skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> can learn the game by itself without knowing the rules

In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.

“I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.

“Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.

“I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.

Minsky then shut his eyes.

“Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.

“So that the room will be empty.”

At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html
Sounds like something for love, death, and robots season 4. The AI slowly convinces everyone that they hate their immediate neighbor, or that their neighbor is plotting against them. The AI uses a complex decision forest in order to optimally eliminate all pairs of humans.
My software uses it to send video, audio and metadata from a C++ server to the browser. I found WebRTC to be an nightmare causing this feature to take months longer than expected to implement.
Hossenfelder links to this paper discussing Hyperion: https://michaelberryphysics.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/berr... whose Appendix A starts: "Caricaturing Hyperion as a homogeneous sphere...."

Given that one of Hyperion's distinguishing features is that it's very far from being a sphere, this seems like a particularly bad assumption.
If you aren’t willing to look at the data, and are admitting you’re closed off to even considering the idea (“I have no interest”), how do you know your head isn’t fully in the sand, or that you’re not part of the problem?
Commercial formula kinda is a magical combination of ingredients, including a substantial number of supplements that aren’t gonna be available to home cooks. It’s better to substitute homemade than water down formula, no doubt, but you can understand why newspapers don’t want to publish a recipe knowing that it will send some number of babies to the doctor with an iron deficiency.
I spent 1h+ on CDG in November, both going out and in ( from outside of Schengen), for the whole security+ID process. It still happens, depending on the airport and load.
ZynthianOS:

https://zynthian.org

Monome NORNS:

https://monome.org/docs/norns/shield/

Both of these Linux vendors have created what you describe - definitely worth checking out if you are a performing musician. These machines transform into viable, usable instruments - you don't have to do much Linux hacking, you can just plug in and play, like any other electronic musical instrument, and some of the stuff in the NORNS community is amazing for live performance (actually most of it is):

https://norns.community

Both systems will let you play with MOD DUO, which is a plug and play effects system that kicks serious ass:

https://moddevices.com/devices/dwarf/

Other than that - definitely check out Ubuntu Studio, as others have mentioned. I've been running it for a decade as a production DAW in my studio and it really kicks ass... you will be astonished at what is included, out of the box ..
You had to go and make a nasty comment.

You know, EU and US have many cultural differences, but the commonalities are more important. We are freedom loving societies and we created the Western world together. When you look at the big picture, comments from people like you, who want us divided, are really rounding errors.
Everyone calling it "the land of opportunity" has no idea how expensive living inside is now and how little opportunity there really is. You might make a lot (although only if you are part of the PMC, laborers don't make enough to live which is why so many have dropped out and there's a "shortage" despite a surplus of unemployed men) but it nearly all goes to rent.
The meat packing monopoly ties the hands of many cattle farmers.
Oh no, your bike does not pollute but the diesel truck that bring food nearby you everyday so that you are able to buy it daily does. Similarly ALL other services to enable you to live on a bike-only city range...
It is most likely DNS. Try comparing the result of:

dig a rt.com

dig a rt.com @8.8.8.8
It depends on the location. In many places it's true. But I made this mistake in Rome (twice!) and I won't make it again.
UAP.guide – the 15 min intro to UAP you can share at work
From the author:

"The argument was that chat groups have become indispensable tools for students taking courses online during the pandemic...I totally agreed with this point"
> And if you’re dumb like me, and you’ve used a Synology-proprietary storage format, you can’t access your data without another Synology system

I wonder what he means by this. If he's referring to SHR, then it's just standard mdraid and Synology themselves have instructions on how to mount the volume in Ubuntu https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/tutorial/How_can_I_recover...

edit: He later mentions encrypted volumes but those are also just using standard encryptfs https://www.impedancemismatch.io/posts/decrypt-synology-back...

This is one of the reasons I feel comfortable recommending Synology devices - there's not a lot of lock-in
Or non-locality. In some sense things in the world aren’t as far apart as they seem.
I had an electrical engineering final as an in person oral exam. One question. One hour to solve on whiteboard. It was a hard class to begin with and I got a hard question. I did well, but definitely expected to fail.
> Then there are the people who are cheating the system by treating the university as a credential mill, the means to an end, where the end has little to do with furthering their understanding.

Is this really an issue? I eventually feel into that bucket. Went to university for EE since I figured I could teach myself CS easily, whereas learning EE without a lab would be harder. I quickly realized I hate a very large portion of EE (anything outside semiconductors) and for most of my courses I did the bare minimum to get an A with minimal understanding.

> They go from being passive leeches on the system to actively destructive forces.

