skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> amid stuttering sales of electric vehicles in Europe and falling demand for fossil-fuel-driven cars in China

And falling demand for cars in EU. When the prices have exploded and the loans remained the same, who will dare to buy a new car, when most of the money goes on food ?
The text seems to put effort into differentiating between what a generalist is and what a polymath is:

> Polymaths don’t simply know a lot, they understand what fields have in common.

According to the text, the polymath focuses on the intersection of fields. This is more specific than a generalist, that could know a lot of fields but have no particular experience in what is their connection.

I don't know if I agree with the text definition of what a polymath is. It is, however, what they meant.
This site also has that view for a lot of places https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/columbus
Yeah this is what I don't understand as well, most of the polymath type people I know are naturally curious and self motivated for whatever it is they want to study and do. I am not sure what or how an institution can cultivate such behavior. I suppose it can encourage it to people but again, most polymaths are naturally self motivated and don't need encouragement at all.
> Good if society collapses

If society actually collapses, you really don’t want to be the person with lots of highly-demanded resources.
It's called Wirth's law.
Google recovery is a mess. My friend phone was hacked during travel recently so he couldn't use that phone to login. Trying to change his password from another phone was a pain and even after that it won't allow to login unless sms verification was done from hacked device, which wasn't evening any sms. My friend had also had a recovery device but even that didn't work and the login flow will keep on asking for 2FA using hacked device, so buggy flow and complete crap.
Powerful people can pay professionals to erase their crimes from the internet. You can barely find any specific information about everybody involved in the 2008 mortgage fraud, because everybody involved had it scrubbed.
Interesting. Do you have any examples to share?
This is how collusion happens between the government (regulators, prosecutors, politicians, etc) and the corporate (media personalities, super wealthy, powerful attorneys, think tanks, etc). Revolving door, conflicts of interest, etc--these can't be solved in the modern form of government.
I'm failing to see how this Bible story is related to the aforementioned truism, which seems to actually _contradict_ the story.
> Minimum wage is supposed to cover sustainable food, shelter, clothing and other basic physical needs (leaving aside the question whether it really does, it is the intent).

You've simply made this up. This is what you think minimum wage should be, so this is what you've decided it was meant to be.
Native LOD akin to the Distant Horizons mod

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/distant-horizon...
Yes, I understand. Currently the way I do is I use my laptop, a T14s, set it to power efficiency (so it barely turns the fans), turn on Audacity, and use an old headset that has a microphone, and a somehow very long cable - the actual rubber on the headset is long gone and I never replaced it. It serves me well but requires a backpack and it's a weird setup - but it works. I occasionally make games, and it's usually a bit hard to find nice chill nature and environment sounds that have a good quality, are calm and are royalty free (and cheap or free), so I end up capturing these sounds myself.
I work for a company with millions of employees. Our SDEs and their managers carry and are responsible for answering the pagers. We don’t have SREs.
I'm more concerned that I own an iPhone whose vibrate function - something mastered over 30 years ago in pagers - is now so pathetic I've missed phone calls with the phone literally right next to me. Older models you could hear from rooms away.
The cost of training "special forces" personnel is likely beyond the financial capabilities of militia type organizations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_SEAL_sele...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Boat_Service#Recruit...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_School
During the pandemic, I was wondering why I never saw "military grade" or "tactical" masks.

I guess not enough of an overlap between anyone anti-mask and any convenient promotional memes.
It's speculative until there's a steady stream of profits paid out to investors. I wouldn't say that the size of the investment or of the business makes any difference in that aspect.
As a vet, get some help bro and stop hanging around the militia losers.
I used Claude Projects, Claude Sync and GitHub Copilot Workspace to assemble this project in about 3 hours.
The goal of the keogram is to give a quick overview of sky conditions so you can see if there were clouds, aurora, or other interesting activity. No information is discarded, as the user keeps all of the data, the keogram is just a way of identifying which pictures might have something interesting.

The year long keogram presents even less data, as it's just the centerline of the keogram for each day. So, essentially just the center pixel of each image. Still gives a good overview of what the sky conditions were like throughout the year.
Good read. For a similar story I can recommend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mole:_Undercover_in_North_...
My father has fallen for one fraud after another these last few years. It’s disgusting. Anything in the direction of solving this would be doing the lord’s work.
Wow, that sounds very interesting, do you have some link to that paper?
We made an adapter (a specific CLI interface) for the LLM to interface with the app. Kind of like an integration test, just a little bit more sophisticated.

The LLM gets a prompt with the CLI commands it may use, and its "personality", and then it does what it does.

