skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's really true. Most of the value of homes destroyed in LA was in the location, not the building. Insurance will pay out on the cost of reconstruction - but in a lot of cases that's probably 10% of the "value" of the home pre-fire.

Equally, the land hasn't moved. If people wanted to live in the LA hills before the fires, they still will now. Certainly the prospect of a fire will reduce the value, but it won't make it zero.
The state doesn’t take unlimited liability
It failed independently of this, nobody over there was using it for transactions, many businesses already didn’t accept it.
What I don't understand is the big plan. Say, you manage bring about something that works in the lab on par with DeepSeek R1. What happens with it next? In the market LLMs are being improved continuously based on feedback - in terms of usage data etc. and new versions are being released multiple times a year. If we want to stay sovereign, we need a similar engine started in Europe, but I can't see how a research project relying on a walled garden system of supercomputer centres can start it.
I'm sure the US won't introduce inter-state hukou this term. Yet.

(the Chinese system of internal migration control that prevented everyone from migrating to the cities immediately)
I think rewrites are popular in part because during rewrite it is possible to drop features, either voluntarily or because of deadlines, while it would probably never fly to drop feature from working, existing implementation.

Also your theory doesn't hold up for cases when you rewrite your own code. I've rewritten my old code hundreds of time because I was "idiot" in a sense that it was unmaintainable with new changed requirements.

Rewrites are sometimes necessary.
Many dictators, including the famous great, started out by being elected into government.
IIRC there base kit like garbage collector and runtime are all the same between community and enterprise. The biggest feature that comes to mind that is behind the enterprise-only wall (or at least used to be) is Profile Guided optimization.
This is a distraction and nothing more.
Owning your servers works best if your load is stable and predictable.

If you make a mobile game that becomes an overnight success and your DAU goes from 10k to 1M you need the capacity TO-DAY. Not in a week or two when you can get more servers to the colocation facility your stuff is in and get them configured and added to the cluster.

If your stuff is built on AWS, it'll just scale up automatically and most likely nobody notices except for your AWS bill - but the revenue from the game will more than make up for it.
Yes, and catch up to OpenJ9 features as well.

https://eclipse.dev/openj9/docs/shrc/#aot-code-and-jit-data
Same. Mine also Auto-Pauses video at the start.
Beautiful. I hope European countries will use their service. We have our own bunch of criminal scum that live all too well on taxpayers money.
Good to know, but does Rust have the machinery to make it work with standard Rust data structures?
> Death by committee.

This is how the EU works. It's the reason the EU has very little innovation compared to the USA.
Good Lord that’s terrible, what country did this happen in?
@dang it would be useful if the order of posts stay constant only as of timing (maybe also downvoting), and does not change depending on whatever other criterias there are. While now posts shuffle, and one has to scan whole list for latest, again and again.
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If you want to know the probability distribution of the future, ask an actuary.
What kinds of weapons fid they have?

If it was an insurrection, why didn’t they use them?

Or was it the peaceful kind?
Just use a VPN to pretend you're in the US and it works.
Non citizens cannot vote for presidents.
Wait until you learn about social security.
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IQ is mostly BS. And even if it's not, it only measures the ability to learn, not the actual skills. What I wrote remains true: just because you have skills in one area (AI deciphering of hieroglyphics scroll), doesn't mean in any way whatsoever that you have skills for something entirely unrelated (administrative matters).
I am totally fine with disenfranchising people who don't have up to date IDs. The cost of a perception of illegal ballot stuffing is high and the benefit of these voters is marginal at best.
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In this debate, it's worth remembering that there are two separate risks that are worth insuring against: 1) the risk of losing your home in a wildfire or natural disaster and 2) this risk and/or expected damage going up over time. I.e. the risk that the annualized probability of incurring major damage will go up, say, a decade from now, in the area where you happened to purchase your home. This can be due to environmental conditions, urban mismanagement, crime rates, etc.

A lot of people seem to automatically expect to be insured against the second risk when they insure themselves against the first, but it is not obvious to me that this should be so. At the very least, that should be written explicitly in the contract and priced accordingly. But I'm also not sure it is actually possible for an insurance company to reasonably price it, as this is not the kind of predictable, reproducible risk that insurance is usually well suited for.
Where specifically was it spelled out that DODGE would remove the free tax filing system?
> How does removing an easy tax filing solution improve government efficiency?

