skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Azure isolates VM's is completely unrelated, because containers are not VM's. And if you meant to assert that Azure uses hardware assisted isolation between tenants in general, that was not the case for azurescape [1] or chaosDB [2].

[1] https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/azure-container-instance...

[2] https://www.wiz.io/blog/chaosdb-explained-azures-cosmos-db-v...
First rule of understanding: you can never understand that which you don't want to understand.

That's why lying is so destructive to both our own development and that of our societies. It doesn't matter whether it's intentional or unintentional, it poisons the infoscape either accidentally or deliberately, but poison is poison.

And lies to oneself are the most insidious lies of all.
A good non-bluetooth headset. Logitech makes some with a wireless dongle. I use a Sennheiser DECT headset. Most DECT headsets have pretty tinny cordless phone type sound but this one has an ultra-wideband mode that sounds pretty nice. Can also walk around the house with 0 connection issues.
I grew up in Vietnam, where freshly cooked meals were a daily staple. Getting them was effortless—just a few steps from home.

Coming to the U.S., however, turned this into a major challenge, especially while raising my own kids. Ultra-processed food is everywhere, and preparing fresh meals takes significant time, even though I’ve become quite efficient (a typical meal takes 30–60 minutes).

While this doesn’t fully solve our food challenges for kids, it’s a step in the right direction for the future.
Three bypasses of Ubuntu's unprivileged user namespace restrictions
Considering the crumbling infrastructure, high demand for trades, increasing deportations, etc. blue-collar workers will likely see their compensation increase while white-collar workers see theirs decrease. The next industry for SV to disrupt needs to be construction. White-collar workers will see a demand for software tools that increase the efficiency of the trades.
That's brilliant advice.
That's the worst when you buy a new part and it still doesn't fix it, you rarely think that the new part could be bad, especially something like a battery that generally wouldn't have problems fresh from the store.
Presumanly is tax evasion if you buy them elsewhere then import them into your country without paying the required import duties.
Banning foods that contain any amount of added sugar, except for sweets that are explicitly marketed as such, is very reasonable and would go a long long way in helping manage the obesity crisis.
Yea, I was under the impression that Sysco absolutely dominated the market for providing cheap, ultra-processed "food-like product" to schools and prisons.

The food is one of many aspects where it's hard to tell the difference between a US school and prison.
Similar experience/perspective as the gp. People in different places are, in many if not most cases, just fundamentally different in countless ways.

I think both genetics (personality, among endless other characteristics is significantly to majority heritable and going to have different distributions in different areas) and environment/culture play significant roles.

But an interesting thing is that by the time people are adults, perhaps even before, the environmental factors have irreversibly changed them so marginalising cultural factors as "just" environmental doesn't really paint a fair picture.

For a person who's happy to travel/live just about anywhere this makes having children doubly fun, because you basically get to decide the 'cultural mold' for your children, which is really neat!
Ah yes, we should wait for irrefutable proof to determine whether nutrient-dense real foods are better for our children than the ubiquitous ultra-processed food made up of ingredients that are entirely foreign to the human body.

Over 50% of American kids are dealing with chronic illness. The food supply is the #1 culprit.
Nah, even at retail prices canned tomatoes are less than a dollar a pound if you buy the big cans (#10, approx 6 lb / 3kg).
We've already built things in computing that we don't easily understand, even outside of AI, like large distributed systems and all sorts of balls of mud.

Within the sphere of AI, we have built machines which can play strategy games like chess, and surprise us with an unforseen defeat. It's not necessarily easy to see how that emerged from the individual rules.

Even a compiler can surprise you. You code up some optimizations, which are logically separate, but then a combination of them does something startling.

Basically, in mathematics, you cannot grasp all the details of a vast space just from knowing the axioms which generate it and a few things which follow from them. Elementary school children know what is a prime number, yet those things occupy mathematicians who find new surprises in that space.
I think you're dead on. Growing up I hoped for a Star Trek future. Now all I see is Alien without all the xenomorphs.
It's a big stick to point toward Iran.

Flying from Diego Garcia means they can takeoff without anyone reporting them inbound.
I would assume Diego Garcia does have the facilities for B-2s. The B-2 has been based there fairly frequently in the past, I believe.
There are now eight antitrust lawsuits against them by seven states + the DOJ. The DOJ and some states have started adding major landlords to their suits as well (since it is a cartel).

Sadly, courts move slowly so it will probably be years before a decision.
I saw them in Toronto that year. 1990.

OK, wow, that was a long time ago.
> In the long run the invisible hand will dole out rewards and punishments

Only in competitive markets.
This does not prevent gentrification or changing the vibe of the neighbourhood. One can see that as a positive or a negative, just wanted to call that out.
Bridge the Gaps in Scientific Workflows
This article summarizes my understanding of the role workflows play in modern research and how BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) tools can help remediate some of these issues.
Hi Ben! You should definitely not use Dagger Shell as your default shell. It's meant to complement it rather than replace it.

