skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily, the implication is that if you don't give them money they may obtain money through nefarious means. Certainly, if you or I were pushed to homelessness and addicted to hard drugs stealing wouldn't be off the table.
Thanks, I didn't see that one.

Guess he didn't get the "gentlemen do not read each other's mail" memo - may not be a gentleman at all ...
By pushing against it they are pushing with it
>Setting Skibidi Toilet aside

That was the #3rd item, close.

>you really that confident that misinformation, hate speech and historical revisionism

Are you not? These are the excuses our nation has used to justify the last decade.

>Markiplier meme that makes grown-ups cringe?

I don't engage in these things, which is why I post what I did.

Without googling the context (I know the bread-tuber), I just wanted to point out that grown ups "cringing" should make you wonder.
"Sandbox games are probably where they will shine. Imagine being able to play Minecraft, and tell a prompt to generate a world that resembles Tatooine, or a vampire-themed mansion."

"The problem is what it takes to implement that. I've seen companies currently trying to do exactly that, and their demos go like this "ok, give me a prompt for the environment" and if they're lucky, they can cherry pick some stuff the crowd says and if they're not, they sheepishly ask for a prompt that would visit indicate one of 5 environment types they've worked on and include several of the dozen premade textured meshes they've made[...]"

I was clearly directly addressing what they said. Unless you have a specific, substantive, on-topic question or statement, I'm going to assume that you're just fishing for things to argue about.
Analysis of recorded audio contains the phrase "for England, James?"
Maybe i misunderstood your argument here where you scope it tightly to syntax changes being an issue but internal changes being fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051745
For me personally, once I find a great book that hooks me, it immediately rekindles a love of reading for pleasure. Wondering if generational divide plays into this, because I also grew up watching Reading Rainbow and going to book fairs. Reading for fun was highly incentivized.

I agree that the hardest part is finding a book that catches and holds someone's attention. I think booktok starts to meet this need, having personal recommendations is huge and a lot of what I choose to read now comes down to recommendations (goodreads, StoryGraph, etc.).
Grow them in the lava tubes using mirrors to bounce the light around like the Egyptians used. Sounds like a fun game to be able to place the mirrors around the surface of the moon so that it still has light during the 2 weeks of darkness
>By creating a law for seizing the IT system of a company

There's already "a law for seizing the IT system of a company", it's called discovery or a subpoena.
An American's life expectancy when they're born is around 76. But the life expectancy among Americans that have already lived to the age of 65 is more like 83.
Regarding Zerl, my friend just presented about it in Functional Programming Sweden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cuv0WnbZtk&t=795s.
This attack shows us it's possible to change this link and play games, but it's impossible to say what other effects this would have outside of the easily testable scenario laid out in the article. Maybe this change of link invalidates data stored in a billing system, messes up a monthly report that goes to Microsoft's XBox division or causes an internal admin page to crash on load.

I'm not excusing EA but I have worked on plenty of complicated microservice systems and it's not always so straight forward to change the structure of data in one place.
Forcing companies to open source their software is not possible, but making sure we can replace each component after warranty? There are strong right to repair movements, it's just matter of time.
The funny thing with people like you is the fact that the polar opposite of what you are saying is a pretty good approximation of truth. NATO nukes stand where they stood during Nixon and nobody has any intention to move them anywhere. Only Russia has been inching them westward, giving nukes to tin-pot dictators like Lukashenko, pointing them at Europe and threatening to destroy cities like London.
Identical twins from Japan, Denmark and Germany are competing in golf
>Incidentally, many young people (yes, I know how that sounds) do not know how useful a good engineering calculator can be and do not want to learn how to use one. They are missing out. Yes, there is a steep learning curve, but the rewards are significant if you do any amount of calculation in your hobby or work. No, this is not replaced by typing "python" (or "bc", or anything else, really) at your command prompt.

I feel like this is highly role-dependent. I learned on an HP and I have my TI-89 from high school sitting on my desk, because I thought it might be useful. I never touch it. I never do math that's more difficult than arithmetic, and if I needed to do calculus or algebra for some reason I'd reach for Mathematica -- it's not like I remember calculus class anyway.

Hell I tried to help someone younger with algebra and forgot FOIL. I'm a successful distributed systems engineer. Why do I need an engineering calculator?
>The Backrooms started with a 2019 post.

I'd tell you what we used to call people like you, but its a no no word now cuz feeels.