On the hardware-side, I personally have 2x 3090 cards on an AMD TR 79x platform with 128GB RAM, which yields around 12 token/sec for LLama 3.3 or Qwen 2.5 72B (Q5_k_m), which is okay (ingestion speed is approx double that)

If you want to know more details, feel free to drop me a message (username at liku dot social)
Not only that, I remember X.org source tree had a bult-in x86 emulator so VGA bios of some PCI video cards could be run on Solaris.
We have both an AutoCAD subscription and a perpetual license for the 2010 version. We couldn't install the 2010 version anymore because they shut down their activation server.
It’s gone on win10 at my office. With a «closed permanently» message.
I've never heard about gumroad in Europe. And many people do not trust PayPal (I don't).
Exactly. If you just throw things at it, it will fail. You have to break down the complex problems into sets of simple ones (for now). Then it can shine.
Of course, but the expectation wouldn't be "make my house better", it would be specific to plumbing and making the pipes work. It wouldn't make sense to expect them to add a guest bathroom because that's better for the house.
It’s so bizarre to me that this uniquely US phenomenon of for-profit-middlemen inserted into the healthcare system has resulted in an adverserial relationship between the sick person and the “healthcare provider”.

I put that air quotes because insurance companies don’t actually provide health care. They provide insurance. That’s a financial product, not a medical one.
It's not quite there yet, this is just a POC and there's lots to win in efficiency.

I think it should be done in Swift tbh to get battery impact under 10%
They aren't that uncommon outside of physical stores, where board game nerds gather - off the top of my head I can think of at least three similar multi-game decks: Everdeck [0], Badger Deck [1], and Singularity Deck [2], while a cursory search nets me another dozen or so [3].

There's also the Decktet [4], of course, even if it takes a very different approach than the rest (for one thing, it does away with traditional suits - it is a very interesting deck, and one I really like).

[0] https://www.drivethrucards.com/product/291492/The-Everdeck
[1] https://www.drivethrucards.com/product/130446/The-Badger-Dec...
[2] https://www.drivethrucards.com/product/189681/The-Singularit...
[3] https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/252876/playing-card-game-...
[4] https://www.decktet.com/
Against Bad Gear? They have chosen badly. This will blow up in their face.
But there's no purchase or sale of a human. So where's the slavery?
> majority of "militia members" are just like me, middle age ex-military guys who lost their kids to an unfair, biased and broken "family court" system

Are you discussing assassinating politicians with your militia members? Did any of them march on the Capitol? If not, you’re not comparable to AP3. (If so, um, call a lawyer and a psychiatrist.)
It certainly isn't an alternative to actually digging into the repo and find out what has happened. But I wanted to find out something about:

1. How many developers have actually been working on this stuff

2. Has the guy who set up the wire-frame actually stepped back

3. Are there more developers doing stuff, then what we get the impression of, based on the weekly Teams meetings

All of these questions could be answered in 1 minute by starting 'gource' + increase the speed of the visualization for the past year. I was afraid that this newly hired consulting company was pretending to use less resources then they actually did, in order to sink their hooks into our company, which I could see instantly that they had been doing. I could also see that the "big gun" setting up the wire frame for the project, had not really been taken of the project at all, but had been helping some of the jr. devs all along. Something that would have taken some digging with 'git log' or 'tig'..
The simplest explanation is that it’s possible, but there isn’t an obvious ROI for having a highly trained tactical team.

Highly trained tactical teams are useful for precision strikes. Most goals of a militia don’t require that much precision, if I had to guess.
Reverse engineering C# is extremely different from C++ binaries.
1. The starch comes from the pasta, not the water. Decreasing the water increases the concentration of the starch in said water. That’s why every good recipe for cacio e Pepe I’ve seen recommends using as little water as possible

2. This has been thoroughly debunked. Kenji did a full write up of this but suffice to say that starches absorb water starting at 180 degrees. As long as you have the water above that temp it will cook in the same amount of time.

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-cook-pasta-salt-water-boi...
The simplest way to make nitrogen fertilizer from excess electrical power is by electric discharge to make NOx.

I remember a science museum exhibit of a simple spark device. It was in an enclosed box to prevent gases from escaping, and the air inside was noticeably brown from all the accumulated NO2.

Something like that: https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/...

Commercially, a similar process was used for a while a century ago, the Birkeland-Eyde process. It passed air through an arc. It was phased out because it wasn't competitive with the HB process using hydrogen from fossil fuels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkeland%E2%80%93Eyde_process
I did much the same thing (and much more) 10 years ago. I used a RPi as well as a Canon point-and-shot out my window. My pics were 1 per minute.

Here is a link to the keogram section (I didn't know the term), but watch the whole video, I did a bunch of other art:

https://youtu.be/Mfo4hVc71Qw?si=3YKojggkTj2xehAB&t=2334
Thanks, haven't read it, added to the list
I wonder why you’re getting downvoted, these are good points.
Reminds me of a story in Germany:

Verfassungsschutz moles have procured weapons for Nazi terrorists(1999-2011).