From the post:

> Dagger Shell isn’t meant to replace your system shell, but to complement it. When a workflow is too complex to fit in a regular shell, the next available option is often a brittle monolith: not as simple as a shell script, not as robust as full-blown software. The Dagger Shell aspires to help you replace that monolith with a collection of simple modules, composed with standard interfaces.
How is this customisation not equivalent to just a cursor or windsurf rules file?
De-Atomization is the Secret to Happiness (2022)
Limiting tenants' rights is good for vast majority (95%+ at least) of tenants.
The way it is there are more and more obstacles (insurance, requiring proof of contract/work, very high deposits etc.) to just rent an apartment or a house.
If the government thinks everyone deserves a roof then the government should build cheap, simple housing of last resort instead of forcing the property owners to take the risk.
not all hospitals and not all schools and not all kindergartens. some do, some serve really bad food.
So, a startup failed. Liquidate and try something else, as YC does.
I see, so it depends on a cli tool being available. I will check what other options are available out there.

It would be great to run local models at the same level one day. I am sure that Claude is making your wallet feel quite light :)
The US has a lot of 'food deserts', areas where there's no easy access to a supermarket with fresh food. But there's usually plenty of fast and processed food available, and it's often cheaper than fresh.
I always thought it was weird how they call left-leaning people "snowflakes", as if lefties are super easily offended. Some are, but I don't even think it's the majority.

But you know who is easily offended? The people who pretend to be offended by the term "happy holidays" every year. The people who pretend that a child seeing a gay person is somehow going to groom them. The people who pretend that seeing a black person in a starring movie role is really upsetting them. The people who pretend that mentioning that trans people exist is causing some sort of societal collapse.

And I am saying "pretend" very deliberately, because I genuinely do not think that anyone is actually offended by the term "happy holidays". I think that literally every single person who says they are is actively lying.

It's utterly ridiculous. I am pretty left learning, at least by American standard, and I am generally speaking pretty hard to actually "offend". I will generally discuss basically any topic no matter how taboo, I make jokes that most people would consider offensive, I say curse words, and I don't pretend to get offended when a conservative says something really dumb.
Doesn't seem so hard to believe that Latino moderates were worried about Trump in 2016 and somewhat less worried about him and more worried about inflation in 2024...
Mathematicians Find Proof to 122-Year-Old Triangle-to-Square Puzzle
B-2 can carry certain ordinance that B-1B can't (due to length of the bomb bay).

Forward deployment is to allow transit and arrival entirely over-water.
I would call it culture. How you are educated, what you see around since day 0 on. It is very hard to escape it and unless you travel and live in another country you will not even be aware of such things (and even then you need a certain level of introspection).
> The ModMic Wireless also works around the "Bluetooth sound quality is shit in headset mode" issue, since your headphones are in output-only (A2DP) mode

I will never understand for the life of me why the hell bi-directional high-quality audio over Bluetooth still isn't a thing, even in 2025.

Bluetooth has MORE than enough bandwidth. 320 kbps output gives you damn near lossless quality, and just 128 kbps would be plenty for single-channel microphone audio, and honestly even just 64 kbps would be be fine. You would need at most 500 kbps. Bluetooth is capable of more than that.

Even if there's no bidirectional high quality standard (HFP is bidirectional, but low quality), Bluetooth allows simultaneous logical connections of multiple profiles at the same time. Sure, your computer has an A2DP connection as the source to your headphones as a sink. Why can't a headset also open a second A2DP connection with itself as the source and the computer as the sink?

It just doesn't make sense that a spec that's been around for what, 20 years has failed to keep up. I hate that as a gamer, I can't use the Bluetooth built into my motherboard to use a gaming headset if I want high quality audio. I have to get a headset with a proprietary dongle and then remember to bring it with me to LAN parties.
:-D Can't deny that. I have not tried it myself. (Possibly "yet".)

I did try Wubuntu.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/wubuntu/

Not good.
I feel like he has considered everything. He also has AbacOS which is an abacus-based operating system, for when we run out of energy, then HamstOS for a hamster-wheel powered operating system
A chess program from 1968 has "strategy", so why deny that to an LLM.

LLMs are built on neural networks which are encoding a kind of strategy function through their training.

The strategy in an LLM isn't necessarily that it "thinks" about the specific problem described in your prompt and develops a strategy tailored to that problem, but rather its statistical strategy for cobbing together the tokens of the answer.

