skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A contradiction in this post, is that Luigi was a lone operative taking action because of what he saw as indifference by the state to the plight in question. Wrong headed, and rebounded. He has also been caught and is in the process of being prosecuted by the state.

But when the vigilantes are an out reach of the state, and the state choses not to compel them back into line, or even applauds them, thats really not the mirror.

So I kind of get the tenor of the article, but banging Luigi in, I think is a logical error. Yes, what he did is wrong. No, it is not "both sides are the same" because he didn't work in the interest of the state, and he is not why the state is prepared to permit vigilantes to operate. He did it as a protest against the state, and the state does it as a cheap way of suppressing opposition to the aims of the kleptocracy/kakistocracy.

Please do not read this comment as supporting either kind of vigilantism. It's a comment to the logic of the article not pro or ante taking things into your own hands.
> I feel like we had airports before we had GPS.

one of the things that made GPS available for civilian use was the Korean Air Lines Flight 007 incident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
Those are claims.
The largest german colonial project was based on starving millions of people in Eastern Europe mostly Russians.

I did not hear about in school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_Plan
I have rarely been so happy to see a post.

I am working on designing a bug tracker, and this post completely clarified that I am going down the wrong road.

Back to the drawing board.
Prop K opponents to sue San Francisco, 5 supervisors over Great Highway closure
Five Guys suck.Their frys suck. They just suck.
It's a stupid decision from the perspective of the people getting poorer, but what about the people who are getting richer? It' a great decision for them.
> "Not long ago, we had something promising, a slow but steady crawl toward a united global community."

How long ago was not long ago in your eyes?

I'd say, the promise of international trade and globalization uniting the world fell apart some time in the 2000 or 2010s with China showing they would not open up to ideas of human rights and personal freedom. The sales pitch for investing in China (from a political point of view) was that we could trade the communism and fascism out of them.

Then in Russia showed that we couldn't trade our way to peace. The idea was that cheap gas from Russia would make Europe and Russia dependent on either side of the deal, and we wouldn't disturb world peace and break the trade. That didn't go well.

And now America wants to but limit trade with their biggest trade partners and closest allies, in the hopes that it'll bring them manufacturing prowess.

My economics professor in 2005, said the world was more globalized in the wake of WWI. I don't know if that was true, but at least they didn't have passports back then.
https://archive.md/7bp6H
What device? Considering smart tvs want to support streaming apps, including YouTube which has content that always requires DRM, supporting L1 DRM is a priority and should practically already be on every device.
My brother are you unable to connect the dots across industries?

That has already happened with uber.
I don't think the article suggested worker automation
I love this idea. The eclipse is coming around again. Don’t miss it!
> Not sure what you’re implying here, but McDonald’s is still contending for the bottom for price on fast food.

No, that's exactly my point. McDonalds isn't all that cheap anymore. There are high-quality fast-casual restaurants and local shops that deliver much better quality food at roughly the same price point. E.g.: it looks like $12 is the current price for a Big Mac meal in my area. But I can think of several places I regularly go for lunch that would offer a handmade sandwich and proper side dish, made with organic ingredients no less, for the same price.
Because it’s true. Aid makes governments less accountable to their people and more accountable to donors.

It has made many countries refuse to create robust healthcare/education/military (etc.) systems with local resources and instead depend on foreign resources that can be zapped away anytime and are often used to control local leaders to do the donor’s bidding.

Many locals in aid-dependent countries (including mine) say the same thing, yet it seems do-good Westerners want to force people to collect their aid.

All the aid to Haiti, Afghanistan, and many other countries…their only achievement is now needing even more aid.

Yes, a famine is a special case where aid is necessary in the short term, but it’ll be a disaster and destroy local agriculture output if continued in the long term..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_(aesthetic) story bro
There aren't many big box names that compete. There are usually places that sell you a "meal" for comparable cost.

The franchise has to pay fees and offer specific menu items. Small restaurants can outcompete in both price and quality.

The flip side is those places don't normally get enough foot traffic to offer their stuff "near cost", so they bundle it up into serving sizes in the $$ range that can last you a couple days. And they don't have brand marketing on their side... Joe's Diner can equally be a gem in the rough or in dire need of a new cook and a safety inspection...
I believe this is a very sad sub-plot to "El Norte" from 1983. Except the film notes say she got Typhus so .. Maybe not?
Disc Rot in Old Warner Bros DVDs
Perhaps, but FakeGuard flags the site for me for the following reasons:

-Poor rating from customers

- Multiple eCommerce scam experiences detected

- Poor customer service
Crazy that someone is using something as complex as k8s on a home server and without knowing basics.

