skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see static analysis that shows the call graph with number of nested loops at each level. Perhaps a way to show the loop lines themselves to make it easy to estimate O(nmk) by looking at the output. Obviously more detailed complexity analysis would involve a person going through the code manually.

We have a number of algorithms in Solvespace that are O(n*2) some of them accidentally because certain list operations are O(n). One of the worst offenders was accidentally O(n*4) because an n*2 size input was handed to an O(n*2) algorithm. I wrote a smarter algorithm to avoid that inner call entirely.

TLDR it shouldn't be hard for tooling to produce useful time complexity estimates. Can we get this please?
A stable career with a high income. Looks good on a resume so quitting is easy once you have enough money saved
I don't know the Ruby ecosystem, but do dependencies go by hashes? If so, an update to the dependency won't immediately affect the Popular Gem.

Sure, the maintainer could still naively update the dependencies and pull up a bad one during an update of the Popular Gem. But that Popular Gem update would have to happen after an attack on the dependency, and before the breach was discovered (assuming it has any way of being discovered before release of the popular package).
Isn't this supposed to be where all those good men with guns we keep paying a blood-price for step in and shoot the bad men with guns?
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Football field of greenhouse in North America
And FYI a properly designed liquid cooling facility is cheaper and more efficient then an air cooled one. Hopefully everything will switch to liquid cooling just like car engines are all liquid cooled !
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GPU pass through was new to me [1]

[1[ https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/5bwp4u/what_is_gpu_pa...
There's just too much time involved here. How many man-decades? It's because of the hardware. You have to appreciate anyone that would take the time to get one floppy working. One. Someone should virtualize all this for him so he has time for other things.
To be honest, my switch to FreeBSD and Windows had more to do with hardware (notably the lack of upgradeability in many Macs since Tim Cook took over) and less to do with software. macOS is still a good OS; I use Monterey on my work-issued MacBook Pro. However, my biggest gripes are:

1. The increased iOS-ification of the user interface. I believe a desktop operating system should support desktop workflows and not import at wholesale UI elements that don't make sense outside of touchscreen environments; I have a similar complaint about modern Windows and GNOME.

2. The introduction of notarization.

3. Over the years I've noticed that macOS has gotten more annoying when it comes to notifications. Back in the Leopard era there was a classic commercial mocking Windows Vista's "Cancel or Allow" dialogs. Yet it seems I have to wade through many notifications whenever I'm using Macs these days.

In my opinion, it seems that the old guard from the days of the classic Mac, NeXTSTEP, and early Mac OS X with their deep knowledge of the UI guidelines of those eras has less and less influence at Apple these days, while younger software developers with little-to-no experience with these operating systems but who have extensive experience with the Web and newer operating systems are having more influence on the Mac's UI/UX. Unfortunately the Mac is becoming more like iOS and less like an operating system completely tailored to the desktop computing experience. Don't get me wrong, modern macOS is still a good OS, but I prefer the Snow Leopard era of Mac OS X.
Reputation Laundering for Fun and Profit? I can dig it.
While camping the air is too clean, so you need some cigarettes to fill your lungs with your normal city air.
Yeah, and a big part of this is they used to be generational family businesses, but now the "and Sons" often don't want to carry on, so after they've serviced Jacobs they sell.
For an Apple developer to implement? I assume it's pretty easy.

For an Apple developer to get approval from the higher-ups to implement it? I assume near impossible.
So many parallels with the fall of the roman empire the USA has.
> The credit-based global financial system..is like a game of musical chairs that we have to keep adding people and chairs to in order for it to never stop.
Anecdotal evidence (lived in Vietnam for a year).

I was astonished at the number of people wearing glasses in the country. Especially women.

At first I thought it was some kind of fashion statement, but it seemed to be prescription lenses for the most part.

I’m in no way saying that the article explains any of this - it’s just an observation.
Why are there so few semiconductor startups in the US?

COST. Western countries have priced themselves out of the market.
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I can understand Mozilla wanting to employ someone that works on possibly the most popular Foss email client for android, so as to keep it maintained. That goes in line with their mission statement. The rebrand, I'm sure it's a requirement for the funding, and it makes sense they'd want that.

I'm just wary of Mozilla products these days. I'm tired of important tools I use just losing functionality while blog posts pay lip service to power users and internet freedom.
You can make a moderately comfortable bonus living this way IF the companies are remote and your clients are local - build business, flip to company, wait a bit, start a new one, wait for the old to implode, get your customers back, and repeat.

Similar to a guy I knew who sold his restaurant four times, each time buying it back for a song from the new owner who couldn't make it work out.
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A Turing Test is inherently adversarial, whereas an idealised friendship can be constructive and forgiving. Indeed, many people can maintain loving relationships with spouses who suffer from dementia and other mental illnesses, and who might fail a Turing Test if they were one of the candidates.
See also: metabolic bone disease in lizards. Also caused by a lack of light — in their case, near-UV light.