From that, it can seem as if it's making a strategy to a problem also. Certainly, the rhetoric that LLMs put out can at times seem very convincing of that. You can't be sure whether that's not just something cribbed out of the terabytes of text, in which discussions of something very similar to your problem have occurred.
>>>He never struck me as a kind or peaceful person, thus not sympathetic, unlike the heart-filled and -oriented Mr. Gibson (who has been sober for quite a while). This man of familial wealth was (I guess) probably drunk at the time, and I wonder if he'll ever understand that using your gifts of affluent life and highly educated talent with words should be worth more then gossiping about your family, hooking up with any person you find attractive, and spending your life in pubs, as I gather from his wikipedia page.

>>>It just goes to show that we should treasure each day, and not waste it while we still have good ones.

I've been thinking lately about why, as I get older, I don't really have a desire to drink a lot or hedonistic behavior in general. I think maybe that's why. As I've become more aware of my own aging and mortality, I don't really want to just throw away a day (or more if you count hangovers) like that.
There's a lot of effort to conflate basic civil liberties with fringe social issues, tie them together, and burn down the civil liberties because they're just 'fringe social issues.'

There are some fringe issues supported by some democrats, but the real base of the party is black voters and their civil rights are the real target. Conservatives still haven't forgotten about being forced to end segregation in schools, nor have they giving up on trying to re-segregate.
> just that the financial impact to liability insurances in such cases used to be waaaay lower even 20 years ago than it is now.

Sure but everyone mostly accepted that malpractice just happened and lived with the results back then, things are better now.
There needs to be some more research on what path the model takes to reach its goal, perhaps there is a lot of overlap between this and the article. The most efficient way isn't always the best way.

For example, I asked Claude-3.7 to make my tests pass in my C# codebase. It did, however, it wrote code to detect if a test runner was running, then return true. The tests now passed, so, it achieved the goal, and the code diff was very small (10-20 lines.) The actual solution was to modify about 200-300 lines of code to add a feature (the tests were running a feature that did not yet exist.)
As a YIMBY, ADUs are an introductory "first step" policy that should obviously be legal, but were never expected to have any real effect.

True YIMBY policy would be zoning for six-story apartments by-right citywide, with density going up to 20 stories near rapid transit.

But even policies that sound great on paper are often sabotaged by cities with unworkable affordability requirements that prevent anything from being built.
Diego Garcia has four dedicated climate controlled hangars for the B-2 Spirit. Each one can house a single aircraft.

More than 4 and they are only visiting.
The stuff of nightmares . . .
Extremely processed. Only choice is to buy it directly from a factory. I would like my kids to have real food options. The only way I can do that is to pack their lunch most days. They’re young so that works for now, but they will probably not be packing a lunch in high school.
The market only seems for the hurting other people part.

Obama voters who voted for Trump didn’t vote for better healthcare. They voted to hurt healthcare insurance workers. They then voted to hurt someone else with Trump.

As they first seemingly voted for universal healthcare and then voted for abolishing what public healthcare the USA had. That’s not consistent with caring about it as an issue at all.

I can accept that politically, the Dems may need an enemy. Shared hating of someone is a potent bonding agent.
I was wondering the same. I’d love to see a quick head to head, in realistic non studio wfh environment, starting with macbook mic, and then at $50, $100, $300 mic investments.

Anyone got the setup already in front of them at their zoom desk and want to make us a 5 minute comparison video?
Seeing how the concept of race is a social construct with absolutely zero science behind it then no.
How would you say it compares to Firecracker?
Forgot the elephant in the room here. Public transit fatality rates per mile are much lower than driving your own car.
We all differ in nature and nurture - in subtle and major ways.

We're knowledgeable people here, so we know there's no such thing as race other than as a human artifact. As human artifact, it can certainly affect how we think and therefore how we behave.
Keeping stuff past retention dates is such a high liability for companies, I'm surprised they didn't sue you guys to fix it faster.
>On a purely numbers basis the older generation of homeowners far outnumber the young.

The point is numbers of voters. There are more young voters now than older voters, this is why we are seeing things change at the state level. Now that many millennials are in there 40's with no real shot at home-ownership it's starting to freak people out. Which is why we will continue to see the YIMBY and Strong Towns movements, not just grow, but accelerate in growth.
Successful security assessment of our Android app
When I was in elementary school in the US in the early 90's lunch was made in the school kitchen. Every school in the district did the same. By the time I was in 7th all of the lunches were Food Service items warmed and shoved in a foil pouch at one school to drive to every other school.

It is completely my bias but to me this is the result of cronyism. A couple corporations make an enormous amount of money off shit food sold to schools. The problem is that it is way cheaper to buy prepared food and have a few people warm it than having cooks at each school.
Book Review: Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
When being trained via reinforcement learning, is the model architecture the same then? Like, you first train the llm as a next token predictor with a certain model architecture and it ends up with certain weights. Then you apply RL to that same model which modifies the weights in such a way as to consider while responses?
Thank you for nailing this down.
So basically nix-shell ?
>"Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law."

