skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If another nation decides to scoop up a "controlling share" could they somehow gain control of the ledger?

TLDR: They could, but it'd be difficult and might require things like creating a national botnet or knocking other people offline.

How this works depends on "proof of work" versus "proof of stake" systems. Bitcoin is the former, where that kind of takeover requires controlling the majority of computing-power being actively used to confirm transactions.

Imagine a branching tree growing upwards, where every node is "and then this transaction happened next." Everyone has already agreed to treat the longest total path as "the true one". This leads to a tree which is very very tall with lots of short dead stubs for transactions that had to be retried.

People assume their transaction is safe when it is embedded far enough back that it looks like it'll always be on any longest path going forward. By controlling a majority of the computing power, you can create your own branch of events and ensure it will be longest, even if everybody else is making a deliberate effort to say "no, these other transactions happened instead."
You absolutely have moved them (and also refuse to talk about pre-registered requests to die (of which, the request that kicked off this subthread totally qualifies)). You started by saying

> I hope we have the compassion as individuals not to ask others to kill us. That's a heavy weight to put on someone else. It's not abstract "society" conducting the euthanasia: individual healthcare providers would have to decide that you met the criteria and then administer the drugs.

(while ignoring that asking a doctor or nurse to kill you is also asking another to kill us) and now you've moved to talking about specific situations that can be tricky, depending on the particulars.
> Seems like a really large error?

At one point during its transit the spacecraft will have been going about 23,000 miles per hour, suddenly 250 miles doesn't seem like much. Though obviously that's in the middle of the trip and plenty of things happen between the transit between the earth and moon and landing.
> 3% of the GDP in tax cuts is pretty enormous.

It's a <10% reduction in total taxes. It's only enormous if the assumption is that taxes never really go down as a percent of GDP (even in the face of per capita real GDP growth), which has been the case in recent history, but that's kind of the issue.

> So let's say you want to cut 15 of that 36%. That would mean cutting all of health care + all of pensions, or all of health care + all of education. Or defense + pensions + infrastructure.

The obvious thing to do would be to increase the efficiency of each thing rather than cutting any particular thing entirely. Defense spending is full of notorious boondoggles and waste. US healthcare spending goes to a highly captured industry with a large amount of bureaucratic overhead and could be made significantly more efficient, e.g. if US healthcare spending per capita was on par with Canada then healthcare spending could be reduced by more than the identified amount percentage-wise.

Social security, by contrast, isn't exactly "waste" but the program is extremely poorly tailored to its intended purpose of providing a baseline for the elderly, because it pays out higher benefits to people who made more money and can be correspondingly expected to have more savings and need it less. A far more efficient program would be to provide the same amount to every retiree. Enacting that change would be politically difficult, just like making the US healthcare system more efficient would be politically difficult, but the question here is not "how hard would it be to get the votes for this" but rather "if we actually did this, would we be better off"?
Having switched from Pandas to Polars recently, this is quite interesting and I guess performance wise it will be excellent.
Yeah, private detective is an open compound:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)

At least I think that's the right term (I hunted around for one that fits). So, is private spacecraft also a compound? Is it idiomatic? Maybe. Another example is little black dress, where "my new little black dress" sounds right and "my little new black dress" seems to refer to a different kind of garment.
The Otel profiling agent (formerly prodfiler, then Elastic profiler) is the underlying OSS.
I was born with congenital bilateral cataracts and had the lenses in both eyes removed as an infant (a condition called Aphakia). I have been set up with monovision since I was very young -- that basically means I'm intentionally far-sighted in one eye and near-sighted in the other so that I use one eye for reading and the other eye for distance.

I wear hard contact lenses most of the time, but I do have glasses. My glasses prescription is around +21/+23 (I would fit right in hanging out with Milhouse Van Houten or Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth), but I only wear them in emergencies because I get headaches and dizziness after 10/15 minutes of wearing them. I mostly keep 'em for the novelty of showing people just how thick my glasses are. 8)

My eyes do get tired after long screen days, resulting in blurry vision and watery eyes. I also get headaches on a somewhat frequent basis.

