skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an undercurrent of opinion on the platform that happens to align with Chinese worldviews that is strong enough to make politically neutral (or at least abstaining) influencers on the platform uncomfortable.
If the management does not care why should the employees?
Oh, I missed that! In that case,

yt-dlp -x <url>

.. or optionally to convert it to mp3 on the fly:

yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 <url>

.. or doing so with also the best audio quality available:

yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 <url>
China's population falls for third year in a row as birthrate declines
"It is already possible for an assassin to send someone an e-mail with an innocent-looking attachment. When the receiver downloads the attachment, the electrical current and molecular structure of the central processing unit is altered, causing it to blast apart like a large hand grenade.”

I feel like that might have been what took out a neighbor down the street.

Sorry, I got distracted by the newspaper clipping in the article and had to laugh.
> There was one day we knocked out windows and purchased box fans because servers were literally catching on fire.

Pointing the fans in or out?
This is what I need because I have given up too many times after reading the rust book and tried to use idiomatic rust.
We had a lot of rain the last couple of years (before 2024), which got us out of severe drought for several years back into "moderate". 2024 has been QUITE dry, relatively speaking, but because of the previous years of a LOT of rain, it's only back to moderate drought status, AFAICT.

The years with lots of rain caused MUCH extra plant growth, and anyone who's been here a while expected several bad fires during our fire season in 2024 as the first "dry" year after a "wet" year. The fact that it's only been 1 major one and a few minor ones has actually been a bit of a surprise.
I think it goes both ways for sure. My Sony mirrorless camera is incredible - and there's been lots of R&D work over decades that have made my camera possible.

But I got a DJI Ronin (handheld gimbal) the other day. Its a gamechanger. With the camera mounted on the gimbal, I can do handheld shots that you could easily use in a blockbuster movie.

The only downside is that the whole thing (camera + gimbal) is a very awkward package. The weight is in the wrong place. And that means the gimbal needs to be bigger and bulkier to compensate - which in turn makes it even more awkward to use. You could make a much better product by integrating the gimbal and camera. Put just the lens and sensor on the gimbal, but move the screen, battery and CPU to the "outside" package. Then you could shrink the gimbal itself and remove all the mounting hardware and manual weight adjustment sliders.

Apparently DJI has started making $10k cinema cameras along exactly these lines. I really hope the Japanese camera brands take notice. From a product standpoint, its a big deal - and I'm sure it won't be long before DJI makes much cheaper video cameras that start seriously eating Sony & Canon's market share.
I think the words' metaphorical meanings don't help much unless you already know what they mean. If you heard the word "sharding" for the first time and all you knew was that it had something to do with computers, I think you'd have a hard time guessing that it means "partitioning rows of a database across multiple servers to reduce load".
If you're under 40 years of age Fox is "owned" by a US national who's been a citizen longer than you've been alive.
I think the Starbucks PWA is pretty good example from an implementation standpoint.
The United States, through its influence over Facebook, instagram, and twitter, facilitated the Arab Spring. Of course we don’t want an adversary to have the same influence over our domestic political conversation.
No thanks. I'd prefer to build my next project without any framework rather than install yet another cli on my machine.
Are you sure that’s their LinkedIn?
HR Team Fired After Manager's Own CV Gets Auto-Rejected in Seconds
One of the more subtle aspects of retargeting GPU code to run on the CPU is the presence of fine grained(read - block level and warp level) explicit synchronization mechanisms being available in the GPU. However, this is not the same in CPU land, so additional care has to be taken to handle this. One example of work which tries this is https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.00257 .

