skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brains do not actually work very similarly to artificial neural networks. The connectionist approach is no longer favored, and human brains are not arranged in regular grids of fully interconnected layers. ANNs were inspired by how people thought the brain worked more than 50 years ago. Of course, ANNs are meant to work and solve practical problems with the technology we have. They're not simulations.
The reason for the change is almost certainly because these machines now run at cool enough temperatures for a human to use on their lap without injury.

Intel Macs could reach temperatures around boiling point, so if Apple had marketed them as "laptops" it would have been awkward: "I'm sorry, sir, technically we designed your laptop for use on a flat surface. If using our laptop on your lap is painfully hot, move it to a table"
He didn't just brag about his dick. He went out of the way to show it off to his colleagues. I mean it's possible that his fetish outweighed his empathy, but it's more likely that he simply didn't care about making people feel uncomfortable.

He did progressive things, but to me it sounds like he was influenced by philosophical ideals rather than empathy. They based Frank Underwood from House of Cards on an exaggerated version of LBJ.
IME “bad Bayesian analysis” is when people use plausibly defensible priors to manufacture outcomes… which happens all the fucking time.
A terrible guide to the terrible terminology of U.S. Health Insurance
> So calling another process can be used almost like a subroutine call.

Any numbers on the overhead of a message send/reply round trip compared to a subroutine call? I always assumed it was just axiomatic that the difference in latency between those two options would be orders of magnitude.
Where are they based out of these days?
As with any war, propaganda is strong. Situated in the United States where I am, I have no doubt Ukraine is doing a bit worse than I think they are, and Russia is doing a bit better.

But the thing that nobody can hide behind the propaganda is the fact that the war is still ongoing. Relative to projections before the invasion began, the fact that there is still war in progress is itself, alone, a glaring and unmaskable indicator that this did not go according to plan.
I hope the author has found their way to joshua stein's blog: https://jcs.org/
Why are you joining as a SRE instead of a SWE? Is it the role you want, or is it just your foot in the door?

When you were doing "pure development", were you involved in the operational side of things at all?

Personally, I am also what I would call a "pure developer", and I find SRE work really stressful and very different skillset from what I'm good at. I've often thought that calling ourselves "software engineers" is pretentious, but I would be okay with SREs calling themselves engineers because of the kind and style of work they do. I would say the things I do as a "pure developer" are more akin to creative expression rather than engineering though.
> I was really hopeful for OS/2 Warp as a mainstream desktop OS when it came out

Yes, me too. I evangelised it for a while.

Then I saw NT 3.1 at work. I deployed it in production in 1993.

It was worryingly good, if you could afford the hardware.

Then 2Y later I got a beta of Windows Chicago, before the "Windows 95" name was formalised, and I tried it, and I shut up about OS/2. It was very clearly Game Over.
As far as I remember manufacturers stopped using the word laptop when some people burned their legs or privates as they were using their laptops on their laps. So they started calling them notebooks and put in the small print you can’t use it on your lap.
You’ll need an emulator, but yes, it does.
Wow, that's crazy. Is it possible to find this out while interviewing? My worry is some company might be willing to pay high salaries to new hires to recover from situations like these, but it would suck for me to join such a place.
isnt that more the app dev's responsibility? Neither of the banking apps on my phone permit screenshots or even show a preview in recents.
come on. everything is possible theoretically.

is it less possible that regular people do this on their own than people do it because of some PR company and US government support?

you think it’s unlikely to have one adequate foreign minister and crowdfunding campaigns?
Identical to what? Aren't iOS (at least) App Store apps encrypted, so even if I build one locally, I can't compare the resulting file with the encrypted app
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EComStation 2.2 demo CD: bootable, not installable, version of OS/2
the whole Jira thing really pisses me off. I hate Jira almost more than this scrum/agile nonsense. If no one wants to look at the damn board, why are we doing this??

> with non-dev stakeholders running the meetings

9 out of 10 standups I'm in have zero of the stakeholders necessary to unblock the work. I'm announcing my blockers to other devs that zoned out 10 minutes ago and the scrum master that will say something hollow and silly such as "keep working on that" or "make sure to ping so-and-so." Thanks. Want to come to the restroom with me and hold my pee pee so I don't fuck that up too?

We are all infants.

Also. Allllllso. Scrum Master. Scrum. Master. Shouldn't you people be Scrum Main? Or Scrum Primary? Or did you not get that memo? They are literally keeping their developer minions in check. It's a bit... how do I say this? On the nose? Much more in a way than a branch name of git ever was.
Perhaps that's happening in the US, no idea. I would imagine that this would focus on media messaging in the US.

