skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Governments pay to keep food at the cheapest point possible to ensure stability. a fed population doesn't kill their governments. Agriculture is not a regular industry; its a national security issue

Farming is not a profitable endeavor. There would be a lot less financial advisors in the world otherwise. A carbon tax will either drive up prices or reduce suppliers, increasing prices. Reducing farmland will require more efficient methods which will also drive up prices

The result will be the public pays more for food, not the agriculture industry makes any more or less money. It will require more imports which will come from countries with less regulation and more exploitable resources.

We've seen the story of disruptions to the food supply play out before. The reality is this is a more dangerous gamble than most people realize.
Freedom of association means that a clique does not have absolute power over you, right? Competition implies that cliques incompatible with most people’s values will wither.

You can possibly live in the same house. It’s a bit like changing your insurance company or gym membership but with much larger consequences, if I understand the concept correctly (I’ve never read the novels mentioned).
Their blog is an incredibly useful resource for so many different scenarios.
I agree with your sentiment and wanted to point out that for the RAM it's even worse than the storage. The RAM is not soldered on the board, its included in the package with the CPU, which makes upgrading the RAM effectively impossible for these machines.
The air quality in China is lot better now than a decade ago. The smog was so bad in 2012 and I remembered the AQI hitting 999 (the max it would go) on more than one occasions during Beijing winter.

Went back again in early 2024 and it was so much better, pollution still noticeable on more days than not but at least half the time I spent had AQI below 100.
I'd argue that if you've never longed for automations, it's because you've never written a hard score.
Any ambitious piece written at the churn pace that a composer needs to make a living - any such piece uses algorithmic tricks under the hood. There's human decision and judgment in using those, but it doesn't diminish their value - much less having them as automations.
best argument I've heard against my points so far. but still, since the other solutions require the same amount of work for isolation, the only real benefit of flatpak is bundling soon-to-be-outdate dependencies.
I just want to comment on the funny term Broligarchs.
The forest is for all to use and not exploit
The sabotage happened after a simple political decision had been made to turn it off (more accurately to "suspend its certification", as it had yet to actually enter service). So there was never any "need" for sabotage. In any case the sabotage as such had no effect on gas imports.

Who did benefit most from the north stream sabotage?

At the end of the day -- nobody of course, as the whole idea that the sabotage could bring any significant strategic benefit (even in terms of the "psychological" front) was pretty much braindead from the start. Meanwhile all it seems to have brought to the table was added instability, more paranoid thinking all around (in addition to the quite substantial methane release).

But it's definitely easy to see why (at least some of) the Ukrainians thought their side could gain something from of it; or they may not have been thinking in terms of any specific strategic advantage, but rather simply spite.

Either way -- the decision was made, and the job was done.
[verily you nailed it,historically 仙 is cognate with demigod, but the urge to find citations to complete the etymology sets off the procrastination alarms]

So what do you think? Little Liu tries valiantly not to be political? Much Better Herbert? Sensible M9ldbug?

sN as in Saturday night ?
What evidence would it take for more scientists to recognize that perhaps life didn't evolve through some evolutionary process, but was intentionally created? It seems like few ever consider that their starting presupposition may be wrong.
I don't use the bike lanes because most of the places I go don't have secure bike parking. I'm worried my bike will be stolen, and the local police don't take bike theft seriously. Some of the local dedicated bike trails have been essentially taken over as homeless camps, which are ironically full of stolen bike parts.
I predict Bluesky will go the way of Threads and Mastodon.
AI has the ability to overwhelm systems of moderation at a much greater scale than humans. That's the issue.
Yeah, it's stupid that Windows can't normalize the two completely valid ways of expressing Hangul in Unicode. If they can process e + acute accent = é, they should be able to do ㄱ + ㅏ = 가.

Having said that, MacOS also made the strange choice of expressing Hangul using the Hangul Jamo (by sound) Unicode block even when there are equivalent precomposed symbols in the Hangul Syllables block. Encoding each sound individually takes up 2-3 times more storage, just like with accented characters in Latin. Besides, if you just list sounds and rely on them to be combined automatically, what do you do when you legitimately want to write a sequence of uncombined sounds, like ㄱㅏㅁ instead of 감?
I actually went to changji before, and visited my friend’s brother furniture factory, so they have manufacturing in Xinjiang. They have more potential for it than any other western province if we go by culture since Uighurs are just as industrious and educated as Han (economic competition is where a lot of the conflict stems from, if they could fix that the autonomous region would boom).
Out of curiosity, how is that measured across machines?

