skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair warning to anyone who hasn't touched Home Assistant - HA brings so much value, but is simultaneously so frustratingly atrocious.

For example, it operates on an "update" data model. There is no difference between a sensor being offline and not reporting info vs a sensor being online but reporting a repeating (previously seen) value. Add to that the way data is stored (two week retention; this weird relationship with Grafana and Influx where not all data actually goes to Influx from HA)... Even the date picker is frustrating.
The video shows the gun malfunctioning repeatedly and the shooter having to clear those malfunctions by racking the slide. That's likely caused by a poorly-installed silencer. Hardly professional.
Eh, if you drink, then drink...

1. Add `;` as a separator of elements, so you may have:

{ a: "foo"; b:"bar; }

2. Add array tags and space separated value lists so you may have

{ a: 12 13 14; }

to be treated as [12, 13, 14] with the tag " ". Normal arrays are parsed with the tag ","

3. Add "functors" as, again, tagged arrays

rgb(128,128,14);

will be parsed to an array with the tag "rgb". Also you may have calc(128 + 14);

4. Add tagged numbers so

90deg

will be parsed as a number with the tag "deg"

And you will get pretty much CSS that is proven to define quite complex constructs with minimal syntax.
> Intel probably needed to get into GPUs (or other AI-enablement) seriously earlier but I'm not sure how predictable that was.

You certainly couldn’t know AI was coming. But GPUs have been a thing since the 90s. And they only kept getting better. They were also the only thing other than CPUs that gamers would pay a high margin on.

Nvidia and AMD both made plenty of money on them. Intel had it easy. They had the best fab and could’ve easily bundled things for system integrators, netting lots of sales.

Instead they had no external GPU and the integrated one when they finally added it was a joke for a very long time. Their newest efforts sound like maybe they’re at least reasonable (though they don’t compete at the top end) but that’s like 15 years too late at least.

I don’t know. Seems to me like it would be a pretty obvious money making venture for them, and if they had gotten over the nonsense of Larrabee/making it out of x86 seems like they should’ve been able to have a really good chunk of the market easily.

The big win no one could’ve predicted is that if you had a good modern competitive GPU five years ago, then you were well positioned to pivot some for AI. At a minimum they would have a horse somewhere near the race.
> What I am yet to find in any programming language is a reliable way to put my cursor somewhere in the code base, and know exactly all the possible errors which can happen, where they could come from, and whether I've handled them (or might be interested in handling them).

Zig's error types and error unions seem like a decent approach to achieve this.
If they're a shut-in it definitely rounds to zero
I always thought Asheville, NC was a prehistoric town where the Native American Cherokeees traded with other tribes for perhaps thousands of years before European settlers arrived.
How does it distinguish between wet wood and a finger? Also does this mean you can’t use the saw stop on fresh pressure treated lumber?
It was found today that the number of web pages indexed by the website has decreased by 20,000.
That was a really strange proposed solution. Not at all clear where that was going.
The first section you cited [1] interprets "People of the United States" to mean "nationals and citizens". I don't stop being a citizen when I leave US borders. I previously read the first section but neglected to read the second section, and I have decided to mentally autocorrect "People of the United States" to "United States citizens and nationals who are within US borders".

Now I agree with you almost completely, but I have a nitpick.

The US Constitution protects me from the US government. The second section you cited about losing constitutional rights (such as the right to a jury trial) when leaving US borders suggests to me that formally all of the Constitution's protections go away but informally some protections remain. Consider this excerpt from the second section you cited [2]:

> The court held that, since his trial was conducted by an American court and was, by American standards, basically fair, he was not entitled to the specific constitutional right of trial by jury while overseas.

Legally, why does it matter that the defendant got a "basically fair" trial? To me, it means that defendant still has a right to a "basically fair" trial. So where does that right come from? I think that it comes from the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution: mostly diminished, but not completely eliminated, for US citizens outside of US borders.

Suppose that I go on vacation to Mexico and send a letter to the White House with the message "Joe Biden can suck an egg. hn_acker, from Mexico". Upon receiving it, Joe Biden signs an executive order declaring that "If hn_acker sends an insult to me from outside of the borders of the United States then hn_acker will be an enemy of the state". Then I send another letter with the same message I sent before. I return to US soil and Joe Biden orders the military to shoot me. The military refuses the order and documents having done so. During any point of my hypothetical scenario, did Joe Biden violate any of my constitutional rights? I think that the answer is yes, Joe Biden as the head of the military violated my First Amendment right to free expression by retaliating to my second letter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preamble_to_the_United_States_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preamble_to_the_United_States_...
Again, I have no interest - just like I have no interest in visiting Disneyland.
> What particular convenience does it provide for the US government to do it there vs on the US side?