(My understanding is that the thing changing the shape of the eye over time is the development of the orbital socket bones — so nearsightedness and MBD could have more in common than it seems.)
Exactly. For some reason this upsets people.
I wonder how much of that is a result of the state enforced cultural isolation-

(as a means of decreasing the chances of information and ideas which they actively censure from spreading in the population, ideas which would be likely undermine the current leadership's ability to maintain unilateral power. Just as Russia has experienced with its citizens as they become more connected to others outside of the country, whose individual liberties and relatively meritocratic economic systems they've begun to push for domestically)

-rather than lacking technical merits in what they create or the speed at which they do so.
> We don't have discounted rates for off-hours...

We do! You can call up Duke Energy and asked to be switched to the RSTC rate plan. https://www.duke-energy.com/home/billing/rates

If you have control of your major electricity use (HVAC, electric dryer, electric oven, EV charging), it can be a lot cheaper. The downside is if you do need to use a large amount of power during the “critical peak” period, it will cost you 35¢/kWh
Hotels, mostly.

It can definitely be expensive depending on where you stay, but there are some things that help me justify the cost in some situations. The freedom to come and go at any time - no lease/contract/mortgage, etc. Usually hotels are nicer than an apartment or house that I would stay in anyway - cleaner more up to date rooms, a pool, housekeeping, etc. Breakfast and coffee are complementary in most places. Free wifi in a lot of places that is usually pretty reliable (but make sure to double check ahead of time. Some places have terrible internet).

Some places can be as low as $70/night which is less than what I paid for rent the last time I had an apartment. Also, if you stay with certain hotel chains enough times in a year, you'll start to get complementary upgrades, the occasional free night, and some other little perks that do actually make it seem worth while.

Asking about "longer" term stay (multiple weeks, to a month) pricing has actually resulted in a decent discount a few times as well.

That said, it's not for everyone. You can certainly find cheaper places to rent in a lot of places, and it's definitely not something I'd recommend unless you are single and do not have any dependents (dogs, children, a goldfish, etc).
The problem with that argument, although I congratulate you for following the state line, is that it requires us to believe that the entire operation wasn't necessary to begin with. If there were no health consequences, then there weren't any reactor rods on the roof, there wasn't any radioactive fallout requiring removal and burial of top soil, no need to shoot all the animals, etc. etc.

It also requires us to believe that there was no widespread looting in the area, which is a claim that turns up in multiple sources, and is consistent with Russian behaviour in the current and past wars.

It requires us to believe that unlike pretty much every other event in Soviet history, Russia has told the complete honest truth about Chernobyl.

On which front, let me just ask - where are the memorials to the victims of Stalin's purges? There has been plenty of time to put a few up since the Soviet Union fell.
This is extraordinary. At most companies I think the risks outweigh the rewards, but you show that it isn't the case at every company.
Is this hobby-shaming? O_o
Hell yeah man :)
There are tons of places with houses that are affordable. Living in a large city, especially in California, Oregon, Florida, New York, or Washington will strain anyone but the wealthy. More sane and slower-paced places that have jobs, or better yet, if you work remotely, work in an inexpensive market and pocket more money for retirement. I've long wanted to move to a remote smaller city with little happening. You can bank a lot of money doing this. There are plenty of cities with houses in the $75-130K range and not dumps, either. People could bail out of expensive cities, make a serious profit, pay cash on the other end, and bank their entire paycheck. We're talking property taxes in the $500/year range as well.
FAANG is "growth & engagement", not much better though. At least crypto is easy to ignore, while "engagement" relies on it getting in your way and being hard/impossible to ignore.
Nah let’s not pretend it’s an intelligence thing. It’s not.

Saying thanks to Alexa even when you know she’s not a person is not a sign of (lack of) intelligence. It’s a sign of manners. Don’t pat yourself on the back and say you’re intelligent because you express good manners less often than the next person.

While I think it’s a bit silly that the researcher thought the chat bot was sentient, I don’t think it’s silly that the bot is perceived sufficiently human to be worth of manners if Alexa has been there for almost a decade.

I don’t think we should teach people that bots are explicitly not worth a level of manners even at the cost of a strange life-like sympathy some may develop. It took us hundreds of years to teach people that human slavery was wrong and we should treat actual people with respect - and many are still pretty bad at it. Frankly society needs all the practice it can get.

Society makes a ton of “factual mistakes”. Look at all of religion, most of politics, a huge amount of history books, much of lower-grade science education. It’s all full of “factual mistakes” that, today, probably have higher social costs than someone being nice to a robot.