If that's useful at all, I'd be happy to chat more.
To the contrary. I grew up in public health and think it's tremendously important. The old school public health people didn't "bring their whole selves to work." If you're working in a Bangladeshi village and an old Muslim man wants a male doctor instead of a female doctor, you go and find a male doctor. The public health field has always been full of liberals, that was never the problem. But the new generation is full of evangelicals,[1] and that makes it impossible for them to do the job. And if they can't do what's required for the job, they need to be replaced with people who can--for the good of the field itself.

[1] I would say the same thing about evangelicals on the other side of the aisle. You cannot be in Bangladesh working in public health while being an evangelical Christian. You will never gain people's trust, and without that you cannot do the job.
I am surprised Dobrokhotov was still traveling to Russia after the Navalny publication and Grozev felt safe holidaying in Bulgaria. There is this interesting FT interview from August '23 where he predicts Prigozhin's death and hints at changes to their security after they were declared "foreign agents".

[1] https://archive.is/L6UNc
It is for future navalnies.
Author here. I just messed up while posting.
The article was eventually kind of interesting, although it had so much investigation involved I forgot what I was even reading by the end.

General idea was interesting, and probably something to look at (apparently there's an issue open). Final result was (I think...) that the Least Recently Used (LRU) memory function requires a spinlock to actually swap out memory pages, and there's huge amounts of contention.

"during 3 seconds there were at least 138 threads active. 84% of stacktraces have 'evict_folios' frame according to the flamegraph, so it is very likely that more than 100 threads are constantly trying to do something with the spinlock."

So, basically 100 threads fighting over evict_folio and lru_lock constantly, and at least it seems (although admit eyes started glazing over) they're all fighting over the same memory page regions every time they're trying to lru_lock (initiate a spinlock for memory access releases).

Note: Totally way outside of my standard programming realm, so if somebody has a clearer / better explanation / summary ...
It's very clear that more computation (and ram) on larger models will produce better results when talking about general model use. This will be true for a while.

Eventually the marginal benefits might plateau in combination with enough optimizations to make local use outweigh any cloud models.

More specific and narrow use cases are a different matter.
I feel like if you can make an Airbus, you can make a browser and a search engine.
It's less a parody of what the book was about and more a parody of Nazi Germany - and showing what great fun and how exciting war is to the kids.
I was very pissed off to find that my Youtube Premium didn't work when I visited Armenia. I was still paying for it, but ads played and I couldn't listen to videos in the background. WTF?
Short note: Also available as the standard Otel profiling agent ;)
Otoh, if you cut out some - "old american spaceship" sounds fine to me, where "american old spaceship" does not (or it makes it sound like "american old" is a brand name)
You are trying to combine two repelling magnets together.

Case in point: Tesla/SpaceX meets your first criteria: "I want a tech company where people are there to make good products first and get paid second."

Google meets your second criteria: "And the pay should be good. The lifestyle comfortable. No grindset bullshit."

Other than small time boutique software firms like Fog Creek Software or Panic Inc(and thats a BIG maybe) you are not going to get this part of your message: "But I am confident that if you only employ passionate people working their dream jobs you will excel."

There are tradeoffs in life and each employee has to choose what is important to them(and each company CEO has to set standards on what is truly valued at the company).
Study: Large language models still lack general reasoning skills
Yes, you can say you built it from scratch, showing leadership and impact, which is what big tech promotions are gauged by.
Also, the annual renewal is discounted. It seems pretty fair all around.
Ruby has a similar help() function you can invoke from the REPL (irb), or from the CLI with the standalone tool `ri`[1]. Pretty nifty feature!

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25671404
It's a phrase I learned from my mom/grandpa growing up. "On the square" means "but I also mean it."
That is trusting both Apple and the client, and also only works for iPhone.