Interestingly, in the same work, contrary to what you’d expect, transpiling GPU code to run on CPU gives ~76% speedups in HPC workloads compared to a hand optimized multi-core CPU implementation on Fugaku(a CPU only supercomputer), after accounting for these differences in synchronization.
Security field isn't about security, it's about managing liability. "Best Practices" don't need to result in actual security - what matters is that, if you follow them and a security incident happens, you can say you followed the Best Practices and therefore It's Not Your Fault.
Some relevant reading:

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/the-role-of-clima...
Oops! I somehow conflated two space YouTubers who I sometimes watch and appreciate. Scott Manley is just Scott Manley on YouTube. Thanks for the correction.
Despite it probably not being a use case that was considered in development, the thing I’ve found Graphene to be excellent for is actually managing a young child’s first tablet. Give them access to a small handful of learning and education focused apps, maybe a semi-educational creative game like minecraft, the camera app and a drawing app with a stylus. Then completely disable external comms like phone, messaging, browser, notifications. You can have a separate admin acct for device management and give that account the ability to load apps and toggle functionality.

This would probably work great for older non-techie relatives’ tablets as well.

iOS is very much not built with this level of multi account fine-grained permissions in mind.
I was able to understand the Google Translate version well, but I am very familiar with the intricacies of BW and zerg 12hatch openers.

Chatgpt and Claude did an incredible job translating the korean text:

Claude:

Today I'll teach you about the 12 Hatchery build. I'll explain the types of 12 Hatchery builds, their advantages and disadvantages, and the build orders in a simple but detailed way.
Against Protoss, this is the build you use when you want to start with the most economic advantage. Against Terran, there are several builds you can do with 12 Hatchery, so I'll explain some of the most commonly used builds.
The first is the two-hatchery build that starts with 12 Hatchery:
12 Hatchery
11 Spawning Pool
10 Gas
This build uses early gas, and it's often used when you want to quickly transition into a three-hatchery build with three gas bases.
The second build is:
12 Hatchery
12 Pool
12 Gas
This build allows for moderately fast tech tree and moderately fast three-hatchery expansion. This build is commonly known as the "safe three-hatchery" build, and you can think of it as a build that enables both quick Mutalisks and quick third base.
Bro let him at the 401 and higher hahaha!
I mean, isn't the trivial answer to just collapse the if else tree into just math that's evaluated always?

u32 a = (code <= 0x7F);
u32 b = (code <= 0x07FF);
u32 c = ((code < 0xD800) ||
(0xDFFF < code));
u32 d = (code <= 0xFFFF) * c;
u32 e = (code <= 0x10FFFF);
u32 v = (c && e);
return(-1 * !v + v * (4 - a - b - d));

Highly likely easy to optimise.
My guess is that the main purpose of agents will be to train the AI on your data. Companies have run out of data on the internet for training AI's, so they'll use agents as an excuse to get access to your personal real-time data. This has always been the business model, you are the product.
Feral Hogs Are the Worst Invasive Species You've Never Thought About
Why wouldn't it be? All of the pics, names and details line up between GitHub, here, Reddit, and substack.
I was looking out for a mention of Oklab and didn't see it while reading. If anyone else is wondering, you have to click on the [1] footnote to see it.
Solving this for any one resource type, or one billing axis, is absolutely achievable in the ways you've suggested.

Solving this across all resource types and billing axes however is a different problem. You can't cache the notion than a VM is under the billing cap for an hour if there's another service that push spend over the cap within that hour.

You're right that you could establish SLOs across everything and minimise the amount of monetary loss, in theory, but at scale (as some resource types necessarily bill infrequently, as customers are spending more per hour), I suspect even this breaks down.

Then there's still the issue of billing at rest. Do you shut off VMs? That might be an easy question to answer. Do you delete their storage though? Harder. Do you delete blob storage? Probably not, but you've got to swallow the cost of that until the customer decides to pay again.
FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your network from foreign spies. Get on it
In context, an important innovation. Perhaps this technology can retrofit into hot gas heat exchangers like in steel works, but they use the thermal energy directly so it may be robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Thanks for a clarification which makes sense.
Learnt from my grandmother to eat plenty bananas before bedtime. It helped with my asthma and swear too that it did wonders for my sleep.