2019? What are you, 20 years old?
I declare thee argument winner! Well done chap!
While it sure sounds straight out of some 50s horror movie, I have a feeling the consequences here are pretty insignificant. The mutant tomatoes I've harvested and eaten from my garden have been quite tasty. Any particular fears in mind?
Since you have no personal influence over them, they will do the drugs regardless. I could easily argue by not giving them money you're actually enabling stealing or even murder. Certainly, a large part of why the homeless don't commit as many crimes as you'd expect is because they're able to self-medicate somewhat effectively. If you take that away, they're already in extremely desperate circumstances.

The issue is more complex than you give it credit. If everyone followed your solution it would backfire catastrophically.
Why do you keep bringing up early withdrawal? It's like saying crypto zoo is a bad investment. Yeah, it is. Don't do it.
In the US such a law would likely be declared unconstitutional by the fifth amendment due to being overly broad:

“””

United States v. Bridges, 344 F.3d 1010 (9th Cir. 2003)

There was probable cause to search the defendant’s office based on the information in the application that documented his efforts to provide illegal tax advice to various clients, including undercover agents. The search warrant in this case, however, was overly broad. It listed, among the items to be seized, “All records . . . documents . . . computer hardware and software . . .” Though this list was detailed, it was too expansive. There was simply no boundary to what could be seized. In addition, the warrant did not specify the crimes that were the subject of the search (nor did the warrant incorporate the application) so there was no limitation in that manner. Though the application was detailed, the warrant was not. All evidence should have been suppressed. (No discussion of Leon).

“””

https://casetext.com/analysis/search-and-seizure-particulari...
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I'd love to see this happen to every billion dollar company that doesn't have a bug bounty program. Offering zero incentive for reporting vulnerability just encourages hackers to exploit it for their own advantage or to wreak havoc.

As a paying customer, I expect better from these companies and personally wouldn't blame the hackers for exploiting their findings if no program exists.
> If my assumption is true, how is this better than FPGAs?

For starters, you can make analog/mixed-signal chips
>but I thought we were better than this (Whataboutism) at HN.

Whataboutism is Whataboutism.
True in a mathematical sense but irrelevant in practice. Realistically there won't ever be enough firefighters available nearby to cut an effective fire break around an entire town while a wildfire is burning nearby. Do you have any concept of how much manual labor and heavy machinery this takes?
On the contrary: the ones that washed up on the shore of Gilligan's Island were unusually large.
> Just as dashmap is a replacement for std::sync::RwLock<HashMap>, whirlwind aims to be a replacement for tokio::sync::RwLock<HashMap>.

I'm curious about the practical benefits of handling a HashMap with an async interface. My long-standing understanding is that `tokio::sync::RwLock<HashMap>` is only useful when you'd want to hold the lock guard across another `await` operation; but when the lock guard is not held across an await, it is always preferable to use the synchronous version.

This would lead me to assume that same applies for dashmap--it should be sufficient for async use cases and doesn't need an async API unless we expect to be blocked, but the benchmarks indicate that whirlwind outperforms dashmap in various situations. Do you have a sense of where this blocking occurs in dashmap?
> if police know their local prosecutor wont prosecute certain crimes (theft, property damage, drunk and disorderly), police tend to stop trying to arrest people for those crimes, and the overall rate for those crimes will go down (in the data at least).

This is why you have to use something like victimization surveys, which appears to be what their data source has done.
If my understanding is correct, they haven't yet. The raise is spread out evenly over 6 years, so it'll probably be at least 3 years before they return to pre-pandemic purchasing power.

Still quite extraordinary, though I'm not sure how long they had already been at their current rates, so maybe less impressive? Not really sure.
Right. Also I wasn't trying (nor am I equipped) to give some kind of current guide to tax dodging. I was explaining the basic sort of thing people do. The specifics change all the time because there is a sort of whack-a-mole that tax authorities try to play to get people to pay and people pay ever more and more inflated fees to various accountants and tax "planning" experts for ever more byzantine and artificial schemes of one kind or another.

My own experience with tax experts has left me pretty jaded about tax advice. It seems to me that often these companies have maybe 1 dude who actually understands tax and an army of people with powerpoint going out selling the "solution". I had a complex tax situation when setting up a business in the UK and US and got tax advice from one of the big four firms not to dodge tax but to make sure I understood the US system correctly and was paying everything I should. I paid so much tax that I got investigated in both the UK and US because they thought there must be some sort of fiddle because I seemed to be paying way more than I sholud be (this was what I told the accountants). I ended up getting rebates from the IRS and from the UK HMRC after the investigations but it took a couple of years to get it all sorted out.
Yes, but you can hire anyone as an administrator and promise them a whole of money if they end up having issues with the law.

I would hire homeless people to “run” the company.
What other local databases did you consider, and why did you choose DuckDB?
Google tells me a lot of other people stream CDC pipelines to DuckDB, but I'm not familiar enough with it to know what makes it such a compelling choice.
Lots of carbon and oxygen in asteroids if you pick the right ones.

