skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The arbitrariness is the problem.

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the order for [FBI] employees to compile lists of all current and former personnel who worked on investigations related to January 6, 2021, and a Hamas-related case.

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Also, if I understand correctly, agents are civil servants (not political appointees) and they cannot be simply fired at will.
Amazing! Readme looks quite well. Not a diving guy TBH , but im sure people into that will find it quite useful.
This belongs in the Hall of Infamy

Along with this

https://www.cultofmac.com/news/today-apple-history-michael-d...
die-jick-stra!
Technology has nothing to do with this.

Before technology there was "McKinsey told me to do this". Abrogation of liability is a tale as old as time.
The møøse responsible for the BadChunkRecord have been sacked.
Awesome projects and I hope they find a new home soon! For those wanting to donate:

Alpine Linux: https://opencollective.com/alpinelinux

Freedesktop [edit]: ..no crowdsource option at the moment
NATO exercises always ended with the nukes.
Ethics don't dictate that you preemptively submit to the demands of bullies just in case they might do something bad if you don't.
> Their [n.b Apple's] victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows. Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops

So nearly all of the (relatively) very few people that are funded by YC have Apple and that's proof of Apple's complete victory over a dead MS. In a year when MS was still on an upward trend, growing by 20% market cap to become double that of Apple.

Reading rich people's blogs reminds me every time that there's a reason wealth is also called "fortune". Because it's more about luck than anything else. And by luck I mean a family golden nugget, or lucky first investment, or both. A superpower that allows one to fail many times and still be able to try again until they hit the next fortune. Most people in the world can't even afford to try. Most of the rest can't afford to fail.
Nvidia open-source alternative to nanite: ...
Isn’t there just the one plan?
What did they lie about and how do you know it is a lie? What I saw was purposeful ignorant questioning. "Sir, I'm Singaporean."
Agree - this is a key lesson of the Falklands War which, despite being in the 80s, is one of the few hot naval wars of the missile age.
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Asking the treasury to do ideological/legal analysis of transactions is the same as giving your bank the responsibility of approving your credit card expenditure based on their idea of what you need/should buy.

The fact that they're going for the payment system and not for contract/orders analysis is exactly the red flag people are and should be concerned about.
I wouldn't be surprised if the response to an invasion of Taiwan looked very similar to the response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The world did nothing for about a week and it seemed as though leaders were willing to sit on their hands for a week to see if it ended quickly. When it didn't they moved from vague, hand wavy statements to economic sanctions.

If China tries to invade we very well could see a weak, hollow political response from world leaders unless China falters and is stopped initially.
"Computer says no"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0YGZPycMEU

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_says_no and the legal response to the real-world problem, the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing: GDPR Article 22 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj#d1e2838-1-1)
The Way Hurricanes Kill Is Changing. Helene Shows How
That times change?

This was a lot more accurate when it was published in 2007.
makes me wonder how many of these type of programs successfully managed to delete all the records. what a bunch of evil people!
It tells us that he’s only human. That’s what fans of him will say and they’re right.

The problem is his fans subconsciously treat Paul graham as if he’s more right and more wise than a normal human. Makes sense given where we are. This incubator is founded by him so there’s a bit of that irrational hero worship there.
You had hours of video because the National Guard was intentionally delayed while waiting only 2 miles away from the Capitol. DOD officials were caught lying to Congress about it.
RFC9700: Best Current Practice for OAuth 2.0 Security
Keyword 'may'.

A learning thermostat would apply, say one that uses historical records to predict changes in temperature and preemptively adjusts. And it would be low risk and unregulated in most cases. But attach to a self-heating crib or premature baby incubator and that would jump to high risk and you might have to prove it is safe.
Why do you think the party allegiance will make a difference?

I generally consider the republicans to be more likely to reach for military action, though the democrats have seemed pretty war hungry in the last decade or two as well.
LOL. You must not read papers.
The US market for solar panels is only tiny because solar panels in the US are so overpriced and constantly subject to these kleptocratic tariff games. US total primary energy consumption is 94 quadrillion BTU per year https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/ which is 3 terawatts, about 15% of total world consumption. Satisfying even the US's current energy consumption from solar with a capacity factor of 25% would thus require 12TWp of solar panels, which would be 12000 GW, 10 years of your figure for China's current production capacity (which I have no reason to doubt).