(The first thing that comes to my mind would be to use an oscilloscope with two probes, one to each machine, but I’m guessing that’s not it.)
Ridiculously niche comments from experts like this is why HN is so special. Thank you.
In practice cliques have the same benefits to agglomeration that e.g. corporations and proto-governments do. So freedom of association can’t exist in practice for very long, at least not freedom to associate with multiple effectively-equal cliques.
What is with the many downvotes but no comments? Everything I said is factual.

Seeds are something like 32 bits, though it depends on the exact implementation. But not the length of files.
> And now look what a mess resulted from that: a world war has already quietly started in Europe...

I'd rephrase it as "Europe has already quietly started a (world) war". The EU started to try to incorporate Ukraine. It's highly unlikely Putin would have attacked had there not been preparative talks for Ukraine to join the EU.

And it's no coincidence that there are now heavyweights on the worldstage now saying: "The only solution to this conflict is an independent Ukraine". By that they don't mean "Ukraine not annexed by Russia". They mean "Ukraine not annexed by the EU".

The EU wans to annex Ukraine and a war was started because of that.
It's interesting how in every "scientist wins and saves the day" movie or book, there's a neat deus ex machina that conveniently removes ignorant politicians from overriding them.

... in reality, ignorant politicians will override them, more often than not.
I'm not convinced everyone sharing a singular global network was ever a good idea in the first place.
To me this is actually one of the attractive aspects of Wireguard compared to some other VPNs, it doesn't try to manage everything within the tool and delegates to the host's normal routing mechanisms. However it still by default conflates AllowedIPs and the routing table -- you can actually separate them (Table=off with wg-quick) and then manually add routes.
> I have seen comments on HN multiple times over the years claiming batteries die in a few years and were almost never downvoted.

Car batteries - very unlikely. Cheap portable electronics made in China - all the time.

The problem with these comments is that there are at least 10 different battery chemistries, and dozens of potential use cases and duty cycles you can put a battery through.

So yes, some combination of that will make batteries die in a few years. Most won't.
I tried listening to the audio book in 2018. I listened to over thirteen hours while doing chores and the like. Even in that form, it was extremely dense and I just didn’t have the will to finish. The findings were extremely important, however.

> Quoting directly from the book “The dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces; and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests, with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first powerful filter that will affect news choice”.

The book was published in 1988. We didn’t have anywhere near the landscape of information bombardment that we have today. A lot of people primarily get their news via social media, even if they still go to primary mainstream sources to read or watch. The media has nowhere near the control over what gets seen and what doesn’t as (more than) three decades ago. It’s not a comparable environment.

Look only as far as coverage of the situation in Gaza for proof. As much as major outlets want to paint a particular narrative, millions around the world have become aware of the reality of the situation in the last 13 months in a way that can’t be entirely ignored and a lot of people are pretty upset about it. This would have died away due to lack of coverage pre-internet.

I’m not saying we aren’t still being lied to. And there’s still a billionaire shaping the output of the machine to his liking right in front of everybody (one of multiple, actually). I’m just that there’s no putting the genie back in the bottle, hence it’s a fruitless thought experiment.
You are never going to get exactly the right amount of capacity, so the question is whether you want to err on the side of too much or too little. Too little might often be more efficient, but there are undeniable strategic benefits to having too much. The events of the last few years have taught us all some painful lessons about the hidden costs of JIT and lean. China might have got the balance wrong, but they aren't prima facie wrong.
Ok.
Please, just use your current C++ standard.
But we will go to use the new one with all features we want to use.
Repo title: Steam Games SSR search, using Typesense, Next.js App Router and Instantsearch
Here in NY, we had a [very short-term] governor, who used to be the Attorney General, get hoist by his own petard.

While AG, he put in place, a monitoring regimen, that caught him, as Guv, using state funds to buy hookers and whatnot.

For all I know, he might have gotten away with it, if he hadn’t been using state funds.

It kinda ripped the lid off a bunch of fairly misogynistic attitudes, though. He didn’t last long, after that.
Social media was doomed the moment its users were demoted from customers to exploitable sources of data. Bluesky will inevitably follow the same path of enshittification as every other social network before it. Its current success hinges solely on the nostalgic desire for a single platform where people can gather in peace. The real question is: How many cycles of doom will people endure before they finally stop jumping from one sinking ship to another?
Hasn't OpenAI broken some of its foundational promises?
What does this have that the SQLite command line program doesn’t? Because every time I try one of these I go back to the cli.
Finally I understand why RFCs are served with the Do-Not-Comment header!
To be extremely pedantic, it's great satire precisely because it mirrors that shift. Owes a lot to the OG, A Modest Proposal.
> It’s over. And IMO it’s awesome

It’s not over precisely because it’s vertically integrated. Buyers want to maintain leverage. SpaceX wants to avoid forced divestiture. Hence the airlines inking deals with AST Mobile, and SpaceX lofting their birds.
Am I the only one thinking I need to upgrade my TV before they start including cell modems that use this to upload surveillance data and download ads?
> Would your customer representative be able to pronounce my name somewhat correctly?