Newbies are better served starting with the simple stuff and then moving to the complex if needed
Ignorant opinion. The mine was in Zambia and had incredibly low output. There was no fortune made there.

They’re many legitimate things to criticize about Musk. No need to cook up BS stories.
Nice work Alex, releasing a free chrome extension is a worthy project, even if there's other solutions out there. Just going through Google's submission process is a great learning opportunity.
If it’s EST fixed, it is a biggest feature and should be in the name; “for US East Coast”, so you don’t mislead rest of the world.
Being Responsible with Chinese AI Hype – By Peter Wildeford
He’s not wrong. A quarter pounder with cheese and a large fry from McDonald’s is up to about $11. The same from five guys is $16. Which is… five bucks more. (Medium fries from five guys, which is more fries than the McDonalds large)

Crap tier fast food has gotten outrageously expensive. McDonald’s fry prices are up over 40% in 3 years
This seems mildly interesting but I'm not installing a bunch of Golang tools just to try it.
Developer convicted for "kill switch" code activated upon his termination
Yeah, just prefer writing little cli tools in Python or something once the shell script gets too complex...

Sorta hate yaml drive config management and deployments sytems aka ansible, saltstack, etc; so ended up writing my own that's salt-like, but all python.
OP here. The Indian context is important. We have a massive talent pool (many outside the US just don't know how many engineers graduate yearly (1.5 million!) in India ) and we are not competing with FAANG / well-funded startups. There is a lot of raw talent out there. We know because we have been hiring for a long time. Working with us has been the springboard to well paying jobs and senior roles. What we cannot compete on at the moment (salaries) we make up for with growth opportunities and learning (and this isn't us selling this; we have the evidence to back it up). What we might have is a problem where the raw talent doesn't even know how to make a case for themselves.
What really surprises me is how the numbers havent increased in this day and age where one can realize that the median college (in India) is awful in educating them and they can find what they need online.
Big tech regulation.
Yes, but associating that with Hackintoshing is the weirdest part.
There are multiple lines because when an organ comes up, it can only last so long, so a person needs to be able to get to the hospital without a certain period of time. Usually this means driving distance. When you have a private plane, the distance expands. The organ still goes to the most sick person in line, not the one with the most money.

I was at a talk with Martine Rothblatt several years back, who created a startup for 3D printed organs. They ended up also building electric helicopters to transport those organs, because the transportation bottleneck was a huge issue.

I try not to judges peoples character when they’re looking death in the face. No one really knows what they’ll do in that scenario. Most people who can save their own life will. This was the premise of the movie SAW… how far are you willing to go to save your own life? How strong is your survival instinct? Most people are never tested, and it’s easy to sit back and judge, but would you just sit back and die? How do we even know there was someone else in line behind Jobs? It could be that he got an organ that would have otherwise been wasted.
Not everything has to be political. Can we go even 5 minutes without someone turning a discussion to focus on Elon?
It's all relative!
As they say, you can not make a blind man see
Ask HN: Recommended Rust libraries that supports multiple LLMs as a hub
So far I got is mistral.rs and candle - they run on premise models. But not sure if there're any good ones can be used to call different online models (like OpenAI's).

How do you feel about ; and may i ask your feedbacks on mistral.rs / candle / etc. in general?

Thanks!
All of your descriptions are quite reductivist. Claiming that a computer doesn't do math has a lot in common with the claim that a hammer doesn't drive a nail. While it is true that a standard hammer requires the aid of a human to apply swing force, aim the head, etc it is equally true that a bare-handed human also does not drive a nail.

Plus, it's relatively straightforward and inexpensive using contemporary tech to build a roomba-like machine that wanders about on any flat surface cuing up and driving nails of its own accord with no human intervention.

If computers do not add numbers, then neither do people. It's not like you can do an addition-style turing test with a human in one room and a computer in another with a judge partitioned off of both of them, feed them each an addition problem and leave the judge in any position where they can determine which result is "really a sum" and which one is only pretending to be.

Yet if you reduce far enough to claim that humans aren't "really" adding numbers either, then you are left to justify what it would even mean for numbers to "really" get added together.
Oh yeah. Cat family movie nite!
Sorry for your loss quechimba
> In a world of AI-generated abundance, the ability to distinguish what is worth paying attention to becomes the ultimate scarce resource.

I am an optimist so I hope in the end we will come full circle and realize the true value of authenticity. Maybe the hollow shell the author references will implode, having no meaningful substance.
This is a huge problem that could be solved by using local timezones instead of just EST.
Original details here: https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl...

About the author: https://us.pycon.org/2023/speaker/profile/81/index.html

> His academic and commercial work is focused on compilers, virtual machines and static analysis for Python. His PhD was on building virtual machines for dynamic languages.

This dude looks God-level.