It reduces legal accountability (I know the US courts have generally exempted border operations from the constitution anyway, but that interpretation could change in the future) and makes it easier to prevent people from e.g. landing and claiming asylum (yes there are measures to penalise airlines and oblige them to return passengers, but they're not always fully effective). More subtly it means there's less pressure to have reasonable border rules, since turning someone away before they board is lower-stakes. And having an official, pseudo-law-enforcement presence in a country is valuable almost in itself.
The only place I’ve heard people say they care about this is on threads like these where people need to be contradictory and pretend anyone cares about a C.E.O. getting offed.

I was in midtown the day of and days after, not a single mourner in sight. Not one person lamenting the loss. No one cares. And plenty are happy about it.
Which was a reasonable possibility. Larabee was a daft idea. It was never going to work, let alone at consumer prices and power.
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There are some ideas out there around this topic:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40626-023-00304-1

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8052216/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00796...

https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/139/4/514/657382...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40626-024-00345-0
If they had kept going, and really got it working, their fab advantage might have let them really go after Nvidia.

In an absolute best case scenario, he may be right.

But that seems incredibly unlikely.

Still, they should’ve had a much MUCH better GPU story than they did.
Oh cool, never heard of these! I might just have to grab the Green to try out how easy it would be for less tech savvy family :)
A common thing in JSON/YAML alternatives is to support more types through syntax. I don't think this is a good idea. YAML already did this badly with the Norway problem, but JSON also has issues with eg "is it float or int", what about nulls, what about precision... and so on.

There are many, many more types to support and all this does is complicate syntax; the types can be relegated to a schema. For example, where are dates, with or without timezones, what about durations, what about SI units for mass, current, what about currency, what about the positive integers only, numbers as hex, as octal, as base64...

One format that _nearly_ gets it is NestedText https://nestedtext.org/en/latest/basic_syntax.html ... which means everything gets ingested as strings, dicts or lists, which vastly simplifies things; my quibbles with it would be it still went for multiple syntaxes (for dictionaries, multiline strings, inline vs multiline dicts&lists. And yet, it still didn't make comments part of the data model (which is so useful when processing or refactoring files). While it's not perfect, it does separate the validation of scalars, not stuffing someone's priority list of validations into incomprehensible syntax.

YAML's been a decades long mistake and making JSON more like YAML is not the way to fix that.
Cox is apparently experiencing a state wide outage in California.
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I took a closer look. It's a Hama Nano DVB-T (00053330), over a decade old.
Maybe that was a reason to kill Tofino?
Please, spare us the gatekeeping.
It says that at the end of the article.

> Despite previous litigation against would-be imitators of their safety brake, SawStop has committed to dedicating its original patent to the public when these new regulations go into effect.
Not so much "an" illegal act, just this particular illegal act of manufacturing and selling crack cocaine. Unfortunately they can still get away with other things that ordinary citizens would be punished for, e.g. civil asset forfeiture.
That’s terrible though. You can’t make knife manufacturers responsible for everything a knife does.
there is attestation of the registration device in webauthn

so you can tell that a token was signed by an official yubikey, apple secure enclave, tpm, etc

for yubikeys the attestation signing certificate is shared between devices, but this number is limited

so you could rate limit... just it would be a horrible experience when you are limited
Not a bad piece, all told, though the general practical advice hasn't really changed in the decade-plus since I last touched the stuff: stop looking up (in general), keep as much of your face obscured as practical, try mixing up patterns to make it difficult for algorithms to match you over time, know where cameras are and how to avoid them, and if you do have to enter a known surveillance area, exit it as quickly and discreetly as possible - and adjust outfits between surveillance areas if you're particularly paranoid.

That said, let me just help dash any hopes of fooling government surveillance right now. Any competent Nation State that has an axe to grind with you specifically, already has you in their dragnet. They already have enough information to match your face in grainy analog B&W surveillance footage from an ancient grocery store camera. You're not beating those short of significant cosmetic surgery or prosthetics of some sort, and even then, if they want you badly enough then they'll just pull partial prints off something you touched and validate that way.

Always remember the first rule of security: if someone really wants something you have badly enough, there's nothing you can do to stop them. With that in mind, plan accordingly. It's why I don't go to protests myself, or otherwise engage with events where I know facial recognition tech is deployed: I'm in that data set, multiple times, with pristine reference materials, simply by virtue of past work (not including the updates via passport photos or Global Entry access). My safest bet is simply not to put myself in that position in the first place, and that's likely yours as well.
When Argrarian societies industrialized into developing countries, the growth in better paying manufacturing jobs was enough to absorb the increasing number of poeple moving into cities that living standards could see a noticeable increase. And so much of the working class could eventually climb to the middle class as the country transitioned to developed status.