I really don't see how that makes me a passive leech. I agree that cheating is actively harmful to the peers that don't cheat, but someone that doesn't engage is a net gain to the others in my book. By not attending any optional tutorials/office hours it gives other peers more focus time with the professor/TA.
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If you have the disposable income, you can dispose of it as you please of course. But still, there are ways to get good food prepared quickly as well. All you need is a pantry stocked with the essentials and some basic knowledge.

Mostly the issue isn't necessarily time but giving into your cravings. Junk food is designed for that. People buy junk food because they like eating it and crave it. Even if the experience isn't great, the craving still drives them to eat it. Ever felt disappointed after eating at a burger chain? That's what happened. You craved something and the marketing triggered you enough to buy a burger or whatever. In the end the food is greasy, salty, not really hot, and doesn't have a whole lot of flavor. And you munch it down and forget about it.

And particularly when people have worked a long day and just want to stuff food into their mouths. For me, going to a supermarket at the end of a working day generally leads to really bad decision making. And I actually know how to cook some food.

A good way to get into cooking is to make your own junk food but do it better. This is super easy because most junk food is absolutely terrible. If you like burgers, get some meat and make some of your own. It's hard to do worse than good old McDonald's. That stuff is just really nasty. Use that as a benchmark and strive to do better. You can't fail.

Burgers are a great example because this is historically how people made the most of their cheap and off cuts of meat. So, again, great if you are on a budget.
People anthropomorphizing AI and me not having any control over the sense making madness that these advancements could grow into scares me almost as much if not more than any real AGI invention.
The US Can’t Beat China If It’s Scared of Trade
I was shocked when I accidentally selected text out of an image. You’d think they’d make a bigger deal about cool changes
Doesn't ZFS have a mechanism for periodically checking for and correcting bit rot?
My guess is that this is an example of the struggle between proponents of different interpretations of Quantum Mechanics. There are rather a lot of them, even though they all try to explain the same theory. The whole issue eerily reminds me of the debates between proponents of different theories of the relationship between God and Jesus (trinitarians, nontrinitarians and so on). Unless they yield testable predictions, there will not be an end to them.
Rails in 1910 was used because they was cheap:

- little entertainment

- high load capacity

the same reasons we have these days for COMMERCIAL rails, witch are meaningful for certain applications (one including run only when we have surplus from renewables, for non-perishable/non-urgent goods) instead of people fast trains who demand very leveled rails, much entertainment to a point that France TGV slow down year on year to reduce hyper-big maintenance costs...
Why is the license fee relevant in a discussion about Channel 4?
I don't think he was, at least based on what he actually did in life.

He only barely beat Nixon in 1960, caused Cuban crisis through his own making by bad defense policy in the middle east, gridlocked congress.

His people turned him into a legend after he was killed.

LBJ did the real work in implementing the ideas JFK wanted (but couldn't implement). Yes JFK's death may have made some of this more possible but how much can you credit someone for dying when it wasn't even for a particular cause (other than anticommunism maybe).

You may be able to tell I've read too much Robert Caro.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/jfk-accomplished-lit...
Love it but:

>There is no schematic for this project since there were very few components and it was easy enough to just draw a PCB.

You should really draw one. As someone who works in hardware engineering, the amount of times this has come back to bite someone in the butt is immense.
'...and just a google search away.

Oh, the irony!
I wasn't aware of that pattern.

Can you give some examples of Americans doing this more than other peoples?
Cheating is a consequence of unfair values that push otherwise morally
upright, hard-working people to transgress. Governance determines the
values of a system. Therefore rampant cheating may be seen as symptom
of a failure of governance, so improving it would reduce cheating.
Hope that helps you to see the connection.
cheap, low quality criticism
I mean, that's fine, but how many babies need that kind of formula? And parents with babies that do need that kind of formula are probably well aware of that.

If you Google "how to make homemade baby formula", basically every article is how experts strongly recommend against it. And there are articles like "Why following TikTok influencers' baby formula recipes is a terrible idea."

No shit following TikTok baby formula recipes is a horrible idea. But if a detailed recipe for age-appropriate "standard" baby formula were published by experts, my guess is that it wouldn't contain fairy dust.

I can commiserate somewhat with these "experts", though, because this is a fairly common case where what is good advice for an individual can be bad advice for the masses. That is, if you're a reasonably intelligent person, it's probably not that hard to make your own baby formula. But if, say, at least 20% of people are not reasonably intelligent, experts will err on the side of "lowest common denominator" advice.
The depicted images didn't show a ground-effect vehicle, which seems odd -- it fits the job and is much more economical than the winged plane shown.
Not in customer hands yet but yes, webrtc with a WSS to signal. It’s been incredibly reliable

Edit: that’s Web Socket Server
Just common sense. Watch -> Phone -> Tablet -> Laptop -> Desktop. You'd be least productive on a watch and most productive on a desktop, and adding extra displays would make you even more productive. Each of them has an interface that's designed to max out productivity on that particular display size. We don't yet have an interface that maxes out productivity on a VR device.
Not exactly what you're asking for, but an adjacent area. Bela leverages the built-in real time PRUs on a Beaglebone dev board to get very low latency audio processing.

https://bela.io/products/
There are plenty of suburban towns exhibiting exactly the same allegedly fiscally disastrous pattern of development, that are 50+ years old, and so the infrastructure debt should already catch up to them. Where are they?

