skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IT guys aren’t the ones under investigation.
I also had similar good experiences buying batteries on Aliexpress. The issue with those typically isn't intrinsic quality as the batteries are most of the time good but lack of quality control. Bad batteries will reach the market and this is specially dangerous with packs with many cells like e-bikes packs.
He changed his tune on electric vehicles after Musk started backing him.
> ruled that the tech giant has illegally maintained a monopoly through the billions of dollars in annual payments it makes to partners

Wow. Are they serious? that’s illegal?
I wonder if Firefox will even survive this. Maybe the main FOSS browser will be a Chromium fork so it's cheaper to maintain?
I think this is a very cool change

also lol:

> The 3.14 release cycle must go ahead because: [pi].
Bcachefs Reining in Bugs: Test Dashboard Failures Drop by 40% over Last Month
What a reference. Incidentally, I started watching The Crystal Maze for the first time a few months ago after finding episodes of it on Archive.org. It's like watching adults running through Legends of The Hidden Temple, but with more urgency and charm. It's such a fun show
> Conditionals are common enough that they can justify the indulgence

I think there's another much more important factor that distinguishes conditionals from most other ternary operations (clamp, mix, FMA, etc): The "conditional evaluation" part, which is what makes it hard to replicate with a regular function call.
Why should the IT guy lock you out if you want to access your data?
Perhaps I should have said enforce the law. Falsified documents should not divert blame from the employers.
I've been using it from the UK where it's also technically not available and it's trivial to get around. You just have to turn on a vpn to click the bet button.
It's uncommon in the era of easily accessible information. Ditto for ARGs.
The Testimonium Flavianum is clearly questionable, no one accepts it as genuine, though the question of whence it came is interesting and ultimately IMO slightly strengthens the historicist case, but since it's clearly not a reliable passage it's not worth dwelling on.

The only really significant question is the account of James. He dismisses it because he has to, so claiming it's a forgery is another attempt to dismiss evidence. He's not a real philologist, it's great that he managed to get a peer reviewed journal to accept his work, but it's still a crank conspiracy theory attempting to wave away evidence. If denying evidence to prop up a conspiracy theory is your thing, then Carrier is great, but in truth all his work is weak and a waste of any serious person's time and you'd be better off dropping the conspiracies and fringe scholars and learning about the evidence objectively. The truth is more interesting than Carrier's conspiracies once you learn it.
I'm on a no-politics diet today, but I would have loved this article on any day. It's just a delightful story. I think in news jargon it would be called a "human interest" story, which when you really think about those words, really nails it for me. I am deeply interested in other humans, especially of the non-celebrity variety.
Surely HN of all spaces would understand why giving free money to Intel is a massive waste? Also if they genuinely need the money, they should be offering ownership in return.
> it surprises me that nobody in the US seems to even mention the idea of punishing the employer for employing illegal workers.

The anti-immigrant politicians can't punish the employers because they would be punishing their own donors.

If that sounds like a contradiction, consider that undocumented/illegal immigrants are effectively pawns who have no political power in the system, and the contradiction disappears entirely.
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40378687

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40374107

Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40371371

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40369522

Post-mortem:

https://collective.flashbots.net/t/post-mortem-april-3rd-202...

Dept of Justice:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-brothers-arrested-attacki...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/two-brothers-arrested-a...

Indictment:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/media/1351931/dl
Pm-AMM: A Uniform Automated Market Maker for Prediction Markets
Wolfspeed is building a fab in North Carolina that will make SiC based chips. They are receiving $750 million from the CHIPS and Science Act and will likely receive another $1 billion in tax credits.