But after a country has becomed developed, it seems like this general growth for population stops. The number of middle transitioning to upper or upper middle turns to a trickle, not everyone can be a businessman or an investment banker or a doctor in a same way as a every farmer can be a factory worker. And so we stagnate, as the rest of working class climb up, more and more begin to fight for a static number of "good jobs", while families that do fight fiercer than ever to maintain their positions, as we see with increasingly competitive college admissions preparations from as early as kindergarten. Globalization and the Internet has only expounded this effect, as now many are now competing against billions from across the world. We are stagnating. And I would argue much of the increasing radicalisation and tension is owed to these worsening economic conditions. Birthrates have fallen below replacement, and over encumbered system of pensions and benefits is sucking up the revenue to maintain, let alone improve crumbling infrastructure.

From my observations, this phenomenon is apparent for just about every developed country or society, from the Coastal Cities of China, Japan, Korea, the EU, USA, etc. Whether you build more electric cars or quantum computers, or redistribute wealth, the problem remains the same that there just aren't enough good jobs. What can we do then to solve this? How can we create those new jobs? Or perhaps that "job" is the role of the businessman and investor, but then why hasn't more of the upper-middle transitioned to that stage?

I would argue solving this will be the important issue of our modern era, because if we don't we're on a one way track to stagnation, and then oblivion.
I'm out of the web dev game but wouldn't you just write code to search for links to the ten or so most popular wrappers for Paypal or Stripe and then an API to perform the transaction? That should cover 99% of the actual payments that happen (there are LiberaPay and crypto schemes and bank transfer and SEPA for nerds). I think that basically all the money that moves to support free webpages is through PayPal or Stripe, maybe a few percent by the EU SEPA and Canadian eTransfer systems.

Realistically you Ctrl-F "donate / Paypal / Patreon / support" and click that link. Good web design should make it clear on a screen and in the code what is site content and what is third-party content such as comments with spam links.
Making Transformers Do Math
I'm sure the Broward County Sheriff had no shortage of powder cocaine in the 1990s. Just make a trip to the evidence storeroom.
Just doing the math, if I wasn't working and they made me return I would again be collecting a paycheck that I wasn't getting otherwise ;)

True, it may not be the same pay that I was getting before but it would be a visible increase compared to unemployment :)
Good point. So this is probably one of the reasons why the version I stated isn't used.
1) it can’t really tell reliably.

And

2) correct.

You can manually disable the auto—trigger mode in those situations though (bypass mode).

It also doesn’t like anything conductive - so anything coated with Mylar, any kind of conductive dust or debris, etc. is also a crapshoot.

Very much edge cases though, unless you’re dealing with a lot of randos. A workshop I used to share had a wall covered with sawstop ‘trophies’, due to people doing weird stuff.
Every bodybuilder that has been through a testosterone cycle can attest to the drastic increase in lust. I have a hard time believing this study.
Yeah, reliably stopping a heavy very fast spinning object in just a few degrees of rotation is necessarily violent.
Their point wasn't that founders are somehow wiser. The assertion was merely that founders care about the company.

Their decisions may be no more prescient than anyone else's, but their decisions are reliably in different directions than anyone else's.

Their goal is different, the direction they always aim is different, and that consistent aim has an effect over time regardless what mistakes and misfortunes happen along the way.

If you have a specific and clear goal on the horizon and are always aiming for that even though you have to deal with obstacles closer in front of you, over time you still get somewhere.

If your goal is just chasing whatever random butterflies float by, you get nowhere.
My grandfather is 90, he was a woodworker, he lost two fingers to a table saw. Few woodworkers of his age have 10 fingers. Workshops are much safer today and woodworkers can expect to end their career with all their fingers. That SawStop thing is one of the many things that can contribute to it.

The idea that safety features cause complacency has been debunked several times. Statistically, well designed safety features or equipment reduce accidents, even if it may cause some people to get complacent.

And you are right to be afraid of kickback, and one of the risks associated with kickbacks is inadvertently touching the blade, that is the issue SawStop is designed to address. The blade guard helps too, but AFAIK, there are many instances where you can't use it.
Why do doctors specifically need a commercial internet service with BGP?
Yeah this does lend to a lot of nuance. Modern financial systems allow for pretty quick liquidity. It’s probably best to invest everything, charge expenses on a credit card, then pay off the credit card at the end of the month, keeping your checking account rather sparse. Taking full advantage of the float as they say.
How much are zero values actually zero values (as in, bit patterns of all zeroes), and how much are they instead default values, which could conceivably be computed per type?

