skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By cyclicity of powers of 2 mod 10^l (that's why we chose this l), this means that 2^(k - 1) = a*10^l + b, where a is some integer and b is 1,2,4,32 or 1024 (because those are the only options with digits less than 5 mod 10^l).

I'm pretty sure this is the part where the argument breaks down. Just because 2^(k-1) mod 10^l only has small digits doesn't mean that it corresponds to a lesser power of 2 with small digits. E.g., 2^18 ends in 2144, which is not one of 1, 2, 4, 32, or 1024. (And for that matter, 1024 ends in 24.)

The hard part is showing that eventually you must hit a digit greater than 4 if you look at a long-enough suffix.
> But if you take monetary considerations out of it, it's always better to stop emitting sooner rather than later.

No, it might or might not, depending on (a) the embodied emissions of creating the new product and (b) how soon it will be replaced by something even more efficient.

It's easiest to understand the importance of point (b) by going to extremes: Suppose that, every week, a new model of EV comes out that uses 99% as much energy as the previous year's model. If some nonzero proportion of electricity is generated from fossil fuels, then ignoring point (b) would imply that the rational thing to do would be to buy the new car each week, regardless of how much CO2 went into building it.
It's not cheaper. However, Coca-Cola does consume an enormous quantity of water and it is popular and it does drive the cost of water up. I'd prolly be pissed too if I were mexican.
If you are so smart that you are able to do this, why don't you want to learn Lisp? Cobol is mostly USA-only AFAIK and there aren't much reasons to keep Cobol except not wanting to buy new hardware.
This assuming you already have some idea what's going on.

I was turned away from any attempt at diagnosis, because neither facility seemed to know (or care) which department to send me to...

I was ready to sign a blank check - but they seemingly refuse to hurt their stats with potentially unsolvable cases...

Form a reply if you disagree...downvoting doesn't change the fact that even these top facilities end up embarrassing us as a nation...
Are you saying there is some hidden reason why people are doing this? The straightforward reason is that this is a valuable fungible good that you can easily fence. This kind of thing has always been a target for the criminal element. Watches before this. Chains.

We don’t need another social science thesis over this. Just like the blonde millionaire in San Diego who organized a crime ring in California, there are people who know how to run other criminal organizations.
> An early lesson was not to melt it and incorporate fuel on a kitchen stove.

That was, indeed, an aspect of the problem I alluded to before. I have made it a few times before, and I was going to use the gas grill outside, but it seemed to be acting up, and I didn't trust it, so I thought it would be "safer" to move inside.

Combine that with me iterating on a few different batches with "improvements", such as lining the bottom of the pan with tinfoil so I could lift it out, and then next making an extra large batch... well multiple lessons were learned that day, including how to deal with insurance companies from some shrewd negotiating from my parents, given most the entire kitchen needed to be replaces and the entire house needed to be scrubbed floor to ceiling.

> Not sure how we made it through our youth without learning what the inside of a jail cell looked like, but I suppose things were different before 9/11.

Ha, probably true, especially since my recipe came from a copy of the anarchist cookbook my older brother happened to have (and I wouldn't be surprised if you happened upon it the same way). It's got a lot of dangerous stuff in it, but honestly, as a tool for sparking curiosity it works pretty well.
> Jobs was kind of infamous for making people put their app / product in front of him while he sat in silence and used it. Harder to fake.

Yes, faking that really well is basically equivalent to actually doing it for real.

Of course, there are many good and worthwhile things an exec could have done that wouldn't show up in such a demo.

Eg if you increase reliability of your cloud services from 99.9% to 99.9999% that could be huge, but most likely wouldn't show up in a short demo.

On the bullshitting front: I remember a particular re-organisation we went through at Goldman Sachs that the local bigwig was explaining to us, and all the benefits it would bring. I made the perhaps unwise decision to ask what observable measurements we could take in a few months to tell us whether the whole thing was a failure (or success).

(I suspect the actual main purpose of these semi-regular re-orgs is to shake things up enough so that after a few shuffles person A can eventually land ahead of his former boss B, without anyone ever losing face. And that's a good thing! But hard to admit to.)
California has an EV-specific registration fee. It started at $100/year, is now $200, and will be $274 starting in 2028.

I don't have data on what fraction of CA's gas & related taxes go to actually building and maintaining roads. (CA does divert money from the transportation fund, which is funded by one of the gas taxes, to "not road" transportation and road stuff for "not cars/trucks.")
It's a threat to transgender travellers; I know many in the tech industry. The U.S. is now denying entry visas to transgender travellers as well.
> There's a corner of the Internet where people have been reclaiming their digital independence by hosting their own websites

Or you can log off. There's no need to post. Plus there are church doors in your physical community.

