by the API server frontend. They needed to be complete overwritten once an hour, and it turns out that allocating 40% of system memory then immediately releasing another 40% back to the GC at once is a good recipe for long pauses or high CPU use
An Oral History of Morphing in Michael Jackson's 'Black or White' (2016)
Leaflet lets you add POIs on a OSM base layer map, you can also extract information from OSM about trees and bushes. If you use dumped data from OSM your data will be considered opendata as well so merging them will mean that you can not prevent other people from using you data.

In short: You do a overpass turbo query to dump data from OSM and import it into sqlite, build a GIS index, serve it as geojson, display that on a slippymap with leafletjs and write an end point to update the data.
We have good reason to treat the humans as sneaky in your example, because they understand the spirit of the control system, and exploit the letter of it. The AI only understands the letter.
Build a serverless ACID database with this one neat trick (atomic PutIfAbsent)
Yes mostly the idea that risk should be averted at all times by using the same few companies has fully captured US gov culture. And it’s only gotten much worse since they seem to think China should be the model to copy because they dump money into pet megacorps there, even though it’s still a very new concept that is far from proven sustainable in China itself. Not to mention they mostly coast off copying US innovation and preventing competition.

But mostly the issue is employing it as a long term strategy, because it worked a few times in the last as a short term boost to newly ascendant orgs (ala NASA+space industry in the 1960s) before the Iron Rule of bureaucracy kicks in at all organizations involved, be they private or public.
I feel like there is a great potential to be explored here by playing with cgroups dynamically, not in a machine learning way but allowing bursts, finding good ratios request/limit to pick up (1s/10s or 0.1s/1s ?) and voluntarily kicking out (eviction) stateless workloads.

I even pursued my PhD on it until I quit (unrelated reasons). There was a startup doing this with ML but forgot their name.
Probably the culture of where I live is very different from the other side of the ocean, but... why is money such a big point in this article? I love my work and I'm decently paid and... I don't really want to be rich. With the given title, I would advocate for/stress on contentment rather than monetary richness.
Structs are a part of C semantic. They are not an ipc format. You can somewhat use them like one if you take a lot of precaution about how they are laid out in memory including padding and packing but it’s very brittle.

Asn.1 is both quite complicated and not very efficient.

They could certainly have gone with protobufs or another binary serialisation format but would it really be better than the current choice?

I don’t think the issue they are trying to solve is related to serialisation anyway. Seems to me they are unhappy about the bus part not the message format part.
People in Texas facing murder charges for traveling to other states to get an abortion.

People facing criminal charges for helping people in Texas learn about what options for managing their own reproductive health and bodies.
if tech debt would depend on some kind of methodology it would not pop up with XP/Kanban/waterfall.

techdebt can even pop up in unorganized slowmo opensource software.
You demonstrate very well the same incharity with which you intend to argue I've read and spoken.
Sophisticated marketing annd political campaigns include everything from bikini clad women to academic papers.

Using mathematical language is always a rhetorical choice to suggest precision and authority.
Sounds like you should talk to the person who is actually in charge then.
> You may tell me how it was Russia's fault the US/EU instigated the coup d'état in Ukraine for a change.

There was no coup in Ukraine. The sitting president was responsible for getting over 100 protestors killed. First he went into hiding as it became clear that had lost all political support in Ukraine and would be facing criminal charges, then Russian secret services helped him escape to Russia.

Ukrainian parlament assembled, voted with 328-vs-0 to hold early elections for a new president. Not even a single member of his own party voted in favor of the Russian puppet who ran away. Elections were held soon thereafter and even Russia recognized its results after a delay.

Calling this a coup indicates lack of knowledge or intentional maliciousness.
Yeah, that's the real problem. Too much efficiency in the short term.

My idea on working around this: for any business with actively traded stock there is a salary cap, say $1m/yr *per year*. You want to pay that guy $10m/yr? No, you pay him $1m and he gets 9 sets of shares that are worth $1m now, but they will be delivered one a year. Next year, same thing, you give him $1m, one set of shares from the previous year is delivered to him, he's got 9 new sets coming. So long as you have such shares forthcoming you are not permitted to engage in any trade where you would gain from the stock going down. If you do so inadvertently (say, investing in a fund that shorts the stock) any income from that is taxed at 100%.