Strongtowns tells very plausibly sounding stories, but is short of actual examples. Where are all the places getting bankrupt by infrastructure costs? Or is it always “half a century from now, the costs will totally catch up with you”?
“So you want to put code into production without having a better estimation of its time complexity than O(n!)?”
I enjoy cooking but it's pretty silly to suggest everyone do it.
Beyond the time commitment there's also equipment and space concerns and also some people just aren't good at it.
> So what’s the solution then? Well, maybe we should start by rolling back this common conception that when it comes to schools, everyone’s opinion matters an equal amount, and then listen to the teachers and academics.

Cynically, because they're part of the problem.

Personally I don't think the "obviously bad thing" is the current state of testing. I'd instead say that the problem is the intermingling of education and credentials.

Society doesn't care about education, however all of the inspiration is geared around it. So you wind up with the case that students either become disillusioned with the system after realizing it's ripe with hypocrisy, or otherwise structured in a way that creates resentment in the system.

As an anecdote, a friend I went to high school with dropped out when he was disallowed to participate in the school band, because it was his only source of motivation to show up every day. I don't think that was the intended goal, but when faced with the reality of the situation, the system is unbending.

I think as a result, the ones you see succeeding in college tend to be more driven by either ambition or obligation rather than any actual desire to learn. So in that respect, I think colleges are self selecting for students that are more willing to think cheating is a good idea. And in many respects they may not be wrong.

> Curious, isn’t it, how all these systems seem to fail in the same way?

No...the systems haven't evolved independently. It's no more surprising to me than learning that felines could get covid.

For what it's worth, I'm a community college dropout. The education and mental health systems were absolutely structured in a way where my severe adhd (and its best friends anxiety and depression) went undiagnosed and untreated through my senior year of high school. I loved learning, but there wasn't any way to get an education that could present the coursework in a way that could keep me engaged. And of course my inability to do homework was continually met with being told it was some personal failure on my part and I should just apply myself.

So back to

> So what’s the solution then? Well, maybe we should start by rolling back this common conception that when it comes to schools, everyone’s opinion matters an equal amount, and then listen to the teachers and academics.

_They're the ones that've made me think we'd be better of scrapping the system and starting over._
The AP classes in American high school, which include a test which can provide college credits if passed were great in my opinion. Mostly because I felt the tests were really good. I took 11 of these tests and I learned a ton that has been relevant and stuck with me ever since. In particular statistics, comp sci, and Spanish seemed really good.

Spanish was a hard test. It involved listening to pre recorded conversations and giving responses.

Comp sci I didn’t take the class, just self studied for the test. It was my first exposure to comp sci and only intro to object oriented code. The test made you utilize an API for a little toy problem. That was very good in retrospect. I didn’t really grok APIs until that exact moment on the test. 12 years later fiddling around with game engines, object oriented concepts still seem familiar.

I think the two things that made these exams good is they were very broad so you needed to have mastered the whole course, and they were not designed by a teacher incentivized to give good grades, so they were pretty hard and didn’t advertise exactly what would be tested.

Not needing 90%+ to do very well on the test was good too. So much of school is avoiding tiny mistakes on otherwise easy content to get a perfect score. Not broadly getting the concepts mastered.

Some neighbor schools offered AP classes but it was culturally accepted that students would not get high scores on the exams. Struck me as pretty pathetic. That was a rich kid private school doing worse than my (admittedly fairly wealthy) public school experience.
This appears to be the struct[0]

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidatadetect...
I have been doing meal prep sunday for a few years, I found several recipes that keep well in the freezer and heat up pretty well.

Also modern cooking styles like Air Fryers, and Water Bath (sous vide) can also help some with the timing. As these are often ways to cook with out having to actively monitor the cooking like you would using pans and skillets

On the weekend I will prep most of my meals even if I do not cook them right then, then through out the week I drop something in the sous vide, air fyer or if it already cooked the micro.
> Commercial formula kinda is a magical combination of ingredients, including a substantial number of supplements that aren’t gonna be available to home cooks.