What makes you think any of this is anything to do with government efficiency.

> It seems like a handout to private tax preparers.

Yes.
phone calls have more impact than letters
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Identities are very hard to manage and secure overall. Audits are super long, tedious.

Adding more dimensions into reviews that aren't properly done right now will be extremely tricky.
Sounds interesting, but I really don't want to open an and deal with another account just to apply, which is unfortunate.
They already are. Just bought 20
IMO if you're using plain EC2 alone you should not be using AWS anyway.

Go grab a similar server from Hetzner or something.
I've vouched for it so you should be unflagged. This place is a bit twitchy sometimes.
And you can easily have a separate clean environment for every pull request easily.

Can't do that with your own hardware unless it's also a Kubernetes cluster, which is a whole new set of crap you need to manage.
I did mean HN culture, but you make a really good point either way. Maybe I need to find a yet-more-secluded corner, where the rest of the world can’t encroach so easily
> one reason startups work so well

Since when do startups "work well"? Some startups work well, but famously >90% of them fail. Imagine if 9 out of every 10 fires was just left alone because the fire brigade was replaced by a startup, or if 9 out 10 bridges fell down within a few years. Startups are just one of many models of running things, but they are not appropriate for everything.
> there are two separate risks that are worth insuring against: 1) the risk of losing your home in a wildfire or natural disaster and 2) this risk and/or expected damage going up over time

You're comparing risks and costs. The first is stochastic. The second can be almost completely controlled by renewal and rate-increase frequencies as well as coverage limits.
I don't know anyone that voted democrat in this election.

If you're looking someone to blame, blame the idiots who engineered the blue ticket, not the voters who couldn't stomach it
> “They accept that hurricanes are a fact of life in Florida,” she says. “They just work around them and prepare for them rather than avoiding the area.”

How do you work around wildfire ? I guess you could make a bunker like house, all in concrete with very little window.

Rich LA properties are going to look like Albania lol

For reference Albania has thousands of bunkers all around its countryside.
Try arguing this with a Swiss linguist. :)
Most but not all.

If you're running an online shop/reservation system, a hour of downtime can be tens of thousands of lost revenue.
I see a lot more people complain about the potential of freezing temperatures than they really are bothered to do anything about it. Ive seen this same thing from many people, but using my mother as an example, she has complained about ice and snow for the past 40 years ive been around, always claimed she wanted to move farther south to not deal with it, but she never has, and has even in the past few years thought about moving even farther North because unless you enjoy winter sports or work outside, you spend most of the winter time indoors where it doesn't actually matter that much.
Decades ago i would have said someone is trying to sabotage Microsoft

But nowadays, with experience (this is not the first time that this is happening), it seems like it's the opposite, Microsoft is constantly trying to sabotage its "clients", i'm using quotes here because what are the alternatives they are allowed to use?

This level of impunity is criminal
Portland is the seat of government of the USA now? (I used to live in Kenton/St Johns when the latter was still called Tweakville, although I moved away well before 2020)
This is true, but arXiv submissions are often prepared with a target venue in mind that does have page limits.
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> IMF gave them 1.4 billion to abandon the “experiment”

No, that is not what the quote says. It says it was a condition on a loan.

There is a huge difference between unsolicitedly saying “hey, I’ll give you money for you to stop betting on horses” or being asked for money and replying “OK, but if I do lend you the money you have to promise me you won’t spend it on horse betting; I want it back”.
It's not only Poland. I've had the misfortune of suffering through a couple Horizon projects, with partners from many European countries. Same experience as you had. "These are not serious people" sums it up.
> How do you work around wildfire ?

Fireproofing. It isn't totally a coïncidence that the fire stopped at the urban boundary. Urban fires used to be common. We made them rare because our cities are productive enough to be worth fireproofing.
That's certainly one way to get a Trump third term
I kinda like it on occasion. Works like pythons defaultdict. Like, if you wanna count something:

for (const auto &thing: collection) {
counts[thing]++;
}

Works nicely, you don't have to check if it's already there before ++ing it. As long as you know that's what operator[] does, it comes in handy more than I would've expected.
inb4: Drive Pilot disengages when the situation is deemed unsaveable demanding manual input and it was on until 250ms before the crash. It was mentioned on page 436 of the ToS so get bent unless it's a tiny fender bender.
I'm not rage-baiting. I'm saying it's a reasonable point that people can disagree on, but if any Republican candidate had had it as a policy position in the last election they would have been labelled as "Far Right".
Backblaze seemingly does not support files greater than 1 TB
This is mostly duplicative of the Wired article, but from a much more trustworthy source, and one whose allegiance to liberalism is far better established.
"This vulnerability allows an adversary with local administrator privileges (ring 0 from outside a VM) to load malicious microcode patches."