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

SiC transistors and diodes are used in high power applications like locomotives, EV chargers and industrial motor controls. In their catalog they have a half-bridge power module rated for 1200V and 760A, which to me is amazing that a semiconductor can handle that much.

https://www.wolfspeed.com/products/power/sic-power-modules/h...
I have no data to back it up, but I believe HN saw a huge number of redditors moving here after the user protests a year or two ago.
Servers are used for a long time and then Dell/HP/Lenovo/Supermicro has to deliver them and then customers have to buy them. This is a space with very long lead times. Not surprising.
A work that is “substantially similar” to a copyrighted work infringes that work, under US law, no matter how it was produced. (Note: Some exceptions apply and you have to read a lot of cases to get an idea of what courts find “substantially similar” .)
To grow plants anywhere, its important to remember that soil is not required and they can be grown entirely in water. I've done it several times with Kratky method hydroponics and no soil at all.
Google CEO forbids political talk after firing 28 over Israeli contract protest
I love Rust for tokenising and parsing
It does seem to be working a bit as a sentiment indicator at the moment on the Trump Kamala election but seems biased because most people speculating on crypto are male and pro Trump. In basic economic theory you'd expect it to reflect a realistic estimate of the candidates chances but seems off a little just now. I'm long Kamala for what it's worth.
I tried my best to not editorialize the title and still make it fit. Full original title is, "Sundar Pichai tells Google staff he doesn’t want any more political debates in the office after firing 28 employees over Israeli contract protest".
Most people are praising it.
But it's not. It's broken in exactly the way you would expect with two basically enshrined parties, FPTP races, low primary turnout, and zero regulation on money in campaigns. Any other country that built their system this way would likely have similar issues.
Maybe we would, if there were only two car manufacturers that also happen to run their own private roads, bridges, mechanics etc. that are also mutually not compatible.
Upgrade cycles at datacenters are really long.
> "commoditize and degrade the integrity of the uniquely American experience of participating in the democratic electoral process."

The joke of a candidate every cycle from each major party already commoditizes and degrades the integrity of the election.
It's true that most FPGAs have limited built-in analog capabilities. But good DACs and ADCs aren't too expensive, and an FPGA can control them with exceptional precision. Does your process have some kind of input / output that can't be handled that way?

Dedicated DACs/ADCs will almost always offer better performance than the ones you'd find on a microcontroller or even an ASIC.
Do you think they do any super fancy magic other than for example how ferret ui does their classification of ui elements? It could be very interesting to test head to head hope much better you can make computer use by adding html (it’s much better from our quick testing, just don’t know the numbers).
The article is a bit vague regarding the actual reason (strengthening the company’s culture).

Not sure helps proving their case.
This isn’t new on HN, these sort of stories have been here for years. If anything there have been less of them in more recent times.

I think many people here like the deep dives, and well written stories, about some specific interest.
Is Vivado easy to pirate? Now I'm interested
If you have a limited number of long range ICBMs then you will likely prefer more directly military targets rather than a manufacturing facility which would likely only start to matter for a conflict months into combat, which itself is a scenario (drawn out conventional war) that is likely precluded by exchange of nuclear weapons in the first place.
There's a few threads on the technical help forums that are tracking this -- I've subscribed to them because I'm super excited about them getting around to fixing it! :)
Is polymarket even legal in the US? I tried to sign up a while ago and it wouldn't allow me to fund my account
One of the maintainers of Daft here.

Just dug through the datachain codebase to understand a little more. I think while both projects have a Dataframe interface, they're very different projects!

Datachain seems to operate more on the orchestration layer, running Python libraries such as PIL and requests (for making API calls) and relying on an external database engine (SQLite or BigQuery/Clickhouse) for the actual compute.

Daft is an actual data engine. Essentially, it's "multimodal BigQuery/Clickhouse". We've built out a lot of our own data system functionality such as custom Rust-defined multimodal data structures, kernels to work on multimodal types, a query optimizer, distributed joins etc.

