skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, with all due respect to the heroic efforts of the vast majority of the DEA, if we judge them by their total success or failure, I'd have to go with "failure" as far as the US is concerned.

Being a massive drug market with people dying from drugs on a daily basis is not exactly a shining indicator of success.

That said, for the DEA to succeed we'd need a massive amount of coordination - which is to say real leadership on this issue, I think which may be beyond the DEA by itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Karplus
It reminds me of Motel of Mysteries by David Macaulay. In the 4000s an archeologist finds a perfectly preserved motel room. The book is his sketches and field notes on the contents of the room. Every conclusion drawn is wrong and somewhat humorous. A read through it will really change your views on archeology.
Boosting Computational Fluid Dynamics Performance with AMD MI300X
AIUI Wafer marginal cost is lower than you'd expect. I had $50k in my head, quick google indicates[1] maybe <$20k at AAPL volumes? Regardless seems like the economics for Cerebras would strongly favor yield over wafer area utilization.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmcs-wafer-prici...
We had a terrible sales experience with Cloudflare at my last place. They would not budge on the $200 a month quote, and we knew that was BS because the next closest quote we had was $3000 or something. Eventually, like the fourth try, we said, in writing, “just to be clear, for exactly $200, a month we will get XYZ bandwidth”, and of course they said “ohhh well actually maybe it’ll be $8000”.

We had discussed our requirements, our scale, our product with the sales team multiple times but it was only when we wrote down something that we could potentially have used in court that they finally acknowledged their pricing was actually nearly two orders of magnitude higher.
> Shorting tends to be intrinsically harder because the market goes up over time and Americans are generally optimists.

... and the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

I remember once I tried shorting a stock, of a market leader in my area. I knew the field well enough to see that they were trying to fudge some numbers and their quarter was _not_ as good as they had claimed it to be.

But sadly the market didn't see this and the stock went up. E*Trade started pushing me to cover my positions, and eventually I ended up losing a 5-figure sum (nothing earth-shattering, but still a good chunk of my cash).

After I had bought it all back, slowly the market realized what I had seen and the stock dropped as I had expected. Unfortunately I did not have the deep pockets to stick around long enough; all I was left with was a hole in the wallet and a hard lesson learned.
> It's intended to suggest "I'm a true and honest member of the business class and should be taken seriously in business affairs."

> true and honest

I agree wholeheartedly.
They are planning to release their methodology. Buried in the article:

> Beyond my own desire for relief, it also feels selfish to keep the knowledge we’ve accumulated trapped within our small team. I have more than enough. In the past several years we’ve been flooded with thousands of messages from many of you asking how we do what we do, or whether you can join the team. I read them all and I’ve been trying to figure out how to respond in a way that can answer everyone—so over the next 6 months or so I plan to work on a series of materials and videos to open-source every aspect of our model and how we conduct our investigations.
Indeed so. Renewables had about 15 years of breakneck-pace progress and massive production with huge economies of scale, which I cannot say about nuclear reactors.

But even if nukes were somehow very cheap to build, the review process due to high safety requirements and a lack of a standardized reusable reactor design would make the process slow. To become cost-competitive, nuclear reactors need to be mass-produced, using a proven design that needs little review. The French sort of achieved that, with two mass-produced types of reactors.

Renewables as baseload are still problematic though. Solar cells and even wind turbines are not expensive, but the batteries are very expensive, and are a huge fire hazard. It would be interesting to estimate how much would a kWh cost from a nuclear power station, and from an equal-power LiFePO4 battery installation with the capacity of, say, 3 days worth of the rated max power. Batteries can be replaced gradually, but would need to be replaced much sooner.

[Update:]

If we take a modest nuclear generation unit producing 300 MW of electric power, I'd like to compare it with a battery that can store 300 MW * 3 days of energy from renewable sources. It's 21.6 GWh. With LiFePO4 typical bulk price of $100 per kWh, the upfront cost in batteries alone would be $2.16 billion. It's still lower than nuclear reactor equipment, but very much in the same ballpark.
Tiktok in other countries monetizes mostly using the shop, not ads. Turkey brings only slightly less revenue than the US.
It was selling well enough. It just was not getting enough traction. By bundling AI, they are giving exposure to everyone who didn’t want to use it or didn’t see the need for it. If they pulled it away in 2 years, and then lowered the price and charged separately for AI, I think more people would see it as necessary.

AI is a better search engine. And a better grammar check for your emails. And a better writer for your reporting.
>Or he cares to avoid the potential interactions with law enforcement that would result from such ridiculousness.

uhh, yes? What was the point of this ridiculous metaphor you yourself created?

>The problem isn't with people not caring, it's that the deepest affections of the heart are selfish

It's a bit more basic than that. If people aren't happy they care less, because their senses dull to focus only on survival and not assisting one's community.