From a European perspective, the online 'propaganda' has a very distinctively Ukranian, genuine and non-american feel to it.
The Forgotten Operating System That Keeps the NYC Subway System Alive (2019)
What's a Hs?
I don't think "both sides are the same" is accurate, so allow me to push back. One party ousted a leading politician because he violated their ethical code. [1] The other party stands by its leading politician even as said person violates national security. [2] In the former case it's very unlikely the policitian will ever become a presidential candidate. In the later case it's very likely he will. Both sides are not reacting to violations of their values in the same way.

I'm sure there are cases of hypocracy on both sides, but one side at least attempts to condemn gross violations.

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/andrew-cuomo-resigns-17161f546bb8...

[2]: I trust no citation needed.
Which lists Bauer of https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-59412-0_...
The SE/30 is basically like this, but faster, 32-bit bus, and supports Ethernet. So same charm, but even more useful.
Author here. I agree that pricing is highly negotiable for any large cloud provider, and there are even (capped) egress fee waivers that you can negotiate as a part of your contract. There's also a place for using AWS; I used it for a smaller DNA sequencing facility, and I use it for my computational biology startup.

That said, I'll repeat something that I commented somewhere else: most of scientific computing (by % of compute) happens in a context that still doesn't make sense in AWS. There's often a physical machine within the organization that's creating data (e.g. a DNA sequencer, particle accelerator, etc), and a well-maintained HPC cluster that analyzes that data.

Spot instances are still pretty expensive for a steady queue (2x of Hetzer monthly costs, for reference), and you still have to pay AWS data transfer egress costs – which are at least 30x more expensive than a colo or on-prem, if you're saturating a 1 Gbps link. Data transfer to optimize for spot instance pricing becomes prohibitive when your job has 100 TB of raw data.
Give it a few more iterations and we'll get "soylent green is people".
I once made an fvwm config designed to look like QNX photon (this was early 2000s). I got dozens of emails about it from people who had found the screenshot and wanted to try it!

Here is an old screenshot from ~2003: http://www.xwinman.org/screenshots/fvwm2-taviso.png

All the panels and menus were all fwvm, it's highly configurable. I dunno, it kinda holds up!
The problem of counting things that potentially can lead to deaths is that we will have more potential deaths than we will have people. If we are counting the decay time, we end up with things like lead which has a very very long decay time.

We can look at the waste from a nuclear plant, collected and stored and estimate how dangerous or how long it will last. We can also look at the waste from a mine, generally put in a large hole next to it, and estimate how dangerous it is and how long it will last. Mines generally also release a lot of waste into the environment like radon, so we can estimate how much radiation a mine is legally allowed to release into the environment compared to a nuclear plant.

If you live anywhere near a mine or where mining activity has occurred in the past, the level of radiation in the air from mining pollution is measurable and quite dangerous in high levels. Here in Sweden it's also recommended that people buy and own detectors in case those levels are too high, and fans with filters to remove the radon particles down to acceptable levels. There is no such recommendation for people who live near nuclear plants, despite Sweden having several of those. A bit odd is it not?
My complaint about the Classic II is that it is a degraded SE/30, with a maximum of 10MB RAM, no coprocessor, and no expandability except through the external SCSI, compared to 128MB RAM, a coprocessor and a PDS with the SE/30. Restoration isn't any more difficult on SE/30, and network cards are not hard to find. Plus it can run A/UX and a modern OS, NetBSD 9 (but without a GUI, which is fine for many purposes), so the SE/30 is well worth the slightly higher investment price for a fixer-upper, and once restored, it is worth a $1000 or more, so easy to not only recoup investment, but make a tidy profit.
Well, isn't that fucking obvious? If they are doing their job right, at least.
Not only that but I think it was prepared for in advanced, similar to the training they got. They knew what could happen and were ready on multiple fronts.
Yes, that's bad formulation on my end. Know the domain when coding is what I meant.
Even without knowing it, I'm sure it's far from perfect and may enjoy a few tweaks here and there.
> But no one is getting released from jail over this action.

It also seems that, even after pardoning these folks, new ones can still be charged for the same crime. So, it seems mostly just a nice gesture for those 6500 people. It really doesn't impact anyone else.
> developer might not understand this yet... having fun finding obscure and convoluted contortions of the language... not yet realizing that nobody gives a shit and he's wasting his time...

There's a major issue of programmers trying to impress each other, by creating complex convoluted monstrosities, and not realizing what is actually important. It takes them awhile to find out that what they have produced was not impressive, and the people that know better, are also not impressed.
I have never heard a thing half as crazy as that.
> So what kind of 2FA would be homeless-proof? I don't see a solution.

There are three factor categories, what you know, what you are, and what you have. A password is what you know. A phone is what you have. Biometrics are what you are - facial recognition, thumbprints, etc.

2FA in one manner or another is used by various services, because the security recommendation is to pillar identification by at least two of the three factors.