I don't really see much benefit to hosted blog posts when the conversation is on social media.
Preventing third parties from intercepting encrypted traffic isn’t the point of deep packet inspection (DPI).

Organizations implement DPI to PREVENT outbound encrypted connections to unknown external servers to keep internal data LEAVING the organization.

In other words, the point of DPI is to prevent unauthorized encrypted connections to unknown servers.
I feel grateful I live in a large condo with concierge service that always receives my packages. I've never had a package stolen since moving in.
This is what a planned economy really is.
Especially the last part.
No, I’m arguing with someone who thinks I’m saying arbitrary arrests are not new (in fact I believe those aren’t new either, but I’m not arguing that and can’t be bothered to dig up sources), when I’m saying not being able to attend conferences in the U.S. is not new.
> People that are learning the current tech ecosystem are absolutely not learning web fundamentals. They are too abstracted away.

This might be the solution in many cases. For small projects vanilla js is quite pleasant to use.

For bigger projects React helps structure things for sure. I am for "vanilla react", or prop drilling, hooks and context. No state libraries or fancy shit.
Genocide denial and denial of state atrocities are illegal in some jurisdictions. Are you sure this is a risk you're willing to take?

At October 7th the Gaza strip was under occupation, with the population on the verge of starvation. That is not peaceful. It was also the deadliest year in a long time for palestinians in the occupied West Bank. An openly genocidal, kahanist-likudnik government had taken power in Israel.

Whatever "luxuries" got into the Gaza strip came through the smuggling network. And either way, armed resistance to occupation is a right. I'd argue it should be under apartheid as well.
Selling shovels.
Thanks! I am a LibreOffice user and I was not aware that Microsoft 365 had version control.

My software renames the file and appends a unique tracking number. So it is possible to track versions of any file without restrictions.
A lot of people are now very aware of that risk.
Dumb people voted them in, dumb people made them rich and they know it.

This is staring to look more like an assault on the educated. Maybe its time we sharpen our pencils.
> If what you desire is a tiny, curated web full of like minded skilled technologists, like it was before Usenet eternal September, that exists today.

I mostly remember porn. Granted, i was a child.
Lucky to be alive hey.
Yes and some of the links to the “traumatizing” deportations are for people who are clearly in violation of their visas.

I had a friend deported from Denmark when he overstayed his visa and it was basically the same thing.

Some of these look really bad and could be sensible justification for the proposed boycott/cancellation (see French scientist eg) but a lot of it looks completely hysterical.
That depends on the policy. But you are right that my analysis only really applies for repeat players.

So if you have two insurance providers with the same written down policies, but one provider A usually pays out, and the other B fights it tooth and nail, then provider A has an easier time selling their services for a higher price. Reputation matters.

Thus in the end (assuming some competition) the actual policies as implemented matter more than what's written down.
>think the current administration is likely open to technology-first solutions to reduce friction

People really need to stop believing the lies they're using to "justify" their actions in public.

More friction, mistakes, and inefficiencies are the point here. Lookup "Starve the Beast".

They have very openly stated the purpose of this is to destroy government institutions to get back at "the deep state". The deep state = their enemies. It isn't about improving budget. It isn't about improving efficiency. This is just about destroying the government and harming the correct people.

All this also has the added benefit of removing regulation/oversight which is gonna let certain people(Musk, Trump, etc) fleece the government of money/power.
Regardless of the political situation, the EU is probably a more friendly environment for a standards body taking their stance in interoperability into account.
Yes but you said that "sunrise and sunset are solar reckoning" and I wasn't taking issue with the topic of lunar/solar calendars because calendars don't count off or delineate the hours in a day.

Every calendar that I'm aware of considers "days" as an abstract unit which consists of one planetary rotation, without nuances of activity or visibility of external bodies, right? True?
Or go full circle and use something like GameFace to render react in your app, in the browser!
To understand this reaction it might be a good idea to watch this Yoav Shamir documentary from 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAjc1OSrmY .

It is antisemitic to equate 'the jews' with zionism and the state of Israel.
I cannot overemphasize how dumb it is to allow your isp to see what you're doing.
I noted that a bunch of physicists met in Cancun on December 10th to discuss the new Galaxy survey that led to questioning the stability of the strength of deep energy.