Half-joking: Maybe MSFT can also poach Lars Bak of Google V8-fame.
Absolutely. Wonderful book that talks about this in a different context https://www.amazon.com/Why-Greatness-Cannot-Planned-Objectiv...

Also wrote about it here https://blog.comini.in/p/what-should-replace-grades
Unfortunately, many older DVDs are no longer in print because the rights have changed hands. In those cases, the company will offer to send a title "of like-value".

You've clearly already paid them, so torrent it and keep that instead.
An absolute on the upper bound of velocity that a massless object can travel through space at maybe?

Although - I had it explained to me that the fabric of space was entering a black hole faster than light could travel, which is why light couldn't escape.

Which made me wonder - is light (the massless object) travelling, or is it space travelling and carrying things at different velocities.
i would pay for this
The F-35 'Kill Switch': Separating Myth from Reality
I see,
That’s a good approach but how do find clients i must ask

Like what’s your goto approach here
I agree with you.

But half of relevancy is branding, the other half is delivering. McD has advertising dollars still (also they own other successful franchises such as Chipotle), and in some places in the world it's not crap. It's just another over-priced food chain with some weird marketing attached.
I very much agree! I figured if it had enough interest, we could work toward brew and other, better installation methods.
That's pretty recent. If you look at older US history school books, the physical and social genocide of the Native Americans is largely glossed over. It wasn't until after A People's History of the United States came out in the 80s that the school books slowly became more honest.
https://archive.ph/wz7st
That's not the question, though.
Everybody knows that the question is the one posed to Mister Turtle and Mister Owl which neither of them can find the answer to.
added :) great suggestion!
Nasdaq halts high-speed trading service after regulatory pressure
> DDR5 memory training.

That makes sense. I also have a newer host that uses DDR5 RAM. The first time I powered it up, I thought it was not working. While I was sitting there trying to figure out what to try nest, It finally came up. It gets better with time (or BIOS updates.)
I don't think that's a very relevant calculation. Or at least you haven't articulated why.

It's just a measure of liquidity. A stock can trade 1$ or 0$ per day and still have a market cap of 300B ( see private eq.)

(Maybe you are onto something, if stock iliquid, they got stocks at 0. If stock very liquid they got stocks at actual price.)
I believe there are species-specific components of what pet animals like and dislike in the TV space. But I bet there are also cross-species effects.

Flow is animals being self-actualised. It's not strongly human focussed is it?

It would be possible to write this down to soundscape and flow/colour/movement but that denies the interpretive quality of what animals see portrayed on TV and we have other reasons (Lion King) to think they see even cartoon animals as animals, and display emotional responses to what they see, not just motion stimulus-response, but some "intellectual" model of the story/narrative/events.

I wonder if an TV show could de-sensitize cats to Cucumbers and Zuccini with a narrative purpose in the story? Or, could reflect the "I'm going to sit in this box because it makes me feel good" vibe.
Also because humans are biased towards viewing prime numbers as more counterintuitive and thus more unpredictable.
Aleksey Shipilёv, a long-time Java "performance engineer" (my term) has written and spoken extensively about the challenging of benchmarking. I highly recommend to read some of his blog posts or watch one of his talks about it.
Companies ofc have a record of how much they were issued at.
Not that it necessarily would reflect its market value.
Census data I found is that Ireland has about 7.1 people.

But it also says that the year before the shit completely hit the fan, the Ireland population topped out at 8.18m. 10 years later it was down 1.6m, and another .6m after another 10. And it just kept trending downwards until the 1930's, (4.21m) and bottomed out again in ~1960 before it started growing again.
What a disgrace. People from Cloudflare have been trying to attract the open web community for years now, including posting on HN (hi, jgrahamc!), but they're interfering with a major part of the open web. Now all alternative browsers have to play the user agent faking game.
I really like python as well (definitely one of my weapons of choice for one-off scripts)
I have a feeling it might be because the dot product of two unit length vectors is equal to the cosine of the angle between them.. but that's just a wild guess
I started reading it. It’s very interesting that the author thought computer vision would be the hardest part about robotics.

> Without vision, robots could not move around or manipulate objects. All of the other hardware was there. Legs and balance systems to allow bipedal motion had been in place for decades. Robotic fingers and hands with very fine motor control were easy to create. AI software to set goals and make decisions was getting more powerful every day. Everything was there but the vision system.

It turns out that dexterity has been much harder than vision.
or a middle path solution like https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra
It is the US that has suddenly become unreliable.
A corollary to the above is that it’s impossible for a company to gather personal information but not put it up for sale.

This is doubly true for public companies, as we saw with Twitter.
For those who care about their life and getting things done just install WSL.