A lot of people are unhappy these days.
A Very Fancy cooling engine: https://www.eetimes.com/powering-and-cooling-a-wafer-scale-d...
Definitely.

I managed to get R2 with their cdn in front of it up and working in under an hour. The same experience with s3 fronted by cloudfront was 2 very long days. Due to my misunderstanding, yes, but aws provided (1) incomprehensible docs, (2) an extremely complex UI; (3) stale help all over the internet; and (4) incredibly unclear error messages.
Your average person is incredibly technologically illiterate. Even something as simple as learning a new basic, streamlined CMS is going to be a lot. Using Facebook, which they mostly already know how to use is much easier.
Optionally, yes
Isis was never a legitimate independence movement. It was an expansionist terrorist group built on - quite literally - terror and anarchy. It worked for a while because the conditions were suitable in Syria and Iraq.

A true anti-colonial, independence movement does not die that easily. Across history, freedom & returning to one’s land are the greatest motivators of all.
Er, what? This seems quite better than the UK where claiming the right can still cause it to be used against you...
Appertization was invented in 1804 but Appert did not sell his technology to the French army before 1810 so it's fair to say that most of the Napoleonic wars were run before canned food was even a thing. Maybe it has seen mainstream use in the Grande Armée in the end of his reign, but it was definitely not a deciding factor in Napoleon's logistics for most of his campaigns.

Without trains, the logistics of canned food isn't much better than the logistics of any bread-based food you give to your soldiers. It doesn't solve the weight problem which is the key problem with preindustrial army logistical issue.
i cancelled prime over a year ago and i still get packages in the same time frame, i think once they nixed a lot of next day deliveries that it didnt matter anymore.

The downside is quality of products still keeps going downhill and not even mcmaster had the parts i needed.
I would argue that physical cars driven by people have much harder constraints on cost than LLMs which can see huge cost savings (for the same performance model) as hardware improves. I agree that they aren't perfect parallels but in principle there's nothing stopping AI companies from massively cutting R&D and raising prices until marginal revenue is positive, it just would mean accepting not getting "take over the world" level profitability or getting run out of town by someone willing to keep burning money.
I’m only pointing out the cruel hypocrisy that a missile blowing up a hospital is somehow considered more ethical than a slit throat.
If my very stale physics is accurate then even with perfect thermodynamic efficiency you would only recover about a third of the energy that you put into the chips.
Honestly, I feel like Cloudflares interface is quite complicated for the number of features they have. All their stuff seems to be only slightly integrated.
More information on the CVEs:

- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52006

- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50349
Oh dear. Thank you stranger for telling me I missed my chance to milk more free stuff out of Google. I see plenty of other people on Reddit doing that successfully.
>One day, i don't know why, they archived most of their repositories.

Sounds like whytheluckystiff.
Adding Financial Capabilities to AI Agents: A Pattern Emerges from Stripe
Do you know if this works with Azure DevOps? I hate their UI. At this point I'd love to use Github. But for some reason the higher ups want us to be on Azure DevOps.
The medical costs are skyrocketing because insurance companies inflate the price of medicine. The slice of the pie that goes to the insurance company is small compared to the pie, so they make the pie bigger to make their slice bigger. The other parts of the pie, many of whom are owned by the same insurance company, aren't complaining. They are horribly inefficient. The cost of hospitals processing payments to insurance companies alone (and note this is typically one company sending itself a bill) is nearly $400 Billion per year. That's about 8% of all US healthcare spending, and it generates no value.

What isn't happening is increasing cost because of either more or improved care. As time goes on it should be easier to make drugs, meaning that prices should go down. Instead the cost per gram of even very simple drugs like epinephrine and insulin are going through the roof. Doctors are paid well, but they've always been paid well, and in fact while physician pay over the past 70 years has kept pace with inflation, it has been far outstripped by the price of education needed to achieve that salary, meaning doctors today are generally worse off financially than they used to be. other medical professionals like nurses are seeing increasing workloads without commensurate increase in pay. American life expectancy is decreasing, as are numerous other measures of healthcare efficacy. While we are paying more, we are getting less than we used to.

Then there is the common argument - our high drug prices subsidize new drug development. Only issue is that new drug development has been steadily slowing down. Most drug development is in the form of minor changes to existing drugs that serve little purpose beyond resetting the clock so cheap generics don't come on the market. Where new drugs are developed, they tend to be focused on profits, for example new pills to help people maintain erections rather than treat rare diseases. When the stars align and a new drug is developed that genuinely helps people, it tends to be insanely expensive, such as the cancer drugs TFA is talking about. This is not to say that nothing at all gets done, but it's less than it used to be.