Some of the carbonaceous ones have some nitrogen as well.

The big trick with smelting in space will be capturing all of the dust and smoke instead of losing the stuff and creating navigational hazards.
It's kind of funny to see emulations of Windows 9x being so snappy. Actual Windows 9x machines were sluggish, took forever to boot, and constantly froze up or crashed. People desperately pressing ctrl-alt-delete in vain were a thing.
I don't really know much about ic manufacturing.

Are you sure university labs are really able to to this? If so how come only a few companies like tsmc and that one Dutch company are able to manufacture microchips? Or are those two completely different things and I'm just confusing myself?
Love the Pubtables work! It's a really useful dataset. Their data comes from existing annotations from scientific papers, so in our experience it doesn't include a lot of the hardest cases that a lot of methods fail at today. The annotations are computer generated instead of manually labeled, so you don't have things like scanned and rotated images or a lot of diversity in languages.

I'd encourage you to take a look at some of our data points to compare for yourself! Link: huggingface.co/spaces/reducto/rd_table_bench

In terms of the overall importance of table extraction, we've found it to be a key bottleneck for folks looking to do document parsing. It's up there amongst the hardest problems in the space alongside complex form region parsing. I don't have the exact statistics handy, but I'd estimate that ~25% of the pages we parse have some hairy tables in them!
Previously (15 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42047717
Clerestory at the north and south poles where the sun shines basically all the time.

Don’t let any light in directly, only reflected light.
Can you give an example what do you mean by that?
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The proper abstraction is that which can easily be thrown away. I've not found that to be too difficult to figure out. Maybe when I was new to development – that was too long ago to remember – but once you have experience, at least.

It can become extremely difficult to figure out if you mar yourself with someone else's framework. That is quite true. But is also what the parent said.
But you still have to reverse engineer the IC before you can replace it - and once you have that it's still cheaper to have it manufactured in an existing Fab than to build your own.
Discussion (54 points, 4 hours ago, 97 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42052263
Benches look promising! My main concern is validating correctness; implementing good concurrency primitives is always challenging. Have you looked into testing against a purpose-built concurrency model checker like tokio-rs/loom [1] or awslabs/shuttle [2]? IMO that would go a long way towards building trust in this impl.

[1] https://github.com/tokio-rs/loom
[2] https://github.com/awslabs/shuttle
The Problem with Popplers

Season 2, Episode 18

https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Popplers
> They have databases...fancy filing cabinets. Just because the company is famous shouldn't preclude their filing cabinets from being searched (presuming legal processes are used and not abused).

That analogy doesn't work, because the "filing cabinets" are actually sitting somewhere else, possibly in another country/continent. It's not obvious that authorities in one country has authority over documents stored in another country.
I hadn’t thought about this, it happens because it works for everyone. Quite grotesque.
Another shout out to Emmy Noether's (First) theorem.

Informally stated, if a system has a continuous symmetry property, then there are corresponding quantities whose values are conserved.

As an illustration, if a physical system behaves the same regardless of how it is oriented in space, angular momentum of the system must be conserved, as a consequence of its laws of motion.

Another illustration, if a physical process exhibits the same outcomes regardless of place or time, then linear momentum and energy must be conserved.

It is regarded as the foundation of particle physics
He's tweeting about Pizzagete conspiracies now.
In that future you can make yourself a replacement 555 IC at home but keep in mind many components have an SIP core.
> Lord Harlech—or Jasset David Cody Ormsby-Gore—at 38 is the youngest of the hereditary peers. He said they check the power of political appointees, at least until some better system comes along.

> The House of Lords actually does a good job scrutinizing and reviewing legislation. The unnerving question, he said, is whether this is despite it being undemocratic, or because it’s undemocratic.

The concern here seem to be that elected politicians and political appointees are too short-term focused and beholden to contemporary fashions. Lifetime appointees selected through a parallel process would presumably be resistant to these factors. It's not clear to me why "descendants of medieval nobility" would be a good parallel process though - perhaps some sense of noblesse oblige? It seems like one could get equivalent results by randomly choosing people from the general population.
"Gi'yup little Tardy! We gotta git these dogies to Copernicus before sundown, and that's only two weeks away!"
You can have a mandatory minimum number of rest days without fixing when those rest days are. In fact, this is already how it works for those professions that are allowed to work on Sundays; their rest day might just be a Tuesday instead.
> So any experiment should try and find out how plants do if they get 14 days of straight sunlight followed by 14 days of straight darkness.