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalsozialistischer_Unterg...
I spent 20 years with digital and went back to film this summer. I love how the constraints of film encourage different creativity and experimentation. It’s also slow and low volume, which is fun, but insanely expensive if you shoot a lot.
> It's generally the disadvantaged and poor who get hit for low-level, non-violent stuff.

In my country (New Zealand) judges let off young people who look like them, regularly.

"This young man [not but almost always a man] has a great future and he should not be burdened...."

That is if they are an aspiring accountant, laywer, sports star, etcetera

If they are a young bricklayer, welder, etcetera it is tough luck

It is absolutely disgusting. No wonder so many people want to burn the whole thing down
There is a non-zero chance that these higher wages of knowledge workers and especially in IT industry were actually the results of rent-seeking.
Third party liability is mandatory in the EU afaik.
Xg2xg by ex-googlers for ex-googlers a lookup table of similar tech and services
> Russia already tried monarchy and it didn't end too well

They also tried democracy and failed wholly at that.

Russia tried monarchy as an empire and with an absolute ruler. Something like the Kuwaiti monarchy might suit them better. Though I’m not sure it works since the modern Russian state sort of remains an empire, something made clear by their conscription discrepancies between Moscow and peripheries.
Did you read the very first sentence of the article?
I would guess it is being downvoted because while what it says about the 13th Amendment is correct it isn't really relevant to the question it was answering.

The question was whether or not US prisons use slavery. He answered the question of whether or not it would be legal for US prisons to use slavery. While is it legal, it is not mandated.

A proper answer would examine the labor requirements actually in use in US prisons, compare them to labor requirements in other first world country prisons (and yes, several other first world countries make prisoners work), define just what they mean by slavery, and then try to make the case that the differences between what the US does and what other first world countries with required prison labor do is enough to make it slavery in the US.
Surely they knew this would be the reaction.

Was this a big fake out.? What was the real ploy?
Right wing infighting is one reason. But not the only one. And claiming it is, is just distorting reality to make a political point. Turnout, Liberal Democrats and more, all those matter as well.
1) Opsec is synonymous with survival to elite warfighters, so again you will rarely if ever see them in PR videos. Then think about the video production resources available to actual militaries versus homegrown militia. Appearing competent on video is a different matter from actually being competent.

2) World class units require world class funding. Training and equipment are not cheap. The amount of money spent on the military by the US government is a big factor in tactical superiority, not just for the front-line units themselves, but also the massive amount of logistics it takes for them to operate at that elite level anywhere on the planet at the drop of a hat.
Finally, the final word on where we're going with AI: to the bottom.
> You can argue it's involuntary servitude instead of slavery but to most people that's a meaningless distinction.

The purchase and sale of humans, or the lack of such transactions is a meaningless distinction?
I'm sympathetic to amending articles related to people who were accused of crimes they didn't commit, and were later acquitted or had those charges dropped—that's a matter of correcting the record. I disagree with destroying the historical record itself, if the expunged stories were factual accounts of real events. Those things ought to be immutable. Journalists engaged in real journalism have special protections because they have special responsibilities in society, one of which is to truthfully document history as it unfolds. If they just give up those responsibilities, people may eventually start questioning what makes them different than everybody else with a hot take on the internet.
Could statistics be a kind of proof that this is real? When they say that time between death and “reincarnation” is 16 months average.
It has nothing to do with LLMs, but Ghidra is a wonderful tool.
No, shooting. I don’t think it was a meaningfully different rate than other weeks in Capitol Hill, but firefighters failing to render first aid certainly didn’t help that one kid who was dying a couple hundred yards from a fire station. (The crowd wouldn’t let a police car through, and it turns out the firefighters wouldn’t approach until the police were there and said it was safe).
If it’s constantly at a boil I doubt there’s a food safety issue though high volume pasta shops probably don’t need to keep the water more than a day
I have a good story related to the topic of discussion :)

I am the author of one site - a dictionary of the English language, which, in addition to the definition of a word from several dictionaries, shows the use of words in different contexts. One of the contexts is news - so for example for the word "window" it shows several news headlines containing the word "window".

So, about 10 years ago, I received a very rudely written email demanding that I remove a reference to a certain person from the text of a news story. The news story was about a misdemeanor that a certain person had committed.
Since the email was very rudely written and since I hadn't broken any law, I just ignored it and forgot about it. Over the course of about six months, this person bombarded me with dire threats and also wrote complaints to my hosting provider. The hosting company forwarded these letters to me and asked me to look into it, but did not demand anything because no law had been broken.

One day, after many e-mails with threats of legal action, and about 6 months, I received the first normal message, in which the person asked what he should do to make me delete the information he wanted.

