skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's definitely a cultural aspect, but at least among the people I tend to interact with, shouting is very much a last resort.

If you're at the point where the only way to make your point is by being louder than the other guy, then you're really just winning on intimidation rather than persuasiveness. If both people, or multiple people, are shouting, is anyone actually listening? And if not, what's the point of being so loud?

I see your example of being slapped and I mean, I guess it's good that you took that act in a positive way, but, to me if I'm being so closed off that I need to be slapped, I really need to evaluate how I'm acting.

> I wasnt endorsing that, I was saying, that's less healthy than just being angry.

Fair enough, I'm mostly saying yikes to the implied spectrum of [ scary powerful sociopath bent on revenge <------> complete doormat ]. I don't think anyone needs to concoct weird revenge fantasies to be taken seriously unless you work for the cartel or something, and in that case I'd recommend a career change.
The easiest logical way I can make sense of this problem is to apply it to humans. Copyrighted material has tremendously impacted my thinking and work, but I had to pay to access it. And as long as I'm not publishing copies of the copyrighted work, derivative work seems to be fair use. This seems fair for everyone, if they want to train on a resource then they should pay for it.

The only angle I can see this working for OpenAI is pushing the anti-China national security threat narrative, which I expect to see a lot more of this year (especially with this administration). While I personally hate that, I can definitely see how AI + drones are the obvious future in warfare, so I don't think it's that far-fetched to work.
There's more to growing up and being "well adjusted" than walking around as a child, for example the freedom to explore who you are without the "nail that sticks up is hammered down" treatment. I also enjoy a certain amount of diversity (in every sense, from thought to people) that simply isn't tolerated in Japan.
Yes, and they run with kernel level permissions.
Postgres 17.4 was released last month. Show some respect to the devs.
Just more evidence that buying something smart is dumb.
And the obvious solution is to isolate the device from the world. Most of my stereo is isolated from “the world”, and some parts are close to 30 years old. Why does a soundbar need contact with the internet?
Yeah, but even things like biking to school. Nothing to do with conflict.

Currently we're a 39 minute walk from school; a little long for a kid at age 8.

We're like a 10 minute drive, in traffic with lights etc, and I think basically a 10 minute bike ride. There isn't a good biking system because the roads are set up like a grid, and there's no walking path through it.

I think for biking culture to thrive you need bike only or bike/ped paths, otherwise you end up having to bike on busy streets or stop at many intersections.

I'm going to try to organize something like a mini bike bus in my neigborhood.
I prefer to talk to my loved ones at home, usually? What's the use case for eating alone at a restaurant anyway?
counterpoint: if you want to offer takeout at your restaurant it's on you to implement that correctly. if you can't do it right, don't offer it. takeout is for when I want to eat restaurant food at my house, full stop.
The latter poses some security problems, though, which the native messaging API avoids (e.g. random websites being able to connect to the native application and pretending to be your extension).
Couldn't they have just moved to Aurora DSQL and saved all the headache?
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There was a great article a little while back about how “yes, but” is powerful but “no, but” is almost as powerful.

No we won’t do that, but we can do this. Or that is trickier than it sounds but we will think about it until it makes sense.
Is it really that easy? What are the edge cases?
>Whenever they come up, one would observe and act according to Stoic virtues.

I am talking about precisely this. If something happens that angers you or makes you sad, you can always stop and try to alter your natural reaction/thoughts to be more aligned with a more forgiving/serene/understanding nature.

What I am saying is if you do this really well, everything in life just becomes "it just is", and in turn becomes nothing at all
hard disagree, i gave my anecdote as a top-level comment, but they have an across-vertical problem in their company, but why fix it if they make money
Came here to say this. Cockroach solves the sharding issue by adopting consistent hashing-based data distribution, as described in the Dynamo paper. However, their cloud solution is a bit expensive to get started with.
Pretty funny seeing this downvoted.

You might like it when somebody gives two fingers to those damn Russians, but their decision to drop all clients regardless of their political leanings or actions did absolutely nothing to damage the regime, while creating significant problems for projects like OVDinfo that already had their hands full providing legal help to antiwar protesters:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812

Not to mention that most clients moved to Russian registrars instead, this helping to keep more money inside the country.

FUCK namecheap. Their name says it all. If you're still using them, pray you won't run against their politics sooner or later. It's unpredictable, stranger things have happened in the last few years.
I really dislike it when Japan is brought up as a comparison with the US, especially when it comes to crime or schooling. The cultures, poverty levels, and crime rates are so vastly different that it's never helpful.
It's hard to tell if they neglected the original Edge or if they just couldn't keep up with Chrome.

IE was a completely different story, it was full of proprietary Microsoft technology (ActiveX) and a lot of Enterprise applications used it heavily.