Is insurance the only problem in America? No, obviously not. But at the same time, healthcare prices dramatically higher than anywhere else in the world that are also rapidly increasing is not an inescapable fact of life. Our healthcare can be both substantially cheaper and higher quality than it currently is by eliminating purposefully inefficient systems that use anticompetitive practices to jack up prices. When the dust settles US healthcare might remain a bit pricy per capita - part of having a country with very high wealth per capita is that everything is expensive per capita - but our money will be going towards paying skilled people to do useful work for our benefit.
By “nobody cares”, I think they mean “not everyone shares my exact priorities”.

I see this rant against the exact way a bike lane was installed- installed because someone cared ALOT to get it approved and built- and all they can think to do is complain?

The world is a complex place full of trade-offs and compromises, I feel for the people that worked so hard to get this project done.
I was hoping you wouldn't see that connection.
https://archive.is/fcB3a
Maybe some fraction of incompetent interns are playing a kind of double game, where they merely pretend to be really caring.

But I doubt that’s the norm. There really are a lot of not so smart people of all ages out there in positions way beyond their actual capability.

Edit: And in a lot of situations the dumb and hard working are way more dangerous than the smart and lazy.

With the dumb and lazy being somewhat better, so I partially agree with the parent.
> I also found Trump's signalling in the whole issue odd. His base and his cabinet is full of the most hard-line pro-israel figures imaginable, but then he goes forward and quotes Jeffrey Sachs and ostensibly pressures Netanyahu into accepting the ceasefire.

Trump just wanted a deal - he loves being the "deal guy". Frankly, I'm shocked he didn't push Bibi into waiting until after the inauguration. Guess he felt like it was close enough that he could still take credit for it.
1/3 > 0, so even if you don't get a $0 energy bill I'd venture that any company that could get 1/3 of energy bill would be happy
I would use the word 'fresh' for TikTok; like old school YouTube, there's quirkiness and variety.
We're likely to not understand this case in particular because he explicitly says that he values his privacy. I'm sure he has good reasons, and we can speculate (I know I have my personal headcanon), but it's his decision to make, and I trust it to be a well-founded one.
if you trust the CCP (which to be clear refers to the government of China, not the actual people who live there, just like any country) to be more respectful and magnanimous to its citizens and human rights overall than the US, you might want to do some research on that (and not on Tiktok)
I know TheFineArticle is in Linux land but for Windows people with this issue you might look at Sysinternals Disk2vhd.[0]

It can be run from the online OS itself and it can store the resulting vhd on the same disk it is imaging (with space and disk performance constraints).

I find it handy for turning my freshly superceded gaming machine into a VM on my new machine for easy access to files, before doing whatever with my old hardware.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/dis...
The nice thing about the desert Southwest is that the growing season is long and the climate is hot but stable. Water is the issue, but with irrigation, not as much.
Manual periodic backup of photos and files.
The beauty of having a monopoly or oligopoly in a dozen major markets is that you don't have to care about customers. As much as I hate this move and don't think it will help the company, I think Google is powerful and entrenched enough that it will make out just fine. Their users will bear most of the costs.
IDK, maybe we should go back to that. At least interaction with a human is guaranteeed.

Netorking has its own problems that are much harder to solve.
I tried to build a static site using Cloudflare but it didn't build. I went back to Netlify.
it's still much harder for overseas scams to succeed against someone who's tech savvy vs domestic identity fraud. There's simply a lot more barriers to moving money outside of the country

> Economic globalization means there are no borders and it's up to corporations to protect the sovereignty of their users

Historically speaking this is actually the opposite. Many critics of globalization have pointed out that you can directly track trade deals to massive spikes in border funding, much stronger enforcement of intellectual property laws, etc. Research actually shows a huge decrease in the dissemination of ideas, language, etc across borders where trade deals have been enacted. Paradoxically, globalization has made us more siloed off from each other
Metal fuels also melt at considerably lower temperature than oxide fuels.

Uranium oxide melts at 2865 C; uranium metal at 1132 C, plutonium metal at just 639 C. In contact with iron, plutonium forms a eutectic with a melting point of just 410 C, below the melting point of zinc. There was a crazy reactor at Los Alamos, LAMPRE, that used molten eutectic Pu-Fe in tantalum tubes as the fuel.
> TikTok has such a culture of authenticity and realness

I'm shocked how easily manipulated people are by social media. The vast majority of TikTok content is very intentionally produced, largely to attempt to generate revenue or, at the very least, to feed ones ego.

The "real" people you see on there are all, to different degrees of success, actors. Nearly all of the spontaneous/I can't believe this happened!/caught on camera style content is entirely staged.

Likewise all of the "freedom of speech must be protected" posts are laughable. Everything on TikTok is ultimately created for and prompoted to ultimately drive profit.

This movement to 小红书 is also, surprise surprise, not some spontaneous movement. The people at 小红书 have intentionally be working on becoming a TikTok replacement for awhile now.