Suppose we talk about tagged unions specifically, would it be conceivable to just nominate one variant as the default variant?

Hence, Option[T]’s zero value could be None, and Result[T, E]’s zero value could be Ok(T’s zero value).

(I have no idea if this would work or not. I haven’t used Go for a dozen or so years, but once knew it pretty decently. I work extensively in Rust. But I am curious about this, because I want every language to have sum types, they’re just such a great thing. Always miss ’em when working in JavaScript or most other languages I ever touch.)
The killing could have happened to nearly any CEO and the response would be similar. The issue is of wealth inequality, not strictly healthcare, though it certainly exacerbated the response in this particular case. See the social media response to titan submersible deaths.
> You're parsing semantics rather than engaging with the core point.

a) You are engaging in rhetoric.

b) "parsing semantics" is not the win you think it is - we are in the age of AI, man. People now know what the term means.

> When I say something "can be dismissed," I mean that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The question is: what is the epistemic status?

Are you afraid to admit it out loud, or does the question not even make sense?

> The burden of proof lies with those making supernatural claims, not with those rejecting them.

False.

"A" claim lies with anyone who makes an assertion of fact. That is you, and it is not me.

> You seem to be suggesting there's some deep irony or inconsistency in my position

There is, though I wouldn't call it "deep" (that's "you" engaging in rhetorical framing"). And I explicitly told you the problem: you are experiencing (psychologically) "Faith" (belief without adequate substantiating evidence).

Look, you're welcome to believe whatever you like, but please don't act as if you are working with some superior to others logic. You are using heuristics, and perhaps some "consensus" "reality".

> but pointing out logical flaws in religious reasoning isn't the same as making unsupported assertions about the supernatural.

I am pointing out the errors in yours. But if you are admitting the religious aspect to it, we've made some progress.

FWIW: in case you're wondering whether I think religious people are also silly in their reasoning: yes I do.

> And yes, I consciously chose to focus on the most relevant parts of your argument rather than chase every tangential point.

But then you would be treating the subjective realm as objective, which is kinda the same thing that I am originally complaining about.

I am genuinely curious: do you think I am dumb, or confused? "Pedantic" I can understand (thought that experience is also technically incorrect).
Worldcoin has always creeped me out since this:

https://d1sr9z1pdl3mb7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/202...
You can use wet wood or pressure treated lumber or even foil coated acrylic - but the key is that you need to be expecting this, and you put the saw in to by-pass mode.

At that point, it's just another dumb saw that will chop your finger off, but it won't trigger the cartridge, and you can make what ever cuts you need.

The way it tries to determine if it's wet wood / a body part is the capacitance change. Slightly different profile which they can use to make an educated guess (obviously erring on the side of caution).

This is why for some time they would give you a free cartridge if yours triggered on flesh - they wanted the data on there from real-life flesh contact to improve their calculations.
This video (which might be my favourite from her) on a particular church annual theater productions is positive. Still poking fun at it and taking it apart, as she's wont to do. But I do believe she genuinely enjoys how kish and over the top it is.

https://youtu.be/ZK4gM7RC1M0?si=Je-NhLKBATelhcYq
This made me remember that originally the Nazi party was quite weak and innocuous, German government then tasked a lot of people in infiltrating the party to prepare to arrest everyone. The infiltrators ended upgrading the party instead and made it too strong to stop. Hitler was one of these infiltrators.
I was listening to a discussion about this today, latest Accidental Tech Podcast.

The biggest problem Intel has at the moment seems to be they can’t split up and they can’t work together.

If you keep both the fab and the design, you have problems. The thing that makes Intel all the money is their CPUs, and because of the state of the fab many of them are made at TSMC.

But TSMC isn’t too keen on giving a good deal to someone who wants usurp them. So Intel is paying more per chip than they would if they just spun off the fab. If they did that, they could have higher margins/lower prices.

But if you spin off the fab, can they actually get enough business to be able to survive? They’re not on the leading process. They need a massive investment to catch up. Despite their geopolitical importance it seems like they would basically need a real continuing subsidy just to exist, which is effectively being provided by the CPU design side of the business right now right?

It’s a real damned if you do damned if you don’t kind of thing.

I don’t know what the right thing to do is. Splitting them up kind of seems like the better idea but I don’t know if Intel’s ego could take that. They were the fab company. Their advantage let them survive multiple large mistakes that could’ve killed other companies.

Now they’ve all piled up.

PS: the CHIPS act money says it goes to Intel. It sounds like if they try to split they may lose it, so would first have to convince the government to let the fab part keep it
What's the story on the patents? If it was invented in 1999, shouldn't they have expired in 2021?