So dumb.. she has a degree in law and was a very successful prosecutor.

>"Harris was elected attorney general of California in 2010, becoming the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to hold the office in the state's history.[56] She took office on January 3, 2011, and was reelected in 2014.[57] She served until resigning on January 3, 2017, to take her seat in the United States Senate."

Doesn't sound dumb at all. Your comment is sounding pretty dumb though.
Landlords typically despise property taxes (and land value taxes, c.f. sibling comment) because they have to pay them even if their property is unoccupied.

They’d much rather pass on the cost of higher rental insurance, or failing that an income tax hike.

But anyway, generally speaking, I think they benefit on average more from a slow and inefficient judicial system. The occasional 6+ month eviction battle is a rare negative outcome that comparatively few landlords have to deal with.
Maybe it’s because Apple is rarely doing anything interesting these days and an unidimensional pundit's excruciatingly detailed analysis of that - is even less interesting.

Add to that a writing style that is often biased, arrogant and inflammatory and you get even less interesting comments on this site.

Exactly the same for Tim Bray, btw - except for Android stuff.

There used to be a time when this stuff was hot, people took sides and breathlessly read anything they could find about the new stuff being released. That time has passed. We stopped caring.

I can understand the demoting.
Here's some quotes from the 2024 D platform:

"[We] made record investments in public safety, putting more police officers on the beat; today, violent crime is at its lowest in 50 years"

"Democrats provided funding for communities to hire more police."

"since day one, President Biden has been working to make sure police officers have the tools they need to protect their communities, including more police officers on the street. We need to fund the police"

"Democrats passed and President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan, with the largest ever federal investment infighting and preventing crime, reducing violence, and investing in public safety. That funding enabled cities and states to invest more than $14 billion in public safety and violence prevention, putting more police officers on the beat for accountable community policing."

https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTE...

Why is it that when looking for examples of what some are doing wrong, you're casting back over 5 years to an activist slogan that even then was treated as a poor expression rather than "lapped it up"?

It's almost like what you're here to do is actually reinforce the unproductive association rather than point the direction to a better way.

You want to talk about what's "bewildering"? What's bewildering is that your apparent confidence (or deliberately mislead?) confusing very online cheer-squad discourse from some corners over stated positions of most officeholders or candidates.

One could charitably assume that it's because you have some acquaintances or media follows who represent themselves or others as you've described and you've accidentally made parasocial promotion into an unfortunate wider partisan caricature. One could also warily assume you're an operative who is here to actively reinforce the associations you were ostensibly fighting against. Perhaps uncharitable, but hardly implausible these days.

The majority of liberal politicians are classic liberals who spend their campaign and policy time as you said you wanted, and it seems you haven't noticed.

"pronoun" doesn't appear in that 2024 D platform document. Also can't find it in a CBS news summary [1] of the Harris campaign. You know what does show up, though? Housing issues. Actual working class tax cut proposals. Child tax credits (pretty pro birth, very pro parent).

And those are what I think about when I think about liberal officeholders and candidates. Because that's what I see them talking about when I follow them and what's discussed in the media coverage I follow.

Where are you directing your attention?

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-platform-policy-p...
I vote, monetary policy, weapons of mass destruction [1]. At-least have a long term plan for deleveraging residential real estate. Sure that'll suppress construction even further for a while but I'm sure we can get to the other side.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_red_lines
I'm using quite an elaborate stack for daily zoom calls wich may be interesting for those seeking a richer sound:

A Mic Parts S-25 I built from a kit https://microphone-parts.com/collections/microphone-kits/pro..., Medium Diaphragm Condenser (requires 48V phantom power)

into a JHS Colorbox V2 https://jhspedals.info/products/colour-box-v2
an electric guitar effects pedal emulating a Neve recording console channel strip, can do XLR in/out and pass 48V phantom power to the mic

into a Focusrite Scarlett

with Apple Airpods Pro as in ear monitors

It works for me - I usually audition the mic and the Airpods before unmuting

The colorbox helps increase the gain level so I don't have to be so close to the mic, I usually place it upside-down using a boom mic stand, at around 1 foot away from my mouth at a 45 degree angle from my forward gaze (to avoid plosives and sibilance), Its in frame as a conversation starter but doesn't necessarily have to be.

I find my voice is more intelligible if I use the colorbox to reduce some of the midrange content. It also imparts some compression and harmonic distortion. I watch the Scarlett input indicator to avoid clipping at the digital input

I find myself with less vocal fatigue using this equipment than the Airpods Pro as a mic. Also it just seems a little more exciting to think my voice travels through transistors and capacitors I soldered, through a recreation of a circuit that some of my favorite music was recorded though.