skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what us hunters do year after year, time and time again. Drive for hours, hike for miles. Gathering what information we can. Then at some point we have to make assumptions and commit to some scenario in hopes it pans out the way you assume.

A tremendous amount of time and effort is spent with it all riding on a few, hopefully, well placed assumptions. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. Usually your acquaintances only hear about the times the hunt works out. Same with this. We only hear about it, because it worked out for the hunter
Appreciate the info; I'll double-check Fidelity again!
I think it was Dithering (requires a subscription, so not possible for you to check my memory without paying).
What you like to call an economic "war" is simply policy.

Whether the policy is "There should be no barriers when trading with China" or it is "There should be many barriers when trading with China" - either way, decades from now. Will it have been worth it?
Yep. And under the name multichip module it goes back way further than that.
And to put a more depressing angle to the graph, HN and Who's hiring were not that popular pre-2017, and now 2024 numbers are lower than the pre-2017 data
I am not sure white, grey and black are colours at all, since they are just degrees of illumination. To me a colour has distinct series of wavelengths. Maybe I'm wrong.
I didn't say the consequences should be proportional, I said the responsibility (or blame); and profits derived should just be one part of the equation.

Criminal consequences of a company collectively being responsible for the deaths of individual(s) shouldn't just disappear because no one individual ostensibly caused it. A company is a system of incentives and processes, and if those incentives and processes are leading to preventable deaths and suffering, those who benefit most from and are most responsible for perpetuating those incentives and processes should be held liable.
It's not an easy problem to solve if you're not interested in solving the problem.

And they're not. Like I said, the goal of for-profit health insurance companies is not to maximize economic benefits for customers; it's to maximize economic benefits for shareholders. It's a lot easier to transfer value to shareholders by just denying the claim submitted by the customer for that pill than it is to actually (legally) beat the entity charging for the pill into permanent submission. So that's what they do.
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fs/be eng needed for Massive (usemassive.com, like Tinder for Jobs).

here's a quick vid: https://www.tiktok.com/@wowitsmassive/video/7384457835934977...

we're growing fast: from $0 --> $1.5mm ARR in <1 year. in that time, we've helped thousands of people land life-changing jobs.

I think Massive will be the way most people find their jobs in the future.

we're a small team but move incredibly fast.

if you want to ship features that thousands of people use every week and are not afraid to experiment (and sometimes fail), then this is the one.

Pay is $110,000 - $150,000/yr or contract $60 - $100/hr. remote US or NYC hybrid 2x/week

stack is react, javascript, python, go, node

email dan@usemassive.com
How does that work? Would you prompt the model to write "hello Kitty but in reverse" on the train so the resulting image isn't flagged?
Although I know it’s an apocryphal quote, I am reminded of “640K should be enough for anybody.”

The Intel 4004, in 1971, had only 2,250 transistors.

A handful of qubits today might become a billion sooner than you think.
> Learn what it means for your open source projects

The awesome thing is that it means nothing for most software, not only open source. Microsoft is usually big on compliance, not the least because they offer products to manage said compliance, perhaps that explains the positive article GitHub felt it wanted to write. I believe the author is/was also a member of parliament in the EU.

The law certainly tries to enforce minimal security for IoT devices, which is a fine goal. Although sometimes security and interoperability are in conflict, just as security and access are in conflict in some cases.

Even lawmakers need to deal with reality. The reality today is that there isn't any certification for open source projects and with that no guarantees. People using them have the responsibility to ensure security. I think that is awesome because that means open source projects are not dependent on the whims of any third party, be that regulators or some named authority giving developers neat security badges.

The tone of the article suggest that GitHub might smell a product. I smell that open source projects should be wary of that. Why does it matter if the regulation applies to my software at all? Is there illegal software?

> the recipient of that assistance may qualify as an open source software steward.

I think regulatory compliance doesn't work for open source in any way. If you give a hand, they will take your arm and the arms of your family too.
It's great and even more reason to get rid of these useless corporations. The conservative thing to me was the basic take "ummm actually it's not free" which lacks any actual thought. It doesn't further the discussion and perpetuates the suffering all to... own the libs? I'm not sure.
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- Built-in testing framework
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The motivation came from observing that manual prompt writing is error-prone and time-consuming. The agent helps bridge the gap between intent and implementation.

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Feedback and suggestions welcome.
You're misunderstanding what the benefit of being large is, and what the risk of being small is.