"Vulnerability"

These restrictions should never have been in place in the first place.
“Inexperienced.” Reflexive deference to credentialism and tenure coming from Wired is wild.
I think key is not having an executive branch that consists of a single person and/or party.
Are these wiggly other cells… a habitat for a network of wiggly other cells?
> The reality, I believe, is that this is largely driven by idealistic west coast gen-z and younger millenials who feel certain that their world-view is righteous, to the extent that they feel they are only helping by implementing these tools.

Not sure about that. Most likely these companies decided they don't want to get sued if their AI is found liable to have helped a terrorist commit illegal acts.
Unfortunately no macOS
Wow, I can’t believe this is so controversial. When companies A and B merge, what would you describe the A-founders as, in relation to the resulting company?
What fireproof material are you speaking about ?

There are very little materials able to prevent a house from getting burned by wildfire. In my experience, unless you remove all the house opening and make the wall and roof out of concrete you are doomed because heat will find a way in and fire will take from the inside.
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It's probably legal, but we will find out in court.
Except it’s Congress spending the money, and Congress is the one who has the authority to hand the keys and do the checks (called “oversight” in that boring old world of government).

Maybe you see the inherent problem with the setup where President Trump is in charge of checking up on what President Trump is spending money on.
Your post might have been tongue in cheek, but assuming it's not: the issue with ceding decision making to a superintelligence is that we'll likely lose the ability to reason about it's decisions and we'll struggle to take back control if it starts making choices we don't like. It's reasoning is far beyond our own capabilities after all.
> Nothing is uninsurable for the right premium.

Can a nuclear plant operator get insurance against the costs of a nuclear meltdown?

The costs of the Fukushima meltdown are reportedly $200 billion. Offering a policy with a downside that big would basically be gambling the entire company.
Generally you run into the halting problem and whatnot real quick.
I'm involved with IMI-BIGPICTURE, a similarly sized EU initiative (~70M funding). It's not that bad. Things will take a while to start moving but as long as all the players stay on the same page shit will get done. 10x slower than with a small team but some things can't be done in small teams
As with GDPR, the spirit is admirable but the fundamental definitions have been hand-waved. So for the foreseeable future, the expensive lawyers you hire are going to answer the important questions with "well, we don't have much case law yet..."

Also, the definition of AI seems to exclude anything that doesn't "exhibit adaptiveness after deployment". So, a big neural network doing racist facial recognition crime prediction isn't AI as long as it can't learn on-the-fly? Is my naive HTTP request rate limiter "exhibiting adaptiveness" by keeping track of each customer's typical request rate in a float32?

Laws that regulate tech need to get into the weeds of exactly what is meant by the various terms up-front, even if that means loads of examples, clarification etc.
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What are you talking about? Leaving aside your other random complaints that I don’t recognise, but can’t immediately link to, a basic lightbulb is less than €3 for a two-pack: https://www.ikea.com/de/en/p/solhetta-led-bulb-e14-250-lumen...
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But sometimes these people aren’t wrong! Microsoft Teams really does suck. And while not all of the federal government is Microsoft Teams, the State department definitely is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou
Constraint solvers would be a better choice, IMO.

LLMs may help convert the text into a form for the constraint solvers, but they're not the tool I'd use for actually connecting the dots.
My hobby project has been running using the free tier of AWS Lambda and DynamoDB for well over half a decade now.

I kinda want to move it to a self-hosted solution, but it's been working fine so far so why bother. Might need to log in and see if I need to update something someday.
>Young people bring a force of curiosity and creativity that can disrupt the status quo.

Counterpoint - they don't have the wisdom and experience in the domain they are working in that older, wiser heads do. I've seen a LOT of stuff from both 'tech bros' and programmers who are new to a domain where it's clear they are 100% confident they are right, despite consensus to the contrary. And when their plans are implemented, all the things they didn't think about come into play - such as Tesla service which is terrible.