In non-technical terms, I think this means that Datachain really is more of a "DBT" which orchestrates compute over an existing engine, whereas Daft is the actual compute/data engine that runs the workload. A project such as Datachain could actually run on top of Daft, which can handle the compute and I/O operations necessary to execute the requested workload.
Repo seems to be here: https://github.com/THUDM/WebRL
(I believe the parent was making a poorly-advised Matrix joke).
Worth noting,

> Future Intel generations of chips, including Panther Lake and Nova Lake, won’t have baked-on memory. “It’s not a good way to run the business, so it really is for us a one-off with Lunar Lake,” said Gelsinger on Intel’s Q3 2024 earnings call, as spotted by VideoCardz.[0]

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/1/24285513/intel-ceo-lunar-...
hopefully you can now apply this in future endeavors of open mindedness that other people might do things differently than you do, and that's okay. even if you can't possibly imagine why.

today's episode has been brought to you by the letter A for acceptance and the number 9
First, I believe you are right that the CCP believes that "giving Hong Kong the freedom to operate does not work." I believe you are right that the CCP believes that "the same applies to Taiwan." I believe you are right that the CCP does not see the multiparty democratic system in Taiwan as a positive thing.

If Taiwanese people really care about retaining multiparty democracy, then everything you said is a good reason for Taiwan to be wary of PRC attempts to gain more control over Taiwan.

--

Second, I don't know what the average person on the street in mainland China thinks about the HK protest movement or Taiwanese democracy. Today, when the successes of the PRC are more salient to most people than its failures, the average person in mainland China may well look down on the perceived disorder of democracy.

What comes up may come down. Mainland China has had some incredible decades as it industrialized and caught up. That is a typical phenomenon (not a uniquely Chinese one) when an authoritarian country introduces liberalization to their economy. It is harder for authoritarian countries to maintain growth when they are already mostly caught up with peers, because decentralized economic decision making becomes much more effective than centralized decision making. Decentralized economic decision making is a form of decentralized political power, and the authoritarian country is eventually forced to choose between maintaining a monopoly of authority or pursuing further growth.

At least, that's the thesis of economists like Daron Acemoglu. And the PRC is currently trending away from economic decentralization and toward a re-centralization of decision making.

Mainland China now faces some severe economic and geopolitical headwinds; maybe the PRC will navigate them wisely and earn yet more prestige. Or maybe the PRC will fail to respond adequately to new challenges because of the weaknesses of its authoritarian model. And since the PRC's authoritarian system relies almost solely on efficacy as a source of legitimacy, its legitimacy may prove extremely fragile in the face of a downturn in fortune.

Whatever comes to pass, it will not be a result of a Chinese exceptionalism. Perhaps centralized, one-party states without elections and with limited free speech will prove the dominant governmental model in the next era of history. But, historically, states like that seem to have been mostly outlasted by more liberal peers.
Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division
A delicate dance of them, perhaps
How does that make the contradiction disappear? It doesn't.

The resolution to the contradiction is that few candidates to Federal office are opposed to illegal immigration, and those that have opposed illegal immigration have mostly gotten away with merely saying they are opposed while not doing very much to stop illegal immigration.
The fascinating thing about Brave is how fanatical their fanbase is.
GenXD: Generating Any 3D and 4D Scenes
Please, don't talk about how well AMD is doing! You'll only make the stock price slide another 10%, as night follows day... [irrational market grumbling intensifies]
I wonder if some of the ones that don't stay in San Diego go stay with unfriendly regimes who A/B test their designs with them.
Correct. Now try parsing `x (f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6) y`!
They opened up Mozilla VPN to Australians overnight. 50% off opening special so only AUD7.50 per month on the annual plan...
Okay, so did the elites "choose" that trade policy out of greed or because consumers were selecting for price? Trade policy also doesn't force anyone to outsource.
https://archive.ph/0QcOK
What do you talk about at conferences?
Try testing it on some of the US’ taboo topics like LGBT, feminism, racism etc.
Thanks man. I appreciate it. I'll def let you know when the time comes. Would you be down to beta test?
Dust isn't just a single size, it's a giant range[1], and no, even 1 μm process requires a cleanroom, let alone anything smaller.