Are you implying the CSR's lack of familiarity with the pronunciation of your name means your name should be stored/rendered incorrectly?
You might be looking for Recall.ai which is an API to record meetings.

We offer an API to record via desktop app like Granola/Krisp/Amie, and also an API for meeting bots like Grain/Fathom/Fireflies.

Here are docs so you can get a better sense on if this is what you're looking for: https://docs.recall.ai/
>We can only hope competitors are half as responsible as SpaceX... about space debris.. and satellite [visibility]

Thank you. For those unaware, one of the SpaceX engineers gave a talk to professional astronomers on this topic.

https://youtu.be/MNc5yCYth5E?t=1717
On the other hand, my team slapped 3 servers down in a datacenter, had each of them configured in a Proxmox cluster within a few hours. Some 8-10 hours later we had a fully configured kubernetes cluster running within Proxmox VMs, where the VMs and k8s cluster are created and configured using an automation workflow that we have running in GitHub Actions. An hour or two worth of work later we had several deployments running on it and serving requests.

Kubernetes is not simple. In fact it's even more complex than just running an executable with your linux distro's init system. The difference in my mind is that it's more complex for the system maintainer, but less complex for the person deploying workloads to it.

And that's before exploring all the benefits of kubernetes-ecosystem tooling like the Prometheus operator for k8s, or the horizontally scalable Loki deployments, for centrally collecting infrastructure and application metrics, and logs. In my mind, making the most of these kinds of tools, things start to look a bit easier even for the systems maintainers.

Not trying to discount your workplace too much. But I'd wager there's a few people that are maybe not owning up to the fact that it's their first time messing around with kubernetes.
O1 for collabing on design docs, o1 for overall structure, break it into tasks per preference / sort; sonnet/o1 for executing each small tasks.

O1 is higher quality, more nuanced, and has deeper understanding; the biggest downside rn is the significantly higher latency (both due to thinking, and also, continue.dev doesn't support o1 streaming currently, so you're waiting until it's all done), and higher cost.

In terms of tools: either vscode with continue.dev / cline, or cursor

Languages: node.js / javascript, and lately c# / .net / unity
Interesting, but isn't the older model still available?
I don’t think Russia is low on foreign currencies.

It's definitely "low" on the $327B or so in its sovereign foreign assets that were seized Brussels shortly after the 2022 invasion -- apparently about half its total (of $600+).

The seizure obviously didn't kill the economy, but it would be surprising if it didn't set off a chain of effects within the Russian economy. We may be seeing that now in the form of the precipitous rise in the benchmark interest (to 21 percent).
It depends if Trump tariffs just China or everyone. He promised high tariffs for China, but tariffs on all imports besides.
Just drink it through a mask.
We’re an extremely social species, which is what led to our success. Being left out of or ostracized from our social groups is emotionally painful. I don’t think there’s more needed to explain why religious thinking hangs around despite critical thinking, though this certainly isn’t the only reason. Of course, that doesn’t apply to those who choose willful ignorance. And that’s not even addressing the fact that the certainty of religious belief probably feels pretty good.
> Or unpaired surrogates.

That’s just an invalid Unicode string, then. Unicode strings are sequences of Unicode scalar values, not code points.

> unassigned code points

Ah, the tyranny of Unicode version support. I was going to suggest that it could be reasonable to check all code points are assigned at data ingress time, but then you urgently need to make sure that your ingress system always supports the latest version of Unicode. As soon as some part of the system goes depending on old Unicode tables, some data processing may go wrong!

How about Private Use Area? You could surely reasonably forbid that!

> fullwidth characters

I’m not so comfortable with halfwidth/fullwidth distinctions, but couldn’t fullwidth characters be completely legitimate?

(Yes, I’m happy to call mathematical bold, fraktur, &c. illegitimate for such purposes.)

> solved with NFKC normalization

I’d be very leery of doing this on storage; compatibility normalisations are fine for equivalence testing, things like search and such, but they are lossy, and I’m not confident that the lossiness won’t affect legitimate names. I don’t have anything specific in mind, just a general apprehension.
Yeah I should think so. edit: I don’t use this category of tools so for the sake of argument I will assume your assertion on Mitutoyo’s monopoly is accurate.

Without serious competitors, Mitutoyo has little reason to push the boundaries of performance or reduce costs further. Monopolies can result in complacency, where companies become gatekeepers rather than innovators.

In this case Mitutoyo may have a fine product but the monopoly introduces a systemic risk of lack of innovation or price gouging.