Here I need to mention that for all this time this person has parroted me quite a lot with his threats and I had no desire to meet him halfway.

I wrote that I would delete the necessary information as soon as I received a request from him, written in the form of a short (!) verse.

Another month or so passed, during which this person argued and tried to change my mind (instead of sending a short verse)

…

As soon as he did, I connected to the database with a smile, deleted the entry he asked for and wrote him an email wishing him good luck. I hope he is doing well now :)
'It's buzzing here': Detroit's revival takes shape after decades of decay
When utilities are required to do net metering (i.e. buy power whenever it is produced at essentially the retail rate rather than buy what they need at the wholesale rate) it is a huge unsustainable subsidy to wealthier homeowners paid for by the less wealthy. It's free riding on the reliability provided by the grid, putting large costs on the less well off. As these costs grew, that has also provided an incentive for consumer solar installations to increase.

As the statista.com report says
>...Rooftop solar photovoltaic installations on residential buildings and nuclear power have the highest unsubsidized levelized costs of energy generation in the United States. If not for federal and state subsidies, rooftop solar PV would come with a price tag between 117 and 282 U.S. dollars per megawatt hour.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/493797/estimated-leveliz...

Looks like that report is a year old, but I doubt the installation costs have really gone down much since then. (Panel prices come down, but labor costs, etc don't.)

Providing the infrastructure and reliability of the grid is very expensive, so there is a huge difference between the wholesale costs and retail rates for delivered electricity. Money is limited and is fungible - a dollar spent subsidizing utility solar will go much, much further than a dollar spent subsidizing rooftop residential solar.
Exactly, it's a very quick way to get an overview. Just by looking at how many developers have been working on things + their frequency of committing code is very helpful. Tons of files appearing at once is a quick give away that something is either copied from another project, or some massive "technology" (read: library, framework) is added; which can be hard to maintain unless the stuff being added is very mature.
> think you've gotten fear confused with panic

They’re just wrong. Neither panic nor fear is learned behaviour. What one panics about or fears is in part learned. But there is still a lot of instinct at play.
How do you think it happened, then? Having also worked there the OP’s story makes total sense to me lol. If you’re on a team with the charter to “make AI profiles in IG work” then you’re just inevitably going to turn off your better judgement and make some cringy garbage.
What, like There Is No Antimemetics Division?

I think you read novels by bad writers, who happened to be engineers.
X11 has a "VESA" driver since forever, however its performance scales badly since number of pixels to process grows rapidly with the resolution.

Bootable Linux distributions I use at work (GRML and Clonezilla mainly) automatically resize to the native resolution of the screen or virtual KVM during boot with KMS support, and they work really well. Anaconda (RedHat and derivatives' installer) and Debian's installer also scales to native resolution on boot.

GUI installers use VESA over X11 directly.

> xfree86 project was probably the closest attempt to making this "just work"...

XOrg fork has "configless boot" for a long time. I don't maintain a config file for a very long time now, and I'm happier than ever (see https://www.xkcd.com/963/).
Pay close attention to this sentence: "Let determined people do that, but don't make it easy for a user to be tricked into handing over all of their credentials in clear text."

Open source isn't about making it easy to perform social engineering.
As far as I can remember, they all ditched seating during the pandemic and never added it back. But opening late has never been a Seattle strength.
Come on why would anyone put the team's races into RAG or anywhere under the hood lol
True! Really, it's a three-way relationship:

customer - insurer: the govt (or, far more rarely, the employer) is the customer

insurer - recipient: the recipient is you. You're really just a necessary but unwelcome side-effect.
Harriet Tubman posthumously honored as brigadier general
While the observation has previously focused on latency it also affects throughput: whereas you could run 2 independent shifts per cycle before, each shift going to either p0 or p6, this anomaly lowers this to a single shift per cycle.

Besides the shifts and rotations BZHI and BEXTR are also affected. While they are not a shift per se, it makes sense that it would be implemented with the same circuitry (e.g., BZHI is dst = arg1 & ~(-1 << arg2)). BEXTR in particular goes from 2 to 6 cycle latency!

Another thing I'm noticing is that the affected instructions are all p06 shift ops. You can alternatively implement rotation using SHLD r,r,c but this is a p1 operation and I have not seen any slowdown from this issue.
Thanks for writing this: things are quite askew right now for various reasons, and it was unexpectedly affirming to hear someone say it loud.

Until now I would have said this is an extreme minority view, even though it's quite obvious and aligns with the core values I've seen on this site over the last 15 years, and thus presumed were tech in general's view.

Maybe I just need to get off X, the Everything App™, 90% of my news consumption and commentary is through there.
I wonder if they told them they were about to be killed, and let them have some last words.
Yes you're actually not the first person to mention microkernels to me, when I've ranted about this stuff.

How do they do syscalls? Is every one basically an IPC?