Microsoft didn't care about browsers maybe 15 years ago, but this changed a lot. A lot of Microsoft software is just available in the browser, they migrated a lot of things to web technology. That's also the reason they switched their browser to Chromium, they needed to ship something that actually works.
Sincere question - why doesn't RL-based fine-tuning on top of LLMs solve this or at least push accuracy above a minimum acceptable threshhold in many use cases? OAI has a team doing this for enterprise clients. Several startups rolling out of current YC batch are doing versions of this.
I don't think the number of takeout orders will reduce much unless restaurants need a reason to seat customers. Many restaurants didn't have good or any pickup systems prior to COVID and many users hadn't experienced the ease and cost benefits of app-based ordering (reward programs, etc).
I can see that. Although managing the engine is a major part of learning to fly.
Forget Japan for a moment. Walking to and from school unattended is perfectly normal in many countries in the EU. The normalisation of car journeys in the US is bizarre
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Big part of the UBNT vs Cambium dispute. IIRC UBNT won in court, but just to prevent the Cambium firmware being installed on their hardware the next few firmware versions fixed it so that it cant be easily reverted.

Whats worse is that a lot of the affected hardware was near or EOL anyway, so Cambium was simply helping rescue devices headed for the scrap heap.
About 95% of children reported missing to the FBI were found to have run away.

Child abduction by strangers is extremely rare: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wisconsin-missinggirl-dat...
I’m okay with a heavy breakfast. It’s the mixture of Caesar salad, omelette and coffee that doesn’t sit well with me. I’ll take some cold romaine lettuce with my eggs, or some hot spinach, but something about Caesar salad - maybe the dressing? - feels distinctly “lunch or dinner only” to me.
Same.

I bought a couple of Chromecasts for that reason but they're supposedly discontinued now.
I don’t buy that. People like to sit higher than others, and be in a bigger vehicle. It’s a power/status thing.

That is why an SUV is chosen over a minivan.
> essentially long term visas

Not visas which are visitation permits. They are non-citizens who live in the United States. This is not visitation.

Revoking a green card is akin to expulsion from the country. And can only be used when laws are broken, treason is committed, or terrorism is waged.

In the case of the Columbia student, he was accused of terrorism without trial and had his revocation signed single handedly by the Secretary of State. This is a first time for the law to be used.
The thing about codependent relationships is that both parties are guilty. And this has definitely been a banger of a codependent relationship.
why are schools farther away now? That's interesting.
That's a lame take from this. Kids/parents fill out forms that state the typical way the students arrive/depart the school. If they are on a bus route, those kids exit the school from a different exit (side/rear of building) so that the buses queuing up do not interfere with the car queue. Walkers typically exit yet a different set of doors.

The parents that arrive early but have kids that are not ready to be picked up is precisely why the queues get out of control. At least with this method the cars are moved along much faster. If a car arrives in the queue but the kiddo is not yet found, when the car reaches the front it is asked to move to a holding spot out of the queue--much like fast food places do when your order is going to hold up everyone else in line.
$75k. Wow. You'd be lucky to buy a 1 bedroom crack den on the worst estate in the UK for that.

Given the Methodist's reputation for being dour, I'm surprised how nice it looks inside.
Apple's Siri Chief Calls AI Delays Ugly and Embarrassing, Promises Fixes
Could you show me where in those rules it says that you're not allowed to support Palestine? Or possibly somewhere in the rules where you forfeit your right to free speech?
Networking surely does introduce complications especially when TLS is now basically considered required and cert lifetimes are being limited for 'security' reasons. However most consumer devices have functionality, often their primary/most important function, to which network connectivity isn't even needed. For instance, a speaker producing sounds.

In the factory reset state, things should have a USB flash drive firmware install route which could be used to bring back working root certs, etc.

Of course again this depends on whether the mfg is worried about DRM bypass hacks that are found later on in the factory firmware.

I'd support legislation to issue stiff fines for devices that can't be factory reset at any time, with the only exception being for directly-consumer-benefitting anti-theft (so, iCloud lock is okay).
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10917142/

And yet, even for students who live within 0.25 mile of school, a minority walk.
I'm curious how much the CUDIMM thing Intel is doing, where the RAM has its own clock, can help in the CAMM context. The Zen 4/5 memory controller doesn't support it but a future one might.
Chrome for Android doesn't have extensions, but Edge now has a whole store
Microsoft edge's latest build version 134.0.3124.57, just added a whole new web-store for Android user unlike google.
Extensions are great for adding a tiny bit of functionality to a browsing experience without dedicating an entire app to run in the background. For instance, some users like to use VPNs securely tied in from the browser itself rather than running the full-scale app.
Say what else you will about browsers, but they do offer a sandboxed execution environment across all major OSes, only limited by browser capabilities.