For your question, there are any two from the three factor categories that could be used.

However, there are also limited versions of a single category that are often used as a backup when 2fa is not available. In this case, google uses backup codes when "what you have" is not available. Backup codes are functionally equivalent to passwords, except that they are limited to a single-time use. Limiting use is often a method of using a single factor category, when another factor is not available.

Another method is to rely upon another authority, such as using a physical ID card that can be validated in order to let a person back in.

And so forth.
That's exactly what they are describing - the push notification to the phone _that the user has lost_.
The original legendary Marathon was a run between the cities of Marathon and Athens. No loops in that course to consider "a lap". 'Lap' doesn't fit the analogy quite right either. (Some modern street Marathons do use lapping courses today, but that is more for simplifying the logistics of getting people back to their cars and such from the finish line as anything proper to the "form" of a Marathon.)
One possibility would be to solve the "can't keep anything on them" problem with a bracelet or something like that, like they do in hospitals. Something more durable and less valuable than a cell phone.

If they truly can't keep anything on them, someone who recognizes them needs to represent them. (A locker won't do - they'll lose the key.)

And if they have no friends they can trust (which is likely) then it probably needs to be a government worker of some sort, who has their photo on the computer.

I mean, unless you want to have retina scans to log into library computers or something. Or really reliable face recognition.
I know that part, that's why I asked "how can one tell the app blob in their phone is the same as the one produced if you build the code?".

The problem being that apps as installed from the App Store come (to my knowledge, could be wrong) encrypted. So you can't just compare an unencrypted local build with the encrypted installed app (and you can't decrypt the app or encrypt your build the same way, because you don't have the key, e.g. Apple has it - and iirc, there's no access to it, because it's held in the secure enclave in iOS case).
Additionally, this only exists in some magical, fantastical world where the unhoused only have one case worker. In reality the unhoused bounce between a patchwork of government and non-profit services, and because of the soul-crushing workload and emotional labor of those jobs the individuals in each role are also subject to frequent turnover. So the only way this would work is an account that's shared between everyone who might work with that unhoused client at each organization (there are often multiple handling different aspects such as housing, mental health, money for groceries, etc.), and as clients move geographically or do other things that make them eligible or ineligible for each organization's services, that recovery account would also need to change or transition to some new org. Even a single recovery email address is just a totally unworkable solution for the reality they face.
Despues de la covid el mundo entero ha vivido una inflacion económica, que no es facil, pero peor es En nuestro país, Cuba, que es lo que nos ha ayudado las negociaciones mesiante el P2P, lo mejor creado.
mountain out of a molehill imo. there’s a certain point where you’ll be fighting shell more than it’s helping—choosing another language is the better choice. i’m not a wizard but i feel like i’ve developed a decent intuition for what’s sane to do in shell and what needs something else.

and even then, shelling out from another language when absolutely necessary can be a better option
QNX was a true microkernel architecture that worked, and worked well. The basic building block was called IIRC Send/Receive/Reply: Every "system" call looked like a regular function call, but would "Send" a message to a different process, and (usually) suspend the caller; The other process would "Receive", do whatever was requested, and "Reply", at which point control went back (with the response) to the calling process. IIRC it was also possibly to do async calls, but in that case the other process would call ("Send") the response back, rather than "Reply". I might be confusing this with another system though.

device drivers weren't privileged - they were just another process you called into, and could be restarted in the case of a fault (rather than kernel panic or blue screen).

A system that doesn't provide this is not an alternative to QNX; It's just another operating system (which are all, in some ways, alternative to each other and thus QNX, but ...)
Old post of Yann LeCun [1]:

> But another important goal is inventing new methods, new techniques, and yes, new tricks. In the history of science and technology, the engineering artifacts have almost always preceded the theoretical understanding: the lens and the telescope preceded optics theory, the steam engine preceded thermodynamics, the airplane preceded flight aerodynamics, radio and data communication preceded information theory, the computer preceded computer science.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/7i1uer/n_y...
Zelenskyy's political party is essentially a PR firm: he became famous by starring in the _Servant of the People_ TV show playing the Ukrainian president, and then after the show ended the production company Kvartal 95 [1] became the Servant of the People party [2]. I bet this is a big reason they're so amazing at communications - the party was literally born out of a hit TV studio!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvartal_95_Studio

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_the_People
Yep, that's why the flights sold out from Russia. All those men were looking to go rub it in the faces of the other European countries that he crushed.
The 7 is a glider.
TBH, I detest both, but I know millions love them.

But... on the console, with no X11? Really? I'm sure Vim didn't last time I tried. Not that it has much UI to operate with a mouse.
From what I can gather the old CTO did some things that were...less than ethical.

As far as the code goes, they wrote a custom DB that is O(nm) when counting tables---that is, it must count every record in the DB to count how many tables there are.