Usually had it with a hot curry at dinner time or dessert (sliced bananas, cubed apples and evaparoted milk.)
Portrait of the Hilbert Curve (2010)
BYD just launched the largest car carrier to charge up its global EV ambitions
Nice, thanks for sharing!

One piece of feedback on the benchmarks: Using the same disk (type) would make them a lot more interesting and useful.

Comparing RK3588 to N5105 IOPS for either SATA/NVMe/USB would be interesting comparison. Still, much appreciate that you took time to share what you have and understand you probably worked with what you had at the time ^^
I don’t know. Profit (mostly?) matters to investors and the company’s substantially.

His pay was 0.39% of the loss. Still a drop in the ocean imho.

Should he have been paid less ? Or more? I don’t know.

But what I do know is when people get upset at stock buybacks or CEO pay, the act like if the company didn’t do these things the company would be drastically different.
1. Santa Ynez may have helped, however (a) you're still limited by the flow rate of the main to withdraw from the reservoir, but more critically (b) the situation was already well out of hand before any hyrdants ran dry and (c) Eaton had so such issues with hydrants, but a substantially similar outcome.

2. 'defunded' -> about a 2% reduction. Also it's not 100 fire engines, 100 appartus, which covers ambulance, command cars, etc, and it's not clear what exactly is waiting for maintainence.

3. The Mayor doesn't drive fire engines. LAFD and LACoFD prepositioned according to their models, per the chief.

4. most of the LA fire wasn't forest, but chaparral, which is lower, scruby-er, brushy-er terrain. It tends to burn on a 30-50 year cycle, but burning too much more often destroys the ecoology entirely. Indeninous practice and some research[1] suggest small patch-burning; others (NPS) avoid prescribed burns in chaparral in favor of natural fire and structure defense. So it's not clear that there's an unambiguously better management practice than "its gonna burn sometime" combined with aggressive brush clearance and defense around structures.

re: 2/3 Los Angeles (City mostly, but also County) clearly need a bigger fire department, with more people, stations, and equipment. But the specific complaints are ticky-tacky at best, and (AFAIK) no one asserts that a differnt pre-deployment, or a few more engines in service would have changed anything but the margins. I will say LAFD letting their first shift go off-duty as scheduled while LACoFD kept their shift on is an unfortunate unforced error.

re: 4 USFS (and maybe Cal Fire too? not sure). did halt prescribed burns in October 24 in the face of opposition on liability and air quality grounds. Hopefully the LA fires drive people to reconsider their resistance to prescribed burns, and creates the necessary risk-bearing structures for Cal Fire and USFS to actually perform them.

[1] https://www.fs.usda.gov/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr05...
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> Or punitive taxes on childless men & women, tax-supported tertiary education only for those with children, etc.. there are many sticks, why do you think only women's rights

And what about the people who can't have children due to fertility issues? Do they still get penalized?

And what about people who have to abandon their kids in dumpsters after birth? Do they still get penalized?

What do you think happens to a country where people are forced to have kids?
Are we getting stuck on terminology whereby you don't think the long term effect of a chemical on a body insofar as its connection with a known disease is a medical matter?
NBC is delusional, thinking Trump who ran on a law and order platform is going to disregard the law.
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It's not. Just look at it please! Glyphs are completely different. One font is serif, one is sans-serif. It's the most obvious when you look at p, y, r, a, s...
IIUC, Na is used like signaling medium in body and alkaline metals that isn't Na tends to reduce blood pressure, slow heartbeat and neural activity. With that in mind, it sounds reasonable that those tendency could lead to slightly deeper sleep. Or is there something else to it?
I think it will be a temporary phenomenon. Tiktok people arrived on RedNote last week and were jaw-droppingly amazed at videos of flashy modern Chinese cities, natural wonders (Guilin mountains), beautifully dressed young men and women, tasty food, Luigi fandom, and cute cats.