The idea is to make your top people care about the long term prospects of the company, not merely the prospects of their area for whatever time they're in charge of it.
Blaming the innocents? I thought I was very clear that the oppressed Iranic people were not the problem.
I mean the people and land area governed by the United States Constitution, a document that provides explicit protections against the kind of ethnostate policies you are so worried about.
Have you tried to address any of these issues yourself, or are you just going to wait for someone else to do it?
Seems like Plaid would be f’d six ways til Sunday if it got out that they were selling consumer data to 3rd parties, no? A huge part of their business model is based on trust and doing that would completely burn it.
We've had great success in using Bazel for a large mixed C++/Python and some other languages monorepo.

The initial setup cost is somewhat high, but the caching aspects and configurability make it a real game changer in this space.

If you're building a Rust-only project it's probably better to stick with Cargo, since Cargo caches really well and doesn't have such a large setup cost.
The article is about a CPU, not a display technology - there's a big difference in functionality and fabrication between those two things, so your iPhone screen pixel example doesn't really fit this use case.

I think this flexible CPU tech is interesting. If it's possible to build an ADC onto it and monitor flexible sensors, that would open up one kind of possibility, and probably an advantage over chip-on-flex solutions. I'm sure there are many more interesting uses for this.

It's impressive that a CPU can be implemented with this tech, but interesting things can be done with far fewer gates.
One of the first games I played after I got a sound card for my PC. I sunk so many hours into this game. Music was great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Mlozm6fZY
> There are plenty of undemocratic and authoritarian countries around the world

Well, yes, but I was responding to a comment re: Iran.

> scientific knowledge and a better educated population is one of the best ways to combat authoritarianism and oppression.

If that's true, then I am wrong.
stdlib templates are a bit idiosyncratic and probably not the easiest to start with, but they do work and don't have "weird issues" AFAIK. What issues did you encounter?
It couldn't even handle unaligned access in it’s original form. Surely an architecture to last for 25 years.
Targeted advertising dragging people down rabbit holes into extremism
I can't stand this term 'game changer', I started noticing it being used a lot during early covid and then the Ukraine war, all for things which did not turn out to be 'game changers'.

You can see its explosive rise on Google Ngrams. Looks like we're still not quite at the peak

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=game+changer&y...
In the past century Psychology transformed from speculative writing combined with clinical observation, to sophisticated statistical analysis and attempt to follow scientific methods, because many audiences including yourself believe that makes it more true.
premium brands like coach, rolex thrive on exclusivity. same with the premier
institutions. they want to keep their brand allure so someone can boast that they are from stanford, or that they own a rolex.

If every tom dick and harry has a stanford cert in their resume, the value of the brand diminishes. so, you are from stanford, big deal, i got a certification too.
> What I wonder... would they have reached out back then not just for computer info but also for psychological support and a way out of poverty, would that have worked?

Joining someone in their hobbies is a much much smaller ask than having that same someone listen to (and maybe advise about) your problems, or having them provide career coaching / direct financial support.

One is "lets have fun together", the other is "please stranger, do me this huge favor".

> And why didn't they?

Knowing who to ask might be a bit much to ask of a kid. Even aside from asking for unreciprocated favors being generally not a thing most people do easily (or look on favorably).
> The trademark office would not give me a trademark for "computers", "the internet", or "AI" if I walked in tomorrow

Again, so what? Would they give you a trademark on "The Bawdy House" for your chain of brothels? The problem with "computers", "internet", and "AI" is current usage, not former usage.
They are now "pro" on a few things they weren't so "pro" on just a few months ago, which is quite interesting and telling if you're paying attention.
Great article, from a technical perspective! I would say it’s more a “nomenclature” than a “taxonomy” because it’s neither exhaustive nor discrete (by design), but I might be mistaken there. I loved the physical examples for each especially, really thought provoking.

As always, I have a philosophical nit to pick: the “three axes” introduced at the top are just “Return” and “Investment” from good ol’ RoI, with a subcategory added for a particular type of forward-looking/conditional Return. I’m guessing this decision has worked in practice and I don’t expect video game development practices to be absolutely scientifically sound, but some extra philosophical certainty never hurts!
Businesses won't plan for black swan events when the people operating them have other sufficient wealth that the death of the company doesn't pose a serious problem for them. When CEOs make enough in a year to retire, there's no need to to worry about a potential catastrophic failure next year.
You could go on newspapers.com (free for 7 days) and look at those old papers. I know that the Transcontinental Railroad was intensely controversial.