Those guys were pretty smart
Apache Kafka 4.0
Amundsen: A data discovery and metadata engine
In a historical context “wellness farms” is understood as a euphemism for concentration camp. It’s free but you can’t leave.
This would have been a much better comment without the scare quotes.
Technically correct. The best kind.

Maybe _I_ am the sad old person here, with my stale opinion of World Wide Web equals the browser?

Nah. It must be children who are wrong.
Agree, Siri is a damaged brand. Microsoft had the insight to drop Cortana when it flopped too.

In the age of LLMs I also increasingly view my experience with "Hey Google" and "Alexa... " with similar contempt. Their output feels so bad compared to what ChatGPT's voice gets me. All of the big tech companies seem to be struggling immensely to deploy the latest in AI advancements.
I don't know why anyone believes that the push for Apple Intelligence was driven by middle management. Sure, engineers could have pushed back because they knew more about the limitations of the tech, but engineers aren't one to understand the macroeconomics driving industry-wide demand and long-term growth.
Jellyfin Android TV client and web client work great.
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A wise man once wrote, "There is nothing new under the sun" (King Solomon, ~2500 years ago), but the frontend cult refuses to accept that. They reinvent the wheel multiple times a year, failing to realize they are going in circles. Every so-called "new" thing falls victim to the Pareto principle — it solves only 80% of the problems introduced by the last shiny thing, meaning progress is merely asymptotic.

They also seem oblivious to the short history of programming. In general, there are three main branches: imperative, functional, and logic programming — with the latter two being built on imperative foundations. Yet the frontend cult acts as if they're groundbreaking by introducing pattern matching via discriminated unions in TypeScript, a concept that has existed in functional and logic programming for over 50 years.

In other words, they behave like brats.
I work for a US company that almost exclusively hosts internal get-togethers in Cancun.

It's much better value for money than anywhere in the US.
I have been going to IETFs on and off for 20 years. As if the past few months were not nauseating enough in the US, I never thought I would see my own country on a page like this, and described in this way, and I feel even more deeply saddened, ashamed and horrified.
If AI starts deciding our lifestyle, we are not the masters anymore!
Please don’t use nested functions; they’re a security nightmare.
We need to start taxing vehicles based on the damage they are responsible for.

The 4th Power Law is a principle in road engineering that states that the damage a vehicle causes to a road surface is proportional to the fourth power of its axle load. This means that even small increases in axle load can cause exponentially greater damage to the road.

A Prius causes about 50,000 times more damage than a bicycle.

A truck causes 16 billion times more damage than a bicycle.

A truck causes 31,000 times more damage than a Prius.
In this context, a "doer" might commit to an agenda, making ongoing decisions that furthered accomplishment and success on that agenda. While their nominal role is to decide, the decisions they make are organized to effect some end.

In contrast, a "discusser" or "decider" makes decisions in order to satisfy the social role of making decisions, but often with a lack of surety, clarity, follow-through or commitment. Perhaps in fear of missing some greater opportunity, or fear of being credited with some failure, their decisions are not organized in a way that actually effects some end.
A lot of people forget that it was only recently that the Photos app on your iPhone could run OCR text search on pictures in your phone. Google had that feature on their phones many years before Apple.
What Is Growth Engineering?
this is literally propaganda in the purest form.
Engines are hard, but Honda's problem always was the gearbox, which is much harder. And it's not simulatable.

But I like Honda. They have the very best company leader.
> just to be liked

It's not merely about "likability" but more about carefully controlling the messaging, and avoiding controversies or really bad missteps.

A defendant or plaintiff can choose to remain totally silent in a court of law and speak through their attorney. The attorney filters what their client has to say, recasts it in legal terminology, and everything the attorney says and does should protect the interests of the client and the court, in opposition to the other side.

It's also about a division of labor: for God's sake, what CEO/politician/bishop wants to open all his own mail when a secretary can filter it? What CEO is going to read social media all day and respond to their DMs? Waste of a salary! Does Mr. Musk or President Trump really write all the covfefe on his own, or does he employ ghost writers? How would we know?

A PR firm likewise has a fiduciary and legal duty to protect the interests of an entity, to keep them out of litigous entanglements, and yes, to put on the best public face that they can in order to 'be liked'. Unless the org has some weird reason to play the villain or adversary in some way, and likability is not an ultimate goal, such as a gangsta rapper with a public beef, I suppose. They still use social media to sell music.
„[…]struggled to manifest its work into successful product wins […]“

working in AI/ML, is there any recommended literature one may read on how to ensure efforts result in products? Would be interested to access more experience to benefit both an engineer and a manager pathway.
Ah yes. That is brilliant until it isn't. For any reasonably complex business problem you will run into:

* Performance issues: table scans, high memory usage for joins, crazy sql execution plans, lock contention

* Security problems: especially around authorisation. Who can see what data. You'll start to need rules engines written as stored procedure or some shit.