Of course, a lot of that primary energy consumption goes out the exhaust of thermal power plants, whether electric generating station smokestacks or truck exhaust pipes, so maybe you'd need as little as 40% of that when you're getting pure, sweet exergy. But, on the other hand, overprovisioning is one of the cheaper ways to mitigate the intermittency of photovoltaic, and the dramatically lower price of energy seems certain to stimulate many new energy-intensive industries, so the potential market is actually much larger.
The losers in the "rule bending" are humans, whose creative works are turned into weights, whose livelihoods are diminished by indiscriminate greed.

I'm all for the advancement of AI, but not at the cost of humility and compassion for those enabling the models to be built.

Model building is already a community project, you just weren't asked if you wanted to contribute. You just did. Without compensation.

"rule bending" is putting it lightly.
That just because someone is a plutocrat doesn't make them experts in all things. We should not idolize celebrities and not accept their hot takes wholesale. Be wary of ultracrepidarians.
Not only is Microsoft not dead, they're almost never included in the "Big Tech" that gets shouted about and cursed. Which is weird, Microsoft makes an OS that has a 90+% desktop share, no real competitors, and pretty much extract money at will for its software.
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Recently read that on a recommendation from a friend. Great review of the sausage making necessary to get something as big and complex as the US moving in a different direction.

Only quibble about the book is that the author seems to subscribe to a great man theory of manufacturing, where having a CEO say "we will do it" is all that is needed and the rest of the engineering is left as an exercise to the reader.
>labour (ha!)

Where are you, and how much are you offering per hour?
arXiv issues DOIs for submissions.
I think you misunderstand the free beer quote because those tools are free as in freedom not as free beer.

Competing looks like starting with what other people are already doing and making it better.
Given their trajectory at the time, they probably would be.

Right now they're embracing open source and Linux, which has proven to be a very good idea.

I'm still not convinced.
Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time
close ship on ship battle is dead but large ships are needed for large long range weapons that can hit opposing targets that cannot be seen. a wwi battleship could ignore a small drone of today - a much larger system is needed to sink a ship.
Government office computers need LLMs?
The Backblaze computer backup app is kind of a mess in general. The only reason I still use it is because of the unbeatable price, there are many better alternatives if cloud storage prices aren't an issue for you.

I've had many issues with it, and poking around at its logs and file structures makes it pretty obvious that it's very bad code. There's numerous different inconsistent naming conventions and log formats.

I once tried to edit the custom exclusions config file (bzexcluderules) and gave up shortly after because the format of the file is both completely nonsensical and largely undocumented - whoever implemented didn't know how to do proper wildcard matching and was likely unaware of the existence of regular expressions, so they came up with an unholy combination of properties such as ruleIsOptional="t" (no idea what this means), skipFirstCharThenStartsWith=":\Users\" (no comment on this one), contains_1 and contains_2 (why not contains_3? sky's the limit!), endsWith="\ntuser.dat" and hasFileExtension="dat" (because for some reason checking the extension with endsWith isn't enough?), etc.
Are IP addresses considered PII or not? I remember there being multiple conflicting conclusions on that
Democrats and their surveys.
Oh man that sucks! I wonder if we could pull Alpine into our colo, we recently upgraded to a full rack from 2U (it was cheaper than a quarter rack!) and have a ton of space. Plus all of our libvirt/KVM HVMs run Alpine.
Every accusation by the right is a confession.
plutocrat is newly discovered word of the day.
How exactly did Trump attempt a self-coup? What words or actions (on his part) would you say qualify for that description?

There were all sorts of bad intentions on the part of the rioters/coupers/whatever on January 6th, but AFAIK there is very little evidence to indicate these people were directed by Trump in any meaningful way.
flipception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTAhvKoF948
Funny that this comment is in defense of DOGE disregarding all expertise and handing keys over to a bunch non-experts.
In the 1970s the Netherlands tried to save it's shipyards (from Japan and Korea at the time China was nothing).

There's just no point to it your oil tankers end up more expensive so nobody will want to buy them.
Memories of YTMND come flooding back
Whenever I read these types of writing, it reminds me that just because a narrative is elegant, doesn't mean its true, especially when you're operating at very high levels of abstraction. Same problem I have with many pop psychology writings.
I think it's clear you're commenting in bad faith now, as you aren't open to reasonable arguments. I'll leave you at it.
By that logic killing all humans now would be better than letting future generations die
EPR demonstrated that if you insist on locality and experiments having results in accordance with quantum predictions, then there must be pre-existing elements of reality that determine the results. Bell demonstrated that pre-existing elements of reality and the quantum results of experiments are incompatible with locality. The two together imply that if you assume experiments have results when we say they do in the way quantum mechanics predicts, then there is something nonlocal going on. Hidden variable theories do not add to nor remove the problem of non locality though Bohmian mechanics makes it very clear what the mechanism is.