What's "bad-faith" about it?
Keep your identity small. https://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

(Not saying I agree or disagree with the essay but it seemed topical)
Name the company please.
I don't think you'd see that kind of waiting times in Germany, for example (but Germnay also is at the high end of healthcare as %GDP).

Edit: I would also add that it is probably better to look at health outcomes, e.g., survival rates for cancer.
Yikes, mind sharing which country you're in that has those kinds of hard blocks?
Ask HN: Red Telephone (Washington–Moscow Direct Communications Link) Software
Wikipedia says "Commercial software is used for both chat and email".

Does anyone know what the actual software is? I read that and now I am curious. Is it Sendmail, Microsoft Exchange, something else?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%E2%80%93Washington_hotline#Email
TBH depends a lot on the business you're experimenting with and who you're optimizing for. If you're Lime Bike, you don't want to skew results because of a Doordasher who's on a bike for the whole day because their car is broken.

If you're a retailer or a gaming company, you probably care about your "whales" who'd get winsorized out. Depends on whether you're trying to move topline - or trying to move the "typical".
Ever heard of the national public data breach?
Maybe. I've found the type of parents and upbringing you had to be more predictive of life outcomes than any personality or virtue assessment.
Not even a few. Just one. In the Suez.
I once heard, in a different century, that the "modal restaurant script" differed between the US and the UK in that in the former, the waitstaff asks the diners a bunch of (to a cultural outsider) overly prying questions, while in the latter, the diners ask them of the waitstaff. Still true? Never was?
Do you have a link for the first one? I don't think that has happened (although it could under Texas law as I understand it)

Is there an actual case where data described in the article was used for anything like what you're suggesting?
The actual cases involve people reporting each other (a man reporting a woman he is dating for example).

Sounds to me like blaming the acid rain on the acid detectors
I hate squashed screenshots. Does everyone forget that screens used to be 4:3? Does nobody notice the squashed oval shapes of planets (and other circles)?
I presume you're not interested in traffic coming from search engines, right?
Early-life xperience with Euclidean geometry enriches the hippocampal repertoire
We use monotonicity detection for various things. I believe (can double check) that it's used for max as well. But you're correct that in the general case, max is non-linear, so will need to maintain state.

Update from Leonid on current implementation: each group is ordered by the column on which we compute max, so it's O(1) to pick the last value from the index.
Ads don't do that. Maybe you're thinking of organic posts, which are not ads? Or do you have examples of "extremist" ads?

Having worked on this stuff, I can tell you that the data relevant to extremist rabbit holes is not what the FTC is talking about. Facebook learns enough from which posts you click on to know which extremist content to suggest (and then they intentionally do not suggest it)
There's even an emulator built in to Chrome

Dev Tools -> 3 dots -> More tools -> WebAuthn -> Enable virtual authenticator environment
Next up: Doom running on this Z Machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Pulsed_Power_Facility
Yes, we do a lot of work with monotonicity detection. It's central to we perform automatic garbage collection based on lateness.
Poisoning the Activation Cache to Elevate from Medium to High Integrity
Pretty much every analytics product does this now. Amplitude, Statsig, Posthog, etc.

Not saying it’s a good thing but assume that most websites are recording your session at this point.
A Database for 2022 (2024)
that horse left the barn over a decade ago. my attitude has changed to where I used to do security and privacy work to mitigate risk from a coming corporate cyberpunk dystopia, but now I think the idea of governments getting a monopoly on surveillance is the worst possible outcome.

a real solution would be to legally privilege and disqualify classes of personal information from civil and non-violent criminal legal proceedings based on how they were collected, and PII collection sources material to commercial decisions must be disclosed in offers and contracts.

insurers and creditors would actually have to take risk again instead of being rentiers, police are servants and not governors, and the provenance of PII as evidence would have to be proven as from a legal and prescribed source that included explicit consent. there is no stopping the flow of data collection, but we can improve laws to manage it.
Oh, well, that is a clever twist! Light of the ancient sun, indeed.
It is the first meaningful demand growth this century for the electricity industry

How is this bad? Are the utilities just lazy?
I would say that this has relatively little to do with Kubernetes in the end. The Kubelet just turns the knobs and pulls the levers that Linux offers. If you understand how Linux runs your program, then what K8s does will seem obvious.