You’re assuming the market has chosen rationally but economic conditions, patent legacies, and lack of competition might simply be symptoms of market failure rather than optimal outcomes.
I doubt the Americans will let them do that so easily.
It seems like you are assuming quite a bit about 2.

I think what GP was getting at is that is something along the lines of if you were accused of misconduct, and in being called into your manager's office for them to ask you about it you behaved unprofessionally enough they no longer thought you were a good fit for the company regardless of whether the accusation was true, they are entirely justified in wanting to end employment. A falsehood can reveal a separate truth about someone.

E.g. Someone falsely says you are always late to group meetings for a group project, and in being questioned you start throwing out racial slurs. Whether you were late is now a lesser issue, and while you woulf be technically correct to say you were falsely accused of being late to a few meeting and were then fired, that isn't correctly relaying the relevant information about why you were fired.

I have no information about whether this is what happened, but I think this is what the GP was trying to express about the information we have as it was presented.
The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant
Ah yes: "Don't you understand, the problems in this field are harder. That is why the methodologies that easier fields reject as being grossly inadequate for their easier problems will work on much harder problems." Even ignoring the glaring conceptual holes in that argument, we also have literal decades of objective and empirical evidence that those techniques are still absolute failures when applied to software security.

Furthermore, groups of kids do not constitute a technically sophisticated threat. If you are struggling with them, then your security is grossly inadequate against commonplace and routine threat actors today like individual opportunistic criminals. Which are themselves grossly inferior to commercially motivated cybercrime groups. Which are themselves grossly inferior to state actors who are also commonplace and routine threat actors against national infrastructure.

The fact that commercial IT cybersecurity companies continue to fall prey to such bottom-feeder predators should tell you everything you need to know about the value of their recommendations and "expertise". If you disagree, present a software system developed using "offensive security" focused methodology (which if you present no definition I will define as using offensive specialists to design the security of a software system) that has been explicitly audited to be secure against a small team (let us say 3 person-years) of offensive specialists. And no, the absence of evidence: "There have been no publicly announced hacks on this system" does not constitute the evidence of absence. Only explicit audits that actively test the security of a system provide evidence of absence.

And, just to head-off any claims that is an impossible standard that nobody reaches, I will point to Common Criteria SKPP certifications and the seL4 proofs of correctness as examples of the alternative that has reached such standards.
I certainly am trending that way as I grow older. As I've recently started to re-dive into Christian theology, the fine-tuning argument seems more and more interesting, and it's pretty difficult to find "good" secular arguments against it.
Farmers can get extremely attached to one piece of land and one farming method and any attempts to shift the incentives in the system and make some types of farming or locations move on is portrayed as a systemic attack on farming and the end of the world.

Everyone appreciates the farmers, some farmers just don't seem to appreciate the harms certain types of farming put on everyone else and the ecosystem, and they'll hide behind how essential calories are to protect their interests.

You're aware the farming lobby is one of the strongest in many countries right? They're not under-served politically. Farming is one of the most subsidized industries.
I'm registering my elderly relatives for dmachoice.org, to prevent them from getting junk mail. These clowns create the problem and then have the audacity to charge you to be added to the opt out list. I was really skeptical about the GDPR when it was passed and I am now fully on board for an American version.
wasn't it our own Carl Sagan who suggested looking into \pi for alien messages (but/and he was perhaps under the influence)

But not the references inside apple boxen
After mice drink raw H5N1 milk, bird flu virus riddles their organs (4 points, 6 months ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40468548
I read through most of this to realize the author isn’t saying much so feel free to skip. They mostly put together a list of the sort of things you can find in a public library for $1.50 in late charges. They put them in a kind of an order trying to argue a point but I can’t take them seriously. It’s bullshit and ChatGPT could write a more convincing narrative.

(nb. I should start printing out Bloomberg articles and selling them to be used as bird cage flooring. They may yet find their target audience there.)
Beats me. I guess some people have no sense for the absurd.
Granted it was at least a decade ago but the team I was on had a terrible experience with ZFS and that bad taste still lingers. And I don’t need any of its features.
It's an interesting confluence of choices and outcomes to be sure. A few points to add:

- Poverty (economic shrinkage) also causes excess deaths

- Herd immunity for a moderately lethal virus is very much a thing

The issue at the beginning of the pandemic was... nobody knew how lethal COVID-19 was at population scale (or how lethal it might become).

If it was less-lethal and wouldn't become more lethal, the winning move was to minimize restrictions, keep the economy humming, and be okay with many people getting infected quickly.

If it was more-lethal or became more lethal, the above would leave a country fucked, with absolutely no way of reversing course short of a China style "everything stops" lockdown. Which would cause major economic pain and excess mortality as a consequence of that.

So gambling with an entire country's population... which choice do you make? Impossible call to be "right" about.