skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Graeber & Wengrow's "The Dawn of Everything"[1] pulls the thread a bit about how groups tend to build their identity as oppositional to their neighbors - that a tribe who lives next to one known for its ornamentation will tend to develop a culture that spurns such things. This isn't the first thing I've read about some core part of Israelite identity coming as a strong rejection of their neighbors' way of doing things - there was an article here a while back digging into the prohibition against mixed fibers, as well, and an awful lot of the Levitican proclamations seem to be ways to establish a group identity in opposition to the cultures in which the Israelites found themselves embedded in. Even the concept of God - Reza Aslan (yeah yeah) traces the evolution of the concept of a local god of a people to the capital-G God of creation to early Israelites attempts to keep their culture intact in the face of a military defeat by their neighbors.

1: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-hi...
Considering they only have “hundreds” of paid users despite how much money they’ve likely burned through, I’m guessing they just couldn’t raise enough additional capital to keep the lights on.
> Pigs are thought to be closer to toddlers in intelligence

You're making a common mistake here, in conflating pigs being compatible with toddlers based on a very limited scope test, with being comparable to toddlers in general, which they are not remotely close to being.

Pigs are comparable to dogs, but dogs are much more impressive overall. Lookup dogs like Chaser, for example, and show me a pig that has ever come close.
generally there are no legal fees in a class action suit and the lawyers are doing it for a % of the total award.
This phenomenon became very interesting to me after moving approximately 14 degrees further north (on the northern hemisphere) and experiencing not just shorter and longer days, but more rapid changes in day length during spring/fall.

The impact this has on daily life is larger than I had anticipated, and in general reducing the intensity of the cycle is a selling point for cities closer to the equator. It’s been nine years since my migration north, and I’ve only moved further north so this isn’t a deal breaker for me. It’s mostly something from my childhood and young adulthood that I took for granted. I’m now eagerly awaiting the day when my normal waking time is during dawn, which should be in early April.

I’m still significantly further south than Northern European countries mentioned in this thread. Maybe life has more moves north for me in store.
I'd say some files are text, some are not. And I agree that there's no good way to tell! I think ripgrep has a much harder job than fd, because at least fd can always know that all paths it's searching are valid paths for the OS in use.
It’s pretty clear they ran out of runway.
Elon Musk is the head of the republican party and won the election? Or do you just ctrl+f for "white supremacist" and throw the same shit at every wall you find to see where it will stick?
Employment for computer programmers in the U.S. at lowest level since 1980
Why? My understanding of the argument against seed oils is that they have a high omega 6 to omega 3 ratio, which does not align with historical intake and leads to inflammation. While I'm not a nutritionist, this seems like a perfectly reasonable argument
yes, or even just be able to stand up your own for a longer period while you figure out how to migrate to something else altogether.
His work history doesn't exactly say "pretty good social skills"

If he'd had better social skills, he wouldn't have been fired from x.com and made even more money from PayPal.
It is Konva. You can inspect it in Dev Tools.
> I think it comes from a fallacy of take a small 20-line function in C, it can be made bug-free and fully tested

It can't. You can make yourself 99.9...% confident that it's correct. Then you compose it with some other functions that you're 99.9...% about, and you now have a new function that you are slightly less confident in. And you compose that function with other functions to get a function that you're slightly less confident in. And you compose them all together to get a complete program that you wouldn't trust to take a dollar to the store to buy gum.
I sometimes hang out with people that are super into retiles and amphibians and even somewhat know a guy that raises axolotls for a university, they are very careful about they put on their hands when going out looking for them in the wild or even when handling them as pets and such. No recent use of lotions or hand sanitizer and such. It sucks having to be careful with things like bug spray when you are going to be in prime mosquito territory.
This attack is very active, in contrast to Firesheep. The attacker needs somebody physically close to their Bluetooth device to additionally visit a site they control.

Definitely not impossible, but still a very different threat level.
i think part of it is that if you have one in your project, it's nearly frictionless to have both. the toolchain is the same, and especially if you're using C++, you can and often do have C dependencies
Ironically, that would certainly solve this woman's visa problems.
Yep, that's what started the whole trip. She quotes a tweet in it from someone in the middle of the pandemic about it: https://x.com/localnotail/status/1395393630022553602

"If your Naomi be Klein
You're doing just fine
If your Naomi be Wolf
Oh buddy, big oof."
Related submission with more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410562
The problem is that it is very easy to slide quickly into authoritarianism, as we're seeing in the US. I don't see how "transparency" is served by knowing who someone is or associating them with every piece of speech they've ever uttered. The only use of a system like that is to police thoughtcrime.
Makes complete sense to me. That's how every other business works. Number of detainees is a mostly linear input (aside from the real estate) to opex.
For me they blocked me via the Play Integrity API for using a modified OS. Writing them got me nowhere and there are 100 other similar services so I moved on.