These people may all be brilliant engineers. But not all problems are engineering problems, and while these people may be able to engineer a system to reduce costs drastically, they may not understand where to cut costs and where efficiency can actually be achieved.

Don't forget that most of the new tech economy that people harp on about (Uber, Amazon, Tesla spring to mind) is built on the erosion of workers' rights and lowest-common-denominator treatment wherever possible.
If it’s a common abstraction then wouldn’t it be more work to maintain the same piece of code in many different drivers?
There are lots of interesting / incriminating details in the already released documents. There are also some redacted names which surely would add more context and answer a few questions. I'm sure we won't get many shocking revelations but if they really do release the same documents unredacted that's a step in the right direction.

I remain unconvinced that is going to actually happen, unfortunately. They will present a plan that simply excludes any really revealing documents and what they do release will be a nothing burger. That doesn't mean that there is nothing there, just that they don't genuinely intend to release the goods.
> It is apparently aimed at large-scale, foreign-run piracy sites, and there's a detailed court process.

I think you mean libgen and sci-hub, so it's a "long arm of the law" proposal rather than a "repel boarders" type of thing.
Most "advanced enough" cheats supports "humanization".
I am on the same boat, JVM, .NET and nodejs ecosystems before Go.

So many languages, tools and libraries to chose from, without the "simple minds" culture, even C manages to be more feature rich.
Rewrites of other peoples code/laws also allows you to think "I'm much smarter than they are".

Governance has a lot more "unknown unknowns" than you expect.
> the importation into the United States of artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence technology or intellectual proprietary developed or produced in the People’s Republic of China

... That seems _absurdly_ broad; would arguably hit open source software, academic papers, patents... Like, taken at face value, this would mean "no longer do AI stuff in the US _at all_"; it would be impossible to do anything much without risking violating this.
I don't think Ariane have a "pretty good track record".

Most expensive bug of all time that crashed a whole rocket, because of outdated and wrong software engineering practice.

They dont innovate, looked down on SpaceX, they have bet against Falcon, and lost the bet.

Now they are betting against the Starship.

> Honestly, I don’t think Starship will be a game-changer or a real competitor

-- ESA chief 2024

https://spacenews.com/europe-aims-to-end-space-access-crisis...

Meanwhile EU members are now launching their public project with SpaceX instead of ESA:

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/spacex-rocket-next-g...

https://apnews.com/article/nasa-spacex-launch-astronauts-pri...

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/IRIDE_p...
Elon is stealing any and all data to train AI. His padawans are AI guys. At least he's going in personally with a crew like a proper heist.
Yeah no problem on other pages
> [B]ureaucrats can be expected to embrace a technology that helps to create the illusion that decisions are not under their control

Isn't it the responsibility of the bureaucrat to use a computer system and whatever its output is?

"GPS said I should drive off of a cliff" doesn't seem like a very potent argument to dismiss decisional responsibility. The driver is still responsible for where the car goes.

The only case where the responsibility would shift to the computer - or rather the humans having made the computerized thingy - would be a Pentium FDIV-class bug, i.e computer system produces incorrect output+ from correct input, from which an earnest decision is then based on.

+ assuming it is indistinguishable from correct output.
Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup
> Why should the money holder do anything productive? Why getting richer and richer becomes something bad when we go crypto?

This question works better the other way round. Why should people that do all the work and take all the investment risks to make the riches get continually decreasing returns on their efforts whilst the people that sit and HODL get continually increasing returns on doing nothing?
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This makes me want to further explore the similarities in form and function of mitochondrial networks and mycelial networks.
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> they can find someone to provide the answer they need, they can find a senior dev who glances at the code and fixes it effortlessly.

I have often taken pains to point out when something like this falls inside my area of expertise that the reason I can fix it so quickly is usually because I've made the same mistake before enough times and remember how to solve it.
> at the pleasure of the president

The point poster above is making is that the president should be able to fire them, and should be able to audit whether or not they have been doing their jobs correctly, which is essentially what is occurring.
Yeah, this is exactly what scares me. But it also scares me that there's almost zero oversight on what USA and China are producing and the bias that could be embedded into these models by their creators...

I'm just not sure whether it's worse to be behind or to try to be in front by all means necessary.
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New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs (predictors.fail)

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