Many worlds gets around this since experiments do not have definite results in that theory. Instead, the experimenter splits into multiple copies, each of which thinks there is a result of the experiment, but that is an illusion.
Isn't most of this (plus terabytes more) available on archive.org? I'm not trying to diminish this effort - anything that is done to preserve digital history is to be applauded - just struggling to see what differentiates this.
In that case Elixir is also a Lisp where you use do-end instead of parentheses :)

heck, any language that has an AST would be a Lisp according to your definition..
I think a key aspect of calling a thing "dead" is that it implies permanency. In other words, it can't have been more accurate in 2007 if it isn't accurate now, which it appears to not be. Maybe if pg had said "irrelevant" instead.

(Others have pointed out that 2007 wasn't even a particularly bad year for MSFT.)
The example is meant to demonstrate that whether I say 平 as ping or peng changes the meaning of the sentence. It does not depend on how I feel like it.

Another example: I buy some raisins, and the lady gives me some. I say: 咁多！ If I pronounce "gam3do1", I say "That's so much!". If I pronounce "gam3doe1", I say "That's so little!".

(Yes, contrived. Almost always the former is used. But both can be.)
"[Apple's] victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows. Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops"

He's not wrong there, I once had to use my laptop to display Jeff Bezos's Powerpoint when he was at Startup School because I was the only person around they knew had Windows. I tried so hard to like OSX, using it as my daily driver for two years, and I still wish I did.
Free as in healthcare.
Think of it in the inverse.

If you're a person who is at one end of a funnel (in this case; new tech companies) and you see a 100% adoption which is contrary to the mainstream: you would think you have good insight.

You might forget that you're looking at:

A) A cargo culture

B) a homogeneous cohort.

This is the same way that people knew ahead of time that Microsoft Office would kill off Lotus notes. Since all school's were transitioning (or had transitioned) to Microsofts products.

It's also why people knew AWS would be so popular ahead of time, because new tech companies were not renting compute anymore, they were passing their credit cards to Amazon - even causing some companies to bet their products on making tooling to make AWS easier.

If you're at one end of the funnel, you can see the future.

Was this the future? or was it a false positive based on a cohort? - I definitely think the market dominance of Windows on the Desktop has been thoroughly challenged since 2008, and it's rare I see people elect to use Windows for <10yo companies unless the founders are only used to Microsoft products.

and I work in AAA games, which is insanely Microsoft dominated.
You get a DOI on the arXiv. You can just publish the PDF on the arXiv, but this is a sure sign you are a crackpot.
Looks like it's going to be a clone of Partiful which has taken off in the last few years. The big question will be how effectively they make it work cross-platform. If it doesn't provide the same functions to Android users I'll just stick to Partiful, I'm tired of Apple trying to make Android users feel less and social pressure people into their products.
The real difference with tech is that this isn't true.

If you make something people want you can sell it. When I started our company 4 years ago I'd have considered $1m ARR a massive achievement. Now I'm here in my heart I feel a need to grow and raise or we'll die - but In my head I don't think this is actually true.

I don't think there has been a time in human history before where a company of our size (30x median wages) could have been built without needing a great deal of capital.

If Microsoft/Google et al want to use Blackrock/Vanguard's money to buy up small companies that creates more incentive for the young and idealistic to start such companies. While economic security is of sufficient value that resisting a first buyout would be hard for most (hence Sergey and Larry trying to sell for $1m) once a first buyout has been achieved a second buyout can never be forced.
Yeah, the page is weird. The actual content is only on the second "block"; a video of the mitochondria under a confocal microscope.
plutocrat, plutocracy.

kakistocracy, kakistocrat.
Yes, but if the title doesn't say "Nanite", many fewer people will know what it means.
That quote is so out of touch.

It was never that complete. Gamers used pcs. Paul grahams surprise missed an entire segment of the market.

Additionally Mac usage statistically never exceeded windows. Paul lived a bit in a rich persons world and he’s around a lot web developers who like osx because it’s unixy without the issues of old Linux.
Nothing. It is a well written essay and makes some interesting points about how Microsoft was defanged.

What frame are you trying to put here? Do you think there is something wrong with the essay?
From time to time, I use Cline for coding. In my perspective, LLM models are not yet there to grasp all of the complexities of designing any larger modular system. But what in my oppinion Cline does quite well is performing some mundane tasks that otherwise require me coding them. I tell it what I want to do, where it should be located and then I try to provide as much context in the initial prompt as I can in the form of files and class names that it should take inspiration from. If I do this properly, then its able to perform the coding task sufficiently.