Do you have a citation for that? I see all these articles that just say "don't try it yourself, it's too hard", but I'd like to know which specific ingredients are impossible to obtain.
While Microsoft may require this, I put the blame here entirely on DuckDuckGo. They should be spending a not-insignificant amount of money on replacing Bing, either with an in-house solution or a reasonable 3rd party. This isn’t about actually replacing Bing, it’s about having leverage on Microsoft so they can’t make these kinds of asks of a company who claims to be “privacy focused”.
Workers quitting over return-to-office policies
It shouldn’t then be hard to point out to an old suburb, for which tomorrow already came. Where are they?
This is the real reason people have unhealthy habits, especially with food: it takes a lot of time to source, prepare, serve and clean up after a healthy home-meal made from scratch and made with care. For better or worse, past social norms dedicated an individual (usually the mother) to stay home and tend to these tasks, but now most households have the entire family working to make ends meet and in turn externalize food production (and many other "homestead-y" operations) to companies, which are not motivated by our well-being.
I wonder what other iOS features are buried in the OS that I don't know about...
The active pcie switches are a lot more expensive than the passive splitters that only work on systems with pcie bifurcation.
Notes on the Earth's Carbon Cycle
Mini-review: The Clockwork Pi DevTerm R-01, or RISC-V on the go
Back around 2004 there was a technology called VRRP then OpenBSD got a similar thing called CARP - a quick google suggests these still exist but i never see mention of them in my filter bubble for some reason.

I was obsessed with making an instant failover cluster. I never managed to get it working exactly how i wanted and it relied on two old UPSs with dead batteries to operate as STONITH devices (they had well supported rs232 interfaces).

I sometimes think about investigating that idea again but maybe with raspberry pis and cheap iot plugs.
Not only that but also

> I chose raidz1. With only a handful of disks, the odds of two drives failing simultaneously is fairly low.

Which is not really the case of you bought x amount of the same disks and always use them together. I had that happen to me just a few months ago. 4 identical discs bought at the same time. Raidz1 reported one dead/dying disk so I replaced it and started resilvering, which can take days and leaves the disks at 100% utilization.

So after 12 hours or so a second one failed and the data was gone.

Lesson learned: mix up your disks
Interesting, which city is that?
It's pretty amazing how Apple does incredible stuff on the down-low, without lots of marketing.

Their Google-street-view-like feature is just an unobtrusive link that says "look around" or something like that in their maps app on the iphone. Never mind that this is a massive amount of work, and that they're in the process of mapping all of Europe, and I assume the US.
Fancy to try chess?
Yes, and my point was that juniors at Google have more freedom to go and work on different things than seniors have in a typical Scrum team. The description for the junior role (level 3) at Google says that they go off and work on individual projects lasting no longer than 3 months. Having a project for a month or two isn't an exception, it is expected from juniors. Then as you advance levels you get more and more freedom, and as a senior IC you are basically a free agent expected to be able to find things to improve, write a design for that, sell it to the higher ups on the product, and then go and build it, possibly get a junior to build it instead as a few months project, possibly get headcount and set up a team to maintain it etc, on your own.

I'm not saying that this way is strictly superior, but you undeniably have way more freedom under it than Scrum.
You’re asking the equivalent of “why use Linux instead of TCP?”
Sure, videotoolbox encoders are low-quality, low-resource consumption ones. And worst part about them, they can't be much configured the way libx264 or libx265, or even NVENC for NVIDIA GPUs, can - to provide tradeoff between quality, file size, and speed.
Absolutely.

They've been doing it a lot pre-war. When protests erupted and were crushed in Moscow and in major Russian cities Putin's media scrambled to show that "regular hard working people oppose gay rich Muscovite hipsters who sold their country".

A hilarious example was when they even staged a "worker" from Uralvagonzavod (a major tank factory) before Putin who promised to "gather guys and show them"[1]. Of course PR director for the factory was a famous Putin's media manager Alexey Zharich.

They staged tons of provocations at protests to film it and show on repeat on TV.

RT and Russian state media used the same tactics after 2014 occupation.

While staged and fake this propaganda works if you show it 24/7 on TV. We were shoved it down our throats for years and now they feed it to the West.

[1] https://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/49031/
You just described a CRUD app.

At FAANG, most people are not doing any of these things. Think of people working on EC2, Ads or Maps.

I only worked at multiple FAANG and I never had to design a database schema or make data available via API.
I thought this was the reasoning behind Itanium, the idea that scheduling could be worked out in advance by the compiler (probably profile guided from tests or something like that) which would reduce the latency and silicon cost of implementations.

However, it wasn't exactly a raging success, with I think the predicted amazing compiler tech not materialising, but maybe it is the right answer, but the implementation was wrong? I'm no CPU expert...