I totally accept and understand that large businesses do all sorts of shady and nefarious things. What I don't expect them to do is lose all my money with no recourse. And that's not just the case because they're big, but the regulatory regimes are set up to deal with these known entities. The reason I've personally become wary of fintechs recently is because many of them want to "move fast and break things", and think they can offload all of the regulatory responsibilities to partner institutions. Like, if you're such a great fintech, why not open as an actual bank or as an actual broker dealer (note, I'm not saying that's the case here, as they are an RIA, but I don't know the protection that is entailed by that designation).

When you say "Madoff had $65B AUM", he also had like 10 employees, which is why he was able to hide the fraud for so long.
I think by going only after people looking for long term buy and hold, the overhead drops dramatically.

Dealing with traders is where all the nightmare stories come from.
In a not-so-subtle signal to regulators, Blue Origin says New Glenn is ready
Everything in a paint store is a colour!
I'm pretty sure it was Chapo Traphouse. I'm a Patreon supporter, so it could have been on the extra subscription episode. It's a Leftist show.
> In some countries if you don't give care to someone who is in danger of dying you are yourself responsible for murder.

So everyone in said countries is guilty of murder because they're not donating 100% of their time and energy to helping cure cancer?

That's not at all how this works. You can't just legislate infinite resources into existence. And infinite resources is exactly what it would take to give everyone a 100% perfect standard of care.

Deciding what's covered and what isn't is literally the whole job of an insurance company. Otherwise we could just put money into a pot and let anyone take out any amount they feel like, whenever they feel like it, for whatever purpose they deem necessary at their sole discretion. (And if that sounds like a good idea to you, I'd urge you to think things through a bit more carefully before you waste your money by trying it.)
Ouch.
If even LaPoste did it…
There is a difference between “earning a death” as some sort of justice, and killing being justified to prevent further harm. The death penalty is more of an example of earning death, as it is a punishment more than it is to prevent the person doing harm. Whereas a police shooting is a “justified” killing to prevent harm to others. In the former the goal is killing, in the latter the goal is to stop a threat and the outcome is killing.

The killing of Bin Laden and Soleimani were justified, in my opinion, as declared enemy combatants and leaders of hostile State and non-State military forces. They didn’t “deserve” to die for justice. They were taken off the battlefield. Whether I agree with that decision or not, I understand the justification.

Killing a rapist and murderer via the death penalty is wrong, in my opinion. It is killing in cold blood as a punishment, not to protect others or prevent harm. I do not think government should engage in retributive killing. But that is just me.

As for the United CEO, I don’t think he deserved to die or earned a death. I do think that a compelling argument can be made that government institutions have failed to act to protect human life at the hands of the American healthcare system, and that an individual could see his killing as a justified means to force change and protect American lives. It is the eternal question of when is someone a terrorist and when are they a freedom fighter?
Meta Quest v72 Update: Seamless Remote Desktop, Better Hand Tracking, and More
> Is there any legitimate use case for reversing someone's name??

Yes, when you want to reverse sort a list? In fact, how do you even sort such a name that goes in both direction?

> What does that even mean? Why is your software doing operations on people's names, beyond storing and retrieving them?

A lot of software deals with text. I don't think every software should deal with the entirety of Unicode. There shouldn't be an expectation that all text editor should handle all Unicode. Just like I don't expect a Chinese keyboard and software should work for Latin keyboard and software. In my personal code editor, I handle text byte per byte, so text highlighting, reversing, lookup, etc are simple and efficient. Would it be a problem if I try to open a Chinese text? Yes, but I have accepted that it is a class of problem that I don't want to deal with.

I have not seen an open source software that have gracefully handled Unicode, outside of Chrome or something really big. Pretty much every one of them is "errr how does this work again?". How many times have people simply split a text using whitespace? So lets just say I don't have confidence in people doing this correctly. I know I don't.
...and? Do you think police should be bound to be truthful at all times, even if hinders their investigation?
Just because his family is wealthy does not mean that his mother was financially supported for her healthcare. It's quite possible that the family patriarch held the purse strings and deemed that health insurance was the line for their financial support.

I'm in a similar situation with a family member and we are spending around 4-5k/month in a variety of non-allopathic strategies for this family member's health care. However, the family patriarch has drawn the line where his financial support is in providing housing, so the 4-5k is picked up by other family members.
Heart surgery device maker's security bypassed, data encrypted and stolen
Have you seen Carvana's stock?
KYC is a joke.

Source: I worked on a KYC system.
>internet are kind of disconnected from people's everyday life outside of the internet.