For many it was a revelation that the US government/media complex has been systematically lying to them about China. They are arriving at an acceptance that the US is a shabby declining empire dominated by a corrupt elite and heartless broligarchs. Always a good thing to bump up against reality, imho.

However I think that the US-based population of Tiktok refugees will subside once the novelty effect has worn off. Probably shrink by half in a month. Hopefully there will remain a positive lingering effect.
Exactly, and management of chaparral is even less straightforward forward forest.
All of your points except 1. are true of American social media companies. 2., in particular, is widely documented: the Facebook mood manipulation fiasco, Cambridge Analytica, Musk's personal tweaking of the Twitter trending hashtags, and YouTube's heavy-handed censorship of legitimate medical advice during Covid are just a few of the higher profile instances of this.
My first colo box came courtesy of a friend of a friend that worked for one of the companies that did that (leaving out names to protect the innocent). It was a true frankenputer built out of whatever spare parts he had laying around. He let me come visit it, and it was an art project as much as a webserver. The mainboard was hung on the wall with some zip ties, the PSU was on the desk top, the hard drive was suspended as well. Eventually, the system was upgraded to newer hardware, put in an actual case, and then racked with an upgraded 100base-t connection. We were screaming in 1999.
> First, because the social media is not reading, or newspapers, it's a different thing altogether

Are you suggesting that historical books and newspapers were not pandering to populist whims? Of course they did. Is the difference the precision of the targeting? That sounds like a difference of degree not of substance.

> It did create yellow journalism, it did create tabloids, it did redefine truth, and recalibrate leisure, and it did create doomscrolling, and make people think in different—and not necessarily better—ways.

It also created the article we just read and this web site to find it on.

> Maybe all we can do is listen to what people living through that change said

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
The market cap of BO is ~US$250m. That's made up of a product line that includes more than speakers. It's 100 years old. They aren't profitable. It's a great example of being in an awful industry.

Personally, I applaud them. But it's hard for a business to point to them and say "See! We can do that!". Investors will run.
Interesting take on things. I also find it interesting how computers have advanced astronomically, while mechanical things have stayed relatively stagnant. Where are our supersonic airliners? For that matter, why are airports so bad in the USA?
I like this. We should have a community site that scores websites based on how many dark patterns they use.
Yeah, looking at the code my 'intuition' was "this is a classic data race, the program is broken" not "somewhere between 10 and 20".

I suppose if you assume all global accesses are atomic, it's a good demonstration that atomic operations don’t compose atomically (even in trivial cases) and aren't particularly useful as concurrency primitives.
I am probably suffering confirmation bias. But that said, this LLM smartness continues to be impressively shit. There's a level of "yea that's cool" but it's outweighed by "that'd be wrong, and suggests you understand nothing about me or my data"

It's a little (ok a lot) like targeted ads. I'll believe it's targeted when it tries to sell me ancillary, related goods for e.g. that fridge freezer I bought, not show me ads for fridge freezer I now don't need.
I don't think this gets mentioned enough. Rush Limbaugh was the result of the doctrine's abolition. You can draw a straight line from Limbaugh to Fox News, et al.
Alligator Eggs and Lambda Calculus (2007)
I thought it was an interesting post, so I tried to add Railway's blog to my RSS reader... but it didn't work. I tried searching the page source for RSS and also found nothing. Eventually, I noticed the RSS icon in the top right, but it's some kind of special button that I can't right click and copy the link from, and Safari prevents me from knowing what the URL is... so I had to open that from Firefox to find it.

Could be worth adding a <meta> tag to the <head> so that RSS readers can autodiscover the feed. A random link I found on Google: https://www.petefreitag.com/blog/rss-autodiscovery/
CNN's Revenue Has Dropped Some 400M in Three Years
She seems like someone with an eye for a clever solution to an existing problem, an eye for funding (her compressed air "LightSail" thing raised over $70 million), and maybe a somewhat shaky relationship with practicality.
> Here's a clip from Cyberpunk 2077.[2]

This looks nothing like actual Cyberpunk 2077. It looks actually realistic - unlike the base game itself where, just like in about every other game since "Physically Based Rendering" became a thing, everything looks like it's made of painted plastic.