You still get to run Windows as normal and have Linux running without messing around or playing with display servers, drivers and the like.
As an interesting factoid these sort of mortality figures were not especially uncommon in naval voyages until surprisingly recently. Scurvy is kind of a joke now a days, but it killed millions of people. It was such a big deal that vitamin c is literally named after it - ascorbic acid, or anti-scurvy acid. But that only happened on into the 20th century!

The idea that such a brutal disease could have been prevented by eating fresh fruits and meats sounded more like a folktale than reality. And early experiments to try to demonstrate this were also not that conclusive since vitamin c tends to break down rapidly in the conditions it was stored in (prejuiced - metal containers). For instance during Vasco de Gamma's journey from Europe to India he lost more than half his crew, mostly to scurvy.
Home Internet is seemingly far more affordable than their phone plans. So they have other ways of encouraging you to use the phone plans.
Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland: The Kindness of Strangers.
By Christine Kinealy

https://books.google.co.id/books?id=GnksAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PR4&hl=...

> He had originally offered £10,000 to the British Relief Association and some ships
laden with provisions, but had been advised by British diplomats that British
Royal protocol meant that nobody should contribute more than the Queen. It was suggested
that he gave half the sum contributed by Victoria.
I agree OP misspoke, but are we sure the time axis has no upper bound? Or that it doesn’t loop back round on itself? Or that it even exists meaningfully as an axis?
My ex who loved history had to learn about it all on her own because she just got civil war history over and over and over. She wasn't even in the proper South. Though I'd get punched for saying that anywhere anyone could here.
Are you talking about the Irish language? Very few Irish people speak it well. Less than 2% use it daily.
You have regulatory reports on quarters that help determine pricing based on sales and book value.

Price stocks were bought at is hard to calculate, but someone suggested liquidity as a proxy.

Price stocks bought at on primary market is interesting but probably irrelevant.
I think the timezones issue can be solved by the user just initially picking their timezone and it stays sticky and you can't change it (maybe for a fee you could = some income for hosting...). The nice part would be that people from 3 timezones would be vibing together for 1hr...
well being homoiconic and dynamic helps quite a bit... This being said, if you squint a bit and get used to the syntax, c++ variadic templates are just a compile-time lisp (really templates are just generalized functions over types) and the template mechanism is 100% pure, with a runtime capability of evaluating those pure monadic computational effects defined at compile-time to runtime, there is no more boundary (not saying it's a thing that should be done all the time). The main advantage then over functional languages is the fact that c++ optimizing compilers are already pretty good at optimization so assuming that you can afford to re-compile at runtime the tight inner loops or critical paths (say at "configuration time" when adding some latency might not be a big deal), a lot of otherwise impossible optimizations could probably be done better (thinking of loop invariants, polyhedral, unrolling, constant propagation, aliasing, row major to column major etc etc) probably the result would also be better than what a JIT compiler and profiler would be able to achieve too.
So unrelated to updates. The tablet just slowed down enough to be unusable while plugged in.

sure is a coincidence that this mirrors other people's experiences.

i still have the nexus. I can mail it to you and you can then diagnose it and be 100% certain that it wasn't updates. Then you can be correct on the internet.

or, here, i am wrong. It wasn't updates. It was crap "google" hardware and planned obsolescence. Or stray gamma rays.

You're right!
Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels
META: Why are this guy's posts insta-dead? Is this because he registered and started "spamming" immediately (responding in this discussion)?
I can say this is definitely something I have noticed in many coworkers from India, but it's also not exactly uncommon in those who grew up and went to school in America. It really blows my mind how many people become literally paralyzed on step zero if they don't already have step by step instructions to complete the task. Even the suggestion of a simple Google search is received as if it were a revelation from on high.
At what point did anyone think cloudflare were the good guys? It’s a facade. They have shown multiple times over the years they are not ok the side of the users. They will try sweep things under the rug unless it ends up on HN or something.
Or said another way, forces carry the structure of G-torsors! The terminology is way too pompous for such a simple concept, though. John Baez has a really clean writeup on them, accessible to anyone interested: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/torsors.html.

Heck, even differences are usually non-physical; it's their ratio that matters. I.e. choosing feet or meters doesn't change the physics; the same goes for energy. So we have two free parameters: choice of origin and choice of units.

Baez only hints at this near the end of the above article, but we can actually fuse translations and scalings into a single group of elements that are combined translation + scale operations, an affine group. It turns out that this combined group is just a certain combination (semidirect product[0]) of the translation and scaling groups, as one would hope.

And once we are thinking about affine groups, it's natural to consider more complicated ones. Most famous is probably the Poincaré group[1]. That is, points in space are physically described by G-torsors over the Poincaré group!

[0]:https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/semidirect+product+group

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_group