We can do better with zero-knowledge-proof-based schemes, which also allow securely decoupling issuance/certification from online verification.

E.g. https://linc.cnil.fr/en/demonstration-privacy-preserving-age...
Fighting for freedom is outdated, stale, archaic. Perhaps the site can be updated to celebrate the DOGE fighters.
Location: Lublin, Poland, EU

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Technologies: Python, Pytest, Linux, Ansible, Docker. Some C# (Nunit, Restsharp) and Lua experience.

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Test Automation Engineer with nearly a decade of experience, mostly in REST APIs, IoT, and embedded systems.
I'm happy to trade Liz Cheney for literally anyone else.
You're absolutely right and my response completely missed your point, thanks for clarifying further.
I wonder when and why they stopped making films like these. I've been enjoying watching Behind the Attraction and The Imagineering Story on Disney+ with my kids. They are full of these old films of Walt going over their ideas and explaining the things they are and have built. It's a shame that stopped.
Putin spent a long time saber rattling before he invaded Ukraine. I guess they shouldn't have been concerned back then because nothing horrible started happening yet?
In January 2022, Ukraine hadn't yet suffered a full scale invasion.

Maybe you need to read what you respond to more carefully? Or brush up on recent history. You seem very confused either way.
Very nice, thank you. This indeed answers my question.
This might be vestibular or neurological in nature. I had a vestibular condition that affected my eyesight and did rehab and they gave me eye exercises that helped somewhat. Fast forward a few years of struggling and I found that it was caused by migraines (not the painful kind, just brain disruption). And those migraines are caused by temporal lobe epilepsy. But that part isn’t important, it’s that all sorts of migraines caused by all sorts of issues can disrupt eyesight. And I think it is more common than people realize because there is no pain. It can cause eyesight issues, brain fog, and potentially dizziness. You need that brain to see so if it is disrupted often your sight will be as well. I am surprised people are talking about neurological angles.
Excellent at getting their patents inserted into standards and leeching off everybody.
Nobody needs election predictions in a dictatorship.
Never understood these kinds of cloud tools that deal with big data. You are paying enormous ingress/egress fees to do this.
IEMidi is a cross-platform MIDI editor built with ImGui and RtMidi, allowing users to map any MIDI message to various actions such as volume control, mute, executing console commands, and opening files.

It is powered by the IECore app engine developed by Interactive Echoes and utilizes IEActions, a cross-platform action library for OS-level interactions.

Designed to be open-source, OS-independent, and lightweight, IEMidi provides a simple MIDI mapping solution for any MIDI controller.

Contributions are welcome to expand its functionality and supported actions.
Fun.

Related:

Tristan Davey's Punch Card Archive

https://punchcards.tristandavey.com/
This motivated part of Musk's moves at Twitter(and now DOGE). You can't reliably evaluate which people are checked out and when you are against the clock, you have to take a hatchet and accept that you will break things that are in motion.
That you assign me the responsibility of asking you to explain your assertion sheds a lot of light on this interaction.

Either rhetoric and discourse are unfamiliar to you (for instance, that a basic tenant is that one does not make a strong claim which acts as foundational evidence for their entire premise and then assume it to be taken as fact based on statement alone -- if that were true then 3rd graders would win all arguments by saying 'nuh-uh'), or you don't understand that responsibility can also apply to you in many cases.
forget software, they all go into starting boutique bakeries
Part of it might be that the age is changing, but the "American" isn't.

I don't know. It's weird that there's obviously some kind of ruleset here, but it's difficult to nail it down.
Apparently according to ClosedAI it's when you charge for API key the same as salary for employee.
From his talks, he never liked AMD/ATI hardware. Doom 3 code was infamously NVIDIA optimized, since he liked the hardware more.
We found a DOGE guy at NASA because his Google Calendar was public
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292519
How have you not heard about Worldcoin?