(Incidentally, I had forgotten this the other day and tried to do a "quick" table count...oops!)

I don't know Elixir or TS well enough to say if we have Ex/ts problems---from what I can tell:

- Elixir seems alright, I'd love to learn what the BEAM magic I keep hearing about is

- however, syntactically I find it pretty garbage, or at least uninspired. (Note that I am a spoiled Clojure guy and have this reaction to Python, Ruby, etc. I acknowledge people can get productive work done in them.)

- TS I have ha-ha-kinda-seriously trauma about from a previous job. I'm not a good person to ask here b/c I'm pretty firmly pro-dynamic in the Type wars. I will say that it is pretty freaking great to be able to have an emacs buffer open w/a repl to the cljs frontend we have for other apps, and that I really miss it whenever I have to go through the ts code.
You claimed the budget didn't keep pace with population growth but it more than did. Even an aging population doesn't change needs by such a large amount.
You can kind of play around with QNX by going here:

https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=qnx

If you're on a Windows system, you may have to go to C:\Windows and temporarily rename the HelpPane.exe system application in order to stop it from hijacking the F1 keypress that QNX expects.
Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage
One day, someone will make great bucks recreating these machines with modern components.
The QNX demo, from 25Y ago? Oh, yes. The miracle is that it worked at all, not that it's very complete.

The full OS was a ~100MB download:

https://archive.org/details/qnx-neutrino-rtos-x86-runtime-ki...
Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
Two minute papers [1] is very good YouTube channel. Follows mostly papers related to video and graphics.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/K%C3%A1rolyZsolnai
Are those pages inaccurate? Any examples?
Driving at least in the same universe as competent is something that most adults need to be able to do for other reasons so Uber (sort of) works. And the product is pretty standardized--get me from A to B which is so far/so long.

Most handyman--much less general contractor--tasks are a lot more variable and I even have some issues with my lawn guy once I get beyond the contracted every two week mow.
if you're really bad at math, then yes, it can be those things.
I think they had to give up territorial claims as part of reunification.
I just use startpage.com as it doesn't use google's "personalized search" algorithm(s) and well because it's more private.
CDs are the only uncompressed digital medium with no DRM, and they are ubiquitous! We will never see the like of it again.
There is a calendar integrated into Thunderbird [1][2] Or if you just wanted to see days/weeks/months in a table there is the cal command in Linux. cal or cal -3 or cal -y

[1] - https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/calendar/

[2] - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/thunderbird/calen...
It's just a notification, it can be ignored (for me). I don't usually even notice its there until hours later. You don't have to acknowledge it in any way.

It also has nothing to do with the YouTube app, and there is no code I have to enter anywhere.

I've never had any form of 2FA on my Google account.
If he wanted to, he could do something about the way people think of the wealthy and the way they use their wealth. His influence is only sourced from wealth, I don't think he gets it. He might be smart, but he's not any smarter about people or the world, nor more energetic and motivated, than thousands of others who just haven't gotten where he is, and might be low-paid in non-profits, universities, and government.

Instead, he's not doing a thing to change anyone's mind that the rich are rather more spoiled and entitled-acting than everyone else.
That's what makes this particularly galling since Zelle is just a frontend to ACH.
If I had to care about all the injustices and unnecessary pain in the world I would be unable to get out of bed. It’s sad but so is life.
Right, if this is what's happening that's exactly what I expect is the case. They prepped and gamed out the messaging strategy, who does what, tone, et c., ahead of time.
Does Chicago have the tech workforce to satisfy Google’s appetite?
Compared to other providers, it's much easier to call Microsoft and reach a human. I don't know that they can help, but it's worth a shot.
so many comments here are unbearable to read for an Ukrainian person.

in moments like this I question why I have been on this site for 10 years.

anyway, if someone wants to learn more about Ukraine - shoot me a message or give me a call. I think this is more productive than writing comments online.
FWIW, I have a solar G-shock and just had the battery replaced. It was fairly straightforward, like any other battery replacement (although you might want to take it to a jeweler or watch repairer to do it).
The individual components are really nice, but mixing and matching them seems to make a user interface that is condensed and overly complex.

YouTrack specifically comes to mind here. It's a fantastic bug tracker, but the UI is missing a certain... jeu ne se quoi
Ugh tell me about it. My large enterprise company has been piling these on lately. You also get blocked from checking in any ignore eslint statements unless you ask some review board that meets once a week with a month long waiting list. I know all jobs are balance of productivity and bookkeeping, but all these CI checks are really starting to make me consider switching jobs.
Nice to feel the old Nokia vibe from HMD! Housing the wireless earbuds in the phone, and charging it through the phone itself is a really good idea (seems so obvious in hindsight - who really likes carrying a separate case for their earbuds?).