My problem with it is when its editing large files (1000+ LOC), because requests consume very many tokens AND it has problems editing the code so that sometimes its cycling infinitely trying to modify two lines in some function.

Anyway, I like it more then Cursor, because of the controll I have over the model and in some subjective ways its more pleasing to me seeing it "work".
That may be true, and Europeans will be free to trust the Russians and the Turkish as the those in SEA are free to trust the Chinese instead.

If the rest of the world doesn't send munitions on target stateside, Americans wont care. Just like they didn't care for the past 20+ years when DoD was tasked with bombing millions others in far away lands without explicit declaration by congress.

Perhaps those who build their relationships on negotiated reciprocity rather than blind trust will fair better in the coming era.
The existence of a pandemic does not require printing an unprecendented amount of currency.
""Almost every Java program, library, and framework uses some degree of reflection and dynamic classloading" - The .NET framework faced the same issues, and much of their ahead-of-time compilation efforts were removing all those API calls to reflection/introspection calls from the base class library. Years of effort and it is still not 100% there yet - I wouldn't count that this is a lot easier in Javaland.
As someone who has floundered in this space, some advice: local matters to shoppers less than they will tell you to your face.

To consumers, Haddock from Iceland they buy at their local grocery store is local. You cannot disabuse them of this notion while simultaneously taking their money.
That would be a good title.
No. All of the details about who killed JFK (and why) were already released.
There are less than 5 billion smartphone users, and you think every fifth has a bitcoin? Though, I'm not surprised hearing such estimations from a bitcoiner.

Anyway, no matter how large the unity of dumbs is or how passionate they are about their goal, it won't make them smarter. What they can achieve, though, is making other people dumber than they are, so that they can appear relatively "smarter".
An argument can be made that if there is a 100% reliable, maybe even deflationary, store of value, it would have a similar effect to currency deflation: since it is worth more tomorrow, then you are disincentivized to spend your wealth, and not spending wealth (not investing it in some value-producing enterprises, buying things and services) seems like a recipe for stagnation and wealth gap increase.
> there's a reason wealth is also called "fortune". Because it's more about luck than anything else.

Very quotable
I agree that Trump makes a US military response less likely. But it’s still far from impossible.
> This will never succeed because the economies of scale are nonexistent without dominance in the commercial shipbuilding market. War planners should have pushed to repeal the Jones Act decades ago

The US used to subsidize the salaries of US merchant marines on ships (US salaries are higher than Filipino ones) so that there would be a trained population, but that was stopped in the 1980s because subsidies are bad, so there are hardly any US merchant marines any more.

The US government used to own transport boats and lease them to US shipping companies, but they've not bothered to build news ones in decades, and so most transport ships are foreign owned. If there's a war, and you need ship matériel to the war zone, do you think commercial ships will enter it? Perhaps the US government should eschew the Free Market™ a bit and own the means of transportation.

The point of the Jones Act—or at least that one particular section that a lot of folks tend to talk about—is to have US citizens and US ships available in case of war. But given US prices relative to the prices for other countries, it costs more, and the US has not been willing to pay the premium to support that readiness.

Edit: The channel What's Going on with Shipping? has a number of videos on the topic of the what people call "the Jones Act", but more specifically about Section 27, the cabotage rules. See perhaps these to get a good overview of the topic:

* "The pros and cons of The Jones Act", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOIx-OAvxqQ

* "The Jones Act Makes Shipping More Expensive?", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95om9PGI758

* "Jones Act Debate | Center for Maritime Strategy & Heritage Foundation", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWKz3psejb0

* "The Passage of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920: The Jones Act", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O_EhPbmr74

* Optional more: https://www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping/search?query=jones%20a...
I like the B2 CLI client, having tried various freeware backup utilities the local database always becomes unweildy due to number of files and changes being tracked. B2 somehow seems performant and needs no local db, set the retention settings via the bucket.
Why not? Someone changing their mind, showing repentance for past mistakes, and making corrective action ought to be a good thing.
When Good Employees Do Bad Things
Nice, I like the clean look of the timer!

I had no idea something like radial UI was a thing. Is it used on round displays or just as something unique/quirky?
He saved Microsoft, but doomed the rest of us.
>I don't have the numbers at hand

Is this it?

https://glam.telemetry.mozilla.org/fog/probe/translations_re...*
The part about startups is still true today. You don't fear Microsoft competing with you. Or really Google anymore.