[1] https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/particle-sizes-d_934.html
Does advocacy pay better?
That’s all well and good but I want to hear what happened when they placed lasers on those dolphins.
Effort will get one far even without natural talent Effort and talent cannot be surpassed.
We don’t have any sort of metrics which are that personalised.

I’m not sure you’re arguing against who you think you’re arguing against. I’m not defending it, I’m simply sharing how it is at our place. There are a lot of issues, if you took a wild guess at the demography of our manager staff I'm fairly certain you would get it right.
That sounds like a pretty poor precedent when e.g. Russia or China raids the local office of a social media company to get data on a dissident.
Clean code in React. The magic of keeping one level of abstraction per function
Crashing the whole program is actually memory safety. Because then the program can't get into an undefined state where parts of the program have access to memory they shouldn't.
I've thought of the related phenomenon as "the only thing you can't buy is time."

I.e. there's no amount of money you can spend today to make something 45 years old

So as we increasingly move into a materially post-scarcity developed world, time becomes the last scarce thing.

It overlaps with nostalgia, but there's also a big component of novelty/rarity. See previous example of tracking down that song that was written for the X-Files and playing in the background in a single bar scene.

Also, me blowing my friends' minds with a record I have of Richard Harris (now, "Dumbledore") reading selections from The Prophet: https://www.amazon.com/Kahlil-Gibran-Prophet-Musical-Interpr...
Right, nor scary words a threat, hence my ask for clarification.
Teaching rocks to think is not for the faint of heart.
Cutting the source off mid-sentence is disingenuous.
sure, if you're looking for "any" ranking... but this is not some random dude's "top 100 countries to visit" or something. It's the U.N.'s official list of developed countries. That puts some credibility to it, and it is definitely relevant in this topic since people were discussing whether the US counted as developed country or not. That is certainly more credible than finding "some list where [my] country is low on". I'm sure they are out there but I don't think you can find any list by the UN or any other credible world-wide organization.

Please, feel free to prove me wrong!

Oh, and what list(s) did you have in mind where the US is #1? I can't think of many (at least not positive ones)
you are correct of we suppose we are at a global optimum. however, consider this example:

i have two hands

i have 2 hands

these sentences communicate the same thing but one could be a watermarked result. we can apply this equivalent meaning word/phrase change many times over and be confident something is watermark while having avoided any semantic shifts.
I suspect your account's feedback would be easily filtered out
That guy bet $46m. Current betting volume is $3.3bn.
Missed python's slicing:

>>> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'[1:20:4]
'bfjnr'

It's start/end/skip, with default values of 0, length, 1; each can be omitted so it's rare to see the third one unless someone is showing off how to reverse a string:

>>> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'[::-1]
'zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba'

Though really these are slice objects, it's just the syntax only works inside array access:

>>> slice
<class 'slice'>
>>> z = slice(1, 20, 4)
>>> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'[z]
'bfjnr'
It's the sharks that have the lasers
AMD is not doing similar stuff yet.
I've ridden in rain countless times and never had a problem. (Though that's modern boards with ball bearings specifically designed to prevent water ingress; perhaps the 1970's stuff was more vulnerable?)

Skating in the rain is great, everyone should try it!
Sorry, but everything about this is wrong.

AMD has had the power efficiency crown in data center since Rome, released in 2019. And their data center CPUs became the best in the world years before they beat Intel in client.

The people who care deeply about power efficiency could and did do the math, and went with AMD. It is notable that they sell much better to the hyperscalers than they sell to small and medium businesses.

> idk go look at the xeon versus amd equivalent benchmarks.

They all show AMD with a strong lead in power efficiency for the past 5 years.
That quote is one that calls attention to the limits of things that seem like they would lead to "equal opportunity." Maybe it's illegal for a rich person to sleep under a bridge, but then again, why would they want or need to?