Apparently it's been fixed:

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113869402100735005

But I honestly can't be bothered if they're trying to block me.
We're deeply wired to avoid and attach to things based on extremely simple heuristics. Avoid the strange man with the pointy stick, attach to the tree that makes tasty fruit, avoid the crocodile pond, attach to the thing that makes women flock to you.

Marketing departments and politicians are very good at using this to their advantage.
In general, we selectively credit the engineers when a musk company has a success, then blame musk when there's a failure. So when Teslas have quality issues, we don't blame the manufacturing engineers and technicians; instead, we blame Musk who hand assembled every Tesla out there, right?
>At least Axolotls are practically guaranteed to survive in captivity as long as humans are prolific, thanks to their popularity as pets.

Not to mention in scientific labs.
How much CPU and RAM do all the Loki components use for your workload?

Could you share Loki config, which can deal with 1TB/hr volume of logs?
That's not really the most charitable reading of GP's comment. I think they very clearly mean that Apple does not sell Macs with non-HiDPI displays anymore. It's not a configuration they sell, so they don't need to support those features anymore in their current offerings.

You're right that there's nothing stopping someone from hooking up an HDMI-to-VGA adapter for their 22" Trinitron from 2001, but that doesn't mean boat anchors are a meaningful market segment. It's not a consideration for why they should retain a font rendering feature for a modern OS. You're just going to have to suffer with fuzzy fonts for your retrogaming hobby.
I agree that it's impossible to build a product that satisfies everyone, which is the issue with global tech companies. In my utopian world, we would educate people and develop tools so that communities can build their own tools to cater to their own needs (in the same spirit as unix). I think that's better than what we have today with technocrats in Silicon valley dictating how tech should look and function for the rest of the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided_optimization
The thing I don't get is that there are plenty of Googlers traveling internationally. They've been aware of the problem for over a decade now, yet it persists. If I'm traveling from Spain to Poland with a browser set to use UK-English, why would the site immediately switch to Polish? It makes no sense that this common corner case isn't addressed at all after all this time.

At the very least sites that do this should detect that there's a mismatch between expected language given geolocation and the header and have a toast notification about how to change the language settings back manually.
Or at least don't hate them and then become convinced there are global conspiracies...
Someone told me FaunaDB the company had a strict "no one gets fired" policy. However, they also hired a few toxic people, and that created a dilemma for some folks because it was either leave or learn to tolerate toxicity.
> previously sacrosanct topics like space exploration.

Space exploration was full of misinformation (or corporate BS, if you want to call it that way) for decades.
I like how the position of the map changes to center another place or zooms in to really make you think.

only slight thing is that i wish the map had more contrast, apart from that this is great
This is a wonderful write up. Reminiscent of the old google
This highlights the challenge of smaller proprietary SaaS offerings - they can shut down abruptly leaving you in the bind.

It is great to see Fauna making a commitment to Open Source the project, which will be great option to have for their customers

I wish they would have started with Open Source project to begin with, perhaps future would be different
> GNU grep discards the Unix philosophy in all sorts of places too.

Who ever claimed that GNU was a proponent of the UNIX philosophy? Certainly not me.

> What's actually happening here is that what matters is the user experience, and the Unix philosophy is a means, not an end, to improve the user experience

Yes and no. The expression "user experience" implies that all users are the same and benefit from the same philosophy of software interface design.

> Besides, you can drop ripgrep into a shell pipeline just like you would grep. All that Unix-y goodness is still there.

The "Unix-y goodness" isn't only defined by what it can do, but also what it can't do. I don't want to turn this into a suckless rant, so I won't. Also, not having a mode giving it POSIX grep compatibility really flies in the face of that claim: I want my scripts to work on BSD, MacOS and even Solaris/AIX without having to install stuff.

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I know I may sound very smug but believe me when I say that I really like some of these utils and the care put into them (and I know you're the author of ripgrep) and that I'm no UNIX OpenBSD user (Plan 9 exists for a reason, and I favor CL over C/Go any time of the day). But I really see them as optimizing for/targeting the VSCode/Zed crowd, instead of the vim/emacs one, if you know what I mean.
Strong agree. I had worked at Google for four years before discovering that the API documentation I meticulously wrote was machine translated to other languages. Only by perusing these translations did I realize some API concepts had been translated; I had to overuse the backtick notation for code to suppress these translations.

This is not a just Silicon Valley problem though; Redmond had similar issues if you just use the newer parts of Windows in a non-English language.
Like vitamin C to fix everything that goes wrong on long sea voyages, or removing lead and mercury from diets, avoiding alcohol and thalidomide during pregnancy, abstaining from cigarettes, removing cocaine from Coca Cola, or any number of other additives that are perhaps less clear cut: https://time.com/7210717/food-additives-us-fda-banned-europe...