/s/s
Steve Wozniak blasts Musk's DOGE over 'sledgehammer' approach to govt layoffs
For now, at least, until the current wave of new grads enter industry and lean towards other offerings due to a lack of familiarity with VMWare.

It's been completely stripped out from the majority of academic programs due to the death of the affordable educational license, and oftentimes replaced with XCP-NG.

Many student clubs have switched to other options too.
Understandable, but still wrongfully blaming a player rather than the game itself.
If we don't trust the legislative and see them as malevolent entities with their own agendas unaligned with those of their constituents, then, yes, a checkbox opens a path for further abuse.

If we trust the legislative to have a modicum of common sense and don't try to invent a technical solution to a non-technical problem, then a warning "what you're going to see is not for the younger audiences" might be a reasonable compromise.

And it's a shame we live in a world where the former doesn't sound completely nuts.
> in the 16th century, the impact of the Pope on day to day life was higher

Not so. The mass media have instantly made every sneeze of the pope common knowledge, or common fake news. In prior centuries, the pope's prominence in the consciousness of daily life was low. He was a remote figure. You wouldn't hear of his death for weeks.
Apple confirms delay for AI-enhanced Siri
There are been lot of land wars in Asia over history. Sometimes it goes well for the defender, sometimes the attacker.

Never get involved in a war is good advice, but sometimes impossible to keep.
Interesting! How did you go about keeping this working in a sandboxed app? I know Rogue Amoeba had some issues with that up until lately: https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2024/12/13/the-developers-who...
ITU Morse does specify punctuation marks and a few symbols, but they're rarely used in practice.

A space is denoted by a gap equal to seven dots.

https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/m/R-REC-M.1677-1-20...
> OpenAI’s models, including GPT-4, the backbone of Microsoft’s Copilot assistant, aren’t cheap to run. Keeping them live on Azure’s cloud infrastructure racks up significant costs, and Microsoft is eager to lower the bill with its own leaner alternatives.

Am I reading this right? Does Microsoft not eat its own dog food? Their own infra is too expensive?
I remember editing XP drive INF files so that I could install them on W2K, which I did for a year or so before finally moving to XP with a new system.
Unfortunately, OS vendors like microsoft are quite incompetent at running root stores https://github.com/golang/go/issues/65085#issuecomment-25699...
They are especially flavorful recently.
Yeah; sell the bitcoin. Sell the gold. Sell the forests. Cut the military. Why own anything at all? Credit is just floaty vibes anyway; the economy is based on debt, debt is the only thing anyone ever needs to own.
The main feature of the web is ubiquity. Doing a native app requires installation, update handling, etc.

That’s why the “web won.” But, when it comes to UIs, it is not technically superior.

The most popular technology is usually not exceptional in every aspect but is the most convenient for popular use cases. For example, LISP predates C by decades. Technically, C is inferior in abstraction, but ATT used it for Unix, quickly becoming the de facto standard for systems programming. That makes C a better option than LISP, only because you’ll need to go into extra layers of complexity to do a system call designed for C.
For the web, you can only use HTML/CSS/JS (even with WASM).

“Mobile doesn’t use shit from 1994”… well all the iOS apps are based on Next frameworks created in the 80s.

You probably have never used a native UI framework or tried to create an accessible component library for the web, to say something like that. Try to create an accessible select component that shows an icon in its options using a native framework and HTML, and you’ll quickly see what I mean.
DOGE on government: tech-style "This would be easy to fix if you just..."
I can appreciate the pain points you guys are addressing.

The "diagonal scaling" approach seems particularly clever - dynamically choosing between horizontal and vertical scaling based on the query characteristics rather than forcing users into a one-size-fits-all model. Most real-world data workloads have mixed requirements, so this flexibility could be a major advantage.

I'm curious how the new streaming engine with out-of-core processing will compare to Dask, which has been in this space for a while but hasn't quite achieved the adoption of pandas/PySpark despite its strengths.