A detail I would like to quibble about: GOMAXPROCS is not by default the number of CPUs "on the node" as the article states. It is the number of set bits in the task's CPU mask at startup. This will not generally be the number of CPUs on the node, since that mask is determined by the number of other tenants and their resource configurations. "Other tenants" includes the kubelet and whatever other system containers are present.

The problem of using this default scheme arises because GOMAXPROCS is latched in once at startup, but the actual CPU mask may change while the task is running, and if you start 100 replicas of something on 100 different nodes they may all end up with various GOMAXPROCS, which will affect the capacity of each replica. So it is better to explicitly set GOMAXPROCS to something reasonable.
Templ [1] is great!

Another go mod that helps a lot when massaging JSON (something most web servers end up doing sooner or later) is GJSON [2].

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1: https://github.com/a-h/templ

2: https://github.com/tidwall/gjson
Stop Using Generative AI for Hero Images
“Not enough feature tickets to exhaust capacity” - I don’t think I’ve ever seen this happen :) PMs and sales always manage to book all available capacity.
It's very odd to phrase it as "tensile strength", but capillary action is an expression of surface tension, which is the result of molecular cohesion--two (water) molecules resisting separation. In other words, strength under tension, with measurable stress and strain. With some squinting, you've got tensile strength with elastic deformation.
> It's also prone to the risk that the LLM gets something wrong: makes a part that is prone to failure, or will actually destroy a CNC, or be unprintable by a 3D printer, etc.

You can destroy 3d printers too... especially if you get the bright idea of generating gcode... and one might reasonably get this idea since so many factors matter like the settings (but can easily result in things like ASA poisoning...)

It's a real "too clever by a quarter" thinking
That's helpful; so presumably for the same reason that gyrocompasses function (self-aligning vis-a-vis the local gravity vector).

A part of me was subconsciously entertaining that a subsystem of the IMU / INS was actually being used to provide gravimetric navigation (producing a coarse global position update de novo rather than correct for an error-prone open-loop one from an a priori generated gravity map).
a la

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9059124

or

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343278497_Analysis_...
They generated a whooping three billion dollars last year.
> the team will eventually fix the tech debt when there are not enough feature tickets to exhaust capacity

I have yet to visit this misterious universe you describe.
The Evolution of LLM: From Early AI to Open-Source Innovation and Beyond
That appears to be $1k for a single puzzle. Yikes.
This is simply not true, and has never been true anywhere I've worked. We can do everything with a much better UX in about 2,000 to 3,000 lines of code, instead of ~25,000 (and almost 2,000 dependencies).

It's a boring tedious "true-ism" that keeps getting pounded. I don't really know what else to say, but it's simply just not true.
I have found libtree to be nicer, sounds like it doesn’t suffer the same risk. But there is the added inconvenience of installing it - but usually mild given prebuilt binaries for common distributions.
Do you have any examples where the data was obtained from sources that collected it for ads? As I understand it, the sort of data that is collected for behavioral advertising isn't useful for identity theft and has not been used in that way.

For identity theft you need things like names, addresses, SSN, W2 income, etc
Yeah, how will number/float serialization go? Are we going to serialize them as strings and parse them? That abstraction isn't handled the same way across multiple languages.
I'm a core developer of Crystal.

We've been wondering about why it's worth the money for these sponsors. The links ideally shouldn't have much effect because they're marked as `sponsored`.
Anybody got any ideas?

Either way, it's money that helps the project so we're fine with accepting it.
Clickable link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%E2%80%93Washington_hotl...
Yeah, they kind of start in the worst failure mode a friendship can have.
What do mean by "they"?
EDIT: who do you mean by "they"? (Rephrasing since some readers don't get that intent of the original question.) The handful of corporations interested in transport? Roads were a broad-based need. Roads have been built, used, maintained for thousands of years. The interstate highway system came from a government initiative, if there was a "they" it was broad-based enough to be "us".
Railroads served needs that had existed for a long time and it was very clear what their use was from the time they were conceived, and there were more than a handful of participants in the movement of goods and people, since producers wanted greater reach and consumers wanted better access. By contrast to the very small number of "they" asking for more elecricity for data centers. How many people involved in the discussion are asking for the AI companies to be getting this juice?