Avoiding poison is a "quick, easy fix" to the consequences of that poison (or the opposite in the case of vitamin deficiency). Whether there's any reason to believe seed oils are harmful, I have no clue, but the idea that we could be en-masse consuming something harmful has dozens of precedents.
this is a pretty dope app!
that strikes me as odd. I don't see scam ads, ever (you mean like embedded in web pages?) I also don't see much spam anymore, mainly because gmail does a decent job of it. But I still run a few narrow email servers - spam is out there but a lot of it is avoidable though good configuration.
I thought the "Cholesterol Hypothesis" was dead! What is all this whoop-ti-do?
I am currently in year 16 and have been taking web development seriously for about a year. I am a member of two coding groups and it has now become pretty much a hobby. I'm currently working on a SAAS as well. Would love to connect
It really sounds like p-hacking at work. Apple not doing Ok. Board age is ~66. Correlation must be causation.

I think SV is going to wake up to the fact that they have a serious problem not related to the age of their boards. Ppl are getting tired of their antics, especially that of the Buddy-in-Chief. They're picketing Tesla. They're getting uncomfortable with the product. Tired of hearing about AI taking jobs from them. Tired of being told they are slackers not worth a living wage, unlike the multi-billion-dollar CEO's triple and quadruple-dipping for obscene sums, allegedly on 4 hours of sleep. Come to think about it, what is there that is positive coming out of SV these days? It's as if they don't think they really need the public for anything. </rant>
This change puts x86-64-v4 on the roadmap again. It's unclear what happens after that. And before distributions can adopt x86-64-v4, AVX-512 support must be well-established in client CPUs, too.
You're just using the unix pipeline as it was intended. I always prefer this over having to remember a bunch of obscure command line switches.
Sorry, I am a noob here and just learning to use cursor. How do we use the prompts in the cursor directory?
> Essentially, young people want change, old people want stability

Old people have learned that change always means worse.
Corruption is so big that it isn't really matter who is in power, the system functions as intended. (All over the world)
as a saying goes from crypto crowd: not your keys, not your coins.

same might apply to data: not your server, not your data.
iOS 19 and iOS 20 Must Include a Long List of Major Changes, EU Says
https://www.instagram.com/enjoyholywater/reel/C-3VLghyiHy/?l...
$32B for an entity with 500M in ARR? What the blazes are they paying for?
The problematic projection into vectors is done using a window size of a constant number of samples? Isn't that very weird?

Unless the samples are nicely periodic, that makes the contents of a vector, and the position of a value in a vector, dependent only on the window length and the order of time values, and not the time values themselves. Since the ordering in the vector, and thus the meaning of that dimension in vector space, is likely to be effectively random, why would we expect clustering in that vector space to mean anything? It's a weird thing to do on the face of it.
Correct me if I am wrong... she was actually in the US to apply for a new visa with a new company and not on business with the old company.
> as prescribed by the Constitution

The constitution doesn't mention anything about any federal agencies. The Department of State didn't even exist until a 1789 law signed by George Washington.

USAID was established by the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Its express purpose is to fund U.S. foreign economic and humanitarian assistance programs.

If the majority of USAID money is going towards things that do not align with the law that governs it, would you say that fits somewhere under the umbrella of "waste, fraud, and abuse"?
There are a couple other units beyond 8200.

A lot of the 8200 hype is just hype though, because Gili Ranaan and Shlomo Kramer became billionaires earlier than alumni from the other cyber units.
I am not freilanzer, who made the comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410830 to which you responded, so, if you do think an apology is warranted, then it should probably be to them.
This is awesome, I got way more sucked into this than I expected. If you're open to adding more features, a "custom playlist" would be really cool. I'd love to drill myself on the Balkans or West Africa, for instance.
20 years of YouTube this year as well. (In a sense…this past Valentine’s Day was their domain registration anniversary.)

The launch of YC predates the launch of YouTube.
> they can also not pay if they want. It's entirely elective.

even if they pay, he can supply it if he wants, or he can cut them off if it threatens to inconvenience Russia.
The term was 'authoritarian regime', which is generally used for autocratic leaders.

Although 'authoritarian' is also false - political freedoms for the general population are exactly where they were prior to the election, as I'm sure you are aware.
The irony of billionaires deciding it's a waste of money to feed people and prevent AIDS pandemics is lost on some.
What a long gallop.

> If people in government are benefited directly or indirectly by fraud, that's literally included in the definition of corruption.

Yup, that endpoint is fine and can be agreed with.

People in government having a job doing something you think isn't useful isn't corruption, though. And if a few percent of the money their program spends is wasted or benefits other people through fraud-- that's not corruption either.

And the blanket cuts, layoffs, offers for voluntary separation /early retirement, and contract cancellations don't seem to be aimed at the thing we agree is corruption.
>and whatever creed promotes having kids will inevitably win out in 100 years when all the liberal atheists don’t have kids for a few generations.