Are insurance companies more liked among internet users or less liked among internet users (than the population at large)? I presume that internet users tend to be wealthier (due to more free/leisure time, better browsing technology) and less angry with their insurance than non-users, but could be wrong.
What they didn't have where slaves to build them ;)

I think that knowledge and technology is much less dependent on "society" than we usually think. But of course it all becomes speculation in the end. The Romans in your example had constant assassinations of the most powerful people of their society. But I get what you mean, and of course you're mostly right.
Nice to see the trend confirming my suspicion, the market has been complicated for the last year and it's not really improving (whether you are hiring or looking for a job)
I don't know how old your sister-in-law is, but children are probably the biggest exception to "discrete colours" in modern culture.
WhatsApp fixes View Once flaw that allowed theft of vanishing pics
not local, it's colocated, but I specced and built it specifically to do inference at scale
TDD != starting at unit level. It's about red-green-refactor.

Or, it should be anyway. People talk about how it "drives" design but I dont think it should. I think tests should be as design-agnostic as possible, providing freedom to redesign.

I always start with an end to end test. These dont force you to commit to anything.
Any source code in any programming language can in theory be encoded in unary, requiring only a single symbol (and without any need for extra grouping or whitespace). It's not gonna be efficient, though.
Zero interest, just like my bank account.
Extremely rich people control every aspect of your life, how your city is planned, the state of the job market, the state of the economy, the laws, the state of the planet itself. One way that got a lot of attention lately is that extremely rich people prevent access to health care for everyone else.
You can DRS (https://www.dtcc.com/asset-services/securities-processing/di...) your shares so that no one can lend them out from you.
Some brokers have a setting (opt in or opt out) that disallows lending your shares (or that compensate you if they do).
You can die on this hill, you're just wrong. Doesn't bother me, my weight is fantastic.
You say civil liberties, but it sounds like "religious exceptionalism" is more of what you are looking for?

Civil liberties are about protecting the individual. If they flag certain behaviors as harmful to women, that sounds exactly like what they should be doing if they are trying to be strong in civil liberties. If you want to rigidly follow religious law over individual protections, there are plenty of places in the world to find exactly that.
Hey everyone, developer of Immutable Arrays here. I'm happy to answer any questions and especially curious about your feedback as that will steer the direction of Immutable Arrays.

The benchmark results surprised me at first so I've added explanations for why it's so much faster.
Building Freedom Cities
You don't know beforehand what bold collective actions lead to. Abolishing slavery lead to a pretty ugly civil war in the US. Does it mean it wasn't worth it?
CFX seems like a great form factor for external/swappable disks. Would love to have one or two of those slots on my laptop.

Shame we aren't living in that kind of world.
Wow that's pretty interesting. I'm least surprised that deuterated chemistry is what's first mentioned, and I'm sure that there are some other good stuff in the category. I bet heavy gasoline (lol) has a lower octane number, for example.
Brian Eno put it pretty well in 1996

"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them."
Right, so your citation is specifically density-impulse which is rather different to specific impulse, the conventional metric when discussing 'efficiency' of an engine, but of course you can define efficiency to be many things depend on the context, like thrust to weight ratio or whatever. But density impulse is quite a specific and generally not useful metric for rocket engines out side of e.g. a missile that has to fit its propulsion unit into very constrained packaging. For a conventional rocket, e.g. to launch a satellite, it is absolutely the case that adding mercuty would make the performance much worse. If you read the page before the one you cited, Clarke says as much:

I calculated the performance of Cavea A with various proportions of mercury —up to six times the mass of the primary propellant. (It was easy to fit mercury into the NQD calculation method.) As expected, the specific impulse dropped outrageously as mercury was added to the system, but the density impulse (specific impulse X propellant density) rose spectacularly, to peak at 50 percent above that of the neat mono-propellant with a mercury/propellant ratio of about 4.8.

Specific impulse is overwhelmingly the metric that matters for rocket performance in all but a small number of applications, so I feel justified in saying that your original claim that:

A traditional rocket becomes more efficient if you mix some mercury into the fuel. The loss of energy is made up for by the extra mass.

is simply not correct!
What are you using to for the scraping? Playwright…selenium? I wanted to do something as a hobby but my IP kept getting reported lol. Also when you say companies…where are you getting the information from? Data brokers? Anyway, it is an interesting topic to me.
Very smart approach, thanks
No matter what we've tried so far, the request ends up being sent.

The first time I was just watching, determined not to press the button, but when I received the response, I was startled into pressing it.