There's an argument to be made for limiting some of these permissions to "installed" PWAs, but these beat random Electron apps running with full user permissions in terms of security.
> more to growing up and being "well adjusted" than walking around as a child

Sure. Which of those cohorts do you think has more freedom?

> also enjoy a certain amount of diversity (in every sense, from thought to people) that simply isn't tolerated in Japan

You’d have a point if Japan were the only culture in the world with competent 4-year olds. They’re not. We’re the exception. To the extent there is a bubble it’s the American culture of isolating and surveilling kids to and from school.
It's not. We tried. Plus, it doesn't work on RDS, where most of production databases are. I think Citus was a great first step in the right direction, but it's time to scale the 99% of databases that don't run on Azure Citus already.
In grad school, a friend from China explained that he stayed home on his own starting at like age 3. He was going down to the market outside his high rise apartment, buying basic groceries, and entertaining himself all day. It blew my mind, he saw nothing wrong with it.
School shootings became very publicized twenty years before the pandemic, Columbine in 1999. School shooting drills and lockdowns became more common afterwards as few realistic solutions have been passed and nothing has been done to mollify the fears of parents.
Eating in American restaurants where there is constant pressure to shovel in
the food and leave, is a waste. You feel like you're on an assembly line. What's the point then? On top of that they have the gall to ask for 25% tips. For what? Pressuring me to leave?

I enjoy visiting Eastern Europe(and Europe in general) where a party can sit at a table at 7pm, dine, drink, talk, and relax and remain there until close at 1am if they want. No pressure. Just spending time with people and sharing food together. The table is yours for the evening. No pressure to tip at all yet I tip generously.

America's got it all wrong.
That wouldn't work in US until the whole culture changes. An individual family may do this, and then someone will call child protective services because there is a lost, unaccompanied child.

Happened to my coworker: kids were playing outside and a neighbor called the authorities on them. Not clear if they really thought the kids were in danger, or just did it out of spite, but what ensued was a nightmare of CPS calling the workplace and a few follow-up house visits. The sad part is everyone involved can turn around and claim "we were worried about the children" and use that as a shield for whatever overzealousness or maliciousness may hide underneath.
How do you protect people visiting or participating in YC from ICE? There have been two dozen stories of random tourists being disappeared for no good reason from all over the US.

Given that the policy is in the very early stages of implementation we can expect those numbers to reach the hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands in the next few months.
The real problem with these giant companies is that they can move into entirely new markets, eg. film production, and afford to lose massive amounts of money. They can effectively lose billions of dollars while gobbling up market share and starving the oxygen out of all the existing players in that market who need profits to sustain themselves.

Amazon and Apple are undercutting Hollywood and losing money. They're subsidizing their Hollywood efforts with funds from unrelated business units (hardware, grocery stores, primary care doctors, etc.) You can get cheap (free) entertainment if you subscribe to Amazon Prime shipping, so why spend money on the competitor's product if entertainment is (at some gross sense and scale) fungible?

The thing that needs to be broken up is the ability of these giants to subsidize moves into healthy existing markets or even nascent markets. They push out the incumbents with their massive cash hoards gained from unrelated business unit activity. They don't even try to profit at first until they've captured the market and suffocated the existing players.

It's unfair that Amazon and Apple can make movies, buy out James Bond, Lord of the Rings, etc. off of their trillion dollar market caps, iPhones, and AWS profits. It's unfair that they can plaster free advertising on the side of their delivery vans or get free ad placement front and center in their App Store. That costs everyone else millions of dollars - a large percentage of the unit economics. Big tech has every advantage and is literally murdering entire markets with these insane, unfair advantages.

These giant companies are like an invasive species. They're like lionfish moving into the Caribbean, killing all the local fauna. No natural predators. Complete decimation of the local ecology.

Their behavior disconnects innovation, healthy and rational market monetization, and the actual rewards that should go to the investment and labor capital pioneering those areas. Institutional giants are snuffing out anything they see that they can expand into.

Big companies need to be broken up for the sake of healthy markets and innovation. Big companies are gravitational singularities that distort everything.
The correct answer is right there in the abstract. It’s not even 200 words. You don’t even have to read tfa.
What are you doing with FPGAs? I’m an FPGA engineer and don’t work at an HFT firm. Those types of jobs seem to be in the minority compared to all the aerospace/defense jobs and other sectors.
This was the GM Volt, predecessor to the Bolt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Volt GM ceased production in 2019. The answer to your question can probably be found there, but IIRC [from GM's perspective] the consumer market preferred ICE + battery over electric + generator, especially after the all-electric options came to market and siphoned demand from the latter.
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The vast majority of the US is not like this. Yes, there are some (generally poor, urban) areas with crime problems. The average middle class town or suburb? Walking to school would be safe, if we simply built sidewalks instead of 6 lane highways.
This mentions that Base64 can be smaller than Base122 after compression, but misses that hex encoding can be even smaller still after compression since it preserves the byte alignment of the original data. Keep it simple.
I think Microsoft just doesn't care about ad-blockers. They probably don't have a strong position on it. If they work it's fine for them, if they don't its also fine.