What would “training” even look like? Mandatory bot-sympathizing “reeducation” classes in elementary school? We couldn’t even teach people vaccines were safe and worth getting during a pandemic, but we’re going to trying to tell people not be be nice to human-like things? I can’t imagine how high the social costs to that will be.
Maybe you aren't from the U.S., where it is legal for big pharma to flood media with ads. It has been going on so long here that older people think it is normal. I think since people have become aware that it is not accepted practice everywhere, they try to escape it, so the commercial entities take advantage of whatever media they can.
> The sentience is in the rule set. The understanding of the Searle-neuron-human is irrelevant even if she speaks every last dialect of Chinese.

The ruleset in this instance is a book outlining the operations to be performed on the inputs and some filing cabinets full of Chinese characters (Might have to be a big room to reach LaMDA levels!). If resolving it involves not only agreeing with the core point that actual awareness is so irrelevant to syntax retrieval and manipulation that even a fully sentient being can retrieve and manipulate perfectly without ever gaining any awareness of what the outputs mean, but also asserting that inert books and paper filing systems can have sentience, I'd hate to see how much trouble a non-silly argument would cause!

> I'll grant this: LaMDA almost certainly does not feel like I do, and I wouldn't trust it to wash and fold my laundry. If those are necessary for sentience LaMDA ain't it

Terms like "sentience" are extremely malleable depending on what people want them to mean to suit their particular argument, but the standard dictionary definitions associate it with awareness and perception based on senses, which seems pretty synonymous with feeling a bit like you do (or like a dog or a baby or super genius does). I think we can let it off doing the laundry. The for argument for LaMDA's sentience is that its conversation with Lemoine was conveying actual feelings, not just pattern matching human descriptions of feelings particularly well. If we agree LaMDA emits descriptions of "loneliness" based on word vectors whilst almost certainly not actually feeling lonely, I'm not sure it's those asserting LaMDA [probably] isn't sentient that need more convincing arguments.
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I met a CS witness expert at a bar, we got drunk and he got my wife dinner.
Those peoples live large and the tales are entertaining.

Typically he was told what was the expected findings of his research.
Yeah, so you are basically completely owned by state actors (and Apple)
I don't use IMAP because I don't want to leave my email on my email provider servers. I download messages over POP3, filter to folders (one per person or customer) and backup as any other file. I use K9 to read those messages over POP3 before I download them with Thunderbird. I delete notifications and anything that doesn't have to be stored forever. The obvious downside is that I can't access old mail when I'm away from my laptop (example: now.) Surprisingly this never turned out to be a problem for the last 30 years. Of course I didn't use K9 unless I had an Android phone in 2011.

However I see two ways to let my phone read old mail

1. Set up my own IMAP server at home and deliver email to it, then program some filter system to mimic what I'm doing in Thunderbird.

2. Access Thunderbird directory on my laptop over IMAP. That IMAP server would be on my laptop or (better) on some always on server at home that uses the same file format as Thunderbird. I would rsync it with my laptop.

I admit that number 2 is weird. Number 1 is the proper way but I have so little incentive to do it that I'll probably stick with my current setup forever.
I had the strangest issue with Thunderbird during the last big upgrade, where it took my PGP key out of gpg (deleting the key from the store in the process), and stored it in Thunderbird with no protection. I must have read an encrypted email for it to have used the password, but I have no idea how this happened, and do not click "Yes" on boxes without reading them thoroughly. It took me a month of my PGP key apparently sitting unprotected before I noticed.

The fact that Thunderbird does stuff like this to me really weirds me out, despite mostly loving the program.
See: Diet Coke and Mentos.
Have any studies been done comparing children raised in Portland and Seattle (where it rains for the majority of the year so kids spend a lot of time indoors) versus San Diego or some other sunny city?
> software that is libre, but seems so bloated and complex I don't want to install it, let alone work on it.

I feel like we've lost some of the point of open source. My rose-tinted glasses are probably in play, but I used to be able to use software, build it and modify it.

Today, the idea of being a "casual" contributor seems to be lost. Things need a huge build process, and some kind of management organisation. The emphasis used to be on contributing patches, not funding.
Nice this sounds optimistic, so I'm guessing it must be some kind of hardware capability that could be harnessed in Linux some day in the future? Any idea if there's any docs about this M1 passthrough capability existing? I'll try and have a look
I no longer work at AWS but the lesson has stuck with me. Whenever I start to feel that I'm starting to overthink, I quickly break the cycle and ship whatever I have.
“genuinely be wondering”

Of course this account won’t participate coherently in this conversation.
In my humble opinion, contrary to your claim a lot of things about NFTs make less sense than what you suggest
That’s assuming your boss has enough influence to change something and also is the right person for the feedback. That sadly is not the case in most big companies. So telling people at exit interviews is the best way to get the feedback across.