I would think the extreme cold would be an even bigger problem than the lack of light.
you'd think a judge could order you to provide the documents and then jail you for contempt of court until you do?
Then you're on the hook and the income dries up when they find out. Selling for cash up front means you got 90% of the law if the prosecution decides you've done something wrong and finds you in the first place (the use of exploits is commonly illegalised, and often indirectly the discovery or development, but not the knowledge or sale)

Not that I'd advise either course of action for the players' sake
There are also accounts of mystical experiences being triggered by aesthetic rapture in completely untrained and unprepared individuals, for example by seeing a beautiful view in nature or hearing a beautiful song.

As you note there are many routes to the altered state of consciousness and sometimes people unwittingly stumble across shortcuts that do not require chemicals or intentional manipulation of the mental state.
One thing which wasn’t obvious to me from the benchmark: What’s the key distribution? A sharded map will probably have great performance on uniform keys, but in my experience it’s far more common to have power law distribution in real life scenarios.

It would be good to see a benchmark where it only touches a _single_ key. If Whirlwind is still fast than the others I would be far more convinced to use it unconditionally.

EDIT: I also see that you're benchmarking on a M3 Max. Note that this has 6 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores. This means that if you're running at <6 cores it will most likely start out running it at the efficiency core. From my experience it's quite important to do warmup phases in order to get stable results at low thread count. And even then I find it hard to reason about the results since you're running in mixed set of cores…
> $COMPANY is $COMPANY all around the world

This is the thing which is not the case. The subsidiary in the US is nearly always a different company than the one(s) in Europe. They'll have different management and different lawyers etc. Sometimes they even have different owners, e.g. because one of them is a joint venture with some other company, or a franchise. And they have to be different, because different countries have different laws and those laws often conflict with each other. So the subsidiary in the US follows US law and the one in France follows the law in France.

You could try to make it otherwise, but it's pretty obvious what would happen then. Companies couldn't formally operate in multiple countries because their laws are incompatible, so instead there would be a straw front company in any given country that nominally isn't owned by the conglomerate, but is effectively just reselling their product/service in that country for an additional margin that only pays the salary of local management. To prevent this you would have to ban companies from having foreign suppliers, which is not very practical.

And since countries know that's what would happen, they allow foreign subsidiaries to be regarded as separate entities even if they have shared ownership, instead of demanding the charade.
This is becoming a circular argument. The corporations bribe the politicians because the politicians exist and have power. If the gov't didn't exist, the corporations would directly have power over you instead of indirectly. They would essentially be the new governing body. My entire point has been that power is power and authoritarianism can be private or governmental.
The blocking mainly occurs due to contention - imo most of the performance gain comes from being able to poll the lock instead of blocking until it's available when acquiring locks on shards.

In all honesty I was quite surprised by the benchmarks as well though, I wouldn't expect that much performance gain, but in high-contention scenarios it definitely makes sense.
Uber's files and computers located in French territory are of course accountable to French authorities, but that's simply not the case for those located in other jurisdictions…

Unless there is some international law or treaty mandating that?
Amazon gets FAA approval for new delivery drone and begins testing in Arizona
> And the 2nd half just reads like pure corruption to me

Why did you conclude that?

There were some user uploaded pirated content in our platform. As far as I know, some media company won approval by some judge for a raid to discover the extent of piracy. It's just in the police rulebook to get everything during the raid where there could be pirated content, including employees laptops.
Oxford colleges use quite a lot of antique jargon. Battel is also something related that took me a while to figure out.

A battel is an account of items supplied by a buttery, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battel.
>Also when the government is really motivated, he can arrested the founders or executives directly (Pavel Durov). Which is what they should do to Netflix execs if they are doing business illegally.

You're in favor of holding executives hostage to demand access to data? If they actually did something illegal, they can be arrested/tried for that, but arresting executives as a means to coerce companies into doing stuff is a total perversion of the rule of law.
Looks like an awesome tool! Privacy is always a huge concern, so it is great to see any AI company taking it seriously.
You have a right to not help them, but you can’t actively destroy evidence. Do you think it would be fine to begin burning documents once the police comes to you office?
Per the UN Genocide Convention, which defines genocide not just in the totalistic sense (as practiced by Nazi Germany for example) but as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".

It isn't simply a matter of body counts (though I disagree with your spin on them). Israel's obvious intent to render Gaza to be basically uninhabitable, and to encourage what it coldly refers to as a "voluntary transfer" of its population; combined with its accelerated strangulation of the West Bank since the start of these activities, are what place its actions squarely within the scope of this definition.

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

I’m saying that they think so because our adversaries propaganda has been incredibly effective.

No, it's because they read and understand the above definition, and have been observing Israel's long-term game plan (particularly since 1967).

And have successfully immunized themselves against its own relentless and insidiously toxic propaganda machine.