A rule applying across the board to everyone doesn't really imply that it provides equal opportunity.
Oooh.

Active galvanic action will ruin your day.
If you're referring to fiber laser pcb production, it's shiete because burnt fr4 becomes conductive, and plethora of other reasons, really.
Why are amateur astronomers always studying hydrogen? Are other studies cost prohibitive?
Somewhat related, being a book on science and world war 2:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1127842.Most_Secret_War

Dr R V Jones' Most Secret War is amazing, funny, easy to get into, and tells a great story too:

"R.V. Jones's account of his part in British Scientific Intelligence between 1939 and 1949. It was his responsibility to anticipate German applications of science to warfare, so that their new weapons could be countered before they were used. Much of his work had to do with radio navigation, as in the Battle of the Beams, with radar, as in the Allied Bomber Offensive and in the preparations for D-Day and in the war at sea.

He was also in charge of intelligence against the V-1 (flying bomb) and the V-2 (rocket) retaliations weapons and, although the Germans were some distance away from success, against their nuclear weapons."
Actually, they are pretty much split up. To get access to my passwords and TOTP secrets, the attacker needs one of my devices (something I have) and its password (something I know) or my face/fingerprint (something I am).

The whole point of a fully featured password manager like 1Password or Bitwarden is to rely on it instead of the security of the service you're using. And that implies that you must trust the security of the vault itself.

Of course, each device you have is an additional (an equally dangerous) attack surface. However, most people should be more worried if someone hacks into their devices than their Facebook accounts anyway.
Oh, sure, like dolphins can’t be patriots too
Kind of close to ISO 9660 so doubly easy to remember.
Are you looking at userbenchmark? They are not even slightly reliable.
Note that I was answering to a list of measurements software developers could make. You seem to argue on the topic of reliability. I have fewer things to say against this.

The software equivalent of your car not exploding or your stuff falling down would be the bugs. You don't usually avoid bugs by measuring stuff, you avoid them through robust processes (including testing). I assume that's also the case for avoiding engineered things to collapse.

Now, software does often improve people's lives despite the bugs, and most bugs are not life threatening. Less reliability in software compared to many engineered stuff for cheaper production is apparently a common (and most certainly reasonable) tradeoff we are willing to make. That's not the case for software involved in critical stuff usually btw.

We haven't gotten to that level of reliability in software in general, and we probably never will, because in most cases, it's not worth the cost. It's likely not a question of rigor or maturity of the field: the human species knows how to produce reliable software when it decides it's worth the cost.
COVID-19 is also transmissible to a lot of animals [1]. The Wikipedia link says "Most animal species that can get the virus have not been proven to be able to spread it back to humans", though I don't know if that's still the current consensus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_that_can_get_S...
Boeing was charged with fraud, to the tune of $2.5 billion. Crime and outliers are not a counter-example.
If you think about it, that's what Thumb mode on ARM is.
There’s a good maths puzzle hidden in the table of levers toggling doors that has my curiosity while reading this.

Given levers that toggle at least one door and with a stipulation that no single lever toggles the state of exactly the same set of doors as another lever how many levers do you need before you can precisely toggle the state of X doors? I personally hypothesise the answer as X but welcome thought on this from those that know their linear maths.

I’ll give an example of 2 levers and 2 doors. 2 distinct levers can toggle all states of 2 doors.

Eg. Lever 1 toggles 1,1 ( notation for both doors)

Lever 2 toggles 1, 0 ( just the first door )

Since the levers xor over each other I can make a truth table of all four possible states of the doors

( 0, 0 )

( 0, 1 ) - both levers for to this

( 1, 0 ) - just the second lever

( 1, 1 ) - just the first lever

Now i could change what the levers do, eg. I could make the first lever toggle ( 0, 1 ) and I can still build the above complete truth table.

A quick sketch without stating it here and I can see I can do the same with 3 levers and 3 doors. Is it true that x unique levers can always toggle all states of x unique doors?