It’s not having a bad boss either, it’s just the right context for the feedback.
Ok, that's probably fine.
I don't think it's snarky at all. Very frank and forward, sure, but just a persons opinion about two pieces of software and the company that maintains them.
so they towed it "out of the (financial) environment" ?
2h per day, 7 days a week is pretty harsh indeed.

Please note I suggested 2h total per week.

That gives you 30 minutes per day in 4 days per week. Gives you some time to rest in between. I think it's pretty reasonable.

Even up to 1h/day, 4 days/week might be OK. Really depends on each individual.
Unfortunately calories out is excessively variable, as are hunger and energy, which affect calories in.
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Why isn’t the interest rate on my savings and checking account increasing as fast as the mortgage borrowers rates?
> For what it's worth Biden has done little of the sort. I think it's important to differentiate the media circus around AOC's wishful policies, like the green new deal, and what Biden has actually implemented.

I don't know about that. It's hard to tell how much influence the hard left has on Biden, but it's not negligible. There is this letter by the senators explaining some of the problems:

https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cruz-sen...

> NMFS’s permitting delays represent one example of the Administration’s de facto ban on new drilling – impeding domestic oil and gas investment, exploration, and production.

> The letter notes that the delays are principally due to “three administration-made and admitted mistakes” caused by mathematic errors in calculating the number of endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico in a 2021...

And then Biden has made it clear this administration is pursuing ambitious goals that have to do with transitioning away from fossil fuels.
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1528712761554903040

I think at least there is incentive to decrease fossil fuels and move more quickly to renewable, and it worries me because nuclear is not a popular option.
Not really. That’s just taking an exit interview and displaying professionalism. You can also provide constructive feedback while doing the same thing.

Short and sweet is great for the individual. But nothing is going to change if everyone doesn’t speak up.
I'm talking an entire series of comments, not just this one. The GP was just the place to hang the reply.

(The first bit probably does qualify as snark though.)
I applaud the move in the right direction, but please add support for webauthn. OTPs are really inconvenient in comparison.

It looks like maybe it's been in flight for a while? https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/2108
> To be blunt i would trust an engineer making a system that said there was a security concern in a system over a security engineer.

That depends quite a bit on what was being discussed. If it's the engineer's work specifically, and what they did and why, that's one thing. If it's an engineer making claims about specific encryption algorithms that they chose to use or not use in the software they wrote which is contradicted by a security professional, you should probably trust he security professional.

This seems to me a case of the latter. A software engineer making claims about things that are not their subject of authority, or at least not what they were hired for, and thus have less reason to be listened to about by their employer.
It's stuff like this that makes me question the meaning of life and the point of "worthwhile pursuits".

Pure art. I hope this ends up in a museum.
> Is it better to tweet at 18:00 or 18:05?

> Rust or Go?

Well that's quite a range.
Why is this bait-and-switch? It's some recruiter (styling their "firm" as "Space Executive") looking for a body, right?
> Thunderbird isn't acquiring K-9 to kill it or merge with an additional product, they're buying it so they can

THunderbird is buying or acquiring K-9? Isn't K-9 FOSS? The OP says only, K-9 Mail officially joins the Thunderbird family (unless I overlooked something).
With this many floppies capable of creating discrete tones, I bet you could synthesize human speech. Running a Fourier Transform for some speech clip and then having each floppy play a different frequency.
I was recently researching what to do with an empty small butane canister (the kind used for portable gas stoves - same size/shape/wall thickness as a can of spraypaint). According to the municipal waste site for my city of just over 1 million, I can't put it out for any sort of collection, and I can't bring it back to the stores that sell them, I can't even take it to the landfill facility itself! The only option is some once-every-few-months single day events held in random far-flung parts of the city. While I'm responsible enough to hang on to it and dispose of it properly, I expect most people just chuck the empty (or almost-empty) canisters in the trash - causing exactly the same kind of fire risk you're talking about.
yes by default, which means it can be enabled
High speed A/D conversion in 1965 with a vacuum tube
Better call saul
Food got 100% more expensive ? Where are you getting your numbers from ?
>The expenses will always exceed whatever they pay you. I've already spent upwards of $80k on house modifications and buying a new car to comply with everything the licensing agencies said I had to do and that's before getting a single placement and spending anything on the actual kid (it does include pre-furnishing a child's bedroom, though).

For what it's worth, even this varies a lot by jurisdiction. Where I live, you could spend $2,000 per month out of pocket per child, and if you took in 3 of the "right kind" of placement, you'd get back that 80k in less than a year. If you could keep the placements that long, that is.
I bet it is literally phonetically easier for traders on the NYSE floor to shout round number rather than "Selling amazon at 978.23!!!" At some point the number of significant figures slows down your transaction speed, as a human, that is.