* Business logic: can a SQL work out the country city, state and federal tax for the address? Maybe it can. Maybe that query will grind the system to a halt. Maybe you'll slap redis and 1000 sql replications. Maybe you are no longer just doing SQL!

Yeah fortunately for all of us shit is complicated and needs bespoke thinking to solve each problem.

There are problems where your ideas work well (typically consumer facing startup types who can rewrite when they raise a bit more money).

If that is how you do things I know the conversations you'll be having next year already. And that is from just ORM abuse not even front end SQL.

I tried to use Firebase in earnest which is the ultimate in that approach and it is awful. You hit a bunch of new and worse problems because you don't want anything to do with an EC2.
In what historical context was “wellness farm” used as a euphemism?
you dont really need to understand how something works to know if it works.

theres 8 billion of us because of farming. most of the farmers dont really know how it all works.

woudln't it be cool to make nodules and go drop them in barren parts of the ocean and then they become seeded?
Here though they're not replacing a random person, they're replacing _you_ (doing the search yourself). _You_ wouldn't look at the top X hits then assume it's the correct answer.
This is happening in Germany too, but in another form. The delivery is handed personally, you sign or confirm it. The package is sealed, but when you open it, there’s something else in there, usually of the same weight as to not trigger alarm bells along the way. The phone or tablet disappears along the way somehow.

Then you go into a kafkaesque process with Amazon, who say “sure buddy, we sent you something else”, and then you have to file a police report and probably have to claw the money back which leads to the forfeiture of your account.

A good solution I’ve seen from Otto, another big eshop here in Germany is that they seal the package with tape that can’t be removed without damaging either the tape or the box and you are instructed not to accept the package if it’s been tampered with.
Guys is it C++ when I don’t accidentally leak memory
No, neither the USA or UK are really independent on this program. They are mutually dependent on each other.

The USA does have all of the technical data packages so in theory we could probably get domestic suppliers to make the components we currently get from the UK but it would take several years. The reverse isn't true, though. The UK simply no longer has the capacity to support such a complex program on their own. They sacrificed their defense industry years ago and accepted dependence on the USA so that they could fund social programs.
I'm surprised to see Tonsky here

Mostly because I consider the state of the art on this to be Clojure Electric and he presumably is aware of it at least to some degree but does not mention it
Thoughtbot is pausing activity on X and Meta
If you talk to a parent of a child who OD'd, most commonly of fent these days, they all have this thought.

What if I took them somewhere remote where there are no drugs and didn't let them leave?

My heart hurts for them, but I have no idea if it's a good idea or not.

Regardless, I think his heart is in the right place. Time will tell whether or not it's actually useful.
The full quote extends that to adderal. To be clear he said the wellness farms would be for those who want to go, and he's describing a massive undertaking that you'd see coming before it was implemented.

But he was definitely talking about ADHD. This tweet has the short video of him actually including adderal.

https://x.com/MotherJones/status/1816180369110270435
> Some have been tortured.

Is there any evidence of this?
> doing things unpredictably and appearing arbitrary, they try to create a situation where feels safe - it could happen to anyone.

This is a great point: doing menacing things here and there creates a sort of illusion that they can do menacing things everywhere at once, which they actually cannot.
Gemini has access to your Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive, Keep, and Tasks, as well as Flights, Hotels, Maps, YouTube, YouTube Music, OpenStax, and of course the entire web more generally.

> Nothing else has access to relevant data.

Simply not true.
Seems like a good system, but it will only work if Amazon is the one doing the final delivery…

In cases like this where it is third party (in this case FedEx), there’s no way to manage that.
> also the NYT tech staff are unlikely to be offshored

I agree with most of your list, but not this one. Tech staff is one of the easiest jobs to offshore. It has been happening since the early 2000s in the US to lower cost locations (mostly India, the others later). Is there anything special about the NYT tech staff that makes them less likely to be offshored?
Yet somehow - just like school shootings - this appears to be a much worse problem in the US compared to many other countries.
LLMs always do. "I'm very sorry to hear that, seems like you are going through a lot" yadda yadda.

ChatGPT has been giving me too many emojis lately, however. I might tell it to avoid the use of emojis.