That is sadly true, the religious seem to be outbreeding the rest of us by a huge factor. On the plus side, religion gets less popular every year, so hopefully it hits a sweet spot where the over reproduction is offset by people losing faith.
I feel like I'm too dumb to understand whether these CA articles of his are interesting or just numerology deep-dives like people who spend their lives "investigating" the torah.
It's been building for decades in alternative health circles.

There's legitimate science about them dating back to the late 80s/early 90s.

In 1999 Sally Fallon published a book called Nourishing Traditions which argued for rejecting modern industrial foods. A lot of the arguments you see today about seed oils originate from this book.

These got amplified in 2014 by Nina Teicholz who published a book called The Big Fat Surprise which made it the topic de jure of alternative health influencers.

Then it's been a steady build across social media for about a decade.
Why do you care where a forum with no regulations is hosted?
Americans eat 12.51 million metric tons of it a year, so it is clearly not exactly poisonous. And "inflammation" is very vague... most people would be better off just increasing their dietary fiber intake and not worry about swapping one fat for another. It doesn't require thousands of people with no education in the area creating social media content about it.
> Hate all you want to Elon, you still need to credit to credit due.

Under no circumstances will I agree that "Elon rescued" anyone or anything. The guy has a fetish to be seen as a rescuer. It's unseemly.

> SpaceX did awesome Job.

Fulfilling a contract they've executed several times before? slow clap
Wow, contributed to today!
>The trend reverses above $200k (in 2021).

I'm ok with that, they wealthy can afford to have more kids.
Compiler are usually deterministic in their function. They use algorithms designed for their purpose, tested to work on many inputs, and integration testing of many programs. They don't hallucinate or do probabilistic things in most cases. They're also much faster than LLM's, especially if parallelized.

I could see LLM's being used to generate compiler configurations or source annotations to improve compiler behavior. They might be good at code generation for prototyping changes to an existing compiler. They're too unreliable and resource heavy to be a good alternative in most cases, though.
That’s what they get for putting their country on the international date line.
Google would have to be contractually bound not to do that, or Wiz customers would flee like rats off a sinking ship, which would significantly devalue their investment.
he closed down all the government departments that had open cases on his contracts.
DevLog: Orbital Mechanics Game in the Browser
I've seen this happen multiple times at multiple places to people. All day in slack but not doing any real work.
Those mostly each fix one specific thing with a clear mechanism.

Seed oil theorists will tell you they cause... a lot more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_oil_misinformation

> The theme of the misinformation is that seed oils are the root cause of most diseases of affluence, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and liver spots.
> People in government having a job doing something you think isn't useful isn't corruption, though

I didn't say anything about that; I don't think I know enough yet to have a fully formed opinion.

But I do think that the overly powerful DC bureaucracy, DC NGOs, and corruption that holds it together is a worthy common enemy for all of us - that's what I'm trying to point out.

I'm actually amazed at Democrats' position on this. I grew up in a Democratic family... We used to be the anti-establishment party! JFK was a Democrat - and he's the one who was apparently taken out by the CIA because he said he was going to destroy it. It used to be Republicans who wanted to keep the institutional status quo in DC.

Either way, I think a pro-Democracy attitude will oppose growing power of unelected officials, regardless of political leanings.
> Got any evidence for that? Is Google in the habit of paying out giant HR-related settlements for something other than protecting good ol' boys like Andy Rubin?

The state of US case law -- IANAL, this is a layman's understanding -- is that plaintiffs only have to show that there exists "disparate impact," which is to say that outcomes were not exactly the same for Asians/whites and blacks.

Two things can be true: 1) Google did not intend to discriminate, did not institute any policy designed to discriminate, did not in actual fact discriminate against non-Asian/white employees; and 2) they could still be held liable for hiring results that look like discrimination in a single-variable analysis.

So, yes, I think there are indeed situations in which they'd pay out settlements knowing full well they've done nothing morally or ethically dubious.
Oh crap. This is from the Eve folks? That was one of those projects where everyone got excited about how new and powerful it was. Then continued programming in PHP out of inertia.
After using nushell for a few month it's really hard for me to go back to the old ways. A million of different tools all with different API and outputs are just not the way to go
I would guess not. An important feature of compilers is that they are guaranteed to emit code with certain properties in response to specific inputs (memory safety guarantees, asymptotic performance, calling convention, etc.). If they don't do that, you can file a bug report.

You cannot file a bug report against an LLM that it produced an unexpected output, because there is no expected output; The core feature of an LLM is that neither you nor the LLM developer knows what it will output for a wide range of inputs. I think there are a wide range of applications for which LLMs core value proposition of "no-one knows a priori what this tool will emit" is disqualifying.