They need to ship a good browser with Windows, because a lot of their enterprise customers rely heavily on web applications. A lot of Microsoft enterprise applications are browser apps. The purpose of Edge is not primarily web browsing.
Or to do something to you with their organs...
LPDDR6 won't go that low, even on CAMM2. The interface is designed for up to 14.4Gbps, with initial modules aiming for 10.6Gbps.
One school of thought (including my own) is that if you’re consuming enough sweetened products per day that you need to consider switching to ones that contain artificial sweeteners (to avoid too much sugar), then it’s time to re-evaluate your lifestyle by questioning why you’re consuming so much sweet stuff to begin with. There are so many other foods that have so many other enjoyable flavors and well-known health benefits that you can make room for in your life.
What? The same way that when you look at the 2fa codes in your app you know which account they are associated with. The qr codes people typically scan for that do not just contain the seed itself but metadata for the account associated with it like email address or account name.
> And they succeed and are fine.

They also literally had a camera and crew on standby while also blocking off streets (off screen).
Hi Peter,
Thanks for doing the AMA. I have a general question/request, but I understand if you think it is not a relevant topic for this AMA.

A lot of people tend to equate foreign workers on work visas with "cheap labor", especially in the so called "white collar" jobs; even though there are things like labor market tests and/or minimum salary requirements which have to be satisfied for many employment based visas. Can you please dispel/corroborate this based on your experience with employment based visas?
on android you can install SoniControl Firewall to "see" the ultrasonics in your house. Try it with all tvs and things off, then try it with the TV on, youtube videos, and so on.

Pixel tracking works better if the TV is connected to the internet. I remember samsung as one of the companies, where, if your TV was not ever given a wifi connection, it would attempt to connect to any open network to do what it needed to do. This sounds unlawful, so i don't know the veracity, but anyhow - if the TV is online, it can just send a half dozen pixels at known locations back home and there is a database of "content pixels at timestamps" and they match the half dozen pixel values to the database and know what you're watching to some degree of certitude.

but for things like dumb panels older TVs and the like, ultrasonics still work.
With all respect, everything happening in the US at the moment is "extraordinarily unusual" today.

Tomorrow it will be the "new normal".
Unless they've already done the changes.

I'm not sure the 20% cost reduction is for a new thing, as they were talking about the difficulty of making a 20% cost reduction to all their cars just as standard practice recently
There is actually a law that prohibits advocacy of nazis while on a green card.
It’s the age old story of change aversion. I imagine one can post-hoc rationalize an argument for the decrease in third spaces and ensuing loneliness or some nonsense that will quote statistics of the quality of “50% of all Americans live paycheck to paycheck”.
Great question and we will publish something for this later on. TLDR: Citus doesn't provide an easy migration path for existing DBs and the managed deployments are pretty much exclusive to Azure. A large percentage of production DBs run elsewhere and don't have an easy way to shard.
It's not lambasting to communicate what happened. IA got a C&D, refused to comply, and got sued for copyright infringement. The courts sided with the publishers when IA tried to claim it was fair use (technologists seem to have a pattern of stretching the definition of fair use). They've put their entire project at risk because they've repeatedly ignored the law here. That's just what happened.
Maybe they are so different because you (and others) won't try to learn from different cultures. If not, probably nothing will change.
There aren’t many places in the US where it is safe AND practical for kids to walk home. If you don’t understand this, then you basically live in a bubble.
I grew up in a suburban area so I am out of touch with the rural experience.

Because the article is comparing the past with the present, I am curious what parents were doing in the 90s in your area? And, what are parents doing nowadays?

I'm assuming, either car or bus. And I can't imagine that would have changed since the 90s unless there used to be a school much closer.
Study: Intermittent fasting 'no magic bullet for weight loss' (2021)
This calls me heavily towards the quoted note about halfway through:

"Does nobody make apps for fun anymore?"
This is a reality TV show. They have a full crew following the kids around.

Like any reality TV, you're only seeing the story they want you to see.

Nobody should be gauging reality based on what you see on reality TV shows.
(2016) Discussion at the time (192 points, 66 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13049329
School shootings happen at school, not to and from them. (Obviously kids get shot. But mass shootings requires amassing.)
So what kind of macro event might nudge us back to sociability?
In the ancient times there was a startup called The Grid. Very hyped. They implemented the Cassowary layout algorithm for the web and called it GSS.

I loved the idea of GSS but it never caught on:
https://gss.github.io/
To write a blog post! "I used AI to solve this challenging problem" gets more traction than "I solved this challenging problem"