The unified API approach also tackles a real issue. The cognitive overhead of switching between pandas for local work and PySpark for distributed work is higher than most people acknowledge. Having a consistent mental model regardless of scale would be a productivity boost.

Anyway, I would love to apply for the early access and try it out. I'd be particularly interested in seeing benchmark comparisons against Ray, Dask, and Spark for different workload profiles. Also curious about the pricing model and the cold start problem that plagues many distributed systems.
Europe's Vain Hopes of Imperial Grandeur
the fact that we’ve sometimes been misled on history should teach us to not do that again. to reach closer towards the truth.

the answer is that both of those instances in your example should be called out.

the answer is not “whatabout $other_instance happening, therefore it’s magically ok.”
Just take a moment to imagine a media culture where copyright only lasts for 14 years.
The last sentence, for me.
Do you like DMCA abuse? [0] This is the same problem.

[0] https://www.eff.org/takedowns
You can find a dozen projects on Github that do this, it's not sensitive information that needs protecting
I used to, but wat offers a better printout of the methods: https://github.com/igrek51/wat
This is really cool, not sure how I missed it. I assume catalog support will be added fairly quickly. But ironically I think the biggest barrier to adoption will be the lack of an off-ramp to a FOSS solution that companies can self-host. Obviously Polars itself is FOSS, but it understandably seems like there's no way to self-host a backend to point a `pc.ComputeContext` to. That will be an especially tough selling point for companies that are already on Spark. I wonder how much they'll focus on startups vs. trying to get bigger companies to switch, and whether they'll try a Spark compatibility layer like DataFusion (https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet).
I remember the start menu search and related search things (both for windows and Mac OS, remember Sherlock?) being so absolutely dog slow and even worse after upgrade/fresh install.

That all went away as SSDs came on the market, but it was a noticeable "downgrade" from teh snappy.
What are you calling out? Note that there is a difference between being wrong on a forecast with a low confidence interval and making shit up and not posting corrections.
When combinations of humans/AI are useful: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Keyword there being ‘formulation’, not ‘molecule’
At least they're likely to do unmanned test landings until they successfully land upright. But it seems nobody followed the design of the appollo lander, except the Blue ghost which landed successfully last week.
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292977
> The US also has tight control over mission data files (MDFs), including electronic order-of-battle data. MDFs for the UK, Italy, Japan and other F-35 operators are exclusively generated by the USAF’s 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing at Eglin AFB, Florida.

https://www.aerosociety.com/news/the-only-way-is-tempest/

F35 SaaS.
why not just insist on your number?

"either pay me this or I walk."
> The same operation used to require implementing a single delegate method in 1990s AppKit.

I find that hard to believe.

And not to "uhm, ackshually" you, but what you're describing is possible via the native HTML "contenteditable" property.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...

(Actually doing something useful with edits is another story, but that's not what the comment is about)
They are mostly sold via opticians who do the changes locally, but there's also an online option, 150 for clip + lens mod + 2-way shipment, additional clips for 75, https://www.buychemistrie.com/product-page/chemistrie-comput...
Building a custom e-ink and NFC based labeling system
I think this will be a hit with the big name audit companies. I know some use databricks for pyspark on the M&A side. As deals move forward and they get more data, they have to scale up their instances which isn't cheap. If polars enables serverless compute where you pay by the job, that could be a big win.

And sure, databricks has an idle shutdown feature, but suppose it takes ~6 hours to process the deal report, and only the first hour needs the scaled up power to compute one table, and the rest of the jobs only need 1/10th the mem and cores. Polars could save these firms a lot of money.
That was another thing Windows 7 "won" on by just being later; by the time it came out many of the major programs that had huge UAC issues were updated and resolved.
It's been a while, but IIRC when we assume all other variables as constant, a lower center of mass (a) will decrease the denominator and thus increase the resulting necessary tipping force.

Fₜ = (m × g × cos(θ) × b) / (a + b)