Virtually all media you see is very heavily filtered and manipulated to ensure you're getting the right message.
Um, yes.

Starting next week, it's open season on suckers. It's going to be like the glory days of the Tel Aviv binary options scammers, who at one time were 40% of the Israeli finance sector and had good political connections.[1] Crypto deregulation is coming. No more CFPB enforcement! No more SEC enforcement!

There are still people who haven't lost money in crypto yet who can be targeted.
They're all little people. No one will help them.
Just pay off some influencers and start up your scam.[2]

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/binary-options-fraud/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/memecoins/
When my kids learned to ski, it was without poles. The poles are an encumbrance, not only on the slope, but getting onto the tow rope.

Likewise, music. The most popular method -- Suzuki -- starts kids out without sheet music. Reading comes later.

In both cases, it's also just less gear to manage. The benefit becomes obvious in group lessons and recitals.
I don't think Hindenburg is scared of being sued, otherwise they wouldn't have been in the business in the first place. Their investigations are extremely thorough, with everything fully documented, mostly from public records, for the specific purpose that if/when they show up in court, they can be confident of the basis of their findings.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/adani-group-threate...

P.S. where did you see Block suing Hindenburg? The closest thing I can find is 'Block said it intended to “explore legal action” against Hindenburg, who sought to “deceive and confuse” Block investors to “profit from a declined stock price.”' which is just PR speak
A semi-related term to the "NPC" thing is "main character syndrome." It's usually used derogatorily, but it's the idea that someone thinks they're the "main character" of the world; the people they care about are side characters who matter less, and people they don't care about (or know) don't matter at all. "The self as the center of the universe" is another way to phrase it.

Not sure entirely how that's connected to this thread's topic, but it is relevant in social media in general (and maybe TikTok moreso because of its "great" algorithm?)
Really? Wow. And they think if they're pointing it out, it absolves them somehow? Like those companies that used to have Dilbert cartoons pinned on cubicle walls?
Do yourself a favor and delete social media and go outside and touch grass. Life was so much better before social media.
Very off-topic but I can't wait to read in the news about some kids school report about Shakespeare being written by some LLM which has training data that includes this quote ;)
I mean, Google laid off how many employees these past few years? Nearly million?

I do hate this stigma that clearly being laid of means you're a lesser programmer.
With:

- A declining population

- Rural collapse

- Stagnating economy

- Shut in problem for old people

Like most cultures, Japan gets some stuff right and some stuff wrong. It's not perfect. Certainly not to say US culture couldn't improve by adopting some aspects.
A couple of my favorite audiobooks are Stranger in a Strange Land and Flowers for Algernon where the performer changes the intonation and enunciation of main character with the character’s journey and it was a revelation and made me appreciate the stories in a way I did not get reading the printed books the first time. Just the consistency of the performance is sometimes difficult to do in my imagination perhaps.
wow, fancy with the acrylic. lots of places just place a chip (I'm more familiar with RAM sticks) on a keychain and call it a day.
America had a true hero in Lina Khan for the last 4 years.

Too bad 50% decided to sell out to the billionaires.
There are so many words in our language that are very clear loan-words from German!
I've been very happy with Migadu. https://www.migadu.com/
They support lockfiles and tools like `audit`, yes. But they do not support having multiple versions of a dependency.

Tools based on loading libraries from a *PATH (Go, Python, JVM) usually do so by grabbing the first one that they encounter that contains the appropriate symbols. That is incompatible with having multiple versions of a package.

On the other hand, Rust and node.js support this -- each in their own way. In Rust, artifact names are transparently suffixed with a hash to prevent collisions. And in node.js, almost all symbol lookups are accomplished with relative filesystem paths.
Once they’ve approved this reactor, build more of the same.
The school districts have all kinds of conflicting incentives and priorities. Someone is telling them "go digital, it's the future! Kids have to learn to use technology!" Now folks are telling them "but the kids don't learn well with laptops! Go back to books!" So are they going to abandon the sizable investment they made in getting every kid a Chromebook?

> like hiring good teachers and firing bad ones
There are these things called unions...
It all looks the same to me. Something made to be amusing/viral for the clicks.
This is one of the few places I have gotten value out of the LLM. I tell it about my relationship to the colleague and what we worked on, in a very quick rough way. Then I tell it we are writing peer review and the actual review prompt. It gives quite good results that aren't just BS, but I didn't have to spend the time phrasing it perfectly. Because I do want my peer reviews to reflect well on both me and the colleague.
Another entry to file under You Know The Job Market Is Bad When
I'm not judging the evidence FOR Cloudflare being a spy.

But it's a natural double standard that when your potential spy says "I'm not a spy!", well it's no evidence AGAINST.
This is semantic nitting and wastes time when for all practical intents and purposes humans understand the assertion being made and find it agreeable.