Per the video description, this version of C2077 is modded up to its eyeballs. I'm very interested in those mods now, because it's the first time I ever saw someone managed to get materials in a game look somewhat realistic.
Nah in my opinion it needs more acceleration, really why not just basically remap my mousewheel to home/end
> High rates will in a way prevent building in those areas.

good?
It really feels like you are repeatedly trying to imply something nefarious without actually making any accusations of nefarious behavior. All you have really said here is that some of the people who use the platform don't have the right opinion and therefore it is understandable to ban the app. That seems like an incredibly hypocritical argument to make in defense of the actions of the American government.
a) Not necessarily: b) Those are provincial policies of South Tyrol, not the Italian government c) South Tyrols started its policies 40 years ago. They also included creating a govt-supported childminder day-care system ('Casa Bimbo'). d) Each province would have to first get political and economic consensus on what is a desirable birthrate for a particular province, or at least agree that pro-child policies should be implemented with taxpayer money (which in general in European politics is taboo for even discussing). e) The policies that would be needed in other provinces/regions would presumably be different and more expensive to Bolzano which has very a low cost of living. e) South Tyrol's provincial govt is led by the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP), a Christian-democratic political party for the German-speaking minority. Presumably this is considered allowable identitarianism by Italians (or at least South Tyroleans), unlike elsewhere in Italy, or Europe (compare to Hungary or Poland).
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But there are currently only 8 billion people, and already a lot of articles about how people in Europe and South Korea and Japan and America aren't having children. How are we ever going to get to 1 trillion like this?
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We talked to a few, I think they're called MSPs? We weren't super impressed. We decided to YOLO it. There are probably great outfits out there, but it's hard to find them through the noise. We're mostly software and systems folks, but Railway is a infrastructure company so we need to own stuff down to the cage-nut - we owe it to our users. All engineering, project management and procurement is in-house.

We're lucky to have a few great distributors/manufacturers who help us pick the right gear. But we learnt a lot.

We've found a lot of value in getting a broker in to source our transit though.

My personal (and potentially misguided) hot take is that most of the baremetal world is stuck in the early 2000's, and the only companies doing anything interesting here the likes of AWS,Google and Meta. So the only way to innovate is to stumble around, escape the norms and experiment.
Fleeting sleep interruptions may help brain reset
This looks super cool, Ive been working in a similar space for some time. I work with open-rmf which is semi-decentralized and provides tools for task and traffic deconfliction (we don't handle the network layer at all). Excited to see more similar software coming up.

One question I have is how quickly can discovery and switching take place. For instance, if I have a robot enter a lift. Can the lift detect the robots entrance and trigger its behaviours?
Thank you for kind words ^^

A travel router build is def something on my list already! So far I've come up short with stable wifi chipsets+drivers under Linux recently, though, and that's even before I start being picky about firmware licensing... Got any tips?
"Beijing has employed a variety of carrot-and-stick approaches to increase the birthrate, from labelling single women as 'leftovers' if they remain unmarried"

Wow
well the hope is I go enough into the future where being poor doesn't exist or at least I can exist

unlike David Ricardo my wants are not infinite lol
original article: https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(24)00887-0?_...
Explanation:

Given a task (e.g. "Build a Spotify but for movies"), compares the results of 2 unidentified LLMs and lets you rank which one is better before revealing which model you preferred.

Check out the global leaderboard to see which model is most beloved:

https://web.lmarena.ai/leaderboard
Tbh I think this has a lot more to do with sympathy for Palestinians and the last year of protests on college campuses.

Besides, who cares if China is listening to us through the app. China and I have no beef with one another. China feeds me and clothes me and builds most of the stuff in my life and I give China my money. It's a good relationship! Much better than my relationship with this state, tbh.