The second time, I just stepped back from my keyboard, and my cat came flying out of the back room and walked on the keyboard, triggering the request.

The third time, I was holding my cat, and a train rumbled by outside, rattling my desk and apparently triggering the switch to send the request.

The fourth time, I checked the tracks, was holding my cat, and stepped back from my keyboard. Next thing I heard was a POP from my ceiling, and the request was triggered. There was a small hole burned through my keyboard when I examined it. Best I can figure, what was left of a meteorite managed to hit at exactly the right time.

I'm not going to try for a fifth time.
Os:
Proxmox

Hardware:
4x Old decommed 19" dells on Ebay with plenty of DDR4 memory, HP Proliant G10+ are also good

Ups Eaton Pro

Gigabit Fiber Internet, which is more than enough. 10-50mbit can suffice for compute nodes too.

Bought ssds and m2 storage plus some spinning ols rust drives

Temp and humidity monitoring

Google Nest Protect smoke detector

TP link 16amp smart plugs on all, to have a control plane to turn it all off remotely

Workloads:

Most are LXC

Some Docker

KVM virtual machines

Zero trust:
Some Cloudflare

Tailscale

Proxmox backup server to back it all up, lots of retention

Monitoring:

Deployed remote uptime monitoring on fly.io

Read and experiment a lot
Hang out on /r/homelab /r/homedatacenter and /r/selfhosted for learning, community and inspiration
Raspberry Pi 500 uses QMK Firmware for built-in keyboard
Economics of Social Media – Journal of Economic Literature
A review article on the economics of social media
Many people say:

> these things will get bigger and better much faster than we can learn to discern

I would like to ask “Why?”

Clearly, these models are just one case of “NN can learn to map anything from one domain to another” and with enough training/overfitting they can approximate reality to a high degree.

But, why would it get better to any significant extent?

Because we can collect an infinite amount of video? Because we can train models to the point where they become generative video compression algorithms that have seen it all?
>In theory everything is fine but you know there is something very bad about the healthcare system,

No merely healthcare, but employment, housing etc. It's easy to single out healthcare for obvious reasons.
Yes, toys follow a different color palette. The acceptable colors for toys are white, black (only for rubber parts), the four colors red, yellow, green and blue in full saturation, as well as their pastel variants (baby pink, baby yellow, baby green, baby blue). If you justifiably need more colors you can even use all seven official "colors of the rainbow", as well as their pastel variants (side note: how many colors are in a rainbow, and which ones, is another great entry point to the history of color).

But even there tastes are shifting: saturated colors are now associated with cheap plastic (despite brightly colored toys far predating cheap plastic). If you want to signal quality you have to show natural wood grain (only light wood colors though) or gunmetal grey.
The Google Willow Thing
Seems hugged to me

https://web.archive.org/web/20241208111330/https://blog.brix...
Fnm – Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
I too know of such people in Europe. Including people in perfectly legal industries, and refugees from war torm countries.

Banks are a necessary evil, but evil all the same.
Horrible as it was what he did, I can’t help but wonder what he could have done differently so that he wouldn’t get caught. Seems like a few small slip ups did him in, but if they never saw his face, he had a new disguise, immediately left the country, could he have evaded law enforcement?
So funny to jump to the "they're just kids" explanation for this when we are literally talking on a forum hosted by a VC incubator.

Is it not Occam's razor that people are like this because this world of startups, "cutting edge tech", "move fast and break things", etc. gives quite clear incentives to be like this? The entire of financial world of tech is quite significantly propped up by the inertia of unearned confidence!
Yeah if a 3d printed silencer works at all it will only work once. It will be deformed by the heat and obstruct the bullet on the next shot.
The article has valid points that are specifically not about C++:

- Javascript interpreters JIT at runtime because they don't know which paths are hot ahead of time

- If you have a compiler, you don't need an interpreter

And a bunch of other points that are also valid for non-C++ compilers.

So, I think the title is accurate as is.
Sounds like my kinda people.
Legal advice and reality in Germany are 2 different things. The truth is that dealing with any kind of legal situation in Germany is a huge headache and all you get in the end is to prove you are right and get what should be yours anyway, without any additional compensation for your trouble. And many companies use this to abuse the system. The landlord can steal a small part of your deposit, you can only sue. But nobody's going to go through this hell for, say, €100, so the landlord gets to keep €100. Of course you can sue, but it will cost you a lot more than 100€ (even with insurance there is usually a deductible of 300€+) and it will take at least a year. And pretty much everything works this way.
Won't that give you gout?